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THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, APRIL 4. 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. There’s a patent medicine 7 which is not a patent medicine —paradoxical as that may sound. It’s a discovery! the discovery of medical science! It’s the medicine for you—tired, run-down, exhaust- ed, nerve - wasted men and women ; for you sufferers from diseases of skin or scalp, liver or lungs—it’s chance is with every one, it’s season always, because it aims to purify the fountain of life—the blood— upon which all such diseases medicine is Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. The makers of it have confidence in it to sell it on érial. That is—you can get it from ist, and if it doesn't | do what it’s claimed to do, you can get your money back, cent of tt. “That's what its makers call ” taking the risk of their words. Tiny, little, sugar-coated ules, are what Dr. Pierce’s Fronsane Pellets are. The best Liver Pills ever invented; ac- tive, mild in operation; eure sick and bilious head- aches. One a dose. Mae A. 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A MAGNTTICENT ASSORTMENT OF THR CEIERRATED “GOLD SRAL” CLOTH SUKFACE MACKINTOSEES IMINTS, WOOLENS AND SILKS. FIFTY PATTEENS. LATEST bY Y.ks. PRICES 01.75 tu 417. GUODYEAR RUBBER COMPANY. 209 OT ST. MELVILLE LINDSAS. Mane. gl¢- | ance save agninst the government, CITY AND DISTRICT. ‘€2"No city in the worid is so thoroughly cov- ered by the circulation of a single newspaper as is the city of Washington by that of Tar Evewtne Star. It reaches all readers in the city and vicinity. J swears to its circulation. No other Washington paper bas yet done this, A TALK ABOUT THE INDIAN. Experiences With the Red Man On and Off the Warpath. A LECTURE BY ME. HARRIES—THE GHOST DANCE AND WHAT IT LED TO—EXPERIENCES AMONG THE SIOUX DURING THE RECENT TROUBLES—THE IN- DIAN WARRIONS AND THE UNDIAN WOMEN aXD CHILDREN. Mr. George H. Harries of Tar Evextyc Stan lectured to an interested audience at Hamline Church Inst night on ‘The Indian On and Off the Warpath.” Mr. Harries’ lecture, besides containing many bright descriptive passages derived from his experiences while serving as ‘Tae Star's correspondent at Pine Ridge, gave his hearers a view of the Indians’ present sita- ation and the defects of the Indian eystem. “The ghost dence,” Mr. Harries said, “was undoubtadly religious, the ghost song « prayer. Inall of that song there was not an improper expression. The singers, clad in ghost shirts and leggings, circled around the medicine man, exch one ‘chanting the rude melody to which hunger had set words that to every feeling heart. “Give us to eat” was their cry. “Let us have bealth,” they sang. “Allow not our wives and children to starve, but, O Great Spirit, fill the land with the buffalo’ and the bear and the tleet-footed deer,” they prayed in unison. And why should they not pray? Has it come to pass in these United States that the right of any man to petition the Almighty ina harmless manner is to be abridged by force of arma? Must the Indian talk with his Creator cnly through the medium of a ready-made prayer book and bow” before the throne of grace after a fashion that accords with the re- quirements of fine-spun civilization? When the red man's soul writhes and chafes in the fet- ters a beneficent government has provided must the Indian agent alone be the receptacle into which the story of grief can legally be poured? Could these questions be eried aloud so that the whole world might hear, millions on millions of voices would answer, No! And yet our government answered in the affirmative because an Indian agent, inexperienced and terrorized by fears that his feeble nature could not subdue, insisted that the presence of troops at Pine Ridge was absolutely necessary. There is where individual respousibility is ‘apparent. Better that every Ogallala and Brule and Min- necongue had danced themselves into eternal wearers of the blue should causelessly lay down ir lives. ACCEPTED AS A CHALLENOE. The assombling of soldiers at Pine Ridge was regarded by # powerful minority of the Indians asa challenge, and this idea was nurtured by men who hate for years been eager to meet the army in the field; men who resemble the anarchist element in that they take advantage of the slightest commotion and labor inces- santly in the interest of continuous trouble. These were the wretches who perverted the religion of the new Messiah and who spread the theory of the unassailable ghost shirt; who | behaved riotonsly at the ghost dances and en, without disclosing their part in the pro- ngs, carried fearful tales to the agents. spread abroad the rumors that the glio: dancers wore cartridge belts beneath their shirts and were continuously under arms. These disturbers were bound to have a fight of some sort and they ahould have been promptly accommodated. The Indian police could have attended to the whole matter and the soldiers need never have been called from their posts. The power of the Indian police was never tested; troops were injudiciously summoned and open rebellion followed. an The Sioux is very tenacious of his rights— long and painful experience has taxght him hat laxity in dealing with the white r disastrously for bimscif—so he felt as though his reservation had been invaded when the soldiers came and camped thereon. And yet he did not go on the warpath. He | sisted that the great father was without | r to the ghost dance and had sent ithout cause. He . vainly and then, with great una- left Pine Ridge for the comperative se- clusion of the Bad Lands. ‘That was rank re- bellion. The Ogallala simply sai want my reservation you can have tired leaving the troops and the agency em- ployes in possession, Diplomacy, threx