Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1896, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES.: THE EVENING STAR has a Larger Circulation in the Homes of Washington than all the Other Papers of the City Added Together, because it Stands Up Always for the Interests of ALL THE PEOPLE of WASHINGTON; does not Strive to Divide the Community into Classes, and Array one class Against the others; Contains the Latest and Fullest Local and General News; and Surpasses all the Other Papers in the City in the Variety and Excellence of its Literary Features. It Literally Goes Everywhere, and is Read by Everybody. It is, therefore, as an Advertising ‘Medium without a = Peer, Whether Cost or Measure of Publicity be. Considered. “SGAVENCER LIVER. Your Liver Will Cleanse Your System if It’s Kept Well. Your liver fs a storchouse and @ scavenger. It stores up digested food for use when wanted. It ar- rests and throws out dangerous polsons which are trying to get into your circulation. Indigestion disorders your liver, by creating pol- sons that paralyze it, Billorsness and other dis- orders are caused by these and other poisons pass- {ug your liver and infecting your whole system. This Is a simple explanation of many disorders Which often seem incurable. But they are only in- curable because not understood. If you will treat uur Stowiach with Shaker Digestive Cordial, all these disetders will disappear. ‘The cause will have been removed. Shaker Digestive Cordial is a gentle, vegetable tonic, which aids you to digest your food. It cures the disorders caused by the potsons of undigested fond, and prevents your stomach from disordering your liver. It relieves almost immediately the mptoms, viz.: Headache, tal depression, Weakness, lethargy, fever, stomach- ache, bad taste, flatulence, constipation, loss of ap- petite, Jaundice, emaciation, general debility, ner- following izziness, nausea, men- Yousness, neuralgjg, offensive breath, anaem rheumatism, ete. It m: ‘S you feel well and strong. It cures you when nothing else will. All druggists. Ten cents for a trial bottle. Write for book about indigestion to The Shakers, 80 Reade st., New York. my5 AMONG CHINA'S SILK WORMS. Girl's Story of the Great Oriental Industry. Josette Hilda Beebe in Central China Sunbeam. Silk worm eggs are about as large and as round as a pin’s head. Some are black and some are white, with a yellowish tint in them. A little moth leys these eggs in the spring, and they will hatch the rext spring, when the mulberry leaves are just coming out. When ft is time to hatch them, the Chinese put them on their bodies to keep them warm, but we keep ours in a cupboard in a warm place. When the silk worms come out they are about an eighth of an inch long and are a dark brown and their heads a shiny black. We gather tender mulberry leaves and cut them up fine and give it to them. They eat all the time day and night, and do not rest until they shed their skin four times. A Lite At these times they do not eat, but are quiet and hold up their heads.’ As they grow larger, their color grows Mghter, and ark rings appear on their bodies. Phey have fourteen legs, four pairs in the back and three pairs in the front. When they are small, we can put a good many into one small basket. When they are la We must put them into several large baskets. They eat a good deal, and Must have fresh leaves all the time. They have to be fed in the night. When they are full-grown they are about two and a half inches long, and then they begin to spin. We know when they want to spin, because they stop eating, and are clear and shiny, and a thread of silk is coming from their mouths, and they keep crawling up all the time. When we ing ee this we know they are try- to find a good place to make their aad we put them on bundles of : erawl around until they find place ts them, and then they and upon their hind legs and wave their slowly back and forth, and a thread of silk comes from their s. keep working very busily until the cocoon is made. Mother dissected a silk worm, and saw the two silk glands colled alors each side of the body. These glands lead to the inneret that is In the mouth. The cocoons are oval. Some are white and some are yellow and some are cream-color. Inside the cocoon there is 2 change in the worm. It becomes @ pupa. It comes out as a moth. If we paste a piece of paper over the top of a cup and put a silk worm on it, it will spin a mat instead of a cocoon. Some are not willing to spin a mat, and crawl off and spin a cocoon. The Chinese embroider the mats and use them for the ends of pillows and for powder puffs. Last year we called a man to wind off the silk from our cocoons. He put a handful of cocoons into boiling water. This kills the pupae in an instant. He st them with chop-sticks until the threals were loosened from the cocoons. He then lifted up a few threads and put them over @ wheel and wound off all the silk until there was nothing but the pupae left in the bottom of the water. The Chi- nese save all these to eat. We saved a few cocoons for moths to come out and lay some €g} for next year. They iay several hundred eggs and then die without ever eating anything. I think that silk worms are busy, patient, wonder- ful little creatures. The Chine: have many superstitions about them. They do not dare to call them worms, but say “the precious ones,"’ or “Miss Caterpillar.” They do not allow us to go into their houses while the silk worms are at work, because they are afraid it will lessen their crop of silk. When they are winding the silk, they boil eggs in the pan, and they say that if they eat those exgs they will not have sore eyes or headache for a year. There are many other things about silk worms which I cannot tell about this time. — ODD MEET! fine