Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1897, Page 15

_ THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1897-16 PAGES, THE SUNDAY DISCOURSES ane Missions, Young >Men, Prodigality, Pauls Bank Aepqunt and Charac- fer Buildings Among the Topics. POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS CREDIT WITHOUT COST. CREDIT WITHOUT COST,” Credit Prices That Will Bring The Ladies! We have begun an era of bargain-giving that has never been ap- proached by any. local clothing house; all eyes are upon us—buyers and dealers alike! We are underselling the lowest bargain prices of the We give trading stamps with each cash purchase. 2 of the Postmaster General's = Benefit to the Country at Large of the Establishment of Such a System Minutely Described. A Greater Puritan are the days of greater things. In this country of ours we are not still, ce ” ee ) $25 Solid Polished » Oak Chamber Suite $16.85. | The Obief Topic = not for : better and always better an : 2 “a wae os att cash stores—and giving our thousands of patrons the benefit of the easi--} poy p, x. Greeiilidla, pastor of Central} Postmaster General a ee a y sic = é : Methodist Protedtae~ Churcli, hed As 30x24 Bevel-plate Mirror. est payments they have evér known! fe , Cireh. preached | frat annual report to the President. The Star months ago indicated, Mr. Gary $25 would be a cheap price for it. - ‘Cash or Credit.” Our CHAMBER FURNI- TURE Department is more than well stocked, not only with Special For $2 Wrappers. ‘Made of fine outing fiannelette. Ckoice of blue and white—black and "white also fancy, Persian c. |. suites of all descriptions, up to ides wade beatae trimmed eke x0) $2 qualities—tomorrow CREDIT WITHOUT COST, _ Brilliantine Skirts. Full four yards wide—neatly = *1.28 |. richly carved solid mahogany || suites worth $350, but all sorts ' ofsingle pieces. White enamel dressing tables, washstands, chairs: handsome Wardrobes, figured — lined with pet neat velvet binding—skirts that * Chiffoniers, Bureaus, etc. The veryTe he af || Chiffoniers, Bureaus, ete. 1 sell for $2 everswhere—a sip || newest and most charming. €REDIT. WITHODT COST. Prices always at zero. “Cash or Credit.” Ladies’ Cheviot Coats. - Elegantly made and trimmed— 2.98 finest blue and black cheviot— fly front—stitehed seams — flap: pocket—$5.50 values—cut tomor- IT WITHOUT CosT. : . Seal Collarettes. Made of fine electric seal—lined sD q o419 Furniture Co., 1226 F St. N.W. Painless Best Extracting, Teeth, 50c. *8.00 Cheap things are usually bad. Cheap Geatistry is not only bad, but danger- ous. It 1s full of pain and disappoint- tment. Dea! with a dental establishment that has a -eputation—that ts a credit to Washington—that does all work abso- row to a throughout with satin—high storm collar—full ripple--seld for in every other store—our price. . CREDIT WITHOUT CosT. Ladies’ Plush Capes. Made of genuine Saltz plusn— fuil sweep eollar—front edged with Angora fur—well made and. lined—capes that sell everywhere for $5—special at .. 52.98 CREDIT WITHOUT oosT. ments for everybody. Moire Velour Skirts, There's a big cut-price sale of Men's Winter Suits and Overcoats In progress here; casy pay- NEW YORK CLOTEING HOUSE, 311 Seventh St. N. W. Tomorrow! Biderdown Sacques. t broidered edges — frimmed with satin Hibben choles of a dainty colors—the else- price to- number of identical sacques that sell where for $1.50—our CREDIT WITHOUT COST. . Brilliantine Waists. Made with yoke ba frént—nlev with blouse ck and front if Enea atin? Tf OS where a€ $3—speciat-a E *. “CREDIT “WITHOUT COST. _ Made with the “poputa rand . stylish. fan” back—tined through- out with percaline—and. bound 9 with velvet—sold everywhere for A $12—special tomorrow at........ CREDIT WITHOUT COST. Children’s Suits. See ee rey aoe 8° CREDIT WITHOUT cost. Girls’ Cheviot Reefers. Deuble-breasted Suits, 9 to 16 In brown and blue cheviot— 2.98 years—regulation $2 suits tomor- Tow for.. large sailor coHars.— trimmed with mohair braid—flap pockets; also one lot in green novelty cloth—wide sailor collars—trim- med with braid—§5 values tomor- row for lutely without pain, and—last, but not Jeast- charges falr and honorable prices. IN THE CHURCHES Rev. Dr. A. J. Rowland, secretary of the Baptist Publication Society, who is well known in Washington on account of his frequent visits here during his pastorate of eleven years in Baltimore, has secured for the use of the society for cars, which are to be used in the south and west for mis- sionary purposes. Each of these cars is longer than an or- dinary Pullman and is fitted up as a chapel, with a pulpit, and will seat one hundred persons. Whenever a village along a rail- road is found to be wanting in religious op- portunities, a chapel car will be coupled to a steam engine, a minister, and, in some cases, a choir, will be taken aboard, and the church car transferred to that particu- lar locality. U. S. Dental Ass’n, Cor. 7th and D Sts. N.W. OPEN SUNDAYS 10 TO 12 