Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1894, Page 18

18 s THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1894-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. PAULINE PRY GOLFS She Visits the Links of the Wash- ington Club. po SES There is a Good Deal of Walking About Golf. CRO S-EYED — CADDIE Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. HERE MAY BE A | few things tm life for me still to learn. But, really, * they don’t matter. \\\\\ I know golf. ‘\\\\ To the uninitiated, \\N this possibly — will WN convey no idea of a KV YS great achievement. eS But when I reveal more—that I have played golf on the Washington links, the social side of the glory that attaches to me must be apparent to any duffer. Pardon that anglomaniacal expression. But, you see, this is the hand that drives my pen that drove a ball around the links where every day the ground is shaken by Charles B. Gray, Miss Mary Gwynn, Dr. Samuel H. Grist! Charles C. Glover, 8. Howland, George Hellen, Jos. C. Hornblow- er, Chandler le, —— Heese, Hon. Charles 8. Hamlin, Mrs. M. McL. Hazen, Rev. Richard 8. Howell, Hon. Alan John- stone, John D. Jones, R. C. Johnson, Mrs. Ralph Cross Johnson, sr., Mrs. Julian James, Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, N. J. Knagenhjelm, James W. Lockett, John F. Leech,,Prof.'S. P. Langley, L. Z. Leiter, Mrs. L. Z. Leiter, Nicholas Luquer, Dr. Francis B. Loring, Chas. H. Lee, Thomas Lee, Henry May, Carroll Mercer, Mrs. C. F. Morgan, Senator James McMillan, Geo. W. McLanahan, Gen. Chauncey McKeever, C. Parsons, Anthony Pollok, Sir Jullan Pauncefote, John Van Ness Philip, James G. Payson, Henry J. Purdy, Gen. John G. Parke, James C. Parrish, Miss Pendleton, Josiah Pierre, jr., Walter Pyle, Miss Mary Elizabeth Patten, ‘Thomas Nglson Pag, Miss Lizzie Patterson, Count F. Reventlow, John Edgar Reyburn, Thomas F._ Rich- ardson, Gen. Wm. B. Rochester, W. K. Ryan, Edward F. Riggs, C. Spring Rice, Wm. H. Slack, Walter Breese Smith, Mrs. E. H. G. Slater. Miss M. J. Sherrill, Preston Sands, 8. A. Staunton, Hon. Bellamy Storer, J. Augustus Taylor, Chas. J. Train, Senator Fdward 0. Wolcott, Guy Fairfax Whiting, John H. Walter, H. von Flotow, Col. Geo. A. Woodward,’ Horace Wylie, William Winthrop, Miss Elinor Wilson. While there is no day that you will not find a number on the links—frequent hope- less cases are to be seen golfing in the rain —Wednesday and Saturday are especially club days. Lunch is served on these days, and an omnibus runs from Farragut square to carry members over, though It’s quite English, you know, to scorn not only feet of men who shake the hand of the Prince of Wales. Many are H. R. H.'s compatriots—the British ambassador, Mr. Alan Johnstone ard Mr. Spring-Rice of the British embassy. The rest are even more English, except other members of the dip- lomatic corps who golf—Count F. Revent- low, Baron von Flotow, N. J. Knagen- hjelm, M. Covarrubias and Pierre de Bot- kine. As a National Peril. *Pon honor, golf at Washington ts such @ menace to our American institutions, the great voting American public can’t learn about it too soon. So good an au- thority as Rudyard Kipling says that when an American has learned to golf well— “when he knows the innermost meaning of ‘don’t press, slow back and keep your eye on the ball,” he is for practical purposes denationalized.” Quite frightful, then, as it is, to have a goif mania creeping gradually the past six years over the United States, from Yonkers, where the first club was started, to Denver, where Senator Wolcott, is r The Club House. sponsible for the existence of a golf club. Fancy the danger that immediately assails Miss Columbia from links when its captain of the green is First Assistant Secretary of the Treasury William Edmond Curtis, and where golf is daily getting tn its fatal work upon such supreme sources of our naticnal strength and glocy as Controller of Currency Eckels, Senator Brice, Prof. Langley, Senator Wolcott, S2nator McMil- lan, Admiral Franklin,” Representative Franklin Bartlett, Representative Bellamy Storer, Gen. Parke,Col. Woodward,Gen. M Keever, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Hamlin and Thomas Nelson Page. Fancy, too, the British lengths to which our Americanism has gone, when you hear a golfing girl sum up a golfing United States Senator as a “nice chap.” Thus, indeed, are we denationalized. Thus, indeed, does golf strike right at the heart of the Ameri- can eagle with a “deadly iron. Washington Golf Club. That “deadly tron” is awfully English. I have just learned it. But let me teli you all the rest I have just learned. The Washington Golf Club was created last February by Mr. Geo. S. Fraser and Mr. Henry May. The latter is president of the organization. Mr. May has played golf for the last ten years on the “other