Evening Star Newspaper, July 4, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. Bt "AN INCOME TAXI —> Proposed Feature of the Financial System of Hawaii. PASSEGE OF THE BILL BY THE SENATE Supplying the American Market With Bananas. EXPANSION OF TRADE Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, June 20, 1896. Hawati is making a first step toward tax- ing Incomes. A bil! is in its final stages for a tax of 1 per cent on all incomes in excess of $2,000. At his request, the su- Prene court has rendered to President Dole their opinion, which is favorable, as to the tax being consti ional. The Senate was divided on the passage of the bill by a majority of eight to six. I am sorry to say that the minority embraced the senators of largest wealth. This was natural, but not good in the impression given to the people @s to the degree of public spirit in our men of capital. They are able and useful legis- lJators, and, as a class, men of munificent habit, and one does not like to see them taking an attitude prejndicing their chances of re-election. An income tax, and a heavy one, is bound to form a part of our future financial sys- tem. The present is only a first and ex- perimental attempt, by way of seeing what can be Cone in that line and learning how to operate the system. Our people are ad- vancit.g in ther convictions that the wealthy should bear a large share of the burdens of the government which protects them in gaining and holding their great es- tates. The present law is likely to be fol- lowed by a graded income tax with an in- creasing percentage on the higher incomes. Our Hawalian community already feels an influence from the example of New Zealand, which is a somewhat near neighbor. That colony has made great advances in the direction of graded taxation, not only of incomes, but also of individual estates in land. A leading object of increased taxation of large holdings of land is, of course, to dis- courage very large landed possessions, and to make it desirable to thelr owners to part with them to small holders. Our present industrial system in Hawaii, while now pro- ductive of wealth in a high degree, tends in many districts to prevent the establish- ment of small farmers, the yeomanry who censtitute the most valuable citizenship in any country. This evil will be more felt as the immigration of white agriculturists in- creases. A sugar plantation is apt to be profitable in proportion to its size. A mill that turns our from fifty to one hundred tons of sugar a day can be worked with much greater economy than the smaller mills producing from ten to twenty tons daily. Thus the tendency 1s to consolidate all neighboring plantations into one, as well as to ebsorb all available bits of land in the district, crowding out the small cultivators. Where a large plantation exists, it becomes quite Impossible for the small farmer to obtain land at all. There is no room for him. The community comes to consist of a white manager and half a dozen white sub- ordinates, with a thousand or so of illiter- ate laborers, mostly Asiatics. Large Land Holdings. On the other hand ft ts to be said of the three largest plantations in the ts- Jands, that they occupy no land which could have become availoble for small farmers at any near period. They are lo- cated upon arid tracts, and depend entire- ly upon artificial irrigation, which cost a vast initial expenditure. It is also true of vated wilderness, used for grazing. It 13 very probable that in the near future, when our expected annexaticn to the United States shall have checked the Asiatic labor supply, and shall have set in motion # stream of white immigrants from America, many of the less favorably lo- cated sugar estates will become unprofit- able, and will be subdivided into small holdings and sold. Tgis will be greatly to be desired. And the previous reclamation of the land frcm its primitive roughness, with its imprcvements in roads, fences, and many buildings, will make such places very desirable for settlement by small farmers. Really, though, there never need be any serious difficulty in independent farmers finding an abundance of land on which to locate to advantage, now that the govern- ment is embarked upon a liberal policy of road making to open up the districts hith- erto practically inaccessible. During the coming two years from 100 to 1M) miles of new roads of the best quality will open for settlement over 100,000 acres of virgin coffee lands of the first-class on the Island of Hawaii. These roads will place the cul- tivator in easy communication with good seaports, enabling him to market not only coffee, but perishable products, which may be in demand in the towns. The advan- tage of such roads fs proved by the way in which 20,000 acres of coffee lands along the new volcano road have been taken up during the past three years by white set- tlers. Already branch roads are demanded to penetrate the forest and reach the tracts lying in the rear. The increased taxes on these occupfed lands already more than twice pay the interest on the entire $120,000 which the whole thirty miles of road cost. Trade With This Country. As available for exportation to California, one perishable product, easily produced here by the small cultivator, is especially worthy of mention. Bananas are already exported from Honolulu to San Francisco at the rate of 10,000 or more bunches monthly, at rates fairly profitable to the cultivator. This business is capable of Great expansion. Your Immense West India banana traffic indicates what will yet be done from Hawaii to supply the grgw- ing population of the Pacifle coagt “with this very popular fruit. Althouse», our ba- Nanas already suffer from, s@vapetition with the supplies sent by ré“way and steamer from Mexico and 4yen from Texas ports, Te 22 well suated for successfully meet- ing such ¢mpetition. <.#B® present banana crop ts all raised ‘within a few miles of this city upon scat- tered small patches. There is abundance of available land for such culture along the line of the Oahu railway. The largest district soon to be made accessible to the city, Is one of about 7,500 acres of excel- lent banana lands, from seven to ten miles from the city on the windward or rainy side of the island. This 1s at present un- available owing to a 900-foot precipice. Down this precipice, known as the Nunanu Pall, a wagon road of easy grade is im- Mediately to be completed at a cost of about 33,000. The effect of this road will Recessarily be to make the occupancy of those lands profitable for small cultivators, especially for raising bananas, of which 500,000 bunches could easily be produced annually in that section for export from Honolulu. All tourists to Honolulu know the Nunanu Pall, with its magnificent panorama of mountain precipice, verdant rolling glades and foaming reefs. That slope of the island divided from the city by a vast mountain wall, faces the northeast trade winds, and gets their moisture, while the Honolulu side {s somewhat arid, so that nothing is Produced on the shore without irrigation. jose Kaolan slopes recetve about eighty fmches of annual rainfall to our thirty, and so need no