Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1896, Page 21

SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1896--TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 21 /STH STREET 72 STREET INTERIOR PLANS TWO MILLION A DAY - OF CONVENTION HAL first man will dk and be be in * stenogrs After the nm matter, w ts are passe i ox rt their report to a type- finished reporte! dictating room, and will have taken his has become type- in manifold, the to the telegraphers instruments and dissemi- sto the world. of the newspaper attend the convention are already on and hard at work. From this time on convention er they will not st nor have any regular hours. cally two shifts of men are at work ly, so that in reality there are paper men on duty all the time. There is a difference of one hour in time against the pher copy ten legraph Companies at St. Louis Will Handle That Mauy Words. Vik | | | j | men who } NATICHS AR > = it T ADE. THE NCH Preparations to Flash the News Throughout the Land. WORK OF the most in- rk of ing of the routine we hews collected by ¢ Vast corps of cor- sponients and the two pre Nations. | Ir ted that niore om wor s from the ations have i % Union and Pos- ; to break H s mines the United States on the repr next week. The delegate of whom there a on the main floor, the delegates in the cen- r, with spaces for the alternates on eac The delegations ated in three facing the spe They are ican ticket nd alternates, anged in the alphubetical order of the ous states beginning at Alabama on northwest corner of the floor and run- ning back to Kansas. Then, running from back to front, in the middle row, from Ken- tucky to North Carolina, and from front to back on the remaining row, ending with ming. Kansas, Kentucky and Wyom- ing are, therefore, the farthest removes from the speakers’ stand. There are fifty ene delegations, arranged in three rows, be able to transmit | < Y pur thousand as | i s t two hun- « xtra ¢ . a Union wil . — thas CONVENTION the representatives of the papers east of t “ eir most exy Pittsburg. and this fact cuts an important when tion opens in their work. It is an hour abs 5 4 more manu lost them. The papers on the Pa- its limits coast have an advantage of two , lime, which is a great help. Newspaper Men's Hours As a rule the afternoon newspaper men are up by 6:0 in the morning. A bath and a cup of coffee, and then the morning news- papers furnish them occupation fer an heur. By the time the politicians are ready | to turn out the newspaper men have di- j gested the contents of the early editions of the local papers, and from that time until the hour of going to press it is a straight of Work. ! words a with Neming out hustle for news, and the opportunity arrangements of the telegraph | to write it and xet it on the wires. For « anies will b ited at the mo-/| about two hours in the afternoon there is ment when the n ons are made or | @ luli in the proceedings for them, h ney can utilize by getting a little sleep. After dinner they must work agai be- cause they have got matter to prepare for Hundreds of | land will be wa the flash of a word over | filing after midnight for early copy the next iia theta whests ia cintion ring. At night, too, they have a better z i pti unity for seeing the politicians and ners te, thewe getting long satistact talks with ays soba s bie esac - It wilt or 2 o'clock in the ng by turn in, and then it is " r three or four hours’ sleep. They eat when they can, it. and are likely to at night and 1 | afterroon. | ‘The moraing newspape or ave dinn men come on duty some time in the afternoon, and work right te | through until 6 o'clock gathering their | | news. after which they will put in the time t | until midnight writing it and getting it on | hen they, too, can put in an with the late politicians or upper at 1 o'clock in the hard work, but fatigue is ple until after it is all over, ent of the occasion and the gatherers will be an im- The system to be used in re- es in the convention is | rest in the work is a stimulant in itself. apher. or fac =e sees | The Auditoriam Ready. ake reports of speeche ie Whew the , hein is | The great Auditorium is now ready for the er will go into the dic. | Teception of the delegates, visitors and tating room other man, with pencil | newspaper men who will be present at the i hook, will take place. The | making of a candidate for the presidency of A KARE host, was the celebrant. It was two hours’ | ride to the place where the interesting The Ceremo ceremony was to take place. Gur horses Am ere saddled, and Miss Fletcher and my- 7 self rode by the side of Mr. Lundie. We cantered and galloped along the road, the wind