Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1892, Page 3

FOR SALE--MISCELLANEOUS oye and Dolaters,'t pair sors senles ie |. OR SALE—CIBEAR}, PARLOR AND BED oom, ‘on monthly it 14 7th. st. Also Pianos mo ts ame” We have om hand abo POUNDS OF BOD) TYPE. on the fen, : es, which we will cose ont dur- ‘ash only, at SECOND. trod Nom ‘and the type wall This sale affords an extrsordizary rtunity for printers to buy the BEST GRADE OF NEW TiPE, ‘suitable for book and Prices sec wspaper Work, at ct lance number of SECOND- UTTERS, So-inch and upward, and PRINTING Purssrs, inqood repaitywich wil ices. vey 10" File JOHN RYAN CO.. Type Founders, S_©. cor. Frederick and Water sis.. Baltimore. ‘land china, 106 pieces, ber rugs. carvets fro 82 jers, divans aes, cost @70; imported J, Farisian opers bat aud jeap. “Box 11d Star office rom D_ HAR sa Piact oer SOL ek st Motte Fe. SALE—MONKEYS, PARROTS, CANARIES, rds, gold shes. Se. mocking MES. SUMID'S SEW BIRD STORE, nol@2m* 12th st. nw. FOr SALE; OT fom Gas EN and seccnd eailon ~ D. ALE—PIANOS. ‘A NEAKLY NEW HAL- DOM SALE-OK KENT ive Dist tyra pane: also w ood tear Har man ‘upeut. tins this wees to. Telisve pres: fore on my our” HALLET & DAVISPIANU ROOMS, Sitteh ot aw yaldse OR SALE_BARGAIN— a PELOUBET & CO. ORGAN. 3 stops and coupler ; high top, with music pocket: solid 8 fe order, a price, 8125, 7 ‘Gab; ouny yoyinen ale ¥"G.'SMITH. 1225 Pa ave. For SMe MUST SELL ‘OND right piano: $135cash. HUGO WORCH & CO., {25 “th st. uw. Sokmer Plano Agents. Pianos for rent, imoved and packed. ry UPRIGHT PIANO. Handsome French walnut case; full tri-cord grand, with sweet sinzing quality of tone; but little used? inas price, S700; Left FoR SALES barxain—S; S58 pecial. Slightly Used €400 upright rand piano. in elegant condition; used but short time ;one of oar own Snest sty: aghte: masnificent tone; richest a 5 juest instruments made. oe PE eaEDy it won't stay lone at this price, Terms ‘Pavment wonthiy to suit. THE FIANO EXCHANGE WARE ROOMS, 913 Pa ave. Fe a PAYMENTS PIANOS © bexinners, ih cood onder and mice tone, a PIANO EXCHANGE WAKE KOOMIs, SIG 11th stn w. Fon SALE_GREAT BARGAINS IN FINE UP- F right pianos for cash at G. L. WILD & BROS.*, 700 Bat Mant MOE? Hor ths celebrated RICA y noz PROPOSALS. FosALS FOR PAPER FOR THE | PUBLIC ar ropomals will wed unt y TWENTE SEVENTH. Iso at HALE. N O'CLOCK A. M., for furnishing the Paper in- terest of thewoveruiment may dictate. No paver con- taiuime mechancea ty prepared wood pulp or ground Sood ‘will te revelved im any" tastance. Detailed schedules of the description. quantity apd quality of the paper required. accompatied Dy seaaples provonan, an givin the Fequiaticas wth whieh Pi itr must coups. can ‘be ol 3 aldres Frank W. Palmer, Public Printer, Washington, D. Ce The contracts will be ehtered into fe 000 reains tmachine-fnish printing ‘paper, z O00 reains sized anu super-calendered pruutig paper, . L000 reais sized and super-calendered mast Paper. 224%: Dreams sized atid. SUper- dered White or tuted printing paper, various sizes {1.000 Teatus white Writing paper, various sizes and weighta: 3.000: Paper. ore | pa to G. W. Kern, lots 30 an FOR SATURDAY’S STAR. Some of the Attractive Features of Tomor- row’s Issue. Tur Stan will be issued in its regular six- teen-page form tomorrow, and the following are a few of its special chapters, which will be found of unusual interest: A CENTURY OF POSTMASTERS (Iilustrated.) The way the Washington city post office has grown in a hundred years. trated.) The great work done by Gen. Meigs on Washington's water supply. 3 MEN WHO TILL THE SOIL (Ilustrated.) The Farmers’ Alliance and the members who represent it in the halls of Congress. BURYING THE DEAD ({lustrated.) * Curious methods adopted by various peoples for mortuary purposes. THE FORCE OF STYLE (ilustrated.) What mothers should do to make plain-look- ing daughters attractive. IN TERRA DEL FUEGO (Iilustrated.) How the inhabitants in King Charles South Land live. By Fannie B. Ward. FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RACE. The benevolent organizations of Hebrews in Washington and their objects. SENATORIAL CONVENIENCES. An interesting comparison of cuspidors and hair brushes in the Senate wing. LIFE PRISONERS. Some notable escapes and attempts to break jail. MISS EMMY'S LITTLE SLAVE. A capital sketch of slave life during war times. Written exclusively for Tax Stan. NEW YORK NOTES. Something about metropolitan railway and business interests. By Tux Stan's special correspondent. ON THE WAY TO FAME. How America has had young men for council as well as for war. SMALL CANNIBALS ARE THEY. Work which the government is doing with queer animal parasites. ASA FLEETWOOD'S STORY. An interesting story of western love and ad- venture. P LEGISLATIVE RELIEF. Instances of favorable congressional action in former years, By Jobn F. Coyle, IN THE SOCIAL SWIM. About the young man who works for s living and also dances. ATTRACTIVE HOMES. Many suggestions for interior decorations at this season. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP. Fine building sites in Washington to be im- proved by handsome residences. pees ee ‘Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: R. 8. Weaver to C. Weaver, part 258: $1,000. E. Barnes to E. R. Russell, lot 25, section 5, Barry Farm; $—. E.M. Power to A. Miller, lot 23, block 35, Columbia Heights; @—. D. D. Stone etal. to E. C. Fitzmorris, lots 10 to 12 and part 9, Friendship; $—. F. Tilpet to G. W. Kern, block 10, Bloomingdale; €700. E. Kern ‘31, block 10, do.; $3,200. “W. Helston to C- G. Lee, sub, 295,04. 150; @—._E. B. Hughes to F. A. Flanigin, su! 46, 6q. $95: 3. G. P. Newton to Emma M. Gillett, subs 93, 24, 97 to 101 and 105, sq. 981; —_ Sailie J. Jarrell et al. to Joseph Barrett. lot 171, Anacostia; @—. H. C. Norris et al. to A. L. Derby, lot11, bik. 44, Holmead Manor; 22,512.50. “Josephine L. Gillott to M. E. Cook, t. 8, sq. 950; $3,000. RK. S. Trapier to C. H. Taos et in trust, lot 6, bik. 45, Holmead 2,517.12. J. 8. Sutherland to John sq. 914; @—. T. Diedrich to sab 40, ag. $31; 61,000. Mary A. Greene to T. G. DeMoll. sub 37, sq. 924; $2,650. W. A. Bradley's heirs to M. Ashford, Feains colored writing acious | in’ trust, certain lote described in marshal’s ‘Soceand wengute: £3,000 pounds of best inte seen | deeds; $—. J. Anthony to J. W. Tyler, sub Heme rcimanal ee unk Pa Han ous | 1. , 569; $1,800. Lillie A’ Randolph to. I cvated or Ld — Zerpel, sub 102, sq. 779: $—. G. F. Stone Secppeeer penne Saiggs nent 00 srame tieeas | 505m W. Morris, Lote 31, stand pt 28, bik. 25, the 0 | Columbia Heights; @—. E. L. Rogers to M. ent de V. Tierney. lot 8. sq. 637; @—. Martha Par- euired “color b paper, various wizes, 30 Feains 4x36 Oreans white French folios rl be tected fur 4.000 Team of son ant cowmittce of Consress PALMER, whew Su pubic pristine. FRASK W elie Feiner. Wasiimcion, damuary S. 1X0. iyi1-1kd SEALED PROPOSALS WILL Be ubGrivey at SYiite ofice of the. Supery: chitect, Ti Débarncent Wastinzte Arc mm, D.C. until TW O° -M.. on the TWENTY-EIGHTH DAY OF JAN 1898. for a, the labor and material: vy Fequired for sup: and putting in place complete the new post Screen te the 19 post office and custuin house ding at GEORGETOWN. D. C., in accordance rawinss fications, copies