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l. Fight-oared wooden shell with side rig; g Cedar
coaching shell. canvas covered with four buikheads
"A good cedar eight with full set of sweeps
and side-rig will cost $780," said prominent
boat builder. "a paper one of the same di-
two inches beam-might be had for little
less. | regard the paper boats just as good for
all ordinary purposes as the best wooden ones,
but for racing it lacks the stiffness necessary to
great speed. This defect might be remedied
by making the boats of thicker material. They
would be heavier, Of course, but not great
deal. The thickness of papier-mache shell
and cedar one Is about equal-probably an
eighth OF an inch all around except at the rein
forced parts near the rowlocks"
One of the prettiest little craft shells seen in
many day has just been built for Van Raden,
the coach Of the Atalanta club. for his own use
while instructing his crews next season. She
weighs only 35 pounds, is canvas-coyered, built
of the best cedar, fitted with the English rig
and is calculated to carry a weight of 400
pounds in addition to two bulkheads full of
water, if necessary. Her length is SO feet,
beam Is inches. A craft of the same design
and by the same builder was built for James
j. Tighe, noted amateur, and on several oc-
casions he filed it with water and sat in it, vet
1t foated- There are four bulkheads in this
style of boat. On one occasion Geo. Johnston
made 2OO-mile trip out on the ocean in Tighe's
boat, and Wallace Ross, the famous oarsman,
said he would engage to cross the Atlantic in
her il the stakes were big enough. A shell of
this miniature would cost one hundred dollars
GEORGE II. SANDIsoN
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GAMBLING In THE CLUBS.
Only Play Of Sunday School Descrip-
ton Permitted in Washington.

"The fashionable clubs Of Washington are
model schools of morals and department for
youths and elders" said a society man to a
STAR reporter the other day. Whereas in the
clubs Of New York, Boston and other cities
gambling is alarmingly prevalent, being often
carried to a dangerous excess, here it is
strictly prohibited within the walls of four ex-
elusive social establishments for gentlemen
Once upon time play for money became an
abuse in the Metropolitan club and it was
found necessary to put stop to it perempto-
rily and finally. Rules in that house now are
very strict indeed on the subject, only such
harmless games as 'mumblety peg in the back
yard and old maid in the card room being per-
mitted.
"How is it at the Cosmos?'
1.-The Cosmos is the only one of the clubs that
has no rules against gambling and this is be-
cause 1t doesn't need any. It's members are
most of them not gay or frivolous youths but
rather men OF gravity and attainment, who
have no natural addiction to sportive enjoy
ments. Whist for moderate points they may
indulge in somewhat, but certainly nothing
more wicked You would not surely think it
worth while to establish regulations for pro-
tecting the virtue of a college of vestals.''
The same remark would apply also to the
Meridian club, I SUPPOSED"
Possibly. Nevertheless there are very
stringent rules in force at the Meridian club
against all dangerous games. In this Gates CORY
are definitely enumerated poker, faro, vingt-et-
un, rouge-et-noir and baccarat, the notion be-
ing to forbid all cumulative betting or in other
words, the risking Of sums not fixed in advance
At the game Of hearts, for instance one may
lose thirteen chips and not more on one hand,
whereas at poker he might part with 81 zoo, 600
or more on one pot if only the betting went
on long enough. l myself consider that sue h
regulations are most admirable. Poker-and
that Is, of course, the most dangerous game
aud the one against which the rules are chiefly
almed-will destroy almost any club within a
surprisingly short time. Men are tempted by
Its seductions to play beyond their means, and
that naturally leads to playing on credit.
Some fellows get hopeiessiy in debt to Others:
credit Is injured-debts OF honor being found
uncollectable--and breaches of friendship re-
suit. Actual squabbies over the game, too. occur
from time to time, some men being unable to
lose with good temper; players become de-
moraiized through habitual addiction to the
amusement and disaster ensues Ask any man
who has seen unrestricted poker operating in
| club and he will tell you the same. story OF
course it is one thing TO have regulations in a
club against gambling and quite another thing
sometimes to enfore them; but in Washington
clubs they really do enforce them. and men,
bers who want to poke must do it outside.
The same condition OF affairs is found in the
Athletic club. So, on the whole, you must
admit that Washington clubs are very desirable
institutions for prudent mammas to place their
sons In the care of.
