Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1894, Page 3

SSS SS oP” ag nena ge ges ee SPECIAL NOTICES. COLUMBIA HEIGHTS CITIZENS’ \TION.— General meeting for the electica of officers TO- NIGHT, June 19, at 3 o'clock, in Mission Hall, 204 Lith st. mw. Taxpayers and residents of Columbia Heights and Pleasant Plains should not fail to attend. GEUKGE SIMMONS, Te PS _Temporary Secretary. SPIRITUALISM—J. H. ALTEMUS WILL HOLD ele at Wonn's Hal i tk st. ow., TUES 18-2t° ‘st. consent, AN dissolved Charles W_ Jordan retiring therefrom. Bw, has bes by muti Ww jam S. MacLeod will continue the business at we address, to whom all accounts due saould be paid by whom all indebtedness bas deen assumed CHARLES W. JORDAN, Jeis-2ee WILLIAM S$. MacLEOD. DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING about clothes—that is to say, from a technt- cal point of view, weave of cloth, quality, Gurability, workmanship? If you do, we'd -like to Lave pour candid opinion of the qual- ity of cloth we ure making up into these $35 “Skeleton” Serge Suits to order. Aay fashion- able coler serge you cam name—black, navy bine, three or four shades of tan, six shades of gray. No more dressy sult in existence, if made our way. Drop in and talk about it tomozrow, gentlemen. KEEN, Tailor, 1320-1812 F st. nw. YOUR FAMILY LEAVE TOWN SHORTLY FOR ‘THELt SUMMEK VACATION. You'll doubt- served in the most appetizing manner, by polite, attentive waiters, diuner, 50c.. from 4 to 7 p.m.; Sundays from 1 to 2 p.m. [> Ladies’ entrance on 4% st- — REUTER, COR. PA. AVE. AND 4'q ST. 3 @ wine as France. California wine is sold for Tes, becuse there's. be to pay. come t v Cal. » 5 bots. for $1; Vu. Clarets, 5 bots. for $1. Good Table Sherzy, $2 SOc. bot. gas. TH 2-8 Je18 SPIRITUALISM_—MNS. UXPIE MeNEIL, BUSI- ness clairvoyant and test oe can be con- an om all affairs of life. 1914 a Jel6-3r* a. HELMER, Saks & Co. the line of Print! NEWTON & CO. have in stock rohart Broa. Rorse Chandier a P+ PURSUANT TO THE PROVIS‘ONS OF SECTIONS eleven hundred ard eig3ty eight (1188) and eleven hundred and elghty-aiza (118% of the Revised Statutes of the Uxtted States, relating to the Distriet of Columbia, & Cuaries Jacobsen, of the city of Wasbingtoa, 6.¢., s manufacturer and 6 st. aw. ment of Type, Inks, * - 1 waters aed othe: beverages, by ‘efder of- mineral 1 ‘ be sure unter the saii “etties are described Pose of protecting of sald statutes. as follows: the The Co.,, Chae. J C.,* ard having ‘chain, with the across the same, ané over ™Eicond—Siphon bottles of white colored or Second— tles of white transparent glass, marked on the head or neck of si “Chas, ‘Jacolsen,”” and on side of bot- ap Mineral Water, bottled by the Arlington ttling a Weshington, D.C.," and hav Co., an ‘and chain, with t Co." across the sume and over the~ mark. ‘Third—Siphon bottles of white colored or trans- head or neck of tle, “Arlington i ‘on ttle, Ring co. Chas po hy AF. . ja . ton, D.C." ‘also on said an anchor and chain, with the letters “A. B. Co.,"" word “trade mark.’ i persons fil with mineral waters or other such bottle so marked, or to sell, the same; otherwise they will be cording to law. seal at Wi Given unde: band and ‘ashingtoa, D.C, this THIRTEENTH DAY. of JUNE, “A.D. ‘LES JACOBSEN. (Seal S TOBRINER. Clerk. t Clerk. YOU BUILDING? MOTTLED Root JUNE 4TH.—ARE and Buff Bricks ‘and fO RACING MEN. B.: RAMBLERS won three firsts, three thirds, and Special time offered for ‘2 ALL PERSONS OPPOSED TO KEEPING THE Dream City portfolios unbound will at HODGES’ BINDERY, 511 9th st bind them from Se. PUBLISHER. ND JOB PRINTING. 1108-1116 B st. aw. ‘The weather is likely to be: For the District of Columbia and vicinity, fair Wednesday, showers today; slightly cooler. ESTABLISHED 1824. Reliabie, ‘ Fair ling! lena Prices! $2.00 Per 100 Feet. FRANK LIBBEY & CO “Lumber, Mill Work and Builders’ Hardware, Cor. 6th and N. Y. Ave. Claret Sangaree To-Kalon Claret. bottles for $1;delivered quick. To-Kalon Wine Co.,614 14th “PHONE 98. VAULTS 27TH aND K STS. je19 The Spanish Inquisition Never inflicted greater torture than that suf- by wearers of ill-tit ; pone fy Bye he ting Trusses. If rup- vised, suits by aclentific met! ode, “exactly what OU Kinds “latest—best 50 "per_ cent ager con Gilman’s Drug Store, .%%y. Correspondents’ Requisites fy rintca gy: pre oy - Grane’ feud, P if & Whiting you Use a stu pe Bmoothest, easiest 7 We are headquarters for Paper can furnish ANYTHING and EtERY ed at quired, at lowest prices. Easton & Rupp, 421 1th St. Sa Stationers. (Just above avs.) {f You Have A Corn ‘That bothers you. use the CERTAIN CORN r- MOVER. We guarantee to remove asd = Soft Corns, Bunions, Wai Meles, &c., to few applications. or refusd the money.” I the best remedy known, because. it acto. ‘quickly “ED 'Seld bp all drucgiete S50. W | ‘Sold by all drugg! a @ prepare it Van Syckel’s Drug Store, or ER 13TH AND G STREETS N.W. Je18 About Mosaic Work. It requires @ special “knack” to do Mosaic Work, and it takes time to do it. Poor work will soon crack and bulge. We Will guarantee to do it right—and we'll do it. We bave the most “expert” service. Write for us. & K. SPALt 18 . Manufacturer's Agent, 603 E st. The Union Savings Bank, i222 F Street N. W., BAYS FUCK PEL CENT INTEREST ON SAVINGS ACCOUNTS. (pea until 5 p.m. om days, and evings wey Oris Gor @evarday ev: from 6 to &) SPECIAL NOTICES. : ROYALTY AT - ASCOT MIDSU DOWN GO THE PRICES! Our annual clearance sale has begun! We are winding up the season's stuffs by dropping the prices. Same