Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1883, Page 2

CITY AND DISTRICT. A TALK WIT FOREMAN CRANE. Me Denies that His Health is Being Injured by Mis Service on the Star ‘rowing Stout Under The Philadelphia Press a few days ago pub- Ushed the following dispatch from Washington : Crane, of the star rovte Jury, !s showing Gigns of nervousness and mental prostration, and it be surpri hat @ man who is notafraid of be frightened by # few nex spa- vhen spoken to about this porer. “That about and signs of prostra- never better. weigh wow than I did at the be- Whea the trial began [ that article my showing tion ts absu seven pounds more ginning of the trial Jury Beiore mes mobbed for | year of the war 23 of this city ing of a ingi- Thave stood by . t sa dang to do so, and t em on thestar rew asked the re- concerning your It must as the art say source ning fs a f ture. seli has #y bim fairs to bin tings in ress H Ihave never spoken passed him on the street, that as even bowed to me or [| ough I woul? consider it ar honor to acquaintance and friendship. Since i began he has not spoken to me: end | if he wanted to influence me he would | have spoken to me, | think. Mr. Merrick } Mr. Ker have spoken to me; but of cor they heve 1 nothing about the trial. { have not ‘thad « word with any iawyer of the defense ex- | cept Gen. Henkle. and,” added Mr. Crane,with a twi ¢ in his eye ‘he isa Methodist, I be- 3 th youare an infidel. How about eporter. With regard to that charge,” n i believe it, not Bible, but becanse i: 18 the } be Just as welgome to my Trfth, thouzh =i tecting every human being in get an honest ivinz, and to enjoy iorts and Inxtries of life as I like to eu r ving thet when we for our having lived in it. at is Infdelity then I plead gullty to the charge.” eperter then asked Mr. Crane if, in view fact that it has been published far and Wide that the foreman of tue star-route jury is | aninfdel and an atheist, he had any objection ing his religious views, and to what church, ered Mr. Crane, “joined any any secre: order: i 5 at a revival meeting. 1 cked, and that if I @id not repent an heil sure. time an abolitionist apted to plead the cause of ia the very church where the revival He was arrested as a disturber of ed wp aud fined. The grass has bis grave for many years, ery is popular in that church to- iy, nn who in was imprisoned as an incendlary by men in geod and regular standing in the orthodox cburch, is to-day euio- gized as a saint by the enanimous voice of mem- bers ot the same Church. Does the church ct Christ re truth in that way Tests Tollowed, “wi Weil as indignation, to reason upen , ‘ the question if an organization that locked its zainst the truth, and imprisoned the Kindest and best of men for denouncing the buy nd selling of Wome: and children on eh of Christ, od of infinite t and accept Other persecutions ang ar- excited my d, though a be I subscribed to Wm. Licyd me a constant the last twenty years of its te the te of this great erican nation iy fed more than y other person for th: fiance and ninationr site to jude men and or- ganizations by what y are, instead of | ‘ake the ground | ches. There is h I recogmize among w Protestants. some of my is [regard the 3 a8 ainong the pertinent clerks, th hey can afford to, fi It is it publication. id xd man, of whom the ; | will aid in the good wor But where stands the eat questions of the sof iabor and capital for in- ist looming wbove the horizon: e silent. Bui J40 years battle that is new ctlimi- wealth and honest indus- ght and won, as I believe of justi en the hus of become emancipated from money power; when bicody ik have worn the 7 ‘and “tis 1s to be Just,’ then the church will be nopolists and other great h the people to-day are ed myself early in pularly calidd the American nit of slavery qu sh, wordiy or, n that line. ‘oll as a pioneer in the sort of moral and intel- ho has had the courage to k and boldiy sail out into the a an of thought. I honor and honesty in 5] or . but I think nim ys “with death comes i believe what we call lite is but wf existence, and what we ation of that existence 7 es, the trans- euch feids of earth to the an cardens of the great unseen worid that floats around us. I believe with Longfellow ‘that— ‘Phe splett world around this world of sense Fioots like an atmosphere, And every where Wafts targugh these earthly 3 and val 4 ¥ital breath of more ethereal air.” I guess I have told you enough to satisfy you now I stand. You can judge by these senti- ments how much of an infidel or atheist I am, or Whether I am a follower of Ingersoll or not.” No True ro Pray.—Dan Taylor, a colored host- Jer in St. Louis, went home , Wook 8 re- Yolver from a ‘burvau and presented’ it Fife. “Give me time to pray,” she e: “Not a minute,” he replied, and fired three tnflicting three wounis whiten are mortal. he gave himself up to the poitee. domestic quarrels were the canse. —. Brassep ts Rivit—James A. Savage Joyce, alias.“the Kid.” two young men, ‘tines, Ther Jeaiousy Salvation srmy, and resides in “barracks” in Christopher street, New Ye a and SHE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF WASHINGTON, A Little Work Done im the Seventh Subdivision. AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION BY DR. BUNDER- LAND. ‘To the Editor of Tur Evewtxe Star: In the midst of dally pressing duties, I have been giving what attention Feould tn a small way to the working of this most excellent plan for aiding the deserving poor and exposing the frauds of the idle and unworthy. Iam not well acquainted with the details of the work in other parts of the city, and, In trath, not very faml- lar with the general work of the seventh sub- vision in which I reside. But I see possibili- ties in the seheme, which if it couid be effici- ently and harmontously carried out, are worthy the consideration of every philanthropist. ‘The seventh subdivision, I am told, embraces about one hundred squares, lying between 7th street west and Ist street east, and between Lye ss and Maryland avenues north and south. Tesidence is on reservation 10. between C et and Pennaylyania avenue and 3d and 444 s northwest. Within a few weeks this ‘ canvassed, ation on it has inspected with place of