Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1897, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 29, .1897—24 PAGES. Which has attracted universal attention and earned a larger attendance than any other is the Compulsory, Sale « $165,000... Fine Ready-Made Clothing FOR MEN AND BOYS--At ADLER’S CORNER, Seventh St. and Mass. Ave.N.W. ‘The absence of BOMRAST and BUNCOMBE-—the simple statement that the sale of the Dbulk of this iamense ‘stock was COMPULSORY— because of arrangements already made for Introd of OTHER 1 2S OF MERCHANDISE—so impressed the minds of THE PROPLE t ame in crowds from near and fiom far, making last week's selling the BANNER week of oor business career. We urge THE PEOPLE to follow us closely—our tions never go backward. $2.98 BICYCLE SUITS $2.98 ss = $2.98 Boys’ Long Pants = $2.00 = | $1.75 A SAL. the methods are revolutionary—and revolu- Men's Cutaway Suits. Plaids, “33s, 34s, a : All-wool | patterns. : | Boys’ Short Pants Suits. 08 | have divided this great army ° of Suits into three grand divisions, Ac urance that a mils: 1 su Not a th less than $3.98 ALL-WOOL BICYCLE SUITS $3.98 Our Department of — |Hats and Caps. Men’s Furnishings | costes we vos vuien aries to tne There is nothing | to it in points of beauty, richness #md | department The pr are so far below those of stablisignents that we have ral trade. Trunks, Satchels and Valises. Entire new stock at manufacturer's prices. WicTOR E. ADLE 929 sights of If there is aught in the realm of headwear which is not obtainable Tiere it must | belong to the days of yore. 923 23 Seventh Street N. Office Coats, Fast Black, 50c. Kind - - - 10c. = = | chamber that the bank had recently lost £3,600,000, for a great part of which ihe branches at Genoa, Lologna and Milan are ‘The Oldest Bank in the World. From the Londen Times. Mr. Neville-Rolfe, British consul at Na-| responsible. Nothing short of state inter- le an interesting account of the | ference can now save the bank, and Signor : and present position of the | Luzzatti was anxious to incorporate it into a national bank of Italy on the lines of- the vce. | Banks of France and Engiard. This, how- est pank in existence, for the Monte Vec- | <ver met with very strong opposition in the thio of Venice and the Banco San Glorglo | Neapolitan provinces. It is proposed to ut Genoa, both founJed im the twelfth cen- | issue government paper to the amount of of Naples, w . he says, the old- * om as also the | 45,000,000f., which represents the bullion tupy, have ceased to exist, as has also he | ih"the hands of the bank, and from. the Bank of Barcelona, fcunded in th | interest accruing to form ‘a sinking fund teentn century. The Bank of Naples WAS / to place the institution on a sound financial feunded in nd is a state bank, with | basis. The interest is fixed at 81% per cent le in a consider: ap any claim; in other words, stock bank, but with Bo When Charlies V went to také pos: of the kingdom his new subjects desired to receive him with becoming miagnificenc and, therefore, contracted? Vast loans with | the Jews against val net, instead of the normal rate of 414; the holder of the paper will thus lose % per cent in exchange for his government se- | curity, and the government will lose the sume amount. But both parties would lose @ great deal more were the Bank of Naples to stop payment. e+ The Proofreader’s Nemesis. From the Typographical Jourval. Fy ® F] Cy loans t F t rid of the difficulty y_ banished the Je kingdom. The Jews ee managed befor ir departure to sell the | “What’s the matter?” inquired the fore- pledges to two jolitans at very easy | man, as he entered the sanctum for copy prices; the new holders offered them to the and noted the editor's bleeding nose, swol- len forehead, puffed, red eye and tattered, dusty coat. “Fall down stairs?” “No— only that,”. replied the editor, pointing with his finger to a paragraph in the paper eriginal owne also offered further I on the old security. stepped in an the new en 1 profit, and they without interest ome philanthropists ye considerable gifts to ans without the bank was tatablisnel on these nes, amd was, im fact, | before him. “It's in our account of the a charitable pawnbroker. But by degre Crapley-Smith wedding. It ought to read: its scope enlarged {nto that of a bank doing ordinary commercial business. In | 1634, it had an income fromm government securities of £7,400, besides the capital nec- essary for carrying on its business. Miss Smith's dimpled, shining face formed a pleasing contrast with Mr. Crapley's strong, bold physiognomy.’ But see how it wes printed.” And the foreman read: In 1685, in a commerci:! crisis, the gov- | “Miss Smith's pimpled, skinny face formed ernment forced it to lend £110) for two| a pleasing contrast with Mr. Crapley's er three years certain without interest. | stony, bald physiogonomy.” “Crapley was ‘The ult was a loss to the bank, and in a | just in here,” continued the editor, throw- few years it was declared to be £56,000 in | ing one blood-streaked handkerchief in the debt. In 1601 it had recovered its position, | waste basket and feeling in his pockets for but a series of frauds and losses amount-| a clean one, “and he—but just send that ing to nearly £100,000 erippled it again. In | fool of a proofreader in here! There's fight December last Signor Luzzatti proved to the | left in me yet!” se of your boys between | s we have some half Cc dozen Twist Suits, strong OMough tw hold « bucking brozche ° ~ $1.98, MUST TAKE A CAB, HONORING THE DEAD Parisians Have a Decoration Day Like Our Own. BUT ALL 1S GLOOM AND SADNESS es Hanging Wreaths Upon the Column of the Common Cause. THE STRASBOURG STATUE ——— Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS, May 20, 1897. LTHOUGHTHE A and the name are all our own, and Decorationday, known and admired abroad, remains es- sentially American, the Freach possess the fact, and the Parisian anniversary is doubly touching to Americans abroad at once because of un- likeness an‘ its like- R ness to our own. These Frenchmen, let it be remembered in their honor, are almost Chinese in their veneration for the dead. One of the most striking sights to tourists is that of the Parisian funeral as it passes in slow majes- ty through the gay streets, to cause a sud- den hush, a halt, and dofting of the hat, The women bow their heads, and mayhap you will see thelr lips work in a prayer, perfunctory, short, a mere ejaculation, purely formal, yet the prayer is there. And every man along the route will lift his hat and cease his chat. It is a relic of the times when, night or day, the criers, pass- ing, called out in lugubrious fitting tones, with trumpets even: “The Sieur Such-a- One, just dead, is coming; ye who live, pray for his peace, remembering Our tourists also make a point of visiting the great Paris cemeteries, being struck by a whole series of comparisons highly favorable, it must be admitted, to our own bright, diry, shady, flowery, may one say gay? parks or gardens. These Parisian fields of last repose look cluttered up, dark, mournful and—this is the keynote—of un utterable ugliness. ‘They would not hav it otherwise, and throw a wealth of tra- ditional homeliness into the purposely old- fashioned purple, black and white bead wreaths which form the staple decoration of the tomb in France. Few graves are so forgotten as to lack each year, on All At St. Ouen. Souls’ day, their new bead wreath hung on above that of the year preceding, till the cross or broken column bears a near encugh resemblance to a stick with doughnuts on it in a baker's window. Let us not see anything grotesque in the poor widow's decent satisfaction as ske counts aths and years to find them tally. All Soulw’ Day. ‘The day is All Souls’, an anniversary cemmon to all Christendom; but it is the French who by their emphasizing of it seem to have appropriated it and made it theirs exclusively. Or, to be just, in other lends it is a church date, or a day for in- piety; in France the nation turns { out, deccrating. It is a bleak and somber Decoration day. Dark are the costumes of the alleged gay Parisicrs; mournful beyond all lamentation are the white and black and purple bead wreaths, made (regrettable detail) in the juvenile reformatories by infant crooks and adolescent thugs, urprayerful at their sol- mn task, and slow and halting is the tread of the multitude, the whole Parisian popu- lation, choking up like a black army, each avenue to the suburbs, gathering in volume PDD eet ener eter Snellen Second-Hand and Shop-Worn CYCLES At YOUR OWN FI GURES. We have a small stock of Bicycles, chiefly men’s patterns, taken in exchange for new ’97~ RAMBLERS, including VICTORS, WAVERLYS, RAMBLERS, &c., and all in good riding condition, which we wish to turn into cash, and will sell at price From $10.00 up to 's that are merely nominal— $22.50. Early purchasers will have quite a variety to choose from, and as the stock is small, we would suggest an immediate inspection of them. We also have a few ‘96 medium-grade Bicycles, E. TIRELY NEW, and fully guaranteed for 6 months, at prices that will please and satisfy you. RAMBLERS still selling at the popular