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14 THE HEART OF AFRICA. Capt. Hore Tells About It to the Geograph- feal Society. IS LONG LIFE AMONG THE SAYAGES—THE JOUR- NEY THROUGH THE WILDERNESS—BUILDING A BOAT ON LAKE TANGANYIKA—AN INTERESTING ‘LEcTURE. Capt. Edward C. Hore, master mariner, Afri- ean explorer, shipbuilder, pioneer, civilizer, of London, Eng., delivered © most entertaining and valuable lecture last night before the Na- tional Geographical Society of Washington in the ssembly hall of the Cosmos Club. The hall was completely filled when 8 o'clock arrived, and Capt. Hore stood up by the desk. He isa tall, rather slender man, with a refined, dark face, shaded by » full black beard. His voice is soft and the intonations of his speech are en- tirely English. There is a certain softness of manner, a gentleness of tone, a delicacy in touching on controverted points, yet withal a firmness of assertion, born of actual observa- tion, that contrasted strangely with theimpres- sion created before his appearance, from the announcement that he spent eleven years of his life among the savage people of Africa, the men whom Stanley has described as unmitigated barbarians, whom to know is to dread. ‘THE WEART OF AFRICA. Capt. Hore «poke to the theme, “The Heart of Africa,” reading sometimes froma book before him filled with his handwriting and fre- quently interjecting words that had never been written, explaining passing points of interest. Hie referred in his introduction. to the various authorities on Africen lore and mentioned his long experience in the dark continent as giv- ing him a right to speak on the subject. He then went on to “dissect Africa,” as he called bis general description of the geographical and hysical conditions of the continent. From Tact head he proceeded to tell how he ands number of other Englishmen several years ago undertook to trate from the east coast of Africa, $00 miles to Lake Tanganyika, which he regarded as the “heart of the continent.” They went for tho purpose of opening up com- munication with the vast bodies of people liv- ing far in the interior and directly in the in- terests of an association having for its object the civilization of these savages. WHAT THE PARTY CONSISTED oF. ‘They had two or three hundred natives as Porters, guides, path clearers and for other purposes, and besides their traveling necessities they carried the parts of a steamboat which was afterward put together on Lake Tanganyika, aud which was the first vessel of the sort that ever cleaved the waters of this isolated region. ‘The story of this journey through the wilds of the forest and the plain was thus graphically told: “In the Magunda Nikali, which we had now reached, from twenty to twenty-five miles ‘& day was often made over very broken ground TOWN oF USUI. and scrubby forest. Water must be had, habi- tations must be reached in a certain time where only foods were obtainable, and lag- gards were in danger from robbers and wild beasts. On, on went the novel train thro’ weary miles of forest, across the scorched plain, rattling over the hard-baked footprints Ter "the cheyphent aad. rhinoceres "- on, thro’ grassy glades, where the nimble antelope bounded, seared out of our path, and the zebra and giraffe were startled by the rattling of these strange disturbers of the desert solitude: on still thro’ miles of swamp with its croaking legions; on thro’ scenes of surpassing beauty, bright flowers anJ gleaming birds and insects; on past the weary warside relics of travelers warlaid or exhaasted, till the sun creeps up high overhead, and eager lances are cast at grecn spots where water onca ad been: on, till the pace grows slow and the | {J heart sick with weariness and thirst, and still ‘on, till it revives again as the welcome messen- get appears in sight from the front with water or the camp-fires tell of food and rest. Thus essed forward with untold labor till we reached Hihrah, the outlying village of Unyam- wezi. ONE TRIAL FOLLOWED BY OTHERS. “The beautiful wilderness had given us a severe trial, the rich and well-cultivated coun- try of Unyamwezi presented other difficulties. ‘The industrious natives cultivate every inch of ground they can, laying it bare to the full play of the <un and faising great ridges in their gardens with such a narrow path between them that our carts must perforce go bump. bump- ing across them for miles, causing a weary drag to our progress. At Urambo we met our col- leagues, who had gone on in advance, and elicited the pleased surprise of the chief, rambo. Said he, laying his hand emphatically on one of the boat sections: “This boat and these carts are mine and all Unyamwezi is yours.” It was his way of expressing sympathy and interest, and we left him pondering more deeply than ever over the darings of the white man. He sent with us as guide also one of his sabchiefs. The ruined Villages of Winona, the next country on our route, spoke eloquently of bloodshed and rob- bery and explained, to me the canss of fest in- creasing parties. ‘The brilliant tropical spring was rapidly clothing the whole face of the country. general dampness hurried our movements, prognosticating as it did the swell- ing of the the most difficult river ii A VIEW OF THE VALLEY. “Emerging from the elevated forests toa view of the valley of the river it appears like a vast level expanse of harmless grass, but the swift, deep, swirling Malagarasi is hidden in its Soptinand will giveas sous ber tecresr ‘The hongo or toll required by the natives be ing paid we descended to the river through the hick grass. We crossed the river in tiny bark or dug-out canoes, managed by the natives on Ge spot. One old’ man, s leader among these ferrymen, we had especial canse to notice. We sgllga him the old admiral_he wore a curious cap apparently made of bladder, and pre- sented a most odd ince. We ‘paid him special fee of propitiation for the boatmen. As we proceeded toward the river the first ‘signs of it amid the long grass was quiet, shal- low water on the path. This grew deeper as we walked on, the water ascending to the arm pits and the grass rising avenue-like overhead. -We