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13 An Interesting, God-Fearing People Who Have Given the World Many Important Discoveries. ‘We may not accept their peculiar religious be- Uefs nor can we enter into the spint of their sacrifices. It {s not necessary to believe as they do, but we can and do ct their st purpose and the honor and uprightness wi all their business dealings. ‘The Shakers have always been successful im Yentors, and some of the greatest of the con- Yeniences of the present day found orizin in thelr settlements. In one particular they excel cll other men or classes of men, and that is In cultivation of medic- inal herbs and plants and their preparation for use. ade it a study for more than one hundred years. It is one of thelr peculiar fadustries. ‘Their lives have been devoted to it. ‘Their latest and greatest achlevement 1s the Sbeker Digestive Cordial. It is not offered as a cure for all diseases. It does not pretend to be, but oue disease it will cure, and that 1s indiges- tion. Sufferers w wait to 0 resort to its use have not long to result. fect is almost im- mediate rst a gives relief and Af continued a permanent eu follow. Tt not o ntains already digested food, but it di t well, thus toning up the syst An interesting pamphlet is now being issued by the Shukers and can be had for the ask- if at almost any drug store. ‘Try a 2c. bottle of Digestive Cordial and see what it will do for you. THROUGH A CYCLONE. e-Witness’ Account of the An- of the Michigan Tornado, nce of the Boston Transcript. The cyclonic column was black as tar, had a sort of swirling, onward motion, and Was accompanied by a horrible roar, unlike any other sound ever heard on earth. For twelve miles it followed the highway as carefully as if it had been laid out for it, and as if it knew that there the most houses were to be found, licking them up on either side like a winged demon reach- ing down out of the skies with his inky tongue and adding to the horror by wrap- ping his work in more than midnight dark- z ts ravages give one a new ‘dea of force, and suggest something vastly more power- ful than wind alone, for what known pres- © of wind can take iron girders and rall- 1 rafis inc hes thick and in a moment wist n up like corkscrews? Stout cak were torn into heaps of rs, hard- ly larger than parlor matches; stately buildings whirled around on thelr founda- had been toy tops; blocks two and thres tons; marbles; and ani- uman beings Were sometimes rent and sometimes dashed to pieces as if they had been babes seized by Brobdingnagian Ranis. What ad the fun and humor it displayed. Here and there it would carefully pass by a field of and all around it would lit y wipe lds of wheat. Some houses it would to pl furniture and in them, except that it would uched a single room, and that, on the side wi first met its ‘There were farms whose great barns tely dwelling houses w+ ed, but where some mis utterly ‘able lit- hed or outbuilding, ready anyway to nble down, was left With all hormble haste it would stop tong enough here and there to pull all the nails out of a lot of clapboards and shingl it drew scme of its lines so nicely and evenly that in one case a house partly built had its r row of bricks all taken and its inner ft without a scratch. Bugsies were = top of tall trees. Not only pture fulfilled that one shall be er left, but in some cases taken and the other half left, nd ano: If wa le of a tree’s bark stripped off and her side untouched, one-half of a man’s harrow left in his field, the other haif not yet found. Cellars were the best of safety; but now and then, own house was blown away, | mmates unharmed, the rubbi her Rouse would be dropped on A little boy who had me in the ai thought to be inevitably ki sred asleep in a field, whe down tired with h Ik, and over while ving h of their wandered tingly a gre: of tumber. Were stripped clean of their feath- ers, and in some cases fricasseed. An old cow was taken ont of her rather canty Pasture and set righ with only slight do’ harm in a rich, fenc meadow, where she never before ha allowed to go. A farmer was milking out in his barnyard, and while hi il was not upset, the cow of small pigs that had run fied up and went W «ir past his i ‘k of birds. when she heard it coming, ut the froat door, placing herself firmly against it, whic! tried in v to open, th nd to th the evelone , discouraged, ck door, giving It 5 hurry, passed on, iy the only successful Of all the yelone insur- a arc to expire in a few days, and he had just made up his mind to write the agent that he would not have it re- newed when up into the and all his goods, his $2, r went his store m0 saved by the eyclone’s speeding along Monday night in- Btrad of « % till Friday noon. Queer- il, a farmer's wife living out in the F i the day before a doan milkpans and brought them home five miles, and the next moraing more than half of t were found in the pack yard very store at which they had been —-— _- see He Was Unlucky. > Detroit Free Press. A stranger called out the greeting to a Fagsed, bony men, with long, tangled hair and beard, lying half asleep in the weeds of the dooryard before a log cabin. Back of the cabin some sickly stalks of corn were struggling for life among the weeds and grass. “Goo'-day, replied the man, lifting him- ow and rubbing his eyes, er for ci you Tha’s w Is this your field?” t will be when I git it paid for.® Vhat are you doing now “Nawthin’.”* Why not “O ‘cause I don't never have no luck at nothin’.” Have you ever plowed that corn?” LW. ver hoed it?” jaw.” he fence is down in a dozen places.” Ya-as, jess my luck. The blamed old fence had to fall down right after I moved here. “Why don't you fix it up?” Wha's the use? It'd come down kerslap “fore a year. I'm allus in bad luck.” Have you any stock?” “Had a keow an’ some peegs, but they strayed off an’ never come back, drat em?" you look for them?” to. I'd never find "em. iy luck to ever find anything. ‘Have you a team?” . “Had a purty good ole hoss, but he fell down a well and broke his plaguey neck— Jess my luck.’ Was the well covered?” ‘Naw. I ‘lotted on kiverin’ it, but hadn't got ‘round to it yit. I was borned on- lucky.” “You could get a small crop of corn yet from this field if you'd hoe it and fix up the fence. “Don't b'leeve it. ’"Twouldn’t be my luck. might ez well let things rip. Some men air born to git rich an’ them ez has gifts. But I'm not one o’ them kind, bein’ borned on- lucky.” “Look here, my friend, if I were you——” But the “onlucky” man had gone to sleep again. ———— Age. From the New Orleans Picayune. A man ig as young as his rheuma- tism will allow him to be. A woman is as old as her photograph forces her to be. Sheriff Collier Says He Has Evi- dence to Prove It. THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION Many Developments Expected. at the Approaching Hearing. THE SANDY SPRING « -. ee Staff Correspondence of The Evening Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 9, 1896. Every face in Montgomery county will be turned eagerly and inquiringly toward this town tomorrow afternoon, when the pre- liminary examination of Sidney Randolph and George Neale, charged with the mur- der of seven-year-old Sadie Buxton and deadly assault upon her parents and sister, is to be held. The summons for the wit- nesses have all been served and all the ar- rangements have been completed to push an investigation into the crime that will cover the most minute details. There is a strong probability that the hearing may be made sensaticnal in the extreme by the confession of some of the parties now held on the charge of being implicated in the tragedy, but even if this is not the case, the authorities claim evidence of a char- acter that cannct be contradicted will be produced to show the guilt of Sidney Ran- dolph and at least one, and perhaps two, of the Neales who are now in custody. readers who who have discerned nothing in the matter heretofore written to connect either of the prisoners directly with the crime; but the reason why nothing of a definite character in the way of proof has been made public has been because of th policy”of silence determined upon by Sheriff Collier and his assistants and State’s Attorney Kilgore. Sheriff Collier's Personality. I talked with Sheriff Collier last night about the case. He has become so well known to the reading public in the past two Weeks that a few words about him may not be out of place. As I saw him last night, his solid, sturdy figure was clad in a tow linen suit. A pair of expressive eyes locked squarely at me from beneath strong- ly carved brows, and his well-formed month, beneath a closely cut mustache, ere and there a faint streak of gray, Kindly humor in i lines, as much the squarely set jaws denoted determina- ticn. His age I should put at forty-two or forty-three, and for all that time since reached manhood he has been prominent in the affairs of the county. He is receiv- ing now much praise for removing Ran- dolph and Neale beyond reach of the popu- lar feeling which was rapidly becoming uncontrollable. The very mer who were loudest at the time in their denunciation now applaud his course and tell him so, and he told me to- night that he would not now be afraid to take Randolph and Neale to Gaithersburg itself, alone and single-handed, and he knew that they would be safe from mo- lestation, I asked him if he believed the prelim- inary examination would result in any new developments, and if he believed Ran- dolph had anything to do with the affair. Sheriff Collier is Contident. “There is no possible doubt of Randolph's guilt," said Sheriff Collier, with a prompt- ness that startled me. “I believe he 1s Weakening now, and that he will make a clean breast of the whole affair, but even if he does not I have ample and sutticient evidence to convict nim of the murder of Sadie Buxton and the attempted murder of the others. I am convinced also that as strong evidence will be presented against one of the Neales—there are three in cus tody now, you know—and against another man implicated in the crime who will be arrested. There has been no let up in the work on the case: of that you may be cer- tain. But owing to the many contiicting elements in it, and the condition of public sentiment we deemed it best to keep silent about what we were accomplishing, and to let our witnesses tell their own’ stories when the proper time came. I can tell you, now, however, that there is no earthly doubt of Randolph's guilt, and it will be proven beyond the possibility of a question at the hearing on Wednesda: The Murder at Sandy Spring. Sheriff Collier was awaiting the arrival in Rockville of the men charged with the murder of Clarence Thornton at the col- ored camp meeting near Sandy Spring, Sunday afternoon. The prisoners had been given a preliminary hearing by Justice Murphy yesterday afternoon, at which State's Attorney Kilgore was present, and were ordered to the Rockville jail to await the action of the grand jury. They were brought over by Deputy Sheriff Sullivan, and there was a@ large crowd gathered in the vicinity of the jail and the court house when the party arrived. The arrested men were Perry Alcorn, who was proven to have struck Thornton the blow with a heavy club which caused death; Samuel Budd, Philip Hopkins and Andrew Hop- Kins, the latter three being accessories. The murder grew out of a game of craps, in which the negroes named and several others, including Arthur Atkins, were en- gaged. Atkins got in a dispute with Thornton, and was cut with a razor by the latter, who then fled. He was overtaken, however, by Alcorn and his companions and beaten to death, his body being left in the public road. The Tramp Evil Again. The bringing of these men to Rockville caused renewed consideration of the neces- sity in Montgomery of taking some means to restrain the increasing lawlessness that has alarmed the community for a long time. Sheriff Collier said he had read with a great deal of pleasure the announcement in the letter from Rockville, printed in yester- day's Star, that measures were being taken by the eltizens to put a stop to the tramp evil, with which the county is suffering from more than its share. He hoped that an understanding would be reached among the farmers and the townspeople through- out the county generally, by which no as- sistance would be given to strangers roam- ing through the country, even If suc course would be something of a revolution in the well-known hospitality of this part of Maryland. Other citizens who were pres- ent in Rockville last night and this morning expressed the same views, and there will probably be a general movement toward organization toward the purpose in. the course of a few days. Startling Storics Expected. Reverting to the subject of tomorrow's preliminary exemination of Randolph and Neale, it can be stated that a large number of witnesses will be examined, many of whom are expected to tell startling stories in connection with this tragedy. One of the mest important of these will be Preacher Licyd of Gaithersburg, who Is understood to have important developments to make. It can be also stated that there will be no change in the personnel of the coroner's jury, which will continue its deliberations at Gaithersburg day after tomorrow, and which will be entirely distinct and separate from the preliminary examination, which will be held here tomorrow. Randolph and Neale will be brought from Paltimore in the morning, it is understood, by Sheriff Collier, and there is no apparent danger that they will be molested in any manner. It will probably depend upon the develop- ments in the examination whether they will be remanded after the trial to the county fall here in Rockville or taken back to Bai- timore. —_——.