Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1897, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, s. ANUARY yple speak f the oldest churches in this city badly mixed, casionally well-known pas- te “T ra lit- t records | fre somewhat obscure and imper| prove with » degree of certain the first regularly organized church estab- lished in 1 city was Presbyter ehureh which id servic in carpenter shop used by the carpenters t at work & the White tlouse In the same congregation worshiped in ‘Treasury Department building, som vars | before it was completed or occupied by the ernment. next was St. Patrick's, tholic. in 1S00, hich then wor img at the corner of 10th about is south ¢ lowed very soon st Washington, i The first Baptist | ehurch from 1802, theugh its first building, at the corner of 19th and I stre Was not finished until 190. Old ben as it is often lovingly called, M iscopal, on 4th st East W | s from Isez, though St. John'h, n. has a straight and interesting histor « 1800. The Georgetown Methodist | Chureh was first ocenpied in 1806, the | Foundry M. E. Church in 1stv. St. John's | ome xt, in 1816, ana the | ‘nurch rorgetown Washington, in ian congregation first ! worshiped + is now the Potice Court building. ‘The original Trinity, . Which first occupied the | ding new the Columbia Law School, on h street, was organized in 1828. In 1N30 the Friends organized in their present ' building on E street near 19th. St. Mat- thew's, Catholic, first d at the old church baiiding corner of 15th and H | stree ngceza deser having dd and for been mo the ¥ hurch building, or at least rebuilt, ‘ * + riments need is ruling ¢xplain- meant by the word “partment clerk. “Take for WMustration. One day | judi one of the clerks was an hour caring at his desk. Wien he gave his excuse, tt the ion did not regard it as all the circumstar a black mark «' to year in that divi the | “tardiness his tier, but | as an impertant on to the clerks of ; and caused as usston as if war had Cuba. Two days af- was late in showing two minutes be + of 9 o'clock. He to many of us it appears that it has ‘k in question four minutes to rted on time, but found that his ere Was sno t a shoe store ubbers. There the s clerk was delaye: what made him e black mark ‘tari against his nam had been placed a, was an hour her authorities 2 to prove whai ist ax bi the oth Dieii we n to tarry, dilatory, 1 and guilt clerk who de It was contend- two minutes wi @ person harged wit there should ft | besides being tate, that { inreadiness, criminality dl. He stoutly contended that e Were absent In his case. The matier rests just this way. nef of division holding that a clerk who Was slow or upready ix guilty of being ardy This nt to thousands of nt specially import beginning of a new matter can reach r judicial decision e head of a depart- | has not been done.” | zee | moet remarkable things about | tol building, which ts remarkable many things, is the complete dis- | all the plans, drawings and papers which must used during its constr & prominent and leading | given a great deal of at- “Recently he said, | ¥ an architectural paper to Capitol buildi finest le, supposed, this time, The only way Ge other be neces- | have admittedly in t the world. I 4d put my hands on any hat f s immedi: sola epted the | nission. lin ¥ disappointment | when spplying the Capitol. 1 was nformed that all of the plans, if they eve lid exist. disappeared many years ago. T Senate and H wings ar an imp © filed aw runents. ertain among some that the in one of the govern- As far as I have b in an examination re fs no record of them, and what 1 ire is to secure the aid of The Star, | + many readers, for any informa- ou that will assist me in Should I be fortunate enough » fearn anything xbout them I would vladly give all publicity to the fact, so That others will not h to xo over the zround covered by my investigation. § Mr. Edward Clark the present archite has been in cha: of the Capitol he has very particular to make a record of y plan or drawing that is used in con- thon with work done there, for he has xpericneed more than any one else can | how <iitficult it fs to follow any one else in} x work without full copies of all the origi- a If his predecessors had beep he has been ir this matter | would not be in the cond’tion | ; not able to show how its most wtiful building was builded.” ee ee I always save my snow,” safd the keep- down-town boarding house, “and now on hand three barrels full. That the next snow, when I y another supply. For zing ice creain, puddings, Roman pune! other things in that line snow is much | better than lee, for the reason that it « be packed into the freezer easter. It is han ice and works much more than fee, besides does the same and | with much Jess trouble. It may be a! Yarkee trick, for { learned it up in Ver- mont, but