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place on the village green. and REQ stood
in his doorway and watched 1t from his
narrow, pig-like eyes; then being of q
ruagnanimous nature, he walked over and
asked three stout youths who had beaten
the Tongan into state of Inconsistencies
and were jumping on his body not to hurt
him.
About midnight 'Reo's house was seen to
be in flames. and the owner, uttering wild.
weird screams of Fla ola. Fla ola!"
c'Mercy!" 'Mercy!') fled down the beach
to his boat, followed by bis wife, a large
fat woman. named appropriately enough
Taumafa tAbundance). They dashed into
the water. clambered into the boat, and
began pulling seaward for their lives The
villagers, thinking they had both gone mad.
gazed at them in aStonishment, and then
went back and helped themselves to the
few goods saved from the burning house.
Had His Good Points.
AS soon as REQ and the good wife were
out of sight of the village they put about,
ran the boat into little bay further down
the coast, planted a bag containing $780,
with the best of the trade goods (Salved
before the fire was discovered), and then
set sail for Apia to "get justice from the
CONSUL"
The consul said it was a shocking out
rage; the captain of the United States ship
Adirondack concurred; and so the cruiser,
with the injured, stol0-faced REQ on
board, steamed off to Leone bay and gave
the astonished natives twelve hours to
make up their minds to which they
would do-pay REQ $1,000 in cash or have
their town burned. They paid $6O0-all they
could raise-and then in a daZed sort of
way sat down to mediate as they saw the
Adirondack steam off again.
REQ gave his wife a small share of the
plunder and sent her home to her parents.
When Tom Denison next saw him he was
keeping a boarding house at Levuka, in
Fiji. He told Denison he was welcome to
free board and lodging for year. REQ
had his good points. as I have said.
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Bible, chalice and patina take up their
places near the pulpit, and behind the royal
person stand the lord chamberlain of the
household and the groom of the robes.
The Ceremony of Recognition.
Now the actual ceremonies of the corona
ton are begun. the first office being the rec
ognition. At the conclusion of the anthem
which Is sung during the procession and
the taking of places. the archbishop of Cam
terbury. standing near the sovereign, says
to the lord chancellor. the lord great cham
berlain, the lord high constable and the
earl marshal. standing. respectively. In the
east. west. north and south sides of the
abbey:
'Slrs. here present unto you King Ed
ward. the undoubted king of this realm: !:
wherefore all you who are come this day
to do your homage, are you willing to DO
the same?'
The sovereign stands while east west.
north and south respond In union This is
the recognition. The sovereign then re-
sumes his seat. The first Offering is the
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the nave into the choir. The choristers
Immediately begin the anthem and the pro-
CesSion into the choir Is formed.
Reaching the end of the choir the process
sion disbands, as it were, those forming 1t
passing to the places in the abbey appro-
priated for them according to their official
position to their rank in the peerage
The sovereign moves to the south side OF
the throne and passes to a chair of state
named the recognition chair. where for a
few moments he gives himself up to private
devotion upon the foldstool The prayer
ended. the sovereign takes his place in the
recognition chair, the bishops standing on
each side of him, the peers bearing the four
ceremonial swords being on the right side.
The peer carrying the sword of state has
the position next the royal person.
The lord great chamberlain and lord high
constable. the other state dignitaries and
the regalia bearers stand on the left hand
the bearers nearest the royal seat. On this
same side the three bishops who have the
Evening star., 1901-02-09
Remarkable Find of Silver Pennie..

