Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1897, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1897-24 THE CAFE CONCERT An Institution That is Characteristic of Paris. WITH MUSIC, A SEAT AND A DRINK There is No Reason Why One Should Not Be Happy. AND THEIR SONGS SINGERS Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS. September 22, 189; HESE EARLY AU l tumn days are mel- low, soft and cheery in the gay French capital. The grass is still bright green in the city parks and squares; the leaves are scaree turning yet, and all the pop- ulation turns out of a Sunday afternoon to taste the sweet- ness of the promen- ade in open air, so slowly dies the summer. One never feels yoor in the gay French capital. How shall you f poor when to walk and laze, to sit at intetvals and stp sweet drinks, to let roam over splendid architecture, med open stretches with their statuary. foun ns and gay throngs, is the chosen occupation of the well-to-do? And now that every day sees the returning multitude of summer outers back to their dear Paris, looking round it, making their preliminary autumn survey with approval, the slightest drawback well-tri there is not even of reflecting that one thus enjoys Paris by the force of circumstances (as in the midsummer), for the simple reason that it is expensive to take trips. One never should feel poor in the gay French ¢ ; but when we do feel poor, the simple remedy of geing out and watch- ing poorer folk enjoy themselves i door of every one, as they s Parks and ery foun architee- statuar. with that triumph of the century, the Eiffel Tower itself, thrown in, exist in rank profusion round the great green, park-like stretches of the Champs-de-Mars, directly in the heart of Paris; and for the restless and the lovers of the new there are the added features new of all those works of demolition and tion which proclaim the nearness of oming exposition, the world’s fair mps-de-Mars (the field of Mars, where kings were wont to nave their mili- tary reviews before the revolution; where the people celebrated the king’s and his nobles’ decapitations when the revolution came, and where the universal exposition of 188%, in honor of the revolution’s hun- drecth year, proclaimed the triumph of fraternity, equality and liberty), is just new the most lively spot in Pari Building the Czar's Bridge. By the river, which runs through the Champ, they are engaged in building the wide bridge. whose cornerstone was laid by the young czar. By reason of its width, the vista and the new, wide avenue which it will open up and the attractions it is destined to contain by way of mediaeval shops or modern side shows, this Bridge of Nicolas and the famed Alliance will form one of the chief features of the show. For its sake avenues to lead to it are to be plowed through Paris on each side, the good old building of the Palais de I'Indus- trie must be demolished, two new palaces be built up en the north side avenue and the grade leveled or made sloping down to it on either side. The avenue of the Champs Elysees is suffering just now on account of all these works, but when they are completed it will have a vista, at about the Round Poimt, straight across the Bridge of Nicolas to the parade grounds of the Invalides, the Champ-de-Mars and all the exposition grounds. The Sunday crowds now throng the spot, point out this feature and the other and discuss the “pros of 1960, and then rest them- selves in sipping sweet drinks underneath the porticoes of the old exposition build- angs. When the old exposition—that of 1899- Was over they did rot burn down the build- ings. Photographs of the time show quan- Uties of smalier edi- fices, it is true, which, when their use Was over, were removed; but all of the main halis, all grounds, so beauti- fully landscape-gar- dened, a great part of the statuary and all the noble palace gardens of the Tro- cadero, Just across the river, have been kept. ‘The Paiace of Fine Arts of the great ex- position is along one side of the square around the __ Eiffel Tower. It will dis- appear in favor of the new buildings, equally temporary in their essential char- coming exposition of 1900, st again what at to de y. Meanwhile, ‘sand in the great interior e annual salon has exhib- $8 sprawling modern sculp- court, ited ¢ ture Champ-de-Mars,” these after- noon amusements of the cafe. concerts go on eternally. It Is true that they are for the “little people,” who annot afford to Money, and who must find money's worth in music, seating ac- commodations and one drink rolled into one. Pay for one drink, and then the af- ternoon ts yours. I do not know whether you will like it, but remember it is very cheap. Sentimental male singers are a special sign cf French taste. They are invariably nm correct evening clothes, except ‘m very chic, indeed, when they may the long-talled London frock coat. have curled hair and waxed mus- and they sing their “romances” in @ voice both round and fat. Too often their manner, meant to be intense and se- rious, fs only vulgar and pretentious, with bursts of weeping baritone, with gurgling oe nd soapy cooing way down in the roat. spend much their The Songs They Sing. It is the “Wal of Adieux” or “The Time of Cherri: “Whether all the bra-an-ches Should thus be all in white, Or that in the springtime the turf should lie all green, Still. Rose, I love thee. Dost thou my love requite? Ah, then, for love.like ours there is no Season!” From these to the singers of “gags” there is a great and splendid leap. The gags are without reason and meaning, and often have half their charm in the smooth- ness, neatness of the French verse: “Albert, Albert, Tu r’sembles a mon frer’ Et mon frere a ta mer, Et ma mere a ta soeur! (Albert, Albert, you resemble my brother, and my brother resembles your mether, and my mother resembles your sister!) Albert is pronounced Al-bare, and goes particularly well with “a mon frer’.” in the third line there is a change In the pro- nunciation of frere, when it. gets back its natural final “6” for an additional syllable, as in all French verse. Et mon frer-e A ta mer-e makes a little couplet by itself, with all the sounds in harmony, ‘while the fourth line’ has the word i “soeur,” which