s:\ing us a fine breeze. When we ot to Ciho we went down to the river and | Sw wonderful rocks, ard the scenery was delightful. We went to the church. It s crowded with people, the 2 sh * mechan . in all sorts ef colors and garments. thsianding | bride marched in alone. She had Tam an- ge blessoms in her woolly hair, and | nzton once | She wore a white lace v She wore white | | silk gloves and a white silk dress, and had & parasol to match. She came stamping up the aisle with squeaky, thick-soled shoes, while the Lridegroom sat en a bench | with three meh attendants and four brides- | maids, all with crange blossoms. They made room for the bride, and then she | and the. bridegroom sat looking on as though they were attending their funeral. It is a Kaffir custem to lcok very sad, e!- thovgh, a8 one of the servants said, ‘They present and his fami cawin and Mr. Russell, nis, cr a total of on the w spat iat aaltent are happy inside.” hha nr at pert ni Well, they sat there, Icoking as misera- to pick up Gur balls. At tie aiuss | Die aS possible: while Bir. bundie wasmial= zl bed Lnclag hal Cosas ing out the certificates. Then he had them ‘owing day we had quite an ex-| Stand up and read the service in Kafr When the groom and bride were told to join hands we were treated to quite a scene. It was the bridegroom's first expe- =| rience in matrimony, I should think, for he coulda’t get it throuzh Lis heead what was to be done. At last he began pulling off his gloves. The interpreter made a motion to show him how, but the bridegroom seemed more anxicus, and herried to pull them off, and then to pull off the bride's gloves. Mr. Lundie got impatient and hurried up to | them, and threw the gloves finally into the laps of the bridesmaids. Then at last the vd with Mercury and bridegroom touched the hands of the bride a Kafr st weddir invitation and accept- Mr. Lundie, our , (ke uaded tae the very lightly. (Ph, Row we did iaugh to see ort while is the perplexed look on that man's face. ‘ ‘The common result | Finally the Knot was tied. A [Va |. “White the signatures of the peopie were iM | being made. two rival choirs from the dif- ferent Kaffir schools sang ear-splitting for which S. S.S. is the most retiable eure. A few, songs. It was elmply fearful and wonders borths will afford relief where all se has failed, ful to hear the many discords and the dif- Ba ng a BR eh BL ne swoiuial ferent voices blended so shockingly. tvies their Rarnval size, causing the most excruck, “The bridegroom just touched the pen ais of dollars without a few bottles of I improved rapidly and am now a well m: while Mr. Lundie wrote kis name, but the bride wrote her own name while the brides- maids held back her veil. Then they hed out, the bride holding her hus- Meactinee ceoae: arm very gingerly. as if it was end it to” avy one something very new. They actually had Suffering from thila to be put arm in arm by Mr. Lundie. The | bridal party went off in a wagon to their as aR, | home, where a great feast was spread, and Our Tr atise om Blood and Skin Discases mailed | ‘he singing was kept up through the whole ne (ake orice i night. After the service was over and wa SWied SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga were about to start for home, I was pre- Lours aisles between each, also aisles on front and rear, stand is on the north side of building, opposite the middle en- rance from the city hall grounds. On the plitfurm seats will be provided for the Members of the national committee, one from each state and territory, and for dis- Unguished guests. To the east and west of the speaker: stand, extending the whole length of the main floor to the spectators’ galleries, are the seais reserved for the pres Trepresen- tatives. There will be a large body of newspaper men, for whom accommodations are provided. Sending the News, h, will be seated { THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS oo When One Building Was Sufficient for This City. WELL KNOWN TO OLD TIME SCHOLARS Processions of Pupils"to Celebrate the Closing Year. : — THE GRAND REVIEW Se oh) N INTERESTING paper giving a sketen of the history of the public schools of the District during the past eighty years was recently read be- fore the Columbia Historical Society by Mr. J. Ormond Wil- son, who was for a number of years a member of the board of trustees and the superintendent 0 f The following are some extracts A hools. this pap Neither the framers of the Constitution nor the earlier Congresses contemplated the exercise of exclusive municipal legi lation for the District of Columbia directly by the Congress, and hence practicable after the removal of government here