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THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1897—16 PAGES. Aristocratic Parlor Suites at ure of offering snei super rk at west and’ mest Tuxurious suites, that ison with the figures of any other furniture house fn the city. Damask Suite........ $16 $30 Gplece Damask Saite........ $24.75 $35 Cplece Damask Sutte........ $27 $10 Gpiece Damask Suite... 2. $32 $55 S-piece Overstuffed Sutte..... $45 865 Gpicce Overstated sutte..... S55 $5 Cplece Overstuffed Brocatelle $50 $3 Com F Chair (damask)... Carpet and Rug sale’ cont! prices, PAVE GIVE TRADING STAMPS with every purchase of 10. my ash. B. Williams,7th&D. 28-Gnt i “THAT REMINDS ME. ‘How's your ‘rheuma- Making itself felt? for goo It's doue me a heap 0° good. the ‘rheumatics.” And it will kelp rou, too. It costs only $1 for a full quart bottle.” MAGRUDER, AVE. AND M STiEET. it at 3g sg JOHN H. oR. CON. Cycle “Snap.” Former selling price, $75. Envoys naictc: vtuned, Bui puede: (Model 30, teed to give the ‘same sort of service thousands of riders are jubilant over! $33.50. Mor GM JONES & BURR, 513 gT Sr. x.w. 0¢29-16d. Toecccsccoeee :Mixing :Muscle= Envoy ‘Only eoecooes Every manly game and tversion— ever} out-of-door sport and pastime— expect to find all the needed exsen- tials here. Too good a stock to bave a duplicate in price, variety or auality. a Tappan & 1339 F St. N. W. it . . . . . ° . . . ° . . . . eeccccccce The talent of the very best cutters and tailors, as well as handsome, stylish and service- able woolens—are what you'll secure when you order one of our $25 Business Suits. H. HARBAN, 1419 N. Y. Ave. 27-14 _-_ aa aa aa ae ae aa ae J Conscientious Bicycle Repair Work is the oniy kind worth having--the only kind we give. Enterprise Cycle Co., Jno. Woerner, Mgr., 812-14 1ith st. ow. {HAR an we an an 4 de we we we we we wd 3 oe ee we ee ee ee ve Only $35 For $75 °96 CRESCENTS. ccyeles—with 28-inch whecls—fitted sts, saddles, handle bars, front rockets and tires—and fully guaranteed for six muctbs by the largest wheel works in the world. Western Wheel Works, jg MH tnd H sts. HS. JONES, Jr.. Mgr. That elusive thing--a Perfect Razor, Is here. It's called the ‘Jubilee,""\ and is the beoduct in finest metal of the best skill of the best Tazor-making talent in the world. Fit to remove the facial hair of crowned and unconditionally guaran ‘you ow 2 Its price. those who use them Value them at ten times that. ““Walford’s, ‘Trading stamps given. 99 Two Stores, 477 and ‘909 Pennsylvania ave. 0¢27-20d éicnmoxD:— Come, Gentlemen, let us consult, Tomorrow's business be our theme. As clothing’s always been our cult, Let's turn to fact one lovely dream. Pull Dress Suits. now let us sell For Thirty Dollars—this will make Of every man who'll wish—a “swell,” But for our name, ‘twould seem a “fake,"* Suits and Overcoats to order, $1 5-50. Money back if dissatisfied. Gar- ments kept in repair one year free of charge. Write for samples and self-measurement guide. Open even- ings till 9 o’clock. SirLittleTalors, wan 4! Pa. ave. n.w. Sah oe Oe ee maneatly cored and ali teint stiminatea ie ayatem by 8.8. S., the Boll-m.w&l-1y Liebig Company Extract of Deel ct acbi ompany of Beet Parker, Bridget & Co. Sale of boys’ 50c. to $2.50 Derbies & Tam O’Shanters at Z 9e. Tomorrow we shall place on sale 350 Boys’ Derbies and Tam 3 O’Shanters—in all sizes from 6 to 7}—the entire balance of the stock bought from the Continental Clothing Company. There are a few soc. hats in the collection, but the majority of them are worth upward to $2.50. Choice tomor- C. row This will be your last chance at them—Get one tomorrow—or you lose the oppor- tunity forever. Again we offer Boys’ 55, 56 a nd *7 Suits at $4, *5 & 56. It rained the last time we offered these Boys’ Short Pants Suits—so a good many of you mothers could not get out to secure one, We didn't intend to be stingy about them. | We want every mother who deals at P. B. & Co.'s to have the benefit of this saying. Brand new fall creations—made from fine grades of fancy Cassimeres and Cheviots, in grays, brows and neat mixtures. They are shown in all sizes trom 3 to 16 years—double- breasted reefer styles from 8 to 16—and they have sold every day this week at $5, $6 and $7. Tomorrow—and tomorrow ouly—take one dollar off eact. price, and pay us but— 54, °5 & %6. Boys’ All=Wool Reefers at $6. v No need to tell the mothers that a Reefer Coat is the best Overcoat a boy can wear—keeps his little body as warm as a toast—and