Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1895, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. : 8° —— = a SPECIAL NOTICES. THE OLD DOMINION ; THE OFFICIAL WEATHER) MAP. CROOKED WHISKY INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. FINANCIAL. cnet PT fed nails! ATTORNEYS -. Page 4 Stteereocesestcenancs ‘he Tax in Oonnection Wit 0 In- > forage Warehouse, }. Warfield Simp: : . . 1140 15th te sxp-rt" Tair, ath ad © sta, | Lrouble Coming in the Republican crease in Illicit Distillation. 2| $Families a ez 5 : 3 “CUT PRICES” State Committee, COUNTRY BOARD... Going Away FOR BEST What the Forthcoming Report of the | COUNTHY REAL EStag! g Sshould, store thelr stiverware, by goes ; Re DENTISTRY in the tases a ae ee TAILORING! , OPPOSITION 10 MARONE’S RE-ELECTION etiam aay amine company at nao tae ae =a | Will Show—North and South. 1 3 Special fire and burglar-proof vaults . . ; > are used for this purpose, which Our Annual Special Sum= i Rate eeatond ‘eyes toe zante By, er Sale will begin tomor- His Dictatorial Manner Has Alien- ‘The forthcoming report of the commis- Pees 3 aa monic oe eee sioner of internal revenue will show an | ror REV? dtous & the id. Household furniture, row, Saturday! have a. ts - a good » lose a afford to let diate response. of tallo: as n America—not- “eut pric $8 T rings to $6. $10 Trouserings to $8. $12 Trouserings to $9.50. $14 Trouserings to $11. sta the rous $25 & $30 Suitings to $20. §35 & $38 Suitings to $28. G. WARFIELD SIMPSON, COR. 12TH & F STS. it TO CORRECT AN Ei that Mr. Andrew Wall 4s ¢ itable Building Loan and fh n of Maltimore, Md., we desire to e{ such te not the ¢ Mr, ed with the assoclation tn ai WILLIAM CAS) if 2 of phar- at 11 a.m., at 808 on MON! nw. By "TWILL BE TOO ¢ THE HOU Come best * sul ‘cooked and From 4 to 8. Afier the down and iy gees awn at with us. W dinner fils and in our ds J Sundays, 1 to 2. IS, COR. PA, AVE. AND 414 ST. teles 0 ight ful FRUIT Jyo- Notice—Havlu; firin of Taylor, ‘Tiiferd. wy connection with his date (gt3t) SAMUEL M. ak. MD. WERT REYBURN, 2m. to 1 p.m., SUMMER RATES AT THE FAMOUS ROMA URANT, S31 ith st. nw.—Roard by nth ed to $16; pro rata by the weel on exp jon. + Jyd-lw the DURING IELY AND AUC ce it <. Fultot vill be closed at 5.6 a asa ext H. K, FULTON. ass excepted. nu 636 -G .& plished Ty at No. repared to. de Tiachinery of hl MA ings Cok: t. nw, or 1 ect 25 bushels, 50 bushels, $4.00, to an; 5 Telephe els, $3.30; AL—50 cents per ton cheaper NERY Spark dat cost until fur tf J H. cor SIAL NOTICE -DENTISTRY DONE ON WEEK. SP " ly and monthly tostailn discount for cash, re Rs. dettolylé 11th and ce Why Not Get Your Wife ple supply of Stationery before she goes si be cble to get the dainty psorts. Tot s A box of ¢ a ML use her. the In as in white and de C7 Lowest_ prices. Easton & Rupp, 421 11th st. Yr pular Betoed Statione TS, _(Sest above aye. Viyt ld Belts Less Than Haif Price Take the Be anes It's a Dig stock and how 50. P. T. HALL, rt Fst. od EVERY SATURDAY in eas bske Teteinsed “deste aub-at 4 p.m.: WAKE WILL BARBER & ROSS, ROBERT BOYD, J. H. CHESI. & CO., F.P. MAY & E JAMES B. LAMBIE, Oar new cook's ci Best ser r The Belford, 617-21 13th St. _Setid ee sono SO Have Some in the Housel ‘These hot_eveninzs you'll want something to “evol yon off." Nothing niccr thief PALMER'S RELE aN Just as delicious as the fn comes in same size bottles as the inp S ONLY HALE AS MUCH. Ask your grocer for “Patmer's.”* Well suppl crtry * Don't SODA AND. MINERAL WATERS, 615-621 D ST. S.W. "PHOS Jetta Do you ever send out typewriter type circulars? Try our typewriter process next time. fective. Byron S. Adams, It’s more ef= Prompt T'rinter, 512 11th et. it’s Very Easy To learn to ride a Bicycle tf on 4 suitable Safety. instruc can be rese nominal cl that deducted from the pri buy a RAMBLER. Safecies, $106. Tardems, $159. Q never before so cheap. GORMULLY & JE my1f-28e nr. Can- do satista: Werk without market Is the No Ty ibbon ae r a ee Cancers Siimnus, 120 6 i apS3mo CHARLES ALLEN, M. D. riter 0 We Jno.C.Parker, Ey 3a Cite rt. DLW. Presidential Appointments. The President has appointed Wm. J. Hor- ton of Indian territory to be United States attorn for the central district of Indian territory, and Fred R. Falkenstein to be first assistant engineer in the revenue cut- ter service, ated the Leaders. e WHAT HIS FRIENDS SAY There are evidences that before the next” national campaign is begun in Virginia a ght will be made in the state republican ccmmittee of the old dominion which may result in a change of leaders. Gen. Wm. Mahone for a number of years has been chairman of the republican state and executive committees of Virginia, and in that capacity has been the recognized dictator of his party. The state commit- tee will meet next spring to elect new offi- cers, and there is a considerable feeling of antagonism on the part of many of the members against Gen, Mahone's re-election. It ts claimed that Gen. Mahone’s recent utterances in favor of an aggressive cam- paign in Virginia in 1806 fs in opposition to his course in the past and is adopted simply to help himself to a re-election in view of the opposition which he is encountering within his own party. On the other hand, the friends of Gen. Mahone assert that the course of Inaction which he has counseled during the past four years was for the best interests of the party and that now the time for active party work has arrived It 1s recognized by Gen. Mahone, and he pro- poses to do what at no other time could have been accomplished. Opposition to Mahone. A member of the state republican com- mittee of Virginia who is arrayed in oppo- sition*to Gen. Mahone to a Star reporter today outlined the situation in the repub- lcan party of the old dominion and gave ‘his reasons for believing that the political reign of the chairman of the committee is nearing its close. “The dictatorial policy of Gen. Mahone,” he said, “has been pursued with the re- sult that nearly every republican leader of the state has been estranged from him, and the sentiment is almost unanimous against his further control cf the party machin- ery: I_will mention ex-Congressmen James D. Brady, Benjamin Hooper, Jacob Yost and George E. Bowden as men who have been treated in such a way by Gen. Ma- hone that they have forever thrown off is influence and will oppose him. This feeling toward Gen. Mahone has been brought about because of not only his dic- tatorlal polley, but because he his tematically opposed any effort to line the party up in a fight with the democrats for the last four years. In 1892 at the meet- ing of the state committee Gen. Mahone advised against putting congressional can- didates in the fleld against the democrats. He argued that that being a presidential year the party would arouse the demo to a degree that would injure our chances from a national point of view. He had his way ard no nominations were made. He told us to wait for an ‘off year,’ when we would meet less opposition ard no IlL-etfects could follow our campaign. Ignoring the State Committee. “Again in 18M the state committee met and expected to take steps looking to the nomination .f republican candidates for Congress. We had been told to wait for, an ‘off year,’ and thought that at last our chance had arrived. Te our surprise Gen. Mokcne reversed his argument made two years previously. He told us that that be- ing an off year that our fight would mean nothing, and that {t would be better to wait until 1 when the presidential election would help us. But the sentiment of the committee was largely in favor of placing candidates In the field, and we presented a Tetoluticn to that effec There were pres- ent representatives of forty-five of the fifty members of the committee, and the resolu- tion was carried by a vote of thirty-five of the members. Gen. Mahone then assumed the character of dictator, and, ignoring the action of the committee, gave to the press associations a statement that the commit- tee had decided not to place candidates in the field. Thit action aroused the members who had voted for the resolution, and ef- fort3 were mide to correct the report, with but parttal success, The executive commit- tee is compo: of but three members. They are Gea. Mahone, Stith Bolling and Iva Martin, the 'atter two following Gen. Mahone in everything he decides upon. In this way the exacutive committee could do much to defeat the wishes of the state committee. Tried to Defeat Republican Candi- dates. “In order to defeat the wishes of the state committee Gen. Mahone wrote to some of his friends to do what they could to prevent nominations for Congressmen, and in the event that they could not pre- vent the nominations to work to defeat the candidates. He even went so far as to ask Representative Babcock, chairman of the national congressional committee, to do nothing to assist the republican candidates in Virginia. Later he did take an interest in the election of Representative-elect Walker. “In view of this record the members of the state committee think it strange that Gen. Mahore should come out for an ag- gressive campaign in Virginia, and we look upon that move as one simply to se- cure strength for the chairman in 1805, as he feels that his unpopularity with the committee is so great that he cannot again be elected to that position in 1896, for at our next mee‘ing we will elect his suc- cessor.” What Mahone's Friends Say. Gen. Mahone's friends claim that the members of the committee who oppose him do him Injustice in thinking that he has not acted for the best interests of the republican party in Virginia. They say that the last two congressional elections were not favorable to success for the re- publicans, and that the chairman of the state committee saw this plainly. They say that now Gen. Mahone believes that the opportunity for his party has come and that he is alert to see that such ac- tion is taken to secure as great success us possible in 189 = —-e A Coal Schocner Ashore. NEWBURYPORT, Mass., July 5.