Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1896, Page 13

THE ING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Oor. 1ith Bt, by tne ee RAUEFMAIN Freee ew York Office, 49 Potter Building, ¢cunter 2 cents each. By mail—anywhere in the United States or Canada—postage prepaid—50 cents per month. Saturday —— Sheet Star, $1 per year, with foreign postage L, $3.00. (Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., a8 second-class mail matter.) [All wail subscriptions must be paid In advance. Rates of advertising made known on application. Part 2. he £ven is Sta > Pages 13-24 WASHINGTON, D. O., SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1896—-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. Inf, fe {itffe eckoo? in $e counfre goes info 60 far: a percentage of aff fhe Bouses tiffin a radius fwenfp mifes BOS SSS SSO BOSSES OS OOOSOS Close at 5 p.m. Saturdays at 1 p.m. MAYER BROS. & 937-939 F St. OS cO., ing point. Grand Final August Reductions. The summer season is drawing toa close. We find our stock much too large and must reduce it, no mat- ter how great the loss. Our principle of not carrying goods over from one season to another must be upheld. Hence we have cut prices right down to the quick sell- Shirt Waists At Sensational Prices. On clearing out our big center window we find we've got twenty- five dozen more Shirt Walsts, ‘These Watsts must go, and £0. facilitate thelr going we've marked them at Jstibly low prices. This is an opportunity you will never have again. POSOSHSSIOOSO IC. GOSOSGOOHOHOHHOOSSOOD @ IC. - 2 For Waists that| For Waiststhat | For Waists that 58c. cents a bunch, at. 15 dozen White Duck Caps. Worth 5, 15e. For Monday at... . 5c GHOHOSOCOHOO 2,000 yards Colored Silk Laces, 4 and 5 inches wide, that sold Qe t E . 12¢. White ‘Trimmed Sa = Ww Ne. At. 17¢. —_ —_ re ae Frene! Se S = joleta, &c., that were Te. 2b $1-a bunch. Now. nee 23C Belts to Go. © @ Sy Best Belts are obtainatle e for the reason that we buy only the best mukes. Anotier lot of Leather Belts, In tan and black, that sold for 23¢. Qc Ai = 9c. @ & 4 500 sands All-sill, Taffeta, Tibbgy ard Chamelion Ribbon, the b pods made, that sold ‘for Se. a yard. At.. aes 60 pieces No. 22 AlL-sitk Taffeta Ribbon in hetiotrope, mouse, cream, navy, &e. Worth 2c. @ y 4¢ yard.’ At. 2 = up to 19¢. 2 it S65 937-939 BB were 6gc. tojwere $1.19 to} were $2.00 to 98c. $1.98. | $2.98. Moving Prices on Millinery. Embroidered Yokes “Cut.” 200 bunches Flowers, worth 25 All of our Finest and Best Em- s MAYER BROS & CO., eoeeeo S068 broidezed Yokes, with fine em- broidered _col that sold for frei $1.75 to $5.00, to go at... Duck Suits “Cut.” A Jot of Plain White. Striped. ‘ten Duck 2O©9O0O9O99G0HS0080000 Navy and Dotted Skirts, about 1 doven in all. Worth $2.50. WIM go on sale ge. Monday at. Two very Fine larsellle Duck Suits, large sailor collars, trimmed with bandscme em- broidery la: $12.00." Now Ladies’ Suits “Cut.” Fancy Mixed and Engiish Plata “T Gloth Sutts, subtable “for gea- « and niocrtain wear. Were $4 = Noweseses * $4.50. Bicycle Suits “Cut.” Lndies’ Tau and. Graz, Denim cle “eloth Hts complete. $98 Skirt Special. Z Ta ert Cloth and Black and Cheek Cloth Worth $2.25. nit yards wide, F Street. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP Waiting ale the Cam- paign. age A DEMAND FOR HOUSES FOR RENT Very Little Activity at Present in Building Circles. GEORGETOW NIMPROVEMENTS ——— Stagnation fittingly describes the condi- tion of the real estate market, not only in Washington, but throughout the country. The reports from the other large cities show an equally remarkable falling off in building operations and an almost com- plete stuppage of real estate loans. In- quiry for property to be devoted to specu- Iative purposes, which promised some months ago to become spirited, is not evi- dent here at this time, and the probabilt- ties are that the present conditions will continue, if not grow worse, until the No- vember elections are over. More than a @ozen well-known and reputable dealers in real estate were asked yesterday and this morning what the conditions and the out- look in their business was, and one and all replied that times were never duller in Washington than they are at present, and that there was little upon which to base a hope for improvement. In view of these facts, {t is idle to speculate upon the most fmportant branch of the business. In the renting departments of the big real estate firms, however, there is considerable ac- tivity, as persons are looking around: for their next winter's homes. The proportion of the population of Washington that breaks up its establishments in the early summer and removes {itself from the city is growing larger and larger every year. Since such a vast expanse of the public streets have been covered with concrete Washington residents have found that the nights in summer during