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— THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1894~TEN PAGES. ‘ PsCIAL NOTICES. § HEREBY NOTIFY THE PUBLIC THAT 1 WO. iy wife: Laura Delases. on debts contracted by We hat promising littl boy, who ie in ie we one le boy, wi my e and led by me. a FRANK DELANEY, No. 323 Sd st. s.w. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE AMERI- CAN SECURITY AND TRUST COMPANY, Wash- ington, D. C., have declared a quarterly dividend ‘Of 1% per cent, payable October 10, to the stock- botlers of record at. the close. of ‘business ‘SEE- TEMBER 30, 1804. ‘The transfer books of the company will be closed on th» Ist day of October and remain closed until and includig the lth dur of October, 1894. C. J. BELL, President. seig-2t W. W. BRADY, “THE HOMSESHO! Cc EE foand at the ‘Tally-Ho shoeing shop, bet. 9th and ot N and © sts. pow. sel9Gt ALEXANDER & BRADY, ir ARE A SUFFERER ASK YOU! gist for the Red Star corm ard bunion plasters wl you will bless the day that you saw this vertisement. x se19-6¢ OYSTERS CAN BE SPOILED IX THE CooKE We know the seeret of cooking them, to be tre “palate ticklers.” We're making sea food of all Kinds, our specialty. Try u Broiled Live Lobster—“at for the sida.” Regular dinuer, Boe., from 4 to 7. Sundays, 1 to 2. acheher Hoforau Beer ou draught. Ln AND RESTAURANT. s . 0 1 _ The cnnual meeting of the stockholders of “The Geld Mining Company,” location, Music mountains, Mohave county, Ariz. wil ‘be held of the secretary, i34 € s.€., on MONDAY, October 1, Isa, for the election of Bive directors. Pots open from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Stock boet closed September 23. A full at- fendance x requested. 19,22,25,29 at 327 Penn. ave. “me can be had 5 HENRY SCHMINKE. JOUN OFENSTSIN, HOKSESHOER, HAS RE- moved from 626 K' st. a.w. to Sth st. near K st. Bw. sel8-Gr* “TO MY FRIENDS AND PATRONS.” I desire to inform you that TI have this day setired from business and sold my stock and good will to my nephew, J. S. Combs, who will continue the business as heretofore. I wish to thank my friends and the public for their pat end su during the t twen- ty years, aul respeetfully ask @ continuance of same for my successor. All persons indebted to me will please call and ettle their accounts at Fe 2g12 14th st. aw. cespectfully, sel nf GEORGE COMBS. W. R. RAMSEY, TOBACCO AND CIGARS, 1428 7TH ST. N.W. sel7-3te Open Sundays. THEREBY NOTIFY THE PURLIC THAT T WILL not be le for any debts contracted by my wife, Eliza Kiley of Takoma Park, MANSFORD KILEY. BRICK MANTELS FOR HA\L, LIBRARIES AND rooms. ‘Send Twenty Cents 11 stamps for Skete sel? J.B. CORNING, 520-522 13th st. 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To-Kalon WineCo.,614 14th "PHONE 998. VAULTS, 27th and K sts. aw. 1 peal, Jr., th st. mw. Rupture Is The Bane disagreeable features b Fall Weddings. Invitations engraved in the latest correct style, ad teatat ceases catve Invitations printed In my steel plate script imf- tate e1 wing so vearly that many cannot detect the difference. Byron S. Adams, Printer, pone. 930. (0a) S12 WITH ST. NW. Elixir Babek. Sure cnre for all MALARIAL diseases. At druz- y. Bde. a bottle. auZJtose2 HURD ON THE TARIFF The Ex-Congressman Addresses the Ohio Democrats. CONVENTION ASSEMBLED A? COLUMBUS The Platform Declares Protection to Be a Fraud. IN FAVOR OF FREE SILVER COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 19.—The democratic state convention met at 10 a.m., with ex-Congressman Frank Hurd of Toledo as temporary chairman. In sound- ing the keynote for the Ohio democrats Mr. Hurd said: “My fellow democrats: I congratulate you upon essembling in state convention in the first flushes of the dawn of a new day of Prosperity to the United States. “Through Red seas the business men of this country have passed, until hope began to fail, and despair had seized the man- agers of nearly every enterprise in the “For more than twenty years tariff re- formers had predicted that such a condi- tion must inevitably result from protec- tion. Restriction of the market resulted in over-production of domestic goods. Nor for this condition was the democratic party in any respect responsible. Whatever dis- turbance comes through reforms must be charged against the wrongs which make reforms necessary, and not against the re- forms themselves. “The promise of business revival has come partly because the element of uncertainty as to what the tariff rates would be has been removed. The new law is not likely to be modified for scme time by a general re- vision. But chiefly this result has been pro- duced because the new law is cheapening the expense of living. It proclaims the doom of protection in the United States. “Leeal interests represented by Congress- men wno desire popularity with their con- stituents often interpose to prevent neces- sary changes and to prolong a system which bestows local favors. These consid- erations all appeal to the practical legis: tor, and make necessary at the beginning of great reforms a slowness of movement exasperating to the enthusiastic reformers. For these reasons the new law may not have gone as far as many have wished, but it goes a long way in the redemption of democratic pledges, “and reforming our tariff system. It reduces, on an average, the rates of the McKinley law 30 per cent.” But the chief merit, he said, was to be found in the free list. The people will be saved nearly $45,000,000 per year. The addition of wool to the free list makes. the law one of the most import- ant statutes enacted since the war. He predicted higher