of which may Each bid must be ified cheek for a suin f the amount of the proposa:. reject all bid» received after the time or opening the saine; aso bids whici do not comply strictly with all the requirements of this invitation. Just be incluse| in envelopes, roposal for New Post office ‘ Office and Custom Hou: Buiding at Georgetown, D.C.,”" and addressed to W. 4 SP oKUOKE, Supervising Architect. January 4, ne Jat-eott ‘Dot less The ALLURING WHITE. It Bewitches Men and so Gives Women One Blissful Moment. From Music and Drama. Did you ever know the ardent admiration men have for white? If a man be in love with © woman and has not yet told hera white frock made of soft. pretty material will make aim tell her she is the most adorable woman on earth, and for the moment it is one of those precious illusions that form the charm of life. Do women like these illusions? Y They make up for the many miserable moments Of pretense; moments when she looks the world im the face with smiling lips and bright words. When among the gay she is seemingly the gay- est, and all the while her eyes are full of un- shed tears over things which she cannot alter. When she grows tired of hiding her true feelings, In = her loves and her dk. In covering her sorrows, even her fore When ehe tells you she really does not care to ge sun ce OF get some particular thing, ‘and all the time her whole being is aching to be gratitied. When she looks back and regre jooks forward and dreads. When she strives to banish thought and strangle memory, and | ail the while her speech is tilled with mirth and wmughter. When her existence is colorless, which she could alter, but would not, for some one’s fe such moments as these it is that she Preciates these little illusions, which please her «the moment and then ‘pass away, yet in parsing leave a trace. wo: y So be not pony om ds ‘that will lead to them. Do not keep at precious words locked as # miser does his Pr em in circulation. Let them get perhaps, in handling, but they will heer L. M. Charles to Emily T. Charles, sub 77, 6q. sons to J. E. Beall, subs 5 and 11, sq. 767; 271; @—. Edith C.Dietz et al. to C.W. Messner, sub 19, sq. 782; @—. H. E. Berrion to W. L. Cherry, pt. 6, blk. 42. Holmead Manor; #—. tone to H. L. Irvine, sub 29, blk. 5, Le Droit Park; @—. Jas. Robbins to John H. Richards, sub lot 58, sq. 66; 3,609.38. —— A Joke That Kecoiled. A writer in a popular monthly mentions the case of a kinsman of his own who was a school- boy at Harrow. Out in the fields one day he went to the assistance of a portly farmer on horseback, who could not easily open a gate, and did not care to put his horse to it. This was an act which indicated a well-conditioned mind; {tape Crane him and asked his name. The youth at once saw an opportunity for a good joke. een,” said the Harrovian. “What is your father?” “A cheesemouger in London, in Theobald’s road—rather a small shop,” was the wholly imaginative answer. “You are a capital young chap; I shan't forget you,” said the farmer. And he left the youth, chuckling over tho incident and yee” Years passed, and the lively fancy of the Harrow scholar proved to have cost him a fortune. The newspapers had advertisoments for a young gentleman of the name of Green, whose father at one time kept a cheesemonger shop in Theobald’s road, and to whom a lar; legacy was devised in recognition of a service rendered wt Harrow about ten years before. As the published clue to the identity was wholly false and mistaken, through an ill-timed levity the money could never be claimed. — Horrors of the Masculine Elbow. From the Chicago Tribune. “Will men never learn to keep their hands out of their pockets and their elbows down while walking along a crowded street or when in a street car?” wailed a frail little woman to ler companion as the two fairly fought their way along Wabash avenue near Madison street the other day. “Some of the digs that I've re- | ceived today from men’s elbows have been | simply terri We ought to begin a crusade | agaist the habit. The man of medium height, swinging along with his hands in his pockets, with his elbows does more positive to women when he digs his elbows into them at | sbout every five steps than ail the corsets im the country. I declare for it thatif I had the— | what is ait, they call it [pull with the city council that people say Mr. Yerkes possesses Td have an ordinance passed at the next meet- ing making it a crime for men to go along the streets or ride on street cars with their elbows sticking out. Many of our best and so-called ‘gentlemen’ persist im the habit. I’ve seen women find themselves black and blue when they got home and all by reason of the mascu- line elbow nuisance. It's a shame—sure and be sure to bring happiness. So when you see a woman with smiling lips and sad-locking eyes, praise her. That's what she wants. She is starving for it and her eyes ere mutely begging for it And yet she hides it all aud yoa are so stupid you will not see it. Praise her even exceedingly. She will not beueve you, perhaps. Bat she likes it and will bless you for it. ————<e+—__. Senator Plumb’s Will. ‘The will of the late Senator Plumb has been eutered for probate. The will does not show definitely the value of the estate, but while it hus Deed placed as high as two millions by some St a hundred thousand by others, it will prob- ably amount to about $500,000. The Senator bud property in New York. Florida, Alal Fl gg mag Sete re Montana. Mrs Plumb and her son, both in- valida, were made sole executors of the will, and while Mra Plumb is in very bad health she will atterd to all the business of the estate, ‘and has been looking after its interests fully. ——_e-_—___ Gov. McKinney Urges Gov. McKinney has sent into the Virginia legislature a iaessage urging the acceptance of the terms for the settlement of the state debt aureed by the debt commission and the upon positive ——— a The Mississippi Frozen Over. For the first time in four years the Missis- sippi river is frozen over at St. Louis. The ice gorge begins at Carondolet, nine miles south of there, and extends to the Illinois shore. River men express the fear that the river will not be open for boate inside of the present cold weather continues and the ice should move with a rush it is feared much dam- age would be done to river craft. ———~ee. ‘The Press Clubs’ Convention. The delegates to the International League of Press Clubs were given a coaching trip’by the San Francisco Club yesterday. About 120 peo- ple were driven through Golden Gate Park to the Cliff House, and, after Ste See THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C. FRIDAY. JANUARY 15, 1892. THE WORLD OF SOCIETY The Elegant Ball at the Ohinese Le- gation Last Night. ORIENTAL HOSPITALITY. Distinguished Guests Who Were Present— Other Entertainments Interesting to Fash- fonable People—Teas and Heceptions—Per- sonal Notes of Interest. The Chinese ball is at last a thing of the past. Nothing of ite kind for several winters has been vo keenly anticipated and perhaps none of the balls taking place heretofore at Stewart Castle have left behind them such generally satisfac- tory impressions. The throng of guests was large, but not too large for this house, where the accommodations are ample and the