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14 THE EVEN NG STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1895—TWENTY PAGES. THE CLOSING DAYS|FOURTH aRTiLLERY BAND What They Mean to Students and to Parents, THE EXPENSES OF GRADUATION Earnest Effort and Toil Expended on Oration and Essay. FLOWERS AND MUSIC — + WENTY-FIVE years ago an ambi- tious, earnest and eager youth spread a brand new full dress suit out upon his bed, carefully took a pair of patent leather shoes out of the cot- ton batting which protected them, and throwing himself into a chair gave himself up to a retrospective view of what he had done in the past eight years. He saw him- self an overgrown, awkward, angular boy, being critically examined by several scores of other boys of pretty much the same characteristics, and being introduced by a tall man in a quer sort of a gown to those nearest to him. He followed himself to the study hall and the refectory of the boarding school, and later to the long, high raftered dormi- tory lined with beds little bigger than cots, ard each to itself in a compartment cur- tained with cotton stuff hanging from iron frames. He remembered the next morning when he was given a desk in the class reem and the days that followed when he was getting acquainted and paying sundry visits down back of the ball alley to fight certain boys who had decided to take his measurement. Then he entered college and then came the calm, humdrum, monotonous months that followed when his position among his fellows was assured,the pleasures and pun- ishments, the penances and prizes, and the steady advance from one class to another up the step ladder of advancing studies. The Days That Are Passed. The eight years were all before him; their triumphs and failures; their storms and sunsiine, and he heaved a sigh of some- thir g like regret until he looked at the suit and the shoes. Taen he dwelt upon what was going to happen to him in the next twenty hours. He had attended commence- ment exercises for all those ten years, but those to come so soon were to be different. It would be his turn now to sit upon the Stage, and be one of the objects of interest to the throngs in front. There would be Prayer, and music and an address, and then his name would be called and he would de- liver his carefully prepared valedictory. He glowed with pleasant anticipation, and there was great gratitude in his soul, too, as he thought of the two dear old people who would bend failing ears to catch his every word and send affectionate proud glances up at him from swimming eyes. That ten minutes of musing in the old col- lege room is as fresh to him, twenty-five years after, as if it had occurred only yes- terday. But the realities that followed— where are they? What did he say in that valedictory anyhow? Something stilted and cornvertional, he will bet. Let's see, who Were the other fellows? There was Jack Loomis and Patterson Gregg—and—why there were twenty-six of them, and he can’t remember but two, and they live near him new! ‘There are a thousand and one young men, and young women, too, who are now goin: through preity much the experience as h years hence, perhaps, all that seems now 80 vitally important in even the sma’ will be as dim to them. May duation is merely the doorway to actual life, and as we are struck with the appear. of an entrance when we first go into a house, and lose all but vague memory of what‘it is like when we reach the more at- tractive and interesting interior, so do we forget the details of what we once rezarded as the very epoch of our lives when the bustic and worry and keen interest of the after stru akes possession of us. Over Aguin in the Children. The man who graduated twenty-five years ago is interested again in another commencement, indeed, two of them, in the year 1895, but in a different way. A lusty picture of himself has cr will step out on the stage to receive the parchment that certifies that he is a bachelor of arts, while @ sweet image of her mother will receive a similar document from a young ladi boarding school. Young to get through so soon? Verily, for the boy’s twenty and the girl a year younger. The father is called upon for cash in an apparently extravagant sort of a wi Tom seems to think his daddy is made of doub- lool There are his new clothes—say $1), Th are his class expenses, and class day ex ses will be $0 more. Cash for an ap- propriate celebration of the occasion—say $0 more. Make incidentals $25, and the total of the items will tell the story of what it will cost to see Tom through the finals. < Then there’s Anna, bless her. Her mother, of course, attends to her side of the ques- tion, but the father pays the bills. There's that dream of a white dress, with accom- panying gewgaws and fixtures, filmy lin- «erie, silk hosiery, slippers, gloves, hat, flowers and a host of other things. Docs he itemize the articles? Never in the world. He lumps the expenses with a check for inwardly declares that a girl is ss expensive than a boy—at graduation times, anyhow. ‘ That father {is neither extravagant or He is careful and economical, but he Is fairly well-to-do in the world, and wishes to have his children make a good appearance upon such a momentous occa- sion. Of course there are lots of other fathers who cannot afford such an outlay, but, taking the average business or professional man’s children, it will cost just about the amounts enumerated above to properly see the children through the brief period of bid- ding final adieu to regular studies fn mod- ern schools, ovtside, of course, of the reg- ular fees charged by the institutions, The Commencement Oration. Graduation is not the pleasantest part of getting an education, however, in the case of the ambitious student. The essay, thesis or address, which is necessary to a diplo- ma in these days of advanced methods, are responsible for an immense quantity of hard work, of careful research and of tire- less weighing in the scales of judgment. Time was when the aspiring senior pre- pared his final mental effort out of his inner consciousness. He gave his views on this or that subject, supposed to be of im- portance in the life he was about to enter His remarks were on the editorial order and were submitted without emendation or elimination. The latter day work of this sort fs en- tirely different. Professors and pedagogues demand something more material now from ad ed students than mere dissertations on this or that threadbare and hackneyed theme. A high stardard is set and stu- dents are compelled to make energetic ef- forts to reach it. For weeks past the Library of Congress has been visited by young men and young women, too, who went to pore over ponder- ous tomes on the subjects they were to consider in their final school efforts. Science, history, Uterature of the higher class, statistics, biographies and a host of other shelves have been ransacked by the asp: ing yourg