O'CLOCK. BARGAINS. $3.00 Shces ou $ > LADIES’ 3$.50 and Two of these cars will be operated in © sizes). ‘Texas and Arkansas, and two on the Pa- e TO $1.93. % | cific coast. A fifth car is being built for use = Butten, sizes 2%, 32 | in the northw Arrangements are being made to build a much handsomer car than any now owned by the society, and which will be known as “the ladies’ car.” Already seventy ladies have contributed $10) each TO $1.48. Ss and Kid Button (heels) + to the fund for construction, and more is > BOYS’ Fine Button Shoes (heels), sizes 12 promised. ; ; eee 4 12 al 4% to 544; $2.50 and $2.00 | fe annual praise meeting ©! ie. Mis- y get a ee sionary Society of Metropolitan. Presby- 4 REDUCED TO 98 CENTS. % | terian Church will be held Thursday even- «) Every one of the above a genuine bargain. ing next. An illustrated lecture on Alaska 4 i @ | will form a part of the program. 2 Robert Cohen & Son, The Teirs of tne late General Reynolds Ww of Washington have sold the property 2 _630 Pa. Ave. N.W. known as “Edgewater,” at Old Point Com- @ Established 1838. PS 4 0c+-3m,40 fort, and belonging to their estate, to the sete , CCEOSCESS * | Xaverian Brothers. A home will be erected POSITIVELY CURES RHEUMATISM. there for aged members of the order. A DR. HERNDON: college Is also to be founded on the prop- ‘ 2 aft 9? erty. The property, which consists 0: “Gypsey’s Gift. sixty-five acres, together- with a residence An absolut> C' RE for RE: MATISM in all fits} and all the nece: ry outbuildings, is situ- Relieves quickly & eradi “Gypsey’s Gift. An Internal Blood and Kidney M a after the prescription and processes of Dr. Herndon, @ celebrated Specialist im Blood Diseases. “Gypsey’s Gift.” Is pecullar to itself. Has no equil. In order to allow those afflicted with Rheumatism to give it a trial, we will the next sell a Kolb Pharmacy,Gen’l Agts. not-3m 438 7TH ST.. “OR, E N.W. Great Reduction ites the uric acid. ated on an inlet of the Chesapeake bay. A 99 sweeping view may be enjoyed of the At- lantic ocean, and of the Chesapeake bay, and 1,500 feet of sandy beach gives ample opportunity for bathing and boating. Be- ing less than 2% miles from Fort Monroe, and within half a mile of Buck Roe Beach, the property is conveniently situated. The Chesapeake and Ohio railway runs within a short distance of it, while through the grounds passes an electric line. ‘The annual meeting of the District of Columbia Sunday Schoo! Association will be held in the D York Avenue Pres- byterian Church, Rev. Dr. Wallace Rad- cliffe, pastor, the 20th and 30th instants and December 1. The exercises will begin with a song service, led by Prof. Percy S. Foster. Devotioral services will follow, to be conduct Dr. Duncan of the Eckington Presbyterian Church. An ad- dress will be delivered by District Commis- sioner John B. Wight. After the annual address of the president, Mr. P. H. Bris- tow, and that of the secretary, Mr. Jerome F. Johnson, Bishop Satterlee’ will deliver a discourse appropriate to the occasion. ‘The program of the second day comprises a vices, conducted by Rev. John address by Mr. William Redin conference on Sunday school by Rev. Dr. B. F. Bit- rty $. BOTTLE For ly 36. lairdressing, > pooing, ete. Impertal Hair Regenerator for restoricg gray hair. Never fulls. S. HELLER’S, 720 7th Street N. W. apl6-20d 100 Doz. Hair Switches, ray hes, $4, First-class attendants in 'E Consigned to us for the purpose of raising es by Mr. Marion Lawrence ryeeneara’ ‘ paces . M. W. Hamma, the latter We sell sou a very fue Swite so | and Rev. Dr. M. W. : “Eeactly ‘the sime article you’ will pay” | president of the general synod of the Luth- £ for elsewhere. eran Church. BS doz. Gray and White, from... $2 up The sessions the third and last day of Just balf of their actual value. the conventions will be devoted entirely to the consideration of reports. The recent house-to-house visitation will be referred to by several speakers. Mr. Marion Lawrence will talk on “Some Sug- gestions For Enlarged Work;” Rey. H. C. Woodruff of Brooklyn, N. Y., will make an ddress on the work of the Foreign Sunday School Association, and Mr. Lawrence will discuss the theme “The Sunday School a Power in Worl Rev. Mr. Menzel and Rev. Dr. Lucien Clark will conduct the prayer and praise services of the day and evening. A primary AT THE Louvre Glove Store, selS-tf NO. 919 F ST. ~ Go to Siccardi’s $5.00 Switehes reduced to $5.00. Gray and White Hair reduced in siue proportion. Time. Siccardi, 711 Jith st., next to Palais Royal. Private rooms for hairdressing, shampooing and dyeing. se13-16.tf union meeting will also be held in the morning and afternoon of the last day of the convention. Among those whe will participate are Mrs. J. W. Barnes of Newark, Mrs. W. F. Crafts, Mrs. Bod- fish and Miss Marshall of Washington. Revival services were held during the past week at Merrifield (Va.) Church, Rev. ¥ Bruen, pastor. Wes. Brank 8 Delo, pastor of the Luth- Songregation at Xenia, Ohio, lectured