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The evening times., 1895-09-04

The Commissioners were waited upon
this morning by delegation representing
the Union Veteran Legion, with a request
for their corporation in the effort to Sc.
| cure the holding of the national encamp-
ment of the order in Washington in the
year 1896.
The next encampment win meet Octo-
ber 10 in Buffalo, N Y, and the request
Of the gentlemen who called was that the
Commissioners shall signify as the head
OF the District government the wishes of
the people In the matter. This can be
done In Qny manner that the board may
select, but the suggestion was made that
a letter OF invitation be addressed to the
Buffalo encampment.
The delegation was received by Com
missioner Truesdell, Maj. Powell being
engaged and President Ross having been
Unexpectedly summoned from the city.
Mr.. Ross was seen, no wever, prior Ia his
departure. and expressed decided in
terest in the matter, stating that he would
indorse the action of his colleagues In
the tender of an Invitation.
AGREE TO THE REQUEST.
Gen. NJ. B. C. Wright presented the
matter to Col. Truesdell, and was folio wed
by Capt. Whitney and Col. C. E. Trout
man.
The Commissioners received the delegation
most courteously and promised that an in
vitation should be sent, as requested.
The national encanIpment represents near
ly $4,000 members with subordinate en-
canipments in every State in the Union.
The national body comprises about $4,000
members, and its assembling generally at
tracts thousands of strangers to the city
that entertaius it. 1t is expected that if
a meeting is held in Washington the at
tendance will be much larger than ever
before The order has in the United States
about $50 subordinate encanpments
INVITED THIS YEAR.
A invitation was extended by the Com
missioners last year for the encampment
of 1895 tO be held here, but owing to the
fact that Washington had candidate for
the office of national commander, with,
incidentally, a bid for the headquarters,
the matter was not pressed the Washington
comrades expressing themselves as salts
fled with the elevation of Gen. Tanner tO the
chief position.
1t will b. different this year. The national
commanders place will, in the natural
course of events, be filled from some other
section, and Washington's chance for Sc
curing the national encampment are be-
lieved to be excellent.
The delegation was composed pf national
officers and members of local eacampments
as follows:
From national headquarters. Gen. n. B,
c. Wright, adjutant general; Col. Charles
E. Troutman, assistant adjutant general;
No. 80, Capt. N. N. whitney,
Capt. P. ]. Duffy and Gen. Joseph C. McKib-
ben; Eneampment No. 23, Col. Andrew
Geldes and Capt. o. D. Thatcher; Encamp-
ment No. III, Past Col. James r. Fritts
and Col William T. Piefson.
The evening times., 1895-09-04
0PPENHElMER'S
5l4 Ninth st. N. w.
sPoFFoRD MAY EXPLAIN.
Personal Statement Is Expected From
the Libra rian.

Personal Statement Is Expected From
the Librarian.
For the first time this year Librarian
spofford yesterday paid his employees in
funds allowed by the Treasury Department,
instead Of from copyright fees or private
applied in settlement of accounts has been
regarded as sufficiently satisfactory as to
again justify the recognition of salary
warrants.
As stated in to-day's Morning Times,
Chief Clerk Logan Carlisle Believes that
the papers transmitted to the Department
by Librarian spofford will not be made
public; also that the report of Expert Myers
will be committed to the Earchives with
out further notice. The only reason for
varying this programme viii be the dis
covery of something requiring the actor
of the Department of Justice.
Should the Treasury Department
not choose to make known the result of
the investigation it is probable that sir.
Spofford himself will make statement
in his own behalf. 1t 10 likely, too, that
there will be Congressional inquiry as
to how the premature reports regarding
the investigation got into the newspapers
In regard to the euit brought in St. Louis
by Mrs. Jessie Beattie Thomas, wife
Of ex-Congressnan Thomas, of Metropolis,
ILL.,, against music publishing
firm for failure to copyright
two of her songs and the allegations Of the
publishers that they had forwarded the
necessary copyright fees to the Librarian
of the Conversational Library and held
his receipt therefor, Mr.. Spot
ford said the fees in question
had not been received aud he had, of course,
given no receipt. Claims of like charac-
ter were occasionally made and he had had
trouble before with the firm which is now
being sued.
The evening times., 1895-09-04
Minor Thefts Reported.