__. House Pictured by Lightning. From the Chicago Tribune. A remarkable circumstance occurred at Wakelee, Cass county, Mich., recently, dur- ing an electrical storm. The lightning pho- tographed a house, much resembling the work of X rays. A farmhouse was struck by lightning, and in an upper front room was a blank, upper white wall, opposite two windows that faced the road. The first visitors to the scene were astonished to find on the blank wall an exact picture of the outside front of the house, just as it appeared from the road. The picture was rfect and distinct as a negative. After nine days it gradually disappeared from the wail without even being copied, Constant and Systematic Work of a Single Stenographer. Besides His Task at Reporting H: Has Also Been a Private Seo- retnry for Many Years. There is & man in this town who, though but forty-seven years of age, calculates that he has done fifty-two years of work in his life. This seeming paradox is only ex- plained on the ground of excessive energy nd indefatigable enterprise. The man 1s Henry Gensler, who last Thursday com- pleted his thirtieth year of service as one of the official stenographers of the U. 8. Sezate. He is one of the best known and +. ° Henry Gensler, most popular government employes in Washington, and it is the happy fortune of the newspaper fraternity at the Capitol that Mr. Gensler is the man in charge of that branch of the senatorial reporting that makes him the means of direct com- munication with the press representatives who swarm around the Capitol daily. Constant and Systematic Work. The apparent contradiction of years is a simple matter, when it is known that not only has Mr. Gensler served for thirty years a3 an official reporter, but he has also worked for twenty-two years as private secretary to Senators; first, for three years, with Oliver P. Morton, and then, for nine- teen years, with J. Donald Cameron. This duty of itself is sufiicient to occupy a man’s entire time, and Mr. Gensler only accom- plishes his double task by the most unre- mitting fidelity and regularity of habits. He works literally from the earliest hours of morning until near midnix: Up to within a few minutes of the time the session of the Senate begins he is at Mr. Cameron's house, attending to all of the corresponderce of that busy man, and arranging detail after detail of his private and public business. When the session be- gins Mr. Gensler goes first on the floor of the ate, there to report the routine morning business, with all of its intrica- cies. This includes the introduction of bills, resolutions and orders, the presenta- tion of petitions, the discussion of the or- der of business for the day, and all the important routine business affairs that each day start the real work or debate. This routine is vastly —im- portant and must be accurately reported, for it constitutes the legislative record of the day, so far as the public is concerned, and the Congressional Record of that por- tion of the session is often referred to in debate. After the Morning Hour, The morning hour over Mr. Gensler goes to the secretary's office, where he arranges his documents, and, sitting as the center of Interest to a dozen or more newspa- per men eager for paragraphs of in- terest to their home papers, he se- lects those maiters of particular concern to each one and hands over the papers with a patience and an intelligence that are really matters for wonderment, when the rush of this man’s life Is considered. Later in the day Mr. Gensler takes his regular “turn” at the debates of the ses- sion, and in the evening,after adjournment, he is occupied until a late hour arranging the copy for the printer and getting the work closed up systematically for the day. Then he sleeps, but only for a few hours, and bright and early in the morning he is at it again, indefatigable, active, accom- modating as ever. Mr. Gensler is a native of Washington, having been born here in February, 1849. Left an orphan at the age of three he was adopted by the family of an honest me- chenic, but as soon as he could work he started in to become Independent. His first effort was as a boy in a bake shop at $4 a month and board. During the war he was employed first as a messenger for the Western Union Telegraph Company, and then as an office boy by the Washington correspondents of the New York Times and Tribune. Picked Up a $10,000 Check. One August day in 1863 he picked up a check for $10,000 In the strest. It was drawn by one army officer in the name of another. Young Gensler promptly returned the valuable paper, and for his honesty was soon afterward appointed as a riding messenger in the quartermaster general's office. He hoped to become an engineer in the navy and resigned from his government position to accept a place as apprentice in a large machine shop, where he was given the hardest, and at times the most danger- ous kind of labor. He was soon tired of this, having been broken down in health, and leaving the place he found employment at the newspaper and cigar stand in the National Hotel. It was here that he first met Richard Sutton, then in charge of the Senate reporting, and his then assistants, Dennis Murphy and his brother Jaines. The trio took a fancy to young Gensler, and after negotiations, the lad entered upon the senatorial work June 4, 1808, dur- ing the first session of the Thirty-ninth Congress. His duty was at first clerical in character, but he studied shorthand until he developed a marked proficiency, and in the course of a short time he went to work on the floor as one of the regular reporte-s. Mr. Gensler cherishes among his old files a copy of the Congressional Record issued in the third session of the Forteth Con- gress, which announces the names of the official reporters of the Senate debates as Richard Sutton, D. F. Murphy, James J. Murphy and Henry J. Gensler. Of the House the staff of reporters at that time was composed of Wm. Hincks, Wm. Blair Lord, David Wolfe Brown, John J. Mcbl- hone and Wm. Henry Burr. Of these nine men, Mr. Gensler