Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1897, Page 13

C. A. Muddiman. 616, 2th. 1204 G. Cottage Light---Country Cooking. You will be surprised to learn how fine a line of Lamps and High-grade Oil Stoves are now made. During our 18 years’ ex- perience we have watched each improvement, and to crown the ef- forts the 1897 Blue Flame Oil Stoves come forward, offering the- same intense heat as gasoline without smoke, odor or risk. It is useless to attempt a full description, and we invite your careful inspection. We shall be pleased to show you at any time. We have baking done every Tuesday to show how nicely our ovens will brown the bread, and we guarantee that full satisfaction can be had by any customer. You can regulate the Heat to stit on any Blue Flame Oil or Gas Stove. ‘The price you will find to be a low figure on all our goods. The $1.85 Lamp has every improvement. Just‘the Lamp for the family table. _ Brilliant light, fancy embossed brass, easy wick movement, Macbeth chimney. You can light it without removing chimney. Do not have to blow it out, and has a pilot to tell when to stop filling with oil. We have many styles of this E. 6. Lamp. $1.28 Hali Lamp is made to suspend from ceiling. Has slide, round wick burner and rich etch shade. Other styles, $1.45, $1.65, $1.85. $3.75 Library Lamp hasthe large and improved burner, large shade. Suspends from ceiling so you can raise or lower to any height. Good for any room. Our prices always include the article complete. Lights on City Cooking. : Do you stop afd think a moment that our gas rate has been lowered, and that with the improvements on Gas Stoves you can cook cheaper by gas than by coal? Now for ‘illustration: On the Jewel Gas Range you have— 5 : Separate Burners for the orem, so you need not neat the top. Ist key on top will give a simmering heat, so as to Keep the kettle boiling, for cent per day. Z - 2d and 3d keys will each give very hot blue flame on separate holes. 4th key will give trifle more intense heat than the 2d and 3d. th and Gth keys are at one large ole, so you can concentrate double heat um der a preserving kettle, and regulate the flame to sult. 1 6. Pilot burner for oven is arranged light the oven without opening the door. 7. ‘The brotler is finely arranged ant is separate from the oven. ion eign ‘% Ne waste of gas or heat- a turn on heat just where you want it, avd keep ance of barners coid. eo, Buy a Gas Stove and Save [lofreys**<"*« ei ace z 30c. for a Hot 1-burner Stove to cook. Sate 5 8 ses : 00 will purchase our 1897 2-hole Gas Stove. Beotydeles— $ $l ° have double-ring hot blue flame. ee ae is a low price for a Stove and Oven altseombimedain, one. Separate burner jor oven. You need.see thisy, to appreciate it. : So, $4.75 for a Full Cast Iron Gas Cooker, with oven, 3; holes on top to cook, separate burner and fine oven to bake, and afeoteet 2 “THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1897 BICYCLE BRIEFS|GOOD ROADS NOTES It is claimed that there are over 10,000 tandem riders In New York city. The coming intercollegiate bieycle meet in June pfomises to witness a lively strug- gle between Yale and Columbia, the latter winning last year. American ingenuity leads the world in a mechanical Hine, especially in bicycle ma- chinery, according to the great English technical journal Engineering. The Amer- ican makers have stepped in the field, reached the top notch, and are at the pres- ent time reaping a rich harvest in selling at their own price special cycle-making machinery which cannot be purchased from British manufacturers. The bicycle population of New York city ‘is placed by a newspaper of the m lis at not less than 350,000. If this is so, it is no wonder that the New York division is the banner one in the League of Amer- iean Wheelmen. The number of cycle paths now com- pleted and the number now in course of construction seem wonderful, considering the fact that three years ago the cycle path was an unknown thing. According to a patent office official, there are almost as many different kinds of sad- dies patented as there are bicycles. Tne bicycle itself is almost free from patent, and the public ean make any kind of a pa’ tern of wheel they see. A trial of folding safety bicycles, bicy- clettes pliantes, is now being conducted by the Belgian military authorities, which will extend until the end of this month. Spain has on an average of 3,000 hours of sunshine a year, leading all countries in this respect. Itaiy has 2,300 hours a “year, Germany’ 1,700 hours and England 1,400 hours. “ The recent Philadelphia cycle show must have been a huge success, judging by the fact that a dividend of 30 per cent was recently declared on the capital stock of the cycle board of trade, which gave the affair. The stock of the board is placed at $10,000. English physician advances the theory that low-gear wheels are more dan- gerous than high-gear machines, because the slow movement of the leg on one is Jess trying to the heart than the quick ac- tion on the other. It is said that in Paris there is an inter- national band of bicycle thieves, who have warehouses for the storage and gale of bi- cycles in all of the large to of Europe. A bicycle stolen in one coun is sent to another, and the police are never able to recover it. Last year it is estimated that there were over 15,000 wheels in use in Indianapolts. This year the total is expected to reach the 20,000 mark. American bicycles are now being sold in Arabia. There may not be as much