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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16

enjoy its traditions, relics and history
with keener relish than those who
have not knocked at the door for
light into the precepts and teachings
OF this institution "more honorable
than the star and the garter or any
other that every earthly potentate
can bestow." There is still, however,
an interest shown by the uninitiated,
too, in passing through the lodge
room. There are to be seen paint
ings OF Washington and his Masonic
compeers and numbers of profles Of
his contemporaries, with relics OF
Lafayette, Shakespeare and other his
torical personages.
Washington, while Master OF this
Lodge, laid the corner stone OF the
Capitol Building in Washington.
The corner stones of q number of
other buildings in this section were
laid by Masters of this lodge. When
Lafayette was in Alexandria in 1924
he was entertained by his brethren
of Washington Lodge in Clagett's
tavern.
This lodge attended the funeral
obsequies of its illustrious name
sake who was buried with Masonic
hono4s, Dr. Elisha Dick then being
Worshipful Master. During the
hundred or more years of its exist
ence thousands have been entered,
passed and raised in Washington
Lodge and many of the most promi-
nent men in the history of Alexan
dria have been and are now among
its members.
The membership is large and the
present officers are expert Master
Masons and give much of their time
to the study of the teachings of the
venerable institution.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16
THE WASHINGTON LODGE OF MA,
SONS

Strangers who visit Alexandria
and leave the city without having
visited Washington Lodge room can
only be classed with those who would
go to Egypt and not see the Great
Pyramid or Spynx. The tiler, Mr..
James Grigg, who has been Mason
for half century and Knight
Templar since 1916 keeps the i'm
plement of his office in its scabbaord
during the day and is courteous and
interesting to visitors, numbers of
whom go into this historic lodge
room every week. The Masonic
Temple in Alexandria is one of the
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16
BOAT CLUB.

Old Dominion Boat Club has been
an institution in this city for some
years. The Club is composed of rep
resentative young men of the city
who devote considerable time to then
favorite enjoyment. In the past yea
they have completely rebuilt then
house on the river front between
Prince and Duke streets. and have OF
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16
THE MUSICAL ASSOCIATION.

This organization is one of the
most prosperous in the city. 1t has
a large membership, and the music
rendered by them is on high order.
During the cool months the organ
cation gives complimentary rehe@.
sails. and on such occasions their hal
is always packed to OVERLOOKING. The
Association meets in Sarepta Hall
The officers are: John Aitcheson
President; Fred. Paff, Vice Pres
dent; William Allen, Secretary, and
VIM. Miller, Treasurer.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16

As is well known the mansion ..
Mount Vernon was built by Lawrerc q.
Washington, an elder brother -
Georges, who settled there in l74%
He named the estate in honor Of 81
miral Vernon, under whom he Ts3
served in the West Indies. Gepersi
Washington enlarged and greatT
embellished the estate. In IS5s
John A. Washington sold the estat.
for 100000 to the Ladies Nom,
Vernon Association, who still have !,
in charge. For years regular com
munication between Mount Vernon
and Alexandria has been kept up by
steamer Thirty years ago. howrya,
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16

SHOWING COAL wHARyEs AND ELEVATORS
Georgetown and Anacostia, through
a large portion of Virginia and Mary
land, and in neighboring states.
Owing to the many natural advan-
tages of Alexandria, and the fact
that the firm purchases direct from
the manufacturers, they can, in many
instances, undersell jobbers in Balti
more and other northern cities.
They are also importers Of fancy
articles bought by the drug trade,
such as hair, tooth, nail, and shaving
brushes, &c, which are manufactured
expressly for them.
They send from 35 to 40 lots of
goods per day to Washington.
Special representatives give their
entire attention to making calls
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16
SOCIAL AND SECRET.
ABOUT FIFTY SECRET AND SOCIAL S0CIE-
TIES IN ALEXANDRIA.
The Washington Lodge of MasOns-7he Boat
Cub-The Musical Association, and Almost
All Secret Orders.

There are about fifty societies, Sc
cret and otherwise, in Alexandria, and
they are all in hourishing condition.
The colored people have equally as
many more, and those, too, are in a
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16

late been having dances once week
The present officers of the clnl
are: President, Albert Bryan Vice
President, Douglass Stuart Secre
tary, j. F. Peyton Treasurer, II. i
Burke; Captain, L. E. Uhler: First
Lieutenant, Ashby Miller; Second
Lieutenant, c. w. Ashby.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16

Have you money to loan on first
class real estate security! If so. let
WHEAT & SUTER, 1905 Penn. Ave. y
W.. know it.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16
HOME OF WASHINGT ON.
MT. VERNON AS IT WAS AND AS IT IS
TO-DAY.
The Beautiful Estate is Now Controlled by a
Board OF Regents, Representing Nearly
every State in the Union.

The contiguity of Mount Vernon
to Alexandria would render descrip-
ton of the latter, its history and ira
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16

List your property for sale with
WHEAT & SUTER, Real Estate Brokers,
1905 Pennsylvania Ave NV, Wash
inpton, d. G..
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16
thirty minutes

Investors in real estate should cal.
and see WHEAT & SUTER, 1905 Penn
Ave, n w, before making invest
ments.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16

Careful attention given to collect
ing rents for non-residents. WHEAT
& SUTER, 1905 Penn. Ave, n. W.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16
THE ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE
BRIEF HISTORY OF ONE OF THE OLDEST
NEWSPAPERS.
Burning of the Building and Contents During
the Civil War for Crittcising the Conduct of
Soldiers in Arresting the Clergy

The present GAZETTE building was
erected in the year 1865 on the site
of the old structure which was de-
stroved by an incendiary fire three
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16

A lynching at a county fair is the
latest thing in Kentucky ideas.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16

apon their customers'in Washington,
who now number upwards of 125
of the leading druggists OF that
city.
Their employees number on an
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-09-16

persons as momentoes, and snuff
taking being popular in those days,
most CT the fragments were made
into pocket receptacles for this article.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
Too Much.

He had trundled weghty triplets when his
wife was wrapped in slumber;
He had got up every morning and had built
the kitchen fire;
He had pounded on her carpets and had sawed
up cords of lumber,
And had stretched with endless patience
several miles of stiff clothes wire.
He had sworn off on his smoking just to help
her on her missions.
| And had matched whole coils of ribbons
with no thought of the disgrace:
He had eaten several samples at her cooking
exhibitions,
With moaning in his stomach and a smile
upon his face.
He had borne the shirts she made him, and his
courage ne'er forsook him;
He had stood the socks she darned him,
though the agony was keen;
He had worn her colored neckties, though his
dearest friends all shook him,
And the clothes that she selected he dis
played with humble mien.
But when one night she showed him some pa
tamas she had made him,
And informed him she expected that in them
he would abide;
He qua led before this torture and the thought
of it dismayed him,
And he gave one look remorseful, and he lay
right down and died.
-ClOthier and 'urnishor.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
Prefers City Life.

"This ideal country life the poets
and the fiction builders prate about is
a humbug," said w. c. Moore, to a
crat. "One would suppose by reading
those beautiful idyls that life in the
country was one never-ending round
of ecstatic bliss; but it isn't.
81 filed up with that class of litera-
ture and longed for country life. /
wanted to inhale the fragrance of new
mown hay and fall pippins-to be
awakened mornings by mocking birds
singing in the apple tree under your
window, to go out and wade around
barefoot in the dew and listen to the
soft lowing of the kline.
"The spell is broken; the charm has
lost its potency. In the summer you
are stiffied with dust and in the winter
you stick fast in the mud. Your morn
ing mocking bird is a jackass with
lungs like Stentor, and when you
attempt to paddle around in the dew
the knife grass saws your toes of.
"You are cut off from theaters and
libraries, and the village choir sets
your teeth on edge. You can't get a
fresh steak without killing a whole
cow, and the best butter is shipped
away to feed the bloated epicures Of
the city. Your morning paper reaches
you at sundown, and you sneak up g
back alley and absorb warm beer from
bottle instead of having it slid down
mahogany bar. in an iced schooner
Excuse me. have had enough of the
Arcadia business. Doubtless country
life has a charm, but failed to fine
it. The city is good enough for me.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
HUNGRY TRAMP AND HIS CHICKEN
He Catches and Cooks 1t with Mucl
Skill and Little Labor.

The tramp has an ingenious way OF
obtaining a chicken, says the n. I.
World. He must avoid all noise. The
slightest cackling on the part OF the
bird would be fatal to his dinner.
He proceeds to get stick about ten
feet long, to the end of which he binds
a cross-piece, making rude perch.
Then, stationing himself under tree
in which the chickens are roosting, he
picks out his particular bird and gently
brings his perch up in front of her.
If the fowl does not step on at once
he rubs his perch gently up and down
against her breast until she finally
steps on and promptly goes to sleep
again. The tramp shoulders the stick
and marches up the road out OF hear
ing distance of the house.
How many people, after raid on
their henroost by the tramp IN the
dead of night. stop to think how he
cooked his chicken? If they give the
matter thought at all they suppose
he will start small fire and bro1l 1t.
But he will do nothing of the kind. In
fact, it would be impossible for him to
do so without removing the feathers,
and, as. that would require a little
labor, of course it would not be at
tempted.
His kitchen utensils consist gener-
ally of a broken knife and tin cup.
With his knife he will kill and clean
the chicken in very much the same
way any housewife would, except that
he will make the opening in the breast
much smaller. His seat of operations
will be on the bank of some little
brook, where he will build fire. Then
comes the part which he thoroughly
dislikes, for he must work. He makes
a very thin paste of clay and water,
and taking a handful commences tc
rub it well over the chicken, feathers
and all.
After this is we'll worked in he takes
another handful of a little thicker
paste and rubs it over the first layer
So he continues, each layer being
about an eighth of an inch thick, unit
he has coating of two or three inche!
all over the bird, and it resembles
huge mud ball. Then he heaves {
sigh of relief, for his labor is com
pleted.
Nothing further is necessary but t.
put the mud ball" in the fire, and il
about twenty minutes it is TRANSFORMED
into savory meal. When the CHECKER
is done the clay is baked like brick
After cracking it, it peels off, carrying
with il the feathers and skin, leavin:
the chicken smoking and white, de
licious morsel.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
Saying Good Night.

There is a tender sweetness about
some of our common phrases of af-
fectionate greeting, simple and unob-
trusive as they are, which falls like
dew upon the heart says Harper'S Bd-
zar. Good night! The little one lisps
it as, gowned in white, with shining
face and hands, and prayers said, she
toddles off to bed. Sisters and broth
ers exchange the wish; parents and
children; friends and friends. Fa-
miliar use has robbed it of its signifi-
canoe to some of US; we repeat it
automatically without much thought.
But consider We are, as voyagers,
putting off from time to time upon an
unexplored sea. Our barques of life
set sail and go upward into the dark
ness; and we asleep upon our pill
lows, take no such care as we do
when awake and journeying by day
light. OF the perils of the night,
whatever they may be, we take no
| heed. An unsleeping vigilance watch
es over US, but it is the vigilance OF
one stronger and wiser than we, who
is the Eternal Good. Good and God
spring from the same root, are the
same in meaning. "Good-by" is only
"God be with you" "Good night" is
really Goodnight" or "God guard the
night"
It would be churlish household in
which these gentle forms of speech
were ignored or did not exist. Alike
the happy and the sorrowful, day by
day, may say "Good night"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
TOWN OF WoLIN-MAKERs.
Mittenwald, In Bavaria, the Home oi
Matthias Klotz and His Assistants.

Mittenwald, with its curious, fres-
coed houses, is picturesquely situated
on the Isar river, in Bavaria, and is
overlooked by the Kurwandel and
Wetterstein mountains. 1t is reached
by train to Murnau, and thence by
sledge or the post omnibus, says the
n. Y. Journal.
In past ages it was a halting place
for the Romans on their way to the
Danube, and in the middle ages it
played not un1mportant part as
halfway station on the commercial
highway between Augsburg and Bo-
zen. The place hourished for about
two centuries, and then prosperity
threatened to forsake the old-fashioned
town.
It was rescused by native, Mat
thias Klotz, who in his boyhood was
apprentieed to Nicolo Amati, the cele-
brated Cremona violin maker. Young
Klotz seems to have had such aptitude
or his craft, and in consequence to
have aroused such jealousy in the
hearts of his fellow-apprentices, that
his life became intolerable.
After eight years he quilted Gre
mona, and during the next two years
wandered about from place to place,
still making it his business to perfect
| himself in his craft.
When he returned to MiItenwald. at
the age of nineteen, it was to found a
school for violin-making. His first
care, however, was to enter the church
| and ask Gods blessing on his enter
prise, in witness whereof he carved
his name on the side of the altar-stone:
Matthias Klotz, Gelgen-Macher, i'm
20, Jahr, 1884,"
In the making of yiolins much de-
pends on the wood for tone. In this
respect Mittenwald is fortunate, for in
its woods the pine and maple are not
only abundant. but the grain and
resonant qualities of the wood are ad-
mirably adapted for stringed musical
| Instruments.
Before Klotz' time Jacob Stainer OF
| Absom near Innsbruck, another emil
nent maker, used to visit the place In
| search of wood, and he did not fail to
excite the curiosity of the people when
he would knock the trees with his
hammer and then put his ear close to
| the trunk to hear the sound.
| 1t was now Klotz' turn to make
known to the inha abitants that it was
1 MS WISH GC 10 1OE Ai6b0AW cAA Wh0s
Jacob Stainer, whom they had seen or
heard of, had done for Absom, and the
people must have listened eagerly to
his story; for now on fine days one
may see everywhere in the town rows
of Yiolins, guitars, and zithers, newly
vanished hanging out to dry IN the
gardens.
The back and belly of violin are
each of two pieces generally. and are
cut so that when the two are glued to-
gether the figure of the grain in each
half shall match. Another point of in
terest is that the belly and back are
not bent, but are dug out" OF the
solid plank-a tedious operation, re-
quiring infinite care. Altogether, il
may be added, a violin usually con-
sists of seventy different pieces Gin
Guiding the bow and weighs under
pound.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
PLENTY oE TIME no SPARE.
He Had just One Minute In Which to
Take Back His Charges.

A group of club loungers were ex-
changing "reminiscences when the
youngest of the group spoke up in a
tone that promised good story, says
NGst's WeeEly
can tell you an experience l had
when l was with an engineering party
in Idaho few years ago. A prominent
man in the camp had suddenly disap-
peared, and it was generally believed
that Murphy-or Desperate Jack, as
he was familiarly known-was ac-
countable for the disappearance.
Murphy was typical westerner, was
born in the west, had roved around in
the west for years, and it goes without
saying that he was an expert at poker
and a crack shot. There were already
eleven notches upon the handle of his
revolver when 1 met him. He was
absolutely fearless and was regarded
as the terror of the camp. Notwith-
standing the suspicious that arose con-
corning the old colonel's disappear
ance, there was no positive evidence
that Murphy was the murderer, and
probably the right arm of the law
would have proved little weak any,
way in case in which Murphy was
involved.
Il was playing poker one evening in
the bar-room, and may possibly have
been affected somewhat by my half
dozen drinks. l had a dead cineh, l
thought on my opponent, and the
chances were in favor of my becoming
richer by about $500, when MUIR
ply sauntered in. He lounged around
the bar for few minutes, but finding
oIc 70 sVafa 1 L
gered over to our table and watched
the game. Seeing that was about to
win, he remarked insolently to nv
companion, Don't let that tenderfoot
get the best of you. Put down that
ten."
Il fired up in the second and was
ready to knock him down.
Study, now, Billy; stiddy. he said
to me jeeringly.
@Of course lost my temper, called
him murderer and accused him OF
killing Brown, and added that every
body knew it. Eyeing me coolly, he
drew out silver-mounted derringer,
with the remark:
Young man, I'll give you just one
minute to take that back )"
Here one of the club member broke
in with the remark:
"You killed the scoundrel with his
own gun of course" in the tone of one
who had anticipated the point of the
story.
The narrator tilted back his chair
and thrust his thumbs in the armholes
of his vest.
Gentlemen" he remarked dryly, "I
had just fifty-nine seconds to spare"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
A Hard-Hearted People.

Filial piety finds no place in the Thi-
betan character. 1t is no, uncommon
thing for a son to turn his father, when
too old to work, out of doors, and leave
him to perish in the cold. The super
stition that the souls of the dead can,
if they will, haunt the living, drives
their hardened natures to gain by the
exercise of cruelty the promise of the
dying that they will not return to
earth. AS death approaches the dying
person is asked, "Will you come back
or will you not?" If he replies thai
he will they pull leather bag over
his head and smother him; if he says
he will not, he is allowed to die IN
peace.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25

By placing two iron bars at seven or
eight yards distance from each other
and putting them in communication
on one side by an insulated wire and
on the other side with telephone, it
is said that storm can be predicted
twelve hours ahead through certain
dead sound heard in the receiver.
The great organ in the old mormon
church at Salt Lake City has 2,7o4
pipes, each 80 feet long and large
enough to admit the body of a man OF
ordinary size. 1t was built in the early
days, when all freight was handled
from Missouri river points across the
plains with OK teams.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25
Vegetation on Mars.

The red glow CT the planet Mars has
puzzled every body but French as
tronomer, who gives it as his opinion
that the vegetation of that faraway
world is crimson instead of green. He
also says that he hasn't the least doubt
that there are single flowers on Mars
surface as large as the incorporated
limits of Paris.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25

Without opening a single additional
seam, there is probably enough coal in
view in New South Wales to enable
100000 tons to be put out annually
for some years to come. This amount
is more than double the present pro-
dnntinn
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-01-25

Physicians are now able to wash out
the system through the natural chan
nels of circulation by means OF inject
ed fluid, and DIR. Max Hilderband, OF
San Francisco, states that it is possible
to infuse into the veins, without dan
ger to the animal, an amount equal
to four times the normal quantity OF
blood.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-21

lutioEs in the management of the Boston
& Maine. But the other Maine men
have been retained, and their majority
is undisturbed. Mr. Tucker keeps his
old position and undoU btedly will be en-
couraged to go on building up and I'M
proving the road AS to the new men
who have come on as representing the
Boston d Maine interest, the most
favorable things may be said. Mr..
Lucius futile, who may be said to take
Mr.. Frank Jones's place, is very able
man, well known and much admired in
this portion Of New England. AS presi-
dent of the Boston q Maine his interest
In the Maine Central will be great, and
will undoubtedly be exerted to the best
interests Of the road. The other
men are not SO well known here: but
are men of high standing and large in
huence.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-21
MAGAZINE NOTICES.

In taking up sthe December number
of the New England Magazine. the first
thing which we note is that this is a
larger number of the New England than
any which has heretofore appeared.
There are a full one hundred and sixty
pages, making a number AS large as
Harper's and the Century. The Christ
mas season is recognized by the sopening
article, on Huletide in an Old English
City, the city referred to being Lincoln.
The article is beautifully illustrated,
and the frontispiece of the magazine is a
fine picture of Lincoln Cathedral printed
inscolors. The other illustrated articles
are on The Harvard University Library,
by Charles K. Bolton, dealing fully both
with the library's antiquities and it's
present condition; on prescott, the his
torian, by DR.. Samuel Eliot. who was
Prescott's personal friend, .and writes of
him with rare sympathy and understand
ing; and ON Count Rumford and His
Daughter, by Frances M. Abbott. A
portrait of John Wilkes Booth accom-
panies an article on The Assassination
of Lincoln, by Horatio King, who was
Buchanan's Postmaster General; por-
trait of the Able Voyler, an article on
that almost forgotten musician, by
Kenyon West, which will be of special in
terest OF Browning students; and fine
portraits of Carlyle and Ruskin, an ar
ticle by William Clarke on the influence
of those great thinkers on English social
thought.