Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1895, Page 14

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Then, as Go'ding aivanced determinedly toward him, he seemed on the point of resisting, for it was the traveler's unmistakable intention to wrest the garment from him by force; but just as Golding came close to him Warren glanced at his wife, saw her ¢ irg quickly around the bed to int between them, and he calmly passed the vest to Golding. .ovk it ever, if you want to,” he said, indifferently. Golding snatched the garment and step- ped back a pace, keeping his eyes fixed fiercely upon Warren fer a moment. Then he hastily ran his fingers through the pockets, and the instant he lowered his eyes to his search Warren slipped some- thing that he had not dared to look at from his half-clenched hand to a fancy work catch-all hanging on the wall beside him. Golding did not notice this action, and it escaped Mrs. Warren's eyes, for at He Turned His Pockets Inside Out. the moment she was gazing tn wonder at the reler. followed Golding w n he had ptiy and made for the spare {she now stvod in the doorway, further trasedy. is is nonsense!’ cried Golding; “much gocd it will do me to hunt through Free- man’s pockets after you've had plenty of time to transfer its contents to your own pockets.” Warren returned his angry look with a contemptuous sm cu think to beat me!” snarled the traveler, as he threw the vest upon the floor, “and perhaps you will, but if [ had you the bush, or even out on your own road, you wouldn't defy me long.” Warren frowned and was about to speak when. Golding suddenly changed his tone and addressed Mrs. Warren. “I beg a thousand pardons, madam,” he said. “I am using language that I would not use if I could control my temper het- ter. Please do not be alarmed. I do rot intend to do your husband any violence. “It's well enough to talk that way,” 1 marked Warren, “but I should he ready te satisfy you if you wanted wrestle. My wife hasn't any fears for m: ” “interpcsed Mrs. Warren, s this mean?” he responded, “that this man claims a right to Freeman Dutton’s be- i and he accuses me of stealing ise yourself,” returned Gold- “You ing, “by coming in here secretly and going through Dutton’s clothing.” acc Aven't stirred since you came in, have Warren. stood still. I could see that. What of it?” “Look here,” and Mr. Warren turned the -ts of his clothes inside out one after the other, revealing only such miscellany as was unquestionably of nis own belong- ings. Golding made no motion to stop this process until every pocket had been turned. He looked on as greedily as if he really ex- pected to sce diamords produced by the handful. At length he said: “T came in in time. No one who under- stands th case would look for the—the property in Freeman's clothing, but this has brought about an understanding, at Te: You hoped to find them, didn’t you? You would h: been glad to lay hands on them. I teld you that nobody could with- stand the temptation.” Mr. Warren flushed and looked uncom- fertable for a moment. You've no right to say that,” he retort- ed, “but that’s what you think, I don’t so much care. You're welcome to your un- derstanding.’ How jong the quarrel might have contin- ued, or to what the conflicting tempers of the men might have brought them even in of Mrs. Warren and her daughter, it is needless to inquire; for at point they were interrupted by the al of Dr. Nason, who Will had found meward from a call in the vi- ‘anite post office, as the village omeftimes cailed to distinguish it from other crossroads communities in the same a middle-aged, quiet man e summer tourist i ty practice. He h what he f The doctor w: of whom more th: id that he di appeared to be cor in the woods, however, n the tances that lay between him and his pa- tients are considered, he had plenty to do. Wher he entered the spa ook hands cordially with both Warren, nodded to Golding. irectly to the bed. 1 him intently as he Not a hs cate hi his conclusions, and said: keep him here, doctor,” arren. replied the doctor, “a chance.” He cpened his medicine case and looked over the phius “What do you tor?” inquired Golding Dr. Nason looked at him ment and turned ¢ “He’s a very sick After some furthe ely _a_mo- medicines. a. of his ar- the sitting ute, please, Nick." itespesed. “I bee your pardon, ly, but firmly, * United si your pati he sald def re’s ngbody in th 3 who has so mt nt as J have. If the hi ios The doctor halted, and w to be meditat ; I mugt insist that I be allowed to shar> rest in re to intrude y husband a pe if you wish to speak s about right to know of h bedy has that rj “I will say to responded presently, every opportunity to know a! so far as my relation to it for I shall have to depend on for the present, at addressing Golding, that my purpose in ta “that you <ing “I have’ the would pass between yo Golding, with quiet pe