Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1897, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1897-16 PAGES. — ————————— WASH. B. WILLIAMS, 3 Furniture, Ete., 7th and D Sts. — Open Evenings until Xmas. €O9269SS 698008 998080800 ANY OF THESE eS ® MAKE SENSIBLE GIFTS. splend'd Rucker, Children’s Chairs, 60c. up. Ladies’ De: 3.50 Up. Five-drawer Chiffoniers, $4 up. Dressing Tables, $3.50 up (these have mirrors) Morris de21-Hod ‘Don’t buy any - gifts till you SeeWalford’s Pun Alt sorts of aphie pen ie Sets. ry. Kuiek Knacks fe * that no nd the add “009 Pa. Ave. two sse8 4 OPEN EVENING: “CRESCENT” Bicycles For Xmas 28-in. “Crescents” 26-in. “Crescents”’. --- $30. |; 24-in. “Crescents”.........- $25. 20-in. “Crescents”.......... $20), nm Wheel Works, SE. Co oth and H Ww. wo HARRY ?) » » © Biggest t ‘ ¢ a. . $10 ameled and » : $19 ¢ 4 ondit nD ’) uois Cycle Co.,- J Slv 14TH ST. NW. / 13m. \ SE | c= Se ee ars \ ( % 5 ( °° —Ornamental Casts, Ex- / °° amples from Cabinet Photo ¢ } ¢ ee |. Case chanical Drawing .* « friends wonld appreciate a gift of ° * the above articles, and they can be se- 7 | °° cured during our, Kemoval 8: ) oe 10 to 2 per cent off marked prices. ( ae be di secute your gifts before the *° © choicest are sold. Sc A Seok td (Fred. A. Schmidt, 504 9th. DPD See OO EYPOrUcuLak PRICES AT STEVE: 40c. Sachet to $55. | Powder, 25c. =s aid a the most delic tte lasting. desirable as XMAS ‘0 PH tse “Ha -- At ho time during the year Is the supe fority of the cleetric Hight over gas I 80 botice able in the days prec Christmas, wher all the stores are evenings. Haven't you noticed how brighter and mcre inviting are the « op mu. ta ——— isi s which are fumined by = ity?) Merehaats who still empl ——— Ugbts should not lose a minute in subs. tuting electricity U.S. Electric Li lath st “Phe Dore e eee e cerca :Are You Blue? If you had only had your teeth attended to? But there is time yet to have relief by Xmas. 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Umbrellas— natural $4.48 for French Trivot Jackets —with satic-beund edges— sleeves and pockets. GOS 9S SSO 89890 = xe) co for Silk-and-wool Jackets worth $7.50—in_ beautiful @ $1.5" —for Pure tial Handkereh 29c¢., for Suspenders—each pair in a fancy box. 50c. for Pure Silk Suspenders— each pair in a fancy box. 25C. kk Neckwear— including the $2.00 Hats—all und Fe- for Pure for Pure for regular $3 for Pure shapes in Derbi $1.00 for All-wool Ui red, gray. hair and feeced. thals. 10c. Linen all shapes and sizes. 50c. silk chiefs with elaborate 509 SOSGO 50c. ® Col for Colored-besom Shirts— ir with a pa cuffs to m: of detach h. dC. for 6 palre of Tmported (3 Black or Tan Hesiery. 4 Handker- ini Worsted Golf Ho: NeH LEAKY GAS MAINS. endoes Waste and Danger in Large Cities. From the New York Post The Tre In a western city not long ago a leaky s main destroyed every living thing in an eXternsive ursery and greenhouse be- fore it could be lecated and corrected, caus: i damage of many thousands of dol- a lars. That we do not see mere of this in New York is due to the fact that there is very little vegetation left for gas to kill. Nowhe ia the United States is the ro of gas greater than it is ‘Iphia, with its record of . ranging from 700,000) to sw,000 cubic feet per mile of main per annum, falls behind New York in quan- tity, though perhaps not in percentage of loss te production. Some old mains in New York, which been looked for year: » Said to leak up to nt of the gas passed through As the area of asphalte ed the evils incident to this gigantic lie nuison ure emphasized, and it diy becoming a ¢ public dange comparatively equent — explosion corvenienuy attributed to “sewer tre due to this cause. In the cobble stones and Belgian blocks the up i out above or near leakag now finds its way and cellars, where ave not after per them. ts is extend- pub- is gr the It it » mixtures with the con- fined air smoker who drops . burning match or cigar stump into the Street, Is very likely, a second later, find himself coursing the house t or This happens the attention a a block awa at points defective i sulation, and sometimes by sparks struck by the steel calks of horseshoes, In many of eur asphalted strc Ss up town the gas ance in cell becoming very Ip many ars the con- ditions are scarcely better than those ex- isting in fiery min Not long ago I found a reekles plumber in the cellar of a splendid residence within rifle shot of | Central Park amusing himself by lighting the gas which work-d its way throug the stones of the front foundation w: It would burn a few second: Hicke: bi vith a bluish, # fame, and then go out, but could almost immediately relighted. In t cellar of all the houses on that block, as 1 