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CITY MAYI6NAL Cl AttD. for it? Aovrrnmciit by omenta arr to bb tx KtTlftVtt drills, AH? ashcal officbm coMMiwtoirrit. Brig. Or.lway, of the District Rational Guard, through the acting adjutant genefal, issued lcug general order pnanlMaf regulations lor the 1 instruction and government of the National Guard. provide that field officers of regiments or battalions be by the captains and Untenants of the companies composing the and bAttalions and captains and lieutenants of the companies shall bo chosen by the enlisted men of the companies.

The staff officers of a regiment or battalion shall be appointed by the permanent commander thereof. Every person accepting on election or appointment as an oncer shall appear before an naming board, to be appointed by commanding gervSral, which board examine said officer as to military and oth'T quailBcnttons. Jf. in the opinion the board, such officer is competent, otherwise qualified, they Khali certify the to the commanding who shall thereupon recoinmeqd him to the President f'-r commission. A may be by comnj.miling general pon the sentence of a court martial, or conviction in a court of Justice of an Infamous offense.

Non-commissioned staff oncers of rsglwents and battalions sb dl be appe lated by their respective permanent Son-commlstti ofiicpn of companies shall be appointed by tutir permanent regimental or battulloa mmander, on the written recommendation of the company commander, or on his that thpy have duly sleeted by the company. or.g-.nal enlistments in the National Guard shall be ror the fern of ymrs, but any soldier who may have reeclv an honorab'e discharge by reason of tto expievioa of term of service may be re-enilsted and metered a term of cne, two, or three years, he 1:1 elect, provided such reenllstment is made wufcln thirty days rroia the expiration of his of service. After Hgnin? papers tt.e applicantinnst duly eifctcd to membersuip la the organisation he desires to join. rns otirosur The uniform of the National Guard shall be the same as prescribed and tarnished to the Army, the addition to the undress uniform of leggings, of such color and pattern as may be beraarver prescribed. Any organlaaMon of the National Guard may adopw, and provide at their own expense, any other uniform than that prescribed; but such uniforms fthall not be worn when such t-ivanliatlona are on doty under the orders of the general, except by bis permission.

Regulations are prescribed for the care of property and for courts-inarUal. DRILLS AV? INSTRtCTIOX. The system of drill and instruction and forms of parades ceremonies will be governed by the system of tactics and code of regulations for the Army. Each battalion shall drill at least once in twu months, and tiie commander of any battalion may also assemble the companies or the officers or his command for such additional drills as he may deem necessary. Each company thaU drill at least twice lu each mouth from October to April, incl usive, and once in each month from iltty to September, Inclusive, and shall also for such additional drills as may be ordered by Its commanding officer or prescribed by its regulations or An annual Inspection and muster of all organizations of the National Guard shall be made by the adjutant general in the mocfa ot May, at such times and places as the commanding general may direct.

No organization of the National Guard shall leave the District, or perform or participate In any parade or public ceremony, uniform or under arms, without the permission of the commanding general. ConMiNleaeO. An order has also been issued announcing that Ihe following officers have been commissioned by the President: FIBST BATTALIOS OF INFAXTRY. Wn. G.

Moore, to be inajcr; namliton E. Leach, to be captain and surgeon; Wm. H. Harrison, to be first lieutenant and adjutant; Geo. Breltbarth, lo be first lieutenant and quartermaster.

Company N. to be captaih; no. ft. Cowle. to be hrst lieutenant.

Company H. Koss, to be captain; Wm. Cash, to be first lieutenant. no. c.

Entwisie, to be captain: thas. H. ourand, to be first lieutenant. s. Miller, to be captain; Peter I.

Duffy, to be first SECOND BATTALION OF INFANTBT. Company Emmet Ure 11, to be captain; rrederlcic Thomason, to be first lieutenant; Danl b. Fen ton, to be second lieutenant. Company A- Kutherford, to be captain; Martin V. Brown, to be first lieutenant: Jno.

Purseil, to be second lieutenant. THIBD or HtFA.TntT. Company W. Mills, to be captain; Conrad Lndwig, to be first lieutenant; Eichard Curlain, to be second lieutenant. Company F.

Poston, to be captain; wm. Beagle, to be first lieutenant; Jno. O'Neill, to be second lieutenant. Fonrra battauox of ixfattkt. Company c.

Edwards, to be captain; Cornelius T. Daly, to be first lieutenant; B. liersey Hnnroe, to be second company Mackey, to be captain; Wrn. F. Fleul, to be nrsi lleuteaaat; Martin F.

i iannery, to be second lieutenant. Domer, to be captain; Lee B. Mosher, to be rim lieutenant; T. Arthur TomLnson, to be second lieutenant. fifth battalion or ixfaxtbt.

Chaa, B. Flsiier, to be major; Irving E. Slmms, to be first lieutenant and adjutant. Company J. Young, to be captain; Bobt Morton, to be second llentenant.

Company B-Alex. Oglesby, to be captain: Solomon H. Lomax, to be first lieutenant: Masker 1 hompson, to be second lieutenant. SIXTH OP UiFASTBT. hristlan A.

Fleetwood, to be major; Thomas rpshur, to be captain and surgeon; W. H. Judson Mai via, to be first lieutenant and Jos. covledge, to be first lieutenant and quartermaster! Company to be captain: 10 be first lieutenant; Marshall M. Custls, to be second lieutenant.

Company s. elements, to be captain: be firat Ueutenant; Frederick T. Webster, to be second lieutenant. Company LL Lee, to be captain; Thos. D.

Strothers, to be first lieutenant. Company L. Alexander, to be can. tain; Marshall, to be first ileutennnrKobert B. Covlagton, tobe second lieutenant.

SB TENTH BATTALION OF INFAMTJtT. Fred-k c. kevella, to be major; sluney A. Sumby, to be captain and surgeon; Chaa. R.

Douglass, to be first Ueuteaant and adjutant; Wm. Jolce, to be first lieutenant and quartermaster; Jna E. Purdr to be first lieutenant and chaplain. Ferry, to captain; Chas. H.

H1U, lo be first lieutenant; Jesse K. hoy. to be Second lieutenant. to be captain; il. ColLne, to be first lieutenant; Chas.

H. Watson, to be second lieutenant. Company H. Campbell, to be captainWalter to be first lieutenant; Lewis h' Daviis, to be second lieutenant. Company s.

Cary, to be be first ileutemuit; John F. Dade to be second lieutenant. I'ntu elections for majors are ordered the fourth battalions will be commanocd respectively by their senior captains. ORGANIZING NSW COMFAN1K8. The National Cadets received last evening several applications for membership.

The company is officered by Cr nt. H. H. Burroughs and Lleuts. Geo.

W. Campbell and Horace B. Durant. Gen. or.lw iy yotertay authorized Cap-.

Donald MccaUuaii lo organize a in LnlonUiwn BOOKS or THE WEEK. ROMANTIC LOVE AN1? PERSONAL Dwjj mept. Caaoal Hi.toriciud BvHr-saT'J'. New xsuLiSaliAuTHE PRINCESS ROUBINE. A SStory By CfBsritLX.

author of Kspiatlou. etc. Xriimlntnl Iro'u the D. Cox. Pliinnicii X.

B. IITTEUNAHONAL BONO SERVICE. By Philip rBiLUTt HIS rSON. UiJ? Kit IT New Xvrl; ALe Co. Farewell, frlttan for Thi Evesino Stu Pat To we no mors The Iv oiacinif in thine Aa lzi of yore L'er youth knew of Thy voice hanot my aoal for At haunt th? hollow-ehelL Reiurtib'riujr all how eculdat thou That laat sad word?" Farewell BaooxAjao Oin.

Lost Cabin. July 2H. Prohibition in the Month. Prrtn the New Orleana The Mississippi Prohibit lonlats, la the convention Just held at Jackson, decided to ask the legislature to submit lo the people at the next election a constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture or sale of liquor in the state. This Is a marfced departure from the position which thev have hitherto held.

They have preferred to aiseuae and vote by counties on the question of the of liquor, as in Georgia, and they have won many signal victories in this mode or campaign. Not a rew ot the delegates to the jacksou convention, among tfea some of the leaders, like Bishop Galjoway, con-ldered this movement lor a state inexpedient, but a majority thoognt and the appeal will therefore probability to ibe kffbUluif. it hlK'Uld prohibition become an 11 will not be very long before It npreods to Louisiana. The Question was never 014,1 it hether It win cut so prominent a figure in the future uu? year contest wiu probably determine. There in nothing new under the sun says Solomop.

Nevertheless it will be admitted the dine is pretty Couritr. CARI'KVrftT (OOKf.Iil'i Manual Traiuin? inr and in (he Publfr Schools. TH7t PLANS FOP. THV COMING A TO BE feMPLOTBD AND SEVERAL tCHOOI-3 TO t.K AND WOOD WORK FOB FOR GIRL8. For twn years the WMMBSMl nieh School bns the scene ot nn extensive experiment In the war or the manual tnlangor publieschool pupils, an a bram ot the work of public education.

