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The times., 1899-09-01

Kernan's-Monlin Rouge Buriesquers, afternoon
and evening.
Chevy Chase Lake-Illumination and dancing'
Glen Slgo-Amusements-
Glen Echo Park-Band concert.
Excursion to Marshall Hall. steamer Macalester,
today at 10 a. m. 2:30, and 6:SO p m
Excursion to Rivsr View steamer Samuel j.
Pentz, today, 10 q. m, 2:l5, and CAD p. M
The times., 1899-09-01
In AND ABOUT THE CITY.
Leased by the Secular League
A SMALL Fire.

The Washington Secular League has taken 4
lease Of Masonic Hall for the Sunday afternoons
beginning october l and ending May 4.
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AnuTSFNIFNTS TODAY.

Lamps lit today. 90 IN
Lamps out tomorrow. ..4;59 AM
The times., 1899-09-01

ms of all fine beers is Export"
LIN n nt "a bottles, sl.25 Write or
futHNl 'phone Washington Brewery. ath
j bu1VVt and SITS. ne.
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Sun rose. 5:20 AN. Sun sets......6:Sl PM
Moon rises. PIP AN Moon sets .....-.......
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gbs - Uim,es
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER l, 1899.
The Weather Prediction.
TEMPERATURE.

Generally fair Friday and Saturday; fresh east
to south winds.
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Highest temperature yesterday, 3 p m. ........ss
Lowest temperature yesterday, 1890 a. m -Si
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STREET LIGHTING.

T;yb tide 5:ls AN. and $3.50 L.
The times., 1899-09-01
TIDE TABLE.

PHASES OF THE MOON FOR AUGUsi-
Ne,r eth Full . 21st
First quarter. .Isth Last quarter..- -2hn
Fair play., 1899-08-05
ALGERISM REMAINS.
Until Mckinley Goes the Country
Will Not he Freed from Rot
ten Admin trRtIOn.

Yielding TO pressure. Alger has at
last resigned. He is said to feel eN-
tremely bitter over his practical eject
ment from office, and he has Il right
so to feel; for Alger's senatorial :isIira
ton is a mighty thin prctcNt for his re-
moval by an administration which ap-
proved and stood by the cmbalmcd
beef, the death camps, and, in short,
went the whole dance, SO far as the con-
duct of the war was concerned.
President Mckinley stood by Alger
when to have removed him would have
been popular. lie now removes him
or forces his rcsignation-u under condi-
tions which make Alger something of 4
martyr, and are well calculated TO
create sympathy with the Michigan
man at the administrations expense.
For be II understood (and this every
administration organ has admitted over
and over AGAIN., Mr.. Ayers conduct
of the war department had President
Mckinley's mistaken confidence and
support. SO long as he could he count
ed upon for the second term, his rcsig-
nation was not asked for, and not de-
sired. This enforced resignation comes
too late to relieve President McKNley
from responsibility for the rotten beef,
the rotten transports. the suffering and
death of hundreds of soldiers who never
saw Cuban soil.
Of Alger. the country is rid: of Alger-
ism. it will not be rid until William Nc
Kinley and the administration rcspon-
sible therefor have been retired to pri-
vate life.-Albany Argus.
Fair play., 1899-08-05
ORGANIZING FOR VICTORY.
Democrats Getting Ready to Put
Ont the Enemies of the
People.