learn from inquiry, the smeil of gas has been inereasingly troublesome since the reet was asphalted, and as there is in every cellar a furnace in full blast, we may any day hear of a worse exolosion than that which, from the same ca lately wrecked the house adjoining the dence of Minister Hay in London. eae Se Se sat THE POPE AS A PRISONER. n of Why He Does Not Leave the Vatican. Rome Letter in Catholi: Standard. The Catholics are accustomed to speak of the pope as a prisoner, and the Protes- tants to insist that this imprisonment is a \oluntry one. The Rome correspondent of the Catholic Standard and Times writes, urder date of October giving the reason why from one year's end to another the y change of residence for the pope is from ihe Aldobrendi Palace of the Vat- lean to the Borgia Tower of the Gardens. Says the correspondent: “Mark Twain, or somebody like to him, has told us of a captive who was confined in a dungeon for the greater part of his natural life, and who one day had the happy thought of opening the window and gett out. To those who nave nothing pontifical or regal or grand, for the matter ef that, in their intellectual make-up, it bas always seemed that the pope was in that pligkt. ‘He is such a charming old man, but why dves he stay in the Vatican?” lacies trom England «and Ameriea?) are sometimes heard to say. Just so. Since he is so charming, it may be inferred that his mind, to walch regal tradition, circum- stances, expericnce and age have added all possible enlightenment, may be the best to deciue. But if the appeal to authority be not satisfactory, there is always the argument direct. The body of his deceased predecessor narrowly escaped being thrown into the Tiber ducing his funeral, as I learn from members of the cortege. Every insult. was offered to it. Is a live pope better pro- tected than a dead one? The deat are sur- rounded with honor. The live pope is the symbol of what the revolution has made to be sedition, the symbol of rehgion in a state which is avowedly non-religious, the symbol of protest against sectarian anti- clericalism in, a state which is formally anti-clerical, and in a city which has a gocdly population of anti-clericals. Could EISEMAN BROS., Cor. 7th and E Streets N.W. STORE IN WASHINGTON. SS SO s through it on his way to Cas delfo, the only suburban residenc which the revolution has left him? “Even granting that he could do so with- cut y, he could not do so either ', I may say, with noble- t not appear in th pre ni, not top ed him by would hay ts with fal Accepting the guards offe guests in the Quirinal, he cither to accept them under protest or without prot If without protest, then without dignity or nobleness of soul. If Lnder protest, then with exposure to in- dignity. This the papal dilemma, forcible and so inevitable in its action that the popes have preferred twenty-seven years of privation of air to its acceptance.” Hix Mixsion in Life. From the Detroit Fre: That was a plausible old philosopher who tramped to the back door of a Piety Hill residence the other day. The good lady of the house supplied him plentifully with food, and then felt called upon to do some missionary work while he was eating. “My dear man you try to be Press. and brother, of some use in the world was her opening of the campaign. “Why, bless you, madam, w plays our part. These here comic papers you gets every week couldn't do no bus’ness with- ut us. We supplies nine-tenths of what them tariff fighters calls the raw material. We helps keep the world a laughin’ and a gettin’ fat and a livin’ longer, is showed by stertistics.” “That's only weak evasion,” declared the woman, as her voice grew metallic. “You're strong and se-m to have some mental ca- pacity. Why don’t you work, or go into some kind of business?” ; “1 ikinks too much of my feller-men. There's thousands of ‘em with families waitin’ fur work, and, havin’ no one but meself to look after, I'm not goin’ to take he bread out of their moutns. ; I'd ruther go hungry sometimes pinted out with scorn and hav set on ine. I can’t help havin’ kin 1?” “But you're not leading the right kind why don’t a heart, life at all. How did you first get into itened circumstances?” sy refusing to be crooked, mum. I got as muc nce as I has heart. 