means of access to each part sufficient to give every- body elbow room. During the first hour last night the dancers in the ball room had the shining surface of their territory intruded upon by those who came to watch the whirling figures there, but that only lasted for awhile. ‘The house was handsomely decorated accord- ing to the Chinese idea. “There were palms and plants advantageously arranged in each recess and corner. Fino roses aad-other flow- ers filled dozens of vases here and there, but they were arranged in the flat pyramid style of the artificial Chinese bouquet. In the ball room the stage was a perfect garden, in the middle of which the musicians were seated and disconrsed such music as would make the most digzitied mandarin waltz. There were divans and seats.all around the walls. In the hall, which was so important a part of the resources of the first floor, there was a row of punch bowls containing a variety of re- freshing mixtures. These punches had the three marks of a successful combination, being geuerally commended as cold, sweet and unde- niably strong. Baby Tsui was unrivaled as the belle of the ball. ‘She did not mingle with the dancers, but held a court of her own in her nurse's arms in the hall upstairs. There was a table and two scarlet draped chairs near the room which the gentlemen used asacloak room. This was baby’s audience chamber. It is needless to say that every guest went over and had something to say to the baby. ‘There is no doubt but that she understood all the admiration shBwered on her, and her good humor and playfulness, until tired out, sent everybody down stairs smiling. Miss Tsui had on quantities of fine apparel. She was wrapped and rewrapped in folds of silk of bright hues and soft textures. There were no feet visible nor any means to get to them save to those who had the key of the problem in silks around them. But the cunning little hands could be fondled and admired. Her collar and bonnet were wonderful pieces of em- broidery and gilt. Except at intervals when her nurse vanished upstairs with her charge baby’s black eyes were as bright at the end as at the beginning of the evening. Minister and Madame Tsui received in the front drawing room. dir. Ho, elegantly arrayed in blue satin and white brocade, had the agree- able duty of presenting each’ arrival to his chief and his wife. This was a striking couple. Mr. Tsui wore rather a somber garb. ‘ihat chosen by his wife scarcely reached the ex- pectations of the ladies either. ‘The under garment had quantities of fine embroideries on it and the upper was partly blue and the rest of plum satin. Her hair was partly en- cased in a head dress of gold bands, pearls and jade beads. Her earrings were composed of the same ornaments. She stood up, shook hands and smiled at every arrival. Madame Tsui has one word in her English vocabulary that she speaks with evident pleasure, and that is “baby,” when she pointed over to the youngest member of the household. ‘Mrs. Romero in a superb French gown of pink brocade and elaborate passementeries in silver and pearls, and Mrs. John W. Foster in a Paris dress of silver brocade elegantly trimmed in pearls, and both ladies wearing fine jewels, were in the receiving line. Next them stood Mrs. Ye, the wife of the Korean charge Waffaires, who wore a native dress of two light brocaded silks. The last lady in line was Mra. Wang, the wife of Secre ‘ang, who wore a robe of dark silks and a ‘dress. The men of the legation made a group of gor- geously dressed individuals near by. Secre- tary and Miss Blaine arrived shortly after 10. Miss Blaine wat the first lady dancing and ° ‘ball. Pater tite, 11, o'clock, Secretary Blaine took in irs, ‘Teui» the minister following with Mrs. Romero and the secretaries escorting the other ladies of the Feceiving party. Wlien they Cntered the dining Foom the doors were closed after them. Not iong after, however, supper was served to ail the Test of the guests. Mr. Sevellon Brown, Mr. Frank Tracy and Mr. "Ho. were floor managers in the ball room. Among the guests from New York fe Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Grant, Mr. and Mrs. George Gould, Col. Eliott Shepard and Count Mitkiewitz. enent Were Secretary Tracy, Mrs. Rhinelander Jones, Mr. and Mra. Russell Harrison, Lieut. and Mri Dimmick, Secretary and Mrs. : and Mrs. MeMillan, Miss McMillan, Miss Edie, Senator and Mrs. Dolph, Mra. John D. Green, Senator and Mrs. Kerua, Miss Kenna, Senator and Mre. Frye, Senator and Mrs. Cockrell, Mr. Boeufoe, Senator and Mrs. Chandler, Miss Chandler, Senator and Mrs. Gibson, the Misses Gorman, Miss Newberry of Chicago, the Post- master General and. Mrs. Wanamaker, Miss Wanamaker, Miss Morgan, Secretary and Mrs. Rusk, Miss Rusk, Miss Foster, Miss Woods, Senator and Mrs Davis, Secretary and Mrs, Noble, the Misses Halsted, Miss Foster ot Chicago. Mrs. and Miss Batcheller, Miss Grace vis; Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Spofford, Justice and Mrs. Harlan, Miss Harlen, Just.ce Blatch- ford, Mrs. Field, Mrs. aud Miss Condit Smith, Miss Whitney, Attorney General and Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Elam, Miss Miller, the Misses Knox, Justice and Mrs. Brown. the Misses Ricks of Cleveland, Justice and Mrs. Brewer, Miss Fenlon, Senatorand Miss Dawes, Senator Sawyer, Mrs. Howard Ganson White, Mr. John Shower, Col. John W. Foster, Miss Lansing, Miss Susie Nelson, Senator and Mrs. Carlisle, Miss Mattie Thompson, Miss Helm, the Japanese minister and Mme. ‘Tateno, Mrs. Wolcott, Mrs. Metcalf of Buffalo, Mr. Pate- notre, Mavroyeni Bey, Senator Cullom, Mrs, Ridgely and Mrs. Hardie, Representative and Mra, Dalzell, Miss Dalzell, Representotive and Mrs Bynum, Miss Bynum, Gen, aad Mra Scho- field, Mra. Andrews, Mrs. Mackin of New York, Mrs. Chas. J. Linger, Mr. and Mrs. Jules Guth- ridge, Mr. and Mrs. Peaeby, Miss Peachy, Mr.and Mrs. Harry Orth, Mr. and Mrs. Ackabane, Miss Porter of New York, Lieut. Beatre, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Thompson, Miss Ida Thompson, ‘Senator Hiscock, Senor and Mme. Mayorga, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Conger, Miss Brown, Marshal Ransdell, Rep. Outhwaite, Mrs. J. G. Cilley, Mr. Cilley, Dr. Chase, Mr. Victor Kauffma Miss Pierce of Rochester, Mr. nd Mrs. Cha: Chester Babbitt, Miss Mira Noyes, Mr. Botkine, Representative and Mrs. Hemphill, Mr. Mario Mendonca, the Misses Mendonca, Commissioner Douglass,’ Mr. Seckendorf, ‘Representative Stump, Gen. Nettleton, Miss Waite, Miss Edell of England, Mrs. Walter Radcliffe, Mr. and Mrs. Bigelow, Miss Bigelow, Representative and Mrs. Springer. Representative and Mrs. O'Neil, the Misses O'Neil, Senator Manderson, Mrs. Fries, Kepresentative and Mra. Dixon, Mr. and Mrs. Ffoulke, Mr., Mrs. and the Misses Montgomery, Justice ‘and Mrs. MacArthur, Representative and Mrs. McCreary, Mr. and Mrs. \e, Mr. and Mrs. Bateman, Senor Montt, Mrs. Brinton Stone, Mr. William Ackland, Mr. Ye and Min- ister Romeo. All the diplomatic corps were nt save the English’ legation, from whom ‘Togrets were received after the news arrived of the death of the Duke of Clarence. Many of the older guests left at midnight or a little Inter, and then the dancers had un turbed possession of the ball room. The serv- ing of supper