Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1895, Page 8

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They are x positive curc for sick headache, and all the {lls produced by disordered ver. mly one pill a dose. ~ Of exauisite flavor, gostura Bitters is standard table delicacy. manufacturers, Dr. J. G. B. Slegert & So ell druggists, re and wholesome, Sole At THE VANISHED MILLION. Disappearance of the Renowned Rusxinn Commander's Fortune. From the Literary Digest. No hero Is more kindly remembered by his people than Gen. Skobeleff, the renown- ed Russian commander, who hoped to es- tablish the-rule of the Slavs over all Eu- rope. Long before his death even the peo- ple told innumerable legends of his bravery and lberality, and now he is the acknow! edged hero of the Russlan peasant. The papers are never tired of repeating anec- dotes about him. Now and then some one with authority publishes incidents of Skobe- leff'a life, which are not only new and strange, but also Illustrative of his chara: ter and of that of his nation. The Istorit- schesky Vyestnik, Moscow, tells a strange story of the absolute disappearance of a million rubles ($500,000) belonging to the general. Prince Obolensk; who knew Skobeleff very well, vouches for the truth of this tale: “Prince Obolensky saw Skobeleff very frequently during the last years before his death. The general came to Moscow very often to visit Mr. Morlow, the manager of the government bank. Ivan Ilich, as Sko- beleff called Morlow, administered the gen- eral’s funds. In June, 1882, Skoheleff was greatly disturbed. He showed Obolensky an article by Mme. Adam, which impressed him very much, and he believed that Rus- sia was pn the eve of another oriental war. ‘But it will cost immense sums,’ he added, ‘and I must try to prepare myself.’ He was much excited, and pecan at once to get his money together, Intending to de- posit a million with Morlow. He took the matter so serfously that he would not lend to his best friends, although he was gener- ally very liberal. This was in the begin- ning of Jvre. Toward the end of the month Prince Obolensky, who knew that the gen- eral had managed to raise the desired sum, visited him and found him in very low spirits, He would answer !n monosyilables on “What ails you, Michael Dmitrijewich?” asked the prince. “What ails me? Well, gone.” “What money? Has any one stolen your purse?" “Bother my purse! My million has van- ished absolutely. I cannot obtain the slightest trace of it anywhere. “The prince thought his friend demented. That such a sum should be lost seemed to him impossible. “*As you know, continued Skobeleff, ‘Ivan Ilich (Morlow) has gathered all my funds and sold all my grain, and now he is—cra I have asked him more than once what be- came of my capital, and each time he crawls under the table and barks like a dog. His mind ts gone completely. “Why don’t you inform the banks?’ “TJ have done s0, but there {s no trace of the money.’ “The general evidently tried to drown his sorrow In Itquor. When Prince Obolensky suggested that some of Morlow’s employes had stolen the money he shook his head. Nevertheless, a few weeks after the death of the general a lackey was arrested for trying to sell a portfolio containing some of Skobeleff’s correspondence. The fellow had been in Morlow’s service. Skobeleff would never attend to the matter or Investigate it properly. ‘Leave me alone.’ he said, ‘I have only two more years to live and wish to pass them as pleasantly as I can." He was dead two days after. Morlow died ten years later in a mad house, but the secret of Skobeleff’s lost million could never be obtained from him, and the money remains undiscovered to the present day.” —_—__--e+____ Ducks Hatched by a Cat. From the Jacksonville Citizen. Who has ever heard of a cat hatching ducklings before, and yet such is the case with the feline friend of Dennis O'Keefe. Mr. O'Keefe relates that about three weeks ago he .et a hen on a setting of thirteen eggs. After sitting on them for three days she abandoned the nest. Mr. O'Keefe, knowing that the eggs were worthless except for hatching. set his wits to work to think out some scheme whereby he could save his setting and get some ducklings. In the house was a cat that was very lazy, and also very fat. Its rotundity probably had something to do with its ex- cessive laziness. Mr. O'Keefo, in the course of his cogitations, thought that he would try the cat on the eggs, and pussy was in- stalled as foster-mother to thirteen un- hatched ducklings, The animal seemed to realize what was expected of her,-and she conscientiously performed her part of the contract, only leaving the nest to feed. Last Tuesday the climax occurred, and pussy refused to have anything more to do with such unearthly dealings. So long as the eges remained passive the animal moved very cautiously, and did not object to what she was put to, but as soon as the eggs began to move around and the ducklings to appear, she probably thought that something supernatural had occurred and with a yell that was sufficient to scare all the ducklings out of thelr shells, she made for the underside of the house, and could not be persuaded to come near the nest again. Mr. O'Keefe !s ready to swear that all has occurred as stated, and he also has eleven lively ducklings to testify to the truth of the story. ——__—_+e+_____ Rats Caught by Clams. From the Tacoma Ledger. They tell big stories about the feats of Puget sound clams, but the one told by Edward A. Chase of the North Pacific Fish Company is just a trifle ahead of most of them. Saturday morning, when Mr. Chase went Into his warehouse, he heard a rustling in a box of clams. On investigating, he found that a rat had invaded the box, and, just as he approached, the jaws of a monster clam shut down on the rodent’s tall, hold- ing It fast. The rat squealed, but the clam held {t tight. Mr. Chase, anticipating the comment of friends who would cry “clam story’ when he would relate the