is only a monosyfable, to balance the clip- re word “‘frer,” at the end of the sec- ond line. Throughout all the sounds har- monize and all the syllables balance with a peculiar A nicety. The French have no proper accent in their language, and the measure of verse is determined simply by the number of syllables and similar sounds strung to- gether. BEnglish- ing children, in ing games of their earlizst years, at once catch the ac- centual swing of such lines as— There came an old woman, a-hippety-hop, But in French verse all this is supplied by what I have been attempting to explain. Hippety-hop, hippety-hop! Most Sougs Bar ‘Arenslation. Pretended drunkards hardly count on the cafe concert stage, because there are com- paratively few real drunkards among the French. The sentimental male singer of- ten chants of wine, and lady singers chirp about champagne, but generally in connec- tion with a frol:e or a wedding breakfast; and they man: to throw in enough sug- gestiveness to convert the champagne into a mixed drink—a French mixed drink. This matter of suggestiveness is a serious impediment to translating men’s cafe con- cert songs in full, excepting songs with political and patriotic tendencies. The re- lators of adventures, the singers of delicate anecdotes who so much =bound have al- mcst to a man verses in the style of American bar room stories, toned down in language, but with fhe witty grimaces and shrugs and gestures of the French te fill out the blanks. A young gentleman of the people, dressed between a sport and a tough, will give “Portraits of My Family: Qui, qui prend du chozolat? C'est papa. = Qui, qui boit son p’tit vin blanc? "est maman. Qui, qui raffole du gruyere? C'est mon frere. Qui qu'a Vlapin en horreur? yest ma soeur! Papa is, being made te take always choco- late; mama is made to drink white wine, und brother dotes on grnyere cheese for the me reason—that is, for the rhyme. But ro, it is also for the sake of being able to say nicely that the sister holds rabbits in herror. Now, “rabbit” is well known slang for a certain species of-deadbeat. Not the Only Charm. Of the young lady singers, one will have a physique to fit her for vigorous songs. Another has beautiful arms; they are ap- plauded quite as as the singer ‘if. Another will pretty, very and a little cold—soraething rare at the cafe concert. no-her azile in ppearance and a consummate vocalist —something rarer still. Yet another will be not very young, but having a fresh voice and a willful timidity of manner | which allows her to do iove songs and idyls. English music hail artists frequently run over from London and often bring their skipping ropes along With them. They contrast strongly, these fine, big blondes, with their great masses of yellow hair, their preternaturally long and shapely legs, their English language and their heavy grace, when they come in ecntact with any of their French sisters, on the stage or off. There is strength enouh in these fine girls to dance and sing at the same time, Pot to speak of the management of the weighty skipping rope, regularly lashing the stage floor, forty beats to the minute. They are still singing “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo.” They are watched furtively by undergrown Paris youths, men about town at cighteen, who, with difficulty, make up their minds wheth- er to be content with the physiology cr to laugh at the manner. Each French singing girl affects a certain manner of action and a certain type cf seng suited to her ways. There are “march- ers,” eccentrics, patriouic singers, peas- arts, exaggerated sentimentals, Tyroleans and others. There is also the knowing, ‘d-of-life, blase style, of which Yvette was the original token before she imported negro melodies from Ameriza. The “march- er’—we would call her the “hustler’—must be young, pretty and vigorous, and she bounds on the stage and is immediately in a whirl. Between the verses she will imi- tate the deportment of a soldier, fer ex- ample, in which case her songs have to do with military life, relating her 2dventures ‘h privates, subalterns nd generals. Patriotic and Sentimental. Singers cf patriotic songs have not yet ceased to chant about the Franco-Prussian war. ae hen some poet or warrior dies a song is sure to appear about him—"Stanzas to Victor Hugo” or “ Coben igo” or “Homage to Admiral Glory te Courbet, glory to the patriot, Lion of the seas, giant of our combats! The singer appears in full mourning, with —— arms and disheveled hair. en come the singers of exa; sentimental verses: = erhaed The girl of gipsy blood Knows only love and hate; Happy the one she loves! He whom she hates must die! Going hand in hand with the cafe con. song, which itself is not really sung, ue declaimed to music in a kind of recita- tive, 1s the mono- logue, which differs very little from it. The monologue has Searcely been given its proper place in the United States, although certain German and Irish comedians on the American variety stage cannot be sur- passed in it along their own lines. With us the mono- logue is too much confined to the hu- mors of dialect—Ger- man, negro, Irish. In ‘the privacy of French families girls and boys are taught to do clever charac- ter sketches, very much as children with us are taught to “speak pieces.” At social gatherings you will have gentlemen stand up and do their little turns of impersonation in conversa- tional prose, without make-up, without cos- tume and without music, and they do it as readily as « girl will step to the plano and perform a piece of music. And the Crowd Sits Wait In the cafe concert all types of Paris life come out in songs and spoken pieces—the old woman who sits knitting and remem- bers the adventures of her youth in tot- tering prose; the tough young man with pretensions to polities who harangues the audience fn his own inimitable slang <nd with burlesque appeals to patriotism, so- cfalism and the brotherhood of man; while the emancipated modern girl of the period complains that her mother does not give her that Mberty which she knows is ac- corded to English and American giris, and she confides to the audience that she will change all this immediately she is married. So the cheap