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KILOGRAMS TO THE STAR.
This Afternoons Dispatches.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS,
FROM EUROPE TO-DAY.

FROM EUROPE TO-DAY.
Tsiegrcp Asd E1clEX.rely 10 TAe Evessne .Stor.
Gel many HeIdiry ON to her CoIiat-
erai I'm France.
PARIS, Sept. 9.-The forsS and three Of tle
Tour departments surrounding the city vi an not
he ev3cuat d Immediately by the German q oops.
the third half milliard OF the indemnity Is paid
Conflict Between Church and State I'm
Germany.
LONDON, Sept. S.-The conclave al Fulda has
determlncd 70 take decisive sseps AGAINST the
aggressive policy of DIR. Won Muller Prussian
minister OF ecclccias.ical affairs. A Joint re,so-
luton has been adopted TO disregard his DEGREES
aud petition The Reiehstag and Emperor William
for redress. The bishops are departing.
An Ex.Prime Mtrisser Dies Pear
LONDON, Sept a-GonZales Bravo. ex-Pr me
Minister OF Spain, diSd suddenly at Biarritz in
comparative poverty.
Don Carlos Caves.
LONDON, Sept. s.-Don Carlos orders his al
herents to avail themselves Of the amnesty and
return Spain.
ReturrspE Refugees.
LONDON, Sept s.-BayonDe is crowded with
retrrring refugees.
Ind for the English Crops.
LONDON, Sept. 9.-The weather Is wet and
unfayorable TO the crops.
Interesting English Notes.
Conmisstoner Carney SAILS To-ddy-A DueAess
Dss "a Ci,.e-ted-The Brighton BOryia-Sa-
LONDON, September Reconnaissance Gur-
ney sails lrom Liverpool, to-day, in the Cunard
steamship China, for New York.
The beautiful Duchess Of st. Adams, only y
years Of age, has died in child-bed.
Cbristiana Edmunds, the Brighton poIsoner
has been committed on the charge of having
committed wiliul murder
The Empress Eugene embarked to-day at
southampton, for Spain, where she " IN remain
two months. Napoleon viii, in the meantime,
make his abode in Torquay.
Afflicted Persia.
LONDON, Sept 9--The LerdRt Hsrald saws the
deaths at TatreeZ, Persia, still average 2iO per
day. Christians and Musselmen are eamped in
the mountains, and business is entirely stopped.
The Persian army has been disbanded. Storms
and foundations have almO7t entirely destroyed
Bazais and the gardens in the vicinity of
TabreeZ.
Gable Broken.
LONDON, Sept. 9.-The submarine telegraph
cable con. ectng Hong Kong and Shanghai
HIS broken.
Germans Ia lie ave the Neighb orhood
OF Paris Tomorrow.
PEEIs, Sept. 9-Tbe PrusiaDs will commence
the evacuation Of the departments near Paris
tomorrow.
Mr.. Seward at BerItu.
LONDON, Sept. 9.-Hon. VIM. ii. Seward ar
rived at Berlin on Thursday.
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Extensive improvements az the wess
End.


The extensive street Improvements in rDgres.
IN The visit end OF the city under Mr.. j. Y. w.
Nanderburg and Mr.. Henry Htmber, cOutrac-
tors, are being rapidly pushed forward a small
army OF laborers being employed there pn. The
Wolk on the streets south OF Pennsy lvaaia ave-
nue. and west OF 18th street are In acc )r,lance
with plans embracing entire changes OF srades
and an extension Of the system of sewerage.
