Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1897, Page 13

f rA-MESS TENT, 1K KITCHEN. ‘S~ SINT. CAMP AT FORT WASHINGTON. LOCATION OF TROOPS Map Prepared of the Camp at Fort Washington. : LAYING O0T THE CANVAS CITY Lieutenant Mellach to Reorganize the Light Battery. CHANGES AND ASSIGNMENTS The accompanying map of the brigade camp at Fort Washington, surveyed and drawn unier the direction of Lieut. G. V. Chandler, commanding Company C, En- gineer Corps, shows where the several or- ganizations will be quartered during the outing. The brigade, as a rule, will be housed under canvas at points farther dis- tamt from the wharf than was the case two years ago. The first tents that will be reached afier leaving the wharf will be those of the Ambulance Corps, stretched in an open space, and almost surrounded by trees. In the rear of the Ambulance Corps are the hospital tents. Next, on the right- hand side of the Fort road, is the camp of the first regiment, occupying the ground that was assigned at the last camp to the 1st Sevarate Battalion. Brigade headquarters will be in the same place it was in 1895. Back of brigade head- quarters, to the left of the Fort road, will be the temporary home of the 2d Regiment. In the rear of the 2d" Regiment quarters and grouped about the signal tower the Engineer Battalion will be posted. The band and corps of field music are to be in the space between the 2d Regiment and the Engineer Battalion. The Ist Separate Bat- talion will be on the left side of the Fort road, opposite the parade ground and on the spot occupied at the iast camp by Bat- tery A, Light Artillery. A telephone line will run from the office of the adjutant general to the main guard tent near the wail. Layfng Out the Camp. ‘The laying out of Camp Washington be- gan yesterday under the direct supervision of Ist Lieut. Wm. H. Mellach. The board floors are to be placed into position by the laborers assisting Lieut. Mellach, and they will also erect the brigade headquarters, mess and kitchen tents. The tents for the enlisted men, folded and tied, will be laid ou the buard floors; such tents, of course, are to be erected by the men after the ar- rival of the treops In camp. Water pipes are being laid throughout the | grounds and hydrants will be located at convenient intervals. Lieut. Melach in Contmand. Orders have been issued from headquar- ters honorably discharging, on their own application, nearly every member of Eat- tery A, Light Artillery. This action is the ; Girect result of the recent orders directing | that the command be reorganized as a foot battery. The consensus of op:nion among the members of the organization was to the effect that they did not care to drag cannon about the city and country, and therefore decided to leave the guard. The discharges just ordered will, of course, pre- vent the battery being represented at camp. First Lieut. William H. Mellach, Com- Fany A, 5th Battalion, has received verbal instructions from the commanding general to proceed with the reorganization of the battery. First Lieut. Alfred P. Robbins of the battery has been appointed an aid on the general staff, and Capt. H. G. Fors- berg will tender his resignation as soou as he completes the transfers of the property for which he 1s responsible as the com- manding officer of the battery. After the close of the camp, Lieut. Mellach will be commissioned as an officer of the battery, Probably first Meutenant, and will then Proceed with the reorganization. In view of his wide experience as an artilleryman, it is expected that he will be eminertiy successful in building up for the District Guard a foot battery that will be a credit- able organization in every way. Thirty men have signified to Lieut. Mellach their intention of joining forces with him. Gen. Ordway has already accor go00d dea! of work in the raivectioutan es piling drili regulations for the foot battery. These regulations are strictly original in every way and are based on the idea fol- lowed by certain English organizations of a similar character. Kiflemen Are Disappointed. The members of the Amateur Rifle Club, an organization consisting of District Na- tional Guardsmen, are greatly disappointed at the ruling of the executive committee in charge of the shooting tournament to be held at Joliet, IN, refusing the entry of a team representing the club. The members of the club practiced diligently through- out the winter and spring, had completed arrangements for the trip, and were con- fident of winning a number of substantial prizes. The action of the executive committee referred to was based on several protests that had been filed by competing organi- W. Storer, Company B, 2d Separate Bat- talion, to Company A, 4th Battalion. The following supernumerary officers Fave been ordered to report to the com- manding officer of the 2d Regtment for duty at camp: Capt. F. S. Hodgson, First Lieut. F. J. Woodman, First Lieut. W. P. Vale and 24 Lieut. George W. Byron. First Lieut. Lutaer H. Reichelderfer of the su- rerrumerary list will be attached to the staff of the Ist Regiment during camp. Notes. The program adopted by the executive committee to govern the proposed effi- ciency competition in the brigade, as here- tofore stated in The Star, recelved the approval of the commanding general May 24 last, and that fact has been announced in general orders. In generai orders from headquarters it Is snnounced that to indicate service, all enlisted men of the Ambulance Corps, who have served faithfully for one term of three years’ enlistment, will wear as a mark of distinction upon the undress coat a “service chevron’’ of the kind and in the manner prescribed for the Hospiial Corrs, U. S. A., in like manner an addi- tional chevron for each subsequent term, of three years’ service. At a meeting of the officers of the ist Regiment recently, preparations for camp were discussed in detail. Col. Alexander announced that every man who cannot gu to camp must state his reasons and be formally excused. Col. Alexander has also called upon the officers who failed to at- tend the meeting referred to for a written repert explaining their absence. —-—_—_- MONEY FORGED BY A BLACKSMITH. ‘Tacoma’s Early Currency Wasn't Pretty, but It Went All the Same. From the Tacoma Ledger. Tacoma once had a mint that coined all the money in circulation where the city of destiny now stands, and it did not require the fiat of Uncle Sam, the silver of Idaho, or the gold of California to make the pieces from Tacoma’s mint pass current among the Indians and the few hardy pioneers that were blazing the path of civilization through the forest on the shores of Com- mencement bay. Back in the early seventies the Tacoma Mill Company, not being able to handily secure gold and silver for use in trading with and paying off the Indian laborers and early settlers, hit upon the novel plan of issuing their own currency, and to this end set their blacksmith at work to fashion for them, out of scraps of iron and brass, Pieces of money, or rather tokens, which could be used as a circulating medium. The pieces consisted of 40 and 45-cent iron tokens and brass $1 pieces. The 40-cent pieces were about an inch in diameter, and the 45-cent pieces were about the size of the present silver half dollar. The $1 pieces were oval in shape, about an inch and a quarter long, an inch wide and a sixteenth of an inch in thickness. These pleces were stamped with the figures showing their value, and readily passed current all over the country tributary to the mill. Nearly all of this old “mill” coin has passed away, but a few days ago William Hanson of the Tacoma Mill Company pre- sented a set of these queer coins to the Ferry Museum. In his letter he said: “The honesty of the people and the ab- sence of any blacksmith shop save that of the company made the use of this money possible.” Oregon has long boasted that the “‘Bea- ver’ coin, minted at Oregon City in the early & was the only money minted in the northwest in the days of the ploneer, tut here in Tacoma, long years after Ore- gon’s “Beaver” mint had become a his- torical incident, was a primitive mint that supplied the coin to furnish the pioneers and Indians with all of the necessities for their rough lives. The coins which are still preserved ere roughly made, just ich as any blacksmith with ordinary tools might make, and as a matter of fact during the early years of the mill company’s existence formed practically the local circulating medium of exchenge. When the Indians who were employed in the mill were paid for their labor this coin sufficed, as all the trading they did was with the little store run in connection with the mill. The iron and brass pieces were, of course, passed among the Indtans in trading with each other, and as anything In the way of sup- plies was purchased by them at the mill store, the pieces were fully as good to them as if they had borne the government stamp. ———_+»-_____. MeKiuley’s Induction sonry. From the Chicago Chronicle. About a fortnight ago the Masonic lodge of Winchester, Va., in which President Mc- Kinley was made a master Mason, invited him to visit the city as a guest of the lodge, promising to receive and entertain him with full honors. Abner Wallahan, a member of the lodge, gives an interesting account of the manner in which the Presi- dent became attached to the fraternity. It was in the spring of the year 1865, at the close of the war, when McKinley was sta- tioned at Winchester. He was going through the hospital in company with the surgeon in charge, when he noticed that the surgeon was kind to some wounded confederate prisoners. After tenderly dress- ing their wounds the surgeon gave the con- federates some money that they might Procure something which was needed for their comfort. McKinley questioned the surgeon as to the reason for his kindness to the captives, and was told that it was because they were brother Masons. The young soldier was so much impressed with the incident that he expressed a wish to Mr. Into Ma- zations, raising the point that the Ama- teur Rifle Club had not been in existence a year, and thereby failed to comply with —_ of the requirements of-the Scheutzen- Appointments, Details and Transfers. Capt. Charles B. Hudson, formerly ad- Jutant of the Ist Regiment, and First Lieut. Alfred P. Robbins of Battery A, Light Ar- tillery, have been appointed aids on the staff. Ordnance Sergeant Leuts A. Roginski has my appointed quartermaster sergeant of has been granted leave of ¢ month. Transfers as follows have been ordered: nt M. O. Mayes, Company B, 2d Baw to_the Ambulance Corps; fikin of Battery A. Light Ardilery te , to C, 4th Battalion; Corporal Geo. William Edgar Horton, aid-de- absence if ~ Join the fraternity, and, a special dispensa- ton being obtained for the purpose, he was at once initiated, passed and raised to the “sublime degree of a master Mason” in the Winchester lodge. ogist, tleth birthday a specially printed volume entitled “Aegyptica,” and containing sev- enteen essays by former pupils of his, among them six who are professors of Egyptology at German universities. Members of a Caldwell, Kan., church @ bee the other day to dig a cyclone for their pastor. A Kansas City ticket seller recently took as security A Norfolk dog jumped eighty feet from a Delfry tbe other day and wan unkart The Jefferson Club of Augusta, Ga, has been formed to celebrate each year the Fourth of July. M. C. Barber of Canton, a brother-in-law of President , Says that, all re- aes the contrary, the President and Foraker are the best of friends, had cellar THE NATIONAL GUARD General Orders and Circulars A ffect- ing the Coming Encampment. ARRANGEMENTS MADE” IN” DETAIL The District Soldiers Will Go to Fort Washington Thursday. WILL REMAIN TEN DAYS General orders and circulars, announcing in detail the arrangements for the encamp- ment of the District of Columbia National Guard, which will begin next Thursday, will be issued from headquarters late this aflernoon or tomorrow. These orders and circulars, which, for several weeks past, have been eagerly awaited by the guards- men, are as follows: The annual ercampment of the National Guerd will be held at Fort Washington from Thursday, June 10, to Saturday, June 19. The camp is hereby designated and will be known as Camp Washington. The troops of the National Guard will assemble in heavy marching order, at the foot of 7th street southwest, on Thursday, Jvne 10, at 9:30 o'clock a.m., to embark for the camp. Canteens and haversacks will be omitted from the equipment. Overcoats will be packed end sent with company baggage. Woolen blankets will be rolled ineide the rubber blankets and strapped on top of blanket bags by the coat straps. Tin cups will be suspended from loop on botton of blanket bags. Attention is led to section 40 of the act of Congress “‘to provide for the or- ganization of the militia of the District of Columbia,” which enacts: “That any drill, parade, encampment or duty that is required, ordered or authorized to be performed under the provisions of this act shall be deemed to be a military duty.” All officers and men who for any cause cacnot perform the tour of duty hereby ordered must previously make application and procure written excuse from their im- mediate commanding officer. Those who fail to procure such written excuse must be reported as absent without leave and will be treated accordingly. Baggage Allowed. Officers will each be allowed one small trunk, and companies will be allowed a moderate amount of company baggage, which will be marked with letter of com- pany and number of battalion to which the officer or company belongs. No package must be of a size or weight inconvenient for two men to handle. Organizations will not be permitted to carry barrack chairs that have been issued to them except such as are required for the officers’ tents. Bag- gage will be delivered at the wharf of the Mount Vernon and Marshall Hail Steam- boat Company on June 9, before 9 a.m. The commanding cfficer of each organiza- tion sending baggage will detail an officer or non-commissioned officer to take charge of it. Quartermasters and quartermaster sergeants of battalions will be at the wharf on June 9, at 8 o'clock a.m., to receive bag- age and take charge of loading it on the steamer. All baggage must be sent to camp on June 9, and none whatever ‘will be permitted on the steamer carrying the troops on June 10. All mounted officers, except the aids, will send their horses to camp June 9. Commanding officers of companier who issue clothing, arms and equipments to any man not regularly enlisted in the Na- tional Guard, and permit him to go to camp, will be subject to court-martia] for disobedience of existing orders. The following regulations relative to du- tles in camp are published for the guidance of the’ National Guard: 1. Commanding officers will read all gen- eral orders and circulars that have been issued relative to the camp, or that may be issued during the encampment, to their companies at the first assembly after they are received. 2. Consolidated morning reports of regi- ments and separate battalions and morning reports of separate companies will be sent to the Office of the adjutant general before 4 o'clock p.m. on Thursday, the 10th in- stant, and daily thereafter before 10 o'clock am. 3. All formations of a company mitist be attended by at least one of its officers, and there will be three stated roll calls—re- yee, assembly for dress parade and tat- Rules for Roll Call. 4. At each stated roll call, except dress parade, the commanding officer of each battalion will station himself in front of his headquarters, and the adjutant will station hin.self near him to receive the re- pcrts of the company officers superintend- ing roll calls. The company officer making the report and the adjutant salute each other. Military courtesy requires the jun- jor to salute first, but when the saiute is introductory to a report made at a muli- tary ceremony or formation to the repre- sentative of a common superior—as, for example, to the adjutant, officer of tha day, etc.—the officer making the report, whatever his rank, will salute first; the o1ti- cer to whom the report is made will ac- knowledge report the general result. 5. At fatigue calls the men of each com- pany will put their tents in order and thor- oughly police their company street, plac- a pus at the end of the ine. If the weath- morning fatigue call they will loop up the walls of their tents, and lower tkem at afternoon fatigue neatly piled. After tattoo roll call they. will “ce taken from the storage tent. Guards the grounds adjacent to the Commanding officers of regiments_will-detall necessary number SE aire ee police the stf®ete company, battalion and the intervals tween bat! ‘on the respective as soon fatigue duty is completed“and report the result to their comi officers. tattoo and during-wet weather, to be tight- ened again at a or when the weather ol : 7. The efor defacing of tents tn any manner is strictly prohibited. In case any tents aft marked or defaced the com- y in which it occurs will be required te pay the cost, value-of such tent. Tents for Storage Purposes. 8. If there are vacant tents in a company they will be assigned for the storage of bed sacks. In case there are no vacant tents, application will be made to the post quur termaster for an extra tent for such use. At fatigue call In the morning bed sackr will be carried to the storage tent and neatly piled. After tattoo roll call they will be taken from the storage tent. 9. Men will not be allowed to wash in their tents or throw water in the company streets. Wash benches will be provided ad- Joining the water barrels at the ond of the company streets, 10. The firing of fiftes, pistols or fire- works in camp is absolutely prohibited. Any man disobeying this order will be sum- marily punished by being stripped of bis uniform, drummed out of the camp and dishonorably discharged from the service. 31. No officers or enlisted men will be permitted to wear civilian’s dress in camp. ‘The utmost attention will be given by com- pany commanders to the cleanliness of their men as to their persons, clothing and tents. A proper place will. be designated on the beach for bathing. The hair will be kept short and beard neatly trimmed. Tt should be the endeavor of every man to appear neat and soldierly. The most com- mon faults in dress are colored shces, col- ored neckties. hats worn on the -side or pack of ste nena, os tees unbuttoned. le on duty these faults w! = mite. will not be per- 2. A large ice-water barrel is provided ee ee ee Taking ‘ce from these 8, er by officers or = ly prohibited, SE Gea 13. All persons not belonging to the camp must leave it at tattoo, unless they have Permission of the commanding officer to "oa No pedal 14. No peddlers, newsboys, photo; hers or stands for the sale of Ax articles. will be permitted without special written au- thority from these headquarters. 15. Applications to leave camp must be made through first sergeants to company commanders, who, if they approve, will sign passes and forward them to battalion headquarters for approval. No ™man will be permitted to leave camp without such a pass. Common Faults, 16. The universally common faults of the volunteer militia are ignorance of guard duty and a total lack of observance of the forms of military courtesy. The greatest attention will, therefore, be paid by offi- cers to instruction in these important duties. Courtesy among military men and respect to superiors are indis; good discipline. Sap All officers salute each other meet, the junior making the Soldiers out of ranks salute all officers, with the hand, if unarmed; the “rifle salute” is prescribed for individual soldiers with arms, except,sentineis, who salute by presenting arms. (Officers must scrupul- ously acknowledge ali salutes. Men and officers must.remnember that the prescribed salute is an gct of courtesy, not an act of servility, and that whatever may be their relations in c{vil ]ife to their superior offi- cers, they have voluntarily surrendered those relations while on military duty, and the surest mark of their inte!ligent appre- ciation of the work in which they are en- gaged is a punctilieus observance of all the forms that experience has proved to be es- sential to dispipline. 17. The commanding general trusts that the discipline, good order and desire on the part of the men for instruction, which characterized former encampments of the National Guard, will be a marked feature of the camp, for this year. 18. The object of the camp is instruction in military duty, to which all else must be subordinate; hut in their hours off duty the men will he permitted to. enjoy. them- selves in evéry reasonable manner. Mock parades, disorderly conduct and shouting will not be permitted. 