authors in search of authorities upon which to base proper and logical con- clusions upon the question propounded for their consideration. They read the results from behind stacks of flowers that banish footlights, and hear the applause of audiences that cannot un- derstand, save in spots, what in the world it is all about, but the prize essayist knows that his ten minutes’ talk is the result of weeks of the hardest kind of study, and is fillet with satisfaction at the thought that presented at least an honest epitome of aw and devoted struggle with a host of contending views, | Open Air Concerts Given Twice a Week by These Musicians. A Popular Organization Under the Leadership of Prof. Buglione—The Green Lawns of the Arsenal. Weather permitting, open air concerts are given by the Fourth United States Artillery Band in the arsenal grounds, or Washing- ton barracks, as this post is now called, Tuesday and Friday afternoons of each week between the hours of 4:30 o'clock and 5:30 o'clock. The outdoor recitals be- gin about June 1, and continue until Oc- tober Thus, with the Marine Band con- certs at the Capitol Wednesdays, at the Marine barracks Thursdays and at the White House grounds Saturdays, and the Fourth Artillery Band concerts at the ar- 1 Tuesdays and Fridays, the citizens of Washington are furnished with a satisfy- ing supply of artistically rendered music each day in the week except Sundays and Mondays, free of charge. Visitors are equally as welcome at the concerts of the Fourth Artillery Band as they are at the concerts at the White House, the Capitol and the Marine barracks. Bordering on the Potomac river at the southernmost extremity of the city are the historic grounds of the Washington arsenal, shut off from the turmoil of the city streets by a high wall of masonry, through which a massive iron gateway admits to one of the prettiest garden spots of the capital, where one may wander at will over grassy and along the stretch of river bank enjoying the cool shade and river breezes that are in evidence when the remainder of Washington Hes blistering in the summer sun. Between sunrise and sundown nearly every one may enter the grounds unchal- lenged by the sun-browned sentinels of the gate guard, as the rules of the military service require only that those passing in must be orderly in dress and behavior. Quartered within the long buildings on the southern portion of the grounds, which in the sixties were hives of industry in the preparation for war, but which are now given over to peaceful habitation, live 450 a Prof. Buglone. men wearing the army blue; trim, soldierly fellows, ever ready to “fall in,” be it for drill, parade or active field service. Near the present guard house is the spot where stood the gallows which formed the stage for the enactment of the final scene cf the Lincoln tragedy, and beneath the shadow of the post flag is the caisson on which the body of Phil Sheridan was moved to its resting place at Arlington, bearing the inscription “Sheridan's Last Ride.” Such is the present home of the regi- mental band of ‘he fourth United States artillery, a musical organization of note, but which is not as familiar to Washing- tonians as it might be. The organization of the band dates back to the early history of the regiment, which has been stationed, successively, upon the Pacific coast, the Atlantic seacoast and the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, the last transfer being from Fort McPherson, near Atlanta, Ga., to Weshington, in May, 1893. ‘Twenty-four members constitute the Fourth Artillery Band. They are enlisted and paid under the same regulations that apply to enlisted men of the line. The leader is Prof. Annibale Buglione, a musi- cian of recognized talent and ability, under whose skillful guidance and instruction the band has been brought to a high state of efficiency. Prof. Buglione received a thorough mu- sical education in the conservatory at Pa- lermo, Sicily, and after serving four years as a bard leader in the Italian infantry decided to become a citizen of the United States. On reaching this country in _18S2 he became connected with the band of the eighth United States cavalry, and has served continuously to the present time, transferring to the Fourth Artillery Band as leader in 1891. Since his connection with Uncle Sam's army bands, Prof. Buglione, who is still a young man, has written a number of com- pesitions, all of which have won great pop- ularity with the military and civic bands throughout the country. His pleasing per- sonality and ability as a musician have gained for him the esteem of the officers and men in the service, as well as recogni- tion from lovers of music in civil life. The Fourth Artillery Band is frequently seen in parades other than those of the regular troops at the arsenal, and often is a feature of local civil and social functions. pe Se Do Flies Talk? From the London Public Opinion. An ingenious inquirer, armed with a mi- crophone, or sound magnifier, has been listening patiently through long hours to the curious noises made by house flies, and reports his belief that they have a language of their own. The language does not con- sist of the buzzing sound we ordinarily hear, which is made by the rapid vibration of their wings in the air, but of a smaller, finer and more widely modulated series of sounds, audible to the human ear only by the aid of tne microphone. Probably this fly conversation is perfectly audible to the fly ears, which, as every schoolboy knows who has tried to move his hand slowly upon them, are very acute. The hope is expressed that, since the heretofore in- audible whispers of flies have been detect- ed and recorded, some inventor may con- struct a microphone which will enable us to make out the language of the microbes, and so surprise them in the horrible secret of their mode of operations. —.__. Value of Family Records. From the Bostor Globe. It is the omission of some of the simplest duties in life that frequently cause the most trouble and experse. Among other things, the common failure to keep ahd pre- serve family records is a most prolific source of regret and arroyance to many generations. The fact that the simple dates of births, deaths and marriages can be found for oniy a limited number of years in thousands of families throughout the country bothers courts, lawyers, fraternal societies, genealogists, heirs at law, pension claimants and many other classes. While the information concerning the past can be gleaned orly in part, and then through the expenditure of considerable money, the present and future should witness a change in this direction, Family records should not only be kept, but they should be pre- served by all the members, because in a very few years the nearest relatives be- come separated forever. ———__+e+____ Just Like 2 Woman. From Pearson's Weekly. A young and well-dressed woman entered Charing Cross telegraph