Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1890, Page 14

14 SUICIDES METHODS. How Those Tired of This Life Escape From Trouble and Pain. THE WEAPONS EMPLOYED. Some Seek Secluded Places in Which to Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil, While Others Court Publicity and Notoriety—Pistol, Poi- son, Hanging and Drowning All Effective. ‘T SEEMS to be an easy matter to accom- plish self destruction when one’s mind is made up to commit suicide. There have been many persons, however, who have found it rather a difficult task. Many modes have been adopted, so @ Star reporter learns, by those who have become tired of the vicissitudes of this life to reach the life beyond, and while many and probably «large majority of them have proved successful, some of them have Deen failures. As easy a matter as it is for a persom to sever an artery or vein and die an easy death and without attract- ing general attention, many of these erratic or inswne persons prefer to make a noise, using a revolver or go to a public place where they will gain some notoriety and be put on exhi- bition after life is extine ARE SUICIDES INSANE? There is a wide difference of opinion as to whether persons who commit suicide are in- rity, no doubt, is affected in some .¢ Victim is actually erazy or manner, whether not. Some religious beliefs teach that every per- son who takes hix or her own life ix that frame of mind that rewlers the unfortunate creature wholly irresponsible 90 far as the next world is con i, and that his chances ppiness are not im the while on the other there are those who believe that a suicile rot enter the kingdom oft if heav mit to every race, 0 ore of certian nattona than th cwuse most py frame wily disturbed al je as othe; rons who pryve iia SAND PLACES OF SUICIDES. wlopted for this purpose are nam- re as ingenions as selected are upon ion. st leap o it isin almost every city. n the aasure in There is ® strange cis | on and inh: pinaiing gas. STRONG DRINK 4 FRUITFUL CAUSE. Foremost ia the mo of suicide the tem- | pezance people say is the use of strong driak, they believe and teach tha taking his own life, argite, that isa sure killer every no matter whether it tekes days, week rh fhe pistol is ofte rted s. though in some slight wonnds are ngerous o: ple who resort to the use pl invariably make an at- to blow ont their brains. If the aim is such the bullet is sent rectly into the sl Drove cilectiv ‘on the other hand, the aim is not ¢ apt to miscarry, er under the sealp or goe xull to the fleshy portion of the neck. The weapon is often pointed toward the prevails that “hot lead” is waiiowed. INHALING ILLUMINATING Gas. The process of persons who contemplate by inhaling illuminating gas is differ- iy consists in shutting doors sand stepping keyholes and cracks . newanapers oF clothing. and in ave the would-be suicide closes pulls down the curtains, as himeelf from the outside world. and i long rubber tube the gas jet, and after all ma are made the tube is run across to bed or down to the floor, where the victim lies, anda piece of cloth or Waste rag is covered over the mouth around where the tube is inserted. By turning on the #ow of gas death will generally result in a short time, much quicker than by tarning it on and it to fill the entire room and escape s about the windows and doors. 0 seeks death on a railroad track or bya powder explosion, as some do. cares but little how he looks after death and pa; but little rey to the likes and dislikes of those whom he leaves behind. HANGING GENERALLY SURE. Death by hanging is often resorted to by per- fons with suicidal tendencies and it is one of the most effective modes. Hay lofts, stables or Wood sheds seem to be the favorite places for this cless of suicides, and but few persons mak- ing the attempt in that way have been rescued. When the rope is long enough to give the victim a sufficient fall he is either rendered unconscious or placed in such position that even should the unfortunate one change his mind he could not belp him- *elf. Poisons of various kinds are used by sui- cides, some preferring a dose of Inudanum to dewlen their feelings. while others use stronger Poisons that take but a few minutes to do their work. In some cascs where poisons are used secluded spots are selected, while in others the ¥ietim makes the purchase cf the deadly drug and swallows it, so that Le will fall on the street and die before he reaches home. Others put the poison in a glass of beer or whisky and take the dose in that way, so that they will not be subjected to such an unpleasant taste. If drowning ix the mode to be adopted the victim either goes to the water from some high bridge in the day time where he can make an ethitition of himself or waits until nightfall the fatal splash at the midnight hour in s lonely spot is not likely to attruct any one and he can die and probably be awept away by the tide without his body being recovered and wi ont bis friends and relatives knowing of his whereabouts. A SINGULAR CASE, Avingular case happened in a neighboring city onlya few months ago. A man who was fired of living took his life by means of inhal- ing a deadly drug that sent him to his last home. He procured an ordinary wash tab of small size and putin it a large saturated the poison. Then he ‘itchen col ‘ander, which, of course, placed it in the tab over t i ‘even with the top of the tab. He then buried his face In the colander and threw a cloth of some kind over his head. The fumes from the were inhaled until the fegenious man Jost consciousness and ‘There are still others who prefer death from smothering ‘themselves between ‘blankets or Jo deca anile tome few starve chemselves death Use various other means to end YEW WoMEN svIcIDR. Cases of suicide in few women ever take fact causes many to being the weaker th- ‘The causes of waicide sprees, business Tpececson earded lovers are, ‘comfort in nothing ¢ THE. EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1890—SIXTEEN PAGES. THE SOCIAL This Year It Will Be Brief, but Probabl; Very Brilliant. WHAT CONSTITUTES THE REGULAR PROGRAM AT THE WHITE HOUSE—ANOTHER DANCING PARTY EXPECTED—WAYS OF CABINET LADIES AND (OTHERS IN OFFICIAL CIRCLES. iy The official season the capital city begins TALES OF TRAMPS. How They Can Work the Station House for Lodgings, ANOTHER BUTTERWORTH. Son of the Congressman Wins Fame asa Feot Ball Player. ‘The FEXEE SINCE foot ball has grown to be such popular sport in Washington lovers of the game have been interested in watching the development of one of the younger pleyers. Mr. Frank Butterworth, the nineteen-year-old with the President's reception on New Year's | RESORTS FOR UNFORTUNATES, | #0n of Representative Ben Butterworth, now day and ends with Ash Wednesday, which this Year comes on Febrnary 11, and thus gives an House. Mrs. Harrison is expected to return to the city from Indianapolis about Thursday of next week and will then, with the assistance of Col. Ernst, arrange the dates for the events. The program will not differ materially from those of other years and will be varied only by important passing occasions and happenings that cannot be foreseen. It is altogether possi- ble that Mrs. 3ieKee will give another dancing party, similar to the one given last year, and that was greatly enjoyed by every one who par- ticipated in it. THE REGULAR PROGRAM. The regalar program includes the three state dinners, given to the members of the cabinet, the Supreme Court and the diplomatic corps, respectively. These are, like all dinne formal in character, and the invitat them are issied several weeks in advance. Etiquette does not permit one to refuse the President's invitation to dine at the White House, and only death can absolve the expected guest from keeping his engagement. : The card receptions are given in the evening and are three in number for each season. The guests are invited to meet the members of the diplomatic corps, to meet the officers of the army and navy and to meet the members of the Senate and House of A fourth reception is ziven at the close of the season, for which all the appointments are quite as elaborate ax for the foregoing events fd this is known as the public reception and | any one may go that night to call upon the THE TOILETS woRN. chief magistrate. | _ The President and Mrs. Harrison, assisted by the ladies of the eabinct, stond in the blue parlor aud are in evening toilets. The guests {are expected to present themselves in fall dress. “he members of the diplomatic corps | weer their court mniforins, ribands and orders, or the uniform of the regiment in which they hokl commissions abro: the army and form on these at we: reside 11 only those who are invi on to do so accompany the pr '¥ upstairs: the ethers depart from the Ex- | ecutive Mansion. No refresh: are served | tothe hundreds of peop! tend these ard receptions at the White House. Mrs. yes was the only woman in the White House | Who ever rerved the guests ou reception nights with a collation. Aud it is said to have been very elaborate, too, but no wines or other in- oxicating drinks were oifered. ‘MRS. HARRISON'S SATURDAYS. n to these night parties the lady House | epresentatives. I | of th tory are thrown open, the rooms are Land decked with flowers and the Marine ex music hundred peo- sometimes go to the White House onan ternoou to sce the wife of the President. The nounced through the newspapers. r= goin handsome carriage toilets or tumes, ax the wraps are not laid aside, at the evening card receptions. THE OFFICIAL CIRCLE. ics of the justices of the Supreme 1 receptions on Monday afternoons after 3 o'clock while the court ix in session. | The wives of Representatives in Congress re- jecive on Tuesdays through the session; the abinet Indies receive upon Wednesday ators have had Thuradays assigned milies of the otticers of the army « have taken Friday for their day at s has been stated, Saturday ‘has been set apart for te levee of the lady of the White House. The tamilies of the foreign Ministers and the secretaries of legation do not keep open house as do the officials of our own goveriment. When they entertain it is ¥ card or by verbal invitation, and only thore den in one or the other way are expected to attend. one wishing to pay his respects to 2 foreign tinister or secretary of legation can do so by leaving a card for him. As the repre- | sentatives of their eavereigns or governments ; the foreigners are always the guests of honor | im official households. REFRESHMENTS SERVED. During the oficial season it is customary for the ladies of official honseholds to serve tea, coffee, wafers and cake to callers and this eon- titutes the formal reception. Some tables are spread much more elaborately than others, varying, ns is ev ith the taste of the | hostess, considered the special provi * to which guests | are invited, to offer salads, oysters and punch | atan afternoon levee. The casual caller does not go to the houses of the ladies of the Supreme Court without any previous acquaint- lance. Besides their friends, who make a large | company, few strangers outside of the officials | who make duty calls upon them visit the ladi | of the Supreme Court circle. The famili | the cabinet officers, the wife of the Vice Presi- | | dent and the wife of the Speaker of the House, | who receive calls upon Wednesdays, attract | each week a large concourse of people. It is | | probably because of the more freqnent changes | | in these positions that the crowd to visit their homes is sogreat. ‘The justices of the Supreme Court being appointed for life, their social position in Washington is more like that of the Tesident non-otticials. YOU WILL MEET EVERYBODY. In going the rounds of cabinet calls one is liable to see everybody he knows, he will be in- troduced to scores of people he never did see before and will see ull the distinguished tran- fients in the city making the cabinet calls. The men wear street costumes and the ladies should wear handsome walking dresses. Pe sons transiently in the city and making the cabinet or the senatorial calls, and not known to the hostess in any way, should leave a cerd unmarked by any address in this city. Much time and strength has been expended by indies im official position in seeking to respond to visits made by a visitor who was spending a few hours in the city passant. It is perfect: right and proper to make the eall, but an ad- dressed card should not be left. ‘The Thursday receptions of the wives of Senators rank next to the cabinet receptions in their attractive qualities for drawing « large attendance, espe- cially where the Senator lives in hix own house aud is reputed wealthy, as many of them are. The ladies of the ‘cabinet and others in official life who stay at home on their day in this month do so informally, that is, without offering refreshments. ‘The long-disputed ints of precedence are settled among the | Bodies of oficial position in this way: Thixc of the Senate and cabinet call upon the ladies of the Supreme Court, and the cabinet ladies make first visits upon the wives of Senators. The coming season promises to be one of the most brilliant that the capital has seen for years. It will be full of large events. Of the cabinet ladies there are in the city Mrs. Blaine, ‘Mrs. Windom, Mrs. Noble, Mrs. Miller and Mra. Kask. Mrs. Wanamaker may arrive from Phil- adelphia this week. Mrs. Morton will proba- bly not open the vice presidential mansion un- i i ¢ house of the Secretary of the Navy will not be open to the public this ‘ear. Mrs. Procter, wife of the Secretary uf far, is greatly improved in health this year and Will do the honors of her house. poets chelates [city if they have had a taste of police justic Beds for Ten Cents—Keminiscences as to Headquarters. HERE 18 A SMALL ROOM on the second floor of police headquarters where many distinguished statesmen and citizens used to meet for an evening's enjoyment. That was years ago. The building was then the private residence of the late Walter F. Hellen, and among his distinguished guests were such men as Clay, Calhoun and Webster. The late Gen. Schenck was also one of the number who spent many evenings in this room, and only a few months before his death, as Sanitary Ofticer Frank told a Sram reporter, he called at head- quarters one day and, while doing business with Sanitary Officer Frank, he recalled the days when he used to mect his friends in this little room and eat terrapin and other delica- cies, such as none but the wealthy could enjoy. VISITORS THEN AND Now. The room is now occupied by the sanitary officer, who often thinks of the contrast be- tween those who used to usemble there and those who now meet there ax 2 matter of Dusje ness. The former were men held in the highest esteem by the citizens of the entire country while the latter, or the majority of them, are outcasts from society and persons who do uot command the respect of anybody. Another class are the sick and distressed ones looking fora temporary place of shelter, where they can get treatment calculated to again put the upon their feet in a condition that they will able to earn their own living. iaxppointed ollice seekers and others who have becn wnfor- tanate enough to be thrown upon their uppers are among those call. and the: looking for the same axistanc: ‘tramps are—that is, transportation to another city. ‘THE UNFORTUNATES AND TRAMIS. The former always want to go to some ‘par- ticular place in some of the states, while the tramps, asa rule, are not at all particul: which way they are seut. "What they want, arule, is to get out of town and they care very nich which way they go or to they are sent. Baltimore suits them as well as Richmond, and if they are sent to Philadelphia r Kalamazoo they are just a4 well pleased. son, of course, affects their preferences, for if it is ubout the beginning of winter, as at present, they prefer to be sent in the direction 4 warmer climate. But their answer is i variably, “I don't care,” or, “Just as you send vv." But the sanitary officer does not nk that the appropriation was ever intended to send tramps about the conntry on a pleasant journey and he therefore gives’ them an an- swer which, to them, means, “turned down.” WALKING IS ALWAYS GooD. That, however, docs not keep them in the for to them the roads are never bad and walk- ing is always good. An old-timer who was “turned down” the other day went out saying that he was not bothered much on that account, as the only difference it made was that instead of rid ona cushioned seat he would have to ride in car. He had done it many times before, the trouble of having to find a place to is face instead of using refreshing