Evening Star Newspaper, February 15, 1897, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1897-12 PAGES, = sha eramierbarose sone a ss — —t- — a = — — —— SPECIAL NOTICES. | A A.B. R, SOUTHERN JURISDICTION OF THE United Lodge of P TUENDA pms nw. at th Work. order F_ FRAXSON, THE talk at First and G ste ow, nesday, Feb. 17. at So eign Languages." Free. 1 WISH HEREBY Te friends and relatives 0 42. K. of H.. and Washington Lodg: Biudnesses and att Durlal of my late his t S OF RATHBONE . Will meet at TUESDAY, md the BEACHAM. Sis funeral of our late sister, Franklin Temple cordialls Mrs. Mrs. A. WOLTZ, THE MEMEBERS OF E Knights of Pythias, will we ball, 904 Pa ave.. MONDAY E ary 15, 1897 ock, make array for funeral of eur late brother, A. J. Willi MILTON THOMAS, € JH J. W. FP. WILLIAMS, Secretary OOF WALTER G ER. AP S BEEN REMOV ~~ COMME divide A ‘on the COMMON ERICAN GRAPI OPHONE C+ company, 1 February February 20. will be pat Pu._ave., and reopen March 1, r of 1897. ne directors, MELTN, By ore PAUL Ht E. D. EASTON, etary. (fe15-121) President. DRESS SUITS B this wee “Il be able to make al Ball Drees Suit. but we post Uvely can take no more « after this week. Pe, Dress Suit which wi universally worn ft the Inaugural Kall ts this $4 one we are making to order. Its equal will cost you $60 elsewhere. J. FRED GATCHEL, GU4 13th st. fel5-8d ATTENTION, ‘Traction Et. committee has RS OF CAPITOL The report of the auditing fled with the president of the nd is open to the insp of the st mo. E. . fel3-5: ie ST. JUST ABOVE Pa. AVE. n.w.. fine large building; 30 rooms and two Stores; suitable for hotel or other busitiess pur- Poses.” Reasonable terms to right party fel3-8t_ BIEBER & HOWENSTEIN, 50y 7th n.w. REAL ESTATE A¢ RCHTTECT OR BUILDER can employ an architectural draftsman at a rea- sonable salary. Adiress ARCHITECT, Star office. fel3-3t* Advertisers who are preparing thelr spring advertising campaign should investigate my typewriter circulars. They are being used extensively iu Washington by shrewd business men. They are carefully read tnvarfably— hence are good advertisements. Glad to see Fou about it any time. BYRON S. ADAMS, prompt pri fel3- REMOVAL. ND AFTER FEBRUARY 1 the Seaboard Air Line office will be locatht No. 1427 Penna. eve. fe 1 DESIRE TO INFORM MY FRU pablic generally that I have this day purchased my " Interests in the real estate business conducted a: S04 aud 86°F st mm. mien tie name of D. D. Stone & Sons. I wili conduct a Seneral real estate, Joan and insurance business at the old office, 806 F st. ow., under the name at -Bt of Charles P. Stone. I respectfully solicit. a continuance of past favers. fel0-6t * cH P. STONE. HAVING DISPOSED OF THE [ EST OF THE Teal estate business connected with S06 F st I shall continue the same business at Street (where I bave been located for years), under the name of D. D. Where’ property will be bought, sold changed, rent collected and loans negotiated. A specialty will be made of suburban property Within the District. Having had many years of experience in the business, and an expert at values, I shall be glad sot F so. many e & C to see my friends und those wi o make in- vestments. DAVID D. STONE, fel0-6t 804 Fost. nw. COAL. OAL, cos REDUCED PRICES. W. A. Furnace. W. AL Nut A Sth and K nee. Lawyers and our PIN with an pi It's eaxtly made. And lasts a Ii Doesn't cost im z CF Our prices plies n Easton & Rupp, 421 LithSt. PoPt LAR-PRICED STA TION tS 1 id = Progressive Painters Iny Paints plies he: doing their qua E. Hodgkin, 913 7th, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Build Chas. Ha ote. lf You Intend BUILDING —this spi you a lu bit of iui We to let us supply furnishing 1 work you'll re- makin’t afford to let otrers ext qualities oniy Get our bid! THOS. W. SMITH, Main Office, Ist and Ind. ave. Mill and Wharves, foot 4th st. s.e. je23-1m,20 A Sure Cure for Colds —is Tharp’ Berkele: Whisky It fds, well-tigh me oa $1 qua HALE” S12 Fat fer Garfield Pharmacy. Cut Prices. "Phone 21 "Phone 551. at hand Reecham's Pills, 3 days... Loonen’s Pills, 3 days. Belladonna Piasters...... stery’ Hair Grower I streets N. W. 13th and fel2-1w* Astuma Axp Curaren Cared by the ESPIC'S CIGARETTES OR POWDER. Oppression, Suffocating, Coughs, Col Neuralgia. & Parts: J. ESPIC. 20 Rue St New York: FOUGERA, MI Sol by all chemists of Ame: ‘Transfers of Real Estate. American University Park—Jno. D. al, trustees S. Bueison, lors 2 bik. 6; $1 4th st. me. bet. D and E sis. man et al., trustees, to Sanu $2,450, st. (extended) nese Flowant Jno. B. F et Ux to Chas. HW. Smith, part lets 7 sud . Vieasant Plains: $10,000. to Geo. Thos. E. Wag: AL Drury, loc th es. mw. bet. Romi S stx.—-H. H. Bergmann et al. trustees, io Iguatius Miller, nit lot sy. 419: $4,100, Howard ave. and Spruce st Weed to E. EB. Jackson bik. $. Le Drott Teun. ave. ne. bet. F end G stx— Thos. Nor- wood et Ux. to same, lots 155 and 136, sq. 1061; $190. Mass. axe. o.w. bet. 20th and 21st ats.—Jno. T. Arms et ux. to Samuel A. Drury, lot B, sq. S45 Sie. Alley bet. E and F. North Cap. Int sts. n.w.