tt Is a good one, I assure you. 1 have always a number of empty bar- rels in the cellar, and I get the men who come in for a free meal to fill them. They are always glad to do the work, and I am giad for the result, for it saves me considerable in my ice bill When the snow is put in barrels they should be cov- pack aw Faye work with half the quantity of salt, j ered | they endeavor to impart ideas on hygier , fully dangerous to drink water from a cup | they are rins | quenUy gone as far wrong as others, but I “and paid le: | man thet I know of,” said an official of th ‘ a railroad president for many years he had | morning. | ed that it was anonymous, but that he had | some reasons for believing the statements | in re | John Thomson placed a ros | whom he came in contact, simply be | tion. | I have talked SOME ODD CHARACTERS. le Who Seek Fame Through Very Peculiar Channels. “I think if all the cranks in this country were corralied,”” remarked the elerk in the Treasury Department, “and put under a shed somewhere, it would require one bigger than all the buildings at the world’s fai “Would there really be anybody to do the corralling?” inquired a pesstmistic old party, who thinks there is none good, no, not one. ‘As I was saying.” continued the treas- ury clerk, “it would take the biggest shed on earth, and stilt there is a new kind. This time it is a man or woman who has been sending in ten cents at a time as a ccntribution to the conscience fund, with a name signed in full, ané there is no such rame on the treasury books and never has up to keep out the air as much possibile. The temperature now is su that there is not. much melting. Lasi' win- ter my tce bill was so small in comparison (o what it otherwise would have been that the ice man complained. My boarders did tot, however, for as the snow cost nie but little I could afford ice cream for them er than 1 otherwise could.” 1 ee ize been. I suppose it is merely some crank, My own Klea ts,” observed a physician. | who thinks he or ahe will get that name in that some of the public school teachers. | the papers and have that much fame out particularly some of the lady teachers. are | of ‘That's silly enough,” chipped in a post office inspector, “but I h dd of the oddest chap on my last trip down south. You m not know, or, if you do, don’t pay much attention to the fact, that there Is a fine of $10 for sending written matter through the mails under any rate except two cents an ing more harm than good by the way {t is ali right to be careful, and it is even better to he too careful than to be carciess, but no good can come from exaggeration. Only a few days ago, while visiting some : s ounce. Very likely you have sent enough patients, I was informed seriousiy by a] stuft written on Bee ockeaaa ao7a little girl of ten years that it was dread-| to bankrupt you if you had the fines to pay, but Uncle Sam fs easy, and I don't know of a case where anybody ever had to pay the fine. In this instance a man came into a certain office down south and any other person drank from. .The fe girl even went so far as to say that it was also dreadfuliy dangerous to drink soda water from any of the glasses {n the | Save the postmaster $500, heing the amount slrag Stores, for the reason that others | Of fines he owed the government for vio- dranic from the same glasses. [ asked her | lation of postage laws, as far as he could ‘where she got such ideas from, and she | tecail them. He was a young man, and he | told me that her school teacher had told | Stated that he had violated the law while in love with a girl to whom he sent papers and her so time and time again. “Now, this is carrying hygiene too far. erious doubts that any one was ever f in any way from drinking from any of the public drinking cups on the pumps, or from the cups in use in the public scho Every time they are used out by the ones who use them, especially if the water is drawn from a spigot. i know there are extremists fu this matter, and physicians have fre- books occasionally, and though he > to her every day he couldn't let the go without writing something on ‘The postmaster didn't know how to act in the premises, and just what he would have done finally. nobody knows, but the next day, the young man’s father came to see the postmaster and told him that his son had been jilted by his sweet- heart. and it had crazed him. This was an explanation which satisfied the official and the money was returned.” Ugh.” grunted the pessimistic old party. in no wise affected by the pathos of the little story, “only a crazy person or an idiot would ever think of settling square with Uncle Sam for a little bunco game Nike that.” do net think it is right for any one to ham- mer such ideas into juvenile minds. It seares children so that they fear to drink Water at all, which is all wrong, for an