price, $80.00, ormully & Jeffery Mifg.Co., 1325-27 14th St. from each cross street and boulevard, the innumerable darkling tributaries of these rivers of humanity bound, sluggishly, to— newhere. That of Pere-Lachaise s@ems al- ways “nowhere” to the writer, who, some- how, can never place it on the Paris map in his imagination; and so with Saint-Ouen, and Ivry, and that, even, of Montmartre, in the full quartier. They seem to be hid: den, as if by consent, from the gay every- day life; and suburban though they be, the track of pleasure eountryward does not lie pest them. Hidden piously by accidental turnings of this street or that, the gladness of the luminous city ignores them. Pere- Lachaise, although a city set upon a hill, is hid. Only on their Decoration day do the black human rivers catch all human debris in their current toward commemora- cn. The Common Cause. In the center of each cemetery you will see a sight, the most remarkable. It will be’ standing there, a giant monument, a broken column, half-hidden already in the afternacn of All Souls’ day by wreaths and flowers. Around it will be grouped dense crowds, that open willingly forever, never- theless, to endless new arrivals ‘bearing wreaths or flowers. The man, or woman, At Montmartre. or child advances to a spot around the col- umn chosen as he moves so that it is done orderly and decently, puts down his offer- ing and retires. Then there come ever others. That broken column fs “The Column of the Common Cause.” Touching, the idea is, beyond all tears, according to the com- mcn Verdict of the nations. Immense ad- miration has been drawn from® the sur- rourding peoples by thi: s@perlatively French sentimental abstractioniin its ev- ery-day concreteness, to the praile of Gaul- ish piety. And it is just. Has tis wreitch- ed little draggled servant girl, pretty and hurery, and yet good, ugly andgneglected, yet patient, has she, maybe, a Q@ad father to mourn away down in the: fet hills of Provence? Let her bring Se wreath of bleck end white and purgle beads—the handiwork cf wretched little criminaloids at the Petite Roquette—and plage it in the midst. It les among. the ‘thousands all around the Column of the Gommon Cause, beside the soldier's wreath, who mourns in a Parisian barracks for’ his:sister’s grave in Brittany; beside the student's wreath, whose uncle's legacy supports ,him while he “makes his law;” beside’ the lost girl's wreath, who Gare not visit’ thé paternal vault on such a public day, for seemliness. And you and I, expatriated, withrour mem- cries though unbidden, may here pay. our dues” at this all-mystic spiritual clearing house, on the French ‘decoraticn day. The Column of the Common Cause. - +* Paris Loves Peace. Another common cause, and altogether as dramatic in {ts manifestation, has a more uncommon bond of sympathy and is maintained at fever heat not without ef- fort, at times even half visible. Must a friend and admirer of France, a lover of her generous abandon and her proved self- sacrificing ardor, turn now in these last days to discover to a criticising world the 10 ncre than humanity of the modern every-day Parisian? It is a secret, yet it shali be told. The Parisian loves his peace, to acquire weaith and dispense it in lux- ury, and to lead his middle age along the tranquil waters of bourgeoise security. In a word, he does not wish to fight the hated Prussian, whom he hates less than he thinks he does. Is it not, then, a sight with its full element of pitifulness not un- tinctured with humor, to behold the Stras- bourg monument on the French Decoration dey? Ah, the fair, proud lady looks no less sad as year succeeds to year. The Strasbourg Menument. In the noble, spacious Place de la Con- corde, the very center of that Paris-Bril- liant which you and I and ali the world so easily can reconstruct in our imagina- tions, there sit on fitting white stone bases something like a man’s height from the ground, eight giant female figures, carved | with simple dignity and grace, to watch in @ great square this center of the capital of France. They are the geniuses of eight proud cities, and she of unhappy Stras- bourg, taken by the enemy and still held, still lamenting, sits still with her sisters. Some protest they can see on her face a look of questioning, with certain stern- ness, that will cast itself upon the other seven. Certainly she is not mournful, but sits coldly, very silent, [ assure you, never moving. Does she question? Is there re- proach in her regard? Do her sisters sit there with averted eyes? I do not know. But Frenchmen, and Lorrainers and Alsa- tians