Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1897, Page 16

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1897-24 PAGES. : é AT A MASKED BALL| = The Famous Functions at the Paris) bets. Grand Opera. ee REMINISCENCES OF CLODOCHE SS A Dancer Who Was Throughout the Land. Known THE BALLS OF THE PRESENT of The Evening Star. PARIS. March §, 1897. LONG A COUNTRY road that skirts the river Marne, in t bicycling paradise, the countrys rounding Paris, there is a little, quaint old tavern, patronized in summer time by loud and joyous boating parties. The bicycle has almost finished the boat, and bi ness is not whai was; Special Corresponde it but Pere Clo- doche, who runs the tavern and owns the beats, is used to failing day urromantic present with disdain, and lives @ great deal in the memories of the pas’. Handing our bicycles over to the hostlers | to be groomed and fed, we had a good hour | 1 looks on the to Toll in cafe-bar and study the most famous dancer of the opera balls in his ude. Do we not, good Americans fous preconceptions of those sat- with distress, astonishment ystification of the “chute of the opera lecadence of the old French xes which no without visit- tic prophecies ue of the Boulevard? is Clodoche m-sand- ;-looking, till tall »0k of ph ding gl p with the 1 he dives “Clo tung and up quadrille which, guised as peasant a country gen- ge drunkard, is to begin, Monsieur his real name, Clov A Joy us Quartet. Every moment out of I was a chaser and en- only one idea, to faire la oop, drink and be live- r of us—Alexis Houvier, aluminum, in the same pr with myself, who later on became a the workman-sculp- rat the Folies-Dra- whose real name was landed proprietor in the I vod remedy on the much more. Besides toning up the ‘Sioa remedies fail blood remedy for Asa Smith of Greencastle, Ind., writes: vi such a bad case of Sciatic Pheu- atism that T became absolutely helpless unable to take my fgod or handle myself to any way. I took olany patent medicines, they did not reach my. trouble. One dozen bottles of SS. S. cured me sound aud well, and I now weigh 170." Books on blood and skin diseases mailed free by Swift Speciiic Company, Atlanta, Ga. TRIO. Varenne, just across the river from this little tavern ef mine (he never comes to rd myself. We were a joyous z artisans in the days when had not become a classic. “By 1854 we had begun to take in all the and I had made the acquaintance e celebrated Rigolboche—Marguerite Badel—whose wit and beauty, seconded by the charms of her friend, “la Provencaie,” A Belle. got us invited often to the swellest kind of suppers at the Maison d‘Or!” “The direction of the opera had the ex- cellent idea to engage me for the balls of the season of 1856. I made up my quad- rille without women that time and the real ‘Clodo dates from ut. I was dis- guised as a geudarme-highlander (1, znd Flageollet as a village fireman; a certain English nobleman of a genial ‘disposition and great generosity did “La Normande, a channel coastwise nurse, and one Michal- let, now living in retirement at Havr where he for a long time operated a va- riety theater, was the fisher girl. Those were great day: Liitie by little, here a reminiscence, there a breaking off of a defective memory, the old man Upsifying himself with his own pink-tinted white wine, gurgling, sighing. grunting, managed to raise up for our imaginations a faint and confused cine- matographic vision of those old-time riots. “In those days the gilded youth were not afraid, as now, to show themselves in costume at the opera balis and dance. Have I not seen Alexandre Dumas, the younger, snatch Chicard’s pasteboard hel- met from his head and sail into the quad- rifle with brown-haired Marie and Alice the Alsacian? And Milord d’Arsouille and Lord Hertford, and the brilliant Comte d’Altun! But by the middle the second empire Parisians wére already beginning An American Visitor. to become more ‘reasonable’—zut!—more poseur, less bon enfant. ‘The chic was beginning to make its way, spoiling every- it they were siill livelier than nowa- Pere Civdomir? What do you think of them now?” “The masked balls they have now?” Yes. “Do not speak of them! Even in their full decline before the war, when we thought them already almost ruined, they were great and brilliant in comparison with the ignoble rabble riots that your tourists stand and gape at, guide book in hand, accompamed by a cicerone from the Grand Hotel, as when you visit the Louvre, the Elffel tower, the catacombs, the sewers j and the morgue. “Oh, no, Clodoche, they are not so bad, and we are not gree. We know all pout the present day balls. We have | danced.” You danced?" Yes, danced. Shake He did not say the word, but the French slang equivalent, which ts a reference to the turning of a key in its lock. His face brightened, and he smiled Out for Fun. a bleary, benignant smile. “There are brave men everywhere!’ was his exclama- tion. it left us with mixed feelings. At Its Height. “It was even great under the reign of Gramont Caderousse,” he went on, rem- iniscently, “a leader of second empire ele- gants. You should have seen the parquet boxes, the great ones taken by the greater clubs, the Jockey Club, the Petit Club,when Paul Demidoff—then in the flower of his criental and princely magnificence, although the grandson of a serf—when Narisckine, Redon de Beaupreau, Choiseul, ‘Lagrenee, the Herissons and the Monclains were sub- scribers! What an orchestra leader was the rere Strauss! What magnificent generosity, when these princes and nobles, French an: foreign, would stand up tn their places at the firal crash of a quadrille and shower down double handfulls of gold pieces—gold! yes, gold!—on the poor girls and fellows let in free because of their costumes and their dancing!” It must be true what Clodoche told us, though it seems hard that here, again, a8 ever, the present is so much weaker than the past. Any romantic youth, fresh from the country and his reading of Balzac and Paul de Kock, who, saving up his spending money for the wherewithal to figure worth- ily in one of this winter’s functions, dreams beforehand of adventures and conquests, is likely to be sadly diseppointed. Duchesses, countesses and ladies of the great world no longer patronize the Opera balls, unless as mere spectators from the second third- row boxes. And as for lively gayety, while it exists—and in profusion: while the sights and sounds are still intoxicating, bewil:ler- ing; while costumes, bright eyes and rosy cheeks are all the artist represents, it is the tene—so changed—the ruder ideal of a ruder, democratic age, that drives refined a cultured people from these halls of ight. The Balls of the What passes there? You hear the cries: of the tortured. In the corridors behind the boxes a band of very young men of that age wnich is without pity have by their own private authority transformed themselves into torturers. With cries of cannibals they surround a girl, thirty &gainst one, push and pull, stifle and try at every price to lift her up in air under pretext of carrying her about in triumph. ‘The unhappy creature beseeches, sobs even, struggles, bites! She breaks her fan in despair across the face of her nearest assailant! Until, with hair down and head- dress torn, a prey to a veritable fit of hysterics, she is at last left alone like a package in a corner. Farther down, in one of the central loggias. of the grand stair- way, a little page in a tight black Ivet corse’et, with satin lap Is, cut heart-shaped, is driven against the marble balustrade, and close-pressed, like a deer at bay, by a pack of wiid beasts. resent. The Dancing. There is always movement, noise, gayety even, with all the “serventines” and lines which are let down from the boxes to fish, with sweetreats as a bait. The frippery on the backs of the hired or freely ad- mitted dancers is sorry enough, however; and there is a sad contrast between the tawdry rags and anxious faces, with worn eyes and features wearied by the battles of life. Firemen from the suburbs, nurses, conscripts, all have come down from the outer quarters smelling of the “petit bleu,” the “plcolo,” the two-cent glass of cheap red wine. In the quadrille there is a young beardless boy, disguised as a Norman girl, enigmatically’ waving his petticoats. Up- pozite him a Spanish general, with haug- ing arms, goes through a pantomime, while the sweat furrows his face, dishon- ored by an indecent nose, red and swollen and stuck on with pasty wax. Some parts of this ball are ignoble. Yes, there is violence, drunkenness; but the Opera is so large, with its great auditorium, its corridors, its foyers—all these open ‘to the dancers and the merrrmakers—there 1s room for all that objccticnableness without com- pletely ruining the ball. For the eye it is certainly beautiful, and I can imagine that a tourist coming with his fresh enthusiasm thinking it delightful all throughout. And was it really ever better? Poor Alfred de Musset thought as much sixty years ago and wrote about the “De- cline and Fall of the Opera Ball “If ever the ruin of a century, the death of a people, the destruction of a city, the overturning ef a kingdom could inspire melancholy rhymes in an observer of good will; if ever the changes and inconstancy of fortune could throw into sobs and har- mcnious strains some bard carefully cling- ing tc the pinnacle of a picturesque, crumb- ling tower, what graver subject of medita- | tion could ‘be given to man than the pitiful | spectacle of the Opera balls? All the pleasures of the masked ball, the intrigue, the promenade, the oppor: tunity of saying something, the permission t» say everything, the imbroglio, charm: of heart and spirit, of folly and mystery — dead,” STERLING HEILIG. ———— FOR MEN'S W coarseness, even AR, Correct