Thursday evening last in ‘the chapel of Luther Memorial Church, Rev. Dr. J. G. Butler, pastor, on “Foreign Missions.” The lecture was ‘illustrated by stereopticon views. It was not a mere description of slides which can be secured by any one, put of original maps, diagrams and pictures secured by Mr. Delo. About eighty slides were used, the purpose of which was to show the needs, progress and possibility of the people among whom the Lutheran mis- sionaries in Africa and India are laboring, owered prices = adies’ Desks. $1.75 Oak Desk... the home or office—every esks— for stylish in every fashionable more conference at the recent annual con- vention of the executive committee of the Woman's Foreign Misstonary Scciety of the M. E. Church, at Denver, Col., have re- turned home. “Both ladies’ were delighted with their visit, and Mrs. Hartsock, in con- versation with a Star reporter, said: he meeting, which lasted eight day Was composed of representative wome from all over the United States. Added to these were returned missionaries from all parts of the world. During the meetings ten young women offered themselves for foreign work, to labor in any field. All of these yolunteers were women of remark- able accompliskments, most of them A. B. graduates from colleges and universities. “The society has in the various fields 1 missionaries. besides Bible readers and native teachers; has real estate valucd at $492,689, and bas raised during the twent eight years of its existence $4,840,371 “The visitors were entertained hand- somely by the residents of Denver, and Mrs. Bishop Warren, wife of one of th bishops of the M.-E. Church, who is calle the ‘Cattle Queen of the West,’ threw open her palatial home and entertained all visi enerously.”” fig . Dr. L. M. Kuhns, this city, who ting friends in Ohio, has returned Elaborate preparations are being made fcr a grand conceft at the Foundry Meth- odist_ Episcopal Church, the night of Thankssiving day. The cantata of Jeruse~. lem is being rehearsed under -the direction ef Mr. Frank Wilson, assisted by a chorus of about sixty voices and’ an orchestra. ‘his work consists of choruses, semi-cho- Tuses, solos, duets and quartets., The con- cert will be for the benefit of the ladies’ jd society of the church, which. society is somewhat in debt on account of extensive repairs to the parsonage. be SSS PLATT BLAMES THE “OITs.” The New York Senator Reviews the Recent Contest. Senator Thomas C. Platt of New York has given out a statement in which he re- viewed the recent mayoralty campaign in New York and threw upon the Citizens’ Union all the blame for the defeat of the republican ticket and the triumph of Tam- many. In summing vp he says: “The republican defeat in New York city was a local defeat. It had its cause in local controversies. In the state, above the Harlem river, the republican ma- jorities were all that could be desired. The elections throughout the country proved that republican ‘principles had lost no part of the strong hold upon the people of which the victory of 1896 gave magnificent evidence. “The republican organization in New York, and in the city of New York no less than in the country districts, is still power- ful, earnest and devoted. In the menace of another Bryanite campaign factional controversies will soon be forgotten and republicans will be republicans again.” Mr. Platt terms Seth Low “a vain-glori- ous self-seeker, masquerading as a repub- lican, but willing at any time to wreck the republican ship on the ledge of his own ambitions.” The Citizens’ Union refused, he says, to participate in the conference invited of all anti-Tamn-any organizations. “Can any honest man,” he exclaims, “in the face of that fact, charge the responsi- bility for disunion upon the republican party? Does not. every honest man know that if the Citizens’ Union had gone into the proposed conference united action would have been inevitable? Is it not plain erough that the republicans could not pos- sibly have broken up, or have allowed to be broken up, a conference which they them- selves had originated? “If it be said that notwithstanding all this it was still the supreme duty of the republican convention to do anything to avoid the unspeakable calamity of the suc- cess of Tammany Hall and tnat it was the part of duty and patriotism to overlook both the insolence of the Citizens’ Union and the malice of the repu ractibnists who wére prompting and theing it, the answer is that there | kalamity worse then the success of # uecenrocratic party in the city of New Yerk.and that is its success in the state a i@ nation. “Mr, Low as mayor of B ready defeated one repub! |, Candidate for President. He did it by @estroying the republican organization not lees than by bis personal treachery to the candidate. He proposed to create here an absolute despotism unhindered by any constraint of party responsibility. “None the less, as every one knows, the voters would have held the republican party