The following robberies were reported to
the police this morning:
Isaac G. Thorne, No. 1711 New jersey
avenue northwest, lost an open-faced gold
watch while i'm the National Union Building.
James A. P. Crisfield, No. 2O23 street
north west, gold buckle with diamond
setting.
stolen from the house while living at No.
225 street northeast, a lady's gold
watch, gold link fob chain, pair Of earrings,
three gold rings, and twenty unset pearlss
Mary A. McGraw, No. 113 D street
northwest, lost a number of packages Of
cigarettes, several pounds of candy, and
sixty cents In money from her store.
The evening times., 1895-09-04
Killed a Mad Dog.

Policeman Frank B. Kelly, of the Eighth
precinct, yesterday killed dog near the
corner Of Thirteenth street and Florida
avenue that showed every symptom of ra-
bies. The dog entered house and was
swapping at the occupants, then ran into the
street, swapping at every one and frothing
al the mouth. Kelly seized the animal by
the tail, threw him into the air, and be-
fore he reached the ground the policeman's
true pistol had ended its hfe.
The evening times., 1895-09-04
Graudsops Her PalIbearers.

The funeral of Mrs. Violet A. Abel,
widow of ]. B. Abel, register Of Wills
in St. Mary's County, Nd, was held this
morning from the residence of her son-in-
law, w. N. Dalton. No. 1905 Vermont
avenue. The deceased was SO years Of
age. Nine children survive her.
The body was taken to the Church OF
the Immaculate Conception, and thence
to Glenwood Cemetery. Six grandchildren
acted as pail Il-bearers-Messrs. W. Burns
Dalton, Frank H. Beall, Thomas Riley,
william Riley, Tabor Quinn and Eugene
Dewant.
The evening times., 1895-09-04
Elected New officers.

At the eighteenth annual session of the
supreme grand council Of the order OF
Benevolent Sons and DaaghtersnfA Abraham,
held Monday, September 2, 1895. officers
for the ensuing year were elected as fol-
lows: @. A. Berkley, W. g. c.; J. T.
Matthews, W. g. v. c.; @. d. EydDor,
W. G. &. g.; R. 3. Burnett. W. g.. F. g.;
Thomas Gill. W. g. T.; B. B. sydnnr. ". g.
prelate; George Wills. W. @. G. NJ; q.
Gather, W. g. assistant marshal; D. T.
Trovess, W. G. prosecuting attorney.
The evening times., 1895-09-04
Cavalry Band Concert.

A number of citizens of Washington and
Georgetown yesterday visited Fort Myer,
where the Sixth United States Cavalry
band gave concert. John Luchsinger
acted as chief musician. Several selec-
tions were rendered, among which was a
march by Boegeholz entitled "Almas
Temple, in honor of the local organization
of Mystfc Shriners
The evening times., 1895-09-04
Found war Relics.

Seven large cannon balls were yesterday
added 10 the collection of curiosities be-
longing 10 st. Elizabeth Insane Asylum.
They were dug up by workmen excavating
near the asylum wharf The balls weighed
from 200 TO 500 pounds each. Just such
cannon balls as these were fired In practice
during the late war from the ar1enal point
directly across the Eastern Branch.
The evening times., 1895-09-04
SCIENTISTS GATHERING.
Meeting of the Medico-Lesal Congress.
at New York.

at New fOrk.
New York, Sept. 4.-The Medico-Legal
Congress, which convcnes in this city to-
day has attracted great number of lead
ing scientists, lawyers and physicians, not
only from this country, but from Europe.
The sessions of the congress will be held
in the United States court, in the post
office building. 1t will continue until the
night of September 6, when a banquet
will be rendered the visitors at the rooms
of the Press Club by the Medico-Legal So
ciety of New York.
The committee of arrangements having
charge of the congress consists OF Rastus
3. Ransom, chairman; Clark Bell, George
Chaffee, Hubbard E. Mitchell, Moritz Ellin-
Phelps.
The evening times., 1895-09-04
WE HAVE MOVED
Condition of the Water.

