Evening Star Newspaper, January 1, 1898, Page 19

PURDY LOVERS OF MACARONI = - = A Visit to the Two Italian Colonies in Washington. CURIOUS SCENES Little of the Splendor of Ancient Rome About the Houses. IN PURDY'S COURT - €OME QUAINT CHARACTERS Written for The foreign col- In this Wash- ston Is no nies. exeep- Although the ign element hi trifling in compar- m with what it is n most of our larger cities, yet it Is one of the features of the nation’s capital There at least three nationatith represented here, Which, from the faet that they live almost entir themselves, understand no jan- ’ Higently but their own, and are very } Lecoming Americanize may ute foreign colonic meten. They are the Malians, the nd the Greek the Halions are the most nu ind the most accessi L starte acquainted with our Etalian friex re nd have paid them a nun her of recently. The Ttallans have taken up thelr in two princip: pla Washington, both near the center of city. Many of them live on D street ween Mth af Ith streets north- west, oxether with a few who Hve in “ ramshackle frame shanties just by Jind, on Obie avenue other and more vos Malian settle is in Purdy's court, which opens out from Ist street west, just above nneylvanin ave- tous visit the swarthy-visaged dent- of treet and Obie avenue fl might walk by thetr dwellings car kessly mony times without noticing any thing recaarks The Italians are for the m part kreuped together in a few ! nt have learned the art of hud ‘ totether se well that one would seareely suspect that there were se tw hundred of them there. One sees little ¢ the or of Reme or the beauty of about t houses Ktaliar Kk so askance at out and a willing to have ar hoany but their own peopl 4s to experitrent constderab x much out of them. The t ni be te go among them a r r. ‘The hope of making a few cong fit not allay their suspl- cin induces them to reome them you find one of their num wh n't brighten at the thou ef making something you might well the dust off vour patent leath ad raightway. Vo He Inside. If y © interior of any of the how mt begin front door. If you find that the inhabitant av table fashion of comi en th front to talk with yor in ‘ & the door behind t " bring a chair with t at th perhaps excusable, for chairs in t 4 Ttatian household are eas eyst " al chureh In mat f me through one of i 1a side entran. th the gate fle ajar. Taking thix for f wel wny one until EF got wed, pleasantly inquired for the head household. isfying herself that Twas ne piector nor a garhag < women volunteered to eall the head of the household, and started in the ! i closing it behind her. This wa to be expected, and so, remarking that i would be a pity to ask him to come clear out there, T ned the door followe her through into the middle house, {my own invitation to arrival. rit ts customary for ms to tl 1 sometimes the sort of co-operative The cooking and eating is mostly lownstains, while in the rooms above don rickety cot bed, or simply am vmber to the wea comes. ‘The room where 1 was al living room room, parlor, useum, everal rude the latte yon as if 1with i nwashed dishes ng a kettle of macaroni Carious ‘Ty The bend of the bo red presently. nq 1 ing his w he emiled, a: kK Was somethin, h could «¢ © in or not, as he slish ‘Oh, yae I takes oy frult—Ko in the stre Do you make much money “Vaex aid he, I makes a few m the front room side of the room was an un- und near by it stood table, ome kind of macaroni, while ttles were scattered all about. of the boudoir was kneeling © 4 cave of small trained birds, which may be seen now and then on the street with their owner, doing tricks for the editi- cation of the public. He told me he had Just been out to church, but his breath led as if he had been somewhere else. HM you the lot for four hundred dol- he said to me. “Oh, you want to just vy one. I give you that green one for twenty-five dollar.” “What do they do?” I inquired. “They walk the string (tight rope); they eings and do work The Itallans on D street make thelr live- liheod in the main out of the street piano and hand organ. There is ore house where a great many of these are kept, and on rainy Gays their owners make the street dismal Pr id — THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, ‘The Italians on Ohio ave- nue are lemon sellers, and, strangely enough, sider themselves superior to the organ grinders, and hold aloof from them. On the south side of D street 1s a small pigcon-hole barber shop, where the Italians tave their tonsorial work done. On enter- ing one finds it sans looking glass, sans chairs, sans lights—almost sans everything. The barber is out and the shop locked up most of the time, No wonder. After look- ing ac the heads of somo of these Italians «ne would hate to try to make a lying off the