emerged upor stood the ‘Old Admiral’ superintend- all The crossed separately. ard of calico, but. when the carte appeared was a general astonishment among the ferrymen, who showed signs of clearing off altogether. The old admiral alone was un- Sak, tel a dings boos eee right yards a wl, “Eight eight yards for ? expressed. st ouce his nonchalance and his determination, and eight we had to pay. All was safely got over a day.” one “This journey occupied 105 days. A certain learned writer upon Africa had told how this same trip could not be accomplished within of Africa.” “The; consists of a long. tion of mountain masses (the Moun’ Moon) spreading ont in many places as vast plateaus and buttressed by far-stretching ri here and there rhing into snow. © peaks, formi from which’ outward and downward in intricate articulations extends the complicated bony skeleton of Africa. In the of this central mass, in rocky basins, in fathom- leas chasms, in vast depressions of the surface of the elevated plateaus, lie those t na tional rain tanks, known as the central African lakes, central sparkling gems of the Dark Con- tinent, from which radiate in endless ramifica- tions the streams which, flowing onward and outward through the length and breadth of the continent, form its system of circulation—for the outflow through mountain passes ur the overflow through broad expanses of the contents of those great reservoirs and the downflow over the outer sides of those but- tresses are the head waters of the Congo, the Nile and the Zambesi. Clustering around’ the great lakes and crowning their surrounding ridges dense foresta of gigantic trees are pre- served in perpetual verdure—the flesh and muscle of this great creation, clothing and beautifying the skeleton and drawing from the heavens the fluid that vitalizes all. THE GLORIOUS FORESTS. “Down over the sides of the central elevation | TSP’ extend these glorious forests, in broad masses on their native heights, and where the waters spread out—in smaller groves, where moisture here and there is retained, and in long-extend- ing lines and network fringing the ever-wind- ing banks of the streams, and finally joining with the verdant belt of the sea coast io form the brillianl epidermis of the whole. And forming background and filling to the, net- work of these ent features, in broad Concentric curves and in belte and patches, the more stunted, thorny wth, grass, broad savannah and sandy plain; ever shabging in color and - “Central in’ this elevated is a wide depression of an irregular form and in the bot- tom of this hollow and occu about three- quarters of its longer diame Lake Tan- ganyika, ite surface 2,700 feet above the sea, and from 2,000 to 3,000 feet below the higher parts of ite surrounding mountain barriers. In ‘this my od — it rel = Tan- yika e subject of mi airy; fo wonder that as the highest ooreraned was reached from either side the explorer should regard the lake and its system as feeding one of the other great drains to the coast, but further examination has proved its isolation and that for long generations the lake has been the reservoir (without other outlet than evaporation) for the whole of the of this centrai depression in which it lies, a posi- tion which its native Tangan; or ‘the mixing of the waters,’ so aptly descril THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE Conac. “At last, however, by @ gradual gain of the rainfall upon the evaporation the lake rose to the level of the lowest gap in its surrounding barrier. which has now become the river Lu- kuga, discharging the surplus waters of the lake by @ series of rapids and falls into the Lualaba, the system of lakes and rivers form- ing the headwaters of the Congo. “Thus, with its outflow and its surrounding water sheds, conducting the waters to every side of the continent, with its northern ex- tremity only 320 miles Kavalli (Emin Pasha’s station on the Albert Nyanza),its south- ern extreme within 220 milesof Nyassa, ite western side the inner the Congo Free State, and its eastern that of the Terman territories, Lake ‘Tanganyika is at once the physical ‘and the political heart of Africa. Four hundred miles in length and fifteen to fifty miles across, ‘Tanganyika, though to some of us but alittle patch upon ‘the map of Africa, is to the natives of those regions the ‘great water,’ and the source of many industries, both directly from what it produces and indirectly through the facility for transport and communication it affords to the ten different tribes whose terri- tories are fringed by its 1,000 miles of shore, and affording also a perfect watery highway for civilizing enterprises among them. SOME PRACTICAL RESULTS. “The enterprise in the furtherance of which Thave visited these scenes has, however, had far more practical results than the mere obser- vation of the wonders and beauties of the tinent. One of the grand monarche the forest, removed from its an- cient, home, and allent, passive life on the heights above, cut and carved into shape by the natives of that lan: began life afresh on the waters of the lake an: aided, as the —— first vessel, in bringin, civilization and light to the countries aroun its shores. A survey of the lake was made, which is now added to our Africian maps. The wearing down of the difficulties of the road to it has permitted the transport of modern ship-building materials, and after years of work another, larger, steel vessel, with steam power, bas been launched on Tan: ganyika, affording a safe and efficient means of access to and communication with the sur- rounding countries. Two stations have been built, a dock, work shop and stores, to foundation keep these in working order, and a is thus laid of a new and improved condition of things.” ‘THE PEOPLE DESCRIBED. The people of this vast region occupied» few minutes of the lecturer's time. He de- scribed them as being rather above the ideals of those that have been set through Stanley's words and writings. He said: “They are not totally savage—they are industrious, they till the soil, they make pottery, they dig’ iron ore, smelt it and make it into implements. They have made a wonderfal