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Rates of made known on application Part 2. Pages WASHINGTON, D. SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. The Evening Star is the one paper that reaches all the households of the city. The wise business man uses its columns to make known the inducements he has to offer.

The foolish man throws his money away when he pays it out for advertisements in fake publications whose circulation is chiefly in gutters, and back alleys, junk shops, and paper mills. Yoor Opportunity, nm 1 Il( Another GRAND EXCURSION, Sunday, May no. Leaving Pennsylvania Depot at 2:45 P.M. T3 ITS kl SPPmPni When you invest jn ST. ELMO and DEL RAY lllLdi y011 are securing property which as beautifully located, only 13 miles from Washington, between two sylvanaa railroad, which now gives a service of trains daily, amid the new Mount Vernon electric railway, wlhicih be an full! operation within a few weeks.

3)0 That ST. ELMO and DEJ1 RAY are not bare fields, with only prospects to recommend them, but that they are well towns, where improvements are constantly being made. Over 40 residences nowsadorai ST. ELMO and DEL RAY, and more are building. They have 3 stores, a church and a post andria city water is on the property, and a school wall shortly be est Electric light can be had at a small cost.

CThe Growth of St. Eflmnio and Dell Ray 5s Steady and stantial, Thus Insuring Dncreased Values. PRICES OF LOTS; $75, Snoo, $325, $n8o. TERMS: FIRST PAYMENT, WEEKLY PAYMENTS from 50c. to $11.25.

A DISCOUNT of no Per Cent Wall Be Allowed for CASH. Our inducements include: CASH BUILDING PRIZES! A FARE LJNTIL FREE LIFE INSURANCE! FREE inPROVEHENTS! 0--T. a NO TAXES! NO NOTES! NO MORTGAGES! NO INTEREST! This is truly a grand chance for people of means. Don't let it slip away. Accompany us on morrow's excursion.

WOOD, HARMON CO. 0 ft 525 Thirteenth St. N.W, 1.3c? mwmBwm REAL ESTATE GOSSIP An Addition to a Large Holding of Acreage Property. ECME PROPOSED RAILROAD CHANGES Facilities of Communication Between the City and Suburbs. SOME TRANSACTIONS Considerable interest was aroused in real est-ite circles by the announcement which was made during the week that the court had confirmed the sale to Mrs.

Dean of the proper'y of H. H. Dodge. This is a strip of land some 250 feet in width, which joins on the east the extensive grounds surrounding the residence of Mrs. Dean at the head of Connecticut avenue.

The Dodge property has a frontage on Florida avenue and on street, and Its acquisition completes the block of land which is bounded by lorida avenue, Columbia road and 10th street. The purchase comprises about square feet, which is over two acres, and the entire tract of land now owned by Mrs. Dean is nearly ten acres, forming one of the largest, if not the largest, pieces of acreage property that still remain along the northwestern border of the city. The negotiation of the purchase of the property was made through Mr. Louis D.

Wine of the tirm of B. H. Warner Co. I'rnpoKril Kitllmad lmnerN. The Chevy Chase Land Company has granted to the Glen Echo railroad a right of way through its property to the Chevy Chase circle.

At present the Glen Echo railroad terminates at the District line, where is also the terminus of the Georgetown and Tenleytown railroad and of the Tenleytown and Rockville railroad. It Is row proposed to change this union station, as it might be termed, to a point on the Tenleytown and Rockville road some distance north of the present location. The Glen Echo road, as Is now contemplated, will abandon a portion of its present tracks, and will build a line to Somerset Heights, crossing the Tenleytown and Ro kville road, and on through to the Chevy Chase circle; This proposed route will be almost a straight course from the Chevy I'hase circle to the present terminus of the line on the Conduit road. It is stated that negotiations are in progress to havo the cars of the Georgetown and Tenleytown road run beyond the present terminus and over the new route of the Glen Echo road to the Chevy Chase circle. It Is also possible that cars of the Tenleytown and Rockville road will run through to the Chevy Chase circle, but as the latter road is to be offered at public the latter part of this month, all arrangements of a joint character are apt to be deferred until the new owners can be consulted.

