Evening Star Newspaper, November 19, 1897, Page 11

11 LLLP ELLA EL AD z = = Saks’ $1 Hollow-ground Razo:s, THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, 65c. Saks’ No. 1 Rugby Foot Ball Eeeneenolee nla alnod eal oto totes ceetededetetetetetes Be : fe aeetectonteete 1 $l—for Ral prot colon r 73. $a AQOVEMBER 19, 1897-16 PAGES. ks offers Way's Mufflets, the new throat etor for ladies and gentlemen—choice of rs—choice of high or low neck—for 8c. = = 54 J. “a eabeageats pr a mighty power- Accept This’ Bunch of Bargains with our compliments. Nothing short of the full strength of the combined Saks organization could gather such an aggregation of sound, reliable qual- ities to be offered at.such manifestly saving prices. exerting every energy--seeking every advantage--bridging every opportunity--employing every facility that will yield the greatest ofit to our patrons. The Most Extraordinary Offering of Ladies’ Wraps, Skirts, Suits, etc. Smee we've opened the department. Ladies’ Coats, Capes and Jackets. | re 0 A lot of 7S Plush 5 Man - tailored Capes, cut the cor- th, with = linea thromels i" sweep, shield Tp ous beady and seeres— through » raised eae with Blick in of fine z sem: shi ld and ; ’ and hand- zg fly fr nt. AM 8 03, iy jet embrod- 5 ae 2 to A To dpi: pha cps Se z in town can't com- eat $5. Se w them us $10 and $12 pare with tires. "Too Srenitec conve cheap. values we offer you Swerve ec tee to 46. “Tom the choice tomorrow = a g $5 $10 $13.50 + ° ° ° e | $6 and $7. = + oS 3 Lots of Ladies’ Suits-- 98 int blouse ef fitting and © Scotch Cheviots, Irts mod-ls in shape, percaline uate purchase of the ‘lotta —the mats are Tin lined and velvet bu making up IS as ela! in every d =$15 value--for $10. Lot 2==$18 value= Lot 3==$20 value= We positively guarantee a perfect fit—or money refundsd, Dressing Sacques. er lot of these Se. E derdown New Waists. Misses’ Reefers. 78 of these $5 Scotch Mixed Reefers for misses 4 to 14 years.) tional cholee Separate Skirts. W styles; exeep- ualities; pat- Black and Navy Blue Cher terns. All we ask Is a look x a Mistures and them. Tomorrow. .... “$3.75 Twe dl effects, P ‘kirts, Hned with per- t. All sizes. $2.49 with $4 and rs else in the argtin at Lots Flannelette Wrap- pers. Another apecial drive dozen choice effects in Flann Lot 1, $1.25 value, Lot 2, $1.75 value, for $1.19 Beats the best buying you've ever done. A world: Fur Scarfs. trewn Marten, Electric Seal and Stone of the new pattern ~ th $10. To $5 Young Men’s Suits. Boys’ Furnishings Fleece-tined Hygienic and Double-breasted All-wool Plaid Cheviot ng Pants Suits. Sizes 14 to 18. Lined with durable serge. Worth Underwear—shirts to 18 65e. Drawers. “Sizes Regular Seetondontontenbontosorgetertettotiotrontoloreetossotents at least $5. ‘Saturday only Ec a loves, i A ket of Single and Double-breasted Sack Eee Ge ee AlL-wool Novelty Cheviot Long Pants Salts, Choice of 35 dozen Stk Nec! Hiued with Htalian cloth: a heat effect wear, in all shapes—special pa and a stanch $7.50 value. Sizes 14 terns. 35e. kind for a te I® Saturday only. Lot of Boys’ 1-clasp Gloves, with astra- chan backs and suede prima, Plaid AlLwool Chevtot fleece Ined. Worth Tomer: Suits, with Stngle-b row... 3 "5 C.. Coats and Double-breasted Vest small knee and shi 3 Regular 35. Black Ribbed Hose. Sizes 14 to 19 years. wal $12.50 for boys, guaranteed quality nd D5 value. Saturday only colors. All sizes. ‘Tomorrow. IC. Saks and Company, **Saks’ Corner.”’ Sener Seen Seer He ceed 868 8909 96090800 808030 The Wilson Shoe Stock © AY SACRIFICE PRIGES| Are you getting YOUR share of these bargains? Do you realize that further delay is DANGEROUS? Tomorrow will be the greatest day of all. Every bargain table will be heaped to overflowing. We are constantly adding new lots—and the assortment tomorrow will be greater than ever before. *{ 00 oe ee pa Shy of Calt Shoes. 