a considerable part of the time are hotter than comfort will permit to be suffered, and consequent- ly the tendency to rusticate has become general. Many of those who followed this course this year are now anticipating a return to the city, and the inquiry for houses fs, as before stated, animated. Among house hunters the customary com- piaint 1s heard that there are not enough small houses in Washington equipped with conveniences to meet the demand. In Building Circles. Matters have been as qulet in the local building line as the weather has been hot during the past week. The only permit issued tor the erection of a structure of any size or importance was to Dr. William Holland Wilmer, who is to put up a hand- some residence at 1610 I street. The dwell- ing is to be constructed of brick and stone, with a red sandstone basement. The brick used will be hand-made red. ‘The roof will be a slate and tile mansard, while the gen- eral architecture will follow the Italian idea. Th dimensions of the house are 25 feet by 88.11 feet. It will consist of four stories and cellar, with a one-story back bull ling, 30 feet long, 16 feet wide and 16 feet high. ‘The foundation will be concrete end brick. There will be a segmental bay window and n open porch. The butiding will be heat- ed by steam and the estimated cost of ihe structure, when completed, !s $20,000. Building operations in Georgetown have been rather quiet during the past month, but in the county surrounding the place there is considerable activity, end many fine residences are going up. Mary O'Neal is having erected @ pretty three-story frame residence on the Conduit road,wh'ch is now well under way. Sallie T. Banks has hed constructed a frame dwelling on Kearney street of the Reno subdivision. William Seeley is erecting a handsome two-story and attic frame and stone sub- urban resi¢ence at 3049 Newark street, Cleveland Park. Annie Brodt is erecting a iz a two-story rear brick addition to the two-story frame dwelling on South stree*, Tenleytown, which will soon be ready for occupancy. Edward Brown is erecting a two-story and attic residence, with all modern improvements, on Wisconsin ave- nue, in the subdivision of Fairview Heights. Considerable improvements are being made to many residences in the limits of Georgetown proper, including enlarge- ments and repairs. The principal improve- ments in this direetion are given. Michael Lawler has removed the frame back buildings to 3236 and 2238 M street and erecting brick buildings in their stead. Louis Hoffenmeier is building . a second story to a part of the building located at the corner of 3d and K streets. T. Rosen- busch is making considerable improve- ments to the rear of the dwelling at 8208 Q street. Wolf Nordlinger is haying erect- Store and dwelling at 1855 82d street. The Metropolitan rafiroad has built a brick ad- dition in the rear of the boiler room of the P street car sheds. Mrs. Johanna O'Brien is improving the property at 1316 26th et, by the erection of a rear sum- mer Kitchen. AS SNAIL-LIKE LEGISLATION. The Deceased Wife's Sister Still a British Bugbear. From the Saturday Review. The position in which the marriage with a deceased wife’s sister now stands is a curi- ous {illustration of the omnipotence of gov- ernment and the practical helplessness of the legislature. The bill for legalizing these marriages has now passed the house of lords, and it has over and over again been Passed by the house of commons. Yet the measure has no chance of being passed in- to law this session, and it may be many years before it is placed on the statute book. ‘The bill can only become law by being taken up as @ government measure, and, with the predominance of clerical influence in the present cabinet, it is not likely that it will be put in a ministerial program during the life of this parliament. There are still peo- ple who cling to the old-fashioned doctrine that the legislature makes the laws and the government executes them. The truth is that, in those days, the legislature is power- less in the matter of legislation, and that the cabinet 1s both the executive and the legis- lative body. Practice and theory are more widely divergent in the British constitution than in any ether. ++ —___ Dragging for a Flyrod. “Flyrod” Crosby tells, in Shooting and Fishing, how J. E. Biadon of Portland, Me., recovered a pet flyrod that went overboard from the Httle steam launch of H. B. Ken- tiedy of Brooklyn, N. ¥., into fifty feet of Rangely lake water. Mr. Kennedy looked @ 2t-pound trout and Mr. Bladon laid his rod down, with the hook still in the water, to heip land the hooked fish. The rod sud- denly went over the side of the boat into the water. It looked like a gone rod for a while, but the engineer of the boat tied strings to- gether, with a grapple on the end, and rowed round the launch. He got hold of some- thing on the second trip