Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1897, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, MAY 31, 1897-16 PAGES. ANHEUSER-BUSCH BREWING ASSN, THE LEADING BREWERY 18 THE WORLD. Brewers of the Most Whol The Original Budweiser The Michelob The Muenchener Served on all Pullman escme and Popular Beers. The Faust The Anheuser The Pale Lager Dining and Buffet Cars. Served on all Wagner Dining and Buffet Cars. Served on all Ocean and Lake Steamers. Served in all First Class Hotels. Served in the Servi d in all Carried on nearly every Man-ol-War and Cruiser. Served at Best Families. : Fine Clubs. most of the United States Army Posts and Soldiers’ Homes. The Greatest Tonic, ‘‘Malt-Nutrine” the Food-drink, is prepared by this Association, apS-s,m&w39t AUCTION SALES. AU CTION FUTURE “Days. FUTURE “SLOAN & CO., AUCTION G ST. SALE OF Yanrantr I) *ROVED T TH STORY AND NO. 2220 G © of the Supreme Court of ja, passed in equity cause in The’ Gottschalk Company, a the laws of Marslaud . Distriet of Columbia, Be and being lot pumbered two Gine-thirt of ty to be paid in cash, stallments, peyable sale, with interest at six wble semi-annually be fepresented by erred payments to the promissory nutes wf the Purchaser or purchasers, secured Dy deed of trust On the property se cash, at the option of the purchaser. A” deposit of two hundrel dollars | ($200) will be req Ue of sale. Terms 7 plied with within ten 10) days | , in default of which th By Virtae of a certain deed and recorded in 1. land records of the District ving been made in secured. the Will offer for sule a square 1002, impr » known as No. 1222 I} 58-100 feet and a it of 15 alles. dof the purchase price ace in two equal installments, in one (1) two (2) years t thereon at the nnum until paid. The sold free of all incumbrances, aud 30, 1897. A deposit ef Care Hamilton & Colbert, 512 F st. n. wy31-dts EES SALE OY VALL WV OOCUPIED BY TAL et ext, one of the land records of the x receive sealed OK AM, SATU ICSE FIFTH, 107, foe the parctase of the inz described real estate, with the improve- thereon: ‘The sath one-half of original lot No. 27, ia Square 904, fronting 24 feet 4 inches on Eighth east and rumming back with that width 109 feet 1 inch to a public alley, improved by a three-story brick and store, with a rear building. Also a pert of square 905, contained within the following metes and bounds, viz.: inning for the same at a point on south I street, distant 110 feet east from the northwest corner of said square, and running thence east along the line of said street forty-one fect; thence south eighty-four feet; thence west forty-one feet. and thence north cighty- four feet to the place of beginning, improved by a large brick stable om the real rms: Cash; and" all conveyancing, &e., at the cost of the purchaser. The assiznee reserves the right to reject any or all proposals, L. CABELL WILLIAMSON, Assignee of Edward ee of Columb) recording, nyt TRUSTHES’ SALE ¢ SITUATED IN . D. By virtue of a deed of trust’ to recorded us, f the Distriet of Columbia, 10, We will sell at auction, fn front of the premises, on WEDNESDAY, THE N 1897, AT HALF. PASE land records © and 61, in Old | Georgetown, being in square 21 of said Geosgetown, deserited by metes and bounds as follows: — Begin: ning for the same at a polat on east line of Jeffer- same Is intersected by the ‘of the Chesapeake and Ohio and ranning thence southerly It Jefferson street 80 feet: t parailel to Bridge street 105 feet 10 be eastern outline of the original plan of Aty of Georgetown: thence northerly with sald outline to the south line of said Canal boundary Hine: thence by and with said south line to the point of beginning; also all that parcel of ground lying in said square 21, in safd Georgetown, de- seribed as follows: Beginning on the east line of jeffersim street 5%) feet 5 inehes south from the southeast Intersection of Bridge and Jefferson streets. and running thence south with sald enst line of Jefferson street 50 feet; thence east and parallel with Bridge street 105 feet 10 inches to castern vutline of original plan of Georgetown: thence north with +: st line 50 feet, and thence west 105 feet 10 Inches to the beginning, being the south 30 feet of lot 63 by depth on pian of Old Georgetown; said two parcels being same conveyed by deed recorded among said land records in Liber MT. foho 489. (All the foregoing proses wi be sold oun recorded among said land records tn Liber Xo, 1331" fol 2 