leaves the legs free to run and play. We've got -Reefers from $2.50 to §7—but the one special Mne upon which we wish to lay strong emphasis 1s the $6 line of Blue Chinchilla Reefers—overy thread wool—large sgilor collars—elegantly trimmed with braid—practically everlasting. Notwithstanding the bold assertions of sensational advertisers, it is still the best Reefer value ever offered in ‘Washington at.... Parker, Bridget & Co., Clothiers, 315 7th St. POLE LLLP EEL ELL EOL EEL OPPOSE ANNEXATION AND PRICES. along men in Honolulu may dress at less expense than they do now, unless they get cloth imported from Engian: “Clothing of English material and made te order by some tailors now costs very little. more than the same would cost in Lond6n, if made by the average tailor. Of ccurse, you could not get it from Poole’s establishment, or, indeed, any West End tailor, for anything like the money, but there would be very little difference in the appearance ef the suit if you paid a third mcre for it. In view of annexation, I eap- pose large orders have gone forward to Europe for Erglish, French and German gcods. Wholesale dealers, who see far enough ahead, would undoubtedly orde> so as to save thd duty, and their profits will be handsome in consequence. Ihave heety told, too, that the Japanese are ordering extensively from the Japanese manufac- turers, and within the next few months the duties collected on these shipments should be very large. The United States tariff on gcods from Japan is much more excessive ticn will come a reduction of 25 per cent | than in Honolulu, and the Japanese mer- in these goods. A majority of the laces | chant is jt cute enough to take advan- sold here, I think, are made. in. America. | tage of it True, Valenciennes is, of course, made in a anes ner Europe—n-ost of it in Brussels. The pro- = 4 gress made in these manufactures py peo- ydrophobia Without a Bite. Paris Telegram to the London News. ple in the United States is, to say the least, remarkable. Twenty-five years ago The death of Mile. Santasiero from rabies should te a lesson to ladies who kiss lap the silk industry in America was in em- ws begun by some ladies, who PR Acaty the Gi Wary aera fad: I hes fRogsiand fet thei dle (heie tases allie: |Hieve it was in 1876 that the first samples | Santasiero 1s the daughter. of ‘the former of silk were shown. Now enough of the | chef of Queen Iscbella, who keeps a well- fabric is woven there to supply the ladies | known restaurant where one caa have in the states with the materials for the |spanish and Neapolitan dishes. ‘The only daughter, aged twenty. had a bull terrier named Bob, of whom she was very fond. best gowns. “Of course, European goods will advance Bob two months ago fell ill. His mistress nursed him and lavished caresses on him. in price, according to the Dingley tariff, ard I think hostery will come in for the hardest rub. These goods are made in |He showed his gratitude in licking her Germany, and the Honolulu consumer now | face and hands. He then ran away from pays a duty, whether they are imported by | her, and howed if she went near him. The poor brute may have felt an irresistiple desire to bite. and so wanted not to huve the dealer direct or purchased from a job- ber in the United States. And that re- minds me! Some of the goods worn in |that easy opportunity. However, he grew worse. He bit, some days ago, two cus- tomers and a man who was furnishing ice. Hcrolulu suffer a double duty. Few of the retail dealers here carry sufficient stock They went to the Pasteur Institute, and Seem to be doing well, but Mlle. Santasiero, or order in quantities large enough to war- whose foot he attempted to bite, fell ill rant their having an agent in Europe or brying direct from the European manu- lest week. She thought she had a cold. and’ kept on saying, “Bob did not bite facturer. What is the result? Why, those who buy foreign-made goods from the large dealer in New York or San Francisco | me.” Certainly his teeth had not pierced buys plus the American duty and then jthe shoe leather. Fever supervened, and pays the Hawaiian duty on arrival. Buy- | then convulsions. The doctor said she suf fered from rabies. When her mother went t» kiss her she cried, “You must, not. I ing direct means the saving of one duty, only kissed Bob, and ‘see, 1 have his alse but it means also that he must anticipate his orders far enough ahead to have the temper.” For two days her convulsive state was dreadful. The third day was gcods shipped