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ground absorbed the water rapidly and
when the hour for dress parade arrived
everybody and everything seemed in pretty
fair condition. ''
The attendance of visitors was surpris-
ingly large, and they witnessed the best
parade of the encampment There was no
concert at the camp, for the reason that
the band had to report in Gaithersburg in
connection with the entertainment there
The corps of field music, however enliven-
ed the evening for those who remained in
camp by serenading the several organiza-
tions in their respective company streets
Speechmaking and the serving of refresh
ments were IN order.
Mrs. Weller, wife of Brigade Hospital
Steward Weller, who visited camp yester-
day. was struck by stone thrown from a
position in the main road by an unknown
assailant. just she was leaving the
grounds last evening. Serious injury was
sustained and 1t was necessary to carry
Mrs. Weller aboard the train. She had
medical attendance en- route to Washington
The company CT High School Cadets in
camp with the National Guard gave an ex-
hibition drill in Washington Grove last
evening. The cadets this morning were
given an opportunity of going through the
ceremony of guard mounting music being
furnished by the band. AS was to have
been expected. the cadets did excellentIy,
Notwithstanding 1t was the first time they
had given any attention to the character
of work indicated. - II CT C.
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THE CAMP ATTACKED
Methods Of Defense and Assault Listed
in Today's Maneuvers.
CLEVER WORK OF THE SIGNAL CORPS
Map Of the Grounds Prepared by
the Engineer Corps.
CONCERT AND RECEPTION


Special From StaT Correspondent
GAITHERSBCRG, Md, July 27-Detailed
arrangements were completed this after
noon for the breaking of camp tomorrow.
Upon arriving in Washington, about 4
o'clock Saturday afternoon, the brigade will
disembark at the New York avenue sta
ton of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
and proceed to the Center Market Armory
by the way of New York avenue, 18th
street and Pennsylvania avenue.
All .sentinels except those necessary to
regulate traffic and to prevent trespass will
be withdrawn at : o'clock in the morning
provost guard will be held for duty I'M
til the troops disembark at Washington.
Immediately after breakfast cooks will
prepare sandwiches for lunch Cooks will
not leave camp with the troops, but will
go on a later train.
The General will be sounded at II
O'clock room, at which. signal all tents Will
be simultaneously struck. The tents Will
be dropped TO the right. folded and tied
and turned over to the post quarterma s;er.
Battery a, Light Artillery. will leave
camp at O'Clock this evening and Will
proceed tC Washington over such road As
iray be selected by the battery commander
The brigade Will march in column from the
camp grounds, through Gaithersburg, heal
cd by the band. anG will embark at the
cial tram to convey the troops will consiS;
of three sections. Departure for home will
be made about $50 o'clock.
Attack on the Camp.
a spirited action is in progress in the
vicinity Of Gaithersburg this afternoon.
Camp Ordway is undergoing a most deter
mined attack from what seems to be an
overpowering force. The LIST Regiment and
one company of High School Cadets are
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appointed in his stead. The change was
! made Immediately.
/ The other sergeant of the signal CORDS is
| William Niemeyer, the manager of the
! Georgetown office of the Western Union
| Telegraph Company. He is an ideal SOL
! der. an all-round electrician and an expert
telegrapher. He saw service during the
| war in Cuba, where he had charge of the
/ construction and operation of hundreds of
miles of telephone and telegraph lines. The
| work he did in Cuba was such as Is usually
| done by commissioned officers and Sergt
| Niemeyer has received numerous compile
-, ments for his service. His work at Camp
| Ordway has attracted much attention and
| commentator.
| The telephone system is under the direct
! supervision of Sergt. Winfield S. Whitman
/ who is designated in signal corps orders as
| instructor and as inspector of telephones.
Sergt. Whitman is natural electrician
He seems to have a faculty for locating
| trouble his wires and mendng on very
short notice.
In Honor of Gaithersburg Citizens.
The band concert, reception and dance
given last evening in Gaithersburg by the
officers of the general staff of the District
of Columbia militia, in honor of the local
citizens, proved a notable event in the So
cial history of Montgomery county. The
guests came from far and near, and it did
not seem as though another individual
could be accommodated. In view of the
heavy rain that had descended during the
! greater portion of the day and the extreme
ly muddy condition of the roads, the at
tendance was extremely gratifying.
The full membership of the National
| Guard Brigade Band proceeded to the town.
and the band seats and gasoline torches
used at camp we're sent in with them. The
| lawn in front of the Gaithersburg Hotel
! was the location of the band during the
concert. An attractive program had been
arranged by the leader. Owing to the late
ness the concert program had to be reduced
! in length. The musicians and listeners
| then adjourned to Masonic Hail. The guests
| as they arrived were presented by Mrs
i Adams to Adjt. Gen. Love, and by him in
| turn to Gen. Harries and the members of
| the general staff.
| The reception having concluded, dancing
was in order. Excellent music for this pur-
pose was supplied by the brigade band and
! those who tripped the light fantastic were
! in possession CT The floor until 30 O'clock
Many were the expressions that the even
| ing had been a thorough success and the
majority of the guests took occasion to ex-
| press their appreciation of the courtesy
| that had been shown.
| Attendance at Dress Parade.
| The rain, which slackened shortly before
| j O'Clock yesterday afternoon, gradually
ceased and the clouds broke. Finally the
sun peeped through. and the wet camp be-
| gan to assume something that resembled
| cheerfuness. No time was lost in an effort
to dry damp clothing and equipments. Tho
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Spirit Communication With pektn.

