Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1895, Page 10

10 THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1895—SIXTEEN PAGES.» IMONEY BACK! and gnarantecing It “mones-back"* proviso, Is Keeping this Dusiness steadily In ‘the fore! W rarely have any occasion to reddit prices, but here is one of those ‘rare’ occasions," as the lots are — broken in sizes: ornare an} line of 3 6 E High - y Storm Coats GEO. SPRANSY it The Social Season At the Capital vasa a romises to be a brilliant one. ‘There whl be receptions, dimmer and theater par- thes galore. Let us turulsh the Carriag: our “turnouts” aren't excelled by ANY well-liveried charges. r own team have tt | boarded QE. Fireproof building and everything first-class. Downey’s Hetel for Horses, 16 162) STREET.N, W. "BHONE 555. de4-20d Here Are Facts In a Nutshell. Ye make good, genteel Sults and Over- coats to order—at the mininmmnmr-figare it's Lessible to quote— S15. They are a by Washington tallors-— well wade—well line?—and well trimmed— and a fit guaranteed. or $20 we will make you 4 Suit or Overcoat that others can't mateh under $30. A Fine Ker to order at $20 Is our spechal tr: winne! See ‘em; boys, before —— _passing judgment. — = HASLETT & PISTEL,, ptodate - ralloring 1345 PA. AVE. N. W. Shop. det. Dd ‘, —cleves, artistle work promptly performed. Note- heal: Wibeads, Cards, fad, in fact—all Kinds of Printing for business m it pe they Hd e Elliott, Quek Printer. 506 roth. det-10d = TO ‘No “shoddy” hats here. ‘There are stocks of hats made only to ecelve cost but . But a derby N be had right here for $ that is goad for wear, for color, fur finish. We've sold bun- ‘Try me on an esu- “Phone 1649. " agency for “Dunlap’’—the CHAS. H. RUOFF, Up-to-date hatter, 905 Pa. Ave. <i sell oa Aw Breakfast Jackets and Bath Robes. As in former seasons, so this season, we will be first in all Mnes of Breakfast Jackets end Bath Robes. The largest stock, the handsomest goods, and with it all at prices lower than ever. If y see our goods ond want something nice you will nt take the Seen’ f Cs ephbipee 1 nest Quality Tricot Jacket in all col- pope gaa "$4.50 Finest Quality Tricot Jackets, all’ colo satine triinmed........ Finest Quality Tricot Jacket all colors, satin trimmed oe $6.50 Finest Tricot Jackets, all colors, quilted mama aleoe Taeeete aH cours (S775 Other qualities In full-sacin lined, and Velvetcen Jackets, ut rednced prices from former .easons. BATH ROBES. und foes * "$4.50 to $10.00 W.S. TEEL, MERCHANT TAILOR, MEN'S FURNISHER, 935 Pa. Ave. N.W. The garments that are leaving here this season are superior to any on which we have ever sewed the name of “OWEN.” New, expert talent is the reason of it. * OWEN, the tailor, 423 uth Street. de3-200 Men’s Shirts at Way BelowUsual Prices re clearing out our stock of Men's Furnizhings so as to give all our fime and ing Men's Shirts and Under- lies’ Shirt Waists, Shirts (odd sizes) worth more than All the $1.50, $2 aud $3 Shirts size reduced to $1. P. T. HALL, 508 F'St. _ 43-160 Gentlemen: Your Wardrobe * —doubtless requires DRESS SUIT—a * reet or an OV articular—if you the newest the trimmings—t rt, HIGHLY i FACTORY GARMENTS—inake our acquaint- ance. SNYDER & WOOD, 1111 Pa. Av., 4d Tailoring at Reasonable Pric a3 the 1mzmM every dollar we'll return 33e. Opera G nous makes jn of mounting. This is lly good opportunity. to { What Is always considered a fuitable Christmas — present—for Hittle money. Claflin Optical Co., 907 F St. i Want ‘the Trade of Fastidious Men —men who apprec! work— wh he: Ss ke ynghly Katie etory. Sample Shirt, $1.50. WELLS, sitemuer, 1411 Pa. Av. de3-100 JACK- Many points of superiority about our $1.90 Cardigan Jackets—heavy- weight—thorough warmth — and then, we fit “big men” without extra charge. a HENRY FRANC & SON, fish. 9020-8m,23 Use SHAKER DIGESTIV Does not cure all diseas » DI Dyspepsia or Indigestion. m2 wb my sa hated es Declared His Innocence of the Charges Against- Him. PROGRESS OF THE POOL TOURNEY Stakes Announced forthe Mem-. phis Meeting. GENERAL SPORTING NEWS The permanent suspension of Titus, Ca- banne and Murphy, three of the leading class B racing men, from all races under the auspices of the League of American’ Wheelmen, is widely interesting wheel- men throughout. the country. L. B. Ca- Lanne has given out the facts in his pos- session, the evidence and charges in the ease having up to the present been with- held. In the first place, Cabanne sayahe was sispended by a telegram Septemter 2, and on Soptember 10 received the following charges: : rire “It is charged that ydu, F. J. Titus and Charles Murphy agreed betweéh"ytrselves that you were to be allowed. to win the one- mile oper, class B, race at the bicycle races held under the auspices of Teagageocintcd Cycling Clubs of St. Louis ! ie Pas- time track in St. Louis.on Saturday, Au- gust 24, 1895, without the effort of the other riders—Titus and Murphy—to gefeat you. “Tt is further charged» that. yoy, Titus and Murphy agreed that Murphy was to be allowed to win the one-mile.handicap, class B, race of the same races. “It_is further charged that. youy.Titus and Murphy agreed to allow Titus to win the two-mile handicap, class B,;raee of the same races.” His only knowledge of the evidence, he declares, he receivd through a synopsis sent by Chairman Gideon of the* racing board, L. A. W. Cabanne says that he has since forwarded to Chairman Gideone an answer to the charges, and declares himself as follows: - “I certainly do not*intend to let the mat- ter rest. I shall take immediate steps to CABANNE’S DENIALI, PRINTING IN JAPAN. Cariosities of a Composing Room and How the Printers Work. From the Chicago Record. The composing room of a Japanese print- ing office would appall an American printer. The ordinary Japanese