Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1893, Page 7

THE EVEN G STAR: WASHINGTON D. €. MONDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1893—-TWELVE PAGES. Burn Coke?| It “starts” almost instantly and makes a very bot fire. It is the most economical of all fuels. 40 "Sttrered tort’ “*" $3.70 ™ = : 25 Bustets Crusnea for..... 92-50 Ten cents per bushel. 4 pusdeis, not crushed, tor. 92-QO Seven and one-fourth cents ee ge Washington Gaslight Co., 1 413 toth St. N. W Open Evenings until Christmas. Shattered Prices —aT— PERRY’S. AST week made us @ lot of remnants in eur DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT. We never had such prosounced indorsement of var superior taste and judgment as has been ex- pressed in the unusually large business we have Gone this season—in spite of all the drawbacks. ‘What we call “remnants” in DRESS GOODS are not a yard or two-but a piece or two. Enough te supply one or two of you with lengths enough for elaborate gowns. ‘This offering numbers tome of the choicest effects we have. We are really sorry to seo the last of them. But there is no more to be bad this season. Our exclusive rule works to our own disadvantage sometimes. It makes a waste of these “last ends." ‘Still the fush of the success we have had atones for the loss to come.. i solers 36-inch ALL-WOOL CHECKS—plair and plaids— Were Bde. NOW 39e . 38-inch ALL-WOOL PLAIDS— - Were 75e. NOW 50e. -inch ALL-WOOL PLAID CHEVIOTS— Were $1.15. NOW bbe. 29-inch NOVELTY SPOT CHEVIOT—only me style left— Was $1.00. NOW Sve. 40-inch ALL-WUOL CAMEL'S HAIR— Black and White—one piece left— Was $1.50. NOW 50c. 3S-inch ALL-WOOL DIAGONALS—Green, Navy and Blue, and Brown—plain colors— Were toe. NOW Sve. SQ-ineh ALL-WOOL CHEVIOTS — Navy Blue and Gray— Heliotrope and Green— Were $1.25. NOW $1.00. 40-inch SILK and WOOL CHEVRON STKIPES—Navy Blue, Brown and Wine— Were $1.25. NOW $1.00. 42-inch SILK WEAVES — Garnet with silk— and WOOL FANCY and Heliotrope—shot Were $1.60. NOW $1.25. inch SILK and WOOL OTTOMAN— @age and Heliotrope— Were $2.50. NOW $2.00. 46-incb SILK and WOOL BASKET CLOTU only i» Garnet— Was $2.25. NOW $2.00. 42inch ILLUMINATED HOP SACKING— Green, Blue and Red— $1.50 Bronze Pocket Cigarette Holders. $1.00 Pocket Napkin Rings. = ~~ wae ' AUW POPULAR SHOPPING PLACE, 416 7TH ST. To Get A Present Free Yow have only to purchase $1.00 or over on your shop- ping tickets, and we present you with a pretty orna- ment. Presents to Children. Bring them in--we give every child a present, and have many articles which wiil make their hearts glad. Baum’s, Japanese ae Ware Sold to Pay Duties. We secured the entire lot, and offer it now for one= third and one-half its value. A short time ago an im-= porter received his Fall con- signment of goods for the holiday trade, and was not then able to pay even the custom dutiesonsame. He raised the money to take them out of the custom | house, and immediately | sold the entire lot at auc- tion to reimburse the par- ties from whom he had bor: | rowed the money. We bought the entire lot at prices which would hardly pay for the duties on the| same. Below are a few of what we are offering-=by cold| type you can get no idea of the beauty and artistic! value of the articles we) offer. Baum’s, 416 7TH ST. $5.98 and $10.50 $3.00 Bronze Photo. 1.00 Brouze Photo. Frames. 00 Cigar Stands. 50 Trays for bureau, cards, & ‘Trays for bureau, cants, &e 75e. Bronze Pocket Match Boxes and 36 Handsome Fire Sc Were $3.00. $1.50 Fire, Screens. Fe NOW $2.50. Bronze . — unique aod very fine. 52.25, (#inch OMBRE STRIPES— $8.00 Bronze Candelabras 1-50 Were $2.00. NOW $1.50. 42-imecb SILK aud WOUL NATTE—two Were $2.00. NOW $1.50. 46-inch SILK aud WOOL “LOIE FULLER” Geeen aud Mageuta and Green and Helio trope— Were $2.75. NOW $2.25. 46-inch SILK and WOOL NOVELTY ‘STRIPES—Wine— Were $2.00. NOW $1.50. 48-inch BROWN, BLUE and GREEN MATELASSE— Were $1.75. NOW $1.00. 46-inch DIAGONAL STRIPES—Brown and Blue— Were $2.00. NOW $1.50. Paris Robes. The few we have left of these rich French concelts—that bave sold at $20, $25, $33 aad $40—are in this special offering at #10. Don’t do the unwise thing of waiting until you &re coming down town. These values at these! Off. Prices are worthy = special errand. Just think what @ maguificent wardrobe you can build from the “ashes” of the season's successes. PERRY’S, Ninth And The Avenue. Fyeabitehed 1800, Telephone 95. INNNNN NNNNNNN NNNNNNNN NNNNN: Kimon Nicolaides’ © Sapatoca Jaraxese MPORIUM, N Xx LLRLLL 1205 F St. j5°ss $1.00 Pant: “Christmas Presents.”