that was lively and pulling hard. On getting it to the surface the engineer found that his grapple had hooked into the line of the lost rod, which had been pulled overboard by a three-pound trout. The trout was saved along with the rod and line. Ferocto Mosquitoes. From the Pittsburg Chroaicle. c “Do you find many mosquitoes in your part of the city?" one Pittsburger asked of another. “I would not put it that way,” was the latter’s reply. “I would say that many mosquitoes find me. I do not know when I bave seen so many. I suppose the damp weather we have had is responsible for their number and ferocity.” : “Speaking of their ferocity, a friend of mine told me yesterday that he was lying von a lounge in bedroom on Sunday af- ternoon, close to a window protected by a wire screen, and that several mosquitoes |-gathered on the outside and actually forced an entrance by prying the strands of wire apart with their fore feet until a space big enough for them to come in was made. My friend is reputable man, too, and a church said the other man, “I don’t see why you make that addition to your story, Mosquitoes would just as lief eat church rs as any other class of people.” ©@@@ | THE NATIONAL GUARD Sea Girt Continues the Chief Topic of Conversation. GOSSIP ABOUT THE RIFLE TEAMS Competition for Transportation Will Occur Next Week. COMMISSIONS FOR OFFICERS ee Sea Girt continues more than ever to be the principal topic of conversation among ™members of the National Guard. Interest in the New Jersey meeting continues to ex- pand, and with that expansion comes an increase in the number of guardsmen who are making arrangements to leave in com- pany with the brigadé, regimental and company teams on Saturday, the 29th in- stant. As yet no definite announcement ; can be made as to the identity of organiza- tions and individuals, but things will crys- talliza considerably during the next few days, and by Saturday the inspector gen- eral of rifle practice must know positively who is going. There was a time, not 50 long ago, when the estimated number of those who would be found in the Sea Girt detachment looked something like a hun- dred men, but experience has taught that the early estimates are always optimatious. At the present ‘ime the indications point to about seventy-five riflemen being of the party. It is rather remarkable that this year’s detachment should be so small. The prize list at Sea Girt offere considerably more than $1,000 in cash, so divided as to give everybody a fair chance to win some of it. An ordinarily skillful sharpshooter ought to be able to make a good deal more than his expenses out of the meeting. It should be definitely understood that delay in reporting to the inspector general of rifle practice will surely result in -disap- pointment, for if a man’s name is*not in the order he will not be able to charge the time up to military teave. To men not em- ployed in government service this would be a matter of little importance, but it Is es- sential that the authoritles-should know in good seascn who is going. So far as the teams are concerned the out- look is said to be quite satisfactory. The brigade team is in good shape, and ought to be able to do as well as it did last yeer. It will probably need to do so if it 1s to be.a winner. Present indications are that Penn- sylvania will have in the fleld the finest team ever entered in any competition by the state. This means a great deal, for Penn- sylvania has had lots of good teams, and has almost as many thousands of men to select a team from as the District National Guard has hundreds. Georgta, too, is going to be a very dangerous competitor. Superior to Last Year. The Ist and 2d regimental teams are like- ly to be a little better than they were last September, while theprobabilities all favor as good a team from the Engineer Corps as that which last year won the bronze horse for the third time with a record-breaking score. Practice is being regularly and en- thusiastically indulged in, so that it is but reasonable to expect that Washington's rep- resentatives in Jersey will at least make a respectable showing. Next week there is going to be competi- tion at the range. As was announced in Cir- cular No. 3—printed in The Star the day of the circular’s poultice ion ensecrcation to Sea Girt will be given to two company teams. Nobody knows just yet which of the teams will win. Wednesday afternoon the competing teams will be required to re- port at the rifle range at Ordway not later than 2:45 o'clock p.m. Each team will fire ten rounds per man at 200 yards, and ten rounds per man at 500 yards. The team of thé 1st Separate Company will use the car- bine, and will be allowed a total of fifteen points on its score. The two teams whose aggregates are greatest will receive the free transportation to Sea Girt. It is understood that some of the companies propose to send teams to Sea