trade they give a barber. Purdy’s court, the other Italian ment, has one entrane by tuning up. settle from 2d street and A DIt of Ttaly. two from Ist street. Here the Ttaliana are mere shot off from their ne which gives the place a certain [alt “t not found in the other quarter is like- wise a plecuresqueness about Purdy's court not found in the stiff brick houses on D street, 1 The Ttallins te Puray Purdy's Court, ave not confined themsely ‘s court alone, however, and oc- cupy a goodly number of the houses front- ing on 1st street tm that dismal row of weather-beaten frame dwellings, where time-worn signs inform on night lodging: abouts. > that he can get two for five cents, or there- court proper ts occupied with the exception of w colored families tering Purdy’s court: from x eesples hanging from the corner hous weather-beaten board, at the end of which is perched anu in th o Ist stre la $ of dissolution and decay, while be- flow os the interesting announcement: “Om- brellas—-Keparaing.” Here, then, Is one of the industries of the pl Next to tho umbrelia mender's humble abode are a cou- ple of houses in which they make artificial flowers at one of these with a v consery 1 who came very good tid the “Edon't wom J and stopping, s street she cut to her ne hbo ss the way F her appeara flowe she in. » her hu ar makes m-she asket.”” An . Tnade afte © then pr ssed this humble the Mautiful. Several in mak'ng artiiielal flow The men spend as much of their Ume as is not consumed In smoking in making these flowers, while to their wives and children falls the pleas- ant task of selling them on the streets, Have T The Italians have th by their own 1 of their supplies. interesting. On ortment of N's Con milies clr Own rem. r own stores, kept where they buy most ne of the » quite entering them I of found mysclf in a small room, in on cor ner of which was a bed and in the other small, lean and emaciated dog was climbing over one of the open boxes of macaroni, while In the adjoining reom the family were just sitting down to their ing meal. It was some sort of macare course, for these people se to live’ on nothing else. Whatever It was, I did not fish for an invitation to partake thereof, for the smells which on the stove we arose from the kettle enough to win in a walk against any ary garbage crematory. Many varieties of food stuffs similar to macaront were kept in the store, some of them of very cheap grades, and unlike any- thing one sees on gale elsewhere. They Grocery, come direct from the ItaTan quarters in New York and Philadelphia. There were also bunches of onions and garlic, which the Italians use in abundance, and from the celling hung strings of sausages, some of a simple variegated hue and others of a “ring, streaked and speckled” sort. Many of the Italians in Purdy's court are scissors grinders and saw filers. Others take around fruit carts or preside over a fruit stané on some corner, while a very few are ergaged in candy making. The lat- ter Industry, however, {3 chiefly carried on by the Greeks. A number of these jeople, too, are fol- lowers of Orpheus. Several Italian orches- tras, consisting of a harp and a fiddle or two, help to sive the place an air of cul- ture, and thelr members may frequent! heard er at almost any hour o: day or night. “on, yes,” said the conductor of one of these orchestras; “I play cheap—you want me to play?” “Well, perhaps. What an you play?” “All tunes—all tunes. I plays ze waltz, and ze quadrille, zo two-step. ze lance—you dance ze lance?” “Whereabouts do you play?" TI asked. “Oh, everywheres, everywheres, I am play at Bennle (Benning) tonight. I do it cheap.” What one sees of the Italians’ life ts just the outside. They are not a people who mix easily with others, and they have noth- Ing at all to do with the colored people who live about them. Among themselves there seems to be @ great amount of genuine af- fection and brotherly kindness, but to oth- ers they are apt to show reserve and dis- trust. Living as they do in our midst, they are in some ways as far off and as completely out of touch with the Iife around them as if they wero still on the other side of the Atlantic under the bluo skies of their own sunny Italy. Sousa UNIVERSITY NOTES the Columbian University. None of the various literary, actentific and debating soclet.es connected with the university held meetings this week be- cause of the holiday recess, which extends unul Monday. Next Saturday the Law School Debating Scciety will elect permanent officers. The American Chemical Society met Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week at the university, On the opening day Presideut Whitman delivered an ad- dress, and on the same day Protessor Mon- roe read a paper. A number of delegates, representing