in great numbers, bearing banners, badges and the coupons of reduced-price return tickets, prudently buttoned away against the cupidity of those of the meaner sort though brothers, doubly brothers, come before her in procession on the 14th of July to. make obeisance and renew their promises. That day, the Independence day of the republic, the Strasbourg statue flaunts much red. There is too much hate and threatening around about her, dec- orated though she be, to call up a remem- brance of the brotherly wreath-layings of the blue and gray which mark the day for a far happier republic. The Strasbourg statue is best seen in the blue mists, though cold.and somber, of All Souls’,when all her wreaths are of poor beais,. black, pur- ple, white. Sst Around the Strasbourg statdé; on’this true Decoration day of France, lie wrekths from the whole country’s heart, the great French heart that mourns her sons alorously died—as ours. STERLING finriic. ——_—.__** It matters little what it is {hat you want —whether a situation or ae rvant—a “want” ad. in The Star will’ teach the person who can fill your need. eee The Ink Bacillus. From the London Lancet. It sometimes happens that a trifling scratch or puncture made bh a pen gives rise to a dangerous septica , Aue to the Mability of ink to. contain pagiogeniic bac- teria. Nigvosin Ink, taken a freshly opened botife, was: found ntain both saprophytes ‘and bacteria.” and blue inks also yielded numerous’ bacte! In two instances Dr. -“Marpmann: su in cultivating from nigrosin ink a lus which proved fatal. to mice —with! days. This ink had stood in- open bottle for three months, and the inference’to be drawn from the inquiry is that ink used in schools should always be kept covered: when not in use... , Sih ‘SHANE TO. vouR inful, swolk feet painful. swollén, smarting IN THE CHURCHES The annua) election of officers of the Methodist Union of Washington district ‘| was held Monday evening at Wesley M. E. Church, and after the transaction of some preliminary business the following officers were elected: President, Mr. George W. F. Swartzell of Hamline Church; first vice president, Dr. Richard Kingsman of Metro- politan Church; second vice president, Maj. 8. H. Walker of Waugh Church; third vice president, Mr. Jesse B. Wilson; correspond- ing secretary, the presiding elder, Rev. Luther B. Wilson, D.D.; recording secre- tary, Judge Anson S. Taylor, and treasurer, W. F. Rodrick. Three trastees for the Home for the Aged were also elected as follows: Messrs. Zephaniah Jones, T. C. Smith, M.D., and Robert Cohen. The pastor of St. Peter's Catholic Church bas postponed the formai ceremony of blessing the jubilee altars of the church until the Fourth of July—St. Peter's day— when Bishop Curtis will be the consecr: tor. The teachers of the Sunday school of Epiphany P. E. Church are meeting once a week for the preparation of the lesson on the following Sunday. At the close of a number of meetings a social hour has been spent, the superintendent of the school, Dr. L. W. Glazebrook, entertaining the teach- ers at a meeting this month. Rev. Dr, Alexander Mackay-Smith, the rector of St. John’s P. E. Church, has sent his check for himselt and wife for $100 to the Central Union Mission, with which to supply the mission fountain with ice for the summer, The Hall Sisters, evangelists, were at the Central Union Mission last Saturday evening and conducted a special service. Bishcp Satterlee will leave Washington shortly for Europe in order to attend the gathering of bishops of the Anglican com- munion, to be held at Lambeth Palace, England. The pastor of Trinity M. E. Church, Rev. Dr. E. D. Huntley, has arranged to have the Thursday evening services at his new house of worship conducted for several months by various ministers. This week the service was in charge of Rev. George V. Leech, D. D., pastor of Grace M. E. Church. e The annual meeting of the general sy- nod of the Lutheran Church will convene nt Mansfield, Ohio, Wednesday, June 9. The delegates from this city are Rev. Dr. J. G. Butler and Messrs. Albert F. Fox and Cornelius Eckhardt. The eighteerth anniversary of the or- ganization of the Church of the Reforma- tion was celebrated recently. The church was organized by its present pastor, Rev. W. E. Parson, D. D., with twenty mem- bers, and now it numbers about three hundred and seventy-five. The rector of St. Luk Church, Rev. Gwen M, Walle the evening service cf the twilight service. ‘The services at the Luther Memortal Church tomorrow are to be in the nature of a memorial service. The postpored vesner service at