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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-11

The eight of the Baltimore Athletic Cluh.s
navy defeated the naval cadets eight at
Annapolis, Md, Saturday in mile-and-a
half race, winning by length, in 1885,. The
record Is GAO, made by Cornell in 1889
Inc water was rough in Annapolis harbor
ana the race was rowed on the inside Sew
ern course, above the Short Line railroad
orldge The cadets were al a DISADVANTAGES
in getting the outside of The course with a
longer turn. The teams were:
b. a. Glow, r. &. L. Nansant: 3 VIM
F. W Werner; 3 VIM: D. Lilly; 4. L; L. Lloyd;
Geo. j. Turner; stroke, VIM. F.. Rittler: coy
swain, H. Whitehead IN WA
Naval Cadets-Bow, Graeme: 2 Collins. Q
Reynolds; 4, Piney; 5, Overstreet; 8, Hail,
gan; Z, Palmer; stroke, Mccarthy; coxswain
Cronnan. ,-
Colleges to Row at POughkeepsie.
The committee representing the rowing
interests CT the four universities concerned
in the quadrangular boat race to be rowed
Friday, Jun e 26, met Saturday night in
New York. They were Guy Richards. Co.
lumbia; f. c. Watson, Harvard; Thomas
Wreath, University Of PENNSYLVANIA. and
Prof. II. S. White, Cornell. The committee
by unanimous vote decided on the Pough
keepsie course. This step was taken in
view Of the bill pending in the House of
Representatives, which will provide a clear
course during the race.
The main objection of the Poughkeepsie
course has been the interference made by
craft plying up and down the Hudson. But
Mr. Richards took a trip to Washington
Friday, and reported that the bill provid-
Ing protection to all professional and anna
teur regattas would probably become a
law.
The section of the bill which is of special
interest to yachting and rowing men reads
as follows: THAT in order to provide for
the safety of passengers on excursion
steamers and for the safety of yachtsmen
and oarsmen taking part in regattas, anna
teur or professional, that may hereaffer
be held in navigable waters, the Secretary
OF the Treasury be, and is hereby, author
lied and empowered to detail revenue cut
tiers to enforce such rules and regulations
as UAy be adopted 20 assure the safety of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-11
Base Ball Notes,

Boyd and Anderson left Pittsburg for
home Saturday night. This will leave four
pitchers-Maul, Mercer, McJames and Ger
man-for the remaining games on the trip
Germans arm is in excellent condition.
He needs about weeks practice and
Capt. Joyce has great confidence in him.
Many of the persons who attended YES
terday's game between Brooklyn and
Louisville were dissatisfied with several of
Umpire keefe,s decisions, and would have
mobbed him after the game had it not been
for police Interference. He was conducted
to his hotel by six policemen.
Umpire Lynch fined Mercer and Mcclure
$40 each at Pittsburg Saturday for criti-
cising his decision on balls and strikes
Selbach was assessed $50 for two opinions
he registered against Lynch. Selbach.s
line Will probably stand, while the others
will be RENTED
Manager McGonnigle formerly of tho
Brooklyn club, has signed a two years con-
tract to manage the Louisville club The
cup now mas twenty men under contract
ana McGonnigie Will determine in the next
lew days the men that are to be retained
by winning in st. Louis yesterday. the
orioles orioles pulled up to tie with Chicago for
The Brooklyns and Washingtons arc tiaa
for eighth place.
Saturdays College Contests.
At New York-Georgetown, is: Fordbau
At delphia-Unive1sity of Pannsv,-
vania, II; Cornell, g.
AT Bethlehem, Pa.-Lafavette q. L.
high, 6.
AT rinceton-Princeton n, II; Harvard. o.
At Orange, N. J.-Orarge A. c., IL: Yale
g. ie'
At Baltimore-Gallaudet, %; Johns Hon.
kins, s.
At Rockville, Md.-Rcckville, 49, Catholic
University, 5.
At Danville, Va.-Uriversity of North
Carolina. 10; Washington and Lee, o.
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Other Games.


