Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1898, Page 7

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The captain had met with an accident, and was unable to reach the shore in person. When che boy arrived at the plier he found plenty of boatmen, but the surf was running so bigh that the most daring of them de- clined to make the venture. The boy offer- ed as much as 1.000 rupees to the man who would deliver the letter, but could find 2o- body who would risk his life. It was evi- dent from the appearance of the sky that the cyclone S$ about to begin, and it seemed like te courting certain death to at- apt the perflous feat. The gallant young sailor Sou'wester from an English ing In return hi ti borrowed a seaman, giv- own sun toupee, and, put- ¢ letter in the lining of the sou'- et wester, tied it firmly to his head. He then purchased 10 rupees 8 annas a cata- Maran and padd! from a fisherman, and Was soon embarked on it and battling with the surf. At was hurled back on the however. fave of a smeoth sp splendid strugg least half a dozen times he beach rtune, ed him. Taking advantage out, und by & © got outside of the line cf breakers and paddled out in the dircction of the Hurk: He was watched from the pier, and we are informed that he was ob- served to reach his v just as the st her. We trust that the good news © confirmed by the safe return ef > to port. All honor to this gallant young Yankee. ees Commissioner Ross Slightly Better. District Commissioner John W. Ross was repored today to be slightly better than on yesterday, although he is still confined to his bed. He has been suffering somewhat from rheumatism, but it is expected that he will be able to resume his official duties, if he experiences no setback, the iast of this or the first of next week. Fe eS If you want work read the want columns of The Star. ——_——_-—_ Death of W. W. Lindsay. W. W. Line who will be remembered @s the genial ticket passenger agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in this city, died at Chambersburg, Pa., yes- terday. The funeral will take place at Ctambersburg tomorrow afternoon Bon Ami Will not Scratch WILL DO ALL THE WORK A SAND SOAP © SCOURING SOAP IS MADE TO DO. TRY sT. TODAY'S BIG CONTEST University of Virginia and George- town. FOR CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE SOUTH A Farcical Boxing Match Last Night. CURRENT SPORTING NOTES ‘The University of Virginia sent its foot ball team, which plays Georgetown this aftergoon, to Washington on a_ special train, leaying Charlottesville this morning. The last practice of the Virginia team was held yesterday afternoon. A number of coaches looked after individual players: Dr. M. K. Johnson, a surgeon in the navy. arrived from Brooklyn in the morning and fave the halves and ends especial atten- tion. M. W. Pope, fuil back of "94, took the full backs, Elsom and Coleman, in charge, while Massfe, a former ‘varsity foot ball man, and Dr. A. C. Jones took the Hne men in hand. The rooters rehearsed their inspiring col- lege glees and will sing them while the game goes on this afternoon. The line-up, it was thought, would be as follows: Coche, left en Lloyd, left tackle; Davis, left guard; Templeman, center; Pearce, right guard; Collier, right tackle; Summers- gill, right end; Shibley, quarter back; Wills, left half back; Moore, right half back; El- som, full back. Kelly of Princeton, who was selected to umpire, telegraphed that he could not come on. W. H. Andrews, president of the Princeton Foot Ball Association, was con- sequently chosen. Mr. Armstrong of Yale will act as referee. OLD GLORY A. G BEATEN. A Clese Game the Vir, c. The tie game of foot ball between Virginia A. C. of Alexandria and the Old Glory A. of this city was played off yesterday at the latter's grounds. The Vir- ginians won by 11 to 10. The game was a good exhibition of amateur foot ball. Full Back Owens was the only member of the losing team who remained in both halves. The line-up of the opposing teams was as follow: Va. A. C. Green-Crown. the 0. G. A. C. ..King-Meeks Beuhl. -L. @. .Proctor-Grau Casper. R. T. ..Canfield-Gatley Lee. ee Jones. R. E. Randalle (cap.).... L. E. Dane. R. H. B. O'Hare . L. H. B. ...Kraige-Hart Kingsley... Gee -L. Hart-Love Holliingsworth.... Q. B. Niedfeldt-Grau,H. Thompkins . FL B. Capt. Owens Touchdowns—Thompkins, Owens, 1; Hart. 1. Goal—Thompkins. Referee— Hill. Umpire—F_ Randall. Linemen—Davis and Brooks. ‘The game was played In two halves of twenty-five minutes each. Gonzaga’s Eleven Beaten. The Gonzaga College eleven went out to Kendall Green yesterday afternoon and met the