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18 Mrs. Barker was returning for, but her diamonds! Mrs. Horncastle called her; she Res er was alread: THE EVENING -8TAR, SATPRDAY, JUNE 12, 1897-24 PAGES. doing here—in “spot ee epealt can claim? * We ain't we'fa Bejghtors on, tbe same, eletsa® tet ar 5 we ain't Molar tos ba By next month,” he sald, breathlessly, “and little Sta loves her already as if she was A slight shadow passed over Stacy's face. his was the first to grasp PHYSICIANS BAFFLED. castle hesitated for a moment only, and ing to see Marshall ousted by | But hand SESS TALENT ESE ES EES EES CY aaeares Bre Sa, boys?” Barker's and his volce the first’ tess blea ‘over somethingthe prostrate, Agure | ping the’ pots ‘nd acta aug a tees | “AMEN ona ver something—the prost ig the selzing ir an . 4 of the nurse. But this saved her, for'shs | Fevetverse Thay” undersigod the ispeal Ta —_>+— Prof. R. 8. Bowman, Instructor of Natural Science in THE FE H found that nest the flove she could breathe ame. it n cae aoe aa instant the}iny THE CHURCHES Coll Cured of a Se Tin + petore sate pminest. Then Hartsville open door.” She crept alshe, toward it on | feces belpha? deca eos ollege, of a Severe Illness by Or, her hands and knees. The frightened cry | ~ “*Y: trouble yourselves about |- of a child, awakened from its sleep in the i! I sent these gentle- Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People . 1 7 dark, gave her nerve to rise, enter the claim until I came here The congregation of the United Brethren 2k 2 The Big Strike on Heavy Tree Hill. room, and dash open the window. By the | with, th or,” gnd two men stepped | Memorial Church have decided to creet a After Physicians Failed. ie ERE, r Aashing light she could see a. little figure eae 3 of myrtle tn the Fear Of | carsonage for thélr pastor on the lot ed- ising from a bed. It was “Sta.” ere followers. ie speaker, From the blican, Colum: Ind. se SS was not a moment to be lost, for the open | Marshall fp thin, slight, over-worked, | Joining the church edifice on the south, at} |) | 3 the able instructor ray a serie yee x14 the prof 1 BY BRET HARTE. window was beginning to draw the smoke | ove! Saat eer nee the survey- | the corner of North Capitol and R streets. | .cT'scicsce ta the famous Hartevilie thal) Gulaps, | brody sania Sieieat, fall exhaustion, "and was’ ws —— from the passage. Luckily, the boy, by | Or, was equally slight, but red-bearded,| ‘The annual report of Epiphany parish | is well and fa Known, not only as an edu: | able to attend to my deties. J tried dif (Copyright, 1807, by Bret Harte.) Seon eee cgratinet, threw Bis arms | spectacle’, ssid professional looking, with @| gives the total number of communicants as | color bet alse as a miaistrt of the . as tor | ferent . but with no relief. and also used = around her neck and left her hands free. | leng traveling duster that made him ap- & number of years he was pastor the United | many different proprictary medicines, spending ni Whispering him to hold tight, she clam-| pear even clerical. They were scarcely a 2,158; contributions during the year from | Brethren at Charlotte, Mich., before coming | most fifty dollars for these medicines alone. 1 a bered out of the window. Physical addtst lon to Stacy’s party, wha’ all sources, $34,471.71, and number of offi- succumbed to a siege of the fo the middie we) A narrow ledge of cornice scarcely wide enough for her feet ran along the house to a distant balcony. With her back to the ever might port. But it was-just this support that Steptoe of winter, and was left in a n My kidneys wero feavtully di gestion became very poor. I ‘be their moral and legal sup- | cers and teachers in all the Sunday schools, 891, use, glgnag: social ever Condition. ing was spent yester- “A minixter in confer \ 2 house, sh ed her feet along the | strangely clung to im his designs for the | _4 Novel social even! d fer in conference learning of my condi we _ | cornice to met ase from the smoke, which future, anda wild idea seized ‘him. ‘The | day evening by the members of ‘Trinity - wm rdey pve y an cuttame’ Fink Patio Gor < ed From Last Snturday’s Star. | morning, for he looked like a man to whom | ROW poured directly from the window. | Surveyor was really the only disinterested | P. E. Church, when a number of the mem. a . Thad oa onde Then she grew dizzy; the weight of the child on her bosom seemed to be toppling her forward toward the abyss below. Shi elcsed her eyes, frantically grasping the child with crossed arms on her breast as she stood on the ledge, until, as seen from below through the twisting smoke, she it was just a ‘toss up’ whether he took his own life then and there, or was willing to have somebody else take it for him, for he said, ‘I'll go myself,’ and telegraph to have the surveyor stopped from coming. Then he told me to teli you fellows and ask you to come, too.” Jack paused, and added, half mischievously, “He sort of asked me what I would take to stand by him in the row, if there was one, and I told him I'd take—whisky! You see, boys, it’s a kind of off night with me, and I wouldn't mind for the sake of old times to finish the game with old Steptoe that I began a matter of five years ago.” “All right,” said Demorest, with a kin- ling eye; “I suppose we'd better start at witness between the two parties. If Step- toe could confuse mind before the agtual fighting—from which he would, of course, escane as a non-combatant—it