Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1890, Page 13

tal THE EVENING a, STAR: WASHINGTON, sie 1 D. C., SATURDAY, SEPTZMBER 27. 1890-SIXTEEN PAGES; 13 DUDES AND SWELLS. The Distinction Between Them From An Expert’s Standpoint. GOOD CLOTHES AND STYLE. What a Real He Swell fe—-The Adoration ef the Society Girls-One Can Become a Dude, But Must be Born & Swell—Hequirements of Secial Life. — Written for Tit Eventxe Stam. N AWFULLY pretty girl and a fin steady-looking young man were walk- ing up Connecticut avenue the other day. “Oh!” said the girl, “if 1 were » man bea howling swell. They are adorable,” Am I not a swell?” said he. No, he wasn’t, and nothing could ever make him one. Not that his clothes were not good enough, but he couldn't wear them as a swell shouid. He was @ “solid man” and he thought of otiver things, The swells are coming home. Some have been to the watering piac@, but the howling riety of swells have been to England to buy thea. A story has been told of an ignorant individual who met oue of these swells and, having heard that he had been some months in England, asked bim if he had seen the Abbey and the Tower and what he thought of the parliament buildings, believe I passed them on my way to my "s,” said be; “I did not notice them par- but 1 brought home eight lovely evercoats, you know.” He had got what he went for, at any rate. Now, there is a noted swell in New York who has no less than forty-five pairs of trousers, wand in use; and here in Washington we Fejoice ina select coteric of swells who make five distinct toilets each day,allowing an hour for eachone. There is the first toilet before break- fast, which is a nogligee toilet; there is the toilet au hour or so after breakfast before the morn- ing constitutional stroll down town. Then there is the toilet before luncheon, and again the stroll down town; then comes the afternoon toilet, for visiting or walking with the giris, and last there is the full-dress toilet for dinner and the evening. What on earth did Berry Wall mean by say- ing in print the other day that aman could get along very well with three suite of clothes—the morning suit, an afternoon suit and full- dress suit? This distinguished public man mast have come down considerably in hisideas. He never could get along with ouly three suits, nor could any other real dude doso. When Berry Wall came to this city several years ago, in a published interview he made the assertion that there were *‘no dudes in Washington.” NO DUDES IN WasuINGTON! Let him come up in the neighborhood of €onnecticut avenue and Dupont Circio any fine afternoon and look about him, and if he says there are no dudes in Washington, either he bas no eyes or else the king of the dudes does not know his own subjects when he sees them. What would he call that young gentleman th the biack pointed beard and the single- rreled eyeglass? He is very foreign in appearance, but as soon as he opens his lips you perceive that he once ornamented t! rairies of the wild w He wears the most ilarious garments; he is heavily built; bis cane is ponderous; his feet are clad in patent leather; he wears a black hat and ape wes, He isa heavy swell, but he’s a dude ail the same. And whvt would Mr. Wall say of that ex- tremely young individual, with bis raustacho _ sprouting, his light suit, his red cravat and “Harvard swing?” This toy man carries a stick covered with knobs and each knob is cov- ered with silver. It cannot be denied that the elements of the “pill” enter into his compo: tion, but he is none the less a dude on that ac- count THE HARVARD swIxa, 3 by the way, deserves a brief description. The arms should be carried in a stiff, Lowed posi- tion, the head should be bent forward, the cane should be grasped by the middie and the step should partake of 1 ture of a ho; When the “Harvard swing” is combined with the “Boston stare,” the effect is particularly fine. The latter isa peculiarly inane, expressionless expression of countenance (if the term may be used ) obtained by undergraduates whouse their rains'in perfecting a look which 1s peculiarly Lrainlese. This sounds paradoxical, but any one who has studied the dude and the swell will Fecoguize the propriety of the description. THEN THERE 1S THB STOUT MILITARY DUDE, red in the face, tightly buttoned and clad in the moet elegant ultra-fashionable clothes. Just es Murat, the field marshal, was a tremendous dude and an entirely brave man, just as the Lacedemoniane—so Bulwer tvils us—never budded out into full-biown dudes until they Were going into battle, so 1s this officer noted for us physical bravery as well us for his fash- ijonable clothes. DUDES AND SWELLS. Berry Wall is mistaken—there are plenty of dudes, as well as swells, in Washington. Bct you must not fall into the vulgar error of con- founding dudes with swells A man may be s dude without being a swell, or be may be both, 4s in the instances just cited, Now, when the girl on Connecticut avenue. —_ so rapturously in favor of howling swells, e said nothing in favor of adude. A dude is « dandy, a fop, but a swell is a dandy and some- thing besides. As dude may be made, but» swell is born a swell and his life is devoted to the development and perfection of his sweil- ishness. We have all known those individuals whose trousers, as some one has put it, give evidence of concentrated thought, and whose cravats indicate absolute genius, but the dude par excellence is a yn who is a mere agglomeration of extravagant clothes rolted upon his person, without the rhythm that should characterize the swell’s appearance and without the reason that dictates all the . purchases. A man may be a dude on a comparatively small salary. His clothes needn't be tine—they must be extravagantly cut and showy—and by infinite scraping a poor mau may even be acon . needn't eat, he can liveina a room, he can spend all his exrnings on bis personal sdornment, but 4 HOWLING SWELL MUST HAVE MONEY. He has to have at least two hats—the derby for the