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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-07-22

RESPECT TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE DR.
MAGKUDER.-The Medical Society of the Dis.
tIict OF Columbia held a special meeting last
evening for the purpose of paying a tribute OF
respect TO the memory of their late asso ,ate,
DIR. HeZekiah MagrUder. DIR. johnson Eliot
presided, and DIR. q. II. y. Klenschmidt acted
as secretary. DIR. Riley announced the death Of
DIR. NJ, and paid a feeling tribute to his mem
DRY, as did DR.. Lewis Macksll, jr., and DIR. Peter
Dire. Reilly, Mackall and Howard were an
pointed committee and reported appropriate
resolutions; which were adopted.
TIE GRAND EHCANPMENT, L. o. .. F., held
its annual meeting last night. A resolution to
participate in the dedicatory services at Odd
Fellows Hall on Monday afternoon next was
adopted, and an adverse report OF a special
committee on the subject of mergemeut was
cOncurred in. The election of officers resulted
in the choice of John II. Seiffert as grand
patriarch; George S. King, grand high priest;
Nj. Book, grand senior warden; l.. Il. ALVIN,
grand scribe; f. B. Lord, ST., grand treasurer;
Joseph Burroughs, grand junior warden.
0-
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.-The receiver of tn 9
First National Bank OF this city states that he
will be able TO declare a dividend of 20 per cent
early in the fall. He has considerable resources
on hand now, but desires TO make no payment
until he can reach the amount named. This
will make 20 per cent. In all He thinks another
instalment viii be paid after the one proposed
but does not think it will reach In the aggregate
leo per cent.
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VANILLA.-Little is generally known about
this plant except that its long slender pods
are used To flavor cakes and liquors. |, is
an orchid that grows wild in tropical Ameri-
"a, where it will climb along for hundreds
of feet, ~ long as it finds support The
flowers are clustered together fifteen or
twenty at time, and are greenish white
the pi>til Of each i protected by a mcm-
brane, which prevents pollen from penetrat
ing inside. unless some insect or other acci-
dental agent happen to tear it open, a cii
cumsttnce which renders 1t somewhat diih-
cult to get pods without artificial means,
consisting of tearing open the membrane
with a needle and bringing the anthera close
to the stigma. By this patient operation
the plant soon becomes laden with the COW
cred pods these are green at first, they
then become yellow, and lastly chocolate
culored when ripe. The seeds they contain
are innumerable, but most frequently bar
ren in cultivated vanilla, which is, there
fore. best propagated By cutting, a method
rendered peculiarly easy by the eireum-
stance that the plant produces vast num-
ber of aerial radicles or shoots. Two species
of vanilla are grown in the Island of La Re
union, whittier they were imported from
America, some twenty years ago In 1881
the quantity Of pods gathered was not more
than 30 kilogms, at so francs each in ls6l
i: had risen to 1919 kilos, at 100 francs.
A single heetaIe, two and half acres, will
yield a c.op worth 10000 francs, and there
are some that produce double that quantity.
To this. however. there i serious draw
back vanilla growing exhansts the soil very
rapidly, since it will absorb from 1t more
than double the proportion of active prin-
eiple- (potash, phosphorus, lime and mag
nesia) that the sugar cane does.
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A few nights ago a pair of horses were
driven up Fairmount avenue at II desperate
gait, aad from the carriage, which was stop
ped at the gate of the Eastern penitentiary
there jumped gentleman who made all
haste to gain an entrance into the gloomy
institution. lie presently reappeared, bear
ing 10 his arms wasted form, which he de.
posited with tender care in the carriage
which was then driven away.