the Church of the Immaculate Conception is to take place tomorrow. The Women’s Foreign Missionary Soci- ety of the First Congregational Church held its annval missionary tea Tuesday at the home of the president of the society, Mrs. Clark, Howard University. The sub- Ject under discussion during the evening was “Bulgaria.” The new pastor of Enon Baptist Church, Rev. J. I. Loving, was formally insialled this week. Several of the local Lutheran churches, the Keller Memorial and St. Mark's, ire to be considerably improved during the sum- mer months. Rev. Hugh Johnston has accepted an in- vitation to deliver the annual address be- fore the Christian Association of Western Maryland College, Westminster, Carroll county, Md. The Girls’ Club and the Men's Club of Epiphany Chapel have closed their work for the year. Both have had a prosperous season. 3 At the meeting of the clericus of the dio- cese of Washington recently, the rector of the Pro-Cathedral, Rev. William L. Dev- ries, Ph. D., read a paper on “The Greek Language as a Vehicle of Revelation.” A recent addition to the equipment of Kendall Baptist Church is a water motor for the large pipe organ. Representative Botkins of Kansas ad- dressed the Methodist Ministers’ Associa- tion Monday morning on “Methodism in Kansas.” : A May festival has just closed at Grace M. E. Church. It was given by the young- er ladies of the church and for the benefit of the debt fund. ~The annual anniversary and donation day was recently held at the Lutheran Home for the Aged. On that day com- mfttees were present from nearly all the local Lutheran churches, and brought sup- plies of various kinds for the inmates. Thursday of this week, being the Feast of the Ascension, it was observed by spe- celal services in all the local Catholic and Episcopal churches. A forty hours’ devotion is to begin at St. Jerome's Church tomorrow, and will end on Tuesday. It will be conducted by the pastor, Rev. Father Tower. Rev. C. C. Meador, pastor of the Fifth Baptist Church, has invited the Baptist ministers of Washington to luncheon next Monday. O. W. Goodwin, superintendent of the Sabbath school of the Fifth Congregational Church, has resigned his position on ac- count of removal from the city. Rev. E. B. Bagby, pastor of the Ninth Street Christian Church, has returned from Beaver Creek, near Hagerstown, where he went to conduct revival services for the Christian Church at that place. Rev. Adam Reoch, the pastor of the Fifth Congregational Church, is preaching a series of Sunday evening sermons on “The Life of Paul.” Officers have been elected by the Young Men’s League of the Metropolitan Presby- terian Church, as follows: President, Her- bert Church; vice president, W. S. Moore, and secretary, Luther D. Speer. A meeting of the presbytery of Washing- ton city has been called for Monday, June Episcopal . has changed church to a 7. Under the auspices of the Daughters of the King, a meeting of children in the in- terest of the it Air Home for Childreff at Colonial Beach was held this afternoon at the Church of the Epiphany. The children present were addressed by Bishop Satter- lee and Rev. R. H. McKim, D. D. The annual May procession of the chil- dren of St. Patrick's Sunday school is to take place tomorrow afternoon, when the children will form at Carroll Hall, march down 10th street to the church, and listen to an address by Rev. J. F. McGee. The gospel wagon of the Central Union Miesion is carrying on a campaign in South Washington in the vicinity of the wharves. Later in the afternoon it re- turns to the mission building, when supper is eerved to the workers, and then it goes to Market space. A forty hours’ devotion, conducted by the pastor, Rev. Father D. C. De Wolf, began at St. Anthony’s Church last Sun- day and ended on Tuesday. The Toronto committee of the Washing- ton District Epworth League is to hold a meeting this evening at headquarters. The “Y” of the First Congregational Church held a social Monday evening at the residence of Professor and Mrs. Foster, Howard University. A number of the local Methodist pastors will attend the commencement exercises of Dickinson College. The Epworth League of Grace M. E. Church, Seth A. Terry, president, held a business meeting Friday evening, fcllowed by a social at which refreshments of ice cream and cake were served. The league has decided to create a sinking fund for the church debt and for this purpose has nearly $500 on_hand. Douglas M. E. choir gave a concert last evening at the Ninth Street Christian Church for the benefit of the new house of worship. Rev. Dr. F. D. Power, pastor of the Ver- mont Avenue Church, spent this week in West Virginia attending the annual meet- ing of the trustees uf Bethany College, of which he is a member. The board of cuntrol of the Washington District Epworth League holds a monthly business meeting next Wednesday even- ing at Foundry Church, when the prepa- rations for the Toronto convention will be discussed Bit at Wheeling, W. Va. ‘§ Bailey, board Rev. E. D, president of the of aistneat of the Central Union Mission, talked to the Presbyterian ministers on Me yon the i essive On Fhuraday, see ea oe ‘Women’s Mis- stonary” ties of : fe Pres- cbyterian Chi missionary. 