Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1897, Page 11

Ss a ee THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1897-24 PAGES. ee Ke No better service i * * * * add to that the service is * * * complicated * for the glas: cases. * ee oe ting the proper All GUARANTEED FOR O He HQ awe * ee ee ew * * = * * DON’T Take your pres BS aaa ik SL. im ET oS SD DS NDR th SDD aD DD Oh Dh Wh Yah ht AA eas coe aa Baitimore Store, 108 N H] Herreetestengeegene % DON’T TRIFLE WITH YOUR EYESIGHT! obtainable on earth than * * * * * that given by our Dr. F. Proctor Donahay, and to * * ABSOLUTELY FREE. He makes a specialty of fitting glasses in * * The only charge we make is * * es, and that is very small. LDREN WITH DEFECTIVE VISIO * —are given especial care. fied— made straight without an operation by fit- * spectacles in time. ba glasses fitted by Dr. Donahay positively * NE YEAR. bs SUFFER WITH PAINS IN THE HEAD& EYES; * * * * —_when you can get relief. == Sten the.{ * * * © the optic n * = * by the fitting of proper glasses. CULISTS’ P wees * * * * OK * * ** * CROSS EYES recti- * ee HHH Hee H * eH HH * In nine cases out of * * * * is due to the continuous strain on * * * * erve, and that can be relieved and cured * * * * kK KK RESCRIPTIONS FILLED AT ¥4 PRICE, on to any optician in * * * * * * town and get his price for filling it. Then come * * * * * * * to ns and we'll cut his charge exactly in half. EYEGLASSES ON CREDIT} * KOKO * * * * _if you want it. We offer you the same privilege * * * * * * * * in our Optical Department that we do in our Jew- * * * * * * * * elry Department—a little down and a little each * * * * * * * * week pays any bill. aR Sole Letter see us about your eyes. 2 ee Castelberg’s Nat’l Jewelry Co., 1103 Pa. Ave.--Next to Star Office. Established 1846. See MOTO ote eoleleleleleyeeelees LAND MONEY CANNOT BUY. Trinity Corporation and Its Property n Broadway. b Investor. ‘The Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, rector of Trin- ity parish, said reporter for The “hureh y that many of- to the Trinity corpor- old St. Paul's chureh- adway, between Fulton and ts, for business oses. Sev- hange tried ently a great rail- advances for the not be sold,” said while the persons y's affairs are alive. and cons has ever operty. It is prized From the Chu to a its valuable aE 3 into debt it shall cip. Trinity's income © be Simi a year, and a ion of that amount ‘goes in ether churches, and to educa- ys the custom of Trinity r struggling se on the ras to their ry $10,000 en which, how- n never exacts in- orded only in order irch purpose © many is valued hat of Which Can Be arly Indicated on the Map. Saturday mmon knowledge rule thei al an in the tropics that diseases tations. Some, nts, live only sumption, are over the whele carth; ud smallpox, are grad- ecoming limited in their distribu- ly be tending toward there are regions to On the ranges and in e earth of the re of anima’ some, tain parren same hard- ditions aly of have been un- tinual bombardment subjected. sly popu- for m lated and with the freest circu ion, it cannot yard of surface con- more common dis- nd the native of sor become Just are less suscep- ir own local dis- uly protected, and ‘wo of our com- large annual with diferent shades, tes ef mortality. Bi red the lowest tw@ maps colered in this way and consumption are compared, 2 evident that Incidence ct sis avt cepriciougs; the shades for cans it is at the disease do not form a meaningless patchwork, but show at the first glance a strikingly regu- lar distribution. The one map forms al- most exactly a complement of the other. The deep blue of cancer high mortality co- incides with the deep red of consumption low mortality. Where the consumption mortality is highest that from cancer is lowest, and, on the whole, there is a sim- ilar inverse correspondence between inter- te rates of mortality. n the mortality maps are compared with a good physical map, It may be seen | that the structural features of the country are in direct relation to the death rates. The deep blue of cancer high mortality pre- vails in low-lying, well-protected river val- leys, where fully formed rivers flow down to the sea between low banks, cutting their way through beds of clay and recent allu- vial soll: in fact, where seasonal floods are frequent and strong sea winds rarely flush out the protected valleys, there cancer pre- vails and finds its fattest harvest. The lower courses of the greater rivers from the Tweed to the Thames and from the Stour to the Tamar, the rivers of North Devon, the Severn and Dee are all thickly set with the blue cancer patches. On the other hand, the lowest mortality groups occur on high upland downs, along the watersheds, and especially where ridges of limestone rock rear themselves above the surrounding country. In the sheltered val- leys where cancer prevails, notwithstand- Ing the dampness and periodical