little audience sits beneath | the arches of the Fine Arts building's long, wide portico, listening with what is to us a strange contentment. Just around the corner they are hamnering and. dig- ging—hammering up scaffo.dings to hide the depredations of the workmen who are tearing down part of the Dope. Ceeing. up the riverside upon the first works the Bridge of Nicholas. Sitting quietly here in the late summer and the early au- tumn, Hstening to the caterwaulings and the Ings of sopranos and tenors, car- ing little what the words are so the tune is right, or caring little what the tune is so the words are right, the tune or words so that the drink is right, and caring less drink, so that the price is right, the air, they take their ive what they get, content to Paris. They are sitt en sitting, waiting. the 19uv exposition, FLOWERS IN THE FALL Making Ready for Winter and An- other Summer's Growth. WHAT 20 DO WITH CHR The Way to Plant Bulbs for Win- ter and Spring Flowering. PLANS FORK NEXT SEASON ‘Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. Though the public gardens and parks still make @ brave show with their sturdy geraniums and follage plants, the season of summer flowering is over, and most private gardens present rather a forlorn appearance. ‘The emateur gardener is very likely feeling that his duty is accomplish- ed until spring comes tiptoeing over the hills again, but there he is mistaken. There is a great deal of garden work that may and should be done during the fall months. Now is the time to tidy up those unsight- ly, ragged beds and borders. Cut off the dead stalks and dry leaves of hardy plants, shrubs and vines end pull up the withered annuals, putting them on the compost heap that ought to be found! in some out- of-the-way corner in every garden. Rake up the fallen leaves every day and store them in a sheltered place to use as blan- kets for your tender roses, &c., later on. If you have done your duty. by your chrysanthemums they are by this time big, sturdy plants, full of buds. But do not neglect them now. Big and sturdy as they are, they are also voracious. Con- tinue to give them plenty of water and liquid manure once or twice a week about the roots. Do not make it too strong, about the appearance of weak tea will do. If the black aphis is present spray the plants with tobacco water, very weak, or with seapsuds. If you wish fewer blooms and larger, carefully pinch away all but the central bud in each cluster—if you have the heart to do it. See that each plant has a stout stake driven well into the ground or the first wind may uproot or break it off. Use large, soft cord that will not cut to tie up the stalks. As they break easily, and are very topheavy, support the larger branches as well as the main stalk. If there should come a very cold spell when the buds are opening, by all means cover the plants at night with newspapers, old sheets or something of the sort. I have had some beautiful specimens injured by frost when left unprotected. It is not too late to pot some of vour “mums” for the house. Select good stocky plants for this purpose. Take them up with as muck soil as possible about the roots. Use large pots, the bottoms covered with broken Lits of pots or brick, charcoal, pebbles, ete., and fill in with good garden soil, firming down well. Water thoroughly, and keep in a shady place out of doors for a week. Then bring into a sunnier spot, but do not take the spots indoors for several weeks yet. Fall Planting. If you are planning for a beautiful spring and summer garden, begin prepar- ing for it right now. October and Novem- ber are the months for planting all hardy bulbs, as well as shrubbery, hardy roses, large and small fruit trees, etc. Get your bulbs in now, the sooner the better, and plenty of them—hyacinths, tu- lips, narcissus, crocuses, jonquils, all’ the dear spring beauties, and. for summer blooming the hardy perennial sorts—peon- jes, irises, Miles—all that your purse will buy and your garden hold. Select the bulbs yourself, if possible, ckcosing the large, heavy-feeling ones. If not possible order only of reliable florists— mistrust the offers of bulbs at one cent each, or thereabouts, seen in snide ad- vertisements. It is rot necessary to choose high-priced “named” sorts of any species for outdoor planting. Lovely hyacinths can be had for 40 to 50 cents a dozen, tulips and narcissus at 15 to 25 cents per dozen, and some of the older but most beautiful sorts of lilles at 10 and 15 cents ach. Use taste and forethought in se- lection. Study color effects as an artist does in planting your beds of tulips, ‘ete. A bed of shaded pinks or one all yellow or all red or white is more beautiful than one where all colors ure mixed together. Cro- cuses make a beautiful border, but are most charming when dotted through the grass on lawn or terrace. A bed of yellow daffodils (no, I will not quote Wordsworth). But what loveliec sight exists, unless it be a bed of narcissus poeticus, snowy wiite with rosy “pheasant’s eye’ center? How to Plant Bulbs, The soil for these spring bulbs should be good garden loam, with a top dressing of ecmpost. Great care mvst be exercised in planting bulbs—hardly any one plants them deep enough. Hyacinths should be set six inches below the surface; smaller bulbs four and five inches, except narcissus,which requires deep planting. All lily bulbs must be set eight inches below the surface, and as many apart. And let no compost come in contact with any bulb—it means decay and loss. First among hardy garden lilies comes the June lily, or lilium candidum. This is the true Easter lily—seen in old paintings and ecclesiastical decorations—and though smaller than the Bermuda lily, which has superseded it, is quite as beautiful and more hardy in our climate. Plant it and all other lilies in groups of from three to nine bulbs. The awratams, the specio sains, the framerii, the irises, the tiger lilies, the kampferie, all are most beautiful, and with- in reach of modest purses. A long garden border where roses, irises and lilies alter- rate is a stately, lovely sight. We must not forget the lily of the valley; plant clumps of it in sandy soil and partly shady locations. It will spread