office the other day and wrote out a dispatch to be sent to Manchester. She read it over, reflected for a moment, and then dropped it on the floor and wrote a second. This she also threw away, but was satisfied with the third and sent it off. The three telegrams “Never let me hear from you ‘No one expects you to return!” ‘Come home, dearest—all is for- Heading Him Off. From Life. Guest—“By Jove,I've eaten such a hearty dinner that I guess I'll have to go upstairs and sleep it off.” Hotel Clerk—“‘In that case we'll have to charge you with a meal taken to your room.” THURSTON AT HOME The Ex-Minister Taking Active Part in Hawaiian Affairs. MANY ANXICUS FOR ANNEXATION Utterances Made at Recent Popular Meetings. CONDITIONS IN THE ISLANDS Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, June 3, 1895. The observance of Decoration day be- comes increasingly impressive every year. Last Thursday saw in procession 3 na- tional guards and 200 of the Philadelphia's men. About twenty-five veterans of the De Long Post of the G. A. R. were the chief actors. There was an unprecedented profusion of flowers, in immense variety. Half the graves in the large cemetery were literally banked up with flowers. Ail the gardens in the city must have been strip- ped. Pitifully there were no roses, in this town three years ago full of roses to pro- fusion. A vile nightbug from Japan has killed nearly all our rosebushes by de- vouring the leaves. Only those standing in the glure of electric light survive. But there were splendid carnations, glorious water lilies, stephanotis, gardenia, plu- maria, and hundreds of other sorts, among them long streamers of bright yellow flow- ers, which overgrow whole trees in the door yards. The De Long Post had chosen L. A. Thurston to be orator of the day. This elicited disapproval from the two opposi- tion papers, Independent and Bulletin, who deemed it an affront to Mr. Cleveland, who had branded Thurston with his displeasure. But these papers are scarcely recognized as exponents of American sentiment. The veterans persisted, and the ex-minister ad- dressed them, standing quite near United States Minister Willis, who was made the medium of his removal from Washington. The speaker was unusually eloquent, as Honolulu oratory goes, and the post could net easily have chosen as well. Thurston inherits ardent American patriotism, being the grandson of two thorough Yankee mis- sionary couples. He is sinewy in frame and in speech. It is true, as he said, that Americans’ love of country grows inversely as the square of their distance from home. They remember all the good of the land of freedom and minimize all its evils. There are no more devoted Americans than we who were born in Hawail of American par- ents. But Col. Blount would have none of us. We were outcasts in his view—men without a country. Hawaii belonged solely to the natives and théir Queen Lil, and we were neither Hawaiians nor Americans. Thurston was naturally restive at that sort of “arbitration” by Col. Blount’s tri- bunal, and so incurred Mr. Gresham's dis- pleasure. Mr. Thurston’s Real Offense. As has already been given out from the State Department, Mr. Thurston's real of- fense was not the trifling matter occurring last February, but it was his vigorous bat- tling, in November, 183, against the in- credible assumption that President Cleve- land had held a court of arbitration upon the case of Queen Liliuokalani vs. the pro- visional government which deposed her. Thurston’s written protest of December 6 was thoroughly destructive of that pre- tense of arbitration, and Gresham never forgave him for it, but always counted him a detestable enemy. Thurston showed then, as was again pointed out by Dole to Willis a few weeks later, that no agreement to arbitrate the question had ever been mad=2; the issue had never been formulated; time and place of trial had never been notified; Col. Blount’s “investigation” had been se- cret and ex parte. The provisional govern- ment had never met the queen's, witnesses or known who they were, or presented their own; no forms of a tribunal had been observed; this government had never im- agined that their right to exist had been the subject of Blount’s inquiries, but sup- posed that he was looking o the ex- pediercy of annexation. Yet suddenly Pres- ident Cleveland pronounced the decision of his tribunal and through Mr. Willis or- dered Dole to step down and out and re- store the queen. It was against that enormous and incredibie injustice that Thurston had remonstrated in a decorous and powerful state paper. It was his un- pardonable offense, for which he has now paid the penaitty. He had the urance to question the jurisdiction of the Presi- dent. He is expelled from the court for contempt. Thurston’s report of his own case has not yet been presented. It is likely soon to be handed in, and no doubt will be inter- esting reading. He has been busy with helping Gen. Hartwell as government coun- sel in Neumann's appeal case before the supreme court seeking to show the un- constitutionality of the military commis- sion. As a side diversion, he made a tell- ing apeech before the American League the evening of the 20th. The time had ar- rived for three rumors which had gained some currency to be publicly refuted. Roy- alists were the authors and chief promoters of the stories, but many on our side had come to feel doubt. One was that Thurston was in favor of restoring the monarchy under Kaiulani. It had no semblance of foundation. He denied it with derision, quoting Senator John T. Morgan's words, “When a throne falls in the western hem!- sphere, it is pulverized; and when a scepter departs, it departs forever.” Arguing for Annexation. ‘A second report related to the attorney general, W. O. Smith, who was circum- stantially reported to have told John Rich- ardson, a half-white royalist, of more abil- ity than veracity, that the government favored not annexation, but independence with United States support to the existing government. Thurston declared that what Smith said was “that he believed anne tion was the sole solution of our difficulty; but if Richardson cid not like,the word annexation and preferred the expression ‘political union,” he did not care what he called it so long as the United States flag should fly over this country as the supreme authority.” Mr. Smith, in a speech fol- lowing Thurston's, declared “‘whenever the government gives up the cause of annexa- tion I want to get out of it. Annexation is the only hope of the country and of the Hawaiian race.” A royalist sheet, the Independent, partly edited by a Danish brether-in-law of Rich- ardson, insists that the latter is to be be- lieved and not Smith, whose “political life is imperiled” if Richardson spoke the truth. That is true, because all the mem- bers of the government and all its support- ers are unvaryingly and absolutely for an- nexaticn, and no man otherwise minded could