the Congr a municipal government for the city of Washington, and in 1804 by an amend- ment to its charter vided “for the establishment and — superintendence — of schools.” On the Sth of December of the same year the city council passed an act endow a permanent in- educ f youth in shington,”” which provided a board of thirteen trustees, seven to elected by the joint ballots of the two chamt of the council, and six to be individuals contributing to the of the schools, as provided for id act. For the support of the schools act appropriated much of the net proceeds of the taxes on slaves and dogs, as early as of the seat ss ordained promotion s for carriages and hacks, or- and taverns, retailing wines’ and spirituous liquors, billiard tables, theatrical and other amusements, hawkers and ped- dlers, as the trustees might decide to be for the education of the , not to exceed the s The a ment of a men, whos it or provide ect commitee of three duty it should be to for soliciting, both at home and abroad, contributions in money or lots for the benefit of the schools. One of the largest contributions was that of 20), *made by Thomas: Jefferson, It may be stated at the outset that the colored children of the District of Columbia wert not included among the beneficiaries the public schools in any iegtslatic i the Con: s3 or the city counc to the abolition of slave board of trustees con -fferson, Thomas Monro Duvall, Thomas Tingey, Joseph John Tayloe, Robert Brent, William Brent, Samuel H. Smith, William Cranch, George Blagden, John Dempsie and Nicholas King. The There were oul system as oriz ity of Washingto: First, it was m some prior The rly School Syst prominent features of ly devised for two points of view very There was to be a so-called aca under which term was included what are now generally designated prima grammar and high schools, or elementary y schools, a coliege and a hh with funetions similar to institutions at the present nic city Hbrary. Only th art of the academy was at first; the college and the ‘sity have come into existence entire- of governmental ald; and univer those day, like al mentary and established untve ly the public library is still on the lst of things pray Iren of the poor alone were ceive tuition free of ex- pense even in the low de of schools, and their period of attendance at times was limited to a term of two years. The price of tuition to other pupils was fixed at $5 a quarter. The Western Unton Telegraph Company eg ones he founders cf this school oye ee Fw Cuee TMs feet Denes the: Ty foe cxuediont diecast tae te stage and adjacent te the newspaper seats. geheral properiy of the municipality for The Postal Telegraph Company will occupy | the education of even poor children a similar office on the opposite side. a | they made their scant appropriations f nae oieres slept ; this object out of the revenues deriv Boe sure ogc cer eungoueratoragot the | repms Genwes oul sneclal dest ana uticenses two companies will be stationed along the north side of the bullding, underneath the gallery. The telegraph companies have put in a number of loops in their main offices, and will be able to send over 200,000 words an hour. All the rest of the building will be for the accommodation of the pubke. In round numbers there will be 11,000 seats respect- | ively. They wili be oa all four sides, in | two continuous galleries, each consisting of | eightec : ry seat will command | ! parts of the building. Each | seat will be numbered, and tickets will 1 printed on the basis fteen sessions, three sessions for each of the five days in which the convention is expected to be in session. Subscribers’ season tickets have already sold for $4 a seat. The Auditorium is well provided with entrances and exit and the immense audiences which will gather can leave the building in a few | minutes. Broad stairways on which a dozen men can walk abreast on the outside of the building lead to the galleries, and there are inside gallery starways in the | four corners also. It will require the serv. ices of about 300 doorkeepers and ushers to admit and seat the audience N. 0. sented with a Kaffir lets, and I had photographs. pipe and some brace- the promise of some Kaftir ALL ABOUT IT. nm Expert on Chirography, it Mnde a Mistake in Judgment. From the Cieveland Leader. ‘Before beginning my lecture,” remark- ed the professor, “I will, in order to mere fully establish the influence of handwrit- ing upon character, ask some gentleman in the audience to come forward and give me a sample of his penmanship.” A pale young man with short hair arose and stepped to the platform. Seizing the pen he hastily dashed down a sentence or two and then returned to his seat. “Excellent,” remarked the professor, as he surveyed the man’s work. “This writ- ing shows the advantege of acquiring a | body began to make specific xed style. 