Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1898, Page 7

* WASH. B. WILLIAMS, Furniture, &c., 7th and D Sts. Clearing Out dd.Parlor Suites! $ In n our stocks after the 2 find a number odd ¢ only one or two of @ g ich we have couciuded to : aid below cost. 3 hints induce you to Investi- Cpe Handsome Over. Parlor “+ * $27.50 $30.00 $37.50 $45.00 satin da duced fro $80 to. iticent Overstuffed 3-piece ng seat and edge, Reduced from satin dap ask. pech Gplece Bi Suite. satin damask, spring seat and edge. Reduced from $90 to.. Bed Couch Bargains! Two Bed Couches, upholstered neo in corda_oj Reduced from #0 ‘to. $12.00 Wash. B. Wiilliams,7th&D. Jal-6od We lead this section of the country in Razor selling. More Razors, better Razors and lower-priced Razors shown ‘here than any three concerns in town can offer! We sell Razors with a guarantee to shave any kind of beard as smooth and ‘“‘slick” as can be Jone with a razor. Furthermore, we keep them in tip-top shaving condition free!’ See us when out Razor buying. “Walford’s” ia ae oo Pe ae. od Biggest value ever offered in Washington. 98 “Ottawa,” ite.”* first class condition 28-inch Klondike. Iroquois Cycle Co., $10 14TH ST. N.W. de10-2m,40 ies PPBODBNAD3O3 SD DR FRANCK'S (GRAINS OF HEALTH ps mee GONSTIPATION a Gx <ST 08 LEROY, eure E. FO del-m.52t,14 Ever Bui Silas, warerooms, 1225 out the country. cal engineering. Carrying capacity. 2,500. Ibs. ht... -305 1 bs. 132 Ibs. t. 9 in. 30 in. —Is pow on exhibition at our warerooms, in to view the big wheel. Bradbury ORI-TEN The Largest and Only Bicycle ; It Which Carries Ten [len}! Is now on free exhibition at the Bradbury factory public generally and wheelmen in particular are invited to call and inspect it. chine has been exhibited and ridden all over the United States, and has been viewed and marveled at by millions of people, including the most proini- nent officials of the different states, besides being shown by the American Biograph Company riding at full speed at allthe principal theaters through- constructed before, and you should not miss the opportunity to see it while it is in Washington. You will have to hurry, as we can only keep it a day or two.. The dimensions are interesting. This wonderful machine is the product of the ufacturing Company, makers of the celebrated Orient bicycles. The $50 ’98 Orient » and It fs without’ doubt werld, and is the biggest value for $50 possible to obtain. Factory Warerooms, Sole District Agents for ‘Orient’? Bicycles, 1225 Pa. Ave. + & _THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1898—14 ‘PAGES. Pennsylvania avenue, and the This »gigantic ma- It is a perfect marvel of mechani- Nothing like it. has ever been’ Largest sprocket wheel Smallest sprocket wheel. Geared to. Wattham M you should ask to see it when you come the finest and strongest machine in the DIDN'T LIKE THE LAW. She Wanted Her Cow Milked, bat Didn’t Want to Pay Bob’s Fine. From the Detroit Free Press. “All traveling men ought to be news- paper reporters,” remarked one of the pro- fession, “for what we don’t run upon in the way of news and novelties in human rature is really not to be mentioned. I was out on the road last week, and stopped at a small town at which an old school frienea of mine is sheriff. Whenever I go there 1 always drop in at the jail to visit Jim, and I never fail to see or hear something out of the ordinary. The other day while Jim and I were smoking and exchanging remi- niscences a very nice-looking little lady came into the office. “*You have my colored man, Bob, locked up here,’ she said. “Yes, madam,’ Jim answered. “Well,” she went on, ‘you must let him out right away.” “I can't, unless his fine is paid,” Jim said; ‘he is in for drunkenness and was fined $9; he will have to pay it or work it out.’ “ ‘I don’t care what he is in for,’ the lady commented, he has to be let out. He is the only person on earth that can milk my cow, and she will be ruined if you don’t let him out.’ : “Do you wish to pay his fine?’ the sheritr asked. “No, of course not,’ she replied. ‘I don’t care anything about his fine. I want my cow milked. She's fierce; she hooks every- body else, and you must let him out right away.’ {‘Well, madam,’ Jim said, ‘I can’t let him cut until his fine is paid; the law would hold me responsible.’ “I don’t care a thing about your old law,’ the lady who owned the cow exclaim- ed; ‘law i8 always doing something stupid. The idea of locking up Bob, when my cow has to be milked—it is foolish and out- rageous. I'll go see Judge Simpkins and tell him you have refused to let my, man out to milk my cow. I'll bring my cow — here. I never was treated so in my e.” “The lady flounced out, and Jim looked at me and whistled.” ———_-2-+___ France Exports Milk to En; From the London Mail. Some further particulars are to hand from our Paris correspondent as to the exporta- tion of milk from Cherbourg to Wey- mouth. It has already commenced, Messrs. Lefont & Sons having a big contract for the constant supply of milk to England. It is conveyed in large iron-bound drums containing 450 litres each. The amount of milk supplied has not yet attained the fig- ures of 50,000 litres @ day, but as certain preliminary difficulties are now overcome, and as the milk is becoming better known, the exporters hope soon to surpass the amount of 100,000 litres a day. The enterprising exporters, of course, de- clare that the milk is the very richest ever given by cow, and that, according to Eng- Ush authorities wno have tested it, it re- mains perfectly sweet in this present weather at least four days after arrival. Hitherto # good deal of this milk has been used for butter-making rurposes, but it is hoped that it will gradually enter into the retail trade. ‘his captain. AMONG THEWHISTERS Jersey by Three Tricks, COSTLY MISTAKE OF THE VISITORS Coming Intercity Match of Mixed x 26° CURRENT CLUB .NOTES - The Baltimore Whist Club celebrated the opening of the new year by defeating, by 22 to 19 tricks, the New Jersey team in the contest for the A. W. L. trophy Saturday night. The game was played at the Balti- more Whist Club. A more closely contest- ed or stubbornly fought batfle was never played at the whist table. Duvall played only the last twenty-four boards, but it was brilliant whist. Baltimore's captain played as if the burden of proof was upon him ‘and his play of many hands reminded one of the players at the sixth congress, when Chicago and New York went down before his keen perception of the cards in end play. At the eleventh trick on board 20 he had the ten and eight of trumps. The jack had been denied on the right, and the nine and six were both out. If he leads the eight and the Jack and six are on his left he loses both tricks. If He leads the ten the jack may be alone, and he loses both tricks. He reasoned well, by placing orig- inalty four trumps in each hand. If his right-hand adversary had held five he would have piayed a more aggressive game, and ied trumps through him. His position was very difficult, but he was equal to it, as to many other brilliant plays that rank him as one of the strongest players in the coun- try. He led ten of trumps, finding the nine on his right alone. : 5 New Jersey's captain played the game of his life, and many tricks were saved by his curb on his team, who rushed in several times when they thought they saw an open- ing, and but for his switching the play would have gone up to an ambuscade of the foxy McCay, who after gaining three tricks on board 19 was: congratulated by A Costly Mistnke. - A lead out of turn by Otis cost New Jer- sey three tricks, and was due to the fine perception of McCay. Whelan, with the ace of hearts turned for trumps, had Otis on his right open the deuce of hearts, Whelan allowed McCay to call the lead when Otis took the trick. Otis had had an established spade suit and four trumps to the king. McCay had a beautiful diamond suit and four trumps to the queen, jack. ‘The lead of the diamond (which he called) established his suit, and he got three rounds of trumps and forced Otis’ last trump, and got the full benefit on a costly lead out of turn. eee New Jersey demonstrated its ability to play whist, and Milton’ Work and all those present congratulated the players on their showing. Their heavy swings on boards 6, 21 and 37, showed they ‘were putting up better whist than on their’ first visit. The obstinacy with which’ they clung to Balti- more was a source 4 ety and com- ment to the scores of’ players who were playing the same hands over in the other rooms, among whom Were ‘Dr. Gaither and John Hinckley, whose game against all comers was exceptionally strong, outplay- ing both the teams in’ the ‘adjoining rooms, LOLA LA NSS Sete a eeSetseeseasententegeeteeteetent here. refeete e produced—exclu: Soe The Quality Store’s January Clearan Fine Furniture and Carpets drop below the long-established custom of ours to start the new styles—nothing but the newest—here. way to “keep store” right—and we go ahead—wi The announcement that one of our big sal Whatever is offered is the best that can bi existing prices. Hoeke’s bargains are bargains indeed. price level of the cheap and ordinary kinds when we year with a clearance of the stock on hand. That’s wh It isn't done without the sacrifice of a good deal of cold cash—but ithout mincing matters—in justice to our reputation—and to les is on crowded the store today. Everybody knows just what they are going to find sive in style in many cases—and the reductions are from regular = ce Sale. in,our cutting. (It isa |: you never see any old ~ we believe that. is the only. the benefit of our patrons. 