vocabulary Is repre- sented by 4,427 different characters or ideo- graphs, and forty-seven simple characters, known as kanas, which are used to connect and complete them. For official business, such as the printing needed by the execu- tive departments of the government, O68 more charact=rs are needed, and to set the parliamentary debates 5,987 more are re- quired, making a total of 10,920 different characters in a single font, suci as is used In the Insetsukioku. Nor is that the limit. There are between 14,000 and 20,000 more ideographs in the scientific vocabulary, and I was told that it would require at least 80,000 varieties of letters to answer all pos- sible demands of Japanese published lite- rature. Think of a printer’s case contain- ing 80,000 compartments. There is no alphabet of the Japanese !an- gvage, as we understand that term. Each word is represented by a different charac- ter or ideograph, whose meaning is modi- fied or enlarged by the edition of a kana as necessary, used either as a preftx or a suf- fix, or both. A font of Japanese type occupies a space about eight or ten feet square. It is a pen of racks and cases, arrayed in the form of a hollow square, with a narrow passage to afford an entrance and exit. The chief compositor sits at a table in the center with @ case containing a supply of the forty- seven kana before him and a long, peculiar locking composing stick in his hand. He cuts his copy into small “takes” and gives one to each of his five or six assistants, who are usually small boys and girls with amazing memories. They have their own composing sticks, and with their “takes” held deftly with the composing sticks in their left hands, they rush around in front of the cases and pick the type that are needed from the bewildering mass of cases, singing aloud the name of the character until they find it. The work of composing is therefor3 a bedlam, which would drive an American printer out of his wits. The uneducated Japanese cannot recog- nize the. meaning of a printed character by the eye, but only by the ear. There- fore he must read aloud. They always have to read thelr newspapers aloud to urderstand them. Formerly all the chil- dren studied aloud, and a traveler always krew when he-was in the neighborhood of school by the sound of their voices, the same as a sawmill or a boiler factory; but the government has prohibited this in the public schools, and the youngsters are clear my character, and am confident that} tought by sight and not by sound in these the law courts will afford me complete vindication.” A Reported Cycling Feat. A special from Cheyenne, Wyo., says: Johnnie Green, aged twenty-one, rode the fastest mile today ever made on a bicycle. It was unpaced, flying start, cn a straight- away track, and was in one minute twenty- ve seconds, breaking McLeod's record of 1:33 2-5. Charles Erswell rode a mile, unpaced, standing start, straightaway, level road cours, in 1401-5, breaking the former best record of 2:04 3-5. Basket Ball Watched by Many. A large number of interested spectators watched the game of basket ball at the Washington Light Infantry armory last evening between the teams of the W. L. I. C. end the Potomac Wheelmen. The former team came out ahead by a score of 5 to 1, but In the third Inning the Wheelmen pro- tested a decision of the umpire, and when it was rendered against them stopped play- ing, whereupon the game was given to the W. L. I. C. The Infantry claimed that the rlay was unfair, and were upheld by the umpire, S. Bieber. The teams lined up as fellows: Infantry. “h. g. Covell Score—W. L. L.._5; P. W., Umpire—s. Bieber. Referee—E. Leach. os The Proposed Intercollegiate Race. A Cambridge, Mass., dispatch says of a boat race including Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania: It is safe to say that Harvard will not interpose any objection to Yale as one of the contestants {f such a race is arranged. If this race takes place, Harvard will have fulfilled her agreement with Cornell. If the proposition falls through, Harvard and Cor- nell will have their- race as rer contract. Individually many Harvard graduates have expressed themselves as favorable to a five-cornered race. That Professor Beale has no, antagonism toward Yale is seen in his utterances relative to a suggestion that Yale will not be invited to send any men to the handicap track meeting to be held next spring in Cambridge. Professor Beale said: “I suppose Yale will be invited the same as the other colleges. I see no reason why she should not be asked. Har- vard’s policy is not to exclude Yale from any event of the sort. This Is shown by the triangular shoot of only a few weeks ago, in which Harvard, Princeton and Yale participated. We shall merely refrain from entering into any dual arrangement with Yale for two years.” Pool Experts at Syracuse. The following players are entered in the pool tournament for the championship at Syracuse, N. Y.: Alfred De Oro, Cuba; Grant Eby, Springfield; Willlam Clearwater, Ravenna, Ohio; George Sutton, Toronto; Jerome Keough, Scranton; Frank Sherman, Trenton; P. H. Walsh, New York; H. P. Stofft, Cleveland; John Horgan, New York. ‘The results of the latest games ar Afternoon games—first series—Horgan, 1 Keough, 131. Scratches—Horgan, 4; Keough, 6. Second series—Eby, 12¢ Walsh, 90. Scratches—Eby, 1; Walsh, Evening’s game—tirst series—Clearwater, ; Stofft, 107. Scratches—Stofft, L Second series—Sutton, 125; Sherman, 115. Scratches—Sherman, 4. EMPHIS CLUB STAKES. Announcements Made for the Spring Meeting. The stake announcements for the spring meeting of the new Memphis Jockey Club, to be held April 9 to 25, have just been made. More money is hung up than at any previous meeting of the club. The fixtures include the Tennessee Derby for