seventeenth street is 20 be graded on a straight
slope from the Avenue 20 the canal. the ,ls.t,th
OF cut in front OF the War Department baildings
averaging about Eve feet, and the street bet Seen
New York avenue and c street filed M % make
an easy grade mp the rising ground at these
points. The Sidewalk i'm front OF Ninderis build
ing Is TO be extended into the street sOme eight
feet, and the carriageVay narrowed on the ives
side Tor The same distance. The sidewalks below
r street have bcen taken up ON both SIDES, and
the tllingin extends from the fence OF the White
Lot 70 the house on the Opposite side. The grade
is not to be changed at Pennsylvania avenue,
but an open view 10 the river will be gwen by
this change. Mr.. Hmber has this contract and
Is pushing IL forward satisfactorily.
street, IRON 1Tth to 21st street. r. being
graded so as TO throw the fall Of water towards
the east % be drained of by the 18th street
sewer. This Is being done by DAYS work under
the Board of Public Works. The cut Is six feet
street, from 18th % 22d, also lSih and 18th
streets, are being graded by Mr.. j. V. W. Van
derburg. The cut through Il street il deeper
than q street. and the TALL, on q street y
t9wsrcs the sewer on 18th street. The water
and gas mains are now being sunk lower down,
and II rs proposed 10 construct a sewer from the
terminus OF the one laid down in 18th street
about year since, AZ q street q the canal.
The deepest cut on 4 street is about or feet.
18th ard 18th streets are % be graded on a
straight slope ryerwards. the former from Pa.
avenue, opening from this point a fine view OF
the river; and 18th street, from III street q the
canal. All the dirt is carted 60 I'll up the low
grounds south OF street, the design being 20
nave them filed up come ten feet on an average.
Some OF the oN ners Of houses on + street are
having the embankment in front Of their houses
neatly terraced up with stone wall aud cut
stone coping next ID the sidewalk.
The Government reservation on street. he
tween 18th and 18Th streets Is 70 lie graded aud
enclosed, With trees and shrubbery planted.
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LADIES' GOODS. &c.

SELLING AT $. HELLERR;ss - ,,cv
A complete assortment OF NATURAL CURLS and
HAIR BRATDS, Also, fine assortment Of mi
&, HELLER,
auls-tf 71S Market Space.
a FULL LINZ OF
"A OORs rs,
=. HEGLERS,
auls-tf T15 Market Space.
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ONE BOILER ExPLoDER DIsARMED.-The
licenSe Of the engineer in charge of the steamer
Robert +. Lee, which exploded her boiler on
the morning of the 10th of August, near Cape
Fear river, MOI n Carolina, has been revoked.
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tractiye."
Esalt Lake City is TO have q stock board, for
the sale Of mining stocks.
Swaruiek, n. r., Is nervous about some
underground lakes beneath the town.
New Orleans complains Of the filth OF her
streets and the lack Of free baths.
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DPOF. SHELDONS
II FASHIONABLE DANCING ACADEMY,
NEW MEDICAL BUILDING 1904 y st., near 10th,
will open for the Season Of lS7l-2,
On SATURDAY. September 2. q, 3 SOP. m.
DAYS AND HOURS OF TUITION.
JuNENILE CLASS: TUESDAYS THURSDAYS,
LADIES CLASS, TUESDAYS, THURS
DAYS. aud SATURDAYS, B to 8 .. m. ~
GSEHTLEMEN,S CLASS, TUESDAYS anS -
Especial Class Of Ladies and Gentlemen for the
Boston" Tuesday and Thursday, Q to 10 m.
Reunion every Saturday, Z 20 10 p. IN. For Ladies
and Gentlemen only; children will not be admitted
Ladies desiring 10 attend these Reunions will be
CURED to make application for " Comp ELEMENTARY
SHELDON, els Eth street N w. If snknown to
Prof. 9, suitable reference should accompany the
note Of application; NOTyCE.,;All pupils entering
to the quarter Private tuition and tution In schools
private families private classes at any hour agreed
upon. Residence, No. 9i9 18th street, between
and X streets. au22tf
II q. REICHENBACHS PIANO STORE,
l. No 423 1lfh Street, dbors FeHna. Areaas,
tEsrABLIsHED OVER 20 YEARs.)
