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For TH* Fmmo SXAm. The I'rnjTB'irp of I He Pine* How swnct to the fr icrranee of the plnO! A- by a p t^nt spo;i it t ilers rap back nv?-r I'.;'' Lalf-otilti rated track ?.' tii u.-htl# s > that ooce were mine. I s^ei;'. to -'rink of >me magician's wine That - tr-'iiirtlifns Mem< rv when *he feels a lark <>T rx<w*T-. anJ <-i?* irs away rhe form I rack From life's r.tr vcrce,and i/i.ik -srhedlm past shine. There Is ;i .~h rm In odors uti as ll^bt Olr.-s n t t > -igiit from s*io^sof outvwml thin rs. We s' i i! i flower, and Love .straight waves hi> w i ngs. An 5 th" ..ir ir und <rr"vs rosy and bright; " The > -il ? n't-, rrvl TlVe a 1ov<tsings. Tb* pln^-tr.-fs Mood, to, bars such soothing ml>,'fit. w. i* stiokmakxr. treatment of animals. Prize from the Public Sch<nl?< TWRJ.ri! THOCSAND COMPmTOHft. The s<v-!? ty for the Prevention of CroeKy to Ani mils, through superintendent Wilson, lnvit^i th<= pnplls of th** nubile s. hools In hlscharge to writ' compositions nn:l"r the following title?. In thf third, fourth, tl Hi, sixth, seventh and eighth gr ides. "Kin In --.to Animals;** In the high schools, 4*Ot?r iniinb Vrilia ils .ind How to Treat Them." Til" Invitation w ?s accompanied by an offer ol prizes f ?r th>* In'^t productions; In the high schools SM ,'oid. etgMb tBda raMb gxidea, e left, $5gold; sixth an 111: th gnd <, each, fijOgold; fourth an 1 third gr.?d.-s, e ich, #1 sllv.?r. Notl*e was given tc the ach<x?ls J inuary lt>, with a request th it thf pupils take the subjects suggested f??r the regulai moatuly cooip >s.:|o'i w..rK and that tli^ composition^ s ;?' t 1 froin each school to eompet tor thf priz-- lie n> < ly for delivery to the soc iety by Feb ru irj 11. Th.- Itev. Or. Rankin, ch a! rm in: Professor Shute, Of the Columbian rniversit.v: Pr-fe-sor Chickering, of the i>-af Muf College: the R?v. D. W. Faunee, Mrs. Al? k in l?r Murray, Miss Jane M. Seaveyand Miss M ?ry K. MeM ;kln constituted the ex i:n;ni i r >iiuuitt o appolutel by the society. It Is e itlimt I that about schoolchildren engag.il in then' exerciser. VV?* publish below Hie 3o:iip >sitloii- with the names of the writers receiving th*1 prizes. Thirp ftr \n?: (Ml->s e. \. Farmer, teacher), tsabki Pkcjiin, a<r???, 214 F street nortliwest. to ne K.na 1-. to rv? gooa, genii" an<l pleasing to everything that has feeling. Who would not bfl kind to the noble awl useful horse? To the cow wh i (flTi-s milk from which \jre make butter and cheese? To the sheep wiio gives as tender meat to eat, and its wool for ?d>>th, its skin for shoes, rtovesand binding'books? T'thedor who watches nls master's hous-? To the nice, pretty pussy whc sleeps by our ti:V* s >tne people call animals dumb brut *s, but I think tney kaft a way <>f t liking to eah other. Th" parrot can speak words almostplain ;ts people. Tli*' wild anim ?ls ,'n? timed by kind treatment. We sny the lion, wolf, titer :ind bear are very fierce: ttt beat i- mm v? i v flense unless you attack It. or it h .s rubs. A woman was in a Held with six b;-irs. She wanted to save her berries befi>re the bears ate them all. and tin y did not molest her. The c im*'! Is .1 -,rreat help to the Arabs who live on the suidyii's rt in An: a. It la sometimes called "Th Ship ?>f the lV s. it-" lien* is .in m'- dot'' which 1 kn w to be true; Many years air", in easb rn Massachusetts, when there were lint few people living there, and miles oi wood lay 1? tw ^-n tie- houses, a m n by the nun* of Grey h:ul f ?leave his wile and child alone to gc along dt tin e tor wnL If lie Ftart'si early ir The morning he expected to return by evening, but a heavy mmi ft li *ii i kepi him several days. Be. fore he return-d ids wife litd very little* food in the hous\ and would havi? st irved but for a l-rge cat that every morning brought home a bird oi rab!>!t and lild it at her rnistn-sv feet. She seemed to know that they were very hungry. At l ist the inan mm t^-d to in ike hi-, w ly through the sn ?w to his f tanly, happy to find that they were kept from starving by a cat. I th:nk that cat was always tr it -d kindly. How cruel it s-.ans to stone th1* pretty birds who never do anything but sing for us. I won !-r if farmers ever think what they eould do without the aid of auluials; and yet many are go rou,h with i hem. Wh 'ii w >k around arid see so many animal? wh!< h Ci'i. j ii .s envited for our comfort and pleasnr we should be k!n 1 to ail of them. They wen given to us net for h >rsh treatment, but that wt mi^ht act the golden rule? "lx> unto ot'e rs as we wish them to do unto you.r forrth Gradf. Sixth Division (Mtss Jan" A. Brown, teacher), Lakin W. Kkid, 1503 Caroline street. Some animals are very useful. They are the faithful x-rv ints of men. We should be very thankful for horsey and coWi, sheep, and other animils. We should show our thankfulness by tr>' itin,' them welL A good nvin will keep hi; horses and cows in a nice w irm shed or stable during the cold days of winter. The man whc afcuses his i^.>r horse Is a very hard-hearted man. I think a go?> 1 hors" Is the n"blest animal Godevci gave to man. I danl like d->.rs, for they sometimes bite; bur. some dogs .ireuseful, and are the faithful friends of mankind. If I hid my choice of anfmiR I would choose a good horse, a few mvs and a drove of sheep; and I wuuiii s->: it..i to theui that they would follow tt? A fill r.tr, .? ?'?.!? * a. v. ; _ t _ ? i ur uu IM i ( lit" arin% I tlllliK I-Ilt* puor HTIimniS who Invi' hard masters will thank us children for writing th> v compositions. But I mu-t not forget the birds that make the morning m^rrr with th ir s>>ngs. I hope all boys who carry bean-shooters will sling the beans or pebbles at things which have no feeling; and the idg men should shoot glass balls Instead of pigeons. It Is cruel to shoot a bird just for fun. Firm Grape, First Division. (Miss Agnes 1. Rounds. t -acher), Madblinb Blandt, age 11, 144" J? Street northwest. I>'.a*r, done. bell! Puiwy'-1 in the well. Who i>nt b*r in? Lini<- T?ii!uiy (*reen. WIki filled bcr out? Little Toom.y Trout. Oh' W"! a- ? !i*u?hr>" l> >y wan that To drown o?r i?>or dear t>ussy cat, Wbo nf.tr did hiin aay nan;:. But cau^fci the mice In hu father's barn. ? Muther Goom. Why did Tammy Green kill puss? I must say 1 believe It was because he was a pretty bad boy, and that h-"> must have done other cruel things before h<* g^t to be so heartless that he could throw puss down the deep dark well and watch ber struggle in the water. Why did Tommy Trout pull puss oui of the well? it may be because he tried to s ?ve her life, and I believe because he was a brave boy aad thought It was cowardly and wicked to kill a helpless dumb animal when It was la his power. Now. I have se*n a great many people like Tommy Gre**n, and a great many like Tommy Tr-ut, but I gu*-ss tli'Te are more like Tuuuuj Trout. I iioj*- so. H?*. who mud>? all things, put these dnrab creator* her*- on t? tr* n wfth us for some good reason, and they h we thHr rights its well as we. Domestic animals live with us, work lor us, love us, and art good friends to us. How many times has a child's life been saved by a biir New K"undl?nd dog swimming into the water tosave the ntiki tro,?j drowning. How m.?nj tini"s persons 'nave been lost in snow storms and have l?-?n lound and saved by St. Bernard dogs. Shepherd d-?gs have so much <ens" that thev can take care of a tlock of sh p ;>u flay alnuist as wrd as a man. The Arab loves bis hom- and makes it almost lik-* on - t hi-^ family, and the Arabian horses <re very gentle and se>-.n almost as intelligent as hum nb iiigs. Kven pigs are bright and Bin ?rt. and < an be taught man; ihttr/s. It would take a iro?>i while to U 11 all the good trdts of the>e dumb utimals ?o show h-ov ta<j run ! .? MUU In-Jtim-IH, '-specially OUr 1> Si Ol friends, the horse. When tin horses got sick an?l were laid up with tat- eptzooty every body misses thfin and knew then how ntu h work they did alm< st In ev* r> business But no animal should I* tr ai i cruelty, ew it it is not .1 iMtMelllRni aiitrn d, :m> in r>-th .r? a huai-ui creature sfcoukitM tr- ated un'hln Fy, who Is a poor tdl<?t without anj sens*Some would n?>t becruel to nntniab or kill tliem.i.- , jomy <in i-n did, but th*-y negle?i them, or work them u>o hard or are uukind tc them. and be -aus.