forenoon, the high hat for the after- moon—and they must be of the finest make, for he cannot wear anything that has the faintest appearance of cheapness. He must wear three suits each day—the sack suitin the morning, the cutaway or frock suit in the afternoon, the swallow-tailed suit in the evening. To keep these in s respectable state of freshuess he must have two of each kind and wear them ternately. By strict economy be can run» months on six fine suits. Then there is the item of his shirts. They must be of fine linen and they must have the collars and cuffs at. tached. The Le oe ukase from the autocrat and czar of all bowling swells, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, went out some years ago declaring that no man could wear faise collars and cuffs to his shirt and expect tobe considered » loyal subject. A howling ‘swell would scorn to pay less than $5 apiece for bis shirts and would cease to have any re- spect for himself if he had less than three dozen of them. The shoes, the cravuts, the sticke make the outfit mount up to a pretty tidy sum of money, a sum that no poor man could possibly afford. Nevertheless, the swell néed never be loud in his dress, and when be becomes so he is not only « swell, but a dade MUST HAVE HORSES, There are howling swells who neither ride horseback nor drive, but there are very few of them in Washington. Here @ swell must have horses. This is = custom of years, A couple of hunters will do and atandem. The —s not essential, but it is highly desirable, aud if you sport a coach yor petty sover- ign among the ewells. * ® Acertain howling swell in Philadel; made the remark that aman co: kentleman and work for his living. once not be a ho = w swe bis romark was tukind to his old “father, ane ‘was stili alive, having retired from the business ofsrotsil dealer in meats, in which occupa- tion he bad amassed a considerable fortune. His industry bad debarred him from admission the dude was always « swell by matnre and money only brought out the qualities that were born in him. Before marriage ho was an esoteric sweil aud after an exotic swell—a secret, hidden swell, hed from a public, full-fledged swell, To return to the remark of the pretty girl; why is it that some women do so admire howi- ing swells? Why is it that they bow so win- somely to the driver of a cart and so care- lessiy to the fellow on foot? The reason is that these women are also swells and merely admire masculine editions of themselves, but what constitutes a female swell cannot be dis- cussed here, ° Sometimes the ladies make mistakes, as, for instance, the girl who was introduced to a “ne' man,” and, suppusing him to be only a dude, snubbed him and then cut him on the street the next day, only to discover later to her un- utterable c that he was “a coacher,” ie., ‘ho coach and four bob- one who drives a tall: visit cards, Thas we would have a visi cath onvarel in this wise: as The O. 8. standing not for Old Order of Swelis, and, the individual having come in for additional property, might be raised to the high rank of O, 4. S.—Order of Howling Swells. This idea ie worthy of immediate adoption. STATE ELECTIONS OF 1890. Those Which Have Occurred and Those Which Are Yet to Take Place. From the New York Times. Alabama elected state officers and legislature August 4; will elect eight Congressmon No- vember 4 Arkansas elected state officers and legislature September 1; will elect five Congressmen No- vember 4. California will elect state officers, legislature and six Congressmen November 4. Colorado will elect state officers, legislature and one Congressman November 4. Connecticut will elect state officers, legisla- ture and four Congressmen November 4 Delaware will elect governor, legislature and one Congressman November 4 Florida wili clect supreme court justice, con- troller, legwlaturo and two Congressmen No- vember 4 Georgia will elect state officers and legislature October 1 and vote upon erg ee mony amend- menis to the constitution of the state, one ex- tending the benefits of the state pension to widows of conicderate soldiers and the other aliowing the readiug and reference of bills by title when introduced; will elect ten Congress- men November 4 Idaho will elect state officers, legislature and one Congressman October 1. Illinois will elect state treasurer, superin- tendent of public instruction, legislature and twenty Congressmen November 4. + Indiana will elect. miuor state officers, legis- lature and thirteen Congressmen November 4. Iowa will elect minor state officers and eleven Congressmen November 4. Kansas will elect state officers, legislature, seven Congressmen, and vote upon two pro- wed amendments to the state constitution November 4 One of these amendmeuts in- creases the number of supreme court judges from three to seven and the other lengthens the bignnial scssion of the legislature to ninety days and provides for the pay aud mileage of members, Keatucisy elected clerk of the court of ap- peals and delegates to @ convention to revise the coustitution of the state August 4; will elect eleven Congressmen November 4. Louisiana will elect six Congressmen Novem- ber 4. Maine elected governor, legislature and four Congressmen September 8 Maryland will elect six Congressmen Novem- ber 4. Massachusetts will elect state officers, legis- lature, and twelve Congressmen November 4, Michigan will clect state officers, legislature, and eleven Mere gprs November 4 Minnesota will elect state officers, legisla ture, and tive Congressmen November 4, Missivsippi elected delegates to a convention to revise the constitution of the state July 29; will elect seven Congressmen November 4. Missouri will elect minor state oficers, legis- lature, and fourteen Congressmen November 4. Montana will elect legislature und one Con- gressman November 4 Nebraska will elect state officers, legislature and three Congressmen, and vote upon four propesed amendments to the state constitution November 4. These amendments relate to