Sole agency for the sale of the celebrated PIANOS
q VIM knabe 4 CO., Baltimore, and Wm.-
McCammOn, Albany; also, second hand }E514QH
Pianos, Organs and Melodeons for sale orytIHvv
rent on the most accomplishing terms; Piano and
organ Tuning and Repairing. apply"
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EDUCATIONAL

LEXANDRIA HIGH SCHOOL, BOdTdiHs
N SshnoI for BoyS.-1he Third Annual SessiC n
viii cen nleTce September 2Oth. Pupils prepar' d
fr coIep or business. For Catalogue, giv ing ample
references and fun particulars sdress either 81 lhe
PRINCIPALS az Alexandria. CEARLES :. TAYLOR
and JOHN s. BLACKBURN, Associate Prinei-
pals jy25-law0
Il DALE MASS.-Sch9ol RAISED TO fail college
grade inciliEg Greek. Prices reduced g,ssTtsT.
United with ". u. CCztSpTv etOry or Music. Music
under direction Of NJ. Eben Tunrjeo. Facilities for
German. French. art Painting, unsur passed. Fall
term befins SEPTEMBER I4h. For cataloS ne s1dI
Rev. ChAS. ". Cushing io27+,th-ssm.
ST Johns COLLEGE. ANNAPOLIS, MD.
- JAMES NJ GAJsNETT. VI. A, Principal.
Tho next session % this institution, founded E34,
berfYlS On the first W eiHesslay In October.
Al full Collegiate course IL organized with Fac
efy Of seven Professors and three TatOTs.
Charges fv- entire schOiaS' ic year, SEQ.
FOr further particulars, spply for Catalogue to
PROF. ". r. HOPKINS,
Secretary Of the Faculty, Annapolis, Nd.
- Gel
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DATKPsCO FEMALE INSTITUTE.
[ EEAk Battling

This Institute has been in operation Tor thirty
years and enjoys sstiou4i reputation With the
runber of pupils lisEted to1inety, il has represen
tativNs from twC-tkfcds o. the States principally
SOUTH and Southwest. Its location Is pro sninentiy
health.ul central and easily reached by railroad
from Baltimore ard Wash ngtan city. Er Circulars
sidress MRS. X. III. ARCHER,
jyI7-eoSn EllicOtt City, p. o.. Md.
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RECORDER GUENHY, of London, who sails to-
day from England as Commissioner OF Claims
under the treaty of Wa hing IN, has responded
to an address from the people of Southampton.
He hailed the treaty with satisfaction and
delight, and announced that be had been
Instructed by his government to settle all claims
i'm partially. III
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The PREsIDENr, with Mrs. Grant and their
children, Nellie, Ulysses s. and Jesse R., win
leave Iong Branch on Tuecday next for visit
TO the home of the Prc-ident at Galena, Illinois.
They win not probably return here be.ore the
Jst of Ocfober
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EhUM LthOFE IV-DANs
7eiegrc9Asd kzciEs.rely 70 TAe Evessne Ssor.
Ger many HeIdirg ON to her NoIIat.
eral I'm Pr aute.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26

HABITS OF THE FUR SEAI.s.-J. A. Allen
Comparative Zoology at Harvard College,
an interesting account of these little known
animals, the Otarildie, or Eared Seals, from
which the seal skins of commerce are OBJ
tained The fur seals resort in large num-
bers to the Pribyloff islands oil the north
ern part of the Alaska territory, in the
summer months, for the purpose of breed
ing. 1t is estimated that not less than l.
I53. 200 male and female seals take up their
abode in these "breeding rookeries," as
they are termed. Each male has about 10
or II wives, the older males always driving
off the younger ones, who retaliate by steal
ing the wives of the patriarchs while they
are asleep, carrying them of in their
mouths. Constant struggles are the result,
in which the females often get severely lac
Grated. All the males have assembled at
these breeding places by the 10th of June;
the females only then begin to arrive, and
are not all collected Till the middle of July.