flooding, the very lowest mortality rates from con- sumption occur. Inland from the low fore- shores and high above the protected val- leys, wherever strong sea winds prevail, and along the lofty ridges like that form- ing the backbone of Wales, the blue of consumption high mortality is to be found. Not dampness, but exposure, seems to be the exciting physical cause. Although the contrast between consump- tion and cancer is too striking to be purely a coincidence, it cannot be said that | enoush is known to explain it by ultimate causes. The therapeutic value of exposure to constant supplies of pure air is evident enough in all diseases that affect the gen- eral vitality of the body. It is more than probable that the low cancer mortality in the exposed districts 1s due partly to the better hygienic conditions that prevail in them. The pulse of life beats more slowly, and every bodily and mental activity is bler on the sodden soil of the dull val- leys where cancer rules. But we do not know how cancer gets from patient to patient, nor if its organism has become yurely ‘parasitic on the bodies of animals. No doubt, all the microbes of disease were at one time harmless vegetables, living an idyllic life in the mud. Some of them are | Sull able to maintain an existence outside | the bodies of their victims, and the rela- | lon of cancer to clay soils and flooded districts suggests that it may not yet have ed a purely parasitic stage. Other and more specialized microbes apparently have lost their primitive capacity to live a free life, and their specialization is preparing the way for their extinction. If the mi- crobes die unless they reach quickly another living host, isolation of infected cases, carried out thoroughly, will ulti- mately rid us of their existence. The prevalence of consumption in the otherwise healthiest districts is an acci- dent of our contaminated land. On lofty Alpine summits, or where the sea winds Sweep across the decks of ocean vessels, or on the desert wind-blown sierras, peo- ple are not struck down with consumption, and even those already affected, unless they are nearly at death’s door, find new health in the Keen air. But our own land is full of the plague; the winds elsewhere healing, bring with them’ new seeds of disease. The slightest chill or the tickling of a delicate lung with salt air prepares the way for the omnipresent parasite. Colds that would vanish in a night in a healthy land become fatal here, and those with a constitution unadapted to resist the microbe fall victims to an exposure that in itself is innocuous or even beneficial. ee Passengers and Their Rights. To the Editor of The Evening Star: I would really like to know {f the pas- sengers of the Metropolitan railroad line have any rights which that road feels bound to respect. If they have, I am free to say I haven't discovered them. At 1 o'clock this afternoon I took the car at G street, paid my fare, and in due time re- ceived a transfer for the herdic. At the corner of H and l4th two passengers ; Steod, signaling the car. The car went on without stopping until it reached 15th street. At the junction it did not stop, and, though the conductor rang the bell, the motorman kept on his way until he reached 16th street. There the car stop- ped and three warm and wrathful women toiled kack to the junction. The herdic which stood waiting when the car ought.to have stopped was by this time almost out of sight. Returning at 2 o'clock, the her- dic was well filled, and after it stopped and the passengers had elighted a Georgetown car went by, barely slackened speed, and then went on without a single-herdie pas- pues’ 3} I ety of le ‘uesday evening a large party of bound for the Bischoff concert were care ried to Ninth strect instead of the car stopping at 10th. 3 : The 16th strect contingent have con- gratulated themscives upon the new ar- Targement, ‘but unless we receive better treatment In future I think we will all @gree that the ith street_Hne, while not so cenverlent, is vastly more courteous. OF TSE THREE, LICENSES TO MARRY Obstacles in the Way of Love-Sick Swains, THIS CITY 18 QUITE A GRETNA GREEN Curious Dramas That Are Enacted in the Clerk’s Office. THE TIME-WORN JOKE Clerk Meigs of the District Supreme Court office has been engaged in the amia- bie business of licensing folks to marry for one year longer than the period usually accounted a generation. His round, clerkly handwriting began to appear on marriage Hcenses in the summer of 1863, and he has been sending forth radiant youths avd maidens from his office into a smiling world ever since. The flushed young folks who, in what seems the far time when Mr. Melgs first took up the Potential pen of marriage license clerk, passed beneath the lintel of his office door, tightly clutching their solemn, quaint doc- uments of old English legal verbiage to hold them safe, and peering wistfully into the