would go far afterward to rehabilitate Steptoe's Party. “Very well, then,” he said to Mar- shall, “E shall call. this gentleman to wit- ness that we have been attacked here in peaceable possession of our part of the claim. by thege armed strangers, and, whether they are acting on your orders or not, their blood will be on your. head.” “Then I reckon,” said the surveyor, as he tore away his beard, wig, spectacles and mustache, and revealed the figure of Jack Hamlin, ‘that I’m about the last witness that Mr. Steptoe-Horncastle ought to call, ful curative powers of this medicine, bot it. wis with reluctance that I was finally persuaded to try At, as it seemed that nothing could do moe any good However, Alone by himself in a corner of the ver- anda, he was surprised that the interview had made so little impression upon him and had so little altered his conviction. His dis- covery that the announcement of his be- trothed’s death was a fiction did not af- wect the fact that though living she was dead to him, and apparently by her own consent. The contrast between her life and his during those five years had been cov- ertly accented by Mrs. Van Loo, whether intentionally or not, and he saw again, as last night, the full extent of his sentimen- tal folly. He could not even condole with bers of the Columbia Athletic Club were Present in athletic costume and went through a number of exercises in the parish hall. The officers of the Diocesan Council of the Girls’ Friendly Society of the Wash- ington diocese are as follows: President, Mrs. C. C. Bolto: vice president, Miss Constance Satterlee; secretary and treas- urer, Miss Lockwood, and branch secre- taries, Mts. E. P. Halstead, St. John’s, Georgetown, and Miss Lily Barber, Laurél. The “Mite Gatherers,” an organization of Piymouth Congregational Church, 17th and P streets northwest, gave a concert last evening. been for years. ted salag the Hille “awhile longer and was ent cu can cheerfully recommend Dr. William: Pink Pills for Pale People.” 8 Such was Professor man's wonderful story, shih was further indorsed by the following a MARTSVILLE, Ird., March 16, 1897. that the above accords with the facts R. 5. BOWMAN to before me this 16th day AN J. SCUDDER, Notary Public. NA, a, Subecribed and sworn of March, 1897. STATE OF INDIANA wi vi ence. One moment,” the added. “Barker, and about the last witness:that he ever wili | |The closing meeting for the summer of a D a, himself that he was the victim of miserable | F race ; A call!” mae . De j + Prone " falsehoods that others had invented. She | Jo: Oe Gee in Gee ee the Young Women’s Christian Temperance PROF. R. S. BOWMAN. alt tne wiamns' Piak Pills for Pale People contain But he had not calculated upon the des- Peration of Steptoe over the failure of this last hope. For there sprang up in the out- law's brain the same hideous idea that he ¥oiced to his companions at the “Divide.” With a hoarse cry to his followers, he’ crashed his pickax into the brain of Ma: shall, who stood near him, and sprang for- ward. Three or four shots were exchanged. Two of his men fell, a bullet from Stacy's rifle pierced his leg, and he dropped for- ward on one knee. He heard the steps of his reinforcements, with their weapons, coming close behind him, and rolled aside on the sloping ledge to let them pass. But he rolled too far. He felt himself slipping down the mountain side in the slimy shoot Union of Metropolitan M. E. Church took Place Monday at the residence of Mrs. Der- rick in Southwest Washington. It has been decided to keep the morning Sabbath school of Epiphany P. E. Church open during this summer. The Guild of the Holy Cross of the church has presented fifty prayer books to the Chapel of the Good Shepherd. A sociable and supper was given by the Holy Name Society of St. Peter's Chureh at the National Rifles’ Armory Monday evening. Bishop Satterlee, accompanted by Bishop Paret of Maryland, sailed today for Eu- rcpe, where they go to take part in the Lambeth conference of the bishops of the speak a word to Hamlin?’ As Barker nodded and waiked to the rails of the ve- renda Demorest took Hamlin aside. “You ard I,” he sald hurriedly, “are single men; Barker has a wife and child. This is like- ly to be no child’s play. But Jack Hamlin was no fool, and from certain leading questions wnich Barker had aiready put, but which he had skillfully evaded, he surmised that Barker knew something of his wife's escapade. He an- swered a little more seriously than his wont, “I don’t think as regards his wifs that would make much difference to him or her how stiff the work was.” Demorest turned away with his last pang of bitterness. It needed only this con- Some time ago he had a severe fliness which wis cured almost miraculously. A reporter hearing of this interviewed him. regarding his experience. Prof. Bowman was in the midst of his work when Se ae Oe oe Roe gave bim a earing. Fichness to the bload and restor: shattered nerves. are sold in boxes (never in loose form, by he doren or hundred) at 59 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists or directly by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine » Schenectady, N. Y. had accepted them, and had even excused her desertion of him by that last deceit of the letter. He drew out her photograph, and again examined {t, but not as a lover. Had she really grown stouter and more self-com- placent? Was the spirituality and deli- cacy he had worshiped in