Hemarkable Find of Silver Pennies.
From the London Mail
Samuel McMichan, ploughman of Close
burn, Dumfriesshire has just brought to
light potful of silver pennies that were
buried probably 5S7 years ago, or there
abouts.
Samuel McMichan, being a ploughman
who takes pride in his furrow, rested his
horses at the end of the field he was work.
ing few days ago and cast his eye back
along the line he had followed to see that
it was straight.
1t was not. His critical eve noticed an
unevenness in the ground, and Samuel Nc
Michan stepped back over the clods of that
hlgh-lying field to ascertain the cause He
fcund that his plough had broken open an
earthenware pot, and before him lay scat
tered hundreds of pieces of what in his
fomely lowland way he called tin
With a capful of "tin" McMichan went
on ana consulted the farmer, and most of
the tin turned out to be silver pennies
of the reign of Edward L, who annexed
Scotland, and Edward II, who lost IT.
There We're over 1000 of them, all in good
of an inch across. They weighed five
pounds in bulk.
The Oldest of the coins are those of King
Alexander of Scotland, who ruled from 1249
to 12So. There are also few bearing the
mint mark of Waterford, in Ireland The
latest are those of Edward H. whom the
Scots cheerfully thrashed at Bannockburn
III 1314. In 1913 Edward Bruce drove the
English oppressor out of Nithsdale and it
is suggested that some Englishman, being
In hurry to reach the border, put his 1000
silver pennies in a potsherd and hid it in
the ground
1t would be interesting to know the name
of the man who thus lost what Samuel
McMfchan 500 years later found Perhaps
an antiquary will tell us. But at any rate
the crown is claiming the pennies as treas
ure trove, SO they will probably find their
way into a Scottish museum for English
visitors to look at
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Life Guards, the royal bargemaster and ms
forty-eight royal watermen clad in their
quaint ancient dress, boldly embroidered
with the royal cipher, detachment from
the Royal Huntsmen in their leaf green
livery, the Marshalmen led by the knight
Marshal, the yeoman of the guard as es-
corts to the state coach conveying the SOW
erign and his princess; the Coldstream
Guards, the Kings Own Rifles, the Horse
Guards and such other detachments of the
military as the empire may have at its dis
poSal for the event.
At Westminster Abbey.
Upon his arrival at Westminster the SOW
ereign is received at the entrance by the
great officers of state and the noblemen
designated as bearers of the royal regal1a
and conducted In silence to the robing
chamber. When the sovereign has been
robed In a surcoat of crimson velvet with
a mantle and hood of the same material,
trimmed with ermine and bordered with
deep gold lace. and the cap of state has
been placed upon his head, he advances up
Evening star., 1901-02-09
Old and New.

From the indianapolis Press.
Long have the poets vaunted, In their lays
Old times. old loves, old Friendships and old
wine.
Why should the old monopolze all praise7
Then let the new claim mine.
Give me strong new friends. when the old prove
weak
Or fail me in my darkest hour Of need:
Why perish with the ship that springs q leak,
Or lean upon a reed?
Give me new love, warm, palptating sweet
When all the grace and beauty leaves the old;
When. like q rose, It wfthers at my feet,
Or, like q heart, grows cold.
Give me new times. bright with a prosperous
cheer,
In place OF old tear-blotted burdened days;
hold q sunlit present far more dear.
And worthy OF my praise.
When the old creeds threadbare and worn
through,
And all too narrow for the broadening soal
Give the nne, nrm texture of The Nv.
Fs.r beautiful and whole!
-MLA WHEMER WILCOX.
Evening star., 1901-02-09
Out of Character.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Baron Munchausen had just written q
letter to friend.
He closed it with a flourish. q yours
truly" and signed his name.
Then. with q melancholy smile. he erased
the word truly"
"It would merely move him to derisfve
laughter" he said.
Evening star., 1901-02-09
In 1t, but Not of 1t.

From Puck.
Jones-"I can't decide what character to
take at the Dickens bazaar"
Smith-"Well, go as w. d. Howells"
Jones-"What would 1 have to dor"
Smith-"Oh! Just stand off in a corner
and ScOwl"
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1.-THE Rev. Mr.. Meekinss is good fellow,
isn't her.
Eyes. They say he Is not only Q fine golf
player, but fairly good clergyman"
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Fixed by Law.


Carper - ''They say time is money
That's all right, but how are we going to
determine how much money a given period
of time is worth?'
Rownder-"Its easy to fix a standard. A
day is equal to one dollar"
Carper-"How do you make that out?"
Rownder-"Why, didn't you ever hear
magistrate say Ten dollars or ten
days?"
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valuable specimens he found opportunitv
10 STUDY the habits of the denizens of this
vast tract of arid country. He visited sew
erai cltles, Travelled in the primitive fash
ION peculiar to the desert and received the
impression of the Sahara's heat dryness
ana barrenness which is conveyed to the
reader of his volume. The illustrations are
particularly fine. being reproduced from
photographs taken on the expedition.
LORDS OF THE NORTH. BY A. @ Laut New
hofk: D. +. Taylor Company.
story of unusual power is woven in this
DOCK around the struggles of the Hudson's s
Bay and the Northwest Companies for the
fur trade of Canada early in the nineteenth
century, The novel affords a vivid i'm
preston of the wildness of the times. the
crueltfes of both whites and Indians and
the political intrigue involved in the ad-
m1nistration of these two great commercial
rivals The story is dramatically almost
meiodramatically, told, with even progress
sion toward an effective climax
PATRON VAN vOLKENBERG: a Tale of old
Manhattan In he year Sixteen Hundred and
Ninety-nine. By Henry Thew Stephenson n
Illustrated by c. NJ. Reiyea Third Edition In
dianapolis: The Bowen Merrill Company
THE STORY OF BURNT NAL; From the Ice
iandlc OF the Malls Saga. By the late Sir
tory Note. and the Introduction, Abridged from
the Original Edition of 1861 New York: E
7. DuttOn & Co.
THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY CATALOGUE-
10000. Cambridge: Published by the Uniyer-
sity.
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A COnscientiaus Man.

