Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1897, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1897-24 PAGES. sinc of the I and know of th ; of them to be: facts. residents of Hern- had and has a pet toad which he has kept abont his place for several years. The toad foliows him about nis farm, and though toads generally do their trav- eling at night time, this toad is active - all hours in the day as well. Some ice he deeided to give the toad to a les in Washington. The ully boxed up and taken in s than two weeks .fter- toad surprised its former owner by app-aring en the farm at Herndon, hav- ing traveled ail the way back. To do this it had either to swim the Potomac or cros ever the Aqueduct or Long bridge. If any one doubts the an show him the ward the tozd. Its t were completely worn off by the long distance traveled, over tea miles. eK KK “There is an impression among many riders in the cable cars, and the Metropoli- tan Ene as well, that fares cannot be legal'y colle in Georgetown,” explained a cable car conductor to a Star reporter. “It is a mistake, though, for while we seldom col- lect any fares in Georgetown, we can do | so, if we desire. The fact is, a conductor does not think it worth while to coliect the fares on his car until he passes over the lridge which crosses Rock creek. On the up trip he generally has all his fares col- lected before he gets te the bridge, and so seldom collects any fares in Gedrgetown. ‘This erroneous impression arises from the former legislation on the subject. I have heard it said by persens who were compe tent to express an opinion on the subject that Congress in giving the charters to these roads originally omitted the au- thority to collect fares in Georgetown, municipality of Georgetown. then an independent go" msented. This consent . simply for the reason thi asked for. When the munici- y getown was abolished as such merged into the District of Columbia there is no doubt but that there was a le- ven the railroad companies to It will seldom be taken ad- vantage of, however, for the reasons stat- ed, that fares are seliom collected befo going to Washing- ys collected before } on the return trip. fares on the start of the trip, and again at the finish, from p sons wh enied tha: the com fare: their opin- fares just the same, “ttle in the coun- ked naval offic a Star reporter. “During | their activ . that is, during the time they are at sea, they are ne arily cramp- ed for room, and while some of them on the large modern ships have elegant and sumptuous quarters, there is necessarily a limit to it. is thing grows on a man to “xtent that the first thing he does retired, and in hundreds of | fore retirement, he hunts up ‘son a farm. Three of the ad- | mirals of the retired iist, headed by Admi- ral Ar f farms in thi a shington, and - locality of W: of other officers are similarly ; though their farms are not | They seem to want stretch nd it will be noticed that when ate they secure big places. | into stock and chicken » officers of the marine corps noted for years as the owners | ediest_ horses owned or driven hington, and the ve been al- at in connection with our ions and organizations. Na- prominent. ‘s. Their am- s different with army offic seems to be for nice houses in the The ‘al officers’ ideas all run <0- the country. I don't like to give but I could give dozens of illus- what I say, if it were Take a look at the incoming any of the s rban places around Washington any morning, and there will be sufficient proof of what I say.” * * *£ * * rm “I have looked into the subject enouga to satisfy me,” said Judge Uruquhart of Georgetown to a Star reporter, “that cats should he licensed the same as dogs. They are much more of a nuisance in every way than dogs, are kept in larger numbers and much more revenue could be secured than fs received from the dog Icense tax. Ther= may be some reason for keeping dogs, though [ am not sure about it, but the:e are no reasons whatever for keeping cats. A dog howls now and then at night time during certain changes of the moon, and is to that extent a destroyer of s.eep, ani thereby a nuisance. Cats, however, make | ten times the racket that dogs do and seem to keep it up, change of the moon or not. As far as hydrophobia is concerned, ca7s cause it as frequently as do dogs, for, after all, it is a rare, though terrivie thing. I do | not find that cats have ever been licensed | or tagged the same as dogs, though I can- | not understand why not. 1 can furnish plenty of law on the subject, for all the law that is behind the dog license tax is with equal force behind the proposition io license cats. The people of Georgetown | seem to run toward owning and keeping | cats. Every house has one, and some | houses h dozen. The noise that this class of nvlsances make is more distressing, more pain producing and more annoying | and intolerable than any made by any | combination of the other nuisances.” *# ek KX “There is constant complaint about milk,” sald one of the milk inspectors to a Star reporter, “though since the new law weat into effect requiring all sellers of milk to be registered and their milk inspected the milk has tmpreyed steadily. Dairymen will not re now to send in the quality of milk they delivered here a year or more ago, simply because they know it will not stand the texts the Inspectors require of it. I bave noticed one thing, however, and 50 | have a number of persons who use milk, and that is the almost criminal carelessne: in connection with the way some milk is handled by the dairymen who serve milk routes. In many instances the cans and milk measures are not clean, though the quality of the milk is good. Some of the delivery men, especially the younger men, have a very<nasty habit of smoking cigar- ettes while they are at work. The milk sometimes