Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1895, Page 11

/ “ and Geoffrey are old friends. OO SSE=_=S THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. A CHANCE MEETING BY THE DUCHESS. { (Copyright, 1895, by Irving Bacheller.) (Continued frum Thursday’s Star.) U1. - “What hour do you expect Miss Linton to arrive?” asks Lilian, presently. “I dare say she has come by now; it is also possible she may not have come at all. I have told you she is not famed for punctuality.” “Then I think you-had better get back as #con as you can to meet her. She may by chance be punctual this time.” “Bettcr have a last look at the river first,”! carelessly. “I think not, and beside I am sure the mist Is thickening; it will be a wet night.” “Well, it looks like it,” says Lansdale, with a glance above; after which he rows her back in silence to the landing slip. Lilian runs lightly up to her room and throws herself into a chair. After all what a fool she has been, or rather Aunt Bessie bas. Of course, he has been engaged all this time to that other girl. And yet—he bad not been in such over-great hurry to get back to meet her. Still he had called Fastens It Near Her Fair Throat. ‘her lovely. Lovely! she recalls a photo- graph of Miss Linton belonging to Aunt Bessie, and surely a face that is all gray eyes, set very widely apart, and a nose that distinctly turns up could hardly be called that. Lovers must be blind, indeed, and Mr. Lansdale the blindest of all. Suddenly an angry desire to show him what might herestly be called—at all events—pretty, feizes upon her. She pulls down her hair, and does it up again in her most coquettish style. Takes out her latest silk blouse—a charming thing, all pale blue, with a little chiffon of the same color, and tries it on. ‘Yes, it will do! She adds a skirt to it, fas- tens her neckband with the little diamond Star papa had given her on her last birth- day, and finally, seeing a pale pink rose pushing its way through the window as though to get a peep at her (and no won- der, too!) she plucks it, and fastens it near her fair and slender throat. Just at this moment Aunt Bessie cpens the door. “What! dressed already?" says she. The surprise is involuntary, but she quickly sup- presses It. She has caught the situation. “Wise child! How I wish I were you. Now you can really rest before dinner. And how sweet you look, dearest.” Mrs. Musgrave is a student of nature. She is quite aware that to tell any girl in the world she {s looking charming is a greater help to her appearance than even a new frock from Worth. “We came in early. Mr. Lansdale is ex- Pecting a friend this evening.” “Letty. Linton? . Yes,.she has come. She ‘And dear ones, apparently. “Are the; asks Aunt Bessie, the wise. In spite of the early dressing, Lilian and her aunt arrive a little late in the dining room. Their own special table is waiting for them, as well as the man who attends on them, and who regards them with a reproachful eye—but Lilian scarcely noti-zes his mild reproof. Her glance has wandered instinctively to the small table a little beyond hers, where four people are sitting. Mrs. Musgrave is nodding to them. There is an elderly lady, very fat, very good- humored-looking; a girl—yes, certainly her nose has a heavenward tilt; a young man with brown eyes and a rather weak mouth, ME is Capt. Westroph and Geoffrey Lans- ale. 5 aie A parti carree! And all seem very merry. The waiter is pouring out champagne, and Lansdale, leaning a little over the table, is evidently telling some absurd story—telling it to the.party generally, of course, but cer- tainly more particularly to Miss Linton. ‘The lamp, daintily shaded with pink, casts @ soft glow on the four faces. Presently a little low chorus of laughter arises. The story has come to a delightful finish! How happy he—they all seem! When dinner is over, the fat lady rises and comes toward Mrs. Musgrave’s table. “Dear Mrs. Musgrave,” she says, in tones that suit her size, “you must introduce me to your ntec She holds out her hand to Lilian, who tries to grasp it. “We are connections, I think. And this is my girl— Letty.” “How d'ye do?” says that young lady, in a loud, clear tone, and with the friend- lest smile at Lilian. “Geoff's told me all about you. Great chums you and he—eh?” “Really, Miss Linton, I—" When next afternoon Geoffrey Lansdale coming up to Lilian, asks her to go for a row with him, it ts with difficulty she sup- presses her astonishment. There Is a touch of scorn in her eyes as she answers him, although her voice is studiously ordinary: “Are you not going with Miss-Linton?” asks she. “She wouldn't come. She hates boating. Makes her ill, she says.” . Lilian hesitates for a moment. To refuse now, after all these days, will seem ‘like Pique. Yes, whatever it costs her, she must “She does not raise her eyes.” keep up the presert state of things to the end. There is only to: tomorrow she will be far away from him. A quick, sharp sigh comes in the most unaccountable way, on the head of this thought. “I should Ike to go very much,” says she, quietly; “I love the sea.”" “Your only love?” with a careless smile, yet his eyes search her face for the answer. “Oh, yes," says she, smiling too, but ab- sently. “We shall have our last look at Proudly river after all,” says he, as they push off. And after a little while, having rounded the bit of wooded land, they enter the nar- Tow strip of water that leads,to the mouth of the river. Down this the boat glides smoothly, pasding by gaunt black rocks that guard it on either side, and that are overhung with ivy and topped by giant fir trees. And now here at last is the river, dashing, foaming over Its stones, gleaming like snow in the fitful sunshine that breaks throuzh the trees overhead, sending green tints upwards to the light every now and then, but rushing always, as all rivers do, to their eternal home In the ocean. “Tell me," says Lansdale, abruptly, “why did you change your mind