Denison landed the ancient at Leone bay,
on Tutuila. for he had taken kindly to the
old scoundrel. who had many virtues and
could give points to any one, white or
brown. in the noble art of deep sea fishing
This latter qualification endeared him
greatly to young Tom, who, when he was
not employed in keeping the captain sober.
or bringing him round after an attack Of
dts" spent all his spare time in fishing,
either at sea or In port. .tota ~
REQ settled at Leone, and made q good
deal Of money buying cepra from the ma
tives. The natives got to like him, he was
such q conscientious old fellow. When he
hung the baskets Of cOpra on the iron hook
of the steelyard, which was marked to
weigh up to one hundred and fifty pounds.
he would call their attention to the marks
as he moved the heavy pea" along the
yard. Then, one day, some interfering
Tongan visitor examined the pea and de-
clared that 1t had been taken from q steel
yard designed to weigh up to four hundred
pounds. REQ was SO hurt at the insinua-
ton that he Immediately took the whole
apparatus out beyond the reef in his boat
and Indignantly sank 1t in fifty fathoms of
water. Then he returned to his house,
bade his wife (he had married again) q sor-
rowful farewell. and said his heart was
broken by the slanders of a vile Tongan
pig from mission school. He would, he
said. go back to Apia, where he was re-
spected by all who knew him., Then he
began to pack UP. Some of the natives
sided with the Tongan. some with REQ.
and In a few minutes a free fight took
Evening star., 1901-11-04
REGARDING THE MUSICIANS.
Attitude of Central Labor Union in
Pending Controversy

A statement has been issued by Secretary
Charles E. DIETRICH of the Central Labor
Union concerning the attitude of that or
ganization In the fight OF the local Musl-
clans Union against the employment Of
members of the Marine Band in theater or
chestras. In substance. Mr.. DIETRICH states
that the matter is wholly In the hands Of
the musical union, and that no action will
De taken by the Central Labor Union until
formal request TO interfere had been re-
eeived from the musicians AS to the po-
siuon taken by the Musicians Union Il is
explained that no animosity exists against
tne members of the Marine Band person.
ally, but that as those musicians receive
salaries from the government they should
nor deprive others who do not receive such
regular pay of the only other regular work
10 oe haa in the city. To this contention
OF the union men members of the Marine
bano answer that not a few union men are
clerks IN the government departments and
receive salaries of 81 eco and 81 800 per year
-much more than is paid the musicians of
the Marine Band.
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Commemorative Services.

The completion Of the auditorium Of the
Second Baptist Church is being celebrated
by exercises which were begun yesterday
and will be continued for the balance of the
month. There was sunrise meeting yes
terday morning led by Father" Bowles.
At the 10 o'clock service the sermon was
delivered by Rev. w. Bishop Johnson, DID,,
pastor of the church, who took the place
of Prof. Gregory w. Hayes president of
the Virginia Seminary and College, Lynch
burg, Va, who was unable to be present.
Rev. DR.. G. w. Lee, pastor of the Vermont
Avenue Baptist Church preached at the
afternoon service, and in the evening Rev.
Walter II. Brooks, D., occupied the pull
pit. The meetings will continue with three
services each Sunday and preaching each
week night, Saturday excepted, until Fri
day, November 20, on which evening the
congregation will give a reception to the
colored ministry of the city.
Evening star., 1901-11-04
CONDENSED LOCALS.

The dead body of an infant was found
in the sewer at 9th and Pomeroy streets
Saturday afternoon. 1t was turned over to
the police. Coroner hewitt gave the nee
essary death certificate.
Walter Blackstone, colored, thirty eight
years old, fell from street car at New
York avenue and 5th street northwest,
about O'Clock Saturday night and was
bruised about the face He was removed
to his home in Willow Tree alley by the
police.
A false alarm of fire was turned in from
box 426 yesterday morning shortly after l2
o'clock. The firemen and police reserves
responded. An investigation was made by
the police but the person who turned in the
alarm could not be found.
Mrs. L. c. NJ. Siebel, living at III New
York avenue northwest. fell frem her bicy-
Gle near her home last night and was slight
ly hurt. She was given medical treatment
at drug store.
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METROPOLITAN CLUB ELECTION.
Vacancies I'm the Board of Governors
ia BE Filled.