alJ soctions of the country, were present. Immediately after the holidays, Protes: s(rs Jetfords and Louge will commence the.r lectuses on criminal and natural law res pecuveiy. ‘he Coiumbian University class of ‘5 held its third reunion Monday evening at the house of Mr, Henry 43, Armes, Leth street and Kenesaw avenue, Mount Pleas- ant. ‘The busiuess meeung resulted in the election of the toliowing ollicers: sir. Play- ter, president; Miss Wlhison, vice president; Miss hnson, secretary, Mr. Prentios, treasurer, and Miss Morrison, historian and peet. Mc, Playter, the former historian, sketched the lives of the members since the last Christmas reunion, and Miss Mor- rison suppued a history Mry Mlayter. Letters from absent members and a tele gram from the former pres.dent, Mr. Don- nally, Bending « ungs to the class, we read. 'Thoce t were the Misses Mor- rison, Wilson, Rev, hugh T. Ste Armes, Prent ayler. versity. ng, at . the Chris- ety held a service in Christmas, at) which The subject was “What tg You? nday, and the snd t take tian ind nmemor Miss Donohoe ton of led, returning to again Iterary societies held meet ek, but next K the Alpha Bureka and Chrletian Endeavor soc, 8 wal all meet as usual, A public devate is bemg arranged for by the Alpha Phi Literary 5 ely, to take piace some time this month, Oniversity, The students and membera of the faculty return to their work Monday, and the who left for home during the holic returning to the university. Mgr. Spent the time at his old home at ter, Mass.; Very Rey. Dr. Garrigan was at Lowell, Mass. ; Shahan, Dr. Creagh and ather Aiken nt the time at toston, and tev, Dr. Johnson visited Brook Conaty Worce Drs, services at St. Stephi Demont and Kehoo assisted at the hureh last’ Sun- day. ‘ rgetown U ernity. rhe untversity proper, as well as the law and medical schools, will reopen Monday. A number of the students from all of the departments have left for their home. None of the societies or clubs held meet- ings this week, In the law school the r ning marks inning of the second term of the istic year, During e te which the Juniors will take up the ris and contracts, the seniors contracts and equity, while the duate course will Include equity, Jaw practice, civil and natural Hoth the post graduates and the sen- post common law. jors will be requ.red to attend the sessions of th eurt, which conve n Tees. days Saturdays, Immediately after the regular lectures of the evenings named. All the ¢ with the exception of the Juniors, during the month of Jan » Will attend every evening in the we Th rk debace will be h ach ington’s birthday, and the subject. whieh bas been ted is, “Resolved, That It would be fer the interest the United tales to establish a natio university having control over all ¢ degrees,” Trainer Foley will put the sof the University through a of Indoor tracning, Ing in a we is his Intention to utilize thi der, the coud weather at prese mmaking outdoor tratning ing The constitution of the Phiiodemic De- hating Soc will shortly be revised by a committee appointed for the purpose. rior two. Tt low orri- ailing: National oY The following additions to th nity have been n Albert L. Stavely, M.D. professor of al gynecology; A. A. Snyder, M.D., professor of clinical surgery; Noble P. Barnes, M.D., ssor of pedla- trics; W. Suter, M.D., lecturer on ophthal- mology. : The cla this year are the largest in the history of the school. W. Hart, one of last y receally veen itive examinath clan to the Chiidr At a m ars grad- appointed, iter n, Fesident physi- 8 Hosp) pting of the seve ‘al a, the offices were filled Passes, re- us fol ident, C. W vice president, W. 8. Columbia; secretary District of Armstrong, R. New York; treasurer, ‘T. F. Baxt Con- necticut; sergeant-at-arms, Mr. Paine, Vir- winia; valedictor! B. Buine, ‘Texas; class editor, Edw. 8. Smith, District of Columbia. Monihly meetings of the Odontological pty ure now being held. ‘The holidays will ead with New Year day, lectures being resumed Monday, January 3; he members of the class of 1901 will meet to form #n organization early in the month of January. —— The Woman Who Tries Businens, From the Fortnightly Review. If a woman is ever to retain her present position In the business world, she must look to It that sho makes h value felt. She has many advantages, she 1s punctual, painstaking, patient of monotony, amenable to discipline, ready and willing; indeed, she errs as a rule rather from excess of zeal than from Its defect. But she has two things to learn: First, that her health is her only capital, and secondly, that to rise ubove mediocrity it is necessary to think for yourself. For this last shortcoming her educators have much to answer for; but it cannot be too clearly understood that in the struggle for