During be first year at- "shop," as It vros termed, cramped in lu extent and effectiveness, the camMr o' boys receiving Instruction IWng necessarily limited to about rorty. The instructor was one of the teachers of physios and was able to devote but a short spaoe ot time each week to the work ih carpentry, which formed the tint step In the experiment. Thu boys were taught the elemental theories and practice of the joiners an, and were given a short course In wood-turning. The experiment or the first year was regarded as sufficiently successful to warrant Its continuance last year under a different plan and with enlarged act ommodatlons. A graduate ot one of the leading technological Institutions or the country wap "mplored.

nni ah room up 1 io tne basement of the school for this purpose. By means of the unexpended portion of an old contingent fund commissioner Webb was enabled to 1 secure sufficient tools for the now enterprise, and the boys or the school manufactured the necessary work Instead of forty, two hundred and forty boys received Instruction one hour each week in the use of the hammer, chisel, plane and the other tools Of the carpenter's trade. Th.s, as has been said, was, to a certain extent, experimental, and the work was closely watched for practical results by the and the school trustees, by whom It was pronounced an unqualified success at the close of the past school year. corns' vtbws. A Stab reporter called on Mr.

W. W. Curtis, who IS the chairman cf t'ao committee on manual training or the board of trustees, and aaked his opinion or the work and Its results. "Well. I can say with assurance, that the work at the High School last year and tne year before has been eminently successful; so much so, indeed, that our committee has decided to recommend Its continuance and Its development.

The appropriation for this purpose at our disposal Is too small to admit ot any extensive operations, but we have thought It best to establish a row good schools, doing good service to a tew at first, instead ot spreading our money out so far that it will be too thin to do any good. We propose to enlarge the work at the High school by renting a building opposite, which Is admirably adapted to the purpose. and employing three teaclicrs. This will afford accommodations for all or the High school pupils and a niunber of tho.Mj of the second division as well. In the Jefferson and the Peabody buildings we will start manual training schools, with oue teacher lor each.

As for tne colored schools, 1 cannot say, but 1 believe that they are to provided with ample accommodations. In the Jefferson and the Peabody schools we may be forced to limit the instruction to the pupils of the higher grades, possibly the eighth, but we hope to give as much instruction to as many pupils as our lunds will permit." TO BBCOMB a FEATURE or rCBLIC INSTRUCTION. 41 believe," he continued, "that the manual training ot students Is destined to become a necessary ractor in our public Instruction. The effects produced on the pupils are both mental and physical. It is a relief to the brain when the pupil can lay aside his books for an nour and grapple with more tangible materials than Algebraic quantities and Latin verbs.

It teaches them valuable methods In carpentry, and in many ways It Is undoubtedly beneficial." "In what way do you propose to develop the work In case or Its success?" he was asked. "By giving better Instruction to more pupil3," was the response. "That Is, our methods and the extent ot the work will be gradually enlarged, so that in time, as we hope, the entire public scnool system will be provided with manual trainingschools that give thorough instruction In wood and metal At present we shall have to confine our operations within narrow limits." "What Is to be done In the way of instruction In cooking?" asked the reporter. "That Is something or which I know but little," replied Mr. Curtis.

"Superintendent Powell ha8 taken a sort ot charge of that branch ot the wort and In consequence he would be better qualified to speak than But I believe that something is to be done In this direction during the coming year. In the Peabody school It Is to establish a cooking school with one teacher. There will also be one In the building of which I have spoken, opposite the High School, with one teacher. We shall probably be able to utilize some or the Normal School graduates ror this work, as a lew or them have been receiving especial training for this purpose." TBS RESULTS. "Do yon think that practical results can be obtained in this way?" Interrogated the reporter.

"Yea, I do," was the reply. "I believe that we can teach the High school girl, or any other glrL how to cook a decent meal, and even more, and that Is something more than many of them can do now. There have al times been given In this city lectures by ulfferent parties on cooking and kindred topics, but they have aimed too high In their plans, and In consequence the cooking that has been taught by these methods has been useless to the ordinary girl, although It might suffice for such places as Welc ker's or Worm ley 's. With all of their apparatus and paraphernalia, the modern cooking school looks more like a surgeon's oitlce than a practical kitchen. What, with machines for oonlng turkeys and contrivances for doing the work without soiling the fingers, the Instruction is.

ot very little value. Now wiiat we propose Is to overcome the objections to this which the people have formed, by teaching the girls to go Into the kitchen and cook a meat with taste and economy, and particularly with economy, tor It Is essential In the most or our tamllles that each condiment be made to go as far as possible. When we have accomplished that the lllgh School girl graduate can snap her fingers at the newspapers, and, with head and hands combined, can show the world that her education is not valueless." AT THE DOG How the Unredeemed Con arc Pi off PISTOL BULLET THROUGH THE THAT DIB WITHOUT A CAGE 1ST WHICH THE DOGS ABB VEIL DRAWN IN TUB NAME OF HUMANITY. Where Hew York avenue encounters the wall surrounding the Naval Observatory at iOd street west and stops in consequence, stands a small frame building surrounded by a high fence. This is the reservoir of tagless canines, familiarly known and designated as "the pound." There are kept In durance vile the dogs whose owners have no appreciation for their points, the dogs that get away from their masters and fall prpy to the deadly net, dogs of quality, dogs of quantity, yellow dog3, black dogs and variegated dogs.

The situation Is happily selected, for the nearest neighbors, who otherwise be sadly disturbed by the unmelodious chorus that occasionally arises from the yard, are distant over a square. IN THE CAGE. In one corner of the yard under a half-shed roof, stands a large Iron cage, painted black, with three compartments. Into these am placed the captured dogs, the haul ol each Aiy being kept In separate cages. The dogs are kept for two days, during which the owners may call and redeem their animals by the payment of $2, the amount or the tax.

When the time comes lor the killing or the unredeemed dogs, which usually happens each afternoon In the a large canvas curtain Is drawn In front of the cages. This is the Invention or tne members of the Humane Society, In whose opinion the dogs would be distressed by the sight ol such a sanguinary operation as takes placc on the other slue ot the canvas. HOW THE DOGS ABE SHOT. The door of one ot the cages containing those dogs which have been caught two days previously Is and a man reaches down into the struggling depths or curdom and selects a dog. The first uuiuial or this season offered up on the altar or the nubile health was a yellow shepherd dog ol a rather good breed, but afflicted with a bad case ot distemper.

A rope was placed around his neck and he was hauled out to the lence where the rope was passed around one of the posts. The nose of the unfortunate canine was grasped bv a large colored man, who carefully, but quickly, selected a spot In the forehead, just above and between the eyes, lowered the point ot a revolver to within an Inch ot the animal's skull and pulled the trigger. The 32-callber bullet passed through the brain and emerged from the back of the neck, and the dog was dead. With a convulsive kick of all four feet at once and a wag of the tall he sank to the cobble-stoues, the blood pouring from ears, nostrils and mouth. showxd rroHT.

The second dog that was hauled from the cage sniffed suspiciously st the quivering form or his late comrade In captivity, and showed fight when the rem with the pistol tried to hold his nose, but a sudden haul ot the rope, which was held by a second attendant, brought his muzzle against the fence-post, and he submitted with bad grace to the operation. Thus the work went on, a shot ringing out every few seconds until the mass of bleeding was nearly feet high. One small canine inconsiderately moved his head at the wrong moment and, as a photographer would say, he spoiled the sitting, consequently another cartridge had to be expended before the soul of the terrier fled. When all of the condemned dogs had been despatched The Stab reporter counted the empty cartridges which the killer had placed In a box. Thirty-two were there, taking out one tor the extra vagrant terrier, that meant thirty-one dogs that had left the city of Washington for that laud from whose bourns no canine has yet returned.

six or the old catch were lert in the cages, Mr. Einstein having reason to believe that tneir owners would come after them. When a particularly valuable dog Is captured he is kept tor time, and many are sold to landers. THE BXBCCTIONXB, who performs the last rites at the pound, has occupied his sanguinary position for ten years. He stated to the reporter that he had been very lucky with the dogs, and had boen bitten but once or twice during his career.

He seldom has to n-peat a shot, as in the case of the terrier, and never does a howl or a sound of any kind arise from the bleeding animals. It Is often the case that the owners of dogs suffering from some canine malady, such as distemper, send their animals to Mr. Klnstetn to be shot, which service be willingly performs. The dead bodies of the dogs are cared for by Mr. Draney under nls garbage contract.

He removes them, with the carcasses of horses and other animals, to a point In the vicinity of Four-Mile Hun, where they are boiled and utilised to a profitable extent. REAL ESTATE JIATTEBS. Tlir Valne off Pennsylvania Attnw Property Showu ttik changes frooremr on street and the SIDE WlUlUff RESIDENCE ON MAPSACHf'ETTR mt. vernon property on Pennsylvania avenue cotnes so infrequent ly Into the mnrket that it Is difficult to form an estimate of Its Talus. Occasionally a pirvo of property Is offered for sale, as was the during the past week with the building known as Harvey restaurant, at the corner of Pennsylvania atenue and llth Btreet.

