Evening Star Newspaper, September 25, 1895, Page 11

The THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1895-TWELVE JReRhubarb | I 5 Is For S Dr. E. F. "Newton of 124 Hunting- fon avenue, Boston, Mass., writes as follows: “I think the formula of Ripans Tubules an .exceptionably good one and a good deal more to the point and better than many writ- ten by so-called very professional doctors, who claim that nothing is orthocox but their own. I am al- ways ready to get points from any sour :e.” eppermuint loes Nux Vomica Soda Dr. W. Coy of Boston writes as follows: “I am very much in sym- pathy with such a combination, and shall use them in my practice. I am in the habit of using such mixture with the Nux Vomica and Aloes omitted, but think the Tabules a de- cided improvement upon my combi- nation.” Ripans, 50¢. Box, All PAGES, Physicians of America —are the most trusted class of pro- fessional men in the world. The physician of a family is looked upon as its best friend. His advice is even sought in matters pertaining to other than medical things, but he is espe- cially entrusted with the duty of see- ing that the family is healthy and the children are properly nurtured. American physicans are, as a class, very conservative in putting the stamp of their approval upon any Medicine which comes under the head known as ready-made or patent preparations. The great responsi- bility which rests upon their shoul- ders leads them to investigate very carefully every remedy they admin- ister, to see that it is perfectly harm- less and will accomplish the desired results, and they cannot be too care- ful in this respect. The fact that the leading physicians of America have carefully examined the formula of Ripans Tabules and have pronounc- ed them the best remedy for indiges- tion, constipation, headache, dizzi- ness and other ailments of the stom- ach and bowels that could possibly be prescribed is the best argument in the world for their use. The formula of Ripans Tabules is public to all. It is good enough to show up before the ligitt of public criticism or com- mendation, and the immense sale of these Tabules and the great good they are doing shows that it has been “PUBLIC COMMENDATION.” We have many testimonials from the leading physicians of America, which are especially valuable and interest- ing because they are written by men who “live in medicine.” “I am indeed very much pleased with my experience with Ripans Tabules. I have a customer in Port- land, Me., to whom I gave a small vial to try. This customer had two physicians steadily for a long time, treating his wife for dyspepsia, and the Tabules were the only things that did any good.” Dr. Dam, Co- lumbus avenue, Boston, Mass. Druggists. THE GARBAGE MUDDLE. flow the Present Difficulty Hight Have Been Averted and What May Be Done. To the Editor of The Evening Star: I don’t wonder that the Commissioners attempt to keep secret their action in the garbage matter, for it has been so mud- died and mismanaged that they ought to be ashamed of it, if they are not. If they had done as suggested by the re- pert prepared by the committee of the board of trade, at the request of the Com- missioners in 1891, and at that time em- ployed competent parties to Investigate all existing systems for treating or disposing of garbage, in order that the national cap- ital might have the very best, and then had the law so amended as to give them absolute control of all garbage, of what- soever kind, dead animais included, so as to make it an object for the company to invest sufficient capital to erect a first- ¢lass plant outside cf the city or District, all this trouble and delay would have been averted, and long ere this a first-class and efficient garbage service would have been in operation. There Is no earthly reason why this could not or should not have been done. But, instead of that, four years have been allowed to pass before even a pretense of an Mhyestigation was made, and Not then until after a contract was made, without even knowing what system was to be adopted, whether burning or reduction, and, of course, when neither they nor the contractor could tell what the cost of the plant to be selected would be, for there is @ great difference in the cost of the plants Eecessary for the different systems, and also between different plants for the same system. I don’t see how any person could be in- @uced to sign a contract leaving it op- tional with the Commissioners to select any system or plant they might choose, and have