o-- caslonal drink of water is as nec as air for every one, and children especially.” * x * * late Senator Leland Stanford re- more anonymous letters attention to them than any “The ceived probabl > HOW IT WAS PRONOUNCED. An Example of the Personal Style Heard in New York. ‘the drummer had been in Washington for about an hour and a half, and was al- ready telling stories as incredible as they were true. He had come from Boston and had stopped over in New York just tong enough to be able to say that he had come trom New York, a way some people have who want to impress other people of their kind. “Of course,” he was saying, as he turn- ed in on the third or fourth tale, “you all know of Chauncey M. Depew, and bow much greater he is in the bi Senate. “His rule was to throw them awa) and pay no attention to their contents. As received thousands of them, and he carried out the same rule after he entered public life as a senator. I remember one evening I was in his office. Among his callers was a colored man whe claimed to be a min- ister and to be the president of a college and orphan asylum in South Carolina. The senator was very busy that evening, and he closed up the appeal of the minister for money to help carry on his good work by saying “<If vou will not detain me listening to your appeal I will give you $100 in the I would rather give you that en to your claims tonight.” town than other man on earth or six feet below its surface, and how he never says a word about what they think, but just laughs. Well, when I landed in New York the other m than to It he minister thanked him and departed : the = s day from Boston, I lit in the New York Fee net hal some Mecinese wath ihe | Central station up at 42d street and had to senator and was in his office early. Soon | Whit, {yplle for a friend kote maine eand after T arrived there the South Carolina | hie ther pot Wop ade gcaiking: | minister put in an appearance to get the | Ove sa pioasianeery fine “depo, and the money promised him the night before. The | © ie a os mUsN ss call” fe sdeebo, but Senator sent down word to one of his! know. when they ought to nee orate ‘lerks to mak> out a check for $100. The A 'y oug! say n, anyhow. “In the midst ef their discussion a man who was their escort appeared with some tickets that he had been secing about, and 1 discovered that the party was from Chi- clerk came up and whispered to the sena- tor that the mail that morning had brought ter saying that the minister was a swindler. ‘Who was it signed nator. The clerk answer- sing,’ said the elder lady to ‘the question as to the man, whether these people called so handsome a rd to the minister were true ‘You know.’ said the senator, ‘my rute | is to pay no attention to anonymous let- ters. Give him the check, for 1 promised | make no exceptions k was made out and minister, and he again de- The day following th i as this a “deepo” or a “deppo.” " h, indeed? he si with a laugh. ‘You are both wrong; they pronounce it “Depew,” of course. buil —__—_ A GOODLY FIGURE. he ing : miniater was arrested and arraigned —— fn the courts as a gencral swindler, the | A Big Price Pald for Poetry Which charge having been made by the officers Made a Precedent. of a colored organization here. ‘There was The Star reporter was taking an intellec- pleuty of evidence to substantiate the és se charge. Senator Stanford's rule « him | {al fail or two out of the literary person, $100 that tin ieihagvandoubted just to show that Individual that all the eal more him a great in other way literature in the world wasn't centered in it —_ his rule, and he adhered human being when the literary person strictly. ec cateche! SR became catechetical. Sig eccey udmiree (oF ihectnte (Stone Do you know,” he said, “the highest price & paid for a single short poem? ‘That was easy on his grave, | his bedy would tonight be covered with a for the reporter. mountain ef roses," said a well-known “Course I do,” -he safd, “it was that thou- business man. “Strong John ‘Thomson | S«hd one of our American periodicals paid had the respect of nearly every one with | UP to Tennyson for a couple of dozen lines . | or so." The literary person simply withered the reporter by a look. “I beg your pardon,” he sald, “but the lighest price ever received for a short peem by a man, an Englishman, too, y the way, bearing the plebeian name of he commanded and deserved it. To many | of us he was known as ‘Peanuts.” How he; got that nickr {do not know, but when I went to school to him, forty years ago, the boys spoke of him oftener as ‘Pea- ame 4 as SU John. My first re Smith. His poem was shorter than Ten- phar filer ahs faith chap yee catia tden ete and he got fifteen times as much building at the corner of Mth and G et you,” interrupted the reporter, at no American publisher, however an- slomaniac he may be, was fool enough