By the middle of August the young are
born; the old males, who have remained at
their station the whole OF this time without
food, now go OF shore in company with the
younger ones to feed; and at the end oi
october the whole body of seals leave the
island and journey southwark. The only
seals killed for the sake of their fur, are the
Younger males, great care being taken by
The hunters not to disturb the remainder in
any way.
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On the 18th of Sept, lGys about o clock,
the guarded litter passed the draw bridge of
the Bastile, and the prisoner was placed in
one of the rooms of the tower of La Ber-
taudiere. Here, for five years, the Man in
the Mask is lost to sight Yet tradition has
thrown a faint and doubtful light upon the
singular story. II is said that the prisoner
was always treated with unusual Difference;
that his jailer mover sat down in his pres
encc; that G was supplied with every lux
ury; that he was clothed in the finest linen
and the costliest laces, for which he showed
an oXtravagant iondness; that his table was
abundant; that he amused his leisure by
playing ON the guitar. But from all inter
course with the world around him he was
sternly cut of. His mask was never raised
even when he took his food, and orders
were given to kill him should lac attempt
to remove il.
An aged physician of the Bastile, who had
often attended him, stated that he had new
er seen his face, although he had examined
his tongue. lie was finely formed, said the
doctor; his complexion was dark, his voice
low and soft. Yet he never complained of
his condition, nor gave the least indication
of who he was. A perpetual terror had
probably broken down within him every
thought of resistance to his royal prosecutor.
A doubtful story is told that Mt st. Marguer-
ite the prisoner one day wrote with knife
on n silver plate which he had used at din
ner, and threw II out of the window toward
boat that lay on the shore near the foot of
the tower. A fisherman, the owner of the
boat, found the plate and brought it to the
governor. He asked the fisherman, in as
tonishment and alarm, "Haye you read
what is written on this platter" Has any
one seen IL in your possession" Tho man
replied that he could not read and that he
had shown 1t to no one. The governor de-
tanned him until he had made sure that he
spoke the truth, and then dismissed him,
saying; at is happy for you that you can
not read" Another legend relates that the
prime minister of France, Louvois, visited
the masked prisoner in his cell at st. Mar
guerite, and during the interview refused
to sit down in his presence. He evidently
treated the miserable captive as if he were
his superior.
For five years the Man of the Iron Mask
survived his removal to the Bastile. Win
ter and summer his narrow cell in the lone
ly tower echoed to the note of his mourn
ful guitar, almost the only sound that awoke
! its utter silence. His youth and manhood
passed away, and he had never heard the
sweet voices of sympathy, of friendship, of
compassion, or of love. The suspicious
| tones of the cautious Saint Mars, and the
stealthy tread of his spies, were the only
sounds with which he was familiar. Around
him he might here the murmur Of busy
Paris; at 81. Marguerite he may have caught
the roar Of the tempest-tossed waves. But
he must have forgotten, in his endless cap
tiyity, the cheerful sounds of his childhood,
] or perhaps lancied them revived In the gem
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tie music Of his guitar. His mind, no doubt,
sank into imbecility in his solitary bond
age. 1t happened to most Of the captives
of the magnificent Louis to fall into prema-
ture dotage, and to die surrounded by men,
tai illusions. Nor could the Man in the
Mask have escaped tho common fate Of
Fouquet and Lauzun, OF Avedick and the
Huguenot ministers. Old age came upon
him without reverence and without regard.
No friendly eye had looked upon his veiled
countenance; no children nor grandchil-
dren cheered his weary hours as they drop
ped slowly away. The fatal purpose Of
Louis XIV was perfectly fulfilled, and the
mysterious captive was shut forever from
all intercourse with his fellow-men.
AT last the inevitable deliverance came.