It is believed by the residents in that vicinity that if these plans are carried out the entire region will be greatly benefited by the proposed multiplication of the facilities of communication with the city. Avenue Property. During tbe past week two pieces of property gn Pennsylvania avenue have been offered for sale at puMic auction. One was the building on the soulh side of the avenue near tith street formerly occupied by Stott Cromwell. The frontage is 25 feet and the depth 125 feet.

Mr. Ratcliffc, the auctioneer, withdrew the property, the highest bid received beir.g The other piecr of property was 1723 and 1725 Pennsylvania avenue, which was offered by XI. B. Latimer auctioneers. The property has a frontal of 30 feet and depth of 135 and is improved.

It was withdrawn. the highest bid being $3.25 per square foo t. PropoMeil Apartment Plans for two apartment houses of considerable size are ui'der consideration. Mr. Stilson Hutchins recently purchased the Archer property at the northwest corner of Massachusetts avenue end 14 th street, which has a frontage of 58 feet.

He already owned the adjoining property on the west, fronting til feet, making a total frontage of 11!) feet. He is thinking about erecting an apartment house on this site, but no definite action has yet been taken. There is also some talk of remodeling the Hammond Sanatorium building on 14th street extended and fHliL-g it up as an apartment building. School llulltllnifM ami Rralilrnoen. Property holders and residents on Massachusetts avenue will be Interested in the which has been favorably reported to the Senate providing for the sale of the Force school building, which is on the south side of Massachusetts avenue between 17th and 18th streets.

It is expected that when this property is sold a less expensive site will be secured in the near neighborhood. While it is recognized th? school buildings ought to occupy the best building sites in the city, yet it is also well known that such buildings are more or les-s of a detriment to the adjoining property, especially in residence sections of the city. It seems to be difficult for tie school authorities to control the children, who run over the adjoining terraces and keep the locality generally in a shal by condition. Property Trannnrtionii. B.

H. Warner real estate dealers, have exchanged for Louis W. Richardson with Barr Sanner the lot at the northwest corner of New Hampshire avenue and 18th street for thirteen lots on Florida avej nue between 2d and 3d streets The same firm has also sold to Barr Sanner house 1309 22d street. Some George S. Cooper, architect, has prepared plans for a residence, which is to be erected for himself, at No.

1813 Corcoran street. It will front eighteen feet and have a depth of fifty-four feet, and will be three stories In height. The front will be of Pompeiian brick and light stone, with a hexagonal bay window, oriel window and mansard roof. From plans prepared by W. L.

Mangum, B. B. McCormlck will erect five two-Btory houses, feet, on I street between 12th 13th streets southeast. A contract to repair the first and second floors of the Y. M.

C. A. building on NewYork avenue, to put on a new root and make general repair has been awa.dcd byJames G. Hill, architect, to F. W.

Hackux. A two-story dwelling, 16x.S5 feet, will be built for John D. Evans on street between 1st and streets northeast. Appleton P. Clark, architect, has prepared plans for a frame cottage to be erected at Chevy Chase for Miss Scannel.

The same architect has prepared plans for remodeling building No. street for John Wedderburn. A new three-story back building Is to be erected. A two-story bay window is being put Into the front of the building, street by the owner, Mr. C.

C. VVillard, and other changes will be made, so as to adapt the structure for office purposes. H. 15. Davis, architect, is superintending for Kdward Fitzgerald the erection of four two-story and cellar press brick houses, with stone trimmings, which are being built at the corner of 7th and streets northeast.

J. J. (juinn Is the builder. MICE THAT LIKE MUSIC. The Little VlNltora of Boy in Ilnrlem Who I'osnptiseii Mimic Ilox.

From the New York Run. A small boy up. in Harlem has been amusing himself a good deal lately with the mice which he finds about the cupboards in the kitchen. Christmas Santa Claus brought him a little music box, which played two or three tunes when the crank was turned. The boy played it night and day.

and would have taken it to school had his mother not forbidden it. One evening just before bedtime, say, 7:45 o'clock, he sat on the floor cross legged and turning the tuneful crank. All of a sudden his mother, who was sitting by the table, leaped up on her chair with a scream. It is a curious fact that house mice delight In music boxes and other musical things, and three" of them had come out of a hole and were running all about the boy, who had not noticed them, so busywas he playing the music box. The mice scurried away at the shriek.