? §| #5 Panu. The best Christmas present pa, brother or male friend is one of our Beau- tiful Smoking Juckets—platn or embrofd- ered--sure to be appreciated by any man. Mamma'’s or sister's present is easily se- Jected—what is more suitable than a Beau- tiful Embroidered Robe de Chambray--their will attract- you. Silk Hundkerebtefs, embroidered or plain, Be. to $10. to $1 iD for Beautiful Silk Shawls, $1 Everything marked in N. B.-The $50,000 on free exhibition. 100. | BAALLALLALABLAELELLELAELLAABEBLEEAELELED ae wenane NNNNNNN NNN! It’s Golden “Tim We're Talking About. Only $18.50 you wish Christmas N e’ % ral NNNNNN NNNN - to make a handsou mething that will hroughout Ife, to your sister or “best girl” ur purpose better F money than a 14- D HUNTING € © Elgin or Waltham fully warranted. Our 19.50 w 25. . eeeeeee TH Al poarded for nd att@tion. Car ‘Telephone 529, ki tickets are on every gar- | De Sacrificing Our Boys’ Clothing. I=4, 25 Per Ct., Off Parked Prices. We have determined to close out our entire stock of boys’ clothing at once, and not wait with our sacrifice sale until January. We wish it distinctly un-= derstood that when we say 1=4 OFF marked prices that we give you the one-quar- ter off, without tampering or changing the price tick- ets in the least. You see many sales of boys clothing at one-third or one-half We could do the same =-could easily mark a $6 suit $10 and then sell it for $5. But our reputation in Washington was not built up by business of that nd. The original price ment, and the prices there marked are as low--if not lower=-than you can buy a similar garment for else- where. $2.25 Suits and Overcoats. Holiday Book Sale. To those who have never visited our Partment we kindly ask « call. the second largest in the U. 8., Stocked with the latest publications. NOT ONLY 3 HOLIDAY SEASON, BUT ALL THE YESR ROUND, and our prices are the lowest. Macauley’s History of +» ub- Used at $5, whole set for. Hawthorne's Works, 5 vols. pub. et $6.50, whole Dickens’ Works 3 for George Elie ks, 6 vols. whole set for... Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales, 5 vols Plutarch’s Lives, 3 vols. Gibbons’ History of Rom Prescott’s ( Prescott’s Conuest of Mexico, 3 vols Prescott's Ferdinand and Ik gold, hnwe “2 B28 ore’s Illustrated Book: Dante's Inferno, Paradise........ Alex. Dumas? “Wort vol: Bulwer Lytton'’s Works, 18 Ruskin's Works, Se Wave 2 Stories of Venice. kin's Modern Painters. - Large line of Mlustrated Books for Children, 10e. Also the largest collection of Finely Round Sets, qW Single Volumes, Finely Mnstrated Books, &c., at ‘h below what you would have to pay 9 PAU M D> POPULAR SHOPPING 416 7TH ST. HeJoven (QUICK POLICE WORK. good bread, hie, and pastry, but his ee petal ate. Sijoves To cook, but was Tired and sick of the. taste and smell of lard, phe bought Cottolene, (the new Shortening) and HEYIOVED more than ever, be-~ Cause She made better food and he could eat it Without any unpleasant after effect, Now— Trev ARE Naeey,,. having found the BEST, and most healthful Shorte ening ever made — C OTTOLENE. Made only by N. K. FAIRBANK & CO., CHICAGO and ST. LOUIS. COSESSSSACETAGAAS Grand National Prise at Paria, of 16,600 francs to T. LAROCHE, QUINA-LARCCHE, HIGHLY ENDORSED bythe medical faculty of For Convales: PARIS: 22 rue Drouot. ‘ E. FOUGERA &CO., AGENTS FOR THE U.S. 30 North William St. N.Y. EAT QUAKER OATS SUITABLE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. About this time you are probably puzzled to know what to buy. We beg to call your attention to the following articles, many Of which we are sole agents for, and any of which are very appropriate for a Christ- mas gift. STEWART'S CELEBRATED BANJOS. WASHBURN GUITARS, MANDOLINS AND BANJOS. GLIER VIOLINS. AUTOHARPS OF ALL KINDS. REUMUTH MUSIC FOLIOS, MUSIC ROLLS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. FINE LEATHER CANES FOR BANJOS, GUITARS, MANDOLINS, VIOLINS, AUTOHARPS, &c. PIANO STOOLS. PIANO COVERS. MUSIC CABINETS. MUSIC BOOKS, WITH AND WITHOUT WorDS. MUSIC BOXES FROM 50 CENTS UPWARD. FLUTES, FIPES, FLAGEOLETS, ACCORDEONS, . BUC AT THE LOWEST ROCK BOTTOM PREVAILING PANIC PRICES. Please call and examine our stock whether you purchase or not. Store open this week until 8 p.m., next week until 10 p.m. John F. Ellis &Co., 937 Pa. Ave., Near oth St. dé-16t A FEAST FOR LADIES. Wt HAVE RECEIVED ANOTHER LARGE LOT OF LADIES’ SAMPLE SHOES AND SLIPPERS OF THE CELEBRATED MAKE OF A. F. SMITH. THIS IS THE FINEST LOT OF SAMPLES WE HAVE EVER SHOWN, AND WILL CERTAINLY PLEASE THE LADIES WHO WEAR A 3 OR 3%, A, B OR C