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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-09-19
The Police and the Policy shops.

10 the Editor of The EVENING STAR:
AS II seems utterly impossible for the police
10 WINE out the most damnable of all gambling
ganes-policy-allcw me to suggest the neces-
slty OF securing the assistance of. THE STAR to
rld ourselves OF this game. which Is robbng the
poor ana having mercy on no one. There is no
precinct IN this city in which this form Of gam
bling Is not carried on. There are eight or ten
policy shops in full blast on the same square In
some parts Of our city. Go where YOU WILL Won
are IN danger Of stumbling over policy writer
and detective who IS not able to get down
t. q policg writer is not lit TO be on the force.
and should be dismissed. They are sucking the
very III, blood out OF the poor aborer-biack
AMI whitc-and systemat ically robbng those
VINO are III better condition TO play il. Please
lend uS Il little assistance. Mr. ld;tor. What
our efficient police force is unable TO accom-
plish The STAR can. UoxoR
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-09-19

Instantaneous PbOtOgraph0 Of Game.
From the London Graphic.
Instantaneous photography is reproducing the
animal world OF the Bayarian Highlands to the
very life, thanks to the ingenious system of a
native naturalist near Obsrammergau. The
photographer puts up his camera at some plaza
n'the higher regions much frequented by game
and connects 1t with an electric battery hidden
some distance away. He then posts himself by
the battery with telescope, and directly he
sspies suitable subject, touches butten which
communicates with the camera. and - irons tsa
slide, obtaining IN instantaaseus imprees,on.
TAs sliGht nsiss sf the slide falling cspses the
animals % look up. thus givinga mere animated
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-09-19
Ihe English of Shakespeare, John
Bunyan and Abraham Lincoln.

Bunyan and Abraham Lincoln
To the Editor Of THE EVENING STAR:
While agreeing in the main with 81 c. G. k"
touching his ''Good Word for the Creek" &C.,
and heartily commencing it as word fifty and
timely spoken, 1 yet am often puzzled to ac-
count for-ahd 1 respectfully ask Mr.. K. to &C
count fOr-the acknowledged and transcendent
ability ''to write the English language with
elegance and accuracy" manifested by Mr.. Lin
coin. John Bunyan Shakespeare and others.
Was it. however true that, IN reality, Shakes
peare knew but ''little Latin. and less Greek?"
Was the admirable dicton that so captivated
that master of style. Macaulay. as to compel his
famous unstinted eulogy of Bunyan's Pilgrims
Progress, simply evolved from Bunyan's own
inner consciousness of what was pure and strong
and elegant?-had he really no '.education?"
And was MIR. Lincoln not. indeed, indebted at all
to Latin and Greek" for his chaste and bea,1ti-
full, perfect utterance at Gettysburg? Lastly,
whence was the style of the Greeks themselves
derived? Who taught Job his lofty, incompar-
able eloquence, before whose exquisite purity,
strength and mighty power Homer, Virgil,
Kschylus, Plato and all others pale their In
etfectual fires" grand and noble as they are?
Inspired. You may say. True reply,-certainly
as to subject and object. But this whole ques-
tion always puzzles me, and gives me much
food for thought Respectfully, TIL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-09-19

The Bridgeport HSnlard Is disturbed by
what it fancies it sees In the south-namsly.
"a tendency to reinaate collapsed stuek-up-
anee."
The Ha1Al0 E1psess Ays that . wsil-known
resident Of 9Th avenue has peid his naighber
$4,000 not TO lease his house fer business pur-
poses. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-09-19

