Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1894, Page 6

avews cuznny| World’s Fair PECTORAL, PRIZE MEDAL DIPLOMA Awarded AYER’S Cherry Pectoral For ar WORLD'S Farh. PALPITATION OF THE HEART, NERVOUSNESS, tremblings, nervous headache, cold and feet, pain in the back and other forms EADIES NEEDING A TONIC, OR CHILDREN Bhecr fe ieatat ites ote Maris 2078 gevtien, Biliousness andLiver Complaints, ‘makes Are impossible without pretty furnishings. They cost something, of course, but not mueli if you buy right. We offer you— $75.00 Sik Brocatelle Overstuffed Suites, $50. + 100 Overstuffed Brocatelle Suites, seo. $225 Turkish Suite, 5 pieces, $175. WH HOEKE, , FURNITURE, CARPETS, DRAPERIES, it COR. PA. AVE. AND 8TH ST. 9OOOOOO00 9 99000000000 000 00O00 6: Foeccoocsocssscosceoooeesees | MOTHERS GIVE ANGOSTURA BITTERS TO their children to stop colic and looseness of the bowels. Dr. J. G. B. SIEGERT & SONS, Sole Manufacturers. At all druzzists. EXPERIENCE OF A DIVER. Succession of Fits of Fear and Hope on His First Essay in Armor. Vrom Chums. ‘The great brass breast plate was put on my shoulders, and the upper folds of the India rubber collar were drawn through it and screwed up with small screws to make @ water-tight joint. The helmet, with the bull’s-eye glass in front unscrewed, was then put upon the breast plate, given an eighth of a turn and secured. I stood up in full diver’s dress, lacking only the bull’s- eye to shut me off completely from the air which is life. He who held the glass then put it in its place and gave it a turn, serewing it tight. I was completely boxed up, and as well tisheitia i MONEY IS SCARCE. MEDAL AND |The World's Fair Board of Control is After Some More. GATHERING OF THE OFFICIALS: They Have an Interview at the Treasury Today. A TALK WITH MEMBERS. In addition to the political at: 1osphere about the Arlington today there was more than a little of the breeziness of Chicago, for a number of the members of the board of control of the world’s fair commission were at the hotel and held two important meetings. The reason of their presence here is not an uncommon one. They are after money and a committee of the board was closeted with Secretary Carlisle at the treasury for some time with that aim in view. The story is a simple one. The members of the board have been drawing a pay al- lowance of $6 per diem since some time prior to the formal opening of the fair. Now the money available for such pur- poses is all used up and the salaries would of necessity have to cease were it not that members of the board think they see several rifts in the cloud of financial dark- ness. They are after some of the money that is under the control of Mr. John Boyd Thatcher of the commission of awards. It seems that when Mr. Thatcher's com- {mission started to work there was no | ‘national commission, turned over to them | the sum of $7,500. In addition to this, the | national commission is said to have $12,000 | Stowed away to defray the expenses of a | : | members through nicely at the rate of % | per day while they complete the work of money available for their needs and the board of control, which is a part of the final meeting in this city in April. If the board of control can get both these sums it would have $19,500, which would see the writing the history of the exposition, in the form of a final report. Mr. Thatcher's commission, which is now at work in this city, is said to have money “to burn"—it is so plentiful. Mr. Thatcher told a Star reporter this afternoon that he recognized the justice of the claim of the board of control and was willing to turn over the $7,500 if the Secretary of the Treas- ury should see it in the same light. Three members of the board called upon Mr. Carlisle today. They were Gen. St. Clair, Mr. Tousley and Secretary Dickinson. With them went Mr. Thatcher, and he ex- pressed his willingness to return the amount which had been advanced if the Secretury would sanction the act. Mr. Dickinson stated to The Star man after the interview that they had been pleasantly received at the treasury and had been assured that whatever was right in the matter would be done for them. It is by no means as cer- tain, however, that the board can get con- trol of the $12,000, which would have other- wise paid the expenses of the big commis- sion in this city in the spring. President Palmer of the world's fair com- mission was also in the city today, and it was given out that he was here in connec- tion with his annual report to the Presi- dent. To the reporter he said that a call had been made upon Secretary Carlisle with reference “1 importance or public intere: He was not in the party that called at the treas- | ury, but was at the afternoon meeting of the board in one of the parlors of the Ar- lington. All of the gentlemen in question have received invitations to the reception at the White House this evening, and will probably attend. + +—___ —_ DISTRICT GOVERNME: Bids Opened Today. as my heavy boots would allow me I step-| Bids were opened this afternoon by the ped.on the ladder, ang the heavy weights |Commissioners for sweeping Pennsylvania on my chest and back were adjusted. The| avenue by hand. The bidders were: J. Kife line looped round my waist was brought wp in front of my body and caught again at my heimet, and I had also my waist belt | with a knife at my left-hand side. The moment had come for me to descend the snort ladder, and then the single rope which led to the sand below the North sea. Now, you wonder what & felt like as I de- scended the ladder gradually, I will try and tell you. I feit like a man who, having siarted on a rash and hazardous exploit, must carry it out to the end. I also felt a t difficulty in breathing, and, remem- Bering the advice given tome, i stopped when I had descended a few feet and came up a step, coughing freely to clear my lungs. The result was good, for I could breathe “treer, and thus encouraged I descended again, and clutching the rope at the end of the ladder I slid down it and was on the sand at the very bottom. Then an over- whelming sense of inability to help myself and of fear came on me, and I stood for | MacCandish, $37.40 per day; John. Lee, $34.25 per day: George Killen, $33 per\ day; R. V. Rusk, $24.50 per day; B. J. O’Leach, $28: Albert Baggett, $27.95. Bids were also opened for grading North Capitol street. The bidders were: George Killen, 18 1-2 cents; 5 1-2 per square son, , = cents, and W. F. Talty, 18 cents yard. a TO SUCCEED BOIES. Frank D. Jackson Inaugurated Gover- nor Towa. DES MOINES, Ia., Jan. 11.