p: toward civilization when one considers hie! have labored. P ages, past, and her people have continually been thrown upon the defensive. Weapons in hand, their arrows on the bow string, they have had’ little time until now to turn their attention to the | arte of peace. They are not necessarily sav- age. I can say with truth that during all of my ex; Inever saw an African maliciousl} slay another without provocation or cause. I lived among them as one of learned their language, taught them how to do things, how to make things, taught them to trust white men and showed "then that their pale brothers could be met more than half way by the agricul! built and occu; | ent materials, the. peimitivo type Svvsioping to cher ood rimitive stronger materials.” — Collided Of the Lizard. The British steamer Westbury has arrived at eight months, and further that no wheel could be be drawn over it. Capt. Hore has proven how false these statements were by his own CS ence. He went on to say that the trip had made with the but three lives, and ‘those would have been lost under any cireum- stances. There was no bloodshed, no iting, qd Gnsn) at eae ae tra @ it the es Alt ie seein, Pm. 1% shores of Lake yika, about 800 miles from the east coast. It con- tains about 1,000 inhabitants, and is the center of traffic for the eastern side of the continent.” ‘The lecturer lation of the continent by ef the Moon, THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, GETTING EVERYTHING READY. ‘What is Going On in the Base Ball World. WHAT THE HOME TEAM WILL CONSIST OF—nAT- ‘The active base ball season is just one week farther advanced and nothing has happened to make s material change in the aspect of affairs, either locally or generally. The league has had @ meeting and has decided to run or try to run ‘® team in Cincinnati, in opposition to Al John- son's club, but the prevailing theory is that it has madea mistake inso doing. There are those here who claim that their team will not finish the season in Cincinnati, even if it should begin it, and the association people do not seem to be particularly alarmed at the Prospect. t ‘THE HOME TEAM. Locally there has been little done. Paul Hines and Carsey were signed and that is about all. The team is now very nearly complete. Indeed, it is full enough now to begin although a little weak yet in Tatiory alga 7% ole bese; third base; Hatfield, shortstop; Beecher, le field, Visuer. right field; Hines, center ‘field. It would be running just a trifle too close to the wind to try to play out the season with this team, as there are practically no margins for Acoidents to men and really not enough piteh- to make a formidable showin; the club needs one good twirler and he is the directors are after just now. OUR SHORTSTOP. Tar Stan is able to present this week an ex- cellent portrait of Hatfield, who is to guard the space between second and third bases this year for the home team. Ho is well known here for his blonde hair and his clever work in pickin, up grounders as wel as for his neat hitting abilities. Hatfield may notbe the equal of John Ward. but he is one of the most earnest play- ers in the business, and he feels that in coming here he is, being given a chance for brilliant work that he has never PP” had before. He ‘ ed ball on the suoarstor uarrietp. bench so long that to own the position of shortstop on a team like Washington is going tohelp him makes record. ‘ODDS AND EXDS. The word comes from Baltimore this morn- ing that Sam Trott is there negotiating for the release of Kilroy by the Orioles to the Nation- als. Barnie feels that he can afford to let him go. and he may play ball here this year. ‘The work on the grounds has been seriously hindered by the two snows that have fallen this week, and the completion of the fences, stands and grading in the time is now more doubtful than ev The board of directors held a meeting the other night and decided to issue 400 season of | tickets at $20 each. There are to be seventy fames played, and at this rate it will cost the older of such a ticket 28 cents. game. As this is not only admission to the grounds, but to the grand stand, it seems to be a pretty cheap rate. The directors feel that they can eastly sell 400 such tickets. A new form of advertising boards was adopted to be used this year in various parts of the city in place of the old-fashioned brilliant poster that has formerly been used. The board is about four feet long and fifteen inches wide. It announces that there will be “:Buse ball today— Washington vs. Boston. Admission, 25 cents.” The varying facts are to be painted on slides of wood that can be interchanged ensily. The directors are also considering plans for a scheme whereby patrons of the game can be told of the condition of the grounds that might lead to “‘no game.” TE AMERICAN CLUBS. The composition of the association teams is made known this morning in the dispatches from Cincinnati, in a bulletin from President Kramer, giving the men now under contract: With ‘St. Louis—Charles Comiskey, John Boyle, Charles King, John Stivetts, John Mun- an, William Klingman, William Wil m Fuller, Dennis Lyons, William Hoy, Thos. McCarthy, James MeAleer, Joseph Neil, C. ler. With Columbus—Mark E. Baldwin, Harry Gastright, John L. Sneed, John O'Connor, Charles Crooks, Chas. T. Reilly, Frank Knauss, James McTamany, W. H. Wheeler, C. E. Duffee, John E. Easton. With Louisville—John R. Ryan, E. M. Daily, John F. Doran, H. L. Taylor, 8. J. Shinnick, Olie .,W. B. Weaver, W. E. Wolff, John Wentz, Nick Reeder. With Baltimore—Curtis Welch, W._E. Robin- son, John McMahon, George H. Townsend, Perry Werden, Clarence L. Childs, Peter Gil: bert, I. R. Ray, W. T. Johnson, John Healy, George E. Van Haltren. With Washington—James McGuire, Enoch Bakely, Wilford Carsey, George Keefe, Wm. MeQueery, Fred. Dunlap, Gil Hatfield, Wm. Smalley, Edward Beecher, J. P. Visner and Owen Clark. With the Athletic—Wm. Hallman, T. Cor- coran, Henry Larkin, Joseph Mulvey, Augus Weyhing, Wm. Calli ‘Win. Husted,’ George Meakin, " W. . Van Dyke, F. . MeKeough and E. J. Chamberlin. With Boston—Morgan Murphy, Daniel Thomas Dowd, John Stricker, Paul Brouthers, Radford, William T. Joyce, Hardie Richardson, ‘Thomas , George Haddock, John O'Brien, William Daley, Michael Madden, Charles But- finton, Michael Sullivan. With Cincinnati—J. G. Reilly, J. A. McPhee, T. J, Mullane, W. A. Latham, William Rhiues, J. W. Holliday, Charles hiarr, O. Tebeau, E. J. Delehanty, Joseph Duryea, E. J. Forman, Jerry Harrington, Mike Kelly. Relensed.