prohibition and high license, provide for five supreme judges, and increase the judges’ sala- ries. Nevada will elect state officers, legislature and one Congressman November 4. New Hampshire will elect governor, legisla- ture and two Congressmen November 4. New Jersey will vote upon two proposed amendments to the state constitution Septem- ber 30. Que of these amendments cancels the prohibition against special legislation reg! jating the internal affairs of towns and coun- ties, and the other eliminates the clause in reference to the appointment of judges of the court of common pieas. Will elect iegislature and seven Congrossmen November 4. New York will elect judge of the court of appeais, two judges of the supreme court, assembiy aud thirty-four Congressmen Noveny ber4 North Carolina will elect chief and asscciate judge of the supreme court, legislature and nine Congressmen November 4 North Dakota will elect state officers, logisia- ture and one Congressman November 4 Ohio wiil elect minor state officers and twenty-one Congressmen November 4 Oregon elected state officers, legislature and one Congressman June 2. Pennsylvania will elect state officers, legisla- ture and twenty-eight Congressmen Novem- ber 4 Rhode Island elected state officers and legis- lature April 2; will elect two Congressmen November 4 South Carolina will elect state officers, legis- lature and seven Congressmen November 4 South Dakota wiil elect state officers, lature aud two Congressmen November 4. Tennessee elected supreme judge August 7, will elect governor, legislature aud ten Con- growwmen November 4. Texas will elect state officers, legislature and eleven Congressmen, and vote upon two pro- posed amendments to the constitution of the state November 4. Oue of these amendments relates to the state tax and the other authorizes the legislature to create a commission to regu- late railroad traffic, Vermont elected state officers, legislature and two Congressmen September 2. irae will elect ten Congressmen Novem- Washington will elect legislature and one Congressman November 4 West Virginia will elect ju appeals, legislature and four vember 4 Wisconsin will elect state officers, legislature and nine Congressmen November & Wyoming elected state ofticers, legislature and ome Congressman September 11 Beat ohn Fined $100 for One Beer. Mr. Von der Ahe of the St Louis club, is getting even with some of his men who are alleged to have signed Urotherhood contracts, “Shorty” Fuller, the famous little short sto; was fined €100 recently and laid off for season. He is charged with drinking a glass of beer. but the real reason is that he signed with Comiskey, ———+e-_____ Protesting Against Tipperary Police, An enthusiastic meeting was held in De- troit, Mich., on Thursday evening to Protest ainst the arrest of the Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien and the action of the police at Tipper- ary. presided. The orators were Don M. Dickinson, ox-Postmaster Geyeral; Representative Chipman of this dis- trict, Bishop Foley of the diocese of Detroit and Rev. Reilly, secretary of the of the court of Jongressmen No- Charles 0 Land ——— Arbitration to Rule in Melbourne, Pig strike of the Melbourne wool shearers not general The squatters their work people” fot ing, THEY OUGHT TO KNOW How Women Oan Save Their Strength and Prevent Ill Health. NEED OF FREQUENT REST. Geed Advice About Attending House- hold Dutios—Tales That Wrinkles Tell—-Why Wemen Faint tn Shope— Rules for Buey Methers. —_—_——— ‘Written for Tus Evawne Stan. 4 ETTERS with which renders have fa vored me lately have been more than usually interesting in their touches of character and erience. They come from -all grades of society. Here are letters in angular fine indy’s writing, so’ blind it racks the nerves to decipher it; letters with monogram in gold and colors or verified crests; girls’ letters in handwriting and wording so much alike I am tempted to think they all come fiom the same correspondent if it were not for the post marks, so widely apart. Here are iet- ters from young women who spend their days behind counters or in offices, but are none the less anxious to make a good impression by fig- ure and complexion, and letters from lively, sensible women with households and cares, whose episties are best worth reading gener- lly of all that come, and those which tell of biting experience ard siugle-handed struggle— which get read when other pages are put aside to wait their time. FROM A MOTHER OF TEX. Violet, as a woman forty-six years old and the mother of ten children, aa she writes, shall have the place of consideration, not that there is particle of credit more in having ten children than in having one, but a woman who has had that amount of trouble needs courtesy andcare, Violet ‘‘still pays great regard to personal apy sarance aud cleanliness,” in which she is a modol to somo of the forty and over, but she dosires advice on massage for wrinkles. Wemay as well at the same time consider “Daisy” who wants similar advice from another oint of vi Daisy “knew nothing of work, aving aiways boarded until four years ago she married » farmer, and now of course finds plenty to do, ff she can just get the hollows in er cheeks filled up ompiexion cleared she will be happier. She has tried the early to bed and early to rive plan for the iast four years, getting up every morning ut bnif-past four, and is inclined tc think it u humbug, for her complexion is no better. Perhaps it she got up for pleasure and uot to work it would mare some difference, ‘THE GOSPEL OF REST. Now Daisy and Violet both want to heed the gospol of rast to erase wrinkies and fill hollows in the cheeks, I hope that precious woman never took the notion of getting up at half-past fcur mornings from auything I ever wrote, for I never counselled eariy rising and working bard all day for careworn wives and mothers ve to learn yet that the Almighty neversent them into the world to work themselves into wrinkles and emacia- tion, whether by