absorbs the flavor of the cigar- ettes. Now, cigarettes may be good enough in their place, thourh I have never thought y should be used by any one, but cer- tainly no milk dealer has a right to mix up his cigarette smoke with the milk he sells. allow the cigarette ashes to miik measures, and only a few since I know of a large boarding changing its milk dealer on ac- count of the cigarette ashes in the milk. ‘Thouch the law does not prohibit milk servers from smoking, it should prohibit them from so doing, and especially cigar- @ttes, while they are delivering milk.” ene OF LEGAL INTEREST. A Matter of Toll on a Bridge Which Scemed to Re Worthy of Discession. The member of the Blue Ridge Club, who fhad been putting in a quiet and unobtru- sive Sabbath day at the large and elegant home of that club, just this side of Har | Shenandoah EARD EEN per’s Forry, was talking to a friend on the train coming back Monday. “If there is arything that is higher than the lofty summits of the mountains along the upper Poton.ac,” he said, “it is the toll on those confounded bridges across the Po- tomac and the Shenandoah. The one across the Shenandoah at Harper’s Ferry is the cne I know most about, and if possi- ble it is worse than any of the others. ‘For instance, to show you how they charge and how unreasonable they are about it, let me cite you a case. Two or chree Sunda: journalist, and also acting s republican vongressional committee, — whe has his family suramering at Harper's Fer- ry, was up there over Sunday and conclud- ed to go out with a party of six in a two- ¢ brake to take some pictures from the side—the scenery, you know, is simpiy immense all around there—and when they came to the bridge they made a calculation end paid 7 cents toll over and back for the entire combination. “That wis rubbing it on pretty thick for a Sabbath Cay's journey, but it was that or no go, 30 they paid it and went. In two or three hcurs they came back, and as they came on to the bridge—the toll gate being at the ferry end—Fred concluded he Would get out and waik over on the chance of picking up a pretty view, perhaps. He trailed along at the end of the procession and followed the wagon at talking distance until it passed the toll taker. Then Fred didn’t go any further. “‘Held on,’ says the toll taker. ““What fer? says Fred. Toll,” =: the toll taker. ‘Toll 1 beg your pardon,’ says Fred, catching Himself. ‘I mean I paid my toll when I went over in the wagon, and ex- pressly mentioned to you that the 7 cents paid it both ways for all.’ “That's ell right,’ says the toll taker, ‘but _you are walking.’ “ ‘But I belorg in the wagon,’ says Fred. ““That’s no difference. You are walking, ard there's the tariff printed there, which s foot passengers must pay 5 cents Ain't you a foot passenger? Yes,’ says Fred, admitting it against Fis will; ‘but I have. paid my toll.’ “Not as a foot passenger,’ says the toll taker. ‘You are walking, as you won't de- there's the tariff printed up there plain anybody can read it, that says a foot passenger is to pay five cents. See it,” and the toll taker directed Mr. Schrader’s attention to the writing on the wall, which could be read at a distance of fifty feet, “By this time Fred was fighting mad and there's no telling what would have been the result over this strange legal ccmpli- cation, if some one higher in authority than the toll taker hadn't appeared and after considering the question for a few moments, reluctantly permitted the pay- mert as a passenger in a wheeled venicle to count as payment for a foot passenger when they happened to be the same un- der slightly ditfering conditions.” SS Se She Didn’t See It That Way. From the New York Telegram. “Aunt Louisa” Eldridge has any number of young friends, some in the profession and some out, who come to her for advice on all possible subjects. One day not long ago a young lady who is plentifully en- dewed with the choicest gifts of nature called on her, and in the course of conver- sation zemarked: “I do wish there was some way to find out whe among the young men of my acquaintance are sincere and honest in what they say to me. They are all such flatterers that I never know when to be- lieve what they tell me and when not to. I detes: falsehood above everything, and it would © me greatly to know those friends who are really sincere.” will tell you a way,” said “Aunt Lou- isa.” “The next time you have a number of them calling upon you stand up and re- cite a dramatic poem for them, and tell me what they say about it.” The young lady consented, and some time afterward, when five or six of her warmest admirers had gathered in her parlor she offered to give them a recitation, and did so. She hadn't the slightest and no dramatic talent wi through with it, of elocution tever, but she went and it’ was very, very bad, even for an amateur. A few'd afterward she met “Aunt Leuisa” again. “Oh, I mest tell you!” she exclaimed. our test was a complete success. They were delighted with my recitation. Tom and Charlie and Dick and Harry were per- fectly entranced. They said Sarah Bern- hardt couldn't have equaled it!” “Did every one praise you?” asked “Aunt Leuis “All but Mr. Watson. He sat back in his chair and never applauded at all. After I had finished he told me that he was afraid my forte was not in the dramatic line.” “And row,” said “Aunt Louisa,” “you know who is sincere and who is not?” “Yes, indeed,” said the fair girl. “I'm going to begin studying for the stage right away, and I'll never speak to that odious Mr. Watsor: again.” The Sun Has No Effect. From Chambers’ Jourral. _The bottom of the deep sea is, indeed, en- tirely screened from the warmth and ght of the sur: by the intervening mass of wa- ter. On land we often experience that the intervention of clouds, which are simply steam or divided masses of