Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1896, Page 10

10 és THE EVENING STAR, — R, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1896—-SIXTEEN PAGES. AFFAIRS IN; GEORGETOWN Celebrating the Eightieth Anniversary of Mt. Zion Church, Beath of Rev. Carroll Boone—Other Local Netes of General and Especial Interest. The celebration of the eight!eth anniver- sary of Mt. Zion M. E. Church began yes- terday morning with a sunrise prayer meet- ing at 6 o'clock, which was well attended, Mr.-John Berry leading. The reunion of the Sunday school started at 9:30 o'clock in the forenoon, Mr. Thomas Brown, an ex-superintenlent, being in charge. De- votional exercises followed, with John W. Lee, ex-superintendent of the school, con- ducting the same. The regular Sunday school and Bisie work was commenced and continued until 11 o’clock, when the regular morning church services began. Rev. E.W. S. Peck, the pastor, conducted the meeting, while Rev. N. M. Carroll delivered the ser- mon, taking as his text, James, third chap- ter, fifth verse: “Behold how great a mat- ter a litte fire kindleth.” His sermon Was in tie nature of a history of the church, with the divine influence. The edged to be the best ac- quainted divine historian of the church, and his remarks bore out his reputation.” His remarks dated long before the history of speaker is ackn the church, starting with the foundation of Method:sm, though the main part of his discourse was upon the subject of the church. The musical portion of the pro- gram Was excellent, the regular choir con- tributing special music for the occasion, un- der D:rector Parrott. The collections at the morning services were very gratifying. In the afternoon the Epworth League of the church held a reunion, Mr. Benson Locke, the president of the District League, presiding. An interesting meeting was held, and Rev. J. F. Chestnut, M. W. Clair and others made short speeches. The music for the occasion was furnished by the Ep- League choir of Ebenezer M. E. Churea, Esau Williams, director. In the evening there was a slight change of the regular program. Rev. Mr. Peck delivered the sermon, Rev. James W. Danbury, who was scheduled to deliver the same, being unable to be present. Rev. Mr. Peck’s re- marks were good and attentively listened to. Rev. Adgar Murphy presided at the meeting. The program for the anniversary today is a reunion of the official boards of the church, Mr. Alfred Pope presiding. The devotional exercises,which commence short- ly after 8 o'c after the reunion of the official boards, will be conducted by Rev. Walter H. Brooke, D. D. The music for the occasion will be furnished by the choir of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, James Walker, director. Death of Rev. Carroll Boone. Rev. Carroll Joseph Boone, 8. J., profes- sor of elocution and instructor in mathe- matics in the preparatory department of Georgetown University, died yesterday morning at 7 o'clock in the infirmary of the university, from an attack of typhoid fever, after an illness of three weeks. The deceased was not quite thirty years of #ge and was a native of Petersville, Frederick Md. He attended Loyola College Baltimore and joined the Society of sus in ISS4, spending a novitiate of five ears at Frederick, Md. He served three Years at Woodstock College and then went to Boston College, where he remained for three more years, coming from that place to Georgetown the latter part of last year. The funera! was held this morning, witn solemn mass of requiem at the Dahlgren morial Chapel. in which the faculty and students participated. The interment was in the Jesuit burying ground at the uni- versity. Si. A ‘» Church. During the recent hurricane Tenleytown suffered very much, the greatest damage being done to St. Ann’s Church property, the total being about $1,200. To defray this loss the Aid Society and the sodality of the church will hold a birthday party on cate ‘Thursday evening. A very good program as been arranged, in which well-known n talent will participate, a: ncing will be indulged in. Oy supper and refreshments will be served, invited to help the ause along. Notes. Mr. Walter Weaver, who has been so seriously ill, is reported to be convalescing. Gen. and Mrs. Angus have returned home, after a visit to their son, Mr. Wheaton Angus, at Evaston, Ili. Mrs. J. D. Davenport is stopping at Ten- leytown, after spending the summer at Win ster, Va. Mrs. George Washington Cissel has re- turned to her home, after a stay of a ‘onth at Borkeley Springs. iss Margaret A. O'Connell, a sister of Father O'Connell, assistant pastor ot tephen’s Church, died Friday at her . 