- the pc->r things cannot complain they an oCt--n (Or^dtni ^nd left to differ When a person hibUes his hors?? to a post on .n Mlti r cold day. -And In the house to stay and talk awhile by r.h" tlr^, wr>uUl rv>t the horse speai If he i <>uld and say, "Please put a blanket oi my back; I f -el as !f 1 should a chill?' But hLs mistr o. t**n forgeu* this. Wli>'i a poor d?if -s "eft -hut op in somebody's bark yar? on a Lot .-annavr day, If h - could talk would no he say " Will somebody p>?ase remember to put i pan of w iter in the back yard ami romove thl win* muzzle nose mi thut I can drink T" If clilck ens could talk would they u?< aak iK>t to be t ^rriet l:?ue m'Bi Market with their heads hanging nea the pavement ? Animals -ant talk and haTe meetings,and mak< laws t?? protect themselves as p opl-> ilo, and -vO Wi ought u> treat t.Vtn kindly aad &ave thein Iron cruelty and neglect Animals act bad srmetlmes. Cats srratcb, aw steal cream; dogs Upl and bit'* s-VEottuns; am hors s sometimes kick and break things, butfvery tody has hLs faults, you know. Boys and gtris and grown people, 100, do wrong things, Kcdun to be taught better. The most of ihn.i *t> good and behave and do the.'r auty when thoy are wel treated. So, plrls nl boys, let's remember all the gooc reasons wo have to lie kind to the dumb fr.- nd around us toe their pood ;uul ow good, for It wil make us b*-tt- r ouri\?-9 and kinder to our coift pinions. Let's ivim-mber that gt?od old s.tying A iueixi:m jj.iu is merciful to his beast." Ram Gnanr, Sixra DrvistGj* (iirs. Julia F. York teacher), --1 AMI* W. cuaulks, 18, Co.icjr Ma I ilo n<?t undTrtasd how it !s possible for 5.nj one to treat lurob fu.lmals cruelly: tUo.r vorj belpipjsncas's a d *roau l upon cur care. 1 belief* that Uv>?a aftsptaj ttean m ?nj w^yshoBld he j.ua?w?,-ttrT th-a a tu? thoukl bs one driving a poor, bro\en-<lown horse, where his i ril?s show so plainly that It is almost agony to look at him. I -oppose t'.ie men and hoys would s ty. "That Is Ju-t because you are a glrL" That ui iy be tru *. but If God In His greatness made i th#m. why cannot man In his littleness be tender , to tli^tu? ] There Is a lady In Massachusetts who has a | pond, and it Is filled with a great number of different kinds of li?'u, very muf of which she hus ( named; .1 n?l as shscalls those names the little fish will jump up in the water. She has taught them by kindness. Even the e?*ls can be trained by kindness?the ugly, wrlgviing eels. I read In 1 j the "Youth's Companion" tti.it Mr. Wells, of KiverI head. Long island, has the greatest eel pond In ; the country. It covers Ave .acres; and two years | ?; *0 Mr. Wells filled the pond with t'.vo thousand i 1 do/en eels, and now they have increased to mil- : Hons. They are fed every three days, and when I , Mr. Wells !> its on the ie or his wagon with the butt of his whip th?y swim towards hlin, whereas Mjr one else uUght Imi an Uw aide of hL? wagou all day without attracting any attention. Some animals have a wonderful memory. For Instance, y >11 all remember the story of the ele- , pliant and the til lor. How the elephant was in a circus procession, Hnd.'-omlng to a tailor's shop, he put Ids trunk inside the doorway. Th-^ tailor pricked toe trunk with his needle. Twenty years after the el-ph mt passed the same shop and saw i the tailor, and, recognizing him, he Oiled his trunk | with muddy water, returned and completely deI lug'-d the ma a. , - j What greater instance of faithfulne? to duty ( j rat! w* tin 1 thin in the sl Bernard dogs that save ? ' hundreds of lives every year. , ! The instinct of animals Is nearly equal to reason ' In man. Travelers say th \t in countries where 1 ' poisonous plants erow there Is always found the , j anti-l.te for ttiem, and when animals are poisoned ! | or bitten by poisonous serpents (iod has given , ; tht-m the Instinct to know the antltlote, and If j ; there 1< time they always hunt for It, just as our ( cat hunts for catnip when she Is sick. j The great intelligence of animals is another rea- j 1 son for kindly treating them. Indeed, If the men , ( had as much intelligent as the horses they abuse, i ; no doubt the horses would be better treated and 1 ' the men w ould not be such co wards. Some people i , take the word coward in an entirely different sense, j but any on" who ill treats anything weaker than j , himself is a coward. Even flics, if they are little things, should be i - treated kindly for the go<nl they do us by acting as ! fairy scavengers for us. I hnve seen little chll(lrcn StJl'kintr nina thmni'li tl?nnr? a awl *l?o nnAP n r.... vu.vu^tl VW ?*~M Ulll* Uiv ! little things seemed so pitiful. If they cannot be , j tralued to love us that is noexcuse for twin*; cruel i 1 to them. Agasalz, one of the greatest naturalists, ! 1 was so kind to animals tli it tnejr alino st knew his I . ! voice, and never offered to harm him. Rosa Bon! ht'iir, one oi the great painters of animals, used j ; to ?o out every morning and study ttieir peculli arities. She was perfectly at home wlta them, and they knew her and loved her, and would go to meet her. Hurt no living' thing-: Lady-bird, ni?r butterfly. Nor moth with dusty wing; Nor cricket chirping cheerily. Nor jfn?>whop|>er <o light of leap, i Nor dancing irnat, nor l?et-Ke fiat. Nor harmless thing's that creep. Seventh Grape, TnmnI>TVistON,(M1ss T?B. T>avls, teacher), axnik Leonard, age 18, 624 d street j southeast. Our country Is, like the ocean on a windy day, | decidedly wavy. We have not only hot waves and j | I cold ones, but waves of temperance, religion and J . ; reforms of various kinds. The wave rippling , i 1 around us at present Is that oi Kindness to anl- 1 I ma Is. For the time being it Is the object of every j ; well-regulated mind,?that which is to be talked 1 . I and written about and made the subject of our [ I thoughts generally. While the feeling lasts socle- ' i ties for its promotion am! consequent prevention [ < of cruelty to animals will be formed, and pocket- I l?ooks will open, as by magi", to sustain them; but i | when the wave recedes, then?why then the so< le- ; ^ ! ties will die a natural death, and things be pretty I ! much ;t.s they were before. "1 Of course, while the wave lasts, we feel very ' | proud of our Interest in the matter,flutterour' J selves that we are very far advanced in clvlllza' tlon. Indeed, to have arrived at this point. ( ? But let us look back a couple of thousand years, i and we will find that India was far ahead of our ' present position on tho subject even then. The doctrine of Buddha, where it bears ou the animal jj i , kingdom, is the essence of kindness Jtself. The ! i cJo*i. who ted become incarnate, is represented as I ( passing, during a famine, a starving tigress and ( her two cubs, whose misery so excites his compas> slon that he? "Silently lai.l aside sandals and -staff, Hi? cacrwl thread, turban. and cloth. and came Forth from >?hin?l Uie milk-bush on th- sand, 1 Sayiu>f. "Hoi mother, here i* meat for thee:' i Whereat the K.-a.-t yel{>ed hoarse and shrill. oj?iaixii j r??a ri-r cuMS ?n<i ourim? t?> th<- earth , That witlim? had her of him, With all ttie crooked dashers of her ciaws liW 3- -h. and a"l h.-r ye*>w fansre Bathed in his1>lood, the sjrt-t cat'*buruiD? breath > Mixed with ti.e ,-iirh nf such fearless love." Surely greater kindness to :>nlmuls than the giving one's self as iuoJ to sustain an Interesting i family like tli^t cannot be conceived; anil If only ; , some j*-o;?le (Guiteau and a few more I could men- j tlon) wuuld fv-el like Buddha on the subject and : "co and do likewise," what a comfort it would be , to th? tigers, and the people or the United States as well. I Aside from all other considerations, though, and . viewed lr-mi a little girl's standpoint, it .v,*ems to i me that n?> noble, br ivo man will or can be guilty of nnkliKtnesB to helpless creatures; and its my 1 1 opinion tint any one who is unkind to animals ' ! will b the same to human beings, unless deterred i j by f?