side,” was one of the originators of the first golf club in this country, and is a member of every club of aLy consequence here or abroad. The links of the Washington club are across the river, half-way to Fort Myer. Right here let me steer you off from an error into ch American ways may lead person ever goes over to He goes over to the links. round ‘operty f club. ks cover 2res in extent. A Bad Place. an omnibus, but a stableful of horses, and walk out through Georgetown over the Aqueduct bridge and climb the hills to the links. When I came in Monday evening Mr. May was wheeling home on a bicycle, and Mr. Fraser and Mr. Gray passed me waiking. Mr. Spring Rice, with one of the ladies from the British embassy, was ahead in an omnibus. They had walked out. When you consider that it is two miles and a half once around the links, and that twice around constitutes a game, you can estimate what, with tramping in and out, golf is in the way of a pedestrian feat. Yet when I arrived at the links early Saturday afternoon, I heard an Englishman say he nad played six times around, and when i left the links at sundown he was still at it. It was precisely 2 o'clock last Saturday that I stood humbly by and watched the golf omnibus crive up to Farragut Square. Despite the somewhat ill-assorted charac- ter of the pair of horses drawing it—one was hitched up for Sunday and the other back about Thursday—the unmistakable stamp of high life was to be seen in the livery of the driver. It commanded not only my admiration, but others of the com- mon herd passing by paused to enjoy it. One familiar fellow even asked the driver Caddies. * where he got it, and was permitted to touch the hem of the long, bottle-green, silver-buttoned garment, lift it up and see for himself that it was so genuine as to be all wool on the wrong side. She Wore a Sweater. Presently the "bus was filled with a naval officer, six ladies, and the lady reporter, and away we sped. The ladies were all carrying golf clubs, and, thank heaven! meek and lowly as has been my schooling, I know better than to call golf clubs “sticks,” which these fair golfers did with an unconscious air to make an Aberdeen golfer’s blood run cold. The six women wore ordinary street dresses, and, if you'll believe it, not a golf cape among them. One girl had a white sweater on under her tailor-made coat. She said somebody that morning had want- ed to know what girls wear to golf in, and she said they wore anything, never think- ing about how they looked—it's such a Jolly game. tor We of the Hoovers befe enough, Jackson, t whe, with dau, port is OY ng - nd really ing a the cony the club hou. Associated with Mr. } the club are Mr. George 5S. president: Mr. Edward F. Riggs, Mr. George Helien, treasurer, a William Edmond Curtis, captain green ‘The list of members Includes 118 as follows: Arthur D. Addison, rt Clifford Barn . Senator Calvin Brice, Jolm A. B. Walter G. Harry L. Ballantine, i erick Bak Franklin Bartlett tavus K. Brown, J 8. Boardman, Miss am, ° , Hon. W . KR. Case, M. Cov . E. Chadwick, Mrs. Eliza M. Cutien, J |. Chew, Judge John Davis, Joh: le Peyster, Pierre De Botkine, Geo po. Walter D. Davidge, jr., Hor . Eckels, Mrs. Clarence Edwards, 'ranklin Emmons, George S. Rrase: ning Fraser, M: Geo. 8. Fra ral §. R. Franklin, Reginald Fendail, rorthington C. Ford, Charles M. Froulke, Joseph Scott Fullerton, W. E. Goschen, “Aad such jolly weather, now,” another added, to which still another said: “Yes— quite like Rome. Washington is very much like Rome, anyhow,” she said, and the naval officer admitted that Rome wouldn't be half if it had a Metropoliten Club and golf links. up the road to the club » of the hill in front of the ‘kled with moving figures approach, became a com- crowd of black boys— ve me quite a sick tu es in a state of genuineiy , on 4 an on. Really, if it were a golfer will and the wealth to sail a boat around Cape Horn on a wager of $10,000 T couldn't rest until I had my club equipped with imported Scotch “cad- dies” or something that's a close imitation. The Colored Caddic. r clubs, mi ‘Carry your one and another caddie peti- “Carry clubs, sir, tioned. The duty of a “caddie,” strictly inter- s to carry a golfer’s clubs, make tive soul of a real anybody's “tees” but and chase balls. As in his profession he the enthusiasm and serves—becomes a Ifer, and, off I found ‘that p. In the early history of the W n links, when asked to make a “tee,” he has taken his finger and printed 'T on the ground. Now, however, he is able color as the he is looking to properly pack the small heap of sand from which the golfer “tees,” and besides feeling nothing but pride and satisfaction to be hit in the neck by a “deadly iron” of the man he is serving, he has attained a degree of caddie-excellenee which permits “him to direct beginne ‘It's