water, results in gloom and a fall of temperature. This effect is infinitely more intense at the bot- tom of the ocean, between which and the sun there is interposed, not only for a day or two, a layer of cloud, but, forever, a volume of water often several miles thick. Even at fifteen fathoms from the surface the light is much subdued, producing more the appearance of pale moonlight than of sunlight, and experiments made with very sensitive photographic plates in the clear water of the Lake of Geneva have shown that sunlight does not penetrate to a greater depth there than 155 fathoms. In the ocean and inethe tropics, where sun. shine 1s most intense, no light penetrates beyond a depth of 200 fathoms. Below this all is dark. The sun's heat, like its light, is also cut off from the ocean depths in the same man- ner. A cousin of the writer found that in the Bay of Bengal there is a fall of tem- perature amounting to about 1 degree Fah- renheit for every ten fathoms from the sur- face that the thermometer sinks. At 200 fathoms he has found that the thermom- eter stands all the year round at 55 de- grees Fahrenheit; and at 2,000 fathoms it constantly registers about 35 degrees Fah- renheit, or close upon freezing point. It is curious to note that as we rise in the air, in ballooning or on mountain slopes, the temperature falls as we rise, and the same occurs as we dive into the Cepths of the ocean. But in mines the heat increases as we descend. ——_+e+____ Real Estate. From the New York Weekly. Real estate agent (out west)—“Geood morning, sir. What can I do for you? William, bring the gentleman a cigar. Do you want to buy a lot?” Caller—“‘No, I want to sell one.” Agent—‘“Willlam, never mind the cigar.” a It matters little what it is that you want ~-whether a situaticn or a servant—a “want” ad. in The Star will reach the perscn who can fill your need. —+e-—- A Martyr to Feshion. Frem Harper's Weekly. Tired Tim—‘‘Where’s the coat I seed on yer yesterday, Waggles?” Waggles—‘I chucked it away. I couldn't wear a three-button <asuee wid a straw hat, you know.” TAKING PRECAUTIONS. A Little Lesson Taught to a Man Who Was Inclined to Be Careless. The horse dealer in Louisiana avenue had agreed to take a lot of horses he had been looking at, and was to pay cash. “Can’t you give the check now?’ in- quired the seller. “Yes,” laughed the dealer, “but I won't. You bring the animals here and your money will be ready for you.” “But I’m here now, and you have seen the horses and know what they are,” in- sisted the seller. “My dear boy,” said the dealer, coaxing- ly, “sit down there a minute and let me tell you a horse story. Away back yonder when you were a boy I was in this bus- iness, and I wasn’t as old then’ aa I am now. I had money, and though I was careful enough in the handling of it, I had a way of throwing it around when it was time to throw it around that was startling to old hands. Well, one day a Kentucky chap came irto my place and asked me to go und look at a horse he had for sale. “I went, and the sight did me good, for i- was a beauty, and, as far as anybody could sce or find out, it was in perfect con- dition. The man wanted 3250, and I offered him $200, and didn’t raise on my bid. I knew where I could sell such a horse for $250, and $200 was the best I could do. We couldn’t agree, and I went back to my of- fice to !et it soak. That afternoon he rode the horse past my place, and it really was a show.to look at. Later he called on me ard tried to persuade me to come to his figures, but I wouldn't do it, and he went as y. he next morning he came to my place of business about an hour after I had got there, and offered: to split the difference, but I held him down to my price or no saie. Then after hemm‘ng and hawing a while he agreed to take my price and send the horse around later. I was tickled to death, and in my usual style I wrote out a check for $20) and gave it to him, I didn’t expect the horse for a couple of hours, and, as it happened, I was called out and didn’t get back until 1 o'clock. The horse hadn't got there yet, and I sent a boy after it. He came back in about half an hour, with his eyes as big as sau- cers, and told me that the horse had got his foot over the halter some way during the night and had hung himself. “That was all there was to that story. The man had cashed the check as soon as he could and had disappeared. I might have made it a personal matter and had him jugged for the crime, I suppose, but I didn’t, for I wasn’t revengeful, and, be- sides, I knew that a little thing like that is necessary In the horse business to tone @ man up to the proper point of caution, so I never bothered about the man or the check 0 the horse, though I did feel some disappointment in not making the fifty I was dead sure of. But, my dear fellow,” and the dealer smiled as gently as a wo- man, “my own father couldn't get a check out of me now until I had hold of what it was intended to pay for. See? Now, toddle along and bring on your live stock.” peat HER INTENTIONS. The Summer Girl Expresses an Opin- fon as to Her Various Suitors, The girl in the duck suit was reading on the piazza, when the girl in the fluffy gown joined her from the lawn, after a season of ccnversation with a young man looking at her as she lolled in a hammock. “Well, of all things,” exclaimed Fluff, throwing herself in a chair. “What is it?” inquired the Duck, looking up quietly. “Such sticks of men I never did see.” “Who was that one you have been firt- ing with for the last hour?” “Charlie Van Houter.” “What's the matter with him? He is of good family and has both dollars and sense,” “Yes, I know,” pettishly, “but that doesn’t count just now. One with a great deal less sense would be much better. “What can you mean?” ana the Duck looked shocked, as if Pluff were on the point of