Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1897, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1897-24 PAGES. 21 DISEASE DESCRIBED BY SYMPTOMS ee And Its Cure Under the Great Physician’s Care and Treatment Shown Again and Again by the Evidence of Results. DESCRIBED BY SYMPTONIS. HOSTS OF PE SUFFER FROM THE VARIOUS MALIGNANT POISONS BLOOD, WHICH PRODUCE OR RESULT FROM CATARKH. MANY OTHER P INS SUFI Fi: NERVOUS DISEASES, LIVER DISEAS KIDNEY DISEASES AND SKIN DISE. THE RESVLT OF IRRITATING CRYSTAL POISONS IX THE BLOOD. A MAJOR! o SUCH SUFFERERS DO NOT HAVE A DEFINIT: UNDERSTANDING OF TE ATURE OF THEIR. AFFLICTION. THE FOLLOWING SYMPTOMS HAVE BREEN ARRANGED BY DR. McCOY TO ENABLE SUFFERERS TO UNDERSTAND JUST WHAT IP IS THAT AILS THEM. ALTHOUGH WRITTEN AND COPYRIGHTED BY HIM, THEY HAVE BREEN EXTENSIVELY COPIED BY OTHER CONCELAS WITHOUT HIS AUTHORITY. THE PROPER COURSE OF THOSE AFFECTED IS THIS: READ THESE SYMPTOMS CAREFULLY OVER. MARK THOSE THAT APPLY TO YOUR CASE, AND BRING THIS WITH YOU TO Doc- TORS MecOY AND COWDI DISEASE OF HEAD AND THROAT. The head and throat become dis- eased from neglected colds, causing Catarrh when the condition of the blood predisposes to this condition. Is the voice husky? Do you spit up slime? De you ach> all over? Do you snore at night? “Do you blow ont sends?" “Ix the nose stopped up? Wr nose discharge nos bleed easily? Worse toward night?" e mse Itch and burn?* “Is there pain in front of head”? Ts there pain x the eyes? tickling In the throat?" ense of smell leaving? wk to clear the th t dry in the morning sing your sense of taste?" sieep with the mouth open?” ,, “Does your nose stop up toward night? COPIES OF DR. MeCOY’S MONO- GRAPH ON CATARRH WILL BE MAILED ON APPL TION TO THOSE DIRECTLY INTERESTED IN THE CURE OF THIS CONDITION. Rev. L. L. Smith, 606 6th St. s.w. Cured of Deafness. DISEASE OF THE EARS. Deafness and ear troubles result from catarrh passing alon; the Eustachian tube that leads from the threat to the ear. “Is your hea-ing failing Do your ears discharge? Do your ears ‘teh and burn?* Are the ears dry and scaly ?* Ha: a pain bebind the ears?* “Is there a throbbing tn the ears?” “Is there a buzzing sound beard ?* “Do you have ringing In the ears?" there crackling sounds heard? Is your hea-ing bad : Do ye earache occasional Are there scunds like steam escaping?” Do your ears hurt when you blow your nose?* Do you con:tantly hear noises In the ears?” Do you bear better some days than others? Do the noises in your ears keep you awake?’ When you blow your nose do the ears crack?" “Is your hearing worse when you have a cold?” “Is there roaring like a waterfall in the head?” A COPIES OF DR. McCOY’s MONO- GRAPH ON BEAFNESS WILL BE MAILED ON APPLICATION TO THOSE DIRECTLY INTERESTED IN THE CURE OF THIS CONDITION. DISEASE OF BRONCHIAL TUBES. This condition often results from catarrh extending from the head and throat, and, if left unchecked, extends down the windpipe into the bronchial tubes, and im time at- tacks the lungs. * Do yor cough until you gag? * D> you raise frothy material?” 5 ou going to bed?* h in the morning? spitited at times Ww matter? and hacking?” little cheesy lumps ?* gust for fatty foods?” ing behind the palate?” orse wight and morning? ave to sit up at night to get breath?” O. W. Bailey, 616 7th st. Ww. Cured of deafness. DISEASE OF THE STOMACH. ‘This condition may r. from sev- eral causes, but the usual cause is catarrh, the mucus dropping down » the throat and being swallowed. Ie there uarsea?* ‘ostive ?* miting ?"* beich up gaa?” Have you waterbrash 7” Are you light headed Is your tongue coated “Do you bawk and spit? Is there pain after euth Ave you nervous and weal “Do you have sick headaches?” * Do you bloat up after eating?” “Is there disgust for breakfast’ « Have you distress after eating?’ Js your throat filed with slime? “ Do yon at times have diarrhoea?" st Is there rush of biood to the head?" ‘Is there coastant sensation in the stomach ?* Wee fel ae If you had lead in stomach Pr? = you up —— “ When stomseb is empty Do you belch up material * Whea stomach ts full do IN THED®} poisons in | DISEASE OF THE SKIN. forms of skin disease result from the blood. The poisons irritate the skin, producing the erup- tions and humors and stain the shin. “Is your skin dry and A ‘| Have you 2 shiny, oily nose ‘Do the pimples iteh and burn “Is your shin sore aml “Does your skin ite * Does your sea “Is your skin rc Does your ski Are your nose, lips and ears hot Have you dandraff in your scalp Do your legs feel hot and burning? you pricking pains in the skin?" you pimples on neck and chest “Do nose, lips and ears itch intensely 7 *: Do erusts and seabs form on your skin?* “Is face dotted with dirty little specks?" “: Have you pi nples on back or shoulders “ Are the Iumps on face sore to” the tou Is skin alongside nose red and conzested Does skin of your face look ard feel olly ? ‘: Have you flat, red-looking lamps on face?” “Is there sealy. itehy eruption on eyebrows?” “Have you yeliowish pimples on your fa “Have you pimples on face with black tops?” Doctor McCoy's Monograph on in may be had on application by those interested in the cure of Dis- cases of the Skin. St., Anacostia, D.C., aged 72 years. i | | | Samuel Allen, 504 Harrison | Cured of deafness. } DISEASE OF THE NERVES. When the nerves are affected by dis- e it: “Do you get giddy “Have you neuralgia?” “Is your memory poor? Are you easily dazed “ Are you easily excited Do your hands tremble? ‘Does your he: Do you have Are sou easily irritated Have you welrd fancies you wandering pains? “* Does conversation bore you Have you verjigo sometimes’ Have you numfbness in limbs? “Do you start up in your sleep?” Have you pain on top of hea Have you prin in back of head?” Is there loss of power in limbs’ Does a lump come up in throa Have you throbbing Im temple Have you languid, tired feel] Do your legs or arms go to si De you s1 ' from sleeplessness Have you shooting pains in head’ Is there twitching of the muscles?’ “Is there rush of blood to the head ?* DISEASE OF THE KIDNEYS. Disease of the kidneys may result from colds or overwork of the kid- neys in scparating from the blood poisons that have been absorbed from catarrh of other organs. “Is the skin pale and dry?” “Is your bair getting gray?" “Ig the skiz dry and harsh “Has the skin a waxy look “Is the hair dry snd brittle “Do the legs feet too heavy 7" ‘Are they cold and clammy?" Jo the Joints pain and a is there nausea after eating Is the urine dark and cloudy? Do your hands and feet swell ‘Are the eyes dull and sta! “Have you pain in top of hea Is there « bad taste in mouth “Is there pain in small of back?" “Is there puffiness under the eyes “Has the perspiration a bad odo: is there a desire to get up at night ‘Are ther» dark rings around the eyes?” is this more noticeable in the mornings ?? fave you chilly feclings down the back Does a deposit form when left standing? Do You see spots floating before the eres ‘Do you see unpleasaat things wuile asleep? M1. C. McDonough, 1206 21st | st. o.w. Cured of deafness. In Measles, Scarlet Fever, Bron- echitis and Pneumonia the throat is involved, and the inflammation ex- tending from the throat into the Eustachian Tubes, causing deafness, is of a Catarrhal nat Catarrhal Origin” RAPH ON DEAFNESS is used in the clentifie sense, d not in the popu- we osense in which Catarrh is so commonly regarded as simply a disease of the head. e. The phrase in the MONO- DISEASE OF THE BLOOD. From the blood the tigsues are fed. If the blood be dixeased from a: iy ause the tixsues will suffer, and as a result some of the following symp- toms wil show themselves: 4s your throat sore ‘Ara you all run down?” is the hair falling out?” Is the urine high colored Have you swollen glands Is the skir hot and flushed?’ “Does the bead feel too full? siboes the skin iteh and burn?" ‘tls there persistent headache?” ‘Have you ulcers im the mouth?" ‘Have you aching in the bones?” ‘Have you canker in the mouth?” Do thie temples beat and throb?’ “Do the hands and feet keep cold? “Do humors break out on the skin “Does the blood circulate sluggish! “Does the blood feel hot and fererish ? “Do the hands and feet puff up and swell?” ‘Is there a prickling sensation In the skin?* “Have you sores on any part of the body that won't heal?” McCoy System of Medicine PERMANENT OFFICES DR. McCOY’S NATIONAL PRACTICE, Dr. J. Cresap McCoy, Dr. J. M. Cowden, Consulting Physicians. 715 13th Street Northwest. Office Hours, 9 to 12 a.m.,1 te S p.m. 6 to 8 p.modally. Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m SHOWING IRON DEPOSITS 0: WHERE IRON IS KING About the Mines of the South and Their Development. TRON DEPOSITS OF THE How This Country Leads the World in This Particular. STATES THE RAW MATERIAL (Copyrighted, 1897, by Frank G. Carpenter.) Written for The Evening Star. WRITE TODAY OF the wonderful devel- opment which is go- ing on in fron-making in the south. I have visited the mines and furnaces in Alabama and elsewhere. There has been a revival of business since the election of McKinley and the indications are that there will be @ steady increase in the output from now 1 spent suc time at Birmingham, which, you know, had such a boom not long ago, and which is doing business on a good financial basis. Birmingham is the biggest iron producer south of Pitts- burg. There are twenty-six iron furnaces within thirty miles of the town, which have a daily output of almost 4,000 tons of pig iron, They employ nearly 4,000 men and pay wages of $150,000 a month. They claim to make fron cheaper than anywhere else in the world, and one of the furnace -campanies shipped some of its product not long ago to London and sold it there at @ profit. Btg Money in Iron. The south is doing its business on a big, broad scale. There is aneenormous amount of money invested, and I visited the fur- naces of one company which has a capital stock of $21,000,000. This is the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. It has mines | scattered throughout Tennessee and Ala- bama, and I am told that its property is worth as much as some of the small Eu- ropean kingdoms. It has a vast area of ccal beds and it is now mining more than 17,000 tons of coal a day. It owns moun- tains of iron ore and last year it produced more than a half million tons of pig iron and more than three and one-half million tons of coal. I visited its coke ovens at the town of Bessemer, south of Birmingham, and was told that the ovens there, together with the others owned by the company, make almost 5,000 tons of coke a day, while out of its Alabama iron mines alone are daily taken more than 6,000 tons of ore. This is perhaps the biggest company of the scuth, but there are other large establish- ments, and you may look for an enormous industrial development there within the next few years. Coal and Iron Hugging Each Other. The coal and iron of the south are fairly hugging each other. They lie side by side, and when their union takes place in the furnaces with the aid of limestone, which is also found near by, iron and steel is pro- duced more cheaply tkan from similar material in any other portion of the world. Next to Alabama the greatest iron mines of the United States are along Lake