Gallaudet Reserves, the latter win- ing by 28 to 0. Line-up follows: Gallaudet. Position. Gonzaga. Carrell ...Full back...Corrigan, Elam = Right half back. Rainey Moran.........Left half back. -Fealy Chambers. -Quarter back. Elam Hewetson Right guard -Brahler Braithwaite.....Left guard Delaney Right tackle. Left tackle. Right end Left end.. Center Mr. veren of Gonzaga: ref- eree, Prof. Hall of Gallaudet; linesmen, s. Waters and Holtz; time of game, one 20-minute and one 15-minute halves. BOXED Lik Ferrel »-Newman Farnum DAN AMATEUR. Jimmy Dever Was Knocked out by Joe Bateman, Jimmy Dever is alleged to have been put to sleep last night at Steubner’s road house after seven rounds in the ring with Joe Bateman, the Georgetown featherweigh: The bout had all the ear-marks of a com- edy sketch, and should have taken place on the variety stage, rather than in the roped arena. Dever acted in the most foolish manner, his grimaces and nonsensical re- marks while engaged in the fight eclipsing anything ever seen in Washington. In fact, he gave all of his time to this class of work. forgetting absolutely to defend himself or to hit his adversary. When rushed by Bate- man Dever would put up his hands before his face in a decidedly amateurish fashion, and, leaning against the ropes, made no ef. fort to block the blows falling thick ar fast in the vicinity of his solar plexus. In the seventh round Dever did a soubrettc fainting act and groveled in the rosin until Referee Pat Raedy counted him out. TO @ THE GAME. CKEN Keeping the Catcher Under the Bat Has Many Good Points. The idea of keeping the catcher under the bat continuously so as to quicken the game has a warm supporter in Tim Dona- hue, the fine receiver of the Chicago club, who gives many good reasons why the rule should be adopted by the National League. Donahue says: Thece are any number of reasons for passing the rule. At first glance it may seem like a tremendous hardship on a catcher, but I can convince you in a few moments that it would be a great saving on a backstop, and do away with one of the most annoying delays the game as played now has. “It may never have occurred to you that a catcher does a terrible amount of throw- irg during an ordinary game. I figured it out once. From the pitcher's rubber to the plate is about sixty feet. From the plate to the grand stand front where the bali strikes is ninety feet more. That calls for a throw from the catcher to the pitcher in returning the ball of at least one hundred and twenty-five feet, as the ball is so thrown that it goes to the pitcher on the first_ bouad. ‘Now, say that in an ordinary game there ars forty batters that go up to the plate. It is not a too liberal estimate to say that four balls are pitched to each batter before he is retired or dumps one of them in safe ground. That makes necessary one hun- dred and sixty throws from the catcher to the pitcher. It may not look much, but ic is awfully wearing on a man's arm to throw that much day in and day out. You must always try to be accurate, too, <0 that the pitcher can get the ball without much exertion. “Then there is apother thing that it will probably do away with to a great extent, and every patron of the game will rejoice at that alone. It will make bunting a mighty dangerous style of play, for the catcher will constantly be in a position to run in front of the plate’ and get the ball in time to retire the runner. There is al- ways a how! at an attempt to bunt. which shows that the public likes to see the free hitting. “That brings up another reason for the change in rules. Many batters hit with more confidence and skill when the catcher is playing up under their bats. I have never been able to tell the reason of that, but lets of good hitters will tell you they uke to have the catcher close to them, when they feel surer of having the pitcher put them somewhere near over the plate. “Look how it will steady a pitcher. He will have to work faster, but that will not hurt a seasoned man. It will all even Itself up, too, for the game will not be nearly so long in a time sense. Some pitchers wart to have the catcher go up as soon as pos- sible, as it makes the target better, as the catcher always holds his hands where he would Hke to have the pitcher deliver the ball.” Janowski and Showalter to Play. Janowski and Showalter met at the Man- hhattan Chess Club in New York yesterday and settled details of their forthcoming THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1898-14 PAGES. chess match. They will play until one has won seven games at the rate of seven games in each fortnight. The contest