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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-12-13
A Lady's Response to the Toast o.
ssthe Men,,
From the Portland (Oreson) Bee.l

Mrs. Duniway, OF the Ne,r Northwest at d
literary reunion at Salem, Oregon, .stoasted'
the gentleman as follows:
.'God bless 'em! They halve our joys, they
double our sorrows, they treble our expenses,
they quadruple our cares, they excite our ma
nanimity, they increase our Self-reSpect, they
awaken our enthusiasm. they arouse our af-
tectfons, they control our property, and out
maneauver us in everything. This would be a
very dreary world without EN-. In fact, may
say, without prospect of successful contraiic-
ton, that without enl 1t would not be much OF
a world anyhow. We love 'em, and the dear
beings can't help it; we control en, and the
precious fellows don't know it.
''As husbands, they are always convenient,
though not always on hand; as beauX, they are
by no means 'matchleSs.' They are most agree
able visitors; they are handy at State Fairs and
Indispensable at oyster saloons; they are
splendid as escorts for some other fellows wife
or sisters, and as friends they are better than
women. AS our fathers, they are ineXpreSSibly
grand. A man may be a failure in business, a
wreck in constitution, not enough to boast OF as
beauty, nothing as wit, less than nothing as
a legislator for woman's rights, and even not
very brilliant as a member OF the press; but II
he is our own father we overlook his ShortcO IL
1ngS and cover his piccadilloeS with the divine
mantle OF charity. Then, as our husbands,
how we love to parade them as paragons In
the sublime language Of the inspired poet:
Gwen lie for them,
We1lcry for them,
And, if we could, we'd fly for them;
We'd anything but die for them"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-12-13

SOME TINE SINCE number of Boston lawyers
invested In and nailed up at their desks sign
reading that they were very busy just then, but
would see The visitor later. One day withered
up old man entered an ofice, gazed stupidity
around, and at last inquired, "Can see tn ;
under his arm, and that settled his case. His
eyes were directed to the sign, and after reading
busy, won't stop" 1t was case where there
was about $4,000 at stake But he was out
n the hall by that time, and he didn't seem to
hear the invitation to come back. The lawyer,
vexed and annoyed, tore down the sign at Ic,.,
and hoped the old man might return. Sd. E
enough he entered the Office again next day,
and, not seeing the sign, he sat down and asked
Every busy this morning p" "Oh, no, plenty OF
time was the reply. "Sure I won't ann "
you?" 'Oh, you can't annoy me at all. sh Ill
listen to you with the greatest of pleasure.
''Well then, )" said the old man as he slowly un-
did his book, I'D like to call your attention to
this Life Of Napoleon. It is said that the en-
cravings alone cost fifty thousand dollars We
are selling the book at"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-12-13
How q Widow Had Her s.Senses IS
Taken.

1t was dilapidated man that bundled him
self Off the evening train Saturday, entered the
liquor breath about him and Steam1ng up
through him. and his nose was as the winter
green berry, red and round and dlstinct1vely
bright, as if all the checkerberry he had put in
all the rum he had drunk all through his aban-
doned life had flowed into his empurpled pro-
boscis and there formed gem, which made
"DGcS the Widow MarShmedOW live here
," he inquired of Officer Mowry.
The officer, with his wOnted courtesy, di-
rected him to her residence 1t was II O'Clock
when he arrived there and summoned her to
the door.
Don't be embarrassed, madam" he said,
with wonderful mildness of tone and manner.
because you don't know me. History has ever
been partial and omitted from her bronzei and
statuesque pages the names of her proude5t
sons. This omission tmpartS uniquaneSS to Il
mans fame. / am the cenSuS-taker. 1 have
taken every name in town but yours. The hour
is late and exhausted nature requires in fact
imperatfvely insists upon, refreShment and the
restoration OF sleep. l cannot proceed further
witt this sublime undertaking until l have
both"
..You may come in and stay over Sunday"
she said, land In the morning will have killed
a pair of yellow legged chickens"
1t was IL O'Clock, and the census-taker still
sat at the Widows table, and her third bottle Of
old currant wine before him.
81 shall put your name," he said, with fncom-
parable tenderness of tone and address, ''some-
where about the middle of the book, and under
the head of Remarks shall add the following
'Cosey residence; tastefully ornamented; latch
string always out; beautiful fruit trees and
ounce bushes here abound in outrageous abun-
dance; yellow legged chickens always to be
found on the premises; their legs become
stained to a beautiful yellow by constant wad-
ing through the golden leaves of the naples
that glorify the lawns and approaches OF the
beauteouS homestead :"
The widow smiled delightedly, and concluded
to put the pleasant cens1s-ta in her best bed
chamber, where all night long his nose shone in
his facial armament like a lone star OF Bacchus.
[I'rOriGe1lce Journal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-12-13