—St. Louis, C. E. Duffee to the Co- Columbus.--Elton Chamberlain to the Ath- letic Club. fi Louisville ‘Club.—H. H. Raymond, C. Ham- arg. Baltimore.—J. J. Sommers, L. 8. German, J. Mack. aS Boston.—Mike Kelly released to Cincinnati Club. Louis Kramer, President A. B. B. B.C. The absence of Hines’ name from Washing- ton’s list is not significant, as he was signed atter the list was mailed to Kramer. RESULTS OF THE FIGHT. It cannot be denied that so far in the great fight the association has bad the best of it, at least as far as the public sympathy is con- cerned. The action of the league in giving a tacit approval to the vandalisin of the Cleve- lub in 9) q malar sentiment, would reveal » lari maj ¥ for the sssociation on general princi. Pl arrest of Baldwin in St. Louis will “4 Probably ‘not amount to anything, but it shows it the association has its eyes open for all ad- vantages and is ready to act without hevitation. A dispatch from Baltimore this morning says ‘that Vonderhorst has filed » bill for an in- Junction to Childs playing with any other team than that of Baltimore. ‘The following significant talegram is sent east from St. Louis that is important, if true: President Von der Ahe during the past two by Mr. F. C. Richter, whose will probably be sufficient to ‘one of the most in ieces of baxe ball literature of season. The book will be issued on the ist of April. ———_ REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. ‘The Importance and Growth of the Brick Industry in This District. THE ERECTION OF FINE RESIDENCES AXD BUSI- NESS IMPROVEMENTS—LEGISLATION ON THE MATTER OF STRERT RAILROADS—THE PROPOSED ARLINGTON LINE—OTHER MATTERS. HE PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL Press Brick Company on the Virginia side of the river has been purchased by Mr. J. H. Small of Baltimore. The purchase was made through M. M. Parker, real estate dealer, and the price paid was about $20,000. Some seven and a half acres are inelnded in this property, besides the plant and fifty acres of leased land. Itis the intention of the new owner to begin the manufacture of brick. ‘This new plant will be in the immediate vicinity of several of the largest brick-making concerns that supply the brick used in this District. These yards are not only large but are well equipped with the best machinery that has been invented. A large amount of capital is invested in these industries and the product is a high \de of brick. In fact, the su kind of brick produced here is’ generally ac- knowledged, and if the home demand was not #0 large there is no doubt hat the brick would be ry more generally Seen is pow toe conc. Tho somulicitnents of the Virginia side of the river do not turn out all the brick that is used. ‘There are other ex- tensive plants in the eastern part of the city. The principal yards on the Virginia are those mai Co., the Hydraulic Brick Company, W. H. West & Bro., W. T. Walker and Co. Messra. Ford, Hibbs & Jones and Appleman also carry on business successfully. "in tho ncrtheastern section of the District are located the large plants of the Washington Brick Machine Company. Childs & Sons, the Capitol Hill Company and the Ivy City Brick Company. Tn_ the southern section are located the yards of Alfred Richards, John ¥. Herrell & Co., Martin & Bro. and others. Two or three of the concerns mentioned have recently started in business and nearly all the companies from time to time“ increase their capacity to suppl; the demand. In addition to the public build- ings,which consume a great quantity of brick, the amount of private building has grown to large proportions. It is expected that with the new yards now in operation and the increased output of the old yards there will be a plentifal supply of bricks. ‘The ruling prices are trom $7 to 88.50 per thousand for the two grades known as merchantable and hard brick. HANDSOME RESIDENCES. Plans fora number of fine residences to be erected during the coming season are already in the hands of contractors and the preliminary work in some instances has been begun. The indications are now that the building season will be an active one and that a large number of residences, business buildings and other im- provements will be made. Plans are bein, made fora fine residence to be erected on street between Connecticut avenue and 18th et. This house will have a generons front- e of forty feet and will be spacious city residences which are now so fre- juent here. During the past week Mr. C. K. Peabody, a man of large means, purchased a fine bui lot on Connecticut avenue be- tween Mand Notreots. It is probable that he will improve this site by the erection of a hand- some residence. ‘The changes made in the membership of the House and Senate will bri to this city a number of new residents, and fol- lowing the fashion which commends iteelf to the common sense of the membersof the national legislature who have practical ideas of economy 8 good proportion will securo houses of their own at the capital where they can bring their familiss and enjoy the comforts of home life. As property is not apt to depreciate in value, the investment can be realized upon at the close of their public life with the result that they have the satisfaction of having lived here rent free. This has been such a frequent ex- perience that each year the number of members of Congress and those connected with the gov- ernment service who own real estate in Wash- ington increases. RAILROADS IN THE CITY. During the session of Congress just closed only one charter was granted for a street rail- way in this city, and that was for the Arlington railway, the route of which is through the southern section of the city, thence through Georgetown toa point on the river near the Three Sisters. Authority is given