Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1895, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th Street, by ‘The Byening Stac Newspaper Company 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Prest. Yew York Office, 49 Potter Building. Evening Star is served to.eubscribers in the ¥ carriers, on their own account, ut 10 cents week, or 44c. per month. Copies at the counter cents each. By mail—anywhere in the United States or Canada—postage prevaid--50 cents per cath. Suturday qui $1. 5 tered at the Post Orifice at Washington, D. C., ‘an second-class toail_ matter.) (7 All mall obscriptioas must be paid in advarce. Rater of advertising made known on applicatica. ‘The eit: Part 2. Ch "4 # ening Star , Pages 9-20. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1895—-TWENTY PAGES. REAL ESTATE GOSSIP Influence on Property Values of Street Railroad Improvemeits. SEVERAL LOCALINIES NOW AFFECTED AG Street Corner and the Profit There Was in It. SOME IMPROVEMENTS ‘The influence of street railroad develop- ment on real estate values is well recog- tized and is easily understood. It seems to apply to the extension of existing roads as well as the building of new ones, and there- fore it is not surprising that there is a good deal of interest manifested just now in property at the east end of the F street line of the Metropolitan road. As is well krown, the eastern terminus of this road is at 10th street, one souare west of Lin- coln Park. Werkmen are now engaged in putting down the underground system of electric propulsion on this part of the road, and when that work is completed the east- ern terminus of the road will be at 15th street, two sqvares east of Lincoln Park. This will give street railroad facilities to a locality which is now entirely without them, and it is the belief that in conse- quence property will be in demand for building purposes, and that an increased population will follow the extension of the read. There has been more or less activity in real estate in that section, and it is ex- pected by property owners and dealers that the movemeat will continue. A somewhat similar condition exists in the vicinity of the proposed union station at the entrance of the Aqueduct bridge. At this point will be the western terminus of the Capital Traction Company, the cars of the Metropolitan Company will pass near it and the projected Great Falls electric read and the one across the bridge to Ar- Hrgton will also terminate at this point. vIn ‘ase in Property Values. The expectation is entertained by prop- erty holders and others that this section is destined to be one devoted to business, and it is believed that not only property values will appreciate, but that a good many im- provements will be made. In this connec- tion special emphasis is laid upon the fa- yorable prospect that the tracks of a steam railrcad will be laid on Water street, form- ing a section of the proposed south nection of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Reference has already been made in this column to the expectations of property holders along the line of the Chevy Chase railroad, based on the consolidation of that road with the Washington and Georgetown and the adoption of the single fare system. ‘This cheapening of the travel between the center of the city and that portion of the suburbs is supposed to direct attention to property in that vicinity and to give an impetus to investment. There is talk of further street railroad consolidation, having in view better fa- cilities of communication between the city and the suburbs, and no doubt if these plans are carried out real estate will have a more active market. Those who believe in the development of property as influ- enced by street railroad extension and im- provements point to the terminus of the 14th street cable line and of the 7th street cable line ir illustration. Rapid Transit Lines. It is claimed that the large proportion of the building in those two sections is due to the adoption of an improved system of rapid transit, which enabled people to go to and fr> between their homes and their places of business with as little loss of time as possible. There ts still another pro- jected line of -railroad, which is to run through a comparatively undeveloped por- tion of the suburbs, and that is the section of the proposed electric road between this city and Baltimore, which is to run out Rhode Island avenue extended from 4th street east to the District line. During the coming session of Congress it is possible that authority will be secured for extension of existing lines. At the :ast session both the Washington and George- town and the Columbla roads wanted to buqd an extension along 22d street out through Washington Heights to the Zoo. No action was taken on this measure by the national legislature, and it is not im- probable that it may be revived