—The schooner Abbie and Eva Hooper, Captain James. from Philadelphia for Amesbury, with 150 tons 6f coal, is ashore on Plum Is- She was being towed In by the tug onx yesterday afternoon In a rough sea when the waves broke over the tug and put her fires out, forcing the captain to cut loose from the vessel. The sthooner's c was taken off by the life-saving crew from this city. Nicotine Neutratized CHEW AND SMOKE EXPLANATORY NOTE: Observations taken at 8 a.m., 75th meridian time, tsobars or Hnes of equal afr pressure, drawn for each tenth of an inch. or lines of cqual temperature, drawn for each ten des! twelve hours. Small arrows fly with ‘the wind. or snow has fallen during precedi areas of high and low barometer. Solfd Ines are Dotted lines are isotherms Shaded areas are regions where rain The words “High” and “Low’' show location of LL Ow D. The Weather Today Cloudy and With Showers—Fair Tomorrow. Forecast till 8 p.m. Saturday.—For the District of Columbia and Maryland, partly cloudy and threatening weather, with oc- casional showers today and tonight; fair and warmer Saturd winds becoming southerly. For Virginia, fair, except light showers in eastern portion today; fair and warmer Saturday; winds becoming southerly. An area of low barometer which appear- ed off the New England coast .Thursday morning occupies the middle Atlantic states and the eastern lake region. This storm has caused heavy rains In the mid- dle Atlantic and south New England states. An area of low barometer has moved slow- ly eastward north of Montana and North Dakota, attended by thunder storms and rain from western Lake Superior over Mani- toba. Rain has also, fallen in the south Atlantic and east gulf states, in the north- ern Rocky mountain district, and along the pific ard. ‘0 marked temperature changes have oc- red. The indications are that the northwest and eastern storms will unite over the lake region and cause rain generally through- -out the northern dist. In this section the weather will continue unsettled today and tonight. Saturday coast from San Francisco north- promises to be fair and slightly warmer, and, so far as repoi show, Sunday will be a fuir day. Tide Table. Today—Low tide, ¢ high tide, 6 a.m. 4 5 ‘Tomorrow—Low am. and 2:00 pm.; high tide, 7:15 am. and 7.54 p.m. Condition of the Water. ‘Temperature and condition of water at 8 a.m.: Great Falls, temperature, 73; cond! tion, 2; receiving reservo'r, temperature, 7 condition at north connection, 2; condition at south connection, 1; distributing reser- voir, temperature, condition at influent gate hous: effluent gate house, 2. Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today: 8 a.m., 66; 2 p.m., 72; maximum, 75; min- imum, 62. m. REVENGE OF A JILTED GIRL Sued Her Former Lover for Breach of Promise. Claims He Said He Would Marry Her, but Another Became His Wife, PHILADELPHIA, Pa.,Juiy 5.—The Even- ing Bulletin publishes the following today: Dr. Gilbert Joseph Palen, one of Phila- delphia’s most prominent society men, was arrested on a sheriff's capias on Tuesday last, on a writ charging him with breach of promise of marriage. The plaintiff is Miss Margaret M Thompson, and when the case reaches trial it is said that some very interesting, not to say sensational, develop- ments will result, Dr. Palen is a son of Dr. G. E. Palen of this city and a nephew of the late Jay Gould. He ts well known in society circles here and in New York. On June 11 he was married to Mary Ele- anor Adamson, daughter of William Adam- mantown. The wed- y swell affair and was of a general turn out of the wealth and fashion of the two great cities. Among those present were Miss Helen } Gould, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gould, FP. Jay Gould’ and others of that distinguished family,.who made the journey trom New York to Philadelphia and return on a four- in-hand coach, the trip attracting much public attention at the time. : A brilliant reception followed at Mr.Adam~ son’s house, and then the newly wedded pair left for a honeymoon trip through the south and west. Thus far everything had proceeded as merrily as che proverbial and appropriate marriage bell, but there was disaster in store. Young Dr. Palen had met and loved Miss Thompson, a young and very at- tractive professional nurse, and, according to this young woman's y, he promised her marriage and let it be own far and wide that it was the‘ intention to become man and wife. This understanding con- tinued, says the plaintiff, until her eyes were Suddenly opened by the intelligence that Dr. Palen was wooing another, intel- ligence that was finally confirmed by his marriage to Miss Adamson. After consulting with her friends, an at- torney was instructed to instltute proceed- ings in breach of promise, and a week or so ago they were begun in the court of common pleas. The result was that Judge Sulzberger ordered caplas to issue for Dr. Palen’s arrest, the bail being placed at $1,000, In the course of th ings Dr. Palen and honeymoon wander- s bride finally arrived at Ocean City, N. J., and there the doctor was watched by oflicers representing the jaintiff until he left for Philadelphia on ‘tuesday last. Upon his arrival home the officer quietly served his writ and the bride- groom accompanied him to the sheriff's of- fice, where two friends became his bonds- men. ——_-> — THE COURTS. quity Court No. 1—Chief Justice Bingham. Eyster agt. Cropley; Jno. Ridout ap- pointed guardian ad Item. Collins agt. Thompson; sale ratified nisl. McArdle agt. ‘Toumey; leaye to amend Dill granted. Smith agt. Raub; auditor's report confirmed. Hoover agt. Gibbs; pro confesso made ab- solute. Circuit Court No. 2—Chief Justice Bingham. United States agt. Starr et al.; judgment on verdict for plaintizf. Criminal Covrt No. 2-Judge Cole. United States agt. a Desmond and Chas. Auffcrt, housebreaking and larceny; verdict not guilty. United States agt.Wm. Hallam, housebreaking and_larcen: nolle United States agt- Wm. Williams, Dre: Taw. Desmond and John Dempsey, house- breaking; nolle pros. United States agt. samer larceny; do. United States agt.Chas, Auffort, housebreaking; d United States agt. Chas. Auffort, Jno. W. Patterson and Wm. Wells, violating section 1 R. S., D. nolle 7 United States agt. Robt. Taylor, larceny; order to restore property. Probate Court—Chief Justice Bingham. Mstate of Henry Otto; letters of admi tration issued to Anna M. Otto. Estate of y A. A. Vansant; will fully proved. state of Jaspar Smith; petition for pro- of will and order of publication. Estate of Mary J. Johnson; petition and caveat filed. Estate of Sarah EB. McAllister; petition for accounting Med and order of publication. Estate of Sarah S. Ayer; der authorizing sale of note at face value. Estate of Catherine Isemann; will admit- ted to probate and letters testamer sued to Charles Isemann and Adoiph Fel voss; bond, $700. Estate of Louis A-Schn do. to Eva_E. Schmid; bond, $100. MAIL POUCH TOBACCO. NO NERVES QUAKING. NO HEART PALPITATING. ANTI =-NERVOUS. =DYSPEPTIC, of Henry Tutt; order to sell note at not less than face value. In re Jno. W. Pill- ing, guardian; order authorizing guardian to settle with ward. Estate of Jas. S. Wade; letters of administration {Issued to Robt. H. Wade; bond, $400. ate of Patrick J. McElligott; do. to Maggie M. McElligott; bond, $3,000; and Maggie M. McENigott appoin guardian; bond, $1,500. Estate of Rachel Miller; Benj. H. Brown appointed administrator; bond, $100. In re Gertrude Isemarn; John A. Drawbaugh ap- pointed guardian; bond, $1,500. To Relieve Engincer Borthwick. Chief Engineer J. L. Hannum has been relieved from duty on the receiving ship Vermont, at the New York navy yard, and today ordered to duty on the monitor Am- phitrite at Norfolk, as the relief of Chief Engineer Borthwick, who fs broken down from oyerwork. No report concerning the latter officer’s condition was received at the Navy Department today, but there is a general impression that he will never be able to resume active service. MIGHT BECOME PRESIDENT How Secretary Olney Might Succeed Mx Cleveland. If the Election Were Throwa Into the House and the House Failed to Elee: a eee A good deal of sfiect¥ation fs now being indulged in as to the possible results of a failure of the people to glect a President in the next presidential election, but no one seems to have stumbled upon the fact that such an incident might land Mr. Olney, the present Secretary ‘of State, in the presi- dental chair. Some haye reached the con- clusion that it might make Mr. Stevenson, the present Vice President, the next Presi- dent, merely through failure of the House to elect, in case no candidate recglved a vote of the majority of the states, If the presidential election Js thrown Into that Yody. But, of course, that is ont of the question, for whilé/ the Constitution does say that In case of the failure of the House to elect, “then ihe Vied President shall act | 4s President,” this language, it is claimed, refers to the Vice President who is to be elected by the Senate, while the House is, strugeling with the election of a President. If the Senate Should Fail. But suppose the Senate is unable to elect a Vice President? To be sure, the Constl-‘ tution provides that the Senate shall select only two names, those having the highest numbers of electoral votes, and shall vote for them for the presidency. But it says that “a majority of the whole number” of votes in the Senate shall be necessary to a choice. The Senate will, by February of 1807, have ninety members, as Utah will doubtless have become a state, and have a senatorial representation before that date. if this hapepns it would require forty-six votes for one person before he could be- come Vice President through the action of the Senate. As the republicans will have, at the most, as it is now figured, no more than forty-five, and the democrats no more than forty, at the most, it is not impossible that the 4th of March, 1807, might be reached without the selection of a Presi- dent by the House or a Vice President by the Senate, in case the election of those officers Is thrown into those bodies by a failure to elect through the usual machin- ery of the electoral college. Ww hat then? Of course, President Cleve- land’s term as President and Vice Pres- ident Stevenson's term as Vice President would expire March 4. The Constitution makes no further provision, evidently as- suming that the Senate, with but two didates before it, would elect one as Vice President. But if the view that a majority of the whole membership is necessary to a choice is a correct cne, it is quite possible that it might not so elect. However, the law passed by the Forty-ninth Congress, providing for a successor to the presidency in case of death or inability of the Presi- dent, seems to provide a way out of the ab- solute chaos which this condition would seem to bring. A Cubinet Officer's Tenure. It is generally held that a cabinet officer's term does not end with the term of the man who appointed him, any more than does that of a postmaster or collector of customs. So, In such a case, the cabinet officers would still be such, in the eyes of the law, even after the expiration of Presi- dent Cleveland's term. The “presidential succession law" of the Forty-ninth Con- gress provides that in case of the death or irability or removal of the President and Vice President, the Secretary of State shall act as President until a successor be pro- vided, and shall, within twenty days, call a special session of Congress, presumably to provide for a special election. In case the office of Secretary of State becomes va- cant then the same duty devolves on the Secretary of the Treasury, and so on down the line of the cabinet officers. So, there is just # possibility that, In case of a failure to elect a President by the usual process, ani the division of House and Senate into three sections, that Secre- tary Olney might*become President, or, In his absence, Secretary Carlisle, or, in his absence, Secretary Lamont, who would be next in the order 6f presidential succession. 2 Marine Bang Concert. The following pfogram will be rendered at the concert given this evening by the band of the United States marine corps at the marine barracks: 1.—March, “U, S. iS. New York"..Fanciulli 2—Overture, “Bauber of Seville’’..Rossini 3.—Waltz, “Brilliant” -Chopin 4.—Ballet music from Saba" seee---Gounod —Characteristic, “The Road to M De Loetz —Selection, “The Sunny South”.Tsenmann —Patrol, “Turkish’’. Michaelis 8.—Patriotic hymn, ‘Hail Columbia” .Fyles ——— Still Harping on Philadelphia. From the Indianapolis (Ind.) Sentinel. They tell this story about an electric line which runs in a city in the southern part of the state, but which might be the north Pennsylvania street line: The car was leis- urely coming along when a woman ran out and hailed it. The car stopped and the motorman asked htr if she was going into town, she sald, “but I “No, I'm not going, want to send in a dozen eggs. I have only eleven, but the old he on the nest, and {f you'll wait a little while I'll have the dozen.” The car walted, enormous increase in {icit distillation. When the tax on distilled spirits was in- creased 20 cents per gallon a new incen- tive to fraud was added to that which the internal revenue authorities had al- ready been compelled to constantly fight. The temptation to cheat the government was very great when the premium offered was 4) per cent, and was sufficient to overcome the scruples of several hundred people in the mountain regions of Ten- nessee, Kentucky and the Carolinas, but when another hundred per cent was add-d it seems to have turned the scale with the city people. “Every man has his price,” it is said, and, while 400 per cent seems to have been a satisfactory figure with the mountaineers of the south, the city people did not yield to temptation until 500 per cent Ww: bid. Then they fell, and the “sleuths” of the inspector's division have been compelled to give their attention to the great cities, and especially to New York and Brookiyn, ever since. Possibly, too, an Invention which came along about the time of the passage of the new law may have had something to do with it. Just about the time the additional tax was placed upon spirits a new device came into the field, which made it prac- ticable to do an flifcit distilling bysiness in a much smaller space and with less machinery and paraphernalia thay for- merly: A Portable Still. Some inventive genius, having more re- gard for his own pocket than for that of Uncle Sam or for the morals of his fellow citzens, devised, a year or 50 ago, a small portable still, incased in sheet iron, which can be operated in a wonderfully small space. It Is very much like a small up- right engine and boiler in appearance, and can be set up in a cellar or small apartment, out of sight and sound and smell. For it is often by the smell that the agents of the internal revenue service locate an illicit still. Some of these trained men walking about the streets and outskirts of New York or Brooklyn, with keen olfactory nerves con- stantly on the alert, often “scent’’ an il- licit still, and, wetting a finger and holding it up to determine the direction from which the wind comes, trace and finally locate the very spot whence it emanates. Sometimes this is In the basement of a big tenement house; sometimes in a factory of some sort; sometimes connected with a dairy, and more frequently beneath or in easy reach of a sugar refinery. The report to be turned in shortly afte1 the Ist of July will show an increase ©: obably 60 per cent of arrests for illicit distilling. And, instead of only the names of a few southern states figuring in the list, those of the great states of New York and Illinois and others at the north will appear in it. The seizures of Illicit stills now run from 100 to 200 per month, and for the year about to end will aggre- 2,000. Some Shrewd Devices. The average northern moonshiner shows mere cunning in his methods than do those of the south. This is doubtless because of lis more varied training, for the southern moonshiners are as a rule countrymen who have been in that line of business perhaps half their lives. On the other hand, the average illicit distiller at the north is a city bred man, belonging to the class whose ways are shady generally, and with his superior training and association is able to cevise some Very shrewd ways of con- cealirg his cperations. One of the devices, whicl” was Very successful, too, was to run tn illicit alcohol still in connection with a dairy, The Brooklyn man who invented this plan had quite a successful experience. He made his alcohol, put it into milk cans, slipped the cans into his milk wagons with those containing milk, and was thus able to run them out ard furnish them to a regular line of customers some time before he was discovered. Others operate in basements of buildings close down among the wharves along the river. The incoming vessels which bring sugar always have more or less broken packages and leak- age, which make it neccessary to wash out the accumulated “sweetness,” and al- though it fs usually a filthy mess it fur- nighes material for the illicit stills. _ They buy these washings for a trifle, and are also able to buy molasses for a very iow rate. The result is that their alcohol costs them probably not more than 18 to 20 cents per gallon. As the legitimate manufacturers cannot make it for less than 20 cents, and then must add $1.10 per gal- lon for the tax, the market price for tax- paid goods is about seven times what the illicit distiller's product costs him. Hence the fact that many people are now will- ing to take risks which they never before took, and the increase in arrests and also in the production of illicit aleohol. It is probable that there are a couple of thousand illicit stills running in this coun. try today. This estimate includes the sev. eral hundred small ones which are regis- tered to produce three or four gallons a day, tax-paid, but really double or treble that work. The selzures this year will amount to nearly two thousand, and it is found that nearly every man who is ar- rested, or whose still is broken up, goes back into the business as soon as possible. So the estimate of a couple of thousand is probably not an excessive one, and an estimate of three or four miilion gallons of untaxed spirits made in the year would ae fall outside the limits of the probabili- es. TO TALK WITH APES. Garner Will Go to African to Pursue His Studies. From the Chicago Tribune. Prof. R. L. Garner, the indefatigable seaccher after the mysteries of nature as revealed in the semi-articulate chatterings of the anthropoid apes, is about to set out once mors for Africa to prosecute the fur- ther study of the subject which has such a strong fascination for him. For the pur- pose of providing the necessary funds for this enterprise a company has been incor- porated with a capital stock of $30,000, It is called “The African Fund,” and is one of those which availed themselves of the last chance of incorporating under the old law of Illinois by obtaining the necessary per- mission at Springfield Saturday iast. With Prot. Garner are named as incorporators George P. Jones, Graham P. Jones and B. Cc. Caldwell. These, Lesides numerous oth- ers whose names are not mentioned, are personal friends of Prof. Garner, who, like himself, are interested in promoting scien- tific research. The announced purpose of the fund is to defray the expenses of an expedition to Africa to collect specimens of zoology. But the mere collecticn of speci- mens is not the sole or the principal pur- pose of the expedition. All that the adventurous student of sim- jan dialects did before in the course of his unparalleled. experiment he will do again, only more thoroughly, and with the benefit of his former experience. He will again set up his cage in the primeval forest and live there alone so far as his fellow men are concerned, but, nevertheless, as soclably as circumstances wili permit. He will partic- ipate as often ss he can in the interjec- Prof. tio: commuaings ef his arboreal neigh- bors. He thus hopes to increase to some extent the scenty vocabulary of strange sounds in which he recognizes some more or less definite meaning. Finally, whatever he may accomplish in the way of learning more anthropoid voca- bles, he will bring home with him as choice a collection of young and Intelligent sim- fans as he can procure. Not cnly this, but he wiil also seek among the lowest types of the human race to be found in the Dark Continent for such points of approximation to the simians in mode of speech as may have a bearing on the vexatious problem of evolution. For this purpcse he will ex- tend his explorations to the country inhab- ited by those strange pigmies whom Stan- ley recently proved not to be merely a myth of Greek or Egyptian invention, but a truth understood through being long lost to the sight of the world at large. Prof. Garner is especially destrous of persuading some of these small people to return with him to America, though he recognizes the great difficulty of taking them away from thelr elites environments with safety to their lives. FoR FOR FOR FOR AL NOVICE LOCAL MENTION. LOST AND POUND MARRIAGES MANIC Pqrarerar arenes) aren era ere ar re ee ee Re Ce ice ty SPECIAL NOTICES. STEAM CARPET CL TORAGE . UBURBAN PROPERTY. ER RESORTS RTAKERS . ard). . WANTED (lots)... WANTED (Miscellaneous). W2NTED (iRoom). WANTED (Situations) SATURDAY’S STAR An Instructive, Interesting and At- ira Issue. Among the features of tomorrow's Star, in addition to the news service, which will be full and complete, will be the followin! A CORNER OF BRITTANY. (llustrated.) An artist's trip to this picturesque region, and some of the incidents and scenes entertalaingly described. A PERILOUS ASCENT. (ilustrated.) A graphite account of an experience in mounting climbing in Switzerland. THE EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GE- RARD, (ilustrated.) Another chapter in the fascinating nar- rative of events in the life of a soldier during the Napoleonic period by one of the most popular writers of the present day—A. Conan Doyle. WASHINGTON MUSICIANS. Well-known men and women whose tal- ents have delighted the public in the past. HOW TO KEEP Y iG. This subject is entertainingly discussed by prominent people in this country and Europe who have reached an advanced age. WARFARE IN THE AIR. Proposed construction of a flying machine under army auspices. The attentior paid to the study of military aeronaut- ics in the European armies. GOING TO EUROPE. The Star's Paris correspondent gives some suggestions in regard to travel in Europe, and aiso interesting information about routes and hotels. CLOSING THE HOUSE. What to do in order to prepare the house for the annual summer outing. Some sug- gestions of practical value and interest, CARE OF BAGGAGE. Under the system of baggage checks in this country ‘the average traveler knows little of how his trunk Is handled. An employe in one of the local baggage rooms gives some Interesting informa- tion on this subject. MY MAN JENKINS. A story of life at an army post in the far west from the pen of an army officer. WORK OF THE WORLD. The importance of electricity, and the va- riety of ways it is being used in the af- fairs of daily lfe. A dominating in- fluence in the work of inventors. A TIN CUP VERDICT. In the dialect familiar in the western mining camps a story is told of well- sustained interest of a characteristic in- cident of life in the remote localities of the