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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-02
May Musicale Mt Howard.

A pleasant May day musicale will be held
tomorrow evening in the Andrew Rankin
Memorial Chapel, Howard University, I'M
der the direction of Mr.. w. J. Stephens.
The program includes a glee by the Univer-
sty choir, several choruses by the Avon
Quartet and songs by Miss Lucy Turner
and Messrs. George B. Wilson, Joshua
Robinson and Howard Tolson. Messrs,
Harris and Turner will sing a duet and
Miss Maggie B. Quander will render the
recitative and air, why Art Thou Silent
Bethlehem
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-02
ON Third Floor.

s7.9s for the $40 Ready to- Wear Suits. Sizes, 81
to A. Latest style blazer Jacket and lined skirt
with full sweep. Well made of Covert Cloths, In
tans, mixtures in various shades and Storm Serge
in navy and black
$4.19 for choice of the Palais Royals entire
stock of $4.9S Silk Waists-said to be the best
collection of IS Waists, by many ladies who have
visited all the stores.
42c for Ladies' Soc Percale and Chevot Shirt
Waists with laundered collars and cuffs
sos for the $3.4S Black Figured Armure Wool
Skirts with lined godet back, full sweep with vel
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27c for the SOC Ventilating Summer Corsets.
Guaranteed. If they tear pair promptly
furnished
43c for the Soc Night Gowns. Well made, of
best cotton, with embroidery trimming that will
wash and look good new. All sizes in high
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b9c for CSC Fauntleroy Blouses for boys and girls,
8 to ~ years. They of white lawn with COL
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without injury.
Csc for the 9sc Bingham Dresses for children l
to 8 years. Made of best quality bingham, guar
anteed to wash.
47c for the SOC Sun Bonnets of lawn, with white
and colored polka cots lace trimmed cape at back
and 1ufie front, with full ruche of lace.
21c for choice of five styles of close-ftting cans
Though sold regularly at 25c mothers say they are
as pretty any elsewhere at more money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-02
The Order Dissolved.

The order restraining Washington Da-
nenhower from collecting the rents and
from managing the Rink property on New
York avenue has been dissolved by Judge
Cox. The court also dismissed the bill
which asked for an accounting and re-
ceiVer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23

said of Maurice Miller in the profession
that The feared neither God nor devil"
But. at that moment, his limbs shook I'M
der him with deadly terror. He hardly
whether the thing was stone or flesh. He
was only aware in some dim way that
something terrible was happening.
The roman emperor laid his heavy hand
on the Gentleman Burglars shoulder. Con-
trary to expectation, the hand was not
cold and stiff and stony, but soft like a
human beings. The terrified burglar look
ed down with awe into the Roman emper-
or's face-for Commodus was distinctly the
shorter of the two-and saw the smile on it
broaden. He remembered that face. Where
had he seen it before? Then all at once it
dawned upon him. BETRAYED! Betrayed
This was the little curate,
The Roman emperor spoke out, not In
very choice Cfceronian Latin, such as you
expect from emperors. but with familiar
words and in the British vernacular. ''Mau-
You're my prisoner
In minute. the whole truth flashed
across the Gentleman Burglars enlightened
mind. The little curate was d detective
CO Roman costume. He had stood there
on the pedestal on purpose to catch him.
But the curate was small, and Maurice
Miller was strong, thev might fight for it
stil' His hand sought his pocket. The de-
tective forestalled him. Ready he cried
aloud. seizing the Burglars right arm in
an iron grip, and, in a second the electric
light blazed forth on the ceiling, and four
policemen. jumping out from an unseen
door in the paneling, secured their prisoner.
saw 1t air. the little curate observed
triumphantly. wiping away the violet pow
der. Saw just how he does it, Proof
enough to connect him by circumstantial
evidence with those three other cases we
always suspected! But my! How my joints
ache! l amt sorry. 1 can tell you, to come
down off that PEDESTAL
And the Gentleman Burgar and Joe
Stokes have had leisure since to reflect
how the trick was done by that clever
fellow, Spotterson, who followed them
down in disguise, and logged them from
Waterloo-during an enforced holiday from
the duties of their profession of seven
years duration.
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turned. They more troubled with sleep
less nights, and their days longer made
wretched 10y neuralgia and rheumatism.
Constipation that stores up in the body sub
stances long slice worse than useless TO the body
and a menace to the health, il looked after. Any
enc troubled with this obstinate hndrance to heath
will lind positive and lasting cure in Paine's
celery compound.
II takes very short time to settle any doubts
on the matter by giving Pane's celery compound a
trial.
Mr.. John Holland, whose portrait is given above,
is parlor conductor, whose home is 10 Jersey
City. He writes:
II wish to give my testimony of the great beneit
Fane's celery compound has done nle. A ycaE ago
l had typhoid fever, and later had to have an
operation in my side for abscess over the liver
This left me very weak grew very nervous and
could not sleep. 1 tired even more after got
up than was when went to bed. / have taken
four bottles of Paine's celery compound and am
perfectly we'll! l have sent six bottles to some
friends In Virginia. One, although he has taken
only bottle Of it, feels much better and sleeps
we'll"
Paines celery compound puts the system on
healthy strong basis, safe from disease. Try IL
If you are aillng and trial will speedily convince
you.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
From Demorest.