poetry about the Arab stced of the future as there was in the past, but-it will go faster. ‘The Arizona legislature has passed a bill compelling railroads in the state to carry bicycles as baggage. A bicycle room has been set apart in a new high school building in Deroit that will provide accommodations for not less than 300 bicycles. The Canadian Wheelmen’s Association has asked the Ontario government to en- act legislation which will place bicycle paths on the same basis as walks for pe- destrians. The road race from Vienna to Berlin this year will be one of the principal events of the year in Germany. The bicycle racirg fever in Australia must be very great, and not infrequently there are from 30,000 to 50,000’ spectators. In Coolgardie a track was built at an ex- pense of $2,300, while the receipts for the first day’s races amounted to $25,000. The aticnal Cycle Track Association Proposes to establish as an annual custom a mile handicap sweepstake race for a purse of $3,000, the entrance fee to be di- vided into four parts of %W, 25, 15 and 10 per cent to the first four men, the winners to be decided by points. This race will be ridden in seven heats, one heat to be rid- den on each of the seven tracks in the eastern division of the association. It is estimated that there are 600,000 bi- cycles in the state of New Jersey. The Cyclists’ Touring Club of England has offered a prize of twenty guineas for the best design of a baggage car adapted for the safe convenience of bicycles. ——— PRESIDENT PORFIRIO DIAZ. $l 1.75 pecially when you get our guarantee and iron pipe ® connection-without charge? t Dangier Gas Ranges, 1897 pattern—new designs —largest #¥ ovens — perfect work done and very modest price, and a full line to show you. Every one guaranteed. Reliable Gas Ranges. This make comes out with durable—fine values and sawed burner: scast frame feature—very $9.50 : special arrangement with distinct broiling capacity. ¢ Why not buy a Gas Range at this. price, .es-. Jewel Gas Ranges. We sold many during past years, and with the reduced gas rate you‘will see the saving and ‘make the household happy by the tise of a Jewel in the kitchen. A Great Man Who Has Aveomplished Great Results for Mexteo, From the New Orleans Tinies-Democrat..2 * “I camsider President Porfirio Dias of Mexieo one of the greatest men of the pres- ent day," remarked Charles Dudley War- her yesterday afternoon, on arriving from Mexico. ‘ “President Diaz has accomplished more during the twenty years of his administra- tion than had been accomplished by his is Muddiman, 616 12th St. ¢ Two Entrances, 1204 G St. ; Ss a ss ss se ee ee ee ee ee ee eee ee a OLD THAD STEVENS. e Old Thad ae Some Recollections of the Great Com- | y , moner. then paused for a few seconds t EV. Smattey in Chieago Times-Herald. secured the entire attention of rametidene 1 | Turning to Maynard, who sat some In & tobacconist's window the other day | j¢nind him, he delivered this pactin: noticed some boxes of cigars with the por- | «39 much for the gentleman's Isnglish. ‘ait of Thaddeus Sievens on the lid, and in | to his Choctaw, I do, not profess, to, unger- stopping to look at the once familiar face ek. ai hin, cepetey aud cpletedces ny = te ; vit is vel ye. at a @ flood of memories of the great Pennsyl- | WIN) 4) dupate Stevens was at heart Vania statesman came into my mind. There are probably very few of the younger gen- on—say, the young men between - and thirty—that can tell who “ was or what he did, so evanescent one of the kindest men that ever lived. He spent his whole salary in charity, except what was necessary for the most modest style of living. He inhabited for many years a small two-story brick house, near nty P : “* | the East Capitol Park, of a style of con- 1+ political fame in the United States. Yet} struction that dated back to the earliest K whole war period and the | days of the city. Here he lived ajone, with but a single servant, a middle-aged colored . oe | Woman, who is devotedly attached to eq in Congress he was the master spirit of | Rim, and who cooked and washed tr him, jhe House. His home was in Lancaster, | Jitending him in iliness, keeping his clothes Fa 2 jobacco-making town, where the |i) order, and treating him a good déal Iike from. He was a whig in his | 4 big baby. When the old man died it : and became one of | turned out that after providing for his He hated | faithful attendant he had left nearly the | whole of his estate to found a colgred j orphan asylum in Lancaster. ormy reconstruction times which follow- al of repubticans. and devoted a consider- cans to benefactions for able part of his < See As a legislator Old Tnad was an extrem- a ctlike face, and a large Ro- | ist We believed that rebellion “was a man nose. His Keen and often flerce gray | crime, and he wanted traitdrs punistied, shaded by vary heavy eyebrows. clean shaven and wore a brown + he was iraseible and mas- was by all odds the best run- r of his day, and so keen were ns of satire and ridicule that all feared him. He was always first choige of seatg in the er Old Thad was seated the would begin for the rest of the When Biaine entered Congress December, 1863, his name came first out | , and he planted himself right old Pennsylvania autocrat. | ! 