Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1893, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1898—TWENTY PAGES. THE PATRIOT GRAVES They Will Be Remembered by the Nation on Decoration Day. NATIONAL CEMETERIES. Brief History of These Cities of the Dead That Have Been Laid Out by the Govern- ment and Are Kept in Superb Condition by Kegular Appropriations. ‘Written for The Evening Star. RE REPUBLICS UN- grateful? Perhapsthey are, inthe abstract. But this republic of ours, in at least one respect, surely—in the treat- ment of its warrior dead—has not been and is not ungrateful. Such memorial celo- brations as will be ob- served all over the land next Tuesday, when the patriot graves of the nation are remembered and decorated with fragrant May blossoms by Grand Army posts, and loving friends and kindred, are well cal- culated to excite holy thoughts and inspire love of country. Few witnesses, however, of that touching annual spectacle are aware that, be- fore the sweet custom was instituted by surviv- ing comrades before its observance was possi- bie, and in order that it might be made so, the federal government put forth its kindly hand ‘nd located, marked and preserved those dear Telics of the slain, and then gathered them to- gether from the four winds of heaven—from battlefield and fever swamp. and hospital and Prison—into beautiful gardens of the dead— there happily to be found and taken away by friends or else to rest in peace Perpetually. Thousands upon — thousands of the fallen were so sought and found and taken away by friends, and on Tuesday, as heretofore. their green graves will be decked with fresh flowers in private and municipal cemeteries of city, village and bamlet from ‘ocean to ocean: but thousands upon thousands of others, whether sought for or not, were not found and taken away, and so were left to hal- low and sanctify their resting places. NEARLY HALF A MILLION HONORED DEAD. ‘These resting places are our national ceme- teries, eighty-three in number, containing 530,- 100 honored dead. Every individual grave is marked by a stone tablet of granite or marble. The private cemeteries where throngs will as- semble on Tuesday may seem fair and delecta- ble, but still fairer than they are the national MONUMENT To THE FALLEN SONS OF MARTLAND, LONDON PARK NAT. CEM., NEAR BALTIMORE. cemeteries. Treasure has been spent without stint to make them what they should be and are —the simplest and yet grandest and loveliest Gou’s-acres in the world, lavishly adorned by nature, perfected by art. and guarded over by the starry flag. There the sunshine softest, the grass grows greenest, the flowers bloom bright est. the trees 5] most luxuriantly. No weeds or brambles or thistles are suffered to enter there. The very atmosphere around them is sacred, and the sympathetic visitor may fancy « halo hovering over them; for in them rest exclusively the heroes who died in the cause of freedom. Their atministration is in the hands of a largo force of superintendents, overseers and gardeners, whose operations are in turn super- vised by the renee general’s office of the War Department, where it is made the function of a special division of that office to look after all matters pertaining to their management, to interments, removals, improvements, headstones, records and the Tike. Liberal appropriations are supplied by Congress every year for their support, and probably no other set of institutions under the government is conducted with such mmuJ Mttention to detail or receives such constant, watchful care. NOT APPROACHED BY ANY OTHER NATION. In all this the American republic sets an ex- ample altogether unapproached by any other nation under the sun. Great Britain. foremost awong the powers of Eurove in humanitarian instincts, can lay no claim to such an achieve-| -ment in the interest of humanity. Notin quiet e her fallen brave ones laid et over the wide world her has been pushed in the greed of con- ere the whitening bones of her war- catered and unheeded or dumped in bulk in nameless graves—over the continent of Europe, in Africa, in India, m the isles of the sea aud in the coral caves of the deep. All civilized nations have taken pains to inter the bones of their military chiefs and high officers, but to the remains of the common soldier they have been content to allot only the basty ditch or trench. The ancient republic of Athens, it is true, decreed by law that the obsequies of all its citizens who fell in battle should be per- | formed at the public expense. But first of all modern governments, the United States govern- ment has shown during and since the civil war that it knows how to reciprocate the sentiment of fatziotiem by interring the remains of all its soldiers and sailor, and further, unlike any | other government, ancient or modern, by | securing and watching over those remains ever afterward, regardless of whether death came in actual battle or resulted from hardship, wounds, disease or confinement. THE FIRST ORDER ON THE SUBJECT. ‘This showing was only rendered possible by the exercise of wise forethought almost from the very outset of the rebellion. In Septem- ber, 1861, the Secretary of War by a general order directed that accurate and permanent records be kept of deceased soldiers ‘and their places of burial. To this end the quarter- master general's department, which previously bad charge of burials & general way, was re- | quired to print and place in every nk books and forms, very minute cific, for the purpose of classifying and pre- serving these records, and, in order to guard against their loss or destruction, the hospitals were required to transmit copies at onco to the adjatant general's office in Washington for til- ing. In addition the quartermaster general's department was charged with the duty of pro- viding means for a registered headboard to be laced over each soldier's grave for future Eientification. These orders’ were afterward embodied in the permanent regulations of the army. In obedience thereto surgeons of regi- ments and hospitals immediately began to take ide in keeping perfect records. On the battleticlis where the Union armics won the interments were so conscientiously made that over 90 per cent of the dead were afterward identitied. Where time permitted the confederate dead were alxo religiously buried and their graves marked as carefully as those of their federal antagonists. On the | fields where the Union armies were defeated and driven off the enemy cared little for th toget them out of the way and| under ground with the least expenditure of | time and trouble. in most of the southern | prisons the Union dead were wes marked by their living ¢ Ender the most adverse and trying circt stances. The result of that admirable svs has been that the mortua, armies in the war of the rebeili completeness by long odds ail si ever before known. | FIRST CEMETERIES ESTADLD In the second year of the war the President | was authorized by Congress to purchase ceme- | ds and have them prepared for use| teries for soldiers who f the country. cometer as pati year Shattanoog President Lincoin himself par dedication of the L ‘The I cem: tery at Arlington was established im 1864, the one at Antietam in 1565. and? on many another hard-fought field of the war beginnings were ag of other national part of the year 1865 general orders the quartermaster general rm | Sion respecting all soldiers’ gravevards, with a | lew tthe estabi:shment of the national ceme-| teries on a recognized system. Upon receipt pating in t cemeteries. “| and Were indicated on the headstones. | lished, of the desired information the work was begua vigorously and carried forward without delay under direction of Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs, assisted