prices for domestic wool to the farmer and cheaper goods to the consumer. In this way free wool is des- tined to be the great educator of the peo- ple on the tariff question. Very soon they will demand that other articles of foreign trade, so far as it is practicable, shall be brought in free. Coming to the divisions in the party on the tariff question, Mr. Hurd said: “First and foremost, I give credit to Grover Cleveland and John G. Carlisle. Free wool is worth more to tariff reform than all other provisions of the law put to- gether. “To their credit, be it said, the Ohio democratic members in the House were firm, even voting for free wool. When by one word he could have defeated free wool, more credit is due Senator Brice than to any other influence, or to ail other influ- ences combined.” Mr. Hurd counseled harmony and further effort to agree. “The different schedules will require far- ther adjustment, in the interest of free trade. The Chicago platform claims that Protection is unconstitutional and robbery. if that declaration be true, our mission can- not be ended while a protective statute re- mains.” Mr. Hutd closed by saying he was op- posed to the American Protective Asso- ciation, because it was a secret political society. Such societies organized on re- Kgious lines are unconstitutional organiza- tions, violative of the fundamental law both of the United States and of this state. The A. P. A. gave Gov. McKinley his ma- jority of 82,000, and the large republica: majcrity in Maine. We must make it plain 7% no man can be a democrat and an The Platform. The platform praises the efficient, eco- nomical and honest administration of Presi- dent Cleveland, ‘declares protection a fraud, and while recognizing the benefits of the reduction of duties on imports just made by Congress, favors such further reduction as can be made, to the end that purely pro- tective duties be abolished;” declares that the McKinley law caused the business de- pression, reduced the revenue, and led to the age for issuing more government nds. Business failures, strikes, low wages, low prices for farm products are enumerated as the result of the ¢icKinley law. Under the new law business is declared to be reviving. “We dissent,” says: one plank, “from the President's views, construction and treat- ment of the silver question and, therefore, believe that silver should be restored to the Position it occupied as money prior to its Gemonetization by the republican party, and to that end we favor the unlimited free ccinage at the legal rate of 16 to 1 with equal legal tender power.” The platform denounces the last general assembly of Ohio; Gov. McKinley's adminis- tration and the American Protective Asso- ciation. It favors liberal pensions, a “cor- rupt practice” law limiting amount of money to be expended by candidates, and a law prohibiting free passes on railroads. ——_—___ Stitches in Time. From Harper's Bazar. One of the most distasteful of housekeep- ing duties is the weekly mending, and still worse the monthly mending—for the inch darn that, would have been all sufficient three weeks earlier now demands a full half hour of steady work that raises strong doubts as to. whether the game is worth the candle, while toes and heels have come through stockings that needed only a few stitches when first noticed. The weman who hesitates about mending at the outse nipping deeay in the bud, as it were, is a suredly lost so far as any further satisfac- tion in the neglected garments is concern- ed, and every time they are washed fresh gaps are sure to appear. ‘The smallest thin place should be d:rned as evenly as though it were embroider: and the darning stitch is often used for th purpose. When fine and regular, the work is really beautiful, and in imparting this fact to a child will greatly mitigate the woes of her first lesson in darning. The evenness and regularity of a darn give it dignity and elevate it into a work of art. It is important, however, to know when to darn and when not to darn, as most wo- men’s time in these busy days is of far more value than ordinary material in a half-worn condition. Before and After. From Truth. Cholly (off to college)—‘Good-bye,mamma. I'll write every day, and don’t forget to send me some cookies every time you bake. Cholly (returning a year, later) —“Aw— . weally I'm delighted to so+-- Miss D. Robinson, the only BR. ever appointed deputy collector of internal revenue, died at her home tn Brooklyn Mon- woman day. I Suit dl?) We make them look oniy $1. each pas CLEAN Hahn, PAIRING. Sd Use Tharp’s ‘Old Relia- ble Berkeley’”’ Whisky for medicinal purposes. Physi- cians say there are none rer, $1 qt. $4 gal. THARP, 812 F ST. HEALTH OF THE CITY. Favorable Conditions Were the Feat- ures of the Past Week. A low death rate has prevailed during another week. As favorable was the last report by the health department it has been followed by sull further improvement in the rate of mortality throughout the city. The decline from week before last is com- paratively small, but the reports indicate the almost total absence of contagious dis- eases in fatal form and a material decline in the sickness umong young children. There was no death from either diphtheria or scarlet iever reported, while there were seven fatal cases denominated as typhoid fever against six during the same period last year and eight in the year previous to that. But few aged people were cailed hence, and in general terms it may be said that there was a marked repression in the prevalence of constitutional ailments. The report for the week ending Septem- ber 15 is