Evening Star Newspaper, December 14, 1894, Page 9

THE EVEN NG STAR, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1894—-SIXTEEN PAGES. Towner & Son, 1316 7th St. Selmi We won’t close until 9 o’clock from now until Sete Christmas. We Will Cut Prices Now! —rather than wait until later, when you are not so much in need of them. If you are going to make a serviceable gift—you cannot do better than to let it be a dress length. ot Soe osdontpdontectentontondonteeteet Sento $ P 6oc. All=-wool ¢ Dress Goods, 39 yd Hi joc. All- wool Dress Goods, 325 yd. 3 $ 59. Colored 44-in. $ Dress Goods, 255 yd. f eke aN be : 75¢. 54=in. Serge c. : Dress Goods, 59 yd. Half Prices for Wool Remnants. toes inte Bi -" and Colored Moire Silk, 50 5a. New styles of Verlaine ‘ for en tote ceed 10 Te Deter eiostontoeton 4oc. adenine, All colors, 25% yd. Lace Curtains, 3 — _— 49x. thn? 25¢c. “Windsor Ties, 15c. Each. Towner & Son, 13 6 7th St. Setedentntontoatestestestenteate Sette “Pickford’s’ Grocery House, 924 La. Ave. You Need INot Come down unless you wish to, for we - daily fll mail orders and tele- phone orders as carefully as if you were present. We have in- creased the force of clerks, por- ters and wagons, and cam assure you polite attention and prompt deltvery, as well as “The Lowest Prices. I Lb. Butterine Free —with every dollar's worth of ‘Tea. We sell 2% Ibs. of Fine —— ——- Mixed Tea for $1. | ‘Extra Lb. Sugar Free - —with every dollar's worth of wilated Sugar, as we give you ——— 23 Ibs. for a dollar, instead of 22, —— Baking Powder Free —with every barrel of “Pickford’s Choice’? Best Patent Bleuded —— Flour—equal to Pillsbury's, and iy $3.50 per barrel, to introduce he eteetoaton ion Groceries qnotes such low j BEST w list other at cosrespe Sootendontontontentonteetoetecte Soetontoeteet per Ib. 1 Seedeegentont the best, d’s Jocegeneg Tease SS itt TLESE QU OTATIONS TELL THE TALE! California Hats. <9, Best Burbank Potatogs. cans Best S. Corn for. + aut Apricots, 2 Ih, 3 Ths, Mixture ai adhe fondeet gar Loaf Strup, gal Finest Citron. Sefeete N. E Mapie Sirup,gai.. Purest oe Olive Ol, rf 7 Ibs. Kotled Oats. Good” Country Cooking. Fancy Patent Process Flour = - per bbl. - - = $4 If not satisfactory we will cheer z fully refund your money. Wines & Liquors: Bo. Fiucat Java ond Mocha £ 3 te. Coctalons ar $ 1 gal. Fine Catsup. mae $ Wines & Whiskies z % on eae Por rt. i $ | Pickford’s, Get the Address Right! 924 La. Ave. Hassocks. rarlety, to, select ah ‘Sub- dal ly and st; Press range from 35 ( ae me grades_all izle. Just an <= sic EAN y RUG, sensible The fioughton Co., 1214 F St. N. W. Old Washington Smith's Whisky, EF Headquat * and Mixed Mantarde ae the gallon. Ww. H. Keister, GROCERIES, FRUITS AND PROVISIONS, Cor. 9th and La. Ave., OPPOSITE CENTER MARKET. Toys at Aucton. 8. SAMSTAG, AUCTIONEER. worth of Toys and Christwas Ornainents sold to the highest bidder TOMORKOW. SAT- YY NIGHT, AT SEVEN O'CLOCK. ft will you to attend and Luy Toys at your own price. @& BAMSTAG. A: Baa EVERY NI BY COMPRESSED AIR|IN HOTE ORRIDOSR How the Atmosphere is Harnessed for Man’ Benefit. It Cleans Cars, Runs Locomotives, Drilis Rocks, Operates Clocks, Calks Ships and Other Things. From the Chicago Record. Railroad passengers are frequently sur- prised by the unexpected entrance into the cars of a group of chattering, bare- headed women. Those who do not recog- nize them as car cleaners and dusters won- der who they are and how they boarded the train. The women usually appear sev- eral blocks from the terminal station, and so proficient are they in the art of “flip- ping’ a train that the engin do not come to a full stop when the: their feather dusters and brooms beside the track, but reduce the speed somewhat, and the women swing on as neatly as brakemen. When the last passenger has left the train the women take possession of the cars. They are all healthy and muscular, quick with the broom and active with the feather duster and chamois skin, and by the time the cars are thrown on the cleaning switch they have the floors well cleaned of peanut shells, paper and cigar stubs, and are ready for the seat cushions. On some of the roads the women still carry the cushions outside of the car and beat the dust from them by whipping them with willow beaters. But compressed air has taken the place of the paddle on most of the roads. The hose which contains the compressed air is run into the car through a window or door, and the women, han- dling it as they would a garden hose sprinkling the grass, turn the jet of hissing air upon the plush cushions and the dust fies out. No whisk broom, willow paddle, leather strap or beater can get at the dust as compressede air does. The jet searches every crack and cranny and drives the dust trom the very wood itself. Sometimes the women turn the air upon the window casing and in a jiffy it is clean of dust. The man who makes air compressors cited this