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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT
o. coiumbia, sitting as District Court of the
United States for the said District ~
No. 461-In suburban suldi vision known nc
uakoma lhrK SUD- In the District Of Columbia in
section one Of the map of permanent system Of
highways. N' Va
Notice is hereby given that the Commissioners Of
the District or Columbia, pursuant to section q OF
an act OF Congress approved March q 1893 entitled
act th 10 provide permanent system of high
outside OF Cities. have fled a petition in this
court praying the condemnation Of a permanent
Fight OF way Tor the public all the land lying
owned by the United States or the District ~ a..
lumbia or dedicated to public use MS a highway
which Is Included within the highways or rescrva.
tions laid out Ey said Commissioner on the ,na,,
known as section one of the plans for a nermn
rent system OF highways provided for by said &C,
OF Congress- ~ - 'A'0 's'
as section one. dispenses with certain HIGHWAYS
and parts of highways. and opens I'M others In sid
subdivision VIZ: For laying out n highway through
brn a. o %"i Los highway along the western
through blocks 2 g. and ii for extand,na
Vine street through block 15 for widening Mag
Eoila Avenue ,, YAK avenue. Carroll avenue Vine
in block 9. e Ai'if ioau
copy of so much Of said map as shows the
prolosed changes is on file in the cause for the in
day or Gctoter 1888 that all persons Interested in
the proceedings be, and they hereby required
70 appear W ths court on or before the 18th iay of
November. 1928, and show cause IL any thev no va
why the prayer of said petition shouIJ NOT te
granted. ana why this court should not proceed
as directed by said act of Congress-: Provided Thai
Star and the Washington Post newsnlpers NJ Iansi
six times and in the Washington law Rennrtsr
once before said 10Th day Of November 1895
Ry the court. '
,signsO W. S. cox. Justice.
CsenlD JOHN r. YOUNG. Clerk.
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Go be continued tomorrow3
TAUGHT HIM A LESSON.
A Bicycle Rider Who WINS Crowded
Out of the Road.

A Bicycle Rider Who WINS Crowded
Out of the Road.
From the Toledo Blade.
If the country had few more such men
as Mr.. Nettetop, who tour the avenues and
highways On their bikes, the road-hog would
soon become a thing of the past, except, per-
haps, in rare and isolated instances. Mr..
Nettleton does a great deal Of wheel riding
through Ohio and adjoining states, and the
other evening was returning awheel from
Oak Harbor, when he was crowded into a
deep ditch and his wheel slightly injured by
a farmer. Nettleton rode out as far as roS-
sible, giving plenty of room for the man TO
pass, but he never swerved an inch. The
farmer was called to stop, but when he raw
that he had injured the wheel he whipped
up his horse and away he went.
He was fooling with the wrong rider hat
time, however. Mr.. Nettleton's wheel was
not so badly injured that he could not mount
and give chase. He finally caught up with
the man, headed him off and co npelled him
to STOP The farmers excuse was that he
had just purchased a new dog, which L. Y
with the dog that he did not notice the wheel
man. AS the wheel was not greatly injured,
Mr.. Nettleton, after being informed that the
mans name was Jacob Brown, and that
he lived near Cedar Point, compelled him
to apologize most penitently. and let him go,
rights OF wheelmen. The next evening
while on Ontario street, Mr.. Nettleton saw
a man pick up bottle and throw it out 10
smash upon the pavement, where hundreds
of riders were passing every day. What
does Mr. Nettleton do but wheel about, over
take Mr.. Man, and he didn't leave him until
he had watched him gather up every last
fragment OF that bottle and the fellow
made a solemn promise to never repeat the
performance.
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CHILD LIFE INSURANCE.
Efforts Being Made to Secure Legis.
latfve Action.

Efforts Being Made to Secure Legts.
latfve Action.
From the New York Times
1t seems incredible that human nature
should fall to such depths of unnatural
wickedness as to be willing to inflict a slow.
painful death upon little child for the
sake of obtaining a few dollars. Yet not
only in England, where for years such
atrocious cruelty has been practiced ex-
tensively, but in this country, too, it has
reached a stage that has attracted serious
States the legislatures have been appealed
to to take measures to suppress the evil.
1t is well known that there are outright
murders committed, either by drowning.
stabbing or poisoning, of adults and young
persons by unnatural parents or guardians
for the purpose of securing insurance money
on the death of the victims.
In this country only Colorado has been
able to procure the enactment of law,
and that has been pronounced unconstitu-
tional by judge of an inferior court, be-
cause of some minor technical omission.
But the Humane Society of that state hopes
to overcome this obstacle. 1t is determined
to ward off the growing evil by careful
enforcement of the law
The New York Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children Is making every
effort to secure law, and sent a commit
tee to the last state legislative convention
Through the society's excellent workers
Appeals from other organizations have
been received, urging it to ferret out the
terrible crimes and take action against the
perpetrators.
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MISSIONARY SAINTS"
Mormon ProseIytizers on Their Way
to Europe.