was "only chivvying of him." Now the wren is
one OF th most courageous of birds (this pair was
not much afraid OF the CATS, but they could not
stand the constant annoyance. so they left us
Spring. but, Mr.. Editor, they won't stav there
nor VIII the gentleman who observes the beau
ties of nature in that locality long enjoy his pres
ent abundance of fruit and grain; it has taken
pe.eep..oie Time Tor the sparrows to reach that
cut OF the way place but they haze reached it and
IL Is a question of a very short time for them to
oyerdO the Maryland motto-to increase and
multiply. They have already reached Utah.
possibly by building nests or roosting about
the freight cars, and. being born thieves have
actually swinded the poor railroad COMPANIES
out OF rides, and yet moralists warn us not to
hurt them.
DROLL APOLOGY.
One of the funny apologies lately made for
the sparrow is that he is not dirty in his habits
but, on the contrary, clears the hOrse-car tracks
OF unsghtly objects; that is, he is scavenrer,
sort OF short-legged secretary bird on the
| lookout for offal, diamond edition of the tur-
key buzzard. which it should be Unable to mo-
lest. Now. what does this benefactor do but
heip himself to q few insignificant grains "a fur
| tner proof of his graniyorousness), and scatter
the rest OF the heap. SO that the next shower
WIN spread it over yards of pavement and the
following wind will send the particles into our
houses and lungs?
BOW HE ORNAMENTS wINTRY LANDSCAPE
More than one recent writer has sobseryed''
| that the sparrow forms feature In a wintry
landscape. So he does and we regret that In
| our house there was a standing order In former
years to sprinkle unlimited crumbs on the snow
Tor him In bad weather (would they had been
prass'e aed'xed!), but now we think the spar
row had esetsr secene . wintry feature, say, at
sss north pole II mlyht be Oh ON the bears
sat We have no treaty with them
when We object 70 being aroused at early
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-03
Straw for Fattenina Stock.

Few farmers realize the value of
good, properly cut, cured and housed
straw as feed for farm stock. IL
will pay to build barns purposely to
house it, for, we'll cared for, it is
worth half as much as timothy hay,
ton for ton Any kind of fattening
animals if highly fed on rich foods
crave and will eat large quantities
of straw, especially if bright, well
cured and housed. / each winter
feed lot of young farrow cows.
milking and fattening them at the
same time, and, Of course. l feed
high. They get all the oil meal,
bran, corn-meal, good bright hay,
and all the mangels they can eat.
Once a day their hangers are filed
with bright, barn-housed straw, of
which they eat what they like, the
remainder to be used as bedding.
We find the cows always waiting for
their straw ration, and often they
eat it so completely that we have to
throw in extra straw for bedding,
and we find it as necessary fOr their
health and rapid fattening as any
one thing. ! commend this plan to
Mr.. Ault of Pennsylvania, who asks
about the advisability of spreading
straw on new ground and burning
it for wheat. That course would
waste other vegetable matter on the
field, and leave only ashes, and these
be could get, though less rapidly,
by scattering the straw on the sur
face to be turned under. If his
land, being new, is rough, and he
wishes to further subdue and level
1T, l can see no better way than to
plow as soon as crop is off, giving
plenty and thorough cultivation,
and re-sow to wheat before seeding
to grass; but by all means he should
carefully save and take the straw to
the barn to be used in the stables
and yard.-J. Woodward.
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Thsz Cannot Make L Clear.

In a town up the Hudson two
farmers had an itching to go into
trade last spring, and, after canvass
ing the subject for spell, they put
in 81, 900 each and opened a grocery.
As trade was dull and both had
large families, they finally concluded
to dissolve copartnership. In this
frame Of mind they consulted law
yer, who asked, "What is the value
Of the stock now on hand?" "About
$1,000" .'And how much do you
oweT' about $4O0." "Very well,
I see my way clear. Mr.. Smith, you
draw out the goodwill fpr your
share, and I'll throw in barrel OF
moiasses for your family. Mr..
Brown, you take all accounts, and
Ill throw in a keg of pickles. -
And what's to become of the
store?' "Oh, you'll assign all goods
TO me for my trouble in paying the
debts and giving you legal advice" "
Those farmers sometimes stop to
think oft as they lean on their hoes,
and rest their aching backs, but
they cannot make it clear.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-03
Thorough Education.