novel use of compressed air as another point in favor of the claim made by his craft that compressed air was just beginning to enter Into the common every- day work of the world. He added that few persons knew the uses to which compressed air was put outside of stopping trains, drilling rock and inflating bicycle tires. Air Versas Electricity. “Electricians think that this is the elec- trical age,” he said. “Well, perhaps tt is, so far as lightning, telephoning, telegraph- ing and welding goes, but when it comes to the transmission of power they are talking too much. They have worked and studied for years to make an electric rock drill which would take the place of the air drill, but they have not succeeded. They have tried to make an electric train brake which would bring a limited express train to a full stop sooner than the auto- matic air brakes will do it, but they ure so far behind that they will never catch up. It will not be long before street cars will be running with compressed air as the motive power, and they will be safer, more easily controlled, will run as fast, wili stop quicker, will wear longer and will be operated at less expense than the best electric system they can put on the rails. With a good air compressor air at any pressure can be stored up in a reservoir or steel tank, and can be taken to an point within ‘reasonable distance as ec’ nomically and with less waste than elec- tricity can be sent by wire. “The air compressor is a pump which is part of a stationary engine. The piston in the air chamber first sucks the air in and then forces it through a pipe to the reservoir. Of course the more air one pumps into the reservoir the greater pres- sure to the square inch one get compressed air works like steam, except that it is cold and has not the expansive qualities of steam. But steam cannot be carried through pipes out of door to any great distance, for it would lose its heat, weuld condense and soon turn back to wate “Cleaning cushions by compressed air is one way of using it that few people know of. Visitors to the sanitary canal are al- Ways interested in the rock drills which bore holes for the dynamite cartridges, and almost everybody knows that the brakes assenger trains are operated by compressed air. “I know of a machine shop where there is not a belt, a piece of shafting or an electric wire, for all the machinery, from a nery wheel to a twenty-ton cran ted by compressed air. The sh ed by large pipes from the air servoir, and from these main pipes stuali- er pipes lead down to the machines. machine, whether drill, planer, shears, lat bending rolls, milling machine, punch, drop hammer, press or cold saw, hi its own motor or engine, and the mere tu ing of a valve starts or stops the ma- chine. For Clocks and Smoke. “A pneumatic clock system has lately been installed in the new Criminal Court building in Chicago. Pneumatic clocks are not new, for they have been used in Paris for twenty-five ‘years. Now over 10,000 clocks are operated and regulated from the central clock by compressed air. “The pneumatic clock system installed in Paris twenty-five years ago was the begin- ning of the compressed air central power system, which supplies over 10,000 horse power to users in the French capital. It is used there for all purposes, from running clocks to operating dynamos for electric lights. The central station furnishes air at a pressure of seventy-five pounds to the square inch. It is sent around the city ui der the streets in pipes, and is sold to cui tomers by meter, just as gas is. “The solution of the smoke problem is easy. Put a central power station where the smoke will bother no one, and from this station send electricity, high-pressure water or compressed air to the business center and to the stock yards. The cheapest pow- er that can be used in this way is com- pressed air, Elevators, printing presses, wood and iron working machinery, and, in fact, anything operated by steam, can be operated by compressed alr. Some day we shall have pipes for compressed air under the pavements of streets, and there will be no smoke if the tugboats and locomotives can be subdued.” Asphalt used for street paving is refined by compressed air. In its original shape, just as it comes from Trinidad, asphalt is too soft for street paving and is not homo- geneous. To refine it the asphalt is bollod in kettles for three or four days, and while the heat is on it must be constantly stirred. Pipes with numerous holes are placed in the bottom of the kettle, and while the asphalt is boiling compressed air is forced through the pipes, and, escaping through the holes, it agitates the thick, black stuff. At first the air comes to the surface in big bubbles, and the asphalt slobbers all over the inside of the kettle, but at the end of three days the asphalt has become so thin that the air makes it boil in little bubbles, and it is shen irawn off