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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21
Laced Too Tight,

"Notice anything peculiar in the posture of
the girls on the stage?" said a physician to a
Cincinnati Enquirer reporter one evening at
the Crystal Slipper" pointing to the line of
pretty girls in pink tights standing beside the
throne of the prince.
NO" was the reply, "nothing, unless it is
they're uncommonly pretty"
We'll" said the doctor, "if you will OBJ
serve how they stand you will notice that their
pose is unconscious, but that every girl of them
one has her right hand behind her back,
and the exception is a girl wearing directoire
dress"
"Well?" was asked.
1.-The arm behind the waist means that every
one of those girls are laced too tight. They're
so CONSTRUCTED that they cannot let their arms
hang by their side, and SO unconsciously they
put one behind their back. The girl with the
directoire dress isn't laced tightly, and you
will notice that her arms fall naturally by her
side"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21
The Soft Coal Trade.

From the Coal Trade Journal
1t is now claimed that the Seaboard soft coal
association has fixed matters up as completely
as they can; that there will be no complaint if
all the producing interests will but live up to
the agreement; the outside interests have given
the members Of the association an assurance
that they will keep faith; whether all the men,
bers do 50 is the vital question There is moth
ing new in the soft coal conditions on the Chi
cage market; it is said prices are improving
that is, for the consumer or buyer. Pittsbnrg
report is Of slow trade just now, and the oper-
ators are trying to get a reduction in wages;
the shipments are not large in any direction at
present, and prices for coal in the several CEN
tiers OF trade are down TO very low basis; in
fact, il is said that coal is now being sold in
Cincinnati at a less figure than ever before in
the history of the trade. The market for Pitts
burg coal along the rivers is being narrowed
every day. for We learn that Alabama opera
tors are to have a feet Of barges to take their
coal from Greenville, on the Mississippi river,
to all points below and intermediate between
that city and New Orleans, making the latter
city grand distributing depot for a very large
scope Of the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21
Child Travellers.
TWO YOUNGSTERS TAKE LONG JOURNEY BY
THEMSELVES.

TWO YOUNGSTERS TAKE A LONG JOURNEY by
THEMSELVES.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Among the passengers on the north-bound
train over the California and Oregon line last
evening we're two very small travellers, small in
stature. but feeling wonderfully big and indie
pendent over a feat which they have just accom-
plished-that of crossing the great American
continent unaccompanied by parent or guar
dian. Flora and Arthur Werthem, the travel
ers in question, are aged respectively six and
nine years, and they are all the way from New
York, where they have lived ever since they
first saw the light.
Il haint got no mother" said Arthur to
Chronicle reporter who saw the youngsters at
the Oakland pier yesterday, land fathers up
in Portland, where he's been for bout two
years"
You mean Portland" suggested the re-
porter.
That's what said-Porklan1." said the lit
tie fellow. Sister an L came out in a tourist
car. No, we didn't have anybody looking after
us" this rather disdainfully. Il was the boss
o the trip. bought the tickets an carried the
lunch basket an did everything"
The children had cleaner faces than gener-
ally come from New York tenement-house, and
their clothes, though rather worn and patched
here and there, were also clean. or nearly
clean as they might be expected to be after
I'VE came in a tourist car the boy went on.
not emitting to emphasize the tourist a"
These tourist cars amt very high-toned, but
they'll do for poor folks. Immigrants like me
an sis can't have everything we want
Il want some peanuts" chirped the little
maiden.
''She's all the time wanting me to spend
money on nonsense" said the boy, ignoring the
remark 50 far as a direct reply was concerned
but it takes coin to travel and you can't fool
auav nd haU 'nnff 10 taGa throu nh
when you haven't got only just huff to buy
grub"
When this chunk of philosophy had been de-
livered the little fellow went on to say that his
father had gone from New York to work at his
carpentry in Oregon; that he was going to be a
carpenter himself and knew how to build
houses pretty well already. He had had no
trouble in getting over the road without as
sistance, and thought he could easily make a
trip around the world.
Il will get to Portland Monday morning."
said he. Father will meet us at the depot,
and then we'll be all right"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21
HAPPINESS AND DUTY.
The Highest Type Of One Follows the
Performance of the Other.