4 a habit of making running t# in an undertone on the current of the House, sometimes humor- en sarcastic. The young aine kept a diary during years that he sat beside Old He had radical ideas of the “power of the government, and during the war when gold |mounted up at one time to almost 20 he tried to get a bill through making it a felony to demand more than par in’ green- backs for the yellow metal. He .wag,a bit- ter antagonist of Andrew Johnson, whom he regarded as a traitor and a villain, and !the failure of the Senate to remove the sident by a conviction in the.impeach- nt trial was one of’ the keenest disap- tments of Stevens’ life, and one. which did not long survive. In Lancaster the ry is held in uni- versal veneration. Thrve his blameless her- mit life and his many quict deeds of char- ty are well remembered. He never mai ried, and his nearest relative during ‘his later years Was a nephew, who for a time put down bis best sayings and | Was the clerk of his committee, and who ‘T have often wondered what | afterward was appointed consul at Vic- of that diary. I meant to ask | tcria, B.C. - some time in his later years, but I ever found a good opportunity. Jt cer- would afford very interesting ma- em} He a eee How Mra. Siddons Became an Actress. rial for a magazine article. : From the New York ‘Times. ’ fs newspapers generally spoke of Stev- Here ts an anedote said to have’ been y Tespectfully as “the great com- related by Mrs. Scott-Siddons herself many z title he well deserved, for he was | . ars ago, when a friend asked what had decade the recognized =p the House of Rep- | impel'ed her to go upon the stage. In the ves. His fellow-members aly: early sixties she was living with her moth- him to each other as “Old T 3 tub f agile er, the widow of an Indian officer, in a fe had a club foot and walked with « be : Sul y with the ald of a stout stick. Du seaside village. They were very podr, jhe two years preceding his death he could | thelr lodgings were more than humble, and walk at all, and ne was carried rly from his little old-fasaioned brick on Capitol Hill up the east Capitol and into the House in a ch: ne two strong doorkeepers. Hov iyemember the scenes during the imp ment trial of Andrew Johnson. Stevens at the head of the committee appoint y the House to ——— impeac! = ent proceedings. After an hour or two o fpusiness in the morning the House would | ant and homelike. While engaged in this ‘adjourn and go over to the Senate to wit-/| task she discovered that an old chiffonter ness the trial. The Sabena ee es which stood in one corner of the sitting th the impeachment comm! | SE can de aie Fee ead and Old Thad carried aloft in his | foomty jad only fates eer coer oe crumpled-up newspaper, which, judging from its dusty condition, had not been dis+ turbed for many years. Mary Siddons re- moved the paper, found that it was a very old copy of the Annual Register, and on, giancing over it found a long article de- tailing the triumph of her Lega the girl was anxiously wondering how she could contribute to the support -of the Httle family. The problem was a hard one, for in those days the “sphere” of women was smaller than now, and their | opportunities to make money Were not numerous. Mieanwhile her Immedité duty was to try to make the shabby rooms plea! implacable face, the old man uke a Roman conqueror borne in jtriumph at the head of his legtons. ‘might give many Iustrations of is n:cret- | less sarcasm. I remember that in one de- Date he was oppesed by Horace saonend of Tennessee. Maynard was very and} mother in some long-forgotten play. Ftraight and had long black hair, which he | gir) decided that this wan % a {wore well down over his coat collar and at cnee resolved to seek fame and fortune pvhich gave him somewhat the copearance | as an actress. Being beautifut.and intel- | jt an indian. It was even rumored that | ligent. she soon obtained a chance to test e had some aboriginal biood in his veins. | her histriontc abilities, .and..woa enough ynard was a college graguste end prided | of success to raise her mother and herself imself on his scholariy attainments. and |to what, compared . with their. pre Bt the close of hie address he quoted one or ! state,. seemed aimost ike wealth. __ Nee ee ccc eee eee eee e eee e een anna eee ENE LILLE DA Lethaia all Lali De i lin nn ee Dilla ied LDo i ih hill lin i tabi Stine ltt Ba faLlt vitae the ise Sn So ty Cad ba Na Assessed tae > ds predecessors since the republic was insti- tuted. He is in every way a most remark- able man. He seems to possess a_will of iron, but iron clothed in silken garments,and with a gentle face that overrides all ob- stacles in time. He possesses an absolute knowledge of his country and his people that is marvelous. He never makes an error of judgment in this respect, and it must Le owing to his familiarity with the most minute details of the habits 2nd thoughts of the Mexicans generally that he has been able to-create such an envia- ble record for enterprise and political sa- gacity. “It seems to have been the aim of Presi- dent Diaz to make his empire—for he is in every sense an emperor—impervious to the attacks of the outer world. This from a financial standpoint. He has accomplished this by maintaining the credit of the re- public. He has paid all obligations in gold, and by doing this he has made it possible for Mexican securities to obtain excellent values in the markets of Europe, and to attract cepital with which to develop the unlimited resources of the great country over which he rules. “He has pushed education until the com- mon schools are a feature of every com- munity. “The Mexican government does not estab- jish the value ot its coinage when that coinage is silver. It mints the bar