in barrels, where it cools hard and even. In France they make a sort of silk from wood pulp by the aid of compressed air. ‘The wood pulp is put through a chemical process which changes it to a sticky sub- like gelatine. It is then placed in a tank and compressed air is intro- duced. The air first presses the substance through a filter and then into a smailer tank which {s under the large one. This tank is in a horizontal position, and from it spring hundreds of glass pipes, in each of which the hole is about the size of a silk fiber. The wood pulp 19 forced through these tiny holes and comes out in the shape of threads so fine that six of them are re- quired to make a thread strong enough for weaving. A Variety of Uses. Compressed air was the paint brush which placed the color on the world’s fair buildings, and which today is painting rail- read bridges and corrugated iron plates for buildings. The compressed air not oniy draws the » paint from the tubs to the place where it is to be used, but, by atomizing the paint, sprays it over a large surface and drives it into the wood. In the big shipyards of Cramp & Sona, Philadelphia, where government armored cruisers are built, all the calking of war ships is done by compressed air, and one compressed-air calking ¢ machine does the work of four men. This calker can strike 1,000 blows a mimute. ‘The-saine tool in a modified form is used ! graph. “It is one of the most inexplicable things in the world how men will commit murder for gain in the face of the absolute cer- tainty that the crime will be traced to them,” said D. M. Evans of Indianapolis at the Cochran this morning. “When re- venge is the motive for a crime, there is no occasion for ‘surprise, and usually it is committed in an open manner, as if the perpetrator cared nothing for the conse- quencies. But ere gain is the motive you will almost always find that the deed is planned with apparently consummate subliety. ‘The nest skill is developed in arranging every detail, and the man or men concerned 4n perpetrating the final act in the tragedy appear to have satistied themselves that they are free from all chance of detection. The Ging murder in Minneapolis is a striking example of this. Hayward spent months in perfecting his fiendish work. He had even worked off suspicion of his motives by lending the woman money and engaging in business transactions with her. He had arranged, also, an alibi that would have been perfect in the eyes of a jury, but he tried to be too careful. He sent a bundle of bloody clothes away by the man Erickson, to have them washed and returned, and this gave the police an unerring clue that would have brought him to justice even if his brother Adry had not confessed to his knowledge of the murderer's intentions. ‘The murder of the janitor in Chicago, whose body was found in a packing box in an alley is another instance of the immediate unravelling of a seeming mys- tery. With bold confidence one of the man’s murderers went to the morgue and identified his remains. He intended by this move to ward off suspicion, but his action had the opposite effect. Every day it is becoming more and more true that ‘mur- der will out,’ and still the remarkable fact remains that men continue to commit it for gain, pure and simple. It is one of the marvels of the age.” “No one need imagine that the good gov- ernment clubs of New York have ceased their vigorous activity in behalf of secur- ing a clean municipality because of the gratifying results of the last election,” said J. R. Daniels of the metropolis at the Ebbitt last night. “They are more ener- getic, If possible, than ever before and in- creasing in number and membership every day. You see, the confederated council of the clubs agreed some time ago to Investi- gate the various city departments, assign- ing one club to each, and this duty is being prosecuted most commendably. So the street cleaning department is being investi- gated by one club, the excise department by another, the park and police by another and so on through the list. The investiga- tion is practical and to the point, and the gentlemen engaged in its various branches are instructed to ascertain wherein the par- ticular departments under their eyes can be improved in their management and cur- tailed in their expenditures where such re- duction is just and reasonable, and pre- pare bills covering such recommendations as they may make, to be presented to the incoming _legislat Some frightful ex- ampies of loose government have already been brought to light. For instance, the investigation of the department of public parks shows that it makes no annual re- port, while its quarterly reports to the mayor contain only two lines devoted to ex- penditures, the total amounts paid for sal- aries and for bills, each item ranging from $200,000 to $400,000. Of course, a bill will be drawn up requiring the board to make an annual report, with every expenditure detailed, and, I think, it will pass.” Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, accompanied by his daughter, was. recently a guest at the Arlington for sevétal days. Every time the distinguished divine scratches his rame down on a hotél register somebody who owns an autograph album spies it and the hotel people are straightway requested to take charge of the volume and get Mr. Talmage ‘to write something in it.” It happened that one of the permanent guests at the Arlington owns an autograph album herself, so when Mr. Talmage got there this time she gave Manager Bennett the precious thing for the purpose already in- dicated. Bennett accepted the duty in his customary Chesteétfieldian manner and car- ried the book to the office, where Messrs. Birney, Ross and Smith were assembled. y,” remarked Bennett, “when Dr. Tal- comes in one of you fellows get him to put his name in this. Take care to give him a blank page so it won't get mixed up with y other obituary—I mean auto- The trio nodded assent and the book was laid on the desk. Mr. Morgan Ross was alone Saturday evening behind the counter when Dr. Talmage came in to ask for mail. He handed out the letters and also the book. The great preacher seized a pen and wrote across the center of a pink tinted page: With best wishes for your future happl- ness. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. Dee. Sth, 1804. toss blotted the lines carefully; deter- mined that a man who wrote such a fist was pretty near right in taking the pulpit instead of running the risk of a civil ser- vice examination, and, putting the book back on the desk, went to supper. Mr. Ham Birney gauntered in to do the honors of the hostelry immediately there after and Dr. Talmage came back to make some inquiry. Mr. Birney answered him and spied the book at the same time. Would Mr. Talmage write his name in an autograph album? Why, with great pleas- ure! Birney selected a nice, clean choc colored page and placed it be- fore the parson. He wrote with exceeding alacrity: With best wishes for your future hap- piness. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. December 8, 1804, Mr. Birney thanked the theologian gracefully; arranged nis boutonniere and tossed the volume back on the desk. Sunday morning, after his sermon, Dr. Talmage returned to the Arlington, where Rear Admiral Smith was waiking the quarter deck in solitary grandeur, waiting to recetve boarders. When the preacher hove into view the diplomatic rascal cast his weather eye on that autograph album. In an instant it was seized; a chrome yellow page of spotless virginity was chosen and Dr. Te Mage was requested to decorate it with his honored name. If the divine had not been accustomed to being bombarded with such books he might have paused a mo- ment, but the horrible things had become familiar to him, so he picked up a pen and this is what he wrote: With best wishes for your future hap- piness. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. December 9, 1804. Sunday night Col. Bennett casually in- quired of his three istant graces if any- one of them had thought of asking Dr. Talmage to write in that album. They all answered that they had and when the book was produced they proved it. —— “MY OWN THINGS.” Agé of Individual En- vironment. From the New York Times, jay, mamma, John’s got Can't 1 have it? it’s mine.” “Oh, just look! Susan's playing tea-party with my dessert plate. Make her stop. She'll break 1t.”” “L wish you'd find my pepper box. This isn’t mine,” prociaims the head of the house. “it’s mighty queer these servants can’t ever remember my things.” In the library Uncle Jim ts twisting and turning and looking daggers at the uncon- scious caller who ‘ts sitting in his special chair. One member of the household fs on the wrong side of! the ‘table, and the right paper knife is on the left magazine. He always sits the other side for reading. From the drawing room the voice of the elder daughter is heard saying: “Oh, no; 1 couldn't endure those portieres. Tho colors do not suit my style, you know. I nfade a fuss, and mamma took them in her room. » feel color in every nerve.” ‘Such is what the fashion fot having in- dividual things has brought the jousehold. We have the individual fur- ishings, the schemes of hangings to bring out the individual beauty of my. lady's eyes, the tint of her hair or the gleam of her shoulders, and on the other hand— ‘perish the thought—to sink the individual in the useful! Have we not the srecial chair and foot rest, candlestick cushion? Small wonder then that the practical, Prosuic housewife exclaims: “I wish we could xe back to those carty Christian days when they. hat ni things in common. [helieve ber ~~ with towele!”* ‘This ts my spoon. me SoSSh Rebrecsher C.PeeReeeeh GFE fe 5 NEW PUBLICATIONS. gen Guiney. ‘Washington: Woodwa-d & Lothrop. 