—Ariadne W. Ogden to Faunle P. Blundon, lot 117, sq. 628; $10. N. J. ave. nw. bet. B and © sts Elliot to Ly wartz, lot 05, sy. 634; Se Farmers at Sandy Sp The twenty-fifth annual convention of farmers will he held at the Sandy Spri Lyceum, Montgomery county. Md., tom row. Among other matters of interest the following questions will be discussed: “Con- dition of Our Farms and Method of Relief,” introduced by Dr. F. Thomas: “How Does the Condition and Permanent Improvement of the Hay and Grain Farms of ‘This Com- munity Compare With That of the Dairy Farms?" introduced by Asa M. Stabler: “What is the Best Material for and Style of Farm Fence?” introduced by C. F. Kirk. a Joseph A. Hutton, whose arm was am- putated at the Emergency Hospital Sat- urday night, as the result of @ railway ac- cident in Alexandria, was doing as well as could be expected this afternoon. MATERNITY’S SENATE The Congress of Mothers and Its High Aims. PRACTICAL AND UNIQUE FEATURES An Exhibit of Nursery Equipments and Necessary Paraphernalia. eee Se THOSE WHO TAKE PART ——— “The old, old primer, the avant courier of the pretty little illustrated trifle that makes learning easy for the babies of today, opened with the trite couplet: “In Adam's fall, We sin-ned al “Of course, ‘Adam’ meant Eve, too, for she was the great and only original “mother of all living, and to her came the curse, even more heavily than it did to Adam. Ever since Eve bore Cain and his brother, Abel, mothers’ woes seem to have multt- plied. A celebrated writer has given it as his opinion that the best time to begin the education of a child is at least one hundred years before it is born. Just how this theory would heve worked in the case of Eve is not open to demonstration, yet it is a fact that the first child that was born into the world was the world’s first murderer, and Mrs. Phoebe Hearst. this gives theorists an excellent chance to work upon the pre-natal impressions that were transmitted by the first mother to the first child. Driven from the Paradise that had been her only home till the fall, Eve no doubt gave way to the storm of ev: passions that came to her along with the curse, and murder may have been in her art as she went out of the Garden of len to take up the burden of earning her bread by the sweat of her brow. The little child that came to her afterward may have inherited her murderous thoughts, and he was made to suffer by the “sign” which tole all people that he was a murderer, and for ‘hat murder of her second-born Eve no doubt sorrowed all her long life.. Now, in this mothers’ congress, we are going to cuss just such subjects, and begin, after these centuries since Eve, a scientific study of motherhood, and the duties of a mother to her offspring, before and after birth, and that takes in—well, it embodies all of good or evil that comes to bless or burden mankind.” ‘The foregoing is the all-embracing idea of what is going to be undertaken by the dele- gates to the national congress of mothers, which convenes in the Arlington Hotel on Wednesday, February 17, as expressed by one fair enthusiast, who has just one smail daughter, on whom she proposes to try as many of the theories as she can convenient- ly, and not quiie kill the child. Daty to the Child. If the ideas of the thoughtful, earnest wo- men who have worked with such un- flagging zeal to convene this congress of mothers could be embodied in one singie sentence, it is probable that one quoted on their program would cover the ground. “Character cannot be talked into or taught into a child; it must be lived into him.” Finley, one of the brig ressive Washington women, who is particularly interested in this congress, believes implicitly in this theory. And she thinks that what motiers must have before they can become fitted for the cares of motherhood ts practical education for its juties. It is as good as a whole course of lectures on hygiene and health to hear her discourse on what “mothers ought to know sout children,” but it would scarcely be fe to print all that she thinks the most of them do not know, or, at least, the indif- ference they display in putting’ the little knowledge they possess into practice. “I think sometimes that most mothers lock upon children that come to them as an incident, or accident in their lives, rather than a part of God's great plan to people znd Improve the world,” she said, “and till wives come to regard the advent of chil- dren as the crowning glory of marriage, we canrot look for much improvement tn’ the morals of the home, or place great faith in the stability of the government. Weak mothers and degenerate fathers wrecked imperial Kome when she ruled the world. The same influences—immoderate love of wealth, ambition to shine as fashion’s arb ter, love of display, the longing to sway seciety, the greed for power in the political world. the accumulation of tremendous fortunes for self-aggrandizement—all these Mra. Adlai E. Stevenson. aided in the downfall of Rome, and they ight glead to the downfall of our own grand republic if the canker of worldliness were permitted to eat inio the hearts of our American men and women any deeper. We don’t want it to get to the point -where it is perceptible, and so we propose to begin in time. This Jirst congress of mothers is the first step in the grand scheme. We are hopeful that out of it great good may come.” Originated in Washington. » The inception of this movement was evolved from the brain of a Washington wcman, Mrs. Theodore Birney, the happy mother of nine children. It has “widened with the process of the suns,” tilt the whole world has been set talking about it. Truly “a little child shall lead them, when Europe wakens up to send délegates to this cecngress, and men of science all over the United States rise up and tell these devoted women that they have struck the keynote of %eroism at last, and wish them God speed! For three months thousands of min- isters have made this mothers’ congreas the text for innumerable sermons. A par- egraph from one old pastor serves to show how deep the plea for this congress has sunk into the hearts of those who have lived long enough to appreciate the good that may come out of it. “How giad I * says the writer, “to have lived until this day when such a convention as you have set for February is possible and pros- pectively a 1ealization. Wonderfulf I date from the days when Samuel Adams, Thom- as Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were the great persons and actors. I was born before the United States had any history— when it was not big enough to.go outdoors alcne and aa te have a bar or embargo to hold it back. When Spain held America, even so much of what is now our best, and cast her shadow so far over to our outer THE OFFICIAL EXPLANATORY NOTE: Observations taken fars, or lines of equa! alr pressure, drawn for each tenth of an inch. Dotted Ines aro isotherms, or lives of equal temperature, drawn for each ten degrees. enow has fallen during preceding twelve hours. The words areas of bigh and Iow barometer. Small arrows fly with the wind. WEATHER O Crear. © Partly Cou Q Crouay. @ fain. ai $a.m., 5th meridiar time. Solid lines are 1s0- Shaded areas are regions where rain or “High” and ‘Low’ show location of FAIR TOMORROW, But if You Go Out Tonight Better Take an Umbrella. Forecast till 8 p.m. Tuesday—For the Dis- trict of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, fair Tuesday, preceded by threatening weather and probably light local showers tonight; southerly winds, shifting to west- erly. Weather conditions and general forecast— The barometer has fallen, except to the north of the lake regions and from Texas westward to California. There is a slight depression covering the Ohio valley, but the barometer is lowest to the northwest of Montana and highest over California. It is warmer generally throughout the central valleys and on the Atlantic coast. It is colder north of the lake regions and from Texas northward to Dakota. The weather is generally cloudy over the central valleys and the lake regions, with local showers south of the Ohio and local snows in the lake regions and upper Mis- sissipp! valley. “The weather Sunday morning was fair, except in the northern portion of the lake regions and in northern Texas and on the north Pacific coast, where local snows or showers were reported. The indications are that the weather will be cloudy and threatening, with possibly local showers on the Atlantic coast to- night, followed by clearing and fair weath- er Tuesday. Fair weather is likely to pre- vail Tuesday in the southern states with cooler weather tonight. Tide Tabi. Today—Low tide, 12:11am. and 12:13 P.m.; high tide, 5:47 a.m. and 6:23 p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 12:54 a.m. and 12:57 p-m.; high tide, a.m. and 7:12 p.m. The Sun and Moo: Sun rises, 6:52; sun sets,. 5:37 Moon sets at sunrise tomorrow morning. Tomorrow—Sun rises, he The City Lights Gas lamps all lighted by 6:45 p.m.; extin- guishing begun at 5:59 a.m. The lighting is begun one hour before the time named. Public arc lamps lighted at 6:30 p.m. and extinguished at 6:14 a.m. Condition of the Water. Temperature and condition of water at & am.: Great Falls, temperature, 36: condi- tion, 4. Receiving reservoir, temperature, 46; condition at north connection, 8: condi- tion at south connection, 5. Distributing reservoir, temperature, 36; condition at in- fluent-gate house, 3; effluent gate house, 3. Temperatures for Twenty-Four Hours The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau during tke past twenty-four hours, beginning at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon: February 14—4 p.m., 58; 8 p.m., 47; mid- night, 41. February 15—4 a.m., 38; 8 .a.m., and 2 p.m., 50. Maximum, at 5 p.m., February 14; minimum, 3 5 a.m., February 15. ; 12 m., beundary that the memory of our danger awakens a gloomy and also a grateful emo- tion.” Then the writer says that, if age did not incapacitate him, he would be glad to “blaze out upon this glad occasion, in both sermons and prayer.” Letters of encouragement have poured into the offices of the committee by the hundred from ministers and mothers, fa- thers, and many people who are neither. The letters in themselves would be a mag- nificent symposium of bright thought and suggestion if they could be printed, and vculd doubtless aid many a struggling mother to better light on the subject of child rearing. Mrs. Hearst's Benevolence. This congress is unique in many ways. It is a little like Topsey, it just “growed,” and, like a big snow ball, has gathered substance,in its travels, till it has gone be- yond the wildest hopes of the mothers who first thought of it. Mrs. Theodore Birney, who is president, was called away by the illness of her husband, just when her dear- est dreams of success for a lifelong project were about to be realized, and the manage- Mrs. T. W. Birney. ment of the enterprise had to he placed in other hands. Those hands happened to belong to the first vice president, Mrs. Fhoebe Hearst, whose name has grown to be one to conjure with when philanthropic deeds are to be done. With great wealth at her command, Mrs. Hearst's sole idea of its value is to use it in making the world better and happier. One day It is a musicale for her society friends, the next it is in establishing a kindergarten for street waifs. Here it is a girl who has brains, but no money to cultivate them, and tomorrow it is perhaps. to be a youth who has latent within him great inventive genius, and, like a patron saint, Mrs. Hearst gives him the “chance” that may one day make him famous. This congress of mothers appealed to Mrs. Hearst at ence, and the money that has made ft go, has b2en given as freely as though it grew cn bushes, and she had but to pick it. The office of the business end of the congress is close to her home, and she has been con- stantly consulted. Without her material assistance it never would have reached the point it has, and too much praise cannot be bestowed on this gentle, gracious woman, who is so instant and ardent to lend a help- ing hand where real merit lies. She hopes for great results from the meetings, and on looking over the program it looks as though she could not be disappointed. The cabinet ladies, headed by Mrs. Cleve- land and Mrs. Stevenson, have taken the livehest interest in everything pertaining to the congress, and the press all over the country, particularly the church and wo- man’s magazines, have given the matter the widest publicity. There is no real or- ganizaticn. There are no by-laws, no con- stitution; there never was a petition, and the women who have become the officers came together in the most unostentious manner, slipped into the offices by apparent natural selection, and have worked like Trojans bound together by their common interest in humanity, and working without hope of emolument! A Practical Program. To tell all the ground that they hope to cover with their work would be to sum up all that goes to make existence tolerable. The congress will consider subjects bearing upon the better and broader spiritual and physical as well as mental training of the young, such as the value of kindergarten work and the extension of its principles to more advanced studies, a love of humanity and of country, the physical and mental evils resulting from some of the present methcds of ovr schools and advantages to follow from a closer relation between the irfluence of the home and that of institu- tions of learning. Of special importance will be the subject of the means of develop- ing in children characteristics which will elevate and ennoble them, and thus assist in overcoming the conditions which now prompt crime and make necessary the maintenance of jails, workhouses and re- formatories. There will be talks on physi- culture, heredity, reproduction and natural law, dietetics, music, parental rev- erence, moral responsibility of women in heredity, child studies and many other subjects. All over the country ‘mothers’ clubs” have been forming ever since this cengress became an assured fact, and these clubs will send their representative women to the congress to get new ideas and have their own brightened up. x Wy Saray wang ot the mothers pres- ent will not be talkers, and will be back- ward about sren ene cours i the open congress. ‘0 get expressions from them and all others who wish to be heard in that manner, a question box will be on the table of the presiding officer. Into this all questions may be dropped, unsigned if desired, but fully stated, and at certain hours each day these questions, distributed to the various.members of the committees who seem best fitted to answer them, will be presented in “conference,” the title that has been given to quiet little meetings that will be held at stated periods in smaller rcoms in the Arlington, and in charge of Frances Newton. The Nursery Exhibit. One of the practical thirgs of the con- gress is the ‘Model Nursery,” which will be fitted up in the Arlington, where moth- ers can see what a child's ‘nursery should be like. In some respetts, ‘6f course, this will not be quite “‘modé,” ‘for in real, up- to-date nurseries no big mirrors would or- nament the walls, and,such a thing as a bit of drapery at the windows would aive the model nurse heart failure, but barring those two anachronisms, the nursery will be quite fin de siecle in all ite appointments. There will be the very latest. steads, and mattresses and pillows, in bath- ing robes, tubs, soaps, towels, night lamps and all the other Paraphernalia of a well- appointed nursery. There will be a small cabinet fitted up with medicines to be used in emergencies until the doctor arrives, end during the conference. of Thursday morning. Dr. Clara Bliss Finley will give a talk on how to use these medicines, and it will probably be one.of the most valua- ble subjects to mothers in the whole. con- gress. This model nursery, will be in charge of some lady who will explain all its trap- pings. There will be a model kindergarten, eet ce oe materials for a suc ful School of this charagier will -be dis) yed and explained. a be eas One of the features of the will be of interest is the Photograph gal- lery.| This will consist of photographs of all the officers, and then each officer who has a family will have a photograph of herself and family to hang on the wall. Mrs. Theodore Birney will head the list with her nine heaithy examples of posteri- ty, and Dr. Clara Bliss Finley will. bring up the rear with her cherished one daugh- ee The enterprise does not end here, how- ver. The congress asks everybody in the who has a photograph of it to hang on the wall. They will insure the safety of the pictures while in their possession, and are hoping that there will be ready and generous response to the re- quest. The larger the family group, the better it will suit them. There ought to be @ unique display, for a quarter of a century ago, when large families were considered the proper caper, it was also quite the thing to make family groups for future reference, and there must be hundreds of these pictures packed away, since they are now too out of date to hang beside the pos- ter girl pictures of the present period. Who Will Attend. Many distinguished people from a dis- tance will be present at the congress and present papers, or talk on some subject. Dr. Vincent, the great Chatuquan; Mar- garet Sangster, Anthony Comstock, Hamil- ton Mabie, Dr. Walter L. Harvey, Mrs. Ellen Henrotin, Mrs. Stanton Blatch, Miss Anna Schryver, Mrs. Ellen Richardson, Mrs. Sallie A. Cotton, Mrs. W. H. Felton, Mrs H. A. Stimson, ‘Dr. G. Stanley Hall, Mis, Constance McKenzie, Miss Francis Newton, Mrs. Ballington Booth, Mrs. Helen H. Gardner, Miss Amalie Hoffer, Mrs. Re- bekah Kohut, Rev. W. A. Bartlett, Mrs, Lucy 8. Bainbridge, Mrs. Mary Lowe Dick- inson, Miss Francis Willard, Mrs. Eliza- beth Lange Aus, Miss Butler and Miss Mary E. Mumford. These are all people who are known from one side of the continent to the other, as editors, kindergarten teachers, workers in mission fields, in Sunday schools, members of that largest of all organizations of wo- men, the National Council of Women, and writers for children, authors of books on sociological problems, temperance workers, ministers, in fact, nearly all the fields of thought along educational and scientific lines will be represented, in the speakers that will be in attendance. ISABEL WORRELL BALL. Se PATHETIC FERATURE. congress that city a family to bring Little One Dead and th¢, Husband in Jal. ‘The pathetic side of ¢he arrest of Lewis McK. Turner, charged witli theft of valu- able documents trom)\'the, Ccngressional Library, will appeal stongly: to those who have been interested in his: case. ‘When he was arrested; as noted in The Star, his faithful young wifé was severely fll and his little six-weeksrold girl baby was at the point of death from what was {at first thought to be membranous croup. The little one grew worse éach day, and died Saturday night gt the, home of the parents, 102 9th street southeast. The father, who has had strong hopes of se- curing bail and who has borhe up strongly under his misfortune, was deeply affected and gave evidence Saturday hight of break- ing down. It is said that tHe kind-hearted officials sllowed him to to his home for a few hours Sunday night in charge of an officer to console “the heart-broken wife as much as possible. The baby was interred in Rock Creek cemetery Sunday afternoon. The frail wife had to be as- sisted to a carriage to attend the funeral, which was in charge of Rev. W. E. Par- son, 309 New Jers avenue southeast. Health officers think the baby died from diphtheria. Two other children of the afflicted fam- fly, five and three y. sympathy is express father and mother, =~ Surgeon Whiting Retired. Surgeon Robert Whiting of the navy was placed on the'retired list today on account of disabili * are ill, Much the bereaved ity. ———~_ei —_— Finest Lilies on Earth. Calla lilies, harassu and lltes of the val- ley in abundance at Gude’s, 1224 F.—Advt. thing in. bed-. OUR POSTAL SYSTEM Postmaster General Wilson’s Lecture to the Geographic Society.” A Graphic Postal Service and the Marvels and s Account of the Colon Defects of the Modern System. Postmaster General Wilson delivered an instructive and thoroughly interesting ad- dress before the National Geographic So- ciety Friday night at the Congregational Church on “The Development of the United States Postal Service.” He sketched rapid- ly and picturesquely the origin and growth of the old colonial post, which, through a charter granted Thomas Neal, and a serv- ice establishei in 1710 by Andrew Hamil- ton, gave the American people their first postal facilities. .. ¢ system extended from Falmouth, Me., to Savannah, Ga., and the mails were carried by.stage coaches and mounted riders. From a little manuscript book, the report of Hugh Findlay, a postal inspector, who went over the line in 1773, Mr. Wilson read several most interesting ries, showing what that first rude postal system was. Under the Continental Con- gress the colonies took upon themselves their own postal service, with Benjamin Franklin as Postmaster General. Under the constitutional government Samuel Os- good was the first to hold that office. Not until 1829 was the Postmaster General made a cabinet officer. Until 1845 the old cclonial methods of carrying mails by stage coaches and at rates controlled by distance prevailed. Then the modern era of postal progress began. Stamps were authorized in 1847; in 1853 stamped envelopes; in 1855 reg- istered letters provided for; in 1863 free delivery was undertaken; in 1864 the money order system was established: in 1865 the railway mail service, or offices,” was set in operatio postal cards were first used in the United States, and in 1877 the international postal union, “the greatest of all postal improvements,” was attained. In clcsing Mr. Wilson said the people paid and were entitled to penny postage. It would be possible but for the abuse of the mails in