Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1896, Page 22

22 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1896-28 PAGES. nottin’ in it. Giv’ me de frosty eye, all o” IN HEAT ALLEY dem. It's a hard town.” Looking at the Cook, id -— ‘They ranged themselves along a wide window and fell into reveries. The signt of the chief cook burning some brandy cn a plum-pudding aroused them, and it could be seen that their teeth were dripping. “Wot a waste!" they chorused. A coal heaver stepped from one of the engine reofm windows to cool off. ‘Hello, m,” he said, addressing both of them. ow they comin’?” “Bum,” they both replied. ° The wind came up strong and cutting and the outcasts began to appear in twos and threes around 1 o'clock. They were about eventy divided as to color. The teeth of the black men were chattering when they came up. The white men didn’: seem to be suffering from the cold so much. Some of them were honest, respectable- lcoking men of the working class. There was one man whcse few remarks evinced a superior education. He wore a battered top hat and a tattered frock coat, closely buttoned, with no indication of a shirt un- derneath. He was drunk with the drunken- ness of the man who has alternate mo- ments of lucidity and imbecility. “When Garfield was inaugurated I had four rooms in that hotel,” he said to The Where Shivering Homeless Wretches Gather on Cold Nights. TRAMP RESORT IN. Tae CITY'S MIDST Warmth From Furnace Rooms and From Kitchens >. LAUGHTER ee H=: ALLEY EX- MIRTHLE: tends half of the dis- tance between Penn- sylvania avenu and F then it makes to the east- ward, between ith and 15th streets, and goes blind at the rear of Willard’s Ho- tel. During the ma- sur Jor portion of the year there is noth- 4 g unusual about ‘ this clean, weil - aved passagey In the warm months of spring, summer and autumn it ts an mid- p Wagons, a ant invita omfort. when icicles, artery for provision, fuel, no thoroughfare that to the wayfarer in But, on eager winter atmosphere is sharper when the bitter, plaintive moaning through eaves and cor- nices and setting wires mournfully a-hum, and the frosty stars twinkle coldiy in in- t es betw banks of leaden snow hen it is “Heat alley.” Heat alley is not an insiitution of mere local renown. Not only for the shelterless of Washington its warmth radiate. For many years its glow on winter nights has thawed the blood of homeless men chither coming, whence going— Many thousands of men, now everywhere, with the lust for ing hither and yon, know Heat al- On many a blind baggage and homely En Route. Star man, pointing kitchen windows. & j “Well, ye won't have ’ém w'en McKin- ley’s swore in, an’ dat’s ‘10 lie,” remarked one of the pan-handlers. Then there was @ general mirthless !augh. Tne man with the top hat subsided. The Guests Assembled. By 2 o'clock all hands were pretty well acquainted with each other. There were about twenty-five of them. then. The ma- jority of them were wide-awake, but some of the boys went to sleep as they leaned against the walls near the windows. While thus sleeping standing cne of the boys fell to the pavement and woke up with a start. “Willie's fell out 0° bed,” said a pan- handler. “G'wan,” answered the boy. The restaurant and hotel kitchen lights went out, but there was plenty of {llumina- tion from the engine and boiler rooms. “How ‘bout gettin’ pinched here?” in- quired one of the men of his neighbor. | “Are de cops onto it?” “Yes, de're onto it all right,” was the re- ply, “but we git kind uv a show fur our | white alley here. Never saw no one pinched here, ‘cept_a bloke wot was howlin’ and fightin’. We all got de chase den, but w'en | We came back it was all right.” The man with the top hat had a lucid nterval. ow, if they only had couches and di- out here,” he satd, “this place would be great.” yerself ‘vagged,’ an’ ye kin haye de de uv a jail bunk,” cut in a cheerful through the hotel's does “Wich reminds me," chimed in one of the professionals, “dat Baltimore's got de easiest mark uv a jedge I ever run agin. 1 got pinched dere las’ week fur ridin’ on de cars. I giv’ de jedge de out-o'-work ballad an’ waitz. ‘Will you leave de town right off if I let you go?’ sez he to me. ‘No, I won't,’ sez I. ‘I cum here to git.a job, an’ I'm goin’ to stay here till I git it.” ‘You are alright,’ sez he. ‘You can go, me man.’ Easiesi Uing I ever hit. All ye got to do is A Nightly Gathering. rushing through savage, waytarer of to longing for the Heat alley, ar marrow- rause, at this Season; | to giv’ him some hot tamale talk, an’ ye're ts of warmth burst | gut. "F I'd a told him I wuz goin’ to git »pen windows of cellar and baze right out o° town he'd avalled me a liar © rooms and bol er ro and ‘vagged.me~ the winter, the stoki "Dat don't go here,” said another. “De hotel guests and oft Police Court mug looks at yer hands, an’ sp Se he kin tell by lookin’ at ‘em if ye've ever Rant ease Rutty eddies, em. | done no work. An’ he soaks ye fur tryin’ to con him. Opposed to Nightingales. In a reminiscent kind of way the man ks and melts the nipping frost part e outer mellowing the whole pas- way with steamy, targible warmth. It is a keat that would keep allve tender hot | with the aged top hat began to softiy eae a et ince, Were the AE | whistic anaicies trom kia “idienecee? ia : “Cavalleria.” He was a musicianly whis- Outdoor Turkish Bath. tler, but he was suppressed, although thc A Star man who passed a few hours in | music was sweet and touching. uff of nightingales in winter,” was the remark that abruptly choked him off. A big wagon, loaded with meat, and Heat a digions! the other night enjoyable