the same built at the expense of the contractor, unless there 1s In the contract, or beyond it, something that would assure him an unreasonable profit to compensate him for taking such risks, Then, again, I cannot understand why they should select and insist on the incin- erating plan instead of the reduction sys- tem. It is far more expensive, because there {s no utilization of the waste matter, as there is in the reduction system. Under the plan selected {t is for the interest of the contractor to avoid gathering every pound he can, just as has been the case every summer under the present system, while under the reduction system it would be for the interest of the contractor to gather every particle, because there is profit in it. In this matter their action is as unex- plainable as was their action two years ago, in giving the present contractor 50 cents per ton for treating the garbage in- stead of shipping it out of the District, “when another company offered repeatedly to do the same gratis if given the privi- lege, and of which strange action no ex- planation has ever been given. If these things had been done In New York or Chicago the press of the country would have rung with charges of fraud and corruption, and, no doubt, investiga- tion would have been had. But as we are told that “this fs the best governed city in the world,” we are not to suppose there was fraud or corruption, though to the cr- inary citizen, who knows there can be no Tesult without a cause sufficient to produce it, these acts are very puzzling. He can- not rid his mind of the idea that there must te some hidden influences at work, and that the favored contractors must have a very strong “pull” of some kind. t 1s simply an outrage to establish any of these garbage plants, whether inciner- ating or reduction, in the city. I have no doubt that by the expenditure of a suffi- cient amount of money, and with the strictest possible management and super- vision of the work, it would be possible to build and run a garbage furnace that would not be a nulsance or injurious, but we know that those conditions will not ex- ist. Moreover, why spend money unneces- sarily? The District has need for every cent it can get, and more, too. For these reasons, I sincerely hope the citizens, not only of South Washington, but of all other portions, will be successful in their efforts to prevent the building of furnaces within the city. What the Commissioners Should Do, Is to stop where they are, get Congress at the coming session to provide for the establishment of a first-class reduction Plant outside of the city or District, ard throw it epen to the competition of the whole country, with a proviso that if a reasonable arrangement could not be ef- fected with responsible parties within a specified time then the District should itself do it. I would favor the latter plan in any event; for if ‘there is profit in the contract, as we know there is, or no contractor would seek it, why should not the citizens have the benefit of it? The law should also provide in detail for the manner of gathering the garbage, the kind of receptacles to be used, where lo- cated, hours for gathering, the kinds of carts or wagons used, and the means of conveyance from the city to the works. I would have all these matters <mbodied in a law of Congress, so they would be set- tled and fixed, and not, iike the building and police regulations, be changed every few months by the Commissioners withcut the knowledge of the citizens. By such means we would get a first-class garbage servica for all time, and which I do not believe we will ever get as the mat- ter is now being managed or mismanag2d. September 24, 1895. CITIZEN. Se Farewell to Henry P. Thomas, Rescue Lodge, No. 5, I. 9. G. T., met last Monday evening, and while much im- portant business was transacted, still the meeting was more of a receptton to the past chief templar of Rescue Lodge, Mr. Henry P. Thomas, whose many friends from Goodwill, Liberty, Washington, Co- lumbia and other lodges met to bid him God-speed on his trip to Chicago Wednes- day night and his future residence in that city. Resolutions were offered by P. C. T. W. T. Raley expressive of the esteem in which Mr. Thomas was held, and the re- gret at the parting from the lodge of its leader in every enterprise which had clings ing to it the most arduous work in the cause of temperance and morality. Remarks suitable to the occasion were made by Messrs. E. W. Libbey, C. W. Campbell, John J. McCann, Mrs. F. E. Miller, T. D. Schropp, and vocal solo by Miss’ Lizzie Mitchell and harmonica and plano duet by Messrs. C. H. Ketcham and A. W. Camp- bell. During the business session the resig- nations of Mr. W. T. Raley as chief temp- lar and Mr. Thomas D. Schropp as secre- tary were accepted, and Mr. Thomas D. Schropp was elected to fill the office of Cc. T., Miss Lula Hatton as R. 8. and I. 8. Taylor as F. S., and they were duly in- stalled in accordance with the law of the order by L. D. McCann of Goodwill Lodge. Mr. James J. Hayre also offered his resig- nation as L. D., action on which was de- ferred until next meeting. ——.