future, are now, those of them who still tread the world, elderly, time-mellowed men and women, whose pleasures and so- lace consist more largely in retrospection than in anticipation. “During the past few years,” says Clerk Meigs, “I have issued hundreds of licenses to marry to the sons and daughters of the young people who came to me on the same mission as far back as when the result of the war was still in doubt, and it certainly makes me feel as if I were getting along in years a bit when these strapping young fellows, many of them looking just like their fathers, with whom I used to play shinny and base ball, and these pretty young women, duplicates of their just-as- pretty mothers (as I remember ’em), come sidling up to this desk for their permits to get married; it surely makes me feel like I ‘ain’t quite so young as I d to be.’ The average number of marriage licenses issued a year when Mr. Meigs began fill- ing out the blanks, thirty-four years ago, was about 1,500. For the past half de- cade the average number has been some- thing more than 3,0v0. A Time-Worn Joke. “Old photographers have often told me,” said Clerk Meigs to a Star reporter the other day, “that at length, after the lapse of a sufficient number of years, they find they can no longer extract amusement from the prodigiéusly funny remarks their sitters invariably feel called upon to make in facing the camera: ‘I guess I'll break your lens,’ or ‘I'd rather have a tooth pulled than have my picture taken,’ for instance. Well, these photographer friends of mine have my profound sympathy. Sev- eral times a day for the past thirty-four years I have been compelled to assume a ghastly, mirthless smile when humorous young men have walked up to this desk for their marriage licenses with the rée- mark, ‘I want to get hung.’ That's the invariable, eternal phrase—I want to get hung.’ Nine-tenths of the young fellows who exude the remark fairly beam with their own originality, and some of them look quite aggrieved when I do not slap my thigh and plunge into hysterical merri- ment over the joke; for how can they know that this joke was superannuated and de- crepit long years before they knew the effulgence of the sun? Oud experiences here? Oh, yes, thou- sands of them. ‘This office has always been more or less 1 panorama of comedy, tragedy, and pathos. Washington has al- ways been a good <leal of a Gretna Green, and [ have had a moderately good chance to observe the complications “Into which eloping young people plunge ‘themsclv We get most of our clopers here from Vir: ginia, the Marylani elopers make for BaJ- timore to get themselves married. Times without number [ have been in the very act of filling ont marriage licenses for young folks who have eloped from the rrounding cou when one or beth of the girl's parents, generally the father alone, turned up in this office in various stages of sanguinary hostility. In nine cases out of ien of tnis sort. however, the old gentleman has been unable to prevent the issuance of .ha license. If a young man and woman are old enough to get married, and there is on their sworn state- ments no other obstacle in the way of their marriage, they are going to get their marriage license in this office if all the young woman's people down to her forty- second male cousins are lined up kere with bludgeons and blunderbusses. There is no way to stop it without one of the girl's men folks kills her beau right on the spot; and this don’t happen, for, as a general thing, when the girl's objecting folks see that the thing is bound to go through with- out a hitch they ‘cave,’ as the saying runs, ard make the best of it, as they ought to do in the first place. A Question of Age. “It has frequently happened that irate fathers have loomed up in here in the wake of eloping couples just as I was about to issue the licenses, and, in order to stop the thing, they have solemnly declared to me that their daughters were under eight- teen years of age, only to be routed, horse, foot and artillery, by the would-be bride- groom's producing a sworn statement, duly sealed and witnessed, having been procured before the elopement was undertaken, prov- ing the girl to be of the legal age to mar- ry; which goes to show that the young man of this era who elopes to get married to the girl he wants has got a whole lot of wis- dom and craftiness in his day and genera- tion. ‘During the past ten years the marriages of dozens of eloping couples have been per- formed here in the city hall right under the eyes of fathers and brothers who have stormed in here athirst for the bridegroom's blood—for we send out and get a minister to tie the knots when the young people ask us to do so. I very often receive letters, especially around the holiday season, from men and women wha eloped from adjoin- ing states and got marriage licenses from me years ago, telling me of the peace and happiness that has