The occupants of the carriage were a heart
broken father and his dying son. The lat
ter was committed to the Eastern peniten.
tiary some two years ago for larceny. Iii.
intelligence and amiability soon made hin
n general favorite lie was at the time ol
his commitment about eighteen years old
tall. wel-formed, handsome young man
without single trace of the usual charae
terStics of the criminal. The prison author.
tiles took special interest in his case, but
he was exceedingly reticent as to his ante
cedents. and would tell nothing of his his
tory, excepting that he had fallen into ba(
company. About year ago ne began to
show the signs of the insidious complaint
consumption, which numbers many victim,
in prison.
lie slowly wasted away until two or tire,
weeks ago the physician in charge. as HI
went through the hospital Of the Institution
stopped a moment beside the cot of the pa
tient and said to him, grayely, that if he haC
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anything to say to any person on earth, he
had better do so without delay, az he had
but short time to live. The remark seem
cd to impress the poor fellow deeply, for he
shortly afterward asked for paper and
pencil, and, obtaining them, wrote "The
son whom you have mourned as dead is in
the Eastern penitentiary, Philadelphia
lie signed the b-ief note and sank back ex-
hausted on his couch. Being asked relative
to the destination of the note he had writ
ten, he directed it to be addressed to lady
in town in Massachusetts,, which was COM
| Piled with. few days aftcrward gentle
man applied to one of the prison authorities
for permission to see the youth, and when
brought into his presence evinced the strong
est emotion. lie stated that he was the
father of the dying boy, and that the latter's
mother being at the White Mountains for
her health, which is very delicate, he, the
father, had opened the note sent from this
city, and was very glad he had done so, as
the declaration contained in it would surely
have killed her. Their son had been con-
sidered dead for more than two years. Be-
ing wealthy, the parents had given him a
good education and designed him for pro-
iessonal life, but, when about 10 years of
age, his mind became affected by the inhu-
ence of sensational novels, and he formed an
Unsuitable desire to roam through the west
ern wllds. He ran away, with the two sons
OF the mayor Of the town, but were traced
to the place they had chosen for tempor-
airy stay and brought home. The two com
pan.ons remained at home, but lie very soon
afterward again ran off, and his parents had
since heard nothing of him, except report
that he had been killed. which they be-
leved.
The sight Of his boy, stretched upon Il
bed Of death within the forbidding walls of
4 prison, crushed the fathers heart, but
this only made his opportunities the more
effective, and lie succeeded in procuring his
sons pardon, with which he sped TO the
prison, and, doubtless, anxious that, even
if it were the last hour that his son should
live, it should be spent in pure, free air, he
had him carried from the institution as
above related. 1t was his inten ton, should
the son live until he could be conveyed on
board a steamship, to have him taken home
in that way, otherwise he would let him die
at hotel, and then have the body taken on
by rail To the h0me Of his innocent and happy
boyhOoi. The weight Of sorrow that await
ed the mother in either case can easily be
conceived. Whether the dying young man
revived sufficiently to endure the sea trip. or
whether he died at the hotel his father
brought him to. we did not learn The mar
ratiye Is a brief but painful one, and i not
without powerful lesson to youth.
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should most certainly object to serving with
any such unfortunate individual What
would he know about babies? How much
weight would his opinion have on the i'm
portant question of which was the Finest
and handsomest baby not exceeding eighteen
months of age?' A decision made by such
a one would be laughed at by every mother
in Michigan. | have seven babies of nv
own. Some of them are too old to he called
babies by the outside world, but to me they
are and ever will be babies. Now, try t.
be fair and decently honest in NY Judgment
of men and things, but when it comes to
babies | can't do it know | can't:
shall be making comparisons constantly,
keeping my own babies before me as stan
dard of excellence. 1t is of no use. cat I
serve and do my duty to myself, my wife, nv
babies, my State, my neighbors and my pro-
life fellow-eitizens OF Kalamazoo county.
Your friend, JonS j. BAcLrY.
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The LAST HouRs OF PARErA-RosA-l
have recently heard some touching details
connected with the last hours of the beloved
and lamented parepa- Rosa. She was in
unusual health and spirits during the days
that Immediately preceded her death. and.
one day, she not only rehearsed the whole OF
" Lohengrin," but also entertained some
company in the evening. That night. her
child was born-dead. On learning the
fact of the oeath of this ardently-expected
and long-desirei infant, the shock seemed to
turn the poor mothers brain she became
delirious, wildly accusing herself of having
caused the death Of her child by impru-
dence and over-exertion, and in that state
she continued till her death. Her husband
is sadly broken down both in health and
spirits by her loss, and though he is now
engaged in forming an English opera troupe
to travel during the coming season through
the leading cities Of Great Britain, he IS
said to be totally Indifferent and spiritle>s,
possessing scarce a shadow of his old brsi-
ness energy and artistic enthusiasm How
well | remember the grand farewell per
formance of the Parepa troupe in New
York the crowded house, the overwhelm-
ing enthusiasm, the scarcely y-concealed emo
tion of the sweet and loyable and womanly
prima donna, and the agitated farewell
Of Carl Rosa himself - God willirg, he
cried, 80 we will soon be with you again ~
Brt God was not willing, for the other half
of that impetuous 'swe" will never return
to US any mors.-[Lney Hooper's Letter in
Pliladelphio Press.
