Evening Star Newspaper, November 30, 1895, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER. 30, 1895-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. THREE NOTED MEN Lome Interesting Stories About Quay, Gorman and Harrison. NEITHER SMOKES NCR DRINKS,BOT CHEW Wonderful Will Power as Shown in Political Management, NATURAL 2s | eS A KICKER HAVE SPENT some time studying Senator Quay. There is no man so little known to the public as he. He never sub- mits to an interview, i seldom talks to aper men with- out an understanding that the matter is not to be published in connectin with his name. He has but little personal mag- and has none of that “hail fel- met” air about him which makes capital of the average politician. 1 Netism, low up th Still, he is a man of great strength. He is ene of the best organizers among our public men, book and he knows human nature like a He is a man of remarkable literary His library at Beaver, Pa., is one of st private collections of books in the country, and he is thoroughly well posted on of literature. He is fond of his domestic In his tastes. He is about the hotels, and here at he spends all of his evenings at The great peints of strength in his ition are his powers of keen-sighted ization and bulideg perseverance. He Washingto: home comp orga don't know’ when he is beaten, and he will fight again and again for little things that other men would let slip rather than have trouhl concerning them. Take, for instance, anner in which Quay got possession o of the biggest committee rooms at the ‘apitol. the Senators told me the sto! ntord was chairman of the committee owning the room, and as such by senatorial tradition it belonged to him. used the room but little, aowever, and y wanted it as a political headquarters. y it this ar for his pre Jential plottin and aske At any he went to Stanford him to give the room up to him, larze place in which to work. vas very obliging, and he F 1. AS he did so Quay said: Senator, I am very glad that you can t me hav his room, and I will now tell you what I want it for. You see, there are a lot of these Pennsylvania politicians who hound my heels here at the Cupitol. A n of them know something of my Di If I let them run at large, they are sure to say something foolish, divulge line icy, or in some way get us Into trouble. If I have this room I can cage them up in it while they : -e here by tell- M. S. Quay. ing them to wait until I come. In some cases I will not be able to come, you know. until just about time for them to make the n, and in such cases the business will e to stand over, and both myself and country will be saved.” Oh,” replied Senator Stanford, “I see, but I don’t intend to let you have my com- mittee room for any such purpose. If you vant to use it for that purpose, I retract y consent to give it up. You can’t have *.” continued the Senator who told story, “you would have sup- posed that that would have been the end of the matter. Most Senators would have let it drop. Not so with Quay. He went to every Senator on the committee and got them to sign a paper, stating that he ought to have the room. Stanford was shown the paper, but he still held out. Quay then brought the matter up during one of the committee meetings, and the re- sult was that Stanford gave him the room to avoid further bother.” “Me, Too,” Said Daniel. “Matt Quay,” said this man, “has a won- @erful will power. When he determines to do a thing, he throws himself into it body and soul. He curbs his appetites. He courts discomforts, and he hangs on day and night until he accomplishes his end. I remember a conversaticn which I heard between him and Senator Daniel just after two great national conventions, in which each had played an important part. Sena- tor Quay had been at the head of the forces of one of the candidates of the re- ubliczn convention, and Senator Daniel had been acting for one of the candidates of the democratic convention. The work had been hard, and they had both returned to this city hollow-eyed and worn out. They looked very seedy as they stood un- der the clock at the front entrance of the Senate, and took, as it were, account of I was sitting on a chair just below, and I overheard them. It was Daniel who spoke first, saying: “Where have you been, Senator Quay?” I have been in h—l,” was the reply. Me, too!” said Daniel. es," continued Qua hl. I have for four d , “I have been in been at that convention, and nd four nights I have been A. P. Gorman. to my utmost tension. For four ve fought and schemed and plan- working days I hh ned. I did not lose ce iousness for one minute in all the minutes of those ninety- six honrs. At times I felt faint, and I thought I would die, but I kept at ft. And, bow I did want to take a drink!” ay went on, “when I felt I must have a drink. I did not see how I could do without it. Just a drink! Just one drin| t why did you not take ft, Senator?” Daniel. drink at such a time kk at a national cor I had one physic me all the time ake a drink in plied Quay. “ on! Why, man, men guarding from drinking. ! No, no. You id Dantel, A Look at Senator Gorman. Gorman on the street tod: He has occupted until the last election the position which Quay holds now in Pen 1- vania. He is fully good an organizer as Quay, but his