Mormon Proselytixers ON Their Way
to Europe.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
The steamer Waesland carried from this
port to Liverpool batch of thirty Mormon
saints, who. departing under the fostering
wing of Elder w. w. Riddle Of Salt Lake
City, will for the next two years roam at
large over England and the continent in
quest of converts"
On Saturday of next week another dele
cation of these missionaries starts from
Salt Lake City, bound for Philadelphia on
similar errand.
AS men, they were fine specimens; as
missionaries, they certainly did not aHect
clerical garb or clerical bearing. They did
not appear in the least reluctant to tell
about their errand, one OF the brawny
youths acting as spokesman. and employ
ing well-chosen words, and the rest sup
porting or correcting him as he talked.
yes" he said, you made good guess
We're all farmers You think 1t strange
that We should go out as MISSIONARIES:
Well, that is the way the Mormon Churcn
works. Now, ! come from Idaho; most OF
the others are from Utah. We are all
saints of the church. but that means moth
ing more than that We are regular MEM
bers. Every member of the church, man
or woman, Is a saint. We have our sun
and we till our farms, care for our fam
lilies, and obey our church. The mission
aries are usually sent out in the fall VIII
fred Woodruff the president of the Nor
mons, issues a call to the men who are
to go. The call is made after mans cir
cumStances have been considered. He can
refuse to go if he so desires, but there is
certain amount of moral compulsion in the
call. We all regard missionary work as
sort of duty, and never refuse II We can
possibly comply.
TT is all disinterested; it has to be. A
man is asked to go abroad for two years
and pay his own expenses. His wife and
children must support themselves as best
they can, with the help of the saints in
their vicinity.
when we land at Liverpool we will start
in couples for cur field of work. Eight of
us will labor in England, ten in Germany;
the others will be located in Scandinavia,
Norway and Denmark. We will travel
from place to place, expounding the doc
trines and persuadng the people to come to
Utah. 1 don't know that any of us are
preachers; the majority never addressed
a gathering In our lives. We Just do the
best we can, and when our time is up we
return with as many converts as are able
to pay their passage. This is the regular
system of proselytizing which has long
been in vogue with the Mormon Church,
and 1t has good results"
The converts, the four saints declared
were men as well as women. They averred
that women were not sought as wives in
the interest of polygamy, saying that
Eolygamy was no longer practiced in
Utah"
Besides" added one of the young mis-
sionarfes, fngenuously, there are more
than enough women in Utah already"
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SOME QUEER BONES.
The Foot of m AntedfIuvian Equine
Found Near Silver Lake.