to construct a bridge over the river, so that the cars can be run to Atlingtor. ‘This place, by the way become an attractive point’ of interest to gers and the number of daily visitors is large. Since Fort Myer has become a Iry station the road from the bridg> to Ar- lington has been very much improved and it is possible to drive there even during the winter season without experiencing the terrors of a Virginia road. The new railroad when built will, it is expected, naturally increase the throng of visitors to this historic place. There were other street railway measures before Con- gress, but, as was expected, there was but little time to devote to their consideration. It is supposed that at the next session there will be considerable le; ‘tion of this character. Antony and Cleopatra. ‘Two shapes roll on o'er stretches of black seas, ‘Through caves of night, through ice and fire and snow; Forevermore they taste the bitter lees Of that love-draught they drank so long ago. Now o'er abysses whence long moans arise, Now touched by ilame of some winged thing oing by, Each fays a ghostly hand to sightiess eyes, ‘And pain Co pal makes answer witha sight And in the luliing of the furious storm, When all is silent, with nor sound nor stir, Before his aching senses steals the form Of one whom he had wronged for sake of Her. ‘To her come dreams of ancient power and might, ‘Of earthly days when all was base and vile, ‘Then the sweet honey of that wondrous night When he and she sailed down the lonely Nile. Visions of nights when on the palace floors ‘The Egyptian moon poured down her silver snow, And perfumed zephyrs through the open doors Passed in and out, cooled by the fountain's low. Weary, 80 weary, shackled soul to sout; Endless thelr path through endless realms of ym; Hope fs long dead, and peace is not their goal— ‘Thus time shall fade th thelr eternal dosu ‘Through sphere on spher And time and ti “ne whisper ‘Lovel” and he sighs, “Memory! 1e whispers, “Lovel” and he sighs, “Memory!” “gvGmve FRLuNER, the twain forever fy, low murmurs he, Politz Said to Be Losing His Mind. Manuel Politz, one of the men on trial charged with assnssinating Chief of Police Hennessy of New Orleans and who has been identified by several witnesses as one of those who fired from a house hired by the assassins, is breaking down. When he was brought into court yesterday his’ face was blanched and he looked's badly frightened man. He was taken into a private office of the sheriff, where he | $1 created & senantion and fell into furious rago, waving his hands in the air and beatin breast. “Mamma, mamma, my wife, my wife,” he screamed, and then throw himself _viole on a lounge and cried. He lay there for a lon days has been in receipt of several telegrams | tore his hair and from Mr. Byrne and other league asking him “if there was any ney in which could be ‘between the American i ‘ ni ff f i if ie gs He i Fl Hi i EEF Hd j i f has | Voice was scarcely au 7, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. JOHN WESLEY'S CAREER. ‘The Founder of Methodiam--His Early Work ‘at Oxford. ws RAILROADS. (umsarrane axp ono RAILWAY ‘The Odd Results Odtained in the Experi- ments of Two Amateurs. 3. D. tm New York Times. The amateur “The Gazette of the United. States, in ite issue for April 23, 1791,” writes Geo. T. Packhard in Harper's Weekly, “had an announcement (under date of Li March 8) of the death of the Rev. John Wes- ley, in his eighty-eighth year. In the same col- umn was given a letter from George Washing- ton, lying toan address of the authorities of Ticksburg, Va. Thus, in that publica- tion of a century ago, were associated the names of the Father of his Country and the father of a religious denomination, as they are today in many an American home. A century-living fame is rare, but 100 years after his death a multitude of various creeds are ready to say, with Matthew Arnold, that Wedey had ‘a nd, with Macaulay, to ‘his genius for government was not oe to that of Richelieu.’ rotunda at noon the other day. Not that other men were leaning against that same stand, not that the man with the weary look hadn't strictly sovereign right to look tired if he chose, but the gentleman was Mr. Rounder, and Rounder is a character—on first nights at the theater, in the foyer of the opera house, at the races, at the clubs and at the balls. He had been to the Arion ball and looked tired, had gone early and stayed early, so far asclock-dial figures went; had been to the club, had taken his bath and ‘now in the splendor of pantaloons with the regulation wrinkle and the gaiters, of course, and the top coat and the small-brimmed derby with the name of the London hatter in it, and the regu- lation cane and the dogskin gloves, largeenough to be unwieldly if necessity came for the ardu- ous labor of picking up a nickel from the floor * Teen man, but glad “All gone uy to see Took in the Arion and had a deuced good ime, you know,” said Rounder, smothering a yawn and lifting his eyelids. He might have played scene from “Used Up” just then, only he hadn't the muscle of Sir Charles Coldstre and wouldu't have been equal to the exercise of throwing a blacksmith out of a window. ‘Let's take an oyster,” said he, with a second wn, not so well suppressed as its predecessor. 