—__ Youthfal Prisoners. There were nearly a dozen sma'l boys in the dock of the Police Court this morning, charged with all sorts of minor offenses. Boys of ten years of age are not able to put up a good story in their own behalf, and the result is they usually get the limit of the law, and the policemen who make the arrests get an addition to their records. One of these little fellows, named John Holmes, was charged with throwing a stone. It was not a serious case, only such an offense as every small boy becomes en- gaged in at some time in his life. In view of this, the judge’s heart softened and he imposed a fine of only $3. But there was no one to pay his fine, and John has gone down to the work house, where he will have to live for nine days in a striped suit. Robert Calloway, an eleven-year-old col- ored boy, was charged with vagrancy—“an idle, drunk and disorderly character.” The boy's mother testified that he was 2lways running away from home and was a very dischedient child. “Well, that hardly seems to me to bear out the charges in the information,” said Judge Kimball. “You had better get pa- pers on the United States side of the court charging the boy with incorrigibility, and then I ca1 send him to the reform school.” This was done, and the boy has gone down. — ‘Want the Estate Divided. On behalf of Allen Dodge and others, At- torney H. S. Mathews today filed a bill in equity against Henry H. Dodge and others for the sale and partition in part of lot 46, square 30, Georgetown, belonging to the es- tate of the late Francis Dodge. a Mrs. John Lane, who, as Mrs. Marilla Wakefield, was known in this city, died re- cently at her home in the state of Wash- ington. THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY. Subscriptions to Asbury Memorial Hall—Relies From Detroit. Registrar Osborn, in charge of the office of the American University in this city dur- ing the absence of the chancellor, Bishop Hurst, and of the vice chancellor, Dr. S. L. Beller, received some very gratifying news from Bishop Hurst this week. The bishop during last week and the week before pre- sided at two conferences of the Methodist Church in the state of Michigan. The Michigan conference has subscribed $4,000 to the fund for the Asbury Memorial Hall, and the Detroit conference $5,000 for the same purpose. Bishop Hurst is in northern Ohio this week, and is expected back to Washington next week. As soon as he re- turns some conferénces will be held by the trustees looking to the work to be done at the coming meeting of the board, which is to be held the 16th of October. Quite a number of architects are preparing plans for the university buildings, to be submitted in competition. The building committee will also get together a few days before the general board meeting, for the purpose of considering their report on the designs submitted, and also on the kind of stéhe to | be used. Vice Chancellor Beiler is traveling through the west with the same object in view as that of the bishop, but no word has been received in this city as to how suc- cessful his labors have been. In addition to the gifts of money received from the Michigan Methodists, several other articles have been recelyed from the De- troit conference this week of much interest to the friends of Methodism. Rey. John Wright has presented a copy of the original edition of “Butler's Analogy,” printed in 1786; the Rev. D. C. Challis has given an ancient coin from the city of Thyatira. An oblong piece of time-colored parchment, three inches by four, with a red seal of wax in the corner, is the donation of Mrs. Ware, and is the ordination certificate of her maternal grandfather, given by Bishop Francis Asbury in 1810.’ Another relic is from the Rev. E. J. Bate, and is the original proof sheets of Wesley's “Notes on the New Testament,” with the corrections in his own handwriting. Probably that which possesses the greatest interest for people is an old-fashioned latch taken from the vestry door of the Methodist Chapel at Bristol, the first ever built in England. Wesley used to preach in the chapel, and slept many a night within its walls. The latch was bought for the university by the ministers of the conference from a widow who wished to give something to a mission chapel in Detroit in which she is interested, but who was compelled to sell the relic as @ means of raising the needed amount. These articles belonging to and associated with the founders of Methodism, both in this country and in England, will be de- posited within the walls of the American University as soon as a proper place can be secured. ——__ He Could Not Remember. Richard Jackson, a small colored boy, was charged in the Police Court this morning with being a participant in a crap game which took place about the wharves August 12. He sald he was not there. “Jedge, I couldn't a done it, "cause I was out of town that day.” “Where were you? “I was down at Glymont, where there was a big ‘scursion.” “What day of the month was the excur- sion?” “T don’t 'zackly remember.’ What day of the week was it, then?” “ "Deed, I don’t ’zackly remember that neither. “Then how do you know you were at Glymont on the day you are charged with having played crap?” sald the judge se- verely. “You are fined $10,” —— Cruelty to Animals, Richard Dorsey, a colored cart driver, was before Judge Kimball this morning charged with cruelty to animals. He was caugat out near Lincoln Park yesterday, and the policeman testified that the mule Dorsey was driving had a shockingly sore back. Dorsey insisted that the mule did not be- long to him, but to another man, named James Griggs, who hired him as a driver. “Have a warrant issued against the other man, and I will try both cases together,” safd the judge, “and I will see if I can’t get at the facts in this case.” (Copyright, 1605, by Irving Bacheller.) (Continued from Tuesday’s Star.) CHAPTER III. It was an October evening nine years later: the woods had glowed in their red and yellow splendor all day long, the sun had set in a rivalry of glory, and now it Was getting so cool that a few logs were piled on the wide hearth and a fire kin- died. Ths pitch pine “sticks began to crackle, and to ooze at the ends, the blue smoke whirled upward in the huge draught of the chimney, and Nancy and Nellie, hav- ing cleared away the supper things, were seated in a small and in a big chair, side by side, face to the blaze. Nellie’s head leared against Nancy’s substantial knee; her silky hair, which showed some of the colors of the golden flame at which she was gazing, or of the maple leaves which she had gathered a great bunch of that after- ncon, shone in the flickering light with a lovely ragjance. Nancy sat back in her chair with her stout arms folded across her ample waist. Never was there an old maid who looked the conventional type less than she. She was rosy, dimpled, plump and cheery; yet she was not only a spinster of near fifty,but she had met with nothing but risfortune all her life. It is a marvel what some folks can thrive on! But Nancy had in her bosom the inno- cent and kindly child's heart which was born with her; she was as much a child as the Mttie girl beside her. Troubles could draw tears from her readily enough; but nothing could make her bitter or sullen. Her nature was of the summer quality, sometimes reverting to April, but never contracting into winter. Truly, she was not armed to contend with the artful and selfish world; yet the world could not hurt her. Her vital spots were beyond the world’s reach. Being of such a make, she and Nellie were full companions for each other. They were a pair of children. Things which to others would have been foolish and trivial interested them, and made the subject of their confidential talks. Each loved the scund of the other’s voice, and was secure in the other’s sympathy. It is wonderful what a mutual comprehension love gives:the reason is perhaps because it so simplifies and illuminates the ordinary confusion and ctscurity of ideas. We are ourselves the artificers of most of the riddles that per- plex us. “Nellie, you wouldn't have cared for me to marry that old Lawyer Corvin, would yeu, lovey?” said Nellie, prolonging a gutteral .,,""He’s horrid! You don’t have to, do you “No; but he asktd me this afternoon; she gave a chuckling little laugh. “I de. clare,I wonder What alled the man. He used to be spoonin’ aroutd ‘bout twenty or thirty years