ice rina passenger coach did not amount to to him. Now that the cold weather has appeared the are coming in larger numbers and the police lodging rooms are accommodating many of them. Under the rules of the I tenants of the precincts these persons are not permitted to occupy _the warm rooms until after sundown. Five o’clock is the hour that the rooms are generally thrown open to these birds of passage who know not, neither do they care, where. their next meal is coming from. When the weather is cold, and especially when there is pow on the ground, it is not yn unusual thing to see three or four persons of the tramp kind loi ing about the corners awaiting to hear some church bell toll the hour when they can reg- ister their names on the station blotter and pass on up the steps to a small room where there are no feather beds, but where the soft pine boards prove a great improvement on the wet mud banksalong the line of railrond tracks or the bed made of fallen leaves in a pine forest. CAN WORK THE STATIONS A MONTH. Each tramp has an opportunity to spend at least one month at the various police stations if he does not go to the same precinct too often inashort time. Three nights in snecession are generally permitted at a station, but sometimes { the lodger is warned after his first visit not to 4 return. There cre nine precincts, and by spending the limit at each one he finishes twenty-seven nights. By that time it is pos- sible that he will not be recognized if he returns to his first lodging place. furnished at these places, but then members of this order of society are not thonght any good if they cannot get plenty to eat, and that without money and wi i hen a tramp appears too often he is “‘vagged,” as the police term it, or in other words he is taken to tie ! Police Court and charged with vagraney. If he is not sent to the work house it is because he promises to leave the city. OTHER LODGING HOUSES. There are other places in the city where poor persons, tramps and others can spend a night, but they have to pasa inspection before they are permitted to sleep on one of the beds, The night lodging house, which is next door to the first precinct station. n-commodates many unfortunates who are unable to pay for their lodgings, if they pass the. inspection as to cleanliness. Even after that they are required to take a bath and hang up their clothing in the clothes room. Those who are accommo- dated in this institution are more fortunate than those who sleep in the police station, ‘They are given a supper before retiring and their breakfast fore being turned loose the next morning. BEDS FOR TEN CENTS. Besides these places there are cheap lodging houses where beds are furnished for 10 cents. ¥ pe ere unable to pay any more money. and in some of them the “bums” tind good homes. Their lodging at that price costs them less than $3e month, and they can easily beg. earn or vteal enough to pay for food cnough to keep them alive. As sy don't need many clothes they find it an easy matter to. beg a pair of trousers ora shirt or other garment now and then, and in that way they live easier and bet- ter than most of their brethron known as “tramps.” There being so many lodging houses either free or cheap the “tramps” and “bums” fiud Washington excellent winter quar- ters, xo that when spring opens they are again 1m good condition to brave all sorts of weather and sleep in the woods or barns and stables, as the weather requires. ae DRUGGED BAKING POWDERS. How the Presence of Ammovia ina Powder May Be Detected. ‘From the United Service Magazine, Sept. 4, 1890. Ammonia and alum are the most common adulterants used in the manufacture of baking powders. The government report shows that alarge percentage of the baking powders on ‘The Lowly. “Iwear no lanrel wreath,” she ssid, “No listening world hangs on my word, No flattering train by me is led, No nation by my deeds are stirred. Tm neither dazzling, rich nor Among the lowly ranks I stan “My nod can turn no empire's fate, ‘Nor do men battle for my smile; No serf upon my mandates wait, I cannot even set a style; ‘The welkin rings not with my name, Tam a stranger unto fame. “And yet my heart sinzs all the day, y direside Joys are dear to me; T gladly go my humble wa This { have heard a trut to be— ‘That bitter sweet is fame at best, ‘The lowly are the happiest.” ‘The colicky melon and fresh garden No longer whet the eraving appetite, ies, with roasted pork and bala make ghosts walk in the frosty But hot mince beans the market contain either one or the other or both these pernicious drugs. Ammonia par- ticularly is in very general uso, t has the demand for it increased with the increased use of baking powders that an ammonia trast has been formed and the price of the drag has gone up. Stich baking powder companies as Are not shareholders in the trust company have suffered a materia] decrease in protits as con- sequence. his wholesale use in an article of daily food of one of the most insidious and injurious poi- sons is simply criminal, Stow ammonia poi- soning produces dixeases of the stomach and is particularly injurious to the complexion. The presence of ammonia in a baking ier, how- heaping teaspoonfal of baking’ powder with one sins one ay Re AE I oughly for a few moment vent ing, and if ammonia Is proseat you can smell 10 the secretary of the world’s fair commission, is rapidly becoming as well-known as his father, cailaiien ji aa’ Where They May Be Lodged and Fed if They | for in these later days to be a great foot ball ual iod hich to put : the gan drrhl pena pibewsinpce oe bol Can Stand Inspection as to Cleanliness— | player is to occupy a very prominent position in the sight of the community. 