—lowa’s Young Hickory, as his admirers were fond of calling Frank D. Jackson during the last campaign, was inaugurated as governor of the state of Iowa this afternoon. The cer- some moments as helpless as a child. This | monies tcok place in the corridor at the silly fear soon passed, and I attempted to walk, but with the most ridiculous results, for I rolled about like an intoxicated man and could not keep my balance, do what I uid. “This was so marked and I found all prog- ress so difficult that I spoke up the tube and asked what I should do. They told me to turn the cock at my right hand and to let some of the air in the helmet escape. I did so, and with immediate and happy results, for I regained my balance, and, despite the eighty pounds of lead on my shoulders and the thirty pounds on my boots, I could walk freely and easily. 20s NEW YEAR DAY IN JAPAN. Set by the Gregorian Calendar, It is Celebrated With Quaint Observances. From the New York Sup. Even the Japanese celebrate Christmas, although unintentionally. They have ac- cepted the Gregorian New Year instead of their own, and decorate their houses in honor of the occasion. the English -who live among them has made them very prompt in putting up their fine- Fy, so that they are generally in full festive array by the dawn of Christmas. ‘The decorations are decidedly unique from an American's point of view. Every detail, however, is perfect, and every feature has Some meaning. Across tne front of the house, for mstance, 1s festooned a grass rope with a deep fringe. This is a very pleasant sort of a thing for a man to have over his door, for no evil spirit dare pass under it. Over each entrance hangs a great tassel of grass containing a scarlet craytish. Its crooked body symbolizes the back of the agel, bent with years. This is surrounded with the branches of a kind of japonica whose young leaves bud before the old ones ace shed. This is typical of parents living when their children’s children are born. In the center are the leaves of the Japanese lypody, which symbolizes conjugal life, | set ‘he fronds spring in pairs. Embryo leaves sy:nbolize offspring. There is also a piece of charcoal, which means home, and two little pieces ‘of seaweed, which typify fortune and rejoicing. In the middle of all is the lucky bag, a square of white paper held in by a red and white string, which marks a present Not only the Japanese, but the Europeans im Japan also hang this tassel over their front gates. They do it partly as a com-j{ iment to the Japanese and partly for luck. it Edwin Arnold, when in Japan, had one Banging outside his home at Azabu. But he was so ultra Japanese that he took care to have it ready only for New Year, and not on_Christmas. ‘The natives have another decoration, con- sisting of three green bamboos with sliced tops, reminding one gf organ pipes, erected on each side of the portal at a distance of @ix feet, the right-hand one springing out of tuft of the mematsu, which signifies the female priciple, and the left-hand from the omatsu, which signifies the male. In the midst of all these emblems the national flags genecally wave from black lacquered poles headed with gold balls. If the com- mon people fail to display these flags they are admonished by the police, and the flags go up. They are generally of white silk crepe, with a red sun in the center. A Japanese N: Year custom, which it would not be amiss to import to America, is that of paying all debts (except to foreign- ers) on the first day of the year. A man who fails to do so without creditors is dishonored. Consequently those who ace in debt try to sell everything which will fetch money, and in Tokio a huge fair fs held in the principal street on New Year eve-for this purpose. — The Datiy News’ Vienna correspondent ‘ts the death of Benedict Randhart- the musical composer, at the se of Liszt. But the influence «ay! leave of his! | | 1 | h age | resolution ty-two. Herr Randhartzinger was | appointment rm friend of Schubert and the teacher | with an front of the grand stairway in the capitol building, and were witnessed by three thou- sand people. ee ae ay Officers Elected. At an adjourned meeting held by the Knights of St. Augustine, No. 1, of East Washington, on Tuesday evening, the fol- lowing officers were elected for the ensuing year: Com., Jos. Davis; dep. com., James Davis; second dep. com., William A.Warren; recording scribe, J. H. Hawkins; financial seribe, J. A. Harris; herald, James Treu- man; warden, Jno. Warren; captain, Gen. Ben. Jamin Young; first lieutenant, J. H. Hawkins; second lieutenant, J. A. Harris; board of directors, Jas. Dorsey, Jas. H. Tolson, Jno. V. Thomas, William Watson, Chas. Giles and Clarence D. Tippette. At the regular meeting of the Arion Ath- letic Club of Capitol Hill the following offi- cers were elected: W. A. Mills, president (re-elected); F. W. Morgan, vice president; “rank A. Dunn, corresponding secretary (re- elected); W. T. Pettit, financial seeretary (re-elected); C. E. Gates, treasurer. It was also decided to give an entertainment and hop early in April. Bakers’ Benevolent Association, No. 1: President, H. Herlibus; vice p-esident, H. Hager; corresponding secretary, Paul Burk; financial secretary, A. Sherge>; treasurer, John W. Miller. Standing committee, John Banf,chairman; William Spechman, Charles Steine, Herman Huth, Henry Arnoid. Wounded With a Hatchet. Yesterday afternoon Officer Hartigan of the sixth precinct found a colored woman, named Susie Barnes, in an unconscious condition in a house between 34 and 41-2 | streets, Pennsylvania and Missouri avenues from wounds on the head. She was sent to the Emergency Hospital. The wounds had been made by Wm. Brent, colored, with a hatchet, and although he knocked her senseless, the wounds affect only the scalp, and she will soon recover. ——.