circum- stance, called witnesses, and then set about extricating the imprisoned rat. The result was that the rat was released, but got away minus an inch of tail. An hour or so later Mr. Chase returned to the warehouse to find that another dar- ing rat had ventured into the box, and in an attempt to pull some of the clams out of the shell with his forefoot had also been made a prisoner by the clam shutting down on the member. For several hours the firmly attached pair were exhibited, and then the rat was killed. ~ —_—__—_++_____ Killed by His Own Horse. John H. Wendling, fifty-two years old, a well-known citizen, and the representative of the Standard Of] Company in Easton, Pa., was killed Saturday by his horse run- ning away on a steep hill in South Easton. He was thrown out of the wagon by the vehicle upsetting, and was frightfully kicked by tae horse, death resulting almost instantly. _—_____+e+____ Everett A. Stevens, state railroad com- dead. my money is BEAM AND TRAVERS The Men Who Are to Be Hanged for Killing Women. CONTRAST BETWEEN THE CULPRITS One Brutal and Unrepentant, the Other Sorrowful and Conirite. TALKS WITH BOTH —_>____ A Star reporter talked at the District jail yesterday with two men doomed to die within the next few days on thé scaffold. Each had killed a woman, and each man stated yesterday that he had no hope or expectation of escaping the death penalty. One of these men is a young negro, not yet thirty yeare of age, simple minded and ig- norant. The other, a white man, far past middle age, is a man of more than ordinary Intelligence. The negro, James L. Travers, is to die next Friday for the murder of Lena Gross, a young colored woman with whom he lived, last November. The white man, Joseph A. Beam, {s to dle the follow- ing Friday for the murder last December of his stepdaughter, Mrs. Annie L. Leahy. Travers, meek and penitent, expressed sor- row and hoped that God’ would forgive him. Beam, violent and unrepentent, glor- fed in having rid the world of what he designated as a human monster, and in language startling as it was blasphemous declared he had no fear of death nor of the future. Travers Prepared for the Worst. Accompanied by Mr. Alexander Wolf of ‘Travers’ counsel, the reporter was admit- ted to the condemned man’s cell, on the first floor of the southern wing of the prison. The man had just returned from participating in religious services, conduct- ed in the cell of Thomas J. Taylor, sen- tenced to be hanged on the 20th of this month for wife murder. In a pathetically hopeless way he asked his counsel if there was any hope of a commutation of the death sentence, and when his counsel re- plied that he feared there was none, Travers said that while he was not sur- prised, he had nevertheless hoped that he might be spared death on the scaffold. He realized that everything possible had been done in his behalf by his counsel and thanked them. He sald that he had made his peace with God, and {f he was to die Friday he was prepared to go. He had but one request to make, and that was that his father and brothers and sisters, who live in Charles county, Md., be asked to visit hira. Mr. Wolf’ promised that he would at once communicate with them, and also assured Travers that he would make another appeal to the President for a commutation of the sentence. Lena‘’s Throat Cut by Accident. Travers was told by his counsel, how- ever, that he had better not hope, for there was little, if any, chance of the President interfering. Asked if he had any state- ment to make, the unfortunate man re- lated the story of the killing of the woman, which differed as to only one fact from the one related to the reporter by Travers a few days after the man’s arrest. Yester- day Travers declared that the woman's throat was cut accidentally, either by him- self of by the woman, during their alterc tion. In his confession, made to the police officers and to the reporter a few days after the murder, Travers declared that he cut the woman's throat to put her out of her misery, he having found, after he had struck her down with a blow of his fist in her face, that he had not Killed her. His counsel called his attention to the discrep- ancy between his two statements, and cautioned him against going into the next world with a lie on his lips. But while he did not deny that he had made the first statements, ‘Travers insisted that his version of the affair given yesterday, and which he gave at the trial, was a’ true statement of the killing. Travers has embraced the Catholle faith, and his spiritual adviser fs Father Sullivan of St. Peter's Church. The man {s_ re- guarded by Warden Leonard and his officers as a model prisoner, and much sympathy is felt for him. Beam's Brutality. From Travers’ cell The Star man stepped across to that occupled by Beam. Beam, a large, muscular, ungainly man, was seated beside his cot, reading a newspaper. ‘Throwing down the paper, he extended his hand through the grated door of his cell to the reporter, exclaiming, “I see they have been having big storms in the east, the wind playing h—1 with them. But I expected it, and know what caused it.’ The Star man inquired the cause of the storm, when Beam replied, with an oath, “Why, old Bob Strong's at the bottom of it replied Beam. “Bob Strong raised h—1 here, and he is raising h—1 in the other world, But I was sorry to hear of old Bob’s death, for I was in hopes that he would lye to put the noose around my neck, as he was an expert at that busine: You see, if a fellow has to go that w why, he wants a fellow to help him off that understands his business, and there was no better man at working a fellow off than old Bob.” Defiant in Face of Death. Asked if he had given up all hope of a commutstion of the death sentence, Beam replied that he had, “but,” he exclaimed, “I don't care. They can only Kill this house of clay,” tapping his chest, “but they can’t kill this immortal soul of mine. When I go off and set sail in the black ship that I see sailing fo> me, why, I'll sail into another and what I believe will be a better world. Then all eternity will be unfolded to me and I'll realize what you fellows that I leave behind can't.” “Most people,” explained Beam, “fear Geath, but nobody but a coward fears tt. I don't fear {t, and I don’t cate how soon they work me off. I went out to see th bride a few days ago, and she is a beauty. “The bride?” inquired the reporter. exclaimed Beam, with another oath, “I mean the scaffold. Don't you un- derstand? The scaffold is the bride and I am the bridegroom, and the bridegroom is ready.” Sure of Coming Back. Beam occupies his time with reading and writing, and when not doing that he is caressing an old cat, between which and himself a great friendship exists, the ani- mal spending most of its time in the man’s cell. Eternity in the world beyond occu- ples most of Beam’s thoughts, and he hand- ed to the reporter several pages of manu- script which he had written devoted to such subjects. “I wish you would publish that in The Star,” he remarked. “But pub- lish it before the 20th, because I want to read it.” “But,” interrupted the reporter, “you told me some time ago after you left this world you were coming back, and if I should not publish {t until after you leave you would still have an opportunity of Yeading {t, wouldn't you?” “Oh, yes.” replied Beam. “But I’m only coming back for one thing, and that is to get even with some of these d—d rascals who hav2 been hounding the life out of me. When I come back I’m coming back with a sharp curry comb, and I am going to rasp the backs and feet of them every night.” Would Do the Same Thing Over. In such a way the condemned man talk- ed incessantly, and it was practically tm- possible to induce him to conyerse dispas- sionately on any subject whatever. He expressed mo regret whatever for his crime, and intimated that he would do the same thing over again if given the oppor- tunity. He patiently listened, he said, when yes clergymen and_ religious workers talked with him, but declared thai he knew as much about this and the nex! world as they did, and felt no concern about the hereafter, being perfectly will- ing to take his chance: He js regarded by the jail officials as veing the most unique character in their experience, and more than once the prediction has been made that the man’s Indifference and bragga- docio is assumed, and that when the try- ing moment comes, whea he is told that ae the scaffold awaits him, hé will break down and utterly collapse. Death Watch on Travers. Warden Leonard has set-the death watch upon Travers, and front now-on he will be constantly under the wat¢nful eyes of an officer of the prison. The scaffold upon which the men will be hanged is the one which has been in use at the jail for f- teen years or more, and the one upon which Guiteau was hanged. Heretofore it was painted a dull drab color, but Warden | Leonard has recently given it a coat of white paint. A great pressure is being brought to bear upon the warden for per- mission to witness the execution, but it is unders:ood that Mr. Leonard will strictly obey the law in the matter, and allow only such a number to witness the execution as the law authorizes. The law relating to the subject provides that-‘‘it shall be the duty of the warden or one of his deputies, with such officers of the prison, constables and other peace officers as the warden or deputy may deem necessary and proper to attend at such executiors.” It also dl- rects the warden or his deputy to invite the district attorney, the counsel of the prisorer, two or more physicians and twelve respectable citizens to be present at every execution, and at the request of the con- demned person shall also allow any of his near relatives and any ministers of the gospel, not exceeding three, to also be present, and declares that no persons other than those mentioned in the twe preceding gections, and no person whatever under “he age of twenty-one years, shall be allowed to witness any execution. ——— NORTHEASTERN SUBURBS. Citizens’ Association Discusses Many Important Affairs. A called meeting of the Northeastern Suburban Citizens’ Association was held last evening in the Langdon Hall Associa- tion building, at Langdon. Mr. John Wat- son, president, was in the chair, and Mr. Henry S. Sutton acted as secretary. At the last meeting a committee was ap- pointed to personally invite every resident and property owner between the Brentwood road and the Eastern branch, from Trint- dad to the District line, to join the asso- ciation. The results of thelr efforts were seen in a largely increased attendance at the meeting last night, the association now representing nearly one thousand tax-pay- ing restdents of the northeastern quarter. After disposing of the minutes of the meeting of July 1, the president presented a report from the committee having in charge the difficulty with the Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company over the com- mutation rate between Langdon and Wash- ington. The report stated that the com- mittee was in correspondence with the offi- clals of the interstate commerce commis- sion, and believed that it was only a ques- tion of a few weeks when the corporation would be compelled to sell commutation and other tickets to Langdon and Win- throp Heights at the same rate as charged to stations on the other branch of the road the same distance from the city sta- tlon. The report was accompanied by letters from the secretary of the interstate com- merce commission, and a copy of the reply of the railway officials to the informal complaint filed some weeks ago, in which the company contends that the Washing- ton and Metropolitan branches of their road are two separate and distinct cor- porations, represented by stock owned by parate and distinct people. The reply stated, however, that a revision of com- mutation rates has been decided upon, to take effect August 1. Whether a reduction in rate is to be made or not iy yet