Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1893, Page 19

SOME CURIOUS PLANTS. Oddities to Be Seen at the Botanic Garden. Am Unusual Specimen From Arid Africa — Interesting Facts About Orchids. ‘There is a new and wonderful plant at the Botanic Garden. Nothing like it exists in other collection in the world, it is be- It was brought all the way from interior of Africa, where in arid locali- of the tropical and southwestern parts @f that continent it is found growing. But is extraordinarily rare, and is regarded botanists as one of the most remarkable wegetable productions of nature. The first known specimen was discovered by Dr. Welwitsch, from whom the plant derives its name of “weiwitschia mirabilis.” represents a family all by itself, of which # is the only species. Where it thrives there $s rarely a drop of rain, and the only mois- ture it sets is from dew at nightfall. This habit is imitated by slighty sprinkling the specimen at the Botanic Garden with warm water every evening. It looks like a huge! Qponge with hollow sife up. The big, queer- looking leaves develop around the edge, and @ red flower springs from the center at the Proper season. The plant is said to live| 200 years, but the only authority to back the statement is that of African natives. Mr. Smith, curator of the Botanic Garden, fs particularly proud of his collection of orchids, which embraces some rare and/ otherwise remarkable varieties. One of the finest plants of this sort is now covered ‘with exquisite purple and white. blossoms. It is called “Arnold's autumn-flowered | laelia,” and is a new acquisition. Mr. Smith bought it the other day for $% at auc- | tion, though it is worth $50. Flower auctions are held in New York eity regularly twice a year, and are at- tended by orchid cranks from everywhere. Great collections are made for these sales | by one business firm, for which agents all | over the world gather rare and beautiful ts. Auctions of flowers are likewise held in London, where the idea had its beginning. Horticulturists gather at suc! sales in great numbers, some of them trav- ling thousands of miles for the purpose. | At one auction Mr. Smith purchased for $7 orchid, the mate of which was in jew York the other day for $), the buyer | re of it the next day to a dealer for | 000. The plant thus secured for the Bo-j Garden furnished « blossom which | Secretary Bayard presented to that famous | ,, orchid lover, Joseph Chamberlain, for button-hole when the ffritish statesman with the monocle was in the United States. A Slow-Growing Plant. 'To grow another plant like this one would fake thirteen years, with the srentest skill | that Mr. Smith knows how to besto’ One} reason why fine orchids are so valuable {a that so much time and such painstaking treatment are required to bring them to maturity. Another species represented at the Botanic Garden is the “vanda teres Bylket.” This specimen besan life thirty- five years ago at Syon House,near London— an estate belonsing to the Duke of North- umberland. When quite young, it was shipped to a horticulturist in Washington, | who sold it afterward to Mr. Smith for | $2.50. Seventeen years’ careful nursing | brought the first flowers, and since then 1i | has bioomed year freely. Orchids | differ greatly in r t to the number as | ‘well as size of the blossoms they bear. The | flowers of some mall that | | | promised to his fri of a variety named after hi corningi.” To grow the plant required | mine years. Meanwhile Mr. Corning died, | but his son kept the promi: din due time sent the plant to Wash a. Sinc then Mr. Smith has . Corning the younger give $280 for a pot of the same | orchid at an auction. f 4 One of the most interesting orchids at | the Botanic Gar is cal “Hoiy | Ghost” orchid. Its flowers resemble white | doves» Several years aso, when this plant | bore its first flowers, Mr. Smith spoke of it | to a newspaper rep it up in some way with the w ssion flower. stating in print oly Ghost was to be seen in each blossom. accompanied by ten cf the Aposties. Next | morning a crowd of 200 peopie was on hand | at the garden, anxious to see the wonderful | flower. When one woman asked where the | ten Apostles were, afi Irish gardener r. plied: “Why, ma'am, they haven't arrive yet.” The passion flower was so named by an imaginative person who fancied a re- semblance in its ture to a cross and hails, with ten men standing around—leav- ing out Peter, who denied, and Judas, who Savior. It is native to Ameri- course, not an orchid. A Fortane tm Orchids. lady's slippe! | most fashionable type at pre @ne reason for its | popularity is that the number of varieties | enormous. Most of them come from | high elevations in the » but some} grow wild in Maryland and Virginia. One| e manufacturer, who lives in | owns $30,000 worth of} Another New York mi 00 worth of ¢ H li raised from seed. | the usual methed of is by dividing the | roots. Plants of this deseri treated h the greatest The cuitivator last m Memed Ma: orchids under da. tion must be | and skill. or to become sed. Moss and gravel supply the Place of soil. Most of the plants in the colle for pots Nev iciow uses of thn got hoid of a strange p posed was banan Of the fruit to Mrs. most interes’ on is the isnifies “ at the a: the fruit Botanic to