Styles in Shirts, Collars, Cuffs and Scarfs, From the Sartorial Art Journal. That the plain white shirt is king there no gainsaying. It answers more pur- poses than any other shirt, but from all indications it will be pushed hard for su- premacy for morning wear by the colored shirt, in both the stiff and the soft-bosomed varieti soft-bosomed colored shirts wiil have a great run, especially in flannel We should not be surprised to see them more frequently than white shirts in and around the city, at busine and in the afternoon, during the hot months. s and cheviots will be used largely percales, of course, by the majority, they can obtain almost as good an effect with them as with shirts of more expensive matertal. in flannels to be worn with linen collars, of cours: be found the plaided effects, most of the Scotch clans being represented in the colorings. Colorings in the linen goods will, in some follow closely those in the flannels. igns is without limit, but broken checks, over-plaids and stripes will be prominent. It is a matter for general rejoicing, however, that the sickly greens and yellows we saw a season or two ago are not much in evidence. ‘The high-banded turn-down or polo col- lar seems to hold its own. It will prob- ably be seen frequently with new spring and summer suits. We are glad to note that there is less disposition on the part of stout-necked men to wear it, and that middle-aged people have given {t up—a hopeful sign of the times, indeed! This collar, which many regard as a freak, was originally designed as a neglige article; but it crept into popular use by reason of its oddity. It is losing its hold to a great xtent, but will still be worn by the young- i's element. is A new variety of this collar, sometimes seen, has a narrow overhanging ange. A straight-standing overlapping and a straight-standing collar which just meet at the ends are favorites, the former lead- ing. Both are a trifle higher than hereto- fore. Collars are now in appearance straight up and down, instead of having much poque. Our old friend, the bent point collar, like- wise the low’ turned-down article, will probably never go by the board, because of the great number of stout-necked people who can wear nothing else. ‘There is no change to note in cuffs. ‘The tie proper is now a leader. A few seasons ago we saw the tle relegated to the black string arrangement for use by our uncle from the country, but now we see the snappy young fellows, and the old boys as well, looking very spruce in ties. For a very young man, a tie, butterfly shape, or with @ straight end, as he chooses, from % to 1 inch wide, and 2% inches ‘across when tied, is the correct thing. A Warning Word to Aspirants. A Uttle while ago Mme. Calve was asked what advice she would give a young wo- man who had a good veice and fancied that Providence had cut out a career for her on the stage. The French woman's reply was full of force and good sense. “I should tell her,” she said firmly, “to go home and mend her stockings; do anything but go upon the stage. There is no happi- ness In a stage life. What is it? It is a life of continual worriment. It is not to sleep, not to eat, to be always in a state of nerves—to have cruel and unjust things said of you and motives ascribed to you of which you are utterly innocent. There are very few born artists. History proves that there are only about three great artists in a generation. For one great reason the stage is unhappiness for the average wo- man. It is no place for the woman who is not absolutely wedded to her art. The artist should not think of marrying. While she is on the stage she is not fit tq be the wife of any man. There is always the divided heart, and no man wants that. The hus- band should be the head. He does not wish his name to be upon billboards, nor his wife's picture in every window. That is right: that is as it should be. No, no; the stage, alluring, fascinating as it is, is not the place for the wife, but the woman who lives only for the art. That is why I say to the stagestruck girl, “Stay at home, sew, read, teich, marry—do anything rath- er than go upon the stage.” HEAD: OF THE HOUSE How Speaker Reed Has Secured Ab- » golute Control. MORE POWER THAN THE PRESIDENT Something’ of the Personality of a Remarkable Man. MASTER AND NOT SERVANT Written for The Evening Star. There is an American flag in the House of Representatives. It is draped from the claws of a gilded eagle, below the corres- pondents’ gallery. It serves today as the background of a great head. This head has a Shakespearean dome. Its eyes are small, beady and twinkling. The nose is not massive, although faultlessty ‘molded. The face is as clean as the dome of the head. The mouth is small, and is used for breath- | ing as well as for talking. The neck is short and thick, and the body that sustains the neck, head and intellect is indicative of great