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The Princeton union., 1895-06-13
PRINCETON JUNE 49, 1895
Expected Twins.

yer since some wag put afloat
tha story that the president had
given present of money to the
patents of twins or triplets the
White House mail has been filled
with letters Of application on that
scdre, and it is estimated that $1O,-
o01 q day might be disbursed there
at fhe rate of $500 to each appli-
cart. A sample of the kind of let
teA that comes in the mail to the
president is the following, which
wds sent by man in Texas:
Mi President Cleveland:
HEAR S1R-I see you are giving $500
forItWins. Please send me S1O0 right
away, for [ am going to get married
this week to a girl that is twin. 1
cone from twin-getting stock, so you
will see that there is no risk to be run,
and when my wife has twins I will
dra wv on you for the balance. I need
the money to start housekeeping with.
| am in good health and so is the girl
amIgoing to marry. I have always
bed IN a Democrat. I voted for you the
first time and will vote for you again
and name the twins after you. Don't
disappoint me, for may have to get
married sooner.
In another case a woman writes
that5she has failed, after waiting a
year, to get that $500 that the
president is said to give to the pa
rents of triplets, and now she is
vii ling to compromise on the basis
of the money for the first pair of
pants for her little Cleveland. The
clerks at the White House do not
permit any of these effusions to
reach the president, and they are
not even dignifed with an answer
now that they have become so nu-
merous and annoying, for Of course
there is not a word of truth in the
story that the president has ever
bestowed such bounties. CSmciaa,
c51aaaoti E'1Qe1irer.
The Princeton union., 1895-06-13
RAMS Horn Blasts.

Strike at the face of any kind of
a sin, and you will soon hear vi
pers hiss.
It is hard to convince bilious
man the world is growing better.
When the devil goes to church
he doesn't always occupy a back
seat.
Hiring out the preachers wife is
the way some parishes have of
paying their pastor.
The man who gets rich at the
expense of his conscience, pays too
much for his money.
When a man feels the need of
economy he is apt to think it
should begin with his wife. -
Strike at the briar-covered
stronghold of any sin, and you will
hear a kissing under it.
Our mistakes will always tell us
something for our good if we will
but heed the lesson.
The Princeton union., 1895-06-13
Let Us Celebrate as of YOre.

The Fourth Of July this year
ought to be a robust breaking out
of real Yankee Doodleism. Let
US for once in our lives cast off the
artificial trammels of foreign modes
and be ourselves. Let us hear
once more the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, and let us indulge those
emotions that have not been dried
up by the fashion Of forgetting
we ever adopted that powerful
statement of a nations rights and
a peoples grievances. Let US
once more fill our children with
the heroic thoughts without which
we should have today no Fourth of
July to celebrate. Chicago Her.
aid.
The Princeton union., 1895-06-13
Fourth Of july OratOry.

Very common indeed is the loud
voiced, self confident orator who is
generally put on as the special at
traction of the occasion. He is a
"drawing card," and he knows it..
He has been sent for from dis
tance, his expenses have been paid,
ndsquite possibly also the execu-
tive committee have made it to his
interest to come. He comes on
the grounds in carriage, escorted
by the members of the committee
and preceded by the band, which,
in order to do honor to his arrival,
performs with a power compared
to which it's previous and subse-
quent exploits during the day are
mere tri1es. He is conscious that
all eyes are upon him; he notes
with satisfaction from his central
seat on the platform that as the
hour for his address approaches
the people on the grounds gather
up to the grand stand in anticipa-
ton; that those who are close get
closer, and those who, are farthest
away hurry lest they be too late.
He is used to being admired and
sees with satisfaction, while pre-
tending to notice nothing, the
fingers pointed at him and hears
the whispered exclamations con-
cerning himself. But he is thor
oughly at his ease, and from his
first below, '<Fel-l-o-o-w citizensp:
to the thundrous conclusion, in
which he carries the crowd by
storm, he is thoroughly at home
with himself and his speech. HI
ought to be. He has higher
opinion of the former than any liv.
ing man, and he has repeated the
latter so often that to him it has
become as easy as an old SHOE
st. Louis Gzo6e-Denaocrat.
The Princeton union., 1895-06-13
Drain the Roads.

There is but one way to get any
thing worth having, and that is
the right acay, and until the peo-
pie are willing to adopt some plan
whereby the whole length of a
road can be worked in harmony
with the laws of nature as applied
to proper drainage and moving
loads we shall be obliged to wallow
through mud and sand, while ex-
pending money enough each year
to have our way in a great deal
better condition.
The Princeton union., 1895-06-13
Not a Monkey Ranch.