man Dutton’s closest frie same r causes of his present s done here, dovto Iding's temper showed {self in a g of the voice at elesing wor I hardly needed to he told tha: Dr. Nason. “TI beg your pardo: didn't. “I spoke sim teres “It seems to m ren, speaking slow! of talk wasted here. me, doctor? This Just step into the sitting room.” He led the way, and Dr. Nason follow: with a slight bow to the others. When they kad gone, Golding turned to Mrs. ¥ n, “Madam,” he said, in a ple must appeal to you. I have offended your husband, and Iam very sorry for it. He and I will understand each other better bye and bye, but-I ask you now, as ore human being to another, let me be friend’s nurse. You don’t know how c we have been together. It would take da for me to tell you what he and I have « dured. We've cared for each other throu of co! how upied Mr. Wa hat there's a heap You want to speak to my house, I he my He Opened His Medicine Case. all the ills and privations that can fall to a man in the jungle, the desert, the wilder- nes far from trace of civili I ap- preciate what a woman's nursing would be, but he and I learned long years ago to do without that, and it will break my heart if, because I am a stranger here aid ha a hot, blundering temper, I find myself barred from my friend's room.” He paused an instant. Warren was standing with one trembling hand upon the footboard of the bed, and her eyes were filled with tears. Warren,” continued Golding more ea: iy, “and I have hunted for him so long and traveled so far to find him thus. Think of it! from two thousand miles into the continent of | nothing! Africa across the length and breadth of the Atlantic ocean I have come to this spot to find my friend struck down, rescued from certain death by your brave hands and now fighting the great and perhaps the last battle. Plead my case with your husband and the doctor, madam. Let me be his nurse.” Mrs. Warren was evidently moved by Golding’s eloquence. There was the ring of interse carnestness,if not ingenuous sin- cerity in his tones, and the situation was one that could not fail to appeal to a weman’s sympathies. So far as that was concerned Mrs. Warren's sympathies were ever sensitive to distress. She was the best loved woman in all Granite, and her kindliness was famous throughout the bet- ter part of the county. There was a moment of silence when Gelding stopped speaking, and he waited with growing confidence for her reply to his appeal, for he could see that he had touched her heart. “Mr. Golding,” she said in an almost in- audible voice, “this is one of the most pain- ful and unhappy moments of my life. While Freeman Dutton remains in this house I cannot permit anybody to attend to him except myself and my husband, and I shall do my best to care for him and so arrange matters that he will not leave my house until he goes never to return.” Ttil he dies, madam?” gasped Golding. I did not say that,” she answered all of a tremble with the nervous effort required for announcing her intention, “and I did not mean that necessarily. I shall do my utmost to help him get well.” Golding looked at her in silence for a moment. There was no shadow of doubt that she was as deeply in earnest as he, and that she held the advantage in position occurred to him with bitter force. She was in her own house. Of what avail or con- sequence .was it to speculate whether she krew what her husband had done? A bet- ter time would come for utilizing that manner of pressure upon her. The trav- eler sighed wearily and went to the win- dow, ere he sank upon a chair. In the sitting room Dr. Nason had asked He Examined the P Mr. Warren about the finding of Dutton, and Warren had told him as he had told Golding, but with more detafi and more freed “It is ust as well that you should know,” he concluded, “that this man, Golding, { his eacitement, suspected me of having made the attempt on Dutton’s life.” “Hm,” mused the doctor, t accounts for his anxiety to learn what you woul! tell me. What are his reasons for being so interested? “He says he and Dutton were partners,” replied Warren, cautiously. He saw no o¢ Dr. Nason about Goldin sations and assertions as to Dutten’s dis “Don't muy, * io rot the doctor es to this c appear to Lect him i, but for cemfert I wouldn’t have He think Pl s room for He'll behave better returned with the out of the box ed Mr. Warr The doctor h outs! there to ope a walked at her other clasping- zh king them do eth and skill the matte couldn't have acted d got out of the bus: cught to see ¥, was frightened it. take a look, but it's years has come so close to the have been somethi pment at m th som: a pleasant a bear lurkin: gav> place tion when was no horse ex. to pest. # match and ex: mined the haif_ tied broke started straight for hom ie. Let's stroll do to Somebody may have stop- we can bring him e news f there were several well-mea vu, Who simpl