nature sentially different. Quay looks like a business man. You mght take hitn for a merchant. a politician oy Wall street broker. Gorman tesinane Uke. His face seldom smiles. Hag - i always brushed well up broad forehead, and his cold blue ey: seldom shift or change in their expression. He makes you think of Pitt Crawley in Vanity Fair,’’ who would sooner have died than have gone to dinner in an: ing else than a dress suit and a white necktie, and he is the pink of propriety in all his actions. The fact that he has been defeated in Maryland has not dimmed his influence in the Senate, and he will be a strong quantity in the next demo- cratic convention. He is pre-eminently a politician. He took his first lessons while he was a page in the Senate, and he has gray hair is from his high, Benj. Harrixon. ° been learning ever since. It was while he Was a page, he was thinking of going west, when Stephen A, Douglas told him that he ought to stay in Maryland and decide to he pnater. Mr. Dough ald him that the Senate was a much easier place to reach than is generally supposed. He advised him to study politics and to learn how to man- age men and things. and that it would not be very hard for him to succeed. Young rman took this great statesman’s ad- vice and succecded. He has become more than a_ politician, however, and there are many who believe that he has some statesmanship as well. He lives quietly at Washington, spending most of his evenings at home, and running off to his country estate in Maryland now and then on Sunday: He neither drinks nor smoke: and he is one of the few men who can che’ tobacco without the habit being visible to his associates. New Stories of Preside President Harrison is expected here within a few days. He will hardly call upon President Cleveland. He has shun- ned the White House ever since he left it. His presidential career contained many un- pleasant things which are unknown to the world, and the loss of Mrs. Harrison while he was in the White House has associated it with his saddest re ences I talked not long ago with a prominent Indianapol woman, to whom President Harrison late spoke upon this subject in the most pathetic terms. his lady had been a close friend of the Fresident and Mrs. Herrison, and during a call upon the ex-President she asked him whether he was not happier outside the White House than in it. He replied that he was, and that he had a horror at the idea of being “possibly asked to return there. id he: Harrison. “You cannot appreciate the feeling 1 have j toward the White House and the presi-jen- office. It is filled with disagreeable zs, and the President of the United States, if he will permit it, could keep him- self miserable all the time. There are so many unpleasant things In the newspapers, and the Ife is one df wear and tear and worry. I guarded myself from many of the disagreeable things said about me by my private secretary. Mr. Halford never al- lowed me to see the urpleasant things, cept when they were recessary. Insuiting letters or unjust newspaper criticisms were never presented to me, and I hardly knew that they existed. I gave directions that they should not be allowed to come into the hards of Mrs. Harrison, and I supposed they had not. But after her death. among her papers, I found tied up a bundle of such things. In some way she got hold of them. ani I really believe it was that which killed her. “No,” concluded the President, “I have no desire to go back to the White House. My Life there was filled with sorrow, and I do not want to repeat it.” Why Didnt You Tell Him So, Be I have heard a number of stories like this. Harrison is supposed to be as cold as snow, but his friends say he really has a warm soul inside his Icy cuticle, and one of his greatest troubles is that he cannot show what he feels. He may have the kindest of feelings toward people, but he lacks the ability to express them. His skin is sallow and repellent. His cold blue eyes give forth nd spark save when he is angry, and his face has no more mobility than that of the statue of Washington in front of the Capitol. Many a time he makes a man feel uncomfortable when he really likes him and wants to please him. I heard an inci- dent not long ago which illustrates thi: It was at his home in Indianapolis. A prom- Inent man had called, with a letter of in- treduction to Gen. Harrison. He was ad- mitted, and for an hour talked with the President and his famly. Harrison, how- ever, was, as usual, gruff and cold. He said but little, and when he did speak it was in opposition to the views advanced by his caller. When the man left he turned about and remarked to Mrs. Harrison: “That man Is a good fellow. I like him very much, and I want to know him bet- ter.”" “Oh, why didn’t you tell him so, Ben?" 2 replied Mrs. Harrison. “Why weren't you more warm in your reception of him? He has gone away, thinking you cold and hard, and I venture he believes that you have no sympathy whatever with him.” “I don't know," replied Gen. Harrison. “Somehow or other, I can’t do it. It's not in me, I suppos: A Natural Kicker. President Harrison is, in fact, a natural kicker. There are today a good many men in the United States who would not like to see him nominated. There is a prospect that they may goad