The Foot of nm Antedfluvian Equine
Found Near Silver Lake.
The Lakeview (Ore.) Examiner has this
correspondence from Silver Lake:
I have lately returned from fossil hunt
on what 1 count the great Oregon desert,
which has become famous to the scientific
world on account of the many fossils of
extinct animals that it contains-many of
which have never even been classified. On
my recent trip, in company with H. ].
Riiehart, who was my associate and helper,
We found some new and very interesting
fossils that 1 had never observed before
One is a foot of the equine, not larger than
a small Shetland pony and from the ap-
pearance of the coffin joint the foot must
have stood quite vertically. The other foot,
or part of foot, is hard to describe, being
well sustained by a strong joint and deep
grooves. We also found the toes of some
animal that must belong to the ungalata or
ungalatesall. All told, we brought in quite
a lot of bones of different animals, and
among them a beast whose bones / had
found before, but was never able to de-
scribe. The bones were badly broken, but
enough We're gathered to see that he was
rather singular beast, as the bones are
short and very crooked.
These fossil beds were named by Prof
Cope the eques, or equine. beds of Oregon
because the horse predominated in num-
berS. There were two varieties of this ami
NAL. One was very large and clumsy, while
the other was small, and, from his organi-
cation, must have possessed great speed.
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opened them as she came in, and for an in
slant he looked as If he were about to say
something. Mrs. Warren eagerly APP
very slightly and closed his eyes again.
Mrs. Warren opened the door into the
kitchen. and. drawing a chair to the
threshold, sat down where she could keep
her eyes upon the priest, and yet see at the
same time what might go on in the sick
room.
Father Reardon was seated at the table
slipping the coffee and chatting pleasantly
with Mr.. Warren about farm topics and
such other matters as entered into the
ordinarily uneventful life of Granite peo-
pie. The priest and the old soldier were
more than acquaintance, though their
friendship could hardly be said to be close.
They entertained high regard for one
another and never met without pausng
for more or less conversation. Father
Reardon was evidently not disposed to talk
at length this morning, for he declined
second cup of coffee and pushed back his
chair, preparing to go.
Just then Goldng stalked in at the back
door, his face marked with frown Of de-
termination.
Father" he said at once, ct make no
complaint against the people of this house
who see fit to keep me from my friends
dying bed, but appeal to you in the name
of Christianity and ordinary humanity.
Freeman Dutton is my friend and partner;
have the right to know
Pardon me-" interrupted the priest, ris-
ing, DIR. Mason is here. Your question
properly should be addressed to him. 1 am
not physician for the body
well, but" protested Golding, here is
dying man and his closest friend is forbid
den the house. Won't you tell me whether
he has spoken to you? Is there no mes
sage re confided to you for me? My name
is Ben Golding-"
The priest shook his head and there was
an incomprehensible smile on his lips as
he answered:
1.-The patient spoke to me, yes. He gave
Inc no message for you or anybody else.
AS to what else passed 1 can only say with
absolute frankness that the man in that
room had no need or desire for the services
of priest
Golding stared his discontinue, while the
priest bowed gravely and left the room. He
turned back after he had entered the hall
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% Prizes; aggregatng. ........... 500
The first prize of 500 will be paid for the
explanation which comes nearest to the
true solution; the second prize of $75 TO the
person sending the explanation next near
est, and SO on, for the third and fourth
prizes. The remaining twenty-five prizes Of
$40 each will be awarded to the persons
sending the twenty-five explanations next
nearest to the fourth prize, as the judges
may determine their merit.
8. The Star is pre-eminently family
newspaper and it's daily installment of
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Their condition Is made that the 500 in
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but only women and girls may guess-and
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when the War Was Over will continue
in daily inStallments until Friday Novem-
Der =. on which date all but the final chap
ter will have been published. The interval
between Friday, November s, and Tuesday
November II, six o'clock pm, inclusive,
will be allowed for the forwarding of guess
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THE ORGANS GOT MIXED.
A Time That EpiscOpalfan md Meth.
odist Music Wouldn't Chord.


odist Music Wouldn't Chord.
From the Savannah News
Two mammoth matchmaking machines
got mixed up and created considerable dis
cord at st. Johns Church recently. The
new organ, which is to be placed in the
church, arrived few days ago from the
manufacturers, and representative was
sent out by the firm to place it in position
and get 1t ready to turn over to the church
in perfect order He arrived yesterday,
and started to open the cases containing
the various pires. He had several cases
emptied and commenced to assert the con-
tents, when he discovered that the parts
his hand. They were pieces of pipes for an
organ, all right, but he did not recognize
them as his firms make. He was in di-
lemma for some time, and did not know
how to proceed. He was quite certain he
was in the right church, but the pipes did
not fit the places.
1t was discovered little later that there
was another new pipe organ in the city,
shipped from the same place, too, and con-
signed to the Wesley Monumental Church.
The boxes in which the organs were ship
ped were all marked diamond III" and not
addressed to the consignees. Although the
OF eans were purchased from different man.
ufacturers, each of them, it appears, use
the same shipping mark, and that accounts
for the mixing up of the cases by the
freight clerks here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-21