The sale was made at public auction to settle an estate, and Mr. Geo. W. llarvey became the purchaser. It 13 a two-story brick building on an Irregular piece of ground, the frontage on the Avenue being 28 feet, and the average depth being 122 feet.

The price paid was $39,000, which la about $12.30 per square foot, without considering the value of the Improvements. In June last the independent Ice Co. bought the property at the southeast corner of 12th and streotH, which Is really on the nue, at public auction, and the price paid was about Der foot, a few months ago Mr. De Atluy bought property on the South Bide of the Avenue, between 12th ana 13th streets, for which he paid per foot. The build' ing, 1105 Pennsylvania avenue, adlolnlng The star building, ww recently sold by the owner, Mr.

G. A. Wldtaker, and the price paid amounted to per square foot. Judge Cox, In June last, iNUght at public auction the building fronting on llth 6treet, just north of the Avenue, and he paid about $13 per foot. Three or four years ago the building occupied by Da'ton Strickland, on the narth side of the Avenue, between Oth and 10th streets, was sold, and tne price obtained was about $23 per foot.

The St, Marc Hotel building, as 7th street and the Avenue, was purchased last spring by the Central National Bank, and the price paid was $42 per foot. CHANGER ON STREET. The changes along street, from 15th to 5th have transformed it from a residence street into a business street, has been in progress for some yearn. During the last two or three this progress lias been very rapid, and now the buildings used for residences solely are the rare exception. There is only one house of this character on the block between 14th and 15th streets, two between 13th and 14th streets, and four between lath and 13tn streets.

All the buildings between 9th and llth streets are used lor stores or offices on the first floor at least, and the residences between Otli and 6th streets are rapidly being transformed into business places. The same change may be noted on the side streets running north and south of street, although this movement may be said to have only begun. On street, also, the residences are beginning to give way to business houses. These changes may be taken as an Indication of the increase in the population of the city and tne consequent increase in the business carried on here. ENLARGING XT.

VERNON SEMINARY. A large addition Is being erected to the building owned by Mrs. somers at tho southwest corner, of llth and streets, and occupied by the Mt. Vernon seminary, of which, as Is so well known, Somers is the principal. The new addition will be used to supply the dcdclcucy for some time felt in the accommodations for class-rooms.

It will have a frontage of 31 leet on llth street and will run back to a depth of 54 feet. The architect, Mr. Robert stead, has provided a number of suitable recitation rooms In the first and second stories, but tne third story will be devoted entirety to a chapel for the use of the semlhary. The main obiect in the Improvement has been to secure relief from the ruther cramped quarters which the increased attendance at the seminary has caused, but some attention has been paid to architectural effect, and the exterior design Is pretty and effective. The front Is of red select brick laid In red mortar.

MR. JOHN KORAN'S NEW RESIDENCE. A residence is being erected for Mr. John Moran on twenty-second street near H. The house has a frontage of 21 feet and a depth of 54 feet, and is three stories and basement in height.

The front is of tasteful design, the press-brick work being laid In black mortar, the stone trimmings of Hummeistown stone, the Right of steps at entrance being of the same material, the key-stone of front door arfch Is of the same stone, of ornata design. The bay window runs up two stories only, and is surmounted by a wrought iron balcony railing. The large, arched twin window of the front bedroom, third story, opens out. on this balcony. Above the bay, the width of same, the brick work Is brought out in a projection of 0 inches and is surmounted by a lianasoine galvanized Iron cornice and ballustrade, tills same finish extending across the front of house.

Moulded bricks ana ornamental brick panels are used with taste upon the front. The house contains ten large rooms and two bath-rooms. The principal story contains a large saloon parlor, sitting-room and diningroom, connected by slidiug parlor is also connected with the hall by means of sliding doors. The front and vestibule doors are of oak; tno upper panels of vestibule doors and transom is to be tilled In with stained glass. The cost of the house will be about $7,000.

The architect Is Mr. Chaa. A. Harkuesx, the builder Mr. Peter McCartney.

AN OLD MANSION RECONSTRUCTED. The Stott mansion, just north of Soldiers' Home Park, which during the war was occupied by Gen. Meigs as his headquarters, has been greatly enlarged and enhanced in its architecture, from designs by Mr. C. A- Harkness.

The old verandas have given place to new, front and rear, and a steep pitched roof with gables and dormer windows, together with a circular tower, with conical roof on northwest corner, extending high above the rest of the house, makes It a picturesque object, The light delicate tints used in the painting of the exterior also enhances its attractiveness. IMPROVEMENTS AT THE WESTERN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Extensive alterations and additions to the Western Presbyterian church, Rev. Theo. S.

Wynkoop, pastor, are nqw nearly completed. A new floor ha.s been laid In the basement throughout, upon concrete 12 Inches deep, composed of broken stone and brick, with a layer of cement and gravel on Upon this is laid an asphalt concrete layer, 4 Inches thick, containing the sleepers for flooring. The partition between the former library aud the class-room has beeii removed, and the room thus made larger Is to be used for a Bibleclass room, the library being removed to the large room opposite, formerly occupied by the Bible class. Two toilet or retiring rooms have also been added. The old gas drop-lights have been removed from the Sunday and Infant school rooms and bracket lights on side walla and upon the columns substituted.

The Infant school room has been much improved In its arrangement and appearance. The furnaces have been completely overhauled and repaired and arrangements made to better ventilate the Sunday-school room. All the rooms and corridors of the basement will be papered and regralned, and new carpets and curtains of light, cheerful tones furnished therefor. The work has been done by Mr. Notley Anderson, contractor, from the plans of C.

A. Harkness, architect. The building committee on the part of the church is composed of col. Amos Webster, Geo. J.

Irwin Gregg and Jas. B. Lamble. REPRESENTATIVE WILKINS' NEW HOUSE. Contracts have this week been signed for the construction of a fine residence for Representative Berlah Wllklns, of Ohio, to be situated on the north side of Massachusetts avenue, between 17th and isth streets.

The building will be erected from the designs and under the superintendence of Messrs. smlthmeyer Pelz, architects, and will be a fine example of German renaissance. The front will be treated In red brick and Hummelston brownstone, with carved ornamentation in stone and terra cotta. A bay window, starting from the basement octagon In plan, Is carried up circular irom the first-story sill to the third floor, where It terminates with a simple but effective cornice. The entrance and entrance steps are very handsome, the checks terminating In circular posts effectively carved and moulded.

The lower portion of the front is broken and so treated as to give additional emphasis to the main entrance, and also to allow a greater projection to the bay window. The interior of the house has been planned with special reference to the taste of the owner, and will be very handsomely treated. The first floor, comprising hall, parlor, library, and dining-room and butler's pantry, will be finished throughout In oak. The dining-room will be wainscotted In oak, with oak cornice and ceiling treatment, and handsome mantel, which will be part of the design. The library and parlor will be treated In special decoration.

The staircase and screen in hall will be of oak, the latter artistically carved. The rooms are very parlor 30x15 feet, the dining-room 24x10 feet, and the other rooms in proportion. In the basement is a large play-room, with kitchen, laundry, furnace-room, and offices. In the second floor there are three bed-rooms, linen closet, bath-rooms, and in the third story three bed-rooms, large store closet, bath-room, The house Is amply provided with closets and with every modern convenience, and is to be built in the most thorough manner. The total cost will be about $20,000.

THE IVY INSTITUTE NEW BUILDING. Prof. 8. W. Flynn Is erecting on the southwest corner of 8th and streets northwest, two three story brick dwellings, one will have 7 rooms, the other 9i They will have an ornamental press brick front, stone trimmings, and a very pretty octagon tower.

They will be finished throughout with the best of material. Messrs. J. M. Son are the builders.

The cost will be about The corner house will be occupied by "Ivy nstitute," the well-known educational institution of which Prof. Plynn Is the founder and principal, while the building operations are In progress prof. Flynn will continue his usual course of private Instruction In the back part of the old house. DEPARTMENT ICE WATEH. Early moraine Scenes About ernment TONS OF ICE STORED AWAY FOB THE THE CONSUMPTION OF ICE INCREASES AS THE MERCURY LABOR REQUIRED TO EBBF OFFlCtAIS AND CLERKS COOL.

If a restless conscience, or the hot weather, or some other good, valid cause should compel a person to get up early in the morning, there are several points of interest about the city which would he soothing to one in the raw oondltlon ot an occasional early riser. They are not attractive at any other time. There Is nothing there to late ifcst after the sun has gotten well up in the heavens. The attractions close up like the nlghtbioomlng species of flowers. But they are open before the bar-rooms and long before the average breakfast bell tings.

One point off Interest Is In the vicinity ot any of the Department buildings. The early riser should pass by one of the basesasot entrances. The busy streets are quiet and-deserted. The vast building itself seems to have shared In the drowsiness ot the night, and as ret there are but tew signs ot awakening. I'M Watchmen look oat ot the doors with Waiting for he arrival of the relief.