Mr.. Bryan's summary of the work ac-
compliShcd by the democratic national
committee AT its recent meeting in Chi
cago presents the results of that con-
ference us bearing upon the presiden-
tial campaign of next year in clear and
positive light.
There is good reason to believe that
an exceptionally compact and harmoni-
Gus organization of the national democ-
racy has been insured by the Chicago
action of the committee. Party lines
for the management of the next cam
paign have been more closely drawn.
Notice has been distinctly served that
local factional differences will not he
permitted 10 affect the harmony of pur-
pose prevailing in the national organi
zation. Participants in these local dis
agreements have been urged to reach
an amicable understanding for the
good of the party.
Mr.. Bryan is justified in his express
sion of satisfaction that the recent work
of the national democratic committee
places the party in excellent shape for
the campaign of 1900. Aggressive
movement will not be delayed until aft
er the adjournment of the democratic
national convention, as was the ease
in 1896. The organization of the party
will have been perfected, and. with its
platform of principles clearly enunciat
ed. its systematic efforts for democratic
victory will begin the moment the DEM
ocratic standard bearer is named.
In the great fight against the trust
evil, the fight of the people led by de-
mocracy, effective organization is i'm
pcratire. II is good to see this organi
zation begun at an early day by the
party managers. 1T is incumbent upon
the party in each and every state to Wig
orously assist the national committee
in the work of organization. The TO-
menting or the continuance of local fac
tional disputes means distinct lessen
ing of the chances of democratic victory
in 1900. There will be no such clements
of weakness manifested if democrats
place the good of the party above self
ish personal considerations.-St Louis
Republir
Fair play., 1899-08-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Let Alger not repine. Ambition
has its meats and bounds.-Albany Ar
gus.
The administration would be in
more creditablc position if Ayers res
ignation had been rendered and ac-
ccpted a year or more ago.--Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
There will probably be an anti
trust plank in the next republican ma
tional platform, but it will be used by
thing to wipe their feet on.-St Louis
Republic.
-Aiger's incumbency was one of
the grave misfortunes of war, which the
nation suffered in silence while vast
treasure and precious blood were
poured out as the price of crror.-Phil-
adelphia Record.
If the administration had given
to the Filipinos the assurance of indie
pcndence given to the Cubans there
would have been no bloodshed. If that
assurance We're given now hostilities
would cease.-William j. Bryan.
The truth is that Otis has been
Il monumental failure rs the director of
the Philippine campaign, and that Al
ger and Corbin have made another
grea, blunder in establishing the CEN
scrship IT Manila, thus muZzling the
press and preventing the American Ico-
PIE from learning the facts.-Duluth
Herald.
dumping Alger overheard is not
enough to restore the Mckinley admin
to popular favor. The dump
ing process must be persisted in until
he is rid of all the brood of advisers
who have misled him into bypaths that
lead to defeat and disgrace. There are
others than Alger. Dump them
Omaha World-IIerald.
The plain truth is that the de-
,lorable situation in the Philippines is
wholly due to Mr.. McKinley's unau-
horized, un-American and unfortu-
,ate proclamation of sovereignty and
Iemand for submission, and to the
weakness. the wabbling and the per-
'erse fatuity which have characterized
lis conduct of the war. Any attempt
o place the blame else where will be
Is futile - 1t IL foolish. -N. J. World
Fair play., 1899-08-05

Among other reflections suggested
by the strike of the Cleveland street
railway employees is the Obvious fact
that employment is still hard TO obtain,
despite the assurances of the republic
an press that work is plentiful. For ii
is certain that the non-union men who
have been imported by the traction
companies must be in dire need of en-
ployment or they would not face the
boots and .iccrs of the Cleveland mob as
well as sustaining a running ire of rot
ten eggs, brickbatS and other missiles
unsavory and dangerous. If they could
get work elsewhere they wouldn't he in
Cleveland. But there is further con-
firmation of the belief that labor is not
yet fully employed. The New York
state bureau of labor publishes a bull
lcti.l showing that on March 81 over IS
per cent. of the mechanics in that state
were idle. and if this was the condition
of skilled labor il is hardly likely that
unskilled workmen were or are any
better Off. There has been IA change for
the better, but the workingman's mil
lcnnium promised by Mr.. Hanna and
the advance agent of prosperity has not
yet arrived, despite the fact that we
are disposing of our surplus male popu,
lation in the Philippines. - Chicago
Chronicle.
Fair play., 1899-08-05
BRYAN'S EPIGRAMS.
Democratic Truths Delivered In
Terse and TakinE
Style.

William ]. Bryan has an cpigram'
matte manner of speech which rirets
attention and causes the truth of his
utterances to strike home and to re-
main constantly in the memory.
| In his recent address delivered Mt the
Auditorium meeting Bryan was un-
usually forceful and remarkably wise
was mastery in its logic and irrcsisti-
bic in its eloquence.
| In dealing with the subject of the
trusts, the great democratic leader
spoke words that cannot be forgotten.
Among other things he said:
1.-The trust is bad because of the mo.
nopoly feature. When few people.
control product necessary to human
existence, then those few control to q
large extent the lives and the happi-
ness of all who produce those articles,
all who work in producing, and all who
furnish the raw material used in its
manufacture.
Can we afford to build up in this ma
ton n system by which a few shall
transmit wealth from generation to
generation, where the masses can only
hope for clerkship under some trust?
IF they say there is no way to stop
the trust, that the republicans are do
ing all they can, remember that it is
within the power of the president to
appoint an attorney general who will
enforce the law against trusts, even if
he has to go out of the republican party
TO get the attorney general.
And if the law OH the statute books
is insufficient, it is within the power of
the attorney general to propose laws
which are sufficient, and If the consti-
tuition stands in the way, it is within
the power of the attorney general to
recommend an amendment TO the con-
stitution which will give to congress
plenary power to deal with this subject.
But the republican party is power
less to annihilate the trusts SD long as
the trusts furnish the money TO keep
the republican party in power
These words should be studied care
fully by every man who has the good of
the people at heart.
In them will be found the arraign-
ment of the trust, the description of its
evils, the suggestion of the remedy, the
impeachment of the republican party
and the demonstration that the peo-
pie need hope for no relief from that
party.
Seldom has so much of truth, wis
dom and epigram been expressed with
such terseness. There are volumes in
less than half ii hundred lines.-Chi-
cago Democrat.
Fair play., 1899-08-05