followed thelr matri- monial ventures: and for my part I can’t See why an clopement marriage shouldn't turn out just as prosperous and happy as a high noon affair in a church, with weep- ing mothers, soft organ music, rice, old shoes, and all the rest of it. “The modification of the District mar- riage laws last year has nad some odd re- sults. For instance, one of the reauire- ments of that law is that ministers, in or- er to perform a legal marriage ceremony, must obtain from the Supreme Court a cer- tificate empowering them to tie matrimo- nial knots, Now, there still remains in the District of Columbia a considerable num- ber of ministers who have not heard of this provision of the marriage law, and who, not having procured their certificates, are no more entitled to perform a mar- rigge ceremony that will stand in law than the driver of a street sweeper. Some of these ministers are still officiating at marriages, however, and thereby compel- ling numbers of young folks hereabouts to go through the marriage ceremony twice, their first marriage having been null and void on account of the lack of infor- mation on the part of the minister origi- nally marrying them. The way they find out they are not properly married is this: A part of the marriage license folder is a blank to be filled out by the minister per- forming a . on which he cerfifies that he has officiated at the ceremony, and returns the blank to this offize, where it {a filed away as part of the records. We go over these returns very carefully, espe- cially since the new marriage law has been in force, for the purpose of sicertaining if the ministers who have tied the knots have complied with the law and taken out ertificates empowering them to perform rriages. When we find that they have not done so we communicate with them, informing them of the trouble they have caused owing to their lack of knowledge of the District marriage law, and directing them to immediately procure their certifi- cates if they desire to go on. officiating. weddings. Then wo communicate with the éoupls who have been “by the un- fsgreat and poignant whon they ieerm shot 7 ¢ when they lecrn that while they are -certainiy married “in fact, they are by no means married in lawyand they invariably rush off und get married acum Tight away, as of course they should Oniy Poog’ Here. “Another quite, m error, both on the part of young clk who obtain licenses and the ministers ,wh them, is that a District of Coluyabia matrimonial permit 1s good for a m performed outside the District—which it fertainty Is not. Yet numbers of person$ take the licenses which they procure from ‘me ¥o places outside the District, generally ins Marytand and Vir- ginia, and get themselves married—as they suppose—upon them. As a matter of fact, such persons are net married at all. You can’t go to the other end of the Long bridge and get yotrself legally married on a marriage licensé issued in the District of Columbia. + “The provision inthe new law that for- bids the issuance?of a marriage license to aliens unless suchialtens procure from their countries’ representatives in Washington certificates setting ferth the applicants’ eligibility to marry has proven itself a +good deal of a nuisance for all hands. The reason this clause was inserted in the new law was that there. were a number of cases wherein aliens married American women here, and, after marrying them, deserted them and returned to their own countries, where they repudiated their American mar- rlages upon the ground that they were not made in compliance with the marriage laws of their own lands; the clause was therefore designed for the protection of American women who married aliens. The theory in inserting the provision that aliens, in order to procure marriage licenses here, must first obtain the certificate of eligibility from their diplomatic represen- tatives was that such certificates would virtually make the marriages thus entered into as good in law in the countries from which the aliens hailed as in the United States. Whether this theory is sound or not, I don’t know, but on the face of it it seems foolish enotglt For instance, how is an ambassador who grants such a cer- tificate to know that the allen from his country to whom he grants it hasn't a baker's dozen of wives scattered all over Europe, Asia, Africa and America? Some of the European representatives here, not- ably the German ambassador, are exceed- ingly careful in this respect, and often go to the pains of making careful inquiries as to their matrimony-hungry countrymen’s entecedents in the old country before they will grant the certificates; but others of the diplomats grant the certificates perfunc- torily; and it certainly seems doubtful ff a marriage of this sort would hold any more water across the sea than the marriage of an alien and an American made before the new law went into force. Did Not Know Her. “The swell young man who 1s about to be married here sends his best man down for the license. ‘I want a marriage 1- cense,’ the best man usually says at the start-off. ‘For yourself?” I ask him, ‘Not much! Well, I guess not! Catch me!’ ts what he usually replies, and I am _partic- ular to cast these remarks up to the best man when he turns up, as he very often does, about six months later, for a mar- riage license for himself. Then he ‘looks sheepish, grins, and wriggles out of it on the ground that ‘he didn’t know her then.’ “It fs not common nowadays, as it used to be, for the bride-to-be to accompany her young man when he comes here after the license. Once in a while, however, a lady of great apparent mental strength, con- siderable uncertainty as to age, and a heap of hardness of feature, drags a passive Httle man in here,: and straightway be- comes the whole thing herself in so far as answering all questions is concerned. In these cases it is the lady who digs up the dollar for the license; and the man ‘isn’t saying a word’ dug a the proceedings. Speuking of the doar'for the Itcense,when I first began to, fssue marriage licenses here the cost of ‘fne,of them was 66 2-3 cents. Just why jt was placed at this fig- ure I was nevér @hid\to find out. Some- times I would gif% thd applicant the ben- efit of the fractiofof a, cent, and at others I would take the 67 éénts myself. Curious .Incident “Colored men often»pome here for mar- riage licenses withouttknowing the names of the girls they wantito marry—a positive fact. ‘What's the-young woman's name?’ 1 asked a good-natured big darkey from Culpeper county, AVirginia, the other day. ‘Huh name's Lilyj:he said. ‘But her sur- name—her last name? said LHe looked stupefied. ‘Lily’s alf' de tiame I know,’ he sald. I sent himaway-to get his sweet- heart's fult namé but he hasn't got back yet. Numbers of Pe ple, Poth “black and white, don't know ‘their dwn ages when they come Here 'for‘licenses, and have to be sent away to make 'tareful investiga- tions on that Subject. “During the-past year T haye issued nu- merous marriage’ Ticenisés to Gebrge Wash- ington, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Ad- ams, Napoleon Bonaparte, Lafayette John- son, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamil- ton, and several scores of the ‘namesakes’ (all cclored) of great and famous person- ages of this and other lands. “A very well-known young Washington man, who was married in April, neglected to get his license until an hour before the ceremony—it was a-fancy church wedding —was to come off. The neglect oceurred to him just befere.he started to dress far his wedding. He raced down the steps of. his parents’ house, straddled his bicycle at a bound, and began to scorch for this office. A bieycle policeman got after him, and overtook him after a race of some squares. The young fellow explained to the bicycle cop that he was racing for his marriage license, “but that, , didn't _ impress the scorcher-hunter at all. Then the young fellow got mad, and gave the officer, some pretty warm talk. He was arrested for scorching and for disorderly conduct be- sides. He left collateral for both. charges at the first precinct station, came here.and got his license, went home and jumped into his dress clothes, and appeared at the church just in the nick of time, cool as a cucumber. He forfeited the collateral,” FOREIGN CYCLE NOTES An English paper says that “sixty is an ordinary gear for a man; tt is rather high for.a woman.’ This is a view not likely to be indorsed in Chicago, where a wheel geared below sixty-eight ts a rarity.’ A news item from the City of Mexico states that the city council has passed an ordinance providing for the appointment of.a bicycle inspector:-. The inspector's duty will be to see that owners of bicycles have their wheels registered and pay their bi- cycle tax. He will receive a salary of $40 per month for his services. The weight of American road . wheels averages from’ twenty to twenty-four peunds, while the same style of English wheels runs from twenty-four to thirty peunds, When an English visitor to this country was told that an American bicycle weighing twenty pounds has supported sixteen men, whose average weight was 130 pounds, he expressed doubt, but a practical illustration convinced him. The English- man stated that it was something the best bicycle makers of Europe did not try. The rage for bicycle polo has caught the fancy of the English, and the use of the wheel fs regarded as equally feasible as a Pony for’ the sport:~ ‘has only been re- cently that an Irigf nféimber of parliament followed the hountis @ bicycle and se- cured the brush, ahd’ then the bicycle 1s not looked upon W! disdain py those connected with thf sport. In order to atvertiSe” himself, Manuel Gercia, a Mexican t6réador, endeavored to enter @ bull fight @n.his wheel and kill the animal while in ie eagcle He advertised the fact, and a larg wd turned out to witness the sport.’“fhe"bicycle could not be so easily maheuveted,a@nd before the tor- eador knew it, theshorms of the bull locked in the wheels of the bieycle, and wheel and rider were hurled .o Manuel will not y The Scandinavians | of the wheel in Sweden and Denmark “the ula- ton has increased wotftertully. kovesding to a trade Paper. the stteets of Copenhagen fairly swarm le riders trom the highest to the lowest classes; The people b:ess the wheel because it sgves time and affords them mitch pleasure.’ ‘We wish we could reproduce for eur reada- ers’ amusement some of the extracru! ‘marks 5 capable ridef, “te “he Toadstcr, ever uses such things, JUBILEE AFTERMATH Some Heartburnings Follow the Wake of England’s Great Event. POLITICIANS AND TRADESMEN SORE Liberals Say They Were Ignored; Latter Could Not Sell Goods. GOSSIP OF THE STAGE LONDON, June 26.—After the jubilee fes- tivities there has been a deluge of grum- bles, begun by the speculators, who, al- most without exception, have lost money owing to their foolishness in demanding fortunes for seats. ‘Then, the caterers did not find the crowd as hungry and thirsty as they considered the people ought to have been; the tradesmen found that the jubilee visitors could not buy to any great extent, as it took almost all their savings to see the show, and there has been con- siderable grumbling on the subject of the jubilee honors. The men whose names have been left out of the list are notably liberal politicians and former ministers, who declare that the honors were given on the strictest party lines. With the excep- tion of Sir William Vernon Harcourt, no former liberal minister was invited to be present at the ceremony before St. Paul's Cathedral, and the members of the house of commons, who atrived too late at Buck- ingham palace to be in the audience, de- clare the queen should have waited for them. The charitable societies women think that the Princess of Wales’ dinner to the poor was a kindly thought; but, they claim it was a mistaken idea and that tne money had better been given to the soci- eties dealing habitually with this work. Am Undertaker's Forethought. An undertaker got ready a thousand cof- fins, and nc one needed them. The tem- Perance people are wilély raving at beer being given to the outcast poor, and there are thousands of complaints, based upon jealousy, that everybody could not get a front seat at a favored place and at everything. All this accords with the faded glory of the dismantled line of: route. The only apparently happy jubileers are the carpenters, who have made, for them, small fortunes at wages of three shillings an_hour. The queen has already received a small museum of costly presents and many more are on their way to her majesty. What- ever form they take, most of these gifts are studded with gems. The present of the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children is a large diamond brooci with a 2ub:.ce inscription, and that of the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the Duke and Duchess of Con- naught, Princve and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, the Marquis and Mar- chioness of Lorne, Princess Henry of Bat- tenberg and the Duchess of Albany is a long chain of diamond links, also jubilee inscribed. The Cingalese sent an address in an tvory and gold casket incrusted with 680 gems, and all the chiefs of India are sending presents. Americans Much in Evidence. Americans were much ir evidence at the jubilee precession. Mrs. Bradley Martin, dressed in blue, was at the Bachelors’ Club; Mr. William Waldorf Astor, with a large party, was at Lord Normantoz’s house on Pall Mall, Lady William Beres- ford entertained a large luncheon party and Mrs, John W. Mackay rezeived a few intimate friends. Mrs. Cavendish Ben- tinck and @ number of others, including Mrs. Ogden Goelet and her ghter and Mrs. Ronalds, was at Clarence House. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, wife of the United States special envoy, gave a luncheon to a pariy after the procession, as did Mrs, John Hay, the. United States ambassador. Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain went to all the functions. At St. Paul's Cathedral she wore a very attractive costume of. light green silk, and Mrs. George N. Curzon was dressed in pale lac. Mrs. James R. Roosevelt, who, with Mrs. Heward Kingscote, has taken Warwick House, St. James’, gave a large concert on Monday. The house was draped wita white roses and orchids in American profitsion. The Winnipeg oarsmen who are to take part in the Henley rega:ta viewed the pro- cession from the Cambridge inelosure, and returned to Henley in time to :ake a spin over the course. They have taken quar- ters at the Manor Farm, and are delighted with the hospitality shown to tiem cn all sides. They say the Britishers caanot do enough to make things pleasant fcr them. They rowed over the full course on Thurs- day for the first time, in good time end with plenty of power. James Ten Eyck on Hand Mr. James Ten Eyck, jr., the Massachu- setts oarsman, was out on Thursday in his new Clasper boat, with which he is much pleased. The American sculler has made a good impression upon experts at Henley. Vanity Fair's cartoon for the current week is Colonel John Hay, the United States ambassador, who thus joins the “gallery of the most famous men of the day.” “After a flattering notice of Colore! Hay as a journalist, post, author, soldier and diplomat, Vanity Fair concludes: He has a wife and charming daughter, who have immediately taken places in London society. Altogether, he is quite a cultured American who can talk exceeding- ly well. He is a kindly, rather serious, po- lite, good natured gentleman, who speaks with a slight accent when warmed to the subject. There ts considerable comment at the Canadian premier, Wilfred Laurier, accept- ing a knighthood after repeatedly declin- ing that honor and contrary to precedent in the case of Canadian premiers, It is un- derstood that his acceptance was due to the personal urging of Queen Victoria, who specially desired to honor the representa- tlve of the Dominion of Canada. It is expected that before the Canadian premier leaves England he and the secre- tary of state for the colonies, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, will finally settle the Cana- dian copyright question. Prince Charles to Be Honored. Prince Charles of Denmark, husband of Princess Maud of Wales, who is an officer in the Danish navy, will shortly recetve an appointment in the British navy. This is due to the influence of Princess Maud, who prefers to live in England and among her own people. The Prince of Wales has started a new type of hat, based on the model of the fluffy beaver, with broad, curled brim ef many years ago. The design for the monument to be erect- ed to the late Lord Leighton in St. Paul's Cathedral, where the late president of the Royal Academy is buried, has been sub- mitted to the Prince of Wales and ap- proved by his royal highness. The me- mortal is to be in the form of an altar tomb, supported by emblematic figures, and will be executed by Mr. Thonias Brock, R. A. The committee, of which the Prince of Wales is chairman, announce that the monument will cost £2,500, of which amouat all but £100 has been subscribed. New Yacht for the Queen, cotton purchase comes direct from the 200 pieces 30-inch figured Mousseline Broilie—one of the season's nqvelties In de- lightfully pretty patterns “and colors, which ure guar- anteed fast; has never been sold for less than 12%c. = yard, yet you get it Monday for very latest greens, 5c. yard. Another Tot, consisting of organdie lawns, lawns, applique lawns—in the most beautiful color combinations imaginable and patterns that are so ex- quisitely pretty that you can- not fail: to admire th stuffs which we have sold for i2%e. a yard right up to the preseut—go Monday for LS yard. lappet cats, die lisse, all eet eteteeeC ORNL ANN ALAN LD RRA PALLIAT Sale of white here in abundance—stuffs which cept by Goldenberg. S-quarter French White Or- Fandies—the 45c. quality wherever you go-to be of- fered for a day at 39¢- yard. Fifty pleces of Sheer En- glish India Linon, which ts sold regularly for 15e. a yard, to be offered Monday 1 ol4* yard. really are. 22-Inch plain bleck pongee silk—splen- idly cool for wsists; you certainly kuow what it sells for ueually; but it is here Monday for 19°: yard? eS ss i is ss st hh ie ih hk os ek os a a ek tte te Oe ts ee ee ee a Sried ss i ta 25 rolls heavy fancy China matting, such 23 the furniture stores sell regularly for 12%. a yard, and call it a bargain—here Monday ac olA*- yard. 200 linen crash skirts, 50c. each. Here is the greatest offering of the season—we have purchased two hundred ladies’ linen crash dress skirts—splendidly made and with deep hems and you shall have them Monday for 50c. each. GOLDENBERG ea a ee ae A lot of the most desir. able and prettiest wash fab- rics which have been put out the market, color combinations, in pinks, lavenders, blues, light blues, &c., and enough of them to bewilder you almost—stuffs which we have sold as bargains up to 18c. a yard, will be put on sale Monday at 9l4s- yard. Another lot of such well- known makes of organdie lawn such as ocgandie fran- ajour organdie, o: and many others, the conceptions of cleverest of foreign desicn- ers and weavers in Dresden, Persian and ot fects—stuffs which we have been selling for 20c. a yard, g0 op sale Monday for ‘The dependable store.” | ‘‘The dependable store.”’ GOLDENBERG’S. 1214°- yard. Medium-welt English Pi- que, which is regularly sold for 20c. a yard, will be of- fered for a day at 124° yard. ‘The Genuine Boott White Duck, which fs really a bar- gain at 12%¢c. a yard, will 2 very special silk values. You know that when Goldenberg’s say they're bargains they Goldenberg’s never ask for your attention in the news- papers unless they’ve something unusual to-talk about. Mattings were never so cheap. | Because we have honestly and legitimately won the bulk of the matting trade of the city—because we have used our capital to a very good advantage and bought immense quantities direct from native weavers and dealers and turned our purchases over to you at a slight advance of cost—and because those prices have been but half what the furniture stores have been getting and they've been losing their trade, we are condemned by furniture dealers and are said to have ruined the matting business of the city. But you like our prices, thousands of you have said so, and so long as you show appreciation we shall contirrue to sell mattings at the lowest prices that can possibly be quoted. sonsosseSondeeSoeondonioesoetontoetoaontontoatoton An unprecedented sale of dress stuffs. _The purchase we've just made of dainty, pretty wash stuffs and the prices we paid for them enable us to inaugurs a sale which for values offered will be iar beyond all memory. The e Monday morning importer and consists of full pieces, the cleanest, most perfect and the very choicest styles of the season. If the weather had not prevented the demand to such an extertt that the jobbers and importers are awfully overstocked, it would never be your privilege to buy such choic at scarcely a fraction of their value. , handsome stuffs Here ts the most remark- able offering of the sale: In the purchase was a lot of handsome silk-fintshed = or- gandies — those exquisitely sheer and lovely stuff with printings, which look as though hand-painted — the cleverest conceptions of the cleverest French artiste. The variety ts unmatchable in this city, and no matter what your taste may be, we are certain that you can find something which will please you in this Immense lot. These very same stoft have sold all season for Ze. ® yard, and the purchase enables us to offer thom for 19¢- yard. in colorings the and navy an the One undred pieces of thoroughly shrunk — skirt h, which sells regularly Te. a yard— fered Monday, and as you wish of it on er new ef- “ole yard. cotton stuffs. Be prepared to be offered values extraordinary, for they are seldom are sold under price—ex- be offered Monday at gi4°- yard. English White Longcloth, in twelve-yard pleces, to go Monday for Q8¢- piece. 27-inch plain black Japanese India silk —Lyors dye and bigh luster; this quality 4s splendid for waists and dresses, and be- ing 27 inches wide, of course, not #0 much of It Is needed; to go Monday for 39¢- yard. 50 rolls extra fine Japanese cotton warp mattings, fancy and white, with funcy figured patterts—which are sold by all furniture stores for 30c. and 35c. a yat to go Monday at 15¢- yard. 9 926-928 7th 9 706 K Street. is now looking around for new pieces to take over with him, and has about made up his mind to secure “The Physician,” with which Charles Wyndham made such a success this season at the Criterion The- ater. He is also thinking of adding “The Princess and the Butterfly” to his reper- toire. Madam Patti has decided to give a con- cert at the Albert Hall, in place of the one at which, owing to indisposition, she was unable to appear a short time ago. The concert will take place next Tuesday, and will be Madam Patti's last appearance this season. _——_. ——— THE RETIRED BURGLAR. A Meeting With a Gentle-Hearted Wo- man Backed by a Ferocious Dog. From the New York Sun. -.“At.the foot of the stairs in the front hall of a farmhouse one night,” said the “I stumbled over some- “™ e' t. elit: bd i é 1 somebody say from over the rail the hall upstairs, and I said Seg Lino because it was a female voice, and I am always polite to the ladies; ‘but would you mind telling me what's inside the one thal came down? “Oh,” she sald, ‘it’s the summer ra’ — ge pd inside. Can you lift off? Or s! I let the dog come down help you?’ ngharees ~~ “And with that I heard a serate! upstairs. I supposed it startet him 4 hear himself spoken of, and I judged from the sour.¢ of his claws on the carpet that he must have been about the size of a tiger, and of about the same kind of dis- position. “ ‘No,’ I says, ‘I can get clear of it,’ T did. and stood up tn ieee ee “**You won't carry off the other one, wilt you?’ she said. Ser dog “And hearing the still sera! upstairs, I sald ‘no, I wouldn't? and . didn’t. The lady appeared to be geni hearted encvgh, but I knew yo! dt trust the dog.” sfiserberrnsis ——_++____ Treasure Trove. Andrew Lang in Longman’s Magazine. H Treasure trove interests everybody. Mr. Robinson tells of eleven crowns of gold, set with precious stones, found in 1858 by some Spanish peasants near Toledo. One of the crowns has the Gothic name of Suinthila, who reigned from 621 to 631. Who buried them? We shall never know. The Brooch 5 F