existence there ts no room for the typist who has not at any rate the intelligence of the average compositor, nor for the secretary who forgets to post im- portant letters, or incloses the letter to “Dear Mr. A.” in the envelope uddressed to “Mrs, B.” It is lapses of this sort which mar at present ro much of women's work, and to which apparently all but the very few are so singularly Mable, largely, I fan- cy. besause they have been studiously taught to leave out of account physiolog- eal facts. What wonder, then, if they insist upon ig- noring the most elementary laws of health and show a tendency to look upon eating and drinking as a criminal! form of se! indulgence? I don’t say that a proper sup- ply of blooi to the brain would free the world of folly, but it would be at least worth trying whether more meat and the disappearance of all prejudices against so- fas would not go a long way toward se- curing that desirable consummation, DIDN'T LIKE THE JOB! — A Woman's Trying Experiences as a Book Agent. IN HER PATH t MANY OBSTACLES Even Among Her Friends Her Task Was a Thankless One. —o_—. SOON GOL ENOUGH OF IT —— Written for The Evening Star. AM LIVING AT present in a hall room without fire except a two-burner oil stove. The facts are hard and cold, my tastes aro luxurious and warm. Thero must be a remedy; what shall I try? At hand is tho evening Paper; I turn to the column of advertise: ments and read the very first, which seems an answer to my thought. “Wanted: A lady of pleasing manners, well educated and energetic. A liberal salary guaranteed, to be increased after the first month. Apply Wednesday at 10 o'clock to mana- ger, 1200 Blank street.” rly next morning befor ten, IT ap- peared at 1200 Blank street. One, even more anxious than I, was already there. She was dressed it binck and her fa wore a set, deterfined look. The mana- ger told her to ‘walk in," and I saw her walk out presently, with a disappointed omptly will at ten came another. “This succeed,” L thought; the sweet unsoured by — disappointment, looked young and hopeful. My turn next, The manager was yout one mouth ful cven boyish looking, and he did not strike mo with awe. Of course 1 would like to succeed, but if not, 1 would not fret. His statement of services required sounded educational, esthetic, attractiv while through it glimmered the prosaic truth of “book agent’ meaning draggled skirts, weary steps, thankless talk, shut then, he s 2 That ‘sounded hopeful Promptly at 2 1 came. Me 0k of instructions and said: id: "Come again k 1 ome + home and read it and come tomorrow rok ' There seemed ringing In. my requiem for agent,” harsh and My Interview With the Manager. lant, and the dread gefrain, “Close r, Shut MW fast, she ia dead to the she is only an agent, you know,” and shrink, for T doubt edoomy th te endure, so Pf said very meekly: “FIL read the boc’ tonight: and decide if T sult) you." Re: ng a Decision, boy manager was wiser th Panter to light world, made me shudd etre n his he read ye me my woman's nature--he knew, right well Quietly, with grace and dignity, he sald “That deeldes me; If you hav’ no confi- dence In yourself, neither ean I have in you, I decided for y ence to an- oth the man's cision of char bt, and Vr felt book willing to be called “that agent? the service of ed quickly: “You misu omewhat; allow me to tr nuisa once, and with grave po liteness opened the door for me to pass out In the morning the manager's: instr tons were perfect, but T was not, though fully determined to try to be—to act like an ancel of merey dispensing favors to an unwilling world, through this book, com- pelling them, rolens volens, to buy, noe many hew many houses nor how mu nd they hid “toe pay for, for this y what the needed most My soul was fired with enthus' felt T must sucee The mana and he had sucee Kou ral of my friends as victims. Sumber One fying a house preparing it fe was very, very busy beantl- she had recently purchased a near and more profitab! » hoped to well out and Hve on the ds. 1 tried to persu: her that what she needed most of all was this book It would enlighten her mind and save her hours of dull. uninteresting reading; that it was just the thing her young prot needed for his education, and that she did him and herself a positive wrong not to get it. Chilling Experiences, £he was a patient woman, verily, not to storm or to show me the door, but I felt she was closing the windows of her soul against a tempest of indignation, and 1 stopped In time, bidding her a cheery “good-bye.” Number Two was out, but I would call later. Number Three received me with her old- time warmth, which I scarcely gave time to settle Into a mild approval before I pounce upon her with the “book.” “It was such a splendid thing, Just what she, of