The Veterans of sxty-one and five and
their friends, who are going to attend the
33rd G. A. X. Annual EDcampment at Phila-
delphia in September, could not select a bet
ter nor more historic route than the Big
Four, Chesapeake & Ohio, with splendid
service from Chicago, Peoria and st. Louis
on the Big Four, all connecting at Indian
apolis or Cincinnati and thence over the
Picturesque Chesapeake d Ohio along the
Ohio river to Huntington, West Va. thence
through the foothills of the Alleghanies,
over the Mountains, through the famous
Springs Region of Virginia TO Staunton,
Va, between which point and Washington
are many of the most prominent Battle.
fields: Waynesboro, Gordon>vilIc, Cedar
Mountain, Rappahannock, Kettle Run,
Manassas, Bull Run. Fairfax, and a score Of
others nearly as prominent. Washington is
next. and thence via the Pennsy ylvania Line
direct to Philadelphia. There will be three
rates in effect for this business; lst. Contin-
uous Passage, with no stop-over privilege;
End. Going and coming same route with one
stop-over in each direction; Sd. Circuitous
route. going one way and back another y III
one stop-over in each direction. For full
Information as to Routes, Rates. etc, adj
dress j. e. Tucker, q. n. ~, 23i Clark St.,
Chicago.
Fair play., 1899-08-05
Not Exactly Certain.

"When the curtain goes down." said
the stage manager, play the national
hymn"
"All righdt," replied the man who
was acting as leader of the orchestra
for the evening.
just before the curtain fell on the
last act the stage manager was sur
prised by the sudden appearance be-
hind the scenes of an agiratcd and per-
spring musician who asked him in an
agonized whisper:
''Not ish de mach nal hymn-'Mariing
Droo Cborchay' or 'Dcrell Pc a Hodt
Time in de Oldt Town To-Nighdt? ~
n y. World
Fair play., 1899-08-05
Mrs. Col. Richardson
SAVED BY MRS. PiNKHAM.
fLETrra 70 MRS. fI.xEau 40. 7e,s95I

'You have saved my life, snatched
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hardly any attention to the trouble.
AT last inflammation of the womb
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fered agonies, had to give up my pro-
fession musician and piano playcr),
was confined to my bed and life became
terrible cross. My husband sum-
moned the best physicians, but their
benefit was but temporary at best. 1
believe l should have contracted the
morphine habit under their care. if my
common sense had not interviewed.
''Onc day my husband noticed the adj
vcrtisement of your remedies and inn
mediately bought me full trial. Soon
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RnINELANDEB, Wis.
Fair play., 1899-08-05
A HUNGARIAN DUEL.
In Which the Only Damage Done 10 to
the English Lan.
~ Sunge.

Banfsky-Do you apologeese?
Won kowsky-Neifer, no times!
Then for yourself lookoutsky.'
Am | rctty:'
$50 am ].
Ven ! say tree times We bote fire"
Ven rOu say tree times one time
No. Ven | say Tree NIT one and TWO den
We hote shoot
Dot is vot unierstanded. Ven will you
peGin:'
Il vii pegin ven | got me a good retty
Aim, Eh: Who dit you dlnk You vas
hghtin dees duel mit:'
Il am nit You tiGhiin'. TO be sure"
Den w ton t You point your revolver In
my direction alretty:
"Oxcoose me. am in der habit OF tightin'
my duels to mine own sassidge.action.
Your Apology vas gwite a suiiciency.
Retty? Won. two. tree. Fire."
They both fire. Banf<ky knocks the shin
giles from a neighboring barn and ' ON How
sky makes the bark fiy from a tree In the
next lot. The seconds. who are hiding i'll
nearby quarry, crawl out cautiously and
then hastily scramble back. Six times do
the warlike principals exchange shots with
out personal damage, and then their weap.
OnS are empty.
Banfsky-Ne haf done all dot vas in our
power to sa>sdciy wounded honor:
Won kowSky-Dot is 50.
"Den | move We adchurn to der nearest
gasthaus'
II. Dl,,,
Fair play., 1899-08-05
A "HOT. COLD BANQUET.
some Inside Information by n waiter
from the BOwery Who Helped
Serve IL.

One OF the walters at popular local res
taurant is bird of passage from the Bow
cry and was Il member of the small army
that served the famous Dollar Dinner" in
New York last April. \ good many stories
have been told Of that memorable event,
but none of them surpass his own in point
OF plcturesqueness and inside detail 1T
was the funniest push was ever in in me
lite, he says, coniidentially. The kitchen
was SO small they had to cook everything
on the outside, and when it got there il was
dead cold. The second course was haddock,
and each fish come served in a linen bag,
so we could put EN- in tubs of hot water
and warm EN- np-see: Well, some of the
boys got ratified and served EN- bags and
you d OF died laughing seeing them feiers
tryln TO carve their fish. This is the tough
est aud haddock l iver tackled in me life,'
says one Tammany man at the head table;
its got a skin like rhinoceris,' says he
In the kitchen there was a riot all night
long; 1t was so small the walters couldn't
reach the dtshers-up and they got to scrap
ping for front places in the line. One man
was knocked stiff with 4 turkey, and when
they, picked him up | thought he was dead
l die, on the level. But il wasn't blood Ii
was only cranberry sauce. Another tlunkey
Tell INTO the salad and one of the cooks put
a can of ice cream in the oven, thinking it
was brown gravy for the beef. That's on
the square.just as I'm tellin' you, But the
worst OF all was when We came to the WINE
1t was Merican champagne in half pints,
without ice, and OF all the kicking and ho!-
lerlng. One fresh gent told me II was the
only thing he had had that night that was
good and warm, and he had hardly said it
when waiter that was a little Jagged ac-
cidenta!ly poured about quart OF boilin'
coffee down the back of his neck. Say. you
ought of heerd him cus>! Between you and
me, good many walters got 10 hitting the
VINE. and they found one Of EN- with -
empty bottles in his pants lea. That's hon
est. saw it myself II was the hottest ban.
quet l was ever at.'-N. .. Times Demo
rra
Fair play., 1899-08-05
The adiourn.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
WHEN A MONKEY IS A DOG.
How Buck1and, the Naturalist, Got
Some Good Pointers on
Animals,

A good story of an amusing alteration
which once took place between Mr. Frank
auckland and a booking clerk Is revived
The naturalist had been IN France, and was
returning via Southampton with an over.
coat stuffed with specimens of all sorts, dead
and alive. Among them was a monkey,
which was domiciled in a large breast pocket
As Buckland was taking his ticket. joke
thrust up his head and attracted the atten-
tion Of the booking clerk, who immediately
and very properly-said: You mus. have
a ticket for that dog, if it, going with you" /"
Dog said Buckland, indignantly; its
NO dog, ii a monkey"
Its dog" r.rlied the clerk.
ITS monkey. retorted Buckland, and
proceeded to show the whole animal, but
without convincing the clerk, who insisted
on five shil.ings sor the dog ticket to London.
Naturally nettled at this, Buckland
plunged his hand into another pocket and
produced tortoise. and, laying it on the
sill Of the ticke, window, SAID: Perhaps
you'll call that dog. too,"
The clerk inspected the tortoise NO."
said he, I'VE make no charge for them
they're insects Windsor Magazine.
Fair play., 1899-08-05
GOOD-BY ALGERISM.
Retirement of the Embnlmed Secre-
tary of War EncOur-
nKes Hope.