2 in and sit—a salad, with plenty of vinegar, ch?” jot caring tobe umder an obligation to Bounder, pod inevitably “2 intervals when I could experiment now under way in thiscity in which Scatand adog have been made to exchange cerebellums and for the results of which the doctors of a Spitzka tarn of mind are now all anxiously on the lookout. “The experiment is by no means a new one.” Said the amateur professor. “I tried it myself | some years ago when I was a student Prof. Heckel at Jena. You will have noticed that the New York experimenters have merely interchanged the back parts of the canine and feline brains, but my colleague, who is now the | great Dr.Sanerherring of Berlin, and I not only performed the ea sequel will show. ork was splendidly successful and Dr. Sauerherring subsequently wrote a brochure about it, which attracted wide attention. The cerebellum, y: ordinates bodily movements, thet Acta and soon. The doctor and took big, Dachshund of the sort that Prince Bismarck is s0 fond of and an enormous tomeat, made an incision in the occiput of each, aft both had been carefully washed in a weak solu. tion of bichloride of mercury to prevent any harm being done by noxious bacilli, ba: and such things, and then, after qu | appeared at regular | animals with an anwsthetic, we inserted the | tend a courtesy inci- | dog's cerebellum into the cat's head and the | dental tos Tsometimes oceupy, I declined | cat's into the dog's, sewed up the wounds, put | Mi the luncheon. But he would take no refusal | the into greased molds of plaster of and, with a habit he has of matching the odd | paris, and left them to get along as well as they OF ‘even, proposed that means of sottling the | could till the tissues should be united. and the¥ | P argument on the oyster or the | were by first intention and not by granulation, | *) aswehad expected. Every once in a while we squirted some sterilized éxtract of meat into them and the experiment went on as fine asa | fiddle. of “At the end of two months we cracked the | molds with a tack hammer and a schlager end | released the patients, felt their pulse, held thermometer in their axillas, ex- amined their tongues, tested their lungs 7 with a stethoscope, held them up by the tail, and found everything to be quite normal. On their release the animals were dumpish at first, drowsy and semi-comatose, and with a marked tendency to tonic and clonic spasms. Then something very closely resembling opis- thotonos set in with the dog, and we thought | he was about togive up the ghost. Afteran hour | or two, however, the dog got up,yawnedatretched himself in afiexor rather than an extensor fashion, rubbed himself against our legs, and presently to purr. Dr. Sauerherring fave him a kick to wake him np, and then the dog set up the most infernal mewing | you ever heard in your life. ‘The doctor | Fubbed his hands with delight. loaded | his big china pipe with Kanaster and we both sat down to await further results. In three-quarters of an hour the cat began to bestir himself with temperature of 9 degrees, respiration at 104 and cardiac action normal. He looked around for a few minutes and then commenced smelling around to see where he was, possibly. Satisfied that he didn’t kno mhere he was the cat ran up to Dr. Sauerher- ring, sniffed at his carpet sli wagged his | tail'and began to bark-at me like blazes he | doctor and I were in the seventh heaven and fell at once into each other's arms, kissed, | rubbed our noses together and sent out f | beer, which we drank in brotherly love ina | Grossmutter holding about three-quarters of a | gallon, and not half enough at that. Our great experiment succeeded and we should be- come famous. “All right! But we had stolen the cat from | the yard of a neighboring spinster and the dog from her next-door neighbor, who was an old bachelor in love with the spinster, at whom he used to smoke a big pipe out of “his window every evening when twilight gathered over the plain. We had intended to keep the animals in our chambers in order to Ben Leave Wasintaton capcom Saye iat Taunus ete Salita, expo, Fer 'Hittabane and Cleveland, expres, daily 11:89 am ain FirTexuston nod points tm the Shenaniosh Valley. ‘Wesley's room, ile “Wesley's vine” clambers up the wails without, the young scholar did work which ve him repute for a fine literary taste. He ‘skill in logic; he was fond of mathematics and experimented in optice—he was, ina word, good “all-round” scholar. He now began the practice of rising at 4 in the morning. Sixty foarslater he could any that he had made that jour the time of his getting up ever after that morning in Oxford, and that’ taking the year round, he did not hour ‘in’ month. " 30, 1 km, Ci, 1 tee For Hagerstown, *20:40a.m. and BOLAL BLUE 5 that his brother Charles, now a college tutor, ras moto attentive to his religio He yas duties. ad gathered a few like-minded friends about him, whose system in stud demeanor had earned for the namo of Methodist. They were marked men through- ont the university. Other names for this band were “Bible Moths,” “Enth Pituout hate and soberness of x pesmensers in B® it, the: ‘All end a hand- fal of coins was cide ? ‘ roduced from my pocket. the winner pays for the 6 plac “Odd,” anid Rounder, without the yawn, and Teounted the pieces. Won, and on the strength of the even num- ber bade him follow me. Across the muddy stroet, dodgit ing Broadway | cars of the i cate, and over | into the never-closed coffee and cake saloon on | Park Row I piloted Rounder. I was in for value for the money to be expended and proposed to give Rounder a new sensation. Paused at the entrance, nerved himself for an indefinite something, and in we went, he following at an investigating rather than a re- spectful distance, and suddenly asked, “What deuce place is this?” but proceeded under John Wesley became at once the leader of these men and was known as the curator of the Holy Club. Beside the Wesley brothers, the original members were Wm. Morgan, commouer of Christ Church, and Robt. Ki ham of Merton College. Morgan led the way in visiting the sick and prisoners, and in this work the others heartily joined. RULES OF LIVIXO. The rales of living followed by the Holy Club included frequent meetings for prayer and study. They fasted on Wednesday and Friday, received the holy communion each week, Fepeated a collect daily af #:12 and 8, and practiced self-denial that they might give to those in need. In describing his acquaintance ith the Wesleys, Whitefield says he saw them 0 through a ridiculing crowd to receive the holy eucharist at St. Mary's.” In going from house to house among the poor, Wesley at first used words of Greek and Latin origin, and noticed that there was often only a stare when he looked for a reply from those he visited. He was talking over their heads. ‘This experience ‘ove him to the use of simple words. The ain people” then and throughout his minis- try easily understood him. ‘This earlier Oxford movement thus had its practical side. It ex- emplified the faith that