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PTIT MATINIC’, Other | Monotones, By Ge yi ‘Thumi tury Co. Sketches of life on the coast of Nova Scotia, combined in a dainty miniature volume with two stories of, another kind— “Old Grimes’ Masterpiec: and “A Dis- turber of Faith.” One of the most pleas- ing specimens of artistic production throughout. LUCY LARCOM, LIFE, LETTERS AND DIARY. By Daniel Dulany Addison, “Boston: Houghtos, Mittin & Ce Human arithmetic will never succeed in culating the quantity of good done by Lucy Larcom—the Lucy Larcom who wrote so very much, and who wrote so very well, especially for the young folks. Her labors ended some years ago, but their results will be lasting. This biography ts worthy of its subject. Sas Hern oe x fet ia) By R. D. Flynn, ville lynn. Washingtoa: ‘The a omens. Mr. Flynn went through the experiences suffered by thousands of other men who have journeyed to the national capital tn search of an office, but he must have de- rived a good deal of fun from the fail- ure that has, he says, taken him out of politics. His little book 1s very amusing and, to @ considerable extent, instruo- tive. BACK COUNTRY POEMS. By Sam. Walter Illustrated by Bridgman. Boston: Lee Shepard. Washington: Woodward & Lothrop. People who read the newspapers have known Sam Walter Foss for a long time, and the more they have read of hts pro- ductions the better they have liked him. The Foss poem is nature itself—generally humorous nature: time cannot destroy its backwoods’ sweetness. THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA IN AMERICA, Written at intervals, but now issued for the first time tn book ‘form. By Bushrod W. nes, A. M., M. D., member of the His Society of Peniaylvania, American So- ciety for the Advanc it of Science, Amert- can’ Academy of Political aud Social’ Sclenee, &e. 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This is not @ fairy tale, but a sober, his- torical fact, backed by many oilicial doou- ments of undoubted authenticity, and the lady's amiable weakuess is described with @ wealth of Jetail and forcible simplicity of description that is apt to turr the reader sick. The lady in question was named Elisa- beth Bathoory, Comtesse Nadasdy, who married at the age of fifteen, in 1596, Comte Francois Nadasly, who was not of too mild a nature himself, as, when hig wife complained one day that her maid had been impertinent, he ordered the erring handmaiden stripped, smeared with honey and laid on a wasp’s nest, from the effects of which gentle admonition she sub- sequently died. The Countess Elizabeth was left a widow in 1604, and began simply at first to try to keep up the rigorous discipline enforced by her late husband. Unhappily, one day she struck her waiting maid, and #0 wounded her that her mistress’ hands were covered with blood. When they were washed the countess remarked that her hands were whiter and the skin more sup- ple and firm, and thenceforward her natur- ally cruel nature was spurred by the frenzied desire to retain her waning beau- ty at any price. She used as a cosmetic trom that time on a bath of human blood, and the traditior goes that anything so superb in its bril- Mant tairness as her complexion cannot be imagined. She murdered ail her waiting maids, one by one, aided hy three accom- plices, her old nurso being one of them, and when she could get no women to enter her service she coolly sent her emi: to kidnap the peasant girls of the neig! the ghastly scandal borhecd. At last, however, rose to such a pitch that evea Hun; in the middle ages could not he castle on Christmas eve, 1610, to inquire into the truth of these horrible stories, and discov- ered his fair and honored relative, her fair chin propped by her exquisite hand, calm- ly watching the death agonies of three girls, while her attendants were filling a bath with the life blood that was to pre- serve her beauty. The countess herself was too great a personage to ineur capital punishment, but for thirty years she was shut up in soll- tary confinement in the castle of Cseibhe, in Hungary, where she finally starved her- self to death. As for her accomplices, they had their hands cut off and were subse- quently burned at the stake. It ts said that this fair dame sacrificed vv girls to her radiance of skin, but the biographer states soberly that documentary evidence exists of the murder of only 250. —- coe —--— A Young Mother's Love. From the Albany Times-Union. Late Saturday night, when the air was filled with snow and rain and the wind whistled through the bare arms of the trees, two gentlemen, who were driving to their home at West Albany, noticed the figure of a woman kneeling on the ground as they passed old St. Mary’s burying One of the men climbed over she fence and approached the grief-stricken figure, whose wailing could be heard above the moaning of the wind. The woman was at hearing a* man’s voice beside her, but not a