this com- ing session. Sale of G Street Property. Last week reference was made to the fact that the property at the northeast corner of 13th and G streets was offered at auction and was withdrawn by the own- er, as he was not satisfied with the highest bid. The property was subsequently sold at private sale, and the price obtained was $45,000. As the lot has a frontage of about twenty-five feet and a depth of seventy- five feet, the price per square foot on this basis was about $25. The building is in good conditicn, and the price therefore cannot be considered as that merely for the land. The owner, Mr. Heilbrun, pur- chased the property some eight years ago, paying at that time $23,000. He remodeled the building and adapted it for business purposes. The transaction fs thought to show the appreciation in values on G street, and tor this reason it has excited more general in- terest among dealers and others than would otherwise be the case. It is under- stood that the owner took in payment stock of the Capital Traction Company, following in this particular the precedent which was established ia the recent sale of the prop- erty at the northwest corner of 10th and F streets. The Building Record. The building record for the week ending yesterday shows a total of eight permits, at an aggregate estimated cost of $18,900, di- vided among the several sections of the city as follows: Northwest, four permits, costing 57,500; northeast, two permits, $9,600; county, one permit, for $1,500, and the southwest, one permit, for $600. Some Improvements. A residence will be erected on 19th street between S and T streets from plans which are now being prepared by Wm. J. Palmer, Ifred H. Growell. Upon the jot. w . a three-story and basement dwelling is to be built, the front of buft brick and light stone trimmings, with a bay window and open balcony at the top. ‘The interior finish will be of hard wood. George N. Beale is building two tw; brick dwellings, Nos. 7 and 1500 Valley street northw: They will each have a frontage ot eet and a depth of 32.4 feet. A.B. Mullett & Co. are the architects. B. S. Simmons, architect, has drawn the plans for the erection of a one-story brick church for the Mount Sinai A. M. E. Church, 14th street between North Carolina se and Lb street northeast. The church will have a frontage of 40 feet by a depth of @ feet. It will have three towers, the high- est of which will be 55 feet. Collins & Lee will be the builders. s have been made by Architects Horn- ie nd Marshall for the erection on the le of 14th street near H street of two ry brick stores for James M. John- The front of the stores will ssed brick and galvanized iron, a frontage of 26 1-4 feet by a depth of feet. Alexander Millar has been awarded the contract as builder. ston, trustee. r send you some of Huyler's tes with your yext order. Once tried, always used. THINGS HEARD AND SEEN An interesting figure in the Senate will be John M. Thurston, who succeeds Mr. Man- derson. Forty-eight years ago he opened bis eyes upon the picturesque hills and dales of Vermont. In early childhood he was taken by his parents to the unbroken land of Wisconsin. In the new country he was taught what “eight generations” of Thurstons knew so well, co plow, to plant and to harvest. He became a typical farm- er boy, perhaps not as stalwart as some of his neighbors, and, though he could cradle and bind with the best of them, agricultural pursuits were not to his taste. He was am- bittous to acquire an education and estab- lish himself in a profession. Working hard by day and studying diligently by candle light, with many obstacles to overcome, for the responsibilities of the farm were thrown upon him at the age of sixteen by the death of his father, he passed through Wayland University and fitted himself for law. Years passed, though, before he was prepared to knock for admission to the bar. Finally, young Thurston, by harvesting here and there for his neighbors and by doing odd chores which fall in the way of a country boy, was enabled to scrape to- gether a little fund of perhaps $40. He then determined to abandon farm life and enter the law. With a buffalo robe, one of his mother’s spare blankets, some crackers and such other little things as he could con- veniently carry, he severed home ties, and with a brave heart set out for the budding city of Omaha. He met Herman Luthe, Tew a successful lawyer in Colorado, then a young disciple of Blackstone, like himself, and formed a partnership, taking office recom with Justice Morris. Trying times were those which followed. Cases were not eusily obtained and less easily won. But Thurston made his $10 go a long ways. His buffalo robe and spare blanket on the office floor served as a ‘refreshing couch, and more than once did his box of crackers satisfy the pangs of a gnawing hunger when funds ran low. Denying himself the