Girt whether they win in this competition or not. Directors of Health. Captain Pyle, surgeon of the 2d Regiment; First Lieutenant R. A. Foster, surgeon of the 2d Battalion, and First Lieutenant Clarence A. Weaver, surgeon of the 3d Bat- talion, have been requested to join forces with the executive committee of the Na- tional Guard Athletic Association, with a view of furthering the success and benefit of the organization. It has been signified that the invitation will be accepted. Several Officers Commissioned. Commissions were transmitted yesterday and today by the adjutant general to First Lieutenant Arthur A. Birney, inspector of rifle practice of the First Battalion; First Lieutenant Schuyler C. Stokes, inspector of rifle practice of the 2d Battalion; Charles S. Domer, Company C, 2d Battalion; First Lieutenant Lee B. Mosher, Company C, 2d Battalion; Second Lieutenant William W. Mortimer, Company C, 2d Battalion; First Lieutenant R. B. Covington, Company D, 1st Separate Battalion, and Second Lieuten- ant Frank M. Robinson, Company D, ist Separate Battalion. To Secure Dress Uniforms. Company C, ist Separate Battalion, is certainly progressive. The company, is de- termined to complete its equipment by the purchase of a set of full dress National Guard uniforms, and in order to secure the necesssary cash has arranged to give an excursion to Glymont, Wednesday, August 19. In addition to many other attractions an elaborate military display is announced, including competitive, extended order, whis- tle signal, skirmish and individual drili and a dress parade. Several well-known organi- zations will participate. > The excursion will be preceded by a street parade, leaving the armory of the 1st Sep- arate Battalion at 8 a.m. The committee in charge of the affair consists of Lieut. R. B. Covington, chairman; Lieut. F. N. Robin- son, Corporal Wm. Brown, Corporal H. Braxton, Segt. W. C. Dennis, Private Jas. Stewart, Private D. Brooks, Private F. Gorden, Sergt. Geo. A. Brown, Private R. Lucas, Sergt. W. H. J. Tapplett, Sergt. Jno. E. Tucker, Private O. Richardson, Capt. F. T. Webster, ex-officio. Notes. Private J. H. Adams, Company A, En- gincer Corps, has been transferred to Com- pany C, ist Battalion. A special meeting of the Engineer Corps will be held Wednesday evening next to discuss the details of the visit of the En- gineer rifle teams to Sea Girt, August 31. Capt. Edgar A. Shilling will lead a scoro or more of the members of Company A, 3d Battalion, on a bicycle ride to Balti- were, starting from the armory this.even- iB. Capt. Eugene C. Edwards, Company A, 2d Battalion, has suspended all drills and meetings of his command until September 7,.when the members are to assemble for the purpose of mapping out a program for a busy winter season. © At a meeting of Company -A, 5th Bat- talion, Monday evening last, Mr. Theodore J. Pickett of the National Rifles was nom- inated for the position of first lieutenant and received the unanimous vote of the members present. It is not at all uniikely that a new com- pany wili be mustered into the guard and assigned to the 8d Battalion early in the O8SSSOSSOOO OES SOSCSORSNES SSSSSSSS 950000 © Chamber Sets. @solia Oak. @ With Spring and 00 @ Mattress. 2 oO Up. @ P Well worth $30.00. Parlor Sets. @Asserted Colors. 00 25 op. Finely finished. @ Well worth $40.00. Hall Stands. @ solid Oak : Or Mahogany .00 3 Ati: @ Finish. @ Well worth $7.00. Reed Rockers. Large Size— Extra Value. SS Well wi @ Welllw orth $7.09. SSSSOOSSOSS See HEN BUY IN DOUBT OF HOUSE & HERRMANN, REDUCTION SALE. Seasonable Goods at Quick-selling Prices. Everything in our stock is of Modern Design a ‘Housekeepers’s Harvest Month. nd Fine Quality. This is the Couches. Leatherette, Spring Edge — Big Value. Well worth $15.00. Everything Needed to Fur- nish a House Complete. CASH OR CREDIT. Cor. 7thand I Sts.N.W. Chiffonieres. Solid Oak. 5 Carved Back, Family Size. Enjoy Home Comforts While Paying for Them. 15 Well worth $10.00. Cor. 7thand I Sts.N.W. CASH OR CREDIT. SHSSSSOSOVSSOSO SSOSS60ESEES 9 fall. The commanding officer, it is said, will be Morgan W. Shuster, formerly col- one! of the regiment of High School Ca- ets. | The quartertidster general has directed all company. commanders to turn in at onte the bayonet scabbards now in their possession. As soon as the property men- tioned is received and forwarded to the arsenal, the new hook scabbard, for use with the web belt, will be issued to the District of Columbia National Guard. With the exception of the rifle teams, the Ambulance Corps seems to be the onl; organisation of the brigade that is et ail active during the torrid season. Under Lieut. Fales the’ corps has devoted con- éiderable time of late to practice work that may come in handy at any moment. Company C, 2d Battalion, recently mus~ tered in, is resting quietly on its oars, and, in all Propabliitys will not @isplay