Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1892, Page 6

TELESCOPIC VIEWS OF Mans. LOOKING AT MARS. beings. You strain your eye to the to distinguish the ontline of continents and there is astrange fascination in the sight of that great globe bowling along through space, possibly the counterpart or the proto- type of this earth, its mysteries almost within sigt and yet absolutely unknown. THE PLANET'S moons. How the Planct Appears Through « Big Telescope. | WF SEEMS LIKE THR FA IN wmice wr LIVE, THE GRASS AND WATER AXD SNOW BEING VISIBLE—THE NEAREST PLANET 10 ‘Tas Fanta. You remove your eye from the telescope a mo- ‘Through the slit inthe dome of the naval| ment. ‘The miracle las vanished; there is the observatory appears a rectangular slice of the | sky as you seo it every night, with the Little midnight sky, studded with little points of light | stare and that ruddier one looking almost as ‘that seem to waver and quiver to the eye. There | Commonplace as the others. is yet a slight refection over the heavens from Pit et the plone ia its ared glass. across the the moon, now low down on the horizon, ¢ ent the eve being dazzled. Now look serves to render less distinct the contrast be- ; tothe right of the planet, in the di tween the points of light and the surrounding Space, is a whitiah point no greater than dimness_ y In the center of the rectangular slice of skr flares x brilliant flame, ruddy and glorions even to the naked eye and paling into insignific with its royal splendor all the other lights of the firmament that dare to show thelr faces under the dome of the universe. THE QUES oF THE MFAvENS. This is the planet Mara, just now the queen of the heavens, the cynosure of the eyes of the world that are fastened upon her in admiration, | im curiosity and in calm lation. | In the full flush of her planetary life she above the meridian at midnight. fannt- the outer moon. It is 12,000 miles y from the planet and is only twenty miles in diameter. You watch the little point flicker and tremble through the atmosphere for a while and directly it ix time for the other moon toappear. Prof. Hall fastens jis trained eye upon the spot and soon announces the presence of the dot. There it is, little Phobos, other y It ix’ between the planet and about 4,000 miles from the planet. ite is but eight miles in diameter, a Sgpils fo. be ‘visible at a distance of les and over. ONE MORE LOOK. Just another look at Mars itself. There is an her splendor in the face of al obyervers | **traction about that wonderful land, with its and turning with stately motion upon her axis, | Waters end polar snows, anda thirst for more Under the dome of the observatory the great knowledge The atmosphere seems clearer iv speck 000,000 twenty-six-inch equatorial telescope fastens its in the kt hour, and, perbaps,a better sight magnifying eye upon the planet, through which ained. There is promise of disap-! the observer is tolook and sec’ the area of th Planet increased fonr hundred fold. Every light within the dome is extinguished however, film of ‘mist is creeping over the Now for a glimpse of the planet's moons. | since the moon went | for they Inst 637 days, but the intense tempera- ture of the reasons is the same between the two lanets, spring, summer, fell and winter follow- with unvarying regularity. Clouds hover over its surface and rain and snow fall in turn. THE AGE OF TRE PLANET. It is estimated that Mars is 18,000,000 years old, and that 11,000,000 years ago it had reached the physical state now possessed by this earth. It is the fourth planet in order of distance from the sun, being the first of tho superior planets or those that revolve in orbits beyond the about fifteen miles per second. It was by ob- serving its movements over the firmament dur- ing a period of eighteen years that the famous astronomer, Kepler, was enabled to enunciate the three grand truths of planetary motion known as Kepler's laws, and from the long- continued and careful ‘observations of this planet the doctrine of a plurality of worlds was first confirmed—one of the crowning resulis of modern astronomical research. In size Mars is the smallest of the primary planets except Mercury, the diameter being little more than 4,000 miles. ‘The density is about three-quarters that of this earth, and it ix consequently a planet with little gravity. The topography of Mars is greatly contrasted to that of the earth. While on the earth there | is about four times as much water as dry lend, the proportion is about equal on Mars, and one i complete tour of the world or the jor conld be made by water alone. One peculiar feature of the planet is the exist- en seas, which are interlocked with the land. APPEARANCE OF THE CONTINENTS. | The continents are of a dull red coior and ihe | water presents a greenish hue. ‘the red color | of Mars, from which it has received the name of the “ruddy planet,” was believed by Sir ohn | Herschel to be due to an ochrey tinge in dot, but visible nevertheless. This is | general soil, and others have attributed it to{ some peculiarity of the atmosphore and clouds. Some astronomers have suggested that the color may be owing to the color of the vegetation on the planct, which is, perhaps, red instead. of green,as on the but Prof.Lockyer is of the opinion that it is “‘due to the absorption of the atmosphere, as is the color of the setting sun with us. ‘The eminent Italian astronomer, Schiaparelli, cries respecting the planets, recently published astartling announcement regar dence obtained by him, from a series of care- ful observations, of the existence of artificial canals upon the planct Mars, which tends still further to confirm the belief that it is inhab- ited by a race of