human hab! nally visited aud ur objects in view: x ‘© obtain members, who become such ihe annual fee of two dollars. seeure prot persons who are as friendly rs. ‘© ascertain what other charitable ions of any kind exist through which iding on the square bestow in the real condition of the than thirt turning the the Treasur: have been ndly visitors, three have volunteered | pa ty. orgaaizations somehaye | been found connected ith the followin; ni . of Jawish synagogue: f Lezion of Honor; Hebrew benevolent jon.of Sth street; Odd Fellows, Oriental, > 1%; Italian benevolent society; societies of Catholic churches of Rome; benificent society of Episcopal); orphan asyham; Christian hene; Masonic lodges, chap- commanderies. As to the families of poor and destitute, they consist chiefly of red people living in the alleys of the square —most of whom get work of one sort or other, washing, jebving, going into service and so on, There are few among them whe cannot manage to live by their labor in ordinary cireumnstances; but in severe cold weather or in cases of sick- ness it goes very hard with some of th Among them were fuund those who wi u- ployment—asseamstresses, laundresses, waiting giris, as barbers, porters, laborers, drivers and Jobb There are no less than nlnety numbers comprising dwelling houses, tenements, offices, stores, groceries, barber shops, tailor shops, public snd private boardmy houses, bars, drag stores *nd hotels on this single square. A writ- teu report of the exact condition@f the people residing on this square so far as it relates to the work and objects of the assoclated charities and specifying each one of these ninety numbers oa the square has been made and transmitted to the president of the orzanization of the sey- enth sicdivision, Gen. Mussy. A local office, througti the kindness of Mr. Williams, of the | carpet store, corner of D and 7th streets north- vest, has been established at 621 D street north- est, where Mrs. Judge Snell, our local agent, sted by Mrs. Doty, attends dail (except Sundays), between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock, to meet applicants for aid. Atiou-and cards have been printed for the use of the members. These are filled out and signed by them as cccasion may require. The mendicant appears before Mrs Snell with one of these cards or tickets properly authenticated, and that excellent lady, with her assistant, pro- reeds at once to investigate the case, and if it is zound to be a worthy one and rightfully belong- ing to the subdivision, aid is proiaptly rendered. If the c: beio1 csewhere it is sent to the local arent of the subdivision where it belongs to be properly disposed of. In this way at least a beginning has been made upon this great and self-denying work. But it is yet only a begin- ning, when we think of the ninety. ie other squares in our single subdivision where the same kind of preihainary york ought to be done, and of all the ot! subdivisions of the city, we shall have some idea of the magnitude of the task. Each local office ought to be furnished with {ntormation like that coutained in the report above mentioned, carefully collated and sys- tematized for immediate reference. Catalogues Gf applicants for aid as well as of supporting members should be prepared «n-lso arranged a8 to be of easy und rapid reference. In prowaoting this the triendiy visitors on each Tespective square, by noting the changes and conditions of the resident poor and reporting the same to the local office, can render most valuable assistance. But ‘t is not mere temporary reliet alone that should be tae sole object of this noble charity. The chief aud uitimate atm should be to help the poor who are able and willing to work to help them: es. Hence each Iveal office should become as it were a bureau of tntelligence between employer and employed. In this way abenefit may be conferred in two directions, ana the terdency would be to the advantaze of all clas: It is obvious, however, that a vast labor must be gratuitously performed in order to deyelop a system hike tuis inte effectual working order, even when confined tothe permanent resident poor class—all the subdivisions should be work- ing in hartiony and abreast of each other, the central orzanization having oversigit o: all, and belng a Daud of nulon for a} Persons qualified to aid in this werk must take hold of it in their respe e localities, and the agent of the local offices must be assisted by the timely counsel and co-operation ef those who are quick to see what needs to be done and prompt to act for its accomplishment. This cannot be brought to pass in @ day; time labor and patience will be re- quired to approximate the system to anything like perfection. But I believe it can be done, much to the relief of theentire community. Who ‘? Nothing more hu- mane, christian or benilcent can engaze the good offices of the generous and_philanthrople people of our city, But aside from the poor whom we have always with us, our clig Is’ pe- culiarly likely to be overrun. with a floating Clase made up of — vagrants from “all sections - of the. land, and all quarters oi the world who drift in here from. every conceivzule cause in every mysterigua Some of these, no doubt have been overtaken by ‘misfortanes they could not avert, while very many come here to ply their trade, presuming upon a field of promise. For all such cases some arrangement should be made between this organization and the city anthorities by which each case may be readily dispose? of according to the circumstances, especially where the pretence of the mendicant is that he or she is travelling and wishes aid to reach some other point more or less remote. It should be remembered that this organization was from the fist intended to be an assuciation of all the charities of tae District, and that quite @ large proportion of the existing charities are alre.dy represented init. ic is inmost desirable that those stil standing aloof may be brought in at the earliest moment. so that co-operation may be established with the hospitals, dispon- saries, orphan asylums, lodging houses, clarch secieties, Masonic, Odd Feilows, temperance and other organizations, and these’ various associa-~ tions so harmonized as to become reciprocally healthful in their work. This I believe was an undertaking first crigiuated by noble women rhose hearts and hands are always foremost in ery goo’ work, the one grand feature being urely humanitarian, knowlug no age, lanzuae or country, and no laws of chureh or state; of polities, or religion, but only man belngs, creatures of God, suffering and destitute and needing help and sympathy. A Loconotivs SuNK Orr oF Sicit.