Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-22
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OF disease has upon the public mind" said
| Egbert Sutton of Rochester at the Riggs
| House last night, cannot be better exem-
plif1ed, believe, than by the introduction
OF what may DE termed a preventive of
| bacteria poisoning in the celebration of the
hottest sacrament of the Christian Church.
You have doubtless heard Of the agitation
which has been going on in northern cities
over the question Of individual communion
cups for the use Of the faithful who par
take of the sacrament. instead of passing
a single large chalice around and letting
each communicate take a sip of it's con-
tents. DR.. Forbes of my city has been one
of the most vigorous agitators Of the re-
form. In his examinations of the contents
left ir the large communion cup after it
Lad been used in the service he found var
ious sorts of dangerous bacteria in what
was deemed threatening quantities. AS a
result of his researches the North Avenue
| Church of Rochester a couple of Sundays
ago used individual communion cups for the
| first time DR.. Love, the pastor, announced
| before the communion service was begun
| that the change of administering the wine
In individual cups had been made in order
10 reduce the chances Of conveying dis
ease from person to person, and that he
tnousht the service would be no less digni-
ned and solemn than when the single chal-
the conclusion Of the service DR.. Forbes
made microscope examinations of a num-
| Der OF the cups and discovered that the
contents left in them as well as the edges
oI the cups themselves were rema rkably
Tree from anything like dsease-spreading
germs l believe the other Rochester
ehurGnes are going to adopt the system,
ana nave little doubt that it viii spread
seheraiiy throughout the north. How are
the individual cups served, you ask? At
tne North Avenue Church 25o Of the ar
ticIes, L Deheve, were purchased, and into
each or the number required on the Sunday
IA question was poured a small quantity Of
the communion wine. The people sat in
their seats, and the elders came forward
ana were provided with silver trays, upon
winch dozen or so of the miniature Guns
We're placed, and were then distributed
through the congregation. The service was
very simple. and l was told that over 200
Ioss tSnn h. received the sacrament in
Tess IMAM haif an hour, or as quickly as
would nave been the case IL the single
chalice had been used
Every now and then an American news
Paper editor gets hold Of an English journal
ana discovers in its columns some remark
apie eHhipltion OF ignorance relating to
events IN the United States" said A. ].
Christafson Of Steubenville, Ohio, at the En-
pltt Rouse last night. THE way the edit
torial quill is thereupon slung in superior
criticism over English pieheadedness 60
something wonderful to behold The En-
ghsh brother who, by some means or other
mas drtfted into the newspaper business
across the water is held up to scorn ana
derision in the first three or four nar.
graphs and then dismissed with a remark
TO the effect that the insular preiudices Of
the average Englishman prevent him from
even SO much as endeavoring to familia rize
himself in simple primary degree with
Things American. Now here is a little elm
ping which comes from a western journal
OF May the 9Th just past. 1t led of the
nrst column of the first page, and this Is
the way it went:
CoXEY GOT IN.
DETERMINATION OF CONGRESS TO
IGNORE MR. COXEY
is SOMEWHAT SHATTERED BY To.
DAYS PROCEEDING
MAKES AN ADDRESS
10 CONGRESS ass TO-DAY TOP, f,o on THE FLOOR
ON THE SUBJECT OF THE INDUSTRIAL
DEPRESSION.
Now, venture to say that nine-tenths
OF the average readers OF that paper,
mean the readers who are not familiar with
! the laws or rules which govern the Com
gress of the United States believe firmly
that this man Coxey succeeded in address,
| ing the Congress of the United States upon
mis- Utopian scheme. / have seen many
similarly ignorant and misleading an
nouncements in the papers of this country
and just thought would show this to the
hrst newspaper man ran across, in order
to let him know that there is a mote in the
eye of the American editor as well as a
beam in that of his English brother"
'You may educate an Indian as much as
| you please. carry him through all the
| higher branches and fairly steep him in
moral philosophy, but you can't eliminate
| the spirit of revenge from his make up."
! said Harry Gibbs of Seattle at willard's
yesterday. The Indians of the Puget
| Sound region, and who are scattered all
I nd
| lumbia, are known under the general name
| of 'Siwash.' and are. for the most part, en-
gagged in fishing or agricultural vacations.
| and have long since lost the martial in
| stinct that once was strong within them
| Nearly all the hops that are grown in the
| great northwest are picked by these SiwaSh
| Indians. and many communities of them
are well off and closely follow the customs
| of the whites.
"A great many of them, too, have been
| taken in hand and fairly well educated. but
| the eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth
law is strong among them. An incident of
this characteristic occurred recently in Ore
gon. About twenty-five years ago a kla-
math Indian was foully murdered by three
others, who departed for another portion of
| the northwest. The murdered man left an
infant child. boy about a year old, and a
squaw. When this boy was about eleven
years of age his mother died and he was
taken charge Of by some white persons,
who became interested in his brightness
and sent him to school He was an apt
scholar and learned rapidly and he did so
well in the primary branches that his edu-
cation was continued. At nineteen his stud
les ceased and he was given employment as
a tally keeper at one OF the Columbia river
fisheries. Ii was remembered, after the oc-
currences that l am about to relate took
place, that the young Indian was continu-
ally making inquiries of one sort or another
of every visiting Siwash who happened TO
reach the neighborhood. At last one day he
threw up his position and disappeared With
in the next two weeks three old Siwash In
dams were found killed i'm three different
sections of the Puget sound country. 1t
turned out that they were the murderers of
this young Indians father, and that from
his infancy to the time she died his mother
had devoted herself to instilling into his
mind the idea that ii was his holy duty 10
avenge his fathers death. and the spirit
that is shown in that young klamath In
/ dian is strong in the heart Of every one of
Them and l believe will always remain So"
I'VE had great time Gown on the excur-
sion of the Society of the California Pio-
neers last week." said one of the partici-
pants, after swearing the corridor man to
secrecy regarding his identity. to a group of
loungers in the Arlington lobby last night
AS the afternoon wore on the aroma of
planked shad began to spread its insidious
Inspiration through the atmosphere, and
apetites grew keen in anticipation of the
feast that was In store for their delecta-
ton 1t made some people reminiscent
The first time l ever ate planked shad."
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