06 Mth street northeast, the funeral eld this morning from St. Joseph's ch, with a solemn mass of requiem. Pauline Wilcox is stopping with . Willia H. Brawner at Brookland. ev. Dr. J. B. Stitt, pastor of Dumbar- Avenue M. E. Church, has returned ton irc his trip north, and yesterday con- ucted the services at his church. Little Falls Lodge, No. 10, of the Order of Good Templars, has been organized. with a membership of twenty-four. The lodge is located on the Conduit ri the Chain bridge. react A FRENCH BABY. Legal For ties om the Birth of a ‘onsible Soldier. ntury. th of a new citizen in France at rise to countless formalities, and an avalanche of legal scribblings, which would teach him, could he but understand, that his country Is par excellence the home of legal ceremony and administration. Within the first twenty-four hours not of the birth must be sent to the mayor's Office (there is such an office in every vil- lage in France), so that the official physi- cian may call and make the necessary legal statement. I suppose he wants to con- vince himself that the declaration already ade Was correct, and that the family, when it announced the birth of a girl, was not trying to screen a future soldier from his compulsory service. Then the father, accorapanied by two witnesses, goes to fill out the birth certificate, and give his child its legitimate, documented position, to which he or she will be obliged to have re- course in all the great, and frequently in the minor, circumstances of Ife, from cne end of !t to the other. Without it the ehild could not enter a school, nor draw lots on entering the army, nor get mar- ried, nor be ied. The least mistake of form would have most serious conse- quences; the baptismal names declared must always be piaced in the same order on all future deeds. These are usually saints’ names. I recall the amusing anger ef a young American father of my ac- quaintance, who wished to give his son born in Paris the name of the great sailor Duquesne, in remembrance of the avenue where the baby had seen the light of day, and, in addition, the family name of one of his friends, which no Frenchman could pronounce. All this seemed so shocking and incongruous to the registrar that the certificate was made out only after an in- terminable discussion. once give From Science. A quite novel surgical operation has suc- cessfully been performed at Parma, Italy, by Prof. Camillo Verdelli, in the presence of all the physicians of the Parmese Hos- pital, and with very satisfactory results. ‘The new operation was the washing of the heart. It was the first operation of the kind, ard Prof. Verdelli employed the washing apparatus recently invented by Prof. Riva. After making an operative in- cision Prof. Verdelli first cleaned the peri- cardium of the patient, a twelve-year-old boy, of the pus which had accumulated thereon, and then proceeded to wash the heart with a strong solution of soda bibo- Tate (borax). The operation was very suc- cessful, Inasmuch as no further complica- tion has arisen. The boy is now doing very well, and is on his way to complete recov- ery. Prof. Verdelli has received numerous congratulations for his success with the new operation from surgeons all over Eu- Tope. POSTAL RECEIPTS Falling Off Dir'ng the Last Quarter Due to the Free Silver Agitation. They Increase Rapidly in Time of Financin! Prosperity and Fall Dur- ing Seasons of Depression, ‘The depressing effect of the silver agi- tation upon business is indicated by the falling off in postal receipts for the quar- ter ending September 30. There is a fall- ing off of $1,500,000 as compared with the quarter ending in June, and $63,000 -as compared with the quarter ending Sep- tember 30 of last year. While the loss is not large for the last quarter, as com- pared with the corresponding quarter of 1995, it has taken place in the face of the fact that postal revenue increases more rapidly than population in prosperous years, and that there should have been an increase of nearly $1,000,000 under normal conditions. Third Assistant Postmaster General Hazen declared in his annual re- pert for 18s5 that “in no other statistics of either government or private business are the pulsations of trade so readily and so unerringly distinguishable as in the postal revenues. The entire country is tributary to them, and every department of life, whether of a business or social nature, feels the need of the service which they represent.” He presented figures to show that the issues of postage stamps and other postal revenue had fluctuated up and dewn with the state of business, and «that this was peculiarly true of the thirty iargest post offices, which represented most directly the pulsations of general trade. The issues of stamped paper advanced at an astonishing rate during the prosperous years from 1865 to 1893. This increase in eight years was at the rate of nearly $4,500,000 annually, and represented a total Percentage in 1883 nearly double that of 1885. ‘The exact gain was equivalent to about 87 per cent, or nearly 11 per cent a Year upon the total of 1885.