1 don't suppose the man who Wrote this could vary in his enma if he practiced a month of Sanday oe shows an adherence to established prin- ciples, unswerving directness of purpose, a fixed moral code, an aspiration for order. ly methods, I should classify it as a com. bination of conscience and commercs, so to speak. It’s the style of writing Oliver Cromwell might have affected. And young man, may I inquire your business? “Hain't had no business lately,” replied the young man, hoarsely. “I've’ just fin- ished a term in the pen for forgi: checks.” a pat! ————-e-____. Perry H. Carson. (As depicted in a St. Louis newspaper.) most ef which were in the nature of a spe citic tariff on social evils. They probably considered themselves warranted at least in applying the homeopathic principle of similia similibus curantur, curing a social evil with a social evil Between 112 and 12s, fourteen joint reso- authorizing a the Jutions i reguinting lotter- ies for benefit of the publie schools were by the Congress. A portion of the revenues derived from this source was invested in corporation or other safe stocks end designated the “school fund.” The in- terest on these stocks was for many years applied to the support of the school: This school fund, created for the mos! elementary education of “pauper pupils, existed intact when in 1 government of the District by the Congress superseded all local autonomy, and when in 1S7S that »propriations for the schools without reference to the school fund. In 18s it amounged to about $80,000. ‘The: Congress at that time was averse to making any direct appropriation for a much-needed high school bullding, but when attention was callcd to the ex- istence of such a fund, it was induced to authorize its application to this object by an act, approved March 3, 1881; and so the first high school building came into being. Sites for Buildings. A Wesiern School and an Eastern School were established, and the first teacher to [<mmence work, Janury, 1806, was Rich- ard White, principal teacher of the W. ern School, whose salary was to be $100 rer annum. On Octcher 27, 1806, the board authorized the erection of the first two school houses, to be located on lots owned by the United States, the use of which for this purpose had been granted by President Jefferson. These school houses might have been modeled after Noah's ark, for we are told that they were built of wood, one story high, fifty feet long, twenty feet wide, and cost, together, $1,580.41. ‘The wesiern school house appears to have been located on lot 27, square 127, now occupied by the residence of Mr. Anthony Pollock, No. 1700 [ streey ngrthwest. This lot, containing about 2,600 square feet, was purchased by the corporation from the United States government, Sam Lane, com- missioner of public buildings, in 1821, for $100; the money was applied to the building of an iron fence to inclose the park around the Capitol. The corporation, John P. Van Ness, mayor, sold it with the improve- ments, in 1832, for $3u0, In 1811 Mr. Robert Qgki was sent out from England by Mr. Lancaster to take charge of a Lancasterian school, estab- lished in Georgetown. He was the father of Robert Ould, who, graduating from the Columbian College, ‘became a_ prominent er, United States attorney for the Dis- trict of Columbia under -President Bu- chanan, then going south at the begin- ning of the civil war, the confederate as- sistant secretary of war, ang agent’ for the exchange of prisoners. The fame of this school reached the ears of the Washington school authorities, who in 1812 established a similar school in thisgcity, and, on the recommendation of Mr. Lancaster, brought over from Engiand Mr. Henry Ould, a lrother of the Georgetown teacher, and placed him in charge of the Washington school. In 1813 Mr. Henry Ould made the first report of a Washington public school of which we have any record. It reads in Part as follows: “This day twelve months ago I had the Pleasure of opening, under your auspices, the second genuine Lancasterian school in America. The system was set in operation ce far as the nature of the room would amit) in this city on the 10th of February, 1812, in an inconvenient house opposite the general post office.” On the 30th of July, 1821, the Lancaster- lan school took possession of the small brick ‘building on the southeast corner of lith and G streets rorthwest. formerly oc- cupled as a stable for President Jefferson’s horses, the use of which had been granted to