Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1894, Page 7

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1894—TEN PAGES. 7 WOODWARD LOTHROP, TD. 11TH AND F STS. N. W. BUSINESS HOURS—8 A. M. TO 6 P. M. Eten New. SKIRT SUPPORTING HOOKS FOR FASTENING SKIRT TO THE WAIST BLACK AND WHITE. 1th st. bidg.) age A Preliminary Opening or Dress Stuffs Was begun today—will he continued balance of week. Foreign and domestic fabrics—solid, sub- stantial, handsome things! Stuffs and styles just &s you'd choose them. Some of the prettiest fab- ries that ever crossed the ocean. Many of the new fall importations open—otbers coming daily, Con- tinued talk of Dress Goods may weary you, but ‘the stuffs can only refresh and please. See them for yourself. Gst oor. Outfits School * : Children. Next Mouday ‘morning, September seventeenth, @chool opens. Are the youngyters outfitted? Searce- fy a boy or girl after a summer's vacation but aeeds some items of Wearing apparel to complete their. wardrobes. We keep a full line of every requisite and call particular attention to the foi- lowing items, which we believe represent better values than can usually be found. Boys’ School Clothing. ‘New, substantial, serviceable garments selected ‘with care and priced lower than at any previous season. An opening special is 1,000 Pairs Boys’ Knee Pants At 48C. Pr. Double seat, double knees, clastic waist band, Fiveted buttons, linen sewed throughout and war ranted against ripping. Made of the strongest Gnion cheviot, in ten very neat patterns. Three Bargains in Combination Suits. A coat and two pairs shapely pants. Pants have Goubte seat and Knees and clastic waist band. New fall weights. Choice-patterns. Warranted to wear with ut a break. Note the prices for these suits. Lot 1 (Coat and 2 pairs Pants) $2.95 Lot 2 (Coat and 2 pairs Punts).. $3.95 Lot 3 (Coat and 2 pairs Pants)........ $5.00 ‘There ave just two huudred of these Combination Suits, and at the remarkably low prices they ought to be quickly distributed, BOYS’ UNDERWEAR, SHOFS, Shirt Waists and Shirts, Collars and Cuffs, Neckwear, Handkerchiefs and all kinds of Furnishings. School Hosiery For Boys, Misses and Chil- dren. Special Display and Sale ‘TOMORROW AND BALANCE OF WEEK. Part of our importation orders are here, = good assortment of the several kinds, apd more coming dally. They are the same reliable goods for which We bave long been noted. Black as Black can be and warranted to stay black, too. They don't fade and they don’t stain the feet. ‘They are as near Perfection as binck’ liosiery ever gets to be. The Prices are less than last year’s. Boys’ Fast Black Ironciad Hose, double Kuees, heels and toes. Sizes 7 to 10, Pair ... 25C. ribbed Light- ‘Weight Hose, double knees, toes and heels. i _ 3% 8 oy 7 26c 28c 3oc 32c 34c ™% 8 &% 9 9% (36c 38c ‘40C 42C 44C Children’s Fast Black 1-1 Ribbed Light-weight Hose, double knees, toes and heels. ee ee a es 25¢ 25C 25¢ 25¢ 25¢ Sixes... 3% B7C- » 29C. Children’s Fast Black 1-1 Ribbed Medium-weight Hose, double knees, toes and heels. Blnes... e ee 7 _™* ee 25C 25C 25¢ 25C¢ 25¢ ee ee ee 27c 29C 3IC Children’s Fast Black 1-1 and 7-1 Ribbed Medium- Weight Hose, double knees, toes and heels. Sizes... 6 oe 7 ™% 8 32c 34¢ 36c 38c 40c Sizes... Sy 9 »w - % 42c 44¢ 48¢ §2¢ Children’s Fast Black 1-1 and 7-1 Ribbed Weight Hose, double k = jose, doub Pong 5 ‘e Sir ae Lge: and aa - 40C 42€ 44¢ 46c 48c hee os % 10 10% 50c §2¢ §4c 56c 58c Children’s Fast Black 1-1 Ribbed Medium-weight Glose, double knees, toes and heels. ee 2 ae ar 42€ 44€ 46c 48c 50c Bizes... sy 9 Dy 10 10g §2c §6c 6oc 64c 68c Knee Protectors in leather and Jersey cloth, 25c. and 35c. pr. st floor. Girls’ School Wraps. We place on sale tomorrow three lots of Jackets fad Reefers, suitable for school wear, at specially Attractive prices. All-wool Mixed Cheviot Reefers, plain and braid trimmed. Several styles. S es 4 to 14 years. Each. $3.00 ol Navy Blne oth © collars, deep cuffs, neatly braid. ith Mixed and de and finished. All-wool Cloth Jackets, Very jaunty styles. Sizes 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 years. Each “$5.00 Gd floor < 11th st. bldg.) Windsor Ties For School Wear. We are mw shewing a complete line in all of the latest plaids, stripes, checks and small effects, combining the ne Night and dark colorings. 33 tnches long and 6 inches wi A special lot (25 dozen) All-sitk Wit sors, in yellow, pink, white, heliotrope and plaid effects. 2 for 2c. Bact . 5c. st floor. . 2a anaes.) Woodward & Lothrop, 10TH. 11TH AND F STS. N.W C.B.Corsets, $1 ‘Tomorrow we place on doz. Extra Long Waist “C. B. rag Ta mache aaa t $1 ¢ goon . and exclusive Cor- wet’ Srore in “Washington, ‘and ccce Srey pair suarent aatisfac- Whelan’s, 1003 164 ADJOINING THE BOSTON Hi tees eee eres 3 F, CNEL New, Artistic Furniture Cheaper Than Old. We Want You To See _Our New Goods And Compare the Prices’ We believe we abow the best line of Chamber Suites to the elty, beginning at $13.50 worth $20.00. $17.50 worth $25.00. $22.50 worth $35.00. $28.00 worth $45.00. Curly Birch Suites a specialty. AND 80 ON UP. Parlor Suites at— $28.15 worth $38.00. $48.50 worth $75.00. AND SO ON UP. Sideboards at— $7.50 worth $12.00, $10.50 worth $15.00. $25.00 worth $40.00. AND SO ON UP. China Closets— $14.50 worth $20.00, $30.00 worth $45.00. $33.50 worth $50.00. AND SO ON UP, $5.00 worth $7.50. $5.00 worth $11.00. $19.00 worth §27.00. See Those Specials— Clothes Poles, @c., worth $1.50 : Corner Chairs, $3.35, worth $0. Special Upholstered Rockers, $1.95, worth $3.50. ‘Special Rattan Rockers, $1.95, worth $83.50. 3-fold Screens, mounted in Japanese crepe and silkaline, for $1.05, worth $2.75. Cotton Derby Damask Curtains, never shown before, at $5.75. Pair Imitations of Satin Derby that sell for $20. 10 pieces New Colorings and Pattoxns &! 10c. per yard. 24 pairs Irish Point Laces. Regular price, $5. Special, $3.25. Craig & Harding, = Cor. 13th and F Sts. CARPETS Made and Laid Free of Cast. No charge for waste in matching figures. A Proposition like this is a BUSINESS BRINGER— it is a more liberal offer than bas ever been made by any other furniture or carpet house in Wash- ington. Our Kind of CREDIT Is Free, And our credit prices are just a3 low—and in meny Instances LOWEI ‘lan the cash prices in other stores. We don’t ask you to sign a, note— or to pay any interest—just mak» us a PROMISE to pay—AND STICK TO IY. A little money weekly or monthly makes the furnishius of your hease an essy “aatter. Our new fall stock is here—READY for you. We never allow ourselves to run out of those PLUSH OR EAIRCLOTH PARLOR SUITES— CHOICE, $22.50. SOLID OAK BED ROOM SUITE, $13. SPLENDID BRUSSELS CARPET,50c. PER YARD. RELIABLE INGRAIN CARPET, Sic. PER YARD. MADE AND LAID FEEZ OF : SOLID OAK EXTENSION TABLE, $3.50. 40 POUND HAIR MATTRESS, $7. wov!l WIRE SPRINGS, $1.75. YOURS FOR A PROMISE"TD PAY, GROGANS — MAMMOTH GREDIT HOUSE, 819-821-823 7th Street Northwest, Between H and U Streets. sell $1.10. ; $1.10 Grain Leather » and what we had are nearly ail’ sold. Better get one now, for they're $1.50 elsewhere— and '$1.75 at some stores, A Case will hole more. th ‘lub Hag, and you can get them as low as G5c. for .. @ 16-In. one. £7 Drop a postal—we'll call for your old trank and repair It at lowest. prices. Kneessi, 425 7th St. SLPHOOPSOSSO Py A oP ty > a ani a ‘Club i Bags, AA5AS0024E4O4S65090056005 At Ramsay’s yom rFratch cleaned for $1; watch mainspring, a frankly that we our work warranted for one year. 1224 fe we can get another F at. aw. Mothers Who Have Seen Them Say WE HAVE THE BEST $4.00 CHILD'S SUIT THEY EVER HEARD OF. WHEN A WOMAN SAYS THE MATERIALS—THE FIT—THE TRIM- .| MINGS—THE FINISH—AND THE GENERAL AP- PEARANCE I8 LIKE THE $5.00 SUITS ELSE- WHERE-YOU CAN BET THERE'S “SOMETHING IN IT’—'CAUSE IF ANY ONE UNDERSTANDS BOYS’ CLOTHES IT'S WOMEN. ABOUT 20 DIFFERENT —NBAT--SERVICEABLE—-DIRT-HID- ING PATTERNS IN THIS GRADE-AND EVERY Here's @ garment we're using for o trade attracter—and selling profitiess— & “combination” sutt of excellent wear- ing cheviot—with extra pants and yacht cap to match—at $3.50 for the whole. WHRE OUT “SCHOOL SHOPPING” THIS WEEK TAKE A “PEEP’’—AND. SEE HOW NEAR TUE COST LINE WE SELL BOYS’ CLOTHES. MAN BROS. , Seventh and E. 100, YOUMAN’S NEW- YORK FALL STYLE HATS NOW READY. OTHER GRADES AND STYLES AT $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3 AND $e. JAMES Y. DAVIS’ SONS, 1201 Pennsylvania Ave. 