all people, would apprectate. Could she not sce what a world of worth there was In it and how absolutely netessary it was for her to complete her Mbrary with this set?” “Yes, she saw its worth and would lov to have It,” and then she commenced t laugh in a friendly way at my stream of “talk” and advised me “to make a large pocket In which to curry the book and to seem what I had in truth become—a book agent.” My soul chafed, but I ralifed and begged her to consider her own dnterests and buy. She said she would “call her husband, perhaps I might induce him to buy,” 1 am positive it was as good us a “play” for them both, Phliegmatic, but kindly,/he listened while I talked and talked, wntil+I had talked out. He “thanked me y ich’'—“‘unkindest cut of all"—but “ri could not afford to get the book at it.” I told him I really knew he cou ho differed, and I was forced to ylel With cheer on t tired tongue, I ai means ‘God blesa yi loesn’t it? I returned to Numbep Two, but she was SUll out, so 1 waited for fer an hour. At last she returned, fresh an@ charming, glad to see me. It was luncheon time; perhaps she was hungry; but be that ps it may, she was wise and disposed of my case with direct simplicity. ‘ Declined With Thanks. She sald: “We have @ecided not to buy another thing until we have finished pay- ing for our art square,” which is costly, and then she told me all about it, how lovely and how desirable. I admired my friend and the desoription of her rug and 1 could not interrupt, but when she paused for breath I said: “My bock—will you not at least look at it?" I think she felt for me; at any rate she stopped talking and looked, but sald: “Ah, e, but a very -bye."” ‘That 1898-24 PAGES. yes, this ig the very same book I advised a fricua of mine to canvass for.” ‘And did @ succeed?’ I ventured. “Not at all,” she replied. “No, indeed.” 1 buried my hopes, decently, and we talked indifferently on dress, eto, awhtie; then I Weft, uncheered by prosvects or “prospectus.” Number Four was a busy typewriter, whose oifice was often filled with lawyers or pupils or manuscript writers, wanting copy. She was alone, but a gentleman came In as I did whose work she promised to finish quickly. I asked her timidly if she had “time to Isten,” and when she assented I stated my case recklessly, detetmined not to care If she refused, and she did refuse. “What ts the total?” “Ah, no I could not pay that, and never again will I pay for anything by installment: I urged the merits of the book in vain She sald; “In the next room are three lawyers; try them. Unselfish friend! Book intoxicated, my head swam with a veritable agent's vertigo, and I “rushed in where angels fear to tre: even into the office of the business man—a book agent, unushered, unsought and undesired, 1 tired quickly! One man, whose wife was doubtless an- gelic and had thrown for him a lovely light on charity, said kindly: “I do not often listen so long to an agent, but your man- ner 1s more pleasant than that of most; As nice ast mometer stands 104, Reme and ak gently to the agent, My only ambition little hall room heme 1 Cold, it ts try now was to ch my How lovely it seem- rless, but resat- ful and guiet. “Ath ofclock 1 was to report to the man- ager. “Whats he said. “What do you expect?" 1 repl “Two orders, perhaps, but probably not any, for canvassing ts an art to be learned." : T said: “1 know 1 shall not su know myself too well to hope it" j “You will s he satd + my Mee rave he ae oP * of the book to study risick and dof the virtues of that bes med a vast bot no part of definite or practical value, unless thoed to the tune of “five md twenty cents’ Admitting Faitu Thig way madness! Tomust sleep and » With the morning light eame an aching head but renewed determination not to glve up. Pr sy my head that it might not a To memorized the many striking “points? of the book, then hurried to the office, giving myself no time for change of mind While waiting in-an ante-reom T heard some one ise ‘vith the clerk, the merits: of a nlady agent. “She is very in telligent and a good worker,” he said How little we k ! This was “the straw that brok Vs back.” u 1 good worker, and will los nee T have, for machi anager, “how T shall become a mere “Walk in? said the you this morning? are “1-1 am sick, nd T must say something I seemed driven to this against my will. would like to be released L cannot succeed, “Tt im that 1 from my engagement, fc and would be doing you and myself Injus tlee to tr sult me, physically nor men Is it ‘Tennyson th If-knowl edge, self-reserve, self-control, these three 1d life to sovereign power Not a word of reproach, not a movement f impatio in insight born of experience, th uu do net want todo this work; est work in the world!” phen, quietly ta the "hd from opened the door yee to leave, “Good morning © 1 hoped, with t. At the time T had only av of relief, 1% from a nightmare shadowed by to fill my self-containes » feeling. unabh nly. This much Th rned—to md considerate toward “agent kinds, for thelr “yoke ts far from" nov is “thelr burden light."