the public schools. Lancaster Schools. In 1836 Mr. Joshua L. Henshaw was ap- pointed teacher of the Western School. Mrs. Emma D. EN. Southworth, an Amer‘can novelist, who still survives and is a resident of this city, was the step- ughter of Mr. Henshaw, and was for some years also a teacher in the publi schools of Washington. The two original schools, supplemented for. several years by the Lancasterian Schooi, and for a short period by two sub- divided Presbyterian schools, ran an inter- mittent course, without any considerable growth or improvement. In 1845 the principal teachers in charge of the four District male schools w: First district, Mr. Joshua L. Henshaw; second district, Dr. Tobias Watkins; third district, Mr. Hugh McCormick: fourth dis- trict, Mr. Henry Hardy. The first special teacher of vocal music, Prof. J. H. Hewitt, was appointed the same year. Mr. John E, Thompson succeeded Mr. Hardy as principal teacher of the fourth district male school in ISi8, and there are hundreds of his pupils now living who hold his name in grateful remembrance, and will testify to his zealous and thorough in- struction, Mr. Samuel Kelly, who was appointed to succeed Mi. Henshaw as the principal teacher of the first district male school in 1849, then occupying the Jefferson stable building, used to wind up his school and set it agoing like a clock, and then go out to call on his friends in the neighborhood and invite them to visit the school in his absence and see if it was not running all right. They would accept his invitation, 80 to the school, find every scholar sitting bolt upright at his desk with his ey. s set on his book, and report to Master Kelly it accordingly; and woe to the been otherwise. Mr. Strong John Thomson, who commen ed his service as a teacher in the publ schools in 1852, and was promoted to be Mr. Kelly's successor in 1854, is now tively and efficiently performing his duties as the principal of the Abbot School, the senior of the corps, and without a rival in the number of Washington boys who have boys had acquired under his tuition a sound and thorough education in the elementary studie Prof. Joseph H. Daniel inted er of vocal music in am happy to say, has most Hilled that office down to the present time. The number of school children in this city whom he has gently and skiilfu aught to sing during his long career would well nigh equal the present population. censionn. y the lsed pri- shool citizens interested in “The Columbian 1 Association. Gradually an inexpensive two-rovin build- teachers and other education o1 achers’ ing had been erected in each of the four school districts by the corporation; addi- tional rooms, notably in basemenis of | cLurches, had been rented, the walls a ceilings of which were pun°tilionsly white- washed just before the annual examination of the schools furniture, appliances and bos heen introduced; night se had erganized which flourished for a time,and at somewhat improved text hool the end of the school r, in tne latter rt of July, long p sions of all ub bool children in each district, marshaled by their respective teachers and trustee with the flag of their country and sch banners emblazoned with appropriate de i ends marching 3 on their way pitol grour at an earher dais, and ata later one to the hall of the Smith sonian Institution, the: to receive the ence of a large concourse of gratified | tives and friends at the hand of his . The the prizes-honorable mention, certiticates, diplomas, books, sil- ver and gold medals—awarded for merit in | attendance, pune and scholarsh President Fillmore conferred these aonor at the Capitol grounds in IN ar During the latier part of this period the lirst part of the following one h school, that is the teacher and pupils in a single room, usually isolated, had, ils tinctive benner, legemi, colors, chara ter, reputation and pride, which ii was bound to defend and maintain against all rivals with a spirit worthy of a Highland clan of Scotland in the first half of the seventeenth century. This stuge of the school systen: had its peculiar merits and attractions, and produced scholarship of the very highest order of excellence in certain lines, varying in different schools Litde Aid From Uncle Sam. Liberal donations of city lots we to Georgetown and Columbian colleges, but the only assistance ever received from the Congress by the public schools was the permission to occupy temporarily three or four vacant public lots or parts of pub- re made lic reservations, the gift in*fee of the o Jefferson stable, the use of the old Union | and Anacostia engine houses and tbe site | of the Force School so long as they shall be occupied ot an