her purely his own Idiotic fancy? Had she always been like this? Yes. There was the girl who could weakly strive, weakly revenge her- self, and weakly forget. There was the figure that he had expected to find carved i ? UNIVERSITY NOTES primary class having charge of the morn- ing exercises and the main school in the evening. ——__. The Ways. S. B. Kiser in Cleveland Leader. Do you traverse a way That is likely to end At Something some day, Georgetown. The second debate between the debating societies of the law departments of George- town and the New York University oceur- ake : My tend? red last Saturday night at Carnegie Hall, or zs i = ect that he might weep ‘over: Hes laughed | "rmation of all that Stacy had hinted, of oy pea ean eee “the Ladies Guild of St. Paul's P. E, Or, do you belong r mared heh pi ayy ereargeandyedh genre) wi oats ee gee Grvtew wiliMca: ak remn ieee erous drift of the loose debris rolled with | Church guve a lawn patly Wednesday and | ‘To the great nledling throng unfavorable to Georgetown, but many per- _ tervi wit! rs. Barker stnce retur! , bi % 1 sons present at the vent hi writt Te was very hot and he was stifling with tolstskettiallact Genial griainie coment him, as if he were part of its refuse, and, | Thursday evenings. On the roa D at the event have written taction. What was Barker doing, why had not Stacy telegraphed to him? And what were those people in the court- yard doing? Were they discussing news of further disaster and ruin? Perhaps he was even now a beggar. Well, his fortune anight go with his faith. But the crowd was simply looking at the roof of the hotel, and he now saw that a black smoke was drifting across the court- yard and was conscious of a smell of soot and burning. He stepped down from the veranda among the mingled guests and ser- vants, and saw that the smoke was only pouring from a chimney. He heard, too, that the chimney had been on fire, and That leads to Nowhere—" - That will end, some day, In Nothing, out there? ‘There are paths Jending out From this broad, level way— You have seen them, ee For you pass them cach day— That cca to Somewhere, place, So distant, so fair— Like a mirage in space! But these pathways, you say, Are so stoay and steep: And the broad, level way Is wo ensy to keep! You have heard of Somewhere, And you'd like to go there carrying him down, left him unconscious but otherwise uninjured in the bushes of the second ledge, 500 feet below. When he recovered his senses the shouts and outcries above him had ceased. He knew he was safe. The ledge could only be reached by a circuitous route three miles away. He knew, too, that if he could only reach a point of outcrop 100 yards away he could easily descend to the stage road down the gentle.slope of the mountain hid- den in a growth of hazelbrush. He bound up his wounded leg and dragged himself on his hands and knees laboriously to the outcrop. He did not look up; since his pick had crashed into Marshall’s brain he all go together, then,” he said with a la.gh, “as in the old times, and perhaps it’s as well that we have no woman in cur confidence.’’ An hour later the three men passed quiet- Jy out of the hotel, scarcely noticed by the cther guests, who were oblivious of their absence during the evening. For Mrs. Barker, quite recovered from her fatiguing side, was in high spirits and the most beautiful and spotiess of summer gowns, and was considered quite a heroine by the other Jadies as she dwelt upon the terrible heat of her return journey. “Only that I knew Mr. Barker would be worried—and the poor man actually walked a mile down The graduates this year of the local col- ored Episcopal Theological Seminary, King Hall, ore_as follows: Messrs. B. W. . Paxten, Franklin I. A. Bennett, A. E. Jensen and George R. Jackson. At the suggestion of the Brooklyn Bap- tist Young People's Union the District of Columbia Union has established a “wel- come committee,” the duties of which will be to look after new arrivals of the order in this city, and to see thai members de- parting fur other portions of the country are similarly cared for by other commit- tees, President R. A. Ford has appointed Mr. R. Milton Henderson as chairman of the committee. communications, addressed to the college in which they manifest discontent wh the decision of the judges. The regular commencement of the uni- versity will occur June 23 in Gaston Hall. Menday, June 21, in Gaston Hall, the an- nual public elocution cuntest will be held, ~ and on the same evening prizes in the pre- Paratory department will be awarded. The galleries in Gaston Hall will be com- pleted by Saturday, the 19th instant. The term has practically closed, so far as athletics are concerned, most of the “Look,” said Jack. might have seemed a figure of the Madon- 2 athletes having stopped training, and the vi "3 bed room chim- Be na and child niched in the wall. ‘Then a|had but one blind thought before him—to| It is expected that the Kensington M. E.| If & way could be found trainer, Mr. Foley, hi e i = ‘ind that when the startled servants | ‘2 ‘Divide’ road to meet mT doce "Ena | Volce from above called to her, “Courage!” | escape at onoe!, That his revenge snd! com: | Church will be: completed /ani\aresdy for |) stesso land womel Soe base ball team had ee eckane wits had knocked at the locked door she told | S0uld have stayed there all day. < | ard she felt the flap of a twisted sheet | pensation would come later he never doubt. | the formal dedication exercises the latter | ,1 Harvard and the University of Pennsyl- them that she was only burning some oid | anced round the other groups for Mrs. | i¢wered trom an upper window against her | ed. He limped. soa crept, rolled and fell | part of this month. Horncastle, but that lady had early retired. Possibly she alone had noticed the absence of the two partners. They sat up until quite late, for the heat letters and newspapers, the refuse of her trunks. There was naturally some indigna- tion that the hotel had been so foolishly en- face. She grasped it eagerly; it held firm- ly. Then she heard a cry from below, saw them carrying a Jadder, and at last was from bush to bush, through the sloping thickets, until he saw the red road a few feet below him. vania this week, but owing to inclement weather at Philadelphia, the game with the latter institution did not take place. Rev. Dr. Hugh Johnston delivered an address Wednesday before the Williams- Port (Pa.) District Epworth League con- Ah! there is no way that ts level and broad Forcham was recently defeated by the : scorching weather, and i Ufted with her burden from the ledge by} If he omly had a horse he could put miles | vention, and Thursday” dolivenns tee one Forchara ently the manager had had a scene with her | SPPeared to grow atil more oppressive, and | powerful hands. ‘Then only did she raise | between hizn and any present pursuit! Why | nual scrmon, in the morning before the | aki %ilné,uP {0 this, glorious, place, Last Monday might occurred the anm Which resulted In her leaving the hotel in- | the Saange smell of burning wood revived | her eyes to the upper window, whence had | should hi not have one? ‘The road was fre- | convention. A way that is easy and smooth and broad commencement of the law department a: dignantly with her half-packed boxes. But | (fe gossip abeut Mrs. Van Loo and her | ccme her help. Smoke and flame were | quented by sdlitary, horsemen ainers, cea | ave Wallace Radcliffe of the New York | Has ever succeeded: in getting there! even after the smoke had died away and | Stupidity in setting fire to her chimney. peuring from it. The unknown hero who had sacrificed his only chance of «scape to her remained forever unknown. See Nel een fet, a ae. Only four miles away that night a group of men were waiting for the dawn in the shadow of a pine near Heavy Tree har. As the sky glowed redly over the crest be- tween them and Hymettus, Hamlin sald: “Another one of those forest fires. It's this side of Black Spur, and a big one, I reckon.”" “Do you know,” said Barker, thoughtfal- ly, “I was thinking of the time the old cabin burned up on Heavy Tree. It looks to be about in ihe same place.” “Husa!” said Stacy, sharply. Mexicans’ Head his revolver with him: what matteredithe life of another man if he escanga the consequences of the one he had dunt tak 2 He heard the clatter of hoofs; tWo priests on mules rode slowly by; he ground his teeth’ with disappoint- ment. Hut they’ had scarcely passed be- fore another and more rapid clatter came from thejr rear. It was a lad on horse- back.. ie ried. It was his own son! He renembéfed in a flash how the boy had said°hé wis-céining to meet the padre at the statiomion that day. His first im- pulse wag-to hide himself, his wound, and his defeat from the lad, but the blind idea of escapé wag still paramount. He leaned over thé bank“and called to him. The as- the National Theater. A large crowd from both the university and from the city at large greeted the graduates, the theater being taxed to its utmost capacity soon after the opening of the doors. Father Richards, rector of the university, made the opening address, and Mr. J. M. Wilson, dean of the law department, awarded the prizes. “After the exercises the classes ad- journed to a banquet. The class graduated is one of the largest in the history of the univereity. Avenue Presbyterian Church and Mrs. Radcliffe entertained the pastors of the local Presbyterian churches and their wives Tuesday evening, the closing gath- ering of the ministers until next October. At the meeting of the Woman's Baptist Missionary Society of the District of Co- lumbia Mcnday evening at the Metropoli- tan Baptist Church, Mrs. J. D. Smith of Gey Street Church resigned as president, anc Mrs. E. D. Bliss of Calvary was elect® ed to the vacancy. Sunday schcol officers for the United Brethren Memorial Church, Rev. John E. Fout, pastor, have been elected as fol- lows: Superintendent of the school, Wash- ington Tcpham; assistant superintendent, Some averred that It would be days be- fore the smell could be got out of the hhevse; others referred it to the fires in the wcods, which were now dangerously near. Ore spoke cf the isolated position of the botei as affording the greatest security, but wes met by the assertion of a famous mountaineer that the forest fires were wont to leap from crest to crest myste- viously without any apparent continuous centact. Tris led to more or less Hght- hearted conjecture of present danger and some imusing stories of hotel fires and tkeir ludicrous revelations. There were also scme entertaining speculations as to what they would do and what they would try to save in such emergency. the fire had been extinguished in the chim- ney and hearth, there was an acrid smeli of smoldering pine penetrating the upper floors of the hotel all that afternoon. When Mrs. Van Loo drove away the manager returned with Demorest to the rooms. The marble hearth was smoked and discolored and still littered with char- red ashes of burnt paper. “My belief is,” said the manager derkly, “that the old hag came here just to burn up a lot of incrim- inating papers that her son had intrusted to her keeping. It looks mighty suspicious. You see, she got up an awful lot of side when I told her I didn’t reckon to run a smelting furnace in a wooden hotel with the thermometer at 100 in the office, and I Emigrant’s Strange Vehicle. From the Sherman, Tex., Werwhoop. Globe trotting has become a popular pasttme, but it remained for a citizen of Tampa, Fla., to institute “globe trundling.” People have traveled across the continent on bicycles; others have made the trip in x wagons, and, recently, according to the hewspapers, men have flitted through the air in airships, but the Florida man has smashed all records for novelty and orig- inality in transportation. The globe trundler, with his vehicle, made his ap- pearance last evening at the home of A. Columbian. Examinations in the Corcoran Scientific School ended last Saturday. The seventy-sixth annual commencement Se tonished-tad cantered-eagerly to his side. | Edward Spies; secretary, Howard L. Mor. hard: arket gardener, ving | °f Columbian College and the thirteenth of “For myself.” said Mrs, Barker auda- Chapter Ix. “Give me;your horse, Eddy,” said his | rison; treaserer, Augustus Herring: or. | 3: Richardson, a m: = vho pro- | the Corcoran Scientific School were held Feckon it was just an excuse for getting off } ously, “I should certainly let Mr. Barker father: “Arm in bad luck ond crust oct” ganist, Miss Lewis, and Hbrarian, Wiltiam | DOAtg SPCrman phe, Stranger, whe pro |i conjunction on the evening of J ge ohirenti Jay in Stacy’ fe elt ce enn tmmitiet am Iereniiiet ort ti voy. Ponteeiat Nis tathers\ toe wr | cre nae Se alice oe AS sear deetarervsating ae ee ee ee Pipon | to setting away with my diamonds. I know | in the mountain flank which looked like a his tattered garments and bandaged leg, | ‘The Washington District Epworth League | Wa? 8, Mr. Hart contained cooking’ uten. | the National Theater. A large crowd, Demorest's usual. equanimity. and he | the wretch would never think of them.” ne | dtled-up sewer that had disgorged throngh | and read the whole story. It was a fa:| 1s to haves Tally of the delegates to the | eee Oe ero er other aati. compoced in Part of the diplomatic corps, scarcely listened in his anxlety for his old | Jf, 2S Still later, when exhausted by the | it5 opening the refuse of the mountain in THEutMiphed! aq ee it ee Bat, Wealeg ae en ihe evening of June | cies necessary to a small degree of com-| Besides the twang hte wry, eee, Rerived In San Francisco be toon Mennad | ment of the day, that they at last deserted | red slme, gravel, and a peculiar clay | {hea flushed, gnd then. with an with you. | pastors of the local churches who eve to | fort besides two children, a girl of elevan | President Whit qlee ag ny ainost determined tote, eevee nad | the veranda for their rooms, and for a| krown as “cement” in a foul streak down | unis: $%° ou always did before. I'll) take part in the progran of the Toronto | 20d 2. girl o night with Richardson ana, | Maj. J. W. Powell and many others. Sen- from the “Divide when tap eatscran | while the shadowy bulk of the whole bulld- | its side—a narrow ledge on elther side, tee | feiterven luck.” convention are Rev. Bisiop John F. Hurst | while there, he sald he was on als way to | 2tOr Mitchell addressed the graduates and rom te i, Divide,” when two horsemen | ing was picked out with regularly spaced by h t Desperation is superstitious. Why not | and Rev. W. R. Strickland. while 2 vin- | Several members of the classes responded. dashed into the courtyard. There was the | iiohte f fi indows, until now | Ke? up by heaps of quartz, tailings and im? Th di) bean Nicky: bef Oregon and he had left Tampa late last win- | Doty ee pceere price ual st he veranda and rush for | these finally faded and went out one by one, | Fcck, and, haif hidden in scrub oak and | tke him? They had been lucky before, | “phe deby on the Bitanch Street Presby-| ter. The children trudge along with their; President Whitman conferred the degrees. usual stir on t Sebi : these finally faded and went out one by one. is % and the two together might confound any | terian Church is being cared for by nine F hen their little legs grow} One hundred and seventy students were nee La Mt two pity tts ened oat ; An hour later the whole building had sunk | myrtle—e decaying cabin of logs, bark and | description of thelr identity to the pur- father and, when their a to arker, on a horse covered wita to rest. It was said that {t was only 4 in | the morning when a yawning porter, hav- irg put out the light in a dark, upper cor- | ridor, was amazed by a dull glow from the | top of the wall, and awoke to the fact that | a red fire, as yet smokeless and flameless, | was creeping along the cornice. He ran | to the office and gave the alarm, but on | returning with assistance was stopped in the corridor by an impenetrable wall of smoke veined with murky flames. The alarm was given in all the lower floors, committees, each of which is headed by an official member of the congregation. That of wkich Warner Hurley is chairman gave an “Old Foiks” concert on Monday, the performers being In costume and rendering a number of old favorit2s, which were so much enjoyed by those preseat that a re- quest has been made to have it repeated. At a meeting of the Baptist Ministers’ As- sociatior on Monday morning. neariy all of the local Baptist churcnes made r-ports of the work which they have accomplished during the month of May. Rev. Dr. Alexander Mackay-Smith, rector of St. John’s P. E. Chur-h, sails next week to join his family in Kurspe, and will not ,be back in this city until some time in Oc- tober. ‘The church services during the sum. mer months are to be in charge of the as- sistant minister, Rev. Robert 8. W. Wood. Rev. Joseph T. Foley of St. Paul’s Church has returned from Charles*on, 8. C., where he spent severai weeks with Bishop Mona- ghan. ‘The warden of the Boys’ Home, "ev. Wil- Mam Tayloe Snyder, is arranging to send the inmates of the home out into the coun- try for several weeks this summer. The heme, in charge of the Brothers of - reth, hes’ only been in operation about eight months. irgest number graduated from the several departments of the law school last Tuesday night at the National Theater. An enthusiastic audi- ence crowded the house to the doors, not even standing room being available a short time after the opening of the doors. Jus- tice Brown delivered the address to the class, and Pres‘dent Whitman conferred the degrees. The Powhatan W. Robertson scholar- ship, open only to students of the Business High School, was won by Walter Thomas, with Jones as alternate. Catholic. The commencement of the University was held in McMahon Hall last Wednes- day morning at 10 o'clock. Thirty-five graduates were presented with degrees by Cardinal Gibbons, the chancellor of the ~ university. The introductory address was made by Rev. Father Conaty, rector of the university, and the acknowledgment by Rev. Simon J. Carr. The studies repre- sented by the graduates were philosophy, theology, social science, law in general and special courses fn civil law. At the conclusion of the exercises the students and others proceeded to Caldwell Hall. where the benediction of the blessed sac- rament was pronounced and the Te Deum sung. Most of the students are now preparing to leave for home or have already left. —_—_——_ A Brazen Girl. From the New York Weekly. Miss Highup—“It's perfectly scandalous Did you hear about Miss De Pink?” Miss Tiptop—“No. What has she done?” “Oh, the most immodest thing imagina ble! She's let all the world know she 1 crazy to get married by going and joinins @ cookery school.’ ANHEUSER-BuscH BREWING ASs’N. THE LEADING BREWERY IN THE WORLD. cobblestones—these made up the exterior of the Marshall claim. To this defacement of the mountain, the rude clearing of thicket and underbrush by fire or blasting, the lop- ping of tree boughs, and the decapitation of saplings, might be added the debris and ruins of hailf-civilized occupancy. The ground before the cabin was covered with broken hoops of casks and the cast-off rags of blankets and clothing. The whole claim, in its unsavory, unpicturesque details and its vulgar story of sordid, reckless and sel- fish occupancy and abandonment, was a foul blot on the landscape, which the first rosy dawn only made the more offending. Surely the last spot in the world that men should quarrel and fight for. So thought George Barker, as with his c-mpanions they moved in single file slow- ly toward it. The little party consisted only of himself, Demorest and Stacy; Mar- shall and Hamlin, according to a prear- ranged plan, were il in ambush, to join them at the first appearance of Steptoe and his gang. The claim was yet unoccupied; they had secured their first success. Step- tee’s followers, unaware that his design had been discovered, and confident that they could easily reach the claim before Marshall and the surveyor, had lingered. Some of them had held a‘ drunken carouse at their rendezvous at Heavy Tree. Others were still engaged in procuring shovels and picks and pans for their mock equipment as miners, and this, again, gave Marshall's acherents the advantage. They knew that their opponents would probably first ap- proach the empty claim incumbered cnly with their peaceful implements, while they themselves had brought their rifles with them. Stacy, who by tacit consent led the party, on reaching the claim at once posted Demorest and Barker each behind a sepa- rate heap of quurtz tailings on the ledge, which afforded them a capital breastwork. and stationed himself at the mouth of the tunnel which was nearest the trail. It had already been arranged what each man was. to do. They were in possession. For the rest they must walt. What they thought at that moment no one knew. Their char- acteristic appearance had slightly changed. The melancholy and philosophic Demorest was alert and bitter. Barker's changeful face had become fixed and steadfast. Stu- cy alone wore his “‘fighting look,” which the others had remembered. They had not long to wait. The sounds of rude laughter, coarse skylarking, and veices more or less still confused with half-spent liquor came from the rocky trail. And then Steptoe appeared with part of his straggling followers, who were celebrat- ing their easy invasion by clattering their picks and shovels and beating loudly upon weary, they are given a “‘lift” in the bar- row. This queer company of emigranis went their way this morning before pho- tographs could be obtained of them and their humble conveyance, but the man who has the courage to cross the conti- nent with his family in a wheelbarrow will certainly become well known before he reaches the end of his long journey. te After the Divorce. From the New York Tribune. After a San Diego man got a divorce from his wife the other day, he went home and found her there. She asked him to sit down to dinner, after which she asked him how he liked the new arrangement. “First rate,” he replied, “but I can’t understand it." “Oh, that’s all right,” said she; “we can live this way in contentment. The other way we quarrel. Now, then, suppose oa retain me as housekeeper? ‘Twenty dol- lars per month and beard is all I ask.” This struck the ex-husband favorably, and the bargain was closed cn the spot. The couple have not had a sign of trouble since, although they were In hot water for thir- ty-two years, fretting under the marital yoke. They dare not quarrel much now, for fear one will leave the other in the lurch. He must have his meals cooked, and she must have a place to stay. To- gether they are happy now, and the bar- gain promises to last to the end. foam, and a dashing, elegantly dressed stranger on a mustang as carefully groom- ed and as spotless as himself. Demorest instantly recognized Jack Hamiin. He had not seen him since that day four years before, when he had accompanied the three pertners with their treasure to Boomville, and when he had handed him the mysterious packet. As he and Barker dismounted hurriedly and moved toward him he felt a premonition of something as suers. “Help me up, Eddy, and then get up before me.” “Behind, you mean,” said the boy with a laugh, as he helped his father into the saddle. “No,” sald Steptoe harshly. ‘Before me, do you hear? And if anything happens be- hind you, don’t look! If I drop off don't stop! Don’t get down; but go on and leave me! Do you understand?” he repeated al- most savagely. “Yes,” said the boy tremulously. “All right,” said the father with a softer voice as he passed his one arm round the boy’s body and lifted the reins. “Hold tight when we come to the cross roads, for we'll take the first turn, for old luck’s sake, to the mission.” They were the last words exchanged be- twéen them, for as they wheeled rapidly to the left at the cross roads, Jack Hamlin and Demorest ‘swung as quickly out of an- other. road to the right immediately be- hind them. Jack’s challenge to “Halt!” was only answered by Steptoe’s horse springing forward under the sharp lash of the riata. “Hold up!” said Jack suddenly, laying his hand upon. the rifle which Demorest had Hfted to his shoulder. ‘He's carrying some one. A wounded comrade, 1 reckon. We éon't want him. Swing out and go for the horse, well, forward, in the neck or shoulder." Demorest swung far out to the right of the road and raised his rifle. As it cracked Steptoe’s horse seemed to have suddenly struck some obstacle ahead of him rather than to have been hit himself, for his head went down: with his forefeet under him, and_ he turned a half-somersault on the road, flinging his two riders a dozen feet away. Steptoe scrambled to his knees, revolver in hand, but the other figure never moved. “Hands up!” said Jack, sighting his own weapon. The reports seemed simultancous, but Jack’s bullet had pierced Steptoe's brain even before the outlaw’s pistol ex- ploded harmlessly in the air. The two men dismounted, but by a com- mon instinct they both ran ‘to the prostrate figure that had never moved. .“By God! it’s a boy!” said Jack, leaning over the body and Hfting the shoulders from which the head hung loosely. “Neck broken and dead as his pal.” Suddenly he started, and, to Demorest’s astonishment, began hurriedly pulling off the glove from the boy's limp. right hand. “What sare !fou doing?” demanded Dem- orest, in greening horror. ““‘Looki? saiiti Jack, as he laid bare the small, whiteihand. The two first . fingers were merelyjunsightly stumps that had been -hidden tm the padded glove: “GoodeliGod!« Van. Loo's brother!” said Premiums for selling the of tickets for St. Augnstine’s sociable have been awarded to Miss Lelia. Tudy, Mrs. Ann Carter and Joseph Harris. Archbishop Martinelli is to administer confirmation toa class tomorrow at St. a canreh ev. Francis J. Grimke, pastor of the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, who ig preaching a series of sermons on “Mar- riage” at his church, has been invited to repeat them in the ever:ing at the Metro- Folitan Zion Church in South Washington. There is to be an arniversary reunion next week at Rutgers Ccllege, N.J., of the alumni of the institution, and among those who expect to attend from Washington are Revs. D. Wesley Skellenger, pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian Church, and Howard Wilbur Ennis, pastor of the Western Pres- byterian Church. Pastor E. Hez Swem of the Second Bap- tist Church has had special revival services for several weeks at his church conducted by Rey. Mr. Martin, paster of a Norfolk Baptist church. Thursday the annual meeting of the Wo- man’s Foreign Missionary Society was held at the Mt. Pleasant Congregational Church, with papers by representatives of that 30- ciety, and of the missionary committees of the sentor and junior Christian Endeavor societies of the church. Dr. 8. M. Newman of the First Congre- gational Church is to leave on his vacation ————+e0______ Family Traits. From the Chicago Record. “You can always tell when a woman doesn’t Itke her mother-in-law.” “How does che show it?” “She picks out the ugliest child In the family and says it js the very image of its. paternal grandmother.” JACK’S BULLET PIERCED STEPTOE’S BRAIN. and the occupants rushed from their beds half dressed to the courtyard, only to see, as they afterward averred, the flames burst fateful and important as then. In obedi- ence to a sign from Barker he led them to @ more secluded angle of the veranda. He could not help noticing that his younger | l'ke cannon discharges from the r win- | their tins and prospecting pans. The three | Demorest. retailing. partner's face was as mobile as ever, but | dows and unite above the crackling roof. | partners quickly recognized the stamp of | “No!'"}saidiJack, with a grim face, “it’s - more thoughtful and older; yet his voice | So sudden and complete was the catastro- | the strangers in spite of their peaceful im- | what I shave biong suspected—it's Steptoe’s | Children’s day is to be observed in all rang with the old Freemasonry of the | Phe, although slowly prepared by a leak in | plements. They were the waifs and strays | son!” + di the Congregational churches in Washing- ton tomorrow. Howard Wilbur Ennis attended a recent meeting of the Executive Council of the Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip in New York. The ladies of Christ Evangelical Luthe- camp as he said, with a laugh: “The signal has been given, and its boot and saddle end away.” “But I have had no dispatch from Stacy,” said Demorest, In surprise. “He was to telegraph to me from San Francisco in any the overheated chimney between the floors, that even the excitement of fear and exer- tion was spared the survivors. There was bewilderment and stupor, but neither up- roar nor confusion People found them- selves wandering in the woods, half awake of San Francisco wharves, of Sacramento dens, of dissolute mountain towns; anc there was not, probably, a single actual miner among them. A raging scorn and contempt took possession of Barker and Demorest, but Stacy knew their exact val- do» “His sm?" sepeated Denorest. i Disa rne erss and mec eased, ater, ooking at two bedies ith a long- drawn whistleof concern, “and I wouldnt, if I weve you, say anything of this to Barker. emergency. and half dressed, from the balconies they | ue. As Steptoe passed before the oj ning oats said Demorest. van Church gave a festival this week at “He never got there at all,” said Barker. aa os nite and che windows they had | of the tunne! he heard the cry of “Halt!”’ “Welk? returned Jack, “when our scrim-| the residence of Mr. Heitmuller for the leaped they knew not how. Others on the upper floor neither awoke nor moved from their beds, but were suffocated without a cry. From the first an instinctive idea of the hopelessness of cembating the con- flagration them all; to a blind, automatic feeling to flee the buil is was added the slow mechanism of the somnam- He leoked up. He saw Stacy not thirty | mage was oVer down there, and they broughtathe ews to Barker that his wife and her diamonds were burned up at the hotel, fou refhember that they said that Mrs. H6tnea: hud saved his boy.” “Yes,” sald Demorest; “but what has that to do with it? eee of the Brookland German Lutheran Mi ton. Rev. John E. Fout of the United Brethren Memorial Church leaves next week for Leb- anon, Pa., where he goes to attend the annual meeting of the board of trustees of reach him, which he nearly broke his neck to do; and then Jack finished up by urging that we should He saw that his plot was known. Outlaw and desperado as he was, he saw that he had lost his moral “Notaing, I reckon,” said Jack, wit! Jack as Bie pulist; delicate women walked speechlessly, | power in this actual possession, and that | shrug of his shoulders, “only Mra. Hor: tego but securely, along ledges and roofs from | from that moment he must be th castle was the mother of the boy that's| Pleasant Congregational a Jack for Les | Which they would have fallen by the mere lying there.” festival last evening at the home of Major < through,” he ‘addea ig et his Nght of reason and of day. There was no Two years later, as Demorest and Stacy | Saxtcn, on Kenesaw avenue. hand affectionately on Hamlin's shonide. | Cfowding or impeding haste in their dumb sat before the: fire in the old cabin on Mar- } Hamiin winced slightly. For he had not | ©X°us. It was only when Mrs. Barker shall’s Galmnow legally their own—they told Barker that his wife wa: ptr Ven awoke disheveled in the courtyard; and Jokes from door beyond the great bulk j Me Geet 9 Nerfering, | With a hysterical outcry rushed back into c ‘enow line of the ar igor bow he bed fea ring. | the hotel, that there was any sign of panic. i ‘Van Loo at Hill finally over- | For Mrs. Horncas who was standing | saben Van = Top, and how the | near her, fully dreased as if from some fagitive had disclosed Steptoe and Hall's t-long vigil, quickly followed her. ‘The oe {Sota gtestat hia een riease “Sur*ent| hat frentc. wonttn way making “irectly ; ; own apartments again, whose win- faced Stacy, re | mews, remembering that Stacy had passed | dows those in the courtyan could see Were “Who are you to stop peaceful rainers Cantal on cra vary, Wan-ot Hor ned. Crater Served at mest of the the “Divide” on his way to the station, he already belching Suddenly Mrs. | gcing'to work on their own claim?” said . : ep ey merger cdenl gm oe Horncastle stopped with and = ‘ia Army Posts a met him Foad. her F ” : a = The Greatest Tonic, ‘‘Malt-Nutrine” ‘the Food-drink, ts prepared by mews that had