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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-23
K%SARE
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UNIFORMED!

tits breach Of etiquette
to attend a reception in
street attire. Just as i'm.
proper to play tennis In
store clothes.
If you uiH play tennis dc
1t with good taste.
A special suit is imperative
we have them to fit you.
We bought a manufac-
turer's stock of English
Blazers at a sacrifice.
In quality there is none
superior. Style suitable for
tennis or house wear.
Price, $3. 80.
The Regulation Bicycle
Goats. S5.
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RAT THE REQUEST OF ONE THOUSAND
~ and one Of our customers We have provided
space for lunch room the sixth noor of our 10Th
street building and have opened the ssms. We are
now prepared TO serve them in . nrst-class manner
mhSo-0n WOODWARD Z LOTHkOP.
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H~LAwN TENNIS SHOES. STRIPED.
- Checked Brown Tan, White and Black.
81 and 81 % Special prices to clubs ordering large
Quantities at Q time. GOODYEAR RUBBER Co 3()g
9Th st. NV. MELVILLE LINDSAY. Manager
RSLET US DESIGN YOUR PROPOSED
49, building and estimate on cost of erection
Can furnish 20 per cent OF money II desired JONAS
GIBBS CO.. ARCHITECTS. COS 14th st. NV.
je6-1m
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RTHE BUSINESS HERETOFORE CON-
~ Quoted at the corner Of 9th and sts n W. .
under the name of
DEXTER STEAM LAUNDRY.
Has not been removed but will be continued At the ola
stand under the name Of -
TOLMAN STEAM LAUNDRY
By the undersigned. who held twothird interest for
several years IN the Dexter Steam Laundry and who
on the 18th Of December 1890 bought the remain.
ing one-third interest, held by Henry Nj Dex.
ter Our old patrons and the public generally invited
to retain oene0t of established pro6cencv vth
all the latest improvements added.
JAMES ?. TOLMAN
apS-3m EDW. N. TOLMAN.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

~ g. WAKEFIELD SIMPSON,
TAILOR.
Cor. 9th and SITS. NV.
THEY WERE SURPRISED.
All who have accepted
my invitation of the past
two weeks were surprised
at the melt in prices. Yes,
prices the balance Of
my stock of summer Suit
ings and Trouserings are
low-reTv iow-and the
work is not being shirked
one whit. Drop in and
take look. Good pick
ing yet.
G. WAKEFIELD SIMPSON.
TAILOR.
,s1-lm Cor. 9th and sts NV.
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JOSEPH AUERBACH,
CORRECT OUTING WARES,
downtown store.} 1t | Uptown Store.
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R-lSQFFICE OF COLLECTOR OF TAXES,
49, District of Columbia. Washington, june "a
S9l.-Notce.- owners or keepers of dogs in the
District OF Columbia hereby notified that tine yearly
tax imposed by act Of Congress all dogs owned or
kept in said District will be due and payable July l.
1891. Upon payment of such tax. tags will be issued
DC. E. G. DAVIS, Collector OF Taxes. jel2-1t
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NLAwYERs. ATTENTION
~ Bxisf work, yQc per page under 10 paess.
6oc. per page over 10 pagoo.
JOHN +. SHERRY.
PAINTER AND ENGRAvER.
wyo-Sm "a D st. n. ".
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yards that would be needed to mako On
old-timc full oversisirt
All the new dresses have plating or
ruching around the foot, because, say
the drcssmakcrs, it is much more be-
coming to most women to have the long
plainness of the skirt thus relieved,
and 1t is also more graceful to treat
summer goods to this kind of trimming
because it helps TO hold the skirt in
place and prevents it from falling in
around the feet.
Since cycling has become SO much the
rage for women who find it more con-
vcnient to ride Il bicycle than to indulge
in other forms of exercise, many efforts
have been made to secure skirt that
should be comfortable and pretty, and
at the same time answer the purposes
which arc required for acycling suit
1t must be of material suitable for rain
or shine, it must fit closely end yet not
be too tight, it must be we'll sewed,
and yet, like riding habit, be able to
give" in case of accident to the rider,
and withal, it must be becoming to
her when seated on the cycle ready for
action.
A new cycling dress has received the
stamp of English approval and is
adopted, already, to some extent in this
country. 1t is divided skirt made full
enough to look like an ordinary walk
ing skirt when the wcarcr is standing
or simply seated upon the cycle. 1t is
of light wool, Killed around the lower
edge Of the skirt. or more properly
speaking, with kilt plating around the
lower edge of each skirt and over this
kilt plating are vandyck tabs of the
same material. This is really q very
pretty dress and when once seen upon q
few courageous wearcrs will commend
itself to all women levers of the cycle.
Boating dresses are made of serge
with extremely plain skirts. Indeed,
skirts for such purposes are becoming
SO very narrow that one wonders how
the wearcr can manage to walk in them.
They are called umbrella case" skirts,
and most correctly are they named, for
the wcarcr seems to be done up rs
tightly rs an umbrella ready for trans
portation, and how she is going to move
her legs with sufficient freedom to
cause locomotion is u mystery to all
who behold her as she stands. The
jackets worn with these dresses arc cut
very long indeed, almost to the knees,
having largo fiat pockets and deep
gauntlet cuffs. Nothing Is expected to
go in these boating dress pockets, as
may be readily imagined, for 1t would
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A bold Rlncksnnkc.

