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Curious Suit Against . Prince.

A curious lawsuit, says the Paris correspond
ent OF the London Telegraph, is being brought
before the civil court of the Seine, in which the
defendant is Prince Napoleon. On March 29,
1889, the prince was crossing from Ostend to
Dover on board the Comtesse de Flandre, when
she was run into by the Princesse Henrietta.
Her boiler burst, wounding MORALLY the
princes servant, Castel. A few moments be-
fore the explosion occurred the man had been
ordered by his master to go down to the cabin
In search of box, and although the outlook
was not very promising at the time. as the
Comtesse de Flandre had sustained considera-
BILE damage, lie obeyed without the slightest
hesitation.
The box contained some important political
documents, and Casters son-who is bringing
this action against Prince Napoleon-maintains
that his father did not meet his death through
an ordinary accident, but while he was dis
charging special service, at imminent peril to
himself-in fact, that he was exposed thereby
to more risks than of the any other passengers.
he has, therefore, sued the prince for damages
to the amount of f400.
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OF 81 .02O, and O hand-REv. d. NJ BROWNING.
some brick parsonage erected thereon at cost
OF $500; Mr.. John H. Lewis. the contractor
who bull: the parsonage, has Just kindly
donated handsome iron fence around the
church, thereby greatly improving the appear
ance OF the property. The pastors have been
Revs. w. NJ. Hammack. W. H. Reed. C. T.
House, VIM. Rogers and D. M. Browning.
The present pastor, Rev. d. NJ. Browning,
was born in Libertytown, Frederick county,
conference at its session in Foundry Church,
this city, in 1869, and has served the following
charges: Montgomery, Elkridge, Tenleytown,
pc, North Capitol. Cumberland, Buckeyetown,
Monroe Street, Baltimore, New Windsor, West
River and Douglas Memorial
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v hen, owing to failing health, he returned TO
the Baltimore conference and at the close of
that session was transferred by Bishop Ames to
the West Virginia conference and stationed at
Parkersburg. He was there three years. COM
plotting very fine church during his stay, and
at the end of the third year went to Wheeling.
W. Va, taking charge Of Thompson Church.
At the end Of eighteen months he returned to
the Baltimore conference and travelled the
Bentley Spring circuit for two years His next
charge was ut Patapsco, Md, where he re-
manned three years, going to the Long Green
circuit in Baltimore county the following year
He returned to his old church on Caroline
street next and then came to Washington three
years later where he is now closing his second
year of service.
FIFTEENTH STREET CHURCH.
Rev. DR.. John II. Dashiell, pastor OF the Fiji
teenth Street Church, is very near the age
when active workers in the pulpit retire from
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Ochiltree Not a Poker PLAYER.

Col. Thomas P. Ochiltree in an interview in
the New York Herald, is quoted as saying: 1t ia
generally supposed play cards and that at
poker am an adept. 1 scarcely know the
game and rarely ever touch a card. and then
IL Is only In a social way. Some very large-sized
poker stories have been credited to me, but
that Is something l do not do-gamble. /
Know poker is considered a national game, and
not to play it well shows lack of a certain
KIND OF American polish. but l acknowledge
my deficiency cheerfully. To my mind there
are other games as entertaining as poker, such
as whist, cri5bage and euchre. 1 presume the
absorbing and perennial interest in poker is all
owing to the large amount of money at stake.
Once and for all / want it distinctly under
stood that l am not a card player and never
have been. As for gaming-well my opinion is
contained In these lines, paraphrased from the
tanning. that direst felon of the breast
opreads o. r the soul the inert, devouriny pest.
And gnAws and rots and taints and ruins ALI
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T r1Hy Cs. Ainany, h.'' " a. cohhf'
Eddy and Newman, all Of whom will be long
cause Of Christianity.
The Rev. @. H. Corey, D. D., the present
pastor, Is now entering upon his fourth year of
service. He was formerly stationed in New
York, having spent twenty years in that state.
He was born at Athens, N. Y. in I841. He corn
pieted his preparatory studies and passed his
examinations Tor admission to college at four
teen years OF age. Owing to i'll health and
other circumstances he was diverted from his
studies at Wesleyan University under
private tutors He received the honorary de-
gree OF doctor Of divinity from Syracuse Uni
verstty In 1854. Hs entered. the ministry In
In, biz asst sppointmsat being q Great HI.