luxuries and providing only the actual necessities, the young farmer boy kept body and soul together and fought his way to the front. z Cases came at last, and he made such a favorable impression as a lawyer and a speaker that he was chosen a member of the city council and later city attorney. The path of politics was like an open road, and he soon found himself in the legislature as chairman of the committee on judiciary. At the same time he became an active par- ticipant in the conventions of state and nation. Thus his snowball of fortune formed on a Wisconsin farm has rolled steadily onward to the United States Sen- ate. eo 2 ee In one of the Washington jewelry stores 1s a diamond breastpin valued at $1,000. A young woman whose love for ornaments is much greater than her ability to buy them happened to be in this store when the pin was shown to a lady who did not purchase it, Two or three times a week since then the girl has gone to obtain a glimpse of the beautiful pin, until she finally made up her mind that she would make an effort to own it, so the following colloquy took place, that I happened to hear: ‘How much is that pin ‘A thousand dollars.” “Well, I will take it if you will let me pay for it at $1 a week: I only make $2 a week. I buy everything else that way.” The astonished clerk told her that he would have to speak to the proprietor, «ho was out, and the girl promised to return. “There should be some provision made for pensioning fire department horses when they become disabled for service, and es- pecially the sale of them to individuals for family horses should not be allowed. Once trained to go at the tap of a bell, they cannot be made to forget it. A coun- try minister, living not far from Wash- ington, has one of these horses, unless he has succeeded in selling him during the Past week. An old lady died and the bell of the country church tolled the number of years she had lived. The minister's horse heard the tap of the bell and started. He soon distanced the rest of the funeral pro- cession, and, although his horrified driver could guide him all right, stopping him was impossible, until the cemetery was reached, when the bell having stopped ringing and the horse seeing no smoke or flame, the intelligent animal concluded that it was a false alarm, and stood as peaceably as though he had never ran in his life. ee se ew Here is one on Assistant Postmaster Jones which he did not give out: Some days ago a letter was received at the department ed- dressed to “The Postmaster General of the U. States of America, Washington, D. C., U. S. America.” It was registered and came all the way from Bombay, India. When opened it was found that the contents concerned some alleged fraudulent concern doing busi- ness in New York. The writer had been the victim and had lost considerable money. The letter was turned over to the assistant attorney general, who takes charge of all such matters. Then was found the meat of the epistie. It was stated, among other things, that the victim had written to First Assistant Postmaster General Jones, con- cerning how he had been defrauded, but the reply was very unsatisfactory, leading the writer to believe that Mr. Jones was not assisting in the recovery of his money, and was a beneficiary with the others. ee ee Whether it is that Minneapolis women are more attractive, or Minneapolis men are more appreciative cf their charms, cer- tain it is that the latter pay more com- pliments to their wives and sweethearts than the men in any other locality. A sample of them is the speech made at a Chicago hotel table last week by a Min- neapolis man. He was asked by ex-Treas- urer Gilfillan in a joking mood: “Mr. Shute, if you were not yourself who would you like to be?” He replied promptly and without a mo- ment’s hesitation. “Were I not myself, I should want to be Mrs. Shute’s second husband, whoever and whatever he may be.” A man in the Treasury Department has @ very obstreperous boy in his family, about seven years old. He corrected him several times one day, then whipped him, then when he finally punched the eyes of his sister's doll in, “just to see how she’d look,” his father was in despair. He sat down, took the boy on his knee, and asked him if he didn’t want to he a good boy. The young Arab spoke up quite promptly: “No, indeed, papa, I don’t! I know I’m a little devil, and I want to be a big one.” A lost baby in a sleeping car in the middle of the night Is rather a novel situation. This is how it occurred: Two maiden ladies of Washington on the Chicago limited express were awakened by the crying of a baby close to but outside the curtains of their berth. After hearing it for some time, one of them peeped out and saw a baby somewhere be- tween six months and two years old lying on the floor crying lustily. It had fallen out of bed, but there was no frightened mother around to indicate where the child fell from. Supposing, of course, it must have been the one opposite, the well-meaning lady undid the curtain and laid the screaming baby in the berth. In an instant there was a shriek from a woman and a “Take it away; it don’t belong nere!”’ Of course, she “took it away,” apologizing for her mistake, then reached up to put it into the berth above, when a man’s voice greeted her with “Get out of! here; you can’t play your tricks on me! Being afraid to search further for the owner of the baby, as the car was quite dark and quiet, she returned to her own berth and spent the. next hour trying to soothe the lit- tle stranger. Some time after daylight the maiden lady was rudely awakened by the porter and a ASS le Ae ee 2 id Diamond Dept. We fmport all our Diamonds direct and set them in our own factory, hence the great saving to you. Dur- ing the Anniversary Days we will sell $10 Marquise Rings, $5. $50 Diamond Silver Dept. Sterling Silver Pieces were never £0 numerous—so beautiful or so cheap. Silver must advance! It is sure to be the most popular of all Xmas gifts. During Auniversary Days we will sell $1.50 Sterling Silver Sugar Spoons, 75¢. Pendants for $38. IR. JALAJR IRIS, Watch Dept. No other firm carries half so large a stock or balf so many kinds of Watches. Every leading make is represe During the Anniversary Days we will sell $25 Solid 14K. Ladies’ Gold Watch, $15. American movement, and stem-winder. $4.50 Silver Watches for $2.25. Plated Ware Dept ery plece is “the est quadruple plate. . Hundreds-of useful pleces best calculated to make sppropriate holl- day gifts. Duriag the Anniversary Days we will sell $3.50 Plated Butter Dishes |For $1.75. prices. } cent.” Clock Dept. We can show two clocks other jeweler's one. Our great epe- cialty is Hall Clocks, of which we carry a superb line and one grand value at a hundred dollars. During the Anniversary Days we will sell $4.50 Dresden Clocks for $2.50. to any Cut Glass Dept. ‘The richest and most brilliant ent- tings to be found anywhere. This being a “‘side line’? we sell it next to cost a5 an accommodation, hence the Anniversary items represent a loss. ‘Three days— All $3,50 and $4 Pieces of Cut Glass for $2. better known as a “diamond house.” direct, and manufacture all of the gold settings on the premises, which accounts for our prices being about 25 per cent lower than those of others. We practically revolutionized the jewelry business. We began the system of marking each and every article in plain figures at popular R. Harris'& Co.s 18th Anniversary. | ~ ACELEBRATION WITH RECIPROCITY BARGAINS, For 3 Days, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. We now stand upon the threshold of our eighteenth year in the Jewelry business in Washington. From an insignificant beginning in 1878, located at 435 Seventh street, with one watchmaker and a porter, we have grown to be the acknowledged leaders in the Jewelry business. The history of the store is one of continual sticcess. Opening in 1878, in less than two years we were compelled to secure more commodious quar- ters, so secured the lease of the building 432 Seventh street, where we remained from 1880 for ten years. In November, 1890, just five years ago, we took possession of our present magnificent establishment, and today we carry the largest stock and have the largest force of any jew- eler in Washington. The continued growth in our business has compelled us to steadily increase our force, until today it numbers twenty-eight per- sons. This comprises 8 manufacturing jewelers and diamond setters in our factory, 2 cashiers, a bookkeeper, Washington’s leading oculist (Dr. A. To especially commemorate this eighteenth anniversary, and as a partial reciprocation for your generous patronage during the past eighteen years, we have concluded to offer you a special bargain attraction in each and every department of our business, believing that you prefer buying some substantial article at half or about half its regular price rather than to receive some trifling ‘souvenir’ or insignificant discount, G. Hamilton), 4 watchmakers and repairers, 1 engraver, 6 salesmen, © advertisement writer, 1 window dresser and 3 porters. handsome delivery wagon and 2 horses. The leading feature of our business is Diamonds! In fact, we are We import these precious stones We guarantee our prices to always be the lowest in this unequivocal manner. “If you can buy anything we sell you at a lower price elsewhere, bring ours back, claim the difference in price, and an additional 10 per Jewelry Dept. $1 Gold Collar Buttons for 50c. Leather Goods. Exquisite line of Sterling Silver Trimmed Pocket Books, Card Cases, Combination Cases, Purses, &c., in all the fashionable sorts of leather. Dur- ing the Anniversary Days we will sell $2 Sterling-mounted Seal Pocketbooks, $1. Optical Dept. Eyeglasses, Opera Glasses, Lenses, &e. We give you the services of that most skilled oculist, Mr. A. G. Hamil- ton, free of charge. Consultations and examinations free. During the Anniversary Days we will sell $7 Pearl Opera Glasses for $3.50. $5 Lamps, $3.25. Onyx Tables,$3.75 $1.25 Silver Nail $8.50 Silver Hair We also have a Lamp Dept. Lamps and Lamp Shades represent quite a feature of our business. We have au unusually handsome stock at present and are quoting exceptionally low prices. During the Anniversary Days we will sell RASS AND ONYX. Manicure Dept. Biggest line of Sterling Silver Man!