the prospect of a hard winter brought the rebels back to Pine Then Big Foot's band of Minnecongues from Ch appearance on the Porcupi completed the situation somewhat, for the were known to be vile characters. ‘The seventi cavalry immediately moved out to intercept this aggregation of imported deviltry and when the troops and the Indians collided the battle of Wounded Knee was the result. AT LAST ON THE WARPATH. In less than two hours from the time of that fight the Ogullalas and Brules at Pine Ridge knew what had happened. Tepees were hur- riedly struck, ponies caught and either sadiled or hitehed to wagons, guns were taken out of their hiding places, stores of ammunition opened up. There wus the ratile of wheels, the dust-proveking but almost noiseless movement hud hoofs, the dixappeazance of the wo- men and children, the appearance of mounted warriors on the hills just nerth of the ageney, yells of enraged men, the whistling bullew and the Sioux were at last on the warpath ! ‘Lue ills of thirteen years—some imaginary, ery real—had init and fora while it seemed as though the deeds which crimsoned the frontier thirty or forty years ago were about to be more than dupl 1. Wise counsel from friendly Indians proved, however, to be more powerful than the thirst 1b: ell the five or ix thou- h Lands for second time in a month. Only for a brief time was the Indian on the warpath. Theoretically he was a kostile until be made an alleged surrender of himself to Gen. Miles on January 15, but asa matter of fact he was not on the warpath but for a iew hours on Lecember 29. So far as the troops were con- cerned the Sioux would have fought at any mowent, that was apparent at all times, but had he gone on the warpath his animosity would have been directed at every white settler within reach. Hundreds of frontiersmen would have gone down in the strife, and a thonsand cabins and ascore of desolated settie- would have marked the hostile course in Dakota and Nebraska, Three thousand hundred sokliers of the regular army and a thousand Nebraska militiamen must neces- sarily have failed to surround even an equal number of Indians hac those Indians been in- of the trouble. A few people lost cattle and horses—picked up by small bands of wandering Brulcs—and that was the greatest damage done the frontiersman by the Sioux in the winter of 1890 ‘The Sioux bad no immediate griev- He was fighting for food. | #ow BE IS HELPED TO THE BAPPY HUXTING ‘GRouxp. “No specimen of the sadly-degenerated image of God,” said Mr. Harries, “is more careless in matters of bygiere than the Indian and none of the peoples among whom civilized endeavor has beer active have received less scientific and healthful care than the great Sioux nation. Lousunds of missionaries have given up the ‘orts of home and broken the closest lationship in order that through their ef- forts the savage might be happy in the future but you cancouct on the fingers of oue the mien wud women whose labors have been ito the Indians’ physical well-being. indian who has phthisis dics The truly good I und goes to heaven: he has been ‘prepared for the journey by the missionary and speeded on hisroute by the food supplies. Bet sup the same amount of attention had been to his body that was given his soul, would he not probably be drawing rations even vet: There is but one doctor to attend the 6,000 Ogallaias on the face of the oughly self-willed than Indian children. All inds of juvenile misconduct go unpunished snd each child grows up in the way that seems to it most agreeable. felieved of this house- hoid care the squaw really has a great deal of spare time on her hands If she is industri- ously inclined she does more or less bead and poreupine work: otherwise she gossips with cronies and passes the days much as some of her white sisters do. Ihave yet to meet @ squaw who felt as though she was being im- posed on by those com! 6 of natural dig- nity and inborn laziness termed by the initiated “bucks.” The squaw has much influence in pe atiers and er foree is almost invarie xerted to secure war and not Quite pe ay] winter confessed to me that they vere com- Pelled to go because of the sentiment worked up by the squaws. ‘TRE CIVILIZED INDIAN. The truly civilized Indian may be a most estimable character, but he is less attractive than any other kind of manhood existing within my know! His clothes never it him, and his shoes—though he be the third generation of educated red man—are always provocative of awkwardness. There are at least two descrip- tions of civilized Indian—one content to carn meager livelihood, the other a cunning plot- ter against the pesce of ‘all mankind that he, personally, may prosper. It is Indian nature to be treacherous, and it has been my expe- Tience that when an educated and so-called civilized Indian desires to be deceitful he is in- finitely more so than any of hissavage brethren possibly could be. mn we consider the enormous amount of missionary endeavor that has been centered on the tribes of the north- west it 1s somewhat difficult to understand their high average of unreliability. To my mind the Sioux nation never had but one great chief whose principal virtue was veracity. "That chief was Spotted Tail, and although he was not popular with the government every one d to recognize his exact integrity. BLUNT AND TRUSHFUL SPOTTED TAIL. He hated circumlocution and in his savage way cut more red tape than was sometimes pleasing. A commission, charged with the task of procuring certain lands from the Brulcs, | would invite old Spotted Tail to a pow-wow | and when all things were ready the chairman would say: “We have come trom the Great Father to see the leader of the Sioux and the | many valiant warriors. Our hearts are glad and we greet yon as our brothers. Above us is the bine sky, which covers the white and red_men of the land, and there's the sun, which shines for all. Wo love you and your people, great chief ——.” {And then spotted Tail would say something which, if literally translated into English, would nearly parallel the slang term “rats.” Before the commission could possibly recover the old chief would say: ‘You have come here to try to get more of our lands. What part do you want and how much are you willing to exhaustion than that two score of gallant | pay?’ Spotted Tail was the best business manager the Sioux ever had and the firm commenced to decay when he was killed by CrowDog. He kept every ise he ever made to the gov- ernment or to individuals and he insisted on being fairly treated. And yet spotted Tail was not a good Indian when mensured by the white man's standard, and, furthermore, he did not believe in ‘encouraging religious effort. At various times in his busy curecr he had imbibed more or less of Scriptural truth and whenever be had occasion to retail eny of it the rendition was always mexpectedly original. Standing in the midst of a group of army officers one August afternoon the old warrior said in answer to a remark about good Indians: “Good Indian no good; good white man no good; no good man any good. People who talk straight read to me out of a book they say the Great Spirit wrote. It tells there Was once a good men—only one good man. He went out among the whites and they killed him. Good man no good!” THE SOLDIER AND THE INDIAN. From the middie ground I occupy—perched on the moral fence, as it were—I have seen enough to convince me that, in a temporal sense, the soldier is the Indian's best friend. When starvation has made the red man gaunt and we: Indian womanhood and incited the cl tears, the soldier has most frequently come to the rescue. Yuen the semi-barbaric element, so stron the white: men of the frontier, raide dian’s flocks and herds and sought th Indian's lund and life, whohas been the nomad's protector but the soldier! : yy, even now the greater proportion of the soldiers who served in. this last campaign sym- pathize heartily with the Indian. An otiicer of exalted rank, who commanded one of the bri est regi: his whole proceeding isan outr: ernment so treats theve Indians tl do nothing else than fight. and then it ordersus out here to kiil the victims of its duplicicy. I have,” said he, many years, which to base anything like affection for them, yet there are times wiron I feel like throwing aside the uniform that honors me with its cov- ering and donning in its place the bianket of the savage. Then Icould tight and be sure that my cause had a just foundation. VOICE OF THE WEEKLIES. a Current Opinion in London Setting Against Kudini’s Action. Current opinion in London ia setting more steadily aguinst the action of the Marqnis di Rudini in trying to force the hand of Secretary Blaine in the matter of the lynching of Italians in New Orleans. The leading high-class we devote considerable attention to an analysis of the porition and generally discuss the affair from the standpoint of the United States Con- stitution. ‘The Spectator holds that “serious-thinking Americans will admit the imperfection of the Constitution and that they are bound to rem- edy the defect, all the more because there isa small chance of their being compelled to rem- edy it. Americans have been hitherto more strictly legal in their negotiations than most other nations. But what is the use of that if they will not invest their executive with power to fulfill every just internationai obligation?” ‘THE IDEA OF WAR RIDICULED. Touching the talk of war the Spectator ridi- cules the notion of Italy declaring war against one of the greatest powers in the world—“a power capable within six months of buying and building a feet that would block every port in Italy. American ingeauity would be so stimulated to outdo itself that it would turn every steamer that could float into an impro- vised ironclad.” The Economist doubts whether the action of Italy will impel the Washington statesmen to alter their course or engage in the intermin- \ifying their complex Constitu- y The Marquis di Rudini and his government are inacul-de-sac. They cannot sit still, they cannot fight and they cannot ob- tain the redress they want without fighting. Italy's allies will never permit her to risk a war that would disturb European combinations. ‘The United States holds the exceptional posi- tion that it eannot be conquered by any power or probable combination of powers, even if all Enrope was allied and made the uttempt. But the United States also cannot conquer any great power. Yet, if the United States cou- tinues to claim exemption from pressing inter- national obligations its position will not be supported without new international laws or a recourse to war to obtain modifications.” EVERY ISKUE BEGGED. ‘The Catholic Tablet attributes Baron Fava's recall to imperfect knowledge on the part of the Rudini cabinet of the system of state au- tonomy enjoyed in = = — “Baron Fava's note,” says the Tablet, “begged every question at ‘issue. The real explanation of the recipitate action of the Italian ministers must Peround in the fact that they foel that public opinion in Italy required some demonstration.”* "The c ive press apply the difticulty to Mlustrate the evil that would result from the concession of home rule to Ireland, and the com- an E to Ireland, i ts argued, f ne xeept forcibly, to obser compell z facept toch rve ou the Pine Ridge reservation, and that one doctor gets small salary and no horse “Death to the jan; there is no Indian but the dead Indinn,’ says the aan, and civilised humanity eb wards of the nation and humanity smiles provingly and says, “‘How philanthropic.’ ‘THE SICUX WOMEN AND CMILDEEY. The Indiaa woman is the toiler of her race end yet she is tarfrom beings slave. Like ‘the average civilized female she has about all the personal rights she i man — 1s the beast of — attempts o sympathize with st for lie pains. It is her she assiete fs | rong | tie: shudders. | The government provides one doctor for 6,000 thet a nation having wide external interests. They success in the United be- cause until recently that country had no foreign , When it pinched the dusky cheek of | dren to | Bone are more thor TALKED ABOUT IN LONDON. Topics That Are Uppermost in the British Capital. PARNELL AGAIN PROMINENT BEFORE THE COUN- TRY—SUCCESSOR TO LORD GRANVILLE—THE OLD STREET GATES TO BE ABOLISHED—THE CRESUS OF THE COUNTRY TO BE TAEEN. ‘Special Cable Letter to The Evening Star. Loxpoy, April 4—The Sligo election bas, of course, been the political topic of the week, and it has served to bring Mr. Parnell once more very prominently before the country. Every- body is talking of him, and in many quarters the result of the election is regarded as by no means an overwhelming victory for his oppo- nents, who expected that they would carry the polls by a majority of, at least, two and a half times as great as they actually had. But apart from this, Mr. Parnell continues to attract an almost unwonted degree of attention, and he furnishes no inconsiderable amount of discus- sion for and gets much vituperation from those who are politically opposed to him. Thus at meeting of that now well-known organizn- tion, the Primrose League, which hus for its flower sacred to the memory of Lord Beaconsfield, and to make which a ower in the conservative ranks every offort been made, Mr. James Forrest Fulton, M. P. for the northern division of West Ham, inveighed against what he was pleased to call the “slander” that had been uttered, to the effect that “the conservative party was giving its support to Mr. Parnell.” The houorable gentleman in his excitement went infor the Use of strong words and stigmatized the state- ment as 9 “calumnious falsehood.” But he did | not stop here, for he went on to declare with vehe- mence and fervor that “so faz as recent events d Mr. Parnell was in his eyes, mservative party, ex: 8 been, viz., an’ un- actly what he scrupulous adventur In other and far more influential Mr. Parnell has been receiving a _meed of at- | tention which, when the excitement of the | moment dies away, he will no doubt sorely miss. Addressing his constituet the Right Honorable Hen urged tha: social matters had unde j real progress. In referring to Sir Charles Dilke, and the conditio: they had both been brought, Sir. “Having banished Mr. Parnell, Going to choos uarters ts at Birmingham, to which | ut in the place of that genti was essentially rhetorical qu \d, therefore, did not call | fora reply. But to the asto: there came a voice hi which cried, “ 8 Dilke. ‘The opportunity was too good to_be lost for | giving a rap at the ex-member for Chelsea,who was certainly one of the most formidable figures in the liberal ranks when he was in the "said Mr. Matthews, “he has every cation for the place, except thet of being man. In other respects ne seems to be bly adapted for it.” LOSS OF LORD GRANVILLE. The death of Lord Granville removes not only from political but social life one of the most polished figures who have graced the | pregent Kenevation. His place iu the house of lords is being filled by Euri Spencer, who was lord president of the council in ‘Mr. Glad- stones third ministry and who earlicr t that, during the most troubiesome time, filled the oitice of lord lieutenant of ireland. ey however, will not occupy the position long, us the head of the Louse of Primrose, the lordly | hope of the liberal party, the Earl of who has been lord privy seal and secretary state for foreign ailuire under the Grand Old AMan, will next session succeed to the leader- ship of the party in the upper house. body expected that in due course Lord i | bery would oceupy this position, | the lite of the late countess, almost the oniy wal ry was held at their ho the | youthtal » jon of this comparativel | man to so important # place is |tied on to attract many foll | and to create an interest in politics amoug th ‘This is highly necessa © are not éuough lik lords now to fill tue places when Giad- stone comes into office; and that he will form & fourth miuustry is part of the erced of every Liberal wud radical politician, The radical purty uataral.y objects to the Creating of auy more peers by the liberals, be- cause such a course would probably have tie | eiluct of prolonging the life of that body for a generation, and a Utle is toa radical ubout as | soothing an object as a red rag to a bull. j ‘TOLD OF LORD GRANVILLE. Apropos of Lord Granville, the following anecdote which tends to thow his grace and geninlity bas just been told 10 a press repre- sentative by the ge an to whom the cir- cumstance happenec. Several years ago, whil this gentleman was # student at University Col- lege, and hke raxny of the others there un ardent politician, Le was seized with a desire to be present at the opening of parliament, when speeches would be made both by Lord Leacons- field and Lord Granville as rep government and the opposition. anco with lords ut that time was very limited. Hy has changed ail this sixce. Wonderi he should do to get thecove | for so important an occasion couple of days and at last, recoliccting the fact that he was in undergradaate of the University of London and Lord Granville wes its chan- celior, he wrote a note informing the earl of his wish and mentioning th. sole claim he urge was their remote relationship in the ional world. enting the Mis aequaint- could e Within two days came a verv polite note written by Lord Granvule it