19. It has required persistent effort to induce Congress to appropriate the money for the expenses of the camp of instruc- tion. Seventy-five per cent of the aggre- gate strength of the brigade is the least attendance that can justify the expendi- ture. Any company that has less than this average attendance in camp will be dis- banded, unless it can be shown on thorough investigation that special and proper rea- sons prevented it. The Daily Routine. The following routine of duty will be ob- served each day durirg the encampment of the National Guard: Reveille, 5:45 a.m.; fatigue cali, 6:15 a.m.; sick call, 6:30 a.m.; mess call (breakfast), 7 a.m.; guard mount- ing (exterior guard), 8 a.m.; drill call, 9 &.m.; recall, 1,a.m.; @riit call, 11:39 a.m.; recall, 12:30 p.m.; mess call (dinner), 1 p.m.; drill call, 2:30 p.m.; recall, 4 p.m.; drill call, 4:15 p.m.; guard mounting (provost guard), 4:30 p.m.; recall, 5:15 p.m.; fatigue call, 4:45 p.m.; brigade parade, 6 p.m. ;retreat(if there be no brigade parade), 6:30 p.m.; mess call (supper), 7 p.m.; tattoo, 10‘p.m.; taps, 10:30 when they first salute. m1. P Reveille roll call will be followed by set- ting-up exercises for fifteen minutes in each company, under the instruction of its commissioned officers. ‘The drills at 11:30 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. will be for men who in the prescribed drills show need for more elementary instruction, for officers’ drilis and such special drills as may from time to time be found desirable. On Thursday, 10th instant, afternoon dritl call will be omitted, and the provost guard will be r-ounted at 4 o'clock. Instructors Detailed. Capts. Constantine Chase, 4th United States Artillery, Charles H. Heyl, 234 United States Infantry, and Herbert J. Slocum, 7th United States Cavalry, having been detailed by direction of the Secretary of War to attend the encampment of the National Guard as _ instruciors, will be obeyed and respected accordingly. The folloving details for the camp are announced: Post quartermaster, Capt. H. H. Parmenter, quartermaster 2d Regiment; assistant post quartermaster, First Lieut. William H. Mellach, Company A, 5th Bat- talion. The following details for guard duty will be made: ‘Thursday, June 10, provost guard, Company D, 1st Battalion; Friday, June 11, exterior guard, Company B, 4th Battalion; provost guard, Company A, 5th Battalion. Saturday,June 12,exterior guard, Company A, First Separate Battalion; provost guard, Company C, 2d Battalion. Sunday, June ,13, éxterior guard, Company C, 1st Battalidn; prcvost guard, Companies A and D, 4th Batfalion. Monday, June 34, exterior guard, Company B, Ist’ Separate Battalion; pap guard, Company A, 2d Battalion. vostia , June 15, exterior guerd, Company B, 5th Battalion; provost guard, Company B; 2d Battalion. Wednes- day, June 16, exterior guard, Company C, 1st Separate, Battalion; provost guard, Company C,' Sth Battalion. ‘Thursday, June 17, exterior guard, Company C, 4th Battalion; prdvest*guard, Company D, Sth Battalion. FridaygJune ae ae guard, Company D,; arate ittalion; pro- eae ist Battalion. B, ist ment the brigade will During the be subsisted of battalion messes. A large mess tent and a kitchen will be erected for sh, battalion and led. with the ni numi of Bozzacott’s field ol and necessary amount missary. Other subsistence stcres will be issued in bulk three times during the en- its at the rate commands. of stockings it turns tafled for duty the quarter- master or quartermaster sergeant, or some Guly OGicer, must be sent to camp on the 9th instant to draw from the pest agora te igen | tools and sont ery dita trae have them ly for issue to on arrival of Must Exercise Vigitance. Inceasing vigilance must’ be exercised to keep the mess tents and kitchens and the grounds around them scrupulously clean. Dish water and slops- must in- variably be carried to the sinks to be emytied, and all garbage must be deposited in acre for removal by the post quarter- master. On arrival m camp the commanding of- ficer of each company will procure from the quartermaster of his battalion the tools and supplies allotted to his company, and the morning of the 11th instant for reg- istry. They will then be furnished with a badge or ticket to prevent their arrest by guards. The screw eyes issued to each company will be screwed in the rear pole of tents at proper height to insert the muzzle of a rifle and allow its butt to rest on the tent floor. On application the post quartermaster will issue to battalion quartermasters small ropes, to be attached to ridge poles of tents for use in hanging clothes. The post office address of the camp is “Fort Washington, Maryland.” <A letter box will be located at the office of the post quartermaster. - His Pen Name When He Began News- paper Work Waa Josh. ‘From the San Francisco Call. Mr. Clemens’ first pen name, when he commenced to write for Joe Goodman's Territorial Enterprise, in Virginia City, Nev., about 1863, as correspondent from Esmeralda district, where he mined for a living, was “Josh.” The fun and humor that bubbled up in his letters tickled the Washoeites and made the paper sought after. They sent for him, and he came, gladly relinquishing the pick and shovel, the windlass and the bucket, for the jour- nalist’s pen. Mr. Clemens came to Virginia City dressed in the usual garb of a miner, well-worn at that, and demeaned himself with all a miner's freedom. He had, also, in a greater degree than subsequently, the exceptional drawl in his speech, which he chose to consider one factor in the sum of his distinctive individuality. He took reacily to reporting the varying fortunes of the mining community, and_strength- ered the writing force on the Enterprise materially, while, at the same time, avail- ing himseif of legitimate opportunities to acquire “feet” in the Comstock and shares in different outlying es. He was ac- counted quite rich in this kind of property at one time. With liberal remuneration for his work, his-personal appearance rap- idty improved, and he grew to be a swell in a mild way, besides cleaner in speech as well as in dress. Becoming dissatisfied with his pen name “Josh,” he changed it to “Mark Twain, by which, at the present day, he is known in the Hterature of the werid. About 1844 Mr. Clemens came to San Francisco. It cannet be sald he made many friends in Nevada. There were some who affected his company on account of his writings, but he had not the faculty of winning friendship. Before he arrived in the city he had uccumulated, as before stated, a govd deal of money, every stiver of which he sunk in Hale & Norcrcss. Then he teok up the burden of Iiterary life again. He wrote San Francisco letters to his old paper, the Territoriul Enterprise, and for some real or fancied cause attack- ed the local police so persistently ana fiercely that Martin G. J. Burke, who was chlef of the force at the time, brought a suit for libel against the paper. Such envenomed communications as Mr. Clem- ens wrote on this subject have rarely been penned. They made the official equarim- ity of the old city hall boil like a caidron of asphaltum, the fume and stench being in proportion. He also contributed for Charley Webb (“Inigo”) to the Califor- nian, for the Golden Era, and did all sorts of jiterary work whereby he could turn a cent. It was a terrible uphill business, and a less determined man than himself would have abandoned the struggle and remainca at the bese. Mr. Clemens was at Steam- ngs, Nev., for his health, when was written offering him a piace ll, He came down shorily after, but judging from his appearance fortune had been playing scurvy tricks with him in the interim. Without doing the gentle- man any injustice it can be freeiy stated that although at the time a good general writer end correspondent, he made but an indifferent reporter. He only played at itemizing. Corstdering his experience in the moun- tains, he had an inexplicable aversion to walking, and in putting his matter on pa- per he was, to use his own expression, “slower than the wrath to come.” Many funny and characteristic incidents occur- red during his few months’ stay on the Call. He only wanted to remain long enough, he said, when he engaged to go to werk, to make “a stake,” but on leaving his purse was no heavier than when he came. The most notable thing he did that can now te recalled was a phillipic against some undertaking employes, where the morgue happened to be, for the deadhouse, in those days, like the old-fashioned plan with the country schoo! mistres: € villagers, was “boarded roun dertaker accommodati:g the coroner in turn. It appears some one about the place refused to give Mr. Clemens information, or to let him see “the slate,” and next morring he got suc a dose, commencing “these body snatchers,” that a general apology was immediately made by every man in the establishment. The proprietor was cast at the time, but when he read the article he shivered, as he confessed after- ward, and considered his business ruined. Mr. Clemens parted from the Call people on the most friendly terms, when it was found necessary to make the local depart- ment more efficient, admitting his repor- torial shortcomings and expressing sur- prise that they were not sooner discovered. coe White Phosphorus in Matches, From the Chautanquan. Matches of white phosphorus answer, indeed, to every need. They ignite upon any surface whatever, without noise, with- out conflagration, without risk of explc- sion. Their manufacture is simple, easy, inexpensive. Covered with a protecting varnisn, they defy inclemency, even hu- midity. The wqrkman of the country as well as the city, the traveler, the hunter allured far from inhabited places, is al- ways assured, with matches in his pocket, cf being able to make a fire wherever he finds himself. Is any other substance capable of offer ing the same advantages? No, assured!: there is none which is comparable to it. There is no substitute for white phosphor- us. But it is a poison; it-threatens workmen with the gravest dangers; it mutilates and kills them. White phosphorus is volatile; it diffuses, in the atmosphere of workshops where matches are being made, acrid and irritat- ing vapors which darken the air. Pene- trating into the respiratory passages, the vapors are slowly absorbed by the sys- tem, become fixed in the blood and the tis- sues, and produce there that particular state which has been designated by the name phosphorismus. Michigan's legislature has reduced the taxes for 1897-8 by almost $1,000,000. A golf ball at Burntisiand, 1 hit a horse with such Cones kill great-grandfather on church warden’s pew. They had all be- longed to the same church all their On Verdi's eighty-third will direct the pitching of the tents of | his company. All employes, and officers’ servants must - be reported to the post quartermaster on | % —— MARK TWAIN AS A REPORTER. that’s 906 F 3 ROYAL BLUE _ SERGE SUITS. 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D., pastor, when the entire day from 9 in the morning to 9 in the evening will be given up to a continuous service conducted by the following laymen of the church: Messrs. Gray, Van Horn, Mitchell, Martin, Strang, White, Barber, Hill, and in the evening a sermon by Rev. Luther B. Wilson, D. D. The sacramental service is to last from 11 to 1. Since the resignation of the organist and director cf the choir of the Church of the Incarnation the rector has reorganized the choir, the present organist being Mr. El- Hott Prentiss and the director of music Mr. Harry Bell. Archbishop Martinelli is to confirm a large class at St. Aloysius Church Trinity Sunday, June 13. It is understood that the rector of Trin- ity P. E. Church, Rev. Richard P. Will- jams, is to establish a mission of the church within the bounds of the parish in South Washington. Rev. A. Thomas G. Apple of Grace Re- formed Church has returned from attend- ance on the sessions of the Maryland classis at Westminter, Md., as a delegate. gate. The congregation ef Union Methodist Episcopal Church, 25th street near Penn- sylvania avenue, have decided to improve their house of woership and increase its seating capacity during the coming sum- mer. A committee on building has been appointed as follows: The pastor, Rev. Alexander Bielaski, Messrs. E. Wes- cott, Alexander Ashley, Anson Taylor, F. A. Linger and M. Fernandez and Mrs. S. M. Wescott, Miss Emma Hunter, Miss Nellie Ross and Miss Hodge. Rev. James H. Lemon, who officiated at the Church of the Incarnation during the recent fliness of the rector, has gone to West Gardiner, Mass., for the summer. The annual meeting of the convocation of the Protestant Episcopal didcese of Washington is to take place in the Pro- Cathedral Church of St. Mark, Wednesday, June 16, when the essayist is to be the Rev. T. A. Johnstone of Laurel, Md., whose topic will be “The Division of the Convo- cation.” The members of the Southern Methodist Brotherhood belonging to Mt. Vernon and Marvin Chapters recently met in debate at the church of the latter chapter on the ibject: “Resolved, That Daniel Was a Greater Man Than Moses.” The judges decided that the debaters of Marvin Church had the better of the argument. Rev. Adam Roach of the Fifth Congre- gational Church is making arrangements to erect a new house of worship during the fall, and to this end the*congregation of the church gave a fes-ival on Tuesday evening. The Church of Our Savior having been erected into a separate parish from the mother parish of Rock Creek, the con- gregation mei Wednesday evening and elected its first_regulur vestry. The rec- tor, Rey. John T. Crowe, also conducts a mission, called. St. Barnabas’ P. E. Mis- sion, at Langdon, and has organized a Sun- day school in connection with it. The Catholic Knights conhected with St. Teresa’s Catholic Church gave an ex- cursion on Thursday evening for the bene- fit of the new church. Under the auspices of the Southern Meth- odist Brotherhood Rev. Dr. J. T. Wight- man, a former pastor of Mt. Vernon M. E. Church South, delivered an address last evening at the church, on “The March of a Young Man.” Trinity Chapter of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew has decided to have another of its socials for men, the arrangements for which have been placed in the hands of a committee, consisting of Dr. A. C. Mer- riam and Messrs. Wm. Mason Brown and William L. Browning. In the fall, the brotherhood expects to open reading rooms. The kindergarten of Epiphany Chapel is to close in ten days. The school has been in charge of Miss Upshur during the past year and has hed on its rolls fifty pupils. Rev. Herbert Scott Smith, minister in charge of the Chapel of the Good Shep- herd, H street northeast, spent this week cut of the city visiting his parents. The first year which Dr. MeKim has had the chapel under fis supervision is nearly up, but he will take advantage of the ment with St. Mark’s Church to continue the work for another year and then, at’ the end of that time, it is expected that some arrangement will be made by which the Good Shepherf Chapel may be allowed to cdntinue independently. A garden party for the benefit of the sewing school of St. Peter's parish was given on the grounds of the pastoral res- idence Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Rev. Dr. 8. M. Hartseck, of Ry- land Churca, moved out to his country place, “Har-Lew,” Savage, Md., this week. The quarterly meeting of the Women's Home and Wi ton Church is to take place next Wednesday, at Fifteenth Street Church, The Sunday School Missionary Society of lowing officers £0 scrve during the ensuing wing officers to serve ing twelve months: President, George E. Bar- Grace Brewer; 3 vice Miss ade Fisher, and treasurer, fund. morning at the weekly at A Young Men's Sodality has been organ- frith several sheep to sell. He alsp wished | tzeq from among the young men of Bt. spent ‘the entire day, by me a Pearl Andrew ers and tradeamen. At @ o'clock in the | rrnity Church has organized @ base hall evening he invited the assemblage has already played into the inn and gaye them @ fine supper. | games, the gymnasium having been closed friends at an open meeting last Monday evening. The Thursday night mectings at the Cen- tral Union Mission have been placed in charge of Rev. E. D. Bailey in the ab- sence of Mr. Allen Wood, who is out of the city. Miss Della Wright is in charge of the organ cn the Gospel wagon and also of the mission organ on Sundays, Misa Josie Sullivan has been appointed to the same duty on Monday evenings. The Christian Endeavorers of the Church of the Reformation were entertained at a sociable Friday evening at the residence of Miss Dumont. The Sunday school of Mt. Vernon M. E. Church intends to observe sunday, June 13, as Children’s day, and is making spe- clal preparations for the occasion. The new pastor Rev. J. W. Duffey, will take part in the exercisos. Rev. A. M. Hilliker, minister in charge ; ot Epiphany P. E. Chapel, together with the superintendent of the Sabbath schooi, Mr. Lewis J. Davis, has determined to place the schvol cn a new and better basis, and to this end will have regular meetings of the teachers, at which there will be a discussion of the lessons and methods of work. i The Christian Endeavor Society of R; land M. E. Church, numbcring seventy-five membe-s, has elected the foliowing olficera to serve for a year: President, George E. Barber; secretary, Elbert E. Todd, and trasurer, William J. Hall. ‘The Women's Christian Temperance Union of the District of Columbia, of which Mrs. Margaret B. Platt ts president, is to hold a general meeting, Tuesday, June 15, at North Capitol M. E. Church, the session to om all day. Bishop John F. Hurst preached in York last Sunday. a so At the last meeting of the Lutheran Min- isters’ Association, Rev. Bevere F. Weid- ner gave an interesting aceount of the work of English Lutheran in the north- west, particularly in Chicago. The Young People’s Society of Chris- tian Endeavor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church gave an excursion Jast evening to Jndiga Head, and by invi- taticn a number of the logel Presbyterian ministers were present, © ~ The work of the newly organized Ci 1 Aid Society of Epiphany Chapel will close with aa outing on Wednesday, June 23. The Girls’ Club has also closed a success- ful season. The new rector of Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, East Washington parish, Rev. Arthur S. Johns, will assume charge of his new church tomorrow at the same time that his successor, Rev. Mr. Packard, takes charge at Christ Church, Rockville. The Southern Methodist Brotherhood of Mt. Vernon Church met Tuesday evening for @ business meeting, which was fol- lowed by an hour of music and other en- tertainment. ——_—_ A POLITICIAN’S DISAPPOINTMENT. Why 0: Man Got Place and An- other Did Not. From Chauncey Depew’s Montauk Club Speech. “Our people, as a people, love office and seek it with avidity. In party conventions nominations go, as a rule, with great im- partiality to those who have political value and political sagacity. In appointments, however, the arpointing power, by the very necessity of the conditions which surround a President or a governor, is moved largely by personal considerations, personal acquaintance and the confidence of personal contact. “I have had two experiences which charmingly illus*rate this principle, both of which occurred when I was a young men. While still in the law office where I had studied after my admission to the bar I spent two months upon the stump in the presidential canvass. At Its close I sat one night in the Delevan House, at Albany, with two most successful pla form orators, who had been three months canvassing—witty and eloquent Jim Nye and eloquent Gen. Bruce. ‘Well,’ said Bruce, ‘Jim, what will we get? Nye said: “We have worked too hard to get any. thing. It is the man who sits on the fence and criticises the worker who demon- strates his fitness for place.’ Neither of them got anything by appointment, but Bruce was frequently honored by the vot- ers of New York, and Nye, moving to Nevada, came back to the United States ; Senate to give to that state a national and an international reputation, “After the enactment of :he internal revenue laws the able old lawyer with whom I studied thought it would te a good idea for me to combine in the firm politics with law by becoming am assessor of internal revenue. All other dates: retired, and the whole power of was put in the hands of the judge, who went to Washington. The President said: ‘This appointment se2ms perfecily clear. The support is unanimous. I have heard something of the services and eloquence of this young man, and I will make the ap- pointment.’ After some further conversa- tion, he said: ‘By the way, what counties are in your district?’ At the mention of Westchester, he remarked: ‘Well, I am very sorry, but I promised that place yes- terday.” “As the party powers in the state and corgressional district had presented no one but myself, the judge inquired, ‘To whom?” The president named the man, when the delegation said, in astonishment, ‘Why, he is a democrategand has always been, and vigorously opposed your election!’ ‘Yes,’ eaid the President, ‘but years ago, @ perfect stranger, at a western hotel, jursed a near relative of mine through an ttack of the smallpox, when else fied, and, from the character ‘Hitt i 3 i i i i ae hi i