id bearing. farming or housekeeping. A man, rich or not rich, would be ashamed to have his working ‘eam or car- riage horses in use as thin and overwrought us his wife, or to tax thera as hardiy in proportion to their strength as the woman who bears his name. Thore is absolutely no adjustment of burdens to the strength or capacity of women. Slen- der, unused to work, delicate in every way, tenderly*cared for before marriage, they find thomeelves essigned to the cuties of a servant maid, of motherhood and the head of a family, and expected to keep uy with the impositior somehow, with scant indulgence till the bre: down. ‘There is absolute inhumanity in the way delicately reared girls are flung into mar- riage and the hardships of small, fortunes to- ether. A mother who rears her daughters for such a lot should see that they are as tough as whipcords and trained to work from childhood 3 they are now irained for the piano, Mar- riage and the care of # family in all ordinary circumstances means labor of the hardest kind for mind and body, and if girls knew really its demands they would look on proposal of marriage very auch as an invitation to enter the penitentiary for a term of years, ‘And these overwrought women want to have the wrinkles taken out of their faces ‘while they wait.” TALES WRINKLES TELL. To repair such wrinkles they must remodel their lives, Neither cosmetics nor massage will do good much longe: than the direct applica- tion is kept up unless they obey the first great demand of their nature—rest. Daisy mu cease vetting up at half-past four to work un- less she takes the early day to get the main part of the housekeeping over and is ready to sit down by 8 or 9 or to lie down for two hours, Every one of the early wrinkles on theso women’s faces, thi ping cornors of the mouth, the curve each sid e nose, the line under the chin, has its ‘atched from the chee! eOtinection with spinal strain, displacement or nervous injury—perhaps all three, For Daisy, g through her housekeeping with ber baby, since whose coming she has never been well, the first prescription is twelve hours’ rest, if not sleep, in bed or on a lounge on the piazza out of each twenty-four. If her achievements are limited to getting the family something to eat three times a day for awhile this rest must be taken or the family will soon have te got their own dinners, sans wife and housekeepey broken down. . BOYS FOR FARM HOUSEWORK. Why, in the name of common sense, when capable help is almost unknown in farming communities and the mothers are worked to insanity, should not boys be hired to do the heavier ‘part of the work, as the indoor man does in cities? Boys serve as cooks on yachts and in coast hotels, where they do all the cook- ing except pastry and desserts, wash floors and table linen and towels at a pinch. I have seen as good laundrymen, American born,as ever ironed shirts, and there is comfort in having help with muscle to call on. Mr. Daisy send one of his youngest workers up to the house to wait on Mrs, Daisy three hours or half « day. if not all the time, and if she cannot cajole that youth into more housekeeping than he ever dreamed of she is not the woman she ought tobe. These bi boys, just in their teens, who can’t find wor! in shops, are not un: take pay fora | ther dr to vor work—they don't like to call it ping, but given the name, they don’t mind the work. The suggestion is left to bear on. WHAT MRS. DAISY MUST XAT. Help or no help, Daisy needs to keep beef broth, spiced gruel or rich juice of stewed fruit, if not fresh juice, ready, and take half s cup- ful or more every hour or two. This will keep the dragging fatMtnuess which leaves one eatat — and will doas much ¥ iH i [ F 5 i it : i il FE | iP i ’ practice have found out that they can do more in forty minutes with ten minutes’ rest then they can by driving for hours without it, ‘WHY WOMEN FAINT IN SHOPs. Fatigue is not a thing to be trented lightly. So many women faint in shops from sheer weariness, and vo many more have confessed to that degree of exhaustio id brain fag that they could not recall their own addresses at the counter, names of suburb and street van- ishing utterly from the mind till rest set the mental order going again, Keep up this over i day nade eat week after week. and as momentary oblivion becomes paralysis, of which it is the first warning. If Daisy can be persuaded to make health the first consideration and work secondary she will see the round bloom return, If she and Violet will learn to live and work out of doors this lovely autumn weather they will find wrinkles vanishing instead of rosea, Working women—I mean housekee; the hardest-worked women in the world—must learn to favor themselves even if it comes to doing their work as: this article is written, lying on « lawn cot out of doors, one’s head in = je, the rest of the body steeping in sun- ine. WORK LYTN@ Down. A great doal of women’s necessary home work can be done resting on a lounge with sliding support for the shoulders, Hose can be darned, mending done, fruit pared, not to say vege- tables, sewing and baby tending. It would sound fabulous to tell things women almost bedridden have done when a step was impos- sible. Lauly say this to show overwrought women that rest for the muscles which take the worst strain is not impossible in hard condi- tions, Lying down, with dress loose, take coy 4 breaths as may be without tiring one’s self. If out of doors, in eusy posture, the disposition to deep breathing will come of itself. It is nature's method, set free from restraints, of drawing to herself new vital force. of equalizing circula- tion and relieving displaced and congested viscera, DEEP BREATHING, “Julia,” in a vory interesting letter, tells how she cured herself of a long standing case, “‘sim- ply by long breaths, drawing in the air slowly and as long as possible and exhaling very slowly. I was out riding every day for an hour orsoand took my breathing exercise then. The organs above being raised, relieving the pressure on lowet ones for the moment, § therm a chance to regain place, and the liga- ments their elasticity. In three weeks relief lasted for au hour or two and in three months Iwas cured. Have remained so for four years, and easily walk five miles and no backache, The clothing must be easy and the breathing faithfuily practiced. Iwas given the idea by the lady clerk from whom {I was buying my fifth differen: style of brace, How many times! 