time of had a pro- it. The sub- tropical warmth was delightful. His com- | drawn by two horses, thundered up the al- penions were for the mes? part interesting, ley RAN Arnon har wi an¢ tertaining. It was a sort of “T’anks,” said the cheerfulest of the pan- ee ee ee eae pai full dress, season- | handlers. “I'll have a terderloin steak wid mushrooms, wid some beef croquetts, about eighty uv ‘em on de side.” When the hottled beer wagon clattered up, the same man said: ; “No, I guess not. I ain't got down to ed_with unusual conversation. The Star man pulled up in the alley a ahead of time—about 11 o'clock. ley does not begin to teem with the teriess until after midnight. Tien its beer yit. But I wouldn't mind, t’anks, havin’ a little—” “Chablis,” suggested the top-hatted wreck. “Howd'je guess it?” Whereat there were Jeers. There were a few new arrivais in the al- ley after 2 o'clock. 1t required some little effort for these to gain good points of van- tage close to the windows. One of them roughly displaced a sleeping boy. He was promptly Kicked by three of the boy's neighbors. Toward 3 o'clock there was a fine display of “shooting stars” in the deep black windswept sky. “A not unusual phenomenon at this sea- son of the year,” commented the suppressed whistler. ‘‘Meteorites—" “Say, did yer feet ball team win de year ye played wid Yale?” he was asked, and once more relapsed into gloom. Long before the east began to flame with orange all but the drowsy boys had de- parted from Heat alley. The men walked down the alley to the avenue, looked list- lessly up and down the cold, deserted street and disappeared into the shadows. After all, Heat alley is not such a hilariously cheerful plac: —————— Mistook His Man. From the Chicago Daily Tribune. The Shadow of a Joy. r nts begin to drop in, usually ila e for the grecaronenia, Usually | A dilapidated pattern of a man stepped s habitual, There were enly two | UP to a citizen who was walking briskly b ep at Il o’ch along the street the other evening and ac- costed him. “Cap'n,” he said, “I hain’t got no hard luck story. I'm about as lazy and ornery as they make ‘em, and I won't work as leng as I can pick up a livin’ without it, but I'm thirsty, and that’s the truth. I hain't had anything to drink for two hours, and if you'll yive me a dime I'll go and spend it for whisky. That's dead honest. I'm spoilin’ for a drink o’ liquor.” His voice had none of the whine of the professional vagrant, but his sincerity made no impression on his listener. “My friend,” said the citizen, slowly and solemnly, “I'did not imagine such depravi- ty existed. If you had asked me for some- thing with which to buy food or necessary clothing I should have taken pleasure in acceding to your request. If you had asked for money enough to pay for a bath, of which’’—here he looked at him from head to foot—“you appear to be in some need, it would have afforded me sincere satisfaction to extend a helping hand to you. But you have chosen to appeal to a total stranger for means wherewith to minister to the gratification of a most ignoble appetite! Do you know that the curse of strong drink arnually carries into the grave 600,000 hu- man beings in this country? Do you know that the yearly expenditure for alcoholic beverages amounts to a sum equal to the national debt? Have you any idea of the effect of spirituous beverages on the deli- | cate, sensitive inner coating of the stom- | ach? If you have not, my friend, let me warn you by all you hold sacred to give up your indulgence in this fearful, terrible habit! Ob, fellow-mortal, think of the—" a But the greasy vagrant waited to hear no more. He hurried around the corner, sat down on the curbstone, took off his hat and fanned himself. “And I took ‘im for a sportin’ gent!” he ejaculated in a tone of deep disgust. ~ + 2+ Patriott From the New York Herald. “I tackled de t'eater gang fur de price,” Booker—“"Would you like these beoks one of them was saying to the other,as | bound in russia?” they sidled up the alley, “but dere was} Smith—“No. America will do.” ley Ss a God-send at the window of a & dusky waiters hes pre- oleaginous cooked food 1 neCa PPE ne redolence of the irough the open = NN Pleasant Dreams—Heat Alley. naught and declined to be interviewed. ‘Two men slouched up from the avenue entrance to the alley shortly before mid- night. The alley was apparently well known to them. They were professionals, and, judging from their conversation, pan- handlers. Written for The Evening Star. Research into the so-called Roentgen rays has experienced a new phase. Dr. Roent- gen described his famous discovery under the name of X--the unknown formula. Dr. Jegadis Chunder Bose, M. A. of Cambridge, and professor of physical science in the Presidency College of Calcutta,now ascribes the whole phenomena of the rays to elec- tricity. Dr. Bose is now in London,whither he has been sent by the Indian government for the purpose of laying his discovery be- fcre the British scientific world. The learn- ed Calcutta professor, in discussing his work and its results, says: “We hear little and see still less. Our range of perception of sound extends through only eleven octaves. There are many notes which we cannot hear. Our rage of vision is still more limited. A single ectavo of ethereat notes is all that is visible to us. The lights we see are few, but the invisible lights are many.” Prof. Bese produces “invisible lights” by means of electric waves in the ether; aud these lights, he claims, can pierce “doors, brick walls, granite rocks, earthen mounds, ete.” When the vibration of a string reach- es the rate of 32,000: beats in a second