2 ‘As fall back on the Columbia team this fall young Butterworth has shown himself to be player. He has realized many of the promises his earlier experience in the game may have Rimade. He has had a {good deal of experience ‘in the game and has earned by hard, steady playing the good record e now hols. He has played on the old Du- pouts, Le Droits and One or two other teams in their day, but it was FRANK BUTTERWORTH. not until this season that it waa recognized that he had earned a lace in the very front rank of foot ball players, is work against the Princeton and Lebigh teams and (his playing aguinst the Georgetown College teem on Thanksgiving day have made it clear that asa full back he isone of the best. He isa good runner and dodger, level headed in emergencies, a good kicker ‘and punter and s safe, sure’ tackler, It isa rare occurrence for a runner who has ‘aped the rush line to get by Frank Butter- worth. He is pla: a team that is ulmost entin © He is a good base bull p! Butterworth expects to enter Yale it will b i in this ci the first try er ax well. xt fall, and 0 the foot ball contingent to make the "Varsity on DEATH AND TAXES. Experiences at the Collector's Office. To the Editor of The Evening Star: The wri tending to pay his taxes, reached the District building at 9:10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 28, and being provided with a tax bill obtained previously, he attached himself to the end of the line in the hall, waiting to pay. It took just an hour and sixteen minutes to pay ar get the receipt. At first there was but one and this was composed both of taxpayers who had bills and those who had not. After ten or fifteen minutes an assistant (?) passed along the line and said something about “bills” and those who understood what was said and who had not yet obtained bills, left the main line and wanlered in search of the needed articles, i tax bills for city property were given out at four or five windows, gaps or desks, along the narrow pas nthe same room where the taxes are paid. Aline was formed for each of these desks and the victims assorted themselves according as their initials ranged, from A to D, E to H, or somewhere else. ‘The ‘passageway is not over six or seven feet wide and the five or six lines thus formed wedged it fail. What be- caine of the poor wretches who wanted bills for county property the writer does not know, but presumes they, like the hard-shellod Baptists in the deacon's dream, had a hotter corner to themselves sombwhere else. It was bad enough in the main room when the lines were formed, but after a person had obtained his bill he was not allowed to pass on © into the hail again by the only reason- Dat wax conipelled to force his way ‘, through the jam which had formed behind him. The line of ‘ers” was next the wall and could hold its own, but the other lines soon became merged in a solid crowd, which was eo1 stantly reased behind. By this time the writer was compressed into the smallest com- pass he has been able to reach since attaining adult age. There are eleven windows in the tax collector's room, but not one was 0} Two had been raised about five inches at the bottom and a couple of “ventilators” stuck in. Upward of 200 unfortunates, clad in their win- r clothes, overcoats and all. were trying to strain enough air out of the filthy atmosphere to keep them alive until they could reach the cashier's desk. Requests for more air were ig- ored a8 calmly us if we had asked for gold. thought about the old adage of death and taxes and wondered which would come first. 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I used to call upon them in their offices with my book of samples, and as I'm a pretty fair talker I managed to get a good many orders. Iused to give them credit, and I will say one thing for the department clerks, and that is that I lost very little money by them. I! used to have to wait a good while sometimes, but they generally paid me in full. “Finally, I worked up such a good line of cus tom that I rented a suite of parlors and used to keep quite a number of suits us samples. I had several dress suits with different styles of trimming so that I could satisfy different tastes. ‘The average man, however, has no tuste in dress—I mean no individual taste. He comes into a tailor’s establishment and looks over a whole lot of samples, or examines many Pieces of goods, and he don’t really know what 6 wants. Ican talk nine men out of ten into ‘etting just the goods that I want to dispose of. the tenth man will have an opinion of own. He will know what kind of goods will suit his figure and complexion, and he will know just how he wents them made. Iean size up aman of this kind very quickly, and T always let him have his own way. If I didn't he would go somewhere else. But, as I said, the other nine men will take just what I choose four or five years—too heavy to carry, too short to get any air if he stood on the floor. twenty-five minutes his mother was within arm’s-reach of the desk where her bill ought to have been given her, but she was crowded awa by men (?) and others, who by main. strength worked up between her’ and the clerk. ‘This was at the window where the criminals’ names (forty or fifty of them) began with M; a little further along.where only prisoners ‘hose t apply, there names began with B and C migl was elbow room, and part of the time clerks if uothing. t lant we got in sight