Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1895, Page 10

10 THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. Open Late Tonight. Canes 4" Umbrellas —the largest and finest stock in town—at lowest prices. Mountings are solid silver and Umbrellas have 8 ribs instead of 7—no extra charge. JAMES Y. DAVIS’ SONS, Hatters and Furriers, 1201 Pa. Ave. anid Jewelry Gifts for Men. The giver who selects his gift from our stock of Cuff Buttons, Scarf Pins, Studs, ete, will Cle rie! infinite satisfaction in paying halt lar price, For in- BiEree: Butt th $5, now $2. SOe., D0 . stock of Men's Fur- in SHIRTMAKER, P. T. HALL, 908 F St. 24 16 “wrinkle At 1-3 the Expense en a littl in the de. Bort ai rds, “Invitations, &e.—the fs best shown. rhe Printer, 596 loth St. now $1 ytitn Hats, $4.75. Latest but $4. Stok ns Shirts ‘‘to order” a specialty! laver’s, 943 Pa. Ave. 1,16 a — Se Make the Finest Fittin plip." ‘Knox’? and “Youman" blocks, 75 Just to introduce you to our grand 1 Most Comfortable Shirts It's possible to construct. I have every fa- * cillty for turning out the best work—the * finest system of cutting—hizh-priced work © pes ind many years’ experience in cater- © Ing to the w of Washington's most = + tidious people. Prices $1.50 each; 3 for $4.50. 2° 6 for Frank Wells, Stittmaker, y411 Pa. Ave. a 16d Gifts. Everything for indoor or out- door games at Tappan’s, 1013 Pa. Ave. ders 24d Folks Who Write Little or Much find the LANCASTER GOVERNMENT FOUN- able possession. Wh to write, nd it can't get d with solid gold pens, $2 exchange and repair Fountain Pens ads to ell pencils SR GOVERNMENT PEN CO., 910 F et. Effects in High-class NECKWEAR, Each Scarf Prettily Boxed, 5c. HENRY FRANC & SON, SOBNFR _20-80,38 _ - a Le (Caneor Umbrella?) y one yet? Ie got to buy for ‘Any sort of 8 k. Laurel, Congo Etched Laure! s low as $1, and a splen- Gloria Sik Umbrella tural wood bundle, equal es, at $1.50, cach, of Ladies’ Umbrellas also. CHAS. H. RUOFF, Up-to-date hatter, 905 Pa, Ave. 20-24 Se nee eet Horse timers (split second), chronometers, fine and complicated timepiece movements—their repair- ing our specialty. Experienced and expert workmen only employed. Small charges. Hutterly, ee 632 G St. dett-lid ot DAUGHTER'S PART AT HOME. Wass in Which She Can Brighten Life for Her Parents. From Harper's Round Tat of the sw est things a girl can do is to friends graciously, particularly @t home. In cne's own house a cordial man. ner ‘s peculiarly fitting. Do not stand off in the n of the room and bow coldly end formally to the friend who hag called. Walk over to mect her; give her your hand, and say pleasantly that you are very glad to sce her again. Stiff, cold and formal ways of greeting acquaintances are not proper in a@ girl weleuming guests to her father's house. A daughter's part 1a to assist her mother on every social occasion. The girl pours the tea in her mother’s drawing room When friends drop in at 5 o'clock. Quite often, when no maid ts present, she helps the guests to the sandwiches, and the cakes which are served at a 5 o'clock tea, and her- self hands the cups, and takes them from the guest Who would like to be relleved. Apart from and more important even than her manner to a guest who happens in for an hour ora d. is the manner of a daugh- ter to her father and mother. The father 3 to his home after a wearying day at He 1s tired tx body and mind. k, af his latch key turns In the he throws off care; he Is joyous at ht of the dear ones he will meet Q@fter hours of absen His young daugh- ter, in a pretty gown, with the bloom and freshness only girlhood wears, should be ready to give him the attentions he loves the cheery word—to help her moth- er and the rest tn letting her father see how much he loved at home. Men give up a great deal for their famtlles--thelr time, their strength, the knowledge they have guined in life's expertences—they spend everything freely for their home's sake, and the home should pay {ts debt in much out- spoken lov 2 One re elve business. Coming bi oe Crooked Bicycle Wheels. From the New York World. Many bicycle riders pay a high price for a wheel, and then wonder why it !s harder work than coal shoveling to propel it over the smoothest of roads. A well-known bi- cycle authority, who writes over the nom de plume of “Betsy B.," says that to the ordinary observer of the metropolitan cycler the fact becomes at once evident that nearly one-third of the wheels which @re being ridden are out of track. So com- mon does this seem to be that it begets an {Gea that perhaps, after all, the diamond frame tg not the perfect one it