Temperature and condition of the water at
8 a. m.: Great Falls-Temperature, 73; con-
dition, SO. Receiving reservoir-Temper-
ature, 79; condition at north connection,
SO; condition at south connection, &C. Dis
reservoir-Temperatur 70; con-
dition at influent gatehouse, So; effluent
gatehouse, SO.
The evening times., 1895-09-04
M. Ron. CalIed AMay

President Ross, Of the District Board
Of Commissioners, left the city last night
for Lewistown. H., in obedience to tele'
gram summoning him to the bedside of bis
led father, who II seriously III.
The evening times., 1895-09-04
THEY WILL Be INVITED.
Local Union Veterans Laying
Plans For 1886 Convention.
COMMISSIONERS AID ASKED

Delegation From the Society Waits
Upon the Board and Requests That
a Formal Invitation BE Extended
to the Order TO Meet In This City.
Mr. Ross Favorable.
The evening times., 1895-09-04
Receipts Of the Treasury.

The receipts from internal revenue to-
day were $1S7, ,929; from customs $3.50,
$50. and miscellaneous $41,O01. The ma
tional bank notes received for redemption
to-day amounted to $160,62S.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08

there is nc wagon road near it's borders ii On the north and east. Fair 6ralls lead to Marcy's summit, and the climb and view are among the finest in the world, the eye ranging over uncounted miles of forest never touched by the axe. over distant lakes like silver and nearby tarns of ebony in their emerald seAing. The best approach to Marcy is by way of Keene valley and the Au Sable lakes.
 On the northwest the Cut preserve is joined by the Ampersand preserve, which includes the third of the three most beautiful lakes in the woods, the Ampersand pond.
 Beautiful 1 fear 1t will remain not much longer. When 1 came through that way worlrmen were turning the course of the Ampersand brook, now crooked as the flight of a blossom-seek- ing bee, into straight canal for the better floating out of logs, now trunks of trees which bear aloft the waving green that clothes the lake, unscarred by the axe. The state may intervene to prevent this ruin. There is no more pressing need of immediate interfer- ence anywhere in the woods than here.
 Every body has heard about Dr. ". Seward Webb's great Nehasane park. Webb is a Vanderbilt son-iR-law, and has built railroad through the woods connecting with the New York Cen tral. For fifteen miles this road runs all the way through Webbs land. He has private railroad station at Nehas- ane lake, and every foot of the way his railroad is shut in with high wire fence to keep the deer from getting on the track and being run over. They occasionally do this in spite Of the fence, but for the most part they simply come and poke their moist brown noses through the wires and gaze on passing trains with placid wonder in their big, soft eyes.
 This is one public value of the pre- serves. The deer multiply. They are far more numerous all through the woods than they were ten years ago. They know when and where they are safe. Dr. Webb hasn't the least idea how many there may be on his two hundred square miles of forest, lake and mountain. There are thousands, without doubt But if there were mil lions the doctor could only shoot two in one year himself. That's the state law on preserves as well as off them. At this rate, the guns of all his friends couldn't keep them down, and they will increase and keep the state lands outside stocked from the overflow.
 The guides say the deer know when the law is ''up'' in the middle of Aug
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08
Russlan Intallacf

We make great mistake in regard ing the Russians as allied in character to European civilization; they are es- sentially Asiatics, and lack the power of initiative that alone insures prog ress Such IS the main thought ex- pressed by Eberhard Krauss, the edi- tor of Nord and Sud, Breslau. Ger many. Neither in literature or in art. he thinks, have the Russians the creative, self-impelling power. They receive occasionally an impulse from the west, which passes off and leaves them as barren as before. Besides, so we are assured, civilization moves in very limited circles in Rus, sia- The nobility, amply reeompensed for the liberation of the serfs, squan- dered their millions in Europe and learned something of western thought. The bourgeoisie in the large cities come into contact with Europeans through western artisans, teachers and mer- chants. But the majority of Russians remain in utter darkness. despite the periodical efforts of their rulers to raise them to the level of their western neigh bors. St. Louis Republic.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08
ROYAL GAME PRESERVES
Held by Lairds of Vast Estates in
 Our Northern Highlands.
Private Railroad Station and Un- counted Thousands of Deer Nit. Marcy Stands in
 Preserve.
COPYRIGHT. 1895.