mount of indebtedness secured, thereunder will be inade Known at day of sale. Also Al! of Int 27 and a0 if lot 26 as Is not incl Within the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, in Beall’s Addition to Georgetown. Also a strip or round south of said lot 27, known as part apping” and Wounded om the north by said on the east by Washington street, ¢ Deakins, Lee & Casanave’s Ad- wn, and om the west by the iine all of sald parcels being orgetown (said lot 27, pt. 26 will be sold subject to prior trust, record-d among sald land records in Liber No. 1569, folios 288 and 292. The amoun= -bteduess secured thereunder will be made Pop Pontag hind of the purchase mon to a prior deed of dete stred es and ed with within ten days from day of sale. cuciag and recording at 0) HENRY 'P. GILBERT, SALE AT THE. COURT ON TUES. 1897, we ELEVEN resort and favorite family boarinz Louse, chown ast, Ginlra, situated om the Chesapeake bay, between = river and Falr “Haven, in Anne Arundel shade; tion; easy. of ncetsa byerail: fats crabs in abundance; farm of 128 a ves of good land attached. For furtier particulars apply to J. T RANDALL, Attorney of my29,31,Je2,5,7 Anna] rand peaks Sale at the Exchange Auction House, No. 1331 and 1333 H St. oN. W. KB THIRD, 1897, WITHIN ROOMS: A_ VERY EB ‘D ASSORTED. CORLECD a OSD-HAND HOUSEHLD EFFECTS, COS: IN PAT OF- Furniture, in Suites and cdd pieces; Ha; some Suites of Chamber Furniture, in’ cherry, walnut, with a number of odd piece 1 Bedsteads, W. W. Springs, Mat= tresses, Bolsters and Tollet Ware, Cherry, PO ae re As- BLL. RO pees Center Tables, Wal- ey jety of Hall Kichen Furniture, s every ‘Thursday at 10 o'clock. TS SOLICITED. Settlements made icoments in twenty-four hours ufter sale. ‘Thes, J. Owen, the well and favorably known :uetioneer, invites all of his old friends and swale gece rally to attend this and all of our J. P. HORBAC -STORY BRICK NO. 8, IN EN'S ALLEY, BE- TH AND 2TH STREETS AND I TREETS NORTH WEST. 2 certain deed of trust, recorded in oft -olumbia, wi 1D the SECOND DAY of JUNE, ‘A.D. 189 OLOcK PAL, the shall AY, valance in one crest at 6 per cout per ally. $50 required at annum, 5 and the time of sale, baser allowed ten days from date of sulz to complete the 7 WILLIAM Hf my26-d&ds JAMES F. OG ce. & CO., AUCTIONEERS, 1407 @ ST. TENTS OF RESIDENCE NO. 1311 HST. UBLIC AUCTI COMPRISING ire contents thereof, such as COMBINATION BOOKCASE AND SECRETARY, Ry RPETS, PLUSH PARLOR SEITE. BUS. CA RUGS, HALL AND STAIR CARPETS, SE KAN! ERRY CHAMBER SUITES, ‘oDD BEDSTBADS AND RUREA’ MAT. TRESSES, COMFORTS, SPI READS, LANE ETS, SHEETS, DINING ROOM FURNITURE, OAK HALL, RACK HANGINGS, TOILET | SETS, KITCHEN ke. &c. TERMS CASH. yay29-dts IS, ATTY. For Other Auctions See Pase 1 14. PRETTY GIRL IN PERIL. Picked Up by a Car Fender, She Es- caped Uninjured. A handsome young woman on a wheel attempted to cross the car tracks on 14th street at New York avenue about 7 o'clock last evening, and in her zeal to keep her pretty blue eyes on the two cars going and coming on the Columbia line, the four cars going and coming on the Metropolitan and the two coming down 14th street, she quite overlooked the two coming up 14th, and the grip car on this train caught her. She saw it when it was within a few feet of her, and in attempting to turn the wheel slipped and she dropped to the track. The gripman had the brake on, but the car struck the young woman, who was on her hands and knees, trying to crawl away, and the fender gracefully and pleasantly picked her off the ground and carried her along in security till the car stopped. It was a sight to make the blood run cold and the hair to stand on end, but when the rescuers reached the girl and fished her out she was scarcely rufiled, and all she asked for was to let her get on her wheel and depart in peace. She was the most self-possessed person in the entire crowd, and her cheeks were as pink and her eyes as bright us when she went Gown in the wreck. Her hand was steady, tvo, and when she signed a card the conductor gave her there wasn’t a sign of a shake in her signature. The young lady stopped at the Oxford Hotel iong enough to wash her hands, and gave opportunity for some ten or a dozen polite young men to tumble all over them- porsscel in their chivalric efforis to straight- en the chain guard on her wheel, and then she hied herself away, without telling any- body except the conductor who she was, and his car was by this time clear out to the Bounda: —>_ — MORE ARMS LANDED IN CUBA. Steamer Dauntless Makes a Success- fal Trip, With Men and Arms. A special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun from Raleigh, N. C., says: Details of a very successful trip of the tug Alexander Jones of Wilmington, with war supplies for Cuba, have been received here. The Jones took out from Wilmington a cargo valued at $78,000, the second in value yet landed in Cuba. This was transferred to the filibuster Dauntless in open sea near the Bahamas. The Jones took on, off Palm mede two trips to Cuba. Gen. Nunez had been at Wilmington sev- | etal days at a leading hotel under an He was on board the schooner John D. Long, which was loaded with coal, and which was in tow of the tug Jones, and he was, with the sixty-two Cubans, taken by the Dauntless, which twice from the schooner Long. Statistics say 100,000 horses were slaugh- tered for meat in Belgium last year. AMONG THE CHURCHES The Services in Many Were of a Patriotic Character. Addresses Appropriate to Memorial Day by Ministers and Others—May Festival in Catholic Churches. In most of the churches yesterday themes appropriate to memorial day were discussed by the ministers, and in many instances special exercises in-«commemora- tion of the day were held. President McKinley and the officials of the Department of the Potomac, G. A. R., well as many representatives of the various posts, attended services yesterday at the Metropolitan M. E. Church. The sermon was delivered by Rev. Luther T. Townsend. A sermon was delivered last evening be- fore Charles Sumner Post, No. 9, G. A. R., and the Ladies’ Relief Corps by Rev. Dr. Thomas, at Asbury M. E. Church, 1ith and K streets northwest. At Gunton Temple Church, 14th and R streets, last evening, Encampment No. 09, Union Veteran Legion, held services. The veterans marched to the church under the escort of Henderson Drum Corps. Chairs were draped in black in memory of Com- rades Joseph C. McKibben, Martin lL. Stow-ll, Jacob C. Quein and August B. Sweeney. These comrades passed to the other shores during the year. There was a fifth chair in honor of the patriotic wo- men of the war. An address was delivered by Corporal Jas. Tanner, past national commander, who said among other things: ‘“Twenty-foyr hours ago I was in the White House with our President. I told him of the old sol- diers who had been turned out of their positions, and of the hungry men and famili2s so numerous among our ranks. ‘I intend to have them back,’ Mr. Mc! ey said. Twenty years of acquaintance with that man have proven to me that what he says he will do.” An address was also delivered by Rev. Dr. Fiske, the pastor of the church. At the Church of the Reformation, Penn- syivania avenue between 2d and 3d streets southeast, last evening, memorial services were held by Encampment No. 111, Union Veteran Legion. Vacant chairs were draped in memory of dead comrades, and an‘address was delivered by Past Col. W. T. Piersen. Rev. Mr. Parson, the pastor of the church, made an appropriate address. A children’s service was held Saturday afterncon at Epiphany Church, addresses being made by Rev. Dr. McKim and Rev. Dr. Childs. A collection was taken for the benefit cf the Children’s Country Home at Colonial Beach. Children’s day exercises were also held yesterday at McKendree M. E. Church, Massachusetts avenuc between 9th and 10th streets northwest. The May day procession of children was the feature in the services yesterday in many of the Catkolic churches of the city. At St. Paul’s Church, 15th and V streets, @ sermon was delivered, after the pro- cession, by Rev. Dr. Conaty, the rector of the Catholic University, who spoke of the lessons of Memorial day. The children at St. Peter's Church, 2d and C streets southeast, were divided into three groups, under the direction of Fa- ther O’Doncghue, Mr. Jennings, superinten- dent of the Sunday school; Miss Laura Cal- lahan and the teachers of the school. ‘The Queen of the May was Miss Annie C. Rogers, with Misses B. McCann, 8. Jen- nings, R. Repeiti, Katie Curren and Lena Gicyd das attendarts. The children of the parish were led by Rosetta Campbell. At St. Patrick's, 10th street near G street, the Queen of the May was Miss Alice Simp- son, and her maids of honor Misses Mar- guerite Kennedy, Celia Richmond, Elise Viboud and Mabel Markriter, and the pil- low bearer Miss Veronica Rocca. Under the direction of Sister Mary Fran- ces, the procession was held at St. Aloy- sius Church, North Capitol andgI streets. The banner-bearers were as follo St. Aloysius’ banner, Miss Jouvenal and L. Kempel; banner of the cross, Eilen Lynch; banner of the guardian angel, K. Healy: banner of the sacred heart of Mary, A. Ashe; banner of Lourdes, B. McCarth; banner of St. Agnes, K. Quinn; papal ban- ner, Rose Kennelly; sacred heart banner, Annie Brooks, and immaculate conception banner, Mary Quinlan. Miss Minnie Campbell was Queen of May, with Misses L. Dillon and R. Downing as maids of honor. St. Catherine was imper- sonated by Miss Mary O'Dea, St. Cecilia by eed A. Linehan, and Purity by Miss Mc- nell. The marshals were Misses Blanche & ‘onnell, B. Collins and M. Loghran.. The procession at Holy Trinity Church, 36th and O streets northwest, was in charge of Fathers Scanlon and McCarthy, Mr. Donnelly, superintendent of the Su day school; Miss Mary Heenan and Mrs. Kearney. The Queen of May, Miss Nellie Harnedy, was attended by Misses Annie Burns, Etta Taggert and a company of little girls. The bearer of the banner, Miss Kate Schladt, was attended by Misses Josie Curtin and Nellie Dugan. After re- turning to the church the children gathered on the lawn about the statue of the Virgin and listened to an address by Miss Mary Curtin. —_>—_—_. STUART SCHOOL PROGRAM. the Commencement Held Saturday Evening. ‘The commencement of the Stuart school, held at the Church of Our Father, Satur- day evening last, was a brilliant and en- joyable affair. The house was crowded at an early hour by the friends of the grad- uates and younger pupils, and many well- wishers were unable to find seats. From the opening prayer, by the Rev. John H Elliott, to the closing pantomime, with musical accompaniment, by Jean A. Frantz, the audience was most charmingly entertained. The platform was beautifully decorated wich palms, and throughout the evening a rain of-flowers fell upon the graduates and their younger schoolmates. The bishop of Washington, Right Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee, D. D., made a short acdress to the graduating class, and then receiving the diplomas from the pricipal, Miss Claudia Stuart, presented them to the graduates. The graduates In special courses of study were Harriette Jane Crabbe, May Moore Smoot, Ella Gordon Edmonds, Rose Stan- dish Sliney, Margaret Ellen Petty; grad- uate in music, Jean A. Frantz; past grad- wate course in literature, Jean A. Frantz. Two pretty songs by the pupils in vocal cultcre were followed by a duet by Rose Standish Sliney and Nannie Leatherman, which was charmingly rendered. Jean A. Frantz delighted her many friends by a well executed piano solo, and the original skeich, “A Moonlit Memory,” by Harriette Jane Crabbe, showed marked talent. The club swinging by Marjorie Harmon, Sue Harris Davis, Bessie Galluchat, Mar- garet Ellen Petty and Katharine Suther- jane was one of the most enjoyable events of the evening, the graceful costumes add- ing much to the beauty and precision of the movements. Exercises Frantz, Sue Harris Davis and Margaret El- len Petty, were very pleasing features. The recitations were well rendered by Helen L, Galt, Julia Ravenel, Bessie North, Mary Fauntleroy Barnes, Elenor Faison, Marie Manning and Ruth Shuey, while a dialogue, from “Leah, the Forsaken,” was mest entertainingly recited by Martha C, Dye and Nannie Leatherman. “Scarf Fantastics,” by several young ladies, Martha C. Dye, Virginia Dorsey, Emmie Barnett, Nellie Kehoe, May Moore Gordon Edmon Smoot, Ella a STAR GUEANINGs, ‘London has a brisk Mexico has a scaéelty 6f corn. Germany has paper horseshoes. There are 804,08% Bell telephones. There are 712 pdpers/in New York. A trolley is being. to the Pyramids. St. Louis Is to Have & cripples’ conven- Pie gor has a new law protecting song- A Crow's Island, ‘aie Soe sees only at Sa City’s post office 4s in the new building. Detroit exempts her Masonic hall from taxation. Seattle mills grind flour night and day for Japan. English doctors say railway journeying cures gout. Mississippi has decidea to have a fine rew capitol. Two Iowa school houses are to have cy- cione cellars. London covers 1,100 acres with new heuses yearly, Fail River, Mass., is to have a textile exhibit June 14. Vermont gained but 17,000 inhabitants from 1850 to 1890. Bakersfield, Cal., gets electric power and light from Kern river. New York has appropriated a million for the Adirondack Park. A Kansas man uses & bicycle to measure distances in surveying. In four years the United States has ox ported 830 locomotives, A New York man was arrested the other day for stealing a stole. A California town recently built a church from a single redwood tree. ‘The Jardin des Plantes female hippopota- mus is dead at forty-three. ‘The Kansas supreme court sustains her uniform state text book law. A fotr-year-old girl has journeyed from Kansas City to San Diego alone. California’s orange crop this year is about 6,900 ear loads, against 7,300 lasi year. Professor Blake of Kansas University says electricity will bleach the color of the negro. M. Vaillod, now member of the French senate, used to be the cannon men in a circus. Bombay sentries salute black cats—sup- pesing them to be lost souls of English of- ficers. Mr. A. E. Keet, who has been the editor of The Forum since August, 1895, has re- signed. Wisconsin is suing her agricultural so- ciety for money advarced to buy state fair grounds. A large flock of wild pigeons has taken possession of a grove in Shasta county, California. John W. Greaton, wh; used in the five-cent in Brooklyn. At Silver Beach, Wash., one man in six days sawed 426,000 skingles and another bolted them. A Muncie, Ind., parrot cried “Fire! fire!” and weke up her ownef, who found his house in flames. ‘John Tannis and’ his rire sons voted at the spring election in Sheridan township, Newaygo county, Mich. Mayor Strong has giver away none of the bricks from Grant’a tomb, He says they will go to the G. A. B. posts. A Bogota acrobat named Warner has walked a tight rope,ovet.the chasm of the Tequendama gorge,.479 feet deep. The Passion Play {s to he given in Mexico City at a cost of.$200,000, under direction of Joseph Schurz of; Oberammergau. The Young Men, Busiress Association of Richmond has determined to secure the building ofa cotton mill:in that etty. A Chicago girl has. sued a ‘neighbor for 25,000 damages from being stung by bees. Blocd poiscning folfowed,the stinging. The coarse gold deposits of the Aztecs are believed to have “beéfi found where the Acapulco railway crosses the Balsas river. Langtry has a dréssing bag said to be the costliest of its kind. It is adorned with geld and jewelcd fittings, and cost $7,500. Captain Mahan’s “Influence of Sea Pow- er’ and De Griffis’ “Life of Commodore Perry” have heen translated into Japanese. English tfainmen have decited that an express train {s one having a connection cord and running twenty miles without stopping. Georgia 1s to ereet a large monument at Chickamauga. It will be triangular, with bronze inscriptions to infantry, cavalry and arttilery. Major Ginter, the Richmond tobacco king, has retired with $8,000,000. In 1865 he was. penniless, and for six months earned $1 a day with a push cart. The Kansas supreme court has affirmed a judgment against the city of Salina for damages by the tyrching of Dana Adams by @ mob four years ago. Gerome, the painter, has sent an eques- trian statuette of “Bonaparte in Egypt,” to the Salon. Napoleon is represented dressed in early Egyptian costume. The bulk of Caljfornia’s output of wine for 1896 has been bought by New York dealers at eighteen cents a gallon, and 3,500,000 gallons were covered by the deal. A New York broker, not long ago, by use of a homing pigeon, which he had taker with him on a@ fishing excursion, sent an ooaee to his broker that made $5,000 for im. ‘The French are wrathy at Russia for not sending back the guns and flags abandoned on the retreat of Napoleon in 1812. France = returned to Russia her trophies of the ‘rimea. Norcross, Ga., colored people have been using a nostrum to-turn them white. In- stead, the stuff turns the skin into a fiery red, and in several cases serious poisoning occurred. The Ohio medical law has been declared constitutional in the lower courts at Co- lumbus. It requires physicians to register and have certificates based upon practice or examination. A California ex-convict has been recom- mitted for a theft which he said he com- mitted for the sake of getting a home. The man’s excuse was: “Once a convict, al- ways a convict.” = A young man and a young woman took a plunge in the surf at Atlantic City Sun- day night. As they came out in dripping bath robes they chattered: “It w—w—as j--ust f—f—ine.” A traveling evangelist in the west has an assistant stationed outside his meet- ing places, and every time he brings down a fresh sinner he signals sends up a skyrocket. A baking company in Massachusetts invented the alloy lece, died last week