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Evening star., 1896-10-24
LAID UP FoR REPAIRS,
Cutting on Corners Spoiled the Tres
DHssers and the Man Himself,

|uulnS Om Corners Spoiled the Tres
passers and the Man Himself.
From the Detroit Free Press
Its funny" said the man who was fill
ing two seats in car. while woman with
BABY in her arms stood, but 1 have no.
tcea that people who set out to do dis
agreeable thing usually get their comeup-
pance In the same way. Now, there's my
neighbor, Jorkins; his lawn has a corner
that has been worn smooth by the public
Tor years. and what did Jorkins go and do
but cut 1t off without moments warning"
We'll who had better right?"
Il know that but 1t was the way he did
it. He Just put up. an invisible wire fence,
and a man who was running for a car,
and had taken that corner all his life.
would be knocked SHY, Children and dogs
we're piled up prethiscHpusly, and the wire
fence was never fazed.ai
But the biggesf fuH was with bicycle
riders. They had been,tn the habit of rid
ing on the sideMalk on this particular
street. and as they couldn't see that measly
fence, they went full tiff across the corner
and Just lay over fhe grass as if a cyclone
mad struck EN-. But they had their re-
venge. Jorkins Is LAID up in arniea and
mustard and won't bei9ut for MONTH"
"Retribnton naonsnf 81 cane a5m home late
night ON his bicycle. forgot all about that
wire fence, and cut acEoss the corner in a
hurry They saved PIECES of him, but the
bicycle Is total wreck"
Al that moment the woman and baby sat
ooWn suddenly on the ,Hlan who was talk
ing, and his eloqBencay was totally extin-
guSheo oy the boomerang OF fate.
Evening star., 1896-10-24

Above is the picture Of another Of the thousand
Of well known citizens whom Paine's cele-y COM
Icund has made we'll
Chief Post Office Inspector VI. ID. Wheeler Of
Washington ID. c., writing to the proprietors Of
this most wonderful of curatives says:
Il have used Paine's celery compound with mark
ed improvement in health. At the time l COM
menced using IT I was very much down from
orerwOrk and was advised by a friend try IL. |
began almost Immediately to improve and after
taking three bottles felt Well enough discontinue
Its ase, and have been permanently benefited. /
heartily recommend ii to ;he public
Mr.. Wheeler has found out what every should
learn-that putting heart and soul In ones business
no longer means sticking to the desk counter
werk room till the head grows dizzy. the back
aches and neuralgia twiDges shoot through the
frame.
They are the shOrtsighted men and women who
put up with this state OF things when the risk Is
so great and the remedy easily within their
reach. As weakness, Nervousness, languor and
sleepessness clearly the result of low nervous
nutrition, permanent relief will from rap
idly building up the wasted tissues. Paine's
celery compound is the best calculated for
this end.
Paine's celery compound purfes and reinforces
Evening star., 1896-10-24

merchant, and the concierge's daughter
haStens to her friend who works at the
hair dressers; dense crowd collects In the
street, traffic is suspended. people knock off
work and everybody shouts and cheers,
The Durands are taking BATH
The Durands are taking a bath. The
father plunges first in the pellucid flood,
then madame then Gugusse then Marie
and Estelle. 4 recent lawsuit drew the veil
from more intimate detail of this life of
the wandering tub. 1t was a servant girl
who would not stay yet asked for her
months pay. Madame" she said in her
deposition, forced me to go into the bath
tub after all the others. The water was
very dirty, but 1 went in, knowing my
duty. But when madame commanded that
the dog should also take precedence of me,
/ revolted. Madame struck me and
struck madame, and want my wages"
Getting Use to 1t.
The truth is that the French are becom-
later in the century than the English and
Americans. SO much so that Balzac some
fifty years ago. could write in good faith
that for women cleanliness Is the COM
mencement of all wickedness. The Spanish
and Italians are frankly not yet in the
movement, and the Spaniards have a pro-
verb that the healthy man does not touch
water to his skin in forty years. The Latin
peoples all have the idea that frequent
changing of the underclothing answers all
the purposes of washing
Their houses have no bath tubs built into
them. You ought to see the regulation cabi-
net de toilette of the regulation Paris fiat
1t Is tiny closet. badly lighted, Uttered up
with clothing, boxes, packages on every
shelf and shoes and slippers scattered on
the floor. 1t has a tiny stand to hold a
wsshbowl and a pitcher, and towel hangs
at its side The bath of Svengali, who was
content to wet his towel and wipe the dark
spots from his face and hands, is still In
practice. and that divin parfum fauve
which the decadent poets sing so raptur-
ously is In the reach Of all who come to
Paris.
1t Is serious question for English and
American settlers. In five out of every six
Partisan apartment houses you must either
have your bath brought In or else go out to
take IT. Do not imagine that the Parisians
have any objection to your bathing. They
only neglect the habit in their own case
out of lack of habit. A stranger with the
reputation of taking a tub-French word
each morning is looked on by :he servants,
ton. 1t gives him credit in the nelghbor-
hood. but, on the other hand, he must
pay higher in the local shops for every
thing he purchases He Is chic and S.ernier
cri, and chicness must be paid for.
A Tub "a Necessity.
The present writer. when he lived in an
old house just of the Boulevard, a house
that holds a dozen families and vet has no
bath on any Of its seven floors, thus kent n
costly prestige for years. His tub, which
was great round platter made Of zinc
some three feet in diameter, but very shall
low. with nose or spout which neverthe-
less did not prevent the floor from being
flooded frequently, was inherited by him
from the late Henry Hermann. who in
habited the apartment during the Paris
Evening star., 1896-10-24
Fashionable Corn Huskinx.

