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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-07

like Minerva from the brain OF Jupiter. they
were born full grown and heavily armed. They
are the common bond of our Methodist union,
from the equator to either pole. And IL 90 hong
and strong has been their hold why may they not
endure forever? The class meeting has not vet
faded into a memory. The itinerant method Of
ministerial activity distinguishes all the
branches Of Methodism represented within
these walls Lay preaching not easy in
coming. When Thomas Maxheld was in the
crisis of spiritual regeneration il required
eight men to hold him down until he became
composed, but when he was once in the pulpit
and alive with new power not all England
strong enough 70 silence that FIRST Of all
the lay preachers who .proyed worthy Of Wes-
ley's confidence. The methods OF today
those of the earliest Methodists; and We have
ample ground for hope that the time will never
come when the Methodism Of the future viii
grow weary of the sources Of the strength
which has characterized ii in. every year Of lie
history.
We recognize that we are entertaining the
angels Of the churches. But we are aware Of IL
The winds have caught up the story Of your
speech. The fruit Of your busy pens We claim
as part Of our literary treasures. To speak Of
our transatlantic brethren alone, who has not
read The Tongue OF Fire, the Successful
Systematic Benefcence." Physical aud Moral
Law" and The Pope. the Kings and the
Peoples" by Arthur; Conscience" by Dsvi-
son; "Methodism in the Light Of the Early
Church, by Slater; "The Imperfect Angel and
Other Sermons" by Selby; 1.-The Makers Of the
English Language" sermons" Poems" end
other works by Dawson; Social Christianity
and the philanthropy of God" by Hughes;
1.-The Golden Candlesticks," by Bond; "RAuf.
bles of a Naturalist" by Curnock. and The
Life Of Wesley" Gin French), by Lelievre?
We are not without reminders of the vacant
places in the British ranks since the first
sion Of the ccumenical conference in London
in 1881. The late DIR. George Osborn Of Eng
land, full OF years and honor, is q type of the
now sainted men who stood at the front in thas
memorable session. OF others Of like precious
faith who have assembled from service 10 re-
ward We may mention Stacey. Cooke, James,
Leden, Kilner, Kendall. Pope, McAulay. Hell
lier, NJ c. Osborn, Bate, Griffith and Myers
OF laymen who have assembled 10 the rank q
the church triumphant are that princely msn
Sir William Macarthur, with Beauchamp, ke-
pier, Lewis, Sutcliffe and Watson Is y eou
true: ''0ur people die Welt"
CORDIAL oREEruo.
Brethren from the south, We greet you With
loving hesrts- In your Virginia our common
Francis Asbury established the nrst Sunday
srh<><I <ha IN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-10-07
FOR SALE-LOTS.

4 VERY DESIRABLE LOT on ST.. ONE
HALF SQUARE WEST OF STATE, WAR AND
NAVY DEPARTMENTS. PRICE ONLY Goo ROE
:ts9 SQUARE PET. with frame house. Which rents
for so per month
Appiy to
J. v " HCYCK.
oc.-S 1905 Pennsylvania ave.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-22
A New Motor Engine.

A new method Of working motor en-
gines with hot gases and steam is now
creating no little interest in English cir
cles According to this plan the mix
ture of the steam with the hot gases, to
form charge for doing duty in the
working cylinder of the engine, Is effect
ed in the following way:
First, the chamber having supplied a
charge of mixture to the working cylin-
der and been afterward open to an ex-
haust. hot gases are passed through to
clean and dry it, and while the chamber
is still full of hot, dry gases it is closed.
Steam at suitable pressure is now adj
mitted, mixing there with the hot gases,
and forming the working mixture for
use in the cylinder. This mixture, be-
ing at high pressure, expands in the
cylinder, which, after the former has
done duty in effecting stroke Of the
piston, is opened to the exhaust, and the
spent mixture allowed to escape.
For single acting engine, one mixing
chamber is said to suffice. while adouble
acting engine requires at least two. in
each of which the process takes place;
but the chamber or chambers to supply
actuating fluid to one end of the cylin-
der, or of each cylinder, must be sepa-
rate from those that supply the other
end. in order to allow ample time for
the process of cleaning out, drying, fill
ing with hot gases, admitting steam, etc.
New York Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-22

admired and applauded as the Teutonic is
today One is soon to be broken up and
of the other it is announced that she has
made her last cruise. The latter is the
once famous sailing frigate Constella-
ton. She was the second vessel COM
pleted for the first regular American
navy, having been launched at Balti-
more Dec. z, 1897. There were sixteen
stars on the flag she few then. Now
forty-four dot the azure of the banner
that tosses in the breeze above her an
cient but sturdy decks. Her builders did
their work well, and the excellent con-
dition of her live oak timbers shows that
they designed the vessel ''on honor"
Ard what a record the Constellation
hast During the Mediterranean contests
of 1905 she was with Decatur's squadron.
Then through years of peace she cruised
the waters of the world and was every
where declared the finest battleship
ahoat. When the civil war broke out
she was chasing slavers on the African
coast. After taking part in that strug-
gle she was sent on a mission not of con-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-22
How a King Kecns Cool.

Although one may not keep cool, it is
some satisfaction TO read how others
manage IL. There is the king of Siam,
for instance. He is said to have in one
of his country palaces a, wonderful pa
vilion. 1t was built by a Chinese engi-
neer as a refuge for the king during the
extreme heat of summer. The walls,
ceiling and floors are formed of pieces of
plate glass an inch thick They are so
perfectly fitted together with a trans
parent cement that the joints are invis-
ible and no fluid can penetrate. The
pavilion is twenty eight feet long and
seventeen wide. and stands in the mid
die of a huge basin made of beautifully
colored marbles.
When the king enters the pavilion the
single door is closed and cemented Then
the sluice gates are opened and the basin
is filed with water Higher and higher
it rises, until the pavilion is covered and
only the ven-ilators at the top connect
it with the open air. When the heat of
the sun is so great that the water almost
boils on the surface of the freshest foun-
tains this pavilion is deliciously cool.
And this is the way the king of Siam
cools himself off in hot weather. 1t
sounds very delightful. Exchange.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-22

nous Stephen Girard owned her first,
and he started her on her career as a
whaler. In eighty years of seagoing tho
Rousseau had phenomenal good fortune
and cleared for her various proprietors
over 5000, ,0o0 profit. Here are some of
her recorded feats as "blubber hunter"
s 1887. Pacific ocean: returned Dec. 10,
lsi0. with 900 barrels sperm OIL
Aug. Z. 1876. north Pacific ocean; returned
Feb. I, ls49, with LOO barrels sperm and $50
barrels whale oil, and 7,000 pounds whslebone-
Oct. IL, 1853. north Pacific ocean; returned
July ), 1851. with % barrels sperm and 20 bar
rels whale oil. and $500 pounds whaleoone;
sent home on the voyage l2l barrels sperm oil
and G, ssS pounds whaleboae.
Now she lies, an abandoned old hulk,
in the Acushnet river at New Bedford.
Her DAYS of usefulness are over. Onco
she was queen of the icy northern seas.
Now she is discrowned, degraded and a
sleeping place for tramps. Swift footed
sailers like the Strathearn have succeeded
her. The Constellation has been retired
by modern improvements In warfare
and the creation Of the white squadron.
Among passenger boats the Teutonic Is
regnant. How long before she, too, will
become a back NUMBER
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-22

II is proper 10 remember that publishers
are the only class of business men who's.
sins. real or imaginary, come into iifsrs-
ture. Their clients have the ear ~ the
public and sometimes Of poslerity. and are
likely enough 20 assume that the details of
their personal concerns ard eTievancrs ars
as interesting % their readers a. they usaY
have been important tothemseives II tho
complaints against lawyers, baakers. ply
sicians and merchants ou tle part ~ their
respective clients, were iu like manner
from time % time put into literary form.
the misdesds u publishers wonid. IN ccul-
parison. sink into absolute iusi znincznoe.
Why should anthous. presumably q
adult age snd sound minds. plead tbs
baby art" IN regard 70 their contracts t0r
their failure 70 make oontracts) any ru0rs
than the clients Of lawyers, arcbItssfs Or
stock brokers4 Persons who. whether
through their own bad fndgn1enE or
through the wrong counsel of taeir afi-
visers. pay more f0T their hODssbulld.Bg
than they bad intended %. or who fnd
themselves losers instead of winnars IN Ifi-
cation or in financial speculation. do roe
burden the public with fbeir cgmpiaints.
and II they did would certainly - lsuRhsd
At for their pains.-Georgs Haven PutBsm
Ia Forum
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-22
A Point for snhnrhanites.

A few DAYS since there was published
the particulars of case on the Little
Miami railroad wherein Mr.. Waters de-
clined to pay his fare, having neglected
to place his commuters ticket within his
inside pocket for the convenient refer
ence of the conductor. The train was
held for quite fifteen minutes for him TO
get off. He did not get off and the train
men did not put him of. It IS under
stood that the conductor has since been
discharged; but that is not all of it. The
commuters out along the line have been
talking about it ever since, and not long
after the occurrence two Camp Dennison
citizens became so excited II reviewing
it that they came to blows aud had to be
drawn apart by mutual friends.-Cincin-
nati Commercial Gazette.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-22
THREE OCEAN QUEENS.
TWO ARE DIscRoWNEo, AND A THIRD
HAS ATTAINED SUPREMACY.

The Wonderful Speed Developed by the
Teutonio on Her Last Westward Allan.
tic voyage-old Time Records of the
Constellation and Rousseau.
One morning recently the great passen.
ger steamer Teutonic reached her dock
at New York city and was hailed queen
of the ocean. She had "broken the rec
ord" by making the distance between
England and America in days 16
hours and 81 minutes. No human device
save the cables electric spark has up to
date traversed the Atlantic so swiftly,
and consequently the Teutonic wears the
crown until it shall be wrested from hel
by moro powerful vessel
While this great triumph of marine
architecture was racing westward there
swung at their moorings, where they
still doze in the lassitude of old age, two
vessels that were in their time as much
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-22
The Notorious Ruzzard Gang.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. "Buzzard gang"
is anything but poetical name. There is
nothing of the Claude Duval style about
it, but to the people of Lancaster, Dauphin
and Lebanon counties, in Pennsylvania, it
is terribly significant, for the gang had its
headquarters in the Welsh mountains
where the three counties corner, and for
many years the Buzzards were accused of
every crime done within fifty miles.
The recent letter of Abe Buzzard to
Colonel A. X Mcclure (an uncommonly
well written letter., asking the colonel to
intercede for Abes pardon, has stirred up
the people of the Welsh mountain vicin-
ity and set them to retailing anew the
atrocities of the family. There were six
Buzzard boys--Martin, Jake, Ike, Abe,
John and Joe. Their father was soldier
and died in the service. Their mother
married again, but still went by the name
of Mary BuZzard, and the people relate
that when she worked out around the
country she took the kids with her and
they stole for the family kitchen"
Be that as it may, Mary was sentenced in
1867 to six months in the Lancaster county
Jail for larceny, and in a little while Mar
tin. John and Abe were with her. Scarcely
Qau GuSy DcCu 0lSCHdEEcQ WucH AUop JAM
and Ike were arrested in a lot, and there
after arrests and escapes followed in rapid
succession. Abe soon gained the title of
"The Terror of Welsh Mountain" He
was hard to catch and harder to keep. At
length all the boys and several other pris-
oners escaped in batch, and then 81. 600
reward was offered for Abe, who was un-
der a thirteen years sentence for burglary.
While dozens of detectives were after him
he astonished the sheriff by walking into
his office and surrendering, announcing
that he had got religion.
He claims that his term was 10 have
been reduced nine years, as the principal
witness against him, one Mary Gooden-
derfer, acknowledged on her deathbed that
she had committed perjury, and that Abe
was not guilty of the particular crime for
which he was sentenced. His brother
Jake died in prison OF consumption An
other brother disappeared. The other three
have settled down to be hard working
farmers. And now Abe writes very able
and pathetic appeal for pardon y
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-22
An Automatic Wrapper.

One of the most ingenious and at the
same time practically useful among the
automatic machines which have been in
trodnced is a device which forms. fills,
weighs and seals packages in those es-
Establishments where large quantities Of
goods, such as fine cut tobacco, soda,
starch, etc, are constantly put up. The
operation by which this result is accom-
plished. though decidedly novel, is not
at all complex in any particular, the ma
chine consisting merely of a series Of
forming blocks, receptacles, folders,
gummers and feeders. all working in
mutual harmony, so that the packages
are smoothly and continuously produced.
The forming blocks succeSsively size
the paper, which instantly afterward
is wrapped around them, folded and
gummed at the end; the paper sacks are
then plunged into receptacles filed with
the commodity with which they are in
tended, finally folded on top and sealed.
New York Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-22