the note produced is the limit of audibility. Vibrations of ether between four hundred and eight hundred billions of vibrations a second produce light; and it is said“that the Roentgen rays vibrate at even a higher rate than this. To detect these invisibie rays Professor Bose has invented an elec- tric eye, consisting of a sensitive layer, on which the rays fall, and which by an elec- tric “optic nerve” produces in the apparatus a twinkling sensation—as the human optic nerve aoes in the brain. . Professor Bose has succeeded in ringing tells and firing pistols by means of his in- visible electric waves; and, with the aid of special lenses constructed with ebonite, he has transmitted signals for nearly a mile. ‘Thus it will be possible to transmit signals at sea in the densest fog. Dr. Bose is a young Hindoo, thirty-six years old. He was lately made a doctor of science by the London University, and is soon to be made a fellow of the Royai So- ciety. Microbe and Butter Making. One of the most startling discoveries of this end of the century is that microbes are required to make first-class butter. “Bacillus No. 41" is the scientific term or “artificial culture.” This startling microbe theory was first advarced by a person who came from Denmark to lecture on the art of butter making. The theory which was received with scorn is now advocated by many sci- entists and many creameries in different parts of the country now invest in the 4 “culture.” In one state alone, lowa, twen- ty-eight creameries are using the culture. One of the most satisfactory experiments was made recenily in a Connecticut cream- ery. Jure butter, as is well known, is in flavor about the best produced during the year, and the effect of bacillus No. 41 upon June butter was therefore especially in- teresting. Early in June, when the amount of cream collected by the creamery was very large, two large vats full of cream were collected. One of these was inocu- lated with No. 41 and the other was un- ineculated. They were then both allowed to stand in the same room, at the same temperature, for the same length of time, to ripen and were subsequently churned. The effect of No. 41 even here was striking. Both lots of cream produced, as was to be expected, an excellent quality of butter, but No. 41 had an aroma more pronounced and more agreeable than that of the but- ter made without the inocuiation. In both taste and odor, the butter made by inoculation was decidedly superjor to that made without it. This butter was submitted for testing to a large number of persors, and no one had the slightest hesi- tarcy in deciding that No. 41 made the superior quelity of butter. Experiments in improving the quality and flavor of butter have heen made with over a hundred different species of germs, but it was not until the experimenter hit upon No. 41 that he found a bacteria fit to put into his mouth. The first attempt at an estimate of bac- teria in butter was made in Munich, in 1891. It was found that there are abou two millions in a grain, and one poun weighs 454 grains. Fertility of the Sahara. Explorations in various’ parts of the Algerian Sahara continue to bring forward evidences of a former comparative fertility of the desert, and of the existence within that region of a people whose historic asso- ciations, as developed by the human relics that have been found scattered about in modern and ancient river courses, are wiih the stone ages. These relics consist chicfly of chipped flints for spear anu azrow heads and knife blades, in fragments of pottery, dressed ostrich eggs, etc., and have in the main been brought to light through the various artesian diggings that are being so successfully prosecuted by the French en- gineers. What were the direct causes that brought about the physiographic changes of the present and past periods can hardly be determined, but they seem to be bound in with conditions of climatic desiccation which “were not restricted .to the region alone, but were of broadly universal ex- tent. A writer in La Nature (November 14), surveying the evidence of the recent finds, and of the region of their occurrence, concludes that they bear testimony to abundant rains, to a former vegetation favoring the rearing of flocks, and to a Pronounced pastoral life of a people now entirely departed. It is certainly an inter- esting fact, and one bearing direct testi- mony to the former plant growth in the region, that even at the present day, at a distance of only thirty miles from Inifel, and in the valley of the Oued Mya, a cops= or brushwood thicket of Italian poplars is to be met with. Animals in Australia. Australia has for many years been to the naturalist the faunal exception of the ani- mal world; its remarkable marsupial fauns, and the equally remarkable absence of al- most al! mammalian types that are not marsupial in‘character, have given to its fauna an interest and importance which have ia ro way been diminished by the discovery, a few years ago, that two of its quadrupeds—the duck-bill or ornithorhyn- chus and spiny-hedgehog—brought forth their young, in the manner of birds and reptiles, from laid eggs. Of the special conditions which surrounded this fauna comparatively little was known before the zoological explorations of the last year, and even today our knowledge is restricted to speciai areas of the continent. In a summary of the result of researches made by the Horn expedition, which has just been published, Prof. Baldwin Spencer of the University of Melbourne furnishes the following pen picture of the animal life of the land. The permanent fauna, he states, may be divided into two groups, the