direct from Liverpool or-| Southampton, via the Horn. with the com- Petition of the present day, merchants ean- | quiet till just toward the end, when con- not pay the transatlantic and overland | gestion supervened suddenly and ahe died. No trace of a bite could be found on her foot or any other part of her body. The freights and compete with a rival who happened to order his goods direct. dog's saliva, it is thought, must have been absorbed as he licked her face. The Hawaiians Anticipate Decided Commercial Advantages. From the Honolulu Commercial Advertiser. “Annexation does not mean higher prices for dress goods,” said a prominent dry gocds merchant yesterday, “so men who have been holding off on the subject, fear- ing that the expense of dressing the fe- male members of their families will be in- creased, may rest easy. “For years America has been producing as fine quality of silk as can be found in France, except in the surah variety. Thay have not quite overcome the difficulty which blocks the road to success in that particular grade, but they will in time. Nearly all the dress silks sold in Honolul and all the ribbons”are made in,the United States, so that with the advent of annexa- “It may surprise some of the ladies to know that so much of the silk they are wearing is purely American, but it should not prevent their wearing dresses of that material wher they are assured that it is ‘just as good’ as that made in France. I doubt if half the ‘made-in-London’ cloth which goes into tnen’s suits in the United States was ever outside the boundaries of that terzitory before it was made up. There are grades of cloth, to be sure, that cannot be produced anywhere so well as in the west of England—I mean the finer qualities of smooth-surface goods—but rough goods, corkscrews and diagonals are made equally as good in the United States as in England, and when annexation comes ——— — A Very Remarkable Wedding. From Tid-Bits. A remarkable wedding took place re- cently in Berkshire. The bridegroom was eighty-five, and his bride two years young- er. Six maiden ladies, each over seventy, acted as bridesmaids; six granddaughters of the bridegroom strewed flowers in the i path of the happy couple, and four grand- sons of the bride seng a nuptial song, com- posed expressly for the occasion by the parish clerk. - $2.00 » hiladelphia Sunday, Oct. 31. THECOMINGCONTES fi Wteting of Oo- lombia end 6dombinn: Both Teams Arexin. Eine Condition ok for th’ Game. sa hee oa CURRENT SPORTING NOTES Tomorrow's scrimmage on the « gridiron between th: teams representing thé Colum- bia Athletic’ Chib ‘and the Celumbian Usi- versity at National Park will be one of the most fiercely contested games of the sea- son, from-all present indications. The C. A. C. has secured.some ‘new men for. the weak pleces that showed up so prominently in the game with the Orange Athiefic Chub, and-is prepared’ to put up ‘a game without a fear either in the condition of the men or in the matter of team play. On the other hand, the boys from the. university are in fine condition,.and, backed by that college pride that plays so important a part in all contests of this kind, will play the game of their lives. The first half will be called at 4:15, in arder to allow the de- partment clerks who are interested in foot ball time to reach the park, and the game will consist of two halves, of twenty min- utes each, with an intermission of ten min- utes. ‘The line-up of the Cofumbia Athletic Club team will be as follows: Left end, Humph- reys, Curtiss; left tackle, Dwight Smith; left guard, McConville; center, - Claudy, Bright; right guard, Saunders; right tackle, Wells; right end, Exley, Taussig; quarter back, Parson, Hooker; right half back, Dickinson, Watson; left half back, Reeve Lewis, Maupin; full back, Dyer, Bright. It will be seen that the C. A. C. will have two men for nearly every position, so that no danger of losing thé game from a lack of substitutes will exist. Although the men have not had much dut-door practice this week, the gymnasium work has been ot some advantage in the-working of signals, and ihe men will go on the field fully equipped in every particular. The Columbian’s line-up will in all prob- ability be as follows, although Capt. Lewis may decide to shift some of his men at the last moment: Left, Kelly; left tackle, Louchs; left guard, Cummings; center, Harlan; right guard, Heath; right tackle, Chaplain; right end, gs; quarter back, Glaizebrook, Jolly; left half back, Jolly, Weaver; right half back, Tindall; full back, Lewis. Captain’ Lewis has’ some new men in view for the team, but they will not be on time for tomorrow's game. Captain Lewis says that he will have a new guard and tackle weighing, ‘respectively, 210 and 185 pounds. The average weight of the Columbia team is about 163 pounds, possibly a little more, but certainly not less.; This is much lighter than the team was popularly supposed to be, but a close scrutiny of the C. A. C. team deyélops the fact that-the average weight, taking into sigeount. all the men who are scheduled for positions in the game, and Captain Wella hopes to work the greater number of’them at eome time in _tomofrow’s contest, is just about the Same as that of Columbian—163 pounds. Of the new men red: by the C. A. C., Dyer shows up more prominently than the rest, and will do much, toward the suc- cess of the team tomorrow. He is an ex- ceptionally strong and accurate kicker, and is not only a good line-bucker and all- round good foot ball player, but enthuses the men, to.the highest:point with his: own spirit and activity. From his position be- hind the line he willbe able to give many valuable hints and suggestions that. will be of the_utmost. yse the. game pro- Bresses. Bright Ey igented: fS/pléo a valua- ble man, as is ReeVe Lewis, who has re- turned to the game for the benefit of his club. A rE Ges There will be’ geVerdl Special features connected with orrow that watthhie Simone” these will hear close may be mentioned the-individual playing of both the full backs, Dyer and Lewis. Lewis is one of the most valuable,men the—Co- lumbian University bas-haé@-for same time, not only as §irf excellent Baptain and leader for th@ team, but for his foot ball playing as well. He is a fine_kicker, and a. hetter man at line-bupking would be shard. to#nd. ‘Another man. who will hear watchitg is Humphreys, at the left end of the Colum- bia line... Although light he is as quick as a stroke of lightning, and made a high reputation for hard play in the game be- tween the Fort Munroe and C. A. C. teams last year. = ‘Tindall, on the Columbian team, is one of the fastest men in the District on the &ridiron, having represented the Central High School during his course there on both the foot ball field and on the track. He is a strong pla¥er, and his work is mainly notable for the many good gains he almost invariably makes around the end of the enemy's line. Probably, however, the greatest interest will be taken in the way “Tubby” Dickin- son plays his new position of half back. He made a favorable impression in this place in the game with the Orange team, and should by this time have become! more fully acquainted with the duties of # half back than he was in that contest. “Tubby” is a fast man, and his weight will. make him a difficult man to stop under full head- way. Arrangements haye been made to care for a great crowd at the park tomorrow. McDuffie Makes a New Mile Record. Eddie McDuffie, at Willow Grove bike track, near Philadelphia,-established a new world’s record for one mile, paced, covering the distance in 1.35 2-5, three-fifth seconds Jower than the record’ mades by James Michael6n the same track several weeks ago. McDuffie's time also equals the time made by Stocks in London last summer, although the latter's time was nat accepted in this country on account of the character of his pace—a motor cycle. Yesterday's record was made after three unsuccessful attempts, fifteen minutes intervening be- tween each trial. McDuffie was paced by a quint, a quad and two sextets. English Eleven. Make 409 Runs, ADELAIDE, South Australia, October 29. —The Australians in the first of the cricket matches, commenced yesterday,’ with the English eleven, headed. by Capt.:.Stoddart, were all out today for 409 runs, of which } number Hill scored 260. At the -elose of lay <oday the ‘scored Tune for three withote Of whlch the tages player, Pifnce Ranjitsinghi, scored. 137. “Tod” Sloane Wins Another Ra. NEW MARKET, England, October The Lorillard-Beresford stables’ Sandia, ridden by “Tod” Sloane, won the Old Cam- bridgeshire handicap-here today. Later Meta II, aleo of the Lorillard-Beresford stables, ith “Tod” sh Soames wi f aopne up, won the —. A-Lake OF nap WINE. der A Cistern WAL Held 500,000 Gallons =) Grape Juice. ‘From the San Francisco @ucpapéle. A rippling lake-of fed ‘wine, hidden from sun and shetered fag hange of temper- ‘ature by a great of earth, a half million gallons of “grape juice ripen- ing in a subtel though it be, is Jicavern, - artificial w California style. Ten times might the great tun of Heidel- berg te filled before this hidden spring }would be exhausted, and the great redwood ce. 29.