FROM Dem0reSt.
The most serious problem that now as
sails the fashionable mother is what name
or names she shall bestow on her newly ar
rived little daughter, for 1t has of late be-
come the mode for every young woman to
possess many initials as royal prin-
cess. Happily there has come an active re-
vulsion against the diminutive, and it's
proper that all girls now be spoken to and
of as Anne or Josephine, Catherine or Flea
nor, in place of the silly and stupid Annie
and Josie, Kitty and Nellie. No more ,oes
the well-regulated debutante venture to
give her name distinction by unique SPELL
ing. as Edyth. Kathryn. Corah, etc.
She keeps her baptismal name pure and
simrie. and now many a worthy clergyman
is filled with an astonishing qualification
when at baptism a godmother announces
her little charge Deborah, Patience Su-
sannah Melville-Jones The whole of this
extensive title is engraved on the cards
Mrs. Jones sends out with her own to ap-
prise her friends of Miss Jones' safe ar
rival The Deborah and Susannah are
careful selections from the Biblical list now
so much favored that we hear of baby
Esthers, Naomis. Vashtis, Judiths and Ra-
chefs by the score. Patience is in imita-
ton of the Puritan love for naming girls
after the virtues, and we have Hope, Pea ce,
Prudence, Mercy, Faith, Delverance, etc,
along with the new provision that the
mothers maiden surname, as Melville
Jones. be hyphenated with the child's.
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4 MODERN PYGMALION
BY GRANT ALLEN.

Ccpyrght, 1896, by Bachelor, johnson Bacheller)
1.-THE celebrated statute Of the Dying
Gladiator said the butler, in his most
impressive tone. lis a replica of that which
was found at a place called Nsmi, in
Hitaly, in the sixteenth century, and whic h
is now the chief gem of the Capitoline COL
lection"
"Oh. indeed" said the little 'curate.
The butler delivered this valuable piece
of Information with the marked air of
originality which always comes after the
five hundredth repetition of a rote-learnt
sentence. But the two intelligent tourists
in the gray tweed suits, to whom he spe-
cially vouchsafed his learned discourse,
seemed little interested in the Dying Gladi-
ator. They did not even spare a glance to
the remarkable torso of the Wounded Da-
cian," nor to the "Nymph or Diana, from
Hadriansville. near Tivoli."
"Hadrian's villa, l think you mean" the
mild curate, with the very clerical cassock,
suggested. He vas new from Oxford, no
doubt. the intelligent tourist supposed. and
still retained faint traces of classical edu-
cation.
Il said Hadriansville," the butler repeat
ed. with mixed asperity and dignity. His
glance was whitening. Had 1t really come
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
Frederick stutz, company B, third bat

