Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1893, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1893—-SIXTKEN PAGES. GATH ON NAMES. Frederick County So Called After Frederick, Prince of Wales. HOW If CAME ABOUT. Historical Notes About the Princes’ Career in England. IN MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA. Bpecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. FREDERICK CITY, Md., Oct. 13, 1393.— FEW DAYS AGO I mentioned to Judge Stake of Frederick ‘county that I thought the name thereof came from the father of George the Third, Frederick, Prince of Wales. The judge said: “I never heard that. I always thought Fred- erick county was named for Frederick, Lord Baltimore.” A few days afterward, hearing the may- or of Hagerstown, Mr. Halm, say that the United States government built the “National” road to Baltimore, I did the un- sSrateful task of saying that the United States government built no turnpike east of Cumberland, and added: “Mr. Peters, the representative of the Western Maryland district, at great pains and local patriotism, prepared and a Dill for a government pike from Washing- | ton city to the Baltimore and Cumberland pike. It was vetoed by Andrew Jackson hatred of Henry Clay, Gallatin and and has never been resuscitated. e people between those points are not blic spirited enough to build it. Wash- Engton city takes the same restricted view of its influence. Hence I heard a man say but yesterday that he would haul his Peaches from Boonsborough to Washington, in revenge for the high railroad rates, and I said: ‘Friend, you have not fulcrum enough to move a peach. Andrew Jackson dished you and your peaches sixty years ego.’ Mr. Mayor, the banks of Baltimore and the Maryland towns west of it took stock in the Conococheague and Baltimore incorporated pike as the blackmail upon a renewal of their bank charters. It is a bank road, and though the government was refused by a sour and fierce old Tiber- las the right to build it, the banks, which he hated equally, did build the only pike across the state of Maryland from Wash- To not think the mayor believed me. It is ungracious to reprove mayors on subjects of loca! patriotism. Named After Prince Frederick. Frederick Calvert did not become Lord Baltimore till 1751, and Frederick county ‘was created in 1743 when Charles, Lord Bal- timore, was gentleman in waiting to Fred- erick, Prince of Wales. At the time Prince Frederick’s name was being conferred upon localities in many other states, and proba- bly Frederick, who was the last Lord Bal- timore, was himself named for Prince Fred- Would the proprietor of the province, ex- Pistant of the favor of the throne through prince—perhaps to be prime mifister thereunder—name his last county for his fon and not for his prince? Here is the story of Prince Frederick: In 116 George the Second married a lady ed tweniy-two, Caroline Wilhelmina wothea of Brandenburg Anspach. Her id was of the sume age and was Born in Hanover, 1683, of the adulterous Dorothea of Zell and George, son of the @lector, afterward George the First, who Was the great grandson of Shakespeare's James the First. ‘The Princess Caroline was brought up by Frederick, afterward the urst king of Prus- gia, whose wife was sister of George the First of Engiand. George the First quarreled with his son and did not speak with him for years, and falled his daughter-in-law a “she devil.” it was only in 170i that a king of Prussia existed, and Prince Frederick, the she $evits son, was Lorn in Hanover January This is the person who gave name to Frederick county and Frederick City and Fredericktown, which was on the eastern shore of Maryland, and Prince Frederick, the county seat of Calvert county, and to Fredericksburg. Va., Frederick county, Va., wherein is Winchester, and other Fred- @ricks and Frederickas. Prince Frederick in Hanover was taught English, and was a cunning, idle, dissipated boy. His father and grandfather both kept mistresses right in their households, and the child early won the dislike of both his _— by gambling, sensuality and drink- deep. “He has the tricks of grooms and scoun- Grels,” said hi tutor, and he was exceed- fugly spiteful. “He was not allowed to go over to Eng- Jand with his parents, but was kept back in Hanover, where in 17i7 he received the title of Duke of Gloucester, and in 1726 Duke of Edinburgh.” The Prince in England. In 1728 he was brought to England at the age of twenty-one, but his mother dom- inated his father, and both of them wished that he were dead; he was not allowed to be regent of England when his father re- visited Hanover, and hating both his pa- rents the opposition party made him their chief. His Hanoverian debts his parents Would not pay, and when parliament grant- 4 him one hundred thousand pounds his father would allow him but one-third of it, and he was also refused active military gervice. He showed his brother-in-law of Holland the low sights of London even when that Dutch prince was awaiting his marriage ceremony. His father kept two mistresses in his wife's household, Miss Howarl and Miss Clayton. ‘The queen called her son an extravagant and unprinciplea fool, who was costing his father fifty thousand pounds a year. Frederick was more of a German than an Englishman end when George the Second saw him the king affected to see only an empty space. When the father seduced or brought a new mistress in Germany, Mrs. ‘Wilmoden, he wrote to his wife ail the| minutest circumstances, including the fact that he had bought her to leave her hus. band for a thousand ducats. The queen to maintain her ascendancy replied to the king, says Dr. Doran, “encouraging her hus- band in the German amours in letters which wallowed in Epicurus’ sty.” The king wrote his wife to get the bad Duke of Orleans to bring his daughter to Eng. land with him from France that she might be added to the list of his conquests. The king loved to go to the theater to see “Henry the Fourth” played that he might come home and rejoice to describe the villainies of the Prince of Wales in that piece as a picture of the Prince of Wales, his son. The mother got over the scene of an ad- @ress to the throne by parliament, for the marriag> of Prince Frederick, by