The next night when the boy played the mice soon came out onto the floor and raced back and forth. Now the mice are very tame and are fed occasionally by the boy. A Forest and Stream writer once put an automatic music box out in the grass, and spent many hours watching the bluebirds and other birds gathering about it. A looking glass, put up where the birds can see themselves in it. Is also very attractive, while a combination of a music box and a looking glass pleases the birds more than anything else one could put out for their amusement.

THE CIRCULATION of The Star in Washington is many thousands in excess of any other paper, Morning or Evening, and is believed to be fully five times that of any afternoon contemporary. That it goes into more than ten times as many households is a moral certainty. About the Companies Forming the Second Battalion. PREPARING FOR THE COMPETITIVE DRILL Representing the Western, Eastern and Business Schools. BANNER AND MEDAL Undoubtedly the most notable occasion of the year to the High School Cadets and the students and their friends in general is the annual competitive drill, held toward the close of each year, when all of tne companies in the regiment meet in friendly competition to decide the question of supremacy.

A company banner anil handsome gold medal, donated by Capt. Allison Nailer, are the prizes, the latter to be worn by the winning captain, and a red ribbon, upon which is printed in gold letters, "Competitive Drill, Washington High School, May 19-20, Prize Company," for every member of the successful company. Nent Tuesday a week. May at o'clock, company Capt. James H.

Williams, will march on the field of the National Base Hall Park, at the head of 7th street, amid the shouts and cheers of their friends, and will open the contest. It is the ambition of each school to nave their representative company win the prize, and as all four of the companies of the firr.t battalion are representatives of the Central High School, It is a competition between the two battalions, as well as between the individual companies. The companies from the Eastern, business and Western schools, comprising the second battalion, naturally do not want the Central companies to win. but have not the same feeling toward each other, while if any one of the Central companies has little chance of being victorious, it hopes at least that one of the other three will be successful in securing the much coveted prize banner. When asked as to the chances of the companies in his command, the major, J.

Theodore Graff, who stands at the head of his class at the Eastern High Schcol, said: "I am not inclined to discuss the merits 6r shortcomings of ar.y individual company under my command, but will say that each ur.d every one of the four will give a good account of itself upi.n facing the judges the l'-'th of this month. The four captains are untiring in their efforts to perfect their communis, and I am sure their work will not be without reward." "How doe3 the second battalion compare with the first, major?" "Hat her favorably, I aesure you. Tfca four companies at the Cential are, without a doubt, excellent ones, but 1 fail to see where they have any over those of the second battalion. I think it is more difficult this year to pick the winner than at any previous time. I predict the drill this year will be a very close and exciting one.

and the may well feci of their victory. Company the first to appear In the competition, intends to make the other commands hustle In the execution of the program, as it completed the movements in twenty-four minutes on the White Lot Thursday a week, and as the extra movements will considerable in the awarding of the prize, Capt. Willfams intends to arrange a separate program containing an of the movements known by the cadets that do not occur in the prescribed program. In addition to a number which will repeated. Unfortunately, this company experienced a change of captains a couple of months ago, but in spite of that, its work has been very good.

The company Is strongest in the foot movements, the distance in fours and platoons being good and the cadence regular. First I.ieut. Harry J. Brown handles his platoon in an able manner, while Second William T. Plerson, who is -a young man and ambitious officer but recently appointed.

Is picking up rapidly. Capt. Williams had the following to say in regard to his company: "Company has reawakened In the last few weeks, and is now doing as well as its most ardent admirers and friends could have expected. The only fault of the command worth mentioning Is its imperfect alignment, In addition to a little unsteadiness. If the members keep up their present good drilling, our chances are very bright." The following cadets compose this company: I.eon E.

Story, first sergeant; J. Herbert Hunter, second sergeant; Kobert T. Patterson, third sergeant; James V. Kelly, fourth sergeant; corporals, Paul C. Brock.

L. C. Covell, Claude J. Dawson, C. H.

Trickey, and Privates D. S. Bliss, Geo. R. Brown, A.