ren. Little she understood the situation, knew that the village folk would be persuaded them all to When she and Will re- the back and M t that ved into 1 told rren, wh Mr. Warren s to get a lantern. the hors was gr an Ww about or @ surprised; bur, man, he did the fact that He wondered, that w pout to turn into the ho: a familiar whim interest. ried, and P all, and vy when he stow Rob, i just as ne had left him, sa flecked with foam, and that hi oulders Were steaming with (Some misunderstanding has been caused as to the prize story competition by an ‘or in a reading notice stating that the © would be given to the first correct ion received. A reference to the first so paragraph of the conditions at the head of the story will show that th! fest error.) was a ma’ The Evening Star for the full time the mystery story, “When the War Was Over,” is runing, Including back numbers, will be sent, postpaid, to out-of-town subscribers for 69 ¢ 's. Subscribe for an out-of-town friend. A Good Old Game. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Beats me,” said the man with the high- anding collar, “that they call the monkey ness they engage in nowadays bas2 “It has reached the pinnacle of science, shovted the mcdern rcoter. “Science! You call that ing?” “Certaink; saw—but of ccurse you didn’ you weren't old enough—the old Whirl Is play—" ‘0, sir? “Thought not! Four to one! Two to One to three! Fudge! Why, the st mateh game the Whirlwinds played (it the Tornadias) we made 237 scientific pla: ‘And you call that playing?” Playing! I should say it was playing. Even the club we beat (the Tornadias) made 194 runs, in spite of our skilled battery! One to three! Four to nothing! And men are fools enough to pay for such playing at ball pleying! Oh, for a good old game of real base ball!” Second to none—Dr. Bull’ Cough Syrup. post | ¢ FAVORS -AN EXODUS Bishop Turner Wants Two Million Negroes tp Go to Africa. ——_— _ Race Here Unpromising. Bishop H. M. Turner of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the apos- tle of negro emigration to Africa, is now in this city, having recently returned from a visit to Africa, where he has the supervi- sion of the churches of his connection. The presence in this country at this time also of Dr. Edward M. Blyden of Africa who represented Liberia at the court of St. James, has started anew the discussion of the subject of the emigration of the Ameri- can negro to Africa. Dr. Blyden is opposed to the wholesale emigration of ‘the Ameri- can negro to the “dark continent,” and says that a hundred years from now will be time enough for the American negro to consider the colonization of Africa. Bishop Turner thinks differently, and says that now is the time, and that the future of the negro dn America is dark. The bishop has been instrumental in having many colored families g> from the south land to Africa, ond thinks as yet it is the promised land for ine negro. A Star reporter visited Bishop Turner today. and after submitting lo the bishop Dr. Blyden’s views as to Af- rica and the American negro, asked him if he was, in the face of Dr. Blyden’s views, stil favorable to the wholesale emigration of the American negro to Africa. Gradual Emigration. He said: “No. I have never favored the wholesale emigration of the negro to Af- rica, Such a propositiun would be foolish and suicidal to the race, if the race was simple enough to embrace it. The coloni- zation of 10,000,009 negroes in any part of Africa in a mass would entail vast suffer- ing and dying. But I do favor a gradual emigration of the negro from this country to the republic of Liberia. I favor Liberia 3 an objective point because it is the reat negro republic. Black men control it. ‘The president, cabinet generals, legislators and all that constitute the machinery of government and carry on its merchan- rather, I should have ns. is is a vast domain, and pue of the most interesting spots of the d the only place that has any form ef 1 organization where the American negro could go and find a ready ome and be 4 man among men.” His Reasons. on asked why he was so ardently in of tion of the negro to d it was because there 5 no manhood future for the negro in id, ‘no future for nybody else can ® has no ¢ rights nt; his enfranchisement be Wh favor f1 govern bagate factor and po! . iMiskerowing wor Z nation controlled by gimaud the respect of s the ne- and docs i te ANT @ant Byes ay He Dues 3 How about Dr, Blydgn’s ideas as to negro tfon to A was the next ques- itted teiihe bishop, Blyden_Leli even at th but be th: piled: ‘Dr it time, anything like 2 hun- the old vendants for a fe Wed out and a my: dmiring generation too anxious they would not be ther. But I believe y thing that L Blyden com- Will be worse p under the imp a disgrace—as they e condition t as much he wes negro he had when it will rot i Ss ronments. There is no to the two to the time I believe tion hocld mut it while D: ent ed y Government Sho Do you mean thai the ge: shou det the expenses which would be incident to the transportation of the negr ri the | nov [a bund the general gov owes the negro $40,- ervices rendered dur- as in slavery. And lynch to death, Crow car us to death, trying death, and’ uncivil 2 1 subjecting us to a | . forms of death and degra- } dation, it ht to >ut some steamships 1 ing th ins between here and Africa and let all who want to go, go to Afri d it cost to carry all of sire to go to Africa?” 