lasted an hour or more, and all those who could not be seated arcund. the dining room remained in the ball, where they couldeven more coavenientis partake of thesab- stantials and dainties provided so abundantly. Many did not wait for supper, being rather de- terred from doing soby the amusement created in the little disappointment suffered by those who expected to sup with the minister and his Tile at the frst call. ‘This company, which somehow had got massed in the hall, presented rather a funny picture, with ail faces turned expectantly toward the closed doore of the dining room. ‘Their waiting, however, was of short duration and the supper was something to be remembered. Mr. and Mrs. J. Fairfield Carpenter gave a Casenovia and Miss Mosier of '. the hostess and her guests Mrs. of New York, Mrs. ‘Ten Eyck. Mrs. N. L. and Mra. ania ving. ‘There was Mrs. J. Norman Lieber will give a tea tomor- from 4 to7 to meet her sister, Mre. Larned, Miss Soule will give « tea, 5 o'clock, January a. Mrs. Licber will give = tea Saturday from 4 $07, to meet her sister. Mrs. Col. Larned of West Point, and Miss Nichols of Philadelphia. A box party was given last night in honor of Mr. and Mra, Hiram Friedlander of Syracuse by Mr. and Mra. Harry Fried:ander. Mrs. Rankin and Miss Rankin will be at home Friday, assisted by Miss White of Summit, N. J., and Mrs. Goulder of Cleveland, Ohio. Capt. John 8, Loud, ninth United States cav- alry, and Mrs, Loud are the guests of Mrs. Cooney, 548 Florida avenue. Mrs. J. & A. Baker, 613 P stroot northwest, will be at home Tuesdays. Mrs. Gallaudet of Kendall Green will not re- ceive during this month, but Saturdays in Fob- Fuary and April. The ladies at Willard’s Hotel will receive from 8 to 6 on Fridays. Mrs. Edgar Allan of 1501 11th street will be tusistod in receiving tomorrow by Mrs. Culp of Atlanta, Ga., and Cosby of Halifax, Va. Mrs. and the Misses Plain will be at home to- morrow afterhoon. Mrs. Geo. R. Meitzler and daughter of Cin- cinnati, Ohio, are visiting Major and Mrs. Thornton at Brightwood, D. C. Mra. 8. A. Whitfield has gone to Florida, where she will spend the remainder of the win- ter. She left here eurlier in the season than she had expected to, in order that her father, who is spending the winter with her, might have the benefit of a longer stay in a more con- genial climate. Mrs. Whitfleld’s mother is with the party. The Acorn Club will give adancing reception Tuesday, February 2, at the National Rifles’ Armory. Mr. Joseph H. Ching of Leonardtown, ex- member of the legislature of Maryland, was married to Mrs. Ada L. Love of the same place Wednesday evening by the Rey. Father Me- Avoy of St. Aloysius Church of thi city. The marriage was private, owing to the recent death of the bri sister. Among the few friends who witnessed the ceremony were ex-Representative Sydney E. Mudd, Jobn N. Graves and Dr. Posey. ‘The bride was hi somely attired in a bine velvet with cut flowers. After the ceremony the bappy couple left for their future residence, Leonardtown. Col. and Mrs. Brackett, 1726 Q street, gave a dinner of ten covers on Wednesday evening. Those present wero Gen. and Mrs. C. H. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.T. Hull, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. King of Georgetown, Mrs. Ellen Hardin Welnorth and Mrs. F. M. Hubbell of Des Moines Mrs. Brackett and Mrs. Hubbell, her guest, will be at home, 1726 Q streot northwest, Thurs. days during the season, from 2 to 5 o'clock. On account of illness Mrs. W. W. Dudley Will not receive tomorrow, but will be at home on Fridays hereatter. Mr. Wm. M. Bunker, editor San Francisco Daily Report, and Mrs. Bunker are the guests of Commander and Mrs. Coffin, 2022 R street northwest. Mrs. Elias Raff and Mr. Max Kaufman will be at home at 719 D strect southeast Thursdays during Sanuary and February. Mr. and Mrs. John Isemann of Capitol Hill gave their youngest daughter Carrie an enjoy- able surprise party last evening. Among those present were the Misses Minnie Scharr, Annie Beuchert, Rosa Holmes, Pauline and Tillie Naecker, Florence and Helen Harenbers, Masters Willie Scharr, Joe Holmes, Willio Er- mantraut, Fritz, John and Louis Naecker. The first dance given by the National Rifles this season attracted a large guthering to their armory last evening. ‘The dance was one of the most enjoyable of the year and fully main- tained the reputation of the Rifles as excellent Kosta. The committee of arrangements com- rised George W. Evans, Michael J. Quinn, J. ‘uce Webb, Addison G. Du Bois, Milon C. Summers, Andrew J. Green and Charles T. Lowell. Stoddard assist Mrs. Gen. Payne today. — IN AND OUTDOOR SPORTS. Base Ball Notes. A special from Chicago says that St. Louis has not yet secured Pfeffer with Chicago's con- sent. The New York directors have decided not to allow Jim Mutrie to establish an eastern league club in that city. Cleveland denies the absurd story that it is after Busie. New York, it is said, will offer bir about €4,500, which he must accept. H'm! How about that personal contract? The Chicago club will have to pay rent for four ball grounds this year as part of the price of e. b°'vitteburg has given up claim to Grim, who will go to Louisville. It yet has a hope of Denny Lyons. It is probable that the suit against the Louis- ville Base Ball Company by the old stockhold- ers of the Eclipse Base Ball Association will be withdrawn. There is some talk of the Brooklyn club play- ing at Washington Park, ite old grounds, this season, instead of Eastern Park. Dates for Yale’s Spring Trip. The dates for the eastern trip of the Yale base ballnine have been arranged as follows: April 13 and 19 with the New York League team, at New York; April 14 and 18 with the Philadelphia League team, at Philadelphia; April 15 with Baltimore, at Baltimore; April 16 ‘with Washington. at Washington; April 17 with the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadel- phia, and April 20 with Brooklyn, at Brooklyn. A Double B. B. Season. President ©. H. Byrnes of the Brooklyn Ball Club when asked asked about the league schedule said: “All the league clubs have writ ten me in favor of 154 games, and Mr. Ebbetts and myself are now engaged in drawing one up which will be presented at the March meeting for approval and adoption. The double chamn- pionship season will prevail, and I think it will be asuccess. There will be an equal distribu- tion of all the ‘plums,’ and 1 think every one will be satisfied.” Starter at Wishington Park. Starter James Sheridan has signed with the Washingtén Park Association of Chicago to start at their summer meeting. Mr. Sheridan will use a flag to star! the horses instead of the old-time drum, which has been in vogue so Jong in the west. Probable Winner of the American Derby. ‘The Swigerts will be represented on the turf the coming season by only two horses—Michaei and Carlsbad. Both are now in winter quarters in Kentucky. Michael was fired recently and is doing well. Carlsbad gives promise of de- veloping into a grand three-year-old, and already he is being talked of as the probable winner of the Americun derby. Death of “Silver” Flint. Frank 8. (Silver) Flint, the famous base ball Player, died in Chicago of consumption last evening. During his ten years