M. Buck, A. Chaee, I). Eggerman, Richard T. Evans, Gustave A.

Forbush. John Ford. A. R. Glancey, Chester B.

Graham, D. N. Hoover, Chas. Zurhorst, A. H.

Keleher, L. M. Law, J. B. Mellor, Morgan Otterback, T.

S. Price. Fred. Saegmueller, Harry Sprucebank, Walter Trow, Donald Wallace, Douglass Wright. E.

Wright, Hal. Chappel and Henry Dobson. The second company to march on the field will be Capt. Newton H. Ferree, which glvea promise of being a strong factor in the race this year.

It Is the only company that has four fullranked fours, and its drill Is solid and regular. The drill Is always thoroughly and well executed. The firings are good, the cadence is snappy and regular, and the alignments In company front, with the distance in platoons and fours, Is almost perfect. The platoon movements under the capable management of lieutenants William S. Blanchard and Bernard R.

Kelly are a feature of the drill. The foot movements are all well executed, but the manual needs a little improvement. The drill on the whole is better than that of any Business company since company under Capt. Dunn, came so near winning In The only thing lacking is a sufficient amount of spirit and enthusiasm, but nevertheless, it Is believed, the company will make matters extremely Interesting for the others. The members of this company are: First sergeant.

Williard A. Slmonds; second sergeant, William H. Uttlepage; third sergeant, Roinulus W.Bryan; fourth sergeant. Albert Eccard; fifth sergeant. Dana White; corporals, John G.

Hridaham. Walter G. Thomas, A. Finn, Ralph Burgess, William H. Ball, Onslow S.

Whitford, William M. Rugg, and privates, T. B. Amjss, Albert G. Carponter, AlOnzo B.

Chatfield, Robert F. Daw; Elmer E. Dore, John J. Duffy, Walter A. English, John H.

Gates, Geo. R. Hands. Frederic S. Hazard, Joseph F.

Hodgson, -WUllam V. Horner, Dloyd D. Heflln, William O. Kuhn, John Mahany, Lxidru It. Millar, Chaa.

A. Moore, Geo. J. Mueller, Tracy E. Mulligan, Albert E.

Muzzy, Richard G. Richardson, Emile H. Schofield, Chas. M. Slater, John F.

Shanahan, William F. Stldham, Arthur B. Walker and Chas. 13. Welsh.

Capt. Nelson Gapen will march his company on the field the third in order, and before he leaves he will endeavor to convince the judges that his mpany knows a thing or two about drill. The company evinces a lack of spirit and discipline which has proved detrimental to Its progress, but notwithstanding, some movements have perfected which have proven to be weak points in some of the other companies. "Form column of flies" and then "column of fours" again is executed with an much evenness and regularity as any other company. This is also the case with the obliques and Hit movements "on right into line" and "right front into line." The piatoon movements require more practice, although First Lieut.

J. Strother Miller, is a thoroughly capable and efficient officer, and Second Lieut. Richard Bryan has acquired much ability since his appointment a couple of months ago. Company is bound to make a good showing on the field. Capt.

Gapen declined to say anything concerning his drill, prefer- ring to let actions speak louder than words. On the rolls of the company are: Walter E. French, first sergeant; George Thorn, sec- I ond sergeant; Myers Hand, third sergeant; corporals, Arthur B. Adams, John F. Bethune, Alfred E.

Erly; privates, W. 11. Barstow, G. A. Berry, W.

M. Clark, W. X. Colquitt, E. De Graine, E.

R. S. Embrey, W. M. Hallam, J.

O. Harrison, H. W. Hoeke, E. T.

Hoover, G. F. Hoover, G. W. Koss, J.

Mundell, A. J. Potter, A. B. Parson, H.

T. Pierce, E. C. Poston, C. M.

Ricketts, E. Schaub, A. Smith, S. E. Stonebraker, A.

B. Tew, J. Wahler, J. B. Whitworth and E.

L. Wright. The last company to drill on the first day will be company frcm the Western High School, the present holders of the prize banner. The company has not the same enthusiasm as It had last year. but is working hard and will give a strictly good account of itself, and it may be that they will carry the prize back to the Western for another year.