mout The: AN \G. A Sharpshooter and the Man He Wounded Meet in a Ferry Bont. From the Chicago Tribune. J. H. Wyman of Chicago went to New- pert News recently and, while waiting for a ferry boat, a stranger, a man about Wy- man's age, came up and shared his seat. They were waiting for the same boat. “You were in the Union army,” said the stranger, glancing at a button on Wyman’s lapel. “Where did you serve?” “I was in the first Wisconsin heavy ar- t'llery and put in a good sWare of the time guarding the big bridge over the Green river in Kentucky,” answered the north- erner. “You did! I twice helped to blow up that bridge and was there when the third at- tempt, which you fellows stopped, was made. It was a black night in winter when we went up the third time. There were only a few of us, but enough to do the work if it were done quickly and we could pass through the federal pickets. We Teached a point 1,000 yards south of where we thought your picket line was, and I was sent forward alone to locate the line and find some place through which we could pass, I walked along freely until I thought I ought to take some care, and ‘then I dropped to my hands and knees and went that way for a while. It was so dark I could see absolutely nothing. All at once I struck a dry bush and snapped a stick under my knee at the same time. Then a rifle shot came from a picket at a point not twenty yards away and my right arm was broken by the ball. The fellow had fired at the noise and made a good shot. It alagmed the guard, and our third attempt to blow up the bridge was a failure. Were you there then?” sald Wyman, “I am the man who shot you. I never saw you, but I heard the moving of the bush and the breaking of the twig. After I shot you walked straight to the right for about ten yards and then ran back for your command.” “That I did exactly,” said the southerner. “We found your tracks in the sand the next day. I did not know I hit you. I am giad I did not kill you and I'm mighty glad to see you.” Then they shook hands and took up the journey together. +e+—_____ A Meteorite That Paid a Mortgage. From St. Nicholas, , Another illustration of uses to which metecrites may be put before their real character is known is afforded by those of Kiowa county, Kan. They fell on a prairle where rocks were scarce and valu- able, and the farmers of the vicinity found meteorites convenient for holding down haystacks, stable rcofs or covers to rain barrels. ‘For such purposes they might have been used for a long time had not the wife of one of the farmers become convinced that there was something unusual about them, and called in an expert to examine them. He at once recognized their nature, and the enterprising woman finally sold hers for enough to pay off a heavy mortgage up- on the farm, THE BOND RESOLUTION It Passed the Senate With but Six Nega- tive Votes, A Heated Colloquy Over Mr. Palmer's fteference to “Snap Conventions” — * River and Harbor Bill Up. The Senate yesterday afternoon adopted the Pefter resolution providing for an in- vestigation into the bond issues of recent years by a vote of 51 to 6. The vote was taken, according to agre2ment, at 4 o'clock, and the debate prezeding it was at times sensaticnal. Mr. Palmer’s opposition to the resolution and his reference to “snap conventions” brought on a heated colloquy with Mr. Vest and Mr. Cockrell. The for- mer arraigned the President and the ad- ministration for inflaencing public opinion and political conventions against silver,and specified conventions in Michigan and Ne- braska. Mr. Vest added the declaration that he was a delegate to the Chicago con- vention, but that if it was controlled by office holders and the wiil of the people stifled, it would not he a democratic con- vention to him. Mr. Hill closed the debate, and the vote was The six negative votes were cast by Sen- ators Caffery, Faulkner, Gray, Hill, Mitch- ell of Wisconsin and Palmer. ‘The resolu- tion a3 adopted is as follows: Text of the Resolution. “Resolved, That the committee on finance be Wirected: “First. To investigate and report general- ly all the material facts and circumstances connected with the sale of United States bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury in the years 1804, 1895 and 1S06. “Second. To investigate and report spe- clally what amount of available funds, classified, was in the United States treas- ury and on deposit in other places subject to the order of the Secretary of the Treas- ury at the time the bonds were sold or offered for sale; whether there was or not coin enough on hand to mect all coin obli- gations of the government due at the time said bonds were sold or when they were offered for sale; whut obligations were due at that time and the amount of each, Staled separately; what were the reasons for any unusual withdrawal of coin from the treasury shortly Lefore bonds were sold or offered for sale, if such unusual withdrawals were in fact made, and by what persons or classes of persons, and for what purpose or on what account such withdrawals were made; who purchased the bond: in what amounts and where, whether in the United States or in foreign countries, and in what proportions, and from what persons or classes of persons the gold was procured with which to pay for the bonds; what the bonds sold for, and what was the market price of our govern- ment bonds at the time, and what effect the bond sales had cn the credit and busi- nes of the people of the United States. “Third. To investigate and report as to the manner of disposing of said bonds; by what authority, and what contracts, ad- vertisements, or proposals were made by the Secretary of the Treasury in relation thereto; What agreements or contracts, and whether oral or in writing, and whetner publicly or privately, were entered into by the Secretary of the Treasury and any syn- dicate or person or persons with respect to the sale and purchase of the bonds, and the Profits made or to be made by such syndi- cate, or any person or persons connected with such syndicate, directly or indirectly; whether such contract or agreement had any and what effect on the prices offered for the bonds; what the effect was, and vho, If any, person, profited by it, and to what exient.’ River and Harbor Bill. The Senate then procecded with the con- sideration of the river and harbor bill. The item for improving the Deleware river from Trenton to its mouth was restored to $500,- 000, Cie committee reduction to $250,000 be- Ing disagreed to. The action of the com- mittee in striking out the contract provision for $560,000 for the mouth of the Yazoo river and harbor at Vicksburg, Mliss., was opposed by the Mississippi Senators, who succeeded in having the full amount re- stored. The contract Item for expenditures by the Missouri river committee at Omaha, Coun- cil Bluffs, and other points occasioned a centest. The item was amended to allow specific appropriations of $15,000 each for the Missouri river at Leavenworth and Atchison. Nebraska City was included in the general plan of contract improvement. The conference agreements reported on the legistlative, executive and judicial ap- propriation bill, including the item of sala- ries for United States district attorneys and tarshals, was agreed to. It was 6:30 o'clock when the Senate ad- journed. ee BELLIGERENT RIGHTS, Duties and Advantages Resulting From Acknowledgment of Them, From the Youth's Companion. Every boy who has studied Latin knows, without being told, that “belligerent rights” are the rights possessed by those who are carrying on a war. If a few men plot to overthrow a government they are guilty of treasonable conspiracy; and if they are detected and convicted, they may be punished by death or exile. The lead- ers of a mob likewise are dealt with under the criminal law. But when a rising of citizens against a government reaches a certain magnitude, and the hostilities are conducted on a scale which has surpassed that of a mere in- surrection, and has become a war, then humanity and justice demand that both the government egainst which they contend, and other governments, treat them under military, as distinguished frem civil law. Formally or informally foreign govern- ments may then recognize the insurgents as belligerents, and as entitled to belliger- ent rights. First in order, perhaps, is the concession that men taken in arms are prisoners of war, and not merely apprehended crimi- nals. Rebel officers become entitled to treatment in accordance with their rank; and are not held to be simply ringlead- ers in treason. Flags of truce are respect- ed, and in short the relaticns of the two forces in the field are those of two armies, not those of a military force to a band of rioters. Often such rights as -these are conceded by the parent government to a rebellious army long before foreign powers grant full belligerent rights to the rebels. At other times foreign powers, observing that over a large district the authority of the nation is destroyed, and that a,new government has been set up, which ;the people obey, grant belligerent rights at once. The recognition of a rebellious, govern- ment as belligerent, by a’ foreign country, is, of course, a blow against the establish. ed power. It encourages the rebels; it es- tablishes the principle that so far as the civil war is concerned no favor is to be shown to either party. For a recognition of belligerent rights by a foreign govern- ment is invariably accompanied by a decla- ration of neutrality. Nevertheless th established government of a country gains something when its rebels are granted belligerent rights. It acquires the privilege of blockading the coast of the country in insurrection, and thus of cutting off supplies to the rebels. A country may not blockade its own coast in time of peace; and of course if there are mo “belligerents,” there is no war. Again, a country is partially relieved of responsibility for property destroyed by the rebels. To illustrate: If Spain is in full authority in Cuba, any destruction by Cubars of property of American citizens is an act for which Spain can be called to account. But if it is the act of a gov- ernment sufficiently established to be rec- ognized as belligerent, we must look to it and not to Spain for redress and indem- nity. Sympathy with or against a people in insurrectioa should have nothing to do with the giving or withholding of bellig- erent rights. It 1s a question of fact, whether or not a state of war exists, and whether or not there is a government exercising authority and compelling obedi- ence in the insurrestionary district. Never- theless as a matter of fact sympathy usu- ally does have much to do with the ac- tion or inaction, of foreign - governments, when a serious rebellion breaks out. BY USING HALL'S HAIR RENEWER GRAY, faded or discolored hair assumes the*natural color of youth and grows luxuriant and strong, pleas- ing everybody. SEASIDE AND MOUNTAIN: Suggestions About Pleasant Places for Summer Outing: ‘When it comes to deciding upon plans for the summer outing, which has now come to be an annual necessity jn the life of almost every well-to-do person, and an eagerly- sought pleasure as well by the great army of “barely-afford-it” People, there is noth- ing like taking time by the forelock and selecting the place and making definite arrangements for departure, the length of the stay, and ascertaining the expense. Hundreds of people determine early in the year upon taking a summer vacation, and then wait until the last, minute to hurry off to some resort, only