ago; but’ T'was young and smart then, and we was rich; and anyway, I was fancyin’ som'un ‘ete myself. So I said to him today, I says, ‘Whatever ails you, Mr. Cervin? T gu may be you used to want me for the sake’of'my money,’ I says; ‘but rew,’ I says, ‘you've got the money, and what under the ‘canopy would you be want- ing of me?” So F laughed. But I thought to myself, thinks 7, ‘Well, I guess I woudn’t marry a man that’ was the cause of my dear boy Tom gettin’ drowned,’ not to speak of what folks #afd’about my’ poor brother Matt; not that I b'lieve it was jest Mr. Cor- vin’s fault, you, Anoyi; but one feels things that way. I didy’t tell him that; it’s no use hurting folks’ feelin’s.” “What did he?4#¥? :“Well, he sort.o' come out, then; He says, ‘That's jest it,’.he says; ‘you ain't got no money, an’ I hate to have it that w what can I do? he eays. ‘Here I've been lendin’ you money these ten y i Nancy,’ he says, ‘on the s'curity land an’ cattle an’ stuff,’ he says; ‘an’ now you ain’t got nothin’ more to pledge, an’ I'll have to foreclose on that mortgage to- morrow,’ he says. ‘An’ what I thought was, Nancy, if you'd have me, it would make it all smooth and nice,’ he says, ‘for I was al'ays fond o’ you, you know; an’ now I've been a widower five year, an’ everythin’s ready for you, ef you'll come,’ he says. ‘An’ ef you don’t, upon my word, I don’t see how you're a-goin’ to get on anyway,” he says. “He hasn't got this house, though, has he?” asked the child. “No, lovey, he ain't; an’ that’s what I told him; an’ I said I'd starve in it sooner'n sell it, for it was Billops’ house ever sence "twas built, an’ I don’t consider I've any right to make way with it while I live. An’ I told him, may be the folks around would give me work to do; anyhow, marry I couldn’t. By'n by he said, ‘Well, I'm sorry to foreclose,’ he says; ‘but I can’t help It; I need some cash to put into a new invest- ment,’ he says; an’ then he went on to tell about a man had come to town with a new invention—some way of making crops grow with ‘lectricity, but I didn't understand how ‘twas. Mr. Corvin, he wanted to buy the stock of the invention, and had to have cash. So he said ef I wouldn’t marry him, and didn’t have the morey for the mort- gage tomorgow, why he'd be sorry, but he'd Jest be obliged to sell up the farm an’ fixin’s. So I said, ‘Well, ef you have to do it, sell away, Mr. Corvin,’ I says; ‘an’ don’t you bother ‘bout Nellie an’ me,’ I says; ‘I guess the Lord'll look out after us, some way;’ an’ then I told him I'd have to be gettin’ the dinner ready, an’ asked him would he stay? But he said no, an’ so off he went.” “Do you think the Lord will take us to heaven, now we have no money?” Nellie inquired. “Oh, well, I guess we'll get on all right down here for a spell yet, lovey,” Nancy replied, cheerfully. “I'll trot over to the village tomorrow, and see ef may be I can’t get somethin’ to do—cookin’ or sewin’, or such like. Qhere’s a good long bit be- “Whatever Ails You, Mr. Corvin’ tween you an’ me an’ starvin’, my pet; an’ we al'ays got the old house to live in, you know—thanks be!” Nellie made no rejoinder, and they sat silent.. The fire fell into red embers, on a cushion of white ash. The wind rose with- out. and the boughs of the great trees swept across the roof of the house with a swishing sound, as if caressing the vener- able building over which they had stood guard so long. How many generations of Billops had that soothing sound husned to sleep! Nancy was beginning to nod, when suddenly she felt Nellie start slightly, end saw that she had lifted her head and was Ustening intently. : “What is It, lovey? Rats?” “Music! whispered Nellie. don’t you hear?” Nancy uttered a faint cry and sat rigid. Music! It was unmistakable. At first a light and airy strain, rising and falling with the breeze, like the notes of an aeo- “There— Man harp. It was a fitful, undulating call, as of fairy minstrels signaling with elfin horns. But presently it assumed a meas- ured form; it gathered itself into a diatonic melody, warbling delectably. What made it? Where did it come from? After a mo- ment, Nellie jumped up, ran to the win- dow, and threw it open. In came the crisp, cold air; the stars sparkled; the music sounded more distinct, but still aerial and remote. It was impossible to determine whence it came. It sounded now here, now there. Sometimes it seemed to ema- nate from the listener's own heart. “Oh, isn’t it good! Oh, don't let it stop!” murmured Nellie, with groans of delight. But it did