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The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
RIPE WHEAT.

We bent to-day o'er cofined form,
And our tears fell softly down;
We looked our last on the aged face,
With its smiles of peace, its patient grace,
And hair like silver crown,
We touched our own to the clay-cold hands,
From Life's long labor at rest
And among the blossoms, white and sweet,
We noted bunch of golden wheat
Clasped close to the silent breast.
We know not what work her hands had
found,
What rugged places her feet;
What cross was hers, what blackness Of
night
We saw but the peace, the blossoms white,
And the bunch OF ripened wheat.
As each goes up from the field of earth,
Bearing the treasures Of life,
God looks for some gathered grains Of
good
From the ripe harvest that shining stood,
But waiting the reaper's knife.
Then labor well, that In death yop 90,
Not only with blossoms sweet;
Not hent with doubt and burdened with
fears,
And the dead dry husks of wasted years,
But laden with golden wheat
Jerome SdhdeaV IN C0TiG-JOufpd.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

The Eloquence of GeOrgians.

FROM ne atlanta constitution.
Justice l.. @. c. Lamar of the Fed
eral Supreme Bench, referring to DR..
Lees addresses on Henry W. Grady,
says: Il have been very much struck
Of late years with the oratorical elo-
quence Of Georgians. / heard, a short
time since, Mr.. Walter j. Hill of
Macon, at the centennial banquet given
in New York to the Supreme Court,
hold in riveted attention and with re-
peated applause critical and fastidious
audience of lawyers, who had become
somewhat inattentive to such men as
Evarts, Low, Harlan and other fine
speakers. 1t made me very proud of
his fathers son, and it made my wife
feel very proud or his mothers son, and
we. were both proud of him as a
Georgian"
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
PERSONAL.

W. ID. Wetherill, special agent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at st. Louis, is
at the Arlington. Mr.. Wetherill has
contract to get the Wilson Barrett Com
papy to st. Louis by Monday evening
in time for a benefit which the English
actor has rendered the Press Club, and
he will take the company out on spe-
cial train after the performance to-mor-
row night.
Rev. H. II. Haynes and wife, Cam
bridge, Mass; Mrs. ID. Ainsworth, Au-
gusta, Kan, and Miss Annie Major,
New York, are at the Langham.
Queen Margherita of Italy is going
on visit to the Emperor and Empress
of Germany the end of the present
month.
Miss f. Constance Stone is the first
female doctor who has been granted
registration in the Australian colonies.
She was registered by the Melbourne
medical board.
The eldest daughter of Count Ferdi
nand de Lesseps is soon to be married
to Count Ferdinand de Gontaut Biron,
a godson of her father.
King Humbert of Italy receives at
least forty prescriptions week for
dyspepsia. Some of them come from
the most remote quarters of the earth
Rain.in.the Face, the great Sioux
chieftaiD, has applied for position on
tie police force of Bismarck, N. ID. If
he gets 1t he will change his name to
Take.a Nap in the Middle of the
Night.
Nj. Du Maurier, the well known
artist. is an expert and even brilliant
musician. He boasts fine tenor voice,
and at one time in the beginning of his
career contemplated taking TO singing
as profession.
The late ex-Speaker Randall was
especially proud of the son who bears
his name. Young Samuel j. is a
familiar figure on the floor of the House
of Representatives. and Is wonderfully
well posted on Congressional matters.
Count Muenster, the present German
Ambassador at Paris, is the author OF
one of the best cook books of the day.
| A sarcastic colleague once said of him
He is the best cook among the diplo-
matists, and the best diplomatist among
! the cooks
sarah Bernhardt is learning his.
torical play, LA Dame du Challant,
adapted from the Italian. The action
passes at Milan in the sixteenth cen.
fury. when Lombardy was the battle,
field of French and inperial armies
There will be great scope in it for dress
Mrs. Humphrey Ward. author OF
Robert Esmere," says that the
belief of the founders of the
new social and religious organi
zation, of which she is the head, il
that "a simpler Christianity can b'
effectively taught that will both toucf
the heart and direct the will"
Austin Corbin of New York city hai
had the fine elk which belonged to hi!
collection of animals, and that died re
Gently, handsomely mounted, and, will
pedestal and inclosing guards, will pre-
sent 1t to the Governor and Council o
New Hampshire, to be placed In til,
capital at Concord.
Chazes, Byron's old boatman, hai
just died at Missolonghi, at the age o
S7 BY order of the King he was giveI
a noble funeral at the public expense
ChaZes was one of the heroes of thi
Greek war of independence. He knew
most of ByTon's works by heart, anC
would spout whole passages of Child,
Harold" while padding his boat aroun(
the Lagoon of Missolonghi.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
4 MANurAorunnn,s yINws.
Increased Duties on Carpet Woods
VIII Close the Mills.