your honor, miss,"" or “I reckon youse better take the lofter to that miss.” Moreover, St. An- drew be praised, the African caddie in speaking of “putting” a Dall, says natural- ly put to rhyme with but, not foot, as the crude American golfers are prone. To command all the various attainments of the caddie costs fifteen cents for one game, twenty-five for two. The club member who was to instruct A. Munn, T. Bell Mason, Arthur Jefferson | me in the gilt-edged mysteries of golf being “going around,” when the "bus un- loaded me at the club house, I took a seat on the broad stoop to await developments. Gazing over the links with an unlearned eye, all I could see was a pretty piece of uneven ground, of which. not far from the club house, a short stretch was marked by | some red some white flags, moving a couple of feet from the turf. In the dis- tance were a number of men, striding over the field as if they might be training for possibly a six days’ go-as-you-please walk- ing match, Three or four wore white sweaters, A couple were in scarlet coats or I'm color blind, though I afterward heard Mrs. Allister McWard, as she greeted these say, “So pleased to see you in your Golf Profanity. The regulation uniform of the Washing- ton Golf Club fs knickerbockers and scarlet coat with green collar. Mr. May and Mr. William Edmond Curtis commonly wear the uniform of the Isle of Wight Golf Club of which they are members—red coat with white collar. While I waited and watched, one after another, elegant carriages with high step- ping horses in glittering, clinking harness, and servants in livery drew up to the club house and deposited loads of fair women and smooth men. ‘There was one woman in particular, lovely and luxuriant as a crean-fed Persian cat. She was attended by a crisp old lady and remarkably well- finished young man. A stranger, she met all sugzestions to introduce somebody nice to her if anybody nice enough turned up, with the assurance that she l-o-a-thed to talk to new people and l-o-v-€d to be alone. Stil her friends hesitated to leave her to her soul's sweet solitude, ant as a pair of riders came down (he road she exclaimed: “Oh, Vere de Vere! Look at the gentleman and lady on horses. They were made on a canter, weren’t they, Vere de Vere? What do you suppose is in’ them bg “Springs and gutta percha,” Vere de Vere, laconicaily. ‘Then when they had watched the riders dismount, the old lady, on a sudden thought, ‘asked: “Where are your Blank girls, Vere de Vere?” To which Vere de Vere replied that they were out on the links, doubtless, but he wouldn’t look them up tll ‘they got thoroughly profane. Profanity in connection with golf—even woman's golf, is clearly to be forgiven once you've tried it—the golf, I mean, though, to be perfectly honest, I must say I never want to play golf again uniess {t's under circumstances which afford me the privilege of being profane when I want to be. assured Woman in Golf. If feminine golfers would stick to the links provided for the ladies, which are camparatively free from hazards, there would be fewer temptations in golf for a woman. But then, you know, perhaps she is not so much to blame in taking the men's links, with all the temptations, for there's precious little else in golf tor wo- men, as women. As golfers—but that's quite another matter. A number of men told me without any hesitation that they don't like women po play over their links—it keeps them back. Then, apart from the gentlemanly selfish- ness that is the inspiration to goif, the first rule of golf etiquett> is, “no player, caddie, or onlooker, should move or talk during a stroke.” Fancy the wear and tear of that on a woman. Nevertheless the “new woman” makes herself feit at gclf. Ladies in the famil cf members of the golf club may be intro- duced to the club house and grounds and A Good Driver. use the ladies’ links. But this isn't enough for the score or more women who play golf | —they must be members themselves, so they can vote. Still, in spite of the power | of franchise they enjo; they are not to be admitted to the club tournament. Next Wednesday and Thursday, December 26 and 27, there will be a handicap tourna- ment at the links, for which men are now earnestly training. They will play for a handsome silver loving cup which will be | presented to the winner by the president, Mr. May. Before attempting to golf myself, I went cver the course with Mr. May and Mr. Curtis. Following them came Senator Wol- cott, alded and abetted in this British di- | vergence from American institutions by | Senator McMillan, After the Senators Prof. Langley was playing, and I give you my word, if the professor's flying machine gets through the air as creditably as a golf ball lofted by him, tt will not be long til wings will everywhgre be substituted for wheels. How