4 Look carefully over your house—and discover a need if it is possible—for to supply it now means a saving. eet And thi now. Sreteedneseeseeteegondendendongee Choice of All 75c. Tapestry Carpets, _ os Chamber Suites. you to rank the b inferior grades, ions sp Onk Chamber very lates t possible maancr; with eheyal $39 ite, massive - With large ered cheap at $100. Clearance price.......... $69 Suite, selected e, and heavily it's an ornamental t, it is worth all $48 uniquely ch'plece full $59 pieces, and We were and Cons it was marked. Clearance STANCE, PFICe. .-.-<. lar $20 Oak S thre ‘of t offer such - More as- ..- $22.50 tique finlsh, any proof that we give ie. we have only to ask ey are extra attractive, ‘ered Chamber Suite, whi fh xe a in bi the « is most bargain af $35—a wonder at Clearance price...... $27.50 ¥ Roll Head Box Couches, from $13.50 to... which China Closets. *: Prices can credit themselves with the biggest © Solid Maboany China Closet, swell serpentine glass mirror buck and oval plate top a combination of erystal and fi cabinet work REDUCED frou $73 to the. Clearance price.......... $48 Large Solid Mahezany China Closet, with rd’s-eye maple back and shelves—offered the uph Most at Clearance price.......... $33 pri . But the original figures tell t kK the advantage the offering gives you—in satisfaction and saving. ..- $14.75 | of these Ching Closets are exclusive patterns, of we have but one of a kind left. re is price for Carpets that the manufacturers have notified us will be ad The patterns are all new, carefull choice is of any in stock, and the variety You must ke We sell—the RE prompt truth of the qualities Carly Birch Chamber ey ront and fine finish all through; Clearance price. ... Regular $100 Fine Curly Birch ( Su h handsome cheval glass made to our order, with all the extras we have put into our suites. g 8 Clearance price...... Regular $75 Bird's Eye Maple, one of the most popular styles of the season: dresser finished with oval glass of tine French. plate. Clearance price........... $58 Regular $60 Mahogany Chamber Suite, new style, best of workmanship and tine, sclect- ed materials. Clearance price...... $47.50 Regular $75 Mahogany Chamber Suite, with French dresser—it shows its value in the making as well as the materials. Clearance price... Regular $00 Mahogany Chamber Sutte, with French dresser, three large pleces and one of the latest styles. Clearance price... ae $75 Regular $100 Mahogany Chamber Suites, with French dresser—as handsome a suite as ansbody need want. Clearance price........... $85 Regular $150 Two-piece Mahogany Chamn- ber Suite, empire style—as fine as they make them. Clearance price.......... $95 Regular $225 Two-piece Mahoginy Suite, in empire pattern, made especially for us, and the richest value you cam buy. Clearance price......... $150 Regular $90 Mahogany Chamber Suits full swell front, with English washstand. Clearance price.......... ‘namel Beds, in all sizes—Special price.......... $2.95 Antique Dressers and Washstands—Special price......$13.50 Cherry Dressers and Washstands—Special price........919.00 olstcred in Tapestry. Reduced Solid Oak China Closet, with f Grawer st bottom REDUCED. tron rd t Clearance price...... $14.75 15C. ya. Parlor .. Suites. styles, result most quickly. 5-plece Turkish Suite, upholstered in sik damask, and finished with silk {ringe—the best value ever offered at $175. Clearance price......... $125 S-plece Overstuffed Suites, upholstered in Fe tapestry. Regular price has been Clearance price. Saeece -$98 5-plece Velour Embroidered Snite—a most effective style and durably made. Clearance price... ....§37,.50 $57.50 | Hat Racks. Large Quartered Oak Hat Rack, 4 feet 6 inches, that has been selling at $75—of- fered at the Clearance price.......... $45 5-foot Quartered Hat Rack, a design that was mude espqcially to our order, and that has been selling at $90—is offered at the $58 Another 5-foot Quartered Oak Hat Rack, different design, better plece, more elabor- ate; price has been $100—offered at the Clearance price........... $6] Clearance price... Sideboards. January a losing below their cost price. Regular $12.50 Oak Sideboards, and foomy. with drawers sen ee Clearance price........ $0.00 Regular $35 Quartered Oak Sideboard, with two swell-front drawers, French plate mirror, shelf top and bottom, with brackets on each side. , Clearance price...... $23.50 Quartered Oak Sideboard, four feet 4 pith large French plate miiror, carved dost Clearance price. ......... $25 Regular $60 Quartered Oak Sideboard, fall serventine French plate mirror, with shelf and brackets. Clearance price......... $43 During this sale we shall offer an 8-foot Oak Dining Table for. $4.95 We shall sell a lot of $4.50 Mahogany-back Dining Chairs 9 Choice of Any Moquette Carpet in the House, 85c. a yd. vanced on January 15 to $1.35 a yard. You’d better buy lly selected, strong colors, and the very best grades of Moquette, the fashionable Carpet. The is large. We give you the chance to save just exactly fifty cents a yard. Will you take it? Choice of All goc. a Choi f All $: DOC, yd. Tapestry Carpets, try ‘ Tapestry Carpets, choice of the stock—the very: best values it = - contains—the very newest and most popular When we cut we don’t consider anything but a price that will accomplish the If you haven't one—or if you want to repidce the one you have for a new style—at not much more that balf the real value price—now 13 your chance. This season we” boards we have ever shown—ai this Clearance Sale. month gives you a chance to buy these bh ‘Furniture, Carpets & Dra; Penna. Ave. & 8th Street. a a ae Sof 90¢. Fa. As this is a Clearance Sale—sou get the Senden hen erdondontentontons 5-piece_ Mahogany-finished-frame _ Suite, , upholstered in best brocatelle aud’ fancy: tufted—REDUCED from $75 to $ 8 Clearance price... ..., Suite, S-plece _ Mahogany-finished-frame upholsteredin silk tapestry of new pattern —a wonderful value at the $35 Clearance price....,. 5-plece Parlor Suite, back of sofa inlaid and upholstered in French silk rep—RE- DUCED from $90 to Clearance price... «i... $48 Soteg sSradeodesdonteateateateate oseogorgentenroatoateateateeseatestenteatoaseeteatoetertoagentesfoateasrateatesth featesteeaieatrete Goster teste stodinnindin gh te epntant We have one Oak Hat Ravk that has the slightest sort of a defect in the mirror— you'd hardly notice it if your attention was bot called to it—but it cuts the price from 10 “ Clearance price.....<.....$18 5-foot Quartered Oak Hat Rack, hand somely carved, and seat and back up- holstered in illuminated leagher; an orna- ae to any hall. Regular price has been 0. - Clearance price. .......... Solid Oak hall Rack, with oval French mirror—worth all of fered at the Clearance price... -.-.$16.50 Solid Oak Hat Rack, With®French plate mirror—REDUCED froud3§19.d8 to Clearance price. 42 t$13.50. 178 kg seat choteeit? the lndét ‘or: ‘That policy of} our¢ that andsome Diping oRoom De Bs Regular $65 Mahogany)” Sideboard, with full swell front, large mljrpr ‘qnd brackets. ‘k of Side- hem go into makes Pieces ‘have had the nd Clearance price. /3.25,.-.- $4 Regular $87.50 Oak’ Sidetoard, with two mirrors on top and two shelves, heavy fluted decorations, < Clearanice price. $28 for.$2.75 33 = péries, . and denronstrating that Baltimore bas oth- er championship thaterial to draw from in case of an emergency. The team was handsomely entertained at Rennert’s, and.the possibility of being the club that will have the proud distinction of sending the trophy west at the midwinter meeting, with the fact that it was New Year's day, made the Baltimore boys feel that they had a right to celebrate. The New Jerseys vow vengeance on the Atlantic Association trophy, and about the Ist of February they will find something easy at Philadelphia, as they have not re- covered from the shock that Walbrook gave them. _Mogridge declares he will never en- ter another mateh. The match between the mixed pairs of ‘Washington anu an equal number of Balti- more players is looked forward to with great interest in Baltimore whist circles. Miss’ Dallam, Miss -.ough, Mrs. Reuling and Miss Gardner are .ne Baltimore ladies. The latter, Harvey McCay says, is a bril- liant player, and will greatly strengthen the team, while Beverly Smith says Mrs. Reu- ling is a daring, aggressive player, and that Washington will not be in it when the final tricks come to be counted. From the \Washington club Miss King has been selected as one of the players. Her whist is.of the highest order,-she is a close reader of .s.e cards, and understands the conventional game well. She will gar- ner many. stray tricks from the Baltimore players. The match is on for Thursday, the 20th, and will take place in Baltimore. Local Club Notes. The C. Bi. C.’s have not had any handi- cap games during the holidays, but have had whist of a nigh order, and great in- terest in it during the week. The whist rooms of the C. A. C. have been crowded during the holidays, and many visitors have added zest to the game. Louis Korn has been winning laurels at Newark, the home of strong whist players, having won the prize at the Whist Club during the week of his stay in that c..y. The Washington Chess, Checkers and Whist Club has taken new interest in whist, and a rubber can be had there any afternoon. The Wimodaughsis