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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
MASSES NOT TO BLAME.

Ex-Sccretary Foster ON the Anti
Foreigner Riots In China.
Ex-Secretary of State John W. Foster.
in an address in the First Presbyterian
Church of Watertown, N. Y, last night,
made the following references to the recent
Chinese riots:
1.-THE opinion formed by me, after careful
inquiry and observation, is that the mass
of the population in China, particularly
the common people, are not specially hos
tile to the missionaries and their work.
They have been permitted to penetrate
every part of that vast empire with as
little disturbance as the Chinese laborers
have spread themselves over the United
States, and in case Of danger the authori-
ties have usually exerted themselves for
their protection. Occasionally riots have
taken place, but they are almost Invariably
traced to the literati, or prospective office
holders, and the ruling classes. These are
often bigoted and conceited to the highest
degree, and regard the teachings of the
missionaries as tending to overthrow tine
existing order of government and society,
which they look upon perfect system
and sanctified by great antiquity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
Transfers of Real E.ta,c.

Deeds In fee have been filed as follows:
Edmund Barrett ct ux. to Jno. p Murphy.
south one-half lot AZ. SO. AS; So August
I'onath ct ux to Ellen v. Griffiths, lot liz.
SO. $50; $3.50. Jno. NJ kenney ct ux. to
BEDFORD w. Walker and ]. Henry Brooks.
lot T. blk. Is, University Heights; $40. Ed
win F. Campbell and B. Stanley Simmons.
trustees, to Susan A. Ruffin, lot 50, so. 17s:
$500. Jacob Jones ct ux to T. walter
Fowler, lot 80, blk IS, Columbia Heights:
$500. Cotter 7. Bride ct ux. to VIM. M.
Ball, lot "a. SO. 49,; SO. Allen C. Clark ct
TX to James Brennan, lots Is and 10, So.
9IS; 81 Mary b. Collins to same, same
property; $40. George ]. yesterday ct ux.
10 J. Sprigg Poole, lot 60, SO 4S2; slO S. S.
Everett and Blair Lee, trustees, ct al. to
Mabel P. Wall. part original lot I, So. 523;
lot q, square 791; part original lots 6.
., and ., square S21 lot A. square 933:
lot IL, So. 313; 81. Jno. S. Swormstedt and
X w. Walker, trustees, to Alice G. Crooks.
lot 196. Long Meadows: $1,000 Jno. II.
Sheahan ct al. to Chas. E. Killian, part lot
u, So 524; $3.50. Henry B. Sanders ct ux.
to Cotter T. Bride lot "a, So 732; So VIM.
g: Woodruff to ]. w. Gillespie, part lot ID.
blk 4, Avalon Heights: s., 500. Geo II. q.
White, trustee, to Jas. S. Gunnell, part
original lots and g. SO. $50; $500 Same
70 Ellen Walsh, part original lot 5, So. $50:
S,iE0 Same to Chas. E. Killian. part
original lot q, So 5S3; 81, 30.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
THE CONSULAR SERVICE.
A Prospect That 1t May BE Transfer
red to the Treasury Department..

A Prospect That 1t May BE Transfer
red to the Treasury Department..
There is good prospect that the consular
service may be transferred from the State
Department to the Treasury Department
Assistant Secretaries Uhl and Hamlin, who
have had several conferences on the SUBJ
ject, are said to be firmly convinced that the
proposed transfer would be to the best in
terests of the government and would tend
to increase the customs revenue. Assistant
Secretary Uhl is now making a personal
inspection of the consular service in Europe
with view to suggesting the advisability
of a change to Congress.
Assistant Secretary Hamlin has made a
statement on the subject, in which he says:
There Is no question in my mind that the
transfer of the consular service to the
Treasury Department will be doubly bene-
fetal 1t will relieve the Secretary of State
from an Immense burden of care, leaving
him free to attend to the important inter-
national questions which devoive upon him.
1t will enable the Treasury Department to
so perfect it's knowledge Of foreign markets
and the values of foreign goods that under
valuations of imports will become impossi-
BILE. l am determined that undervaluat lions
shall cease. There has been under this ad-
Llinistration great stirring up in this GUS
toms service, and we have been able to
marked degree to check that enormous evil
1 am liberal, personally, in my views con-
corning the tariff but when there is law
on the statute books 1t should be rigidly
enforced. The honest merchants and manu-
facturers of this country have suffered I'M
told evils from the high protective tariff
Honest merchants have been driven out of
business, because they have paid duties on
the real value of their importations, while
dishonest ones have amassed wealth by sys-
tematic and successful undervalua tions
This can and shall be stopped.
Were the consular service under the
control of the Treasury Department we
would divide the whole of Europe into dis
tricts on manufacturing rather than on
geographical or national lines and place
a special agent of the treasury in charge of
each Then, with the best men obtainable
in the consular service, working in connec-
ton with special agents, and in thorough
harmony with the customs administration
service, undervaluations can be rendered
absolutely impossible"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09