New 1Ork Letter.
For several winters the National Society
Of New England Women has been reviving
one old custom from the land of steady
habits, and it is under the auspices of the
members of this organization that the corn
huskings'' will take place. Last winter an
old-fashioned quilting bee'' was given by
the society at the Hotel Majestic, and the
great success Of that affair led the members
to hit upon the idea of Initiating the "husk-
ings'' Of their grandfathers' and grand
mothers time. All of the plans for this
unique entertainment have not yet been
completed, but enough is known to warrant
the statement that the Waldorf "husking
bee" will exhibit a curious admixture Of
the backwoods and the highest refinemen:s
of society.
Evening star., 1896-10-24
An Enterprirfng King.
IN the London Spectator.

From the London Spectator.
King Khaulalonkorn I of Siam, who has
just celebrated his fortythird birthday,
succeeded to the throne when only fifteen
years old October. 1869. He is said to be
a dignfied monarch. and has a thorough
knowledge of the English language. He
was educated by an American, Rev. John
II. Chandler, who was for many years
United States consul at Bankok. He favors
western methods of government, has en-
couraged the construction of very fair roads
in Bangkok, has established telegraphic
connection with Europe and has introduced
the electric light and tramway, with six
miles of line. In 1SD1 he cut the first sod
of a railway which connects Bangkok with
the mouth of the river Mccain.
Evening star., 1896-10-24
Supreme Court on the Value of Gold

Supreme Court on the Value of Gold.
From the New York Evening Post.
In Bronson VS.. Rodes, Wallace, 249, the
Supreme Court, after reviewing the coinage
act, says:
The design of all this minuteness and
strictness in the regulation of coinage is
easily seen. 1t indicates the intention of
the legislature to give a sure guarantee to
the people that the coins made current in
payments contain the precise weight of
gold or silver Of the precise degree of
purity declared by the statute. II recog-
nizes the fact, accepted by all men
throughout the world that value is in
herent in the precious metals: that gold
and silver are in themselves values, and
being such, and being in other respects
best adapted to the purpose. are the only
proper measure of values; that these val
ues are determined by weight and purity.
and that form and impress are simply
certificates of value. worthy Of absolute
reliance only because of the known integ-
rity and good faith of the government
which gives them.
Evening star., 1896-10-24