him into being a can- didate by saying that he is not one. He likes to fight, and his nature is combative. Shortly before his death, Jeremiah Rusk, Harrison's late Secretary of Agriculture, told me that dustng the cabinet meetings the President always took the opposite side ef every question proposed by his cabinet ministers. Said Mr. Rusk: “You could never tell what his real opin- ion was. He would argue in favor of his position as though his soul was bound up in it. After the matter was thoroughly discussed, and the members of the cabinet had gone away half mad, he would follow just the policy which he had argued against. I suppose he took this method to find out the arguments for and against matters upon which he had to pass. I think his nature has been developed in this direction by his practice of the law.” She Tripped on the Bottom Stair. Speaking of Mrs. Harrison's death: It is not generally known that she had a pre- sentiment that she would die before she left the White House. The story was told me by a man who was present at the Har- rison house on the morning that the presi- dential party left for Washington. Mrs. Harrison came down stairs when ready to start, with the President on her arm. When she got to the bottom she tripped and al- most fell, and she superstitiously thought that this was an omen that she would not live out the administration. It made a deep impression upon her, and during her last illness she said: “I will never get well.. I tripped on the bottom stair.” — The Firm Survived. Fron Tid-Bits I heard of a clerk once in a large draper's shop, who was smart and quick and a splendid manager, but he got a swelled head, and put on consequential airs. Once he took occasion to say to his associates that the concern couldn't possibly get along successfully without him. So the old gentleman who was the sentor partner called him into the office one day and said: “Mr. Jenks, you have been very efficient, and we appreciate your services, but I hear that you have repeatedly asserted that if you were to die the business couldn't pos- sibly survive it, and this has worried me considerably, for you, like all men, are li- able to die very unexpectedly, and so we have concluded to experiment while we are all in health and see if the concern wiil survive. So you will please consider your- self dead for one year, and draw no salary for that time, and we will try it.” Tiger and Papa. From the Standard, Grandpa—“Don’t get seared, Willie. The ris Zpout to be fed. That's what makes jump and roar so.’ Willie (easily)--"Oh, I ain’t afraid of him, grandpa. Papa's the same way when his a) meals ain't ready.” IN THE CHURCHES Tomorrow being the first Sunday in Ad- vent, it will be celebrated in the Episcopal and Catholic churches “by the services pe- culiar to the day, and during the succeed- ing weeks of Advent most of the churche of those denominations will observe the time in one form or another. At Epiphany Chapel, beginning Sunday, the 8th, Rev. Dr. Randolph H. McKim is to conduct ser- vices and preach every evening of the week until the 15th of the month. Several other churches ure expectirg to conduct similar missions. Rev. Daniel Dulany Addison, rector of one of the largest Episcopal churches of Boston,was a guest this week of his father, Rey. Dr. Thomas G. Addison, rector of Trinity Church, at the corner of 3d and C streets. All the Sunday schools of the local Meth- odist Episcopal churches will participate in four large missionary rallies tomorrow af- ternoon. The places of the rallies and the churches assigned to each are as follows: At Hanflire—MeKendree, Grace and Fletch- at Feundry—Union, Fifteenth Stree St. Paul's and’ Dumbarton; at Metropol! tan—Wesley, “Ryland, North Capitol and Gorsuch, and Memoral, Tw t Wavgh—Trinity, Ifth Street and Wednesday evening at the F gational Church quite a number ¢ Istened to Prof. H. A. Hazen lecture en the subject, “On the Way to the bh Pole.” The proceeds of the lecture to be devoted to the pur of von- tion singing books fur Young ple's Society ‘of | Christian leavor ef the church, Yesterday evening the congrega Union M. BE, Chureh reopened their and Sunday school r ext improvements. A var dered, during the cour tor, Rey. Alexander Bi perintendent of the Sab! S. Westcott, made ad Responsive choral servic Dr. Samuel Francis Simith, “America” 1 wi was given at Church Sur the composit Rev. rendered, and at the clo: all present joined ir made him famous— The growth cf tl of late that the supe: son H. Bristow, hi fall departments school five, each under t ‘stant superintendent, and they ng another under them. Mr Mower was recently elected ¢ perintendent, in cha department tur Edw The ¢ are which w: cently organized at dry Chur grown so fast that it row numbe' than fifty members. T Laws, is just now lec As evenirg teenth of the the ausp! North estant C ject fur the erection of a new ¢ ing, but it is probable that ground wil rot be broken until some time in the surin though fund for building some Ume ago and has ached propertions. ‘The church, when built, is to be of st appearance. AL ons who received will present a very fine invi a recst social at the Metropolitan Be: list Church were held up at the doc and were not allowed to enter by a com mittee nntil they had deresited the amour of fines Sor every, bit of finer: persons | of each sex wore dod de | of the fining entertainment A commit gotten cut sides, the profitable. of Christian E ere in ebsarge, as follows Marci+ Church, Edna Mill yne and Messts. Gilbert I nd Harry A. Dumoni. aré of managers of the Women Epiphany Chapel has prepaies| series of lectures to be given in the paris hall the second Monday night of ea month. The talks are for the club mem- bers and their guests. The offic elected are follows: Pres Harry J. Patterson, vice p! Maguire and Mrs. Donohue; tre Spare, and At a me Monday morning ac to the holding of a mass meeting, to t and enan demn the CD ointed t and to confer with r denominations hering. of the North Carolina Chirch is row engaged ir eries of religious service t Sunde d will continu M Averue M. conducting a which began vy. two weeks. Mrs. W. E. Blandy, the wom: evangelist of pastor. It is very iikely that Mt. Vernon Church will establish a new mission in the near | future, to be ran on the same plan which was pursu:d so successfully at Del Ray. After looking over the variou: ‘ the District, 1t has been practically decid that Georgetown is the best place to I gin work, and so for the past two weeks Rev. Dr. Isaac W. Canter, pastor of Mt. Vernon Church, has been conducting ¢ tage prayer meetings in that section of the city, looking toward a temporary home be- ing secured as soon as possible. Rev. S. M. Newman, D. D., pastor of the First Congregational Church, is preaching New York, is assisting the a series of Sunday evening sermons, ill trated by stereopticon slides, on the life of Jesus. He has so far delivered three, and will preach about a half dezen me Emanuel Chapter of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew has started a Bible class for men, conducted under the auspices of the chapter. Last Sunday at the vesper service at St. Anthony's Church a statue of the patron saint of the church was blessed. The pas- ter and people of the church have de- termined to have a new church building by this time next ye nd with that end in view they have already bought a for the church and paid for it. It is e pected that ground will be broken very shortly now. The bazaar which has been going on at North Capitol M. E. Church in the lec- ture room since the ISth of Novem). closed last Thursday evening. Se chapters of the Epworth League made sits in bodies, and a bulletin was pub- shed all during the fair. It was a suc- cess, and a considerable sum was real- ized, which will be used in reducing the church debt. A committee consisting of the following members of the congregation had general supervision: Rev. Charles L. Pate, Mes N. Bunch, Edwin William- son, Edward Saxton and Mrs. A. N. House and Mrs. N. Bunch. Monday evening the Brotherhood of An- drew and Phillip Chapter of the First Con- gregational Church held a_ Philadelphia echo rally and listened to the reports of their delegates to the convention in that city last week. The First Church was rep- resented by Messrs. Charles B. Ball, C. B. Bradbury, Elphonzo Youngs, sr., Dr. J. P. Lewis and M. H. Hopkins, and the Western Presbyterian Church by Rey. Howard Wil- bur Ennis, Alfred B. Gawler and Charles Matson. Rev. Dr. Walter Graham, pastor of Con- gress Street Methodist Protestant Church, is to read a paper Monday morning before the ministers of that denomination on “The prohibition question in relation to politics,” which is to be delivered in the Congress Street Church. Rev. Martin F. B. Rice, D.D., pastor of Trinity M. B. Church, is corducting nightly a series of revival services. Rev. Dr. Henry Baker, a former mission- ary to Japan and weil known in this city, lectured before the Methodist Ministers’ Association Monday morning at Foundry Church, on missionary work in Japan. He also devoted some time to describing inter- esting phases of the soctal life of the orient. A forty hours’ devotion was recently held at St. Peter's Church. At the opening high mass Rev. Father Larkins acted as cele- brant, the pastor, Father O’Brien, as dea- con, with Rev. Sullivan as subdeacon, and at the closing mass, on Tuesday, the offi- | cials were Rev. Fathers Riordan, O’Brien and Sullivan. ! The aiiuual meeting of the Presbyterian Alliance for the election of officers, and to consider plans for the payment of money advanced and borrowed by the alliance for the erection of the Eckington Presbyterian Sunday school building, is to be held on the evening of the 10th of December in some church not yet selected. There is to be held for one week every evening a series of meetings at the Eckington Church, under the auspices of the alliance, and which are to be addressed by a number of prominent Presbyterian divines of this city. The junior Christian Endeavor Society of 15 the Luther Place Church held a meeting, under the auspiges of the social depart- ment, Thanksgiving evening, at the res dence of Mrs. George Graham, on Q A special pregram in the nature Thanksgiving colebpation is to be given by the liter: society of the Young Men's Christian Assocation this evening in the rooms of the asseciation at the Lenman building. There, will be readings, music and recitations, ayd then a debate on the resolution, “That-:cgpital punishment should be abolished in. the United States.” The affirmative is to hejtaken by Messrs. U. G. Biller, W. C. Eldridge and W. N. Weston, and the negatiye py Messrs. F. C. Squires, E. H. Booth and W. C. Watson. ‘Singin’ and Speakin’ by ye Olde People” was the title of am entertainment at As sembly Presbyterian Church yesterday evening. Instead of young people taking the characters, aJl,the numbers on the pro- gram were taken by people who, while the might not be galled old, are certainly not young. Among those participating were ex- Civil Service Commis: Yharles Lyman, Dr. J. C. Stockton, Thomas P. Keene a Mesdames Mary R. Stetson, Delia A. Free man, Catharine Allison and 1d: Lew! and Miss L. C. Adams. The new Second Baptist Church, colored, on 3d street between H and J streets north- west, is not far from completion. In fact, 1 tion of the lower floer is being used Unis for the fair given for the benefit of the building fund. The entire exterior is finished, with the exception of one pair of steps and some ndows. A portion » first floor is n are about n auditoriu DUSTRY. How Are Worke y Visit Chicago, Vet “down in E; Hayseeda Th ‘rom the Chicag: The man fro: dently had a pleasant and succe in the city ard was reasiy to return to the folks at home. He was beaming with the exhilaration and the excitement of his so- Journ and had arrived at ihe depot full had ev three hours in advance of the departur ef his train, Afler depositing his carpet bag upon a conspicuc seat in the wait- ing room he proceeded to make a leisurely rvey of the entire premi iend, youd Letter not leave you atchel there; itl be snatched up while You can get news sts the wat oung it checked for id there, over n. repli emptuo the k a here. in a nfidence, with t eyelid an ma ung Telle: With this Me soon felf to young man, They teok the carpet bag ¢ few moments liter and cro: little pla they went al street to wouldn't a-cared carpet bag and the on his r ater, “but 1 di ststone that the ate that country. I thought do with you whi Or inquir- TH tell ve. the farmer with a “Kly grin, t no explosion. On our Way the youn chap into n shaking dice out They said it tthe vou nd for th i ef chalk on the counter, and he p tab ¢ | the game and r winnin’s. 1 t see ne harm in that, and TE did it to ‘bleeige him, When they gv hothe yous eb e ‘ in for it this time H hadn't but a guarier Uh “Phe feller behind the counte out i swore that Vd got to game tfere Leet foot « the other tellers lie ed like a feb got oi. 1 gouddn't ¢ came along | ed it, Yeu don't I worn thin by tke time nh Century, arta of Commer of Lord K Ss esti- » that set back” of the earth Jaily retation round its moun twenty-two s nds per ¢ tury, is repo ed to be that such retaraation i: the friction caused by the tide: acting brake. lated, acecra be equal in Wwe: plied on the says, have a the latter and such action is caleu- ng to the same authority, to “nt to some equator, Other iso te be taken into account, s, for exan he increase in the size of the earth, che to the falling on it of me teoric dust, which, ff ted at the ra of one foot in 4 would produc oo tons ap- causes, he the observed ri by itself. Fur- | ther, such a ph the annual growth and melting of s' nd ice at the poles, by abstracting water fi the other parts of the ocean. introduces irregul into the problem, the abstra ing the earih’s mot and the restoring the water, retarding it, +02 Red Che ng ina woman than ks. From th What N I ed che ke a mornin, 2 not of rouge, eit . Oh, no, she two_of a youn had rp wer y semethipg worth that, and for the sake of the fair sex I am going to give ub She used nist nor mething that no oth woman thought of. A mild, very mild, mus ter) on the chi red! alas, the plas 3 too ng, and when morning cxme—but why wring your hearts with the sad tale? see He Didn't Go There, 1 the New York Weekly. Fond Mother—‘Dear me, what's the mat- ter now?” Married Davghter- band has deceived me. Fond Mother—“The brute! know?" Married Daughter—‘‘He—hoo-hoo—he said he was—wasggoing to the church fair last night, and—and he didn’t. He went some- where else.’”’ Mother—“Who ‘told you he went some- where else?’!} 2. Daughter—"No .one. This morning I found som ome money in his pockets— boo-hoo! " ‘Boo-hoo—my = hus- How do you ee. — From Erin, From London Puneb; u \\ ~ SII Rieti at apve ali10" Restaurant waiter. > Sor Yes, sorr. It’s foive-and-six-pence including the cigyar, and that makes gix shillings, sor her brought with | al owing to | AMUSEMENTS. Lafayette Square Opera House.—The La- fayette Square Opera House will have a netable and brilliant attraction next week in Willard Spencer's successful comic opera, “The Princess Bonnie,” which will be pr sented with entirely new scenery, new cos- tumes and other appointments. Since American composers first began to take a leading position in the field of comic opera there have been few compositions of native authorship that have achieved such dis- tinctive success. It has already played one successful engegemeat in this city, and the evident favor which its tuneful, - catchy melodies and diverting story made on the Washington theater gcers warrants the an- ticipation of another profitable engage- ment. Its return here with nearly the original cast will be particul note- werthy. The peculiar atmosphere of ro- mantic interest which surrounds the orig- inal “Princess Bonnie,” both on and off the stage, bas naturally’ excited not a little curiosity in regard to her successor, Mis¢ Hilda Clark. She is id to be an ad- ingly pretty blonde, who bear: riking facial resem to Mayo on the pure no voici that speaks to the sa charm, grace and refinem unrer that are happily suited to the rol nt in the ne ite, in her o: the yeast i: zinal part of girl. Sh summe ny introduction’ to Wash- goers, Ancther iniportant is: the wn of all emotions » Will come ent se © pre y of her | the elder if she new tion pt of 1d, erful and holds throughout. with a wor old child, but nor i n story, which blush Mon d Sa y Walle} eefort _ Goodwin the National Theater. ef local inte ts of the cy-ot a Unit ar king to indu an of the con The piece and the ea ittee on foreign af- ave the Cuban had, such ni, ine, He ized in | Lou's Pay John LT Cr sstelle > will wir | » an elaborate dis- nments. “The White Squad- ady been seen with y, Wil be the attraction at M in y, Which will in- pmas, aged four n hornpipe dan- Little Jack, the small- m the world. { favor A int aden! he pret elude in the v but their novel be free ivenes: this o { paniz: . the charm- ing hk fresh from t the Ameri can Root } numb hich w Garaen, of very ne ” ashington for features on Trio, originators nd Videeg, Rice Jerome and nd, the favorite Trish marble the most world-famous is a direct im- her initial bow nee on Monday inees Tuesday, nowledged. mber_of th ly e will be and Saturday. Waller Benefit—The advance sale of for the Walicr benstit to be given at ademy cf Mi begun, and the ful one. miscs to be a very »h Douglass, whose ome Lew nis ch will undoubt well | The Lotus Quartet, | ganization of colored singer: time by a Washington au- rendition of jubilee songs plantation melodies clive. Henr Vints well- known elocutionist, will tations and dramatic iso appear in re readings. —The advance sale course of lectu that the annouw On Good Cookin: seats for the Mur good cooking sho of on vement of auseries of Ss by this popular tec- turer has met with general favor. There is {probably no man in this country who is a cook than M better known Mu y, but rt from that, ne tal talker, and hi a teller of good popular with the who mnake the Hous he is the proprietor, about lunch time, or after a lo jon, and it is in response to a £ 1 invitation from these and from others who krow him as an authority on the culinary art that he has announced the coming ccurse, although his lectures in other cities have always met with great success. The lectures are to be given at Metzerott Hall, and are five in number, beginning next Fri- day afternoon at 2:30 lock. The first lec- ture is on the possibilities of the chafing dish, and will be of ‘ticular interest to society people and to young men who have taken up the chating dish as a fad lately. Mr. Murrey intends to show that it is more than a plaything or a luxury, but one of the most useful articles In a housekeeper’s outiit. This will be followed by other lec- tures of even more practical value. The price of a cours: kei, with reserved seat, has been fixed at ingle admission, with reserved seat, 50 cents. On sale at Metzer- ott’s. A Bend Concert.—The first concert of the new Washington Military Concert Band will be held at Allen’s Grand Opera House tomorrow right. This organization Is un- -der the leadership of Mr. Wm. A. Hale: and is composed of some of the best pla ers in the District, many of whom were formerly members of the United States Ma- rine Band. The program will consist of se- lections to please the pcpular taste, and will also show the band to good advantage in some rumbers of more pretentious char- acter. The band will be assisted by Mrs. Kitty Thompson Berry, soprano; Mr. J. W. ers, a fine baritone from New York, and Sig. Anchen Coda, clarinet viftuoso. It is believed by the friends of this organization that a series of popular Sunday night con- rts can be inaugurated that will prove ‘cessful, both from an_ artistic and financial standpoint. The advance sale of tickets at the box office of the opera house indicates that there will be a large attend- ance tomorrow night. The Taylor Brothers.Ex-Goyernor Bob and Alf Taylor will make their appearance at Metgerott Music Hall Monday evening next in their quaint entertainment, entitled “Yankee Doodle and Dixie.” —Entertain- ment is the only term that covers the pre- jsentation, for there is no other special word which gives an adequate conception of it. It is safe to say, however, that those who go will not be disappointed. A male quartet will assist in the evening's enter- tainment. Tickets are now on sale at Metzerott’s. Mr. Sovereign’s Lecture.—Much interest is tories. He is ext members of bs restaurant, of ¥ their headquarters being exhibited by workin n generally In the lecture which General Master Work- man James R. Sovereign of the Knights of Labor will deliver tonight at Meizerott’s Music Hali. The subject of the lecture will be some one of the vilal labor questions which are agitating great minds toc he will doubtles: and have a large auilience to hear him express his views. The procee: of the lecture are for a most estimable charity, the project being to use the mon obtained for the help and relief of those drivers of the Anacostia street railway who are now locked out. The choff Concerts.