* IN THE CHURCHES Rey. Dr. Charles A, Hampton, England, who this efty In the interest of a all the Protestant try, said, just bets of W nily federation of churches in © leaving for home, that he was more firmly convinced than. ever that there is place in American churches fer such a federation as that in Enizlana By place he meant, he said, that there ig the n ary liberality among denomina- tonal leaders, Of the need for such fed ry Iver- visited this coun ee Jon, In order to avoid duplication of rt, there was, he said, no need to speak. ew people are aware,” sald a Christ- Jan selentist to a Star reporter, “of the wonderful strides making by Christian selentists. This movement has passed the experimental stage and 1s now upon ite h building basis. The new church dedicated in Chicago has been fol- just lowed by another dedication within a week at Troy, end ts to be followed by still an- other in Brooklyn. “Fonds to build new Christian Sctentist churches have been started in Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and St. Paul. Within two weeks a splendid new edifice has been dedicated tn London, and the movement is growing in England and on the continent of Eure as rapidly as here. A society has just be formed in Dresdet ermany. The members of the Catholle Young nion, which 1s about same to the churches of that denomi- tion as is the Christian Endeavor, bp worth League or the Young Peoph ciety, by whatever name calied, ti: Protestant Church, are making an to raise a fund of $100,000 for educational purposes. The union Is confined to young Atlanta, Memphis he Mission to Deaf Mutes, under the auspices of the rectors of St. John's Church, Washington, and th Chureh of the Ascension, will hold its services here- after in St. John’s Hall instead of the Sunday school room of the As ension edi- fice. The first service in the new. place will be heid tomorrow, when it is expected Rev. Mr. Koehler will officiate. The special music rendered of the Eckington Presbyterian Church last Sabbath morning will be repeated next Sabbath, when the pastor, Rev. John Van Ness, will preach a sermon appropriate to the new year. The special meetings which have just closed have been of unusual in- terest. Services of the same evangelistic character will be held during the week of prayer, and the following Sunday the sac- rament of the Lord's Supper will be ob- served, at which time it is expected there will be a large accession to the member- ee ioe church. ‘he oman’s Auxillary of St. Luke’s P. E, Church, Rev. O. M. Waller, rector, this week sent a missionary box to a small Sunday school at Colton’s Point, Va. ‘Two young ladies belonging to the Wash- ington Hebrew Congregation have under- taken to ald in the construction of the new synagogue, so far as is in their power, by making gingham and white aprons, which they will sell and give the proceeds to the building fund. A series of Sunday evening services, the theme of which will be the “Life of Christ,” which will be illustrated with a stereopticon, will begin tomorrow at Grace Baptist Church, Rev. A. F. Anderson, = tor, Special meetings will also be held the choir each evening except Saturday during the ensuing week, Evangelist Hoople of Brooklyn, N. Y.. will beet a series of special meetings al ing services, except Friday and Saturday. The exercises of the union Bible class will be resumed, under the leadership of Rev Dr. Stearns, Friday of next week and con- the People’s Tabernacle, Uth street south-| tinved alternate weeks until May The east, Rev. C. C. Cook, pastor, one week | svccessive themes will be: “Jesus Temp*- from Monday next pry The Beatitudes,” “Our Father's Officers of the Christian Endeavor So-| Care,” “The Twelve Sent Forth,” “Jesus clety of Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South, Rev. J. W. Duffey, pastor, to serve for the ensuing term, will be installed to- morrow evening as follows: President, Mr. and the Sabbath,” “John the Baptist I he . nt Lord's A. I. Dieterick; vice president, Miss BL. Pattison; corresponding secretary, Miss F.] The reverend fathers of St. Augustine’ E. Adams; recording secretary, Mr. W. T.