to put up that amount for a poem.” “I'll admit, it was an Englishman who streets, where Small’s building now is. Mr. Thomson, as has been stated, took great stock in the strap as a means of educa- His strap was always in sight, coil- ed up on his desk. The strap was made of : vo yards | Paid the money,” said the literary person sole leather, and was about two yards ; Pald id y pe long. He always doubled tt up when in| 'M & tone of regret. “This Mr. Smith, who use. In some cases he struck with the | ‘led in 18%9, at the age of sixty-five, was a loop end, and in others with the double | brother of Horace Smith, and the two ends. Generally he applied the strap. to | Smiths wrote those very clever things of a the open hand, but frequently, when he | bY-60ne day, known as ‘The Rejected Ad- | had a very difficult idea to elucidate, he | dresses,” being imitations of famous au- used his strap over the boy's back. i thors. On one occasion our Mr. Smith “While I have seen him whip hundreds | dined with Mr. Strahan, the king’s printer, who was suffering from old age and gout, though his mental faculties were as bright as ever, and the next morning Mr. Stra- han received from Mr. Smith the following stanza of eight line: “Your lower limbs seemed far from stout, When last I saw you walk; The cause I presently found out, When you began to talk; The power, that props the body's length, In due proportion spread, In you, mounts upward, and the strength All settles in the head. “This compliment was so pleasing to Mr. Strahan that he forthwith added a codicil to will by which he bequeathed £3,000 in cash ($15,000) to the poetical Mr. Smith.” “This price,” concluded the literary per- “I can't see why you girls all take such | son, “is at the rate of $1,873 a line of our delight in listening to that Englishman. Is | money, and as there are forty-seven words there any high ortginality about him?” * ae pre sais. Lae ong hes LURKS, Hes 7 .10, a price for No,” said the girl with the liquid eyes | Which even the promised ora of ipronperity ard the solid bank account, “nothing but} will scarcely bring to modern. bare-backed high origin riders of Pegasus, And the querulous plebeian retired abashed pared eer Into the tenebrous recesses of obscurit BORN THAT way. Im View of Recent Events. From the Cleveland Wain Dealer. “Jimecn wants the presidency of the Fifth National Bank, doesn’t he?” Yes; but he stands no show against Shumway “What's Shumway's recommendation for the place?” “He hasn't any relatives.”” of boys, I have also seen several boys whip bim. He took his whipping without a grumbie—and he thought best of the boys who did likewise. His strong hold was arithmetic. In the past twenty-five years to him very often, and T think he was sorry he had given so much prominence to the strap in his educational methods. He felt there was danger of his being regarded as the mere user of the strap. He never forgot the name of one of his boys, and nothing gave him so much pleasure as when he heard his boys were successful in life.” pees SuMiciently Qualified. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. Story of a Little New York Orphan Boy and a War Clerk. A clerk in the War Department, residing out Takon.a way, was entertaining a few friends the other evening, and being enter- tained by them over a barrel of cider and the condiments which go with it, incidental thereto being some conversational efforts on the part of each and every one. don’t know,” said the clerk, when it came his iurn, “whether it is that I love children and the very thought of a poor little orphan moves my inmost soul to pity, or because I am, on general princi- ples, a most tender-hearted and benevolent person, but this I do know, that I am never permitted hy any begging child on the street to escape. They get me every time in spite of myself. So it was when I was over in New York about a month ago. It was a cold night and I was hurrying along to my hotel at abcut 11 o'clock, when I ran across a bey about ten or eleven years old, standing on the street corner crying. Of course, I couldn’t stand that kind of thing, especially as the youngster was rag- ged and thin and evidently not a member of any of the swell clubs in that vicinity. “* ‘Hello,’ said I, in my usually benevolent and encouraging tone, ‘isn’t this rather late for a kid like you to be out on the street?” “°Tain't my fault,’ he blubbered, with is dirty fists in his eyes. ““Why, you poor little chap, what's the matter with you? said I, werming up to hit mherited Experience. From Household Words. Woman of the World (to youthful ad- mirer) ou seem to know a great deal about married life. Are you married?” Youthful Admirer (with a blase air) but my father Is.” “No, ‘Too for Him. From Town ‘Topltes, Daughter—“George says he fears he can’t support me in the style I’m accustomed to.” Father—“Marry him, anyhow. 