of the cashier's window aud couid count the victims ahead of us. They rere in single file now, und, having passed the “bill” crowd, ha: room enough to feel in their pockets for their money. Sometimes a man would be at the eashicr’s window for four or five minutes cud then passon to wait again at the window where his receipt was passed out. Possibly some of these men paid several bills, for occasionally two or three persona would pass the cashier in fairly quick ‘succes sion. With watch in hand I noted the exact time required for the cashier to attend to the ten persons next before me inline. It was just eight minutes, and so fk as could. be ‘een not one'of them paid more than a single bill. From the time any money was passed to the cashier until the receipt was handed out at the next window, just four inin- utes elapsed, and J noticed that wome who were before me in the line were still waiting for their reecipts. This would seem to allow twelve minutes in which to attend to ten taxpayers, but it should be added that while the ten were paying, two others—strays, tavorites or some- thing of the kind—were let in by the exit door and were waited on at once, eo the actual time ‘was twelve minutes for twelve persons. When it is remembered that. there is but one enshier it becomes evident that the business must of necessity move slowly; but of course the present aystem has ite advantages It en- ables one ‘man to do the work of several, and as the collector seems to be pleased with the system thus far, why not improve it still further by letting the cashier look up the records nnd make out the Dill in each case while the tax- payer waits! Possibly it might in twenty or thirty thousand, taxpayers, but that would be their misfortune. and think of the convenience to the collector: ‘The tax which the writer paid was on the little place out in the country, where there are no graded streets, no sidewalks, pavements, lights, water, police or schools, yet the property in taxed at’ precisely the same rates ax city property, and the assessed value iseven larger in proportion, Nobody pretends that this is just and very few ever expect to get justice in this matter, bnt the right to hope for it still existe, and there is a possibility that the matter might be improved somewhat—like the tax col- lector's offico—by thorough ventilation. Susunpax. Rania Sees) “The Grandfather of the Russian Navy.” Peter the Great traveled to Holland in search of knowledge and the mechanic arts. Here learning also how to build boats, he re- turned to Russia and constructed with his own hands the big double-bowed whale boat which has been dubbed ‘the Grandfather of the Rus- sian Navy,” and from which sprang literally the first great flect of Russia. In visiting St. Petersburg today are they shall wear and will accept any dictation as to style of cut and trimming. They don't know that they are yielding to my judgment. Bless you, no. They think they are deciding for themselves, but they are not. AROUT THE BEATS. “But you want to know about the ‘beats Well, one of the worst I ever knew was a fellow who was here for sometime as a newspaper man. He was on a local paper and it was after Thad gone into business for myself that I met him. He came into my store one day with two or three well-known business young men whose trade I had possessed for along time. One of the party, a baniex, ordered a $60 suit and I measured him while ‘the others chaffed himand examined my stock. About an hour afterward this newspaper man returned and said that he would like me to make a suit for him Of the same goods eeiectod by his friend. I presumed he was all made the suit, sent it to his address and waited for him te come and settle. But he never did and ina short time he skipped out of town. That was a dead lows to me. “That wasn't as bad, however, as a trick that was subsequently played upon me. A. tall, fine-looking gentleman come in one day, and afier carefully looking over my stock selected a piese of the most expensive goods and ordered a suit to be made from it. He wanted the suit finished in three days, as he was going to leave the city. Ho was on'his way south, he said, and had already spent more time in Washing” ton than he had intended. He was very polite and appeared to bea man of menus. “He was aleo particular ax to the eut and style of the coat and vext, insisting upon a collar to the Int- ter, althongh the style then was without one. Well, I put off some other work and completed his suit within the timengreed upon and sent it to his hotel cbout dusk with the bill—$80. The de ‘and I put this in the safe and went home. The next day when Isent my deposit to the bauk those four twenty-dollar bills were returned marked ‘counterfeit.’ Well, perhaps I wasn't mad. I sent down to the hotel, but of cougse the man had gone. I placed the mat- ter in the ends of the detectives, but they failed to tind the swindler. Many years after- ward I saw his picture in a rogue’s gallery and learned that he was one of tho most expert counterfeiters in the country. I think he is now in n western penitentiary, but it was a lo: time before the government olficers captured, and convicted him. A LAUGHABLE SWINDLE. “One of the funniest swindles ever played upon me was by a government clerk, who was brought to me by the chief of his division, for whom I had made clothes for years. I measured the man myself, and was particularly careful about the shoulders and chest, as I pride my- self upon the fit of my coats. I sent the suit to his boarding house on Saturday night, and the next Monday morning, bright and early, he was down to the store very much enraged because the coat and vest didn’t fithim. He said the trousers were all Fight, bat toget ‘too the cont and vest were al small. I sont up for the garments and fompared, their measurements with those Thad marked on the books and found that they corresponded cxactly; so I wrote a note, him to callin after his office was outin the evening. He did so, and { asked him to try on the coat and vest. He went into the back part shown Peter's cottage, built of round logs and. painted red. the palace that he built in 1703, and from which he superintended the building of his new capital. It contains only two rooms anda kitchen, their combined size boing about fifty-five feet by twenty feet in breadth. ‘The bed room, on the left, in which he also of the Savior. which accompanied Peter in his battles and effected the discomtiture of Charles rd pce a eremghond Poltaval A sub- of the store and when he came forward with the garments on they would not meet by at least three inches. Iwas nonplaased. Iwas certain that I had made correct measurements, but there was the man, and the coat and vest evidently didn’t fit him. Toffered to make him others, but he was mad and wouldn't have it. He paid me for the Srousers and was going to leave the coat and vest on my hands. Ji Li i i E #8 5 E F PY F F i i H a i ight, took his measure, | man broaght back the money, four twenty- | FULL PARTICULARS FURNISHED BY THE COMPANY'S AGENT, W. K. PEABODY, HIS FUNNIEST PATIENT. A Doctor Tells of a Beautiful but Strangely Soulless Woman, al3-lm 916 F. ST. N.W. From the New York Press. “My funniest patient?” said the doctor, who ; in truth is wellknown and hard-worked Woons & Co. M.D. uptown. “Well, that question is some- ere. Deposits, Exchanxe, Loans and Collections. thing of a facer. You newspaper fellows de Parties having money ‘lying idle for 30, UO or 90 ask the queerest questions.” day's Will Tecelve interest or salve’ by leave t with “Tell me, doc,” urged the scribe, in «| ™ ~_ Sa” familiar, offhand style, having played marbles | [EW 3 BrbBs, with this now eminent physician in the long Links Seaies Hiotinias taal: mentee ago, “tell me about the most singular patient you have or ever had, as the case may be.” “see,” said the doctor thoughtfully, “you are bound to stick to me like a vampire until I tell you something, so here goes. A certain | named woman who lives on West 57th strect | has a mania for everything extraordinary. She is what you would call abeautiful woman, but, don't believe she has even an apology of a soul, Whether her husband realizes the Biter fact I do not pretend to say, and if he does he has too much pride to confess it to the world. Well, this woman came to me one morning with 4 little vial and requested me to inject some of its contents in both of her arms and neck. Of course I inquired what the liquid might be. d: LEWIS G. TEWKSBURY & CO., KERS AND BROKERS, 1335 F ST., WASHINGTON, D.c., Buy.and sell for cash nangin Stocks, “Bonds, Grin, Provisions amd Oi ‘Ditect private wires toNew York and Chicago. Tnterest allowed on deposits. Out-of-town business a specialty. All Loval Securities dealt In. Constant quotations all marke, Jielepbone 545. ozltr x, JX. W. conson. a INO. W. MACARTNE! ‘Member N. ¥. Stock CORSON & MACARTNEY, GLOVER BUILDING, 1419 F ST. N.W., Bankers and Dealers in Government Bonds. Deposits. Exchance. Loans. Collections. rok Steck Afid ail securities listed She answere uenacanies of New Sorts Tatindelpbins Bostes ond + ‘That's all right; I will give you €50 if you | Baltimore bouzht and sold. specialty iade of investment securities. District \d and all lorai Kaiiroad, Gas, Insurance and Tele- phone Stock dealt in. American Bell Telephone Stock bought and sold.jy18 Orex Au Nicur._ For the accommodation of our customers and the masa ‘auwbt in chanee a % F. 5. WILTIAMS & CO., PRUGGISTS, UNDE MASOMIC TRMPLES Gor tana z Fats. nw. ERESCHIPTIONS. will do it.” ‘But, madam,’ I protested, ‘Iam not in the habit of injecting unknown tluids into the hu- man system.’ “Oh, [know what it is,’ she answered, ‘and, moreover, 1 don’t want it in my _ system nor in my veins.’ I simply want itadministered under the ekin.’ a “Ilooked at her a moment and wondered, though she did not look like one, if she was morphine fiend. She seemed to divine my semi-suspicion and said: ‘No, it is no kind of morphine, |Smeli of it" z she ai hy tbe paren: “She held the little vial in her own hand tomy U man afar nostrils, which inhaled a potent fragrance in | [22°:,.Mchey yu invite © careful inspecsion of which rose oil was represented. ‘You see, she Red. Rex. explained, Ihave a friend who has just re- Price, Pri Allcock’s Porous Plasters. turned from Paris, where she has seen this | Ajicock’s Porous Plaster A thing successfully done. Come, here is » $50 note. Do you refuse? jow, you asa newspaper man know the value of £50, and sodo I. It scemed wise for me to say ‘No,’ but I secured the necessary instru- | ment and told her I would comply with herre- questat her own peril. “Allright,” she answered, and in five minutes Phat completed my novel | Williaue’ Jani, Gnucer task. She had an idea, you know, that her | {Sqn Gaeart arms and neck would exhile a delicious per- | fume, and she went away as happy as a two- Bull's Cough si Brown's Jam. Williauue” Jani. Guuzer in her arms and neck. On her rightarm I no- fuble ; 's Soluble Food, large. ; ri an inflamed spot just where the previous | Caltinaie F tion had been made, and I told her that it | dene gee