directly responsible for his every act. Its organization would have been disrupted and it would have gone into the next national campaign loaded down with popular prejudices only to find the mayor whom its votes had elected the author of its misfortunes, himself conspiring, as he had done twice before, to complete its ruin yi had al- ‘and the methods by which they carry on ees woe. Powell, superintendent of pub- lic schools, has consented to deliver a lec- ture Thursday evening next, before the Men's Guild of St. Luke's Church, on the subject of the moe necessary to se- cure success in life. ; nion of the members of St. Luke's pe church will be held there Thanksgiv- evening. "Ene program, as arranged, is as follows: Organ prelude; invocation, concluding with the Lord’s Prayer, Rev. Dr. T. C. Easton; anthem, choir of the First Presbyterian Ckureh, Mrs. W. L. Wilson, Mrs.- Elliot Woods, Mr. H. O. Simons, Dr. Gabriel F. Johnston and Mr. Charles G. Woodman; reading of the Scriptures, Rev. Dr. Byron Sunderland; prayer, Rev. A. Th Houghton 245% s nol3-40d RPROR OD OA AO ODO 4 ~ Here are Pies You'll Relis —Holmes’ Home-madé Pies! by the election of a democratic President.” —_—_+e+—____ Remove the High Hat. © ‘To the Editor of The Evening Star: see e Through the colurans of your ever-willing paper I want to ask the mmnagers of thea~ ters in this city to insist that hats be re- moved when the curtain rises. I went last night to see that peer of actors, Mr. Joseph Jefferson, and half my pleasure was marred Young Men’s Christian AsSoctation con- yesterday mi Hon Young Men,” ‘and Second Commandment.” “The Need of ign. Work in-This City” formed the subject? Yesterday morning of thé sermon of ‘Rev. J. ©. Fout at Memorial Chureh,;: His evening theme.wasg “Paul Be- fore “‘Agrippa,’” and his discourse was illus- trated with stereopticon views. "At Trinitf M. B. Church last evening Rév. Dr. E. D, Huntley delivered’ a dis- course “on: the’ subject, “Obedience Creates Rights.” Rev. W. Sw. ay. “preditied’ yesterday miorning at ‘the, Chufch of “Our Father on “The Universalist Profession of Faith and the Chicago Convention” = ur Young Men” was the theme of the sermon last evening of Rev. C. H. Butler, pastor, at _ Kell Mémorial “Lutheran Church, oer ed Ye 4 General Secretary W. N. Mutter of the fe evening on “The | strongly advocates the the post offices of the country. @ great benefit to the country at large and to lay aside something for a rainy day. The Postal Deficit. 20, 1899, are: Total postal revenue for 1897, $82,665,462.73; add 5 per cent, $133,273.13. Estimated revenue for 1898, $86, 735. add 7 per cent, $6,075,911.51. Total esti- mated revenue for 1899, $92,874,647. mated expenditures for 1599, $98,122,760 deficiency for 1899, estimated, $6,048,112. The increase of the postal deficit for is largely a reflex of the depressed business ducted the young men's service there yes- iterday afternoon. .: - Rev..E. Hez Swem, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, explained last evening to his congregation: “How a Woman’s Loss Caused a Man to Be Yery Happy.” Yesterday.was the beginning of the twen- ty-fourth year of the pastorate of Rew Dr. Domer at St. Paul's English ‘Lutheran Church, and he preached a-sermon appro- Priate to the occasion. “The Leaves That Fall was the theme upon which Rev. Frank Sewall preached a discourse yesterday morning at the New Church. < Rev. Dr. 8. M. Newman, pastor of the First ‘Congregational Church,’ continued last evening the series of ill~strated ser- mons on the “Life of St. Paul. Rey... Alexander T, Bowers of Wilming- ton, Del., preached? yesterday morning at All Souls’ Church. The evening service was tn charge of the Young People’s Re- ligious Union. 3 “Paul's Ministry in Rome” was the theme of the discourse at the First Church of Christ yesterday merning. Rey. Dr. J. A. Johnson gave an Iilustrat- ed discourse on “The Prodigal Son” before His congregation in Metropolitan A. M. E. Church last evening. . "The New Testament Conception of the Christian Life” formed the subject of the discourse of Kev. Dr. George V. Leech at Grace M. E. Church yesterday morning. Rey. Dr. George 8. Duncan of Eckington resbyterian Church preached yesterday morning on “The Great Foundation,” anc in, the evening on “The Character of Noah.” ‘Religious Zeal” and “Our Thoughts’ formed the subjects of the morning and evening sermons, mespectively, of Rev. Dr. Hartsock at Ryland M. E. Church yester- da: Rev. Dr. E. Olin Eldridge of Waugh M.E. church preached yesterday morning on ‘Helpful Memories,” and in the evening on_ “Shipwrecks of the Soul.” ‘The first of a serfes of three historical sermons on the “Westminster Assembly” was delivered yesterday morning at the Church of the Givépant by the pastor, Rey. Dr. Teunis $;Hamlin. The theme of the-seumon yesterday morn. that period, he says. There has been no extravagance of expenditure, save that obligated by law. Reiterating the injustice inflicted both upon the