- cure Articles ever shown, and never before have the prices becn so low. Nail files, scissors, polishers, &., in great variety. During the three An- niversary Days we will sell Files for 75c. Brushes for $5. Co,Cor. 7th & D Sts. N.W, strange woman, who seemed to be trying to claw her from behind the porter. They snatched the baby out of the berth, and between the mother's tears over the baby and threats to the “‘woman who tried to steal him,”” the whole car was aroused. It was with great difficulty that the parties interested could persuade that mother not to have the lady arrested as soon as the train stopped. In fact, the maiden lady thinks some of the passengers believe yet that she tried to steal the child. “Gen. Grant must have veen an awful careless man,” said a little hoy on Capitol Hill, as he came home from school the oth- er afternoon, depositing his books cn the floor and throwing his cap into the corner. “Why so?” asked his father, locking up from the paper he was reading. “Well, 1 heard you read once about his being such a great sinoker, and this after- noon teacher told us a story about the war said when Gen. Grant went into the Wil- derness campaign he burned his breeches behind him. He must have put a lighted elgar in his pocket.” When the father recovered from a vio- lent coughing fit, he explained to his young hopeful the difference between breeches and bridges. Old Mack is a messenger in one of the depagtments, has a good record as a sol- dier, and for several years has been a faith- ful employe of the government. Like many of the war veterans, he can draw the long bow when occasion requires. He was out in a terrible North Dakota blizzard once on a time, and when he recovered from the effects of the severe freeze, he was minus a small portion of each ear; and sometimes he gets very Aired of the ques- tions his “ear marks” bring out. Not long ago he was in a barber shop down town having his hair cut, and the tonsorial ar- tist had his curiosity aroused. “How did you lose pert of your ear?” questioned the barber, as he wes working the shears along ‘carefully on the starboard side of Mack’s head. i “Lost that under Grant, in the Wilder- ness,” said Mack, with a sober face. Pretty soon the shears were snipping on the other side, and another section of ear was disclosed missing. oh “Hello! How did you lose this one?’ the ‘hair-dresser asked, standing off and viewing his workmanship. “Lost that one under Napoleon at Maren- go,” was the imperturbable response. ‘The barber was silenced for awhile, but when he had received his and was shaking out his cloth, he startled the old gentleman, who had put on his hat and had his hand on the doorknob, with: “Did you lose anything when you were under Nowh in the ark?” oe “That's the Leiter building,” said a Washington resident to his New England visitor, pointing out the large white resi- dence, as they were sauntering through Dupont Circle last Sunday. “Any one can see that,” said the stranger, smiling. “Who lives in the darker build- ing?” pointing over toward Stewart castle. “That,” said the department clerk to his old lady friend in a Connecticut avenue car yesterday, pointing over his shoulder at a building they were passing, “is the resi- dence of the British minister.” “Du tell,” said the old lady, adjusting her spectacles and twisting around in her seat so she could look through the window. “Can you show me the Methodist minis- ter’s house?” 3 ee ee “Can I take that car to Georgetown?” a stranger asked of a policeman on the avenue the other day. “Well, not exactly,” said the precise offi- cial, swing his club, “but that car can take you to Georgetown if you get into it.” — Helpless. From the Boston Transcript. In reply to the request for assistance, the professor said: “If I could help you, I could not help helping you. It is because I caa- not help you that I cannot help refusing you.” The mendicant darted around the corner with terror in his eye and cries of “Help!” in his mouth. A Point in Dispute Which is as Yet Awaiting Settlement. Aerather sunburnt ‘but good-looking farmer made his way up to the snake editor’s desk in The Stat office, and stood there waiting to be heafd. The snake ed- itor looked up into his kindly face, with its far-away gaze, and smiled a welcome in spite of himself. ‘ “Good morning,” he said, as pleasantly as if his visitor had money. “How are you?” responded the visitor. 