Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1898, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1898-14 PAGES. “That Makes Mama So Gross?” A Child’s Question Answered by a Famous Specialist. The mother had one of her “ner- vous spells” and the little boy had been warned to be very quiet. restless little fellow moved on tiptoe to about the room trying to amuse him- it almost every move he made self, | was followed by the querulous cry of “Willie, don’t make so -” At last, in his over anx- iety to be quiet, the boy dropped a book on the floor, and the mother much ne mother’s The | record and a matter of evidence. A hali a million of women could be put into the witness box to testify that they have been cured of irregulari- ties, ulcerations, inflammations, and disagreeable drains on the system, by the use of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre- scription. The larger part of this vast army of women are in evidence over their own signatures reporting their former sufferings and their per- manent cure by the “Favorite Pre- scription.” We can only offer here a ew such letters. Mrs. Cordelia Henson of Colton, | Boyd county, Ky., writes: “In Oc- tober, 1889, I gave birth to a baby and the treatment I received at the hands of the midwife left me with falling of the uterus. I had no health to speak of for three years. I had another baby, which was the third child. My health began to fail and I had three miscar- riages so I found myself completely “WHAT MAKES angry scream of protest drove him the shelter of his father’s arms. he father laid down his paper, and taressed the tearful boy who whisper- ed between his sobs: “Papa, what makes mama so cross?” Papa made no answer. He did not know how to answer. He could only wonder that in a few years the gay and sprightly girl he had married had lost all her spirits, had faded in face and fallen off in form, and had developed an impatience of temper and an irrit- ability of disposition which was gen- erally ascribed to “nerves.” But there was something else that papa 1 not know. He did not know that every such nervous out- sed his wife intense mental ing because of her own weak- He did not know that even behind closed fingers that hic e the mother was weeping be- e of her own passionate impa- ith the child she loved. t makes mama so cross? It is a pitiful question. In it the lit- tle child puts his finger right on the most salient feature in the failure of marriage. It is not the case of one woman, but the case of thousands. The result is a home unattractive to the husband, and the children’s love for the mother adulterated with fear. The husband, tired of tears and scok drifts to the village store ort y club to spend his even- ings. he poor wife sits and looks up at the motto, which she hung on the wall with a wifely pride in her heart and a womanly prayer on her lips—“God bless our home.” She feels that the home is cursed instead of blessed. Poor woman! for her nervousness and ” 1g, 1€ She is not to blame her tears. dt is the natural and necessary re- sult of her condition. The finest mu- | sician in the world could get nothing but discord out of a harp whose every string was strained to break- ing. That's the way it is with the woman. She is literally “all un- Her nervous system is attered. All the harmony of the sweet girl nature is turned to dis- cord. It is a condition peculiar to her sex and common to wifehood. Perhaps this condition began long important female fune- tions lowed maybe with a dis- agreeable and debilitating drain on the system. Perhaps it is the imme- consequence of the great s which take place with mar- Behind such a nervous con- m will be found inflammation burning like a fire into the tender tissues, ulceration eating like poison into the organs of generation. There will be irregular periods, and the bearing-down pains, associated with prolapsus, a disagreeable, unnatural and debilitating drain, sapping the Vife and strength of the system. Some or all these are behind that nervous condition so painful for the mother, so pitiful for the family. We know that this is so because the treat- ment of thousands of women similar- ly afflicted has proven it to be so We know just as surely that this condition is curable, because in all the thousands of cases treated, only two out of every hundred have failed of complete and perfect cure; and even these two have generally been benefited. This is not a matter of mere statement. It is a matter of 1 girlhood with irregularity in | MAMA SO CROSS?” worn out. I had so many pains and aches my life was a burden to me and also to all the family, for 1 was nervous and cross and could not sleep. Just after my last miscarriage (in 1896) I was taken with a severe pain in left side. Had four doctors come to see me but at last I found I was slowly dying. The doctors said I had liver, lung and uterine trouble. I was in bed for months and when I did get up I was a sight to behold. I looked like a corpse walking about. I commenced to take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis overy, ‘Favor- ite Prescription’ and ‘Pellets, and I was soon _a_ well woman. I have suffered all a woman could suffer at my monthly period until since I be- gan the use of Dr. Pierce’s medi- cines, but now I can say I have no | pain. The dark circles around my | eyes are going away and I feel bet- ter in every way. My cheeks are red and my face is white, but before it was as vellow as saffron.” “Your medicines have done won- ders for me,” writes Mrs. James W. Blacker of 629 Catharine St., Syra- euse, NY: “or years my health was very poor; I had four miscar- riages, but since taking Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medi scovery and ‘Fay- orite Prescription’ have much better health, and now I have a fine healthy baby.’ ‘ Hundreds of grateful mothers | Write to give thanks for relief from suffering usually experienced in con- finement. _ Mrs. Carrie B. Donner of Dayton, Green Co., Wis. is only one of the jmany grateful mothers that. thus testity to the efficacy of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. She sa I can highly recommend Dr. Pierce’s xolden Medical Discovery and also his ‘Favorite Prescription’ —having |taken the latter for nine months previous to confinement. I suffered searcely any compared with what [ had at other times.” Many grateful letters come from husbands who are made glad by the wife’s new health and happiness. “For five years my wife was in an al- most helpless condition, suffering | from female weakness,” writes eaS: | Everitt, Esq., of Hagerman, Wash- ington Co. Fla. “Last September I decided to have her try Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. She took sev- eral bottles of the medicine and gave birth to a ten-pound son on January 31st, 1898. She is now sound and well and doing her housework.” “My wife was sick for over eight | Years,” writes Albert H. Fulte, E 5 of Altamont, Grundy Co., Tenn. j “She had uterine disease and was treated by two physicians and got no relief. At last, I read in one of your Memorandum Books which you sent me about Dr. Pierce’s medicines and we decided to try his ‘Favorite Pre- scription.” I sent to the drug store and got one bottle and the first dose gave ease and sleep. She had not slept any for three nights. Being sure that it would cure her, I sent ior five more bottles, and when she had taken the sixth bottle she was sound and well. We now have a fine boy at our house.” Inflammation is promptly allayed, ulcerations healed and the nerve cen- ters strengthened by Dr. Pierce’s Fa- vorite Prescription. It-stops unnat- ural and disagreeable drains on the system, regulates the periods, and, in fact, adjusts the organs peculiarly feminine to harmomous operations in all their functions. The real pleas- ure in life then returns. The form rounds out, the eye brightens, the dragging step of disease gives place to the springing step of health. A smile, instead of a tear, goes into every stitch going into the tiny gar- ments being made ready for the com- ing guest—a guest who will receive a glad welcome from a heart rich in maternal love, and a body strong in maternal power, to cherish and nour- ish its infant life. All this transformation can be wrought in your own house, if you are a sufferer, without expensive consultations, without —indelicate questioning or disagreeable exami- nations and offensive local treat- ments. You can consult Dr. Pierce by let- ter without cost. This is one of the most generous professional offers ever made. The specialist, as a rule, multiplies his fees for advice by the years of his experience. Dr. Pierce as chief consulting physician to the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Insti- tute of Buffalo, New York, has given thirty years to the special study of diseases of women. His vast experi- ence and success make him as a soy- ereign among specialists. He places all this at your service without charge. You can write without fear and without fee. Every letter is held strictly private and strictly confiden- tial. We want to impress upon you that this free consultation by letter gives everything that it promises, and is what it purports to be, the of- fer of an honest medical opinion on your case and condition given by a specialist on woman’s diseases, who has in thirty years treated many thousands of women. Designing men, through alluring and cunningly worded advertise- ments, constantly endeavor to work