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pounds each in weight and even with this
heavy freightage her displacement viii be
of an inch from stem to stern less than that OF
. paper boat Her total weight will be $50
pounds Her section amidships is the same as
that OF most Of the English race boats. The
side-rig will be used, instead Of the center-rIg,
as now followed in the American boats. At hrst
she will be tried on the Harlem and then en-
tered in some OF the big matches Of the coming
season If she fulflls expectations.
THE SIDE RIG.
The side-rig il q new thing in racing shells.
By placing the sliding seats to the sides alter
nateiy, instead of right above the keel as
hitherto, a greater purchase is secured by the
oarsmen and the motion is more natural than
in the former method. Crack crews like the
Gramercys, the Nonpareils, the Atalantas, the
New York Athletics and Empires are watching
the result Of the experiment with much inter-
est, and the general adoption of the side-rig
for racing purposes seems foregone conclu-
sion. IL will be some time, however, before it
can be taken up by novices for the reason that
with the side-rig it is a very delicate matter to
trim the boat, and only an expert crew can
work with the steadiness that is essential to
racing form. 1t is an English idea and
1t has given q new wrinkle to American
boat builders who are now expert
menting with rig which has the seats
grees of the straight line Of the boat and in
ward, to follow the natural motion of the body
at the oar. This innovation is regarded with
some hesitation by professional oarsmen; but
those who have experimental with it say it is
bound to come and that the racing shell of the
future will have the side rig pointing inward
and will beat the speed Of the present models
several seconds to the mile. Today the fastest
time in the world is made in English boats,
which have beaten the best American shells
five seconds on a 4-mile course on the Thames.
This was done in contest between English
amateurs and American professionals. But the
coming American boat, our oarsmen conf
IDENTITY assert will be able with its oblique side
rig to outswim the English by at least an equal
distance
LITTLE DIFFERENCE IN COST.
There is little difference in the cost of wooden
and paper boats. Every club that now rows on
New York, New England and southern waters
has shells Of both materials, and as far as en-
durance, utility and cost for repair are con-
cerned they are about equal. The Atalantas
the crack New York club and the amateur
champions of the United States, say that the
papier-mache craft more easily repaired
when injured than the cedar boats. paper
boat can be patched almost anywhere and no
one would know that it had been damaged
wooden boat shows its patches and is always
weakest where il has been mended 1t is not
nearly so liable to injury, however, as the
paper shell. which suffers from abrasions, ex-
posture and the action of the water, the latter
sometimes reducing parts of the shell to a
pulpy condition.
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The Used to BE.

Beyond the purple, hazy trees
OF summers utmost boundaries:
Beyond the sands-beyond the seas
Beyond the range Of eyes like these,
And only in the reach of the
Enraptured gaze or Memory,
There lies q land, long lost to me-
The land OF Used-to-b be.
A land enchanted-such as swung
In golden seas when sirens chung
Along their dripping Drinks, and sung
To Jason in that mystic tongue
That dazed men with its melody
On, such land, with such a sea
Kissing its shores eternally,
Is the fair Used-to-be.
A land where music ever girds
The air with belts of singing birds,
And sows all sounds with such sweet words,
That even in the lowing herds
meaning lives SO sweet to me,
Lost Laughter ripples iimpidiy .
From lips brimmed DER with all the glee
OF rare old Csed-to-be.
Lost laughter, and the whistled tunes
OF boyhoOds mouth of crescent runes
That rounded through long afternoons,
To serenading pieniiunes-
That. peering up from Blended knee,
dreamed twas bridal drapery
showed over Used-to-be.
O land of love and dreamy thought
And shining fields and shady spots
OF coolest, greenest grassy plots,
Embossed with wild forget-me-nots-
And all ye blooms that cunningly
Lift your faces up to me
Out Of the past, | kiss in thee
The lips OF Used-to-be.
And love ye all, and with wet eyes
Turned glimmerinsiy on the skies.