and Mr. Brown are the only’ ones now In service. Mr. Gensler has been married since 1869, and has a charm- ing home and considerable propsriy, ac- cumulated by virtue of his indefatizable energy. ——__-e+— : Paderewski on Chinese Music. From Harper's Weekly. ‘The comments of Paderewskl and Mar- sick, the violinist, upon the Chinese music they heard in Chicago during their excur- sions :nto Chinatown are interesting. To the majority of visitors, musical or other- wise, the sounds extracted by an orchestra. of Mongolians from their primitive ban- joes and guitars is harder to endure than the screeching of the bagpipes or the blar- ing of the tomtom. Great then was the surprise when Paderewski expressed not only appreciation but approbation of the music executed by the champion artists of Chinatown. After awarding it his closest attention he announced that it was not only harmonious, but was dominated by a just and restraining sense of art, showing an advanced instead of a crude state of music- al development. This is what the Chinese themselves say. It is our music they think primitive. Marsick, however, is of quite a different opinion. He says he can find neither form nor beauty nor art in the be- wildering whining and braying of a Chi- nese musical composition. He says that it undoubtedly contains harmonies, and that what is known among the common herd as tunes occasionally appear in it, and wander cn with constant repetitions and variations of the original theme. But to find in it any expression of advanced art is to him impossible. Like the rest of the world, he thinks it music in the savage state, the tentative attempts of a people who have not yet got on as far as “Little Annie Rooney.” d Conferees Report to Beth Houses a Failure.to Agree, SHARP TALK BY GORMAN AND DOCKERY Arftew. Electric’ Light Proposition by Mr. Pitne; WATER SUPPLY DEBT Contrary to expectation, the conferees on the District appropriation bill failed to reach an agreement yesterday afternoon, and just before the time for adjournment they sent to their respective houses a re- port to the effect that they could reach no conclusion, and inferentially asked for in- structions. In the Senate it was voted to recede from opposition to the House pro- vision transferring $300,000 of the general revenues of the District to the water debt. In the House it was voted to substitute for the original provision submitting the contract for all public electric lighting to competition a new paragraph requiring the Commissioners to let to the lowest bidder the contract for lighting all that section of the District lying west of Rock cre2k. There was no debate in the Senate on Mr, Teller’s motion to recede from amend- ment 201, regarding the water fund. There was quite a breeze caused a moment later, however, when Mr. Teller explained that one of the rea! controversies in conference was the provision as to the price of public lights. Mr. Gorman took the floor and said: Mr. Gorman’s Sharp Talk. “I trust the Senate conferees on this bill will not yield any further. There seems to be a disposition on the part of the co-ordi- nate branch absolutely to ignore all the recommendations of the Senate on zhe va- rious appropriation bills. They seem to have come to a frame of mind that the Senate ought not to amend the bills in any substantial way. I understand that so far as it is agreed to our conferees have prob- ably been compelled to give way on the great items that are absolutely necessary for the health and comfort and prosperity of the people of this city. “We have had a refusal to give us addi- tional water supply, with two or three mil- lion dollars of the money of the citizens in- vested by Congress in a tunnel to bring in an additional supply to the city lying there dead and idle. A report of the engincers, under a commission appointed by ihe chief of engineers, is in favor of it, yet 1 wnder- stand we have been compelled to give it up.” “Certainly,” answered Mr, Teller. “On the other great item, to protect the y with a sufficient number of police, we have been compelled to yield,” said Mr. Gorma: “1 will say that the House made an mendment adding twenty-five, and the Senate added seventy-five,” Mr. Teller ex- plained. “We finally took ‘twenty-five from the Senate number, making it fi ield- ing two-thirds.” “That is done,"* complained Mr. Gorman, “when the number of police is known to be insufficient to cover the territory and to keep the peace with a population that ts growing, while a class of people are com- ing in here who, in many respects, require great looking after. When sister cities near this are compelled to detail their offi- cers to come here and to aid and look after the class of people who naturally “ome to the capital, we cannot have protection, when the government pays only a part of the cost and the citizens are amply able and willing .o pay their share of. it. Neither are we to have proper improve- ments of the streets. Problem of Public Lighting. “Now comes the matter of the lighting of the Capitol, the parks, the avenues and the streets. Two years ago, when I was assigned as one of the conferees on the District appropriation bill, we agreed, after a long conference, to fix a lower rate for lighting this city than any city on the At- lantic coast. The price stands today for lighting lamps lower than in any other city. It was the understanding on my part at that time—and that is the reason I make this statement—that we were fixing the price at so low a rate that it should not be disturbed until there was some change in conditions which made it possible to secure fairly a lower rate. At this session another committee, as was so well stated by the Senator who now occupies the chair (Mr. Faulkner), after a thorough investi- gation, came to the conclusion that the rate we fixed two years ago was lower than it ought to have been; that Is to say, the difference between 89 ‘cents and $1.4 thousand feet. There now comes from the co-ordinate branch, after this action of Congress on an appropriation bill two years ago, which was practically the unan- imous action of both houses of Congress on another bill, a demand for another cut, simply because we are dealing with a cor- poration. I think there is such a thing as ‘air and honorable dealing with all inter- ests, corporations included, and I trust the conferees on the part of the Senate will not further surrender. We have surrendered on the water question, on the protection of the city, on the improvements of the streets, above all things the schools, and for the sewerage for the health of the city. Time for