old fr chool purpe building, a reiie of the war, located on leased ground at the cor- ner of 22d and I streets northwest, and on one or two occasions the advance of a sum from the United States treasury to pay salaries of teachers in arrears, with a proviso for its repayment—a st of old clothes and small loans hort periods—uniil we come down to 1 when the Congress assumed the paym the gift for of one-half of ail the expenses of the Dis- trict of Columbia, including those of the | public schools. The District was then 5 heavily in debt that the schoo! did not receive the full of th national old until after the of the period of which I am writin In 1865 occurred a memoi in the history of the schools, ‘The vet- | cran armies of the Union, returning to tkeir homes in the north, were to marca | past the Capitol on their route up Fenn- | sylvania avenue to be reviewed from a | tand in front of the Executive Mansion | by the President’ of the Uniied States, | their commander-in-chicf, the Secr of | War, the generals who had led them to | victory and other distinguished citizens The public schools of the city were to perticipate in the ovation, and promptly at incident the hour named thousands were in the | Place assigned to them on the north por- | tieo of the Capitol and all down the | grassy slope of the park in front extend- | ing to the line of march. For six honrs during the march, without sign of weariness, the boys and girls pr. sented their floral offerings, waved the flags, rent the air with cheers, and at intervals a grand chorus of 2.500 voice: under the lead of Director Daniel, sai “The Star Spangled Banner,‘ Battle Cry of Freedom,” “When Johnny Comes | Marching Horse,” “Victory at Last,” aml ether patriotic songs and hymns, all of which were most gratefully received and) heartily acknowledged by officers and soi- diers. From Life. The man of the future sat patiently darn- ing the family socks. From time to time his mild blue eyes glanced wearily at the pile of mending at his elbow, and he sighed as he thought of the raw Irishman in the kitchen, who needed incessant instruction in the simplest details of culinary art. Two° noisy, sturdy girls, as aggressive as became their sex, romped merrily about the sewing room, aggravating his headache: while | their gentle little brother sat quietly by his father's side, studying the pictures in an old book of bygone fashions which he had found, and which appealed, of course, to the instincts of the miniature man. “Look, father!” he said, pointing to an old print of the year 1890—“see what queer clothes that man has on! What are they? Did men really wear them?” “Yes, dear,” said his father, laying down his needle for a moment and bending over the page—I never saw any: but father once told me that grandfather wore them when he was a boy. They called them pan- | taloons.” t | nothing on but paren MAJOR GENERAL BIRNEY Uses Paine’s Celery Compound in His Family, and Strongly Recommends tt, Maj. now, at the age of 75, practicing law and depart al work tn Washing the unflinching ¢ ander battle of Fredericasburg, of the famous York regiment, in a letter to Wells & Richardson MEpANY say's “My wife for taking the Paine’s time celery some ast. amd ix so unuch ever ire ack this family mind Is repeated, nals, from eve swede amd do no! Drive time tow out up t body with Paine’s celery compennd —1 that bas kept all its p nthe past ‘Tae tired nerves and br just the sort of hourisiiment that this sr stor is atl supply Now is the when Paine's celery ¢ aided by the favorable influences of the season, ct Prince Will Take Twelve to riety Istunds. cisco Examiner. Tomare, the ps re of the I nd of Bora-Lora, one of the largest of the So- ciety Islands in the South Pacific ocean arrived yesterday in this city from land, where for the last five years been aking a course in English The prince is a tall, dark young man, youl twenty-five E . with a pleasant, affable manner. He was a nephew of the late King Pomare, last ruler of the island of Tahiti, and a cousin of Queen Mamea, who was recently dethroned as the sovereign of the rebellious natives of 1 zhtea. When Prince Tomare left hi five years ago, he could not » shsh, but now he cony Anglo-Saxon tongue, bh hand German as well. He is an ad- i student in political economy, a spent nm a year in studying art Paris, w high commendation. home in the in ‘lL went to Scotland to be educ said the prince in the lobby of the win Hotel yesterday, “Lecause a great many of the young men of the royal fam- flies in the South Sea_Isi edu- cated there. Arthur Brander and John Bra' . both friends of mine, were edu- cated in that count I was a = the Edinburgh