shipping periodicals or second- class matter. The government gets ® cents a pound for carrying letters and postal cards, and but 1 cent a pound for carrying the periodicals. The letters afford $63,000,- 000 revenue to the department, and the periodicals but $3,000,000. The law is such that the Postmaster General is powerless to prevent this abuse, and the people do not understand the matter. Mr. Wilson outlined the reform he would make in the management of the postal service. He said there were too many post- masters. Instead of 4,000 presidential and about 6,000 other postmasters there should be about 10,000 with the others as subor- dinates, thus articulating the whole service and relieving the department and the Post- master General of much unnecessary labor. Mr. Wilson said our postal system is run- ning behind $10,000,000 a year, while that of England is ahead $18,000,000 every year. Ours, with proper legislation, might be self-supporting. ———- MRS. PATTEN'S WIL The Case "*-cided in the Supreme Court Today. The Supreme Court of the United States tedey affirmed, with costs, the decision of the Court of Appeals of the District of Cclumbia in the case of Augusta P. Glover et al., appellant, against Mary E. Patien et al. This is a bill in equity filed in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by Mary E. Patten, Josephine A. Patten, Edith Patten and Helen Patten against their sister, Augusta P. Glover, wife of John M. Glover, to construe the will of thelr mother, Anastasia Patten, and io charge the estate with certain claims appellants prior to tion of assets. - Mrs. Patten died in this city September 11, 1858, leaving a will executed in San Francisco December 23, 1879. The records of the case show that upon the marriage of } Mrs. Patten’s daughter to Mr. Glover the daughter was given government bond an actual value of $102,400. A sum sufficient to give the other four daughters each $11,- 250 was set aside. The lower court held that the money so paid was a part of the distribution of the estate. On that decision the case was brought to the United States Supreme Court by Augusta P. Glov The Supreme Court of the United States also reversed, with costs, and remanded to the court below, the case of Martha Hop- ns, Martha M. Lee, Stethney Forrest et al., appellents, vs. Willlam H. Grimshaw and Mary J. Brooks, appealed from the Supreme Court of the District of Colum- bia. This is the case involving the property used as a burying ground of the Union Beneficial Society. In 1888 the municipal authorities of this city prohibited further interments in this burial ground, and since then all the bodies have been removed from the same. The appellants asked that the said property be partitioned between ap- pellant and defendants, and the court re- verstd the decision of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and remanded the case. The Yale's New Quarters. Many signs point to a steady improvement. in the commercial situation. One of these is the action of the Yale steam laundry in moving into magnificent quarters at 51S 10th street, which is to be the main office. No expense has been spared in fitting it up. The ceilings and side walls are of sieel, in bas-relief figures and scrolls, en- ameled in light tints. The counters’ and office furnitur> are of highly polished quartered oak, with hand-carved oak pan- elings. Two long oak side cases run the cepth of the room, with frosted glass fronts and shelving, for protecting tne hun- dreds of bundles of snow-white linens awaiting their owners or delivery. The success of the Yale steam laundry, under the management of Mr. Frank Walker, fully demonstrates what business ability, enterprise and good work, coupled wiih judicious advertising, can accomplisa. ee Torpedo Boat Cushing. The torpedo boat Cushing arrived at Nor- folk this morning and will be put out of commission. Her officers and crew have been ordered to repair at once to Bristol, R. I, for the purpose of bringing torpedo boat No. 6 around to Washington in order that members of Congress may have an oppcrtunity of seeing that swift craft speeding through the quiet waters of the Potomac. No. 6 was built by the Herre- shcffs ard has a speed record of nearly twenty-rine knots an hour, making her by far the fastest vessel in the American navy. She is being prepared for the cruise and will probably arrive here by the end of this week or the beginning of next. She will be known simply as “No. 6” until a more suitable name shall have been se- lected. of the general distribu- —— Engineer Changes. Lieut. Col. William Ludlow, Corps of En- gineers, has been ordered to take station at New York to relieve Col. George L. Gil- lesple, Corps of Engineers, of the duties pertaining to the fortifications and river | and harbor works in that vicinity, and will also act as engineer of the third lighthouse district. Colonel Gillespie has been placed in charge of the northeast engineer di- vision, formerly in charge of General Wil- son, before his promotion to the office of chief of engineers. Lieut. Wm. V. Judson, Corps of Engirreers, has beeri ordered to duty at Willets Point, N. ¥. Lieut. James J. Meyler has been ordered to duty at San Francisco, He is now at St. Augustine, Fila. ——__+ee- —___ Favorable Action on Judge Amidon. The Senate committee on judiciary today agreed to favorably report the nomination of Charles F, Amidon to be United States district judge of