A resident of Brown county, Ga,
tells blood-curdling snake story. Mrs.
William IIuxelly, living in o log cabin,
was making soap In the backyard, hnv-
ing kissed her sweet little six-months-
old baby to sleep in the cradle. Pres
emily the baby screamed, and sho
rushed in and was horror-stliclscn to
find hideous black snake Of enormous
size trying to swallow tho child. 1t
had ingulfed the hand, swallowed it up
to the armpit, and was writhing in its
contortions and efforts to make further
progress. Grnsping the hideous rep
tile in the middle, it seemed to relax
its hold and disgorgc the child's arm,
then turned upon It's mother. She
dashed it to the floor and stamped 1t to
death. 1t proved to be Of tho black
racer species, seven feet two inches
long md measured six and half inch
cs in circumference. Tho babe livod,
and the only inconvenience it suffered
from it's terrible experience was that its
arm and hand were blistercd as if scald-
cd in hot water.
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THE ARGENTINE CAPITAL
Where You Soc tho Race for Wealth In
All IT'S Crudity.

Nhcrc Aou soc tho Race for Wealth In
All ITS Crudity.
There arc no amenities of life in
Buenos Ayres, no society, no nmusc-
ments except the thcnter which Is cx-
pensivc. and no distractions except
gross and shameless debauchcry that
thrives hnuntingly In most parts of the
city, says tho Cosmopolitan. There is
no society, because the rivalry of lux
ury will not allow families to arrange
fetes unless they can do SO on q prince
~ scale, to give dinner party TINT is
not gorgeous banquet, or to receive of
IN evening without the ncconpani-
ment of n ball or grand orchestra The
old creole families live entirely among
themselves after the usual Spanish
style. hitting md despising the gringo,
or foreigner, who works and grows rich.
There are no social leaders, no leaders
of opinions even, no eminent citizens
whose influence and efforts might
create ccntcrs and clements of decent
and healthy distraction.
At Buenos Ayres each one looks out
for himself, from the president of the
republic down to the bowling urchin
who sells newspapers and tries to de-
fraud the buyer Of his change. The i'm
preston that the city and it's sociologi-
cal phenomena make upon one is
wholly and repeatedly that of coarse
and brutal mntcrinlism. There seems
to be no poetry, no sentiment, no gen.
crosby in the life of it's citizens; there
is nothing amiablc, witty or attractive
in the exterior aspect of men md of
things. On the one hand you sec the
race for wealth in oil the cynical nal
versation Of public funds, and on tho
other hand the ostcnthtious display of
wealth In the grosscst manifestations
of vulgar luxury.
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LITERARY lMPosTuRE.
a Book PurportinS to Have Bocn Writ
ton by Charles 1. of England.