Superior. The biggest coal beds are in Pennsylvania, more than a thousand miles away. The limestone is also far off and the products have to travel hundreds of miles before they can come together. Chicago makes a vast deal of iron. It gets its ore from Lake Superior and its coal from Penn- sylvania. It is the same with Cleveland and Toledo, but the freight rates on the great lakes are so low that we are able to shoe the seven-league boots of our indus- trial progress with iron. Even at such great distanc brought the iron and Coal togetl lve made ourselves the greatest lufacturers of the world. A little over ten years ago Great Britain produced ten- times. as much pig iron as we did. We caught up to her in 1890, and we now beat her in the produc- tion of both iron and steel. I have only the figures of 1892 before me. In that year and every year since then we have led the world in these respects. In 1892 we made more than one-fourth of all the iron and steel in the world, and Germany and Great Britain lagged far behind us on the metallic road. Then the world produced 57,000,000 tons of iron, and our share of this was over 16,000,000 tons. Our pig iron product that year was worth more than all our gold and silver. Where the World's Iron Comes From. There is no doubt that we are to furnish the greater part of the iron for the world in the future. We have bigger ore beds than any other country and our coal fields are practically inexhaustible. There is enough coal in Alabama to do all the man- ufacturing of the United States for many years to come. I was told at Bessemer that the ayailable coal of Alabama alone if it could be put into a lump would make a solid chunk seventy miles long by sixty miles broad, and ten feet thick. Such a lump would, it is estimated, furnish ten thousand tons of coal a day for more than eleven thousand years, or a million tons a day for 115 years. But Alabama has only a small amount of the great Appala- chian coal fields. These fields end some- where in Alabama. They run from there northward a distance, it is said, of about nine hundred miles, and they are from thirty to one hundred and eighty miles wide. They furnish about two-thirds of all cur bitvminous coal output, and we pro- duce, ycu know, about one-third of all the coal of the world. In 1894 we mined 176 million tons of coal, while the whole world produced only 57 million tons. The only country which beat us that year was Great Britain. We have thousands of square miles of coal lands outside of the Appa- lachlan fields, and there are great unde- velcped coal areas in the west. I was told of a great iton mountain which is to be orered by a railroad from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles during my stay in Utah, and there are large iron deposits in Mis- sourl. Today the leading countries of the world which produce iron are Great Brit- ain, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Belgium and Sweden. Spain mines @ great deal of iron ore, but she ships the mcst of it to England. I heard of big NORTH AMERICA, Islands. The great bulk of the product of this hemisphere, however, comes from the United States, and as I have said, the in- dicaticns are that our resources have not yet been touched. A Good Iron Business Means Good Times. It is said that a good iron business means gcod times, and that prosperity and the re- verse in the United States rise and fall with the prices of steel rails. If this is so, we are on the eve of good times, for the iron industries of the country are picking up. The foundries of Pittsburg and Cleve- land have taken back their men, and the mines of iron and coal tre being worked along Lake Superior as well as in the south. A report was published last week, stating that the Carnegie and Rockefeller iron and steel interests have united, and Letting Horses DoWnNnto the Mine. that the nev combinatioh has a hundred million dollars capital behind it. Rockefel- ler owns some of the biggest iron mines of Lake Superior. The Carnegie company have the biggest steel works in the world, and this combination will result in an enor- mous production of iron and steel at the lowest cost. The Lake Superior iron mines are wonderful. I visited “some of them a year or so ago. Many'‘of them are located from twelve to eighteén*hiyndred feet above Lake Superior, and ftoff fifteen to one hundred miles from thé water. The iron is worked down to a distanté of about fifteen hundred feet below gfounll. The mining is done with the finest Sof fachinery. Elec- tricity furnishes the HgW® and compressed air and steam work ¢€e Bumps, drills and hoists. # Our Mines vs.’ Thase of Europe. These Lake Superior mines show the.won- derful advance we have ‘made over the old world in the use of machinery. Many of the European mines are still worked in a very crude manner, and it is not long since the cars underground in the Belgium mines were hauled-by women, who crawled along on their hands and knees, being harnessed up like mules. Even now horses are used. in some of the European coal and other mines. There are mines where horses are born, live and die underground. They have stables under the earth, and spend- their lives hauling minerals. I have a picture showing how horses are let down into such mines. They are sometimes swung up in a net of straps and thus lowered. ‘They are paralyzed with fear during the descent, and it takes them some time to recover after they are in the mine. Such horses are used to haul the cars to. the shafts, whence they are raised by machinery. All of our mines, so far as I am able to learn, are worked by steam, and the American miners