will take place at the Manhattan Chess Club, but as Showalter cannot begin play until Monday, the directors of the Manhattan Chess Club have engaged Janowski for a simultaneous exhibition Friday evening. SOME CYCLE CHAT. According to a repair man pneumatic tires suffer more from puncture at this season than at any other time. The cause for the increased number of punctures can be ascribed to the quantity of leaves that litter the streets. When the streets are covered with the leaves it Is a hard thing to see the glass, and as a result the tires are punctured more freely than >ver. Preparations for the ten-mile amateur road race, for Thanksgiving day, are going on at a lively rate. It will be the first road race in this vicinity th's year, aud probably the only road race open to ail. The race will be notable on account of the number of prizes offered. Already two bicycles have been secured as prizes, and another bicycle is expected, making three high-grade wheels, one of which will be given for time prize, while another will be given for the winner of the race. The third wheel will be given as a prize to ve announced by the management 0° the race, The entry blanks-are new ready and can be obtained at almost any of the local cycling stores, or at 2125. Pennsylvania avenue, the Washington Circ:e Cycle Com- pany. The course will be the upper course of the Conduit road, with the finish in front of Cabin John Bridge Hotel. It will be a handicap event, and only persons in good standing with the league will ne al- lowed to ride or act as officials. The limit men are likely to have a handicap oz any where from eight to eleven mimites, pe: sibly more, on the scratch men. Who will perform the handicapping is not yet known, This work has heretofore been done by William Jose, but as he has come under the ban of the league, he will not efficiate. Another race that will most likely come off Thanksgiving day will be the annual road race of the Arlington Wheelmen for ten miles, over the same course as the above mentioned amateur race. For the past two years the Arlingtons have held a club roud race Thanksgiving day morning. Heretofore from fifteen to twenty-five of the members of the club have entered this race. The printers in the big government print- ing office are likely to hold their road race op the morning of the same day, follow- ing the race of the Arlingtons and preced- ing the open event. A meeting of all the track owners will most likely be held around the fore part of next month in New York city, at which some action will be taken relative to straightening out matters pertaining to the racing game. The track owners and man- agers have more at stake in the matter than any one else, and they have decided to organize and look out after their own interests. It is understood that over half a hundred track owners have decided to come together for their own protection. The formation of a central body of tocal clubs, to be known as the Associated Cy- cling ‘Clubs, was recently suggested by the captain of the Century Cycle Club. Other cities have such organizations, and these central bodies exert a great influence in the cycling affairs of the municipality, and there is hardly any doubt that such an or- ganization locally would greatly benefit wheelmen. FROM 3 Notes on the Cycle Route to Philade}- phia. The following notes regarding the cycle path from Niagara Falls to Philadelphia have been made by a Philadelphia cyclisi who recently made the trip on his wh» “Niagara to Rochester, 89 miles, by way of Lockport. The road to Lockport, 22 miles, is hard clay, rutty, rough and un- pleasant. Out Lockport we struck what is called the Ridge road, which runs from there to Rochester. It is a stretch of cour- tesy to call it a road, being in most pla a strip of sand. For sixty miles from there it a hard, smooth, narrow path, varying in width from four-inch to twelve-inch, which makes bicycle riding possible: be- tween these points. “Eight miles from Rochester there is good four-foot cycle path, which is built by the city of Rochester from the reven:e accruing from a_twenty-five-cent tax off bicycles and which made a pleasant change after the narrow strip we had been riding for sixty miles. “Rochester to Syracuse, eighty-six miies, by way of Palmyra, Lyons and Fort Byron. The Rochester cycle path extends east- ward for fifteen mites and from there to Palmyra, seven miles, the road is good. Palmyra to Syracuse, the road is fair to poor, and it is a hard day's ride. “Syracuse to ittle Falls, seventy-six miles, by w: nastota, Oneida Cast] Utica and Herkimer. Roads rough and hill and