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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-05-03

the Odd Country. The building was divided
through the center by very wide hail. in which
was grand stairway of beautiful design and
elaborate finish. tsspGciOus parlors chambers
DC. were finished with enriched paneled wans-
coting. cOrnices and wood mantels of elaborate
design. The Mansion" was located about mid
way between the National Museum and the PO-
tomac. in the midst of an ample lawn enriched
BY choice selections Of floral and horticultural
adornments Within the range of its horizon
there was an outlook for beauty but rarely sur
passed. The plan of the city. it is to be re-
gretted doomed the demolition OF this noble
edifce. For such contingency the commits
eiOners had made provision. For valuable
consideration il was transferred TO the govern
nent- The authorities allowed il to remain fol-
number of years, during which time it became
tenement house of the lowest type. The
FAMILY BURIAL place was near the river bank.
Long yeaKs after the transfer OF the estate fOf
city purposes. when workmen were engaged In
cutting down the bank for the construction of q
whaT IN shat locality. large coffin was ex-
hamed which was,said TO contain the remains
oil The original proprietor.
sA'iD BURNS RUSTIC HOME ASB THE VAN NESS
MANSION.
paVfa Burns home was a long one-stOry
wooden structure, much the worse for wear
Wheh 'he city was founded. II occupied a site
On 'le north oahk OF the Potomac a few yards
"es. VI I'"i Sreetwest- Mr.. Burns land was IA
Foraoiy loca'eu Tor the new purposes TO which II
was to be appropriated On ito being Divided
Into city lots he became wealthy nronria,or
On the Installation of the departments in ME
capital city, in the fail of 1890 the r,Stic hon,o
of David Burns became popular CENTER O,
Nashlnsson society, especially SO during the
sessions Of Congress. s INC
Gen. John P. Van Ness representative NJ rho
state OF New York, shared in these social no, ra-
unions, and becoming impressed bv the 30
eeded accomplishments and moral worth Of
haNS h,
sought her hand AID heart. His attar.;, nc
were duly appreciated by Miss Burns. and he,
father approving OF the engagement. they were
ere long: made one in the bonds of hoiy wed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15
Children Planting Trees.

Friday, April IS, was Tree Planting
Day in New Jersey. Iu Newark, School
Superintendent Barringer directed the
principals of the public schools to spend
the last hour of the afternoon session In
bringing forest tree planting to the at
tention of the pupils. He suggested
that Gov. Abbett's proclamation on the
subject be read, and that the children
take part in planting one or more trees
in the>school-yards, or in the street be-
fore the school buildings.
At nearly every school tree was
planted, and at several schools there
were special exercises. At the Eight
eenth avenue school an oak was planted
in the yard. The scholars and many OF
their parents assembled in the yard and
listened to addresses by the Rev. DIR. j.
H. McIlvaine, the Rev. Edward Rankin,
E. E. Coe, Oskar Won Joeden, and E. S.
Black, to a recitation by Principal
Schultz, and to music by q band. The
pupils sang appropriate songs.
A tree was planted at the Burnett
street schools and two in the yard of the
Brewer Industrial School. In Verona
forty trees were set out in tle school
yacd.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15
The English in Egypt.

The prestige that once surrounded the
European in Upper Egypt. and was
worth more to us than fifty thousand
bayonets, is departed, says an English
magazine. The burning of Alexandria,
the temporary tt tiiumph of Arabi, the be-
lief that our fleet and army were de-
=troDyes.I by him and that tho Rhedfve
and not England was his conqueror;
finally, the conviction that the defeats
in the Soudan were suffered by the
English and not by the Egyptians, have
all combined to shatter it, and it will be
very long before it can again be restored.
Not that the European in Upper Egypt
is exposed to any danger so long as
things remain quiet in Lower Egypt.
The respect due to the hope Of
6akShish is as strong as ever, and the
fellah is too cowardly to start any move
ment in which ne is not quite sure of
being backed by superior force. More
over, the educated part of the popula-
ton, which knows the real state of affairs
is naturally concerned to maintain order;
while the "Copts" have discovered that
their own safety and interests are init
mately bound up with those of the
Europeans. But the most unobservant
traveller cannot but notice a certain in
science in the bearing of the natives to-
ward him which would have been i'm
possible only two years ago. 1t is moth
ing in itself; as symptom, however, it
is dangerous.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15
The Base Ball Business.

