Evening Star Newspaper, September 3, 1891, Page 6

CITY AND DISTRICT. €7'No city in the world is so thoroughly cov- ered by the circulstion of a ingle newspaper as is the “1 of Washington by that of Tux Fvucive Stan. It reaches all readers in the city and vicinity. It serars ( cureulation. Ne other Washington paper has yet done this. ———_———_— TOURNAMENT AT MARSHALL HALL? Seme Good Kiding Witnessed by an Im- mense Crowd—The Coronation and Ball, Yesterday was a great sball Hall. It was the occasio tournament and Charles, Prince Ge Mary's and Fairfax counties and the District turned out in force. The Macalester, on her firat trip, landed 1.300 excursionists; the Cor- coran followed with as many as sheconli carry, and subsequent tr these boats resulte accessions to the throng. The horses of the District, Virginia and Prince George's knights ¢ame down on the Corcoran. Although the attendance of city people was great that of rural folks seemed greater. All day a procession of families in wagons, couples in carts and buggies and cavaliers emptied from the Pamunkey road into the grounds. Hundreds of horses were tethered | ‘along the fences and the field opposite the d stand was jammed with veli The Speriqtand depatice had diftealty in keeping the crowd outside the track. ‘Ihe seating ca- sy of the grand stand was more than taxed. ‘arches were liberally embellished with bunting and festooned with running plants. ‘The judges’ and grand stand were clothed in triotic colors, with fair display of oriole yuntipg and Maryland's goat-of-arnis. THE KNIGHTS AssrMst.r. Atnoon the kuights assembled under the trees near the cottage of Mr. Ramage, and at | 2 o'clock entered the lists and were marshaled before the judges by Chief Marshal H. M. ‘Thomas, who was well mounted, and wore the uniform of first Heutonant, company E, first regiment Maryland National Guard, and a slouch hat and black plumes. The aides were J. W. Jenkins and Benjamin Tubman, jr. Wal- ter Page, Willie Browner and John Miller served seheralds. The judges were Leigh M. Souther- land cf the Port Tobacco Independent, D. I. Sanders, judge of the orphans’ court of Prince George's county; J. Samuel Turner, clerk of the cireuit court; William D. Barry, R. A. Chapman, Jobn W. Warring, John 8. Warren, Adrian Posey and Dr. D. 1. Currico. Judge Sanders was made chief judge of the tourney. L. Allison Wilmer, republican candidate for fptembig of the seventh jaiiicia! district of syland, was edvertised to. bo the orator of the day, but did not arrivein time. The charge to the Knights was delivered by State Senator Adrian Posey. RESULTS OF THE TOURNEY. Next followed a statement of rules, the trial ridea, and then the tilting began m earnest. ‘Twenty-one of the best knights of the tourna- ment riding counties of Maryland and Virginia took part. Following is the score for the main rides: Julian Cox, iret, 3-3-3; G.W. of Bryantown, 3-3-3: L. Lowe, Knight Mu land Boy, 3-3-3: TS. Maryland K of MeConchie. j E night of Chance, land, Knight of H Dent, Maryland, Ki: T. 8. Carper, Knight Bowling. Marylan: bt of White F Virg: trict of Columbia, Kni 9 J. H. Kerby, Maryiand, Knight of Ki $22; T. E. Shugrue. District $21; — Knight of Princeton, 2 tingly, Maryland, Kni §. Pace, Maryland. knig E. Mudd, Mai yland, Knight lsh, Knight of Port Tobacco, “arper, Virginia. Knight of the Old id not score. Knignts Pomfret, Bryantown, Maryland Boy ond McConchie hav- each taken the maximum number of rings, off the tie at three-quarter-inch rings. ‘This ride resulted in Yomtret, 1; Bryantown, 0: The last two » Maryland Boy getting 2 MeConchie 3. This gave the victory to the ii ‘ges under escort of ter, who de- and amidst tumul- strains of “Jobunie .” ‘The first honor went to Maryland Boy, the second to Pomfret, the third to Bryantown and the fourth to Bryan- town Boy. The knights’ fees with $50 added were divided among the successful riders follows: First prize, £30.56: second, third, $18.40; fourth, = fifth 26.13. Até o'clock the tourney functionaries were enter- tained in the new dining room by Col. McKib- bin, Manager Ramage and Mr. Bennett. CROWNING THE QUEES. AtTo’clock the knights and their ladies as- sempled at the mansion and proceeded to the Pavilion. Here under a maze of flags and streamers and in the glare of fireworks the coronation was held. Hon. Barnes Compton, ‘who was to deliver the address of the evening, did not arrive and his place was creditably taken by Judge Sanders. Miss Emilie Gibbons Of Georgetown, a stately blonde, received the ¢rown as the queen of love and beauty. She Was attired in white India silk, the font of the akirt covered with a shower of Duchesse lace and the bodice trimmed with the same. The crown was of gilt, thickly studded with bril- diant stones. Miss Virginia Wood of Washington was ¢rowned first maid. She wore geraniums in her Beit sod 9 cream tall costaine with the cormge with light bine chiffon. The second maid was Miss Anua J. Thompson, who was daintily dressed in pink and w third was Miss Maitie Burch of land. Miss Burch was dressed ij caught in several places b: m flowers. The fourth maid was Miss ¥ man of Bryantown, Md. She was richly robed in cream ‘satin, with the back cut princess | style and @ lace cascasie on the left side of the shirt. Bhe wore acorsaze bouquet of roses. ‘This exercise over, the royal set w: and the coronation” ball 7 visitors left mostly on the the country folks lingered tll 1 night. The commi:tee of arrangements x invitations was composed of J. W. Warring, E. M. Downs, Jos. C. Mcktbbin, Jobn S. Warren and Josepi €. Ramage. The floor marngcrs were Marshall Clagett, Hanuon, Feudiey Dement and Koger Man ng. Denver Has Another Candidate. Having been informed by Mr. Reagan that he would not accept the appointment as interstate commerce commiv-toner, for which they in- dorved him, the chamber of commerce, board of trade and real estate exchange of Denver, Colo., and other commercial organizations of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Wyoming to- day indorse: Gen. Thomas Patterson of Denver for this appointment. co A Fatal Blow. George Gastner, aged nineteen years, died in Philadelphia yesterday from effects of a blow by Wm. Hill, aged tweuty, in a quarrel 1) day. The young men worked together and came to blows over some trivial matter con nected with their work. Hill was committed to await the action of the coroner. 2 acaba REAR ‘The President and Mr. Roosevelt, ‘From the New York Times. The rumor noted in our Washington dis- patehes yesterday morning that Mr. Roosevelt bad resigned or was about to resign as United States civil service commissioner is repeated in some of the evening dispatches. We do not credit it. If Mr. Koosevelt resigns, unless for some personal reason that leaves him no choice, before the close of the present administration, it will be because he does not believe the work of the commission fairly sustained by the President, and if he should be convinced of that he will not be likely to slip out quietly, but will act deliberately, openly and with a full statement of his motives. As a matter of fact Mr. Roosevelt hus uot been dissatistied with the course of the administration toward the commission or toward limself. On the con- trary he has borne the most cordial testimony to the general co-operation of the President, though the reform has had cold or hostile treat= ment from some of the c: Bloomsbury, N. J., yesterday morning the en- Gincor, James Pendergast, saw, less than | condition elicived the information was traia’s length ahead, through the heavy fog which was prevailing, the rear of a coal train. He the air brakes and a moment later cal the me. the brakes were in perfect work- Loam We force of the Collision ‘was —. Lh pee ae to mgers rougnly, tuoug! moue were Kur, to wreek on engine and three cars on rear of the coal train and damage the passenger enzine and bagage car. THE PRESIDENTS HUNTING TRIP. til bie THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.6. TH ~~, BACK FROM EUROPE. He Takes Out @ License to Shoot Reed | Mrs. McKee and Mrs. Russell Harrison in Birds. The date of the President's reed bird shoot- ing trip te Maurice river meadows is fixed for next Fri ‘A dispatch from Camden says: President Benjamin Harrison took out a license to shoot reed birds in the marshes of Mana- macken, Cape May county, late yesterday after- noon. About 4 o'clock a veneffible looking “boat pusher” entered the West Jersey Game Protectives' office, in this city, and planking down $7, said “I want three licenses—two for residents and for a non-resident.” “All right,” said the clerk, getting down a big book im which he kept a record of all the people who have a right to gun in New Jersey; Myo ws the non-resitenG “Vonjamin Harrison,” laconically answered pusher And his residence is —?" “Washington, D.C.” “Oh, I tumble!" aid the clerk, and suiting the action to the word, his pen fell from. his finge: ‘He's the President, el “You've hit it,” replied the old boat pusher, nd I've got the job of pushing bis ished boat through the marshes and brakes fdr him.” ic placed a dignified flourish after the t's tume on the certificate, and banded licenses to the boat pi © Good Health and Spirits. Mrs. Russell Harrison and Mrs. MeKee, who arrived in New York from Europe yesterday morning, appeared in the best health and spirits. From the wharf they were driven to the Gilsey House. Both ladies wore rough dark blue dresses, fitted for ocean travel, made with vest of a lighter material. They are just alittle sunburned. They had the pleasure of coming very near the ocean record, as the Majestic croased in five days, twenty-one hours and fifty minutes, Mr. Russell Harrison left very shortly after- ward and drove down to the White Star dock, where he attended to getting through the bag- Rage of the ladies. This was accomplished without any difficulty and Mr. Harrison got back to the hotel about 1 o'clock and went upstairs to rejoin the family. A number of the passengers by the Majestic spoke today enthusi: ally of their delightful association with Mrs. McKee and Mrs. Kussell Harrison on the way over. When the two ladies went aboard the steamer at Liverpool they were presented with a beautifl floral shield from the members of the United States legation in London. At Queenstown the Majestic was delayed ten hours waiting for the mails. Mrs. McKee and Mrs. Harrison, with several of tho oth pase sengers, employed this time in taking a short tour wich jaunting cars through the beautiful roads and byways near Queenstown. ‘The morn- ing was delighiful and the party thoroughly ‘The President has the jollieet shooting piece I have seen for many a da Secretary of the Navy Tracy arrived at Cape May Pointlast night and was met at the Grand | Street «tation by the President and taken to Point cottage i Gen. Harrison's carriage. Gen. Jewell culled upon the President yester- day afternoon and had « long talk with hitn special train bearing Mra. Harrison, Mr. { Mra. J. Robert MeKee, Mrs. Dimmick, Mra. Saunders, Mrs. Russell Harrison's mother, George W. Boyd and wife arrived at Cape May jast night at 1 The train was immediately en over te Cape May Point over the Dela- wre railroad. Secretary Halford and Lieut. Varker joined the party there and proceeded with them to the Point. ——_——+ee HOW EAKDSLEY DID IT. by th Council Testimony Taken by the Philadelph: Committee. The subcommittee of city councils to investi- gate the affairs of ex-City Treasurer Bardsley met last night. A supplemental report by the | accountante appointed to examine into the affairs of Bardsley was submitted to the com- mittee. The report purports to show that Bardsley in 1889 and 1890 received from the magistrates appointed to eollect delinquent mercantile taxes €31,811.89, and $31, respectively. From this money Bardsley re- tained each year $ turued t 150 that he should have re- estate. Upon the stub of Bards- ley’s check book under date of December 9, 1889, appears the it Received from muagis- Anentry on another stub of the check book shows that $1,575 re- ceived from mupistrates’ accounts was sent to HM. N. Graitin, Harrisburg. The di. N. Grattin alluded to in the report was a clerk in the a tor general's oihce at Harrisburg, but he has bout a year and ahuif. For the 2 check book has the same 75 from magistrates’ accounts and gain sent to Harrisburg, to whom tub does not show. strates wiso collect delinquent state hia are appointed by the city trates were appointed y bardsley aud the allegation of the report of the experts is that be retained £250 out of ach strate’s fees for the collection of nine magistrates and their con subpanacd before the committee nse of endeavoring to discover there had been any collusion between them and ardsley in the matter of dividing the fees. The téstimory of the magistrates wasin effect that when they came to receive their checks from Dardsley tor the collection of taxes he retained $350 from the con None of the ceive ant ction from Bardsley when they asked him why he retained this money, and from their testimony none of them ever seems to have made any great effort to have done so. Some of the magistrates testitied that Bardsley bad made their appointment as a collector of delin- quent taxes conditional upon their employing the a constable of his appointment All the magis- trates testified that they never received any benefit from their appointment. All the constables examined denied any ar- rangement with Bardsley for # divjsion of their fees or the payment of any sum for their ap- pointment. As in the case of the magistrates none of the constables who were muicted by Bardsley ever made any effort to find out why he did so, but took what he gave them without any question. ‘ihe committee also endeavored to find out in the course of the examination of the witnesses whether there is any truth in the charges brought against the mercantile ap- raisers by City Treasurer Wright that they ave padded the assessors’ lists with the names of fictitious or dead persons. According to the testimony of the constables in the major: of the cases in which they were given summons to serve they found the persons whom they sought. Wiliam K. Park, chief engineer of the gas bureau, was called and questioned regard- ing certain alleged transactions with Bards Jey and W. W. Goodwin in the Philadel- phia Gas and Improvement Company and the United States Gas and Improvement Company stock. The transaction which Chief Park was called to testify upon was discovered by the expert accountants and was embodied in a report of theirs. The report purports to show that Bardsley, Goodwin and Park went into a stock deal in the above company’s stock that they first bought £60,000 worth of the stock with money borrowed from different banks and that Bardsley subsequently took up these loans with city money. There is no rec- ord of £10,000 of this 000 ever having been ecurned to the city treasury. Chief Park de- nied emphatically that be ‘had ever had any stock dealings with Bardsiey or owned a share of gas stock. COMPANION Selected by @ German Count on a Tour Areund tae World. A few daysago a young German, well edu- cated, arrived at Halifax in company with an American woman, and registered at the Albion Hotel as man and wife. Yesterday the man sought police aid, alleging that the woman was jackmailing him. ‘The man is Count Howitz of Puckan, Ger- He is on a tour ot the world. At Phil- phia he fell in with the woman who is trav- g with him and she agreed to accompany A week ago she demanded a large sum of mouey from him. She frightened the count by informing him that she would have bim ar- rested aud went to the penitentiary for abduct- ing her. - He paid her 2500 Monday and yester: | day was to have given her 1,000. He, however, made known the fact to an ac- nce here, who advised him to inform the p A detective was put on the caseand to an officer the woman admitted she was draw- ing all the money she could from the ‘The detective then disclosed his identi | without trouble induced the woman to give up the money paid her by the count. To Visit Spokane. Representative McMillan, Senator Faulkner of West Virginia, Chauncey F. Black of Penn- sylvania, Congressman Bynum, ex-Congrees- man McAdoo of New Jersey and Mr. Lawrence Gardner, secretary of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, will be the guests of the | Northwestern Democratic Association at Spo- kane Falls, in the state of Washington, the lat- ter part of the present month. past ccroniesome A Victory Over » Railroad. The village of Clifton, Ont., was treated toa battle between the town authorities and the Michigan Central railroad on Monday. There had been ill feeling between the town and rail- road ofticials, and the latter refused the corpor- ation the privilege of laying « water main under the Michigan Central tracks. The town puta force of laborers at work excavating, aud the railroad company ordered itsmen to fill the holes with gravel. Finally the town auilorities ordered out the fire companies, and a number of noa- zles were aimed at the railroad men. ‘Things were lively for a time, but the railroad em- ployes were eventually drenched into submis- sion. — ——-+0ee —-_ —- Inquiries made yesterday as to Mr. aes fe that “dined © Torin a carhaces vuseg ed T. ‘Travis, « man of Williamsport, was found at 6 o'clock yester- | day morning iying dead upon a pile of rocks ou the river bank. A coroner's inquest was heli and it was found that Travis had com- mitted suicide by taking poison. San eS Sn For the Tired Brain From over-exertion. Try it. enjoyed the excursion. ‘The big steamer encountered very heav; weather on Sunday. In this gale Mrs. Ruasell Harrison proved herself a first-class sailor. She was on deck every day during the voyage. But the stortay weathor was too much for Mrs. McKee aud she was compelled to romain in her state room for two days. ———+e+_____ THEY USED DYNAMITE, Train Robbers in Texas Adopt = New ‘Methoa. A special dispatch from Del Rio, Tex., to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says: Telegraphic ad- vices from Samuels, Tex., a small station on the Southern Pacific railway, in a thinly settled section, give an account of a daring train rob- bery committed by six masked men at that place shortly after miduight Tuesday night. Dynamite aud Winchesters were used as a means of intimidating the express messenger and gaining cntrance into his car. All the money and valuables in the safe ag well as several sacks of mail packages. The amount of money obtained is thought to be more than $10,000. ‘The train was just pulling out from the sta- tion when the mucked mien, who had. selected their potitions, simultaneously mounted the engine, mail and express cars. Over forty shots were fired, literally perfornting the cars, Dut without injuring any one, when an unex- pected mode of procedure was adopted, that of exploding a dynamite cartridge against a small window in the express car. The effect of this was to tear the window out and otherwise dam- age the car. The express messenger was stunned, but he recovered in afew moments only to be over- powere nis safe key. ‘The train was held up for several hours. The robbers took their time in doing | the job and showed the utmost coolness. Horses were in readiness for them and upon the com- pletion of their work they rode rapidly away and are now in Mexico beyond the reach of the authorities. ‘The sheriff of Del Rio was telegraphed to se- cure a posse and give pursuit, a reward of 2250 per capita being offered for the capture of the robbers. He left at 10 o'clock yesterday morn- ing. A BALLOON ASCENSION TRAGEDY. A Man Who Was Holding the Ropes Dragged Aloft and Then Dashed Down. John J. Frisbie intended to make a balloon ascension and parachute jump at the Oswego ¥.) fair yesterday. When everything was in readiness and Frisbie was about to take his seat on the trapeze the big balloon in some manuer got away from those holding the ropes. It chot upward likea rocket, and the spectators were horritiod to see a visitor who had been holding the rope swept off the ground and hang dangling between the parachute and the ground. When about one hundred feet up he attempted to drop, but his feet caught in the ropes and turned him over. A minute later the man plunged headlong to the grouud. He struck on his head and was instantiy killed. His name was John and he came to see the fair from Union Square. Ke was thirty-two years old. ‘The balloon was recovered. ‘elecraph. Although a watch is kept on the platform near the summit of the July column in the Place de people with suicidal intentions are still able to carry out their morbid purposes. Aman named Marchal, aged forty-one, is the latest victim of tne mania for jumping off pub- lie monuments. While the guard was not look- ing he climbed over the railing round the top of the column and