any Signs of activity prior to Octeber. Capt. Domer ‘has just accepted his commission, and therefore the company has‘ not yet re- seived its equipment. . —<———__ USE FOR OLD HeRsp:caRs. A Demand for Them fer Sumer Cot- tages nnd Camps, From the Electrical Word, A novel but very sersible u@e 18 made of old horse cars in Connecticut. When the trolley system was introduced in the vari- ous cities In that state the problem as to what should be done with the old horse cars remained unsolved until some enter- prising genius suggested using them for summer cottages, hunters’ camps, lodges, etc. The putlic readily fell in with the idea, with the result that all of 600 old cars that went into disuse are now being utilized for these novel purposes. It is stated that all along the Long Island coast, from Watch Hill to Larchmont, these cars may be seen perehed up on top of some breezy bluff on the sandy shore, or in some quiet, shaded neok, affording temporary habitation for families, fishermen, hunters, etc. The demand for old horse cars has greatly increased in consequence of this new use. One woman recently asked the station agent at New London for his low- est prices for passenger cars; also @ lst of the various styles, A Norwich party has arranged four cars in the form of a hollow squaré ang erected a canvag awning. in the square. e@ of the cars ig used es the kitchen, and the others as sleeping rooms, dining room, parlor, etc. One gentleman has five cars on Block Island, which he has Placed end. to end like e train. The sup- Ply of old cars in this one state has thus suddenly become exhausted. ——_+e-+____. Human Leopards. Lcndon Letter. News has reached here from Sierra Leone of the hanging of two men named Kperre- wa and Kalter, members of the Soctety of Human Leopards, in the Imptri country of the Sierra Leone settlement. After two trials, the first of which commenced in Jenuary last, the two prisoners were found gullty of murdering a native named Jack Purser, a watchman in/the service of Kal- ter. The prisoners, after being condemned to, death at Freetown, were taken up to Bambiah, in the Impiri country, in the center of which town a scaffold was erect- ed. -This was done as a warning to the natives. The execution took place on the 16th ultimo, and both men died instanta- neously. There were a latge number of People present to witness the exezution, and from the scaffold the culprits maie speeches, denying their guilt, and saying they were being hanged through the tes- timony of false witnesses. The natives lis- tened most attentively to these declara- tions. These “‘Huraan Leopards” killed, at stated perlods, a native, as a sacrifice to their fetish or god. After the victim was killed, a cannibal feast was held on the body by the members of the society. The man selected to kill the victim is covered with a leopard skin, and has a threo- Pronged instrument in each hand, with which he almost tears the head. of the vic- tim to pieces. Although several men have been hanged for these murders, the au- thorities still believe they. have not stamp ed out the fiendish practiee. a ++ Reading Emerson, Professor Drummond. ‘The second book I bought was Emerson, and I used always to take credit to myself that I had discovered Hmersom. My fel- low-students would not. gead him. They always read Carlyle. But I cauldn’t read Carlyle then. If I dia read Carlyle, I felt as if I had been whipped, while. after I read Emersen J felt that I had been stroked down. I think a mas ehould read the books that help him, it doesn’t matter what reputation they have got. I think @ man should discard the books that bore him. I think what Emerson does for you is to teach you to see with the mind. Emerson never proves anything. He never works out logic. He just_Jooks at truth and says what he sees, and you see that what he says is right. Emerson was one of the purest.and m¢st unworldly men who ever lived. fie jive the ripe scholar all the time. He néver:came down and mim gled with the world sind tock off bis gown. And there ts @ scholarly purity’and un- Worldliness about hie work. He teaches, for Instance, the great truth that a man ought to rely uporr himself; that God has given him a certain number of talents, and that is his equipment to go through life on. He has to stand upon his own in- stincts, and to be perfectly contented to be what God has made him to be, and not anxious to be anybody else. z IN MUSICAL CIRCLES An Earnest Appeal for the Encouragement of American Musicians. Protest Against the Craze for Foreign Artists — Some Matters of Local Interest. In the Musical Age this week Mr. Harry E. Freund makes a strong plea for the en- couragement of music in this country as interpreted by native musicians. He refers to the exorbitant prices that have been for some years paid to foreign artists,who have come here simply for the money there was in it and have