- The year 1894 told a different story. y ‘The crisis pulled down the sales of stamp- ed paper to $70,239,910, and the improve- ment the next year was only about 5 per cent instead of 10 per cent. The rece!pts from the sale of stamped paper in 1895 Were $73,889,598, and for 1896, $79,168,272. The figures for 1895, therefore, fell below those of 1893, and the figures for 1896 show- ed an improvement of less than 5 per cent on those of three years earlier. The fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, was the year of the operations of the bond syndicate, and the iinprovement curing the first two quarters was about $4,000,000. This rate of improvement was not maintained during the following quarters, while the silver agitation was gathering headway, and fell to $69,000 for the quarter ending on June 30. The quarter ending with September has witnessed a further decline, and the tctal recespts from stamped paper are less than a year ago. ‘The decrease for the quarter just closed would protably have been still greater but for the campaign activities, which have re- sulted in the mailing of newspapers and other maiter not subject to frank. This may be judged from the fact that the pay- ments for newspaper and periodical post- age increased $60,000 from June to Septem- ber, in spite of the loss of more than $1,5(X),- 000 in the total issues of stamped paper. The receipts for newspapers and periodical postage in the quarter ending September 30, 1895, were cnly $459,481, or less than 60 per cent of those of the jast quarter, al- though the total receipts were nearly the same. —_—_-+.—______ FOOT BALL IN AUSTRALIA. Women Juries on the Field Make It Hot for Umpire and Players. From the Blackburne Standard. A foot ball match between Collingwood and North Melbourne was played at North Melbourne last month, and the incidents which occurred show that the lot of a foot ball referee in Australia is no better than that of his English confrere. The moment the final bell rang there was a rush of peo- ple in the reserve to the pay gate. The mo- ment the umpire stepped through the gate scores of men rushed at him like wolves, and a scene of indescribable tumult fol- lowed. Fists and sticks were going, and one man in the thick of the crowd, with some implement wrapped in paper, was making desperate efforts to fracture some one’s skull. In the first rush Roberts was seized by the hair and dragged down, but splendid help was given him just then, not- ably by Proudfoot, a player of Collings- wood, who, holding one arm over his head to shield himself against a rain of blows and with the other around the umpire, literally carried him through the pack with one of his foot bail rushes. A “lady” had the enviable honor of start- ing this disturbance. As the players were ccming in at half-time, she waited near the gate and struck RobertsJn the face. After- ward her sbrill voice, as she leaned over the fence, added a high treble to the tor- rent of abuse rained on the unfortunate umpire whenever he approached the pa- vilion, which, strangely enough, seemed to be the mustering point of the roughs. The woman “barracker,” indeed, has become one of the most objectionable of foot ball surroundings. On some grounds they actual- ly spit in the faces of players as they come to the dressing rooms, or wreak their spite much more maliciously with long hat pins. In the height of this melee some of the women screamed with fear, others screamed “kill him.” One of these gentle maidens at the close of the struggle remarked regret- fully that it was a pity they “let off” the umpire in the Geelong match, as they should have killed him. Yet these women onsider themselves respectable, and they ‘support’ foot ball, which is consequently in a serious decline. PRAIRIE PETE. He Was in a Dangerous Mess, but Proved Himself Not Guilty, From the Chicago Post. An excited crowd had gathered around the yourg man, and there were cries of “Lynch him!” “String him