'm from Montgomery county.” ‘Is that so?” greeted the editor. “Yes, that’s so,” said the visitor, pulling up a chair and gazing far away. “What I come in for,” he went on mur- murously, “was to ask you a question. You are the snake editor, they told me down stairs.” “That's right. What can I do for you?” “I don’t know. P'raps you can answer my question, and p’raps you can’t.” “What ts it?” * “You're the man that Loudoun county's been posting on her snake crop, ain't you? “Yes.” “I thought so. Well, we've got snakes in Montgomery county as well as they have in Loudoun.” “Do you want to getup a competitive exhibition? ’ “Oh, no,” he said, gently as a ring dove’s coo. “I only want to telk how we are fixed on snakes just now in Montgomery, and submit a question. You see, it's this way: STRAIGHT-HAIRED WOMEN. They Are Apt to Be Infallible on the Subject of Rainy Wenther. “I was born, as the saying goes,” said the straight-haired woman, “with a silver spoon in my mouth, and, what is still more to the purpose, I have kept that spoon up to the present moment, but I would will- ingly exchange it, valuable as it is, for a plebeian tin specn if my hair only curled naturally. “Ncbody knows,” she moaned on, “the woes of a straight-haired woman, except another straight-haired woman, for it is a fact past gainsaying that ‘curved is the line of beauty,’ especially as applied to hair, and lence if one's hair doesn’t curve by nature it must be made to curve by art— that's all there is to that. “But alas! there is no art that can keep it in shape in damp and rainy weather or at the seashore. There is a fortune, indeed, awaiting the person who will concoct a hair-curling compound warranted to with- stand moisture, and at the same time to be harmless. I myself am a sight on damp days and almost a monster at the sea- shore; and the other day I refused to take dinner down town with my husband be- cause the atmosphere was moist (we were going out to a little party just afterward). I said I would meet him at his office, since it wasn’t possible for him to get home that night. We catched a.snake on our place yesterday —or ruther, we partly did, for he ain't all catched yet, and—” “Hold on,” exclaimed the editor, “how can that be “It's just the way we are doing it in Montgomery,” said the visitor calmly. “We found him coming out of a hole in the rocks, and there was eighteen feet of him out of the hole at the time we seen him. The rest of him was p'intin’ under ground toward Loudoun, and judging from where we stopped him coming out, the other end of him will likely reach clean across the river over into Loudoun. If he’s all’ in Montgomery, it’s ail right, and we'll pull him on out; but if the biggest half of him is over in Loudoun, and he’s a Loudoun county snake, by gum, we propose to shove him back and let them Loudouners take care of their own. The; question I want you to settle “is, which county ought to have the credit of the snake?” The visitor’s far-away look changed into one of pained perplexity, ‘and the snake editor asked for further time. — Huxley’s Courtship. From Tid-Bits. Sir W. Fowler tells the story of Huxley's courtship. When the Rattlesnake was in Sydney harbor, the officers were invited to a ball, and young Huxley among the num- ber. There for the first time he met his future wife, whose parents resided at Syd- ney. A few days after they were engaged and the ship sailed for the Torres straits to complete the survey of the north coast “Just before starting I carefully and elab- crately curled my locks, and, armed with the curling iron I was sure I would need, I sallied forth. When I rose to leave the tar upon reaching my husband's office that “wretched curler had escaped from its wrap- ping. and fallen to the floor. A gentleman (no Joubt a wifeless and sisterless man) re- turned it gingerly to me with a puzzled and alarmed look. I believe he feared it to be a species of infernal machine—it's one of the one-pronged variety that looks some- thing like a toy pistol. “Once in my husband's office, I lit the gas and recurled my now totally straight hair. I took the car again, this time in the com- pany of my spouse, and we went to ov: party. Before I could eppear in polite so- ciety I was obliged to crave of my hostess the privilege of curling my hair, while up- on assuming my hat to go home my reflec- tion in the mirror really made me ill, my hair vas so Indian-like in its straightness. “On! I waste hours—hours,” she went on, desperately, “in trying to be what I am surely not—a curly haired woman. That same time, Indeed, devoted to any art or science would have made me a proficient no ‘There is one thing, though,” and her vcice for the first time assumed a clicerful accent, “the barometer permitting, I have prettier artificially