and become @ source of perennial delight. And peonies —great, wholesome, splendid decorative things—why are they not more cultivated? Once well started, they need little care, are not subject to diseases or insect attacks, and what a gorgeous effect they give, grouped or planted at intervals in the bor- ders. Give them plenty of elbow room and leave them to nature and great will be your reward. Hardy roses, shrubbery, etc., should be planted late in the fall or very early in the spring, while in a dormant state. In our climate and farther south, the fall planting is preferable. It ts also the best time to transplant hardy bulbs, perennials, shrubs, ete. The leading florists send out such plants in November. They look like dry, dead sticks when they reach you, but do not worry. Plant them deeply—grafted roses with the juncture of the graft two inches or more below the surface of the ground—and give a top dressing of leaves and compost before the earth freezes. Prune the branches ‘of all hardy roses and shrubs before the sap starts, and by all means choose large plants, two or three years 07. Better fewer and stronger, than @ lot of yearlings that may or may not flourish. And give each plenty of room. Early in March is the best time to plant dormant roses of the tenderer sorts. After your chrysanthemums have ful- filled their mission, cut the stalks off near the ground and give a light protection of leaves. Before the ground freezes lift your canna, gladiolus and amaryllis bulbs, pack them in sand and put away in a dark, cool cellar or closet. Winter Care of Roses. In December, not earlier, put your roses to bed for the winter. The hardy sorts need only a light covering, but tea roses wust be protected, not dnly from severe cold, but from the winter sun, which often starts the sap and even leaf buds prema- turely, with dire results. It is this alter- nate freezing and thawing which kills roses, the rosarians tell us. A good way to shelter them is to set up a screen of boards on the southern side of the rose beds. If the bushes are scattered about, set barrels or boxes, with the bot- GES. 17 survive the winter with jonly & light cover- F ¢ Many authorities recommend fall plant- ing of sweet peas. My gym opinion ts that the trenches should be prepared in the autumn and the peas, planted early in h. In our climate there is always the of premature coming up, and subse- quent freezing of the tender young vines. Sweet Péas. Prepare the trenches for sweet peas cs follows: Select, if possible, an open spot and dig a trench two and a half to three feet deep and eighteea ‘inchés wide, Tet it run from north to south {f convenient. Fill up a foot deep with,any kind of com- and on top of that garden soil, rather avy than otherwise.’ Finish with a Hight top dressing. By March the soil in the trenches will have settled firmly and be ready for planting. All these matters having been attended to, give your lawn or grass plot a light dressing of manure, or bone meal, and sow the thin places, if any, with lawn grass. Now you may conscientiously lay down shovel, hoe and rake, ad leave the rest to nature. 3 She will cuddle her dear earth children close and warm in hér capacious bosom, until the time comes to send them forth on their beautiful mission. And as you look cut of the window in midwinter, whai a pleasure it will be to think of the latent beauty under all those snowcovered, bar- ren beds and borders! With -what impa- tience you will anticipate the time of re- awakening and what a genuine, wholesome delight will be yours when you discover the Ilitle green and yellow and pink tips breaking through the brown earth or start- ing from the bare boughs! Life holds no joy purer or more intense to the genuine flower lover than this. JULIA SCHAYER. —s——_ CHESS AND ITS PLAYERS All the games have been played in the summer tournament at the Washingcon Chess Club, Mr. Prender losing the re- maining games to Messrs. O'Farrell, Ray and Tucker. Mr. Smith won first prize, Capt. O'Farrell second and Mr. Harris of Alexandria third. The tournament has Proved very interesting. There was con- siderable rivalry between the piayers, es- pecially fer first prize, and some very good games have been played. Nearly all the games were played on time, the exception being in the case of Prender, who had trouble with his eyes. The following is the final score of the players: Won. Lost., ‘Won. Lost. - 9% 4 [tucker ... 4 BM O'Farrell. 84g 1% | Crofts 4 6 Harris. s 2 Thomas: 2 8 ‘Tibbetts: 5% <% | Campbell 1% 34 z O44 | Prender .. 4 9 Fa The next event of more than usual im- portance at the Washington Chess Club will be an exhibition given by Mr. A. B. Hodges the latter part of the present month. Mr. Hodges is in business at New Srighton, Staten Island, N. Y., and plays chess for pleasut Nevertheless, he is one of the best players in this country. In the two cable matches played against the Brit- ishers for the Sir George Newnes trophy he has played on the American team, and at the late summer meeting of the new Yerk Chess sociation, in which New York played against Pennsylvania, he won second prize, finishing with a score of six games won and one lost, but half a game behind Pillsbu He ‘defeated Kemeny, Shipley, McCutcheon, Bampton, Stuart- Robinsoi and Young, and lest to Newman. Mr. Hodges has held the state champton- ship of New York and has'a reputation as a blindfold player. He will play here simultaneously against a number of play- ers across the beard. Shortly after that exhibition the Wash- ington club will commence its annual club championship tournament, which will, as heretofore, be open to ail players in the istrict of Columbia. ‘There is considera- ble rivalry at present among local players, and an exciting tournament is expected. One of the most ambitious local players is Mr. L. Tharp. He is a very thoughtful player and has been steadily improving. Last winter he finished second in the Washingtcn club championship tourna- ment, standing above Messrs. Hanna, O'Farrell, Harris, Tibbetts, Duaham, Gwyer and others, He is desirous of playing a match for the championship of the Dis- trict, and-wovld undoubtedly make his op- ponent work hard to win. Another strong player in this