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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1890-02-11
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21
Music That Touched the Heart,

From the New York Times
An incident of a peculiarly touching charac-
ter occurred yesterday in one of the elevated
railroad trains that brought tears to the eyes
Of the passengers. The train had Just left
l25th street when the passengers saw entering
the car a little boy about six years old, being
half pushed and half carried by an older boy
evidently his brother. At the first glance it
was seen that the little fellow was blind and
his eyelids had almost grown together. He had
pale wan face. but was smiling. A quick look
OF sympathy passed over the faces of the pas
sengers and an old gray-haired gentleman got
up and gave his seat to the two The big
brother" who was about eleven years old, ten
DERBY lifted up the little blind boy and place d
him on his knee
''How's that?" he asked.
Nice, said the little chap. "Where's my
'monica?"
This puzzled some Of the passengers, and sew
eral turned to see what the child meant. But
the big brother" knew, and immediately
drew out small mouth harmonicon and
placed it in the little fellows hands. Both
boys were we'll dressed. The little fellow took
the instrument into his thin hands, ran it acr oss
ms lips, and began to play, softly, Nearer,
MY God, to Thee" Tears came into the eyes
OF the old gentleman who had given up his
seat, and as the little fellow played on, run
ming into Rock Of Ages" and ''Abide with Me- /"
there were many moist eyes In the car The
little player seemed to have a remarkably true
ear and occasionally, when the instruments
would rasp, he would turn sadly to his big
brother" and say, Don't whistle"
The train rushed along, the passengers lis
tened and the little fellow played on tirelessly.
never missing note from annie Laurie" or
Home. Sweet Home" Finally the 'big
brother" leaned down and told the little one to
get ready to leave, as the train was approach
ing their station. Then, rs if he knew he had
won whole carload Of friends, the blind boy
QUICKLY changed The Snwaaee Rivarn into
"Auld Lang Syne." and with one accord the
passengers burst into q round of applause,
while the big brother" carried the little one
out Of the car.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21
How q Charge Of Shot Travels.

From Frank Lsslie's Illustrated Newspaper
When standing within q few yards OF the
guns muzzle at the time OF discharge a person
would be amazingly astonished were he only
able to see the shot as they go whizzing by.
Experiments in instantaneous photography
have proved to Us that the shot not only spread
out, comet-like, as they dy, but they string out
one behind the other to q much greater dis
lance than they spread Thus, with a cylinder
gun, when the first shot OF charge reaches q
target that Is forty yards away the last shot is
tagging along ten yards behind. Even with
the choke-bore gun some of the shot will lag
behind eight yards in forty. This accounts for
the wide swath that is mown in q flock of ducks
on which charge OF shot falls Just right.
About 8 per cent only of the charge Of shot
arrive simultaneously at the target, but the
balance OF the first half of the charge il SO
close behind that birds muscles are not Quick
enough TO get out Of the way, although those
who have watched sitting birds when shot at
have often seen them start as il to dy when the
leading shot whistlsd by them, only to drop
dead - they were overtak en- by the leaden hail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21
SNAKES HER ONLY FRIENDS.
A Female Hermit Who Died Sur
rounded by Reptiles.