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ministry, teachlng In REV. DIR. DAsHIELL.
and near Baltimore in the meantime In the
ffties he was invited to take the presidency of
Dickinson Seminary, Methodist institution
at Williamsport, Pa. which was heavily loaded
with debt when he took charge. Through his
energetic management when he resigned, few
years later it was free from this burden of
debt and better equipped than ever for work.
He then returned to teaching and in 1870 he
began preaching again. He has at various
times occupied pulpits in Baltimore, George
town. Washington. Annapolis, Hagerstown and
Frederick. He came here from the last-named
place five years ago to take charge of the Fiji
teenth Street Church, which was then badly in
debt. Here again his business methods have
prevailed and today the church stands not only
free from its encumbrance, but almost ready to
replace the modest little frame structure that
has been the meeting house for years with
larger brick church on the capacious lot that
is now the unmortgaged property of the con-
gregation. There are about one hundred and
fifty members in this church, constituting one
Of the brightest and most Intelligent congre-
cations Of Methodists in the city. There is a
large area to feed this church. as it is the only
one in this part of the city. Dr. Dashiell hopes
to retire from active work this year.
NORTH CAPITOL.
Rev. Charles o. Cook, pastor Of North Capt.
tol Church, corner North Capitol and streets
northeast, was born in Baltimore. Md. He At
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REV. HENRY R. NAYLoR. odist Episcopal Church
This organization continued to worship in
Union League Hall and afterward in Columbia
Institute, on NJ street near 10th northwest, I'M
til the erection of frame building on the site
Of the present edifce, which was dedicated July
1, 1866, by Bishop Jesse Peck as Hamline
Church. On the 23d of November, 1873, the
present edifice was dedicated by Bishop Ed
ward G. Andrews. Its cost was $1,000. In
1890 the church was partly remodeled and en-
larged at an additional cost of S21 900. 1t is
now one of the finest church edifices in the city,
The pastor. Rev. Henry r. Naylor, spent his
boyhood in western New York. He entered the
Indiana conference in the autumn of 1860
After occupying the most prominent pulpits in
the conference and state he was transferred to
the Baltimore conference in March, 1875 where
he has consecutively served the following
churches: Fayette Street, Baltimore; Metropol-
itan, Washington; Madison Avenue and Eutaw
Street, Baltimore, Foundry, Washington, and
is now closing his fourth year at Hsmline.
GoRsUCH.
Gorsuch Church is on offshoot from Ryland
and was organized into a separate station in
1856. For many years it was the only protest
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HhI. y u Twin. .ueoIseto"H RIVes PrUM-
Its present pastor is Rev. E. D. Owen. DID,. a
Pennsylvania by birth and in the active min
istry since 1910. Dr.Owen has filed important
churches in Baltimore and Washington and
still retains much Of the vigor and efficiency Of
successful and as a preacher popular and ac-
ceptable. DIR. Owen is a resident Of Capitol
Hill. and in his home there he and his life part
ner propose to spend their remaining days
DIR. Owen is serving his first year in this charge
THE METROPOLITAN.
The Metropolitan Church, at the corner Of
~ and c streets was projected in 1855 and the
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REV NJ y. B. RICE the first native loca
preacher, were sent by Mr.. Asbury to build up
the cause of Christ in Frederick county, Nd.
which then embraced Georgetown.
In March, 1T73, Mr. Owings reported to Mr..
Asbury that Il know not what it will come to.
Almost every person seems to be under a re-
hglous concern There are about twenty-five
Persons already joined in society at Seneca.
AT Georgetown four have been lately en-
abled to rejoice in Goo, and one at Rock
Greek" II is probable that the four converts
In Georgetown constituted the germ Of Metho-
dism in that place
II is likely that Methodist preachers labored
In the place for number of years before a per-
manent or regularly organized society existed
Tradition saws that the first meetings were held
in a cooper shop owned bv n Mr. W illiams and
located in the neighborhood Of Gay and Con-
gress streets IL was probably in the year 1875
that the nrst house especially built for religious
worship was erected on Montgomery street.
Under date Of November 2, 1895, Bishop Asbury
speaks of il a new chapel"
From 1902 TO 1906 a society of Methodists at
Greenleafs Point (the nucleus OF the Fourth
Street Church at the Navy Yard was attached
20 the Georgetown station.