metal into coin and receives 5 per cent profit upon the amount minted. The silver money may be worth anything, and is not. con- sidered in the grand total of the country’s resources. Gold is given to foreign in- vestors, credit is kept up and manufac- turers are attracted. President Diaz dis- ccurages the importation of goods by a practically prohibitory tariff. The result of this has been the establishment of fac- tories throughout the republic, and it is this course which is ressonsible for the progress which is being made in that coun- try. “President Diaz is the absolute arbiter of the destinies of his people. His will is law and absolute. He has molded the con- to his will, has overthrown all oppo- n, has violated the ancient traditions of the Mexicans, and, by magnificent inno- vations, has fostered the cause of real in- dustry, and set the wheels moving in lo- calities where but a few years ago all was ignorance and enervation. Diaz isa great man.” 2 ———-—+e. Father Collins and Tom Corwin, From the Youth's Companicn. No better tribute to the earnestness and eloquence of Father Collins, the well-known Methodist preacher, was ever given than that which came from the lips of the famous lawyer, Thomas Corwin, on more occasion. Father Collins was holding a serles. of meetings in a town in Ohio during a ses- sion of the court in the place, and many of the lawyers wandered into his meetings, moved, perhaps, more by curiosity than re- iigious feeling. Mr, Corwin was one of these listeners to the earnest Methodist, and ‘being asked for his opinion of the preacher, gave it In no measured terms. “In earnest!” said he, in answer to a friend’s query. “I should say he was! Why, when he'd falked awhile he just said ‘Come!’ to some of the men standing back where I was, and they marched up in front as meek as lambs, whether they wanted to go or not, sir.”” “Did you ” asked his friend, curiously. “No, I didn’ replied Mr. Corwin, ‘slowly, “but I can tell you one thing—I was stand- ing by one of the pillars in the vestry, and fhe looked right down at me and said ‘Come!’ and if'I hadn't kept a good hold on that pillar I should have gone, that’s one e! And as it was, you'd better he said ‘Come’ ies According to’ Conway W? Sams, the chier consul of the Maryland’ » of the “League of American Whitimen;’ between $300,000 and $400,000 is belng spent annual- ly on Maryland roads to io purpose. The good roads commRté of the board of trade. of Saginaw, “Mich. has asked the state legislature to amend the county road law so as to: provide-for special as- sessments, whereby the ourse of road improvements could bétharged against the property directly benéfited, instead of the entire cost belng a general tax. _ P.'V. Ccllins, a pfimg,mover for good highways in Minnesota,,figures out that the average cost of hauling! on the average road in America is $1 er ton for four miles, while in Burope it is 16 cents: for the same load the same distance, and any- where it, is less than 4 cents a ton for four miles hauled on steel rails. An authority suggests that a bill be drawn requiring all new wagons and new wheels to be made ofa certain width tire, accerding to the load they are built to bear, but permitting old wheels to be used for a period of, say, five and possibly ten years. vos C. A. Clonser of Orlando has invented a bicycle path machine, which is now being given a practical test. It resembles a cotton drag, only it has a convex lower surface, and has three ribs arranged in V shape with the anex polnting forward. The sharp edges of the ribs drag over the grass and weeds and soon wear a smooth path. It ds understood that the National League of Geod Reads. will soon-open brasch .of-+ fices in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Omaha, Milwaukee and. Atlanta, which will co-operate with the headquarters in this city, and which will have-a full supply of good roads Hterature published by the gov- ernment. The ccurty .commissioners of Jefferson county, Ohio, have adopted and put into execution the following. regulations for the protection of improved roads from heavy burdens: Wagons. with 11-2-inch tires not more than 1,300 pounds; 13-4-inch tires, 1,700 pounds; 2-inch tires, 2,000 pounds; 8- inch tires, 2,500 pounds; 3 1-2-inch tires, 3,500 pounds; 4-inch tires, 4,500 pounds; 41-2-inch tires, 5,500-paunds; '5-inch tires, 6,500 pounds; 6-inch. tires, 7,500 pounds. ‘There is a bill pending in the Pennsyl- vania legislature for the state to build cycle paths along public highways, and to repair and maintain them. ‘The secretary of the national farmers’ congress has figured out that the agri- cuiturists of this country needlessly ex- pend 3600,000,000 a year in moving farm products over the bad roads of the United States. In the ‘whole territory’ of Alaska there are oniy sixteen miles of roads ,according to a recently published statement. It is not an uncommon thing in France to see a farmer forty or fifty miles. from home in wet weather with a heavy load. The rain has no effect on the highways of. the French republic, and the farmers choose just such weather for long hauling, pro- tecting the load with a tarpauli ‘The plan puraued by the New Jersey people is pronounced as’ the best method that has as yet been developed. The peo- ple in the neighborhood. who want their highways improved agree to pay an as- sessment of 10 per cent if the county does the work, and the state’ béars one-third of the expense. According to an authority permanent good highways. can