1,000,000. At least 2,000,- ady to leave for Africa notice, and $10 cach would actual exnenses- for y few would go with- t on until they could And those that had noth- yed to work for those The Liberia govern- ive every married couple e acres of land, who will go and or Iand could be bought from moacre, if they were dis- lccation of the land “How m at a moment meet the ing could 1 who had ment wi twenty. given. Open to debate.—Life. AID FROM THE GOVERNHENT He Regards the: Outlook for the HOPE IN LIBERIA IN THE ENEMY’S HANDS. What the Yankee Soldier Did to Make Good His Escape and How He Made It. The Star writer had been invited by the old soldier to put up the funds to liquidate his larynx with lager and the invitation had been accepted, and The Star man join- ed the old soldier at a table in the corner. “I suppose,” said The Star man, “that you have had scme stirring experiences?” “Some few, I reckon,” he answered mod- estly. “What was the liveliest scrap you were ever in?” “Durin’ the war, do you mean?” “Of course.” “Well, I didn’t know,” he said thought- fully. “You see, just after the war I mar- ed a red-headed woman with a hundred and forty freckles on her nose.”” “I mean military fighting,” laughed The Star writer. “What was the hottest battle you were in?” “Caickamauga, and that was hot enough to make it fe2! cool down below, if I ever go that way,” he said. ou ought to have gone to the grand opening of the National Park on the 19th.” «1, Would Iked 10 have gone,” he sighed, ‘but I’m not what I used to be and can’t git around like I used to coul “Were you hurt in the fight “My feelin’s was,” That was rather a new phase of injury. DQ you get a pens‘on for that?” asked The Star man. “No,”” smiled ‘the Pension for six or up afterward. “Tell me about Perlence: “Well,” he said, christening the begin- ning of his story by emptying his ai it, “I was a private in a Maryland regi- ment, and I got separated from my com- mand and picked up two chaps from an Oh‘o regiment, and we organized to do a Little figating on our own hook. It wasn’t long till they got in behind us and cut us off, and then we struck out along the ridge tryin’ to git home again. At tals time the Yankees was gittin’ licked like seven kinds of sin, and we wasn’t feelin’ very good over it. We hadn’t gone more than a quarter of & mile till both the buckeyes got shot, and I had to go it alone, becaus> there wasn’t any stcppin’ then. The woods was full of rebels, and I dodged along in the thickets ae asthe ae up against ‘a Johnnie in’ in the bushe: thi nthe s with a bullet hole “He was cryin’ fer water, and I just had to give him my canteen.’ While ane as drinkin’ I could se2 he was about done for and I asked him if ine wouldn't swap clothes with me so I could git away. I told him the Yankees was gittin’ lamblast- ed everywhere, and that if I had a grav uniform on it might be better for me. His coat was hangin’ on a tree close by where he fell and where he had likely fixed him- s2f as a sharpshooter, and he said there Was an old pair of pants in his havyersack. n about two minutes I had shucked myself out of a nice new blue suit and had ou his o!d clothes and away I went. I had made up my mind to git in with the Johnnies and help lick the stuiin’ out of the Yankees till I had got in a good place, when I was goin’ to shake the sang and go in with my own. It wasn’t tong till I had a chance, and just as a regiment went en a charge up a hill I went sailin’ along tco, dead sure we would go right through ow and I would git lost in the old soldier; “I ‘g:t the seven bullets I picked the Chickamauga ex- it wesn't to he. fcrward more than 200 yards till them blamed Yanks poured such a shower of stot into us that every reb in the 1 ment, ineludiy down the hill 2 Twas ed in my life, and I reckon I must Tun seventeen miles before I stop; We hadn't gone nei Keer- ave i, and I would have swore that the entire Union | army was after me. I was ~d so that I forgot clean about be‘n’ a nkee, and T ivst went ahead with the Johnnies, and it three weeks before I got back to leadquarters, and I reckon I wouldn’ have dore it tnen. but I Hed about knowin’ the cou and they sent me out as 1 spy and I didn’t come back any more. That's how it hurt my feelin’s so, and it makes me mar every time I think of it even up to t the thor gias: table Star men rapped oa t two