Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1895, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. A PIANO HOSPITAL The Street Musicians and Their Out-of-Tune Instruments. ACURIGUS RESORT OF ITALIANS ——— Mechanism of a Piano Organ and How It is Repaired. IN LEISURE MOMENTS eee, PIANO DOCTOR has recently come to town, and the result is that most of the Pano organs—as the | Italians call these machines, probably out of fond remem- brance of the old- fashioned barrel or- gan—are in fairl good tune. Some ne ctions, too, have begun to be he The Italians on just 2 y when the organ wretchei n it is perfe th wel nt of the tun came th from New York they hav their keen business sense, t he pennies flow in faster whea ther apiaratus is in good order than when it is a i ty on time and tune. Just wh the tuner’s name is no man has been found who krows. He Is Italian, though he s rench, and he looks to be a man of excellent parts. He is dark, and hal pointed beard. | When scen porter through a | window at her day in a wretched house near mere Hospital he sceme! to be in rather poor circumstance: but he may have had on only his work clothes, and some fine apparel might h: n stowed away in a large black box, with expr tuck all over it, that rested in the corner ef the room that served at ones as a dormitory, dining room and $ man, kes periodical trips he “Ss Where these ma- 2 in wu is a combina ner, composer and mechanician. net only know how to get the the organ into perfect unison bat he saust be able to adjust all ricate parts of the apparatus he was eng in the ar- of equipping a badly dilapidated trio of new airs, or, as one ering near said, “He ‘a tune’a,”’ s ord Pound. Taet strains of one of Sousa’s marches floated out of the Jow and suddenly stopped. The tuner turned a crank at the end of the machine and reversed the large cyh: covered with a multitude of steel ts, serves to tr the hammers that 1 strike the strings and so form the t His quick ear had discovered a peg loose somewhere, and his equally quick eye had located it as he peered down into the mysterious s of the organ. Quick- ly putting his ron the offending peg he got, with other hand, a pair of veezers trom the top of the machine, and t Giuek and dextrous wrench he had pollei cut the btde point, much as a den- tooth. ut three-quar- irl nto the ht angle, so ers of the position, They the cylinder with the the mar between g and missing it is the vst. As there are.ten tunes on each eylinde: pegs must be arranged in ten groups, one fogeach tune, and the nicest ¢ is necessary tO prevent even worse tone mixtures than some of the old organs can produce. Such was the organ on which the ari for such, indeed, he was—was working the day that the reporter leaned his elbows on the sill of the window and inhaled garlic scents for an hour or so. The tuner acknowledged in his scanty English that he was having “troub’”’ with this par- ticular piece of mechanism. A march would go wrong in spite of him, and “The Stie- walks of New York" were full of horrible holes in some plac and piled high with extra notes in others. But he kept pegging away, now hammering new notes into void and now pulling superfluous points out of the way, until airs began to assume a natural! finish. The Musical Score. Meanwhile the tuner’s eyes were con- stantly watching and consulting a sheet of music that stood before him. It was a badly soiled paper, on which were written musical characters in a style that would have done credit to some of the master comr o scragg!y and unintelligible were they to the untrained eye. With a glee almost fiendish at times the tuner would detect a note that had been missed, and would seize a peg and hammer it in with nervous energy in the right plac still turning the cylinder back and forth, repeating strains of the tune again and again until it had taken on the right pro- portions. Making piano organ music is not like or- dinary composing, for there are parts that must be left out, or abbreviated, or con- solidated with ‘oth- ers, for the cylinder is just so large around and can be made no larger, and one tune must be compressed into one revolution. Hence the tune maker for the piane organ is really a musical edi- tor, just as the edi tor of a newspaper cuts ‘copy’? and pieces it together to make a harmonious whole to suit the limits of his space. Hence this tuner has to have still another faculty, for he must select the most vop- ular and catchy parts of each melody. But the tuning process is no joke, of Itself, for these street pianos are not like ordinary instruments, which have three- string unisons, except in bass, where each note is produced by a single string, and sometimes two. In the mechanical piano the bass and middle registers have three strings to the note, the upper register has four and the last ten notes or so of the treble scale have five each, and all of these have to be tuned in exact unison, to make a perfect note. It is a good deal like a dentist trying to put an alligator’s mouth tn order. An Unsavory Resort. While the tuner and tune maker was working hard at his task the proprietors or lessees of the machine that was then under treatment lou s nged around, him to get through his J ey could go « pa few cents with wh and onions that pem tc of life. This house, whic Di street between 14th and 15th, is a head- quarters for the Italians of that part of town. The impression is pretty general