—A loco- motive ran through e broken bridge on the Kan- sas Pacific railway, across Kiowa creek, several years ago, sinking into the mud at the bottom, ‘and has never since been heard from, though repeated efforts have been made, boring, to recover so valuab! gotten, vanished from the map, some future scientist will discover a curious piece of i The two men met tn a saloon last Es Bt and quar. yejed over simaer saver. nally Grew a kulfe and stabbed his rival in the back, inficting a dangerous if not fatal wound, Club Life in New York—The Nineteenth Cen- tury Club—Rev. Mr. Newton’s Sensation— Special Correspondence of Tre Evextve Star: New York, January 12, | Ina few years this city will beas great a town for clubs as London. We have them from the great clubs that are so great that they are scarcely ever without some sort of scandal in them down to the union clubs that only blossom out on certain extraordinary occasions when they take aride throngh the streets and blow horns with their ceery breath. One of the latest clubs formed is the Nineteenth Century Club. Its object is to advance the study of philosoph- ical and social questions. The president of the club Is Courtland Palmer, who has very liberal views on religious subjects and is a philosopher inasmall way. One of the other members Is F. B. Thurber, who can lay no claim to being a philosopher, but who always gives his assistance to reform clubs, and who apparently has a liking for Joining any new clubat all. Clubs ot this character usually hayé a short life. There is a great deal of enthusiasm among the members at first, but as soon as the novelty wears off they lose their interest and pee out—at least this has been the case in clubs of a similar char- acter. Another new social organization is the Minuette club. It is an English idea, ‘as most of the ideas are which are adopted by New York society. The club is composed of twelve young men snd tweive young ladies, who meet once a week to practice the measures of the minuette. When they have got their heels and toes suffi- Giently under control they intend to give an ex- hibition at Delmonioo’s tn fancy costumes. THE REY. HEBER NEWTON. i For a long time Beecher and Talmage had it all their own way, but recently the Rev. R. Heber Newton, the pastor of one of the leading Episcopal churches in this city, has been preach- ing sermons that, in point ot sensationalism, quite overshadow the efforts of the Brooklyn preachers. For some time he has attracted no- tice by his liberal views on social questions, and within the fast two or three weeks has at- tempted to pick the Bible to pieces with a thor- oughness that Col. Bob Ingersoll could hardly equal. It is quite odd to see such an iconoclast in an orthodox pulpit. He talks of the story of ; the tall of man asa clever fable, questions the au- | thenticity of books tn the Old Testament, speaks of the Songs of Solomon as a love story and of the Book of Job as a Hebrew poem. He almost goes as far as to speak of the Book of Daniel as a clever forgery. This, as 1 have sald, is rather queer, but his congreastina evidently have not been startled by his views. Without doubt he has succeeded In educating his congre- gation up to his position, in the same manner that Beecher has carried his.along with him— little by little. As yet I have heard of no pro- test on the part of Mr. Newton's ecclesiastical superiors, but there will be an A grad by-and-by. Then, I suppose, Mr. Newton will establish an in- dependent church, organize a society of ethical culture, or, like the Rev. Mr. Miln ot Chi 0, go on the stage and play Hamlet, While Mr. Newton is farin advance of the most of the clergy of New York, 8 growing liberalism is perceptible In churches of all denominations: What would our grandfathers have thought of a comic opera being produced in the chapel of a church by members of the choir and of the church society! Yet, this is what we had the other night at the Church of the Messiah, of which the Rev. Robert Collyer is pastor. The opera was done very well, and was noticed as any other opera would be, and has passed without any further comment. THE MILLIONAIRE ANTI-MONOPOLIBT. F. B. Thurber, the millionaire anti-monopo- list, 1s never too busy to talk on the subject of antl-monopoly, even going into the abstruse politico-economic phases of it. I had a chat with him in his stubby little counting room yesterday. At his elbow were piles of copies of the anti-monopoly er issued by the anti- monopoly league, and on the shelves were tracts and documents, some of of awfal portent, as they were Hack. them apparently bordered in deep “Is the a League doing anything now?” I sked “The Sot mODONOY, movement,” he replied, “is a very lively . The two great parties may lie on their arms at a time like thig, but the anti-monopolist party 1s always at work. So far the League has mainly sought to educate the people up to the point of revolt.” “How long has this work been going on?” “The League was formed only two years ago, but there has been more or less work for the last ten years. So far more than 6,000,000 ot documents have been sent to different parts of the country. My attention was directed to the evils or pernebel some Years ago, and I began to study the subject.” “What are the direct aims of the movement: “One of them is to compel transportation companies to basetheir charges upon the cost of service, with afairprofitadded. We also want laws to prohibit fictitious yaluesin the construction ot blic works. Unjust discriminations are now ade by railroads and other corporations that depend upon the public. We want leglsiation to prevent these abuses. Another alm of the Movement is to secure more efficient laws against bribery and corruption. It 1s also de- sired that the postal laws should be