'Por Outside ‘Lighting the Siemens-Limgren Gas Lamp ts certainly ‘the best. © Best because the light is eheaper than electricity and because It Rives a steadier and & more brilliant light. Rented or i Sted Gas Appliance Exchange, 1428 N. Y. Ave. : 4 : Py AT THIN, DRINK OBESITY FRUIT SALT. In a recent article published in the" Boston Globe, Dr. Wm. if. Holi Mi ts 1 pital, writen: £ so "Dr. Elison's: Obesity itis and the Obesity Salt the next, and obtain ex- cellent results. I am losing a a day, almost 7% i beers bag it fem red to found them for old and young. summer complaints. ° Surgeon John H. Lincoin, Cunard Line, ‘writes: “Tecan Mt Dr. Edison's Obesity Pills [have teduced my welgut OS pounds in. 25 weekst ve my weigh weeks, ‘The Fruit Salt is the hest summer drink J ever Used. Everybody ases your Fruit Salt.” oy MISS GOLET, NEWPORT, R. 1., WRITES: My physician, Dr, Barstow,5th avenue, prescribed your Obesity Pills ‘and Obesity Fruit Salt for cor- puleney. T have lost ninetecn pounds In twenty-four days on one bottle of pills and half a battle of Fruit Sait. I do not suffer any more from the heat while using the salt. [t is sweet and delictous, and lowers the temperatare of the body, Ieee everybody using the Fruit Salt ax a drink, I wish Fou had introduced it seoner. Our goods may be obtained from G. G. C. SIPirs, Cor, New York ave. and {4th st.. MERTZ’S MODERN PHARMACY, Cor. 11th and F sts., Keep a full line Obesity Bands, Pills and Fruit Salt in stock. Sent by mail on receipt of price, The Bands cost $2.50 up; the Frult Salt $1 per bottle, and Pills $1.50 per bottle, or 3 bottles for $4. Ada: ress LOKING & CO., 42 West 22d st., Department No, 4, New York, or 22 Hamilton piace, Department No. 4, Boston. se7-1m, SOSSSOSEOFIOOOSESOCSOCOOS90 Autumn and Fall} StylesofFootgear? are now being called for, and we are 3 ready for you. Below ere a few of our prices for Ladies’ Shoes, viz. 32.35 for which others will charge $3.00. $2.65 for whieh cthers will charge $3.50. $3.00 for which others will charge $4.00. $3.50 for which others will charge $5.00. We are not through with Oxfords yet. Have a good showing of Russias and Ressets—sizes small, however. The prices are 69 cents for a $2.00 line, 88 cents for a $2.50 line in blsck and $1.29 for a $2.50 line of Russets. The Warren Shoe House, au2l GEO. W. RICH, 919 F ST. LOLEDES OOOO DSOOGI OOOO OOO8 109903 90560000000005 . T. WALKER SONS, 204 10TH ST. N.W., CAR- toe Lining, Felts, Fire Brick and Clay; Asbestos, Paints, Brushes, Liwe, Cement; two and three- ply Roofing Material sel Negroes Drending the Last Day. A special dispatch to The Star from Richmord, Va., dated September 11, says: The negroes in a southwestern annex of Richmond called Fulton are tn a high state of excitement over the prediction of a ne- gro prophetess, who declares that she is authorized to announce that the world will come to an end next Saturday at noon. She ts going about from house to house ad- monishing all of her race to prepare, IN THE BUGKEYE DISTRICTS Bellamy Storer Said to Be in the Senatorial Race, 3 Coxey Not Rugning the Sensational Campaign He Promised—Tom a it Fight. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 11, 1894. A political story that comes from Cin- cinnati and finds some credence here has it that Gongressman Bellamy Storer is in the race for the United States senatorship to succeed Senator Brice. It is generally conceded that the sena- torial race, if there is one on the republican side next year, will be between Foraker and McKinley. A dispatch from Massillon states that J. S. Coaey, the original commonwealer, is having some difficulty in opening the pecu- Mar kind of congressional campaign he announced his intention to conduct a month ago. Coxey’s resources have be- come so far reduced that he is not able to eupply the horseg necessary to draw his wagons, and the farmers who promised to furnish them for the sake of the cause find that they need all their horses now to do the fall plowing. In the primary elections to select dele- gates to the democratic state convention, now being held over the state, the Camp- bell men seem to be generally winning victories where there ls a square fight be- tween the Campbell and Brice forces. With the near approach of the demo- cratic state convention a number of can- didates for the nominations are announced. Two new men have come out for the nomination for member of the state board of public works. These are Eli M. Tissan- der of Brown county and John Moore of Monroe county. Tissander has just retired from the office of treasurer of his county, and Moore represents his county at present in the general assembly. For secretary of state the names of three men are men- tioned. These are John W. Washburne of Pike county, Marion F. McIntire of Hamilton county and State Senator W. C. Gear of Wyandot county. For the nomination for supreme judge but one name ‘has been mentioned so far. That is A.D. Marsh of Mercer county, He was once the speaker of the Ohio house of representatives. For the other place on the ticket, commissioner of common schools, two names are mentioned—John W. Knott of Mansfield and John Laycock of Cincinnati. They are both teachers. The democrats of the twentieth district have Ied off in the policy that it was’ pre- dicted they would adopt in The Star last month in all the hopelessly republican districts by indorsing the populist candi- date—Mr. rrington. This is the only way the defeat of Mr. Beach, the republi- can candidate, be accomplished. It leaves the district in doubt. 