intelligent beings. According to the annonticement of Schiaparelli the land surface of Mars is, or appeara to be, divided into great connecting the greenish spote, which are be- lieved to bo seas, and extending in perfectly straight, and often parallel, dark lines from the seacoast for # thousand miles or more into the | | and nothing is visible save that small rectangu- | h of sky, with its one ruddy dame. again and see that point of fire against the sky without shape or form. Now look | through the telescope, and— | Behold! a miracle is performed, the limita- tions of infinite space are overcome by the of man, and the eve is carried through abyss of chaos, 35.000.000 miles away, until it rests another world. upon a sphere like ‘that on which you dweil, with land and water, clouds and ali the physical phenomena wit! | which you are familiar. THE EXPANSION OF A POINT. ‘That little point of flame has expanded into a @isk, perfectly outlined on the lens of the in. strument. You are not looking at a star, but a | world traversing its orbit and basking in the light of the sun. For a moment it appears but @ great yellow disk, flickering as the light of a candle in the wind. As the eve becomes aceus- tomed to it, however, new wonders come to |) View. At the south pole of the planet there is | & white patch. upon which the sun glistens as of the inhabitation of Mars isa upon glass. It ix snow, the glaciers and bergs | purely speculative oue, and yet it is based upon of the polar region of the seasons | physical conditions known to exist and entirely change that white spot di ‘hes in area under | favorable to the hypothesis. It is speculativ the heat of summerand increases when the long | as anything must be that is not susceptible to winter sets actual proof. Below this isa greesish patch of considera-| "Life exists upon this earth because there is Dlesize: this is water, whether fresh or salt miceihae, mslstare, eae and water. scientists know not, but anyhow it isa heaving, Astronomical observations demoustrate that tumbling waste of water that washes conti- i ditions exist upon Mara, and if the nents and islands. | laws of nature are as immutable there as"here ‘JME APPEARANCE OF TER LAND. the exist f life would follow. The simi- -beapargeineal ake parcbetshine yeaa | closer. The Marsian axis inclines to the plane of the ecliptic at exactly the angle of the axis and dashes of green. That is the land, with | of this earth, and therefore the Marsian seasons intervening bodies of water, whereon may live would correspond to ours. The years are longer, e eve and imprints its glowing image there. The lines of the continents are a little clearer expectation rises feverishly as vision for acloser sight. See, thére ne of a great seacoast, the demarka- tion between the land and waier faint ing. Look lower down: pertaps Schiap: canals can be found. What is that dark line run- ning north and south? Can it be — ‘Oh, too bad, too bad! ‘The film of cloud has reached the meridian and out goes the planet. Mun’s genin« makes a glass that pierces chaos for many million miles, but nature, supreme und all powerful, blows ‘one breath upon its surface and his mightiest efforts are as naught. TUE INHABITANTS OF MARS. ‘The interest that e&nters about the study of Mars is intensified by the strong probabili that this planet is inhabited by human beings— yarace for superior in the accom: $s of civilization to the most enlight- upon this earth. THE LiGHT oF TH DIDN'T LIKE THE BRAND. ‘The Phosphorescont Glow is to Replace the | He Wasn't Going to Spend @ Fortune in a Incandeseeat Lamp. Sign King. From the St. Louis Republic. Frota the Detroit Free Press. It ceems to believe that ina very few; He «huitled his cow-skin boots along under ndeseent lamp, which we now re- | himself into a jowelry store on Woadward nARY respects, an almost perfect | avenue and leaned up against the show caze, light, will be regarded as a crude makeshift, | Got any finger rings?” he inquired of the which mankind availed itself of while stience | clerk. stood on the threshold of the discovery of the | “Plenty of them,” said the clerk. “What perfect luminant. Mr. Tesla has shown in his | kiad do . experiments an ideal form of electric lighting S which would transcend in luxury and con- venience our present system of electric lighting by incandescent lamps as far as the latter tran- scends the oil lamps and tallow dips used by our near ancestors. | Every drawing room would tric field in a continual state of rapidly nating stress, in which the occupar live, cing no unpleasant effect what- ever. while vacuous tubes or phosphorescent io: globes and tudes, wit wouid shed a soft, diff in’ fittin’ fer a gal.” a young lady in the case, eh? queried the clerk. she’s a widder,” explained the cus- but the same sort of a ring will do, an engagement ring’ as the light broke in on him. er. What's the tax’ pretty nice, don’t you?” thin’ in your shop too nice What's the figgers on your «4d dollars,” said the clerk as as if it had been a thousand ‘The customer fell up aguinst “A thonsand dollars!” he y. the widow's t the phosphor- escent glow is the light of the future; he hints at ertificial auror® +preading ftom the «um- mits of towers of hither undreamt-of height, bas, at all events, go: as far as produc: | at atmospheric presstre a glowing plane bounded by two rings about a foot and | thirty inchesin diameter, respectively. W all bie visions will be realized remains to be | : there is no doubt that they are guiding aright. —__—ee-—____ All He Needed. From the Detroit Free Press. beer “Lam trying to raive $5 to send to my sick family,” said a ragzed-looking specimen toa * ‘Mar waiting for a Jefferson avenue ear, “and i! ean help me