talon.
Capt. Barbour has made a requisition for
equipment for one hundred cavalrymen.
AS soon as the requiSition Is filled it Is ex-
pected that the enlistments in troop A will
soon reach the century mark. Application
has been made by the troop for the use of
the rifle gallery December 20, the occasion
of its anniversary celebration.
First Lieut.. Peter Rennie, adjutant of
the sixth battalion, has rendered his resig-
nation. Lieut.. Rennie has been a member
of the guard for number of years. serving
as sergeant in troop A, adjutant of the
rendered his resignation to accept bust
ness offer
Some criticism has been INDUCED in by
those present in Convention Hall Tuesday
evening last, on the occasion of the drill
of the sixth battalion, over the action of
the senior officer present in ejecting all
the spectators, including a number of la
dies, from the hail. The course pursued
was not only unpopular with the guards
men present, so says one of them, but also
with the relatives and friends of the men
in the battalion.
That mysterious inner organization Of
the Morton Cadets styling itself the A.
Q. p. E. made its first public appearance
at the dancing reception of the company
last evening. The members wore attrac-
tive badges and the Marine Band during
the evening rendered the "A. o. P. E.
March," The membership is as follows: ID.
H. Moran, chief: T. Blandy, w. Wagner,
F. E. Lacey, II. Sisson, f. o. Grayson. L.
c.. Steward, G.. Harris, A. B. ClaXton, P.
Chauncey, F. Plugge, z. Muth M. O'Con-
nell and c. f. Cook.
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MORAN's MIGRATORY HEART.
After Much Shifting About 1t Has Set
tied Down on the Right Side.

ued Down on the Right Side.
From the San Francisco Examiner
Frederick Moran is an inmate of the
county infirmary, and since he has been
there his heart has been shifting from one
side to the other and has finally wound up
on the right side of his body, where 1t
to remain permanently.
Moran lived in Chicago when this peculiar
action of the heart began. 1t was rest
less, shifting organ, moving from side to
side in manner most perpleNing and con-
fusing to Physicians. Mr. Moran found
himself having considerable trouble but he
did not imagine that his heart was wander
ing around IN this remarkable fashion
When he came to this coast he settled in
Alameda. Here his heart began WANDERING
from side to side, and this so disturbed Mr.
Moran's internal arrangements that he be-
came quite sick. He was sent to the county
infirmary for treatment, and when he got
there resident Physician Clark made a
thorough examination of his physical con-
Cltlon. DR.. Clark noted that his heart
seemed to be little out of plumb and he
watched the case closely
While Mr.. Moran remained in the county
inftrmary his heart kept on its travels and
hnally located itself permanently upon the
right side. During this time Moran suf,
fered some. but DR.. Clark's treatment pre-
vented any serious results. Moran became
accustomed to the new order of things, and
he is now to be discharged from the hos
pital and will go back to work
1t is unusual that the heart should shift
from one side to the other without causing
death. DR.. Clark says that he has only
heard of three similar cases. and that the
shifting of the heart in Moran's case has
been complete.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
New Slang in Gotham.

From the New York Journal.
There Is new bit of slang in town which
came into being when two young newspaper
men happened to be in the Fifth Avenue
Hotel the other afternoon.
The men saw very pompous man. well
known in society circles. who never leaves
his home for his club until afternoon and is
then beringed and perfumed to the mines
and who always dresses in the very extreme
of male fashion.
This man, whose name Is not at all neces.
sary to the story, has what Dickens called
in the case of Mr.. Turveydrop, 'deport.
ment." He walks with stately tread and
makes as much fuss in progressing as a
sidewheel steamboat
THAT man." said one of the newspaper
men, as he watched the assertive manner OF
the society leader, lis burning lot Of rec
fire for himself as he walks along
Burning a lot red fire. is now sen
tence to be used when you mean to convey
that somebody thinks he is somebody of i'm
portance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23

There may be in the distant future some remedy
eftcacious Pane's celery compound.
There is none such today.
The sick ard ailins who stretching out their
hands for help must take the best that the scien-
titic medical knowledge of the world now affords.
The reasoning that has enabled Professor Edward
E. Phelps, Md, LID, OF Dartmouth College to
discover the remarkable formula of Paine's celery
compound II the result Of the certury's work in
medicine.
1t is by new and more thoughtful grouping Of
diseases, careful study OF their causes. that
Professor Phelps has been enabled To see the true
reat oship Of all diseases of the blood and nerves
Neuralgia, slecplessness melancholia, hysteria.
headache and dyspepsia at referred themselves
to tired half-fed and therefore derenged nervous
system.
The cure lay in ending to the nutrition Of the
whole system. This system OF cure, simple and
clear like most experimenting ideas. was embodied
in the greatest tissue former nerye-restorer and
regulator yet known to science-Paines celery
compound, the one great remedy that makes people
well!
Persons who complained OF feeling tired to
death and sought competent inrigorator. as
soon their physicians ordered Paines celery com
lound felt that their tired bodies were actually
taking a start. Their strength rapidly re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
Electricity In Guns.