first contain- ing those animals which can always be found during the, dry season, the second containing those which only appear during the short wet season. The collector who sets to work in the dry season is first of all struck with the fact that there is a wonderful poverty of animal life except so far as regards ants, flies, grasshoppers and certain beetles, birds and lizards. He naturally misses almost all forms of life associated with well-wooded districts or with the sheltered pools of permanent rivers, and he readily appreciates the in- fluence of a climatic barrier. After turning over every available stick and hundreds of stones and finding no trace of moisture he realizes how im; ible it is for creatures, such as land planarians or Peripatus or even the widespread land Am- paioes to exist in such a region. Next he mes wearled with the unsuccessful search after insects or flowering shrubs, and day after day he finds the same forms of life. Every water hole, every long plain or sandhill yields a wearying, monotonous and series of animals, until he begins ‘to realize that the fauna is charac' the wet season the fauna changes as if by magic, insects formerly unseen. come about in swarms, fresh-water crustaceans crowd the clay pans and water holes, caterpillars in thousands creep about, the majority of them simply falling a'prey to the lizards, frogs and birds which increase with Nke ra— pidity. At the same time though animal lite is now abundant it is composed of rela- tively few species, each existing in enor- mous numbers. Probably toward the close of the favorable season a horde of migra- tory rats will pass like a wave across the country, disappearing into the depths of the desert, where they perish. For a time the small marsupials will be more or less abundant, but soon they also will disap- pear to aestivate during the dry season or to come out from their hiding places dur- ing the cool of the night—the majority of them probably perishing before they reach maturity. Rapidly the country assumes its dry state, and the only animals left are the hardier fauna which can withstand the heat and dryness, and the few inhabi- tants of the deeper and scattered water- holes. A People Without a God. A people has recently been discovered in tite Congo basin, Africa, that, so far as can be learned, has no religion and no conception of a Supreme Being. There is, also, very little indication of supersti- tion among them. They are the Banziris, and the territory oceupied by them is mos ly on the northern shore of the Oubanghi. It is not believed that they number more than 5,00) souls. Agriculture and fishing is their occupation, but they live in vil- lages, when not on the water, their habita- uions being round huts, made of plaited straw, and covered with thatched roofs. Canoes, made from trees, serve for their water craft, and in these they live much of the time during the dry season, when the sandbars in the river are exposed. They are much given to a gay life, and di light in singing and racing. At times they. become exceedingly boisterous. ‘Their countenances are pleasant and intelligent, with merry expressions, and they are well- disposed and hospitable toward strangers. The only feature in adorngnent in which these people devote any attention is the headdress. This is built up with both the true and false hair until it becomes an elaborate affair, the work being done by the women, who show much good taste and dexterity in the performance. The warrio: add a feather to their headdress, usually from a parrot. Whep in mourning these headdresses are laid aside, and the hair worn in the ordinary way. Fish afford their staple food; but the men are fond of dog meat, which, how- ever, is denied to the women. Other food is bananas and a little corn and millet. ‘These people differ in language, appear- ance and customs from the neighboring tribes, except one that they resemble in seme respects. Altogether, they may be considered as the finest and most philo- sophical savages of the present day. “Roc ng” in High Buildings. Any one who has visited the upper floors of New York or Bestbw or Chicago “sky- scrapers” during a%his# wind, must have experienced the Difipasant sensation knewn as “rocking,*,,1y other words, he has felt the building ‘twiver and even sway sersibly beneath his:faet. The na of the tall ctures are, of course, es- pecially prone to yroéking.”” Mr. Harry Lawrence, a int of he notable Ameri- witiding, in } sau 1k Tesponsible for the Statement that -thaticgiwat edifice sways a foot in an aver bighswind, and duying a gale even excetdsathivt limit. ‘ The danger attendaatsupon: this “rock- ing,” not to spedlowfothetipsetting effect it produces upon nervous folk, must be at once apparent: vot A. wholesale: manufacturér “of photo- materials, Waight by’ name, nas, cnied 4m ingeniolis method: of néiitral~’ izing the danger, at least:=M Wright's estaLlisLment ts: inva 4efty wullding hear Sth avenue, New ¥ork. He uses very heavy machinery, which renders the build- ing topheavy in’ the xtreme. During a wind, there was always fear of the ma- chiery. being driven through the some* what thin walls, or’ windows, thereby wrecking the building and menacing, pass- ersby. Mr. Wright was equal to the emer- gency. He simply caused his floor to be partially. zinc-lined, and converted into a Gigantic tank. This he flooded with wa- ter. Then huge pontoons, or rafts, were constructed, and set afloat upon the surface of this strange twelfth story lake. The pentcons were anchored to the walls on all sides by heavy chains and rivets. When these preparations were completed, Mr. Wright had