that these men—who numbered fully a dozen the other day—are hired by some unknown agent—a sort of padrone—who leases out the pianos to them at a certain sum per ‘lay or week, and whose profits are very large. One of the more intelligent of the men told the reporter that the organs cost about $200 when new. It was impossible to ascertain whether the tuner is sent out by the manufacturers of the machines gra- tuitously, or whether he is hired by the | owners here or by the grinders of the or- gens to tune and regulate their cylinders and get the strings in order. tu evway, that is rocf Imost always some sort of nce going on. The reporter go i 1 aver, game tarted to but was rudely shouldered out again with scant cer The four men who were then pla w ated on boxes around a rude table improvised out of sume boards and were vehemently inter- ested in the progress of the game, while the trial the tune that was then und ion in the house floated through the hot air. clemations and violent gesticulations marked the pli d dark eyes glittered poy as the luck turned back and orth, On the side was an organ that had just n brought in from the streets, and dis abled by the removal of the turning handl had been locked in a small box at The manager of this organ had immediately gone to a small store acros the street an returned in a mo t or with hi. ms fi with greens for a Occasionally one of the card play- : l spring up from the bench and make a hasty trip to the corner saloon with tiered tin bucket, which he would bring < filled with frothy beer. The game ld then be interrupted while the “can” Was passed around, each of the men tak- ing a long, thirsty pull. Then the play with its high-pressure interest would pro- ceed. = Over in one corner of the shed where the men sat playing cards a y leep, his whole figure great weariness. His little cap had fallen over his head as he dreamed of cocoanut trees and other mon- keys, and once in awhile he would chatter a bit in his sieep and then uighten up sud- as though he expected tobe “brashed for stealing nap. Once the wo- man gave him a sly poke with her broom handle as she passed, and he sprang up in defense, scolding flercely. The men at the game looked carelessly around and one of them called out the monkey’s name and a Ita t the phrase of rebuke in n, where tiny money maker shrank back into his corner and dozed off again. And so the ceaseless round is ke up day after day. Just whether th men make more than a bare living or not can- not be told, for it impossible to learn the terms of their arrangements with the owners or lessors of the organs. Some of them, with catchy airs and weil-tuned sty n their instruments, must pick up many dollars in the course of a week. They seem, to take each other for granted, and at their home oa D street there is ver. little pro: jonal jealousy shown, though they quarrel often over other ma‘ters. So the Washington people are to be treat- ed to a better lot of cheap music for the present. Just how long the accurate tun- ng will last is a question, but at al! events the long-suffering ears of the people wiil be grateful fer such small favors as the man from New York and Italy has been able to give them. A Journey to Tim ugh etoo. Paris Correspondence London Standard. M. Felix Dubois, who was sent to Tim- buctoo by the Figaro, has returned to Paris and publishes an interesting article in that journal. He says in the Sudan the wild beasts form an infinitesimally small por- tion of the animals of the country. The traveler sees herds of beautiful cattle and splendid horses and flocks of sheep. As for fever, if the European only protects him- self properly from the sun and takes qul- nine as a preventive medicine he has not much to fear. The traveler from Senegal to Timbuctoo begins his journey by taking the train from Dakar to St. Louis. To procced thence to the Sudan the traveler takes the steamer, furnished with all modern improvements, or board which the living is good. The voyage to Kayes lasts about eight day: From Kayes, the capital of the Sudan, the traveler again takes the train and crosses a country which often reminds him of the forest of Fontainebleau. At length he reaches the Niger, where the traveler em- barks en board a great lighter barge pro- velied by oars. : Dienne is the commencement of the ma velous regions of lakes and luxuriant pra ries, with imposing herds of wild cattle. At length the sandy downs behind which Timbuctoo is sheliered appear. “Lying like a sphinx at the gate of the desert, Timbuctoo realizes all that her great repu- tation promises.” During a stay of several weeks pis interest was kept constantly on the alert, and went on increasing. Timbuc- too is the great city of the desert, the Queen of the Sands, which sweep up against its walls and invade its squares and streets. It has from 7,000 to 8,000 in- habitants. There is not a vestige of a monumental building, nothing but big houses built of mud and straw or wood. ‘The population consists of negroes with the blood of all the races of northern and cen- tral Africa in their veins. Such elements, which appear modesi and at urst_discon- cert the visiter, do not prevent the com- merce of the city amounting to millions of francs a year. M. Dubois prophesies that the western valley of the Niger will, at a comparatively early date, become one of the finest of the French possessions, if its destinies are contided to men who