Salem va correspondent Of the Philadel-
phia Times writes: A singular character, by
name Martha Ann Tillson and who was known
as the ''snake woman" died near here re-
Gently. She lived in little cabin at the foot
of Twelve O'Clock Knob, and led a hermit's
life, having no one to share her abode ex-
cept snakes. BY the few who were ever
allowed to see the interior of her cabin il is
said to havs literally swarmed with her strange
companions. with which she ate and slept and
which were to be seen lying in her bosom and
cooled about her neck, body and limbs when
ever she was caught sight of.
Her extraordinary prediction for these I'M
pleasant creatures is supposed to have arisen
from morbid feeling that she was like them,
hated OF men. for naturally deformed, she re-
ceived in addition an injury to the spine while
an infant, and. though perfectly sound in mind,
was of so sensitive nature as TO rem
der her miserable and uneasy in
the presence of any but her parents. as
she imagined herself an object of loathing
while still little child, Tor her peculiar
friendship began then. She was observed TO
steal away every day with pan of milk and
on being followed was found to be caressing
a dozen SO hideous rattlesnakes, while
they drank from the vessel which she held
in her lap. Mortified, her parents tried to
reason with her, then to punish and finally
to contine her in an endeavOr to break her of
her fondness for the reptiles, but she pinned so
for her pets that they feared she would die il
kept from them. She evinced even stronger
distaste for human society as she grew older,
and since the death Of her parents has with
drawn entirely from any association with her
kind, living wholly on the product of a small
garden cultivated by herself and of half dozen
chickens, which the snakes seem to know were
not legitimate prey and left unmolested.
She was little fair woman of about forty
five. with sandy hair, very abundant and long,
which she wore in number of tight plaits,
which, combined with her deformity and the
odd, miscellaneous style of dressing, the result
of her refusal to hold any communication with
fellow-being served to make her most remark
able looking object She was looked upon as
witch by the negroes about, who declared her to
be possessed of the evil eye, and hated and
feared her accordingly, though her life was
most harmless, quiet one. She had been
dead some days when discovered and her
dead body was literally covered by writhing
mass of snakes, which had to be killed before
it could be removed, for the reptiles turned
yiciously on all approaching the remains. On
her heart was found coiled huge rattlesnake
dead
The inquest proved that the woman's was a
natural death and it is probable that the snake
died of grief for its mistress. See left no
heirs aud a few nights after her burial the
house was burned down, 1t Is supposed 10y
some of her neighbors, as the greatest horror
was felt for the place, which was still infested
with snakes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21
How 1t Happena

From the New York Ledger.
A little man asking how it happened that
many beautiful ladies' took up with but in
different husbands. after many fine offers, was
thus sptly; answered by q mountain maiden:
4, young friend of hers, during walk re-
qaasfed her to go into delightful canebrake
and thereiget him the handsomest reed She
must getit in once going through without
turning, She went, and coming out brought
him quite mean reed, when he asked il
that was the handsomest one she saw .'Oh.
no" replied she; Il saw many finer as l went
along, but kept on in hopes of a much better
until had gotten nearly through and then was
obliged to select the best that was left
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21
Written for the EVENING STAR
The Sweet june Days.

The summers reign has begun again,
With q pageant of sunshine, in glittering rays,
And roses follow in a crimson train
The steps Of the sweet June days.
In wavering lines the long grass shines.
A glittering green and silver maze:
And the fire in the pale nasturtium vines
Is lit by the sweet June days.
Now. soft and still, over sky and hill,
A warning finger the summer lays,
And the silence throbs with a passionate thrill,
In the hush of the sweet June days,
And love In an hour. like q tropical flower,
The call of her magic voice obeys,
And blooms into life by the subtle power
OF these dreamy, sweet June days.
jessie j. PrERsoN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21
A Joint Congressional Canon.

The New York Maui and Express prints q
long editorial calling on the republicans of
the House and Senate to hold a Joint
caucus for the discussion Of such distinctiyely
republican measures as the tariff bill the
silver bill and the national election bill
The article winds up a. follows: "A re-
publican caucus IL needed, and needed badly,
and needed right away. Let the fists of oppos-
let the open palms be extended. Let us have
peace and union and republican victory along
the whole line"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21
The End of a Bad Affair.

A case in which John L. Sullivan figured
was ended in the superior court at Boston
Thursday. Tom Kelley, who drew q razor
across Tom Shea's throat in q row over
Sullivan last fall, has been let of. Kelley has
given pecuniary compensation to Shea, who in
court acknowledged satisfaction and asked for
the discharge of Kelley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21
REDEEM Irr