country uninteresting. This is the hardest ride of the trip, and it would be wise to cut it down to fifty-four miles and stop over at Utica for the night. “Littie Falls to Schenec! » sixty-three miles, through the Mohawk valley by way of Fonda and Amsterdam. Roads very fair and the country more interesting. henectady to Rhinebeck, seventy- nine miles. Fine cinder cycle path to Al- bany, and from there to Rhinebeck, on the east side of the Hudson, fairly good roads and pleasant scenery “Rhinebeck to Tarrytown, seventy-seven miles. Excepting a few miles between G: rison and Peekskill the road is fine and surroundings attractive and picturesque. “Tarrytown to New Brunswick, sixty-five miles, crossing the Hudson at Yonkers and passing through Englewood, Patterson, Mont Clair, Orange and Plainfield. Excel- lent roads and a delightful ride. “New Brunswick to Philadelphia, sixty- three miles, over the finest roagis, by way of Princeton, Trenton and Bristol. With a halt at Trenton for dinner this day's ride is as enjoyable and convenient as any with- in my knowledge around Philadelphia. “The trip from Niagara, if taken by the same stages as we rode it, is a hard one, but with the portion from Niagara to Al- bany omitted the ride from there to Phil- adelphia makes one of the most enjoyable four days’ tours that I know of in this country. An Exciting Game Looked For. An exhibition game of basket ball be- tween the Century Cycle Club and the team representing the Washington Light Infantry will be played at the armory of the latter team. This is the first appear- ance of the Century Club on the floor this season and % close and exciting game 1s looked for. The game will be followed by an informal hop. —— COLUMBIA RAILROAD BONDs. The Entire Proposed Issae Subscribed Three Times Over. Yesterday was the close of the period al- lowed to stockholders of the Columbia Street Railroad Company to subscribe for the proposed issue of a half a million of bonds, the proceeds of which will be used in building the eastern extension of the road and in changing the cable system on the present line to the underground elec- tric. The entire issue was not only sub- seribed, but three times the proposed amount, and this result is naturally grati- fying to the management of the rvad. —_—-—_—_ Officers Installed. The Whitefield Chapter of the Washing- tcn District Epworth League at Lanham, Md., duly inducted fs newly appointed officers for the coming year into office last night. The officers are as follows: Rev. J. W. Steele, president; Mr. Ed. Stevens, first vice president; Miss Ada Benjamin, second vice president; Mr. W. A. Nestler, third vice president; Mrs. 8. Nestler, fourth vice president; Mr. A. M. Phelps, secretary; Miss Effie Stancliff, treasurer. ‘The pulpit was beautifully decorate? with evergreens and chrysanthemums, and after the installation the newly elected president and first vice president were presented with choice bouquets of flowers. soe Se It pays to read the want columns of The Star. Hundreds of situations are filled through them. ——————— Accused of Burgtary. John Williams was arrested this afternoon by Officer Bremmerman on the charge of breaking into the house of James Thompson on the Piney Branch road several nights ago and stealing a lot of clothing. The ac- cused was locked up at No, § station. “ROD” WEST'S CAREER! Soldier and Statesman and Western Frontiersman. LIFE OF STORMS}: NOT SUNSHINE . A Man of Cold 'Nerve and Great Determination: ae MANY YEARS AN INVALID “written for The Eveuing Star. General Joseph R. West, known to his intimates in Californta and Louisiana as “Rod” West, who died Monday morning at Garfield Hospital, hid a picturesque and varied career. Fewwho knew the syste- matic District Commigsioner, with his fine sense of business detail and his capacity for hard work, recognized in him a man who had faced mobs; had indulged in a political insurrection on the winning side, and had lived the larger part of his long life amid storms rather than sunshine. “Rod” West had an adventurous spirit from boyhood. As a student he was known to be “in for a scrap" whenever there was such an article lying around loose, and when the Mexican war came on—the great- est “scrap” he saw in sight—he embarked at once upon the tempestuous career which was to end by a period of invalidism cover- ing many years, and a lingering death from paralysis. Of his achievements as a captain of vol- unteers in the struggle which brought about the independence of Texas and securred California for the United States, little is known, and he himself was not’ disposed to talk on the subject, even