irrigation for elther sugar- ane or bananas. The contrast of that green country to our brown hillsides {s tmmense. The coming road dewn the Pall will be a great boon. It will induce many of our people to oecupy country seats In that district, as a few already do, labor- fously climbing the steep Pali trail on mules or horses. ‘The entire lower belt of the Hila country is eminently sufted to banana culture, owing to its moisture and fertility. It Is not the Jess so, in that a large part of the land is too rough and lava-strewn to be bearable. anas call for no ploughing. They re- quire deep holes, seven or eight feet apart, the ground kept clean, very rich soll and @bundant moisture. Then, during three years, each hole is good for from five to eight bunches, averaging seventy-five nds each, before its capacity for pro- tion Is exhausted. This is a business Well adapted to the white farmer, in a mild elimate Itke ours. The Hila banana belt will be below the 1,000-foot line of altitude, oo fa a which averages ten miles inland. It is a tropical plant, which does not thrive in higher altitudes or where the néghts and winter menths are chill. The higher dis- tricts are admirably suited to coffee, which thrives best at about 1,500 feet, although doing well anywhere between 300 and 3,000. Many farmers in Hila will be likely to com- bine coffee and bananas, together with general farm products, for domestic con- sumption, such as corn, squashes, sweet Fotatoes, together with the necessary cows, Pigs ard poultry. Above 2,500 feet, Irish potatoes do well. A Line of Frefght Steamers. Im no very remote future it may be ex- pected that a semi-monthly line of freight steamers will carry from Hilo bananas to San Francisco, as well as coffee and sugar, and make a very paying business of it. A wharf is now ordered for construction on the inner hight of Hilo bay, where ships can He alorgside. A railway of one and a half miles will connect wharf and town. This railway will be gradually extended so as to take in all the plantations along sixty miles of coast northward, where landings are aifficult. This is destined soon to render Hilo an important port, supporting its own line of steamers direct to San Francisco. Give us annexation as soon as your re- publican Congress and administration settle down to business in 1897, and we will at ence have many hundreds of magnificent fifty and hundred-acre coffee and banana farms ready for your enterprising people. That will be only a small installment of what will follow. We can find room in Hawail for half a million of the best Americans. We have as yet only scratcned the surface of our natural resources, of whose capability we are constantly receiv- ing new revelations. And to crown all, is our glorious climate of such magnificent mildness, where sunstroke is unknown. I might add something of a growing pros- pect of an immense future pineapple trade with the coast, but that is hardly yet an estatlished fact, although most promts- ing. After so much talk about bananas, I cannot refrain from denouncing the ex- travagance of Humboldt’s constantly quot- ed and preposterous statement that an ecre of bananas will produce fifty times as much nutriment as an acre of wheat or potatoes. Humboldt probably saw a few hills of bananas in some exceptionally rich plot with abundance of moisture, and in that stage of growth when bunches are turned out in rapid succession. He neglect- ed to allow for the great exhaustion of the soll, and need of subsequent resting of the land. as well as for the year or :nore of growth before fruit appears. From my own experience witn bananas, I question whether it fs very much mora productive of nutriment than the esculent roots lke taro, yams and sweet potatoes, which form the chief food of Polynesians. In a flood- ed patch, with careful hand culture, taro will amply feed twelve persons ‘0 the acre. But there is not one acre in five hundred of the whole country that can be made to co this. With bananas, much animal food would be necessary in addition. Still, it is a valuable fruit, and profitable to raise for exportation. KAMEHAMEHA. —_——__ ENTHUSIASTIC OVER WASHINGTON A Newspaper Writer Who Found the City Radinntly Beautiful. From the ‘Two Republics,” Mexico. My Washirgton correspondent writes: I have girded my soul to enable me to re- sist the temptation to rhapsodize over this city in its present attire, but it 1s almost too much for me. We have just come in from a walk of some thirty blocks, and this not in sequestered places, but right through the heart of the capital, straight down the broad and blazing spaces of Pennsylvania avenue, and yet, so rare, so radiantly beautiful is the city, that even such a walk as this may well beguile one’s ben into what a stranger might construe as a sheer extravaganza of praise, which it isn’t; 1t !s a sober and just appreciation of a@ town that, with its setting of ninety thousand trees, within the limits (not in remote parks), presents an unequaled pic- ture among capitals, as foreigners them- selves concede. And even Pennsylvania avenue, a hundred and fifty feet wide, is relieved by the reservations, while, turning to look up and down, at every crossing the eye 1s lost in delicious vistas of delicate greenery, and today this town is nothing less than radiantly pretty, alluringly love- ly and enchantingly beautiful, not a syl- lable less. In Lafayette Square, directly in front of the White House, it is said there ts every tree that will flourish in this latitude, Including the magnificent “em- peror tree” of Japan, which is on the White House mall, a large, stately tree that flowers to the top, with full clusters, shaped like the white cone blossoms of the horse chestnut, but of lilac color, so that the first time we saw the tree it looked as if a mighty wisteria vine had draped itself over all the branches; magnolias are here in number, presenting, at Easter, a superb spectacle, and exalting matchless fra- grance through the park: the cedar of Leb- anon lays its spreading boughs down al- most upon the ground; the purple beech this morning looked like a golden-bronze fretwork against a perfect sky; a dogwood in clustering petals stands like a bridal bouquet directly in front of the White House, and somber pines are grouped be- tween bright maples, and oak and elms teach out magnificent lines of verdure, and underneath, all sorts of pretty bushes, in flower, and all this, with too much more to detail, 1s not out at the remote limits of a city, but all through the heart of it, so that the children are playing everywhere, and life seems as if the world itself were young. ee Spain From a Car Window. Elizabeth Robins Pennell in the Century. It was fiery hot. It was noon when we reached the junction of Bobadilla, where we turned eastward toward Granada. The carriage seemed a furnace, its wood was fire to our touch, the air that came through the windows was burning. The country was scorched to a cinder; the mountains glittered in the heat; the shadeless towns quivered in a hot haze like a mirage. We lay back, panting, fanning ourselves with our hats and our guide books. We came to baked, dust-driven