The quiet of the scene, however, presently broken by the rattle and (lash of a heavy Wagon which draws up smartly at one of the basement entrances, then men in heavy woolen shirts dismount and begin to draw out from the wagon great blocks of Ice, which go slipping along over th? pavement ward the basement door, add are drawn inside, one cake follows another until you begin to that the atmosphere has absorbed an Arctic clmiincKs. But the men keep away, and rvheh one wagon la emptied another hurries up and the unloading process goes on. You think that it is a peculiar time to lay in A SUTFLT OF ICS for the summer, and bo you follow the toy path, rather enjoying the experience alter the hot, dry night. You look into the door-way and see that when the blocks of loo oome inside they are detained for a few moments until they can be weighed, and are then slid on to the ice-bos. an immense structure, with a wide yawning mouth.

The Department officials stand at the scale to see that the weight Is all right. This soene Is repeated each day In The year, only In the Warm weather there Is more ice delivered. A contract Is made with 90me Ice man to supply all the Ice needed bf the Departments tor a year. They are paid so much per 100 pounds. This year the contract price is about 25 cents per 100.

Owing to the unusual hot weather of the past month, the consumption Of ice has largely increased. As a rule one of the large Department buildings consumes about a ton of loe each day during the spring and summer. In the winter the consumption is about one-third less. During the past month the amount of ice Osed by some of the Departments has reached nearly TWO TONS A DAT. Two tons of solid, frozen water placed In the basement of these buildings each day I It would seem that that ought to serve in itself to keep the temperature down.

Perhaps it would if it had a chance. But it doesn't. It is not long arter the Ice has been placed in the ice-box when a gang of laborers and messengers make an assault. They come armed with great loe picks, and carrying large palls. The immense pushed this way and that way.

They are split Into pieces, which vary all the way from 12 pounds to 1 pound. There is not much left of the ton or two tons of ice when the assaulting picks rest from their labors. The gang of men, with their palls filled with broken pieces ot ice, scatter through the great building. They pass through the long corridors, they enter, one after another, the rooms. In one room they find a water cooler.

In another room an Ice pitcher. Nearly every room Is supplied with some receptacle for drinking water. They are Oiled up with Ice. When the clerks reach the Department they find ice-water ready for their use. This supply usually lasts all day.

But when the weat her Is very warm It is found necessary to refill the coolers and pitchers again In the afternoon. In the interior Department, for example, during the month ot June the consumption of Ice was about 2,500 pounds per day, while during the past month It was about 3,000 pounds per day. These figures do not Include the supply furnished to the Pension Bureau or to the Geological Survey. These 3,000 pounds of ice dally supply the needs of some 1,300 persons, and their individual share is therefore a little more than two pounds per day. At the contract price paid by the Department, each employe consumes nearly HALF A CENT'S WORTH of ice cach day.

This, however, includes the consumption Of ice water by the visitors and the outsiders who may have business In the Department. The Government does not provide any other liquid refreshment for Its employes. The iced tea, lemonade or mint julips which Government officials may find necessary in order to enable them to perform their duties during the heated term must be paid for from their private means, unless the law governing the disbursement of the contingent fund Is liberally construed. There have been no known cases where, In thaexpendlture of this fund, Ulehoidcrs and lemonade have been found to be regarded as identical terms, and the money appropriated tor the former purpose has been used in the purchase of the latter. It Is not believed that this latitude In construction prevails to any extent In the Departments at present, and In consequence the officials are restricted officially to cold-water refreshments.

MCS AND WO.IKEX SHOPPERS. I Why Some men are Always Badly Dressed. WOMEN WHO THINK THXT CAN BUT CHEAPER THAN THEIR WHO BUT8 FOR HIS HE TAERS THB SALESLADY INTO HIS TALK WITH A DRTOOODB CLERJC. A young lady with manner compounded of maidenly modesty and matronly superiority, which suggested a short experience of married life, walked into a down-town gents' furnlsolng store the other day, accompanied by an elderly lady who might have been her husband's motherin-law. The old lady deposited herself upon a stool while the younger ran her hand over a pile ot flannel shirts In a manner to display her per feet familiarity with gentlemen's wearing apparel "ghat's the price?" she asked of the smiling clerk, who leaned over with his hands on the arms and body bowed with accommodating graces "Three-'n'-a-balf, mum." "Three dollars and a half lint that high for undershlrta?" The clerk explained that the garments she referred to were not undershirts, but the woolen outer shirts now so popular with gentlemen.

The lady blushed, and looked to see If any one else had observed her display of Ignorance. "Well, of course; but I guess I won't take those this time. Give me half a dozen gent's white gauze undershirts." Then, with a self-satisfied air, she ran her eye over the stock of long-legged ana divers articles of doubtful and uncertain service In a man's wardrobe. "What size? asked the clerk, as he ran his hand up the sides ot the stock of green paste-board boxes. oh, er-er-er, the usual size, of course," replied the lady.

"About hesitated the clerk, and the young matron turned imploring eyes upon her husband mother-in-law, and tried to look composed. forty-eight!" spoke up the old lady, plunging into the dilemma with a recklessness tnat established her domestic standing. "Is he a very large man?" asked the clerk, hesitating with the box halt off the shelf. "About your size." "Then I guess a thirty-two will be large enough," and the little man stood on the counter to reach the small sizes. SHOPPING FOB THEIR HUSBANDS.

"I never saw a young married woman who did not want to buy all her husband's clothes for him," said the clerk to a Star reporter, as the customer tripped out of the store with a little bundle under her arm. "And I never knew one who didn't think all men's clothing was the same size. Those shirts will be changed three times before the right fit is got. By the time she has been married ten years, though, she will know all about It. Her husband won't buy a collar tor himself, she will learn all the arts of trade.

She will have him completely measured, and will dictate the size and texture ot every garment. She will keep him supplied with clothes, and will not spend as much money as he would." "Do many women buy their husband's clothes?" asked the reporter, with a premonition of the decline of his domestic domination. "Lots of them. They begin by impressing their husbands with the idea that women can buy cheaper than men. They gradually bring about the conviction that for a man to attempt to buy anything for himself would be for him to recklessly throw himself Into the teeth of sharks.

Arter that she buys him slxty-nlne-cent shirts, that don't fit in the neck, last year's hats at halfprice, and suits that have been 'reduced from $15 He is forced to acknowledge that he never before paid so little for an outfit, and the wife's reputation and future position Is established." "Is it true that women can buy cheaper? No. They buy lower-priced goods, but no cheaper. The man whose wife buys his clothes is nearly always poorly dressed. There Is no style about him. Of course there are exceptions, but they are rare.

It you see a man got up in a Cheap John fashion, with baggy trousers, a coat that don't fit, with his collar and neckband at variance, and under-sized cuffs, you may guess that his wife dressed hlin." MEN WHO 8HOP FOB WOMEN. "It Is Just the contrary when a man has a fancy for buying his wife's clothes," the clerk went on, "Such men are rare. Most men are, or profess to be, sublimely ignorant of ladles' apparel, some, however, buy nearly every article of clothing worn by wife or daughters. Their excuse is that they have good taste and they always buy expensive goods. I have two such men in mind Just at t.hia moment; one is a man of family and buys for his wife and daughters.

He selects everything from a silk dress to ribbons and fine undergarments. He buys even the baby clothes. The other is a young man whose mother and sisters would not buy a bonnet or dress without his being present to approve. These men are exceptions. Most of those who come to buy ladies' apparel affect to know nothing of the subject, and throw themselves upon the tender mercies ot the lady clerks.

They become confidential, in their Ignorance, and we have to be very watchful to see that the young ladles don't trick them. These Ignorant gentlemen shoppers are generally those whose wives are out of town, and they take the young ladles of the stores Into their confidence and ask their advice, it generally takes them longer to buy what they want it would any ordinary customer. THB MAN WHOSE WIFE IB OUT OF TOWN. "Nearly every man whose family is out of the city becomes a buyer of female apparel in the summer time. If they never did any such shopping before, and know nothing about it, they become very assiduous when their wives are out of town.

But they never become so expert as to be Independent of the saleswomen. They generally come in with a long list of things they are to buy for their wife, wnohas sent the list by mall. They declare at once thatihey would not know any ot the articles by sight so the man and his list are placed in charge of one of the young ladles, who Is Instructed to give him the best ot everything at proper prices, and not to attempt, in any way, to take advantage ot his Innocence. There Is often a disposition among sprightly young ladles to take advantage of a gentleman left at their mercy, unprotected by nls wire, and it is necessary to give the young lady very careful It would astonish you to know how many men do ladies' shopping while their families are away for the eammsr." "I am troubled with phlegm," But It ti ntx complimentary to babies to refer to the nursery asthebawlroom. pAia JTfWt "Because Pre a cough.