about’ going home, that day—after I arrived?” He had heard then. “I often change my mind,” says she, coldly. “Naturally. But why on that particular occasion?” She makes no answer to end seeing she will not, he goes on, alm with the avowed determination of pro- voking her. “Why did you want to go?” says he. “Was it perhaps to prepare a welcome for me? You knew, of course, that I meant to pay a visit to your mother.” “I,” she stops, grows crimson and her eyes flash. “If you will insist on knowing,” she says, “I left home to avoid meeting you.” A _pause. “What a great deal of trouble to take about nothing,” says he at last. “I can only express my regret at having driven you to such extremes to get rid of me. It is very good of you to have made matters so clear—as otherwise I might still have gone on to see—your mother.” “I hope you will do that still,” says Lilian, who is now very, pale. Her voice is trembling. “tam sorry I said anything about it. It—it%%ll sounds so inhospitable. You will co nd stay with us?” “I think ni thank you.” He has taken “The river is beautiful up his oars again. Shall we stay a little here, is it not? longer, or—" “No. Let us go home,” says she, in a low tone. She does not raise her eyes. They are full of tears. (To be concluded tomorrow.) —_—__+0+___. WHERE THE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT. Gens. Longstreet, Howard, Wheeler ond Warner Make Addresses. Upon the conclusion of Gen. Gordon's speech in the Chickamauga Park yester- day Gen. James Longstreet, who led the confederate right in the contest thirty-two years ago, made some patriotic remarks. He said ir. part: “On a similar occasion, at Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln said: ‘It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work,’ and, again, Mr. Lincoln refers, ‘For us to be here dedi- cated to the great task remaining before us,’ and as ‘From such mn graves some good is born,’ I would look to the ‘unfin- ished work’ and the ‘great task remaining before us,’ which the blue and gray and the sons and daughters of veterans on both sides can heartily join in extending. broadening, confirming and perpetuating ‘a governn:ent of the people, by the people and for the people.’ “TI allude, my countrymen, to happenings in 1893; to the exasperating European in- terference in Hawali,- Nicaragua, Venez- uela, Trinidad and the general but steady purpose of Great Britain to nullify or en- croach upon the Monroe doctrine. Maxi- milian ‘attempted an infringement of this doctrine, and although the guns at Appo- mattox had scarce ccased their reverbera- tions, the brave soldiers of Lee plainly in- dicated that they would follow Grant and Sheridan in driving any European govern- ment from the Americas. And, I believe, there is an abounding patriotism, broad and deep, In all Americans; that patriotism -throbs the heart and pulres the being as ardently cf the South Carolinian as the Massachusetts Puritan; that the liberty bell, in its southern pilgrimage, will be rev- erently received and as devotedly loved in Atlanta and Charleston as in Philadelphia and Boston; that we all idolize Old Glory, and, with Barbara Frietchie, can all now fay: “ Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, but spare your country’s flag.” “And to stimulate and evolve this noble sentiment all the more, what we need is the resumption of fraternity at the ratio of 16 to 1—sixteen strong heart strikers of mutual esteem and love to a feeble, expir- ing one of waning sectionalism; the hearty restoration and cordial cultivation of neighborly, brotherly relations, faith in Jehovah and respect for each other, and God grant that the happy vision that de- lghted the soul of the sweet singer of Israel may rest, like a benediction, upon the north and south, upon the blue and the gray. Strengthen the army and navy, look to the armaments of our warships and render more efficient our coast de- fenses; in a word, make the United States the first naval pewer of the, world, and when another Janding by England at Co- rinto is attempted, when ‘Europeancoloni- zation in Venezuela is cssayed, and when the British greed In Nicaragua is repeated, or any other invasion or encroachment of the Monroe doctrine is threatened, the fol- lowers of Lee and Grant, the sons of vet- erans of the blue and gray—some Decatur, Jones, Perry, Farragut, Semmes or Maffitt, upon the quarter deck of an American man- of-war, will unfurl the flag of Washington, Lincoin,Grant and Lee in the English chan- nel, the Yankee huzza and the rebel yell will resound along the British coast.” Gen. Lengstreet was frequently rupted by enthusiastic applause. An Army Reunion. ‘There was another big crowd in the big tent last night. It was a grand reunion of the Army of the Tennessee—Union and confederates. The big tent, which has held many large crowds, never before held one greater than that’ of last night. ~~ Gen. Greenville M-Dodge-of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee presided. After music by the band «nd prayer, he introduced the first speaker of the cvening, Gen. O. O. Howard. Gen. Howard satd in substance that the very thought of this occasion brings to his recollection visions of the spectacular wel- come that Longstreet gave him in October, ’63; the inhospitable disturbing of his slumbers by Stevenson; the removal of Longstreet and his troops from the scene by Gen. Bragg, rendered*It possible for the speaker to cross two long bridges and stand beside Grant and Thomas the 23d of November; his first meeting with John A. Logan, Frank Blair, Jeff. C. Davis and a host of others, and to participate in all the operations clustering around Missionary Ridge. Gen. Howard then recalled historic names from both armies. He then eulogized the American volun- teer, and invited his hearers to look at the volunteer, now that he had been mustered out over thirty years—rather thin in flesh, a little stooping, his gait halt- ing, his hair