The third biennial Invitation games were
held Saturday by the Harvard Athletic AS
sociation. Grant Of Harvard beat the uni
vcrsity record in the mile run by 22-5 sec
onds, going in 42S 1-5. HOLSTER broke the
half-mile scartch record; time, 1.56 As
Harvard had the most entries and won the
majority of events.
The annual open handicap games of the
Princeton Track Association were held Sat
urday, ID athletes being entered. including
many from rival colleges and athletic clubs.
W. Schmalhorst Of Princeton Seminary
threw the 16-pound hammer 113 feet 6
inches, making the Princeton record
In the games of the southern division of
the American Amateur Athletic Union held
at New Orleans Saturday. f. Miltenberger
threw the hammer 10 feet inches, break
Ing the southern record of los feet . inches.
He threw the 56-pound weight SO feet 1
inch, breaking the southern record
pennsylvania won in the third annual
championship games with Cornell at Ith-
3ca Saturday. Cornell's showing was much
better than ever before. The score was Is
to So points
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-11
De Orc Beats Clearwater,

Lie SiedrWdteT-De OrO match Tor the pool
championship of the world and a purse of
$1,000 ended at Pittsburg Saturday night
1t resulted in victory for De Oro Score
for the three nights: De Orc, 2O6, 2O5, 1873;
total 600. Clearwater, 203, 1T, 164; total,
544.
Grant Eby Of Springfield has challenged
De Orc and the match will be played in
New York within sixty days.
"raDEle in the Atlantic League.
The New York Sun yesterday said:
Trouble is expected in the Atlantic League
President Freedman said yesterday that he
will stick to the organization as long as he
is treated fairly, and intimated that a break
would take place if the Hartford team fails
to appear at the polo grounds tomorrow,
Tuesday and Wednesday. Billy Barnie is
just as determined that the games must be
played at Hartford, and even offered to pay
the metropolitan players railroad expenses.
Barn1e told a Sun reporter that he would
take his players to Hartford after the game
at Paterson and even went SO far as to
say that Mr.. Freedman is seeking an ex-
cuse to quit the league "Mr. Freedman
wanted half Of the receipts to play the
games at Hartford" added Barnie, but l
refused to listen to such a proposition.
Even now he is beginning to farm out his
players but the league will soon take ac-
ton"
meeting will be held in Newark today,
but according to Mr. Freedman, the Metro
politans will not be represented. The sched-
ule reads that the games should be play
ed in this city and in Hartford on the same
days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-11

EFlne Tailoring at the MINIMUM COST,
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-05-02
Highest of all in Leavening US Report
R3>!aa!l! g! fs%assz kfskiRs
ABSOLUTELY PURE
a ABSOLUTELY PURE

political opinions of the remaining
4l8. The difference of opinion be-
tween the contending forces Will be as
radical as the difference between Mus
selman and Christian. As well expect
fire and water to blend harmoniously
as to expect the stock jobbers and the
western and southern democrats to
compromise their differences. The
eastern bosses ale determined to rule
the national convention or disrupt 1t.
The democratic masses demand the
nomination of a democrat on a demo-
cratic platform for the presidency, and
they will have their way.
1t is significant that simultaneously
the metropolitan papers announce the
organization of boiling conventions in
some of the southern states and the
admission of the goldbug leaders that
they are centering their guns on two
or three states, and that without vic
tory in these states their cause is hope
less. This confirms the opinion in
which the GaZetts has never wavered.
The silver men will capture the
Chicago convention. The goldbu9s
will bolt, but since the states they will
represent are hopelessly republican,
what of il?
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-05-02
Noted In Passing,

