Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1900, Page 8

PEEL Parlor Furniture Department. and silk tapestries. SPAEEEE EEE EEE EE EEE EEE We are able to make the ished, upholstered in damas' and style Mahogany finish suite: holly, of new and high-cl: and damasks. .. The special purchase of the very fashionable circular frame parlor suites last week brought unusual buying activity to the A number of the suites remain. They are of piano-polished mahogany finish, elaborately inlaid with pearl and holly, and handsomely upholstered in damasks_ In all respects a high- grade suite and really worth all of $50.00. rice for these. . Circular frame inlay suites, mahogany finish, , elegant pattern handsomely d The Parlor Suite Specials. $37.00 $28.50 inlaid in pearl and $15.00 gn, tapestries We clean and renew the lace curtains properly. Furniture rr Mattress Factors, It . 12th and Obio Ave. 452 Penn. Ave. W. B. MOSES & SONS, F ST., COR. 11TH. Storage Warehouse, 22d and M Sts. BEEBE EE EEE EE ERLE TATA PEEP EEE | Clothing. SSE] | SE fore sizes are broken. We're Going Out of the Business. This is the last sale we shall ever hold of Boys’ and Children’s It isn’t a sale for profit—it is a clean sweep of every dollar's worth of goods in this stock TO QUIT THE BUSINESS! It's a chance to fit the boys out at a great saving. Come early be- Boys’ and Children’s Suits, | 1% Off Marked Prices. Tysing price ye" All-wool Te - breasted in checks, in plain bine ms and double $1.34 to cle and with Regular stripe: taped Vestie years, fancy e fe Suite—in a great va- riety of all-wool ma- terials—sizes 3 to 10 Our regular $4 grades. To close, ars. min for Handsome Vestie $ Suits—sizes 3 to 6 ° up in nes patterns of tweeds, and beautifully trimmed. Regular $5 values. Cut to $5.34. e Soc. values io Shirt Walsts. All Separate Knee Pants, one-third off. | M. DYRENFORTH & CO., 923 Penna. Ave. | $ for — Boys’ Sailor | Blonse Suits, in navy {| ° bite cheviots, with jj neatly embrotiered — | shields: blue and white trimmed collurs— to 9 years. $3 values. Price to close, $2. S$ for Boys’ Three-plece ! Suits, in bine and {| A. black Thibet cloth, — | beautifully finished — |} and trimmed. Our regular $6 values. | Price tu close, $4. variety of i . made of navy braid trimmings—sizes 3 to WW sears. $3 values. $2. ! $ for Boys' Vestte —{t! te—sizes 3B to 10 ht ° rs—in —all-wool Serges, chevlots and worsteds; elegantly fulsbed and trimmed. $7 values. Closing price, $4.67. for T5e. qualities of the Famous “‘Mother’s Friend’ Shirt Walsts. $1 val for 66c. 50° IN HOTEL CORRIDORS. istingt guest from a ‘chair * said an old and popular clerk of th> uptown hotels. * I can, > | know who the guests are. The appearance of men in hotel lobbies, as else- where, is often very deceiving. Tak> that Little fellow sitting over there demurely @ half ashamed In the corner. The av- erage man would declars that he Is a lounger. Certainly, anybody would. He ts, however, a Boston millionaire, who 1s on his way home from a winter spent in ex- travagant style in Florida, He pays us $80 a day for acoommodations for himself and family—a small one, too. “It is not as easy a3 {t looks. Any ob- serving man who 1s a stranger to th2 place may come in the lobby of this hotel and at- tempt to segregate from those occupying chairs the guests of the house and the guests of the lobby. In five cases out of ten he would mark the wrong men. In a large, first-class hotel Ike this its lobby frequenters are, a3 a rule, gentlemen, who are well dressed and easy of manner. They have business often with our guests, pa- tronize the bar or cigar stand, or make busi- ness or social appointments here with their friends. This type of hotel frequenters is not to be classed with the lobby lounger. As a rule, they are friendly to the house and we receive at their hands hundreds of recommendations, of which, of course, we have no direat knowledge, but which help just the same. “In second and third-class hotels it is a comparativ2ly essy maiter for a man fa- miliar with men and used to the ways of the world to mark out the goats from the sheep. Hundreds of men In this city spend their evenings In these places, and aiter a while becoms lobby statues in a sitting posture, well known to the clerk and others. ‘They occupy the chairs to the exclusion of the guests and some freely use the sta- ry, and would ask for stamps, too, if tre supplied free. This type of lobby rig a parasite. He never spends a t in the house and uses it merely as a Je is a recognized pest of American ho- tel lif, whose constitution is immune to ions of ‘rough