postal revenues and the people by second-class mail matter carriage regulations, the enactment by Con- gress of some measure to remedy the wrong, similarly pointed out by past Post- masters General, is urged. As to this the Postmaster General says: “If this were done there would be an end to postal de- ficits, and the service could be enlarged and pop.larized by a broad extension of free delivery without infringement upon the general resources of the government. and eventually result in the much-desired reduction of letter postage to 1 cent per ounce.” No method of. perfecting the organization of the postal service has proved more ef- fective than the consolidation of post of- fices. Legislative restrictions on its develop- tment are to be regretted and a repeal of the five-mile limit consolidation measure in the 1896 postal appropriation bill is recom- mended. Tre experimental rural free delivery has been generously appreciated; few expendi- tures have conferred greater benefits in proportion, and it has unquestionably prov- ed a potent factor in attaining what should be a chief aim of government, the granting of the best possible postal facilities to the farming class. The report reviews in deta'l the operations of the various branches of the department. Postal Savings Banks. The portion on the subject of postal sav- ings, in brief, follows: “Many millions of dollars are undoubted- ly secreted by people who have little or no confidence in ordinary securities and mone- tary institutions organized by private cit!- zens. It is dead capital, but if its owners could be inspired with absolute confidence in the security of an investment it is al- together probable that the bulk of this fund would find its way into the channels of trade And commerce. If the government undertook this task, the service would un- doubtedly be gladly accepted by the people. Their faith in the government is unbound- ed. Their little savings, which separately could hardly be put out at interest, would unt in the aggregate to a sum that be invested to their advantage. It would tend to cultivate thrift in a large class; realizing the advantage of depositing with the government instead of wastefuliy and uselessly expending; it would tend to better citizenship, bringing into closer re- lationship the government and its citizens und developing practical and enduring pa- .triotism. This growth of patriotic senti- ment and good citizenship constitutes a powerful appeal to statesmanship to make a way for these beneficent consequences. ‘The proposition is an accomplished. fact in nearly every country in Europe, in the British dependencies of both hemispheres, and even in Hawaii. Postal Banks in Great Britain. “In Great Britain 7,000,000 depositors have upward of $50,000,000 in savings ac- cumulated during thirty-five years; and in ten years fewer than 10,000 Hawalian de- Positors saved nearly $1,000,000. Deposits in Cenada in twenty years exceeded 000,000. These vast ‘accumulations hav: been made with the least possible loss to the governments, which guarantee their repayment, and with a minimum of cost to the millions of depositors. More than a third of the postal savings accounts in Eu- ropean offices are held by minors, and over two-thirds by the most humble callings. It is essentially the bank of this class. Pos- tal savings would uot conflict with these savings banks, but would encourage sav- ings rather than accumulations. The con- version of money order offices Into savings Gepositories would soon afford infinitely more facility for receiving interest-bearing deposits than the interest-paying banks do now. The most aggressive opponents are among the private institutions engaged in somewhat similar enterprises, though asso- ciations of the larger cities recognize in It a valuable feeder to the flnancial currents of the country. Security and not the rate of interest is the primary and essential condition of such a system; and bonds of states, counties and municipalities and real estate furnish an illimitable field. Com- paring other countries, the Postmaster General says nearly every country permits its most popular coin as the minimum amount of deposit, varying from 5 cents in India to $1 in Canada. Maximum deposits vary from $285 in France to $2,485 in New Zealand. Deposits over that amount are non-interest-bearing, and in several coun- tries the surplus is by law invested in na- tional bonds.- Both deposits and accounts are usually small. France made a profit in 1895 of $170,000 in handling 2,500,000 ac- counts, aggregating $143,000,000, after paying 3 per cent interest. Great Britain earned a surplus of $83,000, after paying 24 per cent interest on $480,000,000, made up of 6,500,000 accounts. The average commis- sion paid to postmasters is 1 cent per de- posit. Any account may be settled and withdrawn from any depository in the country. The telegraph is coming into use as a means of withdrawal.” and in the evenirt Hi At North Capitoly Church yesterday morning Rev. Dr ad of. Baltimore preached on “The- reamed of Scripture,” and in the evening Rév. Page Milburn de- pivexes s@ discourse om “‘Christ Before Pi- late?” = _ “Clainis of Twextieth Century Upon the Youné Men of Tojla;*. was the gubject of the discourte yesleyAay moralnk of Rev. Dr. Fiske. at_-Gungon Remple. - In. the even- fing Dr. Fiske's tepiew Thay di ‘ _ Rev. Dr. Nay Sp$ke yestérday- morn- Ihe before his regation at McKendr ad. E; Church ony:"Paulis Bank Account, iantoin: the evening on? Waste.” 