Evening Star Newspaper, June 18, 1894, Page 6

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Te for Genuine Mexican Hammocks. Se for Palmer's Famous Hammocks. We piece for White Mosquito Net. The following made to order: $2.50 for ordinary size Window Awning with galvanized iron frame. $10 for. Slip, Covers for suite of five pieces. Te for Window Shades, made and hung. Bed Linen. (Second floor.) Ready-made Bedwear at less than prevailing * cost of materials. 49e for All-linen Hematitehed Pillow Cases. $1.98 for All-linen Hemstitched Sheets. We for Good Muslin Pillow Cases. B8e for full size Lockwood Sheets. Be for full size Crochet Spreads. Tiscellaneous. (Basement floor.) REFRIGERATORS. Ready made and made to order, $3.95 to $50 the price extremes. $6.05 for the “Leonard” Ventilating Refrigera- ter, made of hard wood, 40 inches high. Cheap at $8.50. $5.55 for the New Domestic Refrigerator, 38 inches high. Cheap at $7.50. sTovi jas Stoves, Se to $10. Those at Se fre self-adjusting to any gas burner and will boll @ quart of water in two minutes. 19¢ for single Gas Stove, nickel plated. Cheap @t twice the price. $1.19 for double Gas Stoves with two large bur- Bers. Usually $1.50. 49 for the usual 7S Off Stoves, with 4-inch ~ Wick and fron tank. $1.98 for the Star Double Oil Stove, with four Yarge wicks and two oll tanks. $1.69 for Ovens, large size, adjustable to gas or @M stoves. 2¥e tor Galvanized Iron Tea Kettles, holding 5 quarts; flat bottom; to fit any stove: WATER COOLERS.—65¢ to $10 each, 114 to 10- gallon size. Lined with porcelain, agate and gal- Vanized tron. $1.29 for 2-callon Water Cooler, japanned, tn Qssorted colors, decorated with flowers, side Bandle and nickel-plated faucet. Cheap at $1.50. ICE CREAM FREEZERS.—$1.49 to $6 for the Best of the best makes. Only $1.49 for the well aod favorably known Lightning Freezer, 8-quart size. CHINA AND GLASS.—Everything from the cheapest to the most expensive. Extra values are the following: 4c Glass Tumblers, unustaliy thin and clear. Te Gas Globes, artistically engraved. Usually We ench. $5.95 China Tea Sets, 56 pleces. Decorated with “wide gol bands. Regular price 1s $7.50. Se per dozer for Mason's Patent Fruit Jars; @e for quart size; 9Se for half gallon. We for” Crystal ass Water Pitchers, holding 3% quarts. Regular price is 2c. GARDEN Tox Prices so low that you may Judge the goods inferior. Don't do so without ecing. B0e for set rake, hoe and spade. 29 for Best Steel Hoe, with handle six feet org. We for Rest Steel Rake. Ge foot for Best Rubber Hose; guaranteed the Dest. 45 for Rest Nozzle and Couplings. 2ve for Dainty Watering Pots for the parlor flowers, japanned in funcy colors and decorated. We for 2-quart Garden Watering Pot, with zine ferew rose. 10 for those boiding 3 quarts. 4S8e for 10-quart size. Sewing Machines. (Second floor.) Machines sold. rented and repaired. Full line ef new Domestic Sewing Machines at 25 ber cent @iscount—« ter of lst prices. Se for “Domestic Fashion Review,” with 1,000 Milustrations of summer garments. Free to those buying 30c worth of paper patterns. 3e for “Juvenile Fashions,” with 500 Sllustra- fions, the paper patterns of which are for sale Palais Royal, G and Reventh Sts. containing aii the|Our Elgin views of the first series,| Creamery Q¢c.|sSkeptical Folks Butter. 5-lb. Jars, $1.10 THIS PRICE ONE WEEK LONGER. Best take advantage of tt. Such a price for such butter was never Known before, and riay not be seen We'll guarantee it's the genuine Elgin Creamery, or money refunded. Telepbone or mail your orders, We'll deliver promptly. N. T. Redman, Wholesade and Retail. 950 La. Ave. HLTH JelS POLPS ISO PISS OSOESOIOCI OO 99900 o o Are Invited to investigate. To those who have beca pay! “fancy” prices for Dentistry ours sound impossible. Fifteen minutes im our office will show them the how and the why of it. Expert operators — 2p t! pliances——bustness tells the story. Extracting, 25. With Zono (no sleep) or gus, S0c. Cleaning, 75c. Silver fillings, 75e. Platina, $1.00. Gold in proportion. Very Lest teeth, 1.00. Crown and Bridge Work by Spectalist. Dental ol/oAss’n, Cor. 7th and D n.w. Baltimore Office—No. 1 N. Charles Je2 strect. LPPSSOIOS 099906006 OOOSOOOO0OS0OSOS OOO OSOES * REMNANTS Of Mattings. Our extraordinary MATTING trade this season bas left us with remnants enough to start op a good-sized sale on them. We'll dispose of them within the next few ys. Kemnants of from 2 to 23 yards (suitable to be made tuto rugs) of Mattings that were 25, 5, 10 AND CF Carpets made catia free of charge. by dy or sae | 3 PSS DIETS GES IPHS IV OR GOOSO® ;Comfortable sCooking 3 Gonmy. Sart peemitaben ae oe mer if you have to do it over a red-hot coal range. Why not buy @ range and cook wit! and save all this discomfort and half your moaey in decreased fuel bills. POCO CEOS: We've got the best runges, and we ask less for them than’ others— Yet we set them up free. 2-burner Gas 3-burner Gas Range, $13. 4-burner Gas Range, $22. Wash. Gaslight Co., 413 10th st. now. 254044508 ye16 > POOP ORO S445-4 54! THE CELEBRATED “ELECTRIC LAWN ned blades. hickory han- Never in the history of the as Sold for Less than $2.50, $2.65. 430 9th St. Reliable Hardware of all Kinds at bedrock prices. Jel6-t: AAA OUR SPECIALTIES JUST NOW. (SCREE DOORS & ee, BSc, 200. Rubber Hose, 5c. Foot. | ee We won't say they're the finest of their kind on earth, ete, ete.—but we will say you get your money's ———— Worth every time when you buy ‘em. i(L. H. Hopkins, 933 F St. “Get the number right.” Je16 yO —S rree. With every article we sell will give any one of the following articles free of charge: Box of Soothing Olntment, Healing Salve or bottle Corn Cure. Our Bunion and Corn Shields are the onl; remedies giving Instant and permanent relief, indorsed by the most prominent physicians | the world over. Prof. J. J. Georges’ & Son, CHIRC#ODISTS, S to $ p.m. Sundays, 9 to 1. Parlor, 1115 Pa. Jers Biscuits Free. Gas Stove Bargains. TUESDAY we will bake sample biscuits, ete., to show our patrons how nicely car Gan. Stoves will do thefr cooking, e fact that there fs no waste of fuel and that can couk on any one part of Gag Btove with balance of atove cold. Gas te is the cheapest fuel. C.A.fluddiman, 614 12th St. Jei6 oe GRATEFUL—COMFORTING Epps’s Cocoa. BREAKFAST—SUPPEX. “By a thorough knowledge cf the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and putri- tion, ‘and by a careful application of the fine prop- erties of well-selected Coc Mr. bas vided FOR OUR BREAKFAST AND SUP! a delicately flivout beverage which may save us many Leavy doctor’ bills. It ts by the judicious | tic of, ouch, articles of diet that a constitution may be gradually built up until strong to j resist “erery tendency ‘th ‘disease. Hundreds. of ‘tle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there Is a weuk point. We may escal many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pure blood xpd a properly pour: ‘shed —Civil Service Gazette. | Made’ ly with boiling water or milk. Sold only in half-pound tins, by Grocers, labeled. thus: JAMES EPPS & CO.. Lid. hic Chemists, ; _Homoeopat jon, England. d2-s,m,tuly Get Bell mie. | THAT PHOTO! THAT PHOTO: | THAT PHOTO |qHat Fiore: TO Take It. THAT PHOTO! —nhe'll do ft right! I, BELL, Photograph Gallery, 469-465 Pa. ave. LKER SO? ‘apers, Moth Clay und Tile Asbestos, &e. SON Goods, Fire Flue Lining, Pulp When you feel a general lassitude and hreakin down of the system, Angostura Ritters will worl @ wonderful change. Dr. J. G, B. Siegert & Sons, maoufacturers. At ull dealers. at Columbia Park from $25 to $50. Until | THE BLACK DEATH The Terrible Scourge Devastating the Cities of Ohina, An Fmanation From the Earth —It First Attacks the Smaller Animals —Certain Death. The records of the Department of State throw light on the singular plague which is now ravaging China, and make it evi- dent that this most fatal disease is really very similar to the black death, or plague, which devastated London, as told by De- foe. It had its origin in Yunnan, a Chi- nese province, where it is endemic. The Catholic missionaries there held that it was really @ pestilentia:. emanation slowly ris- are, as it were, drowned in its poisonous flood, the smaller creatures being first en- gulfed, and man, the tallest of all, suffering last. Its approach often may be foretold from the extraordinary movement of the rats, who leave u.. ir holes and crevices and issue on the floors without a trace of their accustomed timidity, springing continually upward from their hind legs, as if they were trying to jump out of something. The rats fall dead, and then comes the turn of the poultry; after the poultry have suc- cumbed, pigs, goats, ponies and oxen suc- cessively die off. In man its approach 1s indicated by the eruption of one or more minute red pus- tules, generally in the arm-pits, but occa- sionally in other glandular regions. If sev- eral pustules appear, the case is not con- sidered so hopeless as when they are few. The sufferer is soon seized with extreme weakness—followed in a few hours by agon- izing aches in every part of the body, de- lirium shortly ensues, and in nine cases out of ten the result is fatal. It often happens that the patient suddenly, to all appear- ances, recovers and leaves his bed, but in such cases the termination is always a col- lapse and death. As goon as a case ap- pears the Chinese desert the afflicted, leav- ing him in a room with a jug of water, and veesagn dla the window at intervals, and prodding the victim with a long pole to as- certain if life is extinct. To make matters worse, in the country the corpses are not buried, but are laid out to decay in the sun, poisoning the air for miles around. The disease was never known before 180, when it appeared during the great Moham- medan rebellion, Jt is known in Yangtzu (under the name of bukonis fever), in Laos, Siam, in Bur- mah and in Queycho, China, where it has prevailed for years. Never before, however, has it made its way to Canton and to Hong Kong, whence it may spread over the earth. One reason for attributing Its origin to miasmatic influences {s the fact that it al- Ways appears upon the planting of rice in May and June. It penetrates by caravans and travelers to the uplands and becomes more severe by fall. Sometimes it passes over certain communities in its line of progress, but only to return later on, or the next year. Wherever it appears the people desert their homes and crops, and flee to tents in the hills. In some provinces the population is decimated and whole fam- ilies disappear. SENATOR QUAY SPECULATED. He Bought Su, Stock Up to the Day of Voting. Senator Quay on Saturday afternooa told the Senate sugar investigators that he had speculated in sugar stocks during the past twenty months. The last transcction was on the day flaed fer the vote on the sugar schedule, when, in order to vote without having any interest in the stock, he closed out at @ loss. Mr. Quay said he has no ac- quaintance with the Havemeyers, Mr. Searles; or Mr. Terzell, and has never re- seeived any information from any member of the finance committee in relation to the bill. He had been in the practice of operat- ing in stocks since 1861. Mr. Quay was very frank with the committee and said he considered that he had a perfect right to do as he has done. Later Senator Squire testified that his brother-in-law had speculated in sugar, and had written to him for information about the bill, but, there was none give Senator Vest told how the sugar schedule Was drawn, after denying any sugar specu- lations. —__—___-o--_____ WOOL SCHEDULE ADOPTED. Troublesome Paragraphs. The wool schedule of the tariff bill was adopted by the Senate on Saturday after- noon by a vote of 48 to 5. The negative votes were cast by Senators Berry and Coke, democrats; Teller, republican, and Peffer and’Kyle, populists. Mr. Aldrich ex- plained after the vote was announced that he had-voted for the amendment because the rates were higher than in the original amendment, but he protested that the rates were entirely inadequate. The reductions were, from 60 to 75 per cent. The di creased duty on woolens valued at 40 cents pcr pound was. from 64 to 16 cents per pound. ‘These enormous and uncalled for reductions, he declared, would work un- told injury to the industry. The silk schedule was then taken up and passed, and the Senate adjourned at 5 o'clock. NAVY YARD LABOR. An Order as to Its E: loyment Issued * by Secretary Herbe: The Secretary of the Navy has issued the following order in regard to employment of labor at navy yards: “In adiition to the records now kept by the board of labor employment at each navy yang, sald board shall hereafter keep a record the yard&who were working in the yard when thé "board of labor employment was organized, September 1, 1801. “The coffimandant will direct that all such mechanics and laborers shall make ap- | plication to the board of labor employment | for a ‘trade card,’ and fill out the blank lines on the trade card designated ‘trade,’ | ‘class,’ order of certification’ (which is i | tended to show whether they are vet- erans), ‘name,’ ‘state,’ ‘county’ id ‘em- ployed.” The blank line designated ‘em- ployed’ shall be filled out to show the de- partment in which employed and the date of present employment if known, otherwise the approximate date will answer the re- | quirements of this order. Those who are veterans will state their Service on the re- verse si yf the card. “After @iese cards are filled out by the me- chanics ghd laborers affected by this order the boaré of labor employment will make duplicate trade cards, filling them out in red ink, after which they will be filed in boxes 12 of ‘employes,’ alphabetically by trades and preceding the cards of the other employes that arc now filed in said boxes. “Hereafter when « mechanic or laborer ts discharged, promoted or reduced, such ai employment by the head of the department regardless of the fact whether such em- ploye was appointed through the board or prior tp its existence. In every case of di the cause thereof shall be reported. -———_+e SPEED OF THE VIGILANT. Her Passage Over Was Marked by the Finest Kind of Weather. The Vigilant let go her anchor in Gourock bay, Glasgow, at 3:45 p.m, Saturday. Cap- tain Leander Jeffrey, commander of the American yacht, reported that he had a fine passage and good weather throughout. The average @istance covered per day was 201 1-2 mifes. The greatest distance sailed upon anyjone day was 256 miles, which was on the @ighth day out. A large iceberg was passed {n latitude 42.07 north and longitude 40.2, The’run from America to Tory Island was ma@e in fourteen days and eight hours. A representative of the Associated Press boarded the Vigilant, and was most cor- dially reteiyed. After showing the logs of the days’ rins, which was $3, 222, 133, 117, | 247, 212,248, 280, 211, 133, 256, 188, 197, 150 and Hid Captain Jeffrey said that the ice- | berg w! jong.- The Vigilant sailed quite close to Wf, and all on board considered it to be the finest spectacle they ever witness- ed. hi hey passedwas 200 feet high and | two mgt The Vigilant during the passage across the Atlantic was “as dry as a bone.” She did not ship a drop of water, and the yacht- ing men who thought she would prove to be weak in a sea were badly mistaken. In the strongest breeze the Vigilant stood up as steady as a church. a The S. A. F. Tanner Furniture Com- pany of Milwaukee, has made an assign- ment. The Habilities are said to be smaller the assets. 4 all mechanics and laborers in} tion will be reported to the board of labor FREE BATHING BEACH. Contributions to Be Asked to Open It for the Summer. The bathing beach is to be opened. Just when depends altogether upon the chari- table people of Washington. The Commissioners today approved a plan submitted by Superintendent Stevens, the father of the peach, and he will ask for contributions in a few days. This plan was only resorted to after the Commissioners failed to ask for an appropriation for the maintenance of the beach and the prospects for congressional aid dwindled away, and then Superintendent Stevens proposed to run the beach on charity. Accordingly, he submitted his proposal to the Commission- ers several days ago and appeared in person before the board of Commissioners to urge its adoptions He called attention to the fact that the heat of summer was upon us and that he was daily Fecelving hundreds of complaints because the bathing beach was not open. Almost 11,000 bathers registered on the books of the beach duriug the month of July of last year, and he thought, with proper accommodations,there would be fully five times that number this year. Several hundred dollars are required for repairs, as the conditions have not improved. While it looked like an almost hopeless task to run the beach on subscriptions, he was willing to try it. His proposal embraced the de- tailing of Officer Cotter to assist him in the management of the beach. That the beach shall be opened to the public as soon as practicable and be kept open free to all under sixteen years of age who furnish their own suits, and 5 cents may be charged to each person over sixteen years of age, not furnishing their suits. ‘The Commissioners were always in favor of the beach, and it only remained to get Maj. Moore's indorsement of the plan to have them act at once. Maj. Moore inter- posed no objection; in fact, he is counted among the best friends of the beach. So, when his approval reached the Commisston- | ers today, they immediately approved tt and | made the opening of the beach a certainty. Superintendent Stevens was delighted when he heard the Commissioners had de- cidea to allow him to open the beach. He sald: “It is gratifying at least to know that the Commissioners approve of a free bathing beach, and they would, I am sure, have recommended an ample appropriation had | this not been an: economical Congress. The | good that results from a free bathing beach cannot be overestimated. All that remains now is for the generous people of Washing- ton to contribute. We mut have several hundred dollars to put the place in repair, SO every penny contributed will be grate- fully received. After the beach is in good running order it is my purpose to give a series of aquatic sports, similar in charac- ter to those given last year, which proved such a success. They will perhaps be more entertaining this year, for I have some good things. in the shape of surprises stowed away. When the boys see The Star this evening I know there will be rejoicing.” ee The Stornge Battery. To the Editor of The Evening Star: Considerable interest is taken by the Washington public in the bill now pending | before Congress with regard to the adoption of s}stems of street railway traction for use in the city of Washington. This in- terest has been increased by the fact that the Commissioners of the District are not of one mind upon the subject. Col. Trues- dell, one of their number, has submitted a minority report, the substance of which Was published in your paper on the Sth in- stant. In this report he took particular rains to allege that the storage battery system had been proved to be a complete failure “by a long and costly experiment” upon a road then under his charge. We are reluctant to enter into a news- Paper discussion of the subject at this time, for the reason that the efficiency of the storage battery system, to which Col. Truesdell refers, is to be decided by the courts in the near future. We feel, how- ever, that the public might be misled were we to remain silent under the Commis- sioner’s attack, and we therefore beg to submit the following statement: In January of 1891 the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home Railway Company, of which Col. Truesdell was then president, entered into a contract with the Accumulator Com- pany, by the terms of which the latter agreed to equip six of the railway com- pany’s cars with storage batteries, accu- Mulators and other electric appliances | necessary for their operation, and to super- vise their management for a limited period. During this period the privilege of rejecting the storage battery equipment was reserved by the ratlway, but it agreed that in case it was rejected the railway stiould give written notice to the Accumulator Com-! pany setting forth in what respect it con- sidered that the equipment did not fulfill the contract requirements. The six cars with the electrical equip- ment were installed in gocd working order upon the premises of the railway com- pany and commenced running early in the autumn. of. 181. Throughout the trial period they did most admirable service, maintaining as high 2 rate of speed as was | consistent with safety, and running regu- larly on schedule time, with the e of instances when delays were occastoned | by obstructions upon the track and other | external causes. The success of the system | exceeded the highest expectation of both! parties, and nelther during the trial period | hor afterwards did the railway company | give notice that the equipment was not sat-| isfactory. In point of efficiency the storage cars were fully equal to the trolley cars, oper- ated upon another branch of the Ecking- ten and Soldiers’ Home railway. For a Accumulator Company and during this time no weakness was developed in any part of the system. Some little trouble was ex- perienced shortly after the cars were in-/| Stalled, but this was due to the inferior | character of the running gear, which was} furnished by the railway company. As a matter of course, the responsibility for | this did not rest with the Accumulator Company. In September of 1892, finding that the railway would hot perform its part of the! | contract, the Accumulator Company, after doing everything in its power to insure the continued success of its equipment, and | after giving due notice to the railway, with- drew from the operation of the cars. There- after their deterioration was marked and rapid, owing to the utter incompetence of persons placed in charge of the storage plant by the railway. !respect Commissioner Truesdell found the storage battery system a fallure, since it Was a mechanical success as long'as It was properly managed. In the matter of ex- for the actual cost of operation was less per car mile than that of the trolley system upon another branch of the railway. ‘To be sure, his road had agreed to pay the Ac- the cars at a higher rate. actual cost of operation compared favora- horses. Commissioner Truesdell seems to attach importance to the weight of storage bat- tery cars, yet it 1s a fact that the weight} of the storage cars equipped by the Ac- cumulator Company and used upon the Eckington road was less than that of mod- ern tralley cars, and furthermore, the power | u to propel them was less than ieee ce Gat wusiet-Gr Ge une of trolley cars. j of summer complaint. | another and another, xception | Mrs. Brown year or more they were operated by the! ed comrades a committe: | 10 to 15: | strikes in the Choctaw nation, We feel entitled to criticise the statement | that the storage battery system was proved | to be a failure “by a long and costly ex-| periment.” The Eckington road paid the! Accumulator Company a little over $12,000 for the operation of the six cars. This, was not the full amount which it agreed | to pay for that service, but it refused to| phy more. It likewise refused to pay one_ cent of the agreed purchase price of the| plant. So much for the cost of the experi-; ment up. to the present time. After its withdrawal from the operation of the cars the Accumulator Company com- menced an action against the railway com- pany for the sum due it under the con- tract. After the trial the efficiency of the | storage battery system will be better known, for it is certain to receive intelll-_ ent consideration. i THE ACCUMULATOR COMPANY. poe ae Detail of the Montgomery. Commander C, H. Davis has been ordered to command the Montgomery; Lieut. W. H. Everett, to duty as executive officer of the Montgomery; Lieuts. J. O. Nicholson and H. E. Knapp, from the Naval Academy H. Tillman, from the coast survey to the Montgomery; Ensign F. B. Sullivan, from the Raleigh to the Montgomery; Surgeon H. E. Ames, from the Constellation to the Montgomery; Passed Assistant Paymaster J. A. Mudd, from the Michigan to the Montgomery; Chief Engineer J. A. Smith, Passed Assistant Engineer D. C. Redgrave and Assistant Engineer C. R. Remick, to the Montgomery; Paymaster J. A. Spiel, from the Norfolk navy yard to the Michi- gan; Lieut. F. R. Brainard, from the Fern to the Enterprise. All of the officers of the St. Louis have been transferred to the Rich- mond. to the Montgomery; Lieut. Junior Grade E. | TWENTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY. Rev. Alexander Crummell Celebrates an Event in His History. Rev. Alexander Crummell yesterday cele- brated his twenty-first anniversary as pas- tor of St. Luke’s Colored P. E. Church, this also being his fifty-second year in the min- istry, which is considered a decidedly un- usval record. A large congregation was pretent and listened attentively to a very interesting sermon by the venerable preach- er. In his sermon the minister said: “This anniversary is without doubt the last anniversary of the kind I shall ever have with you, Next year this time, if even living, I am almost certain not to be the rector of this church. The shades of evening are upon me, and although not dis- abled, it is meet that with powers certain ere long to fail I should wait for disaster alike to you and myself. I may be par- dcned, then, if I use tnis occasion for summing up somewhat the accounts of our work and service here during the course of twenty-one years since I came to this city and this church.” In the course of*his discourse Rev. Mr. Crummell called attention to the enlarge- ment of the church work by the establish- went of St. Peter’s Mission, a mission in Scuth Washington, Anacostia and St. Mary's, as well as the Boys’ Club, Indus- trial School and mothers’ meeting in the church proper. “Finally, let me exhort yt sald Rev. Mr. Crummell, in ccnclusion,“look forward. Set your minds upon the future prospects of this church. Open your mouth wide and God will fill it. Cultivate a spirit of dissat- isfaction with present results and as a re- compense for what God has done for you seek to be enlarged. Here is a population of 80,000. Don't be satisfied with your her- itage. Think of the possibility and the duty | of a home for widows, an orphanage for children, a hospital for the sick, a shelter for young women. “Don't stand still. Get rid, first of all, of debt, and then advance in the work of God, and go on from one degree of excel- lence and accomplishment to another and until you do great things for God and man, But this cannot be if this church is only a place for fashion end amusement and not for grace and holi- speakirg to a Star reporter regarding the announcement that he had been forced to —— his pastorate, Rev. Mr. Crummell said: “There is no truth in the statement that there has been friction between the vestry and myself. The most perfect unanimity exists between the congregation and my- self. Both vestry and people have en- treated me not to resign my place. I never asked for an assistant rector. The asser- ticn in a morning newspaper that the par- ish work has not prospered should be con- trasted with the following facts: The mort- gage debt of the church in 1992 was $7,000, Since then over $4,000 has been paid on It. Besides that, other debts on the church, amounting to nearly $2,000, have been paid.” Alphenic Hall, corner of 11th and H atrees northe; vas crowded Friday night, the occasion being the grand visitation to Fidelity Castle, No. 7, Knights of the Gold- en Eagle. The meeting was presided over by W. H. Signor, G. C., and addresses were made by J. W. Childs, G. V. P.; 3. ry Adams, W. a all, S. H.; G. . H. Warren, R.; A. C. G. 2d G., and others. The castle was presented with a hendsome banner from Fidelity Castle, No. 8, of Philadelphia. —_————. Jury Discharged. Owing to the continued illness of Judge Bradley, Chief Justice Bingham this morn- ing discharged the jury in Circuit Court No. 1 to Monday next. No jury cases will, therefore, be called in that court until then, Judge Bradley was stated to be not so well today, being confined to bed at his country seat from a rather severe attack The attack has greatly weakened him, and his physician States that it will be a week or so before he can resume his judicial duties. No se- rious result, however, is anticipated, the judge's many friends will be glad to learn, —>—_— Marringe Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued by the clerk of the court to the following: Wm. O. Gingell and Hattie A. Hinternesch; Robert S. Corry of Newport, Md., and Mary E. Morrow of th:s city; Charles O. Hill of Fort Myer, Va., and Ada Dabney of this city; John W. Fisher and Adelaide Bowen; Louis Nelson and Cecelia V, Gas- kins; Wm. Alfred Milliken gnd Robert Crawford Vawter; James R. Burch of this city and Mattle A. Kearns of Fauquier county, Va. — The Charge Dismissed. Edward Brown, a young colored man, who is not on good terms with his brother Eugene, and all because of a woman, was arrested Saturday night by Policeman Par- bam on a charge of concealed weapons. The pistol was found under the pillow of bed in her house near 25th ard M Streets, but It was not loaded. The brothers appeared in Judge Miller's court this morning, and each charged that the other had made use of threatening lan- guage, and Ed. said he ran home and hid | the pistol. The charge of concealed weap- ons against him was dismissed. —_——>_—_ Grand Army Encampment. Commander Bickford, Department of the Potomac, has appointed the following naim- on transportation and quarters to the national encampment of the Grand Army at Pittsburg, September Chris Storm, 3. F. Chase, N. B. Prentice, George C. Ross und A. N. Thoiap- son. > — A Washington Boy. Hanson Briscoe Black, a graduate of the High School of this city, has been awarded | a. Washington scholarship by the Johns Hopkins University fcr proficiency in his studies during the past year. _— K Indian Territory Intruders. The Secretary of the Interior has fur- rished the Secretary of War a list of per- | Sons at Alderson, Indian territory,who may be legally regarded as Intruders, and Gen. We are at a loss to understand in what| Schofield has sent the st to the command- ing officer of the troops on the spot, with | orders to remove all the persons named the Indi from reservation forthwith. pense he had as little cause to compiain,| There are 400 names on the list, including | all the miners implicated in the recent Informa- tion has reached here that the majority of the suspects have fled the country without h ff} awaiting formal notice. Those remaining ee tS Eke atk, Bak ee dibs | will be pint sat ROlAg “or homerun ae smali and relatively experimental road the! trouble is anticipated in the execution of the order, and it is believed that the : ; : ;| natural order of things will be fully re- Big) Sat tna “ot targer: russ operated hy St enin she gucien aucstiory hk caw ian In that event the troops will be withdrawn. —-- + e+ The Soap Bubble. From Longman’s Magazine. Why is it that the colors of a soap bubble change as the film gradually alters in thick- ness? Another cause of color is here in- | volved—that of interference. If a stone be thrown into a smooth pond a circular wave is produced gradually widening toward the edge of the pond; if a second stone be thrown into the pond a second wave will be produced, which will influence the first. If the stones be dropped in simultaneously at the same spot, the wave. will just be doubled in height; and if the second stone be thrown in exactly a wave-length behind the first, the same effect would be observed. If, how- ever, the second stone be thrown into the water exactly half a wave-length behind the first, the motion of the water will be destroyed. Similarly with light; when light impinges on the soap bubble, part of it is reflected from the exterior surface, and part enters the film and is reflected from the interior surface. This latter portion traverses the water medium between the two surfaces twice, and is, therefore, kept behind the first reflected ray. The two sets of waves interfere with each other, and produce a colored light, instead of a white light. Other waves, again, may destroy each other and extinguish the light. Some of the constitu- ent colors of the impinging white light— formed by their passage through the film— interfere so as to destroy each other, while others remain unaffected. As the film di- minishes in thickness, the colors must nec- essarily vary. In this way is accounted for the marvei- ous variety of beauty of colors in the soap bubble, the iridescence of of! upon water, the changing color of steel when being tem- pered, and the gaudiness of some insects’ wings. ——_+eo+__. Citizens of Chicago of Irish birth and home-rule sympathies are collecting money to continue the parliamentary struggle for home rule. Nearly $5,000 has been sub- scribed. It 1s proposed to raise $10,000 A REAL LIVE ZULU. Ulata Monsszaro Discusses the Cus- toms of His Native Kafirland, There is a rea! live Zulu in town. He doesn’t wear immense rings in his ears, or a bone through his nose, or anklets of brass: or bracelets of copper, and his hatr doesn't stick up like the fright wig of a low come- Sian in @ minstrel show; but he was born in Kaffirland, all the same, and the blood of a long line of South African chieftains flows through his veins. The fact is that Ulata Monszaro, who rejoices in the ap- pellation of “professor,” and who is travei- ing through the states delivering lectures on his native country, is a very good Tep- resentative of the well-educated colored man. His complexion is almost soot black and his athletic figure is well formed. He is about thirty-five years old and is the son of a “juju,” which ts the title of a chief ruler among the Zulus. He came to this country in 1879. He is familiar with the customs of his native country, of covrse, and he told the representative of The Star a whole lot about them this morn- ing. “In Zululand,” said Ulata, “a man gets his wife by buying her. My father had forty. A royal wife costs twelve cattle. If a wife should die without becoming a mother, the husband can buy one of her sisters on credit, and the father of the girl will take the first two girl children born to her to pay for her. Before a Zulu can take a wife he must prepare a home for her. Some men have five, some ten, some fifty and several of them have a hundred wives apiece. They all live together and get along ‘very well. When a man of the royal fam- | ily dies his body is not buried at all. The oldest man in the village is required to fan his dead body all day, and at night there is a royal ceremony over it and a feast is | enjoyed, for which a number of slave chil- dren are killed. When the king himself dies a number of his wives are usually exe- cuted, and his body is buried in the water for three days. It is then taken up and put on a throne made of goatskin and brass, over which a hut has been built. Then ten or fifteen men or women are placed in this structure and shut up and compelled to starve to death. It is be- leved that in this manner the royal spirit will be fed. “Americans would not relish living in a Zvlu house,” continued Ulata. “The huts there are —— of bark peeled nog Fo composed, of long grass and manure. They have no @himneys or windows, and the fire always burns in the center of the house, the smoxe going out of the door. The clothes of the native Zulus are made from the hides of different animals, of which the tribes possess an immense number. But civilized clothes are worn by a great many of the better-off people. They are bought with money which is procured by trading ivory to the Arabs. The Zulus kill large numbers of elephants every year, the ele- phants being secured in a peculiar way. When a herd of elephants is located a number of diamond-shaped holes are dug in- | to the ground some distance from the herd, ! and the animals are then slowly driven toward them. They are stampeded when they get near them, and rush into these holes, which are covered with grass and i bushes to prevent their being seen. If those holes were made square the elephant could climb out, but being dug diamond feshion the animal is helpless, because when he lifts one foot the other slips. Eech tribe lives to itself and has its own king, and each town or village in South Africa is fenced around so as to keep its enemies out. When the natives go to bed at right a hungry cow is tied on the out- side of the village in order that it will low when any one comes near. A great many of the Zuluz are good agriculturists, but these are mostly engaged as farm laborers by the Dutch Boers, who are such a power in South Africa. The Zulus are very fond of argument, and nothing pleases them bet- ter than controversies over different sub- jects. They are very shrewd and quick to take an advantage of weak points in the ents of their opponents, and some- a discussion will continue for hours. Th seldom get angry when engaged in this pastime, and the listeners cheer every good point made on either side with im- partial fairness.” ————— Homestead Laborers. Hamlin Gariand in McClure’s Magazine. Everywhere in this enormous building (the boller-plate mill) were pits like the mouth of hell, and fierce ovens giving off a glare of heat, and burning wood and tron giving off horrible stenches of gases. Thunder upon thunder, clang upon clang, glare upon glare. Torches flamed far up in the dark spaces above. Engines moved to and fro, and steam sissed and threatened. Everywhere were grimy men with sal- j low and lean faces. The work was of the ; inhuman sort that hardens and coarsens. “How long do you work?” I asked of a ! young man who stood at the furnace near me. “Twelve hours,” he replied. “The night set go on at six at night and come off at six in the morning. I go on at six and off at six.” “For how much pay?” “Two dollars and a quarter.” “How much do those men get shoveling ‘there in the rain?” “One dollar and forty cents.” (A cut has ce taken place). ‘What proportion of the men get that pay?” “Two-thirds of the whole plant, nearly two thousand. There are thirty-five hun- dred men in the mills. They get all prices, of course, from a dollar and forty cents up to the tonnage men, who get five and ten dolars per day when the mills run smooth.” “I suppose not many.men make ten dol- lars per day. “Well, hardly.” He smiled. “Of course the rollers and the heaters get the most, but there are only two rollers to each mill, and three heaters, and they are responsible for their product. The mest of the men get under two dollars per day.” “And it is twelve hours’ work without only get this pay part of the time. mills are liable to be shut down part of the They shut down part of the night sometimes, and of course we're docked. Then, again, the tendency of the pro- prietors is to cut down the tonnage men; that is, paid by the ton, but they’ll some day be paid by the day, like the rest of us. “You bet they will,” said my guide, who seemed quite familiar with the facts. “Of course, you understand the tonnage men are responsible for their product. You see, the improvement of machinery helps them, but if don’t help the common la- borer much. It wouldn't help the tonnage men if the company could fill their places cheaper. They don’t pay them by the ton | because they want to, but because they | have to. But the tonnage men’ll get it next year.” “That's right,” said the man at the fu nace door, ar he seized his shovel to “lin: the furnace. ——___-+e+_- —__ Our Architectural Progress. From the Westminster Review. Perhaps the chief sign of progress in the domain of art in America is seen in archi- tecture. It is probably no exaggeration to year. more fine specimens of modern architecture, both in city and country, than can be found in any other part of the world. The average may be inferior to that of Europe, but the good is better. The wearisome monotony of Parisian streets, and the excessively ugly rows of brick houses, plain to a degree, without even a cornice, which line whole squares even in the fashionable quarters of London, would be looked for in vain in American cities. Hundreds of country houses in France, by the high-sounding title of chateau this and chateau that, would not be accepted is the barns or stables of any of the artist! stone, brick or wooden mansions scattered over the American continent, especially in the vicinity of towns. The admirable wi of transatlantic architects does not always stand out so prominently~as it should, be- cause it Is too often lost in an ocean of sur- rounding cheapness. Mean frame houses are still too frequent even in the metropolis, and poor, low specimens of masonry some- times dwarf a veritable monument, much as was the case with the Tour Saint Jacques and Notre Dame before the advent of Na- poleon III and Baron Haussmann. Thirty or forty years ago Broadway | fronts were of marble. Then came a period when iron was employed both inside and outside, Stewart's store being, perhaps, the finest example of the use of thie material. But todi bricks of various colors, forms and qualities, terra-cottas, and stone of many sorts give greater variety to facades Fortunately, a stop has been put to the “brown stone front and high steop” style of dwellings. It may be that the new houses are a trifle too rococo. English visitors ac- customed to the severe simplicity and leaden hues of London are sure to find them so. But that the residential quarters of Ameri- can cities, great and small, will bear com- parison today with those of European cities cannot be questioned; and, if we turn to the larger structures used for business and trade, the like of them is rarely seen outside of New York, Chicago and Boston. The miners in the Pittsburg district last week decided, 51 the Columbus ba the rollers and heaters are now | declare that the United States possesses | particularly in the south, which are known | +o 20 te work on| BRAVE SOLDIER LAD. Fought Indians, but Left His Girl t Her Fate. The case of’ the five young colored men George Jackson, Frank Jackson, Mari Bell, William Bowman and Robert Coates charged with a felonious assault on a col ored girl gamed Henrietta Storied in th county near the New Cut road last Mon day right, as published in The Star at th time, was tried in the Police Court today Henriett@ told her story of the alleged as sault, saying she was held and beaten by several men while one of them assaultec ‘her She said she thought only one mai | assaulted her fh a felonious manner, whib Marshall Turner, a witness, said that thre of them actually assaulted’ her. William Dickson, colored, a member o company K. stationed at Fort Myer, tool the stand and told of how he had foug? the Indians in the west. He told the cour that on the evening charged he went ou | walking with Henrietta and they wen | further than they had expected. When the} turned to come home a crowd of colore men appeared. One of them struck him an¢ be fan off, leaving the girl to care for ber “And are you one of U: : dlers?” Mr. Carrington aan a “Yes, sir, And deserted your sweetheart?” I ran away.” €1 thought T hed beter ‘ ought better run than remait there and get killed; I ong wget Seay thought it better fot le ran all the way t is Pe do aly fay to the city to make Marshall Turner, who turned state's evi- dence, claimed that he took no part in the affair. He said he stood qf and looked of and also said he was afraid of the soldier. Mr, John Blundon, who appeared on the scene and fired two shots, gave evidence te show that Turner wes mixed in the as sault the same as the others. Judge Miller said that this was one ot the worst cases of the kind that had ever been tried in the Police Court and held the prisoners in $1,000 bail for th of the grand jury. « bape mass OUR DESIGNs, In the ships which are te be added to the fleet by the new naval program, apparently the Royal Sovereign type is to be reprodue- ed. Now, this class of ship, admirable im many ways, has some most serious defects. Their heavy rolling has been alluded Loy and is @ fact, in spite of Messrs, White and Forwood. They possess the additional dis- advantage of weak bows and weak bow- fire in proportion to their size. In the mod- ern English ironclad the armor has disap: peared from the two ends ef the ship, and is ell applied to her middie. The French and Russians on the other hand have never given up the continuous belt ot platfhg. Now, suppose that a French ship—for in- Stance, tue Brennus—meets the Koyal Sov- ereign end to end, what will be the result? ‘The Frenci vessel ts stiff and strong trom the armor which runs right up to her bow; tne English ship is exceedingiy weak there —indeea the ram has only the support of the armored deck. The srennus would Tm! up the bow of the Koyal Sovereign and penetrate to the armor below the heavy suns, and our ship would be certainly iow ut, it will be said, end-to-end encounters will hever occur in warfare. On the co: trary the best authorities, English vrench, expect them to take place, and cer- tainly the weakness of our ships will en- courage the enemy to attack in this way. Even if both snips go two the boitom tne 14,v00-ton Royal Sovereign would be a good exchange for the 11,WWy-ton Brennus. be- Sides, tne knowledge that nis bow is weais will seriously handicap the English captain in the hour of action, apprcaching one When te ships are another bow to bow the number of guns that can be brought to bear ahead will Le @ factor of great importance in the fight. The Royal sovereign could only tire two heavy guns to the French ship's three, on the most favorable supposition, though, as @ matter of fact, in no ship of the soyal Sovereign class have the guns ever been fired right ahead, and it this were done in action, the muzzies of the guns being only three feet from the deck, the deck would probably be blown in. Both could bring to bear the same number of smaller guage (four). Thus the big English ship, already handicapped by her weak ram, is places at yet further disadvantage by her im ficient tire. Now, why should our ver sels of 14,0 tons be inferior, in this ra- pect, to our opponents’ of 10,00) to 12.q0 tons? Yet the Americans have an ironchd of the size only of the Centurian, whichts more powerful than even the Royal Sa . Her big guns are as numerovs very nearly as heavy. Besides these carries eight 8-inch guns (four firing’ ahead) and six 6-inch (two firing a! So she could oppose eight guns to the Rg’ Sovereign's six, and all of them protected by a thicker armor than that which covers the corresponding wi.pons in our siip. True. she shares the fault of a weak bow, but, with the extra 4.50) vons which cur naval architects have at thelr disposa, it | should be possible to extend the plating to the ram. Uncle Sam has borrowed frety from our designers in the past; | not be ashamed of adapting his our needs. they seed desigrs wo ——— e+ WHAT FLAGS SIGNIF The Colors of a Regiment or Ship Ars Somet More Thana Mere Sik. From the Outlook. Flags are not m¢rely so many yards of silk, They represent to a soldier wnat is noblest in his country’s history and insti- tutions. Their loss, under circumaances short of heroic, is an eternal disgmce to the regiment losing them. Only death can excuse the color guard frem de |fending them, and when the guard has been shot or cut down othen should be ready to stand by the flag. In the navy a vessel never strikes her colors except to acknowledge defeat. For this reason when in that great sca duel between Paul Jones’ Bonhommie Rich- ard and the English Serapis, which ed far into the night, the ensign was shot away from the halyards, Lieut. Stafford plunged into the sea ufter it, and ‘braving a double death—he was in fact woumled while swimming—saved tt and sei ft again, and it was the Serapis which finally struck. The Cumberland went down in dampton Roads with colors flying, and when re- cently the old Kearsarge, which sent the Alabama to the bottom, struck on Reneador in the Caribbean sea, and ser crew obliged to take to the boats the em- w sign was left fluttering in the breeze. Next to our own flag, that of Great Brit- ain interests us most. “union” flag because it is three flags i one. The flag of England is a red cross op a white field; that of Scotland, a white St Andrew's cross on a biue ficld. These flag: | were combined when England and Scotlan¢ united in 1653; and on the union with Ire land, the Irish flag, a rei St. Andrew's cross on a white field, was adéed. The union of the three countries is thus indi- cated on the “union.” The St. George's cross of England remains as before and is the central feature of the flag, dividing it into four quarters, occupied by the St. Andrew's crosses, the white of Scotland and the red of Ireland, which are placed side by side. e Abound a British warship the “union” is Loisted only when the queen or an admiral is aboard. English ships sail under the British ensign, of which there are three | kinds—white, blue and red—cach with th | Bnion in a square oer et 3 = | hotst, that portion the along tuff. The navy, and, by special permis- jon, the Royal Yacht Ctub, sail under the white ensign, which has, besides the union, the red cross of St. George over the whole. The blue ensign is a privilege allowed to those merchant ships which are officered by members of the naval reserve and one- third of whose crews belong to the reserve. | It is also flown by a few yacht clubs. The red is the merchantman's ensign. Unul |< the British naval fleet. was divided jinto three squedrons, each im command of ; admiral, who was known by the color |of his flag, as the “admiral of the blue,” sthe “admiral of the red” and the “admiral of the white.” This distinction was abol- |ished because it was found puzzling in ac- |tion and was often eliminated. Trafaigar, stance, was fought under the white Jensicn. The French and Spanish ships went into action without setting their cclors, but were later obliged to hoist them so as to be able to strike them. It os called the This ts commencement weck at Harvard, |Cornell, Rutgers, Ohio Wesleyan, Lehigh, Lafayette, Washingten and lee, Pennsyl- |vania College, Randclph-Macon, Virginie ‘Military Institute and Charlotte Hall. | Commencement exercises of Johns Hop- |kins were held Thursday. John G. Amea, |George 8. Maynard and C. C. Wood of this | city graduated tn art ‘was given degree of 4 Commencement at Ha’ lege wok piace Friday.