From the Boston Herald.
John F. Blake Of New Haven has In
vented an apparatus for firing rifle or
shotgun by electricity. In the stock Of the
gun is put dry electric battery, and the
shell and the powder are placed in proper
connection. The guns now used are not
altered at all for the new purpose only at
the trigger. An arc is formed inside as
most preferred either at the tail or the CEN
ter of the bullet. The trigger when pulled
completes the electric circuit and the gun
is fired. This will do away with the use of
illuminate the dangerous nature of which
has been shown by two deaths at Winches-
ter in four months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
The end.
A Lost Type.

rom the Detroit Free Press.
Oh, fer glimpse OF natural hoy
boy win fIeckled face,
With forehead white 'nea tn tangled hair
And limbs devoid of grace.
Whose feet toe In, while his elbows flare;
Whose knees patched all ways;
Who turns red lobster when
You gave him word OF praise.
A boy who's born with IN appetite;
Who seeks the pantry shelf
To eat his piece with Resembling smack-
Who isn't gone On himself.
A ''RohiIson Cr,Isoe'' reading boy,
Whose pockets bulge with trash;
Who knows the use of rod and gun
And where the brook trout splash.
It's true he'll sit In the easiest chair,
With his hat Oh his tousled head:
That his haLis and feet are everywhere,
For youth mist nave room to spread.
But he doesn't dub his father .old man"
Nor deny his mothers call,
Nor ridicule what his elders say,
Or think that he knows 1t all.
A rough and wholesome natural boy
OF L good d-fashioned clay;
God bless him, IL he's still on earth,
For he'll make Il man some day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
REMEMBERING FACES.
The Young Man Whom the Traveller
Met in Car.

Met in a Car.
From the Chicago Tribune.
An elderly passenger with a long, droop-
ing mustache who sat In the smoking car
of an incoming train from the east few
mornings ago, was approached by smil-
ing young man, who held cut his hand and
said:
You don't know me, but 1 know you.
I've seen your pictures in the papers too
many times to be mistaken. You are Mr..
Jores-Jones OF Binghamton, and you pay
the freight
Young man." responded the elderly citi-
zen, you have made mistake this time.
My name isn't Jores at all. It's"
"Ha! Ha! That won't do" broke in the
other. But you needn't be afraid of me-
I'm not reporter. So far as l am con-
cerned, you needn't travel incog. There's
Only one man in the United States with a
mustache like that, and his name is Jones
o. Binghamton, ex-lieutenant governor of
New York. can spot well-known face
wien 1 see it. 1 never forget a face. 1
merely wanted to shake hands with you.
That's ALL"
But, hold on" persisted the elderly pas
senger. Il can't let you rest under a false
impression. If there is any resemblance
between Jones of Binghamton and me 1t is
purely accidental. 1 am not Jones Of Bling
hemton, or Poughkeepsie, or Skedunk. or
any other place. My name is Wilkerson,
and reside in Urbana, Ohio"
I'm tn 1t case beg your pardon. sir. for
troubling you. and 1 wish you good day."
mo harm done at all. sir, at all. Good
day."
The smiling young man raised his hat re-
specially and went back into the rear car.
When Mr.. Wilkerscn of Urbana, Ohio.
got off the train at the Polk street station
half an hour afterward he casually en-
&C untered grave, somber youth, who call
ell him by name, introduced himself as a
son of leading banker in Urbana, and the
two went to the same hotel.
When they parted at 10 o'clock that even
ing Mr.. Wilkerson of Urbana had a check
for $3.50, and the somber young man had
Mr.. Wilkerson's cash.
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straight down with It's frankly human eyes.
focused full upon him.
Great heavens! these eyes were not stony
like the rest, but colored like life, and as he
stared they followed him.
For the first time in his career the Cen
tlenlan Burglar stood there, rooted to the
ground, in speeches. horror. He could not
move limb He could not cry or speak.
He just gazed up with terrified eyes at the
Commodus. And the Commodus, in return.
gaZed down at him, and broke into hor-
rid smile of triumph. He was sure 1t
smiled-yes. ne saw 1t: heard it! Joe Stokes
words had come true. The Commodus was
stepping down from its pedestal to accost
him.
In another second 1t had stepped down
and faced him. Stony white, and still robed
in its marble hunting costume, 1t stared
him full in the eyes, as he had seen before
now the statue on the stage step down
and stare at Don Juan in the opera. He
was not superstitious, he had told Joe
Stokes, and. indeed. it was commonly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23