Redeem what yOu have lost BY no, sivins us yOus
GET BACK
Some Of your hardeArued dollars. Don't b. foolish
always. There is tide IN the AFFAIRS Of msn which
taken at the noOd." leads on
TO PROSPERITY.
II you want take the road which leads TO ., coma
right nov. BE wise and call 70 see our display Of
PRINCE ALBERT COATS AND VESTS
Strictly Atwood Silk Pacing serge lined d, bound.
AT sls76
cUTAwAY SUITS
Eight dieren, styles and textures. strictly Atwood
ATss75
SACK SUITS.
Neat mixtures. serge lined. double stitch cd
AT SAGA
BLUE SACK SUITS
Skaters Flannel. fsdeless color strictly Atwood
Grand Army regulations two sets Of buttons,
AT $3.50
SACK SUITS
lined, double stitched.
AT SLIGO
PoNGEE COATS AND VESTS.
AT s5.
ALPACA coATs-sl.5o .sL75. 60. $3.50 and e.
New invoice Of CHILDREN's PANTS Ages TO Is
years.
AT $50
Only few SAILOR SUITS. Ases 70 10 year.
AT Zoe. AND 81
TEN PER CENT CLOTHING HOUSE,
eENTLEMENs FURNISHING ooopa
s27 AND ses 9TH ST NV
Corner Massachusetts Avenue
STRICTLY ONE PRICE
les Open Saturday until IL pm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21

Ex-Councilman W. T. Mead Of Camden, Nj,
was today sentenced to three years for forging
the name of d. H. Erdman to a note for ESQ.
The case will be taken to the supreme court ON
q writ of error. Another indictment against
Mead for forgery 10 yet to be tried
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21

The regular commencement exercises at
Franklin and Marshall College were held at
Lancaster, Pa, yesterday. The graduating
class numbered twenty three.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21

2.1s.a4L H. 22aal2. alR Is. 2l. 10
These figures the numbers Of the alphabet which
spell out the name Of the VERY HIGHEST Ora px
SPRING WHEAT PATENT FLOUR
Manufactured In the world. the Justly oslsbrstsa
BRIDAL VEIL FLOUR.
And for sale by the following First-cass 0rocsrss
CHARLES l. KELLOGG, Masonic Temple.
w. L. ABBOTT. IS2I FennsyIvsnis aud cor. III
and II SITS.
GEORGE T. KENNEDY SONS 1909 ~ ana
1ll6 Connectlcut ave.
b. r. BACON. GO Pennsylvania
q. q. CORNwELL SON, l4l2 Pennsylvania sya.
C. c. BRYAN. l4l3 New York ave.
BEALL L BAKER. 4s6 PenEsylvania ave
L. v. WHITE, 635 Louisiana ave-
s. r. WATERS, l342 9TH ST.
A. o. WRIGHT. 1882 18th stnw
BuRCHAkD CO. 354 Pennsylvania ava
W. I. GIVEN. cor Sd and sta NV sp2x-vkss-~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21
Written for TEE EVENING STAR.
ATTRACTIVE HOMES.
Some Decorative Ideas for the Summer
Season.

FANS FOR USE AND oRNANESr-THE POPULAR
TAN KEE FAN AND WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH
r RIBBON AND NET FOR MAKING LAMP
sHADEs-ARrIsrIc SUGGESTIONS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21
OpEx ALL NreHr.

It.
For the accommodation Of customers and the
public we will Keep store open all night IN charge
of resi stored Pharmacists.
y. 3. WILLIAMS & CO., DRUG6IsTs-
UNDER MASONIC TEMPLE
Cor. 9th and streets nv
PRESCRIPTIONS
Our prices for prescriptions have been reduced IN
proportion to other goods. We only the purest
drugs and chemicals from the reliable manufsc-
turers. We cheerfully q careful inspscfion u
this I'm anti nv nh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21
EUROPEAN CAUSERIE.
Max 0'Rell's Chat About People and
Customs on the Other Side. 3
OLD AND NEW BOHEMIANS.

The French society OF Wen of Letters
and Its Object-Old Cheerfulness aud
Modern sadness Of Society-women In
Germany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21

THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO PATIENCE WITH MATRr-
MoNIAL AaENcIEs-oUEER WAYS PEOPLE HAVE
OF SENDING MONEY By PosT-How DEAD LET
TIERS ARE DISPOSED oF-PosrAGK STAMPS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21
TO PROSPERITY.

II You want 20 take the road which leads 20 q coma
right now. Be wise and call 70 see our display Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21

Don't mistake the plsce-THE TEMPLE DRUG
STOKE under Masonic Temple cor. 9Th and Il to
apl7-eod H. 8. WILLIAMS q CO., Prophet ors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21
THE LovE-sIcx GIRL.

