Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1898, Page 17

THE EVENING STAR, ———— = STICK TO SYSTEM | This strange confidence amused her em- KNEW “OLD HICKORY” | ployer | “Are you going to win this afternoon? | she laughed at last —_-_>+—_——_- Yes. certainly,” the girl replied, with Winners at Monte Carlo and How; “nen just pot on tnis ntty trancs tor | George Bartle is the Nestor of Our me,” remarked the novelist. : They Manage It. How rau 4 sh ans win with 12" asked Public Service, 5 the good litt rk : Ss ae | “Oh, win a thousand francs?” and every- a | body laughed n. But they were struck Din 7 D ppanpie < » With admiration when she ca | a EFFORTS TO BRIBE THE CROUPIER | sxck' wien’ “Stator noces, Ata ona |IN OFFICE OVER HALF A CENTURY again they sent her out for money. Wher - = | ever she went out for it she ca back SSS = - with a roll. They w delizated. The | Believe the Game is Fair, Yet Bet ; nose'ist evan went so far as to mak- her | Anecdotes of Public Men Who Are . f nanks; 1 do not necd it 2 on Its Crookedness. js as she smiled strangely. Long Since Dead. earned that it is as easy io win bank ie = notes as five-frane pieces. I have begun to ——— th on my own account.” ‘T rvel- A FEW WHO ARE LUt oe But a will still) 4 PPOINTED BY W TER ne pleaded 1 will not a ybody but myself a - —— men ur the be The Evening en # stenographer no longer. |S We have long endured, humbly and with- November 28, i808. | Pond pres co Ga ee a: pant crutest, iby scornful. t ERE THE LADIES | tions. She says that any | Rations, especially of the British, hey can bribe country has no ruins and our republic no he croupiers. Down | Hea faye: until sou knew | gratitude. It is a notorious fact, they hav eae ae your heart that you will xin.” But) ¢ ine ical iseaatal rea [the erent maou of peoce wih uot wait [Sab that America is totally Jacking fn ) is | They want to feel the thrill of risk. They | Monuments of at and mighty past, reulat ant to gamble. “They even sit dowa at | and that republics ungrateful. library ish e, fearing they may lose!" is or> of It has been particularly urged « patronized. I gd He The first week of her se-| that our public service is unstbl>, owing 1) francs. One night she won tioon | to its constantly shifting elements, and that nes. She is good and modest, but not | the tenure of office is so precarious tiat very pretty self-respecting person will accept pc Speculating on Luck. unless moved thereto by stern necessity For these who cannot feel the luck ba-| To refute this statement it will only be hang rer |» meter vibrating in their bosoms, the leav- | necessary to take the would-be defamer of books ing of the money to win three times just | Our institutions by the hand an@® conduct a ilbe tos bnew appears to he the surest road to for- | him through one of our great governmen- papier tune. You put your money down on any- | tal departments. He will there sce the in- * ho thing. Then, If it wins, you e twice as | Cumbents of various positions steadily at ips eh much as you risked. Leave It alone. Uf it | Work. apparently happy. contented, and : L wins again, you have four times as much with a self-satistaction irradiating their 2 you risked. Leave it alone. And if it |Coumtenances, such as only an assured the third time you will have eight | Prospect of life tenure can bestow. If he limes as much as you put down originally. | Will examine the records he will find that ne Now, while the mathematieian can see noth. | Many of these public servants have been aS ibe : ing Valtabie in ths device, experience seems | here since the time when the memory of Great Scott, vou don’t call to have a great deal to say for it. Every- | man goeth no farther Of all 1 ly knows, they say, that it is just as | the departments, however, none bears so asy to win twice in succession as to win a & time Luck does not divide itself th any regularity. poker player ws that luck comes in streaks. Th¢ [EEE ee thing is to realize the streak before s away from you. Now, they seem o think that thr bets is the limit for streak hunting. This was the system of the : celebrated Mr. Wells, whose exploits are now being duplicated by young German, ay nas won $100,000 within the months at the Belgian spas and alo riably everf afternoon at 4 plays two hours. He always t ‘olumns that. pe two for ar ter ym IT saw im start He bet 34”) francs and lost. He anes and won. He let it lie. It uin he wen and lest. Then he won lost the third time. Then he lost S$ twice in succession. So he ¢ linued for three-qua an hour, he had got rid of s like $5,000. got up and left Ts always seemed come in and nk note we multiply itself into twenty-seven in turns of the wheel. He took away 50,00) 1 the te is to believe in stenox faith game, and two girls I have met go so far’as never to bring any money with m to the tables. v simply tell some acquaintance that they feel