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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-16
AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN.
Many Items OF Interest From West
Washington Sources.

Many Items of Interest From West
Washington Sources.
Several of the young gentlemen Of town
who will shortly shine in the social world
gave a charming dance last night at Linthi-
cum Hall. Messrs. Irving Tickling and
Clarke Waggaman were the prime promot-
ers of the affair. They worked zealously
for its success and were fiattering.y reward
ed. Some of those present were Miss Med
ing. Miss Littlepage. Miss Brown. Miss
Beaumont, Miss Orndorn, Miss Cropley
Miss Browner, Miss Trenholm. Miss Tucker
Miss Morgan Miss Lightfoot, Miss Richard
son, Miss Foster MIR. Appleby. Mr.. FickIing
Mr.. Hunter, Mr.. Hassan, Mr. kleinschmidt
Mr.. Cropley, Mr.. Bradley, Mr.. Ryan, Mr..
Leetch. Mr.. Libbey, Mr.. Tanner. MIR. Keen,
Mr.. Colt, MIR. WEIGH, Mr.. Waters, Mr.. Lay,
Mr.. Petz, Mr.. Carroll, MIR. Thompson. Mr.
Robertson, Mr.. Brennan, Mr.. Haggaman
and Mr.. Evans. Mrs. Thomas L. Wagga-
man, Mrs. William Waggaman, Mrs. Tucker
and Mrs. Trenholm acted as chaperones.
Mr. Fletchall. a resident Of the county
and former superintendent of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio canal, is dead.
On Thursday last Miss Sarah Fuller.
daughter of the late Wilson Fuller. died in
mains will be received in Georgetown this
afternoon, and inferred at o'clock in Oak
Hill cemetery. The Rev. Dr. Graham, pas
tor of the Congress Street NJ. p. Church,
will officiate.
Notes.
Mr.. w. ]. Gill Of 32OS p street is lying
quite i'll at his home.
During the week ending Saturday, the
10th. the following entries were received
at the Georgetown custom house: House
hold effects, Sl.5SS; cigars. $63S; preserves.
s576: silver ware $751; seed. SAB; furniture.
$500; earthen ware. 1878. and wine. Sl84.
Total, 4,2GO. -#
A new coal company, with a capital of
s1,0OO,OOO was yesterday chartered to ope-
rate in the Cumberland region, This, some
of the low tariff men~say. does not look
as II the capitalists thought the reduction
of the duty on the imported article would
work the ruin of the coal industry.
A plank sidewalk, made of the old flooring
of the Aqueduct bridge, is being laid on
the Canal road from Beth street to the Fox.
all road.
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Holiday Excursion Rates via Penxnyl.
vanfa Railroad.

The Pennsylvania railroad will issue
round-trip tickets between all points On its
system east Of Pittsburg and Erie. except
united railroads OF New Jersey division and
Downtngtown and Lancaster bnandh, II
rate Of two cents per mile distance .oavel.
ed. These tickets will be on sale De<embes
z to Is. inclusive, and December . b Jan
uary 1, inclusive. good TO return unts Jan
uary 3. 16o4-Advt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-16
A PUBLIC MEETING.
IL Will BE Held Tuesday for the Re-
lief Of the Poor.

The Commissioners today decided to issue
a call for a public meeting at Builders Elk
change Hall for next Tuesday evening at Q
O'Clock fer the purpose Of adopting q COM
prehensive plan for the relief of the DOOR,
Everybody Is invited to be present and in
vitations are extended to the representa-
tves OF each charitable organization In the
city to be present Rev. DIR. Sunderland
called upon Commissioner Ross this morn
ing and outlined a plan for relief He re-
Exchange Hall for the meeting and eK-
pected large and enthusiastic garhseing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-16
A Worlds Fair Permanent 4,

The handsome bank and Offices and bust.
ness desks made for and used by the Amer.
lean Business Colleges In their lvine ex-
hibit at the worlds fair have arrived a.
the Spencerian Business College and make
the business practice hall one OF the hand
soonest in the country. In this hall on FRI
day evening next the students OF the coll
lege will give an entertainments Ter the
benefit OF the Sea Island sufferers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-16
d A Down COMFORT
D
For the Xmas Gift.
Holiday Dress Goods.