LAST. AS USUAL, WE SHALL SELL THESE SAMPLES AT LESS THAN COST TO MAN- UFACTURE, WHICH WILL BE A SAVING TO YOU OF FROM $1 TO $2 ON EVERY PAIR PURCHASED. THE WARREN SHOE HOUSE (GEO. W. RICH), 919 F STREET N.W. 7 The People’s Resort for Genuine Bargains. Get the Best. THE GONCORD HARNESS, LUTZ & BRO., 407 Penn. ave., adjoining National Hotel. Horse Blankets and Lap Robes at low prices. per —— Capture of the Paris Bomb Thrower, | Who Confesses, HOW HE ATTRACTED SUSPICION, | ——— Clue Which the Detectives Care- fully Worked. ge HE ADMITTED ALL. FINALLY The Paris authorities announce that they have the bomb thrower in custody. The miscreant is named Vaillant; he is an an- archist, and has made a full confession. News to the effect that the bomb thrower was in the hands of the police was circulat- ed at noon yesterday, but the report was not confirmed until the official announcement was made last evening. Vaillant, it appears, was among the in- jured persons taken to the Hotel Dieu, the large hospital on the north side of the Place du Parvis Notre Dame. He soon fell under the suspicion of the authorities, and, press- ed by the prefect of police, he decided to tnake a full confession, and did so, giorying | in his dastardly crime. How He W: Detected. ‘The discovery of the anarchist fiend was made in the tollowing manner: Among the persons questioned by the po- lice Saturday evening was a man whose nose was aimost biown off by the explosion | of the bomb in the chamber of deputies Saturday afternoon, as described in The Star’s dispatches. The suspect gave the name of Vaillant, and said that he lived at Choisy-le-Roy. This man, who was atiend- ed by the pnysicians summoned to the re- treshment room of the chamber after the explosion, Was taken to the Hotel Dieu, af- | ter being examined by the prefect of police. At the hospital mentioned the suspect was | carefully watched by four detectives, and it was noticed that he gave the name of Mar- chal when his “pedigree” was taken upon entering the Hotel Dicu. This was reported to the authorities and confirmed the suspi- cions already entertained regarding the wounded man, and several detectives were immediately started out with instructions to spend the night in estabilshing the identity of Vaillant or Marchal, aad to furnish a complete report of the man and his sur- roundings. This wes done. The detectives worked quickly and cieverly on the case, and by morning the prefect of police was in posses- sion of several reports concerning the sus- pect which, upon being joined together and condensed, made it clear to the authoritics that the man in the Hotel Dieu was a dan- gerous anarchist named Vaillant, who was born in Mezieres, a strongly fortified town of about 5,000 population, in the department of Ardennes. Vaillant, it was also reported by the po- | lice, was thirty-two years of age and had lived a roving life. During this roving Vail- | lant passed several years in Buenos Ayres, | and in 1887 he returned to France and mar- | ried, and now has two children. Vaillant, however, soon deserted his wife. A Bitter Anarchist. Since 1884 Vaillant has been identified with the extremest branch of the socialists and with the anarchist groups. He made himself prominent by the Incendiary nature of his speeches and by his bitter denunctia- tions of the bourgeoise, and eventually be- | came a member of the committee of the} revolutionary socialist group of the eigh- teenth Arrondissement of Paris. This, in brief, is the cream of the report of the de- tectives:-who worked up the case during the past night. Early in the day M. Lepine, the prefect | of police, the public prosecutor and the ex- amining magistrate visited the Hotel Dieu, and had a long interview with Vaillant, who at first protested lis innocence, and was quite indignant, apparently, at the nature of the questions put to him by the different officials. The Man Confesses. Finally the public prosecutor said to the suspect: “Your name fs Vaillant, and not Merchal, as you claimed when you came to the hos- pital.” After a moment of hesitation the suspect- ed man admitted his identity and confessed | that he had thrown the bomb, which, in ex- | ploding, wounded nearly a hundred people in the chamber of deputies Saturday after- noon. When questioned as to his reasons for at- tempting to take the lives of so many peo- ple, Vaillant replied, defiantly: “I wished to deal a thoroughly dramatic blow at the institutions of the country, and wished to cause @ great sensation. I en- deavored to aim the bomb at M. Dupuy. (The president of the