to find the accommoda- tions all taken and a vexatious time await- ing them. Those who have had such experi- ences will be wise, therefore, to settle their intentions early, and even the most exacting of them will find a solution of the problem in the advertising columns of The Evening Star, wherein the announcements of all the best summer hotels and boarding houses are to be found. Atlantic City is a favorite place for Wash- ingtonians, and every season finds larger crowds there and new wonders added to its manifold attractions. A new hotel, just ap- proaching completion at Atlantic City, is the Hotel St. Charles, on the ocean front and looking out upon the new steel esplanade. There will be elegant apart- ments, with private baths, an artesian well, electric lighting and a splendid table. The St. Charles will open June 15, and be man- aged by Jas. B. Reilly and Frank S. Smaw, formerly of the Hotel Brighton. Rooms can now be engaged. The Colicelio at Harrisonburg, Va., will open June 1. The house is surrounded by a large, shady lawn, and is located at an elevation of 1,300 feet in the famous Shen- andoah valley. Mary C. Lupton will con- duct the establishment and requires refer- ences from applicants. The present time is particularly charming at Atlantic City, and a constitution can he braced up in no more excellent way than by a sojourn there. The Saginaw Inn, at the ocean end of Connecticut avenue, is now open, and, with all modern conveniences, offers liberal inducements to patrons. The sixteenth season of the Leadley, at Asbury Park, has commenced. It has been under the same management as a family resort for sixteen years and has earned an enviable reputation. The house is near the ocean and has every facility for making Guests comfortable and enhancing the en- Joyment of their stay at the beach. One of the most delightful and most ac- cessible resorts on the eastern shore of Maryland ts Corsica-Vue fruit farm, near Centreville, Md. The establishment is being conducted by Miss Isabella Cameron, and accommodations are furnished for a limited number of guests. Among the cheerful hostelries at Atlantic City none is more pleasant than the Marcos Hotel, of which Mr. A. Grubb is the proprietor, It 1s open all the year, but is especially attractive during the summer, having cool and airy rooms, and an excellent cuisine. Persons desiring to purchase property at Ocean City, Md., are directed to the ad- vertisement of Deborah L. Hilton in an- other column. Lots 50 by 140 on the ocean front are offered at xreatly reduced prices. Furnished cottages on the beach front are also offered for rent; also some furnished cotlages at Newport, R. I The Brexton Villa at ready opened, and spe rates will made for the spring. The ho is well heated; there are large sun parlors open- ing upon a view of the ocean. The hous also has broad piazzas- for the pleasant days of early summer, and, in fact, the ar- rangements are such that guests can be made comfortable at all times, no matter what the weather. Kenilworth Inn, at the ocean end of Ken- tucky avenue, has long held high place in the estimation of Atlantic City visitors. F. Cope, the propricior, offers special rates to spring visitors, Mountain Lake Park, Maryland, is well known to Washingtonians, and the L Lynn Heights Hotel has an unsurpa location. The accommodations are exc lent and the place promises to be exceed- ingly popu this season. Application at 1435 K street will supply ‘other details, or a letter to the hotel at Mountain Lake Park will bring a circular. This is the twenty-second season of M rine Villa at Cape May, N. J., and Mrs. F. Hallenbeck is conducting the well-known house, The hotel opens directly upon the beach, and the roar of the breakers fur- nishes a constant serenade to the gu The house will be conducted this se upon Its old-time popular basis. Centrally located, and close to the ocean on Virginia avenue, 1s the Albemarle, a modern hotel, patronized by the best people. A card to Charles E. Cope will secure an in- teresting illustrated booklet that will be valuable to prospective visitors to Atlantic City. The Windsor at Cape May opens directly upon the beach, and there is an unobstruc- ted view of the ocean from the cozy sun parlors, where guests who do not care to take open-air exercise upon chilly days can enjoy themselves. The house is supplied with steam heat and is under the manage- ment of R. Halpin. For comfort, health and summer recrea- tive amusements the Hotel Sorrento, Sor- rento, Me., offers great advantages. The hotel is well appointed, lighted by elec- tricity and provided with tennis ‘courts, bowling alley, base ball grounds, ete., and an excellent livery. Lovers of sport are attracted by the boating and fishing. It is also a fine health resort, especially for per- sons afflicted with hay fever, who are re- lieved instantly. Eight hours from Washington, at 2,500 feet elevation in the beautiful Virginia mountain region are the Hot Springs, the Healing Springs and the Warm Springs of Virginia. The Hot Springs are open throughout the year, the Warm Springs are cpen now and the Healing Springs will cpen June 15. These are wide-famed re- sorts, well conducted and attractive, as well as beneficial through the high quality of the waters. The Hot Springs Hotel is managed by Fred. Sterry, Hot Springs, Bath county, Va., the Healing Springs by A. M. Stimson, and the Warm Springs by Eubank & Glover. The springs are reach ed by the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. Famous Haddon Hall at Atlantic ty has been enlarged to twice its former ca- pacity, as Messrs. Leeds and Lippincott found that their excellent treatment of their guests increased them to a greater extent thin they could acecmmodate. They are entering another seecon