west. ——_-——_ NEWSPAPERS IN JAPAN. ‘The Curious Process of Settlag Type in That Country. Col. Cockerill in New York Herald. What a blessing it would be to the ver- nacular press, too, to do away with the semi-Chinese hieroglyphics! The novelty of journalism appeals to the Japanese mind. Newspapers are far in ad- vancé of the popular demand. Something like 60C are published In the empire. Tokio had seventeen daily journals at the last census, and the strongest and ablest, even in these exciting war times, cannot boast of a circulation of more than 15,000 copies. The tediousness of “setting up” a news- paper in zigzag, twisted, convoluted and triangulated blocks is more than painful, In the first place, the compositor must be a more learned man than a college pro- fessor. His erudition must excel that of the average editor of ah American news- paper. He must be reasonably familiar with the 14,000 ideographs which constitute the scholar’s vocabulary, and he must have at his finger ends the 4,000 characters in dally use. The office of the Nichi Nichi Shimbun, the leadiAg Tokio journal, is a curiosity shop to the journalist of the western world. About 150 people are employed, six of these being compositors. But each compositor has a half dozen assistants. Copy is cut into large “takes” and hand- ed to the scholarly compositor. This individual wears a pair of goggle spectacles ef enormous magnifying power. He is prepared te drop any one of 4,000 character blocks into his “stick.” He bas before him a case containing forty-seven Kana syllables, wherewith he connects the ideographs. Taking his copy the compositor cuts it into bits and passes it over to his boy as- sistants. These bright fellows go hunting about the office for the required Chinese picture words. While doing this they sing the name of the character they are looking ‘er. All is bustle, jollity and noise. When a boy hes collected the characters called for on his “take” he delivers them to the es Powers of Vision Still Fair, From the Chicago Tribune, Lawyer—"“Now, sir, did you or did you not say you saw the defendant at the time this occurrence tock place? You did see him? Very, good. Now, I should like to have you state to this jury, sir, whether or not your eyesight is defective?” Witess—“Why, as to that’’— Lawyer—“Address your remarks to the jury, sir.’ Witness (to the jury)—“He’s right, gen- tlemen. My left eye’s no good, but I can see tol'bly well out of the other. I can see that this here lawyer dyes his whiskers and they’ve wn about a sixteenth of an inch, I should judge, since he dyed "em lest.” moved from house to house in competent gnd respons 2. 4 American § rity & Trust Co., Storage Warehouse, $1140 15th St. gA. Pl. Read, Manager. Seoeserosos Tilford & ° BROKERS, 1341 F Street. Correspondents of Price, McCormick & Co., New York, Members New York Stock Exchange, Cotton” ebance and Chicago Board of Trade sala Private wires to New Lork and Chicago, _dy2-3m_ “CONCERNING LOANS - AND = INVESTMENTS.” This ts the title of a booklet tesued by us FREE on application. 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Open untils p. m. on Govern-= ment pay days and Satur- day evenings between 6and 8. = scholastic compositor, who places them in order, along with the connecting kana be- fore ‘him. ; When made into forms the modern stereg- typing process is emplo: . and the print ing 1s done on hand-fed flat-bed cylinder presses. lit will thus be seen that ant ‘fte20-204 — Linotype machine, which is quickening an cheapening the newspaper production 0: cur country, {s not practicable here. With the Roman alphabet the Japanesg newspaper, cheap as it 1s, would be stil further cheapened, and certainly improved a hundred fold. Sa The Trade in Sawdust. From the Chicago Record. In New York city theré are about 500 yerders of sawdust, having a capital of $200,000 invested and doing a business of $2,000,000 annually. Forty years ago the mills were glad to have sawdust carted away; twenty-five years ago it could be bought for 50 cents a load; now it brings $8.50 a load at the mills. It is used at hotels, eating houses, groceries and other business places. It is wet and spread over ficors In order to make the sweeping cleafl- er work. Plumbers use it a great about pipes and buildings to deaden walls and floors. Soda-water men an packers of glass and small articles of ev kind use it, and dolls are stuffed with | Yellow pine makes the best sawdust, as js the least dusty and has a pungen' healthy smell. But any light wood will do. Black walnut sawdust will not sell, and is burned. —_—_—_+e+___—_ How to Give Offense. From the Boston Beacon. He—“I hear you attend the Hande} Hayden performances. Were you at the ‘Creation?’ " She (ndignantly)—“I suppose you next want lo know if I sailed im Noap’s ak?” - and it