Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1896, Page 19

— THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, ‘JULY 18, 189¢—-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES, 1s ~ TOMS UNCLE, a id CHARLES G. D. RUBERIN. ——-—.+—__— BY (Copyright, 1806, by the Bacheller Syndicate.) PART I. ‘fom tore open the letter which had just been brought in to him. He read it at a glance, then threw it down on the table with an energetic exp'etive. “I beg your pardon!” said I, politely. Tom pulied vindictively at his badding mustache. “I ought to beg mother's pardon,” he muttered, “for swearing over her note! But woud you be. eve what she says? “Certany,” said I, with sweet serious- “I would take your mother’s word against a million!” he exclaimed, impatiently, “You know I den’t mean that. Do shut up till E tell you!” I threw away the stump of my cigar, clasped my hands and assumed an attitude of hungry attention. Tom muttered something about my being idiot, but hastened to share with me tidmgs wh:ch had so disturbed him. ‘My uistinguished uncle, Professor Henry Jerrold, will be here tonight. Mother says We must make it pleasant for him!” ‘That's a gaudy prospect said 1. ular species of dry-as-dust is sitied under? Tell me that, and Tl tell you how to manage him.” “Oh, ['m aware you know everything, Bol was (he unkind reply, “but this too big a prob.em even ur inieilec Iv's ov bad, wth motuer just comfor.ably out of the way, and the little game all ar- ged for tonigh., and the pienic to the is.and so n.cely p.anned for tomorrow. We can't take him We can't leave him oui. ted. “It may some western co Tom. “A bis gun in hs w There are haif & cozen of his bocks ovec on that shelf next to vace. Fascinating (hings en the calculus, and surds and conic sect.ons. Ab! said i, rising tanguidly and going over to the “Mathe- + very dusty! se simplifies it- these books nicely table beside your own easy chair. make him feel at home and please him greatly. Ma.he. aticians are, next to scicn- tists and mus:c:ans, the vainest of men. Moreover, un ise other professors, the pro- fessors of hemat.cs are, in a measure. human. They all drink whisky—usually Scotch. Let him have the library here ail to himself—and with pen, ink, paper and be happy all night, till we tell him it's time io go .o bed. Mathematicians generaily sit up, lost in a probiem, till they are is be.time. We'll have our litte game in the breakfast room, and tell him wh Mathematicians approve of ; but he won't want to play, because understand that the party is made omewhat fatigued by this eloquent dis on on math«ma icians. I flung m) down on the broad lounge. As for Tom, he beamed upon ne gratetu.ly. “O.d 1 sad he, “you have a states- And what about the picnic man's brain. unto the day Is the evil aid I, airily, waving as.de the m. “I'll devise some way of es:ape the t.me¢ is upon ua.” vm's normal cheer of countenance had r ned to him. b," sad he; “let's » I want to arrang. the p.cnic.” it would have suited me better to © lounge and think. I love to s in luxurio: th nking ao some other morning. It go down sometaing “There ix the trembling culprit who should have met you.” is easy the tn to arrive to forge for a B these resolutions when ng upon them threatens th’s morning Tom was im- to save argument, which h him. m our senior year at ding the vacation with 's summer place in the village cf Stratford, on the ‘Tom's mother, a sweetly prim evolently Puritarical l.ttle dame, had run up to Heston for a few days to see an invalid sister, ani we were now bent on making ripe hay in the unhallowed saine of her absence. As for Stratford, the aristocrat quiet of her wide, gras eim-shadowed avenues was just now mu rufiied by the presence of gay summer vis- itors from New York. There was a bril- liant actri Adela Clay, in retreat from nt homege of an adoring pub- here was a ycung poetess and there ul hemorist, whose look of bstractedness after the utterance ™m was supposed to be cleverly for the purpose of effect. As a 3 and, I went 1 I were college. I was s him at his mother’ quaint old assumed Matter of fact, it was the result of a stu- pendous effort to fix the jewel of wit in his mind for future use without ald of the pencil and note t<ok scrupulously con- cealec In his breast pocket. The rest were bright men and women of the world, whose fad it was to play on the skirts of a well- grcemed and presentable bohemia. With his circle of friends, Tom and I put in a far from dull afternoon. As we returned to the house for dinner nothing more remote from our minds than the coming of Prof. Henry Jerrold. As we entered the hall our nostrils were greeted by the smell of an uncommonly g00d cigar, com'ng from the library. “Who's smoking, Williams?” asked Tom, addressing the butler, who came to say inner w v" replied Williams. exclaimed Tom, aghast. “He was to ¢ on the 5:30; and we forgot to meet him With some trepidation, plainly revealed by Tom, but concealed by me under an air of languid unconcern, we entered the li- brary. A broad-shouldered man, with eye- at This Tom and Cheerfal I Anticipation. Smiled, With glasses and a dark’ mustache, dressed in a fough-and-ready suit of Scotch tweed. was smoking there very comfortably, his nose buried in a book. He lazily took his feet oF +7 ** and rose to greet us. “My nephew, I suppose?” said he, stretch- ing. Rand to me. No, Prof. Jerrold, no such distinction for me,” said]. ‘There ts'the trembling culprit who should have met you at the train. Tam his chum, Sawyer, and very much at your service ‘The professor wrung our hands cordially, and expressed so prompt an interest in the subject of dinner that we adjourned to the din’ng room at once. There, at first, the soup and the salad, the weather, and the professor’s journey, sup- plied us with safe subjects for conversation. Several spots of thin ice, ineautiously ap- preached by Tom, were dexterously skirted by me, and we began to feel quite at ease. The professor never alluded to such a thing as a conic scetion or a logarithm, and, per- ceiving that he was not only reasonable, but good-natured, I felt that we would have no difficulty in getting him out of the way for the evening. As I lit a cigar after dinner, I said care- lessly: “1 saw you smoking, professor, so I Presume apology is unnecessary!” “Quite unnecezsacy, I assure you!” he re- sponded, dryly, and we