North Dakota. This is the second time the nomination has been reported. Senator Hansbrough had it re- committed on a statement that certain charges would be preferred. The judiciary committee concluded that the charges were not of sufficient importance to defeat con- Srmation: >= +2 + Philadelphia's Big Grain Exports. PHILADELPHIA, February 15—Thé ex- INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. ACCOUNTANTS ... AMUSEMENTS . -Page 12 ATTORNEYS . Page 3 NS. -Page 16 Page 5 CITy ITEMS. COMMISSIONERS OF DEEDS. COUNTRY REAL ESTATE ORATHS .. DENTISTRY EDUUATION EXCURSIONS wINANCIAL, i Heese ses eseneaiantseieos FOR FOR FoR RENT (Houses)... RENT (Rooms)....... RENT (Miscellaneous). FOR KENT (Offices) Page WOR RENT (Stores). -Pago FOR SALE (Houses) -Page FOR SALE {Lots). -Page FOR SALF (Miscellaneous) -Page HORSES AND VEHICLES. MANICURE MEDI MONEY WANTED AND TO LOAN OCEAN TRAVEL OFFICIAL NOTIC PERSONAL ... TIANOS AND ORGAN: POTOMAC RIVER BOAT: PROPOSALS *. RAILROADS . SBASHORE SPECIAL NOTICES. STORAGE, SUBURBA: THE INAU UNDERTAKERS . WANTED (Help). WANTED (Board) WANTED (Houses)... WANTED (Miscellaneous). WANTED (Rooms) were WANTED (Situations)... WINTER RESORTS. CON DENSED Oe ueneeuae Aeeeenerue “LOCALS The hydrant at the corner of New J avenve and F street is in need of repa! There is a dangerous hole in the road- way at Sth and M streets southeast. Lieut. McCathran reports a bad hole in the sidewalk in front of 637 2d street south- east. Lieut. Kelly reports a dangerous hole in front of 619 2d street northwest. The pavement in front of 1823 34th street is in a dangerous condition. The pump at the corner of 34th and S streets is out of order. Lieut. Gessford reports that the pump at the corner of 7th and Irving streets is out of order. Dangerous roles were reported this morn- ing by Lieut. Gessford in front of 2239 7th street, 1435 W street and Florida avenue and W street northwest. This morning’s reports of the police lieu- tenants show that thirty-seven policemen are detained at home by reason of sick- ness and nine are on leave. The police made forty-nine arrests dur- ing yesterday and last night. The pavemcnts in front of 1109 4% street, Ist and M streets and 3d and M strects southwest are in a bad condition. Professor Wood of the National Museuin delivered an entertaining lecture Friday evening on “The Habits and Language of Lower Animals and Birds” before the Chris- tian Endeavor Society of the Church of the Covenant. His remarks were very enter- taining, and at the close of his lecture h mimicked with astonishing fidelity ti voices of the morning in the barnyard, 1: cluding the crowing of the rooster, cack- ling' of hens, bleating of sheep, lowing of cattle and twittering and cries of birds. Musical numbers were interspersed throug! out the program. Rev. J. S. Lemon, Ph.D., lectures tomor- row afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at Columbian University, before the Society for Philo- sophical Inquiry, subject, “Determinism in Ethics.” Charles R. Buckland, editor of the Amer- ican Economist, the weekly publication of the Protective Tariff League, has been sericusly il for some time, by reason of overwork during the campaign. When he is better he will go away and take a long rest. Fire was discovered in the grocery store of F. E. Baber, 1123 18th street, at an early hour sterday morning. The dam- age amounted to about $200; fully insured. Cause not known. Mrs. Julia Lucas, a colored woman about forty years of age, was found dead yester- day morning at her home, 68 G street northeast. Death wus caused by a hemor- rhage and the coroner isued a death cer- Uficate. James Simmons, a colored man, was ar- rested by Policy Detective Watson about 8 o'clock this morning at the Aqueduct bridge. When searched at the station house policy slips were found in his pock- ets. He wiil have a hearing when business is resumed in the United States branch of the Police Court. —_— A JOINT COMM: SION. Suggestion of One to Devise a F cial Measure. A suggestion that Mr. McKinley favor will the appointment of a commission composed of members of the two houses of Congress to devise a financial measure excites considerable interest among the firanciers “of Congress. There is such a division of opinion on the general subject of a banking and currency measure en- Urely apart from the bimetallic question that the House committee has not been able to accomplish anything during this Congress. Those members of the committee and of the House who believe it to be im- portant to have a reform of our financial system, have very little hope that there will be any material change in the situa- tion when the next Congress comes in if the matter is lett, as in this, to be dealt with by the banking committee. It is be- Meved that if any legislation is to be had a special effort must be made by the new administration, and the matter must be left te a commission organized for the ex- press purpose of treating the one question, the selection of -members being governed ‘by the consideration of their capacity for such work. It is said that if Mr. McKinley favors a Joint commission of the two houses to con- sider the whole currency question there will be no serious difficulty in the way of oe an authorization for the commis- sion. ——__-e- WM. P. 8ST. JOHN DEAD. Treasurer of the Democratic Com- mittee During the Campaign. NEW YORK, February 15.—William P. St. John, ex-president of the Mercantile National Bank and treasurer of the demo- cratic national committee, died suddenly at his home in this city last night. ——_-o2___ The De Souter Case. Friends of the family who have been in- vestigating the affairs of Joseph De Souter, who was killed by inhaling illuminating gas, have discovered that several errors were made in the published reports. Tie first wife of the dead man was never main- tained in any hospital by charity, and she was buried in her own lot in Congressional cemetery. George E. Strubel, jr., who was. connected with the case, was stated to be @ married man, but fs still living in single blessedness. “I consider Ayer’s’ Pills the best im the world.""—Mrs. A. C. WESTON, ‘29 Pearl street, Laconia,.N. H. It’s one woman's word, but all women’s wisdom. There are no pills better than Ayer’s Cathartic Pills. FINANCIAL. rignt xide of stor Buy at the Bottom: Sell at the Top! Stocks are low now, — Afte McKinley election they'll go ap. now and sell later— you money if yon do. Best ——— here “for quick, correct — gossip. Stocks. 1-8 com, C. T. HAVENNER, 928 FSt.% her Washington Stock x= ince. Atlantie building. ."Phone 455. feld-atd “There is money « " the Ruy make factlities news and What a man sows In the way of moneys paid in the purctase of un acuulty that shall he reap in the return made to bim by the grantor of the ennufty, ‘There is no speculation, no risk no uncertainty whatever in the trareaction. The bread which he casts mpoa the waters shall surely retem to him, not by reason of any exercise of faith on bie part, but in reapemse to the ax of a law as forceful and suré as the law of gravitation, Houses and lands, Stocks and shares, mortgages aud yills—everything has its ups and downs, but wha’ changes mot at all are these annuities. ‘The company issuing them tas been in ac ive business fifty-four years, and assets of two Lundred and thirty-six million dollars. Children as young as three years can reap the benefit of an annuity, also from that age up to eighty years old. Thomas P. Morgan 1333 F St. N. W. Telephone 1126. 2.3; Hodgen & Co., Members Philadelphia Petroleum and Stock Exchange, STOCKS, COTTON, GRAIN Gossip Ticks Rooms 10 and 11, F sts., and 05 CORSO) fe10-3m,56 AND PROVISIONS. News of the Str & MACARTNEY, Members of he New York Stock Exchange, 1419 F st.. Glover butldii Correspondents of Mess. Moore © Sctiey, dw: Bankers and Dealers in Government Bonds, Deposits, Exch Railroad Stocks and Ti Usted on the exchanges of Boston nd Baltimore bor A Spectelty imade of inv trict “bonds and all local Rativoad, Gas, Insurance and Telephone Stock dealt in, American Bell Telephone Si sh pomatee in ep tock bought and sold. 80 Washington Loan & Trust Co., OFFICE, CON. 8TH AND F 6TS. PAID-UP CAPITAL, ONE MILLION, Interest PAW ON DEPOSITS, m Real Loans "*S5,tJistersiss” Acts as Executor, A@ministrator, ‘Trustee, Guardian end Committee va Estates, Acts as Registrar, Trausfer and Fis cal Agent of Corporations. Takes full charge of Real and Per- ‘sonal states. a Safe Deposit Boxes for rent. Storage Vaults for trunks, boxes, &c., containing valuables, silver, bric-a- brac, &e. Incorporated und.r act of Congress and subject to supervision of the comptroller of the currency. John Joy Edson. . Jon A. Swope. . Sein R. Carmody Ardrew Parker. John B. Larner. A. S. Worthington. . J. 3. Darlington. DIRECTORS: Bailey, Charles B., Hanuillton, John A., Barber, A. L. Larner, John '%., Barker, Wiliam F., Noyes,” Theodae Way Batchelder, R. N. Saks, Isadore, Baum, Charle Shea, N. H., Carmody, Jobo R., Spent, Clapp. Joun M., Stevens, irderick @, Crane, Augustus, jr. Swope, John A Cummings, Horace Trossdell, George, Daclington. J. Warner, Du Bus, Jas. Witard, Edsor, Jotn Joy, Wilvon, A.A Fox, Albert F. Wine, fa is Woodward, 8. WW, Fraser, James, Worthington, a. & Gurley, William B., au3-m,64tf The National Safe Deposit, Savings and Trust Company, Of the Distri of Columbia. CORNER 15TH ST. AND NEW YORK AVE. Chartered by special act of Congress, Jen., 1867, and acts of Oct., 1890, and Feb., 1998, Capital: One [iiliion Dollars SAFE DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT. Reus safes inside burglar-proof vaults at $5 per annum upward. Securities, jewelry, silverware and valuabloa of all Kinds in owner's package, trunk or caso taken on deposit at moderate cost. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. Deposits received from TEN CENTS upward, and interest allowed on $5 and above. Loans money on real estate and collateral security. Sells first-class real estate and otber securities in sums of $500 and upward. TRUST DEPARTMENT. ‘This company is n legal depositors for cout end trust funds, and acts as administrator, executor, receiver, assignee and executed trusts of all kinds. Wills prepared by a competent attorney in daily attendance. OFFICERS: . BENJAMIN P. SNYDER. on -President E. FRANCIS RIGGS... First Vice Presideut W. RILEY DEEBLE. -Second Vice President. THOMAS R. JONES. ALBERT L, STURTEVANT. GEORGE HOWARD..... CHARLES E. NYMAN....< WOODBURY BLAIR. $a21 W. B. Hibbs & Co., BANKEKS & BROKERS, Members New York Stock Exchange, 1427 F Street. Correspondents of LADENBURG, THALMANN-& CO., de6-164 New York. Silsby & Company INCORPORATED. BANKERS AND BROKERS,” Ofice, 613 15th at. n.w., National Metropolitan Bank Building. Union Savings . Offers to workingmen and Bank #2 s2-" _ yartage resson toward A Dank account. 1222 ($218-104