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The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
A REFoRMER AT WORK,

Hon. Mr.. Clarkson seems to have
adopted the calling of travelling orator
for the Republican party-a sort of
walking delegate. as it were. He is
now darting about from one part of the
country to another distributing the true
gospel of Republicanism and shedding
great quantities of sweetness and ligh
On the question of civil service reform.
This is new role for the esteemed
Claikso but it is not any the less in
teresiing on that account. Heretofore
lie has been chiefly remarkable as a
vigorous. straight out, clean cut par
tisan, with distinct talent for managing
campaigns and with almost a genius
for utilizing party victories. 1t is only
recently that the country has heard of
him as lecturer in the fine point of
political faith and as the chief force in
a great moral propaganda. Mr.. Clark
son, however, having chopped off all
the Democratic heads that were in sight
and set up a model which will cover
with party glory all who prayerfully
adopt it in the future, now feels that
his energies must have new employ
ment.
Why, then, should he not take the
road as an apostle of the Administra-
tion2 Where could he lind harder and
more continuous work than in demon
strating the beauties of his plan of
civil service reform?
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
MISSISSIPPI RIVER OUTLETS.

Editor Critic: Your Washington
"School Boy correspondent shoots
very wide of his mark. Georgia"
said nothing about water running on
inclines; he only alluded to the non
sense of comparing the flow of water
over the breast of mill dam to the flow
of the current of the Mississippi River,
which averages 5000 feet wide and
1900 miles long, there not being one
single condition in common. The only
schemers connected with this river are
those who have been trying to get Con
gress to give them job for its improve
meDt, their aiders and abetors.
Neither Georgia" nor any one in the
Mississippi River valley desires any ap-
preparation of money for that river
other than to be expended by the Gov
ernment itself, through the Govern
ment's own agents. The Mississippi
River Commission is composed prin-
cipally of eminent engineers; hence
"School Boy can see that we have no
scheme nor anything to do with the
Treasury. We only want the Govern
ment to take care of that river, its own
property, in its own way.
Georgia" lives on prairie In
Kansas and writes from common
sense standpoint. coupled with partial
knowledge Of river hydraulics, and has
had some personal experience and
knowledge OF floods In that river. He
believes that the Mississippi River,
which is the great national river drain
ing half the continent, should be cared
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. err.
MIR BRADY Receives the Thanks of the
A. NJ. 10. Conference.


AT Yesterday afternoons session OF
,be Philadelphia and Baltimore Annual
Conference of iAe A. NJ Il. Church,
which covers the District of Columbia,
Ms well as the States of Maryland, Del
aware and Pennsylvania. Rev. j. p.
Thompson of Washington wanted to
know where were Mount Calvary
Church in West Philadelphia aud
Union Church at Fairmount, which he
had secured TO the connection. An in
terchange of opinions developed the
fact that but little was paid to secure
the property, and, the burdens being
too heavy for the congregations, they
were obliged to bend to the storm, and
so passed away. The societies still
exist, and are struggling to provide
themselves with places for worship.
The following was passed amid great
applause;
Rtso,red, That Mr.. p. f. Brady be, and
is hereby, rendered vote OF thanks by this
conference for his munifcent gift OF one
Thousand dollar lot, size As foot front by rs
deep, in the city of Washington, ID. e.,
upon which to erect Zion church, on the
simple condition that the said church have
the said lot duly surveyed and pay fees in
preparing and probating the deed.
Bishop Jones highly complimented
Mr.. Brady for his generous act, espe
cially as colored men who have mean!
to give to good objects generally give i
TO Master Charles" Mr.. Brady wa
present, and upon being introduced t
the conference was received with ap
plause.
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
PERSONAL.