II eedued
bargains in
domestic Hundreds of
terms for Holiday Gifts : ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-16

MY FRIEND. LOOK HERE! YOU KNOW HOW
weak and nervous your wife Is, and you know that
Carriers Iron Pills will relieve her. Now why
not be fair about 1t and buy her box?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-16

Their moreters are very inexpen-
sive. but they make splendid presents
that Will Be appreciated by cid End
youns alike. You can tie on . few
ribbons il you like. and they make
rrstty and useful ornamental
stnoor .............---....lst annex.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-16

IF YOUR BACK ACHES. OR YOU ARE ALI
worn out good for nothing. II is General debility.
strong. cleanse your liver and give 8 good sppc-
tte-tones the nerves.
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Corrox DREss PATTERNS.

4
AT &c. THE DRESS PATTERN.
Very Best Calico.
AT sl.OO THE DRESS PATTERN.
Choice Bingham.
AT 81 Is THE DRESS PATTERN.
Choice Chintzes and Percales
AT $3.50 THE DRESS PATTERN.
Best Figured Chintzes
AT 81 so THE DRESS PATTERN.
Best American Gingbams
AT $3.50 THE DRESS PATTERN.
Best Scotch Ginghams.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 10th ST. bldg J
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-16

IF THE BABY IS CUTTING TEETH BE SURE
lows Soothing Syrup for children teething. Il
soothes the child. soften: the gums. allays all
diarrhoea. twenty-five cents = bottle. myi-1y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-16

WOODBURY'S FACIAL SOAP FOR THE sKIN
scalp and complexion. All druggists. Tho re-
suit Of 20 years experience treating the ska 4
book on Dermatooyy with every cake. oco-ly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-16

Iemsire's Best Glasses. white and
oriental pearl Inountinrs 81 to $40
. Lemaire's Glasses. black morocco
a. so to o. 90.
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Are Marked at Reduced Prices.
CHOICE GIFT ARTICLES.
I'm Optical Dept.

For the ladies an Opera Glass il an
excellent ri e.
The free press., 1893-06-01
New York Central Railroad uses 10,-
900 different forms of envelopes. -
New York Sun.
Experiences With Lions:

Mr. Selous, having spent twenty
one years in Africa, has returned 10
London from Mashonaland. Mr.. Sc
1ous confessed that he had killed 100
elephants and twenty-five lions. His
best lion story was about mail cal
rier in Mashonaland. The man in
question was riding one horse and
leading another, which carried the
mails, when the lion made his appear
ance and his spring. The latter de-
moralized the mail completely. One
horse was bowled over, the other
broke away without its rider, and the
mail carrier very naturally lost all in
terest in the mail.
The lion did not succeed in deiain-
ing either of the horses Cthey turned
up next day at the fort, one very
badly wounded and without the mail
bags), so he returned to the unfortu-
nate carrier. Him the lion treed and
then sat down at the foot of the tree
to await developments. Fortunately
for the carrier they did not develop
entirely as the lion could have wished,
for the next day a caravan passed and
the lion stalkcd away into the bush,
doubtless with an increased contempt
for the refinements of civilization.
The mailbags were not found for
months afterward.
care lions fond of man meat"
"No," said Mr.. Selous: "they pre-
fer donkeys. think the donkeys re-
mind them of zebras. They have no
distaste for horses, but they will at
tack human beings. l once knew a
lion to walk into camp where l was
staying and walk off with one of the
policemen. Pve brought his skin
home the lions. think it is in that
corner-nO, it isn't. l remember l
have sent it away to be cleaned"
"Lion hunting is dangerous, isn't
it?"
'It depends. One learns to run
fewer risks as one gets older. When
I wound lion now, let him go.
When | was younger. l used to go
IA fter him. l shall do SO 10 more
London Graphic.
The free press., 1893-06-01
When Niagara Ran Dry.