1 have gone into the pharmacy to thank her- My physician said the trouble had its com, mencement in an injury thirteen years before and I was forty when cured, so T hope somo other woman may be helped as I Was,” Doubtless they wili sead Julia heartfelt thanks, and, if any way possible, in time ac- kuowledge so genuine a benefit by more than words, GRANDMOTHER GRANDLY PRESERVED. “Julia” goes on to speak of a beautiful grandmother who died last spring with the grip. aged ninety-nine years and more, “She had all her faculties, a pretty evlor in her cheeks and was sweet as could be. In that almost hundred years she never failed to spend two or three hours out doors daily in light ex- ercise, and I believe she owed her alert men- tal faculties, health and good looks to the fresh air and exercise more than aaything else, for I don’t think she had such a remarkable con- sUtution, She would havo seen her one hun- dredth birtiday, 1 doubt not, but for the dreudfal grip.” Tuere, Violet, is encouragement for you and all of us young peopie of forty yoars. To rest ix the great need of middle-aged women and fresh wir after being housed so many years with care and children, LOTION FOR TIRED FOLKS. And kere is a tired folks’ lotion, good for all who stand much—teachers, clerks, housekeep- ers, cur drivers, growing children. Take com- mon marigold (calendula officinalis), the strong smell.ng kind, steep a double handtul of leaves and flowers bruised in spirits to cover thom for threo days. Strain and press all juice froin them, and proceed with another supply of loaves in the same liquor, pressing again, A spoon- tul of tiiy wei ruobed on aching museles greatly vooihes and strengthens them, or an old towel foided wet with this and laid across chest loins or front, with oiled silk or waxed Pp over to prevent evaporation, has witch- craft in it to strengthen, The bruised or dry flowers should be steeped in oil, to be applied in this way for pationts low in fever or just recovering, wien the heart is weak. Marigolds in tea or broth are “great comforters of the heart and :pirits,” say old herbalists, In modera phrase, they are strength- ening and good for nerves, Suintey Dane, TO AVENGE HER FATHER, The Attempt of Gen, Barrundia’s Daughter to Kill Minister Mizner. The New York Herald's correspondent at the city of Guatemala telegraphs as follows: I can furnish the full story of the attempt to shoot Minister Mizner by one of the daughters of Gen. Barrundia. I celled upon James R Hosmer, the United States secretary of lega- tion and consul general, to ascertain the reai facts of the case as well as to gather such official data of the death of Gen. Barrundia as might be obtainable. Mr. Hosmer said: ‘On the day following the killing of Gen. Barrundia on board of the Aca- pulio, while in the legation office with the min- aster, the servant informed me that a lady de- sired to speak with Mr. Mizner. Tho lady, who seemed to be very much agitated, was ad- mitted. Asshe entered the private office of the minister she addressed Mr, Mizner, askin; him if he was the minister, Mizner replie in the affirmative, Upon hearing this reply the Indy addressed the minister in Spanish, saying she was the daughter of the deceasod Gen. Barrundia and that the minister was di- rectly responsible for his murder, adding that sho was only a woman, but that it was her duty toavenge her father’sdeath, With these words she pulled a revolver from beneath the folds of and was about to shoot the minister, but before her purpose could be éffocted i quekiy grasped her by the wrist and wrenched volver from her hand. ‘The minister, however, was thoroughly frightened and made a rush for the door, which he closed and locked bekind him, leaving me alone with the infuri- ated lady. We remained locked up in the min- ister’s room until the police came and took the lady away.” ————+o.—__ BALTIMORE’S NOVEL SUIT. John Siebrecht Wants $75,000 for Alienation ot His Wife’s Affections, John Siebrecht has brought suit in Baltimore against William H. Evans for $75,000 damages for inducing Mra, Biebrecht to get a divorce from her husband in order to marry Evans. Siebrecht is a middlo-aged German. Evans isa wealthy marble importer, about the same age as Siebrecht, but not near so good looking. His money was the magnet which attracted the wife and his friendship misled the husband. Evans was the mutual friend of both husband and wife, His wife died in 1887. It was soon after this that Evans came to the house very frequently, butthe husband never suspected ae wrong. He noticed that his wife be- more peevish and would quarrel at the slightest provocation, Finally Mrs. Siebrecht filed a bill for a partial divorce on the of infidelity, Siebrecht insisted that innocent, ‘It was then that Evans suggested the husband that he spend a day or two at the ai shore, and in the meantime he would his influence with his wife and follow him and his friends to the shore. Siebrecht ac- cepted his friend’s advice, but learned that " und sé Biebrecht, never going to the di shore. When Siebrecht returned Evans told that & reconciliation wasout of the question and advised to consent tos separation. This he luded to do and made no defense to the suit for divorce that followed. On July 22, 1889, husband and wife were eopa- rated, Two months ago Evans the divorced woman, They enadiorely left for Biabrocht Tne ow insiintved suit for damages, poeta stead: We hart ot ager Mar eens, ‘To carry mse wo unkoows lands his hoof, s ‘storm, (And | must: ah rool, Seas sweet to kiss, so