Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1889 — Page 4

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The enactment of the New York law providing for the execution of the death . penalty by electricity has started a disfcussion as whether such a death will bo ; painless or not. The raising of the question savors somewhat of the 6entimentalisms that would invest crime with pa- : thetic interest and strip all punishment of terrors. Some of the so-qalled prison ; reformers of the day would do away

with prison discipline almost entirely ' and make criminals and convicts the subjects of distinguished consideration and tender regard. Crime should be punished, and punishment should not be stripped of all its terrors. Imprisonment should not bo mado a picnic, and there is no moi'al obligation to find for murderers a painless mode of execution.' It is an open question whether physical pain and suffering has not moro terror for brutal natures, and thereforo more power to deter from crime than mere death. To a sensitive person, conscious of wrong-doing, or to a criminal with a conscience not yet seared with crime, the possibility of what may como after death probably has moro terrors than death itself. Not so with the hardened or conscienceless criminal. He only dreads a punishment he can see iu the body and feel in the flesh. Bodily deprivation or physical pain has moro, terrors for him than eternal spiritual suffering. Painless punishment would be an incentive to crime. The opponents of capital punishment, the sentimental prison reformers and the soft-hearted people who are trying to bring about a mild and harmless enforcement of criminal law are working hand in hand with the criminal classes. They imagine themselves philanthropists, while in reality they are aiders and abettors of crime. It is doubtful whether any violent death could be made painless, even if it were desirable to do 6o. Death from natural causes, witli enfeebled strength and sensibility, may be, and no doubt often is, almost entirely painless. If the truth could bo known it is probable that a great majority of natural deaths are, in the last moments, without pain. But a violent death is, in the liaturo of things, entirely different. Here there is a sudden interruption, reversal and obliteration of vital powers and processes without any previous enfeeblement and with consciousness and sensation in full play. This can not be done without pain, no matter what the process. Such violence is the essence of pain, and the briefer the operation the more intense the suffering. It is possible for the violence of hours to be concentrated into an instant, but the pain incident to such violence will bo concentrated in the same degree. At most, we know but little concerning? the nature of pain, or the connection between physical suffering and mental a pony. It is possible a person may suffer as much, in an instantaneous death as in one by slow torture. Professor Howell, of Johns Hopkins University, in speaking of death by electricity, says: Anybody who has been unfortunate enough to have a very strong electric current pass through his system must sutler paralysis of some or all of the nerve centers. This may he temporary or may be permanent. If the paralysis does not a fleet the vital parts of the human mechanism, the patient may live. There havo been no experiments made to ascertain how an electric shock stops the life processes. It must, however, destroy either the nerve center controlling respiration, or that controlling the action of the heart, or act on both. These nerve centers are situated in the medulla oblongata. The action of a stroke of lightning, or con.tact with a strong current of electricity, depends on thoconstitntionof the man who receives the shock, but more on how the current passes through his body. In the cases of the men who escaped the death which met so many others who have handled electric-light wires, the current could not possibly have reached the vital spot with undiminished strength. The descriptions of the apparatus in the infliction of the penalty which the New York criminal i to sutler show that there is little possibility of his escaping almost instantaneous death. His head is to be invested in a metallic cap, and the full strength of a very strong current sent directly through the nerve centers controlling the mechanism of life. . These must be immediately paralyzed, and the beat of the heart, as well as the breathing, cease. The brain must also be entirely paralyzed at once, and consciouscess lost. This process indicates very speedy death, but it does not preclude the possibility of intense pain. Another authority, Mr. Myron Law, superintended of the" Brush Electric Company, of Pittsburg, says it is absurd to claim that death by electricity is or can. be painless. On the contrary, he says hanging, the guillotine or burning at the stake arc painless compared with death by electricity. He cites cases of electric 1

workers who have been almost killed by shocks and who suffered indescribable pain. Ho says: Of course, electricity can instantaneously kill a person, but in that innnitessimaily small spaco of time of the transition from life to death the person will sutler inconceivable pain. Although the speed of electricity is at the rate of 280.000 miles per second, the killing cannot be so instantaneous as to preclude all pain. Every particle of the nervous tissue is polarized, and polarization causes each particle of matter to revolve on its axis, which means the stretching of the nerv es out of all proportion and consequently the most intense pain. t Think of every atom in the body being instantanteously polarized and turned end for end! That is a new conception of pain.