departed carrying their gains with them, sometimes without even a gracious word of farewell, and then says: “What encouragement, or aid, or impetus has been given to the real cultivation of the -musical art in America by these immense sums of ntoney expended in listening to the performances of the foreign: artists and composers? Has the artist or composer of native birth, cr who has ckesen this coun= try as the land of his adoption, had any cpportunities? “Has not the public absolutely refused to attend a performance or encourage iis own musicisns unless they had first a foreign indorsement? “Has not this self-same public, after criti- cising adversely a home artist, flocked like so many sheep to applaud because London, Paris ard Berlin had uttered their ap- Proval? Will it be ever thus? While a_ foolish, fanatical, frenzied crowd was howling itself hoerse over the foreign ‘star’ whose great name and high price had comnianded their gttendarice, the Americsn musician was left jn oblivion. “He has had occasion to contend, and to suffer bitterly, from this sort of competi- tion, which has served to keep him in the skadow when it did not actually take the bread out of his mouth. “It kas been in a number of cases a wild, unreasonable craze on the part of the pub- lic to worship at the shrines ef foreign idols, locking with disdain and contempt upon all efforts to create gods of their own. “To a large extent our own struggling artists and composers have been neglected in this senseless worship. “The American people need to be awak- ened. Our industrial and commercial pro- gress leads the world. Why should we not, win time, occupy a similar position in art?” He then suggests that wealthy men should subscribe to establish a national school of music, and concludes as follow: “Let us have American singers, Ameri- can pianists, American compose! Let America be for Americans, and let art in America be awarded all the encouragement to which it is justly entitled by the popula- tion, progress and prosperity of the United States.” The National Conservatory of Music of America, which was founded by Mrs. Jean- nette M. Thurber, has been of great bene- fit to American musicians, both vocal and instrumental, and of both sexes, during its existence of ten years. Its only aim has been to gather from all parts of the United States those whose after labors will ad- vance the cause of music in their native land. The annual entrance examinations will take place as follows, at the Conserva- tory, 126 and 128 East 17th street, New York city: Singing—September 1, from 9 to 12 a.m., and 2 to 5 p.m., and in the evening. Cho- Tus, from.8 to 10 p.m. Vit%.n, viola, contrabass, ’cello and harp —September 2, from 10 to 12 a.m., and 2 to 4 p.m. Orchestra and all wind instruments—Sep- tember 2, from 2 to 4 p.m. Piano and organ—September 4, from 10 to 12 a.m., and 2 to 4 p.m. Although the matter has not been defi- nitely settled, it is believed that the quar- tet of solcists that will assist the Choral Society In its performance of the “Mes- siah” on the 2btn and 30th of December next will consist of Mrs. Nellie Wilson- Shircliff, soprano; Miss Grace Hall of Bal- thmore, contralto; Mr. W. D. McFarland, tenor, and Mr. Ericsson Bushnell, bass. These singers, with the exception of Miss Hall, are well known here, and will un- doubtedly be heard with pleasure. Miss Hall is said by those who know of her ca- pabilities to be fully up to the standard of those with whom she will be associated. No engagements have been made for the second concert of the Choral Society, but two names have been suggested. One is Miss Camille Seygard, a young Belgian woman, who will pay her first vieit to this country this year, arriving in New York in November. Although she is a Belgian, Miss Seygard’s mcther was an Englishwo- man, and she speaks English fluently, so much so that she has n engaged by the New York Philharmonfc Society, and will make her debut in this country with that soctety in oratorio. She is said to have a voice of unusual purity and power, and, be- sides, to be a young woman of remarkable beauty of face and figure. The other name is that of Mr. H. Clay Willlams, who is said to possess a tenor voice of much sweetness, highly cultivated and of good range. Miss Katie V. Wilson is spending her va- cation at Atlantic City. She will return by the Ist of September. The Sunday Night Music Club celebrated the birthday of the immortal Bach at the residence of Miss Elsa Ulke, playing his celebrated ‘“‘Air for the G String”—violin, with plano and string quartet accompani- ment, the solo by Miss Florence King—to- gether with three of his sonatas, for pianos and strings, after which they studied one of the Beethoven plano concertos, arranged as a piano duet, with strin, —_— SEASIDE DAU The Styte of Bathing Suits Worn at Swell Watering Places. From the New York Advertiser. Having had a