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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13
CLOSE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Exercises Next Week at the Different
Buildings
Omcials Who VIII Preside and Speak
at the Eveat.Irhs Normal
Schools.

The public schools of the District Of Co.
lumbia will all formally close next week
for the school year. The high schools end
their sessions Monday, and that evening
the commencement exercises Of the Bush
ness High School are to be held at Aliens
Grand Opera House. Seventy.one young
men and women will receive diplomas as
graduates of the two-year course. Com
missioner John w. Ross, president of the
board of District Commissioners, is to pre-
side, and Rev. DR.. Radcliffe, pastor of the
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church.
will open the exercises with prayer. The
address Of the evening will be delivered by
Mr.. Simon Wolf, and District Commission
er George Truesdell will present the diplo-
mas to the graduates.
The Washington Normal School will hold
commencement exercises Tuesday morning
at 1880 o'clock In the Normal School
rooms at the Franklin building The grad
yates number forty-five young ladies and
gentlemen, and Mr.. William b. Powell SUI
perintendent Of public schools, will act as
presiding officer. Or. F. r. Lane, director
of the High School, is to address the grad
yates as representative of the school from
whence they came. and Mr.. A: T. Stuart.
supervising principal Of the third division.
Will speak as representative Of the schools
to which the graduates are to go as teach
ers. Mr.. Jesse H.. Wilson, chairman of the
CoiiLHlttee Ola f1lSn ana Normal Schools
OF the board of public school trustees will
award the diplomas, and there will be mu-
sic by the class under the direction of
Miss Scammell.
The graded schools cease work for the
year Wednesday without special exer-
clseS except such as the teachers NAV
decide upon in order to make the occa sion
pleasant one for the children. Wednes-
day evening at the Academy of Music the
colored high and normal schools will cere-
moniously send forth their classes of 1886.
Commissioner Ross will present diplomas
to twenty nine graduates from the Normal
School ard forty-six from the High School.
The salutatory will be by William E.
Smoot. while the address of the evening
is to be delivered by Rev. j. T. Jenifer.
An grafton and valedictory will be given
by Burrell w. Jefferson and Othie NJ.
Brooks, respectively. The music will be
by the Marine Band.
The final event of the week will be the
graduation of 40 young ladies and gentle
men from the Central Eastern and West
ern High schools. The exercises will be
held at Aliens Grand Opera House Thurs
day evening at o'clock Commissioner
John w. Ross will preside and Judge
Charles c. Cole of the Supreme Court of
the District of Columbia will deliver the
address Of the evening. Ex-Commissionar
Myron NJ. Parker will present the diplomas
to the graduates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13
A Town in n PartnershfN.
From the indianapolis News.

From the indianapolis News.
The town board Of Sullivan, Ind. has
entered into a rtnorship with the Howe
Pump and Engine Company of Indianapolis
to construct system Of water works This
calls for an expenditure of $4,000. Owing
to the condition of finances the town OF
Sullivan cannot issue more than $4,000 in
bonds without going beyond the constitu-
tional limit. and to raise the necessary
*IaVo this peculiar partnership has been
entered into. After the works are COM
pieted the Howe company will sell the
plant TO the town, taking a first mortgage
Tor Sia,pco. and so in this way construct
the works without conflicting with the law.
The partnership thus formed is undoubted-
ly without parallel and owing to numer-
Gus objections the courts may be called
upon to set Ii aside. AS II stands The sit
uation VIII enlist the attention of CONTRACT
tors and impecunious towns all over thu
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13
DS ntV Sweet Peas


From the New ork Sun.
The stolen Burden jewels We're detained
in the New York custom house for two
purposes: First, to enable the authorities
to appraisa the value of the diamonds and
secondly. 10 give them an opportunity to
determine whether the gems were dutiable
or not. After two hours conference"
We are informed, the question whether
Mr.. Burden would be called upon to pay
$1,000 on the Jewels as a new importation
was left undecided. The mere suggestion
that the plundered owner should be made
to pay duty on these diamonds strikes us
as m0nstrous. They were taken out of the
country Enormously and against his WILL
and the proposition that he should be pun
ished for his misfortune in thus losing
them by being compelled to pay the import
duty anew IS repugnant to every principle
of common honesty, and We believe Is with
out support in law. The exacton of the
duty from Mr.. Burden would make the
United States profit by the robbery to the
e2lte 1t of $4,000. The revenue is short. we
know, but the people can get along with
out this money. 1t would burn a hole in
the treasury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13
From the Chicago Post

