Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1895, Page 9

THE ASSASSIN. BY RICHARD MARSH. (Copyright, 1895, by Irving Bacheller.) (Continued from Thursday's Star.) Iv. M. and Mme. Gerbert lived, it seemed, fu cinquieme. Mr. Kennard and Mr. Nash were conscious that, as they mounted higher, they seemed to be leaving even cleanliness behind them. The last stair- case was In a state of almost dangerous dilapidation. The plaster wes coming in great patches off the wall. Mr. Kennard hesitated before he knocked at the un- * promising locking door. “If I had had any idea that things were so bad as this with him,” he murmured, “hang me if I would have suggested com- ing. What a brute he must suppose I am.” Mr. Nash was, as he was too apt to be, sententious. “You must never infer how a French- man lives, or where, from his appearance at his cafe. They knocked three times, and still there was no answer. Mr. Kennard was about to propose a retreat when M. Gerbert him- self opened the door. “Enter, gentlemen.” They entered a lit- tle solemnly. When they were in M. Ger- bert stood with his back to the door. “You see, gentlemen, this is my little apartment. I told you it was a little apartment, did I not?" He had done so, but not how little, not how bare it was of furniture. The room ‘was a mere cockloft. It was lighted by a tin lamp which stood upon an old wooden table. This table, 2 bed in a corner, and a “Do not let him touch me.” chair or two was practically all the furnt- ture the place contained. It was not only the abode of poverty. it seemed to be the abode of actual destitution. Still standing with his back to the door, M. Gerbert took an obviously wry-mouthed pleasure in openly avowing the fact. “I heard you knock, gentiemen, three times. Why did I not oren? Because I was ashamed.. I have had the pleasure of your acquaintance now two years. You have known me as a gen- tleman, as one of yourselves. You may well believe that I felt it difficult when the moment came to prove to you that, after bo I wos only a beggar and lived in a 0: “My dear Gerbert!” stammered Mr. Ken- nard. His friend was reader. “My dear fellow, you don’t suppose that you are the only man who has known what it Is to be hard up. Why, I: myself have slept in a doss- house, and I've been glad to have the four- pence to do it with.” “{ understand you; I thank you,Mr. Nash. I am, now, worse off than you were, as they say in the fairy tales, once upon a time.” “My dear Gerbert,” blundered Mr. Ken- nard, “if you had only hinted—if you had only told me-—" He got no further. M. Gerbert continued— after a fashion of his own: “If I had only told you what? You see I still huve clothes—I \have a decent coat—It is true I find my shoes begin to want a tle careful touching—and I do not care to allow my shirt to beconte too prominent— but so long as I could bear myself with decency, what was there then I should have told you? You must forgive my saying that I should have told you nothing now, if you had not, in a measure, forced me to con- fession. But I seem to be lacking in hos- pitality. E have often been to your apart- ments. It is the first time you have come to mine. I beg of you to make yourselves entirely at your ease.” Mr. Kennard was already tousling his hair—as was his habit when disturbed. “And—and Madame Gerbert?” “My wife is gone.” “Gone! Gerbert, what do you mean?" “She went from me this morning—that js what I mean.” “But have you no notion where she’s gone to?” “How should I have a notion? She was free to go where she chose—as free as air." “Oughtn’t you to make inquiries?” “To serve what purpose? I know little, it is true, but what I know is more than enough. I know that she has become tired of me—of my poverty, of this.” He stretch- ed out his arms on either side of him. “She is but a young girl; a young girl soon be- comes tired, it is only natural. But I am too much of an egotist. I weary you with trivialities. You must excuse me if I do not offer you to cat or to drink. I beg of you not to require from me too particular rea- sons for my seeming inhospitality.” Mr. Nash was seated, as much at his ease as if he had been paying the most com- monplace of calls. He watched M. Gerbert, @s though he found him unusually interest- “If I had but a pistol,” he screamed. ing, !f only as a study. Mr. Kennard wan- dered about the room. Every now and then he ran his hand through his hair. He paused before a little shelf which was fixed against the wall. The only thing upon it was a photograph. He took it in his hand, and, half absent-mindedly, began to look at it. Suddenly, his wits seemed to cease wool gathering. His eyes flashed. The ex- pression on his face betokened keen atten- tion. He took the photograph to the table, bending over so that the lamp might show more plainly what it was that he was looking at. “Who's that?" He was staring, as if he experienced a diiticulty in crediting the evidence of his own senses. “Why it's the assassin!" M. Gerbert had momentarily turned away. ‘At the sound of Mr. Kennard’s yoice he turned again. “I beg your parden?” “It's the individual who found life an in- supportable burden.” M. Gerbert went to the table. He saw what Mr. Kennard was holding. “That is the portrait of Celestine-of my wi our wife’ Your wife! Mr. Kennard’s voice rose almost to a roar. “This is the girl who came to me this morning, and who, in exchange for ten thousand francs, offered to kill the president.” M. Gerbert’s eyes visibly dilated. Ha