 The morning dew and freshness were on the changing wane as we stepped brislxly along perfect road, winding mp among whispering trees dappled with the early sunshine, and playing at hide and seek with the river that raced and tumbled past. The guide, one of that tall. lean, bronzed type to which nine-tenths of the Adirondack pathfinders belong, strode ahead, bending beneath a well-6lled pack basket, but doing his three miles and a half an hour, with the practiced wood mans long, springy step.
 Presently another man as much like him as one pea is like another came up to us from behind with sudden whir like the beating of partridge's wingsi for he was mounted on a bicycle. With out word he tossed our guide can of condensed milk, turned and shot down the hill again, vanishing almost in- stantly behind turn in the road.
 "I guess they thought I'd forgot the milk. said the guide. dropping the can over his shoulder in his pack.
 But do the guides have bicycles?" l asked
 Most of 'em do, this side the woods, B said he. i've got one myself, only I thought it wouldn't look well for me to be ridin' mp to the lakes, if you was goin' to walk.
 For delicate courtesy commend me to the sailor of the sea or the cruiser of the woodsi
 Most of the guides live down in the valley,a he went on. "The roads are good all the way down, an up through the reserve to the lakes. Yes, it cost heap of money to build this road"
 It is nearly four miles from the gate of the Adirondack mountain preserve mp to that gem of the woods, the Lower Ausable lake. The way is perfectly free to pedestrians, as are the paths to a dozen mountain tops and cascade views; carriages pay a moderate toll. Those who enter the reserve are sub iect to just the same rules as its owners md to no others. And the rules are reasonable.
 No green tree must be cut. No new camp must be built without permission.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08

No gun must be fired. Those armed with permit may fish. The reserve maintains boats on the lower lake, which can be rented. The guides have their own boats, with which they row parties to camps on the upper lake. There are no camps on the lower lake, nor even path along it's shore. It is sheer cleft between the mountains, walled with living green, except at one spot, where an enormous landslide has painted it's yellow streak thousand feet down the mountain side.
 But for the jealous care with which it is guarded it would now be hacked, scared, burned and disfgured, as so many other lovely spots have been.
 It is barely possible that not all the owners of great forest preserves are so wicked as those may think who de- nounce them. It is possible that the gentlemen who own this thirty-six square miles of lake and mountain, who from even their own guns, and who give others the same privileges as them selves on their land, are not public enemies.
 Some land owners in the woods are not so conasiderate.
 The Mountain reserve is not very
 big one, ss such things go, but it con tains two of the three prettiest lakes in the woods, shoulder of Mount Marcy and nearly all of Haystacls, the next in height, and other great hills as thick as they can stand shoulder to shoulder. The president of the reserve is William G. Nelson, of Philadelphia a Philadelphian for a large and liberal public spirit, and the same city fur
 nishes to the list of members George c. Thomas and James ". Paul, Jr., both of the great Drexel house; Samuel Dick
 son and Byerly and Thomas Hart The
 Boston members are Charles II. Dalton, Gen. Alfred P Rockwell, Drs James
 and Charles Putnam and Dr. Henry Bowditch. New York's contingent in-
 cludes the Brooklyn philanthroplst, 1 William A. White, Theodore E. Starr, Robert 0lyphant, Robert w. De For est, William Alexander and Cornelius Doremus.
 There may be land hogs farther west in the woods; not, think, in this list. The peak of Marcy, or Tahawus, as the Indians called it, hoar and splin- tered, austere and gray, overloolxs the state from the Adirondack Club pre-
 serve, a domain more than twelve miles
 long and wide. This vast region is next
 to the Mountain Reserve in interest, but
 Is visited by few except members, as
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08

