Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1897, Page 21

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1897-24 PAGES. 21 SHERMAN IN CUBA aan EES Adventures of the New Secretary of State Among the Cubans. A SENATORIAL PARTY IN THE SOUTH How the Captain General Honored Mr. Sherman. = - AND ANNEXATION eet te . by Frauk 6. Carpenter.) Star. ost to a day since Ss nan invited me to make a with him to the Island of Cuba. Mr. then president pro tem. of and as by the death of ndricks, he was the jent of the United States. in is the head of our State and one of the chief subjects has to deal is Cuba. trin which we made nad no diplo- ce. It was merely a pl fun and rest. Senator Sher- n was tred out after a hard session of 1 took a party of « half dozen friends along with him. He bim some of the best fellows who tates Senate. Palmer of Michigan, the phil- jonaire from Detroit, who was acting Vice I Now Mr Departm Shern at cretary Sherman. er to Spain; Gen. Mander- who is now acting as tre Burlington railroad sys of New York, son senators. through Flori¢ and othe with ator Palm i = a Methodist hymn Fy . and with Gen. Mander- most indefatigable of all idents. everywhere ortly after the nerman Was x the én occasioned b people con- rthquake ¥ funny incider Charleston < with whom he conversed some- came “I was in de church a-praying, sah,” the plied. ou not run out? asked Sena- sah,” was the massa, I knowed 1 in de church, i I'd get there shuah. 1 be nearder hell. So f the good Lord to save I_ didn't, of us laughed, a herself up into a went on. she ady ah! yah! as Sherman in Florida, Washington when it was cold arrived at Jack We left we Tr was like June. The at without their over- les threw aside their © crossed and visited range region and the rest orange from the i remember Senator how to peel an orange, there quite a discus- as to the proper way to fruit. long the railroads we ris of queer characters. There -gro boys selling flowers, and admirers who came up in S. erman’s hand tmaster of one town who achieved the dis- young man was, I rs old, and he had » he rushed up to him and held and, saying jenator, I think nd I have a stack as a four-dollar : Senator blushed, the more when the young uote from his speeches and he was really telling teross to Havana. ailed from Florida to Havana in amer Mascot, stopping for a y We A great part of the taken during the night, and *ke we were in sight of Ha- and all the party steamed Ly Moro Cas- came to anchor a steam general in “as the of a . uled Cuban coffee-colored children, de- | L remember one old colored } tie, when the shock | the | there about the court, and at one end of it a shoemaker was working at his trade in the open air. We rode in victorias through the narrow streets to the hotel ard ate after the custom of the country our first breakfast of orang2s, coffee and rolls in a place wntca looked for all the world like a bar room. Our hotel was the biggest hotel in Havana. It would be a curiosity in America. It was decorated in the brighest of colors. Senator Sherman had a room which was finished in sky blue. nator Palmer's room was painted a rich Indian red,and my own room was as yellow s gold. The halls were paved with ma ble tiles. There was no plaster on the ceilings, and the windows were as big al- most as the sides of the room, and on ac- count of the heat + were kept open day and right. Our beds were of iron, and the mattresses were as nard as boards. I was told that most Cuban eds had no mat- Ee black, half naked, sprawled here and tresses. The sheets are stretched on wire frames, and one of tie members of our party, who was rather longer than the average, told mo thai the sheet that wus under him was no bigger than a papkin, and that it kept him from sleeping by working out from under him and leaving his bare legs upon the naked wire. How the Captain General Honored Sherman. We were treated with great honor by the | Cubans. As soon as we arrived the captain general sent a request for Senator Sherman: to bring his party and call upon him in- formally. He afterward invited us to his ralace and gave us a luncheon. The cap- tain general at this time was receiving a salary equal to that of our President, and his perquisites were, I was told, such’ that he usually become very rich within a few years. ‘This captain general had a fine resi- dence In the suburbs of Havana, and we rode out in state to visit him. We passed down the Paseo de Tacon, the Champs Elysee of Havana, going by carriages con- taining beautiful Spanish ladies, by swell turnouts, driven by coachmen ‘in livery, untilabout a mile from the edge of the city, we reached the captain general’s house. It was surrounded by groves of great palm treees. The wide driveway