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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-12

Col Guy v. Henry, chairman committee on
reception Army Of the James, requests the
members Of that committee to meet at the
Lemon building. 1923 New York avenue, Tues
day night, O'Clock. Full attendance IL de-
sired.
Chairman John Joy Edison Of the citizens
executive committee was not at headquarters
today. He1eft the city on Saturday afternoon
viii return this afternoon shortly. after 4
o'clock
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-12

his WIG, young woman OF tQls CITY, ana the
only one of her sex In the party, and number
of scientists and others. among whom were:
Prof Angelo Heilprin, Prof. Benjamin Sharp
and Prof j. F. Holt, biologists; DIR. W. E.
Hughes, ornithologist; DR.. W. II. Burk, bota-
mist; l.. W. Mengel. entomoiogist; DR.. RObt. N.
Kelley, surgeon; Frazer Ashhurst and Alex
ander G. Kenealv.
The Kite, In which Lieut. Peary and his party
sailed, is a stanch little craft l171S feet long
over all, 26 feet inches beam and II feet hold
She is $50 tons net, has 5O-horse engine and
can steam seven and one-haH knots an
hour. When she sailed she was sheathed with
heavy timber as protection against ice.
Early in July Lieut.. Peary had the mis-
fortune to break his leg. While at Peary's
headquarters, latitude n degrees IS minutes
north, on July 80. DR.. W. E. Hughes special
correspondent of the Press, wrote: ''It is the
deliberate opinion Of all our party-and this
opinion is fully Endorsed by all the officers Of
the Kte-that unless a relief expedition be sent
to Lieut.. Pearynex summer he and his party
will never be seen again alive" 1t was on the
day DIR. Hughes wrote this Prof Heilprin and
his party set sail for home, leaving behind them
Lieut.. and Mrs. Peary and four companions,
having previously erected a house Of boards
and tar paper for Peary and his companions
It was 20x12 Inside feet and feet high. Prof.
Hcilprln left with Peary coal and provisions
sufficient to maintain the party sixteen months.
Prof. Heilprin and his party returned to
Philadelphia early in September, 1891, having
been gone q few days less than two months.
Efforts we're made almost Immediately to raise
fund sufficient to pay the expenses Of a rescu-
ing party, and they resulted successfully. On
June "a Inst the steamer Mirpy.ia sailed from
New York for st. Johns with the relief party,
consisting Of Prof. Angelo Hsilprin, com
mander; Henry @. Bryant, FIRST mate; n w.
Stokes, sketching artist; william g. Meshan,
botanist; C. 4. Hite, taxidermist; DIR. Jackson
NJ. Mills, surgeon; Albert W. worse, staff cor
A.~ 80 81 G. II 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-12

anu arLstc wOrkmans nip Will be dlstr1Outed TO
all members. Those who have not as yet regis
tered will receive a royal welcome.
The reunion committee of the nineteenth
corps will meet tonight at the northwest corner
Of Pennsylvania avenue and 18th street at Z 80
O'Clock. All residen: comrades who belonged
ment Of the gulf cordially invited to be
present tonight and become members Of the
committee and aid in perfecting arrangements
necessary for the success Of the reunion.
The third corps will hold a meeting at the
Ebbitt House this evening at O'Clock. The
badges will be ready for distribution, and every
comrsde who wore the diamond il urgently re-
quested to attend the meeting tonight, 90 as to
complete the final arrangements for the reunion
of the corps.
Other meetings announced for this evening
are the eleventh. twelfth. fourteenth, twentieth
and twenty second corps ut the Ebbitt House
md the sixth and ninth corps at the Riggs
House.
A meeting Of the engineer corps has been
called for tomorrow evening at 7:S0 in the red
parlor Of the Ebbitt House tn complete ar
rangements for the corps reunion.
THE RoruSDA RECEPTION.
The ladies' committee held q largely attended
meeting on Saturday afternoon, Miss Barton
| presiding. Several Of the various subcom-
mittees made reports full Of important
| details One: topic came up which
| brought about q general discussion and
placed the committee in possession of useful
information on u very delicate question. AL
Of Washington and pretty much all Of the
United States has heard about the national
reception which will be given in the
rotuH.is Of The Capitol on the evening
OF the 18th 1t viii be the dres'
parade of our coming guests, and just at the
lime when everybody is feeling the best Well
| the thrill of pleasure embodied in this an.
nouncement has been SO general that the do
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-12