1 can't keep ft up much longer myself.” £ cee ae wanter go hom ‘Well, why don’t you?’ “I ain’t got none. I’m a orphan.’ ‘Bless my soul, what a pity to be an orphan alone in the world and so young. How did it ever happen, my boy? and I went down in my pocket for a dollar at “ ‘I—I—1," he blubbered, ‘I was horned that way.’ E.lucated in the higher branches. Harper's Bazar. “Then it occurred to me that possibly I] and there you are,"you old foot!”—Life. Was about to be victimized by one of those confidence chi f the metropolis and I compromised yifh my benevolence and gave the kid a°nitkel.” — = A Reckless Permission. Frem the Cleve jain Healer. “What in the World smashed your hat?” “Why, whon I aqme eut of the house this morning I laughingly told my neighbor's oldest girl that 1 jd give her ‘a lief at me with a snowhal) “Well?” ; “Well, it turf jout that she's the star pitcher of the Vifsar ball team.” Realinm. From the Detroit Joinal. Critie—“Your picture seems to lack at- mosphere.”* Artist—“I_ belive thinking seriously ventilating appara your are right. I'm of painting in a modern tus.” wee Lasting From the Ciecinnati Enquiter. Perry Paiettic—“They say onc of them champagne drunks wili fast a man three or four days on one night's crinkin’.” Wayworn Watson—“Them plutocrats al ways does have the best of it, don't the 23, 1897-24 PAGES. BY 5 PHILANDE! JOHNSON - A Sensitive Nature. The directory of a neighbori ne city con- tains the name of a gentleman who is con- spicuous for his economy. Alihough more thaa well-to-do, he can never smart under any insinuations that he makes an osten- Bat he ts ever ready to listen to any story of dis- He is as gentle in manners as he is rigid in his financial affairs, and has re- {fused many an applicant for charity with so much pathos that the object of-the visit was forgotten In the effort to comfort him Some relations of his were reduced to the extremity of appealing to him. It was a forlorn hope, but at that time it seemed the only one. A mutual friend was” pre- vailed upon to act as ambassador. When he called he was re with effusive \ i i | tations display of his resources. H 1 ! relations of of bringing visit. yours,” forward the real purpose of hi “You mean the Easigos? “Yer en't heard anything from them in “Maybe I can explain that,” said the friend, with a sudden inspiration. “It is altogether likely that they have not writ- ten because they felt that they could not afford to buy a postage stamp. And as they are in very bad circumstances they may have been delicate about reminding you of their need: “It's distressing to think that they should want for anything. They have always been used to the best.’ Yes, and lik> so many others, they have n restrained by pride from seeking as- sistance, even where it ought io be freely given “Too bad; too bad. My heart goes out to them “I saw them in their home. They have compelled to refuse their daughter a Piano, and they're using the same hail rpet they've had for the last six years. I heard that from their own lips. To think of people of their refinement being obliged to practice such economics simply for the lack of a few hundred doll. “It's terrible” and_ ther ymptoms of tears. “It's the most distress- ing thing I've heard of them for a long time. I can’t tell you how sorry I am for them. “[ Knew you would be moved. of it. It has paved the way for some iiew: I have to tell you. Their pride is ‘1umbled at I They're coming to see you. “Yes,” was the response, in a tremulous tone. “I guessed as much. And that’s why I'm So sorry. for them. They're not going to set anything.” were genuine I was sure * * x 5 A Recipe. Come hither, now, ye writer-men, am- litious to indite A volume that is strictly up to date; The kind that sets the critics fairly cooing with delight And wins you straight. Discard your plots. auite passe. A sullen Scot's the character to draw. In a misanthropic way You must sapiently say, “Hoot awa’! A’ ta:gither, Hoot aw favor with the masses, An interesting story's He careful to avoid all graceful quips or jovial turns, At present, they are not at all the fad. That sort of thing went out with gentle, genial Bobbie Burn If you're not depressing now, your work is bad. You must frequently say “muckle” if you'd earn the praise of men, Nor forget to put in “bonnie,” and “tw You must say, And, every now “Hoot aw: “braw” you dinaa ken,” d then, ! A’ taegither, Hoot awa’.” * * Oe A Dingusted Guest. “Dat town makes me tired,” said Mean- dering Mike, as he contempiuously tossed a newspaper into a field. It was evident that he was laboring under the depression which bad weather will produce in the mest buoyant dispositio1 “What town’s dat?’ “Washin'ton, de capital 0’ all dese United States.” “Ain’ dey runnin’ de ‘naugeration ter suit yer" “I don't care fur de ‘naugeration—only, of course, I'm goin’, ‘cause 1 allus likes ter be wit Je gang. But wot hurts me patri't- ism is de way dey wastes money. Dem fel- lers don’t seem ter re'lize de value of a dol- lar. It seems like dey’s got so much dust dat dey can’t manage any way excep’ ter sweep it off in a corner where it'll be oucn de way.” “I wisht I wus so fixed dat I cud stan’ aroun’ somewheres an’ git me clothes full of it.” “In dem words ye've sounded de keynote of popular disconient. Us fellers—de strug- glin’ masses—" “Leggo. 1 don't "low anybody ter call me no strugglin’ mass.’ “Wot have dey been doin’ wit de tax- payers’ money? Dey've been squanderin’ it. Dey've been puttin’ up a new post of- ew? nudder one?’ “Naw; de same ole new post office. I'd like ter hev some feller—one dat’s good at figgers—tell me how much an inch dat building hez been costin’. But dey ain’ satisfied wit dat. Dey're lookin’ aroun’ fur some place ter put a new printin’ office fur de gover'ment. Why don't dey git together an” put some style where it'll do good? Why don’t dey do something dat'll give us visitors a chance ter go away an’ give ‘em a good reputation? Dey turns deir backs on de cryin’ needs of de hour an’ while dey're shovelin’ money inter all dese architactural luxuries, dey calmly notifies you an’ me dat owin’ ter de lack of accommodations, we'll hafter sleep two in a bed when we gits ter de workhouse!” * z * & Unappreciated Courtesy. “What's this?” he exclaimed, as he scan- ned the bill. “Who ordered all these dry goods and notions?” “I did, dear,” his wife replied. “Hadn't you clothes enough?” ‘ertainly not. You had asked me to go driving with you this afternoon and I did not desire to be a sight.” It was all said without any great asperity, but with that unhesitating frankness which shows that the honeymoon has been over for many years. Well,” he commented, “it seems to me that the women of the present day exert themselves with more industry than sense in their efforts to be beautiful. As they get themselves up now they are simply out- landish. “Is that intended as @ personal remark?" “Not at all. You art only one of the many. You are not to be expected to step forth and defy these absurd fashions, praiseworthy as such a course would be. You are not the stuff of which martyrs are made. I don’t blame you for yielding to the inevitable. I yield myself, but I cannot help sighing for the sweet simplicity of days gone by.’ ; “Perhaps I do not seem as attract you now, because I have grown older. ‘It isn’t that,” he protested. ‘You are But tsay, withot desiring to hi r say, urt_ your feelings, that you don’t dress with the taste that you showed twehty years ago, when we were married.” to If we early. rl not have word to say about how you're dresse: vided only that it’s done in a hurry. That afternoon he sat down in the I- brary to wait till his wife had completed her attire. He lifted nis gaze from the paper in response to her inquiry, “How do I Yook, dear?” He sprang to hi: gled for words. She wore a very small hat, a large chignon and strangely propor- tioned masses of mil- linery, Wor which his vocabulary could find no polite phrase. A diminutive parasol completed the ab- surdity. “Arabella,” he ex- claimed, in a dazed manner, “we're just going driving. you know. It isn’t any masquerade. “Don't you like it?” she queried, in a tone of astonishment. “Like it!” “I expected you to say I was pretty,” she pouted. “Arabella, I'm fond of you, but I can’t Me. You aren’t any prettier (han a cross- eyed pelicun. What ever possessed you to do anything like that.” “It was simply to please you, dear.” “To please me!” Yes. It's the way I years ago, when we were married.” = xk Day Dreami; In the Somewhere regian that's ever bright In the glow of the Someday sun, Is a castle that rears its columned height Where the mirroring waters run; pro- feet and vainly strug- dressed twenty Where the tranquil moments like music flow To answer each longing the heart can know, And the air grows sweet with the gentle sigh Of the roses kissed as the zephyrs fly. Like the fabled tokens of magic’s power It rises, as swift as thought. From the wistfulness of an idle hour Are its dazzling splendors wrought. But alas, to dust are its glories flung, By the passing jest of an idle tongue! They are gone, those beauties of form an: hue That were built of the to do. ‘There's another place where the roses are, Though it boasts no arch It rests to the hitherwarv } Of the land of the ’Tis built of the things that you things you meant done, And the hours smile back at the glid sun, | And you love it well—tnough you sigh H anew For the House of the Things You Meant ‘To Do. * “+ Mr. Dolan’s Criticism, “Rafferty,” said Mr. Dolan, in a conti- dential tone and with an earnest wave of his pipe, “it wor somethin’ grand an’ Oi'm sorry fur yez thot ye