fingers at the w, SLIGHTLY & Younsz Woman Whe Doesn't Read Books Has a Meeting With Dr. Holmes “I remember once in my exper a remarked a literary young woman, “ct taking several ladies to call on the Jate Dr. Oliver Wendell Hoimes when I was in school in Boston. I 2 known ihe Holmeses sitce childhood, and went there tty much as I pleased, and often took friends of mine with me to he covd do-tor. On this occasion one of the ladies was a young married woman, who had never read any of Dr. Holmes’ books, and she T tol her y upon the Breakfast Table,” because She was an intelli- as a rapid learner, so mn we started out I felt she would do me cred ng went sawvimmingly al ely kept ent on tne hook ques- except to second the complim ef us who w pe sure every e did. for I had grov ght she wi ‘oh, doctor, Nttie caretess, to try , in a little berst t to tell you our hooks, re enjoyed ne “Autoz el, I thougint I should drop through the floor, and I kind of gasped ted to sce what the doctor would do, Fut_ my alarm = we he simply smiled into her face, and in his kindliest manner thai thought best thing he ny was the Think of the young w6man, “he ph,’ as she nad said it er knew the difference until if she didn’t know r showed in any- —— Might Have Given Them Away. From the New York Herald. A traveler just returning from Mexico tells an amusing tale of the attempts of a peddler to sell precious stones at an exorbi- tant price, who in the end coasented to dis- pese of his wares for a mere song. It was at Queretaro, an important city on the line of the Mexican Central railroad. “When the train pulled in at the depot,” said he, “it was immediately surrounded 4a score or more of peons trying to sell opals to the passengers. One tall, rather fine-locking Indian extended toward me his hand containing ten or a dozen glittering stones. “How much?” I asked. “Twelve dollars,” replied very cheap, cnly $12.” ‘ “No, no!’ I replied, in an emphatic way. “Muy caro” (very dear). “Five dollars!’ then quoted the vender, turning the stones over in his hand, that 1. might see that they were all there.” 'No, $1,” seid I. Yes, yes!’ cried the vender, eagerly. “One dollar; yes, yes, you can have them for $1. Take them.” Johnny's Apt Mlustration. From Harper's Round Table. Teacher (to class in philosophy’ are the properties of heat, Willie’ Willie—‘The properties of heat are to bake, cook roast’”—— Teacher—“Stop—next. What are the prop- erties of heat?” Johnny—“The properties of heat is that it expands bodies, whilie cold contracts them.” Teacher—“Very good. an exemple?” Johnny—“Yes, sir. In summer, when it is very hot, the day is long; in winter, when it is cold, it gets to be very short.’ —_—-ee-—____ Circumstantial Evidence. From Life. Sandstone—‘‘Weren’t you dancing with Miss Calloway last night?” Fiddleback—Yes. How did you know?” “I saw her going into a chiropodist’s this morning.” he. “Cheap, Can you give me — ee The Important Part. From Life. May—“Of course he loves me. He kissed me when he came.” Julia—“But did he kiss you when he left?” and ‘The | IN THE CHURCHES With the exception of some minor re- pairs, the improvements mentioned in this column sometime ago as to be made to St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church are now completed, and the congregation is worshiping in the edifice. All of the old Pews were removed, and new ones of light oak have been substituted in their place. The chancel, and, in fact, the entire wood- work of the interior of the structure, has been made to conform to the coloring of the pews, The walls have been decorated. The services of the vested choir have not been forgotten in making the improve- ments, as the upper story of the parish hall has been fitted up to be used by them as a reading room. The number of choristers is now about thirty, and Mr. Warren S. Young is the director. Mr. Young has also received the appointment of lay reader in the parish and superintendent of the Sun- day school. The Society of Christian Endeavor con- rected with the Eastern Presbyterian Church is now in charge of one meeting each month at the northeast branch of the Central Union Mission. Another work that the society is doing is personally canvass- ing that section of the city, inviting people to attend church. Practically as an outcome of discussions at the last few meetings of the local coun- cil, Brotherhoed of St. Andrew, Trinity Chapter of the order organized a Bible class last Sunday under the flattering circum- stance of a large attendance. The class is taught by the assistant rector of the church, Rev. Alexander M. Rich. The chapter hes also begun the work of visit- ing hotels and leaving printed invitations for strangers to attend services. The fall meeting of the Columbian Bap- list Association is to be held from the 18th to the 2ist of November, inclusive, in the Brookland Baptist Church. Rev. C. C. Meador, D. D., is the moderator and Mr. Samuel M. Yeatman is the stated clerk. The Thursday evening before the conven- tion the young people of the local Bap- ust churches are to hold a mass meeting In the same church, which will be address- ed by Miss MacLaurin of Boston, topic not decided. This address will be the prin- cipal feature of the gathering; the first of the new church year. The Sunday school of St. Paul's Catholic Chureh opened last Sunday with a large attendance, ard will continue its sessions under the direction of the Rev. Joseph Foley, one of the assistant rectors of the parisa. Officers have been elected as fol- lo’ Superintendent, Charles A. Dunn; assistant superintendent, Andrew H. Sher- idan; secretary, Miss Daisy Dyer; treas- urer, Frank D. Herron; librarian, Miss Mary O'Driscoll, and organist, Miss Mamie Byrne. Hereafter there will be a special mass celebrated in the chapei for the chil- dren delonging to the Sunday school. Extensive work has been going on dur- ing September and the summer months to Waugh Chureb and the parsonage attacit ed. The improvements consist of a fine pipe organ, painting the exterior of the church building and also the wood work of the interior, new carpeting to both the main auditorium and lecture room and a new furnace. The parsonage was treated in a similar way. The cost of the work has been ahout three thousand dollars, all of which has been raised. Rev. A. W. Pitzer, D. D., of the Central Presbyterian Church has commenced a of Wednesday evening addresses cn Development of the O'd Testament, us kinds for fruit social,” which the | s of the church to the nj evening by way of a surprise. wes gotten up by the Ladies’ Aid Society of the church. Friday, October 25, has been fixed upon as the date for holding the autumn rally of the avor Unien, and the Luther Memorial Church as the plac s tendent who had charge of a ntry Home at Falls Chur will make a repert in which he or sh a succe: ly as well 2s in other ways, there ng to the credit of the unicn a c cree balance after the payment of all debts. The Presbyterian Alliance appointel Mr. John W. Foster to represent them at tke centennial celebration of the First Church, Mr. Foster to speak, with others, on the topic, “Presbyterianism in the District of Columbia.” Rey. John E, Fout, pastor of the United Brethgen Memorial Church, at the corner of R and North Capitol streets, left Monday on 2 vacation. Rev. Mr. Fout will be absent frem the city about two weeks, ail ef which e he will spend at his former home in West Virginia. The Ministerial Association of the M. E. Church South has changed its ing from Tuesday to Monday of meeting, Mt. Vernon Chur remaining: the same as heretofore. At the session this week Rev. Lr. Isaac W. Canter lectured on “The Paster in the Home;” next week -v. John O. Knott will talk about ‘The stor in the Study,” and will be followed by other speakers on the “Pastor in the = the Society, in Revival Meet- e fe revival services at the Del Ray M. Church have closed, after being contin- ued for three weeks, under the direction of - D. W. Kern. As a result sed and atso the attendance at the Sabbath school. The Christian End North Presbyterian € Erceavor choir_under tne leadership of Miss Florence K‘dvell. Gonzaga College Sodality has reorganized for the year with the following officers: Robert H. Achstter, prefect, and Albert Smith ard V. Coughlin as assistants. The society has as its spiritual director one of the priests attached to the college. The Methodist Ministers’ Association held a meeting Monday morning at Foundry Church which was devoted principally to addresses on foreign missions. Talks cn the subject were made by Dr. Hught Jot ston of the Metropolitan, Dr. Henry Baker, who has just returned from a year of travel through the east, particularly in China, Japan and India, and by D. W. Potter, the Chicago evangelist, now in the city. The members of the association welcomed in their midst after an absence of some time Rev. Julius Soper, presiding elder of the Japan conference. Dr. Soper is a former Washingtonian. : Rev. E. H. Smith, pastor of. the Tenley- tewn M. E. Church, has been ill for two weeks of typhoid fever at the Jolins Hop- kins Hospital, Baltimore; but is now on the read -to recovery. Rev. J. R. Schultz is «nother Methodist minister down with ty- phoid. He was very low for a time, bui is now getting better. The ninth annual mecting of the Wo- men’s Synodical Societies for Home and Foreign Missions of the Maryland Presby- terian Synod will be held in the First Church, Baltimore, Thursday, tober 17. Representatives will be present from ma: of the churches of this city. - The Sunday school committee of the Vermont Avenue Christian Church Chris- tian Endeavor Society is canvassing in the hborhood of the church for scholars for the school. The children will be divided into classes under the leadership of En- deavorers, and a normal class for substi- tutes will also be organized. Monday evening the first meeting of the superintendents of the Junior Christian En- deavor Union took place at the Luther Me- moriai Church. A devotional and consecra- tion meeting was conducted by the presi- dent, Rev. E. B. Bagby, and Rev. Dr._J. G. Butler. There were present twenty-five superintendents, and from this number a committee of three was appointed to make nominations to be reported later for ex- tension, auditing and entertainment com- mittees. The committee 1s as follows: Miss E. R. Thornton of the First Baptist Church, chairman; Miss Mabel Thurston of the Church of the Covenant and Mrs. T. W. Grimes of Congress Street M. P. Church. The reading room located in the First Presbyterian Church opened Monday even- ing ard was followed the next evening by the opening of the gymnasium. October 25 Rev. Dr. Isaac W. Canter, pas: tor of Mt. Vernon M. E. Church, and Mrs. Canter will celebrate the silver anniversary of their marriage by a reception at the par- sonage. The Young Men's Christian Society of the church is now engaged in supporting a native missionary in Japan and will de- vote themselves during the next month or so, by giving entertainments and by other means, to raise money for his salary. The Washington district Methodist pas- tors are arranging to have a missionary rally beginning on Friday, the 29th of No- vember, and continuing on the 30th of No- vember and the Ist of December. On the program there will be Chaplain Charles C. McCabe and Bishop Ninde or some other the first of this month, and w: finance’ «the place vor Society of the urch has formed an BROKEN DOWN BY NERVOUS PROSTRATION. From the j Baltimore, Ma. Mr. J. My /Stréét;)a builder, who is well known in Baltimore, lives with his family at 1802 W. Lanvale street, a beautiful part of the city, re- cently built up. When he first occupied his present heme, although surrounded by everything to make Mfe comfortable and pleasant, there was a cloud, Froduced by sickness, which hovered over the heuschold and caused a feeling of unrest, uncer- tainty and dread of the results in the near future to take possession of every member of the family. Mr. Street, from close application to business, had Vegun to fail in health. A rest from his labors was advised and tried, but instead of an anticipated improvement, he grew worse. His nerves were completely shattered. Doctors worked with him in vain, and every remedy used proved futile. Finally he heard of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and some of the marvelous results attending their use, and he gave them a trial. “The cffect of the pills on me,” said Mr. Street a few days ago to a Herald reporter, “was little slort of a miracle. I was completely broken down from nervous prostration and its concomitant discases, and had almost given up all hope of ever getting well. I could not sleep, was tired all the time and unable to attend to business. I took three boxes of the pills. -There was a perceptible im- Frovement after the first few doses, and by the time I had taken the three boxes, I was entizely Well and able to attend to business as actively as ever before in my life.”” “Yes,"’ said Mrs. Street, who is as strong a be- lever as her husband in the merits and efficacy of Dr. Willams’ Pink Pills, “the pills certainly cured my husband, and I shall never cease to give thanks for bis having heard of them." Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Y.tus’ dance, scfatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, ner- vous headache, the after effects of la gripp, palpl- tation of tLe heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weaknes:, either in male or female, and all diseases resulting from yitlated humors in the blood. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will Le sent post paid on receipt of price (G0 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50), by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, x. = equally well known bishop of the Metho- dist Church. The Chautauqua Circle of Waugh M. ©. Church has reorganized for the season with a membership of nearly fifty, by far the largest number it has ever had. The president is Harry O. Hine, and the vice president, Miss Lula Walker. A one-story brick edifice is being erected ia the rear of Rylend Church, to be used a place in which the Ladies’ Mite So- ciety can prepare refreshments for enter- tainments. The building is twenty-two by twelve feet and will be furnished with a po and complete set of cooking uten- sils. The Men's Club connected with Epiphany parish opened Tuesday evening with a stereopticon lecture on “London; the Gris’ Culb began Monday evening, and the kirdergarten was reopened last week. Miss Upskur has been placed in charge of the latter. At the Church of Our Father, corner of 13th ard L streets, Rev. Dr. A. G. Rogers will begin tomorrow evening a course of Sermons on the Old Testament, to be de- livered on alternate Sunday evenings throvghout the winter. The course will be illustrated by stereopticon views, under the management of Mr. B. P. Murray. The ¢ will be led by the new chorus choir. The tenth anniversary of the organiza- tion of the Church of the Covenant will be observed tomorrow. Rev. Dr. Hamlin, the pastor of the church, will preach a rmon appropriate to the occasion, and svlos will be rendered by Mrs. Morgan D. Lewis and J. William Pearman, the pre- centor. The fourteenth anniversary of the Trinity E. Surday Schcol Gospel Temperance Society was held lest Sunday afternoon. The motto of the society hung on the wail, owing the membership of the society to pe 1,10, Children of the Trinity Sunday hool and their parents, together with members of the Anacostia M. E, and churehes 2nd other schools in East hingtcn, made up the large audience. An attractive program of singing and reci- tations was carried out. T. B. Stahl, presi- dent of the society, read his anauzl report, stating that during the year twelve public meetings had been held, at which eighty- four had signed the plecge, and that the socieiy was the largest juvenile temperance society in the District. Trinity M. E. Epworth League Chapter held their monthly meeting Wednesday night. A plan of work was mapped out for the fall, and a committee appointed to make arrangements for the District Ep- worth League mass meeting to be held next month. Saver. delegates were elected to the annual District convention, and Enos Berkeley was elected to fill the va- caney existing in the office of fourth vice president. The Westminster Presbyterian Christian Endeavor Society had their Bosion echo rally, together with their regular social, Wednesday evening. Mrs. Byram gave her report as official delegate. President Miles M. Shand gave a talk on consecration ser vices. —————— PULPIT PROVISION. Congregations Secure Pulpit Pabulum at Small Cost. “I stopped over Sunday in an Ohio town not long ago,” remarked a drummer in a down-town hotel lobby to another drum- mer and a Star reporter, “and one of my customers asked me to go to church with him and see “what an enterprising congre- gation could do in a town too small to af- ford high-class pulpit talent. He explain- ed that the congregation had tried two or three ministers with no satisfaction, and had at last called to their assistance the taleat of the country, and were now quite well pleased. He wouldn't tell me how it had been done, but when the singing was ever and it was time for the prayer, an officer of the church arose and prayed, and then making the announcements for the week, informed the congregation that they would now listen to a sermon by Dr. Tal- mage. I wondered where the doctor was, because he was not visible, but the mys- tery was cleared away when the officer touched a button and I began to hear the familiar whirr of a phonograph. In a sec- ond or so the well-known tones of Dr. Tal- mage issued from the funnel of a phono- graph behind a smali screen on the pulpit desk, and for the next half hour we sat und listened to a sermon delivered in the doctor's best style, and almost as satisfac- tory as the genuine thing when one shut his eyes and imagined the speaker was in the pulpit. When the sermon was over, the officer, elder or deacon, or whatever was, Offered a prayer, gave out a hymn and closed the services. “My friend informed me later. that in this way they had the sermons of the best- known preachers in the country, and at such an expense as to enable them to make liberal allowance for the poor of the church and still no, come hard on the con- gregatio! The other drummer pulled up his collar and shook himself. “I had a similar experience,” he said, “only it was different. Mine was in an Ll- linois town, and there wasn’t any phono- graph in it. The congregation, though, wanted better sermons than they could pay for in the original, so instead of employ- ing a preacher, they paid a fine elocution- ist, who was a rising lawyer in the town, $5 a Sunday if he would deliver two ser- mons, one in the morning and one at night, the sermons to be selected by the church committee. The morning I went to chuch the sermon was one of Spurgeon’s best, and I'll bet a hat that that young man got it off in a style that would have made Spur- geon himself sorry that he wasn’t there to hear it. At night he preached, or orated rather, one of Beecher’s sermons, and it was simply out of sight. The church was crowded night ani morning, and they told me they wouldn’t swap their system for the greatest pulpit orator in the co 2 “Say,” remarked The Star reporter, ui bet §7 neither one of you has been inside of a church since’ your mothers whipped you and sent you there.” Tho Star reporter still has his $7. 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