"Oh, 1t can't fall" he said, in explaining
his scheme, land there's whole mint of
money In 1t. It's the greatest thing in the
magazine line that you ever heard of. You
see. would offer special Inducements to
poets and literary amateurs and accept
everything that they sent in"
But that would bankrupt YOU"
mot at all. It would make my fortune, I
would accept everything to be paid for on
publication, and I'd have every poet in the
country buying the magazine. Just think
Of the oirculadonr'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13
At the Wrong NuptinIs.

IF any msn can show Just cause why
these two persons may not be lawfully
Joined together let him now speak or else
hereafter forever hold his peace
Slowly and impressively the officiating
clergyman spoke these words.
The solemn pause that followed their ut
terance was broken by a deep, strong
voice from the rear Of the church:
May 1 ask you. sir, to repeat the names
of those two persons who stand before you
as candidates for matrimony"
George Washington SIP oonamore and Jo-
phenia Shaw" answered the clergyman,
astonished at the Interruption.
go ahead with the marrying" rejoin-
ed the owner Of the deep voice. clappIng
on his hat and starting for the door, ITS
all right 1 had just got here. and hadn't
heard the names The wedding I'm trying
to stop must be in the church a block and
a half bel wv here"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13

A German Inventor has hit upon a meth
cd of putting stone soles on boots and
shoes. He mixes a waterproof glue with
a suitable quantity of clean quartz sand
and spreads it over the leather sole used
as foundation. These quartz soles are.
said to be very flexible and practically in
destructible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13
New Bicycle Danger.

From the New York Press,
Aunt am not sure that 1 altogether
approve that young Mr.. Wobbleye Are
you thrown much together?"
Clara-"Oh, yes, auntie. He takes me
riding on his tandem every dayr'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13
A Real Philnnthropi.t

From the Louisville Courief-Journal
Poor Dick is gone! He was a devoted
cyclist, wasn't fle?''
Eyes, indeed! He left a Will stating that
he was to be cremated and used to helm
out on our new cinde- path
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13

The first step in the attacks on the last
republican apportfonment of Wisconsin
was made yesterday, State Senator Krazna
Of Milwaukee having begun Injunction pro-
ceedings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13

From the Cleveland I'lain Dealer.
1T seemed like waste of time" said
a gentleman who passed an evening with
Mr.. Edison in Norwalk, Ohio, recently,
Ito hear Mr.. Edison rolling off story after
story. and demanding of all his acquaint
arces to tell him more, when he knew how
much information we might have received
from him. / finally asked him how he
got to be such story teller. Well he
replied, when 1 was quite a young man
I was a telegraph operator during the
war. I was stationed at ST. Louis, which
was sort of distributing point for large
district, and when we would get our batch
of stuff off, and we still had several hours
to put in, used to get pretty tired. Then
we would begin to call up the operator at
the other end of the line and gossip with
him. i always liked stories, and if Chi
Cago had a good one he would wire it to
me. Then / would send that off to Louis
Vile and New York and Cincinnati. and
hear them laugh over it by wiring back,
"Ha, ha.'' over the wire. In this way
We would get all the best stories there
Were going. and We would always write
them out for the day men. 1t got to be
sort of passion after a while, and has
stuck to me ever since"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13
Education of Women in Turkey.

Miss Mary Mills Patrick in the Forum.
Turkish girls Of the better class in the
cities, after they are too old to attend
the primary schools, are largely educated
at home by governesses, many of whom
come from England and France, but, I'M
fortunately, do not usually represent the
highest culture of those nations, so that
real love of study is not as a rule devel-
oped under their influence. Turkish Wo-
men have a great aptitude for foreign Ian
guagCs. and those We meet on the steamers
of the Bosphorus often speak French. and
it is not unusual for them to speak Ger
man and English also. 1t is a well-knowl
fact that many Turkish women are en-
gagged in trade, some even carrying on an
extensive business involving frequent jour
neys to Egypt and other places. which pre-
supposes the ability to read and write, as
we'll as some knowledge of arithmetic.
Moreover, conversation with the MuSSul-
man women in the capital reveals some
progress at the pre- sent time in independ-
ence of thought. and, while social condi-
lions have unavoidably arrested the devel-
opment of Turkish women class, forces
are slowly but surely working among them
that will result in their final emancipation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13
PACIFIC COAST FORESTS.
They Contain Nearly One-HnIf Of This
COuntry's Standing Timber,


Couhtry's Standing Timber.
From the New Orleans pic,yune.
The Department of Agriculture at Wash
irgton has issued an interesting report of
the forestry and timber interests of the
United States
From it's data it is Learn ed that the for
est area of the United States Exclusive of
Alaska) may be placed at somewhat less
tban 5o.OOO.0OO acres. This does not in
clude much brush and waste land, which
Is, and Will remain for a long time without
aEy economic value. This area Is very
uhevenly distributed: seven-tenths are
1ouho on the Atlantic side of the continent
oniy one-tenth on the Pacific coast, an
cther tenth on the Rocky mountains the
talahce being scattered over the interior
OF the western states.
Both the New England states and the
southern states have still 30 per cent of
the1r area, more or less under forest
cover; but IN the former the merchantabl
timber has been largely removed.
Inc character of the forest growth va
ries In the different regiCrs. On the Pa
enc coast hard woods are rare, the prin-
cipal growth being coniferous and of ex-
.raorainary development. Besides gigantic
req woods, the soft sugar pine and the
nara Dull pine, various spruces and frs,
cedars, hemlocks and larch form the val
liable supplies.
the 1NoSAy mountains no hard woods
VI commercial value occur the growth be-
ing mainly OF spruces. frs and bull pire,
win other pines and cedars of more or
less value.
me southern states contain in their more
southern section large areas occupied al
most exclusively bv pine forest, with the
cypress In the bottom lar DIS. The more
northern portions are covered with hard
woods almost exclusively, and Intervening
Is region or mixed hard wood and conf
erouS growth. Spruces, frs and hemlocks
are are Iouna IN small quantities confined to
tne mountain regions. =.
Inc northern states are mainly occupied
Dy nara wood ErowthS, with coniferous
Iitermlxed sometimes the latter becoming
entirely dominant, as I'M the spruce forests
oi maine, New Hampshire, or the Adiron-
JACKS ana here and thereiin the pineries
OK Michigan. Wisconsin and Minnesota, or
IN the hemlock regions of Pennsylvania
and New York.
A very rough and ppebaBly very liberal
estimate Of the amounts Of timber standing
Ill the various regions reSdy for the az
would give the following figures:
Feet
- Board Measure
SLu.hern states. 100 0,0O0,0 600
S Sa states 5oO,6oO,0Oo, 900
Rocl .;........r NJ 900 O03, O0O, 00o
i''eNS mountains ...o,",a 1oo,0oo.oc0.0oo
Total; .................ss2 800, OOo, ooo, ooo
Inc total annual cut, including all ma
ter1al requiring bolt or log size, -:s esti-
mated at 4O,O00.OO0,O00 feet, board meas
ure.
The lumber industries employ capital to
the extent Of over 81, OO0. OGO,OOO. They en-
pioy nearly IOOoSD00 men, pay out over
$40O,6Oo,0OO In yearly wages and produce
over 5000 600 of commercial material.
all OF which is an important showing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13
SH toS2. 5OWrapperS,g 500

No Wrapper Offering We have ever made
near equals this in Importance, for these
prices are much less than half
Persian Figured Satecn. Dresden Figured
Lawn, indigo Blue pcrcale. SIMPSONS
Prints and Fine Striped Linen Lawn Wrap
pers some with three corded rufrs- all
with ide skirts, lined down 10 waists,
and large Bishop sleeVes-wo-th from 81
TO S2.Jo-to 90 at 5gc., cash or credit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-13