picking out a bride silently and buying the wedding clothes, though the groom did not know the lady at all. This was Augusta of Saxe Ont the dof ht Pri At the command of his mother Prince Frederick dismissed his mis Miss: Vane, to immediatly take another one, Lady Archibald Hamilton, who had ten children. Lord Charles Baltimore took the Message to the first mistress at the solicitation of the second, demanding that she leave Eng- land and give up her little illegitimate son for £1.60) a year or starve in England. Miss Vane exposed the prince's letter and her own reply and then compromised, but soon @ied at Bath with her unfortunate son. This was Charles, fifth Lord Baltimore, who came to Maryland in 1732, wrote poetry. named his son for Prince Frederick and married his daughter Caroline to Gov.Eden. He was the father of Benedict Calvert, tHe- timate jcestor of the late Custises and es of Virginia. The ce of Wales’ Marriage. Lord Delaware was sent to secure the Rand of Augusta and refused to meet her offers of love half way. She landed from the ship at Greenwich April 25, of seventeen. The mob cheered her, but the royal family cave her no welcome. She was taken tn a chair to St. James’ palace. ess, Her affianced opened a quarrel on the spot | with bis brothers and sisters. Yet he was taking the sacrament n Chapel instead of dled a ants and was To refect upon his grud was long absent in He eve, the Prince debtors in the jails, ing father, who h his other » to t gtia fathers, per- ¢ Ww » the Dil 6, @ miss | f Wales soon raised a | | naps, of Georgia. The queen said that the | popularity of Fritz, her son, almost made omit. ‘The king spent £900 in bribes to defeat his son receiving an appropriation of £0,00 a |year which he not intercept on the ‘way to his son. Prince George. Four years before the marriage of Prince Frederick a child was born near the mouth | of the Potomac whose name was to be given to the western half of Frederick county when he would be forty-four years old— | George Washington, prince of the world. Prince Frederick died in 1%1, five years before Virginia heard of Washington. Au- gusta died in 1772, two years before the Continental Congress. ince Frederick was buried in Henry VII Chapel in West- minster Abbey. v Augusta county, Va. perhaps Augusta, Ga., were named for Frederick's wife. The prince's mother and sister publicly and almost daily hoped that ‘would strike Frederick dead with apoplexy. Says Dr. Doran: “The parents hated the son, the son the parents, the ts deceived’ one another, the hus! betrayed the wife, the wife deluded the husband, the children Were at mutual antagonisms, and truth Was stranger to all.” Augusta had £50,000 settled upon her as a As Augusta's accouchement was suddenly coming on at Hampton Court the Prince of Wales compelled his wife to drive ten miles to St. James’ palace in the care of his mistress that his parents might be disap- | pointed and his child born in the royal apartments. As there were no sheets ready | for the little princess she was born in table clothes. The confusion affected the poor child’s wits and this child became the ‘(mother in time of the adulterous queen of George the Fourth, Caroline of Brunswick. The king and queen had been left at Hampton Court and arrived in London af- ter the child was born. They soon expelled Frederick and Augusta from the palac the new-born princess took the name of Augusta. ‘The queen mother and Frederick, her eld- est son, never met again from nine days after Augusta's birth. Lord Baltimore was the principal parti- san of Prince Frederick, gentleman of his bedchamber, partisan of his politics. Fred- erick, Lord ‘Baltimore, the last of the line, wrote poetry also, absconded from England and left Henry Harford, illegitimate son. This Henry Harford was the son of Hester Wheland, an Irish girl, whom Baltimore married to Peter Prevost, and married her daughter at the age of thirteen to one Robert Morris. November 20, 1737, the Second’s queen died, calling Prince Frederick and his wife “ravens” nearly to the last. Her dis- eases were rupture and gout. In 102 Prince Frederick overthrew the great minister, Walpole, and Lord Wilming- ton succeeded.’ Hence the various Wilming- ton towns, &c., im the older American states. George the Third, son of Prince Fred- erick, was born the day before George the Second arrived home from the campaign of Dettingen. About George the Third. George the Third was carried in Fred- erick's (his fatner) arms to his widowed grandfather's closet, who conferred on the child the Order of the Garter, 1749. In 1751 Frederick died of consumption, leaving eight children, and his wife to bear a ninth. She burned at once all of his private papers. Frederick was forty-five years old. He had been courted by Pitt, Chesterfield, Swift, Pope, Thomson and Bolingbroke and by Lady Huntington, the Methodist. He gave the Poet Glover £500, and said of Lady Hun- tington: “I shall be happy to selze her skirt when I die to lift me into heaven.” Frederick's married lfe with the Gotha princess refined him and leading the op- position made him 2 Another son of Frederick, Edward, voted against the American stamp act. Scandal said that Frederick's widow was the mistress of Lord Bute. Her son, how- ever, adored her. George the Fourth was said'to resemble his grandfather Frederick. The Brunswick son-in-law of Prince Fred. erick was that one who was killed at the battle of Jene. His son was killed at Qua- tre Bras, just before Waterloo. The former raised the French people by his invasion and proclamation to become the thrashers of Europe. Gossip said that George the Third had been privately married to Hannah Light- foot, a Quakeress, in 1759, and to have paid @ man named Axford to marry her off his han George was attracted to Sophia Charlotte, younger daughter of the second son of the Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, by the liter- ary spirit of a letter she wrote to Frederick the Great in behalf of her native state. She was of Sclavonic blood. Augusta, George's sister, was one to receive her in St. James’ Palace. Parliament on her marriage gave her a dowry of £100,000 per annum if she should become a widow and £0,000 a year as a wife. George III