connection with the Chicago club he caught 661 of the 1,444 games played. He had been confined to his Toom since last October. Corbett Will Not Fight Fitzsimmons. Jim Corbett has declined the Olympic Club's offer of a $10,000 purse to fight Bob Fitzsim- ‘dis-| Mons. He says he is not after middleweights nowadays. Sullivan Talks Temperance. Jobn L. Sallis after getting beastly drunk Wednesday night, yesterday signed the temper- ance pledge at Tacoma, Wash., and joined Murphy's Blue Ribbon Brigade. Murphy met Sullivan, and after talking for some time Dun- can Harrison and M: Frank agreed to join the Biue Tibbon Society if Sulli- surprise Sullivan con- sented. Last night the al r talked temper- ‘ance to a large crowd in adive. He seems to have no craving for liquor, but whether the reform will be germanent is an open question on which sporia are betting. Rev. Howard Mrs. E.E. Meredith of Virginia and Miss | Hele SHOOTING STARS, The fact that‘any fool can ask questions does not carry with it a sure thing on his being an- swered. The dog who has been decorated with « tomato can is one of those who deplore the Prospect of cheapened tin plate in this country. “Have you anything on your mind, Mr. de Jay?” she said. “Ya-as,” he answered, “I have. It’s verwy 00d of you to be so interwested.” “Indeed,” she said, emphaticall terested. I'd like.so much to keep it from falling off.” “How do you like Congress?” asked one bill of an other. “Not very well.” “Have you been introduced?” “Yes; I've been introduced, but I don't think Tl ever get to be on un intimate footing.” “T am in- know how you He came into the barber shop At least two hours ago. ‘It was, he said in earnest tones, A nextasy of woe. “Won't you favor us with one of your own Pieces?” said Mrs. De Porque to tho professor. “Vell, since you vish eet, I vill play yous number from my new opera.”” “Certainly, Professor,” said Mra, De Perque, with affability, “as many as you wish; but, Pro- fessor, a number of what?" Bed-rock—the cradle. THE SNOW SHOVELER, “Serawk! Scrawk! Serawk!” Shovel the snow from your broad sidewalk; Wake up the neighbor who sighs for a snore; Rest for a moment; thon give him some more “Serawk! Scrawk! Scrawkity-scrawk!” Heed not the whirlwind of wild wicked talk ‘That answers each burst of your snow-shovel din, Piling up volumes of records of sin. Just when the dawn is beginning to peep, Just when we feel the true value of sleep, Get out the shovel and all slumber balk With 9 “Scrawk! Scrawk! Serawk!” “Lhave been known to beat a railroad,” said the tramp, “but there is one thing I never did beat.” “What is that?” “A carpet.” ——~+ee—____ THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE CONVENTION. Many Distinguished Women to Address the Association, The twenty-fourth annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association will hold its first business session next Monday inthe Church of Our Father. A meeting of tho executive committee will be held at 3 o'clock tomorrow at suffrage parlors, 1928 I street. Arreligious service is to be held at3 o'clock tomorrow. According to the program the president, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, will call the convention to order at 10 o'clock Monday. Reports will be made by Lucy Stone, chairman executive committee; Ruchel Foster Avery, the secretary, and Jane H. treasurer. Three sessions will each day Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and two on ‘Thursday, the closing day. Addresses and reports ure expected dur- ing the mectings from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Caroline Hallowell Miller, Lucy Stone, Dr. Frances Dickinson, Harriet Taylor Upton, Clara A. McDiarmid, L. M. Tyler, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Ella M. 8 Marble, Emma Cranmer, Claudia B. Howard, Mary E. ‘Holmes, lelen M. Gougar. Mary J. Coggeshall, Laura M. Johns, Clara Weyman, May Wright Sewall, Lida Meriwether, Laura Clay, Hannah J. Bailey, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Ft. Shattuck, Sarah T. Miller, Helen Phillis Jenkins, Julia B. Nel- son, Marie L. Mason, Clara B. Colby, Cornelis C. Hiftsey, Jean Brooks Greenleaf, Caroline McCullough Everhard, Carrie Jane Chapman, Elizabeth Lyle Saxon, Rev. Anna H. Shaw, Susan B. Anthony, Tee Scott Duniway, Mary Grew, Elizabeth Chase, Lide Meri- wether, Sarah M. Kimball and Edward El- dridge. Thursday night the District Suffrage Associ- ation will give a reception to the officers and members of the association at the Wimodaugh- sis parlors. ee SEE A Decrease in the Deaths. A decrease in the daily death list is shown by today’s report, only sixteen deaths being re- ported. Three deaths occurred from pneu- monia andone from influenza, Burial permits were issued for the following: White—James W. Anderson, 88 years, in- fluen: in Moore, 75 years, paralysis of the heart; Elizabeth Caryl, 76 ‘years, apoplexy: ‘Thomas Woone, 70 years, pncumonia; “Hannah McCann, 60 years, pneumonia: John H. Spencer, 52 years, pneumonia; Kate Donovan, 34 years, septicemia puerperal; Wm. W. Hilleary, 23 years, hemorrhage shock; Edw.’ B. ‘Cawood, 2 months, eclampsia; Jas.’ Taylor, 69 years, apoplexy. Colored'-Edw. Dickson, 66 years, phthisis pulmonalis; Wm. H. Harrison, 61 years, tuber- culosis: Abbie Henry, 40 years, phihisis pulmo- nalis; Elisha Spencer, 10 years, asthenia; Mar Ellen Snowden, 4 years, eclampsia; Fran Williams, 13¢ years, spasms. —— An Application for Divorce. Joseph Henry Poore secks by bill filed by Campbell Carrington freedom from the matri- monial yoke with Norah Poore. They were married August 21, 1889, had one child, born January 7, 1890, and he charges that she de- serted lim in February, 1890, assigning as a reason that he did not make money enough for herself and mother. He further charges her with adultery, naming Henry Baker of Balti- more, and expresses the belief that he is the father of a child born to defendant in October st. —— Wants to Know About His Grandfather's wil Col. Wright, register of wills, has received a request from John Peel of Grutland, near Halifax, Yorkshire, England, making inquiries as to the will of James Peel, his grandfather, who died about 1870, and he supposes lived near Paterson, N. J., near which place he had bought an estate known as the Busby éstate. ——__ Six Months in Jail. : Major Lewis,a colored man whos@ Police Court record is a lengthy one, was before Judge Miller this morning for stealing a cap from in front of a Georgetown store. He denied the charge, but the proof was against him and he was convicted. In answer to the courts inquiries the prisoner said he had been arrested ten or eleven times, but a policeman told the court that he had been arrested fully forty times. Judge Miller said he would do the best he a for Major and gave him six months in jail —-_ ‘The Border Claims Commission. The border claims commission, consisting of Gov. Pattison, Attorney General Hensel, Au- ditor General McCamant, State Treasurer Boyer, W. 8. Kirkpatrick, Thad M. Mahon, Thos. B. Kennedy, J. W. Parker and B. M Nead, will meet at’ the ‘Metropolitan Hotel to- morrow. Better Than Threats of Dynamite. From the Irish Times. The following amusing incident came under dient to obtain the moans of procuring liquor when’all other means had failed. ‘of