peper and tis fe witha pink string, and paper an le , string, has appealed ats rest a rival company from doing it. Secretary of tad atoll Bloor has been tt The late Perley ‘Derby of Salem, Mass., was one of the best-known genealogists in the United States, | thirty years had been employed ta’ genealogical searches in nearly éyery state in the Union. There ts a little 4 believes isiorts 3 a of 456 pages, found in an ‘of books used a, Ty nia ty a how AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA Exercises To Be Held Today Over the Union Dead. Citizens Generally Invited to Parti- cipate—Police Court Nutes—Ball and Festival at Del Ray. Decoration day and all the arangements have been made to celebrate it by Thomas P. Davis Post, Grand Army of the Republic. The graves in the Union cemetery will ‘be decorated with pretty flowers, and the fol- lowing program observed: Assembly, bugle; calling to order, Commander Graves; “America,” choir; invocation, Rev. L. L McDougie; “Today This Hallowed Spot We Seek,” choir; reading Lincoin’s Gettysburg address, W. P. Graves; “Rock of Ages,” choir; oration, Mr. Henry R. Gibson of Tennessee; “Sleep, Sacred Dust of Noble Dead,” choir; address, Mr. P. H. McCaul; “God Be With You Till We Meet Again,” choir; strewing of flowers; benediction, Rev. L. I. McDougle; taps—bugle. The serviccs will be begun at 4 o'clock starp, and to say that they wiil be entered into. with the hearts and souls of the vet- erans who fought for the stars and stripes wculd be putting it but femme All the citizens of Alexandria, whether they sympathized with the blue or the gray, are invited to take part in the ceremoni commemorating the nation’s dead. These ceremonies are more and more elaborate each year, and each year Capt. Davis has the already beautiful cemetery in better shape. The captain, as superin- tendent of the cemetery, and as a man, has very much endeared himself to Alexan- drians, and all who go to the Nafional cem- etery may feel assured of a hearty wel- come. The Alexandria Light Infantry will, as has been their custom for years, fire a salute at the National cemetery this even- ing late. Usual Sunday Program. Yesterday was a delightful Sunday, and large numbers of people went out into“the country during the afterftoon, to enjoy the fresh country air, some on bicycles, some afoot and some in vehicles. During the morning the churches all had large con- gregations and resident rectors officiated. Crowds of people came down at intervals — Washington to visit the old historic city. Police Court. In the Police Court this morning the fol- lowing cases were disposed of by Mayor Thompson: James Lawrence, drunk and disorderly; fined $2. James Lucas, assault- ing Wellington Beale, fined $5. Jerry and Annie Dawson, disorderly conduct and fighting; Jerry fined $10 and Annie dis- missed; Chas. Madden, vagrant, ten days on the is; John Anderson, drunk in the street, fined $1; Jessie Thomas, assault and beating Martha Hughes, fined $5; Lloyd Lucas, assaulting Florence Lucas, case continued; Dan Freeman, disorderly con- duct, dismissed; Dan Lee, gambling, fined $2.50; Martha Hughes, disorderly conduct, fined $5. Ball and Festival. The Roman Catholics who reside in the neighborhood of Del Ray will give a grand ball and festival at St. Asaph Park to- night. Prof. Dunn’s orchestra has been en- gaged to furnish the music. The proceeds will be donated to the Roman Catholic Chapel recently erected at Del Ray. Mrs. Lawrence's Funeral. The funeral of Mrs. Mary Anne rence, who died Saturday, will take from the residence of her niece, Mrs. Lyons, 202 Duke street, this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Railroad Reading Kooms. The services at the railroad reading rooms, held in the large tabernacle, were largely attended and very interesting yes- terday. Mr. Dickinson of the virginia Theo- logical Seminary preached probably for the last time, although the services will be continued by students from the seminary. Junior Order U. A. M. Yesterday the various councils of the Junior Order United American Mechanics of this city united in a common cause and decorated the graves of their dead com- rades. Appropriate services were held. This morning quite a large delegation of the Junior Order went to Leesburg for the purpose of participating in the ceremony of raising “Old Glory’? on the public schools there. They will return toright. General and Personal Notes. Messrs. A. D. Brockett & Co. have suld their