paid Benjamin West £40,000 in all for paintings. Augusta, Prince Frederick's daughter, married the Prince of Brunswick, and Fred. erick’s posthumous daughter, Caroline Ma- tilda, married the Crown Prince of Den- mark and lived to see her paramour exe- cuted for adultery with her. Her own life was saved by a British fleet taking her off to Hanover. ‘A son of Frederick married the Widow Waldegrave secretly. Another son married a widow and seduced a wife and had to pay £10,000 damage to her husband. Shepherdstown, Va., was long called Meck- lenburg for the parent state of the wife of George the Third. There the first e1 ts of the Valley of Virginia, who were Penn- sslvanians, crossed the Potomac to avoid Etk Ridge mountain, the true Blue Ridge. Named for Frederick and His Wife. Frederick and Augusta counties, Va., were set off at the same time, 1738, named for Frederick and his wife, and were to divide all Western Virginia between them. Au- gusta contained four subsequent states and forty Virginia counties, provided Virginia legally owned anything of the west. The ancestors of the Georges were named Gulph or Wolf, German barbarian fighters, and came into possession of Brunswick in the year 1200. One branch of them became Electors of Hanover, another Dukes of Brunswick, states near together. In 1653 a’ bully of the family married the granddaughter of James the First of Eng- land, Sophia of Heldelberg, and the eldest child, George Louis, became George the First. This bully’s wife was a daughter of a French Huguenot refugee’s daughter, who married GeorgeWilliam of Brunswick-Lune- burg. George the First married at Zell, pt 682. “Fredericksburg,” Va., was founded by law in 1727 and named from Prince Freder- ick, father of George the Third. A few years after the birth of Washington his father, Augustine Washington, removed to his farm opposite Fredericksburg, where he resided till his death, 1743, He left shares in iron works situated in Maryland and Virginia, which were productive. His wife, Mary Ball, survived him forty- six years or till the year of the Constitu- tion and government, 1789. As a shareholder in tron works this young aying man of only forty-nine left the pub- lic and organic spirit to Washington, who forged a sword and beat out @ nation. The birth of Washington's father, 16%, and the death of his mother, 1789, spanned nearlya century. They covered the whole Georgisn period, or from twenty years be- fore the death of Queen Anne fo the open- ing of the French revolution, from. th time Sir Isaac Newton, having overthrown Aristotle and Descartes’ and discovered the moral motion of the universe, lay tenderly condoled with by Locke, Huygens and Samuel Pepys, when failure to get a gov- ernment clerkship had nearly softened tht brain which solved the equilibrium of eternal worlds. ‘By Fredericksburg Washington grew up; |im Frederick county, at Winchester, he took military command and planned a fort; at Fredericksburg, when elected President, |he bade his mother adieu; at Fredericks- around his mother’ |death dance of slavery in the ‘campaign of Burnside, Hooker and Grant, and in Frederick City sleeps, in the faith of the |old Lords Baltimore, that old judge who | pronounced slavery to be the irremediable | fate of the republle, | The Frederick, Prince of Wales, who never reached the throne, left the’ ghost of his name to disturb McClellan with the | rebel legislature at Frederick and to in- spire the muse of Whittier with Barbara Freitchie. | Chesterfield, Carteret, Pulteney, Wynd- ham, Pitt, Lyttleton, "Swift, Pope, "the Grevilles, “Thomson, ‘Bolingbroke, Glover, | Tindal. Lady Huntington, the Methodist, were of Prince Frederick's court, and the prince himself wrote poetry. | The muse of Glover served Prince Fred erick’s polities well, as in “Admiral Hoster’s | “For resistance T could fear none, | —- Rut with tweaty ships had done What thou, brave and happy Vernon? Hast achieved with six alone. After this proud foe subduing, When your patrint friends yor" sce, Totak oo venge And for England | for my ral hamed in me!"* GATH. oO. The Way Clear. From Truth. Fweddie—What would you say if I should ask you for ten dollars? Cholly—I'd say you must be broke, old fel- low Fweddie—Then I'l! ask you for ten. I was | afraid you'd say you didn’t have it. GOVERNMENT BONDS. Two Millions of Dollars Which May Never Be Paid. THEY ARE NOT EASILY LOS?, And Often Turn Up in Very Queer Ways. | HOW NEW ONES ARE ISSUED. HE PROPOSITION to issue government bonds to relieve the financial stringency and the discussion of the amount of the Public debt has call- Sed attention to the fact that there are called bonds and other securities of the United States now outstanding to the amount of more than $2,000.00. This amount is increasing every year. It is small in comparison with the public debt, but tt would make a nice little fortune for some one if he could only gather together all of the claims for bonds destroyed and all of the bonds that are now hidden away and have been forgotten. The missing se- ctrities run back to the loan of 1347. At long intervals @ $25 bond issued under the bounty land scrip act of February 11, 1847, gomes to the treasurer of the United States for redemption. Under this act any hon- orably discharged officer or soldier who served in the Mexican war for more than twelve months received, at his option, 160 acres of land or a certificate for $100. Those serving for a less period than twelve months under the same conditions got forty acres Or @ $25 certificate. Certificates to the amount of $233,075 were issued under this act, bearing interest at 6 per cent. They were called in two years after the date of issue, and of course interest on them ceas- ed. But there are still outstanding certifi- gates of this issue to the value of about Two of the $25 certificates were re- ed last year. Then there is the loan of February, 1861, the war debt loan and the loan of July and August, 1861, of Which a good deal {s still outstanding. The treasurer redeemed last year $1,300 of the loan of 1862; $1,000 of the loan of June, 1864; $4,450 of the consols of 1865 (on which the interest ceased in 1879); $7,500 of the consols of 1867 (on which the interest had ceased in 1879), and $45,200 of other loans on which the interest had ceased between 1879 and 1887. If the government should make an issue of bonds It can count on a certain percentage of them as actual pro! “The proportion of bonds unredeemed 1s quite smull,” said Mr. Huntington, the chief of the currency and loan division of the ‘Treasury Department, “because bonds are usually in the hands of people who pur- chase them for investment, and who take good care of them. Bonds differ in this re- spect from money, which passes from hand to hand. Besides, the smallest denomina- tion of bonds is $50, and they are very much larger than bank notes or money, and are correspondingly more difficult to ‘lose.”” A Fortunate Incident. Nevertheless, the government at intervals comes across a remarkable and even a ro- mantic story in bonds presented for redemp- tion. One of the most interesting of these was the case of an old woman who attend- ed an auction sale of furniture fifteen years ago and bought an old-fashioned book case. he intended to use it as a place of storage for her best crockery. When she got it home she found in one of the drawers five Papers of greenish tint, with figures and pictures on them. She could not read, and she knew nothing of the character of the papers. Her children saw them and asked for the pictures, so the papers were given to them to play with. Fortunately they were not destroyed by the little ones, and they were still in evidence when the parish priest called few days later. He opened eyes in astonishment. “Do you know what your children are playing with?” he said. “Oh, yes,” said the woman; “just some Papers I found in my new cupboard.” “These papers are worth $1,000 each,” said the priest. The woman was amazed and could hardly believe him. He went to the auctioneer and tried to learn from whom the desk had come. It had been lying in the auction room for a number of years and all trace of the original owner had been lost. So, with that duty performed, the priest brought the five bonds to Washington and took back $5,000 to the little woman— enough to make her rich for life. At the time Mr. Morrill was Secretary of the Treasury a prominent southerner left among his effects a certificate of “Texas indemnity stock” for $10.00. His widow supposed that it was a receipt for taxes on some Texas land. Some years later this lady was in Washington in reduced circum- stances and she consulted Mr. Riggs, the banker, about the sale of some Texas land. He knew that her husband had been a holder of this Texas indemnity stock, and he asked her what had become of it all. She said that she did not know anything about it, but later she remembered this pa- per which she had thought to be a tax re- cept and she told Mr. Riggs about it, He asked her to send for it without telling her of its value. When it came he turned it into the treasury for her and received the original $10,000 and about $2,500 in unpaid interest, all in gold. It was a remarkably fortunate discovery for the southern woman. The Treasury Department receives every week millions of dollars of mutilated money for redemption, but it is not often that mu- tilated bonds are received. But about five years ago a great mass of greenish pulp was sent to the treasurer with the state- ment that it represented a large sum in the compound interest notes of 1864. These notes had been in the safe of a Mississippi river steamboat which was burned. The safe had been at the bottom of the river for nearly @ year. The green pulp: was dried out and it proved all that was claimed for it. ‘When Judge Folger was Secretary of the Treasury an old man from New England came to the treasurer's office one day with a collection of papers yellow with age. He said that he had found them among the effects of an uncle of his and had offered them to a banker in Boston for %,000. The banker refused to give him anything for them. The treasurer looked over the pa- rs and found that they were United tates securities and worth $70,000. That is the amount that the New England farmer took away with him when he left Wash- ington. He probably flaunted it in the face of that Boston banker. ‘A remarkable find was that of an army officer. Nearly twenty years ago he was in the tepee of a Sioux Indian, which had been deserted. The walls of the tepee were decorated with clippings from newspapers and other specimens of low art. But among these clippings were compound in- terest notes of the United States to the amount of %,00. They had undoubtedly been found on the person of some white prisoner and the simple red man had val- ued them only for the engraving on them. The officer produced some very lurid chromos which he had in his collection of periodical reading matter and offered them in exchange for the little green pictures on the walls of the tepee. The other Indians of the tribe accepted them gladly and the officer, after making an effort to find to whom’ the money belonged, accepted it as a gift of Providence. Few Ronds Are Lost Now. It ts not entirely the fault of the gov- ernment that bonds are not paid, although Uncle Sam might perhaps make some little effort to find the holders of called bonds which have not been presented for redemp- tion. It is the policy of the Treasury De- partment now to issue registered bonds, and very few of them are lost. As they pass from hand to hand they are trans- ferred on the books of the Treasury De- ent, and when the treasurer calls them in his notice of the call goes direct, in most cases, to the holder of the bonds. Laws have been made by Congress for the issue of duplicate bonds to replace those which have been destroyed, but the condi- tions surrounding the issue of these dupli- cates make them difficult to obtain. ‘The | | to the Secretary of the Treasury py clear and unequivocal proof that any interest bearing bond of the United States has, with- out bad faith on the part of the cwner, been destroyed in whole or in part or so defaced as to impair its value to the owner, and such bond is identified by number and description, the Secretary of the Treasury | shall, under such requirements and with | such’ restrictions as to time and retention | for security or otherwise as he may pre- scribe, issue a duplicate