reformed so as to be made to include a postal savings bank and postal telegraph and telephone. There should be a commission over state and inter- state commerce to which appeals may be made. Now, the rallroads dictate their terms, and there ls no redreas. here are so few of them that instead of competing with each other they combine. It is the same in leas degree with the telegraph companies.” “To what extent have the people imbibed the teachings of the League?” The progress of the movement 1s very en- couraging. We anti-monopollsts regard the over- turning of the republican party at the last elec- tions to have been largely due to the educative work that we have carried on. The people were brought to see that the republican party was at fault Inallowmg somany men in It to workin the Interest of large corporations. There were also men or this class inthe democratic party, but not so many of them. Whether the change that has taken place will continue until 1884 depends upon the manner fn which the democratic party takes up this subject. Without doubt, unless Some measures aré taken to remedy the exist- ing evils, there will be a revolution one of these days. It would be better to lift the safety ves in time, would it not 2” ‘The PASSION PLAY AGAIN, * Salmi Morse is undismayed. He is carrying on his rehearsals for the “Passion Play” and hastening the completion of his theater as much as he can as if no legal obstruction whatever was being thrown In his way. He remarked to me yesterday that he would, withont doubt, produce the “Passion Play” as soon as the preparations were complete. When I suggested that meas- ures might be taken to prevent him, he smiled complacently and said in order that those who opposed him should succeed in thwarting him new lawa would have to be made. He laughed heartily at the opposition which the clergy have made, and pronounced all that they had said against the performance as simply silly. He is quite enthusiastic over the man who Is to take the part ofthe Saviour. He also speaks warmly of the dramatic ability of his Judas and Herod. The singing of his chorus, he says. will surprise the town. The more I see of this man (he is so full of his play and its production that he touches on no other subject, and no other sub- ee can be made totouch him), the more Tregara him as # singularly strange creature. Althoush he is an old man, he has the baoyaney and elas- ticity of youth. "He does not dress like anybody else. He was ciad yesterday in a long gray dressing gown which enveloped his tall figure completely. It was bound around his waist with thick cords, from which hung tassels of peente dimensions, and it almost struck his eels, As he danced around in this sombre garb in his moments of enthusiasm he presented a cu- rious spectacle. YOUNG LADIES AT A COOKING SCHOOL. Visiting a cooking school is as good as going to a play, that ts when a class of young ladies is taking @ practical lesson in cookery. At the school the other day several young ladies pre- lar | pared a lunch with thelr own dainty handa, to which friends afterwards sat down. They were like so many school childrea while at it—making out from first to last. were all Fish avense and Gi tise eestor Without NEWSPAPER GOSSIP. There is as much interest taken In newspa- pers as In persons, and there has been no end of gossip about the dividend declared this week by the Tribune. Since Whitelaw Reid married into the Mills tamily, the Tribune hasshown wonder- ful prosperity. A large addition was bullt to the Tribune building, and now a good dividend has been declared. The old hue and cry about this paper being owned and controlled by Jay Gould is no Jongec made, as the books show that much more than the controlling interest 1s pene by Mr. Reidand members of the Mills family. The Morning Journal, which ts the last ven- ture in daily journalism in this city, still lives, It is making its way more rapidly than a paper with the hackneyed name which it bears deserves. It is avery bright little sheet. Itaims to be sensational, and !s becoming a dangerous rival to the Paper called Truth. Many of the men who were formerly on the staff of are now at work on the Journal. But the new Paper is a baby yet, and may die—in fact, the odds are very much against it. “THE CO-OPERATIVE” FAILURE. Kate ‘Field was looking over the morning papers, when I called yesterday, in her rooms at the Victoria hotel. She wore a garnet plush dress and blue satin slippers. Her hair waa in wavy ringlets over her forehead down to the eyebrow line fa the Langtry fashion. She was ina better mood than I expected to find her,but not ready yet to write her confessions, as she called them, about the affairsof the Dress As- sociation. “This much I will say,” she sald. “The ten thousand dollar salary, of which so much has been eaid, was paid to John Wales as manager and not tome. There are some malicious peo- ple who keep saying over and over that this vee thousand dollars a year was paid to me. Lie. Mr. Wales had entire control of the mercantile cpacement and would allow no interference.” “How long was he in power?” “He succeeded jn six months in ap Py ae capital to the amount of $145,000,” ield replied, ‘and ran the C. D. A into debt.” “Ta it true that you advanced money to the association?” “Yes, I loaned it $15,000 to stem the adverse tide which had set in. This was while I was in Europe last summer.” “Is this amount now due you?” “Every penny,of it. I was relying on a good fall trade to enable the association to pay me back the loan. Had there been a good fall trade all debts could easily have been paid. But the trade instead ofcbeing good was bad. The re- sult was that the association was forced to go in- to the hands of a recelver—assets 244,000, lia- bilities $129,000, “Have .you any idea what per cent will be paid to the stockholders?” “None in the least. I do not allow myselfto think ofco-operation any more than I can help. As 1 am the gecond: largest stockholder in the asso- clation, Iam, of,course, very desirous that the association may.be ableto pay dollar for dollar. As the stock will be for sale, however, those who will bid for it will depreciate it as much as possible.” a 1 KATE FIELD'S QUARTERS. Miss Field's apartments at the Victoria are very attractive. Some of the coverings of the furniture are rich oriental antiques, which Miss Field very much admires. The halls are hung with portraits and sketches, most of them pre- sented to her with autographic subscriptions. One of them is a portrait of Charles Dickens, which was presented to her In 1868,.at-the-time of the celebrated novelist's first visit ‘to this country. Thereis story attached to it. Miss Field was an enthuslastic admirer of Dickens and sent him, while he was giving his readings at Steinway Hall, a basket of heartsease. She afterwards made his acquaintance, and sald that she would never beable to pay him the heavy debt which she owed him for the pleasure she had received from the perusal of his works. He remarked that he would give her a receipt for the whole amount. Subsequently she received the portrait, with a note written ina bold hand. ‘The note ran: ‘Received of Miss Kate Field all the thanks she owes me and much more, with which J am better pleased than I appeared to be in the above gloomy presentment of my state of | ti mind.’ The portrait is one of the best extant of the novelist, and has a peculiar melancholy expres- sion, which the author himself recognized and refers to in this note. Among the other por- traits which Miss Field has in her collection is @ crayon drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence of himself, and also a portrait of Van Dyke by Gainsborough. She also esteems very highly a photograph of Sir Charles Dilke, which was pre- sented to her by him, and which has his auto- graph attached to ft. A portrait of Charles Fechter also hangs on the wall. This she Te- ceived from the hand of the actor. When this was presented the words ‘Remember me” were written in ink in one corner. There is not now the slightest trace of this writing left, a fact which Miss Field refers to with a slight sugzes- tion of the superstition common to women. Miss Field also has a rusty horseshoe on her mantel shelt turned upside down to keep the Good luck in, as she says, if there is any in It. ‘The past two years have been far from happy for Miss Field, and no doubt while ch agrined | by the failure ofthe association, she must feel a sense of relief in getting the great undertaking off hershoulders. Her plans for the ruture are not matured ag yet, There are several things, I believe, that ‘she would like to do. She may make a journey across the continent and back again, stopping here and there to give her pecu- liar entertainments where she may find a good audience. What she would most like to do would be to go around the world. 2. ____ Improvised Sleighs in San Francisco. From the San Francisco Call, January 1. Some 30,000 young people, born in this clty, saw snow yesterday for the first time. The morning was cold, but the snow melted almost as fast as it came, and when it began to accu- late it was full of moisture. In three hours snow enougifellto have made good sleighing if the ground had been frozen. Two men of ad- vanced ideas improvised a sleigh, and hitching horse to it drove through the streets with great eclat—so te speak. The turnout was Pie-_ turesque,*though not to say pretty—that is, not beautiful.) As they proceeded the snow storm Increased; it camre down in flakes, It came col- laterally in hard balls, it came from every di- rection. They pat whip to their steed to’ get out of the cyélone. In turning inte Kear- ney street the Sastily constructed sleigh be- gan to disintegrate. A runner dropped off, and they'ran on one wheel until the other Wi left; stil the storm of snowballs grew thickér, ‘and they plied the whip to the flying steed, the dry goods box which served for a sleigh-bed ploughing the snow over the cobbletones &ntil. shattered half to pleces, it eae Sear the vee sleigh-riders, out. y of young men, in a hastily im- provised-eleigh that was not a success for tse or ornament, ran gauntlet sarroanted the sleighing patty and with snow and mud. A Chinaman; seeing the fan, crowded Pare hey away ym | . In the fiying balis the'vehicle was party drove off in good en RELIGIOUS NOTES. "5 Gwe BERE AND ELSEWHERE. = Rev. Dr. Lindsay, of St. John’s church, — The Lutheran church on Capitol Hill ts con- templating the completion of their building during the com! summer. The ladles are Very aetive to Paiste money to pay eee lot, —The revival meetings at Memorial M. EB. church, Rev. W. Hirst Reed, which have just closed resulted in about one hundred accessions to the church. — The meetings "which have been in progress at Ryland, Rev. Richard Norris pastor, for some Weeks, are kept up, and so far about one hun- dred have been converted. — At Waugh Chapel, on Capitol Hill, Rev. W. Downs pastor, a revival meeting has been in Progress this week with a promising outloo! and Rev. W. F. Ward, at the boanien has niet menced a meeting. — At the forty hours’ devotion at St. Aloysius church, which commenced on Sunday last, the opening services were conducted by Rev. Father Magiveny, and despite the weather there was a large attendance. —St. Matthews Catholio church has re-en- gaged for the present year for ite choir Prof. John P. Lawrence, organist; Mrs. George B. McCartee, soprano; W. H. Burnett, tenor, and L. EK. Gannon, baritone and director, and in ad- dition there will be a large and well trained chorus. —The will of Alexis &. Smith, of Frederick, Md., which was contested, was yesterday ad- mitted to probate. Under its provisions the Lutheran Memorial church, Rey. Dr. Butler, of this city, will receive $1,000, and the Lutheran church, Baltimore, $5,000. — The president of Liberia college, Rey. Dr. Blyden, is to deliver the address at the sixty- sixth anniversary of the American Colonization society, which takes place to-morrow (Sunday) evening at the New York Avenue Presbyterian church. Dr. Blyden has the present distinction of being the only negro who writes for the quarterlies. He is described as having “a Pleasant, well modulated voice,” and as an elo- quent and logical speaker. —The plan inaugurated this year, by the churches of East Washington, of holding a union noon-day meeting, during the week of prayer, for that part of the city has proved a great success. “The church of