"The Niagara Falls are dry. There
is so little water running over them
that one can walk out on the bed of
the river to the very verge of the
preclpicc." Bishop Fuller was the
speaker, and he said those were the
words OH every ones tongue one day
foriy-five years ago.
lie said he did not witness the spec.
tace himself, but that his brother-in-
law, Thomas G. Street, Esq, did and
told him of it next day. There were
many others who saw it also, for The
river bed above the falls was, COM
parativcy speaking, dry for whole.
at happened in this way" explained
the bishop.
The winds had been blowing down
Lake Erie, which is only about so feet
deep, and rushing agreat deal of water
over the falls and suddenly changing
drove this little water up to the western
portion of the lake, and at this juno
ture the ice on Lake Erie, which had
been broken up by these high winds,
got jammed in the river between
Buffalo and the Canada shore and
formed dam, which kept bac!: the
waters of Lake Erie for day.
Mr.. Street told me that he and his
daughter went out TO the edge of the
prccipice about one third of the way
from Table Rock toward Goat Island,
and planted pole, with the young
lady's handkerchief firmly tied TO it,
in a crevice of the rock. He said that
below the falls the water was so shall
low that immense jagged rocks stood
up above the surface.
This statement is amply verified by
Hon. l.. Il. Allen of Buffalo, Henry
Bond of Chippewa, Welland county,
Ontario, and James Macklain ofsthe
same town. The two latter make af-
fidavits of their statements. - New |
York Mail and Express.
The free press., 1893-06-01
Friendship of a Canary aud Rat.

Mrs. Bert Atherton of the Fulton
House has a canary bird and a white
rat which afford great amusement fol-
herself and other guests of the house.
The bird possesses considerable talent
as a songster, and oftentimes when
Mrs. Atherton has company Dicks
cage has TO be darkened in order that
the conversation may proceed. Dicks
greatest joy, however, is 10 ride upon
the back of the white rat, and when
they are turned loose III the room he
Immediately takes his position upon
Femv's back and insists upon being
carried about the room. Should the
rat stop to eat peanut thrown to him
by his mistress, Dick will flap his
wings, scod, and peck the back OF
Femy until she makes another circuit
of the room.
Miss Rat does not always take
kindly 10 this manner of treatment,
and on one occasion became so angry
that she bit off one of the little yellow
fellows toes. Dick, in consequence
of the loss of this all-important men,
ber, was confined to his cage for
number of days, and, like a human
invalid, was fed upon the daintiest
dishes the market could afford. His
four-legged companion seemed to
miss him very greatly in her morning
romps, and when the warbler was
again able to be about, showed every
evidence of desire TO renew friend
snip with the bird that she had SO
wilfully wronged. Dick granted her
his pardon, and yesterday afternoon
they gave one Of their old-time enter
tainments to number of admirers
rSan Francisco Examiner.
The free press., 1893-06-01
-. DARBY Says to JOAN"

= the SUMS a power o. heatl
Sss, ". .ap's a-running strong
las lasosd I'd in with the boys a bit
% Ssa,e as | come along;
iDs,s' ~.lin swamp was budded thick
r's aS now and then one blown
s,.ed couple in my hat
,.nrby says to Joan.
IrcIb have the cattle out to grass
S,ne ' Paas-day, I'll be bound;
L.,bow the creeters stamp ana low
+. saon NJ As they smell the ground?
!, lime to rake the gardin OIL
and set bonefre goin';
ban out the beds to suit ye' wife
4, Darby says to JOAN
! = seems wuth while, a day like this,
Je. to ha' wintered thru;
1 fse the sun clear to my SOUL
Old as be, I do.
hebby it would look awkward-llke
To get to Heaven alone;
|, MI as lives stay on spell'-
A. Darby says to Joan.
,Tou amt forgot the old side porch,
Rack whar the grapevine hung?
!, = ,bint folks didn't court and kiss
When me and you was young!
u, such another likely day
The parson made us ONE
As bitching up his chair bit,
Darby says to Joan.
-DOra Read Goodale, in Independent.
The free press., 1893-06-01
NO. 81.
- -
Mother LOfe.