| To the Editor of The Evening Star:
1t will be remembered that no news OF
| the Inflated Polaris expedition to the north
| pole was received for some eighteen months.
| and then 1t was learned that Captain Han.
the leader had been dead for that period :
| also that the Polaris itself had been aban-
| doned and a portion of the crew had lived
| on an ice cake for 1915 days. 1t has doubt
| less occurred to many that professed me-
diums and clairvoyants missed great OPP
portunlty 10 prove their alleged spirit-
| istic or psychic power and that the cause
| of spirituaism thus received a severe set
| back. OF course, like opportunities have
often occurred since in matters of great
Importance. but it seems TO the writer that
none has equaled the present one in refer
ence to China, upon which the eyes of
America and Europe are fixed with inde-
scrlbable longing and anxiety to know the
truth. Between Tien Tsin and Pekin-a dis
lance of but eighty miles-there is fixed
great gulf that absolutely no reliable news
has traversed for some five weeks Is any
fact more wonderful relating 10 that Won
derful land?
If spirits can communicate with US, as
so many believe and profess to know, why
have we not received minute and accurate
accounts from day to day of the doings at
Pekin In the last month? If some should
ailege that a state of excitement and ter
ror exists there which initiates against
spirtualistic communication and practically
prevents 1t, then 1t may be asked, why not
give US messages from notable and reli-
able persons who have fallen victim to the
mobs of Boxers or Chinese soldisry? Surely
the German minister, Won Ketteler could
give valuable Information and novel details
To the objection that no such communion
ton would be believed, it may be replied
that time would verify It and thus greatly
affect pubic confidence in the theory or
doctrine of spirituaiism. True. the message
must be such as to bar the theory Of a
mere fortunate coincidence. In other words
mere bald statement of few facts which
almost any one might naturally assume to
have occurred would not suffice. The mes
sages from the spirit world must go deeply
and spread widely enough to preclude the
theory of guessing coincidence
But 1t may be truthfu'ly asserted that
even II alleged spirit messages be received
and 1t be subsequently discovered they
were true, 1t would still not prove their
spiritistic origin. All who have investigated
far enough have learned that there ia a
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is figuring on using the ordinary wall tele
phone.
Ordinary Wire for TeIephone.

Ordinary Wire for Telephone.
The lines constructed, although essential
| ly of temporary character, will be run
| over ordinary iron wire. This method of
| telephone construction is never used in
| regular service, and would be considered
by most signal officers as impra cticab.e,
but in view of the extraordinary success
that attended the putting up and operation
OF similar line on the occasion of Secre-
tary Roots visit to camp Wednesday last,
Lieutenant Mattingly satisfied that his
plan for this afternoon would work. and it
is doing so.
1t is very interesting to watch the work
| of the signal corps. The command las only
eighteen men in camp, but this small num-
Der manages by hard labor to meet every
demand that is made upon 1t, with results
that are really remarkable. Perhaps no
organization in camp can boast a more eff
Gent set of non-commissioned officers al d
thlS TACT, no doubt, has a great deal to do
with the successful work of the corps.
The first sergeant of the signal corps is
viii E. Sorrells. who was until recently
an officer in the National Guard. Sergeant
Sorrells first enlisted in the old cycle corps,
where he and Lieutenant Mattingly served
together as privateS.
They were promoted to be sergeants
about the same time and were both candi-
dates for the second lieutenancy of the
company.
A COmmendabIe Spirit.
The present sergeant won out in the cleo
ton by one vote, and right there began a
little episode which shows clearly the spirit
of the national guardsman. After Mr.. Sor-
rells had been commissioned second lieu
tenant In the cycle corps Mr.. Mattingly
was promoted to the first lieutenancy of
Company d, 9th Battalion where he re-
manned for some years. After a time
Lieut.. Sorrels resigned his cycle corps
commission and accepted q commission as
second lieutenant of Company b, 9TH Bat
TALON. He remained an officer in the guard
until the declaration of war with Spain,
when he went out with the 1st District of
Columbia Volunteers second lieutenant
of Company X.
Upon his return from the war he was
detailed to command the signal corps. and
after remaining with the organization sew
eral months he was rendered the command
of a company in the 9th Battalion, which
.he accepted. On looking over the roster of
officers with Col. Dapray, who was then ad-
jutant general of the militia. Lieut.. Sorrels
selected his friend, Mattingly, and sug-
gested him as his successor to command
the signal corps. After commanding his
new company in the 9th Battalion for some
time Mr.. Sorrells resigned his commission
and remained out of the guard until about
a month ago, when he enlisted as a private
in the signal corps Immedia tely after his
enlistment in the corps the first sergeant
Winfield S. Whitson. wrote Lieut.. Mat
tingly a letter requesting that he be allow
geant. provided Private Sorrell would be
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THE COURTS,

Equity Court No. 1-Justice Hagner.
In re Emma Williams. alleged lunatic:
rule on former committee, returnable July
81, granted. Mckay agt. Girvan; hearing
en- exceptions postponed till August &.
Hough agt. Hougn; appearance of absent
defendant ordered. Marsh agt Akers: re-
straining order continued and testimony
limited to sixty-five days. Hume agt. Cos
tello; leave to certain defendants to sever
In appeal granted. Lilly agt. Nimrod En-
campment, No. /; time to take testimony
limited to September 30. Lewis agt Lewis
Ell al; resale to Jno. G. Lewis authorized.
Circuit Court No. 1-Justice Hagner.
Cady agt Cady; judgment by default
Probate Court-Justice Hagner.
Estate of Elizabeth B. Lewis: petition for
probate of will filed. Estate of Hannah L.
Howard; will partly proved Estate of
Bridget Mccormick; order appointing
guardian ad litem. Estate of Robt. l..
Amery; will partly proved. Estate of Fan
ME Mullery; petition for letters of admin
iStratiOn filed
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SATURDAYS BIG STAR,
Twenty-FOur Pages of Entertaining
Reading Matter"

Tomorrow Star will contain an unusual
number of special articles on timely and
interesting subjects. The following are
some of the features of the Saturday Star:
CAMPAIGNING IN CHINA Ulustrated).
1t will present many difficult problems to
troops sent there blythe civilized ma
tons. 81
AUTOMOBILE BATTERY. QIustrateD.
The expert Illinois gun squad which is
making the test run from Chicago to
Washington. 4....
COFFEE IN THE PHILIPPINES Qllus-
trateD.
Frank Carpenters visit to a coffee estate
In Sulu where the berries are huled
with women's teeth
THE HOME MAKERS Qllustrated.
A capital short story, by Charles Battell
Loomis, of a couple of frolicsome oxen
and what their bovine gambols led to-
THE "CRECHE" EXHIBIT Qllustrated)
How the babies of the poor are cared for
in Paris. .
PHILIPPINE CHINESE Qllustrated).
They are very numerous in the islands
just now and are hated by the natives
SOCIETY'S SESAME QHustrated).
Plenty of money and dash make a good
opening in the fashionable strongholds
Of Paris.
NEW YORK WAS HOT QllustrateO.
How the people Of Gotham tried to be
comfortable during the recent warm
spell.
SHE TALKS BARGAINS Ullustrated).
What women face for marked-down
temptations in neckwear, wash dresses
and lingerie
LATE PARIS MODES GllustrateO.
american ladies leading in entertaining
In the gay French capital.
LUXURY IN MODERN DRESS.
How the young man of wealth attires
himself nowadays.
IN THE OCEANS DEPTHS.
How a submarine telegraph line is laid
and the ingenious methods of determin-
ing the route
THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK.
Inc NTH installment of the realistic and
thrilling romance of the Cretan upris-
ing. By George Horton.
WON BENEATH THE YELLOW FLAG
A southern love story by Prince T.
Woods. n
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WEATHER FORECAST,
Partly Cloudy Tonight and Saturday;
N0rthensterIy Winds.

sSA
Forecast till pm. Saturday-For the
District of Columbia, partly cloudy tonight
and Saturday; light to fresh northeasterly
winds.
For Maryland. fair in western, local rains
In eastern portion tonight and Saturday;
light to fresh northeaSterly winds
For Virginia, partly cloudy tonight and
Saturday, except rains in southeast por-
ton; light to fresh northerly winds.
Weather conditions and general fore
cast.-There is a slight disturbance this
morning off the Carolina coast The bar
ometer is also low north Of the Dakotas
and off the Texas coast. An area of high
pressure covers the lake region, and a sec
ond area of high pressure is advancing
from the north Pacific coast
Local rains and thunder storms have oc-
CURED In the gulf and south Atlantic
states. and scattered showers have fallen
In eastern Montana and North Dakota.
The temperature is below the seasonal
average this morning, except in portions of
the Missouri valley.
Local rains are indicated for the middle
and south Atlantic coast and the east gulf
states for tonight and Saturday.
Moderate temperatures will continue in
all districts east of the Mississippi river
over Sunday.
On the New England coast the winds will
be light to fresh northerly. On the middle
Atlantic coast fresh northeasterly winds
will prevail. On the south Atlantic coast
the winds will be light to fresh north to
west.
The following heavy precipitation dn
inches) has been reported during the past
twenty-four hours: Raleigh. $50: Norfolk.
2iO; Augusta, 1.04: Medicine Hat, 40;
Nicksburg. 10i; Havre, 100; New York
City, 1.Ol; Cape May, Log.
Records for Twenty-Four Hours.
The following We're the readings of the
thermometer and barometer at the weather
bureau for the twenty-four hours beginning
at pm. yesterday:
Thermometer: July 26- pm. 49, pm,
"A; II midnight, Is. July 27-4 am, ca; s
a. M, 20; II noon, as; . pm. So Maximum,
am, July %.
Barometeri July 2j-4 pm, 1880; p.m.
1886; II midnight. 1896. July pa am,
2hB; am, 3005; noon. 30.OS; pm
3O0S.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition of wafer at Y
a.m.-Great Falls. temperature 50; condi-
ton, l; receiving reservoir, temperatura
81; condition at north connection, l; condi-
ton at south connection. 3: distributing
reservoir. temperature, 50; condition at in
fluent gate house, B; effluent gate house, s.
Up-River Water.
The Baltimore and Ohio agent at Har.
per's Ferry reports both rivers muddy al
that point this morning.
Tide Table.
Today-Low tide, 2:46 am. and 3:13 pm. :
high tide. Sal am. and 9:12 pm
Tomorrow-Low tide. $50 am and 3:52
PM; high tide $40 am and 9:49 pm
The Sun and Moon.
Tcday-Sun rises, 4:54 am; sun sets, 7:l9
pm.
Moon sets, 7:39 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises, 4:54 am.
The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtha lamps all
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset; ex-
tinguishing begun one hour before sunrise.
AL arc and incandescent lamps lighted fif-
teen minutes after sunset and extinguished
forty-five minutes before sunrise.
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What Shall We Have tor
Dessert?

This question arises IN the family every dag Lc,
Is answer It today. Try Jell-O. a delicious and
beautiful dessert Prepared IN two minutes No
boiling. no bakingi simply add boiling water an.
set to cool Flayors-Lemon. Orange Raspberry
and Strawberry. Get a package at your grocer's
today. 10 cents. fe26- 6u, u
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Cases NOIle PrnsseI

The attorney of the United States has
nolle pressed two charges filed against
Chas- T. Bremerman. a former letter car
rier, of alleged violation of the postal laws.
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Notes of Interest.