chance in my outing to ob- serve the various modes in different forms ef costume, I have discovered that the bathing suits worn this season are alto- gether the most cool and airy costumes that have yet been devised for that pur- pose. Fashion has done away with the tra- dition that favored high necks and long sleeves, while even colors in bathing cos- tumes are long since out of date. Yet in abridging her costume, both at the top and bottom, it is not to be supposed that the fashionable swimmer has been actuated wholly by a desire for greater comfort, for she has at the same time insisted that her ocean costume shall fit. to be as trim a figure in the water as she is out of it, and in dressing for her daily plunge she wears corsets that are no less stiff than those demanded by her evening toilets. The result ts undeniably attractive. and since the summer girl eajoys being in cased In corsets while she is trying to swim, it is surely no one eise’s affair. Just new the typical costume is white. and made either of silk or mohair. Silk is ter adapted to stand the test of the waves, and abserbs water hardly at all. White satin is also seen now and then, and is one of this season's novelties. Some color is al- ways used to supply tone for the white costume. Black is exceedingly chic, and the combination of black and white is in as high favor at the seashore as in the charming combination. If black, for in- black or satin, is made to accompany the costume. Into this belt the bodice ts brought down tightly, a slight fullness in front giving a very graceful effect. The neck is low cut and pointed in front, a soft loose bow of wide black ribbon being placed at the point. Tne short skirt is bor- white material are, of course, worn under the skirt. are calculated to resist the most aggressive wave. Long black silk stockings are worn under strapped on, sandal-fashion, by white rib- bons. The effect of the entire costume is not only striking, but exceedingly pretty, and the summer girl who adopts it may, at least, be sure of enjoying her promenade along the beach, however urfitted she may be to cope with the watery element. —_+e+_____ A NEW LILY. Cross Between the Common Garden Lily and Jimson Weed. From the Baltimore Sun. From two big black seeds planted two months ago in the garden of Mr. E. B. Du- Vai have sprung plants which are blossom- ing into curious flowers that puzzle those familiar with horticulture. The flower will probably be named the “DuVal lily,” as it is a new one in Mery- land. Mr. DuVal’s garden is in the rear of his some residence of Mr. Jullan LeRoy White. It has become a curiosity shop of flowe: from the use of seeds and cuttings whic are sent to Mr. DuVa! by horticulturisis all over the country in order that he may try | them in Maryland soil. When the two black seeds arrived in May from a New York seed house, Mr. DuVal had them planted in a choice place in the garden. He became interested in the two shoots which soon sprang up from the seed: ‘The tender stalks were tightly curled in a knob, like that on a growing lima bean stalk, until the stems were nearly a foot high. Then the curl straightened and a bushy plant developed, from which soon rose a flower stalk. Another thing which aroused Mr. DuVal's curlosity about the new plants was the in- formation he received with the seeds that they came from a cross of a “Jimson” weed with the common yellow or white lily, which abounds in old-fashioned gardens and about old country places. The “Jimson” weed, or Jamestown weed, as it is more properly known, receives its name from Jamestow: Va., where it was first known in this coun- try, from its growth about refuse heaps. It is of Asiatic origin, is a variety of stramo- nium, and has a disagreeable odor from the leaves. Its flower is a deep purple in color. From this strange admixture of plant life Mr. DuVel yesterday brought the first bloom. The flower is about 8 inches long and measures 6 inches across the bell- shaped corolle, which is indented like both the parent flowers, the.points ending in ten- dril-like twists, as do the “Jimson” weed flowers. The corolla ts purple on the out- side, while the inside is of cream color. ‘Three layers of fleshy petals make up the “blossom, tht petals being joined’ with what tailors would call a “fap seam.” A green calyx cup supports the flower, which grows on a stout stem. The deep purple color is continued in the stamens and pistil, which form a group deep down in the lily cup. The leaves of the plant are like magnified oak leaves, and when Pressed emit the true “Jimson” weed odor. Mr. DuVal will report on his strange lily to the seedsmen, and will retain some of the seeds for future experiments in his garden. Everything Charged. From the Detroit Free Press. “How is it that Watley has so many suits? He gets @ small salary.” “Oh, he is an electrician and his clothes are all charged.” She is determined | prettier out of the water, and floats about | daintily in the breeze, while mohair {s bet- | city. Cherry red or scarlet affords another | stance, is used, a belt, pointed in front, of | dered by bands of black. Trousers of the | The sleeves are simply short, | full puffs, rigidly stiffened by means that | the white canvas bathing shoes, which are | | delirium of e Solid Oak. With Mirror and Cupboard. Well worth $13.00. Selid Oak. Full Size--Square Top. Well worth $6.00. CARPETS, MATTINGS, At Equally Reduced Prices f . @ Big Variety. @ 2 & Laces, Draperies, Shades, 4 Table Linen, Cutlery, Crock- Ss ery, Lamps, Clocks, &c., &c. @ |\Complete 2 Est ee ARE, es 3 /Home Furnishers.. 3 Eearopean Cities Incrense in S as It will take Greater New York a long time to become the largest city of the world, even if We ignore Chicigo’s hopes of passing hor in population. Within the area to be embraced in Greater Now York there are now about 3,000,000 Pp be- sides 500,000 more just across ihe river. Greater Londen has a population of more | than 6,000,000, By the census taken in a Inight, as the slow E commun, the city in the “adm! London” has 4,441,271 population 40 people in five years. G , however, populat and has gained 34,300 in r actual gain, though a st centage of gain, than that of Greater > York. Thus a city which five vears azo was as large as New York, Chicago, Phila- delphia, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Boston, Bal- | timore and New Orleans comblu-d, added lems Cinein- in half a decade a popu than that of San F hati combined in 1s ation 1 Among the world’s great cit be third in 1900, but place. will net lo At the present rate of gro ssed by Chicago and Berl In 1 the first decade of the i ury closes. rful as has been the American cities, they have gon 1 increased more rapidly than * rope of equal size. Amster sth, Warsaw, Rome and M | kept pace with citics of eq | country, as St. Lou! more, and many cit! h and Australia that were sma cities In ISSO Were larger in Ds). Buenos Ayres, M r Sydney’ have grown much 7 than cities of equal size in States in 18%), except New York, Chicas, Philadelphia and Brooklyn, while in Iss seven cities in tnis country were larger | than Rio de Janeiro. and ten larger than | Buenos Ayres. The former has passed St. | Louis, Boston and Baltimore, while the latter, in addition to these, has passed Cincinnati, San Francisco and New Or- ns. In 1S) Melbourne was smaller the ec St. I Koston, Baltiz cinnati. Now it is larger th i ing the same time Sy as pe cinnati and San Francisco in pop: | All over ihe world the drift of pe | tion is to the cities. This drif: is vi ceptible in this country, but it | more marked in some other coun le HINTS ON BASS FISHIN How to Land and How Not to Land the Gamy Beauties. From the Albany Jonrnal. Black bass are biting voracious! yon Lake Champlain, and for size they have never been surpassed in that great body of an- gling water. One of these gamy fish can furnish enough sport in five satisfy the most enthusiastic rod and reel. In ain th | three spots where these Incompuralile {fish abound—Butler Bay. North Hero, Grand Isle, ¢ Vt, and Rouse’s P. lives where the bottom lured with tempting long pull and a streng pull, wh | a tingle of expe tation to one and throw the rodster’s whol Keep awa eel gr the = woter, where t ater lilies flirt with maple and base on the water i neath the glar 5 light- ed his cigar 1 settled ce on his seat, he watches the float nod at breath of & passing tree around a myriad of water spi song of the blackbird or thr: ear from the tangled hi paid to it—the angler keep the time or the float. It ts kept the quill slowly bends at an angi surprised at being disturbed, and then denly sinks with a cluck into the deep blue depth: A few minutes of supreme delight to the fisherman, and the bronze back is in the boat. If sn angler ettempts to securely hook a black bass as soon as his * appears, he will, as a rule, f. with his piscine prize. the pugnacious feilow a chan settle the lure in his mouth, and thea wt a short, quick pull you have him. Next comes the playing. If you keep the fish away from the side of the boat, you will land him nicely. But him draw your rod down to the edge, he will snap it-like a st gler who once catches a big never again be content to an and the like, but will, Tike W go forth for black bass, and b will but cause him to Aw “angle and angle again.” — tee - Science Always Ready. Frem the New York Weekly Caller—“Doctor, Mr. Divine, the muscle reader, fell into a sort of trance a little while ago, and we cannot arouse him. Is it catalepsy or death?” Doctor (a great scientist)—“Bring me his head, and I'll soon tell you.’ Refore the Porcupine’s Cage. From Judge. Patsy—"Wot a dandy he'd be at stealin’ bases, Tommy!” Tommy. kin he sprint?” Patsy—“Naw; but how'd yer Ike ter tag him out an’ hey him spike yer?"