Out of the sun of the land of love
Soft, radiant beams e'er glow.
They ly from the Father heart above
To the mother heart below.
And there they abide for evcrmore,
The symbols of love divine.
The old world glows with the amber
CLEANS
OF th' love rays from atove;
The dead soul wakes from its formless
dreams,
To know that God is lore.
The mother heart like the father heart
With love is glowing ever.
On, who can sing of this love divine,
Or tell the wondrous story
OF the mother hearts that ever shine
With Gods own potent glory?
No earthly love is half so pure
As the gentle mother love.
mo the child may sin, the mother love
Can know no shade of turning;
The mother-heart like brooding dove,
Will never cease it's yearning.
The world may spurn and the world
may loathe,
But mother love is changeless,
Oh, mother love, Gods tenderest gift,
The cold worlds saving leaven!
1t holds us fast when our soul would drift,
And pleads our cause with Heaven.
All other love may wither and die,
But mother love 10 deatblass
-[William Smith Morris.
The free press., 1893-06-01
HUMOROUS.
Hard to Beat-A boiled egg.

Hard to Beat-A boiled egg.
Wantcd-A lid for the trunk of
tree.
If you'd look spruce in your old age,
don't pine in your youth.
Why are policemen like the days of
men? Because they arc numbered.
"When is a woman not woman?"
"Well. when is il?" 'Nhen she is u
mai clerk"
Miss Snippt-Men are such fools!
Miss Darley-Ah, who has proposed
to you now, dearP
A Chicago detective is announced as
having caught a smile of incredulity
on a listeners face.
Mrs. Grumpoy--Can You tell me
why talk is cheap? Grumpy-Becau'e
women make nearly all of it.
elbow is your little brother? Like.
ly 10 get wel?" ooh! yes; he got
his first thrashing today since his i'll
ness"
"Now," said the nervous man, as he
took out the clocks striking appara-
tus, "we will have nice, quiet
time"
Inquiring Child-Papa, why do
people cry at weddingsP Papa Cab
stractedly)-Most of them have been
married themselves.
A philosopher being asked what was
the first thing necessary toward win-
ming the love of woman, answered
-"an opportunity"
This" said the boy whose mother
turned him over to his father for pun
ishment, ais one of the evils of paren-
tai government"
Bicker- Why do you run out to
your farm so often; what is there on
the place TO absorb your interest
Dicker-A big mortgage.
The young lady who burst into tears
has been put together again, and Is
now wearing hoops to prevent re.
occurrence of the accident.
Rosalie-George and are engaged,
and lie gave me this beautiful engage
ment ring. Unice-I m so glad. II
didn't really fit my finger last year.
81 consider the old colonel very
libel al man" ''ln what way?" ain
money matters. He has only one leg
und yet he pays ten cents for a shine"
"IIow do you like your alarm
clock?' asked the jeweller. First
rate" "You didn't seem pleased
with it at first" "No. But it's broke
now"
"When n woman," says Mrs. Part.
tington, "has once married with
heart and one that beats
responsible to her own, she will never
want TO enter the maritime state
again"
He-Snppose, darling, | was one of
those husbands who always come
down late in the morning and then
grumble because the coffee is cold.
She Well, dear, l should make it hot
for you.
A German prince, when introduced
to an Englishman, by way of appro-
priately commencing the conversation
observed; at is bad weather today"
The Englisllman shrugged up his
and replied: "Yes, but it is
better than aone.'
The free press., 1893-06-01
A FAULT REDEEMED.
BY WILLIAM THOMSON.