H- Sir julius Benedict, the musical celebrity.
though IS years old, was to have been married
last week to lady thirty years his JuRior.
EE-The farrter may be slow, but he Is sheer.
eEThe umbrella is used up, and similar fate
befalls many prominent politicians
az Every saloon-keeper in Colorado says that
the Chinese must 60, because they live on ten
cents day.
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JEWELS OF OLD TRUTHS SET IN VERSE
[By ". CLAY rREUSS. !
Under THE SOD.

UNDER THE SOD.
The ancient maxim long hath stood:
'.Nothing of the dead but gcod;'
We find but human brotherhood
Under the sod.
No matter what our faults have been,
The angel, Death, steals gently in,
And covers over every sin,
Under the sod.
Our brother man we hated so.
And wished him every mortal woe
We pity, as he lieth low,
Under the sod.
Alb could we to the truth agree
As taught by Christ Of Gaiillee,
How different would our Judgment be
A bare the sod,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-12-13

ey- Countess Montiio, mother OF the ey-Em-
press Eugene, once kept millinery store at
BruSSe S.
sS-. Varieties are the vice of life-[N. T.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-12-13

LETTERS REMAINING IN GEORGETOWN.
D. c., p. O.,
DEcEMRER Is. 1879
LADIES' LIST.-Shirley Annie Miss; Williams
GENTLEMENs LIsT.-Calhoun George O;
J. n EDMUNDs. Pm.
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holding states remained unbroken The result
OF the civil war has shown, even to the most
ultra diSuniOniSt, that the Union cannot be dis
solved; that the states are one and insepara-
ble;" and it has confirmed the faith OF our citi-
Zens, inspired by the great men OF 1850, that the
city OF Washington will continue to be the per-
manent seat OF The government Of the United
States.
THE WASHINGTON OF 1879.
The corntields and cabbage gardens of 1903 have
disappeared, and in their place We find beauti-
full city, with fine streets and avenues, and a
population of $50 600, as good and laW-abiding
people as can be found in any other city. The
enterprise of our citizens was demonstrated
few weeks since in the Inauguration OF nation
al falr, which every one must be gratified to
Know, has proved grand success.
The munificent appropriations Of Congress
within the last few years for the improvement
OF the streets, avenues and public squares, and
for the erection of magnificent public buildings
and the assumption by the nation of one half
the cost of future street improvements and OF all
ether expenses of the government, affords graft
have begun to realize the weight of the obllga-
ton which they owe alike to their country and
TO the 1lluStrlous man to whom under Provi
dence they are indebted for their free govern
ment, that the metropolis which bears his
name shall be made worthy OF the great Ameri-
can republic.
When the reading of his "reminiscences had been
concluded and resolution OF thanks adopted by
the association, Mr.. SimmS arose and expressed
his qualification for the compliment and for the
patient attention of his old friends to the read
Ing OF the long document. and said that In the
paper he had spoken of the goodness Of Con-
greSS to us, OF our kind Chief Executive Of our
courts OF justice, and OF our good and law
whose name 1t was scarcely necessary to men,
| ton. because his noble monuments Of charity
can be seen In all sections OF the city, speaking
anaer KS ns
ianthropist, Wiiiam W. corcoran. N p''-
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ent sovereignties, and Ii cannot exist as a great
city upon any other foundation. ''Thesc facts
always been. and must continue to be. contin-
gent upon the integrity OF the Union, and
whether 1t will retain the position assigned by
1.-THE fathers" All doubts upon these questions
must affect the interests of the city, and have
seriously done so in its past history.
THE REMOVAL AGITATION.
The agitation OF the question of the removal
OF the seat of government began with and in
deed before the meeting Of the first Congress in
the city, and Immediately after the war of 1912
IL was greatly increased. The accessibility of
the city to foreign enemy, shown, it was con-
tended by the advocates OF removal by It's easy
capture In 1874, was a very strong argument,
anu M me- Iney employed with such marked