the Reformation” where these meetings were held has been well filled, and so much interest has been manifested that It has been Sere by the pastors of the different churches, to hold a noon-day meeting on Saturday ot next week, whose special object shall be the gathering together of the children of the Sabbath schools of East Washington. The place selected as being most central is the Metropolitan Presbyterian church, and the meeting will be led by Rey. W. M. Ingersoll, of the Metropolitan Baptist church. —The Methodist Historical Society of Baltt- more has been reorganized. —There are two thousand young men belng trained for the ministry in the United States. —Five of the workers on the Santhal Mission in India were formerly Brahmin priests. —The Cataolic churches in the archdiocese of New York have collected $18,362 for the benefit of Pope Leo XIII. — Rev. Dr. Carroll, of Baltimore. has given $10,000 to Dickinson college, Pennsylvania, to aid the endowment fund. —Rey. Dr. Fossett, of Chicago, is now spoken of as the possible successor of Rey. Dr. Baer, at the Metropolitan M. E. church. — Rev. Dr. John Peddie, of the First Baptist church, New York, has accepted a call to the Fifth Baptist church, Philadelphia. — The colored members of St. Mary’s Catho- lic church, at Marlboro, Maryland, have formed a beneficial society. —A new Methodist paper is soon to be started in Ireland, to be called The Irish Chris- tian Advocate. —Rev. Dr. Ryle, the Episcopal bishop of Liverpool, England, has been congratulated by the Evangelical Protestant Union for the step he recently took by occupying a Presbyterian pulpit. : —Many people think that the Douay version of the Scriptures is the only one authorized for use fn the Roman Catholic church. This is not 80, however. Bishop Ryan has recently stated that while bishops in their dioceses may recom- mend particular translations, as the Douay. or Archbishop Kenrick’s, the authorized version for the universal church is the Vulgate. — The ex-Rev. Mr. Miln, who became an ag- nostic and then took to the stage, Is said to be meeting with large success in the west. His voice is good, and his personal magnetism is great. His costumes are costly and magnifi- cont, and his enunciation is exceptionally dis- in —The M. E. church south has located the Paine institute for the education of colored young men for the ministry of the colored M. E£. church at Augusta, Ga., and Key. Dr.Morgan Calloway, vice president ot Emory college has been elected president. —The congregation ot the A. M. E. church, re- cently occapying a chapel on South Eutaw street, Baltimore, have moved to what was for- merly the Cross-street M. E. church, the congre- gation under Rey. E. H. Smith having recently moved to a larger edifice. —Rey. George D. Buchanan, pastor of the Asquith street Presbyterian church, in Balti- more, has received the unanimous call of the general assembly of Victoria, Australia, to labor as an evangelist In the colony, and at a meeting of the Baltimore Presbytery next week, his re- lease will be asked for. — Rev. Isaac P. Cook, perhaps the oldest local preacher within the bounds of the Baltimore M. E. church will preach a commemorative sermon at the First church, Baltimore to-morrow—it being his GOth anniversary as a member and 58d asa local preacher attached to that charge. — At the celebration of the twenty-fifth an- niversary of Hanson Place M.E. church, Brook- lyn, last Sunday, Bishop Andrews, of this clty, preached the sermon, and Rev. Dr. Wilbur F. Watkins, of the Episcopal church formerly of this clty and now rector of Holy Trinity, New York, made an appropriate address. Dr. Wat- kins was converted in this church and subse quently served it as pastor before e&tering the Episcopal church, —The congregation of the M. E. Church South are being appealed to for contnbutions for the purpose of purchasing land and erecting bulld- ings for the Anglo-Chinese University at Shang- hai. Of the $47,000 required, 2,000 is expected to be raised in the Baltimore conference, and over one-half has been paid. The university re- ceived 1,000 applications for admission as soon as it was opened, and 400 students only could be received. —The Central Baptist has this telling hit at the brillant imaginations of some evangelists in counting their converts: *A prominent St. Louis ¢ told us that e noted evangelist, who was Rolding a meeting in St. Louis, onee reported some seventy converts for one night’s work. The re] city. church knew anything of any converts till they saw the announcement in the paper. It would seem to be of little use for any man to the work of an evangelist nowadays, if bas not learned how to count.” — Thus far there have been but very few snb- scribers to the fund for the payment of the debt of Archbishop Purcell, the aggregate of their subscriptions being but a few hundred dollara. The addition of the archbishop’s own subscrip- tion of $60 shows how important he considers it that this debt should be paid. Stripped of all he had and redaced to the most barren condi- tion of poverty, the feeble old man finds dificult now to raise former to comm: BRIGHT FANCIES OF THE POETS.| Congress and the National Library. Ta many 0 village window burn ‘They suine amid the dews and dampa, ‘Those Ughts of home! Afar the wanderer sees them glow, it 18 pear; Now Bweet his ‘Ye lode-stars that forever draw Th In O1 lights or home, ‘When my brict day of lite ts o'er, ‘Then may I Shine trom the Dear lights of home, Iwander'a ‘On the ‘Was cai ‘That Scarce daring ‘Til the pitirui ‘Came falling ail zat shot alone stranger tanas or crowded marty path with radiance clear, venly house for me EL Ene ‘The Great Lone Land. the pitiless sky. ‘The coldness of death was below, ‘The stillness of death tn the air, Save that over the wild waste of snow ‘The wolf pour'd his howl of despair; And stricken and weary I trod, to gaze Into space, mercy of God in tears on my face, and afer ins of the north, and my eye by the Daze of 'a star But the meteor had pass’ and was gone! Ah, whither? in vain shall I seek? Istahd In the dread night alone, And the voice of my soul strives to speak; But tt falters, and falls back unspoken, like the wolf how! afar: ‘The God-lights of lfe are all broken, And I am a wreck like the star! Goot Words, And dies ——___—_~-e-____ Frank James in the Hole of Convert. And flod that my conversion No, sir; you keep your keys! “Good people!” quoth ths bandit chief, As he deralied tho train, “Iam the great converted tiet— Come, sit, your watch and chain!