was guarded by soldiers, and flowers and tropical plants of all kinds were scattered about the lawns through which we passed. Senator Sher- man was first received. He had some con- versation with the captain general, and little later on the the captain general ap- peared with his family and the party was introduced to them. None of the senators spoke French or Spanish, and the captain general's family did not speak English. Mrs. General McCook, however, who Is quite a good French scholar, acted as in- terpreter, and we got on very well. One of the curious incidents of the occasion was the bringing in of the captain general's lit- tle granddaughter. é We visited the captain general's stables, where his two magnificent Arabian horses were brought out and put through their paces, to the delight of the senators. That night we came again to the captain gen- eral’s house to a reception and dance, where we met the leading people of the city. A Narrow Escape From Kidnaping. During our stay in Havana arrange- ments were made to visit some of the large sugar plantations of the island. It was planned that we should start out early ore morning and go to a plantation quite a distance away from Havana. This plan- tation was in a rather lonesome district, and, for some reason or other, at the last moment the plans were changed and an- other sugar estate selected. We afterward | learned that a band of brigands had made gill their arrangements to capture Senator Sherman and his party and hold them for | ransom. This seems almost incredible, but . | there is little doubt but that the danger | was a serious one and that had we made | the trip we would have been attacked and probabiy captured. The brigands, of course, did not understand the serious thing they were about to attempt. They were an ignorant set of desperate men, and, had not our plans been changed, th: might have perpetrated such an outrage as would have brought about great inter- national complications. Senator Sherman | seldom refers io this matter, but I have Treason to think that he appreciates the fect that his liberty, and possibly his life, had a narrow escape that day. | Shopping in Havana. We spent a great -deal of time In shop- ping in Havana. The senators all bought Panama hats, and Senator Sherman wore his Panama throughout the remainder of the voyage. The buying of things of this | kind in Cuba is a question of bargaining. | The stores of Havana open out upon the | Street, and if they had divans in them they | might remind you of the bazars of Caine, The merchants dicker as much as the Turks do, and we were usually charged three times what the merchants expected to get. I don’t know how much Senator Sherman paid for his hat, but I remember that Sen- ator Palmer was asked $12 for a linen coat. He offered $2, and the Cuban salesman finally told him he could have the coat for | $4. We visited the cigar factortes, and bought Havana cigars directly from the hands of the makers. The factory where we made our purchase turned out, we were | told, 30,000,000 cigars a year, and it em- | ployed 1,300 hands. In one room we found | about fifty women of all ages stripping the tobacco leaves for the cigars, and we noted that they were all smoking cigars or cigar- ettes. In some of the rooms of the factory men were reading novels aloud to the workmen, to keep them from chatting, and consequently busy. We each bought a box of cigars to take back with us, paying about half the price which we pay in America for the same quality of tobacco. What Sherman Thought of Cuba. Senator Sherman did not think much of the Cubans at this time. We saw on all sides of us evidences of ignorance and in- capacity and also of Spanish oppression. The senator was struck with the monetary condition of the country. We could get twelve Cuban dollars for five American ones and we were fold that the gold of Cuba was then about 6 per cent below the value of our American greenbacks. All the ver money that we got had been punch- ed or clipped. The country was already deeply in debt, and the taxes, we were told, were very heav: In speaking about Cuba, the senator then said: “The country ts ina deplorable con- dition. I judge from what I heard from intelligent American-Cubans living there, and even the Spanish themselves, that the island is in a condition of ill-suppressed re- volt. The natives are nearly to a man in favor of annexation to us. Their condition is indeed pitiable. No serfs in Russia were ever greater slaves than the Cubans ure to Spain. The revenue they must raise year- | ly for Spain, and for which they get no ee efit whatever except the name of a national protection and aegis of a flag, is | $16,000,000. ‘They have no self-government | of any kind. From captain general down to tide waiter at the docks, the official po- sitions are held by Spaniards. 1 venture to say not a single native Cuban holds an effice or receives public emolument. In ad- | dition to the $16,000,000 sent annually to | Spain, Cuba has to pay the salaries of all the Spanish horde fastened upon her.” | We Don’t Want Cuba. During this same interview he was ask- «Gas to the annexation of Cuba by the United States and whether the native planters, the wealthier classes, favored it. “Why do you pick pockets?" : = “For the same reason you act “What do you mean, man?” a “Because there's money in it.”—Life. j where in the block, growling out orders to the whole household, looking pale as a His reply at this time, inasmuch as he quotes it in his book, is probably his opin- jon today. Here is what he said: ‘Yes, I am told the planters are anxious for an- nexation, but I do not think we want Cuba as an appendage of the United States. I would not favor annexation. In spite of the drains upon her, Cuba is enormously rich in resources, and ts a large consumer of our products, on which at present the heaviest Spanish duties rest. What I would favor would be a reciprocity treaty with Spain as to Cuba, so that we might send our goods there instead of forcing the Cu- bans to buy of England, France and Ger- many. We could do the island much more good by trading with her on an equal ba- sis than we ever can by annexing her. Cuba to some extent is under our eye. We would probably never let any other nation than Spain own the island, but so long as Spain does own it she is welcome to it, if she will only let us sell our goods on equal or better terms than the Cubans can get them for elesewhere.” These statements of the senator were made ten years ago. He probably has a much different idea as to Spain today, for he would be the last man to sanction any il treatment of Americans or others by a foreign nation. Still he thoroughly appre- clates the advantages of American trade with Cuba, and should the present admini: traticn do anything in favor of Cuban in- dependence its action will be probably fol- lowed by such trade relations as will be of decided advantage to the United States. FRANK G. CARPENTER. ———— WHAT NEXT AND NEXT? Department Stores Are Now Supplying Postal Facilities to Their Patrons. From the Chicago Tribune. Chicago women use the waiting rooms and parlors of the large dry goods stores for almost every imaginable end and pur- bose. What a club is to the average man, that to the average woman is the waiting room of her favorite store. There she meets her friends, there she rests when ex- hausted with shopping or dressmaking la- bors, there she writes letters, there she transacts the hundred and one small items of business which are more conveniently handled down town than at nome. The managers of the stores know well to what varied uses the waiting rooms are put by the people for whom they are kept up. and they know, too, how much trade they draw to the house. Many a woman does all her shopping at a given store merely Lecause she likes the waiting room, and finds it a convenient resting place and rendezvous. Many another woman brings her out-of-town friends to a certain store for the same reasen. Knowing all this, the store managers cater largely to the convenience of the waiting room habitue, and all sorts of small privileges are given them. But the most remarkable privilege of all is the post office which one of the largest stores on State street conducts for the ben- efit of its feminine patrons. It consists of a_small iron box, which is hung on the sMe of one of the well-stocked desks, and to it are consigned all the letters which come to the store addressed to the women who frequent the waiting room. Plenty of women find it convenient to have a down- town address. Some of the letters dropped into the convenient little box are stamped and have come through the regular mail; others are left there for their recipients by messenger boys or by their writers. The only thing lacking in the postal arrange- ments of this firm is a postman or man to deliver the letters. At present every wo man expecting a letter is obliged to be her own clerk and sort the mail over for her- self, this condition of affairs causing small Scenes occasionally when expected letters fail to come. BIG PATIENT. Size but a Baby J Came to Suffering. From the Detroit Free Press, It was after the medical association had adjourned the other night that the gruff old doctor called several of his prof=ssional brethren into a corner and told his story. “Never had a pleasanter case in my life, he chuckled. “You know what a big, po erful fellow Sems is. Never was was a thing to make such a fuss over as is made my some people. Even his wife and children never got any sympathy from him and he was always ready to give them a good going over for not displaying more stoicism. “Tuesday morning about 2 o'clock there was a terrific ringing at my telephone. On answering it { wis urged by an agitat voice to hasten to Sems as quickly as pos- sible. It was a case of life and death. Get- ting there post haste I found that creat big fellow walking the floor in his night robe, groaning so that he could be heacd any- ghost, and stopping: every few minutes to hold up one foot while he howled. His read Was enveloped in towels and one side of it steamed with hot poultices. He sailed into me for not getting there sooner, 1 that half the people died while waiting for a doctor, jawed his wife because she hadn't nse enough to tell him that he had no} slippers on, and then told her to cail a lawyer so he could put his affairs into shape. I vetoed this un we found cut whether there was anything the mat ““‘Anything the matter?” echoes ‘Great heavens, man, the side of my head's coming off. I can’t last till daylignt im this torture. No mortal ever suffered such agony. If you're going to do anything, do it quicl My own opinion is that I'm cone for,’ and he let out the loudest howl of the night. What do you think was ‘he matter with the big calf? Earache; just common, old-fashioned earache. His little ‘rl had had it worse and gone to school with aj plece of cotton in her ear. I fixed him up and then told him if he happened to prick his finger with a pin or bump his shir against a chair, not to hesitate to call me out of bed, even if there was a blizzard.” Women to the Front. From Harper's Bazar, A mass meeting of nearly two thousand women was held recently in Omaha, Neb., for the purpose of electing eleven of their number for the board of lady munagers of the Trans-Mississtpp! exposition. Of the women chosen one is an authoress of some note, one a well-known artist in china painting, one a musician of acknowl- edged talent, another is a prominent mem- ber of the library board, still another was for years the general manager of the for- eign missionary societies of the Christian Church, three are teaciers of rare abil- ity connected with the city schools, and the rest are women prominent in both Hterary and social circles. All of them are eminently fitted for the duties they will be called upon to discharge, and will do much toward making thelr city’s great event a thorough success. 1 | A Series of Coincidences, From the Medical Journal. ‘The sixty-second double wedding anniver- sary was recently celebrated, in a small town in Indiana, of Moses and Isaac Marty, twins, who married Tabitha and Lavinia McCormick, twins. Each couple has had seven sons and five daughters, the first children being born within a few days of each other, and the last children also being of almost exactly the same age. ———_+e-_____ The Cornfed Philosopher. ¥rom the Indianapolis Journal. “Most crime,” said the youngest mem- ber, who knows it all, “arises from ignor- ance.” “You are partly right,” admitted athe Cornfed Philosopher. “It is a great“ad- vantage to know how far to go without overstepping the bounds set by law.” —+o+—____ A Keen Observer. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “A medical journal says there are from 40,000 to 80,000 serms in an ordinary oys- ter = ‘Singular! That's from 40,00 to $0,000 more than there are in a church fair cvster stew.” Nothing Wrong With Him. From the Chicago Tribune. “Goppinger’s always behind the times. I heard him telling a man the other day how to cure sunstroke.” “That only shows that Goppinger keeps abead of the times. You won't be able to test his cure for six months yet.”” 2+. If you want anything, try an ad. in Star. If anybody has what you wish, will get an answer, The you | of this city, IN THE CHURCHES An English Lutheran Sunday school has been established at Brookland, which, if it proves a success after a thorough trial, 1s to be formed into a Ghurch. It has been named Calvary, and is in charge of Mr. Haffer, a yourg man from Baltimore. Mr. Haffer has undertaken the work on his own responsibility. The school, which is now using the Brookland town kall, numbers about a hundred scholars. The new main altar of. St. Pe:er’s Catho- lic Church is completed and was used last Sunday for the first time. It is to be for- mally consecrated some time in the latter part of April. ‘ The Rev. William Everett Johnson, rec- tor of the Church of the Redeemer, New York city, has promised the Brotherhood of St. Andrew of St. Paul's P. E. Church to conduct special services for men in that church, April 7, 8 and The new officers of Calvary Baptist Sun- day school are as follows: Superintende! Pierson H. Bristow; secreiary, Shand; treasurer, Waring E. 1 librarian, David ‘A. Chambers. besides six associate superintendents of de- partments and nineteen assistants to the officers. The total enrollment of the school, including all departments, is about seven- teen hundred, making it the largest in this city, and one of the largest In the coun- try The Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the northern Baptist convention is to hold its annual meeting in this city, Wed- nesday and Thursday, April 21 and 22. The sessicns are to be held in Calvary Baptist will be ent, Sunday school house, and tha about six hundred delegates pr. resenting a large number of the the Union and several foreign countries. The Washington commitive of arrange- ments is headed by Mrs. E. W. Bliss as chairman. Among the visitors in the city last week was W. N. Hartshorn of Boston, editor of The Home, and well known as a member of the executive committee of the Inter- national Sunday School Union. The mem- bers of the executive commitice have been notified that the worid’s Sunday school convention, which was to have been held in Londen this summer, has been post- poned to next year at the same time on account of the celebration of the queen's jubilee taking place this summer. Rev. Father M. C. Dolan of St. Aloysius’ Church left for New York this week to conduct a mission in the Chureh of the Immaculate Conception in that which will not close until the 22d of this month. The Rev. D. J. Stafford of St. Patrick's Church is delivering a course of Sunday evening Lenten sermons. Preliminary preparations are being made by the American Society of Religious Eiu- cation for its annual banquet, which is to be held next month, to which are invited the regents and members of tne soclety ard each an invited guest. The soc: also endeavoring to raise funds with w to open its Bible training school. have been fully completed and approve fer this institution, and when the ne sary funds are on hand the school will open up in the building of the Central Union Mission, having already the names of prospective scholars. An_ improvement been made in iphany Chapel, Rey. Albert M. Hidiker, ssistant minister in charge sion of the choir platform. possible an enlargement membership. Domini of the Church, located in South interesting ceremony is to r tomorrow, when Rey. T. P. O'Rourke of the Order of St. Domitic to celebrate his first mass at the morning service. Rev. Father O'Rourke. who was forme ordained tothe pri Ohio, and comes ba ially tO officiate for the s new position at his old st time parish chu in ch. ‘The colored ministers.of the Baptist de- nomination in this city and vicinity met Monday at Mt. Carmel Church, corner of 4th and 1, streets northfvest, and of which the Rev. J. H. Gibbons‘is pastor, (o listen to an address by Rev. W. Bishop Jonhn- son, D.D., on “The Rekition of Baptists to the Reformation.” Rev. Father Foley,” first ant to ‘father Mackin, at St. Paul's Catho' Church, been unwelf for some Pi ed “by overwork, and has returned to the city, after a short rest. he Christian Endeayor Society of Grac Baptist Church, Rev. 4 tor, has arranged to have’ on month devoted to a lecture, followed social half Lour, and the other thre: ings to the study of Shakes: regular pursuits of the org first in the course of 1 Venice, delivered by Mr. son, a young member of the Rev. Chauncey R. Botsford nna Universi elinsgrove, i hington last week and a_porti Last Sunday he preached in even- peare, and the nizat The the mcrning at the West Washington Lutheran Church and in the e Memorial Church. Re for ne time in charge of St. Mark’: Lutheran Church, C street near 12th south- west. The District of Columbia Sunday School Union has started on the preparatory work preliminary to the house-to-house visitation which they are comemplati The is to the city | divided into a with each district in charge superintendent and a corps of | istants, and then on a given day have | residence in this city canvassed and s inmates cla i $ purposes. ‘The names s ured will be turned o to the comm: nd they, in turn, will! sort them and then send them to the yar- ious local pastorg so that they may look after the people in their respective neigh- borhoods more thoroughly. Those minis- ters to whom the plan has been submitie: give it their cordial approval, and it expected that if ail work together, it will | result in immense good, not only to the pastors themselves, but to the city at large. it is estimated that about one thousand persons will be required for the work, and they will be in charge of a committee of the union, headed by Mr. Plerson H. Bris- tow as chairman, and Mr. Jerome F, John son as secretary, and having a membership of sixteen. The wife of Rev. George O. Little, pastor of the Assembly’s Presbyterian Church, was critically ill this week, but is now | somewhat improved. The illness of Mrs. Little prevented Dr. Little from occupying his pulpit last Sunday, and it was filled by the Rey. Henry P. Higley, D.D., of Beloit, is. Not long after the publication of The Star last Saturday, Rey. H. Fields Saume- nig, who, it was then announced in The Star, had been appointed temporary assist- ant at Epiphany Church, received a note from Bishop Satterlee asking him to con- tinue in charge of Grace P. E, Church, from which he had just beea relieved. Rev. Mr. Saumenig will therefore continue at Grace Church until the Ist of May. It is rumored that he has succeeded in pleas- ing the people of that church so well that if by that time the rector of the church has not improved in health, he will be elected to succeed him. The rector, Rev. Thomas O. Tongue, has been in North Car- olina for some weeks for the benefit of his health, but at last accounts had not much improved. 1 4 Officers of the Sunday school of the Fif- teenth Street Presbyterian Church have re- cently been elected ag follows: Superin- tendent, Dr. J. W. Waring; assistant su- perintendent, Miss Eva Chase; organist, Miss Grace Shimm; secretary, Miss Kath- arine Russell; treasurer,.Charles H. Wil- son, and librarian, Clarence Wormley. The enrollment of the school is about two hun- dred, ard the average attendance one hun- dred and fifty. The pastor. of the church is Rev. Francis J. Grimke= At a meeting of the official members of Trinity German Lutherga Church, corner of 4th and E streets hwest, last Sun- day afterncon, it was ided to extend a call to Rev. Mr, Schroeder, at present pas- tor of a church at Port Richmond, Staten Island. Rev. Christiat uehn of Balti- more, who had been call¢@ to the pastorate, sent a letter to the congrégation last week, stating that he was ui le to accept the call. Rev. Owen M. Waller, rector of St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, was called from the city this week by a rather exciting errand. Rey. Mr. Waller has a summer home at Sea Isle City, N. J., and the mayor of that place sent him a note asking him to be present at the election this week, as there was a hot fight on be- tween the saloon keepers and the citizens. Rev. Mr. Walier not only cast his vote, but also assisted with his veice. The self-help bureau, which was organ- ized several weeks ago by the Sunday school teachers of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church {s proving a great success. The bureau has been organized in order that children of the public schooly anxious to obtain an education may have the opportunity to do so by making or mending garments, or doing any other kind of work of which they are capable, such work to be done after school hours or on Saturdays. The bureau ts open Saturdays, G0909O00000000000 | lumbian Univ Seencee SOG90e OONSONOSEEOe SOTECEENENCaESES AYIEIR’S 2) the market fifty cures. Half truths are more dangerous than outright lies. The most cunning counterfeit is that which is over 50% genuine metal; which looks good and rings true. cines. The worst of all are the half genuine. “This is sar- saparilla,” we're told--but not how much of it is sarsaparilla and how much chemical adulterant. a far worse fraud on the purchaser than an utter counterfeit. You pay your dollar and you get fifty cents’ worth--and that fifty cents’ worth burdened with fifty per cent of worthless or injurious adulterants. It’s 100 per cent strong and 100 per cent pure. the safe sarsaparilla; the sure blood-purifier. ‘Ayer’s “Curebook.” It’s so with medi- Such a sarsaparilla is Ayer’s Sarsaparilla has been on years. Its record is written in countless It’s ‘ A story of cures told by the cured Free. J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass. OGan OOOOH O BOOS G98 SG 59 9G9 90 6 its office being in the Sabbath school room of the church, though it is no i tional in ch: er. It is in ¢ committee headed by Prof, Hugh M. Brown of the High School, as chairm The week for noonday services for men under the auspices of the Brotherhood of St. Ardrew is to begin Monday; April 10, Herbert Scott Smith has } ted chaplain of the Epiphany Home. pn ap- Church Christian Bapti ntermediate of K following during the en senior Interme water secretary, J urer, Mi St. Paui’s P. he object of nial by Its congregation, ‘There is a debt resting on the church for recent repaii and improvements of $2,600. It is proposed to divide this amount into shares of §& each and efforts ar made to have at least 520 of the six hundred odd com- municants take one cach, so that by means the whole will be realized. Su is attending the rector, Rev. Alfred