looked as thongh an abscess was forming there. | }Ayrvesdus roe Caffein. ““Never mind,” she suid. ‘I want to tind out Cou. Siray A if — = anyth a a | H per bottle. en I tirmly declined to pursue the experi- | foststter's Bite ment. She departed in w stale of wrath end I | Homer ke have not seen her from that day to this. She was my funni ient.” Bt day-old butterfly. wet, | “Hn about a week she came back and wanted | Carter's Littie Li | me to inject some more of, the potent essence | {lian Liths Live | Phosp Horword’s Acid Phi Ho's Malt Extract (Lar Hors Malt xtract, the best. Specites, "Nos, to 15... ‘Hanson's Corn Salve, ‘Se., 3 for, Tron Bitters, per bottle. Mellin's Fock, per, bottle Nestle's Milk ‘Food. Noveities in Jewelry. From the Jewelers’ Review. Stamp boxes include a Indies’ small hand satchel. When the catch is slipped one side drops open and discloses the stamps. Acclock stand noted recently was in the form of a rubbit raised on its haunches and muneh- ing contentedly a green carrot top. An odd trifle for the smokers’ table is a silver ash tray containing an enameled cigar stump lying beside the words “My last.” 5 Some very attractive hairpin tops have been devised as globes, with a Grecian border out- ed SEUBEDSSSSRSUNS SENT ENEDNnEK ELS SSeS lined in diamonds encircling eac! ‘A brooch that claims attention is formed by two moonstone hearts set beside each other in a gold rope circle with overlaypmg ends. The sport-loving public will hail with pleas- | W. ure a horse collar scarf pin, which has its outer edge set closely with pure white diamonds. A charming contrivance for holding pens and ink is an oxidized silver figure with old-fash- ioned yoke and milk pails fitted to his shoulders, roy Makes a epectalty of Kidinie Habits. 448° 7 RRAweR, Lapp + maker, roles et Marstesux, 114 and 14 TAILOR AND RARIT ot has rene roan OF at. to 100, Nxt VO HV MONS. Nop 4 46:47H ST. NE Frnt cian Arrmes Terie? ft and finih ane KENCH ACCOR! or yu. F TREE Paper, Xouas Canis, Book) wors, "Tinsel, “i rap Book Pictures, Transfer Mctures, sre 4, Camlly Boies, 3 2ay oot 21 oem wt ATT, MODISTE, WAS KI he 0 13e = os Dand F sts. = == $0) | LOST, OFPOsITE poaTON GO sine walk Evening Dresses ond kiding Habits. Abane Rican tes tiem B Wrap, Kees Tathor sy stew. oleate MAINE, KPRCIALIST IN adia and Prew-h yd point Lace, ‘ee Zit wt | FRONTS: PRON TBI Always in onler by plain combine ADIES WISHING THEIR FINE LACES Dol a‘ i Brstaans, French aisle Witte end See Dresses Lace Curtaiuea specialt) a ream call at MADAME VALMONT'S old ptans nis G AND DRY CLEAN. York ave. ‘Pir. work of every deecriptis and Evening Drewes, ANTON AN r tonneriy with A. Fisher aa No New Prices. ted Goods Called sie ALL NOOL GARMENTS, MADE UPOR RIPPED, ‘@yed a quod mourning black A. FISCHER, “ 205 G st. tw, PIANOS AND ORGA Tux Leaprse Ixstavmexrs. DECKER BROS." PIANOS, WEBER PIANOS, FISCHER PIANOS. IVERS & POND PIANOS. ESTEY PIANOS, ESTEY ORGANS. MODERATE PRICES. EASY TERMS. (Old instruments taken in part payment. Tuning ond Repairing. ‘Telephone 1329. SANDERS & STAYMA Frank Butler, Manager, 934 F ST. Now. 13 N. Charles st., Baltimore; 7 F. Broad st., Richmond, Va. a13m TEINW por HER, FIRST-CLASS PIANOS a ee Te SOORE, Bole Agent, net 15 Pa ave. TTT 1 ERE FFF gs TOF eee per ee Ass, tou nd SS fr i See 3 Vrize Medal Paris Exposition. 2390 first pow! indorsed ly over 100 music schools and Colleses for @urability. “Old Pianos taken inexrhance. “Tise only Uprieht that oan take the pine fa Grand ou-tr PPELEFER & CONLIPF, 10 Lith st. n.w. ALLET & DAVIS PIANOS. Pitty years test proves then the ric} sweetest, grandest tomed 1 2 made. HL. SUMNER, Agent RK i, WORKMANSHIP Special attention of -"Purvbasers’’ in invited to Artistic Style” Tin deans ot ‘OM ECORATIVE AMT. Pianoe for tout ‘AND PIANOS.—A large ssortuent, almost every well-known mabe in tho troughs repel wile owed ont at LO NPECTAL Soest ebichs will on MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS when deny as NB fu prices and in ter: M. KNADE & CO. Market _FAMILY SUPPLIES. _ G ANU LATED SUGAR, Sherry Wine, hail solicited. ‘ol OCEAN STEAMERS. __ Cour ‘8 TOURS ‘TO THE TROPICS, THE WEST INDIES AND SOUTH AMER! THE MAGNIFICENT STEAMELS OF UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL MAIL. . LA _GUAYRA, PUERTO CABELLO, CURACAO, ETC., BY THE EXCELLENT STEAMSHIPS OF THE KED “D” LINE. Tickets for circular tours ly either of the above line arransed combination. Tiustrated pasiphiets with Tull particulars or ticket viieats THUS “Cook & SON, 261 ROADWAY. TOR 921 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., Was TON. to JAPAN will leave oe ICA, BY GREAT 4 He ae ees VA Ate Vesutiful by the Ai with option of Kingston, of a tour of LAS LIN! STEAMER for gion a agh Ga DAY. 0. POD & CO. Agts., 24 State: q 108. COOK & SON? Touriat Silver napkin rings are seen in imitation of low butter tubs with the bottom knocked out, a series of hoons cucircling the entire ring. es REUTSS BB KSHATERINGE SSR eR RP EOE SEK er is Tho Dude, the Cigurette and the Pole Gat. | [lczion), a indisrensable, requisite to the From Judge. ie. chapping. Every lady should use 10" Pot ADMIRE FIRST-CLASS TAILORING AREIN- VITED TO INSPECT. ALL GARMENTS CUT BY H. D. BARR, 1111 PA. AVE., AREGUAR- ANTEED TO BE OF THE CORKECT STYLE. —————_— BICYCLES. Bees 48d cits Bicxcres FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. ‘We have the largest and best stock in the city. Our line of Ladies' and Gentlemen's Safetics is vary Complete. We offer these goods from €30 to 6188. GEO. 8 ATWATER & 00., —_—_—_—_—_—_——EEE__ Seae :