lucky. “If you only knew how Iveky I feel,” they will protest, “you would hand me over a few louis instantly!” The George Bartle. minute they get the gold pieces they say et Dunit younee (ate amilueky?” enviable a record as that of State. It is me of these girls, who is an American, | the proud boast of the minor officials in this department that they are essential to the well-being of this nation as ti hu hu ndred fre 1 to Invest it 1 ined proce cs in this way and 1a novel manner. SATURDAY, istic anecdotes, which probably were never in print befure. Herwas greatly impressed by the dignified, wnbeniling attitude of Gen. Jackson, andsialso with his evident honesty. One of the general's pet antipa- was debt, as illustrated in his war on United States Bank, and he despised a who would not pay his obligations, nown by the following story: Story of Andrew! Jackson. A certain landiady of , Washington had a a boarder a young man working in one of the departrents wHo ha@ run up a large account, which be finally ‘refused to pay. Some friends haying agvisea her to go the President about .it, took this jocular advice serio’ and went to him with her tale of woe.':He recelved her kindly, and listened attentively to what she narrated, and then said: “Go home and aet that young maui to give you a note for the full amount; then bring that note to he debtor was quite willing to give her an having no intention whatever of paying i, and she took it to the President, directed, who seized his famous old steel pen and serawled across its back, “‘Indorsed by Andrew Jackson. Now, take that to the bank and get your money. If the young rascal retuses to pay ft, why, we'll see!” The noie was taken to the bank, and some before it came due the customary no: ton was sent lo the recalcitrant debt- mut he paid no attention to it, Then word was sent that he had better come and see who his inderser was. .He went; he saw; what his feelings were has not been recorded, but he paid the note Over across the Potomac, at the farther nd of the Long bridge, somewhere buricd in the mud, lies the corner stone of Jackson City, which ambitious speculators oi Jack: day intended should be a rival hington. The President was induced not only to lend his name to the future metropolis, but to attend the laying of the corner stone. In common with others, Mr. Bartle went up from Alexandria to meet the presidential party, and to get some of the bountiful banque h was announce ed with great flourish of trumpets and on flaming poste He saw the general, he says, but the was such a crowd, that though he, boy-like, made bis best en deavors to get to the table, he obtained he fared better nothing at all ken wing. But than the gen who got in mill-wheel to the machinery tiat Winning by Doing a Partner. grinds the grist. Consequently, as their pe- “i am going out to count the sails upon | culiar value is recognized by the astute the sea,” she said, as she walked to the | Politicians of all parties, they are never re- Vedcncs Ghee So when she | Moved. And, with perhaps soltary ex : ception, none of them has ever died; 8 came back she said to the man who had | Wo have the benefit of thelr vact waa'y Asked a Boy Hix Aue. advanced the cash, have seen seven perience, in unbroken continuity. ails, and so I sha t on the odd and within ‘the sheltering care of the there. ‘The whirling wheel. the manque.” But how could she bet on both haut of State ae tre find the e rustli S. the shin apcmibet aatintare ica Orie she of govern al service, in the per- & « r cf the crowd of that. she bet on even just as he was bet- | Who has been tn public service for fifty-four ney ee | ting on the odd. He losi—she won. He did | Y€@rs. He was appointed assistant mes- se. 3 She waited | ict know that she had really won his | ¢"ger by President-James K. Polk, in the q x w tarted eae year 1845, and during his long career has ¢ s serenely : see that I am lucky,” she said | #20wn and conversed with every Secretary = r Z s Herp now I am going out to a some | Of State since that time. stig eae Wat die exe ea sage.” She met a 1 ewe ee Over rv Score, « v pa i Peame back abe athe “ine sboy ea nine | He Was born in Virginia, at Al es cogil 1 years i. We will bet on the od nq | On that me orable in Septem , ISI weet 3 : cobain ther | manque ag This lime she had to bet | on which the British fleet sailed down the ‘ fra wr newest Pas she nad promised, for her partn Potomae, after the destruction of the Capi- i can hk I persis he eon si sateen ae tol by fire. So, as a native of the town wondering 0 francs capital,” she | iM Which General Washington was so deep- bes E T w er cones ut and buy a small bunc sted, both pecuntarily and senti- 5 = 4 4 rt When and with a memory of events ex- 2 e “ Why < as re were ding away back to the second decade of resta You he waiter tartilc has many most i w ‘ou : ave ces. He has seen, at 