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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13
ENDORSES THE cANTEEN.
Letter of nm EN-ChapIain of the Army
to Adiutnnt General Corbir.

Adjutant General Corbin, who some time
ago wrote letter to Senator Sewell OF
New Jersey defending the army canteen,
has just received letter from c. Randolph
Page, a Protestant Episcopal clergyman
and chaplain of the First Regiment, Mary
land National Guard. who declares that
the canteen in the army is helpful in ev-
cry respect perfectly agreeaile to the
love of God" and a blessing to tnosr who
comply with the regulation establishing it.
The letter is as follows:
Winchester. Va, Sept. II, 1900.
Major Gen. II. c. Cor5in. Adjutant Cen
eral. L. S. A.. Washington. d. c.
''Sir-Your letter TO Senator Seweil Of
New Jersey in reference to the army can
teen has been read with q great deal OF
interest. and | do hereby cordially support
you in ali you have stated IN reference to
the same and as / have seen as much ser.
vice as any man OF my age in cur beloved
country, | want to congratulate you and
urge you to use every effort in keeping
the canteen in the army.
Il have heen a clergyman in the Prote--
tant Episcopal Church since June. 1872:
the chaplain of the First Regiment, Mary
land National Guard. since 1887; served in
the United States Volunteers with the same
Camp Mckenzie. Georgia. February, 1900
And whilst it was matter OF impossible
ty to have anything like an army canteen
IN the Confederate army. after thorough
inspection OF its workings and influence
under the army regulations in the Spanish
war, do hereby assure you that it is the
most perfect and beautiful effort ever made
in behalf OF temperance | have ever heard
Of My regiment was one Of the best in
the service when mustered out. The can
teen was something | had never dreamed
OF until it was introduced into our regi-
ment at Camp Meade. Pa 1898.
After reading over carefully the regula-
tons establishing it in The Regular Army
and seeing the working OF the same in my
regiment until we left the service, do
most sincerely hope and pray that it may
ever continue in the army 1t is helpful
in every respect perfectly agreeable u
the love of God and blessing to those
who comply with the regulation establish
ing it for the good OF our beloved officers
and men. Sincerely yours,
&C. RANDOLPH PAGE.
Chaplain. First Regiment. " y. G."
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Chaplain. First Regiment. ". y. G."
MRS. MARY C. WILLIAMS DEAD
Stricken with Paralysis at Her Home
at san Antonio.

Word has just been received here thai
Mrs. Mary c. Williams, widow of Gen.
Thomas A. Williams. Z. 5. A. died at hei
home in san Antonio. Tex. Sunday even
ing from the effect OF stroke OF paraly-
sis. She had been an invalid for some
months. Mrs. Williams was well known
in Washington, having been a regular WISH
tor here during the winter for number
of years. She was the daughter OF Dr.
Henry Curtis. and a niece Of President Ty-
Ter.
Mrs. Williams leaves four children. Mrs
n. J. Gresham and Mrs. Joseph A. Settle
who live in this city, and Mrs. James. wife
Of the Chief Justice of the Court OF Ap-
peals of Texas. Miss Leta Williams and
hr. Tyler c. Williams. OF San Antonio
The funeral of Mrs. Williams took place
Tuesday from st. Mark Episcopal Church,
San Antonio
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13
Hashim's Academy of Music-vnude-
Vile.

Another unusually large array of head
liners is announced for next week at
Hashim's Academy OF Music. Heading he
bill will be the inimitable and always en-
Enthusiastically received Maggie Cline. 1.-THE
Irish Queen" Almost everybody in Wash
ington knows OF John W. RansOme, whose
representations of public men are more
appreciated here than anywhere else. He
has never been seen in this city as David
b. Hill, and next week he will give his
satire on that great Democrat at the
Academy. Truly Shattuck will present n
unique artistic novelty, while others on
the bill will be Belle Stuart, soubrette;
Blocksom and Burns, the black face come
dians; Carrie Graham. as Sis Hopkins;
Lawrence and Harrington. in their satire
on East Side life; Fields and Ward, the
German comedians; the Lelliots, in their
refined musical act; Annie Hart. the Irish
comedienne: Lowell and Lowell, grotesque
comedians. and Pelot a juggler. Interest
in this weeks bill IS manifested by large
audiences at both daily performances.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13
CENSUS BULLETINS ISSUED.
Figures On the Population of Fall
River and Little Rock.

Bulletins giving the population of the
cities of FAN River, Mass. and Little
Rock, Ark, were issued at the Census
Bureau yesterday
Fall Rivers population is 1Oi 500. which
shows an increase of 80, 400. or 1890 per
cent from 1890 to 1900 In 1880 the ropu-
lation was 1851, an increase OF 5l9I
per cent for the decade 1SS0-90.
Little Rock is given 3S.307 against 5,S74
in 1880, an increase OF Il, i33, or 1906 per
cent from 1880 to 1900. In 1880 the pOpu-
lation was II. 13S an increase of 1854 per
cent for ten wears 1880 90
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13
Criggs Recommends CIemeney.

The President will probably act this week
on six recommendations by Attorney Cen
eral Griggs for Executive clemency. Most
Of the offenders in whose behalf mercy is
asked are cattle thieves of the Indian Ter
ritory The Federal laws make 1t COM
pulsory for the trial judge to give sem
tence of at least five years in every case
where conviction for stock-rustling is
found. That sentence is often deemed too
harsh. and Attorney General Griggs usual
ly recommends reduction in the term OF
Imprisonment
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Gentry's Educated Animals.

Prof. Gentry. the owner and trainer OF
the educated animals, which will exhibit
in this city under canvas at Thirteenth
and U Streets northwest, one week, be-
ginning next Monday. with matinees daily
except Monday. is said to be young man
possessed of an unlimited amount of pa
thence. OF the latter fact there can be no
doubt. when it is known that ii requires
eight months Of constant labor to teach
one little dog a single act. In addition to
the long list of equine and canine favor
ties Prof Gentry promises several new
and never before attempted features,
which are said to be distinct novelty in
the trained animal line.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13
Kernan's-Rose Hill Company.

The Rose Hill Folly company will appear
at Kernan's next week and will be seen
in two burlesques that are said to be above
the average of their kind. The opening
piece is called 'All at Sea-" and is descrlb-
ed as rollicking nautical farcial enter
tainment. The closing extravaganza will
be Stolen Pleasures" in which some sem
sational features are promised The olio
will be furnished by Joseph J. Sullivan
and Carrie Webber. Collins and Collins.
Catherine Rowe Palmer, Hickey and Nell
son. Phil Mcfarland. James p. Lee, and
others.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13

The following message was received
from General Shafter by the War Depart
ment yesterday:
San Francisco, Sept. IL.
"Adiutant General, Washington:
Transport Lawton sailed at n. m.
for Nome via Seattle. with Lieutenant
Davis. Fourth Cavalry, two acting as
sistant surgeons. one quartermaster's
agent, one commissary sergeant, three
men Hospital Corps. and twenty en-
listed men as guard.
"SHAFTER, Major General"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13
The Biiou-"Gny Dutternies.u

Next weeks attraction at the Bijou will
be H. c. Jacobs Gay Butterflies" Extray-
aganAa Company, consisting of thirty per-
formers. including Matweef and Duo Rus
sim character dancers Amy Nelson, Yves
to- and Stapleton. Barth and Fleming,
Eu pean groesques; the Sisters Alline.
Leslie and Cardy. and a chorus of hand
sopie women. The entertainment will in
Glide an opening farcical extravaganza.
entitled Mistaken Identity" a vaudeville
olio of six strong specialties, and a clos
ing burletta. Making the Rounds at Gay
Paree,' in which the entire company win
appear. Elaborate scenery and fetching
costumes are promised. Daily matinees at
popular prices are a feature of the Bljou.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13
COMING TO THE THEATRES.
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ,Awkins.

The NationnI-'Nnm's 'Awkins."
The Alfred E. Aarons' Musical Comedy
Company will occupy the stage at the
National next week. presenting "Mam'selle
'Awkins," one of the most successful mu
steal pieces of recent years. The company
tG be seen at the National will include
such well-known players as Edward S.
Snitz Edwards William Burgess, Martin
O'Neill, Lawrence Wheat Florence Wa
tiers, Olive Wallace, Carolyn Heustis-
Graves and a chorus said TO number sixty.
The original scenery. costumes and effects
will be utilized during the Washington
engagement. Seats will be on sale this
morning
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13
Chase. View Grand-vaudevilie.