10 1.50 t ry Come early tomorrow and avoid the afternoon crowd. FAMILY SHOE STO RE, 310-312 Seventh Street. AVENUE ENTRANCE THROUGH 8. KANN, SONS & CO.'S. @ For chotce of a heaping table full of Ladies’ and Children's High and Low Shoes and Slippers; also Ladies’ and Men's Slippers in Embro!dered Velvet and Felt — and Men's ‘Q Imitation Alligator Slippers. Regular $1.00 qualities for. 6O9889S9OS889 While they last for a table full of odd in Ladies” $2.00 Shoes — First comers will the best chance of being fitted eoce a> @ While they last, for choice of Ladies* $2.66 and $3.00 Shoes—all sizes—in Button OOSSSOSEOSCHOHOD SS AR © Se er of the children have not been located, but every effort will be made to run them down. Five Little Savages. From the Philadelphia Ledger. Montgomery, Indiana ccunty, is in a high state of excitement. A posse of farm- . which was organized last Monday, has captured five of the children of a wild fam- ily. ‘They were found asleep in an unfre- quented forest in a hut that bears every «evidence of savage construction. iow many years the family had lived there the authorities cannot determine, but it has been known for some time that very strange people were somewhere living in the woods. Stories are to the effect that they subsisted entirely upon wild fruits ana nuts, and committed depredations upon fields of grain and garden patches, and that during cold nights they slept with swine. They were in a deplorable condi- tion when captured, and bore unmistakable evidence of savagery. Parties who saw them in captivity de- clare that they acted Just Eke wild beasts. ‘The captives were taken to Indiana, where eS ‘A Red-Headed Dinner. From Harper's Bazar. There is no doubt that college girls have their share of fun. TWenty red-haired un- dergraduates recently gave a “red-headed dirner. The red-haired damsels, all “strawberry blondes,” of course, wore white dresses with red sashes, flowers and badges; the table decorations were red roses and red satin ribbons, with red ecan- dies and shades to match; the menu cards were red, each oae bearing the design of a white horse. The:soup was a puree of to- mato; the fish, salmon and the dishes all followed the color as far as possible. The affair was a great success, and the fol- ik wing morning, by permission of the fac- ulty, the “red heads” marched into the chapel in a body, and sat in the front seals, and after prayers saluted the president, id marched out again in solemn proces- they attracted curious throngs. They were | Sion. thorovghly scrubbed and cleaned, fitted out eee with clothing and then taken to the reform “Want” ads. in The school at Morganza. The father and moth- Star pay because they bring answers, pletion Boys’ Clothing. You don’t need any assurance that what is offered over our signature is strictly 1 in quality, regardless of how low the prices are. is a fixture. ple Price is a child of opportunity—quality Reefers. Tot of Blue Chinchilla Reefers, lined and pocket flape faced with fancy ‘cassimere; trimmed with wide und narrow braid; gilt buttons, Sizes 4 to 16 years. Actually worth $2.25 bought at 1 50 wholesale. Saturday only...... o Tot of Blve Astrachan Reefers, with saflor collar. trimmed with military braid ee ee ee Italian cloth.: Sizes 3 to 8 yrs. Worth $3.50. Siturday onl; $2.75 Lot of Blue Clese-nap Chinchilla Reeters, strictly all wool and fast color, lined with ith $3.50 chinchilla, No better reefer ever offered for $5. Saturday only.. to sell for less than $8. Lot of Frize Ulsters, cut long, with big ulster collars, ulster pockets and lined with cassimere to mal Sizes 6 to 14 $4.75. Suturday only.. Lot of Oxford Mixed Cheviot Overcoats, heavy weight, cut medium length, Mned with durable’ serge; velvet cola it sizes 8 to 15. ‘Worth $6. Sai urday only ee Lot of English Tan Covert Cloth ‘Covert’? Overcoats, finished with wide stitched seams and double-stitched edges; cloth col- Jar. covert facings and double-warp Italian lining. No man’s coat {s tail- $7.50 ored any better. Sizes 3 to 14. A full $9 value. Saturday only seasor styles. 7 Black and Blue Cheviot Double- ted Knee Pants Suits, guaranteed all wool and absolutely fast color. It's nothing dnt Inck to get such suits to sell at this price. Sizea 7 to 16 years. $4 Worth Saturday only. Let of Gray Cheviot Brownle Sults—one of the latest novelties of the season; braid- tritamed sailor collar; silk-embro{dered em- blem on vest. Fit ages years. Cheap at $3.50. day only Another lot of All-wool Red and Brown Plaid Cheviot Brownies; vest and inlaid sailor collar of plain goods; fancy silk braiding and small pearl but- $4.50 tons. Sizes 3 to 8 years. Worth $6. Saturday only. HUNTING THE *POSSUM. The Sport as Enjoyed in Middle Geor- gin in Slavery Days. Richard Malcolm Johnston is the author of a government pamphlet on “Early Edu cational Life in Middle Georgia. it is an exception to the general rule of government pamphlet, and is genuine Iterature and full of interest. From it the following account of ‘possum hunting is extracted: “A sport which boys greatly delighted in Was accompanying the negroes while hunt- ing the opossum. Its relish was the dearer because of the infrequency