receive better wages than any others of their kind in the world. The Ore Steamers of the Great Lakes. I went up the lakes on one of the steel steamers which are built especially to carry iron ore down to Cleveland. The ship was one of 3,500 tons, and it carried nothing but ore. We traveled almost as fast as you do on the ocean steamers cross- ing the Atlantic. Arriving at the mines, not far from Duluth, the vessel was loaded within a couple of hours. Everything was done by machinery, and thousands of tons of iron ore were dropped into the steel holds of the ship with the use of hardly an ounce of human muscle. No one who has: not been to Lake Superior can appreciate the enormous amount of capital invested in the fron business there. Millions of dol- lars have been expended on shipping and receiving docks and on railroad terminals. Millicns are invested in steel steamships for carrying iron, and the whaleback ships were built to carry fron and wheat. The ore deposits of Michigan lie in the shape of a great wedge leaning against the state of Wisconsin, while those of Minnesota occur in two parallel ranges, along the other side of the lake. More than half of the iron cre of the United States comes from Lake Superior and in 189) more than 8,000,000 tons of this ore was carried to furnaces which were an average distance of 600 miles away. Visit to an Alabama Iron Mine. It is far different in the south. ‘The furnaces at Bessemer are within a half a mile ofthe mines from which the iron is taken Out. In company with one of the superintendents of the ‘Tennessee Coal and Iron Company I visited them. We rode up to the ~outh of the amine in a carriage, windii ir way up a #fttle range of moun- tains the sides of whictr were covered with terra cotta stones. Io pidked up one of the stones and fownd ‘it exceetlingly heavy and was told thatalt was iron ore. The iron Hes right oncthd surface of the ground. -They begin ow tHe vein and work right down into the mountain, taking out nothing but iron. Dépesits of this kind | &se in manufacturing. before the Alabama mining boom began. A great deal of this was on paper, but the foundation is there and thé iron mines are a8 vdluable today as they were ten years ago. They are now all owned by big cor- porations and they are being developed after the best business principles. The mine which we entered was worked with compressed air drills. The cars were hauled up and down an inclined railway by steam, and hundreds of sooty laborers, with candles in their hats, were at work. The vein of ore that I saw ranged in width from eight to twenty-four feet, It is a great sandwich of tron ore between walls of slate and rock. It dips down into the ground at an angle of about 35 degrees. Some of the Dangers of Mining. I could hear the boom! boom! boom! of the blasting powder as I went threugh the mine. At times the air shook ani quivered with the concussion, and our candles were blown out. Dynamite is used almost alto- gether in iron mining, and the danger is very great if it is not carefully handled. Every now and then terrible accidents ce- cur in our mines. Men are torn to pieces, the walls fall in, and there is great loss of Ife. The miners I saw in Alabama were negroes. They are not as careful. as the whites and their wages are less than the men at work in the mines of the Lake Superior region. Making Pig Iron. Leaving the nine, I next went to one of the great furnaces at the foot of Red moun- tain, where the ore is turned into pig iron. Iron, you know, never occurs pure in a state of nature. The ore of the Red moun- tain, which is used at the Bessemer fur- haces, contains only about 48 per cent of iron, and the superinterdent told me that the purest iron stone found anywhere con- tains only 70 per cent. Tne rest is made up of rock and other minerals and it is neces- sary to separate the iron before it can be used for manufactures. Tnis process is known as making pig iron. The iron is mixed with limestone and coke in great furnaces, which are, I judge, as high as a six-story house. The furnaces are filled with alternate layers of coke, limestone and iron. It takes an enormous blast to furnish enough heat for such a furnace, and the blast is created by immense en- gines, which force the air first through What are perhaps the biggest stoves of the world. They are immense tubes, many feet high, and as big around as the city gas tank. They are lined with firebrick and are heated by the gas which comes from the furnaces. The air is made to pass through these enormous stoves before it goes to the blast and it produces a heat so intense that the iron and steel machinery of the furnace Would not last a minute were not every bit of it enveloped in water. All of the pipes are incased in other pipes which are kept full of cold flowing water, and this water is forced about the outside of the furnace whenever smelting is going on. The heat is so great that the iron is melted in a very short time. It is drawn off from each fur- race twice a day. A River ef Gold. It flows out at the foot in a little river of gold. The stream looks like molten gold alloyed with copper until it gets a distance of perhaps twenty feet away from the furnace. Here it is divided into two j Streams. The iron flows one way and the slag or refuse. which has formed a scum and floats on the top, is carried off in an- other. The iron is now of a yellow gold color. It seems to have lost its reddish tint. Tt runs off in a golden stream into a bed of sand, in which little holes have been cut or molded, so that it looks for all the world like a garden patch ready for plant- irg. These