Capt. \. A. Thomas, chairman Of the COM
mi:tee en- Illumination, said 10 STAR reporter
today that t'Ie committee was esq ecially desrous
.! securing She hearty co-aIssratiol OF the pub
III ia nE,kiE; the ll.m;na:oTy portion Of the
display success.
''.fE!s eau best he 6one." said Capt. Thomas.
''by giving the darkest possible background.
Ne wan; the glare and the ziitter and blaze in
tho st-ee:. ask all pers0Hs residing on Penn
Sylysn:a HsSnGe between 9Th sad 18th streets and
on 18th street from Penn syiyaaia to New York
avenues to ESQ as httle ins.ee Illumination al
possible between the hSurs Of Z and ~ 2. m.
next week j. tbs pt5l;c viii aid Us 70 this
extent / am satisfied the features We have
planned viii be thoroughly successful and
satisfactory"
The Republican., 1892-10-14
Live Stock on the Tracks.

Statistics showing the number of cat
tie killed on the tracks by trains would
show a startling array of figures and so
would those showing the number of
wrecks caused by striking cattle. Sew
eral years ago a passenger train struck
a drove of horses near Anderson, on the
Bee line. There were sixteen in the
drove and four were killed outright,
while nearly every one of them was
more or less injured. Not long ago a
freight ran into herd of cattle. The
engineer tried to stop, but could not do
SO. The result was that he killed seven
head. On the next trip, being desirous
of ascertaining how many he had killed,
he kept a sharp lookout at that partic-
ular point While he was looking out"
he ran into flock of sheep and killed
ten. There are many instances where
an engine has slaughtered a whole
drove of animals and stayed on the
track, and again when striking a single
COW has caused wreck and death. En-
gineers say they, are more afraid of
sheep than any other animals. They
cluster around the bell-wether and it is
almost certainty that some of them
will get under the wheels and cause an
accident. mule never leaves the track
unless he is knocked off or the train
stops. He will run until exhausted or
ovcrtaken and will kick at every Jump.
Horses, too, do not like to leave the
track and hogs will simply wait to be
hit. it.-Indianapolis News.
The Republican., 1892-10-14
MID THE ROSES.
How They Buried the Woman Who Had
Suffered So Much I'm Life

How They Buried the Woman Who Had
Suffered So Much In Life.
''She had the grandest funeral ever
saw" said Aunt Emily, as she threw
aside her Grape and united her bonnet.
She had just come from the sand hills,
where, on the sunny southern slope,
that afternoon we had laid McGluder's
wife to rest.
81 remember we'll when ,Saral mar
ried McGruder," went on Aunt Emily;
sit is most twenty-five years ago. She
had dozen beaux, believe, ard could
have married any one of 'em, out she
chose John McGruder; and. to say the
least, we were all surprised"
HE never did much for her, eh?"
Sarah used to be very pretty, and
we all thought that she was 50 happy.
She was one of those women who
would take years of abuse and never
say word. He was drinking all the
time"
1T is sad"
"He seemed to prosper, toA But he
was a man of stone. He tsed to let
the children run barefoot and half
naked. Once went over there in the
dead Of winter and found Sarah crying
without fire and half starved, al
though she never would acknowledge
it. 1t was pitiful to see her try to
make both ends meet. She used to do
her best to make her children look nice
and neat. We all wanted to help her,
but she was too proud"
'"There are such women, aunty."
''He was too miserly to live half de-
Gently. During her last sickness. the
doctor called twice. She kept saying
she was getting better, in order,
know now, TO keep down the expense"
'She was buried to-day, aunty?"
"She was buried to-day. Land sakes,
it was the grandcst funeral you ever
saw! There must have been hundred
dollars worth of roses and other ex-
pensive flowers out of season. He had
wide Grape band on his hat. The
children all wore new clothes. There
was nearly half mile of hacks. The
casket must have been worth fully
three hundred dollars or more. There
were the grandest flowers in the
church you ever saw. The preacher
told all about her sweet home life and
of the great grief of the indulgent
husband, and then the music swept
forth sweet and low, saying as how
there was rest over there. was sit.
ting in the gallery, but no one saw me.
| couldn't help thinking if she could
only rise from the dead, wonder what
she would say"
Have you ever met McGruder?-Once
Week.
The Republican., 1892-10-14
1t Makes n Difference.

A few days ago an elderly gentleman
and his wife came down the street to-
gether.
A lady crossing the street fell down.
The old gentleman rushed to her assist
ance and helped her in every possible
way. When he returned to his wife she
shook her fist at him.
"It's all right, it's all right" he whis-
pered.
Yes, know it's all right" she re-
piled hotly. "Here's an unknown
woman falls down and you plough
across the street to help her, and the
other day fell down stairs and you
wanted to know if was practicing for
a circus. boston News.
The Republican., 1892-10-14

see? Here was a well-dtessed and
prosperous-looking man holding out his
hand to him and bidding him welcome.
And it was Tom. That was the funny
part of it.
"Come, father" and he led the old
mzn away to a private parlor and
closed the door. Don't sou know me,
father? should have known you any
where"
"Yes-but it's SO strange" gasped
the old man.
Tom laughed good-naturedly.
''Oh! you mean that am not what
you expected to find? Well, hardly
judging from early indications; but,
father-I must say it" and the young
mans eyes grew moist. 'All that /
am owe 30 my mother"
"God bless her, Tom," heartily re.
sponded his father. Then, after a
pause: Can you forgive me, my son,
for my harshness?"
There is no more for me to forgive
than for you," returned his son. Il
have lived all these years to learn, and
think may safely say now, that 1
am an honest man. This house is
mine-and, God willing, 1 mean in the
future to be an honor, not disgrace,
TO the old home"
So, after all, Deacon Chandler's op-
portunity was wasted one, for now
there was no need of any effort on his
part in his sons case. The opportun-
ity had come TO him in his sons youth,
and he had neglected il.
AS it happened, everything had
turned out right, but the chances for
that had been so few, and for another
and more painful result so many, that
he could only thank God that He had
taken into His own hands the success
full working out of Deacon Chander's
opportunity.-Agnes L. Pratt, in Good
housekeeping,
The Republican., 1892-10-14
MRS. MINIS FOLLY.