city is Mr. A. Braid. He does not participate in tournaments, and has not taken place in any of the late matches. Just now he is ying a number of off-hand games with B. Walker, the local champion, and has nearly equaled the latter's score. ‘He plays very rapidly, and should he take the nec- essary time to study the positions, would push any player in the city. In the correspondence match between the Pillsbury National Correspondence Chess Association of the United States and the Orillia Chess Association of Orillla, Ontario, twelve on a side, the United States team has won ane game, drawn another and lost none, and has prospects of winning an ex- cellent victory, according to reports from the American players. In this match F. B. Walker of this city is paired with H. M. Christie of Orillia. ‘The local player has an excellent attack, with good reason to expect an early victory. The Pillsbury Association has nearly com- pleted its preliminary tournament and will shortly commence its final tournament for divisional championships. The District of Columbia is in the eastern division, which includes New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- vania, Maryland and the District. The only local player who participated in the tournament is F. B. Walker. The present indications are that he will qualify for the final tournamert. Among his competitors in the finals will be W. B. Napier, cham- pion of the Brooklyn Chess Club; H. Hilms of the same club. At the end of sixteen rounds the masters’ tournament at Berlin presents a most inter- esting race. Blackburne, the English cham- pion, is ahead, with Janowski, the French- man, and Charousek, the Austrian, but half a game behind. Walbrodt, the German, has won the most games, by reason of the forfeitures to him by Bardeleben and Hn- glisch, who retired from the tourney. Burn, the Englishman, is also well up, and following closely are Marco, the Austrian, ‘fschigcrin, the Russian, and Schlechter, the Austrian, who has maintained his repu- tation as the drawing master by drawing more games than any other player. It is difficult to pick the winner. Black- burne has still to play Burn, Janowski and Walbrodt, all hard games; Janowski has to meet Blackburne, Cohn ‘and Schlechter; Charousek’s opponents will be Caro, Tschi- gcrin and Zinkl, and Walbrodt has to play Albin and Blackburne. The first two or three prizes undoubtedly lay between Blackburne, Janowski, Charousek and Wal- brodt, and it would not be surprising to see Charousek come in first. Following is the standing of the players at the end of sixteen rounds: Won. Lost.) Br'kbarne.. 12 Janowski.. 11% Charousek: 1144 Walbrodt.: 12 Maro. 2. 18 ‘sebigorin. 10 Schlechter. 9) The fourth game of the match for the championship of the District of Columbia between Messrs. Walker and Gwyer re- sulted in a victory for. Mr. Walker, who now leads by the scoré of 4 to 0.| Mr. Gwyer played the acer well, but he weakened, and did not pay enough atten- tion to pawns. A singdlar ‘eature of the game was the failure of white to guard against the capture of his 4 on the thirty-second move, capture the queen, though the danger the queen w; before. The following i! game: en by a pawn id of black to Parties saw in on the move ‘the score of the Opening—English. it RRB = aay 23 _ 6B 30 Ben Castles 31 RxR Kt 82 P—KB4 P. 3, BB oe t 34 KiPsP P-K4 35 R—-K P-KKts ‘B6 PxP ie i oer - peates a ShNMBESsabFERtsens, 3 bab pay THE NATIONAL GUARD Preparations tor the National Rafle Association Annual Meeting. SEA GIRT COMPETITORS NOT BARRED Proposed Series of Lectures by Captain Herbert J. Slocum. ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIP ——— About the only proceedings of interest during the week so far as the Disttict of Columbia National Guard is concerned have been the preparations for tne annual rifle competitions, under the a of the National Rifle Association, t¥at begin Tuesday, October 12, at the Ordway range, ‘With but very few exceptions all the com- pany, battalion and regimental organiza- tions will enter teams In the company, bat- talion and regimental team matches. The selection and practice of the teams is oc- cupying the greater part of the available time of all concerned. It should be made plain at the outset that the rifle mects held at Sea Girt are not in any sense national or international competiticns. District guardsmen who have visited Sea Girt and engaged in the contests there, it seems, have not under- stood the situation as well as they should. The meetings at Sea Girt have merely been the annual gatherings cf the members of the New Jersey State Rifle Association and invited guests. The point is raised by eral guardsmen whc have been to Sea Girt. They considered themselves barred from the short-range match and the short and mid-range matches. The conditions of these matches are as follo The short-range match.—Open to enlisted men of the District of Columbia National Guard who have never engaged in any na- tional or international competition cither as individuals or eam members. Ten shots each at 200 and 300 yards. If there are less than fifty entries the prize list will be reduced. No prize will be awarded to any competitor whose score Is less than 30 per cent of the possible. First prize, $20; sec- ond prize, $15; three prizes of $10; teu prizes of $5. Entrance fee, 25 cents. The short and mid-range matca.