flung himself over. His body turned round in the full and struck the northern side of the pedestal of the monument, opposite the Boulevard Ricbard-Lenoir. When taken up off the ground Marchal was quite dead, his spine being broken. In one of his pockets was found a picce of paper with his me and address written thereon. ‘The de- aved was a workingman, living in the Rue Sainte-Marguerite, but no motive has been as- signed for his suicide. ge - The Ground Shaken by an Icicle's Fall. Frour the Seuttle Telegraph. On Monday last a loud noise and slight shak- ing of the earth caused no little wonderment among the residents near the hill. Investiga- tion proved the cause to be an ice slide. A small and innocent spring issues from the side of one of the mountains, its waters spreading and flowing over a steep incline of rock. During the winter months ice formed against this wall of stone, increasing in size until one vast icicle, fully twenty feet in thickness and 1,000 fect in Iength, projected into the valley below. From the warmth of the sun and its own weight it released its hold and thundered down the mountain side, carrying everything before it, even trees three feet in diameter. Those who have visited the place say that the foot of the cliff presents a mass of broken ice, trees, limbs and earth fifty feet in height. ‘This is a ropetition of occasional occurrences in previous years, but on a grander scale. 02 = A Queen’s Amusements. From the Pail Ball Gazette. The Queen of the Belgians, who is recovering from the severe attack of illness which seemed to threaten her life a few days ago, is one of the most active among the active lady sovereigns of Europe. It1s said of her that she never sits down except when she is playing the piano or the harp, both of which instruments she plays with “the touch of the master hand.” Alto- gether her majesty ie passionately fond of music, and one of her chief amusements is a visit to the theater or opera, where, however, she is content to sit alt alone i her ‘box rather than weary evi ng iy-in-waiting with taking part in an entertainment for which she may possibly have no tas! Another of the queen's amusements is horse- manship. She has not only a splendid manege of her own, but she takes a special pride breaking in her own saddie horses, and in teaching and perfecting her daughter, Princess Clementine, in the art of equitation. AtLacken and Ostende, her favorite country seats, the queen delights in loug waiks, aud spends long hours, together with her daughter, in fishing expeditions. a eee A Safe Horse. From the Detroit Free Press. It was. sorry-lookiug horse the old man Grove up to the railroad crossing and waited for the train to pass. “Say, mister,” sung out the crossing man, “ain's your horse afraid of the locomotive?” ~"Fraid?” was the contemptuous answer; “I shed say jasn't. Do you know that the last time I driv up to @ crossin’ like this the locomotive jumped clean off the track when it hove in sight of this hos, and run daun through old Jira. Smedlin’s corafield # mile a minute? ‘Fraid? Well, ef you want to watch atreat you jest wait and ‘sce how this hose don’t keer a durn fer no locomotive thut ever run on cold iron. Wo, Bucephalus!” pees Sts abe arc At the convention of the Wine, Liquor and |came up for fresh consideration at the de- the express car were secured by the robbers, | *42's she paused with her hand on the door ad registered | by the robbers und made to give up | REACHING FOR AN EARLDOM. Mary Cole’s Adventures Which Befog a Place | The Need of Careful Supervision to Avoid im the Peerage. From the Providence Journal. A curious story of the ways of lords and ladies at the end of last century has been re- told this week in our house of lords, sitting as & committee of privileges to determine the rightful heir to the Berkeley earldom—pro- | nounced “Barkly.” The claimants were Lord Fitzhardinge, a descendant of the filth Earl of Berkeley, and Mr. Randal Mowbray Thomas Berkeley, who is descended from the fourth earl. Lord Fitzhardinge had an ancestor who once before tried to get the earldom and failed because it was held that he was not the descend- ant of jegitimate progeny of the fifth earl The story is most absorbing. Mary Cole was the daughter of tradesman of Gloucester and was a lady's maid, about 1784, to one Mrs. Foote in Kent, but a year or two afterward was living in London as Miss ‘Tudor and as the mistress of the fifth earl of Berkeley. She must have been a pretty woman. Itis now denied by Lord Fitzhard- inge that she ever wax Lord Berkeley's mis- tress, She certainly became his avowed wife in 1796, and the contention is that she was secretly married to him all along. Even if she was for years only the mistress of the earl of Berkeley, it is not alleged that she was a wa: ton woman, who had wickedly abandoned he: self to the seductions of the Earl. On the con- trary, it is represented that she was one who sacrificed herself to save a sister, or in the be- lief that she was saving a sister.” Perhaps she was the victim of a stratagem. ‘The story of this stratagem was told to the house of lords at the former trial in 1811, and ‘rmination of the present claim. It was a Rey. John Chapeau who told it, and he aaid it was the story Mary Cole—then known to him as Miss Tudor--told him herself. He called on Miss Tudor and found her discharging a ser ant. She was concerned about the girl's fu- : ' MONUMENTS IN PUBLIC PLACES Impositions Upon the Public, ‘From Garden and Forest. and other monuments in our parks, streets and jcity squares must attract serious attention from all who have the artistic interests of the community at heart. These questions are three in number: Is the person or event to be commemorated deserving of such conspicuous and lasting honor? Is the monument sufii- ciently excelient as a work of art to be worthy of its subject, to satisfy the eyes of those qual- ified to judge in such matters and to sid in forming & correct public taste? And is it so placed that it®appears to the bestadvantage itself and in harmony with its surroundings, #0 as to increase the general attractiveness of the spot where it stands? monuments injure both those who look at them and those whom they profess to honor. And there are many such in all our cities. Who, for example, can be won to admiration of the poet by the contorted, ridiculous figure which, at the entrance of the mall in the Cen- tral Park, bears the name of Burns? Or who can gain’ a fresh sense of the services that mdered to the republic by contem- plating his statue on Madison Square? Farra- gat is really commemorated, really honored, by the figure which stands not far away from this Seward. Each time we pass it we think with gratitude and admiration of him, while we roceive a never-failing impression of 'pleas- ure from the sight of the work of art as such. Nor need it be thought that the humblest among the populace are blind and deaf to the difference between the aspect and message of such works as these two. Hundreds of persons of all classes daily stop to study the Farragut statue, while, if one watches at the other’ end of the park, he will find that scarcel; glance is ever directed tothe Seward. No one points out the Dodge fofe and was endeavoring to persuade her to | monument onGthavenue to the passing stranger return to the country. She told Mr. Chapeau she was afraid ot the girl falling into tempta- tion if she remained alone in London with lit- tle or no money, and she added that she had once been in the same plight herself. She at first sought refage with a gentleman friond of her mother's, who was kind euough to her, but who for some reason thought it hardiy proper that he should allow this young an pretty woman to remain a permanent inmate of his house. He gave her a handsome pres- ent and sent her off, Mary took the money, but did not go home. She sought out a sister whose condition proved to be pitiable. [m- possible to stay there, she thought, and marched off to another sister, Susan. At Sister Su- kuocker. “Susan was the black sheep of the family. "Her mother had told her never to speak to Susan, and here she was about to dis- obey her mother’s command. She left the knocker alone and “took a tarn” to reflect upon the situation. ‘The thought of returning to the misery of Sister Ann's household was too awful. With a sudden impulse she bied her again to that abandoned knocker and gave with it a most emphatic knock. She was answered by her sister Susan her- self coming out in all her finery, full dressed for the opera. The sisters embraced. The generous if erring Susan lavished _affectio on her siyter, tore up fine laces at sixteen shillings a yard to deck out Mary for the opera alo, and straightway introduced her to all the excitoments of her own life. One evening, however, Mary begged that there might be no supper with ‘compuny, not even Lord Berk ley's, whom she had ‘slready met at Susan's table. ‘They were to have an evening to them- selves to make merry over the reminiscences of their childhood and youth. In the midst of their enjoyment a startling incident happened. ‘The Rev. Mr.Chapeau gave it in her own words: “In the midst of our mirth a lent noise as heurd in the passage and in ruched two Fullinns one seizing mny sister by the right hand and the other by the left, trying to drag her out of the house in order to curry her to & sponging house. ‘The men declared they would not quit Susan unless they received 100 guineas. She tainted away: then when she came to her- 1¢she found Lord Berkeley standing by her sister Susan, who was not there betore. Tudor fell upon her knees and desired m Berkeley to liberate her sister; that she had no money Lerzelf to do it, and if he would do it he might do whatever he would with her own pei son; he paid down 100 guineas, the rafians aquitted their hold and my lord carried off the dy.” “In the conclusion,” Mr. Chapeau was asked in 1811, “did her ladyship say anything? “Yes, she said ‘Ihave been as mucu sold as any lamb that goes to the shambles.’ ” is story of Mary Cole is the one that the house of lords today, like the house of lords in 1811, accepts as the true story of Mary Cole’s, alias Miss Tudor’s, early relationship with Lord Berkeley. ‘The lords do uot believe that Lord Berkeley married her before 1796. ‘The chil- dren were not registered as legitimate until , after the public marriage. Most conclu- sive of all, the first son born after the marriage of 1796 was registered as Lord or rather Vis count Dursley, the title of the oldest legitimate son of the earl. ‘This was a damaging admis- sion, fatal to the claim of previous chiidren to be Vgitimate. Itseems odd that with such a strong case against him as this Lord Fitz- hardiuge should have dreamed of reopening the case and bringing to ligit the singular story of his ancestry. It appears, however, that there had been dis- covered in the parish ‘registers a later entry in these words: “his child was erroneously de- scribed as Lord Dursley, he being my fifth son born in lawful wedlock—Berkeley, April 19, 1811.” More than that, there were otuer cn- showing the previous murriage. These been pasted up with a view to concealment the time Lord Berkeley did not want it wn that he had married Mary Cole. The committee of privileges would not believe in the genuineness of these entries, or that the new evidence in support of them was of any consequence. They did not see why any sec- ond marriage was necessary if all that lad to be done was to expose the concealed entry in the register of the firet marriage. They did not see the motive for concealing the mar- Tiage at all, if there had been one, seeing that Lord Berkeley was willing enough to own his wife after he did marry her. Lord Bramwell, one of the members of ‘the committee of privi leges, very tenderly says: ‘That the poor lady was u victim cannot be doubted. There is no improbability in that, She 1s not the first girl whom wealth has commanded. I doubt not from the evidence she guve, and from other matters, she was not only beautiful, but other- wise attractive. I doubt not the earl loved her aud she persuaded him to marry her. _When that marriage took place they did not contem- plate setting up an eurlier marriage. “Had they me so they would not have christened the first after-born child Viscount Dursley. In time they began to feel that it was hard on the eldest son that he should be set avide in favor of another brother and they devised the scheme of a marriage in 1785 to prevent it, not intending to wrong any one but one of their own children in favor of another. Of course [ cannot justify them, but only endeavor to show how they might persuade themselves to do what they did.” ‘The committee of privileges was unanimous. All the descendants of Lord Berkeley born after the marriage in 1796 (and the previous marriage being denied), the illegitimate issue from which Lord Fitzhurdinge springs cannot succeed, und the peerage goes to the descend- aut of the fourth earl. aud probably few people know even that there is a bust of Washington Irving in Bryant Park, though if these wero really fine works they would be recognized, like the Farragut, as among the things every visitor to New York should see. St. Gauden's statue of Lincoln not anly adorns the city of Chicago and daily teaches its people what sculptor's work should be, but it helps to interpret our greatest man to the rising generation. But what lessons are inculcated by the statue of Lincoln in Union Square? And who will ever care to inform himself about Bolivar after seeing his eques- trian figure in the Central Park? ‘The proportion of bad monuments to good ones in any American city today is probably at least ten to one. ‘The collective effect ol many poor ones in deforming our public places and in discouraging, if not corrupting, the people's taste for art can hardly be overes- timated, and surely the time has come when a more scrious sense of responsibility should be impressed upon those who have such matters under their control. Whatever is now ad- mitted to our parks and streets is almost cer- tain to stand there for centuries. We cannot hope for many successful efforts like that of Gen. Custer's widow, who, a few ycars ago, secured the removal ‘of a ridiculous statue of her husband trom the government grounds at West Point. ‘ihe oniy sure and sensible way to avoid Lequeathing the monstrosities to our children is to prevent their erection. Adequate menns toward this end have been provided as regards the Central Park at least, for no monument can be erected there without the permission of a committee of three per- sons well qualified to choose among good and bad works of art. Until lately, it must be said, this committee has consistently erred on the side of leniency. All lovers of art, there- fore, were gratified to learn last spring that it had refused permission for the erection of a statue already completed, but judged of insutti- cient merit. ‘They may regret that this eame statue has since been et up in one of our small city squares, but it had better be there than in the park, and the precedent established by its rejection will surely work for future good. ‘There is no dunger, we believe, of over-severity in the matter. It isa painful task to refuse work which is offered by generous, well-mea: ing citizens, and a task certain to bring a meas- ure of unreasoning public condemnation upon those who are prominent in its performance: Teis not likely that our park will ever be de- prived of a work of even a reasonable degree of excellence, while it is likely that for many years to come foolish and grotesque monu- ments will be offered to it in ever-increasing numbers. ‘The streets and parks of a great city onght to be guarded against the intrusion of bed works of arteven more carefully than the apartments of a public museum; for while n thousands of persons may the museum, tens of thousands hether they will or not, daily look on objects set under the open ky ——_-er_—___. THE LOCO HABIT. As Deadly and Irresistible Among Horses as the Opium Habit Among Men. From the New York Sun. “We have on the plains of Texas and New Mexico what might appropriately be called natural opium joints, where horses and mules metaphorically ‘hit the pipe’ and become reg- ular fiends,” saida former Texas ranchman. As a matter of fact, there is no opium nor any pipe, but no joint ever offered better facilities for its habitues to become moral and physical wrecks than certain localities on the plains do to the horses and mules which are there ex- posed to the temptation of the loco weed. ‘Now, a good many plainsmen ridftule the idea that the loco weed leads horses and mules astray and soon makes wrecks of them, and I have heard men say that they have known their horses to pasture regular on what thoy call the loco weed and thrive on it. If that is so, the loco weed of California is not the same as what we call the loco weed of Texas and New Mexico. ‘he California loco is what we call the rattle weed, I guess, because it ha ine with veeds that make a noise in the wi like alive rattlesnake. Some people out there call it the vegetable rattlesnake and declare that its juice is deadly poison. Now, the loco weed of Texas and Mexico is different, and I never knew a horse or a mule to go away with it except in the winter time. {t hase light green bunchy growth, and will have its fresh-looking leaves above the snow when no other vegetation looks so tempting, and it is then the unsuspecting animals are beguiled by it. After a horse or a mule has taken his tirst crop of loco he will give everything else the go by to get more of it, and soon becomes a confirmed loco eater.’ No opium fiend ever longed for or sought more per sistently for his pipe than « horse or mule will long and seek for the fatal loco bunches. If the auimals cannot obtain the plant they will tall into a state of ubject nervous collapse. They ‘see things’ as the drunkard suffering from delirium tremens sees things. They will plunge and rear and tremble at imaginary things, and become utterly unmanageable and irresponsi- ble. A few leaves of loco will restore them to placidity so far as their nervous system is con. cerned, but they gradually lose in physical vigor and intelligence, until at theend of two or three months they aze virtually imbeciles and physi- cal wrecks. They become thin and weak and die in evident delirium. “Many an excellent horse of the best breed- ing and previous irreproachable reputation as oe Royal Women Who Smoke. From the Tribune of Geneva. If women smoke much nowadays they can at least pload that the example is set in high cir- cles. ‘The Empress of Austria smokes thirty to forty Turkish cigarettes every day. On her writing table there is a silver box with fine re- lief work filled with cigarettes and a gold ash tray. The ezarinaalso yields to the passion for nicotine, but she only smokes in her boudoir, a copy of one of the prettiest roomain th hambra, filled with palm trees. Her anxieties a herdsman’s aid have I known to be led to ruin by the invidious loco weed, and die as pitiable a wreck as any human being who ever feli a victim to the fascinations of opium.” ‘The Health of the Pope. From the Lancet. An Italian correspondent writes: “As, in the popular belief, no cardinal can die without his being"followed immediately to the grave by two others, so, in the journalistic world, the autumnal holidays can never set in without sensational rumors asto the health of the pope. may plead her excuse; but Queen Murguerite of The present season has already hed its quota of Ataly, whose life is freer from eare, smokes alsv, | such canards—a little ‘stronger on the wing,’ aud smokes much, but always in solitude. The | perbaps, than in former ones. The truth as to queen regent of Spain consumes Egyptian | the condition of his holiuew is, simply this: cigarettes in large quantities, Queen Natalie of Leo XIII is an octogenarian, who leads a bus; Servia has a wonderful store of cigarettes of | life, sometimes, mdeed, #0 very busy that his every kind, the Queen of Roumania carries a | stcength is hardly equal to the strain impoved little golden box filled with the same meuns of | on it. On these occusions there is a delight, while the Comtesse de Paris uppreoiates | recrudescence of two chronic ailments—yo wit, only the tobucco of Havana, and her daughter, | intestinal catarrh, with sympathetic Fospones the Queeu of Portugal, gets her cigarottes from | of the renal organs. Moreover, with advanc- Dresden. ing years, he has betrayed something like the inftial stages of sontlo susemia. "Thess “mp: Ex-Congressman W. L. Seott of Erie, Pa, | toms concurring after an unusual press arrived at Newport yesterday afternoon and | business are apt to terminate in considerable was taken direct to one of the Cliff e tration of bodil: wers, mind Bain ‘and setive; and this ‘prostration where he can bave the benefit of the sea | maining clear breezes. He accom, 7 =u expected to the New Westminster ro-| meet the, stre diplo- Philij of Pit esterday ove- skillfully watched by devoted to his fessed Judgient. to his brother on three | #ervice. have =f tes. 125,000. Both are members | course of, bony to a temperature of the of . confectioners, | of 30°C. Perl 4s this little detail that has and stato that the EO Ra Syed given rise to the rumors referred to.’ The third sunual exhibit of Westera ae, sicubaens ras Pittabarg last evening with a fine . of the Park victims had reached ‘Gor: Beaton 9f Nar More and more, as the years go by, the questions involved in the placing of statues uRSbaY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1891. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Reval ABSOLUTELY PURE Baki Powder AUCTION SALES. | THIS AFTERNOON, ‘S20 Pe. ave. nw. ELEGANT TWO-STORY AND BASEMENT HOUS! RCULAR FRONT. OF PRESSED BRic’ H STONE TRIMMING. AND KNOWN AS 400 M STREET NOkTHEAST. ON THURSDAY AFL OON, SEPTEMBER THIRD, isvl, AT SIX OCLOCK, we will sell in front of the Be EOL 67, SQUARE 805, Pitts trecmas ria mene beet seas and running back to an alley, burter wou-Uult brick Bete, ‘coutaining six Tooms RATCLIFFE, DARE & CO., a interest at the Tate of 6 per cent ber annum. payable senu-annuaily, secured by deol of trust upon the premises sold, oF allcash, at the pur- shasees option. A depoatt of $200 required at ‘the le. Terms to be complied wi dass from The day of saic, ott Teseil the pro} ting purchaser. A t purchaser's cost. sas RATCLIFFE, DARR & CO. "[HOMAS DOWLING & SON, Auctioneers VALUABLE IMPROVED PRO} NINTH STREET NORTHWEST, On THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER THI FI\E O'CLOCK, we will seil in front of # f Lot 11, square 308, fronting 13 feet 4 inches dopth of 04 feet 4 inches toa good alley. Ime provement consists of Frame House containing eight Toots, gus, Introbe aud bathe Teruis: Gne-third cash, balance i six, twelve and otes tor deerred payments to draw snd secured by deed of trust on the RIPuCETY OF all caah. af the ovtion of bp purchaser. eyancing at Purchaser, A deposit of one hundied dollars ($100) will bereguired ATIMER & BLOAN, Anctonecrs a — REGCLAR SALE oF © aCL Al ‘Ue ABRIAGES, WaGon! SINGLE HAKAESS, a, LATIMER & S10; Auct TCLIFFE, DARE & 00. Ai 920 Penn. ave ow cis Re rine ges One-third cash: balance im one and R' +, BL AUCTION. iS. ONE COW, OSE M. FAKM " WAGON. Conveyancing, recording. | CULTIVATORS,” GRINDS. ry ALOT OF SMALL 375 HoTEED sasu, . ant a Ceneral assort- ‘Useslly found and ‘useful in truck On MONDAY, SEPTEMBER SEVENTH, E At the truck farm of Jo! (On the Brentwood road, adjoining Harmony Cemetery RATCLIFFE, DARR & CO., tab gane ant ts rane ets meres TOMORROW. GOUDS, FLANS ELS, DRE: TABLE OiLCLOTHS, SHIKIS, ConSETS, LOT KIBBONS, HA. FUTURE DAYs. VWW42TER B. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers, LARGE AND ATTRACTIVE SALE OF HOUSE- HOLD” FUKNITURE OF VVERY DESCKIP- Puomas DOWLING & SON, Auctionsers. ro aa BER DUNE & YON, ance. | VALUABLE, Be LDING LOT ON © STREET BE- ELF T SOUTHWEST AT AUCTION. On THURSDAY, SEPTENU) it TEN’ FINE O'CLOCK, we will Part of lot The north Proved by a fr with hird cash, balance in one and tw: ¥ ‘terest: secured by’ deed of trust ou the propery? OF al! casi » NEAR eadiny depot. Broad piazzum, JAMES BRAD, P. 0. Box 207. a FiON, BEDDING, HEATING STOVES, CAR- | CHINA AND GLASS WAKE, ENSILS. Re.” THE CONTENTS StouM Te MOVED TO i SALESKOOM, COi NTH AND PENNS\LVANIA “AVENU® NIENCE “OF SALE. WilIC i OUSE KE R URDA O'CLOCK A'M. NAMED IN PART: in Flush, Walnut Foidiug Beds, Oak Wardrobes, \al- hut M. "1. midevoards, Fancy Tables, Walnut Pier Mirrors, Gil Paintings’ and Eheravines, Walnut ty Oak Extension’ Tavies, “Diuing Koo Chairs, Boos Cases and Viriting Desk, Couches “Wa'nut and Aue Haque Cal Beusteads, Bureaus, Washetanis, Fancy fa nted Chamber Stites, Walnut sud Antique Oak er, Suites, Cluffoaiers, ‘Uplivistered Chairs, Book Racks, Hair and Caup’ Kockers, C aims, Fovding , Brussels, Ingrain and other Car Chita, Boos ¢ Sree, : Sih stoven, Kircten"utenst, e. SOt By order of the Post Office Department F reRSMIELE BAGs OF WASTS PAPER OTL CLAEEN ay N, ATLANTIC ClTY, B.S ibis ave! Wear the ocean. ‘Upen all the year- — dete FOR CONVE- H a H OTAKES PLACE Hi Maryla SEPTEMBER FIFTH, AT TEN | and-oueiy Uy the Week, S10 to IS. Cherry and Walnut crame Parlor Suites, upholstered | "j'HE CHALPONTE, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. the Beach, -yith ansurpassed Oveau’ View. it water baths im the Louse. FE. ROBERTS & 80 THE LARGEST HOLL Oyen al the year, CHARLES MeGLADF. ne housekeeping should give this ton, Which embraces every din, He to howRe Kee) Deaiers suoulduiot tai . ‘The Sine furni ili Le sold within the salesroom at 11 o'clock SebR WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO.,Aucts. "HE ORIENTAL, ATLANTIC Now open. Renovated G, BENSINGER, Auctioneer. — WASHINGTON HORSE AND CARRIAGE BAZAAR. SALE OF HOMES, AC AWN. Wil be sold at SATURDAY Mv TEN o'CLog: drivers. 1 New Goddard Doct "I 1 New Dayton Wagon, J New Grocer's Wagon, 2 New Sugwies, 1 Second-hand Victoris and 15 Secoud- ASBURY PARK, N. J, ‘EY PARK, N.J.—THEVICTORIA —FAMILY el, frontini: ocewh; ail modern improvenionte: Brenan water, ‘superior tabie- 30 head of Horses, Maresand Mules. Workers and | open until No Teruy. Feuer! frost, bathing Uuring” Seytember: 3 eleventh season. D. i 1ST AVE, ASBURY Acooumodations for 200 suesis.- Liectric Send for circular. - LEWIs, Froprotor, Cartiagés, Wagons, Buggies, Phactoms, Barncss, Sen (sot) Be BENSINGET. Auctioneer: SEA-SIDE—JEKSEY COASi &e., W SHINGTON AND GEORGE COMPANY'S STOCK FOR SALr. be sold by if. ‘tonwers. ‘at te Teal estate exchange treet. New Fore +, SEP ENTH. sol at HALE-PAST TWE!VE FM. Ten suares By order of HOSS. Har. o ¥. VILLA, CAPE MAY Bas large’ piazeas and ‘sun parlor, with ail OMS RAILROAD | }3REXTON. ocean. 100 shares, beonsing to estate M. G. Lane, will | modern conven:-necs, MONT HOTEL, SEA GIRT, X. J. ] rooms have ocean view. elegraph office In Louse, SPECIAL SALE OF HO NESD AN 1 [Pp HE ABERDEE: Direct bee oben the beach. Hot and cold sea baths. ‘Sshinpande tae OCEAN CITY, MD., SELBY sano oot bo made eree seein fens, z , on application ; 3 shins ahd gunhing Wuexceptuokaly ue. eus-im Ee HOTEL, OCEAN CITY #08 THE SEASON IsQ] and other intcrmation ‘ulare JOHN TRACY, , Ocean City, Ma. LARGE AND ATTRACTIVE SALE OF HOUSEHOLD ITURE, SPKINGS AND BATHS. HORSES, CARRIAGES, BI ABLES. AIRFAX INN_BEST SERVICE, Eset oe aur srt par aud atin 0 SU por week. uOFe guests exe be accuse |. W. ALDER TOA toprieter, F, duted.~ Aldress Jey Springs, W.Va. HENANDOAH ALUM SPRINGS, Va. v open to Visitors, ac ipa ccommodations ‘good and rates T ) ME BERKELEY SPRINGS HOTEL WILL BE ‘opened until October Ly Pure fable? good wusic: spveudid’ Vathing. ~Adaress Ghee FREEMAN, Prop’, Berkevey Sprincs,W. Va. @Ul7-lin GOO ” ENTER TABLE IANDSOME PICTURES, DU GLE WALNUT WAKDKOBES, LECTION OF EXCLLLENT Bh CARPETS, “SMYRNA AND COOKING AND HEATING ST ONE MANGLE HEATLD BY GAS OK STEAM. COOKING UTENSILS, CROCKERY AND GLASS WAKE, &e. ONE LARGE SHOW ALSO. va. THOMAS DOWLING & SON, 03-2 “Auctioucers. RATCLIFFE, DARB & CO.. Auctionsers, AT FARM HOUSE ON SUMMIT OF BLUE #4 a Week; luxurious tabie; pure | water: abindant shad. to CHASE E MOU Loc, a Fruit Hil) Farm, Blue Kode gf pod fiver Sultan, ‘ous meets ‘ali day’ trains: For iaierunton sy Sk, ONE TRICYCLE. | ply U.'W. GREES. Proprietor. ‘Terma gu yee et. ‘ALSO, AT TWELVE O'CLOCK, chijdren and servants uaif price, HORSES, CARKIAGLS, HARN: ‘&e. .t FERRY, W. va. VETT, PROP. ELEGANT BUILDING LOT ON M STREET BE-! TWEEN NOKIN, CAPITOL AND. FIG STRECTS NORTHWEST AT AUCTION. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBE! SECOND, INL AT SX O'CLUCK. "we will sei front of the preiuises, LO1 79, SQU: 178, SQUARE =) eceidemmmnehmniell 1 reeort Teese ee Sta wn we lot is near the electric car line and in » section is rapidly improving. OCK sale: One-nalt cash, tl tm one or L years, with interest at the rite of 6 per cent per Spiny. payable sunk annualiy gr cash the pure chaser: ption, ‘A deposit of €200 required at the Sime of sale. Terma to be complied with in Bites Gays, hiring te ripit 4 reserved to rye at the ‘nd cust of the defauiting purciaser. "Al couvey. Sitcunw and recording. laser's cost. MATCLIFYE, DARR & co., au26-deds ‘Auctioneeza, Sa-THE ABOVE SALB 18 POSTPONED ON Ac. Pear athe, mn uae MONDAY, SEY TARDE é our ¥ a RTCLIFFE DARR & CO., 103, ‘Auctioncers. (PHOS. WAGGAMAN, Real Estate Auctioneer TRUSTEES SALE OF VALU LOT, ED BY iWo-sTOMy YRAi: Roi TW STREET NORT! bose. PRO’ OUN" ‘WASHL FROM ENDABY STREE’ ‘Will be open ‘from Juno & to October Terms, @6 per week. 35 tress. WOOD HOUBE Miko se EO MISCELLANEOUS, IN: KINS, NEW YORK, ©. “vos to all tras and ROCKVILLE ROAD, NORTH OF TENALLYTOWN. ASHEN OMAR aL Tag | SEN 35 x ATTORNEYS. N, SOLICLLOMS OF PA 1GDUN & alu: Eons abd’ anees Cah Values in "Advertising. Primarily what an advertiser seeks is PUBLICITY for such announcements as he wishes to make. And the wider the Publicity the better, other things being equal. He might just as well put the money be pays for advertising into an old stock- ing end bury it in the back yard as to print his inducements where they will not be seen by the particular people whose attention he aims to attract. What be should use, therefore, is THE NEWSPA- PER THAT IS READ BY THE LARGEST NUMBBR OF PERSONS LIKELY TO WANT WHAT HE HAS TO OFFER. Mere EXTENT of circulation does not always insure the Kind of publicity required by the advertiser. It is the QUALITY of cir- culation that telis,as well as its extent. ‘That, indeed, is the vital factor in the Problem the advertiser has to solve. Sen- @ational and scandalous cess-pool jour- nals, that are chiefly circulated in the slums of a city, and read by the riff-raff of the town, may and often do have avery considerable circulation, as the number of copies printed and handled indicate, but they are merely glanced at to see whethor the new scandal is worse than the old one, | and then tossed into the gutters, where they belong. They are consequently worth nothing to the men or women whose aim t# to reach reputable and responsible peo- ple with such business announcements as they may desire to make. What is needed in such @ case isan en- terprising, bright, alert, clean-cut, care- fully edited FAMILY newspaper,—one that can safely be put in any hands, whose contents tell the whole world’s news story, Of today, (not of last week or yesterday) and which is eagerly and profitably read from beginning to end every day by every member of the household, from its dual head down to the help in the basement, and especially by the ladies and children ofthe family. Such a journal is THE EVENING STAR. It has both EXTENT and QUALITY of circulation within the fleld it occupies in @ greater degree than any other pap: the world. In these respects it is abso- lutely without a rival, anywhere, and there ts no paper in Washington worth talking about in comparison with it in Verification of this claim, LOOK AT THE FIGURES: For the six months ending with the 30th of June last THE STAR'S average daily circulation was 34,064. For a popula- ton of 250,000 this aggregate is some- thing phenomenal, even where the city of Publication is surrounded by prosperous ‘and populous villages and thickly settied agricultural districts, as most places of that size are. In this respect, however, Washington differs from other cities. She is practically isolated, having feW outly- ing towns subordinate to her or identified with her interests, The circulation of THE STAR 1s, consequently, almost en- tirely a HOME CIRCULATION, with a jarger percentage of the whole output regularly delivered by carriers at the res- idence of permanent subscribers within the city where printed than any other Paper that can be named, no matter in what city or country the same may be printed. This is demonstrated by tho foi- lowing daily average UNPARALLELED SHOWING: Served by carriers in the city, - - 23,377 Miscellaneous sales, over coun- tn ter, by news stands, news-boys, th. +. 6 > 2) se *. ee By mail to outlying pointa, - - - 1,415 Tol - - = = = = 94,086 There is no mistake or misstatement ebout these figures. They are substan- tiated under the solemn obligations of aa ath, and they may be further verified by @n examination of the books of the oilice and inspection of its press and delivery rooms on the part of any person having intorest in the correctness of the exhibit. Few newspapers are willing to subm!t to so trying an ordeal. But THE STAR does it cheerfully. 1t has nothing to con- ceal, and no motive forexaggeration. The ‘truth ts good enough for it. FAIR DEALING is its business motto. As THE STAR in- sists on its right to know how many pounds o* ink it gets when it buys. barrel of that article,and how many pounds of paper it pays for in one of the immense rolis delivered at its press rooms, so it ie willing that its advertising patroms shall know exactly HOW MUCH and WHat KIND of publicity they are getting when they put an announcement in its columns. It claims to be THE one Washington pa- per that is taken by the family, for the family, and read by the family, and es- pec:ally by all the people in the city who ‘want things and are able to pay for them, and it is willing to have its claims sub- Jected to the most exhaustive and conclu- sive tests that can be devised. In other words, and in short, THE STAR COVERS: THE WHOLE FIELD. ITS FAMILY CIR- CULATION IN WASHINGTON IS THREE TIMES AS LARGE AS THAT OF ANY OTHER PAPER, AND THE NUMBER OF ITS READERS IN THE CITY 18 FIVE TIMES GREATER THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER PAPER. ‘These are the qualities that constitute “Values in Advertising,” and make THB EVENING STAR en unequalled business belp -