by Col. M. G. Ludington. Many thousands of bodies were removed from the places of their original interment and j brought together in the new cemeteries. In most cases some part of « battlefield was chosen as the cemetery site. Such bodies as had been buried in the near vicinity were interred there first, and then those collected from the neigh- boring territory within a radius of from twenty to forty miles. Removala were also made in great numbers from the hospital burying grounds in near-by cities and towns, so that the bodies could be better cared for at the cen- trally established points. Owing to the vast area over which the operations of the Union armies had spread the collection and removal ef bodies were found to be exceedingly labo- rious. Frequently bodies were carried many miles in wagons over rough country roads, and the search for lost remains in tangled swamps and obscure mountain passes was attended with much difficulty. In the progress of the work were found many a deep ravine and valley full of dry bones—very many that were very dry, and again very many that were not dry. But the faithfal men to whom the work was in- trusted did not flinch from their ghastly and gruesome task. Pains were taken to preser all the memorials of identity found on the re- mains, from the scrap of letter hastily pinned on the breast or buried in a can or bottle be- side the remains to the rudely inscribed head-board set by the wayside. But in | thousands of cases there was not a vestige or mark or anything by which identification could be effected. This was particularly true of re- mains found on the battlefields that were most disastrous to the north, and notably so in the prison pen at Salisbury, N. C., where all records of the interments, if any existed, had been de- stroyed. SEVENTEEN IN VIRGINIA. ‘Thronghout the state of Virginie, which had been the great theater of the war in the east, it was found necessary to lay out no less than seventeen different national cemeteries at the most convenient points. In Tennessee and Kentucky, the chief battle grounds of the war in the west, thirteen more were established— seven in Tennessee and six in Kentucky. Four more were planted in North Carolina, four in Louisiana, three in Mississippi, three in Mary- land, two in South Carolina, two in Georgia and two in the District of Columbia—the Sol- diers’ Home and the “Battle” cemetery. In the north and west four were established in Illinois, three in Missouri, two in Indiana, one in’ Towa, two in Pennsylvania, two in New York ‘and two in New’ Jersey. These latter, except those in Missouri and that at Gettysburg. far removed as they are from the scenes of battle, were established mainly for the reception of the remains of an- fortunates who had died in the federal hos- pitals, and, in some instances, of confederate prisoners of war who had succumbed to wounds anddisease. In many places elsewhere through- out the country, especially in New England and in the state of Illinois, the government purchased burial plats ‘of limited ex- tent, where both Union and confederate dead were interred. For instance, in the cemetery near Alton, Ill, there isa govern- ment lot in which are buried 163 white Union soldiers and near by are buried 1,304 confed. erate prisoners. In Oakwood cemetery. Chi- cago, the government also owns lots in which are graves of twelve Union soldiers and 4,039 confederate prisoners who died in confinement atCamp Douglass, Likewise in Rock Island there is a lot of three acres in which 1,923 dead confederate prisoners repose. THE KNOWN AND THE UNKNOWN. By the end of the year 1968 seventy-two of these national cemeteries had been founded at great expense, and in them, in connection with 220 local cemeteries in various places, the gov- ernment assumed charge of $16,233 graves. Of these the names of 175,764 had been preserved Con- cerning the remaining 140,469 it is a!one certain that they died fighting in the Union armies, and the only inscription that could be placed over them was, “Unknown United States Sol- diers."” Of the whole number then gathered into these cemeteries less than one-fifth re- posed in their original graves, and these lay on battlefields where Union victory insured their careful interment and which afterward bap- pened to become the sites of the cemeteries. ‘More than four-fifths were removed from the rude trenches of the battlefields at some dis- NATIONAL CEMETERY. tance, or from their roadside graves, or from hospital burial plats. Since 1868 thirteen ad- ditional national cemeteries have been estab- ith 14,459 more graves, making to date three in all, with an te sleeping population, by actual count, of 330,692. Five of these contain the remains of soldiers other than those engaged in the war for the Union—one being located near the City of Mexico, and four others being used solely as attachments to fron- tier military posts in the west. One of these is of exceptionally sad interest—that on the Cus- ter battlefield in Montana, where now lie the bones of 91S regulars, over 300 of whom were massacred in 1576 by Sitting Bull and his ram- pant Sioux. In recent years, by provision of law, the interment of any honorably discharged Union soldier may be secured in a national cemetery upon application to the proper au- thorities. But such interments nowadays are not numerous, and comparatively few of the national cemeteries receive additional imter- ments at this date. On the other hand, the friends of the deceased are constantly having bodies removed from the national cemeteries to private buvial places, so that the total num- ber of graves under the care of the government changes but little from year to year. KEPT IN SUPERB CONDITION. All of these national cemeteries, it is a pleasure to know, are benatifully laid out and maintained in superb condition. They have many features in common. Most of them are situated on hillsides or upon uneven ground, where the best landseape effects are produced. In almost all of them the graves are ranged in mathematical rows, circular and rectangular. The mounds are smoothly sodded and kept trim and neat, with a simple but handsome tablet, marble or granite, placed at the head of each." The graasy lawns between are carefully cut, the walks and paths are rolled and graveled, and shade trees, with here and there a rustic seat beneath them, besides flowers and a pro- fusion of ornamental shrubbery, are planted throughout the surrounding grounds. The in- closures as a rule are well walled in with granite or other enduring masonry. All the ceme- teries are provided with attractive administra- tion buildings and many contain imposing monuments, erected both to individuals and to the dead soldiers collectively. In all these cemeteries one i« struck by the peculiar fitness and aptness of O'Hara's inspired elegiac linoa, insertbed repeatedly on the gate “0p Famers eternal camping «round, silent tents are spread, ivouscc!thedead Mother earth has been kind and God has thrown a mantle of smiling beauty over these scenes of past car and though the sad story of the civil war is recorded there in dis- tant outline we can yet muse and meditate in those places without bitterness, ARLINGTON THE MOST BEAUTIFUL, ‘The most beantifal of all the national ceme- teries and the greatest as regards the number of ub near Washi: ton. It contains 16,565 inter- known and 4.349 unknown. Its verlooking the Potomac and directly merits of soldiers were first made 13, 1864, and the first soldier th its sod was a confederate. Be- at time most of the interments in and shington were made in the Soldiers’ Fight Jin the innu- nd soldiers who had d merable hospitals around the capital had been buried there. Further room becoming e and = Quarterm: + General Meigs, the magnifice 1t Arlingtoa estate evening in company with President Lin- coin, suddenly conceived the idea of devoting it to the needs of the hour, and th: soon thereafter given by Secretary Stanton. Mr. Edward Clarke. the present architect of the laid out the plats in whi were made. The property was owned by Gen, Robert E. Lee aud his wife, the latter having inherited it h the first interments tified dead is that on Arlington Heights, | 1s perhaps the finest in the | order was | from her father, George Ws Parke Custis, the protege of George ‘The popular impression is that the go violently took and confiscated itasanact of retributive justice, but that notion is mislead- ing. It hadin fact been seized by federal troops soon after the departure of and Mra Lee for the confederate capital, and ita gently sloping acres were utilized asa field hospital, but in January, 1964, the government bought in the property at a tax sale for $26,000 snd “subsequently, after prolonged _litiga- tion—extending from 1877, when George Washington Custis. Lee, .’ the aon to whom Mrs. Lee willed itat her death, began suit for its recovery, down to 1882. when the government appealed to the Supreme Court from the verdict of the federal court in Vir- ginia—secured a valid title to it upon the pay- ment of 150,000 to the younger Lee. From the first interment down to the close of the war Arlington became the central resting lace of the dead from all the Washington jospitals, and as soon aa the war was ended the recovered bodies from all the battlefields in the vicinity and north of the Rappahannock, not- ably Bull Run and Chantilly, were also gathered into it. SHERIDAN’S GRAVE. . Sheridat recently made grave, with the ‘unique monument that marks it, is an unfailing source of interests to visitors. Of the 4,349 unknown dead there, the bodies of 2,111 rest together under a large stone sarcophagus, bear- ing this simple inscription: ‘Here lie the bones of 2,111 un- known soldiers. Their remains could not be identified, but their names and deaths are re- corded in the archives of their country. and its | @rateful citizens honor them as of their noble army of martyrs. May they rest in peace.” Another attractive object, near the old or Custis mansion on the east side, is the “Temple of Fame”—a circular structure com- posed of eight columns surmounted by a dome, the pillars bearing the names of Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Farragut, Humphreys, Rey: nolds, Garfield, Thomas and Meade. On 8 par with Arlington in public regard, al- though comparatively insignificant as regards the number of their dead, are the national cemeteries at Shiloh and Gettsburg, the former marking the scene of the most important con- test in the west and the latter the most momentous in the east; in fact, the turning point of the war, the sublime struggle in which ‘he wave of rebellion overflowed its highest water mark and received its most de- eisive caeck. The Shiloh necropolis contains only 3,597 tablets in all its rows and aisles and aventies—1,235 for the known and 2,362 for the unknown, ‘and that of Gettysburg just five headstones less, or 3,592: but their situations and the deathless memories attaching to them make them the goal of countless pilgrimages. The bodies that sleep there are almost en- tirely those who fell in action. Not all of those who fell are there, to be sure, but those that are there all went down amid the glory of battle and victory. ON GETTYSPUPG FIELD. No grounds are finer or better kept than the seventeen acres of Gettysburg cemetery, There 2re 1,980 labeled graves and 1,612 name- less, yet ench bears a marble headstone at the end. The martyred Lincoin participated in the ceremonies attending the formal consecration of the place on November 19, 1863, and there his immortal words, uttered on that supreme occasion, are fitly cut on the pedestal of the government monument in imperishable granite: “Let us here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain: that the nation shall, under God, havea new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the ind for the people shall not perish from Other splendid and noble monuments abound, but none are more highly admired. But the biggest national cemetery in point of popaiation is the Vicksburg, where 16,633 eroes sleep, gathered from’ the scattered graves about the Union lines at Vicksburg and from neighboring fields and hospitals. Of these the known number 3,913 and the un- known 12,720. The Nashville cemetery comes close to it in number of dead, having 16.546 ale . taken from hospitals and outlying batdeficlds, with s much smaller proportion of unknown. ' But Fredericksburg cemetery, which ranks next to Nashville in number of dead, is greatest and most melancholy of all in the number of its unknown. Of the total 15,274 soldiers buried there, 12,746—an enor- mous proportioa—are nameless. ‘The cemetery occupies Marve's Heights, the celebrated in- trenched position held by Lee when Burnside’s troops charged and recharged against it in Yain with euch dreadful mortality. Under those circumstances the Union dead remained where they fell, and identification and burial by their comrades were impossible. also were borne many bodies from the Wilder- ness and Chancellorsville. : The Vicksburg cemetery stands second to Fredericksburg in the number of its unknown sleepers. and next is the mournful inclosure at Salisbury, N. C., the site of the old confederate prison pen, where. out of a total of 12.137 in- terments, ail but 102 are unknown. When the Place fel! into Union hands the dead were found piled promiscuously in eighteen trenches, each 240 feet long. These were opened and the bodies tenderly reinterred in an orderly man- ner. The Memphis cemetery contains 13,984 gtaves—5,166 known and 8.818 unknown—col- lected from the camps and hospitals around Memphis and from sland No. 10, Fort. Pil- low and minor places. The Andersonville, 12,085 PRISON PEN victims, Ga., cemetery, the companion institution to Salisbury, contains the bones of 13,702 prison- m victims, whose names, happily, are ail mown save 923. Fortunately, the Union prisoners there were permitted to bury their comrades and to keep careful record of inter- ments. THE CHATTANOOGA CEMETERY. In the Chattanooga cemetery sleep 13,058 of the falien from the gory fields of Chattanooga, Chickamauga and Resaca. Next to it in popu- lousness is the Chalmette cemetery near New Orleans, on the site of part of Gen. Jackson's old battle ground. There le the bodies of 12,640 Union soldiers and sailors, brought from all parts of the state. ‘The Jefferson Barracks cemetery, which was “once an old post cemetery, but enlarged, con- tains the bones of 11,682 soldiers, including 1,106 confederate prisoners, taken in the early batiles of the war in Missouri. At the Marietta, cemetery repose the remains of 10,160 Union soldiers, collected from various parts of Georgia, aud at Beanfort, S. C., rest 9,279 bodies of soldiers and sailors who died on the south At- lantic seaboard. Half are unknown, Next to the above in point of size are the | national cemeteries at Hampton. Va., with | 6,656 interments; Richmond, with 6, ; the with Poplar Miss., with 4.482: . C., 3,013; Woodiawn, near Eimira, : ». of which 2, and Finn’s Point, N. J., 2,645, of which 1,434 | were confederates, the national cemeteries, principally, however, at Woodlawn and Finn's Point, and at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., Camp Butler, Ill, City Point, | Va., and Loudon Park, Md. pe age The Safe Old Pian. From the Record. | The disaster that in overtaking some of our | banks impels us to suggest the feasibily of pitol, personally surveyed the lines and returning to the good