sprinkled with gray, suffering greatly from wretched old wounds, poor, obliged to ask for pension, which he did without as long as he could, but when the weakness and suffering came he felt that he deserved just a little help. Gen. Howard added: “My last visit to Gettysburg, taken in connection with the friendly intercourse with representative men opposed to us on that ground, changed my attitude, if not my conviction of right, toward the confederates who fought us. I was looking into Longstreet’s face, while Sickles was leaning, supported by his crutches, against an enormous rock. When I said something concerning the commands of duty Gen. Longstreet answered me, re- flectivel, ‘We must be guided by the light within us. I have tried all along to stand firm to my conviction of duty, according to the light I have had.'"" Gen. Howard then said: “The southern volunteer was educated in certain political doctrines and certain interpretations of the Constitution, and was bred in the heart of slavery. We did not allow him to follow the logic of his convictions, because they led to the destruction of the Union.’ Gen. Howard said he had compared notes with a prominent confederate leader, and that they had come together, uncon- sciously, no doubt, and now were agreed that the war was necessary to root out slavery. The speech. of Gen. Joseph Wheeler of Alabama, which followed, was almost wholly historical, and gave In detail the military facts of the battle of Chicka- mauga. He showed by statistics how few of the great battles of the world had equaled this one in the number of soldiers engaged or in the lists of Killed and wounded. Gen. Willard Warner of Chattanooga was the next speaker who addressed the gath- ering. inter- Naval Orders. Lieut. N. J. Halpine has been ordered to Boston to undergo medical survey; Passed Assistant Surgeon P. H. Bryant, from the Baltimore to the Petrel; Lieut. G. W. Brown is assigned to the recelving ship Richmond; Lieut. C. F. Norton discharged from the Mare Island Hospital and placed on waiting orders; Lieut. W. B. Fletcher, from the At- lanta to the Alliance; Ensign H. P. Jones, from the Atlanta to the Lancaster; Ensign George W. Willlams, from the Alliance, and granted three months’ leave; Ensign J. H. Dayton, from the Alliance, and granted three months’ leave; Ensign P. Symington, from the Atlanta to the Alliance; Lieut. D. L. Wilson, ordered to the Washington navy yard to undergo medical survey; Ensign A. Rust, to the Boston; Lieut. H. A. Field, orders detaching him from the Amphitrite are revoked; Assistant Paymaster John Ir- win, to instruction on the Vermont; Passed Assistant Engineer W. H. Chambers to duty at the New York navy yard; Passed Assistant Engineer W. M. Parks, from duty at Norfolk and ordered to Newport News. Assistant Engineer N. P. Peugnet’s resig- nation has been accepted. ‘raphy; P. W. Robertson, bookkeeping; (BUSINESS HIGH Opened Next Monday in the It Will Be ‘ New Building, i Better Quarters Than Ever—Changes im the Teaching Force—Sanitary Conditions All Right. The Business High School will be opened for the reception of pupils next Monday. Some question has been raised whether the new home of this institution, the old Dis- trict building on 1st street, would be ready for occupancy on the date of the opening of the public schools, but Principal Davis told a Star reporter this morning that there was no longer any doubt, if, indeed, there had ever been any, that the school Would be in perfect readiness on the ap- Pointed day. He further stated that all questions as to the sanitary condition of the school buliding have been set at rest, and that the place is in perfect condition. “The new home of the school,” he added, “Is far superior to the old building. There is 40 per cent more room, and there will be 100 per cent more comfort. The build- ing has been entirely remodeled on the interior, and has been plastered, painted and varnished throughout. The sanitary condition is excellent.” ~ The building now contains eighteen rooms, fourteen of which are class rooms, The others are a drill hall, a typewriting room, a drawing room and a calisthenic room. The building is heated thro.ghout by steam, and is well lighted. Each win- dow has an awning. There is a double stairway in the front and another in the rear, and ample cloak room space has been provided. The Reception of Pupils. The building will be ready for the re- ception of pupils Monday morning. Pupils entering the second year will report at 9 o'clock, and those entering the first year at 10. Pupils from other than public schools desiring to enter the Business High School will be exanfined at 9 o'clock Mon- day morning at the Central High School, while conditioned pupils will be examined at the Business High School at the same hour. There will be a teachers’ meeting at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the build- ing, and Principal Davis will be at his of- fice from 8 o'clock until 10 tomorrow morn: ing, and from 4 to 6 tomorrow afternoon, to give information to all comers. The Teaching Force. There are some charges in the teaching force this year. Two of the teachers, Mr. John Stearns and Miss Maud Watson, have resigned, and Mr. Ralph R. Upton, teacher of bookkeeping, has been transferred to the Central High School as an assistant to the teacher of Latin. To replace these teachers and to keep pace with the growth of the school, five rew names have been added to the lst of instructors, as follows: Mr. Colyer Meri- wether, English; Miss Anne L. Harman, shorthand; Miss Hester E. McNelly, Eng- lish; Miss Mary J. Gibson, bookkeeping, and Miss A. S. Hazelton, bookkeeping. The other teachers of the schools are: Allan Davis, principal; Louisé Connelly, English; Florence Baldwin, shorthand; A. M. Gra- bam, commercial law and commercial geog- Clark, English; J. Cs Butler, English; E: ma_K. Culver, shorthand; F, EB. Throck- mofrton, arithmetic; Ada E. Snyder, type- writing, and Ernest