his heavy machinery embark- ed upon the pontoons. Thus the building may rcck as it will, but the dreaded mass- es of steel are safely afloat, and all danger from them is neutralized. ——___ RETIRED BURGLAR, THE Hin Most Unexpected Recovery of a Long-Lost Dog. From the New York Sun. “Speaking of watch dogs,” said the re- tired burglar, “I never owned a watch dog, but I did own once a jolly little mongrel dog that we called sometimes Nibs, but mostly Nibsey; a lively, sensitive little fel- low, but no watch dog. You might have played a brass band outside and he'd never hear it; but let anybody that he knew walk across the floor and he'd wag his tail in his sleep. “Well, after we'd had Nibsey a number of years we lost him; he just disappeared one day and didn’t come back, and we didn’t know whether he'd been run over by a train of cars or strayed away and got lost, or whether somebody had picked ‘him up and carried him off, or what was the ma: ter; but he didn’t come back, and we miss- ed him very much, because we all liked Nibsey. “Now, maybe you can guess what hap- pened: One morning early, about 2 or half- past 2, some months after that, as 1 was moving slowly in the dark, across a room, on the second floor of a house that I had called at some fifty miles from where I lived, I felt the legs of a small dog thrown against mine. I couldn't see the dog at all, but it was standing on its hind legs and resting its fore legs against me, and I could tell by the movement of them that he was wagging his tall violently. It was Nibsey, of course. He'd known my tread, soft as it was, and woke up to receive me. “Well, you know, glad as I was to find Nibsey, I'd rather not have found him right there, because he was almost certain to make trouble for me. He began to whine with joy, the first thing, and then he gave a lttle yelp. That -was just what I was afraid of. He didait want to make any trouble for.me, byt that one yelp was enough. A man in the bed sits up and pulls a string and turns on a light and says i low, what’s the-matter? “ ‘And I puts up @ great polar bluff and Says: ‘You swiped my dog, and I’ve come to get him.’ 29 “‘Swiped nothing!’ he says. ‘I swipe you in about a minute,’ andche wasn’t slow in getting at it either;she was getting out of bed and coming for me all the time he was talking, and a good ly, powerful look- ing man he was, too.iBut Nibsey was bright. Nibsey made just one dive at the man’s feet, but that was enough to stop him until I’d got turned’and started; and a minute later I was’ going down the road with Nibsey coming on behind." ————-o- New Use for a Hat. From Harper's Bazsr. Mr. Smith—“That’s the most extraordi- nary hat I've seen you in yet. I always thought you had some taste. You might as well wear an American flag at once and be done with it.” Mrs. Smith (resignedly)—“Yes, I'm afraid it's rather conspicuous. But the shops at Christmas time are 80 crowded that dear Ethel is continually losing me, so I must wear something that will distinguish me from the rest,” Most Unkind. From Tid-Bits, “ Miss Sera Kes, Snos when I was out it ‘oh, pequypetierib age Sos saw & man, and, ob, ™i sha dia you catch him?” |; | Abbott, Jo., Texas, Metropolitan. Hall, U. S., Mo., the Cairo. Haiterman, Pi Hanly, J. } Hardy, A. Hartman, ’C. ave. Harris, 8. R., Ohio, 220 North Capitol. Harrison, Geo. P., Aj Hart, J. J., Pa.. Metropolitan. Hatch, J. A., Ind., Oxford. > Heatwole, J. P., Minn., 1435 K st. n.w. Heiner, D. B., Pa., the Avon, North Cap- LEGISLATORS HERE Where Members Have Located for the Sessiqn. itol and C. THESTAH’S CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY ) Hainer©, 3 Neo, 2 BR. 1 ave, nw. al eae tsa = . Normandie. Washington Addresses of Senators Hens: &. 8 Con. TLR St nw. Hepburn, W. P., lowa, 1124 East Capitol. Herman, Binger, Ore., 1014 Mass. av. n.w. Hicks, J. D., Pa.. Willard’s. Hil, EB. J., Con Hilborn, S. G., and Representatives. Ba ee ae } Hit, RR. til, 1907 K a ml Hooker, 4 ee CORRECTED UP TO DATE Hopkins, A. J. 1, Witlara” etait oes bee Howard, M. W., Ala., Howard House. Howe, J. R., N. Y¥., 208 Md. ave. ne. Senators. Normaniiie. Howell, Benj F., N. M: Hubbard, J. D. ., Congressional. Aldrich, Nelson W., R.I., Arlington. Allen, W. V., Neb., 820 Delaware ave. ne.| Hiuil, George F.. Ba 1315 loth st. nw. Bate, W. B., Tenn., Ebbitt. Huting, J. H.. W. V Bacon, A. O., Ga., 924 lith st. nw. Hull, J. A. T., Towa, Baker, Lucien, Kan., 918 15th st. Hunter, W. G., K; Hurley, D. M,N. ¥ Hutcheson, J._C., Texas, Arlington. Hyde, S. C., Wash, 1412 G st. n.w. Jenkins, John J., Wis., 1230 14th st. n.w. Johnson, Grove Cal., Regent. Johnson, H. U., Ind., 812 12th st. n.w. Berry, J. H., Ark., Metropolitan. Blackburn, J. C. 8., Ky., Normandie. Blanchard, N. C., La., Riggs. Brice, C. S., Ohio, 1611 H st. Brown, Arthur, Utah, Ebbitt. Burrows, Jullus C., 1404 Mass. ave. now. | Johnson MN. N.D- Hamilion. Butler, Marion, N. C., 1711 Q st. Joy, Chas. F. 3., Shoreham. Caffery, D., La., 2110'O st.” Kendall, J. M:, Ky., 207 East Capitol. likinson, Fla., 1903 N st. n.w. Kerr, W. 8. Ohio, Ebbitt Cameron, J. D., Pa., 21 Lafayette sq. Kiefer, A. R., Minn., 201 A st. se. Cannon, F. J., Utah, The Auburn. Kirkpatrick, 8. S.. Kan., 1%29 Col. road. Carter, Thomas H., 1432 Stoughton st.n.w.| Kichure, Re Texss, Metropolitan, Chandler, William E., 1421 I street n.w. Knox, W. 8., Mass, Wellington. Chilton, Horace, Texas, Elsmere. Kulp, Monroe § Widlard’s. Clark, C. D., Wyo., 1000 22d st. n.w. Kyle, John C., Miss, the Varnum. Cockrell, Francis M., 1518 R st. n.w. Lacey, J. F., luwa, Willard’ Cullom, Shelby M., 1413 Mass. ave. n.w. Latimer, A. C., 8.C Dubcis, F. 