Must you make me a seough? Pubave my hereafter. LIFE IN THE DISTRICT JAIL, How Paw their TtMo la the Big-'Stoue Building. A doot FLACB TO SPEND TBI MKK Alt ANB ROUTINE Of JAIL OORTtCfl KM WHO ARK DETAILED FOR WOU? devices adopted it oowmcib break jaiu routs who to jail, especially during the heated tdrm, do net hare such a miserable time of ttaa the people outside imagine. The stone prison building is so arranged that It gets plenty ol air still shielded from the burning sun. In tact the prison Is a building within a building, there being a large and airy court on each side, between the outer and inner building, so one will And tew more comfortable places in which to spend the dog than the jail; still there is a decided objection on the part of many people to going there, and those on the inside, notwithstanding the weather, are constantly planning to get out by aid of legal technicalities or the simpler devices of oold ohlseis il the average.

About thirty of these TH8 ROTUNDA. In the center ot the jail is a large rotunda, to Which visitors are admitted. At a desk near the door generally one of the jail officers is on either side of the rotunda is TinrecSor grating, rising from the atone floor to theraf These are the grated ends of the corridors that extend out from the rotunda through the north wings. There are stairways and platforms in this cage extending up to the fourth loor. A visitor to the Jail is apt to see several )H son ere, allowed out in the corridor for exercise, itretohlngthemselves on the platforms and look! lug sullenly through the gratings into the rotundL A glance down tho narrow corridors shown a spectlve of narrow doorways, grated doors, atui whitewashed walls.

Looking upon the conn, oni 10eaCb lntbecomaur. 18 THE cells. Walking down one of the corridors, a glance into a cell door will show a narrow room, with whitewashed walls and a narrow cot, with a plain but comfortable looking blanket anfrbliiow Th? walls of some of the ceils have by their Inmates with pictures cut from Illustrated papers. A lew have books piled up on the narrow window ledge, and seem to have make their surroundings as esthetic as their circumstances will admit. The cell to which Guiteau, the assassin, Was taken when he was first court nea U8t before 116 went there by a who had decorated the cell with pictures.

t)lclur? Waa a portrait of Qurfiild, pasted on the wall, over the cot, and admitted to the jail and allowed to see prisoners every day exvZP, generally one will mid little social parties at the end of he corridors, other00 01 the and visitors on the A NEW BATCH OF PRISONERS. Every day the jail vau brings from the Police Court or the Criminal court a little squad of recruits for the community ln the jalL Every day w'ho have served their time are released. hen the jail van comes the new prisoners are taken into the rotunda. Sometimes there is a smartly-dressed check-raiser or ernbezfu the lot, but generally the squad Is unkempt looking. When one of the officers of the jail has gone over tho commitments, seen that all the prisoners named in tne papers are there, and made the proper record, the new arrivals are taken to a room In the basement.

Here the prisoner is stripped and made to bathe. His clothimr mean! whik is placed in a steam boi, where fney subjected to a thorough steaming. When he coii.es from his bath the prisoner Is given a suit of jeans to wear until his own clothlnir has been oS is steamed as a precaution against or contagious diseases that might the clothing of prisoners, Is placed in his cell the prisoner Is deprU ed of his money, if lie has any, his knife and articles which it is not thought safe to perm him to keep with him. These are kept in the Jail olflce, and the money is disbursed, on the pris. tne jail wnciail pUrp0Se deemed by HIS DAfLT LIF8.

The prisoner at once enters upon the routine of Jail life. lie probably gets to Jail in time for dinner at 3 o'clock. So after he has surveyed his narrow cell and already begun to think that life there for three months, or six months, will not be one of wild excitement and variety, he hears a rattling through the corridors and soun a man snoves an oblong tin box through his grated door. He opens this box and finds his dinner there, a piece of beef perhaps or a dish of soup, potatoes, and half a max of bread. After he ilnner, a anJ tako3 his box from him.

He ohi smuklng his pipe, it ne hasone woufn.flh^ 01 uuP1.eai4iiUt memories and heels on the stone floor. Perhaps nis eye will examine the walls, tne barred windows and the grated door measure the distance from his window tothe bou torn oi the court below, estimate the height from the bottom of the court to the outer windows, througn which he may get a view of a small seel wlth a little bit of the cltj bejond. it is probable that he will desnair out, tne gratings, down into the at tae outer window and out upon by aQy nieans except those devised by hiai er. Still he may not give up all hope that afternoon, but conclude to thinir it over again some other day. THE FIRST NIGHT IN JAIL.

Presently daylight begins to fade away. The twilight seems gray and dim and cheerless. When It is over darkness settles down around everything and the prisoner remains ln darkness until sunrise the next morning. He may look out of his grated door, and see a faint reflection of liirht ln the corridor trorn the gasburners ln tne rotunda! fcvery half hour a lantern flashes into his celL as tue Jail guards make their round, and aulcklv appears, to leave deeper darkness benind it. If ne does not, sleep his first night in Jail he is likely to be filled with strange nltrliu The ordinary convict, however, does not moralize much or allow his rest to be disturbed br any flights of fancy.

Unless he is ln a nervous state from the effects of a spree, he philosophically turns over on his cot, when darkness comes, and sleeps till he Is aroused ln the mornme At tt of laborers, go through the sort of sanitary noilee. The prisoner has to get up, dress and put his cot in order. hen ne sits down and waits until o'clock when another tin box is shoved through his door. This box contains his breakfast. He has also a quart cup given him, and a man can-vine? a huge can fills the cup with coffee.

He has hail a loaf of wheat bread or a slab of corn bread, and a herring or mackerel ln his box. After breakrast he continues his meditations until dinner time. He may be allowed out in the corridor a short time for exercise. At any rate he can amuse himself during the day by listeuing to the munnurlnt of voices at the end of the corridor, and scanning tne of persons who occasionally pass hia cell RECEIVING VISITORS. If he has any friends in the city, any mother, wife, or sweetheart, or any one who still cares for him In Ids degradation, they win probably come to see him on the second day of his confinement.

It may be a mother, old and careworn, or a wife, whose young face is Jaaed and stamped with mi? fT. Jle may be let out of his cell and allowed to talk with his visitors ln the platform in the oure at the end of his corridbr. if nis mends brlnz Lha books to read, or some delicacy to eat, or tobacco he is allowed to have them after the prison authorities have satisfied themselves that there are no contraband articles concealed ln tlie packages. His life Is apt to become somewhat monotonous. 1'he Government furnishes him wltn plain and solid three times a week, bacon on Sundays, and occasionally bean soup or veiretable soup, potatoes, and beans and bread.

If he is sick and the doctors order it, he may have an "extra box some tea and toast, perhaps, or something a little daintier than ordinary prison fare. He eeta I but two meals a breakfast at 8, and his 8ave out of his abundant dinner, If he likes, something for his supper He may be detailed to work about, doing the policlne or helping about the kitchen. If he fs not of ataxy habit he will prefer this to remaining ln his ceiL If he works he will get three meala aday. THE JAIL KITCHEN Is a large apartment east of the rotunda, which is fcept as clean and neat as any hotel kitchen, it has ovens and boilers and all the apparatus needed to cook for two or three hundred boarders. On one side of the kitchen are plied ln rowsthe tin boxes that meals are served in.

These are ai ways washed clean when they are returned from the cells. When dinner Is ready the boxes am rapidly filled with rations by the kitchen attend! ants. they are piled ln rows in huge crates or hand-barrowa. Two prisoners are deuUled to carry eacn hand-barrow, and another mangoes along to distribute the boxes through the ceu doors. At breakfast time there Is still another man along, who carries an Immense can of coffeeL Every Friday the male their cells, one at a time, into the end of one of the corridors and shaved.

A barber's chair lssetun for the purpose, and if there is any barber amonsr the prisoners his labor Is utilized ln this serviceWednesday the prisoner hastotkke anothertrtn to the basement of the building, where he is put tnrough a bath. Sunday afternoon he can oome out with the other prisoners Into the rotunda and attend reUgious services conducted by a commit, tee from the Y. M. C. A.

During the day ha is ilkely to receive a visit from a the St. Vincent de Paul Society or the Women's allowed te have playing-cards, or to trade their tobacco or other supplies, or do anything tmu might give rise to quarrels. selves generally by reading. 1 DECREASE IN THE NUMBER OF OOLORED CONVICTS. "Very few prisoners oome to vs now," said one of the jail officials to a Stab reporter, "who Aannot read.

Some yean ago it used to be a common thing to hare one colored prisoner roadlne and answering the letters ot a dozen or more of hda illiterate companions. But moat oc those come now can read. Our records show, toa another evidence of Improvement in morals aa well aa intelligence among the colored pnopyi At the Old Jail, the proportion of colored prisonera to white used to be four or five to one; now it is about two to one. There has been no increase in tlie number ol white prisoners, but a decided decteew ln the oolorad. Although the population of the HOW THE PRISONERS ABB AM VMMHHh There are two classes of prisoners in the jail, and they are kept la different wlaga.

in the north wing, known aa the polloe-oourtwtng, an lined the criminals sentenced tor various terms lees than a year by the FQBoe Court, in the other wing are confined prisoners awaiting trialan uncharges and who, if convicted, go to the penitentiary or perhaps the which stands in one or the courts. The prisoners detailed for work about the Jail are taken trooi the police-court side. These men are not, an a rule, considered dangerous prisoners. Their teems are generally bo short that there a little inducement to them to take any dangerous ehaaces of escape. aii aim ro wears.