a mystery. iy The committee on street Improvements reported ha’ ing conveyed to the Di: Commissioners the request of the as: tion that 284 and 24th streets be grade at once, even ff the work had to Le done under the compulsory permit syst The Commisstoners had: received the com- mittee courteously, and asked that the request from the association be put in writing. This had been done, and the came forwarded to the authorittes by the chair- man of the committee, The special committee appointed to se- lect suitable locations for parks or reser- vations in the territory covered by the as- soclation reported having. gone over the ground and recommended to the Comm sioners the following reservations: Grove of oak trees in Langdon, Nounded by 20th, 22d, Detroit and Emporia streets; a circle at Frankfort and 20th streets, with enough of a reservation to include a fine clump of mammoth oak.trees and a spring of pure water located at this point; grove of oak and hickory trees at intersection of W street and New York avenue; grove cf large trees and spring of water at 38th and Baltimore streets; grove of trees at 28th and Keokuk streets; grove of trees on eminence near intersection of Cincinnat! and 26th street; grove of trees and two springs just inthe rear of the old race course at Ivy City; and all the small tri- angles formed by the intersections of streets with New York, Rhode Island and the proposed Alabama avenues, and the proposed Soldiers’ Home boulevard. The report was approved after debate. Mr. A. M. Dewey, acting chairman of the committee on legislation, was absent but sent a report concerning the propos tion made by the last meeting of the asso- clation to the directors of the Columbia Railway Company, asking that company, on certain conditions, to co-operate with the Citizens’ Association in securing trans- portation facilities for that section of the District. The report stated that the com- mittee was in correspondence with the management of the Columbla road, and re- ported an effort to effect an arrangement which would insure an electric road from the Boundary to the District line, via Mt. Olivet, Winthrop Heights, Langdon, East Langdon and Avalon. This report was re- ceived with demonstrations of approval. Resolutions were introduced asking the association’s approval of an effort to have Frankfort, 22d and 24th streets opened and put on grade, from the Brentwood road to the Bladensburg road; cross walks put in at 224 and Frankfort, and Frankfort end 20th streets; sidewalks laid on 20th street; and all were referred to the committee on street improvements. ————— BALLOON TO THE POLE. BY Frenchmen Talk of Undertaking Such an Expedition. From the New York Tires, Approaches to the north pole by means of a balloon have often been mooted. If the extreme north is to be reached, it probably never will be accomplished otherwise than by a passage in midair. This time the aeronaut !s a Frenchman, and it really looks as if the attempt would be made. June 5, at a meeting of the Academy of Sciences in Paris, M. Faye reported favor- ably on a project of reaching the north polo by means of a balloon. The commts- sion of examination was composed of MM. Daubree, Blanchard and Faye, all well known as scientific men. The report made was that M. Andre, an aeronaut, had carefully studied the whole subject, M. Faye stated that the project of reaching the pole by means of a balloon was by no means novel. The belief that there was an interior sea in close proxim- ity to the pole had long been entertained. We are also told to think that the point of extreme cold 1s not at the pole. The base of approach was to be at Spitzbergen, and {f the balloon were to ascend from some favorable point there, taking advantage of the alr currents, the pole might be reached in forty-eight hours. In July a study of the air currents at Spitzbergen indicated a slow velocity in the one direction and to- ward the pole. This wind never blows with violence. The daylight is pretty nearly continuous. The distance trom some points of Spitzbergen to the pole was about 8 degrees. In fact, the distance to be run over by the balloon was about the same as if France had to be traversed. If two or three days were taken up by the aerial voyage, that time would quite suffice. ‘As to the balloon, M. Andre had one made by the best of constructors. It had a double envelope, and could carry without strain 8,000 kilos, with provisions besides for four months. Sails were to be used, so as to take advantage of the winds. ‘The difficulty, the reporter of the com- mission said, was not so much in setting to the pole as in returning from it. M. Faye seemed to dread the risk the aero- nauts would incur. The {dea entertained by M. Andre was that if the pole were reached, the return would take place in the direction of Bering straits. His Way of Beating It. From the Chfeago Tribune. Rivers—That makes five one-cent, pieces you've dropped in that slot, and there has not a stick of sweetened chocolate dropped out yet. What's the use of wasting your money like that?” 5 Banks (in a rage)—‘“I'm going to keep putting them in till I get it full or some- thing comes out. I’m not going to be beat by any blamed machine!” (Drops in a lot more coins.) WIMER’S DEMURRER He Replies Officially to Prof. Riley’s Street Extension Letter. THE CONNECTICUT AVENDE DISPUTE The Question of the Professor's Right to Protest Raised. HOW LAND WAS DONATED Mr. J. B. Wimer has addressed a letter to Gen. Craighill, chief of engineers and a member of the superior highway commis- sion, replying to the communication of Prof. C. V. Riley on the subject of the extension of Connecticut avenue, printed in a recent Issue of The Star. He calls his letter, dated July 15, a “demurrer’’ rather than a protest, as he favors the proposed deflection of the avenue and takes excep- tions to Prof. Riley’s objections to that plan. In the first place, he points out that in his letter of protest Prof. Riley failed to state that he was