gives the lovers of the game a chance next Saturday evening to test their whist skill, and as handsome prizes are offered, there will be quite an incentive to take part in the game. Mr. Safford will conduct the tournament and use his system of scoring for pairs, no doubt taxing his system to the limit. Two sections will be played, one for those wish- ing to play progressive whist, and one for the Safford system. The tournament will be duly advertised in The Star. REVOLT OF THE OARSMEN. Discussing Plans of a New Rowing Assoc ion, Although little has appeared recently in print regarding the secession of row- ing clubs from the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen the movement is by no means dead. Negotiations are in progress among the clubs and the coming spring will see a formidable break in the ranks of the long established organization. The reason for the extent of this movement is that a vital principle is disregarded in the management of the association. It is a matter larger and broader than a dis- pute about what man should be on the executive committee, although that con- troversy has precipitated the break, The members argue that if the almost unani- mous choice of the Philadelphia clubs is rejected, nothing can prevent the ignoring of the preferences of another section. “There is too much bossism,” is the com- plaint, “each section of the country should choose its own representative on the execu- tive committee.” With the organization of another row- ing association it has been suggested that its scope be more extended than that of the National Association. As Mr. Leh- mann, the English oarsman, has said, the weakness of America in rowing (granting that there is a weakness) is to be found in the fact that the youth of this country are not given opportunities to meet one an- other on the water early enough. It is almest always the case that when a col- lege student steps into a boat it is his first experience in shells. It has been suggested that in the pro- posed association a race be provided for scholastia crews. Such crews exist in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Boston and other cities, and an attempt is to be made in the spring to form a crew in the Washing- ton High Schools. The interest that would be aroused by a national race open to the high schools would be widespread. The National Association made repeated ef- forts to draw the college crews into its regatta, but they failed. The recommen- dation has been made that the new or- ganization make another effort and that the college crews be entered with the row- ing club crews. In the past the clubs have objected that they would be outclassed by such an arrangement, but there is no doubt that the standard of the rowing clubs has been greatly raised within the past few years. The speed and skill shown by the Toronto and Winnipeg crews are ample proof. They made the most credit- able showing at the Henley regatta in England and the clubs certainly have nothing to fear from the college crews now; they have something to learn in the matter of patience and care in training. A race in eights open to crews from Columbia, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Wis- consin universities and rowing clubs in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wagh- ington and other cities would arouse na- tional’ interest and create unequaled en- thusiasm—interest far surpassing that of the Yale-Harvard race just as the English Henley exceeds in interest the Oxford- Cambridge contest. All these matters will doubtless be fully considered before announcement is made of the new organization’s plans, but it 1s believed that to gain success a new or- ganization must be founded on broader lines, with a wider scope and a more repre- sentative government than the National Association. MICHAEL DEFEATS TAYLORE, The Little Welshman Won by Over a Mile in Twenty-Five. Jimmy Michael, the wonderful middle- distance bicycle rider, Saturday night, at Madison Square Garden, New York, added another scalp to his already long string, when he defeated Edward F. Taylore, the French champion, in a twenty-five mile race, paced by tandems and _ triplets. Michael won by thirteen laps, which is over a mile and a quarter, the time being, Michael, 51 minutes; Taylore, 542-5 sec- onds. Michael employed three triplets and nine tandems. Taylore had thirteen tandem teams, including the famous Chase broth- ers, Gougoltz and Lamberjack, the French pacemakers and champions, and the two English teams other than the Chase broth- ers. Michael weighed 96 pounds, Taylore 130. Taylore looked the most likely opponent that Michael had met this season. Michael wore his usual white costume, and received wild cheering