Capt. Allan Edgar -rry is an excellent officer and is exerting every energy to attain that standard of proficiency that hail last year under Capt. Joe Taussig. Its cadence Is about perfect, and the foot movements are very and regular, with a highly polished finish. Each command is executed with a noticeably precisive snap that is lacking in most of the companies, and the record that makes on the drill field this year will very probably be as good as that of last.

Capt. Berry states that he cannot say what chance Ilia company has for winning the prize, as he has not taken notice of the drill of any of the other companies, but that the boys are working hard to retain the ribbons which they now hold. The roster of the company comprises: First lieutenant, Loyd D. Srnoot: second lieutenant, Chas. S.

McGowan: sergeants, Harry Waters, Albert E. Craig. Henry E. Mitchell. Thomas Hallccmb, Herbert Jackson; corporals, Chas.

Pimper. Chas. Taussig. Adolphis Bennett. Reginald Lewis, James M.

Pety. and privates. Wm. Allen. Ventor.

Birch. Albert Birch, Geo. Blackiston, Reuben Bogley, Boyden Brook. Jessie Cartwright, Paul Chamberlain. Grafton Ball.

Waller E. Graves. Chas. Grunnell. Walton Hendley, Geo.

Hilton. Pascal Howard, Park Hudson. Henry Lacy, Paul Lamberton, Jerome Lightfoot, Edmond I Oscar Mellin. Whitwell Middleton, Alfred Potbury, Horace Scudder. William Shannon.

William Smart. John Stevenson and Charles Stern. IMVKHSITY RrnrKrlown I lilverxltjr. The commencement exercises of the Georgetown Medical School will take place at Metzerott's Hall rext Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Thj rector of the university and Prof.

T. Morris Murray will address the students. The "Immortality of the Soul" was discussed in the school of philosophy during the week by Messrs. Walter S. Martin.

Howard Kelley and Charles McGuire. The public disputation of the philosophy school will take place in Gaston Hall the end of the month. The theses in anthropology will be defended by Mr. Eugene Dyer, against the objections of Messrs. Roach and Wessel.

Mr. Monoghan will defend the theses in ethics and Messrs. Slattery and McGuire will object. Two essays will be read, one on "The Freedom of the Will," by Mr. LeBCeuf; the other, "The Rule of Morality, Conscience and Law," by Mr.

Driscoll. This season Georgetown will send representatives to the tournament of the Intercollegiate and Southern Tennis Associations, and will also hold two on Its own courts, one interscholastio and the second open to all amateur competitors. Edward J. Tobin, law and graduate schools, is the winner of the prize offered by the College Journal for the best short story. The Journal has also offered another prize, which will be awarded at the end of the year, for the best essay.

The public contest in elocution will take place in Gaston Alumni Hall the L'Gth instant. Howard I'nlvcrnMy. The Mandolin Club held its last public meeting Wednesday evening, at which an interesting program was rendered. There was quite a large audience in attendance, and many encores were called for. Examinations in the theological department will begin next week.

The commencement exercises of this department will be held the instant, and those of the preparatory and collegiate departments will take place the 25th instant. The third annual anniversary of the musical department will take place Friday. Columbian I'niversily, Examinations in the Columbian Law School will be held Tuesday and Thursday, when Judge Cox will examine the seniors on the law of real property, on contracts, and crimes and misdemeanors. Prof. Johnson will examine the post graduates Thursday on common law practice, and next Saturday the seniors and post graduates will be examined by Prof.

Maury, and Judge Cox will examine the juniors Monday of next week. Examinations for the senior class of the college will begin Monday with political economy by Dr. Lodge, and will continue every day next week unt.l examinations have been made in all the branches. The doctorate disputation will take place Wednesday, June 3, and the baccalaureate sermon will be preached June 7. Cut hollo Inlverxily.

Bishop Igr.at;us Horstmann of Cleveland, Ohio, recently presented tc the university library a handsome set of "Description de l'Egypt," in twenty-four volumes. Examinations pre now being conducted by Judge Robinson in the law department for candidates for degrees. The Shakespeare Club will meet Monday evening, and papers will be read by Judge Mott and Messrs. Kerens and Murphy on "The Tempest," after which all preliminary arrangements will be made for the public entertainment the club intends giving in the near future. lome Changes Are Good Thisi the change in your pocket, for instance always handy.