curled hair than any woman I chance to have seen. In what way? Firstly, I never burn my hair, and, secondly, I never soil it; I do rot heat the iron hot enough to scorch it, for a lesser degree of heat a little longer applied is more efficacious than to crisp it. If you crisp it, indeed, it presently gets so it fvon't curl at all—the hair is dead. I never rough- of Australia, all communication being cut | en or soil it, because I use an alcohol lamp ff for months at a time, and then she re- turned direct to England. After that brief acquaintance, not longer —a gas or oil flame besides soiling it in- variably roughening it. “It’s going to rain again,” she concluded, than a fortnight, it was seven years before | her voice reassuming its pathetic cadence. the lovers saw one another. At the end of this time, on Huxley’s appointment to | ening. “How do I know? Why, my hair is straight- See? The weather bureau surely the School of Mines, he was in a position | ought to employ me as a rain prophet,” to claim his bride and welcome her to their| and heavirg a deep sigh, she gave each 4rst home in St. John’s Wcod. love at first sight, and constancy during those seven long years of separation, were richly rewarded, for tt is tmpossible to im- agine a pair more thoroughly suited. How to Rescae &# Woman. From the Medical Recon. Huxley’s | side of her pretty head a tender and pity- ing pat. —_-_ ’ An Explanation. From the Indianapolis Journal. Tommy—“Paw, why Is it the good die young?” Mr. Figg—“They don’t die young A French medical journal says that the | because they are good, but they stay good authorities at Dieppe have issued instruc- tions to the bathing police, among which is @ paragraph directing them never to seize because they die young.” ——___+e+____ After the Funeral. a drowning woman by the hair, as that | From Tit-Bits. might come off, leaving the owner to sink./ Lawyer (drawing will)—“Your estate is NEGLECT OF THE HAIR OFTEN DESTRO’ vitality end natural hue, and causes it to fall out. Before it is too late apply Hall's Hair Renewer, a sure gymedy. YS ITS | posed.”” much smaller, sir, than is generally sup- Sick man—Yes, but keep that quiet till after the funeral. I want a good show of grief-stricken mourners.” GIVING HIM A CHANCE. A Bit of Western Chivalry Which Was Quite Uncalled For. “Speaking of the tales of chivalry,” said @ government official, whose duties some years ago took him to points in the far west, to a Star reporter, “I heard of one in a locality I once visited which for uncall- ed-for chivalry rather exceeded the limit.” “But chivalry is’not one of the things that can be exercised to excess, is it?” in- terrupted The Star man. “Wait till I have finished my story and then I'll leave the question to your own ideas of it and let you settle it to suit your- self. It happened, in this locality I men- tion, that there was a ‘bad man,’ as there is, in greater or less degree, in all of those western localities, or, for that matter, in every new locality, at whatever point of the compass it may be situated. Well, this bid man had killed nobody knew how many people, and had run the gamut of crime generally before he struck this neigh- borhood, and the people there, most of whom were trying to get out of the old way of doing things, gave him a wide berth, and did as little as they could to provoke his wrath, and did as much as they could de- cently to get him to move avay. “But the place seemed to suit him and he woukin’t leave. Then it wasn’t long until he began bulldozing the inhabitants by threats, turning himself loose in the streets and shooting up the town, and now apd then banging somebody through the leg or arm and narrowly missing the same sort of a dose himself. The people didn’: want to spoil their reputation by lynching him, for they hadn’t had a lynching for a couple of years and didn’t want to have any more. Neither did any of them want to shoot him down in cold blood, because they proposed to be law-abiding. “Nor yet did they want to assassinate him, for that was cowardly and sneaking, ard they would give a wolf a half a chance for his life. Still, it was necessary for the gcod of the community that the bad man be put out of it, and finally five patriotic citizers fixed upon a plan. It was carried out one day after the bad man had done more deviltry than usual, and one or two prominent citizens were laid up at home for repairs, and the bad man held pos- session of a saloon and was treating all comers to the owner's liquors. The five patriotic citizens, armed to the teeth, walk- ed quietly into the saloon and tackled the bad man right there. They refused his proffered treat and he got ugly and began to swear. ““‘Now,’ said the spokesman, firmly, ‘you let up on that. We are here to settle with you; we ought to shoot you down in your tracks, but we are going to give you a show; you’ve got