In 1s4s. during the miniJtrations Of tn Rev.
Henry Sl;cer, the present edifice was built. It
was dedicated July 8, 1850. during the pastoral
term Of Rev. John Lanahan.
The old church on Montgomery street. around
which clustered so many sacred memories, was
sold to the corporation Of the town for 81 200
The Sunday school was organized in 1919 its
present membership being 325. Mr.. Joseph W.
kirkley Is now superintendent The present
membership OF the church is 31S.
Rev. NJ. F. b. Rice, the present pastor, was
born IN Frederick county, Md, and is forty
three years Of age His father was q farmer
and his early education received at the
country schools. When, however, his widowed
mother brought her family to reside in the
nelghboring village Of jefferson Mr.. Rice, then
being but thirteen years Of age, was sent to the
academy Of that place. He was licensed to
preach the gospel when but nineteen years Of
age.
Mr.. Rice's first work in the conference was in
Antietam circuit His next year was spent on
Liberty circuit, with Rev. J. W. Cornelius as
his colleague. new church was built by these
pastors at Linganore, which was then and still
Is one Of the largest and best rural church edi-
hces in the conference. The next wear Linga-
more became a station and by the unanimous
desire Of the people Mr.. Rice was its first pas
tor. When his term expired at Linganore Mr.
Rice was sent to Washington city, taking charge
Of Grace congregation During his pastorate
the present church building was erected He
has been ever since in station work, principally
in Baltimore and Washington. He has won
reputation for eloquence, scholarly and evan
gelistic preaching executive ability in pastoral
administration and success both in the tenn
poral management and in soul saving.
FOURTH STREET CHURCH.
Ths history Of the Fourth Street Church goes
ssak - - ysse 1906. Il vas Arst known -
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years Inc young peO- REV. VIM. NJ OSBORNE.
pies choir has among it's members a number of
active young gentlemen and ladies whose serv-
ices are highly appreciated by the congrega-
ton. Recently the church has been thoroughly
repaired within and without and presents an
inviting aspect. Rev. William NJ. Osborne, NJ.
D., Is Its present pastor, and is now closing his
third year in this charge. He is a native of
Ohio. The far west early offered him an in
wiling field and he joined the Rock River
conference, Illinois, in 1916, and for seventeen
years confined his labors to the prairies Of
Minnesota and Wisconsin. The last year of
the war found him in the service Of the
Christian commission at Winchester, Va, and
Martinsburg, VIVA. At the latter place he took
charge OF an academy for a few months until
his transfer to the Baltimore conference in
1866. Eleven years were spent in station work
in baltimore and four years in this city. Be-
fore entering the ministry he devoted some
time to the study Of medicine, and he graduated
from the Baltimore Medical College with the
design OF giving greater efficiency to his life
work. ready scribe, DR.. Osborne has done
considerable labor with his pen, both as a re-
porter and contributor to the religious and
secular press.
GRACE CHURCH.
Grace Church owes its existence to the
teachers Of Wesley Chapel Sunday school. who,
at q meeting held on the evening Of May 81,
1843, conceived the idea Of establishing a Sab
bath school at the northern terminus of It'll
street. A committee composed OF Messrs. G.
c. Burr, G. Z. Walker aud Chas. p. Blackmar
was appointed to look into the matter, and on
the 5th of the July following a favorable report
was made, and the Sabbath school held its first
session in the woods at the head Of 7th street.
Later, in August, 1S43, it was decided to erect
a chapel, and contributions were solicited
Over thousand dollars was subscribed and
the lot on which the church now stands was
purchased and q frame chapel was erected.
Here the congregation worshiped until 1872.
Then under the passionate Of NJ. F. B. Rice the
present church was erected at the corner of
9TH and streets. The church has large con-
gre9ation with q dourishing Sunday school
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school. REV. ALEX Z. GIBSON.
The pastor, Rev. DR.. Alexander F. Gibson. who
is serving his first year at Waugh. is now about
sixty years of age. He is native Of Baltimore.