Now we revel in the morbid self-dissection
Of q loye-sick girl. The reaiist is abroad in
the earth. He writes books full OF the sad
sickening details Of life as he sees it. We sit
and shiver at the woes and walls Of Fedora
and watch the piled-up agony Of La Tosca"
Our song writers have almost forgotten the
way to write chansonette. Shade of Beran-
ger, that it should be SOL What we like now is
the sad, passionate strain. The greater part of
the modern day song music in England and
France is one long wall after lost love. Go
into any drawing room of today where there
is a ''little music" going on, and tell me il this
Is not true. And the funny part of 1t is
that it is the girs who sing them. The
pretty dears come forward one after another
and in various keys and manners sing each
q little song, which is meant to be
quite pathetic, but always suggests the
comic TO me. Sometimes il is in French, some
times in English, but that is detail; the bur-
den Of it is generally the same: ''Loys'me,
Robin! You used to be very nice to me only >
little time back, and now you are very Ice
berg" Very funny il is to see spirited young
woman stand up and MARBLE energeticslly to .
company in which there are from twenty TO =
hundred young men: "Ohl responds matsn-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21

Redeem what you have lost BY no, sivins NJ you,
trade sooner.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21

Some Of your hard-earned dollars Don't b. foolish
always. Tbere is tide an the AFFAIRS Of men which
taken at the food. Z" leads on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21

1t seems almost wicked to be untasteful in
these days when good things of all kinds
abound on every hand and at prices that make
pretty things within the reach of alias cheap,
in fact, as ugly things, and yet there are people
30 blind as to deliberately choose the hideous
when the lovely is equally before their eyes,
However, the magazines and newspapers with
all their aids to clearer vision in this matter of
educating taste have effected good work and
one that seeEes ever advancing instead of re-
ceding. Every woman certainly is more or
less interested in everything that will or can
make home more beautiful, both to outsiders
and the family who daily appreciate the charm
of well-kept, tasteful home, or suffer when
ignorance or lack of taste deprive them of
what might instead be theirs. 1t is a subject
which grows in interest the more one under
stands it, and is not likely at present to die ont
from lack of sentiment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21

PRINCE ALBERT COATS AND VESTS
Strictly Atwood Silk Pacing serge lined d, bound
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21
CUTAwAY SUITS.

Eight diaeren, styles and textures strictly Ali wool
nopby aud neat
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-21

letters and packages reached the Dead Letter
ONCE. OF this number 100000 were never
called for at the post offices to which they were
addressed; 400, 900 more were enormously or
illegibly addressed 10000 were forwarded by
hotel keepers because the persons addressed
had gone away; 100, 900 had not sufficient post
age, and IT 900 had no address whatever. Eigh-
teen thousand contained money-S35, 900 in
all-and $4,000 inclosed checks and drafts
amounting to Il, 600, 200.
Dead letters are sent in bundles from the
post offices all over the country to the depart
ment here. Upon their arrival they are duly
recelpted for In books and put up in packages
OF 100. Then they go to long table. where
ten clerks open them one after another. If a
letter Is found to contain money a note of the
amount Is made On the envelope and the cash
ls put aside to be turned over to the clerk of
the money division. All lottery tickets, deeds
and mortgages are transferred to another
clerk, while checks and drafts are passed over
to third. The letters found to contain such
enclosures are flied and all the rest are trans
United to the returning division There skilled
experts In chirography decipher bad writing.
the three young women who do the pnessjno
exert their lmaglnations upon the defec tive
addresses. and all the clues afforded by what 10
inside and outside the envelopes are mt to-
gether in the effort to get at the facts in as
many cases as possible. Such efforts, however.
are directed usually to discovering the writers
OF the letters rather than the persons for whom
they are intended This is for the very obyious
reason that the finding OF the addresses has nj.
ready been proved difficult before the missiyes
reached the Dead Letter Office. All letters that
cannot be satisfactorily disposed of are de-
stroyed.
A good deal of undelivered matter reaches
the Dead Letter Office every year that is
classed as of an immoral tendency-such as
,- nash books or pamphlets, photographs of
what are called the fancy sort, and SO forth
All such material is laid aside at the opening
table, put in bundles by the clerk in charge Of
the division and burned in the furnace.
UNCLE SANS POSTAGE STAMPS.
Some people imagine that Uncle Sans post
age stamps are printed in Washington, but
such is not the fact They are all made by the
American Bank Note Company in New York
city, which has the contract from the govern
ment. Uncle Sam pays q small fraction over
cents a thousand tor them, and their manu-
facture is pretty big job, for during this last
year eleven hundred millions of them were
used-representing value OF ga, 800, 600 OF
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-22
PROPOSALS.
Notice to Bidders.