old Arcadian custom of depositing one’s currency, securi and things | inastocking. This might entail hardship upon the Hon. Jerry Simpson of Kansas, | wise the results would be beneficial, Hither | 63 were confederates, | Over 9,000 confederates in all are buried in | at other- DECORATION DAY. What the G. A. R. Will Do Here on That Occasion, FULL MEMORIAL PROGRAM. Exercises to Be Carried Out at Arlington, the Soldiers’ Home, Congressional, Mt. on and Other Cemeteries—The Com- mittees to Whom the Arrangements Are Intrusted. ee The following is the official program of Me- morial day services to be held in this vicinity on Tuesday next under the auspices of the De- partment of the Potomac, G. A. Ri: PARADE. The column will move from Pennsylvanis avenue and 15th street at 10a.m. sharp, and the route will be via 15th street, Pennsylvania avenue and M street to the Aqueduct bridge, where the parade will be dismissed. THE LINE WILL BE COMPOSED AS FOLLOWS: Detachment of mounted police. Officer of the day, chief and additional aids. Third battalion, District of Columbia National Guard, Capt. M. Mahany, commanding, and staff. Co. A, Capt. W. J. Simmons; Co. B, First Lieut. Fabian Columbus; Co. C, First Lieut, Chas. E. Swigart; Co. D, Capt. H. W. Weber Carriages with orator, chaplain and poet. Marine Band, Prof. Fanciulli, leader. Past department commanders. Members of staff of commander-in-chief. “Old Guard,” Capt. James Edgar, command- ing. Capital City Guard, Capt. Abram Acwith. Gen. John A. Logan Camp, Sons of Veterans, C. H. Sayles, captain. Department officers and official staff, depart- ment staff. Jobn A. Rawlins Post,No. 1, James E. DeJester, commander. Kit Carson Post, No. 2, Abraham Hart, com- mander. Lincoln Post, No. 3, Daniel Williams, com- mander. ©. P, Morton Post, No. 4, Walter Middleton, commander, George G. Mende Post, No. 5. Charles Mat- thews, commander. Marine Drum Corps. Potomac Association of Naval Veterans, Robert M. Vanneman, commander. Jobn F. Reynolds Post, No. 6, John B, Ran- dolph, commander. James A. Garti Post, No. 7, Thos. R. Senior, commander. 4, Lorenzo Vanderhoef, commander. Charles Sumner Post, No. 9, W. A. Shannon, commander. Farragut Post, No. 10, H. H. Moler, com- mander, Charles P. Stone Post, No. 11, Wm. H. Hoover, commander. U. 8. Grant Post,’No. 12, H. M. Gillman, commander. | John A. Logan Post, No. i3, Wm. H. Peck, | commander. | Phil. Sheridan Post, No. 14, H. E. Burton, commander. Geo, H. Thomas Post, No. 15, B. F. Fuller, commander, W. T. Sherman Post, No. 16, Thomas Turner, commander, Henry Wilson Post, No. 17, Wm.Y. Deere, com- mander. Potomac Post, No. 18,J. R. Hayes,commander. Geo, U. Morris Post, No. 19, B. T. Janney,com- mander. Lafayette Post, No. 20, Edwin J. Sweet, com- mander. At Arlington. National salute at 12m. Light battery, fourth United Statesartillery. Music by the Marine Band, Prof. F. Fanciulli, director. Vocal music by the Grand Army Musical Union under direction of E. D, Tracy. Officer of the day, Comrade J. H. Jochum. Ofticer of the guard, Lieut. 8. M. Gordon, Senior aid-de-camp, John M. Keogh. DECORATION OF THE GRAVES. The procession, consisting of members of the nd W. R. C., L. L. W..L. of G. A. R., . 8. 8. of V., ex-soldiers and sailors, invited guests and public, will form st 12m. in front of the Arlington mausion, headed by the Marine Band. ‘The procession will then march | to the tomb of the “Unknown,” where, halt- ing, the band will play a dirge during the decoration of the tomb, after which the march will be continued by the main road to the | cemetery, when the procession will separate and proceed with the decoration of the graves. ‘The Marine Band, during the ceremonieg of decoration, will render appropriate selections. Alter the’ decoration of the graves the pro- cession will again form and march to the amphitheater, where the services will be held. SERVICES AT THE AMPHITHEATER. Vocal music by the Grand Army Musical | Union, E. D. Tracy, director. Instrumental music by the Marine Band, Prof. F. Fanciulli, director. 1, @ Sounding the assembl. Bugler b Dirge—Chorale, “The Oid Hundredth” (Luther). .--Marine Band Calling the assembly to order 8. E. Faunce, dept. commander “Ode to America” (Howard) Grand Army Musical Union Invocation Rev. H. 8. Stevens, dept. chaplain . Song, “Go, Let Me Weep" (Sir J. Stephen- won)... --. Marine Band Reading of orders and roll of deceased com- rades, by G. M. Husted, Asst. Adjt. Gen. “Blest Be the Ground” (Leavitt), Grand Army Musical Union Song, ‘Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep” (knight). .-Murine Band 9. Original poem, ‘At Arlington,” een ee Comrade DeWitt C. Sprague 10. “Cover Them Over With Beautiful Flow- ers” (Stewart) : Grand Army Musical Union Hon. Wm. E. Simonds Loved So Well’ Marine Band Grand Army Musical Union, Comrade E. D. Tracy, director—C. M. D. Browne, E. H. Brown, KR. H. Boswell, A. W. Barber, C. G._ Bollinger. P. ‘oleman, L. _F. Callan, D. H. Clark, Thomas Calver, A. J. Ed- son, Granville Fernald, J. 8. Garrison, J. 0. Gorman, R. D, Gardner, J, F. Hodson, C. E. Hawkin . Hensley, W. R. Hillyer, J. L. Houchen, G. C. Johnston, Joseph Jouy, J. Boyd Jones, Wm. A. Moore, R. M. McKee, W. B. McKelden, D. G. Proctor. Harry Viayer, G. B. Rose, J. P. Reed. H. F. Smith, J. E. Snow, L. | P. Seibold, H. C. Sayles, E.’D. Tracy, Geo. Wheeler. J. C. Windsor. J. Winans; Mra. E. D. ‘Tracy, pianist. The organ used on this occasion has been kindly loaned by W. G. Metzerott | & Co. At Arlington on Memorial day no carriages will be allowed in the cemetery. except those belonging to the Grand Army and government officials, until3 p.m. ‘The lower gate will be closes except for exit, All carriages entering the ground will, after unloading, drive to the park immediately in the tear of the stable, Those carriages remaining outside the ceme- tery will be required after unloading to drive into the cavalry drill grounds, Soldiers’ Home National Cemetery, under the direction of Nathan Bickford, senior vice department commander. | The veterans of the home, under the com- | mand of Capt. D. A. Irwin, deputy governor of | the home, and all visitors attending the cere- | monies, will assemble at the speaker's stand at 10:30 o'clock a.m. Coramittee—Nathan Bickford, senior vice de- partment commander, chairman; J. Madison B. Moore, W. W D. Wallace. ral salute by section of battery, fourth | Uniced States artillery. ORDER OF EXERCISES, | Vocal music by the Mozart Club, Jos. H. | Hunter, director; Miss May Hunter, pianist. | Instrumental music by the Fourth Artillery | Band, Annibale Buglione, leader. 1, Assembly... . 2 Larghetto (Jungman: ‘ourth Artillery Bugler n), Fourth Artillery Band 8. “The Brave Are Resting” (Collin Coe), Mozart Club 4. Calling to Order. .Comrade Nathan Bickford | 5. Invocation... Rt. Rev. Jno. J. Keane 6. “Blest be the Ground” (M. Keller), | ; ‘Mozart Club “The Whistling Regiment. Miss Edith Perkins 8 Army Hymn (G. Peabody), 7 Hymn (6 Peni Artillery Band 9. Oration. .---Hon. Benj. Butterworth 10. “Brave Battery Boys” (P. P. Bliss), Mozart Club 11. Benediction. Rev. Jas. A. Buck, D. D. 12, Stabat Mater, ‘Inflammatus” (Rossini), Fourth Artillery Band 18. Decoration of graves by the committee and children of the Sunday schools, during which appropriate music will be rendered by the band. Reception committee—Dr. Geo. H. Penrose, chairman; Geo. H. La Fetra, C. W. Shelton, N. D. Adams, Wm. D. Wallace, J. Madison Cutts, J. H. Strickland. Decoration committee—Mrs, Gen. Kelton, Mrs. Sarah D. La Fetra, Mre. Joanna W. Turner, Miss Kelton, Miss Minnie Cowling, Mrs. Elizabeth Bock, Mra. D. A. Erwin, Mrs. C. W. Shelton, Mrs. Adams, Miss Newton, Miss Hart, Miss Maggie Kelly, Mrs. Thos. Morris, Mrs. Henry Spaar, Mrs. P. H. Weber, Mrs. J. H. Volker, Mre. Geo. A. Warren, Mra. Daniel O. Drennan, Miss Grinsted, Miss Carrie Lynch, Miss Irene Bock, Miss Lena Melehoir, Miss Estella Melehoir, Miss Warren. Henry Wilson Post, No. 17, G. A. R., Wm. ¥. Deere, commander, Gen. J. M. Schofield Garrison, Army and Nevy Union, J. B. Morton, commander. vortail trom John A. Logan Camp, Sons of eterans. Harrison Cadets, Mount Pleasant, Ford Young, captain. Services at Congressional Cemetery. Under the direction of Comrade B. T. Janney, junior vice department commander. Committee—B. T. Janney, chairman; H. H. Moler, A. F. Dinsmore, W. H. Miner, G. T. Carter, H. 8. Linker, E. W. Davis, J. Plant. W. HL Liverpool. PARADE. Schroeder's Band. Sunday schools. Junior Order of Rechabites, Citizens, Dablgren Camp, Cushing Camp, Sons of Vet- erans. Farragut Post, No. 10, @. A. R. Carriages. Orator, poet and chaplain. ORDER OF EXERCISES. 1. Dirge—Rest, Spirit, Rest. 2. Calling assembly to order, Comrade B. T. Janney -Band A. R. by H. Weaton Howard) 5. Oration.......Rev. Geo. L. — Who Immortal Live (U. T. , D.D. JJ.Comrade Thos. Calver 1. Band yes .Miss Grace Lynne McCulloch 10. Nearer, My God, to Thee... .. Octet With chorus of Sunday schools and band. 11. Benediction. Rev. Mr. Ramedell 12. Star Spangled Banner. Band Farragut Octet—A. 8. 7. G. Gal- Inher, Harry McElfresh, Wm. K. Benham, Ed- ‘Saxton, R. J. Lowry, W. H. Harmer, 3.8. Smith, director, Committee of Farzagut Post—Jas. Wood. E. H. Ripley, J. 8. Smith, Donald McCathran, H. x Howard, C. Parker, G. W. Barnes, F. A. = Decoration committee — Comrade Carter, chairman, with ladies of Farragut W. R. Corps. Mrs. Annie M. Dykes, Mrs. E. A. Chambers, Mra, M. W. Faller, Mrs. T.. 8. Lyons, Mrs. Jet nie Bevans, Mrs, M. Beebe, Mra. Jennie Packer, Mrs. Marion Packer, Miss J. Van Doren, Miss Cora McCathran, Miss Susan Curry, Mrs. Emma Fordlam, Mrs. Grace Lowry. Mrs. M. McCreary, Mrs. L. Bradley, Drs. 8. Pratt, Mrs. Annie Ciscele. Mrs, E. H. Ripley, Mre. Clara Kaletrom, ‘Miss Belle McKee, Miss M. H. Fairchild. W. H. Miner, officer of the day. Mount Olivet and Graceland Cemeteries. Benjamin F. Fuller, commander Post 15, chair- man. The post will assemble at Bedford Hall, cor- ner 8th and I streots northeast, at 10:30 a.m., and move to 9th and H streets, where the line will form. The column will move at 11 o'clock in the fol- lowing order: Band. Thomas Camp, Sons of Veterans. George H. Thomas Post, No. 15, G. A. R Speakers, Poet, Chaplain and Gueste, Ladies of the Decoration Committee and Choir. ORDER OF EXERCISES. 4 i. 2 1 the Invocation. Song—"-America”. . Address . Song—"Columbia Original poem . Battle Song of . Address, . Dirge Benediction. ++++-Band assembly to order, Comrade B. F. Fuller Rey. B. N. Seymour -8. 8, children E. Olin Eiridge -8. 8. children 5 H. A. Dobson Republic. ..Male quartet ‘Chaplain W. 1. Hoon -Band Decoration Committee. The wives and daughters of the members of George H. Thomas Post and the George H. ‘Thomas Camp, Sons of Veterans, Exercises ut Battle Ground Cemetery. Commencing at 3:30 p. m. Committee—Peter McGirr, chairman; C. B. Moore, 0. A. Carpenter, O. D. Kinsman. PROGRAM. 1. Calling the assembly to order, Comrade Peter McGirr 2 Invocation ip 3 Introductio -Comrade Thomas Calver 4. Chorus—“The Braves are Resting,” (Collin, Coe). .- Mozart Club 5. Original poem..Mre. Emily Thornton Charles 6 Chorus—“Blest Be the Ground” (M. Kel- lar) Mozart Club 7. Oration omrade J. Madison Cutts 8 Chorus—‘Soldiers’ Memorial Hymn” (Mra. ‘Mozart Club Comrade Thomas Calver O Country” (Eichberg) Mozart Club 11, Benediction. . Q ipley Chairman of reception committee, Comrade G. P. Thornton, superintendent of cemetery. Committees on Memorial Services. ‘Memorial committee—8. E, Faunce, depart- ment commander, chairman. Nathan Bickford, 8. V. department com- mander. B. T. Janney, J. V. department commander. Robert Reyburn, M.D., medical director. Rev. Henry 8. Stevens, chaplain. Gilbert M. Husted, assistant adjutant general, secretary. wion Ferree, assistant quartermaster ger- treasurer. ‘ost commanders—Post 1, James E. De Jester; Post 2, Abraham Hart; Post 3, Daniel Williams; Post 4, Walter Middleton; ' Post 5, Charles Matthews: Post 6, John B. Randolph; Post 7, ‘Thomas R. Senior; Post 8, Lorenzo Vander- hoef; Post 9, W. A. Shannon; Post 10, H. H. Moler; Post 11, William H. Hoover; Post 12, H. M. Gilman; Post 13, Wilham H. Peck; Post'14, H. E, Burton; Post’ 15, B. Fuller; Post 16, J. Thomas Turner; Post 17, Walliam Y. Deere; Post 18, J. R. Haves; Post 19, B. T. Janney; Post 20, Edwin J. Sweet. ‘And two comrades elected from each—Post 1, John M. Keogh, C. G. Bollinger; Post 2, E. . William H. Myers; Post 3, 8M. Marsh, C. 'B. Moore; Post 4, George M. Arnold, John 'W. Freeman; Post 5, J. W. Deneane, Jacob H. Dewees: Post 6, Francis L. McKenna, Edmond Cotterill; Post 7, E. W. Davis, Thos. Calver; Post 8, D. G. Proctor, George T. Car- ter; Pest 9, Frederick Fowler,James Liverpool; Post 10, Wm. H. Miner, H. 8. Linker; Post 11, AN. Shompson, L. F. Callan; Post’ 12, John W. Hayes, Charles 8. “Herron; Post 13, James H. Doney. Samuel G. Wood; Post 14, Peter Me- Girr, O. A. Carpenter; Post 15, L E.W.Thomp- son, Edward Webster: Post 16, John A. Edson, Lorenzo D. Frost; Post 17, James W. Williams, Richard Weller; Post 18, H. H. Specht, W. J. Weiss; Post 19, R. Ullman, G.” W. Fletcher; Post 20, J. Madison Cutts, James Plant. Past department commanders—Frank H. Sprague, Benj. F. Hawker, A. H. G. Richard- son, George E. Corson, ‘Harrison Dingman, Charles C. Royce, William Gibson, Samuel 8. Burdett, D. 8. Alexander, Newton M. Brooke, Jerome B. Burke, Charles P. Lincoln, William 8. Odell, M. Emmett Urell, J. M. Pipes. A. F. Dinsmore. Reception committee—The department offi- cers, the assistant adjutant general, the assistant quartermaster general, the post ‘comman and the past department commanders, Commitee on decoration and grounds. Edwin J. Sweet, chairman; Lorenzo Vander- hoef, Thos. RK. Senior. H. MM. Gillman, C. G. Bollinger, Fred. Fowler, 8. M. Marsh, L. F Callan, Edmond Cotterill. Decoration comittee (auxiliary to the com- mittee on decorations and grounds)—Mrs. Nellie C. Royce, chairman; Mrs. Rose E. Fer- ree, Mrs. James R.” Brown, Mrs. ‘Thomas R. Turnbull, Mrs. Sarah Vandoren, Mra. A. E. Johnson, Miss M.L. Jourdan, Mrs. John A. Scutt, Mrs. Mary. L. Bundick, Mrs, E. McClel- Charles) 9. Original poem. 10. Chorus—“To land, Mrs. L. O: Childs, Mra.’ H. M. Bennett, Mrs. Wm. H. Gotwald,’ Mrs. Thomas Calver, Mra. Frank W. Paige, Mrs. E. C. Montis, Mra, E. B. Sheldon, Mrs. Kate M. Harris, Mra. J. E. Howlett, Mra. R. M. Calhoun, Mrs. Annie j ton, Mrs. T. D. Yeager, Miss Frances Lamb, Miss Jennie Lamb, Mre. George T. Dudley, Mrs. W. T. Noerr, Mrs. G. Chambers, Mrs, Lucy A. Clark, Mrs. N. M. Brook, Mrs.'G. | Kelly, Miss Carrie Bradfield. Mra. 'H. E. Bur- | Husted, Mrs. John P. Church, Mrs. Charles H. Ingram, Mrs. E. M. Richardson, Mrs. N. B. Prentice, Mrs. D. W. Houghton, Mrs. W. 8. Odell, Mrs. Emma E. Myers. Finance committee.—Abraham Hart, chair- man; Wm. Gibson, John Bresnahan, Geo. M. Arnold, Edward Webster, Chas. A. McEuen, 1. H. Specht, F. L. McKenna, Peter MeGirr, I. E. W. Thompson, W. H. Hoover, L. B. Cutler, E. A. Fenton, D. J. Evans. C. C. Clay, Chas. Loeffler, A. G. Apple. L. D. Alden, Geo. H. Armstrong, J. H. Bradford, N. W. Bond, R. J. Beall, W. D. Buckley, M. Barringer, W. 8. Brooks, G. B. Bennett, C. A. Burkhart, J. P. Church, Mrs. 8. A. Chapman, E. J. Collett, H. A. Cobaugh, L. A. Conner, R. G. Cunningham, W. H. Dakl. 0. F. Dunlap, Mra. K. Evans, D- M. Gould, H. M. Gillman, Wm. A. Gatley, Wm. Grifith, D. W. Houghton, J. 5. Howley,’ Jno. T. Harshman, I. G. Jaquette, A. M. Judson, L. T. Jewett, AS. Tabor, R. E. Smith, T. BR. Turnbull, Geo. H. Harris, Wm. N. Thomas, D. Adams, C. H. Evans, H. G. Hamilton, C. M. Robinson, L. W. Williams. John J. Beardsle: John Fallon, 8. C. Robb, Wm. M. King, W. Kelley, Nathan King, Jas. H. Layton, Daniel F. -| Lee, David Leonard, F. J. McGraw, Bernard Mulien, Thos. McCabe, J.'S. McFarland, Sam'l M. Marsh, W. H. Minor, A. F. MeMillan, Martin, Dan Macauley, W. Howard Mill Maley, Jno. R. McBride, Miss Lillian Joseph Noble, Geo. A.’ Pri W. Pratt, ‘tor, David Par: ker, T. B. erts, H. Sherwood, F. J. Saxton. F. C. Smith, Geo. D. Scott, John Stephenson, Geo. H. Sia; baugh, J. B. Stoops, T. C. Spurgeon, Wm. Tai lor, Jos. Trainor, Seth W. Tuley, J. L. Thorn- ton, W. €. Taylor, E. D. Tracy,” Geo. Vander- cook, Phil H. Weber, D.C, Yingling, Boyd, W. H. Summers, W. K. Taylor, A. Bromley, W. W. Macey, H. G. Burlingham, E. C. Stevi Jolm McCabe, Caleb B. Moore, F. 8 P. Pearson, W. L. Soleau, W. T. Wright. Transportation committee — Newton M. Brooks, chairman; John M. Keogh, Wm. H. Peck. Music committee—E. D. Tracy. chairmat Thos. Calver, J. W. Deneane, Walter Middle- ton, H. E. Burton, John A. ‘Edson, James W. Williams. Committee on Oak Hill and Holy Rood cemeteries—J. W. Kirkley, chairman; Rudolph Ullman, George W. Fletcher. Committee on Battleground and Rock Creek cemeteries—Peter MoGirr, chairman; C. B. Moore, 0. A. Carpenter, 0. D. Kinsman. Committee on Mt. Olivet and Graceland cemeteries—B. F. Fuller, chairman; LE. W. Thompson, Edward Webster. Committee on St. Elizabeth cemetery—Wm. H. Peck, chairman; James H. Dony, Samuel G. Wood. ‘Committee on icolated graves—Daniel Will- iams, chairman: Jacob H. Dewees, R. D. Good- man. —— MR. FOSTER’S STATEMENT. The Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Explains the Circumstances of His Failure. ‘The following statement has been given to the public by ex-Secretary Foster of Ohio: Words cannot express the deep distress and humiliation I feel, If I could bear all the burden that my failure will entail Ishould feel a sense of relief, It is no consolation to look back over a business life of forty-five years, which has gained for mea position of confi- Gence that has rarely been achieved. I know that I have aided hundreds of people to main- tain an honorable standing and to gsin a com- petence, and some a large degree of wealth, 1 know that now I have by my failure injured many people. But I hope none are to be ruined. When I returned from Washington I knew that my indorsemectsfor the window gla compauies and the brass and iron works cu! panies were very large—so large, in fact, ns to induce “me to fear that I would have to suspend at that time. I, however, prevailed upon a friend to give me a large amount of help, and then felt confident that I could maintain myself and finally come out all right, These concerns owed more than I then supposed. and. to add to my misfortunes, the fairs of the Fostoria Light and Power Com- pany, of which I am a large stockholder and indoreer, proved to be in bad shape financially. Then came the unfortunate financial condi- tion of the country. Every one that I owed wanted his money and no one would lend. Pay- ments for glass instead of being in cash were made in paper. Sales, in fact, come to a stand- still. I straggied, seeking every possible means to tide over the situation, until I am com- pelled to resign. I did not give up the struggle till today—May 26. It will take the assignee some time to make up the schedule of my affairs. In my affairs I include Foster & Co. the Crocker, Mambourg and Caleined Com: nies, the’ brass and iron works and the Fostoria Light and Power Company. T can see plai through the court: y that in settling my affairs thus compelling my assets to be reduced to cash, large sacrifices will be | made. This being so, I caunot give encourage- ment that my debts will be paid in full. The other concerns with which Iam connected are all on a sound basis, except possibly Davis & Foster. They havea surplus of $80,000, and ought to pay infull. My failure must doubt- Jess cause a shock to the interests of the city, from which, I am sure, it will speedily recove I believe our business concerns are all in sound and healthy condition, and the two banks are especially strong. Depositors with them need not feel any alarm. I sold my two blocks and tour parcels of land to Mr. Harkness. when Tarranged for alarge sum of money, and have turned over to him my stock in Cunningham & Co, and the stave and barrel company. I have given mortgages to two women who re- lied upon me to invest their money, it being about all the property they have, amounting to $4,000. It is only just to myself to say that two things have caused my dowafall. One was neglect of business, occasioned by my devotion to polities, and the other to an overzealous de- sire to build up Fostoria. Ido not know that at my time of life I ought to indulge in the hope of being able to repair my fortunes and pay my debts, but I sball try, and it will be the one end for which I shall live, In this hour of unspeakable distress, I only crave the generous judgment of the public—a public that will be deeply shocked over the financial downfall of a man who has enjoyed their confidence to a re- markable degree. The aggregate amount of the liabilities, including bank deposits, my in- dividual debts, the three glass companies, the brass and iron works companies, the light and power company, will be about $600,000. The jssets on paper will more than cover ihe liabili- ties. Mr. Wilkison has secured the school fund and the building and loan association funds against loss. : (Signed) Cuas, Foster. AT CLEVELAND. The National Bank of Commerce, Cleveland, has been the correspondent of the Fostoria in- stitution, Inquiry at the latter brought out the information that the Fostoria bank did lit- tle business in Cleveland. It had an open ac- count at the National Bank of Commerce, of whieh it owes only $2,000 in round numbers, which the bank officials consider perfectly good in the final round up. Inquiry at various banks resulted in infor- mation to the effect that for some time past the Fostoria Banking Company has been seeking to borrow considerable sums at Cleveland, but so far as could be learned had been invariably de- nied. ‘The cause of the trouble at Fostoria is said by local financiers to be the fact that Mr. Foxter was the backbone of numerous Fos- toria industries, which. being bothered by the Inte pinch, have fallen back upon him and pushed him harder than he could stand. A dispatch from Tiffin, where the assignment was filed, saysa pointer seems to have been given to the Isaac Harter Mining Company and 0. T. Brown, for at 2 o'clock in the morning the former secured an attachment for $3,200 and the latter for $1,200, and Sheriff Burman went to Fostoria at once and levied on sufficient foods to secure their claims. Excitement runs igh and it is said that many in Cleveland will be losers in the failure. ————_-e+—___ Why He Believes ta Advertising. Wasuixctox, D. C., May 26, 1893, Publisher Evexrxo Stan: Dear Sir: Please take out my advertisement for a lost locket. I ordered it published for three days, but I find that unnecessary, as the lost locket was restored to me about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, being little more than an hour after the first appearance of Tae Star on the street. Iam now a firm believer in the value of advertising. Very respectfull; UZ Forgot His Lines. Tie proclamation of the crier in opening the Court of Appeals closes with the words, “God save the government of the United States and this honorable court,” but there wasa change in the opening yesterday which set the whole as- semblage present to laughing. The crier forgot his lines. and used the words, “God have mercy upon the government and this honorable court.” — A Break. From