From the Chicago Times-Herald
Women who ride bicycles should make
1t a law with themselves never to ride after
q feeling of WEAKNESS comes over them
said a well-known physician yesterday II
just came from visiting a woman who tried
to ride around the city last Sunday. 1t
was the fourth time she had ever ridden a
wheel out of doors. She get half way
around came home in street cars and a.
carriage, and has been sick in bed ever
since. She ought to be an example to all
women who ride. For those who be-
ginning, especially, and in a measure for
all women, there is great danger in over
doing. Some women ride centuries, it is
true but they are men in strength. No Or
binary woman should start out before
knowing how far she is going. Ordinarily,
though. they ride twice as far as they
ought They start out and ride away from
home until they get tired. Then they have
to ride back, getting more and more eX-
hausted with every turn of the wheels. No
ordinary woman who rides once or twice a
week should go more than ten miles at a
trip. That is perhaps hours ride, that
may be easily extended to an hour and d
quarter before that distance is covered,
and If she does not feel fresh and in glow
when she stops. she may be certain that
she has ridden too long. Naturally there is
that healthy tired feeling which any one
recognizes after athletic exercise, but it s
quite different from and never to be mis-
taken for The WEAKNESS which comes from
too much exertion and straining of The
nerves and muscles. Very few women have
ever been injured on a bicycle who kept to
this rule and limited their riding to normal
distances.
THE limit. of distance, which is desig-
mated by the first feeling of WEAKNESS is
only little more important than the limit
of speed which the female frame is cana
BILE of undergoing under healthy exercising
rules. Whether man ride at full
speed for a long distance and still retain
his good health is a doubtful question 1t
Is certain however, that no woman can
keep up high rate of speed for even a
generous portion of "a mile and not create
the beginnings of injuries. The added
strength required to increase speed even a
little after a certain amount of power has
been expended is out of all proportion to
tie results. There Is no relaxation of the
muscles between revolutions of the pedals
nor any let up on the nervous and muscu-
lar strain While the speed lasts. The heart
IS far more taxed than one realizes at the
moment, and that species of tngling or
numbness in the nerves and muscles which
often results is only sign that they have
both been overtaxed.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
NEW NAVAL VESSELS.
Orders Given for ENpedftfng the
Work on Them.

Secretary Herbert has issued statement
saying that he has given orders that work
on vessels under construction for the navy
shall be expedited. The order embraces
not only the work on navy yard ships, but
also the work on vessels being built under
contract. All have been urged to increased
diligence.
The Secretary also says that he is push
ing along the manufacture of ordnance and
all other work in progress under his direc-
ton.
He deprecates the practice which Con-
gress has fallen into of relieving shipbuild-
ers of penalties incurred.
1.-THE contracts" he says, "all provide
penalties for failure to complete work in
time Penalties for delay have frequently
been imposed upon contractors by the
Navy Department, but, unfortunately, Con-
gress has in almost every instance, when it
was asked, relieved against these penalties
The effect Of such acts is necessarily de-
moralizing 1t is hoped that penalties in
Cured in the future will be allowed to
stard."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
The Air Was Not Pure.