Superintendent James w. Barker of
the Norristown Carpet Mills has written
n letter to the Noristown (Pa) Herald,
in answer to an article in that paper, In
which he points out the absurdity of
the proposed increase of the duty on
Garnet woods in the Mckinley tariff
bill and the evil effects which would
follow such an increase. Mr.. Barker
says:
1.-THE question Of importance before
the country is, can we supply ourselves
with low. grade wool such as is used
in carpets2 In your article, taken from
the New York Tribune, you say 1t
could be done, and would require fifty
to sixty million more sheep than we
have at the present TO do IT,
II will not enter into the question at
all as 10 the climate, but | ask, What
are we TO do for the PRESENT. Send our
hands West with a pair of sheep aud
let them stay until they increase hun
dred fold?
THE proposed alteration of duties on
wool will close most of our mills for
time and cause an increase on carpets
from 80 cents to 8 cents per running
yard, according to quality. 1t will
partly destroy one of the largest indus
tries in the world to build up an indus
try that will not employ or pay the
wages of the one destroyed.
"The increased cost of wool would
enable England to supply this country
with all the best grades Of goods, and
leave the manufacturers here to make
only low and inferior articles, and also
place out of reach of the people good
goods on account of their high cost. The
present outlook of trade is bad on ac-
count of overproduction; the markets
are glutted with goods, and from the
recent failures.
I'm conclusion: This country may be
able to produce all her wool; she may
be able to supply all her needs in works
of art and literature, and all the neces-
saries of life; but that is in the far.o of
future. The nations prosperity will be
| greater If we take what we can of other
nations raw materials to supply ouI
large industries and develop our own
gradually; to put the brakes down toe
tight will cause loss and destroy that
which has taken years to build up"
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
BARRETT,s HAMLET .

Editor Critic: Although we heartily
indorse the Posts comments on Mr.
Wilson Barretts conception of "Ham-
let." yet it is admissible to notice
some little points in Mr.. Barrett's
acting which mar his otherwise
perfect rendition of the prince of
Denmark" His Intensity, so to speak,
is fiittered away in little mannerisms
and too much 0Utnard expression and
facial changes, which indicate, in our
humble judgment, lack of
reserved force and self-poise. We
do not like to see man
express even repressed agony like
woman, such as biting his lips,
shaking his fingers or hands tao often,
and other little SIGNS. We were espec-
iallv pleased with his perfect rendition
of the time worn recitas in Hamlet" +"
except in one respect-in "T0 be or not to
be-" There again was TOO much facial
expression, too much ndrr0oing If the
eye in speculating about the unknown
bourne" e"-thdt feature belongs to the
"edrhy Speculation" intent on dollars
and cents. However, we grow profuse,
and will end our criticism by heartily
agreeing with Mr.. Barretts speech at
the close of the performance, in asking
an audience to wait for such demon.
strations until the performance is over
and the characters have had time to die
decently and be buried. 1t is needless
to add, Miss Eastlake's rendition of
Ophehd was perfection itself. Nothing
could be more simple, touching or
pathetic. PoRTIA.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
Amid the worId,s Chanees.

F9OW Tie IffISDUT0 tNTOH3cle Itlo0fdpH.
Jesus rises, a majestic and inspiring
figure, above the cloud of darkened
counsel concerning him, and the world
hears his voice and heeds-turns to his
example, to do unto others ms we would
that others should do to us, as contain
ing the law and the prophets, and as
being the thing that gives the Chris
tianity of today its redemptive power,
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
rnp pAN-AMERIoANs.
They Take IA Liking TO Mint Juieps of
the OH Dnmlnion.

the Old Dominion.
Richmond co; re.poadtRce Pstey86UTg hidsr-
ADDeQI, AprN 23
The Pan,American party left the city
this morning, some going to Old Point
and others to Washington. Every at
tention was shown them while here, and
they went away delighted with their
visit. Those who remained here
Monday night would have continued
their trip South had it not been
for the expression in the Atlanta
Constitution to the effect that the party
which Mr.. Blaine had sent South
was composed chiefly of the Wallets and
private clerks of the delegates, and At
lanta felt no interest in their visit. The
Spanish Americans were highly pleased
with the old Virginia mint julep. They
say they will never forget that palatable
drink. They asked for the recipe to
make the genuine article, and when told
that 1t could be produced only in its ma
tive State, they were sadly disappointed.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
"NIatr" Quay.
From he Bostoa Hsraid.