The most attractive feature Of a newly
opened hotel is the Illuminated electric
fountain which plays each night in the
courtyard. The fountain icing a novelty
Strand and neighbcring thoroughfares.
This requires the united efforts of a num-
Der Of hotel porters and police to prevent
Interference with the guests of the hotel
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-10-31

is crushing blow to the liberals, and
they so regard it. Archbishop Ire
land, impetuous as usual, openly
questions its wisdom, and talks about
re-electing Bishop Keane to the rec
torship at the meeting of the trustees
in Washington on October 81. An
utterance like this is almost unprec-
edented, and serves to show the in
tensity of the feeling between the
two great parties in the American
Catholic Church.
While both parties are entirely 10y
al to the Church, the differences be-
tween them are irreconcilable. The
u tramontanes ar the traditionalists
of the Church. They lay the empha
sis on the celestial side of its life,
and they are inclined to stretch to
their utmost limit the dogmas that
have grown out of the Papal claims.
The liberals are in favor of putting
the Church in line with modern
thought and modern ideas, 80 far as
can be done consistently with it's be-
liefs and principles. They are es-
pecially anxious to have the Church
commend itself to the American peo-
pie; and they are, therefore, opposed
to fastening on the American Church
any merely National or race opinions
or customs of Europe that would
ALLEVIATE Americans from the Church.
Asa rule, non-Catholics hope for the
ultimate triumph of the liberals. But
some of them who are most strongly
opposed to Roman Catholicism would
like the ultramontanes to become
dominant, because, in their opinion,
the policy of the ultramontanes
would weaken and discredit the
Church in this country, while the
policy of the liberals would strength
Ell it.-Ne,C York Tribune.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-10-31

its last rays are just glimmering on
the SUBMITS of the mountains, the
herdsman who dwells on the Hottest
peak, takes his horn and trumphets
forth: "Praise be to the Lord God!"
And the herdsmen in the neighbor-
hood, take their horns and repeat the
words. This often continues quar-
ter of an hour, while op4sh sides the
mountains echo the name of God.
And 80 shall it be at last. When
every Wilderness shall have yielded
up its strayed and lost, when all are
safely gathered into the one fold of
the one Shepherd, when they shall
go no more forth from the habita-
tions of safety,-then will every mes
senger of peace and good will, every
apostle of righteousness, every re-
deemer who saved some wretched
wanderer, who found and restored
some lost one, lift up his voice and
sing, ''Praise be to the Lord, Godp'
And the universe shall ring with the
sound, and hell's emptied dungeons
shall send the echo back, "Praise be
to the Lord GodT
These are the great principles that
Jesus proclaimed and lived. He did
not find them out by direct revela-
ton from on high. They were not
written on the sky or Numbered from
the clouds. There was no special
and peculiar and mysterious way in
which they were communicated. He
found them within. He found them
written in his own nature. He tested
them by his own experience. No one
ever believed so thoro ughly in God
or trusted the Heavenly Father, as
he did. No one ever lived such life
of righteousness. And the life that
was in him is today the light of men.
One is Christian, not because he
believes certain things about Christ,
but because he is animated by the
same spirit. The light Of that life
never ceases to fall upon our path
way. Through all clouds and dark
ness it pierces. Whatever may be
uncertain, it is always right to cul-
tivate his disposition. Whatever
doubts and difficulties may come, to
live as he lived is supremely good.
Whatever creeds may lose their hold
upon us, whatever beliefs may break
in pieces, to believe in love, to be-
lieve in God and to believe in man,
and then to act upon the basis of
that belief by works, and to show
forth that faith, lis to have religion
that no criticism can destroy, that
no superstition can mar, that no
skepticism can shake. The light of
that life will be with us in the valley
of the shadow; when we cross the
dark stream. it will gild the last bill
lows with glory.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-10-31