From the Detroit Free Press.
A man from the tamarack swamp went to
Kansas. thinking to improve his condition,
but after two years of it returned to his
native heath.
How did you like it out there?" asked
an acquaintance.
MOT very much"
IT'S a good country, amt it?'
I've seen better"
THE air is better than it is here, ain'i
it?"
Sometimes 1t is; but not always"
Il don't see why it amt as good at one
time another"
well, it amt"
''Why?"
Cyclones"
i thought they purified it?'
That's what thought till 1 tried Ii, but
when l had to breathe furniture and wealth
er boardin' an bed clos ard shingles an
live stock and household goods and farms
and fence rails and that sort of things
about three times week / sort of changed
my mind and CANT away. Kansas may
have some advantages, but air amt one OF
them, as a steady thing"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
THE COURTS.
EQUITY Court No. Judge {

Equity Court No. Judge Cox.
Clark agt. Elliott; H. Walker Tucker made
Iarty in the cause. Taylor agt. Fountain
auditors report confirmed. Earnshaw agt.
Peterson; do. Gallagher agt. Fairfax; time
to take testimony limited to twelve days.
White agt. White; testimony before Robt.
j. Murray. examiner, ordered taken. Copies
agt. Mayse; appearance of absent defend
ants ordered. Yates agt Yates; divorce a
vim. mat granted. Robertson agt. Reid;
Mary Robertson appointed guardian ad
Item. Lichliter agt. Bolden; pro confesso
against defendant, Bolden, granted. Hoover
sgt. Hoover; testimony before W. Ward
Mohun, examiner, ordered taken Black
ston agt. Blackston; divorce a VIM mat.
granted. Hall agt. Hall; do. (for defend
anti. Somerfield agt. Somerfield; divorce
win. mat. granted.
Circuit Court No. Judge Cox.
Watson Bros. agt. Third Colored Baptist
Church; judgment by default.
Probate Court-Judge Cox.
Estate of Thomas Johnson; will partly
proved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
TROOP AS PRACTICE MARCH.
The Members Went to Great Falls nni
Returned.


About thirty-five members of troop A,
District National Guard, participated in the
march to Great Falls, Nd, Saturday even
ing, the return to the city being made at
about II o'clock last evening. First Lieut..
Charles L. Beatty was in command, in the
absence of Capt. H. s., Barbour, and, leav-
ing here at $50 Saturday evening, they
reached Great Falls about midnight The
command rested under the trees and on the
porches of the hotel. and Sunday was spent
in the pursuit of general good time. Up
on invitation they took dinner at the hotel
and during the day the command was pho
tographed. The troop left Great Falls
about o'clock last evening, stopping on
the way home at Cabin John bridge and at
BrilPs. On the way out Saturday evening
Private c. H. Bliss horse stumbled, and in
falling broke the knee cap of one of its fore
legs. Just before reaching Cabin John bridge
the horse of Sergt Harold Stewart fell, while
the command was at a gallop, and, rolling
over him, bruised the sergeant quite badly
although not seriously. Some fifteen or
twenty men galloped over the horse and
sergeant, and it was at first believed that
the sergeant had been seriously injured.
Surgeon C. w. Birdsall and Bugler Vogel
accompanied the troop.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
Bicycles in the Army.

Reports received by the signal service
show another important use for the bicycle
in the military service. This consists in the
laying of telegraph lines. Experiments
having this end in view were made near
San Antonio. Texas. by Capt Thompson,
and proved very successful A light reel
containing one mile of wire was rugged
over the rear wheel of a machine, and the
rider started to run 1t out. The run was
made and communication established with
the starting point in about eight minutes
The return trip, Keeling the wire up, was
made in about the same time. The expert
ment proved highly satisfactory, the work
being done much quicker and easier than
by the old method, in which the horse was
utilized.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
FIVE BLOWN TO DEATH.
A Boy Fires Bullet Into n Dyna-
mite Store House.