In November, 1903, while the great king
was wrapped in his scheme of universal
rule, or reveing in his gorgeous palaces
and gay parterres, the drawbridge of the
Bastile was lowered, and scanty funeral
train passed slowly out to the cemetery of
the church Of ST. Panl. The night was fall
ing, the shadows of evening hid the last
funeral rights of the Man of the Mask. lie
had been taken i'll few days before, had
sunk rapidlys and died In his solitary cell.
Around him were only the cold and pitt
less iailers, and no kind words nor gentle
faces cheered his last hours on earth. lie
was buried with little ceremony, and no
show of regret Two of the officers of the
prison alone followed to the grave him
whom credible historians have thought the
rightful King Of France and who is shown
by all the circumstances of his imprison-
ment TO have been at least person of i'm
portance. No relative, no friend, was told
of his fate; the king would suffer no one to
know of his death. Eugene laurence ~
Hdjpers Magazine for June.
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CHRISTIAN BELIEF.-The Christian Un-
ion has an article on this subject-probably
by Mr.. Beecher-from which we condense
this little sermon "That belief is virtue,
and doubt sin, is general and strong
feeling among men of religious education.
On the contrary, belief in the sense Of in
tellectual assent TO religious truth, has OF
itself no power whatever to make the life
right or to bring man into acceptance
with God. a man is under no moral OBJ
legation to suppress the honest workings OF
his own mind but let no man who Is sim
cerely and earnestly trying to reach the
truth, feel that he is SHINING because he is
questioning beliefs that to others are sa-
cred. Wherein lies the virtue of 'beliefT
We answer, without belief man is without
working force. There is not Il more un-
natural and pliable sight than the man
who believes nothing. Skepticism is the
parent of weakness. But-and here is a
point of supreme importance-it is how we
believe quite as much as what We believe,
that settles our character and our fate. 1t
is quality rather than quantity. Not over
how wide Il field of subjects our spiritual
convictions extend but how vivid they
are. II is only in the higher forms that re-
ligious belief has any value. 1t must be,
in some degree, realization. And the
best test of realization is fruit"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-26

Coon ADVICE TO WoRKINoMEN, ny
Horace GREELEY. Every one has his
hobby. Every one has some pet scheme of
reform. Now, then before / commence
my argument tonight, let me suggest my
own. | was down at Richmond about four
years ago and Mr.. Gerritt Smith, who
was also there, and myself were invited to
address the colored people of that town in
the African church there. They were all
working people; L don't think they loved
work very well, and | have never seen
very many who did, for the sake of work.
Gaughter.) But they had got ideas in
their heads of the great benefits Govern
met would do for them. They had oppor-
tunities rs good as you and |, perhaps
possibly not 50 good-but, after all, they
had ideas of some great thing to be done
for them through political influence and
power. Among others the idea prevailed
that every man was to have forty acres of
land. Mr.. Gerrit Smith said to them
"Come, you black men of Virginia, un-
derstand you want land. Now let me tell
you how to getit. My friend here and my
self have not drank-either of us-a drop of
nquOr IN thirty years; ana II you VIII 40
for the next thirty years as we have done
for the last thirty, will guaranty that you
will own the land in Virginia" 1 have
lived in this city for forty years have been
concerned in labor as journeyman, en-
ployer and so on and in that forty years,
in my judgment, the working people, am
speaking of the poorer class, those who are
.rtl I.,,t nd ms nj
for others-have spent for liquors and to-
bacco money enough to have given them
half the property in the city in their hands
to-day, if they had simply let alone drink
and tobacco as have done. The working
men, if they would just let alone alcoholic
liquors and tobacco, need not complain OF
poverty.-.Speech 10 the WorkinJmen at New
InIE
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newsboys. They came to be so kind and
chivalrous toward him that not boy a.