>_—_ May He No Executive Session Today. Senator Davis concluded his speech on the Hawaiian question at 2:55 this afternoon amid applause on the floor and in the gal- leries. He was eagerly congratulated by his colleagues on the republican side. Sena- tor Turpie then took the floor to talk about annexation, which was the subject of a resolution presented by him the other day. This will probably postpone the executive session, and may result in a failure of the Senate to act upon the Hornblower nomina- tion this afternoon. ERE ee a Held for the Grand Jury. In the Police Court this morning Judge Miller committed Turner Whitney, col- ered, to jail, in default of $500 bonds, for the action of the grand jury, on the charge | of an asseult and battery with intent to outrage Lizzie Hayes, ais stepdaughter, who is seventeen years old. pee SSS Reprieve for Vaillant. PARIS, Jan. 11.—M. Clemenceau will ask President Carnot to grant a reprieve to Vaillant. The question will be discussed at a cabinet council to be held at the pal- ace of the ee tomorrow. A majority of the ministers will oppose the granting of a reprieve. pie SS Sante Fe Foreign Bondholders. LONDON, Jan. 11—A meeting of the holders of securities of the Atchison, To- peka and Santa Fe Railroad Company, called for tc day, was largely attended. A was adopted in favor of the of a committee to operate American committee for the pro- tection of the bondholders. ‘9 some financial details | of the commission that are of no particular ! CAPITOL TOPICS. Shortage in Witness Fees. According to a communication laid before the House there is a deficiency of $400,000 in sight in the appropriation for fees of wit- nesses in United States courts for this fiscal year. The House is asked to take immedi- ate action on the estimate for the reason that the regular appropriation for the pay- ment of witness fees is practically ex- hausted. United States Cases in the Indian Ter- ritory. Attorney General Olney has sent to the House a number of recommendations re- ceived by him from the United States at- torney for the Indian territory relative to the trying of misdemeanors in the territory. The propriety is suggested of having the government represented before the commis- sioner if he is given final jurisdiction in the misdemeanor cases, and it is urged that it would be a great saving in witness fees if the commissioner had power to finally try defendants at such times as they are first brought before him. They Want a Building. A delegation composed of W. G. Fenner, Judge VanCleve, L. A. Ploget, Sheriff Rochester and A. M. Demarest of Pater- son, N. J., appeared before the House com- | mittee on public buildings and grounds to- day in support of the bill introduced in the House by Representative Cadmus increas- ing from $80,000 to $250,000 the appropria- tion for the Paterson public building. The original appropriation—gsv,v00—was made several years ago, but the building has never been commenced, The site for the structure cost about $23,000, and the balance, the citizens of Paterson think, is insufficient for the érection of a public building for a city as large as theirs. The committee took no action. An Adverse Report. The House committee on naval affairs yesterday adversely reported the resolu- tion of Mr. Holman directing the Secretary | to suspend, until further notice, all pay- | ments Tor increase of speed in naval vessels, NOT SATISFACTORY. | Trials of Armor Plate at the Indian Head Station, * A test held at the Indian Head proving | station yesterday demonstrated that an armor plate of nickel steel varying in thickness from eleven and one-half inches | to fourteen inches cannot stand successfully the impact of a Holtzer projectile with a | velocity of 1,600 feet per second, thrown | from an eight-inch rifle. Yesterday's trials |of armor for two of the monitors and the ram Katahdin at Bath, Me., were the first instance in the history of the new navy where the plates have made such a poor showing against high-powered guns. The | plate tried represented several lots of armor for the batteries of the Monadnock, the , side armor of the Puritan, and the conning ptower of the Katahdin, in all about 5 tons. Had the trials been successful they would have been the last of plain nickel eel plates without the Harveyized process, {as all armor now being manufactured will be treated with the hardening liquid. Two | shots were fired at the plate, the first to decide whether Carnegie & Co. would se- cure a premium, and the second for the acceptance of the armor. Both tests were unsatisfactory, and unless another plate, | Which will probably be given trial, shows | up better, the entire lot will be rejected | by the government. The first shot, with a velocity of 1,631 feet seconds, struck the ; Plate squarely and rebounded, smashed to pieces. The plate was cracked entirely through and showed severe treatment. The result of this shot settled the question of a premium. The second shot, with a reduced | velocity, knocked an end of the plate oft, ‘opened wide the cracks and exposed the | heavy oaken backing. The effect of this shot was to entirely wreck the plate. Offi- cers of the ordnance department cannot ac- count for the poor showing of the plate. Another trial will be held of a second plate next week. Should this also prove to be inferior, the whole 500 tons of armor will be thrown out by the government. The re- sult would be to greatly delay completion of the two monitors and the ram. Heretofore, the trials of al] armor have been most satis- factory, and have shown that this country can manufacture plates far superior to those on fo! na’ shi A test will a! be had at the proving sta- tion of a cast-steel projectile for great guns. This projectile can be manufactured cheaper than the cast steel ones, and if the tests are satisfactory they will no doubt be used hereafter in the service. — THE COURTS. Equity Court, Division 1—Justice Cox. Today—Kirk agt. Strong; final decree fix- ing priorities. Gibbs agt. Tayior; pro con- fesso, Provident Life Association agt. Yeung; do. In re D. C. Lobb (lunatic); sale decreed; W. O. Roome, trustee. Thomas agt. Brook: time to taking testimony limited. McGrew agt. McGrew; testimony jest Cc. Engle, examiner, ordered. Clark | agt. Clark; leave to amend bill. Clark agt. Osborn; appearance ordered. Collins agt. Barnes; auditor’s report confirmed.’ Equity Court, Division 2—Justice Hagner. Today—Edelin agt. Lyon; order limiting time of Adriaans to take testimony. How- lett agt. Brown; decree pro confesso. ——_—_ An Enjoy: Music Recital. ‘The music recital at the Church of Our Father last night was a most successful and pleasing event. The impression it left was a distinct gratification to the pride which Washington feels in its musicians. Miss Leonora Von Stosch brought music, which was both exquisite and powerful from her violin, and the performances of Mrs. Edwin Z. Perkins, soprano, and Mr. John Porter Lawrence were not less praise- worthy and enjoyable. sister" aces Prisoners for A my. The following prisoners have been sent by Warden Burke to the Albany penitenti- ary: George Hardy and Edward Norris whose sentence to death for the murder of P. H. Young was a few days ago con @m@m ed to imprisonment for life; Horace Mc..ven. manslaughter; Edward Gant, Lee Beverly and Thomas Henry, housebreaking, each six years; Luther A. Prentice, embezzle- ment, five years, and Paul Schenck, second offense petit larceny, three years. > VERTICAL HANDWRITING URGED. |The Making of Sloping Writing Ke- | sponsible for Several Serious Things. From the London Crit! Vertical handwriting is comimg into use in England, and ts likely to tind favor in this country also. It ought to 1ind approval everywhere, if what Mr. Joseph V. Wither- bee says of its benefits be true, and it cer- tainly has an air of truth about it: “To the parent as well ay the educator, the position of the pupil when writing should be of the g#rearest interest, That there is an alarming increase of spinal cur- vature anc near sight in children of the present day goes without saying. There must be some reason for it. If we accept the statement of the Vienna commission of &x+ perts appointed to investigate the cause of this increase, we find it charged to the gc: count of sloping writing, with its unavojd- able faulty positicns. * * * 4 “If the pupil who slants his letters sits | sidewise to the desk, (a very common posi- tion,) not only is one shoulder usually high- er than the other,-but the head is commenly turned until a line connecting tie pupils of the eyes is parallel with the line on which he is writing. Nature impels him to twist his neck so that one eye shall be the same distance from the letters he is making as the other. Unless he does turn his head, the eyes are not equidistant from his work which tends to shorten the sight of ore eye and iengthen that of the other. This ac- counts, in a large measure, for the need or two glasses of different powers lor the same person, so frequently met with at the -res- ent time. —ce0—-___ In Charge. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Helen—“Oh, dear! what will I do with this awful blot on my letter to Harry?" Florence—“Never mind, dear; he won't see *”" Helen—‘‘Why not?” Florence—“‘You give it to your father to mail.” ———_+e-—_____ He Rather Liked It. From the Indianapolis Journal. Hungry Higgins—“Tt's purty tough when a feller asks for bread and gets a stone.” Weary Watkins—‘I remember oncet when I didn’t have no kick comin’. But then, you see, there was a little rye went along wit’ the rock that time.” i ———_ oe The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (semi-official) denies again the reports that Chancellor Von Caprivi recently expressed a wish to retire. Such canards, it says, create a bad impression abroad, even in the countries friendly to Germany. THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1894-~TWELVE PAGES. - DEMAND FOR ACTION On the Financial Question, but the House is Divided. The democrats are still at sea as to the provision for the deficiency in the funds of the treasury. Carlisle is urging on Con- gress the necessity of some action which will supply the treasury with money imme- diately available, and pointing out to them the danger from the steady draft upon the gold reserve fund. The necessity for ac- tion is universally appreciated in Congress, but there is no harmony of opinion as to how the question is to be dealt with and what is worse there is little promise ot agreement on anything. The silver men are ready to fight any proposition for a bond issue and the propo- sition to combine the bond issue with the coinage of the seigniorage does not appear to be satisfactory to either the silver or anti-silver men. The Senate finance com- mittee is devoting considerable attention to the matter without having yet evolved any- thing which promises to meet the approval of both Houses, and the House committee on banking and currency is divided and in such a bad humor over the state bank tax repeal bill that there is not a spirit there which promises fair for action on any ques- tion. Meanwhile the deficiency is growing larger and the urgency of the demand for action more pronounced. -o- Personal Mention. Dr. Louis P. Smith, son of Francis H. Smith of 1418 F street, has resigned his po- sition on the house staff of Bellevue Hos- pital, New York, and leaves in a few days for a year’s specialty study abroad. Major Cooper, chief of the miscellaneous division, Department of the Interior, is sick. —_—— The Alleged. Ca Murphy, charged with passing counterfeit money, not guilty. >-— Andrew Jackson, the colored man, one of the passengers on the Columbia street rail- way, who was injured last Saturday morn- ing in the collision at the crossing