went back ta the litrary. ‘The professor happened to glance at the well-filled bookshelves. “Oh, Uncle Henry,” said Tom. “I hope you won't mind if we leave you alone among the books for awhile this evening. I sup- Pcse you'll want to be studying or writing. and you'll find everything at hand her? for the purpose. Not knowing of your coming till after lunch today, we made up a little rubber of whist fer this evening. But we'll Play in the breakfast rcom, and be careful not to disturb you.” Tom's uncle smiled s'owly. He gazed so long, frst at Tom and then at me, that we both began to fear he had grave religious scruples against cards. “I don’t think one should be addicted to cards,” said I, hastily, “but I don’t think there can be ‘any harm in an occasicna! quiet_game—at cne’s home, you know. Do you?" “Perhaps you are right,” he assented, with an air that might have been hesitation. “Th n you won't mind if we leave you?” said Tm. His uncle smiled again. “I think,” said he, pleasantly, “that I won't work this evening, In fact, 1 Glancing at His Cards’ With an Air of Doubt. heve done enough during the last few months to feel myself entitled to a loaf. if it's to be whist, of course, you have cur table made up, so I'll just smoke and teok on; and perhaps you wcn't mind me cutting in for a rubber or two?” “I always understood that mathemati- cians approved of whist,” said I. But Tom, rather diffidently, hastened to explain. “Well, you see, Uncle Harry,” said he, “it is not whist exactly. We were obliged, in a way, to ask three fellows in: sc, . as that was too many for whi we thought we'd have to pl er—poker, you know! But just for fun, you know! Just a doliar limit—you perhaps understand!” “I've heard the phrase somewhere,” con- fessed the professo1 n fact, I don’t mind ta’ting a hand with you. [t is an in- teresting game, light and cheerful: and six is not an inconvenient number, if I remem- Ler rightly? Tom looked at me in some bewilderment, and I siid, promptly: “That will be delightful, sir, if you really think it won't bore you.’ And Tom and I can give you the main points of the game at once, before the others come.” “Oh, thank you,” said the professor, “but I think I know enough to scratch aicng on ti I see how you play. If not, I'll pick it up.” At this Tom and ! smiled, with cheerful anticipations. We had met men_ before who, having read about the game, thou they knew it. PART Il. Presently two of our guests arrived—Fred Struthers and Jack Niles. They seemed to get on very easily with the professor, who offered them his fine cigars. We soon got out the card table, and began our game in the library, there being no longer any need of fleeing to the breakfast room, as Tom and I had planned. Tom's uncle seemed to understand the use of the little piles of red, white and blue chips which were given him. He drew cards as he saw the rest of us do, and finding them, apparently, no good, threw them away with an easy air of un- concern, which led me to wink at Tom, as much as to say: ‘He's learning, that uncle ot yours!” And Tom tded back, which I interpreted to mean: “We'll make some- thing out of him, if he is an old Dry-as- Dust!” In fact, after the professor had raked in a small pot, on a pair of aces, Tom was so well pleased that he could not help saying: “You're doing well, Uncle Henry! We'll make a poker player of you yet!” His uncie looked amused, for some reason which I could not fathom. “You need not call me ‘Uncle Henry,’ my dear fellow,” said he. “Just call me Jer- told; or, as my most intimate friends do, Harry!” ““*Uncle Henry’ makes you seem too old, eh?" laughed Tom, now quite at ease with the distinguished visitor. “No, my dear boy, but it makes you seem so young!” was the sarcastically drawled reply, at which we all laughed. I began to think that the professor would even do for the picnic on the istand, if he would not take alarm at la belle Adela’s somewhat audacious gaiety. By and by there occurred a jack-pot which went around many times before any one could open it. It began to as- sume attractive proportions. At last Struthers cried: gi “Tl open it for a dollar.” I stayed, with a small pair to draw to. “Professor, up to you!” said I, seeing that he was glancing at his cards with smal of doubt. “Two pairs are not much good, are they,” he mused, fingering his chips. if Now Tom, es it turned out, had had @ pat full dealt to him, and was feeling elated. “Why, uncle—er—Harry, I often raise on two good pairs!” sald he, laughing. “All right, then,” said the professor, see- ing the opener’s bet, and raising it another dollar. Tom promptly saw the raise, and lifted it again. Thereupon Niles, who was the dealer, stayed out, and Struthers cried: “You scoundrel, you've got something big, I know,” ard threw down his hand, showing the openers. I also backed out, of course. The professor hesitated again. “Well, if they were good for a raise be- fore, they're just as good now!” said he, and raised again. This was what Tom wanted. He raised, and the professor rais- ed back, half a dozen times, till at last Tom thougkt he wasn't using his uncle quite fairly, and just saw his last raise. “I don’t want to be too hard on a new player!” he laughed, as he threw in the one biue chip. “Thanks, my dear boy!” said the pro- fessor, sweetly. “Cards?” inquired Niles, holding out the pack over the table. “One!” said the professor. We all felt sorry for him. “I'll play these!” said Tom. Then the prefessor bet another dollar. Tom, of course, raised him the limit; where- upon the professor came back at him aga:n. This went on several times, till I could not help saying: “Don’t you seg, professor, he must have at least a straight or a flush “You don't say so!’ he exclaimed, with an air of alarm—at the same time raising again. But now Tom, obeying the dictates of politeness, called: “I have an ace full!” sald he, pleasantly. “An! sald the professor, “I threw away an ace myself. “But what have you got?” asked Struth- ers. “My two pairs—I hope the reference did not mislead any bne’—said the professor, “happen to be both of the same kind!” And laying four kings on the table he gathered in the gopdly pile of chips. Tom looked Tlank, and the rest of us laughed softly. I began to feel, in a vague way, that Tom and E were fools. At this juncture our belated guest arrived—one Lieut. Store of the United States navy. “Forgive