cudn’t of been along fur the sport. If Oi hadn't seen it, Oi'd be sinkin’ inty sickness fur the regret over what Ofd missed. It wor simply stew- pinjis.” “Dolan,” replied his neighbor, in a tone of contempt, ye’re fallin’ inty yer old wakeness. in’ nothin’. tell me?” “It wor beautifuller nor a drame,” was the rhapsodic response. “But what wor it?” “The op'ry.” “Grand op'ry?”" “I dunno wor it grand cp'ry or petty op'ry. But Oi haven't had so much rale infymint since the spell o° say sickness siperated me from me home in Munster. Ah, thim wor the days, an’ Oi hadn't sane anythin’ loike ’em till Oi sat in the orchestra an’ Ye're talkin’, but yez ain't say- Is it a drame ye're tryin’ ty chairs watched t ivver contra- Vd = She knows best. If it worn't fur Moya Oi'd of missqgi the whole ting. Od understua thot op'ry wor a place where the fashionable folks meets ty chat things over an’ Oi wor afraid Of'd be lonesome, but Moya bid me howld me tongue an’ put an me besht clothes, an’ befoor Oi knew it Oi wor there, clappin’ me hands an’ shoutin’ loike the fines! “But tell me, Dol. chesthra ye sa’ “Furninst the fiddlers. Casey, the con- thractor, had bought two sates, but at the last minute his woife changed ‘er a wake, an’ so Casey gev vem ty we put'an shtolle wid the besht av ‘em. Oi had an me plush vest an’ me polky-dot neck-tie, an’ many a toppy Jockin’ gint in me neighborhood had noth- in’ betther round ‘is collar than a bit av wholte rag; which shows the truth ay what Oi've been sayin’ ty yex about the hard toimes. But ‘twor a dacint mob; Oi wull say thot fur ‘em “Ivrything wint fri'ndly an’ paceable?” “-Twor more than anythin’ else Oi re- mimber loike the toime thot Murty Mc- Manus an’ Larry Shea shtarted in a con- tist ty decide furiver which wor the besht player an the pipes. They sbtarted in fri‘ncly an’ paceable, but the excitement grew very intinse as the avinin’ advanced. This op'ry had foive rounds in it. At the ind av aich they let down the curtain, thot the contistants might be able ty rest up undistur! it wor the fiddlers agis the singers an’ horn-players. Whin they shtarted In, Of thought the fellys and the insthrumints had the besht av it. The captain av ‘em samed very confidint, an’ before the first round wor half over, Oi offered ty bet the man sittin’ nixt to me foive ty four that his gang ‘ud take the purse. He was av my. opinion, too, fur he wudn't take the bet. Oj must say, sym- pathies wor wid the fiddlers, fur they didn’t put an near the airs that the others did wid their fancy flub-dubs, thot wor fit only fur a masquerade. “The captain av the fiddlers wor shakin’ *Is shtick at ‘em an’ they yelled back de- foiance. Thin he waved incouragemint til! his min an’ fvery wan o’ them toed the mark. Oi nivver heard so many languages! If me judgmint aiu’ wrong, there wor Ger- man, Eyetalian, Shcandaravian, an’ ivery wanst in a whoile Oi made sure Oi cud pick out a word or two av pure Oirish. Afther the singers had dore their besht in @ scattherin’ way, out shtips a felly ty take charge av ’em. Thin the leader av -the fiddlers shuk "is shelaly at ‘im, as much as ty say: ‘Ho, ho, me bucko; you're afther a taste, are yez?’ : “But ‘the new” man nivver got shcared. He shtarted in elie top av ‘is voice. “ ‘arrah, says ye murtherin’ 1 Come up here an’ lave yerre gang beholnd yez. Come here if ye dare an’ see phwat OVvN do ty yez.’ “Ah, it’s a folne scholar ye must be,” sald Rafferty, admiringly, ‘ty undershtand all thim foreign worruds loike thot.’ “Av coorse,” sald Dolan uneasily, “‘thot’s just a free thransliation as Oj picked it up. from the gestures an’ the expression av their faces, This felly had a high wor it in the or- A WORK OF MERCY. TENDING THE WOUNDED AND CARING FOR THE DEAD. While Serving in the War Hewitt H. Williams Contracts a Disease in Its Most Aggravated His Hopeless Co: From the Press, Utiea, N.Y. Mr. Healt H. Williams, ¢ well-todo far Oneida county, New York, se certificate, Inquiry develops fact that Mr. Wiliams ts a citizen in gud standing and repute, and enjors the respect of the comm he resides y may be real a the following the nity im whiek His testin with ben- efit by those persons unto ‘o al whom it ana: » farmer of Bi 2 do make 1 pe true mM every gx “Tam ffty-nine years o . Dighshire, North Wales, put long a resident of this conaty and a citizen of the United S¢ During the war of the rebellion Twas secving with the army, though not an enlisted man, my business being te look after the graves of the dead period 1 ed in the military hospitals as os sistant nurse. While at the front I contracted catarrh in $18 most aggravated form, extending to the stomach apd Madder. My eyes, oars and alr rn. Parsages were all affected, my digestion wax so Impcired that [could not agsinilete food, and this distressing condition asvumed the «liroule form and continued