Seven vacancies in the board of gov
ernors of the Metropolitan Club, which con-
sists Of fifteen members, are to be filled
today at an election to be held from to 6
O'Clock, and a house committee will also be
chosen. One vacancy was caused by the
death of Gen. Chauncey McKeever, whose
term would have expired October 10, 1902;
another by the recent resignation of Adj
miral George Dewey, whose term would
have been terminated October Is, 1903, and
who also resigned as president of the club;
two others by designations of O. H. Ernst
and Robert Hinckley, whose terms would
have run until October Is, 1904, and the
remaining three by the expiration of the
terms of Jesse Brown, Archibald Hopkins
and John c. Poor, respectively.
The names of the candidates posted are
as follows:
To serve until October Is, 1902, A. E.
(One to be chosen)
To serve until October Is, 1908, Rear Ad-
miral S. E. Franklin. (One to be chosen)
To serve until October 10, 1904. w. A.
Day, G. L.. Gillespie and F. P. B. Sands.
1.-TWO to be chosen)
To serve until October Is, 1906 Archibald
Hopkins James H. Hopkins, Thomas Nell
son Page and Nathaniel Wilson. CThree to
be chosen)
The candidates for election to the house
committee are Frederick E. Chaplin, Alex
ander B. Legare and John F. Wilkins.
The new board of governors will elect a
president to succeed Admiral Dewey snd
the understanding is that Rear Admiral
Franklin will be chosen
Evening star., 1901-11-04
LIVE PIGEON HANDICAP.
Local Cracks Entered for the Shoot
Tomorrow at Steubener's.


Tomorrow at Steubener's.
The last live pigeon handicap shoot of
the season will take place tomorrow, No
vember 5, at Steubeners shooting grounds,
on the Bladensburg road. The first trap
will be pulled at o'clock. The conditions
will be 20 birds each, handicap from 25 TO
30 yards for twelve-gauge guns; entrance
fee, &C. birds included. The man making
the highest score will receive a new Par
ker hammerless gun of any gauge he may
select from Uncle Billy Wagner's stock.
The entries will remain open until the
match begins. Those who have already
entered, and their distances, as follows:
VIM. Wagner. 80 yards; Ralph Nutting,
80; Nat. s. Simpkins, 80; Phil. Steubener,
80; James M. Green, 2S: George Wise, 2S;
J. Coleman, 27; Phil. Hazel, %; w. S. Du-
vail, %; H. w. Bliss, %; H. F. Dickerson,
%. Joe Hunter and Cluskey Cromwell will
shoot twenty-eight- gauge guns from the
twenty-yard line.
The lofts contain a large number of
strong birds that promise to make grass
ing difficult. After the handicap there will
be miss-and-out events, and it is probable
that couple of interesting individual
matches will be arranged.
Evening star., 1901-11-04
RAILROADS.
SOUTHERN RAIL WAY
Schedule corrected TO November 3. 1901.
Trains leave frum pennsvIvanf. St.,t,n

Schedule corrected 10 November 3 1921.
Trafns leave frum Pennsylvania Station.
Sol an. Daily. I.ecai for HarrIsooburg. War
renton Charlotte and way stations.
cars TO New Orleans. Columbia. savannah and
!aekscnyiie uniting at SALISBURY with sleeper zoe
vile with sleeper for .Blrmingssm and at Char
inrton to New Orleans. Dining car service
ll;S. an Daily Local for warrenton and
4:oI pm. Week Days. Local for Front Royal,
Strashurg and Hsrrisonburg
4:3o Pm Daily. Local for warrenton aud Char
$50 pm. Daily. Washington and chst,apooc.
noke, Knoxville Chattanooga Memphis and New
Orleans. Through coach to Memphis. Dining car
s:5s pm. Daily. n. Y. and ria Express Sleep
ing cars TO Augusta. with connections for Aiken
souvine and Port Tampa. Through coach To Iack-
souvilie, uniting at Danville with Pullman steep
Tourist sleeper Washington Ia San Francisco Nom
days, Wednesdays and Fridays Dining car sery-
Io:45 pm. Daily. Washington and Southwestern
Limited-the only exclusively Pullman train he
to asherilie Knoxville. chatisnoors spd SssS ss
vile. and 70 Atlanta: Mason, nlrmiSgham, Mem
a' TRAINS on BIUEMoNT sT'ps sRANcM ass SfT'''e
pm and iss PM, week dsys & and VS Sol P% am AND and
60 pm; sundays S only: for Bluemont. and e:2s
Returning. arrive Washington s:24 a m and TOO
days from B1emont. and d. e:Ss a.n, @ @ess Sss. %sss
from Lcesburg. ''
Through trsins from the South arrive Washington
6;42 am, 6:52 am, SO an. daily, 2:l3 pm.
and 300 pm, daily. From Harrlsonhurs II AZ
an. week days. and e;4o pm, daily From
charlottesville. s:2s IN. and $40 pm daily
Tickets, sleeping car reservations and other in
formation furnished and baggage called for and
checked from hotels and residences by Union
Transfer Co, on orders left at Ticket orices Ios
18th st. NV; 5l1 Pa. ave. NV. and Penna.
Station.
Phone Main 144I Tor r, r. r: Cab Service.
FRANK :. CANNON sd V. 2. and Gen. Mgr.
s. II. HARDW1CK, General Pass'r Agent.
l.. s. BROWN. General Agent.
Evening star., 1901-11-04
CITY AND DISTRICT.
Lodge Election.

