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Evening star., 1896-07-07

congress, and was the first colored woman
to be honored with the work of one of the
departments of the District of Columbia
w. c. 7. U. work, and has the confidence
and respect of the executive committee
and Its workers. She has organized
number of unions among the people of her
race during the year of her supcrinten-
dency, having frequently addressed the
Ministers Unions on the subject she so
proudly espouses-temperance. Two men,
Ders or the executive committee of the
Women reside in this city-Mrs. Arthur S.
Gray and Mrs. Jesse Lawson.
Mrs. Arthur Gray.
Mrs. Gray is a Kansas woman, which is
quite sufficient to speak for the zeal she
puts Into any enterprise she undertakes
She was financial secretary of the Atlanta
congress. superintendent OF the District of
Columbia exhibits at Atlanta, and has
acted as state missionary at home. She
brings to this city her excellent methods
or doing missionary work. which she has
exemplified in large measure IN the moth
ers meetings and in missionary work at
University Park Mission during the past
Two years OF her residence here.
Ida B. Wells.
Ida b. Wells born in Holly Springs,
Miss. When the Freedmen's School was es-
tablished there she attended it, but in con-
sequence of the death of both her parents
by yellow fever within a few days of each
other. in 1878. she was under the necessity
of leaving school for the purpose of under
taking the support and education of the
nve children, younger than herself who
had been SO suddenly committed to her
care.
For three years she taught in the Mar
shall and Tate counties public schools OF
Mississippi, and attending Rust University
between the terms
She was appointed to a position in the
Memphis public schools in 1854, and re-
mained tlere seven years While teaching
in Memphis she began to write for the rub-
nc press. appearing first in the Memphis
Living Way, for which she wrote some
time under the nom de plume of lola"
She dealt mostly with some one or other of
tie phases Of the race problem and her
views were widely quoted by other news
papers of the country. She became regu-
lar contributor for the Kansas City
Gate City Press, the Detroit Plain Dealer
the American Baptist, the Christian Index
and other race papers. In June, 1883 she
secured one-third interest in the Mem
PMS Free Speech, and became its editor.
Because OF utterances of the Free Speech
regarding the management OF the public
schools, in 1891, the school board decided
that they could not employ SO severe a
critic hence she was not reelected TO her
position Tor the session Of 1Sst1-92. She then
gave ner entire time TO the paper and sue
lation
The efforts OF Miss Wells. both in this
country and Europe, to create sentiment
against lynch law are well known to all
newspaper readers.
1t Is said by leading writer that few
women have higher conception of the re-
sponsibiht.es and the possibilities of her
sex than Miss Wells. She has all of a wo-
mans tenderness in all that affects our
common humanity, but she has also the
courage OF the great women of the past
who believed that they could still he wo-
manly while being more than ciphers In
| the worlds broad field of battle"
Evening star., 1896-07-07
It Was n Wonderful Egg.

From the San Francisco POST
An amusing true story is related of a
farmer who came into village grocery in
one of our western states and exhibited to
an admiring crowd an enormous egg about
six inches long, Which was laid by one Of
his old hens, says the Independent. He
had it packed in cotton. and wouldn't allow
anybody to handle it for fear of breaking
the phenomenon. The groceryman examin-
ed it with the rest, and, intending to chaf
the countryman, said: "Pshaw! I've got
something in the egg line that will beat
that" .Tll bet you five dollars you
haven't, "said the countryman, getting ex-
cited "Take it up said the groceryman;
and. going behind the counter. he brought
in the egg line that will beat it. I guess"
said he, reaching for the stakes. Hold on
thefel" said the farmer, lets see you beat
it." and handed it to the grocer. The lat
ter held out his hand for it. but dropped it
in surprise on the counter. where 1t broke
two soup plates and platter. It was Of
iron, painted white. Some folks think
they are tarnation cute" muttered the far
mer, as he pocketed the stakes and left;
but 'tainft no use buckin' az inst the solid
facts"
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Columbia Club.
PURE RYE wHIsKEY
MY OWN BRAND.
VIM. j. Donovan,
Ap25-oo3Ot' 1928 Ith st. NV.