S. E. Biddle, of Hanford, was
out riding recently when, several
miles out OF. town, a nut$came off
the running gear of the buggy,
and it was necessary to halt for re-
pairs. A Portuguese came along,
and Mr.. B. hailed him and asked
him if he had a monkey wrench.
At this the man accosted roared
back:
"What for you insulta me? I
no keep monkey ranch. I keepa
de sheep ranch. '-Ha'eto1'd Jour-
nal.
The Princeton union., 1895-06-13
Wouldn't Do 1t.

There is one member of con-
gress whose wife owns an intelli-
gent parrot, which she brought
from Mexico and whose talking
talents she has developed with
great assiduity and no little sue
cess, says the Washington Post.
Of course Jones-that's not his
name and the nom de guerre
stands merely for convenience
sake as the true name Of the con-
gresham referred to-Jones was
a candidate for reelection in No
vember, and foreseeing his
triumphant vindication at the
polls, the affectionate Mrs. Jones
specially trained her parrot to
shout "Hurrah!' till the windows
ratified whenever Jones' name was
mentioned in his presence.
On the evening of the election
she arranged to have the bird hung
in the reception room, where her
husband was going to receive his
friends and also the returns.
With fond expectancy she looked
for the news to come that her hus-
band had been elected by a stun
ming majority and the parrot
shouting in the wild frenzy of his
boundless glee: ''Hurrah for
Jones!''
Alas, that the best laid plans of
men and mice gang aft aglee!
When the fateful moment came
distressed messenger, with
flushed face and disheveled hair,
burst into the sitting room with
the announcements:
"You're beaten, Jones!''
1t was the parrots cue and he
hadn't forgotten his careful train
ing. za...
SsHurrah for yones!'' shouted
the green imp on his perch and
everybody in the room stood
The Princeton union., 1895-06-13

The Lost Art Of Letter Writing.
Every one knows, of course, that
the actual number Of letters pass
ing through the mails of every
civilized country is greater, rather
than less year by year. But every
one also feels that these letters are
no longer letters, in the true sense,
at all. They are amplifed tele-
grams, bald and bare statements of
fact, and they have the loose and
disjointed and careless phraseol-
ogy of the telegraphic message.
That sense of the fit expression,
the gracefu ul concept, that feeling
for the lucid and connected expo
sition of ideas, for the balance of
the parts of a letter, for it's COM
position, in short-the very term
is pre-Adamite to the end of the
century ear-that used to pre-
occupy the best letter writer's of
another generation, have gone
from rresent-day scribblers of
hasty notes, as though such musty
things had never been. The only
people who ''compose" their let
ters now, are cultivated old ladies.
Their college-bred granddaughters,
Intellectually armed and profess
sionally equipped, exhibit produce
tions in that line of which, for the
most part, it might be said, as
Henry James remarked of the
notes of invitation of the London
society woman, that they have
nothing in common with the epis-
tolary art except the postage
stamp.
1t may be held that such an ac-
complishment is not, after all, of
the greatest value. But behind it
there is an instinct, deep-seated in
the race, that widespread habit
of careless writing affects very di-
rectly the thinking of people.
And this one cannot but believe to
be the case. 1t takes no intellect
oput plain facts into honest, self
respecting phrases. But it takes
self-restraint and attentiveness,
and these lead in time to a disci
plined and coherent way of look
ing at life. H.. ".
The Princeton union., 1895-06-13

Shrieking for sound money is begging
the question. And when one begs the
question he displays his poverty of ar
gument.-D Duluth Commonwealth.
The Washington times., 1895-04-28