on hotel is no way to eradicate him, and rather than stir up a fuss we allow him a fixture, and, therefore, fail to S pressnce astly different abroad. A person ‘on entering a hotel in Paris, is approached by a man who e principally for this purpose, and his business diplomatically and politely in- quired in any and every languag> from Russian to Chinese. free public use of fires, chairs, music and the usual public privileges of an American hotel. And the People, knowing that they have no such fight, do not attempt to ass>rt It. The otela In Europe are for the exclusive use if those whe pay for it.” “Americans have a great deal of fun out the reputed obtuseness of the English,” fu: Alfred Dalrympl:, an English traveler, the Shoreham, “but we retallate in kind certain well-known “Americanisms’ and uliarities, and we have our amusement, too, at your expense. “There ts on3 misconception of a class of ‘wage earners in England entertained by you which tallies with the popular idea that €il Englishmen are as your actors picture the ‘typical’ English lord or resident of the ‘tight little isle’ g2nerally on your stage, and that wage earner is the English bar- maid. This is brought forcibly to point by the action of the chief of the New York in forbidding Mrs. Langtry to have ss of the best social standing serve liquid refreshments at the benefit recently given at the Waldorf-Astorla. “There is no class of women who earn their own living in this country who corre. spond with the English barmai The near- est parallel I can draw as to status In the estimation of others would be the factory girl, though, of cours», of dissimilar em- ployment, or the restaurant waitresses. ‘The barmaid works very hard, has long hours and receives on an average of about 230, or from $15) to $200 per annum, and her board and lodging. “The American idea i They ar2 an industrious set of girls as a great class, who aspire to marriage with a small tradesman, a publican, as we call the Keeper of a public house or Inn, or with a butler or upper servant, and, as a rule, at- tain their ambition and often wed wealthy men. Many ar3 pretty and all must be lively and entertaining and pleasant under all circumstances. The patrons of the pub- lic houses treat them with respect. “A place where liquor is sold is not a fit one for a woman, {s the American idea of propriety. In England it is the universal custom, and custom sanctions all things and fashions according to the country in which it Is in vogue. You are accustomed to being served by men, we by women; that's all the diffsrence.”” entirely at fault. Why do young men enlist?” said one of Uncle Sam's protectors wearing the uni- form of a soldier in the marine corps, sit- ting in the lobby of the National. “I don't know why all young fellows go in tne serv- ice, for considerations other than patriot- ism, but I will tell you why I want in and am willing to run the risk of becoming a target for a Mauser bullet. “Iam a painter by trade and have never failed to obtain steady employment. I gave up $3 a day to wear this uniform and earn $13 a month and found because I want to see the world and have an adventursome disposition. I could never save up any money, and my roving disposition hss taken me all over the United States. But foreign travel fs an expensive luxury. I want to go to the Philippines and enjoy th2 novelty, excitement and change of a long sea voyage to a distant and unfamiliar clime and see these people and the way they live, and at somabody else's expense. The government will do this for me, as L am a strong, healthy young fellow, who never yet refused a chance to fight. So if I go to the front In a landing expedition, as long as I have breath to draw, I’m going right ahead ‘forward’ with the rest of the boys of a blood and kin that is historic for going ‘on’ once they start to go. “After my term ts up at Cavite, if my regiment is ordered there, I hope to be as- signed to a ship on the south Atlantic or some other station. The climate in th3 south Pacific Is such that men must be changed arounu frequently, as in the trop- ical dependencies of other countries, be- cause of its enervating effect on the Amer- ican system. The English government fol- jows this shifting policy to maintain the health of its troops. In this manner I hope to see a good bit of the world before my term expires, when I will return to my trade. THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1900-16 PAGES. PEACE COMES FIRST No Hurry to Exhibit the Panoply of War. ARMY AND NAVY PALACE UNFINISHED Street Hawkers Will Sell Admis- sions for Five Cents. EXPOSITION FINANCES SAFE (Copyright, 1900, by Baldwin, Eastman & Co.) Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PARIS. March 27, 1900. Paris is evidently not panting for war, either on land or sca. Of the twenty main buildings of the exposition the army and navy palace will be the last finished. It cannot possibly be ready in time. The various peace societies in different parts of the world are asking why, in so mani- festly pacific an undertaking as the Paris exposition, there should even be a building dedicated to almighty Mars. The only answer is, “Precedent.” The only opposi- tion to the building rose from the quar- ters where it was least to be expected. from the war department and from thé ministry of marine. Both of these gov- ernment offices declined to appropriate to- ward this undertaking one cent of the funde they had been struggling for. one might almost say, “‘at the point of the sword,” in the chamber of deputies and the senate. The excuse for not exhibiting on a grand scale is the assertion that recent military inventions could not be displayed at the exposition without divviging the secret of their manufacture, so the national defense would be Hable to suffer. And when the military authorities speak of ‘national de- fense" no Frenchman, even though he be an exposition manager, dares to utter one syllable in protest. So that, instead of being an up-to-date military and naval exposition, the army and navy building will furnish only a retrospective display. Germany bids fair to be quite as promi- nent as France herself in the showing of military and naval instrumental warfare. Only these two countries will be in evi- dence to any ext The display will have a formidable rival in the museum of artillery in the Hotel des Invalides, which is open to visitors the year round, and is @ permanent Paris exhibition of ancient and mediaeval military appliances exceed- ingly difficult to surpass. The War Show. As to the building itself it will be found en the banks of the Seine, between the Alma and Iena bridges. It is not a pic- turesque affair, but a plain wood-and-plas- ter construction, conveying chiefly an idea of architectural solidity. The central part resembles on one side a portion of the old Bastile, while from the Qu: @ Orsay point of view it recalls the Tower of London. The centerpiece of the building is connected with the opposite bank of the Sei pretty feot bridge. Among the features which will attract attention are the illustrations of military s of years gone by, collec- of helm shion- of the old fleet of vaday: floating batteries and naval training sc In the drama of nations Africa now oc- cupies the center of the stage. The dark countries will be represented in a bundred dierent ways at the Paris exposition. Buropeans are watching the developments of events in this division of the world from politice nd commercial peints of v British-Transvaal war Fachoda had nearly led to an outbreak of hostilities France and England. That incident, although officially concluded, is not buried and forgotten, ay yet prove a source of trouble. Be this as it may, European nations are bent on Increas- ing their colonial possessions, especially in Africa, as promptly as possible. Darkest Afriea. In this connection some of the results of the work of French explorers, soldiers and official representatives in various parts of Africa will be shown at the exposition. There will be many panoramas of the dark continent, both inside and outside the fair. In the gardens of the Trocadero, where sey- eral acres of ground have been built over by the various African and Asiatic colonies of France, there will be much to interest and instruct the visitor. Not only have several prominent buildings of the distant French possessions been reproduced with scrup- ulous exactitude, but natives have been im- ported and wiil dwell in the Paris exposi- tion buildings for seven months. This grand colonial display is sald to be a y clever move on the part of the ex- position managers. If {t does not result in awakening a desire among the youth of France to set out and seek a fortune in one or another of his country’s rich posses- sions, then it may be taken for granted that France will never be a colonizing nation. At the head of the French explorers who by their daring and courage have gained uni- versal renown are Commandant Marchand and Colonel Montell. The panorama of the former's trip of exploration which ended a couple of years ago at Fachoda wi) be a drawing card on the grounds of the ex tion. In recent years Explorer Montell has done much for France and Northern Africa. Thanks to a curiously structed alumi- num boat, which will be shown colonial section of the fair, b way from the Atlantic to the Niger, thence to Lake Tchad and finally to Tripoli. Admission, Five Cents. Visitors to Paris will not have to pay 50 cents to gain admission to the expos grounds, as was the case at the world’s fair in Chicago. They will not even be required to pay one franc (20 cents), although that is the official charge. After much calcula- tion, expert computers have reached the conclusion that the 65,000,000 tickets now on sale in all parts of France will be disposed of at about an average of 25 centimes, French money, or 5 cents American money. During the first few days of the fair no doubt the price will be somewhat higher. The charge of one france will be maintained at the admission gates, but the street hawkers will meet the demands of visitors long before they reach the ticket offices. This low figure, however, does not Indicate that the fair is In any way a failure. It only proves that there is a superabundance of tickets on the market, arising from the fact that the various drawings of the lot- tery in which exposition holders were en- titled to participate are nearly all termi- nated, and consequently the chance of win- ning @ prize of $100.000 is now exceedingly remote. The eagerness with which the general public bought big blocks of exposi- tion tickets at the outset because a lottery with a few big prizes was an element in the financial scheme. {s only another proof of the extraordinary gullibility of continental nations. A Matter of Millions, The coffers of the exposition are safe. They have been so fur four years past. The leading Frenci banks guaranteed and handed over to the exposition the 60,000,000 franes ($12,009,000) of which they stood in need. In return the exposition presented the banks with 65,000,000 exposition tickets (face value $13,000,000). The extra million dollars was set aside to pay the expenses of the Issue. The money for the lottery prizes was supplied by the interest during four years on the $12,000,000, or on such portions of it as remained unspent as the building of the fair progr One has only to divide the 65,000, tickets by the 205 days which the fair will be open to see at a glance that the ticket issue provides for 317,000 visitors daily. All these tickets have been paid for in advance, but, as it is not likely that the attendance will reach such enormous figures, there is a great deal of depreciation in the face value of the admission. After the Lottery. A great number of subscribers purchased quantities of tickets solely for the purpose of participating in the lottery drawings. ‘Their gambling craze now being satisfied they are desirous of obtaining whatever they can for the tickets not needed for per- sonal use. This state of affairs ia not gen- erally known, and ignorance of the public on the subject is he: in mission ticket to the fair, which is quoted at 14 francs. In reality, it will only cost the agency 4 frances, and a profit of 10 —— pee visiter goes into the pockets of e ageri in Paris exposition tickets are given away by newspapers in order to obtain new sub- scribers, and shopkeepers and traders of all kinds are utilizing thedluctuating market as @ means of increasing..their trade. The ex- position thus obtains an extraordinary amount of free advertising, traders do more business and the general public is happy, since with the purchase of an urticle marked five francs an exposition ticket is thrown in gratis. Where Ships Are Shown. The palace of mercantile marine, on the lower quay of the Seine, opposite the Troca- dero Gardens, is a pretentious building, and about the only one on the grounds whose exterior gives. more than a hint of the nature of the exhibits to be found with- in. Only one fault can be found with the design—some parts of it are too ancient. ‘Thus, whenever a hull of a boat is repro- duced in staff the architects have chosen the classie Greek or Roman boat. When- ever oars are shown they are the imple- ments of fifteen hundred or two thousand years’ago. In fact, there is nothing on the exterior typical of nineteenth century navi- gation, with the solitary exception of a lighthouse. The architects were compelled to make this structure quite modern, for if old Alexandria really did possess a pharos (watch tower), which is said to have been one of the seven wonders of the world, no traces are to be found of it; consequently it cannot be copied. All the steamship com- panies are making very complete exhibits in this building. ——.-—-— THAT HALF OF A CE T. A Washington Bank Teller Hopes It Will Never Appear. “I'm not speaking entirely from a point of self-interest, as you might think,” said the teller of an F street bank to a Star re- porter, “when I say that I, in common with all of the bank tellers and officers all over this country, sincerely hope that the prop- osition to issue a half-cent plece may never get beyond the proposition period in the United States. “In the handling of our present copper cent we have all we want to do. With sev- eral billlons of another and an inferior copper piece thrown upon the country it would work chaos with all moneyed ac- counts and transactions, Why, the simple process of addition, to say nothing of other mathematical transactions, would be com- plexed. Not in point of ability to do and to understand how to do the sums, but from the point of additional labor. “For example, write down a column of figures the length of a full bank of business house ledger, carrying the cents into the mills column. Do this twenty times a day, add, swallow your medicine and then re- tire to woodshed to swear. We balance our books daily to a cent, and if the totals do not agree they are all gone over with, and we all stay, If the error cannot be fixed upon one of us, until they do balance. Pic- ture looking for an error of haif a cent! The United States treasury frequently draws a check for a cent, and their books must nightly balance to that amount. “The argument is advanced that these half-cent pieces would be absorbed into the ‘circulation.’ Not any more in proportion to their vaiue than any other piece of money issued by the government. he ‘cir- culation’ does not need them, and if the ‘circulation’ is congested, the stringency could be relieved at once by a proper and abundant supply of one-cent pieces being issued and the supply maintained to flood tide of demand. “It would not prove popular, in my mind, after the novelty had worn off. Remem- ber the fate of the two-cent piece and the three-cent compatriot, both of whom died an early and unregretied death. As it is now, people do not like to take pennies in change. It is a common sight in a store to see ladies hand back five pennies and ask for a nickel in change, while the car con- ductor hands you pennies in change with a murmured apology. Yet {t is said that the opposite sex are the main advocates of the vheme. If the illustration I just cited holds good, and it is my observation that it does, they would be the very first to object to the receipt of half cents in change. Fan- cy dropping twenty copper half-cent pieces into the gloved hand of a lady. Well! “The minimum unit of value in the United States should never be changed from one cent. “In France it ig a fifth of a cent, or five sous make a centime. And if any place in the world the printiples of economy are carried painfully out it is In sunny France. In England it is a half a penny, but it must be borne in mind that the ha’ penny there equals the cent here. “In my opinion the innovation would have a slight tendency to reduce the wages of working people. If, for instance, a woman be now paid 10 cents for making a shirt, she would never be paid 1, cents, all con- ditions being equal; it would be 91% cents. To people who reckon their income in pen- nies, and there are millions of them, a half a cent reduction from their pay by piece work means much. I don't think that the reduction in the price of commodities, if an actual reduction took place, would offset the loss. If anybody will lose on a moncy transaction, it will be the poor, every time. “To my mind, the pléa that the mer- chants demand it in order that an equal value in money may be given where their goods are marked inthe ‘half cent’ is sophistical. In the advertising columns of The Star goods are offered at the fraction of a cent, as %, %, etc., © day, espe- clally on Friday, ‘bargain day.’’ To make a consistent argument, the fractional parts of a cent, in elghths, should also be coined. “Speaking as one who handles millions during the year, I think our present sys- tem of currency Is a model. To further incumber it with the issues of the moiety of a cent, to my mind, would be both harim- ful and ridiculous.” IMPORTANT A HIGHLY QUESTION. It Was, However, Satixfactorily Set- tled to All Concerned. ‘The several gentlemen present, who were Incidentally viewing their reflecttons in the plate glass mirror behind the polished ma- hogany barrier in the resort presided over by the swell barkeep had argued the ques- tion for upward of an hour without ar- riving at a satisfactory conclusion. As it was long past dinner hour and their wives were undoubtedly gettting purple in the face at their dilatoriness in reaching the home board in Ume to save the meal from getting cold, It was decided, after the bottle had been passed around for the fifth round, to leave it to the man in the trim- med white duck jacket for deciston. It was a very important question, and he was not a philologist, a itterateur nor a dilit- tante correspondent. “Why, the base ball ed., of course. promptly decided the accommodating indi- vidual appealed to. “The pugilistic ed. ie a pair of deuces, he fs, compared with the base ball ed. Say, now you have hit me tender. The base ball ed., on slinging English, is a soaring genius of transcendent fame and iridescent hue. Oh, say, that’s too good! You fel- lows that had the pigtlistic ed.’s end are dead losers. Now, I’m fair. I will con- fess that the pusgilistic ed. does as well as he can, as well, in fact, as the limited vocabulary he ‘has at command admits. But one may understand, that is, the aver- age citizen who can,read and write, can understand, at the account of the seven- teenth round the condition of the princi- pals and their’ seconds, and whether the champion is in“or ont of the ring. “But the base balF ed.!” and the swell barkeep ralsed his eyes reverently before he let them fall into the bottom of the glass he emptied. ‘The base ball ed.’s vocabu- lary is as Mmitless as the plains, as deep as the ocean, as profound as the mystery of the sphynx, and.@s expressive as ail these combined, His skill in the choice of words and terms in applying them to the game and its players;'In that they all have a contrary or né meaming in the dictionary, is simply beautiful, and we, we, the devo- tees of the noblest game on earth, under- stand each other and every one of his ef- forts and appreciate them ingly. “Why, the game would be dead dull read- ing and would of itself sink into unpopu- larity if tt wasn’t for the wide-awake, word- coining base ball ed. - “When the average citizen reads that Muffy Base is ‘dolug a Reuben Glue sketch Base is doing? a ‘ellows who the pugilistic ed. turn pale, and well you ought. Of course,.the average citizen don’t know Mufty Base's doings & side of beef. But we do all right, and that’s enough. = “If the av. clt. wishes to enlighten him- self, and turns to the dictionary what does he find? ‘Reuben’ is defined as a name, ‘glue’ as a sticky substance, ‘sketch’ pl » and ‘farm’ a ne “Don't you pugilists tell me these defi- nitions bear no relation to base ball, and tached are otherwise unintelligible as the sen- | 8 o'clock in the — SSS “If they’re Rich’s Shoes they’re proper.” Ten-one F—Cor. 10th. Entire Building, 2 %ty. With the fullest confidence that they are the handsomest creations ever put on the market, we present our new Spring footwear, embracing: shoes for street and dress wear—reception, evening and wedding footwear—sporting footwear, embracing boots for shooting, riding, golfing —college shoes for both sex- es, made especially for wear at colleges and universities. OLDENBERG’ Running through 922-24-26-28 7th St. “THE DEPENDABLE STORE.” to 704-6 K Street. Particular attetion is called to the exclusiveness of the styles. In a journey about town you will not find shoes like them, and if you are fa- miliar with the shoes shown in New York shops you will recogize these at once as the same styles. Even in the largest and most exclusive shoe stores in the metropolis you will not find a more superb assort- ment of patent leather, kid or satin slippers for evening, wedding and reception wear. Every new shade is here and rey costume can be match- ed. B. Rich’s Sons, High-grade footwear, Ten-vc F—Corner 1oth. i it e iy Chas. R. Edmonston. Handsome VASES && EASTER. The coming of Easter and the desire which comes with it to display beautiful lilies and the like brings also the need of Easter vases. We call attention of these who will buy them to the assortment in Austrian, pressed and cut glass and particularly to the tmmensity of the varlety of shapes and decora- tons. Large Pressed Glass Vases for halla, churches, &c., for large flow- ers are also shown. New oxidized glass vases —for buds and ylolets, at 25c. up. These have every appearance of hammered metal—many of which ere Iridescent. Chas. R. Edmonston, China, Hass and Housefurnishings, 1205 Pa. Avenue. FREE! This Watch for Selling 18 Pins. We also give Bracelets, Cameras, Rings, Guard Chains, ete., ete, Send your name and full ad- dreas and we will mail you 1§ Gold Plate Scart Pins to sell for 10 cents each. When sold, send us the money and select your present from our large iustrated catalogue. | Write today. Anawan Jewelry Co., North Attleboro’, Mass. apli-wé&s-23tt Go to Siccardi’s FOR BARGAINS IN HUMAN BAIR We are gleo selling a lot of All Long Hamas Bair Switches at great 82 $1.50. bargains. 00 Switghes reduced 00 Switches reduced Gray White = in Mme. Siccardi, Private vooms, foi" beiniressing: abaipooing and @yeing. 4a20-16tt tence Is used. It’s just because you chaps are dead sore losers. “Furthermore, there are 10,345 words of this class tn the base ball ed.’s private lexicon, and the fans know every one of them, see? If the rest of the people don’t understand it is the fault of their ignor- ance.” THE OFF AND THE NEAR HORSE. He Enlightened Her on a Mystery to the Feminine Mind. ‘They were driving around the White Lot. He had been expatiating upon horses in general and the two in front of them in}. particular. After he had been talking for half an hour about the superiority of the near horse over the off horse as a stepper, she said: “I wasn’t raised among horses, you know; therefore I haven't the slightest idea whether the near horse is on the right hand of the driver or not. Is he? “No,” the young man answered, “and you may comfort yourself and your sex with the assurance that only about two men out of ten know that the off horse is on the right side of the driver. Nearly everybody thinks that the near horse is on the right hand because he is the ‘nearest’ animal to the driver. . “The designations arose this way: In the days of postillions the driver rode the left- hand horse, as he does today when the driver rides. Station yourself at F and 10th streets any day when the big hay Wagons come into town, and you will ob- serve a survival of the ancient custom. ‘The driver rides the wheel left-hand horse invariably. This horse is, therefore, the ‘near’ horse to him, and’ the right-hand horse is the farthest or the ‘off’ horse. “In a four-in-hand team, the ‘wheclers’ are.the rear team and the ‘leaders’ the front team. Consequently, when your horsey young lady friend talks about the ‘oft’ leader of their four-in-hand quartet going lame from ‘scratches,’ you will know that the right-hand front horse is laid up with a raw sore in the folds of the skin above the posterior portion of the hoof dtrectly under the fetlock, and, as the muscles of the leg here corrugate and expand with every step, as those of the human wrist when it is bent toward the body, you may know that she won't ‘tool’ with that norse for some time to come.” —_s——_. Notable Teeth. From Tit-Bits. There is, it ie said, a ring belonging to an English nobleman in which the place of honor, once occupied by a costly diamond, is given to a tooth that formerly did duty in a human jaw. The tooth was the tooth of the famous Sir Isaac Newton. A relic monger sold it by auction in 1816, and the nobleman who bought it turned out from its place in his favorite ring a valuable diamond in order to insert the tooth in its stead. Another tooth which so tar excites ‘the veneration of hero worshipers as to be able to hold a court of its own and to draw trom long distances a small host of fol- lowers is one that was originally hidden ‘away behind the lips of Victor Hugo. It is kept at his former residence in a glass case bearing the “Tooth drawn from oe jaw of pate a by ee on Wednesday, August 11° 1871, 6 att to the house of Madame etternoon.” at safe delivery. Our milliners econom: —go tomorrow for $1.98. $4 We're working hard to| meet every Easter millinery demand. Our efforts are all turned toward filling every order for millinery intrusted to us—and you'll find us teady to meet every demand up to the very last hour possible for forced by extra hands—a fact that eloquently bespeaks the confidence placed in our efforts. Goldenberg Millinery anywhere. Exchusiveness—. elegance—high qualities—go hand in hand with y—that results in this tremendous which is increasing every hour. But please don’t delay any longer—let us know your wants at once. A special lot of Ready- 2 dozen _ beantifull; Anothe 1 towesr Hats, with Pan- | trimmed Hats, which we | treat trom "eur crown ‘and fa promi ot be - ome — & exam oes orn anaes ise cannot be mateh- Tooms — exclusive exam ed = anywhere than $7—go tomorrow at are busy day and night—rein- || There’s no superior to yle and price Easter trade, for _lese ples of xtylish elegance— worth $8. 50—offered for $6.50. 50. Specials The next three days are all shopping. We are ready to meet every possible demand—and every resource is being taxed disappointed. Below are given timeliest value-giving—news that will interest every Easter shopper. A glove special. 