caught at the edge of the table as if to help him stand. “Are you sure?” “Sure!” Taking his host by the shoulder, as he shouted each new insult, Mr. Ken- rard shook him as if he had been some naughty child. “You Uttle mountebank! You tailor’s dummy! You shell of a man!” In his excitement acti lifted his host right off his feet, and held him: up before him in the air. “With your attitudinizing, and the rest of your-damned- folly, you've driven that little girl, who loves you as only a woman can love a fool, to try to gain for you a wretched ten thous- and francs in exchange, you little ass, for ker own life!” Mr. Nash came and laid his hand upon his impulsive friend’s impulsive arm. “Steady, Hugh.” Thus recalled to himself, and to the con- ventions of civilized society, Mr. Kennard replaced his host upon his feet upon the floor. M. Gerbert seemed so taken aback by the treatment he had received, as to be able, for the moment, to do nothing but pant and gape. In the sudden silence a pass key was heard being inserted in the door withcut. It was opened. A woman came in. It was the woman who, that morning, had visited Mr. Kennard. “Alphonse!” she exclaimed. ‘What is it?” She caught sight of Mr. Kennard, and knew him. “Monsieur Hugh Kennard! Mon Dieu!” She crouched back against the wall, as if, if she could, she would shrink right through it. One could see that she was trembling in every limb. Her veil was up, so that one perceived that even the muscles of her face were trembling. In the uncer- tain light she looked more childish even than she had done in the morning. Mr. Kennard moved forward. “My child!” he sald. “No! no!” She put up her hands as if to ward him from her. ‘Alphonse! Al- phonse! Do not let him touch me!” It was pitiful to see her. It almost seem- ed as if it was these three men against this one little girl. In the face of her. too obvious aversion, Mr. Kennard all at cnce was tongue-tied. As usual, Mr. Nash was more self-possessed than his friend. He touched his host gently on the arm. “Gerbert, may I beg from you the honor of an introduction to madame?" M. Gerbert appeared to be struggling with a waking dream. As his faculties returned, with a slight gesture, he, as it were, brush- ed Mr. Nash aside. “Permit me.” He advanced till he stood quite close to the woman cowering against the wall. He looked at her for a moment in silence. “Ah—it is you.” He returned to Mr. Kennard. “I believe, Mr. Kennard, that you are a larger man than I. On the other hand, and at the same time, it is true I am a beggar.” ‘The big man was evidently in a state of mental confusion. He had eyes only for the girl quivering against the wall. Wy dear Gerbert, upon my soul, I beg yeur pardon. Won't—won't you introduce me to Madame Gerbert . “To Madame Gerbert?’ Clasping his hands behind his back, M. Gerbert fell into a pcse which, if we are to believe the peinters, was a favorite one of the first Napcleon’s. “It appears that you already are acquainted with Madame Gerbert. “The acquaintance is of an informal kind.” “So I should Imagine.” The red-haired little man addressed himself to his girl wife. His words seemed to make her quiver as if they had been so many lashes frem a whiv. “So it is you. I thought that Alphonse!” was all she said. “T imagined when, this morning, you left me that you observed that you never would set eyes on me again.” Alphonse: uu told me a few things, but was it becavse you forgot that you omitted to tell me that, so soon as you were outside my door, you were going to pay a visit to a strange man?” “Alphonse! The woman put up her hands to cover her face. Mr. Kennard grasped his friend's erm, with, perhaps, unconscious vigor. “[’ shall’ murder this little brute in a minute,” he murmured. As he whispered a response, Mr. Nash disengaged his arm from his friend’s too orous grasp. Did I not tell you that the French have their own point of view, and that we had ours?” M. Gerbert had continued to. gaze in silerce at his wife. As if moved with the courage of desperation, taking her hands from hefore her face, she ventured to make an attempt to offer some sort of a plea in self-defens: Iphonse, I did it for you.”” “For me?" M. Gerhert tapped his hand against his breast. “It was for me that you paid a visit to a strange man?” “Tt was a little plot which I had formed to gain for you the 10,000 francs, of which, you krow, you are in need. I had thought to gain them for you in exchange for my life—so that my death might be worth something to you,*though my life had been worth nothing at all. And, Alphonse—hus- tand! I have only returned to tell you that I think I have gained for you the sum which you requir: The sim which I require—my wife, at what pri The strangest smile flitted across the girl's face, as she held out her hands and answered: “What does it matter?” “To you—nothing at all. Te}l me—every- thing. I have my good name—I! I have my honor.” M. Gerbert crossed his arms upon his chest. “Already, because of you, my honor has been dragged in the dust. Your English friend has used me as if I were a thing of the gutter, here, in my own apartment.” Mr. Kennard interposed. “I do assure you, my dear Gerbert, that {t was a misunderstanding.” “A misunderstanding?” Four feet six glowered up at six feet four. Before the pigmy the giant seemed to cower. “It is a misunderstanding, M. Kennard, which can only be explained with your life, or with mine.” “Alphonse!