Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1897, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 90, 1897-24 PAGES, Ee zeece wane TRICKS OF THE EYES Some Things We Do Not See as Na- ture Intended. ALL EYES SAID 10 BE FAULTY oo ee ae Science Now Steps In and Shows Us How Very Deficient We Are. VAGARIES OF THE VISION From the New York Herald. I gives us are very defec- »3 that sounds a trifle rilegious. * safer way to touch t will be from the standpoint of saying that the evol..tion and of the sight fun mn has rvelous 0 or from the rudi- mentary eyes of s me of our lower forms of life to the wo developed cele- brated vision of civilized man the chasm bridged by nature has been as astounding as the most miract miracle. Ah, these miracle-made eyes! There are other phases besides the cold, hard science. Think of the laughing. joyous, scintillating black ones; the soft and happy brown ones: the pathctic, lovelit blue ones; i gray eye and heaven's own gift ce be | hanged!) the violet, all of which have from | i the dawn of creation robbed the breast of it itating heart. elas! no longer content, determined th has discovered that all of these tance and size ee our — nary grown man sees known o| s off with the same idea of height as simiiar ones close at hand. But the artist needs draw tte distant man in his picture per- haps one-third the size of him in the fore- ground to secure the proper relations in perspective. But the untrained draughts- man, rot understanding the principle of decreasing angle of vision for objects more remote, and feeling that s!x-foot men are six-foot men, attempts to make stmilar ob- jects the same reiative height, failing dis- mally to portray the idea of nature as she is seen or a flat surface, and disturbing the moral equanimity of his aesthetically Inclit.ed friends. It would have been a legitimate proced- SMH a \\ HUM S9S— fcund a live wasp crawling on a window Pune yesterday also. I cut him th two with the scissors.” “Do you suppose the wasp is really dead?” asked the Jerseyman. “If you do, you are not aware of the curious vitality of many insects. As regards wasps, I made some experiments a few years ago with curious results. I was camping that sum- mer at the foot of Mount Marcy, at the Bouquet lakes, and one day when I had been left to keep camp time hung heavily cn my hands. I chopped enough wood for two days, stole some maple sugar and slices of raw salt pork from the joint stores and ate them cn the sly, and was Two heavy cross lines are parallel. ure to have started with the babies (scien- tifically legitimate), and to have said that bab:es car not see at all. It is a dangerous statement, one calculated to irritate a mother’s ‘heart, for every little tootsy- weotsy is just the brightest, cutest, smart- est burdie of precociousness on earth; but il, with the utmost blandness, these re- arkable tiny creations have no vision at birth—that is, no vision which conveys any idea to the immature brain beyond, per- haps, that it is light or it is dark. The mcther, the father, the nurse, are all alike to his infantile majesty. Then—beautiful! —the infant knows its mother, and on and on, by walking, feeling, hearing, tasting, it Move the wheels in a small circle, hol will seemingly & turn them vertically before the eyes, and they rourd and round. “jewels of the mind” are filled w' »gical defects, and that for and winning ways they crooked as a ram's horn. We are not given half a chance in this rushing. f knowledge era to vives, for no devilish con- . oe and d and sere, and ‘ister up the faulty vision with ndric: ve, convex and a e erudite yhysi- ures the human race ‘ould see a little bit, and ex- ale precision which no hole t> escape, that the menon of vision and correct seeing is dent upon the systematic training of 23. we really do not it, all from lack er co-ordination. pictures to the mind a jot of facts the ideal eye does; it images an nd you know its shape. its color, its distance, its size, and per- now its feel and its taste. These ained by direct ex- ing up in the brain of correlative sense nt and the bui range wide Vaxzaries of the Senses. few people know more than the fraction of the possible stories h might be told them through the e mply becau w fe they have not been trained curately. Not one person in a dred can tell closely small differences > see a in a number of shades of color, and when serte of colors are placed side by side, n again rearranged in other order, insist on calline the same color her name. an seldom knows distance, location well, yet she will go Into one of cur modern gigan noneycombel stores and name all the counters in the establish- meat for you, and then put her out the to a side street and she will walk the block to determine in which fon her home lies. ance and time are an unopened book -made business women ar= except- to her. Miles are only words, and a moment depends for its duration upon the Two straight | oft + same le th as that of the right. 1 of the arrange- some to say that wo- not see as comprehen- thelr men folks (unless it be ultive perceptions), but forgive der when {t is explained on that men lead far more active which bring them constantly into contact with a much greater number of comparable combinations and a more com- plex varfety of objects than are possible he average woman with her usua! ex- thus gaining for masculinity per- ° visual discrimination and ap- elation cessity for recurring a: sociations to gain the proper ideas of true extersion and space that people living in the castern United States, and, for that matter, In any cloudy, moisture-laden at- mosphere with circumscribed vistas, get @ set of distance memories or impressions, dependent upon that environment, which are wholly at fault in the clear, dry, high alt‘tedes, say of our desert southwest. In that particular region distances which have doubled themselves in miles almost halve themselves to the eye mind, and the ludicrous stories of tourists who have started out for an appetizing walk to tl base of a mountain, apparently five miles away, though in reality twenty, before breakfast, are often literally true. Distance and Size. Uncensciously we teach ourselves through the years of childhood to discriminate dis- obtains, bit by bit, all that heterogeneous mess of sensations which teach it the makeup of a hard and struggling life. Estimate of size and distance and mciion having beer learned by a definite series of recurring everyday events, any new combinations not before seen will serious- ly cisturb the correlative balance of these units in the mind. : Deceptive Optical Hlusions. Any number of so-called optical illusions have been invented by clever people, which wholly ceceive the untrained eye, though by enough association with these self-same iliusions they fade away and true concep- tioas take their place. One believes certain things to be true, and then discovers that all is false, and sees with the intelligent eye of attained knowledge. Many of the devices originated to deceive the eye are very fascinating. Perhaps the highest art in this direction is practiced by sleigi:t-of-hand performers. Our theatri- cal effects and mechanical aids have all been conceived for this end, and mechani- eal toys, which whirl and spin against the laws of nature, are many. Drawings of geometrical figures and plac- ing them in new relations often totally con- fuse the mind's idea of size and distance. Lines of equal length and subdivided in the center by piacing V-shaped pieces with apexes over the division dots and varying the direction make them appear unequal, and that it is not really the case cannot be Getermined at first blush without actual measurement. Lines which are parallel may be made to appear tc curve outward or inward by drawing radiating lines from one or two common centers between them. An eaceccingiy curious eye deceiver is found in the figures of a man and boy walking down a corridor, in which the fig- ures of the boy and man are exactly the same height, but the hallway is drawn in true receding perspective. Rotating wheels have long been consid- ered a clever fantasy, and by rotating or Wwabbling a card with half a dozen circles drawn in heavy black lines, grouped in a circle by themselves, an illusion of motion is produced. Steps drawn in outline can be made to s of equal length and @ivided into equal parts. The left-hand half lower figure appears much longer than the other side, though actually appear as an overhanging wall by riveting the attention on them. And so on and on through a very long series of plain drawings, which are not at first what they seem, can the eye even- tually be trained to a just appreciation of truthful comparison. It is only a matter of practice. The modern psychologist would have us taught greater powers of fine discrimina- tion or would give us correct vision, and thus secure for the human race greater happiness, in that a larger number of our sensations are normally active. It amounts to, be busy and you will be happy. No doubt that with careful training of our children along the lines of securing accurate ideas through the best of our senses—the sight—would give an impetus toward the solving of that greatest of all human desire by the generations who will follow in the mazes of future time—the ab- a knowable, the beginning and the e ———— TRICKS OF FLIES AND WASPS. The Observant Jerseyman Warns His Wife Against Insect Deception. From the New York Sun. “There ts going to be a plague of fies this ccming summer, I am sure,” éxclaimed the observant Jerseyman’s wife one bright day in January, “for there hasn't been a day so far this winter when I have not found live wendering what else I could do before the others got back from trout fishing and sketching. Then I noticed some wasps feeding on the bits of maple sugar that I had dropped. Without any definite purpose in view, I got out a pin and, carefully pois- ing it, I made a jab and stuck it through the thorax of one of the wasps. I cut off a bit of birch bark from the big pieces that thatched our camp shelter, and piuned him to it. Then, with my pocketknife, I stole upon another wasp, and, catching him at the slender part, between his thorax and abdomen, I cut him in two parts. Then 1 attacked a third wasp and cut his head off. “Turning to my first victim, I was sur- prised to find that he had rot abandoned the bit of maple sugar that he was eating when I stuck the pin through him; he was still eating it, apparently not at all dis- turbed by the pin through his body. I lcoked for the other wasps which had fallen under my knife. I found the one that had lost his head walking around full of life, but could not find the head. The other wasp that had lost his abdominal part was also full of life. He tried to fly away when I put my fingers down to catch him, evidently not knowing that he had lost pretty nearly half his weight and was all unbalanced. He rose in the air and then wen tumbling about like a clown. I aiso found his severed abdomen, and se- cured it, but not without narrowly escap- ing a vicious thrust of the sting, for the abdomen, too, was alive. “The abdomen, the wasp that had lost it and the headless wasp, I confined to- &ether in a porous box which I made of birch bark, and I concluded to watch them all as well as the one I had secured with the pin. I had one more pin, and, securing another wasp, I pinned him fast through the thorax, and then cut his abdomen off. When his first struggles were over and he seemed composed, I offered him a crumb of maple sugar. He accepted it and began to eat it at once. Then a curious thing nap- pened; it reminded me of the story of Baron Munchausen when he captured a city unaided. He rode forward at the head of his troop, as will be remembered, and rushed through the open gate, and ‘then, supposing that his men were behind him, spurred forward and fought until the ene- my were either all dead or subdued. Then, stopping to give his horse some water, he heard a peculiar sound behind him ‘and twisting himself in the saddie, found that his horse had been cut in two just back of the saddle by the falling portcullis, and that the water was pouring out of his herse’s body as fast as the horse took it into his mouth. So with the wasp. As he had no abdomen, the sugar, dissolved by the juices of the wasp’s mouth,gathered in a brownish globule at the severed place and dried there. The wasp, however, gave evidences that he was greatly enjoying his meal of maple sugar. The wasp without a head was the only one that seemed in a pitiable condicion. He was just as full of life as the others, but it was evident that he had-no object in lite. He moved about without object and was like a piece of machinery. ‘We stayed in that camp four days lenger, and when we left it I had to abandon my wasps, but up to the last mo- ment every one of them was alive and the severed abdomen of the one would thrust forth its sting if touched.” Well!” the Jerseyman’s wife exclaimed. how am I to kill the horrid things then? ‘Oh, they will die finally if you cut them in two, but you had better let them live and merely turn them out of doors, They will help you kill off the flies. ‘As for the flies, they are sometimes easy to kill and sometimes not. It depends upon how you try to do it. You can suc- ceed with poison, as you do, or they will die readily in a confined space, but don’t try to kill them by drowning. It is an old trick, to keep a fly in water for twenty- four hours and then take him out in the sunshine, cover him with a teaspoonful of table salt and await results. In about five minutes the salt will become agitated and then the fly will emerge, full of life, shake off the sait and fly away.” * e+ “Where Is the F ag of England?” From London Truth. = And the winds of the world mad .Qorth, south and east and west: wer ‘Wherever there's Wealth to covet, Or land that can be possessed; Wherever are savage races -1o coun, coerce und seare, ¥ “shall find the vaunted ensign: For the English flag is theref’ Aye, it waves o'er the blazi Whence African. victins i poe: To be shot by explosive bullets, Or to wretchedly starve and dle! And where the beach-comber harries ‘The isles of the Southern Sea. At the peak of his hellish vessel, Tis the English flug flies free. water spaniel?” ‘The Maori full oft hath cursed With his bitterest dying ‘brestnt And the Arab has hissed his batred As he spits at its folds in death, ‘The hapless fellah has feared it On Tel-el-Kebir's parched plain, And the Zulu’s blood has stained it With a deep, indelible stain, Tt has floated o'er scenes of It has flaunted o'er di of ene, It has waved oer the fell marauder’ As he ravished with sword and flame, It has looked upon ruthless slanghter, And massacres dire and grit é It has heard the shrieks of the vi Drowa even the Jingo byma. "°™® Where is the flag of England? Seek the lands where the natives rot; Where decay and assured extinction Must soon be the people's lot. Go! search for the once-glad islands, Where discases and death are rife, And the greed of a callous commerce Now battens on human Ife! h land? Go! sail where rich galleons come With shoddy and ‘loaded’ cottons, Gaba beer, and Bibles, and rum? too, where brute force has triumphed, And hypocrisy: makes its Infrs And your question will find its’ answer, For the flag of England is there!” ———_+e+ A Doubtful Compliment. From the New York Tribune. : “Did you read my article in this morn- ing’s paper?” “Yes, my boy; I read {t through twice.” “That's a great compliment.” “I read it twice to try and und what it was about.” Siege eo Found His Calling. From the Cleveland Leader. Editor-in-Chief (to applicant for position on the Datly Distress)—‘Do you have fits?” Applicant—“‘Alas, yes! Editor—“All ht, you can commence here Monday. We want such a man as you seem to be to edit our Cuban war news.” Where is the flag of Her Hold on Office, From the Chicago Record. “You did not let Mrs. Flubdubs resign the presidency?” “Of course not; she i: dressed woman in thé club.” mel sa ——__---_____ Just One Question. From Harper's Bazar. “Oh, dear Mr. Cocker,” Gazzam, “I am told you are an expert in dogs. I do love dogs so. I have the est little pug. His name is sweetest little thing, just as fat as hi he. Now, Mr. Cocker, I want hain question. You will “Certainly, Mrs. Gaszsam.” “Is an ocean greyhound anything IN THE CHURCHES ————+_—_ Fy The new reotor of Trinity Protestant «pis copal Church, Rev. Richard P.. Williams of Montgomery, Ala., wil? arrive in Washing- ton next week, with his family, consisting of a wife and seve! children. The. rec- tory of the parish, adjoining the church, on the east side of Q-street, is being put into thorough repair. The wood of the in- terior has been painted, the walls papered, the plumbing overhauled, and the exterior is now being touchediup. Rev. Mr. Wil- liams is to preach his first sermon as rector of Trinity Church Fétruary 28. There ts some talk among members of the vesiry of having Rev. Mr. Williams formally in- stituted, but this will not be decided upon until he is consulted inthe matter and his wishes made known. Somewhat later a re- ception is to be tendered the rector and his family. The twenty-ninth meeting of the Wash- ington conference of Congregational churches, embracing the churches of that denomination in this city, Mary- land and portions of Pennsylvania, Vir- ginia and Delaware, was held Tuesday last in the Second Congregational Cnurch of Baltimore, Rev. C. H. Crawford, pastor. The officers of the conference were: Mod- erator, Rev. B. N. Seymour of the Fifth Church, Washington: scribe, Mr. John B. Sleman, jr., Mount Pleasant Chureh, and treasurer; Mr. Ernest L. Howard, Herndon, Va. Those present representing congreg: tions of this city were as follows: Rev. 8. M. Newman, D.D., First Church; Rev. A. P. Miller, Rev. S. N. Brown, Rev. M. R. Fishburn, Mount Pleasant Church, and Rev. J. H. Daily of the People’s Church, besides Rev. Mr. Jenkins of Falls Church. A number of the local pastors took part in the discussions and delivered reports of the work done during the past three months by their respective congregations. The conference meets three times a year, having met last fall in this city. An organization having for its object the baying of the interest on the church debt has been formed among the members of St. Paul's Catholic Church, and has been call- ed the “St. Paul's Union.” The first board f officers consists of the following: Pres- ident, Captain O'Farrell; first vice presi- dent, Senator William M. Roach; second vice president, Senator Thomas H. Carter; third vice president, John H. Green: fourth vice president, Thomas Sheridan; fifth vice president, Mrs. Jirdinston; secretary, Wm. H. Hungerford; financial’ secretary, John D. Coughlan; treasurer, W. J. Zeh, and di- rectors, George E. Hamilton, John D. Leon- ard, Antony Connelly, William F. Cough- lan, Miss Katharine Roach and Miss Annie O'Brien. The union has decided to give a course of lectures, the first one to be de- livered nexe Monday by Mr. Justice White of the Supreme Court. A number of the Washington pastors are taking part in the annual course of lee- tures now in progress at the Columbian University. Rev. Frank Sewall of the New Church taiked this week on “Idealism in Literature,” and last evening on “Idealism in Science,” while next ‘Tuesday evening the topic of Rev. Richard Lewis Howell, rector of St. Margaret's P. B. Church, is to be “The Logical Future of Canada.” The West Washingion Mission of Mt. Vernon M. E. Church South gave a con- cert on Thursday evening of this week. The mission is in charge of Rev. J. W. Beall, assistant minister of Mt. Vernon Church, and is now occupying a suite of rooms in a building. It has shown such a rapid and steady growth, however, that it is proposed to move it into a larger and more suitable building, and the concert was given for this purpose. Mr. Charles E. Foster of the patent firm of Foster & Freeman has been added to the new list of directors of the Young Men's Christian Association, as published in The Star of Monday. The bishop of Washington, Dr. Satterlee, has received and accepted an invitation to act as chaplain at the twenty-first annual service in commemoration of the founding of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, which will be held next. Monday in that city. Hopkins was founded on Washing- ton's birthday. The rector of the Pro- Cathedral, Rev. William, Levering Devries, is also to be present at the service. The Sunday schoo} -of, Union Methodist Church has elected the following officers: Superintendent, E. 8,- Wescott; assistants, Miss Emma E. Hunter and F. C. Linger: secretary, Anson S. Taylor; treasurer, A. M., Gangewer; librarian, M. Fernandez; pianist, Miss Elsie Reach, and chorister, Dr. C. J. Ladson... Tie pastor of the church is Rev. Alexander Bielaski. The pastor of St. Paul’s Ghurch, 15th and V streets northwest, Rev. Father James F. Mackin, is expected in Washington some time today, and if he arrives he is to preach in the church tomorrow. Father Mackin accompanied Bishop Keane to Rome, and during his absence the affairs of the parish have been carried on by the first assistant, Rev. Father Foley. A library for the Sunday school of St. Peter's Church has been started with a good-sized nucleus. One of the teachers of the school, Miss Kealy, has organized a class in church history. Last Sunday was missionary day at Union M. B. Church. Addresses were de- livered in the morning by Rev. George H. Corey, D. D., and at night by Jonathan S. Willis, representative from Delaware. The collection for missions this year by the church is a very large one, amount- ing to more than $310. The Sunday Sehool Missionary Society elected the following officers: President, Miss Emma Hunter; secretary, Miss Bessie Taylor, and treas- urer, Clinton Smith. The Rev. Angus Crawford, D.D.,_pro- fessor in the Virginia Theological Semi- nary, is in the city with his family for the winter. Last Sunday he preached at St. ‘Thomas P. E. Church, in place of the rec- tor of the church, Rev. John A. Aspinwall, who has been and still is sick with the grip. A Presbyterian mission for colored peo- ple has been started in a building at the corner of Q and Ist streets northwest. It is in charge of Rev. Albert Barnes, who has succeeded in organizing a Sabbath school and also holds regular church services on Sundays. The mission is being supported by contributtons, The committee of the Columbia Associa- tion of Baptist Churches on young people’s work, headed by Rev. A. F. Anderson as chairman, has arranged for a mass meeting to be held at the First Church, Rev. Charles A. Stakely, D. D., pastor, next Fri- day evening, February 26. The young peo- ples societies of the District are to take part, and the meeting is to be addressed by Rev. Wayland Hoyt, D. D., of Philadelphia. The program is to contain several other numbers besides the address of Dr. Hoyt. These meetings are held quarterly. Rev. J. Lewis Hartsock, who has been visiting his father, Rev. S. M. Hartsock, D. D., of Ryland M. E. Church, for some weeks past, left the latter part of this week for New York, where he is pastor of a Methodist church. Rey. Mr. Hartsock was detained longer than he expected in Wash- ington by illness, but is now considerably better. The presiding elder of Washington dis- trict, Rev. Luther B. Wilson, D. D., has appointed Rev. 8. S. Godfrey to take charge of K Street M. E. Church, located in South- east Washington, and which was until re- cently served by the late Rev. Samuel Shannon as pastor. Rey. Mr. Godfrey, who is a local preacher, will only serve, how- ever, until the annual meeting of the Balti- more conference, held next Wednesday week, when a pastor wifl be appointed for a_year. sak The new officers of the Sunday school of McKendree Methodist’ Sufday school are as follows: Superintendent, R. V. Belt; assist- ant superintendent, R. Middleton; sec- retary, Mrs. C. A. Springer; treasurer, W. 8. Hurter; librarian, Arthur Fowle, and assistants, Edwin Potbury and Isaac Bow- beer, jr. Several more officers are to be selected at a meeting held some time next week. The fifth in the course of sermons now being delivered at the Pro-Cathedral Church of St. Mark on Sunday evenings is to be preached tomorrow, evening by the Rev. Josiah B. Peri rector of St. An- drew’s Protestant Bplickpat Church. ‘The twenty-fifth annual state convention of the Young Men’s Christian Associations of Maryland, West Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia is now in progress at Frederick, Md., having begun yesterday. ‘The convention also meets today and to- morrow, the sessions tomorrow — being strictly of a religious character. Among the speakers are E. Lawrence Hunt, col- lege secretary of the International Y. M. C. A. of New York; W. B. Miller, international field secretary; C. M. Copeland: 6f the in- ternational committee, Rev. H..M.. Whar- iS Beat aga He mith, .Foster and ‘asker of this ity.” General Secretary Multer and a number.of members of the local ¥. M. C. A, are present, representing city. Washington was one of the first cities to advocate a general organization of the Y. M. C. A.’s throughout the country, $00 hes ever since taken an interest in the ceedings of these conventions. Constant efforts are Pleasant. With this purpose in view. a unique entertainment took place last even- irg at the residence of Mrs. Mitchell, on K street. The ladies present brought boxes of refreshments, and then these boxes were auctioned off to the gentlemen bidders, who enjoyed their contents in company with the ladies who furnished them. The affair was termed 2 “box party.” The Maryland Avenue Baptist Church, located in Northeast Washington, is to have special services next week, in observ- ance of a week of prayer for missions. The exercises are to be conducted by the pastor of the church, Rev. N. C. Naylor, assisted by several other ministers. The story of Jonah, as viewed by the Swedenborgians, is to be treated cf in a sermon tomorrow evening at the New Church by the pastor, Rev. Frank Sewall. The “convention” series of lectures was closed last Sunday evening by a lecture by Rev. William Worcester of Massachusetts. ‘The third anniversary of the reorganiza- tion and rebuilding of Miles Memorial M. E. Church is to be _ celebrated Friday, March 5, and to last five days. The pro- gram for the five days is as follows: Fri- day evening, a dinner tendered the minis- ters of Washington, and given in honor of Bishop Cottreil of Holly Springs, Miss., and Rey. C. H. Phillips, editor of The Christian Index of Jackson, Tenn.: Sunday, anniver- sary sermon in the morning by the bishop, and addresses in the afternoon and even- . J. C. Martin, ex-pastor of the id by Rev. Dr. Phillips; Monday night, the pastor of Israel Methodist rch, Rev. R. E. Hart, and his congre- gation will have charge of the services; ‘Tuesday evening, Rev. E. P. Moon of Lane's Chapel is to be in charge, and on Wednesday, the iast evening of the cele- bration, the exercises are to be conducted by Baptists. Rev. J. W. Harris has lately been appointed as pastor of the church, in piace of Rev. J. C. Martin, who was trans- ferred to Columbia, S. C. The following have been selected as stewards and trus- tees of tne church: Messrs. W. H. Smith, W. M. Gardner, J. E. Fletcher, C. L. Mar- all, Euston Scott, Samuel Craig and oth- er: The “Y” work of the District Women’s Christian Temperance Union has been placed in charge of Miss Blanche A. Tom- linson, in place of Miss Ida E. Miner. re- signed. Miss Tomlinson is a member of McKendree Church. A meeting of the Clericus, the organiza- tion of Protestant Episcopal clergy of this diocese, was held one day this week at the residence of Bishop Satterlee, on Massa- chusetis avenue. Dr. Satterlee entertained the Clericus at luncheon, and afterward read a paper. Rev. Charles E. Buck, rector of St. John’s P. E. Church, West Washington, has re- turned from Old Point Comfort, where he went to recuperate from a late illness. For the furtherance of parish work a Young Ladies’ Guild was formed on Mon- day evening at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church. The object of the guild was first explained, and then officers elected as fol- lows: President, Miss Adams; secretar Miss Catlin, and treasurer, Miss Heath. Work on the new St. Thomas’ Church has stopped, but it is expected that at Faster a sufficient sum will be raised to permit the contractor to resume again. Changes have been made in the pastor- ates of two colored Methodist churches of Washington, Israel Church and Lane's Chapel. At the former Rev. R. E. Hart of Columbia, S.C., has succeeded Rev. S. H. Doyle, who has gone to Alabama, and at the latter, Rev. E. P. Moon, formerly of Georgia, but who has been a member of the Virginia conference for one year, has taken the place of Rev. E. Washington. Tomorrow evening the annual anniver- sary of the McKendree Sunday School Mis- onary Society is to be addressed by Con- gressman W. B. Andrews of Nebraska and by Mrs. Jane Bancroft Robinson. Special music has been prepared for the occasion. Rev. W. J. Brown of Wesley Chapel, City Road, London, talked to the Metho- dist Ministers’ Association on Monday. A large part of the session was taken up by Rev. Mr. Brown, explaining the organiza- tion and workings of English Methodism. The Maryland conference of New Church ministers was held last week in Baltimore in the Calvert Street Church. Papers were read by the general pastor, Rev. Mr. All- butt of Baltimore, and Rev. Mr. Cabell of Wilmington. ‘The general pastor is the Rev. Frank Sewall of this city, and his subject was “Church Membershi The Third Christian Church, lately or- ganized, has moved into new quarters at the corner of M and 4% streets southwest. A stairway has been added to one side of the buiiding, new doors have been made and put in place, new glass put in the win- dows, the wood work of the exterior paint- ed and the interior freshened up. The hall was occupied by the congregation for the first time last Sunday week, and during the course of the morning and afternoon services more than a hundred and fifty dollars was raised. ‘The pastor of the church is Rev. W. J. Wright. Miss Addie Melchoir has been made or- ganist of the Ninth Street Christian Church. It is expected that the pulpit of the Mt. Pleasant Congregational Church tomorrow ‘will be occupied by Rev. J. Fishburn of Harrisburg, Pa., father of the pastor. Rev. Mr. Fishburn is on a visit to his son. The Washington Congregational churches have formaily received the University Park Temple, Rev. Sterling N. Brown, pastor, into fellowship with the denomination. Rev. F. D. Power of the Vermont Avenue Church has been quite sick for several weeks with laryngitis, not being able to occupy his pulpit, but is now very much better, A mass meeting is to be held in the Congre- gational Church in the interest of the At- lanta University. Addresses are expected trom Mr. Justice Brewer and others. The Aulanta University is one of the foremost institutions of learning for colored fellow- citizens In the south. It was founded in 1869. Its property and management are in the hands of a self- perpetuating board of trustees, among whom are ex-Governor Bullock of Georgia, Rev. Drs. Cuthbert Hall of Brooklyn, Stim” son of New York city, Bradford of Mon- clair, N. J., and Twichell of Hartford, Conn. Its graduates, numbering several hundred, are scattered ‘all through the southern states, and many of them hold positions in other institutions of learning for their peo- ple. It nas had two presidents. The first was the late Edmund A. Ware. The pres- ent president is Rev. H. Bumstead, D. D., of Boston, who, like many other’ college presidents of this day, is compelled to de- Vote most of his time’to raising funds for the suport of the institution. The official board of St. Paul's M. E. Church, of which the Rev. Stowell L. Bry- ant is pastor, has decided to change the hour of the second service from 7:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. —— A Point in His Favor. From the Chicago Record. “You won't win that race again—that is not as good a wheel as the one you rode.” “Never mind; these are the same legs that T had last year. soe. The Accepted Time. From Puck. Eva Coy—‘What is the marriageable age?” Miss Thirtysmith—‘‘Anywhere between the seminary and the cemetery.” —_—_—_-o-_____ Ends. From the Detroit Journal. “The waiter is very attentive. I wonder what end he has in view.” “His tip, of cours —————-e+—______ ‘To the Point. From the Boston Courier. Wife (coking up from her book)—“You know a great many things, John; now what do you think should be ‘done in a case of drowning?” Husband—“Have a funeral, of course.” Not Open to Criticism. From the Chicago Record. “What is being faultlessly dressed, Uncle Julius?” not wearing Gp hnnd that isn’t Going out shopping? 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Steamer HARRY RANDALL will leave River View wharf Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 a.m.. Iending at ‘all wharves as far down a: Creek." Returning, on Mondays and Wed- days at 9 p.m. aud on Fridays about 3:30 p.m. Passenger accommodations first-class. Freight received until the hour of sailing. E. 8. RANDALL, Proprietor and Manager. General Agent, Washington. WM. M. REARDON, Agent, Alexandria. GEO. 0. CARPINTER, fe5-14,tf STEAM: % FOR POTOMAC I:VER LANDINGS, Leaves Washington, 1). C., foot of 7th st., Mon- days, 7 a.m., for intermed ate landings to Golorial Beach, Bushwood, Rock Point, Nomini Creek, St. Clement and Breton Bay landings. Wednesdays, 7 a.., for iatermediate landings to Colonial Beach, Busiiwood, Rock Point, Coitou’s, Leonardiown, Abcll’s, Nomini Creek, Piney Point, St. George's Island, Smith’s Creek, Coan and Yeo- comico rivers. Saturdays, 7 a.m., for intermediate landings to Colonial Beach, Bushwood, Rock Point, Nomini Creek, Colton’s. (See schedules.) te2-if ©. W. RIDLEY, General Manager. The Weems Steamboat Co. WINTER SCHEDULE. In effect December 31, 1596. Steamer Potomac leaves 7th st.wharf every Thurs- day at 4 p.m. for river Inndiags and Baltimore. Passenger accommodation strictly first-class. Elec- tric lighted throughout All river freight must be frepaid. ‘Special rates given cn Baltimore freight STEPHENSON & BRO., Agents, 24-12tf Office 910 Pa. Telephone 745. MEDICAL. = DR. LEATHERTIAN, cialist_ in ali forms of special diseases, Hy- drocele, Varlcocele and Stricture cured. Consul- tation free. Hours, 9 to 12, 2 to 5; Tues., Thars. Sat. even., 7 t0 8. G02'F n.w. Closed’on Sun. DR. CZARRA. NO CURE NO Pay. SPECIALIST in diseases of man; any complication, weakness and special diseases cured pee ppoonteee teed; references given; hours 9 to 12, 3 to 6; closed on Sunday, 619-621 Pa. ave. n.w. feS-im John C. Collins, Professor of Physical Culture and Massage, 427 9th n.w. Telephon 1091. Hours, 10 a.m. to 10 pan. Prof. J.C. Collins will give Instruction in gymnas- tie training with special reference to muscular de- Yelopment of growing boys and weakly men. ‘The has been giving =xbibitions of message before the clinic at Rush Medical College, Chicago, for the last 5 years. ei | $m 4a23-1m° DENTISTRY. _ Painless Extracting, 50c. Best teeth, $8. Fillings, Crowns, Bridges, etc., at corresponding prices." Each ‘department in charge of an expert specialist of long experience. No students. AN work guaranteed. See larger U.S Dental Assn,7th&D Sts 4-108 FREE DENTAL INFIRMARY.—DENTAL DEPART- ment of Columbian University, 13% H st. o.w. “all operations upon the teeth at cost of material used. Extracting free. Hours from 1 to 5 p.m. 0e20-tf W. R. Speare, Undertaker & Embalmer, 940 F Street Northwest. » Everything strictly first-class and on the most rea- P._ BRENNAN, UNDERTAKER, EMBLAMER AND Funeral Director. Everything first-class, on the 1824-26 L. st. nw. Tel- JNO. T. GARNER, for 7 charge. ee te AS FOR AUEXANDIIA 0:40, 7.08, 7232. 8: 210-05 ary eee reer artes CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY. TEROUGH THE GRANDEST AMERIC, ALL TRAINS MEALS SERVED IN DINING CAS. TION SIXTH AND B STREETS. ‘Sctedule in effect December 18. 1896. - DAILY—Clucinnati apd St. Lou: trein for Cincumati, Pullman si moat, Loulevitle, tadanapetis Parker care Chania tt Pullman” sieepers Lexington sad Lo je without eb for reception of passengers at 9 pau. con partuinent car to Virginia Inge, withe chauge. Tuesdays amd Satardays. Daily coune, Sleepers Cunclauath to Ci 20 P.M. DAILY,For Gordonsvitle, Charlottes: silt and for Kickimomd, daily, except fons and tickets at Chesapeake and Obie 3 and 1421 Penussivania avenue, Mie # reet northwest, und at the station. A.W. FULLER, 013-38 General Paxsenger Agent. “Old Point Comfort WITHOUT CHANGE UF CARS. be ws. & P., and Chesapeake and Ohio Rys. Schedule in effect February 9, 188 WASHINGTON AND OLD POINT SPECIAL, 4:21 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, Solid vertibuled, . train, with combination coach, parlor car, ‘and observation car—turough without ‘change. Arrives Richmond, 7:45 p.m.— Old Point, 10:57 a.m. —daily pt Sunday — "Park Washington ‘to Ric Point. “Arrive i 6:30 pan. 7 Tickets and RR. 13th an formation at ¢ fell-2m H.W PEN? STATION CORN! 7:0 A. PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED. . Dining, Smoking and Obeervation Care burg to Chicago, Cincianati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Cleveland and Toledo. " Buffet Parlor larrisburg. a FAST LINE.—Pullman Buffet Parlor Car to Harrisburg. Buffet Parlor Car Harrisburg tn f. CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS EXPRESS. Parlor Car to Harrisonrg. Sleops ‘ars Harrisburg to St. Louis, Cin- XPRESS.—Pullinan Sleop- and Harrisburg to 7:10 P.M. SOUTHWESTERN ESS.—Pallman Steeping Cars Washington to Pittsburg and Har- risbuig to St. Louis and Louisville (via Cincin- nati). Dinin ing and Dining cinrati al 7:10 P.M. J ing Car to Pitts Cleve I ily, except Washington to 10:40 P.M. for Erie, Canandatgua, Rochester, Rut. falo and Niagara Falls daily, Sleeping Car Wash- ington to Elmira. FOR PHILADELPHIA. NEW YORK AXD Tim 4:00 P.M. all Parlor Cars with Dini Regular at 7:00 (i (Wining Car), and 1 ington) AM. 12.45, . 9200, 19-00 Car from Wile 5, 4:20, 6:50, 10.00 and 7:00 (Dining from Wilwingtot 10:00 and i v8. Express, 3 and 5:40 P.M. daily. For “Boston without ghange, 7:60 A.M. Week days, and 3:15 1M. daily. For Atlantic rail rout For Bi ¥ (vla Delaware river bridge, 9 P.M. daily. 5 ) Limited), 4:2u, 4: 7:10, 10:00, 10:40, 11:15 and 11 Sunday. 11:00 ALM. 1 ited), 4: 10:40 and 11 PM For Pope's Creek Line, 7:50 A.M. and 4:36 P.M. @aily, exeept Sunday. For Annapolis, 7:00, 9:00 A.M., 12:15 and 4-20 P.M. daily, ¢xcept Sunday.” Sindays, 9:00 A.M. je Coast Line.—*Florida Special” for Jack. souville and St. Augustine, 10:48 P.M. w days. Express for Florida and points on Atlantie Coast Line, 14:30 A.M Rich nd Se Accommodat! ca for AM. Ticket offices, b and G streets, end at the station, B xtrects, where orders can be lett for the checking of baggage to destiaa- tion from hotels and residences. 3. R. woop, J.B. HUTCHINSON, General Passenger Agent. General Manager. ja18 BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. Schedule in effect January 24, 1897. Leave Warhinzton from station corner of New Jersey avenue and C street. For Chicago std Northwest, Vestibuled Limited Trains, 10:09, 11:45 a.m., 8:05 p.m. For Cincinnati, St. Louis and Indianapolis, Ex- Press, 11:45 am. Vestibuled Limited, 3:40" p.m xpress, 11 ‘or pin. =a [and Clevelang, express daily, 10:00 m. Winclestr end way stations, 10:00 aan, a. Kew Orteans, Memphis, Birmingham, Chat- tanooga, Krcxville, Bristol and Roanoke, 6:00 p.u, duily; sleeping cars through. For Luray, 3:40 p.m. daily. For Baltiinore, ‘week da: et10 amd 4-30 an, Fab anm., 11:45, 4:30, rstowa, 10:00 a.m. and ad Way points, Week days, 7 Sundays, 1:15, and way’ points, 15, 4:80, 4233, m.. 11:40 p.m. Sundays, 9:00 10:15 pa. 7 Washington Junction and way 230, 5:30 p.m. week days, 1:1 FOR NEW YORK AND DELPHIA. with Pintech light. ‘ew York, Boston and the 00:00 a.m. Dining Car, 5 ing Car), 3:00 (5:05 ‘Dining Car), (12:01 night; Sleeping Car open at 10:00 o'clock). aE 9.00 am. Dining 40 Dining Car), 3:00 205 Dining Car), nig car open 10:00 o'clock. Additional tral deiphia, week days, 05 u.m., daily, 8:00 p.m. Buffet Parlor rs on all day trains. For Atlant City, 10.00 a.m., 12:00 noon ané 12:40 p.m. weck days. 12:40 p.m. Sundays. For Ca lay, 12 noon. Tixeegt Sonia, xiixprens trates. Baggage called for and checked from hotels ai residences by Union Transfer Co. on orders lefr Car), i at ticket offices, 619 Pennsylvania avenue poctawest New York avenue and 15th street and at depot. CHAS. 0. SCULL, Gen. Pass. Agt. SOUTHERN RAILWAY, Schedule in effect January 18, 1897. All trains arrive and leave at Pemusylvania pas Daily.—Local for Danville, Charlotte tions. Connects at Manassas for Stras- Harrisonburg and way stations, daily except Sunday, and at Lynebburg with the Norfolk and Western, daily, and with the Cheseapeake and Obie daily for the Natural Bridge and Lexington. as AM. .—THE UNITED STATES FAST MAIL. Carries Pullman Buffet Sleepers, New York and Washi ‘on to Jacksonville, uniting at Sutis- ‘ullman Sleeper for “Asheville and Hut ‘.C.; Kuoxvilie and Chattanooga, Tena., nd at Chur'oite vith Pullman Sleeper for Augusta, Pullman Buffet Sleeper New York to New Orleans, connecting at Atlanta for Birmingham aud Mem: phis. Solid train Washington to New Orleans with- out “change. Suaset Pers nally Conducted Tourist Excursion Through Sleeper on this train every Sat- uiday to San Francisco without —— 4:01 P.M.—Local for Front re, dally, —Datly.—Loca! —Daily exe PLORIDA LD 5 o Sleeping Cars. Dining Cars, Observation and Com- partment Cars New York to Jacksonville and St. Anugurtine. Also Pullman New York to Augusta, with connection for Alken. 20:43 WASHINGTON AND SOUTH. WESTER: jULED LIMITED, composed of Pullman Vestibuled Sleepers, Dining Cars and Day Coaches. Pullman = New York to Nashville, Tenn., via Asbeville, Knoxville and Chattano za New York (ee via eeente Oneeine, Savannah and Jacksonville, and New fo Mem- phis, via Bh New York to New Orleans, via Atlanta Montgomery. Vestibuled Day. Coach Washington to Atlanta. Southern Railway Greensboro” to Mi : DIBEINS ON WASHINGTON AND OHIO DIVIS. 10N ve one am. daily and p.m. daily a guly for tnd Bi: 432 p Returning, arrive’ at Wash P.