be built at an expense of $8,000 per mile. There have been so many highways built at un expense as great as this which fafid& to be a per- Tanent improvement, that the -farmers are rather chary of expesding so much money. © Sr 08 Chief Consul Sams of oMaryland, who intends to' deliver addresses on the subject of good roads throughottuthat state, has received an interesting detter from H. B. Messenger of Federal=hutg on the subject of good roads’ in Cé;aline county, Mr. “Messenger says that thaigfeat. need in the country is broader tires tou vehicles, The narrow tires now in ube-\cut roads to pieces 28 soon as they aretmade.. He favors a law giving a ‘bonus fer wide. tires, and when the wide: tire isidapted he thinks that there should be a law prohibiting the use of others. : ae A Tucky Waret. From’ the Badmigioy Magprifé, I do not realiy believe.that tbe. world. in general 1s abandoning» tts faith in “‘sys- tems” @t'foulette. Idiets linger, of ‘course, and always will; but during’ a recent yistt to Monte Carlo I. did: not come across a single persun whoowas foolish enough to imagine that by any system of play he could beat the tables’ At routétte you win if you:ere lucky, but “ag careful calcula- tion or prevision will enable you to win. And what luck’ some men ‘have! One 1 watched on several occasions, and the ball seemed always to land where he wartted it to go. When some of us play, the ball always seems to land on the next number to that for which we are trying. On a certain day the lucky player of whom I am speaking, after winning big stakes all over the board, had all the money that the regulations allow on “26” and around it. Up it came! He took the bundle of notes and pile of gold and left down his stake. Up it came cgain! -Onee more he was paid, the ball was spun, and the number | for the third time was 26! That is some- thing Itke luck! I do not think I have seen in print the story of the servant of a friend of mine, though the incident is a year old. This man put down a louis and waited results with a mixture of curiosity and confusion; for he had the vaguest possible notton of the game. The bail was spun, however, the result called, such a plle of gold put to his louis thdt he dared not touch it, being unable to believe that it: could ali be intended for him. Consequently he left it all where it was, the game proceeded, and another pile of gold with a bundle of notes was added to the store. “Are you not going to take it up?t an Englishman who happened to be next to him inquired. “Is that all mine?” he asked. “Why, of course it ts!" was the reply, and the lucky valet collected close on to £1,000. SS QUEENS WHO. SMOKE. The Use ef Cigarettes Extending Among Women. From Les Annales. The Empress of Austria smokes from "thirty to forty cigarettes a day. The dow- ager Empress of Russia is a confirmed smoker, but confines her indulgences to her own private apartments, ‘apparently in def- erence to the feelings of the young ezarina, who is opposed to the ‘use of cigarettes, which has become prevalent among women’ in the best soctety in St. Petersburg. The Queen of Roumania, the Queen Re- gent of Spain, Queen Amelia of Portugal, who in this respect follows the example of her mother, the wife ofthe Comte de Paris, and the Queen of Italy aré, all smokers. In France the associgtion of men and women in all kinds of spotts has been the cause of a greater degreg,pf intimacy, and has brought us to the cigarette, whose use is exteading, among young wo- men of the most exclusive, circles. Even the most critical no longer pretest when. two Tosy lips send out a few.puffs of smoke be- tween a couple of games of;tennis. Besides, our grandmothers loved tobacco. The Duchess of Chartres and_the Duchess of Bourbon under Louts XJ¥, even went so far as to smoke pipes; yes, pipes,my dears! And in the “Letters of a Traveler” we read that George Sand always«kept tobacco on hand for her own personal use. In all times Spanish women have smoked, and not only clgaretton it elgars. Mar~- bot, in his “Memoirs,” s mincing matters. And they smoke in Eng- land and I the United States, aith the latter country it is-only recently that women have begun to «ager tobacco, There was a story in “Gil Blas” not 2g0 to the effect ‘that three young girls in Louis- ville, Ky., were seen sméking by a police and arrested. The judge, al- ng ithe. accused. were not conforming t6 the.proprieties,felt bound to rekeesey them because they were violating no law. > Financiering.- From the Indianapolis Journal. - ‘ asked the shabby.man in-the. midst of the crowd watching the safe. go up. = “No,” paid they.. “But you. are.an honést, mth arate ee ek atts e ry - 30-cent piece, but. ‘some one kindly drop a nickel in this hat as the feward of jonesty’ ; HXCITED CROW DS! GREAT SCRAMBLE FOR BARGAINS. A Vast Multitude Attend-the Opening of the Quarter-of-a-Million-Dollar Clothing Sale, 612 12th St. N.W. * No wonder the le of Washington and surroundings are worked up to a hi itch of excitement, for never before was Fine Tailor-Made thing ic 101 for Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s wear slaughtered for such ridiculously low prices. ___ Today and Monday the balance of the Finest Tailored Cloth- ing will be sold retail at iphone sale. An army of salesmen en- gaged to fit and please each customer. ~ Here is a revelation to money saving clothing purchasers. A Complete Suit of Men’s Bt Reicliffo” Shtton : es e - Sutton price - . -$2.24 29 styles of Men’s Fancy Cas- simere