strength and endurance. It is composed of good, sound, healthy flesh and bone, indicative of the character and ability of, its owner. It fills the chair of th Speaker of the House of Representativ I have never seen a visitor enter the gal- | leries who did not fasten his eyes upon the face of-Thomas B. Reed in apparent won- derment. This wonderment increases when Mr. Reed arises to put a question to the House. The voice is resonant and power- ful. Every word is distinctly heard. Door is®“dough-ar,” and bill is “‘be-ill.” The drawl is pronounced, and so effective that it would produce a tintinnabulation in a group of very thin tumbiers. It is said that this remarkable clearness of enuncia- tion and pronu fon is the result of powerful will, exerted to prevent stammer- ing. If the owner of the voice should at any moment lose his self-possession and be- come angry or excited, the old boyish habit of stuttering might force itself to the front and regain control. Certain it is that the most remarkable thing about the person- ality of Thomas B, Reed is his voice, his accent and his entire self-control.’ He | them failed. could be reached, and this was by unani- mous consent, but no man could ask for unanimous consent without the recognition of the Speaker. If he did accord recogni- tion, a tip to a Heutenant on the floor se- cured an objection. Legislation outside of privileged bills might be reached on su! pension day, without the Speaker's recogni- tion, but the committees were confined to the House calendar. The only way in which other bills could be taken up was by the recognition of the Speaker or by a special. order from the Speaker's mouthpiece, the committee on rules. Speaker Reed was magnificent in his power. He was determined, if possible, to keep the appropriations narrowed, so as to make the expenses of the government come near to its receipts. It was a herculean task. He may have controlled, and un- doubtedly did control some of his appro- priation committees, but he could not con- trol the committees of the Senate. They overburdened the House bills, and four of IN THE CHURCHES A number of the Episcopal clergy of the @tocese of Washington have formed the Bishop Claggett Club, the object of which, as stated by its president, is consultation, and the discussion of practical questions relating to parish and church work. The Christian AlMance of New York city is to hold a convention in the Eastern Pres- byterian Church April 6 and Among the prominent speakers to be present are Rev. Dr. Arthur Pierson, A. &. Simpson, Dr. Wilson, Stephen Merrizt and Dean Peck There was a general rally of the Bible class of the Central Union Mission yester- day. The class, which is taught by the Rev. Dr. D. formed Episcopal Philadelphia, nuni and met to listen yest for the last Ume M. Stearns, pastor of a Re- church of Georgetown, pd 200 face resolutely Very few men The Speaker set _ his agairst friend and foe. could secure his recognition to call up betwe in many me bills involving even infinitesimal appropri-| The pastor of St. Si atiors. Church, Rev. W. S. Cauga: “No,” was the resolute reply, “if I begin | preparations for services on I shall te swamped; I can’t do it.” of an unusually interestiag mass is to be celebrated by Archbishop Pa Oe fa Martinelli, and Rev. J. Havens Itichards, He was absolutely in control of all legis- | 375. Grosicent of chet pearing lation involving appropriations, aside from | is h the sermon The thi fon of the the general Imperator. ecord inter oung appropriation bi He was More remarkable nerve w2s ional conven- Men's Christian Asso- ciati s \d bile, never displayed. Me shed the curses and | $i#tion & a peo ae ee importunities of his friends as the feathers | Tae to pisceten ABAjaniely bene of a duck shed ‘ater. The were TUMOTS | recente 1, L. Cabell Williamson. Sachusetts, Speaker Reed's own chairman | ‘%¢ board of directors, having already st jed their intention « ishop of W: erie ars of the committee on banking and currency, rege gs : ington, Dr. Satterlee, mutinied in vain. The House laughed at | conducted “quiet hours’? for the clergy of him. In the republican caucus for the! this diocese Thursday from 9:30 a.m. nomination of Speaker fiery Rowland Blen-| to 1 pia A large number of the local nerhassett Mahany came to Walker's res- cue, and was laughed to scorn. Mr. Reed was renominated for Speaker without a whimper of dissent. But | Episcopal minirters attended the services. Next Thursday, at the same place, the Pro-Cathedral Church of St. Mark, is to be a “quiet day for wome the mutineers were not crushed. Rev. James W. Clark, eV. - cl . Tector of . James’ There was a second revolt on the first day | Church, is to deliver tomorrow morning | of the extra session. Gen. David B. Hen-| the sermon in the special course now in derson made the usual motion to adopt the | progress at the Pro-Cathedral, rule of the preceding