Then there's the change you make when you change your laundry for THE YALE. That's the best change of your clothes are laundered care possible is taken to render them spotlessly clean and white. And we're not hard on your linen, either. We don't use acids or wear it thin by constant rubbing. We have learned the "know how" and can launder your collars, cuffs and shirts cleaner, whiter and better, with less wear and tear than any other laundry in Washington.

And then another a relief to know that your laundry will be returned promptly when finished. That'll be a new experience for you' Let your bundle come! Drop postal and wagon will call. THE YALEJX F. H. WALKER Main 514 notih St.

Branches: 004 114th St. 'Pihone 11092. Plant 43 St. IN THE CHURCHES The place of holding the meeting of the Missionary Union of the Northern Ha Mist Church, which was to have heid at Portland, Oregon, this year, has b-en changed to Asbury Park. X.

J. A number of the local Baptist clergymen expect to attend. The date is frc the 17th to the of Slay, inclusive. Preparatlcns are being made to hold in the ei rly part of October a met ting of representative of all the chapters in the I nited Stales of the Brotherhood of Andrew and Philip belonging to the Presbyterian denomination. Several of the local chapters expect to tend delegates.

pastor of o.Vslv Tn hurch' wl'? been seriously ill for some time past, is now considfn i i expects ln short time to be able to resume his pcstoral duties rhe official of Wesley M-thcdi Church recently adopted appropriate resolutions on the death of the orranist of the church, Mrs. V. Kills, who filled the position continuously for fifteen vears. Prof -ehobe has been selected for the varapcv A district convention of the Young Men's hristian Association of Maryland Ijelaware. District of Columbia and est irginia is to begin at Martinsburc.

W. i.ext Friday and last for three days number ot secretaries from the various ations will be present, and among them will be General Secretary X. Multer of the local V. M. C.

W. H. Mon-is gen-I era! secretary of the Baltimore association, and ft B. Millar of the international committee. Others from tills city will also attend, and among them will l.e Rev I Butler, D.

pastor of the Luther Place Memorial Church, who is to deliver an address, and Prof. Charles Hayden Cliase who will have charge of the music of the Tasker. another of A' "embers. is the president of th: convention. At a recent meeting of the Methodist 1 held at Wesley Church, an executive committee was elected for the ensuing a committee on meetings, the latter being composed as follows- Urs.

Henry K. Xaylor, W. Raymond Stricklen and Charles L. Pate, and Messrs tahl and F. KoJrick.

A discussion arose about looking afler the church extension of Methodism to the suburbs of i'ie citj but the matter was disposed of by referring it to the executive committee for 1S follows: G. Swartzell. Alexander Asht2vWP Jones. T. B.

Towner, A Tajlor and Revs. B. Wilson It NTav or S. M. Hartsock.

K. O. Kldrldge Richardsoni R. Stricklen. o.

i- Alexander Bielaskl. O. A. Brown, G. arneid Hobbs.

Walsh i McLaren. W.G.Cassard, C.W. Raid win Hugh Johnston. G. B.

Leech and W. Van dale and Messrs. H. L. Strang.

J. K.Han'"" Birch Blrckhead! a of St" Andrew of the 1 nited biases and Canada is making international con? 1 organization, which Is to be two years hence at Buffalo. Wednesday of this week the committee on invitations, composed of the genI of the order, John W. 5ila lhc Vice president. Silas McBee of Xorth Carolina for England and Scotland, where they will visit the chapters in Great Britain Trld up interest in the convention.

A ,1 bishops have been consulted and have cordially indorsed the co rntion. Among the features of the pro gram of the convention, which will be held thus August at Pittsburg. Is an address by the lotd bis.iop of Itlpon. England nM Who Mission wagon" ZZSVZ the Ui iva go n. ThT'wo'rk Warrenton was commenced a year aeo Sv ashmgton workers 8 Beginning with Whitsunday Mav TheJ are "chin the this week, as a delegate Baptist convention.