0u2, 1 ForaMtetie New Tore wvenve Prosbyt dan pains Tast “evening” Revi Dr. Wallace adcliffe. the pastof,. preached’ on’ “Cities of the Bible—The City, of Pleasure.” Rey. Stowell.dz Bryant. pastor. of St. Paul's: M. :B. Church, deliveredia discourse erday morning on “A Teacher SCame From God,” and fn the evening on “Church History, in Biography—John Wickliffe, the Morning Star of the Reformation. “Hunting a Great City to Find a Man and aracter Building” were the sub- jects of the morning and evening discourses, respectively, yesterday of Rev. Dr. Thomas Chalmers Easton, pastor of Eastern Pres- byterian Church. : Rev. Dr. 8. R. Murray of Fifteenth Street M. E. Church preached yesterday morning on “Good That is Evil Spoken.”” Rey. John O. Knott, pastor of the Ep- wort: M. E. Church South, preached ye: terday morning on “Paul's Prayer “for Others,” and in the evening on “Approach- ableness of Jesus. “Faithful Unto Death” and “The Crown of Life” were the themes of the morhing and evening sermons, respectively, yester- day of Rev. BE, Lawrence Hunt, at Western Presbyterian Church. Yesterday was observed at Hamline M. E. Church as old folks’ day. The morning sermon was delivered by the pastor, Rev. Dr. W. R. Stricklen, and at 3 p.m. Pre- siding Elder L. B. Wilson conducted a love feast. The evening meeting was under the auspices of the Woman's Home Mis- sion Society, and an address was made by Rev. Dr. Thomas ©. Hliff, superintendent of the Utah mission of the M. E. Church. The forty-second anniversary of Gal braith Church took’ place yesterday. sermon appropriate to the occasion was di livered in the morning by the pastor, Re J. B. Colbert. In the-evening the members of O. P, Morton Post and Ladies’ Relief Corps, G. A. R., attended the exercises in a body. Rev. Dr. George N. Luccock, pastor of Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, preach- ed last evening on “Christtantty and Cae- sar in Conflict.” The themes of the sermons yesterday by Rev. pr. J. J. Muir at E Street Baptist Chureh ‘were: Morning, ‘The Houseless and evéning, “The Nightless © A ‘The theme of the yesterday morning’s dis- course by Rev. John Van Ness of Takoma Park Presbyterian Church was “The Fi- nancial Crisis, Rev. J. R. Verbrycke, pastor of Gurley Memorial. Church, preached yesterday morning on “The Value of. Prayer” and in the evening on “Our Young Men.” * “Sitting by the Cross” and “Who Spoiled the Vines” were the subjects of the morn- ing and-evening sermons, respectively, yes- terday of Rev.-E. B, Bagby, pastor of the Ninth Street. Christian Church, which con- gregation for the, present worships at. Northeast Temple. . : The Christadelphians listened to an ad- dress at their mi yesterday afternoon upon. “All Men Bat Old Adam Are Un- der Sin and Death.”’¢9 Rey. Dr. Talmage preached yesterday morning at ea byterian Church SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS, Series for First Six Years of the New Century. wW&he'sinternationdl committee of ministers aid tatinéh, which was charged with the bidittess+of preparing a séries of lessons to beyusedafex.the six years beginning Janu- ‘ary 29900) im the Sunday schools of the denominpsigns represented by it, and which "was "session during the greater part of last wegkiat the Hotel Cochran, completed ‘the busitress for which it assembled Satur- day. It is ascertained that the new series of lessons decided upon will be largely bio- graphical; that three and a half years would be devoted to the characters in the New Testament, and two and a half to those in the old. The course will open with a study of the life of Christ and will be kept up for eighteen months. The lessons from the Old Testament will commence with the story of the creation. It was de- cided to. be inadvisable to prepare, as had been suggested, lessons on different lines for the use of infant classes. ‘The selections of the committee are sub- ject to revision and approval by the repre- sentatives of the European churches, to whom a report of the committee will be sent for examination, and the final result will not be known until the next meeting of the international committee, which be held in Chicago March 31, 1898. ‘The committee is co1 ‘W. Warren of Denver, , chairman; Rev. Dr. Warren of N on the Conchol: he Bible, or “God's Wonderful Care ‘for fhe Small’ Things of His Creation as Wielias the Greater.” Rev. Dr. John Pétts of Toronto preached at both service? @*Metropolitan” M. E. ‘Parson, pastor. of