Congress. Mr. Hep- | * The td of aireciors of the Central burn of Towa moved to amend by inserting | -taion Mission is mataras 4 ' the werds “for thirty days.” Gen. Hen- | 1 5 | that th never loses the latter even when he bangs | the desk with the gavel. ‘Members must take their seats (bang, bang, bang), and gentlemen in conversation must retire to cloak rooms” (bang, bang, bang). The voice itself seems to reach the hearts of the recusants, and they instinccively find either their own seats, or sink in the unoccupied seats of their colleagues. Master of the House. No Speaker ever had as strong a person- ality as Thomas B. Reed. No face like his, or even remotely resembling his, can be found in the gallery of the portraits of the Speakers. It is a face typical of the power reached by its possessor. The Speaker Is practically no longer the servant of the House; he is {ts master and proprietor. He disposes of legislative baronies and feoffs, and exacts strict allegiance. The baronies are the committee rooms, and the feoffs are the legislation referred to the commit- tees. No Roman emperor ever had more absolute control. In former days the House was practicaliy ruled by the committees. In these days, however, the commitiees can report their bills, but the Speaker pla them -upon the calender, and the com tees are thereafter powerless. With siig) xceptions, no consideration can be reached without the flat of the Speaker. Singular to relate, the House itself Is responsthle for these rules. ‘The Fittieth Congress will long be re- membered as. the filibustering 2 Joan G. Carlisle was Speaker. favcred the personal rights of the mem- bers, and gave the committees power to bring before ‘the House they hadidigested. The personal rights se- cured-to the members, however, interfered at times “with the exercise of the power of the committees. One or two members had the power, by simple parlianientary mo- tions, to defeat the consideration of any bill reported from any committee. By such expedients James B. Weaver of Iowa, Clifton R. Breckinridge of Arkansas and others held the House by the throat for days, and even weeks, to prevent the pas- sage of mezsures vital to the interests of the republic. At times members, piqued because they could not secure the passage of some private bill, revenged themselves upon the House by filibustering. By this course they could delay, if not defeat, ap- propr‘ation bills and ail privileged meas- They brought on and dragged out to unseemly hours, and continued a legislative day for week or more. How He Got the Reins. With the advent of the Fifty-first Con- gress and the election of Thomas B. Reed as Speaker a change was effected. This was made audaciously and effectively. By refusing to adopt the rules of the preced- ing House until new rules could be re- ported, the House was left under general parliamentary law. The Speaker construed general parliamentary law. He began to count a quorum, and refused to entertain motiors to adjourn or to take a recess. For two days he refused to entertain an appeal from his decision as to his right to count a quorum; but when, by the rebuke of Major McKinley, he did entertain an appeal, the House sustained him in his ac- tion. This gave him ground work for the change contemplated. As his exposi- tion of parliamentary law had been sus- tained by the House, it was parliamentary law for the House. ‘The new rules were drawn up by the majority of the committee on rules. That majority was Thomas B. Reed, William McKinley and Joseph G. Cannon. Major McKinley, in a speech on the floor of the House, said that the rules were drawn up to give the House an opportunity to do business. The Fifty-first Congress did its business and adjourned. In attempting to curtail the personal power of the members, so as to protect the power of the committees, the House over- reached itself. The next two Congresses were democratic. They attempted to re- store the equilibrium. They suppressed fili- bustering by giving the Speaker enlarged powers. It was possible for committees to get their work before the House under the rules, but the Speaker had the power at any time to check it. It could be done by the manipulation of his lieutenants on the floor, or in other ways. In the morning hour, which was really the only open way to anything not privileged, the Speaker called the committees and recognized the chairmen to call up any bills that their committees had designated. Importance of Recognition. With the advent of the Fifty-fourth Con- gress this,open road was closed. The chair- men of committees, under the new rules, had the right to call up bills on the House calen- Gar alone:’ The rules specified that the bills on the House Calendar should be bills Involv- ing no appropriation of mouey. The appro- rriation bills, of course, were privileged. Un- der these fules the Speaker became a power, indeed. There was one way by which bills measures which | | Having my iaw the spring and summer work. on will d The gosp on said that he held the floor, and re- fused to accept the amendment. He then | ate} ike mini moved the previous question on his resolu- | jay i n ° nvitations ic tien. Mr. Hepburn repiied that the House | Pete ante evangelistic se: permits. A forty hours tomorrow at Holy Rev. Thomas J. "S48 soon as the weathe was on as the weather law, as pting uuder zencral no rules had been adopted. He held previous question was not recog- nized by generai pariiamentary law, allud- ing to the fact that the previous question cannot be called in the United States Sen- parliamentary devotion is to commence *hurch, will . pastor, terminate on Tuesday following. The se ice tomorrow i be conducted by Rev. ate. Speaker Reed promptly overruled | ye pimorrow 18 to be conducted by Rev. him. The vote was taken on the adoption The board 0 ire ‘ % of the previous ¢ he board of tir s of the Young stion, and the mutineers turned in to defeat It. The democrats and | populisis aided them. On a rising vote the Speaker was defeated, but Gen. Henderson | Men’s Christian Associa‘ion have appoint- ed the following genilemen as a commit- tee to organize the caayass for the new building i v. < secured the yeas and hays. ‘The party lash | retary, J. He Lichiites aad Mee yw was then applied, and the Speaker tri- | Larner, B. H. Warnes, GW. FL Swart. umphed. hether any punishment will be " A. Bar ‘ ‘Rekines zell, T. A. Harding, W. B. Robinson, C. meted out to the mutineers will Foster, W. Woodrafft, W. A. H. urch, when he appcints the committees. ay be seen CW. phere x z edham and A. M. Lothrop. A he same rules therefore govern the Fif- | commit has also been appointed on fth Congress, and the same American | selecting a building sit flag serves as a background to the same | at rebentsnnusl aesoias OF ane. domed head. The same Speaker preside ‘the :; Sunday school of the North Presbyt Church the following officers were for the ensuing church yerr: Superin- tendent, M. *harles H. Carrington, who iso Vice president of the District’ Sun- in the House. He has more power than the President of the United States, becaus> it is absolute power. The Senate may check him on apprepriation bills, but be- yond this the Senate is powerless. Thomas day School Uni assis! = figure during the first two years of Major | Moran: treasuren ; picounee: McKinley's administration. libr Ic. " ey it AMOS J. CUMMINGS, The Toys. My little son, who look’d from thoughtful ¢ And inoved and xpoke Iu quite growicup. wise, seventh time disobey'd, I struck bim, and dismiss'd With hard words and unkiss'’d— His mother, who was patient, being dead. Then. tearing lest his grief should hinder sleep, I visited his bed, But found him slumbering dec With dar lids, and their lashes yet From his late ing wet. ’ |. With moan, brarian, Jos the church is Rev. D.D. Rev. W.G. Ware, assoc! Thomas’ P. E, ¢ Atlantic City. The committee in charge of the proposed new house of worship of the Ninth Street Christian Church will recommend plans for the new building in about a week. It is not expected that ground can be broken be- fore May or June. Rev. I. C. Burke, president of the eastern conf. of the Maryland synod, was in Wasiington on Monday consulting with Uhe pastors of the local Lutheran churches in pastor of Charles B. Ramsdell, fate rector of St. nurch, has returned from others of my own; his head, fe had put, witi A box of count stone, regard to the spring mé- of the confer- piece of glass abraded by the beach, ence, which will be leld in May at the i Six oF seven shells, i the Marecantea: si A bottle of Is, of the Reformation, ‘ And two French copper coins, ranged there with ayton of Vhio is s some rareful art in Washington. He bas been heard To comfort his sad heart. al times at the Central Union Mission, The annual roll call day of Calvary Bap- tist Sunday school is to be held tomorrow. Special music and addresses by the pastor of the church, Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Gre: and by the superintendent of the sch Mr. Pierson H. Bristow, will form features of the program. The Scotch evangelists, Rev. 8. G. and wife, began special services last day at the Maryland Avenue Church, Rev. N. C. Naylor, pastor, and are st We liv with tranced breath, » in death, tier er eo to continue at that church until Sunday, Dr. Nansen and the Thirteen Super-j April 4, when they are to commence sim- atition. ilar services at Grace Baptist Church, Rev. From the London World. Quite apart from his achievements as an A. F. Anderson, pastor. At the annual mesting of Mt. Vernon M. E. Church South the following were elect- explorer, Dr. Narsen has strong claims | ed officers for the ensuing year: Stewards, to recognition. He has entirely and final- | J. W. Barker, A. L. Johnson, J. M. Follin, ly disestablished the number