with which par- ents, especially mothers, consented to it. Of all delights to the palate of a southern ne- gro, and, indeed, of many a southern white man, the flesh of the opossum, when baked to the proper degree of brown, is the dear- est. Abounding in fat perhaps beyond any other animal, its flesh resembies rauch that of a sucking pig, only being more soft. It is so easily fattened that on veing taken out of the woods it generally is in condition fit for the oven. Southerners regard it of all meats the ieast indigestible, and but for its superabundant fat it would appear more frequently on tables of the whites. In some houses this superfiuity was jisposed of by placing a layer or more of oak or hickory sticks to the height of three or four inches at the bottom of the oven, and upon the lattice work thus made laying the opossum. By such mode much of the oll was de- posited on the bottom. ‘The negro, when cooking for himself, never resort# to these measures, but takes his favorite as he is, indeed, preferring him with all his imper- fections on his head. “At every home, whatever might be lack- ing for making up the full of home com- forts, it was never an opossum dog; seldom was it without two or three. ‘These were not of the pack of hounds—from four to eight or more—kept by the owner for the fox and the rabbit. They belonged to the negroes, and were usually well trained. The hunter, providing himself with an ax, a torch of lightwood sticks of suitable length (about two feet), accompanied by at least one other, bearing another ax and an arm- ful of other sticks, sailied forth to the woods. Both he and his dog well knew the most frequented haunts of the quarry,along skirts of wood and meadow wherein grew the persimmon, the muscadine und the wild grape. A rabbit starting up attrac-ed little notice from the dog, that understood well enough that the sort of game was for the day, never for the night. After the trail was found the pursuit was usually brief, as the beast is not swift on foot and travels over an inconsiderable space. The dog barks little or none while pursuing, and so the opossum, when abgut to be overtak2n by surprise, makes with what spead is possible to a tree. In his emergency he sometimes has to take a small sapling, up which he can mount no higher than six or eight feet without bending the top. If he is not too hotly pressed he will take to a large one, although he is not as particular in that matter as the raccoon, who, being more swift of foot and more capable in general of taking care of himself, invariably seeks the largest he can find in his flight. There was one exception, however, and that was in the case of an opossum of smaller size, more slender of make, much more fleet of foot and with of black hairs in his skin. Whenever it was a very large tree to which the hunter was called by his dog he was apt to that it was either a raccoon or a ‘Blue Dick,’ as this variety was it was of a Gistinct species not known. Individu- a a a a a ae st Boys’ Suits. patterns; made up in Reefer and regular. D6 Suits that would sell at $2.50, $3 and $4. Your choice, § 1 OO, Saturday only. 75 Blue Chinchilla Reefers, with sailor coilar, braid trimmed, cassimere lining, gilt buttons. Fit ages 4 to 8 years. Worth Saturday only— § (| 5 Lot of Genuine Blue Fur Beaver Reefers, mada with ulster, snilor or velvet collars, Uned with fancy cassimere; and those with sailor collar mmed with braid. Sizes 3 to 16 years. mm $5 ¥ Saturday only Lot of Elysian Beaver Reefers, fast Blue, made with velvet or ulster cellars, tined with best Italian cloth, wide beaver fac- ings. If you want a high-class Reefer, here it is—£9 valu 8 to 16 years. Saturday only.... 7.50 Boys’ Overcoats. 50 All-wool Fast Blue Kersey Covert Overcoats to 16 years; lined with Italian Cloth, velvet collar, wide kersey fac- ings, taped; cut full back; double-stitched edges. Never were made to fit ages 8 Saturday only— $5. | Young Men’s Overcoats Heavy-welght Brown-mixed Cheviot Over- desirable length; lined with velvet collar; double-stitched worth and warmth of any $5 izes 14 to 19 veary Satur- $4 day only. Lot of Blue and Brown Kersey Overenats, cut medium length. wigh yelyet collar, (tal: fan cloth lining: doubfe-stitehed edges and wide-stitched seams. ‘From this. descrip- tion you can only get an idea of style. ‘The quality is 810 grade. Sizes 14 to 19. Saturday only. 94 oO) Lot of Genuine Irith Fiize Ove made up with iron-fraine setge lining; si in sleeve linings, velvet colar and double- stitched seams and edges. to 19. oo Special lot of 500 Fancy Cassimere and Cheviot Short Pants Suits—guaranteed all wool—Plaids, Mixtures and Checks of this itble-breasted Boys’ Safior’ Suite, made of _Busket Cheviot, nett check effect, wide brafd triin- ming on sailor collar; Green silk soutache braid and embroidered emblent on shield. Sizes 3 to 9 years. We've only X Worth $5. 