Truth. “Van Wither made an unfortunate remark at Sumner’s wedding yesterday.” “What did he say?” “Congratuiated him on the treasure he had won,andevery one but Van knows Sumuer married her for her money.” enicke, G. B. Rose, Aug. L. Rob- NEW PUBLICATIONS. A VOICE FROM THE SOUTH. By “A Black Woman of the South” (ANNA JULIA COOPER). Xenia, Onto: The Aldine Printing House. ‘Tho introductory remarks would almost com- Pela reading of the volume, and that is what every one who is honestly interested in the Face question ought todo. Likening the south to the Sphinx because she inspires vociferous disputation and yet takes little part in the noisy controversy the clever authoress says: “One muffled strain in the silent south, a jar- ring chord and a vague and uncomprehended cadenza has been and still is the negro. And | of that muffled chord the one mute and voice- lees note has been the sadly expectant black ais nntet cing an the tet eaearese That portion of the book which treats of | Womanhood as a vital element in the regenera- | tion and progress of a race is not new, bavi | been read before the convention of the colored . | clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church held jin this city sever. years ago, but it is none the less powerful because of that; it is an im- movable base on which an unpretentious but | really magnificent argumentative structure bas | been erected. Excellent in its literary quality, Precise as to facts and of marvelous magnetism. THE MAKING OF A NEWSPAPER. E: ences of certain representative American ir alists related. by theuy by MELVILLE PHILLIPS. Ni 4 ‘nam's Sons. Washington: Brentano's. No rational man or woman—whether em- ployed in the newspaper-making profession or not-—but would be interested in this collection of graphic and non-technical sketches, most of which first reached the public eye through the medium of Lippincott’s Magazine. The writ- ersare men of broad experience and recog- nized ability—such workers as Melville Phil- lips, A. K. McClure, Julius Chambers, A. E. Watrous, Samuel Merrill, W. J. C. Meighan, Moses P. Handy, Max de Lipman, Alfred Townsend, J. B. McCormick, Murat Halstead, M. H. DeYoung. John A. Cockerill and John Rassell Young. THE DRAMA. By Henry Invixe. With a frontis- — by Whistler. New York: Tait, Sons & Co. Vashington: Woodward & Lothrop. Four addresses, delivered, respectively, before the Philosophical Institution at Edinburgh, the students of Harvard University, and the Uni- versity of Oxford. Argument that must com- mand attention and history of vaue to every lover of the stage. Thoughtless and unreason- able opponents of the drama will find much that ought to have « disabusing effect, while admirers of the great art at ite best can find on any page new reason for admiration. SALLY DOWS AND OTHER STORIES. By Baer Hanre. Boston: Houghton, MimMin & Co. Washington: Brentano's. Four of those choice narratives such as only Bret Harte of all living authors seems able to giveus. Pleasant also in their variety, for “Sally Dows” is of the south during the reconstruc tion period, “The Conspiracy of Mrs. Bunker” has its home near the golden gate, “The Trans- formation of Buckeye Camp” is redolent of the old-time mining regions and “Their Uncle from California” maker his appearance in Wis- cousin, | rue Last author of the Heart of the Storm,” 2 Tait, Sons # Co. Washiugton: Woodward & Lotarop. Of all tne novels that ave been published within the past ten years none outrank “The Last Sentence.” In everything that contrib- utes to the production of thrilling fiction it is com: ‘he plot is unassailable; ite treat- ment could hardly be improved upon. Never | was a story better told. AN INQUIRY INTO THE TRUTH OF DOoG- MATIC CHRISTIANITY. Comprising a dis- cussion with a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. By Wa. DRAKING HARDEN. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Washington: Brentano's. It is enough to state that Mr. Harden is not, nor can he be so long ashe holds to the doc- | trines expressed in his argument, a member in good standing of the orthodox Presbyterian ure] THE STORY OF TRE DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD BY COLUMBUS. Compiled from ac- cepted authorities by FREDERICK SAUNDERS, Mbrariah of the Astor Library, author of “Salad 3 me, concer Bad the id &c. ee ork: Thomas Whittaker. Washington: Wm. Ballantyne & Sons. Acconcise and readable aggregation of his- | torical facts, perhaps the best and least dubi- ous outline vet published of the life of Colum- bus as it relates to this continent. ADVENTURES IN THULE. Three Stories for Boys. By Wiliam BLACK. New York: Har- t & Brothers. Washington: Woodward & throp. Anew and revised edition of some of the healthiest literature for boys’ consumption. Scotch, of course, but more attractive because of that fact. A CROWN OF SHAME. By Oscar F. G. Dar, author of “The Devil's Gold,” “A Mistaken Adentity,” &c. Chicago: Morrill, Higgins & 10. Perbaps the most scathing indictment that erally operated. A story of the courts. A BRIEF HISTORY OF PANICS AND THEIR PERIODICAL | OCCURRENCE IN THE UNITED STATES. By CLEMENT JvoLax, member of the Institute, vice president of La Societie D'Economie Politique. Englished and gdited, with an tutroductory essay forth the indications of approacht ic, bY De Courcy W. Thom, metiber of the Balti- more Stock Exchange and of the Consolidated Exchange of New York. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Washington: Robert Beall. A DEPLORABLE AFFAIR. By W. E. Norris, au- tof “Adrian Vidal,” “A Bachelor's Blunder,” *“Thiriby Hall,” &e. New York: Tait, Sons & Co. Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. DEAREST. By Mrs. Forrester, author of “Diana Carew, “Of the World, Worldly,” “Dolores,” yite, Turn of Fortune's Wheel.” &e. New York: Tait, Sons & Co. :"Wood- & Lothrop. = HTER. By Jesste Formenc! ne First Violia,” A Maren in tue “Probation,” &c. New York: Tait, Sons & Co. Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. TWO OF THEM. By J.N. Bante, author of “The Little Minister,” “Auld Licht ldylia,” “A Tilly. Joss Scundal,”” “A Window in Thrums,” ac. Mlustrated. New York: Lovell, Coryell & Co. KITTY’S DREAM AND OTHER STORIES—1 Fourth of July, Antonio aud His Angel and ‘The Little Fish'Peddler. By Mrs. S.-8. Rop- Bins. Ilustrated. New York: Hunt& Eaton. HOW MARJORIE WATCHED AND LITTLE FOXES. “By the author of “Helena’s and “What the Angels Saw on Caristmas Eve.” Illustrated. New York: Hunt & Eaton. THE UNEXPECTED GUESTS. A Farce. By W. D. HOWELLS. Ilustrated. Of the Biack and White Series. New York: Harper & Bros. Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. BROKEN CHORDS. By Mrs. Grorar McCurttan (artord Flemming), author of “Cupid and the sphinx,” “A Carpet Knight,” : J.B. Lippincott Company. Pade ‘A'S CLOUD AND WHAT ANG! erie een ae EAT EER aos ‘atched” and “Little Foxes.” Mlustrated. New York: Hunt & Eaton. THE NATURAL METHOD OF With some famllar pleces writes Ww etes hatural notation. By Levi Onsen, Eastern Publishing Co. THE WRONG THAT WAS DONE. F. Ww. RoBrNsox, author of “A Very “The Keeper of the Keys, Sirange Pamoy * Lovell, Coryell & Co. ie ed York: THE COMEDY OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. SHAKESPEARE. One of the ie classics for schools. New Y Book Company. . AFTER MANY DAYS. An American novel two Americans, TmEopoRa B. WILSON JAMES CLARENCE HARVEY. New York: Lovell, ‘Coryell & Co. THE RIVALS. By FrawcorsCorres. Mustrated. ‘Of the Black and White Series. New York: Harper & Bros. Washington: Woodward & Loturop. ONLY A FLOCK OF WOMEN. By Mra A. M. Diaz, author of “Bybury to Beacon Street,” {Domestic Problems,” &e. Boston: D. Lothrop vompany. THE DEATH OF THE DISCOVERER. By Wms STEEL, author of “The Whole Trath,” “Mortal Lips,” “In Seville,” &e. New York: Hillier Murray Co. THE PENANCE OF PORTIA JAMES. By Tasma, author of “A Sydney Sovereign,” “The White Feather,” &c. New York: Lovell, Coryell & 20. SOCIAL STRUGGLES. A novel. By Hyarwan HsonTH BOYESEN. ‘New York: Charles Scrib- ner's Sons. Washington: Brentano's. . THE YOUNG PILGRIM. A Mustrative of sFrogress. By AL 0.5 lus ‘ew York: Hunt Eaton. WALTER AND NELLIE; or, the Shadow of the Kock. By Mrs. S'S. KosBINS. lustrated. New York: Hunt & Eaton. DAISY DOWNS; or, What the Sabbath School Can Do. By Mrs’S.S. Rossins. Illustrated. New York: Hunt & Eaton, CHRISTMAS TIMES IN THE CROCUS FAMILY. By Ropix Rancke. Llustrated. New York: Hunt & Eaton. | was ever framed against the law as it is gea- | THE MIRACLE CITY. A New Name Suggested for Hamilton. Another Remarkable Case Which Would Indicate that the Name Would be Quite Appropriate. snap: The number of remarkable cures occurring in Hamilton, Ontario, ix causing general com- ment throughout the country. To those who know the inside facts there isnot the least cause for wonderment. The remarkable cure from locomotor ataxia of Mr. John Marshall, who was known to almost every citizes in Hamil- ton, gave the Pink Pills an enormous sale in the city, one retail druggist alone selling 2,880 boxes in the past six months. People whose cases had been considered hopeless as was Mr. Marshall's, took hope from his cure, persisted in the use of the pills, with equally wonderful | resuits in their case. And what is happening in Hamilton in the way of remarkable cures, is happening in ail parts of the Dominion, and every day adds to the pile of grateful testimon- Jals which the proprietorsof Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are receiving. Last week the Hamilton Times investigated two more cases, the result of which is told in the following article: Among the many citizens who profited by Mr. Marshall's experience and who have been troubled for many years with the same affiic- tion was Mr. William Webster. For # long time he was in the four and feed business in the Market Square, and for over ten years while In his office he was compelled to remain ina re- clining position on acouch, covered with heavy buffalo robes winter and summer. He attrib- utes his trouble to constant exposure at the ‘open door of his store, carrying heavy bags of grain ip and out, and when over-heated and Perspiring sitting over an open cellar-way in order to cool off. Mr. Webster was seen by @ Times reporter at his residence, Macnab street north, Saturday &fternoon, end was not at all loath to speak about his case. “With the exception of this trouble witinmy legs,” he said, “1 have never been sick @ day since I was IT years old, and now Iam 55. This locomotor ataxia is a terri- ble disease, For years my legs have seemed as though they belonged to someone else. As I have lain asieep on a winter night, one leg has fallen out of the bed and when I would awaken with the cold I would Lave to feel around with my hand before I could tell which leg wae out. IfI were to try to place my foot on & spot on the carpet within easy reach I could no more do it than fly. The pain at times has been ter rible. I have lain awake night after night, week after week, alternately grasping each foot in my agony as the sharp pains ke knife stabs shot through various parts of my anat- omy. When I was first attacked with pains in my feet some 12 years ago 1 tried se eral phy- siclans but could get no relief. Paralysis then set in and I immediately consulted a well- | known specialist in Buffalo, who told me that | 1 was suffering from locomotor ataxia and could not get better. [came home again sud on the advice of friends tried «several hot springs, but with no effect, except, perhaps, to | aggravate my complaint. I finaig became discouraged and after two years’ doetoring, I Underweni am operation. I was placed under cbieroform, @ gash two inches and s balfin depth made in th» side of each lec near Lip,and the Goctors put their tingers in the gash and stretched the sciatic nerves tn the vain hope that such would give me relief Sluce then, now ove ears ago, until June { Jast, 1 took nO medicine w" ever, and retiring | from business, became so helpless that I ould not walk @ step without my crutches, an@ sometimes the pain was something awful. About June, however, I got some of Dr. Wil- liams’ Pink Pills and after using the first box felt such @ beneficial effect from them that Icon- tinued to use them ever since with the result ‘that the terrible pains I used to suffer from have vanished, and with the exception of a lite Ue dart at rare intervals, I might never know Thad ever suffered with them. Since usingthe Pills Igettosieepearly and sleep assoundly asa baby all night through. I can ajso walk adoren ‘steps or so without my crutehes.”” An to illus trate, the old gentleman got up and walked ‘across the room and back again to his seat alongside the reporter. ~Now I couldn't do that at all last June,” continued he, “and the pills are certainly the pleasantest medicine to take that I ever tried. I would advise any one who is troubled with an affliction any way sim- ilar to mine, or who is suffering from any nervous disease, to try Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. If they can cure locomotor ataxia, which: is probably the worst form of nerve trouble, I should think they would be great in ordinary ervous diseases.” ‘The other day Mrs. Martin, of Ferguson Ave nue, Hamilton, Ont. called at Mr. John A. Barr's drug establishment and asked for a box of Pink Pills. She had a little girl with her i @ perambulator, and while the mother was im the store the child climbed out over the side of | the carriage. The mother laughed over the in- | cident and remarked: “If it were not for Pink | Pills my baby would never have been abie todo that” To those in the drug store Mrs. Martin narrated the wonderful cure which had been affected by Pink Pills in the cure of her infant, | When about a year old the baby became para | lyzed, and the anxious parents consulted the best doctors in the city, but their treatment was ofno avail. The little one was not able to move hand or foot, and for a time the case was considered a hopeless one. Mrs. Martin pro- cured a box of Pink Pills and before the young- ster had taken all it contained, the paralysis disappeared and the little one’s appetite re- turned. The parents’ hearts were delighted With the result. It was while buying the second box that the child scrambied outof thecarriage on to the side-walk. The mother told Mr. Barr that the paralysis had resulted from teething. A representative of the Times who investigatee the case discovered that the little girl is now walking around in the best of health. « The proprietors of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pilis state that they are not a patent medicine but a scientific preparation used successfully for many yearsin the private practice of # phys cian of high standing. They are given to the public as an unfailing blood builder and nerve restorer, curing all forms of weakness arising from @ watery condition of the blood or shat tered nerves, two fruitful causesof almostevery All that flesh is heir to. These pills are also @ specific for the troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, all forms of weakness, chronic constipation, bearing down pains, etc., and in the case of men will give speedy relief and effect # permanent cure in all cases arising from mental Worry, overwork, or excesses of whatever nature. The pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, (0 cents @ box—they are never sold im bulk, or by the 100) by addressing Dr. Wiliams’ ‘The Beautiful Song Bird, writes us: