Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1897, Page 22

2 2 2 THE EVENING STAR. SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1897-24 P ES. TOUCH MANY HEARTS he has a caller who seems to just suit him. | This was the case with Mr. Vischer- of 5 Chicago. Vischer is a very brilliant young z news per man. I have never seen him, | but fam told that his appearance reminds Prose and Poetry of Four Well-Known j one ‘or the story of the country woman = and the hippopotamus. The country Writers. womar went to the circus, and when she saw this animal she stood before him for some time in speechless astonishment. At with a gasp she said to her husband: ain't he plain!’ Well, Mr. S a little plain, a quality which ssessed to a certain extent by A DROLL LETTER FROM BILL NYE 2 is. Mr. Vischer is well known in Chicago. He known in other “ 5 | au an he thought of course Mr. The Personal Sides of Frank Stan- | gparters, and he thoug i oes coare eet : stepped jauntily into the office and held ton and Hamlin Garland. out his hand and + re you, Mr. Harris? My name is -- * BASHFUL) Remus looked up, and as he did so held out his hard a then burst into a | hearty ha! ha! ha! Why, hcew do you do, Mr.Vischer. Ha! ha! ha! I am glad to meet you, Mr. Vischer! Ha! ha! ha! and he went on laughing as though he would split his sides. um glad to meet you,” said Mr. Visch- straightened himself up a little But I can’t see what on earth you are laughing at.” At this Uncle Remus burst into another lavgh and said, as he rather affectionately his hand on Vischer’s shoulder: “Well, UNCLE REMUS Frank G. Carpenter.) tar. IKE A FRESH breath from the pi is a personal letter which 1 found tocay in leoki tS to tell you the truth, Mr. Vischer, I am of my old ec laughing at you. I like your looks. You ondence. It w see, I have always had the reputation of aaa ea ariel Oe being the ugliest nan in the United States, ges) Stortiy UDATOrS, | Tan ty trachea Teco ores es his death. and is full) ‘phis was saia in such a tone that Vis- of tke hemor and | cher could not get angry at it. He rather fun with which he | disputed the position which Uncle Remus had thrust upon him as he looked at him. But he shook hands, and a little later on the two went out to Uncle Remus’ home together. Vischer was delighted with Un- cle Remus, Uncle Remus liked Vischer bet- intance, and the two plain t friends. Frank Stanton. It was in the Atlanta Constitution office so delighted millions from week to week during his working life. An extract from it is as follows: “I have never been so well or so indu trious as this summer. One book is al- dy in the publisher's hands and a new and startling history ef Ergland is If done. It will make the study of English | that I met Frank L. Stanton, whose poems history not only # duty but a delight are now quoted in nearly every newspaper “You may already know that Paul M.jof the land. He writes a half column of Potter and I a of © just putting the last eoat bright paragraphs and verse every day for hellac on a new y for Mr. Palmer's the paper, and at the same time turrs out I need hardly say t first-rate political Mr. Stan- ines the masterly archi- | ton : yed young strength and the heaven-born | ™@P of about thirty-elght years of age. long and his black eye, in ordinary conversation at least, is nol “in fine frenzy rolling.” owever, the soul of a poet. He is the James Whit- comb Riley of the south, and his book, “Songs of the Soil," has had a very gen- genius of the two authors in the way that _ Will yield the most joyous and instructive results. It is called “The Stag Party. And will be a complete play, enlivened b melodious music on the harp, sacbut and ercus circulation. Stanton was brought up bull fiddle. Fair young people of both |on Methodist hymns. His mother made sexes will frolic over the stage and geod | him learn one every Sunday, and he can clothes in limited quantities will be per- | recite the hymn book from © end to the araiunie: other. He began his life work the summer on the farm | Tard boy in the office of the News, when Joel Chandler Harris was one of its edito: se to be a reporter, and oon began to write verse. Later on he edited a country newspaper, and his peems in it were widely copied. Then the Corstitution took him on its staff, and now at thirty-eight he is as widely quoted as Hl | strangers, and it is only now and then that | any w of the United States. His poetry is simple, tender and full of soul. It has cheered many a poor man und poor weman, and thousands have dropped tears ling some of his sadder poems. a poet of hope rather than » is stimulating and help- on the right side of During my cal! upon him T asked him to write me something for this letter. In re- ply he penned the two little poems which fellow. The first read: Ob, the future sky is the blaest sky, With never a elond ia vie Bat y today Is the truest sky, And that is the sky for you! The second poem is more in dialest. It reads Mr. Hamlin Garland has spent some Frank L. s anton. months here at Washington, working upon his life of Grant. He has already put in fifteen months of solid labor getting his material, and he is not yet half through. He has traveled over Grant's footsteps al- most from his birth to his death, and he Says that he hopes to be able to tell the story of Gen. Grant with all the truthful there is in it. Said he to me the surrounded by loving friends and colored people who desire to dispose of their black- sharged my old farm super- as ed one in his stead er game of golf. Farm- » abreast of the time or fall are looking well. I had quite an ight: t week with a new hive of | Cther night: bought at Hendersonville. The Poet of the Pioneers. oo a, the Pgs Hamlin Garland has made a reputation this af‘ernoon. The | Within the last few years the poet of the pioneers. The story of his own life is quite as interesting as anything he has ever written. He told it to me the other right, describing how he was born in Wis- consin, the son of a poor farmer, and how parlor off, ar conductor was going but thought better of it Qveen Ann bees on him hated Pullman, anyhow, and only patronize his old slumbering tanks when T need 2 new cake of soap or a set of hand towels for the home nest. he went with his Towa, and later The ouly people who have succeeded in | 0” to Dakota, trying to make a living by making @nything out of farming in this | farmi The poems he has written have been to a large country ar= two men who have worked ent based upon his own for me and Vanderbilt fer over five years | experiences. They have the flavor of the on salary, and who now own a feed store | Scil about them, and his field of literatu where Mr. Vanderbilt and I are enabled to} Which he considers that of the pioneer, is rien an account. ene in which he is thoranghly at home. “The joys of farm life keep one young and | During my chat he referred to his fresh all the time. I love to romp with | beyhoed on the farm, and upen my sug- gesting that farm work-was not very hard, he replied that I was mistaken, and said “I don’t know what you call hurd wi but if you have ever piowed you know something of what work is. I plowed sev- enty acres of land when I was ten years old, and more each year after that. I was so small that I had to reach up to catch hold of the handles of the plough, but T the bull and fool him by bounding over the fence a trifle in advance of Lim. I heught him of a colored brother who called he animal hi” Afterward I learned ¢ .! was what he was trying to eijaculat ‘I-shi’ ‘ms appropriate, however, and I still use that name, as I came near be- shy a couple of nice children on his account. Sincerely yours, did it. I can remember well how I felt E. W. NY. when I started out for my first plow- New Stories of Uncle Remus. Oe Gee a ee eae then tender, my feet sank down into the soil throwing my weight on the ankles and tendens of the feet. By the end of the first I have just heard some new stories of Uncle Remus. They relate to his extreme bashfuiness. He is so medest, you know, | Gay I was almost ready to drop with _ a ew 3 ain, but ad o go on. m Ow teens cannot look = strange women in| Ti bones did ache the next morning tke face, and he has for years written at | ™Y_Pomes OS to go to work. 1 worke his home in order to keep away from the Eon hunters and autograph seekers <zho ttack him at the Constitution office at Auanta. He spends only about an hour a day at the Atlanta Constitution office. He was there tho other morning when a tall young woman from Boston made her way ed right along, however, going to school in the winter until I-was fifteen. ‘Then I went to the Cedarville Academy. This was about five miles from my home. It was a good school, ard there I got the bulk of my edu- cation.” A Poem Which Bought a Sik Dress. ‘The conversation here turned te Mr. Hamlin’s literary work, and he told me how he was first led to write by reading Hawthorne's “Mosses From An Old Manse.” This book so delighted him that he wanted to write essays like it for a living, and he practic2d at this during the interyals of his school teaching and study- ing for years. It was not until he was olaer that he attempted fiction or poetry. ‘The story of his first published article is a curious one. Said he: “My first literary success was a poem which I wrote for Harper's Weekly, en- litied ‘Lost in the Norther.’ It was a poem describing a blizzard and the feelings of a man lost in it. I received $25 for it.” “That must have been a good deal of money to you then, Mr. Garland?” \ “It was,’ was the reply. “It was my first money in literature, and 1 spent it upon my father and mother. I paid $5 for \\\! | a copy of ‘Grant’s Memoirs,’ which 1 sent father, and with the remaining $20 1 bousht a silk dress for my mother. It was id the first silk dress she had ever had.” | he elevator and found his recom. The or was open. The Boston girl lovked in and there sat a lttle, rotund, red-headed reading a newspaper. Garland’s First Story. Is this Mr. Harris?” asked the Boston “When did you write your first fiction?” “My mother got half of the money I re- ceived for that,” replied Mr. Garland, “as it was due to her that I wrote it. I had been studying in Boston for several years, when I went out to Dakota to visit my parents. The night after I arrived | was talking with mother about old times and old friends. She told me how one family had gone back to New York for a visit and had returned very happy in getting back to their western home. As she told the story the pathos of it struck me. I went into another room and began to write. The story was one of the best chapters of my book ‘Main Traveled Roads.’ I read it to mother, and she liked it, and upon telling her that I thought it was worth at least $75 she replied: ‘Well, if that is so I think you ought to divvy with me, for I gave you the story.’ ‘I will,” said I, and so when I got my $75 I sent her a check for $37.50. I got many other good suggestions during that trip to Dakota. { wrote peems and stories. Some of the stories were published in the Century Mag- azine, and I remember that I received $600 within two weeks from its editors. It was perhaps a year later before I published my first book. It had a good sale, and I have been writing from that day to this.’”” The West as a Literary Field. . Hamlin Garland spends a part of every year in the west. He has bought the old home place where he was born in Wiscon- sin, and he has there a little farm of four acres, upon which he raises asparagus, strawberries, onions and bushels of other Hamlia Garland. replied the red-headed man jing his eyes. ‘alled to see you, Mr. Harris,” 1 the Bostcn girl. “My name is Bessie ‘ou ought to know me, for I aid Uncle Remus, Icoking very uncomfortable and still keeping his eyes upon the paper. 3 1 would like to have a chat with you,” id the young lady, raising her volze and ng an inquiring look at the chair at Mr. Harris’ side which he was too scared sald Uncle Remus, desperately. ‘ ” the woman went on after a pause, “I see, sir, that you don’t want to talk and I had better go.” “Yes'm,” said Uncle Remus, and with that the irate young woman left. The Two Plainest Men of the Couatry And still Uncle Remus is the soul of kind-leariedness. He is so bashful, how- ever, that he could not do otherwise than be did. He is backward in talking to things. His mother lives with him. During my talk with him the other nignt he said: “I Hke the west and the western people. I have been brought up with them, and I expect to devote my life to writing about them. I spend-a portion of each summer on the Rocky mountains, camping out. I like to go where I can sleep in the open air and have elbow room away from the crowded city.” During the chat I asked Mr. Garland for a manuscript verse or so of his poetry. He replied that he would give me peem which had never been published. “It is,” said he, ‘a curious thing, and it was made in a curious way. I got out of bed to write it one night not long ago, and I can't tell how it came into my head. It is a dialect verse, representing the revery of a game warden, who was looking over the fields which once formed the hunting grounds of the estate upon which he was employed. Here it is: A Survival. Tere I etond i the murk 0” the weather An’ whussle atween ma thoombs, But niver a hoon is at his tether An’ niver 2 Leontsman coomes. ‘The wind Is wet as the heather; ‘The hawk sails low toda; Niver were seen such weather; Waaslin-wa-aslin a mon will say. The moor is ploved lak a melier’s garden; ‘The hills are planted wi carn; . There's nawght now left for ihe puir old worden Bui to hang oop the rusty bern. Naught but to stend {° the murk { the weather An’ whussle atween-ma thoombs, ‘Though niver a hoon toogs at his tether, An’ niver a hoontsman cooms. RANK G. CARPENTER. a STAINS AND MILDEW. Easy Ways in Which Both May Be Removed. From the New York Times. This is emphatically the season of fruit stains and mildew. Fortunately, too, it is the season of grass bleaching and hot sun- shine. Mildew is easily taken out of white goods with chloride of lime, but it cannot be used on colored clothes. Put a small amount of lime in cold water and stir until it is entirely dissolved; then strain through ckeese cloth and immerse the mildewed article. Work up and down, and “is soon es the spots have bleached out rinse it through three or four waters and dry. Fruit stains of all kinds will come out of white goods if they are taken in time and treated exactly right. Raspberry and strawberry stains will disappear if boiling hot soft water is poured over them. Ox- alic acid will remove all other fruit stalns, and a bottle should always be kept in the laundry. As it is very poisonous, it shouid be plainly labeled and kept out of the way of children. Get the acid in erystalized fcrm, put in a bottle, and pour cold water over it. If part remains undissolved, add water as the solution is used. It is sure to remove fruit, leather, or ink stains. Touch only the spots and rinse quickly and thoroughly when they disappear. For lace or muslin add a little sal soda or ammonia to the first rinsing water. DiJute the acid at first, and make it stronger if neces- sar: Boiling hot soft water will remove tea, coffee, or chocolate stains. If tea stains are of long standing, soak In glycerine «nd wash the latter out with cold water. se diluted ammonia for orange and lemon stains. ake a thick paste of lemon or pieplant juice and salt and starch for red iron rust, and expose to the sun. If one appiication is not effectual, try again. Oxaiic acid 4s just as sure for black iron rust. Alcohol or molasses will take out grass stains. Cover wine stains with salt and lay in the sun, Nothing will remove blood stains better than cold soap suds, to which kerosene has been added. Kerosene will also remove tar or fresh paint. Machine oil or vaseline will easily when washed with soap o come out end cold r. When the color has been taken out of cc!- ored material with an acid, diluted ammo- nia will sometimes restore it. Chloroform is also an excellent restorative of cclor. Insect Intelligence. Frem the Indianapolis Journal “Flies is purty bad,” said the man from Potato creek. “They ain't nothin’ to what I seen ’em down in Niggerauger,” said the man with the ginger beard. “Wire screens didn't do no good at all.” “I've stood a heap of your lies,” said the grocer, waking up, “but when you tell me wire screens won't keep out flies, it is too durn much.” “Wire screens would keep out the pore demented things that tries to git a in” out of the stuff in this here secoad-hand green goods an’ codfish emporium. I don’t doubt,” said the man with the ginger beard, “but not the Niggerauger flies. When I put up my screens they scemed kinder puzzled an’ settled—" “I wish some folks I know would settle,” sald the grocer. “And settled on clouds.” “An’ got so thick they plum broke the wires.” 0; they didn’t git so thick they broke the wires. They held some sort 0’ conven- tion, an’ had a lot of fly talk an’ purty soon they all away to the woods xn’ come back with—what do you suppose they come back with?’ “With a ax?” asked the man from Po- tato creek. “No. They come back with a swarm of these here giant pinchin’ bugs that do abound in that country, an’ set them bugs to work an’ had them wires cut sut’n the frames in less time than it would take ole Skinflint there to git his hand on the scale if ole blind Uncle Billy Boggs come in to that there scresn in Trying to Be a Lady. From the Chicago Evening Pest. Poor Liliuokalani is trying hard to be a real lady and forget that she was born a savage. And, wonderful to relate, she is not receiving as much encouragement from the public as one might think she deserved. As a full-fledged barbarian the ex-queen is a prime curiosity, but when she ignores her immensely interesting past and tries to ape us in everything, then she is decidedly stu- pid. Still, it is mean to unearth disagree- able little incidents belonging to the days when this ambitious woman dwelt in dark- ness, and right and wrong were not proper- ly focused in ber dim vision, according to our civilized eyes. They do say that sev- eral years back Mrs. Dominis took part in a little function that would have been quite proper only in a Rider Haggard’s “She.” It all came about through a celc- bration in hcnor of a popular goddess in the Hawaiian Islands, Pele by name. Pro- ceeding to the Volcano Hotel, descending to the lake of fire, she threw into the seething crater a live pig and a live fowl by way of a sacrifice to this exacting deity, accompanying the act with a heathen chant obligato. Now the ex-royal lady de- nies the charge in toto. In the wild re- ligious rites of the natives she declares she never participated, although she ac- knowledges considering many of them as “harmless conformity to ancient customs,” comparing them ,to some of our innocent observances, notably “standing under the mistletoe.” Really, this is straining a point. How can there be any resemblance between standing under the mistletoe und throwing an unwilling pig and a -eluctant fowl into a molten lake? This' may be a harmless procedure in itself, though the victims held other views, doubtless. eee An Early Klondike. From the Ohio State Journal. Apropos of the recently reported rich gold finds in Alaska the accidental strike on the Payette river in Idaho, seventy-five miles from Boise City, may be recalled. Two men named George Bell and Dick Fraser were “grub staked” to go out on a prospecting tour. They skirmished around for some time without striking anything. One day Fraser went out hunting and chased a bear and a cub up a mountain side through heavy brush. The game escaped and Fra- ser sat down to enjoy a brief siesta before returning to camp. He pushed the brush aside and was digging thoughtfully in the dirt with his fingers when he picked up a piece of rich float, He did not know what it was, but it was a nice specimen of some- thing, and he put it in his pocket He stuck his pick into the ground and encoun- tered an obstruction in the shape of a lead. Going to camp he showed the piece of quartz to Bell, and further investigation showed the latter that it was worth look- ing into. A small tity of rock was taken out and brought to to be as- sayed. It went $138 a ton gold. BIRTHPLACE OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. TO BOSTON -AWHEEL End of the Long and Delightful Trip From This City. HISTORIC SPOTS ABOUT THE HUB A Flying Visit to Salem and Its In- teresting Environs. AT THE HOME OF HAWTHORNE Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. The roads in the vicinity of Boston, espe- cially through the populous counties of Suf- folk, Norfolk and Bristo}, are a joy to the cycling tourist in dry weather, but if the traveler be so unfortunate as to enccunter them on a stormy day,his opinion will be far from favorable. So we found it in our case, as we started from the little cross roads set- tlement at Myrick’s, five and one-quarter miles south of Taunton, in a drizzling rain. The clinging clay and slippery surface of the readway made riding diflicult, and even dangerous, in some places, and the fre- quent pools of water almost converted our run into a continued wade. Long stretches of woodland, dripping foliage and numer- ous ponds were the features of the first few hours of our ride. Crossing the bridge over the picturesque Taunton river, we entered the city of Taun- ton, which in area covers more ground than New York, or even Washington, and the ride through its principal street to Post Office square recalled memories of the far- reaching suburbs of Chicago. Our stay here was short, and, pushing on, unmind- ful of the showers, we reached a rolling country and better roads’as we neared the hub. In fact, the reads adjacent to the numerous towns and “illages were univer- sally good, but were followed by uncared- for sections of several’ mies in length with disappointing frequenty. The high wind of the easterly storm wés of’ great assistance to nd in the more.open country it was. difficult to keep a djrect course over the wet clay. The town of Bynhaém ‘fs seen a mile to the right, and then we pass through Eas- ton and North Easton, and the series of handsome house typical of suburban Boston begins. Into Canton, and crossing the Neponset river, the beautiful region of the Blue Hill range 1s teached, with the nestling Ponkapog pondjand the densely wooded Blue Hill towering far above. Here the road turns sharply to the left, and, winding through the walley and the town of Readville, a short run brings us to Hyde Park, with its long: main street and rows of crowded houses. Here the city of Boston really begins, and after passing Hazlewood, Clarendon Hill and the hand- some granite viaduct at Forest Hills, Washington street, one of the longest of Boston's streets, begins with a building an- nouncing in flaming letters, ““Mooving With Care,” which, while it impressed the vis- itor as ludicrous, would probably have hor- rifled the cultured residents of Common- wealth avenue. In Franklin Park. Turning to the right we enter Franklin Park, one of the most attractive of Bos- ton’s famous series of parks, its broad and perfectly smooth roadways affording a wel- come contrast to the miserable roads out- side the city. Choice shrubbery, flowers and green lawns abound on either hand, and nea: its center a Vast pavilion, where refreshments are dispensed and public con- certs are given for the benefit of the thou- sands of visitors awheel and afoot that daily enter this celebrated park. Leaving the park for a moment at Green street we cross Jamaica Plain, one of Boston's pret- tiest suburbs, and re-entering the park at Jamaica Pond we coast along by its cool shores an@ placid waters for more than a mile. Continuing our journey we enter a narrower portion of the park system, which soon becomes a boulevard, banked on either