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Evening star., 1896-07-27
POTOMAC RIVER BOATS.
STEAMERS
WAr EFIELD AND I. V. ARROWSMTTH
FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS.

FOR POIpMAC XIV ELK LANDINGS.
STEAMER WAKEFIELD LEAVES WASHING
TON, DC, MoElays and Saturdays. : AIN, for
Intermediate lsndings To Colonial Beach, BusIwGod
Rock Point, ColtCns and NolTi,i creek; returning
arrives at Washington TueSda!s and Sundays
about 4 pm. Wednesdays, Z a.ln., for inferno
date landings Colonial Beach. Eushwo0d Rock
Point Coltons, Stones. uowaId's and Columns
Nomni creek; returning, arrives at Washington
about ii pm. Thursdays.
STEAMER 4. V. AltRoWSAiITI. Mondays and
Wednesdays, pm. for Colonial Eogch. cclt9n's
AbelIs, Leonardtown, Noialn creek. Pinoy roin;
St Georges Island. Smith creek, Coan and leo-
cumirco rivers; returning. arrives az Washing ton
eary Wednesday and Friday mornings
Saturdays, pm. for Riverside. Colonial Beach.
Coton's Pney Point. st. Georges Island. Smith 5
riyes at Washington Sundays about 10 pm.
See schetLle lin effect June ~ 1880
iyT-tf c. W. RIDLEY. General Manager.
SUMNER SCHEDULE.
Steamer Potomac will leave 7tE st. wharf every
SUNDAY, at 4 pm, for Baltimore aud River
Landings. Steamer Sue leaves every SATI RDAI
at : pm, for Lower River Landings. and MON
DAYS, at pm, for Baltimore aHii River Land
On Baltimore freight. STEPHENSON & EEO
Agents, 80 Ia. ave. Telephone AS. t1-tf
E. s. RANDALL. POTOMAC RIVER IINE-
Steamer Harry Raai;:l leaves River View Wharf
1th street. Sunday. 1ucsiay airi Thursday. at 4
an, landing at all wrarvss far Io.va ms Mad
dox creek, Va. including Chapel Point and ColCliai
Beach. returning Mondays about pm: We'd
NJ sdays and Fridays about 80 pm. Passenger ac-
comnodation frst-cass. Freight resolved until
hour of sailing. Telephone l1..S
F. A. REED & CO, L. S. RANDALL
Agents. Alexandria. Prophet ard Manager
GEO. o. CARplSrEE. tirn. As;
jn30 Washington. D. G.
Evening star., 1896-07-27
IN THE MOUNTAINS.

AURORA HOUSE.
Now open: Finest Health and Pleasure Resort
lent table. large lawns; low rates. No fogs. No
mosquitoes. Booklets at Star Office. Bring heavy
wraps j. H. SHAFFER Prom
jeS-1m Aurora " Va
Evening star., 1896-07-27
SUBURBAN PROPERTY.

FOR tENT-CHEAP- YEAR OR SUMMER
te1-rvom frame and BATH rooms heated; hot and
cold wlter. stable; rCcn5Sary ortbudinEs; large
lawn. THOMAS l. FULKS. Gaithersburg, Nd.
jv2I3fs
Evening star., 1896-07-27

COOLER. PIEASANTER AND MORE nEALTHFUI.
than the city is Beautiful Cleveland Park -
Pay IL a visit.
jy24 Office 6lO 14th ST
The record-union., 1896-08-30