The details Of a philosophy, or Q religion
(Which latter, after all, is but a popular phil
osophy, philosophy of the hearD may be,
and, indeed, are, quite Indifferent as to the
ethical differences that can be drawn from it.
But the main truths are not. The main truths
of religion or philosophy lend the color to
the ethics that grows therefrom. And we find
in the history of philosophy that materialism,
with great regularity, produces hedonism or
utilitarianism; for it places the ultimate object
of life in material existence and its well-being,
viz, in happiness. Spiritualism, on the other
hand, as a rule, leads to asceticism. 1t re-
nounces the pleasures of the world, for it seeks
the object of life in the deliverence of the soul
from the letters of the body. Monism rejects
both views; it finds the purpose of existence in
the constant aspiration of realizing higher
and better, nobler and more beautiful state
OF existence. Life is boon so far only as it
offers an occasion to improve that which lies
In our power to change-the forms of things
and the modes of life. 1t is not pleasure or
happiness that gives value to our days, but the
work done for the progress of our race. Moses
expresses this truth most powerfully in pas
sage OF MS grand psalm, which we quote ac-
cordlng tothe forcible translation of Luther:
MANS life will last three score years and ten,
or, at the best, four score; but if 1t was pre-
clous. 1t was of labor and sorrow"
Mere happiness will make the heart empty,
and the aspiration for happiness will make of
man a sallOw tritier. Asceticism. Oh the other
hand, will prove destructive and suicidal But
If We consider the punctual performance of our
daily duty, every one In his province. as the
object of our lives, which must be done to en-
nance our ideals and help mankind (be it ever
so httle) to progress we shall find occasion to
unite the truths hidden in both-the material
istic and spiritualistic ethics. We shall find
sufficient occasion to practice abstinence, to
exercise self-control and to set aside the fleet
ing pleasures of the moment. At the same
time. while the pleasure-seeker will be wrecked
i'll his vain endeavors. We shall experience that
noble satisfaction. which is the highest kind
of happiness imaginable. follows those who are
least concerned about enjoyment, and steadily
attend to their duty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21
Sham Antiquities.

Boston Transcript Paris Letter.
There is great passion nowadays for antique
articles of furniture, and it has given birth to a
world of sham antiquities. An army of handi-
craftsmen are busily engaged in the manufac-
ture of these wares, which are palmed off on
coniding people as being 200 or 800 years old,
and dated from any desired landmark in his
tory. Old chairs. old tables. old dressers old
bedsteads and old anything. even if made last
week, have great value i'll the eyes of many
persons satisfied with antiquity in appearance.
Worm-eaten furniture is now one of the RACES.
This stuff is easily produced with the aid of
bird shot, which is fired into it. Old houses
torn down furnish worm-eaten timber, which is
turned to good account in fabricating old sets
of furniture. Old door keys. medieval bellows,
gilt fambeaux in Louis XIV style. warming
pans and brass tenders of the fourteenth CEN
fury. candeabra and even old shutters. find
purchasers fast as these antique wares can
be made by skillful artisans in out-of-the-way
places of the gay capital. Old coins and re-
gency clocks are cast by the ton every day in
Paris, but they are very scarce and bring fabu-
louS prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21
The Value of Technical Judgments.


From the Sanitary Era.
The National Electric Lighting association at
its recent meeting in Chicago, received re-
port from its committee on underground SER
vice which fairly matches some of the expert
opinions on water purifying 1t is notorious
that public safety and the public will have thus
far been on one side of this question (burying
the wres) and the electric lighting and tele-
graphing companies generally on the other.
The report entirely on the latter side. Its
only difficulty with the facts and the only
way to manage the facts was to ignore them.
The city electrician of Chicago protested
against such report in the teeth of the facts
that the underground lighting service had
been i'll satisfactory operation there for six
years. and is about to be extended indefinitely
throughout the city. A well-known conduit
constructor, who has operated an I'M
foreground plant in Philadelphia for five
or six years with perfect and
uniform success, and has just completed an
other in New York at great expense, complained
that he had not even received circular from
the committee, and that his repeated invita-
tons to them had been ignored. The reason,
he said, that the committee report the condults
impracticable is that they have not seen Them
and the reason they have not seen them Is that
they refused to look at them. though chal-
lenged to witness their regular operation under
the same high tension which they assume to be
the point of impracticabillty. In fact, Thlle
reading the report of the meeting. We could
hardly keep it from passing into dissolving
view of some water works or public-health con-
vention in death-grapple with the unauthor-
lied facts of water-purifying at Long Branch
Atlanta, Somerville, and a couple of hundred
other DlaceS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21
B y 8 IN e s 8 .

The attention Of ne business public 70 invited
with confidence 70 the superior advantages pre-
scented by The wAsHNeroS EVENING STAR ss an
Advertising medium. The sworn statements Of 10
daily circulation. published from week 10 week,
taken In connection with the data given below. ~
iustrate in the most striking manner the steady
and rapid growth Of the paper In circulation and
influence. They also establish. beyond contro-
versy, the fact that The STAR the best local ad
usTTisng medium. not only in ne United iSafss,
Dat IN the uhole tnorId! This claim is based and
conceded on the fact that city in any country 10
30 thoroughly covered by the regular circulation Of
single paper as lie the city Of Washington by thai
OF TIE EVENING STAR and Il does not rest on the
exie'i alone, but also on the character Of circus-
ton Not only IL its local circulation the largest
ana yn''esf OF any daily paper printed. in proper
hon 10 population, but il is also the BEST since the
paper does not merely so into the hands Of tho
people Of the District Of Columbia as a body hus
into Their hoiaes,-into the families Of all cond-
tons, and into those Of the incorporating as
wen as The DaO''eD-edr'iiBg portion Of the COM
muniiy,-in a much larger ratio than any daily
journal that can be named. BY reason OF the
fullness, freshness and reliability Of its news.
local, domestic and foreign, it, independents and
fair treatment OF all public questions, and esps-
ciaily because Of it, intelligent and effective de-
votion TO local Interests and close attention 70
matters with which the household and particu-
larry It's lazy members, are concerned, THE STAR
Is everywhere recognized and admitted 90 be. in
every quality, the leading and favorite newspaper
OF The National Capital. alike in the counting
room, the Workshop, and the family circle.
More conclusive evidence on these points no
person can ask than that afforded by the tabs
below. The growth Of circulation therein indi-
Gated with the analysis following. clearly shows tho
esteem IN which The paper is held by the COM
munity 10 whose interests il is 40 steadfastly de-
voted. Ii viii be seen that. ia the number OF
copies issued, every month in the year 1885 shows
handsome Increase over the corresponding
month in each year given; and. a further Illus
uauon ON that point, il may be stated here that
here has been a corresponding advance in ths
number OF new advertisements printed during he
year. The comparative figures Tor the four years
last past are follows:
DAILY cfpcI-1 .Tr.x ~, 1900 -, - -,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21
Gen. Lew Wallace as an Artist.

From the \. Y Star.
When saw General Lew Wallace on upper
Broadway the other day, thought that he looks
younger as the years advance. He certainly
does not appear so old as he did when he re-
turned from the Turkish mission. learn that
everything is going well with the general.
ben Hur" still brings him in handsome in
come, and THE Fair Cod finds an occasional
purchaser He is writing another novel that is
promised to be more popular than any previous
work from his pen. Several years ago. before
the general had acquired an international
fame, he devoted his brilliant and versatile
talents to painting, and turned out several ex-
cellent canyases. tor an amateur. Out of one
of these pictures there arose a controversy
that was fierce while it lasted and has been a
source of amusing recollection ever since. The
general painted Venus Disarming Cupid" and
gave to the little god pair of bright purple
wings. The artist was forced to defend his
choice of color with all the NEUROLOGICAL and
poetical authorities he had at command
have forgotten how it ended, but know the
general did not recolor the wings nor did he
admit he was wrong. That is not the kind of a
general he is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21
Society Meetings I'm Street Cars.

FROM the Boston Herald
1t Is the fashion among Boston fashionables
to patronize the street railway. Many of the
best people. who are really of the best in the
broadest and highest acceptation of the word.
blest with bullion as well as with blood and
brains. prefer not to keep their carriages in
town, and are TO be met with morning, noon
and night making calls, shopping, going to
dinner, in the comfortable Back Bay cars. And
so 1t has come to pass that these very same
comfortable cars are quite a rendezvous of
society. Nearly every one who gets in knows
nearly everyone who is already in. An air of
gay abandon ever can pervade a scene in Bos-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21
A Strange InfatuatiOn.
AN OLD MAN ENTICEs YOUNG GIRL FROM HET
HOME AND MARRIEs HER.