3 Tom Johnson in the twenty-first district {s in an open fight with the democratic organ, the Cleveland Plaindealer. The Plaindealer has opposed its party on so many questions for the last four years that it is easy for Johnson to get meetings to Aenounce and repudiate the Plaindealer. It is the general opinion that Johnson will be returned to Tess. Mr. Outhwaite is secre} bP ao cere paign. His o; ex-Attorney Gen- eral D. K. Watabn tor this city, a young man of considerable ability and some means. The Evi Dispatch, independ- ent is using against Mr. Outhwaite the order of the War Department making changes in the ‘ahdine of the military post here. It clatmis that this change. which will not only Feduce the standing of the post, but the amount of money ex- pended by the government here, was made with Mr, Outhwattée’s consent, he being chairman of the military affairs commit- tee of the Hous¢. ) ‘Mr. Outhwaitel & being fought by two badly disappointed office seekers, John L. ‘Tranger and’ J. \B){K. Connelly. Tranger wanted to be fostMaster here and Mr. Outhwafte recompterided another. Connelly Was Ohig agricultural statisti- clan under Mr, Cleveland's first adminis- tration and wanted the appointment again under his second, but Mr. Outhwaite “| thought better to pass the offices around and declined to recommend him. —_~—. ‘ TROLLEY WIRE VICTIMS, ‘A Horse Killed, Two Men Shocked + and a Woman Fatally Hurt. A trolley wire in Long Island City last Sunday night, says the New York Herald, killed a horse and so severely burred and shocked Mrs. John G. Woerner of that city that she is not expected to live. John G. Woerner is the contractor who removes all the dead animals from Long Island City. He was married only sbout two weeks ago. Last Sunday his brother- in-law, John Weiss, accompanied by his wife and daughter, came from Maspeth to visit the Woerners at their home in the Steinway section of the city. It was late when they got ready to return, and being dark, they were afraid of missing the road. Woerner and his wife decided to accompany them part of the way, and started out in the lead in a two-wheeled dogcart. At about the corner of Steinway and Vandeventer avenues a trolley wire on the overhead line of the Steinway road was sud- denly burned out,and,breaking apart,one end of the wire dangled down. ‘rhe end struck the horse driven by Woerner in the chest, and the curzent, passing into the animal's body, had o completion of the circuit through the shoes on the horse's hoofs rest- ing on the iron rails. The animal was instantly killed, and a meteoric display that lighted up the neigh- borhood followed the electric flashes playing around the wagon, dead horse and occu- pants. Woerner sprang from the wagon and selzed the prostrate animal by the head, ng a shock that staggered him. Mrs. Wo-rner, in attempting to get out of the cart, in some way got hold of one of the metal trimmings, and her hand was severe- ly burned and she was rendered almost un- conscious by the shock. Weiss, who was following in the other wagon, ran to the scene, and, like Woerner, attempted to as- sist the ‘sorse, and was shocked and badly burned about the hands. Mrs, Woerner was attended by a physi- clan, and her condition since then has be- come dangerous, ,Both Mr. Woerner and Mr. Weiss were confined to the house for a day afterward from the shock. soe COMPLAINT OF A SEWER. Senator Pugh Thinks There Should Be an Automatic FI 5 Senator Pugh haa written to the Com- missioners callid@ attention to a matter which, in his opinion, should receive im- mediate attention: He states that on R street northwest .ther2 is a sewer which runs along on both sides of R street, going eastward; that there is no way for this sewer on the north side to be flushed, and there are about threc houses on that side of the street near the head of this sewer, and as a result there is not sufficient water from these houses to flush and keep this sewer in running ofder. Concluding, he says: “Recently I have had to clean out the drain pipe from: my residence into the sewer on account’ the same having be- come completely stépped up, and I believe it is due to the condition of this sewer. Ane I think it “will greatly improve this sewer ig-there is placed in at its head an automatic flush, and in this way it will al- ways be cleanly gnd all the matter that enters will be carried off. There is not even an opening from the street into the sewer until you reach 18th street and, of course, the accumulation from the houses on the block between 13th and 14th streets remains in the sewer,as I do not think there is sufficient water from the houses at the head to drain off the matter that empties into it. The residents of the block have spoken to me about this matter and hence I write to you in reference to It.” His letter has been referred to the engi- neer deparment. —_.-— Sons of Jonadab. Sovereign Coincil of the Sons of Jona- dab will begin its twenty-second annual session on Thursday next at 419 10th street northwest. The session will last several days and a large number of representatives from Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and the District of Columbia @re expect- ed to attend. IN HOTEL CORRIDORS “The cuit recently brovght by the lave Steele Mackaye’s son Arthur to recover $50,000 damages from his former best friend, Paul Latake, for alienating the af- fections of his wife, reminds me of the young man’s first matriage,” said 8. C. Wad? of New York at Willard’s this morn- ing. “There was enough peculiar romance in that to have equipved a dramatist for @ first-class melodrema. When Maud, the daughter of Joaquin Miller, the poet, was at convent in Montreal she used to stay at |” Steele Mackaye’s house on her vacations in New York. One day, during one of these trips, she and Arthur ran off and got mar- ried. Arthur was a Protestant, and Maud found out that he had not been baptized. She was apparently terribly wrought up in @ religious way. She did not think so much of brooking parental displeasure by an elopement, or the fact that her lover was 2 Protestant, but the fact that he was still clothed in original sin dismayed her. She called on the Catholic monsignor, Pres- ton, and asked him if a marriage with an unkaptized person was valid, and that dig- nitary said it was not, whereupon Maud packed up bag and baggage and left Mack- aye forwith, afterwards marrying Loudon McCormick, the Chicago theatrical man, without the formality of a divorce. In 1580 McCormick deserted her, and the same year Mackaye married his present wife, whose affections, he now claims, were won by his former chum and associate. If I wasn’t engaged in the patent medicine business I — I'd weave that plot into a play my- “I don’t believe I am more nervous than most people,” said Samuel R. Beardsley of Cincinnati at the Ebbitt yesterday, “but during the two weeks I have been here the newsboys have kept me in hot water all the time. I have been compelled to use the cable cars a great deal in going to and from the Capitol, and no matter what time of day I go on a car it is sure to be board- ed by anywhere from six to thirty news- boys between the corner below here and the Cepitol. They jump on a car going down, and continue with it until another comes in the opposite direction, when off they dart, sometimes almost under the approaching car as they whirl about to get on it in turn. This continual defiance. of Providence ts almost criminal, and it seems to me that the authorities of both the city and the road should prevent such a thing. Then there is another habit the newsboys indulge in that is a positive nui- sance, and they all follow it. A boy gets on the front of the open car and calls his papers at. the top of his voice. Every cre on the car except a deaf person can hear him, but he don’t realize this, so he comes back slowly along the footboard and repeats his shrill yell at every seat. I have heard so many Washingtonians complain of this while on the cars that I am surprised that the evil has not been remedied long ago. “Americans appear to be a nation of dyspeptics, and I do not think one has to cok far to discover the reason,” said Dr. L. R, Colweth of Manchester, England, at the Riggs House on Saturday. “It is very evident to my mind that the almost uni- versal prevalence of the complaint over here is due to the system of living pursued, so far as partaking of food is regarded. Americans eat three meals a day, and those three are usually embraced in a period of not over ten hours, as an 8 o'clock break- fast and a 6 o'clock dinner appear to he the general rule. Consequently from the last meal of one day to the first one of the next something like thirteen or fourteen heurs elapse. The juices of the stomach do not require.more than veven hours to dis- solve the most obdurate sort of food, and four hours is usually sufficient for them to ccmplete the digestion of an meal. Therefore, with a G o'clock dinner the juices are through by, say, 11 o'clock, so for nine hours they have nothing to do. Such a long period of inertia has a tendency to Stagnate the stomach and lead to the generation of deleterious gases. Into such a stomach a hot breakfast is rapidly thrown without the slightest smoothing of the way, and the juices are called upon to do violent work without warning or prep- aration. The result is ui ed matter that becomes soured by the action of the gastric gases, and dys; is the in- evitable result. We English folk are looked pon as gormandizers because we eat five meals a day, but dyspepsia is not preva- lent with us, save among the very high livers, and we are a hearty race. Our habit of eating a hearty supper late at night is, I believe, the chief reason for our freedom from chronic stomach ints and dis- eases. If Americans would only eat at more frequent intervals during the day and try to arrange the time in something like equal division between meals the national atiment would decrease at a rapid rate, I am sure.” “That the race is not always to the swift is well exemplified in bicycle races,” said Walter Gregg, who was once a fast wheelmun, at Wormley’s Saturday. “The character of the first and second prizes of- fered in various events—I am speaking of amateur affairs—more often controls the result than the respective skill of those who win them. I remember very well when the craze for bicycling first struck Illinois and I became afflicted with it. Prince, wao was at that time professional champion of this country, inspired me to fast riding by bis performances, and after a few mouths’ practice I became enough of a sprinter to try conclusions at amateur meets through- out the state. Machines had big wheels in front in those days and I rode a fifty-two- inch. At €very meet I met a man named ‘Schenck who could beat me all to but who invariably rode second, letting me win. The first prize was invariably a bicy- cle and the second a diamond pin or ring. One day I asked Schenck why he persisted in being so kind to me by allowing me to beat him every time. “ “My boy,’ he replied, ‘T'll tell you a thing cr two. Those bicycles given as first prizes are very nice machines, but they are worth nothing to me. I couldn't sell one without being classed as a professional, and I have no use for ‘em. Then they'd wear out or get out of style anyhow. The second prizes are diamonds, my lad, and a diamond never loses in value if you live a million years. So as you and I are the only two riders who have any chance in this year’s races out here, I'll get the precious stones and less honor and you'll get the wheels and the rels.’ Bicycle riders are not the enly aspirants for moral and substantial tonors who pursue a similar course, and there are as many tricks in the amateur ranks, I believe, as there are among the professionals.” A passing drum major inspired Henry White of Schenectady to reminiscence at the Ebbitt House yesterday. “That fellow is pretty agile,” said Mr. White, “but there was a lad up in Buffalo a couple of years ago who was the most remarkable tndivid- ual that ever walked ahead of a band. The occasion Was a procession of the Hibernians and there was a band in line from Elmira. It possessed and gloried in the drum major I speak of. The man was simply a marvel. He would send his baton sailing high in the air and revolving like an electric fan, and while it was soaring above him he would turn back handsprings, perform any number of athletic tumbling feats, being always ready when the staff came down to catch it and send it dexter- ously aloft again. For a month after that parade all the boys in Buffalo were hurling broomsticks up in the air and falling all over themselves trying to emulate the wen- derful man frcm Elmira.” “We are commencing to feed our wheat to our hogs,” sald Albert Price, a Minne- sota facmer, at the National last gight. “It was a question with us at first whether the porkers would thrive on a steady diet of wheat, but it has been