2 ay his on red and nea the pall- ; row 1 a com- his own tather was intimately known to the } e ‘ not say general during his life-time. 3 : = y Z _ A aulet, courts , mild-mannered gentie- s ba pr « hey ‘man of the old school, inn. ly refin and < s ey alwry diplomatically Mr. Bartle recalls the dise with th t to us the beat itions of the great t w a ne i known as the “Mother of P1 idents."” And by - a he th yet, though all his life a resident of Ale often s re the 1 andria and Washington, he is a New Eng- fe lander by descent, his ‘first. American an- There Are Others, 1 eestor being the celebrated Roger Williams 1 = Pee of Rhode Island. While of slight frame and —- apparently never of robust constitution, dis- % inelined to athletic exercises and devoted 1 always Io: wfore. Now that I gratify to the “weed,” yet Mr. Bartle retains his I nearly always wir while you vigor wonderfully, showing few if any of re at ieecis the infirmities of age, belng keen of viston Sues Widgets einah ae and acute of hearing. During many years y past he has remained at his desk in office Seay ae vet a hours year in and year out, having taken zi er 100 francs u day! That ss : no vacation, confining his short excursions ~ Lady R—, does, ioo. Old | Th4DKS She Has Bribed the Croupier.| to the vicinity of Washington. In every dat ¥eat_ teed to: give Psst Gra (acetne cine Gnacree Tespect, indeed, he ts a model servant of New York pays every | ™2nau wy dake the other and play on | the publtc, faithful, industrious, conscien- M 2 e wite | the even” She did not bet at all. He bet | tious and devoted to his duties. and th mtesse de } 0%, the even and won | or At present, occupying a pleasant room you a dozen oe she said: “the table | overlooking the Potomac at the southern mbler first to ¢ Rece soe ibaa Son yess we Paired end of the great granile buildings devoted me is absolutely | {™2®"° Lh = a = ‘200 still Th ons ae LOU tower, y and State, this aged official fair 1 th to profit: by tis} Cinital 400. I will go out and count the | uses his time in making out commissions ; allowed to play | Hideons on the root.’ ne Coat tikes | far our, representatives abroad. For much and ladies m wear their | Gp ew Cue eenitite vere | More than a generation of time he has efor reaso: et teeter Sit found. There were | heen the honored custodian of the great y watching those who “We must put all our money now on red | Seal of the United States. Its nominal cus- ke private mark his or that and odd.” He bet his 20) francs upon the | todian is the Secretary of State, but as, dur- wheel. Every wheel has its own little idio- | red and won, Soe refrained from betting | @& his long career, many secretaries have y ¥, some trifling imperfection that | and put her 200 franes into her purse. come and gone, and the great seal had to lone keep a rec-]"'“] Yost again,” she sighed: “but sii] we | be left. behind, this gentleman has been In r umbers through | are ahead, for you have the 400 francs you | Charge of it. This seal is affixed only to i and many try to | just picked up. Give me Mf it and we | the commissions of cabinet officers, and of robability in favor | will bet on red and odd "He put | diplomatic and consular officials nominated The difficulty is to find | 200 franes on the red. Sh 00 franes | DY the President and confirmed by the next morning. There | on the black. | He lost naturally, | Senate; all treaties, conventions and for 5 now in the Ca- | won. “I have the 400 francs still,” she sald | mal agreements with foreign powers; par change them here | to him consolingiy, “and now I think that | dons, exequators to foreign consular offi- 8 of speculating | we had best divide. Here are your 200 | cers in the United States, etc. tin wauiet Ch is anctie Aon cena at Throwing at a President. the cynics z STERLING HEILIG. Eighty-four years of age, and having is 10.00) franes on —_—__~— lived all his Hfe at the fountain head of Fred.—“That cigar you gave me did me | 8overnmental affairs, Mr. Bartle 1s a llv- lots of good. ing history of many presidential adminis- Arthur.—“I'm glad of it. When did you| trations. Born during Madison's second Providence. i saw a } Smoke Tatisi eee i ss term, almost within sight of the White young and happy, act upon | aT hate him Harlem elie. © H°*- | House, he has distinct recollections of all mviction with the utmost 1; Ih * bunts but five of the administrations that span low who was only ae <a ae the space between Washington and Me- ee (Copyright, 1898, Life Publishing Company.) Kinley. Our first five Presidents—Wash- ee tee ons ington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison ept her ey and Morroe—he does not clalm to have h ieytaties seen; but of the sixth President, John Sete Oe ee Quincy Adams, he has at least one very nis Tast money.” He put amusing reminiscence. J. Q. Adams filled sete tenes pe the presidential