the word of long age becomes SER
mon for today, and we arise by the
power Of the reserved moral force
which never can all filter out of any
soul, and we say, 81 will go to my
Father. will confess my faults-I
will be man. l will be woman.
Where the tares have grown shall be
planted food; where these thistles
grew flowers shall burst into bud and
bloom"
When a soul reaches such reAec-
tions and determines to readjust all
conduct to the high order of heaven,
such soul discovers that God is
kind. The angels of heaven rejoice
when men and women come to feel
some deep need in their natures.
Then it is that God finds his oppor-
tunity to enter into the heart and
supply its want and make it feel the
sweetness of life and the richness
of his wisdom. We poor mortals live
little knowing how wonderful is that
peace which passeth understanding.
Our attitude is both faithless and
suspicious. Myriads suspect the in
tegrity of the divine promise. Before
Christ came they did and since his
coming the ancient doubt has hung
over the world. Somehow men have
believed nature treacherous enemy.
They have called God the enemy of
man, and man the enemy of God.
But he who came, Jesus the Christ,
came with complete acknowledge
and he stood upon the mountain
heights of inspiration and told the
world that all of its faithless fear was
without foundation; that the GEN.
turtles of suspicion had made the race
slavish and unhappy and if the race
could grow into purity of heart G rod
could be seen and world revealed
full of endless harmonies and perfect
JOY. Let man enter into life and he
shall find satisfaction. Let him re-
turn to the Fathers home and he
shall meet with welcome reception
No man who does the right can be
kept without Man need not knock
at heavens gate and implore admis-
sion. Heaven is his home. Let him
go up and open the door. The mo
ment he desires pure life, that mo-
ment he will strive for purity. The
moment there is need all the spirit
ual energies of the universe are con-
centrated to supply the need. God
permits no soul to suffer long. Re
morse is the dark garden soil where
grow the seeds and bloom the flowers
of prayer. Hunger attracts food.
Darkness attracts light. Ignorance
attracts knowledge. Sickness attracts
the physician. A world of darkness
and vice attracts the Christ And if
there be hell heaven will be in tumult
and tears until an angel throng is
sent to sing above its ruins the words
of "peace, good will"
MACoMB. ILL.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-10-31
THE CATHOLIC CONTROVERSY
REVIVED.

The sudden and unexpected re
moval last week of Bishop Keane
from the rectorship of the Catholic
University at Washington by the
Pope has excited widespread COM
ment, and may reopen the bitter
Cahensly controversy of three years
ago. The facts are briefly these:
Bishop Keane has been the first and
only rector of the Catholic University.
Its policy has been largely shaped
by him. Much of the money already
contributed to it is said to have been
given to it because he was at its head.
1t is further declared that since his
deposition that some persons who
had promised to remember the Uni
versity have decided not to do 80
The Bishop appears to have been an
excellent administrator. His aim has
been to make the University at once
fountain of religion and learning,
loyal to the teachings of the church,
but at the same time fully abreast of
the scholarship of the age. In this
aim he has had the cordial cooper
alton of distinguished Catholics, and
in his intercourse with non Catholics
has earned their respect and good
will.
But Bishop Keane is liberal, and
to this fact rumor ascribes his fall.
He has been one of the most active
leaders in the so-called American
wing of the Catholic Church. He
opposed the Cahersly movement,
which it will be remembered, was an
attempt to segregate the foreign ele
.ment in the church, especially the
Germans, into compact mass by it.
self. The movement failed at the
time, because of Monsignor Satolli's
opposition to it, and the liberal ele-
ment, at the head of which were such
men as Archbishop Ireland and
Bishop Keane, gained a temporary
victory.
But in ecclesiastical, as in secular
politics, nothing is certain. The
anti.liberal or ultramontane party,
as it may be called, surrendered for
the time. but did not die. 1t had for
its leaders some of the ablest and
most astute leaders in the church.
1t has had influential advocates not
far from the Papal throne in Rome,
aud it has now apparently succeeded
in discrsditing the liberal party with
the Pope. Whether the appointment
of the new Apostolic Delegate is or
is not an ultramontane victory, yet
remains to be seen.
But there can be no doubt that the
deposition of Bishop Keane from the
rectorship of the institution with
whose life he was so closely identified