to the southern Xext Wednesday there is to i portant gathering of representitive erans in this citj- The flhUthnual meeting of the and the gathering is to take parsonage of the Luther Memorial Among those who will probablv be ch' are ex-Mayor Vy Rev X. G. A DoblerLofC G. Butler jr of this city. There are two vacancies aniong the otlicers to t.e tilled.

caused the deaths of Kev. Morris and MichaH D. Harter. On Tuesday evening a of the tnem'ie-s of the congregation of I nton M. E.

church met at the church to their appreciation of the services of I C. .1. Ladson. who is about to remove from the city. I-adson has It.

pastor of the Sabbath hool for a long tin-. A ompany of Kpwortli Guards organized from among the youths of the Fifteenth Stn Metho list Chui h. I. uI H. Howard has selected as the cap1 tain.

I The I.utheran Younp People's 1 mon has 1 arranged to hold a mats meeting on the evening of Tuesday, the 15Uh insiant. at St. Paul's Chun h. Mr. L.

1 Allien, the executive, is to preside, an i Kev. I'. Garland of Bait.more will deliver the principal add e.s-. Mr. Garland has been to presi at the Lutheran rally to he held in tin Memorial Church during the Kndeavor convention.

Kevival meetings have in progress at th- Fifteenth Street M. R. Church during the past two weeks, and ar? still in progress. Miss Kuth has appointed of the Junior Kpworth I.eague of the church. The Sunday school library of the Me M.

K. Church is lieii.g thoroughlv overhauiel and considerably enlarged. Many books have be'-n d.s aided and their places tilled with new s. The librarian of the Sunday school Is Walter K. Rev.

Hugh Johnston. I egins a course of expository sermons on the l.ord's prayer tomorrow, his subject being "Pater Noster." Kev. I'r. A. H.

Ames, superintendent of the Sibley Memorial Hospital, is gathering funds for the working expenses of the hospital among the local Method st churches. The trust'es of the North Capitol Methodist Church are making irnKemenis to provide for the debt tin the -huroh by issuing bonds of small leao-iiination to run for years. The bonds will be different from the usual class of church minds, in that they will be in amounts up to one hundrel dollars, but will a low rate of interest to the holder. Next Sunday week the Epworth lime Chapter of Douglas Memorial Church is to hold its anniversary services. Th re is to lie a sernuti in the morning by th.

pastor, and in the evening another service of addresses and special singing. I The I.adies' Aid Society of the Fifth Congiegatlonal at a recent melius, elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Presl lent, Mrs. S. S. English; vice president.

Miss Carrie Cole; secret y. Mrs. K. O. Newton, and treasurer, Mrs.

H. Smlih. (in inday evening there was a spc-lal mating at St. Mark's I.utheran Church, the object of which was to receive the special amount of money earned by each person toward the debt on the church. Bach one detailed the account of (he manner in which he raised the money, and some of the experiences were very ludicrous.

The meeting was opened by devotional exercises by Kev. l)r. and among the other numbers on the program were re itations and music. The Sunday teachers' class of the Young Men's Christian Association, which has been meeting on Saturday evenings at o'clock, has discontinued Its meetings during the months of May, June an 1 July, but will resume again under the of Mr. H.

11. Smith in August or September. The time of holding Sunday afternoon Gospel meetings has been changed to o'clock, and that of the Yours Men's Bible Class, which Is taught by Col. Chas Bird, to 3:30 p.m. Wesley Church is considering the advisability of conducting its Gospel push cart for another season.

If suitable persons i an be found services will, soon be held again in Judiciary Square. Through the will of the late Kev. Jonas Hurd of New York state, twenty-five valuable books of his library have lieen received by the American University. Wednesday of this week the Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Societies of Wesley Method st Ep opal Church held an all-day meeting at the church. The new connected with Memorial Church is meeting with success, there being over a hundred people now connected It.

The King's 1 laughters of the Fifth Congregational Church htld a missy tea at the home of Mrs. Seymour this week. So IlenrGemi nn It Seemw. From I a 'ii Putieh. is a stamp for letter I can repay me when you come back i from this evening." suppose I'm killed In a accidertT' i loss wouldn lie vetj great!" Sorry He SpoVe." From tlie New York Press.

the meanest, hateful est, spltefulest thing 1 know:" you're the crab'iedest, boys! You forget that your mcther is in the room.".