THE BtJHMES NOVEL. That intellectual, or rather fictional viands, should be concocted with special reference to the time o'year, is aliterary movement which has, as yet, applied itself but to the heated term. That in the process of the suns the vernal, the autumnal and the below-zero varieties of imaginative literature may yet be evolved is reasonably feasible; and the pleasing probability provides for the reading public that attractive "something to look forward to" which is so essential to serene endurance of compulsory existence. In the meantime, for the summer novel let a grateful world return thanks. It blossoms early, in colors harmonious with the season, and is garnered in rows of decorative and orderly symmetry on the counters and shelves of the provident book merchant. Its - covers are, most appropriately, paper, and their garniture is old ' rose, 6erpent blue, the newest green, or the most aesthetic yellow, as the autocrat of stylish summer tints shall decree. As befits the time of dolce far niente, no trace of gross'and wearisome toil or struggle mars the title-page thereof, but the elegant and restful diversions of the leisure classes only are seductively and pictorially set "forth. The pale pink or blue young woman lolls in a hammock, discoursing with an Apollo-like young man in, a light summer suit, garnished with a straw hat and La melancholy mustache, or the palerxinted young woman reposes gracefully in the stern of a boat, watching her slim, white hands dreamily through masses of pond-lilies, while she is rapturously contemplated by the unskilled young man at the oars. Internally, the literary mechanism of the summer novel may be of indifferent construction, but the theme invariably must be that mysterious but engrossing disorder which from the cradle to the grave, in all climates and countries, and through all changing seasons, makes tho world go round. Onco purchased, the various fortunes of warmweather fiction can be hardly followed. It is tucked away by half-dozens in my lady's trunk amid her fleecy robes of conquest and captivating bric-a-brac of warfare, or it reposes, not so gratefully, no doubt, among the gay hosiery, tho dazzling neckties and tho patent leathers of tho conquering hero. It is read on tho train, on the piazza, in the presence of dowagers, who read over tho tender passages; or is smuggled to tho beach and exhaustively discussed by a club or two under the shelter of a friendly umbrella. Mayhap it is devoured in a hammock by the pale blue young woman solus in the pauses of conquest, or read in a sky parlor by the owner of the, melancholy mustache, minus his coat, and with his feet out of the window. Though, from literary heights, the summer novel may be a conspicuous and unmitigated nonentity, let not the destroying hand of the critic be laid upon it. It has its manifold mission. It puts bread in the mouth of the scribbler and holds up the head of the book trade; it emboldens the young man to the usual midsummer madness, the young woman to responsive frame of mind, and keeps down harrowing statistics as to the superfluous spinster; it falls into the hands of the large army of stay-at-homes, and brightens their outlook into pleasant dreamlands of recreation, and finally it may be lent and borrowed, left out in the rain, trodden under foot of man or dropped out the car window or overboard without seriously wounding the tender cuticle of tho book lover. THE PRETTY TYPE-WRITES. Since time first began, and Adam lastingly involved masculine honor by his misconduct in that garden of Eden episode, there has always existed most largely, no doubt, in the human imagination a species of man whose sole occupation it is, according to his chroniclers, to be utterly defenseless in the presence of attractive womanhood. That matrimonial bonds are not alwayo effective in controlling tho sentimental divigations of this impressionable individual is boldly stated, and so prono is humanity to extract amusement from the woes of its fellows that even suppositional infraction of these solemn vows has been lightly regarded and made the themo of flippant jesters. In ages past the susceptible married man's mania for the exchange of tender nonsense with a pretty cook or coquettish house-maid has been the funny man's fertile field; and tho haps and mishaps of errant husbands, as set forth in the comic papers and funny columns of tho national press,, would reasonably impress the credulous reader that the average American citizen consumed three quarters of his time in surreptitious spooning with his family domestics. .The march of progress, however, has at last reached tho case of this much-abused creature, and has advanced him to a higher and moro creditable grade of emotional divergency. With tho advent of the type-writing machine came in the field the pretty type-writer to supplant with the man of floating-island affections the fascinating house-maid and the winsome cook. Necessarily, all type-writers are bound to be pretty, and all employers, if only from a 6ense of obligation to tradition, are inevitably to be smitten. That universal acceptance of these probabilities should embarrass or annoy employers and type-writers who havo only serious and practical relations in view, does not in the least deter the free, imaginative pen of the conscienceless humorist. The only solace of such victims, therefore, is to fall in line and solicit public sym-.

