Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1898, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, = SS SS JANUARY 15, 1898—24 PAGES. Written for The Evening Star. A coterie of ex-confede over old times in the southern colony at the Metropolitan a few nights ago, when the conversation turned upon Gen. Robert es were talking | or black, or mixed, if he desires. Besides this, the ration has one ounce of vinegar, one ounce of salt, one twenty-fifth of an ounce of pepper. Soap to the extent of six- teen twenty-fifths of a pound goes with it. There is a ration in the army known as the emergency ration, which is less varied and reduced somewhat as to quan- tity, but the governing idea is that if food has to be served at all it is best to serve it in good quantities if it can be got to those who need it. the theory being that it is only temporary, for by the time another mining season has passed there will be supplies in plenty there. By that time, if the mines do not turn out rich. there will be very few there who will need a ration of any kind.” £* * * * Inder the law, in this District, where the common Jaw prevails,” explained a E. Lee, whose birthday anniversary will be celebrated throughout the south next week. “Not only do I maintain that Gen. Lee was the greatest master of the art of war of his age, but that he was one of the most ign of all historic characters, said Judge Mackey of South Carolina. tell this anecdote, which has never been printed, as illustrating his fine sense of and his generous consideration for of others August 16, 1864, Gen. ked Grant's left at a point sove Petersburg. The attack, made with considerable fo: 3 at first successful, a tured about 400 prisoners. As "s were brought into our lines | nding by the side of his he n order, with the paper resting Just then one of the s rushed up in a state of nt ard said to Lee: ene of your soldie: Lee's army a few miles writing upon the s stolen turned to the prisoner, who Was a youth of eighteen or nineteen, and said: “Where is the man who took your hat?" “‘H- is one of the guard; that man wii red whiskers over the the federal re- thereupon erdered Col. } f, one of the } recov vered it to the markable that a of battie, and fram- direet it, should turn « watching t ing an erder t > to res. afr » confederat in one ned kn He had no crown, i hair was a plume of nat- remarkable never wore a sword ny WC: and he t to ais the terms cf to retain their expect, as I have Grant would go form ef touching the hilt of fing to the custom of war. mious of sokiiers, did not es * * 2 miscenception as to the f the influence of heat and cold u y of the Was J | remarked a well-known engi- | a Star reporter, nd the idea | at sways cut of plumb | ndulum ap; which | ament shows occasional | n with the most exact | » by most competent men, are very slight. The | app is juated so fine that it shows aning of one-tenth of an inch. New, I find that the wea very generally Prevails that the mor ent lea away from the n several feet. There is far from being correct. The heat from the sun i the monument, as it does the ome » Capitol, but by no means to the that is generally believed. In winter thi i marked than it i for by the time the ructure to any ap- precia es around, first to th on to the w st that it eri The effect as marke y the pendu » therefore, on ma more imaginary than real, though, bave stated, in very rm Weather the pendulum shows a variance ot an inch or so at times from plumb. The same thi occurs in ver high brick houses, the twenty to thirty-story build- ings in York and Chicago, for so slight and so diffic no attention is ever given . but the matter h ant that there hed. The of iron is much than the monu- unimportant and urately e Capitol be influenced by th but this that it has i or m asceri ture of the ¢ ¥ ‘going out every mor kiss of the sun gai" therefore, to a very great extes though no doubt a very pe: * % “Until 1 to this country,” said an attache of a European legation to a Star reporter, “I never knew or had never m which prevails in this the din the ord custom _ therefore strikes very peculiar. | Throughout the d custom is to dre ‘dead gown,’ , as it is called in verally xy re are some he gowns are c tively in- however. prevails. Marie th King of Austria, accor c de with her own hands the k buried cut off her hair with her own hy » show to the world that she was many old up ? upe m. tom prevails in Irel ter that m nould crit nature and sacredness of It © ordinary European will never change in this respect. and the will always remain in use." et ee “In furnishing the supplies for the relief of the miners Klondike,” said an er of the commissary corps to a Star reporter, to t th ‘ainerd proposes army ration, as far > so. by this I zed ration, which is given rin the ai There may ng, or inde a number of which will interfere with this, but n can be car out success- y of the Klondikers w: ¥ once into th n they ever did befo extremely Hberal o1 Captain Brainerd will take a quantity of pork and bace what out of the usual propor- his experte in the arctic has shewn him that pi the fatter the better. is the best thing t t is obtaina- ble he