mite Store House.
Edward Latshaw, subcontractor on the
government work on the Mississippi river.
had six hundred pounds of dynamite stored
away In the cellar of house at Spechts
Ferry. twelve miles north of Dubuque,
Iowa. Yesterday his son, while practicing
with a revolver, missed the target, the
bullet entering the cellar and firing the
dynamite. The house was blown to splint-
ers, and the following persons killed:
Edward Latshaw and mis- wife, Charity.
Ray Latshaw, twelve years.
Mat. Latshaw. eight years. all of Victory,
Wis.
Hans Bjornstadt of Lacrosse, Wis.
The wounded are: Matt Faber, who may
die, Ed. Bench of Laning, eye knocked out
and badly bruised and Mabel Latshaw.
skull fractured. s-
The dead are terribly mangled. A four
year-old baby in the parlor escaped unhurt.
The glass in buildings in the hamlet were
all broken, and boats on the opposite side
of the river considerably damaged. A spe-
cial train from Dubuque took physicians to
the scene and conveyed the wounded to the
hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
AMONG THE COLLEGES
Active Work Will Commence in q Few
Days
Changes and Improvement in the
Different NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
of Lectures Arranged.

The work among the local colleges will
be In full blast in a short time. and already
there is stirring activity all along the line.
Georgetown University.
The college classes will be resumed Sep
TENDER II. Solemn high mass of the Holy
Ghost will be celebrated in the Sacred
Heart Chapel by the rector at o'clock a.
M, followed by reading of the class list in
CASTOR Hail.
Rev. William Rigge. S. J., arrived from
the University of St. Louis to take charge
of a special course in astronomy under
Father Hagen, director of the astronomica al
observatory in the university
Mr.. Hisgen of Buffalo will come to follow
special course in astronomy, to fit him.
SELF for position of director of an OBJ
servatory in Holland, which position he
University.
During tine past few months additions
nave peen made to the library to the ex-
tent OF about 1000 volumes. exclusive Of
pamphlets. by donations and purchase.
Rev. William Forstall, S. j., who has been
travelling abroad during the summer, has
arrived at the university, and has been .p-
pointed professor of French literature in
the postgraduate department
Handsome cases are being erected in the
university parlors. where a valuable coll
lection of rare and beautiful birds, which
have recently arrived from Woodstock,
will be placed. -
Columbian University.
Mr.. Flavius Fisher has Just completed
portraits of two members of the faculty.
One is an oil painting of Postmaster Gen.
eral Wilson, lecturer in philosophy, and the
other is crayon portrait of Maj. ]. w.
Powell, late chief of the United States
geological survey, & trustee of the univer-
sity and lecturer on ethics. Both Of these
works will be placed In the university Ii
brary.
Prof Francis r. Fava, head of the de-
partment of civil engineering, has left for
Springfield, Mass. to attend the annual
meeting of the Society for Promotion Of
Engineering Education.
Mr. Beverly 7. Serer, registrar and libra
rian, has returned from Atlantic City, well
rested in mind and body.
DR.. Hermann Schoenfeld has lately trans
lated in German the Report of the Com
mittee of Fifteen the work of DIR. William
T. Harris, commissioner of the United
States bureau of education. This work is
one of the most famous which has lately ap-
publish a text book entitled "Maximillian
and Charles "" which is a history of the
transition period from medieval to mod
ern times.
Catholic University.
Rev. N. P. McCaffery Of st. Paul, Mimi,
who took the degree of lcentiate last year
at the university. has been appointed pro-
fessor Of philos ophy in St Thomas Sem
mary at St. Paul.
Rev. A. Orban, s. S., D. D.. librarian at
the university, has just returned from Can
ada.
Rev. George P. Leahy, one of the most
distinguished licentiates of '95. has been
appointed assistant pastor in old st. Pat
rfck's parish, at Boston.
Father Driscoll, S. s., of the Grand Sem.
mary at Montreal, was a guest at the uni
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
A nixarce Grnntcd.

Judge Cox today granted Amy l.. Yates
a divorce from William ]. Yates, and the
custody and guardianship of their two
children. In her petition for divorce, filed
April 26, 1893 Mrs. Yates stated that they
were married at Rockville, Nd, August 81,
1887, two children being born to them. She
charged her husband with being an habit
ual drunkard, and with having failed to
support his family. In a supplemental bill,
filed April u last, she charged him with
C'eserting and abandoning her April 10,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
st. Paul Packers Assign.

=. J. O'Leary & Son, packers. of st. Paul,
have made an assignment to J.F. Brodsr'ck
The liabilities of the firm, which is the
largest concern of the kind in the north
west, are about 500, 600. and 1t is claimed
that the assets will about liquidate the
obligations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
Tried to Blow Tn a Church.

An attempt was made to blow up the
First CONGREGATIONAL Church of Greenville,
Mich, yesterday with dynamite. The
charge was placed under the corner stone,
but not being put under far enough, little
damage was done The superstition is that
the attempt was made for the purpose of
obtaining large sum of money that is re-
ported to have been deposited in the corner
stone when the church was built.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
Indication. of Foul Plax.

The body of Mabel Doyle, aged seventeen,
of Dorchester. was found on the flats of the
Neponset river, near Boston, Saturday with
her head sticking in the mud. The indica-
lions point strongly to foul play. She was
last seen alive about o'clock Friday after
noon when she was walking along the
banks of the river.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
Overcome by the Heat.

Robert T. Batty. living on 18th, near NJ
street southeast, was overcome by the heat
this morning while walking on Monroe
street. Anacostia. He was assisted to a
drug store and subsequently was sent to
PROVIDENCE Hospital in the police ambu-
lance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
It's Annual Meeting.

Chaplin w. C. T. u. the largest union in
the District, will hold It's annual meeting
Wednesday at headquarters, 80 F street
northwest. Reports of the past years work
will be rendered and an interesting time is
expected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
Virginia Avenue Improvement

A long petition signed by B. b. Earn
shaw and others was received by the Com
missioners this morning. requesting the inn
prcvement of Virginia avenue southeast be-
tween 9th and 18th, and such portions of 1,
street and Georgia avenue, where they in
tersect with Virginia avenue between said
streets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
sunday school Convent;on

The Sunday schools entitled to send rep
resentatives to the convention of Sunday
School Workers, which is to be held in this
city November II to 13, 1885 number I42
at this date, against 1873 last October.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
President pieroln 1nausurated.

President Pierola was inaugurated at
Lima, Peru, yesterday. and assumed con-
troll of national affairs. The greatest en-
thusiasm prevailed in the city, and the
streets leading to the palace were impass-
able.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
Thirst for Revenge.

From Tid-Bits.
Fond Parent-"I wish, Bobby, that ]
could be little boy again."
Bobby-"I wish you could-littler than
me-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09
Arkansas Democrats,

The Arkansas Democratic Association
held a meeting at its rooms in the Typo
graphical Temple Saturday evening, and
mapped out a program for the winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09

Charles N Armstrong, whose horse was
permitted to injure a tree on Executive
forfeited IS collateral in the Police Court
today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-09

Joseph King paid IS in the Police Court
today for allowing the decayed body of q
COW to remain on the Riggs road longer
than was necessary.
The morning times., 1895-09-29
OPEN YoUR PoCKETRooKs.

The Union Veteran Legion of the Dis
for Washington the national encanpment
of the organization in 1896. Its dele
gates to the Buffalo encampment next
month are equipped with letter of in
sentiments of-which are sure 10 be seconded
by every person resident in this city.
A committee will canvass the city to-
morrow for subscriptions to defray the
expenses of this Buffalo campaign. As
everybody knows there is a good deal of
legitimate expense incident to these pre-
liniinary undertakings, and, as rule,
the longest pole knocks the pcrsimmon, al
tages to commend il to the consideration
of the Union Veteran Legion that it
enters the lists with more than ordinary
prospects for success.
The gratifying results attending the
Grand Army encampment of 1898 are
still fresh in the memory OF our people
and will stimulate them to second by
generous contributions the efforts of the
delegates in Buffalo. Every dollar thus
expended will be profitable, forever should
Washington not be selected, its propa-
ganda will give it prominence that may
be useful for some future occasion.
There is good reason for the hope. how
sver, that the general tendency of all