L. Thurston, arithme- tic. ‘There has been no change in the studies of the schools except possibly in the second- year course, in which pupils may be given an option between shorthand and book- keeping. Smaller Classes and Better Work. There will be fourteen sections, an in- crease of two from last year, ten being for the first-year classes, and four for the second year. They will be somewhat snfaller thin last year, and this will enable the teachers to do better individual work. There were 460 pupils last year by the end of September and Principal Davis con- fidently expects the number to reach [0 by the same time this year. He says that the building and the teaching force are sufficiently large to care for this number easily. It will be -he high-water mark in the history of the school, which was organ- ized as_a separate high school five years ago. The first classes in distinctively bust- ness training were organized in the High School thirteen or fourteen years ago, aud the present Business High School is the result cf those early, efforts. It has shifted about considerably Since it was organized as a separate institution, having first oc- cupied the old Thompson building on-12th street, where, curiously enough, the late Principal Paul started the High School system with a few classes of boys. The Business School then went to the Franklin building, thence to the Miner, now the subject of controversy between the Com- missioners and a citizens’ essociation, and it is now located in the best and largest of all its homes, the old municipal office. —_———_. THE GOOD SAMARITANS. A Meeting Last Night of the District Grand Lodge. The District Grand Lodge of the Inde- pendent Order of Good Samaritans and Daughters of Samaria held its ‘first meet- ing since the closing of the annual national convention of the society in their reoms in the colored Odd Fellows’ Hall, on M street between 16th and 17th streets northwest, last evenirg. There was quite a large at- tendance, for the reason that it was ex- pected that the delegates from tlre local assemblies to the convocation would sub- mit their reports of the proceedings of the National Grand Lodge relative to certain matters that involve the interests of the District people. These delegates, who are J. M. Washington, J. I. Loving and Mrs. Martha Burnett, did not present the report, for the reason that they had not had time to arrange it, the convention having closed only during the past week. This was some- what of a disappointment to the members of the District Grand Lodge, as it was hoped by many of them that the question of the payment by Eureka Lodge of the sum of fifty dollars to the widow of one of its members would be brought up and defi- nitely dispcsed of. This lodge claims to have already paid the amount, but were ordered quite a while ago to pay it, regard- Jess of this claim. The matter was taken up by the convention and caused a great rumpus among the delegates. It was hotly contested by both sides, but the convention finally ordered that the money be paid to the widow. The Eureka people say they will have scrrething to say about the affair when the report of the delegates from the District is read, and a warm time is ex- pected when the matter will have been brought up at the next meeting. ‘The meeting last night was principally devoted to the reception of the national grand sire, Charles H. Marshall; the na- tional grand treasurer, R. J. Holmes, and the associate to the vice national grand sire, Mrs. B. Harrison. These were re- ceived with all the honors of the order, and the reception was followed by speech mak- ing. ‘ National Grand Sire Marshall urged the unification of the order, and spoke strongly in favor of a general enlargement of the boundaries, both in the United States and Canada. The grand sire was followed by Thomas W. Chase, past deputy grand chief; M. H. Hunter, past grand chief; H. H. Turner, past grand chief, and J. M. Washington, District grand chief, all of whom spoke in about the same strain. — C.ming Here to Protest. John Sowers, a native of Virginia and a sugar planter, who was arrested in Havana and thrown into prison, left Port Tampa, Fla., last night for Washington to enter a protest against the action of the Spanish authorities. He said he had no idea as to the reason for his arrest, and declared himself perfectly innocent of any violation of the laws. He declares he will never return to Cuba while the island is under the Spanish flag, and hopes to make speedy arrangements for his wife and four children to follow him to this country. so ‘Two Moonshiners Shot Down. John and James Howard, two desperate moonshiners of Knott county, Ky., had a pitched battle with revenue officers Wednes- day. The Howard brothers were mortally wounded, while Deputy Marshal Ingraham was shot. The Howards have defied the revenue men for years, and a few weeks ago they tried to kill Revenue Agent Collyer and his posse. SOHOOL THE: WALLER CASES eer Disonssed by the- Colored Pastors of ‘the M. Ey Conference, AIS COUNSEL EXPLAINS THE AFFAIR Pins e are Routine Reports'for the Year Heard OTHER PROCEEDINGS Today's session of the Washington con- ference of the M:®. Church was marked by @ much larger attendance than at previous meetings. The conference assembled, as usual, in Asbury M.E. Church, on K street, with Rev. W. H. Brooks, presiding elder of the district, in the chair. The most im- portant business of the day was brought up on a motion inviting John M. Langston to appear before the conference and explain the situation with regard to. ex-Consul Waller, whose arrest, conviction and im- prisonmént in France have been made a subject of international inquiry and dis- pute. By some inadvertence the invitation did not reach Mr. Langston, but by acci- dent he happened to be present during the hour given to discussion of the topic of “Benevolent Collections; Their Importance, and How to Take Them.” The Waller Case. rs Mr. Langston said