The shirt waist is woman's best
summer friend.
To have their fortunes told is the fad
of society's devotees.
Hammock sales will soon attract the
comfort loving buyer.
Don't write things today for which
You will be sorry tomorrow.
Hot spring sun is more disastrous to
furs than a whole winters wear.
Sleep on a hard bed with no pillows
if you want to have q good figure.
The white veil is an expensive luxury.
1t must be of the best quality to pass
muster.
Try washing the leaves of palms in
milk and water if they seem inclined to
be feeble.
A shower is all very nice until il
catches you with your best gown on
and no umbrella to shelter you.
Light silk portieres, to be used all
the year round, are considered more
hygienic and artistic than heavy
draperies.
Overdressed children are seldom
seen nowadays. Mothers are more
sensible on this score than they have
been in years.
Though a revival of the bang is
promised, it will take a long time
before its curly moppiness appeals to
the well-gowned girl.
A white satin REFER jacket, with
lace-trimmed, granny bonnet, forms q
fairy-like portion of the smart juvenile
wardrobe.
Doesn't your heart ache for the man
at the complaint desk in our large
storeP No matter what his salary is,
he more than earns it.
A hat almost on her nose, a linen
gown, chocolate brown shoe and 8
narrow belt are the chief characteristics
of the summer girl of 1896.
The small boy does not talk so o,much
of shooting Indians after he has once
seen them in the majesty of their wal
paint at the Buffalo Bill show.
The woman beams all over if she il
dubbed kittenish, but she threatens 8
libel suit if there is any suggestion
that it is a mature feline that she
resembles.
The sweet girl graduate is wrlnkline
her pretty brow over the selection of 6
sufficiently deep subject worthy of {
catch las catch-can literary wrestling
match on commencement day.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-05-02
The Old Rivalry Between Commodore
Vanderbilt and Robert Bonner
Two FamOus HOrsemen.

Two Famous HOrsemen.
From Scribner's Magazine for May.
Mr.. Bonner had put Flatbush Maid
and Lady Palmer together, and they
made team which was the admiration
of the town. In the autumn of 1861
he drove them around Union Course in
2:27, but there was good deal OF
envious talk. Commodore Vanderbilt
owned Post Boy and Plow Boy at that
time, and his cronies whispered, with
shoulder shrugs, that Mr.. Bonner's s
friends had timed the two mares fast
to please him. May 10, 1862, there
was TO be a race at Fashion Course,
and Mr.. Bonner managed so as TO have
Alderman Jewett, who controlled the
track, invite the Commodore to a seat
in the judges stand. The team was
driven to road wagon, two miles, in
5:O114, the first mile in 2:2G, and
doubts about their speed were COM
pletely wiped out.
The first real friction between these
two riders occurred at the Dubois
track.
The Commodore stopped in front OF
the clubhouse one day with newly
purchased team, and when informed
that Mr.. Bonner had just driven fast
quarter, sneered: "What is a quarter
-, - b,If ,,,;Ia tranl- p.i
Mr.. Bonner, who was sitting on the
piazza, sprang to his feet, and said,
with considerable emphasis: "Com-
modore, can beat your team a quar-
ter, half mile, a mile, or two miles. "
The grim-faced old gentleman sim
ply remarked, "We will see about
that" and his rival replied, ''All
right"
The feeling grew, and just after the
purchase of Dexter, Commodore Van
derbilt bought Mountain Boy, who
was faster than his record of 2:2OA
and when his friends began to brag
about his ability to beat 2:1714, Mr..
Bonner paid $50, 900 for Edward Ever
ett, the sire of Mountain Boy.
After This the Commodore could not
grow enthusiastic over his horse with
out rejecting credit on a horse in the
Bonner stable.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-05-02

Z. If prices are so reduced that it
takes everything the debtor can get
together to pay his fixed charges and
everything the laborer can get together
to buy little coarse clothing and
plain food for his family, can either
the debtor or the laborer spend much
money buying other articles? And, if
he cannot, then must that not result in
the destruction of what we once called
our great home marketP If this Is
destroyed so that our great factories
and industries are unable to dispose of
their productions must they not shut
down and throw labor out of employ
ment? Is not that what happened
exactly in this country?
8. Is the laborer most prosperous
when there is large demand for the
articles he Greatest Does it not neces-
sarily follow that until there is rise in
prices so that the debtor class and the
producing class can again do large
miscellaneous buying there is no hope
for the labores?
Q. AS there cannot be general
rise in prices without an increase in
the volume of money, must not the
present paralysis and stagnation con-
tinue in the world until the volume of
money is again restored to what it was
before SILVER was stricken down?
10. There are in the United States
over 5000 banks, including national,
state and private. The comptroller of
the currency, one of Mr.. Carlisle's
assistants, received reports from these
banks showing the total amount of
money of every kind that each bank
had on July IL, 1896. From this
report 1t appears that there was in
round numbers only 1927, ,O00,0 of
gold in all the banks of the United
States. This WAS all of the available
gold in this country. There was about
500, 900, 900 in the treasury at that
time, but this is not available. MIR.
Carlisle did not refer TO these figures,
which are known to be accurate. But,
instead, he cited the figures given out
by the director of the mint, also one of
his assistants, in which it Is claimed
that there are about $500, ,000, 200 of
gold in this country. Mr.. Carlisle
must know that these figures are
incorrect and that the tables given ont
by the director of the mint on this
point are worthless because it appears
from his report for 1892 that he
assumes that every dollar put in
circulation since 1872 in this country
is still in circulation except where a
| record was made of its expectation,
and that he has made no allowance
for the money that was carried over
the northern boundary and our south
ern boundary tor twenty-four years,
nor for the money carried back by
Chinese during that time, nor for gold
coin used in the arts and not reported
during that time, nor for all that was
lost nor for all that was carried across
the ocean in the pockets OF our people
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-05-02
THE WEARY WOMAN.
She is Just as Tired as Ever, Though
in Il Different Way.