inclos- ing his order for the « 1 question. Such acts of politeness were uiways quite common in his life and undoubtedly tended vo increase his popularity. DOING AWAY WITH THE STREET Gates. At last London is to be relieved of one of its nuisances. This is thercmoval of the street gates from the Bloomsbury district, which it has been decreed must occur on the month. ‘This will result in once exc! ve fashion of keeping ce: borhoods free from wagons and & the quiet of certain streets, but by the ge public it will undoubtedly be hailed with great Satisfuction. These gates were placed in such central and frequented thoroughteres 9s Tavi- stock street, Endsleigh st ner street and many others leading to Pancras and Kings’ Cross railway stations. three of the most largely patronized termini in the whole of this vast city. ‘The consequence is that traffic of all sorts has bad to go miles out of the way every night because these gates were not allowed to be open for the passage of any- stocratic than a hansem eab, and m thing less 1 that only wit edhours. Even ents in the streets in which these gates stood were not permitied to have them open for their pas- sage if thoy arrived after hours at night. This muy have been intended originally to compel people to be home by a certain tite, but the chief result was to produce a good deal of hard swearing when they had to go a mile or so out of their way at a late hour in the night and the augmentation of the cab tare, which resulted in more swearing on the part of the jehu. ‘The Dake of Ledford is the principal owner of the, proper hich this old-fashioned condition obisins. “The University College has the right of way o? Gower street. Once every year it boards up the etreet and even its stuc dents and the boys who attend the adjoining schoo! make a long detour through the grounds. because the law compels this absurd proceed ing in order that it might maintain ita right of way to moke this a private road. The gates are still guarded by golden-laced flunkies, who wear the Bedford livery and who live in lodg- ings adjoining these gutes. Many of the houses in these streets are occupied by their owners, but most of them are chietly let out as lodgiugs, ‘The county council has ordered the removal of the gates, and it iy understood that suita will be rought against it for damages for the passage of wagous in these hitheMo quiet streets, ‘THK OFVICE OF GATE OPENER, less a fact, that whenever one of the beudlos who opened the gates for the privileged few died, and it was necessary to get some one to fill his place, the applications received were innumerable and furnished ing which au axiom, “That if you Want anything done and you go the right way abput it you can get it for n "Some time the gatekeeper in Upper Woburn anda successor was sted —— rent free, was sufficient to del: dukes agent with tpplications. ‘Nor dia it | nothing of being more didicult to dispr: Parnell and | b It will hardly be believed, but it is neverthe- | hel order of St. Andrew on Monsieur Carnot was gratitude prodnced by a lively sense of favors already received from tl government in bastening the manufacture of the repeating rifle which had been ordered for the army from the French factories. This ex; tion, of course, robs the matter of what siguit- cance ‘as a recognit czar of the French republic. i _ ENGLAND NEEDS RAIN. The wenther is again exereising the minds of the people and now the ery goes up for rain, which the farmers declare is every bit as much wanted as sunshine. The pasture lands in the country round about London are shriveling up for want of water and the grass thorter n it has mn for many Ts past, we are already woll in the’ fret "week ot the month which ins Browning's well-known h to be in England now that April the budding of the trees te still de- layed and, as things look at present, we are likely to have the most backward season of the last twenty year. ce of this is that vegetables ‘The conse are not only very scarce but correspondingly dear, while flowers of all sorts are few and costly. The agricultural interests all over the country are crying out that the prosperity which everybody was hoping for seoms as far off as ever. TAKING THR CENSUS. The census will be taken tomorrow and the comparatively simple forms which are required to be filled up have naturally been already left nt the houses by the police, who will call for them on 3ionday. Then the ‘work of counting will begin, and it will be a very short time, ared with the methods you adopt in “the before thé returns are pub- ‘The facts desi cnpation are the sex, age, oc- and birthplace of those who & er the roof that night and their relation with the head of the houshold. in addition to this an account of those inmates who are deaf, dumb, blind, erazy or suffering in any similar mavmer is required. All papers are edueating their readers how to help the officials in the Preparation of these forms. UYPNOTISM AS A PLEA. Hypnotism asa defense in murder cases is the fashionable thing just now and fast super- seding the old form of proving an alibi—to say It * just been made the plea in Westminster, bere @ man Was brought up for murder of his ife, aud he astonisled the court by saying with every appearance of conviction he was sure he had been mesmerized, and was there- fore not responsible for the act which he other- ever would have committed. There is « fecling which is growing to restrict the eof science, both in public and v# exhibitions, as in many enses the health of the subject experimented on is injured. lenin ity ACOSTIA. THE GRAND ARMY ANNIVERAARY. John A. Logan Post, No. 13, bas decided to abandon its proposed colebration of the twenty- fifth anniversary of the G.A.R., but concluded to meet at 7 p.m. Monday in the office of Judge George H. Armstr d from there attend the anniversary ceremonies to be held Monday evening at the Metropolitan M.E. Chureh under the auspices of the Department of the Potomac. ‘The post will meet at noon tomorrow for the Rarpove of attending the funeral of Comrade I. Simmonds. HOP AT ST. ELIZABETH'S. ‘The annual hop given last night at St. Elize- beth’s under the auspiccs of the attaches of that institution was in all ways a dazzling ene- cess. The spacions ball room was liberally and tastefully decorated. In the center of the ceil- amoth rosette of bunting, from ‘adiaied multi-tinted streamers. On the inowograms of the hospital ciful designs in smilax. The ge was hidden in a wealth: of flowers and the orchestra ina grove of palms, The baton was iby Prof. Edward Dayis aud the prome- ‘aust and Mrs. Norton. The d Mrs. Baker, . Mr. and Mrs. L. PL Mrs. George Skidmore, Mr. rand Mrs. Mulligan,” Mr. ud Mrs. Liston, Mr, and ton, Keech, Sykes, O Leary and Messrs. William H. Arnold, F. E. R. Dayton, Harry Baker, E.R. Alex- resented by ttimer and ter from Superintendent. W. W. ng Was read expressing regret at Lis in to attend. Supper was announced at N ENJOYABLE SOCIAL APFATR. A most enjoyable social affair was that given last evening az the rooms of William: P. and Nina V. Hughes. A mus gram was rendered by Miss Bro: Airs. Howe, Mr. aud Mra, Hug kin, Miss E. Frech and The P © Quartet. Mrs. J. Wilson, Mr. and rs. Cornell, Mra. ary y, Muss King, Mra. Miss Peas Mr. and V. Houghten, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Wise, Misses Maud and Grace Wine, Miss Bertha Crockett, Mr. and Mrs. Perry, Mre. Dr. Shadd, Mrs.-Robinson, M: irs. Dawson, Miis Slade, Mrs. Brows . Hoyt, Miss E: Ingalls, Mze. N. Dyer, Mrs. Kin r. and Mra. C: Osgood, line Whittaker, Miss The Baconian Brotherhood met yesterday afternoon. William K. Baxter was elected president pro tem. and Harry A. King chosen M ess, Peter Stangier, Jos. Miller, Prank Eno and Judge Harnish were appoiuted a committee to prepure resolutions of regret at he dissolution of the Shakspearo Club. Judge ge i. Armstrong was made chairman of munities. of the meeting 8 were extended President Buster and Sceretary King. The polemics agreed to convene next at the parlors of Judge Harnish of St. Elizabeth PERSONAL. William 0. Naylor, who has been visiting Mr. Wood of Jackson street, has returned to his home at Suffolk, Va.——Miss Maud Norton will At the ¢ arrive from New York on Tuesday, and be en- tertained by Miss Sallie Worthington of Good Hope Ale: Airs. G. Hi. Bostwick is the cuest of Wateon Karr.—Mrs. George lchuson of Jefferson street is low with the gri -—-Misses Henrietta Stewart and Elizai Connor have returned to Richmond after a visit to Mrs. Elizabeth Roach.—Mias Nettie Wall ix visiting Miss Rachel Fischer.—Mr. Powell as returned from New York. NOTES. ar Simmonds of Good Hope Park y ‘The remains will be taken on Monday to Newark, N. J., for interment. ‘The deceased was for many years employed in the document room of the government printing oilice and for a short time in the composing room of the old National Republican. He leaves a widow and seven children. James Johuson was arrested yesterday after- noon by Osicer Edward T. Elliott on a charge of housebreaking preferred by Edward Baker. Richard Williams died yesterday at Garfield and will be buried in Moore's cemetery. ee How Lieut. Taunt Died. A letter has lately been received by Mrs. Emory H. Taunt, widow of the late Lieut, ‘Taunt, whose death at the Congo Free States was cabled to the Department of State some time in January, from the Rev. James C. Teter at Banaua, giving the details of the death and funeral of the late licutenant. He says: “I called to see Mr! Taunt at Boma on January 14 and found him partly Parslyzed and utterly less. On the 16th I took him to Banana with the intention of sending him to the United States, hoping the change of climate and sea air would improve his condition. He stood the kelp gee well, but the next day grew worse an day, the 18th of January, at 5 1 iP th on Jani 1 aneenes : AMATEUR BASE BALL, ZOLA ON NEW BOOK. A District League Organised With Six Clubs | What He Thinks of the Mass of American —Interest Manifested at Last Night's Meeting Twenty amateur base balliste, representing seven local base ball clubs, met in the board of governors’ room at the Columbia Athletic club house last night to perfect an organigation to be known as “The Amateur League of the District of Columbia.” The clubs representatives present were: Young Men's Christian Association Base Ball Club—W. H. Lewis, C. G. Townsend and A. M. Catlin. Literatare. From the Pall Mall Budvet “You have come to talk to me about my new book. Well, what is it you wish to know?” And Emile sits down ona low chair and fixes shrewd bright eyes on his guests. “In some L consider ‘L Argent’ to be my most care- fal and elaborate study of human life. I think ‘most of France's misfortunes have come upon her from the financial state of things which ex- isted both during the empire and even since 1870. Look at the ‘Krach;’ did not that reveal & rotten condition? And yet few were aware of the impending calamity, and, as is always the case, the absolutely innocent were the most duped and the greatest sufferers, E ‘L : Fat oss anc ic alae Macquart series first took» deSnite 4 College Base Ball Clab—M. R. O'Donnell and P. J. Carlon. Light Infantry Base Ball Club— Thomas Evers, John Heydler and H. ¥. Brooks. Columbian University Base Ball Club—John Wilkins, Henry P. Pine, jr., and Evans i Whiting, Potomac Athletic Club—@. C. > Soe 8. McCoy and Wm. M. Columbia Athletic Club—R, M. Larner, Jas, Keenan and J. T. Rainier, Georgetown Denver, P. H. Washington IP my mind 1 always meant to deal as exhaust: pont Base Ball Club—Hornce Burdette, | as posrible