Above all, what shall we say of a
great party of the nation which makes
such man its chosen leader in its
presidential campaign Has there been
a more discouraging illustration of the
debasement of the politics of our day
than Is furnished in this modern in
stance?
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

seek the Congo country will do so with
purely material ends in view; but while
IL may seem q strange Thing to say, 1t
will nevertheless be found to he true,
thOt these selfish explorers and settlers
will do more to civiizc the natives than
all the devoted missionaries that ever
entered Africa.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
NECESSARY Transit.

In whatever respect Congress has
failed to appreciate the needs of the
District, 1t cannotbe said that 1t has neg
lecied the transit question. There are
now more bills pending before Con
grcssional committees than in former
years the whole District business
amounted to.
The District Committee has shown
marvellous patience in receiving bills
for which only sentimental reasons
could be assigned. All the same the
business of the District is attended to,
and there never was period when rail
road extensions and the bonds they
seem TO imply were Of more marketable
value
No better opportunity was ever af-
forded than is to-day suggested, in va
rious speculative methods connected
with these railroads. The Tenally-
town road is now approaching compile
tion. The Brightwood road is under
fair auspices, and the lexington road
will secure its way to Fifteenth street.
The Columbian and Belt lines are likely
to secure their own routes Of travel,
and altogether taxation is apt to lie
where no taxable responsibility exists.
The progress of this city has come
largely to depend on the quality of its
substantial approaches. A few years ago
it was supposed to be wholly matter
of real estate speculation. But latterly
the overflow of the city has been such
as to demand homes and shelter under
other conditions. 1t is no use fighting
the inevitable, for its strength is every
where apparent, and is at all times
ready to crop to the surface.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
A CA ID
FROM
MR.. r. E. ROESSLE.
PROPRIETOR OF
The Arlington.
THE ARLINGTON" "
WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
March 6, 1890.

Marcn D, loJU.
Ny DEAR DIR. LIGHTnILL:
1t gives me great pleasure to state
that you effected a remarkable cure OF
deafness and discharge from the ears in
the case of my cousin, Marcus G.
Roessle, and that the cure has proved as
permanent as 1t was radical. | feel sure
that without your skillful aid my cousin
would have been deaf man all his
life. Knowing Of other cases In which
you have been equally successful |
cheerfully give you leave to refer to me
at any time, and hope that your prac-
tice in Washington will prove q distin-
guished success.
Yours, truly, T. e. RoEssLE.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

The poor editor was dying, and as the
doctor placed his ear to the patient $
heart, he sadly muttered: Poor fellow!
Circulation has gone" The editor
raised himself up and gasped, "Tis
falsel We have the largest circulation
in the country" Then he sank back
upon his pillow and died with trium-
phant smile upon his face. He was
consistent to the end-Erchahge.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
WATCHES.
M. W. GAIT BRO. 4 CO.
IIO7 PennsyIyania Ave-.

Call attention to their stock
Of WatcAes, eOmbriSing all
tie moSt desirable mO0ementS
and styles Of casing, IT0m the
AoaOeSt Price for 7Ohich a re-
liable hn1e-heeber can be
bought to tile moSt eF4enStre.
These 9OatcheS bear 0ar
firm name and are fully
guaranteed.
american Ma Ith a M
WateheS of all grades.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The attempt to start a Robert Elsmere
religion in London has been partial
failure. 1t is much easier to make such
q negative creed success in a novel.
where disagreeable facts can be ignored,
than in real life.
The present King of Dahomey, who
was educated in Paris, speaks French
fluently. His anxiety to defeat the
French in Africa is said to be due to an
unfortunate love affair which he had in
Paris.
The Casino at Monte Carlo is thronged
from noon until an hour before mid
night, and there is good deal of high
and rather reckless play going on
among the smart English contingent.
From adjacent Monaco, from Nice and
from Mentone people rush to the gamb-
ling rooms.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

Managing Editor Ito proof reader)-
How did you manage to let this gram
matical error go in2
Proof reader-That's copy.
Nj. Copy he --. If editors
were grammatical we'd have no use for
proof readers. = Union Printer.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
EDUCATIONAL.
IIHE NORWOOD INsTITUTE.