ts supposed to be. This variance in trackage fs all the way [rom a querter to as much as three irehes, and it seems strange that riders should not at once detect It, owing to the uncomfortableness of riding a wheel tn such a cordition. When you find that the machine you ride does not steer well, or when the rear wheel tire gives forth a pe- culiar ewishing sound when being ridden Over a dusty surface, you are safe to sus- gece that the wheels “do not track, and an ly visit to a competent repairer is ad- Visable. | | WILL MEET VIRGINIA Completing Preparations for Tomor- row’s Foot Ball Game. FAMOUS PLAYERS 10 OFFICIATE Average Weight of the Columbian Team, 169.8. - WHO WILL TAKE PART ee Washington 18 to have a Christmas day game of foot ball, but this year the op- posing elevens are so well known to the greater number of persons in this city that it is expected that a crowd very near- ly as large as that which witnessed the game of Thanksgiving day between the Co- lumbia Athletic Club and the Columbian University will be present to see what the local university men can do against the University of Virginia. ‘The game Is to take place at 3 p.m. at Cap- itol Park, and the same arrangements in regard to seating the crowd and other de- tails as on Thanksgiving have been ar- ranged. Phil. King, the famous Princeton quarter back, will be referee and Frank Butter- worth, the noted Yale full back, umplr Ormsby McCammon will be Columbian ‘inesman. Virginia's Inesman has not yet been announced. The average weight of the local team Is 169.8 pounds. A singular fact in connection with the contest is that beth teams have the same colors—orange and blus. A letter was re ved Saturday from the captain of the University of Virginia team, Penton, stating that instead of hav- ing to play with two or three substitutes he {s counting on bringing the team ¢ actly as it played in Richmond Thanksgiv- ing day against the University of North Carolina. They will arrive In the elty to- day and the Riggs House ts to be the headquarters of both teams. Following the foot ball game during the holidays the Columbian University Glee, Banjo, M lin and Guitar Clubs are to tender th versity of Virginia a benefit concert aid of the fund for rebuilding. Virginia's team 1s composed of all new in faces this year except those of Captain Penton and Left End Jackson, two of the star pl Pope, their crack full back, returned to Princeton this year and played substitute full back. The Virgir are steadily each year and last year scored agalr champion University of | Penn Notwithstanding the large lot of com tively raw material to develop Vif: has a strong team, and in addition had the benefit of a splendid coach season in the person of Mac of the team from Pennsy of 1 cannot be said to be heavy, probably a pound or two in excess Solumbian, but they play one of the most scientific games in the country, and have defeate teams against heavy odds in the matt weight. Here is the Mne-up as announces it: Left left tackle, Morr ter, mms; right right tackle, Weist improving t the all captain They 2 ter back, Hoaton; left half Jones; right half back, Lambert, and full back, Lang. ‘Accompanying them will be a large num- ber of students of the Institution, a num- ber of whom reside in this city. The Vir- ginians d not break training when the November game was over, but let up a little for awhile. For the last two weeks they have been hard at it again, as they realize that they Haven't got what Is called “a lead pipe cinch.” The local ‘varsityites, contrary to a state- ment which appeared In a local paper, have been practicing regularly since the 4th day of December,_and in consequence they have team work down to a fine point, a thing in which they were lacking to a con- siderable extent When they bucked up against C. A. C. Columbian was strong behind the Ine in that game, but rather weak In it, and in consequence the winged arrow people made their gains, for the most part, at various places in the ln. In tomorrow's game this is not likely be the case, ¢ wliy at center. V Johnson, the r r at this place, comes pretty two hundred pounds of avolrdupo.s, is to fill the position, Me will have on one Side of him as right guard Busey. Busey welghs about a hundred and eighty, and {s a fine yl, all around. He played In the same position on the C. A. C. aggregation Thanksgivin of the law department of © sen is a medico. At right guard there will be Cummirgs. a stuc John- He fs not as heavy as ¢.ther of the two men mentioned, but what ‘here 1s of lim ts all it and mu > is over six f x by two or thr es the talle