doing something to be sorry for. “Well,” she said, pouting, “I think in the stmmer time that a man ought to propose tc a girl whenever he has the chance. Now I have had at least a dozen fellows hang- ing around me here, and the summer {s-al- most gone and not one engagement. Not one, and I know Clara Hull has had at feast fourteen proposals since the middle of June.” The girl in the duck suit rose from her chair and stood threateningly over the girl in. the fluffy gown. “You ought to be ashamed of yourself to talk so,” she said sternly. “What would Fred Hartley say if he knew while he was working so hard at his office in town you were saying the things you have just been saying to me?” ‘Oh,” exclaimed Fluff, decidedly bored, “how serlously you take everything. Of course I don’t mean the same kind of engagements that Fred’s is. That one is permanent and I'm going to marry him, of course. You don’t expect me to be serfous with all of them, do you?” Then it was that the girl in the duck suit looked at the girl in the fluffy gown, and with a great sigh, she sat down again and opened her bcok. — ‘L PREDICAMENT, A PAIN The Story of a Man Who S: dia Fellow Man From Committing Saicide ‘Well, I would hardly be willing to say,” responded the physician to an inquiry made by one of a group of listeners, “that a man who committed suicide was insane, for I know several persons who were never suspected of Insanity before the act, nor have they been since, who, to my certain knowledge, have attempted suicide. One or two cases have been public and have got into the newspapers, but the great ma- jority of them are professional secrets, and no one will ever know of them, except those few who know now. That’s one of the responsibilities that a physician takes upon himself. “I recall one instance where I saved @ a man from committing suicide, and, though he never showed the slightest symptom of it afterward, I am positive he was crazy as a loon at the time of the at- tempt. It happened about six years ago in a western city, in a hotel where I was the resident physician. I had met the man in the evening after dinner, and had played a game of chess with him in his apart- ments, the finest suite in the house. He had arrived at the hotel the day before, alone, and had asked for the best rooms, paying for them in advance. Then he had asked for the house physician, and as one result of our acquaintance we were playing this game of chess. We had had one cr two mild drinks during the evening, and after the game was finished he turned the talk upon suicide, having some very inter- esting and peculiar ideas on the subject, chief of which was his utter aversion to self-murder under any circumstances what- ever. He was so firm in his opposition that he almost lost his temper when I ventured the assertion that suicide might be almost justifiable. . “In the midst of this conversation he suddenly went into the adjoining room and returned with two revolvers, which fe laid down on the table between us. I didn’t es what they were for, and asked ‘im. “* ‘Well,’ he answered in the coolest kind of fashion, “‘the ‘tme has come for me to die, and you hav¢ got to kill me. My soul would be damned forever if I did it myself, but if you do it, my blood will not be on my own hands. There are two revolvers; you take this one’—handing me one—‘and I'll take the other. As you see, they are both loaded and in perfect condition. If you do not shoot me within a minute-I shall shoot you.’ “He took out his watch, and, standing five or six feet from me, he counted the ticks and aimed his gun directly at my head. I saw by his eye that he was crazy, and that I would have to obey him or pay the penalty of disobedience with my life, and still I did not want to shoot a man, however I might be justified in it. With this thought, I lifted the revolver, and, taking careful aim, he watching me nar- rowly, I drew the gun square down upon his forehead, and just as I was about to pull the trigger, I threw it to one side and shot for his pistol arm. My intention was |-g00d, but I was excited, and my shot only cut through the flesh’ without di8abling him, and, before I had time to move, he had fired at my heart. A case of instr- ments in my vest pocket saved me, and the next shot I fired was more to the purpose, and my host dead without having committed suicl “I told the story to the landlord, who was my friend and relative, exactly as it occurred, but to the world at story went fé that BASE BALL WITH CARDS a8. 7 a: = - A New Game Thag;,Promises to Be Very 18 ° With an ‘pratansy Euchre Deek It ts Poss¥ble to *Work Out All ' Sthe’ Fi “nd Points. 2 z A new game is to he played in Washing- ton this year. It is'pothing more nor less than base ball played with cards, and in the several cities in which it has been irled it has beem pronounced one of the most fascinating ‘games to be played with the seductive pasteboards. At the close cf the base ball season the “fans” are, as a rule, rather disconsolate at the loss of their favorite pastime. In Washington this is the case as much as in any other city in the big league. This sea- son a number of young men, who are in the habit of following the national game, decided to turn fheir attention to devising a game of base ball to be played with cards that they might have an opportunity to en- joy their sport during the long winter months. Heretofore base ball has been played with dice and boards, but the «le- ment of luck was always the prime factor in a game played in this manner. The pro- Jectors of the game with cards wanted to hit upon a way of playing it that would al- low a knowledge of the game to come into ay, so that a man’s experience in the base ball world could’ easily defeat one who knew nothing of the national pastime, zo they selected a way in which luck, of course, for