upon the feelings of sick and ailing women by inviting them “to write to a woman (!) and secure a woman’s sympathy.” It is well to remember that the best sympathy is to be had at home and not from strangers, per- haps hundreds of miles distant. The object of the sick is to get well, and however precious sympathy may be, it never yet cured a seriously afflicted woman. While the sympathy of your milliner or dressmaker might be ap- preciated and be just as beneficial, if not more so, than sympathy from a stranger, yet it cannot effect your cure if you are an ailing woman. It is loudly proclaimed through the press that “a woman can best un- derstand a woman’s ailments,” and on this ground sick women are in- vited to “write to a woman” and get the benefit of a woman’s advice. The sort of “understanding of her ail- ments” wanted by a sick woman is a trained medical understanding. If a woman has this trained medical knowledge she understands woman’s ailments not as a woman, but as a physician. If she is not a doctor she cannot understand the ailments at all, and cannot treat them succe: fully, because she lacks the necessary training. As far as known there is no regu- larly qualified woman physician con- nected with any proprietary medi- cine especially designed for women —no one, therefore, qualified by learning and experience to advise on questions of disease and its cure. It is certain that there is no one, man or woman, connected with any “put-up” medicine for women ex- cepting only Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, who, like Dr. Pierce, is a regular graduated and qualified physician, and who has, like him, de- voted more than thirty years to the special study and treatment of dis- es of women. In the strictest sense “Favorite Prescription” is a temperance medi- cine. It contains no alcohol, whisky or other intoxicants, and is free from opium, narcotics, syrup or sugar. Without any of these it preserves its healing virtues in any climate. All dealers in medicine sell Dr. *s Favorite Prescription. There Pierce’s is no other medicine to compare with it in its remarkable cures. Do not, therefore, accept any other medicine in its place as “just as good.” Noth- ing is just as good for you which cannot show a “just as good” record of cures of female diseases. No other medicine can show such a record. No other medicine, therefore, can be as good. The “wonder book” of family med- icine is Dr. Pierce’s CommonSense Medical Adviser. It focuses on the leading facts of physiology and hy- giene the concentrated light of ages of scientific research. It deals with nature and disease in the light of common sense. In simple language it traces the story of human life from its source. It speaks paternally to the young man and young woman on those grave questions that con- cern each sex. It speaks with scien- tific authority to those who contem- plate marriage. And with all this there are hints and helps for all the accidents and contingencies that can touch the health of the family. This great book contains 1,008 pages, and is sent entirely free, on receipt of stamps to defray expense of mailing only. Send twenty-one one-cent stamps for the paper-covered edition. or thirty-one stamps for the edition bound in cloth. Address, World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Will of Sarah Shaefer. The will of the late Sarah J. Shaefer, dated July 3, 1893, with a codicil signed September 19 last, was this afternoon filed for probate. Substantial bequests are made to Liza Shaffer, Emma Myers, Amelia Fisher, Christopher J. Schaefer and John Johnson. The American Security and Trust Company is named as executor. ROW OVER CUT RATES Four Chinese Laundrymen Arraigned for Disorderly Conduct. HISTORY OF THEALLEGED OFFENSE Stories Told by the Celestials on Witness , Stand. stg f MOY GONG INDIGNANT The disorderly cond:ct cases growing out of the trouble between the union and cut- rate.Chinamen, as heretofore published in The Star, were called for trial in Judge Scott's court this morning. There was a large delegation of celestiais present in court. Lee Sing, Moy Lirn, Moy Young and Moy Gong were the defendants, and they were defended by Attorneys Taylor and Bell. Prosecuting Attorney Pugh made an open- ing statement, in which he told of the trouble at Hop Sing’s laurdry last week. During the course of his remarks he re- ferred to the troubles between the union and non-union men. Counsel for the defendants followed and explained that the trouble was the result of an effort to purchase the laundry from the owner, who was called Moy Loy, al- though he advertises as Hop Sing. Considerable trouble was experienced in getting the defendants to testify, as each one declared he could not speak