| Church will hold their annual re ior Smith; treasurer, Mr. A, 8. Johnson; sup-! Sunday evening, January IMS, in the erintendent Juntor Society, Miss Sadie Har-] basement hall of the church, directly after baugh; pianist, Miss Sallie Mason, the evening devotions. Union. servic beginning at 7:30 p.m.,] The holiday treat and entertainment for will be held in the churches of Georgetown | the children of the Sunday school will take during the week of prayer, as follows: | place January &. Monday, In the Lutheran Church, to be led A two weeks’ mission by the Rede mpte by Rev. Stanley Billheimer; Tuesday, in | rist Fathers will comme © the first Sun- Congress Street M. P. Church, to be led by | day in. Lent, Febru ISWS, Bunday, Rev. W. 8, Hammond, D. D Wednesday, | March 20, bis emine rdinal G 8, in the Baptist Church, to be led by Rew | will administer confirmation to a class now Ww. 8.0 ‘homas; Thursday, in the West | preparing for that sacrament. Stre Presbyterian oe to ay by - Rey, W. C. Alexander, D. D., and Frida ‘one in West Street Presbyterian Church, to A NEW YEAR IN LISSY led by Rev. J.B. Stitt, D. D. The Young People's Society of Christtan Endeavor of the West Street Presbyterian ently ele How the Imprisoned Blue Goats Ushered in 1864. Chureh ted the following ofi- cers: President, Mr. John C. Lewis: vice president, Mr. W. L. Moulton: recording and corresponding secretary, Miss Martha Berry; treasurer, Mr, R. P. Waddy, At the e next regular meeting of the soc! which | fang “Star Spangled Banner” and ld Sunday evening, the pastor, x C. Alexander, D. D., will lead, and “Auld Lang Syne" as the Old pw officers will be inducted into office Year Went Oat. - with appropriate services. r % Rey. Dr. Stafford will preach at the 11 3 ee o'clock mass at St. Patrick's Catholic Church tomorrow. 3 . « ‘at is the contrast between today and VET A pA peti figs yey goon gl the dawning of the New Year Just thirty salonary Bociety, will Le held 1 | tour years ago for Major 1. P. Wiliams, p.m., at which time interesting reports of | one of the assistant clerks of the District the work will be given. Mrs. Dr. Beller. | Supreme urt. Williams was a lately returne ‘om Alaska. ts still too Il | member of the Regiment, and to attend, but will, through Mrs. W. G. Me- ert rin biter 4 int ting facts of the muary a. t nterest ‘acts of the - ison, Speaking « ms said toa nee, Major Woman's Home Mission- Mra. Dr. Gilbert and fong-drawn-out ery of poe ae No. 1—all's well! by a prison « the ‘al executive meeting in Baltimore apeiniy sateaontiag ue a Mrs. D. B. t, as district recretary, on the night of December 31, ING, will give a of the work done by tifled them that the new year woe in " district auxilia be stated by kis a ener al wh mat ‘Happy New her that four larg Merrett went up from that restless throng kindergartens for the poor are doin of more than a thousand unhappy men. ood r direction of the deacon” | immedintely some one atarted singing “The esses, work being supported by the | gil neled Banner” and votes after hington les, Much destitut a volee in the strain, until the suul- n reli the deaconesses 894 | nirsing sung wan rising from every room of that immense batiding, and floated out children in the mission school | coon the m Night alr in one rand « ” nd kind: ten were supplied with eandy {or enthusiastic and putriotic volces tne articles of clothin Christmas. 1) way that had not beer Lin the city of ation of Rey. Dr. Strickien te hor ny months and ye in ald of thie werk at Ham Then ‘Auld Lang Syne s sung, inn Church Jenuary 9 1804 “Dhe subleet eay that transported many a) home-sick of the lecture will be “Under the Surface,” | tetlow back to the dava when be was a and it will be Mustrated with views from a | happy ard contented person, In a ty pr Saat ce und plenty and awoke in bi ‘The Epworth League of Hamtin ‘aureh Ttender sentiment always inspired. ty wal dinner Christmas day to the Dea etext of all Burns’ lays. After th rf cones’ Home, and the Foundry Epworth Jing had died away a few bol flows League gave a Christm dinner to the awoke the echoes by cheers, ve Methodist Home of the Aged . omixtey fo uncarthly sound Rev slie Moore, pact the Church [have made heliewe that pam of Our Father, will t unday evening Thad arrived instead of a new r litied, respectively. God th babel and quiet once more 9 ' “Without a Country, Vatsy Done [throughout ¢ prison the Story of Unbelief. «ue Vadi Daylight, however, br their tory of ith.” Joouary and te Nis vast crowd, who, as roll February 20 there will aA Ml owas over, began their am para on oof yorns people's societies of Wash foward this important event. Ve ington, Several speak © exepeted tol tow prison rath furnished were bol a snais andvom " occasion of the see. | ro he for feast, and there was ond mai ceting will be “Young Peaple's | scarcely money enough in the pri to Day i and Universalism’ will be | make « neive op With potatoes th tothe third meetin and ad- | at $0 per bushel, whe 4d $1 por loaf, vaade by E Mide } sugar 8 por pe ‘ wr dozen, and ristras music rendered last poor pre a square me Hut on day by