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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-13
THANKSGIVING DAY GAME.
POtOmacs and the Columbia Uniyer
hity Tenn After the Prize.

POtOmacs and the Columbian Uniyer.
sity Team After the Prize.
The Potomac Club foot ball eleven are
trying to get the Thanksgiving day game
with the Columbia Athletic Club. The Poto-
macs have issued challenge to that club
In which the captain of the team W. H.
Lyman, states that in view Of the good
practice games which have been played by
the two organizations he thinks he is justi-
fed in claiming the Thanksgiving day
game, in order to settle the relative merits
Of the teams and the possession of the
championship trophy, as far as the two
teams are concerned.
The Potomacs claim that with the new
men on the line which they have procured
they will be able to give the C. A. C. q
closer contest than they have ever had be-
fore In the practice game Monday even
ing the Potomacs held the Columbia boys
down to fourteen points, with five sub
stitutes on the team, and they consider this
very good showing indeed against the
champions.
Whether the c. A. c. will give the Poto-
mac boys the game on that date Is a mat
ter of conjecture, as there are several other
clubs which want "a game on tina. day. 1t
Is certain, however, that the two teams will
come together at some time not far distant,
and an exceedingly interesting game is
looked for when that time arrives.
The Columbian University foot ball team
also hope to get the Thanksgiving day
game with the c. A. c. If it is obtained it
will be the first appearance of the varsity
on the field, as the team is not yet ready
for practice. A mass meeting was held
Monday afternoon at Columbian University
of those interested in the formation of a
team, and an organization was speedily
effected. The meeting was called through
the efforts of MesSrs. Barrett and Johnson
and the latter acted as temporary chair
man of the meeting.
Mr.. Ewing Cockrell was chosen captain
of the association, and the captaincy of the
team devolveS upon him from this position
Mr. f. S. Barrett will have the manage
ment of the team, while Mr.. G. l.. Johnson
will act as secretary and treasurer. Reeves
Lewis, the well-known half back, will act
as coach, as he is not able to play on the
team this season.
With the material which the team will
have to draw from 1t is thought that an ex-
ceedingly strong eleven will result, and one
which will give any team in the District
strong contest. Mr.. CockrelPs experience
in foot ball matters will aid him in making
his selections, and he will have entire
charge of this part Of the proceedings.
At all events Thanksgiving day game
is now far from unlikely, with the Poto-
macs the Columbian University and the
Orients all fighting for the privilege.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-13
A New Investment Company.

The Citizens Investment Company is the
name of new building, loan and invest
ment company which was organized last
night. A temporary board Of managers
was elected as follows: Alexander Wolf, C.
H. Reizenstein, Charles L. Heilbrun, Ed
ward White and DR.. ]. w. Abel. A men,
bership committee, composed of Salvador
L. Richard, Conrad Ludwig, Maurice D.
Rosenberg, Louis Silverberg and D. William
Baker, was also elected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-13
Promises to Be Exciting.

What promises to be an exciting game Of
foot ball will take place tomorrow afternoon
at National Park. when the Shamrocks and
the Canterburys line up The great rivalry
that exists between these two teams and
the fact that they are about evenly match
ed will make II more interesting. A large
crowd of rooters for both teams will be on
hand to enliven things. Lynch and Single
ton, who distinguished themselves in the
Shamrock-Rockville game, will be in their
resp ective positions. both having recovered
from their injuries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-13

LONDON. November 13.-The Graphic in
an editorial agrees that Lord Dunravens
pamphlet giving his side of the races was ill
advised, but it argues that the indignation
evoked in America is two months too late.
1t says that Lord Dunraven made COM
plant about the matter of ballast at the
time Of the races, and it is not true that he
implicated Iselin or any other of the De-
tenders owners, in charge of the yacht.
The Graphic adds that it is a thousand pities
that the investigation now ordered was not
made when the first complaint was first
lodged
Headed, Should Dunraven Apologize"
the st. James Gazette this afternoon pub
fishes a leading article, in which it again
severely criticises his lordship. 1t says:
Lord DunraveE arrived in New York with
the preconceived idea that the Defender
people were going to play this trick Upon
him, and, having expected it was going to
be done, he found an easy way to convince
himself"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-13

From the New YORK Herald.
ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. 1.-THE sensa-
tional rumors lately circulated In reference
to the health of the czarina and the reports
that an operation might be required are alb
solutely without foundation, and am ena-
tled on the best authority to contradict
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-13
MIR. STEVENSON SPEAKS.