holes are of just the size and shape of what is known as an iron pig. They are about as big around as the upper arm of a good-sized man and about three feet long. The yellow stream finds its way in through them and soon the garden is full of these bright yellow pigs, which turn to @ copper tint as they cool and then change to the gray of cold pig iron. As the metal is cooling the heat waves dance over the garden patch of hot iron, and you have to hold your hat before your face to keep from being scorched. After the pigs are cooled they are piled up ready to be shipped to different parts of the United States for The slag goes to waste. It runs off into a great iron pot fastened on car wheels and is wheeled on a railroad track some distance away and emptied out upon the slag heap. There are mountains of such slag near every great furnace, and the invention has yet to be tade which will turn it to any other use “than that of ballasting railroads. We Lead the World. We lead the world not only in the produc- Uon, of iron, but also in the making of pig iron. We made 10,000,000 tons in 1892, which was an increase of more than 1,000 per cent over the product of 1865. Since that time we have increased our steel pro- duct 360 times, and we are now making enough steel every year to give every man, woman and child in the United States 140 pounds, and have some to spare. Some of our pig iron which was lately sent to Eng- land, I am told, was sold for less than §7 a ton. We made pig iron at the time of the revolution, which was worth $50 a ton, and we are making steel now, it is said, almost as cheaply as a good class of iron. Millions in It. It is wonderful how iron increases in value after it is turned into machinery or articles of use by the people. You get some idea of what labor is worth when you think of it. It is estimated by Carroll D. Wright of the labor bureau, for instance, that sev- enty-five cents’ worth of common iron ore when turned into bar iron is worth $5. If you make it into horse shées it is worth $10, or, if into table knives, $180. Seventy- five cents’ worth of ore manufactured into needles is worth $6,800, and when made in- to buttons more than $20,000. If the iron is converted into watch springs its value is almost ten times as great, and when turned. into hair springs your sev- enty-five cents’ worth of rock and stone will sell for the enormous sum of $400,000. The difference between 75 cents ‘and $400,000 is the value paid for labor alone. So you see that, after all, the real wealth of a country lies in the muscles and brains of its people. If we could turn all of our iron ore into hair springs, and could find customers for them, we would be so rich that we could buy the whole world and take flyers in all the speculative property on the sun, moon and stars and still have money to burn. FRANK G. CARPENTER. IN THE CHURCHES Waugh Chapter of the Epworth League has elected the following officers to serve during the ensuing year: President, J. Fin- ney Engle; first vice president, Thomas J. Clark; second vice president, Mrs. M. M. Mitchell; third vice president, Miss Bertha E. Walters; fourth vice president, Miss Maud E. Turner; secretary, Miss Mary Jett; treasucer, John M. Graff, and superinten- dent of the junior league, Mrs. M. M. Mitchell. The pastor of the church is Rev. E. Olin Eldridge. The Rey. Frank Sewall, pastor of the New Church, concludes his course of lec- tures temorrow evening on “Divine Sym- bolism in Nature and Revelation,” with a lecture on “Evidences of Superhuman in the Bible.” This course is to be followed immediately by a series of lectures by emi- nent Swedenborgian ministers from abroad on “New Church Light on Current Topics.” Tuesday night the Sunday school of the Fifth Baptist Church, D street between 4% and 6th southwest, held its annual Christ- extend through the mmotntains of that | ™8 entertainment. The distribution of re- region, and it is a wondof that they were not developed long ago.'“I’ was told ‘that iron mines were workéd there during the late war and that theconfederate govern- ment got a large partliof ts coal and iron from that region. Fror# tie to time north- ern capitalists were 4askéd to inyest in. the mines, but they wuld: not believe the stories that were told them. Mr. Hewitt Wouldy’¢ Believe It. —{ One man who owned gome of the most valuable iron territory of Alabama -called upon Abram 8. Hewitt, who, you know, has made a fortune out of iron and who has big fron interests today, showed Hewitt the ore and told him it lay there in Alabama on the top of the ground | Futterer, freshments and candy was preceded by a musical and literary entertainment. On Wednesday evening attendants at the mis- sion of the church also were entertained. The school has a membership of three hundred and fifty. Sund@ay, the 10th instant, the Sunday ‘school room.of Grace -English Lutheran Chureh is to be formally dedicated. The church, which is now nearly completed, is located on 13th street northwest, at the head of Corcoran street. The dedication exercises will be ofan elaborate character, and will precede the dedication of the church proper by one week. - Miss Minnie Bassett, the Quaker evan- He | Belist, held a revival meeting one evening last week at the Central Union Mission. A letter was received by Rev. . Father priest in charge of St. Mary’s, and could be had for the picking it up.