stations; at each was the same cry of ‘“‘Wate1! water!” from the women who mee a living by selling it, and the péopje In the train who were try- ing to dflnk it, To *ames—Antequera, Loja, San Fernan- *2—that earlier had thrilled us in Murray and Washington Irving we were now in- different, as they were spluttered by the dusi-choked guard. For hours the horizon was bounded by low mountains, with here and there tiny patches of snow on their upper slopes. But where the dazzling, glow- ing snow-peaks of the Sierra Nevada, that locm up so magnificently in the romance of Washington Irving, and in the story of every traveler who has been to Granada? True, through the cane-brake, stifling in the torrid air, we had seen two or three low hills crowned with olive groves, plant- ed like a map, and on the top of each something that looked like the ruins of gigantic brick kilns or tumbled-down fac- tories. Granada rust be near, for we had Passed San Fernando; but neither to the right nor to the left could be seen the min- arets of the Moorish city or the domes of Catholic Spain. Slower and slower went the train, and then it stopped. Every one got out, and we knew it was Granada. “It is not generally known,” observed a Prominent blacksmith, “that nearly all of the anvils used by blacksmiths tn this country are made by one firm in Brooklyn, N.Y. All kinds of substitutes have been in- vented and put on the market, but after us- ing them the blacksmith generally goes back to the wrought iron anvil, which is hand made. There are plonty of cast iron and steel anvils for sale, but they find but little favor from blacksmiths, who prefer an anvil that sings. The cast fron anvil has no music about it and does not give any more response to the hammer than if one was hammerirg on a stump. It is musto, or singing, as the smithy calls it, that is wanted. A blacksmith does nearly all his talking to his helper by the sounds made on the anvil by his hammer. As far as the vil- lage blacksmith is concerned, singing by the anvil is his constant advertisement. Or- dinarfly an anvil will last from ten to twenty years; that fs, if it is handled care- fully, though there are many anvils that are now used by sons which were used by the fathers during their entire lifetime.” ——eee—____ All’s Well That E: From the Texas Sifter. “How is that fued between you and Jim McSnifter getting on? Is it as bitter as ever?” “No, the whole thing is happily ended.” a am glad to hear that’ PY ‘es; I am out on bond, and the coroner is sitting on James right now.” Well. A ROYAL WEDDING Princess Mand to Be Married to Prinee Charles of Denmark. PREPARATION OF THE TROUSSEAU Trip of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery. CURRENT THEATRICAL NOTES (Copyright, 1896, by the Assoctated Press.) LONDON, July 4.--The wedding of Prin- cess Maud of Wales to Prince Charles of Denmark has tinally been fixed for July 22. The queen will attend the ceremony, and it has been practically decided that the young couple will traverse London while on their way to Sandringham, in order to enable the masses to greet them. The trousseau, which has been prepared by various English and Irish houses, is almost completed. The work has been un- der the personal supervision of the Prin- cess of Wales, who has allowed a number of lady reporters to i.spect it. The wed- ding gown ts of white satin with a deep Lelt of silver embroidery, studded with a delicate design in brilliants. The material was woven at Spitallields. It would take columns of space to briefly describe the host of charming costumes, ete., adapted to all occasions, which have been prepared for the popular princess. The costumes are chiefly tailor-made, and include a bicycling costume of fawn-col- cred Venetign cloth, with a narrowish skirt having little pockets at the hem.to hold shet intended to keep the dress in place. Among the numerous hats of the princess is a leather-hued Tam O'Shanter, in addi- tion to a number of fancy straws for bi- cycling and walking. There are gloves in endless variety and hose of the finest silk, with beautiful designs in embroidery and open work. Besides innumerable indoor evening shoes and slippers of the most delicate and beautiful materials, there is one pair of slippers wrought in brilliants. The number of outdoor shoes and gaiters is unusually large,and all the leather shoes, either Russian or kid, have thick soles and low heels. Some of them are very high, running up to fifteen buttons for real hard work. Every pair is fitted with light pol- ished boot trees, brass-plated, and en- graved on the plates are the arms and ini- tials of the bride as a Princess of Den- mark. The Princess of Wales,among other gifts, has presented her daughter with a superb circular Russian cape of purple velvet, ned throughout with the finest sable and having a deep sable collar. Sale of Race Horses. As a coincidence, two of the most famous English studs were sold at auction this Week, and over-excited the racing world in the anxiety of its members to obtain pos- session of one or more of the famous horses. Hence, unexpectedly high prices Were reached, and the influx of successful speculators in the cycling boom and Afri- can mines as well as numerous foreign racing men kept the game lively. s In the late Col. North’s best lot, Réd Heart, a four-year-old chestnut horse, re- alized 5,355 guineas, and was bought by Rucker, who has made a fortune by the promotion of bicycling companies. The total sale produced 37,350 guineas for fifty- four animals, and the sale of tbe late Baron Hirsch’s stud realized 47,113 guineas for thirty-two horses. All the great racing magnates were at the sale, in addition to the Marlboroughs, Curzons, Lord Lonsdale, and others. The foreign breeders seeme: de- termined to secure the mares, and they succeeded in obtaining several of them. One forcign bid was only a hundred guineas below the selling price of La Fleche, 13,230 guineas, which mare was only expected to realize from 8,000 to 9,000 guineas. It appears that Sir Tatton Sykes, the apparent purchaser of La Fleche, nam: ed a price for the mare, but Lady Syke: gave Lord Marcus Beresford, who pur- chased her for Sir Tatton, carte blanche, and it now seems that the lady’s husband persists in his refusal to take La Fleche. It looks, therefore, as though the famous mare of the late Baron Hirsch will be re- auctioned, in which case Lord Beresford may have to find the differe in the prices if he fails to realize as much as he bought her for. Incidentally, it 1s generally admitted that the price paid for La Fleche was too high. The total realized for ten mares was ,060 guineas. It appears that it was Mrs. Langtry who objected to Mr. Enoch Wishard’s Mac- briggs being adjudged the winner of the 150 sovereigns plate on Wednesday, on the ground that the horse had won over 500 guineas in America, and was, therefore, not qualified to enter for that event. The objection, however, was overruled. The Trip of the Bostonians. The program for the visit of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Mas- sachusetts to London has been slightly modified. The trip to Henley has been abandoned for a trip to