AN OLD MAN ENTICEs YOUNG GIRL FROM HER
HOME AND MARRIEs HER.
Norfolk, Va, special to the Baltimore
american says: Samuel Hodges widower
aged seventy-fve, of Richmond county, n c.,
went to the house of his friend, Robert Norton
on Wednesday last and, it is claimed, by prom
ises. entIces from home Mr.. Norton's handsome
daughter Nellie, who is but thirteen years old
At Rockingham, it is claimed Hodges by false
statements as to age, procured license to
marry the girl. \ preacher was obtained by
the same mlsstatements on the part of Hodges,
who induced him to marry them. When the
couple walked the street suspicion was at once
aroused by the disparity of ages. The girl was
questioned, and it was soon made manifest that
she was an innocent victim. When she was
made to realize what her relations to Hodges
were she expressed a strong desire to go back
to her home. Hodges would not relinquish his
claim to his wife, and the citizens thereupon
made ready to use force, and the old man. be-
coming frightened, fled to the woods. Nellie
has been taken home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21

The judiciary committee of the New York as
sembly will report favorably Mr.. Demarest's
bill, which amends the Ives pool law, by pro-
viding for a tax of 10 per cent on the receipts
for admission to race tracks to be paid to the
state controller, and limits the lumber of racing
days to fifteen.
Col. Gabriel Monhegut. superintendent of the
mint at New Orleans, has forwarded his resio-
nation to Washington.
The Baltimore councils committee on the
house of refuge report bad condition of
morals prevailing at that institution. Immo-
rality and other vices and ruffianism are prac-
ticed to an alarming extent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21
Three Big Steamers i'm a Race.

The City of New York the Aller and the Brit
annie, all three fast boats, started for Europe
from New York Wednesday morning. The
City of New York left her dock at $50 and
sailed down the North river with the Britannia
close behind while the Aller brought up the
rear. The three vessels kept this order until
they were beyond quarantine, when the Brit
annie passed the City of New York The Brit
annie passed Sandy Hook and ont into the ocean
at $50; the New York at 935 and the Aller at
$40. The question now asked by persons of
sporting procliyities who are interested in steam
navigation is: In what order will the racers
reach the other side of the ocean?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21
ENHE GREAi
IL PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE


Il PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE
nd[ n HE 4 ~ H9 ,Ek "kHT Mr. SQTTHWEsE
sIELL RAILS. MAGNIFICENT EoUIPMENr
TRAINS LEAVE wAsHHINGfoN FROM % 1 ST.
TOhNEE SIXTH AND STREETS. - FOL
ForIittsburg and the West Chicago Limited Express Of
Pullman hestlbuled Cars, at $50 IN. daily; Fast
with sleeping Cars from pitisburg 10 Cincinnati
ana HARRISBURG To- 81 Louis: daily except satur-
sIsS MesteH EfPre;s At 40 pm daiy with
Connecting daily At Harrisburg with through
sIeepers Tor Louisville, and Memphis. Pacific *
lress, 1000 pm. daily, for Pttsburg and the
Vest with through Sleeper TO Pittsburg. and Pitts
BhLIIsiU&E AND POTOMAC RAILROAD.
For Ellt, IaHadaisua. and Rochester daily for Buff
n .o With Sia a aE NshJeRt sStIrdsS io0op
For Wiliiamslort, Lock Haven and Elnira at :50i-
For New YORK aud tue East, 20 300. IL 90. and
II foam, 20 40. 1000; and y 20 pm. on
ii.opm Limited Express &c Of Pullman OT ParIor
Cars, !! 40 am daily, except Sunday, and 345 y.
- Ia. daily, with Dinils; Car.
Tor Boston Without change > II o pm every day.
sey cay with boats Of Brooklyn Annex, aforing
direct transfer TO Fulton street. avoiding double
For rhiladelPhia, TO $40 800. IL :oQ. and / 40
M, y; %; 4 10 To- q 90 o. 1000 and go N
5aTIcr Cars $40 week days, and 3i5 Pun
For AaiHic gI;i Loo AID 5o 80 m week days
so 4; 40 600; 40 $40. 10 90 and 30 ..
10 BAD. 4:10. Goo 40. s:l0, lO:Od. and
For Pores Greek Line 7:2o am. and 40 pm daily.
except Sunday.
For Annapolis, 7:2O and 100 am, - :O5 and 40
nm daily, except Sunday. Sundays. 300 a M.
4:l0p.ln.
ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAIL
MAJ. AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON
RAILROAD.
For Aiexandris, 49, 8 30, 7:25 s 40 o A. lO:57a
IN. II o4 noon: :O.) $40. % 90, q OF :O5
luu2, ana ~ ,: m ON SUNDAY ct I 80 . Al.
1897 a. NJ. .: 80. O:Ul, \ 90. and 10 :O1 - IA
Accommodation Tor Quantico. 40 a. m and 5 90
4. IN week days
For hicEund and the South. 60. 1857 a. IN daily
- and > 40 y. ~. daily except sunday.
Trans leave Alexandria Tor Washington. g o. 05
SEQ, $40, 1913. IL 90 a. m: 20, 300 32l
5ic, ESQ. :05 3D., 10 AZ and O.j D. IN. ON
$50 and lO:42 D. M.
Tickets and Information at the Office northeast cor
ner OF 9Th street and avenue and thu
station whore orders lie left tie checking OF
tieraEe 10 destination from hotels and residences
CLAS l.. pUGH. j MOOD
General Manager Ifa5I Gen ras AGENT
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21
A TRAMP WITH $40 600 TN Hrs WALLET

TRAMP WITH $4,000 IN Hrs wALLEr.-An
Easton, Me-, special to the New York Sun,
March 10, SAYS: Daniel Murray, brother-in-
law of John w. Sayres, the school slate manu-
facturer at Bangor, put in an appearance to-
day after an absence Of thirty years, in the garb
OF tramp. He introduced himself to Mr..
Sayres, said that he was without dollar, and
supposed he would have to go to the poor
house. MIR. Sayres told him he could remain
with them, when Murray said that he had
money, and. to Mr.. Sayres establishment, pro-
duced wallet containing $40, 800
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-21
RAILROADS.

baltimore AND OHIO RAILROAD.
ID Schedule in effect March 10Th. 1889.
Leave Washington from station corner of New Jersey
For Chicago and S@r sS yes,nlaa
For Ginennati ST Louis, and indianapolis, express
For Pttsburc and Cleveland. vestibuled Limited
FOR IeSinEton ana Local Stations TO: ida. M M
For Baltimore. week days 800. g 30 40. : 30,
NJ 81 Flo. ao5. go as minutes 50 Hi ~ rs
w Hla6 a23. 30, 3? $50, 8 y IS, SO.
$$ 80 ABB. CAS- 80, 90. "a 40 iSo3'5o and
For Nay stations between Washington and Baltt-
! 30 pm; sundays $50 am, i:l5. 5:25. 4:35.
i!s5. Jay R.T s tS5 Ssst 800
8 SS tYl2 4 t2lhu5t5, o am od Isl5 Se
100 90 ;I tgd9 ad 200 Pm sundays ESQ
80, 200; 10. 300. 6:30, $50, sos. 1905.
10: 10 and / l 90 nm
pm. On sundays. $50 am. 4 Is pm. Leave An,
nagolis, Gao, s37 am, I2:05, / 10 pm sundays,
Tor stations on the Metrorolitan Branch, te IS.
and iG5 20 p T stations only
For Gathersburg and intermediate points. 1900 a.
m, 40, ~ 40, - -. I'll 20 p m.
Fox Ioyd's and intermediate stations, ~ 100 p. M
Church trains leave Washington Sunday at L
=. m, stopping at all stations Metropolitan Branch
g 10; FREDERICK, flolO am, t4:35 and - 80 y m.
For iiaEerstown, II 0 ! am. and IS PM
Ittilis arrive from ChlcagO daily y 30 an. end
9:'J pm. from Cincinnati aud st Louis daily g %
and - 30 Pm
NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA DIVISION.
FOR New York, Trenton, Newark and Elizabeth, y.
j., - co. $50 Il % m, 80 - ) and Id 6
pm Buffet Parlor Cars on all day trains. Sleeping
Car on tie 1880 pm, oIen IT 900 pm.
For Phlladell hia, Newark. Wilmington. and Chester
- 90, $50, IL 20 m, '2:;5U, II 10 90 and
'1O:3O =. IN.
For intermediate points between Baltimore and Phil.
aa Trsins iS ea3e Snx Z Io % and o
til 90 a. in. i 80. $50, Il 40 p land ~ 90
night.
Trains leave Philadelphia for Washington 4 10
BID; IL 10 a. m, II H. Alb . ID and - 81
y. IN.
Except Sunday. DAILY. gSunday only
Baggage called for and checked al hotels and resi-
dences on orders left at ticket offices, Olg and 1851
Penusyl yania avenue.
". VI. CLEMENTS, CHAS q. SCTII-
lHll Zen. Manager. Gen. Pass. Ag't.