army ration provides for twelve ources of fresh meat when it can be had or fourteen ounces f dried or eighteen o of fresh fish. In other respects the ration is equally liberal, giving eighte ources of flour or twenty ounces of me per day and a helf ounce of baking pow- ¢ It gives two and two-fifths ounces of beans per day, one and three-fifths ounces of rice, one and three-eighths ounces of. hom- fry, twelve and four-fifths ounces of po- tetoes, and three and one-fifth ounces of enions. When coffee is furnished each ra- tion will have one and three-fifths ounces per day, ground, or nearly the same amount Of tea, the user having a choice of green | up my | time daily record is kept of the pendu- | law lecturer to a Star reporter, “the gov- ernment owrs the bodies of those who pro publicly executed and need not sur- render them unless it desires to do so. I den’t think there is eny instance where the government ever asserted this owner- ship, but it is clear that it exists and can be asserted if it is desired at any time. The government for a time held the bodies of those executed for complicity in the assassination of President Lincoln, as also that of John Wilkes Booth, the assa but afterward, on the request of the rela~ tives, surrendered them, though it never recognized that thcse who claimed them did so by any legal right of ownership. The late Gen. B. F. Butler, who is recoz- nized as one of tke legal giants of his day, went further than this, and insisted in the case of a Georgetown policeman who killed a man at a pienic place just outside of Georgetown that there was no law in District for the execution of any one rope. He maintaired that under the common law, ther? being no statute law on the subject of executions In trict, the orly executien that could legally take place was to hang the con- demned persen in chains. He insisted that he would not allow his client to be y Way that was not strictly notice that he would c at every point. The matter, never adjusted for the rea- son that President Grant reprieved the sentence of death to imprisonment, and afterward pardoned the man. who looked into the question feit confident t there wei legal reasons tor Gen. Butle: the matte! $s position in though many of them did not go as he did in the claim. Chi Justice Cartter, who presided over the Supreme Court of the District at the tim afterward in talking over the claim, said ould be much betier satisfied if there 1 on Congress to t insisted on by nd that he was right in the it was custom instead cf at had governed executions, the manner of them, in this Dis- written law t that i —_+ A TRAIN-ROBBING STORY. The Drammer From New rates a Bit of Romantic Experience. ‘The drummer had just finished reading a story of a train hold-up and let his news- rk Nar- | paper fall into his lap. “I had a rather romantic experience once with train robbers,” he said, “which I think I won't ever forget. I had been laid up sick for a v a tavern in a Kansas town and m ant had been very sweet and gentle girl, who was a relative of the landlord's. She was such a nice girl that 1 s in no hurry to get well, and while I Was putting it off all I could I was as in strio puiting on the chains of loy At the end of ten sample case town my ¢ Iw: je to_tak again, and when I left ntl> nurse was on the me tin, in my charge, bound for Kaasas City, where she to be met by friends. I had ever talked love to her, and I fancy she in’t Suspect me of anything except a d to flirt a little, but I had made up my to her before I let y from me. t men do und iting for a ance to come in, but before I reach ed tbe proy ondition the train came to sudden stop in a lonely place, and by t ime we had asked what the trouble was a half-masked train robber stood in the aisle of the car with a revolver covering the contents. The girl: turned as white as a sheet and I thought she would faint, but I told her she wouldn't be hurt, and she sat there staring as if she had turned stone. As it happened, I kept my wits, and when a shot a shout rose on the air outside 's attention for a ed my revolver out of my coat pocket and would have got him I brought the gun around the caught my arm and stopped t ner in amazement. al and z hile tne robber out in response to the calls from his partner: “As for me thought prob r me not to : | by trying to ge concluded the drummer, “I y it would be just as well id to the poor girl's troubles t into her family. —- INJOY A CIGAR. Tro But Few Men Ever Get the Very Best Results. | “Personal observation has taught me | said a Ci cigar dealer to a Star ri porter, “that not one person in a hundred nows how to smoke a cigar to enjoy it oughly. For instance, most men, after ying their cig: ck them between | their teeth and gnaw the ends off reckless- | ly, thereby tearing and loosening the wrap- per. Then they light their cigars and puff away as if their very lives depended upon finishing them in a hurry. Thus treated | the fi cigar will burn irregularly, and the smoke nine times out of ten, lay the bl the clyar. The cigar may in most cases the fault in the way it has been handled. After a cigar has been bought the eng should be cut smoothly off by