he was very grateful for an opportunity to speak before the con- ference in behalf of a brother black man whose lot had fallen in such hard lines. There could be no question of the injustice of Mr. Waller’s sentence to imprisonment for twenty years, and the case was one which colored men would watch with a deep interest. Necessarily, as a matter of diplomacy, a long interval must pass before Mr. Waller would be released. In that in- terval his wife and four children were desti- tute. In no better way could the topic of the morning be illustrated than by a prac- tical act of benevolence in providing to some degree for this destitute family. The President of the United States promptly acted in behalf of Mrs. Waller and her children when the case was called to his attention. Coming as Witnesses. An American in Madagascar had provided means to enable the family to reach Port Louis, on the coast, and President. Cleve- land had ordered that they be brought home to the United States by way of France, where Mrs, Waller hoped to be able to see her husband. The family were being brought home as witnesses in the proceedings for Waller’s release, and they were expected to arrive in the United States about the Ist of October. When they arrive her2 they will be destitute, and Mr. Waller's attorneys had provided that all who desired to aid the family could de- posit contributions with Riggs & Co., to be placed in a fund subject to Mra. Waller’s order. Several members of the conference rose to suggest motions-in regard to the Wal- ler matter, but the chairman postponed consideration of ittumtil a later session. Yearly’Reports, During the morning ¥eports were made by exhorters, by class tédiers and church stew- ards. The exhorter§ and class leaders made an interesting showing of the religious life and growth of the ‘Various churches and spoke earnestly for the prospect of greater and more encovraginé work in the future. The stewards were called upon for state ments in regard to té finances of their vari- ous churches. As there were many churches to hear from, much time was necessarily oc- cupted in hearing tWese reports. As a rule, they showed a healthful financial condition of the churches and a generous willingness on part of membersito give for church sup- pert. Almost withoutsexception the reports spoke of better times #head and larger con- tributions for church purposes. Upor the topi¢‘of church ‘benevolence Rev. S. A. Lewis, Rev. Benjamin Myers and Rev. W. R. Wilsor made brief addresses. Finance Committee. At the afternoon session yesterday de- votional exercises were participated in by Rev. D. D. Johnson. Rev. Benjamin Mey- ers, R. H. Alexander, A. W. Brooks and John O. Clark were appointed a committee to collect the finances due the district con- ference. Reports of pastors on the work of the year were heard. In the evening the exercises consisted of sermon by Rev. Thomas H. Brooks on “Consecration as an Element of Success in Christian Work.” Feliowing the sermon, the subjects of “City Missions” and “Church Exiension’’ were discussed by Rev. W. R. Davis and Mr. E. S, Atkinson. —_——__ FASHION KEEPS UP TRADE. Desire of Women to Be in the Style Unaffected by Hard or Dull Times. No matter how hard the times may become or how much the business barometer may be depressed, the great body of women must bow to the goddess they so fervently adore in the person of Dame Fashion and continue to contribute to her insatiable and expen- sive appetite. This fact was brought out in a forcible manner tcday in the course of a chat a Star reporter had with Mr. A. Lisner of the Palais Royfl. Mr. Lisner was asked what the indications were for fall trade. With the characteristic prudence which has had so much to do with shaping his suc- cessful mercantile career Mr. Lisner said he did not care to discuss the general subject of trade prospects. “There are so many different points of view from which the future may be regarded that I have neither the time nor the inclina- tion now to go into the consideration of the matter. as it should be treated,” said Mr. Lisner. “So far as my own business is con- cerned, however, I have no hesitancy in saying that I expect to enjoy the same good trade the comirg fall and winter and spring that I always have enjoyed during the fashionable seasons heretofore. “You see, I cater almost exclusively to the wants and necessities of women, and my experience has taught me—and es- pecially in the past two years—that no mat- ter how dull and depressed the times may be, women feel that they must keep abreast .of the fashion and the changing styles it is ever deoreeing. “The reason is not far to seek, either,” continued Mr. Lisner; ‘a woman who fs not in the style or something closely approach- ing {t might as well be out of the world in her own estimation. Consequently in order to present an appearance satisfactory to herself she will make sacrifices, If needs be, in other directions. During the past two years, when ‘the depression was 80 great and general, I preserved my normal trade, and I attribute it to the reasons I have given you—that I sell to women al- Most exclusively, ‘atid women buy what style and fashion ‘dittate and demand, de- spite the fact that fhe times are hard or easy.” . 