The Town Council of Rochester borough.
Beaver county. Pa. will receive bids for the
paving of part of New York street, contain
ing about ], 200 square yards more or less with
specifications to be seen at the office of Borough
Engineer up to MAY ], 1890 The borough re-
serves the right to reject any OF all bids.
ROCHESTER, PA, April 19, 1890. ap20-1N
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
borough of Bellevue will be received by the
said board until P. M. MONDAY. May 5. 1890,
for the erection of a three-story brick addition
to the public school building in said borough,
and for the raising of the old building and
making certain alterations of the same.
Drawings and specifications can be seen at
the temporary office of j. NJ. BALPH Archi-
tect, No. 81 Federal street, Allegheny (second
foor). The contractor will be required to fur
nish satisfactory security to the full amount OF
the contract for the faithful performance of
the same. The Directors reserve the right to
reject any or all proposals. ap20-35
TEFFERSONVILLE,I IND, APRIL II, 1880
y Sealed proposals IN triplicate, subject to
usual conditions. will be received here until IL
o'clock A. NJ. Central standard tIme), SATUR-
DAY, the 18th day of May, 1890, for furnishing at
the O. M. Depot here, various articles of quar-
termaster's stores such as stationery ranges
wagons, carts, wagon parts; blacksmiths wheel
wrights, carpenters, saddlers', painters, and
miscellaneous tools iron. hardware. paints, oils,
rubber hose, horse and mule shoes, horse shoe
nails, etc. Preference will be given to articles
OF domestic production or manufacture, eondi-
tions of quality and price (including in the price
of foreign productions or manufactures the duty
thereon) being equal. Government reserves the
right to reject any or all proposals, and to ac-
cept the whole or any part of the supplies bid
for. All Information furnished on application
to this office. Envelopes containing proposals
should be marked Proposals for Quartermas-
ter's Stores" and addressed to COLONEL
HENRY c. HODGES. Assistant Quartermaster
General. U. s. Army Depot Quartermaster.
apl9.35ly 20 2I % my1O ii
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-22

NOTICE TO COTRACTORS-S SEALED
IN proposals will be received at the office O
the Borough Clerk until Tuesday. April q, A
D. 1890, at P. M, for the following sewer and
street improvements, viz:
SEWERS.
One of Is inches in diameter on Rose street.
from Eleventh avenue to Lynn's south prop
erty line; approximate length, $50 feet.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS
Grading, curbing and paving Fifth avenue
with block stone, from Market street to Water
street, one square.
Grading. curbing and paving Jenny Lind
street with firebrick, from Hitchcock avenue
to Power avenue.
Grading, curbing and paving Eighth avenue
with frebrick, from Market street to Water
street.
Grading, curbi1g and paving Park street
with friedrich, from Ninth avenue to north
line of South Park.
street with friedrich, from Seventh avenue to
Arch street.
Grading and paving Wilkins alley with fire.
brick, from Locust street to Jenny Lind street.
Grading and paving Thorn alley with fire.
brick, from Walnut street to Blackberry alley.
Plans and specifications Of the above work
can be seen ard blanks for bidding and all in
formation can be had at the engineers office
on and after April Is
Each proposal must be accompanied by
bond in double the amount of the proposal and
probated before a Notary Public and said pro-
posals must be handed in on or before the
above specified time; unless said requirements
are strictly carried out the bid will not be con-
sidered.
serve the right to reject anv or all proposals.
G. B. HERWICK. Borough Clerk
MCKEEsPoRT, Pa, April L., 1890.
ap12-52-l2, 1872