Windsor Castle. The reception committee, which will mest the Bostonians at Liverpool on Tues- day, 1s composed of six members of the ‘sndon company, a civil committee, head- ed by Lord Colville of Culross. On the oc- casion of the inspection at Marlborough house a guard of honor of the London company, with band and colors, will pro- ceed there via the Thames embankment, and the Bostontans will join them as they pass the Hotel Cecil. The horse artillery and the field battery will each furnish a party of twenty men to keep the grounds of Marlborough house garden. ‘The Duchess of Marlborough continucs to be the rage. She entertained a large house party at Blenheim Sunday, including Mr. and Mrs. Henry White. On Wednes- lay Mr. and Mrs. White entertained the Duke and Dushess of York at dinner at their residence, Grosvenor Terrace. On jaturday Mr. and Mrs. White will visit the Marquis of Salisbury at Hatfield, and will remain there until Monday. A local newspaper alludes to Mr. Henry White as being the “first secretary of the American legation,” and adds that “he is greatly assisted in his diplomatic work by his wife.” Mr. White, it is hardly neces- sary to add, was formerly secretary of the United States legation; but, was succeed- ed by Mr. James R. Roosevelt. The United States ambassador, Mr. Thomas F. Bayard, is to leave town on July 20 for a yachting cruise along the coast of Scotland, and to the Nerth Cape on St. John Pender's yacht. ‘The wedding of the season will be that of Lady Sophie Beatrix Mary Cadogan, youngest daughter of Eirl and Countess Cadogan, to Sir Samuel Scott. It will take place in Holy Trinity Church, on Monday, in the presence of the Prince and Princess of Wales, and their daughters, the Duke and Duchess of York, the Duke of Cam- bridge and crowds of aristocrats. The list of presents occupies columns in the Morn- ing Post. The American line steamship St. Louis, which sails from Southampton for New York today, takes among her passen, Mr. Alexander MacDonald, the United States minister to Persia, and Mr, Claus Spreckels of San Francisco. Adelina Patti's final concert at the Al- bert Hall, on Tuesday, was a great suc- cess. The will of the late Sir Augustus Har- ris, the theatrical manager, appoints his wife and brother-in-law to be his execu- tors, and gives them absolute discretion to ccntinue his various operatic and theatri- cal schemes. He left at his banker's a bal- ance of $120,000. Bessie Tyree Abroad. Elizabeth Tyree, an American actress, for five years a member of Daniel Frohman’s New York company, gave a special matinee Performarce yesterday afternoon at the Comedy Theater before a distinguished company of critics and fashionable folk. Scenes from “Romeo and Juliet,” “Fedora” and “The Country Girl” were produced. It is understood that Miss Tyree is looking for a London theater, with the view of playing an engagement during the early autumn. The opening piece at the newly decorated Adelphia ‘heater will be a melodrama, en- titled “Boys Together,” in which Haddon Chambers and Comyns Carr have collab- orated. Hall Caine has in contemplation a new play for HB. 8. Willard, which the latter will undoubtedly produce for the first time upon his forthcoming American tour. It'is understood that Mr. Willard is great- ly disappointed at the only partial success of “A Rogue’s Comedy,” upon which he had built up great hopes for the United States. This, with the failure of his at- tempt to secure the American righta of “Rosemary,” led to the negottations with Hall Caine. 2 It is rumored that the new play will be a dramatization of Mr. Caine’s latest novel, now rapidly approaching completion, and it may be produced in Boston somewhere about Christmas. Mr. Willard is spending the summer qui- etly at his beautiful home at Banstead, among the Surrey fills, and recently de- clined a most Hberal offer from Forbes Robertson to appear in the revival of “The School for Scandal now running at the Lyceum Theater. Mr. Robertson also at- tempted to secure the services of John Hare for the play. Olga Nethersole’s Return. Olga Nethersole, who will return to the United States in October, has been in com- munication with Sarah Bernhardt regard- ing a play which the latter has written, and which she intends to produce in Paris shortly. Miss Nethersole wishes to secure its American rights, and has also commis- sioned Henry Esmond to write a play for her in modern style and ultra-emotional in sentiment. The Gatety Theater has been closed since the termination of Miss Nethersole’s en- gagement in “Cazmen,’ und rehearsals of “The Clergyman's Daughter” are actively proceeding. This musical comedy will be produced at the Gaiety Theater tonight, and Marie Montrose will assume the lead- ing role. Augustin Daly’s London season will be- gin at the Comedy Theater on Saturday next, July 11, The opening attraction will be Mr. Daly’s adaptation cf “The Countess Gucki.” The cast will be practically the same as in America and includes James Lewis, Edwin Varrey, Charles Richman, Sydney Herbert, Herbert Gresham, Mrs. Gilbert, Helma Nelson and Ada Rel 5 “The Queen’s Proctor” is so great a suc- cess at the Royalty Theater that Arthur Bourchier is endeavoring zo cancel his au- tumn tour in order that the run may con- tinue uninterruptedly up to Novemb:r, at which time his American engagement be- gins. Gertrude Warden and her husband, Wil- ton Jones, successfully produced at 8t. James’ Hall last Monday afternoon a new duologue _ entitled “Women's Proper Sphere." Miss Warden has not been teen on the stage since her creation of “Visash” in “The New Woman.” She is also the au- thor of a popular story entitled “Nobody's Widow.” There is a constant increase here in ihe number of suburban theaters. The Brixton ‘Theater will soon be ready for oceupancy, and its cost has been over $150,000. A new theater at Lavender Hill, Battersea, is rap- idly approaching completion, and a new house of amusement, to be called “The Empire,” 1s projected at Hackney. Beerbohm Tree has generously released Dorothea Baird from her contract with him and the marriage of this most famous “Trilby” and Harry Irving will be solemn- ized at Oxford on July 22. Mr. Irving and his wife will tour America in the autumn. She will play “‘Mercie” to his “Marcus Su- perbus” in “The Sign of the Cross." Mr. Tree will close the Haymarket The- ater and the run of “Trilby” simultaneous- ly next Saturday. After a brief holiday, which will be passed at Bournemouth, Mr. Tree will make a provincial tour. If he can secure @ suitable London house Mr. Tree proposes to produce Gilbert Parker's dramatization of his novel, “The Seats of the Mighty.” Charles Hawtrey will produce a new far- cical comedy, entitled “Behind the Scenes,” at the Comedy Theater tonight. This is one of a series of experiments to find aa acceptable play for this place of amusement. ———___ WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET, Conditions and Prices Practically as Last Reported. The condition of the local wholesaie pro- duce market today shows but little change from that observed a week ago, although butter has dropped just a fraction of a cent for the best grades. Eggs