'T., Idaho, 1346 Princeton st. P ‘TG. A Lawson, T G., C 230 A st. s.e. Layton, F. C., . 247 North Capitol. Lefever, Jacob, N. Y., 800 11th st. n.w. Leighty, J. D. ind., Wiuard’s. Leisenring, John, 16th st. n.w. EG: Daniel, John W., No. 1 B st. n.w. . K., Minn., i428 Mass. ave. n.w. Jalkins, Stephen B., 1626 K st. nw. Faulkner, Chas. J.. W. Va., Shoreham. Frye, W. P., Maine, Hamilton. Gailinger, J. H., N. H.. Ellesmere. Pa. 1 Gear, John H., Towa, the Portiand. Se ene Gibson, Charles H., Md., 1918 N st. now. 4 2 4 se , Hh teehed Gordon, J. B., Ga. Linton, W. S., M.c! 201 North Cap. st. Little, J S., Ark, The Varnum. Livingston, L. F Long, Chester I., Loudenslager, A. N. J., Willard’s. Lorimer Wm., lL, Raleigh. Loud, Eugene F., Cal., Albany. Lowe, P. B., N. Y¥., Regent. Maddox, J. W 4 N. J. ave. s.e. 1826 I st. n.w. y22 Lith st. nw. Gorman, Arthur P., 1432 K street. Gray, Geo., Del., 1421 K st. n.w. Hale, Eugene, 1001 16th st. Hansbrough, Henry C., the Wellington. Harris, Isham G., 13 Hawley, Joseph R., 1741 G st. n.w. Hill, David B., N. Y., 8 Lafayette sq. Hoar, Geo. F.,1417 K’ st. n.w. Jones, James K., Ark., 015 M st. n.w. Kyle, J. H., 8. D., Varnum. Columbia ave. - gu 7 15th st. nw. Lindsey, Wm., Ky., Cochran. Re meee ; Aaa ey SL Marsh, B. L, Willard’s. Lodge, H. C.,"Mass., 1765 Mass. ave. - " 5 2 + Martin, Chas. H.,'N.C., 1008 N st. n.w. Mantle, Lee, Mon., Wellington. Mccall 5. Nora naale: Martin, T. S., Va., 1312 2st st. bl McCall, S. Mass., Albany. McBride, Geo. W., Ore., No, 1 B st. n.w. tp laaes ad A McCleary, J. T., Minn., Regent. McClellan, Geo. B., N.Y., 1445 R. I. ave. McClure, A. S., Ohio, 1839 16th st. n.w. McCormick, R. C.. N. Y., Shoreham. McCreary, Jas. B., Normandie. McCulloch, Phillip D., Ark., McDearmond, J. C. McEwan, Thos., McLachlan, Jas., Cal., 627 F st. nw. MeLaurin, J. L., S.C., 1345 L st. n.w. McMillin, ‘Benton Tenn., 826 14th st. n.w. McRae, Thos. C., Azk.,’ Metropolitan. Meredith, E. E., Va. Mercer, David H., Neb., 1303 Roanoke st. Meyer, 'A., La., 1700 Q st. Miller, O. L., Kan., 813 Vt. ave. n.w. Miller, Warren, W. Va., the Varnum. McMillen, James, 1114 Vermont ave. n.w. Mills, Roger Q., 1746 8 st. n.w. Mitchell, J. H., Ore., Chamberiin’s. Mitchell, John L., Wis., 32 B st. ne. Morgan, John T., 315 414 st. n.w. Morrill, Justin S, No. 1 Thomas circle. Murphy, Edward, N. Y., 1701 K st. n.w. Nelson, Knute, Minn., 1325 G st. n.w. Palmer, John M., Ill,’ Elsmere. Pasco, Samuel, Fla., 211 N. J. ave. n.w. Peffer, William A., the Oxford. Perkins, Geo. C., Cal., The Shoreham. Proctor, Redfield, 1535 L st. n.w. Pritchard, J. C., 'N.C., The Ebbitt. Pugt, James L., 1333'R st. n.w. Roach, William N., 1541 T st. n.w. Platt, O. H., Conn., H st.n.w. Tenn.. National. $40 I st. now. Peitigrew, R. F., S. D. b tee = L a wre? st. nw. Ses SE i Les on ee Mitch2il, John Murray, N.¥., S31 18th st. eentaneeror at we Mondell, Frank W > Wyo., Willard’s. Sherman, John, 1831 K st. nw. Prank W Wyo. Willard Suauh Gade iho Necamige oo oe ijah’ As Mase, Cochran Shoup, G. L., Idaho, Normandie. Leos ee : Squire, Watson C., The Normandie. oe Stewart, W. ‘8 Dupont circle. teen Teller, Henry M.. Col., 141 Rhode Is. ave. | yyy.“ Tillman, B. R., S.C., 620 R. 1. ave. now. 5 2 Murpa’ Turpie, David, 52 B st. ne. j Thurston, J. M., Neb., Arlington. ae ok . rege Vest, George G., 1204 P st. bet eceatnd) Bp mieds w Vilas, W. F., Wis., The Shoreham. , Chevy Chase, Md. Voorhees, Daniel, Ind., Riggs. Walthall, &. C., Miss., The Cairo. Wetmore, George 1609 K st. Odell, B. B. r., Cairo, Wilson, John L., The Cairo. Ogien. H.W.. La. Metropolitan. Wolcoti, E. O., Golo., 1221 Conn. ave. Otey, PJ. Oxford. Va. Ww z Representatives. Acheson, E. F., Pa., 217 North Capitol. Parker, R. W., N.J. Patterson, Josiah, Tet Payne, 5. E. X., 1707 Q st. Pearson, Richmond, N.C., Shoreham. Pendleton, Geo. C., "Tex., 415 6th st. nw. Perkins, Geo. D., Iowa, Hamilton. Phillips, T. W. Pa., 1116 Vermont ave. Pickler, J. A., S. D., 600 Md. ave. n.e. Pitney, M., 1524 18th st. n.w. Poole, Theo. L., N.¥., 25 lowa circle. Powers, H. H., Vt., Riggs. Pric2, Andrew, La., Cairo. Prince, George W., II, 1300 Columbia ave. Pugh, S. J., Ky., 1319 Vermont ave. n.w. L. EB. N. Jefferson place. Adams, Robt., Pa., Met. Club. Aitken, David D., Mich., 407 C st. n.e. Aldrich, J. Frank, 11.,%1401 Stoughton a.w. Aldrich, T. H., Ala., 1308 19th st. n.w. Aldrich, W. F., Ala., Raleigh. E., Utah, 1446 Stoughton st. n.w. Allen, J. M., Miss., St. James Hotel. Anderson, W. C., Tenn., 412 6th st. n.w. Andrews, W. E., Neb., Apsley, L. D. Arnold, W. C., Pa., The Varnum. Arnold, W. O.. R.I., Riggs. Avery, John, Mich., 201 North Capitol. Babcock, J W., Wis., 11 B st. n.w. euieE: SDL chp lo Bailey, Jos. W., Tex., Riggs House. Ray, Geo. W., N.Y., 1713 G st. nw. Baker, H. M., N.H., 1411 F st. n.w. alas tet as Baker, W. B., Md., 310 Indiana ave. n.w.| Reed. T.B.. Maine, 8 3 Reeves, Walter, Il, Willard’ Reybarn, J. E., Pa., 1301 Conn. ave. n.w. Richardson, J. D., Tenn., 1103 6th st. n.w. Rinaker, John L., Elsmere. Robinson, J. D., Pa. 1708 R. I. ave. Royse, L. W., Ind., Evbitt. Russell, C. A! Conh., Hamilton. Russel’, B. E, Ga., Mount Vernon Hotel. Sauerhering, E., Wis., 1108 16th st. n.w. Sayres, J. D., Texas, The Riggs. Scranton. J. A., Pa. Shoreham. Settle, Thos., N.C., The Albany. Shafroth, John F.,Col., 1413 Kenesaw ave. Shannon, R. C., N. ¥., 1735 Mass. ave. Sherman, J. 8.,N. Y.,’ Cairo. Shuford, A. C., N. C., 1714 15th st. Simpkins, John, Mass.. The Albany. Baker, Wm., Kan. 2 East Capitol st. Bankhead, J. H., Ala., Metropolitan. Barham, J. A., Cal., Ebbitt. Bartholdt, Richard, Mo., Congressional. Bartlett, C. L., Ga., Metropolitan. Barrett, W. E., Mass., Hamilton. Beach, C. B., Ohio, 1801 Conn. ave. Barry, 8. S., Wis., Cochran. Belknap, H. R., ill., Arlington, Bennett, Chas. G., N. Y., Shoreham. Bell, C. K., Texas, National. Bell, J. C., Colo., 1514 12th st. now. Berry, A. 8., Ky., Riggs. Bingham, H. H., Pa., The Albany. Bishop, Roswell P., Mich.. 132 A st. n.e. Black, Frank 8., N.. Y., Cochran. Black, J. C. C., Ga., Riggs House. Skinner, H., N.C. Ebbitt. ee aoe SET Smith, G. W., IN. 918 14th st. nw. Boatner, C. La., Riggs. == pa, Boutelle, G. A., Me:, The Richmond. = ee: Wm. Alden, Mich., Snover, H. G., Mich., 603N. C. ave. 