Colonel Richard Lathers of New York
city and well known to the society
world here, is stopping at the Arlington.
Franz Vetta and Lizzie Macnichol-
Vetta, the popular artists of the Juch
Opera Company, are spending few
weeks with Miss Machnichol's parents
on Capitol Hill.
DIR. Epgel has had the good fortune
to induce Professor Huxley to write a
short autobiography for his newssbook.
From Handel to Halle" imported by
Messrs. Scribner & Wexford.
Christina Rossetti, the sister of Dante,
is described as lovely, white. haired
woman now. She lives in Torrington
Square, quite in that quarter where the
Am ericans find comfortable lodging
houses.
Governor Waterman of California has
written letter to the official heads of
all cities and counties of the State,
asking that steps be taken toward Cali
fornia's representation at the World $
Fair.
Queen Victoria's lameness has now
become so pronounced that she has
given up her habit of standing after
dinner in the gallery at Windsor, and
as soon as she gets into the drawing
room chair is brought and she sits
| down.
When Senator Stanford claps for a
page in the Senate Chamber there are
| always more than one ready TO promptly
respond The Senator gives the pages
grand dinner every year, and at the
last, which occurred last week, Mrs
Stanford presented each of the sixteen
pages with handsome scarf pin as
memento.
Edward Strauss, interviewed in Balti
more, declares America to be "Para
disc" It was during the intermissior
of a concert, and Strauss must have
been the stolid man that he certainly Il
not II he were not charmed with hi
reception. II think" he went on
"the people must take in everything by
intuition, they seem so quick anC
bright / have not yet heard anything
of American music, so cannot judge it
but am both surprised and pleased .
the genuine appreciation of mu
people have. They have disc lima
ton, Judgment and enthusiasm wheI
pleased, qualities which are most CRATE
full and inspiring TO a leader. Every
thing is beautiful, everything is divine =
this last no doubt relating to the Bal
timore beauties. He expressed particu
lar astonishment at the newspapers
why, in Europe criticism of a per
foTmance does not appear in the paper
until two OF three days after the con
cert. The papers here are miraculous.
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
FOR UNIVERSAL PEACE,
Programme of Those Who Favor AR
bitration, Not Gunpowder

Progra OF Those Who Favor Ar
bitration, Not Gunpowder.
The Universal Peace Union, as pre-
viously announced in THE CRITIC, will
hold their sessions in this city on Mon
day and Tuesday sant at the First
Presbyterian Church, Rev. DR.. Bart
lett, pastor. The members in this city
of the International Conference and all
of the members of the Woman's Ma
tional Press Association are expected to
be present. The Union will appoint
delegates to the international Peace
Union in London.
President Harrison and his Cabinet
have been invited to attend the sessions
of the Universal Peace Union, and
among the speakers announced are
Postmaster. General Wanamaker, Sen
ator Sherman, Representatives Hit
Kerr and McCreary, Commissioner
Douglass, Rabbi Stern, Simon Wolf
Alfred II. Love, Amanda Deyo, Min
lister Romero of Mexico, Belva A. Lock.
wood, Levi X. Joslin. Jacob M. Troth,
Mrs. Ralston, Nina Vaille and others
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
a CoMpErENr WITNESS.

The New York Herald of to-day con-
tains a very compact and powerful pre-
sentation of the Mississippi River ques.
tion by Hon, II. r. Steele of Louisiana.
The writer is a lifelong Republican,
who came 10 Louisiana after the war,
who held Office under Governor Kellogg,
and during the most acrimonious period
of reconstruction, and who has never
theless lived there ever since, enjoying
now as then the respect and confidence
of his Democratic fellow citizens. In
evidence of this he was sent to Wash
in gton by the Levee Convention, which
assembled at Vicksburg some weeks
ago, and is now here in the capacity of
chairman Of the executive board of the
association created by that convention,
Judge Steele is an extensive planter
IN Tensas Parish. Louisiana. He has
had many years experience of overfows
in his section and has brought to the
investigation Of the subject q superior
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
WASHINGTON, MAY "a, 1890.
rMpRA orIOABLE EvERYwHEKE.