chamber of deputies.) I glory in the act, and I only regret that my hand swerved and that the bomb did not explode near the mark.” Vaillant is a big blonde man with a heavy mustache and a hardened expression of countenance. Vaillant said the bomb he used was a lit- tle iron sauce-pan, which he bought at a bazaar near the Hotel De Ville quite re- cently. The bomb seuce-pan when loaded | contained, he said, ‘‘a number of nails which you found on the floor of the chamber. In- side the sauce-pan was a tube with a com- pressed center. In the tube were picric acid and prussiate of soda, these being separated at the point where the tube was compressed by @ small ball of cotton saturated with sul- phuric acid, which, at a given moment, would be consumed by the sulphuric acid, thus allowing the picric and prussiate to mix and cause an explosion.” The anarchist then described, in detail, a variety of objects which, he said, would be found in his lodgings at the Hotel De rUnion, No. 70 Rue Daguerre, where Vail- | lant If under the name of Marchal. “But,” Vaillant added, “if you are going to search my room, you had better be careful | in disturbing things, unless you want to be blown to pieces. I advise you, especially, to be careful in handling a box, which is full of explosives.” In consequence of this declaration, M. Roullier, Lepine and Meyer, the examining judge, accompanied by the commissary of police and Clement, went to the Hotel Del VUnion, and ascertained there that Vail- lant had eight days previously hired a fur- nished room at that establishment. Upon proceeding to search this room the authori- ties found a number of nails exactly similar to those found scattered about the chamber of deputies after the explosion; they also found a sauce-pan like the one described by Vaillant, and which he had evidently dls- carded because it was a trifle too large to be carried about without danger of detec- tion. Continuing the search, the authorities found the trunk mentioned by Vaillant and opened it cautiously, but they found that it did not contain any explosives. He Had No Accomplices. The articles mentioned, as well as a num- ber of others found in Vaillant’s room, were conveyed to an apartment in the law courts, where they were placed under seal pending further investigation. The officials charged with the investigation of the explosion have ascertained that Vaillant has been decidedly mysterious in his movements recently, and that he was out @ great deal and rarely spoke to the people in the hotel. Vaillant continues to pretend to be utterly indifferent as to the consequences of his | crime, and speaks of it as though it did not concern him In the slightest. experienced detectives, whose duty it is to devote themselves entirely to watching anarchists and reporting upon their doings and sayings, express the belief that Vail- lant had a number of accomplices. But Vaillant replies to all questions on this sub- ject with the remark: “You need not put yourself to the trouble of searching for accomplices. I alone did the deed.” Suspects Released. All the slightly injured people whom the Police detained at the Hotel de Ville, unless suspected of some connection with the ex- plosion, were released late in the afternoon. The condition of the injured is satisfac- tory, and it is now hoped that no lives will be lost through the explosion. The Wounded Deputies. Deputy Lemire is still confined to his bed, and has not been able to remove the ban- dages from his wound. In an interview, | Abbe Lemire said that he hoped soon to be able to resume his duties. Several other of the wounded deputies | were visited, and they were also found to be | Progressing towards recovery. Deputy Montebello, who was also called bing his upon by a correspondent, in deseri! experience Saturday afternoon, said “When the bomb was thrown I happened to be looking up toward the gallery and saw a vivid flash of fire, which was followed by a loud report. The explosion occurred in the air, between the first and second gal- leries, and instantly the hall was filled with a dense smoke, which caused a horrible smell and made people cough and half choked them. When the smoke had cleared away we saw that the seats and the clothes of the deputies were covered with dust and with fragments of plaster, while the floor was strewn with nails,”” Saved by a Wom: A woman who sat next to Vaillant, see- ing him prepare to throw the bomb, tried to seize his arm. She failed in the attempt, but spoiled his aim. The bomb struck the cornice of the public gallery and exploded. Vaillant’s injurics were so severe that he fell to the floor. When the panic started in the chamber he tried, as did many others, to escape, but was prevented by the jani- tors. In concluding his confession Vaillant said: “I am sorry I failed. I hope others who follow me will be more fortunate. Long live anarchy.” —e0 WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT. The Work That Has Been Accom ed in the Past Month. Col. George H. Elliot, corps of engineers, has made a@ report to the chief of engi- neers of operations on the Washington aqueduct during the month of November. Only routine work was done at the dam and other works at Great Falls and on the conduit and the Conduit road. As a means of preventing freezing and bursting of mains during the winter constant-running air valves were established at thé following 34th and M streets, 824 and M 24th and M streets, Dupont Circle, 14th and R streets, and 3d and East Capi- tol streets. The experience of last winter, when the frost penetrated the ground to the depth of four feet, Col. Elliot says, shows the necessity of these precautions. The tel ~phone line has been repaired and is now in good order. During December it is proposed to make repairs to the Conduit road. ‘The excavation of the main drainage tun- nel under Delecarlia Hill for the improve- ment of the receiving reservolr was carried on night and day during the entire month. The tunnel heading was excavated for distance of 145 feet, and the bench was tak. en up for a distance of 145 feet. The total length of heading excavated since the be- ginning of the work to the end of the month | was 509 feet, and the total length of bench | taken up was 487 feet. The heading of the j drainage tunnel is about 106 feet from the point where it will pass under tunnel No. 4 of the Washington aqueduct, which also passes unde> Delecariia Hill, and especial precautions will be taken in excavating this part of the work to avold damage to the lat- ter by the dynamite discharges in the former tunnel. The excavation of the shaft in the valley of Little Falls branch was con- tinued with one shift at work on November 1 and 2, when the work was temporarily suspended by reason of the hand pumps not | being able to keep the shaft free from wa- | ter. The hoisting engine recently purchased for the work. which was set up on Novem- ber 6, enabled the use of a steam jet pump, and the excavating was resumed November 7, with two shifts at work. A third shift was put on November 10. The total depth of shaft excavated since the beginning of the work is 39.5 feet, and the total depth of shaft timbered is ‘4.6 feet. The excavation of tunnel and shaft will be cont.nued during December. + e+ WOULD HAVE BEEN A COWARD. How Mr. Egan Would Have Viewed Himself Had He Acted Differently. Patrick Egan, ex-minister to Chile, has made an- answer to that part of President Cleveland's message which states that when he (Egan) received into the Jegation in an attempt at revolution, and against whom criminal charges were pending, he encour- aged sedition and strife, and the action was unauthorized and not sanctioned by prece- dent. Mr. Egan reviewed the facts in the case, and sustains his acts by quoting from the resolution adopted by the South American international congress, held in 1888, which appertains to the question of asylum by ministers. He also said that there was much doubt as to the criminal charges against the refu- wees. ‘ Mr. Egan then said: “In view of all those facts, I felt then, and I fee] now, th: my action in receiving Messieurs Fuenti and Blanlot-Holley into my official ret dence as refugees was most amply author- ized, and not only that, but I feel that if I ‘had refused to admit them, and they had been killed on the street, as I had every reason to anticipate, I should deserve to be, and I would be, branded by the great mass of the American people as a poltroon and a coward. io The Bermuda Market. “Ten years ago,” says Mr. John H. Grout, United States consul at Hamilton, Ber- muda, in a report to the State Department, “a firm in the United States practically con- trolled the market in Bermuda for supplying shooks for onions, beets and tomatoes. To- day this trade is almost wholly in the hands of Canadian firms. “It rests wholly with American manu- facturers to decide whether the trade is worth having, and also whether they can place their goods on the market here at as cheap a cost to the consumer as the Cana- dian manufacturer. “The demand for shooks begins here about the first of January and ends the latter part of June, the end of the crop season. “Should any of our manufacturers decide to compete for the trade, it need not be ex- pected that the matter can be settled the first year, nor perhaps the second; but with a little perseverance much may be done even in these years, and an improvement may reasonably be expected in the following years. “It would be an excellent plan to send rep- resentatives here to look over the field and investigate the condition and needs of the market, as by that means the conditions attending the manufacturing end could be brought into comparison with those of the landing and consumption.” Time to Consider. “Jedze, yo’ honor,” remarked Frank Will- jams, a colored boy, to Judge Miller this morning, “I didn’t steal dem clo’s,” when charged with stealing a suit of clothes from W. H. Ward. “The officer says they were found in your house. How did they get there?” “Well, it was jus’ lke dis: A boy come ‘long an’ say to me, ‘pardner, keep dese yer clo’s till I come fer em.’ I lock ‘em up in de house, but he don’t come.” “Well, young man,” remarked the court, “the next time a boy asks you to do that you get away from him, even if you have to jump over a fence to do so. You can have six months in which to consider my ad- vice.” ~~ e0e- Baby Ruth Photographed. From New York Cor. Baltimore Sun. The following story, which carries a very evident moral, as well a8 a rebuke to many offenders against good taste and the decen- cles of polite conduct, is told today: Ever since litue Ruth Cleveland arrived st the age of vaccination, baptism and photogra- phy, usually concurrent periods, the leading photographers of the country have had am- bitions to try their cameras on the little girl. Whenever she appeared in public a whole battery of kodaks was awaiting an opportune moment for a “‘snap shot.” Mrs. Clevelend has wanted a g picture and romized a New York artist, through Mrs. barn ont, that he should have the opportu- Feeling that “hope long deferred maketh the heart sick,” the photographer recently reminded Mrs. Lamont of her promise. Mrs. Lamont replied: “I’ve kept my promise, and you personally, but unknowingly, posed lit- tle Ruth, made a number of excellent nega- tives and the family are delighted. A woman has outwitted you!” “Superior quality of Medicinal For Pianters,” “Thismakee 48 Highest awards to CHEMISTS, mew YORK. Chile two perscns who had just failed in| 7 |OUR IDEALS AND | Rev. Louis Stern Lectures Forcibly Be- fore Young Hebrews. He Attac! Many 19th Century Ideals, Thinks We Are Not Progress- ing Rapidly—Happy Homes. Rev. Louis Stern lectured last night at the Eighth Street Synagogue, under the auspices of the Young Men’s Hebrew As- | sociation, on “Ideals and Idols.” He said: “Ours is eminently a practical age. It has been styled an age of reason, disclaiming cal and dealing with plain, sober facts only. The problems which in our days the human mind is bent on solving, appertain chiefly, if not exclusively, to the realities of life; the practical conditions surrounding us. The social question in its relation to capital nd labor, employers and employes; the per- plexing financial question; questions ap- pertaining to public health and comfort; the advancement of science, commerce and industry; all these and others kindred in their nature occupy the human mind as its chief concern. For the satisfactory solution of most of these questions the age seems | peculiarly adapted. Numerous and varied jare the channels of education for the in- | formation of the masses and the molding }of public opinion. Schools and colleges, a vastly extensive literature, press, platform and pulpit, all are the mediums for dis- semination of knowledge in city, village and | hamlet among all classes of society.” Restraints Removed. Mr. Stern said that the limpid waters of | the stream of knowledge, once backed up in convents and monasteries, have burst their restraint; where but few drank form- erly, millions now slake their thirst. ‘The plain mechenic and the humble day laborer of today | tions considered in days gone by the pre- | rogative of a favored few. Nor was liberal} ; education, said Mr. Stern, the only factor ‘in bringing about the better order of things. | Steam and electricity have revolutionized the world. The age has been prolific in startling inventions. Night was turned into |day under the dazzling rays of our electric (suns. Here he referred to many inventions, | phonograph, telephone, etc. | An Age of Real | In an age where utility is the watchword, jand realism the keynote, there idealism, | the finer and subtler aspirations of the hu- man soul, can hardly find due consideration. |e was not forgetful of the fact that the |ideals of the true, the good and the beauti- | ful were still exerting their benign and en- | nobling influences. Polite literature, poetry | and the fine arts counted their votaries and | disciples by the thousand. Shrines of wor- | ship increasing in number and improving in | architecture seemed to indicate that relig- | ion still exercised a powerful hold upon the | masses. Look upon our modern system of practical charity. He was not opposéd to organized charity, but wanted to illustrate how the realism of our age encroached upon | every sphere of activity and life. To better understand the word ideal, commonly de- fined “standard or model of perfection,” he said that the history‘of mankind in general, and of Judaism in particular, showed throughout a leaning toward both extremes, some following ideals, some idols. The first Jew was the first iconoclast. The suctess- ors of Abraham, Israel's great leaders, teachers, prophets and psalmists, followed jin his footsteps. Their labors were not in | vain. The world had steadily progressed in | wisdom, experience and Knowledge. Nor | would he deny the steady moral improve- ment of the human race, generally. But the highest ideals votced thousands of years ago are even today not realized. Monothe- istic believers though we be, we still stoop to worship idols. Mr. Stern said that we are given to self-worehip. To the old maxim, “Know thyself,” we paid too little heed, collectively as well as individually. Not Progressing. We are prone to indulge, to extol and over- estimate the age in which we live. We are often blind to its defects. Nineteenth cen- tury “civilization,” “enlightenment,” were words that we were constantly spelling with capital letters, ‘ The century was rapidly nearing its close, with the social question unsolved and the dividing lines between wealth and povert$ | more sharply drawn than ever. We had not progressed one inch toward the ideal. We | Were not ready to turn our swords into {ploughshares. Our finest steel was forged into modern guns and armor plates and the | day was not far off when we could boast of | @ navy that could cope with any sailed by a European power. The Russian Crime. “Nor is the blackest of all modern crimes,” said Mr. Stern, “the relentless persecutions practiced by the Russian czar—a very en- couraging sign in the direction of progress. It is no longer the crime of Russia alone—it is the crime of the civilized world; for the civilized world has failed to stay its prog- ress. If religious prejudice on one side and considerations of expeciency and diplomacy | on the other have so muzzled the mouth of | the great church organizations of this and | other countries and stayed the hand and crippled the power of ali the great nations of the world so as to cause them to remain utterly passive and inactive while the voice of outraged humanity loudly cries shame! shame! yea, if even our late religious par- for good in the many directions no one would dare to deny, in the face of that mo- mentous question wrapped ftself in ominous silence, our most ardent nineteenth ceatury enthusiasts had better pause and refiect. “Might is right’ says holy Russia. The world tacitly, practically agrees. “A century is not one of the ideals that coldly submits to the most cruel violation of justice and liberty. Money may become an idol if our affections are so strongly set upon acquiring and retaining it as to ab- sorb all our thought and feeling. We can | only have pity for rich misers, whose whole life and activity seems bent on the solution of one arithmetical problem, calling for in- cessant addition and multiplication, while the very thought or mention of the other two elements—subtraction and division—fills THE RACE IS WON —over to good ei inpervices 5 vious to venged toy the There's no case of Catarrh De. Sage's oo © proprietors of $600 Forty ncurabe — — Dr. ¢ a I ¢ (0 ll f $07 12TH ST. N.W. over SURGEON SPRCIALIST. er twenty-tive yeors’ experience. Practice limited to. the Wiraataieat of gentlemen exclusively. THIRD YEAR AT PRESENT ADDRESS. Dr. Curleton treats with the skill born of expe- jen ly cannot cure. medicine will pay tence. Have you a d'sease of a Special Nature? Inflammation, Nervous Debility, Eruptions, Bladder, Blotches, Bwellings, Ulcers, Sore Spots, Dexpondenc: Did you sow the wind? Have sor reaped the whirlwind? Are you beginning to lose your grip? 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