Gov. Pingree of Michigan makes an
impassioned defense of Alger. lie says
that it will be learned that the prcsi-
dent himself has been responsible for
| whatever mistakes have been made iii
conducting the war;" and adds: II am
told on the very best authority that
Gen. Alger made very few appoint
ments of officers during the war, and
that the commissions were issued al
most entirely upon the orders of the
president"
The country takes very little stock in
Gov. Pingrec's attempt to represent
AlGer as an innocent victim of the hos
tility of the trusts. The cmbalmcd
secretary has several dollars in his
pocket. and more than two or three
of them have been put there by his
intimate relations with trusts-notably
the Diamond match and paper trusts.
OF course, if Algcrism was nothing
but McKinleyism, and if the retirement
of AIgcr does not involve any change
in the methods of the war department,
the criticisms that have been directed
against the secretary of war will be
aimed hereafter at the president.
The people have regarded the dis
appearance of Algcr as the first step
in 4 radical reform of the abuses that
have disgraccd and crippled our mill
tary service. They have expected to
see it followed by the appointment of
new general in the Philippines, by
a thorough shake-up in the rotten staff
bureaus at Washington. and by the
substitution of honest military meth
DDS for political favoritism. They en-
pcct, for instance, to see an immcdi-
ate end of the dragging Carter scandal.
. OF course if nothing of this sort is
meant, and if Al"er has had to go. not
because he diSgraced and demoraliZcd
the army, hut because he became a
candidate for the senate against Il
friend of the president, the public will
take no interest in his departure.
But until it has proof to the contrary,
the Journal will continae to believe that
the change really means reform. The
of Ayers successor encour-
ages it in this hope. That Mr.. Root is
a corporation lawyer is merely u neces-
sary qualification for service under a
administration. The only
question with which we have to con-
germ ourselves is whether he is good
man of his kind, and that he certainly
is. lie is no soldier. but he is so in
finitely superior to Alger that We have
n right to expect him TO institute n rcvo- |
luton in the conduct of his department.
N. Y. journal.
Fair play., 1899-08-05
Setback Church.

There is colored peoples church in
the country near Troy, S. c., named Set
Back, from the character of the discip-
line of its members. "The Amen cor
ner" Is occupied by those in high state
of grace, and from there on to the door
the spiritual value of the seats grad
ually decreases. The vilest sinner sits
by the door till an improvement in con-
duct gives him promotion. The cardi-
nal vices are fighting and bad lam
guage; SO quick-tempered Jane never
knew the delights of the "Amen cor
ner." "Miss 'Lizbeth, 'clar ter gra-
cious, bin up ter de stove five times
han'runnip', when dat hypcrit Nancy
Gaze me ter be sot back! Eber time
she sees me git most up ter her she low:
Jake been roun' our way heap lately!
He don't seem ter set ez much sto'
by you. Jane. ez you think fur'-en so
OIL till jes bless her out fo' l kin think,
en- Brer Banks sets me back! Ell could
Kill dat nigger out my way. l could
march straight ter de glory-seatl"-
Truth.
Fair play., 1899-08-05
TREES FOR DRAINAGE
Those Who Have Land That W0ulN
BE Improved by Being Drier
Should Plant Some.

1t is a popular belief that trees abou,
a house tend to make it damp. 1t is
| true that after heavy rains dwelling
with trees surrounding it takes more
time to dry out than one not so sur
rounded. On the contrary it is just as
| true that where trees are the soil is
| very much drier than it would be other
wise. Some years ago the daily papers
had much to say of the drainage of a
malarious district in Rome by the plant
ing largely of the fast-grOwing blue
gum tree of Australia, Eucalyptus
globuIus. There is no doubt that this
rapid-growing tree would quickly
change the character of half-swamp,
as it grows fast and has thick foliage.
WheI: there is lot of trees full of TO-
liagc there is great call for moisture
from the ground. The roots are draw
ing it in continually, and this in the
long run accomplishes as much as a
system of drainage would do. l have
myself witnessed the great change
brought about by the cutting down and
clearing of trees from low piece of
land. What was fairly dry place
while the trees stood became almost q
swamp. 1t is not as easy to start ever
greens in such spot as it is deciduOus
trees; otherwise they would be better
for the purpose as there is more evapo-
ration from them in the winter season.
But it must not be supposed that there
is entire rest on the part of u decidu-
Gus tree in winter. The roots are active
ard especially toward spring an enOr-
nous lot of water is taken from the
earth by the roots of large tree. This
is why trees near dwellings which are
in damp situations are so valuable. The
cellar of IL house which is surrounded
by large trees will be very much drier
than before the trees were there. This
] have seen many examples Of. There
is no need to plant trees SO close that
the branches will reach to the house
and it is not at all desirable that the
limbs ovcrhang it. Deciduous trees are
better than evergreen for planting near
4 house. An evergreen is not top
sprcadcr and affords but little shade.
The deciduous one gives the shade in
suminer when it is needed. and its roots
are drying the soil To "a great extent in
winter as well as largely in summer. |
One of the best trees for the purpose
is the common white maple. 1t grows
quickly, makes good deal of foliage, |
and il is much more of n surface rooter |
than many trees, and this is what |
makes il So good for drainage. Those |
who may have piece of land that
would be improved by being drier and |
would not object to trees doing the |
work for them should plant some. The |
result would please them very much
lractica Farmer.