1t appears that outside of his advisa-
bility as q Republican voter and his
value as bleeding victim wherewith to
fire the Northern heart, our colored
friends do not occupy very tender
and precious place in the affections of
their fellow citizens this side the Ohio
and the Potomac. Evidences of this
are sufficiently numerous and signif-
cant They crop out almost daily and
take every form conceivable, from the
abandonment of hotels and other places
of public entertainment that admit
Colored people to equally emphatic ex'
hibitions of prejudice in religion and
even in politics.
The latest development of the feeling
in question is to be found in recent
attack on the American Baptist Publ
cation Society by the State Convention
of Colored Baptists which sat at Lynch
burg Va, few days ago. The resolu-
tions adopted on that occasion were
presented in Emmanuel Church, Chi
cago, last Thursday by the Rev. A.
Banga, jr., negro preacher from Man
chester, Va, and ran as follows:
10 the Officers Of tie american Baptist
Publication Society:
Whereas we believe the religion of the
Lord Jesus Christ knows no man by the
color of his skin nor texture of hair, but
recognizes all alike whether found in hut OF
palace; and whereas we believe discrimina,
tion because of color incompatible witt
Christianity and at war with the principles
of that kingdom which is distinguished
from others by this equality of its members
as shown by the intercessory prayer to It's
King, Who prayed that His subjects might
e all ore; and whereas the American Bap.
tist Publication Society has offered (inad
Vertently, we trist) an indigniiy to colured
Bap.ists of the United States by dropping
the names of Rev. f. X. Love, d. D.; Rev
W. Simmons, d. D., aud Rev, Walter II
Brooks from its list of contributors to th,
Baptist Teacher without any discovery o
incompetence or proof of general unftness
which fact leads us to believe that it wa.
actuated by a wrong spirit; therefore, be II
ResOlred, That, while We feel profound
sense of appreciation for all the kindness
shown us in the past by the society, yet we
can but condemn the act of sacrificing the
1colored brethren for the sake of gain oi
hope for gratifying blind prejudices; thai
these resolutions are not intended to ex
press an unkind or ungrateful feeling, bu
q sense of violated justice.
A sp ecial telegram from Chicago t.
the New Yoik Herald describes thu
scene that ensued. Reverend Bangs
spoke with great feeling and his.re
marks were received with an uproar
Then Rev Griffiths, the national secre
tary, rose to an explanation, which, th'
report says, took the form of an apology
whereupon the confusion became 81
great that the session broke up in {
row. Whether the row was or was no
in Rev. Banga's favor does not appear
All we know is that the colored editor
of the Baptist Teacher have bee
bounced by the Baptist Publicatio
Society, and the only possible inferenc
is that social equality does not wor
any better at the North, where they pre-
tend to believe in it, than at the South
where they frankly declare that the,
viii not have it on any terms.
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24

for by the nation; that the proper
method of control of the floods and i'm.
provement of navigation at low water
should he done by the methods adopted
by the River Commission, TO wit, con
traction of the water to the narrowest
channel and the building of levees on
the banks to conflne high.water floods
to the channel, and thus preserve low.
water navigation, and, in doing this.
protect the country against inundations;
hence these methods should 90 hand.
and-hand in the improvement of the
river On the contrary, School Boy"
gives aid and comfort to a lot of
schemers, some of them so Ignorant
that they propose to make water run up
hill. Their ridiculous propositions
make common sense men gery tired.
If, however, half the water was taken
from the Mississippi River below New
Orleans the flow of the remaining water
in the channel would slow up and de.
posit silt above the jetties, until that
now deepest harbor channel in the
world would be destroyed and the
millions It cost the Government lost.
The other half being carried into Lake
Bourne at flood time would be charged
to the maximum with earthly matter,
and would carry enough in a year to
make solid block of earth one mile
square and 130 feet high, and yet it
would not lower the water in the river
one inch forty miles above the outlet
If "School Boy knows anything about
multiplication and division he can soon
figure out how long 1t would be before
Lake Bourne would be entirely filled
up by the deposit of sediment, just as
thousands of square miles have already
been built up by this river, Lake
Bourne having an area of only about
250 square miles and mean depth of
only twelve feet.
Now, Mr.. Editor, think this is about
as much as School Boy" can digest
for few days, and if he exhibits the
aptitude to learn, the Kansas school
master may give him another lesson.
Respectfully, GEORGIA.
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
THE RETURN OF HELEN LAMONT.
Her Season VIII End in Still Greater
Success at Her Home.

Her Season VIII End in Still Greater
Success at Her Home.
Miss Helen Lamont in her home
coming will find that her old friends
have not forgotten her On the con-
trary, from first to last, they have
watched her career with the keenest
interest. In the annals of the operatic
stage that career has been quite ex-
ceptional. Few debutantes have ever
achieved so great a success on first
appearance. From the beginning Miss
Lamont's position was determined. Her
excellent musical training, her natural
dramatic instinct and her personal
grace and beauty secured for her, al.
most Immediately, place in the fore
most rank. She now occupies the po-
sition of conspicuous artistic, of whom
Washington may well be proud.
After a season which covered the
country from New England to Califor
mia, she returns, Monday night, to the
stage at Albaugh's, fresh from the tri-
umphs of this trans. continental tour
Her repertoire comprises all the operas
which have hitherto been most popu.
larly successful. The New York Casino
operas which she so admirably inter.
prets are but small part of her repor-
tory. THE CRITIC, which recognizes
the taste of our community for comic
opera, hereby welcomes Miss Lamon,
to the exercise of her talents at her old
home.
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
A Sort of Stationary Traveller.