with the financial problem of mod- Tolison Hellon and Arthur 0" ern days, ‘Son Excellence Engene . After a little preli Mr.BM. — up to ‘L’Argent, but I will not Larner was called to the ‘and Mr. W. H. | den the ‘rach’ snd several of i loseer Lewis was elected secretary. brethren doubtless influenced me when writing ‘THE SAME DECIDED UPON. mover Upon the motion of Mr. Rainier the league Wind what rt ed to you, mousieur, the Rou gon-Macquart series?” was hereafter to be known as ‘The Amateur “Two or three remarkable works, published League of the District of Columbia.” some twenty-five to thirty years agoon the in- Mr. O.G. Townshend moved that a commit-| fluences of heredity; “Ircat Folie Lucidey too of three be ted among others: I also read Darwin aud the writ: schedule and th ings of his disciples. Above all, the result of int the committee. To insure te life of the Fea each slab should pasate ppalnarey ought eac! ul 101 ite tee of ign it would stick throughout the sea- son, the money to be returned to the clubs re- maining in the league throughout the season. my own personal observation showed me the profound truth of what was then an unknown science. I consider”, added le Maitre, smiling, “that the novelist and story writer has often the privilege of being the precursor of scien- tific discoveries; for to him the wide borderland A gencral discussion followed about admit-| between real and ideal is open ground, professionals and ex-professionals in the | and as long ashe does not tamper with the definite every possible probability is part of his Heydler was of the impression that a | working outit.” professional in aclub would serve tostrengthen | “Then you simply followed an imaginary league and make the clubs stendier. ence?" Mr. Larner said he knew of several ex-pro-| _ “Every year that passed proved the truth of fessionals who were in the city and who were | What I sought to demonstrate in “Natural born and raised here and he did uot think any | and Social History of a Family During Tule adopted by the league should operate | Empire.’ Iam now approaching the end of my against them. tank; 1 have shown the rise of the empire, 18 Mr. O'Donnell inquired about the schedule. | prosperous days, and my last volume vil deal He said he thought it would be impossible for | With its downfall.” the Georgetown Base Ball Club tolive| ‘The Franco-Prussian war?" up toa schedule, as ly it had eight or ten| “Yes, and what ledto it, but ‘La Debacle’ has games scheduled with teame out of the it withdrew. This brought the league down to six clubs. THRE SCHEDULE COMMITTEE. Mr. H. Y. Brooks moved that in the appoint- ment of aschedule committee a represonta- tive from each club be selected. The motion was carried and the following gentlemen were selected by the respective clubs to serve: Chair- man, James Keenan, C. A. C.; Thos. Evers, W. L. L. C.; 8, T. Davis, jr.,Columbian Catieas . G. Townshend, ¥. Tepresentative was for discussion the question of admission to games. It was finally lecided to place the price of admission as f eer Adults, 25 cents; boys, 10 cents; ladies ree. The secretary = the vereral forms and other purapher: then adjourned until = We to meet in the Washington Armory. ty, wo | vet to be written, and I shall have to work very fd in collecting materials.” “Do you ever secretary?” “T bave not the happiness"—here s note of interrogation crept into M. Zola's sonorous Yoice—"of possessing such aluxury. Ianswer | all my own letters and transact everything im the shape of literary business myself. Indeed, I fear I must sometimes seem tncourteous #0 some of my English correspondents, for when I receive a lotter in an unknown I wait till some learned friend comes along before I itempt to anewer it” “Then you do not know much of contem rary English Iteratare?” oe “Ob, yes, I do,” he answered “I make ‘out what I. can an there are translations of your best authors. But what strikes me most are the English | American newspapers and magazines” It is a great pity that we can show nothing of the kind | over here, and it must be owing to some want in ourselves. Of course there are our daily tening, | Papers but nothing snvworing in any” way 40 ight Infantry | Your mass of good, wholosomes solid literat Lig! | whieh, week by weck and month by month oda. | cates and entertains the English public, old and young. ‘Aud to what is this lack owing?” Quarterly Meeting Held ¥: Reports | sate a eee | any num! o Showing the Good Werk Dene. | End to be succseatal maquates mach hee nat not selected. Mr. Keenan ealled up wont. UNION. would sup- Publication, te to _ The quarterly meeting of the Woman's Chris- | One, but 50,000 realere. "lin syeiens eee tian Temperance Union was held yesterday st circulating libraries, though it existe, has the Central M.P. Church. ‘The president, Mra. | Seemingly lowe Hrrotnenns gil ae La Fetra, presided. Reports were made as fol- | thot a; public, lows: On javenile temperance work, by Mra. | Orthe'wemen niet etn eosarm A ubrary, Wood; Capitol Hill Band of Hope, Mra. Page; his works. Press work, Mrs. Dean; Social Purity and Hope | “Of course, there are the feuilletons, but und Help Mission, Mra. Perley; Sabbath obsery- | they are necessarily a as the dally ances, Mrs. Catlen; narcotics, Mra. Shelton, | BaP@pua Thich they appear day by day. No, and scientific temperance instruction, Miss best friend.” a Sophia Smith. Mrs. Dean's report was read by ;‘And I suppose you have a large foreign the secretary. Mrs. Dean being ill, and resolu- | sale?” sow of yng for her wan pe. gy altel «rdf the tal number printed The report of Mra. Perley, superintendent of | within six monthe of publication” wa the Hope and Help Mission, showed that dur- ing the quarter forty-two women had been re- ceived at the institution, six sent