chair from 1825 to 1820, and Ted. isd wont “Ge St was some time during his tncumbency i in igh, good: hime “tow that young Bartle, a boy between twelve hie Tome Wik tite (paee and fifteen, while strolling along the Poto- "3 mac, saw the great man in swimming. It teclardal wuvenloe was Mr. Adams’ custom, he says, to take gambling populatic a dip in the river in the summer time, for is well to let your the Potomac then flowed much nearer the nes. The other White House than today, and it was while ¢ you he was thus disporting ‘himself that Mr. you believe that Bartle saw him. Now, Mr. Adams’ head, ' as those who knew him at that time tes- Ss tify, and, as his portraits show, was very Stenographer's round and very bald; and it may not seem The extraordinary suce a matter of surprise that a certain ragged Fiistish camel tae aa youngster, seeing it bobbing about in the sess ess water, should shy a pvtato at it. The aged : condor yee beter reste ag narrator does hot say what the youngster’s B to spread this latter doctrine. name was, but from a lurking smile at the poor thing needed gloves. corners of his mouth one might infer that had five francs, but in the shop dis- it was Bartle. However, the venerable covered that she needed ten. “I went to man was greatly enraged, and shouted out: the Casino for that other five-franc piece,” rae, ou sane, Tenced stop chett Now almost hit me on the head!” “Whew! Was that your head? I thought it was a pumpkin!” yelled the urchin, tak- ing to his heels. During Jackson's occupation of the White House Mr. Bartle went to see him several times, and of erratic, choleric and stub- born “Old Hickory” he has some character- . “just as I would have gone down spring to get a drink of water.” Another Ume she needed five francs, but was utterly afraid to go and get them. Off and on she went to the Casino to draw out the little sums she needed. Off and on she held herself back when she doubted. The bookkeeper’s nightmare. He was even prevented by the rush for the tables from ng his speech; had te struggle for h life, and came near getting hit on the head by a turkey, which twe men had grabbed by the legs and were squabbling over across the board. Jackson City never got far beyond that corner stone, anyway, and is almost as dead to great man afier whom it was name Anecdotes of Famous Men. Gen. Jackson died the year Mr. Bartle was appointed to office, in 1815, and if space permitted we might give his zemi- niscences of the dead and gone giants of hose days, for he attended the sessions of he Star Congress, and later heard t mous triumvirate, Clay, Calhoun and Webster, in their great debates. He even caught a glimpse, one day, Randolph, as he was } of cranky John rying toward the Capitol to attend a session of the Senate. He has several anzedotes of Daniel Web- ster, and in answer to the query if he had ever seen him, said: “Yes, indeed, and I have here a cherished m>mento of that gieat man.” Going to his desk, the aged cerk took from a drawer a small pearl- handled penknife, of the sort a generous rnment furnish-s to senators and rep- ontatives—a_-“congressio knife,” In fact—and which, he said, was brought into his office by Wébster*himseif- “Mr. Bart sai ihe great expounder, ponderously, “what gre the initials of your clerk a him, and then said Sarthe, take that knife and raved on that sil er plat il sofand a few days late tcok the knife to Btr. Webster. He quite naturally coneludod§that’ the knife was in- tended for him; but no. The grsat- man | took it, looked at approvingly, and then calmly dropped it ittto his capacious pocket, don his heel and walked away, leay- the wonde clerk gazing after hir ome astonishment. This occurrence took place but a short time before Mr. rs demise, and when Mr.,Bartle heard of it he wrote to the execufer of Mr. Websier’s estate, at shfield, Mass., detailing the cireum- Guesting that the knife might compatible with h Wishes. his was don and the veritable knife, with his inttials eugraved on the silver plate, suill in bis possession. He thinks Mr. Web- ster intended t present him with the knife, but that he forgot it in the abstrac- tion consequent upon some great question, ind omitted to.carry out his intention, These t réon very good terms, me time before that incident occurred the ike” came t6 him @ ptly de if he had any mou his per He nswered caut ag Mr that he at the br yuk know n't any son Webster offic Have Yers, “Haye he vi you got any at home, then as much as one hundred doll liate m “Then bring it to Loaned Money to Webs The money was handed over, no receipt being taken or asked, and, in view of Mr. Webster's well-known laxity in such mat- t the poor clerk was perhaps justif in upon it as gone forever. But the most astonishing part of this transac- tion is that the money was paid back o demand. After waili for what he thought was a reasonable time the cred- itor ventured to remind Mr. Webster of that little obligation. “What?” egclaimed Dan him his big, glowing eye: one hundred dollars?’ “Yes, sir “Well, l, turning upon ‘Do 1 owe you ake that. re; t It happens to be the amo) of the indebtedness.” Four years ago the editor of a prominent religious paper, who had formerly hi office under the government, wrote: “I went into the office of the appointment clerk and there found Mr. Bartle in a room commanding a most delightful view of the Potomac, sitting at his desk, writing that very moment on parchment the appoint- ment of the United tates minister to Chile. Mr. Bartle is now eighty years of age, and has been in the Department of State for fifty years. But you could not read h age in the large, steady characters of his handwriting. In his last fifty years he has commissioned a who and ministers, and I hope he will live to commission a’ good many more.” It is something to have met and conversed with one whose recollection of events ex- tends through nineteen out of the twenty- five administrations which this country has army of consuls DECEMBER 10, known: who met Jackson and Adams, Polk, n Buren, Pierce, Lincoln, Grant, Gartield and Arthur, and who hi conserved within his memory the tradl- Uons of their times. May his shadow never grow less, and may he live (shouid he desire it) through as many more ad- ministrations as he has already survived! ‘The Duchess (who takes a great interest in all her servants, and has a large house party)—“Oh, so you're the new scullery maid. I hope you like your place?” New Scullery Maid—No, my lady. I want to leave next week. I can’t stand these late dinners, All the ladies as I've ever been connected with have just took a bit of something in thelr ‘ands, and there wasn’t all this washing up!’—Punch. = a ; = ae S F Sr ees a@ rule, satisfied with the assuran bility soon after the Atlanta tled up at, Thus the sallormen are able to watch tre | the Brooklyn navy yard, and he went over customs officers’ boats sheer off from che | the side with $14.00 worth of «tones. that j Ship with their countenances wreathed in| he disposed of for about 40 per cent profit | broad grins, and in ten minutes they ure | a couple of days after he avrived in New all below, breaking out their boxes and | York. He returned their pro on of the “ 5 | . i i pr n of the A Business at Which Uncle Sam’s | packages,’ preparatory to sending them | profits on the transaction te the. Asester | ashore by the bum tmen at the first o9- | dam diamond dealers who had intrusted j portunity. The bumboatmen are of inesti- | the gems with him, and then went on to Sailors Are Expert, mable service to the sailors in getting their | Philadelphia to go to Work at the diamond ae ee curlo collections ashore without attracting | cniting job that was offered to him wher attention, and when a big ship arrives in a| he frst tried t into the United States jheme port they make considerable mor in the legitimate way. The Dut i A Profitable Busine: lanta into his « when he ET a n ering dodge » Ac People in the large seaport cities who ovr- | Marg st ty pol pacgiea afer m - | chase beautiful pieces of bric-a-brac and | ; a year ago. ims Stories of Some Men Who Have | irticics ot vertu in the little isolated -ol ; | ‘ Smageting ¢ z It P. II lectors’ shops at prices phenomenaily tow me eaadice é Made It Pay Well. cannot, of course, know that in very maay : athe Kahle MES aoc ena: 1 the reason for this cheapness is hat rae ee ae is Poke ae S were brought to the United ws rg ken he chances on 7 + ANS in American men-of-war, free cf » all kinds of trouble. civil and WITH OPIUM OR DIAMONDS | anty. by men for'ard. Yet such is the fact, | mi by sm Kopi to the 1 Se the business is constantly m the tr, watian lauds High as is the du o jcrease. Before shipping on vessels bound | opium imported inte the t on extended cruises in foreign wai pa liga MO akeheee “ae doe ~ Written for The Fventog Star. timers make it a point to enter into #t- | opium imported into the Hawallan Inlande AILORS I THE | are enabled to more than quadruple t! truth at srpidn portion p United States navy | amount of the pay they receive from tl duty. ane’ Bag eth wligice . re indefatigable eu- | S¢Vernment for their services. Even 0f, | bat perked woeatbmtry patres : ae They | UPOn thelr return to ihis country, they | | ‘ oF. thn bs rie collectors. Tr should happen to be nipped by the customs a “a tema’ the Hawatian harp take more interest | men and forced to pay duty on their goods ae eed See cn ! and probably spend | (and such a thing happens only once tn a schooners that hovered more money in the | &feat while, at the smailer ports), they can | Ue Ost. waiting for oppor make considerable pro nt t lkacone ak Ge ee jack business tham the of- | ‘Utions, for the sailors ae jets on Aterican ships mana get of cruising | jness are great bargai ters and in | many a can of the poppy into Honolulu by As a rule, the | itely closer buyers tha surists who ¢ —— us the stuff in ships’ nooks and send- blucjackets make | UP curtus abroud. | ‘These enterprising sail- |S, i\ Ashore by the bump their collections to | OTS @ not buy off-hand the first things they | hosunes mane ealian Ps S nd-rs - see when they go ashore in a foreign land. | ¢ Rt SO Dee give to thelr moth-!In Japan, for instance, the man nuwang, | {iS business, however, a few years ago, ers, sisters or sweet-| man in the curio dealing business docs not | ah a ne cence ‘arts, by ere is ) rush ashore ac Yok: hama or Kobe o ne grees pnp Ror Aiett mened Francisco. 4 hearts, but there is a} FUSh ashore at Y« Me ee | The bumboatmen were helping him to get considerable and growing class of naval | its, atalle atone fen se tee N e the cans of opium over the side as rapidly sailors who engage in the collecting busi-| houseful, does he. Isefore ieaving possibie upon the ship's arrival in Hon- ness purely for profit, and these men do | United States his list of curio dealers olulu harbor, but meanwhile the command- not have to make many cruises before they | provided him with a detailed list of just preset) as poet n one of the plum re in shape to q 2 service for { the t of stuff and how much of it they | “° ne s of what was going = ay pe co quit the naval service for | want With this list in his pocket, the | 0%: One afternoon, when the opium smug- Boe | tading man-c*-warsman gets shore lib- | £/¢T Was ashore, supervising the sale of Every American man-of-war that re-lerty, and, instead of buying any of the | (e cans he had got over the side, the in- turns to the United States upon the] Curios he is commissioned to get in tne inten eee r of the ship found about conclusion of a cruise of several years | POrts at which his ship Hes, he makes up- | “Tty-five half-pound cans of opium stowed i 2 country trips. In the interior towns and | SWAY, behind the sailor's ditty bag in the in foreign waters has all of its out-| Cities che curios are nmon ae times cheap- | Wite lockers. The sailor got wind of what of-the-way nooks and crannies stuffedjer than they are in the ports, and this is | ®W8lted him upon his return to the ehip with the collections of officers and ie p of the facts that a man-o’-warsman of | “34 he didn’t return. Instead, he shipped men when the homeward-bound pennant | Dusivess acumen gets ont nt the very out- Nicsaie on tee Aapaptstcarh cage pang se a ae See peers fe Dilges are | 3tt Of his business career. Most of the ar- onolulu or ame evening for Shang- is broke from the mizzen. The bilges are | ticies ho purchases are email ty wake ao | HAL. and, with @ pocketfs profits al often so jammed with the curio chests of | he is able to bring them off to his ship wiea | T@4dy made on his ng, he the men that the bluejackets have to put in | comparatively lit trouble. The sailor | W@8 on his way to Ch flicers hours in breaking them out and resto | who is 0 collec: business for: | Ok is warehlp Renew me of them every time the bilge inspection day | PYOft fs generally able to make arrange. | him comes around. The men belonging to th ipa Nae nga agli lta Seca : e Der COED E LOV Ane who axe ge of the ship's store An Anti-Breakfast Fad. engine room gang of a ship make use at} rooms, fo stowing of his goods ites is Rea times of one or two of the unused boilers | the China Statto: queer caupaign was jianugurated in in which to stow their boxes and packages | tt ig on the China atation thet t Sorwich, Coun., q mes of curios, and when, as often happens, the | aries B Staton thet the man- | Norwich, Conn. a Mithe while ago. ief engineer orders the oilers te of-war trader picks up the stuff that nets*| Most of the people of the town = a chief engineer orders those boilers to_ be peop fir the disgust of the “black gang’ is | him the most mone In the interior towns | from indigestion throu vine tn # too deep for utterance. The deck men run } of China, Corea Japan the people seem | done pie, and a gealus discovered that the risk of court-martial by stuffing the} to have litle apprectation of th H 2 f ship’s launches and cutters full of their | value of superb examples of the art Raat | ae aniity n unknown. He a purchase] gear, and in doing this they em- oreo he art of their | tributed that fact to the other fact that the ploy an amazing degree 02 cunning. and | )NC°stors, and in seareh of these old speci- | French people do not eat any breakfast their quiet, rapid way of sneaking the stuff | one “vere faim moors, Who In time be-| so the people of Norwich rerolved to gly out of the bo into other hiding places mae y fair connoisseurs, make qui up ceiling the fret soon as the ship gets into American wa. |20U7S umong the huts and houses of Up eating the me The ‘and prepares to drop its mudhook is | 2ferior people. In this way