three- year-olds, at mile and an eighth, with a guaranteed value of $5,000, for which there are oae hundred and thirty-three entries. This stake Is renewed for.1897, with the same guaranteed value. There will be four stakes for two-year-olds, $1,000 added money in each, the Gaston Hotel and Las- sie stakes, at four furlongs, and the Bram- ble and Arlington stakes, the latter a sell- days of modern innovations. But in the interior you still find the old-fashioned method of learning in use. When a boy has collected all the charac- ters in his “take” he places the compos. irg stick with the copy upon the table be- fcre the chief compositor, who wears a big pajr of strong magnifying glasses, and he srranges them in his own stick in their proper order, inserting the kana from his own case when they are needed. Then he dumps them on a galley and turns them over to the proper attendant, who pulls a proof and takes it with the copy to the proof reader, who reads it aloud while his assis- tant holds the copy and fullows him, It is explained that children are used to assist the compositor because they have better memories than adults and their lit- tle fingers are more deft in type out of the narrow little slips, and the extracrdinary memcry of a child composi- tor is always amazing to the stranger in Japan. But the race has been trained by the experience of centuries to remember. A Sapanese never forgets anything. And when you realize that all education is a simple matter of memory, the phenomenon is not so strange. Every word in the lan- guage is represented by a single character, and, as I kave said, there are over 4,000 words in the ordinary conversational vo- cabulary. The vocabulary of the peasant elass is, of course, much more limited, and contains, perhaps, 700 or 800 words. But to read a newspaper or an ordinary, sim- ple book, one must be able to recognize at least 2,000 sigrs. The child in the primary school begins by learning simple sentences, and commits to memory every werd sign in his primer. Then he takes a higher step, a wider range of’ words, as he advances inte Ifterature, until, when he has reached the grammar school, his little mind is stored with an enormous number of words, and is able to recognize the signs that represent them and the meaning they convey. A case of type Is about three feet long ard two feet wide, divided into two grand divisions by a horizontal partition. Then each division is subdivided into equal little narrow slips just wide enough to admit the type, which are all of the same size and ‘stand on end with their faces upward. There are usually forty slips in_each dl- vision and eighty in each case. The cases are usually double, and therefore contain 160 different characters. On each rack are twelve cases and 1,920 kinds of type on each rack. So that twelve racks will car- ry a very full font of type, containing about 23,000 characters, sufficient to sup- ply almost any demand. The ordinary composing room contains about six racks, or a 10,000 variety of type, with plenty of 1oom for sorts. From Chambers’ Journal. In the West Indies the dried leaves and prepared portions of the stem are used as packing msterlals. Fresh leaves are used to shade young coffee or cacao seedlings in nursery beds and to cover cacao beans dur- ing fermentation. The young unopencd leaves are so smooth and soft that they are used as dressing for blisters. In India the dried stalk of the plantain leaf is used as a rough kind of twine, and the larger parts are made into small boxes for hold- ing snuff, drugs, etc. In the Malay peninsula the ash of the leaf and leaf stulk is used instead of soap or fuller’s earth in washing clothes, and a solution of the ash is often used as salt in cooking. In the Dutch Indies the skin of the plantain is ‘sed for blackening shoes. The juice which flows from all cut parts of the banana Is rich in tannin and of so blackening a neture that it may be u an indelible arking inl leaves of the the under side with a white powder, which yields a valuable wax, clear, hard and whi ish, forming an important article of trade. The ashes of the leaves, stem and fruit rind are employed in Bergal in many dye- ing processes. In Slam a cigarette wrapper is made from the leaves. Fiter is got from the stems of many kinds of bananas. The most valuable fs the “Manila hemp” of commerce, which holds the chief place for making white ropes and cordage. Old ropes made of it form an excellent paper-making material, much used in the Untted States for stout packing papers. The Manila ‘hemp indus- try is a large one. About 50,000 tons of fiber, valved at £3,000,000, are annually ex- ported from the Philippine Islan The Manila hemp plant is grown exclusively in the southeastern part of the Philippines, and all attempts to grow it elsewhere have failed. Many articles are made from Ma- nila hemp—mats, cords, hats, plaited work, lace handkerchiefs of the finest texture and various qualities of paper. At Wobhlau, in Switzerland, an industry has been started ing stake, at five furlongs; two stakes for for making lace and matertals for ladies’ the three-year-olds, besides the Derby, the Leuhrman Hotel stakes and Tennessee Oaks, $1,500 added, each one mile; three events for three-year-olds and upward; the Montgomery handicap, at mile and an eighth, $2,000 added; Peabody Hotel handi- cap, $1,500 guaranteed, at mile and a six- teenth; Tennessee Brewing Company, sell- ing stake.