a property owner directly Interested in the changes, and suggests that maybe the reason for the omission was that a straight extension of the avenue would wipe two of his neigh- bors entirely out of existence and leave his home property partially on the east line of the street, which, Mr. Wimer avers, is a result most cherished by Prof. Riley. He therefore objects to the admission of Prof. Riley's protest by the commission, He states that he is and will continue to be an advocaie of the deflected avenue, and, while not opposing any of the propo- sitions contained in the first section of ihe map, he puts in his plea in behalf of the Commissioners’ plan for Connecticut ave- nue. He points out, with the aid of a dia- gram, that the traight line avenue would involve lands on {ts entire route to Bel- mont road, controlled or owned by himself and cointerested owners and by those in accord with him, including his own resi- dence. On the other hand, on the deflected line he has induced his associates to dedi- cate to the District an area of land along the line of the Phelps tract subdivision amounting to about 90,000 square feet of most valuable property. The Cost of Straight Extension. On the basis of other lots in fhe same tract that have been sold at an average of about $3.50 a foot, this Item alone would Tepresent a cost of about $125,000, The houses that the straight ne would destroy, those of Messrs. Wimer, Handy and Moses and Miss Dorsey, are worth near $75,000. “The land from Le Roy piace to Califor- nla avenue,” he continues, “at an average of $1.50 a foot, is worth not less than $ti 000. That from California avenue to W oming avenue, at $1.50, not much less than $70,000, ‘That from Wyoming to Kalorama avenue, about $65,000. That from Kalo- rama to Belmont re e $1, cr nearly that, Belmont, t °K, say another $10,000, This aggregates $445,000, which, taken together with the cost of cutting the avenue through, possibly another $10,000, plus the money spent for the improvements on Connecticut A e Heights, to be al- lotted to the debris heap, out of which so much was given to the public to insure the deflected avenue, about $40,000, making an aggregate expenditure of over $600,000, without the bridge, which must eventually become necessary to make the avenue of any use, means assuredly an expenditure of over $750.14), possibly near $1,000,000, to carry out the scheme of an avenue, which, when accomplished, 1s shown, from the Commi: * plans, to be not farther at the most remote point in its line than 125 feet, and not on an ayerage In {ts entire length more distant than 75 feet fgom the ge tected line recommended to you for adop- jon. The Burden on the Owners, “The foregoing represents the cost only to the District. It is not posstble to determine at this epoch what the cost would be, out of private pockets, to those on the lines either side of sold avenue extended straight to bring their properties down to the prop- er grades above the new cut grades, mor could we tell how many years would elapse before our properties on Washington Heights would assume again a settled basis for sales or homes. I predict we would be torn up for five or ten years, at least, and that we might suffer in the meantime by a diverting of those who would now come to us, in our present attractive condition, to other parts, from the effects of which our people would likely not recover fully in this generation, The Commissioners’ Power. Mr. Wimer defends the Commissioners’ right to deflect the avenue, quoting the law to sustain this proposition. He goes on to say that the recommended route will not cost as much as the straight line plan, the ground to be taken costing not more than one-half as much, the grading about one- half, ard there are no improvements in the way to be paid for. He intimates that Prof. Riley's recent published letter was an assault upon the Commissioners for having approved the subdivision at the head of Connecticut ave- nue for him. He goes tnto the history of that tract and shows how in the spring of 1891 a subdivision was applied for, but official action was delayed because it did not grant a tract to the District for the avenue. When the highway act of March 2, 1893, became a law, another effort was made, and the subdivision was approved February 27, 184, on the basis of a de- flected avenue, and the owners granted to the District 53,000 square feet for Connecti- cut avenue. The Necessity of Some Extension. “Seven or eight years ago,” continued Mr. Wimer, “the necessity of a Connecticut ayenue extended was urged upon the Com- missioners, and a plan placed before them for such extended avenue. With the most strenuous and vigorous efforts on the part of those advancing the same a number of public spirited owners of property were im- portuned to donate a street fifty feet wide, with the condition that sald Connecticut avenue was to be extended to the Columbia road. After these donations of valuable property, to all intents and purposes ac- cepted by the District authorities, being platted and published and taxed upon as on said avenue, the contributors waited vainly for action evidencing ary intention of car- rying this through to the point to which they were influenced to give the ground for. The present Commissioners have evolved us from this suspense, in a happy solution of this snarl, by their action in recom- mending to you that avenue, which would embrace this donated ground, at a great saving of cost for property and grading. Y stand ready, under instructions of the owner, to dedicate her portion of this ave- nue, as soon as it is finally determined, on the lines I have suggested as promised. This is in the line of property, fifty feet wide, ‘just south of Presbrey’s,’ which Mr. Riley states a ‘deed of dedication had been made by the owner,’ and ‘was held’ in my safe. He is just as far wrong in this asser- tion as he {s in many others which he makes positively without assuring himself of their correctness. He knows