University. The strict, and going downtown to pu to take home wiih me fer the members my household and my family. They be the first wheels to be intr islands, and [ know the natives will be as- tonished when they, see them. It will be funny to see a Jot of men and women with (native body cloths), riding around on bicycles among the nana trees,” > twelve Wheel IC NOISE Are Produced t How The Add to the Attractions of Dramatic Presentation From Pearson's Weekly. The orchestra attached to a theater which is in the habit of playing listie arama, thus introducing upon its boards steam engines, ships, race horses and sim- ilar startling novelties, uses some very queer instruments whereby certain sounds recessary to the surroundings of the s« Ioay be successfully produced. Take, for instance, the roxring of a lion. None cf the ordinery brass instruments will give this effect. To produce the de- sired sound a special apparatus must be used, technically known as a “lion roarer.” This a large, trumpet-shaped instru- ment, usually made of sheet iron. Two thin tongues of tin run down the middle, which, when the instrument is blown, vi- brate and produce an excellent counterfeit of a lion’s roar. Instrumerts which imitate the notes of birds are to be found in most orchestras. A wooden tube, down the middle of which runs a reed, joined to a tin cup, is used for imitating the crow of the cock. ‘The note of a cuckoo is likewise produced by a reed irstrument; while some short ti > an ingenious piece of mechanism was brou out, whereon the notes of a lark, linnet and the finches could be imitated vo the life. To prodice the effect of a horse gallop- ing along a read several contrivances ex- ist. One way. as simple as it is effective, to take coccanut shells cut in two, and ke them upon some hard surface; but stras can boast of specially purpose. Tk are wooden blocks cut into a shape horse’s heof, te which real hor: attached, and this somewhat queer con- trivance is played by striking the shoes upon a piece of marble or stone. see. td A Failing of the Sex, From the Chicago Evening Post. The bicyele girl was almost fn tears. “I thought my disgnise was perfect,” she said. “I had this suit made just exactly like my brother's, and the hat is Ike his, too—and—and—everything else is like his, so I don't see how you could tell my so easily.” ‘Che young man langhed.~ SLoosen your belt,” he said. does not pride himself on his sm ne ns! st some 01 made instruments for th of shoes are x “A man Mwai it is all for the 4 more, “i have been all through Euroy Germany, Great Britain and Greece, here no country that shews such a ereat amount of enterprise as plea. New York, 1 think, is the ty in the world, and San Francisco is the pret- tiest. Tam not a stranger, for I siayed | a re a month when on my way to Scot- ne 1 am a confirmed bicyclist: and ride whenever I get a chanee. T believe 1 would have ridden out here from New York if the roads had been good. On Monday I am worn-out ners won't do to pow until you have a vaearton, Do as thousands of others have great Joy, take Paints eclery ei invigorate at once your impo 1 If you really want to get 1 from <u Withnr Mea slened, be peopl JORDAN A Cot Presid, att From the San Francises Wave Down at Stanford they have been spend- ing the week graduating the class of “6. ‘The hailing forth of young men from their college has become a matter of much form, but there were features to this “closing week” that were all Standford’s own and ™ of the orthodox patter beg: with there w the sing game of base ball between the students and th facult with President Jor bespectacled and enthusiastic, behind bat. It may not have been the grea ail that was played, but it was t of sport ot only for the players, we There was no surrendering of nity in President Jordan's action, He s\ on the same plane with the boys on the base ball that s in the class reom—s of a leader in all the work that ke am one of the boys He can stop an outshoot just as well as n pick af pieces and tell the hus tory of its fathers. At the bat he is @ sluzger. aud the proudest man on tidd is the student pitcher when be Is the with a lively dr He plays tall all that is in him, does this 220-pound sident of thi university. so She Got Autograph, From A see Brouklyn Lite cle © ticut the performance a play York and also wanted Jeffers graph. She int 1 to make come down for the play ver Conne woman wanted to New anlo- m a party to and when she w ordering the seats a bright idea sirack 1. She drew her check payable to the order of Joseph Jett and a day came back to her bank Ww graph of the comedian ne it. 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