$1,000 added, seven furlongs. A number of large stables have already gone into winter quarters at Montgomery ark. Realism on the Stage. From Town and Country Journal. s her acting natural?” Manager (enthustastically) — “Natural ! Why, when she appeared as the dying mot: er last night an insurance agent, who has her life insured for £2,060, and who was in the audience, actually fainted.” Sa ‘The reply of the Marquis of Salisbury to Secretary Olney on the Venezuelan ques- tion was dispatched direct to Washington by mail some days ago. Pil help you to have G-o-o-=d t=i=m-e- PER if your wateh ts Iscking Im the ac- it once had. 1 vs 7 siness—I_ do < else—but repair timepteces of every a tion, and my work T guarantee to be Consultation free 632 G St. ost #3 Hutterly, det-12d hats from it. By a simple process it {Is made into straw exactly resembling the finest wheat straw for plaiting. —___+e+_____ The Modern Store. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Obliging Clerk—“Ten yards of brocaded satin—there you are, ma’am! En’g else—-” Customer—“Er—yes; a kit of mackerel—" “Yes'm. Send ‘em home?” “I see you have some very fine laces, I see—" “The rarest, this piece?” “Well, yes; vend eight yards, and a load of coal—” xactly. And the ribbons?” ‘end twenty yards of the pink—and a bale of hay——" “Um-huh! Now, as to the wrap. Here's a beauty for—" “That will do. Send it with a bushel of turnips and a barrel of lime—” “So! And the silk muffer—want it— think?" “Oh—I—yes; you might send it with a thousand lap shingles, a peck of ontons, a pair of tongs, a bolt of tidy cotton and a load of tanbark!”" ma'am. A few yards off +00 Relieved of From the Chicago Record. Johnny—‘Ma’s awfully tickled at this time o” year.” “Willie—*W hy?” Johnny—‘‘It’s too cold to go swimmin’ and rot cold enough to skate on thin ice.”” Anxiety. SUCCESS ASSURED Tremendous Crowds:at.the Teachers’ Bazaar Last.Night. CONVENTION HALL: <WAS PACKED die Some of the Features Ww hich Inter- ested the Atidfence. TONIGHT’S PROGRAM It has been repeatedly surmised in other cities that the teachers’ bazaar here would prove a, failure because of non-support of the people. This was just a little prema- ture. The attendance on the opening night insured success, but last evening the ba- zaar was veritably overwhelmed by the crowd. At fifteen minutes before 8 o'clock the police closed the doors, after fully 7,000 persons had passed into the hall, and half an hour later at least 3,000 more were on” the outside, clamoring for admission. It was truly a great occasion, and the third division claims the credit. The night had been set apart for the third, and it seemed that all East Washington, with a generous representation from every other section of the city, turned out. The pink butterfly, the insignia of the division, reigned su- preme, and the supervising principal, Mr. Stuart, wore a complacent smile, even though it appeared at times as though all business would be brought to a standstill because those who wanted to buy found It impossible to move through the dense throng. Under Difficulties. At 7 o'clock, when the concert began, 1,500 people had pasesd through the doors. When the concert was concluded, with the exception of one number, half an hour later, the hall was packed to sardine in- tensity. Although the surroundings were not exactly suited for a concert, those nearest the stage thoroughly enjoyed the numbers, which were presentéd by Mr. W. L. Wilson, Miss Eleanor Simonds, Prof. T. Williams Pearman, Miss Mary Helen Howe ond Mr. William R. Benham, with Mr. D. G. Peiffer, Mrs. W. L. Wilson, Miss Bessie Erly and Miss McKee as accompanists. When the doors were closed about one-half the players in the Mandolin Orchestra were excluded, and it was 9 o'clock when the leader, Mr. A. V. Holmes, raised his baton, The noise in the hall at that time was so great that the selections could not be well heard or appreciated, and the mu- sicians reluctantly gave it up. The Visitors. The thousands of persons outside dis- played such determination to gain entrance that it became necessary for Mr. Stuart to crawl out on a ledge and endeavor to ex- plain that it would be absolutely impossible to admit an additional number. At this announcement many departed for home, but hundreds stubbornly remained. At 11 o’clock the crowd inside had thinned out to @ considerable degree, ard scores of per- sons then entered for the first time during the evening. The invited guests, the Na- tional Fencibles and the:sixth battalion, D. C. N. G., approached the Hall shortly after 8 o'clock, but, like thé others, could not get in. Finally, after a-wait of an hour, the sixth battalicn was marched through the National Guard Armory and across the bridge, forced a passagée-tatough the crowd and moved ‘slowly Ground the hall. Shortly after, the Fercibles, attired in full dress uniform, and headed by the Second Regi- ment Band, playing the “*Fencibles’ March,” entered, and were greeted! with applause. Dench’s Orchestra and+'the Second Regi- ment Band rendered at appropriate pro- gram during the evening. From the stage the s¢ene was one to be remembered. A veritable ‘veean of faces, the colors on the hats of the ladies and the headgear worn by the Turks and other oriental people forming”a most’ picturesque conglomeration. ‘The faithful’camel almost became exhausted trying to make “her cus- tomary trips around the hall,’and lost her temper so far as to viciously kick a small boy who pierced her side with a pin. The condition was such that early in the evening the management decided that {t would be necessary to open the bazaar daily hereafter from 1 to 4 p.m. for adults only. On Saturday, however, children will be ad- mitted. This opening ‘fs especially to af- ford an opportunity to examine and pur- chase the many articles of beauty and use displayed, which cannet be done to ad- vantage in the crowd. In order to open in the afternoon, the teaehers have found it necessary to call on their friends to serve, in order that the school work be not inter- rupted. Some Features. Of course, the third division in particular held sway last