While nearly every educational
institution in the land announce
that they give thorough instruc-
tisn it is yet debateable question
whether any institution does give a
thorough education. 1t is obvious
that large majority cannot do it.
Their curriculum may be full and
the course thorough, as far as it
goes, and yet not reach the true
definition of thorough education.
Much or the education is superb
cial. We do not blame the profes-
sors and principals of these in
stitutions for this, as our present
sys ems are due manly to the de-
mands of society. Much that is
learned at school is never put into
practical use, but for this the teach
er is not to blame. The fault lies
in the fact that children ara not
educated thoroughly for their pro
fession or calling. Ii they receive
a superficial education that will en-
able them to shine in society, that
is deemed sufficient. No reference
is had IN their instruction to their
life-work. If we would have trained
thinkers and trained workers, they
must be thoroughly trained to
think and thoroughly trained to
work while young. 1t is CRAFTY
ing to know that more of our young
uen are being trained up as work
ers than in previous years. There
is b pc for the country IN this. The
logic of events points with prophet
Ic skill to the learning of trades in
The future, as part of the educa-
ion of our youth. Intelligent,
skilled and trained labor is the
hope of the land. The education
of our girls and boys is not com-
plete or thorough without the
knowledge of some trade.
These views are suggested by the
excellent and timely address of Prof.
J. NJ. McBryde on Agricultural
Education. Pre-eminently is it i'm
portant that he who expects to de-
vote his life and energies to the cul-
tivation OF the sod should be
thoroughly prepared for his high
aSd Uoble caIIiae. "ta6V ere
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"Rsware Of Ealse Prophets. I,

Now that the big Virgins scare
is over and no one hurt, would it
not be better for intelligent people
to take a more sensible view OF
matters that are beyond human ken
than listening to the enseless va
porings of impudent adventure
who profess to unfold the secrets
possessed alone by the Omniscient
One9
During a period of nearly ten
years the daily. press has teemed
with the vague conjectures of sci
of vampires, who have brazenly as
sumed to map out the character OF
the season and locate storm dates
many MOI this in advance OF the time
predicted for their coming. The
worst feature in the case is a largt
perceu tage of the people have, to q
cons lderable extent, taken thet
idle vaporings upon trust, and arr
often ided by them in their bust
ness affairs. This has been particu
larly true with a large portion OF
the agricultural people, snd quota
tions from Tice, Vennor, Couch, etc.,
have been nearly as current as the
daily fluctuations of wheat and corr
in metropolitan markets. One after
another these fellows have come to
grief, until the more intelligent por-
ton of the people have ceased to
pay any sttention to their predic
uons, but treat them with the con
tempt they deserve.
The sole object these adventurers
have in view is to crea-e a sensation
and gain sufficient publicity 20 en-
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able them to sell the almanac, which
nearly or quite every one of them
publishes. Some of them have in
this way reaped handsome reward
in dollars and cents, and this is the
allurement which draws others on.
Each succeeding adventurer of this
class is greater fraud than those
who have preceded him; it appear
ing necessity to him, in order to
get the public ear, to outdo in i'm
pudence all others engaged in the
same line.
We hope our agricultural friends
will go to work this spring when the
soil is in fit con dition for tillage,
paying not the least regard to the
senseless vaporings of these charla-
tan adventurers, but rather place
their trust In Him who has placed
the ''bow of promise in the heav.
ems, and who has no vice-regent on
this planet to whom he has impaired
the secret of the ''times and seasons"
If the press would cease to give
currency to the utterings of these
weather predictions, the occupation
Of the authors of them would soon
come to an untimely end. This
alone gives responsibility to either
the men who make them or the pre-
dictions themselves.-Hawkeye.
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Sensible Sentences.

Don't be whining about having a
fair chance. Throw a sensible man
out of a window, he'll fall on his
feet and ask the way to his work.
The more you have to begin with,
the less you have in the end.-
Money you earn yourself is much
brighter than any you can get out
of dead mems bags. A scanty
breakfast in the morning of life
whets the appetite for the feast
later in the day. He who has tasted
sour apple-will have the more
relish for a sweet one. Your pres
ent want will make future prosperi-
ty ell the sweeter. Eighteen pence
has set up many peddler in bust
ness, he turned it over until he kept
his carriage. AS for the place you
are cast IN, don't find fault with
that, you need not be horse be-
cause you were born in a stable. If
a bull tossed a man of metal sky
high, he would drop down in a good
place. A hard working young man
with his wits about him will make
money while others will do nothing
but lose it. Who loves his work
and knows how to spare, may live
and flourish anywhere AS to the
trouble, who expect to find cherries
without stones, or roses without
thorns? Who would win must learn
to bear. Idleness lies in bed sick
of the muligrubs where industry
finds health and wealth. The dog
in the kennel barks at feas; the
hunting dog does not even know
they are there. Laziness waits till
the river runs dry, and never gets
to market. Try swims it and takes
all the trade. Cant do it would
not eat the bread cut for him, but
Try made more out of mushrooms
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-03
Turnip Green's. a..