a litde I shall be greatly | phe si ead it's a solitaire diamond, is it?” higgled “Yon don't waat ms togtce sou the ensre 5, |e man. "Gl, hat brand grows too big for wlan des okt aoe to make ‘out the tien, | Sore ee ee en ee Faye Spider yong je aere big as a gooseberry fer four “How much money do you reed?” “The clerk couldn't accommodate him and a ‘The sed one put bis band ia bis pocket @ | naif hour inter he was seen making a deal with moment. H m1 “Ouly $4.99, sir,” be said meekly, and the | * “*°et fakir. aman broke for the car. ‘the caso. fairly yelled. rmain’t wuth that much.” admitted the clerk; *‘dia- is,” sail the clerk. “What did tw didn’t know but what it was a house ‘ood ard avenge.” i solitaire diamond."” Coin Begets Power. From Puc! Friend—Why do you spend your time writing a Tall bas arvived in the fasails pa Your name will never go down to poe- of Bir. “Biff” Hall and there is great rejoteing | “Oi. ter (author of $10, story, terest. When the arrival was mado known to | “Blonde ‘Mike Gory Vengeance" *Not ba the babe’s older sister. thatdolighted | my mouey will. tic Little miss excinimed: “Uh. I surprised!” From the Chicago News-Record. | move its quarters?” “I went to the post office today to get some — Percy—“The members are haunted by a hor- postal cards,” said Mrs. Snaggs to her husband, | rid fear that their present meeting ‘place is un- ‘and I was surprised to find there were two sizes healtay. —e large one and a small one.” r between the two planets is carried even | inte: rior, where th runni: directly intervect with other canals right angles. But what is le is that his observations e shown that in some cases these ro-called anals” seem to be in actual process of con- ruction, and quite recently it has becn an- nounced t times they become “double.” Whether it is owing to the fact that the clear atmosphere of northern Italy, where Schia- parelli made his, obsersation, i inducive toa etter sight,and he therefore raw more dis- tinetly the canals, or whether the canals hav vanished, at any ‘rate they have not been ob- served by American astronomers, THE OPPOSITION TONIGHT. The opposition of Mars will occur at one hour and thirteen minutes after midnight tonight. If Mars remained stationary in its orbit while | our earth moved sround the sun an of this planct would occur every while the earth is making i is also moving in the same directio: haif as rapidly, and after one o} will complete an entire revolution before the earth can overtake him. Hence it is that this planet is seldom noticed by ordinary observers except during a period of three or four months | about every two years, for at all other times it dwindles to the apparent size of a rmall star, The least distance possible between Mars the earth will be when an opposition occurs at | the time the earth js farthest from and Mare nearest to the sun, which can only happe | intervals of fifteen’ or ceventeen years. The opposition tonight will oveur under tue favora- ble conditions mentioned and Mars will then | come nearer to the earth than it has since Se; | tember, 1877, though its distance from us will | be a litile greater than it war in that rear, owing | to the fact that the planet is now further south. opposition but cireuit Mars n more than pposition Mars | | JAMAICA GINGER. A Substitute for Whisky in the Rural Dis- tricts. From the Providence Journal. i is a prokibition village. Nota drop of rum or whisky is sold ther¢, but something worse is, and in astonishing quantities. Men and women | got drunk as they have done herctofore, and | not until recently was it learned how they be- came so intoxicated in so short a space of tin unless liquor was sold on the sly by some oxe, who evidently had a good thing in spite of the Inw governing the cale of intoxicants, People thought whisky was brought into the town from this city, but it wasn't. ‘Tho situation became | disgusting. Men were seen at night sleeping in doorways and upon the sidewalks in @ stupor. ome had bedn drinking alcohol and water, goric and other swuff which had burn- uea, things were not responsible for the greater part of the drunkenness, however, und when the good people found out’ that quarts of maica ginger wero being consumed every day by inebriates they held up their hands in astonishment. When a man coulda’t get whisky or alcohol he would buy Jamaica ginger, pour itdown like so much water and then go reeling about the town. Tke situation | hus become so alarming that a érusade has been started to shut up every storekeeper who sells the stuff for purposes other than medicinal. One store has it done up in pint whisky bottles, j and quite a trade has been brought about in thie manner. . with a careworn expression upon leaded with Sheriff Read at hi Monday regarding the matter. She said hi husband was upon the verge of delirium tre- mens on accouat of the use of this ginger. He | had lost a tine position in one of the shops and she wanted the officer to do what he could for her. ‘This is but one of several cases that have come to light within a few weeks. The people who have threatened to stop the sale of Samnaicn are thoroughly aroused and they inte fo do it. ———_+e+-____ She Explained It. From the Boston Transcript. Miss Uppaten—“‘Strange that these working people can't attend to thelr duties and be sat- istied?” ‘Sure enough! Pa employs ing quali t Miss Emtahed—' several hundred of them, and I know he is satis- | fled with their lot, and would be if the: [flo pee much as theydo. But then wen't a mind like “It is it to me gives a man sore eyes “Well, isn't that good for the eye-wash?” ¥ zh + _‘The Poor Jersey Skeeter. ‘From the New York Herald. 