the team, and is a stulent fn th arts. Cummin, is said to have a gr future befure | a guard if he will « keep steadily at tt, 2 he 1s quite yo gives promise of belag a ger in to Cummings phen G. school. there !s another regu- mbrill, jr., 2 member of the He Isa man e Central High 1d colonel of the regiment. Shnster ts a but where he ts invaluabh ns is in his kicl he having kicked both of the goals fora‘olumblan, an = dition made some pretty punts, Ed. Mills is booked for left end. student of the coilege, but m: reputation on the Central High Schoo! ele where he was ¢ one of the - s the High S ad. During the past summer and fall he oked by typ fever, and durlag his conva- lescence gained ‘greatly in welght, and though thereby greatly handicapped by | ing soft € greatest play of the TI S Kame, running the entire Jer field to'a touch down. ne other end 1s anot E is Carroll Fugitt, and thou igh 1p, aS was } gam jayed this season on the college team against the High School with his head all bandaged up. Thotzh the Co- lumbian line is on the whole stroager than on Thanksgiving day, yet It will miss Don Fugitt, tackle, and aggaman, end. The latter {8:now In Europe and the former {s laid up with a swollen leg caused by using it in the game when it had just been In- Jured quite severely. Though in the second half Columbian showed up considerably stronger in her backs, yet the two new men who have been put in will result in four men than which no eleven which has pared in this elty this year can duplicate. Weaver, the full back, is a college man, and weighs about a hun- dred and sixty. S He {s not rauch at punting, Shuster doing this for the blue and yellow, but excels at line bucking. Thomas A Alton is to play quarterback. Aiton cap- tained the tern High School team of 1802, which won the championship of the high schools, and a number of whora have graduated into the crack Orients of this year. Aiton is the captain of the Orients, and at his position of quarterback he has probably no equal in this city. His forte is in sure passing and strong tackling. Alton attended Princeton last year, but this year isa student of Columbian jaw. Avis will, in all likelihood, pla: half, He {s a-fleet runner, and wit tue good running mate for © 1. Like Aiton, Coekre Eastern High he Was a member of the chool eleven, and was one of the bac the Orients this season, aud is GEnee course of law at Columbian. The star player of the whole eley ve ever, is Ewing Cockrell, the ania ard right half back. While Cockrell made one of the two touch downs against the Colum. bia Athletic Club, he fs expected to put up an even better game against the Virginians for the reason that he fs playing against his alma mater in the college of arts and letters, and would naturally be anxious to show them what he could do. Cockrell was a sub center for Harvard, and then leaving that Institution went to the Uni. versity of Virginia, playing as one of the guards, and being in the two famous games in which Virginia scored against Pennsyl- vania, a thing not done by any other team that year, and holding Princeton down to two touch downs. Capt. Cockrell Is a son of Senator Cockrell of Missouri, is a graduate of the Washington High School, where he played on the foot ball team and captained a company in the battalion, and is now a student of Columbian law. Of course, it is barely possible that some of these men will be displaced, but it is not likely In case, however, Reeve Lewis, who has been very busy of late at his business, gets into the game, he fs likely to take Avis’ place as a back, and the latter displacing Fugitt at end. Other men trying for places and who will be seen on the field as substitutes at all events, are Clapp, Doolittle and Harris for the line, and Beard for a back. Taken as a whole the team as just sketch- ed !s a good deal better than the eleven which represented Columbian University Thanksgiving day, and with the advantage of nearly a month of hard practice since then, stands today, It is thought, as the best team in the District, barring none. It is expected that the University of Virginia will have far from a walk over, will have to fight for every point, and it 1s in the range of possibilities that they may be de- feated. President B. L. Whitman of Co- lumbian is to be present tomorrow as he was Thanksgiving, and more tally-hos have been engaged by the students than on that occasion. +0 CLERKS, TENURE OF OFFICE A Discharged Veteran's Suit in the Uourt of Olaims. The Right of the Head of a Depart- ment to Remove an Employe Questioned. The Court of Claims heard arguments yesterday