evening. Prominent among the attractféns were the palmistry and Phrenology booth, the linen table, the shuf- fle board, the mystery bundles, the guess- ing department and the jack-in-box. With- in a curtained alcove Madam MacDonnell supplied interested visitors with a better knowledge of themselves and their future, while a glance at the mystery booth was sufficient to satisfy the most inquisitive ob- server that the designation was not a mis- nomer, for, in sizes ranging from a pill box to a flour barrel, bundles were to be seen, and they maintained a profound reticence as to the character of their contents. The chief attraction, however, of the display of the division was a handsome doll of unusual size and beaut: yhich is to be named Mrs. Cleveland. s of little dolls were offered for sale, each bearing a name, and the purchaser of the small doll which ‘shall happen to bear the name selected by Mrs. Cleveland is to be presented with the large beauty. A jack-in-the-box appeared as a sprite in a variety of disguises and from the depths of the generous-sized inclosure awarded persons who dropped a nickel with a carefully tied package. Candy in great quantities was disposed of in dainty boxes of crepe paper. A specialty shown by the division was linen, the exhibit com- prising table and lunch cloths, napkins center pieces, carving cloths, table runners, bureau scarfs, towels, bibs and other con. ceptions of a lke nature. The miscellans eous booth attracted considerable atten- tion. As its name implies, It comprised all articles, chiefly ornamental, not otherwiee classified, and embraced a heterogeneous Lut attractive collection, prominent. In which were a cabinet mante! = enlelty 1 and a graph. Tonight's Program, The Normal School will run things this evening, and every effort 1s to be made to equal the record of last night. Judging from the closing of the doors, it would be wise for visitors to reach the hall early, which will give them an. opportunity to listen to the following attractive program, which is to commence at’7 o'clock: Quartet “The Old Folks at Home,” Miss Helen Nye, first soprano; Miss Etta Noah, second so. prano; Miss Alice Pillsbury, first contrat Miss Irma Callahan, second contralto: u der the direction of Miss Katie V. Wilson. Tenor solo, “Thou Art Like:Unto a Flower,” Mr. Perry B. Turpin; contralto solo, “He Was a Prince,” Miss Florence Stidham: baritone solo, “Israfel,""Mr. Frank P. Ree. side; accompanist, Mr. Arthur D. Mayo. During the evening Donch’s Orchestra will render the following program March, “Manhattan Beach”... “Little Rosebuds’ Waltz, “Espana” Overture, “Schauspiel . Cornet solo, “Once Again” Selection, ‘Wang’ March March, Patrol, Waltz, Gavotle, Two-step, ‘Handicap”.....--- -Rosey The ladies of the Loyal Legion, accompa- nied by a band of music, will be the gucsts of the evening. A reception to the residents of East Washington was held last evening at t administration booth by Mrs. A. T. St art and a committee of ex-teachers, prising Mrs. W. H. Hoeke, Mr, A. Mrs. Frankland Jannus, Miss Flo: hold, Mrs. L. D. Wilson, Mrs. J. W derson and Mrs. D. Olin Leech. During + evening Mrs. Gen. Landers and Mrs. T. 1. Tulloch were present at the booth. COURT “EXHIBITS.” Lawyers Who Work Upon the Sym- pathies of Jurors. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. The cxhibits filed in the circuit the various cases form one of the most in- teresting features of the records, and one of which the general public hears little or nothing. To those who have the oppor- tunity of seeing them they form simply a Part of the daily grind, and it is only when they have become relics of a half-forgotten crime or suit that they become cf interest. Under the general head of the exhibits come many things that, technically speak- ing, are not exhibits. For instance, in a fult for damages for personal injury a most effective move. upon the cart of the laintiff's attorney is to exhibit his client’ Injuries to the jury and enlist their sy: pathy in his behalf. When a little boy hob- bles aercss the floor of tho court room with one little leg missing or with an arm gone, he is generally reasonably certain of a verdict, and a good one, if he has any sort of a case and the defendant happen to be a corporation. In a recently-settled damage suit agains a corporation a little eight-year-old boy, who had lost a leg, was the plaintiff. The case was first tried about a year ago, and the evidence did not entirely sustain the claim. However, the plaintiff's attorney, one of the most effective men who has ever faced a jury, made such a good use of his client’s condition and drew such a pathetic picture of his blighted life thaz he was awarded a verdict for over $5,000 damages. This was, however, set aside because of the misguided interest of one of the boy’s friends in speaking to a juror. Qn the sec- ond trial the defendant, rather than go again before a jury, agreed to compromise by paying a substantial sum. In another damage case, which attracted considerable attention at the time of its trial, the plain- uff'’s attorneys had their client brought into court on a stretcher and made a great impression upon the jury. Another thing in which a lawyer de- lights is a pretty client. When a pretty woman sues a corporation for damages for the death of her husband. her law- yer has her in a conspicuous place in the court room, aad if she has any small chil- dren—th2 smalier the hetter—they are there, too. It makes a picture of innocence and hopelessness that inspires the attorney to heights of elocuence and js not with- out its effect upon the jury. As an in- stance of the #ifect which a handsome plaintiff exerts upon a jury may be cited a certain case in which a woman whose husband had met with a horrible death