high-class work. All $25, $28 and $30 Suit- ings down to $17.50. $30 «Black Diagonul Cutaway Coat-and-vests Down to $17.50. #10 and $12 Trouserings Down to $6. G. Warfield Simpson, Tailor, 12th and F sts. n. Those True Blue Serge Suits Will prove wonderfully comforting in the hot days that will soon be down on us. True in stuff, color, cut and style—and so low a tariff-- Only $15. ‘True in every claim, you'll find them especially so im wear and worth. They're stylish for all hot weather occasions and give the wearer the appear- ‘ance of cool, neat dressiness that all desire and admire. $15. Some of those $12 Business Suits yet to be bad if you call soon. Mertz and Mertz, 906 F St. N. W. it Artistio Tailors & Fashbioners, You Don’t Know Anything —about the practical utility of a typewriter unless you operate it. Better bring your type- writer clerk along with you when you comé to ‘at a Densmore. He'll show the sj the durability and the convenience that's in it. We Rave made a machine to stand the most criti- inspection of the most thoroagh experts— investigate the Densmore TOO (UCH. Sent on trial. Columbia Phonograph Co., 219 Ivania Avenue. ED. IN, Pres. Kt. F. CROMELIN, Sec. je10 Get Your ‘‘Sheepskin?’’ Graduates about to enter on a professional career, of whatever nature, will need Letter and Bill Heads, Cards, Euvi and various printing—let us dp it—neatly—artistically. Low- est prices. Byron S. Adams, Printer, £12 11TH STREET N.W. Telephone 980. jel8 Suits Cleaned & Pressed, $1 . Jur solled clothing. hesides altering apd repait- clothing, altering and. repalr- it in neatest r. Coats, 0c. Vests and manner. ‘Trousers, 25c. each. Write or telephone. Wagon will call. Hahn, ‘jel Coal Famine Is Imminent CLEANING AND 108 9TH 8T.N,W. REF AIRING. "Phone 143-2. Unless the soon settled. This, however, won't affect Washi for WE have of YLE COA L—unsurpassed beating and steam- ‘Write or telephone 925. Allegheny Coal Co., WHOLEALE COAL DEALERS, DUMP, COR. HALF AND G STS. 8.W. Je16 iE HAD HER WEIGH. It Was a Posthumous Triump It Was Hers All t Same. From the Indianapolis Journal. “When a woman makes her mind up to anything,” said the man with the ginger beard, “they ain't no way of perventin’ her from reaehin’ the end she aims at.” “Thouten she dies, of course,” remarked but said the man with the ginger beard to the rash interrupter, “like you have the most natural gift of tell- in’ what you don’t know every time you open your mouth of any man I ever know- ed. I wili admit,” continued the man with the ginger beard, as the grocer assumed a humbled expression, “that you are all right in the grocery business. Fact is, a man would have to be pretty smooth to make Can | a livin’ out of the kind o stock you keep. Now, the time you explained the hair bein’ in the butter because the butter wasn’t strong enough to hold itself together with- out it was plum good. Howsomever, it looks like rain an’ I can’t waste no more time on uu. Now, this here woman—" “Which woman?” “This here woman I was thinkin’ of when I spoke was just like all the rest of 'em; when her mind was sot, it was sot. Pore thing, she had to die to git her own way, but she got it." “Love affair?” asked the man from Po- tato Creek, who had a romantic streak in his mental’ composition. “Love affair, nothin’. She was marrit to her third husband. They hadn’t been marrit fer more’n a week, I guess, before the old man begins twittin’ her ‘cause she was s0 thin, an’ wonderin’ why the Lord couldn't a-seen fit to make her weigh as much «as his first wife. ‘How much did the dear angel weigh” she asked him, kinder sar- castic-like, one day, when they had been jawin’ a little more than common. ‘Jist exactly 155 pounds,’ says he. ‘Well,’ rays she, ‘I'm a-goin’ to git to that weight if it takes me a hundred years.” “Howsomever, ‘stead of gittin’ any fatter, she gits thinner and thinner right along, till at last she ups and dies. ‘Well,’ says the old man, ‘seems like she didn't git to that there weight she started fer after all. I guess she weighed nearer fifty-five than a hundred and fifty-five.” But that’s all he knowed about it. About two years after they was a boom in real estate, and the old graveyard turnin’ out to be pretty good town lots, the folks had to move, this here weman among the rest. When they come to dig her up she had patrified. “Petrified, I suppose you mean,” said the school teacher. “Anykow, I mean she had turned to rock. An’ jest fer curiosi' they weighed her. Funny thing, too. She comes exactly to that there 155 pounds she alles said she'd git, and they won't never nobody make me be- Meve that she didn’t know what she was doin’ all the time.” —ce*- ——_- Giles—“Did he tell you he couldn’t speak French?” “Merritt—“No.”” Giles—“Then, how did you know?” Merritt-‘He spoke some.”—Life. Castoria For Infants and Children. CASTORIA DESTROYS Worms. CASTORIA CURES CONSTIPATION. CASTORIA ALLAYS FEVERISHNESS, CASTORIA CURES DIARRHOEA AND COLIC. CASTORIA RELIEVES TEETHING TROUBLES. CASTORIA PREVENTS VOMITING SOUR CURD. “The use of ‘Castoria’ is so universal and its merits so well known that it seems a work of supererogation to indorse it. Few are the intelli- gent families who do not keep Castoria within easy reach.” CARLOS MARTYN, D.D., New York city.+ . THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, JUNE 49, 1894-TWELVE PAGES. The Prinoe of Wales and His Friends at the Races, MANY CHEERS GREETED THE PARTY — Mr. Gladstone Not Invited to This Country. GENERAL FOREIGN MATTERS ed LONDON, June 19.