on a unique case. The questions involved never have been before any court in the country. = ‘ Briefly stated, the question at issue was whether the head of a department has a right to discharge a clerk from the em- ployment of the government, notwithstand- ing the clerk has previously passed a civil service examination and was entitled to preference for service because he was an honorably discharged soldier: from the United States army. The arguments were on a demurrer to a petition of Morris Keim. The petition was filed in the Court of Claims October 7. It states that Keim is a citizen of the coun- y, residing at Farmwell, Loudoun county, that on the 26th day of August, 1862, he enlisted in the militar vice of his country and served faithfully unul che 17th of April, 1865, in the Idth New York volunteer Infantry, when he was discharged by Gen. Thomas on the regimental sur- geon's certificate of disability “from disa- bilities contracted from excessive labor while under military orde: he ga; that May 7, 1Sss, amination before the ¢ sion and was appointed to the Post Office 1 riment at @ that h transfe: riment, and then, March artment of the Interior, pension bures at a salary of $1200 a year; he continued to hold this position until March, ISH, when his salary was reduced to $1,000 a y he served at this salary until July 31, IMM, when he was “fi dis- cnarged.” Ise, p getting a clerkship in the to the DD rmally Keim's Claims. Keim claims two causes of action against the government. The first is for $30.23 un- paid for his es for the month of July, i8M4. The second Is for hls salary from that time until October, making a total claim against the government of ot) His grounds for asking his y from the government, while net in its employ, are that he AS disc without cause, and while fuily competent that under the giving pref- he should ha’ to perform his duties, Statutes of the United er to a federal soldi nd been kept. He declares that he is able to prove hi y. Upon of the petition As United Attorney John G. Capers, repre Attorney General, filed a demu ging that there was no ground for cause. The claimant is r nted by Luther R. Smith and Chaney & Garrison, The attorneys most wholl upon section and the ipplemen he statute referre: that “persons honorably dischar the military or naval service by 1 ability resulting from wounds or ness incurred in the line of duty preferred for a ments provided they found business capacity ne ary charge of the of The supplemental statutes provi tin diminishing his forces or redi grades the head of a department st cognizance of whether a man is charged Union soldier. The Arguments. Assistant Attorney Capers, for the gov- ernment, takes the ground that the head of a department fs the sole judse of the competency of a person in his employ. He contends that neither the courts nor Con- er could regulate or di the execu- tive action of the nents in the removal of emplo y could the courts and Congr rome ©X- utive branches of ent. He Hennen case, in which it was “the power of removal was dent to the power of appointment.” J many other cases to show that the the d of a department ole judge of the ability of an employe. In concluding his argument, he said that if the court wer to grant the petition and give they mount of his for since hi: 1 to hold that the for pre 2e to be nd sailors ¢ a contract between the Rov- ernment and soldier or sailor In the nature of a life tenure to olfice te of affairs, he id, would create a branch of jon servi ized at wholly & imant’s ttorneys argued that If the petitioner not entitled to. the micney sued for, the laws unde ich he hi vices were mein ‘They not only cited the of the statutes given, but refer civil service laws, sed to decide a man’s qualific office without leaving it in the hangs ¢ head of a departmen’ that an execut oflice force under him rin ment it is wise to do so, but he must not reduce that force at the expense of a Union sol- dicr. Thg question of a man's qualifi tions must not be left to “the cuprice of an executive off Itwill thus be seen that the case involves a highly interesting point, end should Mr. Keim win, there is no telling how far- reaching the consequences would be. AND THE LAW. BLOOMERS The New Woman is Having Her Rights Detined. From the New Orleaus Picayune. The new woman fs having a hard time with her bifurcated garments in the west. A*police Judge who has undertaken to de- fine the situation and decide how far she may go in adopting the garb of a man says that she may wear bloomers, provided they are cut full. Otherwise they don’t go. In San Frangisco