the chotr of t Vermout Aven jovne “ a onun ost = fatrty —_ rid sae ehtdag Ing the people come to f so that ve w, if any, went ether and enie hospitalitics of some different organizations In. the rneen ow spent in visi f the lal on ¢ et evening in | ie eae parhot te 4 given by the elders of the | and congratulations, wan 4 1s followed by rywhere else in the land, for each onc was ta ts is i j thankful that he was alive. arly in the with i t to a series of 5 | pening aie A taal wan aiven tn ihe Peet ee crpapied wy ater violin, banjo, # and tambourine, mad o York. tainly & for ovcasion. Two ° fs engaged In young lieutenants hi eset thease Ive 9 Jal = of sermons in Ethtopean style, one as a fomate, with Spirit’ 5 evenings. ey are being | rib bs and pie ™. ~ oA ‘ an a nwed sree apes Street M. BE. Chureh ts fof the ball, and opened it in 6 r about to suffer the loss of one of t | Hghts for the room were poor tal Ms faithful workers, Mrs, 11 that onty to make At a Uttle who is now and I gloomy than utter darkness, It was ano prestient of the Ladies casion never t en hy any one tHonwater will leave ina few day who saw it val tundred me ziribood home in Wayne county, Vi ‘ ie toxethier ax though they really ot she will remain in itely to ¢ soyed H. although # majurity of them wer aged parents, her father zien. who had on many o and her mother eighty al farttonable ball rooms and sence ihe Chureh Aid Society will t wallow-talled coats and the text the lership of Mrs kford, 1 full dress paraphernalia Last Sunday there was commanion at | Parner’, bt what the the Bastern Presbyterian Church, and [oS07 ie tat At wag the twenty new members were received. Tues i ce rte day evening, the 2sth, the Sunday school 45 held its Christmas festivities In the chureh | sraptog auditorium. ‘The 1 1 exercises rsa of gifts ang Iresses were x enjoyed. Th tor, Dr. I gn reggae = your of inarked pr : cea age prey ee ralaed ; hoir, with Mra, 1 eos denitenie ot aul " leading. soprans, has been le al wg yl lik ‘deci rth Presbyterian Chur: Pet ahubate ak baeke + astor. Daring th pai pk I jeep ; will be trolled this turbulent element, and in a few comment minutes the usual quiet of the place had temn high mass at St. | been teeumed. and ene aly Jeseph’s Chureh y. Rey. Dennis in that dreary 2 Cormick, lately ordained, will be th = with Rev. Harring brant of the sof tt w orthweat, In Harper's Mazantn © preached *k of the Holy Name par prediction that, of whatever ccordance with the custom which has | prosperity 1 store for the U " led for many years at Luther Me-| 9 targe relative share will fall ¢ weer See ae ee PAS” | northwest, for it ts vet fo Its infaypy of ginning of the new ye y morning | levelopment. In sw tet bral next, commencing at 1:80 o'clock. — Dr, | of Minnesota farms, tinpro unim- Butler will preach, In the evening a meet a paneer SEL ret ate ok ee ss Ss Kop IG whe | ee ee Malewe, ce Re Dakotas teview and Resolve \. Including thelr aK , Reports of the various church coed (REBT sane eb will bo given, an outlook into the fue | Qrece yey oo hath ae ture taken Sunday eve Th com | arable. ta tithe mineral wealth Prise the following tions: Sunday | of the mountain st been devel- school, nd Christian En- | Oped, Alaska, reac eerie mean. deavor Societies, Women's Hom ship tines tom Seattle, ; Port- eign Missionary Socict land, with Its boundless wealth of aurifer- King’s Daughters, ous rivers and mour fs an outpost of It is expect this northwest belt areas of fertile Keller Memorial and yur Re- | but arid land in Montana, Washington and deemer will send or make brief reports of | northwestern Dakota, now useful. only as their work. pastures for cattle and sheep, may easily The Memorial Church has recently re- | be converted Into fruitful flelda by a sclen services of a deaconcss, Sister | tific system of Irrigation, for which natur mith, from the mother b affords abundant facilities in the mountain she will tell of th streams and in the artesian basins which work underlie the Dakota plains. The areas prvice In English, in memory of Dr. | adapted to agriculture in other sections of David Day, late missionary of th the United States are so largely ed synod, who laid down his life on the a that immigration will be turned perforce of the Mumlenberg mission*in Africa on | to these broad expanses of fertile plain and the 17th of December, 1897, will be held in | valley in the new northwest. And he would St. John's Lutheran Church Sunday even- | not a too sanguine prophet who, takin 0) o'clock, into view all the progressive for r will bo observed ta | eration in this field, should estimate its the Fourth Presbyterian Church by even- | probable population at 10,000,000 in 191y. THE CLOWN AND HIS TRICK PUG. (A Circus Study.) From Fliegende Blatter, .