38 of ‘em “$3.50 Specials Boys’ Hats, A lot of Genuine {Fur Black and Brown Alpine Hats, for and youths-—very latest shapes: best qualities ever sold at $1.25 and $1.50. Tomorrow only Eee 90c. A special lot of Children’s Feather Tam O’Shanters, in cloth and corduroy— choice of Blue, Brown and Green. 5 iC. Seite $1.25 value. Saturday for... of them took the place of its betters, as, though small and thin, it cost more to take him and to fatten him afterward. “The ‘treeing’ was announced by a bark peculiar to that office, and entirely different from others. There was no sound of eager- ness, as in those of pursuit. It has one brief utterance of mere announcement, as if the dog had finished the task assigned to him and would now le down and rest till his owners came up. If his bark was hark- ened to, he gave no more. If not, he re- peated it at intervals until it was. Then he sat or lay while the tree was being felled. Just before this crisis, unless the tree was very small, one of the axmen, quitting that work, repaired a short distance on the side opposite to that in which the tree was to fall and heid him by the collar during the descent. ‘This was done to secure him fiom being crushed by rushing too spezdily among the branches. Instantly upon the fall he was loosed, and, rusking forward, seized his game, nearly always before it could get to another tree. At that instant all the excitement ended. A moment before the seizure, if he had it to spare, the opos- sum, offering no resistance, laid itself down and to all appearances died. This was re- garded as an instinctiye artifice to attempt to escape from death by seeming to be dead already. It will fight with neither man nor dog, and at last seems to implore for pity and sparing of life to one so entirely sub- missive. This gives rise to the phrase, ‘playing ‘possum,’ applied to persons sus- pected of making insincere ado about their own ailments or other suffering, or pretend- ing to be asleep. “The way in which the captive was se- cured, if not novel, was curious, and sin- gularly hard. A hickory stiek of, say, two inches in thickness and five or six feet long yras split at a small distance from one end. and before the wedge Was ‘withdrawn tr@ leng, hairless, thick-skiitned tail was drawn about half its length through the slit, after which the wedge was withdrawn. The cap- tor slung the stick across; his shoulders, trimmed his torch, and, if not ready to re- turn home, hied his dog to another search. Occasionally a negro wbulé return home, not too late for rest efougH for the mor- Tow’s work, with thréé or’ four hanging from his pole. ae “The killing was usually { Sunday. During the intery: a box seat with its gpen.jside upon the ground, and made firm by. heavy stoves laid upon the top, ventilated by augur holes. 1t was fed upon persimmons mainly, but with addition of bread, ,collards, pota- toes and other vegetables ggt from the ne- gro’s small garden that lay behind his cabin. It was really surprising what de- tee of fatness it would take on in a very short time. “The, killing was after a way peculiar to that-animal, In all probability never since Georgia wes first occupied by white people with slaves did an opossum, when killed by @ negro, meet death in any other. For this time-honored custom he felt respect that would have been sorely hurt even by sug- gestion of substitution of another. The af- fection he cherished for this dear object made him scrupulous that when his end was to come, as it must come inevitably, according to the destiny of all beings, sen- tient and not, should be decently in accord itponed to a\ it.was kept in saeco ooo nll oath iene nipptoloty Cas Sake’ All-wool Sweaters for men, with roll collars, fancy stripes—worth $2 The six Saks stores are So for $1.23. Your Last Chance. Tomorrow night will end the $12.50 Suit and Overcoat Sale. It’s the last chance you'll have to select from these superior qual- It was nece: to relieve the pressure in our work rooms—but what we've lost in money we have gained in added prestige for the BEST CLOTH- iti —at any such price. ING IN AMERICA. The Suits are Single and Double-breasted Sacks. ‘The Overcoats are in all the fashionable lengths and finishings. 