50 dozen Ladies’ Kid Gloves; 2-claspe, in black apd every wanted shede, for ster wear—including the scarce whites, grays, modes and tans—and in 69¢ every size. Tomorrow's special at bd = A ribbon special. All-silk Taffeta Ribbons, 3 Inches wide. in white, black, violet, maize, piok, light blue and the beautiful pastel shades. lar price, 2ic. a yard. Sp tomorrow only. . A parasol special. Children's Mercerized Silk Parasols, in light bine, pink and violet. Cute ltt styles. Regular price, 59 cen! Special tomorrow... a Special for boys. Boys’ “‘Victory" Twilled Cheviot Suits, a material famous for wear and fully guaranteed tion. In donhle-breasted style— m 7 to 16. Plain colors and fancy ch plaid patterns. While they're oven es 61 08 price fs only... Se e eaten petnteentseha betel A suit special. Wemen'’s Swell Man-tallored Suits, com- prising Imported venetians, in castor. gray, brown, black and blue; cheviots in blue and black ‘and gray homespuns; correctly cut in smartly tailored and per- fectiy finished. A very un- usual value for............ $ 1 9.75 A corset special. Many celebrated makes of Corsets, ing “R. & Ba SPN: & ._N “Amel can Lady" and “‘Thompson’s Glove Fitting’ —in long and short styles and Diack, white and drab—will nm 8 Scace ONC. _ A petticoat special. “Luster-allk"* Petticoats, tn 6 different styles—some made with 2 ruffles and others with 13-Inch_accordian-pleated —ruffle—in A hosiery special. morrow for. Ladies’ Fine Quality Hose, guaranteed fast black. Full regular made, with = higtspliced beel and toe and dou- sole, 19¢. includ. ble Worth 25c., for..... a ss that touch upo the Easter needs. Eton bolero, tight-fitting and fly-front styles; - n that remain for the pre-Easter to its uttermost that no one will be a few “SPECIALS” that tell of A waist special. New Taffeta Silk Waista. made acconiing to the latest dictates of Dame Fasbi in a full assortment of the newest shades; some are beautifully corded and ed all over mek- they reflect the daintiest of spring styles; plain black taffeta silk, and others are every wanted color. ‘They're worth a great deni More—bat tomorrow's special Price will be only... $4.50 A shoe special. Ladies’ Fine-grade Footwear, consisting of iskin Oxford Ties, hand turned and haud- welt soles; Tar Russia Calfskin, All Patent Teather and Finest Vicl Kid Oxford Ties, and Dress Shoes of Fooderer's Viel Kid, with patent and kid tips, Ught, medium and heary soles, and ather Foxed and Soaseceeseatentoedeoteorosondondoazeagensentoatoeengendonteadessonseatoataageatontontoazents CoahesLoatrinne, eaioatoatontertotontenooetertonrontoetoetoater onto rtontentontessoazenlosronloatontontentoitostoninete tontoeteste tee etortetioneteoniescoreors Cloth-te a $1.98 Special in “all-overs.” $ on™ wal Tucking. made of carbrie = is wide. Worth 75e. tomorrow at.. a sant AOC, A jewelry special. An immense assortment of Jeweled Hat Pins, in hundreds of the newest «t 10c. pone of which are worth les than 19¢. and many are Ze. values—go A neck i neckwear special. Ladies’ New Exster Neckwear, consisting of Satin stock collars, in ck, white and all col- Si gt SiS sank tone, ami DOC, Underwear special. Special price Ladies’ Jersey-rihbed Vesta, low neck, sleeveliss, with taped peck 2 °7C. arms; gc on sale tomorrow for only. . ° Special for men. Men's New Enster Neckwear, in all the latest spring effects—in English squares, plain colors with fancy borders. = 48) Cc. eeedegnbetetedetee ee . swellest effects of the season. Special tomorrow Sotedeiaetetidedettedietete deeded A towel special. 150 dozen Extra Heavy Unbleached Turkish of Towels—large size—made beavy double-twisted Full of wear. Special val at 12%c. For » day Sesdondeeeosieateetesteneees SOOO fora Fine Upright STEINWAY Tomorrow. Walnut case—war- ranted 5 years. Parties leaving city reason for selling so cheap. Easy terms if desired. No exchange. DROOP’S MUSIC HOUSE, 925 Penna. Ave., STEINWAY AND OTHER LEADING PIANOS. it New Family Sewing Machine, $ I g> With beautiful oak woodwork and all latest at- tachments. Warranted Ten Years. Equal to any $60 machine. At Oppenheimer’s, 514 9th St. N.W. Machines repaired, $1. apll-284 Great Reduction in Hair Goods. Switches. .. 4 |[Righting Ee. Wrongs amall that plum. g s, SHEDD t= 432 Oth St. ,,Pimbing. Tiooing. apll-24d ow TO < PAINT for . 9) 0 Aa an =o 2 i FAL (900-806 Fla. ave, "Phone 1502. Trap OF | wig Boney, nanos anc) = Surrey —all Surrey {| mountings—ot tne tamous CON- CORD MAKE. Harness, | 50,3 Gels tsiereignt LUTZ & CO., 497 PA. AVE. ‘3p0-204