that is so very evident in all base ball contests, would enter but in a way subordinate to skill and sclence. ‘The game as devised is played with a en- chre deck, or, if only two play, the aces, kings, queens and jacks. It requires the careful watching of base runners, a sound judgment when to order up on a bad hand, when a base hit might be saved by the play and other moves of the same character. In the game It is possible to play for time, to effect a sacrifice play, to make two-baggers, triples and singles, give bases on balls nd bring about strike-outs in order to prevent a hit and the bringing in of a run, and, in fact, all the regular as well as “foxy” plays usually seen at a base ball contest. As soon as the game is perfected several young men in this city will make up a league and play on a regular schedule. Per- centages will be kept, of course, to de- termine the standing of the several clubs or players, and the winner of the pennant at the end of the season will receive tle prizes to be selected by the governors cf the league. It is expected that a great Geal of interest will be taken in the new game, and that other leagues will be formed In the course of time. This would, of course, necessitate the playing of champlonsnip games by representatives of the various leagues. In other cities where the game has been played, substantially as it will be played here, it has excited general interest ané the enthusiasm manifested over the contests has approached that shown at an outdoor game. The base ball devotees in Washington who are members of the league will not pine away. at any rate, for the loss of their game this winter. The rules of the game are given below for the benefit of The Star readers who may wish to occupy their time: and inelination for base ball in studying it. Rules of the Game. Rule 1. The table.—The table must be square, not, exceeding 36 inches on each dimension; Jt shall contain no drawers or shelves, 4 Rule 2. Dikhmond.—'fhe diamond shall be painted on #' smooth’ ‘surface, its outer di- mensions not to exceed 8 feet in circum- ference; the-foul linés, bases and fielders positions tobe suitably marked. Rule 3. Score card.—Section 1. Blank score cards Shall be furnished by the secre- tary. Section 2. Each team shall have tts batting list preparedbefore start of game; any deviation therefrom will leadto for- felture. z Rule 5 relé#tes to the game, telling when the contests’aré tobe started and of what a game consists; rule 6, to drawn games; rule 7, to called games, and rule § to, for- eco games, igia % : @ space! of thitt¥five minutes elgpses after the stkrt*'ef*play and there yeas score. the game willbe declared a drawn ccntest, except when nine inoings have not been played or during the last game of a series scheduled on date of occurrence. In either one of these ¢ases play shalt continue until a result is reached. A called game is one that lasts 35 min- utes, when the score reverts to preceding inning. n case a club does not show up on schedule time, the game shall he forfeited to its opponent. It shall also be declared forfeited if a club refuses to begin the game on time, if a club indulges in dilatory practices, and, in fact, all the reasons that are current in an outdoor contest. Rules 9 and 10 relate to substitutes and choice of innings. Rule 11. The cards.—The cards to be used comprise the aces, kings, queens and jacks, and must be free from mark or any means of identification. When four play, the tens and nines are added. Rule 12. Hits.—Sec. 1. The cards must be dealt one at a time, and all five tricks must be taken before any kind of a hit can be made. See. 2. The taking of five or all tricks with the assistance of both bowers of trumps turned constitutes a single and ad- vances any runner one base, except— (A) When a runner fs on second, and the hit is made with the assistance of not more than two trumps, said occupant of second base may be entitled to score. my Where a Euaeats on first base and e ccnditions occur, he may be pl: third base. ges eae (C) Under any other single base hit con- ditions a runner is only allowed to advance one base. Rule 13. Two-base hits——A two-base hit constitutes five tricks taken by the dealer without the assistance of the left bower and with not over one trump; it advances @ runner from first base to home. Rule 14. Three-base hits.—A three-base hit is made by taking all tricks when the highest trump ecard is left bower, which necessitates the right bower being in the leck. Rule 15. Home run.—A home run is made by taking all tricks without the assistance of elther bower, which is difficult, owing to the chances an opponent has to hold one or the other. Rule 16. ‘The batter.The dealer is the batter and continues to deal until three “outs” are registered against him, when hy then assumes the fielder’s position. Rule 17. Double play.—(A) The failure of the batter to get three or more tricks upon attemptirg to make a hit constitutes a dou- ble play and removes the batter and near- est base runner to home, should there be any, otherwise it only charges one out. (B) For the fielder to order up the trump turned and then succeed in taking three or mere tricks is also a double play, with same restl* as in (A). Rule 18. Errors._{A) For the fielder to order up or make a trump and fail to take the required tkree tricks charges an er- rer and advances the batsman and any runner who ‘hight be pn a base one base each. ia D (B) For the fielder jto hold no trumps constitutes an error,-as he can make no attempt to capture a#all. But-tn this case it does not advance any base runner ex- cope the number he ts entitled to by the it. ; Rule 19. Should the "be: wh the trump.— has ing doy lealer, after the fielder runner a base. ‘Rule 22 Sacrifice hit—For a batter to lead both bowers ‘in succession ts a sacri- fice hit, except— u (A) When they corstitute the total num- ber of trumps bis-hand contains. ile 23. Base 7 Sano Dave -pimm-ctiored. to retire the le. ‘ Rule 25. Strike-outs._Should the fielder, upon the attempt of the batter to score by either taking up or making the trump, take the first two tricks, it ts declared a strike-out. Rule 26. Stolen beses.—The Selder, upon holding a solid hand of trumps, shall not be entifled to a hit, but may record # stolen base, which shall advamce any run- mer on base one base cach, and in case runner advances frem “third™ to heme om the play an error is to be charged. The batter Mm either case retains his position until advanced or declared out. —_>_—_. PASSING OF LORD FAUNTLEROY. ‘The Mother Tried to Be Brave When the Golden Curls Fell. The scene was in a 9th street barber shop and the time was a morning ecariier in the week. The “tonsorial artist” nearest the door had just called out “Next!” when there entered a very pretty young woman leading by the hand a four-year-old boy, with long, golden ringlets. He was a manly looking little fellow, and his hair was just the shade of the young woman's, although she looked almost too young to be his mother. “Are you the man who cut this little boy’s bangs last time?” she asked. ‘Yas’m; want ’em cut ag’in?” ‘No, not this time. I want his hair cut short all over. And won’t you try to cut cach curl off separately, for I want to send scme of them cut of town and one to his grandmother.” : She had a pasteboard box in her hand in which to take away the gold that was mcre precious te her than any that has come from Klondike. She said she wanted the little boy’s hair cut. It was probably the lad’s father who wanted it; she had only acquiesced. Several of the ebony-hued artists gather- ed around to wateh, while the lad took his seat in a big chair, as proud as Punch, for he was to be a “mother’s little Lordy Fauntleroy” no longer. He smiled, but there was a suspicious tremor about his mother’s lips as she took a brush, and for the last time curled his beautiful ringlets about her slim and tapering finger. Snip, snip! went the scissors, and one by one the curls were carefully laid away in the box. Before the last one was gone the young mother was huddled up tn the boot- black’s chair erying as if her heart would break. There was no doubt now that she was the child's cages He was a baby no longer. It was much more com- fertable for the child, and It was time it was done, and ali that, but just the same he would never be mamma's little baby again, and she could not see the wealth of falling gold for the tears tn her eyes. Nof a man in the place smiled, and even the “Shine, mister,” seemed to see a bit of pathos in the scene. The barber over in the corner hed to stop a moment while the man he was shaving wiped a sudden tear fram his own eye. The man, gray- haired and somewhat crusty, was thinking of a lock of gold tucked away in the back of his desk in a busy dewntown office, and his memory had gone back to the time when he tucked that strand benath his blue soldier's blouse and with musket en his shoulder had started for the front. “Next! ‘THIRTY-NINE YEARS IN BED. Queer Whim of an Engi Woman Who Hab Just Died. From the London Mail. A spinster lady of fortune died last week at Teignmouth, Devonshire, who for the last thirty-nine years has led a most ex- traordinary life. One evening fn the year 1808, being then in her thirty-eighth year, and in perfect health, she retired to rest as usual. The following morning she remarked that bed was the most comfortable place in the world, and announced her intention of re- maining there for the rest of her natural life. And she did. From that day until the day upon which she was placed in her coffin last week, she never got up again, although remaiaing to within a few months of het death in the best of health. For two years she lay in an upstairs room, but for the last thirty- seven her bed was placed in one on the ground floor, commanding the entrance to the house and grounds. From this van- tage point, by an ingenious arrangement of mirrors, she could see everything that went on around the house and in the gar- dens; while her sense of hearing became so acute that nothing transpired inside its four walls which escaped her attention. Neither the death of her father nor that of her mother, which took place after she had retired for this long rest, operated to alter her resolution. On the latter's de- cease she found herself possessor of the property. She had the house locked up at 9 o'clock every night and the keys put on a table at her bedside. She rroved an excellent women of business, transacting all her affairs, managing her servants, en- tertaining her guests and revising her visiting list, without turning a counter- pane, so to speak. Neither did she change her diet in any way, but, desp‘te her re- eumbent habit of life, continued to eat her usual meals, dining at 8 and consuming such things as ducks, game, peaches, perk and all things indigestible and taking her coffee and liquors regularly ali her life. Doctors visited her, but she had no need ef their prescriptions, and it was only a few months ago that the cffects of ber ex- traordinary manner of life began to be visible. Then she gradually broke up. ‘The medical men who made a post-mortem examination of her remains found that her heart and lungs were free from disease, so that had she led an ordinary existence she would in all probab‘lity have lived for another ten or fifteen years. At her death, at the age of seventy-seven, she weighed nearly seventeen stone, and the coffin in which she was buried was considersd the largest ever made in South Devon. She was no miser, but lived well, gave freely and handed on her fortune unimpaired to her collateral descendants. + e+ —____ Honest Sweden. From the August Parisian. In Sweden a crime is an event; theft par- ticularly ts very rare. Honesty is the fun- damental quality of the race, is naturally recognized and offictally counted upon. In this regard the Stockholmers show a confi- cent carelessness which is always a sur- prise to strangers and causes them seme uneasiness. In the theaters and concert halls there are large cloak rooms, where hats and furs are left without the smallest safeguard; the performance over, each one again takes possession of his effects, and an accident never occurs. The inhabitants are accustomed to expect 4 reciprocal probity in the transactions of every-day life. Upon most of the tramways in Stockholm con- tle till placed at the end of the vehicle, be- hind the driver. It ts patriarchal—end economical. “Don’t you believe all you see in the funny papers about summer girls and their engagements just for fun,” said sad- eyed man. “Why not?” “I thought I had met that kind of a girl summer; but she merried me good and last 2 tight before the year was out.” © JOHNSON” Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. A Reminiscence. Does yoh recolleck de time when you was pickaninny size An’ you went a-doin’ nuffin unduhneaf de summer skies? An’ how you went a-dancin’ was almost gone Wit dem gohgeous insecks flutterin’ an’ a-leadin’ of yer on? Couldn’ help a-chasin’ when dey glittersd in de sun, An’ yoh nebber dreamed 0 trouble when you stahted in an’ run. But aftuh while de lightnin’ bug come round an’ watched yer cry "Cause you koteh de yaller-jacket an’ yoh missed de butterfly. til de day Years, dey keeps a-rushin’ an’ a-rollin’ on dah way, But you holds dat inclination foh ter take a holiday. An’ you clean fohgits yoh duty an’ yoh hurries off to seize De pleasures whah dah seems to laugh in luxury an’ ease. An’, stid of all dat happiness you stahted foh ter get, Dah’s nuffin comin’ to yer, ‘ceppin’ sorrow n’ regret. An’ you leoks back on de ol’ days an’ takes notice wif a sigh, How you kotch de yaller-jacket an’ you missed de butterfly. * ee Leeking for Reassurance. “Is the House of Representatives open?” asked the woman who had left a boy with her market basket at the foot of the Capi- tol_ steps. “E guess you can get in and look at the place,” answered a man ina uniform. “But there isn’t any- thing going on. “I know all about that,” she rejoined. “I have been here a great many times before.” “Then I shouldn't think you'd care to come sight-seeing at a time when there is, comparatively, so lit- tle of interest.” “Oh, I didn’t come for the purpose of sitting in enraptured contemplation of the greatness of the men assembled there. I have more sense than that. Simply because a man can get up and speak in public, I do not yield him the palm of superiority. It’s all a matter of chance. Some men have a natural gift for getting up and talking to a crowd when you come to meet them in private conversation, they don’t say a thing worth listening to. On the other hand, you'll find men who are struck dumb when they stand up before an audience who can under stress of emotion develope a flow of elo- quence that will give the house-dog a fit of dizziness and cause the poll parrot to weep for profession al jealousy.” “Of course,” responded the man in the uniform, “you know what you want. I of- fered my suggestion merely because every- body seems anxious to get a look at the senators and representatives, All T want inside House of Representatives for a few min- utes, and then I’m going home to see how my husband is getting along with the work of putting down carpets in the house we have just taken.” “You will find it quite cool and restful.” is to go the “I don’t care about the coolness nor about the rest. I merely desire to sit for a moment and recall the scenes of the past. I want to turn my eyes upon the Speaker's desk and recall the way he used to handle the gavel.” “Are you interested proceedings?” “Not a bit. I am simply hungering to be reminded that the country has pro- duced a man whc could hammer away by the hour without once hitting hts thumb or relapsing into profanity.” * in parliamentary x * Morone. “Of course!” said Mr. Mizzens, with a querulous circumflex accent, as he held his paper out at arm's length and struck it with the back of his hand. “Of course!” “What's the matter, Mizzie, dear?” in- quired his wife. “Things are going wrong again.” “Why, no they’re not, dear. The fce is full weight, your laundry collars came from the laundry in time this week, and we have kept the same servant for over a enth!”* “Did you suppose that I was bestowing thought on the sordid details of domes- ticity?” was the inquiry. “I took it for granted you were talking about the things you generally seem to take the most interest in,” she replied, in scme confusion. “I am thinking of the welfare of my country. And I'm getting more and more worried about it.” “Oh!” she exclaimed, brightening up. “The country is all right. I've been read- every- be prosperous in a little while. People are finding gold up in Alas- ka and bringing it home in barrels. I’m sure there isn't anything to worry over. And then, just think of it!” she added, with sudden inspiration: “bicycles have gotten so cheap that nearly anybody can afford to have the latest model every year.” “Now,” said her husband, solemnly, “you have struck the key-note. Any student of history manner in which events fail to harmonize. Perhaps you know that the tariff is going to make a let of things we eat more ex- as “Yes. The grocery man = thst I might as well forward to to “There is the sad‘coineidence. There @ new illustration of the manner in which the human race is, from year to year, and from century to century, kept hustling to make both ends meet. Just at the time becomes told me - look tt expensi everybody Will be out pedaling ith ail aig eve out might to get up an appetite!” = * “* Unreasonable. Most everything is fur the best. The things we'd like to change, If we could only make the test, Would often turn out strange. Lots of the dearest schemes we nurse Would lead things all astray, And end by makin’ matters worse Ef we could have our way. This boy—he’s christened after me— Hez showed a mental bent That makes it plam as day he'll be The country’s President. He'd live where cares could net befal, In innocence an’ pley, An’ never git growed up at all, Ef his motier had her way. ‘* another psychologist. You can mind the same as the man reads ad my he meter —merely by standing off and taking it for I think I ily were out of town during Avgust.” month sir. Miles away.” And during the month of July you were home, burning gas every night and using gas stove to get brenkfast and dinner Precisely.” “And, in the face of these facts, the amounts of the two bills were exactly the samc “They didn’t vary a “It's evident there & “I should think so.” “Yes, it must be wrong. I'm ever so much obliged to you for bringing it to our attention.” The visitor gasped in astonishment. “It’s a real luxury to meet a man who honestly tries to keep track of these things.” the affable clerk went on. “It stands to reason that you ought to have been charged a great deal more for July | than for August. You watt here, and Pll , have the account siraightened out for you in just a minute.” ny ome mistake.” * ** What jaenced the Verdict. How time brings revenges was shown not so very long ago by the experience of a successful lawyer of this city with a man who, in spite of a rather Hmited education, has by thrift accum- ulated some proper- ty. The property owner became = in- volved in litigation and applied for legal advi He made no inquiries as to the cost, aad when the charges were an- nourced he was pained and astonish- ed. He made no pro- test, however, be- yond declaring that the next time he wanted any law he would try to held off until there was a slump in the mar- ket, instead of buying at the top notch. Some months after the lawyer had a criminal case before a jury which included this same property holder. To the ~sur- rise of everybocy who had followed the evidence the prisoner was convicted. Not very long after the two men met, and the lawyer took occasion to enlighten him- ve never yet been able to under- he said, “why that jury upon which you served cenvicted my man.” “Well,” was the reply, “I dunno as we would of convicted him if it hadn't been wasn't no prejudi ‘ust took the c; se and reasoned it out. “But my argument must have explained very clearly what was expected of you.” “There's no question about your putting cp a mighty strong talk. But it leaked out in the evidence that he had been mixed up with the law before.” “But there was scarcely any evidence against him in this case.” “That's so, too. There wasn’t much evi- dence. But, as ™ said before, me and the rest of the jury put our heads together and reasoned it out. His conduct indicated a guilty conscience. He must have felt at the start that he was in a mighty tight place, or he wouldn't have showed such a Gisregard of experse as to hire you for his lawyer.” From the Phfladelphia Record. The head waitress is beginning to rival the proverbial theological student in the dining rooms of New England hoteis. She occasionally appears in New Jersey. In @ noted hostelry in the Berkshire hills the long dinmg room acknowledges the benignant sway of the head waitress, Clothed entirely in black, with only a line ot white at throat and wrists, her cos- tume is differentiated from the uniform of her troop of assistants. All the other waitresses are in white duck or pique, stif- fly starched (no flimsy organdies or Vic- torian lawns being used). Against the long wall of the dining room is a row of well separated high stool There is one by each table, and on th’ the walitress is perched when not atten ing to her table. It looks odd at first to see them perched up high when not on duty, but hotel guests are not slways punctual at coming to mea and the ar- rangement ‘is thoroughly humane. The height of the seat and its position prevent what would appear as a breach of eti- quette did the waitress take one of the table chairs. The fashion introduced is a stnsible innovation. —————+e+_____ editor of the Weekly Visitor, has just made me a written offer of marriage.” Sally Gay—“He is a handsome fellow. What will be your answer, dear?” Dolly Swift—“He is handsome, I'll ad- mit, but I shali be foreed to decline him with thanks. He is too horridly business- lke. After requesting an early answer, ke added: “Please write briefty, to the point and upon but one side of the paper. Sign your full name, not for publication, but merely as a guarantee of good faith, and do not forget to incicse @ postage sta! Ld you desire a reply.’ Sally, a man like that would caln.ly smoke while the baby fel cannot fail to be impressed by the | ¢own stairs.” A Nevada Strike. From the Chicago Daily Tribune. “Talking of rich strikes,” said Prof. Bob Fitzsimmons, after a cxsual giance at his benk account. “I still think that one right is | over the solar piexus is about as good as any.’ cos Safety im Numbers. ve to run the ; From the Columbus (Obie) State Journal. “No, ssh, you dean’ cotch dis yer darky with all his | i:nen in a towa whar dar’s no other eol- cred folks.” “Why so, Uncle Ben?” “Ca’ze when Car’s any chickens stole dey knows right whar to cum.” +e. na agg ce edgy nn ch mend hether @ situation or a servant—a “want” ad. in ‘The Star will reach the person who can fill your need. ——.-- see - — _- Umpreatabie. From the Detroit Free Press. “What makes Bumply so down on the long-dietance telephone?” “He called up a man in Toledo that owes —— ‘chey wrang'ed till it cost Bump-