as he came on the track.. BASE BALL. Change in Brooklyn Club Owner- ship. Charles H. Pbbets, for years secretary of the Brooklyn Base Ball Club, wiil succeed the “Napoleon of Base Ball,” Charles H. Byrne, in the management of that club. Mr.: Ebbets has secured the brotherhood interests in the club by the purchase of all that stock, which was about 40 per cent of the whole, and has an option on the hold- ings of Mr. F. A. Abell, which he will also secure, and which represents some 30 to 40 per cent of the whole stock. Mr, ‘Ebbets will, therefore, hold about 75 per cent or more of the $250,000 of stock of the club. He will control and direct the club, and will in all likelihood succeed to the presidency of the club Mr. Byrne, who is very ill and whose recovery is doubtful. Mr. Ebbets says that Manager Barnie will continue in charge of the players. He says also that if the Brooklyn people want it his club wiil play Sunday ball at home and abroad, and that he has an option on three Ha i i : fielders, and Anderson. Griffin, Jones, Sheckard and Tom McCarthy, outfielders. Jinimy McJnimes Writes to Hanion. Manager Hanlon. of the Baltimores re- cently received a letter from Jimmy Mc- James, of which the following is an ex- tract: ‘I am very much elated at the idea of | being with a good club next summer, and I shall use my very best efforts for its con- tinued success. I appreciate very much your efforts in bringing me over to Balti- More, ané shal! strive to disprove yours. as well as the prophecies of the base ball scribes over the circuit, to the effect that Washington zat all the better of the deal.” The writer was mistaken in thinking Mr. Hanlon ever made such a prophecy. At th close of his letter, after saying that he Would report in good condition, he says: “I will be prepared to whip "em over so they'll look like pras.” Mr. Hanion recently received a letter from Jennings, who wrete from Avoca. The great shortstop is very enthusiastic over the deal with Washington, and said he believed it was the most advantageous deal ever made by Mr. Hanlon. He said he had taiked with a number of persons who saw McGann play last season, and all agreed that he was a great player. Trouble for the Schedule Maker. President N. E. Young says it will be impossible to fix a schedule in which no club is to stay away frem home longer than two weeks at a time. He says some of them will te compelled to exceed that time on som- trips. He is finding trouble, too, in scheduling 154 games in the 158 play- ing days which the non-Sunday playing clubs have. He thinks Saturday double- headers will be necessary at times, Two things are reasonabiy certain, namely, that the clubs will be kept “‘on the jump” to play all those 154 games and that there will be a host of postponed games, or else double-headers every few days. There is also a strong likelihood that the clubs are going to have trouble with the players, who will want extra compensation for the increased number of games or for cae on training trips before their salaries egin. CONTESTS AT CHESS. The Winter Series and District Cham- pionship Games in Progress. Interest continues keen in the contests of the winter chess series of the Wash- ington Chess, Checkers and Whist Club. Capt. O'Farrell leads, with the handsome score of 7 won, 0 lost. The others stand as follows: Mr. Tibbetts, won 5, lost 2; Mr. Woodward, won 4, lost 2; Mr. Allen Prender, won 4, lost 2; Mr. Thomas, won 4%, lost 2%; Mr. Harris, won 544, lost 3ty; Mr. Mundell, won 3, lost 5. Messrs. Hodges and Tucker have each won 2 and lost 4, Mr. Allen, won 1 and lost Mr. Crofts, won 1 and lost 5, and Mr. Campbell has lost 6 and won 0. Mr. Thomas defeated Mr. Harris and Mr. Prende> won from Mr. Mundell Satur- day night, in 54 and 42 moves, respectively. The contest for the championship of the District, in which Capt. O'Farrell and See- retary Walker are pitted against each other, is under the provisions that the winner is the player who first wins seven games. Of the eight games played so far Mr. Walker has won six. There are two correspondence games in progress with the Biddeford, Me., Chess Club and two with the Metropolitan Club of New York city. The moves are exchang- ed by means of postal cards. On the Chevy Chase Links. A large number of golfers appeared on the Chevy Chase links Saturday for prac- tice and for competition in the Saturday series for the championship of the season. A special prize for the lowest net score in the shape of a silver beer stein was also offered. ‘The biggest scores were: Mr. Mocre, hand., 14; net, 87. Mr. Lafferty, tctal, 109; hand., net, 94 Mr. Marrow, hand., 15; net, 94 Mr. Lewis Earle, total, hand., 15; net, Major Denny, total, hand. 96. Mr. Hacker, total, 120; hand. 3 . 2 Mr. McCammon, total, 100; hand., 10; net, 99. ee EDUCATION IN HAWAII, The School System There is an Old One. H. S. Townsend in the Forem. The education of the people is not a new undertaking in the Hawaiian Islands. The historian says that the first printing in Hawail was done January 7, 1822; and he adds that it was work on a school book. It is related that, when the missionaries per- suaded the king and chiefs to undertake to learn to read and write, “the king direct- ed two or three of his more intelligent sub- jects to try this matter, and see if it were safe, in which case he himself and others of rank would follow.” The results of the experiment seem to have been satisfactory, for we read that “All the leading chiefs, including the king, now eagerly applied themselves to learn the arts of reading and writing, and soon began to use them in busines: correspondence. “Beiore the end of 1824 two thousand people had learned to read, and a peculiar system of schools was spreading rapidly over the ds. Each chief sent the most proficient scholars in his retinue to his different nds to act as teache h orders to his tenants to attend school. T. eagerness of the people to acquire the new and wonderful arts of reading and writing was intense, and at length almost the whole population went to school.” @ public school system estab- al Hawaii while Pestalozzi was still trying his experiments at Yverdon—a decade before that educational revival in New England with which the name of Horace Mann is forever linked, and some years before the surveyor, sent to lay out a town site under the protection of Fort Dearborn, found uply a score of inhabi where now stands the great city of cago. This school system, though crude, full of life and effectiveness. Many later chiidren were sent from San Fran- cisco to Honolulu in order that they might have better educational advantages than those furnished at the city by the Golden Gate; and indeed one governor of California looks back to his alma mater at Honolulu. The first written constitution and laws of the Hawaiian Islands were promulgated in 1840; and among them was a law pro- viding for a school wherever “parents hav- ing fifteen or more children suitable to attend school live close together.” From that time to the presen{ education has held the attention of legislative and executive bodies. And thus the present educational system has grown up. The legislature of 1898 passed an act amending and consoli- dating the school laws of the country. . As a rule, every village and hamlet where a dozen children of school age can be as- sembled has its school open during ten months in each year. * * * The compul- sory education law reauires that children between the ages of six and fifteen attend school during the entire school year. * * * As regards the nationalities of teachers, an unpublished report of the minister of ‘| public instruction shows that of a total of 483 teachers, there are 61 Hawaiian, 63 part Hawatian, 226 American, 76 British, 8 German, 5 French, 6 Scandinavian, 13 Portuguese, 12 Chinese and ten of other nationalities, —$-o-o—___ How is England to Be Fed? From the Nineteenth Century. I found a general confidence in England that theories of some kind, or luck, or a kind Providence, or something, would bring them through all right; but I found no one able to satisfy me as to how England could be fed under war conditions. No one seem- ed to appreciate that in the great wars with Napoleon the united kingdom was-abie to feed itself, and that even as late as the Crimean war in 1854-5 the home production was, after deducting seed, 16,427,742 quar- ters and the imports only 2,983,000 quarters. The present condition of Great Britain is without a parallel either in its own history or the history of any great nation. England is living from hand to mouth more than people have any idea of. I found from the best authority I could get in Liv- rt, the supply of wheat in the hands of im- perters was for between three and four reeks. , Inquiry in a number of bakers’ POPC CCC errr eercceeescos . Pure Cod Liver Oil, 50c. pt. —Our Cod Liver Of te pure. the finest you can buy. We sell a bottle every half hour, where the ordinary druggist selis one a week ean alford te import our own oll © quantities, while bh the wholesale drug; nal qnantich 0 fishy tente, staleness ale) Merte’ : : : : : : : ! ° Irs has to eee no Impurities. no mur Cod Liver Oil Queen Anne Lotion, 25c. —Rest thing in the world for chapped hands. Everybody says so, Mertz’s Pharmacy al Ith and F Sts. eeccee CHESS AND ITS PLAYERS je . . . . . je OOo oe or eereooes eee ooeermooe oe The festivities incident to this season of the year have somewhat interfered with the schedule of the championship tour- mament at the Washington Chess Club, as some of the players are absent from the city. Captain O'Farrell has added two more games to his string of victories by defeating Mr. Campbell, who succumbed after playing about half an hour, and by winning from Tucker. While the captain keeps on winning, one by one his rivals for championship honor drop games. ‘This time it is Prender’s turn to lose. He played against Mr. Woodward, and adopted the Petroff defense. Both parties played an attacking game, and Mr. Prender need- lessly sacrificed a piece, which eventually cost him the game. Mr. Harris added to his score by defeating Dr. Hodg: win- ning a king knight's gambit in nineteen moves. Mr. Harris could have mated in fourteen moves, but adopted a longer methor Thomas added a point to his score by winning from Crofts. The following is the standing of the players: Won. Leet, 3 4 5 2 4 bu 2 4 -4 1 3 .3 1 5 ~ % o s No additional games have been played in the District championship match, the score of which remains: Walter, 6; O'Farrell, 2. Washington chess players were favored the past week with a visit from Mr. L. C. Karpinski, champion of Oswego, N.Y. He met several of the strong players at the chess club, and lost but one game, to Mr. Tibbetts. He won one game from Mr. Adair, one from Mr. Knight and two from Mr. Harris. Mr. Smith drew a long gan with him. At the last midsummer m ing of the New York State Chess Asso tion he. played in the first class of the general tournament and finished second, with a score of 5% out of 8 games played, being two games ahead of Mr. J. D. El- well, who was here with Mr. Pillsbury iast June and played a number of the local players. Prof. O. W. Anthony and H. I. Pyne, who were formerly connected with Columbian University, but now with one of the high schools of New York city, spent their hoti- duy vacation in the city visiting friends. Mr. Anthony won a prize in the tourna- ment at the chess club last spring. The Washington Chess Club has received a challenge to play another match of two zames by correspondence from the Brook~ lyn Chess Club. It will be remembered that in the previous match between the same clubs. Washington won one game and drew the second, thereby gaining the victory. Brooklyn will now endeavor to reverse the result, and to this end has chosen a com- mittee, composed of Messrs. R. P. Messiter, W. E. Napier and J. C. Tatum. Mr. Napier defeated Sttinitz one game at Thousand Islands last summer, and should have won the second game. The Brookiyn end will undoubtedly play a strong game, and the lceal club will do well if it e defes The challenge has not been ac Washington club, but it will in all prob ity be accepted. The strongest players of the club will be put on the committee. The annual meeting of the Washington Chess Ciub occurs this evening. The following scores the “skittle have been made in ournament at the chess club: w Mr. Walter C. Od who is a very stron: er, ying played nine gam. liminary round, ea: tournament of the Pillbury Corre 4 Association, with the score of seven games ‘won and two lost, will spend the winter in this city. in th The following is the score of the game be- tween M rrell and J. W. Harris championship tournament at the chess club White. White. Black W. Harris. P.O'Parrell. 20 RKB K-K:3 K—B2 After 2 few more moves white resigned. a Sleep, Work and Longevity. From the British Medical Jonrnal. Some of the greatest workers of our day have done with much less than eight hours of sleep. Dr. James Legge, professor of Chinese in the University of Oxford, who has just died at the age of eighty-two, was, it is said, in the habit of rising at 3 a.m., and allowing himself only five hours of sleep. Brunel, the famous engineer, for a considerable part of his life worked nearly twenty hours a day. Sir George A. Elliott, afterward Lord Heathfield, who was in command throughout the great siege of Gibraltar, which lasted four years, never during all that time slept more than four hours out of the twenty-four. “As I get old,” said Humboldt, “I want more sleep— four hours at least. When I was young, two hours of sleep were quite enough for me.” On Prof. Max Muller hinting that he found this a hard saying, Humbolt sai “It is quite a mistake, though it is very widely spread, that we want seven or eight hours of sleep. When I was your age, I simply lay down on the sofa, turned down my lamp, and after two hours’ sleep I was as fresh as ever.” He lived to be eighty- nine. These examples are, to use the con- secrated phrase of the hagiographers, more for admiration than for imitation; but they serve to show that longevity and a smail allowance of sleep are not in all cases in- compatible. ——__-+ e+ ____ She Was Sure of Her Position.