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Member of Finance Committee.

John F. Paret, a member of the commit
tee Oh finaEce, was born in 1853 in New
York. After business experience of eight
years in the city of New York he came to
Washington ir the latter part of 1876. In
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years he was president of the Washington
Chapter American Institute of Architects,
having previously held the offices of secre-
tary and treasurer. He architect Of
the chapel and mission house of Epiphany
Church, and is now erecting a rectory for
ST. James parish. He is member of the
Cosmos Club and also of the Chevy Chase
Club,
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the executive committee, was born in
Georgetown. His grandfather, James H.
Blake. was mayor of Washington when the
British under Gen. Ross burned the Capt.
toll He was educated at Columbian Uni
versity and is a graduate of its classical
and legal departments. He belongs to
Christ Church Chapter Georgetown; a
Vestryman of the church, and greatly in
terested in the Brotherhood of St. Andrew
work
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Represents PrO-CathedraI.

John Hamilton Chew is a member of the
vestry of st. Marks parish and represents
the Pro-Cathedral on the finance commit
tee. He was for a number of years chief
clerk in the United States engineer Office
iE this city, and was for more than ten
years classical instructor in the College of
ST. James, Washington county, Nd, which
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Mr.. Percivnl G.. Melbourne.

Percfval G. Melbourne of the transporta-
tion committee is graduate of the Co.
lumbian University and is surveyor. He
worked for several years or the improve
ments about Washington, and was an as
sistant engineer On the survey of Rock
Creek Park. He is at present connected
with the engineer department of the Dis
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&C mInittee, Is one of the Districts best
kr own citizens and former Commissioner.
Committee on Hospitality.
Col. Cecil Clay is chairman of the hos
pstality committee and a member of the
executive committee. He is chief clerk of
Evening star., 1898-10-04

Make iced tea of Burch-
ellis Spring Leaf (sold at
Soc. pound and you will
find it superior to any.
n. w. Burchell, 1925 F St.
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Mr.. VIM. ID. Baldwin.

William d. Baldwin of the executive COM
mttee, and lay delegate from the diocese
OF Washington, is the grandson of Henry
Baldwin, formerly associate justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States and
son of Henry Baldwin, a lawyer and for
many years an examiner in the United
States patent Office.
Mr.. Baldwin was born in Franklin Tenn
September 80, 1894. He came to Washing
ton with his parents in 1851. He was edu-
Gated at the best private schools of the day
in Tennessee and in Washington. After a
short experience in commercial life in New
York city and in Washington, his heredi-
tary instincts led him to become a lawyer.
In 1856 he entered the office of Peter H.
watson. then the leading patent attorney
of the District, where he remained until
1853, when he became a patent solicitor on
his own account In 1861 Mr.. Baldwin
served for a short time as private in the
Union army from which he was honorably
discharged at the expiration of his service.
He has been a member of Epiphany parish
since 1851. and junior warden since 1870
He has represented the churcn in the do
cesan convention for many years. He is
treasurer of the committee of missions of
this diocese.
Public Comfort.
Elias S. Hutchinson of the executive COM
mittee, and chairman of the public comfort
committee, was born in Milford, N H. in
1885 and studied in Mount Vernon Academy
and in Merrimac Normal School. At six
teen years of age he taught "deestrict''
school in Manchester and in Amherst con-
tinuing in the work three years. From 1855
to 1863 he was engaged in business in Bal
timore. Mr.. Hutchinson claims to be the
first of his countrYmen to make for pleas
ure, a tour of the American possessions in
the Pacific ocean, having in 1869 sailed
from San Francisco for tour of Alaska
returning by way of Honolulu and the Ha-
waiian Islands. He has been a resident of
this city since 1873, vestryman of Epiph-
any parish for 'twenty-one years, and su-
perintendent of the afternoon Sunday
school for nineteen years.
James X. Cook.
James R. Cook of the finance committee
was born in Michigan, and is a graduate of
the State University there. He was active
ly engaged in the practice of real estate
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lively interested in banking. He is a men,
Der of the Washington stock exchange, one
of the Sons of the Revolution, belongs to
B. B. French Lodge and Washington Com
nandery of the MasonS and has for many
years attended St. Johns Church George
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MCKmeW'S
FALL OPENING.
A Word
to those in search of
Strictly High=Class
Tailor-rlade uits!

MI ANY are not aware of the fact
AVN that strictly high-class tailor
made suits-guarantee to fit
same as if made to Order-are to be
had here for less-much less-than
1t costs to have them made to order.
We are prepared to furnish the
SWEETEST and most elegantly made
costumes for street and evening wear
shown in America at from SII to
Sos giving YOU practically the same
variety OF selection as you would find
in the larger stores of Philadelphia
and New York.
Your attention is especially directed to
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by the bishops of Aberdeen, Moray and
Ross. ~
A portrait in oil of Bishop Claggett, also
his mftre, will be in the sacrsty of the Pro-
Cathedral, corner Sd and A streets south
east, during the general convention.
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present itself. He served as chairman to
the building &C cCmmittee when Grace Church
was repaired and the parish h Ill added in
1894. Ho has been senior warden Of Grace
Church for a number of years. is a men,
ber of the Brotherhood Of ST. Andrew and
of the Churchman'S League. Mr.. Gray has
just turn ed his thirty fifth birthday.
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Mr.. Robert Stead.

Robert Stead of the Public comfort COM
mittee was born in New York city in 1856,
receiving his education in the schools there
and College of the City of New York. Af-
ter leaving college he entered the office Of
VIM. Appleton Potter, an architect. Dur
ing the past fourteen years he has prac-
tIced architecture in this city. For two
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Public Comfort.
James X. Cook.

James R. Cook of the finance committee
was born in Michigan, and is graduate of
the State University there. He was active
ly engaged in the practice of real estate
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money than obtainab1e anywhere
ing, discount our bills, are one c
lca, and are going to sell at little
Washington to buying his shoes
Evening star., 1898-10-04

Major James E. Bell. chairman of the
postal. telegraph and telephone committee,
is superintendent Of the city delivery at
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The UnderIaRd

When ! was, oh, so much smaller,
And so much nearer the ground
The dear, queer things l could hear and see!
The wonderful things | foundl
! mined on the mole-hill mountains,
toiled in the valleys of sand,
And the gems untold and the pebble-gold
I shut away in my handi
When | was oh. so much smaller,
Wherever | Glanced TO pass
! saw the ants and the little brown bugs
Climb up on the blades of grass!
] travelled, | and the little brown bugs,
Through forest vast and sweet,
Whose shadowy glades know no more,
Because it is under my feet!
When l was oh, so much smaller,
And 50 much nearer the floor,
The leagues of its carpet prairie!
The flowers that scattered il oeri
The house-what boundless kingdomi
What mysteries came and went!
Each chair was a wayside boulder,
Each table spreading tent,
The lamps were moons hung IN heaven,
And the big folks giant-high;
Away up on fathers shoulder
could reach clear into the skyi
I'm glad | coming up taller
We can't stay close TO the groundl
Yet think, Oh often and often,
OF the wonderful things / found
OF the hills, and the pleasant valleys,
OF the by-ways mernory-sweet,
The land that ! left behind me
When ! grew away from my feet!
Catherine Young Glen, in the Youths Com
panion
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Slipping Away.

They are slipping away-these sweet, swift years
Like a leaf on the current cast;
With never a break in their rapid flow,
We watch them as one by one they so
Into the beautiful past.
As silent and swift as the weavers thread,
Or an arorw's flying CLEAN;
As soft as the dangerous breezes hid,
That lift the willows golden lid
And ripple the CLASSY stream.
As light as the breath OF the thistledown;
As fond as lovers dream
As pure as the flush OF the seashelPs throat,
As sweet the woodlands cooling note,
So tender and sweet. they seem.
One after another we see them pass
Down the dim-lighted stair;
We hear the sound OF their steady tread,
In the steps of the centuries long since dead
As beautiful and as fair.
There are only few years left to live;
Shall we waste them in idle strife?
Shall we traEple under our ruthless feet
Those beautiful blossoms iafr and sweet,
By the dusty ways of life?
There are only a few swift years-ah, let
No envious taunts be heard;
Make life's fair pattern of rare design,
And gil up the measure with loves sweet wine,
But never an angry world
1870 New York Tribune.
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THE ZINES WASHINGTON SUNDAY AUGuSTs2l lsgs