Senatorial Independence. “I think {t Is time, Mr. President, that the Senate should assert itself; and, so far as I am concerned, I should much prefer that no appropriation bill whatever should pass at this session of Congress rather than to make a further surrender. It will be, in my judgment, I may say, almost dis- sraceful. if we cannot stop this matter at some point. “Then there is the inatter of charities, It is proposed by the other branch of Con- gress that we shall make no_ provision Which can be enforced for the charities to take care of the poor of the District of Columbia and to look after the maimed in hospitals, all because, Mr. President, there has grown up a desire in certain quarters at this session to bring in a religious ques- tion in connection with those necessary ex- penditures. We are threatened daily at these conferences that Congress will lave to remain here rather than they wiil give way. I prefer that Congress should remain here until December next rather than that this body shall do injustice to these great charitable institutions which we have fos- tered and built up and encouraged, and which have conducted their affairs as well as any institutions in this country. “The Senate in its action proposed to con- tinue the appropriations, which have here- tofore been satisfactory, precisely as we made them at the last session. We also Proposed to appoint a commission to ex- amine the whole question ard ascertain whether there is any defect in the man- agement, whether any improvement can be made in the manner of conducting these institutions, as to the number of them, and whether any amount of mcney which has becn appropriated goes to any church. We prohibited the last by express lan- guage, as I understand, in the amendment of the Senate, end yet we are held here and threatened that we shall be kept here for an indefinite period unless we surren- der. Mr. President, I would remain here. I think it Is time for our conferees to no- tify thoss who have charge of bills else- where that that threat will rot intimidate the Senate. Our action) 1s ir. strict con- formity to the law. It is economical; it is just to every interest; it discriminates in favor of none. Ready to Stand By. “I stand by this bill as the Senate has passed it, because it is the law today, and the other branch is seeking to change the law. The house which attempts to change the law on an appropriation bill, if the other house objects, must give away. We aro in the right, and I trust our conferees will not recede one inch further. It would be, as I have said, almost disgraceful at this stage of the proceedings to do so. Is it possible that religious prejudice will car- ry us so far that these two great hospitals in the District of Columbia will be deprived of the power to attend the unfortunates who meet with accidents daily upon the streets? “I want to say, Mr. President, that so far as I am concerned the fear of remain- ing here six months will not drive me from the position which I have taken upon this measure, and I trust it will rot drive the Senate.” This closed the aiscussion and the report Dole! adopted and the bill sent back to con- erence. In the House. The same report of a disagreement was made in the House in the midst of a fill- buster by the democrats against the Under- wood-Aldrich contested election case, and there was a spirited struggle made against its reception, Finally Mr. Dalzell, occupy- ing the chair, ruled the report to be in order, and Mr. Pitney, one of the confer- ees, moy that the House recede from its Provision, to which the Senate objects, to the following effect: “Provided further, that the entire service of electric lighting authorized under chis appropriation shall be let, after due advertisement, to the low- est responsible bidder therefor: Provided, further, that no contract shall be made for electric arc Hghting at a price oxceeding the rate herzinbefore specified.” In licu of this paragraph Mr. Pitney proposed the following amendment: Mr. Pitney's Proposition. “Provided further, That the service of electric lighting in those streets and places west of Rock creek now lighted by are lights, and necessary extensions of said service, shall be let, after due advertisa- ment, to the lowest responsible bidder, but no contracts shall be made for such lights at a price exceeding $100 per lamp per year for each arc light of candle power equal to or greater than that now furnished; and “Provided further, That the Commission- ers of the District may, under such reason- able restrictions as they may prescribe, authorize any existing electric light com. pany, organized under the laws of the Dis- trict of Columbia, to maintain and use its existing poles and lines and extensions thereof, either overhead or underground, in Places outside of the fire limits of the city of Washington, and by underground con- duits only inside the said fire limits, such Hines not to be extended in any part of the District of Columbia except in that portion of the same lying west of Rock creek. “Provided further, That from such lines as may be maintained or established under authority of this act eiectricity for lights and power shall not be sold io any con- sumer at rates exceeding 87 per cent of prices charged generally in the city of Washington for such lights and power on the Ist day of January, 1895; and “Provided further, That the District fire alarm and messenger service may be es- tablished along the overhead or under- ground lines hereby authorized to be main- tained and constructed, without charge for pole rent or conduit rent to the District.” Point of Order Defeated. Mr. Richardson promptly made the point of order against this amendment that it was not germane to the pending propos!