's.¢. Sorg, Paul J., Ohio, Arlington. Southard, J. H., Ohio, Hamilton. Southwick, Geo. N., N.Y . Spalding, Geo., Mich., {20 14th st. n.w. Sparkman, 8. M., Fla., Metropolitan. Spencer, J. G., Miss., 52 B st. n.e. Sperry, N. D., Conn., Buckingham. Stahle, J. A., Pa. Bowers, W. W., Cal., Congressional. Brewster, H. C., N.Y., Colonial. Broderick, C., Kansas, Elsmere. Bromwell, J. H., Ohio, 1347 Q st. n.w. Brosius, M., P: Elsmere. Brown, Foster, V., Tenn., The Fredonia, Brumm, C. N., Pa., Willard’s. Buck, C. F., La, Metropolitan. Bull, M., R. L., Hamilton. Steele, G. W., Ind., Ebbitt. eR SS os oon oo Stevenson, 8. M., Mich., Ebbitt. Burton, T. E., Ohio, 732 17th st. n.w. . Burrell, O.., ., 110 2a st. s.e. Stewart, Alex., Wis., 1416 F st. n.w. head, W. Stewart, J. F., N. J.. Normandie. Calderhead, W. A., Kan., 213 North Cap. Cannon, Joseph G., Ill., the Cochran. Catchings, T. C., Miss., 1722 Q st. n.w. Catron, T. B., N.M., Elsmere. Chickering, Chas. A, N.Y., Hamilton. Clardy. J. D., Ky.. Varnum. Clarke, Chas. M., Mo., 7 B st. n.w. Clarke, R. H., Ala., 4 B st. ne. Clarke, S. M., Iowa, Ebbitt. Cobb, 8. W., Mo., Normandie. Cockrell, J. 'V., Texas, 27 M st. n.w. Codding, J. H., Pa., 1418 Hopkins st. Colson, David, Sp Stone, Chas. Stone, W. A., Pa., 1721 Q st. n.w. Strait, T. J., S.C., 1416 K st. aw. B., 924 14th. Ohio, Varnum. 715 9th st. nw. 131 B st. s.e. Bulloway, C. A., N.H., Varnum. Swanson, C. A., Va., Metropolitan. ‘Taft, Chas P., Ohio, $44 N. Y. ave. Talbert, W. J., 8. 3 9th st. now. Tate, F. C., Ga., National. 1415 Mass. ave. n.w. Cochran. 3 ‘Tawney, James A., Minn., The Bancroft. SER aes eee Taylor, 'R. W., Ohio, 1363 Roanoke st. Co Oe a! Wine Nae ea: Terry, 'W, 1. Ark., Metropolitan. Cooper, 8. B., Texas, Metropolitan. Bhomas, He 2, Mic Towne, C. A., Minn., 1719 Oregon ave. Thorp, R. T., Va., Richmond House. Tracewell, R. J., Ind., 1325 G st. n.w. Tracy, J. P., Mo., 809 12th st. n.w. ‘Trelcar, W. M., Mo., 215 East Capitol. st. Corliss, J. B., Mich., Colonial. Cousins, R. G., Iowa, Shoreham. Cox, N. N., Tenn., Varnum. Crowley, Miles, Tex., Willard’s. Crowther, G. C.,'Mo., 209 A st. e. é Tucker, H. St.G., Va., 1918 N Coberscu: DBaae . Metropolitan. Turner, H. G., Ga., Riggs House. eras 1527 Corcoran stan.w,} Turner, &_8.,"Va., 129 Md. ave. nie. Curtis, Chas., Kan., 1527 Curtis, Geo. M., Iowa, Norm: Curtis, N. M., N. Y¥., 1807 H Dalzell, John, Pa., 1605 N. H. av Danford, Lerenzo, Ohio, Ebpitt. Daniels, Chas., N. Y. Dayton, A. G., W. Va., 224 N. J. ave. se. DeArmond D. A., Mo., Varnum. Denrey, W. M., Miss.. National. De Witt, F. B, Ohio, 222 N. J. ave. s.e. Dingley, jr., Nelson, Maine, the Hamilton. Dinsmore, H. A. Ark., 1814 K st. n.w. Dockery, Ac M., Mo., Willard’s, Doliver, J. P., Iowa, Hamilton. Doolittle, W. H., Wash., Willard’s, Dovenner, B. B., W.Va, Willard’s. Draper, W. F., Mass., 1601 K st. Eddy, F. M., Minn., 201 A st. s.e, Ellett, T., Va., Raleigh. Tyler, D. G., Va., the Varnum. Updegraff, Thos.,, lowa, 230 A st. Van Hern, R. T.; Mo., 918 H st. n.w.. Van Voorhiss, - C., Ohlo, Cochran. Wadsworth, J. W., N. Y. Walker, J. A., Va, Willard’s. Walker, Jos. H., Mass., Shoreham. Wanger, I. P., Pa., 1219 Vermont ave.n.w. pees Vv., ae aoe es e Washington, J. E., Tenn., lyer pl Watson, D. K., Ohio, Hamilton. Watson, J. E., Ind., 1325 G st. n.w. Wellington, Geo. L., Md., Willard’s. Wheeler, Jos., Ala. White, Geo. E., Ill., Cochran. _Wilber, D. B., N. Y¥., Willard’s. Williams, J. 8., Miss., 1126 Conn. ave. ~ Willis, J. S., Del., 120 4th st. s.¢. die. Ellis, 'W.'R., Oregon, 1421 Binney st. n.w.| Wilson. Stanyarne, 8.C.. Normandie, ee Ae cig mee Wilson, G. W., Ohio, ‘Varnum. Rene LN Roe Wilson, I. H., N.Y., 1622 Wth st. now, Fareneo Wa, Ind 200 ke Wright, A. B., Mass. Pere. ees Ohion ithe ‘Bancroft. Wood, Benson, IL, Ebbitt. Fischer, I. F., N. Y., Cairo. J. F., Mass., Wellington, Coluinbla rout Cochran. Woodard, F. A., N. C., Metropolitan. Woodman, C. W., Ill. ‘Woomer, E. M., 1410 Columbia st. Yoakum, C. H., Texas, 807 H st. n.w. —<—<$<___o—__—_ Easy to Get a Sleeping Berth. Fitzgerald, a eat fe 409 N. J. ave.s.e. NEW PUBLICATIONS, SAYINGS OF UNCLE EREY. Ry ander John. tures by Wit H. Chandice. Washing don ker. Urele Eben is an old friend of all Star readers and needs no introduction. He has delighted many thousands for a long time with his occasional aphorisms and quaint comments on life, cnd now he has been given a distinct personality through this publication that carrot fail to add to the affection in which he is so widely held. Eben’s philosophy is optimist'c and whole- some. It comes from the soil, the woods, the fields and breathes the atmosphere of nature. Mr. Johnson reproduces the dialect of the quarters with a true touch of genius, and the bits of illustration scattere through the beok, in the well-known style of Mr. Chandiee, add materially to the enjoyment of this delectable morsel. The book is a little one, N enough to make the reader s gh with regret when he reach. €s Uncle Eben's laconic colophon, “Da all.” Yet, it was Eben’s own reasoning that size mattered but little when quality was an elem fer in