—At Ascot Heath, Berkshire, today the Ascot stakes, a handi- cap of twenty sovereigns each, with 1,000 sovereigns added; the second horse to re- ceive 200 sovereigns and the third 100 sov- ereigns out of the stakes, distance about two miles, was won by Mr. A. Taylor, jr.’s Aborigine, four years old, carrying 7 stone 12 pounds. Sir R. Jardine’s Red Ensign, fout years did, carrying 8 stone 11 pounds, was second. Mr. T. Wadlow’s Spindle Leg, four years old, carrying 6 stone 4 pounds, third. The betting,-as the horses went te the post, was 100 to 12 against Aborigine, 100 to 14 against Red Ensign and 8 to 1 against Spindle Leg. Lord Ellesmere’s Glengall led until the straight was reached, when Mr. J. Low- ther’s Houndsditch went ahead. But Red Ensign and Aborigine responded and Houndsditch was quickly passed. Abor- igine wor by two lengths and a half from Red Ensign. “Royal Ascot” had a brilliant inaugural gathering. The heath and its neighborhood were more crowded than usual, and the number of appiications for admittance to the royal inclosure was the highest for a rumber of years past. The Prince of Wales has leased Sir Wm. Farmer’s house, Coworth Park, and in ad- dition to his daughters, the princess and Victoria, Maud, the prin: guests include Prince Frederick of Denmark, the Duke and Duchess of Fife, the Duke of Cambridge, Lor= Marcus Beresford, the Marquis of Londonderry. All the country places in the vicinity are crowded with guests. The royal party drove to the race course in semi-state, in six carriages, each drawn by four bays, and were greeted with loud cheers all alohg the route. This party in- cluded the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Dake of York, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke and Duchess of Teck, Prince and Princess Christian, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Prince Henry of Battenberg. Gladstone Not Invited. LONDON, June 19.—A reporter of the As- sociated Press today called upon Mr. Glad- stone at Dollis Hill in reference to the in- vitation said to have been extended to the great English statesman to visit the United States. The Associated Press representa- tive was informed that Mr. Gladstone had not received any such invitation and that he did not know of any movement in that direction except what he had read of in the newspapers. Mr. Gladstone added that he regarded it as impossible that he should be able to visit the United States and express- ed the belief that it was probable that the gentlemen said to be at the head of the movement were aware of this and that they merely intended the invitation as a compli- ment. Apologised to Admiral Erbea. ANTWERP, June 19.—The military gov- ernor has apologized to Admiral Erben for the oversight of the authorities in not re- plying to the salute of the United States cruiser Chicago when she arrived here on Friday last from Gravesend, England. The governor added that the requirements of naval etiquette would be fully fulfilled. The Plague’s Progress. HONG KONG, June 19.—During the past three days there have been ninety-three deaths from the plague. The removal of a large number of people to Canton has caused @ diminution in the spread of the epidemic. SINGAPORE, June 19.—No Chinese im- migrants from ports south of Foo Choo are allowed to land in the straits settlements. Among those present in the royal in- closure were Mrs. Henry White, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Asquith, who, with a party of friends, drove from Loseley Park, Guild- ford, where Mr. and Mrs. Asquith are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. White. The United States ambassador, Mr. Thos. F. Bayard, Mrs. Bayard and her daughte: and every member of the United States em- bassy, with the exception of Mr. James R. Roosevelt, the secretary, Mr. and M Levi_P. Morton, Mr. and Mrs. John Jay, Mr. William C,.Whitney and Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, were also noticed in the in- closure. The Prince of Wales stakes of 50 sov- ereigns each, with 1,000 sovereigns added, for three-year-old, colts carrying eight stone ten pounds, ‘and fillies eight stone five pounds, the second horse to receive 300 sovereigns, and the third 200 sovereigns out of the stakes, over the new course, distance about cne mile and five furlong: was won by Mr. Henry Milner’s Contract; Lo! Beighterton was second, and Mr. Douglas Baird's bay colt Sempronius was third. Contract is a agg colt by Isonomy out of Wedding ing. Towns and Villages Under Water. LONDON, June 19.—A dispatch to the Standard from Vienna says that reports froma Galicia and Silesia show that the Waar valley, in Hungary, from Trenczin north to Pressburg, has been inundated. Portions of the towns and dozens of pros- perous villages in the valley are submerg- ed. Railway traffic is suspended. Bridges have been swept away and crops destroyed in every direction. The damage amounts to many millions of florins. The rivers are full of the carcasses of cattle, and household property of every description is floating down stream. The rain ceased somewhat today, and there is a prospect that the floods will shortly subside. Recognition of Abdul Asis. LONDON, June 19.—A dispatch to the Standard from Paris says that Lord Duf- ferin, the British ambassador, and M. Hanotaux, minister of foreign affairs, met in the foreign office today to draft the form of an identical note to the powers that have agreed to recognize Abdul Aziz as Sultan of Morocco. The Fair Appropriation Rejected. LONDON, June 19.