and Cheviot Suits. Regu- lar retail price, $14. Ratcliffe & Co.’s price $3.95 all-wool .Fine’ worsted and RAs Sema : e iad 2 * $4.95) price Extra fine clay diagonal, in sack and cutaway style, trimmed and made first class. Retail price, : — Ratcliffe - Sutton $6.95 Thousands of other items not space to mention. e indisputable evidence ‘of eyesight that everything is exactly as advertised. itis If you value money come today and Monday and secure some of these wonderful values. pans Place of sale, 612 12th St. N.W. Open until 11 o’clock Tonight. ~ RATCLIFFE, SUTTON & CO. THE MOONSHNERS REVENGE Exclusive style spring suits, fashionable, high-art tailor work. Cost $25 to make. Price at this sale - - - $8.95 gracie imported worsted suis 6 impo! wors sui ae a oe si an be obtain for _. . . - SLLOB Men’s pants, 48 and 95c. Thousands for $1.24. $6 and $8 fine custom trous- ers, fancy worsted and handsome stripe, for $2.95. Children’s knee pants, 10c. Children’s suits, 95c. All-wool boys’ suits for $1.24 to $2.20. at next-to-nothing prices we have THE MATURE BELLE. Woman's Age of Greatest Charm in : Being Extended. From the San Francis:o Argoraut. it. At this moment the father's eye rested upon the form of his son, and tears of gratitude wet his rough cheeks. There was not an instant to Jose—a less observ- ing man than the son could have seen a that. In the fraction of & minute he had The ruling woran of the present day 1s . Z 2 gained possession of his trusty rifle, shoved the mature womar.. ‘The maiden of bash- | An Incident in the Life of a Southern Repre- | the muzzle through the window pane and ful fifteen, the bud of eighteen, the clcar- ‘ fired. His nerve was not the steadiest nor eyed girl of twenty, all must stand aside sentative. a ea edge arden fee for. their older sister, who geads the pro- 2S flame of the candle went out and the whole ceasion. The age at which women are sup- posed to exercise their greatest charm varies with the varying of fashion and ‘ weight of the pinioned man’s form tested Written for The Evenigg ‘Star. the strength of his bonds. He had fainted! The -little group had been indulging in| With a muttered curse, knowing not but h taste. In the Elizabethan era it was four- teen. Other heroines as celebrated in their day and generation as Juliet were the insti- gators of tragic loves and hates at that ex- ttemely juvenite age. Half a century ago Balzac astonished his countrymen by claim- ing unusual powers of fascination for the woman of thirty. Ever since she has held the stage as an incarnation of coquettish attraction. At the present day the period of beauty and charm has been extended even further. Balzac’s thirty has received an additional ten years.. Women of forty are no'lonker looked upon as ruins in which the antiquarian may trace relics of bygone splendor. With the vanishing of the term “old maid,” the old maid herself has with- drawn into the place of departed spirits. In France an unmarried girl of over twe ty-five is looked upon as dead stock, for which there is nothing but a convent. Ti day, in the United States, women of inde- pendent means, women of society, women who are self-supporting, rarely marry un- der twenty-five, and generally put off that episode in their existence of five or ten years later. There are many reasons for the pres- ent vogue of the mature belle. She is more | | expect you to believe it, things are so differ- reminiscences through the smoke of their ee Se See. be ae a 8 cigars. The stories had taken on a tragic turn. In the party was a representatwe from a southern state, aid ‘when the oth- ers stopped as though it had come to his turn he was slow to break the silence. He ran his fingers through this“mass of iron- gray hair as if in meditaticn and then leis- urely consulted his watch. “I might tell.you a bit‘of history,” said he, “‘a story which was familiar to almost all the inhabitants in our section some thir- ty years ago, but I do not know that I can ent now than they were, then, you Know.” ‘There was a general request te “go on,” and during the time consumed by the con- | gressman in relating the story each one Present.sat as if bourid by. a spell, no one uttering a word from start to finish. This is what he said, to the best of my recollec- tion, and I paid strict attention to every word he utiered: “At the time this little tragedy was.en- acted the mountainous regions of our state They Wereginfested with illicit distillers. of wood and with three giant sweeps bat- tered the door in. In another moment, he had cut the bonds which held the Ump form of his father and placed him tenderly upon his cot in the corner. - “Then, with his father safe for the pres- ent, the thought of personal danger vame to him. Rushing to the window overlook- ing the road, he saw in the gathering twi- light the forms of two men, as they ap- proached, with uncertain steps. ‘The’ true condition of affairs dawned upon him in an instant! These men, ‘temporarily con- tent with the success of their plans, had left, imbibed freely of moonshine, | a! having heard the report of a rifle fro the cabin, were ndéw retutnihg to loot the premises, thinking it was all over! They were soon to realize their error, howev for, before they had proceeded half a dozen more steps, the report of a rifle again broke the stillness; and the foremost of the two went down without a cry.” The narrator paused a moment at this juncture, and wiped the perspiration from his brow. while his three auditors, awaited the resumption