Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1893, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 18983—TWELVE PAGES. 7 SICK PEOPLE CURED. Eminent Doctors at Your Service Not a Penny to Pay For the Fullest Medical Examinatio: Munyon’s Homeopathic Remedy Company em- diseases. Here is ove who has made a specialty of treating catarrh for over twenty years, and Another who is able to de- gk i ; : affections. of throat and lung complaints, failing to relieve at once They have treated suffering with painful complaints. they have made in debilitated people have schools to ponder with attracted sick people to state in the Union. Here REGGE {i t & | i i i dl Vitalizer imparts new life, restores to weak and debilitated men. Price, Complaints, Constipation, Piles, Nen- Asthma and all Female Complaints quickly accommodate those who sre in doubt ture of thelr diseases and who would examination by = skilled has brought to Wasbing- Hey 8 § g Rgygt bel i iti Byte i il it i f Parlors 37 and 39, Hotel, Entrance on F Street. 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Mme. M. Yale BEAUTY AND COMPLEXION SPECIALIST, 1110 F ST. N.W., ROOM 22, Washington, D. C. ec30,n01 Knocking ++ Spots is a part of my business. Season for having the spots taken out of Gentlemen's Suits. The buttonholes and linings kept in the original colors. A. F. Bornct Froach Steam Scourer and Dyer, 1103 G ST., N. W. SURELY CURED. To the Faitor—Please inform your readers that 1 havea positive remedy for the above named disease By tts timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. Ishall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy free toany of your Teaders who Baveconsumption ‘if they will send m and post office address, T. A. SLOCU Fearist.. New York. their express M. M. ¢., 183 jad-wout AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN. Rev. W. 0. Alexander Formally Installed at West Street Church. Canal Arrivals and Departures—Lin- thicum to Give an Entertainment— Last night Rev.W.C.Alexander of Prince- ton, N. J., who since September 1 has been im charge of the West Street Presbyterian Church, was formally installed as its pastor. The exercises attending the ceremony were impresstve and interesting. Rev. C. Alvin Smith, pastor of Peck Memorial Chapel, 28th and M streets, opened the services; Prof. Clark of Howard University, Washington, said prayer, and the Rev. Dr. Hamlin of the Church of the Covenant preached the in- Stallation sermon. Rev. Chas. B. Ramsdell of Washington made the charge to the new pastor. The Rev. Mr. Patch then made the charge to the congregation. It was a par- ticularly fine effort, full of reason and com- ™on sense, coupled with eloquence. Mr. Alexander, he said, was only human and, therefore, Hable to err. He asked those pres- ent not to condemn hastily a mistake, but to consider the time and circumstances al- ways. Congregations condemn pastors too frequently without a hearing, and yet the foundation of their religion is justice. There were many present within the church during the exercises, and when all was over the new pastor was kept busy for a long time receiving congratulations. Mr. Alexander is a splendid speaker and will, no doubt, prove a model pastor. He has been at the church but a few weeks, yet in that short time has endeared himself to all who have come in contact with him. Cai News. By way of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal the following coal-laden boats yesterday entered Georgetown: J. H. Mertens, Capt. T. Reed; W. Wise, Capt. H. Hagdare; Judge Stake, Capt. T. -Coy; Consolidation No. 8, Capt. J. Swain; No. 110, Capt. C. E. Swain; Garnett, F. S., Capt. F. Shupp; Granite jo. 1, Capt. G. Magruder. Yesterday there departed from George- town the following laden and light boats: L. B. Agnew, Capt. L. C. Myers; Three Brothers, Capt . Ingram; F. Flanagan, Capt. J. Moore; E. Mertens, Capt. 8. Dodd: No. 138, Capt. H. Bruner; No. 124, Capt. Mrs. Stephens; arid hal Capt. J. Zeiglet No. 127, Ci >. Swain; No. 137, Capt. R. C. Swat . 117, Capt. J. Snyder: H. H. Keedy, Capt. B. Jackson; R. D. Johnson, Capt. A. Mose; N 106, Capt. H. Swai Granite No. 2, Capt. J. Magruder. Boats to clear Cumberland yesterday with oes cargoes for Georgetown were as fol- Ww 8 No. 133, Capt. S. Stride, 120 tons; No. 118, Capt. J. M. Miles, U7 tons; W. B. Orme, Capt. R. Eaton, 118 tons; L. P. Read, Capt. J. Wright, 116 tons; H. L. Bond, jr., Capt. T. Ingram, 112 tons; A. Greenlees, Capt. J. Bryan, 116 tons; John Leetch, Capt. R. Ea- ton, 8 tons; C. W. Riley, Capt. J. Tice. 119 tons; A. W. Wilson, Capt. W. Hill, 125 tons: Anteros, Capt. E. Chancy, % tons; No. 134, Capt. W. Swain, 120 tons; W. T. Coulehan, Capt. W. Woodard, 116 tons. Linthicum Entertainment. Brookland promises to turn out in big numbers