Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1892, Page 14

14 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©. SATURDAY. N@V ~~ — EMBER #12, 1892—SIXTEEN PAQEsS. MEDALS FOR RIFLEMEN Trophies and Badges and Other Re- wards Given Last Night. ORDWAY N MI THEM. f the District Na- Happy —Satiafactory Vast Season—A Large Crowd Witnesses (he Presentations and Ap- IR FOR SKILL nship were last night distributed to those members of the District Guard who ful im tional stie- were the annual competitions which took place two weeks ego. Im accordance with general winn aesembied the drill hall of Center Market armory. Low of their friends came also and many of ‘thero—expecially the la‘lies secured seata. The Grrangements for the accommodation of the TRE ORDWAY BAT cP. public were perfectly satisfactory. They were made under the direction of Col. Clay and were carried out by Capt. Harry Walsh, company A, fourth battalion. Capt. Walsh's company did guard duty thoroughly. yet with all politeness. Precisely at 8 o'clock Gen. Ordway, aceom- by Col. Mosher, adjutant general, en- red the drill balland within « few minutes the line of winning organizations faced them. ‘The battalion was on the right, com- yy B, sixth battalion. gay in full dress uni- Kies, cus in the onntere the second separate (cycle) company was on the left. The men who secured in the merchants match were Lined up in the front and center. ‘SBE TOPEAM LEATHER MEDAL, POR THE LOWEST sconr. Eversbody was attention when Gen. Ordway @ddressed the successful ones. He spoke of the Forth of interest in rtte practice, commended who had aided the growth, thanked the citizens who had donated the prizes and hoped for greater results in the coming season. the General's pleasantly worded remarks were well Teceived. called the winners in the " match in the order of their scores. Each man, as called, marched up to the table were displayed many of the prizes near which was a list from which selection Tons of coal ani cords of wood of flour would have been out of THE MERCHANTS’ xATCH. Corp. L. B. Rollins, company D, third bat- WON BY PRIVATE ¥. D. ESTER. | n favor of a pair of Emerson shoes, ealled the rode forward and selected | presented by R. B. Grover & Son on the recom. abe Roviuson & wer's prize of asuit of clothes. | mendation of Manager Murray. By that time “Connected With the Press.” ‘Thon Private BP. Curkion of engineer | there was but one more p-ize—e bat rack, the | From Artin Advertising. came up. He was not quite sure as to | gict of Borkart & Son. Itbelongs now to Corp. hich prise he needed ‘most but he finally | WE Lombard, light battery 4° ande up bis mind to walk away with the silver} Esch y [patch and goid-pleted chain donated by Sergt D. Hutterly of the engincers. ‘Third on list was Private C. L. Hianebaugh. com-| ham always C Sewt battalion. He speedily mato up |i mind to take the 5 presented by Mr. E. v and then guve way to aL Beott of the engineer corps. Private Scott acd the | had decided before the distribution commenced he need not be ashamed to wear it. He had at that unle-s one of ie predecessors took the least tried to shoot. and was therefore deserving magnificent picture and frame donated by Mr. | of commendation that could not be given those W. H. Cooper. Craig & Harding's shaving | who did not enter the competition. stand ‘was chosen by Corp. Ellsworth, company | MANY VALUABLE TROPHIES. | B. sixth battalion, white Corp. G.P. Young of] Company B, elxth battalion, then became © central figure, as it were, for Gen. Ordway an- | nounced its team as winner of the silver-plated ndard and goblets. The commended for the work j tthad done during the season, and some pleas- ant things were said also of company*C, second battalion (National Fencibles), who took eec- oud ‘Then Lient. Graham marched his team of en. gincers to the front and was presented with the Ordway silver cup, won in the battalion match. Following the engineers came Capt. Couch of the second te (cycle) company. The team of that command had defeated the team of troop A—winning on a tie of the clorest de- scription—and the reward was a very fine | bronze clock. match. This competition was for marksmen only. Private B. B.S. Phillips, company C, second battalion, had first choice of the three | medals; he selected that given by Mr. J. H. | Magruder. Private F. D. Hester, company O, Barbour & Son was just about his size. | second battalion, who was second, took the B. ate W. B. Edwards, engineer hogy = was | H. Warner medal oliberate in maki known bis choice, Dut he | sixth battalion, took ihe Hanson’ Electric Dat” o .o misiake when he took possession o ‘y Company's medal. ——— Tn the National Guard match were three medal prizes donated by the first and second | the engineer corps concluded that the $10 worth of goods from the stock of James L. Sergt. C. W. Dickey of the engineer corps chose the engineer medal: Corp. W. 8. Daven port, compauy B, sixth battalion, took the sec ond ‘regiment medal; Private H. H. Leizear wears the first regiment medal. ‘THE BYENING STAR'S BADGE. Next on the program was the presentation of Tux Evenixo Stan medal. Corp. G. B. Young, engineer corps, was the winner. In making