they occasion- | T€WSPapers and the « ped the Havilig: leas al Rtinee lB Eroreiben tt ly make prodigious finds. In 1803 a man- | scheme up. The boarding houses chimed y of-warsman whose ship was in Corean|in, and the ti-Breakf “ was Rule Works Both Ways. Waters happened upon a magnificent pair | formed to exact a pledge from the towne Although na sailormen are not sup- {Of ¢ ot an vases in Seoul, examples of the | people. posed to have anything whatever in their | (¢7atile art EE ry of several cen> | It fs now announced that the plan has lockers besides their ¢lothes and smal 00 fe : creda | n given up, an jorwich ie once more eases ¢ 4 dealer when his | eating three meals a day. The las! oppo- stores, and the bluejacket is not permitted | shiv reached | nents of breakfast. the boarding houses to bring curios over his ship's side, officers |, ugesling by naval sailors returning to | eurrer d last week, reslizing that the lo not enforce the rule with stringency, | (he Vnlted States from crufies « ae I | bottom had tumbled out of the crusade t 2 reruli applies ee nee as not been carr While it ed it was a strange fad. Be- perhaps because the regulation applies to | largely in recent years ae It wnt Sides a it a st « the officers as well as the men. An officer | oid wind-lammers otherwise saiine 4 lief in {t hound men together closer than who himself has stowed away in one of his | of Sa UStahes mace. ceatken an j holding the same political tenet ship's spare store rooms a quarter-ton bc aters on the other side: vet mene gnyint | meetings were held at which of curios designed for the ornamentation } jacke ched to shins on the Mediterra. | Cus*ed, Some of the fac He of his shore home js pretty apt to look in| nean station picks up a fairly nice thing | D@oted thut ¥ looked na break another direction when he sees bluejackets | of it by bringing back to the United States | Cate? 8 4 debauchee and a villain ca coming over the gang with bulging | such stowaple 2 for instan as fine | ons Infamy. R _ packages of curios under their arms. All| siiks from Lyons and la from Spain. |5,)..2e" as bad 20 eat pie before 11 a.m. as that the officers ask inferentially of the | When the Chicago,-one of she first ships of | {,,W88 (0 drink whisky at any time. A sailor js that the latter shall so conceal his | the new white navy, was the flagship of | UNS man discussing marriage with his tion that the inspecting officer shall | the European station, about a dec Bf cing ea ean hurried to ex not stumble upon it on inspection day: | a caal pas. named Burke w x plain that he wasn’t adeome or honest or In secreting their curios the sailo: to business it a dozer as ything of that sort, but that, at any rate another purpose to serve besides mates to devote their savings of the j BE Wee no rcektent exter : them out of the sight of their officers. | abou: $5.00 in all, to the purchase in Dar. | shat ae eee Se . This is the evasion of the customs inspect: | cclona of a job lot of a hundred and catd | of eating b : ors. The extent of the examination made | tine hand-made black lace mantillas, for | ee ee by the cust ers of men-of-war | which the men-of-warsme: Sout sco ° riving f. gn ports varies with the |cach. Burke had no. tro’ ever in| (Any one who has ex port. In a very few ports the customs offi- ‘sing of the mantillas at a net pr Conn., br ast would cers £0 OV a Warship with 0 each when the irned ty | Searing off from it thoroughness as they do m he United th his ow, | Jeliy-cake, cranberry In of the ports, ne and his shipmates’ s wi nes anid ew largest search of men-of-war § | 5 condensed mil functory, sa rule, t HICErS are \ Aw Expert Diamond Smuggler. sa ee een to pay duty on : stuff t A more remarkable ¢ of naval smu The Army tute home. for, to the direct question ing happened on the Enropenr ; sis Wx Pac RR dutiable aboard?” none of those who has bur Reve siuis Gh TAG MERE Te s “— collection of curios stowed away in Tibnd kates ie Gad i | The giris have worn the army button store room will make reply Gn stich jens) Sue ng nad onan], ¥ conceiy pace and manner, The oceasions tt invariably point out their glish steamer for th only | been ma nto jewelry « Be for apprai Often enough. how- | to be turned back wh urrived in New ! . ise obi eve stams of rs boardin, warship York, on the charge that his ent r = ee Will fail 10 put this question to all the off miei hae Meee ae apes t sets e cers sir and as no man, officer or | UNS Country yagexton or ‘ wns te civilian, is in duty bound to endanger his | Contract eht out a good) tight ng wats I blood vessels in frantic efforts to help out | “heme 5 Access to this te eee customs in eetors their work, som Se untry. av time pick up an : os 4 the cflicers get their stuff in free of duty. | Romest or two. He broached hi = These fortun ones are envied by their | Scheme » or three small dealers j Ss been