A correspondent, noticing our
comments upon the large sum real
lied by Davidson county lady in
the sale of "turnip green's informs
US that a Nashville lady of his ac-
quaintance has made one thousand
dollars, an increase of two hundred
dollars over the sales of the first,
from her patch, and that il is still
green and luxuriant, promising yet
quite a handsome profit over eK-
penses. However others may con.
slider these revelations, we take
them as a sign OF immense pro-
gress. Systematic, intelligent gar
dening has become one Of the most
profitable Vocations. Positive
proof Of the fact is seen in the ability
Of lady realizing more than one
thousand dollars per season Of a.
few weeks in one branch of hOrti-
culture. This is evidence of an-
other important and gratifying fact,
that our people are feeding upon
vegetables more largely than form
erly. Without entering into com
ments of the hygenic benefits of
this custom we can commend it on
the ground of economy. 1t is
strange that farmers give 50 little
attention to their gardens, when
they would furnish such greater
variety, if no more nourishment
than bread and bacon. There is
comfortable progress ahead Of us,
however, when two ladies' can make
nearly two thousand dollars in one
season, and that, too, as a recreation
and pastime.
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The present tariff policy is simply
revenue policy that discriminateB
in favor of our own industries. All
the odious features Of the Old pro-
hibitory protective policy Of. Clay
have been abandoned. The coun.
try has outgrown all such necessi-
ties. Our industries have been dc
veloped under the fostering care OF
government, until many which once
needed protection to enable them 10
exit now compete with the world
in foreign markets, and it will con.
tinue so indefinitely. This prog
ress in our industries has been just
ly recognized in the new tariff, and
it is rs liberal in the tendency to
tariff '.for revenue only as our
most intelligent and better rcquited
industry can allow. The idea Of
free trade in government that IS
based upon sovereignty Of indus
trial classes is at once idiotic and
suicidal, and the political party That
arrays itself against the Incidental
protection that is maintained in The
new tariff act will well deserve anil
surely achieve defeat Philadel-
phia Ledger.
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The Problem Of Living.

How to live economically is 8
| question that puzzles the brains Of
many a good housewife, and the
man who, though working diIigent-
| ly day in and day out, and week
in and week out, can accumulate
but little becauss of the diminutive
wages he receives; or if he receives
good wages, because Of the great
expense Of living. Talk with the
head of twenty different families,
and you will hear as many different
views of the cost of q living. A
skilled man in some department Of
business will earn a large salary,
spend nothing on wine, women or
horses, yet always be In debt.
Some acquaintance Of his, with
similar salaly y and q large family.
lives comfortably, sends his boys
to college, drives a good horse and
has a snug little bank account.
There are mechanics earning two
dollars a day who comfortably feed
and clothe family Of half a dozen
people, while some Of their fellow
workmen, married, but without
children, live meanly, wear shabby
clothes on Sundays, and manage to
exc out miserable existence in
hand to mouth way. A day labor
er, receiving from $1.O0 to $3.50 per
day, will support family Of sever
al children, clothe them neatly, feed
them well and stnd them to school,
while his neighbor will bring up a
troop Of ragamuff1ns, with dirty
faces, and dirtier moral, with stom-
achs continually craving for the
necessaries of life.
The principal cause of the differ
ence may almost always be found
in the family larder and the family
wardrobe. Americans, whether rich
or poor, know but little more shout
economy in food than an equal
number of savages. Some families
must breakfast either on beef-steak |
or mutton chops; others will serve
just as much meat and make II
just as palatable at quarter of
the expense Of choice cuts, because |
they know how to cook. Tempera-
ment has much influence on the
larder. Excitable people will eat
twice as much without satisfying
their hunger as those of better ply
ical balance, yet they will not do
more work. Some wives will save
the price of a ton of coal by remak-
ing for one of the children an old
dress or suit of clothes; some 9th
ers, seeming to be destitute either OF
tact, skill or inclination, must have
everything new or go without.
Economy is science which quite q
number of men and women have |
mastered by close observation and |
diligent practice; others do not |
seem to know of its existence. One
woman with 5000 can make her par
loF pretticr than another can with
five times the sum. 1t takes long
er to learn economy than to learn
trade, but when learned it is the
most consoling science in existence
no matter how much or how little
money its devotee may have.-Cos-
hocton Age.
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L is HaLtsr.