prepared to treat twice as many patrons twice as well, if such a thing were possible, and those who patronize Haddon Hall will quickly account themselves lucky. On the top of the Allegheny mcuntains, on the main line of the Pennsylvania rail- road, is one of the most beautiful spots the eye can rest on. The Mountain House, Cresson, Pa., located there, will open June 25, under the direction of Superintendent Wm. R. Durham. This resort is one cf the best known in the country and most popu- lar. Everything desirable in a mountain resort is there. t Kentucky avenue fs one of the most at- tractive thoroughfares in Atlantic City, and right where it*runs into the ocean Is one of ths best hotels in that community of such things. This is the Hotel Berkeley. It is steam heated, equipped with sun par- lors and has every convenience and com- fort. Jumes end George Bew ere the pro- prietors. For a thoroughly enjoyable summer so- journ, the thing is to Lave one of those Cape Cod cottages by the ocean. At Balls- ton Heights, Truro, Mass., cottages may be had for from $50 to $150 for the season. If table board is desired, it, will cost but $5 per week. = The ‘‘Seabright” Hotel, Atlantic City, en- joys an excellent reputation for high-class laccommodations and the exceptional qual- ity of the cuisine. It Is well situated at ocean end of Rhode Island avenue, and has the advantages desirable for a summer re- sort. It is conducted by Mrs. Lewis Repp. One of the most delightful places to spend the summe- is at Berkeley Springs or vicinity.. It is a place to have a home in the summer Oakwocd Hall at Berke- ley is for rent, with its large lawn, gardens, stables and carriage house. The water Is from the celebrated medicinal springs. For articulars address T. H. B. Dawson, jerkeley Springs, W. Va. ‘With a long stretch of beach in front of it, upon which the waves play in ceaseless music; with the crowds on the board walk always passing to and fro, close enough to be pidturesque, but not to be annoying, the Hotel Imperial at Atlantio City pre- sents unusual attractions to the visitor. It is splendidly equipped throughout, and pos- gesses every convenieace, with open-grate fires, electric bells and a fine solarium. The .table is conducted in first-class style. G. W. Kendrick, the proprietor, offers spe- cial rates for spring patrons. son. SUBURBAN NEWS Mr. Frank 8. Dobbins lectured last evening at the Anacostia Baptist Church on ‘Thirty Years a Misstonary Among Cannibals,” being the life story of Dr. John G. Paton. The story, which was 1l- lustrated, was of thrilling interest and brought out many features of missionary life and work. ‘The Current Events Club meets this afternoon at the home of Mrs, G. Suit. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Peck have returned from Milford, Conn., where they went to attend | jf, the funeral of Mr. Peck's mother. The Home and Foreign Missionary Societies of Garden Memorial Church met at the eburch yer- y acted routine business. pter, Order of the Eastern Star, held Nr. ‘The ton ly meeting Wednesday evening and 1 new members, congregation of Campbell A.M, E, Church, Hillsdale, gave thelr new stor, Ht i, ¥. dridge, and his family a cordial’ rece} committee of arrai Y Word, Ars Julia 4 ah Mills, Mrs, Mrs. Georgia Alexander Fruse Brookes. A shrewd swindler was in Garfield yesterd and robbed a good imany persons of 30c. pi His manner of proceeding Was to ask’ persons. h met if tb r pieces, stating that he Was an agent of the Treasury Department and re M Buest here of a it Moses | it smoot, ‘3 ‘Thomas “Barnes and Mitchell; reading, * ‘That ceeding, Aunfe Bentley and Blanche Hill, Misses Mini Messrs. Hulbert Yerkes, Lather Brashears, jr ‘Thomas Mitcbell. Thomas Mitehe Blanche Hil, Annie Flester, M Furness Steamship Lin at the residence of Mr. Frank Mitchell. ‘re Was a full number of memiers present and large number of guests. The evening’ Spened with selections by @ trio, com ees 5 Mitchell and ‘Betsy and I juet, autoharp and harmonica selections, eorge Keller; recitation, by ow Betsy 'and Miss “Annie Bentley; duct, violin and and Mrs. Mitchell.’ The ‘debate on south was constitutionally right in ,"? was decided in favor of the ‘affirmative side was represented itchel Donaldson and Frank Wooten; the negative fitchell_and May Bentley, Among. th Frank Mi nanY present and M. i ay Bentley, Mitchell and Mu Brashears, jr., Thomas Nitec ry Murptiy, “Charlle Donaldson, ’ Clarence Murp! . Wilton Donaldson a Mi oved from Bultin iss Nellie Southe: er sister, js expected that Sena’ move bh 7 betw armen Ce ¢ to their beautiful home en the 15th of May and th nwick fs spending the month He ‘The consisted of a read "Are Gut.” by Mise May Beut- tiv by Misses: and Messrs. Wil ran of the by Miss Annie I Made Up, by and and ary’s county, ix the orman and fainily of will return here on the clothed with authority to examine any money that porge M. Bond of Washington, passeng any Mt call upon should have In their and 0.. has removed ‘to his TOs Ing shown # half dollar the egal te nan stuf! from a bottle on the r. 7 eres coin, + effect of turning. it black. | Kuest of his . Barkley, in Wash- ‘The man th pronounced e “0 eI ne On. took possemtod GAL See See Sommtentelt, and 17S on has returned from a trip to —E Norfolk and Old Voiut, Va. SLIGO. z ae Ay nalts sehen es wie [Tn’ | ‘The members of the republican state central hi entertainme Ne 8c " y ce for Montgomery have made thelr Wednesday evening, May 6. An interesting pro- | MUCe for Montgomery ‘have on rum was well rendered to a packed house. The ‘is lor Program was us follows Singing, America, by the school; spelling drill, by a class; reading, by Miss ve isle Bs: solo, by Miss M. Hixgins; drill in nem geography, by a class; reading, by Miss A. Nichols tation, by