Gen. rez e “mon-| full of as if natural a ire. The it is said wer show, that mement. w from On ion a young 2 | Vi | Which they were ena THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1893- man, out of mere bravado, took a bit of the mother-in-law leaf and chewed it, say- ing to Mr. Smith that he was not afraid. It is certain, Lnaaiier that he was exceed- sorry afterward. the Botanic Garden is the only varie- gated screw pine in the world. The leaves, which ordinarily are plain green, are beau- tifully streaked with white. The variation is a disease, but the complaint is a very pretty one. Mr. Smith propagates con- sumption in some of his plants, just for the sake of looks. a Poor Thing, It Followed Her Home One Day, Like Mary’s Lamb. It was the woolliest dog that she had ever seen, Mrs. Tomkyns declared. She never did pretend to know much about the canine genus. Which was sufficiently evident, her husband remarked, in his sarcastic way, else she could not have picked up such a specimen. It was .of the purest mongrel breed, but, like some poorly bred persons, possessed an extravagant flow of animal spirits. it was not exactly true that Mrs. Tom- kyns picked him up. He followed her home of his own accord and against many pro- tests on her part. But when she said “Go away, doggy!” he responded by wagging hi: tail and seemed encouraged to keep on. When she reached her domicile and shut the door in its face he lay down upon the mat and waited cheerfully. There was no way to get rid of him, unless by sending for a policeman to take him away, and that would be equivalent to dooming him to death at the pound, which Mrs. Tomkyns| could not bear to think of. Night came on very cold, and still the dog lay patiently on the mat, evidently confident that he would be admitted some time. To leave him out there to freeze was impossi- ble. Mrs. Tomkyns called him in, where- upon he wagsed his tail and looked ex- tremely grateful. Mr. Tomkyns made a cynical remark or two, but that was only his way, and his wife knew very well that he would have been as little disposed as herself to let the beast suffer. So he was taken into the kitchen, where a bowl of milk, a generous bone and an improvised bed were provided for his comfort. a month after she was married Mrs. ns had experienced the annoyance of a very young colored baby left in beck yard one evening. The cook dts- covered it by stepping on the infant, fortu- nately without injuring it at aii, while on her way to fasten the gate. But the child .d been readily disposed of by conveying t to the nearest police station, whence it was transferred to a suitable asylum. Un- fortunately, no charitable organizations ex- ist for taking care of stray dogs, and so Rags (which was the name given to the woolly guest Mr. Tomkyns) was difficult o get rid of. In fact, he had to stay. With his fate in this respect he seemed Most conient. Perhaps his dominant qual- ity was amiability. He at once became in- spired with a violent affection for Mrs. Tomkyns, whom he insisted upon accom- panying to market every morning. Though not a connoisseur in dogs, she perceived that his want of breeding was rather painfully palpable and that his company lent no credit to her. Within twenty-four hours after his arrival the family kitten, a very small one, chanced to be playing with its tail in the middle of the kitchen floor. Rags, observing its contoriions with curiosity, chanced to yawn over it—he was quite a dog—and it is not surprising that the mother cat thought that he was on the point of devouring her offspring instanter. She made a spring at him, and a brief and decisive conflict resulted in the hopeless rout of Rags. He fled and hid himself in the coal bin for some hours. From that time forward he was in terror of all cats. If he saw the most peaceful tabby sitting in the sun and washing her face with her paws ke would make a rush for shelter. _The helter he preferred was beneath Mrs. Tom- kyns’ skirts when he was out walking with her. This was extremely embarrassing. In fact, Mrs. Tomkyns had made up her mind | that she would never take him to market again, when an incident occurred which re- Keved her of all further anxiety on the sub- t, though it was rather annoying in it- She was on an expedition for domestic forage at the time. by ang dog while exclaiming: “So you are the person who stole my » When she was confronted by an dog Tomkyns would have entered a dis- claimer, but her interlocutor would not lis- The latter launched into a flight: of uperative eloquence, which immediately gathered a crowd, and, after exhausting er vocabulary of epithets, she quietly waiked away with Rags, whose real name it appeared was Beauty, leaving the victim of the episode to make her way homeward with as, much dignity as she was able to summon to her aid. That is the reason why Mrs. Tomkyns Says that she will never have another dog, particularly a woolly one. ———_-+e+ Remarkable Bil From the New York Times, ‘The match at the fourteen-inch balk-line game between Schaefer and Ives was un- doubtedly the most remarkable exhibition that has ever been made of the art of play- ing billiards. In order to comprehend how remarkable it was, it is necessary to bear in mind that the game was devised in order to reduce to a level with their