sued a corporation for $25,000 damages. The irial occurred about three years af- ter the accident, and the plaintiff was brought from a distant city. Her attoz- neys made out an excellent case, but de- spite their cleverness it was developed by the other side that she was n> longer a widow, having married since the institution of the suit. The second husband had been yery disereet!y kept in the background. The jvry awarded the plaintiff a verdict for $15,000 damazes, and a re:nark of one of the jurors as he left the court room illustrated the effect her presence had on the jury, as well as the counter-effect of the fact of her second marriage. “We would have given her,” he said, ‘$25,000 if she had not married again.” SOME REAL ACTING. court in A Prisoner Who Denied His Mother to Spare Her Pain. From the Philadelphia Times. “Boy said the sheriff of Broncho county, “I've seen a feller called Booth play the part of a devil named Iago, so that my fingers itched to get holt of my gun. I've seen a dugo named Salvini play a play named ‘The Outlaw,’ all in dago talk, but I didn’t have to know that ling» to find out he was a worse used man than any that ever set foot in these whole United States. There's a woman, too, Clara Mor- ris; she gave me a chill that lasted a week. But I’ve seen a man, a common, plain man. who could lay over them all. I saw him do just one piece of acting, and right after Thad to hang him. “It was a good while ago, just after they first got to electing me sheriff. I had a man in the jail and two deputles were staying right with him all the time, ‘cause w couldn’t take no chances of his getting ay, him being convicted of murder and waiting for his day to come to be hung jn. It was a mighty mean, low down murder, too. Jury wasn’t cut more’n five minutes over Jt. His lawyers had tackled all the courts he could gec into, but it was no go, and the feller’s time was sure coming; only a coyple of days off, it was. I think even right then old man Dunn and his carpen- ters were out In the jail yard working away on the gallows. “Well, on this day, when you could hear them carpenters knccking and sawing back in the yard, who comes into my office reom, where I was sortin:; Gut some papers, but this feller’s lawyer and a little old lady dressed in black clothes. She was a mighty nice looking old lady, leaning considerably against the lawy like she was nervous and tired. The lawyer tells me she has an idea that the feller we were going to hang was her boy. He'd been loose from her a good lot of years, and she wasn’t certain it was him, but she'd took up the notion somehow, and wanted to see to make sure. “Boys, I was broke up. I sorter felt her notion was right. These here women folks is what makes hangings mighty tough for sheriffs. When a man thinks of a feller's mother it gets right next to him, sure. “Course, I couldn't do nothing but agree, and I went with them, unlocking the doors and feeling bad. When we got to the cell, there was the feller sitting on a stool, read- ing a book in the light that sifted through the bars of his little window hole. The two deputies were right there, too, one on each side, looking glum and sour, for this guard- ing_ business is a tough, mean job. “The feller was a big, stout man, over six foot high. He had thick whiskers over his jaws and chin. They were black as a crow and his face had the prison bleach on. He hadn't been taking any care of himself, so he had a shaggy, animal sort of look about him. “It wasn't much light in there, and there wasn’t much room. The guards stood a ittle to one side, and the man stood up as we come in looking mighty curious at the Little old lady ‘She was in a tremble and staggered toward him, her poor old shaking hands stretched out. She was saying: “ ‘George, George! My poor, poor boy. It's your old mother come to y “ll never forget to my dying day how pitiful her voice sounded. There come a big lump ip my throat right there. But the man kinder drew back and looked at her sorrowful-like for a second or tw. His face never give him away nor his voice either. He says: ““*Madame, there is one happiness still left me. I can convince you of your mis- take. Some likeness there might be, but Iam not your son. I never saw you before in my life. My mother died years ago. She hag been spared the pain of seeing me here, as you also can go away reli2ved of the thought that your son is as I am.” “He talked so steady, so sure, so natural- ly sorry for the little cld lady, too, and yet so like the gospel truth, that you bet I felt relieved and glad for her sake. She drew back and caught the lawyer's arm, saying. “It has been so long ago. I am very feeble and dcn’t see well. The voice seems like, yet unlike. I must be mistaken. Poor fellow, I am indeed sorry for you and will pray for you.’ “Even at this the feller never turned a hair. Then we all turned and went out, leaving him and his guards just as they were before. “It was all a lle. It was his mother. He begged, as I never heard a human beg, for me and the deputies not to tell; to save his mother from such a truth and her heart from breaking. We never told Ler nor pobody else. She's dead herself now, so it's no difference. “Gentlemen, that was acting. Think of a man pulling himself together, meeting her so sudden, and then feoling his own mother without any preparing or nothin’. ‘That fellow’s nerve was iron, I tell you. There must have been some sort of a good streak in him anyhow. He died plumb game, too. I was a heap shakier at the hanging than he was. I hated to do it, but I had to.” —____+e+____ A Valued Servant. From the Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. Hammond—‘How do you like your new cook?” Mrs. Hashcroft—‘“She ain’t near as good as the othcr ore. She has too good