—A dispatch to the Times from Paris says that the budget committee of the chamber of deputies has rejected the supplementary Credit of 28,000 francs asked for by the government in connection with the.world’s fair. Frenchmen and Americans United. LONDON, June 19.—A Paris dispatch to the Times says that Fremiet’s medallion of the sculptor Barye, who died in this city June 26, 1875, was unveiled on the Pont Sully today. Eugene Guillaume, the well-known sculptor and member of the institute, on behalf of the committee, warmly thanked the American subscribers who had joined with Frenchmen in pay- ing homage to a great artist. All Ready for a Great Event. LONDON, June 19'—The Datly News this morning says that Herbert Asquith, the home secretary, is a guest at Loseley Park, Guilford. A locomotive under stcam is kept at the station in readiness at any moment to convey him to the White Lodge, where it is necessary that he shall be pres- ent at the accouchement of the Duchess of York. ————— On the Water. That popular organization, the National Rifles, temporarily owned the steamer Macalester and Marshall Hall last evening. The soldier boys, accompanied by hundreds of their friends, steamed away on pleasure bent, and they certainly found it. At the hall dancing was the chief source of en- joyment, and the delightful moonlight sail home proved particularly pleasing. The affair was one of the most successful out- ings in the history of the organization. ——_—_ “Troth,” said Mr. MeGuck, “Oi tink this cigar that me boss gave me is the virry bist wan Oi tver shmoked. It's called a Kay Wist. Now, Feeney, fhat is the bist cigar “Sure,” replied Feeney, ye iver shmoked?”” “the bist cigar Oi iver shmoked wus a poipe.”—Lif A Triad of Interesting Hot Weather Memoranda. The Sun-Baked Capitol Lawa, Which is Always Cut, but Never Watered —Bushels of Canada Flies. The days when the thermometer bubbles bring business to many citizens, but to none more than the gentlemen whose duty it is to keep the lawns of the Capitol grounds trimmed. The advent of hot weather means to them the coming of a frenzy of joy. They gloat in the prospect of shaving the blades of grass from day to day, until the parched and ycllow lawns ery out in protest against the torture. A glimpse of the sward at the north en@of the building, which is viewed probably by more people daily than any other section of the grounds, will serve to demonstrate the avidity with which these professors of the scythe and the lawn mower spring to their tasks. It would appear that little or no judgment is used in the work, for from the earliest of the hot days until the cool of autumn the surface is kept trimmed ; down to the roots, which bake in the sun and turn yellow long before their time. The mown grass is raked off as carefully as though every blade were of gold, and thus the natural protection which the cutting gives to the bleeding turf if left to He un- disturbed for twenty-four hours is taken away, and the bruised ends of the blades | are fairly cooked. Then, too, not a drop of water {s put upon the lawn from the be- ginning to the end of the season, the sward is left to the mercy of the droughts, and as @ consequence it has the appearance of the head of a youngster who has Just passed under a hairclipper. The north lawn is the worst sufferer, for it is so laid out that the water that falls from the skies cannot sink very deep, as it is inclined to run off in the central trough or valley that the landscape gardener devised. There is no shrubbery to give shade, and the great white wall on the south scems to reflect additional heat. A ine of perforated pipes running through the lawn and kept running mornihg and evening, or a series of those water tops or whirling fountains that are such pretty ad- ditions to large stretches of turf, would avoid much of the difficulty, but meanwhile the drivers of the lawn mowers must made to restrain their ardor. Grass is far too precious to be thus slaughtered. . A notable event of the earlier summer days is the coming of the pretty little Can- ada files, more commonly called May flies in this region. These dainty and harmless visitors flutter here with their long twin tails at the first burst of heat and remain |for some weeks. They meet early deaths around the electric lamps, however, and their fluttering and scrambling at night to; get within the glass globes that surround the arcs form a pretty spectacle. The tall trees that line some of the streets give them a shelter during the day, and they come forth in swarms at the first sputter of the current. Thenceforth until the elec- tricity is turned off these poor victims of their own ignorance flutter about the globes and gradually fall to th vements. Many of them get inside and are killed by the heat. Larger bugs, great buzzing beetles | and June bugs, are also slain by these ter- rible machines, and their bodies lie with the lighter corpses at the foot of the lamp poles. In the morning there are easily two or three quarts of these dead files scattered on the ground at the foot of some of these posts in the down-town regions, and they make great feasts for the sparrows that swoop down upon the piles of slain with the first sunlight. Sometimes these bodies are burned to a crisp and agai not singed. In Buffalo there is ‘urlous Spectacle whenever there has been a strong wind from the northwest, which brings across the narrow end of Lake Erie mil- lions of these files, whieh have their home among the sandy shores of the Canadian