a Book PurportinS to Have Iocn Writ
ton by Charles i. of England.
In 1@io England was tho scene of O
remarkable literary imposture, says
the Nineteenth Century, In whose COM
position personal and partisan motives
were apparently blended, which not
only equalcd its forerunncrs in attain
ing Immediate success, but, when
eventually exposed and confessed, won
for its author n need of glory instead
of shame. Within few days after the
execution of Charles l., appeared tn Q
"Eikon Basilikc," ostensibly written by
the kings hand, affecting to be his own
defense of the policy he had adopted,
and to portray the attitude of devout
faith in which he had borne his suffer
ing and martyrtlom.
The sympathy which the work cxcit-
ed was widespread cat home and
abroad ninety thousand copies werc
circulated in twclve-month." Charles
II. is said to have declared that "if it
had como out q week sooner it would
have saved his fathers life" So pow
erful was the impression 1t made in Eng
land that the council of state desired
their Latin secretary, Milton, to an
swer ia commission fulfilled In his
"Eikonoklastes." Without disputing
whether ''the late king, as is vulgarly
believed, or any secret coadjutor,"
the presumption that the book was
from the hand Of Charles, while no saw
through the drift of factious and de
feated party" to use it mot so much in
defense of his former actions as the
promoting of their own future designs"
Lie detected, too, one Of tho most sus-
picious features of tho book, viz: that
the prayer which tho king was stated
to have placed in the hand OF Bishop
Juxon upon the scaffold, 'ns special
relic Of his sanity exercises" was
"stolen word for word" from Sydney's
"Arcadia," where it is put into the
mouth of Pamela Upon this feature,
however, Milton only passes tho char
acteristio comment that love story
which represents 80 hcathen woman
praying to hoathcn god" was unfit in
trouble and nfiliction to be Christians
prayer-book. There is no reason to sup
pose that he penetrated the secret of
the fabrication, which was confined to
the possession of Il few royalists, and too
we'll kept to be divulged until the res
toration, when DIR. John Gouden
avowed the authorship and claimed his
reward
1t appears that the book, latter its
design had been approved by Luppa,
bishop of Salisbury, who contributed
one or two scctions) was finished dnr-
ing the kings imprisonment at Carts
brooke, where copy was sent to him
for correction. He is said to have
wished that it should DO issued in the
name of another, but, when urged that
it would be more effective in his own,
took time to consider it. His execution
intervening before consent was given,
the publication took place without it.
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THE WOMAN OF FASHION.
Sho Is Turning Her Attention to
Stylish Outing Dresses.
A Novel Cycling Suit Which Appears Like
Last Years Dress, But Is. Oil So DIFF
fercnt!-Drcsscs Seen on tho
Gay Thoroughfares.
tCOPYEIGHr, 1911

1t takes just as much material to
make dress this summer Us it did last
summer and yet nobody knows why
this should DC So Skirts are narrower
and scanticr than ever they were be-
fore and waists arc tight fitting and
come down closely over the hips in u
way that seems to take up no material
ut all-that is, no more than would DO
actually required to cover the figure.
Last year, you know, the skirts were
very full and contained just as much
''stuff' as could be snugly gathered
upon the band The waists, too, were
round and loose, blouse shaped rather
than tight-fiitting and oftentimcs an
enormous sash of the same material
was tied around the waist. Now it is
all different, and yet one buys almost
the same quantity of goods for Il dress
pattern. Dearly beloved women, why
are these things thus! Can anyone an
swer to q nicely and certainty? Per
haps it is because the large full sleeves
which every dress requires in order to
bear the stamp of fashion require
great deal of goods.
Three yards at least must go to the
sleeves If they are full at the shoulder,
high pulled and tapcring to fit the arm
and wrist If the sleeves ere full and
pulled all the way to the wrist, ending
there with n narrow band to hold tho
great sleeve puff in place, it takes al
most twice as much goods as the Shout
der puff alone would require. And
then, if you have taken notice, you will
have seen Il large, loose, half-nowing
sleeve, something like the sleeve which
is attached to wrap, and having also
tight-fitting sleeve underneath; this
takes moro material yet, and counts up
enormously when one goes to compute
the number of yards that are required
for gown.
One need not, to be sure, have this
court sleeve, which is the narnc Of the
one last described, nor need one have
the sleeve which consists of one con-
tinuous puff to the wrist, but what one
must really have is the high shoulder
puff, and that, as we have said, requires,
at the lowest calculation, three yards Of
material.
The scanty skirts, too, are very de-
ceptive, for though small around, they
are very long, and the fan train which
starts at the back of the waist and
spreads out on the ground almost like a
peacock's tail contains great deal of
goods, and has way of storing within
the fan-likc folds the same number of
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on these occasions into n Diana with
rather thick waist and n figure which
surprises those who have seen her only
rs long, slender specimen of woman
hood. The Swiss belt Is oftcntilnes
made of leather and is pointed at the
front and back of the waist and narrow
at the sides. It is very broad else
where and Is fastened by big buckle.
On white flannel all shades of colorcd
kid are used for these belts, and on
colored dresses tan belts ere worn.
The new blouses of the season are
very elabOrately trimmed. They are
made In many light shades and arc
treated to rows of tuck, feather stitch
Ing and many gay kinds of gallon mixed
with gold In the shops Il blouse waist
of the most approved sort-India silk
with tucks and feather stitching and a
Stanley belt may be obtained for nine
dollars. This is really quito reasonable
when one considers the amount of
goods that is required for one of these
waists and the cost of making. India
silk is seldom less than forty-fivc cents
per yard and the better qualities are
much more. And so when one goes
into direct calculation and co:nputa-
ton as to tho cost of things, it will be
found that these silky tribes which one
picks up Oft the counter and crumblcs
up almost into the palm Of ones hand
are very expensive things to buy by the
quantity, and that they are but little
cheaper when one undertakes to manu-
facture ut home, one by one.
The newest kinds of blouse waists
fasten diagonally and are trimmed
with gallon in which there is liberal
sprinkling of gold. The gallon often
takes some fancy form upon the waist
outline, perhaps Il rose or some other
set figure. Ingenious women are doing
this gallon cmbroidcring for themselves
and arc achieving very pretty result
from this industry of their hands.
Silk skirts Or petticoats arc takir
place of muslin ones, if we may bel.
the drcssmakers, but muslin skirts al
too convenient to be entirely discarded
When considered alongside of the silk
ones, it is found that they are cheaper,
laundry better and give one the feeling
that one has something on. On the
other hand the silk one does not inter-
fore with the hang of a plain skirt,
they make woman seem slcndcrcr,
because they do not give fullncss about
the hips, and they arc delightfully."- cool
The summer tca-gowns have the court
sleeves described at the beginning ind q
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DO most unbecoming to sec q protubcr-
ancc on tho side of q snugly skirted

DO most unbecoming to sec q protubcr-
ancc on tho side of snugly skirted
young woman.
1t managed slSillfully, into the boat
ing dress pocket may go couple of
Silk handkcrchiefs, snugly folded, and
an extra veil or two, should the girl
who goes i'll for outdoor sport find that
the sun is becoming really too strong
for her complexion.
AS solace for the aggravation which
Is caused by the presence of pockets
into which one cannot put her belong
ings, three or four breast pockets arc
put upon tho jacket, and into these may
go small note book or log book and
any tritlc which the boating girl deems
essential to her happiness. At her belt
is hung chatelainc with gold pencil,
yin;ligrctte, little purse and the score of
other things which women are attach
ing to themselves by means of little
silver chains.
Tho boating skirt disappears ut the
waist under n silk Swiss belt which is
so cut that it affords really all the
support which n woman now requires
Mt the waist when she gets herself up
for out-of-door sports. The corseted,
tailor-made girl becomes transformed
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ANOTHER HousEBREAKER.
j. Ed. Shipman's Store on Main
Street Entered.
ROANOKE TINES BUREAU,

The store of j. Ed. Shipman on Main
street was broken into Thursday night.
The thief entered tho back window and
evidently was somo person who knew
that Dick Johnson, Mr.. Shipman's efli-
cient clerk, had left that evening for
the country and was not as usual sleep
ing over the store.
The entrance was effected by bending
the vertical wires that protected the
window and then raising the sash.
a large number of hams had been re-
moved from tho place where they hung
on the wall and piled up in one place,
but left there, the thief evidently be-
coming alarmed and taking fight before
he could remove anything. There was
SIS in the money drawer, but it was not
touched. Mr.. Martin, who lives next
door, heard noises at the back door. of
tho store at half-past eleven, but did
not attribute them at the time to any
crookedness. There is no clue.
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THE WATER WORKS.

