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Not 70 Designing a. He Seemed TO be
From the Detroit Free Press.

Not 70 Designing a. He Seemed 10 be.
From the Detroit Free Press.
Edward Weitzel, one OF Detroits industrious
young dramatists, tells this story on himself:
LAST March, while In Chicago was introduced
to an actor who Was stopping at the same hotel.
After pleasant chat with him, during which
found him both well Informed and afYable, he sug-
gested that we go to restaurant and have din
ner. ! agreed and we started out On our way
there he invited me In to one OF the adlZzies' as
they are called by the actors, to have something
There were several seedy looking faklrs in the
he gave them an invitation to Join US. They read
NY responded, and alter we had given our order
the host turned TO me and remarked In an under.
tone. but 80 the crowd could hear, say, Weitze,
81 did SO. He paid for the drinks as II he were
worth million, and we left the place. Once out
side he suggested that we go to Race Bros for our
"Well,' thought l. for a man who has to Dor.
row dollar 70 pay for his treat that is rather an
expensive place. Perhaps, though, you intend
and determined TO see how far he would try TO
carry matters. We entered the restaurant, and
he gave his order like Q prince. We sat at the
table nearly an hour and my friends dow Of spirits
was remarkable He talked OF everything except
that borrowed dollar.
s.At last he called for the bill The waiter made
it out and laid 1t on the table. Thinking, II was
TO pay for the dinner, that would do Ii without
being asked TO lend him the money, / reached for
the bill, but my friend was too quick for me. He
picked It up, flashed on me look OF surprise, put
his hand In his pocket took out lat roll OF bills,
paid the score, and then handed me q dollar with
the remark, Many thanks / borrowed that dollar
because did not want those fakirs TO know that
had money; they might have asked me for q
Although he said this in sober earnest there
was twinkle In his eye. ! felt In moment that
knocked me down with q toothpick he held In his
fingers"
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COVER.
Warrington Correspondence Baltimore sun
Inc oncer OF engineers, whose defense OF Major
Lyoecker was furnished In this correspondence Of
last evening, is certainly in error as to one OF his
statementa The appended extract from one Of
the Official reports Of Major Lydecker Is rather
conclusive against the assertion that he was op-
posed 70 the tunnel plan for the Potomac aque-
duct: ''The further examine into and study this
Question the more am confirmed in the opinion
mat ior facility, time and cost of construction
CURLY against damage from natural causes, or the
violence OF man, Indeed In every material respect,
the tunnel project Is the best onen
imperative Justice demands that the ofYicers In
charge OF the aQueduct shall have every opportu-
nty 10 exculpate themselves II possible but 1t will
t noo uE W make the excuse that they opposed the
gunner pan. PUBLIC sentiment is still strong that
tne investigation should be conducted under other
auspices. Inc secretary or War has not yet re.
turned 10 washington, and 1t may be that the act
tney are not called upon to assume any RESPONSE
olilty In bis absence. 1t is not possible to obtain
any expression OF opinion from either one OF them
put IL Is rumored around the War Department
that they consider the proper course is to walt
until the congressional Investigation provided for
In the deficiency bill shall get TO work. The first
Ining ior TINS COMMITTEES to do will be to call for
all the contracts and specifications and It may be
taken Tor granted that 1t will promptly call in out
SIDE experts TO conduct the Investigation. No one
attaches the least importance 10 Major Lydecker's
the defects already discovered. civil engineers
say this Is TOO ABSURD to merit any comment.
startling statements were put In print here to-day
Dy responsible persons, Affirming defects in that
part OF the tunnel yet TO be examined which are
a character so outrageous as almost TO take away
the breath. These statements are based ON infor-
matlon volunteered by wOrk1ngmen In the tunnel,
spots
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Old.Time Economics.