a clipper or sharp knife. The reverse end should then be pl. in the mouth and the cigar blown through. This removes all the little par- ticles of dust which cannot be avoided in he manufacture, and prevents them from ng inhaled into the throat, and from siucing coughing. ‘The cigar should then > lighted, and partitular attention should being thoroughly ignited all of the end. Then instead like a steam engine the | Smoker will find that three or four puffs | every minute make the best way to enjoy the cigar. The smoke should be kept in the mouth a short time in order to appre- ciate the flavor of the tobacco. Then it should be emitted slowly. . but “In one side of the clgar should burn and leave a ragged edge on the other side, it is not necessary to relight it, as I often see m through the e do. A gentle blow ar toward the lighted end will ignite the ragged side, and it will burn regularly. Smoking this way is a pleasure. It frets me to a man smoking a cigar | who does not know how to enjoy it, and I often feel like giving him a few words of | advice, and would do so were it not for the fear of offending him.” Cuthbert (who was coming downstairs with a biscuit in his hand, has come a ter- rific cropper)—“‘Fank doodness! Butter side up!""—Punch, A BIT OF HUMAN NATURE A train boy on a railroad, who sold fruits and other articles supposed to be indispen- sable for travelers, at cne time had such an enormous demend fcr peanuts that he was questioned on the subject by one of the people connected with the company. “You sell three times as many as any boy in our employ,” the boy was told. “That's all right; I know me business better’n they do, I guess,” was the an- swer. “I put one pearut in the lap of every passenger, an’ they do the rest.” There was something of the kind done, all unconsciously enough, yesterdey after- noon or @ 14th street car. The car was pretty well filled with passengers. There were a fat Irish lady, an old colored man, a gentleman of evident German ancestry and a number of ordinary people, include among whom was a Star reporter. The car was proceeding down the street, when suddenly and without apparent reason an overpowering odor of coffee filled the air in the car. It was a mest appetizing odor, by the way, and the effect it had on the passengers was marvelous. The old colored “uncle,” who had been rapping in the cor- ner, opened his eyes and raised his nose up in-the air, much as does an cld dog, when a sniff of a rabbit, elusive though it may be, is had. The Irish lady rolled her eyes and worked her long upper lip convulsive- ly, as if she wes tasting something good, while the German representative smacked his mouth, as if he already tasted the cof- fee. The other people all looked interested, as if there was a prospect of something good in sight. The conductor, who came in to collect a fare, remained and took deep sniffs’ as if he liked the new odor. He looked at the reporter suspiciously, as if he thought the newspaper man had a cup of coffee con- cealed about his person. He returned to the platform with a sigh. It was a mystery where the coffee odor came from. It appeared to grow stronger every minute. Suddenly the old ‘uncle pointed a long, brown finger at a package held by a lady just opposite him. “Missus, yo’ bundle’s bruk, an’ its leak- in’, he said. “Oh, my goodness! There goes my fine Java coffee I just had roasted specially by my grocer,” the lady exclaimed. “That cof almost worth a cent a grain. Dear me, it’s too bad!” Whether it had the same effect on the other passengers or not could not be learned, of course, but when The Star re- porter went to dinner, soon afterward, the first thing ordered was a cup of coffee, and then another. oe A NARROW ESCAPE. His Cont Caught and He Came Very Near Being Cremated. A number of club sportsmen had been telling stories mostly illustrating “the hair- breadth escapes” they had experienced on various hunting expeditions in the far west. There was only one member in the group who had remained silent, and he was asked to relate something for the general enter- tainment. “I was just thinking of an exciting and nearly fatal ride I had on a farm wagon when hunting in the Adirondacks last No- vember. Would you like to hear about it, boys?” inquired the silent member. “Yes; go aheal,” urged everybody. “Well,” he continued, “I had been out all day shootir s partridges, quail and all other game that came within reach of my gun, and late in the afternoon when my bag was full I came to the conclusion that I had had a fair ¢ ort and would go home. But I didn’t re how fagged out I until Is on my journey, and the fact that I had a heavy load to carry for five miles betore I reached the farm house whe w anything but ple contemplate. However, I had gone mile on the country road when I he rumbling of a vehicle behind m looking round I saw a big with hay. The driver soon me, and, learning that he w ance from wher I lived, I a: giv He gave’ me 7 Stopped his horses and when I had bled up on top I Is we went sw: down the re ing te s when caught up to s going a short vinging ple a. just thinking old farmer with a suddenly there was a bang s, had gone off. The hor: » a jump and the driver rolled off his at into a ditch, where he lay stunned and motionl Then I discov d that my gun had set fire to the hay, and I thought it was al time for me to jump for the road. horses were tearing along the road as fast as they could run, but I clambered for the side of the road and slid for the ground. “The tail of my stout hunting coat cai on the top of a sharp-pointed standaré and there I hung to the careening wagon that every minute threatened to up: and y dump a load of burning hay on me at & turn of the highway. “The fire was crackling and burning fiercely and already I could feel the flam Sull the horses ran and still my coat held me fast to that seething mass of fire. My trousers be: getting uncomfortably hot and then I observed with horror that my coat was on fi! The ne mome loose cartridges in my pockets bes ploding from th birds broilin; ed," said one ypened next?” ~ “I had just made up my mind that 1 w: going to be ed alive when the tail of my coat burned off and I was thrown into a ditch fuli of water on the road. Present- ly, when I had recovered my senses, I got up, brushed the mud from my clot resumed my journey without stopping t e what I become of the horses, my gun and the The next morning I took the first train for New York, and thus ended one of the most exciting shoot- ing trips I have ever had. A The Truthfal Narration of a Dentist Who wv Hix Business. The man in the chair of torture w: monstrating with the doctor of dental sur- gery. “That all right,” said the dentist, “but you are foolish not to let me build that tooth up with gold for you.” “What's the use? It will cost me forty dollars, you s nd I cannot afford to eat my five-dollar-a-week board with a forty: dollar tooth. It is too much dead capital. “Is it?” smiled the dentist. “Listen to a story. About ten y make a living in the west in partnership with a fellow who wasn’t any luckier than I was. We worked around to the north, where the winters are as bad as they are in the Klondike, and our funds kept getting lower and lower until starvation sat down to table with us. The weather was get- ting colder, too, ana the last wagon train out was booked for the following Sunday, then two days.away. It was our last chance, for to remain there for the four months till the trail was open meant death, sure. The price to go with the train was twenty-five dollars each. Just what twen- ty-five dollars amounts to you will never know until you need it as badly as we did. “We hadn’t @ cent on earth, and nothing to put up to get one with. It was indeed a cold day for both of us. By Saturday noon we had given up all hope of getting out, and had retired to our shanty to drown our sorrows in a quart of whisky we had discovered, no matter how. AS we sat gazing in stupid despair at each other with the full bottle between us, my partner grinned a ghastly grin and the gleam of the gold in his filled teeth caught my eye. I concealed my feelings and quietly asked him how many teeth he had filled. He told me there were six, and one of them was nearly a solid gold tooth and had cost him fifty dollars. In a minute I had communt- cated my idea to him, and in another min- ute I had my tools, for I had beep studying dentistry then, at-work in his mouth, dig- ging away like a miner. It was a rich field, and in half an hour I had out every bit of gold in those teeth of his and had beaten it up into a wad that we took to the owner of a saloon who knew what raw gold was worth. He looked it over and offered sixty dollars for the wad. = “My partner kept his mouth shut and so did I, and when the train moved out with its wagons next day we had our place in the front row and five dollars apiece spend- ing money. Six months later we struck luck and I filled my partner’s teeth and never charged him a cent.” “Go on with mine,” said the man in the chair, “and charge me the same.” ars ago I was trying to | TOO MUCH OF AGOOD THING Their young as an Aurora darkened their o'clock in the the afternoon t! his mind was c; eult and overei mountable, and home and his private telephone, deed, could ae life was as bright } One cloud only ic horizon. From 8 until 5 o'clock in re separated. But wa not long before his ce Pere connected by a py day. Now, in- ipate in their con- jugal felicity régarai of distance and separation. “My dear,” saig’ hé a he buttoned up his coat, “when yo t-fonesome or want to consult me abot anything just call me up.” Then he Kissed her and went down the street wondering why all the world wasn't married, and why every household didn’t have a ‘phone. “Time taught him a deep answer.” By evening there was a worn, haggard ex- pression” upon his face ‘and a hunted look in his eyes. He had answered the ‘phone just sixty-nine times! First his wife had called him up “just ‘to see how his voice sounded,” later to know if she should buy a patent stove lifter from a man at the door and then to relate “such a good joke” as to how the new servant girl, when told to let the light bread soak well, had_low- ered the dough into a tub of water. The narration of diyers other charming little domestic incidents followed at intervals of a few minutes, brightened up now and then with the suggestion that “The flour had given out entirely and he'd better order some,” and “wouldn't he stop in at Jones’ on his way home and bring five or six yards of material for his book case urtain and a paper of pins.” Then, too, he'd entirely forgotten to order ‘some crackers. If it wasn’t too much trouble he might come by Smith’s and get two or three pounds and box of gelatine to make jelly for Sunday. Mother’s going to take dinner, you kno’ He staggered beneath the load of bun- Gles ordered over the ’phone as he wend- ed his way home that evening, but he held his head high with a sublime fortitude, and when his wife declared at the tea table that the ‘phone wes the most convenient invention in the world he quietly agreed with her, adding, with a touch of rare enthusiasm that did credit to his scientific propensitie that he'd like to meet the inventor—just for five minutes! The next day he was a very busy man. While reading his morning mail the tele- phone be s, “Weil, “Oh, I hello. What is it, dear?” just wanted to know how you YY welled though. ar. T haven't qui Gall me up ag > got gain af- T wll. Good-by od-bye.” He shut off the ‘phone end sat down to Lis desk. ‘The letter be was reading said: } , “Parties will r. Have the pa- |i per and——" Here the gned John, there isn't Won't you out and make the man s ome right away? And then, J y select a nice ast for such hor- me ch them cut it.” John bit } s replying, dull with in his r dear: I'll attend to i ed, Instead of gging out he began working on the papers whic a must be ready by 12 o'clock. At tha ta+ the parties came in. He was explaining to them a serious difficulty which thr to break the eal when the ‘phon 1 rang. John ran Fis fingers wildly thro hair. an, that man } t brought the po- s yet. Did you order them?” s, 1-1 did.” he chokingly replied. “Well,” John, you must go after him | again, and while you're out see the egg man and tell him that three eggs out of that dozen I got 3 ask him to replace A martyr-like expre John’s face, succeeded erday were bad, and swept over a mighty flush of anger that sent a great wave of induc- tion over the line. He slammed the re- ceiver back upon the hook, and muttering semething about the ‘Most infernal inven- tion of the went back to his clic The bell rang frequently, but his face a rock, and he did not moy “What in the world is the the ‘phone, John?” she asked th “It stopped talking just as [ w her house and put her in startled at the look on John’s face. moment he with as topped, For a at a loss for words aud," he said. mmissioners have ordered all ov: ss cut down. Such a pity, to winding his arm about her ; “it would have been so very have your dear mother on the —_> Could Change His Mind. From the Pittsburg Dispatch, No man is better known or more gener- ally beloved in the ¢lty in which he lives than Prof. Adam, H¢ndershott. His con- versation is quite devoid of bitterness. Only once was hée’everi known to say any- thing indicating "even the slightest trace of ill temper. Tyavell4g townward on a suburban trolley.qine tg call upon a friend he asked the conductor; to transfer him to the city street carsiat a certain point. Soon afterward the c#r stopped, and he was surprised se@_outside the very fricmi he was .geeking. He started to leave the car, byt the conductor accost- ed him. ‘You*:can’t change for your car here,” he said, brusquely; “go back!” The professor patsedshim, taking no no- tice. Bex 3s “Can't change ,ears,,here, I tell you,” snapped the conductor, again. Prof. Hen- dersNott, deep ih conversation with his friend, merely waved his hand to signify that the car might go on without him. “Here, you old jay!” cried the man with the brass buttons, angrily; “don’t I tell you that you can’t change cars at this station?” : ‘The gcod old professor answered with severity: “But I can change my mind at this station, can’t I?” 2 ‘The coal dealer tore his hair and wept. “What is the matter?” asked the weigh- ing clerk. “This is a: fine way to begin the new year,” sobbed the coal man, “Why? What has happened?” “What has happened? You ‘blundering fool, ycu weighed that last load when the horse had one hind foot off the scale! You can look around for another job!"— Cleveland Leader. HIS SUIT VS. HIRSUTE CHAP. I. Alphonse Icved Marie. He was the pastry ccok at the Klondike Hotel. She was a chambermaid. Being pastry cook, Alphonse had the deugh. Being a chambermaid, she had an eye out for the dust. Marie loved Alphonse in her way and he managed to Fut himsel€ a great deal in her way. He was ‘short and stout, with a perfectly smooth face. Her face was also perfectly smooth. Neither rode a bike. CHAP. H. Emile was a waiter at the Klondike Hotel, but he did not play the races with the tips he received. He was French. The first time he saw Marie he hummed a little French song, and she was attracted with his charming Parisian accent. He had a little black mustache, waxed, oh! so care- fully at_the ends. This also attracied Marie. Finally, it was a toss-up. between Alphonse and Emile for the hand of Marie, untii Emile became an odds-on favorite. The girl loved his mustache. He seemed to win by a hair. a CHAP. II. Alphonse declared sadly to Marie one night on their return from the Bal Du Cercle Diablerie: “Once you lofed me, mais. de believe you are—vat you call heem— stoock on Emile.” His breath came in spaghetti-like chunks. “Emile has such a lovely mustache, Al- the girl answered with a happy but meaningless laugh. “Why did you have your lip shaven?” The strong man did not answer. It was because he thought he re- sembled the bey wonder. CHAP. IV. “Sacre!” Alphonse muttered this because he was French, and the writer thinks it sounds well. “I vill foil heem yet. I haf ze gr-r-r-and scheme. Aime vill assist me.” This Aime was Alphonse’s friend. He was an artist—a tonsorial artist, who had the Klondike barber shop. When he shaved Alphonse he never stuck his fingers in Al- phonse’s mouth, cut his chin or filled ais eyes with the contents of the brush. They were like two brothers. CHAP. V. Alphonse stood behind the barber's chair dit b guise. His eyes glittered and his false ard twitched convulsively. “It is hees time,” he told himself. “He s never failed to come yet,” Aime says, 1 vill be patient.” It was Emile’s lather day. If he failed to come all was lost. Alphonse realized this. He would lose Marie's love for ever. Hist! Emile approached. He doffed his collar and necktie and took Alphonse’s chair, Alpact hand trembled, but he was outwardly calm. 5 Hair cut or ze shave?” he asked in a ed voice. compe 1 Alphonse’s time had come. ze heem,"” he mutter 5 > used mesmerize instead of hypnot t gave him a chance to roll his r He passed his hands over Emile’s forehe: “T vill mes- A, two or three times, and the man in th chair was wre in slumber. Quickly Alpho: azor over the upp lip of the The mustache diss Emile awoke as if from a trance. peared, n “Ha, na; now make ze lofe to Marie, a he vill not in ze mirror. I speak to y Look am r-r-r-evenged.”” nile g © one glance in the glass at his nged apy ed from the ch: fled fron nee, | the shop. CHAP. VI. yoth are as happy as the s moustache are long. s name gently. It what has become of him, but s become @ desperate ch: even rumored that he ha plie? tion as umpire on the W: ton ball team for the coming seaso! —_+ MARIN LASS EYES. em in Use Now Than Ever More of Th Befor “The demand for artificial eyes,” said the proprietor of a glass eye factory in w York to a writer for The Star recent- ‘was iarger during the last two years than I have ever known it to be, and I have been engaged in the manufacture of the eld 35,000 ar- x”) over the we ves, or an increase of Prior to that our sales 1 20,000 annually. The re- indi s that more people are wearing g' -yes than formerly, and one of the chief reasons for this is that the f cle ¢ sold cheaper and are emble the natural organs more fectly now than ever before. Hence the poor who are compelled to wear glass ey little difficulty in obtaining them, and rich people are less sensitive about we ing the artificial product when nee 5 ‘Ten years ago an ordinary glass eye cost from $6 to $7, while those made to order with the pupil and the cornea ca lors sold anywhere from $12 ompetition has cut th til now an ordinary eye eent: demand to $50, prices down, un- ls for $5, and the ‘orth from $10 to $i), ac- s are manufactured than then come blue and The for black y are only made to if ever, kept in s are the largest institutions obtain gen- which used on poor px are not in al position to be fastidious either quality or finish of the 2 We have hundreds of customers s al! over the cou for all of whom we keep dupliea dy to ship when order- brown quite rar nd are pure! The best do not last for g to the action of as the tear, the acids of the ename!, roughen the urface and very often cause interest- - is a long, . made of perfectly and fusible flint glas put into a crucible and expo heat. Now the globemaker pla' the en- amel over a blowpipe supplied with air, which is pumped by a machine into a huge cylinder and stored under water pressure. under the careful manipulation of orkman the enamel tube an oblong globe, formed and into shape of the human e just_ the size . Next itp: where a correct into the coloring room, tint is applied to the summit of the globe, and this is gently heated by a small flame and continuously rotated. When it has as- sumed the correct form of thé iris more coloring matter is added to repregent the pupil, and it is then covered by a thick layer of crystal to form the cornea. This done, the eye is cooled and sent to the cut- ting room, where it is formed into small hollow oval, with irregular edges. These edges are again heated and the eye allow- ed to cool slowly. This tempering process toughens tke enamel and renders it less able to break. The finish work consists in polishing the eye, and when this has been completed it 1s ready for the market.” SS At the Opera. From Pick-Me-Up. She—“What is that girl in the box wear- ing? He—“I don’t know. she stands up.” ———_+e+____ Sauce for the Gander. From Punch, T'll have to wait till Rector—“Now, I hope, Adam, you will try to turn over a new leaf this coming Adam—Yessir, I ‘opes so too, air. Same to you, sir!” © JOHNSON? Written for The Evening Star. Pastoral. Life's a hard pull out this way, Roads all rough or sandy; Wish that IT could pass the day Doin’ chores fur "Mandy. When the west fur sleep profound Draws the purple kivvers ‘round, Then my truest joys abound, Doin’ chores fur "Mandy. Useter think I'd dress, some day Slick as any dandy; Didn't spose I'd like to stay Doin’ chores fur "Mandy. Wonder ef they find who turn To the world to toil an’ learn Wealth that wuth the smiles I carn Doin’ chores fur "Mandy. Everybody has his sphere; ‘ame to some comes handy. My best forty seems right here Doin’ chores fur "Mandy. Toil is all I kin bestow. ~sS Ain't no tenderer tokens, though, ‘Than the helpin’ when I go Doin’ chores fur “Mandy. x x Ox An Unexpected Reproof. The tourist had paused to look at a large building surrounded by spacious lawns. Then he looked at a guide book with the air of a man who is in doubt. dressed man happened to be strolling 1 the tered into man who 3 “this isn’t The tourist pa: convers s driving by. and, with some indignation, again addr A neatly ar the gate and tourist called to him ed his first informant. “I thought you said this isn’t an insane asylur Ee leading me “None great trying to avoid common am are ide to con: its suspicion of mental But nc is; I doe “Whut companion. “I's tall I said that." “Have you any u f is not open to the f rangement.” i * * x efinition. sane brick buildin background points and this corresponds prett scriptions th and inquired: this asylum Is in- The other looked at him for a moment to in the ‘ertainly. I don't to miss any of interest, ant closely to ¢ of the as the an- ylum.’ presently ¢ with a rket He turned back n cular object in mis- rifle ent w dat I's done got away an’ hab a > ter fink it ovuh, I knows whut it foh sho’.”” Ss you talkin’ “bout?” inquired his n’ "bout education; dat’s whut I on mo” people doesn’ how sense dey doesn’ stop an’ give d 1s a bump er two. ter explan- ify foh dahs'fs, stid 0’ askin’ ns.” ou wah talkin’ "bout bein’ place I bin tatkin’ "bout. min’ oT “Co's neither. done; I’ on so you kin draw yok own c cents to git inter de pl: gin cos’ 15 cents er drink, an’ if ou took a lady out te git er pig's foot foh Jt cost 2 n’ whut does you call dat a “Da’s night?” Its a vas to a symposium. dar you is. You an’ make de skivvery foh yohse'f. ou gotter ax somebody. you know I do. An’ er—er—wha’ ‘mposium. “Whut do dat me Now Ill show y n supper, Da's jes’ whut ouldn't use yoh hut it means? I didn’ ax nobody er jes’ how it's facts ter wuck nclusions, k- ‘ou couldn't you say you been “It mean dat when you goes to one er dem de natural fo’gone conclusion is dat you gits symposed on.” “Henrietta,” gently word that you w! He's here.” pushed * ok Met Hix Match. said Mr. Meekton, as he the door open, yu left ed to the milkman. She went out immediately, and econfront- irg the man, who stood on the step, ex- claimed: “So you are the person Who has been bringi as weeks. Yes, the ans respon: right the cow, She breath him hard. “I have paid you regularly, not?” she with sarcas: very maar. re us alleged milk for the past six and looked a’ have inquired, IT AndI make free to say that I've brought the milk regular in return, and, what is more, it’s as good milk as any- bedy in te yn has been getting.” “I have no fault to find with the milk,” ske remarked in tones that were not loud, but very cold and metallic. all right.” “Thank you, ma’am.”" “The milk is “I have no doubt that it is as good milk as can be purchased.” “Yes'm.” “But there is a stratum of limestone un- der your farm. Water that comes from limestone always did annoy me. I don’t wish to seem too particular, but I will say right here that if you can’t go to the trou- ble of digging a cistern in order to supply customers who don’t like limestone water, you're going to lose my trade.” * A Parliamentary Trick. She came to Congress, for at last Oppression’s hand from her had passed. She answered to her country’s call And raised her voice in council hall, And yet she seemed unhappy. Men Had made the welkin ring again With ready and sincere applause For what she said about the laws. E’en while she spoke, a shadow spread Across her face. The joy was sped. Some potent spell seemed to cssail. At last they saw her courage fail. A simple sentence wrought her woe. A fellow membress whispered low The message of dismay and hate— “My dear, your hat is not on straight.” Playing 1 Low Down. The man in the spring wagon had just 83 horse a vindictive cut with the “hallo” back the roa the animal at the out- set of his burst of speed. The driver turned in the seat and waited for the per- son in the distance to overtake him. A steady trot socn covered the distance } m, and as me within hailing Mr. Corntossel ¢ imed: . Mister; mebbe you an’ me kin make a deal yet.” When he ched the waxon the farm- er put his foot on a huh and, leaning with one elbow on ' his knee, meditated for some time on what he had to say. “Well,” said the driver, ‘after half a minute, ‘‘if you haven't anything to tell me I may as well move along. Yours isn’t the only farm in this vicinity — that may be struck by lightning, you know.” “Of course. I haven't got any right