the tion, pI ed _yes- terday morning titel second of:a series of three sermons or'Emther. His-theme was “Faith.” OF Rev. Dr. W -C. ‘Aigxander of West Street Presbyterian Churahutdelivered a discourse last evening at *theisFirst Church. His theme was’ a co} a tion between Jesus and the Apostle. = RSS ee Dr. Harrfién Allen Dead. Harrison Alien, -M, establishment of pcstal savings banks in connection with He says the inauguration of such banks would be would assist many people in their efforts The estimates of the revenues and ex- penditures for the fiscal year ending June ;_esti- 1897 conditions which prevailed all over the Uni- ted states during the first three-quarters of Now Ready craiom tepunisner, 10 Cts. surtcaition, $1. FRANK A. MUNSEY, 111 Fifth Avenue, New York. Georgctown University. The freshmen defeated the juniors in a g&me of foot ball on the university campus lest Wednesday afternoon by the score of 10 to 0. Two touchdowns were made and goal Kicked once. This afternoon the elev- ens of 1900 and 1901 will oppose each other. The Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club, which includes members from the univer- sity, the law and the medical schools, will give a concert in Gaston Hall on the even- ing of the 20th. Rehearsals are now being had for the event. The Morris Debating Society is arrang- ing for a series of debates with the Philo- demic Society, to be held next manth. The bowling alley donated by Mr. Wimm- att of this city is being constructed in the old gymnasium. . A_ meeting was held last week for the purpose of orgenizing the junior law class. A motion was made that the election of permanent officers be de- ferred until the first Saturday in Decem- ber, and this was carried, adjournment be- ing made until the date named. Mr. Ralpi acted as president pro tem. and Mr. O"Don- oghue as secretary. The moot court, Judge Baker presiding, is in session weekly, and much interest is taken in th> proceedings by the students. The Dramatic Society will give its first entertainment of the season in Gaston Hall on December 20, when the “Pirates of Pen- zance” will be presented. Howard Univer: The last meeting of the Christian Endea- vor Society, led by Dr. J. R. Hall, was well atiended and interesting. Dr. Rankin, pres- ident of the university, presided at the Saturday “Blessedness of Serving God,” was treated by : The Eureka Club held its weekiy meeting Friday right, and the following program was rendered: Declamations, Messrs. Enos and Bayton; reading, Miss McWilliams; es- say, Miss Ida Hamilton; address, W. E. Paugh. A debate on the relative oratorical abilities of Cicero, Demosthenes and Web- ster followed, with three members of the ciub as speakers. ‘The Alpha Phi Literary Society is ar- ranging to hold an entertainment, to which the public will be admitted, the last Friday night preceding the Christmas holidays, at which the exercises will consist of the read- ing of papers, a debate, music and recita- ens. ‘The foot ball eleven will take a trip south Thanksgiving week, and play three games cn Thursday, Friday and Saturday, with the Columbia Athletic Club of Norfolk, the Y¥. M. C. A. of Petersburg, the game to oc- cur in Richmond, and the Hygeia of Hamp- ten. Practice daily at 3 p.m. with the scrubs is gone through by the team. Columbian University. All the indebtedness of the foot ball teams of the present and the past has been paid in full, and for the first time since its organization several years ago the foot bal! team has paid expenses. The game Thursday with the Maryland Univer- sity resulted in the score of 0-0, neither side being able to make a touch-down or. other point. On Thanksgiving the team will line up against the Columbia Ath- letic Club at National Park. Dr. George P. Merrill, professor of geol- ogy mineralogy in the Corcoran Sci- entific Sckeol, who has been in Europe for some time past, is now at Mt. Ararat on his way to Constantinople, and is not ex- pected to return before next Christmas. Mr. Robert Sterret, ’93, who was in Mon- ama in connection with the United States geological survey, has returned to the city ard re-entered the university. Rey. E. B. Nives, A. M., Columbia, has been elected rector of Christ Church, Baltimcre. Prof. Herman Schoenfeld has returned from Europe, where he was studying the “eastern question. Prof. Hens Zopke has resigned from the Ccreoran Scientific School and accepted a pcsition in Germany. Prof. George P. Merrill of the graduate school was a delegate to the International Scciety of Geologists, which met in St. Petersburg, Russia. Mr. Thomas H. Means, a student in the Cereoran Scientific School, is joint author with Dr. Milton Whitney, of a paper pub- Mshed by the Department of Agriculture, entitled “An Electrical Method of Deter- mining the Soluble Salt Contents of Soils.” Prof. W. F. Clarke of the school of gradu- ate studies and Dr. W. F. Hildebrand have Eublished a paper, entitled “Analysis of Rocks and Analytical