of Dela- Ware avenue and H street northeast by a local train on the Baltimore and Ohio, is ba ab but is not yet able to go to ork. i} A stereopticon tour to the world’s fair was given last evening to a large and ap- preciative audience by the Washington Slide and Plate Club at the drill hall of the National Rifles. In Criminal Court, Division 2, a nolle pros. was entered in the cases of Wm. Mi burn for receiving stolen property and Martin O'Hara for passing counterfeit money. ————__ RELIEF BY WORK IN FRANCE. Begwary Reduced and the Unfortunate Helped by Simple Methods. From the Charities Review, Assistance by work jn France is not an innovation due to the initiative of private individuals. From the most remote period of our history it has been practiced by the state towards mendicants. The National Assembly and the convention, “thinking that labor is the only means by which wise and enlightened nations can relieve pov- erty,” distributed considerable sums of morey among the departments to be ex- pended in drainage, the clearing of land, the digging of canals, &c. It would seem as if such measures ought to have exer- cised a salutary influence upon vagrancy and mendacity, and yet their failure was complete. If we study the poor as a whole We are soon convinced that the best argu- ment in favor of work is that the profess- jonal dreads it most. Private act- fon makes use of this very repulsion to un- = impostures and aid the truly unfortu-. nate. In 1880 Monsieur the Pastor Robin found- ed at Belleville, the most populous quarter of Paris, the Maison Hospitaliere. Here we find the work ticket which is in use in nearly all French institutions. A work ticket from one cent to fifty cents, torn from @ sort of coupon book, permits the supporters to send the poor and unemploy- ed to this institution, who here find “a kind reception, cordial and comforting words, food, shelter and a place in the workshops, or liberty to go out in the morning to look tor work at their own trades.”. Assisted persons are employed at making small fag- ots called “‘margotins.” They are not paid in money, but in thia way they meet their daily expenses, and, if they are skillful, can lay by a sum against the tim of leav- ing. They are required to make fifty mar- gotins a day to pay for two meals a day 1d their lodging. “All that they make bove this number goes to their credit. The object which Pastor Robin has pur- sued for thirteen years to provide the work- ingman with an outfit of tools and to make him the beneficiary of his own labor. Charles Robin said of the Maison Hospi- taliere: “The work is beautiful and the idea which it realizes is a grand one.” The gift of a considerable sum enabied an institution known as the Central Office for Charitable Work to construct in 1801 some buildings designed to receive the unem- ployed. The men, coming from all parts of Paris, soured by poverty and employed at work of which they are generally ignorant, are separated into groups of ten, under overseers, and make common furniture, tables, wardrobes, sideboards, which is sold at a low price in the large stores of the capital. There are about seventy of these men, and they are limited to twenty days; Their wages are two francs a day; of this they receive a portion in cash in the morn- ing for their food, which is supplied by the establishment, and also a lodging ticket, which entitles them to a lodging out of the house. A reserve is made from their wages which goes toward defraying their expenses when they are looking for permanent employment. They are allowed two days a week for this purpose. The central office has established a regular bureau of infor- mation, through which it obtains knowl- edge of the shops where there are vacant places. These institutions are in operation all over Paris. 3 0 00 GONE OUT OF FASHION. The Art of Conversation No Longer Understood in English Society. Another thing which has gone out of fashion is the art of conversation, says the Pall Mall Gazette. It has of late years been so neglected that it is the rarest chance to meet with a young man who can converse at all in the real sense of the word. Among his own set he can babble about mutual acquaintances, the new singer, the next race or the latest scandal. But throw him among strangers and he is silent and dull, perhaps making short re- marks in a jerky and confused manner, but certainly betraying no intelligent im- terest if a new discovery be mentioned, a piece of important political news told or some information given about a subject of real value. As a consequence he is not only bored, but he shows it, because he has never cultivated that polite interest im his fellow creatures which would enable him to respond sympathetically. One of the old French noblesse was laiely heard to ye- mark that when he first went into society his father used to impress upon his mind that At a party he was bound to insure its success. #0.far as he was individually con- cerned. To make himself agreeable was a uty not to be neglected without a grave ch of ‘courtesy, both to the guests and fridfids who invited him. In a modern gatherifg’ no such antiquated sentiment would find a disciple. Young people, if they do not meet some one to fiirt with, will os- tentatiously proclaim their boredom, and would stare in astonishment if it were sug- gested that at a frined’s house it was the duty toward the hostess to pay attention to those who seem neglected, or who found themselves among strangers. ‘To hint that old ladies and ugly girls should have a little share of consideration would be to subject cans self to the charge of being old-fash- ioned. -——_—__- ++ -— It is reported that, despite the progress made by the Cottas, publishers, in prepar- ing Prince Bismarck’s memoirs for publi- cation, Count Herbert Bismarck has_re- fused to allow them the right of publica- tion, and will entrust the whole to an En- glish firm. It is learned that in the recent storm in the Black sea among the many casualties were the wrecks of four steamships, one English, a Greek