the future OF the city was very gloomy One
gentleman from Ohio was specially active in
getting up a sentiment In Congress In favor Of
removing tie seat of the central power OF the
nation TO secure position in the valley of the
Mississippi, He was efIectually Sienced how
ever, by, caricature, in which he was repre-
Sented by groteSque figure with the Capitol
building on wheelbarrow struggling to ascend
the Allegheny mountains. The effect produced
blythe 1oDtinued efforts TO remove the seat OF gov
eminent was felt in the depression Of the value
OF vacant lots which many nonresident and
some resident owners deemed of SO little pres
ent or prospective value that they did not think
then comparatively light, and permitted the
legal title to pass away for an Insignificant sum.
THE VISIT OF LAFAYETTE
The dependency which this state of affairs
produced in the minds OF our citizens was re-
lieved by the national event Of the visit of La
fayette In 1925, and all other questions of local
or general interest became subordinate to their
enthusiastic desire to express their gratitude to
the nluStrious Frenchman. The whole popula-
ton united to swell the ovatian to the friend OF
Washington, his brother in arms. The Father
OF his Country, with whom, in the great Strug-
gle for Independence, he had fought Side by side,
sacrificing his political interests and private for
tune in his own country for the glory of vtndi-
eating right and justice In America The inter-
view at the Executive Mansion when Iafayette
bade adieu to President Adams was witnessed
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To obtain any Of these Letters the applican
must call for ADVERTISED LEDTERs, :" and giye
The date of this list.
Elf not called for within one month they will be
sent to the Dead Letter Office.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-12-13

both into silence and saved the union!
NEW START FOR WASHINGTON.
The adoption OF the compromise resolutions,
and The faithful execution Of the laws enacted
in pursuance OF their spirit and intention seemed
tosetle finally the disturbing questions between
The free and the slave states and our citizens
and strangers who brought their money to the
city Their confidence In the stability of the
Union fully established. they went to work with
WILL and the result OF their energy and enter
Prise gave such an impetus to the development
OF It's beautiful plan, that subsequent mlsfor-
tunes did not arrest nor scarcely retard vacant
lots which prior to 1850 had merely nominal
value and could not be disposed of at any price,
were sold between 1850 and 1850 at fabulous
figures and men who had been struggling along
for years, carrying the burden OF untmproved
tax levied ON 1t, found themselves in affiuent
circumstances few of them millionaires.
Figures do not deceive. The census shows the
rapid increase In that decade In 1850 the white
The dwellings in 1850, 5000; in 1860, zoos.
Value OF Real estate in 1850 S22 900 900; in 1861
50 100000. Showing the increase Of ten years:
White population, 10 per cent; dwellings, 1919
per cent; and real estate, 227 per cent.
The comparison presented by these figures de-
monstrates with unerrtng truth the power of
the confidence in the future of the city with
which the adoption of the compromise resolu-
TONS inspired our citizens, and shows with eulal
certainty its slow comparative progress prior
ana up to the day OF that great measure Of CON
ty, who had been kept for years in state of
nervous excitement by persistent attempts to
remove the seat of government, could then look
with amused complacency upon the feeble eff
Iorts OF a few lunatics, who proposed to lift the
political center of the republic from the founda-
ton upon which it had been placed by the
Father OF his Country.
SOME OLD CITIZENS.
In my business relations of nearly seventy
years have become Intimately acquainted with
many citizens who were and are well-known to
the community, and whose distinctive traits
were OF such prominent character that some OF
for their generosity and benevolence, some for
their comic manner and reSistlesS good humor
and others for their sturdy business habits, as.
tence in doing light and resisting wrong: Il
The sun., 1879-01-12
rzE DEATH OF orD PETER xAE1oM
A Man VINO Made . Fortune ~ His Wlu
and ~ i1ts Frug-al Lire.