- on. The chair (Mr. Daizell) ruled that the point of order was not well taken, as the matter in controversy related directly to the price of electric lights and the method of letting the contract. Mr. Vitney took the floor t some length the relations existing between the two electric lighting companies and the Commissioners, which are already fa- miliar the readers of The Star. He concluded with the following brief explana- tion of his proposition: “The amend: intended to permit the District’ Commi explain at sioners to let, upon competition, so much of the Hghting business as ies west of Be k creek, and to grant permits for un- derground conduits only so far as the fire limits extend. Beyond those fire limits they may give permits for overhead construc- tion as well as underground.” After a somewhat heated discussion on the parliamentary status of the amend- ment between Messrs. Pitney and Richard- son, Mr. McMillin said: As to Loc opolics. “The gentleman has referred to some ex- traordinary or peculiar decision whereby only one company has the power to furnish electric light in this District. I want to know why such a monopoly is given and why the monopoly ts respected “That monopoly does not happen to be respected by me, and has not been, and I have attempted to break it up,” answered Mr. Pitney. “That is the very purpose of the amendment I have offered. “You propose to break it up in the suburbs, but it lives still in the city,” re- torted Mr. McMillin. “Well, that is the very best we can do at this ume," said Mr. Pitney. “If the gen- tleman has a better proposition to make, he can make It.” Mr. Dockery on the Situation. Mr. Dockery here made a statement. He said: “In further answer to the question of the gentleman from Tennessee, I may say that the electric monopoly is not the only one that has flourished In this District. There is a gas monopoly in this city, full fledged and with ample powers. Recently @ bill was passed reducing somewhat the profits received by this cMmpany for fur. nishing gas light to the citizens and the gov- ernment, but I understand the claim is now made by the company that the bill not only includes the cost of gas furaisaed to public buildings in the city, but also applies to the street-lighting service. I am glad to say, however, that our friend, the gentle- man from Wisconsin (Mir. Babcock), and the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Rich- ardson) both insist that that claim is not warranted by anything that occurred in the conference committee or by the terms of the law itself. “I had no knowledge that my colleague was to offer this instruction to the commit- tee of conference, but I heartily indorse it. This electric light company has unrelent- ingly pursued its honorable competitor in this District. It is employing, to use a homely but very expressive phrase, the ‘dog in the manger’ policy. ‘The United States Electric Company caanot go into the territory covered by the amendment of the gentleman from New Jers2y, under a decision of the Supreme Court of the Dis- trict, neither can the other company, but the old company proposes to keep out the new company from the territory not now occupied except in a very limited way. Backing Up the House. “I hope the House will stand by the amendment of the gentleman from New Jersey. I think it is entirely proper and opportune, and {s in the interest of the peo- ple of the District and against the existing monopoly. ‘I may say further taat the committee ould perhaps have been able to agree in the- conference just closed but for the fact that the contention is made for a larger compensation for Ughting the streeis than the conferees of the House thought was warranted. The recent bill, which became a law by the approval of the President on yesterday, reduces the cost of gas in public buildings—and I desire to thanit the gentle men from Tennessee and Wisconsin. for what they have accomplished—reiuces the cost of gas used in public buildings. The House conferees desire to make a corre- sponding reduction in the cost of lighting streets. That is the issue in part which is new delaying an agreement, which I hepe, however, may be accompilsned at the next meeting of the conferees.” John Allen’s Sarcasm. “I just want to ask,” interpolated Mr. Allen of Mississippi, “if this District is dominated by a gas monopoly and by an electric monopoly- “And by a telephone monopoly,” inter- rupted Mr. Dockery. “And a telephone monopoly,” Mr. Allen went on, “had we not better cease talking about adjournment and suspend the rules and break up the monopoly here before we leave this District?” “The suggestion of the gentleman from Mississippi 1s very timely,” said Mr. Dock- ery, “and I wish scme arrangement could be made to accomplish this result. But there is a co-ordinate branch of the govern- ment which sometimes indulges in lengthy detate—” Phen let the responsibility rest on the otker branch of the government,” Mr. Allen broke in, “his closed the debate, and on a roll call the amendment was adopted, 178 to 1, Mr. Hil of Connecticut casting the only nega- tive vote. The biil was then sent back to conference, —_—___+e+____ Our Ailments. From Harper's Bazar. There is something humiliating in the fact that we all—unless we are very un- usual persons, as some of us doubtless are —love to talk about our ailments. An in- valid often seems to find her chief joy in retailing to sympathizing friends ali her symptoms. The truth is that our ill health is of no interest to any one besides those who love us, and we may weary even them by talking over our ailments. While men- tal anguish is often gased by “talking It out,” bodliy pain is never banisned by moaning over it. To fret over pain that must be borne is childish. To suffer and be strong—and therefore silent—is sublimé, WILL THEY PAY IT? B. & 0. Receivers Considering the : Johns Hopkins Debt. LEGAL COMPLICATIONS ARE POSSIBLE Some Interesting Inside History of the Company’s Finances. THW LEASED LINES The receivers of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company have had comparatively smooth sailing for several weeks past. Through J. P. Morgan & Co., or houses closely connected with that great bank- ing firm, they have provided for the Payment of such interest as appeared best to be met, and they have been, or are certain to be, supplied through the issue of certificates with the necessary funds to pay for the new rolling stock re- cently contracted for, besides some for which the contracts have not yet been awarded. Unless, however, there is a great change in the relations which exist between the management of the company and the trus- tees of the Johns Hopkins University, a legal fight will be inaugurated by the former in less than a month, which may sive the company more trouble than it has experienced in a long time. Since it has become generally known that $1,100,000 of the endowment for the university left by the late Johns Hopkins was in a single issue of $3,000,000 bonds of the Baltimore und Ohio Railroad Compaay there has been much surprise manifested that such an able and successfu! financier as Mr. {opkins would invest such a large sum of money in one security, and the trustees of the university, most of whom were personal friends of Mr. Hopkins, and selected by him to administer the trust, have deter- mined, it is said, that they owe it to his menory to show to the financial world that Mr. Hopkins was not unwise in making such a large