the Game is Played. I had read golf literature galore, and I had studied rules for the game of golf till I was black in the face. Still, I had no more notion of what Golf fs than you | probably have. But if you will watch Mr. | May drive off from the first “tee you'll learn something beycnd a doubt. His caddie, you nctice, is carrying a can- vas case, from which project the handles of a brassy, a cleeker, a putter, a niblick, a mashy, a lofter and a bulger drive—the clubs used in golfing. In the pocket out- side the case are a number of gutta percha balls atout the size of a walnut. A sim- flar ball is placed on the top of a pile of sand that looks like en extraordinary ant hill, and Mr. May, driver in hand, sfands preparing to send his ball to the first hole, ie In the Ladies Links. which is farther away than you can read- ily discern a white disc the size of a dinner plate marking the hole. The club, techni- cally called the driver, which he grasps as a boy does.a shinny stick, is of wood, shap- ed much like a shinny stick. He addresses the ball, that is, plants his club beside the ball to take aim, slows back and swings the club around several times before striking. This is not indicative of nervousness or of anything Ike that. It's the preliminary effort of a drive, known as the “waggl Now the ball has whizzed through the air, and everybody exclaims “beautiful,” to ‘see it rise and saf! over bunkers and hazards, a distance of 15) yards or more. But Mr. May 1s not satisfied himself, and says he “sliced it,” which means that the ball departed from the straight lHne he sought to describe, and cut off at an angle. Mr. Curtis makes another drive that 1s pronounced beautiful, and then we start at a lively pace over the turf, down ditches, across gutters, slipping over mud, splashing into puddles. This 1s golfing, so I try to spring like a gazelle from bank to bush and through the bush, and manage to wheeze all out of breath, “What’on earth is a bunker and what's the difference between a bunker and a hazard?” Some Technical Terms. “A bunker,” says Mr. May, “is a’natural hazard; a hazard, any break in the ground artificially constructed for the purpose of increasing the interest of the links. The game of golf,” he goes on, “consists in playing a ball from a given point, called a “tee,” to another given point, called a hole, which is, in fact, a hole four and a half inches in diameter and at least four inches deep. The hole is won by‘ the side holing its ball in the fewest strokes. A game con- sists of eighteen holes. To play a game takes you twice around this course. The links are the lines desc: from hole to hole, and the word is used ‘with reference to golf as you speak of the diamond of a base ball field. The putting green is the ground within twenty yards of the hole.” ‘We had come upon Mr. May’s ball by this time, which the caddie had run ahead to locate. The ball had lodged in the deep track of a cart wheel, and Mr. May there- upon bade the caddie produce the niblick— aclub with an iron head, speeially designed fer Jerking the ball from Just such a tight place as that in which it'rested. The next drive was made with a cleek; which is also a club with an iron head. The ball made what I would have belleved an impossible drive, plump into the hole ffom which the caddie had moved the staff of the disc marking the hole. “That was a deadly iron,” Mr. May in- formed me, charging me to be sure to burn the expression deadly iron into my brain if I want ever to talk golf like a Britisher. To describe in detail the scaring lofts, the gentle, skillful putting, the wonderful dtives I witnessed Mr. May and Mr. Curtis make over the entire course, Ww be impossible. Besides, golfing ¥ May, for me, speedily degenerated into a sprinting match, in which T not only had to amble to keep up, but I was pretty nearly blind, deaf and dumb for want of breath. Fancy doing a two-and-a-half-mile stretch over Virginia hills up hill, down dale, across a bridge and through woods, with’a long, strong-legged athlete setting the pace, and you have a notion of what my first practical experience of golf was. The Interest in the Game. However, this did not discourage me in trying a hand myselt, for one of the rare points about golf is you can set your own pace if you want to, and most everybody does. I ¢ ked an Englishman how it is golf has so lately struck this country, ani he an- swered: “Why, you've just civilized up to it in America, don’t you know.” That's a fact. Golf is the natural en- thusiasm of a people civilized to a degree at which they like to go out in the open air for their sport, so as to have more room for their selfishnes In the possibilities of sport that golf of- fers it is broad as the universe and just as varied. Old men and invalids, fond of constitutionals, may saunter