ARnes hepp1er In Atlantic for October.
Those were times when fashions had not vet
learned to change with such chameleon-like speed,
and people did occasionally wear their old clothes
with an unblushing effrontery that would be we'll
nigh disgraceful to-day. silks and satins, laces
and furbeows were all Of the c0stliest description
and their owners were chary OF dlscarding them,
or even OF lightly exposing them to ruin. Emile
her blood, somewhat after the manner OF
to a the sas Pea BY
hundred years ago. We have In Pepys' diary o
most amusing record Of his disgust at being over
persuaded Dy MS wire to wear his best suit on
certain threatening May day, and how, OF course,
IL rained and all their pleasure was spoiled The
guilty Eve was quite as unfortunate as her hus-
fine In her lowered ta6by gown" which we are
greatly relieved to learn a little later was two
years OLD, put smartly renovated with bran-new
gown as to begrudge 1t to sight Of court and COM
moners on May day!
The same frugal spirit extended down to the
last century, and was OF infinite value to self-re-
specting poor. Artisans had not yet found it i'm.
perative 10 dress their wives and children In ii-
the exigencles OF fashionable attire we read of
rural couples placidly wearing their wedding
clothes into their advanced old age, and we are
lost In hopeless speculation as to how they accom-
modated their spreading proportions to the coats
and gowns which presumably had fitted the COM
parative slimness OF their youth. With what pa
lords village, aided occasionally by an itinerant
tafloreSS turn and return their husbands cast-or
clothing, until, from seeming ruin, they had
evolved sound garments for their growing boys;
and with what pardonable pride did the struttlng
youngsters exhibit on the village streets these hag-
gy specimens OF their mothers skill Among the
lnnumera6e anecdotes told OF George ILL., 1t Is said
that, strolllng once with Queen Charlotte In the
woods OF Windsor, he met a little red-cheeked,
white-haired lad, who proved, on examination, TO
De the son OF one OF his maJesty's beefeaters The
gracious king. always well pleased with children,
patted the boys haxen head and babe him kneei
and kiss the queens hand, but this the sturdy
young Briton declined fatty to do not, be It said
from any desire 10 emulate the example OF Penn
and Franklin by illustrating on minor scale the
heroic principles OF democracy put solely and en-
tirely that he might not spoil his new breeches by
contact with the grass. so thrifty a monarch
says Thackeray, should have Rugged ON the spot
child after MS own heart and even II the royal
TO manifest itself precisely this fashion
lmake no doubt that the beefeater's wife, who had
stitched those little breeches with motherly soc-
1tude, found ample comfort In such judicious
son.
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1t IL Right TO Kick.

BETTER DO so THAN SUBMIT TO BEING IMPOSED UPON.
1 have met the railroad hog great many times,
writes N. Quad In the Detroit Free Press. never
meet him without making Kick. He is growing
scarcer every day, and sometimes fatter myself
that have contributed to drive him out When
left Toledo for Cincinnati the other day the train
was crowded and people were standing up in every
coach. In my car was man occupying TWO seats.
He had bad looking head on him, and ne cared so
his book. There were i've OF US standing up. and
/ said TO the group:
.'Gentlemen, there are three seats for which we
have paid. Let US take possession"
"Hell kick and raise row."
"But Well kick and raise bigger one"
ayes, but What's the use OF quarreliing with q
'9It is Just such men as you who have made him
a hog. You have allowed him TO impose on you
until he has come TO think he owns the railroad +"
Not one OF the four would move. / went to
the other end OF the car, where three women were
crushed into one seat, picked up twelve-year-old
"Haye you paid for four seats here?"
"That's my business ~ he promptly replied.
"And mine and the public,s"
cleared the seat OF his baggage, seated the
woman and boy, and then crowded in beside tue
hog. He made an awful row, but it was useless.
He was left with what he had paid for, and we
senger kick on tue railroad hog and he must 60.
One day last spring there were ten or US at a
and no one could eat 1t. Not potato brought to
US was done. The milk for the coffee had turned.
invited the others to go 10 the Cf1ce with me and
kick. They were drummerS, every one but not
one would 60. When people speak OF Jrummers
as kckers they are way on. They will put up with
more and do less complaining than any other class
OF men on earth. In the present case one OF them
spoke for all when he said:
"Yes, things are bad and ought to be righted,
but we are here only for the meal and 1t won't pay
US to kick"
went out alone. The landlord was in the ONCE,
and asked:
now long since you were in the dining room p
"a week, guess"
"YOu don't oversee the mealsi
'NO."
"Well, please 60 to the head table and taste the
milk, examine the potatoes, and smell of the
soup"
ne departed at once. When he returned he was
hopping mad The head waiter was called out
and dressed down, the head cook got nicely peeled
and the landlord shook my hand and said:
THAT kick OF yours will benefit this house s., OOO
had NO idea things were running thus"
The natural inference with him was that as LONG
as no one kicked everything must be going ali
right and everybody satisfied. thousand men
had no doubt gone away mad and injured his
house.
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Three Railroad Kings,