as follows: Number of deaths—; white, 59; colored, 31. Death rate per 1,000 per annum—White, 13.2; colored, 17.9; total population, 16.4. Twenty-eight were under five years of age, 23 were under one year old and 12 over sixty years. Twelve of the deaths occurred in hospitals and public in- stitutions, The deaths by classes were as follow: Zymotic, 28; constitutional, 13; local, 42; developmental, 4; violence, 3. The principal causes of death were: Con- sumption, 6; diarrhoeal, 12; typhoid fever, 7; malarial, 3; pneumonia, ongestion of the lungs, 2; bronchitis, 1; whooping cough, kidney diseases, 1; meningitis, 1; cancers, Births reported—Thirty-two white males, 82 white females, 2% colored males, 23 col- ored females. Marriages reported—Twenty- eight white, 11 colored. Stillbirths reported —Five white, 7 colored. ———EE THE SHEA RAID. It Was Given Away by a Negro Named Albert Johnson. It is now certain that the Shea raid was given away before the policemen, under Ser- geant Daley, reached the house. A negro named Albert Johnson, who spends much of his time on the sidewalk about the neighbor- hood of the Police Court, and who does odd Jobs for lawyers, is the individual who gave the information to Lawyer Eugene J. B. O'Neill. This lawyer defended Shea when he was tried months ago, and the negro naturally supposed that he would appear this time in the same capacity. The war- rant was sworn out Monday, and that after- noon Johnson told O'Neill about it. He claimed that another negro named Lan- caster, who is known to the police as “Lang,” told him about the intended raid, and wanted $50 for the information. Law- yer O'Neill told a Star reporter thfs morning that he assured the negro that he would pay the money for the information if it was a “put-up job” and he would tell how the job was fixed. This, of course, was to be paid in the event of O'Neill's employment as counsel. But O'Neill was not employed in the case, and it is needless to say that the $50 will not be paid. Lawyer Shillington was employed in the case, and he will defend Shea. The colored man Langster, or “Lang,” denies that he told Johnson of the contemplated raid. —_———__. THE COURTS. Equity Court No. 1, Judge Cox. Muehleisen agt. Murdock; auditor’ port confirmed. Dawson agt. Byrnes; sale finally ratified and reference to auditor. Pierchynski agt. Pierchynski; decree dis- missing bill. Cireuit Court No. 1, Judge Cox. General Incandescent Are Light Company agt. A. Mann; judgment by default. Shoe- maker agt. Mohler; Claude Shoemaker al- lowed to prosecute suit in his own name. W. Downs, J. Marbury, jr., and E. L. Buck- ey ast. District of Columbia; judgments in certiorari, Criminal Court No. 1, Judge McComas. United States agt. Nelson Carter, house- breaking; verdict of guilty and sentence of four years in the penitentiary. United States agt. Patrick Harris, second offense, petty larceny; verdict of guily and sentence of three years in the peaitentiary. United States agt. Wm. Robinson, housebreaking; plea of guilty and sentence of four years in the penitentiary. United States agt. oa Brown, larceny from the person; on trial. Criminal Court No. 2, Judge Cole. United States agt. Edward Leon, murder; defendant released on bail, bond, $1,000, Probate Court, Judge Cox. Estate of Thomas Simpson, application of Mary M. Simpson for appointment as guardian of minor children. Estate of Hen- ry J. McLaughlin; will probated, and let- ters testamentary granted to Chas. W. Collins, bond, $1,000, Estate of John H. Nichols; will filed. pase eee It Braced Him Up. From the London News. A good story 1s told of a timid clergyman just arrived from a trip abroad. Coming home on the Berlin the weather was.alarm- ingly tempestuous. The wind blew a hur- ricane, the vessel naturally rolled, and the Parson took fright. He left his state room and staggered along to the office of John Kavanaugh, the purser, who is a bit of a wag, and sald: “I'm sure, Mr. Purser, you'll pardon me, but I feel so dreadfutiy agitated. Kindly inform me, are we in any positive danger?” Kavanaugh replied: “Come with me a mo- ment,” and he led the way to the forecastle. “Now,” continued he, “bend your ear down there and tell me what you hear.” ‘The sailors were. swearing in their happy- go-lucky, unconscious way. “How shocking! What language!” groan- ed the parson, trembling from head to foot. “Now, do you for a moment think that those sailors would go on in that profane fashion if there was real danger?” asked the consoling Kavanaugh. “True, true,” what calmed by the assurance. “One ma: sometimes pluck the eet flower of com- fort from the vile cloaca of s of Providence are indeed insi red. hours later the storm had increased violence, the wind raged and howled mere wildly, and huge waves broke over and seemed to submerge the great si The parson was out of his room a: more scared than before, and was seen silent], nervously fumbling his way along the wet deck to the foreeastle. He was deadly pale and trembled with excitement. He listened. The sailors were shouting, and a tremendous oath amid the din reach- ed his ear. “Thank heaven,” murmured he. “They are still at it. They st!ll blaspheme. ‘There is no danger yet, the Lord be preised!” +e Joints and Cartilage. From the Loydon Hospital. Why do joints work so easily and never give us any pain? In a fresh joint its ap- pearance in life can be readily studied. In the ball and socket joint the round end of the bone, as well as the cup, are covered or lined with a smooth stbstance called “cartilage” or “gristle," kept moist and smooth with synovia. Cartilage contains no nerves, and