| Mother of God, Church, announcing the Hewitt replied that he had no money to| safe arrival in Rome of the pastor of the invest at present and: he “evidently didnot | church, believe the man’s story. « “Why,’ : “we people ‘here 'in New York Tobk fron as so much gold and you can he upon | tending lectures at the Aj Rev. George Glaab. Father Glaab Casa, San Guiseppe, and is at- ppolanirisis Col- ‘The Chi Upsiions, a secret usps. at ght ioylae accund "ane gente | peed Se ithe, Sixth Preaby. lumps of gold laying around down sou’ of young men of! £ l= and that no one has ‘ye Ked them up terian Church, gave an ent it. Mon- It your story’is true I ‘advise you to take | day evening for the benefit of . treas- several ‘New “York experts to the south] ury.. The annpal Sunday school and get them’ to swear to. what they. nee took place on Wednesday evening before you try te place suc! in | in the lecture room of the church. ‘this |. The Home Missionary Society of the Gun- ton Temple Memorial Presbyterian Church is preparing to send a box of clothing to the children in the Mission schoo! at Albemarle, N. C. Last Sunday the pulpit of the church was occupied, both morning and evening, by the Rev. Dr. Fiske of Ithaca, N. Y. The. following officers have been elected for the year 189% by the Christian En- @eavor Society of the Luther Memorial Churen: President, Charles BE. Paul; first vice president, Abner ¥. Leech; second vice president, Miss Edith Robinson; treasurer, Walter Locke; chorister, W. 8. Stowell: assistant, John F. Stowell; organist, Miss Rose Seiffert; assistant, Mrs W.F. Stowell, Grace Silver Spring Parish, . E. Church, Corner stone laid Dec. 27. and Luther Union delegates, A. D. Spangler and Frank A. Burger. During the absence of the superintendent of the junior En- deavorers, Miss Adelia Randolph, the juniors are in charge of a committee of seniors, composed of Misses A. C. Bod- well, Grace E. Butler, Mamie Henderson, Clara Stowell, Mabel’ Callahan and Mrs. G. F. Graham. The children of the Keller Memorial Sab- bath school rendered a cantata on Wednes- day evening entitled “Santa Claus’ Stock- ing Club.” At this cMebration pounds and other articles for the poor were contributed by the children. The lterary circle of Dumbarton Avenue M. E. Church, Rev. Joseph B. Stitt, D. D., pastor, held an interesting meeting on Tuesday night. The papers read and dis- cusssed were: “The Persian Invasion of Greece, Carthage and Rome.” The exer- cises were closed by a social. The pastor of Union M. E. Church, Rev. Alexander Bielaski, is to begin a series of revival meeiings next Monday evening. He is to be assisted by a number of the local Methodist pastors. Rev. F. D. Power, D. D., of the Vermont Avenue. Christian Church’ and his family spent a portion of the holidays with rela- tives at Newport News, Va. The election of four deaconesses for the church was recently held, and the choice fell upon Mrs. Shelton, Mrs. Carrigan, Miss Weightman and Mrs. Burton, Thursday evening of this week a recep- tion and sociable, preceded by an entertain- ment, was given at the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, Rev. M. Ross Fishburn, pastor. The congregation is hard at work collecting subscriptions for a new church, and it is expected that work will soon begin. The foundations for the build- ing have already been completed. The Endeavor Society of the Ninth Street Christian Church, Rev. E. B. Bagby, pas- tor, has selected the following officers to serve for six months: President, W. H. Andrews; vice president, F. T. Chapman; recording secretary, Edgar Kitchen; cor- responding secretary, Miss Mattie Allen; Tress correspondent, Jesse Adkins; treas- urer, W. Galt Bowen; organist, Miss Jennie Yager; chorister, Henry Brewood, and dele- gate to the District of Columbia C. E. Union, F. M. Bradley. The society is now cne of the largest in the union. The treas- urer of the church recently received $50 for the new church building from C. A. Hughes of Springfield, I1., a former member of t congregation. Brookland Chapter of the Washington District Epworth League has elected the following officers: President, R. S. Wolfe; first vice president, Dr. T. Y. Hull; second vice president, Mrs. T. Y. Hull; third vice president, Mrs. Dahle; fourth vice presi- dert, Miss Nannie Hollidge; secretary, Mrs. Mary E. Murray, and treasurer, N. B. Malone. The Rosedale Mission of Dovglas Me- morial Church has established a kinder- garten school, and in connection with its Home Missionary Society has organized a beys’ club. The superintendent of the mis- sion, Mr. Robert L Carr, is Low visiting relatives in England. A pleasant feature of the New Church Christmas festival was the mission tour of its beautiful Christmas tree, which after service at the church started on a round among the poor, first rejoicing a large kin- dergarte: of little orphans and then greet- ing the children of the African New Church mission. A Christinas gift of a con ble sum cf money has been received by the latter, which will probably enable the church to put the irdustrial school and kin- cergarten in workirg order. Rev. J Louis” Hartsock of New York city has been spending the holidays with his father, Rev. S. M. Hartsock, pastor of Ry- iand M. RB. Church. Rev. Samuel H. Greene, D. D., delivered a lecture Monday before the pastors of the lccal Baptist churches in Calvary Sunday school house, on “The Pastor as a Soul Winner.” Dr. Greene also delivered this lecture before the Nashville missionary convention. The congregation of St. Paul's M. E. Church is looking around for a new house of worship. A committee on a_ building site been eppointed, with A. B. Brown as chairman. The District of Columbia Baptist Young People’s Union ts to hold its second meet- ing on Tuesday evening, the 12th instant, at the Second Baptist Church. The fea- ture of the meeting is to