My blessings like your perfumes rise,
TIL DER my soul silence lies
sweeter than any song TO mo
Bweeter than its melody
Or its sweet echo, yea, all three
NY dream OF Used to- ha
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This has been all the more apparent from the fact
that many of the amateur crews on the Thames
showed they were able to give the water to our
professionals. Now all this is going to be
changed Our oarsmen were slow to change
their methods. They didn't want to initiate
the English shells. They experimental a good
deal with different models Of boats at home
and tried various kinds of rowing gear. The
crack professionals were quick to grasp the
idea that the lightest and swiftest shells were
Of cedar and that very much depended upon
the rig. Others, principally amateurs, chung
to papier-mache boats for singles and doubles
And so the war between paper and wood went
on, in an intermittent fashion, each side hay-
ing its advocates. Yale, Harvard and the col
leges generally took languid interest in 1t
and gave more attention to training than to the
material or rig of the boats.
A REVOLUTION IN BOATING METHODS
There is a prospect that the coming season
will witness revolution in American boating
methods. Racing clubs everywhere are inter-
esting themselves in the new departure, which
promises to change not only the rig of our
racing shells but the general lines OF the boats
70 some extent The old-fashioned sliding seat
set in grooves has given way to the roller seat
which moves on wheels. 1t is no longer to be
in the center of the boat Immediately over the
keel. but on the side. and it will have an
Oblique motion to correspond with the natural
motion Of the body in the boat.
WITH THIS IMPROVED sIDE-nra,
which will be different in many respects from
the English. the leading crews will row next
summer. Many Of the oldest oarsmen opposed
the change at first. Just as they opposed the
introduction of the adjustable rowlock and the
sliding seat years ago, but they have come to
regard the new rig in different light since
seeing II in use by experts on the Harlem and
by some OF the college crews. The sweeps
used with the new rig are of the Donohue pat
tern, those for shells being II feet long and
22x7 inches at the blade. The blade in the
best Is ribbed and grooyed. SO that il may have
better hold of the water. plain blade often
proving too flexible in strong tides. The
sweeps for souls are 9 feet long. the blade be-
ing the same in the shells. They are all
made OF spruce. fully seasoned These have
the largest blades of any oar yet designed, all
authorities agreeing that the man with the
larger blade has the better leverage.
PAPER OR CEDAR BOATS.
American oarsmen are still undecided
whether paper or cedar is the better material
for racing shells. At the present time there is
not one eight-oared shell of wood of American
make in use in this country. On the other
hand very nearly all the singles and doubles
are of cedar. The great champions. with one
exception, have all won their victories In shells
of wood Hanlan, Teemer, O'Connor and
Searle would think Of using no other kind than
cedar-bulit shells, while Courtney. who chung
to the paper boat, has met with very indiffer-
ent success. All the championship races are
now rowed in wooden boats
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Fig. L: A-AnidshiPs line; B-Line of bow: c.
stern seeGon pIDssh At stern with crew ayeras-
condltions).
Fig: Section Of cedar boat Showing brace,
There have been many drawbacks to the
building OF wooden eight-oared shells in this
country" said one Of the best-knovn Of cedar
boat builders yesterday. In an eight you
have 90 much more length and stiffness to cal
culate on. and II is here where the great diff
ference between the paper and the wooden
boat comes IN. The papier-mache boat, being
differently braced and so much more flexible
gives to the pressure and does not retain in the
water the same form II has when seen on dry
land IL sags at every point. and the section,
II II could be seen when the crew are aboard,
would seem baglike. might compare it to a
bandbox or to india-rubber, as far as its ability
to retain the correct shape is concerned. OF
course this has a great deal 70 do with retard-
ing speed and acts as handicap on a racing
crew.
DEFECTS AND ADVANTAGE
Experienced oarsmen find that the paper
shell, being sharp as a knife fore and aft, bur
rows in the water, popularity not found in
cedar boats. The sides OF angles Of the paper
boat are braced from the keel to the gunwale
by iron braces, and even these are insufficient
TO keep it from taking the brine at nose and
stern
A boat Of cedar gives evenly ali around and
does not change its shape in the water. ANA
teurs say that paper gigs compare favorably
with other boats in their racing qualities; but
this opinion is not shared by professionals.
The ideal English racing shell is of cedar; in
deed no other material is used by the London
rowing club, other crack English organizations
and the Cambridge aud Oxford crews In then
annual regattas. Casper, the most famous boa,
builder on the globe, makes all his shells OF
cedar. His Fights are the model Of the aquatic
world and he sends them everywhere There
are afew Clasper-built shells in this country in
which almost all the champions have rowed
races at times, such as Pinkerton and Maggie,
the champion doubls-team scullers; Busch
man and Palatt. another crack double team.