of his story with eagerness. “The other villain took to a weni on, “but as the son injudiciously showed his form at the window, a rific ball czme crashing in and tore his good right were dangerous men, and as reckl« the consequences of law-bre: 1B were dangerous. [t happened that one da after an exciting chase, a sheriff's pos: overtook and captured two of the moon- hand almost to pieces. His teeth were set 1 a look of interse hatred glowed in His opportunity came before attractive, understands human nature bet- | ter, than her younger sister. She is still good lookirg. Her youth lasts longer than it used to, because she has learned how to take care of herself. American womens eye | lerg, for the desperate moanshmer was | imprisoned behind the tree. Knowing es- formerly ruined their beauty by bad diet, | Shiners who were most wanted, and, as a | cepe to be well nigh impossi he hastily no exercise, and too little fresh air. Now | result of the trial which foliowed, each re- | reloaded his weapon, and, getting down they know better. A healthy, well-groomed | celved a long sentence in prison. I remem- | upon his knees, cautiously peeped from his woman, who is rot oyerworked or over- | ber the incidents quite well and I recall | covering, unable to resist the chance of worried, looks abcut the same age at forty | With distinctness that there were many | taking another shot at the man in the cab- as she did at twenty-five. “With her ad-| threats, some of'thém made openly, that | in. It is needless to tel. you what follow the witnesses for the prosecution would suffer dire consequences for having taken the parts they, did., One of these witnesses was a man of middle age, as feariess as a ion, who lived in a small log cabin, some three and a half miles from the county seat where the trial had been held, in an iso- lated mountamous region. He lived with his son, a young fellow, bern and reared in the section, a man who had seemingly herited the courage and vigor of his father. He was of my own age, and as I was, and have since been, of “intimate ‘terms with him, I am able to relate the incidents which occurred in an accurate manner. ditional years has come additional wisdom. If she has not the engaging simplicity that : was hers at eighteerf, she has a knowledge of men and manners which makes her a more interesting companion, a more lov- able human being. Experience has given her the gift of sympathy, of which the young girl feels nothing. To men she has come to represent not only all that is grace- ful and gracious and tactful in womanhood, but all that is broad and tender and femi- nine. Among working women—from the artis- tic to the plain working woman—the ma- turer ones are natyrally in the ascendant. | °C! The young girl among the workers ts the | ,, Scarcely a week had elapsed from the novice whom no one Enows or cares much | time the afr of inobnaliners were cont about. It is when the vears of endeavor | Victed when the old man was surprised one have been passed, and mind and heart have | @fternoon. an Hour before siinset. just as reached their fullest powers of comprehen- | P< 8S entering his cabin 1ome. Two men 4 sion and feeling, that she is at the pin-| had their rifles leveled at his breast, and, nacle of her development. In these days | Deing taken unawares, he had no coursc of hurry and pressure and intensity of ef. | left but to throw up his hand as they osm: fort, such a creature naturally takes pre-| ™&nded. As it turned out, had the ou:- cedence over the untried girl who is wait-| “ws been content to shoot their victim | ing with expectant eyes for the message of then and there and thus ended the affair the future. Existence is too full, the strug- | !t would have been well for them, but they gle too serious, for the return of those | Were intent upon storturing. their enemy days when ycuth, ignorance, beauty and| 2" the means they employed were the folly were the great requisites of women. | MOSt flendish and cold-bfooded that a pair The times are stirring, the pressure of ex- | 0f cut-throats’ minds could well conjure istence desperately earnest, and man in his| UP. They followed the old man into his struggle demands a helpmate who can as. | BOme, bound his hands securely behing his sist him onward, not draw him back. Chiv-| @ck, tied his feet tightly together and alry, in its downfall, carried away many | ®?@lly lashed him.in.an upright position to pretty. myths, the prettiest the myth of | the stonewofk of the fireplace. They next the chilawife, ‘hanging, frightened and | ®458ed their prisoner, dragged the heavy feininonrina On mer eteains ce article of furniture which answered for & rte = table to a Position tet front. of him, placing - wee an old-fashion omemade chair on it Lord Hertford’s Hante at the Funeral. | top. in another. moment thay a <i From the London World, eg t they had securely fastened the barrel of the old man’s rifle The Lord Hertford. who formed the Wal- | ‘© the ohair, in -such a a muzzle was rectly a level Gas corceton, svisted Eee eye SYS with his heart. One of the villains next place in Warwickshire, only once in his life, | produced a Piece of stout cord, carefully and that was on the day of his father’s funeral, in March, 1842. The third marquis except to say that the single look caus death, which might otherwise hey en averted for some time, perhaps indeti- nitely, as darkness was fast coming or “There is little more to relate. The older he upen whom the torture had beca inflicted, lived for many rs after the , and the son—well, he is living .0- “And the son wes never brought to trial, I presume,” spoke the treasury official, with a rising ‘nflection of his voice. “No, sir,” was the emphatic response, “that is not the way things are done, in our section of the country, at least. Wh sir, he was one of the most talked-of met in the whole state, and, strange as it ma scem. was elevated to a position of som’ ence. In fact, some of you may e heard of him.” . He arose as he spoke, took a deep breath of cool air at the open window, slung his overcoat over his arm and extended his Sen! to his host with a hearty “Good night.” “But his name: whe was he?” I asked. But the colonel, more used to such revela- tions than the treasury official and myself, made answer fcr him. There was no word spoken, but raising the hand he held in his own, so that it was fully exposed to the electric light, we saw, with feelings of awe, that it bore a ragged, unsightly scar ex- tending from the second joint of the fore- firger clear to the wrist! —__—- Profits of College Athletics, From the Hartford Post. The extraordinary interest taken in col- lege athletics by the general public is shown -by the reports of the treasurers of the various coliege athletic associations. Ne other country in the world ever patron- ized college sports so extensively. Just glance at some of the figures for last year, The returns from three of the leading col- made a slip-noose in one end and drew the noose tightly over the ‘hammer of the had died in London, at Dorchester House, | Beeon._, The: other end of the cord was | leges ere totallzed briefly, thus: and the body had been brought by road to| wall at the other sae ee ee mall’ in the “ Received. _ Spent. si the room, after | Yale (1895-'90)..........$50,730.3 3.945 ®agiey, where it lay in state in the dark-| which, with deliberate coolness, the heavy Pemareaes ea! evn Manica end di room, with tall candles burning | table and chair were pushed a little nearer | ending Sept. 30, 1 53,047. all arouhd, the room hung with black the bound ran until the rifle was almost } Princeton isa" 30,941.46 i The Harvard figures*have not yet been made public, but it is no doubt true that the Harvard totals are fully as great as those given and will show a profit of at least 10 per cent. The total receipts from *he athletic games of the four leading uni- versities—Yale, Harvard, Princeton and University of Pennsylvania—were not far from $200,000, This money was contributed very largely by the general public,although, of course, a great part of it came from the students. Just what the proportion of grad- uate and outside patronage to undergradu- ate patronage is nobody can do more than estimate. 4 College athletics have more expensive as the games. in popularity. It will be seen by reference to the table above that Pennsylvania had a deficit at the end of the year. That was due, it Is explained, to the fact that $6,815.- 25 was — in improving its athletic at a full cock. It would be difficult for any man accustomed though he might be to danger and death to imagine the feelings of the prisoner as he realized that the severing of the cord meant instant death! velvet, the bier’surrounded by mutes and plumes, while the coronet was displayed on a crimson cushion placed upon the coffin, and the star and ribbon of the Garter were on a purple -cushion. parsons, | He was not left long in. suspense as to the yeomen and country folk were all. as-| nature of the deathtdeailne sions his-ene- sembled, and. having refreshed themselves, | mies had prepared for him, for in a short- Irae arrived forthe funeral in Arrow er lime than it takes to relate it, they 4 jad taken a\candle from the window sill, The following accodint is from a volume | lighted it, placed it conveniently upon a printed many years ago for private circu- | small box: they ltad placed upon the table lation: “Just then a’ traveling ¢arriage | in such e manner that the flame had but to with four smoking post horses dashed: up | burn oEopee hour-until-it*should reach the the avenue. A: solitary traveler got out, | cord dnd burn it in two. And in another and, looking round him unconcerned, en-| moment, with ‘a-iew taunting remarks, tered the house of death. This was the | they: were gone. P new Marquis of Hertford, ‘heir to a most / “How. the helpless man must have longed pringely heritage. The travel-stained horses | for the return of his son! How he must remained standing befgre the principal | have watched with bulging eyes and faint- entrance of Ragley. Hall, "while the funeral the flame of doom burr cl service was being hurried over and the un- hallowed remains of a man who had left | strongest man to madness. But I will not none to mourn for him were. deposited in | dwell at any jength upon that sad portion the damp, dark vault. Then, when ert the story. A few moments more, short- coffin was consigned to its ‘niche in the. ly before sunset, the son came down the family sepulchre, the traveler, drawing his | jonely: mountain road, whistling a merry ample cloak somewhat » stepped back { tune. ly unconscious of what he ed away. The} should find, he approached his cabin through the | home, tried the door and found it securely Diy, mile’. eure reported | Make Ot pene aumme. from within, ect my a unaware an: ‘unusual that he had fallen asleep before he reached 3 Ti the park gates. : nm But, asleep or awake, none. yf them ever looked:again on the impassive’ face of thelr landlord. fe i