5 Visitor (in Jersey)—‘‘Why have you placed the bed in the middle of the room?” mosquitoes can't reach . earth. The velocity a Mars in its orbit is! of what Prof. Proctor called bottle-necked | who has made a number of important discov- | fifty miles or more in width, | According to the vote of Attleboro’ that town | In the early part of July the in accordance with an advertisement, opened bids for the paving of streets with asphalt. ‘Three companies submitted proposals—the Cranford Paving Company, the Barber Asphalt Paving Company and the Schillinger Paving Company. Of these the Schillinger Paving Company i | new, and being the lowest bidder upon som | streets, claim contracts therefor. But there are several impediments in the way before the Com | missioners can enter into a contract with this | company, In the firet place the Commissioners | are required by law to construct streets only of | the best material. and not enter into contract with any one unless they are assured of their | competency to do the work. ‘The Schiliinger Company use what is termed “land asphalt,” that is the product found about | the Icke on the island of Trinidad. ‘This lake is | controlled by the Barber Asphalt Paving Com- | pany, and the asphalt from it is claimed to bo vastly superior to any other, ‘This afternoon the Commissioners heard the | claims of tho new company and also heard the arguments of the representatives of the Darber Company against the use of the ‘Land As- phale™ 5 Mr. Mills Dean, L. P. Wright and Hugo Reid resented the Schillinger Cot ny. Mr. Hugo Read, who is the vice president of Trinidad Asphalt Company, spoke at length | on the subject of material, which he contended | was as good as that taken fromfthe Asphalt lake | pnd made equally as good pavements. |" Mr. J.J. Dariington spoke on the legal pect of the case for the Barber Company | Mr. J. C. Rock, the vico president of the P: x (Company, defined “land asphalt” and pointéd out several failures of the material to | make substantial pavements. Z He read portions of the report of Steven- }8on Towle, the consulting engineer on pave- | ments of New York city, in which the euthor \held land asphait to be inferior to the luke va~ riety. | "ieSMints Deane attempted to show that the | Barber Company bad 2 monopoly over the as- | phult work in Washington, and said the com- pany he represented only wanted a chance to demonstrate what they c | Ce ied the he | Prof. Richardson, the insp nd asphalts, has been detailed to examine the | “Land Asphalt," and the Commissioners will undoubtedly act upon his report. _ | re} or of cements Gi THE GARBAGE COMPLAINTS. They Are Increasing in Number Today, Reaching One Hundred and Thirty-five. Today, up tp 1 o'clock, there had been re- ceived at the health office 135 complaints con. cermmng the non-removalof garbage. This shows an inerease of fourteen over the number reported yesterday, when, as stated in yesterday's Srax, 121 were reported. In the complaints made today D. Williams, 237 Sd street southwest, reported that no garbage collector tmd reported at his residence for one month; F. B. McGuire, 1333 Con- necticut avenue, none for two weeks, and Mra, ‘M. Horrigan, 802 New Jersey avenue, and T. S. Lee, 531 6th street southeast, none for three weeks. More complaints would probably have been noticed by Tux Stan re- porter hod not the chief clerk of the office objected to a further inspection of the complaint book, informing the humble newspaper man that under the rogulations of the health office, ao now constitt such public. a DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. LAMPS ORDERED. Upon the recommendation of Capt. Lusk the Commissioners today ordered the erection and maintenance of the following public lamps: : Gas Lamps. One on west side of 10th between East Capitol and Massachusetts avenue northeast, one on touth side of Massachu:etts avenue at interse | tion with A street northeast, ove on tonth side of Massachusetts avenue between 10th and 11th northeast, two on east side of Ith between A and B northeast, one on the west side of 11th between B and © northicast, one on the cast ride of 11th between B and C northeast, one on the ouih side of C between 11th and 12th. ‘| Om. Lamps, * Two on 10th between C and D northeast, two at the intersection of 10th and D northeast, two on 10th between D and E northeast, oue at the | southeast corner 10th and E northeast, one on | D between 10 and 11th northeast, two ‘on 1th | between C and D northeast, two at the intersec- | tion of 1ith and D northeast, two on Lith be- | tween D and E northeast, one at the southeast corner of 11th and E northeast, two on D be- | tween 21th and 12th northeast, one on the north sid on the northwest corner of A and 12th north- | cast, two on the east side of 12th between A and | | B northeast, one on the northeast corner Ten- hessee avente and A northeast, one on the weet | side of Tennessee avenue between A and B northeast, one on the east side of Tennessee avenue between A and B northeast, onc on the northwest corner North Carolina ‘avenue and A northeast, one on the northwest corner of | North Carolina avenue and 13th northeast, | one on the east side of 13th between North Car- ‘ olina avenue and B norheast, three on 12th between Band C northeast, o: southwest | corner 13th and C northeast, three on 12th be- tween © and D northeast, three o: between Dand E northeast, one’ at southwest corner th and D northeast, one at southwest corner E northeast, one west side . ayenue-125 feet south of B northes: a be | | | Band Cnortheast, ong on south and C no: nessee avenue between Band © northeast, six on north side North Carolina avenue between | 13th and 14th northeast, three on Warren be- tween I and € northeast, one on southeast cor | ner C and Warren