1 done nothin’ but what 1 thought was rignt, and owin’ to a compertution that had no sich handicap, I went broke. Now I travels and thinks and pities them a: an_hard luck.” Then the old lady withdrew gracefully from the argument by getting him another bowl of coftee, putling in an extra lump of sugar and expressing regret that they had no more meat cooked. - a A Fortune From a Waste Heap. From Harper's Weekly. Mrs. Augusta C. Genet owns a large tract of coal land in the Lackawanna an- thracite district. In 1864, says the Sun, she made_a contract with the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, whose main field of operation is in the district, by which it was to mine the coal on her !and, paying her an annual rental for the property and a royalty of 12% cents a ton on all coal that would pass over a screen of one-half-inch mesh, the coal that passed through the mesh to be waste. Twenty years later it was discovered that by rescreening this culm through smaller meshed screens a large proportion of it could be reciaimed and made a valuable commarcial coal, krown as pea coal. Subsequent!y a still smaller size, known as buckwheat coal,was screened from: the waste. These long-ne- glected cvim piles, the disposal of which was a serious problem with coal operators, have since yielded miilions of Jollars to the companies. In 1886 Mrs. Genet found that the Dela- ware and Hudson Canal Company was using a screen of much smaller mesh than was mentioned in the contract with her, and by it obtaining from <he discarded culm large quantities of coal for which she received no royalty. The company did not recognize her claim to the product of the culm, and she began suit against it in New York to compel a settlement. The com- pany claimed that under its contract the waste coal was virtually conveyed to it, and that it was simply utillzing its own preperty. “Mrs. Genet’s contention was that the waste reverted to her after it passed through the one-half-inch screen. This view the New York courts took of the case, up to the appellate division, which has re- cently also decided in her favor, giving her judgment for $40,000. —+e+—___. Mayor-Elect Van Wyck has appointed Alfred M. Downes, a newspaper man, to be his private secretary at a salary of $5,000 a year. SPORTS Interesting Basket Ball Game at the Infantry Armory. COMING OF THE YALE COLLEGE TEAM Smoker of the Washington Athletic , Club. GOSSIP OF BASE BALL Company C of the W. L. I. C. and the Mt. Pleasant Athletic Club played an exhibt- tion game of basket ball at the Infantry armory last night, the Athletic beys win- ning by a score of 4 to 2. The soldiers put up an excellent game considering the fact that this was but their second appearance. ‘The line-up: Mt. P. A. C.—Hess, h. g.; Snyder, r. £.; Walthan, 1. e.; Fischer and Mueller, r. c.; G. Smith, center; H. Smith, 1. c.; Wilson, r. b.; Hixon, 1. b.; Holmead, e. g. Company C, First Battalion—Costinett, h. g.; Brown, r. f.; Bell, Le; Grabe and Loving, r. c.; Kendall, center; Shriver, 1. c.; Peterson, r. b.; Sayres, 1, b.; McRae, e. &. Score—M. P. A. 4; Company C, Goals—For M. P. A. C., Hess and Mueller, 1. Umpires—S. P. House and P. H: Smith. Referee—T. M. Atchison. Timer—J. Schaf- hirt. Scorer—L. M. Taylor. Wrestling and Sparring Bouts En- joyed by a Large Gathering. The Washington Athletic Club gave its first smokér of the season last evening at its fine club house, on South Capitol street near N. The ertertainment consisted of wrestling and sparring bouts, and was thoroughly enjoyed by a large gathering. Dave Cleland of Pennsylvania and John Dugan of the W. A. C. sparred three rounds cleverly to a draw. Poss Holloran and Jack Doherty also sparred three lively rounds to a draw. Pat O’Connor and Ed. Shea gave an exhibition bout, after which Spike Sullivan and Jack Farrell faced each other for three rounds without decision. Farrell, who calls himself Wilmington’s “Young Fowl,” announced his willingness to meet Arthur Jones for the lightweight championship of the District. The last sparring bout was between Payton of Washington and Coleman of Baltimore, two heavyweights, which resulted in favor of the Baltimorean after six lively rounds. One of the most interesting features of he evening was the catch-as-catch-can wrestling match between Robert Roy Mackey and Joe Grant, both of the W. A. c. It was an enteresting exhibition, and was won by Mackey. As a preliminary to the regular program, Instructor Joyce and a quartet of athletes from Carroil Insti- tute gave an interesting exhibition of their gymnastic skill. At the close of the exhi- bition Mr. Br ident of the club, arnounced that athletic smokers would be given at the club house every month dur- ing the winter, and that clever sparring bouts would be a leading feature of the pregrams. BASE BALL NOTES. A dispatch from St. Louis announces the trade.of Pitcher Billy Hart of the Mound City team, for Pitcher Hughey of the Pitts- burg club and $1,800. As usual, President von der Ahe is out for the c Yhe signing of- Harry O'Hagan by the Pittsburg club has been hailed with delight by his friends in this city. O'Hagan he- gan his career as’ a base ball p yer with