Miss Ethel ass of girls; dialogue, TOM; vecapatiors, | Old and th the positions of as tee preset riet, from 's present First district, and James E, Ayton; omutt, W. Scott Stalismith and a Herace Sedgwick; third distric ose M. Burns, Misses Nic sas ky State i Here dc eta | Jobn. Nelson oper and W. H. B The f e Veirs Route Miss Chai Misses Ol recitation, “On ank Higgins He fan, hers Wel atte i Shaw y R Messrs. Mason, Higgins and Miss M Wilson. Tie WI be applied to improving the school 106 ‘TTSVILLE. Mission I ch held its regalar nm inh fron evening at the of Mrs. Curry. The meet- tng pened with prayer by Mrs. J. H, Italston, | Cia Papers on missionary work in Siam w by | Don Mrs. W. I. Stith, Mrs. Jedd. Ralsto R. | Tr Holden and Miss Bertha Rath » of | Jud the ev was spent ing nd social enjoy ment. Refieshments were s The Bas Bleu Lite yo met lest Wednes- day afternoon at Adelaide Proc was the subj her poris we program Ann! Camilla” Hare, - Miss Del Lester prize consisting of tive It hewerary and ae emi the for: ctor of the urch, Will oe=npy the p 1 Scnday. Mr. Wall is now dn vareh, Berryville, V3 road commi districts of t a es. 1 Vall took pler them from a dis Were Of the eireult NEW TELES! many he funeral services, in a we aracter, the buriul ptist: Char ing read at the g Wait ter which appropri f th ite friends of the d I parts of the county to his memory <a uM. Joun Fi Bidr Associatha ze Jobn AL 1 “ ina body, hand ex-Judge John 1 Amiss, ial meeting It is expect nbers of the of their fr will make “ . Bar . Laird, . Bishop h instunt, to visit 1 parish, tls count, for th near Huntin iy Mills, 5. Bi ion of a bri nin, OPE DISCOVERE! f Secondary Cola fect e mutwber of the nds th 2. and was of a deceaned 4 From the w York Allee lee A A very important has been r j made by Prof. C. S. Hastings of the Yale ‘A. Thor | Scientific School, the result of which ts a Tio. B. 3 Pew type of telescope, in which the defect meet known as the seconda ation John Gilbert, Diehl, “J, Heiskell, De Te Bowie, John kins. the The te! consisted 0: and in ordinar, silicate & single le the hands of Huy; is removed without the use of other than Scopes of the seventeenth century and Davini reached the highest excelienc attained ¢or the simple telescope. The RET Weop: that with increasing power it was Monday evening the o Brightwood oie ere oe Bee Ene te Hotel took place, Mr. T. extending a most get cus patrons and friends, briliantly jetor, Th iMuminated with J: ous plazas were limit to the pract scope Frer y rapid ratio. able dime: was actually made by h optician, which was 600 feet long, Azout, This fixed a a lanterns and | but could not even o up. Not until the grounds lighted with ms uts from | Sir Isaac Newton’s discovery of the law the plant of the Brightwood electric railroad. The | of dispersion of light the explanation interior of the hotel pres fect, with cut flow palms, the lon The floral deco: quisite and the with all ti t pleasing ef- m of plants and espectally decorated. in the dining rooms was ex- tin refreshment table was laden jes of the season. An orchestra of the center wh sto remain and thus rounds surrounding the hotel, wich utitied, cor: an¢ pastor, I apel, his top the Christian Ende in phovograp at. This defect has aberration, the ince be effect ich ts, in prisma hen rected for d, converse ual p one which is adapted of this inconvenient fact found in the vari- ation of focal length for the varying w length of Ii called chromatic ve of 0 one looking through the ordi- nary telescope, to show colors, a i ° But with the increasing size of telescopes and tle applications of astronomic tography, and particularly in spectroscopic work, the defect has proved very vexatious y because a telescope thus poses is worthless, tie 1 pho- to photography is useless for observations by iMeh the | the eye. Then, too, just as in the old sin tis | Ble telescope, the secondary color def Bu Then fol- | demands an increasing ratio of length w ile _evontny increasing power, and thus greatly adc ane mane mull the engineering obstacles to mounting large Sociable to Re instruments. Again, in spectroscopy the An att variation of focal length for varying wave consisting of lengths is such an inconvenience that many congregation repaired Ughtful refreshments wer ie ladies of the as most pleasing of The afair decided xur- prise to the new yy ‘The trightwood public Which adds considerably to its A recent organization is the “W. sisting of the small misses of Bi holding their meetin y Tu ferent homes of the members. ‘The Brightwood Electric Railroad Company is improving the yard in front of the house by planting flower beds and sodding the ground. Mr. Grimm of wth and Erie streets, Brightwood Park, who met with a painful accident, has com- chool building 1s pein 1s ar ma k, iy at the dif. old pletely recovered. Every evening hundreds of Dieyclists as: bi ring at the intersection of so many pr roads, it makes Brightwood quite an point for the numerous wheelmer Diller B. Groff_has sold to Fi lots 15,16 and 17, in square 9, Brightwoud Park Mr. Frank 1. Iv and” family moved Into one of the new hotises recently built by Mr. ‘Thomas Blagden in the Argyle Park, on 1th str iad. Mrs. Donnelly w be remembered as for- It merly Miss Sadie White. edi M. Griswold Th spectroscopes dre provided regions of the eliminate the trouble. In developing equations involving the thick Which might be of the involved in the equations for celor correc- tion. this would afford a means of correcting the , in the professor's cpinion, further investigation. After much labor he demonstrated theoretically a new nethod by which the sec aberration, which had almost a century and a half, might be rem- with a ratio of focal only Sts, th three ‘s corrected for pectrum, in order partly