has no feeling; if it had, we should have pain when we moved. ‘The bones are kept in place at the joints by very strong bands or ligaments; in hinge joints a number of these bands are fastened above and below, but in ball and socket joints they also surround the joint, forming @ cap, in which the joint. moves freely. In disease this smooth ‘cartilage gets worn away, and the ends of bone rub together like those of a skeleton; the pain is great, because the bones have nerves, though the cartilage has none. A bone without carti- lage is like a decayed tooth with an exposed nerve. In a healthy tooth the nerve is well covered and gives no pain; and in a healthy bone the nerves are there, but they are only felt when the cartilage is worn away. Peter ee A Force of Nature. From the Detroit Free Press. ‘The teacher had up the class in primer of natural philesophy, and she had told the youngsters the story of Newton end the apple. “Now,” she inquired, “what makes the apple fall to the ground?” Not a hand went up for some moments, and then a dirty one belonging to a small boy slowly arose. “I know,” he said. p, “Well.” ‘smiled the teacher, approviagly, ‘tell the class.”” “Cause it's rotten.” replied the parson, some- THE LAND’’_OF FLOWERS 10% cerry Southern Californians It Appears to One From the East. Erg aoe t A Delightful Climate Both Summer and Winter—The Luxuriant Growth oft Flowers and Fruits. CENA Correspondvnce of The Evening Star. PASADENA, 'Cal:, September 8, 184. Many of your snegers have visited this wonderful section of our American conti- nent in the winter season, but few have an idea of the climate and advantages during the summer months. The very name of southern California suggests the heat and oppressive climatic conditions of Florida, and it was absolutely a matter of surprise to us to find a cool, bracing and invig- orating climate during the summer months. Southern California is like Palestine in natural features, resembling that country far more than it does Italy, to which it is so often compared. It is a narrow strip of land, comprising forty thousand square miles, facing a western sea; it is separated from the Ueserts of .less favored lands by a chain of snow-capped mountains; it has its dry and wet seasons; it is a land “flowing with milk and honey,” and in both countries flourish the same picturesque trees, the olive, the fig and the vine. The rainy season is the most delightful time of year. The average annual rainfall is fifteen inches, and the welcome showers seldom last but a few hours at a time. A vivid mantle of green transforms the brown hills, while wild flowers, especially the deep yellow poppies, the state flower of Cali- fornia, form a variegated carpet over meadow ard plain. Gaily plumaged birds sing their sweetest songs in the morning sunlight, they fly from orange to pepper tree, and the air is freighted with odors of roses, heliotrope and jasamine. Thus, the winter rains bring joy to the resident of this favored clime. Strange to say, the ab- sence of rain in summer is not noticed by the traveler, as there is such @ perfect sys- tem of irrigation that grove and vineyard, orchard and garden are a pleasure to be- hold. One appreciates the fact that of all the valuable materials in the world there is one which takes precedence here—namely, mud. Irrigation is better than rain, for, whenever needed, the orange men can turn on a shower. In San Diego there is a to- mato vine eight months old, nineteen feet high and twenty-five feet wide. The owner picks the tomatoes from a step ladder. Pumpkins weigh 256 pounds, and are seven feet in circumference, and cucumbers are seven feet long. There are three bites to a strawberry, and the eucalyptus shoots often grow twenty feet the first year, carrying with them in their rapid ascent the stakes to which they were tied. Any visitor to the world’s fair will not doubt these facts, Even the Moncy is Large. There are certain characteristics of this country which were surprising to me. The rivers flow underground the most of the year. One can cross them like the Israel- ites of old. It is never cloudy; but when the sun is velled from view, the residents say we have a high fog. These are welcomed as much as the rains, for one can have too much of even the rays of our glorious sun, termed here the “Mexican stove.” ‘The old Californians are high-mindel; hey will not deign to accept a few pennies in payment for a purchase; nothing considered of value is sold for Jess than a nickel. Two and four bits represent our quarter ond half dollar. To hear-a man ask for two bits of crackers in a grocery sounds strang> to our ears. One easterner. when told the price of an article, asked: “Sits of what Thunder storms are almost unkno: One was experienced a saorc tine . and the stir it occasioned was quite equal to that of an_ earthqus Washington, One young lady, whe had 3 lived in Los Angeles, but who was absent at the time, said that she had missed the sight of a lifetime, and wo: “it how it must seem to experience an electric storm. As the muttering thaaler rolled througn the heavens, a tremb! little one drew near ber mother and raid: “Oh, mamma, dess hark! I hear God walkin; in the sky, and I'se afraid.” On the other hanl the trembling cf Mother Earth quite startled us last month, and one of our party, who hal always wished to experience the same, remained perfectly stil! to enjoy the sen, ; the rest of the alarmed casterners rushed out of the house lest a worse sequel might foliow. While forest fires rage in the north- west, and cyclones and waterspouts in other states, this