be one of their number. As to honor and veracity, the Dane gave his relative away in the next paragraph by adducing, to prove him actuated by no unfriendly motives, the fact that Richardson had just nominated Smith as guardian of his sis- ter’s orphan family. Smith’s ands are full of trusts of all sorts. I never heard of Richardson having any. A third sertes of rnmors was of serious dissensions in the cabinet. This Thurston Gerounced as a lie out of whole cloth. He continued by setting forth various cogent reasons for seeking annexation. Chicf among these was the impossibility in so small and weak a country of securing en- tire internal tranquility while independent, especially with such a mixture of races. “Let us honestly state that we can and will hold these islands against all comers and for any length of time that is neces- sary, in the interests of honest, responsi- ble republican government, and of civiliza- tion; that we are doing it, however, against heavy odcs; that it is a heavy tax on our pockets; that it is a still heavier strain on the hearts and minds of the honest and loyal men and women of this country. * * * Let the ensign of the great re- public once float as the symbol of supreme authority over the city of Honolulu and all that will be necessary to maintain it inviolate from local opposition will be one old soldier to hoist it in the morning and gather it in from the weather at nigh’ Other Advantages of Annexation. In the latter part of his speech Mr. ‘Thurston dwelt upon the social and finan- cial advantages of annexation. It was necessary in order to end the constant in- coming of Asiatics, who will swamp the white population. As long as Hawaii con- tinues independent the pressure of the Sugar producers will insure continuance of the present system. American laws will put an end tO that. The disadvantage to the planters willbe more than made up to the country, by the immense advantages of frea trade with the United States under its protective laws, also by the large im- migration of ‘white labor. Our present reciprocity treaty is always liable to abro- gation, which would ruin our planters. Minister Hatch made a brief speech, as- serting the continued and absolute loyalty of the government officials to annexation. Minister Smith took like ground, as stated above. These strong declarations of senti- ment from members of the cabinet will end all doubts in the minds of their supporters. The royalist ‘Independent, however, per- sists in arguing that the ministers are only throwing dust, and that they are “in the pay of the sugar barons.” Of the absolute sincerity of Messrs. Dole, Thurston and Smith, and of their unqualified independence of alleged biasing influence from the sugar interest, I can give assurance from suffi- ciently intimate personal knowledge. I fuliy believe the same of Messrs. Hatch, Damon and King, and that the cabinet are heartily united on the question of annex- ation and on the whole general policy of government, Truth About the Missionaries. I must quote from a recent article by our historian, W. D. Alexander. He is refut- ing an “undying falsehood,” that “for more than seventy years the missionaries and their descendants on these islands have been the governors and rulers of this land.” He says: “The only period during which there was a strong missionary in the government ‘as the twelve years from 1842, when Mr. Richards and Dr. Judd came to the rescue cf the native government, till the death of Kamehameha Jil, in 1854. The record of those twelve years is one of which any statesman might be proud. Aided after 1845 by Mr. Wyllie and Judge Lee, they twice saved the independence of the coun- try; they helped to emancipate the poor, downtrodden serfs, and to make them owners of their own homes, they brought order out of the chaos of land ciaims; they organized the machinery of government nearly as it has been run ever since; they established a reliable judiciary and a sys- tem of common schools; they paid off the national debt in full, and freed the country from “‘extra-territoriality and consular courts; the main features of their work were never undone during the succeeding forty years of ‘non-missionary’ rule.” The foregoing summary by the accurate historian of the record made by the ex- missionary statesmen during their period of control of the Hawaiian government is a very noble one.’The constitutional and repre- sentative government which they establish- ed has been perpetuated, in spite of royal efforts for its impairment. While it is strictly true that since that period, mis- sionaries have had no control in the gov- cirment, and that it has generally, until the revolution of 1887, been administered by cabinets antagonistic to the “missionaries,” it is to be added that the moral influence of the missionaries has always continued to be so powerful upon both whites and na- tives as to be a most effective check upon deteriorating measures, when presented in the legislature’ or promoted by royalty. And accordingly, about as much when out of direct power as when exercising it, the missionaries and their descendants have continued to be the objects of violent an- tagonism and calumny from the very large bedy of their natural adversaries who failed to overcome their strong and whole- seme moral control. Minister Castle. The government of this republic has at last commissioned’ Mr. William Richards Cestle as envgy extraordinary and minister pleripotentiary to Washington, in place of Lorin A. Thurston, recalled. Mr. Castle is ten years older than his predecessor, with somewhat less than the unusual ability and eLergy of the latter, but of peculiarly genial manners and bright conversational powers. He is already somewhat acquainted in Washington, having been Mr. Thurston's chief colleague in the commission which negotiated the treaty of annexation with President Hatrison in February, 1893. He expects to take his family and be at his post early in September. On account of private businéss here, it is improbable that he will be able to serve very long at Wash- ington. . Mr. Castle 18 a s6n of late S. N. Cas- tle, who came here in 1837 in missionary service, and kibored for twenty-five years as financial agent of the mission, then went into business, becoming a leader in Honolu- lu commercial affairs, and leaving at his Geath an estate of $750,000. W. R. Castle was attorney general for Kalakaua twenty rs ago, and is now president of the rd of education. He is a leading lawyer and of great persona! influence. He as a leader in e committee of safety which deposed the queen. Although Minister Hatch has been spoken of for the Washington frost, his private business would not permit his absene nd he is much more needed in the important post of foreign affairs. Mr. W. N. Armstrong has just sailed for Japan, under an informal errand for this ‘vernment, chieily connected with his ork as president of the labor commission, for whom a more precise knowledge of Jap- anese labor and manufacturing tendencies is important. The very important case before the su- preme court is still in progress in which Paul Neumann seeks to invalidate the sen- ter:ces on conspirators and insurgents passed by the late military commission. He contends that the commission was uncon- stitutional, exceeded its possible jurisdic- tion, was continued long after all necessity for ‘martial lajv had ceased. Gen. A. S. Hartwell and L. A. Thurston, for the gov- ernment, have made full and exhaustive arguments in support of the commission. Littie’doubt is felt of the court sustaining its validity. The decisicn will not be given till another week. It may be noted that in Mr. Gresham's Cranstoun letter he ex- pressly recognizes the proper jurisdiction of the military commission, and restricts Minister Willis’ duty to seeing that Ameri- ‘an citizens enjoyed a fair trial befofe it. Proposed Cable to California. Audley Coote, from Australia, is here ren- resenting a Pacific cable company which has already laid the first link of the trans-Pa- ‘fic cable to New Caledonia. He was on his way to Washington, but has determined to postpone efforts there until near the De- cember session of Congress. His company are prepared immediately to proceed with laying a cable from California to Hono- lulu, under the patronage and ownership, if desired, of the United States. They re- gard Honolulu as the natural center of Pacific cable lines. While expressing the highest respect for the Hon. Sanford Flem- ing and his associates, Mr. Coote regards the plan as chimerical of making Fanning’s Island the first station from Victoria to Australia. The length of such a line, allow- ing for slack, would be 3,690 miles, the long- est existing cable not exceeding 2.:”) miles. Such a length will require a cable of exces- sive weight and conducting power, costing double the price of one from Monterey to Iicnolulu. This city is 2lso the natural point for a branch line to Japan. It may be natural for England to desire and insist om exchisive ownership of tele- graphic connecticn between her Pacific col- onies. Such desire must be extremely ur- gent to induce going by Honolulu, to roost on such an inaccessible rock as Neckar Island or on sucha desolate atoll as Fan- ning’s. It is evident that Honolulu can as- sert itself as the great telegraphic and call- ing center of the Pacific ocean without any desperate exertion. KAMEHAMEHA. + Human Curtosity. 4 From the Cincirinati Tritune, It doesn’t take much to draw a crowd. This was exemplified the other day in front of the Federal building. A bicycler stopped suddenly on the north side of the building and leaned his machine up against the curbstone. This was not unusual, but when he dropped on one knee beside the front wheel and began to work with it the crowd began to come. Inside of five minutes there were twenty-seven men, thirty-four boys and one policeman gathered about the bicyclist. Men from the other side of the street paused and looked at the crowd, and then walked across to see what was up. The crowd cicsed in about the kneel- ing man and craned their necks until he was entirely lost to tiew. Teamsters stop- ped and, climbing down from their wagons, joined the onlookers, and mewsboys ceased selling their wares to see what was up. One excitable man was just rushing off to turn in an alarm for the patrol or fire en- gines when he was stopped by the “‘cop- per” before he got to the box. “Ain't anybody hurt?” he asked in as- tonishment. “Ain’t somebody run down or stabbed or sunstruck? Is it a murder or a suicide?” “Neither,” replied the policeman, as he walked slowly away with a tired look about his face and gait; “he’s refillin’ his pneu- matic tire, that’s al And he spoke trutafully, SUBURBAN NEWS ANACOSTIA, The following officers for Anacostia Com- mandery, Order of the Golden Cross, have been elected to serve for the ensuing term: George W. Berry, noble commander; Miss Ida P. Redd, vice noble commander; Mrs. Carrie M. King, worthy prelate; James H. Dony, keeper of records; Daniel C. Smith- son, financial keeper of records, Mrs. Julia A. Dony, treasurer; Frank J. Henry, wor- thy herald; Mrs. Emma P. Williams, war- der inner gate; George J. Thomas, warder outer gate; Mrs. Mary I. Simonds, past noble commander. Mr. Charles West has become acting superintendent of the Sunday school at Silyer Hill, Md., which was recently organ- ized by Mr. Robert H. Jordan of Anacos- tia, and the latter will tomorrow organize a Sunday school at Twining City, which, from the outlook, promises to be as highly successful as the one started recently by Mr. Jordan at Silver Hill. A partial can- vass of Twining City,which has been made, shows that there are a large number of children in the place and weinity who do not attend any Sunday school, and it is for these alone that the new school will be organized. The mission which began at St. Teresa's Catholic Church, Rev. T. B. Hughes, pas- tor, Sunday last, will close tomorrow night. The meetings have been attended by con- gregations which filled the edifice to its utmost capacity. The patriotic citzens of Congress Heights are preparing for a big celebration on July 4. Speaking, music and a big dinner, with fireworks at night, form the leading features of the program. Some of the members of the Anacostia police force are considerably exercised over reports that have reached them from v: rious sources that efforts are being quietly made by one or more of the temperance leaders cf the town to have a thorough ov auling of the officers, and that Coz missioner Truesdell has virtually promised to comply with their requests at an early day. The draw in the Navy Yard bridge has been weighted in such a manner that,the time necessary for raising and lowering it has been materially lessened, a fact which is frequently of great importance to many of the citizens of Anacestia. Pauline Layman, the twelve-year-old daughter of a farmer living near Silver Hill, Md., fell out of a cherry tree, a dis- tance of fifty feet, Tuesday, but fortunately received no greater injury than a broken rib. She was removed to the house of a relative in Twining City, wher she is re- ceiving the attention of a physician. Mr. D. C. Fountain of East Washington Heights n@s returned from a pleasant visit to friends at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. The course of university extension lec- tures, which have been given weekly dur- ing the past four months at the Anacostia Baptist Church. closed Wednesday night with one on “Napoleon Bonaparte.” The Anacostia Mandolin, Banjo and Guitar Club gave a very successful concert at Masonic Hall Wednesday evening. The club played four numbers end acquitted it- self most creditably in every one of them. Vocal solos were rendered by Messrs. Fred Darling, George May and S. R. Mockabee, and Mr. E. L. Redfield played two excellent banjo solos. Messrs. Espey and Redfield gave a banjo duet, and T. Branson render- ed a violin solo. The Graham Brothers gave a mandolin and guitar duet, which Was greatly appreciated, and the same two gave a splendid exhibition of experiments and feats in spiritualism, consisting of a cabinet seance and tesis In an open box. Mr. Davis was the accompanist of the even- ing. The club intends to give an excursion down the river in the near future, and ex- pects to have a very successful outing. The Outing Pleasure Club, an association of young Anacostians, has made arrange- ments to camp for two weeks at Colonial Beach. The officers are James L. Bowen, president: J. Taylor Branson, secretary, and Joseph Mundell, treasurer. Capt. L R. Bowen has just completed a handsome residence at the corner of Jef- ferson street and Stanton avenue. The Potomac Stone Company, of which Capt. I. R. Bowen of Anacostia is super- intendent, have now about 400 men at work in their quarries, and are shipping a large amount of their products to other points than Washington od HERNDON. ightly Clib met Saturday, with who in a written address gave the members a cordial weicome. Miss Anita Schade gave an entertaining recitation, after which the topic for the af- ternoon (Rubinstein) was considered at some length. Al the next meeting Lew Wallace will receive attention. The entertainment given by the Y. P. S. ©. EB. at Congregational Church Tuesday evening drew a good house. The Male aurtet Club opened the exercises with a song, “Why Don’t You Quit Your Mean- followed by a recitation from Miss ce Rideout; a solo, by Mr, C. E. Yount, 4 recitation, by Miss Belle Kenfield; re tation, Miss Stephe: solo, M F. M. Ballou; recitation, J. B. Gould of Falls Church, and a quartet of harmonicas. Prof. Bliss of Washington then gave a brief Jecture on the “Progress of Electrical Science,” afier which he gave an exhibi- tion of the wonders of the graphophone. Mrs. L. D, Ballou is back from her Wash- ington visit. i Mrs. Hattie Wood will leave this state for Vermont Wednesday of next week. She will probably spend the summer with her friends there. Z Miss Georgia McKear will go to Bedford City next week to spend a few weeks at the Normal School. od BRIGHTWOOD. Mrs. A force pump has been put in the new well which the Commissioners had drilled in front of the Brightwood Hotel a few weeks ago, and it is now completed for use. ‘The depth of the well is 146 feet, with a flow of 2,500 gallons of water a day; from the fact of the water rising only 60 feet arose the necessity of the force pump. The following pupils were graduated from the Brightwood school, and will enter the Central High School next years John C. rown, Geo. R. Moreland, Lena A. Judd, Mary J. Murphy, Stella A. Shipley, Mabel Elliot. The following six graduates wiil enter the Business High School: Chas. M. Jessie E. Brown, Mary M. Lamond, . Shipley, Maude William A. Page, who recently Watkins. graduated from the High School, and re- ceived the medal given by the Washington Times for the best essay, “‘What Have the Public Schools Done for American Citizen- ship?” was a former pupil and graduated from the Brightwood school in the class f "1. aire. N. J. Bowen is quite sick at het home on the Shepherd road. Miss Edith Bridener of Baltimore is vis- iting her cousin, Miss Nellie Darling, on the Lith street road. Mrs. L. P. Shoemaker, accompanied by her son Abner, has returned from New York, where she spent several days. Mr. House of the firm of House Her- mann _ has rented the country seat of Mr. T. A. Lambert for the summer. At the commencement of the Washington High School, which took place yesterday at the Convention Hall, William C. Stone . Robinson, jr., of this place were HYATTSVILLE. Last evening the pupils of Mrs. W. F. Drown, assisted by Mrs. J. W. Aman, Mr. George P. Conn and Mr. W. F. Drown, en- tertained a large number of their friends with a very delightful musical program at the home of her father, Dr. A. M. Buck, on Johnson ayenue. The parlors were taste- fully decorated with cut flowers and palms, The following program was presented: Dress Parade March, Misses Van Loan, Campbell and Whiting; The Joyous Farmer, Miss Fannie Whiting; Dance of the Butter- flies, Misses Van Loan and Campbell; Bri- dal Chorus, Miss Anna Burchard; Caprice Hongroise, Mrs. W. F. Drown and Miss Smith; Hunting Song, Miss Louise H. Campbell; The Land of the Swallows, Mrs. J. W. Aman and Mr. W. F. Drown; Nar- cissus, Miss Grace Van Loan; The Rug- gleses’ Dinner Party, Miss Fannie Whiting; Un Perle de Varsovie, Misses Smith and Barton; The Gondolier’s Serenade, Mr. W. F. Drown; Slumber Sweetly, Miss Clara Barton; comic song, Mr. George P. Conn; Les Joyeux Papillons, Miss Clara Smith. The Nightingale’s Trill, Mrs. J. W. Aman; Ballade No. 3, Mrs. W. F. Drown. Among those present were: The Misses Schoepf, Mrs. W. W. Van Loan, Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Giusta, Mrs. R. G. Whit- ing, Mr. G. W. Conn, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Campbell, Miss Lela Aman, Mrs. G. 8, Britt, Mrs. and Miss Post, the Misses Carr, Mr. W. S. Van Loan, Miss Isabel Drury, Mrs. Tricou, Mr. J. E. Douglas, Mr. A. Carr, Mr. and Mrs. Riley, Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Buck, Mr. A. M. Buck, jr., and the Misses Tricou, Long, McEuen, Moran, Baker and others. G. K. Warren Post, G. A. R., and the Woman's Relief of that post held a pleas- ant joint meeting last Thursday evening at Grand Army Hail. Music and dancing were indulged in and refreshments were served. A number of people were present. Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Plummer, colored, were given a pleasant surprise party last Wednesday evening by their many friends at “Rosedale,” their new home in Bladens- burg. Vocal and instrumental music was rendered, essays were read and games play- ed, after which refreshments were served. The orphans’ court at a recent meeting transacted the following business: Ordered that the first and final Account of J. A. Thompson, executor of Samuel Thomp- son, be passed; that the first and final ac- count of F. C. Deutsch, administrator of Benetta Lanham, be passed; that the first and final account of Fred Sasscer, admin- istrator of Tilghman Brooks, be passed; that the first and final account of Jane E. Fowler, executrix of W. W. Fowler, be passed; that the bond of Nellie F. Brooks, guardian to Grace R. Fuller, for the sum of $1,000, be approved; that Mrs, Mary Berry be authorized to use income for sup- port of the children. Golden Rule Lodge, No. 45, I. O. M., has conferred the second degree upon Mr. Wil- liam A. Carr of Hyattsville and Mr. John Duvall of Branchville. Misses Marsham and Sallie Lewis have Sead to Melrose for the summer va- cation. Miss Linda Jones cf Dawsonville is the guest of Miss Edna Mannakee. Mr. Jesse Figgins and family are on a six weeks’ visit to Mrs. Figgins’ mother, Mrs. J. F. Marr of Falls Church. Mr. Nehemiah Hayden and family have removed from Washington to their re- cently completed cottage in North Kensing- ton. Miss Clare Mannakee, who was among the graduates of Fairview Academy, Gaith- ersburg, Wednesday evening last, has re- turned to her home on St. Paul street. Mrs. Alphonso Hart has been appointed by the Christian Endeavor Society of this place as a delegate to the convention of the District Association. The regular monthly meeting of the town council will be held Monday evening next at the home of Mayor R. B. Detrick. The following committee has been ap- pointed to fix the time and place and make arrangements for the annual picnic of the Warner Memorial Presbyterian Sun- day school: Mrs. A. H. Kinnear, Mrs. T. R. Martin and Rev, James T. Marshall. Mrs. Warner McNeal and children, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. J.. F. Stoek, have returned to their home in Elk- ton, Md. — TAKOMA PARK. Rey. Allan Griffith and his family were recently the recipients of a serenade by the members of the choir of Trinity P. E. Church. The rendition of some fine music was followed by an invitation to the host and his family to visit the dining room, where refreshments were served and a de- lightful evening spent. The choir consists of Mr, and Mrs. E. J. Pemy, Mrs. Judson, Miss Pemy and I. Jimmerson. Prominent among the late arrivals at Hetel Takoma are Gen. and Mrs. A. D. Hazen and family, Geo. O. Shakespeare, W. H. Barnes and family of Washington, Mrs. E. D. Carusi and daughter, F. D. Hester, H. D. Green, jr., Mrs. Coite, Miss Nannie St. Chism, Tla. E. Webster, Miss L. Capehart, R. E. Lester, Mrs. E. E. Hast- ings and family, Mrs. G. F. Seufferle. Mrs. Nellie Webber is convalescent and left her room yesterday, after an illness of two months. Mrs. Geo. H. Bailey has gone to Orange, N. J., to visit her mother, whose rapidly failing health is causing much anxiety. The strawberry crop, so abundant in this section, suddenly came to an end during the week. The outlook for raspberries and blackberries is unusually promising. —— SANDY SPRING. Mrs. Lydia G. Thomas and Mrs. Louisa G. Painter expect to spend the summer with Mrs, Frederic Jackson at Ashton. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Waters have rent- ed their farm near Ednor and moved to Takoma Park. Miss Anna M. Farquhar was one of the bridesmaids at the wedding of her friend, Miss Katherine Wall of Busk Lodge, to Mr. John Taylor of North Carolina. The bride has many warm friends here and a number from Sandy Spring were present at her beautiful wedding. BS Stevenson, Mrs. Bangs and Miss Billing of Washington, Miss Laura Monroe of Fairfax, Va., M. Mary Clark, Mrs. Alban Stabler, Mr. ‘ancis Stabler and children, Misses ith and Florence Stabler of Baltimore, Misses Bertha and Clara Johnsen of Laurel, Mr. George Ris- ing and son of Ohio, are recent guesis here. Mrs. Stark and Miss Martha Byrd of Norfolk have planned to be with Mrs. Geo. Nesbitt during July and August, and Mrs. Cleveland and child of New York with her aunt, Mrs. Charles Iddings. Edward P. Thomas and wife, Mrs. John Thomas, Roger B. Farquhar, jr., and Jos. Bond attended the commencem exercises of the George School, Newtown, Pa., last week. Misses Augusta N. and Edna V. Thomas were among the graduates Joseph T. Moore is in New York, and Miss Elien H. Thomas in Carroll county. Miss Catherine Stabler, who has been in Washington for some weeks with Mrs. Annie H. Riggs, is now in Baltimore with Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Stabler, and she will mpany the latter to Cape May July 1. liam L. Brooke has been offered a situation in St. Louis, where his two older brothers have setiled, and he started to his new home on a few hours’ notice. Profcssor Arthur C. Bibbins of the Wo- man’s College of laltimore has been ex- ploring this vicinity for geological spe- cimens and for relics of the stone age, and he succeeded in purchasing of John Robert Harding what is believed to be the finest specimen of a prehistoric, soapstone cook- ing utensil ever unearthed here. een GAITHERSBURG. Mr. James E. Trundle has purchased a building lot on Brookes avenue from the Real Estate and Investment Company for $00. Mr. Thomas F. Dent of Washington has been assigned to duty at the signal station here. Miss Lillie Edmonds of Catlett, Va., ts the guest of Mrs. R. P. W. Jones. The Methodist Episcopal churches of this county are electing delegates to the lay- men’s convention shortly to be *held in Baltimore for the purpose of inaugurating a movement in favor of lay representation in that church. Clarksburg has elected Wm. R. Windscr; Bethesda, Rev. J. Burdette; Laytonsville, Wm. D. Bell; Ken- sington, J. F. Stcek and W. W. Eldridge; Damascus, Jerry L. Burdette. , The Montgomery County Telephone Com- pany has exterded its line to Travilah the past few days, via intermediate points The Maryland State Institute of Juvenile Tempies held its quarterly- session at Browningsville. Miss Nettie M. Parlette of Baltimore, the president, occupied the chair. Mr. B. K. Purdum read an inter- esting paper on “Instructing the Young.’ The resignation of Secretary L. D. Russell Was accepted and Mrs. Annie Russell was elected, with Miss Nellie Hess, assistant. The afternoon session was a public one, at which Rev. C. J. Burdette, Miss Par- lette and Rev. J. W. Steele made addresses. A paper was also heard from Miss Cora _B. Taylor of Ohig. Miss Martha E. Gilliss of Carroll counfy gave an illustrated lecture of great merit. William Brooks, colored, was found guilty of stealing a sum of money from the trunk of Basil Taylor by Justice C. W. Crawford, who sent him to the reform sciool. —_— VIENNA, There was considerable excitement at the session of the Presbyterian Sunday school in Vienna Sunday, growing out of the ques- tion of the acceptance or non-acceptance of the resignation of Mr. H. C. Powell, who has been superintendent for more than twelve years. After some exciting discus- sicn the question was put, and the officers and teachers declined by a vote of 40 to 4 to accept the resignation. A committee, composed of Mr. Fred Besley and the Miss- es Alma and Fannie Kenyon, was appoint- ed to notify Mr. Powell of the action taken, which they did, and Mr. Powell then de- cided to resume the duties of the position. HAVE YOU A BABY? Guard the Child Against Cholera Infantum. Heat and Poor Food Invite the Dread Disorder. Largely Accountable for the High Death Rate. Lactated Food the One Safe Diet for Tender Years. Babies Thrive on It, aud They Take It With Relish. The first thing a baby can do is to eat. ‘The question of baby's food is most im- portant up to the age of 5. Half of all the babies born die on account of improper food. On its nourish- ing quality aud absolute free- MARION BUSSELL. dom from con- tamination depend the growth, health and very existence of the little one. In June, July and August unusual precautions must be taken, or the weak, sickly babies fall victims to that deadly disease cholera infantum, which will Kill off so many precious ones this summer. Medical skill can do no more to save babies’ lives and to keep them well than it has don» in the preparation of lactated food. It is a matter of careful record that “lactated food babies” are the healthiest in the world. “After using Inctated food for five years in ceses of childrer suffering from cholera infantum, and in debilitating or ting diseases, during Which time it never failed me, I have picasure in calling attention of physicians ‘to it, and in recom- ding its use, vs A.D. Grinuell, M. D., the » University of emeat published in the Ladies’ Vermont, Home Journal. pif, # of Inestimable value to mothers to know Medical science has been able to devise nothing so goxl as lactated food to take the place of Mothers’ milk. It is made for the expres’ pur- pose of forming a perfect substitute for healthy mothers’ milk. It is pleasant to the taste, and has the unusual virtue of Inducing delicate babies to take nourishment when other food disagrees with thelr weak stor Lactated food has suved thousands of babies from falling victims to Golera infantum by up their strength hout increasing, as food does at such times, the irritation in the Intestines that is ac- ceuntable for most of the fatalities among dren during the heated season. ‘There 1s no parent in the land but can read the following letter with profit. It is from Mrs. S. J. Bussell of Oldtown, Maine, who writes: “Little Marion is tie ‘picture of health and strength, and we attrivute it all to lactated food. She has'as fine a set of white teeth as one will see and is never sick a day. She still uses your food and will for some time to come. I need not say anything of her vitality, as I thiak ber pho- tegraph expresses evidence enough of that.”” = —a The four who voted against Mr. Powell threaten to secede from the school, but the latter is nevertheless in a flourishing condi- tion, Rev. W. H. Edwards, who for the past nine years has been pastor of the Presby- terian Church at Vienna and Lewinsville, has determined to purchase a farm near Manassas and remove there in the fall, when ke will take charge of the church at Ciifton. Both Mr. and Mrs. Edwards are untiring workers in the cause of Presb; terianism, and their present congregations are very averse to losing them, It is be- lieved that the members of both churches over which Mr. Edwards at present pre- sides will refuse to consent to the dissolu- ticn of the pastoral relation, and have so irformed their pastor, but the latter has said that he and his wife believe they can do more good at Clifton, and will go there whether the people at Vienna and Lewins- Ville consent to this step on their part or rot. A large congregation attended the ser- vices of the M. E. Church Sunday. Rev. Be J. Gibbons, the pastor, officiated. : Notwithstanding the hard times, consid- erable in the way of improvement is now geing on in Vienna and vicinity. Several buildings are under way and dthers are in ecntemplation. There is already considerable talk throughout the county In reference to the upproaching legislative clections, and Fair- fax seems to be full of gentiemen who are willing to “immolate”’ themselves for the sake of the state. The Norfolk and Western Railroad Com- pany have just completed the fourth sur- vey of a route between Front Royal and Weshington, and each of the four passes through Vienna, which is almost on an air line between the two points. A prominent member of the last surveying party said to a leading citizen of Vienna that it is the settled purpose of the Norfolk and Western managers to build the much talked of line as soon as the aifairs of the company are straightened out and the road taken out of the hands of the receiver, which, he thought, will be the case in the course of the next few months. The completion and cpening of the proposed line will, it is said, result in a saving to the company of be- tween $60,000 and $70,000 annually in the matter of the transportation of their cars between Front Royal and Washington, as, to reach the latter point under present ar- rangements, requires a long detour, where- as by the new line the distance wiil be but about sevent Miss Clara Harvey of 22d street is spend- ing the summer with an aunt in Baltimore. Mr. Willis G. Brown of the government printing office has leased the house recent- ly built and occupied by the Rev. R. W. Graham on 22d street. Miss Anna Chesky, a sister of Mrs. Brown, is spending the summer with the family. Proofreader Mills of the G. P. O. has commenced the erection of a neat cottage at the corner of 22d and Frankfort streets. Mr. Ira J. Baker is the builder. Mr. Frank C. Faulk of Frankfort street has been appointed to a position as con- ductor on the Soldiers’ Home and Ecking- ton railway, and entered upon his duties Thursday morning. Mr. F. D. Foster has commenced the erection of a frame dwelling on 28th street, Ayalon. Miss Mildred Briggs, who has been fll at the home of her sister, Mrs. C. A. Baker, on Detroit street, is convalescont. Next Monday evening’s meeting of the Citizens’ Association promises to be an in- teresting one. A communication has been received from the interstate commerce com- mission saying that the Baltimore and Ohio officials have been asked to present a statement explaining the apparent dis- crimination against this neighborhood in the matter of commutation rates, and the committee sent to the District Commi: sioners to urge the establishment of several small parks in this section under the pro- posed plan of street extension will report, having been most courteously treated and assured that their requests would be con- sidered and in all probability granted. Langdon has been enjoying a real senea- tion for several days which has not yet appeared in print. Some workmen engaged in repairing a house on the Bladensburg road recently discovered what were be- lieved to be the bones of a half-grown child, buried about two feet beneath the cellar bottom. Soon after this discovery rumor gained circulation that strange sounds and stranger sights were to be heard and seen about the house at the midnight hour daily. An officer who ac- companied a party of truthseekers to the premises one dark night was sald to have had his lantern snatched from his hand and to have been roughly pushed out of doors and the door slammed efter him. Several delegations of spiritualists and others, mostly others, from Washington have visited the scene, and tell strange stories of their experiences. But the most diligent inquiry on the part of The Star representative has failed to locate zeny responsible parties in this neighborhood - who can verify the rumors mentioned fur- ther than the finding of the bones, which are said by some to have been those of + pet dog buried in the cellar many years ago by an indulgent lover of carine pets.