thirteen as a | Frederick A. Stier, John O. Williams, J. symbol ui disaster, for, not content with » B. W. Hough, h Blakemore, being born on the thirteentit of the month, he went off on his recent expedition with a company of thirteen, all of whom return- ed safely. The Fram got clear of the tce br. Fran elt, Judge W. L. Chambers, W. W. Millan, se Deitrick, O. B. Johnson, George W. W. Claggett, D. L. Coon, W. H. H. , James Doran, J. H. Bell, Creed M. on the thirteenth of the month, on the | Fulton and Robert Bryan; superintendent same day on which Nansen arrived at | of the Sunday school, Frederick A. Sti Tromsoe, and, to crown all, he was enter- | recording stew 4 M. Follin, and dis- tained by the Royal Scottish Geographi- | trict ard, A. L. Johnson. J.’ W. Hum- cal Society on the occasion of their thir- | mer was appointed superintendent of the West Washington Sunday scho a mission of Mt. Vernon Chure The Sunday school of St. Ann’s Catholic Church, Rev. Father J. Mallon, pastor, was reopened last Sunda having been closed during January an bruary on account of the Inclemency of the weather. vy. Father Ryan of St. Patrick’s Church, Itimore, delivered a Lenten sermon at . Ann's last Sunday Mrs. Mabel L. Conklin, general superin- tendent of the White Cross Society, an or- ganization allied with the Women’s Chris- tian Temperance Union, recently effected a temporary organization of a branch of the society at the Young Men’s Christian Association. About thirty men have be- come members, and at an early date a per- manent organization will be formed. Special revival services at the Ninth Street Chrisiian Church are to be continued through next week. They are in charge of the pastor, Rev. E. B. Bagby, assisted by the evangeljst of the Maryland confer- ence of the Christian Church, Rev. W. J. Wright. A. W. Bowen has been clected preside at of the Christian Endeavor Society of the Ninth Street Church, takiag the place of W. H. Andrews, who has gone west to re- side. The congregation of Union Methoilist Church terdered their pastor, Rev. Alex- ander Bielaski, and his family, a recep- tion Monday evening in honor of his re- appointment to the church. At the Methodist preachers’ meeting Monday morning remarks on the death of W. J. Sibley were made by Revs. A. H. Ames, J. B. Stitt and John Evans. Reso- lutions on the death of Mr. Sibley were reported by a committe? consisting of Revs. L. B. Wilson, J. B. Stitt, Al H. Aires, G. V. Leech and W. H Chapman. The annus! meeting of the association will be held about the middle of April. Rev. L. M. Kuhns is temporarily looking after the new Lutheran Mission establish- ed at Brookland. At the Melanchthon celebration held in this city in February it was proposed to raise money enough to place a Luther memorial window in the Melanchthon li- trary building of Midland College, Atchi- scn, Kan. ‘The projectors of the plan teenth anniversary, held on February 13. After this the occupation of the Thirteen Club is quite gone. It only remains for some one to discover a new unlucky num- ber. 4, which is It matters little what it is that you want hether a situation or a servant—a “want” ad. in The Star will reach the person who can fill your need. —_— A Costly Book. From the Chicago Record. Robert Ingersoll, who is coming to Chica- go with a new lecture, is fond of good books. During one of his visits to Chicago he and a friend went to one of the big bookstores on Wabash avenue to examine the treasures on the shelves and counters. They had roamed around the establish- ment discussing history, romance and the- ology, and finally the friend sald, picking up a volume: “Ah, colonel, this is the book you Ike. “What ts it?” he asked. ‘Tom Paine’s ‘Age of Reason. “Yes, It's a good book, but mighty ex- onsiv’ “Why, I didn’t think so.” “I have a copy, and what do you think it cost me?” “I don’t know, I'm sure.” “The governorship of Illinois.” ee Hopefal. From the Dry Goods Chronicle. The dry goods merchant was explaining the situation to the new drummer he had just employed. “Your predecessor,” he said, “has got his busines all tangled up, and if you take his place you will have a difficult task getting order out of chaos.” “I don’t know who Chaos is,” cheerfully replied the drummer, “‘but I bet I'll sell him a bill of goods if I have to hang on to him a week. +22 ‘Was her dinner formal?" “Formal? Why, even the salads weren’t half dressed!""