Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1894, Page 7

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Goods packed and delivered f. 0 B, |\SaDeeeearesisesersecsees doat or cars. \s myli-iw 1383 14TH ST. ic EX REAR RAEEE EEEERERERER! ¢ Wear Glasses, If you need them, but wear none at all tf they don’t suit your eyes. When you have your eyes examined or your lenses changed, see us. You'll never hurt your eyes by Im- prope> glasses if we are your Claflin Optical Co. MASONIC TEMPLE, F ST. my rr ve we wee am AR Ae 40.24 44 TODAY ‘T ON THE STH PAGE OF IS A CUCKOO. DON'T AR IS Pal TO READ iT. | the special HERESY AND SEMINARIES Important Questions to Come Up at Sara- toga. Prof. Smith’s Appeal Referred—Church Unity—Government of Theo- logical Schools. The Smith heresy appeal, with all the pa- Pers relating thereto, went into the judicial committee room of the Presbyterian gen- eral assembly at Saratoga yesterday, and the committee is now engaged in digesting the matter. Rev. Henry Preserved Smith, the accused professor, is on hand with all his family, his wife and daughter and his youngest son. Prof. Smith will make a fight to have the verdict of the Cincinnati presbytery set aside. By this verdict he pealed from the finding of the presbytery and the case went to the Ohio synod, which decided against him. ; Dr. Smith’s offense was the reading of a paper before a body of Cinciznati minister: in which he made an elaborate defense o! Dr. Briggs, when the Union professor was first charged with heresy. He upheld Dr. Briggs’ theory that the Old Testament w: written by ordinary men and that the: peta were collected by other men long afterward and made up into a book now known as the Bible. According to this theory the name of rione of these men is known, and it is an entire mistake to sup- pose that Moses wrote the first five books, or that Isaiah wrote his prophecy, and that the book is moreover full of errors, and the general opinion that God inspired it is all wrong, as the concept only ts inspired. The general assembly is largely made up of men who are likely to take the opposite view of the origin of the Bible, but the vote of yesterday shows so many Briggs men in the body that the leaders of the orthodox party are nervous. Charch Unity. Dr. Joseph T. Smith read the report of committee on church unity. This is the committee which has been con- ducting negotiations with the Episcopalian Chureh and other denominations looking to a reciprocity arrangement between all churches. Last year the house of bish- ops appointed a committee, headed by Bishop Cleveland Coxe of western New York, which proposed an amendment to the canon law of the Episcopelian Church whereby all Presbyterian ministers could be recognized by the Episcopal bishops as standing on the same basis of apostolic succession with themselves. Nothing has been heard of this proposition since, and Dr. Smith's committee confined its recom- mendations to a confederation of all the churches in the United States having a Presbyterian form of government. These include the United Presbyterian Church, the Dutch Reformed Church and others, eight in all, The committee recommended a large ecclesiastical assembly, made up of representatives of all these churches, and exercising advisory powers over the field, but not interfering with the organic integrity of each. The afternoon session was devoted a! Most entirely to a supplemental report of the committee on church unity. Dr. Smith read a minority report, whicn @iffered from the majority report only in the introductory statement. Dr. Smith read an extract from a letter from Bishop Coxe and from the Episco- Palian church unity committee, containing assurances that the matter would surely be Lor ypsee ete = mtion of the next general convention, which meets in Octo- ber, 1895. : Sabbath Observance. Elder William R. Worrall of New York, as chairman of the assenibly Sabbath ob- servance committee, presented the annual report. The first resowiion advised all Christians to refrain froma patronizing Sun- day newspapers, street cars, amusements, &e. In the discussion that followed, Rev. Mr. Charles S. Ramsdell of this city stated that the failure of the Columbian fair Sun- day closing movement was due to the in- activity of President Harrison and bis Sec- retary of the Treasury in executing the law passed by Congress. On motion of Elder Storry of New York the work of the com- mittee was continued for, another year. Government of Theological Schools. The special committee on’ theological seminaries made its report in the afternoon, This is the committee appointed at Port- land two years ago to save the church from such another experience as the loss of Union Seminary, with its $2,000,000 endowments, which withdrew from the control of the general assembly because of its dissatisfac- tion with the treatment of Dr. Briggs. The committee has been at work two years trying to devise some means of effect. ing such a change in the differing charters of the thirteen theological les under its control as shall prevent the alienation of their endowments. They have held many meetings, and have listened to much advice from lawyers familiar with the law of trust and cherters. At the Washington assem- bly last year they presented a long report which contained no recommendations, but which gave @ presentation of the chartered rights of each of the seminaries, and of the | gad of the general assembly in the prem- es. It was found that each of the theological seminaries known as Presbyterian were actually independent of the church to which they owed their aa. The control over them being exerci: by the Presbyterian Church through the general assembly was nominal only, and did not in any degree affect the funds or property. It was found that the division or misuse of the wealth in the possession of the trustees of the sem- inaries was possible, and that the church might find itself some day without a sem- inary in the land in which students could obtain orthodox instruction. The committee then set to work to find @ remedy. They reached a conclusion a week ago at a final meeting at Cleveland. This conclusion was not unanimous and two reports were prepared. Ex-Moderator Wil- Mam C. Young of Kentucky, chairman of the committee, read the majority report. This received the approval of ten members of the committee. ‘Among these were Dr. Bartlett of Wash- ington, Dr. Mutchmore and Dr. Baker of Philadelphia, Dr. Dixon of Trenton and Lawyer Thomas McDougall of Cincinnati. Dr. Blaney signed the report, but not until he had recorded his dissent to its most vital clause. ‘The report, as read, presented as the re- church desired to secure a direct control over the seminaries, both as to their prop- erty and as to their teaching, and to enforce this control when it so desired. It also found that this control could not be secured by the church without the consent and ¢o- operation of the seminaries themselves. Character of Proposed Control. Resolutions to this effect were thereupon adopted by the committee, and the latter proceeded to determine the extent, charac- ter and mode of the proposed control, ‘This should be secured In such a way that it will be effective when the boards charged with the immediate supervision and man- agement of the property and teaching dis- obey the mandates of the church as ex- pressed by the general assembly. It rec- ommends that the seminaries be requested at the earliest moment practicable to secure amendments to their charters; that all of the funds and property subject to the terms of existing trusts shall be declared to be had by them in trust for the Presbyterian church for the purpose of theological edu- cation according to the stendards of the chureh, and that no part of the funds so held in trust shall be used for any other purpose. The seminaries are further recommended to amend their charters so that the election | of trustees or directors governing the prop- erty or teaching shall be subject to the ap- proval of the general assembly. The char- ters are to be amended further, so that all elections, appointments or transfers of pro- fessors or teachers in any seminary are to be submitted’ to the next succeeding general assembly for its approval, and that all of said teachers and professors shall be min- isters in good and regular standing of the Presbyterian Church. As a fourth recommendation the general assembly is to be empowered by the terms of the amendment to the charters’ to pro- vide for the enforcement of the charters and for the protection of the trust. New semi- naries to be founded in the future are to put these provisions into their charters be- fore’they shall be recognized as in connec- tion with the church. A committee of fif- | teen is to be appointed to confer with the | seminaries with a view to securing this end. | It ta the third recommendation to give the general assembly power to veto the election of trustees or directors to which Dr. Blaney dissents, Views of the Minority. « The minority report opposes the finding was suspended from theministry, but he ap-- sults of its study of the situation that the | of the committee at the same point, but they state their opposition in stronger terms than Dr, Blaney is willing to do. Their report was read before the assem- bly, after Dr. Young had taken his seat, by Dr. William E. Moore of Columbus,Ohio. This report is signed by Dr. Moore and four elders—Editor W. C. Gray of the im a Interior, John Osborne of Auburn, N, ¥.; James Joy of Detroit and Henry M. Knox of St. Paal. It takes the broad ground that the con- stitution of the Presbyterian Church does not warrant such an assumption of author- ity by the general bg meres & gether’ = proposed movement is against the theo: of education of the church which has ob- tained for a century and a half, which is that all education is voluntary on the part of the teacher and the student. The minority, however, unite in recom- mending, as a middle course, that the semi- naries be advised to adhere to the recom- mendation of the general synod of 1761, in the selection for each chair of some min- ister of approved character for his skill in theology, and to fill their faculties with men who are under the control of the courts of the church, and who will submit to such control. The minofity also recommends that semi- naries be advised to amend their charters, where amendment is needed, so that their property may not be alienated from its use in supporting Presbyterian instruction. The seminaries affected by these reports include Princeton of New Jersey, McCormick of Chicago, Auburn of New York and Lane of Cincinnatl. . On motion, these reports were made th special order for today at 10 o'clock. IN THE CHURCHES A congregational meeting of the Metro- politan Presbyterian Church, corner of 4th and B streets southeast, has been called for next Wednesday night to choose, if possible, a new pastor to take the place recently resigned by Rev. John Chester. For some time past various pastors have been filling the pulpit for the church, and @ call will be extended to some one of them. The committee in charge has decided to make no nominations or recommendations, but to let a choice be made, if possible, from the four men in view. These are Rev. H. G. Mendenhall of Brooklyn, N. Y.; R Samuel H. Moore of Wilkinsburg, P: Cc. P. Luce of Owensboro, Ky., and Rev. George N. Luccock of Bloomington, Ind. All these men are in charge of prosperous churches in the above named places and are not candidates for the pastorate of the Metropolitan Church in the ordinary sense of the word, but have come at the request of the committee rather than by their own solicitation. Their coming implies, how- ever, that they are in a way to consider a call from the church if it should be ex- tended to them. The committee which has had charge of the bringing of differ- ent ministers before the church with a view to filling the pulpit consists of Mr. 8. D. Luckett, chairman; Mr. David F. McGowan, Mr. HB. C. Fawcett, Mr. H. K. Simpson and Mr. John A. Travis. An intermediate Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor has been formed at the Calvary Baptists Church, corner of 8th and H streets northwest. It has a membership already of about forty young persons. The church already has prosper- ous senior and junior Endeavor societies, and the new organization will fit in be- tween these two, being designed to take in young persons somewhere between the ages of thirteen and eighteen years of age. This is the first intermediate Christian En- deavor Society to be organized in the city and {is one of the few in the country, the idea being quite a new one. It will greatly add to the usefulness of t! work at the Calvary Bapti is organized completely in all lines of work, especially among young people. The fifth annual meeting of the American Angelini Society, to be held in the First Congregational Church, corner of 10th and G@ streets northwest, on Thursday next, promises much interest and instruction for those interested in religious work. 12 gates will be present, either in person or by proxy, from auxiliaries all over the United States. Mrs. John Hopkins of Brooklyn, N. .» the president of the gociety, will preside, and among those who will address the meeting will be Mrs. Angelini, whose friends in Washington, already numerous, are sure to be increased by any fresh op- portunity of hearing her womanly eloquence, and Dr. 8S. M. Newman, the pastor of the First Congregational Church. This Italian work, the twenty-third report of which has just been received, is evangelical in char- acter, and is supported by a number of the.| Protestant denominations together. It has revolutionized some parts of Italy. As the McAll Mission in France sprang from the compassionate thought of Robert McAll, so the Italian Free owes much, both in its beginnings and in its fulfillment, to another Scotch clergyman, Rev. John R. MeDougall, D. D., now for many years of Florence. Dr. McDougall is still the moral support of the cause, but its active work is carried on by able native pastors in Rome, Milan, Naples, Venice and other points. The women here interested in the work have about completed their arrangements, and flowers and music and badges, the usual convention decorations, will form a pleas- ant background for the meeting. The ses- sions will begin at 10 a. m. and 2:15 p. mh. on next Thursday. Mrs. Isabella F. McFa: land is the president of the auxiliary in this city. The convention was to have been held in Rochester, N. Y., but circumstances prevented, and Washington will thus ha’ the opportunity of becoming better acquain ed_with this splendid wor! The Trocadero Quartet, consisting of Messrs. Philip E. Baer, John Baer, Edward Leeds and Elmer Jasper, will render several selections at the Assembly Presbyterian Church Sunday school tomorrow. A_ congregational meeting was recently held at the Sixth Presbyterian Church, cor- ner of 6th and C streets southwest, to fill the pulpit left vacant by the resignation of Rev. Scott Hershey. Several names came before the church, and the chairman asked for the opinion of the members as to whether they would prefer to make a selec- tion from the men then before them or to wait and hear more candidates before com- - to a decision. It was finally decided to follow the latter course. At least two more = hy Bag ae yet, — perhaps more, after which another meeting of the cl will be called for a decision,» ey At the mass meeting of the Epworth League held at the North Capitol M. E. Church, corner of North Capitol and K atreets northwest,on April 27, Rev. Dr. L. B. Wilson, the presiding elder, in an address outlined a plan by which the chapters of the District could assist in the effort to re- Neve the North Capitol Church of its very embarrassing debt. The plan was for every member of the league in the city to give five cents each month for the Epworth | League fund to help this church, and it was enthusiastically approved by the meeting. In aceordance with this Rev. Charles L. Pate, the pastor of the North Capitol Church, has sent out cards all over the city, which will be signéd and the money paid in monthly. It is expected that as much as $1,000 will be raised by this means. The church is working hard to clear off the floating debt in other ways, and the pastor expects to have it wiped out by the end of the current year. The mortgage loan can then be more easily disposed of. Dr. Joseph T. Kelly, the pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, corner of 9th and G streets northwest, last Sunday closed the twentieth year of his work in that church. The audience room was decked with flowers for the occasion, and Dr. Kelly received many warm handshakes and best wishes from the congregation. He first came to the church as its copastor, when Dr. Smith was the pastor, and has almost grown up with it. i@ work, it is needless to say, has been a success in the best sense, and he has built up the church into one of the best and most influential congregations of the city, with a work far reaching in its influence. ° ‘The Methodist Union gave their reception on last Wednesday evening to the official members of the Methodist churches of the city, the Foundry Church, gorner of lath and G streets northwest. The church Was crowded with persons from all over the city, and the occasion was a most enjoyable one for all. Addresses were made by Dr. Sampson of New York, president of the National City Evangelization Society, and by Mr. Horace Benton, the treasurer of the organization, who spoke on the subject of helping embarrased churches and missions. Dr. L. H. Carroll of the City Church Ex- tension Society of Baltimore also made some interesting remarks, Dr. QO. A. Brown, the pastor of Foundry Church, welcomed the sts, and Mr. G, W. F. Swartzell, the president of the Methodist Union, replied in a few brief words. Dr, L. B. Wilson, the presiding elder, offered prayer. After the program was over, social hour was enjoyed by all. The committee in charge of the af- fair consisted of Dr. L. T. Widerman, the pastor pf McKendree Church, chairman, and Rev. Charles L. Pat® of the North Capitol M. E. Church, and Rev. E. 8S. Todd of the Hamline M. E, Church. Rev. I. W. Canter, the pastor of the Mount Vérnon M. E. Church South, will deliver the last two of his addresses on “Danger Signals’ at the Young Men's Christian Association on tomorrow and next Sunday afternoon, The topic for tomorrow is “THe Danger of Evil Habits. Dr. Fullerton and Dr. Ramédell, repre- senting the ministers, and Mr. Ballyntine and Mr. Mayfield, representing the layme! are now at the session of the general as. sembly at Saratoga, as representatives from Washington, where, of course, the interest of the Presbyterian is centered just now over the outcome of the momentous ques- tions before that q Dr. Teanis S. Hamlin, the pastor of the Church of the Covenant, left the city last week for New York, and is not expected to returu until next week. Rev. John J. Dougherty is the new pastor of St. Stephen’s Catholic Church, taking the place of Rev. John Gloyd, who has been transferred to St. Patrick's Church. In the First Congregational Church on Tuesday a meeting of the Home Missionary Sceiety was held, Mrs. Dr. Newman pre- siding. Mrs. Emerson of New York spoke of the work among the Indians in Nebraska and the Dakotas and mountain whites. Great preparations are being made for the missionary tea, to be held at Mrs. A. M. Lothrop’s, K street, thi th instant. Rev. M. Ross Fishburn, assistant pastor, who has been confined to his room for several days, is convalescent, and may soon be ex- pected to be found in his accustomed place. The old frame church building which originally served the parish of St. Mark's as a place of worship, and which for sey- eral years since the erection of the church building at the corner of 3d and A streets southeast has served as a parish hall, has been torn down. The work of ‘completing the new church by extending it over the ground occupied by the old frame building is being pushed rapidly. The members of the parish are taking much interest in the enterprise, and have recently formed an aid society, which will undertake to pay the irterest on the debt which has been incur- Ted, and, if possible, raise some money to place in ‘the sinking fund. THINGS HEARD AND SEEN “Yes,” said a man in @ shoe store the other day, “I like that shoe first- it fits well, it feels well and it looks well, but I don’t* think It will do me.” “Why not?” asked the clerk, somewhat surprised at the man’s apparent contra- dictory statement. “Because, replied the customer, “the toe is too long. It looks very nice now, but I have a short foot, and in a week or'so the toe will have wrinkled and caved in, and it will not only look shabby, but will wear out much sooner. I like the looks of a long toe—fact is, I hate a globe toe or anything else in the stubby line, but I have to wear them, that’s all.” “Beg your pardon, but you don’t,” said the clerk, knowingly. This time it was the buyer’s turn to be surprised, “And why not?” he asked in- quiringly. . a “Because it is just as toe if your foot don’t fill it out as to take a drink. Put cotton in it, that’s all. i up the end of the toe with a sufficient of cotton and the shoe will prese: shape perfectly. See my shoe’ ‘ow, wager dollars to toothpicks that I've got as short a foot as yours, but my shoe Jooks all right because it has cotton in the end of it, You say you have a short foot. Well, so do half the people that walk this earth, but they either don’t know this simple trick, or are too lazy to try it, and so buy shoes that they don’t like or go around with a shoe all creased and broken in at the toe. Not only will cotton keep the shape of your shoe, but it’s a good thing to have in them, anyway. It keeps your foot from getting chafed from too much crowding into a nar- row point, and, besides, it saves to a great degree the wear on your stocking right at the place where the holes usually come, you easy to fix a long know, or, rather, your wife does. ¥es, ir, cotton in one’s shoe is a big scheme—it’s @ big racke se © «@ « There were a knot of men standing on = street corner. ‘One of them had just fin- ished relating some experiences of a hunt- ing excursion which he had taken the day previous down the river, “So you're a sporting man, are you, Jack? I never knew that before, really, said one of his companions. ‘ ;”. said the first speaker. I am not a sporting man; I am a sportsman, but 1 am neither a sporting man nor a sport.” “Indeed, and where, pray, is the differ- “The difference? Why, great Scott, man, there ts as much distinction between sportsman, @ sporting man and a sport there between a doctor, a cannibal and @ thief.” The speaker glared at the others, but the first man still looked blank. “Pray define it, then,” he said after a wre “To sure, It's something that every- body ought to know, but unfortunately lots of folks never take the trouble to learn those things. A sportsman is a man who loves Sport in its truest sense. At least I so con- sider it. He is a man who enjoys hurting, fishing, camping out, and is commonly fond of other athletic amusements in the way of boating, swimming, riding and the. like. He is, pardon my opinion, apt to be a man of gentlemanly instincts and brains. A sporting man is an entirely different sort of a fellow. He is one who takes an in- terest in sports of different sorts, although, he may not in any of them at a! He probably plays the races, drinks hard. takes in all the prize fights and spends most of his evenings when thi ing else on hand playing cards and whoop- ing things up. But a sport is on a still lower scale, He is a fellow who thinks he’s big potatoes when he’s really nothing but a runt. He need not know anything about sports or engage in them either. His reputation will be won chiefly by his loud dress, his fiirtations with the girls, his hanging round saloons and his general worthlessness. No, sir; there are a good many persons who are proud to be called sporting men or sports, but to call a true sportsman by such a term is little short of an insult. Ti is noth- * 8 «6 “It.is surprising how unkind one’s friends can be on occasions,”’ remarked young Mrs. Niblets. “It seems as if they really exer- cised wonderful ingenuity to make ‘them- selves disagreeable at times, and’ wedi seem to bring them out in full force.” A murmur of sympathy was heard from the other ladies, who were drinking tea in Mrs. Jenkins’ cozy little parlor yesterday afternoon, Some of them looked as if they, too, hud many grievances of the sort if they cared to tell of them; but Mrs. Niblets had the floor and proceeded: “Mr, Niblets, as some of you know, is a very shy man, and so afraid were we of be- ing recognized as a newly married couple that we neither of us wore any new clothes when we started off on our wedding journey. Even our gloves were old, and I am con- vinced now that we rather overacted the. indifference of old married folks. “We were married at noon and started off on an afternoon train bound for New York. The parlor car was crowded and Mf. Niblets congratulated himself on having secured seats in advance, Just as the train was about to start the porter brought in to me a rather large box of flowers. knew It con- tained flowers, for the florist’s name was on | the lid, I put the box down beside me—not | for the world would I have worn: flowers on that occasion, for they might have attracted attention, you know. By and by I began to wonder who it was who had been so at- tentive and decided that I would untie the ribbon with which the box was fastened and just peep inside. I wanted to see the card inclosed, ‘ “I took the box on my lap and undid the ribbon. I had no chance to do more, for the cover was jerked from my hand and out jumped ‘upid about twelve inches high, holding an atrow which pierced two large red hearts! ‘You can imagine our horror! ‘The whole car guffawed as with one accord and all eyes were immedMtely fixed upon us. To add to the unpleasantness the box was filled with orange blossoms, which fell on all sides. “How was it arranged? Oh, very simply. The little god of love was attached to a strong wire spring, sueh as is used for an ordinary ‘jack-in-the-box.’ The ribbon loos- ened, of course, he jumped out. Just think of the trouble and ingenuity displayed in ar- ranging it! Poor Mr. Niblets turned per- fectly crimson and I know I blushed up to the roots of my hair. The whole car was so much amused that both men and women stared at us continuously, We stood it until we reached Baltimore, because we had to. It was an express train. At Baltimore we got out and postponed our visit to New York until the next day. Who sent it? Why, it was to my brother and to a wicked cousin of mine that I was indebted for that little surprise. But let them beware—I shall get even with them somehow when their turn comes.” * rh PEOPLING OF AMERICA! ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS. Persoral and General Items From Down the River. Indian Ocean the Source, Says Prof.| Mies Lulie Hester, who has-been making Mason. The Progressive Means by Which Astatics Reached This Continent —Improbable Stories. On Tuesday evening Prof. O. T. Mason read a paper before the Anthropological Society on the peopling of America. He proposed to lay aside all theories which in- volved geological or physiographic changes, all accidents to unfortunate castaways, and to discuss the question only from the data that has been accumulating during the last twenty-five years. The salient points of the paper are here given. In the struggle for existence men have waged a double contest; first, against tendencies to inward decay, and second, against internal destructive forces and enemies. The motives of men in this struggle were in two lines—that of hope and that of fear. In following these lines was developed the law of maxima and min- ima of effort, or getting the most com- fort for the least work. The easiest and most abundant supply of food is in the water, and the lines of migration were first by water. Prof. Mason, therefore, took as his thesis that America was peopled from the Indian ocean, the original home of man- Kind, by way of that series of land-locked seas which include the following: 1. The Eastern Indian ocean. 2. The South China and Malay sea. 3. The East China and Yellow sea, 4. The Japanese and Tartary sea. 5. The Okhotsk sea. Thé Bering sea. 7. The Alaskan sea. 8. The Tlinget-Haida archipelagos. 9. The Vancouver aria. 10. The Columbia river. These all,lie along a great circle of the earth, which extends iatetine ap ne interior basin, past e headwaters of the Mississippi drainage, through the Pueblo region, Mexico, Central America, Ecuador and Peru. In following this great circle of the earth the primitive voyagers have been in the following conditions: Favorable Conditions. 1. These shallow, land-locked seas con- tain the most abundant and varied food supply on earth, and means of clothing in the colder regions that could not be sur- as 1¢ 2. Easy means of transportation and }travel Never at any point would the voy- Wier long ~ a pea yn tient jmatural safeguards, houses,-tpon which savages rey. 8. The currents of the ocean flow north- eastward and southeastward throughout the entire length of this journey. 4. During half the year the monsoons push the trades up along eastern Asia; the temperature is modified, so that the climate becomes more stimulating and fecundating — strengthening as we proceed north- wi 5. All the way the tendency was to in- crease hope, to encourage, to hold out al- lurements and means of gain and comfort. 6. According to all the best ethnologists, the nearest of kin to the Americans, bio- logically, are the Malayoid peoples of south- eastern Asia. 7. Mr. Morgan asserts that the nearest @itke-to Americans in the sccial and fam- ily structures are peoples of the Davidian stock p india. ‘8. Thé language problem was laid aside for further study. %. The arts and art products of the two regions are too much alike to attribute all the esimilarities to lke natural causes. There was no original art in America. 10. The witness of archaeology and his- tory is for the existence of savage peoples formerly on the eastern Asiatic coast akin to Americans. ll. The totémic systems and mythologic carvings attest former contact. 12, Ethnographers and travelers are con- stantly impressed with the identity of the peoples on the two sides of the Pacific. Prof. Mason declared his conviction that the intimate association of the two con- t 8 around the urctic circle and over e&@circle of the eatth indicated has not been interrupted for thousands of years. * _l AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN. Trinity Church Preparing for Its An- al May Procession. ‘Trinity Church will have her annual May procession tomorrow evening. As for many years past, the march will be under the personal direction of Rev. Father Rocco- fort, the head of the Sunday school. The starting hour will be 6 o'clock and the route, as on previous years, viz: From the southern entrance to the Sunday school, down O street to 35th, up 35th to the door of the Visitation Academy, where it will be reviewed by the students there, back to O street, and thence into the big church,where the exercises in honor of the Virgin Mary will be concluded. There will be nearly six atiendanta, angels, appropriate Sansers and tiendants, a a profusion of flowers, making a beautiful and impressive sight. Should the rain interfere with an outside procession the entire exercises will probably be held within the church, Building Operations. Mr. John Leitch has in contemplation the construction of five new bay-window bricks at the corner of 3lst and Road streets. Two wil ‘front on Sist, two on Road and the fifth will occupy the corner and be a commanding towered building. Th»: im- vement will cost in the vicinity of 5,000, . The buildings, umlike those in the dings | vicinity, will be brought out to the building line. Under the direction of Architect C. W. Sommerville Mr. Richard Young is recon- structing house 8089 M street. The im- provement will cost nearly $5,000. The new building will be a three-story brick, with press-brick front, stone with a handsome gable in the center. The roof will be a slate one, and the store front of plate glass. Mr. Jeremiah E. Donovan is putting the finishing touches to a couple of new three- story press-brick dwellings on the east side of 8ist street, near Road. Notes. ‘Greed W. Fulton and others yesterday sold Myer B. Newman part of lot 22, block 2, in Barry's sub of Friendship and Mount Airy. Yesterday the strikers in the Maryland coal region succeeded in inducing ancther large crowd to suspend. The agitators have also arranged to place pickets all along the line of the operating mines to induce still further susperfsion of work. In order to avoid these the Consolidated Coal Company, whose trade keeps alive the Chesapeake and Ohio canal, have arranged to convey their miners to Frostburg in cars. ——-— A Postponement. By reason of the severe storm yesterday the lawn party of the Mount Pleasant Drum, Fife and Bugle Corps has been, post- poned until Monday evening next, "V5 ‘VEXVILY "OD OL&10a48 LEMS "904 PO[fWUL SoFWeSICL LIS PUL Poor GO seNEL,, *[e 03 31 Suypueuuioses ue ‘SUDIPPU [Nepuom ayy 40; osrert : Supyeods POMNG) "econ tow uy ean pure ‘Auo8e pjosun jo 971 & ‘Woy OUT POAvs a1 yes Joos J Se NOL 0} Ing ‘c: Pins tecesaad | ‘]24 wou wre | Jo jnog xe Fung zoyy su Paaetjes ouou gnq‘suepjsiud ojquyjes Auewt pue ‘sarpomel snowea papa 7 yotya 207 ‘enjorog Aseyperey wo1y paseygns siem Je eaey [ tsayM BINjo1Ng BEEF, pressed. LASIB, VEAL. We only sell tender meat — frestest, Sweetest, Jaiclest of fesb choicest’ cuts fold as sucb, no Duisrepresentation. We guarantee our Beef, Lamb, Veal apd Mutton the fives? in the’ market. Try us If you care for good meat. Prices right. HOS. T. KEANE, First-class Meat Always, Finest Quality 50 Center Market. 8. =, SONS & CO.'8 ADVERTISEMENT ON THE 9TH PAGE OF TODAY'S STAR IS A CUCKOO. a Don't qr. an extended visit to friends in Kentucky, has returned and is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Benoni Wheat. A horse attached to a cab belonging to H. B. Pullman ran away from the local depot yesterday afternoon and caused much con- sternation. Mr. J. T. Beckham, with his wife and little daughter, left for Richmond yesterday af- ternoon. Mr. Beckham goes to attend to some business in connection with the West- ern State at Staunton, of which he is president. The game of ball between the Virginias and Alexandria Athletics, to have been play- ed yesterday at Colross, was postponed on account of rain. It will be played this afternoon if the grounds are not too wet. Mr. Eugene DeNott of Chatham, Va., was in the city yesterday, At a meeting of the Columbia Fire Engine Company committees were appointed to make the final arrangements for the trip of the company to wn on June li. They will take the “Columbia” engine, in- | stead of the “Wm. A, Smoot,” as was at first intended, The Hydraulion Fire Company are making big preparations for their trip to Ports- mouth to attend the firemen’s convention, Travel was blocked on the King street end of the electric road yesterday ai oon for about an hour, caused by car Ne. 3 getting off the track at the corner of King and Fairfax streets, just as it was round- ing the curve, The switch was not erly thrown, and the wheels started on both tracks at the same time, Dr, Purvis, the health officer, ts continu- ing his annual inspection, He told a Star feporter that so far he had found the city to be in a first-class sanitary condition and had verx few complaints to make. Mr, Henry Field is drilling a large chorus, who will take part in the confederate memorial exercises on next Thursday, the Q4th instant, They had an enthustastic meeting at the Southern Methodist Church of the Union Theologi- cal Seminary will preach at the Second Presbyterian Church tomorrow in advance of the rector, Mr. Thoron H, Rice, Mr, W. L. Tracey, who for some time past has been foreman of the Richmond and Danville sh in this eity, has been made master mechanic in the shops of the game road at Birmingham, Ala, He left for his new post this morning. Mr. B. Wheatley of this city has been made by the governor a member of the state board of undertaker examiners, The first meeting of the board, which ts a crea- tion of the last Virginia legislature, will be held at Richmond, Va., on July 14, when all undertakers will have to pase an exam!- nation on the art of embalming, &c., be- fore they will be allowed to conduct their profession in the state. Last night about midnight Lefer Blou: @ well-known saloon k r, was knock down in front of his restaurant and robbed rties escaped, ice court this morning Albert versity of Virginiz«. The chairman of the faculty of the Uni- versity of Virginia will meet all alumni of the University of Virginia in Washington and vicinity this evening, at 8 o'clock, at 1407 Massachusetts avenue, Mr. Wm. D. Cabell’s residence. A distinguished party, headed by Vice President Stevenson, will attend the closing exercises at the univer- sity, WHAT AILS YOU? OR. 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