satisfactorily an- swered. It is the only way a farmer out in my country can get rid of his wheat at anything like a remunerative price for raising it, The quotations in the Chicago mark=ts don’t mean the price the man who raises it receives. When I left home, two weeks ago, wheat was 37 cents a bushel. It costs on an average about $9 an acre to raise wheat from planting to threshing, and at the price that now prevails you can easily calculate that a crop would have to average something over twenty-four bush- els to the acre to even pay Its cost. It ts an excelleat thing to know that hogs will thrive and fatten on wheat, because the grain devoted to this purpose will represent, when the hogs are marketed, anywhere from 75 cents to $1.25 a bushel. Conse- quently those of us out ip Minnesota who have hogs are not as unhappy as we were over the low orice of wheat.” somersaults and’! os THE WORLD OF SOCIETY A Brilliant Ball at the Capital of Mexico. Minister and Mrs. Gray Have Wel- comed the Oficial World of Our Sister Republic—Personals. The official, diplomatic and social world of the City of Mexico met at the United States legation as the guests of Minister and Mrs. Isaac P. Gray on the evening of August 30, and were charmingly enter- tained at one of the largest balls of the season. Nothing more elaborate has been attempted by the American representatives since the grand entertainment in honor of Gen. and Mrs. Grant, of which Mr. and Mrs. John W. Foster were host and hostess. in 1880. The star spangled baaner decked the legation from threshold to roof on the front, ani was equally conspicuous inside its hospitable doors. Portraits of Presi- dent and Mrs. Cleveland and of President ing character. Mrs. Gray was assisted in receiving the hundreds of guests by Miss Voss of Indianapolis. The arrival of Presi- dent and Mrs. Diaz was a brilliant moment the occasion of great ceremony. In the quadrille of honor, with which the ball was opened, the Mexican president danced with Mrs, Gray and Minister Gray with Mrs. Diaz. After midnight supper was served. A comfortable arrangement of the tables kept the distinguished official guests to- wether. Among the guests were many known in this city, Consul General and Mrs. Critten- Mr. Theodore Hansen take place on Tuesday, September that church, On Monday evening, the 10th instant, residence of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Woodward, No. 261 N street northwest, was a scene of occasion Pauline Bliss, Alice and Grace Bin; Cccmes, Fayette and Frank Newton, Albert Esher, Martie Watson, Charlie Edson, Leo Nachman and Raymond Mrs. Chas. A. Buckey of R street north- west gave a very enjoyable luncheon yes- terday. The guests included Mrs. N. 0. Messenger, . F. D. Shoemaker, Mrs. Bartweli Hoover, Mrs. R. L. Cox, and Misses Annie and Katharine Buckey. A surprise party was given Monday even- ing, to Miss Nell Louise Stephens, daughter of Superintendent Stephens of the bathing beach, at he> resi- dence, corner 10th street and Virginia ave- nue southwest. Among those who enjoyed the occasion were Misses Mabel Manning, Laura Stockton, Annie Phillips, Sophie Hor- sey, Maggie George, Ada Scott, Annie Bow- ers, Mabel Boyd, Maggie Rogers, Louise Billingsley and Etta Phillips; and among the young .gentiemen were Fred Brady, ¥esi Abinshine, Robert and Hugo Posey, Kalter Scott, Robert Carter, Joe Petty, Ous Watson, Raymond Reed,’ Willie Burns, Charlie Webster and Willie Boyd. On Monday evening Mrs. A. Y. Gray en- tertained a number of the relatives and old friends of Mr. Gray, the birthday. Rev. T, B.D. ters, and Nettie; Miss Nellie Taylor, Miss Nellie Tongue, Miss Turner of Mt. Savage, Md.; went ne R. B. Posey. Mr. presented with several very pretty and use- ful presents after several PPropria: speeches. e ne Miss Mamie Brooke of Denver, Col., is vis- iting her sister, Mrs, Geo. J. Becker. Miss Brooke, accorpanied by her sister, will leave for New York "Sunday for a short time. After thelr return will be at home 805 11th street northwest. ss rr Miss May Bennitt of Washington is vis- iting her aunt, Mrs. S. A. Holton, of Locust avenue. Quite a number of little folks gathered at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Wil Kimmel, 1132 New Jersey avon eee west, Monday evening in honor of Master Frank Kimmel’s seventh birthday. It was @ thoroughly enjoyable affair. Arter supper games were indulged in until the tired but happy little folks sought their homes about ¥ o'clock. The little host was well remem- bered by his friends, as the numerous pres- ents left behind testify. Among those pres- ent were the little Misses Adah Worthing- ton, Lula and Lotta Roberts, Hattie Dyer, Florence Giadmon, Ivie Cole, May Sullivan, Rae Kimmel and Daisy Morgan, and Mas- ters Eugene and Frank Roberts, Fred. and Harry Dyer, Forrest Rundell, Clyde Garret, Chester Caywood, Junior Caricristi. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Murray are visiting relatives in New York. Mrs. Dempsey P. Meetze and son, who have been visiting relatives near Warren- ton, will be home tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Metcalf spent July and August in the Berkshire Hills and at Richfield Springs, and are now at Delaware Water Gap. Miss Susie America, Miss Augusta Smith and Miss Dot Arrington of this city are the guests of Mrs, George Hughes of Fort Myer Heights, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Fendall E. Alexander have returned from Quebec, Canada, whither they went to place their eldest daughter at school, —~——_ FAVORABLE HEALTH REPORT. The Atmospheric Conditions Are Said to Be Conducive Heal The favorable health conditions which have prevailed for the past several weeks were continued during the past week. There was a slight increase in the total mortality, but the death rate still ran ma- terially below the arnual average. But one death from diphtheria was reported, and ro.e from scarlatina, Whooping cough in mild form exists in some parts of the city, from which cause three deaths of children occurred. Otherwise the infectious and contagious diseases do rot prevail to any ui vsual extent. The very dry weather, with the unusually high temperature which has characterized the atmospheric condi- tions for the month thus far, seems to be greatly conducive to good health, especially when taken in connection with the excei- lent sanitary state of the city. The following is the report for the week ending September 8: Number of deaths, 93; white, 52; colored, 41. Death rate per 1,000 per &&num: White, 13.8; colored, 23.7. To- tal population, 16.9. ‘Thirty-eight were un- der five years of age, 25 were under one year old and 14 over sixty years. Twenty- three of the deaths occuried in hospitals and public instituti 3 by classes were as follo con- stitutioval, 21; local, 23; development 4 violence, 6. The principal causes of dea were: Diphtheria, 1; consumption, diarrhoeal, 8; typhoid fever, 6; malarial, 2, pneumonia, 2; bronchitis, 1; whoc cough, 3; kidney diseases, 3; meningit! cancers, 2. Births reported: Thirty white males, 25 white females, 22 colored males, 22 colored femal Marriages re- ported: Thirty-six white, 8 colored. Still- births reported: Five white, 3 colored. _——>——_ J. L, Taylor of Ackley, Iowa, endeavored to commit suicide by hanging on Monday, but was cut down by a neighbor in time to prevent death. BURNETT. In FUSIONISTS ARE HOPEFUL. Can Beat the North Carolina Demo= crats if They Poll Their Vote. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. RALFIGH, N. C., September 16, 14. The fusion of the North Carolina popu- lists and republicans is as complete as the action of the state conventions of both profess to be delighted. Their chief speak- er, Jeter C. Pritchard, who is to be one of the nominees for the United States Sen- Clark, associate justice, a democrat. It is the first time in twenty-six years that suci Auterred cemetery, , the 18th instaut, at 2 o'clock pan. Friends and ‘relatives are invited to be preseut.* 4 At Wasbington, on the ot tember 11, 1864, GEKTRUDE PU wie ‘Thomas Thompson Caswell, pay United Fuseral service at St, Amc’s Cherch, wersice Ma, om . ia, on the abeival of tae moon train from Ws HITCH on 29, OU 05 et, pens 2 ae ¥.,. eeiow dd busbapd HOURIHAN. On Tucsdas, n, i ‘one year. sis Funeral 10 0° from Hl se grads i street Borthwest, at 4:20 pam, Thursday, Sep tember 13, . VINSTOR. Departed this life September 11, 1894, at 6:50 p.m., after a long and painful Mines of {ree mouths, EDWARD B. VINSTOR, at 12! Funeral, Sa dgy. meptcomber ta from eral, 3 < 16, m., Mt 1. Charch, 4th L streeg borthwest, are favited. > Memoriam. BURNETT In loving remem LORENA, beloved wife of nett, who depa: September 12, 1803. loving remembrance of RENA BURNETI (nce Burges), who died one year age tolay, September 12, "1808. And our sorrow may cease to repine, When we know that thy God ix with thee”” bd BY HER MUTHER AND SISTERS. WILAAAMS. 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