to interrupt you onless I mean to talk busi- an’ that’s jes’ whut I do mean. Only repu- n fur not knucklin’ down to lightning-rod men ner body. Ef I was to «i » wouldn't go around like ye had me cowed, would 5 1 wouldn't meniion it if you desired me not to. “I don’t mind ownin’ up to bein’ obstinate when once T git my hea j ef F thought ye'd allow the impress git out that after turnin’ ye off in that orter be a warnin’ to any Ifp e ye a small order raggin’ about 1 jrod man, I run after ye an’ tuc back, Td giv this experiment of mine.” You can depend on me not to say @ word,” was the respon! “Lemme see ef 1 understan’ this bus jof your’n right. You say that by stic m point up into t kin attract the lightnin’ to tt, n’ it from goin’ el it might do in’ the same as electricity?” you ever git any electricity in your on a sudden, lik ye know somethin’ about how it servati Idle to ain’t it—like ye'd been hit the neck with an ax-hand h of it will kill a m: von do some damage to purty hard jolt on the back pr somethin’ mule, f it could get at him.” "Il tend to that. mul got to thinkin’ that he only there is in the neighborhood. He } he’s got everybo? me inclu | 1 dunno has got sor son | ady to let his hind j say that somebody's | But 1 ain’ in to though I n here T'd have to What 1 , lightnin’ red te him, ever the spinal column the blacksmith shop kin let him drag nection, he we arn him lerstorm an’ see un’ then had to Too: et we TOWNS AND VILLAGES One in Enginnd Made of Railway Cnueriages. uttere area of Great Britain are numerous towns and villages of character. One large village z ists of old railway carriages, even the little fon chapel being built out of four trucks. Another village, with tion of 1,190 and a ratable value of £8,000, has neither church, chapel nor school, the only public edific 5 a pillar letter box. Villages with a single inhabitant are not unknown. At Skiddaw, in Cumber- land, there is a solitary householder, who cannot vote e is no overseer to prepare and no church or ther public building on which to publish while the only ratep. in a certain {aural Northumberland par recently ned to bear the expense of repairing » considers it quite good there is a little parish osmewhat contemptuously portion of land, with three or four houses and perhaps twelve inhabi- ants.” This place has no roads at all, i equet.tly, put to no exp in keeping them in repair. A: there are no expense aud’ no rat One of the most remarkable vill this country Is Kempton, near B which is seven miles long, and extrem ling. To walk from’ one end of the to the other occupies tw. Sometimes whole villages wil ppear. A ‘ittle Shropshire village has sradually sunk, until now it is almost out of sight. It is built on a disused c pit, and the sinking goes on steadily hours. practically ere year. Now and then a tottering house is propped up to keep it standing, but, in spite of ali precautions, buildings are con- stately falling to the ground, and in course of time doubtiess nothing will be left but a few bricks to mark the spot where a vil- lage once stood. There are plenty of deserted villages throughout the country diversion of trade into other ¢ is sometimes sufficient to prodve ffect. Not many years ago the prop! at a townlet to obtain cert way company, ly afterwar: the boarded up. —_—+e«—____ “No Use but to Look At.” From the Detrolt Free Press. “Glad I am through with it,” laughed the traveling man who has for years been selling diamonds by sample or directly frem the stock which he carried about his person. “Great nervous strain,” he con- tinued. “Impossible to get over the dread of being robbed. “T've been followed for hundreds of miles and kept on the alert for twenty-four hours a day, but the biggest scare I ever had was in that lower part of Ilioni# known as Egypt. In hurrying to caich a train I had placed a book of the sparklers in my overcoat pocket and forgot all about tkem until I reached the hotel at my next stopping place. They were gone, and I felt worse than any man who has lost his all through speculation, for I was the victim of my own carelessness. I recalled taking off my overcoat and sitting in the same seat for some time with a man who looked and talked like a countryman. But you can never tell. I have a habit of drawing such people out, more for my own cnter- tainment than anything else, and I recalled his having told me where he lived, but he might have been fooling me. “I telegraphed the house that I was sick, for 1 was, and then went in search of the old farmer. I was surprised ‘to find him, and still more surprised to have him hand me the book of diamonds as soon as T had been made welcome. ““Didn’ ever cackalate to see you ag’in,” he said, heartily; ‘buat I reckon you was takin” them there shiny stones home fur the kids, er they mighter been some kind of a keepsake. I-was jest goin’ to keep ‘em a few months and then ’stribute ‘em ‘round "mong the neighbor children if you hadn't showed up. They air purty, but they hain’t no use but to look at.’ “When I of an fron works ld, being unable ions from a rail- removed their works, Short- half the place was to let, and of many of the houses were near Sh om l