rand by flowering plants, and here and there a rustic bridge, until it merges into Boyleston street, with its Belgian pave- ments. A short ride and we halt before that massive granite pile, the Boston Libra- ry, which, though beautiful and complete, is really diminutive as compared with the magnificent Library of Congress at Wash- ingtor. A few moments’ visit to Trinity Church, the Boston “Tech.” and the muse- um, and we are off again for a brief run to the beautiful public gardens, and then historic Boston common, which, with its new stations for the subway railroad, its change of topography at its lower end, the newly constructed state house at its upper end and the new granolithic walks, instead of the old familiar flagstones of the days of our boyhood, presents quite a modera appearance as compared with the common of ancient Boston, In the shadow of the gilded dome of the state house we noted our cyclometer record of 690.3 miles from the War Department at Washington with some pride, and then pushed on along Fremont street to the Old South and the quaint old state house, where General Washington delivered his famous address to the colonial army. Farther down the street we stopped at the “cradle of liberty,” Faneuil Hall, with its inspiring painting “Yankee Doodle,” and its old-fashioned market place, still one ot the busiest marts of Bcston. Pushing across the city for a sight of the church where Paul Revere placed his signal light, we were soon at the, Bunker Hill monu- ment, and on our way to. Cambridge over the Charles river and;,Harvard bridge. The new town hall, the great buildings of “Hatr Harvard,” the ancient elm where Wash- ington surrendered jhis commission as cormmander-in-chief of je army of the United States, on Depemper 23, 1783, aud the headquarters of the famous Harvard Hasty Pudding, Club, -were viewed with much interest, and them we pedaled by a circuitous route thrpugh; Chelsea to the rapidly growing city of Lynn, with its fine business blocks and jome suburbs. About Marbithend. On again to Swampscdit by a good road bordering the sea wg rapidly approached the curious and rambling town of Marbie- head, whose strects seem one continuous curve, and whose hoifses'a@re so typical of colkcnial days. Haltipg tr a view of the large double frame house, three stories in height. where Senator and Vice President Elbridge Gerry was born, and where he lived when he signed the Declaration of In- dependence, we noted with some disap- pointment the ravages of time on this famous house. Climbing a steep hill to the public pavilion in the park a fine view of Marblehead Neck and harbor, the lat- ter crowded with yechts and boats of every. descripticn, was obtained. The neck is the resort of the fashionables, and is en- tirely distinct from the old town in its so- cial as well as its architectural appear- ance. Back again to the city’s center, the old town hall, built in 1727, and still well preserved, and the old square-towerea church up the winding Street, are relics of colonial days. The -hancsome granite shaft of the soldiers’ monument gives a modern air to this portion of the ‘street, but soon the earlfer colonial times. are revived again by a view of ape old powder house, a smait-| circular building of red brick “with an acorn-shaped roof and heavy iron door, above which is the tnscription, “Built 1756,” and used for the storage of ammunition during Indian and colonial wars. This building is stull used as a powder maga- zine py one of the militia organizations of Marblehead. Wheeling along the hard pike toward.Salem the great variety and pro- fusion of wild flowers on either hand at- tract attention. A few miles further and the historic city of Salem is reachea by au elm-lined thoroughfare. The large num- ber of beautiful residences and attractive lawns along this street afford a marked contrast to the dingy environs of Marble- head. A Historic Church, Along Essex street to the old first meet- ing house, built in 1634, whose first pastor was Roger Williams, we took the immense iron key, almost as large as that of the Bastile at Paris, and passing around Plum- mer Hall, obtained our first view of this historic church, the first regular place ot worship, erected by the pilgrims. As might be expected, this building is diminutive in size, with a gable roof and high choir loft extending over half of its interior. ‘The high-backed pews and ponderous reading desk, and the desk used by Nathaniel Haw- thorne while surveyor of the port of Salem and Beverly, and on which he penned his famous “Scarlet Letter,” are to be seen in this edifice. The old rafters are the only part of the original church that have not been modernized, so very little idea can be formed of the building as originally used. The custom house, on Derby street, where Hawthorne looked out of the win. dow and wrote his famous description of Derby wharf in the “Scarlet Letter,” one of the greatest commercial marts of co- lcnial times, and now a sleepy and almost abandoned place, is well worth a visit, as is also the birthplace of Hawthorne, No. 27 Union strect, a curious old house, in whose upper left-hand room Hawthorne was born July 4, 1804. This building is now used as @ private residence, and the narrow, wind- ing street is more densely populated than in Hawthorne's day. The Dr. Grimshawe house, where Haw- thorne’s wife lived before marriage, and which is described in Hawthorne's story of “Dr. Grimshawe's Secret,” is also seen here, and the Turner house, built about 1680, frequently visited by Hawthorne and widely known as ‘The House of Seven Gables.” The old Roger Williams house at Essex and North streets, built before 1634, and now known as the “Old Witch House,” from the fact that the Salem witches were tried there in 1692, and sentenced to be hanged by Judge Corwin, the occupant of this house at that time, is of much in- terest as representing the days of colonial superstition, and the site of the witchcraft Jail, No. 4 Federal