works.” PROVIDING 4OR THE CHURCH. As Wesley's end drew nearer, says the writer in concluding an interesting sketch, ‘“he thus made provision for the spiritual survival of Methodism. So too in this same year he ar- ranged for the legal recognition of the Metho- dist movement. A ‘deed of declaration” was executed and enrolled in the chancery. The conference was constituted with the uames of one hundred ministers on the roll. Charles Wesley was happily spared to his brother till three years beforo the latter's death. Together they had written and said words which were to enrich the sermons and songs of Methodists for alltime. On March 29, 1788, the end of life, about which he had preached so often and written so many hymns, came to the sturdy Methodist—e churchman still. He refused to be buried in the City Road cemetery as unconsecrated ground: but after- ward an old man, who showed the cemetery to Stanley, was to say to that representative of the Church of England that the ground was “consecrated by the bones of that holy man— the holy servant of God—John Wesley.” The last years of John Wesley's life were crowned with honor. Then, as in the latest Anglican congress, many churchmen were ready to own the good that the Wesl movement had done the Church of England. ‘The tide of enmity was largely stayed. Com- munities where he had been mobbed welcomed him—as Falmouth, whose angry crowd onco “roared like li a er ‘uion Tragfer (co of As Pe TLYANMA Weer PLE Do STEEL hy TRAINS MENT. TATION FoLLowe PROM 8: MAND B STREETS AS whe the west, Chicasn TL une te Car Har etm good look at him and Rounder's ly for an artist as, with the step of a cadet on dross parade, he marched up the je between the tables snifling the aroma of hot coffee, melted butter, pork and beans and corned beef hash and sat down with a thump ina chair at the end of the room, whispering to me with a voice nerved up for the occasion, “Everything goes.” | Off came the top coat, to be carefully placed on the back of the chair, the extended collar reaching the shoulder of the young fellow doing the griddle-cake act back of him with the sirup cup wide open. Then off came the gloves, to be ed with the tion finger-up style in the outside pocket of the top coat; then the cane with the big oxidized head found its place be- tween chair back and seat, and Rounder did some “sizing up” on his own account. “Coffee and butter cakes for two, gents? asked the waiter, taking in the situation at a glance and mentally kodaking Rounder with snap shot, as he reached for the butter plate and replaced it with another well filled, dropped the butter knife and wiped it on his apron. A nod gave the answer and I fancied Rounder drew a mental contrast between his usual order and my requisition. “Whatdo you eat with them, Scribbler?” came faintly from his slowly parted lips. “Butter, and plenty of it—help yourself.” in | mit reply, capped the elimax of Rounder's conster- nation. No iittle pats of the oleaginous compound and Rounder measured an inch from the side of the square on the replenish platter. But he out two inches, for the young fellow had fin- ished the griddle cake performance and got square with Rounder by a wholesome nudge, as he shoved his chair back against the of the top coat and lurched the big-headed cane with his foot, sending it askew and then to the pomomac ma is tay sehen ranean to Wetinsne i e- XD POTOMAC RAILROAD. Niawcare, oR PHILADELPHL Past Parr 10 ~y-y Apress, Sunday only, Sa0 pee | For Becton. artieuy hae? Fer N.i-. ali turoweh t ith toate ‘ol Brook ipa transfer ‘to. Fulton double forriace across New York city Gey. For Atiautic City, 12:15 pan., Week daym, 11:35 p.m. 72,82 Seon ees 3: " 7 Exos one} 00, 430 Beispielen von der Menschenthorheit in Ps der Universtateleben they both jumped out of the window and instinctively inst mind you, not intelligently—ran home licki split, the dog trying to clamber up the fence and the cat en jeavoring to leap over it at a| single bound. Of course they failed most | ignominiously and doubtless were much sur- prised at their failure. Finally, however, they settled matters to suit their new conditions and walked the open gate, one to his | n master’s house and the other to that of his | ¥ floor. No napkin ready at moment as | mistress. j Rounder squared himself for the attack onthe| “The , of course, 1 heard all little English muffins,” as he persisted in call- | this afterward—beard a familiar barking at her ing them. | He tapped the thick coffee cup with | door and went down with a broomstick to drive his spoon and weighted it between thumb and forefinger; i Herr Faidewurst's dog away, for however | then dipped into the sugar bowl and | much she loved his master, she fairly hated the was lavish with the granulated sugar. ht of his Dachshund. When she got di “Lota of fellows, in a deuced hurry, you | tithe a - sider 1 to the door, and was preparing to give the dog know, over here, but anything's good after a | an awful whack with her broomstick she fuinted | ball, you know, old man,” said Rounder, with a | dead away and sank to the d'with «dull | sarcastic look upon the bustling Park iow pa- | thud, for the dog set up high-toned minow | gus of the p ‘You won the guess.” we: . and wanted to rub himeelf against ber logs. Inseasible, apparently, to the | quizzical | Herr Faidewurst heard the row and ran down of reporters’ who ate against time | stairs in and slippers to see what ween first and last edition copy, taking | was loose with ‘Frathein Zuckerteim, “The cat good-naturedly the jostling of the errand boy | recognized his master, waged his | who was waited for over in the lawyer's ofice, | tail till it nearly fell off, barked, and relieving his annoyance by a furtive look at | scampered about fill the poor man was in the pretty little blonde cashier, Rounder be-|as great a state of bewilderment as the came one of the multitude for ten minutes. The | spinster, and fell over her body in another coffee cup was empty, the trio of butter cakes | dead faint when he saw the cat snapat the poor had disappeared, his pet silk handkerchief had | lady's legs, and the dog began to spit and arch been used fora napkin, and the two ten-cent | his back at him. The racket was simply awful. checks lay on the table between uswhen we |The neighbors rushed in in thelr dreming beckoned to the waiter. gowns, slippers and wooden shoes, ribbons and “Another, plate of the muffins and another | petticoats, and when they found out what was Sup of coffee!” said Rounder. ~All on yon, | going on, with the cut growling and barking at log man. and the spitting fire and brim- T doubled up with him. ag ined fo pe Ly Ten minutes more, and the top coat had been | natural size and'standing up stiff as s poker, donned with deliberation, the dogekin gloves | they, too, the were on and buttoned, the cane was poised at the proper angle, and Rounder lighted his cigarette, while I the checks. Rounder knew he was on exhibition and posed for th occasion. ‘The crowding newsboys had a look at Rounder as we came out into Fark ut where now high and i “gaping and staring as if the king were going by.” Henry Crab Mobin- son tells of heuring Wesley a few months be- fore the preacher died. A minister on either hand supported the patriarch. “His feeble audible, but his, reverend countenance, especi is long, white locks, formed a picture nevez to be fongoiten.” ‘THE END OF HIS CAREER. Wesley's last field preaching was at Winchel- sea on October 6, 1790. He had planned to go north on a preaching tour in March of the fol- lowing year, but his failing strength cut short his wervice. He was to live to see only the opening of that month. His last sermon in Gity Road Chapel wae on Tuesday evening. February 22. The next day he ended his hing work, speaking at erhead. Vesley’s iast letter, closing a series of memora- ble epistles, was addressed to Wilberforce, and bore the date of February 24. In it occurs the passage that has fairly blazed in many acon- roversy, [Slavery], that execrable villainy, whicl sean religion, of Englan and of human nature. “Our people die well,” Wesley, and when he came to die it was sve that he ‘ewise was able to do it ‘well.’ About noon og Friday of that last week he said, “I must lie down.” ‘The fever consumed is vitality. But after this he rallied and his death did not occur till the following Wednes- day, March 2. “Bless the church and the king,” he prayed, not many hours before he died: “Farewell,”'was the last word from lips whose utterances had shaken England, Dressed in cassock, gown and bands he lay in the City Road Chapel, voiceless, but preaching still, and then, early in the morning. lest the multitude should “throng each other” if the burial were later in the day, he was laid m the chapel burying ground. ‘The officiating minis- tere the words ofthe burial office, and it was “‘our dear father” whom rhty God had taken unto Himself. ae. HIS SURROUNDINGS AND CHARACTER. One who studies the life of Wesley finds much to surprise him. He was an orator of the first rank, Judged by his power over s mut. titude, and yet as scarcely five feet six inches wi his weight was only about 125 unds. if those who heard him had supposed That impressive presence necessarily depends on great bulk they were quickly undeceived when Wesley's alert form was before them and his piercing eye searched them through and through. Men who came to hear that bond” were astonished to find that he had best education England could give. might well be that Wesley had read his Odyssey on his way to that very town, or beguiled the journey with some other classic. If they inguired further about that “uncouth reacher,” the great Dr. Johason could tell hem that Wesley was sich an en that he (Dr. Johnson) “could talk all night with bi ‘ewOrieans, Lexasand (al- York to Aliautaand Pull: emus Pull me ra | pus Sicepers Wasi tivia Cand v to Sint pute. conbects at Lyte huey with Norvotk sind Wee | tem railroad tor Hoaoke, Bristol, Knoxville, Chatte = Tstungion an Sommer eer eo inca tape arwed. arrives Atlanta G26. au. wee nL130 p.mm.— Western. Ei neighbors, all fainted a | Fudtinag Wont away an to the ground. | “If-Syy ge mente, dog was up on the housetop, | Danville, alewa, ss the storks out of “all propriety” and ¢ hind gone to lie down in the kennel and gnaw a bone. ‘Then more neighbors came running in, there was an audible “Git onto de swell chap- | and, not seeing the cause of the rum but pie, fellers, comin’ out 0’ Delmonico’s,” at observing all the which I fancied Rounder winced just a little. | lifeless, there Then his face lighted withasmile ‘as he grasped doctors my arm and said: “Deuced good, old man; deuced good! Match ‘ou for # small bottle next time—and I'll han- the coppers. Bee you some time and stand yon up for the mafia” a of a ath le swung himself on form a sleeping car reservations and in! avenue car, put on his al cee a he wurst and ‘asgase Checked st officy, 1500 Renee passed the conductor and went off up town with | ei 1 reuz Spent Ses Ai fevemaer wtation. Peuanayivana the knowledge that the “butter cakes” of the is opi ““Tan TL: TAYLOR, Gen. Pass. Agent newsboys are “filing.” He wasn't so “all gone POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. _ up” even after a night at the Arion. He owes Newiees » OLD Steemier leaves Oth xpress Gaily for Manassas, Staunton, “Lomisvaie, Cuucinnate, nab Veotivnie pacton to Cumanuath, or Laruiavilie. xprees daily for Lynehbuse, le, Charlotte, Column, ‘a os returning arrive Washing Sf Pum. daily aud 4:09 atm da ‘rains frow the south via Charjotte, Dan. ane arrive ut Washinton @ a9 ae on 2 Vib bast Lennon, Fristal v1. : via Cesar Charlottesville at 248 p am, Strasburg local at 10-47 me one for the sensation of good value for a ime and contact with some busy persons as we find them every day, and I wonder how Rounder will get square with me. ——— Yui are, €2 imp, ‘Teiepbome call 1k. "Py NORFOLK AND FORTRESS MONROE. ‘T'seraer EXCELSIOR, trom sth se faye Wee ane F CONNECLION TEAMERS. | Fare From Judge. ing community. So we a Bowiey ~T- gant another cat, and’ this tine | Suri ‘Telephone call tos Wa Fe WELCH, Bape induen. Aswut. oo S1EAMER “WAKERTELD™ STeaven Fan Mr. Broad ater (the banker)—“Dey's on!” ri 4 I i | and i ; ft Lf i

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