up!” ete. “What's the matter?” asked the tender- foot on the outskirts of the crowd anxious- ly. “Goin’ to be a lynching, I reckon,” replied the old gray-whiskered man, who was in- tently watching the proceedings over the heads of the crowd. “Yes, that’s the-game," he added after a minute or two. “Some of the boys has got hold of a young fellow that has strayed from the straight an’ nar- rer path, an’ he’s jest about to see the error of his ways.” The tenderfoot stood on tiptoe and his eyes seemed to stick out even with the tip of his nore, but he could see nothing but a determined-looking youth standing against a tree with his arms tied behind him and bis feet tied together. ‘Has he killed some one?” asked the ten- derfoot at last. I reckon he has,” replied the old man. ‘It looks like Prairie Pete from here, an’ if it is he’s got not less’n five notches on the handle of his gun." “And in consequence I suppose he’s been |" condemned to death,” said the tenderfoot. “What's that?” demanded the old man. “D'ye think he’s goin’ to be jerked up for killin’ a few men?” “Why, of course. Isn't he—” ‘Not on your bowie! We don’t hang men for that out here. We've got too much re- spect for a live man to shove him after a dead one.” “Thea what has this fellow done?’ asked the tenderfoot. “He stole a bicycle,” replied the old man slowly and impressively. Just then there was a movement near the center of the crowd, and the next minute the man had been released and some one in the crowd was calling three cheers for Prairie Pete. The tenderfoot looked at the old man in- quiringly. “All a mistake,” explained the latter, as he caught a few word: e center of the crowd. ‘Prairie Pete nas squared hisself an’ proved it wasn’t no bi- cycle that he stole after all; nor yet a mo- toreycle. It was nothin’ but a hogs.” ++ ___ Red for Golf Suits. From the Philadelphia Times. Red is the accepted color for golf suits, and red serge made with a Norfolk jacket end skirt, finished on the edges with green leather, is very chic. Brown cloth skirts, with right red blouse waists, are very ef- fective, and Russian crash is the material for hot weather golf costumes. Palais Royal. | Palais Royal. | HEADOUART for SUITS AND APD. a avr atta So say ladies who have made comparisons. And yet, the least prices are not at the Palais Royal. So many ladies finally purchase here because of the entire absence of trashy garments and because of less than elsewhere quotations for the reiiable. 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One day recently there was killed along the banks of what is known as Toussaint river, in Ottawa county, and not many miles from Toledo, a snake twenty-one feet and seven inches long. A startling state- ment, without the reader being cautiously introduced to a reptile of his character, but the asseveration is none the less vouched tor. ‘A number of years ago, along in the eighties, a young python escaped from a traveling show tnat gave performances through northern Ohio, and in spite of all efforts at the time, it could not be recap- tured. Nothing was seen of the serpent until 1888, when what was evidently the same one was seen by Geo. A. Whitney, Henry and Martin Witty, Adam Johns and Leopold Heinze, two of whom are now resi- dents of this city. They were sturdy youngsters, and prone to fishing frequently in the stream bearing the name above given. Late one afternoon they started off on a igging’” or spearing expedition, intending as darkness came on to light their torches and catch fish with their improvised spears, such as are frequently used by country lads. Two of the boys were walking close to the water, while the other three were above on the high bank, which, as any one familiar with this locality will recall, extends some distance Beyond the old cemetery half a mile south from the hamlet of Elliston. What the Boys Saw. Suddenly Adam Johns, on the upper ‘bank, gave a whoop, and the next minute was seen running as though his life depended on it. ‘The other boys could see nothing, but they ran toward a couple of young trees, scrub oaks, on the side of the bank. At first they could see nothing even there, but upon at- tempting to move nearer they were horri- fied to see a gigantic head and about two feet of a reptilian body lift itself above the weeds, and dart its hideous tongue threat- eningly in their direction. They. could see its tail moving the weeds and grass at least ten feet away. Never were the boys worse frightened, and every one ran as though the evil one was after him. The next day three or four men in the