The Greatness of This Present Age.
Archbishop Ireland, ''The Church and the Age"
In yeriest fact, the present age. pagan in
its language and in the excess of it's quail
tiles. IS in its depths instinct with Christian
emotions; it worships unwittingly at Chris
tian shrines and awaits but the warm con-
tact with the living Christian religion to
avow itself Christian
l indicate the opportunity for the great
and singular churchman. His work Is to
bridge the deep valley separating the age
from the church, to clear off the clouds
which prevent the one from seeing the
realities Of the other, to bring the church
to the age and the age to the church We
must know that the age and the church
are not hopelessly apart. The age has, as
suTediy, its errors and it's sins and these
the church never can condone With the
age conceived as the embodiment of errors
and sins the church cannot be reconcileh
But these are the accidents, not the es-
sentials, in the makeup of the age For
my part, l see In the present age one of
the mighty urheavals which occur from
time to time in humanity, causing and
marking the ascending stages in its con-
tinucus progress. Humanity strengthened
by centuries of reflection and toll, nourish-
ed and permeated by principles of Chris
tian truth. is lifting upward its whole
mass to higher regions of light and of
liberty, and demanding fuller and more
universal enjoyment of its God-giyen
rights. All this is prafsewoTthy; all this is
beautiful and noble.
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A DAM AS A LANDMARK.
Discovery of an Ancient Home Of
BeaVcrs Saves Rich Land.

Beavers Saves Rich Land
From the Pittsburg Telegraph
A very interesting suit has just been de-
cided in the court of common pleas OF
Huntington county.
About two years ago Clearf5eld county
surveyor, Thomas W. Moore, applied at
the land office in Harrisburg for a war
rant upon tract of land in Carbon town.
ship. this county, claiming that the land
was vacant. The warrant being issued,
the Rockhll Iron and Coal Company dis
covered that the tract was one of their
most valued pieces Of coal land, worth
$4,000. They, therefore, flied a cayeat pro-
testing against Moore's claim and at the
hearing Secretary Stewart decided that
the controversy was too complicated for
him or his Office, and referred it to the
courts of this county for settlement.
Upon the trial of the case which oc-
cupied six days OF court, Moore claimed
that the land called for in the old war
rant OF liS6. on which the company based
their title, was not located on the trac:
in dispute at all, but somewhere else in the
township.
The line trees having nearly all disap-
peared the company would have had some
trouble establishing their title had il not
been that their old warrant of 11S6 called
for beaver dam in Great Trough creek,
and that the company had taken the pre-
caution to send Prof. Wilcox of Phila-
delphia, an expert on beavers and their
habits. and two surveyors down to search
for the old dam.
The professor ard his assistants dug
down into the bottom of the stream at
the point where legend fixed its location.
After taking out a couple Of feet OF wash
and gravel which had accumulated In the
bed Of the creek within the last century
they were rev arded by finding the old dam
made by the beavers during or prior to the
10 hn fN-la t,frnsy -f,lre -
the dam We're found buried side by side in
regular OF der, and the marks of the beav-
ers' teeth were plainly visible in the wood.
When the sticks came into contact with
the air they crumbled away to such an ex-
tent that 1t was with difficulty any were
preserved ard brought into court
These relics from the beaver dam, with
Prof. Wilcox's testimony, turned the tide
in favor of the Rock Hill Company, and
the Jury had little trouble in agreeing upon
a verdict in their favor. Judge Longe-
necker of Bedford presided. Judge Bailey
having been once corcerned in the case.
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The Speed of Bicycles.
To the Editor of The Evening Star.


A few days ago 1 saw published the pro-
posed police regulations to go into effect
July 9 regarding the speed and control of
bicycles and other vehicles.
have been a wheelman for twelve wears.
and, with others who use the wheel as an
aid to business as we'll as pleasure, l am
glad that rules have been promulgated to
restrain reckless travel on our CITY streets,
When the legal speed of bicycles was an
nounced as twelve miles per hour between
crossings and eight miles at crossings /
regarded the rate as a just one which no
careful wheelman would allow himself to
exceed In the present crowded conditions of
our thoroughfares. But now the Commits
sioners reduce the speed to eight miles
between crossings and to the very slow
rate of six miles at crossings in all parts
of the city. Many riders use their wheels
almost entirely to aid in quickly going
from place to place on business, hoping
in 80 doing to be able to do better thar
the cable cars, especially in the less fire.
quented streets, out if the new rules are
enforced it will practically make the wheel
useless to the many riders who are as care
full, II not more SO, than any driver or pc
destrlan who use the streets.
The cars, weighing many hundred times
more than the wheel and rider, are al
lowed to cross the most crowded thorough
fares, such as Pennsylvania avenue and
7th street. 9th and f streets, and 7th and
F streets, etc, at ten miles per hour, places
where good wheelmen (not the fools who
would endanger life no matter what the
law provided would not trust themselves
to travel at any greater speed. The wheel
may be guided around the pedestrian, while
the cars cannot. The wheel may be stop
ped much quicker than the heavy car. A
collision between the wheel ana the pedes-
trian does not approach the danger of a
collision with the car. The result of such
a collision to the wheel and rider is much
more disastrous than to the car. The
wheelman has his own limbs property and
hfe at stake, where the car or other We
hicle has not.
The fact that the proposed rules were
hastened, if not created, because one care
less, inexcusab BILE rlGer (not a. true wheel
NAM caused the death of a pedestrian, has
been roted by all Wheelmen, who were in
no way responsible, and who would gladly
aid in the apprehension and punishment OF
the criminal; but the fact remains thai
they are in reality to be punished for the
recklessness CT one VINO has no right tC
ride the wheel.
l have no doubt but that all wheelmen
many of whom have traversed our city
streets for number of years at greater
speed than twelve miles per hour without
accident, are willing to comply with the
eight to twelve miles rate, for the sake OF
common safety, svenithough 1t Is less thar
that allowed the motor and cable cars.
Cannot The Star, through it's kind Of
fees, secure to those of it's readers who use
the wheel as an adjunct to business the
right to move through the streets at Least
as fast as the cable car?
w. H DOBSON, MD.
Evening star., 1896-07-07
LENIENT WITH TEBEAU.
The League Directors Came Near Ex-
pellfnE Him.

A special sent out from Pittsburg declares
the real cause of the f1ning of Manager Te-
beau of the Cleveland club by the mag
mates at their meeting last week to have
been for addressing filthy language to Pres
ident Stuckey, who was with his wife and
daughter at the time.
In the disputed game at Louisville, ac-
co1ding to the story, President Stuckey
was in box with his wife and daughter
In the next box was ball crank, who was
making life burden to Tebeau. The
Cleveland manager thought 1t was Stuckey
who was making all the fuss, and after an
exceptionally hot shot from the boxes Te-
beau, the story goes, ran over to the grand
stand and made a remark to DR.. Stuckey
relating to Mrs. and Miss Stuckey.
The entire Stuckey family left the box at
once, as did all within the hearing of Te-
beau. There ia rumor that the magnates
at their meeting thought seriously Of ex-
pelling Tebeau from the National League
at once, instead of filming him. as they
afterward did. At all events the Cleveland
people have been given to understand that
the magnates do not care whether Tebeau
pays his fine within the time limit or not,
but that he will be expelled within one
hour after the time Is up.
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The Passing Honeymoon.

From the Indianapolis Journal.
He-"Why, we've got a cricket In the
house! Isn't it cheerful?"
She-"Yes. And SO intelligent. Hear him
talking about the furniture. How distinctly
he says Cheap! cheap!"
However, as she had been that day on
visit TO her sister, whose husband was get
ting s1S a week. while her own dear new
hubby got but s14, perhaps her discomfort
WAS excuSahle.
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Painful Suspense.

From the Cleveland Post.
"What,' asked the commander anxiously,
sis that brisk firing off to the leftT'
1--WE are not as yet definitely Informed, ~
Iejoined the aid-de-camp. whether 1t Is a
general engagement or a policeman shoot
ing a mad dog
With the fate Of nations in the balance,
the uncertainty was awful.
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Exciting Game Mt Chicago.

The most exciting game of the season oc-
CURED yesterday at Chicago with Balti-
more. The champions took a big lead,
which was held until the eighth. when the
Colts batted Hoffer out of the box. In the
ninth. with two out and the bases full
Clarke stepped on the plate after two
strikes had been called and was struck by
the next ball. Anson claimed it to be the
third strike, but Umpire Emslie ruled
OF 1herwise. Clarke, a moment later sent in
the winning runs with two-bagger
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From the Indianapolis News.

From the indianapolis News.
Mr. Wick w:re-"What ridiculous, impossi-
Bile Things these fashion plates are
Mrs Wickwire-"I know they used to be.
but most of them are engraved from photo
graphs nowadays"
Mr.. W;ckwire-''Ths one can't be- Here
are two women going in opposite directions,
both with brand new gowns on and neither
looking back at the other"
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st. Paul. the Western League will demand
the return to that club of Mertes.
Comiskey insists that McGill and the loan
Of Turner for the season were the consid-
erations for which he gave up Mertes.
If he cannot have Turner he does not want
McGill. The affair, is looked upon in the
western League as, case OF "sandpag-
ging."
Umpire Hurst's Course.
In referring to the pugilistic incident at
National Park yesterday the Philadelphia
Inquirer says: Bv
while the action of Mr.. Hurst will be
condemned by every lover of the national
pastime who only sees the game from
distance, 1t will be condoned by every one
who Is familiar with the abuses to which the
umpire Is subjected The trouble is not so
much with the umpire and players as with
the sycophant1c and hypocrftical club own
ers, who get together twice a year and pass
rules for the government of the game, which
they will not see enforced, and which they
DO not mean shall be enforced. If the own
ers of the twelve clubs constituting the
league had the slightest regard for their
word such scenes as that of yesterday would
be impossible
Roasting the Phillies.
The Philadelphia Times grows poetic in
speaking of the departure of the Phillies
Tor the western trips. Following are sample
verses:
Hark! bark! The dogs do bark!
The Phillies are out Of town.
II some good soul will keep them there,
We promise not to frown.
Hey, diddle-diddle, the cat and the fiddle;
The Phillies play baIl-they do.
The little dog laughs to see such sport,
Ana every one else laughs, too.
The fireworks fiends having burned up all
the grass IN Philadelphia, it is reported that
the goat has to get living off the left field
seats, which have become messy for want
of use.
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Well Matched ut St. Louis.

1t was tie at st. Louis with the Giants.
Both clubs had scored runs in the ninth,
but rain stopped the play, and the score
reverted to the eighth. Donohue and Sui
livan both pitched good ball. but the field
work of the Browns may have seen better
days. Because of constant wrangling Um-
pire keefe. in the fifth inning, refused to
officiate longer and left the field.
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Earned runs-Cleveland, I Brooklyn I. Left on
bases-Cleveand, 3; Brooklyn A. First base on
balls-On Payne. l. Struck out-By Payne, 4; By
Wallace, |. Two-base hits-Chlls. Wallace, An
dersOn Sacrifice hits-Tebeau, Wallace. Stolen
bases-McGarr. Double plays-Chds to McKean
to Tebeau; Shiade to Lachance; Shinde, Shoch to
iachance. Time-One hour and thirty minutes
lmDire-Sheridan
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LENIENT WITH CAPT. TEBEAU
Record of the Clubs.

TOday's Schedule.
Pittsburg at Washington.
Baltimore at Chicago.
Boston at Louisville.
New York at st. Louis.
Brooklyn at Cleveland.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati.
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Totals 10 II y IS I Totals. G 22i Q
CiIn inrati. ......... 0 % / 3 x-1O
Philadelphia. 1 o y o Q 2 G
Earned rrEs-Cncinnati. 2: Philadelphia, 5. Two
b:se hits-FOreman Ewing, II Huen. Thrce-base
hit-Miller. Sacrifice hts-Hoy, Burke t2y. Stolen
bases,Ewins t2,. McPtee 81. Irwin, Merten HUI
len. Double piays-Smth, Mcrhee, Irwin, Fore
inan and McIhee. First base on balls-Of Fore
Inan. 2: of keenr7 T. Hit by pitched ball-by
Foreman, l; by keener, l. Struck out-By Fore
man. . Passed ball-Grady. Tute-Two hours
ten mir nufe IInlI,r -IHn1
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Gets Even.

Gets Even.
From the Chicago Record.
Man, what do you do when another girl
Bnuhs your"
Il snub the next girl / meet"
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6ALTINORE.

Earned runs-Chicago, 8; Baltimore, o. Two-base
hits-Dahlen. Anson, Pfeher, Clarke. Threebase
hit-Clarke. Home run-Anson. Sacrifice hit
Dahlen. Stolen bases-Eseritt (2y. Anson, Jennings
Dohnelly. Double play-Reitx and Doyle. Struck
out-By Terry, 2; by HofYer, 2. Bases on balls
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Earned runs-St. Louis 81 New York 2. Two-base
hits-Connor, Gleason Three-hase hits-IIart, Da-
Wis Home runs-cross, 1iernan. Stolen bases
Davis y, Gleason. Douglass Cross. First base on
bllls-Of Sullivan, =: off Donohue, g Hit by
pitched ball-By Sullivan l. Struck out-By Dono-
hue, !; Ly Sullivan, /. Time-Two hours and five
minutes Umpires-keefe and MacFarland and
Fin
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Notes.
Pittsburg again today.
Another ladies' day.


Another ladies' day.
Last game here until July 81.
Hurst again demonstrated that he is an
umpire in every sense of the word.
Joyce was presented with costly UNI
brella as he went to bat in the first inning
Sugden was unfortunate. He suffered d
number of slight injuries.
Abbey made great slide to first in the
third in an effort to reach the bag Erior to
Connie Mack, the latter fielding the ball.
OBrien placed his hits very skillfully.
DE Mortreville's single to left in the third
would easily have been . two-bagger had
second base been clear.
Stencil shut out several Washington runs
m the ceVenth by good running catch.
Ihree men were on bases, with two out, at
the time
Many of the spectators followed Umpire
Hurst around the left field seats and there
seems to be no doubt that the umpire struck
Hawley and Sterzel. The pair failed to
1etaliate, but the incident caused some ex-
element.
The defeat of the Phill.es yesterday sent
them into eighth place, Washington having
the better Of them by the fraction of a
per cent.
Pitcher Harper has been recalled by
Brooklyn ard left Scranton last night to
tc.n that club at Cleveland.
The Philadelphia Club is unloading play
ers at rapid rate. Lucid and Beam are
the latest to go. and they, with Brouthers,
make three that were served with notices
inside of fcrty-eight hours.
The Louisville club is reported to be al
ready showing the effects Of getting rid of
the factions, harmony being alone respons-
lille for yesterdays victory. Another shake
up was made last night. First Baseman
Hass'. maer ard Catcher kinslow were re-
leased. Catcher Warner and Pitcher Cum
ningham are on the ragged edge. Holmes
has been reinstated in center field and Dex-
ter brought behind the bat. Crooks will be
irstalled at second base this afternoon and
Rogers at third Clineman going to short
ard Cassidy TO first. For the first time in
months all the players are in harmony and
are on speaking terms. Louisville is said to
he still ready to give Fraser and bonus to
Ihiladelphia for La
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Boston was defeated by the reorganized
Colonels in an interesting game at Louis
Vile. Tenney was put out Of the game for
objecting to decisions. Collins received
gold-headed cane, the gift of Louisville
friends
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Haverford.s Team Abrond.

In the cricket match between the Haley
bury. England. College eleven and the
eleven from Haverford, Pa, yesterday the
Americans made 245 runs for three wickets.
MifIiin made Sc; Adams, 123: Howson, O:
Lester, IS, and not out, and Hinch1aan, s.
and not out. Haileybury made 137 runs
for three wickets
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Eying.s Red. Again Win.

Cincinnati easily defeated Philadelphia,
the latter club fielding loosely and using
poor judgment on the bases. The fielding
OF McPhee was the feature of the game.
CINCINNATI pHII,ADEI I.HIA
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Earned runs Washington. 2; Pittsburg 2. Two
base hits-McGure, DeMontreville and O'Brien.
Three-bese hit-OBrien Stolen base-Selbach.
Double play-Sugden to Ely. First base on balls
on Mercer 2; of Hawley, 8. Hit by pitched ball
Mercer Joyce. Struck out-By Mercer /; by
Hawley, 2 Time-Two hours and thirty-seven
minutes, Cmpire-Hurst.
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The Reoreanized Colonels.

OF Terry, 4; OF Hofrer, 8; off Esper, 1. Wild
pftch-Terry. Hit with ban-Jennings. Time
Two hours and fifty minutes. Umpre-Emslfe.
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Totals. O u - Il Totals.... 8 "a 10 8


louisville. ............ o 0 2 x 8
Boston. on............... o o o o
Earned runs-Louisville, 2; Boston. /. First base
on errors-Louisyille. l. Left on bases-Lousville,
4; Boston, Z. First base l,alls-On Frazer, 2;
on Lewis. 4. Struck out-By Frazer, 8; by Lewis.
Home run-iamilt N. Three-base hit-Mc-
Creery. TwO-base hit-Tucher. Sacrifice hits
Holmes l2). Stolen bases-Clingman ", Dexter
q, Clarke. Long, Collins. Double play-Miller.
Hassamaer Dexter. Wild pitch-F-azer. Passed
ball-De1ter Tfme-Tsvo hours and fifteen min
Evening star., 1896-07-07

A special from Cincinnati says: The Ma
tional League having recalled Turner from
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Close at Cleveland.

1t was close contest at Cleveland with
Brooklyn. Both Payne and Wallace did
good work. the latter winning his game in
the eighth with two-bagger