Stevens Of the New York Athletics and David
Roach. the veteran instructor Of the New York
club men IN aquatics.
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opening of the session in the NOR ming the mace
is brought in and placed on its pedestal
Its presence lends dignity to the assem-
blage and preserves order and decorum. No
member would be guilty of disrespectful de-
meanor toward it, however much he might feel
at liberty to abuse the Speaker or any other
mere man. He might insult the Speaker or
other officer of the House with impunity, but
any willful disrespect shown toward the mace
would at once endanger his seat in the House.
when congress was first created the necessity
OF having something that all men would hold
In awe and reverence was recognized, and this
efngy OF authority was made of ebony, bound
with silver and surmounted by a globe and
eagle with spread wings, and il was baptized
with authority and made silent, inanimate
ruler Of the House. When the Capitol was
burned in 1914 one Of the greatest losses was
OF this parliamentary god
MACE OF PAINTED PINE.
When the House was next to meet there was
much CONSERVATION because it had been de-
stroyed and there was no parliamentary god
head of authority. In their exigency they got
up false god, made of nothing more sacred
than ordinary pine wood, which they painted
and stained to make it look like the real. This
false god reigned over the House until the one
now IN power was procured and then the
painted one was destroyed. The sergeat-at-
arms Is sort of priest in attendance upon this
fetch. He guards it with care when it is not
performing its functions; he polishes the silver
bands that bind it and the silver eagle and
globe that surmount it. and he carries it around
on the floor of the House when its august pres
ence IS necessary to enforce order
He carries it before him with both hands and
no member has the hardihood to stand up be-
fore it or to be guilty of indecorous conduct
when 1t commands order. Brought in the
midst of excited members, who are casting all
thought of rules to the winds, it is like the
sound of the Angelus. Members bow their
heads before it and drop back into their seats
The sergeant-at-arms of the House, armed
with this effigy of authority, is very important
parsonage, and is mighty when the Speaker is
powerless. To call upon him is the last resort
OF the Speaker when he finds it impossible to
preserve order.
THE sEARGENT-AT-ARMs' OFFICE.
But the function he is least often called
upon to perform is that of preserver of order
in the House, The occasions are rare rhep
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He {sadly). "Do you suppose we shall ever
see each other AGAIN.
She (softly). "In Heaven, hope,-oh! for
got, though: you are in Yale, aren't your"
-Harpord Ldmpoon
Do you ever think when you turn to look at
some one who has passed you and find that he
did mot turn TO look at you, that you have Just
passed some one who knows more Of politeness
than you do?-Atchisoa Globe.
Wife: "John, IL we 60 TO the theater tonight
will you have 10 60 out between the acts 70 see
. MANI"
Husband: 81 am very much afraid shall"
Wife: well, here's dollar and Q half extra.
Get ticket for him and let HIM sit with Us"
Lila
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Written for THE EVENING STAR.
Villauelie.-No More.

The soul Ii sunk in grief profound
BY these few words-their gloomy lore
No more-no more.-how sad the sound
When rent the bonds that closely bound
Our hearts 10 dear ON % heretofore,
The soul v sunk in grief profound.
When love grows cold, and, on the ground,
Lie dead the flowers forus he bore
No more-no morei-how sad the soundl
when youth has down, and age from round
Our brows tears Of the wreaths We wore,
The soul Ii sunk in grief profound.
When, - LIES thorns our bosoms wound,
Our hopes wax faint and Joys are DER
No mors-no more.-how sad the soundi
When not far-od our burial mound.
And deaths unknown and silent shore.
The soul 10 sunk In grief profound;
No more--no morel-hov sad the sound,
w. L. SHoEMAERR.
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full. When quorum is wanted in the House
and is not be found the deputy sergeant-at-
arms is supposed to know Just where to ind
the sbsentees and is sent out to fetch them
from their places Of concealment
Mr.. A. J. Holmes, the present sergeant-at-
arms, took office shortly after the meeting of
this Congress and before that was Represent
alive in the House from Iowa for six wears.
His predecessor. Mr.. Leedom, was also an ex-
Representative.