George Swanger. who was visiting in
Shanksville, a few miles north of Mount
Savage, was summoned home Wednesday
by a telegram that his child was diving.
While en- route he was intercepted by rob-
bers, who took everything he had, including
$40 in money. He arrived few hours be-
fore his child died.
While eXcavating at a sewer at a house
on North Liberty street, this city belonging
to DR.. j. Jones Wilson. yesterday evening
a portion of the backbone, two bones of
the forearm and the lower jawbone with a
tooth in ii were unearthed. No one f. able
to solve the mystery. The bones are .those
OF woman and are well preserved.
X. +. Mason has resigned as tax collector
at f'rostburs, having obtained a place in
the government service in Washington
Patrick Z. Finzel of Garrett county, a
member of the last legislature has been
appointed to a position in the Interior De-
partment at Washington, at a salary of
$1,SUD year.
The war in China will seriously affect the
ginseng market of this country. especially
that Of Garrett county, Md, and Preston
county, w. Va, where large quantities of
this herb are gathered each year for the
Chinese market. Ginseng digging is quite
an industry and brings thousands of dol
lars into the two counties. The Chinese
use this herb to offset the evils of opium
and it commands large price in the New
York markets.
Sun Brothers circus, which has been ex-
hibiting in this section went to pieces at
Stoyestown, near Frostburg, a few DAYS
ago.
The Luthc4ans of Somerset county are ar
ranging for big reunion at Fredars q
few miles north of here, on THURSDAY All
gust 16. United States Senator George L.
Wellington will deliver an address on Our
Luther. the Worlds Rcformer." Rev. DIR.
j. l.. Smith of Pittsburg will deliver an
address On THE Growth and Glory of the
Lutheran Church.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-27

Through Attorney George F. Williams.
Mary Frances Howard and Isabella Bel
have filed bill in equity against William
l.. Bramhall and others to establish title
To part OF lot ). square $50
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At the WASHINGTON Asylum.

MI. w. H. Stoutenburgf, intendant of
the washington Asylum, has recommended
ment OF Benjamin C. Sears as engineer at
the institution, vice ]. d c. Stoutenburgh,
deceased, at 5000 per aunum. land the APP
polntment of Charles F. Louk as an over
seer, AT the same compensation. These APP
pointments, it is understood, Will be made.
ALBERT Coleman of HF}lsdaIe was today
held by Judge Taylor in the Police Court
Tor the action of the grand jury to answer
, Inc charge or second 9ffense,. of larceny.
The present charge was stealing a lot of
Junk, valued at So from Joseph Bolden, and
the previous oHense wassef similar char
acter and from the same man. >
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Thirty members of the police department
are on on leave. Lieutenants Kenney and
Hollinberger are among the absentees. and
their places are being filled by Sergeants
Slattery and Dunnigan. Twenty-nine po-
licemen are sick.
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To Settle the Coal Strike.

]. ]. Alexander of Baltimore, president Of
the Georges Creek Coal and Iron Com
pany, conferred with a committee of his
employees today looking to a settlement of
the miners strike. All the others of the
larger companies have held conferences.
Since the strike has been inaugurated the
miners have lost nearly Sl.o0o,oo0 in wages,
which they would have received had they
kept at work at the 55-cent rate 1t is
estimated that the railroad companies, the
Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania,
have lost S2,350,oU0 in freights.
Secretary Il. F. Deffinbaugh of the
strikers aid fund announces contributions
of SslI.51 from the Pittsburg district.
AT Frostburg miners are eagerly signing
petitions pledsing to resume work The
feeling for resumption is becoming very
strong at Barton and Midland and a de-
cisive move is expected any day.
About fifty men surrounded Union Mine
No. yesterday TO prevent work and Hugh
Dundon, aged forty years, a stable boss
while on his way to work was brutality as
saulted.
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genuine telepathic power or capacity in
some persons, and that the evidence that
this is derived from spirits is exceedingly
slight. IL not wholly wanting. go, to such
investigators even messages found TO be
true would bring little evidence and no
proof of communication with a world OF
ddsembodied intell.gences. 1t would be
merely new Jewel in the crown of tele-
pathy proper. But why cannot this medium
of communication be established at so crit
ical and important a juncture? II distance
cuts no figure. must It be said that mental
excitement stands in the way? H.
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II NEVER DISAPPOIST. :
Phone Il4I.

Phone llil.
Keep 1t I'm
The House.
THARP'S BERKELEY PURE RYE should al
WAYS lie In the house during the hot season. The
best medicine for summer ailments. 81 a full
quart delivered
TIIARP'S. s12 St fv23-lnd
Lot Owners of GlenWood.
on account Il the absence from the city Of the
Secretary II Gl"nwood Cemetery. the city office
IL academy IF Music bldg. 9Th and II n. will
he closed until AUGUST G. 1900 On and after
tkat Gate it will be open during the wear.
je2I-iUl
IRON RAILING AND ENTRANCE STEPS
speciality.
FRED j. WHITE
"a 52t' sSn to 4T4 Maine ave. s.w