there is an ordinance that prohibits any one from appearing on the street in any dress not belonging to his or her sex, and a young woman was arrested for riding on a wheel In knickerbockers. The judge held that knickerbockers were garments that belonged exclusively to the male sex, and he intended to preserve them for its exclusive use if it could be done by law. He intimated that had the garments worn by the young lady been a little more beuffant tney would have passed muster as bloomers, but he laid it down as an unalterable principle that bloomers, in the eves of the law, must bag at the knees. This is a very important precedent. It shows that the ncw woman fs to have new trou- bles with her clothes and is to be held strict- ly amendable to the law, as expounded in folice courts. The supreme court Itself would not have dared to suggest another frill to the old woman. ——_+e+____ Gone the Old Man's Way. They are telling a good story down at the steck exchange, says a New York let- ter In the Pittsburg Dispatch, on a young broker whose father, long since dead, was one of the shrewdest operators in the street, and who was also noted for his extreme heartlessness in stock jobbery and his gen- eral all-around ‘“‘cussedness," as the brokers say. Several weeks ago the son went short of a leading stock and lost a big sum of money before he could cover. “There's an- other $100,000 gone to sheol!"” he said to sev- eral brokers who stood around him on the floor. “Don't worry, my boy,” said one of them. ‘The old man will get it.” I could give names, but that would never do. . TO RACE FIVE MILES Arrangements, Complete for the Co- lumbia Cycle Club’s Contest. HELEN WINS. THE PRESIDENT'S CUP Canterbury and -Orient Athletic Clubs -Play W ithogt Scoring. E 2 GENERAL - SPORTING NEWS Arrangements for the five-mile handicap road race of the Columbia Cycle Club, which will take place tomorrow morning at 10:30 o'clock, have been completed by the selec- tion of the track officials and the fixing of the handicaps. The work of handicapping the starters was done by William T. Robert- son, and it Is believed that the result will be sat tory to all. The course will be five miles, over the Tenleytown road, the start- ing and finishing point being at the Wood- ley Lane road. The turning point will be at the top of the hill just above the Grant road. The race officials are: Judges, C. L. Petze, Krank J.Wisner; starter, William Jose; clerk of the course, C. I. Ronsaville; referee, Wm. T. Robertson. The starters and the handic Robert Brott, 2 minute , 2 minutes; Howard F Robert Christie, 142 minu , 1 minute; Thomas Wood, 45 second Rudolph Jose, 30 seconds, and Chas. Wood, scratch, The prizes which have been donated for the winners In the race, are a pair of G. & J. tires and rims, by C.'L Palmer & Co.; a pair of tires, by Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company; a pair of M. & W. tires, by Morgan & Wright of Chicago, and a Trenton cyclometer, by the Trenton Watch Company, ps are as fol- E. MR. (LEN WON HANDILY. He Declined to Take Gi the President's by Default and Heat Mr. Lockett. Mr. George Hellen wa receiving the congratulations of his numerous friends last night over the handsome manner in which he won the president's cup, awarded by President Henry May to the winner of the hole match In the second Christ- mas tournament of the Washington Golf Club. Mr. Hellen, tt will be remembered, was one of the three players who secured places In the final trial for the president's cup by their superior excellence with the brassles last Friday. The other two were Messrs. Lockett and Horace Wylie. In the drawing for the final play to decide the championship Mr. Lockett drew Mr. Wylie as his opponent, and Mr. Hellen drew a bye, which gave him the privilege of play- ing the winner of the bout between the other two. Messrs. Lockett and Wylie did not reach the Hnks until late Sa ay, and when Mr. Lockett won from Mr. yile it was too dark for him to play with Mr. Hellen, As the iatter gentleman had been at the link: and willing to play, the cup, under’the rales, went to him default." Mr. Hellen,” however, de- clined to acce it under any such tech- nical*onditions and declared t he would either play Mr. Lockett a final game or let the cup remain in President May's pe s ion. Under these cireumstanc playing committee of the chub decid: Mr. Hellen’s wishes shouid be a led to, and yesterday the game w played, Mr. Hellen winning from Mr ‘Lockett by the score of six up and five to play. The cup Js of sterling silver, bossed, with handsome handles, the whole mount beautifully