profit, says the Kansas City star"
The writing of a song is a work of
mystery to the average person. The
most expensive music is engraved on
metal plates and etched in stone The
song that sells briskly because its tune
is simply pretty and its sentiment not
SO deep. and is therefore popular and
evanescent, is usually cheap and print
ed in large quantities from music-type
plates on an ordinary printing press
Music type was invented not long
after letter-press type, but did not for
many years advance with the latter. en-
craving being more perfect, and there
fore more popular. The setting of music
type is very difficult matter and ex-
perts are scarce.
The composer of a song or instru-
mental piece, however meritorious, usu-
ally has as difficult time placing it
on a profitable basis as a budding
dramatist his play. but with this added
disadavantage-he must publish it him.
self. The profits from a popular song,
however, are SO great that it pays well.
and the cost of publishing it compara-
| lively small. 1t costs about So 80 to
set in type and electrotype a page
of music, and a song or instrumental
piece can be turned out complete. cover
and all, ready for the dealer. in about
five days. For S3 30 a page the owner
acquires the plates from which to make
| future prints.
A case of music type consists of about
3S5 characters, half of which are inter-
changeable and work both ways. A case
| of newspaper type consists of 120 char
acters. The setting of music is most
exact and difficult; it is like the making
of a mosaic, and it so complicated that
| few printers care to undertake it. In
setting a single stave of music several
hundred pieces of type are used and
| from six to ten in one note.
| Another system of making sheet music
| is by what is known as punched plates.
The notes are punched into a metal
plate with dies and the plate printed on
a flat press. The plate is linked and
wiped after the manner of an etched
copper plate. This plan is much slower
than the type plates and can only be
profitably used when 100 or 200 sheets
are to be printed therefrom. From
electrotype plates any number of copies
may be printed.
1t is astonishing the number of pieces
of music printed for limited and private
circulation. Musical amateurs have l0U
or more copies of their compositions
printed to be distributed to their friends
with no idea of profit. Pieces of music
| that can never hope to have any eX-
tended circulation are printed by the
cord. perhaps 800 copies of each is the
limit. In the Eastern cities are large
shcet-musie publishing houses, which
print from type plates pieces on which
the copyrights have expired They turn
pieces out by the million, which eventu-
ally find their way out West, where they
are sold for few cents each. These
sheet-music mills also make plates for
composers, amateur and professional.
It would be difficult to estimate the
amount of sheet music published every
year which is never sold and perhaps
never heard of. but it would fill oceans
The record-union., 1896-08-30
WHY SHE WEPT.

Mary was a naughty girl,
And fond of currant JAM
Wherewith whene'er she got chance
She greedily would cram.
Her mother lost the key one day
Which locks the storeroom door,
And Mary found it where it lay
Upon the kitchen floor.
She grasped the key in guilty haste
And to the storeroom ran,
Unlocked the door, climbed on chalr,
And then the fun began.
Now currant jam and little girls
DO not always agree;
Such was the case with Mary,
AS we presently shall see
Her mother found her stretched at length
And weeping on the floor
No need there was to ask the cause,
There stood the open door.
In accents stern the mother spake;
My child, tbs sad L am
To see confession on your lace
Outlined in currant jam
ITS not because of pain l weep
Cried Mary from the floor
ut is because I'm full of jam
And can't eat any more. vanity.
The record-union., 1896-08-30
LESSON IN BUSINESS.
The Basis on Which the Selling
Price is Arrived At.

"Noy. nv SON." said the old mer-
chant. according to the Kansas City
Packer" while you are applying
Yourself to the details of this business,
learning how TO buy and how to sell,
how to gauge the tastes and needs OF
the great public, how to avoid mistakes,
how to seize opportunities-while you
study these things, keep always before
Won the fact that the basis of all true
business success is absolute, uncompro-
missing honesty.
s'Father," said the young man, your
business has always been one of large
sales and small profits, has it not?'
you know what I advertise, my son;
T huv everything direct from the man
ufacturer, and l sell to the consumer
at exactly ~ per cent. advance from
cost. Such a business 1 believe to be as
beneficial to the public as any philan-
thropic institution. The people should
purchase the necessities of life at a
margin above first cost sufficient to
nav for the actual handling of the
goods. That is a fixed principle of
mine."
But" said the boy, in a puzzled,
hesitating way, you had an invoices of
lace curtains to-day at SO pair, and l
heard you give instructions to mark
them 81 60"
The old man leaned back in his leath-
er-cushioned swivel chair, smiled bland
Iv and told the boy to take pencil and
paper.
"The expenses of this business last
wear" he said, were l per cent. of the
sales. Add 10 per cent. to your So
Three thirty"
"There is always possible shrinkage
in value of stock, always a percentage
of bad debts, always a hazard of un-
foreseen contingencies. Add 10 per
cent. more
''Three sixty three"
.'Do you know how much it costs your
father to maintain himself and family
Have you any idea of the expense of
educating and dressing three boys and
three girls, paying their way in society,
providing them and their mother with
a country home and a city home. with
servants and carriages and everything
they desire?'
Il am afraid I have no idea, father. .
''Well, it is simply frightful. 1t is, in
fact, 20 per cent. of the entire sales OF
the mouse. AuO ~ per cent. Never
mind fractions.
-Four thirty-five."
There. You have arrived by pro-
cess as clear and open as day. and by
the use of simple business rules, at the
cost of those curtains billed at So. Now
add ~ per cent. profit
-Four sixty-nine"
That's what I'm going to advertise
them at; and you will see a great run
on them tomorrow, for the public has
learned that all my announcements are
absolutely reliable"
The record-union., 1896-08-30