over the links and tind in golf jast enough diversion hol- ing a ball to rob a long walk of tedium. Or the gentlemanly athlete, civilized be- yond foot ball and barbarism in general, bends all his energies to golf and still finds something to beat him. Mr. May declares he has not mastered the game yet after ten years of successful playing it. The individual has the right of way in golf—another demoralizing tendency of the game in America, where, out of regard for our democratic constitution, the majority should under fio circumstances be con- sidered of secondary importance. A “two-some"—that is, two playing one egainst the other, have to stand und let a single player arriving with them on the putting green hole out ahead of them. Nor do you see a “two-some” sociably chat- ting aiong their common course. Not a bit. “Fore,” “my honors,” “the odd,” “ more,” “three more,” “two holes up something as eloquent with human interes as that is all the sound proper to golfing. Became Interested. “Now,” said Mr. Riggs, who, with more unselfishness than fs strictly good golfing form, had essayed to play around the course with me; “now, grasp your club firmly with the left hand—no; farther loosely with the right, and drive away. Pauline Tries Her Hand. I was beginning on the: ladies’ links. I tried obediently to drive away as I was or- dered. I did a desperate waggle, described a downward sweep at my ball with awful force thet nearly took me off my feet and wrapped my skirts three times around me; the dirt flew; and the ball—I never tou it. I tried to be blithe over: my awkw ness, smiled feebly and made another drive. This time the ball rolled like a marble ly- ing up to a chalk line for first shot, but it had moved, and that something gained. Mr. Riggs’ cheeringly told ae a beginner seldom strikes the ball the first drive, and said, furthermore, that: somchow women generally secm to golf aboutsthe way they throw a rock. My next drive was better, and when I had mede the first hole fy ‘five strokes I was so puffed up with wanily that the ag- gressive spirit of the rampaut fin de siecle worran took possession of me, and I want- ed to try my luck on the men’s links. Ac- cordingly I teed off for the first hole in the leng course and made it in nineteen strokes. Mr. May, I recalled, had made it in three. However, he is the champion golfer Of Washington. What couid I ex- pect? “I'm afraid you don’t keep your eyes on the ball,” Mr. Riggs observed cautiously in response to an erratic drive I had made. ‘Then—well, then, to tell the truth, I cis- covered that I had been shutting my eyes every time I struck the ball. Stili, I strug gled on, and into every drive I “fozzled”— muffed, that is, so to speak—I learned, as I never had known before, the soulful em- phasis a woman might under certain cir- cumstances put into one simple word of four letters that is sometimes written with two, d—n! 1¢ Was the Boy. When I had lost a ball, and run up a score of something like 217, I was only quarter way around. My feet were wet, my temper ruined, my shoulders were ach- ing, twelve holes and four miles remained for me to accomplish, and the sunset gun at Fort Myer boomed the dismal fact that though I'd been golfing three hours, I was not a golfer, and that night was’ on, in which no man nor wo:an can golf. A man following around came up and braced my drooping spirits with the as- surance that “golf is the easiest game to learn and the hardest to play.” I knew golf for a fact, but—upon my honor! No wonder I had had no luck. At that moment I caught my caddie looking, or trying to look,-ine square in the face, and, now tell me, what could any golfe do with a cress-eyed boy for caddic? t ILINE PRY. MIXED RE TIONSIUIP, ‘The Baby Son of a Duchess © His Mother. From the Youth's Companion. Among the hardest things which the in- fant Prince Edward of the royal house of England, the littie son of the Duke of York and heir-expectant to the throne, will have to straighten out when he is older is his relationship to his own father and mother. It constitutes a problem such as is seldom found outside of princely houses, It is certain, however, that he is the third cousin of his father and also the sec- ond cousin of his mother. This makes his relation to himself somewhere between that of a third and fourth cousin, He is, as it were, his own double third cousin—a relationship which will doubtiess take some time for him to comprehend. Hoth his father and mother are descend- ed from George lll. of England. George IU.’s son Adoiphus, Duke of Cambridge, had a daughter Mary, who married the Duke of Teck and became the mother of the Princess May, who married the Duke of York, and the Duke of York's father, the Prince of Wales, is the great grandson of the same King George IL. The young prince will have the right