northeast, three on Mth be | tween B and C northeast, one on southeast cor- | ner 14th and C and one ‘on northwest corner Lith and C, at patrol box, northeast, STREETS IN BAD CONDITION Superintendent Davia, in charge of the street and alley cleaning department, in a letter to the Commissioners today calls attention to the bad condition ofa nuraber of streets now on the schedule to be swept, and requests that they be stricken from the schedule or that they be re- paired so that they ean be prgperly swept. He says that complaints frequently come to him | about the bud condition of these streots, but he lisunable to remedy them, as it is 2 | than a farce to attempt to weep them at all. ‘The following is a to: ‘Twenty-ninth from K to M, 21st from K to L, 32d from KtoL, Kfrom Bridge to 36h, @ } \ Virgit avenue, | 4th east from D south to Virginia avenue, Ist cast from B south to M south, Gth east from Maryland avenue to B north, I south from 7th to Water, M southwest from 434 to James Creek canal, N’southwest from 414° to Canal, Union south from M to O, Ohio avenue from 12th to 15th, School from 43¢ to 6th, Maine avenue from 43¢ to Gth, Virginia avenue from 434 to 7th, Birom 9th to 1th, D south from 6th to ‘7th, Water from P to 13th southwest. ‘MISCELLANEOUS, W. F. Paige, proprietor of the Cochran Hotel, obtained a permit today to completo the interior of the seventh story, adding about fifty rooms to the capacity of the house, and to make extensive decorations to the halls and rooms of the hotel. The work will be com: _— on the 10th of September und cost $20,- ss . Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have beon iscued by the glerk of the court. to the following: Luther vy, Va; George Fauquier county, Va. and Washington and Macy Jano Hail, both of Fau- county, Va.; Wesley C. Hicks of Warren. ‘Va., and Mary M. of Prince " gouty, Md. Dr. jcld Tames Rugecll nnd Ser "iad ae : and Sas E. deieone Wan, A. tennison ot “aie on; Wim, 4 Va., and Ada 0. Mitchell of Prince county, Va.; Warrenton Dove and Cora both of Fairfax county, Va. ‘Mr. Blaine Will Go on the Masiy 1 Neer Seonanina Ses meen hn held in every section state. Blaine will tako ‘Mr. iscussion took a wide range and the - records were not intended for the eyes of the | of A between Uth and i2th northeast, one | it of the streets he refers | from 22d to 27th, 23d from K to I, 24th from | 1 ‘Their Mass Meeting in the Congregational Church Last Night, ELOQUENT SPEAKERS TELL OF THE WORK OF TRE ORDER—THE PARADE WAS LARGE AND EFFECT- IVE—SOME PROMINENT MEMBERS WHO MAVE DONE GOOD WoRK. The semi-centennial of the Independent Or der of Rechabites was, as announced in THE Stan of yesterday, celebrated last evening by a | parade of the visiting and local societies. It | was a highly creditable one and attracted great | Bumbers of people, ‘The eocieties participating formed on 434 street near the hall of the order, 434 street and Pennsylvania avenue, and at 6 o'clock, headed by a detachment of mounted | police, marched up the avenue through the White House grounds, where it was reviewed by the President; then up the avenue to Wash- ngton Circle, to K street, along K to 10th and | down 10th to the Congregational Church, whe: | it was dismi ‘There were about five or six hundred in line.» Following the mounted came the marshals, Messrs. S. R, Mundell, G. W. Shoemuker, J. H. Loveless, G. 8. Thomp/’ son, C. Atchison, John Miller, W. B. Marcke, F, Dickey and W. Mayhew. BODIES IN THE LINE. The line was composed of the following: Jere- | minh Commandery, Knights of Rechab, pre- | ceded by the Third Artillery Band: Heber Tent of Georgetown, Anncostin ‘Tent, headed by a | detachment of ‘twelve members of the Marine Band; Columbia Tent of Capitol Hill, Union ‘Tent of Washington, Potomac Tent of Alex- | andria, Washington Tent, No. 7, George C. | Thompson Tent of Washington, Cammack | | Tent of Washington, the Accomac’ (V: Palestine Tent of Norfolk, Exc | Annapolis, the East Liverpool (Ohio) Tent and | the Camniack, Union and Heber Junior tents of Washingto ‘The members of the female tents, eeated in arringes, formed the rear of the procession, | being preceded by the Girls’ Cornet Band of | Onio. | A prominent feature at the convention is Mr. E. C. Smith, the grand chief ruler of New York. He is a young man with an energetic face and is a good worker. He is a resident of Glovers- N.Y, He became a Rechabite in 1876 and ice then has worked energetically for the good of tho cause. He is an able orginizer and has held all of the suboi and of the grand tent. |e The Colored } Rev. W. W. Barton, the colored Baptist min- ister arrested on Monday by Detectives Boyd and Sutherland for the has been releared by direction of the district attorney. prosecuting rey of Brunswick county, inclosing an affidavit charging him with seat in the choir | the larceny of church funda, and this morning ; 1 haa been cailed | Mr. John A. Clarke was preparing a petition to order by Mr. T. B. Marche, past high chief | for writ of habeas corpus to secure his dis- rale arer, My God, to Thee” | chary Syn =o rag esg A pene eo was sung by the audience, the band playing the | ing that Parton could no: = ecompaptinent knee ime band PAYING 28 | ora, agreed to his discharge rhe then invited Dr. Kirby to offer —_—>—— afier which he introduced A GLOOMY PICTURE OF CANADA. A Canadian Tells What Home Rule Has Done. From the London Standard. Mr. Gladstone has been propping up home rule for Ireland by holding up Canada as an ex- ample for the working of the fad he has adopted. As an old Canadian since 1844 I think that I know something of what home Tule has done for Canada, In one word, it has made that country, from being very economi- cal to live in, more expensive