fair to fete LIKE THE PRELLER CASE. ‘The Crime For Which Reginald Birch- all ts Being Tried. ‘The case of Reginald Birchall. now on trial at Woodstock, Ontario, for the murder of Fred- erick C. Benwell, resembles in many points the celebrated Maxwell-Preller case of St. Louis a few years ago, The Woodstock correspoud- ent of the Baltimore American has selected sev- eral of these points of similarity and laid them side by side. Maxweli, it will be remembered, murdered hie friend Preller for the money he had on his person. Birchall, the defendant in Woodstock trial, is accused of murdering his friend Benwell for substantially the same reason. Maxwell was the sonof an English clergyman. Birchall is the son of an English clergyman, In both Maxwell and Birchall the pre inant points cf character scem to be a cupacity for glib, plausible lying and » flippant species of vanity combined with a de cold-bleoded, heartless cruelty, vhich enabled them to carry to relentless completion schemes of murder sc deliberateiy planned and .oolly carried out that they would hardly come within the range of 2ontemplation of the ordinary criminal, MAXWELL’s VICTIM was chatce acquaintance, which developed into friendship, formed on a transatlantic steamer. Birchall's was a chance acquaint- ance, which became a friend-hip, formed through the medium of an advertisement in a London newspaper. Both victims and both murderers were young mem in good social Position in their native coun’ and all bad the advantages of education and refined home surroundings. Maxwell chloroformed his vic- tim ina room of the Southern Hotel in St, Louis; Birchall lured his to a lonely —- and there blew his brains out—at least, that the accusation, STORY OF BIRCHALL'S CRIME. Birchall was born in the town of Church, Lancashire, England, and is twenty-five years old, His father, the Rev. Joseph Birchall, was for years rector of Church Kirk and rural dean of Whalley. He was aman of wealth and was one of the best-known clergymen in Lanca- shire. He died in 1873. Reginald was his son by his second wife, who is still living. From his father Reginald inherited some property, although he was the youngest son. was educeted at Harrow and went to Oxford, where he eurned a reputation asa hard drinker and a gam! After leaving Oxford he went to London and won the affections of a daughter of Mr. David Stevenson, general traffic manager of the Lon- don and Northwestern railway, and her father obje-ticg, they eloped and married. He went to Canada and paraded as Lord Somerset, and st Woodstock went the old dreary round of switdiing tradesmen and the standard group ofsvcial idiots upon whom tramps of the Birchaii brand sontinuaily prey. He went oack to Englund ard there he seems to have blocked out in rough outline the gen- eral festures of his great crime. After a num- ber of efforts to satisfy himself he wrote the following advertisement, which he had in- serted ix the London dailies: ADA-UN! a CA Nishos io tanec geuticrameasn tollve ith, iat and learn the business with view to partuership; most have £000 to extend stuck. Board, loging aud 5 per cent iuterest till partnership arrauged; highest ref- erences. HE MEETS BENWELL. It was in September of last year thet this ad- vertisement appeared. He received many let- ters, but with only two of his correspondents did he do business, These two were Duuglas Raymond Pelly of Waluon Place, Saffron Wal- don, Essex, and Frederick C. Bonwell, son of Lieut. Col. Yenwell of Iseultdene, Cheltenham. Birchall went ee both the Pelly d the Benwell fat and on both he made a favor- able impression. He had, he said, « farsa one mile from Niagara Falls, in Canada, on which there was a large brick house, heated by steam and many barns, ali lighted by electricity. He was engaged in buying horses in the rough and ‘coming them to vel] in the market, oung Petty ant young Benwell and the parents of both fell bodily into the trap. Pelly was to y £170, for which he was to receive expenses, d and lodging at the stock farm and 223¢ r cent interest on the profits of the business. nwell was to go out with Birchall, see how he liked the business, and, if it suited him, to pay £500 for a half interest in the farm. ‘THE CRISIS IN BIROHALL’S PLANS ‘was now athand. He had led his two victims across the Atlantic, and he had brought them to the very borders of the place where he had located his mythical stock farm. Not one word of what he had told them was true. He had no stock, he had no farm, he had nothing in the world save the relics of Pelly’s £170 im his ‘ket and the clothes on his back. The prob- oes before him was how to get rid of his dupes, Did he plan, and had he planned from the first, to lure them off separately, one at a time, and murder and rob them? Or did he mean only to give them the slip and jeuve them to shift for themeelves, and was the subsequent murder of Benwell the deed of some one else miraculously coincident with his (Birchall’s) appearance near the scene of the murder? Or, if Birchall did the murder, did he do it on an :mpulse or in the progress of a quarrel, or in some other than a deliberately planued and premeditated way? These are the questions the jury will be called npon to decide, BIROHALL’S CONTRADICTORY STORIES. The story of the crime as detailed by the prosecution in the opening is as follows: Birch- all loft Buffalo with Benwell on the morning of February 17, and after an absence of ten hours returned to Niagara Falls alone, He was seen at Eastwood on February 15 by several persons, although he denies being there. He told the Officers that he received a letter from Benwell dated London, February 19, inclosing a receipt for his baggage and asking him to take it out ofbond. Benwell was murdered on February 17, between the hours of 12 and 2 o'clock, so he could not have written such a letter, and Birch- all has been unable to produce it, He told the offvers that Benwell was dressed ina suit of blue on February 17, but Pelly swore that he wore the