two guns and we've got ten; you may get one of us or two, per- haps, but in the end our combination will win, and the community will get a much- needed rest; it may come a little hard on you, but you can never say we didn’t give you a fair chance; get ready; one, two, three, fire.” “And the firing commenced. The bad man was game, but, as had been announced, the combination was too much for him, ard when the smoke cleared away he was dead and two of his five assailants were in the same fix. Two gocd men were gone, but the bad :nan was with them, and the com- munity felt better. Now,” concluded the official, “what have you to say about an excess of chivalry?” “He should have been lynched,” said The Star man with promptness, . ——__ ‘Wanted to Be Counted In, From Puck. “Bigbee has a nerve.” “Why so?” “I threatened to sue him for that $10 he owes me.”” “Yes?” “And he asked me to sue him for $20 and give him the other ten.” ———— 72s. Customer—“Give me one of those “horri- ble reminder’ traveling bags, please.” Clerk (dumfovnded)—“A what, sir?” Customer—“I said give me one of those boa constrictor skin bags; and I want it big enough to hold a long-necked quart, too. Look alive, now, young feller! I've got to catch a train.”—Puck. UNEXPECTEDLY UNDERSTOOD, A Telegraph Operator in Mexico Tries to Hire a Horse at a Livery Stable. “It’s strange how contrary things go sometimes,” said a telegraph operator who has traveled and seen many things, to a representative of The Star. “Some years back, when I was roaming around in the southwest, I went down té Old Mexico with a man named Clements. We didn’t have any particular business down there, but it was not difficult to get a job at tel- egraphing in those days, and we worked our way around from one place to another to see the country. “We found the climate agreeable, and everything lovely except the eatables. The fact is, the eatables were all right, too, but we couldn’t get them. “Tamales” was the only thing we could say in greaser lan- guage when we wanted something *o eat, and tamales was all we could get. These tamales that the Mexicans make, you know, are one-eighth corn husk, one-eighth meat and coram>al, and the remainder red pepper that tastes like concentrated ex- tract of future damnation. Now, t are good things by way of relish in small quantities, but as a steady diet they pall on a person's appetite, more or less. But, as I remarked, the only thing we could call for was ‘tamales.’ That's just to show that we couldn’t be understood when it was desirable. “Well, one day we proposed taking a ride, and went to a stable to engage some horses. There were horses in plenty, but the fool people couldn’t understand that we wanted to hire them. Clements had a little red book with some common expres- sions in the greascr for ready reference, but it either wasn’t printed cor- rectly or Clements didn’t have the cor- rect pronunciation, for the stable folks didn’t sabe his talk worth a cent. Clem- ents then tried a sort of sign language, and they became suspicious that he was crazy, and when he attempted to saddle a horse they threatened to shoot him. “While Clements was in the midst cf these demonstrations a man dressed in the height of Mexican style rode in. His sombrero and saddle carried enough silver to buy a mine. He entered the court yard, said a few words in Spanish to an attend- ant, and, seating himself near us, began rolling a cigarette. It vexed Clements to see how readily this greaser could commu- nicate with the people, while he couldn't make himself understood, “‘Look at that yellow-faced rustler! See how easy it is for him to talk!’ said Clen- ents. His experience had shown him that there was no danger of being understood by any one but me, and he spoke freel; ‘Perhaps that blamed bow-legged horse thief can understand me,’ he added. Then turning to the stranger and bowing defer- entially, Clements pulled out his little red book, and, following the text with his finger, began to read in Spanish that he wanted a horse. He had only begun when the man who looked like a greaser said in good English: “I gather from what you have been say- ing to your friend that you desire to hire two horses. Am I correct?’ “He was correct, but Clements was s0 frightened that some time elapsed before he could answer and make a few necessary explanations to the hidalgo, who proved to be a Mecxicanized American, who owned @ mine down there. “That was an instance where we were understood when we didn’t expect it.” ——— An Exception Noted. From the Detroit Free Press. He (at 11 p.m.): “Well, misery loves com- pany, you know.” She (repressing a yawn)3 “Not at this hour, I think.” eee. Life's Paradoxes. From the Fliegende Blatter. ‘There are such things as adorable faults and insupportable virtues. a Religious Liberty. From Household Words. 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