—my husband!" The girl advanced. The man shrank back. “Madame Gerbert, have the goodness not to defile me with your touch. To the other things which you have brought me It but remained to add dishonor. ‘hat, also, you have brought me. last of all. Since, there- fore, you have fled to me and have re- turned to crush me unto eternity with the last offering of your shaine—which, un- fortunately, because it is yours, a thotsand times more is mine!—for me it but remains to go.”” M. Gerbert made a movement toward the door. Mr. Kennard caught him by the shoulder. “Gerbert, don’t be a fool!” In an instant M. Gerbert was like a wild- cat in a frenzy. Leaping up at Mr. Ken- nard, he attacked him, literally, tooth and nail.’ He poured forth language which was not only unparliamentary, but also un- printable. The big man, in his turn, was so taken by surprise that he made not the slightest attempt even at defense. The first paroxysm of his fury exhausted, the little man stamped on the floor and shrieked with rage. “If I had but a pistol!” he screamed. His wife, who was standing a yard cr two away from him, took something from the pocket of her dress. “I have a revolver,” she said. She proved it by discovering that she had such a weapon in her hand. It was probably the same one with which, in the morning, she had kept Mr. Kennard at a distance. Mr. Nash called out to his friend: “Keep tight hold of him, Hugh; don’t let him get near it for your life!” Madame Gerbert turned to him with that air of simple seriousness which was so like the exaggerated seriousness of a little child. “Tt is not for my husband. It is for me!” Eefore they had a suspicion of her pur- pose she placed the barrel of the revolver against her brow and fired. It was done so quickly that, although Mr. Kennard rushed forward while the -words were still, as it were, upon her lips, he was only in time to put his arm about her body as it was fall- ing—dead. (The end.) +o+——___ The Star Out of Town. THD EVENING STAR will be sent by mail to any address in the United States or Canada for such period as may be desired at the rate of fifty cents per month. ty But all such orders must be ac- companied by the money, or the paper cannot be sent, as no ac- counts are kept with mall subscrip- tions. —_—_____+e+—_. A jetory for Hastings. The most exciting republican county convention in the history of the York, Pa., district ended yesterday in a victory for the Hastings forces, who elected their five delegates to the state convention hy a vote ranging from 139 to 124 against Quay vote of from 48 to 69. Another “Hope” Stery. “The Madness of Lord Harry Culver- hovse,” by Anthony Hope, will be publish- ed complete in tomorrow's Star, extensively and beautifully illustrated. The scenes are In Strelsau, in the forest of the Castle of Zenda, made so familiar by Hope's famous book. THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1895—-TEN PAGES IT MAY BE PUT OFF Fhe First Race for the America's Cun. VALKYRIE WILL HAVE LITTLE TIME Only Defender and Vigilant in the Trials. GENERAL OUTDOOR SPORTS Although the trial race to select a de- fender for the America’s cup will be decid- ed next week and the date for the first cup race has been fixed for September 7, it is extremely doubtful now if the latter event will be sailed before Saturday, September 14. It is not thought that Valkyrle III will reach America before Sunday. This would only give her twenty days to unship the ketch rig, haul out for any necessary re- pairs, put a new mast in, and bend the rac- ing spars and canvas. Taking the Thistle and Valkyrie I as examples, the time is far too short to get a big single-sticker in anything lke racing trim, and it is general- ly understood that Lord Dunraven or De- signer Watson will request a brief post- ponement of the cup races, in order to get the Valkyrie III in something like racing form. As a matter of fact, the Valkyrie IIT is practically an untried boat, as she had scarcely three weeks’ sailing on the other side, and only started in four races. When. she arrives It is the Intention of Lord Dunraven to have her hauled out and coppered, and, judging by past experience with the Defender and Vigilant, it will take fully two additional weeks to try her various spars, both steel and wooden, to say nothing of her two mainsails and in- numerable head sails. Ex-Commodore James D. Smith of the America’s cup committee was asked yes- terday if Lord Dunraven requested a post- penement of the cup races whether the Tequest would be granted. He teplied: “Why, certainly. While the committee, in common with the rest of the American people, want to see our boat win, i am sure no one wants to place the Val- kyrle at a disadvantage. We wish to see the Valkyrie come to the line in the best possible condition, and if a few days’ post- ponement will help attain that end I am sure the cup committee will go half way to meet Lord Dunraven in the matter.” Commodore Smith further said that the America’s cup committee and the regatta committee of the New York Yacht Club had chartered the tug Luckenbach for the trial races. He added that the Defender and Vigilant would probably be the only starters. BROOKLYN, N. Y., August 16.—The yacht Vigilant was dry-docked in the Erie basin todzy. Mr. John Hyslop, the yacht club’s measurer, was early on hand, and bearded the Vigilant. He had a long talk with Mr. A. Willard, after which he began preparaticns for the measuring. The light- enirg of the boat was then begun. PLAYING UNFINISHED GAMES. Progress of the International Chess Tournament. Play in the chess tournament of the two games left unfinished on Monday between Mason and Bardeleben and Albin and Blackburne was resumed at Hastings, Eng- land, yesterday. Mason, who opened on Monday with a Giuoco Piano, played finely in the opening and middle game, but he was outwitted by the German expert in handling the pieces in the end game, and Bardeleben won after eighty-two moves. The Albin-Blackburne game .was again adjourned. Following is the standing of all the com- petitors: umber of games wou, $ otal number of games lost, $7. *Adjourned game, 1. THE PITCHER’S FAULT. NOT Poor Fielding Lost the Game for the Senators. The Washingtons made their last appear- ance at Brooklyn this season at Eastern Park yesterday. It was Malarkey’s last game in a Washington uniform, as his ro- tice of release expires today. If his work yesterday was a c rion of what he is able to do, he will not be idle long. The Senators lost through stupid work in the field. Score: BROOKLYN, 4 if FI wi ; H.0.4.E,| -0.4.B. 12 020 11 210 02 601 02 10 0 0 15 120 00 000 213 B40 02 201 00 010 Totals... 6 52713 0) 52410 2 Totals... 2 5 24 Washington, 2. Earned ‘runs—Brooklyn, 1; base by errors—Brooklyn, 1 lyn, 4; Washington, 4, alarkey, 3 Home run—MeGut La Chance. Sacrifice bit—Shindl Griffin, Anderson. Double _piays—Schei Hassamer; Corcoran, Daly and La Chance. k and Hit by pitched ball—Andersoa. Time of game—1:40. Um- pire—Keefe. Other League Games. At Baltimore—Pitchers. REE. Baltimore......Esper-Clarkson......11 18 2 a 210 19 2 @ifteen innings.) At Chicago— Pittsburg. 3 Chicago. 3 At Cleveland— Cincinnati 2 Cleveland 1 At Philadelphia— Philadelphia.Carsey-Taylor-Orth...23 26 8 New York...Meekin-Van Haltven.. 9 21 1 The League Record. WW. L. Pc Clubs. = W. x Philadelphia, 49° 41.544 Brookly: 47 44 516 WS New York... 46 45 Washington. 852 *B05 Today's Schedule. Baltimore at Washington. Boston at Philadelphia. New York at Brooklyn. Cincinnati at Cleveland. Pittsburg at Chicago. Louisville at St. Louis. ENGRAVERS IN THE LEAD. Take a Ball From the D. C. Team. The bureau of engraving and printing and the District Commissioners met at National Park yesterday—at least, the ball teams representing those two offices did—and the result was a victory for the bureau lads. Both tezems played fine ball, making the same number of errors, and the D. C. O. making cnly one hit less than their 6; ponents. All of the players were on their mettle and played their positions for all that there was in them. The game pro- gressed smvothly throughout, partly due to the umpiring of Mr. Betts. This places the bureau one ahead of the W. L. I. in the standing of the second half of the Depart- mental League schedule, while the District Commissioners drop to fourth place. The W. L. I. will meet the treasury team tomorrow and a good game is expected. They The score: BUREAU. { D. 0. 0. R.H.O.A.B.| R.H.O.AB Iach,8b... 2.1 5 4 1/ Jones, 00200 1 8 8B 1/Fuller,2...0 1 4 20 2 2 0 O Dickinsone. 1 2 3 8 3 215 s3...018 01 012 21000 27015 12900 1 0 0 0 Leech, 11861 1 8 0 O Hossey,cf.. 0 0 0 0 0 © 0 1 O Fitzgeraldp 1 1 0 1 0 5) Totals... 6 92412 5 092122020 x9 sesese -0301110006 Earned runs—Bureau, 5; D. C., 3. First base on ay or "Pige base on pate On Fitegeraée 2 off ‘Struck out—By Bernard. 6; by Fitz- ‘Flaherty, ith. 6. Three-base bil ), Flaherty, FiGjerld and 'Puker Trobsee ite”-McCauley, Barr_and Sacrifice % mental League. pn ee A03 Yesterday's game at Chicago was one of the hottest and most exci games seen there this season. The Pirates batted Grif- fith hard in the first toning, taking four runs. The Colts tied them in the second on a couple of hits, two passes and an error. Hawley then replaced Hewitt in the box. One run was made off him in the. third ona gift, 2 passed ball and a single. Pittsburg tied the score in the sixth, when ‘Hewley lined out a beauty over the right- field fence. e ‘They counted one in each of the three Jast innings on errors, coupled with time- ly hits. With the score eight to five against them, Griffith opened the Colts’ ninth with a double. An error and four wide ones filled the bases. Then Hawley made a balk, scoring Griffith and advancing cach runner a base. Lange's out tallied another run. Decker then hit a vicious liner to first, Beckley ‘catching it ‘just off the ground and firing it to third in time to exe- cute an elegant double play. All six of the double plays were sharp and brilliant ones, Ryan’s catch and throw from deep right being especially fine. Hank 0’Day Wants Protection. Umpire O'Day fined O'Connor $25 twice ard $50 once in the last inning of yester- dsy's game at Cleveland, and imposed a $50 fine on Manager Tebeau for objecting to his decision in the last inning, which cost Cleveland the game. In the dressing room O*Connor-and O'Day"had words, and the Cleveland player remarked that if O'Day repeated his roast on’ Cleveland ‘in the second game something would drop. Last night O'Day telesraphed ‘President’ Young that unless President Robison would insure his safety he would refuse to of- ficiate in the coming games. WRENN AND CHACE. Winners of the Finals in the Eastern Doubles at Narragansett Pier. The finals in the eastern doubles at Nar- ragarsett Pier yesterday were won by Wrenn and Chace, who had a hard battle with Howland-and Foote. There were 8,900 people on the Casino grounds, and great entkusiasm prevailed. The match proved interesting for many reasons, but chiefly because it was for the eastern champion- ship in doubles, the winners to play the western champions. On the other hand, there is much rivalry between the two pairs, the winners yés- terday having been defeated last year, which made them doubly anxious to win. ‘They will meet the Neel brothers of Chi- cago today for the right to challenge Ho- bart and Hovey for the national champion- ship. ‘The Yale combination, Howland and Foote, started in with a rush and secured a lead of five games to two in the first set. ‘The champion and his ‘partner, however, captured the next three games by good lob- bing. Howland and Foote then took the rext two games and thé'‘set. In the sec- ond set the play improved materially, and was both fast and bnilifant. As in the first set, however, the Jeading team won the next two games, and the match stood one set all. The third set was poorly played by How- land ard Foote, their ‘épponents winning mostly on their errors. Five stralght Sames fell to the Yale ten in succession, and, after losing one by’Wolleying into the net, they captured the “filmth aud tied the score of the match at twé2sets all. The fifth set was started amid great ex- cltement. A love game fot each side made the sccre five games to ‘tWo for Wrenn and Chace. Wrenn and Chate needed only ofe stroke to win, but Howlafd made a clever shot volley after a long"rally, which saved the game. Foote misjudged a ball that fell in the court, and then Wrenn killed the last bail short in the court and the match was over. Summary: !*™ Doubles, finals.—Wrenn_and Chace beat land and Foote, 5—i, 7—3, 6-1, 3-6, les, preliminary round.—Reed beat Masscn, 6-3, 6—4. First round.—Stevens beat Foote, 6—2, G4; Paret beat Reed, 6-1, 6-4; Howland beat Fischer, 6-3, 7—5; Davidson beat Tall- mage, 6—3, 6—4. Accilent to a Jockey. Miles Standish ran into a tree while lead- ing half a mile from the finish in the steeplechase at Windsor yesterday, and Jockey M. Lynch was badly hurt, but no bones were broken. He is delirious. The management will have no more steeple hases. Patchen’s Mile in 2.04 1-4. Two thousand people went to State Park at Milwaukee yesterday afternoon to see Joe Patchen attempt to lower John R. Gentry’s stallion record of 2.0% 3-4 and fail. Patchen made the mile in 2.04 1-4. Rap 100 Yards in 9 3-5 Second Tom Robinson of Fairbury, Hl, at the Bloomington Fair Grounds yesterday ran 100 yards in 9 3-5, breaking the world's record. He is in the match at Brockton, Mass., September 2, tn which all the crack sprinters of the country are entered. British Cyelists Will Protest. Edward Clegg and Coleman Nockolds, the two Englishmen arrested at Chadron, Neb., for riding bicycles on the sidewalks, were put on the rock pile, and finally paid their -fines. yesterday. They employed a lawyer, and at once petitioned the agent of their government,.at. Washington: to. de- mand proper redress from the federal gov- ernment. Cairo Club Tournament. The score up to date in the Cairo Tennis Club tournament is as follows: Schuster beat Wise, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4; Ballinger beat Fe- derlein, 6-3, 6-2; Chipman beat Crist, 6-3, 6-4; Snyder beat Mussey, 4-6, 8-6, 6-4; Per- kins beat Boyle, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4; Mills beat Wingfield, 7-5, 6-0; Norwood beat Young, 6-0, 2-6, 6-1. Will Be a Grent Race. A match has been made between the pacers John R. Gentry and Joe Patchen, for a purse of $3,000, to come off.on the track of the Northeastern Trotting Horse Breeders’ Association, August 22, Washing- ton. Park, Chicago. The race will be the greatest harness event of the year, as a bitter rivalry for the side-wheel supremacy of the country exists between the owners of these diagonal flyers. Betting at the Harlem Track. Harlem track officials at Chicago won a temporary victory over theiCivic Federation yesterday, and on an order from Judge Gibbons the injunction restraining them from allowing gambling, on the track has been set aside for the time. A full hearing of the case was set for Monday, and at that time it is expected a decision will be ren- dered which will settle the controversy ard incidentally the fate of ‘the Harlem track, so far as continuous racing for the rest of the summer is concerned. 4 Sporting Notes. Nicholas Hayes’ bay” gelding Pittsburg Wilkes was defeated at Belmont Driving Park, Philadelphia, yesterday by John Reamer's gray gelding“ Grayfield. Gray- field won the first, third and fourth heats, and Pittsburg Wilkes the second. Time, 2.20 3-4, 2.16 1-4, 2.17 1-4, 2.16 1-4. The race was for a purse of $2,500. At the Grand Opera House in Memphis last night Billy O'Donnell of Memphis de- feated Oscar Gardner, “Omaha Kid,” in the thirteenth round of a lively and in- teresting fight. Both of the little men were decidedly clever, but O'Donnell out-gen- eraled the Omaha man, acting on the de- fensive until the fifteenth round, when he ccrmenced forcing the fighting, finishing Fe man by a well-planted blow on the jaw. The contract for the erection of the Florida Athletic Club's amphitheater at Dallas, Texas, has been let. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad has given its check for $20,000 for one thousand reserved seats to the contest, to be sold along the line. A letter has been received there, say- ing Fitzsimmons will probably train at Ter- rell, a small town thirty miles east of Dallas. Corbett’s quarters at Galveston are being fixed up for his reception. HEAT ‘HELPED THE HEN The Fowl Deserted Her Eggs, but They Hatched All the Same An Incident of the Prevailing Solstice ‘That Increased the Local Poultry Census—The Hot Spell Continues. ‘Washingtonians have long been familiar with the fact that on certain occasions during the hot spells, which, at intervals far apart, make our usually delightful sum- mers disagreeable, the asphalt becomes soft to a point of mushiness; that the tar Gozes out from the interstices between the Belgian blocks, and that other phenomena occur which serve to accentuate the fact that the temperature is torrid. Still, at no time in the past, has the heat in Wash- ington been regarded as of sufficient in- tensity to hatch out eggs. During the present spell, however, this feat has been accomplished, and several small and yellow results of the remarkable operation are fol- lowing a surprised, Lut delighted, hen around in a Capitol Hill back yard. The facts are that a lady on 3d street northeast some time ago bought a large and genial hen for the edification and amusement of her two little ldren. Shortly after the purchase the fowl dis- played a singular pertinacity to hover over cast-off door knobs, thrown aside tea-'rettle spouts and other vagrant articles, indicat- ing by these proceedings that the motherly instinct was strong within her, and that what she most devoutly wished was thir- teen eggs upon which to settle herself, and there remain in stately and solemn satis- faction. Her Ardent AmDition Satisfied. Accordingly the proprietor of the house scurried down to the market and secured a setting of warranted eggs with which to fill the old hen’s heart with peace and hap- piness, and, eventually, the premises with her peeping progeny. For two weeks and three days that hen sat on those eggs. No allurements could wean her from her self- imposed duty. While the other chickens in the neighborhood held high carnival and erjoyed sumptuous feasts on thoughtless gtasshoppers and fat earth-worms and other things dear to the chicken heart, she sat and stared and blinked, and let even no cluck or chirp disturb her meditations. At the enc of the period mentioned, how- ever, a change came o’er the spirit of her reams. She knew that she had not laid thcse eggs herself, and the probabilities are that a sickening suspicion crept into her wise old mind that she was being fooled and that the articles beneath her would ceme to naught. She Deserts the Nest. Accordingly she left the nest and the eggs and rejoined her companions on the near-by commons, and contented herself in scratching for self-preservation, instead of kickirg up the dirt on behalf of ten or a dozen little ones. Three days after ‘the rest had been deserted the owner of the premises remarked to his wife that he might as well throw the eggs aWay, as they had become cold. Subsequent events showed that he did not know anything about the real quality of Washington weather. Something prevented his remov- ing the eggs from the nest and throwing them out. Yesterday evening his devoted wife was sitting in her dining room when she heard the faint “peep, peep” of juvenile poultry. Upon investigation it was found that the eggs which the hen had deserted had been hatched out without her attention, and en- tirely by the effects of the natural heat of the atmosphere. The old hen was caught in a remote end of the premises and put on the nest, where the young chicks were clamoring for a mother, She seemed abso- lutely overwhelmed with astonishment, but cuddled down over them nevertheless, and this morning she was strutting around scratching gravel for her sun-hatched pro- geny as faithfully and as proudly as if they were really her own. Hot Enough to Cook Eggs Today. It is probable that eggs placed in the sun this afternoon would not have hatched out prospective pullets. The chances are that they would have been cooked. The prom- ised cool wave about which the weather bureau has been talking with such superb confidence for the past two or three days was switched off in the northeast yesterday, and went cavorting across the lake region, whére the people never have any trouble about hot weather anyhow, and where a cool wave :s about as superfluous asa palm leaf fan, consequentiy there is no telling how long this intense weather will last. The only consolation to be derived from the conditions is that it is just about as hot all through the middle Atlantic states as it is in Washington, and this can only be ex- perienced by those who live up to the belief that misery loves company. Army Orders, ‘The sick leave of Capt. Frank A. Ed- wards has been extended four months and he is authorized to go abroad. Additional Second Lieut. George P. How- ell, corps of engineers, has been assigned to the vacant second leutenancy in the en- gineer corps. Second Lieut. Benjamin F. Hardway, seventeenth infantry, has been granted a month's leave. The leave of First Lieut. Charles C. Bal- lou has been extended one month. A leave of two months has been granted Second Lieut. William J. Snow, first ar- tillery. . One month's leave has been granted to First Lieut. John C. Waterman, eightn cavalry. e+ ‘TRUTH ABOUT THE BANNACKS. Rev. W. S. Rainsford Says the Blame is on the White Settlers. Rey. W. 8. Rainsford sends the New York Post the foliowing comment on the Bannack Indian scare: “Ail who know what our frontier life is and what are the rolationg of the settlers and miners to the Indian will appreciate the forcs and truth of your article-m'the Evening Post of Au- gust 2. I have spent the best part of seven summers and autumns in the mountain re- gions where stil the Utes, Bannacks and Shoshones are accustomed to htt, and I venture to say that it is scarcely possible to exaggerate the case the Indians have agairst the frontiersmen. When we speak of the frontiersman we are apt to conjure up before cur imagination a picture fanci- ful and untrue to the last degree. As the Indian meets him, he krows him to his sorrow, nire times out of ten, to be a bloodthirsty scoundrel. There are, of course, quiet, peaceable, law-abiding citi- zens in those regions; but a sheriff's posse is not composed of these. Rather to it flock the least successful hangers-on of the mining camp asfd the ranch, men who have failed in the east. I can speak from @ very considerable krowledze of the class, A NEW DISCOVERY BY THE SHAKERS. For more than a hurdred years the Mount Lebanon Shakers have studied the cultivation of medicinal plants and sought to extract from them their healing essences. Treir labor has mot been spent in vain. They have made a discovery’ that Will prove a blessing to mankind. It consists of a cordial that causes inmcdiate relief in cases of indigestion. “The importance of this discovery will be apparent when we realize that nearly nine tenths of our suffering are caused by dyspepsia or indigestion. Nearly every person you meet has this disgestive trouble in some of its varled forms —sick headache, distress after eating, pain and fullness in the chest after eating, palpitation of the heart, &=., are but symptoms of indigestion. To relieve these sufferings las been the study-of the Shakers, and they hav2 succeeded. The recsom the Shaker Digestive Cordial bas such en ime mediate and salutury effect is that it causes the food eaten to be digested, for it is undigested food that causes the distress. ‘The cordial causes the food to be digested before there is time for it to ferment and sour on the stomach. When the food and I dy not hesitate to say that nowhere | ! 8 digested it gives strength and vigor to the in the land could there be found a class | feeble bedy, makes one fcel bright and cheerful, less fitted to deal jvstly with the Indians. “I have had unusual opportunities to ex- amine into the causes of three or four so-called Indian outbreaks; fn one and all of them tbe facts are pretty much as you outline them in this Bannack affair. They have in many ceses been deliberately planned by the whites, who wanted land, ponies or government coatracts. Expedi- tions have been secretly undertaken to force the Utes into outbreak. In one case a courty official offered me Ute ponies for sale, and when I pointed to the Indian marks and asked how he got them, then and makes one gain in ficsh, The Digestive Cordial 3s so pgompt in its action that the very first dose will have a perceptibly favorable result. It gives immediate rellef. Every druggist bas been sent a supply of our handsome Donkey Puzzle Books, and a copy may be had for the asking. It tells all about the core dial as well as Laxol, the new castor oll. ‘Try a 2-cent bottle of Digestive Cordial and see what it will do for you. out came the whole story, it never occur- | POOCCCOOCOOOSOSOSOSOOOOOOO® ring to Fim that it was a practical confes- sicn of perjury on lis part. A party had been made up of just such mining camp bummers as I have referred to as plentiful on the frontier. A night attack had been made on a peaceful encampment of In- dians; several had been Killed and hun- dreds of peries stolen, These latter were hawked round the country. “As to the game question, the whole thing is trensparent humbug. Any sports- man who knows the avest will bear me out when I-say it is the professional skin hun- ter that wipes game out. None is so de- structive to game as the settlers them- selves; none so utterly regardless of the game laws. Near this same Jackson's Hole I have seen the carcasses of seven teen elk, killed by a blow on the head with an ax while they floundered in the March snow drift. Their hides were not even taken, and for food purposes they were utterly useless. The Indians cannot sub- sist on their present beef rations; they must eke it out by fall hunting. They have for years hunted without let or hindrance; nor is their presence in those sparsely set- tled regions as destructive to game or as dangerous to property as is the presence of the very common nomadic white man. This last Bannack scare is but one more sicken- ing and disgraceful addition to a shame- fully wicked story.” AT THE WARREN You Can Put Your Foot Into more styl, comfort and genuine excellence in our Shoes than yon will fud at any other store in the city for the same amount of money. Our pres: ent cut prices will save you lots of money during the next“ten-days. The-rooner you come, though, the better chance you stand of getting your size. For Men. 4 lots of $3.00 Russin Calf Shoes at. 3 lots of $2.50 Russia Calf Shoes at. 2 lots of $4.00 Russia Calf Shoes at. 3 lots of $5. 5 lots of $6.00 French Patent Calf Shocs at.. 4. Several hundred pairs $5.00 and $6.00 Sample Shoes at... “a5 3.50 All $5.00 Low Shoes, except Southern Ties, at. 2. For the Ladies. Hundreds of pairs $2.00 and $3.00 Sample Ox- pls Btoeece ee eee eee a 2 lots $3.00 High Russet Lace Shees at......$1.65 1 lot $2.00 High Russet Lace Shoes at. + 1.35 Children’s and Misses’ Low Shoes way down. The Warren — Shoe House, GEO. W. RICH, 919 F ST. aul2-70d No Branch Store in this city. 5c. “A Knight of the Nets.” The first installment of an interesting, wholesome story, entitled “A Knight of the Nets,” by Amelia E. Barr, will appear in tomorrow's Star. The scene Is laid in Scot- land among the honest, pure-minded fisher folks, and the story is charmingly told. it will be continued several days next week. —_.__ New England Wome: nd Politics. Correspondence of the Boston Transcript. The women of New England are well up in township politics, but they are astonish- ingly ignorant of national or even state affairs. This applies not only to the farm- ers’ and tavern keepers’ wives and daugh- ters, but the most intelligent women in New England seem unable to take an in- terest in any public question except wo- ian suffrage and prohibition. This singu- lar ignorance accounts for the entire readi- ness of the woman suffragists and prohi- bitionists to flop on to any party that will promise to help them in these two points. The idea that there are great principles at stake, and greater issues than woman suf- frage and prohibition seems utterly be- yond and outside of them. As for trying to make them believe that it is not possible to make people moral by legislative enact- ment, one might as well bay the moon. The only answer these gentle New England ladies make is, ‘There ought to be a law against’—speculation in stocks, smoking cigarettes and every other form of de- pravity. But, after all, be it said, most of the disagreeable New England people are found only in books. ——__—_+e+____ White Caps in Massachusetts. From the Springficld (Mass.) Republican. Thera have been several attempts in re- cent years to revive sheep raising on the Pills in Worcester county, but, as else- where, the sheep-killing dog has put his veto on the experiment, so far as he is able. More than this, the owners of some sheep- killing dogs in Sterling seem to have taken up the defense of these brutes to an extent that entitles them to a severe handling by the law, if it once gets its grip on them. It was not enough for the curs to kill Farmer Tuttle's sheep, but when he was fortunate enough to kill one of the ma- rauders in the act of sheep chasing, he was threatened with all sorts of reprisals in an anonymous letter signed “White Caps. He was ordered to take down signs forbid- ding trespassing on his farm, and told that if he killed another dog his barns would be burned and his live stock killed. This white cap business will not be tolerated in Massachusetts, and the officers of the law ought to be sent for the authors of that letter at once. —__——+e+_____ Fire recently destroyed the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company’s freight and passenger depot, a large warehouse and nine loaded fralwht care ot Baker City, Oreg. You can make your home and of- fice like a summer resort by putting in an electric fan and discarding the hot gas light, substituting electricity. No power is as clean, as stable or as cheap as electricity. We furnish the} A thing of the past current. Drop us a postal or call up *phone 77 and we'll turn it on. United States Electric Lighting Co., 213 14th st. nw. au13-204 2-90 29 9S $2 00 SESO9> IF YOUR DOG OR CAT SUFFERS —from the biting of FLEAS— and most of them do in hot weather—use “Thompson’s In- sect Powder.” It’s death to in- sects of all kinds. ~ 10, 15, 25 and 40c. a can. Ww. Thompson, 7°3 - PHARMACIST, J5th PPL O PSPSPS SIO CARBONA REMOVES GREASE SPOTS INSTANTLY. Non-inflammable-- Non-explosive. Does not injure the most delicate fabric or color. It your grocer or druggist does not keep it Apply to MARSHALL CHEMICAL CO., Marshall, Va. 4y24-eo3m Give Your Teeth nOccasionalThought —Stop in some time and let us examine your teeth, We'll tell you what's re- quired to put them In good condition. No charge for such services. Our painless metheds of dentistry do away with all disngreeableness. Painless extraction, 50 cents. Other charges proportional. [Evans Dental Parlors, 1217 PENNA. AVE. 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Ave. anla-sia SOS SES SESCE &® 9HSOGHSS ©0HSS9SOS99000 Iced Tea. you tried it? It is aim find a tea, even at a a pound, that gives such satisfac. tion as Burebell’s Spring Leaf at cents. au6-1id 1325 F st. Gray Hair when Nattans’ Crrstal Dis- juaranteed to restore or faded’ hair to fis natural color in 3 to 10 4 positively rot a dye. Stops the hair from falling out, arrests dandrwif and makes the nicest for’ the hair one can use. No poison. No sedi- met. No stains. Price, $1. Trial size, 0c. KOLB PHARMACY, SOLE AGEN 438 7TH ST. N. Sent, express NW. to the comtry ca ocelot of pte wy Sarat Bargains In Long Hair Switches. 50. Formerly 00, }.50. Formerly 50, 50. Formerly ea O7First-class attendance Hair BShampooing, ete. 2, our “‘Curlette,” for keeping the hails S. HELLER’S, 720 7th Street N.W. OPOSSVOOPS SO SSO CO POOSOOS OOD —If you suffer from headache, permit us to make a FREE EX- AMINATION of your eyes$ Thousands suffer from headache, due to eye strain, without know- ing the cause—maybe you do, EFA good pair of Eyeglasses or Spectade@ was $1. McALLISTER & CO., Examining Opticians, 1311 F Street, 38" thome. auls-28d SFPFI9S00O90069606599000000 SOOS90O6 Beautify your store’s interior by putting up Siemens-Lungren Gas Lamps, which shed a beautiful white light, giving the stock a beautiful hue. We rent them for 25c. a month, and they save that much in less than a month, for they burn the gas per- fectly—hence less of it. Gas Appliance Exchange, 1428 N. ¥. ave.