competitors certain players with whom the others had no chance at straight billiards. This was something like ten years ago, and the play- ers in question were Schaefer, Slosson and . “ux. The first of these hed in effect invented, and the other two had mastered, the art of rail play, in which nobody else could approach them, rds. led to make intermin- abie runs, which were compiained of as be- ing unjust to the other players, in that rail play included but a part of the game, and wearisome to the s tators, in that a jong run on the rail consisted merely in a series of slight ticks, by which the balls were di S pos ver: came The introduction cf a balk line was one! of se 1 devices to com to shorten rum 1 open-table play, sive the “round- e judgment ul nursing of billiards. were superior at n equal superi- ‘They succeeded ad old an- ith them 1 ed in suces part but the who “a player suc- cessfully to are really the qualities that e@ an expert at any tis played upon a bililard table. a trib- ‘chnical I He had often he could play game,” and that it was not sa to wager against his win- ning until the winning point nad been scored. B has seldom shown such ; pluck a: y | night, make 1 oints ag st SUuO by one of the most skillful billiard players living, | nd suceceded, with an average of 29. This average shows sufficiently how pzogressive | is the ert of billiard playing. it is not so very long ago that Diun’s average of 25 for 6 points at straight billiards was regard- é as wonderful, and when Schaefer's 240 the fourteen- baik line was the cli- ax of J iliard playing. But in this last atch grand average of both players 3 “i, while Schaefer's record run, broken b; onishing things add inter of next month. If Vignaux were also enter- ed, the result of that contest would be an un stionable demon: at has attained in b to the end of the year 180: = oe New Resistance Met: w York resistance metal in wire, sheet = is stated to be a very important ition to this class of material. The ‘Y copper wi : white tin nd is very strong with- lity. The in six inches for A still po th to the squa: e is said to run to eng! with about Combined with tles th wire is Y-five times h a temperature coetfi- ja-rsnth that of German m mi himself, is replaced of Ives. All these ilitard es re She had completed her purchases and was | n her way out of the market, accompanied | »lored woman, who pointed to the; and by means of | ble, and be- | jown before that | to the triangular match | ration of the high- | ‘sion twist | FOOT BALL IN SUMATRA. Althogether Different From the Great American Game. From the Fortnightly Review. Among the Malays foot ball has been in existence from time immemorial. but it is with them essentially a game. as, for in- stance, battle-dore and shuttlecock is with us, and it is not a contest. The foot ball is rather smaller than that used at Eton, and is made of wicker work. Those who join in the game arrange themselves in a wide circle and kick the ball from one to another with the inside, or. at times, with the flat, of the foot. The object of the players is to keep the ball vassing about without its ever touching the ground or the hand of any one. Great dexterity is shown in this performance. and the ball is usually kicked to a verv respectable height. There seems to be no penalty to be exacted from a player who may kick the ball badly or fail to kick it at all. We had our own game of foot ball, and the Dutchmen, assisted by two members of our team, scored two goals to our four. During the game the natives collected in still greater numbers, and at its termination they becged us to allow them to have a game among themselves. To this we as- sented, and two of us acted as captains of the sides, numbering about thirty players japiece, most of whom stripped to the “sa- rong,” and wrapped {t round their loins, jleaving the rest of their bodies bare. The ball was started. and then followed one of the most extraordinary games at foot ball that has ever been seen. The game soon ceased to be a game at all, and be- me a veritable battle. “As when 4 sort of lusty shepherds try Their force at foot ball. care of victory Makes them salute so rudely, breast to breast. That their encounter seemed too rough for fest.” Hands, arms, and even teeth were used on all sides, blood flowed freely. and scat- tered about the field were soon to be seen the wounded, I might almost say the slain. As some fell exhausted to the ground they were removed and their places taken by others, who rushed forth eagerly from the crowd of spectators. Snouts of victory and groans of defeat rent the air, and at length things became 80 serious that the two captains were oblig- ed to seize upon the ball and bolt with it to the pavilion. The “game” thus came to an end, and the players withdrew to their homes, with the excited crowd following at their heels. This must have been regarded as a red-letter day by the native commu- nity of Medan, and the visit of the “Orang Puteh” (Englishmen) will be remembered among them for some time to come. We re- ceived a hint next morning from the author- Ittes that the natives must not be allowed to take part in our games. oe LONDON’S NEW BIG BRIDGE. The Hydraulic Principle Adopted to Admit of Large Ve The great new bridge across the Thames, { opposite