—Detroit Journal. A BENCH SHOW have been successful in their work, and the money has been secared, $150, with which to purchase a suitable window. Wedresday evening at the Vermont Ave- nue Christian Church there was a meeting of the Good Templars of the District of Columbia. It was addressed by Professor George W. E. Hill of Iowa. Rev. F. D. Power, pastor of the Vermont Avenue Christian Church, resumed charge of services regularly last Sunday, after an absence of over two months, caused by a severe attack of laryngitis. ‘The Oratorical Association of the Wash- ington District Epworth League has elect- ed the following officers: President, Harry O. Hine of Waugh Church; vice presideat, Miss Martha S. Haines of Metropolitan; secretary, W. H. Kerr of Foundry, and treasurer, H. F. Belt of Trinity. ‘The annual meeting of the board of trustees of the Episcopal Cathedral is soon to be held. At this meeting of the board it is expected that several matters of interest will be discussed. The general synod of Lutheran churches is to hold its biennial session this year in June at Mansfield, Ohio. The delegates representing this city will be Senator Geo. L. Wellington, Rev. Dr. J. G. Butler, Al- bert F. Fox, Allen D. Albert, sr., and Cor- nelius Eckhardt, and alternates, Rev. Dr. Samuel Domer and George Ryneal, jr. The annual meeting of the Lutheran Young People’s Union of Washington is Indorsed by the “Dait ed States Health iors” Dr. Shade’s Chitertdum Discovery for Con- sumption. Having Cured a Larger Percentage Than Any Other Plan of Treatment Known. The United States Health Reports publixhd following, which appears dis Whiek hase compilers of thes that the pul { journalism, tend a of the indorsements wh wined in a brief jon of doul e's Chioridam Disco’ qualified indore ment hb Reports.” soon to be held. tion of offic as been appr lows: Chair % orge Luther Memorial Church; A committee mn nomina- ed as f ler Memorial; Miss A. ©. cordia; Dr. J. W. Graham D. Spangler, Luther M mittee Is to be increased the nominations. The Merry Helpers’ formed Church, Rey. > it makes Club of A. Thomas + pastor, celebrated Its sixth anniversary on Tresday evening at the residenc Mrs Burner. The Toronto committee of the ten District Epworth Leacue Washing has arrang: for its campaign for the convention une the following divisions: Secretary ot 1 committee, E. 8. La Fetra; publication, Engle and Prof. Edgar Frisbie; Fred. E. Woodwar! . Cissel, and titera A mass meeting in the convention is to be heid April 4. The local council of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew has arranged for its Lenten services tor men, to take place at the Church of the Epiphany with the following speakers and on the following dates: April 5, the bishop of Washingt April 6, Rev. Dr. Alexand: April 7, Rev. John 1H. April 8, Rev. Albert K 9, Rev. Josiah B. Perry. to last twenty minutes at noon, from 12:05 to 12:25. The fourth In the serie ire, April of special Wed nesday evening Lenten mn now in progress at St. Paul's P. Church was delivered this week by the Kev. A. R. Stu- art, D. D., rector of Christ Churca, West Washington. The preacher next is to be the Rev. J. B. Per or of St. An- drew’s Church The committee on visitation of chapters of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew were present last Friday evening at 4 meeting Dd the chapter of Epiphaay Chapel The Ladies’ Aid Society of Grace Re- formed Church gave a musical ond Literary entertainment W. lay evening at the of Mrs. McCorkle on Wellach a A Strong nhe ry From the London Tires. The latest srake story comes from South It is recorded in the Transva Africa. . published in Cape Town, as cold fact, tha in Sekukiniland a native ran across a boa constrictor measuring about forty-se feet, which had just swallowed a your koodoo buck, all except the horns. horns stuck out on each side of the tile’s. mouth. The native horns as those of a buck he ran and got sticks and pinned which was dormant, to the gro’ he got hold of the horns and pal twisted. He got the buck out inch by inch, until half its body showed, and then came with a jerk, and the boy fe over on his back. Before he had time to think twice the snake, relieved of his load of reutton, was upon him, and it seized his head in its mcuth and tn mi > native had taken the pl f the only he was all inside; was no lefi out to pull on, even if a rescuer Having swallowed the boy ad around come along. boa detit anc of it. then closing the down which the native had disappes and making escape absolutely imposst The Transvaal vouches for the truth of the story. so+ She Guessed It. From the Cleveland Le “Darling,” he sald, falling upon his koe before her and covering ber little white hands with kisses: “darling, can't you see-- can’t you guess that I love you?” She drew herself up to her full height, looked at him for a moment and then said “Well, I should hate to think that this was jest your natural way of behaving in com- pany.” der. ++ — Settled Him.—He—“They say people who live together get alike.” She—“Then you must consider my refusal as final.”"—Detroit Free Press. ar, that looking to The after-dinner Task ef dish washing loses its terrors, and all household cleaning is ac- complished quickly and easily by the use of oust Largest package—greatent economy. THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, @ricago, St. Louts, New York,