stop, almost as if out of con- trariness, A iast note swelled out, and went off in a diminuendo, and sank into silence. : “Oh, do-o let it play some more!” she sighed, as if the invisible orchestra, could be propitiated by entreaty. “Mammy, you ask ‘em!” Nancy had all this while remained in her chair, in a state of breathless agita- tion. She now managed to find a weak and quivering voice. “Come away from that window, child! Lovey, it’s ghosts, the same as used to be when your Uncle Matt was livin’. Oh, my sakes—what a turn it give me!” “Ghosts?” sald Nellie, stepping back from the window, in momentary dismay. But she recovered herself. “If ghosts can make such nice sounds as that, I like them.” “It n't play no more this time, once it stops,” said Nancy. “I rec’lect how’t used to be well enough! It ’ud play a bit, an’ then stop, an’ then ’times it "ud say some- “It’s Real True Gold.” thin’, and then you wouldn’t hear no more. That's how ‘twas when poor Matt was livin’, an’ I guess this is the same ghost.” “But did it ever do any harm to Uncle Matt? Didn’t he like it?” inquired the child. “I don’ know as he ever act’ly heard it himself; it "ud mostly come when I'd be alore, an’ he off on his bus’ness, som’ers. When I'd tell him about it, he'd look gr an’ then he'd say, ‘Well, Nance,’ he'd say, ‘mind you al’ays listen what it says,’ he'd say, ‘an’ whatever it says, mind you do it, for ghosts knows more'n we do,’ he'd say. All the same, it scared me aw- ful.” “Maybe it isn't ghosts, but fairles—good fairies—and they mean to do us good somehow. Didn't they do Uncle Matt good 1, I b’lieve he did sort of foller what they said, when I wasn’t too scared to recollect it, an’ he used to say, 'times, that the voices, as he called ‘em, was as good for his bus'ness 2s what a spellin’ book is for a child learnin’ to read. But all the same, I’m scared of what I can’t see, and don't know what it is; an’ al’ays thought it was them ghosts that carried poor Matt off, myster’ous like, at last.” “Maybe they'll bring him back again, then, and he'll make Mr. Corvin stop trou- bling us. Nancy shook her head. “Ghosts ts ghosts, lovey; they may be good or bad: but I never heard as they was able to pay folks" debts for ‘em. Ef they could do that I don’t say but what I * * * Sakes alive!” The cause of this ejaculation was not supernatural, but material. There was a heavy thump on the hearth, and the wood ashes flew out into the room. Some heavy object had fallen down the chimney, and struck amongst ithe smoldering embers. The next instant a light blaze broke out, burnt actively for a minute or so, and then died down, “Land sakes! it jest makes me sick! Must be a brick out of the chimney, I s’pose. But whet was that burned up so? It didn’t sound like a brick, neither.” Nellie picked up a thin stick, and poked among the ashes. “Why, mammy, {t's money a whole lot of it! she presently exclaimed. “It was done up i that’s what burnt.” ey “Money, child? You're crazy! What would money be doin’ in our old chimney?" “But it is money,” persisted Nellie, and with that she raked out a couple of ten- dcllar gold pieces. “Oh, do see—what a lot of ‘em!’ She continued raking out geld and silver coins, and brushing away the ashes. There were hundreds of them. ain't we mammy; yeu can pay Mr. Cor- vin tomorrow and make him go away,” said the child, looking up smiling with ex- citement and pleasure. Nancy, her simple soul rent between fear, curiosity and half incredulous oy, got down on her knees on the _hearti stone and picked up one of the gold pleces between her thumb and finger. Jest as sure’s you're n’ the same kind of coin poor Matt used to like to have about him. ‘Gold eagles don’t fly away as easy as other kinds,’ was what he used to say. Well, it don’t seem like it could be real, does it? "Tis, though, all the same! But I don’t know—may be the money ain’t jestly ours, a’ter all. We den’t know where it come from, an’ ef we was to use it and then som’un was to come along and say it was theirs, what'd we Why, mammy, who would ke@p money up our chimney, if it wasn’t ours?’ sald Nellie, with better sense than * grammar. She kept on raking treasure out of the em- bers with untroubled enjoyment. “Uncle Matt must have put ‘em there, and made *em fall down just when we wanted them.” “Hark!” cried Nancy. A whisper—a sigh—a voice, filling their ears, coming from they knew not where, slowly uttering speech, and dying away into silence. ' “For you, Nance—for you and her—pay the debt—pay the debt—your brother Matt