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TWENTY-THREE WITNESSES.
ALL SWEARING rHIr THEY yEVER saw
JUSTICE PTYChNEK DHCNK.
A Bind Lawyer who Caa Bstert InesrieH-
tisn ny >-use % Kenrsng The Bnttie thaE
was IN tie Csurs K1om-- " hne was In is.

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wa. IN the Caars Room NEhae In &c.
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Civil Justice Plekneys 'curt 1lsuiad Yesttr-
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WNOEOkE
BLOOD gRArN AND
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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22
Not His Fault.

A gentleman who was yesterday driv-
ing up Antoine street came upon an
aged colored man who was loading
himself with boards he had just pulled
off fence surrounding a vacant lot.
"Do you own that lot ?" shouted the
citizen, as he drew rain.
"'Deed. doan' sab; TIE only leased
a sheer of dis fence till de wedder
brokes away an Gums warmer"
" Are you going to burn those boards
for firewood?"
81 IL, boss. De fab in de house am
dun gone clean out, an de ole woman
am slappin' de chill'en to keep dar ears
from bein' frost-bit. It's powerful we'd.
der, boss"
eyes, it's pretty cold; but what were
you doing last summer? Why didn't
you get your wood all ready for win.
ter?"
Wasn't dar an ole slab -shanty mex
dorh to me, On wasn't / gwine to grad.
ually cause lie buildin' to disappear dis
winter and jist as de fust snow cum
didn't de owner of de place drop down
an gin de hut to family to live in,
rent free till spring. sTain't my fault,
boss, dat we has got chillblains all ober
the house an frozen Eaters under the
bed, but de owner of dat shanty am de
pusson who orter be talked to. If you
happen to meet him, boss, tole him jist
what you fink of sech conduct. DE.
trou Free Press.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-02-22
Don't Stimulate tine Young.
If you give O healthy Young ms

If you give healthy young man of
twenty, who has never tasted either, q
cup of tea or coffee, says the Boston
Post, it will keep him awake all night.
If you give to one who has never drank
either fermented or distilled liquors, a
glass of beer, wine, or weak whisky
and water, it will make him more or
less dizzy, and, perhaps, give him a
headache. If you persuade one who
has never smoked, to try cigar, it will
probably nauseate him, and for time
make him severely sick.
Now, what is the conclusion from
these facts? Simply that tea, coffee,
fermented and distilled liquors and to-
bacco are in their nature medicinal
are, in brief, drugs, and that, at least
while the body is growing, while it still
has superabundance CT vital force, it
does not need either the preventative
properties of tea or coffee, or the di-
gestive and tonic one of wine, beer
brandy, or the soothing one of tobacco,
to keep in health and well-being, but
that, on the contrary, when the youth
full system is in its natural state and
either is offered it, disturbance, more
or less pronounced, is the result.
What terrible responsibility, then,
do not mothers and fathers incur who
from babyhood allow their little chill
dren to drink tea and coffee-nay, be-
fore the little thing would think Of
asking for it, tempt them to sip it out
of their own teaspoon