know the country. ——— Sir Edwin Arnold on Port Arthur. Interview in the New York Advertiser. “Wes the Port Arthur massacre an evi- dence of high-minded unselfishness?” I in: quired. . “Nothing has cver pained me more deep- ly,” replied Sir Edwin, “but it has in no sense induced me to change my view. When I first heard of it I was inclined to doubt the story’s truth, but the evidence is over- whelming, and I must admit that the hor- rible affair occurred. But the surprise should not be because this one dreadful thing developed in the midst of that long and bloody war—it should be because it de- veloped only once. It must be remem- bered that while the Japanese are by no means barbarians, the people with whom they fought are barbarians of the crudest sort. It must be remembered that while Japan has had a civilization of her own for centuries, she has only been open to the influence and stardards of our clviliza- tion—the civilization by which we have as- sumed to judge her—for less than a quar- ter of a century. Why should we not, in- stead of condemning her Lecause of this one transgression, praise her for the won- derful way in which on other occasions she has adapted herself to modern meth- 1s and developed modern mercies? Should we forget that she had ambulance corps of skilled physicians, equipped with the best of hospital tents, instruments and meth- ods, on all the battle fields but that one? Should we forget that these bands of mer- worked as earnestly among the wound- ed of the eaemy as they did among their own? Should we forget all these bright these evidences of more than mar- y ressiveness, and remember only the one blot of bloody Port Arthur?” ABUNDANT HEAD OF HAIR fO RETAIN A of 2 natural color to a good old age, the hygiene of the scalp must be observed. Apply Hall's Mair Renewer. e068 ABOUT HOT WEATHER Especially in Connection With the Cares of Housekeeping. HOUSE LOCK COOL - Take Things Easy and Smile When Slight Disasters Come. Se THE USE OF THE BATH Writtes Exclus yely for The Ev HOW can one keep cool? asked a weary mother the other day, “when the mercury hunting tke 90's, the is broken out the heat, as as two stick: and I am ready to drop to sleep this minute with weari- , and it is not 11 o'clock yet? I don't know how I am ever without a nt to get through the da to do a hand's turn, too, We have to economize since John was let out of office. And there that poor young mother and little more than a year-old wife wes econo- mizing right where she should have mad her most lavish expenditure, in rest. The baby was cress and fretful, and badly broken out with heat, as she had said, but she never stopped to think that her own heated condition and worried mind and tired body was half the cause of it, and that with every drop of milk that her baby nursed it was absorbing a larger quantity of her owh nervousness, to vex her with all night, perhaps. Being “tired enough to drop,” the proper thing to do, Was to drop, and take a good, long nap, from which she would have arisen with more cheerful views of life, and would have found also that the wheels of the household machinery would have moved much more smoothly when she had satis- ficd nature by getting a lite rest. Then, too, the desr little baby would have had one good meal of its mother’s milk, that Was purified from worry and microbes of nervousness, and the prickly heat would have had le: i upon. “Keeping this blistering weather does not mean ph sically onty, but mental- ly, as well, and you can materially add to your comfort by observing a few common sense rules. The woman who is managing, and who looks well after her family, will get most of her work done very early in the morning, before anybody is astir, and before Old Sol gets so fervidly familiar, Of course, the house should be dres: for summer, if possible. The carpets should be aiken up, dusted and cleaned, if you intend to have that done before putting down in the tall, and then they should be tightly sewed up it closely-woven bags, to keep them from the invasion of moths. All the heavy curtains should be taken down and treated in like manner, and ail the hang- im, should be removed, and stowed away, for during the summer open windows, sun- shine and dust would ruin them, and your peace of mind at the same time. The Rooms Look Cooler. If you can afford it, light straw matting is the ideal summer floor covering. if not, stain your floors and content yourself with rugs. It may that bamboo furniture will not be available either, but light linen covers for yolr pretty upholstered parlor set will be, for you can get patterns and make them yourself. Strip your rooms of all the. fancy bric-a-brac that catch so easily, and that be es dust might get overturned and broken in the hurried daily dusti After clearing the house of the “litter that makes it so cozy and br in Wi ter, but only enhances its *s 8 warm weather, you will be sury find that your labors in keeping your house clean are appreciably lightened, and with heavy hangings gone the rooms actually seems cooler. By arising at day br ones sleeping, the Wholeghouse except the sleep.ng rooms can be put in order before breakfast. Don’t go about this cleaning without fortifying yourself, though. Dr a glass of cool lemonade and eat a bis or a dish of berrics or other fruit, 4k, leaving the little uit which will not leave you with that “empty’’ feel- ing, nor yet destroy your appetite for breakfast. If you have not done your mar- keling the n.ght before, of course it should be dore as soon as possible after you get up, so that you can arrange for the day's meals. If you are a real sensible woman you will have learned what is the best kind of we i, for there is a t differ: L-produting prop- a: th-siving ones of the various If the man of tie family has te perform manual labor, ne will need meat twice a day. For yourself cnce a day is quite enough, unless yeu want to increase your d:scomfort, for meat is heating. If it is a roast cr a boilir e that you intend to have for dinner, cook it rarely done in the morning and set it away in the ice box, or at least where it will keep cool. Save the broth that has formed about it, and if you want soup you can make it from that broth in five minutes’ time, when you are getting dinner. If you prefer the meat hot for dinner cut neat slices of the rarely done roast, place them in a pie tin and pour over them some of ihe juices you have saved, and set them on the gas siove or in the oven to heat through, then slip on the hot platter and serve. Cooking Made Easy. Make your potato salad, or the chizken or veal salad while you are about it, and the pie or bread pudding, or custard, or gelatine dessert. If it is sliced cucumbers save all chance of indigestion by slicing them into salted ice water and set them in the ice box, rinse before putting on the table. With these things prepared, a vege- table or two for dinner can easily be cook- ed over a one-burner gas stove in a double boiler, and the matter of getting the din- ner confined to haif an hour, and another haif tc getting the dishes done. if you have any regard for your diges- tion eschew hot bread, oatmeal, cracked wheat and griddle cakes in hot’ weather. Whey are all heat producers, and fat pro- ducers as well. Frait, fresh fruit, and plenty of it, should be found on the table at every meal, both summer and winter if possidle, but in the summer especially. Day- old bread, thinly sliced, and toasted a golden brown and eaten dry, is the very best kind of bread for one who suffers greatly from the heat. Perhaps you are too much wedded to coffee to give it up, but drink less of it, and more lemonade, that is if the lemonade does not give your nursing baby the colic. If you will carefully note when your baby is the crossest you will generally find that its crying spells follow closely on a fit of anger, ill-temper, overheating or overeat- ing on your part. The summer appetite Is usually quite dainty in the morning, so never have anything heavy for breakfast. The first course should be fruit, always. After that the tastes of the family must be considered, but whatever you have cook it nicely, serve daintily ar® do not have so much of it on the table as to dis- gust the light eater. By a little managing you can save yourself a great deal of work over a hot stove right in the heated part of the day. Whatever sewing you feel that you must do, rush through in the morning. If you were wise you would have finished up most of your sewing while it was cool, say in March and April. Let the children play their hardest all mornirg, and about noon bring them in and strip them. Give each one a rubbing down with towel dipped in salt water, put their night dresses on them and send them to their rooms to go to sleep. They will probably object, but let them know that it has to be done, and it will not be jong before they will come of their own accord, for nature is very meth- odical, and a sleep at a certain hour one day is sure to induce one at the same hour the next day. A Grateful Rest. ‘Then, darken your house from top to bot- tom, and find the coolest place in it and take a nap yourself, An hour is long enough, and will amply repay you for what you stole from your morning sleep and re- One | oped, cuperate you for the loss sustained through heat and nervousness the night before. Your children will probably sleep for two or three hours, they can scarcely get too much, and when they get up, can have on their clean clothes, and will be good- humored for the remainder of the day, which will, of course, add to your own comfort. One of the greatest blessings in hot weather is an ample Supply of clean clothes. Sticky, soiled, ill-smeliing clothing would ur the temper of a seraphim, so in your spring sewing incliide a change from the skin cut for each day. It is easier to wash two pieces of linen that are slightly soiled than one that has to. be washed into holes to get the dirt out. Make all the “every- day” clothing simply and without frills of any description. It will save time and strength, which you need for nebler duties, and will greatly lessen your laundry bills. Vor your own house dresses, you should make plain unlined prints, which are so easily laundred and kept clean, and have no Weight to tire you in getting about. A woman who elects to wear out her cast-off finery at home is always an object of pity, 1 think, and always gives the impression of thinking less of her own than she does of strangers, since she reserves for the home cirele things that she is ashamed to have anybody outside of it see. Don't fret! The woman who wants to keep-cool must smile when the coffee is muddy, and take Katie’s torn frock as a at joke. must not “stew,” because y in curl, or storm at © hot weather. About the very best body ate aside from a fit of temper is to walk around with a fan in one