some of the other tales. If 'Zacl,'' with
longer experience, can write a book
full OF stories like 1.-THE Storm" and
'Dave'-another romance with warm
human quaiity-she will have established
herself as a writer OF real originality and
power. The present book is only a prom
ise ana not very secure promise, at
that. The woods are full of people who
can write. and who can catch the spirit
of the age well enough ITO give a very toll
cradle imitation of real genius. The
thoroughly original author is of another
sort
The present volume is published by
Charles ScrBbners Sons.
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Compensation.

The more l give the more / have,
All willing loss is gain;
No treasure spent for loves sweet sake
Is ever spent in vain.
Strive as will my heart to drain
OF superintendent store.
Love never empties but it fills,
And least is always more.
At early dawn. at set of sun,
Ny balance sheet | sean,
Loves prodigality is thrift,
l end as ! began.
Edward Foster Temple.
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CURRENT VERSE.


A Night in Time of War,
The clouds are up to sweep and tune
That inharmonious harp, the moon;
The north wind blows harsh bassoon.
An old astrologer might say,
BY signs and portents whirled this way,
That earth was nearing her decay.
All apprehensions stir tonight,
With fiuttering issues infinite,
Conlunctions, phantoms, famine, blight;
The woodland shakes its aged bones
And shrieks; beyond. in deeper tones
The ceremonial cypress groans;
And /, microcosm of all,
Quake. shuddering. underneath the pail
OF natures hurryiDg funeral.
Yes! tho my skeptic brain rejects
My sires' chain'd causes and effects,
The nerves retain their deep defects;
And still my heart leaps in my side
fiuctuant ark upon its tide
With throbs and throes unsanctifed,
And knows not how to brave the stir
OF sounds that beckon and shout to her
OF sins that clouds and winds aver,
I shall not sleep tonight, for dread
OF spectral lights obscurely shed
About my plumb and shadowy bed.
Faint, faint, these mildew'd chords that twang
So feebly, where the music rang
Deep organ notes when Homer sangi
All. strange to find the quivering crests
OF long laid faiths, forgotten guests,
Rise up at memory's dim behests!
All! strange TO feel the soul resume
Its cast-otf heritage Of gloom
The savage turning in his tombl
Edmund Gosse in the Saturday Review.
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Little Folks, Ferry

Come with me, come with me- little maid merry
Dreamily drowsily, finger TO lip;
Well 90 a-sailing Ger Little Folks Ferry,
Sailing away in a hush-a-by shipi
There at the top of the stair. it is rocking
Waiting to carry you ever it, dear;
Many dream in her wake shall come hnCking-
Nurse shall be pilot, and mother will steeri
Breeze shall not ripple the feathery pillows;
Safe in that beautiful ship yon shall rest,
Rosy red check upon lily White pillows
Safe as a babykin bird n nest!
Pay me the fare, just a kiss, then so gaily
Wen go a-drifting the dream river down
Drifting away for 4 lullahy-sailie,
Over the ferry TO Fast Asleep Town.
Clifton Bingham.
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ssIhe McIaI ImbeciIes.v

The latest work of Sally Mclean Greene,
hest known as the author of Cape Cod
Folks" is 1.-THE Moral Imbeciles," and the
title is the most beautifully artistic thing
about 1t. At least, 1t appears so after one
has read the first chapter When one is
half way through the book it becomes
a matter of doubt whether such utter
and complete and wholesale imbecility can
be considered moral, and when the book
is finished there is no doubt at all on this
point. The meaning of the ambiguous
title is not that the imbeciles were moral,
but that they were too imbecile to be
immoral
In Cape Cod Folks Mrs. Greene show
ed signs of possessing an extremely bright
mind and great power of description
and characterization. Also the people
whom she described were queer in them
selves But when she proceeds to take
persons brought up outside the wilds of
Cape Cod in the prosaic territory of New
York city and Vermont, and try to make
them as queer as the deniZenS of cram
berry-land she does a thing which, in
itself, is fairly good evidence of paresis.
When in addition to this she takes some
facts which in themselves are more or
less probable, and some people who under
other circumstances might appear like
human beings, and envelopes them in a
mist of incongruities and idiocies, the only
excuse fer the deed is its complete orig
inality Many writers have tried to seem
more wise more witty and more talented
than they really were, but this is the
first case on record in which an author
having brains hes deliberately attempted
to prove that she has none.
The tale, In brief, is this: The heroine
Martha Scheffer, a Vermont country girl,
has worked for three years in a county
insane asylum, and has saved enough
money for the study Of medicine. In the
first chapter she is taking examinations
for the last years course in a fashion
able school. and is persuaded, with few
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-21
A western Scene.

The land puts on a haggard look;
For branches boles of trees uprise
In struggling groups, in tragic wise,
Black weather beaten, God forsook.
Upon the plain, in high relief
Against wide heaven. you may see
Them faunt spectacular misery,
Stamping murrnur scene with grief
Yet somewhere in the long ago
Blossomed and bloomed Eden-show
OF beauty here-where now is this
Bleak picture OF a wilderness.
Richard Burton, in the New England Magazine
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Loyalty.

What is true friendship? Hear the answer, them
True friendship does not doubt, or fail, or fear;
1t turns to calumny a deafened ear;
Its strength must needs be as the strength OF ten
Because it is so pure and selfish, free
From morbid fancies and from vain alarms,
His honor questioned9 Quieki call to arms
To fight for him with might or loyalty.
And when his word seems dark, through grief
and care.
Let friendship spread for him her wide, strong
wings
And bear him up swift and far and high
That every breath OF clar, lfe-giving air
Brings rest and courage hopes OF better things,
healing calm, great serenity.
-Munseys Magazine.
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Those Eyes

All! do not wanton with those eyes,
Lest l be sick with seeing;
Nor cast them down, but tell them rise,
Lest shame destroy their being.
Ali be not angry with those fires,
For then their threats will kill me;
Nor look to kind on my desires,
For then my hopes will spill me.
All! do not steep them in thy tears,
For so will sorrow slay me;
Nor spread them as distraught with fears
Mine own enough betray me.
Ben Jopson
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LITERARY NOTES.

Like so many of the successful authors
Of the day, NJ Edmond Rostand. the
author or the drama ''Cyrano de Ber-
Gerac Is still a young man, not yet
tnirty. His wife is also a poet, and when
she was Mile. Rosemonde Gerard pub
nshed volume of verse. The dramatist
and MS wife live very quietly in a SUBJ
uro Oh Paris and have a particular
aversion to being interviewed
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-21

L. T. R.-Our warships use in their
boilers fresh water obtained from sea
WAFER by condensation. Ignoranee-The
pattieship Texas engines are of 5000
horsepower. McA.-The number of de-
grees between any point of the Fahren-
nett scale and 80 degrees, if divided by
LIZ, will give the corresponding degree Of
centigrade 1. H.-Four cards should be
dealt singly in casino.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-21

When did the Ladrone Islands come under
spanish rule! What was their population then?
Were there any schools or uublic inst;tntions
then? II so, have they been abolished?
A. ST
The Spaniards obtained possession of
the Ladrones or Mariana Islands in 1868.
There were no schools or public institu-
tons there then; there are practically
none now. The population in 1868 is es-
timated to have been about $4,000. 1t is
now about 5000, at the outside.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-21

somebody has defined literary person
as one who buys books in board covers
without asking whether they can be had
IN paper backs. One might, with some
)ustice quarrel with this definition. A
real lover of books is often poor and
II he cares more about the inside of the
DOCK than its outside he should hardly
lose caste on that account. better de-
hnition should be evolved.
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Il11!1 ,l ~ ! 10: !

and Fortifications." 1t will be seen from
this synopsis that the book treats of more
things which the average American citi-
zen wants TO know than can readily be
mentioned within the limited space of a
newspaper review. This is a good book
to buy, If one wishes to be well-informed
about our navy and its future. 1t is pub
iished by the Lippincotts.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-21

too recent to need mention. This list IL
by no means complete. 2 Yes. g. Free
man. Heilprin and William Swinton. have
all compiled histories of the world.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-21