the Tower of London, is now near- |ly finished, says the New York Evening | Post. It has been built upon the Bascule principle, in three spans, with two great | masonry piers rising from the bed of the river. At this point the Thames is 940 feet } broad, and the depth of water in mid-chan- nel varies, according to the tides, from thirty feet to thirty-five feet six inches. At | a distance of 270 feet from either bank these | Sreat piers—204 feet in length and 100 feet feet broad—are bullt, rising from founda- tions twenty-seven feet below the river bed, excavated in caissons through the London clay. They cost, including staging, £110,122. The masonry is of finely jointed Cornish granite lined internaHy with brick-work. Each pier contains a chamber in which works the heavily weighted balance of the lower readway leaf, each of these two leaves weighing little short of 1,000 tons. When | the two leaves, each 100 feet long, are clos- ed, the lower roadway of the bridge is prac- | ticable for all kinds of traffic, pedestrian | and wheeled; but the space of thirty feet only between roadway and high water is | insufficient to allow of masted vessels pass- ing. It is to allow tall ships to pass that the drawbridge principle comes into play. The powerful hydraulic machinery placed at the Surrey side of the bridge is capable | of raising the 2,000 tons of iron and steel | composing this movable roadway in two minutes, and it is confidentiy declared that the opening of ine roadway, the passage of a ship and the closing again will take only five minutes. Wheeled traffic will be de- layed for that space of time, while the foot passengers will ascend by staircases or ele- will carry thirty persons at a ume, to two parallel bridg that cross the center span at a height of feet above high-water mark. ——- ++ ______. ALL MEN KNOW ABOUT IT, They Think Trimness Allied to Econ- omy in Woman's Dres: From the Detroit News-Tribune. The young man who evidently considered a knowledge of female foibles his specialty sat with his chair pushed a little back from the table and discoursed instructively while his companion drank coffee and look- ed impressed. “What I like,” began the knowing oné,” is trimness and economy about women’s dresses. Don’t you?” The other said in a non-committal way that he found nothing to object to in trim- ness and economy. “Now, look at that girl at the table in the corner,” pursued the first one, as one! who conducts an object 1 “The girl | in dark brown cloth, I mean. Did you ever | see aaything simpler and ne: No frilis, | ‘no flounces, no la Jiggers down the | | tront—just a neat linen shirt front and tiny silver studs. And her hat! It’s abso- lutely simple—not a feather or a_ flower. | | It matches her gown—that is all. Why | | can’t all women dress like that?” j | The listener said that he didn’t know, and the insiructor proceeded on joicing. ee those two at the second table to the feathers on their hats, lace on their ckered up things about ably those little idiots salary on their clothes, his way their waists. have spent a week’ j and yet—what a difference!” The instructo friend admitted that there was a difference. And the two un- fortunates, who had had the words of the to them, began to slightly made by that uptown tailor, and it is lined.” “And how much do you have to pay to have your ‘simple white linen done up? “With the cuff: And Esteli Now, you vatel for noth home. “I know flower: it. And the reason I have t to make it.” And the conve ion ended with a super- ficially irrelevant ste tement, “I always did disiike that Estelle Wil- liams,"" said one. | “So did I,” said the other. | 0 | | Wonen Who Shoot. | From the New York Tribune. A sport which has become popular with | English women has not yet been taken up | by the American woman of society. Anglo- does not She does not feel the attractions of | tty tweed c which is to be } found among the possessions of the young | maniac though she may be—si shoot. | woman of title—the the trim coat, the | the small, soft hat; yet no harm in the = lit- i which, small as it is, carries an | stual quietus for e birds. | Not a few American girls are accomplish- the mgland and on continent nowadays feminine shooting become a = tee of course, and even the season made by the fair pursuers of pheas- | ant and woodcock. ! ed anglers; but the pause in the career of sport. In the | has | the | the | Field records “heaviest bags” of ‘An authority on firearms, by the way. says that timid women in luxurious coun- try houses ought to know how to shoot in ease of the advent of burglars, and that for them the small, short “lady's rifle” is a much better weapon than a pistol. It can be handled with as much ease and| quickness as a‘pistol, and it is much more easily steadied for good aim by its posses. | sor. ————_+ e+. The duel between M. Etienne and Miller- end was fought yesterday at Paris. M.{ Millerand was wounded in the right aide. | i Swords were the weapons used. ‘plied the woman; } that an | Renting both time and money. ;the other day of the shoals of ag | the well-to-do Eng! | Hicks. REVIVAL OF FOOT BALL. A Fine Sport, but It is Becoming Too Brutal to Continue Popular. From the Chicago Herald. The revival of foot ball as a general sport is not commendable. It is a brutal, un- scientific, unmanly game, compared with which horse racing is refined and prize fighting rather respectable. In the accounts of the game between Yale and Harvard on Saturday last incidents of brutality are fre- quent. At one time Beard of Yale is said to have been “using Wrightington of Har- vard none too tenderly in the center of the field out of bounds.” This caught the sight of “Big” Acton of Harvard, who rushed over and, saying ‘None of that there, caught Beard on the jaw with a right- hander, which, the account spiritedly says, “brought him to earth beautifully.” This, mind you, was a mere incident—an episode which had no bearing on the game itself, but simply served to show what the influ- ences of the so-called pastime are bound to produce. It was a knock-down inspired by the vioient brutality which is the chief ele- ment of the game. The vivid story of the play reads like the description of a dog fight: Armstrong broke out of the V for eight yards, being heavily thrown by Mackie. ‘Thorne smashed into Manahan for five and Armstrong struggled through the center for one. Thore found Manahan again for four, but thenext time he tried it Manahan prov- ed that he could stop a man once in awhile. Butterworth dashed into Lewis and Acton twice for ten yards and the ball was downed on Harvara’s fifteen-yard line. Yale's offensive play in contrast to Har- vard’s was quick and snappy. Her plays were made in rapid succession, giving Har- vard little time to think of what was go- ing on. Butterworth crashed into the cen- ter again, but didn’t gain, but a series of push plays netted Thorne and Butterworth a yard each and then Butterworth jammed his way through the Harvard's five-yard line? Harvard’s crimson champions were fighting for every inch of ground, but the Yales were forcing the ball along slowly but surely, while their friends gradually lost their senses. Armstrong smashed into the big Harvard wedge and fell down under it with two yards’ gain. Capt. Waters of Harvard was so ®adly hurt that he had to be taken off the field. ‘rhree times he was knocked down and finally, notwithstanding that brute pluck which is one of the most ignoble phases of man's vanity when exercised for the mere purpose of display, he was forced to suc- cumb, leaving his team demoralized and vanquished. The lull in base ball interest has led to an attempted revival of a number of sports. Tennis was given a considerable impulse last summer, and cycling achieved a new popularity, Both of these sports are de- cent, clean, scientific and manly, but foot ball is only to be antithetically character- ized. There seems to be a probability that base ball will recover its old ground in pub- lic favor, and it is to be hoped that such will be the case. It is a fine sport end worthy of popularity in every way. But at least let us put a stop as soon as possible to the brutality of foot ball—a sport which, in many features, is worse than prize fight- ing, being less a matter of skill, more dan- gerous to the participants and involving a much larger number of contestants. os - Anecdote of Patrick Henry. From Blue and Gray. When Cornwallis made his great raid into Virginia in 1781 the legislature fled from Richmond to Charlottesville, but the nearer approach of the British caused the house to bre.k up suddenly and in some disorder, on the 4th of June. It is related that Henry, accompanied by Benjamin Har- rison, John Tyler and Col. Christine, fiee- ing from the redcoats, stopped one evening at a lowly cabin in the hills and asked for food. An old woman who answered their summons demanded of them who they were. Henry, who acted as spokesman, re- plied: “We are members of the legislature und have been compelled to leave Char- lottesville on account of the approach of the enemy.” “Ride on, then, ye cowardly knaves,” she replied in righteous wrath. “My husband and sons have gone to Char- lottesville to fight for ye and you are run- ning away like oc Clear out—ye shall have nothing here “But,” expostulated Mr. Henry, “we were obliged to fly. We could not see the legislature broken up. Why, here is the speaker, Mr. Harrison; you don’t think he would have fled had it not been necessary?” “I always thought a great deal of Mr. Harrison till now,” re- ne'd no business to run away,” and she was about to close the door. “Hold, good woman,” urged Mr. Henry, “you must know that Mr. Tyler or Col. Christine would not take flight without some good reason, would they?’ deed!" she said. “But they are here,” said Mr. Herry, pointing to his companions. The old woman gazed at the party, but rejoined: “No matter; we love these gentle- men, but if they have run away from the British they shall have nothing to eat in my house.” In this extremity Mr, Tyler stepped forward and said: “What would you say, my good worran, if I were to tell you that Patrick Herry had fled with the rest?” “Patrick Henry!" she answered angrily, and with much disgust. “Patrick Henry, sir, would never do such a dis- reputable, cowardly act!” “But this is Patrick Henry,” said Tyler, pointing to him. The old woman was speechless for a mo- ment, her face depicting most profound astonishment. At lergth she said: “Well, then, if that is Patrick Henry it must be all right. Come in, ye are welcome to the best I have.” —-— +e _____. English and American Wealth. From Harper's Weekly. The English and the Americans are both rich, but which are the richer? Perhaps the staiisticlans know or can find out, but | it is not certain that the statistical answer would give the information that one really wants, and which involves the distribution of wealth, as weli as its mere existence. Most Americans have to work, but, as is weil Known, a considerable proportion of | English people toil not nor spin, and make no pretense of doing anything for a living. is that because the English are richer than we, or is it a matter of taste or a result of that way is looked upon as a man of very exceptional resources, but it would seem English gentleman who does not ive In that way Is thought to be somewhat sivaitened. At this time of year in England there are 300 or 400 hunt clubs in operation, ang something like 20,000 Brit- shers ride pretty regularly to hounds. But These English seem to have both to spare, and that although these present times are not reckoned as umes of special prosperity in Great Britain. 30 Davis’ descripuon in Harper Monthly of Hie in London in suggests a notable muiditude of people with money to spend and t it free A returned t ler Was speaking reeable | friends hold that weapon end two others primogeniture? So also it appears (from! | close study of documents submitted by An- thony ‘Trollope and other coniemporaneous histo ) that British gentlemen in re- spectable circumstances empioy from five to fifty servants, and have several houses apiece, all of which they live in, and travel much besides. An American who lives in active | is an expensive sport that takes | the season | glish people he met in the Riviera and in | the play-piaces of aid not, but that they were able to live as did b e they knew how, and got their mone: worth. He thought, too, that lish had a more complete tus ready to hand than domestic appar most of the A larger proportion of their incomes on travel and amusement, Houses and furniture and ach expensive vanities they had already by inheri and were not compelled to spend useful money in providing them. Regard the English habit of publishing novels in three bound volumes! Would the southern Europe. | few weeks ago attracted much attention, When asked if they were rich people, he! has brought out other instances of an ac- ericans, and could spend a} | tention has been directed to an account of American buy novels in such costly form? , Are not all the habits of living that we bor- row from the British, from dock-tailed horses to indoor men servants, more costly than the customs they supersede? They | must have a great deal of money to spend, those enterprising islanders. No one would hesitate to say that the Americans are richer than the Russians or the Italians or the Germans, or even the thrifty French, put the Briton gives us pause. Is he really richer than we are. or is he merely an older son, and a dweller in a land where servants work for small pay and clothes are cheap and novels rented out by Mudie, and the tax on stimuiants is laid for rev- enue, and not for prevention, and where to loaf and invite one’s soul is esteemed a preferable thing to toil. soe A Derivation. From Puck. “The French gre a wise people,” said “They perceive a situation at once, and recognize it. They were the first to see that cooks ruled our homes; and for that reason they named them chefs, or chiefs,” 7 Our Determined Purpose Is to sell direct to the consumer. FUR- NITURE, CARPETS, UPHOLSTERY and the like, in styles of the highest artistic ‘Merit and most correct workmanship, at Prices far below those usually charged. Lack of space prevents us from point- ing out today more than one of the many good things we offer, but one of our Trade Stipulators Is a magnificent 5-PIECE Parlor Suite, Consisting of sofa, armcbair, corner and two reception chairs, overstuffed and covered in first quality brocatelle or tap- estry. Price $50.00, Worth half as much more, at least. The @esigns are marvels of beauty, elegance WHAT THE FAIR COST. Report of Auditor Ackerman. From the Chicago Herald. The long-dclayed financial statement of the world’s fair was given to the press yes- terday afternoon by Auditor Ackerman. It has been held back a fortnight that a com- plete record of the millions paid out to make the fair might be furnished. Clerks in Auditor Ackerman’s office have been busy on the report since November 1, and the information they collected is far more comprehensive than any contained in the previous statements. Mr. Ackerman at- tached a number of tables, giving in con- densed form statistics that will be of value in estimating the incomes and outlays of future expositions. The report covers everything to Novem- ber 12. The total expenditures to that date are given as $25,540,537.85 and the receipts are stated to be $2 168.75. No refer- ence is made in the report to the money raised by selling bonds ($4,445,500), which was afterward paid back from gate re- ceipts, It would appear, therefore, that the amount should be added to get the grand total. The net assets on November 1 are given as $2,610,630.90. Mr. Ackerman says $748,147.82, representing outstanding obliga- tions, should be deducted, leaving actual net assets of $1,862,483.08 above all labilities on November 1. This balance has been steadily shrinking, as the income of the exposition has entirely stopped, while expenses go on at a threatening rate. The Balance Sheet. The condensed balance sheet to October 81 follows: pomats and grace, the construction and finish tures $18,322,622.56 being unsurpassed. General and operating sid pecerheee gi liioeg : 7127,240.22 Our advertisements differ essentially Preliminary organiza- merous competi tion ..... 0,674.97 Sues a Sh SOR cote "698,291.01 having ACTUAL FACTS behind the state- Liabilities . 87,660.11 ments. And we try not to leave any Net assets..........000 2,610,630.90 ean Sn, Total .. Gate receipts. Concession receipts. Miscellaneous receipts. W.B.Williams Interest Souvents wane 2assox228| 7th and D sts. n.w. Capital oc! -» 5,604,17L.97 aim City of Chicago. 5,000,000.00 Total -$28,151,168.75 The table of receipts and expenditures by Months show that the fair cleared, in six aur $10,601,205 above the cost of operat- ing. The net earnings jumped from a ee) #You Men 383.41 for the month of May to in October. This table tells its = Who Have “Receipts. “+ ,$016.140.61 ese = + 1,647,644.44 017,049. t rom ana amu & Laree Fee . v2 Sh Can buy $3, $4 and $5 Calf and + 4,402,467.35 610,000.00 Kangaroo Shoes, sizes 9, 9% and “At $1.98 Pair. To close out the Ladies’ Shoes quickly we've marked them thus: Ladies’ $3, $4 and $5 French Don- French Kid ‘Only $1.98 Pair. See ees CRAWFORD’S, tr 73! 7th St., East Side. 8 Os de dededdcsdedeese stented $14,141,242.41 $3,540,037.41 $10,601,205.00 From the beginning of the exposition to the close, Sundays excluded, the average daily receipts were $89,501.53 and the aver- age daily expenses $22,405.30. The gate receipts are given as follo’ Pre-exposition May . June duly... August September October . 1,694,518.00 | 2,263,083! ddddddiddded ied ddddd idddddd: -$10,626,330.76 It is an interesting fact and one that will be of value to those who manage the expo- sitions of the future that ‘concessionaries more than paid the running expenses of the fair. The cost of operating for the six months was $3,540,037.41, while the income from concessionaries was $3,699,581.43, and more than $1(),000 is yet due from the con- cessionaries. The Ferris Wheel Company alone is holding back $75,000 or more, pend- ing a settlement with the authorities. ; The concession receipts by months fol- lows: Pre-exposition period May IT’S YOURS FREE OF COST! If there is a sclitary thing that you need to make your house more cheerful and com- $171,181.54 74,698.15 June fortabie GET IT—and get it of US. Your Say. Promise to pay is just as acceptable to us ‘August as a handful of money. . September ALL THE October . atin Rune Laie HUMAN SACRIFICES IN RUSSIA, This Horrible Practice Stil Exists in That Country From La Gazette de Yakootsk. You WANT. Very few persons in Europe or elsewhere are aware that human sacrifices still ex- ist in a part of the Russian.empire. The fact is, nevertheless, certain. Among the Tchpktchis such sacrifices still take Place, and seem likely to be practiced for a long time to come. At the same time no blame therefor can be attached to the Russian government or the Orthodox Church, for efforts by both to stop the custom have proved ineffectual. The sac- Tifices alluded to are those of old people and the sick, who, finding no pleasure in life, resolve to have done with earthly existence, to rejoin their dead relations and go to increase the number of happy spirits, The Tchuktchi who has made up his mind to die immediately notities his neigh- bors and nearest relatives. The news spreads in the circle of his friends and ail or them soo visit the unhappy per- son to iniluence him to change his mind. Prayers, reproaches, complaints and tears have no effect on the fanatic, who ex- plains his reasons, speaks of the future life, of the dead who appear to him in his sleep, and even when he is awake, calling him to them. His friends, seeing him thus resolved, go away to make the cus- tomary preparations. At the end of from ten to fifteen days they return to the hut of the Tchuktchi with white mortuary garments and some weapons which will Not a note to sign—not a penny interest— pay us when you get paid—once a week or once a month. Our suites of Parlor Purni- ture range in price from $22.50 to $200. Bed Room Furniture from $13 to $200. Surely the intermediate grades will con- tain something to please you. Our lesder in Parlor Furniture is a seven-plece suite, upholstered In plush or hair cloth, at $22.50. Our leader in Bed Room Furniture is a suite in solid oak, with bevel glass in bureau— price, $13. Our Carpets are just as ex- tensive in variety and just as rich and ele- gant in coloring as you'll find ANYWHERE. Splendid Brussels Carpet, 50 cents a yard— Good Reliable Ingrain, 35 cents a yard. We bave always MADE and LAID every yard of Carpet sold by us—and we are DOING IT YET—name another house that does as vcs. We sell a Six-foot Extension Table for $3.50—Forty-pound Hair Stove—it's HERE—any size you want—heat- ing or cooking. Six big double floors of House Furnishings to choose from—and your CREDIT is always GOOD. GROGAN’S MAMMOTH be used by the man in the other wi ld ts j fight evil’ spirits and hunt the reindeer | CREDIT HOUSE, After making his toilet’ the Tchuktchi 819, 821, 823 7TH ST. N.W., withdraws into the corner of the hut. His Nearest relative stands by his side, hold- ing in his hand the instrument of’ sacri- fice, a knife, a pike or a rope. If the chuktchi has chosen the knife two of ends hold him under the arms and | y the wrists and. at a given signal, the | sacrificer thrusts the knife into his breast. | If the pike has been chosen two of his BET. H AND I STS. a We close EVERY evening at 7. RATEFUL—COMFORTING, Epps’ Cocoa. BREAKFAST —SUPPER. throw the victim on its point. For stran-| “By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws gulation the rope is put about his neck | Which govern the operations of digestion and nu- and the sacrificors draw it until death en-, tition, and by a careful application of the tine 29 - var properties of well-selected Cocoa, Mr. has peor ee? Ng Istants go to the corpre, | Provided our breakfast tables with a dehestely relden thelr hands and With its | favored beverage, which may save us many heay blood and place tt on a sledge drawn by | doctors’ bills. It is by the judicious use of suc egy te yg draws it to the place of | articles of dic oe a mpegs may be gradual- the funeral. Arrived at their dest ly built up strong enough to resist every ten- Cem nation | Zocy to disuse. Muniveds of aubuie maiedie map the Tchuktchis cpt the throat of the rein- deer, take from the dead body its cloth- Is floating ‘azoand ‘us ready to attack wherever: there : Fees Ia a Weak point. We may escape many a fatal which torn in nfeces, and place | chaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with the cornre on a lehted funeral pile. Dur- | blood and a properly nourished frame.”-—Civil flere ing the incineration the assistants offer | ice Gazette. up rrayer to the happy. in the. other world and svnolicate these to watch over | them and theirs, | These horrible practices are followed to- | day with the sams exactness os 2 an-(| = = .. °° OO It’s Best Made simply with polling water or mill. only in hy JAMES EPI @2,8,mtu-iy Sold. pend tine, = Rrocers, labeled thus: ©O., L't'd, Homeopathic Chemisis, ion, England. cient times. The Inkatchis. the Lamouts pnd the Russiens, invited to these sacri- fees, often take nart in them, although there is no example of one of them hav- ine token the same road to reach the other world. ———_—_+ 0+ _— Talking Comary irda For You From the Liverpool Merenry. The story of the talking canary, which a To have your teeth extracted by our painless metbods, if any need extrac- tion, It is different from any other method in that it is perfectly harmless as well as absolutely painless. The preparation is applied to the gums (the source of pain), and not taken into the lungs, thereby rendering the patient un- able to move while corscious of the pain, Our operators tend to wake the ex- traction more agreeable by doing the work properly. Extracting, without pain—50 cents. quired power of speech in the same bird. In the organ of the Selborne Society, where the story originally appeared, there are some further cases given, and probably many more may be yet forthcoming. At- a talking canary at Norwood which was published In a natural history magazine for 1858. It began by repeating a word which its mistress had often used to it—‘Kissie, kissie’—and by following the word up by an imitation of the sound of a kiss. Its mistress kad been in the habit of kissing the bird and talking to it as if it were a child. After a time the bird repeated other | words, until it has now a large vocabulary | of phrases, one of which consists of five words. Again, In 1863,a talking canary was heard and seen at a cottage near Bath. Visitors crowde to the spot to hear and see it. Its vocabulary consisted of such phrases as are generally taught to parrots. A case is also recorded of a speaking canary having been exhibited in Regent street about twenty years ago. The explanation given is that the bird is gifted ith unusual powers of imitation, and will pick up airs freely which it is in ‘the habit of frequently hearing. Left to itself it quickly imitates the notes of other birds, and in Germany and the Ty- rol canaries are usually placed for this pur- pose beside the nightingale. In our own country they are often taught to imitate the lark. The words which it imitates may be regarded as a mere development or va- riant of its musical notes. — — Parlors « 1217 Pa Ave N. Wz A Pleasant Companion At the play is a good OPERA GLASS, a poor one mars much of the pleasure— fave a large stuck of a The Celebrated Lemaire Glasses, | ‘Our own direc: importation, differing lit- tle in price from the inf dl te In price ¢ inferior article usu- | Claflin Optical Co., Masonic Temple, F St. { | Mr. John Burns, the well-known socialist | member of the house of commons, who was taken sick in the streets of London Wed- nesday night, is better, ak pe weg end 204 10TH ST. N.W., uilding Papers, loth-proof Fire B: cick hada ia, Bap Base a in an endesvor to pay spot cash when under our Equitable Credit System You can provide yourself with all the FURNITURE—CARPETS DRAPERIES and STOVES yoa necd—and pay for it Uttle at a time out of each week's or month's income? You can't buy any cheaper— Bor any better C. 0. D. than you can of us. 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