He Says MIR. Cleveland Can Have n
denomination If He Wants 1t.
Pttsburg Special to the New York Herald
Vice President Stevenson passed through
Pittsburg tonight on his way home to
Bloomington, Ill. He thought the recent
republican victories would not affect demo-
cratic chances next year. He said that
President Cleveland will be accorded a re-
nomination If he wants 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-13
FIFSI ScTICye
NOVEMBER.
Bald the Largest Winner.

The leading class racing men have en-
joyed a successful season the cinder
path this year. A record of the points
scored by the leading men up to date, with
the value of prizes won, follows:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-13

When Ordering Cocoa and Chocolates be sure an
ask for Huylers. They have no superior.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-13

Second Series,

Under each date the name of the home
club appears first, and will play two games
on that date with the visiting team.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-13
Brewer Must Drop Foot Ball.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. November ia
great commotion has been caused at Har-
ward by the announcement that the
faculty had requested Capt Brewer of the
varsity foot ball eleven to refrain from TAX
ing part in any foot ball contests during the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-13
Successful Kick From the Field

SUCCESSFUL KICK From the Field.
The Cooke Park juniors Of Georgetown
played the third team of the Episcopal High
School at Alexandria yesterday and were de-
feated by 10 to g. Their opponents, however,
outweighed them, having much the heavier
team The Cooke Parks put up a good
game and scored through a drop kick from
field by Boyden Buck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-13

Salvation Oh cures toothache and earache.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-13
Arson Has Stage Fright.

SYRACUSE. N. Y. November 13.-Capt
Adrian Arson of the Chicago base ball
club became an actor last evening Hoyt
& Mckee presented him to the public in
Hoyt's new comedy, IA Runaway Colt
Arson had a bad case of stage fright, and
several times missed his lines He was we'll
received, however, and with Mr.. Hoyt was
called before the curtain.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-26
TWO LOST LETTERS.

How Postal OmclaIs ut Times Are Com
PEELED to Use Their wits.
An English merchant was advised by
his agent that check of six hundred
pounds sterling would be sent to him
by the next mail, says Mr.. Baines in
his Forty Years at the Post Office" It
did not come and the merchant at once
made complaint at the post office. The
postman on that route was called in by
the postmaster, and, in answer to ques-
tions, said that the missing packet was
duly received and delivered. He re-
membered it distinctly-its shape, col
or and postmark. AS his habit was he
had roked it under the house door,
with two other letters and newspa-
per. The merchants wife had picked
up three packets and was positive there
had not been fourth.
The postmaster went to the house
and examined it carefully. Then he
looked into the back garden. His eye
lighted on a litter of puppies. A
thought struck him.
"IIave the dog kennel cleared out
please"
Nonsense! Why?"
KINDLY have it clearRd.o
well, if it must be. Thomas, take
out the straw"
On the floor of the kennel, torn into
hundred bits, lay the missing letter
and check. current of air along the
passage had blown the letter about
The puppies, naturally enough, had
pounced upon 1t as splaything and had
had good time.
A merchant complained of the loss of
letter mailed from his Office contain
ing some hundreds of pounds in Bank
of England notes. Finally an expert
from the post office department called
upon him,
believe me, sir" the expert said, 81
have an object in what l ask. VIII
you kindly sit at your desk and recall
each operation connected with the miss
ing letter."
with pleasure. l sit here, take a
sheet of this note paper and one OF
those covers, Then l write my letter
and fold it up so. Next go to my
safe and take out the notes, enter their
numbers, fold them, put them in the
letter and the letter in the cover Then
seal them all up as you see me do"
Just so, and what next?"
why, my clerk comes in and clears
off my desk for the post"
But you wrote this one at noon, and
the post does not go out before night" "
"Oh, yes, of course quite forgot to
say that money-letter, for greater Sc
curity l put in a left-hand drawer"
(Which one?"
(Which? Why, this one. I open it
SO and bless my soul Goodness me!
am very. very sorry for all the trouble
I've given. Here is the letterl"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-26
MULTUM IN PARVO.