full well that I have no power to close the streets. I have a power of attorney to convey this property to the District, under conditions imposed, and Mr. Riley knows me too well to believe that I would do what he alleges I have threatened, except under the condl- tions which I have noted above. My or- ders are from the owners, Other Interests Involved. “] represent other interests, those of clients, and a number of them. If it were only my own home involved I would not permit myself to figure in this matter, knowing full well that I would be fully re- imbursed for the taking of my domictie. When I recollect that my client referred to above bought on the heights a number of pieces of property, and intended to give out of her holdings a lct for the extension of Connecticut avenue as now existing, re- ferred to, and would have taken addition- ally from her the balance of her ground on both sides of Kalorama avenue in the sought for straight extension now, it means serious loss not contemplated when she consented to give the lot mentioned, which she would not have given, and I would not have permitted her to give, had this double | Connecticut aveiue been contemplated. The award to her for the balance of her ground So taken must be augmented by the value of the 50x162-foot lot (intended to be given under the conditions of the original don: tion), which certainly belongs to her, if an- other avenue should be adopted. The Deflected Avenue Alone Feasible. “The deflected avenue, I maintain, is the only economic and feasible one, and the only one that will not convert our hand- some, quiet heights into chaotic condition for years to come. Capt. Rossell did not dissent from this view of the situation when I put it before him in this form; nor has anyone since. No man can conscien tiously say, if he examines it, that he hi determined the straight avenue is a ne2>2s- sity, that it is economic, and that it would not be attended with serious detrimeat to those in the line of it.” After replying to various phrases and statements contained in Prof. Riley’s let- ter, Mr. Wimer concludes by saying: * think I can safely say that at least three- fourths of my neighbors and a vast ma- jority of the community are in accord with the Commissioners’ recommendation as to this avenue.” ——__ The Suffrage Movement in the District To the Editor of.The Evening Star: The “right of suffrage” here will increase population by drawing people to the Dis- trict from the surrounding states, and will, without doubt, make the city in a few years one of the most prosperous ones in the United States. That a young man who was born In the District, and takes a deep and patriotic interest in the city and Dis- trict, has not the right to vote is a ridicu- lous state of affairs. What is a republic? A republic, generally speaking, is supposed to be a country that is governed by the people, and every intel- ligent and free citizen in that republic is supposed to have the right to vote, some- thing that 270,090 free and intelligent citi- zens of the capital of the United States of America are not allowed to do. Shall this state of affairs exist any longer, young men and women of this District? There are a number of intelligent young men of Wash- ington who are working for other people, and have no business interests of their own, and wifhout execption they want and wili work hard for the right of suffrage for their city and District. It 1s the older men who have business interests here who are against it, and why are they against it? For the reason that it might at first prove disastrous to their business interests. It is simply a selfisn motive, and a person loses patience with such narrow-minded and selfish men. The man who will sacrifice his life for this country is to be admired, but can we admire that man any longer when he will not sacrifice a few dollars in the in- cerest of the right of suffrage for this Dis- trict? : That the colored population is a serious question in relation to the right of suffrage in the District must be admitted; but it must be acknowledged by ali that there are more intelligent and well-educated colored people in the District of Columbia than any state in the Union. People who remember the state of affairs under Gov. Shepherd say that if we have the universal right of suffrage in the District the same conditions will exist that existed then; that Is, the colored population would control things. This is not so. A person may as well say that he will not sit In a certain chair for the reason chat he once sat in said chair when it contained a pin, and the next time he sees that chair he reasons thus: This chair had a pin in it the last time I occu- pled it, and consequently must contain a pin at the present time, so I will not go near it. An Intelligent and enlightened man will reason about the matter in the follow- ing manner: This chair had a pin in {t once when I occupied it, but is that any reason that it contains pins now? I will examine itand see. And finding no pins, he occupies it for the practical and comon sense reason that {t is a convenient and comfortable seat. If the people who ‘think that the same conditions will exist today that exist- ed years ago will look into the matter closely, they will find that things have changed, and that such a state of affairs cannot be repeated at the present time, and that the condition politically will, without doubt, be all that can be wished for in the capital of the proudest nation on earth. “Suffrage” is surely coming, and within a much shorter time than @ good many peo- ple think. There can be no doubt that an overwhelming majority are in favor of the right of suffrage for the District, and all that is needed to obtain it is public demon- stration, which is beginning to be felt at the present time. ARTHUR E. BROWN. ee REED'S COLLEGE DAYS. He Earned Money by Doing Odd Jobs in Leixare Hours. From the Philadelphia Press. Thomas B. Reed smiles over his college life as one smiles over the babyhood of a weak child—pgecarious once, but all right now. “I started in to do college with a stout heart and about $1 in ready money. The dollar would keep the heart stout until a few lessons and another dollar had eventu- ated,” he tells with that slow, lazy, drawl- ing speech of his. “I managed to get through the first two years at Bowdoin by doing odd jobs here and there, and not eat- Ing any more than the student's allowance advised by Horace—‘a bit of something and plenty of fresh air.’ I hadn't the time to learn enough to be able to coach other boys, or I might have earned a little. “Toward my junior I noticed that my cheer, ‘B-O-W-D-O-I-N, rah, rah, rah!” was growing faint, and I said, ‘Tom, you are not getting enough to eat. You must get regular meals.” So I went to work teach- ing. I taught the village school, and so I got along until the senior year, when I sud- Genly discovered that I was going to stand so low In my class at graduation that I might not graduate at all. So I dropped every other thought than that of study. I worked early and late, and I wrote a grad- uating essay with tears of fearful brine and drops of heart blood. It was upon “The Fear of Death,’ snd I almost dropped dead when I got the prize for it. It was in the form of an oration. “After graduation I intended to become a minister, being fond of the sound of my own volce, but I changed my plans to that of a lawyer, and I ‘went west, young man! from Maine to California—to find a good place to work in. Here I taught school again, and went through with that charm- ing Itinerarcy known as ‘boarding around.’ I was paid §20 a month and the privilege of the best room in the house and company doughnuts. My admission to the bar of California was unique. “It was in 1863, when California was awake over the legal tender act and gold was as important as now. The judge said to me: ‘Tom, I hear you want to be ad- mitted to the bar.’ “*Yes, sir,’ I sald. s the legal tender act constitutional?’ -"Knowing his tendencies, I quickly re- plied, ‘It 4s, str.’ “*¥ou shall be admitted,’ safd he. “Three years afterward T was a member of the Maine legislature, having concluded that ‘east or west, home's best,’ and hav- ing traveled to my own state again, I went rapidly then from one post to another, but I never felt that I was doing it in a raw, unprepared way: for as a schoolboy my ex- periences had been varled and thoroughly educating in the ways of the world.” ee ee A Tip for the Dudes. From Pearson's Weekly. “I want to ask you a question,” said Travers. “Suppose that five years from now I should be walking the streets clothed Uterally in rags, wearing a battered old hat and shoes full of holes. Would you think enough of me then to take me by the hand, buy me a new outfit, give me a bath, put a sovereign in my hand and send me away with your blessing?” “Why, of course, I would,” replied Dash- away. ‘How absurd.” “Then bring the scene a little nearer. Suppose that in four years from now you should meet me as I have described my- self, with this exception—that I had on a g00d hat. Would you still do the same thing?” “Why, certainly. What. “Make {t still nearer. Call it three years, and say I didn’t need a bath. Do awa with the blessing and make it two years. “Make {t a year, with a good pair of shoes, eh?” facetiously. “Substitute a new suit——” (A great light dawning upon him.) “Oh-h!” “And if you are a man of your word, let me have a sovereign!” soe. Kerosene Too Expensiv. From the Toronto Rural. “Maria,” sald Mr. Billus, as he put on his hat preparatory to starting down town, “I wish you would see that the kitchen girl doesn’t_use kerosene for making fires any more. We could replace the gir} easily enough, but kerosene costs money now.” COMMON CAUSE OF SICKNESS In Warm Weather Nothing So Danger= ous as Decayed Foods, Every one knows, or ought to know, that decayed foods are poisonous, Boanls of health scek to pre= vent their sale. We now have in mind the results which follow the decay and decomposition of foots after they bave been eaten, for unless Aigestion occurs within @ reasonable time after our meals, decomposition sets In. If dyspeptics will stop and consider for a moment some of the symptoms of thelr trouble, such as dis- agreeable breath, eructations of gas or bad taste in the mouth, they will understand that they ail must come from decaying foods that ought properly to have been absorbed into the system. Spots before the eyes, dizziness, sleeplessness, @yspeptic headaches are but a few of the effects following the abscrption Into the blood of poisons developed from decomposing and undigested food that lies in the stomach, It was @ recognition of this important fact that caused the Mount Lebanon Shakera to devote 60 much of their time to the preparation of a remedy for dyspepsia, and nothing is more efficient than the Digestive Cordial which they have recently placed on the market. The Importance of thelr invention will be appre elated when we realize what a proportion of the community are victims of some form of stomach trouble. Thousands of pale, thin people have little inclination to eat, and what they do eat causes them pain and distress. Its action is so prompt that relief frequently fol- lows the very first dose. It restores the appetite ‘nd increases the weight. Piumpness and strength take the place of weakness und that eare-worn ex- pression which points out the dyspepties in every community. ‘The local druggists are now giving away interesting descriptive pamphlets. A MYSTERY SOLVED. Mrs. Pitzel’s Two Little Girls Were Murdered. Found buried in the cellar of the house 13 St. Vincent street, Toronto, Ont., yesterday were the bedies of Alice and Nellie, the two missing daughters of Benj. F. Pitzel. De- tectives Cuddy of Toronto and Geyer of Philadelphia made the discovery, and ell the doubts as to their fate has been set at rest. It is now a matter beyond doubt that H. H. Holmes deliberately murdered the pair. The inquiries begun by the police led to the knowledge that Holmes and the children lived at the house, and a search was made. A photograph of Holmes was identified as that of the tenant. When they reached the cellar it appeared to the detectives that something had dis- | turbed the cellar floor, and arming them- selves with shovels they began to dig. A short distance below the surface they came across the arm and a portion of the head of one of the Mttle murdered girls. Further work soon revealed the entire body, not only of the first, but of her sis- ter. They were both naked, and had lain there in all probability since’ iast October, The last trace the officers had of the children was at Detroit. They wero taken there from Chicago, where they had been attending school. They boarded on Con- gress street one week in 1894. Holmes secured possession of Allce, aged thirteen, first taking her to Philadciphia to identify her father's body. Then he went to St. Louis, and told the mother that he would put Howard and Nellie in a good school in indianapolis, This was on September 28, Mrs. Pitzel recetved two letters from Holmes jn Indianapolis, and acting on his advice she went to her parents In Jllnois. Becoming worried about the children, she went to Chicago, where she received word from Holmes to go to Detroit. She met him in that city, and demanded the chil- dren, but was induced to go with him to ‘Toronto, and then to Burlington, Vt. So far as known the boy was never seen ih Detroit. There were no traces of violence cn the bodies, and it is thought that Holmes de- coyed the children into a trunk under some pretext and took them to the house. ‘Then gas was inserted by means of a tube through a small hole. The trunk with @ hole in it, neatly covered over with a str tacked down, was found In one of Holmes’ rooms. The little girls when found were naked and had been buried without a coffin of any kind. No trace of the boy Howard, a lad of eight, has been found, but he is thought to be undoubtedly dead. The St. Vincent street house has been taken possession of by the police, and an inquest will be held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. As the crime was evidently com- mitted in Canada, it will be necessary to extradite Holmes and put him on trial for the murder there. ——____ +e-+- —___ THE GREATEST FOREST. It Stretches 3,000 Miles Long by 1,; Miles Wide. From Youth's Companion, “Where is the greatest forest In the world?” The question was asked in the forestry section of the American Association for tha Advancement of Science at Its recent an- nual meeting. The importance of forests for equalizing the clinvate and the rainfall of the globe was.under discussion, and the purpose of the question was to show where the great forest tracts of the world are situated. - One member, replying offhand, was in- clined to maintain that the greatest cone tinuous tract of forest Hes north of the St. Lawrence river, in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, extending northward to Hudson bay and Labrador; a region measuring about 1,700 miles in Jength from east to west and 1,000 miles in width north and south. A profescor from the Smithsonian Insti- tution rejoined that a much larger con- tinuous arez of timber lands was to be found, reckoning from those in the state of Washington northward through British Columbia ard Alarka. But he Iimited his statement to North America, for he added that, in his opinion, the largest forest in the world occupied the valley of the Ama- zon, embracing much of northern Brazil, eastern Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and Guiana; « region at least 2,100 miles in length by 1,300 in width. Exception was immediately taken to this statement by several members who, in the light af recent explorations, have com- puted the forest area of Central Africa in the valley of the Congo, including the head waters of the Nile to the northeast. and those of Zambes! on the south. Accord- ing to their estimetes, Central Africa con- tains a forest recion not less than 3,000 miles in length trom north to south, and of vast althovgh not fully known width from east to west. Discussion, in which the evidence afforded by travels and sur- veys was freely cited, seemed favorable to the defender of the Amazonian forests. Later In the day the entire question was placed in another light by a member who was so fortunate as to be able to speak from some knowledge of still another great forest region of the globe. This gentle- man gave a vivid picture of the vast, sol- emn taigaz and urmans, the pine, larch and cedar forests of Stberla. It appears that Siberia, from the plain of the Ob! river on the west to the valley of the Indighirka on the east, embracing the grent plains, or river valleys, of the Yen: isel, Olenek, Lena and Yana rivers, one great timber helt. averaging more than 1,000 miles in breadth from north to south —heing fully 1,700 miles wide in the Yen- {sel district—and having a length from east to west cf not less than 4.600 versts, about 3,000 miles. Unlike equatorial forests, the trees of the Siberian tiagas are mainly con- ifers, comprising pines of several varieties. firs and larches. In the Yenisef, Lena and Olenek regions there are thousands of square miles where no human being has ever been The long-stemmed conifers rise to a height of 150 feet or more, and stand so closely together that walking among them is difficult. The dence, lofty tops exclude the pale arctic sunshine. and the straight, pale trunks, all looking exactly alike, so be- wilder the eye in the obscurity that all sense of direction is lost. Elven the most experienced trappers of sable dare not venture into the dense taigas without tak- {ng the precavtion of “blazing” the trees constantly with hatchets as they walk for- ward. If lost there the hunter rarely finds his way out, but perishes miserably from starvation or cold. The natives avoid the taigas, and have a name for them which significs “places where the mind is losi 00