a temper. I used to make the other one mad every inorning, and she would pound the steak to qt the band.” —____+ 0+____ Garon von Koeller, Prussian minister of the interior, has been dismissed from office on account of the recent strong measures he had instituted against the soclalists. }shafen and Kiel. , ROUND-UP OF HORSES, Five Thousand Animals Gathered in Up in the State of Washington. From the Anaconda Standard. = * Five thousand horses in a single bunch, revring, running, snorting and shying, urged.on by two score picturesque Indian and half-breed riders, sending into the air a cloud of dust that envelops and partially conceals the vast band of cayuses as the riders with swish of ropes, with shouts and yells, urged on the surging band of half- yild creatures’ before them, writes a cor- respondent from the Jocko Indian agency. It is a picture seldom seen now, and only ressible In the unrestricfed range of the reservation, a picture, if seen, never to be fergotten. For five days .these bronze riders have he northern range of the reserva- tion, driving before them: every horse that was found in this long stretch of country. They have ridden across the rolling ground of the lower valley; they have searcled the cenons; they have penetrated the dense timber of the foothills; they have climbed to the open parks on the mountain side. From valley and canon and hillside they have driven the half-wild horses, and have gathered them on the banks of the Pend d'Oreille river for the cutting out. Five thousand tossing heads,10,000 vicious eyes, 20,000 tramping hoofs! Almost as far as the eye can reach are horses, horses, hcrses. There are steeds of every color and of every size. Nearly ail of them are the mean, treacherous Indian ponies, some of them shapely and handsome, it fs true, but in every eye is a flash of wildness that be- tokens ill for the man who attempts to tame the owner. Here and there in a mass of horses that is being urged onward at a trot is a big, fine-looking animal that evi- dences good’ breeding. But there are too many of these. They are nearly all cayuses of the eayusest order. At one of the ranches on the banks of the river there are three big, well-fenced pas- tures, and here the cutting- out will be done. On the reservation there are now about fifteen thousand harses, and of these it Is estimated that fully 2,000 have no ght to the Indian range.. This will do auch to improve the condition of the range, and it is for this purpose that the big round-up has been undertaken. The band of horses-now being driven to- ward the exiemporized corrals has been gathered-in the region north of the Pend d'Oreille river. As soon as the cutting out has heen accomplished the riders will cross the river, and will round up the stock be- tween that stream and Crow creek, and there will be another separation at the Al- lard ranch on Mue creck. In addition to the removal! of all horses, Agent Carter has ordered that all cayuse stallions may be disposeé of in order that there may be some improvement in the grade of horses raised on the reserve. Thus, the round-up will accomplish a double purpose. — HIS KIND. NOT The Occasion Was One When He Might Not Be Congenial.. From the Detroit Free Tress. I was sitting in a cobbler’s shop in one of the little towns on the side of the Cum- berland mountains, when a native got off a mule at the door and came in, and said: “Now, Joe, I h’ar that you folks is ewin to hev a dance some night next week?” “Yes, Tom.” was the reply. “Gwan to be a crowd?” ight smart, I reckon.” 'Axin’ most everybody to: come?” Yes; most everybody.” ‘But yo’ hain’t done axed me.” “No, Tom, I hain't,” slowly replied the old man. “I jest reckon I'm gwine tc leave yo’ out.” “Hu! What yo’ got agin me, Joe?” “Nuthin’, ‘cept one thing, Tom. If yo" git to that dance yo’ is bound to get ex- | cited and begia to shute and hurt some- body.” “Yaas, I allus git excited and shute,” replied Tom. “If it was a shutin’ dance yo’d be count- ed in, of co’se, but, yo’ see, it hain’t. It’s jest fur a few ole folks who don’t want any shutin’.” “T gee.” “And that’s why we hain’t dun axed yo’ to cum up. Hope thar’ won't te no hard feelin’s, Tom?" “Of co’se not without shutin’. “Because,” said the cobbler, as he threw down the boot he had finished patching— “because, If thar’ was gwine to be any hard feelin’s yo’ might cum up to the bend of the road and hev a pop at some of the folks as they was gwine home arter the dance.” Tom reflected for a moment, and then said it would be ali right if— I saw the point and invited the two out to have a drink with me. - eee —__—_ ‘T ° I doan’ keer for dances THE FEMALE TYRA Who Bosses Her Husband and Makes Life 2 Wenrisome Bore to Him. From the National Review. She contradicts him at the head of his own table; interrupts his anecdote to set him right on an utterly unimportant little detail —say, the date of a transaction, which he makes the 7th of September and she asserts was the 8th; she interferes in all his arrange- ments, and questions his authority in the stables, the fields, the church, the consulting room; she apportions his food and regulates the amount of wine he may take; should she dislike the smell of tobacco she will not allow the most transient whiff of the most refined cigarette, and she teaches the children to despise their father by the frank contempt with which she treats him, and the way in which she flouts his opinion and de- ries his authority. If she be more affection- ate than aggressive she renders him ridicu- lous by her effusiveness. Like the “Sammy love” which roused Dean Alford’s reproba- tion, she loads him with silly epithets of erdearment before felk, oppresses him with personal attentions and treats him general- ly as a sick child next door to an idiot. All