—Open to comruissioned officers and enlisted men of the District of Columbia National Guard who have never engaged in any national or international competition either as indi- viduals or team members. Ten shots each at 200 and 500 yards. If there are less than fifty entries the prize list will be reduced. No prize will be awarded to any competi- tor whose score is less than 50 per cent of the possible. First prize, $20; second prize, $15; three prizes of $10; ten prizes of $. Entrance fee, 25 cents. The reference “national or international competition” is not intended to bar any member of the local brigade who has par- ticipated in the competitions at Sea Girt. Orders will be issued during the next few days providing for the presence of all inspectors of rifle practice and all officers and enlisted men selected to serve on teams, either as principals or alternates or as range officers at Ordway during the meet. Visitors Are Invited. Visitors are cordially invited to attend the competitions at any time during the meet. Such arrangements as are possible will be made for their comfort, and the Froceedings are expected to be of such a nature as will interest all. The range will be open.each day at 9:30 o'clock, and trains for Magruder Station, or Ordway, will leave the Pennsylvania station at 9 a.m. and ), 2:01 and 4:36 p.m. It is urged by those in authority that all guardsmen who expect to complete the official practice on the range will take an earlier train than the one leaving this city at 4:36 p.m. The train reaches Ordway at 4:55, and before 6 o'clock it is too dark to fire shots with any degree of satisfaction. It is impossible to fire ten shots at each range, the required number, in the time stated. During the past week Capt. McGoodrell of the United States Marine Corps has been testing on the range the shooting qualities of the new Lee magazine rifle, now in the hands of the Navy Department. It is un- derstood that the tests have shown the new firearm to be far from satisfactory. The Marine Corps, which has leased the range for a month after the close of the National Rifle Association meeting, is plac- ing in position a battery of rapid-fire guns, similar to the second battery on board ship, but of sub-caliber. It is possible that se- lected squads of District Nationai guafds- men may be permitted to take advantage of the presence of the battery and indulge in practice with the rapid-fire guns, ef course, under proper instruction. The executive officer of the National Rifie Association announces that members of the association who are in arrears will not be permitted to compete in the association matches. Officers Who Have Resigned. During the quarter just ended Captain William Edward Horton, aid de camp; Capt. Guy E. Jenkins, Company A, 5th Battalion; Second Lieut: Frelay L. Dod- son, Company A, Ist Separate Battalion; Second Lieut. Thomas Marron, Battery A, Light Artillery, and Second Lieut. Will E. Sorrells, Company C, 5th Battalion, ten- dered their resignations. The resignation of Capt. Horton, particu- larly, is considered a loss of some import+ ance to the local brigade. He became iden- tified with the District National Guard scon after its organization, and was for some time captain of the Ordway Rifles. Gen. Ordway appointed Capt. Horton a member of the general staff, and for al- most ten years he performed yeoman sery- ice. His removal to New. York city to ac- cept the management of the law depart- ment of a big corporation made the tender of resignation necessary. It is believed that Captain Horton will soon become iden- tif with the National Guard of the state of New York. To Rank of Captain. ‘The vacancy in the office of captain and quartermaster of the Ist Regiment, until recently held by Captain Matthew God- dard, has been filled by the appointment of Thomas Marron, formerly second lieuten- ant of Light Battery A. Lieut. Marron re- signed his commission as an officer of the Light Battery July 31 last, and he holds rank as captain and quartermaster of the 1st Regiment from September 20. The re- lations of Col. Alexander and Capt. Marron were very intimate when both were con- nected with the Light Battery. For the Association Championship. Secretary Guista has been busy during the past few days issuing membership tickets on behalf of the Athletic’ Associa- tion of the D. C. N. G. It is the desire of the officers that all who have signified their intention of applying for membership will come to the front without delay, in order to secure the’ benefit of the primary in- struction with the classes. All guardsmen are invited to affillate themselves with the association. Arrangements are in progress for a series of games of basket ball and hand bail for the association championship, cne game to be played each month. The basket ball competition will between two teams to be known as the “Reds” and the “Whites,” while all the members of the association will be eligible to compete for the hand ball championship. x A Series of Lectures. Capt. E. C. Edwards of Company A, 24 Battalion, is the originator of a movement that may result in a series of lectures on military topics by Capt. Herbert J. Slocum of the 7th U. 8. Cavalry, who is at present assigned to duty with the local brigade. Capt. Edwards is of the opinion that such lectures would be very interesting and in- structive to the officers of the brigade. ld be held once a month, or per- haps ag often as once a week, ith January. Increased interest in the is expected, would be ‘Tmeneuvering about the dark streets is not at _all satisfactory. Capt. Edwards is. endeavoring to have every member of his command complete the official rifle tiee_on the range, and has. designated Wednesdays for that pur- pose. Private Brittain has been placed in charge of the rifle practice. Capt. Charles J. Hendler, Company H, 3d Regiment, National Guard of Pennsy!- vania, was the guest of Capt. Edwards during the week. Capt. Hendler is in the city on military business. Notes, Having successfully passed the brigade board of examination, Corp. James D. Eg- gleston, Company D, 2a Separate Batial- fon, has been announced as a candidate for promotion to the grade of second lieuten- ant of cycle infantry. Z Nothing having been heard from the offi- cials of the Brit National Rife Associa- tion in relation to the matter, no further steps have been*taken In the direction of the organization of a team of American riflemen to cross the Atlantic ocean and participate in the international rifle matches next June Bisley, England, In the interest of the service, Pr Frank Jones, Company A, Ist Battali and Private William H. Liggin, Company C, Ist Battalion, have been ‘dtscharged from the District National Guard. Private R. S. Hooker, Company C, Ist Battalion, has been discharged because of removal from the District. Private Frederick K. Grahe has been transferred from Company B, 4th Battalion, to Company C, lst Bat- talion, and Privte William R. Stone, jr.. from Company C, 4th Battajion, io Com- pany D, Ist Battalion. te IN THE CHURCHES The Maryland Association of the Church, embracing Maryland, V' E the District of Columbia, held its ann mecting last week at Richmond, Va. Rev. M. Ross Fishburn, who, with his family, has been spending the past month at Rockland, Md., has returned to the city and will occupy his pulpit in the Mt. Pleas- ant Congregational Church tomorrow. By request Rey. Charles B. Ramsdell addressed the Central Union Mission last Monday evening. ' € been elected by the Young ty of Christian Endeavor of the Central Presbyteriar, Church, as fol- lows: President, Thomas Barr; vice pres’ dent, Miss Mary Whitwell; secretary, Ed- ward Russell, and delegate to the District Endvavor Union, J. H. Mohler. Miss Bowie was recently elected super- intendent of the Sunday schvol of St. Au- sustine’s Church in place of Miss Saun- ders, resigned. The presbytery of Washington city Sti.ted session on Tuesday ev rantown, Md., and continued their sion through the following day. Very Vttle business of any importance was transacted, except the discussion of the relation between the churches at’ Boy‘ and Gaithersburg. The — Presbyteria Ministers’ Association is to resume its reg- ular weekly meetings next Mon: The missionary societies of the Methodist Protestant churches of this city and Al- exondria are to hold their annual meeting next Monday afternoon at the First M. P. Church, Mcst Reverend Archbishop Keane will preach at St. Patrick’s Church tomorrow. Rev. Dr. Stafferd will preach on the 1th at St. Patrick’s at the 11 o'clock mass. A mecting of the Methodist Union has been ca'led for Monday evening at Wes- ley Church, and besides the regular meni bers of the union efforts are being made to gather together zt the meeting all who are in any way connected with the Metho- dist bazaar which it is proposed shall be hele. here in November. ‘The tongregation of Christ Evangelical Tutheran Church has fitted up its paro- chial residence for the pastor, Rev. Carl C. Morhart, who was recently married. The Junior Christian Endeavor Society o the Grace Baptist Church has elected th following officers to serve during the ensi ing six months: Superintendent, Mr. James v. Bevans; president, Miss Annie Baden; vice president, Miss Jessie Brashears; see- retary, Welby Furr; treasurer, Miss ‘Irene Pyles, and organist, Miss Bessie Beron. The fathers connected with St. Dom- inic’s Church went into their annual re- treat last Sunday, under the direction of the pastor of the church, Rev. Father Kent, and are to close their devotions tomorrow Mr. Rolla P. Currie has been elected s: retary of Ascension Chapter of the Broth- erhood of St. Andrew, in place of Dr. John London, resigned, and has also been elec ed one of the chapter delegates to.the an- nual convention of the brotherhood. Rev. Dr. Alfred Harding returned from Orkney Springs, Va., last week, but was taken sick shortly after his arrival. While not able to preach last Sunday, he is some- what better now. The Sunday school of St. Pete is to resume its ‘ions tomorrow The Thursday evening meetings for men at the Southwest Mission of Trinity Pr : copal Church were started this week, when a committee from nity Chapier, composed of Messrs. W. M. Brown, Ralph Moses and W. L. Browning, entertained the men present with refresh- ments, music, games and periodicals. Rev. Albert M. Hilliker returned Wea- nesday from a six weeks’ vacation, em- bracing Mackinac Island and Warren, P; The general conference of the Christian Church is to occur this month at Indianap- olis. Revs. F. D. Power and BE. B. Bagby of this city will attend, and the former has been invited to address the conference. The mass meeting of the District Baptist Young People’s Union, which was to nave been held yesterday evening. has been postponed until seme time in October. ‘The pastor of the North Carohua Avenne Chureh Methodist Protestant Church, Rev. Louis Randall, is to leave next Monday for Westminster, Carroll county, Md., for a two weeks’ vacation. During his absence the pulpit is to be supplied by Rev. W. A. Clark. The Church Extension Union of the Methodist Protestant Churches of Wash- ington has been reorgarized, and the fol- lowing are the officers: President, Rev. W. S. Hammond, and secretary, Rev. Louis Randall. The annual meeting of the cr- ganization is to be held next Monday even- ing at Central Church. At a conference of the pastors of the Methodist Episcopal churches it was de- cided to arrange a plan by which the bur- den of making up the missionary debt of Washington district will be distributed equally among the various charges in pro- portion to their membership. Father McGee, who has been appointed pastcr of the proposed new church of the Sacred Heart, is pushing the collection of funds and expects to nearly complete the amount desired by a large fair which will be held in November. Rev. Dr. Parson, president of the Luth- eran Home for the Aged, has collected all the money necessary for tne extensicns to the home, mention of which was made in The Star several months aso. Rev. Alexander Bielasxi of Union M. E. Church, who has spent the month cf Sep- tember with his family in the mountains of West Virginia, returned home this week and will occupy his pulpit tomorrow. The evangelist who is conducting revival services at Trinity M. £. Church is to re- main another week. The Band of Hope, a temperance organi- zation of the District, will hold its annual meeting next Friday evening at Wesley M. E. Church. Rev. Dr. John H. Elliott has returned frcm his vacation, which he spent, for the most part, in western Maryland, ments are beiag made by which a large party of the focal members of the Baptist Young People’s Union will go to Baltimore next Thursday evening to attend the Chattanooga ecno rally of the Mary- land members of the Baptist Young Peo- Ple’s Union. A concert for the benefit cf the Fifth Baptist Church was given yesterlay even- ing in the church auditorium, under the direction of a committee headed by W. 8. Olive as chairman. ‘The rector of Trinity P. E. Church, Rev. Richard P. Willi:ms, will give the series of illustrated-icctures on English church history, compiled by clergymen of the Church of England. They will be given under the euspices of the church society