calculate. On the contrary, they talked to-
gether with somewhat pronounced vare
ty of Cockney accent: for one of them was
Joe Stokes. the famous crib cracker while
the ether was Maurice Miller, that clevere st
of clever thieves. well known in the profess
sion the Gentleman Burglar.
The question is Mr. Maurice Miller re-
marked, in his casual way, stroking his
chin refectively. which of us two is to go
in after them tonight, and which of us is to
wait on the terrace outside and keep an
eye on the watchnSn?'
Il don't quite like the job myself" Joe
Stokes replied, lighting an excellent cigar.
for he knew himself in tobacco. Il amt
superstitIous, Mr.. Miller. but l object to
them stone women. They give me the cold
shiye / don't so much mind 'em in broad
daylight. of course, standing there in rows
but alone at night, in that long, dark gal
lery. they'd look sort of ghostlike, and dis
tract a mans attention from the work he
was set upon. Now, you an me know, it's
no use doing work where your attentions
distracted"
Mr.. Maurice Miller-he was always Mr., -
aven to his closest associates a
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The Deepest Spot In the Ocean.

W. ]. L. Wharton in Nature.
A deeper spot in the ocean than any yet
known has been recently found by her ma
jesty's surveying ship Penguin. Unfortu-
nately the observation was not complete. as
a fault in the wire caused it to break when
1900 fathoms had run out without bottom
having been reached. Commander Balfour
reports that this occurred in latitude q
degrees 40 minutes south, longitude liz
degrees 10 minutes west, about sixty miles
north of sounding of 4,42S fathoms OBJ
tanned by Capt. Aldrich in 1858. A previous
attempt to reach bottom had been foled by
a similar accident to the wire when 4,:IOC
fathoms had passed out, and the rising
wind and sea prevented any further at
tempt at the time. AS the deepest cast
hitherto obtained is one of 4,655 fathoms
near Japan, it is at any rate certain that
the depth of the position named is at least
2i5 fathoms greater. 1t is to be hoped that
before long a more successful attempt to
find the actual depth will be made.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
MOTORMEN USE DISCRETION"
As n Result the .sNear Crossing" Order
Causes n Lot of Trouble.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The new order of the Union Traction COM
pany requiring all trolley cars to stop at
the near crossing on streets on which there
are intersecting lines, pass slowly across,
and stop at the second crossing to take on
and let off passengers went into effect YES
terday- Each motorman seemed to con-
strue the order to suit himself, and the re-
suit was that in many cases the cars were
simply slowed up at the first crossing and
did not come to a stop. Confusion and many
narrow ESQ apes resulted. No stops were
made as streets We're approached on which
there were no trolley tracks
At Federal street a 18th street car did
not stop. and as it ran across the street II
nearly ran down a team whose driver evil
IDENTIFY had calculated that the new rule
would be strictly enforced. and he would
thus have plenty OF time to drive across.
Transfers en- Market street had many SIM
liar escapes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
Built by Pilgrims.
From the Globe Democrat.

From the GIObe-Dc mOcrat.
Among the attractions of the town of
Bourne, Mass, are two historic cellars. One
was dug by the Plymouth colony and the
other by the Dutch traders. These cellars
lie side by side. and the structures built
over them were filled with goods so neces-
sary for the comfort of the early pilgrims
as well as the Dutch. The pilgrims needed
manufactured goods such as the Hollander
had for sale, and the Dutch required pro-
ducts such as the colony could supply. Gov
ernor Bradford. in his diary" states that
this block house was built as early as 1927
only seven years after the landing of the
Mayflower.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23

From Tid-Bits.

From Tid-Bits.
A recruit wishing to evade service, was
brought up for medical inspection, and the
doctor asked him: Have you any de-
fects?" Yes, sir; I am short-sighted."
How can you prove it?' Easily enough,
doctor. Do you see that nail up yonder in
the WALTZ" Yes" WELL l don't"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23

From Truth.
Il do not understand It," said the rhilos-
opher.
what is bothering you now" inquired
the other.
IF a man is two hours late arriving a,
home his wife raises a row. while IL he IL
gone two years she will give him a roya
welcome. Women are peculiar"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-23
Ninety-Nfne-Cent Game.

From Truth.
Mrs. Bargan-'Why don't you charge a
dollar for these goods, instead of ninety-nine
cents?"
Salesman-"Why, maam. you're always
sure to think of something else you want
while waiting for your changer