clothes foundon the body in the swamp. Birchall wept profusely on being con- fronted with the body of his former companion and urged expedition in hunting down the murderer, He and his wife were soon arrested on suspicion, He continued to make state- ments which were constantly disproved, but never seemed to lose his nerve or to realize whata terrible chain of circumstantial evi- dence was being forged against him. TESTIMONY FOR THE DEFENSE, As announced in yesterday's dispatches to Tur Evexrxe Stan, the crown closed its case in the trial at noon and a recess was taken, Th nse, on the reassembling of the court, called its first witness. No specialline of de- fense was set up. No effort was made to prove an alibi, as had been expected. The credibil- ity of witnesses for the crown was attacked and the defense endeavored to show that shots wore heard in the swamp at other times than on the afternoon of February 17, and that on that afternoon two men were seen walking toward the swamp at about the time the crown's witnesses testified that Birchall and Benwell walked there. John Robb as the first witness for the defense testified as follows: His house is half a mile from the spot in which, Benwell's body was found, He could see from his house a boy in the road opposite this spot, In the ot the 18th, about 6 o'clock, he heard fired, one quickly after the of another following They went west, John Fredenburg, who lives on lot 1, heim, one mile from where the was found, eaid that on Monday, February 17, he was teaming logs for Mr. Kipp, on Govern- or's road, and overtook two young east, Ho carried them about a mile and off the road opposite Perry's place, Neither of them was the AUCTION SALES. 2 FUTCRE DAYS. = hos fue staners ae mint er is AUCTION SALES. __ FUTURE van & 2 4 i a Payg more Oth street. 8 ys whim frame stracture, aud ts boutded se boat 12 feet ‘wide, opeaing —_ ft OCTOBER 1890, AT raportaxt OPEXINe sat nook Set ped ce erate ay and ervending beck that widip about ag ora te norte line fe abvut 87 feet MAGKIFICENT CONSIGNMENT, EAFTER, the south half, or depth of about 120 fet. of the lot EMBRACING fwiins' segaition to. Geureetonn. ‘on the east side. of eg stead Gat One anita 0 . yaguLY FOLLOWING seein ime and Rugs, Cashmere, Inilis, Shervahan, He edition to “denrectown, itoniine aboat 48 Merzapore, Mohair, Royal Sumac, £f00 andSd or f streets opted bechen pee Kermit, Royal Eulore, Ziviti, Zariff, Karak, Mella, ™ averare Shout 48 f7e inrroved br an old threccttry beck Candsher, Baku, Anatolian and Carsbegh Stare and property of aang - Carpets and Rugs, Angore and gaeh: ‘Whonexnd | Gulistan Mate, Antique Rurs, Rich Portiorseand etheq the: mavuneee bast ng ay percent Bare Oriental Textiles, = mina at Par ‘To be sold at PUBLIC AUCTION without reserve eneect aT MY ART ROoMa, a CATHERINE Bonne” or Gouth weet corner Penna ave. and Kleventh ot. George rer, Tid and Get ae = WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, OCTOBER FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, 1890, At ELEVEN 4.M. and THREE P.M. GEAND EXHIBITION MONDAY and TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 and 3 Mo, 1223 F STREET NORTHWEST, AT AUCTION, MONDAY, TWENTY-NINTH INSTANT, WITHOUT LIMIT OR RESERVR, ON ACCOUNT OF REMOVAL. ONE PUFFEER MIRROR-FRONT 18-SYRUP SODA FOUNTAIN, IN USE ONE AND ONE-HALF SIREET NOKTHWESL SOMMISTING IN PART oF Sok ESS aT LAKGE TWENTA-KOOM ‘MOUSE Mee f 7” YEARS, COST ¢@800; HERRING’S IRON SAFE, FIVE SILVER-MOUNTED BHOW CASES, CANDY JARS, CONFECTIONERY, SHELVING AND FIXTURES, ICE CREAM MACHINES, FREEZERS, &., MARBLE-TOP TABLES, SCALES, GLASS DISHES, &0; ALL BEEN IN Atso AN EXTRA FINE LOT OF Cal ELS, LAPESTRY AND LNGRA\ On TUESDAY MOKNING, 8! TIETH, AD. 1800, wo will sell Dorthwest, the USE BUT A SHORT TIME. 026-2 | Sith “good condiuon aud fention both of the aa Stalortand of Parties furnishing ie called to this sale rTP HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioncer. «naan em: -% NHOMAS DOWLING. Auctioneer. TMUSTEES: SALE OF VALUABLE t ‘thirst pa et TRUSTEES’ SALE REAL OF VALUABLE IMPROVED EAL ESTATE ON THu” RAST SIDE OF EIGHTEENIH STKEET BETWEEN B A By vittueof adecd of toast Quly. recorded virtue o Ct visu recosds of ‘the Disurietof ‘Col a Liver - be jumbia, in Liver] — Roney 1.412, folio 44:3 ot seq., and ut the written tequest of ao ay TO Hereinalver de- | _ BY virtue of « deed of trust, Gated 10th day of scribed lot. we shall eli st public suction, im front of | Comber, A-D. 1.86%, aud duly, recorded in Liber the premises, on Wt DNESDA GHTH DAY | 2451) folio 16%, et seq. ove of the “ OF OCTOBEH, 1890, at FIVE 0 Pot Distrlet of Columbia, and that certain pafcel of ground lying abd being ii the | Secured thereby, we will eell 8t yubise auction im. ity of Washiugton, iu suid District, aud kuown aa lot | Ofte prauises cn WEDNESDAY, 110 in Doutsan's recordea subdivision of certain lots | 21, OCTOREI. URVO. AL IVECO CLOCK “= iu square 152, toyether with the improvements, &o,, | flowine al bet poe Seek 4 aurettone ny srk noes Sit; Beta part of Wk numbered 3 tu. 1. senders qk eta ‘ssubdivinion im square No. = Tee ‘Terme of anie: One-third cush, residue in two equal | ¢¢ "subdivision an square No iF oft a of the surveyor's office of the Dixtrict of Coluastiay bewinning for the same 15 feet 10% inches south the northwest corner of said lot south on 15th street west 14 feet 1 exst 110 feet 6 inches to the rear Bs thence orth 14 fee 1 inches, thence west 110 f piting porchersr'scost and riak. | Sinclies to tbe ti Thohic.with provement EH. BALDWIN. | Trustees, | cousisting of a two-story trame house, being No. 113) 15th street northw. ith interest from 20th issale tacpa interest and sos T HOMAS E. WAGGAMA’ Terms: $1,000, w JSNU, to day’ of N, ‘Heal Estate Auctioneer. TRUSTEES’ SALE OF LOT IMPROVED BY TWo- STORY AND MANSAKD-ROOF BKICK DWELI aud expenses of ( ‘one and two years, with ‘@ deed of trust “K BUILDIN red at tine of sale, Petncer OULHWESES DENG: BO. S36 | 11 ePe aes Sot complied Sikh