to address either his mother, his father or himself as “my royal cousin,” and he may, perhaps, excuse any partiality for his mother over his father by declaring that she is a nearer relation to him than his father. The princely families of Burope supply many similar cases of tangled relationship, growing out of the sugcessive intermar- riages of cousins in nearer or remoter de- grees. : nd The Robber’ Fake. From the Detroit Tribune. “Do you value your reputation in your she asked, earnestly, “or do you wish to be considered an impostor The brigand shuddered. " she said, “you cannot afford to take my diamonds. I—I am an actres: He paled. “Can it be,” he muttered, ics are mistaken, after all?” Her manner was very confident, and he felt that the risk was great. The gems fell from his nerveless grasp. With a sigh he turned and fled. -—— see The Best Time. “that the crit- From Life. Nodd— asleep. You ought to see Todd—“When shall I call? Nodd—“‘Any time during the day."* fy baby locks lévely when he is GIGANTIC SHELLS Some Monsters That Lived in the Ocean’s Depth. WHAT A DIVER SEES UNDER THE WAVES The Huge Clam Shell of the Alas- kan Coast. MANY CURIOUS FORMS ——_+—_—_ Written for The Evening Star. F DIVERS WITH the modern equip- ment had existed in some of the early geological eras they would, in their wan- dering at the bottom of tne sea, have seen some remarkable sights. There was a time when every- thing seemed to at- tain gigantic size. There were sea ser- pents as long and longer than the whales of today; sharks 100 feet long, crab-like creatures as long as a man, as the wonderful pterygotus, and more remerkable than all, the shells that téday are, as a rule, small and deli- cate, and used in the main as ornaments and curiosities, that in some instances at- tained gigantic proportions. Such a diver, in walking along at the sea bottom, would have seen suddenly ‘ouming up before him in the distance an object lkke a gigantic telescope, yet poised in midwater. At one end projected long arms that waved to and fro or resembled the pliable spokes of a wheel without a tire. Suddenly this cigar-shaped object weuld shoot ahead with the velocity of an arrow, cleaving the water like a knife and leaving a train of phosphorescent light behind like the tail of a comet. This strange creature was possibly twen- ty feet or more-in length, and, according to Dr. Newberry, the eminent geologist, must have weighed several tons. It was the giant of all shells, the orthoceras titan —iruly a titantic monster. The orthocero- tites are all extinct, but ure represented to- day by their cousins, the cuttlefish, the nautilus and others. Another of this fam- ily, the ammonite, sumewhbet resembled the pearly nautilus of the present, and Was divided off by pearly partitions as was this shell, but the ancient representa- was a yeritable monster. me y > some workmen in the middie states came upon a number of these shells buried ancient beach. The dis- coverers thought they were cart wheels and a Jocal paper facetiously announced the discovery of a fossil chariot, wheel, spokes and al!. The great shell was as high as some of the boys who stood by, being four feet and a half in height and resembling a rude wheel, In an attempt to discover the nature cf the Yind it was cut in two with a stone saw, thus exposing the parti- tions, which were fiiled with earth, A Strange Specimen, The exposed surface was then polished and presented a beautiful appearance Quartz crystals had formed in the various chambers, giving the entire shell or its pol- ished surface the appearance of a huge carnelian. One of these stone shells weigh- ed several hundred pounds, and when al must have been a singular object. As in- verted, in all probability, it moved along the bettom, dragged by it» many-armed occupant. In ovr own time there are gigantic shelis, their presence sometimes being dis- agreeably forced upon the finder. In the South Pacific, where the ocean is appurent- ly cut up with emall islunds or reefs of coral, the tridacna, or king of the clams, is fcund—a gigantic two-valved shell, with deep radiations or convolutions, that’ often weighs 300 pounds, the animal alone weigh- ing thirty pounds. These monsters are found imbedded in the coral rock, a singular frill of lightiy colored flesh only appearing above the sur- fece. This habit has been the cause of a rumber of accidents to natives as well as white men. The locality where they are found 1s frequented by collectors of marine curiosities, who send the shells, sea fans and corals to America and Europe, where they are distributed to the curiosity deal- ers all over the world. In searching for shells the collectors wade along the shallow lagoons or reefs, followed by a flat-bottomed boat, into which they toss their various finds. On one oceasion an inexperienced