side of the lake. In the morning the pave- ments are strewn to quite a depth in the oe pincer Sig oad pad and at places ere are bushels of the files scatter the sidewalks, ° ries e 8 e 6 A bright Washington woman has just made a discovery. For some seasons she ras been in the habit in summer of carry- ing a parasol to keep the sunbeams from her head, and she has been wondering of late why it was that she seemed to be just as warm when she raised her shade as when she forgot it and allowed it to re- main unopened. The other day she was walking along Perinsylvania avenue, and, acting upon the impulse of her habit, she raised her parasol as soon as she emerged from a store. Then she noticed that her breathing was difficult and that her face was burning. Suddenly it dawned upon her that she had noticed this before, and she set to work to reason out the cause. For a time she pondered, growing warmer with each step, until she moved in the shade of a tree and snapped her parasol into its folded state. In a moment her face was bathed with fresh, cool air and she was im- mensely relieved. It then flashed across her that she had been unconsciously im- prisoning all the hot air rising from the sidewalks and asphalt pavements beneath the dome-like top of her shade, which, in- stead of acting as a protector, as intended, was really serving as a hood to surround her face with the hottest atmosphere of the street. As long as she held her parasol up the air had no chance to circulate, and this was the more unendurable because she per- sisted in holding it quite low. perimented, and as a result found that she was really more comfortable when she walked with her parasol folded than when she opened it, and now she has quite ta- booed that dainty article except as a means of defense against dogs and cows and other wild beasts. — MARYLAND SNAKE STALKING. Perilous Springtime Sport Indulged im by Men of Anne Arundel County. “They have a novel and exciting spring sport down in Anne Arundel county, Md. said a man from Baltimore to a writer for the New York Sun. “It is snake shooting. Long, long ago the native sportsmen down there discovered that in the spring of the year black snakes, garter snakes and moc- casins—and Anne Arundel county seems to have a good many hundred of these to the acre—are engaged in their little lovemaking affairs. They hover together in dry spots, and make so much noise with their hissing and wriggling that it is no trouble to stalk them from a long distance away. H “At the season named they are not only | bold and fearless, but they will not hesi-) tate to uttack an intruder on their trysting places. The moccasin snake looks dull and rusty on land, but his back ilghts up into beautiful kaleidoscopic markings when in the water. The moccasin id the easiest snake to kill, they say. When the warm spring sun showers its rays down on the pools in which the moccasin lives and finds his prey he comes to the surface and hangs on to a jutting bush or weed, or crawls out on th banks and lies stretched on the crass or) sand. He is shy and will run quickly at en approach, except at mating time, and then he will show you a Drevt# fight. And you hadn't better let him bite you. His bite may not kill you, but it would be better if a whole nest of hornets rested on you and enjoyed themszlves than one little water moccasin should touch you with his fangs. “But his cousin, the cottonmouth, or stumptail moccasin, will bring your last will and testament into service nearly surer than the cholera or yellow fever. His poison tooth is as deadly as the rattle- snake’s,.and when he hears you coming he won't run away or warn you like the rat- tlesnake, but will lie still and walt for you and plug venom into you if he can, There is considerable vim in stalking stump- tail moccasin when he is absorbed in his lovemaking, and you want to make sure of your shots when you draw bead on him. “The proper and sportsmanlike way of hunting snakes in Anne Arundel county ix to shoot them with a small rifle, and the sportman who doesn’t bag his game by shooting it in the head Isn't looked up to much. The man who would go out after snakes with a shotgun down there would lose caste immediately, and be sadly talked about. The favorite rifle is one of twenty- two caliber, and twenty yards’ range is the least an expert snake stalker asks. A moc- in head can be plainly seen at that tance, and many 4 shot among the snike hunters doesn’t brag any if he doesn’t knock eight heads off out of ten at that distance.” see The Greater Brooklyn. From Truth. “I don’t see why they call this the Prook- lyn Bridge, when half of it’s in New York.” “That's nothing; half of Brooklyn's in New York—when it can get there!” MMER NOTES/FRIENDLY TO SILVER}, Most Notable Feature of Ohio's Platforms. McKINLEY AND THE SPATE MILITIA Not a Shot Fired by the Troops. COL. CONGER’S ATTACK Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 18, 1894. ‘The most notable feature of the platforms adopted in the congressional conventions of beth parties so far in Ohio is the mére friendly feeling toward silver that appears in them all. While these silver planks are usually loosely drawn and intended proba- bly to be equivocal, many of them border closely upon free coinage of silver, and all demand the restoration of silver to what is glibly referred to as its “rightful place” in our coinage system. These are the words of the republican state platform. ‘The Use of State Troops. No Ohio governor since the war has had such an exciting