In 1s47, j. Edgar Thomson, an engineer of ex.
perience, entered the service Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, Of which he afterward became president
Three years later, q young man without expert
ence In railroad business applied to him for posi-
ton as clerk In the station at Duncansville, and
was, with some hesitation, accepted. Not long
after-So runs the story-an influential shipper
entered the station aud demanded that Some
transfers should be made in a manner contrary
TO the rules OF the company. This the
clerk refused TO do; and when the infiuen-
tial shipper tried 70 attend to the matter him.
self, he was forctDly elected from the premises
Indignant at this, he complained to the authori-
ties demanding that the obnoxious employee be
removed from his position. He was-and was
promoted TO much higher one. This is said to
have been the beginning Of the railroad career of
Thomas Alexander Scott Edgar Thomson was
sufficiently able man TO appreciate Scouts talent
at Its full worth, and took every opportunity TO
make 1t useful In the service OF the company
Both before and after the war the system was ex-
1850 had need OF all his nerve TO defy single in
fiuential shipper was quarter OF a century later
at the head OF 1000 miles OF the most valuable
railroad In the country.
AS an enterprising and active railroad organizer
Scott was probably misunderstanding when
aided by the sooerer judgment OF Thomson; nor
mas the operating department OF any other rail-
road In the country reached the standard estab-
lshed on the Pennsylvania by Scott and Thomson
business sagacity, and those qualities which per-
tain 70 the financial management OF property,
scott was surpassed by Vanderbilt The work OF
the Two men was so totally different in character
That IL Is hard TO compare them Vanderbilt was
not SO oistlnctlVely railroad man as Scott
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u
Most men who have associated mucn with girls
and women remember how many needed lessons
they have learned from them in refinement and
benevolence, and how they have had, on the other
hand, writes Prof. E s. Cope In the Popular Sci
ence Monthly, to steel their minds against their
aimlessness and pettiness And from youth to later
years they have observed one peculiarly Tor
pronounced frailty OF the rational faculty In
thought action. This Characteristic Is onset by
strength and elevation of the emotional nature,
which shines with inexhaustible uster In the wife
and mother. II Is to this that man renders the
homage OF respect, admiration, and such devotion
as he Is capable of. But are these the qualities OF
our governors? Men who display personal bias In
ever so small degree, unless accompanied by I'M
usual merits OF another kind, are not selected by
their fellows for positions OF responsibility and
trust. strong understanding, vigorous Judgment,
are what men desire In their governors, for only
through minds Of that character can justice be
obtained
On account Of their stronger sympathies girls
always think themselves the moral Super1ors OF
boys, who are often singulary devoid OF benevO-
lence, especially toward the lower animals. Some
women imagine for this reason, that their entire
sex Is morally the superior OF the male. But
good many women learn to correct this opinion.
In departments OF morals which depend on the
emotional nature, women are their superior; for
the superior. When the balance is struck can
see no fnferiority either side. But the quality
OF justice remains with the male. II Is on this
that men and women must alike depend and
hence 1t 10 that women often prefer TO be judged
by men rather than by their own sex.
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Pen Pictures OF the Poets.


observe, says a writer in the London World,
that paragraphists, mostly Of the female gender,
scarcely ever mention Mr.. Browning's name with
out an expression OF surprise at his personal ap-
pearance. They wonder to ind him clean, well
dressed, trim, like an ordinary English gentleman.
They say he looks ''more like physician than a
poet" WHAT should a poet look like? Like Lord
Tennyson, VINO Is q cross between a Guy FawkeS
and tine mysterious recluse OF a transporting melo-
drama; like Lord HoughtOn, who resembled jolly
old Silenus; like LORD LyttOn (Owen Incredibly,
who looks Hebra1c and modest, and Is neither;
like Mortimer Collins, who might have passed for
a handsome head gardener; or .. w. Holmes, who
has a touch OF the wizened groom; or Frederick
Locker, an antiQuated Lord Verisopht; or William
Morris, like Longfellow's blacksmith without his
good temper; or LongfellOw himself, OF whom
have portrait in his barded days, which is de-
cidedly commercial In its aspect? Many writer's
look like physicians; q shorter Thackeray, gray,
bland and specialized, would have had immense
success with hypochOndriac old women; James
Payne Is very doctOr-like; Wilke Collins might be
q professor of analytic chemistry. On the other
hand, there Is laisseZ-aller air about certain ply
sicians-Dr. Kidd. for example-which Is highly
DOetical
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Books with queer titles.

Books With Queer litlcs.
From the Detroit Free Press.
'What would you hke?" asked the book dealer OF
his customer.
Nobody's Business -" was the laconic answer.
"DO you want q book?"
"'Why Not"
The above Is merely a specimen OF what people
ask IOr al the counters OF bookstore or circuat.
ing library.
as Doctor Cupid in?" asked young lady In
fashionable attire. She is fond of Rhoda Brough-
ton SO Is some one else evidently as the doctor
Is not In.
slave you Heart Hungry?"
TnlS tliae IL Is woman with nervous manner
and great hollow eyes She absOrbs all the novels
sne can 0Dta1n-lS, In fact a chronic nOvel-re
TAX cruelty Her; its a new bulk and every
whit as good" suggests the librarian.
mo, give me Zine Master Passion.'n
VI want the Hidden Hand Ma says she read It
when II came out ever so many years ago and
that II S awful exciting"
This from little girl OF twelve who is evidently
taking course OF reading approved by her mother.
as she returns "The Lamplighter," another old
time novel.
moo Will ye mark that?" said Mi. Andrews In
high gee; ''my certes. that Hidden Hand Is Just
gong IKE not cakes among the wimmin. I'll have
10 read II myself to see what's int. And there's
Dulks on me shelves worth their own weight iD
god and nobody wants them"
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Love and Postage stamps.

BY inventing this "postage stamp language" The
stamp In the usual place, that Is on the top right
hand corner OF the envelope means when up
right, 81 desire your Friendships" across "Do you
love me?" upside down, "Don't write again."
crooked, write at once" When the stamp Is at
the bottom corner or the right hand It means, II
Is on the left top corner It means, II upright 81
love you:" across, "My heart is anothers;" upside
down, GOOD day, my darling" When 1t Is on
Fidelity will be rewarded" across "Do not leave
me alone In my sorrowi" upside down, "You have
withstood all trials" When the stamp Is on the
same line as the surname OF the address iC means,
II upright, "Accept my loves" across, 81 long 70
ZEE you;" upside down, II am engaged"
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TELEGRAMS TO I'HE STAR


SUI OUTSIDE HE WAS KNOWN ONE OF THE WORST
DESPERADoEs IN TEXAS.
IAN ANTONIO, TEX, Oct. 5.-Mrs. Cordelia Whit
ley, wife OF the dead train roober VIM. whitley Is
In town experimenting the removal OF the
remains OF her husband. who was killed by
United states Marshal Rankin and deputies
at Florcsyille, Wilson County, on the 25th
Instant She Is small, pale woman with a
scared look In her eyes. She says that she never
had any idea that Bill was engaged In train rob-
bling, does not believe that he would do such
thing and believes that he was murdered He was
Kind TO her and the children, gave them money
enough TO keep them decently, and always showed
desire 10 see that they were comfortable. He
was rather quiet sort Of a man and would stand
a great deal befov be resented IL, and seemed
ANXIOUS 10 nave things pleasant around the house.
Ihls Is wlIes opinion OF one OF the most reck-
less and criminal six-shOoter disciples Texas has
ever had- She intends taking Wnitley's body 70
LaI2Pasas and have IL Inferred with religious
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Insisting on the Ceremony.

FROM the New York Graphic.
There Is certainly something touching In the At
tacnment OF the theatrical profession 70 the mar
rage ceremony. Here Is Teddy Solomon going to
De married again, when there are already three
young women upon his footstOol who each claims
10 De or nave been his lawful welded wife. Rea.
sonlng people would, under the circumstance
couciu1 e tnat no forms or ceremonies could give
sacred VI oinulng character TO such relations "a
these, anu ordinarily prudent and CYNICAL people
WOULD conclude that il they were going In for thai
kno OF thing IL would save trouble and exnense
anu possibly term In the penitentiary 70 dispense
Win any mockerles OF legality. But the ACTOR m
bottom seems TO have child like mind Ne mnsf
and me Is mere used as a generic term applicable
70 ooth sexes-he must think each time fnaf he
mas struck the true blue, immortal Kind OF love
THAT'S going 10 last for no matter how MANY times
he has tried II before he'll run the rfsE or he,nS
hauled up Tor blgamy by going through legal and
rengious rites on the occasion OF q new a1iiance
When poor Ada Clair was dying OF hydrophohia IN
ner lucid intervals she kept dwelling upon her al
utude 70 Lucille Western. Miss western was the
only person courageous enough to 90 near her
when she fell on the stage In the frst spasm Of her
terrible malady. Lucille isn't ike the resf N
them-she isn't like the rest OF them ~ rester", ~
the dying woman, and then seemed at a ioss n NJ
what she wanted TO.
ADO you mean she never had bus one hus-
band?" inquired an attendant, aiming TO helm her
out. W "9'p He'
''Oh. no, she had three; but she always ,ns,s,ed
upon the ceremony" was the reply eousIiv nm
conscious OF It's pathos and its humor. ~A
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Under and By virtue Of the provisions of a certain
oeed OF rust to the undersigned trustees 4. from
1856. and recorded in liber No l2OI, folio iS3 e.
ssq one 81 the land records District Of oIum-
ppUsEEsP s, 1CTSBEk sIxTEENTH. 1858. at Hall
IN from OF the premises, lot humber twenty con Of
4 Park ers subdivision Of lots in square i've hun
frame house. - SAA'"n
Terms Of sale: One half Of the purchase money IN
CASH. the oaiance IN two years. secured by the note OF
tne purchaser and deed Of trust upon the premses
SOLO, 0r al cash. at the purchasers option depost
Of cost Of purchaser sale to be complied with within
yen rom the date thereof the trustees
the right to resell NJ the risk of tie
Ing purchaser. BENZ. +, LEIGHTON, trustee
ONCE No 49, La ave- n W.
49,. CHARLES A. RIDDLE Trustee
oc9-o&oS ONCE, No. 444 i st 81 W.
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WALTER B. WILLIAMS l. co, Auctionoers.
AUCTION SALE OF VALUABLE LOTS ON MERIT

On WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER TENTH. at FIVE
M IN front Of the premises will sell lots s. g. and
~ IN block D. Meridian Hill just of 10th street.
on the south crest OF the hill the site being unsur-
short distance from the fine mansion now being
py Henderson. This is the best OPP
wam. desirable building sites As in few months
Terms OF SALE Onethird cash and the balance in one
TWO and three years with interest from the day OF
10 oe secured by the notes Of the purchaser and
deed OF trust on the property Sold all cash the
option OF the purchaser. deposit of $500 will be
funded All conyeyancing at cost Of purchaser
WALTER b WILLIAMS l. CO,
seo-uUus AucttOneers
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pUNCANSoN BROS,

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VNHREE-STORY BRICK DWELLING AND STORE
L NTH LARGE BACK BUILDING, BEING NO

,,419 ELEVENTH sIREET NOHTAWEsS No'
ny virtue Of decree of the Supreme Court of the
District OF Columbia passed the Goth dsy Of JuIv
AD. 1855. N equity cause No 1l2O7, Shedd ct ais
sanst snedd l. rs trustee. viii offer at public suc-
gay " OCTOBER, A. D.. 1883. AT FIVE O'CLOCK
-, tue following described real estate stusted in
SsreS6 p tSrss 0s nS%6sFed seven
ing Tor the place Of beginning thirty c31 feat
mn me southwest angle Of said lot seven az and
I!uIlnllnk tnence north on q line with 18th street
sig9teen 1S) feet mine co. inches thence east one hun
1rea OO ieet one ID inch. thence south eaghteen III,
e1T01 fses one Sn inch e the place Of beginning
~, @ o. sale: One third % cash. balance In two
t ne DAY Of sale with Interest," for which the notes Of
we snau Dc given, secured by deed Of trusr
upon the property sold or al cash. ct option OF mr.
Snaeel depo1t Of two hundred aud nffy (02S0, DOL
tsn wlu oe required 1t the time Of sale Conveysnc
my &c. q purchasers cost. II the terms OF ssie ar
with IN ten 10) days. the trustee
defaultng purchaser. - 1~A W
,,,,v,.x,,,. sAM,L g. sHRDD, Trustee.