me for teing so late, ald fel- lowr* said he, grasping Tom's hand. Then, catching sight of the professor, he sprang forward and seized him by both shoulders before he could rise. “Why, Harry, dear old man, who ever thought of seefng you kere!” he cried. And the two wrung hands and bombarded each other with interjectional comment for some minutes. At length, taking his seat, Lieut. Storrs looked at the professor's pile of chips. “At your old tricks, Harry,” said he. “Have you been winning that way right along ever since that night in San Fran- clsco, three years ago, when you cleaned ‘The sieutenant ReNed in His Chair With Inextingaishable Laughter. us all out, and I had to borrow the cash from you next morning to pay my hotel bin? Don't you know it’s against ali pre- cedent to be both lucky at cards and lucky In love?” “Oh, I lose sometimes said the pro- fessor, modestly, but he did not say wheth- er it was ‘ds or love he referred to. “My kind nephew here and Mr. Sawyer have been 00d enough to teach me the game of poker this evening, and have feund me ot vot inapt.” The iieutenant rolled in his c v extinguishaple laughtetr. Niles and Struth took in the situation as they had not done before, and rearcd with him. Tom got red and tken joined heartily in the mirth. I tried to save the remnants of my prest.ge by gazing at trem all in urbane surprise, till I got a chance to speak, when I murmured, blandly: “I have been suspecting for some time, professor, that you knew 4 good deal more than you would care to impart to the stu- dents—or trustees—of your college!” At this thrust the professor chuckled ap- ie ti And the game went on. When we broke up—{ need not particu- larize as to the hour—Storrs said: “Iv’'s great iuck that you're here for the enie tomorrow, Harry! What picnic?’ asked Tom's uncle. Oh,” said ihe licuterant, “Tom and Sawyer here have arranged for a party of us to go over to the island in boats, and have one of those fish dinners for which But professor. Storrs interrupted him with— “Oh, she'll be there! She has promised to go!” : “Who is she?” asked the professor, with an air of charming innocence. Oh,” je el che Jieutenant, “don’t try and make me belie@® you came away out lo Straiford without knowing the fair Adela was here. You prebably came, deed, because she wrote for you!” “Of cow we are very good friends assented the professor. Tom gave me one expressive look. And we all said good nignt A litle later—or earlier—Tom came into my room, just as i was about getting into bed. “Did you ever know such a pair of asses as we Inade of ourselves?” asked he, con- fideni.ati in- said I crossly, “the pair he made “And to think he’s a chum of Adela’s!” continued Tom. “I was thinking he would be too shy of her for comiort at the pic- ayes “Oh, she'll have no use for you, my bi he’s around!” I snapped, being very This was unkind of me, for ‘Tom 5 ton the bewitching daughter of Thesp.s, and it was tor ber sake chiefly tat he had planned the expedition. “I don't care!” said Yom, sulkily retiring. 1 “Lydia Charters wili be there, and she's more fun tt any day!" ters was the young red to; and it was on t I found the idea of the I held my tongue there- fore; and feil asleep to Uream a httle dream, in which Tom s uncle was gathering in a jack-pot of phenomenal dimensions. The bitterness of it, however, lay not in the fact that he left no one of us so much as a single chip, but in the astounding con- | sideration that these chips represented all the loveliest women of my acquaintance. The end. — CE OF GLASS ON WINE. INFLUE: A Curio Cane is Cited—Substances im the Glans. From the National Druggist. Probably ninety-nine persons out of every hundred, taken at random, would ridicule the idea that the quality of the glass of which a bottle may be made can have any influence on the taste or keeping qualities of its contents. And yet that it does so we have the best of evidence. We are not al- Ivding to the inflvence of light shining through the flasks and its action on the substance contained, but the direct chem- ical reaction occurring between the glass and the materiai within the flask. Very recently the following case occurred in France: A wealthy retired merchant bought a lot of very costly and rare wine In casks, samples of the. wine from each cask being given him by the wine merchant. The wine was delivered, and the new owner proceeded to have it racked off and bottled. Some time afterward some of the wine was brought to the table, and on tast- ing it the host detected a strange, unpleas- ant taste, which was also noticed by the guests. A fresh bottle was found to be similarly affected, and bottle after bottle vas opened with the same result. An ex- amination of the stock im the cellar de- veloped the fact that every bottle of the re- cent purchase was spoiled. A sult was brcught against the wine merchant, who declared that he had delivered the article exactly according to the samples furnished. On examining these latter they were found in excellent condition. It is unnecessary to go into details, ‘but during the course of the action at law some of the bottles were produced in court, when it was found that the glass had be- come opaque. The bottles were handed over to a chemist, along with one of the lot purchased for bottling the wine which had never been used. This is what the chemist found in the glass of the unvsed bottle: Silicic acid, 52.4; potash and soda, 4.4; Itme, 32.1; argilia- ceous matter, fron, etc., 11.1. In the ex- amination of the ‘bottles that had been used, while the silicic acid and argillaceous material remained constant, or nearly so, the lime, potash and soda were very much diminished, and it was made evident that they had passed into solution, forming com- pounds with the acid ingredients of the wine, decomposing the latter and rendering it unfit to drink. There is now a suit pend- ing against the maker of the bottles. ——_—-e+___. Dunned by His Debtor. From the New York Advertiser. “Mr. Clark wants to see you,” said an office boy, as he entered the private room of a lawyer in the cable telegraph building, where I was on business. “Tell him I'm out,” answered the lawyer. “Hang that man!” he continued, when the boy had disappeared. ‘‘He worries the life out of me. He owes me $80 and called to tell me when he would pay it. Three years ago I loaned him the money, and the day it was due he called to tell me how sorry he was that he couldn’t pay, and promised it the next Wednesday. When Wednesday came he met me on the street and made another promise. I have had to change my lunching place four times because he in- sisted on sitting at the table with me and telling how it was he couldn’t pay the $80 just then, end when he would pay it. He called at my house when I was entertain- ing gentlemen at dinner, and said he felt in honor bound to pay When I tried to get rid of him by sending him $80 anony- mously, so he could pay the debt, he called to tell me he was going away for a couple of weeks, and when he returned would pay the debt. For three years he has kept this thing up, calling here and going out of his way to neet me, so as to dun himself, and Fromise to pay the $80 next week,” MATTEROF CONTROL ht How Hawaii Regards the St. Louis Platform. ANNEATION 18, THE THING DESIRED The Republic Has Developed Ability - to::Govern. ee ER OF INTERFERENCE ee DAN Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, June 29, 1896. Any declaration respecting Hawall by the republican conventton at St. Louis is natur- ally waited for with anxiety, and carefully scrutinized. Few here looked for anything more than the guarded expressions uttered: “The Hawaiian Islands should be controlled by the United States, and no foreign power should be permitted to interfere with them.” We are quite sensible that even within the republican party there cannot be entire unanimity upon the question of actually annexing these islands as a part of the great American empire. However clear to ourselves may seem the expediency h a union, we are aware that it must | necessarily seem questionable to many re- from lack of intimate ith the question, if from no acquaintance other cause. Here we have the clearest conviction that such union of fHawal with the United States It is “manifest destiny,” year will make more manifest. We ean be content to wait for time to fully develop that necessity. Hawaii need not be in any great hurry. We are in no distress. We are prosperods avd in peaceful condi- tion, Perils, no doubt, lurk around us, from which annexation would protect us They are not urgently menacing, scarcely apparent to a careless eye. Some protec- tion from Amer We are actually enjoy- ing, although very imperfect, and not guaranteed. In the meantime, ‘events are progressing, which we seem to see must inevitably advance, indeed hasten the com- hg union to the United States of their only foreign colony. Indeed, we seem to read between the lines of the platform declaration much more than appears on a superficial reading. To control, to permit no interference. These involve much more than ts expressed. This is so, whether viewed from the standpoint of the foreign powers who are to be warned off, or from that of Hawaif itself. If Eng- land, or Russla, or Japan are not to inter- tere with Hawaii, on peril of the displeas- ure of America, then it would seem to fol- low that America must be responsible for such behavior of Hawail as shall give no cause for such interference. That will be a very serious responsibility. Apparently it cannot be discharged without exercising a | complete control over Hawaii, such as would be easiest under if not ins from Hawaii becoming territorially a part of the United It might be quite pieasing for Hawaii to be able to defy the great Pacific powers, and behave as contu- maciously toward them as she listed, secure in great America’s protection against their Interference. But they would inevitably hold America sesponsible for Hawaii's tricks and caprides} and count her under bonds to secure her protege’s good be- hav. Hawaii's: View of Control. America would'sd0n find that this object could be the most easily accomplished by taking the misbelaving ward right into her own household. be far m neohiy Then when it cqmes to the question of ex- the “cantrot” proposed by the re- | » platform), would, in justi have much to say about the conditions of that control. We shold most vigorously remonsiraic agdlust’being subjected to the orders ef the Mnited States government, without voice or representation therein. If We are to come Under American control, We hall demand present or prospective part- i ther as state or territory. We xpect complete commercial and po- al union, or we shall claim to be tet alone, free to form a perhaps more ad- Vantageous allia with Great Britain. Hawaii is anxious to enter the Union as a partner, but not as a slave. doubt all this was more or less in the minds of the statesmen who expressed themselves as above about Hawaii. We scem to be justified in thinking that they really contemplated annexation, but wisely deemed a guarded expression most ex- pedient. The entire platform evinces the handiwork of cautious and circumspect men, who say nothing that is unnecessary. We have reason to feel happy and hopeful over their judicious deliverance upon the subject of Hawali, secing therein a clear recognition of the inseparable political, as well as commercial, relations, of these is- lands to the United States—relations which inevitably lead toward the closest political union. It has become quite generally felt by us »ved to have been alto- t that the annexation so nearly consummated by President Harrison in 1893 was postponed. At that time it seemed to us a‘ great disaster. The pro- visional government was in a perilous posl- tion—peril so serious that the then United States minister (Stevens) deemed it neces- sary to raise over us the United States flag as protection against what was thought t be a menace from the two large Japane cruisers, which had been hastily sent here. ‘There was really greater danger from the very disaffected British population, who had, and stiil have, great influence over the natives. Under this hostile British influ- ence the majority of the natives and most of the half-whites were being worked up in- to violent animosity toward the new gov- ernment, being made to believe that it was intended to disfranchise and dispossess them of their lands. The Republic a Discipline. When annexation was thwarted by the new administration, and Col. Blount haul- ed down the American flag, we were in much distress. We were Icft to the re- sources of our own courage and force. Happily those resources were not lacking. Our American people rallied to the emer- gency, and fortitied the provisional govern- ment, both financially and with military force. Our position was felt to be hard. We were deeply disappointed, and found eurselves in great peril. The native oppo- nents were exasperated by the attempt to destroy the “independence” of Hawaii, and by its failure stimuiated to confidenuy ex- pect @ restoration of the incapable native regime. But they had not the courage to attempt that restoration themseives. Our intelligent and determined American col- ony S:0od firm and united in strong mili- tary array, supported by the best and most influeniial public sentiment, which had be- come thoroughly weary of the political monkeying of the willful and capricious native sovereigns, We established the republic of Hawail, and have administezed it with high suc- cess. These three aml a half years of ex- ertion and manly courage have furnished a priceless education to our people in civic virtue. They ha¥e developed our manliest capacities. They. have united us in pa- triotism, in beneficent political activity, in thoughtful legislation. By our successful Politica) and fingneial conduct, these years of delay have proved our virile fiber, and won for us the respect of the world, on account of our proved capacity to create and administer a noble and prosperous siate. Therefore-wevhcld that it has been well that annexation, was delayed, and we were lefi to test our-ability to stand alone, and show ourselves a political community of such worth and ¢apacity that America heed not doubt olur fitness for her partnei ship. = all that it has p gether for the b Many of you hold strong doubts of that fitness on account of the great majority of inferior or alien races in our population, the white races forming only twenty per cent In a mass of over 100,000. But con- sider two things—first, the white popula- tion is a highly intelligent one, and com- pletely dominates the rest, so that the Proposed new state of Hawail will start® its American career with a highly civilized and thoroughly administered government. Hawali already proves itself worthy of an equal place among American communi- ties by its able government, its high finan- cial credit and its being an Euglish-speak- ing country. Possible Population. Secondly, the present 100,000 is only the beginning of our-future population. We can easily accommodate 500,000 inhabitants, and can make room for a million. With the immense resources which the coming Pacific commerce will center here, a million people will be needed, even if part of their food supply has to be imported. Now, as soon as annexation takes place, there will be a boom in the best sense. The growing commerce, as well as developing internal resources of Hawaii, will at once attract @ large stream of white immigrants from the United States and England, who will rapidly fill up the country with a Caucas- fan population of high quality. In taking in Hawalt America will be only adopting a state already Americarized, and certain to be rapidly occupied by a people homogen- eous to the states in blood, language and institutions. You will have no problem like that of annexing Cuba, or even such a mongrel state, as New Mexico, both of which have growing native and un-Amer- ican populations. Your St. Louis platform emphasizes your government ownership of the Nicaragua canal, which seems to mean that the canal will soon be commenced. It is a foregone conclusion that when that canal is opened there will at once spring up a large trans- Pacific steamer traffic through the canal with Japan and China; that all that traffic must call at Honolviu for coal, and that most of the ships are likely to be British. You will at once thereby more*than double the already large British influence here, and will need to have the American grip on Hawaii strong and solid before that great commercial change takes place. Al- ready three-fourths of our ten trans-Pacific steamers a month fly the British flag. More are soon coming, as we hear. We learn that arrangements are being perfected for a strong line of large Japan- ese steamers to run to the Pacific terminus of the Tehuantepec road. They will carry thence cotton from New Orleans, and to Mexico coal and rice. These ships will nec- essarily call at Honoluiu. Meantime our beautiful city is taking on a rapid growth. I have already written of the great devel- opment of coffee planting on the delightful uplands of Hawai!. Many capable Amert!- cans and Englishmen are coming into the country to engage in that highly profitable undertaking. Over $200,000 are at once to be spent in road building, opening the most desirable coffee lands. Hawail is already making great strides, and evidentty enter- ing upon a period of wonderful agricultural and commercial prosperity. What we still lack Is that established po- litical stabil'ty which membership in the American Union will confer upon us. Un- tl that is gained, we are exposed to the most serious political dangers, both inter- nal and frem abread. KAME! —— PARD’S HARD RUN. AMEHA. DR. GAs Similarly Followed Up, Almost Any Fellow Would Have Hurried Along. From the Atlanta Constitution. This story I can only tell as it was told to me by the son of a man who tvok an active part in the French revolution. Incredible as the narrative may seem to the average reader, the old gentleman who related the incident to me firmly believed it, and a few experts in electricity have ud- mitted that such things are possible. When the revolution was at its height in Paris during 1792 a young doctor, named Gas- pard, met a horrible fate under very sin- gular circumstances. The doctor was de- voted to science. He had mastered many of the secrets of electricity, and there is good reason to believe that if he had lived in our generation he would have been far in advance ot our leading electricians. Dr. Gaspard loved science and hated Du- mont, a dreaded rival in his own particular field. One night Dumont was arrested a carried before the revolutionary tribunal. He was tried and convicted of treason be- fore midnight, and was sentenced to die at an early hour the next morning. In this case, so hurriedly disposed of, the prose- cuior was Gaspard. He made the affidavit which caused the arrest, and he was the only witness against the prisoner. The square where the execution took place was crowded at sunrise, for there were thirty persons to suffer the death pen- alty He was very tall, with a massive and his head loomed far above his fellow priscners. He had nothing to say but his roving eyes searched the ranks of the spectators until they finally rested upon one face—the face cf his false friend, Gaspard. With a mighty effort the pris- oner bursted his bonds. Villain!” he shouted in a ringing voice, as he pointed to the man who had betr. him. “My death will be avenged. hour of doom is near at hand!” Iie was roughly seized, his wrists were bound again, and the beating of the drums drowned his voice. Gaspard hid himself in the crowd and waited. He did not have te wait long. His enemy was the first vietim, and the guillo- tine had hardly severed the head before the remains were placed on a stretcher and carried to the doctor's laboratory, close at hand. Gaspard locked his doors at once. He had everything ready for his experiment. A few stitches reunited the head to the body and the doctor went to work with his elec- trical appliances. Just what occurred in the laboratory will rever be known. There were still ten persons to be executed when the people around the guillotine were struck dumb with horror by a spectacle more shocking than the scenes they had just witnessed on the scaffold. Dr. Gaspard was seen rushing from his laboratory in a frenzy of frantic terror. Close at his heels followed Dumont! The pursuer's dress was disordered and covered with crimson streaks from his neck down- ward to his feet. His face, convulsed with pain and rage, was a horrible sight to be- old. When they had recovered from their fright sufficiently to move, the spectators scattered in every direction, leaving only the executioners, the guards and the pris- oners who were wailing their turn to mount the scaffold. Straight through the square the two doc- tors darted, Gaspard uttering the most ter- rifying cries, while the other sped :long in’ silence. street leading to the river, and then came the most exciting part of the race. They had traversed about 200 yards when the stitches became loosened in Dumont’s neck. Quick as lightning the victim of the guiflotine snatched off his bleeding hea‘T and continued to run, holding the gory ghastly thing in one hand, with its staring eyes fixed on Gaspard. The wretched fugi- tive, looking backward, saw this new hor- ror, and with a blood-curdling yell he al- Most doubled his speed. Onward and still onward they flew, the pursuer slowly gaining in the race. Scared shopkeepers closed their doors; women shrieked from their windows and fainted; brave soldiers turned white with fear, and many old people fell upon their knees and crossed themselves. Looking neither to the right nor to the left. Gaspard rushed on- ward, continuing his cries. =| Attracted by the uproar, the judge who had sentenced Dumont stopped his carriage and waited with his daughter to ascertain the meaning of it all. The young lady was Gaspard’s sweetheart, and when she saw her lover flying before the red and headless avenger behind him she gave a desperate scream. The fugitive saw her, but dared not stop. Without pausing, Dumont, when he pass- ed the carriage, suddenly gave his head a swing and hurled it through the air. It landed in the lap of the judge’s daughter, and, seeing its staring eyes looking into her own, the poor girl gave another scream and then fainted. The judge's horses dash- ed away at the top of their speed. and the few people who saw the affair barred their doors and fell to praying in good earnest. Gaspard was about fifty yards from the quay when Dumont caught him. The head- Jess man wound one crimson arm around the captured doctor, and then dragged him rapidly to the river. A moment's paase, and the struggling doctor was forced to leap into the water with the red terror, in whose grip he was utterly helpless. It was a ‘hopeless, frightened face that disappeared under the black current. This was all that a party of pleasure seekers in a boat near the scene could tell about it afterward. Almost before they knew ft those in the boat saw the two men ‘isap- pear, They saw a moment later a crimson spot. on the surface of the water, but that was all. The bodies were never seen ugain. This strange occurrence would have at- tracted the world’s attention but for the fact that the revolution furnished new sen- sations every day. As it was, it was soon forgotten in a city where the guillotine peoned the streets with blood every imorn- ing. 3 ——__+e-_. Still im the Rin; From the Indianapotis Journal. “Eight—nine—ten—out!” said the referee. Immediately a great howl arose from the neighborhood of the corner in which lay the defeated pugilist. _ “What's eatin’ you?” shouted the “pus! “Wot do you mean by countin’ out a man parts able to talk, dough it is in a whis- per’ Dumont was a young man of gigan- { The two reached a narrow | IN THE CHURCHES At a recent meeting of the Christian En- deavor Society of the Western Presbyter- fan Church a pleasant incident was the Presentation to President Harry G. Kimball of a handsome gold C. E. monogram, sus- pended by tiny chains from a solid bar bearing the recipient's initials and the in- scription, “Christian Endeavor Chorus.” The presentation was made by the pastor of the church, Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis. The Rev. Father Francis A. Wennen- berg, assistant pastor of St. Mary’s Mother of God Church, has been transferred to the Catholic church at Hancock, Md. Rev. Father Nagengast, who has been appoint- ed assistant to the pastor of the church, Rev. George Glaab, has arrived in this city and is now filling his new position. A fund has been started for replacing the school building just at the south of the church with a new structure. Rev. Charles A. Stakely, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church, 16th and O streets northwest, has removed for the summer, with his family, to College Park, Md. Dr. Stakely expects to occupy his pulpit during the summer. A new series of sermons for summer Sun- day nights, on “Much About Marriage,” are being delivered by Rev. E. Hez Swem of the Second Baptist Church. The members of Second Church are enjoying their new auditorium and claim it is oue of the cool- est in the city. Wednesday evening the congregation of the Sixth Presbyterian Church, together with the Sunday school, gave a moonlight excursion down the river. A number of the Christian Endeavor delegaies, who have not yet left the city, went with them. Two young ladies of this city were re- cently admitted into the “Novitiate” of Mt. St. Agnes Convent, Mt. Washington, near Baltimore. They were Miss ‘Nellie Scher- merhorn, daughter of the late George Sehermerhorn, and Miss Mary Rodbird, daughter of Mr. John A. Rodbird. The ex- ercises were conducted in the chapel of the convent by Rev Father M. C. Dolan, 8. J., of St. Aloysius Church, assisted by Revs. George Tragesser and O. B. Corrigan. Rev. J. Russell Verbrycke, pastor of the Gurley Memorial Presbyterian Church, has decided to spend part of his vacation in Au- gust in Virginia, and the balance on the Chesapeake. During the absence of Mr. Verbrycke the reguiar church services will be kept up, and the pulpit is to be supplied by the Rev. Fred W. Hatch. The Ministering Circle of King’s Daugh- ters of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church took advantage of the presence of the Chris- tian Endeavor Society in this city by con- ducting a lunch room on Pennsylvania ave- rue. From this they realized quite a sum of money, which will be applied toward the mission work of the circle. Rev. Dr. J. B. Stitt, pastor of Dumbarton M. E. Church, is preaching a special series of Sunday evening sermons during the sum- mer months. The subject of the one last Sunday was “Our Daughters.” Dr. Stitt has decided to take no vacation this year. Tomorrow evening there ts to be a con- vention echo rally at the Luther Memorial Church, and a number of prominent Luth- erars of the city are to take part. The committee on enlargement of the Ninth Street Christian Church has not teen successful in getting a building plan that will cost to carry out $6,000 or less. The committee, however, is still at work on the scheme. Rev. Father P. J. McGinney, S. J., is conducting a retreat at the House of the Gcod Shepherd, West Washington. Rev. Father Colgan is to give a retreat at Mount de Sales Convent, Baltimore, the latter Part of this month, and from the 6th to 15th ‘ot apse a retreat at Greenbush, Albany, Electric fans have been placed in the annex dining room of the Central Union Mission. Rev. Dr. Muir, pastor of the E Street Baptist Church, sailed today on the steame Massdam for Holland. He expects to back in time to preach at E Street Chu: the first Sunday in September. The Washington district Epworth League has set apart next Sunday week as the day on which a collection will be taken up among all the chapters to help pay off the debts of the Genera! M jonary Society of the Methodist Church. The league has also decided to conduct services on the opening day of Washington Grove camp meeting, Tuesday, August 4. Rev. Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage has gone to his summer home at East Hampto: Lorg Island. When he returns he ill occupy his house on Massachusetts avenue near I4th street. Rev. Ph Pp M. Prescott, assistant min- ister of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal urch, Washington Circle, has left for Narragansett Pier, to be gone until Ocio- ber. While at Narragansett he is to con- duct services at a small village church near the pier and which he himself built at_his own expense. The transepts of the church edifice of St. Thomas’ P. E. Church have been fin- ished and also the west end of the nave as high as the gable of the roof. The workmen are now finishing the chancel and corner tower, and when this will be completed the building will be ready for roofing. Out at the American University the con- tractor is pushing the work steadily for- ward. He has dug the foundation, and is now at work on the foundation walls themselves. An office building has been erected and telephone communication has been established with the city. Work has commenced on the add to the pastoral residence of St. Augustin Catholie Church. The addi 16 by 30 feet and will cortain ing room, wash rooms and servants’ room: Willard Ives of Watertown, N. Y., who died recently, has left $30,000 to the “Ives Seminary” with a condition that it shall be securely invested, and if the seminary shall ever pass out of conference control, the amourt shall go absolutely to. “The American University.” Mr. Ives has a ‘left 5 per cent of his estate, after pro. vision is made for his wife, and the amount above named ts deducted, to the American University. The publiehed report of the pro- bated will indicates that the university | Will receive about $10,000. This is the {ra will probated within a year in which the American University has been remem bered. General Secretary W. N. Multer of the Young Men’s Chr’stian Association has ar ‘ranged a plan whereby he expects to se- cure to the association a iarge additional membersbip. He proposes to have a regu- [lar list of homes where young men ean get board and lodging at moderate ex- | pense, the Y.M.C.A. taking a personal in- terest in them. Mr. Multer proposes to way many men who come to make their homes in Washirgton will first pass tkrough the hands of the Y.M.C.A. and afterward be kept in close touch with it. It ts expected that witnin the next two weeks a meeting of the board of directors of the National Gospel Mission Union will be held in this city. The Rev. C. S. Mason of Los Angeles, Cal., who is much interest- ed in the work of the union, is here for a short stay, and so ad: tage is to be taken of his presence to have the meeting. At this conference it is probable that some | advertise this fact very largely, and in this,| —=—=—> action will be taken looking to the securing of @ permanent national organizer. Miss E. V. White, superintendent of the home department of Calvary Baptis: Church, is now taking a trip in Europe The work of the department is being car ried on by her assistants. The West Washington Mission of Moun Vernon Method.st Episcopal Church Souii is now thoroughly organized. Services ar ing conducted morning and evening b: the Rev. J. W. Beall, who is assistant t- Dr. Canter, pastor of the Mt. Verne: Church. The Chautauqua Circle of Hamline M. 1 Church has stopped tts sessions for th suinmer. During the past year they follow ed the regular Chautauqua reading cours« and, besides, took up a number of th: standard authors. Christ fvangelical English Luthera Church has established a mission on th Bunker Hill road. Rev. C. C. Morhard Pastor of Christ Church, is conducting se vices there regviarly every Sunday aft noon. In connection with the mission Sunday school hax been established, whic numbers about thirty. The Lutheran Ministers’ Association ! discontinued its sessions, not to meet aga until early ir the fall. Officers, wno w serve through next year, huve been elect as follows: Rey. Dr. W. E. Parson, pre. dent; Rev. Charles H. Butler, secretavy at treasurer. The association, which was co templating establishing a Lutheran m sion in Mount Pleasant, has decided not 1 do anything in the matter until early the fall. The work which ts being done to the ) M. C. A. building is nearly all complete except that the bur portion in the re: yet remains to be torn down. A bicyc: room has been fitted up ir the basemer and the rest of the space there is to be o cupled during the winter by a portion « the educational department. A new fe: ture in connection with the equipment this department is that the students w hereafter have the advantage of work-1 under electric lights. All the old teache have agreed to come back next year. Ti Epworth League is to establish headqua ters in the bu.lding, and it ts also expect that the Christian Endeavor Union w locate there. The Rey. John W. Butler, D. D., pres! ing elder «f the Me: 0 confe e of th Methodist Church, hi pre ted a ray and interesting volume to the Ubrary « the American University through B.sh Hurst. It is bound in velluia, is well ji ed in fine type on excellent paper, ted 1775. It is the second edition The Constitution of the Royal and Po tifical Univers.ty of Mexico,” and is dea cated to Don Carlos TI. | Another ra: book presented to the university is “Eig Discourses ny Rev Spencer Cowper, D.D presented py Rev. Dr. Ridgway of the Ba timore conference. The chief interest } the volume lies in the fact that It has ti autograph of the poet William Cowper 0 the inside of tne front binding. The ai thor »s understood to have been a nephe of the poet Wesley ve camp meeting is to ope next Friday, and will continue thirter days. A tumber of local members of th Southern Methodist Church are expecte to be present, among them being Presidiy Elder Ru nsey Smithson and Rev. Dr. 1. W Canter. Rev. A. Homrighaus, pastor of Zio Lutheran Church, expects to leave the of August, acecmpanied by his family. spend a vecation in the mountains of rett county, in ‘vestern Maryland. He w be gone about a month, but during his ab sence the church services will be kept up. The Sunday schools of Christ Luthera: Church ard of the Brookland Lauthera Mission gave a joint picnic to Lord's Grow on the Bunker Hill road this week. Tues day last tne Young People’s Soclety of thi church went on a ‘bus party to Great Fall Next Monday evening the Brotherhood o! St. Andrew in the diocese of Washingto is to hold the fourth of its bi-monthly mas: meetings at Christ Church, Rockville. Thi entire brotherhood will go out in a body and they will be entertained at supper by the Rockville chapter. There are to be twc addresses on the following topi What Are the Re: ties of Brotherhoo: Men Toward the Boys in Boys’ Chapters? by Mr. W M. Davis of St. John’s Chapter followed an address »y Mr. Wiliam M. Lang. s Chapter. It is expect ed that erough members of the brother hood will go out to fill two speciai ears. The Savday school of Trinity Germar Lutheran Church, recently started, has or ganiz vith the following officers teachers: Superintendent, Mr. L. Lu teacher of the Bible class, the pastor of the cnurch, Rev. G. Koen'g: lady teachers ses C. R lerf, Graff Messrs. Ebele and Bagelmann. The paroclial school has closed its ses- sions. The school building has been fre coed and painted inside and out. Rev. H. R. Naylor, pastor of the McKen. iree Methoi Church, with vit at Kersington for the summer. The vesied choir of St. Paul's Protestant piscopal Church is to take a vacation dur ing the month of August. The music ever, at the church will not be d y ued then, but will be rendered by a guild of the nar’sh. the “Chapter of Prais During the three months’ abs of Rev Dr. Newman, the pastor of th Con- gregational Church, the pulpit will be fill- ed by Prof. Isaac Clark, D.D., of Howard University Thursday evening the building commit tee of Trinity M. E. Church awarded the contract for the erection of the new church building at the corn southeast Mess! r sum of $: It is expected that the work of tearing down the old frame buill- ings on the site of the new church w commence the first of next week. At the platform meeting hel night the delegate to the Harri worth League convention, T. made an interesting report of the pré ings of the convention. He was follow by Mr. E. W. Williams, secretary of the convention, and Mr. Fred. Tasi pre: dent of the District Epworth Leac Solos were sung by Mrs. Ella Sniftin, Mrs. Blanche Gordon and Miss Kate § At the Sunlay evening servic the Metropolitan M. E. Church, 4%) and ¢ streets northwest, the pastor, Ke Hugh Johnston, D.D., is preaching a course ot illustrated sermons on the life of Christ. is Apropos of the Dining Hall. From the New York Journal, In an artistic dining room of a subur- ban house on the Hudson there hangs over the fireplace a wide, shallow board. tinted in a delicate shade of brown, on which tn graceful letters of a darker brown is in- scribed this sentiment: O14 wine +0 drink, Old wood to burn, Old triemds to greet. On the opposite wall, over the sideboard, hangs another one fashioned after the sign of an old English inn, with the nails and weather-beaten edges hfully copied, and on this is written Buras’ impromptu grace said in response to his host's request at dinner when visiting the Earl of Selkirk at St. Mary's Isle: Some hac meat and canna ext, And some wad eat that want It; But we tine meat and we can eat, And may the Lord be thankit, FABLES FOR From Life. THE TIMES, fHt LUG AND THE MEAT. A dog with a piece of meat in his mouth was crossing a bridge over a placid stream. On looking down he saw another dog with a precisely similar piece of meat in the wa ter below him. “That's a sii jump in, “But hold a minui ular incident,” he thought to himself as he prepared to ‘The angie of incidents is always equal to the angle of ‘uon. reflection I find that the other dog and the meat are only optical phe- nomena” Anat he trotted on his way to Boston, without further thought about the matter. H.W. PHILLIPS.