Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-03-20
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.

may affect the business in the northern
states of the Atlantic coast, L don't think
! it will injure it in the west" said W. F.
| Proctor of Minneapolis, in Willards yes
| terday Just before l left home the big
| sest deal ever known IN Minnesota pine
| lands was contaminated, ana ii will have
an important effect upon the lumber IN
| dustry in Minneapolis. To be brief, &. A.
! Pillsbury * Co. and T. B. Walker have
| sold to a syndicate composed of all The
lumber dealers of Minneapolis 22o.oO0 acres
| OF pine land i'll the northern part OF the
! state in the vicinity of l1eech lake. The
| deal involves a matter of $lp,UO,OOo, and
| 1t is estimated that there Is enough pine
in the stumpage secured to keep all the saw
| mills in Minneapolis busy for twenty years
! to come. 1t is the intent i0n OF the syndl-
| cate to float the logs down the Mississippi
| to Mime polls, and cut them there. VI
! course the effect of the deal will be to uni
fy and stiffen Minneapolis prices for pine"
Talk about romantic marriages." eJacu-
! lated a well-posted rounier at the Riggs
] House this morning. There goes Il couple
! up 10th street who came together in the
most remarkable way you ever heard CT,
ana who are enjoying Sreat deal IF hap
| piness, too. Don't mention any names and
III tell you the story. Some time ago the
| man, who was in the real estate business,
| advertised for a sum of money, repayne at
| OF which would be guaranteed Ey Cnques-
| toned security. The advertisement met
| the eye OF young and puXom widow. who
! had several thousand dollars when she
wanted to invest, and she answered it IN
| person. When she visited the advertiser 5
| office she was doubtless favoraoly impress
| ed with his appearance and had an oppor-
! tunlty TO study him perhaps, because there
were several callers before her. A. East he
! was disengaged, and stating her mission
the widow inquired what security would be
given Tor the loan.
sal N
or ups and downs in he world; nov sue
cessfuI and then unfortunate. Sometimes
am on my way to the EXecuiEe Mansion
and at others my path leads in the direc-
ton OF the WorhhouSe. But such 1 am
L oHer myself as security for the loan 1
have advertised for. Marriage, maGam,
marriage, is the security ! offer you.
Naturally, the widow WAS illustrated
and shortly withdrew, stammcring Cut,with
violent blushing, that she would consider
the proposition. That her consideration
must have been favorable goes without say
ing, because they were married in less than
two weeks afterward, and they are just as
happy, to all appearances, as if their court
ship had been two years long
st Patrick's day never rolls around that
l am not reminded of the story of the two
Irishmen who made the acquaintance of the
Hoffman House bar in New York several
seventeenths of March ago." said Walter
day night. Maybe it's q chestnut, but it's
good all the same. The annual Patrich's
day procession in New York is great
parade, and every true son of Erin either
marches in it's ranks or cheers Il onward
from the sidewalk. On one OF the eventful
days a couple Of irishmen were hurryinS
down Broadway from up town TO see the
pageant, when one of them stopped the other
just at Delmonico's, and pointed over the
way.
Pat said he, with eagerness. dye see
thot house on dthe cornder? Chots dthe
Hoofmon House. Oh do be towld that 1.-The
picthurs in dthe bair air wunnerfui: min
thot air half horses playin' in dthe wather
wild ravishin' purify gyurls, an lots av
oother bootiful things. Wull yez go over v.d
me an dthim?
Pat said he would, AMI together they
crossed Broadway, entered The Hoffman
and were directed to the bar room. After
fe4StlnS their eyes on me numerous art
treasures. Pat invited Mike 10 take =, drink.
and each ordered cocktail After taking
a wee sip, Pat ran his hand down in his
pocket and careIessly tossed on he bar
the two-dollar bill which he had laid aside
out OF his hard earnings on the aqueduct 10
properly celebrate the anniversary of his
patron saint.
The barkeeper put it m the drawer and
returned a dollar and a half to the counter.
Pat gazed at the money with staring eyes,
and then his brow grew dark.
'Arrah dthere, young feller,' he exclaimed
to the barkeeper 'Doan't go playia no
moonhy shines wild ME. Come agin dthere
wild de change. Oi sev yez two dollyars an
yez TUX half er dollyar out
That's right explained the barkaeper
We always charge twenty-five cents apiece
for mixed drinks
Pat looked at Mike, grew white and
. Numbered out:
And who other divf towld yez We war
Micks, We dirthy omadhaun?'"
Il wouldn't be surprised any day to see
some of e rpDrtS I a tiN.S If ba Part
land and Puget sound opium smugslers pop
into town." said Carter Wallis a Pacific
sloper, at the Metropolitan. You See the
Wilson bill cuts the duty on opium to six
dollars pound, and at such figure SNUG
CLING the dope on large scale would not
be profitable when safety is taken into con-
sideration. In the Mckinley bill the duty
is ST. pound and it is common rumor out
in my country that 100000 was spent TO
have it put at that figure. This was ex-
pended, so it is said. for lobby by the big
cookers up at Victoria. British Columbia
What are cookers? Why. they are firms
who import the raw opium from China and
prepare IL for the American market. You
see, the opium fixed up in the prepared
state over in Hong Kong is very much bet
ter in quality than that manufactured at
Victoria. but il can't be struggled so far
and there is none in the market. If the
tariff was low it would be paid and the
Hong Kong stuff would be imported direct.
This would knock the Victoria dope gall
ley west The reduction OF the duty on
opium would do more to put stop to the
smuggling of ii than all the treasury agents
ever appointed, and the revenues would in
crease because the duty would be paid Is
there much of it smuggled?Well, | should say
so. Opium sells for less per pound out in
Portland than the duty on ii, my boy OF
course, the big gang was broken up that
was using the Haytien Republic as its car
rying steamer, but there are plenty of 9TH
er combinations"
FThere would not be so much of a hue
and cry about malaria in the system If
people would only eat more of the early
spring vegetables" said DR. Z. NJ. Court
land of Upper Sandusky, at Chamberlin's
yesterday. Now, here is one CT the most
excellent scorbutic remedies or prevent
ives one could possibly procure" he con-
tinued, holding up and preparing to devour
the delicate shaft oc a brand new onion,
''and it is good for almost every minor all
ment the system is subject to. 1t has row.
ducts, and nalf dozen of them at each
meal this time of year VIII do more to
ienovate d system full Of winter accretons
and open up the innumerable tiny canals
in the body that carry off the refuse than
regular course of medical treatment super
induced by the most ascetic diet imagin-
able.
Then there is asparagus" continued the
doctor. mo vegetable possesses more viz
tues and benefcent qualities. The nan