with his closes! friends. It is probable that his career as a soldier furnished none of those stirring incidents which marked his later life, and that he considered it time wasted to have engaged in the brief struggle which made Zachary Taylor President of the United States, and gave to General Winfield Scott his title to military renown. It was in California that “Rod” West displayed those qualities of cold nerve and dogged determination which marked every phase of his life. A ‘49er, he soon left the search for gold in the valleys and hills to enter for a very brief time the field of mercantile life. But during even the few months in which he bought and sold mer- chandise, he amassed a modest fortune, and when “vigilance committee” days in San Francisco came, he embarked in jour- nalism. The Price Current was his paper, and its columns were filled with many things which had little to do with prices, and were far remote from any suggestion of business such as its title might imply. Stormy Days. Those were stormy days in California. Judge Terry, afterward Killed by a deputy marshal in an assault upon a justice of the United States Supreme Court, Stephen J. Field, now retired, was then in the hey- day of his power. fié‘was chief justice of the supreme court gf California, and a bitter enemy of those bold spirits who had organized the vigilance committees. Cole- man, the great dry goods merchant of later days in San Francisco, was at the head of those who sought to establish Jaw and order by the strong arms of might. Powerful men of heroic nerve had aligned themselyes on either side. It was a test of courage, such as only a new and. rich territory, peopled with hardy adventurers and the inevitable sporting fraternity could present. West. entered the struggle on the Terry side: --He would have@ino vigilance eom- mittee govern California so long as he lived within its borders, and the Price Cur- rent gave utterance to his views in words t deft no doubt, as their meaning. Therg, was a challewge ifn every line,and. a Net) defiance to the-enemy to apply Enel’ heroic tactics to him and those for whom he spoke. The issue was long doubtful, but finally the vigilance committee element won the fight, and the Price Current pass- ed.itito. oblivion. é ‘Though he had béen in the thick of the frzy, and had given more than blow for Now, Coleman and his associates among the vigilants thought it w' to ake terms with tei: old-time enemy, and “Rod” West remained in California until the civil war offered a new field for the exercise of that remarkable courage which had braved dangers greater than those on any battle- field. Emerges a Major General. He came out of that struggle a major general, and settled in Texas, then believed to be the outpost of civilization. A year there, and 1867 found him in New Orleans. Within twelve months he had become ad- ministrato~ of improvements, serving later as chief deputy United States marshal. And withia three years from the day he sei fcot on Louisiana soil he was elecied to the United States Senate. The squally times in Callfornta vigilance days were but a counterpart of those in Louisiana when West was on the high wave of political power and prosperity. There were revolutions involving loss of human iifs. Each year or two rival legis- latures set up claims to recognition by the national government. Local police officials arrested the leaders on one side or the other, and a state militia, armed in the in- terest of some ruling dynasty. frequently took charge of legislative halls and com- pelled obedience to the bidding of the reign ing bess. What was known in Louisiana as the Warmoth-Carter war took place in 1870. Both Warmoth and Carter are yet living. The former is a large sugar planter in Lou- isiana, and the latter lives in Washington. The merits of the struggle are unimportant new. It ‘s stfficient to say that it involved sheriffs and police and militia and judges, with shotguns and revolvers ad libitum. A revenue cutte~ belonging to the government was used during the “war” to take a quo- rum cf the legislature on a pleasure jaunt into the Gulf of Mexico, and thus prevent the transaction of any’ business and the election of any United States senator. Becomes Senator. Out of this struggle, with its kaleidoscopic changes of power—first Warmoth on tep, then Carter—Gen. “Rod” ‘West enierged a full-fledged United States senator. He had espoused the Warmoth side; his leader, who wes thex governor, had won, and War- moth had chosen the anti-vigilance com- mittee forty-niner as his candidate for the upper house of Congress. Joseph Rodman West