50 dozen for Saturday at. Don’t delay! You'll regret it if you miss it. $1.35 Hat Sale. Choice of Derbys and Fedoras that we were fortunate enough to secure at a reduction in the price. fine fur-—“first qualities’—silk trimmed. were made to retail at $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00. We've ry to make this offering Black, Brown and Pearl— These hats ‘one single case of ea: lot. The Men's Ribbed Balbriggan Shirts he kind that is 6 3c 1 case of cra, fully reii everywhere 1 case of Fleee-lined Shirts and _Draw- ers, mado in test possibl 89c ner. Regular $1 quality for rown All-wool Derby Ribbed nd that sells @ 1 case of Natural Wool Fleer Diawers—regulsr $1 kn for. 73 regulariy at $ ed Shirts _and a. 1 case of Natural Wool Shirts, with double fronts and backs, Drawers of sam grade. $1.50 everwhere ee 1 25, > Sh Boys oes, Something new—Boys’ and Youth's Black Calf Lace Shoes, with double sole and_ex- tension edge, BOTTOM OF SOLE QUILTED, and THEY CAN'T WEAR OUT. #2 $1.98 s Outlast usual, $2.50 grade. Saturday is Saks’ LITTLE TROOPER, the best Shoe for the boys ever seen at the price. Solid leather, shapely and fortable. Boys’ sizes. day... Buy Men’s Underwear ‘Tomorrow—while thes> induccments—~made possible by marker conditions—are held out. “re not “seconds”—but perfect and reliable goods: Specials in Men’s Gloves, Boys’ Knee | 1 case of Heavy Germ gm Sirts and D.awcr- value—for ... : re 3 of Fiee-ed Wool Shirts and —recular $1 quilty—for... 75¢. 0 t A derwear will give Wi prove its worthml- ness. 100 dozen $ with outserms, pecial Dogskins, made he fashionable shades. Regular $1 value. arday cial for Sat- 756. T7 dozen Adler's Silk-lined Mocha that sell everywhere for $1.50. sizes. Saturday... Gloves, all 30 paira of Black, Cheviots, strictly all wi Junior and regular Knee that cannot be benght today to sell Jess than 75e. All sizes, 3 years. Saturday only Blue and Fancy 150 pairs Blue, Black and Fancy Cheviot Knee Pants, juniors and regulars. Sizes 3 to 15 years. Worth. $1. You save a quarter tomorrow Saks and Company, “‘Saks’ Corner.” Se a victim's neck, and placing his foot-upon it near the space of contaci, while he kept it pressed, with his two hands he pulled his tail until his neck was broken. Already a pot of water hard by had been made hot for scalding the hair from his precious “carcass,” by this time become, as some ex- pressed it, ‘as round as a butter ball.’ Af- ter he was baked and set upon g tray, flanked satisfactorily with attendant good things, it was interesting to see the rapidi- ty with which, using a favored simile emong, negroes, it would ‘go down de red jane.” "* “Practically, this goes to the root of the matter,” says Joel Chandler Harris, re- viewing the pamphlet in the Atlanta Con- stitution. “In the ’6U3 the ‘Blue Dick’ was known as the ‘Black Jack,’ and it seems certain that it is a variety different from the common gray ‘possum. Ordinarily they are smaller, but frequently a Black Jack W&s Caught weighing from fifteen to twen- ty pounds. They are as crafty as coons and almost as fleet. They have been known to leap from a falling tree and take to the fields and give the dogs a race of a mile or two before taking to a tree, and sometimes they were caught on the ground in an open cornfield. The hounds used in the days Col. Johnston writes of were the old-fash- icned long-eared, blabber-mouthed dogs, of the ‘bloodhound’ variety. Later, foxhounds were used as ‘possum dogs. I remember two on the Turner plantation—Jolly and Loud—black-and-tan in color, and incom- parable track-and-tree dogs. With these hounds after a game Black Jack the sport Was almost equal to fox hunting. The night made a fine background for their musical voices as they trailed in unison. The Black Jacks had a way of taking to a fence and walking it for a-quarter of a He or more to elude pursuit; but the trick was mere child's play to Jolly and Loud. One would jump over the fence, while the other remained on the opposite side, and, in this way, the trail was soon picked up at the point where the ‘possum left the fence. This done, the rest was easy. The "possum, if a small one, soon tock to a big tree; if big and fat, to a small sapling, in the top of which he would be found swing- ing and snarling. If found in a big tree, he was known to be small, and would be left to grow and fatten. If found in a sapling, @ negro would bend it down, and whip the *pcssum in the face until he got ‘shamed er hisse’f,’ when he could easily be picked up by the scruff of the neck and held so until a pole was cut and split and his tail run through.” ———+e+__—. Naming Plants. From Meehan’s Monthly. When naming a plant in honor of some man liberties are frequently taken in the orthography, and very often the person chosen is more honored in the name than by anything special that he did to deserve it. The celebrated French botanist, Batl- cu, had the naming~of a plant, from the ‘island of Juan Fernandez, that had never before been named or described. From that island he had naturally the story of Robin- son Crusve in mind, and he thought, to honor Crusoe’s man Friday, he would give this plant his name; buf he did not call it Fridaya, but translated it into the French name for Friday—that is to say, the sixth day if the week, Vendredl, and the plant is described in the books as Vendredia. No ore would ever suspect from this name that it was intended to honor Robinson Crusoe’s sole companion on the desolate is- The Photograph Beat Her. From the Brooklyn Exgle. Through a picture taken Island photograph gallery the in a Coney Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company won a damage suit as defendent this morning before Jus- tice Van Wyck ard a jury. The plaintiff was carrie Martin, nineteen years old, who sued, through Charles Martin, to recover $000. Dailey, Beli & Crane appeared for her. Thomas L. Hughes for Sheehan & Collins, represented the defendant com- pany. The plaintiff alleged that on June 5, 1895, she was a passenger on a Myrtle avenue car, and at 9:30 o'clock in the even- ing she got cff at Harmon street. She passed around the rear of the car, and it uacked up and hit her, she said, causing in- ternal injuries. She had fainting spells for some time afterward. Mr. Hughes, for the company, got an employe, Williams, to investigate the case, and Williams found that the plaintiff was enjoying bathing at Coney Island. He proreeded to enjoy bathing himself, and made the acquaint- ence of Miss Martin in the curf. It came out in the trial that Williams got the plaintiff to go with him and have a pic- ture taken in their bathing suits. Miss Mactinr’s picture with Williams was exhib- ited to the jury. It showed that Miss Mar- tin was apparently not only very pretty, put also robust. The plaintiff since the suit and since the picture was made, married a man named Ruppe. In her testimony she said that she had been very ill, fainting often. Her health had been very poor and she bellev- ed it would never be so good as before the accident. ‘The jury was out about an hour and brought in a verdict for the defendant cor- poration. =e Codfish in Long Isla Sound. From the Brooklyn Eagle. Hook-and-line fisher:nen are greatly ex- cited just at present over the appearance ef enormous schools of codfish in the waters of Long Island sound, north of this village. In the memory of the oldest resi- dent such an occurrence has never been recorded. While the sound coast has al- ways been a favorite fishing locality for certain species of fish, cod has never be- fore been captured in these waters. Par- tles are fitted out each day and hurried Preparations are being made to land the rew comers, which average from three to | THE SENORITA'S GUARDIAN Miss Cisneros Placed in Charge of Mrs. John A. Logan, m Filed im Name of Kart Decker, Her Next Friend— Fund in Trust. Judge -Hagner, sitting in the Orphans’ Court, today appointed Mrs. John A. Logan or, as the court records site, Mary 8. lian of Miss Evangelina he y hits Decker a Cuban mr from a Ha- world is heroic Karl by mewhat the in court to ted, and het nent of a euardiar and the ay nen » ahy one reasized whc 1 girl was Pe ugh Mr, Decker next Tri the petition being present to Judge Hagner by Attorney Arthur glish, and in it Mass Ci sia she Was born in Cuba September tnat her mother is ac incarcerated in miument by th spoin ad. almost be slight, made u as her 1 ne that nd, a Cuna minority and resid nce nm Ube United Stat Money on Deposit The American Security and Trust Com- pany, further stated Miss Cisneros, has deposit to her erey tuture ed with that comp: the conditions of the trust being that the money or the i therefrom is to be for her ma: ance and edu That for the purpose of propery the sam 1 tor tne ing and a and in the ne other trust . sums in r her, there s he young Cuban girl also stated tha ved her intention to citizen of the United States, and that it is her intention to enter and reside in an institution of learning in the wuisurict Columbia, hereafter remain @ residen ™: terpreter. Mis; Cisneros was : panied by Mrs. Macias, a friend, who worn by Regis- ter of Wills McGill as an interpret Through Mrs. Macias Ju Hagner drief- ly questioned her to the statements contaired in her petition, and, being hea of their correctness, signed an making Mrs. Logan her guardian, bond at $600, the order conclu: Tt being prove ad is now under in the Isiand of Cuba, anf that process could not be served upen him for any useful purpose in this case.” —_———_ MAKING PEOPLE THINK. mon Absent Atten- tion, Philadelphia Times, ntors ere always at work devising contrivances to summon absent attention. One of the latest of these is a bracelet that bas an alarm watch attched to it. The wearer, having an engagement at a certain hour, sets the watch and when the time arrives a little needle pricks ner arm and reminds her of the duty to be per- formed. Many ingenious »orsons have applied their talents to the production of contrivances for awakening people and cempelling them to rise. There is a kind of bedstead, for ‘example, which holds its mattress in a frame that is retained in the normal post- tion by a cateh. At the proper hour the catch, operated by a clockwork mechan- ism, loses its grip and the mattress frame becomes vertical instead ot horizontal, throwing the sleepyhead out on the floor. There is another sort of bed which Jets the head of the sleepy person drop when getting up time arrives, one end of ihe mattress frame collapsing. But one of the queerest of the patented methods of wak- ing people up involves the empioyment of a tin pan and a weight hung by a cord. When the hands of the clock reach a cer- tain point, the weight is released and falls upon the pan, making a direful racket. ‘Another oddity is a frame from which are suspended a number of corks. During the right it is lowered gradually by a clock weight mechanism, until ac the proper hour and minute the dangling corks begin to bob against the nose and face of the sleeper. Ot course he wakes up. There are quite a number of inventions for lighting the fire in the morning with- out getting out of bed. They are all oper- ted by clockwork. “The newest and best of them is credited to an Mlinois genius. A clock is set for a certain time and when the proper minut is reached the mechanism “throws” a lever, which draws a metch across a piece of sandpaper and ignites the kindling. ‘One of the latest patents is for a street lamp which has a clockwork apparatus attached to it. At the correct moment for which the rrachine is set it closes an clec- tric circuit, at the same time opening the gas pipe. Immediately the gas is ignited and it burns until shut off by the clock work at daybreak in the morning. In thi way the street lamps all over the city may be made to light themselves simultaneously without the intervention of human hands. Something quite new is a contrivance by which eggs are made to time their own boiling. A little wire basket containing the egg is put into a pot, and a clockwork mechanism {s set for three minutes’ stay. At the end of the three minutes the ma- chine pulls the basket out of the pot. ‘A citizen of Austin, Tex., is the author of a sort of water clock that is wound by rain. On the roof of a house is a trough that catches the’ rain water, which flows into the tank. When the tank is filled to a certain point it empties the water into @ bucket, which is connected by a cord with the winding drum of an ordinary clock. The bucket falls, and by its weight pulls up the clock weight, thus winding the clock. Finally the bucket reaches the floor, when a valve in its bottom opens and the water runs out. Then it ascends and re- sumes its original position, £0 as to be ready to wind the clock up again after @ while. From th He Knew the Way. From the Haverhill (Mass.) Evening Gazette. George Rey. is, the Boxford milkman, harnessed his horse early yesterday morn- ing, preparatory to covering his route as usual in this city. He left the animal for a moment to go into the house, and stay- ing rather longer than he intended he was surprised to find the horse gone when he came out. He says the horse knew it was time to be getting started, so away he went over the route all alone. It is further said that the horse stopped regularly at the first three or four places of delivery, which were in ward seven, and then aceording to custom went to the watering trough to take a drink. Here he was found by his owner, who had enjoyed a lively chase after the truant.