English and wanted an interpreter. Sergeant Judge's Testimony. Sergeant Judge testified that about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 3d of this month he found a disorderly crowd of about seventy-five people at 12th and T streets. In the laundry he found two of the defendants attempting to force their way behind a counter, while one of them was endeavoring to tear down a sign. Moy Gong, he said, was only talking loud. He told witness that he was Hop Sing’s cousin and had called there to prevent any trouble. One of the defendants told him that they been over on 14th street and torn down nother sign. The proprietor and another “hinaman were behind the counter when ness reached the place. A colored wo- n, he was told, had beer. assaulted in the place. “Where was the sign you speak of?” the wituess was asked. “It was in the window behind the coun- ter,” he answered, “and one of the defend- ant s trying to pull it over the gas jet.” Were any of the defendants swearing?” ed counsel. “I don’t know,” answered the sergeant. “I couldn't tell what they were saying.” Witness said he went to the laundry on complaint of the colored woman, who said she had been assaulted. He said that Lieut. Kenney had ordered the men to look out for Chinamen who would probably interfere with cut-rate laundries that day. Prosecuting Attorney Pugh created some surprise by arnouncing that he would call no more witnesses, Argue for Dismissal. Counsel for the Chinamen argued for a dismissal of the cage oy the government's testimony, but the motign was overruled. Moy Gong was then s¥orn and asked for #n interpreter, but Mr. Pugh objected to the introduction of an interpreter, because, he said, Moy Gong could speak better En: h than tne interprets can prove th said the prosecutor, “by a number of witnesses.” Tt developed that the w o himself disti ed with h vent there’ with kis cousins to buy the nundry, but they failed to agree upon the was abie to and he it Liv ‘The witness, who had heen referred to by 1 ounsel as @ “CBiristlan gentleman,” de- d he knew nathing about the Chinese laundrymen’s-union; that he was not a member of it. Declines to Read. Mr. Pugh produced a piece of re@ paper on which there was Chinese writing and witness was asked to read it. This he de- clined to do and threw the paper away with the remark: “It's some lying.” He added “it's nothing,” he could not interpret it Counsel thought Mr. Pugh was actin rather harshly with a gentleman. 2 ‘ve got a paper in my pocket,” Moy Gung, showing some feeling. this paper showed a collection was being taken up for a present for his Sunday school teacher. “Take that,” he sald indignantly, make trouble for somebody." ve Moy Linn was sworn and started out by shaking his head to indicate he could not understand. Mr. Pugh repeated the state- ments made about the previous witness, and then Moy concluded to make his state, ment. He told of the prospective sale of ne laundry and said-Lee Sing hi 2 the laundry id Lee Sing had pulled “Did you hit the colored wi or agibia ‘olored woman?" he was He answered that he saw no c - man there. ororeaiwe: Lee Sing denied the officer's charge he had pulled at the sign. eet Interpreter Needed. It became necessary to swear an inter- preter for thls defendant, and he made a general explanation of the affair. When one Chinaman had been referred to under a number of names, Lee Sing ex- plained that when the Chinaman was a young man he had no name. His father nemed him when he got married, and later on his teacher gave him another name. Defendant Moy Young also made an ex- planation and general denial. Georgie and finally said id He said “and Johnson, colored, testified that she was in the laundry the de of the trouble. The Chinamen were fi ng and there was a big crowd in front of the door. She was struck by a colored boy and not by a Chinaman. Martha Cause, who Myes above the laun- dry, testified that she was uttracted to the laundry by the noise. When she saw what was going on she went for a police- an. She said some Chinamen had caused trouble there before. The Court's Decision. The court heard arguments of counsel and dismissed the case against Moy Gong. The other defendants were fined $15 each, with thirty days’ imprisonment as the alterna- tive. — > A Goop SHOT. Bandmaster Sousa Shows the St. Louisans His §:ni With a Gan. John Philip Sousa has been winning laurels as a marksman ont in St. Louls, ac- cording | to the following from one of the newspapers of that city. John Philip Sousa, the band leader, spgnt Saturday forenoon over the traps of the Dupont Shooting Club at Etzel avenue and Watson road, the guest of the members of the club. The party was gotten wp-by Charles Kunkel, the local composer, eho fea great admirer of Sousa. fs At 8 a.m. Sousa, George Fredric Hinton, Sousa’s manager, Mr.. Kunkel and his son, Louis B., Pope Ward and Edward K. Love left the Planters’ Hotel, arriving at the park an hour later. At the park Dr. Max ©, Starkloff, the health commissioner; Peter Kling, John Prendergast, John Cabanne, Will M. Nold, 8. ‘Thompson and several other local crack shots were awaiting Scusa’s arrival. The “march king” proved as expert with the shotgun as he is with the baton, and clay pigeons and live birds going in all directions fell before his seven-pound Piper. Right and left “quarters” were as easy to Sousa as the “straight-aways,” and in every match he finished amorfg the top- notchers. His appearance at the trap was as easy and graceful as when leading his band in the Coliseum, and excited the ad- miration of the local shooters. Sg tee Dr. Lincoln’s Condition Improving. The illness of Dr. N. S. Lincoln continues, but it is reported by his physician that there is a marked improvement this morn- ing in his condition. WORK OF RELIEF System of Benefit for Soldiers’ Fami- lies Explained. MRS. DICKINS REPORT IN FULL Work of Mary Washington Chap- ter in the District. PROGRESS MADE The work accomplished during the war in connection with the relief of the families of volunteer soldiers by a committee repre- senting Mary Washington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was detailed to that organization last evening. The report submitted by Mrs. Marguerite Dickins, chairman of the committee, was as follows When, upon the 20th of last May, I had the honor, in pursuance of the recommen- dation of the local board of management, to move, that the Mary Washington Chap- ter, D. A. R., take for its war work the care of the destitute families of the volun- teers of the District of Columbia, the dis- cussion showed that the ideas of all who were present, were more or less hazy upon the subject; however, the motion prevailed and time has proved that we then made a grand resolve. I have to thank the regent for naming me as chairman and associating with me as members of the committee Mrs. Hatch, Miss Clay, Miss Miller, Mrs. Hill, Mrs. Reiff, Mrs. Bradley and Miss Lawton. Our work h been and continues to be done meest harmoniously, working as daughters should, for the good of our country, think- ing of nothing else. «We only report progress tonight, for our work is not done, as many men from the District will be required to serve their two years. We must also remember that peace has not yet been declared, and even after that Cuba must be assured a stable government. Men Sent From the District. Your committee found that the District had sent three bodies of men, besides a few who enlisted in regiments passing through, or wherever they happened to be when a call for troops was made, such as a man who was visiting his mother in New Or- ans, and could not wait to get home be- sre answering the call. Those who w in bodies were the Ist Infantry of the I trict of Columbia Volunteers, five compan- fes of the 4th Infantry, called immunes, and a number in the 3d Regiment cf En- gineers. The Ist Infantry is home, and will be mustered out on November 10, unless fur- ther needed. Their sufferings and priva- tions have been great, many of them being row very ill in their homes. Of course, the first necessity to your com- mittee was the procuring of money with which to give relief. The treasurer will furnish the figures of receipts and expendi- tures. To one point in this report I would call especial attention. You will notice that there are no expenses eharged by the committee, stamps, Stationery and cur tickets being paid for and contributed by the individuals. We were once furnished with families who needed help and needed {t bitterly, so we set to work to beg, and the money seems a dreamy those hot days nt about with our hands outstretched, determined to have the money that we might succor the needy. The Evening Star not onl did it so cheerfully. For s received subscriptions, and with $100 from their own funds. The estate of W. M. Galt gave $100, and Mr. Lisner of Royal a like amount, the sum secured $100 from a generous and Miss Milw: of the Treasury rtment, at the request of Mrs. Hatch, erous natur in all the fi result $839.36 der all came in small amounts. Next to the qu n of money came that of clothes, and we have begged clothes for and given them out to over cne hundred women and children. A room in my house been the old clothes shop, and there ve gathered the motley garments which have been so thankfully received. No she have been given out to children, as we thought they could go without in the warm weather; but now, they, and stockings well as warm clothes for small children, are badly needed. System of Rellef. Our system of relief has been, as soon as a name or case was given to us, to send the same to the police, and they would make the first report giving us official an- swers to our queries. You can fancy what a relief it was to have this strong arm to lean upon, and we tender cur_ grateful thanks to the memory of Major Moore, to the present chief, Major Sylvester, and also to each member of the force, for they dis- played a tenderness of heart toward the poor, combined with justice toward our work, which is greatly appreciated. This first visit made, then one of us would go and see the home, the surroundings, judge generally of the character of the relief needed, see the size of the children, age often meaning so little, and procure many details, all of which was reported to the committee at its weekly meeting and acted upon. No one but ourselves will ever know what this work has been; only those here can realize the hot, burning day when we started early and worked late. ve know our Washington weil, our feet heve trodden all its kyweys, often we would only keep to it by helping one another on by kindly words or ch:ering jest, for, add- ed to the wear and tear upon our bodies, was the tugging at our heart strings; the pallid babies vainly seeking life at empty brea the bare pitiful homes, whence ren had gone to fight, men who for months had walked the streets looking for work and finally had weicomed the President's call to arms, as rot only an opportunity to show they were men to do and dare, if only they had a chance, but aiso because they said $15.60 a month is better than nothing, it will at least keep a roof over the little heads, and so they went trusting in the promise of the government to pay them each month, and that promise was Lroken, for over three months the Ist D! trict Regiment was not paid, and if our chapter fad net come to the rescue there would have been the shameful ct of some of the families of the men who had gone to fight for us taking refuge in the poor house from the streets, where, home- less, they would have starved. The name of the Mary Washington Chapter is be- loved in many a home within our city, and many prayers from grateful lips have car- ried your name to the throne of God. First to Take Up This Work. We were the first to take up this work. In June a society known as the District Volunteer Aid Association was formed, With Miss Clay and Mrs. Hatch I attended several of the meetings. We were told that their work was to send comforts and luxuries to the men at the front; that they had intended inclucing ald for the fam- ilies, but finding that we were doing the work decided to leave it all to us. I asked them for money, and after twice appearing and talking until I was half sick, th: gave us just $25, end requested an exact account of how it was spent. They received it. To date seventy-three cases have been reported, with.one exception involving fam- ilies, and sixty-one relieved, more or less. Individual they numbered 164 souls. Our work has lain among whites entirely, and as a class they are people whom it is a privilege and pleasure to help. The fam- ilies of the District of Columbia Volunteers are a proof of what our army is, not the offscourings of Europe, but the bone and sinew of America, poor, perhaps, but coun- trymen of whom we may well be proud. Do the Marketing Themselves. Every week the members of the commit- tee do the marketing themselves, in order to be sure that good and sensible food ts secured at the lowest possible rates. Every one having any experience here knows the generosity of the dealers and market men, hence, when we found we must buy largely and long, we did not ask them to give the food entirely, only to throw off all their profit and deliver free. This they have cheerfully done and are content to con- tinue, but to make it as easy as possible for them the members visit the public mar- eres nery Milli easensontonsonsontene onegeofessengntonsoesonsossonte Gy Seg % eon Soe Soatesgont sSondenseasensessongonteaseeseasonseogongeateeseeseoseoagearoateatoegee seas ongensenzee not be distinguished from them. force of high- perior to any in Washington. Hose Supporters With Belts. é, $ z 2 for Satin Belt $ 200, me New Books. “Helbeck of Bannisdale, Sree endendentenseseeteeteedeedententesees , z m3 e3 soe See See For this week we are offering copies of Imported French Novelties at nearly half the price of the originals, and which can- millinery business this fall has necessita class trimmers, making our A U M ’ 416 7th St. Sededeteteteteceeeebedndedetedetetetetetneepededded a ee a ee ee a ee we ee ean a a eee ans aa ae a aaa are, ae ae ae aa called opticians that they position to fill. make is backed by capital and a rep- utation that has been ¢ a half century’s honest dealing. We + claim to give you FREE the best, = most careful service. Our refrac- tionist—Prof. U. G. Anderson—is a graduated scientific optician. instruments are the latest and finest. Hell examine your eyes FRE charge. and ask you only $1 CASH AND soc. A W. Castelberg, 035 Pa. 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By always going on Saturdays and having goods delivered late, the marketmen throw in many things which they have not sold, thus largely increasing the family supply of green stuff. We try to be eco- nomical, and only send enough to support life, expecting them whenever possible to supplement with the product of their own labor. Cash we never give, except under especial circumstances, and rent is always paid to the landlord. While we have lines and system, we have no unelastic red tape, each case being considered upon its own merit and treated accordingly. I wish I had time and space to enumerate the acts of Kindness and gifts from many persons, but only a few can find space. Let me not forget the Associated Charities. Their rec- ords have been open to us, they have cheerfully responded to all our calls for time or testimony, the latter being upon one occasion most valuable. Also the one physician, Dr. Anderson, who has given time, care and medicine whenever we asked. Guarded From Publicity. Everyone who shows an interest in the work or in some individual case will be shown names and addresses, but as a rule we guard them carefully from publicity, this not being a public charity, but only a slight exhibition of gratitude to the Amer- ican soldier in our midst and it seems com- mon decency not to advertise their neces- sities. When the citizens decided to wel- come the Ist Regiment home they raised about $4,000, and, as you doubtless know, are using the surplus left over from the re- ception and the medals for the relief of the soldiers of the regiment and their families. We have turned over to them most of the cases which their work covered, only keep- ing a few where some physical state or particular need called for woman's care alone. We also still have those from the 4th Immunes, 34 Engineers, one volunteer sailor, a fireman and a few cases only to be classed as individual ones. You will see by the treasurer's report that We sti.l have some mney left, and when that shall be nearly spent we have promises of aid from the other city papers, and we hope still more will be provided from other sources, for the suggestion of our beloved regent is that we continue for one year our labor of love. I know that this work lies near her heart, for she frst suggested the = idea in the local board and h cheer, connsel, money and ever called upon. eiven us clothes when- “HAPPY” PROGRAM. Grant Circle, adi of the Entertained. Grant Circle, Ladies of the G. A. R. at its Temple Hall last evening. ¥ transaction of routine business a dozen comrades of the Grand Army, who are henorary members of the circle, entered the hall and carried out a splendidly ar- ranged program, under the directioi “The Ancient Order of the Happy consisting of “Happy Commander G ALR, met After the ven, 3. T. Powell, “Happy Senior” F. L. McKenna, ‘Happy Junior’ D. H. Clark. “Happy v4 jutant” 2 - Lewis, “Happy Quartermas- ter” F. G. Calvert, “Happy Chaplain” John- ston, “Happy Sentinel” Dr. C. V. Pettey The seven officers having formally ceived their badges, consisting of an ap- propriately designed silver spoon, the origin and object of the organization was clo quently and humorously discussed by the “Happy Commander,” when each officer submitted an interesting report, follo by special music by McKee, "Johnston, Clarke and Player of the “Old ‘Boys’ Quar~ tet.” The “Happy Seven” closed the pleas- ant surprise by serving the ladies with ice cream, cake and ices. The visitation having been a complete surprise, the circle was delighted with the novel entertain- ment and profuse in complimentary com- ments expressive of thelr appreciation. — Guy Barron's Trial. The case of Guy Barron, charged with the murder of Howard Keyworth at Bladensburg the 6th of July during a game of cards, will be celled in the county court at Upper Marlboro’ Saturday morning. It was the intention of the authorities to try the case earlier in the term, but owing to the serious fliness of Mr. Brant of counsel for the defense the case was postponed. Barron, it is stated, is to be defended by ex-Senator Blackburn of Kentucky, Jere M. Wilson of this city and Attorney Wells, who formerly lived Hyattsville. The case may go over to another term of court en account of Mr. Brant’s condition, or a chenge of venue may remove the case to another county,