the Presentation Gen. Ordway «poke at some length Of the solid «apport given the National Guard by Tue Srax in its columns and otherwise. Bergt. C. Dickey, engineer corps, was once more called out of ranks. This time he was declared to be champion rifleman of the WON BY SEROT. ©. W. Leautiful plush upholstered chair which bad been presented by Capt. Thos. D. Singleton. Commissary Sergt. Chas. H. Laird, second regiment, did not know what be wanted, and fer some minutes vacillated among barrels four, tons of coal, cords of wood and a dress ing gown. He y settled down on the xtra fine split bamboo fishing rod given by M. A. Tappan. Sergt. Laird has lost more | eight and ten-pound black bass than any other | man in the mal Guard. Sergt. C. Russell, | company D, third battalion, was casily satisfied of the tons of cos! donated by Mr. J. Dove. Sergt. C. W. Dickey of the incer corps was next in order, but had not returned from a voting’ trip, Lieut. F. 1. Grabam selected the | pair of gold cnff buttons presented by Mr. A. ©, Butterly. There was a second ton of coal— | just as good as the first—given by Mr. J. | Maury Dove; it wus chosen by Private J. A. | Kari Grabs erald of B, sixth battalion. Licut. in place of Private S. B. Weth- ho was upa- ¥ a the engineer corps, voidably absent; Private Wetherald is the pos- THE CRAXYORD MEDAL, WON BY CAPT. CASH. District of Columbia National Guard, ana was resented with a badge which set forth that fact. He won the Senatorial cup—a fine piece of silver work presented to the brigade by twenty-one United States Senator THE CROWNING VICTORY.” Last of the many presentations were those in the distinguished marksmen's match. Capt. W. L. Cash, inspector of rifle practice, first regiment, had the top score and was awarded the Cranford medal—one of the finest medals ever shot for in this city. Sergi. A. O. Hut- terly, engineer corps, secured the Tierney medal, another fine combination of artistic dé- signing and goldsmith’s skill. When the dis- tanguished marksmen’s match was made up sessor of the rocking ¢ hair donated by W. H. WON BY CORP. W. 8. DAVENPORT. Houghton & Co, Willett & Ruoff’s umbrella was captured by Private J. B. Murrey, com- pany C, second battalion. Private G. C. Shaw, engineer corps, was absent, so Lieut. Grabam decid-d that the set of portieres and fittings presented by W. B. Moses & Co. would be just right for Private Shaw. Private H. Blanton, company B, sixth battalion, wanted an umbrella, He got the one given by Mr. Lisuer of the Palais Royal. Private F. N. Wells, WON BY SEROT, A. 0, HUTTERLY. Lieut. J. M. Stewart, inspector riffe practice, third battalion—himeelf a distinguished marks- wan—offered a prize of a barrel of flour for the man making the lowest score. He won his own prize. NOTES. After the presentations Gen. Ordway an- nounced that it had been the intention to pre- sent to the members of the first regiment team medals in honor of the victory they achieved at Sea Girt in September last—their second winning of the big bronze trophy—but that the medals were not ready, and could not there- fore be awarded. Capt. Cash and his men were considerably disappointed. Among the guardsmen who were present and who assisted in making everything pleasant and successful were Col. Clay. Capt. J. E. Bell, | Capt. Parmenter, Lieut. T. 8. King, Lieut. M! | V. Tierney and Ordnance Sergt. L. A. Roginski of the general staff. Mr. John H. Magruder was around to see how his medal looked on Private Phillips’ breast. Mr. Magruder is deeply interested in the Na- tional Guard. WON BY PRIVATE H. H. LEIZEAR. |company B, first battalion, marched up and | took away with him an order on Mr. W. H. | Baum for the ton of coal Mr. Laum contributed | to the prize list. Private B. B.S. Phillips, eom- | pany C, second battalion, chose the Woodward | & Lothrop dressing gown. Mr. W. H. Hoeke | | gave a table; it now belongs to Private | 8. Beatty, troop A. Corp. W. G. Steward, engineer corps, followed and decided | on the rug presented by Mr. F. Petersen. The | popes te A New Luxury in Russia, From the New York Ledger. The school children of Russia have recently been made very happy by having beds put in their bed rooms and large dormitories. In Russia nearly all the boys at least and very many girls are sent to boarding schools and colleges. And so many years of their lives are din studying, eating and sleeping away From home. Until recently beds were quite unknown in Russia, save asa luxury for the higher classes, ‘The peasants slept on top of their big bake ovens for warmth. The soldiers slept upon hard cots without bedding, while the middle classes of people and the students rolled them- selves in blankets and lay down near stoves, Recently, however, all the children in the boarding’ schools and all the schoiars in the colleges have been awarded beds by special and general agreement. Russian children have never had cradles, cribs, cots or beds. ————_+e+____ A Titled Lover at Auction. box of cigars sent down by J. H. Henderson & Co. was appropriated by Private A. S. McClain, B, sixth battalion. Private P. J. 5 company B, sixth battalion, was satisfied with the aibom given by Lansburgh & Bro.Corp. Harvey, engineer corps, metaphorically rolled | away Mr. W. H. Walker's barrel of four. Cor- poral T. T. Page. pany A, sixth battalion, | From the Ivstrated Amert Nas not prerent, but he was represented by &/ 4 French viscount who is not so richly en- | Or sroccrs was jest jreciocly Ghat the corp eaay | dowed with this world’s goods as he would like ed; he gets the pair given by Oehm & Co., | to be has invented a novel means of feathering | Baitime Private J. E. Swigart, com-| his nest. He advertises in the French papers a ijation,, took the case | lottery im which the grand prize will be himself Cleary. Quariermaster Sergeant’ Rotramet, | S84 his title, Five thousand tickets are to be fourth battalion, bad commissioned Capt, J. E, | sued at twenty franes each. ‘These will bring Bell to act for im, and the captain decided | him about £20,000, that the sergeant ‘ought to bave the cordof| ‘The lady who draws the lucky number will wood provided by the American Ice Compahy. | have the chuice of two alternatives, She may Private Walter h, company C, third | marry the viscount with bis fortune of $20,000 battalion. tock possession of the ‘rubber |or she may sbare this capiial sum, but most boots donated by the Goodyear Rubber | first forego all right to his person. Here is a mice for some of out young women who sigh A dozen cabinet photograple was | for s coronet and cannot buy one. A viscount pall prize: Sergt. W. S. Modges, | with $20,000 going for twenty francs ie ridien- rth battalion. will’ pose before | lously cheap.” Although he is « Frenchman, be Bell's cameras some day next week. | has graciously condescended to throw himself G. Dennison, engineer corps, | open to a general competition. Company, through the courtesy of Manager | cba: Lindsa: Then came the winners in the Washington | gt. Whipp, company A, | regiments and the engineer corps, respectively. | BOSTON MAKES A BID. She Wants Gen. Harrison to Make His Home There. HIS ADMINISTRATION WAS MORE EMPHATICALLY INDORSED BY MASSACHUSETTS THAN BY AXY OTHER STATE—GOV. RUSSELL A PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITY—LOCAL POLITICAL COMPLICA- TIoNs. Gorrespondence of The Evening Star. Bostox, Nov. 11, 1892. President Harrison may yet become a resi- dent of Boston. He will certainly, so says his son-in-law, Mr. J. R. McKee,now of this city, if | the efforts of Mrs. McKee and himself can pre- vail. The weight of Buby McKee's persuasions | would undoubtedly be thrown in favor of Bos- |ton. Ifthe President should decide to ac- | company his daughter and her family here he | would not chow a greater attachment for them | j than when he refused to allow his election to | the presidency to divide his family circle. It 1s safe to say that President Harrison will never consent to be long away from Mrs. McKee and his grandchildren. Either he will join them in Boston or they will join him in Indianapolis or Washington. AN ARGUMENT FOR BOSTON. ‘There are many sound arguments in favor of | Boston and election day has furnished another | which should appeal with especial force to Mr. Harrison at this time. Massachusetts is the only state of influence which has thoroughly indorsed his administra- tion. It President Harrison cannot find in the returns from Massachusetts signs of public ap- preciation and approval he will look in va‘ for | | them anywhere. ¢ republicans of this sue | | stood by him nobly. They were loyal to him | to the last man. Over 20,000 more votes were | | cast for him than in 1888, and he carried the | state with a handsome pluraiity of 27,000. The | Teduction of 5,000 from his plurality of 1888 | doesn’t mean the loss of any republicans, but | only the natural increase of a prolific democ- | racy. The re-election of Gov. Russell, taken in ‘connection with the republican strength shown in the presidential and congressional votes, clearly reeolves itself into a rather than a party iriumph, |More than 10,000 | republicans who voted for Russell because they admired the man did so only after they had set the seal of their approval on Harrison and his thoroughly republican administration. HIS ADMINISTRATION INDORSED, Not on'y did Massachusetts republicans strain every nerve to roll up an approval of the Prevent administration, but they retired all | those Congressman who had been most con- spicvous in attacking it. Williams, Hoar, An-| drews, Coolidge and Crosby are uow in private | life, while in the list of new Congressmen are | Draper, Apsley, Gillett and Wright, all business men and manufacturers, and $8. W. McCall, a lawyer of high protectionist ideas, The verdict of Massachusetts on the McKinley bill could not well be more satisfactory to its author. What- ever has been the finding returned by other states the fact remains that here in Massachu- setts, where the question of protection and | free trade was discussed more throughly than anywhere else in the country, and where there wore no sectional issues like freo silver, Farm- ers’ Alliance or the force bill to complicate the promblem, an answer strongly in favor of pro- tection has been given. But this is not the only feature of Harrison’sadministration that Massa- chusetts approves. It cheers reciprocity to the | echo. Applauds Tom Reed by the hour and pro- | poses to make the author of the elections bill its |next United States Senator. Intelligent, | conservative Massachusetts may be wrong in | its opinion of Harrison’s administration and in | the rousing indorsement it bas given the meas- [ures that distinguish it. It certainly is | wrong if the rest of the country is right. But | the old commonweath is not disturbed simply | | because it is in the minority. It has been there | before, and lived to see the nation ewing around to its way of thinking. GOV. RUSSELL A PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITY. Ava result of this election Gov. Russell be- | national character and a presidential ity in 1896. For him to carry the gov- p in this state where Harriyon received 2,000 plurality is little short of @ political | miracle. It strengthens the popular supersti- tion that he bears a charmed life. Republicans | re simply astonished. They kept his plurality in Boston below their expectations and rolled up ® greater republican vote outside Boston than thoy believed possible, and vet, “presto, they see him pull out with 2,000’ plurality. Those who refuse to credit any supernaturi cy in the governor's success have various f explaining it. mesay that Haile was a weak candidate; that like Col. Allen lust year he only had the nega- tive merit of being an unobjectionable man, Neither, if elected, would have taken rank with Gaston ‘and Rice, Long and Robinson. Both were nominated in conventions where the del- egates found their services superfluous. Some- how, somewhere, it had been decided by some- body that they were the men to lead the party back to power. It doesn’t catch the young men to nomiyate candidates who would as soon die as to meet the other side in a joint debate. It isn’t that Ruseell isa forensic Achilles whom noone in the state could meet. There are a dozen able republican lawyers who could cope with him so far as debate is concerned. Attor- ney General Pillsbury could do it. Hundreds of republicans feel that they could have. won with Pillsbury. The people wanted Pillsbury aud Pillsbury was willing. Now voters are in- quiring why they didn’t get him or some other ‘ong young intellectual gladiator who was something more than a real nice man. THE POLICE COMMISSIONERSHIP ISSUE. Some critics are asking why Haile allowed Rus- sell to go over the state demanding that he e!l the public whether or not he would reappoint Police Commissioner Osborne if elected, when he conld. have spiked the governor's guns b: asking him to tell whom, if reelected, he woul appoint in Osborne's place. They argue that Gov. Russell could never have answered that question without creating war in his own party ranks, asthe leaders of two rival factions in Boston are after the place, ‘The indications are now that Commissiones Osborne will be removed by Gov. Russell early in the year. Will the executive council concur in the appointment of his successor? There is little chance of it, and if they come to a dead- lock in this as in some other appointments Mr. Osborne may be allowed to serve another year, in the hope that a republican governor may then be elected. The object of the police com- mission is to keep the contol of the 800 liquor licenses of Boston away from the demo- cratic “bosses” of the city. consent to the appointment of P. Maguire or any of the other democratic aspirants, #o the executive council argues, would be to defeat entirely the purpose for which the commission exists. MR. LODGE AND THE CAMPAIGN. In looking for a scapegoat on which to foist responsibility for the party's gubernatorial errors in nomination and management some evil eyes aro being turned toward Henry Cabot e. This brilliant republican statesman is as much disliked by some of the leaders whom he overshadows as he is admired by the rank and file of the voters of the state. A majority of the present legislature are instructed to vote for him for United States Senator, but there is little donbt that an effort will be made to swerve them from their ice. The inti- mation that Lodge's counsels are responsible for the third party defeat, coming when repub- licans are smarting under its humiliation, is in- spired by the enemy. Everything that the in- genuity of the dethroned independent Con- mand their friends can devise to throw Siccreait on Mr. Lodge will find its way into the columns of the press. ‘Their cry will be, uy one but Lodge,” and this slogan, taken up by the disgruntled aspirants in his own rty, may sound the note of disaster for the hant statesman, So far there seems to be but one man who might be able to unite the opposition to Mr. Lodge, and he Gov. move renlly emanates from disgruntled repub- licans, led by ex-Congreseman 0. C. Moore, but democratic House may be very willing to hear what they have to say. LACK OF MONEY IN RHODE ISLAND. Bepublicans in Rhode Island are laying their failure to safely land their Congressmen to the lack of funds, previously pointed out by Tax Stax. The national committee “milked” the state and left almost nothing for the local com mittee. Lieut. Gov. Bull had a plurality over Col. Lapham and Speaker Capron a plurality over Congressman Page, but ther fear they cannot increase their figures at the next elec- tion. Bull now lacks 246 votes and Capron 369 votes of an election. The special cor nal elections will doubtless be the next state election, in 1893, A Providence republican said today “We must organize for ext April and prior to that we must secure a large registration be- fore the last day of December. This will take a good deal of money and I would like to know where it is to come from. If the mauufactur- rs do not come forward we cannot do anything with the state ticket, and with the loss of that will go the special congressional elections, The outlook for next year is very gloomy. Sed THE VERY LAST OF THE KAH KWABS. Bones of Men of an Indian Tribe That Has Been Extinct More Than 200 Years. From the Buffalo Courter. “We will bold them for a few days for identi- fication,” facetiously remarked Coroner Ransom yesterday afternoon as he gazed into » large box filled with sixteen grinning skulls, besides leg and arm bones, ribs and other relics of buman anatomy. : ‘These bones were brought to Rodney's under- taking rooms from the vicinity where Clinton street crosses the city line. The exact spot where they were found is on a hill at Buffalo creek, where a new street is being constructed, one block east of Barnard street. The bones were ploughed up by workmen, who notified Coroner Tucker. He turned the case over to din the vicinity before e coming of the white men. in the form of iron pots with handles, toma- hawks, gourds, ornaments in the shape of little bells, thimbles and bracelets made of metal. ‘Time has so marred all of these things that a careful examination by experienced men had to bo made to learn their full character. The pile of relics brought in were all dug up in the morning, and many more were unearthed dui ing the day. The place is about a quarter of a mile from the Indian cemetery on the Indian Church road. The Buffalo creek swashes along lazily there, and around was a deep wood, ex- cept on tho hill by the bank. This was an ancienct burying ground for arace of giants, judging from the size of many of the bones found in the loamy soil of the hill. They show the men to have been vory large. Coroner Ransom will hold inquests as a mat- ter of form, after which the bones will be turned over to the Buffalo Historical Society, if the institution desires them. A reporter visited William ©. Bryant of the Vestern Savings Bank last evening and in- formed him of the discovery. Mr. Bryant is « member of the Historical Society, an y ‘on matters relating to the Indians of New York, and was highly interosted at once. He is bo- yond doubt one of the best informed men in Indian history in this part of the country. He declared the discovery to be both important and interesting in more ways than one. Mi Bryant accompanied the reporter to Rodney’ rooms and was shown the relics, ‘The moment he laid eves on them he sai “They are very ancient." First he examined aketile or pot. It is not more than five inches high, four inches wide at the top and five inches wide at tke bottom. “I never saw one like this before,” said Mr. Bryant. a fine and valuable ‘collection himself, but ha no specimen like these. A bunch of hair stuc in the pot attracted his attention next. It was teo coarse for human hair and its origin or use remainsa mystery. Upon close examina- tion the kettle was found to be of copper. Others, varying in size, were of copper and brass. ’ All had iron handles. ‘The bottoms, too, are quite flat. Some that are bottomle show that it is the result of nature and doing. This is a significant fact. as proving the antiquity of the relics and indicating that they were of neither English nor French manufacture. It was the custom of the later Indians to “kill” the implements which they buried with their deceased people by punching holes in the bottoms. In Mr. Brvant’s opinion these Indians were the ancient Kah Kwahs or Neutrals, who bave been extinct since about the year 1680. They were of the Iroquois family, closely related to the Hurons, and were a fierce, warlike and tall race. They had a village in the locality now known as White's Corners and their settlements ran up into Cansda, Little is known of them beyond the statements recorded by two Jesuit missionaries, for more than 200 years ago they were utterly destroyed by the confederation, who made war upon them. ——_+-e-+—____ Paupers in England and Wales. From the London Time . ‘The number of paupers in England and Wales | in the fourth week of August last was 639,303 (168,896 indoor, 470,407 outdoor), less than the number relieved inthe corresponding month in any of the preceding years since 1857, ex- cept 1891. The proportion of paupers to the pulation—21.7 to the 1,000—was smaller than Tr'tny other yoar sinco the record bas been kept. In London the number of persons in receipt of relief was, at the end of August, 86,799, and their proportion to each thousand of the inhabitants 204. The actual number (composed of 55.568 indoor and 31,231 outdoor paupers) was less than in each week of the month of August in sixteen out of the thirty- five preceding years, and the proportion was tmaller than Ia’ any'of tho other’ years since 1857, except 1891. How Nature Grows a Tree. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Nature invariably does two things when she tries to grow a tree—she protects the bark from hottest sunshine and the roots from severe changes of temperature. Both these points are almost invariably overlooked by man. Observe a maple or elm or birch as it shoots up from the ground; its sides are clothed all the way with small twigs, unless removed by knife or browsing. Any tree starting in an open lot is thus protected from the sun. Otherwise the extreme heat will rupture cells and the bark will dry or split. As far as possible there must be equal development of cells on all sides of the tree. But care of the roots is even more important. The feeding of a tree is at unequal depths, but most of it is near the surface. If the sun be allowed to strike directly on the soil the finer rootlets that do the foraging are de- stroyed, and extreme droughts will affect the roots fora foot in depth. What is worse, the extreme of temperature also affect the tree and suck its life aw: In some cases such conditions are produced as encourage the de- velopment of lungi or other enemies to plant life. Nature guards against this by laying down each autumn a layer of leaves to emulch her forests or solitary pets. ——___+e+___ Won a Bride on the Election. Henry Rudolph, residing at Evanston, Ohio, has for several years sought the hands of Miss Lawrence of the same place, but unsuccess- fully. Just after the Chicago convention Miss Lawrence bet Rudolph that Cleveland would not win, the stake being her hand. ‘Tuesday night Rudolph went to Cincinnati to get the returns. Ho was the most anxious man in town. When it became known that Cleveland had been elected he was wild. Thursday morn- ing he returned to Evanston, took Miss Law- Long, candidate for the snmeseat six years ago. Mr. Long says he is not a candidate, but admite that the honor, if elected, is one no man could well refuse. ‘There may be fighting ahead on this line. LOCAL COMPLICATIONS. But the election not only affects the presi- dential fortunes of Gov. Russell and the sena- torial aspirations of Cougressman Lodge, but the gubernatorial ambitions of Mayor Mathews, ‘The democratic program now is to run Ma- thews for governor next year. But first he is to be re-elected mayor, and the municipal elec- tion is only « monih ‘away. ‘The election of Mel Congress,against regular dem- ocratic nominee, Senator McNary, was a tri- umph over Mayor Mathews and the whole city “machi Ex-United States Attorney Owen A. Galvin is the anti-Mathews candidate for pee pon McEltrick’s succes embolden him to Boston will be split from stem to stern, and » the field. If he does, democratic rence to Cincinnati and married her. too From Judge. don the date of | Along with the | bones were ploughed up metal cooking utensils | | closely He has — WAKING AT WILL. How It is That Peopir Set Themselves for = Certain Hour in Sleep. From the London Spectator. A discussion has been going on in the Society | for Psychical Research ax to the existence and | the nature of the power by which so many peo- | ple manage to wake themselves precisely at the hour at which they have resolved to wake them- selves the previous night. ‘There is no question as to the fact. It is a matter on which proba- | bly the greater number of people can convince | themselves. You may fix a time when no clock | strikes, so that it cannot be a half-heard sound which wakes you, You may fix five minutes before the hogr in house in which no clock strikes the qzarters, | or even ina house in which there is no striking clock at all, and no church clock within a couple | of miles; and yet not one person only, but a | great many—we might perhaps eay the majority of persons past middle age—can wake them- selves at the right hour if on the previous night they go to bed with the resolve to do so «trong on their minds. It is x power which belongs to all sorts of persons—not only persons who have | been in the habit of getting up at given hours, but to persons who have not. Most nurses have it, most servants, most laborers, most professional men. Yet it is very difficult to account for, for when sou wake you have no distinct, nor, indeed, indistinct, recog- nition of the time on you. You only know what time you ought to have been awake, but not in the least consciousiy that this time has | ina fright, you find as a matter of fact that it has arrived, and only just arrived. We believe that the same power would apply to the day | time under the same conditions, | you fix firmly in your mind some hour jeast some considerable time, | are to do something specitic, | to asense of the timo at a specific minute; only | people notice this less, ince there are so many | things in the davtime which warn us, and thus put us on the watch as how time is flving. ‘The curious thing is that, though you can arrest your own attention and wake up at the Tequired time, you never scem to have the least surance that it is the right time without con- sulting your watch. If you do really “divine the time, you have no power of recognizin that you have “divined” it. You feel as if had “merely guessed it, and very probabl guessed it wrong, until your watch confirms the guess. It is not by a keen sense of duration that you compute the hour, for that would imply that you knew at what time you made the resolve — at what time you went to sleep with the resolve | on your mind—and this ix often Just what | do not know. | ganic processes which go on within you, by a | general sense of the number of pulsations of your heart, or the number of breaths drawn, then you would require to rately ‘what the time was when you first | resolved to awake, and you would meas- by the length of the thread subs. ‘drawn out. Not only would that be complicated process, but it is almost inly not the actual process, for you may be quite unconscious at what hour exactly j the resolve 1s formed. It seems to be a sense of | time, as quite distinct from a sense of the dura- | tion of your sleep, or of the length of any organic process which has gone on since the resolve was made. Yet it is extremely difficult to imagine that the individual mind can be so identified in feeling with the revolution of the earth on its axix as would enable it to |say at what hour,a.m.or p.m.. you have | arrived. The mind’ measures ‘dura y by the succession of its own thoughts; but, as we have seen, it is not duration, but something Cd rs to be conscious; thus ‘it can ly at any given hour without even. knowing at least) how much time has since the resolve to wake was first | formed. Inthe Journal of the Society of Ps chological Research for August we are told of | lady, “well known to the editor,” who chron cled her experiments in this manner during « part of last July, and for July 3 ehe makes the following entry: “July 5—Order given, again casually, with none of the seriousness of intention which I should have associated with it had I been going | toact upon the sequence instead of merely | experimenting upon it. This time I sud, ‘Wake me to take a journey ut 4 o’cloc! meaning wake me at 4, but not saying so. | was waked with a struggle of consciousness; could not remember where I was or anythin but seemed to be down ina deep place, like a well, and I heard an inner voice say, ‘Wake and it's just 3 o'clock: you need'an hour to prepare for a journey at 4° Still I was but haif | conscious when the words were repeated, ‘It is 8 not 4; but vou said, “Wake me for a journey at4.’""” By that time I awoke completely, and the clock struck 3.” The editor regards this power of discerning the time as due to what he cails “the sublimi- nal consciousness;” in other words, the con- sciousness which lies below ali the acis of more superficial consciousness of our life and con- nects them when they are at variance with each other by its survey over all alike. We have never thought that Mr. Myers lias explained anything by this assumption, and in the present case he has, if he can fully trust his witness’ ac- curacy, only invented a new difficulty for him- self by it. For it is quite evident that either the “‘sub- liminal consciousness” in this case was not subliminal, and was no party to the trick which the lady had played upon the ageney commis- sioned to awake her by speaking of a fabulous journey which was to be begun at 4, when she really only wished to be awakened at 4—or else, if the “subliminal consciousness” was aware that 4 was the time intended for wi , and not 3, it determined to playa tri upon itself by taking the ludy’s words and re- jecting her meaning. This is a highly im- probable explanation, so improbable that, far from being anglucidation, it is a complication of the problem. The agency which awoke this lady at the wrong hour because her words had been inaccurate either hada grudge against her and took advan'age of her ship of the tongue to awaken her before she needed, in which case it could hardly have been her deepest self which did this, or it was really misled by her language, in which case it certainly was not her deopest self, for it took her at her word, and at her meaning, though, if it had becn her deepest self, it would have known her meaning. On the whole the theory that it is s “subliminal consciousness” which gives us a knowledge of the lapse of time certainly explains nothing, and makes it more, instend of less, difficult to explain such a misunderstanding’ as this. It would be much easier to explain the incident as a confused dream, in which the dreamer had caught up the words of her last resolve and enlarged upon them withoutremembering her own meaning; but a confused dream is cer- tainly not wnat Mr. Myersmeans by a ‘““sublim nal consciousness,” a consciousness at the base of all our various acts of superficial conscious- ness, How we arb to explain our consciousness of tion—and, indeed, that we have in sleep any knowledge of duration we see no clear ev: dence, a very short time often ap; to us very long if it is crowded with a multiplicity of impressions, and a long time often appearin; very short ifs single impression has persisted throughout—wo do not know, but that there is some transcendental power of discerning the time without external sounds to guide us we feel no doubt. Of course there are plenty of cases where the power fails. Indeed, another in the same number of the Journal gives us a long list of failures and of failures unexpected by himself. But the experience of suosees ia too common in all classes or persons to be accidental. Indeed, the present writer may assign the present article as a co mee (one of very many) of the power of waking at the exact hour desired, an hour which is varied in accordance with the urgency of the case, so that it cannot be ascribed to the habit of waking at exactly the same hour. It is a very curious power, for which we can assign no Parallel. We certainly have no similar power passes a n striking landscape. ts visible, not manage it unless the train were so that we could effect it by at the precise minate when She scala wns a ther 01 in way we it occasionally be effected But here are mal of who a) some kind of clodk about with ‘thom in. thelr ch whether it be the clock of the neighborhood | arrived, though, when you look at vour watch | amely, that | If you measured time by the or- | know accu- | | quite different from duration, of which it ap-| wake the | 1 time as distinct from any knowledge of dura- | BLACKWELL'S 2 SMOKING TOBACCO. I'man old smoker, and have at one time’ or another tried all the different Smoking V SO SAY WE ALL OF US. beats ‘em all. A leading characteristic of Bull Durham has always been the hold which it takes on old and fastidious smokers. 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CLARE nada YAU ARTs EWOOD, UN req. | | We till sell at pasiic am | gh PBCRSDAY THe Bb. we, i popmtet me trust Papay, orthwent, and in rear of suid dwelling. "Terms of rd purchase money cash; relve and ef ‘with in "payable wenat- mn the prop ‘at purchaser S00) will be veyancing and cost. A deposit of two hundred required atthe. t complied ‘with wine trustees reserys bllare four equal te wl twenty four operty the risk and cost of archaser or pur- senu-annudl chasers. H Ontion o” purchaser CH. WILLIAMS: | sold’ wilt be negate W. E. EDMONSTo: oct-eo THE ABOVE SAT 4 TROD, TUESDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBEK, ALDIS B. BROWNE, ee oe eee TRUSTEES Sat SUUANIA UNINPROWED f-THE ABOVE SALE FURTHER POST. ~ Mg = B ord antl! WEDNEQDAY,. NINTH DAY OF | era OVEMBER, aD. 1 at the n2-eokds w Q@-THE ABOVE SAL ouet. on account of rai x (@). i square VEMBER SIXTEE Senne ty LLATBIER & SLOAN, Anctionsora, 1407 G 8: OIL PAINTINGS AT AUCTION BY | EMINENT MASTERS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA, i SEAREPORD. eu AT OUR SALES ROOMS, JOuN LATIIER & SLOAN, Auctionsers, M07 @ street x SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED ROPERTY, No. 1828 THIRTEENTH STREET NORTHWEST 1407 G'ST., WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, i Me WBE! ixpay! AD. NOVEMBER SIXTEENTH, SEVENTEENTH AND THE at HALP-PAST FO! of eromnd in the ctty EIGHTEENTH, 1892, AT ELEVEN A. M, THREE AND HALF-PAST | SEVEN P. M. EACH DAY. GRAND EXHIBITION 4 with ron aye, taht te MONDAY AND TUESDAY, ‘ator. 14TH AND 15TH INSTS. 9 GORDON & Gi F's. Pox & TRUSTEES SALE Catalogues can be had at our office or will be mailed to any address. | i Lovers of pictures will be thoroughly pleased with | this exhibition. All are cordially invited to attend and judge for themselves, as it would take columns to | properly describe the collection. | LATIMER & SLOAN, Auctioneers. n10-6¢ YW VALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO.. Auctioneers. pean Nesancing st purchasers “at sons STEES’ SALE OF “VALUABLE IMPROVED +BORG BROWN, Surviving Trostos, EAL ESTATE, MBEING 11S D STREET | _DUNCASSON BIOs, Aurdhimeers 2000 gt oie gi JUNCANSON BROS., Avotion srs + of w decree of the Supreme Court of the NCAN + Avetioncors, | DeEati a Sena eatend wean” Soar se” | SWNT" srs. x wherein Ella L. Castieinan is complainant sud Marg ; A. MeGraw etal. are defenda IMPLOVED trustees will offer for sale, the unde DaVor Nove. a | FOUR O'CLOCK Washinevon. te bered six (@) in 2-8, Kinbey and otbere subd juare S71, as the eis recorded in book B. pare Ee a 380, of the records of the wurveror of the District of | FIVE. Mf. the folios Coliumuia, Comether with the Tune vewents sn ered seventy ‘Terms: Une-third cash, baiance in two equal install- ments, payable none aud (wo years from day of sale, with interest on the teferred payments at 6 per cent 4. tuterest payable semt-ann asl wenty-four (24) and twent subdivision of square nail: fifty-seven (837. annum wntil ferred pay tie be ‘of trust o1 ite remiecs acl, opal ca af the option ofthe pur: hhaser. A deposit of two. hundred (#200) guired on day of sale. "All conveyancing, recording. BOT ctet ot ur-hsaer: ARTHUR A. BIRNEY, Trustee, Louisisua ave. = of ale to L. CABELL WILLIAMSON. Trustee days from date of sale, 480 Low right te reell the tie Actauiting pur THOS. @ HENSEY, ) CHAS. C. Purscotr, Tratom je. SALE OF A MODERN Two.sToRY EMENT BRICK DWELLING, KNOWN nd-lor RATCHIPE, VALE & CO., Auctioneer 4 the improvements ther: Sara Reet pepe cee Yo wit: Lot numbered one hundred and forty-two Gain the National Capital Investment Company | Pipa mon SS 4 \ sixty oe (MOD, "an pur las recorded HE fe ea techelane on cyatafe parca ma bo cute rth ure at pal Sed secured “on the vs t f fe ig iH | ty 8 E it :