tomorrow night to witness the first visit of the popular “Linthicum stu- dents” of this place. They will appear at the town hall with the brightest of pro- grams and under the most efficient man- agement. Legitimate comedy, scenes from the sterner of Shakespeare's plays, farce comedy, exercises in elocution and bits of “darkeyism” combined with the terpsichor- ean work of the graceful Miss Daisy Ham- mack will furnish the greater part of the evening’s entertainment. Short Paragraphs. The Georgetown College retreat ended last night. Today the students have holi- day. Miss Emily Sherratt, who has been the guest of Mrs. Dr. Walmer of 3122 Dumbar- ton avenue, left yesterday for her home in Trenton, N. J. The Georgetown Courant is to be turned into a free weekly newspaper, to be kept up by the advertisers. One thousand copies will be distributed every Saturday. The new idea is receiving considerable sup- port. The Courant has been the only Strictly local paper Georgetown has had for some years. CLEANING ASGOW STREETS. A System That Might Well Be Foll ed Out Elsewhere. From the Chicago Journal. An article in Paving and Municipal En- gineering contains a brief description by Louis H. Gibson of the way in which the | city of Glasgow is kept clean, and it would be well for our officials to examine into the system, of which the writer speaks in the highest terms. So far as the streets are concerned,a member of the Glasgow street- cleaning department said that it was a mere matter of sweeping and gathering up. This work is pursued with such thorough- ness that it leaves little to be desired. All Tubbish, garbage and manure is taken to cleansing stations, of which there are three in the city. Each load of the stuf is weighed and the time of its arrival is marked down, so that the record will show whether a wagon has been over or under- loaded, and whether its trips have been made at proper intervals. Let us suppose now that a wagon has come in with a mosaic of ashes, offal, aml the miscellaneous household rubbish that is gathered from galvanized tron receptacles in Glasgow and from utterly inexcusable wooden boxes in Chicago. One lond is dumped near an opening which leads to a large revolving screen that is made of metal perforated with holes about one inch and a half in diameter, and that looks Itke an immense revolving coffee roaster. When | the refuse reaches this screen the dust and ashes and particles of coal and cinder pass through and fall upon a board set at an in- cline. Here a separation oc the light- er stuff dropping into a hopper below, and the lumps o and cinder passing over to a landing arranged for them. The coal that is saved in this manner more than suffices to keep the cleansiz works going, though the material handled in one of these houses every night amounts to 300 tons. Another source of profit Is the mixture of ashes, street manure and the product of vault cleaning, which is sold for fertilizing purposes, and brings in $i), 000 during the year. As the wtal cost of the department is only $400,000,this is a very large saving for the «ity The bulky rubbish which does not pass through the screen is carrie? off by a drag belt. Bones are sold as fertilizer, bottles and metal as junk, and cans have the tin and solder melted from th What then remains is burned in furnaces that have been built especially for this work. The mechanical contrivances that have been mentioned serve their purpose admira- bly and deserve consideration, but there is another factor in the cleaning of Glas- gow’s streets and alle that is of still greater importance. That {s the public- spirited manner in which the work 1s per- formed. A member of the town council said to Mr. Gibson: “I am quite dishearte ed at the work there is ahead of us. True, we have done a great deal, yet so much remains to be done that it is quite disturbing to contemplate it.” This was not a cry of despair. It was rather a recognition of re- sponsibility, behind which was the determi- nation to succeed. As Mr. Gibson says, it was indicative of a splendid spirit; the spirit that makes clean streets and keeps them clean; the spirit that develops a high order of sanitation, that protects the pe ple and leads them in the direction of more comfortable ving. Would that we had more of it in Chicago. _— ses iss Howard Seriously IL Miss Annie Howard, who on the Mth of hext month was to become the bride of Mayor Harrison, is dangerously 1Il, and there are great fears that she will never quite recover from the dreadful shock she has sustained. Never robust in health nor stroyg in nerve, she was completely pros- trated. When lay wounded his first ery was f je.” She came, and on his torn ar body threw herself in agony of grief. her lover died she fainted. Gentle hands took her from his side, and placed her on a couch. When she recover- ed she cried out against fate and begged that she, too, might die and go down into darkness with him. It required time and opiates to soothe her passionate grief, but eVen after con- sciousness had departed it could be seen that she was suffering from the most poignant physical anguish. | HIGH SCHOOL AFFAIRS. Movements in the Different Sections of Interest to All. Tomorrow afternoon companies E and I of the Business School, for the first time, practice the battalion formation and move- ments. The companies of the first battalion and F and G of the second have been drill- ing as two separate battalions for several weeks, and it is hoped that EB and 1 will pick up rapidly in the formation so that they can meet the other companies of the second and continue the formation on a larger scale. In fifteen days,begining with to- day, the uniforms must be delivered to the separate schools, and for all uniforms not completed by the end of that time the con- tractors must stand a small discount, which, if a long delay is caused, will amount up considerably from the price of each uni- form. From the way matters stand now the cadets will not have an opportunity to fin- ger the rifles until the latter part of this month. Owing to the refusal of the Centrals to Play, the game, which was scheduled for yesterday between that team and the Hast- erns, did not come off. This decides the first game of the season in favor of the Easterns, and the students at the main school are indignant at the action taken by their representatives. The debating society of the Eastern met this afternoon in class room 10, and the work of the last meeting, as to the advisa- bility of organizing a house from among the first and second years, was continued. Mr. Riordan of the Eastern conducted his first Indian club drill this afternoon. There were about thirty girls present, those hav- ing clubs sharing the use of them with the other girls, the purchased clubs not having arrived as yet. Yesterday morning the following young lady students of the Normal School, and all of the class of '93, Eastern, visited that school, and were entertained by their for- mer teachers: Misses D. Street, M. Swingle, E. Welch, M. Hughes, D. Allwine, D. Pum- phrey, M. Mahr, A. Hobgood, F. Hopkins, M. Holmes, F. Holmes and J. Fernald. Mr. Robert McKeldin was not elected to the presidency of the Entre Nous Club last Friday evening, as reported, but was unani- ™Mously voted for as secretary. Mr. Etz stated yesterday that he had not. given up all hopes of getting out a school Paper at the Eastern, although it is rather late in the year. If Mr. Etz succeeds in ob- taining a sufficient number of advertisers to back him he will probably run the busi- ness portion, while Miss Bessie Erly, one of the former editors of The Owl, will act in the capacity of editor-in-chief. Mr. Richmond returned to his duties at the Business this morning, and although not yet recovered from his injuries, he ex- presses his intention of also returning to the foot ball field. —— ANOTHER SUICIDE. Robert Langley Makes the Fifth in Five Days. For the fifth time in five days Coroner Woodward was last night called upon to view the remains of a suicide. This time the victim was Robert R. Langley, a lumber clerk, who used morphine as the means of removing him from this world. The first of the five victims was Miss Daisy Garland, who used a pistol as the means of taking her life. The cause of her act was thought to be a derangement of the mind, the re- sult of her strong religious feelings. Whisky figured in each of the other cases and the use of the liquor followed other troubles, either real or imaginary. The day after Miss Garland’s sad ending George Brust, a German baker, ended a protracted spree by hanging himself in an unoccupied house on L street. The suicides took a day off on Sunday, and Monday evening Walter Fink swallowed a dose of morphine. Like the baker, he had been indulging in spirits of a kind other than those that are said to appear at seances. Yesterday William Rob- irgon, the old soldier, Jumped into the lake in Soldiers’ Home, and last night Robert R. Langley swallowed a large dose of mor- Phine. Domestic troubles of this unfortu- nate man refused to drown in liquor and yesterday evening he went to his home on New Jersey avenue, said “good-by,” took poison and then passed away. Langley was about fifty years old and had been employ- ed at Smith’s lumber yard. It {s said that divorce proceedings were pending between the husband and wife. Mrs. Langley re- turned from a visit to the country only a few days ago and had company at the house last evening when the dying man told them good-by. No one thought for an instant that he had taken the poison, but when the deadly drug began to take effect Dr. Glad- mon was summoned. The man was too far gone for the doctor to revive him, and about 10 o'clock he died. Coroner Woodward view- ed the body and gave a certificate of death. A letter was found in the dead man’s pocket in which he said his rash act was the result of his domestic difficulties. —_ Working Up a Crowd. From the Detroit Free Press, There was an 21d white horse hitched to a loaded wagon standing on Monroe avenue yesterday, and the owrer of the rig was down on the ground with the lines in one hand and a whip in the other. “No wonder he balked with that big load o1 said a pedestrian, as he came to a sudden halt. “He's tired out, and that's what's the matter!” added a boy with some laundry work under his arm. “The man ought to be arrested!” said a stylish-looking woman who had paused to look commiseratingly at the horse. In two minutes twenty people had stopped. In three mirutes the crowd num- bered half a hundred. “Baste him with the whip!’ “Light a fire under him!” “Take him out of the thills and walk him around a circle three times!" “Don’t he know enough to blindfold the old nag and then blow in his ear!" The crowd said a great many other pleasant things, but none of them seemed to have any effect on the driver. He raised the whip two or three times and lowered it again. He also inspected the lines and the tugs and looked hard at the_belly-band. By and by, when the crowd numbered about elghty and a policeman was seen coming down the avenue, he climbed up on the seat, uttered a gentle “git up!” and the old horse walked off with the wagon as easy as grease running down hill. The man had played the crowd and there were no brick-bats to heave at him. ———_ e+ Mr. Roosevelt's Contribution, The news of the appointment of J. R. Roosevelt as secretary of embassy at Lon- don has caused much comment among lead- ing democrats at his home, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. One prominent democrat, who will not allow his name to be used, said: “Why, Roosey Roosevelt gave the democratic n: tional committee $10,000 in the Clevel: campaign. We all know it, and leaders here were mad at the time because be didn’t give it to the Dutchess county demucratic county committee, to be used here. 1 ein give you the names of men who know all about it, but I won't. When the national committee got it, the money was sent to the state committee. Mr. Roosevelt is in Eng- land now. One of his best friends knew of the gift shortly after it was made. Ail the leaders here have been canvassing the mat- ter tonight. I have just jeft some 5! them, but no reporter can get yihing ovt of them tonight. Of course, the national com- mittee will deny it, and so will the state committee, but it is true.” ———_+e-____ Mine Owners Propose Another Cut. The Mine Owners’ Association will meet in London on Friday. A proposal will be made to the miners to accept a 10 per cent reduction in wages forthwith and a further 10 per cent reduction on April Ist next. -— eo ——_ Might Have Shot the President. A Chicago special says: It is firmly believed here that the may- or’s assassin intended to go to Washington to kill the President. It so happened, how- ever, that the feeling that Mayor Harrison had done him a_ personal injury was stronger with him than anything else, and forgetting President Cleveland he gave up his trip to Washington, made his way into the presence of the mayor and shot him, ————-se- Franklin Haven of Boston Dead. Mr. Franklin Haven of Boston died sud- denly at Beverley yesterday morning, aged about ninety years. He was president of the Merchants’ National Bank for a con- tinuous period of fifty years, during which time he was one of the most conspicuous figures in financial circles. ——+e+—____ Sunk by a British Steamer. The British sieamer Frieda, from Ibrafl for Rotterdam, ran into and sank the ves- sel James De Busen off Ordenburg yester- day. Six of the crew of the latter vessel were drowned. ee ee The British squadron sailed from Spezzia Sunday for Malta, ITHE LITTLE TODDLERS. As They Take Their First Steps on the Road to Knowledge. Superintendent Powell Believes in Paying Teachers Without Regard to the Grade. The annual report of the superintendent of the public schools, Mr. W. B. Powell, is always an interesting document to the thousands of parents and others who are desirous of seeing the schools strengthened and made more efficiert. The District Com- missicners in their annual budget of esti- mates ask for the new buildings that may be needed and for the salaries and the other expenses of the system. In his an- nual report Mr. Powell discusses the gen- eral workings of the system and also points out improvements which may be made. ‘This year he will touch upon the advisa- bility of adopting the plan which has been urged in previous years of providing for the salaries of teachers without regard to the grade in which they teach. Under the present system the pay of teachers is determined by the grade to which they are assigned to teach, those in the first grade receiving the smallest pay and an increase being provided in each grade until the maximum salary is reached. The only way in which a teacher can se- cure more pay is by a change of grade. Mr. Powell believes that the basis of com- pensation can be profitably changed so that @ teacher can remain in one grade and yet receive the highest salary. The effect of the adoption of such a plan would be to make it possible to assign teachers to the grade for which they seem the best adapted. Trained Teachers Required. Some think that the first grade requires a higher degree of experience than the eighth grade and that the best teachers ought to be placed in charge of the little ones who are just making-a start on the road to an education and, therefore, it is urged, demand the guidance of the best trained teachers. Under the present sys- tem there is no choice but to place the new teachers, the graduates as a rule from the Normal School, in charge of the first grade, while the other teachers who have had the experience of years pass on to higher grades and necessarily higher pay. Con- gress has refused to make the change to what is sometimes termed longevity pay and so the best has been made of the sys- tem as it is. The lower grades are con- stantly supervised so that the inexperience of the teacher is corrected and guided and the best possible results obtained. There 1s another subject which Mr. Powell will discuss, and that is the extension of the public school system to those who are under the required school age. The law provides that pupils shall not be admitted to the schools under the age of six. It is believed by Mr. Powell that it will be found to be More economical in many ways if the chil- dren, or, at least, the class that do not re- celve much attention at home, could come under the influence of the training of the public schools at an earlier age and, there- fore, reduce the time that they would other- wise spend on the streets. Such a change in the law would require the addition to the school system of kindergarten schools. He is in favor of kindergarten in the public schools and believes that a beginning can be made in this direction without a large out- lay of money. Kindergarten Methods in Use. In many respects the instruction now giv- en in the first grade resembles the kinder- garten methods, but it is not allowed to admit children younger than six, and so the expansion of the first grade into a sort of primary school is prevented by the law. It would be possible to establish schools for younger children, without much additional expense, in the localities where there seems to be a demand for them, if it could be done without violation of the law. The improvement of the lower grades of the public schools in the particulars indi- cated will be advocated by Mr. Powell, and If he does not succeed tn securing the neces- sary legislation, he will continue in the future as in the past to give the best possi- ble service, making the lower grades as effi- clent as the most careful attention and supervision renders possible. Mr. Powell thinks that this city is now supplied with school buildings of a superior character and that the corps of teachers are notable for their intelligence and their skill and ability in the instruction of the young. ——_.__. A NOVEL GOLD-GATHERER. = Gold Saving Dredge in se on Suake River. From the Helena Independent. Extravagant stories are told about the wealth of gold sprinkled throughout the Snake river county in Idaho. As a gen- eral thing the gold is very fine, the particles being of so light weight as to be elusive. Save when worked on a large scale it 1s difficult to make good wages in recovering the gold. Numerous bars along the river would prove profitable could water be com- manded for sluicing or hydraulicing. An adequate supply Is hard to obtain, on ac- count of the slight and gradual fall of the stream and the level character of the out- lying lands. To overcome this lack of wa- ter as well as insure sufficient dumping ground, a big floating gold-saving dredge has been constructed and is now at work on the Idaho bank of the Snake river about ten miles above Payette. It ts a stern-wheel flatboat, Big Flona propelled by steam. Substantially constructed, sixty- five feet long and _ twenty-two feet wide, it is equipped with a thirty-five horse-power marine engine and _ boiler and adapted in every way for navigating Idaho's great waterway. With a slight alteration it could be transformed into a That has never been attempted. As in thi past, operations are now confined to work- ing ‘bars out of the bed or channel of the river. The method pursued is to anchor alongside one of these gravel deposits and by the use of scrapers bring the material washing machinery with which the craft is rigged. The gravel is scooped up by buckets attached to an endless chain. There are forty-eight of these receptacles on a belt sixty feet in length, and each has a capacity of about twenty pounds of dirt, which is delivered into & hopper. This is also an agitator, and the process employed may be described as a sieam rocker with the exception that it has an end motion in- stead of one sidewise. The gold is caught on copper plates with quicksilver. The tailings are carried off in sluice boxes by the force of a stream of water of 150 min- eral inches, supplied by a China pump, run by the engine which drives all the other machinery, The gravel is worked so thor- oughly that no gold escapes in the tailings that are dumped into the river. An aver- age of 100 tons of gravel are daily handled, and for this work three men are employed— an engineer, one to work the scraper and another one who shovels the dirt into a pile so that the buckets can scoop up a full load. The bar now being worked covers an area of ten to fifteen acres. The gold is on top or close to the surface, and will not pay to handle to a greater depth than one foot to eighteen inches. This shows a value of 11-2 to 3 cents a pan. A clean-up is made every night, and the average of the runs for the first three days was very sat- {sfactory to Thornton Williams, the owner of the craft. He says he expects to take out upwards of $19) a day as long as works, which will be until cold weather sets in. When he has gone over the bar which now engages his attention, he will tackle another. a M. de Giers, Russian minister of foreign affairs, has instructed Baron Mohrenheim, Russian ambassador, to thank, in the name of the czar, the French cabinet ministers and all classes of soctety. Porous Plaste Is THE BEST. % RELIEVES PROMPTLY and w 4, CURES QUICKEST. steam éredge and used to scoop up sand| and gravel from the bottom of the stream. | to be handled within the reach of the gold-| he} TERRAPIN SCARCE THIS YEAR. Indications That Those Who Eat It Will Pay Dear tor It. From the New York Times. ‘Those who enjoy the diamond-back ter- rapin this year will have to pay well for their pleasure. The sezson for catching terrapin does not open until the Ist of No- vember, but men have been prodding the marshes and dragging the rivers for them for several weeks. Their success has not been great, and they all say that the te rapin will be scarce. Last year the “coun’ terrapin, or those that measured six inches or over, sold for $60 a dozen, while extra fine ones brought from $7 to $10 each. Thirty years ago the same terrapin could be had in quantities In Baltimore for 50 cents apiece. The constant and heavy demands from New York and Chicago and even from London have sent up the prices. The in- crease in the number of banquets and ex- pensive dinners has had its effect. The Statesmen at Washington have a special fondness for terrapin. There are many kinds of terrapin, and the dish can be wonderfully cheapened by judicious mixing of common varieties with @ saving quantity of the Chesapeake arti- cle, and, unless this were done, one-half of the “terrapin a la Maryland” could not be upon the menus of banquets and dinners. The “sliders” of the south are generally psed for mixing purposes, and they can be had for about $8 or $10 a dozen. The real terrapin, however, is the diamond-back of the Chesapeake, and it gets its special qual- ities from local conditions, which no one exactly understands, but which are sup- Posed to be due to the growth of water- cress that gives the canvas-back duck of the same bay a value unknown to any other ducks in the world. A contest in terrapin cooking took place last year between the champion cooks of the clubs of Baltimore and Philadelphia. Each of these cities claims leadership in terrapin dishes, but they have radically different receipts. Baltimore exalts the raw article, and cooks it as plainly as possible. Philadelphia indulges in spices, cream, flour and wine. ‘Two rich young men of Baltimore and Philadelphia bet $100 each upon their re- spective cities. The terrapin experts of the two towns were enlisted in the contest. and they were busy for several months getting the finest terrapin that could be found. These were gentleman cooks, for the cook- ing of terrapin 1s a social accomplishment in Maryland, and many of the young men— those who can afford it—are noted for their skill. In the course of time the con- test came off, and Baltimore won by the handsome score of 10 to 6. The Baltimore cooking, supervised by Frank H. Hambleton, the