is a favored lank Even ihe Coxeyite goes east, leaving us without a vestige of tramp life. The Luscious Fruits. Variety 1s one of the noteworthy features of southern California; it is a succession of mesas and valleys, shut off from each other by rolling hills. The view from any of these elevations in this section embraces one continuous grove, orchard or vineyard, and one is not surprised to see the fruit stands, where any variety of delicious fruit can be bought in quantities for 5 cents. Strawberries grow the year around, and stch a number of other fruits that the purchaser is puzzled which to choose. Lo- quats, guavas, nectarines and figs are the vnusual varieties. Tamales might be added to the curiosities. These are a Mexican compound of peppers and meat, rolled in a corn husk, and sold on the street corners of all cities of southern California, After such foreign delicacies, one hardly knows what to expect when asked if he would like some spuds. Imagine the cha- grin when our common potatoes are brought to view. One of the queerest sights to an easterner are the truck gardens of the Pacific coast. They are all worked by Chinamen, and usually on river bottoms. The celestials wear strange straw hats, and carry a pole across their shoulde: at the end of which are ropes, holding racks, and upon these all kinds of burdens are car- ried. Sometimes, when boxes of fruit reach almost to the ground, a queer gait, re- sembling a jumping run, is assumed. They tell us this lessens the weight and makes the yoke more secure; but they tell us anything in California. To see a num- ber of these plodding, inéustrious men sowing, reaping, trimming, pruning and harvesting, one id weil imagine that the deep blue waters of the neighboring ocean had been crossed and we stood in that far-off land of China. The Cn ic as Servants, It took me some time to become accus- temed to Chinamen as domestics, but they scon put aside all doubts to the housewife, as they make ‘ar better servants than any other class of people. Their wages as cooks exceedingly We no- and general house servants ar high, receiving at least $1 a day tice ‘only three things high in wages, raliroad fares and news; single sheet cannot be bought for five cents in the smaltest town, cheaper than in Germany, if ea terners do their own work. Ht 4s surprising how many families foliow this mile and lve comfort- ably on a meager allowance. If the question ,was asked, what one thing do you notice’ in California cities par- ticularly ‘mpressive! {he answer would un- questionably be the humble cottages with thelr gardens, where ‘the roses and honey- suckle grow, where the pepper trees, re- sembling haneing ferns, lift up their sple did green branches, and the butterflies flu ter in and cut amofg the vines. Evel workman seems to have such a house. The little children haye .a bit of blossoming «arth, where they, can run and play, and which is +ucompussed in the nane we dear'y love—-home. Never in our travels in oth+: lunds have! we seen so many hun- dzeds cf pretty homes in a ¢ingle city the rich do not build, but where the honest laborer passes a life of domestic pl The home: more beautiful than any dences of the east fror gardens of tropicai foliage and flowers form vistas in every direction. The roses flour- sh as overspreadiaz bushes er trees; c:tll ilies are grown by the acre; the scarlet geranium and the fuc amber to the housetops, and an endless variety of beautl- ful flov re found in every garden, If we nad not secn the ruses during May and June we shuld never fave erelited on ac- count of th suburban re: he that the Rosex Run Riot. A single gold-of-cphir bush has from one to two hundred thousand blossoms at a single counting, and one can pick x clothes basket full of roses and not miss the flowers. Almest every house and cottage in all these towns is cover- €d with rcecs of all shades and tints; they even climb to the tcp of tall trees. It is truly & sight to ers brought in to decorate churches. I have seen the entire chois and platform fitied with callas, arranged as though they were growing in a field. The members of the choir were q@iite buneu in the wealit: of blossoms, Ther is scarcely a tree here common to our Atlantic coast, but th2 semi-tropical follage is even more beautiful than our much-admired mapies an] elms. The orange crop is estimated at 30,900,000. This yield is sufficient to provide one orange once in six months to each person in the United States. The orchards of citrus und decidu- ous fruits, inclosed between hedges of cy- press and lime, constitute the support cf many families. The residents give free access to their gardens to all strangers. Pasadéna is nine miles from Los Angeles, the metropolis of the southern coast, and is now being con- nected by an electric road, having had only railway facilities. A c le of unbreken summer calm, of balmy air and refresh- ing breezes, and a winter whose sunshine is seldom obscured by clouds, makes one feel like Dr. Watts, who was invited by Lady Abney to pass a fortnight at her home and remained forty years. _ BICYCLE RIDERS ARRESTED. The Lamps Were by Accident Not Lighted and They Were Excused. Judge Kimball fully recognizes the fact that every technical violation of law does not merit punishment, and Policeman Ver- million is fully aware of this fact. The officer made two arrests last night, the victims being riders of the silent steed, who failed to have lights on their wheels. Reu- ben Isdell was one of them, and he was out after dark because of an accident, which the police officer would not consider when he mace the arrest. The