1t is better to wear a calico dress
without trimmings if 1t be paid
for than to owe the shop p-keeper for
the elegant silk, cut and trimmed in
the most bewitching manner.
Better to live in a log cabin all
your own, than in a brown stone
mansion belonging to somebody
else.
Better to walk forever than run
into debt for a horse and carriage.
Better to sit by the pine table, for
which you paid three dollars ten
years ago, than to send home q new
extension black walnut top, and
promise to pay for it next week.
Better to use the old cane-seated
chairs and faded two-ply carpet,
than tremble at the bills sent home
from the upholsterer for the most
elegant set ever made.
Better to meet your business ac-
quaintances with free ''don't-oWe-
you accent" smile, than to dodge
around the corner to escape a dun.
Better to pay the organ grinder 2
cents for music, if you must have it,
than to owe for a grand piano.
Better eat thin soup from earthen'
ware, if you owe your butcher moth
ing, than to dine of lamb and
roast beef and know that it does
not belong to you.
Better to gaze on bare walls than
pictures unpaid for.
Better to let your wife have tit
of Mysteries than to run in debt for
nice new furniture or clothes OF
jewelry.
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a RICHMOND RokANcE.
How a Drove of Mules Brought q
Wedding.

A little circumstance happened
here last fall that bore great issue
writes a correspondent from Rich
mond, Va. A trif1e as light as air,
yet it made a man snd a woman
meet that hut for this episode would
never have known each other. As ii
is society talk, of course every one
knows it, and l will narrate it just
to show what uncomfortable events,
which some call chance and Others
fate, shape our lives.
A large drove of mules just after
dark were taken from the cars of
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
and corralled, but something STAN
peded them, and they dashed up
the street, half hundred or so, with
all the Gathering and fire of squad
ron of calvalry at full charge.
Pedestrians hugged the sidewalk
or hurried into the nearest open
door and then looked pantingly at
the dim rushing mass.
Now it happened that a young
lady from Boston, Mass, who was
on visit here, was coming from q
friends house, and just as she was
crossing the street the head Of the
column came toward her with the
velocity of an express train on
down grade. 1t was so sudden that
her presence of mind failed her, and
she stood directly in the pathway of
the advancing drove.
A thrilling tableau it must have
been. She clasped her hands, and
the light Of the lamps showed her
dilated eyes and rigid figure. A
dreadful death seemed inevitable,
when gentleman passing by, saw
her. Like a flash he was by her
side, and, swinging her with rapid |
motion to him, he carried her to the |
sidewalk just as the laundering |
mass passed by in the darkness.
The danger was over, but she was
100 unnerved to continue her way. |
He offered his arm, and together
hey proceeded to her house. She
thanked her deliverer. He pre-
,ented his card-Mr. Louis Shearer,
West Point, Miss. He had just
arrived on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, and was on his way to the
southern train when the vision met
lis eye. He asked her name. Miss
Alice Beauchamp, she answered.
Mr.. Shearer did not go on his
way to the southern trip that night,
Tor the next; and so-and so-well,
he same old story. When the roses
bloom in bleak New England then
will be heard the sounds of bells,
md the southern palmetto and the
lorthern pine entwined will adore
he altar.