Il not Roman Catholicism the established re-
ligion in Spain and her colonies2 p How eften
has Cuba been in rebellion against Spain? 3.
What has been the length of the various rebel
lions? j. NJ. P.
Yes; it was the only one tolerated until
within a few years 3 There have been
three revolutions in Cuba. The first in
May, 1850, and August, 1851; the second.
called the ten years war" lasted from
September, 1865, until February, 1878; the
third began in February, 1895, and is Just
beginning 10 reach the end for which it
was begun.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-21

Sir Monier Monier-W Williams, professor
OF Sanscrit at the University of Oxford,
and his wife have celebrated their golden
wedding. The professor has just COM
pleted the second edition of his Sanscrit
dictionary.
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Pen vs.. Sword.

The warriors shout, the sword leaps out,
And glory close attends 1t;
They MAIN, they kill. they fight until
pen scratch quickly ends it,
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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Again.

Come gently breathing Ger the eager land,
With fresh, green grass that springs to kiss thy
feet
With little brooks that sparkle in the sand.
Aprils fant-shining clouds, both soft and fleet,
All the fair things that do thine advent greet,
Flowers. with their blue eyes, still by snow-drifts
wet,
Let me forget!
Spill from thy white hands till the tender buds
An opal mist in every gray old tree;
Pour from thine urn the rushing silver foods
That leap and dance and struggle TO be free;
Coax the pink May blooms TO look up at thee,
Fearless of stormy wind or frosts that fret;
Enchantress, bring not back the past TO me,
Let me forget!
Alas when all thy spells but hide a sting,
When the wild blossoms in each fragile bell
A lurking drop OF bitter honey bring,
When hills and forests one worn story tell.
When through the birds new MARBLE sounds
knell,
When grief and sweetness are in all things met,
When winds repeat those voices loved too well,
Can forgetf
Poor pangs of earth l know there comes day,
Not far nor late, when Gods restoring spring
Shall set aside these miracles of clay.
And His serene, immortal summer bring,
Wherein shall not pine for anything,
Nor mortal love, nor loss. nor weak regret,
But at His feet my grateful rapture sing
And so forget!
Rose Terry Cooke.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-21

What kind Of guns were the dynamite guns
mentioned among our field artillery at Santiagof
2. What we're the size and weight OF the shells
ueed. g. What explosive was used2 4 Are these
guns shot with powder or compressed airf s.
What IS their extreme ranger G. What was the
size and weight Of the shells and solid proiectileS
used by our siege guns AT Santiago, and how far
were they effective?
They are the Sims-Dudley guns. They
consist Of the tube in which the prOjectile
is placed; below it is shorter tube in
which a charge of powder is fred. This
congresses the air in the tube, which
rushes through a vent into the long tube
and forces the projectiIe out 2 The pro-
jectiie is thirty-four inches long, and has
a caliber of 21-2 inches. 1t weighs II
IL pounds. g. Gun cotton. 4. Compress
ed air. procured by exploding powder in
a confined space. s. About one mile s.
The siege guns carry from two to four
miles They are 5-inch breech-lOading
rifles. carrying projectiles Weighing 45
pounds and with a range OF FIVE miles;
finch siege howitZeTs with 105-pOund pro-
jectiles. carrying from two to four miles;
and finch siege mortars, throwing pro-
jectiles weighing 125 pounds. The range
of the mOrtars depends upon the eleva-
ton; with an elevation of 10 degrees they
carry about four miles.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-21

Please give information concerning the ''Five
Dials,' Of London. England. and the fortune said
to be connected with it, ?. Are there legal doc
uments on file that would give the reader of
the inscription possession of the fortune2 g. Whom
could write to concerning them? NJ A. R
There are no Five Dials in London,
though there was a Five Points in New
York. In London are the Seven DiaIs.
We never heard of any fortune connected
with the place. 2. We do not believe So
In fact, we think that the whole story
of fortune awaiting some one in the
Five or the Seven DiaIs of London is Just
an attempt to swindle people. There are
several similar stories, some about great
fortunes in this country. others about
fortunes in England, but all are false. ;.
We do not know; We should advise you
not to go to the person who told you
about it.