moDg them all would go noar little Bens
beat, not boy of them would take Gus
toner from him. am glad to write that
Of them. They were glad to remember 1t
too, after that happened which did hap
pen. f..gI
So for months that weak little boy earned
supper for himself and his mother Peo-
pie were very kind TO him mostly. Ladies
and gentlemen bought papers of the pretty
golden haired child, even when they did
not want them. Car drivers often Stacked
up little when they saw him coming, so
that he might climb on safely, and even
the big policeman used TO watch him care
fully across the street. Little Ben learned
more of the big world than he ever thought
was 10 be known more than was goodfor
a child to know, perhaps. lie used TO look.
at the fine carriages and wonder whether.
he could ever sell papers enough to buy
carriage Ho wondered what he would do
when he was a man. He would not be a
newspaper editor, he thought because ed
itors were always so cross, and in such n
hurry, anu didn't seem TO have much mon
ey he noticed. May be he would be u
street car driver. He liked that better. Or
may be he would even have TO go and be a
Legislature, and have to be hauled about
in II hack and gaped at. lie would not like
that at all. On the whole he thought he
would be a millIman, he told his mother,
because a milkman could ride all day in
than anybody else. And little Ben learned
some bad words and rough ways from the
other boys, too. But he never said the bad
words before his mother, never. And he
always gave her every penny of his little
earnings, not even keeping enough TO buy
a pocket knife with two blades though he
wanted it more than anything else in the
world.
At last a terrible thing happened.
hardly know how to write it down. for
when go to write of that my hand shakes
and the tears come in spite of me, and
somehow seem to be writing of one who
was very near kin to me.
One afternoon little Ben went out merri-
ly TO sell his papers, his SLENDER delicate
hands and pale face very clean, and his
long, bright curls shining in the sun. His
mother watched him ont of sigbt from bor
window. lust as alwavs. That was tbo last
time she ever curled little Ben's long bright
hair the last time she was over to watch
her darling from the window. Poor LITTLE
Ben!
He had sold three papers. and the little
fellow climbed into n street car and sold
another. He meant TO stem off at the
crossing. but the child was very LITTLE very
weak, and missed his footing and fell mn
der tbe car Tn an instant tho hooyv ,yhoo1
iI, oo liz, -, - ,..., ~
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A WHOLESOME LAw.-Most persons are

A WHOLESOME LAw.-Most persons are
aware that the state of New Jersey is fa-
nous for its death dealing Jersey light
ming :" but few have been informed that
the last Legislature of that State enacted
law, which. If enforced, would create
terrible CONSERVATION among purveyors Of
spirltuous liquors. The law provides that
any person found guilty of manufacturing,
bartering or selling any liquor of which
distilled spirits shall form component
part, to be used as beverage, that shall
be adulterated or manufactured with spu-
rious ingredients of any description, shall
be punished by tine not exceeding sl 900,
or imprisonment at hard labor for any
term not exceeding Two years, or both.
Another section Furnishes by a fine of $500,
or one years Imprisonment, any person
convicted of mixing, compounding or poi
sonlng any malt liquor with intent to make
greater profit or to produce intoxication or
stupeiaction in the consumers.
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fessor, II is not necessary to take into con-
sideraton)
Mr.. Scale Hill, who used to investigate
the bills Of extortionate Swiss landlords, set
down the loss with confidence at twelve
shillings and the boots.
Housewife wrote, "why, Of course he lost
tho boots and twenty-four shillings."
Mrs. Housewife and the ladies bit their
pens, but declined to commit themselves.
"They had never been taught" they said,
"the rule of three"
"You are all wrong" said the professor,
quietly, ''as expected you would be. The
way to get at the matter Is to consider what
is gained. The landlord and the whole
story of his changing the sovereign may be
taken out of the question, since he is nei-
ther better nor worse for the transaction.
The buyer of the boots gets in exchange for
his bad sovereign four shillings and pair
of boots, and that is just what the cobbler
loses.'
"If one had a room to ones self, and the
whole day before one to do ii in" sighed
Mrs. Housewife, 81 think could answer
any Of these questions"