some Inminous paint, covered over his face and hands, forth in the dead of the night to the 086 He became with which and sallied house of s *% ‘The Heaviest Fall tn Several Years—Pros- pect of a Freese and Sleighing. Between midnightand 8 o'clock this morning snow fell to a depth of eight inches and as a re- sult when the people of the city woke up they found everything wrapped in white. This was contrary to all expectations, for there was little if any sign of snow lastevening and the weather burean prophesied colder, clearing weather. The fall of snow was an unusually heavy one, averaging as it did more than an ineh an bour, and there was more snow on the ground this morning than there has been for several years past. It was wet and wherever it fell it stuck, so that fences, trees and lamp posts were all piled high with snow. The scene was pictur- esque and beautiful, ally in the where the trees were laden down with a fleecy covering and every branch was transformed intoa long, white, waving arm. It was not so pretty, however, for the people who had to come down town this morning. The street cars, when they came at all, were running at all ‘sorts of time, and if sardines were packed as tightly as the passengers were this morning bc “would look anything but tempting when they emerged from their boxes. On theavenue and 14th street lines four horses were put at work on each car, and it took two drivers to do the work usually done by one man, one tending to the horses and the other tothe brake. Two conductors on each car would have had cnough to keep them busy iu collecting all the fares. The cars could not be- fin tocarry all tho people that would have liked to ride, and hundreds were obliged to trudge down to their places of daily toil, every one of them probably wondering whejher he was not going to have anuther attack of the grip. WHY IT Was NoT PREDICTED. ‘The reason that the weather bureau failed to tell about the snow isa very simple one. The storm that struck this city during the very early hours of the morning had its origin off the coast to the southeast of us, The weather bureau has not as yet established observation Stations out at sea and consequently nothing was known of this particular change in the weather until it came ashore, too late for any- thing in the way of pre 8. The snow fall had ats effect in Virginia, of Pennsylvania in the latter section o fallen this morning, and in some places it w: raining. It is probable they are having snow all day today, however. Washington bas had its full share of the feathery flakes. In the twenty-four hours ending this morning the thermometer at the weather bureau showed a fall in temperature from 63 degrees to 29 od the chances are that it wil stay cold here for several days to come. This means good sleighing, for there is very little chance of a thaw this afternoon, and tonight there will probably be a freeze that will harden the melted snow underneath and make a capital foundation for sleigh rides. All west of the eastern states it is cold today and in the far northwest the thermometers that are hung out in the open air register way below the zero point. In Winnipeg this morning the mercury’ gave up the job and spirit. ther. mometers pointed to forty-two degrees below, and all through northern Minnesota it was in the neighborliood of forty degrees below. It is not certain that Washington will get any of this, but it is in the region of the possible that we will have sleighing for the better part of a week. A FREEZE WILL MAKE GOOD SLEIGHING. The prophecy made yesterday for colder clearer weather is likely to be realized, for the colder weather has already reached hereanda general clear up was looked for today or this evening. Pretty much everybody that was fortui enough to own a sleigh was out today. While the snow wus prett¥ badly cut upon theavenue and on some of the other thoroughfares it was all right on most of the streets, and all that is needed is good freeze to make sleighing perfect. In that event something in the shape of a carnival is likely to come to pass, and livery men who have sleighs in their stables will be going on to the retired list, rich for life. Small boys by the dozen were following in their footsteps ihis morning by clearing off the crossings along the principal streets and demanding toll from ail people who were not provided with rubber cots. It's great weather for some opie, but there are thousands of others who hold to the opinion that snow in Washington is not an un- qualified success. All incoming trains from the west over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad were delayed by reason of the big snow. The train from Pitts- burg was one hour late, and the train from Chicago was reported five hours late. o There is no delay between here and New or] —___ Matters Had Been Adjusted. ‘Today in the Police Court Prosecuting Attor- ney Mullowney ended the case involving the fight in Collier's office on F street Tuesday afternoon. Albert Collins and Alfred Norton were defendants and W. H. Godsey was com- plainant. The latter did not desire to prose- cute the case, as matters had been adjusted be- tween them, and for that reason a nolle pros. was entered in the case. sae ES English Nurses and Hospitals. From the London Daily News. When all the particulars of the census are out it will probably be found that .there are nearly 20,000 women in the united kingdom who earn their living by nursing. The number seems enormous, yet becomes comprebensible when we consider that the nursing staff of the lar- gest hospital in London numbers 250 and that the nursing staffs of the seven largest hospitals reach a total of 1,000; and there are 123 hos- pitals in London, besides the numerous institu- tions which supply private nurses, of which several employ over 100 women. ‘This large band of trained nurses has sprang to being since the days of the Crimea, when labors of Florence Nightingale first roused enthusiastic admiration of the whole coun- try,and how shorta period bas brought so greata result is shown by the fact that from her sofa in a quiet house in Mayfair Miss Night- ingale still directs the chief training school for nurses and is still turned to for advice when committees desire to build homes for their nurses or otherwise improve their schemes. In the loud bids for notoriety now made by many philanthropists it is well to remember that in the cause of nursing the sick the best and test worker is the gentle and oticiag ta to whom Longtfellew addreseed “The Lady With the Lamp.” a THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. English Growing to Be the Choice of Civil- ized Nations, From Leisure Hours. Ina conversation with Dr. Dollinger shortly before his last ulness Prof. True of the Koch- ester University, New England, reports that the venerable doctor spoke with much anxiety about the tone of modern English literature. He explained his anxiety by expressing his be- lief that at no distant time the English tongue would be pre-eminently the language of all civ- ilized nations. The greatest works of English literature were worthy of being ever popular. From a German this opinion about the spread of the English tongue was full of interest It is computed ‘tat the opening of the