the Y. M. C. A. team some years back, and his work at that early date stamped him as a “comer. Harry would have been with the Washingten chub. last season, but for the fact that Mr. Wagner s averse to igning him on account of Washington be- home. pondition of Charles Byrne, pre had sli He is still very improved iast night. liam Brown, known to all lovers of base ball throughout the country as “Big Bill, dead. Once a perfect specimen of physical manhood, he became afflicted with lung trouble about two years ago and sought relief in southern California and the uiian Islands, The end came Monday night in San Francisco, his home being in that city. He was about thirty-two years old. Catcher William Clarke of the Baltimore club, accompanied by his wife, arrived in Baltimore yesterday from their trip with the All-American and Baltimore teams. Clarke said in an interview that he was sorry to see Jack Doyle go, but he sup- posed it was for the best. Clarke sa Doyle will strengthen the W “fully a ton or more.” A special from New York says that An drew Freedman, * president of the New York Base Ball Club, announced yesterday that in case the Giants win the pennant he will give them a present of He decided to make this offer in y of the abolishment by the league of the Temple cup series Will you give the Giants anything if they fini cond 1, “No, sir, not one cent. I ha done everything, in my opinion, to give w York a champion team, and I think I have suceeded. Everything now lies with the pla , and if they do not do their part no blame can be placed en my shoul- dei Nothing will satisfy me but first s learned today that at the ing of the New York club a declared at 6 per cent on Yale's Team to Be Here December 31, The Yale basket ball team will take southern trip, playing as follows: Wedne: day, December 29, Penn Wheelmen, in Philadelphi jay, December 30, Ger- antown Athle Club, in Germantown; Friday, December 31, Washington Light Infantry, in Washington. a The “Tramp Trays” Here. The “tramp trays’’ started out by Brush,the Texas whist player, containing hands made up by the editor of Whist, Cassius Paine, arrived Monday. The hands were played by the Cranfords that night. Igst night the Capital Bi. C.’s played them; tonight the C. A. C's, and Thursday night they will be played at Dr. Walls’. The Raleigh Athletic Club. Some young local base ball players have organized the Raleigh Athletic Club to unite various interests in athletics and the enjoyment of sogjal gatherings during the period -when the, tepig, uppermost in their minds is reviewed, about the fireside. Louis Voegler has been chosen president and treasurer and J. Landers Butler is cec- retary. Quarters.have,been secured at 3d and G streets northwest. A cheerful 'read- ing room is well supplied with books, mag- azines and a file of daily papers affords in- formation on current events in sporting circles. The club hopes to put a winning base ball team on-tocat fields, and will also be represented ingbicyele racing, and other contests in muscular prowess will find in the Raleigh AtBleti¢:Club an eager par- ticipant. PeOLn Usage eekly, meetings are being held. A linated umber of members are being admitted, and. reports of progress in furthering the ‘elub's:aims are encourag- ing. It 1s strictly a gentlemen's organiza- tion, but in the near future the ladies will be received and In the distant days of the coming season they hope to join in the grand stand applause in honor of the Raleigh Athletic Club and its beautiful streamers of yellow and white. SS Watching the Dauntless. The Treasury Department has notified the collector of customs at Key West to keep watch on the tug Dauntless, which is sus- pected of having another filibustering ex- fedition on hand. The information was furnished by the Spanish minister, who reported that the.Dauntless had in tow a number of barges or lighters. While there was nothing apparently unlawful in the movements of the tug, the minister said he had reason to believe she contemplated another expedition. In view of pre- vious achievements in that Mne a strict watch on her movements was ordered. “Mrs. Schuyler Colfax, with her son, still lives in the old home at South Bend,” said Judge Royse of Indiana, wno is serving nis second term as representative from Col- fax’s old district, at the Ebbitt, a few nights ago. “No man in public life was ever thought more cf by his constituents than was Schuyler Colfax by the people of the thirteenth district. As editor of the South Bend Register he came in touch with them all, and once he had their friendship, it was permanent. His meteoric career as Speaker of the House of Representatives and Vice President was in peculiar contrast with the