street, and Gallows Hill, where nineteen witchcraft executions oc- curred in 1692, are vivid reminders of this period. The old North bridge, the s lie's retreat, February 26, 1 handsome armory of the Salem Cadets, one of the leading military organizations of Massachusetts, and the antique and elaborately paneled banquet hall where Prince Arthur was entertained by Col. Francis Peabody, were also seen with in- terest. On our way out of Salem we passed the old inn where Gen. Washington and other famous characte of colonial times were frequent visitors. Wheeling four miles to Naugus Head, on lower Salem harbor, we made camp at the cottage of Prof. Hotchkiss of Gallaudet College, Washington, and it semed like home to be_among our friends again. Our stéamer sailed the next afternoon for Baltimore, so our visit here was all too brief, and the homeward journey be- gun the next day was by steam instead of awheel, and was marked by no more im- portant incident than a six hours’ run through a heavy fog bank off Cape Cod and Vineyard sound, with the huge steam- er stopping frequently to ascertain her bearings by means of the lead line, and almost too often grazing a lightship or some craft outward-bound and invisible at the distance of a boat’s length. Arriving at Baltimore, we speedily boarded the train for beautiful Washington, and the spin over its smooth streets to our homes was perhaps the most enjoyable one of our long tour awheel. OTIS B. GOODALL. oe Peculiarities of Ostriches. Frem the Zoologist. Considerable misconception prevails as to the manner in which the ostrich runs. It seems to be still generally held that when running it spreads out its wings, and, aid- ed by them, skims lightly over the ground. This is not correct. When a bird really settles itself to run it holds its head lower than usual, and a little forward, with a deep loop in the neck. The neck vibrates sinuously, but the head remains steady, thus enabling the bird, even at top speed, to look around with unshaken glance in any direction. The wings Ne along the sides about on-a level with or a little high- er than the back, and are held loosely, just free of the plunging “thigh.” There is no attempt to hold them extended or to derive any assistance from them as organs of flight. When an ostrich, after a hard run, is very tired, its wings sometimes droop; this is due to exhaustion. They are never, by a running bird exerting itself to the utmost, held out away from the sides to lighten its weight or to increase its pace. But the wings appear to be of great service in turn- ing, enabling the bird to double abruptly, even when ‘going at top speed. —__—__+e+_____ Microscope as a Thief-Catcher. From the London Echo, 2 A curious use of the micrcscope was lately made in Prussia. It appears that on one of the ra‘lways a barrel, which should have contained silver coin, was found on arrival at its destination to have been emptied of its precicus contents and sand substituted. Prof. Ehrenberg was consult- ed on the subject, and he sent fur samples of sand from all the stations along the different lines of railways through which the specie had passed, and by means of his microscope identified the station from which the interpolated sand must have been taken. In due time the culprit was found to be one of the eniployes at that station. AUCTION SALES. * THIS AFTERNOON. BRATCLIFFB, SUTTON & CO., AUCTIONEEKS, 920 Pa. ave. CHANCERY SALE OF TWO LOTS, FRONTING 40 AND 20 FEET ON HAMILTON ROAD, NEAR NAYLOB ROAD. we By virtue of a decree of the Court the District_of Columbia, in Equity Cause No. 18174, I will sell, in front of t ices, on. 8A) EAT SS SEVENTH Got Sed 28 and 29, in Williamson's vision of “‘Chiches- @ per cent interest, semi-annually. $50 deposit required at ‘sale. ‘W. MOSBY WILLIAMS, Trust. au8-d&ds 1421'F ot. nw. eS 11 ROOMS EACH, WITH ALL MODERN __IMPROVE- MENTS, BY AUCTION. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST Sky- 2g St eases noe sect SE premises, sublots 15 and ing Sach 18 test sod vs Uberal, 8. AUCTION SALES. AUCTION SALES, MONDAY. C. G. SLOAN & CO., AUCTIONEERS, 1407 G st. TRUSTFES SALE OF V PROPERTY ON PROSE TWEEN THIRTY-SHCOND THIRD STREETS, IN GEORG: By virtue of a decree of the District of Columbia, No. 18386, wherein Harry C. i plainants and Mary A. “Fark are defend ants, the undersigned trustees will offer for sale, at N In George’ ing p of } addition to 99 feet, east 15 feet, south to Prospect street, and thence West_to the beginning, timpcoved by prem ises ‘No. 3235 Prospect avenue northwest. ‘Terms of sale: One-third cash and the balance in one and two years, with interest, or all emsh. I the terms are not’ complied with in fifteen days the right is reserved to sell at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchoser, All conveyancing awi recording at the cost of the purchaser. A deposit of $100 Will be-Tequired at sale, EMILY H. WILLIAM 3 y28-d&d RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & ©0., Anctioncers._ TRUSTEES’ OF FRAME HOUSF, WITE BRICK STARLE, IN REAR NO. 202 NEW YORK AVi NORTHWEST. By virtue of a deed of trust ber No. 1916, folio 438 et seq. ords for the District of Colui quest of the parties secured Un signed trustees will offer for s. S 2 in front of the premises, on MONDAY, NINTH AU GUST, A.D. 1807, AT HALF ST POUR O'CLOCT P.M., the following described real esta’ situate in tie city of Wasblagton, in the District of Co- lumbia, to wit: Lot fifty-eight 5. division of lot twelve ( in square five and fifty-seven (657), together with all the im provements, rights, &c. Terms: One-third cash, the balance in one and two years, with interest from the day of sale at 6 per cent per annum, secured by deed of trust on the pay sold, or all cash, at the option of the purchaser. 4 deposit of $200 required at the time of sale. If the tecms of sale are not complied with in fifteen days from the day of sale the trustees re- ferve the right to resell the property at the risk and cost of th defaulting parchaser after five days’ advertisement in sene newspaper published “in fashington, D. C. All conv at the purchaser's cost. sy28-d&ds FUTURE DAYs. Cc. G. SLOAN & CO., AUCTION UNCLAIMED FREIGHT FROM PENNSYLY. RAILROAD COMPANY TO BE SOLD STORAGE CHARGES, ETC. Notice y given that on MONDAY, AU- GUST SIXT! 1sy7, AT TEN O'CLOCK A.M., there will be ‘sold at public auction, within the sales rooms of C. G. Sloan & Co., 1407 G street northwest, Washington, D. C., to enforce Ken for storage | ¢h: due "and unpaid on packages of merchandise, stored with us pany and marked xs follo Moylan, Dongil: Boswell, Murphy, Swindell, Hunnicutt, Bend & Co., Lally, ‘Shollenberzer, Bolton, Meen, Harri- Fanning, Ward, ‘Parker, Blake, U. 8. yo. er of the Geo. W. Knox Express Company, 1419 Pa, ave., Washington, D.C. au6-dts ©. G. SLOAN & CO., AUCTIONEERS, 1407 G ST. TRUSTEES’ SALE OF FRAME DWELLING ON THIRD STREET NEAR L STREET NORTH- EAST, WASILNGTON, D.C. By virtue of a decd of trust, dated the 12th of Iy, 1893, and duly recorded in Liber No, 1844, at j0 95 ct seq., one of the iand records of the Dis- umibia, and at ti NTH, following described Isad and the city of Washington, D. ¢ being lot numbered thirty-one ue’s subdivision of square and forty-nine (749), as the same is recorded in the surveyor’s affice of sald city of Washington, ., in Bock C. H. B page together with ie linprovements, consisting of a frame dwelling. erms in relation to deferred payments announced on day of sale, whtn $100 will be required as a see ELOX_A. WOODWARD, 4y29-d&as JAMES WHITE, Trustees. RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & CO., AUCTIONEERS, Y20 Pa. ave. niw. known as and in Patrick O'Don- numbered seven hun- WO BRICK HOUSES ON ‘EAR DUMBARTON ON, D.C. WEST WASHING STREET, By virtue’ of a decree of the Supreme Court of passed in Equity Cause will offer for m and an the county in the Dis- 2 Part of lot one hundred en. (137), in Beall’s addition to Georgetown, in the District aforesaid, more par- ticularly described as follows: Beginning fer the same at the end of forty-five (45) feet south from the north st corner 6 said thence southward on the west of Green stevet thirty (0) fect; thence westwardly and parallel with Dambarton street siaty (60) feet; thence northwardly ;arallel with Green street thirty (0) feet, and thence castwardly and parallel with Dum- barton street to the place of beginning, forming a lot thirty (0) feet front on Green street by sixty (90) fect deep, together with all the improvements, rights, &e, ‘Terms 28 prescribed by the decree are: One-third of the purchase money to be paid in cash, the bal- ance In one (1) and two (2) years from date of sale; deferred payments to be secured by deed of trust on the property sold, and bearing interest at six (6) per cent per annum from the secured by deed of trust one the prop- « all cash, at the option of the A deposit of $100 required at the time It the terms of sale are not complied with in 15 days from the day of sale, the trustee reserves the right to resell the property at the risk and cost_of the defaulting purchaser or purchasers, af- ter 5 days’ advertisement of such resale, or sales, in some newspaper published in shington, D. C. All conveyancing, &c., at the purchaser's cost. JOSEPH A. REVETTI. Trustee, au2-d&ds 317 Pa. ave.’s.e. C. G. SLOAN & CO., AUCTS, 1307 G ST. TRUSTEES SALE OF VALU- ABLE AND DESIRABLE BUILDING LOTS O 3d ST. NEAR H ST. NORTHEAST, WASHING- TON, D.C. By virtue of a certain deed of trust, dated the 5th day of June, A. D. 194, and duly recorded in Liber No. 1230, follos 114 Gfethe land records of the Disuict of Columbi1, and at the juest of the party secured thereby, I will sell at public auction, in front of the premises, on THURSDAY, AUGUST. TWELETH,. Ist,” AT HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK P ‘the following described land and premises, with ‘the easements, rights, ways and appurtenances thereunto belong” ing, rituate and lying in ity of Washington, D. €., 10. wit: Parts of lots numbered ninetcen (19, twenty (20) and twenty-two (22), in John W. Starr's sub- division of lots in square numbered seven bundred und seventy-seven (777), 28 per plat recorded in Liber No. 12, follo 10, of the records of the oliice of the surveyor of ‘the District of Columbia, beginuing for the same on 3d, two «) feet six (6) inches south of the northwest corner of said lot Firgtwe WO) feet siz (0) inencs (with the excep. ixty-two feet vix (6) wit! e tion of the 20 feet front of lot 21, which isnot included) to the northwest corner of said lot twen- ty-two (22); thence east one hundred feet; thence south sixty-two (62) fect six (G) inches (with the above exception of 20 feet), and thence west one hundred (0) feet to the piace of beginning, sub- ject to a right of way over the rear or east five () feet of the above described land, and with rpetual right of way over a strip of land five (S) feet wide immediately adjoining and extending the entire h-of the east or rear line of the above deserived land. ALSO all of lot numbered twenty-three (23) of said sub- division of lots in’ square numbered seven hundred and seventy-seven (777) (fronting twenty (20) feet ‘on 34 street by an eren depth of one hundred (100) feet). ‘These lots will be sold in separately. Terms of sale on each lot: One-fourth of the Purchase money in cash, the bulance in one, two, ree and four years, secured by a deed of trust upon the property, with interest at G per cent per anuum, payable semi-annually, or the purchasers may cash, A it’ of $100 will be re- quired on cach lot at the time of sale. All coa- Veyancing, recording and notarial fees at cost of the purchasers. the terms on any lot be not complied with in fiftecn days from the day of sale the lot or lots so in default cretion of the trustee, be of defaulting purchaser or purchasers after five daze, readvertiscment of such resale in The Even- ir uewspaper of aforesal § THOMAS B. JONES, Survi lot, and running ‘Trust ibth st. and N. ¥. ave. RATCLIFFE, SUTION & 00., AUCTIONEERS, 920 PENNA. AVE. TRUSTEES’ SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURZ, BY gartve of a, deed of trast, ‘recorded in Liber ‘0. 1981, folio . land records the District of Columbia, 1 will sell, by Sa ae Fe West. on TUESDA' GUST, A.D. 1897, foods ‘and chattels ‘to said trust. “Terms cash. ané-3t _ FUTURE DAYs. 1897 Champion Fiyers and Grenadiers, for ladies & gentlemen, to be sold within ou rooms, 920 Penna. Ave. N. W., TUESDAY, August 10th, At 4:30 o’clock P. M. No Limits. No Reserve. These wheels are strictly high-grade $190 wh est weldless steel tn Joints nett; best steel forgings ms, cranks, sprockets, rank reed from = steel 7 it wool bamile bars. Hartt ht and Champion tires, Assoctm and sizes. Fully guaranteed by the factory Now on Exhibition. N.B.---Only one sale, Tuesday, the 10th, at 4:30, and no limits. RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & auG-3t 1 WEDAI Us Washington, designe bened two lettered = “"D, -reon, consisting of a Nos. 453 to 465, inclusiv and all 5 in and upon described in the sch trust, consisting « & ¢ Machine, Planers. « Moriiser, ‘Teaoner, Molder, Planer (buzz aner, Iron Lath, Machine, On>-thind and ti the balance in r and two inoney two equat yer ee sold, or alt ¢ at the A deposit of S500 will the tim pripert eh ise: option of the p be required of the purchaser's plied with within ten 4 the trustess re rty, at the risk Terms for persc s from day of 5 right te sell the hoser im STREET NORTHWEST, AT PUL By virtue of a decre District of Coluwti john Hi 4°N, and Lawrence O'Nel. at public auction, in he resp premises: . THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF AU- C PM., part numbered five G), th> same being tl | of lot lettered and marked said’ part of Said square five (5), being the seme conveyed by William F. Holtzman, ¥ decd dated the h day of M AD. 1 wrod ber 717, folio 141, of the land trict of Columbia. “This property is improved two-story @) brick dwelling, known as No. 947 street northwest. On the same afternoon and immediacsly after the above sale, pact of lot numbered one (), in square numbered five G), being the same conv by deed dated (he 18th @ayof August, A.D. 1873, and recorded in Liber 729, ‘of the land records of the District of Columbia, improved by a. two-story (2) frame house, uunibered 2007 L street northwest. ‘On the’ same afternoon and the above sale all of lot Daniel G. Major's sub livision bered one aud six «1 and 6), 4s recone in Liber 9, in the surveyor’s © Junvia, improved by mbered NOG 24th street nediataly nfter accordiag to one and two yea . from the date of sale, the defe: is to be secured by deed of trast on the prem- ises sold, and to bear Interest at the rate of 6 per centuin per anoum fom the date of sale, interest payable semi-annually, or all cash, at the option of the purchaser. A deposit of two hundred dollars 48200) on each piece to be paid at the time of the sale. Terms to b> complied with within fifteen (15) days from the day of sale, otherwise the trastee re- serves the right to resell’ the property at *he risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser, after five days’ notice of sai sale or sales in some news- Peper published in ‘ihe city of Washington, Dis- trict of Columbia. AN conveyancing, recordin; ete., to be at the cost of the purchaser or purs chasers, CHAS. W. DARK, Trastee, an2-d&ds Equity building, 319 4% st. nw. RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & CO., AUCTIONEERS. TRUSTEE'S SALE OF ven VALUABLE REAL PRICK HOUSE. NO, 111; SOUTH CAROLINA AVENUE SOUTHEAST. By virtue of a decre: of the Suprome Coart of the District of Columbia, passeé in Equity Cause . IS804, the undersigned, trustee, will offer for eale, by public auction, in ‘front oft poctive premises, on SATURDAY, AUGUST FOURTEENTH, D. 1897, AT HALF-PAST FOUK O'CLOCK PM he following described real estate, situate in The city of Washington and in the county in the Dis- trict of Columbia, to wit: Lots numbered 18 and 19, in Rothwell’e recorded subdivision of original lots numbered nine and ten ( and 10) and part of eleven (11), in square nine hundred and ninety-one 1), together with all the impzovemests, rights, ‘to be rold in two parcels. ‘Terms on each piece as prescribed cree are: One-third of the purchase money paid in cosh, the balance im one «l) years from dete of sale; deferred payments 10 be secured by deed of trust’on the property sold, and bearing interest at the rate of six 46) per cent per anpum from the day of sale, secured by deed of yy sold, or all ut the on of the ser. A it of $100 on each Piece renuired atthe time of sale. if the terms of sale are not complied with in 15 days trom the day of sale, the trustee reserves the right to re- sell the property at the risk and cost of the de- faulting parchaser or purchasers, after 5 days’ ad- vertisement of such resale, or sales, in some news- Paper published in Washington, 1, “C. All conves- > &e., at tl purchaser's cost. ae JOSEPH A. REPETTL Trustee, au3-d&ds BIT Ta. ave. we. DUNCANSON BROS., AUCTIONEERS. TRUSTEES’ SALE OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE ON FOURTEENTH STREET EXTENDED NEAK SPRING ROAD. By virtue of a certain deed of trust to us, dated January 10, 1896, and duly recorded January 31, 1896, in Liber No. 2108, folio 84 ct seq., of the land’ records of the District of Columbia,’ and at the request of the party secured thereby,’ we, the undersigned trustees, will sell at gublic auction, in front of the on WEDNESDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF AUGUST. A.D. FIVE O'CLOCK P.M., the following described land and premizes, with the easements, rights, ways and appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate and ly- in the county of Washington, in the District of jumbia, namely: Lot five land known as “Padsworth,” as Tecorded in Liber Levy Court Carberry, folio ‘of the office of the surveyor of Columbia. t Sof the seconde