—The first concert in the fifteenth season of Bischoff concerts will be given at the First Congregational Church Monday evening, December 16. Ex- ceptionally good talent has been secured for this, the opening event of the season, and tickets will be on sale at Ellis’ Music Store from Monday morning next. The season ticket is placed at $1. Authors’ Readings.—Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith and Mr. Thomas Nelson Page will make a joint appearance at Metzerott Music ull Monday evening, December 9. They will give readings from their own work: published and unpublished, and a most en- tertaining evening is assured those who at- tend. The proceeds of the entertainment will be used to swell the restoration fund of the University of Virginia, and it is expected that the hall will be crowded to the doors when the object of the entertainment ts known. The sale of seats opens Monday morning next at Metzerott’s. Trilby—Mr. A. M. Palmer's New York Company, whic has so successfully pro- duced the dramatization of Du Maurier’s Slory of “Trilby,” will come to the Lafay- e Square Opera House week after next. his will be the first opportunity afforded ashingtonians of seeing this remarkable play. AB 4 public of Washington vw portunity to hi phenomenal of ¥ the banfo-loving il be given an op- r Alfred A. Fariani, the t. Through the efforts ullen and Collins and Mrs. D. this gentleman has been se- at 12¢ orthwest, next Saturday evening. ok. As only KM) tickets will be old, it would be advisable for those de- siring to hear Mr. Farland to secure their ats immediately. They can be obtained at 417 6th street, 1331 V street, 1203 T street, and at Ellis’, ai Highwayman.—E. M. Holland is i as one of the ablest members of A. imer’s Madison Square Stock Com- though many have forgotten that | prior to his thirteen years’ service in that organization he was almost as long in the support of Lester Wallack. Joseph, his brother, a much younger man, got his chiefly with Augustine Daly's and under McKee Rankin in the California Theater Stock Company n Francisco. He is best remembered aving played opposite Georgie Drew Barrymore in Charles Frohman’s brightest Mr. Wilkinson e two charming actors have 1 their career as stars under the ar- gement of Richard Mansfield, have achieved great success with hi entit ‘A Social HSighwayman.” They ar ment here 3 urch of Our Father.—The next lecture in the series by Rev. A. G. Rogers will take t the Church of Our Father Monday The subject will be ‘The Story of nd the hardihood, persistence of the people of that country will be graphically told. The lecture will be illustrated by stereopticon views. ——__ NEW TRICK OF THIEVES. announced for an early engage- Hol sionals Never at a Loss for chemes to Entrap the Unwary. 1 the New York Herald. Professional thieves are never at a loss for a new trick. There are so many new tricks in the professionally dishonest man's vocation that we are often led to believe that if he displayed the same energy in a legitimate business he would soon become a millionaire, ago a well-dressed young man y into a fashionable fiat up town and addressing the first wo- man he met hurriedly exclaimed: “Madam, your son has just been run over a cable car at Broadway and 40th street dis dying.” “You replied the woman “Il have no son. It may be on the floor above. irs and again told the story. !" the frightened woman an- nd she rushed out of the house ning breathlessly down Broad- way when, by chance, she met her son at ane street discussing politics with some riends. When she returned home she found that ker pocketbook, which she had left on the he addre the lad. mantel, together with several pieces of jewelry, had been stolen. ——— ++ — A Heroic From TH-Rits, “By Jove, there goes my train!” were the words that caught the ears of many people standing on a London and Northwestern station platform in the Midlands a few days ago; and a short, fat man, with a top hat, hurried through the gates like a thunder- bolt and ran down the platform with the speed of a rolling hat in a gale of wind. He held his bag in one hand, and sprinted as though it were a matter of life and death. The train shot out toward the end of the platform, but still the short man continued the race, puffimg and blowing as he went, to the amusement of the many spectators who were watching him. The little fellow was game, and finally, after a herculean effort, reached the train, threw his bag into an open compartment and clambered in. Then he sank down and lay us limp as a rag after his prodigious exer- tions. The next moment the train backed into the station once more. The other passen- «crs got in at their leisure; and it was not less than ten minutes before the train started off again. Meanwhile the little fat man was hiding himself behind a newspaper. ———__- e+ —____ May Be the Effect of the Meals. pm the Indianapolis Journal. “Ain't $1 pretty high for a meai like that?” asked the tourist. “I don't mind ownin’ up that it is,” said the landlord of the Cowboys’ Rest, “but them meals cost me 75 cents apiece. “But I happen to know that you sell a te eal ticket for $5. “Yas; I know I do, but about