5 The Coming Road Congress, The coming roa@scongress, to be held in Atlanta the Vth, ‘4gth and 19th of October, will attract & goog.,deal of attention from all parts of the country. An extensive and comprehensive program has been arranged for the different day; and invitations have been urged upon all state highway com- missions, state and.local tmprovement as- sociations, commencial bodies and boards of trade, together with all minor leagues and societies interested in this vital question. The meeting will be held in the Hall of Representatives at Atlanta, and the repre- sentatives of the Agricultural Department will be Mr. Samuel C. Neely, assistant en- gineer, and Gen. Roy Stone, chief of the road inquiry department. Invitations have also been issued by the department to road-constructing companies and other bodies engaged in the practical business of roadmaking to attend the con- ference. It is also desired that such com- panies send exhibits of material and work to the meeting, and those who desire will be given a chance to engage in the series of road-building experiments which will be inaugurated during the conference. The Department of Agriculture will have exhib- its in road construction, including the Tel- lord and macadam plans, the roads forming @ permanent part of the exposition grounds. Meeting of the Washington and George- town Stockholders. The Consolidation With the Chase Road Will Soon Be a: Chevy Accomplished Fact. A meeting of the stockholders of the Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company, called for the purpose of con- sidering and ratifying the agreement re- cently entered into by President Dun- lop on behalf of the company, and Presi- dent Newlands on behalf of the Rock Creek and Chevy CHase Railway Com- pany, hy which the latter organization is to become the Capital Traction Company, which shall combine the two roads under the one ownership with a capital of $12,- 000,000, will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock at the power house on 14th and E streets northwest.- The details of the consolidation are famifiar to the Wash- ington public, and need no more than a passing reference here. Under an act of Congress, passed at the last session, the Rock Creek and Chevy Chase Company was authorized to lease or purchase any road with which it in‘er- sected and was also authorized to increase its stock to an amount necessary to ac- complish such a purpose. The bill turther ‘provided that the company miglt change its name to the Capital Traction Company. Under the provisions of the agreement $10,650,000 in stock of the Capital Trac- tion Company are to be paid to the stock- holders and bondliolders of the Washing- ton and Georgetown Railroad Company, $8,000,000 of which will be paid to the bond- holders for the $4,000,000 worth of first, second and third mortgage securities they now hold. In financial circles today no doubt was expressed as to the formal rat- ification of the agreement at tomorrow's meeting, as the stockholders have alreacy signed to that effect almost without a single exception. —— TO CALL DR. TALMAGE. The Brooklyn Divine to Be Formally Invited to Dr. Sunderland's Church. At a meeting of the principal officers and members of the First Presbyterian Church last night it was decided that there should be a meeting of the congregation of the church next Monday evening to decide for- mally upon the question of calling Dr. Talmage of Brooklyn to tpis city to act as co-pastor with Dr. Sunderland. This is th first step toward an official settlement of this matter. All the moves that have been made up to this time have been pure- ly preliminary and unofficial, consisting mainly in efforts to ascertain how Dr. Tal- mage felt on the question. Dr. Sunder- land has now received assurances from the eminent Brooklyn preacher, it is said, that the latter would accept a formal call from the congregation, and the only way to reach that result, that is so fondly de- sired by members of the church, is to have the congregation assemble and pass a motion calling Dr. Talmage. Dr. Sun- derland states that no salary was men- tioned in the call sent to Dr. Talmage, as it was understood that that matter would be left entirely to the trustees of the church after Dr. Talmage has come here. Rev. Mr. Alien to Remain. It is intimated that Dr. Talmage is will- ing to come upon this uncertain footing, as he is confident that a satisfactory ar- rangement as to money matters can be reached between him and the trustees. Dr. Sunderland also states, that there is no idea that Rev. Adolos Allen, the present co-pastor of the church, will retire from his position. It is understood to be the wish of Dr. Talmage that Mr. Allen should remain. The latter was at the meet- ing held last night and Stated the em- barrassment that he had felt arising from the statements that have been made rela- tive to Dr. Talmage’s possible acceptance of the call from the First Church. It is understood that he expressed a desire to be informed as to the wishes of the officers of the church respecting his continuation in the service of the congregation, and that he was assured by those present that there was no desire for him to cease in his re- lations to the church. If this is carried out the church will be provided with the un- usual number of three pastors of equal position working together, an equipment that no other church in this city and per- haps no other in America is today given by its congregation. No Resignations Contemplated. The present arrangement, it Is stated, do3s rot contemplate the resignation of Dr. Sunderland, but the intimation is given in some querters that perhaps Dr. Sun- Gerland will find his way clear to a resig- nation after Dr. Talmage has come to this city, and has become fully installed. It is, beycnd a doubt, his desire to retire from the active leadership of the congregativn, but this has been steadily resisted by the members of the church. The approval of the presbytery of Wash- ington will be necessdry before the acces- sion of Dr. Talmage to the pulpit of the First Church can be realized, but this is regarded by the members of the church as a mere matter of form. —_—____ CARRIED A CHURCH AWAY, ally Thirty Buildings Demolished by a Cyclone. A terrible cyclone which swept over Door county, Wis., peninsula Wednesday, de- molished fully thirty buildings. The principal losses were syffered by farm- ers. At Clay Banks the large Shiloh church was twisted from its foundation, lifted bodily into the air and dumped bot- tom up several rods from its foundation. It is a mass of bricks, stone and lumber and has no semblance of a building. For a distance of