be an address by the Rev. R. J. Willingham of Richmond, Va., corresponding secretary of the for- eign mission board of the Southern Bap- tist convention. There are also to be short addresses by several missionaries of the Columbia Baptist Association. The ad- dresses are to be preceded by a short busi- ress session, when several matters of in- terest will be considered. The Catholic Knights of St. Peter’s par- ish have elected the following officers: Pres- ident, W. A. Simpson; vice president, M.J. Sheehan; financial secretary, F. C. Holland; recording secretary, A. J. Pettitt; treas- urer, J. J. Dorr, and sentinel, A. J. Weaver. ‘The annual anniversary exercises of the Chinese Sunday school of Metropolitan Church are to take place next Monday night. The exercises will be exclusively in Chinese and will be under the direction of Miss Summers, the superintendent. There are between thirty and forty Chinamen in the school and a teacher for each scholar. As Christmas gifts the school presented tc the pastor of the church, Dr. Hugh John- stcn, a handsome silk umbrella, and to Mrs. Johnston some valuable tea. Presiding Elder Luther B. Wilson has held the fourth quarterly conference of Wesley M. E. Church, at which the following offi- cers were elected: Stewards, W. R. Wood- ward, H. M. Dellinger, J. W. Duvall, C. P. Blackmar, W. F. Roderick, J. S. Barker, 8. E. Trott, L. Y. Ellis, Thos. W. Fowler and Jno. O. Schuckers; district steward, W. R. Woodward, and recording steward, W. F. Roderick, and trustees, W. R. Woodward, H. M. Dellinger, B. H. Duvall, M. B. Gor- don, C. W. Huguely, L. Rosenbaum, W. T. Galliher, T. Walter Fowler and A. F. Mc- Dowell. The election of the following was also approved: Superintendent of the Sun- day school, W. Redin Woodward; president of the Epworth League, J. S. Barker, and exhorter, W. C. McMichael. Eleven class leaders were also selected. The pastor of the church is Rev. C. W. Baldwin. St. Paul's Chapter of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew has arranged for a special brotherhood service tomorrow evening in St. Paul’s Church, when Rev. Geo. Fisk Dudley, reetor of St. Stephen’s Church, 1s to preach. There is to be a similar service February 7, which will be addressed by Rev. C. E. Buck. The ladies of Metropolitan M. E. Church n.et in an all-day session Wednesday. The meeting of the Home Missionary Society ccemmenced at 11 p.m.; that of foreign mis- sions at 1 p.m., and the Ladies’ Aid Society at 2 o'clock At each of these meetings papers were read and discussion of work for the new year took place. The’ Church Improvement Society of Trinity P."E. Church gave an entertain- ment Tuesday night, followed by a sale of refreshments. The society has been or- ganized to raise-money with which to im- prove the appearance of the house of wor- ship. They are contemplating changing the Eresent lighting system from gas to el ic. = Metropolitan M. E. Church’ will observe the week of prayer by every night next week except 3 At the Christmas entertainment of the Sutday school of the Mt. Pleasant Con- gregaticnal Church, held-last W: evening, instead of receiving candy and gifts from the authorities of the school, the children each brought and presented a pourd ‘of sometring useful. These gifts .the children have since been distrib- ut among the poor. IIe esters {at 2:30 4.m.)—“Who's there?” ‘ ‘Madam (turning-over)—“That's what I thought. “Stister=an Nobody -<-atarper's RAILROADS. - WASHINGTON, ABEXANDRIA AND MT. VERNON RAILWAY. From Station, 13% st. and Penna. ave. In effect POR ALEXANDIIA.—6 6: ys om \T VERNON, STATIONS.—°6:40, 10:06, Spally FOR ARLINGTON, Daily.—8:00, 9:00, 10:05, 12 12:05, 1:15, 2:05, 2:40, 5:00, 6:05, 7200, 8:00. Baggage checked free for passengers holding first- class ‘ti At station. Bicycles, 25 cents each, G. E. ABROTT, GEO. R. PHILLIPS, Gen. ager. Gen. Pass. Agent. RIVERSIDE AND WAY °11:00, 12:05, 2206, CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. THROUGH THE GRANDEST NERY IN AMERICA. ALL TRAINS VESTIBULED, ELECTRIC LIGHTED, STEAM HEATED, ALL MEALS SERVED IN sia- TION SIXTH AND B Schedule in effect De 2:20 P.M. DAILY—Cinciunati and St. Louis Spe ¢lal—Solid train for Cincimuatt. Muliuian sleepers to Ciwcinnati, Lexis cu, Lowsvalle, Indianapolis and St Louis’ without change rior cars Cuectu- mati to Chicago. 11:37 P.M. DAILY—F. BP. V. for Cmcinuati. Pullwau sleepers 4 Solid train 10 Cincianactt, Open reception of passengers at ¥ pau. Pullwam rtueut car to Virginia Hot Springs, without Lexington and Louisville without change for Ruendays und Saturdays. Da:ly) conoecciom Springs. Sleepers Cincinmat to Cule and St. Louis — ee 10:57 A.M., EXCEPT SUNDAY—Via_ Richmond for Old Point and Norfolk. Only rail line. 220 P.M. DAILY—For Gordonsville, Charlottes: — Staunton und for Richmond, daily, except nia Reservations and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohio offices, Si3 and 1421 Pennsylvania avenuc, 1110 BF Sireet portuwest, and at the . W. FULLER, n013-58d General Passenger Agent. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILAOAD. Schedule in effect December 7, 1896. Leave Washington from station corner of Jersey avenue and © street. For Chicago and Northwest, Vestibuled Limited trains 10:00 a.m. New Winchester and way stations, 10:00 a.m, 15:30 pm For New Orleans, Memphis, Birmingham, Chat- tupooga, Knoxville, Bristol und Reanoke, daily; Sleeping Cars through. For Laray, 3:40 p.m. For Battimore, week days. 5:00, 6:30, x9:30, 0, 15, x5:30, x6:20, 6:30, x11:50 x4:36, 4:4 18:00, 8:15, x0: Bm. and x12:01 nigh 30, 9:00 a.m.. x12:05, xI2 25, (4:40. 25:05, x5:18. 