em- carved double don a base of yony bearing the inscription: “Pr dent's Prize, Christmas meeting, 1895. udicap Play. Washington Golf Club, Hellen. COMPARED. ents of Fitzsimmons and Maher Placed Side by Side. ‘The measurements of Fitzsimmons and Maher,who are to fight for the championship of the world, will prove of particular int est to the followers of boxing. It will b seen that in height the men are equal, while the Irish giant has ten pounds the better of it in ght. The Australian’s reach e t of his opponent by 11-4 inch surements are as follows: 13. Pitzsiapin . at Bt + Gt, 11% In, 5 ft. 1% in, 168 Ibs. 15 41 Neither Eleven Scored. e has been a great deal of disp.te be- n the Orient and Canterbury foot ball teams as to which was the better te Yesterday the two teams met at Nati Park, and the score stood even, and tw Th twe m. ciphers at that, at the end of the game Lyman and Bright were injured on the Orient side, and Brown and Duity were tuted. ‘The gains made were sr only made by hard work and 1, n The ¢ rbu played an ex dingly agsre ame, laying them- open to criticism | several times. as a whole, the contest was an in- and w: njoyed by a large teams lined up ting one, number of Canterbur: Williams rrigan ny Dufty. pet os Wood. Downey Walker. ‘ostinett Campbell +++ - Langley Bright, Brown. Mackay Compton. Hopper Boyd Maup! Wisner, . Boyle; referee, Mr. Undertvood and Mr. Solly Smith Won. Billy Murphy of Australia and Solly Smith of Los Angeles, Cal., fought last night in the arena of the Oiympic Club at New Or- jeans, The men were well trained, and fought fourteen fairly savage and scientific rounds. In the fourteenth round the Aus- ian featherweight was knocked down ral times, but seeing that Murphy was ten, Referee John Dufly separated the men and awarded the fight to Smith. Just before Murphy and Smith entered the ring to fight Mr. D. C.-O'Maley suggested to Referee Duffy that he would start a sub- scription. for Andy Bowen's mother, and 6 was raised in a few minutes for che dead pugilist’s mother. Lasker and Pillsbu The Lasker-Tschigorin &ame, postponed from Saturday, took place’ yesterday at St. Petersburg, and resulte, after forty-five moves, in a draw. Lasker played well. Present score: Lasker, Pillsbury, 314 each; Steinitz, Tschigorin, 1% gach. Military Cyclists Beaten. The Washington Athlet{é Club defzatea the Washington Miltary Cyclists in a game of basket ball last evening in the gymna- sium of the former organization by a score of 8 tol. The game was enjoyed by a large number of spectators, and although the score was rather one-sided, the contest was interesting throughout. The teams lined up as follo’ Ww. A. C. W. M. Cc. Suit. .e. g, Alexander. . Brinkers. rf. Libbey. Akers. 1. f. Tierney. : Mullen. . ¢ Pitkin. ROTO NR Horan . b. Michael. Martin. lb. Gaither. Sanderson. |. §. Campbell. Score—W. A. C.> Goals: Suit, ers, Akers, 3; Mullen, 2. Total, 8. W.M. C.: ala, Pitkin, 1, Umpire, Bieber; Litchtield; referee, Crupper. BALDNESS IS EITHER HEREDITARY OR CAUS- ed by sickness, mental exhaustion, pests ht- fitting hats and overwork and trouble, Hall's newer will prevent It. nac does NOT contain. complete reflex of lecal affairs. ALMANAC FOR “’96” IS NOW READY. 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GREAT MILLS OF Wharton Barker Tells of Chinese and Japanese Industries. From the Philadelpiia Times. Wharton Barker, prominent In Philadel- phia mercantile life, who has been identified with several movements for the develop- ment of the resources of the interior of China, has recently returned from another trip to the celestial empire and Japan. “Tt was a great sight,” he said, “to witness the Immense cotton mills of Osak, a city of 400,000 inhabitants, near Kobe, the seat of the cotton manufacturing industry of Japan, as wel! as the woolen milfs, spindles and looms, running day and night, to supply not only the wants of Japan, but of Europe and other countries as well. Their chief product at present consists of a kind of cotton fabric which {s used by us in rough shirtings and dresses for women. They expect not only to increase their export to Europe, but also to America, and the manufacturers, forelgn and domestic, are elated over the prospects of great profits, which they fully hope to realize within the next few years. They also manufacture a specialty of rugs, after the order of those manufactured in this city, which they originally took for a pattern. Surgical instruments are being made there at about one-tenth of the cost of similar instruments in Europe. They have arrived at such a degree of perfection in the