— Trve seen the error of my ways— Your bracelets, madaine, please— pare “T'll take your locket, ma’om, and purse God bless you; now your rings. You know the pretty Bible verse ALout wealth taking wings!— Now, sir, hand out your po May heaven's blessings res Upon your liie—T'li take a look Around inside your vest. “Why should ye cling to earthly dross— ‘That wallet In your boot!— Why should Oi book— rest ye mourn financial loss, evil, all the roott- Hold up your hands! Ob, ye, half sunk tu sin, whatgein Mf mankind lose their souis ‘To save a lttie tin? “Now take your seats Unuil I'm out of ai Pray ever to the That necklace, ma’am; that’s rightt wet your sins!—Hand me the mall od treasure, or Pil shoot! — ‘This wo ype Sings! exe Good-bye! I guess I'll scoot! ee Travelers’ Magazine. As I dreamed of her eyes and their depta of light. A dream came out from the gate of horn morn. Of love!l— A’dream flow out of the ivory gate And came tome when night was late. My love drew near with the proud sad eyes And the fathomless look of soft surprise, Islep* in peace through the Summer night And flew to me at Tran to the stable and saddied my We rushed through the dawn at a headi my love the sun shone And I found her dead in the moi When I reacied ster Ught.” mle i Where She Was Weak, A who owns a retriever Shot ducks on the ire (cae ‘She bagged seven hun But biusked so and biundered, In telling it no one would believe her. Hawkeye, ‘The Two Fleets. The sun was bright and the sea was bland, And the tide danced in as merrily, When a satlor pushed his boat from the sand; And the waves kept time with his homely For the sailor hummed, “Two fi jects there And one sails over the sun-lit waves, And one lies under the somber sea.” ‘The sea was bland and the sun was bi w fresh and And a fa) voring wind bie Abii the Jeas’ping sail 4152) J from is ‘Hand me those rotist wae not move 8 hi Bar. ice But the odd refrain still remained with me? Wi And ‘hich the sailor sai one sails over the sun-lit waves, sea.” And one lies under the somber ‘The tide danced out with the freight it bore; Ah, the tide came back soon smili But the sallor’s boat never touched the ingly, And I sing to myself, for I cannot fee From the haunting strain, “Two fleets there And one sails over the sun-lit waves, And one les under the somber sea.” So one by one from the shining world ‘The feet sails down to the distal lee— the fleet where every sail ts furled; heart keeps time to the myatic key, And my While I drift and sing, And one sails over th: obe lies under the somber sea.” 80 a little while and he who sings Shall hum no more his songs to thee; So they who watch his san-lit wings Shall bear, ‘The Ups which ‘81 ng—Two fleets there bez shore; [wo fleets there be: n-lit waves, And one sails over the sun-llt waves, And one les under the somber sex.” EUGENE BoLixs in Harper's Magazine. oe cea Song. ‘The girl sat under the beetling cliff, Oh, the sweet singing out of the seat She Watched the white sa ‘She Watched as It tacked and m: She watched the sharp kee} ran And she thought, “He ts comingto me, AS the satlot sprang from the gay Uoat’s side As it lay in the lap of the ebbing tide. Ob, the sweet singing out of the seal ‘The two sat under the great rock’s shade, ‘Oh, the sweet sing They saw the sunset glow and fade; They heard the low waves’ To the vows that mocked at out of the se: AS he swore by the steadfast True and tender, through weal and woe, And she blushed'to the kiss he hallowed 303 ‘Oh, the sweet singing out of the soa} ‘The girl sat under the cliff alone, Oh, the sad singing of the sea And the wind’s low sob, and the waves’ Jow moan ceaseless chime, change and ume, Udes to be Blent witu the passionate weeplog for him Whose falsehood had mad A Whose joy is blighted, whose trust is Whose hope, like the rose, Its leaves has sled?” ©, the sad singing out of the sea! The great sea heard, as under the shade— Oh, the sweet singing out of the seal— Its Moonlit ripples soft music made, And it tei for aye with the changing years; me mOurer, Take te Do thy dut. Ob, he sw bad ending: ‘Well, William, what's become 'aven’t you ‘eard, sir?” Not defanct, I hope?” *-That’s just ex- actly what he ‘as done, sir, and walked off with heverything he could lay his ‘ands on!"—Lon- don Punch. A of Robert?” Influence of the press: The inflnenc®of a free fg pucngecy in Cincinnati. lover no longer expresses ery verbiage of the poet, ision and al- Maria, let’scon- ied is might; ere the impat! his feelings in the flow but makes his for rest “What, fen int with the and peace to me. -ssunT give through Ume and tide, » Hor Feck of aught beskie;” Usinging OUI Of the seal » perchance, when they cannot see ing, “Two fleets there be: 13 Of the dancing skit ade the land, op the sand, le the felr world dim; nd she sighed, “What has life ieft yet for me, Seng, “The world with its suiles and rn All the Year Rouna. Saturday Smiles. reetness of a rifle shot: ‘Ad -Brooklyn solidate.”—, Woman's love: i “Do i il i i He g i ay 4 R e 4 fi oH tr From the New York Post, “Observe, my son,” said the minister of @ monarch, “with how little wisdom the people are governed.” It is not much better whe the people govern themselves. Five or ox yearsago, when our national debt was larget ‘and the Income smaller, the joint committee om twelve millions. Now, when the overflowing, the committee feel obliged by congressivnal apprehension of popular for extravagance to ask for a building ‘only halt as much, and Congress rejects: thisdemand. It the objection made plans had been that they were bad: were—one would net have found fault; ‘one but the committee knew, or co! pected to know,enything about the > questions L- ught up were, whet! nis while to have a national brary at all, is best to put its house, and how much it Is worth while to pay for the building. To the first question oan answered that by the operation of the copyright law we already have a nator brary, an