FTONt Ws LtfUtS7UN JO0TNtII.
A Franklin County farmer has been a
sort of stationary traveller. He was born
in 1919 in New Vineyard, which was
then in Kennebec County, Mass. The
next year Maine became State, and
afterward that part of New Vineyard
was set off into Industry, Somerset
County. When Franklin County was
formed Industry was made part of it,
and since then that corner of Industry
has been annexed to Pennington. Thus
1t happens that Mr.. Charles Graham of
Pennington, Franklin County, Me-,
who is II years old this month, has
always lived where he was horn and yet
has lived In Massachusetts, in Industry
and New Vineyard. and in Somerset
and Kennebec counties.
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
ON THE POTOMAC.
Pretty Closing of the Mount Vernon
Regents Sessions.

Pretty Closing of the Mount Vernon
Regents Sessions.
The ladies of the Mount Vernon AS
soeiation having closed their sessions
returned to the city last evening. The
three vacancies of vice-regents were
filed by the appointments for Nebraska.
Mrs. Samuel Mercer, Omaha; New
Hampshire, Mrs. Winder of Ports
mouth; Georgia, Mrs. Cummings of Sa-
vannah.
The Presidents family, Secretaries
Blaine, Tracy, and Rusk, and number
of invited guests went down to Mount
Vernon on the United States Steamer
Despatch yesterday morning
Among other gifts and donations not
otherwise reported were thirty Windsor
chairs from Mrs. Ida Richardson, vice
regent, of Louisiana. They are exact
duplicates of the chairs used bv Gen
eral Washington at Mount Vernon.
Three chair cushions, made from silk
embroidered by Mrs. Martha Washing
ton for her daughter, Nellie Custis,
were presented by Mrs. General Heath
A valuable painting of General Wash
ington, by Henry Bone, from the orig
inal by Gilbert Stuart, and valued a
$4,000, was presented by Daniel P
Avery of New York.
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
PYTHIAN ENCAMpMENT.
Details of the Great Event at MIL
waukee


Details of the Great Event at MIL
waukee.
The Knights of Pythias of this city
have received officially from the head
quarters at Indianapolis programmes
of the exercises of the Uniform Rank
of the world at the Biennial Conclave
TO be held in Milwaukee during the
second week of next July. The Knights
will 90 into camp on July z; general
parade at o'clock p. m. on the Sth /;
prize drill by divisions. general field
day, inspection and review on the 9th;
dress parade and prize drills ont he 10th !;
the same order on the 18th; conclusion
of prize drills, awarding of prizes and
breaking of camp on the 18th.
The prizes Offered by the citizens of
Milwaukee range from 500 to 81 900.
The great city of tents will be arranged
free of cost by the citizens, and the event
promises to be the most notable one in
the history of the Pythian order.
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
ONCE TWO OFTEN.
Dangerfield Continued to Tread on Ex
ceedingIy Dangerous Ground.

Dangerfield Continued to Tread on Ex-
ceedingly Dangerous Ground.
Robert Dangerfield, colored, was in
October last tried In the Police Court
for embezzling $25 from j. w. Morgan
of SIT Ninth street. Through the in
tercession of Mr.. Morgan, Judge Miller
suspended sentence, in hopes Robert
would mend his ways. Last night,
however, Dangerfield appropriated $14
more belonging to Mr.. Morgan, and the
latter had him in the Police Court
to day. The prosecuting witness said
he had missed other amounts, aggre
eating in all several hundred dollars
The prisoner was sent to the grand
Jury,
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
HE WAS TOO "FREsH,"
Judge Miller Rebukes an officer Il
IRVING to BE Funny.

Judge Miller Rebukes an Officer for
Tying to BE Funny.
"Do you know where you are?" said
Judge Miller to day to Officer Bra LEY,
who was on the stand giving testim my
against Emma Ruckert, charged with
running an unlicensed bar.
Attorney Shillington had just asked
the witness not to stare so at the pris'
oner before the bar.
"Well, will look at you, then, for
you are so pretty" responded the Off
Ger, saucily.
The Judges remark brought the
color to Bradley's face, and he will in
the future, no doubt, not be so smart.
He had a very narrow escape from a
$50 fine. AS it was the testimony did
not show that Mrs. Ruckert had sold
beer in smaller quantities than bottle,
which she had perfect right to do un-
der her wholesale license. The case
against her was dismissed.
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
FOR QUEEN VICTORIA S BIRTHDAY

An Antricda arlutuS bunch, to be mt In a it,
tie case, on The royal break fast table,
Nay "a, 1890.
From the PhiLddelDtid Times (T'o-ddy).
Lady, accept a birthday thought-haply
an idle gift and token,
Right from the scented soils May-utter-
ance here
(Smelling Of countless blessings, prayers
and old-time thanks),
A bunch OF white and pink arbutus, silent,
spicy, shy,.
From Hudson's Delaware's, or Potomac's
woody banks.
Walt Whitman.
NoTE,-Very little, as we Americans
stand this day, with our sixty five or
seventy millions of population, an i'm
mense surplus in the Treasury, and all
that actual power or reserved power
Gland and sea- so dear to nations-very
little, say, do we realize the curious,
crawling national shudder when the
"Trent affair" promised to bring upon
us war with Great Britain-followed
unquestionably as that war would have
| been by recognition of the Southern
| Confederacy from all the leading Euro
| pean nations. 1t is now certain that
| all this then inevitable train of calamity
hung on arrogant and peremptory phases
in the prepared and written missive OF
| the British Minister to America which
the Queen (and Prince Albert latent
positively and promptly Cancelled, and
| which her firm attitude did alone
actually erase and leave out, against all
the other official prestige and Court OF
ST. James On such minor and personal
incidents $50 to call them) often depend
tie great growths and turns of civiliza
| tion. This moment of woman and {
queen surely swung the grandest oscil
lation of modern history's pendulum
Many sayings and doing of that periot
from foreign potentates might as wei
| be drop'd in oblivion by America-bu
never this, If / could have my way.
w. w
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
washington's Neglected children.

The Mount Vernon Children's Indus
trial Home Society will hold meeting
in behalf of the neglected children of
the city tomorrow evening at the
Church of Our Fathers, corner of Thir-
teenth and L streets northwest, at 7:30
p. m. Rev. DR.. Kent, the pastor, Com
missioner Douglass. Rev. j. III. Brad
ford, Hon. II. Moulton and Judge
Miller will speak. All who desire to
save the hundreds of neglected children
and thus diminish disease, pauperism
and crime are invited to be present by
Mr.. Cleone Daniels, secretary.
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
BLOSSOM TIME.

What pipes the merry robin
To yondeT glistening blue?
What sings the brook of silver
The daisied valley through
What huns the breeze so CHEEKY
But this one sweet refrainY-
"Oh days so bright
Oh, rare delight
'Tis blossom-time againln
In mornings dew and sunshine
The orchards trees arrow,
Seem tangled in cloudlet
OF fragrant, rosy snow;
And every breeze that passes
Shakes out jeweled rain;
While birds awning
Are caroling,
"'Tis blossOm-time againn
Bright gold OF dandelions,
New grass-blades, twinkling gay,
1.-the wayside vines, dew-crystaled,
Wee, snowy lambs at play,
Soft echoes from far uplands
Speak but one language plain:
"Oh, days so dear
OF all the year,
Ills blossom-time agalnln
My heart sings with the robin,
The silver flashing iill,
And carols with the breezes
In joys delicious thrill;
With flowers and grass and lambkins,
1t Joins the glad refrain;
"0h, fairest days.
On, Tarest daysi
'Iis blossom-time againl,
George Cooper.
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24
sournrnr coNNnor1oNs.
New Tracks to Re Laid in the Vicinit,
OF Washington.

VI WbbnmHtohs
The new railroad line which the B.
q 0. Company is going to buildi in this
vicinity will start from the neigbbor-
hood of Linden, on its Metropolitan
Branch in Montgomery County, to
point on the Potomac near Falls Run,
Will commence just above the north.
west boundary of the District of Co
lumbia. A bridge across the Potomac
there will only be 1900 or 1.4O0
feet long, and by keeping
outside of the District Of Co.
lumbia no Congressional legislation will
be needed. Once across the Potomac
the line is TO curve around TO the south,
and connect with the Virginia Midland
at Alexandria, A bridge above Wash
ington will be above the navigable
waters of the Potomac and will not re-
quire The consent of Congress, which
might take several years If applied for.
Old Mr.. Garrett has plan for line
from Sligo, in Maryland, to Fairfax
Station on the Virginia Midland.
The Washington critic., 1890-05-24

A QUESTION has arisen In New York
as to "who shall control Carmencita ="
New York will confer lasting benefit
on society if it discovers some one cap
able of controlling that nimble young
person. 1t isn't that we are specially
interested in Carmencita, but thousands
of anxious fellow citizens are con-
fronted with similar problem and
would be mighty grateful for few
really reliable pointers.