Eatrdct from a prirdts letter;
SIN reply to your request for my advice as
with confidence recommend Sr. and Mrs.
Cabell's Norwood Institute, in Washington,
D. 9. The standard OF scholarship there Is
high, the instruction thorough and the inhu-
ences good. L. Q. @. LAMAR,
Justice U. s. Supreme Court"
The school opens Sept. 80. au28-d&stt
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
CHRISTIAN SOCIALISTS.

GONsI
That is what they call themselves in
Boston. THERE'S no doubt that new
theory of society, patterned largely upon
the views expressed in Edward Bel
lamy's books, is making rapid progress
and gaining considerable influence
among Bostonians of the higher and
more cultured class.
1t does not seem that the movement
has yet been turned to any practical
account, and it may be that these
theorists intend to keep their high no.
tions of social possibilities to them
selves, TO be used as means of philo
sophie reverie or soulful emotion. If
SO, they would not be the frs set o.
thinkers for whom thought was a suf-
fcent end, and who could never en-
dune the discomfort of the applicatio
of their own doctrines. Many persons
who are most radical in theory are most
conservative in practice,
But there is one adherent of the So
cialistic scheme who has taken the first
step toward separating himself from his
accustomed environment He Is the
Rev. W. ID. p Bliss, an Episcopal cler-
gyman of Boston, who has resigned his
pastorate in order that he may devote
himself TO socialistic propaganda.
Last Sunday night he began to teach
socialism in one of the halls of the city.
1sct; -,
which w. d. Howells, the novelist,
whom the Socialists are beginning to
claim as being in sympathy with them,
was conspicuous figure. Mr.. Bliss
conducted services after the ritual of the
Episcopal Church and then said:
We are not here to build new church.
We are not here to commence revolution.
We are here simply, quietly, humbly, to
consider the application to social problems
of the old gospel of the divine carpenter
who lived in Nazareth. What we need to
day is not declaration, not renunciation
but thought, conscience, religious re
! formation. We are not beginning tina
reformation. 1t began long ago. Chang
Is everywhere. Chlistendom is heaying
with divine unrest, as she has not moved
since the days that preceded the Protestant
reformation. Tolstoi in Russia, Stuart
Headlam in England, DR. McGlynn in New
York city, voices in the Greek, the Angli-
cap, the Latin communions, all speak o.
! change, and it is all in one direction, tn,
application to social life of the gospe
OF Christ.
Professionalism has largely completed it
work. We need omething new. Protest
tantism has come to stand for excessive in
diyidualism. for church division, for deyo
tional and parochial competition. Romal
Catholicism stands for combination, bu
paternal combination, and that is not so
cialism. Socialism is fraternal. If Prot
estantism then is in danger of individual
ism and Rome of paternalism, where shal
we 90? Back to the church of the carper
ter; back to the fatherhood of God an
the Democratic brotherhood of man.
1t is to be hoped that so much goo
talk, even if connected with an unre
liable theory, will have some effect II
emphasizing the law of human brother
hood and do something toward securing
for each man within the range of 1t
influence the consideration due to hin
from his fellow man.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
Purify
Your Blood

AT the coming of spring the blood should
be purified, as impurities which have been
accommodating for months, or even years, are
liable to manifest themselves and seriously
affect the health. Hoods Sarsaparilla is un-
doubtedly the best blood purifier. 1t expels
every taint of impurity, drives out scrofulous
humors and germs of disease and gives to the
blood the quality and tone essential to good
health
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

OUR ESTEEMED morning contem-
porary, the Post, has managed to keep
up for two successive days its anti-re-
form spasm. The esteemed Post has
not always conducted its fight with dis
cretion, but in the main the weight of
argument has been on its side, and
there can be little question that the
charges urged against the Commission,
and indeed against the whole system,
have been sufficiently maintained. The
debates in the House have abundantly
proved the POSTS original position, and
it is worthy of note that to the indict-
ment then made no satisfactory answer
has ever been entered.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
SHIRTS TO ORDER.

u . ~ OhDEhs
1t is bad policy to walt until
midsummer to have these
goods made up, as the assort-
ments are low and our work
rooms usually crowded. The
best time is now while the
stock of patterns is at its best
and while the force is not 50
busy, asyou get better selec-
tion and receive better atten-
ton. We are making to order
Flannel Shirts, Madras Shirts,
oxford Shirts, White Dress
Shirts and every conceivable
kind of outing or Neglige
shirts.
Mems Department, first floor.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

Stranger am sure | have seen
you before, Are you not a baseball
player?
Contract Pitcher (sadly)-No, I'm a
baseball contract laborer.-Ne,o York
Weekly.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

THERE ARE SOME people who do not
believe that marriage is failure. One
of these is a man who lives in Southern
Illinois and who has just welded his
sixth wife. Each one of his wives
brought him farm, and he is now one
of tie largest land owners in the coun-
tiy. He says that marriage is great
succ, ss-if it is managed properly, and
that if man will stick to business,
the same as to any other, he is bound
to come out ahead.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

SENATOR BLACKBURN's support of
Blair's motion to forbid the sale of
wines or liquors at the Worlds Fair
was intended to be sarcastic.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

THAT was lovely portrait of your
daughter in the S0ciety Gazette. -
Il thought you did not read that
paper?"
81 don't saw the picture pasted up
in our club barroom. m.-Puck."
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

COLONEL DAN LAMONT is said to be
making $4,000 year. There is no
man deserves it better, and every body
in Washington wishes him luck in
earning it and more than luck in spend
ing it.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
THE PETIT Y HUMoRIsTs.

Here is sketch, said the poet,
Unto the editor gay,
THAT tossed off in an idle hour,
To while the time away"
Here is club,n was the answer,
In bland and smiling way,
"With which frequently toss me off
Six poets in day.
--ErchdnGe.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

II wonder what Short is driving at
now? He seems to he very busy of
late"
YES; he has just drawn IA prize In
the lottery, and is going around paying
up all his debts. - L0tceN Citizen.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

ITIsA CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE that
while the explorer Stanley has com
menced his series of fetes in Europe,
Emin Pasha, the Governor of the equa-
tolial region of Africa, should be
threatened with total blindness. 1t is
not natural that the providential lean
ings should be found to be all ON one
side
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

NOTWITHSTANDING the present warm
weather there is ample need for caution
in regard to change of attire. Such is
the inequality of our climate that much
personal injury may result from prema-
ture action in this respect. AT this time
of the year, if at any time, the advice
would seem appropriate, which every
young man ought to take to himself,
namely, keep on your shirt"
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

TIE BLONDE is passing away, and
the dark haired damsels are on the in
crease. Blue eyes, alas are becoming
raIer, while gray optics are multiplying.
We had just settled down on blue
eyed girl. But it was ever thus.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
Hoods SarsaparilIa

Every spring for years l have made it
practice to take from three to five bottles of
Hoods Sarsaparilla, because I know it puri-
fes the blood and thoroughly cleanses the
system of all impurities" w. II. LAWRENCE,
EDITOR Agricultural Epitomist Indianapolis,
Ind
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

bill will likely come heavy by and by,
If the District is compelled to shoulder
the various enterprises which the Gov.
eminent may locate ot this point. Asa
fact the Zoo has no more to do with the
city OF Washington than the Smith
sonian Institution or the National Mu-
scum
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25
COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS.

~ s. BUNDY, CoM'R OF DEEDS FOR ALL
~. States and Territories, AS La. ave-, opp.
City Hall.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

WHITE GOODS.
We have just received the
following extraordinary fine
values in White Goods:
100 pieces Sheer quality India Linon, only
l2,c per yard.
Apronette Lawns with lace-work borders,
DO inches wide, only l2ic per yard.
Imported Swiss Lawn, 4s inches wide, only
25c per yard.
Imported Hemstitched French Lawn, AZ, As
and 46 inches wide, 35, 40 and SOC per yard.
Fine Sheer French Linen Figured Lawns, in
attractive and exquisite designs and color
ings, only 40c per yard.
Second floor.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

TIE CURRENT number of HdrperS
Weekly may very properly be styled a
Stanley number While the usual in
teresting matter is furnished, the main
interest will attach to Stanley's meeting
with Emin Bey and its consequences.
The Washington critic., 1890-04-25

Why CITIZENS OF the District should
be required to pay taxes in support Of
an institution which they have had no
hand in formulating is question which
passeth understanding. Yet this is
what they are required to do in the es-
tablishment of the Zoo. There is no
more reason why the citizens of the
District should be required to maintain
this establishment than the citizens of
Iowa or Of the remotest States. The