half the fel- lers that buys them tickets gits Killed be- fore they have eat two meals. oe A Father's Pride. From the Chicago Record. Conductor—“Did you see the man with the kid?” Gripman—“‘No. Conductor—‘He’s the proudest father I ever struck—insisted on paying full fare for the six-months-old boy —_—_+6+____ Reform’s Location. From the Roxbury Gazette. Stump Speaker—“I say, we've got to have reform in our politics! It’s in the air! Skeptical Audifor- Bout time it struck “the ee rth, isn’t it From London Punch. end I should like to get her into your estab Madame A—‘‘What can she do?” Customer—“She's already a very dec Madame A—“I'm afraid, madame, - Most Remarkable Remedy MAKES PEOPLE. WELL the World One True Medicine for Los Nervous Strength, Cures Effected by Paine’s Celer: Compound. What Scientific Research Has Ai complished. Proved by Success Where All Else Failed. There is one true specific for diseases arisi from a debilitated nervous system, and that the Paine’s celery compound so generally scribed by physielans. It fs probably the most] remarkable remedy thet the scientific research o' this country has produe- ed. * Prof. Edward E, Phelps, M.D., LLD., o' Dartmouth collegu, prescribed what Is now] known the world over Paine's celery compound, & positive cure for dys pepsia, biliousness, lives complaint, neuralgia, rheumatism and kidney] teoubles. the latter] Paine's celery compound] bas succeded again and| again where everything else has fatied. Washington correspondents have recently given it a great dea! of attention since the most won-| derful cure effected in the case of Commodare| Howell, ‘The medical Journals of the country have given| more space in the last few years to the many] remarkable cases where the use of Paine’s celery upound has made people well than to any other] one Kubjec The Doctor’s Advice. Phila._Have a burning sensation stomach. Digestion poor. advise. ‘Take our Gastrine after meals. Natrolithic Salts, teaspoonful in a ha.f tumbler of hot water, before| breakfast. is pre- in my Sallow complexion. You can find no remedy so s our Cerebrine for nervousness. M. tribly with pains in the lower part of my back; am sometimes unable to stand. Take our Medulline, times daily. a week, extract of the spinal cord, A dose of Natrolithic Salts syracuse.—For weakness of the bladder trolithic Salts. THE DOCTOR. ‘The above preparations and other specialties of the] COLUMBIA CHEMICAL ©O., Washington, D. C., Including the famous Animal Extracts and NATROLITHIC SALTS, At all druggists. (080) Send _for literature.’ ——- WITH THE POLICE. “PULL” This Cook's Only Trouble Was in Se- curing a Leave of Absence. From the N. ¥. Herald. Stories of what happened at the Vander- bilt wedding are still going around through society, and it would seem as though there were always something to be told of what one saw or did not see. One woman con- vulsed a lunckeon table by the story of the discussion she had with her cook the day of the wedding. The cook asked permis- sion to be gone during the morning, and “Au Pied de In Lettre.” ¢ Customer (to famous modiste)—“I’m parting with my maid, Madame Aldegonde, upon being asked why the request was) made she said she must, positively must, go to the Vanderbilt wedding. “Why, ma’am,” she said, “if you don’t let me ge I don’t know what I shall do. It will be the first big wedding i've missed seeing in the city of New York for the last twenty years Catholic or Protestant, I've been to tlem all, and I've been expecting to go to this cver since I heard Miss Van- derbilt was going to marry the duk Her mistress, somewhat nonplussed, informed her that she could not possibly get into the church without a card of invitation. “Ah, don’t you worry about that, ma'am; sure, don’t I know all the police in New Yorksand I never have any trouble in get- ting in anywhere,” was the response. gg ene The Reward of Devotion. From the Indianapolis Journal. Woman,” said the dejected young man “is a fake.” “Yes?” spake one listener. - “Yes. It has not been so many moon: since I saved up all my billiard money and lived on beans two weeks to blow myself on an opera and a supper for a young woman. Then I asked her. to marry me, and she said she was afraid I was too ex- travagant to make-a good husband. se Up-to-Date Kansas Farmers. From the Atehtson Globe. i Nearly all the confidence men in the coun. try have become bankrupt; the farmers have learned their tricks, and business with confidence men is simply ruinous. The con- fidence men make a mistake in not working the wise men; no man is so easily fleeced as a wise man, like a banker, lawyer or mer- chant. —— -ee0e-—___ Alas, Too True! From the Topeka Capitol. “Mamma, do you like stories?” like true ones, my child.” ‘Shall I tell you a true one?” Yes. ‘But you might not like it.” “Oh, yes, I should if you told it.” “But it fs quite short. Well, once upon & time there was a water bottle—" Yes; go on.’ er ‘And yesterday I broke it; but I'll never, ooh! ooh! do it again.” + © —___ The East End Way. From Tid-Bits. In the East End a little ragged child waa herrd to call from the window of a mean house to her opposite neighbor: “Please, Mrs. Miller, mother’s best compliments, and, if it is fine weather, will you go a-beg- ging with her tomorrow?” ”