steam bread bakery, situated on Nerth Lee street, to a gentleman in Wash- irgton; consideraticr not named. Arthur Herbert Chapter, No. 1, Children of the Cenfederacy, will give an excursion to River View Wednesday, June 30. Mrs. Kensey Johns and her daughter, Miss Cornelia, of this city, are the guests of Mrs. R. B. Snead in Baltimore. The funeral of Mr. James Simms took place from St. Mary’s Church yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock, and was largely at- tended. A bicycle will be raffied off at the Lyceum Hal’ on Duke street tonight, for the benefit of the Young Men's Sodality Lyceum. An- other will be raffied at same place, also, to- night, for the benefit of the base ball club. ‘The post office has observed Sunday hours today. Capt. Fountain Beattie has been appoint- ed deputy revenue collector. Miss Grace Lee is quite sick at her home on Prince street. —_—_.__ A Connecticut church has an electric contribution box. The minister touches a button and small silver cars, lined with velvet, visit each pew simultaneously. Each car returns to the lockbox at the pew entrance end the deacons collect the receipts after the service. Law- place |. behind the sheet of water it forces its way AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THB EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD “CASTORIA,” aNnD “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. d, DR SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of «PITCHER'S CASTORIA,” the same that has borne and does now ~ on every bear the fac-simile signature of Cpl wrapper. This is the original « PITCHER'S CASTORIA” which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wranger and see that it is the kind you have always bought, SMELT onthe and has the signature of wrep- per. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. March 8, 1897. CA.t Fitted, Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in- gredients of which even he does not know. “The Kind You Have Always Bought” BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF C7 Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You ‘THE CENTAUR COMPANY. TY MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. =a Fall will recall how every now and then a jet of water will burst out as it falls to the gorge below, and this Mr. Level says is caused by the compressed air becoming so powerful that it bursts through the falling body of water. Follow- ing the explosion the chamber is empty and ready for another accumulation of air, which comes almost instantaneously. But if these explosions caused the Horse- shoe Fall to recede, why were not similar explosions effective on the American Fall? Examination proved that there wi greater space between the sheet of water passing over the American Fall than be- tween the cliff and the water passing over the Horseshoe Fall, while at each end there was ample opening for the air to es- cape. In the great and world-famous Cave of the Winds Mr. Level-appears to have found a condition in support of his new theory. All visitors to this strange and mighty cavern beneath the ever-falling waters of the Niagara know that there is — current of air passing out of this v cavern, which has appalled and mystified them, and which has come to be looked up- on as a phenomenon never wholly ex~ plained. As strong as this current of air is, it must be remembered that the Center Fall, under which the Cave of the Winds is located, is very small as compared with the Horseshoe Fall; in fact, not the one- hundredth part of the water passing over the Horseshoe Fall passes over the Center Fall. Who, then, can estimate the terrific force of the winds behind the Horseshoe? The fall is gradually receding, and dur- ing the last half century its recession has been quite rapid. It is predicted that in time the ledge of rock over which the water falls will gradually be eaten away, and that the falls will disappear, but this is not likely to be reac&ed in the lifetime of any person today living. a SAYS JONES WAS MISTAKEN. NIAGARA BLASTED AWAY. A New Theory as to the Recession of the Great Waterfall. From the Philadelpbia Record. What seems to be an entirely new idea as to the cause of the recession of the Horseshoe Fall of Niagara is being ex- ploited at Niagara. For years men of sci- ence have held it was the falls that ex- cavated the great and beautiful Niagara gorge, and they trace its origin way back to the glacial period. In imagination they picture the time when the river of Niagara was unknown. They tell of lakes, and pic- ture the waves washing up against the Lewiston mountain until, as time passed, they beat their way through the high bluff, and thus were the inland seas now known as Lakes Erie and Ontario connected. Gradually the great gorge was excavated. Backward, ever backward, crept the falls, until by the time a white man first looked on them, about 1678, they had arrived at the point near which they have become a delightful attraction for the human race, and where they have watchefl their grad- ual retrocession and made record of the work of moving backward. This was certainly so until a few days ago, when John C. Level, proprieter of the state reservation van service at the falls, presented an entirely new theory, and one which seems to have entirely es- caped the watchfuiness of all others. Mr. Level has been a careful watcher of the Niagara river and falls for many years, and the other day, when Prof. C. K. Gil- bert of the United States geological sar- vey was at the falls, Mr. Level called his attention to his ideas. It is Mr. Level’s notion that explosions of compressed air, accumulated from natural causes beneath the sheet of falling water, and in the rocky chamber behind the falis, account for the crumbling and wearing away of the soft shale rock, which in turn allows the break- ing away of the heavier and harder stratum of limestone. Mr. Level oe the belief that when the com has reached a certain degree of “ensity Ex-President Clevel Comments on Senator Jones’ Interview. Ex-President Cleveland was seen at hip Bayard avenue home in Princeton by @ representative of the New York Times, and asked if he had anything to say concerning the statement made by Senator Jones in the Senate on Friday to the effect that he (Mr. Cleveland) had said to him (Senator Jones) that he thought the one-fourth cent on raw sugar was necessary to the Ameri- can refiners, and that a one-eighth-cent rate would drive the refiners out of busi- ness. Mr. Cleveland, on being shown the statement of Senator Jones, sald: “] have no desire to enter into a dispute with the senater on this subject,but his statement leads me to believe that he is certainly laboring under a misapprehension as to the character of any interview with me on the subject. I never assumed to know and absolutely cared nothing about what rate of taxation on sugar would be sufficient to either maintain the sugar trust or to yield it profits, and everybody that had any conversation with me during the trobleous time of tariff conference could not fail to be aware of my position. { have always believed sugar to be a legitimate and eminently proper subject for tariff taxation, and my anxiety only extended to subjecting it to a fair tribute to necessary revenue With as little-burden to the people as was consistent fo that purpose.” with great violence through the water to the front, at the same time sending great clouds of spray high in the air and strik- ing with great force against the soft stratum of shale, wearing it away. Among the proofs to support his ideas Mr. Level offers the visional evidence he claims is to be found at periods of every few seconds throughout the day and night, depending largely on the atmospheric conditions. Mr. Level points out as a well-estab- lished fact that water tossed and rolled about as it_is in the rapids above the Horseshoe Fall will necessarily become heavily charged with air, and that the pressure of high winds would necessarily increase the tendency to this result. The water in this condition reaches the brink of the Horseshoe Fall and makes the leap over the This action in a large degree, claims, forces the air out of the water, and the combined pressure of the water and the pressure of the atmosphere from without sends this air behind the falling sheet of water, where it is compressed in the chamber caused by previous excava- tions from the same cause, the pres- sure in this natural air chamber becomes so great every few seconds that air ex- plosions occur every little while, the in- fluence of which is to crumble the shale. “All who have looked on the beautiful i We also have a few '96 medium-grade Bicycles, ENTIRELY NEW, and fully guaranteed for 6 months, at prices that will please and satisfy you. _RAMBLERS still selling at the popular price, $80.00. Second-Hand and Shop-Worn CYCLES At YOUR OWN FIGURES. 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