two miles the cyclone cut a swath through timber and across farms, leveling everything before it. No one was killed, and only two persons are known to have been hurt. —___ --+e+____ Fatally Burned by Oil. One man was fatally burned by an ex- plosion at the oil works, 49th street and Gray's Ferry .road, Philadelphia, yesterday, and the plant was damaged by fire to the extent of about $45,000. The burned. man was Michael Murphy, fireman at the works. The plant consisted of a boiler house, cooper shop, two sti#ls and about a Gozen receiving and storage tanks, filled with thousands of gallons of gasoline and benzine. The fire- men had a hard fight before the flames were gotten under control. Origin un- known. = oe — Take No Substitute. Gail Borden Eagle Brand e——_CONDENSED MILE Has slways stood FIRST in the estima- tion of the American’ People. "No other is “*just as good.” Best Infant Food. MS GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING cleaned by our special process looks like new again—as if just from the tailor. SOILED CURTAINS ofany kind sent to us will be returned bright and fresh, and intact. BLANKETS ought to be renovated now. Our process whitens and softens, ‘but does not shrink them. ALL OTHER FABRICS CLEAWED | A.F, BORNOT 03 @ Street, N. W. Punishment for the Massacre of Mis- sionaries. A cablegram to the New York World from Foo Chow, China, says: Details of Tuesday's executions have just been re- ceived. After the mandarins had refused on Friday to execute any men implicated in the missionary massacres, the American and British consuls wired to Peking. On Monday thé mandarins received the vice- roy’s order to execute seven men. At 6 o'clock Tuesday morning Consul Hixson, Lieut. Evans and Mr. Gregory, the British consul, proceeded to Yamen Gate, where the two mandarins sat awaiting them. When the foreigners touk their seats the drums were beaten, a salute fired and the crler shouted three times: “The court ig_open.” Then the condemned men were brought speedily from their cells. They knelt be- fore the court aud were tumbled, securely bound, into bamboo cages, on which were attached pieces of paper with the sentence written on them. The mandarins then put on their scarlet robes, scarlet hoods, and the death pro- cession started for the execution grounds, outside of the city, between lines of sol- diers. When the procession arrived the con- demned men were tumbled out and made to kneel with their backs to the man- darins. Then the five headsmen began their bloody work. The first head fell clean cut. When the heads of the seven men were cut off the vast crowd gave a great shout. The people clapped their hands and de- parted. The heads were hung in a prominent place in the clty as a warning. The mandarins professed to fear trouble from the crowd of foreignars, who went armed with revolvers, but there was no seeuthe No leaders have been executed as yet. = Some leaders with strong backing hope to escape. The viceroy is delaying the execution of ‘he others, hoping for an undescrved clem- ency. Punishment following the crime so soon is unusual after foreign troubles. The execution will have a good effect in showing the people that the. matter is seri- ous. -Bad feeling was spreading through the spouts because of the delays in execu- ion. At Foo Chow the common talk was that the men would escape. The consuls wiring to Peking for stringent orders to local offi- clals, who do nothing unless forced, re- —— oS prompt action. e troit is still here and one English gunboat of 756 tons. ———--o+____ To Perfect Title. Mary A. Mcore today filed a bill in equity against Dennis Tinney and Sarah J. Henson to remove cloud on her title to 4.05 acres of lend on Hamilton road at its intersection with Staunton avenue. ——__ Escaped a Life Imprisonment. Yesterday was “opjnion” day in the Vir- ginia supreme court of appeals. Stover, an old man, a few months ago was convicted of the theft of 37 1-2 cents’ worth of bacon. It appeared on trial in the hustings court that the prisoner had been previously four times convicted and sentenced for petty larceny, and that he had also been twice convicted and confined in the penitentiary. All the prisoner’s thefts, however, were petty larcenies. Under the Virginia code there is affixed accumulative punishment, and upon being convicted of the theft of the bacon, Judge Charles Grattan sen- tenced Stover to a life term in the peniten- tlary. The result of yesterday’s opinion of the appellate court Is that Stover gets only one year imprisonment. The Rebekah Code. The most important subject considered by the Sovereign Grand Lodge, L.0.0.F., at Atlantic City yesterday was the proposition to repeal the eligibility clause of the Re- bekah code of laws which makes eligible to membership all married white women of good moral character, eighteen years of age and upward. An amendment to the effect was presented and referred to the properscommittee, which committee re- ported it inexpedient to act upon the prepo- sition. Upon consideration of the report of the committee by the lodge, the proposed amendment was renewed, and some strong eeches pro and con were made. Upon a vote being taken, the amendment was de- feated, and the report of the committee adopted. This leaves the law precisely the same as heretofore. EXPLAINED. Qonfidence in Their Preduct Led the Shakers to Make an Unusnal Offer. People of this day and generation are not disposed to give things away. When therefore the Mount Lebanon Shakers recently, stated that any one could get a bottle of Digestive Cordial by calling in per- son at their New York office it excited a great deal of talk. One of the leading daities of the Metropolis sent a reporter to find cut what was meant. It devel- oped that the preparation in question has proven beneficial 1m so large a majority of cases that nine- tenths of the people who are sufficiently anxious to call for @ sample find so much relief that they con tine the product's