Har ing in ts and the probability that by Easter a large will be lifted if not a enten services at the is part of the debt The music at the hurch is being ren- , by a voluntary but this year they are garbed in black surplices and mortar board caps L. Lodge of talked to the Baptist Monday mornin; hristian ivilization.” Re Lodge is Lee Davis Lodge of Co- ntgomery count, Min A the annual busines eting of Cal- aptist Church the following office: ted: Board of trustees—Chairman, McKnew, and B. F. Cole, W. H. ce, Julian C. Dowell, S. W. Woodward D. A. Chamiers, and treasurer, John H. Alcott. Rev. Henr Wis., who is v At Higley, D.D., of Beloit, ting Washington as the guest of his cousin, Rev. G. O. Little, de- livered an address to the Presbyterian Ministers’ Association this week on “The Hible in the Home.” Bishop Satterlee will tomorrow conduct ordination services at the Pro-Cathedral Church of St. Mark. At least two young ministers will have conferred on them the full orders of the Protestant Ep!seopal priesthood, and it is possible that two more will also receive orders. Rev. John T. Crowe, assistant minister in charge of the Church of Our Savior at Brookland, D. C., and Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, as- sistant minister of the Church of the Good Shepherd at 4th and H streets northeast, are the two who are to receive full orders. At the conclusion of the service the holy communion is to be administered by the bishop. The sermon is to be delivered by the Rey. Frank M. Gibson, Ph.D., of St. Andrew’s Church. UNIVERSITY NOTES! The mock congress (Alpha Phi) met Thursday evening, and the free coinage bill and a bill providing for the election of the President of the United States by a direct vote of the people were discussed. The Christian Endeavor Society will hold its regular meeting tonight, and will have the regular Endeavor topic, “How the C. E. Pledge Strengthens Christian Life,” as the matter for discussion. The differences which have existed be- tween the athletic associations of Howard and of Lincoln University of Chester, Pa., have been settled, and games are expected with them this season. The base ball team is on the field daily, under the direction of Coach Charles Cook of Cornell. 4 Columbian University. _ The Woman’s Anthropological Society, at its meeting next Saturday, March 20, will listen to papers on “Hypnotism,” by Miss Ada Carman; “Jmitation as a Scientific Problem,” Miss Helen Offiey; “Imitation; Its Relation to Education,” Miss Edith C. Westcott.” e A nmreeting of the senior class has been called for next Tuesday evening. The Law School Debating Society has for discussion tonight, “Resolved, That there is an absolute freedom of the will.” ‘The speakers will be A. B. Tolman and C. ©. Guynes on the affirmative, and G. O. Swartz and P. W. Stevens on the negative. Dr. Gill, professor of zoology, is quite ill, ‘and his classes have been temporarily sus- pended. Dean Montague gave a special lecture last night on the “Development of a War- like People.” Dr. Lester F. Ward will commence a course of ten lectures on sociology in the department of political philosophy the com- ing week. Mr. H. T. Newcomb, instructor in sta- ustics, has published a paper, entitled “A Decade in Federal Railway Regulation.” A paper on “Studies on American Grass- es,” by F. Lamson Scribner, professor of botany in the graduate school, has been issued by fhe Agricultural Department, as has also a paper on Plants of the Dakot SOO OE fe ) A ne which 1s de-| discussion will be, “Resolved, ‘That the voted Magnetism and | treaty of arbitration bets the United n is tat nd G t Britain, submitte to the Corcoran Se ident Cleveland, should te affirmative will be support ture, ‘won second ‘place in the competitr Merillat, E. I miin exhibit of designs for a studio building 3 and the negative. by fo George N. Brown, F. » and . | William L. Lowe. The program for the aury of the law schooi have becn ap-| evening will include a dbarmatie severe inted_on the board of visitors to the | by Wm. H. Conicy and music be Prot, Hospital for the Insane. Arthur E, Yundt and pupils. Be: sal te ave. SOnent ak Catholic University. apa Saas Rey. Shehan, professor of early At the mec church delivered the first of a cou sermons in the Cathe- dral, New York city, last Sunday morning. The next sermon will be given tomorrow paper on “ r Agitath fternoon John R. Proctor de- Philosophy of ure on “Industrialism vs. | morning. bublic lecture course. In| The Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas was » on Monday Profs. E. A. | celebrated last Thursday with a solemn nitz will lecture on * Injurious Germs seful and high mass at 10 o'clock, Dr. Garrigan, vice rector, being the celebrant, followed