wheelman was out riding, and while on the rord his tire col- lapsed. This caused a loss of time, and the delay kept him out until after dark. The excuse, the judge thought, was a reason- able one, and sentence in the case was sus- pended. George D. Mitchell, editor, was the name and profession given by the other victim. He had a lamp on his wheel, but the light had accidentally gone out, and he was sur- prised to find that such was the case when the officer arrested him. This excuse was also accepted by the court as a good one, and sentence was suspended. ——+ — JOHN BULL IN AFRICA, The Crafty Old Gentleman Now Offns About 1,400,000 Square Miles. The latest acquisition of African terri- tory gives Great Britain an unbroken line across the length of Africa from the Medi- terranean and the Nile to the extreme point of the continent, says the Omaha Bee. In all, this territory, held in various ways, from Cape Colony up to the “occupation” of Egypt, 18 in extent about 1,400,000 square miles, and has a population of 30,000,000. In the Nile valley it includes incomparably the best of North Africa. In Uganda it holds the key to the lakes of central Africa, nearly as large as our own lake system. The new treaty gives it the high land west of Lake Tanganyika, considerably higher and healthier than the eastern, in German hands. The new conquests of the British South Africa Company add the great table lands of the interior of subtropical Africa, in much of which white men live. Lastly, there is Cape Colony, the only vital Euro- pean settlement in ail Africa. As it stands, this great highway holds two-thirds of all of Africa in which Europeans can live and carry on efficient administration. It has the most fertile tract in the continent in Egypt, its healthiest in Cape Town, its greatest gold mines and the only region from which tropical Africa can be controlled. Still more important is its relation to African water courses. A steamer can start at Alexandria and run, when the mahdi’s suc- cessor is cleared away, to a point on Albert Edward Nyanza, 125 miles from Lake Tan- ganylka. This runs to within seventy miles of Lake assa. From this lake the Shire river, broken at Murchison Falls, descends to the Zambesi and the Indian ocean. From a navigable point on the Congo it is less than 100 miles to Lake Tanganyika. The Aruwin! runs as near the Nile. It is possi- ble to start at the mouth of the Zambesi and reach the mouth of the Congo or Nile with less than 200 miles of land travel, and the key and center to this great system is now in English hands, oo —____ Houschold Duties a From the Philadelphia Press. A doctor who has many of the weaker sex among his patients declares that to keep both spirits and complexion in good condition, and to preserve grace, strength and agility, there is no gymnasium so val- uable, no exercise more beneficial in its re- sults, than the dally vigorous round of household duties, sweeping, dusting, mak- ing beds and polishing silver and brasses and washing dishes. He furthermore avows that a single year of such work will do more for a woman's complexion than all the Powders and lotions that ever were made, Which is all well enough, though the as- sertions are a trifle time-worn, providing the woman thus prescribed for has sufficient strength to get through her round of sweep- ing and washing and polishing and is not thereby turned into a drudge. If she is too tired to get ready to go out for a brisk walk, or attend a lecture or concert, if she cannot sit down with a fresh, alert mind to read and assimilate, there isn't a word of truth in it. It is true that any exercise which is immediately and perceptibly pro- ductive of useful results is more interesting and invigorating than a mechanically per- formed series of gymnastics. But the truth is more women reed to be urged to refrain from overwork than from laziness. a ES “The” or Not “The.” From Forest and Stream, Every once and a while a discussion arises over the use of the definite articie before the name of a yacht, the omission of the article being cften derided by Ameri- cans as an affectation peculiar to Anglo- maniacs. In the report of a race which we republish from the London Times, it will be seen that the writer, we believe Mr. Harry Horn, the leading English yachting | reporter, follows no definite plan, but speaks, in one place of “Vigilant,” and in | arcther of “the Vigilant,” and the same | lack of system is seen in other English | papers, the article being employed in one | line and omitted in the next. Looking at any vessel, much more such a yacht as | Gloriana, Vigilant or Britann Ss some- | thing more than a mere mass of lead and | wood, a something far more fully endowed | than most other of men’s creations with life and an individuality of her own, we have always preferred to use the simple name of the yacht, without the article or quotation marks, a fribute to the higher qualities of a yacht, which we believe she fully merits. There are some c: in which it seems natural to apply the article before the name of a working vessel, or even a steam yacht, but certainly the true sailing yacht 1s entitled to this much recog- nition of her superiority to a dry dock or a scow. He Was a Hard Loser, From the San Francisce Evening Post. “That fellow Jones is the closest poker player I ever saw in my life,” remarked a Market street cigar dealer after an all- night sitting at the great American game. “Does play a hard game,” was the con- servative opinion of the man addressed. “I don’t mean that. I don’t object to a man playing the best he knows how, but | I don’t like to see a man fall in love with his money.” “I've noticed that he would never lend money in a game.” “Yes. If he’s losing he always sa can't do it. I'm too much loser; he's winning he says: * knocks down my luck. ‘hat’s figuring it down pretty close.” lose, why, that’s ro name for him. Why, last night we had played five hours and he was $1.75 loser. My cigar went out and I asked him for a light from his. He shook his head and said: ‘Uh, uh. Can't do it. I'm too much loser.’ ” een Convention of Letter Carriers. The fifth annual convention of the letter carriers of the United States began yester- day at Cleveland. Mayor Blee delivered a speech of welcome, which was responded nk E, Smith ef the ‘T and if No, sir; it always National Secretary John F. Vicbary's an- nual report showed a remarkable growth of the order. The axsociation was organ. ize] in Boston four years ago with fif three branches, today the branches num ber 506, with ‘nearly eix thousand mem- bers in good standing. INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. AUCIION SALES. BOARDING ,. BUSINESS CHANCES, CITY ITEMs. . CHIROPODIST . COMMISSIONERS COUNTRY BOARD..... COUNTRY REAL ESTATE. DEATHS ... DENTISTRY . EDUCATIONAL EXCURSIONS: FIX FOR EXCHANGE. FoR FOR FoR ror FOR FOR Tet ettt it ( Sroeee Gunes saseeteseesauraae satan rss RENT (Hall)... RENT (Miscellaneous) RENT (Offices) RENT (Pianos). ‘T (Rooms). T (Shops) FOR RENT (Stables) FOR RENT (Stores). FOR SALE (Bicycles) FOR SALE (Houses)... FOR SALE (Lots)... FOR SALE (Miscellaneous) FOR SALE (Pianos)... ce Page Page Page Page Page MEDICAL .. os -Page MONEY WANTED AND TO LOAN... OFFICIAL NOTICES. XAILROADS ... SPECIAL NOTICES... LL UNDERTAKEXS . WANTED (ielp). WANTED (Houses) WANTED (Mincellrneous). WANTED (Rooms). . WANTED (Situations), FILTER BEDS WORK WELL seeeeee The New York Town of Ilion Has Them in Full Operation. The Town Given an Ample Supply of Pure Water Very Moder- ate Expense. An interesting plant for filtration purposes, containing sa:d filter beds operated on the continuous plan and with collection drains similar to those used by one of the large London companies, was put in operation at the town of Ilion, N.Y., toward the close of last year. The system includes both aeration and filtration, and the results so far achieved have proved eminently satis- factory in materially improving the condi- tion of the water. The supply is drawn from @ stream having a drainage of =bout six square miles, the territory containing numerous barn yards and farm buildings liable to poliute the water, 30 that it was thought desirable to filter the entire quan- tity consumed. The construction cf the plant was carried out by Mr. J. W. Kictrel!, who has prepared a description of the plant for the Engineering News, from which the following extracts have been made: System of Aeration. The water is diveried from the stream in- to an intake chamber by a low dam, which was raised above the natural channel only a little more than was necessary to turn into the chamber an amount of water equal to the maximum discharge of the pipe line connecting it with the storage reserveir. This basin has a capacity of 15,000.00) gal- lons, the water being conveyed from the in- take by a gravity main 6,000 feet long. The usual discharge into the reservoir takes place through a fountain,in the cap of Which are set seventy ring nozzles from 3-16 inch to 1-2 inch in diameter. The cen- tral nozzle discharges vertically, the others being set in four concentric rings in the order of their diameters. The maximum discharge of the fountain is about 900,00) gallons in the twenty-four hours, and the maximum observed height by the center Jet is ninety feet. The water discharged is broken up into a multitude of small drops and falls into the reservoir in the condition of fine rain, so that the aeration is very complete. Mr. Kittrell believes that water thrown in the air in such a finely divided state and falling into the reservoir, the effluent pipe of which is twenty-five feet below the sur- face, is betiered in condition, outside of eny direct advantage from aeration, by its larger proportion of dissolved oxygen. Ex- perience with deep reservoirs where water is drawn from near the bottom shows that the greater the amount of dissolved oxygen the jess is the liability of the spoiling of the bottom water during its period of summer stagnation. If it is true that such a foun- tain increases the amount of oxygen held in solution, it beco:aes a valuable adjunct to a system of continuous filtration, since the chemical purification effected by the filter depends largely upon the amount of dis- sclved oxygen in the water. The Filter Beds. ‘he bottoms of the filter beds are leve! and covered with a six-inch layer of concrete, the walls being made of rubble masonry faced with heavy rock-faced ashlar from a point one foot below the surface of the send. Through the center of each bed are two brick walls, eighteen inches apart in- built to the level of the top of the : ch of the channels so formed is divided inte two compartments by a hori- ul partition. “The lower of these com- uruinenis is the main collecting drain, the Prgr being the distributing channel. she plan adopted tor underaraiming the sand is that in use in some of the niters in iondon, and ¢ S of two courses of brick laid dry. “fhe bottom course is placed end to end im lines at right angles to the main collecting drain, witn spaces equal to the width of a brick between the iines. ‘The channels so formed run through the brick walls imto the collecting drain, and #re covered with a second