object glas: tion of lenses to the second order gnitudes, Prof. Hasting Although it seemed imp error, it deman¢ He next constructed a_ tel neth to diam the spectro: every way the hoj ed. for use with is has fulfilled in shows the solar spectrum with a’ different to last summer the optical S and sep- of 1 a term nto that y chromatic olution for fcunded upon the theoretical investigation. The rommittee on appropriations gave a | ly unvarying focus from extreme red to ex- hearing jay morning to We V, Cox, Dre ¢ treme violet, eliminating all secondary color Stone and Edw. T. Bates of the Brightwood Aveuue | aberration. "While the experiment has aot Citizens" Association for a tire engite to be located | gone beyond this, there fis no reneon to at Brightwood and an increase in the pol of the District, the extension of Piney branch sewer to Takoma and the improvement of certain streets and county roads in the northern section of the District. force ee AUREL. et 11+ The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Baptist Church met this week at the :esidence of Mr. and Mrs, A. R. Weston. The dancing chisses of Professors Caldwell and Smith's Dancing Academy ‘will give a grand May ball next Monday evening at the Academy of Music. Miss Vert Phair, as the Queen of May, will be crowned,,by the Juvenile class. Exhibi- tions in fancy dinclng will, be given by the fol- lowing pupils: Misses Mada Whituey, Mary Bur- ton, Mury O’Conuell, Lizaie Nichols, Vera Phair, Bessie Fuirall, Addle Flester, Irene Flester and Alice Whitmore, and Masters Wille Feige and Wilie Flister. ‘A party of young ladies and gentlemen from Laurel went on a straw ride recently. ‘The. party drove to the residence of Mr. Joseph Harding at Spencerville, Montgomery county, where a delight: ful evenin jas passed. Among those in the party were M cs. Frd Voigt, Prank latzoy Herbert Lewis and Fred Dierkoph’ of Washiagion; Miss Ida and Clara Hardii Me and Donnie Lyddard, Rese Leatherwood, Nora Gray, Belle Pritchard, Ef. fie Morrison, aud’ Messrs. William Carr, Clar White, Raymond Martin’ and William ‘Keller of Laurel; Misses Jennie Moore, Lizzie, Edna, Blanche, Editu and Maggie Harding, and Messrs. Oscar avd Alonzo Turper of Spence A May party was given recently by number of cung tadies “and gentlemen of thie city at Oak cat. Dancing and other diversions were features of the day. In the party were Mr. a George E. Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs, Will son, “Mir. and' Mrs, “Charies L. Young, Mra Fulton Gordon, Mrs. F. B. Little, Misses Bessie nnd Hnt- tie Crandie, Lena Little, Mollio Jackson, and Messrs, Eugene and Don Little, Hency Feige, “Ii. Pierce Baldwin, Edgur Wickert and Moss. Baldwin: The Young Men's Social Club of the West End gave a dance recently at Shaffer's Hall. The ut- tendance at the dance was extremely large. Music Re Fro ity was furnished by a Baltimore orchestra. Atmong Elsie the many. present were Misses Bertie Pitt Pickett, Cora Anderson, Cora and Ida Phel; Messrs.’ Dorsey, Jobn and Roy Slater of Savage: Mr. Harry Silver of High Ridge, Mr. Ernest Hart ley of Beltsville, Misses Mary ‘Chalk, Lizzie and la Leizear, Rhoda King, May Shipley, Molile weless, Dina King, Belle Wiles, Hannah King, mie Cavey, Grace Robinson, Jennie Cavey, Lot- tie and Ella’ Brown, Lizzie Galvin, and Mess-s. Thomas Lelzear, Engene Chalk, Allie Loveless, Walter Grady, "Milton Harding, Henry Baker, James Scaggs, Frank Martin, John Davidson, Al ton Donaldson, A. Rol Thorpe, William Reed, Raymond Martin and Join Whitelead, Mr and Mra. Frank Dorsey and Mr. and Mrs. George Baker of Laurel to ‘The Pickwicl From an Exchange. Mrs. Fastly— when one gets anything new in dress the end of the week your servant has i Mrs. Smart—“That is same servant at the end of the week.” Keading Club held its regular] Representative Hall as belligerents? inch telescope of the existing type. SWARMS UF INS: emble a Cloud f Smoke Cause and Alarm of Fire, m the Indianapolis News. Ap les and domes, incr to the May fly and the Gragon fly. ———_- e+ —__ The Servant Girl ‘The worst coe Belligerents. From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph, “Henry!” - s, Allen McAbee, William | “Yes, your excellency? “I wonder if the Congress will expect me and recognize Representative Money doubt that the method is applicable to tele- seopes of all sizes. ‘The discovery of Prof. Hastings will add at least 10 per cent to the power of the tel- escope, so that an instrument with a 10- inch object glass will be about equal to an and Shortly after 6 o'clock a telephone mes- sage came to fire department headquarters that St. John’s Church, in Capitol avenue, south, was on fire, as a volume of smoke was curling about one of the spires. A @ittle later a man, greatly excited, rushed into en- gine house No. 6 and said that the dome of the state house was burning. A chemical was sent to St. John’s Church, and when the firemen reached the spire it was discovered that the supposed smoke was a cloud of In- sects, millions of what appeared to be gnats. The smoke at the state house was of the same character. ‘The firemen say that these smoke alarms ecme almost every year late in early in May. The insects are evidently hatched on the high roofs by the sun swarm about stee ing in number, until scattered by the wind. They are of the ephemera, and have but a day or two of life, disappearing as suddenly as they have come. They are classed among the neuroptera, on account of their simuar- or 4 of it is that t sf you have the DUFFY'S PURE FOR MEDICINAL USE NO FUSEL OIL For Coughs, Colds, Grin, Pneam and the early stages of neump= om. It is sold by all relinble drug- gists and grocers. Insist upon av= ing Duffy's. Send for illustrated pamphiet. DUFFY MALT WHISKEY Coq Rochester, N.Y. = = ————— A