ISLANDER is the solace of malignity.
-Joubert.
By searching the old learn the new
Japanese.
No LEGACY is so rich as honesty
Shakespeare.
THE sea drinks the air and the sun
the sea. .-Anacreon.
The truest self-rcspecti is not to think
of self.-Beecher.
UNREASONABLE haste is the direct
road to error.-Moliere.
DEAR weeps but once; cheap always
weeps.-Hindoo.
HABIT is too arbitrary master for
my liking
SIN is basilisll whose eyes are full
of venom.-Quarlcs.
SOFT is the music that would char
forever Wordsworth.
MosT powerful is he who has himself
in his own power.-Seneca.
WHEN the heart speaks glory itself is
an illusion.-Napoleon.
THERE is even ahappiness that makes
the heart afraid.-IIood.
He that hath not a smiling face
should not open shop.-Chinese.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-26
FREELAND, SEPTEMBER 20, 1Sa


Miss Tucker, a school teacher at En-
celsior, Coal tow. ship, Schuylllill coun-
ty, has been arrested ON warrant
sworn out by StaniSlaus General, Of that
place, whose two children were sent
home from school. As scarlet fever is
prevalent in that vicinity the board of
health issued orders to all teachers to
keep sharp lookout and send all chill
dren home in whose families they had
reason to believe there was any sickness.
Miss Taylor heard that scarlet fever eX-
listed in Generals house, and she sent
his two children home. Their father
Immediately sent for physician and
had him search the premises and eX-
anime all members of his family. He
secured the physicians certificate stat
ing that his home was free from the con
tagiOn and then sent the bill for medical
services to the teacher for payment.
Miss Tucker refused to pay the bill and
General had her arrested. The hearing
has not yet been held, but the school
teachers are awaiting its result with un-
usual interest,
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-26

wrong, and that Sullivan was rejoicing
IN his lapse from virtue. 10 maintain
his dignity he considered it necessary
the McGhoeghans were people to be
respected, SO he says:
"Me names Mowreechv."
"That's another fool idee yer wife's
made ye swally. Morris was good
enough for ye when ye was bye, but
when ye got married yer wife must go
changin' yer name. But yer Morris
for all that"
"Me names Mowreechy, and II We
go fer to call me out av it, or say me
wife's name ag'in, I'll bate ye wild that
mug"
Sullivan leered at him derisively.
Yer names Morris McGheoghan,
and yer wifes fannel-mouthed chaw
like yerself."
The impact of beer glass over Sulli-
vans left eye caused him to measure
his length upon the floor. The shock
reused him. however, and in n moment
the two were fighting like cats. The
crash of overturned tables and chairs
and of breaking glass would have caught
the attention of the patrol had that in
dividual not been doing in the next
block. 1t would have awakened Mrs.
Sullivan had she not been at that par
ticular time half asphyxiated in her
sleep by a smoking mantel-spread
which had fallen over the lamp left
burning for her husband.
The fire had smouldered for half an
hour and the room was filed with
smoke, when spark fell on the table
and ignited bit Of paper. In an in
slant the room was In blaze. A burn
ing curtain caught the eye of a late
traveller, who turned in an alarm. The
hook-and-ladder truck dashed up to
the place, and a fireman snatched the
stupefed woman out of burning bed
but he did not notice the adjacent al
cove where little four-year-old Kitty
Sullivan lay dreaming.
When Maurice McGheoghan was
showed away from his antagonist he
thought Jimmy's friends, had come to
take part in the scrimmage. But the
fremen's uniform and Sullivan's de-
spairing cry of: "My God! where's
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-26
STATISTICAL PICK-UPS.

RECENT surveys show that one-sixth
of the state of Oregon, something over
100000 acres, is covered with dense
forests.
SOUTHERN CALIFoRNIA's orange crop
this season has brought to the growers
about S1,S50,0 900. Bartlett pears are
now selling at S25 a ton.
TIE apricot crop in California is com
paratively short this season. Pomona
county will produce only about 750 tons,
as against $500 tons last year.
ACCORDING to the tenth census, out
of population of so, 900, 900 over II ,000,-
600 were breadwinners, being percent
age of 34.S of the whole.
EAST LONDON has to get along with
25 gallons of water per day a head,
where Hamburg has 33, Toronto n,
New York 100, Chicago 110 and Wash
ington 1876.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-26
Spurs for Gamecocks.

Steel heels or spurs fop fighting
cocks to take the place of the natural
spur are made in twenty or more va
rieties in shape and length; they are
sold all over the world. In the United
States spurs of different styles are
used in different parts of the country;
longer spurs are used in the south than
in the east and north. The shortest
spurs are used in New York. The
standard length here is one and one
quarter inches; in all other parts of
the country the length is advanced.
good set of steel heels costs ten dol
lars. The spur projects from one side
of ferrule or socket, which is like an
open thimble; leather band is at
tached to the base of the ferrule. The
natural spur is sawed off, and when
the steel spur is used the ferrule is
placed over the stump and the leather
band is wound round the cocks leg
and bound with twine; a pad or
cushion is placed within the rim of the
ferrule to make it fit the stump of the
natural spur snugly and firmly. 1t is
said that if well-bred gamecock,
which had been without food until it
was nearly starved, should then be
placed in the presence of another
gamecock and of food, it would fight
before it would eat; in other words,
that it would rather fight than eat
n. Y. Sun.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-26

business to do so, but even his speech
grew thick and he spilled his stock as
he served the two or three late Gus
toners that came in before he and Nc
Ghcoghan were left to themselves.
Long after the usual time of closing,
Sullivan's wife, who lived over the sa-
loon, looked timidly in through the
back door and asked Jimmy when he
was coming home.
"Git to - out O. here wild ye, and
mind yer own business" was his an
swer. That's the way talk till my
wife, Morris" he said. You'd be bet
ther off if you'd give yer own taste
av the same when she's deludherin ye
wild her hifalutin idees"
McGheoghan recalled the time when
he had known Mrs. Sullivan as pretty
Kitty Lafferty, and the barkceper's S
manner Jared the pleasant rccollec-
ton; he did not like to see his old
tlame treated like that. lie did not
relish free advice, either; and when
Sullivan spoke slightingly of Mrs. Nc
Ghoeghan it rolled him. Things were
rather hazy just then, but the notion
crept into his head that he was doing
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-26

Kitty?" reused an idea in his head
The McGheohans of Galway had noble
blood in their veins, and never desert
ed female in distress
The firemen were busy saving Sulli
vans stock. They did not heed the un-
couth figure, with bloody face and
torn clothes, reeling through the back
door and up the narrow stairs,
Through stiting smoke and in water
and flame he CROPPED his way, while
Sullivan was out on the street lSneel-
ing beside his wife, sprinl1ling her face
and chatting her wrists.
She opened her eyes and gasped:
kitty" Sullivan had thought that of
course the child was saved with its
mother, but now the fear struck him
that this was not So He ran from one
to another of the bystanders, frantic in
his search, but no one had seen the
little girl. AS in desperation he turned
to the burning rool1ery, window
crashed out, and burst of flame lighted
his road 10 the little stairway. He
sprang toward it and nearly overturned
a staggering, ragged, blackened and
begrimed man carrying in his arms a
bundle of bedclothes, from out of
which voice called to Jimmy:
'Papa!"
He threw both arms round the pair,
and two 'soiled and bruised faces met
in an Irish embrace.
"Mowreechy," he cried, "God bliss
ye"-Lippincott's Magazine.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-26
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

TIE water in she ocean is said to
contain thousands of tons of gold, but
no practical way has yet been devised
to extract it.
EXPERIMENTS to find whether argon
can be obtained from vegetable or ani-
NAL tissue have resulted negatively, the
quantity of the new gas obtained in
this way not being appreciable.
PROF. EMERY Il. SMITH, of California,
has succeeded by experiments in cross
fertilization in producing an entirely
new violet highly scented ana of great
beauty. In SIZE the flower covers an
American silver dollar. It's color is a
clear violet purple, which does not
fade. The fragrance is very power
full.
Liquors may be aged artificially by
gradually cooling them, in the case of
brandy, down to two hundred degrees
centigrade below zero and then gradu-
ally bringing them up again to the
normal temperature. The frigoric lab
oratory in which the new discovery Is
to be applied will shortly be esta blished
in Paris.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-26

ky with Jimmy Sullivan, and he used
to drop into Jimmy's every evening"
Just to wash the dust from his t'roat," "
as he phrased it. The washing process
had developed into such proportions
that McGheoghan's wife said he might
as well ''dhrown himself and be done
wild IT." Then she applied what she
called the ''wather cure" and Nc.
Gheoghan reformed. Mrs. McGheo.
CHAN had such faith in the reforma-
ton that she had taken the baby and
gone for three days to her cousins, the
OFlannigans, in Saucelito; and the
only admonition she had given her
husband was the parting injunction:
Mind yer eye, now, Maurice"
McGheoghan had not been particu.
larly proud of his descent from the Nc.
Gheoghans, of Galway, but his young
wife continually dinned it into him that
they were "a fine ould family" and
that he ought not to disgrace them by
associating with people beneath him.
1t was bad enough to be poor, she said,
without mixing with the common herd.
AS distinguishing mark, she always
gave an italian pronunciation to her
husbands name, Maurice, and insisted
upon his doing the same. Mrs. Nc
Gheoghan had learned italian in her
youth among the fishermen of North
Beach. Maurice did not take his
only his love for her that made him
endure it. Out of her sight he liked to
be one of the boys, and in sly ridicule
OF her aristocratic pretensions spoke OF
himself as n 'humin illevator"-he
elevated bricks by the hodful up n
ladder.
When McGheoghan pushed quietly
through the screen doors, slipped un-
obtrusively past the crowd at the bar,
sat down at the last table, and began
looking at the prints in the Irish News,
Jimmy Sullivan knew something was
in the wind; for had not the O'Rourkes
told his wife that Mrs McGheoghan
had forbidden her husband to have
anything to do with that "low-down
shaloon-keeper, Jimmy Sullivan?"
"Whatll yez have, me bye?" called
Jimmy, as the last man drew one of the
three towels hanging before the bar
across his dripping mustache and
swung himself out into the street.
Faith, but it's a long time since
I've had the good luck to grip yer fist,
man. Here's the crane O the sason till
yc."
If the thought of his wife came to
the hod-carrier a. all, it probably
brought a suggestion to make hay
while the sun shone, for he and Jimmy
filed and empticd glass after glass
while they smoked black cigars and
ehatted over the "ould times" when
they were single. Sullivan kept the
clearer head, for 1t was part of his
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-26
DEGENERATION IN BOSTON.


Notwithstanding the sentiment in
the commonwealth against the demoli-
tion of the state house it will have to
go, writes G.. w. Wilfred Pearce, of
Boston, to the New York Sun. The
drawings of a new building have been
completed, and the work of construction
will begin next March.
The process of disfiguring the public
garden and the common goes merrily
on. The old burying ground on the
common, wherein rested the bones of
many soldiers of the revolution and
Julien, the inventor of julien soup,
has been vandaiized by the promoters
OF that queer conception, the subway,
In which electric cars running south
and west are to go.
Within short time the common will
be grabbed by politicians and real es-
tate Spectators Flaws have been dis
covered in the title, and, as for ten
years it has been suffered to decay,
Bostonians take little pride in it; the
new parks have given the venerable
common death blow.
Seven peanut and balloon peddlers
and two astronomers who used to cater
to the wants of Bostonians have shut
up shop, owing to the decay of trade on
that famous ground. Even wcll-bred
Boston dogs consider it bad form to
battle in the frog pond where the foun-
tain squirts only on Sunday. The good
old man who for many years has served
the city on Flagstaff hill told me, with
tearJ in his eyes, that the 'Ohld com
mon is going to the divll entirely"
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-09-26
Weiss Beer Not Intoxicating.

The Northampton county grand jury
has decided that weiss beer is not in
toXicating. The jury asked Judge Scott
in court whether it was II violation of
the law to sell it without a license
and on Sunday. After being told it was
a matter of fact, not a question of law,
the jury returned and asked witnesses
whether weiss beer drinking would in
toXicate. They inquired patiently of
weiss beer drinkers and finally decided
that it was a soft drink" and would
not intoNicate. One witness told the
jury that he usually drank weiss beer to
sober up on, and invariably found it
had the desired effect.