hand and a handkerchief in the other and ask if any- body ever saw hetter weather. Take the heat philosophically. It is here, and it has to be endured. You oniy inc se your own and everybody else’s discomfort by talking of the ot weather, f me cannot “wallow naked in December snow by think. ing on fantastic su 5s heat,’ one cer- tumiy can increase one's temperature ap- preciably by dwelling intemperaiely on the gS won't torrid weather. By all means avoid ice water and filling up on iced drinks and frozen fruits and crstards i a good thing to posse t weather, for both drinking increase the tempe: . temptation to take a cool drink, or a is strong When one is heated to the boiling pe yet that is one of the quickest 5 estion and general d Warm Water for Warm Weather. Tie idle person finds the weather hotter than anybouy ¢ ou have something to occupy your time and attention, you do not find the weather nearly so uncomfort- le, because you do not have time to think it. Of bathing is one of the from ve hot weather, and the cardinal virtues, course ex! clcanline or is one Lut don’t make the mistake of thinking that a bath in cold water will cool you off. water a little more than blood warm, and after once experiencing the delicious ing of the cool air striki Try feel- % the body on a L always remember that for cold weather and warm wa- rm weather is the rule to fol- Never_make the mist face when ke of bathing the heated, it will be sure to give you an uncomfortable fe ing, and if you zo out in the sun will be almost sure to blister the in. Dry your face gently of perspiration with a soft linen towel, and then literaily dredge it with starch or tal- cum powder. The latter is best, as it is wonderfully cooling and abs perspira- Uon. Cold cloths on the wrists will cool cne greatly, and a cold cloth at the back of the neck ts good for a headache caused by the glare of the sun, covering the ey with another. If the head gets heated, let the hair down and lift the long strands so 2s to let the air get to the scalp. Fre- quent washing of the hair, once a week at le is necessary in summer, as the hair so soon gets to be musty. < ‘To sum it all up, the best recipe for keep- g cool is to eat temperately and drink the same way, control your temper, get plenty of sleep, do not ‘stint yourself in clo or clean water, and refrain NORA SARA. — SAWS OWN FARM. » Grausses—New Idens Growing Plants. Back of the pig brick seed barn of the Department of Agriculture is a very funny kind of a garden, which has just begun to sprout. It covers about hslf an acre,wh is divided up into ever se many little rec- tangular patches. Of the latter there are 450 in all, which are sown with as many diferent: kinds s. The seeds for most of these fave been obtained from foreign countries, through United States consuls, who have responded to a circular sent out by the Department of State re- questing trem to forward samples. In fact, they come from all over the world, and the purpose of the garden described is to make a fairly comprehensive exhi the & s of all lands Included among the 4 Kinds of forage p UNCLE Pateh of # iu of gras: ) species nts, The iaea for novel exhibit is original with Prof. the agrostologist recently en- gaged by the Department of Agriculture. When all of the plants are fuily devel- along toward autumn, the garde will be very pretty to look upon. There i even be bambcos, which belong to the family of grasses. Adjoining the garden is Mr. L. O, Howard's insect rearing es- tablishment, in which bugs of n.altitudin- ous varieties are bred under glass. The latter gendeman jocularly threatened to let out his bugs to browse upon Prof. Scrib- not to mention the plants of t kinds which Prof. Wiley is culti- immediate vicinit: Prot y has an outtit of a very pe- euliar it consists of a shed with a roof, out from under which run a of parallel railway tracks for a dis- tance of about sixty or seventy feet. On the rails are miniature flat cars, which carry huge earthen pots In each tub is a growing plant. There are a number of specimens of each kind of plant—potato, pea or what Lot—each grow- ing in a different kind of soil. The purpose view is to find out just how much avail- able food is contained in various soils. The soils employed have previously been ana- lyzed. The quantity of plant food in a soil may not determine its usefulness for producing crops, ina as it may not be in such shape as to be easily absorbed. Feeding plants is like feeding babies; the diet hi to be not merely nutritious, but easily digestible. Having ascertained by analysis just how much plant food is con- tained in each kind of soil, Prof. Wiley wants to know how much of it is assim! lated in the process of vegetable growth. The soils experimented with are from all parts of the 1 States, and the infor- mation obtained is expected to be of much The days of farming by work have nearly pissed by, and now culiure is a scientific pursuit. The d cars enable Prof. Wiley to run ants under shelter when it rains. nd wooden tubs, use to farmers. gues Rain water contains nitrogen, which, being added in undetermined quantifies, would interfere with the ments. Only distilied to the plan The Depuitment of Agriculture raises every year on its farm many thousands of plants for distribution thrcugh members of Congress and to applicants generally. This season it will take $5,000 cuttings of grape vines, comprising twenty-five varie- ties. Of course, the grape vines are grown cut of dcors. Twenty-two varieties of olives will be grown under glass for the same purpose, to be distributed in the south. Of these, 10,000 will be produced, some varieties being best for oil and others most suitable for pickles. Out of doors will be grown thirty varieties of figs, from which, perhaps,1,500 cuttings will be taken. To the list will be added 100,000 young strawberry plants of forty varieties; also 5,000 camphor plants, raised from seed, and pineapples, guavas, orenges ard lemons. Olives and fies ¢re distributed only south of North Carolina, camphor plants south of Savannah and pineapples in southeast- ern Florida, due regard being had for the climatic conditions suitable for the raising of these products. SSS Not Interested. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Starting from her sleep, she seized her husband convulsively by the nose and one eyelid. . “Jokn,” she cried, “there’s a burglar go- ing through your trouser: “What do you wake me for?’ irritably demanded the head of the house. “Settle it between yourselv Wher the policeman 01 the beat heard her shrieks he merely listened intently. uracy of his experi- water is furnished Soe Goo Husiness. From Humoristisches. “Want any mouse-traps? Come, buy ene, do!” 0, thanks; we have no mice.” “Ach, I'll threw ’em in with pleasure! HLL LOCKRIDGE’ lew BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS. a ritten Exclusively for The Evening Star, “Yes,” said the old cattleman, as he munched a meditative clove, “there ain't up business to a cowboy. Speakin’ general, and noi allowin’ for them inflooences which disturbs none, he’s as passive as a fried fish. “About sixteen years ago, before I lived in Wolfville, I was pesterin’ ‘round Vegas with Bill Lockridge, who was workin’ a small bunch of ‘7-bark’ cattle ’way over on the Vermejo. We'd been slashin’ ‘round the plaza all day, findin’ fault with the whisky an’ amoosin’ ourselves at our own expense, an’ along about 5 o'clock in the evenin’ Bill allows he’s some sick of sech revels, an’ concloods he'll p'int up among the ‘dobys explorin’ of Oldtown a lot. So we all goes in concert. 1 wasn’t frothin’ at the mouth none to go myse’f, not seein’ no relaxation pokin’ about permiscus | among a passel of Mexicans, an’ me loath- in’ of "em nacheral, but I goes, aimin’ to sorter ride herd on Bill, which his dispisi- tion is some free an’ various an’ liable to mix him into trouble. Not that Bill is bad; none whatever, but bein’ seven or eight drinks ahead of that plaza whisky < feel gregar’ous and friendly, ap'ble of goin’ about a-claimin’ nee with people he don’t know of acquain at all, an’ feelin’ "way hostile when the stanger has symptons of doubt. “So 1 gues along! Bill a-warblin’ ‘The Dyin’ Ranger’ in several key: “The senoras and senoritas a-hearin’ of the row would look out an’ smile, an’ Bill woula wave his big hat an’ whoop from rapture. If he starts toward ‘em aimin’ for a powwow—which he does frequent, bein’ a mighty amiable man that away— they gives a squawk immediate an’ shets the door, Well, Bill goes on. Maybe he gives the door a kick or two, informin’ ‘em of his discontent, but that’s all, All at once, whi re 'prowlin’ up one of them spaciou a Mexican thinks is a street We coines up on a I-talian with an: organ, which he is grindin’. This yere an ain't so bad an’ I’ve heeard a heap st As soon as Bill sees him he es to figger on a dance, but no one'll dance with him, “In which event,’ says Lockbridge, ‘I piays a lone hand “So Bill puts up a small dance, like a Navajo, acesmpanin’ of himse’f with whoops. But the Dage can’t play Bill's music, so the baile comes to a halt. ““Whetever is the mailer with this yere tune box, anyLow? says Bill. Gim'me the music for a green corn dance, an’ don't make no delay.” oH ve man can’t play no green corn 1 says “‘He can't, can’t he? says Bill mighty scornful. ‘Wait till he tries. I know this man of yore. 1 meets him two years ago in Druces, an’ me an’ him has quite a t Whatever is his name, then? I asks. “Antonio Murino,’ says the Dago. larino,’ says Bill; ‘that’s right. I re- it because it makes me think fust a sheep man, an’ I gits quite hostile. “TL nev s the Dago you did,” says Bill. ‘You think you didn’t see me? We has an’ goes, out an’ Ss town arm an’ arm like br “But the Itilian insists he never sees Bill, This makes Bill ugly a lot, an’ .be- fore I can get to stop it, he outs with his jest drinks up the -shooter an’ puts a hole into the organ. “These yere tunes I hears so far ys Bill, ‘is a heap too frivolous, an’ I figgers this oughter improve ‘em.’ “When Bill shoots the I-talian | man heaves the str: holds him to the or- gan over n’ flies. Bill ketches the music in’ it from fallin’, an’ after a while begins turnjn’ the crank to try it. It all right, only every now and then a hole into the melody like it had lost a tooth. “This yere's good enough for a dog,’ says Bill, a-twistin’ away on the organ. ‘Where's ‘Merino? Whatever is the matter with him? Why don’t he stand his hand” “But Merino ain’t here no more. So Bill allows it’s a shame to let it go that way, an’ Mexicans suiferin’ for music. So he traps on the tune box, and goes round from one ‘doby to another a-turnin’ of it loose. ‘How long did this yere Merino turn out his tunes,’ says Biil, ‘before he collects? However, I makes new rooles for the game right yere. I plays these cadences for five minutes and then I gits action on ‘em for splits even with these Mexicans, s shorely fair.” twists away for five minutes an’ a-timin’ of him, an’ then leans the me hewgag up agin’ a ‘doby an’ starts to col- lect d go up to some household, a-whirlin’ his gun like a pin wheel, and at the mere sight of him the members gets that generous they even attempis to ne- gotiate loans and give ‘em to Bill; they're to donate. me time he runs up on a band of tow- erists, who was sorter trackin’ ‘round, an’ lookhh’ at thin an’ they Sup an’ Istens awhi w in’ to go away jest befor tim) “Hold on,’ says bill, pickin’ up his Colt offen the top of the organ. ‘I've seed peo- ple turn that Ja in church, but u bet you can't jump no game of mine that { you all line up agin’ the wall ks the blankets n on this yere k in F flat I'm workin’ on, an’ I'll be with you.’ “So when Bill winds up he goes along the line of them tremblin’ towerists an’ co) lects $11. “ “They was aimin’ to git away with all them nocturnes, an’ "peggios, an’ arias, an’ not say nothin’,’ says Bill, ‘but they can come no twist like that an’ me a ridin’ herd. None whatever!” “Bill carries on t y for three hour: an’ what on splits an’ what cn bets he win, he’s over a hundred dollars ahead. But at last he’s t an’ allows he'll quit an’ call it a day. So he lugs the old tom- tom down to Frat Ss office. Franklin is marshal, an’ Bill turns the organ an’ the money, an’ tells Franklin to hunt up Merino an’ give him the whole shootin’ match. this yere Dago?’ says Frank- ever do I know?’ says Bill. ‘Last I sees him he was a-goin’ up the calle like a jack rabbit.’ “Just then Merino come some p e and tearful about that bul- let in his organ; but when he gets Bill’s donation his feelin’s commences to rise a lot. In fact, he begins to regard it as quite a scheme. “‘But you'll have to round up to the alealde, Bill,” says Franklin, ‘I ain’ shore none you ain't been breakin’ some law!’ “Bill grumbles en’ allows Vegas is get- tin’ a heap too reserved for him, “It's gettin’ so,’ says Dill, ‘a free Ameri- in view feelin’ much paw and bellow, head-down an’ tail- | can citizen don’t get no encouragement. Here 1 puts in half a day amassin’ wealth for a Dago as is sittin’ in bad luck; an’ ele- vatin’ Mexicans, who shorely needs it; an’ yere I am layed for by the marshal like a felon.” “Well, we all goes over to Steele's. Franklin an’ Bill and old Steele, the alcalde, goes pokin’ about to see whatever crimes Bill's done, anyhow. They gits by the cap- turin’ the organ, an’ shootin’ into its bowels, an’ standin’ up the towerists didn’t worry ‘em none, but the question of the music itse’f sticks ‘em. ‘I’m shorely sorry to say it, Bill,’ says Steele, ‘but you've been a bustin’ of a crd’nance about playin’ mustc on the streets hout no license.” 5 ‘Can't you beat the game no wa: Bill. *"T shorely don’t see how,’ says Steele. “Whatever is the matter with tackin’ them tunes on ter Merino’s license?” says Bill. “‘Can’t do it, nohow,’ says Steele. says “Well, is this yere ord’nance accordin’ to Hoyle an’ the Declaration of Independ- says Bill. ‘I don’t stand it none on- “‘Shore,’ says Steele. “Turn your cards, then,’ says Bill. ‘I’m a law-abiain’ citizen, an’ all I wants is a squar’ deal from the warm deck.’ a “So they fines Biil $50 for playin’ an organ on the streets without license.” SS Class in Grammar. From the Chicago Tribune. “William,” said the teacher, “parse the sentence, ‘Xenia has about 7,500 inhabit- ants.” ”” ‘ William had not studied the lesson, but he began boldl; “Xenia is an active verb, first person”—— verb is it?” “Yes'm.” “Can you give me some other sentence in which it is used as a verb? “Yes'm. I haven’t Xenla over at our house for a long time. MRS. M.S. SCHOONMAKER, A New York Woman Who Suffered for Four Years With Nervous Debility---Paine’s Celery Com- pound Made Her Well. “For four years I was a sufferer from nervous debility, During that time I took a great many remedies without getting any help until I trie Paine’s celery compound. I took six bottles of that remedy and was cured. mend Paine’s celery compound.” So writes Mrs. M.S. st., New York city. Too many women needlessly suffer from nervous troubles, not only in the cities, bat everywhere. Their whole world too ently lies iuside the four walls of their bh Think of the persons, women, Who spend most of th within the narrow confines of their dwellings, Sum- mer finds them pale and tired out. Their store of I cheerfully recom- Schoenmal Jane nes. men as well as ir lives barricaded many nervous Vitality has been slowly brought dewn by vitiated air and sedentary life. Tucir whole sys- tem necds a thorough replenishing. The nerves want nourishment, the tissues are not half sup- | plied with material for the repair of their parts, | and the great vital organs must have richer blood | to make them sound and active, and to keep them + nerves and brain need nourishment. The power of refreshing and reviving every part of the languid body is what makes Paine's celery compound the marvelous strengthener and invig- orator of this century. It is this same capacity to recruit (he worn-out nervous system, to rejuvenate the blood that has enabled this remarkable remedy to help so many debilitated persons and to restore them again to firm health. Rheumatism, neuralgia, pain in the region of the heart, debility and nervous weakness, showing 1t- self in any of its myriad forms, are dispelled