present century there were ubout 21,000,000 People who spoke the English tongue. ‘The h-6] ‘ing people at t time numbered obout 31,500,000 and the Germans exceeded 30,000,000. ‘The Russian ROOSTEKS TRAINED TO FIGHT. Interest in cocking does not wane, notwith- standing prohibitory legislation. No single social stratum nourishes the sport. The idea that the pitside is a rendezvous for toughs is wrong. These preponderate, but fenders are also there. The birth of cocking is not recorded in the family Bible of the world. It's antiqnity balks the searcher. It is said thet this, like all else born. below the horizon of history, was prac- ticed by the Chinese before the Christian era, Some claim that pit games are descendants of the wild jangle fowl of India, some that galli- Raceous warfare was first waged in Rhodes and others that Persia was the cradle of the sport. nis it that the rooster was with the Grecks an emblem of divinity and by the Syrians and Samarians was idolized as a god of war—a plumed Mars. His effigy was stamped en the coin of the Dornanii and on the shield of Idameusus. Cravsus fought cocks. The- mistocles pitted games before Dalmatia to show his legions’ valor and Severus gave mains for the officers of his army. There were rooster battles at Westminster during the reign of Henry VII and a cock pit at Whitehall palace, though Henry VIII advertisedly opposed it. Cromwell, however, jumped on its neck. Elizabeth smiled on it, James I attended mains twice a week and Charles Il bred the distin- guished Pvies strain. Pits were maintained at Chester, Gloucester, Newcastle, Lancaster and many other towns of the kingdom. Once, at Lincoln, a cocker named Giluer won @ main at £1,000 sterling, a bottle and £5,000 on the odd. Stringent laws stringently enforced have wrought havoc with British cocking. In Span- ish countries chicken fights vie with pepper and stilettoes. = ENGLISR AND AMERICAN BIRDS. The most famous strains of English bird were the Pyles, Sourfaces, Simithenwings, Van- nihalls, Mealy Grays, Smocks, Duckwings and Strokeshires. In the United States the best known birds are the Red Horses of Maryland and Virginia, Suit Shawinecks of Maryland, Dusty Millers of Kentucky, Stonefencers of North Carolina, Georgia” Shawinecks and Red Rippers of Georgia, Irith Muffs of New York, Red Quills of Virginia, Eslins of Washington city, McCleliands of the west, Newbold Keds of the east, Japs of California, Seftons, Dare L ils, Heathwoods, Clairborns, Tassles aud Tar- tars. American fanciers affect crosses rather than straight strains and count color as of minor moment. They believe that the low- spurred, broad-chested, flat-footed, blaze-eyed bird of defiant mien and dead-game blood is the winner. HOW THEY ARE TRAINED. The regimen which fighting fowls undergo is all to the end that they enter the lists sound, vigorous and devoid of surplus feathers, flesh or fat. If suffering from obesity vinegar and Pills of epsom saits are prescribed. A rooster's bill of fare embraces bread of flour and eggs, cinnamon, aniseseed, ground oyster shells, pow- dered boneand hard-boiled eggs. Regular train- ing begins abou; three weeks before the mill. they are allowed to spar with muff ing gloves, on their spur stubs, and are made to run, fy and walk. Chickens suffer from melancholia, apoplexy, asthma, corns, catarrh and rheumatics, and are physicked accordingly. ‘The feathered fighter is usually in his prime at two years old. In being “‘cut out” for fight his hackle feathers are sheared, his wing feathers pointed and all his tail plumage excepting the jong and strong feathers cropped. TRE PIT. The pit in which the steel gaffs clash and the battles wage is either a circular or square space about twelve fect in diameter, floored with matting carpet or maybe only earth, and roped in by a web one and a half feet high, eshes about the same as of a crab net. i* the exclusive domain of the combatants and their pitters. The birds are allowed to “bill” each other, and grow so irate that what- ever friendly sentiment might lurk in some dark cranny of their breasts is melted into hate. The birds are released and from oppo- corners rush to the middle of the pit. Here with horny beak and bladed heel the roosters rip and tear. Duck, dodge and jump itis; feathers fly, jets of blood spurt; then there is a flutter; the vanquished falls; the victor crows and the fight ends. Birds that fly the pit are rare and these are usually cured of their cowardice by throat cut. WHAT THE GAFPS ARE. Gatffs are the steel blades that are fitted on the stumps of the amputated natural spurs of the bird. The leg is first swathed in a strip of chamois skin and the gaff ligated with wax- end. Setting the steels is a delicate task: if too wide or too high they are incffective, if too close they may brain their wearer, lower they ar€ adjusted the ceadlier they are. Pull- drop socket gaffs are mostly used in the south, thimble-spurred gaffs in the west and a slightly curved gaff in the north. The first is the most deadly and the latter the least so. The spur sanctioned by New York rules is one with an inch and @ quarter blade, nearly straight and round from the point toa short round socket. With these weaponsa battle lasts about twelve, fifteen or twenty minutes, though an hour fight is not unusual. Some of the finest heels are made in Allegheny City, Pa., Marion, Kansas, and Vickeryville, Mich Then there are the Stugleton and Cincinnati spurs—the Damascus and the Toledo of gaffs. The cocking season begins on Thanksgiving and runs till the Fourth of July. Several mains have been fought thus far, though but few have received reportorial recognition. Perhaps the tmain in American cocking annals was that fought Thursday night at Newark, N. J. and reported in the telegrams to Tur Stan yes- terday. It was an interstate fight between Cali- fornia and Maryland. eile Baby’s Diary. M. Quad in New York World. First weck.—As near as I am able to judge from appearances my arrival has kicked up quite an excitement in the household. I have been weighed and the figures were given at eight pounds. I have also been carefully in- spected and have been pronounced sound in wind and limp. It's a go as far as Iam con- cerned. My young dad seems to bo tickled half to death and his breath smells of beer When he heard I was a boy he went out back of the house and jumped on his hat for joy. If I don't make him jump for some other cause before I get over this redness of complexion then you may play marbles on my bald head! Second weel jurse is here yet and I'm on my good behavior. She looks to me like a woman who wouldn't take much sass off a youngster, and I don't want @ row until my muscle works up a little more. Several par- ties in to see me and I had to listen to the usual congratulations. Some talk of bring- ing me up on a bottle, but I'll have some- thing to say about that later on. I'm laying low and taking things easy. Dad is still walk- ing around with agrin on his face, and there was a smeli of gin cocktail in the room last night, When he remarked that I was just the juietest and most good-natured baby in all New York ‘Third weck.