than any part of England. Bread is dearer; clothing is 50 per cent dearer. Sugar, for which we in London are paying two-penco halfpenny, has been for the last twenty years five pence to six pence per pound. House rents are higher than in London. The indebtedness of the country is somewhere IN THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. meeting was held in the Congregational Church, | the church being well filled with the members of the order and many others interested in the and after the me the debt of Great Britain, la own people, the interest to themselves; and the whole interest of 000,000 owing by a small population is a continual source of im- poverishment. Add to this debt that of the railway interest, the Canadian Pacific and the Grand Trunk, all payable abroad. The latter is ‘ly held by her ME. BUNCH , of this city, high chief ruler of the order in the United States, who spoke briefly of the history of | held for over -£30,000,000 of squandered ‘mone: the order in this country and England. Theor- | by Canadian scheming politicians, being value a id, was organized in England in 1835 | for about one-third. ‘The “Canadian scandals,” and seven years later it was. first organized in | with which the newspapers of the country hav erica, in the city of New York. To it belonged regaling their readers, are an example of the honor of being the oldest temperance or-| what home rale leads up to, Bunization in this country. Today the order | But if home rule for Canada were an unques- organized throughout tho world and was | tionable enecess, it would be no proof that home growing rapidly. rule for Ircland'and home rule for Scotland should be adopted. Canada is from 2,500 t 5,000 miles from England. This distance ren- dered English statesmen, in the nature of things, iguorant of Canadian people and their requirements; whereas Ireland is at our doors, and Scotland. ther Scots may say to the contrary—is England. But Canada as a Whole is not in itself parallel to the question of home rule for Ireland. Canada is, after the example of her neighbor, divided into separate staces, each of which is governed by its own provincial legislature, in addition to being governed by a central, or call it an imperial, legi: The contrivance ll the nuisance of political chican- Any one of these states may be more justly chosen as an example of what home rule for Ireland might, under the same circum- stances, became. "Ard the only comparable province is Quebec, where the Roman Cathdlie element is admittedly equally predominant. The French Canadian priests and their people are gentle and amiable. ‘They hold their feliow- | Roman Catholics, chp Irish element, as much aliens. as they do the English. There is, there | fore, not altogether a united_Roman Catholic clement, yet such is the effect of tigs pre- dominance that the province of Quebee is being denaded of its Pretestant population. | Tt is in the nature of Roman Catholicism, and of the fo encrouch and make itself felt asa ablish relations between them and the order. ing Power. The newspapers are fuill of ‘The order, he explained, had no ill feelings | denunciations of the Roman element, and gaiust the liquor dealers. It was against the | Montreal, which was made a part of the Quebec he, and he would cut its tail off | Province, has groaned under the yoke which at- cut. the. cat's. tail off—| taches her to the home rule of Quebec. Hom is He withed to appeal to | TWle in Ireland would exaggerate every evil the moderate drinker, he who thinks himeeif | ¥ader. which the province of Quebec is now secure and of # better ciass than the drunkard. | 8Toaning and the financial stress which lies But there could be no half-way method. ‘Total | pos Canada asa whole. From the condition tinence was the true, the only safe rule,| of things in ida, therefore, I should de- Cruikshanks, the great Engtish artist, had years | Ownce home rule for ireland a: the worst thing fiered $500 for the substantiation of acrime | that could befall the Irish people. committed by a total abstainer. The prize had ORAS ag ever been won, Referring to the situation SHE HAD BEEN England today, he stated that almost every member of the liberal party in the coming par- lament stood pledged to give the country local joption, ‘The late Duke of Albany once said: | “The only enemy England has to fear is drink.” When a’ member of the royal family thus spoke the order had reason to feel encouraged. Short speeches by Mr. Henry Sharpless, high ef ruler of Fugland; Mr. TB. Marche aud | pain incidental to the removal of a tooth the Mr. J. C. Lee followed, and at 9:30 the meeting | dentist was inclined to believe her. She pre- | closed by the singing of the doxology. cipitated hérself into the chair ine firm, ag- egreaadigesaede gressive way that carried conviction. ‘The High Tent of the order met at Recha- = A = Dite Hall at 10 o'clock this morning in seeret | gags” the stwateh tn Feeney yi err mn, fifty-one delegates being present. The pore de reports of the high chief secretary and high Bit glared eyen es arg cgiy a) | chief treasurer were submitted and showed finances of the order were in the best| ‘Wow! Is it out? My, but didn’t it burt!” ‘The stoutish lady evddenly sat bolt upright jon in its history. ‘The _ reports | alto showed that the growth of the order dur-| with her bonnet hanging over one ear, ON Tha: tooth.” ing the past yoar had been very gratifying. At 30 a recess was taken until 2 this afternoon, She relapsed among the cushions. “I've often been commended for—Woop! Mr. John Lee, ; chicf ruler of | England, a typical Englishmen, was nest intro- a d made an interesting and forcible t for total abstinence. Speaking of the i chabites he said the