'These repeated several times. hop
ing they might reach the ear of some
operator on the line. l then slowly and
distinctly wrote these words; still sob
bing violently:
" w WhO-hears-thiS = for - heavens s
sake-report-to = train = dispatcher
at - Laramie uick-that-I-am
in = he-hands-of-seven - robbers
-who-will - compel-me = to flag
-No-4-Send-hel
Then | signed name and office call
L released the armature, and the in
strument clicked out:
" Brace up-little-girl = = hear
you'll
III was the train dispatcher's call.
With fierce shout, the leader sprang
forward and rudely snatched me away
from the table and asked:
Gal, what's that?'
"'Only a distant office asking for a
freight train" l responded.
None o. yer lyin' you little imp,' he
roared. Yer up to some trick!'
No l replied, i am not If ] were
doing that my fingers would be on the
instrument. Don't you see l am not
touching it, and yet it works. 1t is only
an ofuer 10 Irelgnt tram away down
at Medicine Bow.
Keep away from that table, he said
savagely. An if / catch you at any
tricks I'll choke the life out of your
"Oh how eagerly my ears drank in
every word the instrument clicked out!
| heard a telegram to the Sheriff of
Green River, twenty miles west, asking
| him to arm posse of men at once and
get on board special train which
would be ready for him. Then another
to the young superintendent, who was
at Green River, telling how my slowly
written words had been heard by the
dispatcher, and asking him to super
wise the preparations to fly TO my relief
| Then a third dispatch to the Master
Mechanic. instructing him to fire up his
| fastest passenger engine and couple on
| to carriage and await the Superintend-
ent's orders. My heart beat SO violently
| that it almost took my breath away. 1t
| seemed an age ere I heard the Green
| River operator call the dispatcher and
say:
The Superintendent with Sheriff
The record-union., 1896-08-30
BUYING a COUNTRY.
Seward Lost the Cigars, But Won
Alaska.

Edward D. Sawyer writing in the
Overland Monthly" tells this story of
the Alaska purchase as related to him
by Mr.. Seward:
l was on terms of intimacy and friend
friendship with Mr.. Stoeckl, the Rus
sian Minister at Washington, while
was Secretary of State. One day he
came to my office with a bundle of dis
patches, and as he came in he said:
Seward, the Yankees are raising the
devil on the Northwest Coast; what
shall we do with them? I have just re-
ceived these dispatches from our Gov
ernor Maxitoff, and they inform me
your people are interfering with their
furs and fisheries"
1 replied in a half-joking way, Sell
US the country"
He asked What will you give for
fit?"
T said, "S5, 600, 600"
He replied that he did not think his
master Ohe CzaD would accept less
than S10,00O,000.
l said my Government would not as
sent to the payment of so large a sum
for what it considered a barren waste.
Stoeckl finally said, Il will split the
difference, and I will recommend to my
master a sale for $7,500000"
l said, You throw off 100000 and it
is trade
Mr.. Stoeckl wanted to know what
would be done with the Russians in
Alaska
I replied, "You must take care of
them
He, after a moments reflection, said,
You give us 100000 to pay for the
franchises and property of the Russian
Fur Company and we will satisfy
them"
To this / asSented.
He put up his dispatches and I said
to him, "Stoeckl, / will bet you a box
of cigars that the Gar will not sell
Alaska
Il will take that bet" replied the Min
lister, but. Seward, if | win the bet,
you shall go down to the street, pur-
chase the cigars, and personally bring
them to my house"
'All right; you can have the cigars
if the offer is accepted"
I thought very little of the matter un-
til one evening in March. 1861. While
I was engaged in the pastime of a game
of whist, the Russian Minister was an
nounced, and upon my receiving him,
he drew from his pocket a cable dis
patch from st. Petersburg, and as he
did so he said, Governor, Alaska is
yours Get ready that box of cigars y
l replied that he would surely have
the cigars, but he must wait for them
until the next day. and in the mean
time we would draft treaty for the
purchase of Alaska | Immediately went
with Minister Stoeckl to the Depart
ment of State, with such few clerks as
could find, and by early morning the
treaty was drafted, signed and ready
to be sent by the President to the SEN
ate We told him that Alaska was rich
in minerals, furs, fish and timber, and
it's acquisition was of great import
ance to the United States, and espe-
cially to the Pacific Coast; that the
time was not far distant when the year
ly exports from Alaska would equal the
whole purchase price.
The record-union., 1896-08-30
THOMAS o'BRIEN.

DIR. 7 n. NEAGLE-DEAR SIR:
take pleasure in making this statement.
which you are at liberty 10 puDhSh or 70
make such other use of as you deem ut,
for the benefit of those who may be IN need
of medical treatment.
For the last five years nave llVed IN
Sacramento County and up to about one
year ago l enjoyed good health. ~ iat euds
time l contracted very severe cplui Wltn M
malarial fever. This ended in pau case
OF catarrh and bronchitis. My head was
at first principally affected. Ihere "Sie
severe pains across my foreheSu t,iqs ~
eyes, often causing me pain IN the ey epol's
My eyes would become weak and watery
MY nostrlls would at times dlschdls lsS
Watery matter, and at other SiI.leS lp,,,,5i,,
come cloSged up, so that l could scdtc,tty
breathe through them. Constant rlhslp3
ana roaring noises in my ears ulstresisSot
ana M ANNOYED me and made me .ed nedi The
my nearing was becoming impaired. ,e nc
mucous from my head would drop pdSh
into my throat and keep me constantly
hawking and gaggtnr and raising.
Gradually the catarln, winch hrsl an
fected simply my head and throat. eN-
tended until my whole system was ,+ uhuet+
mined. 1t was Catarrh of the Head, lhtodt
and stomach. believe they called II, i nui
my lungs and heart seemed 10 be lnYolNeu
also: Sharp, shooting pains would take axe
me in the chest, running through 10 ene
shoulder blades. My heart would bea5
hard and fast, and this would be folloWeu
by by a slow IRE regular beating and sensa
ton of faintnesS or dizziness. The leaSt
eXeruon would put me all out oil pfeath
had difficulty in getting air enough INTO
my lungs. My breathing was IdDoleu. -
seemed as If l We're drawing the ar
through a sponge. and there would be q
wheeling, whistling kind of sound with my
breathing.
Il had little appetite. my stomach was
weak, and what food ] managed to eat
would lay like lead upon it. There would
be a feeling of distress and nausea after
eating. My sleep was fitful and broken.
In fact was a broken-down man when
sometime ago 1 went to the Neagle Medi-
cal Institute. l had tried many doctors
and all sorts of patent medicines without
getting relief. / could hardly walk. | was
so weak and sick. Well, you can see for
yourself what DIR. Neagle and associates
have done for me. They have restored my
health. / eat well, sleep well, feel we'll
am q new mana strong, healthy ana
happy man. That is what these physi-
clans have done for me. Ii any one doubts
the truth of my wonderful recovery under
upon me or write to me and see for them
selves. | live nine miles from sacramento
at the town of Freeport-
"THOMAS OBRIEN."
DIR. NEAGLE is regular physician,
having attended the Jefferson Medical Cot
lege at Philadelphia, and the Louisville
Medical College at Louisville Kentucky
and graduated with honors. He also has
numerous diplomas and certificates for
special courses, and has been licensed to
practice medicine and surgery by the State
Boards of Illinois, Missouri, Colorado and
California.
NEAGLE MEDICAL INSTITUTE OF
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. located
permanently al 72412 X street, Sacramento.
The record-union., 1896-08-30
PAUL DUNBAR'S BOOK.
Sample of the New Authors Dialect
Poetry.

Paul Dunbar's late book, entitled
Majors and Minors" is creating no lit
tie stir in literary circles. w. u. How
ellis, in "Harpers Weekly" has quite
lengthy article on Dunbar's powers as
a dialect poet, and quotes from his work
a part of two of his selections, which we
take pleasure in clipping:
WHEN DE CON PONIES HOT.
"Dey is times in life when nature
Seems to slip a cog an go
Jes d rattlin' down creation,
LAX an oceans overflow:
When the wOrl Jes stahts a spin'n
LAX a pickaninny's top,
An yo' cup O joy is brimmin'
Twell ii seems about to slop.
An you feel jes LAX a raceh
Dat is trainin' fur to trot-
When yo nanny SeS de bleSSin'
An de con pones hot.
Il have heerd O. lots o. sermons.
An I've heerd o lots O prayers,
An I've listened to some Singln
Dat has TUX me up the stairs
OF dc glory Ian an set me
JeS' below de Mahster'S tn one,
An hive lef' my hawt a-singin'
In a happy, aftah tone
But dem W 'ds so sweetly mur'erd
Seems to tech de softest spot
When my nanny ses de blessin'
An de con pones hot
Several of the pieces are pure senti-
ment like The Deserted Plantation, ,
but these without lapsing into sentimen-
tality recall the too easy pathos of the
pseudo negro poetry of the minstrel
show. There is no such suggestion in
When de Con Pones Hot" nor in the
following poem:
WHEN MALINDY SINGS.
Amt you nevah heer'd Malindy?
cd a K II n Il
Look heah, amt you joNin honey?
Well, yo' don't know what yo loss;
Yo' ought to head dat gal a-wabblin',
Robins, lahks, an all dem things
Heish dey mouts an hides dey facs
When Malindy sings.
She jes' spreads her mouf an hollahs,
Come TO Jesus, twell you heah
Snnahs' trembln' steps an voices,
Timid like a-drawin' neah:
De she turns to Rock O. Ages
Simply to de cross she clings,
An yo' find YOU teahs a drappin'
When Malindy sings"
The record-union., 1896-08-30
PRINTING SHEET MUSIC.
Six Pieces of Metal to a Note, Hun
dredS to a Staye.

'In the Shadow of the Fines" a song
composed. written. printed and first
sung in Kansas City, has broken the
record on sales for the first six months.
About 10000 copies have been sold dur
ing that time. Tat wonderful produc-
ton, After the Ball. which swiftly
made the fortune of it's composer. c. X
Harris, did not begin to sell until it
was a year old, and then only after
much hard work. 1t takes about a year
to populariZe a song, and in that time
it must have been played by bands,
sung upon the stage and whistled in
the streets, after which, if it strikes the
popular chord strongly enough, its sale
is sufficiently large to pay a handsome
The record-union., 1896-08-30
UNTERRIFIED.

Country's goin' all ter smash
Leastways, so they say;
Gittin' ready fur ter dash
Down a rocky way.
Tell me fur ter git prepared,
Times are trouble fraught:
Yet somehow / can't get scared
EZ they say | ought.
Rain keeps fallin' ez of old;
Corn is tipped with silk:
Clover's standin' big an bold:
Cows are givin' milk.
So, with natures lavishness,
And an appetite,
/ can't help but sorter guess
Thingsu come out right.
Washington Stal
The record-union., 1896-08-30
A Sad Case.

Visitor to the Asylum-This seems to
be a particularly sad case. How came
he here?
Superintendent-He tried to grasp the
financial question.-Washingt Times.
The record-union., 1896-08-30

What is needed" says the New
York observer Pres.), lis peptonized
preaching The ferment pepsin which
the natural stomach supplies is nova
days simulated in foodstuffs in which
the peptones are artificially produced.
In simpler English, kind of predigest-
The record-union., 1896-08-30

Next week I will ask you to follow
me further. I will tell you of your
power and your opportunities. Then
will follow some thoughts regarding the
great ones who have preceded us And
finally, if this pen may be dipped in
might and in eloquence the last article
will attempt to describe the power of
noble woman in energizing us for good.
Thus possibly the new design on our
silver certificate may come to mean
more to us than handsome engraving
with just so much purchasing power
back of it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-21
All Smoke But No Fire.

The alarm frorn box 81, located at the
corner of Chestnut and Cumberland
streets at 4. 80 Saturday afternoon. called
the department. to what seemed to be n
fire in house 30 Stone street. 1t appears
that the house was not occupied and that
repairs were being made on it.
Plasterers were at work in the upper
mart of the house and had just started
q fire to dry GU t the roains. The chin
new did not draw we'll and the room WA
soon filled with smoke. A man named
Ingrahan was passing along on the OPP
posi- to side of the street. and seeing the
smoke issuing from the windows, con-
Guided that the house must be on fire.
Mr.. Ingraham tried to attract the atten-
ton of the plastsrers, but they failed to
hear. and not receiving any response Mr..
Ingraha,n concluded that no one was
| within, and that the house was on fire,
an he FASTENED to ring the alarm.
Upons the arrival of the department,
Chief Eldredge found that there was no
| fire. and that the house was all safe from
any danger that might arise from the
stove or defective chimney, and accord
| insly ordered the department. to return to
their respective houses.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-12-21
ARRIVAL OF THE MANiToBAN.
A Hard Trip But Only Little Damage
Sustained.

The steamship Manitoban, Captain
Eastaway, arrived at this port yesterday
afternoon from Glasgow. The MaEitoban
left Glasgow Decem Der 4th and had q
rough passage. She encountered wester-
II gales until she reached the "forties. "
Another gale was experienced ON Decem'
Der 9th, accompanied by heavy snow,
and small gale ON Saturday night last
when the ship was off the Cape. In the
gale of the 9th inst. the waves struck tbs
Ship with such force that one hoat wal
damaged but this was all the injury re-
eeived during the trip, and no one or
board was hurt. The Manitoban brought
five oattlemen as passengers, about five
hundred tons of coal and three hundred
tons of miscellaneous cargo. She was
pretty well iced up, and her decks hae
q heavy crust Of half melted ice ano
snow.
The ManitOban used to be one of tht
crack ships Of the Allan line. She is +
sister ship to the celebrated prfvateel
Alabama sunk by the Kearsar2e in the
famous naval battle.