investment. Payin. ( to Be Demand An investigation has been going on for some weeks in Baltimore by the counsel of the university in reference to the matter, und it has been developed that although President John W. Garrett of the Baltimore d Ohio and Mr. Johns Hopkins were on terms of the closest personal intimacy, the mortgage covering Mr. Hopkins’ inves Ment was so drawn as to provide for the Payment of 6 per cent semi-annually out of the gross receipt of the ilroad com- pan. 7 trustees have, it is understoo adopted this view and July 1 will deman the payment of the coupons then becoming (ive, if not of those which have been ov=r- It is now expect hat receivers will resist the demand, and trustees of the universiiy will at @ the matter into the courts. When nd will be reached it is impossible to ct, but If the trustees win it will mean comfortable addition, it is said, of $590,000 to the treasury @f the university. It is said that a number of other Baltt- moreans who are holder& of Paltimore and Ohio securities are encouraging the un y trustees in the course they have adopted, and that if it is necessary for them to come to the aid of the university during the fight they will do so. Stariling Developments Possible. The relations of the Central Ohio division of the B. and O. system, and one of its most vital parts, to the B. and O. com- pany are especially interesting at this time, and there may be startling deveiop- ments in that direction in the course of a few weeks. A letter received in this city yesterday from a member of the B. and O. reorgani- due for years past. the zation committee contains the following: “As far as is known the coupons falling due March 1 cn Central Ohio first mort- gage Jz per cent bonds remain unpaid. The mortgage under which these bonds were issue] provides that on for ninety days the trustee, on request of om fourth in interest of the bondholders, take pos on and sell the property, de- clare the principal, etc. “As the coupons on Central Ohio bonds have now been in default more than ninety days, the bondholders can, if they choose, take possession. It must be the intention of the receivers to pay the coupons on Cen tral Chio bonds. The Central Ohio road fs too valuable to the B. and O. to run the risk of losing it. The B. and O. company has shown in its annual reports that it has been losing tnoney in operating the Central agreed rental,’and when the ent comes it may be that an effort will be made to modify the lease. In the case of the Parkersburg Branch 6's and Philadelphia Branch 4''s the limit of de- fault is also ninety days, and as the cou- pons matured in April, the mortzages will mature if interest is not paid before July 1, Messrs. Speyer & Co. purchased the Central Ohio coupons, J. P. Morzan & Co. those of Parkersburg Branch and Brown Bros. & Co. those of ther Philadelphia branch. The payment recently of coupons fall- ing due on June 1 on B. and O. Terminal #2 per cents, Chicago Division and Schuylkill East Side S's would indicate that the policy of the receivers will be to pay maturing interest on lines absolutely essential to the integrity of the sysiem, and upon such properties as are self-sup- porting, if It 1s possible to do so. A Change for the Better. “There has been a great change in the policy of running the Baltimore and Ohio since thoroughly efficient and practical men have been put in charge of affairs, continues the letter. “The train service and equipment have already been wonderfully improved, “The placing of the B. and O. proper in the hands of receivers was an unavoil able misfortune. ‘The property had been run down physically and its credit destroy- ed. The road will now be built up and put in first-class physical condition. It is hard- ly possible that the new money necessa to improve and equip the property and ri lieve It from embarrassing fioating indebt- edness can come out of the earnings, and it goes without saying that sacrifices must be made. “But such sacrifices should fall where they properly belong, on the non-prod. tive and non-self-supporting properties Power of the Receiver: The following, which is an extract from the order of the court granting the receiv- ers authority to issue certificates of tn- debtedness, is understood to mean that the receivers can make as radical changes in the B. and O. system as they choose: “Nothing in this order contained shall be held to be an election on the part of the court or its receivers to assume or adopt any of the leases or contracts under : the several lines of railroads came into the possession of and were being cperated by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, but the directions to the reretvers as to any and all such lines of railroads are pro- visicnal only. The recsivers are directed to keep separate accounts of the carnings and expenses of all such leased and operated lines, and report the same. The court reserves full power to deal with the custody of such roads hereafter by them electing to adopt or surrender any or all of such leases or contracts, and reserves full power at any time to set aside or modify this order as to paymen:s under leases or contracts, upon the application of any party in interest or of the receivers.” —__>__ Genius is Hard Work. From the Pittsburg Christian Advocate, Men never differ very widely about the quality of genius, but they are much at variance as to what constitutes that qual- ity. Is genius natural, or is it acquired? Can a man, by native powers, unaided by hard labor and ciose application, mourt the pedestal of genius? We think not. Genius rather is the result of careful study of one’s natural abilities, coupled with un- remitting application of those powers to the work in hand. Instead of being gen- iuses in spite of themselves, men are so in spite of circumstances. The idea of a lazy genlus is untenable. The genius is the mest painstaking and busy of all men. Labor is genius. => JUDGING BY RACES This Most Infa ible Means, The face is a true index to the state of the health, and a person's looks will always show when anything serious is the matter. For tn- stance, the signs of a rundown system are plainly indicated by wrinkled brows, a pale or sallow complexion, dullress of the eyes, bad breath, dark circles under the eyes, twitching of the muscles and a tired, miserable expression. There ure thousands of men aud women who bear these signs of ill health in their faces. We meet them in the streets, in the cars, at church and clsewhere. All of them show the imprint of sickness, unhappiness and misery. Ask them if anything ails them, and in most cases they, i