descend- ¢ now lived in Palestine, and a ionary there was endeavoring to COMMENDED. But Notwithstanding Was Net So Very Brave. From the Detroit Tribune. ‘The stylish Indy in bombazine positively re- fused to take gus. When she declared that she | when the tent took up the question of the pro- posed union of the order in this country with that in England the union, and it is tho ‘The tent will probably conqude ite session tomorrow, when the election of officers will | take place. ‘Today the friends of the order are enjoying a day at Marshall Hall and this even- ing a number of the visitors will go down. At the temperance tent. 14th street between. |Tand U nozthwest,a mass meeting will be | held this evening, the Girls’ Band and a num- ber of the prominent members of the order being in attendance. SOME NOTABLE MEMBERS OF TEE ORDER. The high chief ruler of the Rechabites is a | when | Washingtonian, anda good looking and eeti- | mable Washingtonian at that. Mr. N. Bunch is | the gentleman, and he is in the type | foundry business in this city. He is a native of | North Curolina, but has resided here since 1865. Mr. Bunch isa’ member of Columbian Com- mandery, No. 2, K. T., and is elso a Knight of Pythias. ’ He has been a Rechabite since Jen- | wary, 1879, and has been treasurer of Union Tent, No. 87, fora number of years. He'was elected high chief ruler at the Savannah eon- vention of the order. ition. “Well. | I've often been com—Onch! Murder! Is it out?” Quicker than she kicked the ‘The soutish lady puffed for brésth, There “Dit aoe ” the patient laborionsly re- 80. insensible to ns irginia authorities, | He was arrested on a letter from the | about £40.000,000, all owing abroad; not like | bing. was not to be frightened by the momentary | not as yet touched your inal RO! Power OUR FoREFATHERS’ FURNITURE. TO FORM A NEW JAPANESE CA) ‘The Simple and Inexpensive Articles That | Resignation of Premier Wat«uknta—Coont Were Dally Use. ° Tho Will Seecend Him. ‘From the Fousefurnisbing Review. Premier Matexkata of Japan has resigned The simple articles of household furniture | owing to the appointment of Viscount Tanaka, that our forefathers considered sufficient and | the minister of justice, to the home ministry. almost luxurious would now be looked upon as | Count Ito will form a new cabinet old junk and converted into kindling wood or | The resignation of the Japanese premier, eave placed in some dusty cockloft. These furnixh- | the 3 ork Tribune, is one more instance of ings of the early days descended from father to | the difficulties accompanying in Astarte son, and were as carefully “watched over as the | country the establish most expensive bric-a-brac in these times, | regime, Ui disposed Instead of silver or plated-ware waiters, as it, and have proved it in sending a now, they had mahogany teaboards and round , liberal deputies to the chamber. Bat the old tea tables, which, being turned on anaxle un- party of the mikado and shogua time, derneath the center, stood when unused upright blindly opposed to the introd of like an expanded fan or palm leaf in the corner. European manners and inetitutions, is #till In another corner of the room was a closet with alive, as chown by ¢ murderous at- ® glass door, in which all the family china jand the family plate were displayed, to be used only on state occasions. A Conspicuous article was always an enormous china punch bowi, in which was brewed a re- freshing, and, at times, a headache-producing bevernge. The teacups and saucers were rather | diminutive in size, aud only the best families were able to boast the of china tea- pots and coffee pots,with silver nozzles, Dell ware took the place of our earthen-ware an: numerous pewter platters and rs, pol: along the old. ished like a mirror, were fashioned nd With the poorest class of people it was an ordinary thing to eat from m trenchers. In the parlor a few small pictures, painted on | glass, with black moldings for frames, and scanty bite of goldieaf in the corners, were hung on the whitewashed walls. The looking | lasses were placed in glass frames figured with lowers or in scalloped mahogany or Dutch wood painted white or black, with bere and there some touches of gold. The ample chest of drawers, always placed either in parlor | or sitting room, and sometimes reaching to the ceiling, is too familiar to require iption. ‘The floors were devoid of te, silver sand, drawn into a variety of fanciful figures | With thé sweeping brush, forming their only | covering. Much skill and even pride were dis- | played in the devices and it of the | sand. Gas and lamps were unknown luxuries. ‘Dipped” candles in brass or candle- . lly good enough for common | which were presented. to th use, and those who occasionally used mold | count Tanaka, the m candles made them at home in little tin frames, | be expected that th: casting four to six candles in each. A gent of the Asiatic na lantern, with square sides, furnished light in | apprentices f the houses of the wealthy. ‘The homely settle was a common sitting room | appendage and was a proof of more attention to | comfort than display. It had, as well as the | settee, a very high back of plain boards, and | the whole was of white pine, usually unpainted, | and kept as white as snow by untiring scrub- | . Generally this article was for | the use of the head of the family, al co } casionally, when he or others of the old folks | were not enjoying their ease in its eapacious depths, the tired you would be glad to embrace the opportunity of stretching their | limbs upon it. Both the settee and the settle | were pl before the ample fire} in inter, and the father or old uncle, being in- talled in either, with his back thus guarded | from wind and cold, was wont to deliver wise | utterances or recount wonderful stories of the ield and forest. The cooking utensils were of the best material | to be had, but to our eyes their shapes appear decidedly uncouth. Stoves were not then used to any great extent. The pots and kettles filled ith savory messes were bung on iron cranes | nd swung inward over the slorring coals in the fireplace. Though these id appliances | now appear homely and primitive, one cannot forget the comfort derived from their use by our sturdy forefathers. — _ ee. parliamentary privileg ik to ane stantly in opp tries to toll. it id react <Reronal I circles of 2 t Thment.w bi. icy bet sven liberal partion, ine in the he should be appointer 16 On November 29, 1890, Tegime was inangutated in J chambers opencd with an address delive the emperor. The national legislature posed of 232 pecra or senator first congress was very stormy a dissolved by imperial d. 1891. The recond parliament and it hax not yet shown tte like or quieter than it has been spent in and, ine blind spirit of py od by | prepared bya Fr. | August 2, 1892. Mr. and Mrs. Charlton Sasser of Baltimore are on a visit to Mr. Sarscer's ents. Mr. Louis Fritch, who has been at Providence Hospital, Washington, undergomg treatm: for a tumor, and who hed it successfully moved, has returned home and is convak He will soon be at his pc Miss Griflith of Baitin Roger T. Brooke office is hon friends and Dr. Eworstield, wh: Hotel for the summ: A dance is given on Ayhia this opened Pair # over forty x. men who had been p Anne Arundel county, t across the river, were knocked to the ground by lightuing, but were not badly infred ‘The covnty commissioners paid out the «um of $49,397.17 Monday in the redemptiomof county paper. As there was not a fuil board am attendance the matter of the purchasing Mill's bridge from the Wo Company was postponed until the next n recent act of the last legislate the county del and Prince ered to purchase ipleecaseareman: AS FoopD. Beer, Bread, Sausages and Meal Are Among Its Possibilities. An innocent barrel of banana meal was last | week the cause of a curious complication be- | tween the Department of Agriculture at Wash- ington, the custom house at New York, the United States Express Company and Mr. Francis J. Geis of No. 700 East 140th street, says the | New York World. The meal was sent by the | government of the Island of Jamaica as a pres- lent to the United States government, and as | Mr. Geis had been instrumental in arousing the | interest which has led up to the manufacture of such meal the business of forwarding it to | Washington after its arrival in New York was intrusted tohim by the Jamaica authorities. | He performed bie wock by Biring the bill of lading to nit States Express Company, with instructions to forward the meal to Edwin | Willetts, assistant secretary of agriculture. | It did not go. ‘The custom Louse officers j here, knowing that there isa duty of 20 per | cent ‘on banana meal as a manufactured prod- bed held it, and an order re hae ge oy 1 irtment is now necessary fore Uncie Sam can get the gift. that was sont to. him with. out paying himself the duty he has imposed upon it, | "The ‘gift of & single barrel of banana meal | from one government to another is one of curi- ously trifling pecuniary value, but it is one which may lead to results 0 vast and important that they are hardly to be estimated at present. The contents vf this sample barrel are to be distributed in smail sample packages to such planters in this country as shall signify their in- tention to embark in the business of manufac- turing the meal. ‘The banana is one of the most valuable food products of the earth. No other vegetable com- pares with it in productivencss, as Humboldt pointed out, and none other is as rich in. pure food constituents, Yet it is in one sense almost neglected “product. Bananas are eaten as Enrdly anything bns boon atbempeed in toe way ardiy any ‘attem| way of making staple meal from them, although banana meal was ‘as long ago as the time of the Montezuma. It has been supposed that this meal could not be made in a manner to keep, but recent experi- ments have proved thatit may be. bridge, which a toll bridge. Several efforts have b to have it made a free bridge, but witine | com. Anne Arundel pay two-thirds | of the amount to be given and Priuee the other third. Th — Hunter, the Philadelphia Forger, Keturns. James Hanter, who five years ago star financial world by pre adelphia, after putting o amount of $106,200, was yesterday held ir $10,000 bail to answer, having re pectediy on Sunday. The fugi New York on Sunday from Brazil on *h Seguranca, He ix broken in beni mind is +hattered and he b semblance to the on who was head of the John Hunter. te n made tne ‘The Mystery Cleared From the Chicago Tritane. . There was a man whose name wav be Ferguson, because it was something eutin different from Ferguson, and Ferg as well as anyother name, Bovidk handy one to epeak and looks well in This man Fergason was a co: with 2 good salary,a wife and six fai rin t largest Sunday no Teason on ards ®hy confidence reposed in him, bring rv Fe nd «i; But one day, likeaclap of thander from a clear this being the phrase ployed in cases like this there ¢ an- nouncement that there was a discrepancy of €16,000 in County Treasurer Ferguson's ac- counts. Inquiry at the county building and «i the various banks only served to coniirm ‘he re Then socicty gathered up ite ckirts. Tt was the duty of society to protect itself, and justice must be done. And everybody said County Treasurer Fer- onght to be in the penitentiary. the next day it leaked out that the dis f = 3 I F ; | Hy t i i i t i | ti I ? i it t |