One can scarcely form an estimate,
says the New York Herald. of the vast
extent to which base ball is being carried
until a glance is taken at the respective
championship tables In the five leading
professional associations alone there will
be over $500 championship games
played. The American Association and
the Northwestern League and Union
Association will each play 448 games.
The Eastern League, which comes next
in Importance, will play 392 games.
There are number of other professional
associations, of less Importance than the
above, in the arena at present, and the
club members of each of these associa-
tions are competing for championship
of their own. The most prominent of
these smaller professional associations
are the Ohio League, Massachusetts
State Association, the Keystone Associa-
ton, the Western League and Western
Interstate Association. Besides there
are an endless number of college and
amateur associations in the field of con-
test, and their club members are putting
forth their utmost efforts to win their
respective championships. The American
College Association is the most promi-
nent among the college associations,
while the Long Island Amateur Associa-
ton is one of the Oldest and most widely
known among the amateur associations.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15
Thinning in the Garden.

The novice in gardening matters rarely
gives his plants, especially his roots,
sufficient room. He cannot see why he
should SOW twenty or more seeds for
every plant that comes to perfection. Ii
we were to dibble in a single carrot seed
every six inches in row, it is probable
that very few of them would appear as
plants. A large. number of seeds are
sown in order that, by their united ef-
fort, in termination, they may break
through the soil and allow enough plants
to see the light to make stand. After
the plants are up then comes the thinning,
and we cut out with the hoe large
number of beets, parsnips, ETC., and
finally leave one in place at intervals OF
six inches to foot, according to the va
rietv. Onions seem to do well if left in
little clusters to crowd one another, and
John Harris says that this is the best
treatment for short kinds of carrots. But
these are exceptions, and as rule the
more room roots have the quicker they
grow and the more tender they will be.
Take spinach, for example, though not
root, it needs judicious thinning. The
first thinning may leave the plants two
or three inches apart in the row; second
time, the plants may be left six inches
apart, then every other plant may be
taken for use, and the final cutting of
well developed plants will be the best OF
all. Satisfy, at best small root, may be
had much larger than we usually see it,
and more convenient for the cook, by
giving it room. AS rule, our garden
crops are too much crowded for the best
results.-AgriculturiSt for May.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15
The Bashi BaZOuks.

The Bashi Bazoufs appear to be keep
ing mp in Africa the peculiar habits
which made them byword throughout
Europe in 1976-7-9. The name of
''crazy head" which is the literal mean
ing of "Bashi Bazouk," is certainly tit
title for these reckless rufians. who are
to nineteenth century Turkey what the
Janissarles were to the Turkey of our an
cestors. To mutiny against their COM
mander like the Bashi Bazouks OF Khar-
toum, desert to the enemy like those OF
Kassala, to murder, outrage, or torture
helpless women and children like those
of the bulgarian atrocities" are the
natural instincts of these human hy-
enas, who represent in the army of Tur-
kew the same element as the Cossacks in
that of Russia. Poor Gen. Gordon's
position may well be ''critical, " with his
own Government ordering him to evacu-
ate Khartoum forthwith, powerful
enemy ready to pounce upon him the
moment he does so, and no one to depend
upon but a rabble of mutinous cut
throats.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15
Cuba's Crisis.

Cuba is by nature land of such mag
niicent possibilities that it is impossible
to view without deep sympathy the
effects of the commercial panic which is
now running what few Cuban merchants
Spain has not already taxed into bank
ruptcy. The people of the United
States have always to an extent aided
and abetted Cuba in her endeavors to
free herself from Spanish bondage.
Lopez, most gallant among Cuban pa
triots, drew a force of 600 men from the
United States in 1913; and so great was
American sympathy for Cuba that in this
same year President Polk made Spain an
offer of 81 900, 600 for the island. Ten
years later the Senate discussed the ad-
visibility of raising the offer to $50, 0O0,-
900. The policy of seeking additional
territory in the south is not received with
favor in this country; and no thought of
annexation is now seriously entertained
in any quarter. Meantime the Cubans
have kept their country in a constant
years sent 145, 600 soldiers to subdue the
island, and yet have been unable to es-
tablish her control. All this time the
island has been compelled to see her
trade decrease, her manufactures de-
cline, her crops neglected and her peo-.
pie deserting to this country and to South
America. Cuba is one of the few remain
ing countries which are loaded down with
national taxation for the support of a
government other than her own. The
dominions of Spain, Portugal and Tur-
key are about on par for werkness of
burdensome taxation and
the destruction of all native enterprise.
The question is, how long will these bar
rier nations be allowed to stand in the
path of the advancement of their colo
MES ?-DetrOit Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15
They We're All Girls.