was duly elected, took his seat March 4, 1871, an] left the Senate March 4, 1877. He served in that body with Charles Sum- ner of Massachusetis, Frank P. Blair of Missouri, Stephen A, Dofsey of Arkansaé, ex-Gov. W. P. Kellogg jof Louisiana and other well-known public men. Upen_his retirem om the Senate Gen. West did not return) to Louisiana. He remained at the national capital, and in 1882, as already told.in The Star, was ap- ‘pointed by President Arthur a Commission- er of the District of Columbta. Fortunes Made and Lost. During his meterofe career Gen. West made and lost two. fortynes of moderate size. It is known that when he entered the Senate in 1871 his possessions were more than ample for his needs. Two houses on 18th street oppcsite the Shoreham Hotel be- came his property, and he had interests in other directions. Bat tn recent times he lost practically all he had, and a few years ago his frierds successfully appealed to Congress to give him a pension of $75 a month, and his later years of sickness and pain were spent in quietude and peace. But, stricken with paralysis, as he was, the indomitzble will remained which had sustained him and made him a power in the wild vigiance days and in the tempes- tuous times of the Warmoth-Carter war. His seventy-seven years were Indeed filled with stirring scenes, such as few who knew him in his dally life.in Washington would have guessed. —__—_—_ Entire Estate to Widow. By his will, filed for probate, the late Theodore E. Davis bequeathed his entire estate to his wife, Mary Crowell Davis. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug- refund tie if it falls to cure. 26c. geniwne his i. BQ. on each tablet. ready secured for For instance, these: Rudyard Kipling’s Works, Famous Henty Books, Handy Volume Classics, From George Borgfeldt, New York. 3 This great block, from West Third to West Fourth streets, has been invaded by the Palais Royal “buyers,” and the following lots secured at prices that will be best appreciated after the gods are seen: Art Vases. QO8c fer $1.50 to $3.50 valuce. The wares incinde Royal Bonn, Teplitz, Cameo, Copenhagen and Cobalt. The shapes are curl: ously beautiful, some being nearly two feet high. Quantity sufficient to fill one of the largest tables on this basement ficor, Clocks. $1] tor ctotce of nearly 500 of them. ‘The cases of Imported German Chin: the Movements made in this country, being both beautiful and practical. Table Lamps. $3. BD for $7 to $10 values. Sample et pleces. some with onyx vas and brass ornamentation. .An unusually attractive choice for $3.39, + eeetertetostergteotatonteatontentortetnatertediodeniorinnrortotet [ Cut Glass. $1.6. tor $2.50 to $3.50 values. Some of the Water Bottles in strawberry and oe patterns.have never yet sold at less than $2.50. see Sample Pieces. UZe for choice of nearly 200 China Vases, Rose Bowls. ete. ‘The values are Sac to $1. but some of the pleces are chipped. Chotce for 120, eee eee Cups, Saucers. SOc for Works of art from the leading pot- teries of Europe. Tc to 98c values at only 50¢ for choice. Onyx Tables. for are elke: ie! wire ker $2 O8 oa Superior Brass and Onyx Ta- g2 ~ les. gracefully curved limbs = Lamp Globes. ad superior Snish usually found only in tables 22 TO¢ [or Large Glass Globes, worth up to a 6 90-8 a $1.50 each. All imported, some richly 4 . Sy oscenetr eee sce Bisque Figures. i i eee ey es $ Spice Cabinets. ee OS rh ey SO ¢ for well-made Cabinets, with nine draw- | promised a bargain feast that will be appre ESC Oy Sse value, for oe. ciated. 53 : eee te eee eae $ AST of the small lots of Lace eetededetedetententntnen Curtains and Portieres Real Irish Point. Tapestry Portieres, Velue, $5. at only $3.98 pair. und reversible, Finished with beavy fringe. from H. B. Claflin & Co., New York. Value........ $325 $450 $5.09 $670 $9.00 Per pair. .... “$220 $3.25 $3.08 $4.98 $6.08 Brussels Effects. Value... ‘Be $1.75 $3.00 $3.50 $4.00 Per pair. $129 $198 $248 $228 Figured all over r color borders. The Palais Royal. UNDREDS of thousands of Xmas Books al- you. bargains will be snapped up as they arrive. 39c of the sheeting alone. 9 value, $2.98 Many of the best Artistically Cloth-bound, Good Paper and Type, 50c value for only 11. | Bonn Vases. $7.87 f0r choice of 25 specimens imported 3% to retafl at $17.50 to S20. These who anticipate Chrietinas present making will do so wavingly and satisfactorily. | Cream Pitchers. 