man was hunting for shelis without a boat, having merely a native net thrown over his shoulders. Seeing what he thought v a large sea anemone of beautiful tints, he struck it with his foot, and ‘in an ins was thrown upon his face screaming agony. The seeming anemone was a shell that, startled at the sudden aitack, had closed its huge valves and held the collector a prisoner as firmly as though he had been clasped by a vise, in fact, the shells cut through skin and ‘bone. The unfortunate man was some distance from help, and as he had started at low tide the treacherous waters were rising. For an hour tke victim underwent untold | agonies of pain and apprehension, fearing that the tide would rise above ‘his Struggles were useless, y waited until a canoe came in sight, when he signaled the occupants, who, after much | difficuity, released him, the animal having | to be kiMled by severing the great muscles that held the shells together. These Are Monsters, A number of such Instances are on record, and large sharks have been caught by the shells in the same way. Some natives at the New Hebrides Islands, seeing an unusu- al commotion some distance from shore, went out and found a ten-foot shark beat- ing the water, hurling itself thls way and that, as though held by come enemy. Ap- proaching, they found that the big fish was held firmly by the tall, the lobe of which had touched the fleshy portion of the shell and been caught. To excavate one of these giants often ro- quires the work of several men for a week, as the shell at times is deeply incased in the solid coral rock, which hes to be cut away. One animal taken has served as a dinner to the crews of two vessels, afford- ing a meal to fifty men. One species of these shells is very common, and is used as an ornament, while others serve as re- ceptacles for holy water in churches and cathedrals, ‘A fine specimen may be seen in the ca- thedral of Notre Dame in Montreal and another in the Church of St. Sulspice in Paris. The natives employ them as water vessels, and a circular piece of the white shell, highly polished and worn upon the forehead, is considered an insignia of rank. ‘Among the largest bivalve shells known is the geoduck, a huge clam of the Alas- kan coast, that attains a weight of five or six pounds, one shell affording food for a large family. The conchs, especially those known as the queen and trumpet conchs, are among the giants of the univalve shells, weighing in the latter instance sometimes twelve pounds—ponderous objects, as they move along on the sandy bottoms of the lagoons of their choice. ‘The method of locomotion among these large conchs is singular, particularly when observed fram above. The shell reaches out its foot, which is armed, in the case of the common strombus, with a sharp- pointed, saber-like operculum, thrusts it into the sand and gives a powerful wrench, which forces the shell along in a series of jerks. The real giants of the mollusca are few and are confined mainly to those de- scribed. +04 How to Hoodoo Him. From the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution. Here is an original North Carolina re- ceipt for getting even with your enemie: “When you see your encmy walk ‘past you, go and take a quantity of sand out of his track, then face east, pronounce our enemy's name, and at the same time ick at the sun. is will cause evil for- tune to attend him.’ Nature’s Reme- dies ofttimes poor- ly flattered by chemical and dan- erous imitations, ‘or five centuries Carlsbad has stood in the role of strength and health-giver, and millions have been cured by the Carlsbad Waters of all sorts and manners of a eases. ‘The genuine Carlsbad Sprudel Salts are the Carlsbad Water solidified, bottled and placed in every American drug store, to relieve the public of malassimilation of food, flatulent obesity, catarrh of the stomach, and gives to all a healthy ap- petite, strong, vigorous flesh, a perfect digestion. Take no imitations. EISNER & MENDELSON CO., Sole Agents, New York. P. T. Hall, 908 F St. CLOSING OUT MEN’S GOODS To give my entire attention to men’s shirtmaking. Grand chance to buy the highest class of Men’s Fur- nishings for gifts At Cost And Less. Men’s Jewelry Exactly Half Price. Hosiery At Cost. All 250. Half Hose for 19¢. ‘All 2c. Half Hose for 25e. All SOc. Half Hose for 38e. All Te, Half Hose for 50c. All $2.50 Silk Hose for $1. Neckwear Reduced Xe Al, $1.50 Neckwear, 50c. KS At Wholesale Price Till Christmas only. Saturday and Monday we Intend to make big days down here. Prices will be simply Without duplicates. in the records of the grocery business. Fresh goods have just and go on sale tomorrow. We're Prepared to fill all orders ‘with the » freshest and most satisfactory of xgrmeries. — Remerber, these prices are good Saturday “s day only. se Pillsbury