addicted to soliloquy. true golfer never,
by any chance. talksto any one but himself
hiscaddy OF his hall-mOStly to himself. The
comp preheDsiye and forceful language that he
indulgesin on befooZliDg and othermaladroit
occasions contrasts oddly with his euthusias-
tic expressions when success crowns his
efforts. He must not be taken too seriously
in either case-the epigrammatic feature of
golf is one of its most enjoyable points.
Thelinks OF the Washington club are said
by those who process 10 deposited on things
polite to be the finest in the land, though
it may be that the same distinction is
claimed brother grounds by those who play
upon them.
One of the eXcellepcies claimed for the
home grounds is that the genial climate OF
the District permits the playing of the
game from the time that its deyotees come
hither from he seashore and the mountains
till they HE away again.
The course is one OF nine holes extending
over undulating ground and is two miles in
circuit. With fairly accurate playing that
means a tramp OF two and a half miles for
eacn game. a duffer can increase the dis
tance Indefinitely. There are some capi-
tai hazards of natures own creating. From
the fourth To the fifth hole the distance is
600 yards, with an intervening wooded
ravine through which runs a babb!ing
brook The little brook could tell some
interesting tales il it but babbled in golf
the game has n dialect all it's own-but it
is a very discreet stream and just runs on
about its own business, leaving the golfers
TO make inyidious remarks at their pleasure.
That hazard of itself is sufficient to make
the reputation of player who escapes
it. Two hundIhd and fifty yards
is the shortest distance between any of the
The Washington times., 1895-04-28
REFERRED TO FEDERATION
Building Trades Council Unable ia Dc
eide ChiIdts Mnnsin, 1.n.n

bulidlhg Trades Council Unable to De
eide Childs Mansion Case.
Report was made to the Building Trades
Council by the committee, at the meeting
held on the 23d instant, of the progress of
inc investigation or the contract work on
thee ehilds mansion onK street.
1t was shown that an effort was made to
obtain an interview with Mrs. Childs. which
was ineffeGtuail,, a letter having been re-
ceiyed FROM her private secretary stating
that she decItre ftosee thecomndttee. Mrs
Chllds also stated that she had nothing
Whatever TO 90 with regulating tn. employ
ment or wdfkffien on her house, and had
boen iDfornied by MIR Lowrie thatfe now
psying the wages demanded.
ictter was also read IRON" / hff. To5,Wy5irie
IN which he also declared that Mrs CaiIds
mad nothing 10 do with the construction of
ihe building; that he, hasrtGle g 1eontras.tr TO
erect the building for a certain amount: that
he d as advallcedithe wares, OF the men from
S2Io TO $500 per day for nine hoIrs, and
mat committee could see him a his office
No. 1877 K.street northwest.
Since the rcoaRcil had been assured that
TIE work on The mansion should b etiope
uhuer tie uDiqR auspices, Which was all
they asked for, and as Superintendent
LowrIe is declared to be violailna inc law
VI tAe IIsiTlcl Dy working overt ime the
case as referred by the Carpenters Council
was again referred by vote OF the BaiIding
Trades Council to the Federation OF Labor,
ana the official reporter was directed 10
publish statement OF the matter in The
Times.
The one card system was reported. but
action deferred until the next meeting. TO
give time for report by jthe delegates to
their several unions
The committee on bylaws was instructed
to report ut the next meeting aud TO have
rwb tiindred copies printed
Ihe case OF The Boston Variety Store was
reported, and great dissatisfaction ex-
pressed. The matter was laid over until
next meeting.
The carpenters reported that they are
handicapped by the fact that SO many
unskilled workmen are employed by CON
tractors who prefer that class of worI,men
at S1.50 per day.
Brieklayers reported success in keeping up.
their unions, while the painters made a
showing of good condition with additions
10 the membership at each meeting.
President O'Brian occupied the chair
The Washington times., 1895-04-28
INDExING MADE EASY.

How ShreNvd New Yorker Got a Greae
Deal OF work Done.
Mr.. H. Darlington Bolton, of New York,
told, at the meeting OF the Washington
Library Association Tuesday night, an
Interesting story OF how lie got a heavy Job
OF indexing DONE 1t is what he called,
for lack of a better name, ''the ice cream
method" He had his titles or entries
all ready to be written on the cards where
they belonged There were about 5000
of them.
He sent oft invitations to a number or
young friends 10 meet in social way az
his home. During the evening a little
literary employment of a light character
would be given each one. Ii was a sort OF
literary quilting bee. Each one of the
fifteen yoang friends who came in was
furnished with five or SIX cards.
When Mt Bolton would read an entry
that belonged on a given card the holder
or that card must write the entry in it's
proper place. 1t was arranged that the
person who was most proficient should
have prize.
There was also a second prize and
BOBBY" prize. During the evening re-
fIeShments were served, and there
We're short intervals devoted to general
conversation. While the reading and writ
ing Of entries was in progress all Were too
intent on winning the prize to talk much.
When his guests had taken their leave
Dr. Bolton found that he had got over a
thousand entrie made. With two or
three repetE ions of this entertainment
he had his Whole list properly placed,
work that would have taken one person
Orking alone nearly a month.
The Washington times., 1895-04-28
The result OF both the first and second

The much talked-of team match between
from ten to fifteen of the leading chess
players of the Capital Bicycle Club against
the same number of the Washington Chess
Club, Will begin at = O'Clock p. m. May
i, at No. 6l2 Twelfth street northwest,
This will be one of the leading events in
chess circles for this spring, as the boss
players of the District will be pitted
against each other.
Arrangements have been made for a
series Of consultation games in the early
future. each table to contain three players.
All chess players in the District are iu-
vited to participate i'll this very instruc-
tive line of play.
The prizes awarded to the three leading
players in the Minor chess tournament
have been delivered. Messrs. w. R. Pat
terson and w. B. Mundelle each received
an expensive set of chess men. Mr.. j. w.
Smith, who won third prize, was given a
valuable book on chess.
The checker tournament has drawn to
close, MIR. Mundelle winning in very close
and exciting finish. Mr.. McHardie was
only few points behind, with Mr.. Ward,
who held third place, q very dangerous
and menacing rival to both the leaders.
Mr.. Mundelle is TO be congratulated, not
only for winning the tournament, but for the
line score he m ade, losing but eight games,
winning forty-one and drawing eleven.
Mr.. Farquhar, the youngest member of
the club, who holds fourth place in the
race, is to be complmented also on his fine
showing. He bids fair to become one of the
finest players in the District
The other players in the contest, Messrs
Reed, Wendell and Fitch, are making rapid
strides in the science, having played a
good strong game all through the contest
The summary of the tournament is given
in the following table:
The Washington times., 1895-04-28
PROUD OF THEIR RECORD
Local Chess PLAYERS Put Up Fine
Game with Expert Mr.. Lee.
Progress of Libbey Cup Tourney and the
Results in Other Contests-Prizss
Awarded Champions.

The Washington Chess Club feels very
much elated over the showing made against
Mr.. j. T. Lee, the English chess expert,
who has been travelling through thiscountry
exhibiting his skill before the leading CHESS
clubs of the principal cities. The score
in the simultaneous match Of Saturday,
April 20, with fifteen players participating,
Mr.. Lee made the following score: Won,
eight, lost four, drawn three.
Mr. Lee stated that of all the clubs be had
visited in this country, the Washington
Chess Club made the best showing in fact
recording the best score ever made against
him in simultaneous play.
He met the club in another simultaneous
contest on Monday, with nine players
against hira, winning eight games and
losing one.
EIr. Lee expressed himself as much pleased
with The treatment he received at the hands
Of the Washington club. -, IS
The contest in the second round of the
Libbey cup tourney Is progressing slowly.
Each competitor plays with great ielibera-
ton. Not enough games have been played
rs yet III this round TO form any idea of
what the result VIII lie.
The result of the play in the second round
to date is given i'll the following table: ,....
WON. DRAWN. LOST.
The Washington times., 1895-04-28

tonians who really know how to play
golf
Among the best players is Mr.. Charles
Barry of the governing committee, who
learned his game on the links of his
English home, and is a golfer of the first
order. He Is well matched by Mr.. Curtis,
the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
who Is the captain of the green and most
enthusiastic golfer Admiral Franklin,
having retired from active service in the
United States Navy, has taken up golf
with the ardor OF midshipman. Nearly
all of the younger men of the legations are
members of the club, and are frequent
visitors to the links.
The members list includes the names
OF all of Washingtons -Four Hundred, :"
which, by the way, falls far short OF the
number. Edward F. Riggs, a. c. Barney,
Franklin Bartlett, New Hork's ''patri-
arch" Representative in Congress; Pierre
Botkine, secretary of the Russian lega-
ton; Senator aid Mrs Brice. John Lee Car
roll, Al. Covarru bias, secretary of the
Mexican legation; Comptroller Eckels, of
the Treasury; Assistant Secretary Ham
lin, of the Treasury; Sir Julian Paunce-
fote, British am bassador; Mr.. Spring
Rice. OF the British embassy; Count Re
ventIow, of the Danish legation; Senator
Wolcott, Mr.. Slack, Washingtou's Beau
Brumniel; Mr.. S. S. HowIand, aud John
Van Ness Philip, whose name belongs to
Washington's Garlic st history, are all
members, and many of them very excellent
players. The membership is limited to
one hundred, and that number is nearly
reached.
With such a membership it goes without
saying that the social history of the club
The Washington times., 1895-04-28
Wflere They Play Golf
HGr0Ss fh8 Potomac.
Washington's Fashionable r Thoroughly Addicted
to the English Game-Prominent People Who
Follow the Ball With Their Caddes.

The Four Hundred of Washington, ad-
dicted to all the wbims and oddities
dictated by happy fancy, is infected with a
frenzy for golf, and the Washington Golf
Club embraces in the charmed circle of its
membership close to one hundred peonle
who, nursed from silver spoons and clad in
purple and fine linen can, by the grace of
Fortune, dream away the years in idle.
fascinating sport.
The headquarters of the club is at the
old Hoover Place, Mort Myer Heights,
where legends and traditions invite ro-
nance and where the only blomishes ON the
invironing scenery are the acres of inferno
ruled by Pluto Jones OF the outlaw track
and peopled with the imps OF RossIyn and
the fiends of Jackson City.
But for this impairment in their sur
roundings, the Washington golfers would
be blissfuiiy situated, though despite this
drawback, they play their .caddies" and
their ball with vim.
Wasnington's select is chained captive
by the silken fetters of alluring golf. He
or she who plays ii is not esteemed deficient
in polite training. He or she who fails TO
tread the field OF golf cannot hope to tramp
the gilded halls OF swelldom nor TO trip
the toe DER the greased precincts of the
jolly German. In order to be strictly ''iu
it, forget Horace, God, home and your
native land and take to golf To be dif-
ficient in the lingo OF the game is to be mute
in celect society.
GOLF MANIACS.
The mania OF golf has a grip on its
maniacs which no reason can dethrone.
Asia other manias, the golf victim is much
The Washington times., 1895-04-28
STEELE TO BE LOCKED UP.
Refused to Obey the Courts Order 10 Pa,
His Wife AIimony.

Hefused 10 Obey the Courts Order TO PAY
His Wife AIimony.
Judge Cox yesterday made an order
for the commitment TO the marshal's Gus.
tody of Rush c. Steele, a machinest of
the dispatch boat Dolphin.
Mr. Steele formerly lived at No. 1924
Sixth street northwest. While there he
treated his wife so cruelty that she had
to leave him. She entered suit for divorce.
but he left the city with his ship, and
nothing was done in the divorce pro-
ceedings.
About two months ago Steele returned /.
and, going to his wife's residence, bea
her TIL she was compelled to take refuge
with friends. For several days She hid
In order to escape him, and finally took
legal steps to restrain him.
AT The same time she secured an order for
the payment OF $50 a month alimouy
Steele failed to pay this and when called
upon TO show cause for this he filed a
paper stating that his pay was only $40
month, and he had several children by a
former wife to take care Of
Judge Hagner, nevertheless, on April
ordered that he should pay or give reason.
He has failed to do either.
Judge Cox's order for commitment was
secured late yesterday afternoon and at
p. m. had not reached the marshal's Of
flee. At midnight no word of Mr.. Steeles
being taken into custody had reached the
JAM He viii probably be taken to-day.
The Washington times., 1895-04-28
PROVIDED WITH A MuFFLER.
Nelson and CoInpany's Effort TO Keen an
ice Machine From Humping.

Nelson and CoInpany's Effort to Keep an
ice Machine From Humping.
Nelson & Co. ice machine, at No. 629 E
street northwest, was still in operation
last evening, and the occupants of the
boarding house at No 628 Pennsylvania
avenue, whose rest and comfort are de-
clared to be disturbed by the noise of the
engine, assert that there is no abatement Of
the nuisance.
Mrs. Jasper informed the reporter that
her sick daughter was so much annoyed by
the humping of the machine that it was
necessary TO remove her to room remote
from the rear of the dwelling to secure re-
lief. This was done by the advice of a
physician
Inquiry at the office of the firm yester-
day elected the fact that the machine had
been supplied with a ''muffler," and that
the noise was thereby reduced TO a degree
that rendered it unobjectionable, but this
Mrs. Jasper said, had not to any extent
abated the nuisance, and in proof of her
statement she invited the reporter to
await the starting of the machinery, then
temporarily at rest.
1t viii be remembered that upon the
strength of the complaint filed at the Dis
trict Building, as noted in The Times of
Friday, the firm was notified to discon-
unue the operation of the machinery, no per-
nit having been obtained Aerefor.