engineer of the largest system of rapid transit in Balti- more, of which his father is president, pro- ceeded as follows: The terrapins were first boiled until the skin of the claws was sufficiently soft to rub off at the slightest touch. They were then taken out, and the shells were re- moved. The terrapins were opened, and every particle of entrails was thrown away. ‘The meat was placed in a chafing dish, and butter, pepper and salt were added. The contents of the dish were allowed to simmer until the essence and butter reached the consistency of Mght gravy. The dish was served while hot. Wine could be added afterward, but not in the cooking. The Philadelphians destroyed the flavor of their dish by the use of flour and spices and wine, and, finally, by putting on a cov- ering of rich Newberg dressing, which made the dish look and taste like any or- dinary salad. Some rich epicures get their terrapin supply at the beginning of the season. The terrapin is the cheapest boarder in the world. He will live on nothing the entire winter, and weigh the same in the spring |THE LONG BRID as he did in the fall. —— +o< HE DIED A HERO. A Painter Saves the Life of a Fellow- Work at the Expense of His Own. The death of James E. Brown, who board- ed at the northeast corner of Sth and Cher- Ty streets, Philadelphia, and who died on Saturday evening at the German Hospital, tells a story of a man who, on a high scaf- fold at 19th and Green streets, saved a com- rade’s life at the expense of his own. Brown and his companion were engaged painting on the scaffold on October 12,when the rope slipped at the companion’s end. “Look to yourself; never mind me,” Brown shouted, conscious that the weakened sup- port could not hold two men very long. The rope seemed to siip from Brown's grasp as his other arm was stretched out toward his friend, and he fell to the ground, suffering fatal internal injuries. His brother, Walter L. Brown of Atlantic City, told Coroner Ashbridge’s officials yes- terday that he had seen his brother before the latter died, and that James had said he attached no blame to anybody for the oc- currence,as they had erected the scaffolding themselves. The painter who was saved by his comrade’s heroism was seen by a Press reporter, but declined to speak of the oc- currence or to give his name. pensgansietien “aa Assignment of a Big Iron F: Francis B. Bannan of Pottsville, Pa, until recently an extensive iron founder, has made an assignment to the Schuyl- kill Real Estate Title Insurance and Trust Company. No schedule of the assets or liabilities has been made. SGT A Horrible Pictare of Low Life. In a squalid tenement on Jefferson street, Lowell, Mass., Monday, the police found Thomas Cummings, proprietor of the property, sixty years old, dead drunk on the floor, festering with disease. His son James was dead on a couch and no one knows how long he had lain there or of what he died, although appearances indi- cate that death was caused by heart dis- ease. The other inmates of the tenement was the daughter of Thomas, aged about forty, and she was demented. ro+ Disaster in a Corl Mine. Andrew Koseck, a miner, was instantly killed and Michael Burko and Sheridan Hilton were slightly burned in the Stanton mine near Wilkesbarre, Monday afternoon. The former was sitting on a box in the mine making a cartridge, and by his side stood a keg of powder, when a blast was fired. e pea W. H. Rile H. Riley & Co., New | York, was arrested Sunday on the steamer Umbria. He is charged with entering im- ported goods below their value, A PLEASANT SURPRISE is in store for you when buy Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pel- lets. ee ordinary liver pill, big and bulky, nasty too, you'd ap- late a good thing, espe- Indigestion, Constipation, Bil- iousness, Bilious Headaches, Sally. when it is sugar-coated, very effective. Other things being equal, the smallest is “ Pleasant Pellets.” If you are troubled with and a hundred and one ills tive liver,—use Dr. Pierce's Pellets. 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In his last annual report Gen. Casey, chief of engineers, referred briefly ‘to the con- dition of the Long bridge, as reported to him by Maj. C. E. L. B, Davis, the engineer officer in charge of the improvement of the Potomac river. Gen. Casey’s remarks have been printed in The Star, but Maj. Davis’ report on this particular subject has never been published until today. It is as follows: On June 30, 1892, the reconstruction of that part of the Long bridge which crosses the Washington channel on plans approv- ed by the Secretary of War had nearly been completed by the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company, but on filling the ap- Proaches with earth a decided settlement and movement of the abutments was de- veloped. The movement in the south abut- ment was so serious that the abutment was taken down to the water level and rebuilt. In order to prevent further movement, large numbers of piles were driven in the bed of the river between the pier and the atutments. The connection between the wing walls of the new bridge and those of the reservoir outlet has not yet been made by the railroad company. It is advisable, however, that this work be deferred until all danger of further movement in the bridge abutments has passed. The project for the improvement of the Potomac river provided for rebuilding the Long bridge over the Virginia channel, “with wide spans upon piers offering the least possible resistance to the flow of water.” As the improvement progresses the necessity for this becomes more and more urgent. The existing structure is an obstruction to navigation, in that the draw is not properiy located, the direction of the opening being oblique to that of the tm- proved channel. The piers of the bridge are more numerous than are necessary im a strugture built according to modern plans, and are in a direction oblique to the tow of freshets. Furthermore, they are surrounded by great quantiles of riprap stone, which has been deposited around them from time to time to protect the 1t is estimated that below low-tide the natural discharge area of the Potomac river at Long bridge is reduced over 30 per cent by the piers and their toundations as they exist today. Long bridge, on account of its faulty con- struction, remains a constant menace to the interests on the river front above it, and also to the work of improvement of the flats, upon which the government has al- | ready spent a large sum. In the event of freshet occurring while the river is full of ice, the most serious results are to be ap- prehended, and such a contingency is not at all unlikely, Should an ice gorge form at Long bridge, it would back up the waters of the river and overfiow portions of the city front and, through the sewers above the bridge, such of the lower parts of the city as are drained by them. During the freshet of June, 1889, the water reached a height at Long bridge of about thirteen feet above low tide. The street surface at ith and B streets northwest is about eight feet above low tide, and during the freshet referred to the water was about five feet deep in the street at thai locality. Great damage was done by the freshet of 1889, but greater damage may occur from a freshet of lesser magnitude if accompanied by an ice gorge. The bridge should be re- built as recommended by the board of en- gineers. Gives anc others knowthat lard make food too Trich” for Children and deli- cate persons, that it is unhealthy for every body § that it fends lo dyspepsia, gc. ° lon as LARD is LARD these thinas must be So, but the WWEW HORTENING — Goftorene is betier than lard for all’ Cooking purposes, § has none of the evil effects of lard. Beware of imitations -Get the Genuins, Made only by N. K. FAIRBANK & CO., - CHICAGO and ST. LOUIS. 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One woman solved the problem most satisfactorily by coloring her old drab cloth circular a rich, hand- Some brown with a package of diamond dyes, thus actually getting a ten-dollar cape for ten centa, The druggists report a greatly increased sale for diamond dyes this fall, and say they have com- pletely superseded the old-fashioned methods with logwood, fustic, indigo, etc. On each envelope te Printed full directions, so plain and explicit that any one can use these dyes with perfect success. | For nearly a score of years diamond dyes have | been helping women to dress well at small expense, and st is ratural that their great success should have brought many short-lived imitations upon the market. These would claim to make fast colors, it the light fades them; they adulterated their dye to make the package look lange, but actual use proved they could color less than half as much &s the diamond; and offering a large proBt, they se red agents or peddlers to sell them, but @ woman never bought them # second time, Diamond @yes come in nearly fifty colors, spe- cially prepared for wool, silk and cotton, a ten-cent package coloring from one to ten pounds of goods. | No other dyes are ‘trong, nothing else so simple, and none so fast and trae in color. No woman can afford to risk her goods with imitations, eapectally | when the original diamond dyes are admittedly far superior. ‘Truly Appalling Is this a calamity-stricken clty—where receivers reap a rich harvest? Have manufacturers’ Josses } and Chicago baukraptey cases wrought 0 fear- fully upon our retailers that, driven to Gesperation, they are making wanton sacrifice of their wares? 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