closing years of his life. Regard- irg his connection with the Credit Mobilier he denied some things that hurt him more than if he had made admissions. There is not a man in the district who would assail his integrity. His people believed him an honest man, and he went to his grave with that knowledge. “Colfax left his wife and son some prop- erty, but I have heard that they lost con- siderable in an Indianapolis bank, which failed during the panic a few years ago. Mrs. Colfax is a niece of Ben. Wade. Col- fax and Wade were members of a party of congressmen ard their families on a west- ern trip. Nellie Wade accompanied ner urcle. She was introduced to Colfax, and an affinity sprarg up between them which ripened into love, followed by an engage- ment and marriage. The son is connected with a manufactory in South Bend.” This story was heard at Chamberlin’s: Frank Dumont, the black-face comedian, and proprietor of Dumont’s Minstrels, Phi!- acelphia, has a form and features not un- like those of Tom L. Johnson, the former single tax congressman from Ohio. So striking is the similarity to the rotund and cherubic apostle of Henry George's ide: that it is hard to distinguish one from the other. Dumont was over in New York a tew days ago, and, having a little time to spare, he strayed from the beaten path of the Rialto long enough to visit his former townsman, Manager George Boldt’s, new Astoria Hotel. As he was leaving the pala- tial hostelry a well-dressed man accosted him, and, extending his hand, said: Vell, Johnson, I am glad to see you. I understand you have moved your family to New York for the winter. So glad. I Aa “You have been wrongly informed,” broke in Dumont, who began to see the mistake. “I am still living on Vine street, Philadelphia, and my family was there this morning when I left home.” “Come, Tom, don’t try to joke me,” the man _ persisted. “I am not accustomed to being called Tom,” said Dumont, without the semblance of a smile. “The people of Philadelphia call me Frank; and ff you don’t believe fi, why here,” handing him a half dozen com- plimentaries, “teke these, and bring your family over to the sow.” The stranger stcod aghast for a moment. When he had recovered from his astonish ment, he said: “Well, I'll be d—d if I didn’t think you were my old friend, Tom Johnso: The mistake was adjusted then and there, and now Dumont thinks ne is the handsom- est man in the world. “Not less than a quarter of million dol- lars has been invested in mineral interests in Alabama within the last six month: said H. G. McCall, a lawyer and former newspaper man, at the Metropolitan. “The yellow fever scare is over and Alabama is again on the boom. Of course, 5-cent cotton has had a tendency to make pro- ducers blue, but, on the whole, the state is in excellent business condition. Thi money invested in mineral property came from all parts of the country, and it only to show that the richness of Ala- natural resources is appreciated and recognized pretty generally. There is a vast amount of gold ore underlying the state. The mining of this could be made practicable and profitable if the right per- sons with money only took hold of it. process has been invented recently which makes easy the separation of the precipi- tate sulphurets from the ore. This must arily presage the rapid development abama’s gold fields. There is no end » fron and coai interests, and north- ern capital and push are manifest every: where. Alabama is truly the coming gar- den spot of the United States. She ha: more natural resources than half the states put together.” “The government at present has the rural free delivery in operation from forty- five post offices in thirty-two states,” said William B. Gaitree, special agent of the Post Office Department, to a Star reporter at the Raleigh. ‘The last state in which it was introduced for experiment was Iowa. I have just returned from Brooklyn, that state. The people who enjoy the fruits of the experiment there are enthusiastic, to say the least. A farmer living along one of the new routes wrote to the county newspaper that in the event that the gov- ernment discontinued the service he would be one to contribute $25 a year for main- taining it independently. “I established two routes out of Brook- lyn. The north route is twenty-one miles in length anf the south nineteen. The number of families that will be served by the delivery is about 115, if all of them take advantage of it. This does not in- clude those who may make arrangements to receive their mail in a neighbor's box, which will doubtless increase the number. Parties living on these routes must pro- vide a proper box for the reception of mail near the roadside, which must be so placed that the carrier may have access to it without alighting from his conve ance. Unless these boxes are put up with- in ten days from the time the service is commenced, it is supposed that the party does- not want mail delivered and “the serv- ice where boxes are not up as provided by the regulations is discontinued. “Parties not living on the established routes, and wishing their mail delivered, may have it left in a neighbor's box by giving an order for such delivery to the postmaster. Registered mail is delivered by order only. Carriers will collect any matter to be mailed provided sufficient postage is placed in the box to pay for it, .but in no case are they permitted to coi- lect mail unless postage is affixed or money accompanies it. A signal must be placed upon boxes to notify the carrier that there is matter to be collected. I have suggested that a plece of cloth be tacked inside of the box so that the end may be placed outside of the box when there is mail to be collected. “Carriers are allowed to perform errands for patrons—except that of delivering mes- sSages—but they are not expected to do these favors without compensation. They are not permitted to carry a note from one neighbor to another without postage has been paid and duly counted. They must not carry a written order to town for goods without the postage is paid. As a matter of accommodation they receive money and furnish patrons postage stamps from the Brooklyn office. “I have given you briefly an idea of what the service is. The establishment of the rural free delivery in different sections of the country is purely experimental with | ;, the government. There is no assurance that the service will be continued longer than the end of the fiscal year, June 3v, 1898, no appropriation having been made to extend it beyond that date. However, should the recent recommendation of the department be carried into effect, the ex- perimental work would be made perma- nent if satisfactory to the patrons. As it is a matter of experiment, a reco is made of the number of letters, postal cards, use of the department. The patron who lives the farthest from the Brooklyn post office can now have his Chicago morning | Soap I will pay you in less than an hour.” paper delivered at his door at 1 p.m.” Mr. Gaitree’s home is at Marietta, Ohio. During the McKinley administration In| The tramp took the soap over to where Ohio he was a clerk in the governor’s of- fice. ——— The Saturday Star BY MAIL $1.00 PER YEAR. rd | Store at Topeka the other day, where he papers and advertising circulars | for 1 cent.” handled and delivered each day, for the| speaker and said: “I am broke, but if you IN’ GENERAL|'N HOTEL CorRIDORS|WAR CLOUD GATHERS | Situation in the Orient Daily Becomes More Critical. —_-+ —— OMINOUS SIGNS OF TROUBLE AREAD See ee Se Partition of China is the Bone oT Contention. ATTITUDE OF THE So POWERS A dispatch to the New York Herald from London yesterday says: According to a special dispatch from Shanghai, the British squadron will make 2 demonstration at Che-Foo, on the norih coast of the Shang-Tung promontory, as a warning, it is supposed, that Great Britain intends to oppose the division of Chima without consulting her. At is reported there that Russia has offer- ed China a loan to pay off the Japanese | war indemnity, and it is believed, says the dispatch, that Japan and England are act- ing in concert to preserve China from di integration, favoring the idea of a prote torate over centra! China, with a capital at uking It is rumored also, the dispatch alleges, that a large Russian military force is com- | ing overland from Siberia. German-Chinexe Commission. A German-Chinese commission has been arranged, according to a dispatch froni Shanghai to the Daily Mail, to settle the boundaries of the occupied district at Kioa Chou, and it is evident, therefore, that the will be permanent. spatch says it Shanghai that the Briush inten ED ESTEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EE EE EET EEE EEE PEt | rumored in d_ to occu: Ta-Licn-Wan, south of Port Arthur, in order to guard the Gulf of Pe-chi-Li. Another dispatch from Shanghai the German admiral commanding at Kiao Chou bay refuses to admit newspaper men within the German line © have been no fur ther developme Kiao Chou. All is quiet there. French Cruiser for China. A special dispatch from Brest ¢ the French cruiser Joan Bart has been ordered to proceed immediately to China. A dispatch from Berlin says: The Co- jogne Gazette maintains the accuracy of its statement yesterday that the Russian occ pation of Port Arthur was connected with the visit there of the British warship Daphne about a week ago. As a proof it points out that there w: neither Russian ships nor a Russian consul at Port Arthur at the time the Daphne visited the harbor, and it argues that Russia could only have learned of the visit through China's com- plaint. 2 The Daily Mail's correspondent at Tokio says there is no excitement there over the news from Port Arthur. The press is calm and the public is indifferent. at Ss Japan Needs Money. Oriental advices from Japan say that R is stirring up sentiment in Corea favorable to her-elf. The Japanese prime minister states that the government may need thirty or forty | millions for foreign emergencies in view of the ursettled concition of affair: The Japanese chief justice, who ejected frora his office by the poli clares that Japanese government © who were involved in state scanda removed him to ecver their misdeeds. Russia's seizure of the Corean finances and customs is claimed to be uncoustitu- ticnal by members of the Corean govern- | ment. Russian Strengthening Vindivostock. Travelers from Asia bring news that 1 Rrssian garrison at Viadivostock has been large reinforced during the last six months. Great activity is manifested in building the railroad from St. Petersburg to Viadi- vostock, but the work is of such magni- tude that it cannot be completed befor expiration of the year The ccnstructed for a distance of 1,20) yersts west of Viadivestock and for a long dis- tance east of Irkutsk, but the intervening space is a rough and mountaineous couu- try, presenting many obstacles to the rapid ecnstruction of the It may be possib bring troops by land from St. Petersburg io the Pacitic ccean, but in the event of an im mediate conflict with Japan Ru musi rely cn the troops now stationed at Vladi- vostock and such reinforcements as can be Lrougit thither by water transportation. Japan's army is well disciplined. It estimated that Japan can place 200.00) men in the vicinity of Port Arthur within a very short time. A dispatch from San Francisco The belief that hostilities cannot be gthened by the fact that agents of | jan empire have recently made ex- purchases of army supplies im the n says: | ar om | Unitec States for the garrison in Viadi- vosta Cable messages from V os- tock via St. Petersburg were received in this city a few d: ago inviting several firms to bid on an immense quan of pro jons. A local grocery house rec: cable from Vladivosto nviting ries, princi- , for the use ‘and an order ship loads some point in ssian agents paliy canned fruits a jot the Russian garrison there, k 1 for ivere a to be as soon as possible, probably Port Arthy It is known here also c packing house recently deliv to Rus- n agents 10,000 tons of barreled bee part of which id to have been rejected as not up to contract see HELMBOLD’S SON DR. 1 ANE. Threatened to Ki A dispatch from London yesterday Charles Helmbold, son of the late Helmbold of New York city, the we known patent medicine proprietor, has be locked up and is awaiting trial at Bow street polic ion on a charge of threat- ening to kill United States Consul Gen- eral Osborne. During the last three weeks he had been haunting the United States consulate, shabbily dressed, and demanding mone He told a story of the seizure of his clothes and effects by the Berlin consul for debt, and declared that Mr. Osborne was re- sponsible for the” seizure. Heimbold became so importunate that last Friday Mr. Osborne ordered him to leave the premises, whereupon he became violently enraged and shouted, “D—n you, I'll come back and shoot you. Helmbold returned yesterday and re- peated his threat. Mr. Osborne, remem- bering the Terriss case, summoned a po- lice officer and had him arrested. The physicians think him insane. He ad spent much time in London of recent years, living high when his family sent him money and in deepest poverty between remittances. Es A Tramp’s Speculation. From the Lawrence (Ken.) Journal. A tramp went into Manspeaker’s grocery noticed a big box of soap labeled, “A cake He approached Mr. Man- will trust me for twenty-five cakes of that Manspeaker had a curiosity to get into the tramp’s game and consented to the deal. the plug tobacco is kept and carefully wrapped each cake in a bit of tin foil pro- cured from the tobacco boxes. He then went out upon a street corner and an- nounced to passersby that he had for sale “the genuine Arabic frankincense ambro- sial shoving soap, guarantced to soften the hairs of the face until a dull knife could cut them and Reipors samt, ten ergy long.as_any other soap in the market.” In- side of half an hour he had sold every cake at 25 cents each. He paid Mr. Manspeaker 25 cents and walked off with a clear profit of 9 in his pocket. you visit New York, anata pete Wheo Enpire, FEE ttttt tt + Mertz’s. ¢ ° ° Finish Up Your List at [iertz’s. Lots of little things here you want. : Sterling Silver Toilet Articles. Net the flimsy, bar ter kind Ss. Bargain-conn Youll be surprised jleces a can buy for less than a dollar. Perfumeries. Vielet and » ae. and Ste Extracts—all the best of abutean Extracts tie, Chinaware, Too. Mertz’s Pharmacy llth and F Sts. e220 fe i Me Se ee DO a LE EL EE EEEEE EEE EE EEEE EEE EEE EEE ELE EEA EEE EEE FE EG EEF + > + > The Parisian Paten omb Teates ountless, harming oiffures. Without the use of pins or tyings. The ideal Christmas Giit. 935 F Street N. \ a" Washington, D. de2 Cc u MAYOR QUINCY RE- TED. cxeccuthys t 4,000 of Boston by erality. Mayer h Quincy, democrat, was re- cted mayor of yston yest y by a decreased plurality over ex-Mayor Cur his oppenent of two years ago, althou the city went republican at the st lion Izst month. The attempt to deme work niag atic on th t Tt a silver democr vote in by Rib city . proved f nd his audi His rallies were crow pparenuy intensely ul, bat 4 voters supr at the polls, ed him The surprise election was small vote for y. Even in the w Where he made 11 atest effort Where he was backed by young polit wae claimed have a strong followin only a few we found in his s the polls received but The total that of his own CK IN DISGUISE rded Spece! tors F and Plain LD On to the It isn’t easy to tell when Fate means well Iby aman. Some of her apparentiy hardest knocks are ail for the victim's A erushing picee of stortune 1 : means of spurring the crushed ene to n 1 ambitious eorts. la one Cley der’s cas: He was a telegraph operator, and a good one, Lat he w tin fave with the chief. In fact, t chief didn’t p many friends among the boys. He was disposed sharp and quick with them, and t op-rators are a sensitive lot here was a vacant room that hi been occu) u« long Ume, i the chief one day ession of it as a sort of | private office. Pn rater wh story this chan pened when the wash room with one of boy opened up on chief in a particularly vage fas: h revs = arated ard ev oter e face over the wash t tered and splasbed he shockiagiy left-handed we him tri-d to stop the tir catch his eye, could to him in time to shake other man exhausted h ound with a towel in hi saw the look of horror on his compani face. He knew th vas doomed. s he stepped m the wash :vom with a jaun r he met the chief seid the latter, “you are re Ss your pers »inions in public as weil as behind your victims L never wavered a hair's L id, smilingly, “and I can add « > to What I have already said.” And with that he expressed his m of f in still more vigorous aage, hat and stalked out. the first time he had been an idler s was a boy. He felt a lit i: Then he resolved on a bold strok would go straight to New York. That night he was on his way. Within a weck he had secared an excellent situs tion. Today he commands a salary of at least $6,000, “And I owe it all,” aid, not long ago to a Cleveland friend, “to the fact that fired myself out of the old operator's room. oe ae A Station Under a Chu From Tit-Bits. One of the finest enginecring feats of mod- ern times was that of constructing one of the stations for the Lew underground electric railway (from Svockwell to London bridge) immediately under the Church of St. Mary Woolncth, at the east corner of Lombard street. The question was to preserve the church intact and at the same time to get the station and railway be- neath. It is dovbtful if any engineering feat involving the same difficulties has ever been dealt with. The old foundations of the church, or most of them, had to be re- moved, and a new method of supporting the church introduce@. The south wall needed to be entirely supported on steel girders, and the north wall partially. A new foundation was essentiz! for the twelve stcne columns which supported the central structure. And ail this c! re had to be carried out without the building being al- lowed to budge a hair's breadth. The can- tral structure weighed tons, and the whcle about 1,400 tons. The engineering work, which is a very remarkable one, i8 in the hands of Sir Benjamin: Baker (one of the engineers responsible for that other fine engineering feat in the erection of the cost- ly cantilever bridge across the Forth) and Mr. David Hay. The greatest engineering work of modern times is the Suez canal, separating Asia and Africa. The total strength of the canal is ninety-seven miles, with a width of 327 feet for seventy-seven miles, and 196 feet for the ret twen- ty-two miles, and the depth is 26 feet throughout It cost £22,672,000. ———— he James T. Hobbs of Echo, Wayne county, ~ W. Va., is dead, at the age of one hun- dred and four, being the oldest inhabitant in southern West Virginia. 3 : , ’ ee Natany* amg