of the parish during October and November in_the parish hall. ee Rev. W. A. Creditt, A. M., Baptist Chureh in America is to hold its annvel gathering October at Hagerstown. At the coming meeting of the Maryland synod, Mr, Chauncey R. Botsford, a resi- dent of this city, but now studying at Sus- quehanna University, Selin’s Grove, P to apply for a license to preach, Messrs. L. F. Randolph and John F. Con- ner, and Mesdames W. H. Finckel, J. G. Batler and J. W. Graham, and Miss Mary Swartzell have been appointed a committes of the Luther Memorial Church to look after the matter of entertaining delegates to the Maryland synod by members of their congregation. Rev. J. W. Gray is going to Chicago next Monday to stay two weeks, and while away the pulpit of the First Methodix: Protestant Church is to be filled by Rev. Mr. Moore. ‘The Methodist Protestant ministers of Washington have resumed thelr bi-week meetings under the direction of the officers for this conference year. ~The Keller Memorial Church will prob- ably be formally dedicated the first day in November. The exercises in honor of the thirty- fourth anniversary of Shiloh Baptist Church, which began last Sunday, closed last evening with a rally, followed by a re- ception A number of ministers delivercd addresses during the week, among them ing Revs. W. A. Creditt, W. J. Howard ana J.C. Dent Mr. George Ryneul, jr, was selected represent the Luther Memorial Charch the coming meeting of the Maryland syno-t The Women's Foreign Missionary Sovic ts of Wesley Church met at parsonase cn Monday evening of thin week and he id their annual “Jug Breaicng.” At the annual meeting of the C. E of the Metropolitan Presbyte Chureh, held September 30, the follow! officers were elec Hart; first vice pp nald; second ¥ recording urer, E. at man: pianist, Miss Chairmen ‘of comm; Calling, Mix« Clara Miller: tin: inner Boece, Miss ; mood citizenship, F_ Ww! Brown; good Mterature, Miss Nellie joy den; information, Miss Delia Adams: junior ci Miss Debbie Goiné: ; lookout, Mi Clara’ Burroughs; mixsionat 1 Zimmerman; prayer, Miss 1 Burrow, printing. nn xociai, Miss Troutman; Sun hool, | Miss Yoeckel; ushers, Church. Why is It She Likes the Man in a Uniform? Ka a Faweett tn fers Weekly. Why fs it that you never meet in an even passably good looking Privates, I mean, of course. Whence come these toweringly tall fellows in their jack- etx of furous red, with their caps worn so aslant as to seem toppling from th temples? Are there none in the whole British army more personable than One recalls those witty and touching words of the poor country wench in Mr. Pine%o's Play of “The Squire;* “Our queen puts in their Ss, and we girls poor “arts.” The queen may put pas!- n their chests, but her majesty ponsible. Tam sure, for Ub their coarse, florid taces. the . their small,” bullet shay: » their general lankness and lack You marvel what makes the nur- y maids care for them as they de in the perks a baby carriage, a nu maid and a soluer are common sights. the women of their class it is curious! ty that these lows, emblazoned iy their showy . are often quite ir- resistiLle. when in London, 1 indirectly of a ‘housemaid’s frank ce sion. She a pretty young blonde more attractive to the eye than any gay coated recruit I have ever sern. don’t know what it is,” she avowed, we can't help Iking soldiers, and I've got one for a sweetheart, thovgh I'm not sur if he cares for me half so much as I care for him!” In New York the policemen ar+ said to inspire a similar passion in certain feminine breasts. But that seems as ni ral az the “cadet fever” at West Point among young women of higher grade. “But- tens” and lke braveries on the male figure have always fascinated the sof Sex Scores of our New York policem-», now- ever filiterate and common, are neverthe- less very handsome men. Many an artiet would be giad enough to have them pore as models, it their American dig sity were not haugatily above such a concession. But, in all candor, one can better com- pare the majority of young English » diers whom one meets in the London ihe oughfares to nothing save a troop of £i- gantic red bodied spiders. En masse, T ad- mit, they meke an admirable showing. But individually they are devoid of every viria charm, ———pe— CLEA) POSTA’ N Process to Remove Printing From Uns Canceled Cards. From the Boston ‘Transcript. An advertisement has appeared In some of the daily papers, in which a cash pay- ment has been offered for uncanceled print- ed postal car This was all that w: stated, atui as it seemed to be out of the general run of advertisements, a call vas r to find made today on the adyert the Ciject of this off It seems that ma s houses ba’ oceasion to have a mber of postal cards printed, to advertire some sf line ef goods or for = of some tra\ ing man. For some reason or conditioas m: th only half of use priated, they ©: ne used in way, and the in nine out of tea they s gned to the wis basket, es th does not Ki deem uncanceled ards am it dees stamped envelo} ‘A process has been discovered iy w all of the printed mia:*-y may be rem from the card, leaving 1. .: the same dition as when bought at the post A charge of 42 cent per card is mad this work, or in other words, 00 cards’ to be “made over. who does the work charges services, an the customer saves the printed cards were of no use to him. The process by which this work i av- complished is not patented, as the inventor ottios is fearful tha’ after the ingredie come known, some on se may « them enough to escap? an infringement but at the same time obtain the same sult.” The solution is made at night the factory hands have gone home, given them the t day scheme has been in ope months only, but the inventor has letters from all parts of the country from pron inent Lusiness houses, that have taken vantage of this offer to save 50 © the dollar, and he feels sure he has got a business that, after it has become known, will prove a good paying investment. ee ut They Make From Pack. “The mills of the gods grind slowly, marked the philosopher. “Gearod too low, ¢ for six ree * queried the cyaiet Of Course Not! From Life. a NOTICE LADIGS WEARING LARGE WATS wiee CONFER & Favor on! THE MANAGEMENT i REMOVING THE