rage. Of courne, T had medical advice, and jeu At from several different physteiaas, but th no good +o speak of, and year condition became It w vugh the news- pepers T learned of the cures effected by Dr. Will- jams’ Pink Pills, and ax Twas tieed of paying doctors’ bills for nothing I determined to give them a trial, and laid in a good supply, meaning to give them a thorough test. I was a Little discouraged at first, a8 the pills made me more nuserable, but I kept ou and after I had taken nearly ane whole box I Legan to improve. My stomach regained its tone, the bladder tryuble subsided and the urinal discharge was no | loaded with mucus, My hearing geew better, the air passages, even in damp weather, gave me little inconvenience, and in three months I was comfortable and able to eat, drink and sleep well, “A do not pretend to say that I no longer have any caturrhal symptoms, but when they show the ‘st sign of becoming aggravated I at omce take Dr. Williams’ Pink Pilis, and 1 soon get relief. We always keep Pink Pils in he house, and my family take them when sick with debility of any Kind, with good results. I take pleasure ia mak- ing this certificate, nnd hepe that the Information herein given may be beneticlal to oti “HM. WILLIAMS Pills coutain, tn a condensed ts MeceNRATy to give new life and richness to the blood and nerves. ‘They are also a xp peculiar to females, such as sup Dr. Williams’ P form, all the ei . Inregu- They build f health to pale effect a radical jucutal worry, ature, Pink Pills farities and all forms of weakens up th ood, and restore t and sallow cure in all yma a) hencetadt De v.¥ Williams’ drums, tl the id wanst takin’ the vice, ty Kiv when the shpectators got up ty go out the fiddlers wor wipin’ their for hea: nustion, an” the defaie wor ez clane < mplate ex y knock-out Oi ivver saw. Ol} ashked who the felly wid the hoigh voice he said it wor Kraus, the tinner. a hoighly reshpectable oceupation; but or Kraus Oi'd give up the thrade an’ sing fur a tivin’ if Oi * * Easy One. “Let the children ask all the questions they want to,” is the domestic motto of a gentiemar connected with Smithsonian Institution. In his case, the rule is safer than it would be in most aomes, for he is regarded by his acquaintances as a com- pendium of almost any branch of learning that happens come under discussion, His boys, having his repuiation as an in- dorsement of their natural confidence in his wisdom, regard him as infallible. He- ing youths of active intellect, they never allow him to run any risk of ennui. He had just put on overcoat and had his hand on the doorknob when one of them nailed him. “Father, thing.” 1 haven't time now.” 1 only want to ask one question ‘Can't you wait un‘ tonignt?’ “I might forget it. Try to remember it. It will be good mental discipline. Good-bye.” “I wanted ever so muc Just a will you please tell me some- to know right B It won't take you a minute “Are you sure’ His father looked at his watch and saitz “Well, go ahead, What is your quese tion?” : “Why, all I wanted to know is now they work miracles and maxe condeased milk. PTS eT THE HISTORIC OLD IRONSIDES. What Congress Ought to Do With ¢ Ship. From the Chicago Times-Herald. Another appeal is being made to Con- gress to appropriate a sufficient sum of money to repair the old frigate Constitu- tion—“Old lronsides”—and put her into such condition that she may safely be brought to Washington to be preserved as a naval relic. For years this historic vessel, once the pride of every American, has been lying neglected and half-forgotten at the Ports- mouth navy yard. It has been used for menial offices, just as sometimes a great race horse has been degraded to the cab and the cart. More than once some brutal naval economizer has proposed to break her up and sell her for junk. Some such proposition was made about the beginning of the civil war, when it was found she was not seaworthy, but Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes put an end to that idea with his stirring poem, “Old Ironsides,” and it has not been mooted since. But the old vessel has long been suffered “to lie in cold ob struction and te rot.” It is a shame to our patriotism that it should be so. ‘The pride of the English navy today, the vessel that has the place of honor before all others, is the old line-of-battle ship Victory, that carried Nelson to death and to undying fame at Trafalgar. That great ship is preserved as sound and as perfect as when she was in truth and in fact one of the “wooden walls of England.’ She is kept as a perpetual memorial of England's conquest of the sea. What the Victory was to the British navy the Constitution was to ours. She is the memorial of our naval victories over Britain in a war in which she never lost @ battle. Why should she not be preserved? Rietous Realism. From Harper's Bazar,