tell you they suffer from tired feelings, strange sensations, dyspepsia, constipation and loss of vitality. But is there no way for such people to change thelr sickly appearance imto looks of health and vigor? Yes, but not without help. Nuture ree quires an* must have assistance. The system heeds stimulating, strengthening and building up. How? Simply by the use of a puie, medicinal stimulant, and for this purpose there is nothing better than pure malt whiskey. Leading phystciang: and sci r has ulso by perience that to whis key {8 so pure aud strengthening as Duffy's pure malt. It stimulates tissues, quickens the invigorates the whole body. All grocers and druggists kee mare malt, but in purchusing sev tat » ferior imitation. Accept unly the geaulma, ng else can produce the same effec STORM WAT ING FROM DOME. A Brooklyn Clergyman Writes a Vivid Description From Washington. From the Brooklyn Eagle. The Rev. Horace Porter, Dr. Lyman Ab- bott’s active young assistant, has written the following interesting letter to a friend in Brooklyn: “As it was my first visit to Washington, the Capitol, with Congress in session, was the first attraction. There, after a visit to the Senate and House, the library and Su- preme Court rooms, I made my way to the dome for a first impression of the beauti- ful city. The glories of the vision from that height only those know who have stood on a fair spring day. As you encircle the dome you find the Capitol to be the center of broad, shady avenues, converging from all points of the compass. It not paved with gold, they are, at least, quite as ideally smooth, and the prancing horses, the great coaches, the gliding bicycles, pass in a silent panorama far below you. To the south and west are the parkways called the mall, in which is the Smithsonian In- stituuion, and at the further end the ma- Jestic Washington monument, a giant towe ing above all else, as he to whom the pile was raised as a fitting monument, This monument is at or within a few rds of the exact center of the original District of Columbia. While viewing all this and with the beautiful Potomac in the distance, a slight cloud w able in estern horizon. I ng a it- e to drink in the fascinating scene, soon evid it was question- whether ould reach Kendall en, my ¢ fon, without encounter- ing something of a storm. “In a mon nt more a wonderf. ‘st upon the view, far over Arlingt ond the woodlands in Virginia seemed as if a gigantic battle were raging just beyond the Virginia shores, Clouds of rising dust seemed like the smoke of the battlcfields, the lightnings in the depths of the storm were like the flash of a hundred cannon, the distant thunders Itke the bat- tle roar. The scene was too fascinating for me to think of rv ting before the ap- proaching hurricane. There were those om the dome with me who exclaimed, ‘Bt. Louis and fled, taking their flight headlong down the dark stairways within. But, if it were a cyclone, where could one be safer than within the giant arms of eel which support that great dome? On the storm came! Suddenly Arlington and all beyond were totally hidden from view in the cloud of dust, flying leaves and small branches torn from the trees. The storm seemed fairly to plunge down the placid Potomac. In the pathway of the storm the river seemed to turn black with rage, then was lost in the confused ss of storm, while on either side the storm's path the river was still calm, reflecting its stl- very light. In another instant the whole water front of the city was the scene of some awful attack. On the right, as the eye followed down in the general direction over Pennsylvania avenue, the dust shot forth from the west in a northerly direc- tion, while on the other side the storm path another enormous tusk of dust shot forth in a southerly direction. It was no longer a batue scene, put, rather, that of some monster hidden within the cloud, which his own terrible motion had created, plunging down upon the city, to gore it with those giant tusks and tram- ple it in his fury! he old dome keeper and two or three of us faced the awful sight as long 2s w possibly could, then retreated before the blinding dust to the doorway of the dome. There we held our ground throughout the whole of the terrible scene. The dome seemed transformed into a great holier room, the wind was as escap) team whistling about our ears! The streets be- low were the scone of the wildest conf. sion; workmen's coats went flying down th avenues, hats and umbrellas were lifted high into the air, cabs were turned about, horses took fright, awnings were torn loose—and then all was darkness—the cloud of dust was so dense that the beautiful city at our feet was totally obscured. We could hear the crash of breaking trees and hear the shouts of horsemen; then the drench- ing rainfall drove us within the dome, When we descended we discovered how soiled were our . how thick matte our hair and how dim were our ey the cloud of dust which had been rai. the lofty dome—and probably far hig — FRED GRANT'S HOPE. The Dend President's Son Snid Want to Run With McKinley. St. Louis Special in the Phils Fred Grant, it 1s sald, wants second place on the ticket with McKinley. Not only has he visited Canton, but he has secured th highest-priced suite of apartments at the Planters’ Hotel, on the same floor with those of the New York delegation, and they will be occupied not by the colonel, but by a lobbyist, the fairest and most resourceful in the land. She is none other than Mrs, from ed to er.” te phia Press, Potter Palmer of Chicago, Grant's sister- in-law. Her father, Ben F. Honore da fiying visit to Chicago, and to an old-time friend from Louisville confided his son-in- law's ambition and how his daughter in- tended to aid him to compass it. She will take up her quarters in suite 418 at the Planters’ on June 12 and begin the work of electioncering. It is said she has a majority of the Illinois delegation pledged to her brother-in-law, and that she has secu promises from a number of other republican state leaders to work for Col. Grant's nomination. Senator Cullom is scheduled to put Col. Grant in nomin: tion, and Warner Miller of New York is booked to make the scconding speech. Those who know the resources of diplo- macy and wide acquaintanceship among aders In politics and finance in all the at the command of this renowned Woman can’ understand how strong the Grant candidacy will be. = HEALS RUNNING SORES CURES the SERPENT’S STING CONTAGIOUS harm, mos the poison and butlds up the system. Valuable treatise on the disouse and its treatment wailed free, SWIFT SPECIFIC CO,, Atlanta, Ga _