—Everything so-so. Nurse goes Saturday night. <ed brags about what a little darling Lam, but she’s talking for wages. I'm quite sure she mistrusts me. People keep Coming in to paw me over and look at my feet. The general verdict is (Ahem!) that I'm the cutest,handsomest young’unever born. That's all bosh, however, and I'm not at all stuck on my shape. iey allowed dad to carry me around a few minutes last evening and you'd a’ thought he owned the earth. He suid he could Tdi to kill him in one night and so saved some of him over for the next. Colic, you know. All babies havo at, and I wasn't to, be Jett oat ting ap and down, nal he nally shook his fist ‘my nose and hoped I'd die. Then I let up a httle, but I've got « lot more was quite van~ bey fim to on. If old os ich you up haif's CHANGED FROM BLACK TO WHITE ‘The Death of a Man Who Was 8 Paztle to the Doctors. For many years ove of the most familiar and well-known figures on the streets of Westmin- ster, Md., known to both old and young as Abram,” a hard-working, industrious eolored muan, kind and genial in disposition and unob- trusive in manner, saysa special from West- minster to the Baltimore Sun, Until very re- cently he enjoyed excellent health. After a short illness of pneumonia, following an attack ofthe grip, be gied Saturday morning et 7 o'clock, in the eighty-third year of hisage. To the younger generation of Westminster he wae Probably not so great a curiosity as to the older ‘ones, who remember him in his younger days ashaving ashiny, jet black skin, with every indication of his pure African lineage, and bie gradual change to a pure white has been @ com stant source of speculation and curiosity. The change was not a sudden one, but very gradual and no change in his feclings or health was the least noticeable. le was born at “Soldiers Delight,” Baltimore county, Md., on Palm Sum- day, 1809, of slave parents, and was the prop- erty of Nicholas Lowe, who sold him to Amos Lowe, with whom he moved to Fini ‘wurg, Car roll county. When fifteen yearo old his master sold him to Mr. Andrew Powder of Westmin- ster, with whom he learned the tanner's trade and lived until he was forty-five years old. He worked at his trade until 1870, but did nes think the tan had any effect on’ his color, ea other colored men worked in the same yard without any change of complexion. Both his parents were full-biooded Afei- cans, very black, anare all of Ine children, his son David, one of tho most prominent colored men inthe town, having arich ma- hogany complexion. The’ first change notice- able in Abraham wasa white spot which ap- peared on his cheek mbout thirty years ago, then “on is forehead and one ‘wrist, white spots appearing on different parte of hia body and'gaining for him the'title of “Leopard.” The spots then increased rapidly, finally coming together, until his entire body was of a sickly white, aptly described by Huck Finn, in Mark Twain's famous book, as “tish-belly' white.” ‘The change was com- plete and permanent, no fading from black %o white, nor shading of color, but pure, un- Mistakable white. Hix head is perfectly bald and of the same deadly white as the rest of his body. A f ts of color have ap- ared in recent years upon his face and these he attributes to sunburn, as hie life has been Spent principally out of doors. Hit body was whiter than his face or hands. There has never appeared to be any skin disease or un- pisesant itching sensation, and the old man at t succumbed to the hand of death, as #0 any others have done in the past year, from cold the prevailing grip, hix bodily health in every other way having been still anim- paired. Whilo puzzling the medical fra- ternity Abrah ed the attention of the 5 and received several offers to place himself on exhibition in dime Museums, and also received a very flattering offer from the veteran showman, P.T. Barnum, but these he declined, preferring a quiet life with his son, never curing for notoriety. A few years ago Mrs. Jacob Eldridge of Howell, Mich. 4 similar freak, died in that state and attracted considerable attention. She was also of fall African blood, grandfather having come from Guinea, and her experience of the change from a colored to a white person was very sim- lar to thatof “Uncle Abram,” suffering no in- conven ce hor showing any sigue ackin disease. She was the only other case known to the puble up to the present time. ——_—e- —__ PROGRESS OF THE CONGO KAILROAD Hewing a Roadbed Through Solid Boake The Work Advancing Rapidly. The builders of the Congo railroad are now in the midst of their greatest difficulties. Nine- tenths of the engineering problems are centered in the first fifteen miles. Near Matedi, on the lower Conge, the engineers are compelled to blast out the rock nearly every step of the way. be carried across the river on bridges. The first five miles of this difficult part of the road have now been completed, and the work is g00d progress on the second section. By the end of this year the engineers expect to ides in place and to ha road completed to Palabaia, at. the sunenit ef plateau, to Kinehs The need of the road is increasing every month. The trading stations above Stanley pool maintained by Belgium, Dutch aud French traders hus increased to about 100 in number, and they are collecting a great deal of ivory and rubber, which is now sent to the coast on the backs of men. About 30,000 porters are now cmployed in the transportation business. The railroad company is carrying out one work which is unique in the history of railroad enterprises. It has constructed in Belgium three iron buildings for the use of Belgian mis- ries. The whole cost is defrayed by the railroad company, whose officials sey that it will pay them to give this assistance to the mie sionaries on account of the excellent influence they have upon the workmen and the solicitade with which they look after the health of the black personnel. ‘The company has also taken steps to establish a sanitarium at Kinkanda and bas a competent medical staff to caro for the sick. —-s00 Ten Dollars and forzLife. From the Detroit Free Press. It happened long ago in a western mining town. There wasn’t a preacher in the place, and when an exceedingly raw young man and woman desired to get married the services of the police judge were called in. He bad never bad any experience in that branch of his au- thority, but with true western enterprise be agreed to tackle the job, and the culprits were brought before him. “Stand up.” be said, as they seated them- selves, and they stood up. “Come forward to the bar of justice,” he con- tinued, with a pompous effort, and they come. “Guilty or not guilty’” he asked, as they stood before him bolding hands ity, your honor,” responded the this your first offense? iia “How much, your honor?” asked the groom, going down into his pockets) “Ten dollars.” Tue groom handed it over. me and the innocent young things marched out the room as radiant asaJune morning whem the sunlight kisses the roses until they blush ——_—+es—____ n Oklahoma Mystery. Chaneler (D. T.) to Dispatch in Cincinnati Eequirer. A report comes into this city of the finding of = house in the dense woods along the river j fi ff hs i itt E 3 i i F i =Fe i Hi i j i t i z [ i Hf 1 i H i fj fit i | : E §j if k if j f f 8s i H itt i i i f i é L is . . i j t ; t il iti f Hi ? } i i f it 3 l ff i € H F Hl i i it i : if i could be