nten Save frome tas By virtue of a deed of trust, recorded in Liber No, | sale the Trustecs reserve the rixht to resell the prop= 1039, folio 165, of the land records of the District of | ¢rty at the a, end oat rt cas — cured: we edi ec aa Stctlon tn iront of tke | s13-kds Puliy A. DARNELLEE,) Tustecs, SES, VERY VALUABLE IMPROVED PROP, ELTY, BLING HOUSE No 1448 N BIRLL NORTHWEST. I will offer for sale in front of the prem Ne Stailwuents in aix, twelve and eixhteen mouths, for | DAY. the TWrNIA_MINTH DAT OF SEPT eMpe which notes of purchaser, interest frou «day of |. at FIVE ¢ K p.m, Lot numb sale and secured by deed of trust on property sold will be taken, and all conveyancing abd recording, will at purchaser's cost. If terms of sale are not complied 'y Will be re- k house, comtaiming tem improvementa, with in fifteen days from sale the Jernis of saic: Ou:-third cash; balance in one (1) sold at the rial and cost uf fs | And two (2) yours with intecest at sia percent per @ne num, Payable -and secured by Srpat op the property. told: “$100 deposit at tinne sale, Terms to be complied with iu ten “age GEO. W. STICKNEY, ‘eemi-anuual HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. _024-dads veneer, 096 Fat Es Open Unk Oe EATS TUE | ee oe wancamte suenen -BOSP! rr toot VALCO, IMPRO! Be AT ReCHON ee SEOLGETO 4, PROPERTY OS SEA EX IE Boer Bee nae on THURSDAY, OOTOBER SECOND, 1800, at] Puttises Sit nel ASD ee even ses, I will seli FIVE O'CLOCK, in front of the all of Lot 34 and part of Lot 3: rs Prospect street and 1220 feet on east side of Li Saaenen ts aint eit aegeatetoace — lots, each fronting 20 geet by a depth of 120 ‘Terms: One-third cash, balance in one and two years with notes meng 4 iuterest snd secured by deeds of trust, or all cash. at option of purchase. 850 deposit oo wy each lot i sale. “eee-dusds KE, REHWE Ou TUESDAY, the sv E. A.D. 1890, ut HALF-P. front of the preimixes, we auction lots twenty-nevew ( in the subdivision of lots 1 Bity-three (4533), as Pec be re oftice, frouting 433.08.5 ect on the eu street by 100 feet dee), improved by store ‘TH DAY OF OCTOBE! POUL WCLOCK PM. hal offer f at puble builds. ‘Terms of sale: One-third cash, balance in one two 9: i fourteeu notes, seven payable m one ae . Auctioneer. and seven payable in two pure from day of ale | NCING MON DAY,5! EMBER TWENTY- | interest, secu: a o! ust on said proper NINTH. 1800, AE TEN O'CLOCK AM. LATEX, | all'cash: at option of the purchaser” All eauveyanchag GREAT SALE OF DIY GOODS CLOAKS SILKS | and re: at the cost of the purchaser. If tue ND VELVETS, FINE DRESS GOODS, LADIES. | terine of male are not ‘coupiied with, in ten dae tip os MILDKLN's UNDEMWEAK, | trustees reserve the right to resell the property, Wiis: SHEETINGS WHITE | Sve days’ public hotice. at the cust of the FADS, BL, ETS, COMFOLTS, FAUASULE, | Purchaser: 8500 to be patd when the jupesty ie OMIERY AND GLOVES COMMETS FINE CANBI- LT A aa AND BKUADCLOTHS, ELS, COL- itech IS . Trustees s24-dads HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. EXCELLENT HOUSEHULD FURNITURE AT Tio: BU. ACING IN PAKL PARLOR MARELL Or TONS, &o., &0. ALLY AT 72 SEVENTH STREET NORTH- wis UNTIL THE MNTIME STUCK Is DISPCoED ir LADIES SPECIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND, GUODS WILL BE SOLD WIIHOUT RESERVE, = 826-20" FOLEY, Auctioucer, HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. CHANCERY SALE OF STOCK AND FIXTURES OF APOTHECAKY wae No. 654 H STREET, COBNER OF SEVENTH STKEET NOKiHEAsT” JW bowextaan, Auctioneer, NTS OF STORE #17 SEVENTH STREER pia NUMTH WEST, Intely carried 656 H st. at the corner ob ut the of 7th et. 9 terms of sale will be cash. Promises will be e20- kde EDWIN C CUTTER, Receiver, EO. W. STICKNEY, Auctioneer, 936 Fm. RY SALE OF VERY VALUABLE UNIM- ae cd DENS NDI i = Wal, LOWENTHAL, Auctioneer. at. CLAIR FECHNER, AUCTIONEER, 611 Py s politen: 7 ng uve., under Metrop 7 oxy im delling uses 1 Estate. ptecttlement. PROPERTY ON BRIGHT WOOD A = 4 terviews solici MERLY SKVENTH STREET Dy ADJOINING POWER Hi OF THE OUnk CDSUN HAL AND FKONTING 208 FERT ON SADA’ NUL above descril for sale. trepremises On WEDNESDAY TE, I eg A a ta will be required. Terme to be complied with in fiiteen rs or the property will be resold st risk aud cust of 26-ded GEO, W. STICKNEY, Auctioneer. ATCLIFFE, DABR & CO., Auctioneers, R 920 Pa. ave nw, JRATCLIFFE, DAKE & CO, Avcuoncers, 920 Piniusylveus ave. Bw, FALL ANNOUNCEMENT. Presenting our compliments to our frends and general public fur the very liveru! patronage bestows ast year we desire to way that we shall be Letier prepared Gt it is posable in the tubuce towerve your interests, os we are making daily addte tions to our present unequaled facilities fur the fort and lenght of ver petsvus, The manner ia, we have « jucted VERY DESIRABLE | THREESTONY | Bu OUK REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT use SEVER ALL MODERN IM | nas received the tunque t and Fino iTS, No. H STREET NORLH- | dence of the real catete purchamiix puulic. Tite ‘kST, are 1b Porsexuion of et, which AT AUCTION. prove Of bees ty Persolis Luvin Teuliy to dispose On FRIDAY, AFTERNOOX BER THIRD, Uyaucten: St FIVE O'C. ‘we will offer for sale, in front OUR ART AND BOOK GALLERIES a are the most complete end delist York city, being especially adapted ty the cun-ort our patroue apd for the pro, Jonwius to the high aria expression of our own Our eales rovius for the ANDISE commodivus, well lighted avd veuttieted, entra, {roan two streete, and ull guode, such as aad HOUSEHOLD FURNITUKA, CAKPETK, &c., GENEKAL MEKC = Oy ed wpe wk ee pleasant wating room tor vur patrons ous Galea. We isc eunduct anlen at PLIVATE KESIDENCLS. Stocks of Groceries, Diy Goods, ac. arranged and aol either et our reous or at om dHADEKS' STORES, HORSES, CAKRIAGES, &e, made at PRIVATE STABLES or in front of our Rooms, Unequaled STORAGE KOOMS peiaecetinrn SESaas 2 ‘purchase with the Unew. Ly ‘Gav, up ro-and sdjuining the lots oy ee) to the PROFESSIONAL, oy a. augotery ; Sale buss <a: