Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1894, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR mE LA lf EXCEPT SUNDAY. 1101 Pectayivacia Avent, corser 11th 8, by The Evening Star Rewsape. S Company, 18 erg Peles tax ham Pay ‘Tre Evesrxe Stam is served to su subscribers in the by carriers, on ¥ ety their own acconi Ber week. or 44c. per month. Copies 2 cents each. By mail—anywhere States or C: postage prepaid—50 cents per Sarempay QcINTUPLE SHEET STAR 81.00 per year: with ‘oreien Dostame added, $3.00. oui (Entered at the Font Office at Washington, D. C., an second-class nail matter. ) FA) mai’ subscriptions must be paid in sdvance. tes of aivertisin: inede known on appitestion \ WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1894-TWELVE PAGES. Sr” «=6'TO ADVERTISERS, ‘Advertisers are urgently re- Quested to hand in advertisements the day prior to publication, in order that insertion may be as- sured. Want advertisements will , be received up to noon of the day of publication, precedence being Siven to those first received. AMUSEMENTs. AMUSEMENTS. EDUCATIONAL. NEW NATIONAL THEATER. EVERY EVENING AND SATURDAY MATINEE. DANIEL FROHMAN’S LYCEUM COMEDY COMPANY Americans Abroad. Staged with all the Original Sett! and Accesories from the Lyceum Theater New ™M \WEEK—“LADY_WIND! =F SEATS NOW ON FIRS’ TIME WASHINGTON. ‘3 FAN.” MATINEE SA’ at MATINEE PRI‘ VED, ‘The Greatest ot Wonder Workers, KELLAR. All the New, Startling Features during the 3 months" rug at eit: EEK. EVANS * THOR im the inet and SEATS SOW ON BALE. METZEROTT MUSIC BALL. Fourth Evening of the “C. C." Course, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1804. BOSTON SOCIETY'S POPULAR READER, Mr. George Riddle, IN A MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAM. Prices. 50 and 75 cents. Seats now selling. METZEROTT MUSIC HALL. Feb. 15, 16, 17, 19, 20. 27th Annual Convention National WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE Association. Season Tickets. ‘Seats now on sale at Metzerott’s Hall. et fed-tf ALBAUGH’S GRAND OPERA HOUSE. WEEK BEGINNING MONDAY, FEB. 12, 1804. so5-tm Mr. Henry Irving, Miss Ellen n Terry aD — THE LONDON LYCEUM THEATER €0., ——. William ‘Terriss, Mr. F. Couper. Mr. ‘Tyars, Mr. Bishop, Mr.“ Havilat Joxanin, “iis, “Winevege Dae inane tite. Lacy" Sees Milward, Miss Kate Phillips, Miss Milton, Miss | Coleridge and others, under the direction of ARBEY, SCHOEFFEL Fresenting the foliowing MONDAY and TUESDAY Becket. Henry Mr. & GRAU, tosamond. Miss Elleo Terry WEDNESDAY ERCHANT OF VENICE THURSDAY FRIDAY... . OLDPUELD asd THE WELLS HANT OF VENICE) LOU XI) SATURDS SATURDAY NIGHT. SEATS Ni COLUMBUS — Hearing the Sailors te sins sas “Serge ished, English ts being exhibited and is attracting much Gain from the art lic. You ate cordially invited to cali and view it as | corre engravings, Etchings, | Water Colors, &e.. frames aud fine gol VeerhoffsGalleries = F St. N. W. TES . AVE. and 916 7TH ST. f FIRST GRAND FAIR AND CYCLE SHOW, For the benefit of the eyele track fund, under the auspices of the GEORGETOWN CYCLE CLUB. Washington Light Infiutry Armory, for week com- meneing Monday. February 12, "3. A combinaticn of social enjoyment and an exbibi- tion of the perfection of mechépical skill in the cycle lize. Exhibits by all leading agents of Washington. DANCING, 10 P.M. Admission We. Sesson Tickets 50c. HAT BOX FREE. Tickets for sale at cycle stores. te6-10t Por. J. B. CALDWELL’S DANCING ACADEMY, cor. Sth and H sts. mw. Tuesday and Friday evenings. Private lessons gives by appointment at my residence, 40 C st. n.w. “~~ ILLUSTRATED Art Lecture By William A. Coffin. “LANDSCAPE WORK.” SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, AT 8 O'CLOCK. ‘Tiekets TBe. For sale at Art Students’ League, $08 17tn st n. w.. or at Builders’ Exchange Hall, 719 13th st.. on even- | sale, as well as | furaiture to order. L MATINEES. ME. AND “ms, ouavk BYRON, HEART OF AFRICA AND THE PLUNGER. The Plunger—Monday, Tuesday Matinee and Night and Wednesday Night. Heart of Africa—Thursday Matinee and Night and Friday and Suturlay Matinee and Night. Next Week—CHAS. A. LODER. fe5-6t METZEKOTT MUSIC HALL. GROSSMITH. GROSSMITH. “The King of Entertainers. “His personality is gentle, winning and droll: and | the entertainment he gives is tasteful and de-| Wightful.""—N. Y. Tribune. “Mr. Grossmith is « bast master of the art of acting.”"—N. Y. Com- mercial Advertiser. ter piece of musical fun.’’—-Buston ‘Transcript. “Absolutely unique and delightful.""—Boston Cousiex. TUESDAY EVENIN 'D. ING, FEB. 13, bar 8. WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB. 21, ‘The Famous English Entertainer Mr. George Grossmith, f@ his Original, Humorous, and Musical Recitals, Dresenting for the first times in Washington his new sketches, “THE ART OF ENTERTAINING.” “HOW I DISCOVERED AMERICA.” ‘Mhe less said about the voyage over, First impression of between the I receive hints Tongue. American Society. American Hospital- ity. American Drama and American Music. The Paderewski Craze. the better. how to Mr. Grossmith will introduce the following origin- al songs: IRL. “I'M HIS DAISY.” ‘ADEREWSKI CRAZE." NUMEROUS ILLUSiRATIONS AND IMITATIONS. accompany himself om a om and after Thursday. ru ‘6-08 N. VERT and Ca. ELLIS” Managers. N. ¥. Advertiser. | “Never have We beard a bet-| America. The difference | English and American Language. | &- pfonounce my Mother | 50 and Te.) 4 MIGHTY AGGI GATION OF EMINENT STARS nghly Practical. ‘common sense du tion, preparing for business and necessities of real, life. Spectal training. in Bovkkeeping, Sbort- | hand, Typewriting, Ww. course fa Arithmetic. Keapid ish. Egtab- | lished 1876. “Ey perie e tral loc tion; diplomas und positions for Seadantes, Send | SW. FLYNN, A. M.. Princi- ALBAUGH'’S GRAND OPERA HOUSE. j Denman Thompson's BEAUTIFUL PLAY THE OLD HOMESTEAD, Presented by a larger and betier company than ever before. ORIGINAL SCENERY AND PROPERTIES. MATINEE SATURDAY, NEAT Mr. HENRY IRVING, Miss EN TERRY WEEK) ‘and the London ‘gceum theater Co. fed-t M THEATER. TONIGHT AT S. 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Send note to INSTRUCTOR, 806 Lith st. ew. fe3-6t* | WOOD'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE AND SCHOOL f Shorthand and Typewriting, 407 East Capitol Foung people of good charicter of both sexes welcome. Positions ‘secured. Day and evening sessions. Rates reduced. Call or write for circular. jaz 4 MME. J. ESPUTA DALY, Glasses in, reading music at sight. | The note chain JP. Sousa and . J. AVE. 3» OF WASHINGTON. MISS PEEBLES AND MISS THOMPSO! ENGLISH, FR! ‘AND GERMA) BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, 30, 32, 34 East 57th street, New York. d16-cod2m Special students admitted. — ST. GRORGE’S HALL FOR BOYs, ee { GEORGE'S, near Baltimore, Md. Prof. J. C. Prin.; 1sth year; noted for aitioa, caataniaper health, comfort; ’ terms and references. ja20-Iw* SOME TRICKS IN FARO The Pink Finger Nail Man Knows All About Ingenious Boxes, The Bank Gets the Be the Money, of the ing Tiger Bucker, A Star man made an acquaintance today at breakfast. His mess-mate bore a “'slick’’ appearance, but with nothing unduly conspicuous about him till he ratsed his hands to the table. These were what attracted the re- porter. They were as delicate as those of the daughter of a Virginia Congressman, who sat at the next table. They were small, soft, white and rosy. They were nervous hands. Tne fingers almost twitch- ed when they came in contact with a for- eign substance. The nails were especially well kept, and the finger-tips were strange- ly pink. “What is it, and who is it?” mused the reporter, as he failed to identify stranger's calling. He was not an ordinary beau, for his collar was not of the latest cut, his scarf pin was not stuck ac- cording to the latest stick, and other- wise he seemed to have some intelli- gence. He was not a musician, be- cause the proper muscles of those girl- like hands were not developed. He was neither a literary mechanic, nor a news- paper man, nor even a journalist, because in writing his order he used a hard pencil and showed unfamiliarity with its use. He would run his thumb over those mys- as though feeling them. The mystification of the re- porter increased. Just then the unknown {took from his pocket a very small piece of | sai ipaper und began to file his nails. ything was clear now. The Star man Ev had met gentlemen of the same class at other tables. The reason of the sensitive- ness and pinkness of those tips was that they had been sand-papered. hots stranger a knight of the green Much sport last night,” rT, as though pa the re- he knew all about the pol man who sat opposite him. “No, pretty flat,” was the answer. “Perhaps luck ‘wasn’t your way,” per- sisted the news fiend. ‘Then the other uncoiled himself, crawled from out his shell, and spoke as follows: “IL once heard u very distinguished jour- nalist say that luck was day’s work. He was right. Luck has nothing to do with my business. It is not luck that makes the victor flush and the victim flat. A scien- tifie knowledge of the principles of the game is necessary, and it is also essential to be a first-class reader of human nature.” “Then why didn't you come out on the said the Star man. “I bucked the tiger and ran into the wrong kind of a box.” “What do you mean?” The Bank Wins. You see, even in a dead square “Faro. | game the chances are 13 per cent in favor of the bank, and if the box happens to be crooked, why the punter simply ain’t in it. Bankers use boxes from which the cards are dealt, because, as they say, to prevent ‘advantage’ cards being worked. But my | experience is, that the ‘croupiers’ around the board look out for this pretty thoroughly.” “Tell me,” said the scribe, “how a crook- ed box is made?” “A most popular box is one whose front part rises and fails in a groove, and can be taken plumb out. By an intricate maze of mechanism, by pressing the box in a particular part, the dealer can pass two cards through the mouth instead of one. The cards can be so prepared that they will adhere when pressed. There are various preparations of glass and resin to do this, but sandpaper is much used. The last gam- bling device patented was for a crooked brass faro box, and the model, I think, is in the patent office now. It was a little longer than the pack, and pressure on the top plate would spread the mouth enough to let two cards pass, thus increasing the chances for ‘doublets,’ which mean half the stakes for the bank, and also raise the bank's chances by ‘bunching’ the cards. Cards doctored in this way are what are called ‘strippers,” and about the only way to catch on to this sort of thievery is by ‘milking’ them, and even this won't work unless the cards are reversed. ‘Hollow’ and ‘round’ strippers are perhaps harder to de- j tect than when the cards have simply been shaved down. Aids for the Dealer. “Another box has an arrangement which is said to prevent the bettor seeing what card is coming, but which is really to en- able the dealer to serve the second card, if the top card, by its pin or glass marks, proves to be unfavorable to the bank. Jf the dealer has all the cards under seven spots pricked, all the bettor can hope for is a standoff, which means that i you stake your faith and cash on the ace and deuce, the dealer gets one aud you the other, Anothe: box has a spring attachment which | informs him whether the coming card is a hollow or a round one, and he thus knows whether it is over or below a seven spot. Then there is the crank box, Which gave the dealer power to deal the gecond or the top card just as he desired. There is also a device by which the dealer is informed whether a long or a short card is coming. There is also the ‘lever box,’ and scores of other splendid nanica! contrivances, but the leading principle of all is to inform the dealer what card is coming and to en- able him to either deal that or another.” By this time the reporter and his friend had established the most confidential rela- tious, and the scribe was thinking serivus- ly of resigning from work, buying a box and going into the money making business | which the gentleman in question had told him so much about. the | j AU Millinery. ‘The last shot at winter millinery, 23 Myrtle Green $1.00 Felt Hats, 50 French Felt ae 2 sha and shapes. Bt $5 and $3 Styushige ramned Hats, -|__ every one tncluded. Curtain De partment. ‘ottingham Lace wins. Tie. yd. Half pair of $6 ipestry Portieres, wr a fer couch covers or ae Maver eke sae Boe sold at such ridieuiously | the iunufactarer lost mised. Suificient to say, selling Head Rests at less you would have to pay for the materials in them, Fancy Head Rests... $1.68 to $2.48 Funcy Head Rests.T5e. each Don't sty that thiv ty exaggerated until you bave seen them. . Stamped Linen Sacri- fices. — quantities of each make small “Tamas ‘Tray Covers. Drawn Work S4-inch Scarfs. 72-inch Scarfs. 54-inch Momie Scarfs 72-inch Momie Scarfs. 72-inch Drawn Work Scarfs. . go-inch Linen, Hemet’ Squares... Hemstitched Tra; So-lnchHeastitebed and v8c, Hemstitched be Seideubui ‘Reimnants of c. wed aes Veilings. Rosebud Vellings. Muff. x band $3 Opossum aud Badger Muffs, $1.25 $7.50, $10 and $12, 1 each, Real pink. Beaver, $4 ca. iuuamon Bear Muffs. Notion Department. spice Paper, all color 5 bac in he. Black Tape. Odd Initials, 8 doz. in 25e. AlL-siIk Single Casing. l0e, Fancy Gilt Hairpins. ‘Laces and Embroidery, pases ise Point ee 1 Lace Searfs, bureau iength Suc. Lace Scarfs, Tidies. AU Popular Shopping Place, 416 SEVENTH STREET. Brimful of Great Red Ticket Values. Each one is an argument for itself--read: Popular Shopping Place, | 416 SEVENTH STREET. M? Men’s Goods. $1.25 White Wool weal Be. $2.25 Coloted Unde-wear- shi to 48; drawM@y-size 42 to 44...... $1 Laundered Pique Dress Shirts, |stze 16, 16% and 17. 2c.’ Silk Neckwear. Gloves. 10 prs. $1 4-but. Black Kid Gloves, 5%, 5%... a _25e. br. 12 prs. $1.25 but! ons stitched. $1.50 Dogskin Gauntlet Giov on Pigskin Gloves, gray and black. . H’d@’k’fs and Fichus. 85e. All-linen Emba. Hakts 2 $1.50 Black Cashmere mi bus. . $1.25 en Se. Black Cashi Umbrellas. — 4 $4 261m. Silk Umbrellas, fine handles. 2.50 8 $5.50 28-in. Silk Umbrellas, steel rods, $3.49 20-in. Gloria Umbrellas. “Cloaks, Suits, Tea Gowns, Shirt Waists. 3 9450 Ladies’ Black Diagonal Cloth | Jackets ..$1 6238 La Tab Wraps. sizes 36 6 $8 Black Cheviot Clo fox trimming, sizes 36 and 38 3 Ladies’ Black and Navy Cheviot Cloth Tallor-made Suits, fur ‘trimuming, ae (soiled) 98 sizew 14. 16 + $1.08 5 Figured Cashmere ‘Tea’ Gowns, with jain cashmere fronts, were . $1. King” Shirt Silks and Dress disoae: 6 pleces Se China Crepes, red, layender, nile. canary, old rose, 2 . Sdrab Silks, suiled edy ender, nile, green, pink. . ola ee $6 and 87 Bia. Ge . 7 to Sty yds tn eal patterns $i elty ood Ge Pluin Color Chaities, re Pieces Nile Green ts. 12%e Cloth Lege Glass Toweling 1” belt’ doacus of $1.25 “dozen kins ‘Biankets. — 4 $3.50 slighty solled Blankets 1 $11 fue 12-4 California Blauke! pd, E00 Mite 11-4 tare t “Cotton Underwear, In- fants’ Goods, Corsets. Gc. and Te. soiled Skirts, Gowns, Draw- « M? i SAW A SEA SERPEN It Was Eighty Feet Long and Looke:! Like a Big Eel. A well authenticated sea serpent story was related yesterday by Carlisie W. Davis of Leadenhall street, London, who has just arrived at Philadelphia. “I was a passenger on the steamship Umfuli, which left Southampton December 20, bound te Natal, South Africa. The ves- sel was brand new and belongs to Messrs. Bullard, King & Co. of London, She is commanded by Capt. Cringle, and beside myself there were about 150 other passen- gers, a few of them being British officers sent out to take the place of the killed and Gisabled in the Matabele war. We had a | very pleasant trip after getting clear of the Bay of Biscay. “On the morning after Christmas day, when about 300 miles north of Cape de Verde Isles, or, to speak more correctly, in latitude 23 north, loagitude 18 west, at about 5:30 p.m., the outlook shouted, ‘there's a wreck or something on the weather bow, sir!’ Chief Officer C. A. Pow- | ell, who was on the bridge, brought his | binoculars to bear on it, and, after a good | lcok, quietly ordered one of the boys to call | the captain, at the same time heading the steamer up toward the object. By this | time the decks were crowded, the news | having spread throughout the ship. “As we got nearer, the huge thing, which we at first mistook for a sick or wounded whale, raised its head out of water and) opened its mouth. Its head was like a! huge conger eel, the teeth were distinctly | seen and the white gums. The color of the | back of the neck was a dull greenish brown, | with white underneath. Suddenly the head dived down and the back came up, round, slimy and bigger than a rum puncheon. The creature had fins apparently about twenty feet apart, and its length was vari- ousiy estimated at from eighty to one hun- dred feet, measuring it by comparison with our twenty-foot quarter boats. “The thing kept a parallel course with the steamer, and, although we were going | seventeen knots, easily kept ahead of us. | Capt. Cringle ordered Mr. Powell to get lone of the six-pounders loaded. The gun | was loaded, aimed and fired, but the eleva- |tlon was a little too great and the shell | burst in the water about 200 yards on the | other side of the fish or snake or whatever lit was. Directly the shell exploded the ser- pent swerved and crossed our bows at a {tremendous rate, finally disappearing be- neath the surface. “Now, this is not a mere sailor's yarn, |but a Well-attested plece of scientific in- |tormation, Extracts from the Umfuli’s log \have been sent to the Royal Zoological Society of London, together with sketches |trom passengers which will appear in the | Tllustrated London News.” — cee Rushing Wheat Into Frances There have been immense imports of wheat at Havre, France, recently, in view of the proposed increase of duty. During the last week in January 672,432 sacks of Ameri- can wheat were landed there as compared with 50,000 dufing the first week and 20u,- uo during the following two Weeks of the same month. The chamber of commerce has entered an energetic protest against the increased tax on bonded grain, declaring that the large stocks usually bonded will disappear and the country will be lef. with- out resource in the event of war or an in- sufficient harvest. | House was ordered. H ANOTHER SILVER STRUGGLE. Bland W to Get His Silver Seigniornge Coinage Bill U; Another struggle over silver was com- menced in the House yesterday afternoon. | Immediately after the clearing away of the Hawatian matters Mr. Bland reported his/ silver coinage bill and moved that the | House go into committee of the whole for! its immediate consideration. Mr. Tracey (N. Y.) raised the question of consideration. Mr. Springer made the point of order that the question of consideration could not be raised. The Speaker sustained the point, explaining that the purpose of the opposition to considering the bill would be! subserved by voting against the motion to go into committee of the whole. The motion to go into committee of the whole was lost for lack of a quorum—160-7. Some of the eastern democrats joined the great bulk of the republicans and refused to} vote. On motion of Mr. Bland a call of the} ir. The call developed the presence of 245) members. Proceedings under the call were dispensed with and Mr. Coombs (N. Y.) moved to adjourn. This being defeated without division, the vote recurred upon Mr. Bland’s motion to go into committee of the whole, Roll call followed roll call in quick suc-| cession, each succeeding call developing the | fact that members were slipping away. But| at last Mr, Bland was successful in passing a resolution revoking all leaves of absence and instructing the sergeant-at-arms to take | into custody absent members and bring them to the bar of the House. In order to| make the resolution more effective, it w: made a continuing order until vacated by the House. Then, at 7 o'clock, the House adjourned. oe Printers’ Monument to Childs. i The movement to erect a monument to) George W. Childs in Philadelphia from) funds subscribed exclusively by union print- ers has already assumed tangible form. | | Representatives from unions in New York, Brooklyn, Washington, Baltimore and Wil- mington who were in Philadelphia Tuesday to attend the Childs funeral met that night with members of the Philadelphia union, and all expressed themselves as heartily in favor of the project. Offers of subscriptions , from outside parties have already been made, but it is the intention to make {t ex- clusively a tribute of union printers, and the Philadelphia members of the union feel confident that they will have no trouble in raising the necessary amount of money. President Chance of the Philadelphia union will appoint a committe2 to take charge of the matter in a few days and then active, work will be commenced. ooo Auction Sale of Silk Goods. ‘The largest auction sale of silk goods | ever held in New York city was begun yes- terday. ‘The dry goods trade of the country was strongly represented. The total amount realized from the sale was expected to ex- ceed $500,000. The goods offered were black, colored and fancy silks, of popular, medium and fine quality. The terms of the sale} were favorable to active buying and very | good prices were realized on almost every description of goods. The goods were sold on four months’ credit and were from the mills of Schuarzenbach Huber & Company | in Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland and | this country. ‘ SMELLS OF | THE STEERAGE That is the Oriticism Upon a Recent Sen- ate Bill. The Proposed Bill Will Make the Navy lore Top-Heavy Than It is Now. Senate bill “to increase the efficiency of the personnel of the navy,” which was in- troduced by Senator Hale, “by request,” is severely criticised by naval officers station- ed in this city. It is specially unsatisfac- tory to the staff and marine corps, and re- ceives caly lukewarm commendation from line officers. Naval officers are prohibited from discussing legislation, but they can not be prevented from talking with their friends on such subjects. A well-known res- ident of Washington, until very recently an officer of the navy, talked very freely on the subject with a Star reporter today on condition that his name should not be used. He said he voiced the sentiments of many officers still in the service. “The Hale bill,” he said, “is a beauty. If the various staff corps had combined their talents and devised a bill intended to ridi- cule the pretensions of the line they could not have invented anything so well calcu- lated to effect that object as is this same measure. It is iniprobable, however, that any staff officer imposed upon Mr. Hale to the extent of making him believe that the bill which he was ‘requested’ to introduce Was one of such vital importance to the welfare of the navy as to merit the pater- nal solicitude of the staff. On the contrary, the various provisions of the bill are so redolent of the logic of thé steerage that there can be no doubt that it is the product of the vealy mind of some very junior line officer; one who has escaped from the fine pasture iands where his kind feeds, and wandering forth into unknown fields is at- tracting attention to his lonely condition by bis piteous bleatings. The older heads of the flock will do well to entice him back with a pail of milk and put up the bars securely behind him. Rather a Reduction. “The proposal embodied in the bill to in- crease the Hne by about sixty is decidedly refreshing in the face of the well-known fact that the membership of the line is now at least twice us great as there is any earthly use of. There are now more than 700 line officers holding commissions in the navy and only thirty-one vessels in com- mission for sea service, making the average of about twenty-one officers to a ship; the average in the British navy is about four to a ship. Mr. Tracy, when Secretary of the Navy, in testifying before the naval com- mittees of Congress in regard to the practi- cability of transferring the revenue marine service to the Navy Department, said that even when all the new vessels are completed | it will be impossible to employ more than about 300, of the line officers on sea duty, and that the present number of them is more than enough to perform all possible duties in the navy, even if the entire fleet of revenue cutters is turned over to the naval authorities. Instead of clamoring for an increase in numbers, would show some respect for the efficiency of the service if they should ask for a re- duction of about 2vu in their plethoric ranks. Such a reduction would be directly in the line of both efficiency and economy and would serve to drive away the dreaded in- cubus of ‘congestion and paralysis’ in pro- motion that now haunts the halls of the Metropolitan Club and other posts of duty of our immaculate evaders of sea service. “Twenty rear admirals is a modest starter for this modest bill, and it would be highly, interesting to know just what employment | is to be found for these dignified and worthy persons. Of course, the ‘board of five ad- mirals’ elsewhere provided for in the bill to meet once a year in Washington will fur- nish pleasant duty for five of them, put what are the others to do? The United States army, with about 30,000 men, seems to do very well under the comman’? of nine general officers, but we are given to unuer- stand that the navy, with only about S.000 rants needs twenty officers of corresponding rank! This Real Modesty. “Then the demand for sixty-five captains is entirely free from any suspicion of diffi- dence. There are now forty-five captains, and, according to the official Navy Register, just ten of them are in command of crais- ing ships; ten others are without any em- ployment whatever and many of the re- mainter are performing shore duties that ‘would more befit the pay and position of a $1,200 clerk. Of eighty-five commanders now on the active list just thirteen are in command cf ships at sea; but what is the use of going inte this scheme any further? Using fact and con.non sense against chese proposals to create a horde of useless und unemploye-l swashbucklers to elbow each other avout Uncle Sams lunch counter is like using a musket to thwart the ambitions of a malevolent microbe and is simpiy a waste of energy. Su far as the purposes of the dill are concerned, it should be worded im the beginning lke this: “The active list Of tae line of the navy shall be comj of 1,4") rear adrurals, who shall be constartly employed in ° city of Washington at an annust salary of 314,000 each.” “When we come to the provisions of the bill regatding the various staff corps we bump up against real richness, and lots of it, but, as before remarked, there is no use to array facts and practical conditions against the utter silliness of some of these | paragraphs. After chopping away the lux- | uriant verbiage in which these provisions are clothed, it appears that the youth who produced them considers himself compe- tent to be a paymaster, engineer, or any- thing that comes along, including the sur- geons and chaplains, who are to be re- duced to make places in which line offi- cers may find employment. Not im the Line of Economy. “Especially sagacious is the scheme to abolish the marine corps and replace it with a like number of blue-jackets. The marine is by his training essentially the proper type of man-of-war'’s-man for the modern mastless warship and his pay is less than one-half that of the sailor; yet our young friend wishes to do away with the men already thcroughly trained for the modern conditions of service and to fill their places with raw and ignorant material that will cost twice as much! Indirectly this will hasten the naval cadet along on his y to be one of the twenty admirals, and as such the scheme is such a pure ex. ample of steerage logic that one can almost detect about it the odor of bed clothes, fried eggs, sea boots and beer. It will be a re- lief to the people of Washington to know that the Marine Band is to be saved from | the wreck of the marine corps and that it ‘is to be ‘reorganized.’ Such reorganization jis manifestly necessary, for the band now | necessarily | would be obviously improper after the ma- plays marine music, which rines have become extinct, and line-officer music would then be wanted. “The apprentice boys will be glad to hear that no more warrant officers are to be ap- pointed in the navy, but they are begin- ning to get friends enough to take care | of their interests well enough to prevent is. “The whcele sum and substance of the business is just this: The change in the type of warship has thrown the line offi- cers out of a job and they are making a desperate effort to get something to do by forcing out of the service the people who lactually do the work—the engineers who know how to run the modern ships and the marines who know how to fight them.” > a lowa Congratulates Haw: In the Iowa legislature yesterday Senator Perrin introduced a joint resolutioa con- gratulating Hawaii on the first anniversa of its independence and directing the same to be forwarded to President Dole by Gov. Jackson. I the hair is falling out and turning gray, the glands of the skin need atimulating and food, nd the best remedy and stimulant is Hall's Hair Kenewer. ee HE WAS LICKED, But He Didn't Find It Out Until He Nearly Finished Montana Jim. There Was Lots of Go in a Bear That Had the Top of Its Head Shot on. “You see that bear hide?” remarked Col. Jim Struthers, otherwise “Montana Jim,” to The Star man last night at the National. The reporter saw it. Col. Jim was ina reve- rie. In a musing sort of way he was stroking that fur backward and forward with his foot, and seemed once more to be living in the home of the setting sun. There was Something so impressive in Jim’s manner when he said “You see that bear hide” that the reporter sicklied his face with the pale cast of thought, touched the skin with awe and arranged his feelings so that they would be in full sympathy with those of the colonel. Then Jim said: “Well, sir, the spirit, the grit, the courage and the get-thereness that once upon a time animated that bear robe came within an ace of widowing my wife, orphaning my kids and making broth- erless a host of my promissory sisters. Yes, sir; that is the fur of a cinnamon bear. That bear a whole menagarie in one act. As a rule cinnamon bear ain't much f00d except for circus purposes and steaks, but, as the poet says, there are exceptions to all rules, and that bear was the most exceptional exception that ever got unmuz- jzled. He was &n all-around athlete. He could run like a streak of Blue Line light- ning when the plug puller hits her hard and makes*his machine chew cinders; his blow was very much more deadly than any Brazilian warlet; he could swim like Le- ander when Hero was on the other side of the creek, and that bear could use up more cartridges with less wear and tear to his constitution than any pensioner on the rolls. Didn't Knew He Was Licked. “When he got into a controversy he didn’t know how to quit any more than the usual after-dinner Cicero. His voice wasn’t tuned to cry “enough.” I got into a dispute once with that bear, and it required the heav- jest Springtield arguments J could fire off to make him admit the superiority of him who was alleged to have dominion over the beasts of the field. I'll tell you how it was. Last summer I was fishing on Koote- nay lake, in British Columbia. I got tired of this. “The fishing was all right, but there was nobody around to listen to the stories. I had a brother at Couer d’Aiene military reservation in idaho, and I stakes with the intention of visiting him. I follow- ed the Kootenay river in a southerly direc- tion Ull I crossed over into the land of the free. I halted at the town of Hope, on Lake Pena d’Oreiile, ferried Clarke's Fork and struck into Cover d'Alene mountains. It | Was about noontide, and it was one of those soft, still days that occur more fre- quently in the pages of a novel than the pages of the weather map. The led through a jungle of blueberry bu: and ragged quarries gray, lichen-covered Vowlders. Tall pine timber grew at ‘nter- vals, About the only sound of the world that threw up any sound waves was the grinding and twisting clatter of my pony's hoofs. 1 reached the brink of a mountain stream that had been swollen into @ tor- rent by late rains, and I thought it best to camp until some dove should announce that the raging waters would be calin than to attempt to swim it and get jammed by dead trees and branches that were whirl- ing along. The Pony W: Alarmed. “I was preparing lunch when the pony be- gan to act curiously, He pawed the ground, raised his head in a frightened manner, snorted and did other things which horses usually do when they know that breakers are ahead. 1 followed the line of the pony’s Saze, but couldn't see anything but blue- berry bushes. I noticed one sway and felt that an Indian was lurking there. I brought the hammer of my gun up and formed in line of battle, but the bush continued to sway and I could see nothing. At last I felt sure that I could see part of a brown ob- ject, and I fired at it. It was the — house end of a bear that I had shot. eating the berries from that bush and I had interrupted his meal. “Bruin wheeled round, came out into the trail on the other side of the torrent end surveyed me. Bang! I hit him again, but it wasn’t my day to shoot,and the pellet forward of the shoulder, instead of ingrati- ating itself in the seat of his affections. That shot was enough for him. He snapped at the wound and spoke a — Then, jocating me as the cause of ef- fect, he proceeded to remove the cause. Un- ward he came down the steep decline to the | water's edge. The Springfield erupted and made one more hole in the bear. He was mad. He plunged into the stream, and, keeping his small, wicked-looking eyes bent on me, swam with a whole-souled desire to get there. His head was the only thing in sight and this was my target. I shot at it, struck him between the eyes and lifted the top of his head off so that the water which he was splashing with his paws washed into = skull and mingled with the biood and ins, A Determined Effort. “But he didn’t halt. He landed on my side | of the creek and waltzed along the trail. He was a hideous object, with the Toof of his head gone and strings of brain dangling around his face. Another shot took effect in the body. He was within ten feet of me. He raised on his trailers and came at me. One more shot. I felt his hot, panting breath.- My gun was knocked from me. I was in the embrace of the bear. His hug. Was terrific and I felt my skeleton giving way. “My whole life passed in review. If I had known a prayer I would have prayed St, but my memory is bad on such matters and I did not have my manuscript. I tried to get out my knife, but I felt that I was failing. I lost consciousness. When I returned from catalepsy the bear was dead beside me. He had expired from his wounds just as he was about to finish me. He had taken two balls in the heart, his brain had been almost blown out of his skull pan and yet he dis- armed me and almost killed me before he ir, that bear hide you see there > nee Convention. opening session of the Nation- al Farmers’ Alliance at Topeka, Kan. was | an open one. About 300 were in the audi- ence. J. W. McDowell, editor of the Nash- ville, Tens Toiler, made an address, say- ing that Grover Cleveland and the John Sherman combination were making more votes for the people's party than all the campaign orators and the newspapers com- d. He said that in the south they aver age 5,000 votes to the state, while the north- ern populists had not yet brought the aver- age up to two-thirds of that number. ascot aoesnerss Auain the Yorktown Stuck. Another unsuccessful attempt to launch the steamer Yorktown at Chester was made yesterday afternoon. The vessel moved only about five feet, and it was found nec- |essary to postpone further efforts until | Sunday. The ways will be removed and new tallow will be used, when it is believed that no further trouble will be experienced. — ig Cocking Main in Ohio. The biggest cock fight that has taken | place in years occurred in an old distillery just south of Chillicothe, Ohio, Tuesday night. Five hundred spectators wer> pres- ent and more than 100 birds were shown. Out of twenty-two pittings Chillicothe won eight, with Circieville « good second. Three thousand dollars was lost in panes and fully $5,000 changed bands.