pathy with the mother-in-law, the landlady, tho barber, the book agent, the spinster, the government, the small boy, the colored brother and countless other targets for the shafts of lawless American wit. Nevertheless, let the lady in the -case abide in elastic hopefulness. Inventive genius is never idle, and the appearance of some new machine involving the service of some other species of irresistible young woman may change the current of the funny man's observation and grant her a grateful withdrawal of painful public attention. For the gentleman involved, with regTet be it stated, no such forthcoming immunt can be pledged. Tradition hampers him, and the doom of ancestral ajons of feminine subjugation is upon him. Conditions may vary, and superior attraction occasionally lead to his temporary advancement; but by his legendary vagarious sentimental tendencies he must be compelled to wander ceaselessly, like pigs in clover, through the alternating phases of romantic tragedy and comedy.

A PROmSIKQ BIGN. In the international convention of Christian Endeavor societies, to be held in Philadelphia early in July, the watcher on the tower surely beholds a significant and promising sign of the times. Six or 6even thousand young people assembled from all parts of the United States and Canada to hold a three days' session for the exchange of spiritual inspiration and for conference upon effective methods of extending Christ's kingdom will doubtless be an animating presence, and one which other cities may reasonably envy the Quaker City of Brotherly Love. Although this Society of Christian Endeavor is of but few years, it has waxed vigorous and efficacious until it is numbered by hundreds in almost every State in the Union, and has become a powerful element in church growth. Its well-organized workers and methods of work successfully bridge tho chasm which formerly existed between the Sunday-school and the adult prayermeeting, and the prophetic eye can forecast in the youthful familiarity with tho Bible thus gained, as well as in this early confidence in verbal testimony to the Word, tho gradual reconstruction of tho stereotyped oppressiveness of the old-time prayer-meeting. Missionaries, home and foreign, have learned that tho most effective way of reaching the people for whom they labor is in the conversion of the children. This is otherwise the most hopeful and impressionable material, as men and women growu. old in paganism aro not easily touched. In youthful workers, then, is Christianity's most promising class, and in this approaching.convention of young Christians in Philadelphia may be read prophecy of many noble victories for tho banner under which they gather, march and labor. It is a latter-day children's crusade for tho restoration of tho Holy City. This is tho way. ex-Minister Fhclps began an after-dinner speech at Harvard tho other day: I feel most deeply, although I cannot acknowledge adequately, the kind words with which ray distinguished friend has introduced me, and the very cordial welcome that you have been good enough to accord. It makes me blush tp think they are so poorly deserved. Diplomatists only blush unseen, but the members of that better profession to whichl have had the pleasure of returning with the very general consent, I be lieve, of the American people, do unquestionably blush sometimes. My orother Wetmore smiles with inciedullty. He docs not Know anything about It, because he has never had anything to blush for. That was neatly and wittily said. Further on in his address Mr. Phelps alluded to a portrait of Charles Francis Adams which hung on the wall, and then to Mr. Adams's service as minister to England during tho war. Ho said: The true history of that dark and critical period In our foreign relations never has been written. Some day it will be written, and then, and not till then, will the American people learn what I have been In a position to see something of In recent years, how great, and valuable, and important were the services of that distinguished man during that time. Never, probablv. ainco the conclusion of the war of 1815 were the relations of those two countries so highly etruined as in that tune. The great question that was pending Lere was misunderstood and misconceived. There was undoubtedly a feeling that was far from friendly. Powerful efforts were ma le, not only by the Confederacy, but outside of it, to Induce the government or Great Britain to throw Its great power Into the scale in behalf of the Confederacy. How near these efforts came to succeeding the world has never accurately known. Perhaps some day it will know. What I desire to say and emphasize is my belief that to the services of Mr. Adams at that time, his courage, his sagacity, his self-command, his tact, his vigilance, we are indebted more than tothoe of any other man in the world for the happy issue that came at last out of that most dilhcult and critical time. Tiie idea of constructing an artificial lake north of the city is novel and attractive. The project is undoubtedly feasible, and could be carried out at no great expense, and probably mado to yield fair returns ou the investment. Kightly managed it could be made an attractive feature. Indianapolis is very ba'rren of natural attractions in the way of scenery. Its surroundings are monotonous, its drives commonplace, and the absence of suburban attractions is painfully apparent. An artificial lake with boating facilities and a pleasnre drive around it would be a great addition. The public-spirited gentlemen who have been agitating the matter deserve much credit and thanks. It is unfortunate for the city that gentlemeu who have the enterprise to conceive such projects have not also the means to promptly carry them out There is a good deal of enterprise here, and some wealth, but, unfortunately, they are not always found together. Those