military experience as that which Gov. McKinley is having now in suppressing rioting of the striking min- ers. Excepting the first regiment and a few compahies of ‘the fifth and seventeenth regiments of infantry and the Cleveland troop of cavalry, the whole armed force of the state has been called out for this pur- pose. So far not a shot has been fired by the state troops,and while an ugly guerrilla warfare has been practiced by the strikers in some places, not a soldier has been hurt, and at the same time property has been protected, an observance of property rights compelled and riotous assem! es of strik- ers a wherever found. r all this, of course, v. McKinley and Adjutant General Howe are entitled to great credit. It is almost certair, however, to make the governor unpopular with the so-called work- ing people. With them there ts a continu- ing hatred of the militia, They overlook the fact that the governor is protecting property rights, and see only the fact that in restraining the strikers he is assisting the operators of the mines, who are seeking to make them work at wages. This impression, right or wrong, will be pretty certain to make Itself felt in the next election in this state, and be very slow to disappear. ‘The expense of the militia is estimated at about $13,000 per day, and for the whole campaign will not fall far short of $200,000. This is an emergency expense for which, of course, no money could be appropriated. That Is to say, there is no money in the state treasury to pay it, and none can be secured until the legislature provides the necessary legislation. But the legislature has adjourned sine die, and the next legis- lature will not meet until January, 1806. Those to whom this money is due will not Want to wait until then for it. A special session of the general assembly 1s suggest- ed, but having taken such an active part in securing biennial sessions, Gov. McKinley will not be likely to call a special session. The probable solution of the question wiil be to have the state emergency board au- thorize the deficiency. This will legalize the claims against the state as a whole, and banks wil! be willing to cash them at eur- rent discounts. But it will be a heavy bur- den to the state, which has recently issued bonds to cover a deficiency in revenue amounting to $500,000, The Cincinnati Enquirer has charged that Gov. McKinley has recklessly aud illegally created a state debt, and under the law is Mable to arrest and fine. When asked about this matter the governor said: “We will preserve peace and protect property first and arrange for the expenses afterward. As to the arrest and fine, I shall be here. They will know where to find me.” The Enqutrer’s talk about violation of law by the governor in calling out the troops with- out first having the emergency board allow such expense 1s generally laughed at here. ‘When Foraker was governor he sent tents and supplies at the state’s expense to the unfortunate people who had lost their homes by the earthquake in the Carolinas, and the cost was paid by the legislature without question or hesitation. Perry Heath prises His Friends. ‘When Perry 8. Heath bought the Cincinna- ti Commercial Gazette,it was expected, since he was an Indianian and a close friend of ex- President Harrizon, that it would become a streng Harrison organ. It is a decided sur- prise, therefore, to see it now come cut In praize of Thcs. B. Reed. Its editorial ut- terances in this line are ridiculed by other republican newspapers in the state, how- ever. The Toledo Blade, that certainly has no personal reasons for supporting McKin- ley, is pouring ridicule upon this movement of the Commercial Gazette, while the Cleve- land Leader is stronger than ever in its support of Governor McKinley’s boom. Much has been made of the fact that the Ohio State Journal, the central organ of the party in this state, has taken Governor M>- Kinley’s name down from the head of its editorial column, where it had been display- ed since last fall's election, when he was so triumphantly chosen to be governor again, as its candidate for the presidency; but the fact really has little political significance. It is sald merely to mark the failure of certain negotiations on the part of the principal owner of the paper to sell it to a | the Metropolitan and Washington brane teway, and the jam and struggle that! party of McKinley republicens. e would not pay for the paper what he want. ed, and, offended at their refusal, he deter- mined that the governors name should | come down, and it did. Col. Conger’s Attack. The sensation of the past week in state politics has been the attack of Col. A. L. Conger of Akron upon Gov. McKinley's ad- ministration. Col. Conger, until recently, represented Ohio in the national republican committee,and has been an important mem- ber of the republican party in Ohio, No doubt it seems to him now that he is be- ing “shelved,” and does not propose to sub- mit to the operation without protest. Maj. Cc. F. Dick, who has twice, as chairman of the state republican cxecutive committee, led the party to victory, and has been chosen executive chairman for the coming campaign, ts a citizen of the same town with Col. Conger. Naturally, Gov. McKin- ley has felt himself under some obligations to Maj. Dick, and has put some honors upon him. This may have something to do with it, but from Elwood, Md., where Col. Conger has large business interests, comes the report that Conger desires to have the second place on the national