6:80, x8 x12:01 night. nd 8:30 12:10 ana 4:36 p.m. For Frederick, » 7 oon, 4:30, 5:30’p.m. Sundays, 1 For Hagerstown, 10:00 a.m. and For Rord and way points, week da; 430. 5:30, 7:08 p.m. ppundays, 1:15, If Lei and wa, 7:35, 9:90 aum., 18: if For Washington Junction and way a.m., 4:30, 5:30 points, p.m. week days, 1:15 p.m. da; Por Cape May, 10 a.m. 12 noon, ROYAL BLUE LIXE FOR NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA. All trains illuminated with Pintsch Ngbt. For Philadelphia, New York, Boston and the East, 24 days 00 “0:00 a.m. Dining Car), 12:06 G2:35 Dining Car), 3:00 (5:05 Dining Car), night; Sleeping Csr open at 10:00 o'clock). days (9 a.m. Dining Car), (12:35 ing Car), 3:60 Dining Car). 12:01 night, Sleeping Cart n 10:09 o'clock. Additional trains for Philadel- la. week days, 7:05 a.m.; daily, 8:00 p.m. Buffet Parlor Cars on ali day trains. For Atlantic City, 10:00 12:00 noon and 2:25 p.m. week days, 12:35 p.m. days. cept Sunday. xExpress trains, Bagcage called for and checked from hotels and residences by Union Transfer Co. on orders left at Lcket offices, 619 Pennsylvania avenue n.w., Ne York avenue ‘and 15th street and at depot ‘M. M. GREENE, CHAS. 0. SCULI 70% Manager. Gen. Pass. Agt. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. PIEDMONT AiR LINE. Schedule in effect December 1, 1896. All traios arrive aud leave at Peavsylvania pas- senger station, 8:00 A.M.—Dally.—Local for Danville, Charlotte and way stations. Connects at Manassas for Stras- burg, Harrisonburg aed way stations, daily except Stnday, and at Lynchburg with the Norfolk and ae fa, dally. and with the Chesapeake and Ohlo daily for the Natural Bridge and Lexington. 11:15 A.M.—Dally.-THE UNITED STATES FAST MAIL. Carries Paliman Buffet Sleepers, New York fad Washington to Jacksonville, uniting at Salis Yury with Pullman Sleeper for ‘Asheville and Hot Springs, N. C.; Kuoxville and Chattanooga, Ten: and at Charlotie with Pullman Sleeper for August: Poliman Buffet Sleeper Washington to Galveston, Tezas, via Montgomery, New Orleans and Houste and Pullman Sleeper New York to Atlavta. Soll train Washington to New Orleans without change, Sanset Personally Conducted Tourist. Excursion h Sleeper on this train every Saturday to incisco without change. 4:01 P.M.—Local for Front Royal, Strasburg and Harrisonburg, daily, except Sunday. 4:51, P.M —Daily.—Local_ for Charlottesville. 10:43 P.M.—Daily.— ‘WASHINGTON AND SOUTH- WESTERN VESTIBULED LIMITED, composed of Faliman Vestibuled Sleepers, Dining Cars nnd Day Coaches, Pullman Sleepers’ New York to Ashe- Fille and Hot Springs, N. C.; New York to Tapa, via Charlotte, Columbia, Savannah and Jackson- ville, and New York to Memphis, via Birmingha: New York to New Orleans, via Atlanta ‘and “Mon gomery. Vestibuled Day Coach Washington to At- lanta. Southern Raflway Dining Car Greensboro’ to Montgomery. TRAINS ON WASHINGTON AND OHIO DIVIS- ION leave Washingt and 4:45 p.m. daily except FE Sundays only for Round Hill; 4:82 p.m. daily, except Sun- day, for Leesburg, and 6:25 p.m. daily for Herndon, Retarning, arrive at Washing’ 8: m. and 3:00 p.m. daily from Round Hill, 7:06 a.m. daily, ex- cept Sunday, from Herndon, 8:34 a.m. daily, except Sunday, from Leesburg. Through trains from the scuth arrive at Wash- ington. 6:42 a.m., 2:20 p.m. and 9:40 p.m. daily. M 12:40 p.m., dally, except Sun- m. daily from Choriottesviile, ickets, Sleeping Car reservation and informa tion furnished at offices, 511 and 1200 Peonsylvania avenue, and at Pennsylvania railroad passenger PEXNSYLVANIA BAILROAD. Station corner of Sixth and B streets. In Effcct November 15. 1896. 750 AM. Weekdays. PITTSBURG EXPRESS.— Parlor and Dining Harristurg to Pittsbu 10:50 A.M. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED.— Pull Sleeping, Dining Smoki ind Observations Cars Marrisbirg to Chicago, Cincinnati, Indianapoit - Louis, Cleveland and Toledo. " Bufet T'arlor Car to isburg. .M. FAST LINE.—Pallman Battet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Buffet Parlor Car Harrisiut, to Shere 3:40 P.M. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS.— Pullman Buffet Parlor Car to Warrisburg. Si ing and Dining Cars Harrisburg to St. Lo: cinnats, Loulsville and Chicago. 7:10 P.M.) WESTERN EXPRESS.—Pullman Slecp- ing Car Pittsburg to Chi ago, and Harrisburg to Geveland. Dining Car to rT 3 710 F-M. SOUTHWESTERN EAPRESS, -1atiman rs Wa: fon to Tit’ Lf ar Tisharg to SC pul and Ciuclouss Dini 10:40 P.M. PACIFIC EXPRESS. Car to Pittsbu: ‘50 A.M. for Kane, Canandaigua, Rochester and Niagara Palls daily, except Sunday. 10:50 A.M. for Elmira aud Renovo daily, exeept Sunday. For Lock Haven week-days and Wi Samsport Sundays, 3:40 P.M. 7:10 P.M. for Williamsport, Roches:er, Bu. Jo ord ‘Niagara Falls daily, except Sata~day, ing Car Washington to Suspension’ Bridge Buffalo. 10:40 P.M. for Erie, Canandaigua, Rochester, Buf- falo and Niagara Falls daily, Sleeping Car Wash- ington to Elmira. For Philadelphia, New York and the East 4:00 |. “CONGRESSIONAL “IMITED,” @aily, lor Cars, with Diniag Cur from Baltimore. (Dining Car). 8:00, 9:00, 10:00 , and 108 Dining “Car from Wil; 5, 4 C:50, 10:00 ond M. On Sunday, 7:00 (ining ‘Cari, 8.00, 9:00, 11-00 (ining Car from Wilmington)’ AM. 215, 8:15, 4:20, iladelphia only, Fast 250, 10:00 and11:35 P.M. For Ey 7.50 A.M. woek- azpress,, 12:15 Pat week-da: PM. daily, For Boston, : 5 ~ and thot change, 350 A.M. weekdays, and 3 : Atlantic City (ria Dx 3r tico, rae Pf and 4:25 P.M. week-days. the wiation, Sixth 15 rn it ry S Sf, ef th shen of Caeser to testina” 8. M. PREVOST. 3. RB. Woop, —— ‘Manager. General Passenger Agent. MEDICAL. Dr. Nicholson,