He is graduate in medicine and in his early
manhood was in active practice and during the
war as q surgeon was in charge of the United
States army hospital at Frederick. Md. He
was educated in the Baltimore schools after
which he went to Dickinson College and after
graduating he studied medicine and received
his diploma from the Baltimore Medical Col
lege. He was converted in early boyhood and
from the first was jealous. efficient men,
Der Of the church. After the war he entered
the ministry and it was not long when his abil-
ity brought him to the front in the ranks of
the ministry. He has served as pastor at Foun-
dry Church, this city, Whatcoat, Grace and Fay-
cite Street in Baltimore, and then came to
Waugh Church On all questions for the ad-
vancement of the interests of the church he is
in accord with his people, but he is opposed to
woman representation in the conferences, for
which the church voted. Notwithstanding the
relations between pastor and congregation are
most cordial and in his pulpit work he is most
efficient and his powers of description are Of
the high order. Unlike the large majority of
his denomination. DR.. Gibson believes in OBJ
serving appropriately the church festivals, such
as Christmas and Easter.
HAMLINE CHURCH.
Hamline Church was dedicated to the men,
DRY of Bishop Leonidas Lent Hamline, who
was born in Burlington. Conn.,, May 10, 1877,
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$50 scholars. 1t is in a very healthy and grow
ing condition.
The pastor, Rev. J. A.Price, DID,. is a native
OF Pennsylvania He entered the Baltimore
conference in the year 1855. The first thirteen
years Of his ministry were spent in central
Pennsylvania, and he was pastor Of churches
in Miffiin, Mechanicsburg, Northumberland,
Huntingdon and Bloomsbury. Since that time
he has been stationed in churches in Fred
erick, Baltimore and Washington. He was also
presiding elder of the Baltimore and West Bal
timore districts and was delegate to the gen.
eral conference which met in Cincinnati in
1880 and also to the general conference which
met in Philadelphia in 1884. He was pastor of
Hamline and Waugh churches in this city and
has served one year at Ryland.
WAUGH CHURCH.
Waugh Church had its inception in a Sunday
school enterprise begun at the house of Ham
son Brown, on Massachusetts, avenue between
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A Faded Violet.


What thought is folded in thy leayesl
What tender thought, what speeches. paint
l hold thy faded lips TO mine,
Thou darling Of the April rainl
] hold thy faded lips to mine,
Though scent and azure tint are fed
y dry, mute lips! We are the type
OF something in me cold and dead
OF something wilted like thy leaves,
Of fragrance flown, Of beauty dim;
Yet, for the love of those white hands
That found thee by rivers brim-
That found thee when thy dewy mouth
Was purpled as with stains Of wine
For love OF her, who love forgot
hold thy faded lips TO mine.
That thou shouldst live when am dead
When hate is dead for me, and wrong,
For this, use my subtlest art,
For this, l fold thee in my song.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH,
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meeting was held for
the purpose Of taking
steps for the erection Of
a church building. Rev.
C. A. Davis presided
and John o. P. Degges
was the secretary. Rev.
CA. Davis. r. W. Bates,
Geo. T. McGlue. Jos.
Fraser and W. II. Per-
kins constituted the
first board Of trustees.
The house was finished
and opened for Divine
worship in 1847, Rev.
VIM. Hamilton being at
that time presiding
elder of the District,
and Rev. E. F. Busey
being the first preacher
in charge. The original
society was largely COM
posed Of persons who
had withdrawn from
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The pastor, Rev. George REV. GEO. ELLIOTT.
Elliott. was born in Ohio and is in his fortieth
year. His father was Methodist preacher,
who. in 1854, went farther west and gave thirty
years to laborious service in the hardest kind
of itinerant preaching in Wisconsin and Iowa.
Rev. Mr.. Elliott graduated at Cornell College
in 1872 and Immediately began the publication
of a country weekly newspaper, which he de-
clares to have been too well conducted at the
editorial end to ever have been a success at the
counting room end of the concern. Quite
satisfied with two years experience of journal
ism he entered the ministry. joining the upper
Iowa conference, in which he travelled ten
years. He was an active agent in securing the
passage of the prohibitory amendment to the
constitution Of Iowa in 1882. In 1884 he won
the Fletcher prize, offered through Dartmouth
College, for the best treatise on the moral
obligation of the Christian Sabbath, which is
published in book form under the title of 1.-THE
Abiding Sabbath" In the fall Of the same
year he transferred to the Baltimore con-
ference and stationed at Union Square Church,
Baltimore, from whence he was appointed in
1887 to Foundry Church, Washington. where
he is just completing four years Of ministry.