manufacture of these that it is im- possible to distinguish the Japanese product from the European. “As an illustration of their low standard of wages, a first-class farm laborer receives but $1 per month, which keeps him in a way satisfactory to himself, although in abject filth, Witn this ridiculous sum he even clothes himself decently. Very few people are to be seen in rags, and these only among a class such as the opium fiend, who ts ut- terly worthless and very much like our American drunkard. “The filth of all their cities, Pekin espe- cially, outside of the range of foreign in- fluence, is frightful to behold. Yet with all this filth it is easy to find beautiful and cost- ly fabrics and surroundings such as one would expect to see in the homes of the rich. One passes frequently from a street foul with refuse into a residence of immaculate cleanliness. “China, as well as Japan, {s awakening to the position her cheap labor, her productive soil, her mineral wealth, give her. And the Chinese have also erected a number of cot- ton mills for the purpose of supplying their own people with the cotton clothes which heretofore were brought from America and Europe. They are contemplating the erec- tion of woolen mills, in which to manufact- ure carpets and rugs for American and Eu- ropean markets. They now know that about 80 per cent of the carpet wools used in those countries are obtained from China, and they expect soon to ship that wool man- ufactured into carpets instead of the raw material. They must, though, in the begin- ning, have superintendents familiar with such machinery as is used in America and Europe. They will have great difficulty in finding men whom they are willing to trust, as they are of an exceedingly suspicious nature. “The goyefnment of China Is, of course, very weak. But whether the present dynas- ty continues, or whether some Chinese revo- lution succeeds in changing the -personnel of the government, or whether the Euro- pean powers ree upon a partition of China, industrially and commercially China will remain one great, compact mass. The European and American parts of the world must accept the conditions that exist and protect themselves from Asiatic competition or sink in time, and not a long time at that, to the Asiatic level. In my judgment, the course of America {s plain. We should rec- ognize the quantity theory of money, re- establish bimetallism immediately, and en- act tariff laws that will protect American labor.” ———————— THE DIAMOND DELUSION. The Sparkling Jewels Are Worth What They Will Bring. From the Philadelphin Times. “People have the queerest notions about diamonds and other jewels,” said a well- known jeweler, “and some of them give us much trouble. The most general delu- sion is that diamonds have a standard value just as arbitrarily fixed as that of a double eagle. You will frequently hear people say: ‘It is an excellent investment to place your money in fine diamonds, for they are worth just so much a carat, and you can alway sell them for just what you paid for them.’ My lady bought a handsome brooch for seven hundred dollars, and after wearing it a year or two endeavors to sell it to her jeweler, or perhaps, to his rival. She is offered two hundred dollars for It. She then throws up her hands and lifts up her voice and protests that she has been swindled. What nonsense it all is! With diamonds as with other merchandise a stone is worth exactly what it will bring. Were it other- wise there would be no profit in dlamond dealing. How could I make money in sell- ing double eagles when I would have to pay twenty dollars for them, and could not gell them for a penny more? Here is a very fine Indian brilliant upon my finger. I bought it at a forced sale and paid nearly eight hundred dollars for it. Yesterday I was offered thirteen hundred dollars for it, but I would not sell because I am in love with the stone. “Yet, I cannot say that the stone is worth thirteen hundred dollars. It was worth it at the time that sum was offered for it by one who wanted It, but if I were compelled to sell it next week at twenty-four hours’ notice I might not get six hundred for it. Why should a woman expect to wear a brooch for two vears and then obtain for it the same money she paid for it? Last week I bought a new carriage and paid $1,800 for it. I said to a friend, ‘Come and take an $800 drive with me.’ He looked at me as if he thought me insane. ‘I mean it,’ I sald. ‘There is a carriage that co8t me $1,800, We will drive it through the park. To- morrow I will not be able to obtain $1,000 for it.’ With jewelry it 1s much the same —_+e+____ Stringing Wires. F. H. Chamberlain, acting superintend- ent of the United States Electric Lighting Company, was charged in the Police Court this morning with stringing an overhead wire on D street in violation of law. He was represented by Captain Thomas, presi- dent of the company, and the case went over until Friday. —— The Evening Star Almanac for 1896. The Evening Star Almanac for '96 is larger and more complete than that of '95. Four hundred and sixteen solidly printed pages of national, intc-national and local Statistics, Records and General Informa- tion. Tells all about the relationship exist- ing between the District of Columbia and the National Government. Contalns much not to be found in any encyclopedia. A val- uable, yet inexpensive addition to any li- brary. Price, 25c. To be had at The Even- ing Star office, at all news stands, or will be mailed ypon receipt of price. What They Have to Do and the Cost of the Service. London Letter in Chicago Chronicle. The report of the commissioner of police of London 1s always an interesting docu- ment, and this year it is as full as ever of curious intelligence. There are sidelights on the doiigs and sufferiags of the public in the streets of London, statistics about dogs and cabs and public houses, about utterers of counterfelt coin, housebreakers and all the fraternity of casual and professional criminals with whom the police have to deal, London has to pay heavily for its police. The cost of the force in pay alone, including chief constables, superintendents, inspect- sergeants and constables, came to $6,- last year, a figure far and away above what is paid by any other town, if reckoned out at so much per head. But then, the county of London is the enly area where the police are not subject to local control, so that these things must needs be. The authorized strength of the force on December 31, 1894, was thirty-one superintendents, ectors, 1,834 ser= geants and 12,754 constables. About 60 per cent of the number available for duty in the Streets is required for night work. The total number of criminal offenses of ail Kinds re- ported to the police was 20,970, a decrease of 407 as compared with 1893. The apprehen- sions numbered 14,902. Burglaries have fal- len off—3S4, as against 500—but housebreak- ing has flourished, the figure having risen from 1,343 to 1,528. “As vsual,"" remarks the commissioner, “these crimes were perpetrated, for the most part, at the expense of the poor, and not of the rich. In 725 cases the value of the property stolen was less than $25, and in thirty-one cases only did it exceed $250,” Thirteen.cases of murder are reported, of which seven were due to insanity. No few- er than 2,289 members of the force were In- jured while in the execution of their duty. Of these, 2,075 were assaulted by prisoners, or injured while making arrests. Runaway horses were accountable for seventy-one casualties; three constables were bitten by horses and twenty-five by dogs. Street accidents are still on the increase, There were 169 persons killed and 6,750 in- jured in the course of the year, for which light carts are largely responsible. Inci- dentally, tle police perform many useful services. Of the 30,644 persons reported missing, 16,101 were found and restored to their friends; they stopped 627 suicides, put out sixty-four fires and found 80,181 doors or windows open or insecurely fastened; also they conveyed 92,581 prisoners in Black. Bess, billeted 2,787 soldiers, stopped 258 run- away horses, besides serving summonses in- numerable and telling heaven knows how many hundreds of thousands of country cousins the way. They apprehended 69,- 583 persons for other than criminal causes, 34,658 of whom were run in for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. ————-e0e4___ Brigandw’ Treasure Found in a Cav From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. About forty years ago a wagon train loaded with valuable goods and about $80,- 00 in gold and silver coin, en route from the City of Mexico to the United States, was attacked near Rincon, Mexico, by a band of brigands and all the members of the wagon train were killed and the booty selzed. The robbers were overtaken a few days later by a detachment of soldiers and all were killed. The money and stores had been secreted by the outlaws and could not be found. Yes- terday Rafael Villegas waa prospecting for mineral ten miles south of Rincon, when he came upon the entrance to a cave. He ex- plored the cave, and found several sacks filled with the money taken by the exter- minated band of robbers,