evil state of thi Which Mr. MeLane, of Maryland, proposed do away wih by desiroying half of the books being useless. “His drastic remedy found no ad. 1 words, though the House has always ng what indifference could to it © effect, i-tting 489.000 volumes be ccowked, esiined for 180.000. Ae to the place, ‘buying land for the aite,which has ays been supposed to cover a job (with some yi reason, since the price vaually talked of hout three times the assessed value,) was »od of. ‘The enlargement of the ld only be a tenporary make- out of sight. Judi * ond appropriat-d by some commission for the con- struction of a building for the Pension office, In the planning of which (observe again, my gon, it t¥ sald that no member of the office has consulted. The Botanical Garden on vania avenua, which 1s now most tn favor, is not inconvententiy situated, and perhaps, after the channel of the river is tmproved, it y not be exposed to the Potomac floods. Thethind tion was the cost. a8 we sald, It started at ten or twelve millions for the building, exclusive of the land. At that the the hea was to construct & magnificent palace, with art galleries and vast halis for the public to promenade in, and some small storave Sor books, put tn. as It were, paren- theticaliy. The exterior was to he Gothic; and, es ofter happens with our public bulldinga,there were persons who 44 not think It beautitul. At the present session the committee did not dare t sent so eatravagant a plan, and substi d one with exactly che same Interior, but in the Renatssance style to three or four millions, showing that Uhey had proposed to ex pend five or six purely for an onteide and not an attractiveone at that. Until have a design of undoubted and extraordi excellence It is well to reserve our millions. the Renalseance design we can only say that if it ts the one exhibited two or three yeare it Is littie improvement on the Gothic. But House wili have neither. The House Umite the expense to $2,000,008. Congress te willing to Store its bouks, but does not care in doing #0 to recy to beautify the city of Washington. If tuere had been any chance of its one might regret its parsimony. It bas been confidently asserted that, by adopting a certain plan, books can be tored fa @ thoroughly fre-proof and not disaw plain b ing at the rate of three for a dollar. always tnconveniently full betore it packed, but the two million dollars provide for tive million volumea, twice as many as are in the langest li in the world, three times as many as are in the next largest I!brary, double the namber vided for in the (en million dollar plan. If gress sbould double iis rate of growth ead acquire 30,000 auditional volumes every year, the building would be good for ninety years: then tt could be enlarged. No plan for ® Ubrary bulldiug ts good that does not provide for enlargement. One of the most sensible suggestions shows curiously how little knowledge Congress has of libraries. It was proposed thut the matter be referred toa commission of experts com; mong other persons, of the librarians of the public Ubraries of Boston, New York, Philadel phia, Baltimore, Cinetnnat!, Chicago, Muwaukes, and St. Louis. No if by this was meant, as probably was, the free public libraries owned hese ciites an cappoubed at Reereendnteiresyt« § cities of New York and Philadeiphia have St. Louts has-onty a public achoet iibrars, and the public Library of Baltimore has not yet any Mbrarian. if Uy public Ubrarles was meant, a inthe tari, all that are not private in those cities—mercantile, society, pt . an versity—thon the ‘body would be goment at Une wieidy. However, it makes Ittle difference Which interpretation is the true one, as the amendment was not =. and the whole matter remains in the hands of the joint mee committee, who do not consult librariana, Whose iavorite plan was disapproved of by the Librarians in convention at Washington and tor- mally condemned by the 1 rarjans in conven- tion at Cincinnati.” The result so far, thot not creditable to Congress, is not greatly to lamented. With the oxtginal plans we should have had at ugly, unsuitable and costly build- ing. With the new plans we shall probably lave an ucly, unsuitable, but cheaper building. The Saving of six or seven milliuns is somethin; ad there is te further advantage that the brary of Congress plainly housed will not be the chief show place of the city, and will that army of sight-seers whio in the costiler eae made any proper use of the fice would have books impossible. a Stories from Life, Eugene Field in Denver Tribune. L An Impressario once Approached a Male and offered him Advantageous Terms to become a Prima Donna “Alas,” quoth the Mule witha Sigh, “that is an Impossibility, for though f ave un Ear for Music, my Voice is Sadly At- tuned.” “Bet you ean Kick: pressario. kicking,” admitted the Mule, “I am Positively Peerless.” “Then,” exclaimed the impresario, “you have the Highest Quall- Heation of a Prima Donna. Consider yourself ge bt A foolish Showman once Advertised for the Following Curiosities: a Printer who carried. Tobacco, a Negro Minstrel who Did not wear # Plug Hat, a Woman who did not Wash her Puce. with a Rag, an Edivor who Had Ten dollare tp his Pocket, a Dog whose Hind legs were ia Plumb with his Front Legs, a Business Mi who did not Consider the editors Robbers and a Pair of Shoes that were too Small for the who Wore them. ‘The foolish Showman died @ Death of Bitter Disappointment. iil, A child, hay g sustained horizontal Relations with His mother's Lap, was heard to Philosoph- ically remark that Spankings not only Developed the Bottom facts of a Slinper’s usefulness also Afforded the Spankee an admirable tunity of appreciating the Beauuiful and Won drous Intricacies of the carpet Pattern. —————29s.— Mow Gov. Andrew Did It, Frou the Boston Herald, Late one afternoon, after a busy day, whem the executive office people were getting Teady te go home, a poor old Irish woman was an- nounced, the messenger remarking: “It’s only an old woman, governor, who wants to get her, husband pardoned out of the house of corres tion. Ili get rid of her for you.” “Noe, you> won't,” said Andrew; “I am here to see just such people, and the poorer they are the more. "It te ‘i 4)