course of brick, laid at right angles to the first, and as ciosely as possivie. This form of under- draining seemed best adapted to securing a uniform velocity through the sand, and by making unnecessary the layers of coarse gravel and broken Stone, permitted a con- siderable reduction in the depth of filtering material used in such filters. Above the dry brick work was placed a “inch luyer of pea gravel, and above this thirty inches of sand of as uniform a grade as could be obtained. The sand was screen- ed and thoroughly washed with water under pressure, which removed the fine patticles and gave a uniform condition as to size of grain. After passing through the filters the water is collected in a clear water basin, from which the domestic supply is drawn. Cost of the Construction. ‘The total cost to the town of constructing the whole system, including the sixteen ipe, hydrants and valves, was is does not include lands and necring and incidental expenses, he cost of those portions of the work Which go to make up the filtering plant Was as follows Filter beds proper jale npuse and connections . Clear water basin side Sun. Total eee There should be dedu Dove total about $1.40), which would have neces- sarily been expended in the construction of a gate house, with its accessories, if the filtering plant had not been built. This de- duction would leave in round numbers $14,- 0 as the cost of constructing that part of the plant made recessary in order to filter the water. ‘The work was of the most sub- stantial character, but an efficient plant could have been built for considerably less money by substituting rubble for cut stone, ordinary for hammer-dressed slope wall, and by cheapening the plant in other par- ticulars. ———— Knights of Pythins to Attend Church. The Knights of: Pythias in the District will visit Hermione Lodge and attend serv- ice at the Dumbaricn Avenue Church in Georgetown next Surday evening, when a sermor-on the principles of the order will be preached by Rev. Mr. Still. | and take them FINANCIAL. If You Have lloney To Invest and Trust Co., 1405 G St. seid a BELL President. PAID-UP CAPITAL, ONE MILLAG THE WASHINGTON LOAN — AND TRUST COPIPANY, ~ Consen Wil AAD E ATREETS XA. THIS COMPANY Acts as Ex Administ St :ninistrator, ciary THIS COMPANY Pays Interest on Deposith. THIS COMPANY Hast ime Bare Deposit Departs THIS COMPANY Loame its. Mapes ‘only upon Sev (Open until & p.m. on government pay anys ons fron. 6 to & Saturday evenings \au2? SUCCESSFUL SPECULATION OPEN TO ALL. Thompson & Derr STOCK AND GRAIN BROKERS. Incorporated Onder the Laws of the State ot New York. Capital, $100,000. No. 38 WALL S2., NEW TORK. ‘We claim to bave a system, seduced by mathe ematical figuring and proven results, with unusual advantages in making speculation virtually ar tn vestment. We also claim to be alie, ordinary business. If you wish to Invest in ove of our syndicates and have the advantage of our exe perienc> and method of speculation (we call it that, although it is really more of an investment), we assure you honest treatment apd constant care of your interests (which must be ours, as, unless we make money for you, we make nme for ourselves), COUSON & MACARTNEY, MEMBERS CF THE @ YORK sTOCK EXCHANG! 1419 F st., Glover of Messrs. ts ‘Moore & Schley, 8 Depedte, Exchages Loage ed on toe exchnmses of" New Work Talladcl ties bought apd sold. desi Stocks and Grain ‘COMMISSIONS PRIVATE WIRES. OCUNTINUOUS QUOTATIONS, Capital Inv. and Commis. sion Co., 2 ana 10, Washington Loan and Trust Baiiding, corner 9th and F sts. n.w.au24-1 The National Safe Deposit, Savings And Trust Company Of the District of Columbia, CORNER STU ST. AND NEW YORK AVE. Capital: One Million Dollars Safe Deposit Company, Special act Congress 1867, Savings Bank, Special act Congress 1870. Trust Company, Geperal act Cungress 1890. feze DAFF TONTINE, ENDOWMENT AND PAL—UP INSURANCE POLICIES PURCHASED AT & FAIR DISCOUNT, Money ned on KLIne. mb31-t¢ EDWARD N. BURNS, 1307 F st.n.w, Wits C. T. Havenner, ‘ington Stock Exchange, “3 and Stock Broker, Rwoms 9 and 11, Atlantic building, 930 F'st. o Investment Securities. Stocks, Bouds and Grai bought and sold for cash or on margin Cotton bougt and sold in New York or New Orleans, Private wires to New York, Chicago and New Orlears. Telephone 453. aplotr = === Ph of the Recent Lynching. Robert McCarver, son of Sheriff J. A. Me- Carver, told the story of the lynching of the six alleged incendiaries near Millington, Tenn., on the witness stand during the habeas corpus procesdings of Mike Strick- fadden of the ised at Memphis yester- day. McCarver testified that he was asked to join the mob by E. N. Smith, who un- folded the plot to him, stating that Detec- tive W. S. Richardson had been employed ° the put them in a wagon ana tons into a swamp, where the 14 be in waiting. Smith also gave x the names of the men composing the mob, to persuade young Mo- Carver to join them, but ‘ec refusel. The case will be resumed today. <a ooo A Bicycle Messenger Service. The bicycle played a prominent part in yes= terday’s primary elections in the Loutsvide, Ky., district. For the first time the com- plete returns, city and county, were in by. 1 o'clock, the polls having closed 4 o'clock. The Courier-Journal used a bi- cycle messenger service in gathering the election returas with eumplete success. The precincts of the city, 114 in number, were covered by thirteen riders, while the twenty-seven county precincts were looked after by seven picked road riders. Some of the county riders covered a hundred miles over dirt roads that were deep with mud. ‘ary