settled. ‘The but messmates diamonds in Amsterd. ith t result ansiermed {nie garter ss: that they r d about $16,000 worth This was probably the Sela Pay Duty. gems to his ving. The diamond cutter rl Who t tlready #0 The sailors do not have to pay duty on} went to Villefranche, where the U.S, 8. | ered hers bead to foot with the their curio collections once in a dozen | Atlania, which was short-handed on a mblems at nirs of her hero friends Gnuisent ihe tcustomsninsvectorstrareiy ico nt of numerous discharges tran: a had a ccuple left with wa'ch she aid a ‘ ‘ oe ey ie was lying, and applied for enlistment | uot know wh to do. ROSS BUC SOE rene Gt gy De uua nica On mess attendant. He was accented, | is a br 2 after all. as they make the men, and even if they should make « | gna wit $ h of diamonds on | very handsome clasps, and when fastened practice of doing so, they would have to do | him, he put Ket uniform. The | to the red, white and blue garter ribbone, some preity careful delving, in order to | Atlanta returned to the United States about | Which have nly hve Ss at in- make their visits pan out. On boarding a | * Month later, and ihe Amsterdam diamond | tervals — thre re length, warship, the Customs officers, after curso- | CBUer proceeded to put into play a fine bit aving a wic iffed . they do not rily examining and appraising whatever be | of man malingering. He pretended | secm entirely inappropriate. “Phey certain- pointed out by the officers, generally put | to be hopelessly rheumatic when the At- | ly intensify the impression of patriotism fn to the commanding oflicer the question | lanta was only hag? way across the Atlantic | the wearer “Men forward got anything dutiable | on her cruise to New York, and he seemed + aboard?” j such a guileless sort of chap that the ship’ It pays to read the want columns of The “Not that I know of,” replies the captain, | surgeon's suspicions were not aroused. The | S:ar. Hundreds of situations are filled quite truthfully, and the customs men are, | diamond cutter was discharged for dis-! through them While the great collegiate foot ball; One of the most prominent young teams, ] ter Stagg, foot ball experts, published in team well-as those representing our | whose picture is presented today, is the | the leading journals of America, During big athletic clubs, have occupied the atten- | “Cooke Parks.” an eleven made up of the | the season they played nine games, only tion of the public almost constantly since | of prominent residents.of Georgetown, | losing two, and the defeats were only be- the ending of base bail, very little atten- | of whom during the summer were P of the fact that their opponents out- tion has been given the youthful aspirants | members of the swimming club at the Po- 1 them nearly two to one. Their for honors on the criss-cross diamong, | tomac boat house, under the care of Presi-| success was phenomenal, and Captain Win- though this locality boasts many young | dent John Hadley Doyle of that organiza-/ te ves is confident that during the sea- teams that are a credit to the city. It is | tion. This team played foot ball this year | son of IS8W9 they will surpass this year's from these teams that our big colleges will | as it should.be played, clean cut and with-/ record. The members of the team are 8s their drafts in the years to come, | cut the least semblance of rough plays. Its | follows: Parris, left end: Brewster, left and it is from these also that W gton | members had the fine points of the game tackle: Kincaid, left guard; Dun'op, cen- has given such prominent players as But- | down to perfection, and their best signals | ter: Easterday, right guard, Graves, right terworth Ordway of | were worked out by problems in algebra. | tackle; Huntington, right end; Gordon, Lehigh, Taussig of Cornell and his brother, | Most of the players were pupils in the public | quarter back; Doyle, right half back; May- ring cn the Naval Academy team; | Schools, hence they thoroughly understood | field, left half back; Radford, full’ back; y of Fordham and | each other and piayed a spiendid collective | with Miller, Talent and Gibbs as substi- Boyie and the University of | game. They were posted on every trick | tutes. Several of these names wil! become Pennsylvania, not to mention the great} known on the diamond, and their success | familiar to the public when the play- array who have figured on the teams of | is due in a great measure to the fact that more years and weight, for doubts the univ s of Georgetown and Colum- bian and the Columbfa Athletic Club. 1898—24 PAGES, Parris, L. EB. Huntington, ‘Talent. RE. au. Easterd: B rewster, a a ae at le, i. B. L. incaid, they read every article thac Walter Camp, Casper Whitney, Bull, De Shields and Wal- the big college teams. 17 will figure prominently on some of Radford, F. B. Graves, LT. Mayfield BH Gor i BR. rdon,