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A Marvelous Success Assured. Get Your Free Tickets % Without delay at our office or of our agent at the depot, Thir- | 2 avenue. For further particulars Soetio oetionodieie ecco de tent ostoctndenteecdentecintoctey by Mrs. Clara Williams, with ,solos Mrs. Hattie Meads Smith and Dr. Woodman. Mite boxes will be opened offerings for missions received. There will be no charge for admission. Rev. E. Bradford Leavitt of this city was among those who addressed the Uni- tarian conference in session in Tremont ‘Temple, Ecston, this week. Miss Catherine Lucille Eawards, who was in attendance as u delegate from All Souls’ Church, was also on the program for an address on “The Growth of Unitarianism in the National Capital.” SE UNIVERSITY NOTES : atholic. Last Thursday solemn high mass was held in Divinity Chapel. Father Haver: trough was the celebrant, and Fathe Deering and McGovern deacon and sub- deacon. Father Dunn was the master of ceremonies. In the evening at 6 o'clock there occurred the solemn benediction of the blessec sacrament. Last Sunday the rector, Dr. Conaty, preached at St. James Church, Chicago. and on Wednesday evening a reception was tendered to him by the Columbus Club of that city. Rev. Father Garrigan, vice rector, will preach the sermon at the consecration of a new CatkoHe church at Oxford, Mass. There will be a large number of gradu- ates this year—thirty-five in all—twenty- three in divinity, ten in“law and two in philosophy, which is an excellent showing, especially for the law school and the school of philosopky, which have been in existence but two years. Next week will be an exceedingly busy one for the students, as examinations are being giver. in all the departments of the university. The university closes its session for this year cn Wednesday, June 9, when gradua- tion exercises will occur. Cardinal Gibbons will confer the degrees. Howard. The senicr class holds closing exercises for the year today, when an appropriate program will be rendered. J. Talmage Fox, president, and J. F. Johnson, secre- tary, are the officers of the class. Commencement exercises of the theologi- cal’ department occurred last evening in Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel. The Sec- retary of the Interior delivered the address to the class, and members of the class also spoke. One of the features was a general report of the work accomplished during the year in this department, presented by Rev. M. Ross Fishburn. R ‘The commencement exercises of the law department will occur at the First Congre- gational Church on Monday evening. Major Butterworth, commissioner of patents, will address the students. The normal school commencement exer- cises will occur in Rankin Memorial Chapel Tuesday. Representative White of North Carolina will be the principal speaker, and the studerts will also contribute to the program. Speakers have not yet been selected for the graduation exercises of the prepara- tory school, which occur next Wednesday evening. Thursday evening will occur the com- mencement of the college, Senator Thurs- ton being the principal speaker of the evening. Addresses and orations by mem- bers of the class will also be one of the features. At the lest meeting of the Christian En- deavor Society the subject for discussion was: “Peace—When to Seek It and How.” The next meeting will mark the close of the term, and although the regular subject is “Fruit Bearing,” by Mr. Murray, it is not expected that it will be closely fol- lowed, as most of the time allotted will be consumed in reports of work accom- plished _and experiences. Last Friday evening the Alpha Phi Liter- ery Society closed its work for the year by a banquet attended by a number of the members. Columbian, A public disputation of the theses of the candidates for the degree of doctor of philosophy will be held in the hall of the university Wednesday, June 2, at 10 a.m. The catalogue