*ar of consequences. A ad here 1 may as w 11 protest against a species of unkindness toward defenceless creatures ' which very much concerns myself. There are a i i number or us confined, during a great part or the i | day,within walls from which the water runs In i 1 streams and where the retliog Is In i chronl-: state i 1 of rupture. tk?me line day It Is g>>lng to tali, and then somebody will be hurt; after which there will l?e the usual investigation, ending in the Just as usual resolution that "nobody w;u? to blame," which will end the matter?unless th - Injured i! child's parents .should go gunning for the guilty 1 parties. Another species of unkindness consists In opening the windows and letting the cold draught pour in upon us when we are just getting comfortably Wi*rm. This Is called ventilation, and kills more children than anything else. I hope somebody will teach theso unkind people hovr wrong their actions are, and m*ke scnool life a pleasure instead of a torture to us. Eir.HTH Grade, Second Scuool Division, (Miss Clara C. Biker, teacher,) Maky a. IIanlky, age 14, 1514 5th Street northwest. To be kind to animals it Is not necessary that we should keep in mind the Idea that In doing so we are only obeying a Divine law, that God, who created us, created them also, and that Ho exacts from us a recognition of their authorship. There Is a higher and better reason fur treating animals kindly?It Is our common humanity which should teach us to refrain from doing mat which would give pain to anything possessing life. That an animal ha* no soul to survive the death 1 of Its body Is no reason why we, by Indiscriminate and inhuman aimso, should render its short life ' one or pain and misery. The harm resulting fro? tbis .tbuso is, however, not merely confined to its * subject. It reacts on the abuser, and shows its baneful effects ia a blunted moral perception aod ' j a det^riorai^-d mor.il standard. This is found to b? the case In countries where the general standard is a low one, and where brutality h-is uncontrolled sway. J In the gleam which lights up an animal's eye, we read an appeal to our better nature whleh ! prompts us, if we be not 1 insensible to Its dumb argument, to treat it with the kindness and con- , Slderatlon which we would naturally extend to a fellow ere iture. Kind treatment brings out the 1 ; Oe-4, quailtksor which animals are capable, and j m ikes them doelle, lovable, obedleut und falthruL 1 It !s a noticeable faet that In Arabia, where the ' finest brev*4 of horses are produced, that animal \ , i is lnvarlablj kindly tretted. An Arab will not I bt'an ^rxi..??- ?> ?- - * u>vu IA 11.11 nutj u> ius nurse. Anim ils have given proofs of the possession nt , con-^iea-e, nnwin, otxilicnco. fidelity and many i odwr equally One qu iltttas. The d?>g is one of the 1 | must docile ?u.l falth'ul or animals, anil has d1s- : pi ;yi-tl unexampled bravery In saving humau life, j , The lo_;s of St. Bernard are famous the world over : 1 for th*?tr successful efforts In rescuing travellers ' ! lost In t h- Alpine wm W? have on record the H tory oi the dog <X HmabMM, which is worthy I' . to b.- placed oil !>.?.r with that of the .sentinel of 1 ! j Poinpetl. Whoa the ruins of the former city were ; unearthed, the skeleton of a dog was fouad . stretched ov, r that of his young Master, whom ho i had probably shielded :ro;n the ilamesand smoke, J until hi a (l Mih by aBftttattoa, 1 ' ' Notwithstanding an we owe to animals and the . I many lino qn tllUos of which th y have shown ' ' ' themselves cnpaMe.thelr cruel treatment h sb>n . j fr?*u ttie earliest time the rule rather than the ' I exception, il. n have, it a;>peurs, always permit- < r ted ih -lr brutality to eat a the ascendency over | 1 their better nature. Korne, iu her p.Jmy days ' ' was the favorite theater of gl.-Mtlalorlal sports, the la X remnants of which were not abolished uutd < th? fifth century after Christ. Bull-biUtiug, 1 J still a favorite ;unuseo?ent In Spain, waft aboilsriud . in En. lucid In 1385, although bear-baiting in the 1 latter country was interdicted at the time of the ; commonwealth. Cruelty, e\ n now, is penetrated in so many ' | ' ways that their complete enumeration would be J j somewhat difficult; but one method In particular ; I ^ may bo mentioned, because its Justiltableness is . still a mooted point. Tills is vivisection without ^ the use o: anaesthetics. It is frequently done in j medleal schools to gratify the curi'>slty of stu; dents whea no question of medical or scientific interest is at stake. The enormous amount of , > cruelt r which Is thos needlessly Inflicted may be ; gne::sed at when we are tohl that- Majemlic, the ; celebrated Kroneh philologist, dissected alive J 1 40.IW0 dumb animals, and at his death confessed . vlvtsectto.j to be a failure. l)r. Brown-Scquard, of f Paris, has been scarcely less brutal, and, it is said, has laflleted more cruelty on animals than any man aline. ? Since The beginning of this century there has be**n in progress a rapidly growing crusade i : against cruelty to animals. The Society for the Prevention of cruelty to Animals hjd its orlgi a in i , Knvfland, ?ml now has a large membership In both . co'intrt -s. The chief iv tdcr of the movement here J t; II nry iv rgh, a resident of New York city. > 1 Through his vigorous and untiring efforts the society hasheeu pmced on a permanent basis, and | ' has established branches all over the country. That the society has done much good is not to be doubted. ? , A iiujv'.r^i years ago the Idea that dumb anlmahh idkv l rights wa^tre^ted with scorn and j derision, and in Imuran sports received the sanction of authority; while now legislative enactments h?v? made cruelty punishable oy law, and the bar- j b irons s??<ats of former tiroes have been rightly aL-j-i-Uu-.L It Is not to Ihj supposed that we have j yet replied the miilennlum In this respect, but we * arerapfcljr tending to tL Tt? t?o? HDOflPrtant purt . nf the work has been accomplished, and ceaseless vigilance, that It be not uhuo&e, 13 what Is chiefly required. To the friends of dumb humanity the future looks bright, and all of thorn cherish a conviction that th--day will yet arrive when men shall have . so far overcome the brutal In their nature that ^ni*?lty to animals may be reckoned among those things which are past Giris' II wh School (Miss Georgia Line, principal,) Cora Paxton, 1323 II street northwest Am in born without a heart should have bfen horn without the use of his right hand. "Alas," jrou say, "the world would be left handed." Dexterity is not a virtue, and the mute appeal of our suffering and wronged animals is "more heart, less whip." In the countries of the far east, where the Indus lends its name to the soil It washes, animalvvnrshtp is a fort, for dumb brutes. A man cannot strike so unmercifully at a beast when he thinks t.h it It probably contains the soul of his grandnv'ther, or that pome day, in one of Its kind, his own soul will begin again its wanderings for a bettor life. From the appearance of som" of our commission houses on market day, one would suppose that we Indulged in a similar belief, and that every pig, calf or chicken embodied the soul of a mother-inlaw. A stone heart must surely melt to see that ' stock of living ware. Here a pitiful calf, half choked by the rope, stands tied to a post There a box or fowls nearly smothered, all of them,?and . home with bleeding heads that tell of fearful peeking affrays. " I>o you ever eat pork with compunction ? " I asked a corpulent red-faced dealer one morning. " Why no," lie said laughing; " pork is better with pepper and salt. When we show mercy to the animals we rob our own pockets." " Yes, but you enrl -h your life with that which Is better than rubies or precious stones." I think this last remark was lo->t, ror wh"n I turned the dealer was explaining to a customer that " pork being scarce, fowls were dear." The poets sing beautiful songs of the gentle-eyed cow reveling in beds of clover and sweet-scented i blossom?. I longed for one of those poets last , spring. several or us went beyond the boundaries 1 of Washington to hunt for arbutus. On a bare i and rocky hill we saw an exceedingly bony cow? f a theme for a Hoiuer or a Shakcsneare. She could , not walk, and 1 iy with her head down the hllL ! Pitying looks and kind words availed nothing, so j we hurried on to a spring near by, where a man i wan burning brush. We told htm his cow was i dying (we thought so), and he rushed frantically ( upth^hlll. Some of us were ungenerous enough ] to wonder if th*1 suffering cow or his Washington milk customers had most moved his h^art , The boy is father of the man. Now If you have 1 ever wondered why a man mistreats animals Inferior to him, go back through the corridors of time, thirty or forty years, to that ragged, shaggy ! beaded boy, who has In the space of eight years , thrown one million of stones at a half a million of cats, tied tin pans innumerable to the tails of In- * noeent dogs, and heaped coals of fire on the backs 1 of defenceless turtles. Go back as you would go toward the fountain head to know the cause of a < muddy stream. i One evening as I passed down H street a shout from a crowd of boys on a corner made me look for , the cause of their merriment, in the midst of ! them stood a yeilow cur, frightened and shivering. 1 When he attempted to escape he was caught and I thrown back. At last ono of the boys caught him ] and ran off down the street "What do you ask y for your dog?" I inquired, as I passed him on the i next corner, where he stood holding Ills charge by < the head. "i>ogs Is up," he replied, with all the , suavity or a salesman. He at last decided that ten 1 cents were worth more than even ten dogs, and I ( earned mv prize away In triumph. What should ^ I do with him? Put him out to board? No! I j bought him some bologn i sausige, and, after eat- i ing it, much to my relief he trotted oil down tile stive t r, There is a little boy in Washington that drives a , goat- in a wagon. From the way he treats his ' go;Ut, in twenty years from now he will be, I know, a terror to the brute creation. I hope that boy will deem It better for his health to travel. We have no place in America for him. 1 We all know a reform is needed. We see H and . rcl it every day. Let us not, however, pounce ilown on our plebian, but lo*k to our patrician. I can see from my window a coachman rushing r Ills horse frantically down the street The oeeu- t pant must have ordered it He mav h* :i rf*nr^_ sent .tive or the fashionable world or he may be a . I'.t bluet member who Unbred so ions over a choice J of cravats that he must kill either his horses or his ' reput >tlon as a roan of his wor:L lie prefers the ( former, find his horses suffer. HI-; sin Is equal I with that uf the stivet-car driver, who lashes his 8 horse because the poor tiling slipped on the Ice. Back to our patricians! Watch that daintily- * SruKd lady ntonrtlng1 on the corner. She sees the _ ponenger about tea steps behind her stop the car. " She can,get in with the physlclal extortion of a few ( steps, but she floes not, and the horse twice starts < a lo ult-d car. If you have ever carried a bucket j uf water up a hill, and set it down to rest your- f self, you know how the horse feels. i mr lady Is in the car now, and, with her dear little poodle deg on the seat by her, she imagines herself a protestor of the anlin il kingdom, iler I sin would balance the scale If weighed with that t of an old negro man whom I saw on 3d street one day. A miserable, bony horse was vainly endeav- \ oringtodraw a load sufficient for two strong hor-es. "What are you abusing that horse for?'" I iiske l with all the wrath I could summon. "Lawsy. Missy, I ain't 'busln' dis horse,_bless you, ( honej. lw be de backbone ob our family." "What ^ :: re you trying to kill him for, then?" "Bless yo' { life, i ain't trien to kill him, but I thot he gwine to die, and I wants to get all de work outen him * what I kin ny he die." * It Is hard to s*t down rules by which to treat our A brutes. If all the in n and ladies were good, then c mlsht we say, "Follow the dictates of your con- 'j 3-leme;" but a conscience is such a wiry little r machine we might better not say that. A red ant last night crawled over the leaves of ' my book, right across, as if attracted to it?the picture of a magnetic needle. My first lmpnlse \ was to knock It elf, and then I saw a small island 1 In the pleasant waters of the /Egean sea, and Zeus, the shlnlag god of light, was transforming \ hnmtr ds of small ants Into fler.:e, i?old warriors, j Toen Achilles came, and they followed him to lay , siege to udghty Troy. I wonderr-d If my little friend on the bo>?k wt-re suddenly to become a my rmldon J ir I would attempt to crush It. I rather thought I * should not, and the American solon kept Its'life. 1 God no more made the higher animal to abuse the y lower animal than he made the white man to abuse the black man. r I r you want to know how to treat an animal, put j yourvdf in its place. "But," you say, "I do not ? mistreat; we have five or six cats,?I am good to theoi :dl. I <un kind to the dogs. We havo a parrot, which I s'ander but never strike. What more I da you wtRh ?" There Is the busy rolling w.rter of f. the ocean hurrying to the clouis, then d;tshlng to a earth again, carrying the wealth of mountains to barren fields, and .aaKing the earth better for its vsry activity. Thore is the lake, passive and calm, making the world something better without an exertion. You are the lake. Be a torrent, and ? when Boreas blows his shrill whistle take your g cloak about you and sally forth. Be accompanied t by your heart, and, if you have one, your ? purse. Open yair heart and your purse will fly 1 open with It. Do not imagine yourseir a John Uilpin, or a Don Quixote, or even an Alfred the Greet, but simply an American citizen on an srr,aid of Justice. Lookout for speechless animal's I paupers, for a "beggar that is dumb, you know, 5 may challenge double pity." It you be a Greek, , remember a horse took Troy. If you be ;in Amerl- L remember a horse s wed Caodar Creek. See 1 the trooj* effected n^r Winchester. Watch Early . driving them from their camp in the grey light of the naming. List*? to the who of a far-away p iioof. Hear It growing louder and louder till horse 1 aid rider rush to the front Sheridan wore, the ( Utvreix of that victory. Let you and me make a v wreivth from the leaves of kindness for tho hone. t You may think the sniffling woolly cur of no : raluo whatever, but it be.irs the Image of those 1 noble St. Bernard dogs th;it at this very moment f ire battling with the cold bL?st for ui*-n or your t race and n.iiJ?>n. Give the cur a bone ror the sake c >f your benefactor. You say, "That will do thao- ^ retlcally; the horse Is good and gentle; kindness t will rule It; harness your theory with a mule, and f mh" i"uis ?ui a?ju ue iragmenis." U'ne tneory is ' not ''Never ^rikc; never be angry." The BIWe 1 says t4Be angry, but sin not." Solon sulu, "Be t uaoderativ' You follow the blacksmith's motto, uul strike when the Iron la hot. Watt till you j lave mastered your temper, then inciter your . i>rute, rem?mb<'rlug always to; tike the same 1 noons to Uo ho that you would take If you knew the animal would walk up the aisle of your church 1 >n Sunday morning and read your record of the past week. * FVPIL8 KNTlTl.KD TO UONORABI.lt MENTION. S In iidditi<>n to the above prize IBt the following 5 pupils were declared to bo entitled to honorable * mention for the excellence of their compositions: High SohooL?Arthur M. Little, S161 street north- c ivest. Eighth Gride.?Ada P. Gardiner, 115 C street s iorthe<ist (Mrs. E. A. Hilton, teacher); Nannie S. I tiilb; rt (school division 1), Glenwood road, D. C.; H. K. Kalb, (iiO street northwest (Mr. S Jno. \ rhoiason, teacher). > Seventh Grade.?Helen B. Weir, school 4, 1 llvlslon ?, lias I street northeast; Luv. jll C. Wll- 11 Hams 6th street northwest. ' ]' Sixth Gr%de.?Annie E. Holcomb, Franklin build- f In*;; ikteggle B. Ferguson, No. B18 M street. t Fifth Grade.?M iu.1 Lwscoinb, Mount Pleasant; r Minnie c. Durham, 191ts 9th street; Edwin Brady, ?H> ?ih street southeast, Fourth Grade.?George Alstead, school 2, division 8 5; G*?orge T. Nixon, school 8. division 5. Third tirade.?Thomas Stftson, 1321 12th street; Lilian M. Hertford, Mount Pleasant. The Srhvol-Bojr. I We bought him a box for his books and things, e And a cricket bag ror his bat; Knd he looked the brightest and best of kings ' Under his new straw hat. I VVe handed him Into the i all way train \ With a troop of his young compeers, ^ And we mad*- as though It were dust and rala 1 Were lining our eyes with tears. i We looked in his Innocent face to see ^ The sljjn of a sorrowful heart; * But he only shouldered his bat with glee And wondered when they would start. * Twas not that ho loved not its heretofore, For the boy was tender and kind; But his was a world that was all before, t And ours was a world behind. t< Twas not his fluttering heart was cold, * For tin- child was loyal ami true; t knd the parents love the love that Is ol<L t Apd the children Uie love that is new. e knd we came to know that love Is a (lower Which only groweth down; ? lod we scarcely spoke for the span al an boar 0 As we drove bw? through the town. f< episcopalian, g 1 THE CITY MARKETS. Features of ihe Week* TOKSH PRODUCE FROM Tlffi GULF BTATE8?OLEOMARGARINE SAID TO RESOLD IN ABUNDANCE? THE QUOTATIONS FOR CATTLE, ETC. The price? for country products in our city narkets have, as a rule, remained steady during ;he past week, and with little signs of lower ates at present. The trade In potatoes has been steady at prices i little wavering. Irish and Scotch sell in jobring lots at $1.10 a $ 1.30 per bushel, and the lemand for them Is increasing, but without affecting the price, while the domestic product is irm at the rates last quoted. The ordinary good quality now sells readily at f 1.30 a *1.30 per >ushel, and fancy Rose, for seed, are selling at { 1.50 per bushel. 8weet potatoes are holding out better, both is to quantity and quality, than was expected. They are bringing $4.50 a $5 per barrel, and forth Carolina yams $3 a $3.50. There is a small business in domestic dried "rait. The supply Is light and the demand : iteady. Apples are 10 and 13 cents for common I Irled, and peaches, unpeeled, 15 and 30 cents; I "forth Carolina sun-dried 30 and 35, and other grades 15 and 18 cents; blackberries 13 and 15 ;ents; cherries 15 and 30 cents; raspberries 18 md 30 cents; huckleberries 13 and 15 cents. All lomestic dried fruits are scarce. . APPLES ange from $3 a $6 per barrel, according to the quality. The Newtown pippins and winesaps j ippear to be about the best in our market, and wme lots stored here last fall by our dealers >ave recently been opened, and are found to be jetter preserved from rot than any before seen n this market. Those who secured their winter itores from Virginia and Maryland growth have lone better than those who went further from lome tor their supplies. Florida oranges sell from $3.50 a $5 In halfjarrel boxes, aud Messmas $3 a $4 ber box. Malaga grapes are worth $8 a $ltt per barrel. Messina and Palermo lemons are $2.50 a 4-3.25. Sicily lemons $2.50 a $4.25 per box. Cranberies, per barrel?Jerseys $5 a $8. Cocoanuts ire selling at $5 per "hundred. Other fancy fruits are also high at present. The supplies of onions are abundant and with lull sales?$2.50 a $3 per barrel are the ruling [trices this week. The supply of winter kale keeps up without iiuch change In prices. The quality is excellent ;his season, and it brings $2.25 per barrel, while rood winter spinach sells readily for $3.50 a $4 t>er oarrel. There has been a good deal of these vegetables sold this season, and poor families nake them a nice substitute for cabbage, which s very scarce and high. Turnips of good qualty sell for $2.50 a $3 per barrel, and there are jonsiderable quantities consumed here every veek. There is a variety of ways for cooking tnd serving them, some of them making a very jalatahle and nutritious dish. Sauerkraut continues to arrive from the west. The 18-gallon tubs sell at $5.50, and the 45-galon tubs at $12.50. PRODUCE FROM FLORIDA. Some excellent fresh tomatoes from Florida lave arrived, and sell for $2.50 a $6 per bushel >asket. The first arrivals of fresh asparagus have been i feature the present week. They were caught ip quickly at $1 per butich of two' pounds each, ind were very fine. They came from Charleson. Some good lots of fresh Florida cabbage jave arrived, and sold for $4 a $6 per crate of >ne bushel. A few lots of Boston cabbage have >een in the market the past week, but the heads ire small and not very solid. Dealers in market nrodueo stat? that thpv nn. : icipate brisk sales of fresh stocks in the spring, j rtuch early stock is nmv received annually from Charleston aad Florida, and it is increasing in [uantity every year. Producers south lind that t is a prolitable business to raise garden vege- | ables for northern consnmption. Norfolk is osing its grip-upon the northern nftirkets for (arly supplies, and all that is wanted is the aeans of quick and sure transportation to make his a very prolitable business. The stock of dry beans is very light and prices iigh. TITE CATTT.E MARKET. There were 213 good fat cattle put up at >ueenstown Wednesday, and brought 34 a $6.50 ier hundred on the hoof. Sales of inferior prade were sold for much less. There were also 150 she<?p on the stand* which sold from $4.50 a i*>.75 per hundred pounds; also 15 good milch :ews. the price ranging from $30 a $50 each. There was also a lively inquiry for calves, but lone were sold. The market was considered food and prices firm. Hay is dull and sales weak. The range for rood clover, timothy, aud mixed has been $14 a >18. Poultry Is scarce and in great demand, the wholesale rates ranging at $14 a *18 for turkeys, and $14 a $15 for chickens. The supplies some in slowly, aud the sales are quick. Some tood lots have been sold for higher rates than he above since the cool weather has set in. Live poultry also meets with 'ready sales if in food condition. Eggs continue high and in demand?38 and !9 cents are the ruling rates, Limed eggs are lot much in demand. They are selling in job* ?n^ lots for 15 and 17 cents. There has been no perceptible change in buter to note si ace the report of last week. Good p ades are getting scarce, with an upward look is to price, bet the market has been bteady. OLEOMARGARINE. It Is said that there is a great deal of oleomargarine sold In this market, and that much of it joes into the retail trade. It is thought that he proper officers whose duty it is to look after t are not vigilant. BCTTERINK. Besides the eleomargerine its twin brother mtterine has made its appearancehere.and from 10 to 100 packages of both the articles are aided here every week. These packages are isually marked " oleomargerine" or *4 bntterne," and they are likely sold as such by wholeale, but when they reach the retailer it Is beieved they are sold largely as genuioe butter. )leomargei1ne is compened altogether of the >ovine products?butter aud beef tallow, but he other article, butter inc. is much the best latat ion of butter, both in appearance and lavor. although the product of two animals? he cow and the hog?butter and lard. So losely does butterine resemble the dairy pro iuci ttiat out tew nousekeej>er8 can detect it. Il few days since a lady well known in Washngton society accidentally found that she had teen using on her table a first-class article of ml ferine instead of the pure dairy produce. There is a steady demand for'good dressed logs since the weather has changed, with better ?rices in prospect. Good veal calves on the hoof are in active lemand at 7 and 8>j cents. The Hour trade is very quiet and rather in fa'or of the buyers. The jobbing rates of Minne<>ta and other fancy patent -process brands are <9; Erood family grades $(>.75 a ?7.50; superfine s">.35 a *6. Dealers think the prices arc a* low as they >uirht to go, and are hopeful for more activity'. The price of butchers' meat remains about the ame as heretofore. Smoked meats, no change, Nit prices steady and brisk. Fresh fish are scarce and hiirh. In jobbing ots rock are selling from SO and GO cents per >unch; single rock of medium boilin?r size 20 ;nd 25 cents per pound; large rock 15 cents; torch 50 cents per bunch for white, and 25 ceuts or yellow; fresh herring are worth 40 per housand. Tliere are no Potomac shad in the J narket. Some few North Carolina roe have I een in market at $1 each, and 50 cents for buck had. Game Is scarce and high. A Flower That Explodes. ^rom Ceylon Letter in San Francisco Chronicle. In some seasons nature's greatest blossoming ffort astonishes and delights the traveller in iresentatlon of the talapat tree (carypha umiracullfena) in bioom. which marvellous flower, t is said, appears only at intervals of many ears, and then bursts from its sheaf like a ocket, with a report like a small cannon, sendn? out immense feathery nprays of a pale ellow or white color laden with an oppressive ?erfume. furious Trarntn i*?l oa of Phjwical Traits, M. Lenglen, a physician of Arras, gives an Ineresting description of what may be well enned a remarkable perpetuation of physical raits. It appears that a certain M. Camelon, in he last century, was sex-digitate, having two humbs on each hand and two great toes on ach foot; the peculiarity was not noticeable in is son, but in each of the three subsequent operations it has boen strongly marked, some f tiie children at present showing the inaljrmation as distinctly m their great-great T$E CONGRESSIONAL KECORD. How and Where it is Printed* THE LARGEST DAILY PUBLICATION IX THK ! WORLD?SCENES IV THE PRINTING OFFICE AT KIGHT?SOME FACTS ABorT THE WORK HONK. A little over a hundred years ago. in England, it would have been considered an offence, only one remove from treason, for a printer to dare to publish reports of the proceeding of Parliament. The celebrated eontest between Parliament and the press began in 1770. The staid old English legislators, utterly astounded at the impudence of certain printers of London journals who dared to publish a summary of the parliamentary proceedings, ordered the rash men into the custody of the sergeant-ar-arms. It so happened that the arrests were made within the precincts of the^ity of London and the lord mavor and aldermen ot that city, jealous pf their privileges, placed the officers of the House who arrested the prisoners, in custody for making an assault. The House thus defied waxed iurious and ordered the confinement of the Ix?rd Mayor and one of the aldermen in the tower. When Parliament was prorogued these gentlemen were set at liberty, and the city was illuminated in their honor. Parliament finding itself powerless to oppose the growing public opinion in fav>r of the printers conceded the point, and from that day reports of legislative proceedings have been published; though the resolution affirming it to be a high indignity to, and a notorious breach of the privileges of the House to publish its debates remains uurevoked. If these queued and periwigged old lawmakers could re- [ visit the glimpses of the moon on this side of j A XI ? ?aJ 1 *_ i- ' I uic AiiiuiMu. hiiu uenoiu ine national legislature actually keeping a printing office of its own. i 1 doubtless they would thank their stars that . they were permitted to die before the world 1 arrived at an aire where it could regard such a 1 shocking state of affairs with indifference. the congressional record varies in the amount of its contents, of course, according to the length of the daily sessions of Congress, and the amount of business transacted. but, as it averages, it is the largest daily publication in the world. For several years past, during the months when Congress is in session, the wayfarer at night, through the parts of the city bordering on the region known as Swampoodle?on account of a legend that there was once a swamp there, and the bullfrog aud mud turtle helTl sway where now continuous rows of housesare built?was cheered by a loner. 1 bright row of lights in the upper floor of the Government Printing (WJice. This was the j Record office, but within the last few months it has been removed to the new wing of the building, and being located on the second floor, no longer hangs out aloft its cheery signals to guide the belated tiaveler. To this'oflice. where the utterances of our legislators are immortalized in type, and which is usually sacred from intrusion, a Star reporter gained admission. the record offics is a spacious room or hall with arched fire proof ceiling, supported by two rows of strong brick columns, which divide the space in the hall into three different apartments. The visitor entering by way of the stairway at the left steps into the middle apartment, which is the "runway" j of the office, devoted to imposing stones, galley i racks, copy cases and other furniture. At the j eastern end of this "runway" is the desk of the assistant foremen, who gives out copy and keeps track of the matter as it is set up. The galley boy and "devil," also disport themselves in this central part of the hall, and the "typos" make use of it as a passage * way when on their way from their cases to "dump" their type and get a new "take." Near the stairway where the visitor entered is a small private office used by the foreman. The space on the right side of the hall is given up to the typos. Here tnere are rows and rows of printers' ca?es, and at night the eye gets bewildered by the long line of lights half hidden by shades. The space on the right side is taken up with an inclosure where the proofreaders sit; a colony of printers for whom there is not room on the right side of the office; fonts of type, dead-boards, and cases for storing away the type that is "tied up" wait- , :?.* 4-i 4 Ulfi IVI U?V MCTYOt} JMfT. Such was the general arrangement of the ; printing otlicc which Thk Stab rei>orter in- i vaded just at six o'clock. It was the hour ! when the work of the night was to begin. All i was life and bustle. Half a hundred printers in ' their shirt sleevesand wearing shades over their eyes were crowding about the desk of the assistant foreman. i civixc, out copt. That gentleman had a large pile of manuscript already cut up in "takes" on the desk before him. The business of distributing the the copy was disposed of very rapidly. Each printer as his number was called stepped to the desk, took the piece of manuscript handed him, and repaired to his case. This copy was all paged in order. As it was given out the assistaut foreman made a rapid record on a slip of pai>er properly ruled and headed, which showed the "slug" or number of the printer to whom the copy had been given, the "folio" or aumber of the "take" of manuscript, and the numl>er of the galley on which the "matter" should be emptied when set. As the work of giving out copy was going on, Mr. Byron A. Ford, the foreman of the office. stood "by watching tiie proceedings. Soon every printer had captured a morsel of Bianuaeript and hurried off to his "alley" to dispose of it. and there was a brief respite in the labors of the assistant foreman. A messenger from the Cai*t*l with a leathern haversack or bag here hurried in. however, and dumped upon the desk several huge rolls of manuscript, which were to )>at? under the shears and pencil of the assistant foreman, to be numbered and divided up into takes and distributed among the typos just as the first batch had beea served. thk si28 ok thk bj5c0rd. " The Recordsaid Mr. Ford to the Star reporter, "is undoubtedly the heaviest daily publication in the world. A fifty-six page Record, is equal to any two of the New York papers and a 100 page Record is equal to the Herald. Tribune. Times, World and Sun all put together. Look here," continued Mr. Ford, taking down a book in which a daily record of the amount of type set is kept, "I think it would frighten anynewspaper publisher to have any such bills as these." The record showed that during the first twentyseven days of the session there were set- 5,070,700 ems. The daily amounts ranged from 12,000 ems to 757,500 ems. The latter was a 112 page Record, made unusually* heavy by the publication of the index of the Record. "That does not include," said Mr. Ford, "what we ciill our -dead horse,' the standing matter, such as residences of members, Ac., which are put in so as to make up the proper number of pages." tub process. The matter that comes from the stenographic reporters at the Capitol, after it reaches the printing office, makes its way gradually from the desk of the assistant foreman down the center ol the room until finally, the forms are wheeled out of the west end of the room on trucks and lowered to the press room. If one piece of copy, or "take," is followed in its progress through the office, the whole system can be seen. The takes average about 700 ems each so far as the matter cau be evenly distributed. When the printer has set his take he carries It in liis composing stick to a table on which a 1 large number of galleys are set, aid gives the Miinkk/VM UU a UJ- ? A uuuil/ul ui uia lunt/ uiiu ii in " lO A TS&H in attendance there. This man, who is provided with the record made by the assistant foreman, when he gave out the copy, has the typo dump his type on the proper galley, and taking the copy, places it in a sort of pigeon holewumbered to correspond with the number of the galley. The advantage of giving oat the copy in short takes is soon made manifest, for it is not long after the copy is given out before the first galley is filled up, so that proofs can be taken and read, and all of the different departments of the office called into active oj>erutioa. so as to hasten the matter on its journey towards the west end of the office. The floor man who attends to these galleys and the copy has to keep separate the reports of the two houses. There are two streams of type, one from the House report, and the other from the Senate report pouring in upon him constantly. THE PROOF READERS. When the " take " has been dumped, together with other takes, a proof is taken from it, and this, with the corresponding copy, is taken into the proof readers' room or enclosure. This is a good-sized apartment, having tables and shaded lights arranged along the sides. Here are five proof readers who read by copy?that is, read the proof aloud and make corrections while a copy holder reads the manuscript with a view of detecting any errors made by the compositor. After the proof has been read by one of these men it is passed over to one of the silent readers. of whom there are four, and who read for the purpose of discovering errors ot sense, and Incidentally to catch any typographical error that the first proof reader may have overlooked. When the silent reader has finished hia work the proof Is sent cot to 1 tltfoompofiifig-rooin agaia aod each compositor ] I ? is required to correct his own errors. This done, another proof is taken and returned to the proof-readers, where it is read by a uentleman Known as the 4*revU?or," mod ail errors remaining are marked by him. Meanwhile the type has been making uradnal pr? gross westward from shelf to shelf and from table to table. Wljgn the corrections indicate') by the reviser have been made the type is* laid on aroiher table or stone ami arranged ??n a new galley. This galley is two columns in w idth, and holds just the amount of typo required to fill a page of the Tftcorv/. Another proof impression is taken from the type then..and it is reviewed a^ain in the proof-readers' room lor the last time l?efore uiakiug its de?ceut to Ihe regiou of the pressroom. The type finally reaches THK I.AST STAGS on the imposing stoue. Here it is made up in flat forms for the press, the forms beau; so ar- j ranged as to hold eight pages of type. The head-lines and numbers of the paires having i been inserted in their proper places the chases j are firmly !<?cked. A truck is wheeled up to the i imposing stone, the form is laid upon it and rushed away to the elevator, where it is lowered to the press room. The first sheet from the press is brought immediately up-stairs. and it is thoroughly reviewed by the proof-reader, making the fifth and last time that the matter passes under the eye of the reader l^eforc publication. THE PRESSES. The number of presses employed on the work depends 011 the size of the Jicrord to be printed. The first two presses jet to work print, at each impression, 10 pages of the Jitxxtrd. The other , presses, and sometimes several of the large presses in the office are used on the work, print , signatures of 8 pa;*es. After the dailv litrvrd. of which 6.000 copies are printed, f?as\>een run off the presses, tlie forms are returned to the composing room. Here the type, after beinir released from the chases, is handled by no less than six different men before it finally iroes to press Hiram to print the permanent /.Von-*/, which appears in tho hound volumes. The type is released from the chases. If any Representative or Senator lias ordered, as Is frequently the case, copies of his speech in pamphlet form, his speech is taken out and the type rearrange! for such special publication. After this is attended to the type is tied up and laid away on a large platform "to take its turn In being corrected. All the errors and omissions in the daily publication having been mended, the type is again made up in forms, and sent to the stereotyping foundry, where the plates from which the bound editions are printed are made. The type is then returned to the composing room and placed on the "dead board." whence it makes its way back to the boxes in the printers' cases. tovs or TTPK. By the time the reporter who had been guided through the intricacies of the office by Mr. Ford J reached the west end. a truck bearing two of the forms of the last edition of the Record was sent ; back from the press room, being hauled in from ; the elevator. Two men taking hold of a form to j lift it upon the "dead-board," staggered under its weight. "That weighs three hundred pounds," said one of the men to the reporter. "Every page of type" said Mr. Ford, "weighs 22 pounds. What do you think the last new dress of type we got weighed?" The reporter not being aole to make an estimate. Mr. Ford continued, "22.000 pounds. The last dress of type we had lasted seven years, which is doing pretty well. Yes." contiuued Mr. Ford, in reply to a suggestion from the reporter, "we will have to have a larger office. The lircortl grows every session. It has been heavier this session than ever before. Of course as the session grows older, the Jb*vjrd will grow larger." REVISING SPEECHES. One great source of annoyance to the printers In getting out the Jhcord is the fact that nearly even Congressman whowants to revise his speech, deems it necessary to keep the manuscript or proof out of the office until after midnight. "I think we. hav? nnn- " uoM Mr - - ? . ? V V..V.U ww< f ?:**?' * i'l I ? I. ViUf speaking of this, "by the 12 o'clock rule. If a member does not have his speech in now by 12 o'clock we put in a line 'Withheld for revision,' or something to that effect, an<l let it go. That makes them get In earlier. Of j coarse when such a thing happens, , the speech appears in its reirular place i in the bound edition." Very often members furnish the manuscript of their B|?eeches, much to the dis-zust of the typos, among whom Compression.il chiroirraphy does not bear a very good reputation for legibility. The copy furnished by the reporters and their amanuenses iff w ritten hi bold, plain characters, on alternate lines, and is very easy to decipher. THK " RBFRIOKBATOR." " There," said Mr. Ford, pointing to a large wooden cabinet or box "is our refrigerator." " Refrigerator," said the reporter. "Yes, our refrigerator. When a member sends down his speech in advance to have it set in type, so as to save time, the galleys are locked up there. Sometimes a member want3 to get proof slips of his speech to send to the newspapers, or something of that sort. The type is locked up in the refrigerator until the speech is delivered. Then, as the speech becomes public property, it is taken out, and any one can see it." ! ODDS AND EK!>g. ; Mr. Ford said that, if the copy was furnished , unint erruptedly from six o'clock in the evening ! he could B*md a fifty-six page Record to press j at two o'clock in the morning. He has now fifty-four compositors at work. When copy < runs out they are fed with "document room'* j 1 copy, of which there is always as abundance, so I < the government is not charged with "waiting I ' time." As the domand on the Record increases j i towards the end of the session, the torce will j j be pro|>ortionately increased. After the Rexxtrd j j is printed, the copy, or manuscript, of each edi- ' i tion together with the revised proof slips, are j } done up in buodles and deposited in pigeon i , boles, where they are kept for several weeks, i to be referred to, ia case the accuracy of the Record is brought Into question. Such a perfect system is in operation ia the office that not only caa any piece of copy be found at any 1 moment, but by reference to the record kept by * the assLstaat foremaa when he gives out the t copy, any paragraph that may be called for can be ?V8Cued from the sea of type In a moment of time. When the reporter left the office and emerged into the night air. the * light in the lantern ia the dome was shining in the southern sky, a sign to the world indi- I j (Siting that the legislators were extending their ! labors into the night. In a few hours the roar i and clang of pres.ses announce that the weary 1 printers' work is ended. The next morning a copy of the Record, fresh, crisp and clean.?containing a complete photograph of the session of the previous day up to the time of adjournment late at night,?Is laid upon the desk of eacti member, who, probably, as he glances through Its pages, gives no thought to the skill and toil of a hundred hands, and the mighty energies that have worked during the night to bring it into existence. LETTER FROM FLORIDA. ax utter wtnter ? everything lovely? j fruits, flowers, and vegetables oct in* full forge?john kelly luxuriating ix the peninsular a rca ola. Correal km den ce of The Evesiso Rta?. Palatka, Florida. February 30, 18S2. ^ If you could only be transported in a night Mid wake up in this state in the morning and look around you, see the forest trees with their new green leaves, the flowers and orange trees n full blooin and filing the air with their fragrance. hear the birds singing, bask in the jlear, warm sunshine, you would surely thiuk 5 rou were in some foreign land, and hardly be- 7 ieve you were still under the jurisdiction of our starry flag; and that it surely must be the month >f May and not mid-winter. Even those who lave traveled to a great extent have little idea 3 >f the diversity of soil, difference of climate and * rariety of production of this country of ours. * What it is now few can conceive, and what it is iestined to be in the near future, none can conecture. Surely God has given to this peo|4e a goodly heritage, and with sectional lines obliterited and a more friendly intercourse between ;he people of the different sections we can grow f ind develop and be independent of and defy Jie world. Florida is full of strangers; many of them looking for and locating homes, and a peculiar feature noticed by all is that the large majority of them are educated and refined peo- p [>le of the better class and hailing froiu almost p svery state in the Union, besides man} from ? England and other countries in Europe. Crescent City, a young and growing town, a situated on Crescent lake, formerly Dunofe lake, about twenty-five miles south of Palatka. There is a steamer i ufining from this place to Crescent City daily, _ >y way of the St. John's river, about ten m nilea, and thence up Dunn's creek, one of its J! ributaries, to the town, which is situated on an g 'levatiou of Mventv-five feet above the lake. 2 The village baa about 850 inhabitants and a a jood aettled back country. The principal industry ? ontBg* eatou* W 88,850 tnmom W ? icres of land, with more being plinth j?vory day. A pvvo nw 'renoent Cuy *old Itxi y.ir for #80.0t>0 cash. Person* coming to Fl>;i<la should visit this place. There i? a good cou ?lry hotel. stores and churches. Tli' 1'alalK.t and Indian KIv?t rallwa> wit! run through or near this town, in consideration of which them i? already ignite a land boom iu that section. Whlla the town I# on (Ywcent lake. there if also another lake on tlw (?Uht side "of it, the two lak??s being only half a mile apart. jet the waters of one are forty feet higher than the other. The Palatka and Indian liner m.iwaf line is now projected to Titustrdle. and tli'- c>rpa is running lirnorhe* to IWand, V?*lu*:a und sand lord. towns and landing* on the St. John ? river. Few persons have stooped to consider th# sire of this state, the amount of Hi present productions. and what it will he. Millions of oranges are ship|>ed every year, yet along the Indian River count), noted for the tin est orange*, hundreds of thousand* rot every year fc>r the want* of shipping facilit ies. This road wil bring this fruit to market, and will aim* ope? a new line of communication between th? Atlantic and tlulf coast. The Tammany chief. John Kelly. In at present paying a visit to this town." having been ordered here by his physicians for In* health. The forest tsees are leaingnnt very fast, ami the whole air is (terfumed by the fragrance of the orange IrioMoni Ont>bages a* iaige a* a half bushel, with strawberries, )?eans. l.ttuce, and other early vegetables arc in the market ami beinir shipped north. While this tow n is full of strangers, more are coming and going even* day, this l<elng a very pleasant nlaoe to stop at, as there are several tlrst-class iu tela and the starting |>olnt of the Oclawalia river steamers, ami no one has seen Florida who has not been on a trip up the 4 k< >L Inti-n Iko ? C .? O ? ?- ?* t ?A xnnin^uim r*in ?-i rtnnitfCB ;u The state fair at Jaeknouville oponn nevt week and will !??> a errand atlair. while wv?T?l of tin* e>unties will aim) hold lairs almut the time. This is a new thine for Florida, and if l?r?t|H'rly managed. will be of great tdvanU^ It lias Ihm'h very warm the last few day*, and the natives sax as warm asth<'> have la ftiimmrr, which if so. would make Florida a very ph'aaant place the year round. * MoK. |>B*80VS Awarded CAPCINE POROUS PLA8TEB. Modal*. THE BE8T KNOWN REMEDY FOB BACKACHE OR LAME BACK. RHEUMATISM OK LAME JOINTS. CRAMTS OB SPRAINS. NEURALGIA OR KIDNEY DISEASES. LUMBAGO. SEVERE ACHES OB PAINS* FEMALE WEAKNESS. Are Sui*rior to AU Other PlMtera. Are Suiierior to Pauls. Are Sui>cnor to Liniiueata. Are Superior to Oiutment* <? Helraa. Are Sui^rior to Electricity or Galwilrao. They Act Inum-diaUvly. They 8tr? mrtben. They Soothe. They Relieve Pun at Onoa. Th y Positively Cure. r irTIOV f. ? n ? ? ? -? been imitated. Do not alloy your dru'qrist to pain off a.- iae other piaster bavin*? a en.^iar sounduwr nn.*, S'1"' tU-t Uio uura w *i>e?ied O-A-K-I N L l'ntw 2* oc&U. SEABUET A JOHNSON, <111 M?nu??rtur!a*r Chemlrt*. New York. \M*KF REUtDY AT LAST. PRICE 2f> CENT& MEAD'S Medjcaterl Corn iind Bun;ou Piaster. dSl J^OOK FOR THE IiED SIGN'S FOB TBI BARGAIN SALE OF CLOTHINt*, 728 Sevi nth Stii&et Southwest. B&iymlns tell. The irrcat sale of BOSTON AND NEW YORK CLOTHTNO. Store crowded with cuotoman buyiufr Banrains la niotlauK for Men, lfoys and Children. Tb<- lu.lief <ieliirlited w ith the Ky le. Duality i.iid Price of our liojni i>a<( Children's Suite. Boys Overcoat* at st>out Half l*ri"-. Never such a chance t tret the quality and rtyleof Clothinfr at such Low Ili-en. Iar><- Mock to Set*-it from. All Styiew sji'l Pnct?. BusiatM* Hint a, M : '-'0. line Draw Suite, fi2 to $25. fine Dress Pants, SS to $7; line Dit** 11jm-U Cloth (Vtats, (16, worth (CM; Qn<:-4 d French Worsted <"<ate, worth (40, for fcto. trood Dress < 'oat* and Vesta, |>10 to fl5; satin-lined tiveruoats, worth $40. far $2j. iT?e laiver |>art of oiir rt<? k it* Due Custom Mads "Goads. and y<?ur tailor oanu<4 equal them in mi;ke, quality or lit. The cutter of Mir tcaruients receives $3,5t0 per year. We name, in part, some of our prices far medium cli? (roads. Children's hints. $'2.50 to ?4'?. Boys Suits. M taf*. YoutiM -Utits, ?6 to fl2. Working Pauta, 7&. $1. $1.M and f"2. T!us imiu'-ase stock ia now for sale at i2S 7th Htroet, where you can buy any jrooda rou want. Take them home, examine them, uid if not worth 25 per cant more than you l>av for them, return thorn. Your inouey will Ite cheerfully returned. We intend to mv* j .hi m? than your ie ney worth in the be?t made OloUnnK at 728 7th street lorthweat. LOOK FOR THE RED SIGNS IN FRONT. Next WEDNESDAY we shall move opposite. In the >ew store, Na. 723 7th street. J. H. SMITH, lormsrly of(>aK llall, 7th street, near F, shall be pleased to *e all my old friends and customers at the nreal reduotm SALE OF CLOTHING. Over 100 Gentlemen's Fine Odd Coats, worth from IS of 15, now aeliintr for CO cents on a dollar. fe23 lm PPP A L A II rRSSh P P AA L AA II S PPP A A L A A II BSSS_ P AAA L AAA II R C P A A. LLLL A A II *SSS? RRR OO T Y A L K ROOYYAA L RRR O O YY A A L R R O O Y . AAA L ? R R OO Y A A LLLL 1117-1119 PENNSYLVANIA AVEND* AMD 401-403 TWELFTH STREET. IN ORDER TO MAKE ROOM FOR OUR SPRIM 8TOCK. WHICH WE EXPF.CT IN* a FEW DAYS. OUR TKESENT GREAT REDUCTION YLLL STILL HOLD GOOD UKTIL FCUT1XKS KOT1CE. OENCIXI FOSTER KID GLOVES. s Hooka fl.6* Reduced from J2.M liooktf 1.90 Reduced from 1.3ft PALAIS ROYAL KIDS. Button T5 Usually ?nld for .fl.lft Button $1.00 Usually sold for l.M I Button 1.25 Umull* fold foe Lift * BO DOZES FRENCH BOOK KID GLOVES, and 7 Hooks $1.00 Usual price JLW ",il A I! MLMib - ROYAL ' |I?&n II Moy^r JK wlimghlmi wM. Vl VhU&ggjC