are selling at precisely the same prices prevailing a week ago, and the same can be said, indeed, of about every other product. Products, es- pecially vegetables and fruits, are arriving in very large quantities and in good condi- tion, and as a whole the market is in splendid shape. While in the highest grades butter has dropped a fraction, the other grades 1e- main as last quoted, and the market is rather quiet. The prices prevailing today are: Fancy Elgin and western extras, 16% cents a pound; choice, 16; firsts, 14; seconds, 13; choice bakers’ stock, 10 to 12; New York tubs, 12; dairy print, 14; western, 10; Maryland and Virginia creamery, 14; dairy packed, 12. The following prices for cheese show that the market for that product is unchanged: Eggs are fairly plentiful, but prices remain as last reported: Nearby fresh, 12 to 12% cents a dozen; western, 10; southern, 9; keat or guinea stock, 4 to 5. Because of the national holiday there is an increased demand for poultry, but prices are not affected, as may be seen from the following: Live chickens, 10 to 11 cents; dressed, 12 to 15; old stock, dressed, 8 to 9; live, 4 to 6; capons, 18 to 18; ducks, 12 to 15, and geese, 6 to 9; spring chickens, 15 to 20. The following prices observed in veseta- bles and fruits: Cucumbers, per box, 40a Sec.; carrots, per barrel, $1.50; cauliflower, per barrel, $4; kale, per barrel, 50a750.; celery, per dozen, 25a75c.; squash, per box, ‘W5c.a$1; spinach, per barrel, $1a$1.25; aspar- agus, per bunch, 3a6c.; lettuce, per barrel, $2.50a33; per basket, $1a$1. potatoes, fancy, new, per barrel, $1.40a§1.50; choice, per barrei, $1.20a$1.30; new, per bushel, 40a S0c.; culls, per barrel, G0a7Sc.; Maryland and Virginia, perbushel, 40a30c.; culls, per bushel, 20a25c.; tomatoes, per crate, Flor- ida, 50c.a$1; per crate, native, $1.75a$2; egg Plant, per half barrel box, $2a$2.5); beets, ber 100 bunches, $1.50a$2.50; cabbage, Lew, ber barrel, 75c.a$1; onions, Bermuda, per crate, $1.40a$1.50; yellow, per barrel, $1.25a $1.50; yellow, new, per bushel, 40a5u tur- nips, per barrel, $1a$1.25, squash, white, per crate, $1.25a31.50; beans, white, New York mediums, $1.10; New York pea, $1.05; row, Virginia, white, 7ic.; white, mixed, 50c.; colored, 50a00c.; apples, fancy table, per barrel, $2a$2.50; per box, S0aT5c.; choice, per barrel, $2352.59; common, per box, 25a40c.; oranges, California, fancy, bright, per box, $4a$430; Messma, per box, $8.50a$5; Valencia, 2ases, $8a$3.5 Cicily, per box, $2a$3; raspberries, 1 quart, 7aSc.; black, per quart, 7a8c.; whor- tleberries, per quart, 7aSc.; blackberries, per quart, 3adc. Beef ard other meats remain Practically as they have been for some time, Live cat- tle, from 2 to 4% cents a pound; lambs, 4 to 5%; spring lamb, 6 to 3; sheap, 2% to 3%; cows with calves, $20 to $45; calves, 5 to 7 cents a pound, and dressei-hogs, 4 to 7. ——> STRONGEST HOME TIE. 2 I Mrs. Miffler Gave Away Her Lord’s Old Slippers and He Flew to the Club. From the Helena (Afont.) Independent. - He had taken off bis boots and was down on his hands and knees searching for some- thing when his wife noticed him. “What are you Jooking for, William?” she asked. “My slippers,” he replied. “Oh, I gave those old things away to- day,” she said. “You gave them away!" he repeated, and then he added, solemnly: “Mrs. Miffier, are you trying to drive me away from home?” “Of course not. I—* “What is home without slippers?” he in- terrupted. “What is an evening at home with heavy boots on your feet? Mrs. Miff- ler, what do you think constitutes home?” “Why, you can get another pair,” e protested. “Of course I can,” he exclaimed. “I can get a new pair of stiff-soled slippers and Spend thirty days breaking them in.” “The others were torn, and—” “That's why I liked them! They were comfortable. When I got them on a seemed home-like. I was settled for e evening, and a four-horse team could not get me out again, But. now—now I am ready for the club, or theater, or any old place. Slippers, Mrs. Miffier, help me to make the difference between the home and the office, and old slippers make the differ- once greatest.” “I can’t sée why—" “Of course you can't. No woman ever can; but I tell you if I were running thin, I'd make every woman take a course slippers. That is what is needed more than suffrage or anything else in that line. Just slippers—nothing but slippers.” He got up and stamped around the room in his stockinged feet for a minute or two and then put on his boots again. “This isn’t home,” he said, bitterly. isn’t a bit like it. I’m going to the rb. am IN MUSICAL CIRCLES Max Bruch's “Moses” to Be Given by the Choral Society. ‘The Program for the Whele Season Mapped Out by the Board of Di- recters—Other Interesting Items. The board of directors of the Choral So- cfety had an important meeting last Wed- nesday evening, when the report and ac- commodations of the finance committee were considered and acted on. It is now Practically decided that the society will give three concerts next winter. The first will be the “Messiah,” of which two per- formances will be given on the 29th and 30th of December. But one soloist has been engaged for this work, My Ericsson Bushnell. The contralto may come from Baltimore, or may be taken from any local singers, and it is probable that the Soprano and tenor will both be local peo- ple. The second concert will consist of Mendelssohn’s ‘Hymn of Praise,” and a miscellaneous program. It is likely that one or two soloists of high repute may be secured for this occasion, who will be heard in the cantata as well as in concert numbers. In both these concerts the so- ciety will have organ and plano accompant- ments. The third concert will mark the Presentation of a work never heard in this city, Max Bruch’s “Moses,” a composition of great beauty and difficulty, which will be given with a quartet of splendid soloists ard a full orchestra. Although it has not yet been definitely determined, it is prob- able that Clementine De Vere and Emil Fischer will be two of the soloists, and the others will be fully up to their standard. Professor Kaspar, the musical director, is enthusiastic about this work, and is satis- fied that the society will make a marked impression with it. It will be given at one of the theaters. The directors are anxious to have all the details for the season arranged during the recess, #0 that when the members of the society assemble for active work in the fall everything will be mapped out for them, and they will commence the work of re- hearsal systematically and with enthu- siasm. Tomorrow will be the feast of St. Peter, and the choir at St. Peter's Church has prepared an elaborate program of mu- sic, which will be given at the celebration of high mass at 10:30 a.m. It is as follows: Asperges, Lehenerff; Kyrie, 12th Mass, Mo- zart; Gloria, 12th Mass, Mozert; Graduale, “Tu es Petrus,” Lavall Veni Creator, baritone solo and chorus (adapted), Mendel- ssohn; Cred Messe Solennelle, Gounod; Offertorium, “O, Salutari soprano solo, with chorus, from Goynod’s “Gallia” (adapted); Sanctus et Pieni Sunt, Messe Solennelle, Gounod; Agnus Dei, 12th Mass, Mozart; Recessional. The choir will for this occasion be con- siderably augmented, and will consist of the following: Soprani—Misses Hattie Ritchie, Anna Baptista, Bessie Skelly, Mar- guret Coleman, Mary McMahon, A.Borbeck, Mollie Daly, Bessie Hickey, Annah Bogan, Katharine Allen, Margaret McMahon, Nellie Bolger, Mrs. M. Mehler. Aiti—Misses Regina Baptista, L. Arendes, Anna Rogers, Mary Llufrio, Augusta Borbeck, A. B. O'Neill, Cora Gerrish, Mrs. J. V. Wilson. Tenori—Messrs. J. C. Weidman, E. 8. Richards, L. Sweat, Stasius Meade, Dr. H. B. Heath, Messrs. H. O. Cook, R. Smart, A. Neff. Bassi—Messrs. R. Wm. D-vreaux, B. Atchison, C. Grows, I. L. Johnson, J. F. Eckert, A. Schulters, John Hamilton, M. Grant, T. V. Wilson, C. J. Walshe, L. Hiles, C. Murray, A. Erly, C. Goodchild. Mr. Eugene French is the director and Miss N. R. Kearon, organist. ‘The Sunday Night Music Club celebrated the birthday of the well-known composer and conductor, Carl Reinecke, at the res!- dence of Miss Elsa Ulke last Sunday night, playing two of his Interesting compositions, serenades, in addition to which Miss Bertie Reichenbach sang two of his songs, with violin obligatos, which were played by Miss Florence King. They also played one of Goldmark’s overtures. The Literary Society at Carlin Springs, Va., or as the post office appellation of that suburb is now known, Glencarlyn, gives monthly entertainments, at which some very attractive programs are presented. Next Widnesday evening the program will be furnished by Mrs. Wm. L. Wilson, so- prano; Mr. W. L. Wilson, baritone, and Mr. D. G. Pfeiffer, pianiet. The last named will play Ltszt’s transcription of the ‘‘Spin- ning Song” from the “Flying Dutchman,” and Mr. Wilson will sing Dudley Buck's “Sunset’’ and the “Creole Love Song.” Mrs. Wilson’s numbers will be attractive, and the whole program will be one of unusual excellence, Mrs. Thomas C. Noyes, in addition to her accomplishments as a vocalist, has devel- oped ability as a composer. She has writ- ten a march for the piano which is said by those who have heard it to have a splen- did swing that will make it remarkably popular. The Madrid Quartet has gone to New York on a professional tour. They will be gone for several weeks, during which time they will visit Bar Harbor, Newport and other watering places. Mr. Will Haley, the leader of the Wash- ington Concert Band, has gone to Lake George, where he will conduct the orches- tra at the Fort William Henry Hotel dur- ing the season. —-___ Fads in Pronunciation. From the Critte. It 1s possibly too late to cure the affeo- tation of giving Teutonic twist to the pro- nunciation of those good old Saxon words either and neither, in whose original there was no suspicion of an i, for fashion seems to have decreed, notwithstanding the op- Position of the lexicographers, that they shall be i-ther and ni-ther, and so they will ‘probably continue to be with those who as- pire to keep pace with the popular whirl, until the turn of the wheel shall bring the correct form on top again. That oft-moot- ed question may then be considered out of court for the present. But there are two other words that seem to be going the same road, and alike in op- Position to all authority, concerning which I wish to make a few remarks. I mean the words evil and devil, which have a close relation to each other in more ways than one. Many of our clergymen have adopted for these words the pronunciation of e-vil and dev-il, and I am sorry you say that dev-il has so got the upper hand that the e-vil is on the increase, until what was in the beginning only a clerical affectation now bids fair, like i-ther and ni-ther, to assume the proportions of a popular fash- ion. Time was when the stage virtually set the standard in the igs pevees jon of the language, but in these latter days of dramatic degeneracy, When siipshod En- glish and imperfgot ‘enunciation seems to be the rule behind the footlights, the pul- pit exerts an equal if not greater influ- ence. Yt behooves every clergyman, then, to look carefully to his rhetorical ways, lest he teach orthoepic heterodoxy while preaching the soundest of theological or- thodoxy. Now, the words in question have been pronounced ever since the English language came into teing simply e-vil and dey-il, with the accent on the first syllable, and no amount of mispronunciation can make the one any worse or add any terrors to the other. If our clergymen will only bear in mind that “the e-vil that men do lives after them,” they will look more care- fully in future to their orthoepy and hesti- tate ere they try to improve on the good old-fashioned dev’l of our fathers. Am Api Night Cap. ¥rom the Bulletin of Pharmacy. In August summer apples will have rip- ened, and everybody ought to know that the very best thing he can do 1s to eat apples just before retiring for the night. Persons uninitiated in the mysteries of the fruit are lable to throw up their hands in horror at the visions of dyspepsia which such a suggestion may summon up, but no harm can come even to 2 delicate system by the eating of ripe and juicy apples just before going to bed. The apple 4s excellent brain food, because it has more Phosphoric acid in easily digested shape than other fruits. It excites the action of the liver, promotes sound and healthy sleep and thoroughly disinfects the mouth. This is not all. The apple helps the kid- ney secretions and prevents calculous growths, while it obviates indigestion and is one of the best known preventives of diseases of the throat. One of the best known of the older physicians of Provi- dence has the custom of eating one, two, three or four apples-before going to bed, and finds himself much benefited thereby. IN THE CHURCHES Rev. Charles H. Butler, pastor of th Keller Memorial Lutheran Church, recent- ly received a check for $40 from the “Lit- tle Helpers’ circle of King’s Daughters of the Luther Memorial Church, which was applied to the church debt. Two thousand dollars have been paid witkin the last year or two, and the next move will be to cancel the remaining indebtedness and com- plete the unfinished portion of the church. On the first day of July, fifty years ago, the corner stone of Union Methodist Epis- ccpal Church was laid. While no special exercises were held in commemoration of the event, still there is a prospect that this anniversary may be commemorated before long in a substantial manner, name- “Bid the erection of a new church edi- It is expected that the handsome pipe organ made for Fifteenth Street Church will soon be in position. It was shipped from the manufacturers last week. When ready for use an organ recital will be given. The “Fifth Church Workers,” recently or- gauized from among the ladies of the Fifth Congregational Church, held an ice cream and cake sale on H strect northeast today. The proceeds are to go toward the church building fund. Tuesday evening there wes a meeting of the Church Temperance Society of the First Congregational Church, at which reports were read of the work of committees dur- ing the past year. There were also ad- dresses delivered by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Newman, and several officers of the so- ciety. It has been decided to discontinue thi Sunday evening services in the Metropoli- tan Presbyterian Church during the heated term. Thursday afternoon the Ladies’ Home and Foreign Missionary Society held the last meeting until next fall at the residence of Mrs. Van Doren, on East Cap- itol street. Wednesday the Gunton Temple Memorial Presbyterian Christian Endeavorers gave a garden party at the residence of Mr. Ver- non E. Hodges, on Stoughton street north- west. The grounds were beautifully deco- rated and lighted. Music was furnished throughout the evening. The proceeds will go to the C. E. convention fund. The family of Rev. Dr. Oiiver A. Brown of the Foundry Methodist Church are now at their summer home, at Atlantic High- lands, N. J. The doctor has been granted @ month’s vacation by his congregation, but will not take it until later on. The Sunday school of Grace M. E. Church, in conjunction with the Epworth League, has just purchased a handsome piano. It was placed in the lecture room of the church last week. A lawn party opened Tuesday on the grounds of the pastoral residence of St. Augustine's Church. The fete will close this evening, and from the attendance through the week it is expected that a large sum of money will be realized. The Brotherhood of St. Andrew of Trin- ity Protestant Episcopal Church has map- ped out and begun a vigorous summer cam- paign. The membership of the brother- hood is divided Into three committees, and these committees distribute each week at various local hotels invitations to attend church, and pamphlets d papers to the prisoners remainiig over night at the sixth precinct station and to patients at the Emergency Hospital. The chapter is rap- idly increasing in membership, and now numbers nearly forty, being the largest chapter of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew in the diocese of Washington. Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis, pastor of the Western Presbyterian Church, has arranged to spend his vacation this summer of two months in traveling through Canada and going as far as Sitka. He will leave the city at the close of the Christian Endeavor ccnvention. The services at the Western Church will be continued without interrup- tion. The ladies of Waugh Methodist Church have organized themselves into a society for social purposes, and recently the so- clety gave a successful breakfast. The pas- tor of the church, Rev. E. Olin Eldridge, has decided to take his vacation during the month of August, and will leave the last of this month for Ocean Grove, N.. panied by his family. The feast of St. Peter, the patron saint of St. Eeter’s Catholic Church, the corner of 2d and C streets southeast, is to be held tomorrow with special exercises. The new assistant pastor of the church, Rev. Martin O'Donoghue, will officiate for the first time at the high mass. The sermon is to be de- livered by Rev. Father Joseph O’Brien, pas- tor of St. Peter’s Church, Baltimore. The Central Methodist Protestant Church is having some improvements made to it be- fore the suramer sets in. The outside of the church has been painted, and there is also to be a rearrangement of the rooms. A party consisting of Rev. Dr. J. J. Muir, pastor of E Street Baptist Church, and Profs. Lodge and Gore of Columbian Unt- versity are to leave the 18th instant on a vacation trip abroad. Dr. Muir will sail on the Maasdam for Holland, and after a short stay in that country will go to Great Britain, where he will spend the major por- tion of his vacation, returning to occupy the pulpit in the E Street Church the first Sun- day in September. It is expected that dur- ing a large part of August the church building will be in the possession of work- mea, and if this is the case there will be no church services. Mr. Charles H. Carrington, superinten- dent of the North Presbyterian Sunday school, has returned to this city from Bos- ton. During the absence of Mr. Carring- ton the Sunday school was in charge of Mr. M. C. Bennett. The doors and wood- work of the church have just been painted and all the rooms in ths frent portion of the edifice newly papered. Rev. Dr. Thomas 8. Childs, archdeacon of ‘Washington, who was recently taken sick while conducting services at Christ Episco- pal Church, was reported as being some- what better this week. The Sunday schools of St. Paul’s Protes- tant Episcopal and of the Western Presby- terlan churches went on a joint excursion down the river on Monday of this week. The base ball nines of the two schools played a ball xame, which resulted in a victory for the former team. ‘The vested choir of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Washington, left Tuesday on their annual outing trip. the director of the choir, Mr. Dantel. Dr. Mackay-Smith, the rector of St. John’s Church, is to leave the first aa of this month, accompanied by his ‘amily, to spend the summer at York Cliffs, Me. The services at St. John’s will be con- ducted by the assistant rector, Rev. Robert 3._W. Wood. Rev. Samuel W. Sears of Huntingdon, Pa, who died last month, has left his Itbrary of 200 volumes to the American University. The collection is a varied one, and contains some valuable theological works. The university recently received a small bequest, which, when the estate from which it is to receive it is settled, will amount to between $1,000 and $3,000. Bishop Hurst has left for his summer home at Marion, Mass. The following were elected recently as officers of the Christian Endeavor Society of E Street Baptist Church: President, Harry W. Johnson; vice president, P. Leslie Webb; secretary, George Richards, and treasurer, Miss Grace Fields, The Protestant Episcopal Mission of the Good Shepherd, on H street northeast, which has been for some time past con- ducted under the auspices of St. Mark's Church by an arrangement which at pres- ent is temporary, Will be in charge of Epiphany Church. The mission will be under the direct care of the Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, who will preach his first ser- mon tomorrow, and will also assist in other work of Epiphany parish. Rev. Mr. Smit has just been ordained to the Episco; ministry, and is a graduate of Harvard University and of the Cambrjdge Theologi- cal School. He ig the son of the Rev. Dr. Smith, pastor of Mt. Vernon Place Metho- dist Church, Baltimore. Reguler services and a Sunday school are to be conducted at the Good Shepherd Mission. The Luther League of America, through its executive committee, recently held a session at Lancaster, Pa., and it was de- cided to hold the next annual convention of the order at Chicago on the 17th, 18th and 19th of November. Among the mem- bers of the committee who were present at the meeting was Mr. Cornelius Eckhardt of this city, who is the treasurer of the Teague. ' At a meeting of the Baptist Ministers’ Association Monday morning Rev. E. Hez Swem delivered an address on “Self Love.” The association will adjourn for the sum- mer next Monday. ae ee There Are Others. From Judge. “I don’t like such expressions a& ‘the glad hand,’ ‘the marble heart’ and the like,” said Mrs. Cawker to her husband. “Well,” replied Mr. Cawker, “wherein do they differ from such time-honored phrases as ‘the cold shoulder,” ‘the hot tongue’ and “the stony stare?’ ” \A STAR WITNESS FOR MONYON REV, WM. HUMPSTONE, D. D. Tells How He Was Cored by Munyou's Remedies, REV. WM. HUMPSTONE, D.D. Bey, William Humpstone, D.D., of Manasquan, N. J., a clergyman known ‘tht t the country by reason of his it evangelical labors in the cause of the church, and whose sou is pastor of the Ewanvel Baptist Church of Brooklyn, N.Y ways: Tom yours of age and have breeching the Gospel for more than forty years. A Little over a year ago I began to suffer. In: tensely with symptoms of Bright's diserse und acute inflammation of the bladder. I was nanded gue of Munyon's Guides to Health and sent for hotties of different remedies. I persevered with thelr use end now I find myself well and able to take walks without fatigue. I Pref. Nuuyon more and wore success in bis al- rerdy succe:sful practice.”” On June 2 Rev. Humpstove tock occasion to again write Professor Munyou, saying: “You will no doubt be glad to know I am still feel. ing well, and in fact I have not been so well in every ‘respect as Iam now for the past thirty years." With kindest regards and best wishes fur Jour further success, believe me most gratefully ycurs.”” Munyon’s Kidney Cure speedily cures pains in the beck, loins or groin, abd’ all” Oi iseane. " Price, 25 cents, Munyon's Bladder forms of kidney ire cures Catarrh of the rritable conditions, and all acu’ diftculties. Price, 25 cents, 00 permons have been cured of Mdvey and bladder troubles by Monyon's Reme- les. Manson's Remedies at all druggists, mostly 25 conta nial tal Ewinent doctors at your service free. If you have Catarrh or any Throat or Cenplaint, call and receive a free trial trestment: We ponitively cure Catarrh. reonal letters apswered with free medical advice for uny disease. Open 9 to 5 dally. Sunday, 10 to 12. Monfiay and Thursday even! 713 14th wt. now 6 to 8. LAUREL, The Laurel branch of the Christian Endeavor met this week and elected delegates to the Christian Endeavor convention, which will be held in Wash- ington next week. The Laurel Endeavorers also decided to have the Baltimore and Ohio railroad depot decorated with bunting during the week of the conventiot. All of the metubers of the Chris- tian Endeavor here it is expected will attend ihe convention. A mad dog, belonging to Mr. Howanl Smith, bit ® number of dogs in Laurel this week. Among those bitten were dogs belonging to ex-Congressman Compton and Mr. William Keyes, in Laurel, and Mr. Thomas D. Simpson, in North Laurel. The degs bitten will probably be killed shortly. The + dog, which was secured by Mr. Smith from Mr. Exack of Beltaville, is still running at large, and Mt ts feared that quite = muniber of dogs will be Vitten before the animal is captured. Laurel Council, No. 173, Jr. O. U. lowing oflcers, who were installed r. T. M. Baldwin; A. ir. is; warden, W. E. Pas tt; OU. S..”W. T. Scott. Wednesday. ‘The reason for the abolishment of here, as well as in $Rocrimental treo delivery Hyattsville, iockville and other’ points in Mary- land, Is that Congress failed to appropriate in t last ‘post office appropriation bill f free delivery. Law nearly tive years, aud source of great incu. @ distance from th e have been during the ‘ stem has worked very successfully and satisf. All of the leiter boxes through the town e taken down during the week, omas Woods, son of Mr. Edward Wools of Was painfully tnfured recently by the ex- a Homan candle in the hands of another mber of boys had gathered togetber and amvsing themselves by shooting at each r with Roman candies, when ~ Hofman, bet at him, the 2 JOUNE companion of | Wood ball tuking fect in the back part of bis neck, meking au ugly wound, from which be is now slow- ly recovering. ‘The Senday school of Grace M. E. Church South will hold a picnic today in Haslup's Grove, Sav- age. The Knights of Pythias are holding a picnic im Laurel Gi oday. ‘The amusements are numer- cus nud “ Trintty M. EL Church South Sundays holding ‘its ammual picnic tod.y in Laurel Miss Lilly Sefton of Washington was th Sunday of her sister, Mrs. Chories W. Durr. Mr. Lawrence Re-se aud family of Battt ith Mrs. ri spending the summer here wi fatter, Dr. D. W. Snowden. a omge E. Loweree of Laurel is the guest of Gov. Lowndes in Cumberland. Maj. Frank EK. Little, inspector for the Post Office “‘Departm: Chattanooga, Tenn., is on @ pai “isit here to his family on Railroad avenue. Mr. Willlam Peake und family of Washington ent Sunday as the guests of Mr. Peake's brother, rd F. Peak Mewrs. © timore Mrs. les Sudier and Upton Bell of Bal- visited their friends here recently. . Agnes Jenkins of Bultimore was the guest this week of her sister, Mrs. A. Clinton Shafer. Mr. and Mra. H. 8. ‘Heath of Alberton are the guests here of Mrs. D. W. Snowden of Montgomery Mr. and Mra. Con. Von Voigt have returned from a space op yet yd red ‘Saratoga, it. ir. Austin ns itimore spent Sunday "MMe. core He Wickert ts pond 1 days Ir. George Vickert 1s spending several io Atlantic City, ad Miss Emma Hoover of Baltimore is the guest Lere of ber aunt, Mra. A. ©. Shaffer. Mrs, William ‘Henry Marrison and Miss Mand W. Waters, jr., Harrison are at Atlantic City. orge W. rt Crcnmiller attended the bicycle meet totay. Messrs. Geo and Thowas at Cambridge Senator Gorman and daughter are in Elkins, W. Va., the guests of the Senator's first « Senator Henry G. Davis. The Senator will retui Mt ts expected, about the frst of the week, and will then go to Saratoga for a ten days’ stay. Miss Blanche Linthicum of Anne Arundel county, is the guest here of Miss Bertie Rogers. From the American, A queer custom was observed for the two hundred and fiftieth time at Leighton Buzzard this year in accordance with the will of a London merchant, who founded ten almshouses in the town. The trustees, accompanted by the town crier and a band of boys carrying green boughs, beat the boundaries of the parish, stopping at the Properties from whose incomes the chari- ties are supported. At all these places one boy stood on his head while the will was read. After the procession, plum rolls w: given to the boys. Until recently a hall pint of beer was given, but this has been suppressed, rolls being distributed to all the school children instead. In the evening the trustees, the town crier and the im mates of the almshouses dined together. eee A New Spe! From Harper's Magazine. A bright little girl, returning from school, was asked by her father what she had been learning that morning. “Al of us been learning to spell,” ssid she. “What did you learn to spell?” “Learred to spell rat.” “Well, how do you spell rat?” “R-A-T—rat.”” Now, how do you spell mouse?” “Just tre same, only in Ittle smalley letters,” said the littl® maid. —--—+0+ Why He Left. From the Texas Sifter. “It is utterly useless, Mr. McGinnis, for meralda Longcoffin to a Dallas society man. And you will never change your mind?” “Never. When I have once made up my mind I never change it.” “I am much obliged to you for telling me that. I wouldn't marry that kind of @ woman if she was covered with diamonds and pearls,” replied he, reaching for hig t,