to hospitals and three sent home. Gifs of clothing were acknowledged from the Noedlewoman's Guild | and others. j Mrs. T. A. Williams stated that the receipts | for the quarter amounted to €59%6, not includ- ing the receipts of the Hope and Help Mission send his mail to the general delivery of Balti- more eo that he might get it at the time he ex- soto ance pected to be in this city. Reaching Baltimore a be at once went to the post office and inquired | of at deli ow if immeatone, j there was any mail for Sir Reginald Baruwell. itis curs roggpew ‘i After looking over the letters in the box cepeietieaeet * vulgarisms creep | marked “B” theclerk told him there were none, into the American language, even the language | He returned the next day and still the next, bat spoken by well educated. not to say eultured, | always received a negative. res tonhine people. Just at present the ear is arrowed by | quiry for letters. He thought this very strange, a phrase, or rather @ word, much used by our belles who assist afternoon hostesses at that function called ‘tea.”” “My dear,” says one girl to another, “I'm invited to pour for Mrs. Com- monwealth next Wednesday.” “Oh, are you? Well, she asked me to turn, but I had another engagement.” Heavens and earth, I thought, what is the meaning of “pour” and “turn?” It was some time before the verbs and their implied noun made # connection in my brain, and then the desire to stand these young women in corner was so intense I retired to avoid ‘8 demonstration. ‘The century has indeed grown old and lazy where the tongue finds so small a word aa “tea” difficult of utterance. To pour tea is about as simple a phrase as can be spoken, and to drop the tinal word tea is to | letters Sir Reginald had taken out. They were render it intolerably vulgar. The custom at | handed him, and on each he read “Sir Reginald large afternoon receptions here of having two | Barnwell, Bart.” “Why, sir,” he said, “these good-looking girls perform this service, gen- | are not your letters: they belong to Sir Reginald erally impoved on servants in well-appointed | Barnwell Bart, while you aeked for the letters houses in London, is thoroughly American, | of Sir Reginald Barnwell.” The baronet took and 0, too, is the abominable fault which has | his letters, not knowing whether to be angry grown out of it : ‘or amused. jas he knew his c dente must have | written and that his mail should have reached Baltimore even before he go: here himself. All this he explained to the clerk, but the looked- for letter was not given him. Finally, while standing at the window one day after his’ usual inquiry had been made with the usual result, he said t0 the clerk: “It T am not too officious might Task to be allowed to look over those letters?” They were handed him, aud as be ran over them h> kept throwing some aside until he had s pils of twenty or twenty-five be- side him. He then gave the package back to the cler’ and commenced berating thet of ficial for his carelessness in forcing him to come to the office four or five days successively for mail that had been waiting there for more than a week. ‘The clerk then asked to sce the ‘The Ways of Old-Time Boston. Coughing im Church, From the Boston Courier. From the New York Times. She had one of those sweet, angelic faces, with §rest, prayerful gray eyes, and no one would think that there was anything of the joker bout her. She satinafront pew in one of the fashionable up-town churches at one of the Lenten services. Her pretty head was bowed over ber prayer book. All was as quict ase tomb in and the silence seemed to im- Visiting in Boston seems in old times to have been attended with some difficulties, and if the inferences which one would naturally draw from certain entries in the old records are cor- rect, the authorities of the town were not ac- customed to be over-given to the ment of hospitality, whatever may have been the case with individuals, For a mecting of the selectmen of the town held on Nov. 19, record begins i | great eyes quicl Le eee ae: lento "3 Pee jae te fanteat egg Mrs. Rebekah Young, Ay Informs | tion of a crept into the gray eyes an that She with One Child ts lave) ‘come into thie | CO two. three cute litle cough. e Town, from Harwich to Visit the head went down foe teng wad again roadened us her er Sister, that she intends to return in the Spring, & that she hath brought with ber to the Value of Two Hundred Pounds in Money and Household Goods. iberty is Granted her to until the Spring and then to return to Harwich with her Indemnify the Child, or give Security to ina tual Town.” ‘The good folk of Boston were panic in those days lest they should get upon their hands to take care of paupers that really belonged to some otier community, and it is very likely that they had good reason for their fear and their precautions. One would sup- pose, however, & woman who could bring with her @ couple of hundred in and gear ht be of sufficient im: B Saeih ect peters the selectmen of the town. It would be int esting to know how small an amount of ings would have admitted her to the passing the winter with her sister. £ as HOUSEKEEPERS! : To Determine the Purity of any Baking Powder. Mix matin cap two of the Powder with three teaspaontuls of cold Water; place it over the fre, stit BAKING POWDER FREE FROM ANY ADULTERATION, TRY IT! Use CERES, the Celebrated Minnesots: Patent Process Flour. it is the bestia the world. oe ———— PIANOS AND ORGANS. SaaS Tas Lespixe Ixsrncuexte, ESTEY ORGANS. 980,000 HAVE BEEN MADE AKD SOLD. BEAUTIFUL NEW STYLES FOR 1801. DECKER BROS’, WEBER, ESTEY, FISCHER AND IVERS & POND PIANOS. LOW PRICES. EAsy TERMS. PIANOS FOR RENT. TUNING AND REPAIRING. SauDERS &@ STarmas. 968 ST. &. mbéfm = =-18.N. 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