of the summer course of “the university has just been issued. Trial examinations in the Corcoran Scien- tific School began last Wednesday and are to be completed by June 5. The Columbian Women have chartered the steamer Macalester for Wednesday, June 2, when they will give an excursion to Marshall Hall, the proceeds of the occa- | slon to be donated to the university gym- sium. rof, Lodge examined the class in inter- 7 7 » and when his ize will be pre- ~ the highest average. Georgetown, The debaters for Georgetown in the con- test between the New York Univer School Debating Society A the town Law School Debating Society will leave for New York Friday, June 4, and the debate will occur the following eveaing in Carnegie Hall. Georgetown will be repre- sented by Messrs. Jean F. P. des Garennes, John P. O'Brien and Hampton H. Ma- eruder. The tournament for the championship of the university is now going on at the ten: courts almost daily, and has furnished sev eral very startling surprise terested. J. Tobin, of whom pected, was put out in Whitney, as was C. Tobi The executive committee of the Alumni Association held a meeting last Tuesday evening to make arrangements for the an- nual reunion to be held June 23, commence- ment day. An orator and a poct have been selected for the dinner, which will take place on the 24th. An amendment to the constitution, to be voted on at the meeting, was proposed, providing for the admission of honorary members. Candid: for offi- cers for the coming two years and will be proposed to the The library has received a donation of fourteen volumes, including the speeches of Sir Robert Peel, William Pitt, the life of Sir James Graham and of many other prominent men, and also eleven volumes Gf the publications of the Selden Society of London, England, all in fine library bind- ing. The membership of John Gilmary Shea in the New Yerk Historical Socic en- titling him to all the publications of that society forever, has been transferred to the university, together with his collection, which includes all the publications from the foundation of the society. It is con- sidered a most magnificent gift. Examinations in the law department were completed Saturday of last week, and the commencement exercises will be held Juna National Theater. The class this y te is a record breaker, there being 147 candidates for degrees. T. C. Driscoll, the champion tennis pla’ of the south, is a Georgetown student, the university is justly proud of the suc- cesses he has gained recently, both here and elsewhere. : Commencement exercises will occur on June 23, and the committee in charge have every assurance that Gaston Hall will be completed in time for the event. So far as the graduates have charge the orations will be as follows: Bachelor's, Mr. Duniel O'Donoghue; valedictory, Fra X. De- laney; master's, John K. Broderi ed atee aa Felly Convinced. From the Youth's Compenion. At the time of the Millerite delusion in 1843, when many people believed that the end of the world would come on a certain day in April and many others who did not really believe were yet moved to super- stitious uneasiness by the fervor of the Millerites, there were a number of eager watchers for the appointed day in an old New England town. It was a late spring, and there was a light fall of snow on the ground. On the night before the dreadful date there flamed in the sky a magnificent crimson aurora, and the red ligt in the heavens, with iis red refiection on the snow, terrified mar nervous people to the verge of distractior they thought it signified the beginning of universal destruciion. One woman, wio lived alone, with the back of her house close to a cemetery, waked near midnight and was overcome with horror. Without stopping to dress, she ran out of her house and along close beside the burying ground boundary to- ward the dwelling of her next neighbor. Her bare feet slipped in the snow, and once she fell, but rose immediately and ran on. Her neighbors also were awake, the wife lying quaking in bed, the husband at the window. He looked out just as the frantic figure in white sprang up from her fall in the drifted snow—emerging, as it appeared, from the graveyard, and bathed in blood- red light. Turning his head, he shouted back hastily into the dark chamber: “It’s true, wife, the end of the world has come! The dead are rising from their graves—I've just seen the first on ‘The supposed corpse, however, presently took refuge in his house, and when morn- ing dawned and the world still existed the trio were no doubt reassured. <7 Inside, 14 talk to your—Punch.