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the sergeant-at-arms has
been called upon to make
boisterous members be-
have themselves. Tho
position in which he is
most favorably known
and most intimately as
ISOLATED with the mem
bers is as their banker.
His Office is fitted up as
a banking house and is
situated most conven-
iently for members on
the same floor with the
hall of the House in the
southeast corner of the
building, with the ele-
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-LAsL COMPARE MY PRICES WITH THOSE or
OTHERS
VIRGINIA AND OTHER AMERICAN WIVES

VIRGINIA AND OTHER AMERICAN WINES.
Nirsinia Slaret. ill.,. 90 so
Norlons NIrE1ma Seeding, per
hoatu.-.-- W SEO
Sweet IatawOz finest quality. so 80
1carry the lsrEest stock Of Imported Wines Cog
macs. Gins Jamaica and 81. Groin Runs and all the
French COrdia including the celebrated sftsrdinnet
green OF orange.
The Oldest Rye Bourbon and Imported Whiskies
can always be found 1t my store. lenumersiea lev:
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A DISSERTATION Ok AMERICAN
WINES

II IL now universally conceded by even the moss
fanatical teetoalers that siass % thoroushly
turod and pure wine IL the most vholsesome. health
and strengthening heversxe for mankind. Almost
every state-no matter how cold 10 climste-pro-
duces grapes from which wine 10 pressed. but THE
PASADENA WINES made from thcse luscious
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA grapes which attain Tho
highest grade OF maturity aud rpeness and are tAors
fore the best wines in the market
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Her Picture.

Thank God no change or pain can ever come,
To that fair pictured face on yonder wall,
With earnest eyes and lips forever dumb,
That loved and trusted me through all and all
Full many a time, when filed with deep unrest
watched it in the iamplights guivering glea NJ
Until my soul with quiet was possessed.
And then 1t faded from me in o dream.
Sweet, gently curving mouth, that TO me left
Its last smile in the last kiss that she gave.
Then closed, TO leave me utterly bereft
Until We meet again beyond the grave.
Soft eyes, within the frelighfs htful glow.
i scarce can see you, sorrowful and deep:
And yet, in darkness, as In light, know
That never weary is the watch you keep.
Sweet eyes, brown eyes, so tender and 80 kind:
doubt If living eyes could ever be
To all my faults and failures half SO blind
Or half 80 fond or pitiful to me.
Time cannot change those loving, earnest eyes,
So wishful for the love in mine they see;
Or watching DER me in their sad surprise
And growing for the grief that came to me.
Can you, then, blame me that love this face,
That long ago became my dearest friends
Or that wish IL, with It's quiet grace,
To watch above me till reach the end.
IF. II. CrRfIss.
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SIDE RIGGED SHELLS.
Some Radical Changes in the Methods
Of Rowing in Regattas.
THE SEAT OF THE FUTURE.
Written for The EVENING STAB:
MEXICAN yachts

MEXICAN yachts
men lead the world
Why not American
oarsmen a. well?
Till now our crews
who have crossed
the Atlantic have
almost uniformly
met with defeat.
They have en-
countered not bet
ter men. but boats
built on a different
method thatwss far
ahead of onr own
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Il. A. sELIesoN.
Buy To Tar Brsr ADVANTAGE

which call DE done at
4. s. WILLIAMS a 90. s, DRUGGISTS
UNDER MASONIC TEMPLE
Cor. 9Th and h sts NV.
CALI. EXAMINE OlN GOODS AND BE con.
WINGED.
PRESCRIPTIONS.
Our prices for prescriptions have been reduced in
proportion TO other goods We use only the purest
drugs and chemicals from the most reliable manu-
iacturers We cheerfully mNitea careful inspection
o. this department By ply siciaus.
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The -center-rir--old style. 9. The side rig
nsw style. with oblique seats
Plans have been received In New York Of
boat which will be pus on the waters Of the
Harlem In April She promises to be by far
the fnest racing shell ever built in this coun-
Try and Will be In every way an ideal boat Her
length will be 81 feet; beam, % inches; depth,
inches, and she viii closely follow the hines OF
the elghts used in the great college regattas on
the Thames. The section plan. which has tili
nov been kept close secret, was shown to the
writer yesterday and an outline Of her graceful
proportions IL now published for the Arss time.
bhs 70 calculated for Q crew averaging $50