AT a largely attended meeting of Perse-
verance Lodge of Good Templars last Sat
urday evening, Past Chief John c. Daily
presiding, officers for the new quarter,
trustees and representatives and alter
mates TO the Grand Lodge Were elected, as
follows: B. c. Mcdonald. c. T.; Miss j.
A Tennyson. V. t; Miss Blanche Neff, r.
s.; Miss Bette Frame, a. r. s.: Mrs. Kate
Swearenger, F. s.; J. F. LIE Barnes, r;
J. B. Hillman. NJ; Miss Florence Phillips,
c.; William Turner, G.; W. Green, s.; Mrs.
J. B. Hhlman. D. NJ. and I. j. Corby, +. c.
T.; board of trustees, William Turner, w.
Green and j. B. Hillman; representatives,
Mrs. J. Bryson, j. c. Daily, Mrs y. II.
Frear. Miss Ivy JOst and Miss Susie Jost;
alternates, ]. F. lie Barnes. Miss BETTE
Frame, /. ]. Corby, Mrs. ]. b. Hhlman
and u. c. Mcdonald
Evening star., 1901-11-04
SUBJECT OF DIVORCE.
Rev. DIR. McKim Discusses the Sanctity
of Marriage.

In his sermon last evening Rev. DR.. Nc
Kim, the rector of Epiphany Church, spoke
on the subject of divorce in connection
with the consideration given the subject by
the general convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church recently in session in
San Francisco. At the opening of his dis
course DR.. McKim read the 10Th chapter
of St. Matthew, beginning at the sixth
verse. He said the words of Jesus Christ
had been the law of the Episcopal Church
in this country from the beginning of its
history.
AS stated in the last verse of the chapter,
he said, that law prohibited divorce ex-
cept for one cause-when the sanctity of
the home is violated. While at the recent
convention the proposed change in the
canon was defeated, the speaker said that
1t should be understood that the church
has not lowered her standard as to the
sanctity of marriage.
An attempt was made at the convention,
he said, to unite two extreme factions, and
the compromise, he declared, was unworthy
of the dignity of the church and the posi-
tion it should take before the world.
'The Episcopal church has taken the
clearest stand in this matter" he declared,
land the brethren of other churches Will
work with us in this great campaign Of the
twentieth century against divorces. 1t is
only by union of the Christian forces for
one great moral purpose-the prohibiting Of
by Jesus Christ-that we .can ever hope to
accomplish anything. There is great evil
abroad in the land, SO stupendous and SD
far-reac ching that we can see it's shadow
fall across every street, and it might be
said into every home in the land. 1t must
be eradicated by the united action of
Christian people.
In some states marriage and divorce
stand In the proportion of one to ten. One
divorce to every ten marriages. 1t is this
state of affairs which has created so dep q
feeling in regard to this question. Prophets
and theologians. churchmen and Christians,
have lifted up their voices against the drag
ging of the sacred bond from it's lofty po-
sftion into the mire. I need not dwell upon
the abominable license and carelessn ess
which have prevailed.
Some remember when divorced men and
women were looked upon with feeling of
reprobation. A great change has come, and
the worst of it is that the most grievous
offenders have been among those who stood
high in society. The rich and influential
have been the greatest transgressors in this
regard.
uniformity in the laws of the states
and territories on the subject is also an
important matter. Probably some of you
do not know that some time ago the Pro-
testant ministers of this city met at the
house of the bishop Of Washington and
took action which led to remedial meas
ure being passed by Congress. Here in the
city of Washington a law goes into effect
on the 1st Of January next, providing that
no divorces will be granted in the District
Of Columbia for any other than the QUE
cause laid down by our SAVIOR