Manager Chase's patrons will be offered
the famous Banda Rosa. the Red Band
OF Italy. as the prominent attraction for
next week at the Grand. The band con-
sists Of forty solo musicians under the di-
rection of Signor Sorrentino. The Banda
Rosa has achieved in the short time it
has been in this country a splendid repu-
tation. and its rendering of eperatic selec-
tiOns is said to equal some of the cele-
brated orchestras of the world. In addI-
ton, Manager Chase will present several
acts that are of especial worth. The Hal
Stephens Company will present what is
termed "a scenic monologue." Hugh Stan
ton and Florence Modena will appear in
a new sketch, while Ed. Latell, remem-
hered by patrons of the Grand as an IN
usually clever banjoist and story teller,
Will have something new to offer. Goldin,
a magician, will entertain with his odd
methods. Annie Meyers, former fay-
orite in comic opera. will have some late
songs in her repertoire The Gloss
Brothers. gladiatorial acrobats, and the
four Fentons will complete what appears
to be a most attractive bill.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13

Now that Heurich's Maerzen and Senate Beers
have additional laurels the people are more
determined TO be served these pure beers. The
only safeguard against deception is to ask for
Heurich's beers by their and not by dark
light" Sold at all leading hotels and res
taurants and also By the Arlington Bottns Co.,
phone 63i
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13
EpIron,s AWFUL rLrGnr.

+. ~ Higgins, Editor Seneca NIL News"
was afflicted for years with PILES that no doctor
or remedy helped until be tried Bucken's Arnica
saye. the best in the world. He writes, two
boxes wholly cured him. Infallibie for piles.
Cure guaranteed. Only 25c. Sold by Henry Evans,
ID dggist
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13
MISS M'EINLEY Welded
The Presidents Niece MarrieS Dir.
Hermanus L. Baer.

Imposing NuptiaI Ceremony Mt the
Home of the Brides Father in the
Quaint Old Town of Somerset. Pa
Many Distinguished Guests Present
w eGdiuE Dinner ON the Lawn.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13
END OF THE HEATED TERM
Cooling Breezes Come to the Relief
of Sun Baked Washington.

Promise of the Weather Bureau That
Torrid Days Are Over-One Re-
dian Hurricnns-SorthcrI Winds
and showers Predicted for Today.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13

An offensive breath IL an Insult to your friends
when il can be quickly, permanently remedied by
Caseafets Candy Cathsrtie. Druggists, loe 25c
&c.
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WILDWOOD.
EXTRA ATTRACTION THIS vi

EXTRA ATTRACTION THIS WEEk.
The through car service, together with ole OF
the best performances seen at any resort near
Washington drew large crowds to this popular
resort last week. The management were we'll
pleased with the performance that they have en-
gagged the entire company for this week. and viii
add scientific sparrins exhibition between Mi
Annie Curry late OF London, champion lazy
boxer OF London and America and c. J. Lewis
match Will be no tame affair; this together with
the Deltno's knife and battle axe implement:
the great de Ivan, in marvellous fcats Of cOntor-
ton: Miss Vedot, in serioCOmic songs, has ths
makeup Of one OF the best entertainments ever
seen rear Washington. Vaudeville and dancing
free seg-it
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13

Miss lola f. McCathran has returned TO
her home in Fifth Street southeast, after
a month stay at Oak Grove, Va.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13

i. J. Bowers. prominent lawyer of
New Orleans. and Bay ST. Louis, Miss,
is in the city staying with his cousin.
Mr.. L. A Bowers. Mr.. Bowers is n mem
her of the Mississippi: Legislature and
general counsel of the Gulf and Ship ISL
and HALLWAY
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13

Cards are out announcing the marriage
OF MIR. Ellsworth Low and Miss Alice NJ.
Lighter. both OF this city. The ceremony
occurred Tuesday at the home OF Mrs.
Meade. the brides mother, at CGlyerton,
Va. Mr. and Mrs. Low win be at home at
Wetmore Farm, Midland, Va, after oc-
tober 10.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Wynne sailed on
the steamship st, Louis yesterday to spend
the autumn in foreign travel.
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Among the other remembrances was an
after-dinner coffee set of rare style, gold
lined and studded with pearls. Several su-
perb brooches set with diamonds, cut glass,
bricabrac, and rare designs in slIyerware
are among the brides choicest treasures.
Two rooms were required TO contain all
the gifts, and one expressman has had a
weeks work delivering them.
DR.. and Mrs. Baer leave tomorrow over
the Baltimore and Ohio on their wedding
journey in the private car Falmouth"
loaned By President Duyal OF the Florida
Central Railway. The itinerary will en-
brace the Pacific Coast States and viii
probably last a month. AZ its conclusion
the young people will reside at the home
Of the brides father here.
Miss Mckinley the bride. has always
been the Presidents fayorite niece-more,
indeed, like 4 daughter 10 himself and
wife. She is a pronounced b.onde. bright.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-24
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!. AUNT KATE :;


Il cannot give you up in this way,
Kate said Mr.. Aytown. Let me, ct
least, share your cares and burdens until
you can reasonably lay them aside"
And Aunt Mates voice was very calm
and low as she answered him:
NO, Francis: right Is right. You
would naturally grow weary of RESPONSE
bilities that were not your own. But
my sisters children mine henceforth,
and there are secrets in her life, trans
mitted now to mine, which l cannot even
share with you. Please do not make
my path harder than it otherwise would
be by opportunities which I cannot an
swer."
There was silence for time, and then
the man said bitterly:
IF you loved me, Katharine, you
would not talk in that way
Perhaps not" Aunt Hates voice was
lower. almost a whisper. 81 am sorry
TO make you feel badly, but
you think had better leave and you
do not wish to tell me so. Is that ally"
THAT is ALL
"Kate-if you need friend-and I can
serve you-will you let me know"
Yes" I wondered IL he kissed her;
could not see through the gloom. But
after he had gone a great sob struggled
up to her lips and again she fell like one
In swoon.
She went to work again In few days
at teaching, and every hour when she
was out of school she used to write and
write. 1 knew her pieces sold and that
she wanted more time to give to them.
but the drudgery of school life held her
and she could not escape from 1t. Slow
w. slowly. she was wearing out. I want
ed to help her. 1 studied night and day.
l wanted her to let me leave school and
go to work, but she begged me so hard
to stay in school. because father might
come home, and he would not want TO
find his boy ignorant and broken down
with work.
At last | grew desperate.
I listened when n hard faced man, who
often came to the house. was talking
with Aunt Kate. I heard about debts
yet to he paid and legal trouble to be set
tied. Then I made up my mind, and
the next morning. when Aunt Kate went
to school, l started off to find Mr.. Az
town.
l had long search, but l found him
Mt last. He had moved his store to an
other town. 80 miles away, and was lv-
ing like n hermit or misanthrope, all
by himself. l was glad of that.
1t would have been so much worse if
he were married, you know. But 1
walked into the store and called him by
name; he did not recognize me at all:
but I told him who l was, and he looked
MT me from under his wrinkled eyebrows
and said:
Did she-your aunt-send YOU hereY'
mo, sir" 1 answered promptly. ''She
did not know 1 was coming; but she is
working too hard, and l want to help her.
Now. If you will take me into your store
to work and give me So week / can
take care of Kittie and myself, and you
can tnke cnre of Aunt Kate. See"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-24
THE TEST OF LOVE
Barbara Merrfden Came Near Civ
ing Up a Brave Man For
q Coward.

OF all the noble rivers that go bound
ing to the sea none is more splendid
than the Columbia. Its pine clad banks
give a majestic setting for it's silver
stream. But why should it be called
silver? At times it is the deepest green,
deeper and more luminous than the
heart OF a jewel. There are hours
when its cascades have a thousand col
ors, like mother of pearl. There are
dawns, after the mist has lifted when
the broad surface of the river above
the cascades is actually saffron or bur
nished gold.
Barbara Merriden knew 1t in every
mood and loved it whether it was SOM
Der with storm or sullen in the harsh
autumn days or scintillant under the
July sunshine. She was as much at
home upon the river as on the land,
and the firm earth, with all its comfort
and beauty, could never give her the
10y that she felt when the current took
her boat in it's strong embrace.
She went to the river in her sorrow
full moments as we'll as in her happy
ones. She fed to it as to a friend.
When George CaXton told her that he
loved her, she ran to the river to tell 1t
of the blessing that had come into her
life. But some way she did not feel
the ecstasy she had expected to. The
pleasure in her heart did not rise to
meet the splendor of water and sky
and shore. She had often looked for
ward to this hour as the browning JOY
OF her life. But with grief she discOv-
e: cd that the song of nature had n
higher note than the love lyric of her
heart.
Perhaps It was because the hour had
been too long expected. George CaX-
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-24

ton and Barbara Merriden had gone TO
school together. They knew every
event of each others lives. They had
always been attached to each other.
George had never thought of any other
girl with emotion, and Barbara had
long felt that she was destined to be
his wife. She had said yes to his ear
nest question with gratitude and hap
piness, yet now in the mystic hour by
the river, with the sun shedding it's
last exquisite glow upon an unreal
world, she felt a WEAKNESS of spirit at
the modera ton Of her joy.
She was turning from her beautiful
river, humilia ted at the inadeQuacy of
her own emotions, when she saw walk
ing among the pines, with eyes fixed
upon the distant glory of the sky, a
young man whom she had never seen
before. He did not see her till she was
close by him, and then he looked with
start at the face of the girl spiritual
and exquisite with it's deep emotional
experience. He stopped and looked at
her, rapt, as If she had been some re-
Gently embodied soul created for this
wondrous hour, and she stopped, too,
enchanted by the eloquence of his face.
thing remarkable:
us 1t always mysterious and fear
fully beautiful in these woods?" he
asked.
at is always beautiful here" she
said, speaking as if in a dream. "And
sometimes it seems unreal and like
like a phantom world, as 1t does to-
night"
lN1f t., h. 20 In1 el,a
ken in the way that she desired. 1t
was her habit to frame her speech in
commonplace words.
Il should like to walk out on that
golden water" he went on. 1T seems
as if it might bear one Up, does it not?"
Barbara had a fancy and INDUCED
herself in it.
1T will bear up any one whose heart
is light" she smiled. But, mind you,
it must have no care at all. 1t must be
as light as ether
Would it bear you up?" he asked.
She shook her head mournfully, and
he said in n voice that moved her,
land | should sink like a stone" 1t
seemed impossible for them to part
while that witch light cleaned upon
their enchanted wood, and when the
shadows grew gray they became
part Of theln-like shadows they faded
from each others sight.
That night when Barbara went about
her duties and afterward when she lay
in her bed she found herself happy
with the elate and triumphant happi-
ness of which she had dreamed.
George CaXton, her promised lover,
seemed a part of the workaday world.
Her thoughts turned away from him
in spite of her efforts to be loyal.
She felt sure she would meet the
stranger again in the woods, and she
did many times. He was n writer by
vocation. He even confessed to being
poet. He was not well, he said. The
"itv had worn on him. so he had come
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-24

He laughed a little, snort, naru Iaugn
and said:
at is not so bad in you trying to take
care of yourself, boy, but your terms are
rather extravagant, and I doubt If you
could stay here, anyway. Does she want
you to leave school?"
NO sir; she wants me to finish my
education. so that when father comes
home can go to work with him."
WHAT he said sharply. 81 thought
your father was deadT
$50 l thought" 1 answered him; "and
so does nearly every one think; but l re-
member now that mother did not think
so. She was always watching for him,
and Aunt Kate knows more about 1t than
she says. 1 expect he went away and
left lot of money to be paid. and those
women thought they could pay it, and
then he would come home"
''You have some queer notions" Mr.. A.
said. And then he asked me a lot OF
questions about my father and GRANDPA
Their, and about mother, too, and Aunt
Kate. and then he went to his desk and
took out some papers and said:
Here take these home to your Aunt
Kate. Tell her that it was her pride
that has kept me from understanding
her position all this while; that 1 never
intended to injure anybody, and If she
wanted to see me she had only to write"
1 asked. for I was awfully disappointed.
He laughed again-a pleasanter laugh
this time-and said:
"Ask her"
So I went home and gave her the pa
pers to read, and she cried and cried, and
said
MY brother-my dear brother!" And
all the while she was glad, she said,
though she still kept crying.
At last Mr.. Aytown came without be-
ing sent for, and they talked long
while 1t was about some papers that
had been intrusted to somebody, and IA
Their had lost them and was afraid to
own it. 1t was something about the bank
where Mr.. Aytown was president, and
the papers We're found and brought to
him, and he put them away and said
nothing, and father went away and lived
In fear, expecting lot of trouble, and
Aunt Kate kept it all to herself and
wouldn't say a word.
Wasn't she a brave little woman?
And father came home, very sad and
troubled, grieved beyond all words that
his home broken up and his wife
gone from his sight forever. He put his
hand on my head and said:
III l have erred, my boy, | did it for
your sake. l could not bear the thought
that disgrace or even suspicion should
rest upon the father of my child
I said:
Poor father. YOU have had lots OF
trouble. but ! think we will work togeth-
er after this"
And so there was wedding at our
home one night. The parties were Mr..
and Mrs. Aytown, but the bride was dear
Aunt Kate.-New York News.