thereof, having | the same time to run, bearing like interest jas the bond so proved to have been de-| law provides that “Whenever it appears| stroyed or defaced,” &c. The owner of the’ destroyed or defaced bond is to surrender the remains of the bond and file a penal bond with the treasurer in double the amount of the destroyed or defaced bond and the interest on it with two good se- eurities. For a registered bond, to be is- sued in duplicate, the owner of the origi- to ae eee ee of the original and interest. These penal bonds are perpetual, as are all bonds made to the United States. Every officer of the treasury who is under bond today can be held under that bond fifty years hence if any shortage can be traced to his adminis- ration. His securities are eg It ts not easy to get togetl yndsmen for half a million dollars, and it has hap- pened not infrequently that the owners of bonds that have been destroyed have gone to Congress for relief. When a duplicate bond is issued it is always registered. The largest amount ever issued by the government in duplicate bonds was $1,600,- imo. ‘These were issued under special’ act Manhattan Savings Institution of Ne York, They were registered bonds which were stolen from the bank in the robbery made famous by Ini ‘tor Byrnes’ book, “The Great Bank Robbery.” The robbers of the Manhattan got eight bonds of $50,000 each, and 120 bonds of $10,000 each. All of these bonds were on the books of the register of the treasury as the property of the Manhattan Savings Institution. That institution went into the hands of a re- ceiver as a result of “the great bank rob- bery,” and as it was next to impossible to give a bond for $1,000,000, and absolutely im- possible to prove that the missing bonds had been destroyed, the bank had to come to Congress. Congress directed the Secre- tary of the Treasury to issue duplicates of the bonds “upon evidence clear and satis- factory to him being furnished that they have not been assigned, but are still the property of said institution; and on the further condition that a number of them be held in trust by the Secretary of the Treasury until such time as would secure the Untted States from loss. Issuing New Government Bonds. The business of issuing a new set of bonds is a matter of some moment to the officials of the Treasury Department, be- cause it involves a great deal of labor in the bureau of engraving and printing, in the register’s office and in the treasurer's office. It takes some time for the bureau of engraving and printing to get out an issue of bonds. The engra’ is a slow process. Then the paper must be prepared. ‘The issue of renewal bonds of 1891 was printed om paper ten years old which was lying in the vaults of the bureau. It had to be taken out and wet down, and it was not ready for use for ten days. Bonds go through the presses three times. First the tint is printed on the face of them. Then the form on the front is printed in black, and then the form on the back is printed, also in black. These bonds were printed from plates wich were made in 1876. The bond issue of 1891 was a reissue of the bonds of 1876; so the bonds were printed alike. It is astonishing how little wear there is on the tempered steel plates from which bonds are printed. But this is not more remarkable than the process of freshening the plate which has been worn a ttle. If a bond-plate looks at all dull un- der the microscope, it is put in the tran: fer press and the cylinders with which the design was cut into it are rolled over it again. Anyone who has‘seen the fine hair lines in the engraving on a bank note or a greeback will appreciate the marvelous ac- curacy of a machine which can be adjusted so that the original cylinder, passing over the engraved plate seven or eight years after the original engraving, will cut again into the same lines and simply deepen the impression. The variation of a thousandth part of an inch in the adjustment of the cylinder would blur the plate and ruin it. The cost of transferring from the cylinders alone is about $50 a plate, and that fea- ture of the preparation of a bond issue would cost the government fully $3,000. The cost of engraving and printing would bring the expense of issuing a new series of bonds up to about $15,000. The registered bond 1s about fourteen inches long by six inches wide. The old coupon bond was eighteen by twenty-four inches. This was the size of the 4 per cent bond which was to run thirty years with interest payable every three months, and which bore 120 cou- pons. In the issue of coupon bonds the sig- nature of the register of the treasury is engraved on the coupons. It would be impossible for the register to sign 120 cou- pons on each bond. In some of the heavy issues of bonds the signature in the body of the bond has been engraved. But ail of the registered bonds are signed. by the register or his dep When these bonds are issued the init of the clerk who en- tered, and the initials of the clerk who re- corded each bond are written in the corner of it so that if there is any mistake it can be traced very quickly, ————-+e--—___ A FELINE AERIAL ARTIST. This Cat Made the Fortune of a Fly- ing Trapeze Performe From the New York Herald. “Between you and me and the lamp post it takes very little to please the public,” said a veteran stage hand to me the other day. “The sillier the play or performance the more they laugh and seem to enjoy it. “The other night one of the stars of the gymnastic wor!d, who was never known to create a laugh, tumbled to a plece of business that has since mae him one of the most popular of the profession. His business was simply to perform on the trapeze and make a flying leap, quize thrill- ing when seen from the front. “He was doing Lis act one night, ae when he wbserved the etage’ cat walking along one of the heame overhecd. He didn’t pay much xttentioa to the cat nor did the eat notice lim. “He continued his ayrations In the air until it came time for his flying leap. Meantime the cat had cll:abed down a part of the stage setting to a ‘ily’ that wus loose and sat there in full view «if the audience. “The ‘fly’ was a little to one side vf where the gymnast swig in preparing for his leap, and as he passed he