ust. A few days before that date they were making nuisance of themselves, stealing the farmers corn near Old Forge, where ex-President Harrison has been stopping this year. After mid-August the sly creatures took to the woods and particularly to the pre- serves.
 Webb's park includes more than dozen big lakes-lalzes, that is, each of which is more than two miles long but no mountains. However much deer hunters may curse it's wire fences and army of gar ekeepers, they will not annoy the seekers after grander scenery. They would pass it by in any case, as they would the big tract of the Adirondack League club to the south
 This latter tract is almost as big as Dr. Webb's, but untouched by the railroad. Mir. Harrison has been a ire quent guest at the clubhouse this sum mer, and Dr. Paxton preached before the ex-president and other distin- guished summer sojourners. on recent Sunday.
 So much out of ways of travel is the League clubs lands that few sight seers ever look upon them, and none except hunters are vexed at their l bounds. The case is different with the l eighty square miles or so belonging to l the Durant estate, which includes all of Blue mountain and most of the lake at its foot. Unlike the Mountain re- serve members, the Durants do not well come people to their broad acres on reasonable conditions, or upon any conditions at all, but put up the most unmistakable mo trespassing' signs, not only along the Eagle lake route, which is the only feasible enc through the woods from east to west, but on the Raquette river carries, which link | the northern and the southern wilder ness.
 Dr. Webb has deer and lakes; tile Mountain reserve people have noun tains. The Durants hold the thorough fares of the woods used by Indians and white men from time immemorial. On Blue mountain and Raquette lakes they maintain little steamboats which con vey passengers fourteen miles for one dollar and seventy-fve cents On the Raquette carries their wagons have monopoly of hauling boats across. There is money in the former; the lat ter is less profitable and a decided con venience to travellers, but many fear that some day there tnay be no thor oughfare, save to those who come with Durant tickets upon conveyances owned by the Durants. And this may be the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-08
A PLACE FOR SILVER.
How the Great Store in the Treasury
 Might Fittingly Be Used.


 Might FittingIy Be Used.
 The New York newspapers note Sbe insuflciency in that community of tba supply of small bills. They say that 1t is easy enough to get two five-dollar hills for a4ten or two tens for a twenty. But when it comes to changing i've dollar bill into two twes and one, 1t ia not easily done. From this they argue that there is deficiency in the supply of bills of small denominations. They call upon the government to rectify this difficulty by putting out a larger supply of small notes, in place of some of the larger denominations now in circulation. The real difficulty in the case is one that has been stated in these columns in noticing difference in custom between the people of the east and those of the west in their use of currency. The latter have become thoroughly habituated to the use of the silver dollar. They find it no hard ship Small bills are seldom seen in the ordinary course of affairs in the west People accept and pay out sil- yer dollars almost universally in all kinds of transactions involving less than five dollars. The people of the east have not yet made this change. They retain their affection for the dirty, greasy, ragged old stuff that is scarcely more convenient or comfort. able to handle than the fractional cur rency which we got rid of long ago. If they will reneunce this habit and take to the use of silver dollars instead, all their diff1cu ties will vanish.
 There are more than three hundred million silver dollars in the treasury of the United States which are repre-. sented by silver certificates outstand- ing. The holders Of any of these can obtain silver dollars for them at the United States treasury. The banks Of New York or of any other eastern city will make the exchange for the people if they wish it. Any amount of small change may be obtained from Wash ington in the shape of silver dollars, and the treasury will be delighted to get rid Of a portion of the vast mass Of metal which it now has in store. This is q correct solution of the problem. Paper currency for sums of less than five dollars is out of place in this country. The silver dollar answers every purpose of the dollar, except that it cannot be transmitted by mail The inconvenience of carrying num- Der of dollars in the pocket has been absurdly exaggerated. People of the west, where these coins are universally current in exchanges of less than five dollars in amount, have not only en- tirely overcome their original objection to them, but would be unwilling now to go back again to the bills of small denomination which are so unpleasant to handle and so easily lost. If the east will make this obviously proper substitution, it will not only find that the ineonvenient deficit of small bills is remedied satisfactorily, but 1t will get rid of some of the unreasoning ob- jection to silver as a money metal which constitutes one of the extremes of the financial problem. = St Paul GlCbe