and two Russian vessels. The crews of the steamers were saved. The traveling passenger age! of the country are holding their annual session in New Orleans. ‘The thermometer registered 47 degrees be- low zero yesterday morning at Hast Fair- field, Me. Mrs. Catherine Blackerby, aged seventy years, died at her home, eight miles from Danville, Ky., yesterday, after existing twenty-eight days without nourishment of any kind, the only thing passing her lips being a few sips of water. The Troy Iron and Steel Company has in- formed its puddiers that work, which has been suspended in the puddling department since last July, will not be resumed except at a reduction of 25 to 35 per cent on com- mon and boiler iron respectively, making the price for common $3 a ton and for boiler fron $3.25. mterfelters Not Guilty | The jury found Allsworth, Bryan and) AFFAIRS INGEORGETOWN. The Property Belonging to the Arlington Railroad Company. The Plans of the New Company Or- ganized to Ship Coal on the Canal and by the River. Judge Hagner yesterday ordered the sale after ten days’ advertising of all the prop- erty of the Arlington Railroad Com- pany lying in the District of Columbia to satisfy a claim of the New York Trust Company. The property consists of a dy- namo and ‘boiler valued at about $10,000 and located in the old foundry building on 3uth street near the Chesapeake and Ohio ca At the present time there is an at- tachment hanging over this machinery for over $1,200, It was secured by Mr. L. A. | Littlefield af Washington, to whom the company is indebted to that amount for rent of the building which has been used as the corporation’s power house. For a long time a representative of the District marshal was in charge of the machinery at a cost to Mr. Littlefield of $2.50 per day. Mr. Hurt’s Intentions. Though Mr. Henry Hurt, the absent pres- ident of the Washington and Georgetown | Railroad Company, was honored yesterday ‘ with a re-election it is probable that he will | never again have practical charge over the workings of the corporation, as he has stated so in letters to relatives since his de- parture. A letter recently from Japan conveyed this intelligence. He has been a hard worker since boyhood and feels now as if he is entitled to spend the balance of his life in retirement. At any rate Mr. Hurt will not be home for two years, and two more elections will take place before that time. The Young People’s Guild. The Young Peoples’ Guild of the Con- gress Street M. P. Church will hold this evening their usual semi-annual entertain- !ment. It promises to be a splendidly man- ‘aged affair, and one teeming with talented | participants. The amusement committee, 'which has charge of the arrangements, !have worked unusually hard. The mem- | bers determined in the beginning to make it the best they have ever had anything to do with and it is stated they will no doubt have their hopes in that respect real- ized. The talent will be both from George- town and Washington. A New Coal Shipping Project. The company recently organized to ship coal on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal to Georgetown, with the express object in view of keeping it out of the hands of agents, thereby facilitating its transporta- tion and lessening its cost, proposes, it is said, to do this partly by running its own line of canal boats on the water way. A line of river and coast vessels will also be built and run by the company, it is said. Those most largely interested in the new enterprise are: Maj. Shaw of the Baltimore and Ohio, Mr. C. K. Lord, the second vice president of that corporation; Clarence Lane, a banker of Hagerstown; Lloyd Lowndes of Cumberland, and other promi- nent people of western Maryland. A Pretty Wedding. Miss Geneyieve Powell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Powell of “The Heights,” and Mr. . W. Laws, assistant engineer of the-tnited States navy, were married last evening before a brilliant assemblage of officers and civilians. The ceremony was performed at the home of the bride’s par- ents, Rev. Dr. Stuart of Christ Church per- | forming the ceremony. The bride was cos- tumed handsomely in a gown of white sat- in, with silver brocade and lace trimmings. Diamonds and pearis made the toilet more beautiful. A handkerchief she carried in her hand was once the property of Queen Eugenie of France. Miss Isabelle and Miss Catherine Hoover were of honor, Miss May Powell was the maid of honor, and Mr. M. C. Graun of the navy the best man. The decorations of the house were surpassingly beautiful. Notes of Interest. On the 25th of the present month the Alumni Society of Georgetown University will hold its annual banquet at the Arling- ton Hotel. ae Mr. W. A. Hutchins is once again feet after four weeks’ confinement. . ,...» Mrs. Henrietta Harry, wife of Mr. Joseph W. Harry of Tenleytown, died yesterday. ‘The Maryland authorities have turned over to the seventh precinct a colored boy named Eli Brooks, who is wanted here for having committed various thefts. ee ADMIRAL FAIRFAX DEAD. on his He Was a Participant in Affair. Rear Admiral Donald MacNeill Fairfax, United States navy (retired), died at his home on Prospect street, Hagerstown, Md., yesterday, aged seventy-two years and ten months. He had been ill but a few days, being upon the street on Saturday. Death resulted from pneumonia. Admiral Fairfax, since his retirement from active service in September, 1881, had resided in Hagerstown, Md.; Geneva, N. Y., and Washington, but principally in Hagerstown, where he has been active in church and charitable mat- ters. He was twice married. His first wife was Virginia Rayland of Virginia, by whom one son survives, Wm. McNeill Fairfax of New York. His second wife is a daughter of the late Admiral Foote, who was first married to a Mr. Reese of Westminster, Md. An Eventful Career. Donald MacNeill Fairfax was born at Sharon Hill, Virginia, March 10, 1821. At the age of sixteen years he was appointed a midshipman in the navy, and attached to the receiving and schoolship Hudson, at New York. After three months’ training in naval life he started on a cruise around the world in the John Adams, and en route from British India to China helped destroy | several piratical villages on the west coast of Sumatra for outrages cofmmitted on American sailing vessels in those seas. After further service on board several ; School ships, young Fairfax was promoted to passed midshipman June 29, 1843, and ordered to the Missouri, which was to take Caleb Cushing to China via Suez. At Gibralter the Missouri was déstroyed by fire, and the crew returned to America. He was present on the Princeton in 1844 when Secretary Upshur and others were killed by the bursting of a gun. Fairfax, after this, started on another voy: around the world, and on reaching the Pa- cific coast learned of the war with Mexico. He was made acting master of the Erie, and took part in the capture of Mazatlan and Lowe: California; was engaged in var- fous duties of the service afloat and ashore during the next ten years, and in 1858 help- ed capture Walker and his filibustering band in Nicaragua. He was commissioned a lieutenant during the services, and at the breaking out of the civil war was executive officer of the frigate San Jacinto, Capt. Wilkes. While the San Jacinto was returning from Africa in 1861, the officers of the vessel, among whom was Lieut. Fairfax, learned that Messrs. Mason and Slidell, the confed- erate agents to foreign governments, were on board the English mail steamer Trent. The latter was overtaken near the Baha- mas, and to Lieut. Fairfax was intrusted the task of securing Mason and Slidell. To his tact was due the taking of the men without taking possession of the vessel. In a personal interview with wager it cacy concerning the Trent affair, Fal was told that “he had saved this country from great embarrassment, if not war, with En- gland.” Teached the Trent His commission as commander Lieut. Fairfax in July, 1862, while he was campaigning near Baton Rouge. In com- mand of the monitor Nantucket he joined in the attack on the Charleston forts in 1863. He reached the rank of captain in 1866, commodore in 1873, and rear admiral July 11, 1880. He was placed on the retired list September 30, 1881, after a total sea service of twenty years and four months, and shore duty of fifteen years. High Kicking Caused Her Death. Bertoto, the young. French dancer, who came recently to this. country from Paris, and who played in Rice's “1492” in Palmer's Theater, and more recently at Herrmann’s Theater, died Monday night in her apart- ments in New York. The physicians say the cause of death was paralysis, brought on by high kicking. She was only seven- teen years old, but was considered an ex- cellent dancer, LATEST PARISIAN GOSSIP. What is Being Discussed in Cafe and on the Boulevards. A paris dispatch, copyrighted by the United Press, dated January 10, says: The verdict of guilty and the sentence of death in the trial of Auguste Vaillant, who threw the bomb in the chamber of deputies on December 9, were announced so late that there was not time today for editorial comment in the press. Nobody, however, could mistake the feeling of relief, both inside and outside of the palace of justice, when the result of the trial became known. The verdict was a sign that the jurors would not be frightened by anonymous threats of vengeance. Undoubtedly many men who sympathized with the prisoner gained admittance to the court room. Many of them stood without giving a sign of their opinions until moved @ cheers by M. Labori in the peroration of his speech over Vaillant. The men who raised these cheers are anarchist idealists, who abound in Paris, as elsewhere. The celebration of the anniversary of Louis Bianqui’s death brought together in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise last Sun- day some 2,500 of the communists, many of them of the old school. Among the Speakers were Deputies Ernest Roche and Clovis Hugues. Both deputies used most violent language known to socialism | in their denunciations of the bourgeoisie. | | Roche said: “We are a party of deeds. We ; are ready now to take up arms as in the! | past, if circumstances a | Hugues went still further, and praised | Vaillant and his deed. He said: “It was | the crime of the bourgeoisie that charged j that bomb. It was the accumulated human | misery and suffering of the proletarians, | i who are eternally exploited, that filled it. | | — was the mere machine for launch- | | The utterances of these two conspiouous | socialists have had a potent effect upon | the discontented workingmen, and the! government is likely to be asked whether proceedings will not be instituted against the deputies responsible for them. In the council at the Elysee yesterday | M. Burdeau, minister of finance, submitted | Pert of the budget. He proposed that addi- | ticnal succession duties be levied upon all | estates, especially upon landed estates. M. Burdeau has some difficult budget problems to solve, as the limits of taxa-| tion in France appear to have been reached. The country is spending 100,000,000 francs | yearly beyond its revenues, and is loaded | moreover with a tremendous debt. It is! understood that M. Burdeau opposes an} increase of naval expenditure. He has pre- | sented to the cabinet estimates showing that he must raise a new loan if it be de- cided to build more ironclads. The news of the French attack on the British force at Warina, Sierra Leone, rather pleased Paris editors, as long as the affair was described as disastrous to the British. Since learning that the surprise ; planned by Lieut. Moritz did not take the British unawares and that the French troops were severely handled, the editors have been less jubilant. The British ex- cuse for Lieut. Moritz is not believed in military circles here. Men who knew Mor- its say that he probably knew well enough that he had a British force before him. Moritz was eager to distinguish himself, | rash and virulent in his hatred of the En- The Debats treats the rumors of Presi-/| dent Peixoto’s resignation seriously, closing | “Da Moraes or Pena will be the next presi- dent of Brazil.” learn the truth of the report that President | foamed of Brazil has resigned. Senor Guanabara, Brazilian delegate, has published a reply to the Figaro's article | eulogizing the Countess D’Eu and referring to her willingness to forego her rights to a new Brazilian throne in favor of her son. This article was inspired by Count D’Eu. Guanabara recalls in his reply that | Count D’Eu adhered to the republic when | Dom Pedro was deposed. He denies that | the governor of Pernambuco has been posed; also that Admiral Goncalves, com- mending the government warships Bahia and Tiradentes at Montevideo, is dis- affected. Guanabara says in conclusion: “When the empire was overturned it had only one de- fen the minister of marine, who afterward accepted the re- public and now represents it abroad.” There is no mention in the letter it Peixoto has resigned. | The Liberte says: “Reports from an En- glish source contradict the announcement hat President Peixoto has resigned. We) are, however, in a position to maintain our assertion of yesterday that he has re- | = his office.” c speaks doubtfulness of all reports bearing on the | Rize, {ts letter on the subject with the words: | loath The Debats says that it is impossible to | her she | ~ les aims of the Brazilian insurgents and of the general inability to obtain truthful ac- counts of current events in Brazil. It sug- gests that the protraction of the struggle is due to secret negotiations, whose object is the introduction of a new 5 Whether the new government will a monarchy or a remodeled republic the Temps does not venture to predict. “If President Peixoto resigned,” it says, “this stray ne. egy! that his chair was empty, not it the royal family were ready to return nor that, if they were » Brazil would be willing sanction their return.” 5 —————_—+e-—____ DISTRESS IN AUSTRALIA, Thousands Out of Work and Without Money. A Victoria, B. C., correspondent of the Globe-Democrat writes: An object lesson for the whole world is afforded just now by the social conditions in Australia, where, amid the unexampled splendor of a few and the comfortable competence of the many, there are tens.of thousands abso- lutely without means to obtain a night’s shelter, sleeping in the streets or squares of the great cities, and wherever covered spots can be found around the public build- ings, scantily clad and able to beg little more than enough food to barely sustain their miserable lives. This condition of af- fairs is about eight years old, but has not improved with age. At the outset govern- ment and municipal relief works on a gi- gantic scale provided honorable employ- ment for a large proportion of the deserv- of relief, which had been carried on by means of borrowed money, and now there has been substituted the less expensive ex- | pedient of maintaining relief bureaus, through which food is doled out to the needy applicants and tickets of admisrion are issued entitling the holders to a night's rest in the “penny doss ” main- tained by the efforts of charitable organiza- tions who are able to collect privately the proportion of expense of maintaining the lodging places which the charge of a penny per head per night does not meet. this sad story of distress is old and in the colonies, the marked in: victims of poverty has of late press to give to the matter pul has hitherto been avoided as ble. But travelers arriving by Man ships tell of distressful inc! yond even those mentioned in ¢ papers. The plain facts are that infinitely more people in Australia there is work for, and that there is likelihood of securing employment for this aH isu af ing lands in the colonies. The arrogant titude of labor and the high rate of oe demanded has undoubtedly had much with making home manufacture sibility and has been a ficial inspection, and thousands have been | equipped with tools and supplies, so that | they may “‘fossick” for gold in abandoned fields, which will still pay fair wages. The steady increase, however, makes it more and more apparent that to secure permanent relief they must adopt @ policy which will make it possible for the men of wea'th to profitably employ the —_— hand that now can find nothing to Pure A cream of tartar baking pow- der. Highest of all in leaveni strength.—Latest United States Food £ port. Royal Baking Powder Oo, 106 Wall &., §.Y. TRYING TO PROVE THAT HE LIVES. A Task That Has Been Very Difficult for Albert Kirshner. ; From the Terre Haute Express. Albert Kirshner, the tailor employed at J. T. H. Miller's clothing store, and well known in Terre Haute, is anxiously await- ing an answer to a letter to his parents in Germany. About twenty-two years age &@ Queenstown steamer landed at New York, and among the maay hundred passengers who walked down the gangplank was a timid, green-looking German boy. He se cured a position in @ tailor shop. This boy was Albert Kirshner. A correspondence was kept up between the young man and his parents for several years, he finally leaving New York and locating in Massa- chusetts. corpse, had not the slightest doubt it was the man they had formeriy known. They, = pe pt yA ey, therefore, mourn: 8 tl bike f if i E ! iF ge Poe! fil Fee & i i i i é i i nize as coming from respected in the tribe. Upon the death of such @ one men in the prime of early man- but the breech-cloth, make two incisions in the left arm, and ander the loop of fiesh so made thrust a willow branch, having on it sprays of leaves. With the blood dripping upon the green branches hanging their arms and shoulder blades to ? Fe Hl Hy if i i Hu Teale his F i be Ik : ite : il : ii i HH ! An Artistic Touch, . From the Detroit Free Press. ‘The visitor at the boarding house was en- tertaining one or two of his friends at the piano and two boarders were listening at the head the stairs. “Who's that at the piano?” asked one. “Blamed if I know,” was the reply. hits the piano as if he were a blacksmi! but be murders the music like a butchen,”