From the Scientific American.
The origin of the polka is not generally
known. the inventor of the dance having
been a young Bohemian girl named Ham
iczka Selezka. She was a blooming young
peasant maiden and the best dancer in the
village of Costello, on the River Elbe, and
used to perform solo dances of her own in
vention at the various village festivities.
1t was in the year 1880. at a farm house.
that the assembled guests asked her 70
dance a solo, and she said, Il will show
you something quite new" and to tho
music of her own singing she danced the
polka step. though with more elaboration
than 1t Is now performed. The dance be-
came SO popular that it was later made q
national dance, and Haniczka named 1t
pulku. as she said it was danced in short
steps; from pulku came polku. and finally
polka, the dance three years later; in 1880,
becoming popular in Prague, and in 1889 1t
was already danced at Vienna balls, and
one year later became the most popular
dance in Paris. Hanfczka Selezka is still
alive, surrounded by numerous grandchil-
dren and great-grandchildren sprung from
her own six sons and daughters.
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N THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT
OF Columbia, sitting District Court of the
ULtted States for ,he said District
No. 6O.ln re suburban subdivision known rs
Green SUD OF part Of Girls Portion in the
District OF Columbia, In .section one of the man
OF permanent system of highways.
Nctce Is hereby given that the Commissioners of
the District or Columbia, pursuant to section q Of
an act OF congress approved March q 1898 entitled
An ACT 10 provide a permanent system Of high
outside Of cities" have filed a petition in This
court praying the condemnation OF n permanent
right or way for the public over all the Land Ivtn,
WITHIN the limits OF said subdivision. not already
owned ny the I Mi ed States the District OF CO.
lunbia or dedicated to public use as highway
which is included within the highways or reserya
tions laid out by said Commissioners on the man
known as section one of the plans for n permn
nent system CT highways provided for by said act
The map prepared by said Commissioners. known
as section one, dlspenses with certain highways
and parts OF highways, and opens up Others in said
subdivision, viz: For laying out a highway RIM
ming east and west through the north part Of the
subdivision. f ~ "
A copy OF so much of said map as shows the
formation of all concerned. 1t IL ordered thts %
DAY or October. 1898, that all persons eres ted in
the procedures be, and they are hereby required
70 appear IN ms court before the 18th day of
november, 1880, am, show cause, II nny they ha We
why the prayer OF said petition sbonld NOT he
granted and why this court should NOT nro,eeJ
as directed by said act of Congress: Provided Tb.t
z copy OF this order be published I'm The Eyeninr
Star and the Washington Post newspapers NJ IcnS
six times and In the Washington Law Renorter
by the court. Ao'o
(SignedD w g COy J,..,
tSeaiJ JOHN R. YOUNG, Clerk
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A DINNER CONVERSATION.
What He Said and What She Said in
Reply.

Reply.
From the Chicago Times-Herald.
The shy young man. having escaped the
rigors of the afternoon tea, went to a din
ner party last week. His version of 1t,
combined with that of an eyewitness, con-
firms all expectations of Intellectual re-
freshment. In the first place, of course,
young man Is presented to young lady
whom he is to take into dinner. Young
man visibly embarrassed, young lady silent.
They enter dining room that way, and so
take their seats. Young man passes the
sailed almonds to young lady. Helps him
SELF and munches a single very hard and
very briny almond in an agony of appre-
hension. Young lady looks around and
makes mental note Of the company. Sees
what so-and-sos gown is like. Observes
who has taken who in and comments to
herself concerning evident Encouragement
between individuals and probable collision
with the hostess.
Young man. acknowledgements
Young lady-"Did you speak?"
Young man, articulating with difficulty
IT, well. yes, that isl think I met your
father. Col. johnson, at the banquet last
fall?"
Young lady-"oh, you know dear papag
father?''
Young lady-"Yes; think dear papa is
just lovely!'
More silence, more ALMONDS and the
oysters.
Young man. speaking with more difficulty
-1-I-believe 1 met your brother Frank
at our club a while ago. He was Capt.
Jenniberg's guest"
Young lady-"Oh! you know dear brother
Frank
Young mani have that pleasure"
Young LADY, think brother Frank is
just lovely
Another pause. more almonds, the soup
and the hors d'oeuvres. The entrees are
served and the entremet attacked. The
young man. made glad with Madeira ard
Chablis, essays once more:
Tim almost sure that met your aunt,
Mrs. Elderberry, at the Social Science Club
at home in September
Young lady-"Oh you know dear aunt
Mary?"
Young man dn utter despair)-'I have
that honor
Young lady-"I do think dear Aunt Mary
Is too lovely for anything"
Young man falls savagely upon his roast
and looks lorg upon the Burgundy when it
is red in the goblet More pauses, more al
monds and the rest of the dinner. At mid
night the young lady sitting on the edge of
the bed and talking to a mother half asleep
says: "Oh! Mr.. Sherwood took me in to
dinner, and l do think he Is SO clever and
just the loveliest conversationalist!'
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irg edged his way to the hall The priest
found his hat, and as he turned to go he
made some commonplace remark about
the weather
Father Reardon," said Mrs Warren.
I'VE have but recently finished breakfast.
You have a long way to go. Won't you
have a cup of coffee or tea, and let Elsie
get you something to eat?"
Il have had breakfast, thank you," he re-
piled; but would be glad of a cup of cof-
fee"
Mrs. Warren called to Elsie, who prompt
ly opened the door at the end Of the hall,
and gave her the needed Instructions
Then. while Father Reardon went down
the hall to the kitchen, followed by the
doctor, Mrs. Warren turned and closed the
front door. Golding was standing on the
plain determination to shut him out, and
he stepped back without a word She
bolted the door and went into the sick
room. buttons eyes We're closed, but he