neighborhood, who had heard of the adventure, traversed the banks for hours, but failed to find anything beyond the ser- rent’s trail, which was very plainly to be seen. Nothing further was heard of the creature until 1890 and 1901, when it was seen several times, and perhaps shot at fifty times by different individuals, but no ene was able to kili it. ‘All attempts to find its hiding place were unavailing; it was frequently trailed into the dense swamp back of the old Greytown road, and there all trace of it would be lost. It had been seen several times during the years of ‘92, 98 and "94, but no one was imown to have caught a glimpse of it dur- ing last year, and it is probable that it changed its location somewhat or else kept very close to its den in the underbrush which frin; Benton township, Ottawa county, and which section has for years been infested with immense blue racers, a |srake of which the average rural youth stands in mortal awe, owing to his mis- chievous habit of chasing everything that offends his snakeship. Came Upon the Monster. About three weeks ago Geo. L, McGinnis and Charley DeMuth,; two young men liv- ing in tHe southwestern portion of Ottawa county, and given to hunting and fishing a great deal, came upon the snake, evident- ly the same one, just as they were climbing over a rail fence to enter a big thicket, noted for its fox squirrels. It had just caught a rabbit, and the cries of the ani- mal attracted their attention, but before they could recover themselves, so fright- ened were they at the enormous size of the snake, it dropped its prey and glided into the underbrush and was lost. The young men had, of course, often heard of the famous big Ottawa county snake, and thought, as others have and always will, that it was the same one that escaped from the menagerie several years ago. They resolved, if possible, to capture or kill the creature, and for days there- after traversed the forests and swamps for miles around, but met with no success un- til last Tuesday afternoon, when they were about seven miles’ back of Elliston, on a fishing trip. While passing through a lit- tle ravine on the, Armstrong farm they suddenly came upon fke monster, lying in a sunny spot, with a portion of its length drawn across a fallen and decayed tree. Finally Was Killed. ‘They each drew for a shot, as it had not yet discovered them, and both took effect, but failed to kill, and the serpent, with a terrible hissing and thrashing of the weeds and grass, managed, although badly crip- pled, to escape to a dense section of under- growth and uprooted old trees, where it disappeared into an old stub, which was reached by first crawling over a fallen tree. Knowing they could not dislodge the snake unless the stub was cut down, De- Muth waited on guard while McGinnis went to a neighboring farm house and se- cured a couple of axes, returning as rap- idly as possible, as it was fast growing dusk. The stub was cut, and as it fell in its rotten condition a big piece scaled out of the side, from which tumbled the rep- tile that had been hunted for years. It was nearly dead from the shots It had re- ceived, and it was with little difficulty fin- ished by a few strokes of the axes. When measured by a foot rule DeMuth carried it was found to be twenty-one feet and seven inches from tip to tip, and was urdoubtedly the snake that had disappeared from the show years before. Its skin and body were too badly hacked and chopped to admit of mountirg, and after the two young boys who had followed McGinnis back with the axes had taken a long, lin- gering and awestruck view of the terrible- looking thing, it was cut in three or four pseces and thrown into a gully in the open near by, a lot of dead brush piled on the hideous heap, and a match did the rest. The reputation of the young men, corrob- orated by the testimony of the boys who saw the finale of the snake hunt, was a sufficient guarantee to any one in the neighborhood that the deails of the story given herewith are ;substantially correct, ard that no more fears may be entertain- of the famous ,,‘Ottawa county snake,” which has been the subject of many news- paper articles and much. apprehension as well. a Up to..Time. From Harper's Basar. There is a young journalist in New York who prides himself gn his epigrams and repartee. It is sisually the occasion that prompts the remark‘ttather than the per- son to whom he addresses it. If it is a good one, he reinempers it and uses it in his business. Sometimes he gets as good as he sends, and’ from the least expected quarters. t The other dav he rushed into a dairy lunch room not far ffom Park Row, to get a belated bite. 7 “Can I have two; poached eggs on toast in a hurry?” he asked of the waitress, who was pretty enough to be stupid. He looked up at the clock as he spoke, and saw that there were no hands on it. So he added, jocorely, “I see it is later than I thought.” “In a’ hurry?” said the waitress, whose eyes followed his glance. “Why, you can have those eggs in no time—by the clock.” “What's the matter with that clock, any- how?” inquired the journalist. “Has it struck?” “Oh, yes, it has struck lots of times,” answered the waitress; “but this time it’s @ lock-out.” “A lock-out? I don’t quite understand,” queried the newspaper man, puzzled for orce. 2 “Say, but you're slow,” said his Hebe; “don't you see they’ve laid off the hands?” ETIQUETTE OF THE ROAD. How Wheelmen Should Treat Them- selves and the Public. Frcm Harper's Weekly. In a general way it may be said that the etiquette of the road in cycling is the same as the etiquette of the road in driving, skating or walking, and that this etiquette is simply the following out of certain, for the most part, unwritten rules which have come to be adopted by civilized people everywhere as being the most convenient, simple and sensible to govern them in their highway passing or intercourse. It is not to be expected that the man or the woman who is ignorant of the refinements of life, of cultivation and education, or who, know- ing these, willfully neglects or breaks te ordinary rules of politeness, will obey what may be called the etiquette of the road simply because he or she may be a cyclist. Bad manners, or rather the want of man- ners, becomes discernible upon the road even more quickly than in the drawing room, and rude and unpolished people will ride the wheel just as they will drive and ride horses or travel in public conveyances. The unrefined but appropriate epithet of “road hog,” which has now become a part of the vernacular in the United States, and which is applied to the individual who monopolizes the road and refuses to turn even a little from his course to allow other drivers, or particularly cyclists, to pass him, whether going in the same or the op- posite direction, represents unfortunately too large a class who use the public streets and roads of Amefica, and who are not amenable to any rules of etiquette, or even to the dictates of ordinary civility. The etiquette of the road, from the cy- clist’s standpoint, is in general simply the ordinary rules which law or custom has ordained for the government of users of the highways, supplemented by those un- written rules and customs which refine- ment and civility dictate, and which can- not always be tabulated, as many of them are sponteteous and arise from the neces- sities of the moment. Cardinal Rules. Under the first head of cycling road eti- quette comes such cardinal rules as turn- ing to the right when meeting any vehi- cle or pedestrian coming from the op- posite direction, passing any vehicle or pedestrian going in the same direction al- ways to the left, and signaling when mak- ing a sucden turn or change of direction. ‘There are minor rules connected with these three important ores, but the cyclist who observes the three great cardinal ones can hardly go wrong. More accidents to cy- clists, and to pedestrians in particular, have occurred from a violation of one or all of these three rules than in any other way. It is sometimes s0 easy to forget or neglect to observe any of the three when this neglect means a short-cut, a saving of time, or a chance to show off one’s skill in the management of the wheel, that many @ cyclist 1s guilty of a breach of etiquette as regards these rules who would be hor- rifled were he or she accused of bad man- ners or lack of civility. The knowledge, with the increasing use of the wheel, that those who incur accidents or are respon- sible for accidents to others from the breakage o! or failure to carry out these rules, can be held responsible for dam- ages in the second place, and cannot re- cover them in the first, should be impress- ed in some way upon the cyclists of the country, and in this way a reform can probably be effected. Unwritten Rules. The minor unwritten rules of cycling road etiquette have to deal more with the social side of the sport. Should wheelmen and women who are strangers salute each other in passing, especially when they so pass on country roads? Does the fact that @ man and woman are cyclists allow the man to tender assistance to the woman if her wheel has gone wrong in any way? How should men and women dress when wheeling? All these and a hundred other questions which are daily answering them- selves, cr are being answered by the cyolists of the country, constitute, when solved by the larger number of men and women vyclists, the etiquette of the road. Cycling is as yet too young a aport to have fully established an etiquette, and thero are situ- ations which almost daily confront the cyclist, experienced as he or she may be in the refinements which govern the inter- ccurse of cultivated people, which are puz- zling ones to solve. It would be far easier to compile the etiquette of the road from the negative than from the positive stand- pcint, and unfortunately the cycling craze affords every day on our streets and high- ways too many evidences or examples of bad manners and inappropriate dress,which would enable the observant man or woma: to treat the whole subject comparatively easily under the heading of “Don'ts.” The men or women of natural or acquired re- finement, who know how to conduct them- selves in the parlor, dining room and in other departments of life, are not likely to misbehave on the wheel; and those who are sincerely desirous of knowing what is manners and procedure of the most refined person of their acquaintance when on the wheel Services on the Road. It is recognized as befitting a gentleman to offer his services in repairing a punc- tured tire, adjusting a nut, or arranging something that has gone astray with a wo- man’s wheel, and it is not considered im- proper for a woman to accept his politely proffered services for the mending of a wheel, which he can do better than herself. Of course in town where there are repair stops on nearly every block, a woman will go to one at once. In all respects the eti- quette of the road is the same as between men and women driving or riding or walk- ing. There is no more reason for a man cyclist touching his hat to a passing wo- man cyclist with whom he is not acquaint- ed, than for a man riding or driving or walking to salute a woman he meets riding or driving or walking. Different situations do not alter the laws of good manners. A woman should always have the right of way. The question of ccstume has been settled in one way, in that the hideous and vnsexing bloomers and knickerbockers worn by some women in the early Gays of the wheel craze have pretty well disappeared, to be superseded by the becoming and wo- manly short skirt just touching the ankles, with gaiters (not leggings), while knicker- beckers and stockings with roiled tops heve in men’s costumes entirely done away with the unsightly long trousers held in at the bottcm by clips. The cycling etiquette of the road, how- ever, must be founded upon the great un- written laws which govern the Intercourse of refined and cultivated people everywhere, ard which enable the world to move for- ward as It were upon “ball bearings.” Se CIRCUS REVISITED. THE One of the Summer Experiences of a Philosopher. W. D. Howells in Harper's Weekly. The circus announced itself in the good old way weeks beforehand by the vast posters of former days, and by a profuston of small bills, which fell upon the village as from the clouds, and left it littered everywhere with their festive pink. They prophesied it by name borne by the first circus I ever saw, which was also an ani- mel show, but the animals must have all died during the fifty years past, for there is now no menagerie attached to it. I did not know this when I heard the band bray- ing through the streets of the village on the morning of the performance, and for me the mangy old came!s and the pimpled elephants of yore led the procession through accompanying ranks of boys who have mostiy been in their graves for half a life-time, the distracted ostrich thrust an advertising neck through the top of its case, and the lion roared to himself in the darkness of his moving prison. I feit the old thrill of excitement, the vain hope of something preternatural and impossible, and I do not know what could have kept me from that circus, as soon as I_hada done lunch. My heart rose at sight of the large tent (which was yet so very little in comparison with the tents of the three-ring and two-platform circuses); the alluring and illusory side shows of fat wo- men and lean men; the horses tethered in the background and stamping under the fly-bites, the old, weather-beaten grand chariot, which looked like the ghost of the grand chariot which used to drag me cap- tive in its triumph; and the canvas shel- ters where the cooks were already at work over their kettles on the evening meal of the circus folk. Throughout the whole performance at this circus I was troubled by a curious question, whether it were really of the same moral and material grandeur as the circuses it brought to memory, or whether the proper thing to do should study the} these were thin and slight, too. We al kuow how the places of our childhood, the heights, the distances, shrink and dwindle when we go back to them, and was it pos- sible that I had been deceived in the splen- dor of my early circuses? The doubt was painful, but I was forced to own that there might be more truth in it than in a blind fealty to their remembered magnificence. New likely circuses have grown not ouly in size, but in the richness and variety of their entertainments, and I was spoiled for the simple joys of this. But I could see no reflection of my dissatisfaction on the young faces around me, and I must confess that there was at least'so much of the cir. cus that I left when it was half over. I meant to go into the side shows and see | the fat woman and the living skeleton, and take the giant by the hand and the armless man by his friendly foot, if I might be so honored. But I did none of these things, and I am willing to believe the fault was in me, it I was disappointed in the circu It was I who had shrunk and dwindled, and not it. To real boys it was still the size of the firmament, and was a world of wonders and delights. "At least 1 can recognize thie fact now, and can rejoice in the peaceful Progress all over the country of the simple circuses which the towns never see. bet which help to render the summer fairer and brighter to the unspoiled eyes and hearts they appeal to. I hope it will be long be- fore they chee penned to find profit in the pleasure eee It Amused the Ola Maa, From the Chicago Record. The old man came down to the suburban ‘ation leading a most reprehensible dog. Leading is hardly the word, for in reality he dragged the unwilling animal after the fashion of a sled. With coaxing words he lured the scraggy beast on, and finally he got it safely stowed under the bench on the shady side of the station. He bought a paper then, and settled down to Wait tweaty minutes for the train. Mr. Huffman and Mr. Jodyngs ha = ed the approach of the old man wage: smiled somewhat at his trouble when the Gog had pulled back with greatest force. wits funny, isn’t it,” said Mr. Jodyngs, that an otheretse Feasorable and sane st e up with su a treat it as pet? heeded ir. Huffman assented, and said he sup- posed the old man would go into pur. oxysms of wrath if anything were to bap- ren the dog. That suggested un iv and Mr. Jodyngs nearly burst with laug ter as he thought upon that idea. “Suppose we steal the dog and pu: the north-bound train, and when the out man finisbes his paper and goes to take the city train he will be furious.” This was Mr. Jodyngs’ idea, and Mr. Huffman came near exploding, it was so funny. Mr. Huffman sai down next the old man, so as to conceal the workings of Mr. Jodyngs, and Mr. Jodyngs, with suppressed snoris of laughter, untied the twine and hauled the dog around the corner of the Station and into the express office,where he paid a glad dollar and expressed the sorry beast to a fictitious John Smith at a station a dollar's worth up the line. The old man continued reading, while the up train stood at the platform,’ and he did not wake up until the whistle of the incoming cityward engine was sounded at the road grossing. ‘Then he looked hastily for hi: e. “Where's that dog?” he asked of his city- bound fellow-townsmen, who had gathered about in obedience to the invitation of Mr. Jodyngs. With fierce peals of laugh- ter Mr. Huffman told him that the housc- hold pet was on the way. to Milwaukee. Mr. Huffman explained the joke, and clap- | ped the old man on the back in delight. The face of the latter was a study. He locked at Mr. Huffman wonderingly. “By thunder he cried, “that’s funny! You see, I brought the dog to the station today, intending to carry him as far in toward town as Jefferson Park and there I had Intended to kick him off. He's a blamed nuisance around the house, and I wanted to get rid of him the worst way. Much obliged, Jodyngs.” But Mr. Jodyngs, with his mind dwelling on his dollar, was a pillar of self-kicking silence. | cityward tape Figures That Lie. From the Chicago Times-Herald. On the new public library building, now in course of erection, is an inscription whic) reads: “Founded 1872; Building complet 1805." But it isn’t completed yet. =