who possess enterprise do not control much wealtn, and those who possess the wealth have no enterprise. There is great need of a new deal in this regard. A base-ball, club composed of picked men from Harvard and Yale University nines is going to England to teach Britishers the national game. They go on an invitation from some young Englishman who will pay all expenses and make a liberal allowance besides. It is said tho American team will be expected to give exhibitions of college ball playing at various English schools and universities, and to teach Englishmen the finer points of the game that they inay play it themselves. Incidentally, the visiting club will endeavor to impress Englishmen with the idea that all American base-ball players are college graduates and thoroughly at home in the classics and higher mathematics. This is sub rosa. Did you know that the city of New York is engaged in the sheep industry! Probably not. but it is a fact. The city owns a flpek of sheep and sells the increase. They can be seen nibbling grass in Central Park. They are pure, imported Southdowns. The primary motive which led to the establish ment of the flock was an esthetio one. The .eneep were purchased as an ornament to the lawn. The flock was started with an importation of 100, several years ago. Since

then a few choice 6heep have been imported from England every two or three years, to keep up the purity of the stock. The sheep are all registered in the American Southdown Association. Annually there is & sale, and sheep fanciers come from the four cardinal points of the country to secure some of the choice individuals. The annual sale took place a few days ago. Not only does the city sell sheep, but it sells their wool. Every year in June the sheep are sheared, and the wool is oold at auction to the highest bidder. There is no finer flock of Southdowns anywhere than those which decorate the lawns in Central Park. Indianapolis is not the only city whose streets are torn up and left impassable by corporations, and whose alleys'and vacant lots are made common dumping grounds. An ifcm in the New York World indicates that somewhat the same state of things prevails there. The World says: Mr. James's. Coleman, the chief of our great street-cleaning department, will leave for Europe to-morrow for a brief vacation. When he gets back he will have much to tell us about the street-cleaning systems of London, Taris aud Berlin. He will discover while abroad that the streets of cities which make pretension to conization are not ripped up at wiU by corporation and companies, and then left to care for themselves; that builders are not allowed to occupy streets at their own convenience and scatter debris in every direction, "and, above all, that householders arc not permitted to cast old shoes, Dustles, ash-cans, bed-matres&es, old breonis, tomato-cans and old hats into the highways in lieu of a more convenient dumping ground. However, the fact that such things exist in New York is no reason why they should exist in Indianapolis. The way to govern and police a city is to doit, andnot play at it. Civil-service Commissioner Roosevelt has a breezy way of talking, which 'indicates that he has convictions and is not afraid to express them. In a recent interview he said ' he believed that nothing would help American political life so much as to have the civil-service law not only rigidly enforced but extended so as to take in as far as possible the entire body of the public service in the United States. Being asked if ho would include fourthclass postofSces he replied: If I could get at them I would take In the fourth-class postmasters, too. I think that at J .resent there are more Congressmen who keep n power, not because they can render good service to the country, but because tL, know how to manipulate fourth-class postoi!ices, and when you see a Congressmen from a country district denouncing the civil-service reform law you may be sure that that man devotes his time to peddling patronage and not his talents and energies to the service of the Republic. At the recent meeting of Harvard alumni, held at the college, Mr. Edward Wetmore, president of the association, delivered an address in which he wittily alluded to time's changes: Whether or not we have been taking note of time, time has been busy taking note of us and has forgotten to rub out his handwriting, and, whatever part we may have been playing on the stage of fife, we cannot but observe In each other a general and very marked change of stage costume. Golden locks exchanged for silver arts of capMary attraction that in coUege were exerted to induce the shadows to come on the upper lip, now lnsuttlcient to prevent their departure from the growing bare places higher up; an experimental knowledge of the receding locus of a convex lens more exact than auy we ever acquired from Professor Lovering, and, as for shape, a derangement of the former relation between the polar and equatorial diameters to the advantage of the latter, that amounts to a positive disguise. Some of the dressed stones now being hauled into the Circle for the , soldiers' monument attract attention by their size. They are indeed big, solid blocks, and fine specimens of Iudiana oolitic stone. The largest that have yet been hauled weigh twelve tons, but some yet to come will weigh as much as fifteen tons. Stones of that size and weight aro not often used in building, and it takes good tackle tohandlo them. An advance copy of Mr. Henry Grady's address before the alumni at the University of Virginia opens with "Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen: In thanking you for this cordial this Virginia welcomelet me say that it satisfies my heart to be with yon to-day." Now how did Mr. Grady know that he was going to receive such a cordial welcome? Perhaps he had received an advance copy.

BREAKFAST-TABLE CIIAT. Brooklyn has a German resident who plays on a $50 silver coronet, a $38 French horn, an $1S flute, a $3 piccolo, a 25 drum, a $10 pair of cymbals and a $20 violin. Thomas Bailey Aldkich and Gen. Daniel Butterfield wero among Russell B. Harrison's fellow-voyagers on the City of New York. Mr. Harrison expects to bo gone six weeks. The name of the donor of tho new granite and brownstone recitation building at Yale University, hitherto unknown, is Mrs. Miriam A. Osborne, widow of Charles J. Osborne. The building completed will cost $125,000. J. T. Trowbridge, who grew famous by writing clever stories for boys, is one of the prominent authors of Boston. Though past sixty and gray-haired, his fresh face and youthful bearing make him appear much younger. "John Gilpin's Ride" was admitted to be read in evidence by a Jackson, Ga., court, the other day, on the strength of monotony in the proceedings and the residence of the plain tiffs father near the scene of the poem. A pathetic incident of the triennial reunion of the class of '80, Yale, was the presence of the yonntr widow of one of the most popular members of the class, whose participation in the still boyish fun of the occasion had been eagerly looked forward to by his friends and classmates. Mme. Emma Nevada, the American prima douna, is repeating her vocal triumphs in Spain. She is spoken of an the spoiled darling of Spanish, audiences, both socially and artistically, She is at present in Seville. where she has appeared in "Dinorah" and the "Harber of Seville." The London News tells this interesting ' anecdote in a sketch of the late Laura Bridgman: When Carlylo impertinently asked, "What great or noble thing has America ever done!" somebody replied, 'She has produced a girl deaf, dumb and blind from infancy, who-from her own earnings has sent a barrel of Hour to the starving subjects of Great Britain in Ireland." A Camel coach is to be tried in the Darling river district. New South Wales. The sultry climate tries horses so severely that the manager of a line of mail coaches thinks that a team of camels will answer far better, owing to their capacity for enduring heat and drought. Much curiosity is felt as to the result of this novel venture in coaching, considering the hasty temper of "the ship of the desert." John Crouse, who died in Syracuse, on Tuesday night, was famous throughout central New York for his business enterprise. Yet, despite his desire to possess a largo fortune, in his old age he nave $5o0,000 to erect a building for the women students of Syracuse University. The building crow ns a high hill, overlooking the entire city of Syracuse, and is a very handsome structure. Appropriately it is named Crouse Memorial College. . Mrs. Ballington Booth has captured the upper society of St. Paul, Minn. A dispatch from that city says that hermeetings are attended daily by prominent society leaders, both female and male. Mrs. Booth's cultivated manners and the intelligence exhibited in her speeches draw an audience composed of an altogether different classof people from those who are in the habit of attending services at the Salvation Army barracks. Florence Nightingale has written the following letter to a "Band of Hope" connected with a church in( Edinburgh, Scotland: ."Don't think you can do anything worth doing in a fit of enthusiasm, but train yourself carefully to any work you

are called on to do. and think nothing too

small to do carefully, or to train carefully for, that is for the good of your fcllowcreatures, t or instance, good or ban cootingmay make or mar thehvesof thonsands. and those, too, who are trying to do great things for our race. God sends us real and lasting enthusiasm that is, the spirit of love, and of power, and of a sound mind to carry ns through our training and our discipline." General Simon Cameron's secret of success was that he never acted without knowing all the facts obtainable. Although a desperate and shrewd fighter he seldom wasted his efforts in support of weak men. Here is his own explanation: "When I found the man who was pretty sure to win with the little support I could give him he was made the Cameron candidate. 1 got all the credit for the victory, and the candidate himself believed that his success was entirely attributable to mo." General Sherman is reputed to possess the happy faculty of never repeating the same anecdote. . Although he tells a story on every fitting occasion, it is always new and pointed. Another enviable characteristic of the old soldier is his tender affection for veterans of the war. His door is always open to them, and he is never too busy to hear the story of an old comrade in arms. In many instances he has added a wellfilled purse to his words of encouragement. The artistio taste abroad is now in favor of gold jewelry, mado into wonderful shapes and forms, but unassisted in its effects by gems or jewels. Mrs. Alma Tadema wore recently at a London entertainment a gold necklace of exquisite workmanship and twelve yards long, which was pliable enough to be twisted many times around the neck. With this, and, of course, selected to correspond with it, was worn a gown of cream-colored satin, heavily embroidered in gold. A posy of golden orchids completed the charming effect MOUNT YERXON. Present Condition of' the Mansion in Which George Washington Livedand Died. Written for the Sunday JournL Edward Everett once said that a visit to the national capital was but half made unless it included the home and tomb of George Washington. Mount Vernon is the American Mecca, and few persons who visit the capital fail to spend one day at the home of Washington. Mount Vernon is situated in Fairfax county, Virginia, on the right bank of the Potomac, 'sixteen miles south of Washington. A pleasant sail of two hours conveys the visitor from Washington to Mount Vernon. Not far below the capital the United States arsenal and the government Insane Hospital are passed. Further down the river is the quaint old town of Alexandria, and from the deck of the steamer can be seen the steeple of Christ Church, where George Washington worshiped. Before reach ingherdestination the steamer passes Fort Foote and Fort Washiugton. On approaching the wharf atMonnt Vernon, the bell is tolled and the fag hoisted, as a token of reverence for him who sleeps by the side of his favorite stream. Upon landing, the visitors are received by the superintendent, who escorts them to the tomb and mansion. A drive and a wooden walk lead from the wharf to the house. The vault is sitnated about half way up the hill. It is a plain brick structure, surrounded by trees and covered with Vines. Not far from the tomb stand several weepjtig willows, which were brought from the grave of Napoleon at St. Helena. General Washington designated in his will that a plain brick vault 6hould be erected for himself and family. Above its double iron gates is the following inscription: "Within this inclosuro rest the remains of General George Washington.". The sarcophagi of George and Martha Washington can bo seen through the iron bars. On the sarcophagus of the former is the simple inscription, "Washington," under the coat of arms- of the United States. The other one bears the words, "Martha, consort of Washington; died May 21, 1801; aged 71 years.". The vault consists of two rooms. In the back room rest the remains of about thirty relatives. The two marble monuments which stand in front of the vault were erected to the memory of some of these relatives. The old vault, an unpretentious little building, from which Washington's remains were removed in 1S31, is not far from the other vault. Tho old brick barn is 1 he first building reached afterascendingthehill. Lawrence Washington built this bain in 1733. It is well preserved, having beet ic-roofed several years ago. The livu;e is a wooden structure, the siding of whidh are cut and painted so as to referable ;oue. It is ninety-six feet long by thirty feet deep. The broadside faces the river, which is here sometimes two miles wico. Tiie east piazza extends along the entire irunt of the house, and is supported Vy eight largo square pillars. From tie back of ttie house extend two colonnades one leading to the family kitchen, the other to the state kitchen. Lawrence Washington named the estate for Admiral Vernon, his superior officer in the British navy. As left by him the residence had been termed "villa," but . it was dignihed "Mansion House" alter George Washington had enlarged it. Mount Vernon is under the control of the Mount Vernon Association, composed of ladies from many of tho States. The furniture of the mansion was nearly all sold by the late owner, and, therefore, these States have assumed the obligation of re furnishing the house in the original style. . Entering the central hall from the east, the first object of interest is the key of the Bastile in a glass casket. Lafayette sent this key to General Washington soon after the destruction of that horrible French prison. In ' this hall are also several autograph letters of Washington, a sword, a fac simile of Lafayette's agreement to serve in the Continental army, and busts of Washington and Lafayette. On the staircase leading to the upper story stands an old wooden clock. The floor is lolished, as are all the other floors in the louse, and the designs of the ceiling and wainscotiugs are very old-fashioned. A very large brass knocker ornaments the door that leads to the pretty lawn. The music-room is situated to the right of the hall. The tapes try is decorated with musical instruments. In this room is tho harpsicord and stool which Washington gave to his adopted daughter. Nellie Cu&tia, as a wedding present. Before the rooms were kept barred, visitors were continually knocking off the ivory from the keys of tho instrument. Washington's flute and spectacles are also in this room. Mrs. Washin g ton's sitting-room is ance with the other not in accordrooms, being furnished in a modern set of f nr niture. It was here that , Washington wrote his farewell address. The music-room opens into the famous banquet room are several mirrors, more man a hundred and fifty years old, a very large Eainting of Washington, a model of the astile, and a wonderful mantle of Carara marble. In the west parlor are some articles of interest, among them two portraits of Washington, a globe and several chairs, used by Washington. The river room, or east parlor, has the original writing-desk, clock and 6pinning-wheel of Mrs. Washington. The dining-room can be reached from the main hall. The furniture is not original, hut it is of the style of a century ago. The floor is covered by a heavy Persian rug. The corner cupboard is filled with china, a reproduction of a set presented to Mrs. Washington in 17V3 by officers of the French lleet. Through a small hall the . library is reached. It is a large square room having two large windows which lead to the south porch. On the mantel is a very old clock and two curious candlesticks, once owned by Martha Washington. The painting of this lady in the White House was taken from a small miniature which hangs on the walls ot the library. Some of the. books were formerly used on the estate." A bust of Lafayette and an oil painting. 'The Falls of the Potomac." are also original. The family kitchen contains a large wide-mouthed, fireplace, with a crane, and near it is a bake-oven in the wall. On the mantel are some old-fashioned kitchen utensils. The sleeping chambers are situated in the second and third floors. Lafayette's room has still the original furniture and bedding which served the Marquis on his visits to the Washington familv. The furniture in 1 At Miss Custis s room is also original. In one of t the guest chambers is a chain which belonged to Benjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and ancestor of tho present Benjamin Harrison. Every article in "the. death-room of Washincton is original, except the bedding.7 Here is Washington's bed, arm-chair, secre

tary, tool-chest, trunk and dresser. Mrs. Washington died in au attir-room above this, two years after her husband's doth. In V irginia it was customary to shut up a 1 PA til -mom fur Urni:nni aftr t1 I.

in order to have a good view of the vault. jurs. asnington retired to the room above. The flower garden lies to the right of the lawn; the vegetable garden to the left. Tho flower garden is bordered and divided by box plants, preserved in the exact designs in which they were planted bv Washington. Not far from the garden are the slave quarters, now very dilapidated. Mount Vernon consists of onlv 200 acres now. The estate is maintained bv revenue arising from the sale of flowers, canes, copies of Washington's will, views of Mount Vernon, and an entrance fee, embraced in tho faro for the trip. SorniE Simon. AN OUTIXG AT GOGEBIC. Royal Sport with the Gamey Mascallonge in the Beautiful Lakes of Wisconsin. Written for tne Sanrt y Journal. We went a fishing, Frank and I, not an unusual occurrence, but our excursiou was not after the lilliputian "chub" or those glittering deceptions, the "shiner" and suntish. Our greed mounted far above the common finny herd of common streams. The acme of piscatorial ambition, trout and mascallonge, would alone satisfy our aspirations. We were in airy boats that skimmed the crystal waters of the lovely lake with the grace of circling swallows, for they were rowed by sturdy, skillful oarsmen who had acted as guide and escort on these lakes until they were as much at home as the denizens of these depths themselves. The sky of June bent above us, the happiness of birds in theecstacyof a honeymoon, floated to us in song, the air was in an intoxication of summer fragrance and wo were in a delicious languor of delight, when, quick as light, tho entire party was m a white heat of excitement. Frank's supple rod was bent like a shepherd's crook, his reel whizzed and buzzed like the sing of a rattlesnake, his silken line was cutting the surface of the water with a musical swish, and the eyes of the quartet were alert and on tire of expectancy. Sudden as a flash, two hundred feet to the rear, the surface of the yet unruffled lake was broken, and the green and gold of as knightly a lish as ever foi ght a relentless hook gleamed in the sunlight. Though ho was two feet in length and r-eighed wellnigh twenty pounds, yet he leaped, sheer in air, once, twice, threw times, in the vain hope of expelling the insatiate, threehooked lure. To the boat, from the boat, right, lei down to the depths and along the surface, he made savage and heruio rushes, keeping Frank and the entire party in feverish excitement I screamed, "Give him slack," when I meant vice versa. But the young man holding tho rod was no novice. This was not his maiden battle with these royal monsters, the bravest and noblest of lish to be found in our lakes, aud he dextrously maneuvered his tackle, until a stroke of the gatf in the hands of his guide and ally lauded the gallant fellow in tho boat, and he was killed. This thrilling, exhilarating, raro and health-inspiring experience was duplicated, many times in the week's sport bad in that very Eden of sporting resorts north Wisconsin nnd tho' west portion of the Michigan peninsula. This magnificent fish is certainly without a peer in excellence of flavor, firmness of liber, snowy whiteness of flesh and tho matchless courage of its fight for freedom. It is a voracious gormandizer, and seems to have an insane appetite for tho gaudy, delusive meshes of the Skinner spoon. When he strikes, the force of his blow is m sturdy, so solid, so fierce your instant thought is that you have hooked a suukeu log or rock; but the delusion is as quickly dispelled, for his impetuous, resistless rushes and gallant leaps out of water, will set you to business of a lively and exciting; kind in short order. Your care must be to keep a strong pull on his iron jaws. Tho. least slack given ho will almost certainly throw the hook. Great caro is also essential in landing the larger ones, and they, are taken fifty pounds in weight, and even larger, though this is a rare catch. Souio guides take a 4o-caliber revolver or Winchester and shoot them when brouuht near' the boat; but this is unsportsmanlike, and robs tho angler of the cream of the fun that of witnessing his last grand: plunges and feeling that ecstatic flow of spirits as ho is lifted in air, every fin expanded, and his muscular, shining form still heroically struggling, and feo him safely landed or boated. Ah, the reader whose skill has been wasted ou "cats." "goggle eyes." or an occasional, solitary, black bass should leave the desert over" which he has wearily plodded, like the children of Israel of Holy Writ, and gl over into the "promised land." The Ring-' ing, icv-cold streams are tilled with that; first of all pan fishes, the rrett3 gamey, fly-loving trout; and the lakes, clear as. stainless glass and as be.iutiful as the; gems of an oriental queen and as nnmeronsfi as are tho meadows of these parts these teem with black bass, pike, pickerell and the lion of fish, the mascallonge. . A look at any good map of the country named will show, in the west part of tho. Michigan peninsula and a few miles north of the Wisconsin line, a'large inland lake, shaped very much like the human leg from above the knee to the foot. When I first, visited this charming body of water, sisj' years since, it was called Agogebic, and the nearest railway station was that on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western at Watersmeet. twenty miles distant. At this time its nearest station on this road is butjfonr miles, and the lake, as well as the station, is called Gogebic. At that time, there was no sign of civilization, save an occasional miner's camp, on all its shores, and the lake, eighteen miles long by two and a half wide, was alive with black bass and brook trout the finest that ever gladdened the heart of a sportsman. Now a splendid hotel, with many beautiful cottages for guests, adorns its slopes, and a little steamer shouts its welcome to all who may seek its hospitality. Into this lake several streams empty their liouid wealth, and they are the gla'd home of innumerable trout. Indeed, thia large lake, in all portions of its Cool, rocky depths, abounds in this finny beauty. We caught two fine ones, during our recent outing, out In the lake, with, spoon for IlUC, weighing a fraction less than two pounds; each, while a number have been taken from the pier, near the hotel, weighing abou three pounds. It was not in season for black bass sport, but several tine ones were taken in casting for tront. In season this is a paradise for all who love to troll for this, splendid striker. Slate river, its principal inlet, was our special field for t routing. A stream could not well be found surpassing it for farming this wary, luscious fish. Deep pools, dark with fringes of dense willows, tortuous windings and loops, rocky rapids at intervals, and water cool as any spring, make it all that enterprising, domestically inclined trout could wish in rearing a family, lirro we cast and rowed and caught with keen enjovment. these leopard-dotted beauties. and Mrs. lioss, the hostess, never failed to serve these golden-fleshed treasures to us. hot and toothsome in but a few moments after our return. The chain of lakes known as the Eagle Waters, and twocharmingonescalledTwm lakes, the latter five miles from the abovenamed road, were those where we took our mascallonge. Those caught in the lastnamed lakes had peculiar markings, perLpendicnlar rows of dark spots on thir siaes, ana iney wero very piump nnu iat for this slim lish. Mr. Crosby, the landlord here, explains that Twin lakes are rilled with what he pronounces lake white fish and upon these these carnivorous tinny wolves fatten. They certainly do weiifh mo e than fish of equal length in ether lakes. The hunt Beason for fishing for mascallonge is the autumn, though onie splendid specimens have .been hooked this spring. They settle down into the deep water and are torpid or spiritless during the. warm days of summer, and do not ris to spoon r minnow. t But there aro richer treasures gathered -in excursions into this garden-Und of lakeji than can bo taken by finest tackle. Tho ozone-laden air, the nncleft. sun-defyintj forests, peopled only by Nature's .fur and feathered children: the limpid, undeliled waters of stream nnd lake all open doora to wealth, health, and priceless stores to enrich whomsoever may enter, appropriate and enioy. In blue depths of skies, in dark, dense forests, in streams and lakes. Frank and I fished and garnered riches not counted in the scores of all who cast for fish ouly-