George W. Gable spent Sunday with
friends in Monson, Mass, and attended
the Congregational Church and was in
vited to talk to the Sunday-school in
the afternoon. In the course of his re-
marks he raised his hand, expanded the
digits, and said 81 have SO many
children at home. How many is that 2"
Give, piped up a youngster promptly.
"And half of them are girls" continued
the speaker, staggering his audience
with his apparently reckless disregard of
the truth. ''How much is half of five ?"
asked Mr.. Cable. "Two and half,
reproachfully replied little miss in the
front pew. eyes, said the novelist with
benignant smile as he saw that his
reputation for veracity was fast slipping
away, "two and half of them are girls
and the other two and half, too-fve
girls. "oh," gasped the little miss with
a look of relief, and then there was ripple
of laughter.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15
THE CHURCHYARD BY THE SEA.
A MEMORY

Across the waste of years I see
One spot forever soft and green
which, shrined within NV memory.
IN eVehlnG, glow or morning sheen,
~, us Vi ne golden vanished years,
"HeiA smiles came oftener far than tears.
A ehurchyard by the restless sea,
Where In deep, calm and dreamIess sleep,
HE Dead lay resting peacefully,
onheed1ng the tempestuous deep;
Careless alike of sun and breeze,
Or ebbinS of those ehangefuI seas.
And oft when shipwreck and despair
came to the little sea-boat town,
Pale women, with disheveled hair.
10 the wild shore went hurrying down,
And tenderly dead eyes would close,
ana smooth dead limbs for long repose.
Full many a weary, storn1-tossed wight.
Year after yesr, in quiet was laid,
saIe from tue clustering storms of night,
In this green spot and undismayed.
slept close beside the breakers roar,
W dose wrath should mar his rest no more,
And over each housekeeping head,
Where thy1ny turf grew green and soft,
2he wild bee hummed, and rosy-red
The bFier-aower bloomed, and up aloft
The fieecy clouds went drifting by
Like shades. across the summer sky.
And ever IS the years go by,
And one by one old memories creep
From out the sweet past solemnly,
seem to see, beside the deep,
That little, lonely, silent spot,
with many a childish dream enwroupbt.
-Cbdmbe7-s's Journal
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15
Spring Jackets, Wraps, Etc.

Short jackets of gray, tan, dark red,
or black lady's cloth, Harper's Bazar
says, are to be worn with spring dresses.
They are single-breasted, close-ftting,
smooth over the tournure and hips, and
of even length all around, or else
They may be quite plain, but have usu-
ally a standing collar and small cuffs
of velvet, or else they are braided all
around in a very simple pattern of
curved or of diagonal lines, or they have
many straight rows of braid The fine
French webbing like Jersey cloth is
made up in this way for house basques,
completed by two darts and short side
bodies, and they are trimmed with braid
of the same color, or else of gilt or
silver.
Pretty little mantles to wear with any
dressy costume are shown in mushroom
shades, in olive green, and sapphire, and
are partly of cloth and partly of velvet;
the velvet is usually in the middle forms
of the back aud in the middle of the
front. The shapes are very short be-
hind, scarcely reaching to the waist
line, and as clinging as scarf, while the
sides are high and full on the shoulders,
and the fronts are long and slender. A
ribbon fastened on the back is tied un,
derneath around the waist to hold them
in shape, and the lining is of surah.
Sometimes the cloth parts are nearly
covered with India embroidery in dull
colors, which is very effective when the
mantle is olive green, and edged with
chenille fringe of netted heading with
the sleek mouse-tail strands, each of
which is tipped with ball. Similar
mantles in blue cloth and velvet are
lined with shrimp pink surah, and deco
rated with ribbon embroidery. A copper
red mantle has the velvet scarcely more
than'a deep collar or yoke, with longer
strips down the front, while all the back
and sides is network of large jet beads
in very open pattern. Full ruffs of
black French lace finish the neck of
most of these garments.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15
Horses in Kentucky.