ticket in 1806 for himself, and to this end is trying to prevent the governor from getting the first place. For some unexplained reason the call for @ meeting of the democratic state central committee here last Tuesday, to fix the date of the state convention, was rescinded at ihe last moment. The democrats seem to be in no hurry to nominate. One hears ab- solutely nothing about candidates for the democratic nominations this year. een DISCUSSING ANIMAL DISEASES. Convent! of Experts im Session at the Agricultural Department. Representatives of the live stock boards and the official veterinarians of several states are holding a convention in the seed room at the Agricultural Department. Men who know all abbut the diseases of cattle and horses are already in attendance from Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, TMNinois, Missourl and Towa, and maty more from other states are expected (6 join them tonight and tomorrow. The con- vention was called for the purpose of con- sidering means to prevent the spread of diseases among animals, particularly pleuro-pneumonia and tuberculosis in cattle 1 glanders in horses, the diseases which re transmissible to human beings. Prof. Levi Stockbridge, the eminent expert from Massachusetts, is presiding over the delib- erations, and the secretary is A. M. Brown- lee of the Illinois live stock board. Dr. Salmon represents the Agricultural Depart- ment at the meetings, which are expected to continue for three days. At today’s ses- sion Dr. T. J. Turner, state veterinarian of Missouri, read a paper on the desirabil- ity of uniform legislation among the states to minimize as far as possible the danger from diseased animals, and Charles P. Ly- man, secretary of the Massachusetts live stock board, explaired the character of the animal laws in his rative state and the sys- tem of work followed under them. Ad- dresses urging prompt and vigorous action on the part of state legislatures were also made by Dr. Robert Ward, state veterina- rian of Maryland, and Thomas J. Edge of Harrisburg, secretary of the Pennsylvania state board of agriculture. \CCOUNTANTS Have to Say. cism. in higi road, to The Star: burg, Md., anda. commuter of the I never have. train is composed of all new alike of his as long #s there was an empty box the yard. Except on extremely rare occa- sions net less than two-thirds of the seats on the west side of the train will contain only one toa seat. passenger As to his insinuation that the manage- ment permitted some of the passengers to gain aecess to the “hot, sweltering cars” and compelled others to stand at the gates and “swear,” it is id! may wait until their train is called. Fur- | ect rt thermofe, brother commuter, don't you | sul’ ‘Stork » now, laying aside any little per-| American Bell Ty tonal difference between the road and your- ae3t self, giving the devil his due, as it were, that it is @ very great compliment Metropolitan branch on this road? On the Side of the Complainant. Another correspondent of The Star says: I was pleased to see a commuter in last week's Star put in an appeal for cool and clean cars on the Metrepolitan branch, railroad, and also | use of only one entrance Gust Baltimore ae. the rge to pinch) for the targe up at 4:30 in the a: very ‘Tternoons—a train to Rockville, Frederick, & Another commuter writes: If, Ohio Squeeze through in mer, there is a closer, hotter, more uncom- fortable place in the city of Washington | jon, than the Baltimore and Ont huve failed to find it. ag ensues at the 4:30 and 5 large numbers of ‘elty, ts 30 trains, struggle, hot and disgusted, the » and no attempt made them even after thelr arrival in the —-—_——_ NEW MASONIC TEMPLE. Work on the Naval Lodge Stractare Commenceme: Naval Lodge of Masons has begun the’ erection of a handsome Masonic temple at the corner of 4th street and Pennsy! avenue southeast. Messrs. Yost & Bro. this morning northwest corner of 4th street and sylvania avenue.When completed the about $40,000. In about six weeks’ the lodge proposes to lay the corner with imposti Lodge of the city, Rave ‘promised. to. lend ter band together for the purpose of ing a fair to raise the build! the building very. attractive. The f. of the building is the handso. room,” which Washington, people of that section. s —_— ~_ —- Father Ducey’s Popularity. From the New York Sun. ; dium stature, affable manners, and w: decid his poalkian or habits of life. that no priest in New York has such tended acquaintance among people of inence in the surface life of the he is greeted cordially by men who, certain, are not religious enthusiasts sense of the word. je eats luncheon day at some prominent restauran INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. Page 11 Page 9 eaeeceeazaneaaeanearernaieeti aed i THE COMMUTERS’ VIEWS. ‘What Some Patrons of the B. and 0. The complaint made by “Commuter No. 10,90T” as to the service on the Metropolitan branch of the B. and O. has called out the views of a number of other commuters, some of whom defend the road from criti- iraas a No. 11,448," who speaks 4 of the management Commuter No. 10,07 grows tragical de- scribing the widespread disaffection of the patrons of the road, I have been a resident of the-delightful town of Gaithers- politan Branch railroad for five years, and it seems to me that had the “growling and kicking” been so widespread and universal among the cummuters as Commuter No. 10,Wi would heve you believe I would have heard ‘some echo of its ceaseless roar, but Now as to the overcrowded ccndition of the Frederick express. This passenger coaches and is in charge of Conductor Brown, who has the confidence and respect ers and employers, and who would not permit a passenger to stand that more than a thousand commuters’ will daily submit to the tetrors you name in order to get out crowds that daily Popular | people are leaving the | » and is well described in the | first article by Commuter. Then, after this | ssengers find cars hot aa ovens that have stood ail | day in the boiling sun without auy ventila- | uo! to ventilate | depo large force of men at work digging out the | | foundation for the big structure. The pian of the edifice hae been stated in The Star. It will occupy nearly all the ground at the ing will be’ an imposing affair and an or- | nament tO the southeast section of the} city. The cost of the improvement will be The Grand the District of Columbia will per- form these functions, and the same will be attended by the several Masonic bodies of The citizens of the eastern part of the city have manifested much interest in the and already they assistance in construction. With this in view, a number of ladies of East Washington will this win- money for the benefit of ‘ing fund. Architect W. J. Palmer has succeeded in making both the exterior and interior of me “blue lodge is said to surpass in ele- gance ahything of the kind in the District. The location of the buiiding is at the most eligible and commanding part in East and will be a pride for the Father Ducey, or, as he is now more gen- erally called, Monsignor Ducey, ts a unique figure in New York. He is a man of me- | fined ideas, His theories about his calling and the way he should conduct himself are nothing ever moves him from It is certain Through the entire Broadway district up- town Father Ducey’s face is familiar, and SSret Ses 1894, 22% AT RARRLG} RARERRE : i j SSSSSSEES Ee oR eke ae So Soa SSaSSHOESEES SS SESS SSE uveiia of the deat Private wires to XN; Chicago Orieams.. Telephone 53. —. = IPE TONTINE. ENDOWMENT | ats fair discount. whai-tt Metro- Savings And Trust ‘Company Of the District of Colombia, car in Special act Congress 1867. Savings Bank, Special act Congress 1870. Trust Company, General act Congress 1890. to the | DON'T PAY $100 FOR A bay loys at Oolum’ite Pack from June Zi we will give you your choice Saat ot suetalliments: 10 per cent of st. LOT WHEN you te THE LETTER OF THE LAW. The Rules of Decoru: Authority by Oxford Students. From Harper's Monthiy. on a show | ties was evidenced not long ago in the of a certain George D—, at Oxford. sum- bore daily company with a mischief-lo’ | Hyde, whose diabolical tendencies trouble with the townsmen the night fore, it was D— who was first q by the dean. Was there some uni Geviltry played on a first year man, it upon D— that the faculty's eye of picton was turned. He was, as usual, “on the ragged whea | dow of his quadrangle room in his sleeves, calmly smoking a long Dutch and drinking beer. The dean was on it. “Sir,” said the dean, “your disgraceful. What do you mean public disrespect for the Lord's ivania “It is, sir, ever see you in your shirt sleeves drinking beer and smoking a pipe again your put a connection with this bowed his head went out. fully Penn- butld- | Such impudent defiance of his orders! time | stone | @pproached nearer his anger changed obeyed. Young D— was faultlessly pagne and smoking a cigar. ae His Warpath Training. From Puck. ite Indian in class "96. How doe®@he do?” So! (enthusiastically)—“Do? out of sight! You just ought to hear give the class cry!” “eee hold- ature broke yesterday and four men were jured by the flying fragments. ell de-| an ex- prom- town. suspicion,” when one Sunday morning, church time, in his third year, he was scried by the dean sitting at the open win- shirt ak Stocks, Bonds bought oy hy "gabe and sold fot otton bought and sold in New York or New Ow EDWAKD N. BURNS, 1307 F st. aw. | The National Safe Deposit, CORNER 15TH ST. AND NEW YORE aVE Capital: One Million Dollars Safe Deposit Company, Abused With That « quick-witted sense of the ludicrous may often lead its possessor out of difficul- case D- was one of the brightest men of his class, but unfortunately his intellectual Dr. Jekyll ving fre- quently got him into disgrace. Was there be- pipe his way to church, and the cool public irrev- erence of the man shocked him. The next morning he summoned D—— to his stu¢y. irreverence on Sunday university and respect! The following Sunday the dean took particular pains to be a trifle late for church and to pass by young D—'s win- dow. What was his amazemert to discover that worthy lolling on his window couch smoking and drinking. He was furious. He would expel him then and there. But as he inte wonderment; and then, as he quickly walk- ed by, his sense of humor brought a smile to his face. The letter of the law had been rayed in his dress sult, drinking cham- Gradd—“I hear you have a full-blooded, He's An emery wheel in a St. Louls foundry ine oval . it is | in any Pure every t and] Acream of tartar baking pow- dines at night at Delmonico’s or at the * oes. § Brun: . AS a rule he is accompanied |@¢r. Highest of all in leavening by one of his wealthy parishioners, but if strength,—Latest United States Government he is not, he walks about from ta table to chat for a moment with his ac- quaintances. His popularity is very in the district where he is where he has so long resided. in charg ble to Food Report. Royal Baking Powder Oa, 106 Wall St, 5.E great ye and