by Paine’s celery compound. It feeds enervated tissues all over the body. It gives fresh vigor to the en- tire nervous tract, the brain, the lange nerve centers in the spinal cord and the nerves fhem- selves to their minutest ramifications, It restores jaded nervous energy. It sends new blood coursing through the veins. It makes people well! AT AUCTION. The Entire Stock of the EVERETT ART STORE, 1225 F Street N.W. Gold and Diamond Jewelry, Silver, Cut Glass, China, tures, etc. Bric-a-Brac, Pic- Sale begins Monday, June roth, 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Note. We do not move. We do not close business. We wish to make alterations. SS > ‘They Bind Wheelmen’s Muscles and Promote Varicose Veins. From the New York Herald. ‘A comfortable fortune is waiting for the man who will invent a really good bicy- cling suit for men. A great fuss is being made over the proper sort of cycling clothes for wemen, advanced and other- wise; but nobody seems to care a rap about the sufferings of poor, although strong, man. ‘The fashion of wearing golfing togs Is all very well for the dear boys who simply make cute little trips to some twilighted bower where they sip tea and let the ladies admire them, but there are others—several thousand others--who find golfing hose simply galling. One does not feel the pun- ishment until he has pedaled five or ten miles on a country road. Then the fiendish folds of ‘the stocking teps seem to squeeze all the life out of his unhappy calve: Their influence after a run of thirty or forty miles is simpiy deadening. They pro- mote varicose veins. ‘There is a kind of harness of straps and buckles for supporting the other style of stockings from the shoulder, but this is Ir- ritating. It would be much more comfort- able to appear in loose knee trunks, bare knees and low rolled socks, such as field and track athletes wear in the presence of thousands of the very nicest sticklers for the proprieties; but Mrs. Grundy would throw up her hands in horror. Meantime poor man of the wheeling kind must con- tinue to suffer. —___+-e+____- No Pull Necessary. From the Boston Courier. Speaking of the police board recalls a story of the police force which now finds its way for the first time into print. An officer of the force met a friend a short time ago, and, after exchanging the usual salutations, inquired: “How are yez getting along?” “Pretty bad,’ was the reply; “I haven't done a stroke of work for three months there’s nothing to do. The blasted dimmi- crats have paralyzed everything, begor.” “Why don’t you try to get on the force?” the officer inquired. “'Twouldn’t be any good to thry,” said the other. “I have no pull at all, at all.” “Pull? It don’t take any pull to get on these days. “It doesn’t?” “No. Why, few days ago. there was a Yankee got on a ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. Instances Among Plants Among Animals. From Meehans’ Monthly. Every one understands what is meant by the imbecile, when speaking of human be- ings. The mental development of the child is checked, and even when such a child reaches the age of manhood, it is still but a child in its feelings and wants; but it is not alone among human beings that the characteristics of imbecility are found. In almost all trees, the characteristics of the foliage or the habit are very different dur- ing the fi.rst few months of existence than they are in after life. There is a matured characteristic as well as an infantile one, The tulip tree, for instance, has its first set of leaves entire, without any appear- ance of the lobe or the truncate termina- tion which it assumes in old age; but some- times these juvenile characteristics will be maintained through life—and then we have what is known as the Mriodendron integri- folia—that is to say, the entire-leaved tullj tree. This is more particularly marke among evergreens. During the first year of the arbor-vitae, pinus, cupressus, retino- spora and similar plants, the leaves are heath-like, that is, extending from the stem quite separate and distinet; but occa- sionally there are individuals carrying these characteristics through life; and many of the so-called Japanese species are merely vegetable imbeciles. It is not un- common for acute observers to find branches assume their adult form in many individuals in this imbecile class. Just as in the case of human beings there are oc- casionally instances where imbeciles as- sume matured characteristics. This is also true of the animal world. A friend of the writer has an aquarium in which tad-poles as well as other aquatic creatures are rais- ed. As every one who 1s acquainted with the commonest events in natural history is aware, the tad-pole during its first season throws off its tail, pushes its legs and be- comes a frog. In’ the case of the friend referred to, he has a tad-pole which thrust out its legs and then ceased to develop turther. After three years it is still a tad- pole with its two frog legs, retaining its tail and in all other respects it is a tad- pole with the tad-pole characteristic in- tact. It may be termed a froggy imbecile. oo The Hired Girl. From the Rockland Tribune. Train up a hired girl in the way she should go, and then first thing you know she will Ko. is Well as Photographers’s Luck. From Truth. First snap at the elephant in the park. Then a fancy pose in the back = But he forgot to change the plate, with the above result, ard: