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The Washington times., 1894-03-20

The total appropriations ofthe present ses-
sion of Congress will be approximately $780,
900. .000 This will exceed by a few millions
the appropriations OF the first session of the
last Congress, and will disappoint those who
had hoped that the low condition OF the
Treasury funds would result in material re-
duction in appropriations.
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FROM ONE OF THE BOXES.

Dainty. piquant-faced Margaret Reid, with
her red-brown hair and sunny brown eyes, in a
well-ntting suit of brown and gold. comes
into the green forest of Sherwood and sings a
love song. 1t is the prettiest song in Robin
Hood-prettiest. because of itself and because
she sings 1t. and because the whole scene is
so effective. Before this. IN the same clever
second act ". II. Mcdonald. as Little
John. sings THE Nut-brown Ale, almost the
only song la the opera that is remembered.
Around him in their green bowmen's garb
lounge the Jolly members of the forest band
and touch mugs a they join in the chorus.
Comic opera is not tho most accommodating
vehicle for realism. but We might almost be-
lieve Sherwood forest enough TO wish to be
with him and his foresters over their nut
brown ale.
Henry Clay Barnabee is just as good an
eagle-eyed sheriff of Nottingham. and just as
good drunken. ragged tinker. as he has
always been. His unique style OF face is ex-
cellent for comic opera, and his comedy is
comic. One laughs az him quite without
fatigue. Miss Davis sang in her magnificent
contralto. '"Oh. Promise Me- again this
year. and Mena Cleary is just as fetching as
of wore with her churn. The only two new
people OF the play are Miss Reid and hand
some Edwin +. Hoff, who takes Karl's place
as Robin Hood He has a good tenor
voice. ODe 1OOu Il little more
this year perhaps on account of Miss Reid.
This Chicago man, David Henderson. brings
the spectacle Of the season. 1t reminds one
OF Chicago, big, magnificent. striking. Won
der If there Is any other story than that of
''Sinbad' that could hold all the tremendous
things that Henderson has evolved out
of that great head of his this time?
There's gorgeously dressed ballet
and chorus and scenery that is almost
overpowering in ''Sinbad." and these and the
other spectacular features do not overshudow
two or three excellent people in the cast which
is somewhat uncommon occurrence in the
annals of this variety of entertainment. Mr.
Henry Norman. as picturesque william named
Snarleyow. sings and poses acceptably. and
Miss Louise Royce does great deal of look
ing pretty. Edwin Foy is good. too. Mrs.
Cleveland. Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle. and
.'Sinbad' last night.
The "Bad Boy behaved awfully last night
Really it was too bad the way he imposed on
the old man. There was nothing SO
atrociously cruel that he didt delight in it.
Wallie Clark is the name of the young vii
lain. Hi5'confederates in crime were Dol
karroll, his chum. and Nellie Burt his girl.
Among the other good people in the company
are Fred Wenzei as the groceryman. T. F.
Callahan as Pa. and Tot Williams. All these
sang whenever they got chance.
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Take the Times into the family. You
needn't be afraid of it. No impurity turks
in any of its columns. no blood dripS
from any
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THE WEATHER TODAY.
For the District of Columbia, Maryland, and
Virginia, generally fair; much colder; north
winds.
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Navy Yard subscriptions TO this paper
are left with Harry Speake. 1910 Linden
place northeast.
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The price of The Times is one cent.
Pay no more for it anywhere.
See that your newsdealer has 1t every
morning.
Pay him 10 cents week for II. or a cent
a day on week days.
Pay no newssoy more than this.
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Mr.. BreekiBridge might lecture.
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Golden Words.

From the Noon Edition of The Newsl
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WASHINGTON, D. c., MARCH 20, 1894.
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Fashion EancieS.

All shades of gray and tan duck will be
fashionable this Summer.
A little variation from the wrinkled collar is
three fiat bows of bias velvet set on standing
band, one directly in front and two ON the
Sides which meet in the back.
Fluffy tresses are now the fashion. Women
who were wont to brush their hair down now
comb ii up and then blow it up with a fan to
produce the effect of thistledown and corn-tas-
sells. The hair is crimped all over. and the
coifTure is suggested by the style of the hat.
Berthas Of every shape and description.
both double and single. are used on dresses
for young girls. Double berthas. edged with
lace or embroidery. are especially pretty for
ginghams and muslins. and make a nice finish
for guimpe waists.
A simple gown is made of wool in pale pink.
flecked with green. The waist is of green
bengaline. and over this piece of the mate
rial is folded to form jacket back and front
alike. 4 bertha of green silk cut wide and
full over the sleeves. and tapering toward the
back and the top. belt and sash of benga-
line complete the trimming. The sleeves are
Of the regulation leg-of-mutton shape. finished
at the wrist with silk cuffs.
The cheviots and shirtings this season are
extremely pretty. There is to be very little
difference from those OF last year in the max
ing. The swellest ones are made by tailors
and have turned-down collars, with which
are 10 be worn the neat four-in-hand tie.
Light blue. light pink. checked. and white
shirts are all equally fashionable. This arti-
Gle of ones wardrobe is eminently Satisfac-
tory. for laundrying really does these shirts
good.
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ished an eight year sentence In Columbus
(Ohio) penitentiary.
1 finally captured both Cole and Ulrich at
the latter's residence in New JERSEY. There
was where the bills were turned out by Ul-
rich's skillful workmanship.
Cole was tried and convicted. He was sem
fenced to twelve years in Trenton prison. He
died in Trenton.
Ulrich served a long term and was used by
the government as a witness, aud finally dis
charged. He entered business in Trenton,
declaring he intended to lead an honest life
forevermore. He turned out the pictures
seen on fancy crockeryware, making the
plates used in the process of decorating. He
stayed in Trenton about year and a half and
suddenly disappeared. I next heard Of him
in Germany, near Strasburg, where he was
sentenced for a long term for counterfeiting
and circulating 240. 900 marks.
His imprisonment disposed OF the last one
Of the dangerous gang, one OF the best organ
lied ever knew OF that it was my lot to hunt
down when as q young man I entered the Sc
cret service.
The story have told Of how each man in
turn Informed and loaned his services to the
government is rather contradictory, to say the
least, to the belief that ''there is honor among
thieves"
don't think there is.
All the men. who belonged to the gang Of
counterfeiters so successfully broken up in
such comparatively short space of time
died miserably, although they at one time
possessed thousands wronGfully secured.
Coles death on O cot in Trenton prison,
Minors death soon after his discovery and
disgrace and Ballard's pitiful efforts to exc
out a miserable existence in the great metrop-
oils to-day all point to the handwriting on the
wall:
Honesty is the best policy"
ITO be concluded tomorrow
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THE DANGERS OF
PLATONIC FRIENDSHIP.

A young woman in New England, says the
from her note, apparently given much study
to the relations of the sexes, asks this ques-
ton:
"Do you believe in Platonic friendship be-
tween man, young or mature, single or mar
ried, on the one hand, and girl or a young
married woman on the other?"
1t is not SO much a question of what l be-
lieve or do not believe; it is more matter
whether a Platonic friendship is possible or
desirable under either ordinary or extraordl-
nary circumstances. To my mind it is not.
Where nan or n woman feels the need OF a
close friend or confidante of the opposite sex
in any phase of life, it Is far better that
friendship should exist without the Platonic
element entering into it. A Platonic friend
ship which means, in other words. spir-
itual friendship that regards only the
mind and not material things. is best
suited for an ideal world. and
that is not the sort of world the most OF US
live in. The men and women capable OF un-
derstanding a capable OF understanding a
Plalonic relation are rare--very rare indeed.
To girl such a friendship is particularly
dangerous. since she is scarcely capable OF
discerning that almost invisible line which
divides Platonic friendship from love. Her
mind is incapable oi the division, and the bor-
der line all TO apt to be unconsiously passed
by her, is followed by results that are never
desirable and rarely partake OF happiness
With the married woman such friendship
should have no reason FOR existence. The
married womans Platonic friend should be
her husband. and it is unfair to him TO have
any other TO assume or hold the position that
is his by right If a woman occupies her
mind Alright, and is self respecting. the incli-
nation or desire for friendship. from which
the element of danger cannot be eliminated,
is never present Platonic friendships do not
appeal to the right sort of women. Their
minds are otherwise engaged their time is
too fully occupied. Danger always turks
where idleness exists.
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Maine's Male Housekeepers.

One of the oddities of life in the Maine fac
tory villages is the class of men who can ap-
propriately be called "housekeepers. In
almost any town where much manufacturing
is done numbers of these men may be found.
Ii one calls soon after meal time he will be
likely to find them with aprons on washing
dishes. AT other hours they may be seen
sweeping up. making beds. cleaning and
washing the children. cleaning house or cook
ing. Whether any Of them do the family
sewing is not so certain. These men are
housekeepers for the simple reason that their
wives can earn more working in the mill than
they can. and it becomes a matter OF money
saving to let them do it. Some OF them saw
and pile the wood in the shed. and do the
chores. and take cara of the garden. and do
other mans work around home as well as
the housekeeping, and the arrangement seems
to be profitable.
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TO SEE MEN ON MARS.
Inventor Louis Gathman Makes a Bold
Statement.

Inventor Louis Gathman Makes a Bold
Statement.
From the Chicago Tribune1
':For $50, 900 will undertake to construct
a telescope with an objective ten feet in
diameter. better in every respect in proper
tion than the forty-inch S50O,000 Yerkes tele-
scope, and to finish it sooner. For proper
tionately larger sum l will undertake to con-
struct a telescope with an objective 100 feet in
diameter, more efficient in proportion for
every scientific purpose than the Lick or
Ierkes telescope. There is no reason in tele-
scopic science why we should not see the in
habitants OF Mars and see to pick up pin on
the MOON
This is the bold but intelligent utterance of
Louis Gathman, an amateur optician .astrono-
mer, scientist. and inventor Of this city.
Mr.. Gathman's scientific career has been
something like that of Edison. That is, he
has been dependent on his own resources,
and has been an all-around inventor.
But he has taken the greatest interest Of all
in optics and astronomy. He has had tele-
scope and has been "a student OF the heavens
for fifteen years. Ten years ago he erected
an observatory in connection with his resi-
dence, and placed in its dome seven-inch
telescope with which he amuses himself at
spare moments. He makes no pretensions,
however, to a scientific knowledge Of astron-
Omy
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fortune on Sixty-seventh street and the
Western Boulevard. He entertained royalty,
and had big political pull.
We planned 10 capture Minor.
Cole agreed to 90 to Minor and purchase
two plates for making counterfeit money.
He was to give Minor 800 for the plates,
and we were to swoop down on them after the
deal had been consummated. On October 80,
1871. eight OF US special agents started out on
the raid We felt confident we were about to
bag tine big game we had sighted from afar.
We knew there must be a most skillful and
daring counterfeter at the other end of the
line. and that Kirkbride and his companions.
Keene. Cole and Minor, were merely showers
of the queer'-to use detectives language
In our party of eight six of the agents were
full tiedged officers. myself and n man named
Kinnick being new men and assistants. A
certain code of signals had been agreed on
and a certain line of action mapped ont. but
when we arrived on the ground circumstances
knocked our Office arrangements out entirely.
As agreed on. Cole entered the Minor man
sion. He soon came out with Minor and
walked down the Boulevard. Then we knew
Minor didn't have the plates in the house, but
was going to get them from another party.
Cole had seen Minor previous to this night
and made arrangements to get the plates de-
livered.
1t was raining when Cole and Minor came
out. MluOI Heiu HIS ulnUreld over COle 8
head. The eight secret service agents fol-
lowed the two men. Suddenly Minor left Cole
standing on the sidewalk and went out into
the middle of the street, where he met an
other man. He held his umbrella over the
newcomer, sheltering him from the rain and
hiding his features.
The two men stood talking earnestly for
about a minute. l was in the rear guard of
watchers. suddenly heard a yell. and
knew our men must have closed in on the
coun.erfeiters. The man who was talking
with Minor in the middle of the street ran
down Sixtieth street. 1 followed him at a
distance. He came down t, walk and
finally aceosted him. was alone and wanted
to get him back to the rest OF the party as
quickly as possible without trouble. You
see the plans had so miscarried I was the
only one who had followed this fellow.
i touched him on the left shoulder.
"You stole my friends purse, said I, ''back
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in that saloon on Sixtieth street. Now want
you to so lack with me or l will hand you
over to a policeman"
My dear fellow, am not the man you
want" he replied suavely. ''My family is
waiting for me and am in hurry to get
home. l don't know anything about your
friends purse
"Oh yes you do. Come right back or there
will be trouble 1 insisted.
Just Mt this juncture one OF our men came
up and called to him to act as a witness.
This man stood by and saw you take that
purse" 1 continued.
But you've got the wrong man. wasn't
in the saloon" said our prisoner.
Well, 1 got him back to where Cole had
stopped ON the sidewalk. We found three of
our men and Minor and Cole.
Ny prisoner was the right man. He was
Thomas P. Ballard, probably with the ex-
ception of Brockway the most expert counter
feiter the world ever produced.
1 afterward went back to where Cole,
Minor, and Ballard had stood before the last
two took alarm, and found the counterfeit
plates Cole had bargained for.
Ballard was the power behind the throne.
and there was great rejoicing at headquar-
tiers that we had run him to earth. This skill
full counterfeiter was an expert engraver.
He had succeeded in reproducing the fiber in
his bills quite equal to that in the genuine
ton street, where an old woman kept house
for him. The neighbors in the vicinity were
told that he was night watchman. for he
used to secretly work all day at No. 256 Riv-
ington street and go away at night. His
wife lived in Fifty-third street. The neigh
bors in the vicinity of the Fifty-third street
house were told Ballard was carriage
painter and that he worked down town dur
ing the day. This accounted for his goings
and comings from the two houses each day.
When Minor was taken he had thrown
Coles marked money in the mud, but it was
found all right.
At Ballards Rivington street residence we
captured great deal of counterfeit para
phernalia mills and presses, molds and dies
and engraving tools.
Ballard broke out Of Ludlow street jail a
week after his capture He was recaptured
later and sent to the Albany penitentiary for
thirty years. During President Cleveland's g
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Candidates for the Fool.killer,


John Eli Wade, Of Clark county, Ky.. has
named the latest girl arrival at his home
Madeline Pollard Wade.
There is an idiot In Liberal, No., who re-
fused to take 1000 silver dollars in payment
OF note. He is still whIstling for his money.
John W. Woods, who has wife and nine
children, went into the lynching business
down in North Carolina. He is now hiding
in the mountains of Tennessee.
A lawsuit in Stratton, Neb.. over the killing
Of hog that was at large was settled out OF
court after each of the litigants had spent
four times as much as the animal was worth
Mrs Samuel Detwiller, of Goshen, Ind, got
divorce from her husband a few months ago,
and within fortnight had been remarked to
him Now she has left home, and nobody
knows where she is.
A similar case is reported from Chadron,
Neb. Here two citizens quarreled over IS
bill, and at last left the matter to an arbi-
TRAITOR. who insisted that the amount be
blown in for drinks, and ordered champagne
for himself.
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CHIEF DRUMMOND'S STORY
The Great Detective Writes of His Expe.
riences for the Press
My first arrest!

My first arrest!
How well / remember it, and how proud l
was when I received the praise of my supe-
rior officers.
1t was back in II, when as a young man l
entered the secret service in New York city.
My first case caused a big sensation here, for
men prominent in metropolitan business and
social life for years, regarded as citizens of
the highest responsibility and sense of honor,
were sent to prison for swindling the United
States government by means of spurious
money.
Our headquarters were at that time at so
Bleecker street.
In II one of the most skillful passers OF
counterfeit money known to the secret ser
vice was Dave Kirkbride. He had long
evaded detection and had succeeded in pass
1ng many thousands of dollars worth OF bogus
bills. principally tens.
He had the ill-iuck to quarrel with a COM
panlon, who at once visited headquarters and
told how kirkbride was about to leave the
city with $4,000 in bogus ten-dollar bills,
which he intended to put in circulation.
Men were detailed 10 cover the various
points OF exit from the city. ACCOMPANIED
by htrkbrdes companion, l went TO the Hud-
- idhiodu uepot. at lnat time III
1hlrteth street and Ninth avenue. After
waiting around in the rain for about three
hours KirHbride came up
There is your man buying his ticket. ~
said the informer
walked up to him, and when 1 touched
MN Oh tne snouioer ne turned quickly.
''What the - do you want?" he exclaimed
in anger.
'You are my prisoner" said, as 1 put my
arm in his.
hailed carriage and took him to head
quarters. was given hearty reception, for
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you are defending sim" but no, he had a. little
family OF his own, one son who had to fight the
battle of life against fearful odds N6GhA e0as
defending the standard Of womanhood, the ,yir-
tue Of city and of country girls
No man could say that seduction was possible
under the circumstances which had been por-
trayed here. He protested against such a stand
ard being raised for virtue As for his client, no
one knew through what mire that man had been
dragged, and such was the penalty Of sin He
did not want the jury carried away by the whs-
per floating in the air that verdict for the de-
fendant would be ratification of his sin He
asked them also not to commend a woman who
had borne herself as this plaintiff had, not to
elevate her for the degradation of him. Such a
verdict would mean 10 the girls that virtue was
but a cloak, TO be thrown of or put on Amer
ican womanhood should be indicated by the
standard to which wives and mothers must be
held.
At ten minutes after 3 O'Clock Major Butter
worth finished. There was some consultation
among the attorneys. and then Mr.. Wilson, stat
ing that he was hoarse, asked the court to ad-
1ourn. So the crowd dispersed, and several gen.
tlemcn pressed forward to congratulate the
Iawyer
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the taking of Kirkbride was considered a
very big capture, indeed. We took $500 IN
counterfeit tens from Kirkbrides pockets.
and the balance of the 50 600. less $50, was
found on the seat of the carriage which
brought US from the station. He had en-
deavored to get rid of the bogus money be-
fore reaching headquarters.
Kirdbrde confessed.
Kirkbride told the story that he secured the
bogus money from David keene. a wholesale
liquor dealer in Warren street. Keene was a
big man in this city at that time and a power
in politics. He lived in a splendid mansion
in grand style at Observation-Disclosures
teenth street and Second avenue. Kirkbride
agreed to enter into the plan to capture
Keene He consented to take marked bills,
with which to buy more counterfeit money
from keene.
On the night agreed on for the taking OF
Keene, with the marked bills in his possess
sion, eight or nine of US were sent up to the
One-hundred-a street mansion.
Myself and man named Newcomb were to
cover the rear of the house to prevent Keene
escaping that way in case he took alarm
Kirkbridge was to enter and buy the coun-
terfeit money with the prepared bills. After
he had accomplished his object, he was to go
out of the house, and, after the doors closed
behind him, return and ring the doorbell
That was to be the signal to the men in wait
cessfully accomplished and that the door was
open for them to enter.
1 remember climbing over five fences that
stood between Observation-Disclosures
street and the rear of the mansion. Just as l
was getting over the fence surrounding
Keene's back yard Mrs. Keene came to the
rear of the house with large lamp
1t was one of the rejecting sort, that threw
ray of light on any given point without
lighting up the surroundings. This lamp she
placed at a rear window and focused it on a
big stone slab in the corner Of the yard not
ten feet from where we lay hidden
That's the money hole" whispered to
Newcomb.
And sure enough out came Keene in a mo-
ment and went over to the slab.
We crouched as low as possible in the cor
ner, fearing we would be detected, and that
would have spoiled all our plans Of catching
keene in the very act of selling the counter
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Saved the pope's Life.

Alexander Divine tells the following anec-
dote OF the late siI Harry verney: One of his
famous exploits was his riding across Argen-
tina. One day his attention was drawn to a
figure lying on the roadside some miles from
Santiago. under the shelter OF a rude hut of
leaves and branches. Pulling up. he discov-
cred priest. who turned out to be in high
condition of fever. Verney obtained assist
ance, had the PROSTATE man carried to his
own rooms, and practically nursed him into
convalesence and eventual recovery. After
some months of friendly intercourse and COM
panionship the two separated. and probably
never thought to meet again. Many years
passed, so many that the majority Of men had
lived their lives and died. but the two who
had met under such striking circumstances
still lived, the one Sir Harry Verney. the
other no less person than Leo XIII. Pope
OF Rome