The National tribune., 1899-08-24

All colors and conditions of people-stray
millionaireS, plump and dignified matronS
of the 400, Government officials, clerks and
employees, with their wives, sisters, cousins
and auntS, dudes "out to meet some girls,
girls out to be met, sightseeing excur-
sionists, cooks and chambermaids who
have an afternoon off, and the usual swarm
of pickaninnies of all ages, sizes, colors,
sexes, and mischievouS propensities.
The Marine Band arrives in the full
glory of its sheeny white uniforms, and
marches grandly to its place in near before
the crowded balconies on the south front
of the White House.
Amid all the social vivacity and ever
changing maze of color, the Flowering
Apple maintains its fresh. seemingly inno-
cent greenness, and calmly bides its time.
An apple tree can always afford to wait:
The one in the Garden of Eden had no need
to push things"
The imposing Leader of the Band takes
his place on the raised dais in the center,
and raises his baton with an air of con-
scious authority.
But the first premonitory toot of the big
silver horn is drowned by yell of keenest
human anguish coming from the neigh
borhood of the fountain.
Everybody forgets the Band and turns to
look. ssi
A negro boy of about IL years is seen
His yells get more piercing every in
slant.
There is a wild rush toward him, and a
thousand inquiries burst from anxious
! lips:
What has hurt him?"
as he dying?"
"What can be the matter?"
Grace war;"
"Bad white boys"
"Razor?" Ss.
yellow fever?"
The victim can not stop yelling long
enough to answer questions, but slowly
the truth is gathered from some OF his COM
panions.
He was one of the first to gain entrance
| to the grounds when the iron gates We're
| unlocked, and the green apples caught his
] eye upon entering. He promptly filled
| his little inside with them, and they, with
green and youthful ardor, as promptly
started in to get up 'The First Bawl OF the
Season"
A couple Of unsympathetic policemen
lug the screaming black kid off to the patrol
wagon, to be sent on gallop to the Emer-
gency Hospital.
The doctor on duty there remarks briefly:
"Fill him up with castor oil. He'll be all
right soon."
The respiendent Leader Of the Marine
| Band again lifts his baton, and the concert
proceeds.
The evening breezes rustic softly through
the fresh green leaves of the innocent
seeming TlOWSliIE AppiC SiuO CApSStehhuy
murmur:
/ "Next!"
Col. Edward Hayes, formerly of the Goth
Ohio, and the third oldest clerk in the Office
of the Second Assistant Postmaster-Gen-
leral, died suddenly Aug. 18, at Warren, o.,
whittier he had gone in apparent good
health to attend the Reunion of his regi-
ment He was 20 years old, had been
Treasurer Of Trumbull County, o., for two
terms, and 20 years in the Post Office De.
partment. He was a member of the Grand
i. Army and the Loyal Legion, and he is
sincerely mourned by large circle in
: Washington.
The Secretary of War has made several
amendments to the regulations relating Il
the examination of enlisted men for ap
pointment as Second Leutenants in the
Army and directing that competitive ex
: amnations be held in each geographical de
partment Sept. 15 next A soldier desiring
! to take the competitive examination mus
have completed two years of service on o
prior to Sept Is, 1899, and his age on tina
date must not exceed 30 years. Regi
mental commanders will be directed +
f report to Department Commanders th
names of all legally qualified enlisted mel
who desire to appear before the Board
For the purpose of appointment and c