by a rmon by the rector, Rev. Conaty tron Saint.” The faculty of entertained the rector and offi university at dinner at 1 o'clock, and in the evening an entertainment was given by M. Ellis will lecture on ea and His Contributions y of Petroteum,” in the lecture course of the Corcoran School. ear book of the Columbian Acad- been issued. It is a neat pamph- of thirty pages, giving full information to the courses of study, with a list of students and the qualifications for ad- mission to the college. to the students’ Scient) the University Club, at which the following ident’s address, Thomas and Jr program was re: Rev. red: Pi Francis P. ¥: “Bt. y. Jame: When the Heart is Yo Ox: v i ‘St. Thomas,” Georgetown University. Influence of The concert on Friday evening of last tay eee week by the Anthracite Glee Club of Scran- pv. Joseph H. Tettemer; “St. ton, Pa., which won the $5,000 prize at the | Thomas and Letter: William T. Cash- vocal solo, J. world’s fair, assisted by the Banjo and Mandolin Club of the university, was well attended, and was a musical success. The officers of the Anthracite Club are: E. H. Ripple, president; Joseph P. Phillips, vice president; William M. Fowler, correspond- ing secretary; Thomas Leyshon, financial Philip Gerry; closing er fro! ellic League of Dub- ansmitting resolutions of the League nd, expressing the thanks of all in- terested in Gaellic to the university, and the Ancient Order of Hibernians for the establishment of the Gaellic secretary; Joseph D. Lloyd, treasurer. received by the rector. Ps The subject debated at the last meeting | made of the carnest_work of the Law School Debating Society was: | and the Resolved. That the doctrines advocated | fessor by the populist party do not contain the indebted to Manoel de essential requisites of a political party.” Peru, two boc The discussion was general, no particular 9s da Literatura’ Colional Brazil appointment of speakers being made. The schedule for examinations in the law department has been posted, and is as fol- “Pernambuco.” Senor Oliveria is first ry of the Brazilian legation. » numbers of strangers, who and secre! Lar were lows: Constitutional law, Judge Morris, | in attendance upon the inaugu post graduates, Monday; torts, C. A. Doug- | monies, visited the university 5) lass, juniors, Thursday; equity, Justice | The public lecture by Rev. John J. Sheperd, seniors and post graduates, Sat- urday; contracts, Justice McComas, seniors and juniors, Monday. The essays for competition for the fac- ulty prize must be completed and handed to the secretary on or before April 17. The examination of the senior class in general electricity and magnetism was held today. The Morris Literary and Debating So- ciety, instead of the regular meeting to- morrow, will have a St. Patrick's day cele- bration. It is expected that the strongest base hall team that Georgetown has had in many years will be on the fleld this season. Joe Kelly of Baltimore, who is coaching the team, says that the boys will play an up- to-date and modern game. The candidates for positions on the team number some twenty-odd, and most of the material is first-class. National University. Tonight the debating society will discuss the question, “Resolved, That the order of the District, Commissioners prohibiting newsboys from ‘calling out’ their papers on Sundays should be rescinded.” Chas. H. Merillat and A. D: Smith will speak in the affirmative, and F. A. Pinney and J. G. Rockwood will take the negative. At the public debate be held on Thurs- day evening, March 25, the question for Thursday on “Epoch Makers in Chemistry” was well attended. Dr. D. Day of the United States geological survey delivers the next lecture in the course at 4:45 p.m. Thursday. His subject is “The Petroleum Industry. Howard University. Thursday efternoon Prof. Albert F. Woods of the Department of Agriculture delivered an illustrated lecture on “Plant Diseases” to the students of the department of natural history. Rev. Alfred Harding, rector of St. Paul's Church, delivered the first of a series of Lenter sermons under the auspices of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, in King Hall Chapel Thursday evening. At the Wednesday meeting of the Theo- logical Literary and Debating Society the question discussed was: “Resolved, that educational qualifications should be requir- ed of voters regardless of property owned. W. W. Barham spoke in the irmative and P. C. Diits in the negative. The qu tion to be discussed at next Wednesday's meeting is: “Resolved, That the right of suffrage should be extended to women.” Affirmative, J. Hammond; negative, J. H. Hughes. a If you want anything, try an ad. in The Star. If anybody has what you wish, you will get an answer.