THRILLING ADVENTURE. The Track Was Clear Just in Time When the Limited Swept Past. om the Pittsburg By presence of mi Fr mercial Gazett d and quick action a r ad telegraph operator saved the limit- ed. That was an unusual case also. It was the train dispatcher’s mis so far as I krow, but he may have been misled by scme one else's b ider. One day the limit- ed was going east in two sections. It is very, very seldom that the limited runs In han one section. A freight was ly- frent of Jc tower waiting for the ited to pass. The train d cher sent out an order saying 2 Limited) will run forty minutes late” That gave ty of time for the frefht to get to the mess should have iS will run for minut jon was 01 . handed the order to the condu freight, who went down out of the and started his train ain t “Just as the big fri puffing the telegraph ticking, and Jones red aying that the limited had p tower It was just aroun the curve, not Pp and ay t was a question of seconds, © Was no time to run down stairs, and it was no use to drop the 1 signal. ‘The e had already 5 There was no time to think. Jones ¢ bis ink bottle and his red flag. He ran out on the balcony in front of the tower and threw the ink bottle at the engine. Then ed the red flag and y i with all ght. The b truck the cab and d the engi “salt n, He up and saw Jones waving the red like a madman. Just at the same moment they hoth h the shrill cream of the limited’s whistle as she ap- proached th he engin, what it was. the main urve, pr did not stop to question The engine was clear out on track. He reversed his engine cas sent her bum: iz back ag: t the heavy train. The forward motion was stop ped, ‘but the train was so heavy that it Would net start back. About n- gine was still on the main track. The limit- ed swung ithe curve not half a mile away, coming at th e of forty miles an hour. The engineer of ht showed Wonderful coolness. He ran zine for- ward several so as te first few cars as far asthe would allow, and give him a ch, some momentum in his engir and thus start the train. The p tg all engineers, but to delils forward with the limi ner When he had gone \ersed again and sent the big ¢ ing against th Jone: of a second, whether the freight engine would clear the switch before the limited or not. he two engines seem: s together the limited struck the but the great train, with den, went by unharmed. open for the freight, but to melt switch, it was matic spring switch, and wh Umited struck it it was forced open main line. As soon as the « he limited aw he was safely mn steam out of sight, without e » ask what had been the ma rs, who were chatting ple: urs, may have wond div nosuch a sudden jerk wh on just before they rever dreamed they had ese HENS. The Eventful Vixit © Barnyard. Bear Crock Letter to the New York A big cock-ruffed grouse cam 2 Grouse tothe down the bernyard at Seth C Ss near here, the other day, and strutted about among the h siving himself all sorts of airs. The rooster 1 had cha of this flock of hens gazed at this impudent in- truder in astonishment for a few second: and then bristled up and started in to show the grouse that sole authority In that yard was vested tr himself. The rooster as big again as the grouse, but the game terloper from the wilds put. himse shape and treated Mr. Rooster to som. thing that was a surprise to him. The srouse was so quick and fierce in his fight- ing that after three lively rounds the roos er turned tail and retreated to a far in of the barnyard. The victor couldn't er but he jumped upon a mound of siraw and looked the surroundings over with such an imperious air that it spoke louder of his triumph than a crow that could have been heard # mile. After thus gloatin er his the wild cock came off the mound and strutted among the hens with more as- surance than befor The hens «id net conceal their admiration for the audacious gallant, and huddled around him, {gnoring scornfully the presence of their righiful lord, beaten and humiliated in his ¢ For half an hour the grouse en, pleasing triumph, and then whiri to his wooded hawnts. “And them hens.” says Seth Colby, who witr 1 the remarkable ex ion from the window of his hay mow, “looked sors rier than a widder when that dandy pheas- ant left ‘em, and they kept ft up so long that they didn’t recognize the rooster for more'n two da — ++ A Light Breeze. From Harper's Round Table During one of the r New York a disenssion arose between some gentlemen at dinner about the velocity of wind. Each related a boastful story of hts own experiences. One of the party, a hardy westerner, said he was once riding ina train through Kansas. “There was what is called out there ‘a Nght breeze’ blowing. I had oceasion to look out of the window, and the moment 1 put my head cut off went my hat.” “What did you do?” asked one of the |. gentlemen eral peopig told me Orry, p breeze vy strong enough to take it tl 1 sort of wonder- ed what they meant, but th hat was handed" to me by the station agent at our next stop, about forty miles from where It blew out of the window. We came along pretty fast, too-1 guess about fty miles an hour, But then eighty miles an hour for wind is called ‘a light bi in that mile route.” = <oe == A Family of Lawye From t York Journal. Mrs. Addie lL. McKinley received a di- ploma recently as a member of the woman's w class of the Univ ity of the ot w York. Practically every member of her family are now iawyers. Her husband is James M. McKinley, a lawyer and one of the secretaries of the Chicago i Mil- waukee raflroad. Her daughter, Mrs. Min- nie L. Smit is also a lawyer, and has been reguiarly admitted to the Charles® Wilson Smith sband, is a lawyer. Both M und her daughter took up th not be- cause their husbands but be- cause of a personal inte al _mat- ters,