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Dear Sir,-Your favor of the 9th notify
ing me of my appointment as one OF ''eoin-
mittec on babies" at your coming county
fair, is at hand. The POSITION is certainly Il
delicate, and to a man in public life dan
gerous one. Suppose, for instance, was a
candidate for Office, would not every father
whose baby failed to receive premium vote
square against me? Would Bot every moth
er whose baby has failed to receive the at
tention Of the committee use her powers of
persuasion in inducing her neighbors to vote
ior the .sother man?' Providence has very
kindly implanted in the heart of every crow
a decided belief that its 'baby crow" is the
blackest Of all crows-and no argument or
council could ever convince the mother crow
to the contrary this is right. Were
it other wise, our babyhood would not be the
reign of kinghood and qucenhood that it is.
II our parents had not believed Us to have
been the brightest and best of the human
family, and that we were born to be Presi-
dents, or at least Congressman, We should
have been drowned Ike kittens before We
had reached our teens. But were | to un-
dertake the duty you request of me. other
objections loom up before me. do not
know the opinions of my fellow-members of
the committee on ''babies." | should want
to know what sort of babies they have had
if they have had any. | want to know
whether they like fat babies or lean babies,
whether blae-eyed or hazel-eyed, boys or
girls, blondes or brunettes. Above all. |
should like to know whether they like bs-
bies at all. do not suppose for moment
your society would have been so careless as
to select committee, anv member of which
did not like babies, yet you may have done
SO. If by accident you have, then you have
spoiit the Job. | couldn't serve with any
such persons. Their judgment wouldn't be
worth straw. Again, want to know il
there is any member of the committee who
never owned baby Of his own.
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THREE LEAFS FOR LIFE.-One of the most
thrilling adventures (the most thrilling in
itself, and probably fatal in its results)
which has ever been experienced IN this
land Of mneral-hole man-traps, occurred on
Sunday about one mile west of Asbury
chapel. On Sunday morning James kins-
ley, youth of sixteen years, visiting his
uncle Joseph, about mile west of the
chapel about mentioned, rode the horse off
to water, leaving the house about eight
O'Clock in the morning. The hours passed
along until near four o'clock in the afternoon,
and james had not returned. His folks
then became uneasy about him. After GO
ing through the pasture for some distance
they found him lying in an unconscious con-
dition on the brow Of mineral hole, the
back of his head cut very badly. They
picked him up and conveyed him home,
where in short time his consciousness re-
turned, and when he got so he could speak
he related the following strange and thrill
ling adventure - was riding along to the
watering-place while on the way | heard
the report of a gun, and heard the hum of
the shot passing very near me; number
of them | thought struck my horse in the
neck. He darted off at full speed, growing
more frightened, thought, every moment.
| could d. nothing towards checking him,
and only managed to keep my seat. lie
plunged forward and soon came upon a
mineral hole, but cleared it at bound, and
still kept on, leaping another in the same
manner, and still another, but Just as he
cleared the third shaft everything grew
dark and a strange feeling, a binding SEN
sation came over me, and after time-how
| long it was cannot say-this feeling passed
away and | found myself in dark place,
my horse resting upon my leg, and both my
leg and my head paining Inc badly. | final
ly became conscious of what had happened
to me and made an effort to get my legs free,
and after long and painful struggle | sue
cecdcd. | then made up my mind to drag
myself out, if possible, bat / had grown 50
weak | was afraid | could never do it.
seemed to remember that | reached the top
of the shaft, but all was blank after that
When kinsley had told his story some of
the party went back to the mineral hole
where they had found him, and on recon-
noitering discovered the horse lying in the
bottom .pf the shaft as James had stated.
The lad may possibly rally and get well, but
it Will have been most narrow escape from
| death.-D Dubuque Herald, august Is.
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st-ip nf srowisst linen
"'l h"ffered ard s;am ped Ia bise
tni ife .isan OF 4 thr-udle-s t.s.die
fefcin The pattern through
Tne a. cd . Is ready. yet the swee, little i.i,
o's si-hinS 'or someth ns TO d..
HeiPed On the table beside her
OssoiDs OF every hue;
Del cate, ocorous ruses-
The raiest that ever crew
The vase stands really, while tho sweet little lady
Sands wishing for somsthins u DO.
Half-hid under flowers volume
In daintiest gold and blue
Just parted. zs If it would open
At The Mle,'s Daughter" " Tor you,
lh- book lies reacy. yet the sweet little lad,
Sits s'shins for something to do.
A silent harp in the corner,
And melodies old and new
scattered in pretty disorder
So1 Ss OF the false and the true.
The harp stands resdy-still the sweet little lady
SITS longing for something to do.
sudden uiud sweep AID autter-
The door vide-open flew;
y step in thu hall, and swiftly
u ike bird, to the threshal III she ieg
Siash'ns, ALREADY the sweet little adv
rorSeis she hiss uOihing TO do
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A correspondent of the New York Times
at Rome, says THE sculptor who gets
commission to make statue of what Is de-
nominated heroic size, or little larger
than life. If he receive ten or twelve thou
sand iolIars-the price which has frequent
" been paid-will put into his pocket four
ffths of the sum has his own compensation
for merely making the clay model, which
need not be under his hand more than three
or four months. The amount given 10 the
workman for putting the figure into marble
Of second quality-the kind used for a statue
10 stand in the open airs generally from
$1,000 t) $1,000, with the block of marble
furnished. If the figure is put into bronze,
the outlay is nearly the same The citizens
of Boston raised Sl2,0 900 for the statue Of
Daniel Webster, made by the late Mr..
Powers. The static was lost by the wreck
of the vessel which carried it to America.
As it was insured, the money was paid over
to the committee, who thus had in their
hands double the amount originally sub
scribed. An arrangement was made with
the artist for making replica, at the pried
of $1,000. Mr.. Powers had only to sene
his model second time to the bronze found
ry of Papi in Florence, paying about $4,000
Tor casting the figure each time. lie thus
had $l5, 900 for his own labor, Of only
few months. Mr. Powers was indignant
when the fact was given in the newspapers
at the time but Is the transaction was psr-
fectly honest one, there was nothing % b
ashamed Of, and the public were intasstsd
10 hssr Of such Rood 6etuns."
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Dreams.


dream dream uf sentlpness.
And wander TAR To hud Il real;
when To- tacu rofn'st. ny heart To- hlrs+
Aui more than brins'st thc W.. he'd .d,a!.
dream dream # innocence
ANA purity ihru' stainless years.
ihou wak'st us { ol tho ioy iut-uss
And 10 the vsioa TIM my tears
Grtan dreail o. tenderness
Ihs manly strength, the welnan's heart -
And IN my waking prayers confess
Hvw 'Aiier than ny dream thou art
! esm dream %. simple right,
Nor III IA {" match my thought By day
/ ut word. and deeds of thine are light
Which drosn the h-av. uly visions ray
III last dream { perfect truth,
ami s.-h % lind 70 - a dream;
SGt thou AIT natr, % Heart 81 Youth,
And al m, dreams are what they seem
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now PEOPLE DRESSED, WENT TO CHURCH, AND
DANCED IN TENNESSEE SIXTY YEARS AGO.
Judge Joseph c. Guild (old Joe Guild, as
he is tamiliarly called at home,) is a native
of Houston County, Tenn. Lately he re-
turned there after an absence of more than
half Il century, and made public speech,
from which the following extracts are
takc.1
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Voices of the Dead .

n 7. " D -NITITI1-I71F'
, Few saow-ustahts On the mounta inside,
A ,ey VIII t. suuw-askes from the eAning tide,
A few reiremb beTcd words %! malice spent,
The record uf some dead mans III intent
Tley caun hurt Us. all their sting ~ gone,
Tboi- hour of cold and bitterness j. done;
Yei deepest SHOWS and herccst- ashing seas
If!in. ; such cold and bitter thou-h; as these.
A lew -o.led lies dropped hy child n handS,
A ,.r dried orAn-e-blooms from distant lands,
. \ few remcu beTCd smiles Of some lost friend.
Few words of love some dea- dead fin gers ponncd
Thev are rot beautiful far love 10 see,
And deaths palc presence seems in them 20 lie;
Yet never l.v NJ blooms, most fresh aud gGy.
% rs " 'tl thuusii- oi -cFe s" sweet ss they
London Spectator.
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STATEMENT OF JUDGE BACON.

John Bacon second Of ST. Johnsbury, VI,
is an associated Justice of the county court
of Caledonia county. lie came here Aug
22d to see the phenomena. The first even
Ing he saw the spirit of his father. who died
forty-eight years ago. Recognized him by
his shape The form was dressed in dark
clothes, with standing shirt collar and
white shirt. lie was bareheaded. Stand
ing erect, he lowered to the height Of six
feet one inch, and called his son by his
Christian name, speaking in his familiar
tones His breathing was distinctly per-
ceived in the act of speaking. Besides him
the Judge has seen one sister, fifty-thrce
years of age at the time Of her decease, and
another of only three wears; his wile'S
father and mother (the latter wore light
dress and a white cap; she Is a very short
woman, not above five feet in height y and
finally his own son. whose death has else
where been alluded to. By actual count
kept he has seen sixty-six different spirits to
date The reader will not fail to perceive
that beside the doings at this Vermont
house of wonders, the narrative of Katie
King" about which two hemispheres have
been set agog, appears quite tame and unin-
lcrcStlnr- litIts III AhA@ but-ui-tut-Ntl
nook in the Green Mountains, in the house
of plain farmers, unprovided with machine
ry, chemical or other apparatus or COS
tunes. not less than two entire regiments
of shadowy forms have come back from the
valley OF the shadow Of death to strut their
brief while before the view of mortals, and
hundreds of families admit having received
tokens of the departed After this the dai-
mon of Socrates, the imp of Wesley, the
spectral visitors of the bookseller Nicolai
tie banshees which follow certain houses,
the prank playing pohergeists of Germany,
seem worthy of more respectful attention
than we have been willing hitherto to ae-
cord them Who shall now pronounce i'm
possible of realization the prophecy said to
have been made through raps long since,
that in time the spirits will materialize
themselves 50 as to be able to address audi
ences from the public rostrum, as though
they had never tasted death? With "kate
King standing for her photograph, and the
Chittenden ghost walking the highway with
box under his arm, it does seem as if the
gap remaining is not much too wide to be
spanned in our day.
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Young IIerodotus Spilkins, who has been
eramming up on Buffers Analogy for Senior
year, says he's sorry to take issue with
Professor Tyndall on his new depar ture, but
he can't help it. Really, you know" he
conilentially remarked to his friend Smith
ers, "these materialistc theories may charm
the masses, bat then for educated minds like
you and me, Smithers, why-they're simply
preposterous, you know
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last stage of existence and could only live
in this manner a few days longer, of course
dying in the most barbarous and torturesome
manner
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A Detroit young woman tried to be aris-
tocratic, and did not look at the money tina.
she gave to the horse-ear conductor, but he
meekly gave her back the lozenge on which
was written, "I'll never cease TO love thee, -
and said that he was an orphan with FIVE
little brothers to support, and must be ex-
cused.
"Your handwriting Is very bad indeed, -
said gentleman to friend who was more
addicted to boating than to study; ''you
really ought to learn to write better. ''Ay,
ay," replied the young man, ''it is all very
well for you tn tell me that; but if were
to write better, people would find out how |
spell"
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4 GuheraninrIal Letter on Babies.

The Kalamazo NIich.) Agricultural So
ciety having arranged for baby show at
their forthcoming fair, appointed Gov.
Blgley one of the committee. Having ad-
vised the governor of the honor conferred
upon him, the genial chief magistrate re-
spends as follows
STATE OF MICHIGAN. EXECUTIVE OFrICE,
Detroit Aur s. lSI4