A member of Gen. Shaler's staff, who
went to Kentucky to buy saddle horse,
concluded not TO purchase. He landed
in the town of Berry, and while walking
along the street with upturned nose at
the lack of hustle, encountered a citizen.
The citizen promptly drew revolver
and with equal promptness shot and
killed man who was walking at the
side of the officer. The man hastily left
town. On the following day the officer
was in the Phoenix Hotel at Lexington,
KY, when bullet crushed through the
paper he was reading and perforated .,
man who was seated in an adjoining chair.
1t was merely a commercial traveller pay
ing his compliments to brother "drum-
mer," but the New York officer was Of
Tended and left the room. He was about
to keep an appointment with gentle
man in the evening when he learned that
the gentleman had been unavoidably de-
aimed, having been ventilated during
the afternoon by the bowie-knife OF
another gentleman. The next day, while
taking ride, the horse ran away, the
buggy smashed, and the gallant son OF
Mars tossed into the mud. He concluded
it was altogether too lively country,
and, packing his gripsack. started for
home. The Troy Times says that he
has since been heard to remark that
"There are many good points about New
York horses.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15
The Better Man.

There must have been ten of us sit
ting on our trunks in dismal passen-
ger station in Arkansas, waiting for the
inevitable night train. Some of the
drummers tried to tell funny stories, but
it was no go, and those who were not
nodding and dozing were mad enough
to fight, when negro came in and flung
a lot of wet coal on the fire, exiting uish-
ing the little we had been shivering over.
''See here. you internal nigger you
ought - be shot r &romied a man in the
county map business.
''Who's 'fernal nigger?"
"You are p
"Better look out, white man I'm a
better man than you is -
The prospect of another civil war
woke everybody up in second, and it
didn't seem as if the clock had ticked
fifteen times before the map man had
his coat and vest off and his ears work
ing for business.
"What you gwine to do, sab P' asked
the negro as he stood gazing at him.
"I'm going to see who is the best
man Boys, look ont for splinters ="
''Hole on, sab Hole on, sab p called
the other. 'Ize de bettah man, an
kin prove it See heah, sab !'
He pulled from the pocket of his old
coat fair-sized cocoanut, the bark of
which was highly polished up, and
opened his mouth and tossed the nut
into the cavity, ratified it around over
his back teeth and then dropped it into
his hand with the remark:
"White man, come to taw If you
am de bettah man let's see you circum-
locute dat cokernut aroun' in your mouf
like did l''
The proposed bloody struggle ended
right there. The map man put ON his
garments, the whole crowd rose up, and
during the rext twenty minutes that
"nigger" scooped in ninety-five cents
by rattliDg that cocoanut and adding to
it any punches of keys or pocket knives
the boys could hunt up and hand over.
NJ
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15
SUPPORTING HERSELF.
What Girl May do if She Has the Dispo-
sitiOn.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has a vigor-
GUS paper with the above title, on the
subject of self-supporting girls, in the
May 50. Nicholas. Her sentiments on
this topic are forcibly shown by the fol-
lowing extract:
"Girls, first make up your minds that
you will be something's All the rest
will follow. What you shall be comes
more easily and clearly in due time.
ga girl of thirteen cannot decide,
with any discretion or any assurance,
whether she will be sculptor or wash
woman, farmer or poet; but she eau
decide distinctly whether it is her wish
or her duty, after leaving school or col
lege, to remain dependent upon her par
ents or to fit herself for self-proyiding
life.
''The education by which you mean
to get your bread and butter, your
gloves and bonnets, is a very different
affair from that which you take upon
yourself as an ornament and an interval
in life. The chemical experiment which
you may some day have to explain to
pupils of your own is quite another
thing from the lesson that you may never
think of again. The practice in book
keeping, which may some time regulate
your dealings with live, fesh-and- blood
customers, becomes as interesting as
new story. The dull old rules for in
Election and enunciation fairly turn into
poetry, if you hope to find yourself
great public reader some coming day.
And the very sawdust of the French or
Latin grammar becomes ashes of roses to
the stout little fancy that dreams of
brave work and big salary, in some for
eign department at Washington, or tu-
toring girls and boys for college. All
over the terrible ocean, among the law
less sailors, the men with wives and
children to work for are those that lead
the gentlest and cleanest lives. So, on
the great ocean of school-life, the girls
with aims to study for are those whose
labor is the richest and ripest All
you will never realize till you have tried
it what an immense power over the life
is the power of possessing distinct aims.
The voice, the dress, the look, the very
motions of person define and alter
when he or she begins to live for rea-
son. I fancy that L can select in a
crowded street the busy, blessed women
who support themselves. They carry
themselves with an air of conscious self
respect and self-content which a shabby
alpaca cannot hide, nor Bonnet silk
enhance, nor even sickness or exhaus-
tion quite drag out"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15