sends it—pay the debt and free the land, and give me peace.” (To be continued on Thursday.) See Another Story by Anthony Hope. Readers of The Star who love good flc- tion have a-rare treat in store for them next Saturday, as The Star of that day will print, complete, a story from the pen of Anthony Hope. It is entitled, “The In- difference of the Miller of Hofbau,” and is a charming comedy of love, written in the style that has made Mr. Hope one of the most popular of modern story tellers. — By an error of types the other day the statement was made in The Star that Miss Halstead’s private school for girls and boys, at 1429 20th street, would open October 18, whereas it will be open for the reception of pupils and the resumption of work on the Ist of October. (ie _—|$Q). -style. GENERAL EVANS COMING. The Commander of the Atlantic Divi- sion of the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army of this city is mak- ing preparations to extend un elaborate welcome to the new brigadier general of the Atlantic division upon the occasion of hiis visit to Washington next Saturday. Brigadier General William Evans is the officer, and the Atlantic division comprises the District of Columbia and the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Vir- ginia, the Carolinas and New Jersey. A special program has been prepared for the Saturday night and Sunday morning services at Salvation Army Hall, which will irclude addresses, music by a band, cornet sclos and other interesting features. Briga- aier General Evans will also address the e1dience, and will relate some of his inter- esting experiences of work in this country. He has been in America for thirteen years in the service of the Salvation Army, and was a pioneer of the cause in the west, where he established posts at Chicago, Kansas City, St. Paul, St. Louis and other cities, Brigadier General Evans is coming to Washington to make arrangements for an extension of the work of the SalvationArmy here. He will enlarge tts fulness by adding to the facilities for carrying on the operations against the enemy. He has visited severa! citles on the Atlantic coast ard has established many new branches in exch place. Brigadier General Evans was. but recently appointed to his present billet, but has already distinguished himself, it is said, by meritorious conduct. In the ab- sence of Adjutant Wood, who is taking a Urief vacation, Capt. Dunlap and Capt. Masaland are in command here. —— TO FEAST WITHOUT MEATS. The Bill of Fare Arranged for a Hygienic Kaffe Klatsch. Dr. and Mrs. William Tindall will give a kaffe klatsch in the interest of hygienic diet at their residence, corner of California ave- nue and Columbia road, Washington Heights, next Friday from 2 to 8 p.m. There will also be an exhibit of health food pro- ducts, which will be of interest to those who are concerned in the question of healthful diet. A menu has been prepared which will demonstrate the variety of ways in which the vegetarian may have his food served and the excellence of its preparation. The bill of fare for this occasion is as follows: Gluten butter, cottage cheese; unfermented breads, rolls, puffs, gems, sticks and crisps; tcasts, banana, grape, peach; mushes, Gra- ham with dates, granola with peaches; gruel, lemon oatmeal; bran jelly; soups, fruit, peanut, peanut and tomato puree; sav- ary lentils; orange omelet, apple macaroni, frait and nut biscuit; fruit and nut drop cakes; fruit mince pie with Graham or grits crust; angel food; coffees, malt and caramel cereal; koumiss. Enjoyable Affair. Last evening the feast of Our Lady of Mercy was celebrated in a most delightful and enjoyable manner at the Home of the Sisters of Mercy, No. 222 North Capitol street. The large parlors were thrown open, and the friends of the sisters gath- ered in goodly numbers until the rooms were crowded to repletion, to listen to the excellent program that had been prepared for the occasion, and which was as follows: Miss Virginia Elliott, piano solo; vocal solo, Miss Dorsey Taylor; recitation, little Miss Rosy Lloyd; comic Irish songs, Mr. Fay; plano solo, Miss Stewart; recitation, Miss Mary Lloyd; comic Irish songs, Mr. Kane. Ice cream and cake were handed around after the exercises were over by the sisters. The sisters have given several of these little entertainments, and they have always been a success. et Making a Magazine. The mysteries and marvels of the mod- ern magazine were explained in an inter- esting manner to an appreciative audience at the National Rifles’ armory last night by Mr. Eugene M. Camp. Mr. Camp, who has been associated with Harper Brothers for a long time, is eminently well fitted to tell the story of how a magazine is made, and he did so last night in most excellent There was nothing tiresome about the intricate detail with which he explained the intellectual and mechanical methods that are ccmbined to make a great periodi- cal publication. The lecture, which was beautifully illustrated with’ stereopticon views, was preceded by an introduction by Gen. A. W. Greely and an exhibition of specimen manuscripts of well-known au- thors and original drawings by famous il- lustrators. ———— Shorthand and Prolixity. From the Chicazo Times-Herald, “The general employment of stenog- raphers and typewriters,” sald a business man, “has effected a great saving of time, but it has a tendency to develop prolixity. A man can dictate a page casier than he can write four sentences. In the days be- fore typewriters he would have expressed himself with much more credit and clear- ness in the four sentences. I am afraid the old-fashioned business letter, which was a model of compact expression, is passing awey.” Advices from Mojanga say that Gen. Duchesne has surprised 6,000 Hovas in the Tsmainoudry defile. The Hovas were routed, and eighty of them were killed. When a recipe calls for a cupful of lard or but- ter, use two-thirds of a cupful of Cottolene—the new vegetable shorten- ing—instead. It im- proves yourhealth, saves your money—a lesson in economy, too. Genuine Cottolene is sold everywhere in tins, with trade marks— “Cottolene” and steers head in cotton-plant wreath—on every tin. THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, CHICAGO and and 114 Commerce Street, Baltimore. 5 trunks. Wouldo't suppose a $8.25 Trunk would be good for much. You're. right; the $8.25 Trunk about town ts too frail for traveling purposes. ‘These are not $3.25 Trunks, although $3.25 1s what we're selling them for, $4.50 1s the right price. Others get $5 for them. Your mame on it and a ‘Trunk Strap free. the use of the Genuine Johana Hoff’s Malt Extract in the Impertal Household, and said: “It affords me Pleasure to decorate you with the Cros of Merit with the crov-2.” Beware of imitations. ‘The genuine Johann EISNER & MENDELSON Co., Agents, New York. ASK FOR THE GENUINE JOHANN HOFF’S MALT EXTRACT. S28 SB O86SSE09 6 Don’t 4 You Forget that there are no worth prices left on anything we've got in stock. Our “Removal Sale” is blind to seasonableness and everything else. We have spared nothing. The very things that are becoming necessities at home are cut just as much as any of the summer stock that’s left. We're positively clearing out everything in our five stores—and half dozen warehouses— BOOOSOSSHOOHOISSOSSO R FAN hk OFFICE FITTINGS— TRIC-A-BRAC. It’s a slaughter from ‘e- ginning to end — with credit, if you want it, thrown in. OOSSSOGO ~ House & Herrmann, © ‘The Leading Honsefarnishers, 917, 919, 921 AND 923 TIM ST. 8 se21-S4d 636 MASS. AVE. eS SSS6SS6 SE6ESE9 FLESH - REDUCED) DR. EDISON’S FAMOUS OBESITY PILLS, SALT AND BANDS TAKE OFF A POUND A DAY. QPOOOSSHDGHSOODIHSOODIOHHOSOGOOOO OOe DR. EDISON'S OBESITY FRUIT SALT TAXES OFF FAT AND IS A DELIGHTFUL, CHAM- PAGNE-LIKE, HEALTHFUL SUM- MER BEVERAGE. It you are fat it will pay you to read what a few well-known people say below: “Dr. Edison's Ob treatment will reece a fleshy abdomen, neck, bust, chin or face, or shoulders, or hips, witbout reduc- tion where there is no surplus fat. The skin con- tracts to its normal tension and covers the parts Without wrinkles.""—Ses. Lucy Stone Menzrd in Woman's World. = Mrs, Hovorla Calfant Wayne, writing fcom the Treasury Department, says: “Dr. Edison's Obesity Pills, Salt and Band ‘reduced my weight 19 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- son's Obesity Pills and Salt reduced me 40 ‘That is what the Edison remedies did for me. My sister, Mrs. Tillie Vanderllp Sprague, of Pilis, Bait and Band. for 81 pounds in town, used Dr. Edison's Pils fat people reduced five weeks.” Fliza Chelton Sterling writes from the Woman's Club of Washington: “Dr. Edison's Obesity Pills and Salt reduced my too fat shoulders aud bust, re- iieving me of 26 pounds and making me quite ‘well and gracefal appearing in less than a month,” capt. Henry Caton, long, connected with the itfice Department, writes: “I took Dr. Ell pounds P son's Pills and Sait and’ they reduced me 38 ina mouth and a half. 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