Tho Repairing of the Reservoir Com
pleted.
Tho forco of hands at work OH the
reservoir havo finished their work and
it is now as clean as whistle.
The reservoir, which was built years
ago before Salem had ever thought
about boom, by Col. f. j. Chapman,
and supplied with water by means of a
pump on the river side run by water
power, has been enlarged so that now
its capacity is $50, 900 gallons. A new
pump opposite the Lake Spring keeps it
filled with the clear, pure water OF the
lake spring.
The most important of the recent re-
pairs to the reservoir was the placing a
large outlet pipe which can in a few
hours empty the contents of the reser-
voir into the branch at the bottom of
the steep hill which the reservoir caps.
superintendent of the water, Council
man j. Ed. Shipmhn, says thatit is the
intention of the city authorities to have
the reservoir thus emptied once every
month. tho town in the meanwhile
being supplied with water pumped di-
rect into the mains.
The bottom and sides Of the reservoir
have been plastered and the overflow
pipes raised several feet higher.
The mayor and Councilmen Shipman
and Francis were both at the reservoir
yesterday afternoon inspecting the works
while tho renovated reservoir was being
rapidly filled by tho reception of 500
gallons minute, which is the capacity
of the pump in the new engine house,
and they declared themselves we'll
pleased with the work done.
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FOUND BLAINE IN GOOD HEALTH.
A Leading Minncsotan Tells of His Trip Ia
Bar IIurbor,

MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, Aug. 14.-Loren
Fletcher, one of the Republican leaders
in this State and leading candidate for
the Republican nomination for Congress
in this district, returned this morning
from pilgrimage to Bar lIarbor, Me.
whore he saw and had long talk with
Mr.. Blaine. Mr.. Fletcher is a New
Highlander, and is an old acquaintance
OF the Republican chieftain. lie said
this morning that Blaine would live to
serve his country many years yet.
The Secretary, he declared, was not
i'll, but simply needed rest, and the kind
OF rest he was getting. While he re.
fused to talk politics to Mr.. Fletcher he
was not at ali averse to having Mr..
Fletcher talk politics to him. The Min
nesotan told him that two topics only
were now discussed in the Northwest
the big wheat crop and Blaine's health.
He assured the Secretary that Blaine
and reciprocity would sweep this part OF
the country. The only answer that
Blaine made was smile and deprt ca
tory gesture. Yet Mr.. Fletcher is dis
tinotly Of the impression that Blaine
will run if asked to with sufficient unan-
unity.
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The Venezuelan methods of collecting
duties are peculiar. If cook stove has
brass knob on it's door the whole thing
is weighed as so much brass and duty
charged accordingly. A barrel of flour
costing five dollars pays imposts not
only on the flour, but on the slaves,
hoops and heads, costing, when set
down, with frcights and duties added,
fifteen dollars. And yet, owing to cheap
labor, bread is about rs low and quito
as good in Caracas as In New York.
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BREVITIES.

The Salem Cornet Band has received
four new silver basson instruments.
which cost $500.
a horse of Sergeant Frer got scared
at tho looks of a Roanoke Herald yester-
day morning, as the newSboy suddenly
jerkcd it out from his pile, and tried to
run away, but stumbled and fell and Mr..
trler having patent single-t tree on his
buggy, the horse eventually pulled
loose without damaging the vehicle
Robert S. Crump. of Rich mord, is in
tho city.
Officer Boon yesterday brought John
Tucker, L negro confined in tho Roa-
nOlle calaboose, and charged with b reak
ing into Foreman's clothing store here
last June, to Salem where he was Jailed
until tho grand jury gets hold of him.
Miss josie Kelly of Tazewell Court
House, is visiting Miss Stras on Union
street.
Miss BESSIE Lobin, of Waynesboro. is
visiting Miss Annie Palmer
Misses Stella Stras, Julia Killian,
Josie Kelly and Miss Killian. accom-
panied by Writ Killian, J. c. Darst, A.
c. SPOTS and Il. p Stras, visited Nc
Afces Knob yesterday.
j. 1. Goodman, Of Charleston, S. c., is
visiting in Roanoke and Salem. He was
former student at Roanoke College.
While l.. IIousman, of Fincastle, and
Jerry Stair, of Ilollins, were driving
into Salem yesterday their horse was
frightened at tho Development Com
pany's bridge by the whistle of the
Wooden Mills, and ran away, throwing
out both Of the gentlemen and bruising
Mr.. Housman somewhat, iniurinr his
knee severely. The horse was captured
up town.
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In tho Tcnderloin Precinct
whats Tim doing now?" x
'vTimc. PUCK.
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somewhat full train. The front of the
waist is in most cases ungored and is
plated in at the waist. The court or
cape sleeves are of lace, and tho small
sleeves underneath are of plain material
to match the train. Ostrich feather
trimming is used on very many tea
gowns and the preferred style is one
which consists of a band extending from
the neck to the feet down the front of
the dress. a princess robe made in this
fashion out of silver gray satin and lace
Is extremely beautiful and becoming to
almost every style of beauty.