3 SC for 6c to 20¢ values—for choice of nearly tse Bieces. “Some decorated in high art @ style. | | Singing Canaries. Me ve Hartz atain Canary nd Solid Brass Cai The bird & | alone ts worth $2.50. Hundreds of thes: birds @ | filling the basement with sweetest so Knives, Scissors. Z3BC tor Pocket Knives. with two. three Hi and four blades. Setssors, & Ginch size. 25e to Sle values, at only” Be Chinaware. SE.28 Fncee Rf Th cent less than heretofore ts of r Rets of per on, twenty-tive for these qualities. =D of White Enamel and 3rass,with woven-wire springs and reversible mattress—all for $6.75. Lockwood Sheets. for genuine Lockwood Sheets, 81x90 inches, 39 cents Is 10 cents Jess than usual cost And these are hemmed, eady for use. Marseilles Spreads. for genuine Marseilles Med Spreads the bargain of a Ufetime. They are $3.50 see California Blankets. instead of $3.50 pair for size ond weighing 5%, pounds, those Best Soap Cheap. 5c cake for Violettes de Parma, similar to that which has made the names of Roger & Gallet famovs. 10c for 4c. Petroleum. same as sual quantity for toy Jar. eee So aeeoarneseegonsosseateatoese alo atoeseazoasweseafocteosont %s 3, é for G-ounce jar of 4c vaseline. Double the 4 cents and in superior sere! Toilet Sets. $1 7S for Brush, Comb end Mirror of ~ Dresden China, with German silver and French gilt settings. $2.50 value for $1.75. Newest Belts. ABC fer 5 avd Sinch-wide Black Satin Belts with id, silver, oxidized enamel and Jewel buckles. $5.98 for $8.98 valve, Children’s $3.50 Mack Umbrellas Cheap. $1.04 paragon frames. for the well-known $1.48 Gloria Stik Umbrellas, with 24, 26 amd 2s-inch Dresden and wood handles. } 59c yard secondo con follows: 0750-Inch $ : popular 75¢ and 85¢ fabrics as Covert Cloth Sultings, all the desirable shades, guaranteed 75c quality, at 59¢ yard. O748-inch Silk - and - wool Novelty Note These Second Floor Bargains. for the season’s ; colors. in Plaid Taffeta Silks. ‘colors. 69c yard for new supply of 85¢ quality Taffeta Silks, al OF %8e yard for the best $1.25 to $1.50 ve yard for Black Taffeta Silk, of. Newest styles and Cloths and Poplin Plaids, 5c and 85e quality better than any heretofore at. values, at 59¢ yard. the price. m RS —s Rees 5 zh ®s 4 e 3 y ¢ Reduced Prices in Suit and Wrap Department. £ Told of these reduced prices and gave full details in yesterday’s announcements. -Now~we need B only remind yon that tomorrow is the last day and give you the list briefly. Bs ‘ 4 ¢ The Suits. The Waists. $7.48 & Suits....$14.98 for the $18.75 Silk-lined ae Cloth Suits....$20 for the $27.50 Suite. $ The Jackets. ‘$10 3 tallor-made..,.$15 for the $18.75 Jnckets, new imported styles, in castor and other newest $shades. , sec eee $ The Capes. for $9 Cloth Suits....$9.79 for the $12 for the Snpertor $12 Cloth Jackets, strictly ? Mackintoshes Cheap. $5.98 firag Mace. tata a $Z.OM fe the $4.98 TaMteta Sink Walsts, black’ 2 and colors, plain and fancy....$10 for, $12 Imported Silk Walsts....$1.88 for the $2.50 Mohair and Flannel Waists, black and colors. eeeece The Skirts. the $5 All-wool Cheviot Dress Skirts -$6.98 for the $8 Skirts....$10 for new glove-fitting $12 Cloth Skirts. for the $5 Cloth Capes with silk-lined $53.98 hood... $8.08 for the $10 Capes. ...$10 $3.99 Paes Zfor the $12.50 Golf Capes....$13.50 for the $15 e ¥ ¢Capes. 5 Bs 66 . 99 ‘ American Lady Sondeegengont a ot expensive onceetert full forms. Sete Sreedortetengortenten break. Best $1 Corsets in the world—bias cut and with gored hips, as in the French Corsets... . And the best $1.50 Corset for very Fitted and guaran- teed—a new pair if those selected Corsets and “Oneita” Suits. Best soc Union Suits made. See picture for method of fasten- ing. And note the price is to be only 39c—for best of 50c fleeced and glove-fitting ribbed garments. Smailest to largest sizes. PALAIS ROYAL, G STREET. THE PENSION SYSTEM. Some of the Weak Places in It Point- ed Out. Major 8. N. Clark in the Forum. The pension attorney is at the bottom of and behind a very large proportion of the applications for increase of pensions. He is omnipresent, and, as the projector, promo- ter and frequently the framer, of new pen- sion legislation, well nigh omniscient in all matters relating to that branch of human knowledge. What he does not know about pension laws and decisions, and the * ‘estab- lished practice” of the pension bureau, as well as of precedents furnished from week to week by the reviewing officials in the Department of the Interior, is not worth the knowing. His original applications are skillfully, not to say artfully, drawn with @ view to future applications for increase. An ingenuous applicant, who ascribes his physical disability to rheumatism or some other single cause, is surprised (if he reads the application prepared for his signature) to find that he is also afflicted with heart disease, malarial poisoning, jaundice, chron- ic diarrhoea, deafness and a score of other diseases—all the result of his army service. But it does not end there. Having succeed- ed in securing an allowance on one or two of the disabilities, and thus establishing the pensionable status of his client, the attor- ney then has an application for increase filed; and other applications of the same sort follow in steady succession as long as the diseases hold out, or increase of disa- bilities which have been recognized can be shown. ‘A very large proportion of the applica- tions—probably a majority of them—have no fairer basis than the ingenuity of yen- sion claim agents. In what other way ‘could such a case as the following, for ex- ample, be explained? A pensioner’s appli- cation for increase was granted on March 25. On April 6, just twelve days later, he secured an order to appear before: an ex- amining board on another application for increase, which was granted on August LU. This pension was advanced twice in five months! It would seem only just that the frequency of examinations for reratings and advances of pensions should be iimited, say, to one a year in any on thus far outside influences hav this. Among the provisions of the pension Jaws, which are found most difficult to execute with exact justice both to claimants and pensioners and the government, are those which affect the widows and children (min- ors) of men who served in the irmy or navy. Some of these difficulties arise from the laws themselves and the decisions vn- der them; others are due to evasions and non-observance of the laws by claimants and pensioners as well 1s by notarirs, mag- istrates and other officials before wkem pension vouchers are execut2d. The pen- sion of a widow ceases in case of remar- riage, and at the date of that event. The difficulty of enforcing this provision of the Jaw is very great. Experience has shown that little or no attention is paid to it by officials before whom widows’ pension vouchers are executed, and that in many cases the pensioners themselves are vna- ware of or ignore the provision. An official investigation, set on foot a few months ago. disclosed the fact that it was the exception rather than the rule for notaries 2nd other officials to observe the law requiring that the voucher of every widow shall be attest- ed by two witnesses, who shall certify un- der oath that they are personally acquain- ted with the person, and know her to be the widow of the soldier as represented, and that she has never been remarried since his death. In one case noted, one of the witnesses to the vouchers of more than @ score of soldiers’ widows was a clerk in the office of the notary public before whom the vouchers were executed. Under exain- ination, the clerk admitted that he was not personally acquainted with any of the per- sons, and, of course, did not know whether or not they had been remarried, or warther they were the widows they represeated themselves to be. The widows—most of them colored women—also testified that they were not acauainted with this witness, and that the witnesses “were always fur- nished by the ‘squire.’” prevented Cats Killed a Hawk. From the Philadelphia Record. H. C. Barnett, who lives near Media, has in his possession the body of a chicken hawk that was killed in a peculiar man- ner. Barnett is a general farmer, but makes a specialty of poultry raising. Since he has owned the farm three old cats left by the former tenant have hung about the place in a semi-wild state. At first Barnett tried to tame the animals, but they re- pulsed all friendly overtures and took up their abode in the barn. However, as they did not harm the chickens they were | not molested. The other day, while Barnett was on his barn roof replacing some shingles, he heard a loud cackling in the yard below. Look- ing down, he saw a number of his chickens -huddled together and seem: ingly greatly agitated. Then he discovered a large hawk just preparing to make a swoop. Barnett was preparing to descend to the rescue when the hawk made a plunge at the ter- rified fowls. ‘Ihe robber was leisurely pre- paring to carry off a chicken when there was a quick patter of feet and the three cats bounded into view. The hawk made an effort to escape with its prey, but the cats came to the rescue in the nick of time. The hawk made a spunky resistance, but the combined assault of the cats over- powered him, although only after a fierce battle. Barnett had reached the battle- field by this time, and he rescued the hawk's body from the cats. WHAT DO THECHILDREMORINK