— ‘erg tun was surpassed. London boasted tanks twice as large, and San Francisco adds half to that amd is still behind Mer- “ced, whose great tun will hold four times SS ts perfectiy that properties of glass are all there and the wine should grow old aad meilow as comfortably as in the narrew walls of a man-blown flask, First, an excavation was made in a rocky hillside in the rear of the winery. Next, a wali of concrete,-2 feet in thick- ness, was put in the floor and the sides and built into the cover, the fatter being supported by fifteen steel girders. Next, the entire surface was Covered with a Hn- ing of pure eement, and finally this was giazed to the impermeability of glass. The whole has been buried beneath 3 feet of earth, and soon grass will grow above the wine lake. The object of all these precautions is to maintain the wine at a uniform temperature. “fhe cement wine tank is 104 feet long, Ba feet wide and 24 feet high. From the exterior, however, it appears as a gigan- tic mound. In the center is a manhole 3 feet in diameter, which will serve to allow the passage of a workman to clean out the cistern when empty, while two 4-inch pipes are the medium through which the wine is pumped into the resorvoir. It has been so placed, its bottom being a little above that of the cellar, that the contents may be drawn off by gravitation. To this end a tunnel 4 feet in diameter has been 25,000-galion wooden tanks in which the - wine is aged pre- vious to being in barrels and shipped. The cost of the wine reservoir was re- @uced one-half from the fact that the sand and gravel were obtained right on the spot, the Russian river being only a few hun- dred feet distant, and containing in its dry bed all of the material required. As it Was, the cost was $7,500. There are sev- eral advantages to -be derived from the construction of the concrete and cement cistern. One of these, it is expected, will be that wine will be maintained at an even cool temperature. Another is the equal blending of 500,000 gallons ef wine at one time. A third fs the saving in insurance. This is calculated at the rate of $1,500 per annum, which in five years would repay the cost of construction. It was necessity and not choice, how- ever, which led to the experiment, proba- bly so fruitful in its consequences. The grapes of the Italan-Swiss colony were sufficient to fill entirely its cooperage, and neighboring vineyardists, desiring to sell their products to a member of the wine- inakers’ corporation, some means had to be devised to care for these grapes. The crushing machinery and the fermentation apparatus were sufficient, but the problem was what should be done with the wine. The idea of the concrete cistern was broached and adopted. Only forty-five days, however, remained for its execution. A large number of la- borers was therefore employed, and they, by working day and night, were enabled to complete the task in exactly the time allowed. Forty-five days after beginning the tank it was done, and only one day's delay was caused in the Picking and crush- ing of the grapes. Thursday last the pro- cess of filling the gigantic receptacle with wine was begun. Pumps were set to work on both 4-inch pipes, and by Saturday night it had been half filled. By Wednes- day night the immense quantity of wine will be in place. A SACRIFICE OF WEEDS. Railroads of the Southwest Hampered by Vegetation on.the Tracks. From the Raflroad Gazette. In the’ southwest the railroads have a large item of expense which finds no place on the books of eastern companies, this being for the removal of weeds which grow, rank and luxuriantly between the tracks, seriously impeding rapid running, being crushed under the’ wheels and making the tracks greasy and slippery. Various meth- Ods have been proposed and tried to de- stroy these weeds, but that finally adopted by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe read is to burn them by means of an oil flame. This burner destroys the vegeta- fion between the rails and over a space @ twenty-four to thirty inches outside of em. The outfit consists of a car made fron, of iron shfelds suspended under e car and between thc trucks, an oll tank Ser having a capacity of 4,500 gallons and & smaller oll tank of $00 gallons capacity strong enough to withstand a pressure of seventy pounds per square inch. This tank is filled from the tank car and air pressure is supplied for forcing the oil to the burners. ‘The cur, which is sixty-five feet long, is strengthened by connecting trusses at each side and has a cab sheath- ed with corrugated iron at one end. The car is intended to be pulled over the road by a locomotive. The shield beneath the car is thirty-two feet long with aprons at each side to retain the heat and to prevent side winds carrying the flame to one side of the shield. The forward truck is protected by an auxiliary shield fast- ened to the bottom of the lower arch bars. When the fire is started the shield is low- ered to within three or four inches of the rail and the aprons then slide on the ground. When crossing bridges the shields are lift- eq clear of the rails twelve to fifteen inch- es by means of air pressure from a reser- voir acting through a train of chains and pulleys. The oil suppiy is also cut off in crossing bridges, and the moment the ofl valves are closed the flame is extin- guished and it is as readily renewed when the oil valves are again opened. The oil is directed against the inclined under sur- face of the shield, which retains sufficient heat to ignite the oil, even after it has been shut off for half an hour. In crossing small culverts and cattle guards the closing of the valve is unnecessary, as the lifting of the shield will carry the flame high enough te prevent any firing of the tim- The compressed air for forcing the oil through the burners and for lifting the shield is supplied by two Westinghouse air pumps, these being sufficient to main- tain an air pressure of seventy pounds with four burners in use. The amount of oil required for each burner is about eight gallons per mile. A light crude oil is preferred. Only a few minutes are required to get an effective heat after reaching the place where the work is to be done, and after the first few minutes no difficulty is experienced from the oil dropping on the rails and making them greasy. A gang of four men follow close to the car to put out all ties fired, but it is the intention soon to use steam Jets trem the locomotive in extinguishing fired ties. The speed with which the car trav. els depends upen the kind of vegetation to be scorched. Early in the season, when Weeds are tender and not over five or six inches high, a speed of four miles an hour is practicable, whereas served in with forest fires is ee new Mind. ot x appears ‘er A man who was offering for sale a small Newfoundland puppy appeared on Chest- nut street yesterday, and quite unintention- @ 24 24 26 24 24 24 24 20 4 Meriz'’s Drug News. -—Notice how lots of old-time drug stores cry “wolf” at the Prices we quote. They can’t reach them, and they know that the thinking public will trade here, where their best advantage lies. —Ever see such an exhaustive stock as ours? Ever see anything here that wasn’t fresh? Ever pay a price that wasn’t lower than SPORTSMEN ALERT Gunners Preparing for the Approach- ing Quail Season. MONDAY 18 OPENING DAY Local Laws in Maryland Counties ae Ak Ae oe Oe Ae ewe ve we we www any one else's? ’ Worth Remembering. {Tomorrow’s Specials. + onpe > wae Williams’ Pink ; GENERAL INTEREST EVINCED { Pills aes 33¢.} ee > rae qui scwon cre ereraty o [SCUCUMber and + Maryland and North Carolina next Mon- Gag. dn Virrinka ht Sy Siegsl to RS Qual dLettuce Soa . ge until 188. Sportsmen in Wash- iat wae know thes Somat oF Sanowing 25c. box of 3 cakes. b a doz through the ragweed of the stub- 4 oo ~ vad be hie and the underbrush of the oresk bot- | 4 — = , toms eparing for an onslaught nex! TZ masa rae take past two or three years, : MER’ Ss , to the present time, the covers in Mary- Gaal knge been atiasan lanuusal of bisa! 4 Pharmacy, lith & F. 5 The reports during the summer have been favorable, and from every quarter ther= is news of many coveys, and consequently every man who owns a gun and a dog is eagerly expecting the opening of the sea- son. William Wagner, the veteran sports- man, who kncws most about things relat- ing to guns ard birds, talked with a Star reporter yesterday. “It seems like cld times,” he said. “Every man who ever shot at a quail in this sec- tion seems to be making pr2parations to go out this year. There is going to be an €xodus down into North Carolina, and, so far as Maryland is concerned, it seems to me that there will be a gun for every bird. I have been kept busy loading shells for men who are going quail shooting. I have had enormous demands ‘from city people, unusually large orders from North Carc- lina, and just now I received an order for a thousand shells from a man in South Carolina. It is very much like the reed bird season, when everybody shoots. I feel sorry for the birds, because I am afraid that the general intention on the part of gunners to go out this season will lead to a great scarcity in the future.” Suggesttuns to Shooters. Many inquiries have been received by The Evening Star regarding the laws gov- erning the shooting ef quail, pheasants and rabbits in the country contiguous to Wash- 2 Sve we Keep your hair in the > “pink” of condition by using COOPER'S HAIR SUCCESS. @ No dandruff—no hair falling > out—no baldness. A clean, © beautiful suit of hair al- 2 ways, SOc. bottle. o MERTZ’S é Pharmacy, 1 ith&Fsts; Setercosees. oboe OSSOOOOCHSOOECOSO rer ee) CreamBaking WU Powder,30°<""* 3 ington. So far as quail is concerned, Vir- i ginfa is a closed territory until October Judge its parity—when our city chemist i 31, 1898. Next fail gunners may shoot in & ovalyzing it in compeny with all the higher 2 Virgh ia to thetr hearts’ Content. but this || priced powders—statce it is many times of « | year the season cl throughout. In |= - * : Maryland there is a diversity of laws. The i Micher percentage of superiority? Remarkable 5 general state game law allows the shoot- for the satisfaction it always gives. Try it. 5 ing of quail from November 1 to December | 5c. 1b. cam. 3 24, inclusive; of woodcock, from November : d : 15 tu Decemier 24, inclusive; uf pheasants, | (C. W. BARKER, 1210 F St.N.W - from August 21 to December 15, inclusive: | € i SL tettetre nn, November 1 to Denember | 5 ote in Tt ensesesremesnenemsnae> 24, inclusive. ; — ‘There are, however, in the several counties Go to Siccardi’s confiicting regulations, which it is well for Frospective visitors with guns and dogs to remember. In Anne Arundel county the open season is from November 10 to De- cember 15, inclusive. It is unlawful for a non-resident to shoot, kill. trap or destroy @ quail or partridge, woodcock or rabbit, under a penalty from $10 to $50 for each offense. one-half of which goes to the in- former. A land owner may extend the privilege to shoot on his own land to any person. Charles and Prince George's. In Charles county a non-resident is sub- ject to a fine of $20 for each quail, rabbit er woodcock killed, as well as the for- feiture of his gun and ammunition. The law provides that the latter articles shall be sold, and one-half of the proceeds shall be paid to the informer. The possession of any of the game specified is provided by the law to be evidence that they were kill- ed by the possessor. Land owners have the privilege to invite non-residents to shoot over their own territory. In Prince George’s county the open sea# son of quail is from November 1 to De- cember 24, inclusive. It is necessary to get a license in Prince George's county for shooting, which amounts to something over $20, as well as to obtain permission from the owner of the land shot over. For each quail killed without these require- ments a specific penalty of $25 is incurred, one-half of which goes to the informer. In Queen Anne county licenses to shoot are necessary to non-residents, and unless a man has one he is subject to $20 fine for each bird killed, which is payable to the school fund. Posted Land in Montgomery. Out in Montgomery county there is no law regarding the shooting of non-resi- dents, but owing to the scarcity of birds within the last three or four years and the desire on the part of the citizens to re- stock the covers, there has been a general agreement to prevent trespass upon the land, and the consequence is that strangers who go out into Montgoméry county next week will find it difficult to shoot over the land of any farriér in the county. The deputy game warden of Maryland, Dr. George W. Massamore, who has given such time and attention to the preserva- tion of the fish and game in Maryland, and who hes devoted so much energy in’ this direction, has instructed his deputies throughout the state to be rigorous in their watchfulness during the bird season, and the result will undoubtedly be that any man who goes into Maryland without the proper authority will run a very decided risk of being arrested and made to answer for any trespass he may make either upon the laws or regulations now in force in that state. Dr. Massamore and the au- thorities associated with him are deter- mined, so they announce, to see that the game laws of Maryland are enforced to the letter as well as in the spirit. It will be well, therefore, for prospective gunners to make their arrangements for shooting trips into Maryland in accordance with the sug- gestions made above. The gentlemen who are going to shoot during the coming season are making great preparations for it. North Carolina will get a big ccntingent. Many sportsmen have already made their arrangements to go down to the state. Mr. James M. Green will go to his usual shooting ground, which is Greensboro’. Campbell Carrington will try his luck down the Scotland Neck country in North Carolina, where the birds are.said to be plentiful. Cigy Ward will shoot in the vicinity of Mount. ur tingly and L. K. dorf will probadi be found in the same vicinity—Wilii Wagner will go to North in cember. Dick Jones will shoot! the lower counties of Maryland. Ci Browning and a party are making’: wa FOR BARGAINS IN HUMAN HAIR, Hair Switches at Great Ba: ‘Switches ¥ reduced 1 $1.50, 00 Switches reduced to $2.50. 1.00 Switches reduced to §5.00. Gray and White Hair reduced in sme proportion lime. Siccardi, 711 11th st., next to Palais Royal. Private rooms for hairdressing, shampooing nnd ascing. sel3-16.16 IMPERIAL HATR RBGENBRA’ $1.99; small size, 99 cents. duced during this’ sale. MARLEC CURE PARLORS, 1110 G st. nw. cations” re- “GH MANT- oclG-12t% — = THE MAKING OF LEGHORN HATs. They Are No Longer the Costly Things of Yore. Roman Letter in Pall Mall Gazette. A strike in the gentic, smiling valley of the Arno hes drawn attention to the etraw- plait industry carried on there. It is one that is greatly affected by change in fash- fons, and has its periods of prosperity and depression. The days have gene by when the property about Florence was divided among a few manufacturers of straw hats (what the English call Leghorns), who, when marrying their daughters, gave them a dot of several thousands of scudi (each scudo being worth four shillings) and a straw hat, the strands of which, less than a millimeter in width, were made of straws So fine that, after being woven, a magni- fying glass was needed to distinguish them, Now rich travelers traveling through Flor- ence go no more to the Via Pcrta Rossa to pay 100 francesconi (£22) for a straw hat to take home as a present. Fashion has transformed the Florence etraw industry. The profit now comes from the quantity, not the quality; and conse- quently the hand vork at one time songh: after and well paid has gradually decreased in price until the wages of the workers are infamous. When the wholesale price of a hat, all made and sewed, is a penny or two—and there are those at even a lower price—it is easy to imagine what competi- sation the straw workers™ get for the twenty-five to thirty-five yards of made strands which are necessary for one h: The skill formerly required in the plai is, however, no longer required. Once {i was an art, now every one can do it—the boys and girls who drive the cattle to ture, the women at home, beggars, all those who have nothing else to do. In the mountains the men who break stones have been seen at straw-plaiting in their few leisure moments, and even men who drive coal carts. This “vulgarization” and over- Production will, in the end, be the death of the industry, especially to America, and consequently an overstocked market; and until some means are found of diminishing the production the industry will ¢go from bad to worse, with the gravest of conse- quences to those who live by it. There are exporters who buy the straw plait in bulk, paying, if not sufficient for the work, more than is warranted by their own profits, and who only continue the business out of charity far the poor people of the district. But this In many cases @oes not prevent them from being accused of profiting by the necessities of the work- ers. Hence the strike. Another misfortune for this industry is the new United States tariff, which raises the duty on worked straw from 25 to 35 per cent of its value. Besides, the Italian productions have to struggle in America ag2inst the competition, incre wing day by day, of the Japanese and Chinese straw. The outlook is inde dark, for, no matter how the poor Florentine straw-platters pro- ments to shoot in North From the Boston Herald. Mrs. Caroline Pierce of Jamaica, I. 1, found her sixteen-year-old son, Elihu Hedges, in Boston recently, after a search of over twelve years. a gene j ~

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