These lines, of American origin, and
written nearly twenty years ago, bave
started on fresh round, through their
publication recently in the London
Times in answer to correspondent s
query:
Here lies poor woman who always was
tired,
She lived in a house where help was not
hired,
Her last words on earth were-"Dear
friends, am going
To where there's no cooking, or washing,
nor sewing;
But everything there is exact to my
wishes, n
For where they don't eat there's 8 no WASH :
ing up dishes.
Pll be where loud anthems will always be
ringing,
But, having no voice, I'll get quit of the
singing.
Don't mourn Tor me nOW-uoh'I mourn
for me never,
Pm going to do nothing Tor ever and
ever"
The cooking, washing and sewing
are obsolete now, or nearly so, says st.
Georges Chronicle; but women are
just rs tired as ever, and the plant
will have to be revised somelike this,
perhaps:
Here lies poor woman who always was
busy;
She lived under pressure that rendered
her dizzy.
She belonged to ten clubs, and read
Browning by sight,
Showed at luncheons and teas, and would
vote II she might.
She served on Il school board with courage
and zeal,
She golfed and she kodaked and rode on
wheel;
She read Tolstoi and Ibsen, knew microbes
by name, ,,
Approved of Delsarte, was daughter"
and Dame"
Her children went in for the top educa-
tion,
Her husband went seaward for nervous
prostration.
One day on her tablets she found an hour
free. \.
The shock was too great, and she died
instantlee.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-05-02

/. 1t will be seen that tins language
is clear and emphatic and has none of
the sOphistry and pettifogging about ii
that are found in his Chicago speech.
His awful predictions made in 1873
came to paes. He not only saw his
own prophecy fulfilled, but he saw the
misery of his country become even
greater than he had predicted. Find
ing that his views had been correct, he
continued to hold them until he enter
ed Mr.. Cleycland's cabinet, when in
some mysterious manner there was
charge of heart, but for some reason
he seems unwilling TO talk about it.
There are two other members of the
cabinet, Hoke Smith of Georgia and
Herbert of Alabama, who like Carlisle
had made their voices heard for nearly
lifetime in demanding the restoration
of silver and denouncing the great
conspiracy that struck it down; and
strange to say, when these two men
entered CleVelanu' 8 CdDlneJ, lHcy uu-
derwent change of heart, and, like
Carlisle, they avoid talking about it.
When Saul of Tarsus saw great light
and changed his views he was anxious
to tell all the world about it but these
three statesmen seem to be ashamed to
discuss the manner of their CONVERSION.
Why did not Carlisle throw little
light OH this question:?
2. All of these men now denounce
those people who are opposed to the
single gold standard as being scoun-
drels and lunatics. Yet they are only
following the doctrines which Carlisle
and company had preached. Are we
then to infer that Mr.. Carlisle and his
two cabinet associates were scoundrels
and lunatics until they got to be old
men, aud that the tinsel of cabinet
position not only made them honest,
but gave them brainsP If not, then
how are we to know which end of their
career was honest, intelligent and
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-05-02
THE GIRL AT THE POsTOFFlCE.
Wantel TO Make Il Bargain Counter
Trade for Postage Stamps.

From the Washington star. a Eqft
The sad event chrpnici1f n ;,f
following lines oceds1ed A.4| 1r&.
ago in the small s'id DIS ~ j <.t.
structure on streni. boNtepa fon.
teenth and Fifteenth, which the United
States government uses as a branch
postoffice.
She was an extremely pretty girl,
with the brightest eyes, the pinkest
cheeks, the reddest lips, the cutest nose
and the sunshiniest face that had been
seen in that locality in years.
So pretty was she that the suscepii-
ble clerk at the stamp window gulped
as if he had swallowed something wht n
she came tripping up TO the window
and spoke TO him.
"Have you postage stamps?" she
asked, as innocently as if government
postoffices usually dealt in haystacks
and grindstones.
But the clerk never noticed that. He
didn't notice anything but the spark
ling vision before him with three un-
stamped letters in its soft, white hand
"Yes, Miss" he responded, making
| herculean effort to suppress his emo
| tion.
"Can l get three for nickelP'
Now this clerk loved his little joke,
/ and a mon 1uho mill ;oLa ~, o eoo,ad
subject is fit for treason, strategem and
spoils.
"Yes, Miss he answered, and
quite tenderly, too.
"Oh, how nice,' she twittered.
"Mamma said they never sold them
any less, no matter how many we
wanted. But 1 said l was sure they
would, and now won't mamma be sur
prised when l tell her that got three
for Il nickelP"
The coy, arch smile she sent futter-
ing through the window to the clerk
was something to be treasured in the
heart of any man to his dying day.
81 am sure she will," he murmered,
smiling back at her as best he could
under the circumstances.
'sWell, give me three, please" and
she laid nicke. down in the window
before him.
| He did not dare look at her, but
kept his eyes on the drawer where the
stamps are confined.
| AS he picked out two twos and a one
and laid them beside that soft, little
hand waiting for them on the window
sill, there came into her beautiful eyes
such look of tender reproach that he
went right over to the registry clerk
and registered a solemn vow that
never, no, never again, would he per-
NIT his sense of duty to dull the finer
facnlties of his feeling.
The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-05-02
STUMPERS FOR CARLISLE
Gov. Altgeld Propounds Sev-
eral Leading Questions.
GHOSTS OF THE DEAD PAST.
The Secretary of the Treasury Asked
to Explain His Conversion to Gold
and the Bond Deals.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 25.-Sec-
retary Carlisle has been answered by
Gov. Altgeld. In pointed open
letter made public today the governor
replies to the address on the money
question which the secretary recently
delivered in the Auditorium in Chicago.
Gov. Altgeld's letter is as follows:
A teacher should be willing to answer
questions. At the close of Mr.. Car
isles speech a number of gentlemen
arose and asked tor further information,
but he turned his back and slipped off
the stage and by direction of his man.
| ayers the questioners were hustled out
by policemen. He could have made
himself very interesting on a number
of points which he persistent,y " ignored.
In 1878 when discussing the money
question in congress he expressed his
convictions in the following language !:
81 shall not enter into an examina-
ton of the causes which have COM
bined to depreclate the relative value
of silver and to appreciate the value of
gold since 1873, but l am one of those
who believe that they are transient
and temporary in their nature, and
that when they have passed away, or
have been removed by the separate or
united action of the nations most
deeply interested in the subject, the
old ratio of actual and relative value
will be re-established On tirmer foun-
dation than ever. 1 know that the
worlds stock of precious metals is
none too large and 1 see no reason to
apprehend that it will ever become so.
Mankind will be fortunate indeed if the
annual production of gold and silver
coin shall keep pace with the annual
increase of population, commerce and
industry. According to my view OF
the subject the conspiracy which seems
to have been formed here and in
Europe to destroy by Legislation and
otherwise from three-sevenths to one
half the metallic money of the world is
the most gigantic crime of this or any
other age.
The consummation of such a scheme
would ultimately entail more misery
upon the human race than all the
wars, pestilence and famine that ever
occurred in the history of the world.
The absolute and instantaneous de-
struetlon of half the movable property
of the world, including horses, ships,
railroads and all other appliances fol
carrying on commerce, while it would
be felt more sensibly at the moment,
would not produce anything like the
prolonged distress and disorganization
of society that must inevitably result
from the permanent annihilatIon OF
one half of the metallic money of the
world.
(Signed) "JoHN G. CARLISLE.
"Feb. 81, 1878"