In Livingston county, Michigan,
ere is a small, land-locked lake, not
bed on extant maps, but locally
bown as Whalen lake.
One Sunday morning, five summers
., Willie johnson, the 14-year- OLD
bn Of farmers widow living near
. lake, said to his mother after his
lille chores were done:
"MoIher, Johnnie Porter and ALI
bqtes (neighboring boys about his
vlg) are going in swimming to-
fW Nay | 60 along?
"Hsl my son." replied Mrs. John
m "lou know that l don't much
hSunday sports, but l suppose you
hpdo need good wash after your
Feks work in the harvest field, and
fyuu'll promise to merely 7 take a bath
lOs to shore and then come straight
Nne you may 60. But don't forget
ourselves.
"0h, no; we'll be very careful.
f0'her, and not get into danger. Be-
(de, we're all good swimmers" re-
Plned Willie, and with goodby kiss
le scampered glecfulIy away. while
" mother, already half regretting her
'Ccslon, looked after him with a sigh.
IN reaching the lake he found his
'omradcs waiting for him and in pos
e''lon Of a small boat, to which they
Fers hitting oars, while similar
faft lay alongside.
""hy, boys" inquired William,
where did you get the boat? My
l'iher didn't gave me leave to 90
4i'ns, and promised that we'd Just
IKE a good bath, and not run into any
anger"
'on, It's all right, WILL" explained
0Au Porter, "the skiffs belong to
'u'e nshermen on the other side of
~ axe They've gone to the village,
'p0se, and we're going to borrow
~ one for a little while and have
'me fun"
les" broke in Alfred Hughes,
well nave a good time. Jump right
; VIII, and we'll row out to the
auie OF the lake and take something
ie SWIM
""'ie Johnson rather demurred at
!" extension of the programme, but,
= 'nAe' allowed himself to be over
'u' ana the three thoughtless
'a"ss'ers were quickly afloat. The
'er' though deep to the very shore,
:" 'aiooth as a mirror, and SO won
''y ciear that the pebbly bottom
u'a w' be every wheE plainly seen.
= ane boys, shouting and laughing
- ueight. pulled out to a spot
'u' Three hundred yards equi-distunt
'' either bank, and then Ali
'snes proposed that they should
'"O' 'he boat, undress and swim
'' "hen, If too tired for a return
y 'hey would take the other skif
: % recover the first and their
'lhes.
pan was enthusiastically APP
s''u or and, dropping the little
0 poys threw OIL their scanty
'"'S and plunged fearlessly over
ard.
), see who'll touch the land
!. cried Johnnie Porter as the
= s"stenlrg forms rose to the sur
cc again.
III ''ght'' yelled the others. and
A0 struck out at his best speed.
The free press., 1893-06-01
oeing done for the unconscious suf-

being done for the unconscious suf-
ferer.
Meantime a swift footed messenger
has been sent to Mrs. Johnson's and
the distracted mother arrives to find
her only son apparently beyond all
human help. Not sob, nor murmur.
nor complaint does she utter, nothing
to disturb the work in hand; but with
fearless eyes and pale cheeks lends
herself to the doctors, and with an
enforced calmness sadly belied by her
bursting heart.
Minutes passed away, a quarter, q
half hour has gone, and yet there is no
sign of returning life. John and Alf
arrive, and without unwonted solemni-
ty seat themselves in an outer room,
awaiting in awe-stricken silence the
dread verdict which to both seems in-
evitable.
But the skilled physician, man Of
large experience in such cases, works
steadily on, never despairing, yet dar-
ing to whisper to the self-repressing
mother only vaguest words of hope.
The labor is hard and the perspiration
pours down the coed mans face as he
tries by alternately pressing and re-
leasing his patients chest and raising
and depressing his arms to restore the
action of the lungs. Nearly an hour
has glided by, and still the beautiful
clay lies there inanlmate as a marble
image. A portentous hush, profound
as that of death itself, prevades the
room; the tensely drawn nerves of the
voiceless praying woman-the wild
owed, perhaps childless, mother-be-
gan to give way. All seems in vain.
Her darling, wiltul, loving boy is cer-
tainly dead and she-she is hencefOrth
alone. Is this, then, the end of four
teen years tender care? Blessed be
His name, no; for, see! there is new
look in the doctors watching eyes.
He bends still lower, lays his ear close
to the boys heart, places his long,
white fingers on the pulse, and says
oh, so reverently the simple, life
giving words:
"IIc is savedV'
Then, tho long pont-up w"ters or
an ice bound fountain are released by
the springtime sun, the blessed tears
gush from the happy mothers eyes,
and with an inarticulate cry of thanks
giving she sinks TO the floor, weak
and helpless as newborn babe.
When she has regained some measure
of strength, her boy has passed through
the paroxysm of pain incident to re-
turning circulation of the blood and,
as she presses her lips lovingly to his,
lie whispers those two touching words.
to which no true woman has ever yet
since the creation of the world turned
deaf ear: "Mother, forgive !"-and
the lowering angel of peace, we may
well believe, scars heavenward with
the glad tidings that a repentant and
redeemed soul is lent for while
longer to earth.- New York Adver-
tlser.
The free press., 1893-06-01
His Mental GRASP.

Georgie-"Auutie, what does irony
mean?"
Auntlo-"It means 10 say one thing
and mean the opposite, like calling IA
rainy day a fine day"
George-''I think | understand you,
auutic. Wouldn't This be irony,
'Aunlie, don't want a nice big piece
of cake. , -[Iiarper's Young Peop.c.
The free press., 1893-06-01

The emerald is now one of the
rarest of precious stones.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-10-20
American Railways.

Owing to the vastness of the territory
covered, and the great mass of statistics to
be gathered and summarized, the annual
reports of the International Commerce
commission are always delayed in their
preparation and publication, and the
annual statistical abstract for the year
ending June 80, 1892, has only just been
made public. From this report we learn
that the railroads of the United States
cover III, ,563 miles, owned by 1922 cor
porations and employing S21, ,415 persons.
Probably not less than three millions and
a half of people, or about one-twentieth of
our whole population, are supported by the
wages paid by American railways. The
total number of locomotives in use June
30, 1892, was 33, 1876, of which SS4S were
passenger locomotives. The total number
of cars reported by carriers as their prop
erty was / 1,215, ,092. OF these 966, ,99S were
in the freight service. In addition to the
cars owned the companies report LAG, ,339
cars leased. These figures are exclusive of
cars owned by private companies and leas-
ed to shippers.
The gross earnings of the railways for
the year ending June 80, 1892, is placed at
the enormous sum of S1,171, ,407, ,343, and
the net earnings at 1890, 409,347. No less
than 5GO,95S,2 ,211 passengers were trans
ported during the year, and 705, 300, All
tons of freight were hauled. The number
of passengers killed in 1892 was 376, as
against 293 in 1891. The number of pass
engers injured was 1927 in 1892, as against
2972 in 1891. The number of railway en-
ployes killed during the year was 2554, be-
ing less than the number killed during the
previous year. The number of employees
injured, however, was greatly in excess of
the number injured during the previous
year. being 2S, ,267. OF the whole number
! killed 37S met their death while coupling
and uncoupling cars, and 1O,310 received
their injuries in the same way. These
last figures show the urgent necessity which
existed for the law providing for the use
of automatic car couplers on all interstate
railroads, which was passed by the 52d
Congress in response to President Harri
sons urgent and repeated recommends
tions in his annual messages. The time
will come when the needless slaughter OF
railroad men, under the present system, o.
lack of system, will be locked upon as {
relic of barbarism.