use and tell their friends about it. Asa result a very large demand has been cre- ated. ‘The Shakers have a long record of success as in- ventors and their various medicinal products have always enjoyed a high reputation. The Digestive Cordial is not only nourishing in itself, but it di- gests other foods when taken as directed. Sleepless nights, spots before the eyes and a sense of heaviness after eating, loss of weight and general weakness are among the common symptoms of in- digestion which it promptly relieves, and it ts grat- ifying to know that such a positive and harmless remedy as the Digestive Cordial should have at last been devised. = In order to find whetiver the Shaker Digestive Cor- dial is adapted to your case try a small bottle. Its effect is immediate. For sale by nearly all drug- sel? SSS GOSS 880882 a lhe facts are Sin front of you. There’s our new build- ing going up on the cor- ner of I street, and you might know we won't carry any of our present stock into it when it’s done. THAT’S BEING SAC- RIFICED RIGHT HERE. No waiting until the season is over—but cut right now. Good time for you to start to housekeeping. Best time in the world for those Who are house- keeping to refurnish. Our present prices "Il show how much in earnest we are. You never saw the equal of such offers as we are making. oe Furntt Grockel} Ware, Cut | Girma | Seer meer” to the Mattings, | Fancy Lamps, Core. | Retrigerators,| Bric-a Brac. A reduction—and credit, too. What do you say to that? . |@ House & Herrmann, The Leading Housefarnishers, 917, 919, 921 AND 923 7TH ST. sel4-844 636 MASS. AVE. SSSGS8 6060 GOS S9SSSS00S80965906969 202609008 OSSSSSSSSS5OSS 906000006 080080 S200 THE AGREEMENT | T8@SPAv’s CHINESE EXECUTIONS. ASTHMA 18 CURABLE Many Who Called Yesterday at Tschiffely’s Drug Store Already Tese tify to This. If there was doubt in the mind of any safferer from Asthma in this city as to the trath of the claims made for Dr. Schiffmann’s Asthma Cure that doubt no longer remains, providing he was among the many who called at F. A. Tschiffely, Jr.'s, drug store yesterday and obtained a sam Package free. Although many who availed them- selves of this Physician's offer have not as yot had occasion to test the free sample obtained, yet a great number who have already tried the same most unbesitatingly declare in positive terms that relief was Immediate; that the wretched spasms were checked; that free expectoration was Induced; that a reclining position was readily as- sumed and gratefully maintained; that the sleep which followed was restful and unbroken and that the morning brought a clear head 4nd a feeling of delighted thankfulness which no words are too strong to describe. It is not pretended that a cure follows the use of the sample. Asthma and its Kindred ailments are an-ong the most stubborn known to science. But it is asserted positively, and testi- fied to by thousands, that a consistent and perse- verant use of Dr. Schiffmann’s Asthma Cure will not only produce instant relief, "but will effectually banish the trouble. This remedy is now :n the hands of most druggists in the United States and is sold in packages at 50 cents and $1.00—thus bring- ing it within the reach of all. No more free sam- ples can be obtained, as the Doctor now announces to the public that he will refund the money to any person who, having purchased a package of his Druggist, finds on giving it a fair trial that it does BED R SU Cin wide—Sulte cannot duplicated for iess than $150—reduced this week to ‘One elaborate Soll Oak Salte—hedste ‘and dresser richly carv- ed—imme nse ittern ite mirror—a ite = every de- trom. $200 resser unusual! and fitted wit! Frencl 819-S21-823 7th wt. n.w.. bet." fH" and T ots. sel6-84d < DR. EDISON'S FAMOUS OBESITY PILLS, SALT AND BANDS TAKE OFF A POUND A DAY. DR. EDISON'S OBESITY FRUIT SALT TAKES OFF FAT AND I8 4 DELIGHTFUL, CEAM- PAGNE-LIKE, HEALTHFUL SUM- MER BEVERAGE. If you are fat it will pay you to read what a few well-known people say below: ‘Dr. Edison's Obesity treatment will reduce a fleshy abdomen, neck, bust, chin or face, or \ders, or hips, without ‘rednc- tion where there is no surplus fat. The skin con- tracts to its normal tension and covers the parts without wrinkles.”"—Mrs, Lucy Stone Menard in Woman's World. Mrs. Honorla Calfant Wayne, writing from the Treasury Department, says: “Dr. Edison's Obesity Pilis, Salt and Band ‘reduced my weight 19 pounda in three weeks and cured me of kidney trouble.” ‘Mrs, Zelma Thomson Sprague writes thus from her residence on F street: “In six weeks Dr. Edl- Th M sister, Mrs. Tillie Vanderlip Spr » of G 4 town, used Dr. Ecigon's Pills, Salt and Band for pounds in five fat people and was reduced 31 recks."* weeks. Eliza Chelton Sterling writes from the Woman's Club of Washington: “Dr. Edison's Obesity Pills and Salt reduced my too fat shoulders and bust, re- Leving me of 26 pounds and making me quite ‘well and gracefal appearing in less than a month." Capt. “Henry Caton, with the Post’ Office Department, writes: “I took Dr. Edi- son's Pills and Salt and’ they reduced me 38 pounds ina month and a balf.”” Mrs. Col, Stanton, Georgetown, writes: “I took Dr, Edison's Obesity Salt and Pills for six weeks aud they reduced my welght 25 pounds and cleared mg_ complexion.”” Major Gathright, one of the best known reunain- ing old-time military men, writes: “I had my nb- dominal measurement rediiced 9 inches by wearing an Edison Obesity Band four and one-half weeks, Mis. Helen Wandall Sturgess, writing from her residence on F street, says: “Dr. Eilisou’s ty. Band bas reduced my welght 21 pounds and cured me of kidney troubles. Dr. Edison's Pills and Salt have cured my brother, Col. Wandall of the Department of State, of liver disease and reduced his weight 39 pounds in forty-three days.”” ‘Obesity aS $1.50 ~~ , Or three bottles for enough one treatment. Ovesity Fruit Salt is $1 a bottle. 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