WESLEY CHURCH.
Wesley Church dates from 1929, when it was
organized by a number of the members Of
Foundry Church The first church was an old
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Massacre of Spanish Troops.

The particulars brought to Singapore Of the
recent massacre Of Spanish troops and residents
in the Caroline Islands, says the London Daily
Ne,cs, include some curious details. Without
any kind of warning the savage natives of these
islets of the Polynesian Archipelago fell on the
unfortunate garrison, killing some ninety SOL
diers and civilians The Spaniards thereupon
attacked the native fort, defended by zigzag
stockade Of mud and timber. The natives
fought with singular bravery, but were event.
ually driven into the jungle.
Here the difficulties of the Spaniards were in
creased in curious fashion. The underground
was very thick and the savages had sown the
ground with man traps, besides which their
costume III war time consists of green leaves,
which makes it very difficult to see them against
the foliage. These circumstances, together
with the remarkable size and strength Of the
enemy, and the fact that they were armed with
Remington rifles, placed the Europeans at still
further disadvantage. Nevertheless, the loss of
life on the native side was large.
The Spanish commander was among the slain.
1t is reported that he was 80 mortified with the
loss Of his soldiers and the unsatisfactory con-
ditions under which he had to fight that in q
moment Of frenzy he shot himself
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ant chapel In the ex-
treme southern part of
the city. 1t is located
on the corner Of AZ and
L streets southwest in q
rapidly growing section
of the city. Pastors
have been regularly as
signed to it since its Or
ganization. Its Sunday
school is large and -un-
der the able superin-
tendence of w. r. Hunt,
who has had charge Of
{ b is d epartm e mt of
church work for twenty
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REV. W. NJ FERGUSON united with the Meth
odist Episcopal Church when fourteen years Of
age. was licensed to preach in his nineteenth
year and Joined the Baltimore conference in
his twentieth year. He has been stationed at
the following places: Hampstead. Md; Union
Bridge, Nd: Unionville. Md; Catonsville, Md.
Winchester. Va: West River, Nd; Baltimore
circuit. Reisterstown, Nd; Monument Street,
Baltimore, and Fourth Street, Washington, d.
e. He was for ten years the statistical secre-
tary of the conference and for q number Of
years served on committees to examine candi-
dates for holy orders. He il nowdnishing the
third year in this passionate.
FOUNDRY.
Foundry Church was organized in 1915. Two
years later, through the generosity of Mr.. Fox
hall. they had a permanent place of worship
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When You Need Your Brain No Longer,
From the Pittsburg Times.
If. when you open your mail, dear reader.
you receive polite request for your brain. do
not be astonished. The explanation is this: A
number of scientific men have formed an or
ganization the purpose of which is to take the
brains Of distinguished persons after death and
study them, with view to fuller knowledge.
both of medicine and mind. DIR. Joseph Leidy
Is president of the organization and Dr. Pepper
secretary. Both are of Philadelphia A large
number Of persons have already promised IL
allow their brains to be examined when they
have no further use for them and among these
persons is the Rev. Phillips Brooks of Boston.
Letters requesting brains have been sent out
to nearly all the notable men and women of the
country. Next summer, at the meeting il
Washington of the congress of physicians and
surgeons, this organization will be perfected
and associate members in the different cities
will be authorized. When that is done YOU can
do your family physician a special honor by
bequeathing to him your brain. which he will
examine and report on or perhaps forward it
to the specialists in Philadelphia
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fashioned oblong build
ing, which was replaced
by the present struct-
ure in 1856. For a long
series of years this
church was the strong
est financially and nu-
merically of all the
Methodist churches in
the city. Notwithstand-
ing many Of its men,
bers assisted in form
ing the Metropolitan
Church and others have
gone to other churches
there remain about 400
members and a Sunday
school of about 400
members. The pastor,
Pew Charlao w Raid
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M'KENDREE.

streets. and shortly
afterward a modest
church edifice was built
on the present site.
From a mere handful
the membership has
grown to about $50 and
the church with the ad-
joining parsonage is
valued at S35, 900. The
Sunday school numbers
about 500. The pastor,
Rev. C. Herbert Rich
ardson, who is now clos
ing five years Of service,
is a native of Baltimore.
He was born November