ont of love and its unreasoning tyran- ny, she takes him into custody—in public as in private life—and allows him no kind of freedom. Robust and vigorous as he is, she wctries over his health as though he were a confirmed invalid: in the heyday of his ma- turity coddling him as if he were an octo- genarian bordering on second childhood. She ec. tinually uses the expression, “I shall not allow ny husband to do so and so;" or, “I will make my husband do this and that.” Never by any chance does she confess her right to free action, bound as he is in the chains of her tyrannous affection. In the end sle mrkes him what she has so long fancied kimsel? to be, a backboneless valetu- dinarian, whom the sua scorches to fever and the east wind chills to pneumonia—one who has lost the fruit by “fadding” about the flower. ——_-+e< Mustaches in Office Hours. From the London Globe. When mustaches first came into fashion in this country the authortties of the Bank of England issued a mandate that their clerks should not wear them “during office hours." A decree of scmewhat similar im- pert which has recently been published by the German admiralty is causing conster- nation among the barbers of Wilhelm- In future the officers and men of the imperial navy are cither to be clean shaven or to wear full beards. The mustache is condemned, apparently, as a worthless compromise. But the hairdress- ers are up in arms, foreseeing that their naval customers, when forced to choose between a ‘smooth face and a full beard, will adopt the latter alternative. ————_+e+- A Powerful Explosive. From the New York Sun. “ Arnouncement is made that Prof. Vic- tor Meyer has obtained an isolated deriva- tive of nitromethane, the detonating power of which is alleged to exceed anything that has ever been demonstrated in the line of expfosives—a derivative which results from the substitution of one atom of sodium for one of the three atoms of the hydrogen of the methane. In the preparation of this substance Prof. Meyer dilutes a certain quantity of nitromethane with sulphuric ether, and then adds, in alcoholic solution, the body resulting from the action of the sodium upon the alcohol. The precipitate formed is washed with ether, and then dried by means of concentrated sulphuric acid. The compound is described as anhy- drous, and its explosive force terrific. The potassic derivative of the nitromethane is also found to have great explosive energy. — The American Church Missionary Society has decided not to prosecute William A. Newbold, general secretary, and Henry Oakley, general tre: rer, who we: faulters to the amount of about $20,000 each. | A THOUGHT THAT KILLED A MAN! He thought that he could trifle With disease. He was run down in health, feit tired and worn out, com- plained of dizziness, _ biliousness, backaches and headaches. His liver, and kidneys were out of order. He thought to get well by dosing him- self with cheap pills. And then came the ending. He fell a victim to Bright's “ disease! The money he ought to have invested in a safe, re- liable remedy went for a tombstone, The thought that killed this man HAS KILLED OTHERS. Statistics show that 90 per cent of the deaths from pneumonia, Bright’s disease and similar complaints are caused from derangements of the liver and kidneys. These great or- gans keep the blood pure and in healthful motion. When they get cut of order the blood becomes poisoned, the circulation impeded and the whole system speedily, breaks down. It is’ A DANGEROUS IDEA To imagine that pills can strike at the root of these diseases. It has been thoroughly proved that such remedies are worse than- useless, There is only one remedy which can always be depended. upon. This remedy alone can act on the liver and kidneys when they are out of order, clear out the system and build up the healtlt .The name of this remedy is Warner’s Safe Cure. It is the only standard remedy in the world for kidney and liver com- plaints. It is the only remedy which physicians universally prescribe. It is the only 1emedy that is backed by the testimony of thousands whom it has relieved and cured. There is nothing else that can take its place. lime Is Precious. We're willing to waste everything else—even money —but we must make time. When our new building is done—our five present ones must be empty—and that’s a big job—cause there’s a for- tune in FURNITURE— CARPETS — MATTINGS — DRAPERIES—STOVES — RANGES — BEDWEAR and CROCKERY WARE— OFFICE FIXINGS— FANCY LAMPS—BRIC- A-BRAC on hand here now— ‘But We’ve Cut Everything “Wide Open.” Present prices aren’t half % what the values are worth. Credit if you want it. Sesdesteteestecteetetetetetetetetesteteeteeteetteaed House & Herrmann, The Leading Hovsefurnishers, 917, 919, 921 AND 923 TTH ST. 1080-844 636 MASS. AVE. Graig & Harding, Furniture, &c., 13th and F ste. Gir T—_.. Furniture. - You know how hard it is to find just what vou want the last few days before Christmas! Upon payment of a small deposit now we Will re- serve anything within our establish- ment. More beauty and variety than shown any preceding season, and lower prices. Here is a “little list” picked haphazard: Usual $1 Fire Screens.........69c. Usual $2 Fire Screens........$1.25 Usual $1 Clothes Poles. ?......65¢. Usual $5 Arm Rockers.......$3.75 Usual $7.50 Bookcases. ...... -$5.75 Usual $5 Hall Stands........$3.75 Usual 69c. Parlor Tables......49¢. Usual $12 Dressing Tables. .. .$9.65 Usual $12 Shaving Stands. .. .$9.25 Usual $12 Writing Desks. ... .$7.25 Any number of other equally at- tractive Holiday bargains CRAIG & HARDING, Furniture, &c.,13th & F Sts. 1,80 Get the Best— “THE CONCORD HARNESS,” Horse Blankets and Lap Robes in great variety aud at sowest prices. LUTZ & BRO., 497 Pa. Ave. N.W. (Adjoining National Hotel.) s n2-16d