sure before night all these babies win be
drinking water. We have told her to
boil the water. put it on ice and then
give it to the baby 10 drink.
Looking up and down the street we
see that it is very dirty. Going over to
investigate a pile Of dirt, we see on its
uphill side a pool of stagnant water
which is almost green. Given hot
August day, peck Of garbage and the
universal dust, and we have a germ
breeding center. The people inhale this
air all day and all night.
| Looking around we see the houses that
need us most-dirty. filthy houses No
wonder the people camp out in the streets
all day-yes, and all night. We see a
group of mothers and children standing
at hall door They make room for Us
to pass. We stop to speak to them.
Noticing weary, white faced girl OF
about twenty years, and seeing child
cInging TO her dress, we ask her about
the baby, then about herself She tells
us that the baby is a year and half old,
still nursing Asking her if she does not
know that babies should be weaned at
nine months, the answer we receive Is,
yes, that she knows, but 1t does not hurt
it and it saves the cost Of buying milk
for the baby, for they are very poor.
DEATH N THE CELLAR
Out in yard we notice child about
three years old, with an old mans face
this face being characteristic Of rick
etts, that disease now becoming 50 COM
mon among poor people. This little ons
is busy eating an apple skewsred on
stick, and eating it as II 1t were its en-
tire breakfast; not dessert or any relish,
I but its whole meal In contrast % TINS
one and other dirty children. three clean
children attracted attention, and what a
contrast!
Our twenty minutes Is almost up, but
we can hardly tear ourselves away from
this gypsyiiss eneamPmsut. a last look
II them forces a smile. a. we see Ger
man housefrau with her BASKET OF lunch.
blanket and knitting. she mas evidently
come from an upper story 70 spend the
day On tEe sidewalk. IN trs bal ws
meet a pleasant faced. rnotherly woman.
she is evidently tns jznitresS- Ws AK
her about the Bumo oer Of families u the
house. children. plumbing. sckness. e;c-
We notice q distinct Oaor in tas cal
Wen try the cellar Sns lights ~ down
there, sud answers glioly a. our ques-
tiorA We zrs really ashamed % nave
suspected anything wrong y the cellar.
but the odor = = danger 1gaaI, which
Gays, Take heed. dzagsrl
We look ar0und the cellar: al clean
and dry. We are juss golag 20 lszTs
when we see = relieved look - her face,
and s1spsctiug a. Snce something wrong.
begin % ply aDor- from end 70 sad
Knocking on oae ED q t.se wall TTe And
i nos solid. bat t,szriss' A@ rsll
one of tne boa-sis aag au1 discover tee
tas are q fae aiss. I..srs les A. 'E.~
dergzau lake. fe5 f1c- lr sY-1s. q. b1s
~ AZ cd lsaE In f-ss EeHsFi Il.z. =.
le4gs. tee nutnoglsl~s can dsal wlth- We
:. ,ssrt tas czes - oncs.-&sw TDrk
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-22
It Felt So.

An Irish servant girl came to her
mistress one morning begging permission
70 go to the dentist to have an aching
"toot" filed, saying that it had been
going "thunpity thump, thumpity-
thumpT' all night
When the girl returned, her mistress
ssked:
well, Katie. did you have the tooth
filed"
'Oi did, num-"
What did you have it filed WITH"
''Oi don't know just phwat 1t was,
mum, but from the way it fales On
should tink it was t'under and loightning
he'd put into il. mum. m."-Youth's Com
panion
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-22

quest, but of mercy, and bore to the
starving people of Ireland cargo of pro-
visions. Later on she took American
exhibits to the Paris exposition, and last
crossed the ocean in 1880, to bring home
the relieved officers and sailors of the
Mediterranean squadron.
Now she figures on the list as the
practice ship of the Naval academy,
and has on board the first, third and
fourth classes of cadets Commander
Colby NJ Chester is in command, and
the other day he had as his guest at din
ner Nathaniel Richards, a retired sea
captain, ninety-four years of age. In
1921 Richards was master Of a whaling
vessel which went to pieces on the Chilian
coast He and his crew were made
slaves and put to work in the mines.
The captain escaped, got to Valparaiso
and was rescued by the Constellation,
which carried him home. The dinner
which took place at New London was in
celebration of the event.
Another vessel built ION honor" was
the bark Rousseau, launched at Phila-
delphia in 1900 Like the Constellation
she is of live oak, and was the boast and
pride Of the merchant marine. The IA
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-22

"THEY JUST GUESSED AT TEE DISTANCE. ="
for the harness-untl they had been wa
tered at the wayside trough-made up in
intelligence what they lacked in flesh. But
we do not care for intelligence in stage
horse-What we want is speed. Ifitis true
that the race is not always for the swift,
then stage horses would probably prove
more lucrative to their owners on any
race course than in the monotonous roles
they are now enacting.
Yet it is barely possible that their slow
ness was due to the indulgence of the
driver, who seemed a man of a considerate,
sympathetic turn. He seemed to have less
regard for the value of time than day
laborer, if his slowness goes for aught.
He would pause anywhere along the road
to chat of this and that with any one he
happened to meet In fact, the horses
would come TO a standstill of their own ac-
cord whenever they met another horse or
horses, and would fall asleep TO dream of
creamy clover fields, until awakened by the
whip coming in contact with their ribs as
with a xylophone. Here and there he
would stop to deliver or to receive a letter
to take to the postofice and sometimes he
would be called to halt by farmer whose
watch had "gone dead on him" the night
before, and who would set it according to
Milford time. At one part of the journey
he stopped at a farmhouse, where a girl
came out and handed him letter and a
paperbagfull of pink peaches. He staid
there a trife longer than at the other places
where he stopped, and seemed loath to con-
tinue, although he knew he was due at
Branchville at II o'clock. l thought / saw
him look fondly back several times, when
he turned around to ask me IL my blanket
was all right, and became more fully con-
firmed in this suspicion when 1 looked
down the road and saw the girl still stand
ing at the gate, as though lost in pleas
ant dream.
"These mileposts are not strictly reli-
able, are they2" asked, to divert him.
Guess they be-" he replied.
'Been surveyed, Isuppose?"
'No," he responded. ''they just guessed
at the distance"
1t seemed to me that they had given good
measure, unless, as l remarked before, tbs
gait of the horses made the distance appear
greater than it really was.
fought to see how they guide you out
west where / used to Live" remarked the
driver, as he picked fly neatly off the
neck of the white horse with the sienna
polka dots.
''How did they do it?" inquired.
"In looks" he replied. ''If you asked a
man the distance to some place he would
tell you eight looks. That would mean to
travel as far as you could see, which would
be one look. From that spot as far as you
could see would be two looks, and so on
until you had travelled the eight" When
we reached Branchville, which we did at
last, was really more weary than if had
walked, and the driver, accustomed as he
was to the tedious journey, was so IA
tigued that he had to take short run up
and down the road to rest himself.
r. X. MUNKITTRICK.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-22
WITH A HEALTH DOCTOR.
EARLY MORNING SCENES IN TENE-
MENT HOUSE DISTRICTS.

Half Starved Babes and Children That
Live on Decsyed Fruit and Nourish-
ment That Is WOrse-DeadIy Smells
Abound and How They Are Corrected.
Twenty minutes in one of the districts
of the summer corps of the board of
health will enable any one to obtain an
idea Of how the tenement house people
live. Imagine that you have accepted
an invitation to spend twenty minutes
with one of the summer doctors.
1t is hot August day, o'clock in the
morning. The air even at this early hour
is sitting. Are You surprised to find
life astir here? Remember you are in
the midst of the poor people, who begin
their days labor at 6 o'clock. Entering
our district, nothing escapes our eyes.
See this stand on the corner piled up
with fruit, beautiful to behold, suggest
ing a garden IN the tropics. But what
is that odor2 And this wee newsboy-
what does be want to buy?
Curiosity TO see what the child is go
ing to buy, also our duty impelling us
to discover the cause of the odor. hold
US moment. We see that he buys two
peaches for cent, and then for the first
time notice that the luscious heaps con-
sist of piles Of decaying fruit thrown
promiscuously Experimentation pears,
bananas and peaches: this rotten fruit
selling at two and three for cent. We
mildly accost the owner and tell him
such fruit is not wholesome; it ought 10
be thrown away.
He doesn't care" about the unwhols-
someness Of the stuff. We then show
our badge and make him throw 1t away.
We pass on thinking tnat We have saved
the lives of many children, an ounce OF
prevention being better than pound Of
cure.
Pushing our way We proceed II -
really pushing our way. for the street Is
lined with mothers. each holding a baby
in beT arms, w.rR another dragging On
to her skirts some are sitting On the
stoops, SONS in tre areas and others on
the curbstOues, III fact they are ali over.
Suddenly we hear piaful wall from
little baby. We snow what that means
it means thar the baby Is thirsty. The
mother also THINKS sas knows Sne
gives il the breast The poor baby, after
clutchiag II eagerly ard taking many
swallows. releases i and again cTles thaE
same piHfal. forlorn wall
BLESSED wATER-
Can any one D. ignorant that nothing
cau auench thirst nut Water Milk l.
poor substitute. Here y a chance 20
give q private lecture. and presently &c
ara telling the raOsher tnat the baby
needs water % quen-a rs thirst; the hos
weatAer makes Il sweat a soO2 deal. u
Loses a greas dezl q water and 20 nesas
great deal. 4 passing Ics wagon fur
nisaes s<-ap q ice II does one e1oiSa
10 see now eagerly baby ssscks - Iais
mother lives Il house. y mere tlere arc
sftesa other uao3nsrs, and asking heF 20
tel TIE otherz. We wax Gw&y fues.zz