thought it would be @ good joke to velze the cat and tuke it along with him. So ie reached out his arm, and before the cat realized what had hap- pened it was accompanying him through the air. “The cat str iggied so bard for lberty the gymnast thousnt he had better drop it into the net below, und ne spened his arm. But the cat wouldn't jump. “As the gymnast had to iand on Lis feet in a net a tong way vif he conchided he had better jump with tie cat, since he cuvldn’t get rid of it, and he let go. “He landed ail right, and the cat after steadying itself calmly jumped from his shoulder and dis: red ‘n the wings, to the great amuserarat cf the audience. “The cat has since become zccustumed to the flight throusa the air and Is the side Partner of the gymnast, who never falls to make a hit since he adopred it.” sulmanies tancoorstrtestinar The Duke of Portland's Bad Manners. From London Truth. An amusing story is current of an en- counter between the Luke of Portiaad, who was out deer stalking, and « supposed tres- paseer in Caithnoss forest. On coming across this in:ruwlor the duke barangued him in no very flattering terms, and on the man stammering out that he had xs much righ: there as the juke. his trace forthwith went in search of a gillie, and crdered nim to deal with this profaner of landed righ’ Tt then turned out that this indivi tial was on the geological survey, and was lawfally authorized to go wheraver bis iieluess took hm. He was, in fact, the son of Hugh Muller. --——__+e+____ A Definition. From Pek, ‘Teacher—Give the definition of the word “Naturalization.” Native American Boy—Naturalization 1s the preliminary process toward enabling the Irish to hold’ public office in the United States. ———_+e+____ Like All Other Poets. From Life. Daubber—You look blue, old man. What's the matter? Seribble—I'm trying to think of a rhyme for Valkyri Super-Sensitive. From Life. = and brown or ‘ord comes from all quarters that the neatest most satisfactory dye for coloring the beard & black is Buckinguain’s Dye for the Whisk ers. COLLISIONS AT SEA. A New Proposal to Use Two Steam Whistles as a Preventive. © From the New York ‘Times. An old French sea captain who has made ® lifelong study of matters pertaining to collisions at sea, rules of the road, fog sig- nals, &c., has devised a clever scheme for avoiding accidents in thick or foggy weath- er. While the general ideas have been ad- vanced before, the particular system here employed is thought to have considerable merit, It consists of two whistles, one having a deep sound and the other a sharp one, used in connection with certain marks on the compass card, so that a pointer indicates/ _™eD._ the particular sound that is to follow. Each | VOCAL CULTURE AT S0c. PER LESSON—A of the four cardinal points is signaled by four sounds from the whistles; the quad- rantal points, such as N. E., 8. W., N. W. and 8S. E. are indicated by two blasts, while the points between, such as N. N. E., W. 8. W., 8. 8, E., E. S, E. and so on, are dis- tinguished by three blasts. In all these cases the sounds may be from one or the other whistle or by a combination of both whistles. The signals are easy to understand and require no effort of memory, as a compass is always before the helmsman, who, when he looks at it to see what course he is steer- ing, can plainly see the marks on the com- pass points corresponding to the sound he hears from an approaching steamer. The direction from which the sound comes indi- cates where the vessel is, and the number of whistles shows what ‘route she {s fol- lowing, by which it makes it almost as easy to avoid her as it is at night time, when her lights are the guide. Without these two conditions being fulfilled all ma- neuvers made to avoid collision would be quite apt to end in disaster. To signal it is only necessary to look trom the center of the compass out toward the points, when there will be no confusion pos- sible as far as having the bearing of the approaching vessel is concerned. A_brack- et is surmounted by a sector of 180 degrees, having its right half painted green and the left half red and carrying in its center @ vertical indicator, which is movable and when lowered to the right or green side the whistle sound is made and when lowered to the left the trumpet sound. By this means, with everything right before the of- ficer, mistakes could hardly occur. Two vesels approaching each other, when they hear the course-indicating sounds, can starboard or port as the occasion demands and when the sounds indicate a safe dis- tance between them they can resume their course and proceed with perfect safety. Certain prearranged signals could be ar- Tanged that would not conflict with the course signals, but which would mean as- sistance wanted, pilot needed, vessel back- ing, &c. There ts nothing attempted here that would at all confilct with existing rules of the road, but, on the contrary, it is intended to add to their value by intro- ducing additiona} elements of safety. ————+0+-____ An Unsafe Government Building. An order entered by the judges in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals’ at Chicago recently shows the crumbling and unsafe condition of the federal build- ing in Chicago, notice of which has been repeatedly brought to the attention of the authorities in Washington. Judges Wood and Jenkins, the senior members of the bench of the circuit. have decided that it is no longer safe to hold court in the building. October 20 is the last day tn which the court will occupy Its room in the Chicago ruin, —— ee LADIES’ GOODS. ESTABLISHED 1850.—FAGRET'S HAIR TONIC, or the Mecca Petroleum—Prevents balduess, boas the hair and scalp in a clean and healt! ition. Sold by W. THOMPSON, 703. 151 _ ocl4-3m* 3 300, AND tg ove P Pictures, Studies, Fancy Paper, Borders, Toys, German Favs pkins, Lanterns, J. JAY GOULD, 421 9th ot, 2 ee BUTTONS COVERED TO, MATCH; PLEAD , IVORY, or metal rims; 11 sizes. 721 9th’ st. n. HILL," the Button Maker. ‘ockite LADIES, GO TO MRS. E. McCAFFERTY'S, 1215 @ st. hw., and get your last wluter's hat or | bonnet presred over into latest ny ud Samet er or kee TS ocl3-3t® ‘S10 A ST. ASUTS ware “from F st. curtains and at : caval to vew: curtains a wi claity; tb care; called for and delivered: ACCORDION PLAITING—ONLY, cess this side of xi per yd.;_ work sent throughout buttons and —buttonboles. G. W. LUCAS, 918 9th u.w.ocl2-Ime LYNCH, MISS MINNIE Modiste, 1118 18th st. n.w., EDUCATIONAL. EDUCATIONAL. EDUCATIONAL. IN WASHINGTON, iN WASHINGTON, Ix WASHINGTON. ea a COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY. TEESE mon ‘be made daily from 9 till 1 o'clock. WOR RENT—AT 1810 I ST. Bicely furnished room; suitable it the tent to ‘Panseroa’s Wisven a Star office. LANGUAGES. Branches Principal 4 LADY JUST FROM ENGLAND WISHES TO a a Fy Cll drawings. Address E. 5. BALTON, 910 Sous at nw. oc6-Oe° GUNSTON INSTITUTE, 2026 AND 2928 P ST.N.W. Boarding nd Day School erkis ‘Second session’ Bw. ocl3-1m Mr. oat Mires 8 R. MASON. WASHINGTON FEMALE SEMINARY, 1226 15TH Seay and pasrding, school primary intermediate Methods” of ‘Instruction "those, “tested prorated af wehioo! within teach of belp Hoot wrane ai scl or cipal. Miss CLAUDIA STUART, ‘Lm? _ .ELOC EATON, BURNETT & DURLING’S BUSINESS TRAINING SCHOOL, 12TH AND F STS. N.W. TION. ‘The most practical form of instruction to be found im any college. Our methods and the meth- ods of business are identical. Our graduates suc- ceed where others fail. Call and see us. We court investigation and tn- vite comparison, a05-8m MISS ALICE E, BURBAGE, 460 I ST. N. Royal Conserv! Graduate of tory of Lelpaig. Piano soloist and Teacher ot plano, harmony 04 counterpoint. H. cLoucH LEIGHTER, ORGAN: aND Fo ROR ag ee ig 2 days and Fridays, 12 to 1. a T- Se PUREE eon Fos FOUR eas oye i located at 2004 Get toes Pepersogn for colleges and techuical schools MISS 3 ADELA VERNON, 'LL_ENOWN SOPRANO ex] anced teacher London, Eng- Jand, is in W: ae ee eee ‘and is pre- - einen ed J. E. SCHEEL, TEACHER OF PIANO, ORGAN, singing and ccowpanying ‘at sight, ‘Particular as ‘as those further ad) ed. 734 12th a need, 73 st mw. ‘Terms moderate. FRUOEBEL Se me KINDERGARTEN, MISS SUSAN. P. ‘POLLOCK Has it returned from 2 ts ngtiah _oct1-ate ‘New York. trenches, Germen sat rate ACCORDEON WAISTS CAI Pupils from four to sixteen years of age. ‘done at short notice: alo side pialiins and sae ae, Serie ioc teachers Gb We Laxinaton TAG eet ABLISHMENT. geply, as above or to Mire, LOUISE POLLOCK: & more, Md. cl ¥ 2 z Wanted in all large cities, oon” és TOIT 10th st. tw. FINE WHITE AND BLACK LACES DONE UP IN| _eel6-im*___ Washington, D."o._ first-class Parisian style; whit tin dresses | FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE—PROF. laces and lace curtain: cn Raed GASTON RIVOE from Paris; very easy and ue 2 pat TiS lith st eee Sent method. Address 1825 I st. a.w.. or call WASHINGTON FEMALE SEMINARY, 1290 19TH MADAME GENESTF, NO. 810 A STREET = Washington.D. C.; one siuare trom F si nS st. boarding school, primary, Glace sand “advanaee departinents; curtains ai Up eaual to new: curtains | teachers: methods of instruction those tested SEALSKIN GAMMENTS ALTERED, REDYED AND — es eee eee poo Misses CUNNINGHAM, 1908 dtn ‘st. a.w. au0-3m | HENRY JADUER, FLUTE SOLOIST AND TEACH: ANTON AND CAROLIVE LERCH, Seching. "Por ‘terse apply at 18 ith at bee” CLEANING AND i fancy or orammentel ote MISS FRANCES MARTING ENGLISH AND ‘the most fashionable cirdies. ‘wit h, Kindergarten. Boarding pupils limited. PIANOS AND ORGANS. BLE ROME POOLS. amtad oy Wa YOU'LL FIND A PIANO catalogue. seS-2me YOULL FIND A PIAXO Ant sropents PeaGeE knee SEASON. YOU'LL FIND A PLAN Day classes—Antique, portrait, oils, water In nearly every well regulated house io aes — ar wpe icles bousehold furniture. They're source of education as well ‘as pleasure. But the object is to get n good in- strument—one that is good in the beginning and remains good to the end. It's just as chenp to have that Kind. The “Weber, Decker — Bros., Fischer, Ivers and Pond and the Es- tey Pianos are just such instruments. Pits iacas ahaa fey eure eed Mas Sis eu houses. If you're an organist call and the Hetey Organs here. ad SANDERS & STAYMAN, 934 F ST. 18 N. Charles st., Baltimore, Md. ) KRAKAUER, PIANOS BY INTELLA- Eent people tell their own story. At KUAN'S TEMPLE OF MUSIC, 1200 G st., you can. see those ‘superior instruments, Prices reasonable. oc! PIANOS AND ORGANS TUNED AND REPAIRED: Yarnished and polished equal to new. Orders for tunt tly attended to. A. E. WILD of G. EXWhid'r ron a Go 100 Tey st. hws setae oct, RE A pp % NN 4 A BBB KEB Prawoe PIANOS FOR RENT. SECOND-HAND PIANOS, Baar aid Sapien ine Pite barge. — eae cans es myl-tt ‘durable PLAN 3 rable made; tn. & OONLIFF, itis a Tae aw, STEINWAY. CHASE, GARLER, BRIGGS PIANOS, wi & white for oereat NS rOUr strate Ronee n20-tr 925 Pa. ave MEDICAL, &o, STRANGERS, TAKE NOTICE—DRS. BROTHERS and Gray treat all diseases. No cure, no Only “established ‘advertising phyatcians in st. aw. city. Established 45 years. nedD-1m* DR. BROTHERS, THE MOST RELIABLE AND longest-established specialist in this city, with 50 years’ experience; 45 years at 900 Th st. s.w. Consultation free cud strictly confidential. se29-1m* | DR. BROTHERS’ INVIGORATING CORDIAL, 18 | @ owerful Nerve Stimulant and Tonic. Of all | the remedics for Nerrous Debility, Neural Nervous Exhaustion, Paralysis and that clase People who are ‘weak, miserable, - lethargic, Sleepy lack of ambition and zest ‘there ts 16 remedy equal to this Cordial. Tt has been in use | for nearly forty-Ave years in’ this city. 906 B aw. se16-1m SUMMER RESORTS. ‘ATLANTIC CUY, NJ. 01 HOTEL year. Un beach. ‘Maryland a Every comfort and conv. for fall and winter | IMPERIAL, home at reduced rates. n fires and my8-6m " solarium. SW. RENDHO HOT SVRINGS, BATH COUNTY, VIRGINIA.—THE | “Virginia,” heated by steam, elevator and ail For circulars wend to i o8-tt 808 17th st. nw. SCHOOL OF AGE, i. Ye Gree Se, Bok PAUL E VOROR Panis. NCH SSES- N #BEN cha: Fg FOR THE SEASON. 2 cents admission, oc3-Im* MLLE. V. PRUD'HOMME, 307 D st. aw. = fiat VERMONT ave. PIANO AND HARMONY. ec2l-tt LESSONS ON THE JANKO KEYBOARD. MRS. HARRIET v o2-Im* MISS SCHMITT'S SCHOOL «3 G_N. opens Oct. 4th. Kindergarts pian, French, and ‘MOSS TACIE A DANIEL, 716 Sth'st. nw. Vol ico and piano lessons resumed October 2 SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION, ORATORY, ACTING, Bike Lets ten Gat ae angie mh Se EDWARD c. TOWNSEND: “L. Stow SEND. 12TH SESSION. ‘NORWOOD INSTITUTE, A Behool for Young Ladies and Little Girl, HIGHLAND TEREACE, 14TH STREET AND MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE. ‘MR AND MES. W. D. CABELL, 9028 DR. JOHN P. CAULFIELD WILL sons October 1 at his residence, ave. ELOCUTION AND PRYSICAL CUI a] Beulah Gilbert of Baltimore wilt sate ee eae ington two days in euch week during "S8-4. 4d- _ dress 934°F ste new oea0-Ims "8 CiviL- AEEVIGN INeHione aay “ES i er enearad iy census examinations. Stenography taugat. sel tr is 4 4th at... Franklin Square, Seteet “Classical and Mathematical chow Yorn. Moa “and, Boze. Begins its Fess, September 201" Prepares for nde cr echoole!” for leges, universities and scientific. oct ‘Naval United States Military and osinees Special” tween 8 and 12 years 1 For LATIN, GREEK. MATHEMATICS AND ENGLISH: ‘candidates. prei college. Annapolis. West Pointand Civil Service examinations, Prof, ¥. A SPHINGEIL S18 ‘Spruce st., Le Drolt Pac Send for circular, athe WASHINGTON CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, 1235 10th ani agent me ‘Pia Folce, ‘violin, Mute, ‘corne! to pupils. 6. B. BULLARD, Director. | MISS CARRIE V. KIDWELL, DIPLOMA GRAD- vate Lamperti method of vocal art. 602 M Dw. seld-Im* modern Conveniences, with ten new cottages ‘with fireplaces, will be kept open the entire year; | bath tn hotel; special rates from September April. "J.P. CHAMPLIN. er. auz-8m' to) cael OLNEY INSTITUTE, occeeding, Mew, Sisers “Hoarding and Day School for and Little Gis. oun Ladies OPENS OCTOBER MISS VIRGINIA MASON DORSEY, MISS LAURA LEE DORSEY, Principals. DAY AND NIGHT SCHOOLS IN AOTIVE OPERA- | (Associate Justice Lecturer on i se i i i : q i ae fet ie fr : # i F t} i Sg i LLB., ‘Gome time United States Commissioner of Patents.) of the Law of Patents. ‘The Hon. ANDREW C. BRADLEY, +4 Teatparncmee Toporrepnic and Arcniiccoral, Drawing Sot odoin Pee wenn KING, LLB. OF _MATHEMATICS.—Algebra, Geometry, ry, ic Geometry, Cal- Sea eee? ts Rea course German language, conversation ana exten. Sive readings in modern and classic German, tp- science and. history. SCHOENPELD: Bip -ARTMENT OF ENGLISH.—Embracing Rhet- i * Deductive’ Logic, Modera’ iiistery Dissertations, Debates, ‘Essays. Prt. 8M SHUTE, DD. sa DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEFRING.—Com- Rete cues focnding Bulldng "and Land. Surveying, “Roads and Rat roads, Canals, ‘iivers, and’ Hetbors, “Tuma, “ais: Wooden, Iron and Steel + Engineer- Hisceriag: Extonaive, Designing’ Out dose Practe Soa Toss mal work: Prof. FRANCIS i of act 3 Fava, dr. GB, am So CE ARCHITECTURAL COURSES.—Elementa: and Advanced Drawing, Construction, Materiala, Per ive and Shadows, the Orders of Architecture, Ske Menatssance tn" Architectures ‘Prot FRANCIS RY Favs, 3: OF PHYSICS AND ELECTRICAL | DEPARTMENT INEERING.—Lectures and Lab te Work fe General ‘and “Construction of ¥. a. WOLFF, Jr, Ph. DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY.—Descriptive amt | Determipative Miveral Paysical Geslegh. te Fetical and practical, Bapectal’ attention elves to Economic Geology, Laboratory and ‘Work. | Prof. GEORGE P. MERRILL, Pn. D. j DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS. | Blemen' Principles Public and Private Fi- dance, ‘Folltical Eovnomy. Prof. A. F. CHAVEDS, Pb. D. or further tnormation auply to Prof. CHARLES: MUNROE, 8. Dean of the Soon a THE SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES Po D., Yo English, Giesk, tat = , th Mathematics, Mathematical Pig. fee, ot co PE ing te the Ydegeees of eelGlm pein Seay AaLLING, LL.D., President. COLUMBIAN UNIVERSITY. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. 72D SESSTO’ DENTAL DEPARTMENT. ‘MH SESSIO! ‘Both departments begin . Octov a 8 p.m. in the college building, 125 1 am, troductory ‘addresses by Prof’ 3. nea Eng ‘M.D., and L. C. F. Hugo, D.D.s, ‘The regular lectures begin ut 6:30 p.m. dally and continue seven months. new Chemical Laboratory, new Hi Laboratory, new Bacteriological Laboratory, each fornished’ with, improved apparatus, a” Minor Etgery Room, with four newly Imported manikine soda Students” Reading Too have. teen receatly Provided. Tue Dental Infirmary is" supplied with EIP“modern appliances. Araple clinical factilties. THE AUTUMN EXAMINATIONS WILL ht HELD aT THE COLLEGE ON THURSDAY, sSEP- TEMBER 28, A 7 P.M. For ‘apd ‘information ‘Dr. A. F. A. RING, ‘Dean, 1315 Mass. ave. n.w., Washington, D. C. Fach iocrs:'S to 10'.m, 4 toS pm eabtr MME. J. ESPUTA-DALY, voice culture and the note chain ars, ‘Teacher of re Ses: Teading tausic at sizht. Serge of voce! departinent st “Mie man's College, De MES. Z._D. BU 1427 Q st. nw. Vocal Culture'and ‘itarmony Clases a 9025 im abectalty. Ti |cDONALD-ELLIS SCHOOL, Tee Tta. street aud Massachusetts avemve Bagltsh and French Roarding and Lay School for young ladies od Little girls. Unosual ad- vantages ‘in literature, music and physical cul- tare. ‘The eleventh year begins Sept. 27, THus. For informa! address the principal, ao Duss ANNA ELLIS. ACADEMY OF HOLY CROSS, 1912 MASA. AVE., FOR YOUNG LADIES AND CHILDRE, WIM reopen September 11; every facility ts of. fered for a thorough conrse in the primarr end academic Gepartinent; also in music, 1 and instrumental. special aiteutivn paid to py) ‘culture. us WOOD'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, 40; EAST ‘Capitol et.; ninth year devoted to the of Women for business Ll situations for eat experience Pemparatory ect SELECR F. DALES Pa. D., ‘coun. | THE RERKELEY scHooL, lax WFINtER| ‘Head Master, 1735 I st. "n.w.. young men for West Point ao utness, IC VAPOR for rheumatiom apd ‘all nervous treubieas wer, with facial steaming and maser. i | THE HoOsPORD MEDICATE! bath, ‘treatment for catarrh | Ht aw voit ame MME. FRANCIS, CARD READER AND TRANGE fe from cradie to grave, Circles ye and Wednestays at S p.m. Sittings | anily, 10 to 9. 406 E. Cap. st. orn PROF. FANTLEROY, ‘THE GREAT MIND, CARD Pind Une of the nad render! tells Che events of Mfe; compels love, 1211 Del. ave. s.w.; benre, 10 to 7; eittings, 50e. octs-ai* (C AND MAGNETIC TREATWENT. Can. ca Mayen ate ned Nicoane, S0em Lath oe. SARA WAYOOTT. . Open Sunday. PROF. 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