Sometimes prisoners on the "penitentiary tide scheme to work their escape. One desperate criminal planned to tree himself aid other prisoners in his corridor, and to make a desperate assault on the guards. His correspondence with outside parties, however, was Intercepted, and the plan thus discovered and frustrated. Another prisoner drafted the design of a key that would Ot the look or his cell door, and sent It out In a letter, as he supposed, to a friend to have the kejr As It happened the letter never went farther than the Jail office, and the key was never made. The prisoner had on the floor of the rotunda a horseshoe nail that some one had dropped, lie had converted this Into a screw driver, and been enabled to explore with It the inside of the lock of his door.

Auot her prisoner, who attracted notice by his studious habits, had a small Die and saw smuggled to him and, when discovered bad sawed through the gratings of his cell window. The marks ot the saw Were ingeniously concealed or covered with lamp black rubbed over the Iron. Others have made saws out of clock springs, and attempted to saw their way out, but without success. An old trick of prisoners Is to make a knife or sharp instrument out ot the steel shank of one of their shoes. DISCOVBAKED IXVEXTOK.

An Idea Which Hundreds of Others Had Conceit-ad Before Ills Day. Be bad evidently been sitting in the Shade watching the horse caw go by. Perhaps he lived along a line of street care. At any rate, be had an mechanical Idea, at that. He was not familiar with tools, knew nothing of machinery, and had never Invented anything.

Ttt It had occurred to him that something could be devised to lessen the dead weight ot the car when It is about to be started after a stop. Why he should happen to have such an idea, and bow it was possible that his mind should begin to explore the unfamiliar fleld ot mechanical contrivances Is a rather difficult question to satisfactorily answer. But nevertheless all this happened. He saw the horses straining and pulling to start he car, and then move along with comparative ease. How could this strain be lessened? That was the question.

He thought over it for some time, aud the idoa began to take shape. In a few days he met a friend who was familiar with machinery, and whose business made it necessary for him to knew a great deal about mechanical devices. He explained what he had been thinking about, and asked his Judgment as to the practicability or his conclusion. "Now," he said, lu talking of his idea, "I think that the difficulty about starting a car could be remedied In this way: or course I dont know exactly how It could be arranged, that is, the mechanical pnrt or it. But suppose you had a strong spring attached to the wheels In some way, and when the brake wus loosened, this spring would uncoil with great rorce, which would be communicated to the wheels.

It might not be of sufficient power to move the car, but it would greatly lessen the dead weight, and consequently the strain on the horse." "I would have to get some practical man to get this thing into shape for ho went on, "but it seems to me to uave considerable merit. The horse-car companies would all adopt It lr It proved to be of any value, and I think that there Is a good deal or money in it; don't yout" "Well, I don't his mend In a tone or voice that indicated that he had not been able as yet to fully grasp the extent of the project. "lr I remember correctly," he added, "and I think that I do, there are now about a hundred patents already granted for devices of this character. You can llnd them all in the Patent Office If you are interested enough in the subject to go and look at them." "Why, I never heard of such a thing before," said the prospective inventor, considerably taken back. "Certainly not," cheerfully assented his friend; "no one ever supposed that you had.

You have only thought the same thought that two or three other men, and perhaps more, had thought before you. It is a common experience, and every day some patent Is rejected at the Patent Office because It is a repetition of an Idea already patented. People have to go to great expense merely to learn whether ideas that have Just occurred to them are new or old. You might continue your study of street-cur methods and probably invent something that would prove a relief to the public as well as to the horses. The attention of in ventors has been directed toward the latter subject more than the tormer, and you are not so llKely to the Held of patented rights.

Besides, there Is a chance of having a whole community rise up and call you beneiactor." WAtt.TI WAVES. They are Really not at HewulC of a Succession of "ktovre." To th? Editor of Tax Kvxxmo Modern meteorology has given rise to a number of new terms. The words are old, but they are used in a new sense, as, for example, "high," "low," "locals," "warm" and "cold waves," The "cold wave" is, more strictly speaking, a than a "warm wave." The "cold wave" it the result of a condition of atmosphere passing over us, like a great wave, from the west toward the east. The "warm wave" is the effect produced by the condition "low" moving far to the north ot us, say on a line of 50 degrees or 60 degrees north latitude. The "low" itself is not a wave," as in the case of the "high," a cold wave, but the condition which causes the warm wave to the south of the center.

When "high" is passing it cools the atmosphere In proportion to its extent and Intensity, and one "high" will produce all the effect. Between it and another "high" will be a "low," or lower condition, which will change the clear, cool, bracing atmosphere so peculiar to this barometric pressure. One extensive and intense "high" produces a '-ery positive change, but one "low" passing on a north line will not be tne cause or sufficient heat to be termed a "warm wave." The atmosphere, cooled by a "nigh," or north winds resuluug iroin a south "low," will not be heated to Its maximum temperature by one north "low," but let the north "lows" Immediately follow one another and arter awhile the territory to the south or the center will become more and more heated till It becomes Intense, the thermometer ranging from 90 degrees to 100 degrees, or even more, from the cotton states to Canaaa. Between the "lows" as between the "highs" the opposite condition (in this case the will prevail to some extent, but the degree will be so moderate In such cases that it will not have much effect to cool before the next "low" following advances eastward on the same high line or latitude. It frequently happens that It is much pleasanter and cooier in the summer in the cotton States than in New England and Canada.

Such will be the case when "highs" repeatedly move along the southern borders and the "lows" move on a north line. Tne south "highs" keep the Southern States cool, while the southern winds, coming over a wide expanse of country, wuereby they become heated, Uke passing over heated plates, causes the Northern States to be very warm. The more protracted such a condition the greater the heat or the north country. If the south "high" is of muriiwiim intensity, say 30 and Ave or six-tenths, then the south winds will be delightrul, and well worthy of the Indian's appellation, the "sweet southwest." But if, at this year, the "high" is no more than 30 or 29 and nine-tenths inches, and the gradients are far apart, showing a very negative condition of both the "high" and tne "low," and the "low" centers, one after another, follow on a high line of latitude, we have a warm wave that is like the continued heat of a furnace without even the virtue of the drying properties of the furnace. We have a warm, humid atmosphere which strongly resembles the "sweat-box7' on a large scale.

And this is what we have had so much of this summer; a high thermometer with a low barometer, the meanest condition of atmosphere that can be conceived of, and one that Is most trying to man and beast. P. N. Washington, I), August 4, THE WOODLAWJf FAHJVEBS' CLUB. The July meeting Near CoUingwood? and Crape Bet.

The 30th of July found the Woodlawn Farmers' Club at the summer residehoe or Charles F. WUklns, on the Potomac, near CoUingwood, bat the persistence of the hermometer in ranging among the nineties militated against any "hefty" consideration ot agricultural matters. Courtland Lulcens produced some small bugs, which he had ca ugbt in his granary, and bottled up for the inspection of members. They were strangers to all present and will be sent to the entomologist ot the Agricultural Department. Some discussion was had about the prevailing grape rot.

president Pierson statod that his grapes were neatly exempt from the disease. They are on well-drained land and have been well cultivated, pruned and fertilized. The critical report was then read. The farm of the host contains about 185 acres, and the committee, knowing that his tanning was done mostly by proxy, found things in better order than they expected. The hot, dry weather, of course, gave a parched appearance to some of the crops? a large part ot the place is in pasture.

There are some ten horses, brood mares and colts, and young mule on the place, together with a halt dozen head of neat cattle aad a flock ot about fitly sheep and lambs, all in good oondltion. The fields are in proper proportion to the size of the farm, well fenced, and the corners ditch-banks closely and neattv trimmed. Upon the whole, the committee thought Mr. WUklns had succeeded well, oonsldering the condition ot the farm when it came into his possession, and the little personal attention he had been able to give it. The improved appearance of the farm is, no doubt, in pan doe to the presence for the few weeks of Mr.

Wilklna he luring at home on vacation from the Ohio Agricultural Colft Wa la A I TL A 1 I road matter since last meeting, but better are hoped torthe ensuing smuOl The next ing will he the basket pto-nfc in the grove at Woodlawn Maaaioa, on the 87th of woman being asked why hashands qtttoowtlng their wives said it was beoawn other men dfcd it so A little four-year-old created a ripple by i ing to the Sunday-school class: dogl dead. Ill bet the angels were soared when they sat him i the walk. awful eroasiortnhm It is TOE STBAMCE STOBV OF MB. BECK. mm 9my llrlltulorTwrlTfYean MM the I'aiMi Mi rraiken MMX.

Ki now birr to orr rmnmior or an wnuis aooocnt or rip iu wow an inBlAN AS WELL 48 A TALR-rACR AS AX INDIAN AMP KRCENT RjCATR. Sebastian Beck, a man who has a strange story to tell, lias been in the city some days. Ue to a sort of Rip Van Winkle, baring returned to civilisation after twelve not exactly of as he says, of life as a captive among the His broken English, vagabondlsh appearance and somewhat dilapidated atUre also suggest a resemblance of his case to that of Rip Van Winkle. Ills story has been told officially to the commissioner of Indian Affairs and unofficially to a Star reporter, in brief, the story Is that he and his ramlly were captured by the Sioux in Dead wood Gorge in 1875; that he was then separated from his wife and children and held la captivity twelve years until he made his escape this spring. He believes las wife and children are still held captives, aud has invoked the aid of the Commissioner of In llan Affairs to Dad them.

While a captive an.ong the bloux he was tvuulred to marry a squaw, to he has In the wild west at ttte present time a reo wife and four papooses, in case Beck does not succeed In recovering the pale-face Beck Be wants the Indian office to help him to a reunion with the red-skin Mrs. Beck. Bo the situation is sonwwbat interesting. Beck Is about art)- years of age, haa a worn expression and a watery look about the eyes, ami a general appearance of toughness, due undoubtedly to twelve of dieting on Jerked buffalo meat. He Is apparently in destitute circumstances.

He talks In broken English, which is the more difficult to understand as he occasionally throws in a sentence or two ot the Sioux dialect. srsastiaM srex's story. His story, as he told It to a Star reporter. Is substantially as follows: Sebaatiaa Beoklsa native or Hohenzoliern, Prussia He enlisted in the Vnlted Mates Army August servsa In Cot 9th Infantry, and was honorably discharged at the expiration of his term at Fort Laramie, In August, 1H70. After his term expired he retamed home to Philadelphia.

Ue remained here until the spring of 1STS, when he Joined a party of twenty-flve families that emigrated to the beadwood Gorge, In the Black Hills In search of gold. Beck look his family with him, oonSipUne of his wife, a daughter, Annie, aged eighteen; a daughter, Lucy, aged sixteen, and a boy, Anthony, aged eleven. The party of miners were quite successful at the start. The camp where their families lived was situated about three-quarters of a mils from the point where the men were mining. In about three inontus they had accumulated over 110,000 as the result or their industry.

Then they moved to work another vein about a miles away, CAFTTRSD ST THE SIOCX. On the 22d of July a band of Sioux, numbering about 3,000 warriors, swept down upon the gorge while the men were at the diggings, separated from their women atul children. The whole party was men by one band, the women and children by another. The men were blindfolded and securely bound upon Indian pontes, and thus made to travel for ten days. The other baud of Indians took the women and children iu a tlinerent direction, aud since that day Beck has net heard from or seen his wife and children.

His wire, Beck understands, was taken a way by CLlet Black Moon's band, lie supposes that she and her daughters have been married to Indians, as is the custom with the sioux. Beck tells an interesting story of his twelve years of life among the sioux. he was taken first, with the other male capuves, to the Rosebud country. After being held a prisoner eleven months he was married to on Indian squaw, a Cheyenne woman who was In captivity. HIS RE WE IN BRIDi This was Monica, a young squaw, then not eighteen years old, and, Beck says, a great beauty.

He was compelled to marry aud to adopt the customs of the Indians or die. So he made the best of und became much attached to his Cheyen.i-i squaw. Monica is now ft Fort Laramie. In the land of the setting sun, surrounded by four Uttle hair-breed Becks, waiting lor her pale-face brave to return to her. When first with the Indians he was treated roughly by them.

They had an unpleasant habit of circling about him in their war duuees, with their scalping knives uplifted, and of flourishing their tomahawks over his head. Within a few months, however, the redskins changed their trvaiment. Beck and his fellow prisoners were clod in Indian attire. Beck was adopted Into the tribe when he took an Indian wire. He was first put to trial by being thrown from a rock into deep water.

He showed uls skill and strength by swimming from tae water and climbing tue face of the precipitous rock to a place of soieiy. The Indians howled and crooned and danced a wild kind ot a jig about his dripping figure, and Beck was thus initiated as a member, but not exactly an active member, for he was always kept under watch and never luily trusted. rAlKTKh RRJl RT HIS sou AW. Wben be bad been thus baptized be was turned over to his squaw, who helped the thing along by painting ber busband a coppery red from the crown or his head down to bis toes. Then be was given buckskin leggings, a wig of raven hair, which had been foicibiy taken or lirted" fruui the skull of some redskin enemy or the uoux, and a full equipment ot prludtive tomahawk, kuiie and bow and arrow.

Feathers were stuck into the cincture that bound his wig on. Plain Mr. Beck emerged from all tnis In outward semblance a Sioux warrior, though any visitor to the tribe that ran across an Indian brave, volubly lamenting his fate In broken English of the Fritz style, might have been greatly amazed at the singular combination. The Sioux, however, seemed to like the style of the and they gave him the name ot Touch-the-cioud," and called him a chief. He, with other prisoners, were required to practice with the bow and arrow, but were not allowed to have guns.

These Imitation Indians lived In every way like the genuine redskin, and occasionally wore the war paint, their races being besmeared with yellow stripes aud bars. Beck's chief was Sitting Bull, the great Sioux warrior. HX wmatSSKD THE CCSTRR After a few months on the Rosebud the tribe started on their travels, and it was on this expedition that they encountered and annihilated Gen. Custer's command on the Little Big Horn, a fight that Beck witnessed from a distance. The Indians were informed by spies, Beck says, that Custer was coming.

The redskins were formed on the mountain-top awaiting the coming of custer Into the valley below. The entrance was by a cation, through which only four men could ride abreast. Sitting Bull sat on his horse, on the mountains, where he could get a good view, spy-glass In hand. Then the old chief muttered lu tue dime-novel style, "Hal Custer I Good!" He at once disposed of his men. He built up camp fires, and about, it by means of poles, wigs, buffalo robes and blankets, made a number of dummy Indians.

When Custer's men came on, Beck says, they exhausted their ammunition nnng at the dummies. Then 5.000 redskins poured in upon them from every slJe and massacred the whole command, only one man escaping with his life. During the fight the prisoners were kept in the rear under guard and could not communicate with the brave band of soldiers that were riding into Sitting Bull'e trap. Beck says that be found Gen. Custer's watch on the scene of the massacre, and also the watch belonging to Gen Crittenden's son, who was killed with Custer.

These watches he gave to Chief Raln-ln-tne-face. The Crittenden watch was sold by Raln-ln-the-taoe to a Manitoba ranchman, who, by writing to the London maker of the watch, ascertained to whom it had belonged, and sold it In turn to the family of Gen. Crittenden. CARRIRO INTO THE RBlTlli DOMINIONS. From the Little Big Horn the Indians traveled to the Red River country, crossing into the province of Manitoba, and pitching their camp near Fort Walsh.

In this country Beck spent the remaining years of his captivity, and found consolation in the little family of half breeds that began rising around him. He and his fellow prisoners were never fully trusted, even after they bad established families of very respectable size. They were not allowed to wander more than a mile and a half from camp. The camp was always picketed by Indians. Lank and savage Indian dogs were always lurking about ready to make a charge on bogus Indian who attempted to escape.

This spring Beck and the five prisoners, with Raln-lntue-race's bani, planned to escape. They had lived so long with the redskins tn apparent contentment that Raln-in-tne-faoe ceased to be as watchful as such a wily savage Is generally supposed to be. Beck went to bun and applied for permission to go on a bunting expedition for fifteen days. Then others of the prisoners made similar applications. They were to take their squaws with them, a tact that rendered ilie-race unsuspicious.

THR KCATB rHOX CATTTVITT. They were granted then fifteen days leave of absence and started off In high spirits. While in their hunting camp one morning they heard the sharp clicking of a troop of horses on a rapid trothorses they knew at once to be those of pale faces, for they were shod. Presently a company ot Canadian mounted police dashed into sight and Beck signalled to them. The company and Beck toid the captive's story to Major Walsh, the oaa mandlng officer, intimating that alter twelve years or such life they were somewhat tired of it.

Major Walsh, who was then on his way to face's camp, Instructed the captives to get their buffalo ana antelope spoils of their up, and said he would return that way for them In tour iwan. He kept his word, and the captives were conducted by their liberator to Fort Walsh. On the way they were pursued by the Indians, but reached the fort in safety. At the tort they were permitted to enjoy tor the first time in a dozen years the luxury of sleepinr la a bed. After they Bad retted Major Walsii seat them under escort across the border, and they were taken to Fort Buford.

Beck aad tae oopDercolored Mm Beck aad the papooses wentltan Fort Buford to Standing Sock Agency, then to Fort Laramie, aad then to Denver, where Monica aad Ber papoossu parted with Beak. Annuo with honk a. She would not come East with bar white brave because she tearsd that the white ssea woald kill bar. So Mr. BeoK, having plcfead ap hare aad there THE INTUMtATB How tub somoki or ooaarsstoN nr or boaus rnr rmr ow Mtu.

cuitcii ronoiDilttcnna nit nil oitaaiasios airr. Intenrtate Commerce though bit recently created and established, Ium becuns of tbe most important government bureaus. It is already demonstrated that to for comaalaHtoa. fwll short of a cor. ml appreciation of be import and magnitude of the work In hand.

In the first plaos CodibMob was called upon to construe the interstate law. Even before ft wan formally organised appeals for of the various provisions or the law began to pour la. These peals came from In all sscttoas oC tbe country, and moat of tbeta were urgent, protestIng Ibattbe muii bare tbe ruling at the Commission before they could wttfe safety make ratea. But la addition to judicial tbe board alao reeled executive tbe axumt that It la required to wee he ptvvisloot at be law enforced. The if mission alone, to ear nothing or Its otbcr dutioa, Is very nm aovrunm aaccron.

Tbe complalate of corporations against other aad or communities, Anns anl against common carrlcra for alleged violsti of tbe law are nanny and varied, rangi ng from hnrgss or exuMtloa aad discrimination la en. Wet refusals to great tree In order to wsol.it these complaints to actual board aiarte a ruling requiring tha" all ehargre common carriers should be verified underuata Wbik. UU ruiinir an doubt Vljry. complalnta it dm not bein altuget tier: lor there Mean'el) a dav that com plain ta or this character. based upon tbe riainante' idea or equity and not upon law are hotreeelved.

All complaints regularly made' are docketed, and tbe pantre Where the issuaa involve tlons of any public Infereat the Commission i TBS At these hearings tenimutt)' pm and cub pre. aented and tbe issues, an a rule, argued by before the full board. After hearing be end ln wnftrobce and there, with a rull and rree inter uauge of oniniom make up their Judgment. fax oommlwnoneia selected the fifth floor oi the new and elegant Haiti building on street. Bach Com mis.

Another la occupied bj the secretary, Hon. K. A. Moeeley, and orhriualiv the wid' 4 lie hrSmS? i for puta. uc weaHnfa, but the rapidly accumulating nesa compelVd the abanilimiueut of hat uSWZS: SnPwtSy frontF wreet.

inougbit wae maea too au.aU lo.iSbEzir.vrur,;^"-1 the CLgatraL mart. From the flrat the bas been cramped for want of clericalanMaaoe, owing the in idequacy of the appropriation made by t'oegreaa uo held that tbe PHir ir1" that it It had that their aMiariM and that or the would be paid out of ina m'd appropriation. apeclflcally Bul controller held otberwtee and fr0 deeiHiona. has had to be very of 1 a i ho bust neat ba? tar exceeded in volume and l.uoort ut pelted that the pay.rxdt be kept dowb to theaiua 1. poaalble proportions.

in their reoort the Commlaaioners wiii v. enough to pnnlde Ui; with tbe help requlmte to a prompt and efficient discharge or all the UuUea. aSXTIVO ADDITIONAI. QrAKTKKti. Recently, it baring deinoQKtrated that tke firth floor or tbe Nun building not commodloun enough, the alxth floor wu taken alao, for the Commlaelon.

It Is now being fitted on and turnished. The auditor. Mr. Mccain with and the Bureau of sutteticJ aw 1 rixim in fnr tU Wail? for pubUe BeaiHiyti. The Tsma.il room on the flW beneath, at prettent set apart for beartnga.

win be uaed as a conference nxiufia nia mosrt conveniently located for tkla txing (fJhr rooms. Judge cooley, preaidi nt of the ted of hu legal learning experience and aequlri-iueni a. ax the urgent request or the Prertideut a mucn more lucrative poslUou to accept the one now holds, but though be may have ii, exchange the public lias profiled, ills tration or the office haa met the highent esrv i of 1118 the pubUc. Judire Cooiey, as chairman, naturally and in puu Into operation a new law couHnaediy Itirrlr eapenmental in lta nature and eSSTKuwXS lnteresta were Involved and any luiadidoua action on the part of tho commission might have worked incalculable Injury. niKrictxnra that had to br arr.

At tbe outaet tbe commlsolon were met with a united effort on the part of the to break down the law by nullifying Its main pro. were too. with Jobbers to make the law a means of bearltiK tb6 market. With eoUR uuanlznlt of tu" went forward resolutely to a ralr and impartial enforcement or the law and to prevent anv man or eet of men from deriving any undue adVaniairtL As the commissioners are all lawyers they well prepared to handle the numerous legal problems submitted to them. They have sun-eeded in systematizing the work, and hare their hiet hods of doltig business upon the various raiV managements, so that much of the labor la oonnectlon with corporations it rendered easier.

HOW HKAIUKttS AU COKOCCTRI). At the public the Commissioners range themaelves a row on one aide or a long tabia tbe opposite side being reserved lor counsel and The chairman occupies tbe middle having commissioners Morrison and on bis right and Meters. ffchOoiimaker and Bragg on his leru Judge cooiey presides with the dlgniTr of the bench. He sits erect, and never loSe? point first to last. Commissltmer Morriaoii Is more inclined to seek comfort.

He tilts hS u.ar back Orleans forward, aseaae suggests, without any special regard to dignify. alker takes copious note8; in faet. ke an abstract or the case ror his own use. He jou. down everything on botu aides, and when the hearing la over has the caw at his Dngers' ends.

Coiumisaioner Schoonmaker takes aslonMl notes, lust sufficient to rerresh his memory, commissioner Bragg diligently reads up ail cases co ning fore the board. Witnesses are not bound bv tue strict nues or evidence, as Judge cooiey holde that the main object Is to get at the tnitu ag questions at Issue, and so a wider latitude la allowed than in the courts. TAKING TBSTiaOMT. All testimony Is given under oath, administered by the chairman, ir a witness rambles Into lrrel. evancy the chairman politely recalls him to the point.

Upon tbe secretary devolves the ty? extensive oorrespondenee, and or among the Commissioners, as it mar a is decided it is referred to one of the to write tbe opinion any member, or course ha v. lng the right to dissent. The number of employes less than twenty. The board will not nrobablr wsuine lts sessions In this dly until October, as appointments have been made in other dties that will occuny the intervening time. The of the board on duty elsewhere does not interrupt the regular progress of routine buUnesa The Mr.

Moseiey, remains In chaiwa and eveo'thing Is kept moving in regular order. Kkarplr Eiaalsiii raosiMO Tax apfaiks op the ckktkal PKANCHOL'S DLTISS IN WASHINOTON. ThO Paciflc Kail road Commission resumed its Inquiry in San Pranclaoo yesterday. David Strung submitted the papers which be promlaed as sustaining his charges against the management of the central Paclfle. senator Stanford was recalled.

He denied that the contract had been made with Wells, Fargo A Cu for tbe elusive right of transportation of the central Pacific. The complaint nied ln a certain suit commenced against ibe Central Pacific was produced and the attention of the witness called to tbe allegation that K. B. Crocker, on behalf of the Central Pacific Railroad, made with Wells, Fargo co. a contract tor the exclusive right? transportation over the Central Pacldc, and ln raturn therefor Wells, Fargo A Co.

watered lta stock from tea million to fifteen million aad gave Stanford, Crocker, Hopkins and Huntington $1,000,500 without consideration. co? luiasiooer Anderson aakt-d If the allegation was true, and Stanford replied, donx think It and further added, "It I up to be interrogated am. all fhoM charges, blfckmail and It will take six months. We shall nerv get through all the charges that have been made In the last twenty-seven years. The witness waa asked If be knew Theopholia French, the auditor of the railroad accounts In the Ooverasaent Treasury, aad remembered a meeting between him aad Huntington prior to tho publication by French in the New York Wortd o( the affairs of the central Pacific.

Stanford said that be knew French slightly. "Are yoc aware tbe publication made Of tbe at the oentim Pacific la the New York Warm by him?" Siaafori was asked. -I saw It at tbe tuna. I think French tried to blackmail Hunungion. I only have thaa 1 mart salon," said the Senator.

doax think! bad aay reason to think 111 at him until I aaw a in the World." "Are you acquainted with K. Francholf was naked. "Tes: he was anuHoyed by the ooopaar aa agent at WaahlngtoaTue did aaythlag that as was oaUed upon to do. "What was the charaotor of his duties at Waahlngtoar Stanford replied: explained things ta afOoagresa Be had ao powers of i ndlturas from ssa He was aader Huntington. and naturally, if there waa anything Ufis that, It would Ho PUKao-PMtiaoMU ao Special to the Baltimore Am says: Or.

F. Patterson, Unltsd States vetarlaary suigeoaTto la Montgomery county tavestlgaUng alleged oasM 2 pleuro-peeamonia. It waa taought Urrners la 1 has kua bat la one instance whsre Um ta be plainn fsissu is a oast of.