Methods of the United States Geological Survey.” The Women’s Anthropological Society met this afternoon, and papers by Miss Alice C. Fletcher and Miss A. T. Linke were read upon the subjects of “Psycol- ogy” and “Anthropology.” The subject of the law school debate No- vember 27 is, “Resolved, That the elective franchise should be limited to those who can read and write.” Messrs. C. G. Car- ter, J. W. Wright and H. A. Vrelt will up- hold the affirmative, and Mi Crist, B. €. Jones and W. M. meeting Saturday night, and the subject, | UNIVERSITY NOTES| King and Brush. The subject selected for debate Saturday evening, November 20, is! “Resolved, That Canada should be annexed to the United States.” The disputants for this debate will be selected this evening. After a spirited contest, the debate of last Saturday was decided in the negative. At a meeting of the Debating Society, held Saturday evening, November 6, the following officers were elected for the en- suing term: C. H, Merrill of post-graduate class, president; Harold C. Retsinger of senior class, vice president; Mr. West of junior class, secretary and E. P. Bertholf of junior class, treasurer. At a meeting of the senior class, held Friday evening, November 5, the following officers were elected: C. G. Alien, president: A. D. Smith, vice president; C. Boyle, sec- retary; H. A. Dumont, treasurer. There is a movement on foot by all the members of the law school to purchase a large crayon portrait of the late Prof. Claughton. It is the Intention of the stu- dents to place it in the library of the law school. Prof. Tucker decided the first case im the moot court Tuesday evening. It was a case in equity for specific performance and came up on demurrer. The demurrer was sustained. An appeal was noted, and will come up for trial immediately ‘after the holidays. It is the intention of the court of appeals to sit then, and continue in session until all the cases are disposed of. Catholic University. Mr. Hannis Taylor lectured last Thurs- day upon the subject of “The Origin and Growth of the Constitution of the United Sta Next Thursday his subject will be, “Parliamentary Government as It Ex- ists Throughout the World.” Thursday's was the first of a series of lectures to be delivered by men prominent in public life. Mr. Carroll D. Wright will inaugurate a |'series of lectures next January on the subject of “Social Economic The October number of the University Bulletin will shortly be issued. This num- ber is always a little late, owing to the professors being away on their vacation, and the opening of the schools. Mer. Schroeder has taken a leav sence from the university, and mundi T. Shanahan, D.D.. associate fessor of philosophy, has been invited by the faculty of theology to act as substitute until the chair is filled by the regular pro- of ab- Ea- pro- fessor. Dr. Shanahan began his work last week. This is additional to his work in philosop*y, in which he still continues to sive lectures. Very Rev. William Byrne, D.D., V.G., of Boston has been spending the week at the university. The Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, prime minister of Canada, pald a visit to the rector at the university Friday, with whom he spent some time, and was then intro- duced to the facuit The Rt. Rev. Rector Mer. ured before the Carroll Institute Thu! evening on the subject, “The Duties “ Catholic Young Men in American Pub lic Life.” Conaty leo a LONG LEASE OF LIFE, Probable That Durrant Will Not Be Executed Before Sprin; patch from San Francisco In view of the fact that the supreme court, which is now in session in Sacramento, will adjourn on Tuesday next until the sec Monday in January, it is not considere probable that W. H. T. Durrant will ex- piate his crime during the current year. In the ordinary course of events the matt cannot come up for hearing upon th points involved in the order granting th certificates of probable cause, to whic Durrant owes his ‘ond lease of life, untit the middle of January. This course would not allow the execution to take place before the latter part of Peb- ruary or the beginning of March next. Meantime, Durrant has b removed from the condemned cell and returned to his old cell, No. in murderers’ row at Saa Quentin, A Belated Picnic. Tv. 2. ao North Pres- byterian Church held its monthly busine: and social meeting Friday evening in the form of a “belated picnic,” at the home of Mr. John Stewart, 180 hh street north: west. The meeting was opened witt prayer oy Rev. C. B. Ramsdell, followee by brief reports from the different com mittees. Messrs. Stein, Mihm and Angel rendered several mandolin and guitar se. lections, und accompanied Miss Florence Kidwell in a vocal solo from “Il Trova: tore.” The decorations, natural and appropriate constituted a conspicuous feature, Tf ycu want anything, try an ad. In The Star. If anybody has what ycu wish, you will get an answer. - OVER THE CORK AND CAPSULE fS NOT BROKEN ‘AND THAT IT BEARS THE NAME ~