ton. ''What's that-what's that?" ex-
claimed Nj. Malenfrond, drawing back a
couple of PAGES. "Who the deuce is in
the dough"
BE did not finish. An enormous
plaster of dough was applied to his face
with splash, cutting short his excla-
nations and binding him at the same
| time.
The baker was conscientious in the
exercise of his trade. His dough was
well kneaded, and, though he made
trem mendous efforts to scrape the plaster
from his visage, two or two minutes
elapsed before he was able to open his
eyes and speak.
During the whole of this scene,
Berthe, paralyzed with astonishment,
had not stirred.
When her father had succeeded, un-
aided, in ridding himself of his plaster,
she recovered her senses and began to
cry:
"Oh, mon Dieu !'' it must be rob-
Der 20
'sAh, the scoundrelr p groaned poor
Malenfrond. "Where is he, that may
knock him down p
And, all sticky as he was, he rushed
to the dough-trough.
1t was empty, and empty in every
sense. Stanislas in his flight had
dragged off ON his person all the bakers
dough. He had left in the bottom of
the box only his shoes, that would have
bothered him in running.
s'Ouf !'' cried the unfortunate baker.
1.-THE thief / cannot bake tonight.
He has taken the bread out of the
mouths of more than ten families -
During this time the clerk, all covered
with dough, FASTENED as well as he could
toward the shop of the other baker,
which was not far away.
The latter received this farinaceous
mass with the greater affability, as he
brought with him fifteen or eighteen |
livres of dough. He scraped the clerk |
so conscientiously that the next day |
some of the inhabitants of the town
found in their loaves, one a plug of |
tobacco, another porte-monnaie con-
tanning eighteen sous, third pocket
handkerchief and bunch of keys.
The luckiest had for his share sheet |
of stamped paper.
This worked against M. Malenfrond's |
rival, who, accused of inattention to |
business, lost part of his customers,
thus once again proving that wrongly
acquired property never benefits any
one.
A few weeks afterward Stanislas ven-
tured to ask M. Malenfrond for his
daughters hand. As the clerk had re-
ceived legacy of few thousand francs,
the baker gave his consent, and even
took him into partnership in the bakery
shortly after his marriage with Berthe
had been duly celebrated.
As for M. Malenfrond, he was kept in
strict ignorance of the real nature of the
episode of the dough-trough, and he
,saFissg HTsr>usatrs .Esaz sV'SV
IN the watch for robbers.
"You see, Berthe" he often said to
ler, SIT is not enough to keep an eye ON
he shop, the dough-trough must also
De watched, and for that there's nothing
ike the eye of the master or that of the
mistress !"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-05-15
The Hand Organ.

s'The finest hand organ in New York
CITY," says correspondent, "plays fif-
teen tunes, and when heard from dis
tance could easily be mistaken for full
brass band. Its owner became possessed
of it in a peculiar manner. On last
Christmas eve he appeared in front OF
the Stock Exchange with well-worn in
strument and began to play. Several
hilarious young brokers rushed out and
seized him and placed him on the floor
of the Exchange. A scramble. then en-
sued, all wishing to turn the. crank at
once, and in the struggle the organ was
irreparably damaged. A well-known
broker passed around his hat and OBJ
tanned nearly $400 for the trembling
owner. With this sum he purchased a
new organ, and can be seen any day in
the vicinity of Wall street. The brokers,
lam told, take a sort of proprietary IN
terest in the melodious machine, and
the fortunate owner is rapidly making
money"
"Do organ grinders ever become
wealthy ?"
swell, from their standard of wealth,
yes. I have known several to acquire
as high as $4,000"