one of his poetic moods he observed “Doan’ jedge ruffin’ by tts size, "Case yoh neber should; Reed bird's smailer dan de hen, But twenty times as good.” Nor does tt detract from the pleasure of finding Uncle Eben in a book, bound in a red bandana, to know that many of the contents of this li volume have already been published as “Shoott g Stars.” Their reappearance is reinforced by the addition of cores of new bits of w.sdom and sa- gacious sarcasm, eral tuneful verses. Eben cannot be accused of immod- esty in assum.ng a place among the older philosophers. It is his tenet that what worth sayi. g should be said aloud. “Doa hide yoh light under a basket,” he ob- es. “But even if yoh does, de lightll s out frough de chinks, ef it's good and strong.” PERSON Al TIONS Gen. Miles has had a sufficiently stirring and eventful career to enable him to write a most interesting book. He has not n glected the opportunity, but has improy it with so entertaining an account of his experiences that the volume of “Recolle tions” that is now just fresh from the will find a wide circle of readers. The chief interest naturally centers in Miles’ narration of his exploits on the fr his various encounters with dians. This necessitates a referen: long-mooted questions relating to th ture of Geronimo and his b and to the part played in that campaign by the late Gen. Crook. The autnor merely presents the correspondence botw Crook and the officials at Washington, and makes no further references iw this delicate subject. Gen. Miles asserts that the “Indian prob- lem” is a long way from solvt and strongly advocates the general adoption of the plan of military government for the tribes that have not proved beyor ion their right to live outs straint of such control. He urges that the President should be given th- transfer from the War Deparument to Interior Department any uribes that have become so far civilized ani disposed as to render strict. walchfuiness ary. He aise thinks that the 1 hould have the further ever an unfor order necessar: in order to preve ar Such a system, he beli bring to an end the troubleso: fears that even now arise fro: status of the indian, much quic entire civilization of a e accomplished by use. Mr. Remington’s illustra’ and add greatly to the volume. pictures suffer greatly by comy in many instances might bette omitted. oe PARTY IN AFRICA Across the Equator in the By Even J. Loomis, of the U AN BCL sit cola, . Seientltie Expedition wo Weet Ate ISSU- TNO; Assistant U.S. Nautteal Almauac Ofer trated. Boston: ris Brothers, Prof. David P. Todd ef the Amherst Col- lege Observatory, who was in charge of the expedition, states in his preface to this beautiful work that while much has already teen publisned from time time regarding the s fie purpos and achievements of this enterprise there has never yet been a complete account of the trip, which was found to be wall worth careful presentation in narrative form one, continues Prof. Todd, could h: better than Mr. Loomis, whose work is handsomely embellished by a serses of well reproduced photographs taken by members of the expedition. Mr. Loomis makes of his volume a book of travel that is inter- esting at every point. pecially timely is his account of St. Helena, for the publi- cation of which permission was given with- out hesitation by the officials of the British colonial office. The book is splendidly printed on the best of paper, and is alto- gether one of the most attractive issues of the year. THE QUILTING BEE, and Other Rhymes. By Jobn Langdon Heaton, New York: Vrederick A. Stokes & Co. Mr. Heaton’s marked versatility as a writer for the press has won for him a substantial reputation in New York and Brookiyn, where he has been variously a sociated for several years. His verse many of them dropped casually from his pen in the course of his daily work, have been widely quoted, and in his “Argu- ment,” serving as a preface, he explains how they came to be gathered into a vol- ume. They are of homespun texture, and their dialect dress adds to their quaint charm and humor. Gathered from the nocks and corners into which they found their way they are without sequence and therefcre bear well their title, drawn from the opening verse. In continuation of the thought the cover bears in the rudimen- tary colors of rustic art a “square” of a patch werk quilt, serving to remi a reader of a time of long ago. Cie itials by well-known illustrators introduce the verses, HOW TO AVOID LIBEL SUITS; a Young Reporters and Others Bug paper Work. By Jobn D. Missi Falitor Reading, Pa., Hugle. Reading aman. This is an interesting work for any to read, but it is especially directed, as its title indicates, to the suppression of the evil of libels through the education of the writers for the press in the law of libel and the practical means of avoiding such trouble. one THE MIST ON THE MOOR; a Roman Cornwall, By Joseph Hocking, author Story of Andrew Buirfux,”" “All Liars,” ete. New Yo R. F. Washington: Brentas e of North “The A Fenny & Co, HE MAJESTY OF MAN By “Alien.” New Yor Dodd, Me Washington: Brentano's. WEIR OF HERMISTON. An Unfinished Romavee by Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: Charles Scribaer's Sous. Washington; Brevtavo's, SECOND BOOK OF TALES. By New York: Charles Scribner's ton: Robert Beall. Eugene Field. Sons. Washing- THE BLACK TOR; A Tale of the Reign of Jamos L_ By Ge ville Fenn, author of “The Young Castelian.” “A. New Mistress,” “‘Diax mond * “Devou Boy With eight 3. Philadelphia: SONNETS. By Albert J. Rupp. Boston: Arena Publishing Co. REPORT COMMISSIONER OF EDUCA- 5 ae ee 1884-5. Vol. 1, containing t Printing