XXXX Flou Per Bbl., $4.25. Patapsco Superlative, per bbl. Our National Pride, per bbl Fancy Elgis Butter, per Ib. rictly Fresh Exes, ur Best Wc. Te: focha and Java ure Lard, in pails. Cottolene, "in pails Water White Vanilla NLY oe lasses, per gal. i) arrived INLY ce [eats. Atmore’s § and 10-1. pails... Mrs. Winslow's Celertted 35.16 pane Atmore’s Plum Pudding, 1, 2 and’34 ca sued the. de. a Delaware Preserve Co.'s Preserves, 10 and 20-Ib, pails. .,...35, G5e. and New Jersey Cucrant Jélly, 80-1. ‘pal 4 Lbs. Pure Su Candy, 25¢. Paper-shell Almonds, 3 Ibs. 11 Ibs. New Mixed ‘Nut 81.00 f, PureN.Y. Apple Cider, Per Gal., asc. 3 1,000 Turkeys A Cost To Our Pa- (trons. Eastern Shor Ss betial ccc tcens 5 lw. Ginger Snaps, 8 or'5 Ihe. Cracker Dust “FRUITS, Just elved mas 4 ne. Boot Pigs or = nasal 4 Ws. Secdtess Tiaisins: » Fancy La: Cc 2 Ibe. London Layer Raisin 20-1b. Box Furcy London Layer Raistns.§1,50 Fancy Indian Rive ranges, Apples, Ba- nanas, Dates and Grapes, Potatoes, per - $1.00 $3Coll arsfor$2Doz $3 Cuffs for $2 Doz. Men’s Underwear 33 to 50 Per Ct Off. Men’s Umbrellas 33 to 50 Per Ct Off. $3 Emb. Shirts, $1. Men’s H’dk’fs. All 25e, Handker« 190, All Handkerchiefs, 26e. All "0c. Handkerchiefs, 38c. Plen’s Gloves. Grand line—all the best mak- ers, all_ the fasblonable shades, 2 ves for $1.00, for $1.12. es for $1.50, oves for $2.00. Suspenders, Gar- at ‘the same ratio of . ag the entire stock must .be closed out at once, ntend to give all my time attention to custom-made P.T. HALL, 908 F St. ts. Center Market. phe 800 stand permane mn sat tl | oth whole % and retail Market $| ing made arrang | ments to supply the | customers in all parts the of try, PPP rondo reeriento eonse ee teotae eo oorioioeietie toto fonday from morning jock at night, iT and al At Christy quest with, Center As the alnost complete network ap excellent opportunity of provisions and every of = Christ with which the stalls and stands will be 2 ladened, at the lowest 4 sSretoetontentestoatonteese te sdondontoetentonteatonseateste stonteeseete seoalonseese sioehonzeniosinete Loazoetes seats Look! 40c. for LADIES" SLIPPERS SLIPPERS. 40c. for MI 1Se. for BABTE 80c. for LAD SOc. for MEN 85e. for ROY THESE ARE SOM eafoatee PIOPPPIPHSSHOHE SEDO LE IVHOSHT ANS Bargains Great Shoe Sale. Tucker’s,- Pa. Ave. "223 0 ol UT ‘CLOSE ‘tO 419-804 BUSINESS N. T. REDIIAN, At The Monumental. OVEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS. If you want a nice doll inspect will “tnd' the prettiest abd cheapest tn tin edt As we do not want to keep any over we ‘vem at cost. Hdkfs. Hdkfs. For Ladies, Gents and Children o esign aud quality, from Sc. up. dais dae Ribbons. We shail continne to sell our Gros Grain, Hage Ribbon, worth 40c., for 10c. per vad. We have the cheapest ribbons im the city ‘for fancy work, from 2e. up. present, A good Umbrelln Will make @ nice Xinas have them from 7Sc. up. We Will also well uur $1.90 Silk Plaited 1 colors, at 59. a wtacsd Trimmed Hats. Great reduction in Trimmed Hats for the Xmas holidays.” A handsome Hat will make a nice Xmas gift. We will sell cur $10 and $15 Hats for §5. $6 Hats for $3. 939 F Street. te The Result of ‘The Times Inwestigation’’ of Dr. hhade’s Mineral Treatment for Consumption. ‘The Times bas published through its colums the interviews of twentw-one persons, physicians, Congressmen, merchants and other citizens, who positively declare that Dr, Shade, 1232 14th cured them of cousumption, Some skeptics and nic doubters want to know ff it revlly was wsumption that these people were cured of. here is no use quibbling about nse it is lung and throat diseases nty out of every hundred deaths, ou tay, consumption, tuberculosis, It makes no difference whether We agreo of ¢ disease that has so many pecullar ment in the human body as con- cures are moreover proving to be Brown, 1408 Corcoran st.; Dr, ne; Mrs. Bender, 1232 6th lips, late physician to the MY. ¢ cured two or three hours, 9 to 10 a.m., 1 to 2 and 4 19-424 will sell st. nw., and Dr, Bellview Hospital, years ago. to 7 p.m. Consultation free. P CRRESBEL EL OF LSE ODE DELPHOOE® : (FURS. oO SUITABLE FOR ristmas Presents. @ e ° a hh ra : * Will be afforded all Electric Seni Capes. up. classes, especially th Neck Scarfs Wege-earners, to select 200 Mutts at from the immense stock 4 Children’ Mou Sealskin Caps. Driving Gloves. cash prices, Driving Collars. P.8 SMITH, Clem, E Conchimen's Capes....-.+ 6-00 up 421-804-8t : Quality Guaranteed. 2 B O14 Furs Remodeled at Small Cost. Plo ratondecdeedondentontontensondentontondontentoateetofontontntifentontens Open until 9 p.m, up to Christmas. THE HUDSON BAY FUR CO., 515 uth St. N.W. 415-500 SPIPIPOLOP OS OOO SSG IOSD Get the Best. THE CONCORD HARNESS LUTZ & BRO, 497 Penn. ave., adjoining National Hotel. Horse Bizvkets and Lap Robes at low prices eit 3 e