When Mrs. Minis boy was born, the fated
lady sighed,
Fer she had no handsome legacy to leave him
ere she died.
But, to compensate for riches, she resolved her
49,. son should shine
In the incompatible splendor of O name superb
ly fine.
She had read impaseioned fiction with enthusi-
astic zest,
And she named him for the heroes dear to r
romantic breast;
Some engaging for their virtues some more
charming for their sins;
Dudley Stormciiffe Byron Beverley ST. Julien
Warwick Minns.
head preeminence
And that sentiment should govern her. instead
OF common sense;
For the lads baptismal honors, posted DER q
barber shop,
Proved a barrier to his fortune, and to poverty
prop.
His uncle was rover of bold, ambitious
cast,
And the golden dame he courtcd amply smiled
on him at last:
For in Africa the genius OF his strange ad.
Lee him into the possession OF some dazzling
diamond mines.
But he scarce had viewed his triumph when a
paroxysmal chill,
Left him just eleven minutes TO cxtemporize
his will;
And, the last and lone survivor OF his race, his
dying care
Was 10 nominate his nephew as his sole and
rightful heir
So he marshaled all the forces left in his ex-
hausted frame
In desperate endeavor to recall the strip
lng's name;
But the awful seven-fold mystery was too in.
tricately tied,
And the unsuspected illionaire, alas intestate
died.
Cautioned by this tale, good parents should
from vanity refrain,
And neer label their dear babes with names
not memorably plain:
For poor old village barber would not now be
shaving chins,
Had his injudicious mother wisely called him
William Minns
John Ludlow, in Puck.
The Republican., 1892-10-14
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A kings word is as strong as his
army.-Ram's Horn.
Ferguson says he wishes the law
that compels the saloons to shut up at
12 o'clock applied to his wife.-Bing-
hamton Republican.
-Ted-"rm afraid you didn't enjoy
the dance last night Left early. eh?'
Ned-"No; had splendid time. Dollie
and l sat on the stairs. IN. Y. Sun.
Timely Warning. Slayer
"Well, believe 1 must be going" Miss
Weery-''Perhaps you had better. The
signal service predicts rain for to-mor-
row."-Kate Fields Washington.
-He-"When a girl yawns l take it
as hint to go, no matter how early the
hour" She-''I've wondered how you
managed to make so many calls in an
evening. N. Y. Herald.
Proof of the Pudding. g.-Jacll-"What
makes you think my girl is not an
actress?" jerry drummer for dia-
mond house)-"The genuineness of the
gems she wears. .''-Jeweler's Weekly.
-Pater-''Emmeline, there are ru-
mors about. Come, now, is there really
anything between you and that good
for-nothing Jack Tallboys?' Emmeline
Yes, pa; but its only you. Tit Bits.
-Wife-"Donald, do you see those
two dreadful looking men? They act
as though they are fixing some horrible
plot" Donald-"Theya are, dear. II is
one for a summer opera Inter Ocean.
--Lady-"What! never read Dantes
Tnferno'?" Gcnt--"Ah! my dear madam.
what with my wife, my mother-in-law,
and seven bairnies, haven't felt to re-
quire til Monde Umoristico.
The Reason Why.-IIc-"lf you
didn't love me, why did you marry me?''
She-"Well, when you proposed you
said | was an angel and I'd heard that
people should marry their opposites. -
Demorests Magazine.
did you send for me?" said the
family physician. "Yes," she answered.
81 want you to see my husband. u
"Where is hep" "In the library, writ
ing poetry" "Hum. l see. Same old
bilious attack. ."-Washington Star.
Rev. Mr.. Prolix-"How did you like
my discourse last Sunday, Mr.. Fogg?'
Fogg-"To tell you the truth, was
not altogether pleased with your prem.
ises, but was delighted beyond meas
ure at your conclusion. ."-Boston Tran.
script.
-Maud-"How was the surf this
morning, Ethel?" Ethel-"Not very
pleasant. The water was full of dis
agreeable particles" Maud-''Indeed
What kind-fsh and sticks?" Ethel
"No; dudes. "-Harper's Bazaar.
He Understood. Miss Mamie las
her father returns from the otfice)-"O
there you are at last, you dear, sweet
old thing" The Dear Sweet Old Thing
mo you don't, Mamie. You had a
new $50 hat only two days ago and now
you've got to wait awhile. Chicago
News Record
The Engine of Civilization.-Sub
Editor-"The owner of the paper was
in here to-day" Editor-in-Chief-'In
deed! Did he ask who wrote that stir
ring editorial on The Problem of the
Hour" S. E.-'No He didn't men
ton the editorial page" E. l. Cob
Wanted to compliment us on our i'm
proved new service, suppose?' S. E
a-'He said nothing about that" E. l.
Gle didn't? What in the worlt
did he say?" S. E.-''He asked how
many Want advertisements we had.
-DemOrest'S MAGAZINE
The Republican., 1892-10-14
August
Flower

81 am happy to state to you and
to suffering humanity, that my wife
has used your wonderful remedy,
August Flower, for sick headache
and palpitation of the heart, with
satisfactoryresults. For severalyears
she has been a great sufferer, has
been under the treatment ofeminent
physicians in this city and Boston,
and found little relief. She was in
duced to try August Flower, which
gave immediate relief. We cannot
say to much for IT," L. c. Frost,
Springfield, Mass. %
The Republican., 1892-10-14
SHORT DAYS.
A Remote Past When the SUMS Course Wa
Run in Five or Six Hours.


Run in Five or Six Hours.
AS the evidence of the earth's crust
proves that our globe has lasted for in
calculab BILE ages, it becomes of interest
to think how far the gradual elonga-
ton of the day may have attained sig
niicant proportions since very early
times. 1t may be that even in thou
sand years the effect of the tides is not
sufficient to alter the length of the day
by so much as a single second. But the
effect may be very appreciable or
even large in million years, or
ten million years, or hundred
million years. We have the best rea-
sons for knowing that in intervals of
time comparable with those l have men
toned the change in the length of the
day may have amounted not merely to
seconds or minutes, but even to hours.
Looking into the remote past, there
was time at which this globe spun
around in twenty-three hours instead
of twenty-four; at still earlier period
the rate must have been twenty hours,
and the further we look back the more
and more rapidly does the earth appear
to be spinning. AT last, as we strain
our gaze to some epoch so excessively
remote that it appears to have been an
terror to those changes which geology
recognizes. we see that our globe was
spinning round in period of six hours
or five hours. or possibly even less.
Here then is a lesson which the tides
have taught us; they have shown that
if the causes at present in operation
have subsisted without interruption for
sufficiently long period in the past,
the day must have gradually grown &c
its present length from an initial condi'
tion in which the earth seems TO have
spun around four times as quickly as il
does at present.-Good Words.
The Republican., 1892-10-14
SHAKING OFF TRAMPS.
How Southern Conductors Deal with Dis-
honest Negroes.


honest Negroes.
The conductors on southern railroads
are greatly annoyed by tramps, most
of whom are negroes of the indolcnt
type of that race. One night on train
ON what is known as Sunset route was
a typical southern conductor, who had
been u brigadier in the confederate
service. His train had been stopping
frequently between stations. A north
ern traveller, who was becoming
nervous, asked the general what was
the occasion. This was the answer:
"Niggah tramps infest the trains
down here very badly. They don't
wait for the train to stop. They are
used to jumping on trains when the
trains arc running at high speed. They
throw themselves with wonderful
dexterity on the rear platform and
quicker than can tell You they swing
themselves under the car and get a
lodgment on the aXles of the car. The
only way to get them off is to stop the
train and hunt them out Sometimes
we have to shake them off, same as
you have to shake a coon from a tree.
If we catch them before they swing
themselves under the car, though, we
don't stop the train then"
What do you do with them then?"
Just drop them, sab, while the train
is in motion. Sometimes wait till we
get on down grade and then we let
them 60"
"Do you not sometimes kill one by
that sort of thing?"
II never stop a train to see, but, as
we are never summoned before any
coroner's jury, low we don't. Mighty
hard to kill a niggah unless you hit
him with the front edge of locomo-
tive. e."-Chicago News.
The Republican., 1892-10-14
One Way of Telling the Time.

81 can always tell the time by looking
at the people who pass my store door" "
asserts a Chestnut street merchant.
In the early morning the workingmen
GO down; about $50 the clerks and type
writers form the crowd. From $3.50 to
1880 the solid merchants, bankers and
millionaires appear, and then up to or 4
o'clock the shopping army of women are
in the ma jority mingled with the dudes
and men of leisure The solid men next
appear on their way home; the clerks and
office people follow at ) o'clock, and from
to the workingmen and girls walk up
the thoroughfare. ."-Philadelphia Press.
The Republican., 1892-10-14
The PoiGt of View.

Employer-You have asked for an in
crease of salary, but l have been think
ing of taking you into the firm. In that
case would Tou want the increase of
salary, too?
Clerk-O. no: under such circum-
stances 1 should be rigidly opposed TO
any increase in our running expensea-
Truth.
The Republican., 1892-10-14

Ask your doctor what hap
pens to cod-liver oil when it
gets inside of you.
He will say it is shaken
and broken up into tiny
drops, becomes an emulsion;
there are other changes, but
this is the first.
He will tell you also that
it is economy to take the oil
broken up, as it is in SCOTS
Emulsion, rather than bur-
den yourself with this work.
You skip the taste too.
Let us send you an inter-
esting book on CAREFUL L1v-
ING; free.
ScoT'r s. BowNE. Chemists, r3a South sth Avenue,
New York.
Your druggist keeps Scou's Emulsion Of cod.ver
oil--all druggists everywhere do. 81.
The Republican., 1892-10-14

"A Leap Year Smack-"Give me a
kiss" she whispered. What will you
put up for it?' he asked, with true busi-
ness instincts. MY lips" she responded,
and he accepted the collateraL-Detroit
Free Press.
The Republican., 1892-10-14
ELY'S
CREAM BALM

/ Isuftred from ca
tdrrh II years. tn,
droppt'tgs into III,
throat acre ndusedt
ing. Nv nose bleC
almost daily. Sine,
the first day use Of
Ely'S Cream Balm
haze had no b,eedinq.
the soreness is e1i
tirely gone. b. G.
DdUidSon, tcith tn,
Boston Budget.
The Republican., 1892-10-14

Put Him OF. -Conductor-"Fare." "
Passenger, looking out of the window
NO, it's raining. detroit Free
Press.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-03-25

After n fair translation of its old
French body, 'aver," into English,
only horse" is found, and the word
becomes "horsage." The change
tends to confusion, but mono tho less
"horSago" and average" arc iden.
teal, since in the old time French au
aver was horse. 1t was also a
horse in tho Scotch dictionaries, and
in one Of Burns poems, "a Dream,
he alludes to horse us u "noblu
niver"
In oldon times in Europe n tenant
was bound TO do certain work for the
lord Of tho manor-largely in carting
grain and turf-horseworls, and in
the yearly settlement Of accounts the
just proportion OF the large and small
work performed was estimated nc
cording TO the worl, done by "avers'
(hoNcs); hence our common word
average. Golden Days.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-03-25

jerome X. jerome, the Jolly young
Englishman who has blooincd into sue.
cess as playwright and author. says hc
means some day TO have chair built on
purpose for him. In order to get Il to
III him exactly he moans 10 sit down in
u mass Of damp clay 80 us to leave tho
oxactimprint Of his seated body. Then no
will roll about in tho clay and move from
sido to sido till no hollows out n space
largo enough TO IL his every mood and
movement. After this Is dono. by means
Of springs. wood and upholstery no will
have a precise reproduction of this hole
in tho clay made for him. Then he will ut
Ia tho reproduction and DO comfortable.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-03-25

Quconsland, Australia, has taken q
bold step in prohibiting immigration.
Uniil the large number Of unemployed
workingmon already in tho colony arc
provided for, Queensland will permit no
more immigrants to land upon her
shoroa Thus history repeats itself, for
this was tho policy Of China before west
ern nations forced her TO open her ports
to trade and foreign people.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-03-25

Tho exterior Of buildings "a now
cleaned by tho sand blast The front Ia
covered with staging, and tho blast 10
applied by u systom Of pipes and rDz2les
cnrlcd by tho worlgncn. The stream
OF fine sand issuing from u nozslo re-
moves q layer Of i,Gi inch thick frotn
Tho surface Of tho stono, Gnd square
foot Of surface Gun DO cleaned IN ton
minutes. Tho sand can DO employed
over again.-London Tit-Bits.