Henry NJ. Stanley Turning Black.
Berlin Letter.
Henry M. Stanley, the famous African
explorer. is gradually turning black, as the
result of having negro blood transmitted to
his veins as protection against the deadly
malaria while he was travelling in the dark
continent. 1t 10 a well-khewn fact that the
climate Of certain portions Of Africa is ex-
tremely dangerous to foreigners, and, az
Stanley had to pass through the fever
country" he had q skiHful native operator
perform the operation OF transfusing blood
from a negro to his (Staniey's) veins. That
the operation was successful cannot be
doubted, as Stanley Travelled repeatedly
through that district without ever having
the fever. His skin, which was formerly
very fair. has now assumed q dark color
which is thought to be caused by the negro
blood.
Evening star., 1896-10-24

tie of Shiloh spat out its first smoke. and
spread its desolation in the ranks of the
eEemy. Through all the memorable strug
giles of the Army of the Tennessee it went,
and everywhere il gained wel-deserved re-
nown. 1t was prettily mounted, and was
at that time, as il probably is now, a hand
some gun.
Now the old relic is to be sold. The estate
of Henry Badger is being wound up. and
the gun, along with other relics of the con-
federacy. is to fall into the hands of others
Years ago several efforts We're made 10y the
Washington Artillery to buy the gun. and
they will in all probability be heard from
a the sale.
Evening star., 1896-10-24
=. AFRICAN ETLQUETTE.

"A Traveller Tells How to Get Alope
With the Dusky Chiefs.
From the Century. +
In African travel it Is always wise to vis-
1t the biggest chief In any part of the
country. One can always learn from other
chiefs at distance who they are and
something Of their character. In approach
ing them, always send word Of your COM
ing. and get, if possible, Information in ad-
vance of the feeling of the chief toward
whites. Upon nearing the village, send ON
ahead to announce your arrival and wait
until your messenger returns with some of
the villagers to escort you to their chief
Greet the chief civilly, and ash hfnA to send
one of his people to show you a good place
for your tent, If you decide to camp in the
Evening star., 1896-10-24
A French Bath House.

But 1t is a serious inconvenience to go
out. in winters sleet or summers heat
to wait in the fo-lorn ante room of the
establishment. which has musty smell
of cast-oi epidermis. to wait there until a
tub has been vacated and made ready, on
the one hand. while the Seine baths, on
the other, are impossible to all who do not
care to swim in microbes.
The tub bath houses must be looked for
in the side streets. Their interiors are all
alike-the lady cashier at the desk, the
male garcon. who swabs the tub. the
piquante demoiselle, who brings you towels:
the little pent-up room. that reeks with
steam. The cashier takes your money for
the bath alone. Then. separately she sells
You pasteboard cartridges of bathing
powder Do you require a towel? 1t is so
much The girl will bring it.
This bath mixture is kind of perfurned
salts. dissimulated in larger quantity of
powdered soap. The cartridge holds about
a quart, and this YOU empty into the trb
steaming with Seine water. Lining the tub
and falling in pure folds around its outer
edse. there Is sticky linen sheet which
you ought to be careful not to disarrange.
or it will incommode you Its mission is
10 give assurance that the bath is clean
This elegance Of the sheet is almost femi-
nine. thinks the American: and as the per
fumed water scents the chamber with its
steam the senses are intoxicated as with
incense in a temple. All, Paris, But no
1t Is the simplest and most ordinary pre-
SdutlOH III tne WOrl0.
What Is this knocking at the dooro II &,
the garcon rattling his keys. Do you wish
sawdust? Have you need of starcho Do
you wish extra soap? Cologne water? Bay
rum! Or oil. perhaps? Will you have Ia IN
ing alcohol? Or quinine elixir? Shall he
send for cup of coffee? or a glass of
brandy? The garcon also cuts corns.
About the Extras.
Next time 1t Is the piquante demoise,le
who brings the towel or towels and peig-
noir, which Is great bath robe, always
much too large. 1t is always hot with re-
cent ironing, for that Is a part Of all this
luxury. They iron a damp one for YOU,
warm and cozy every time. in order that
you may not suffer from the terrible re-
action of the bath. The piquante demoi-
selle Is used to compliments and tips. Her
raison d'etre is tips. because, of course,
the Sarcon might as well have brought the
towels.
The garcon must be tipped and exc the
maid, and every minute accessory they
force upon you must be paid for extra.
In Paris they can do this, for when oeo-
pie go to take a bath 1t Is with the ex-
pansion and gh-mindedness of some great
act where little prudences would be un-
worthy, and not the ordinary daily habit
or which Horace Valbert, in the preface to
a recent book. has boasted, "Mes ablutions
matinales, old custom of my childhood,
very healthy, very comfortable, very re-
posing, and which 1 recommend 20 all my
contemporaries, without pretense to have
invented anything"
Apart from the lack of habit in which
they have grown up, there is another ex-
cuSe for the poor PariSians which ought to
be remembered when We chide them for not
Evening star., 1896-10-24
Well to Remember.
pers Round Table.

From Hirpers Round Table.
What is good for one Is not always good
for another. This Is illustrated in q short
tale told some time ago about a French
medical student. While in London on
visit the student lodged in the house with
a man very sick with a fever, who was
continually besieged by his nurse to drink
very nauseating liquids which were luke
warm. The sick man found this almost
impossible to do, until one day he whis-
pered to his nurse:
Bring me salt herring, and will drink
as much al you please"
The woman indulged him In his request; !;
he ate the herring, drank the liquids un-
derwent the required perspiration and re-
covered.
The French student. thinking this very
clever, inserted in his journal, ''Salt her
ring cures an Engiishman of fever"
On his return to France he prescribed
the sumo remedy to his flrst patient with
q fever. The patient died. On which he In
serted in his Journal: IN. B.-A salt her
ring cures an Engiishman, but kills q
Frenchman.~
Evening star., 1896-10-24

the concierge. The cause of the disturb
ance is the bath tub.
The men are carrying the bath tub up
stairs, up three flights, or four or five, to
place it in your bed room, dining room or
Earlor. 1t is a large bath tub. They have
brought it in special agon, built to haul
it all around the city. These knights of the
bath employ their lives in Juggling it up
stairs and down wherever it is called for
That tub could tell strange tales! The bath
tub has a hundred dents. where 1t has
knocked against hundred balustradeS
They have brought the bath tub in a
special wagon with boiler for hot water,
which they fetch up boiling. in their buck
cts. when they have installed the tub.
And then they fetch up towels and soap
and baby powder, sawdust. a cologne spray
and a finetooth comb. Nothing is lacking.
And when the bath is finished they will
carry down the tub, the soap, the towels
the fnetooth comb and the cologne spray
and depart to others who have need of
them A crowd collects around the wagon
which is painted red and yellow and dis
tributes handbills-the horses champ their
hts and shake their bells for they have
bells}, and the wife of the pork butcher
runs across to tell the wife of the cheese
Evening star., 1896-10-24
On a still Hunt.

From Judge.
so you have captured the moonshiners."
said the chief to his lieutenant. Good
enough! How did you happen to be so suc-
cessfui?'
We'll, sir, We went on still hunt" re-
piled the lieutenant. who dearly loved a
merry jest.
Evening star., 1896-10-24
An Important Adjunct.

From the Philadelphia North American.
Sadie is all right. but her father don't
like me-
But you're not going to marry the ia
ther."
mot exactly; yet he controls the check
book"
Evening star., 1896-10-24
In Contributing to the Cost of the
Politicaf Campaign.
GIVES IMPARTIALLY TO BOTH PARTIES
Free Postagefor Public Documents
and 'Oaer Aid.
A GOOD ROUND sum

NCLE SAM IS A
liberal contributor to
the campaign fund
this year. Few peo-
pie realize how lib
eral this patriotic
parsonage is in this
matter. His direct
contribution this year
is something over
81, 100000. This Is a
very moderate esti-
mate. The fact that
no accounts are kept
makes 1t impossible
Evening star., 1896-10-24
Water II Also Scarce,

An extra room counts more than it pro-
portionately should. according to the
thoughtless. And again, old Paris houses
have no bath rccms, no more than did
those of our own ancestors. There were
rooms and there were tubs. but special
bath rooms were unknown. In Paris they
have never been put into these old houses.
Water also is fairly scarce. and when one
family has the spigot turned the others
on the floor above must wait. In all but the
expensive quarters Of the town Three
kinds Of home baths are. however, quite
well known and practiced In the better
classes Of the little bourHoise These are
the slt-bath, the wet-towel bath and the
celebrated foot-bath.
1t requires some courage to borrow your
land1ady's wash tub from her once q week: :
the wet-towel makeshift Il but throwing
Evening star., 1896-10-24
Soaking Herself.

Tubing. The apartment house system, 80
convenient and so economical in many
ways, SO ennobling and beautifying to q
city's architecture, Is terribly against ary
waste Of space. Between apartments with
two bed rooms and apartments with three
bed rooms there is q great gulf fixed. The
price of rent Immediately takes q lean
Evening star., 1896-10-24

y p A X l 5 I ii +.
habit of bathing the
body has so far pro-
gressed that there
are joint stock COM
panies whose busi-
ness it is to bring
baths to your houses.
The bath must be en-
gagged the day be-
fore. At the appoint
ed hour there is a
rattle in the street,
and soon three men
are quarreling with
Evening star., 1896-10-24
LEARNING TO BATTLE
Progress Made by the Parisians in
Acquiring This Habit.
SCARCITY OF. TUBS and OF WATER
Characteristic Scenes in a French
Bath House.
KINDS OF HOME BATHS S

CorrespoI lenee of The Evening s:ar.
Evening star., 1896-10-24

PARIS, October Is, 1896
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The eve OF THE HEART,

IRA know him-aye, know him mid shou.
sAnds," she said,
Although these poor eyes cannot see,
YAe sound Of his voica and the Tilt Of his tread
Would alike be SWEEP music TO me-"
Do all day she sst hy the door of her cot
While she dreamed of her lad far away,
And she never bemoaned her Door, pitiful lot.
Dor her hope bloomed anew day BY day.
TIE roses had faded for many o year;
They told her the boy Of her heart
Had long since forgotten the mother once dear,
But ne'er would his image depart
VI know he will come" she would murmur.
"dear lad,
He would never forsake me, not he,
And my poor waiting heart once again win be
glad
When my laddie comes over the sea-"
4 stranger walked up to her cottage one day,
Said he: ~ bring news from your son.
He rests In his grave, out at sea, far away"
She smiled ere his words were half done.
"It's wise ye may be-" she exclaimed, as she
rose
And clasped him with transports of 10y;
"No mother so blind laddie, all the world
knows,
~ not know her own darling boyi''
Monroe b. Rosenfeld in New York Sun.
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Discards Her Diamonds.

How good woman discards her dia.
monds is thus told IN a dispatch from
WellAeet, Nebraska, under date of Jan.
uary %:
Mrs. Jane Huston, the bank Presi.
dents wife lost diamonds and other
jewelry last night valued at $4,000
Mort Green, whom the authorities were
shadowing as dangerous suspect drop.
ped into the Free Methodist revival
meeting just in time to hear Mrs. Hus.
ton explain, in giving her "experience," !"
that she had just disgarded her dia-
monGs and other jewelry, which she
thought ungodly to wear. She said she
had left all Of her finery on her dresser
when she left her home for church.
Green left the church, broke into the
Huston house and found that she had
told the truth. He took everything in
sight, and left note saying he WAS glad
he could remove temptation from the
good woman. The authorities are after
him.
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Marvellous Results.

From letter written by Rev. J. Gun
derman, of Dimondale, Mich, we are
permitted to make this extract II have
no hesitation in recommending DR..
Kings New Discovery, as the results
were almost marvellous in the case oI
my wife. While I was pastor of the
Baptist Church at Rives Junction she
was brought down with Pneumonia sue.
ceeding La Grippe. Terrible paroxysmd
of coughing would last hours with little
interruption and it seemed as if shG
could not survive them. A friend recon.
mended DIR. Kings New Discovery 4
was quick in its work and highly satis'
factory in results" Trial bottles free q
Fullerton & Co.'s Drug Store. Regulaa
size so cents and 81.
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Electric Bitters.

Electric Bitters is a medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps more gen.
orally needed in the spring, when the
languid exhausted feeling prevails,
when the liver is torpid and sluggish
and the need of tonic and Alternative ia
felt. A prompt use of this medicine has
often averted long and perhaps fatal
bilious levers. No medicine will act
more surely in counteracting and tree
ing the system from the malarisl poison.
Headache. indigestion, constipation,
deafness yield to Electric Bitters. Only
fifty cents per bottle at Fullerton & Co. Z
Drug Store.
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The following item from the court re.
ports of New York city shows that the
old struggle will never end:
Two young men and q pretty girl
faced Magistrate Kudlich in the Essex
Market Court recently. Both men low.
ed the girl, and until then she had re.
fused to decide which she favored.
Samuel Dernbach appeared to answer
Henry Jansen's complaint that his at.
tention was Objectionable to the girl,
and that no one could possibly love the
girl more than he (Desn bach) did.
Jansen declared that bis affection was
the deeper. The magistrate left the
matter to the girl to decide, and she
decided against the man who had COM
planned sRainst his rival.
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