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The evening times., 1898-05-12
Feminine Oppo.t.,,,,..

III there is any one thing that a vo-
man can do well, to which she can give
her whole energy, she will be likely to
succeed in the doing of it. A woman was
ieft widow with children, and no money.
she was gently bred and educated.
But 1 know nothing thoroughly" she
said. except cookery. / can cook
Then find opportunities to teach other
women 70 cook" said a friend A few ap-
piiances were procured. and she began
lecturing and giving lessons to women in
cookery in the city in which she lived.
and in the neighboring towns She has
earned moderate but comfortable in
come for herself and her children.
A young girl. suddenly left penniIess.
was an expert in nothing but dressing
hair She sought diligently for business
in one or two important inland cities.
where coiffures were unknown. teaching
women how to care for their hair and TO
dress it becomingiy and thus supports
herself
Still another girl. obliged to earn her
bread. recollected that she had a pecul-
lar skill in putting up luncheons for the
children. She sent out cards and made
applications to the mothers of the pupils
of large private school. stating that she
would furnish wholesome and dainty
luncheons at recess.
An old colored woman with a white
apron and gorgeous turban carried the
white packages in huge basket. The
trade was unique, and proved so success
full that it extended to the students of a
great university in the same city. Half
a dozen old .'mammys" supplied their
ravenous demand. affording very salts
factory pecuniary profit to the young
woman.
In unusual occupations there will be few
rivals, and if they minister to the SIM
pie needs of a class or classes of per-
sons they will generally meet with sue
cess if conducted with ordinary good
sense and industry.
The evening times., 1898-05-12

any one. ard could not tell anything about
her daughter
He received information that Fay was
living there under the name of Brown
and rang the bell of family of that
name but when Mrs. Brown answered
the ring she was indignant and declared
the actress did not live there. The jani-
tor of the building informed the process
server that he believed Fay Templeton
did have a fiat there. her mother had an
other. her sister. Mrs. Adams. still an
other, and third sister yet another. and
that the rents of all the fats were paid
by Mrs. Adams
Elsmer rang the bell Of the Bradford
Fat in the same house a few days later.
and Mrs. Adams appeared at the door.
He inquired for Fay Templeton. but he
received the short and positive inforna-
ton: "You can't see her." and the door
was shut.
He tried to gain an entrance to the
Bradford fiat on the night of March IL.
when he saw the place lighted up. but as
he was going up the stairs he saw head
watching him over the balustrade, and the
lights in the fiat were mysteriously and
Immediately extingufshed.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
TILES TOLD
OUT OF SCHOOL
A Vassar Recipe for Airy
Visions of Emptiness.
Soap Bubbles M Big as Foot Tubs
and as Light as
Feathers.

Here Is a Fassar soap bubble recipe
which you must learn If you are ever 60
ing to have a soap bubble party. Take
some white CASTLE soap and shave it fine.
Cover it with water and heat until the
soan melts. Add cupful of glycerine for
ey quart of water, and soon you will
hav' heavy, greasy, yet pleasant, mix
ture, which reminds you of soap bubbles
when you look at it.
At Vassar. where we do things up fine.
says the writer. We used to take the gas
pipe, such as you may use on gas lamps.
oil stoves and the like. This pipe we
would attach to the gas and one of us
would hold up the end of the pipe while
the others poured in the soap bubble mix
ture. Then we turned the gas on.
Phew! How the gas would escape, you
will say, and what an odor there must
have been. Not at all, We had made
the soap bubble mixture, and the gas blew
the bubbles. Instantly great air castles
would form and would come spouting out
of the end of that pipe as though by
magic. Such big bubbles never were blown
before. nor so fast! They would come out
of the pipe at the rate of ten a second, and
the room would be filled with bubbles in
a minute.
If we had two gas Jets we could blow
the bubbles just so much the faster and
the room would be full just SO much the
sooner.
When the bubbles were all blown We
turned off the gas and fell to Knocking the
bubbles around. That is the way to have
soap bubble party. Be careful when you
DO II, though, that there Is plenty of suds
IN the pipe, or you may set the house
ahre. In fact. this recipe is noted for
its cleverness in setting fire to things: but
If you have plenty of suds in the pipe
there Is not any danger.
We blew them with long-stem pipes
the other night at our reunion bubble
party. but when you read in the Society
Notes the next day of a very fashionable
soap bubble party at the house of the
swell Mrs. X you were reading only
OF an ordinary soap bubble occasion. made
little more interesting by the size of the
bubbles and the fact that We PLAYED bat
iedore and shuttlecock with them They
were not the genuine Vassar bubbles.
AS for the Vassar soap bubbles. oh
they were different, Each as big as a
FOOT tub and as light as a feather. The
smallest too big for a battledore and the
iargest too large for a sofa cushion. We
mad to bat them with sheets which we
heid taut, so that the bubbles could bouna
on them, and when we got tired we would
put out the lights and leave the wot
pupoi! sues to dry by themselves before
morning.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
I've Suicides.

New York. May f2-SamueI Braunsch.
weider. young, unmarried travelling
salesman, Of No. 112 West One Hundred
and Thirty-seventh Street, committed sui.
eide yesterday morning at his home BY
shooting himself In the temple He feared
consumption and had contemplated self
destruction for many months.
After making two Intellectual at.
tempts to kill herself, Mrs Ar
tilla Rumgay. thirty-six years OF
age. succeeded yesterday morn
ing by jumping from the roof of the five
story fat house on Kingsbridge Road
near Two Hundred and Seventh Street.
Adolph kretzschmar. sitxy-hve years OF
age. of No. 5M East Eleventh Street, al
ways threatened to kill himself when his
wife told him to go to work Twice he
has taken rat poison. but not enough to
hurt. Yesterday he wrote a note while
she was absent. saying he is ''old and tir-
ed Of life and can't see." Then he tasted
carbolic acid. Later he was arrested, and
Magistrate Simms. in Essex Market Court.
sent him to Bellevue Hospital for exami-
nation as to his sanity.
The evening times., 1898-05-12

Many old soldiers now feel the effects
of the hard service they endured during
the war Mr.. Geo 8. Anderson. of Ross.
vile. York County. Pa, who saw the
hardest kind of service at the front. ia
Low frequently troubled with rheuma-
tism- Il had severe attack lately" he
says, and procured a battle of Cham
beriain's Pain Balm. 1t did so much pooa
that l would like to know what Won
would charge me for one dozen bottles.
Mr.. Anderson wanted 1t both for his own
use and to supply it to his friends and
neighbOrs, as every family should have a
bottle of it in their home, not only for
rheumatism. but lame back. sprains.
sweilings, cuts. bruises and burns. for
which 1t is unequaled. For sale by Henry
Evans. wholesale and retail druggist, sss
F Street northwest. and Connecticut Ave-
nue. and 8 Street northwest, and 1AeS
Maryland Avenue northeast.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
THE CIGARETTE TRUST.
Standard OIL Interests Enteriuu
Into the RIca Combine.

New York. May Fat the annual
meeting of the American Tobacco Com.
pany yesterday, in Newark, N J.. thess
directors were elected for two years
Oliver II. Payne. Thomas F. Jeffries ane
Herbert L. Terrell For one year-Josiaf
Browne, James G. Butler, John Doer.
hofer and William II. Butler. Messers
Payne and Terrell. who succeeded Er.
nest Schmeisser and G. W. Watts. ar,
supposed to represent Standard Oil in.
terests. and the new contingent is work.
ing In harmony with James II. Duke
There was no contest, the so-called oppo-
sition having failed to show up.
According to the treasurers report the
net earnings last year were A,11y, 49, Di-
vidends paid on preferred stock amount.
ed to $96s. $50. or 2 per cent quarterly
Six per cent interest on scrip issued two
years ago amounted to $2li, 800. and there
was applied to the surplus s2-s95.5oO. De.
Quoting A.iss.cO paid on common stock,
and present surplus of $.,i47,s remains.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
TRANSPORTS SENT TO TAMPA
Ten Vessels From New York Must
Safl Not Later Than Friday.

Ten vessels From New York Must
safl Not Later Than Friday.
New York. May 12.- a. m.-Orders
were received from Washington to start
the ten transport ships chartered at the
port for Key West not later than Friday.
The first two ships will sail this morn
ing, and two in the afternoon. 1t is a
question whether all the ships can be
ready to start Friday. II they do start
the refitting ordered to be done will be
either left undone or will be done on the
way down. s
The order to dispatch these ships car
ried with it the request to embark In them
the four volunteer regiments ordered from
this State to Tampa. 1t was said that It
may be impossible to get all four of the
regiments ready In time. but two regi-
ments will be sent, anyway.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
WANT FQoD, ,qNOT WAR.
Ruin AMONG the Middle Cl...c. !.
WIdesrread.

"ArcsIf feau.
New York, May IA Madrid cable tc
the Herald says,
have just had 2 conversation with one
Of the members of the cabinet. which
may throw the true light upon the work
ings of the Spanish politicians at the
present moment. He said:
"A change in the cabinet is bound to
come. and almost at once. In that change
Senor Moret will be the first to go, and
with him those others who are not popu-
lar under the present condition Of public
sentiment"
THAT means" I asked, that more en-
ergetic war measures will be inaugural
ed?' To my surprise. he replied:
mo. 1 consider that any change which
may come will be in favor of peace. The
truth is. every one now at heart wishes
peace, but there are none brave enough
to speak first
do you thing General campos is the
coming MANI" I asked.
WELL he replied somewhat hesitat-
ingly. II consider that by the middle of
next month General Campos will be in
power. and. although his will be a mill
tary government. 1T will be in favor of
peace
l have just returned from tour in the
provinces and can most strongly affirm
that the Spanish people are weary of the
war, OF Cuba and of all the trouble stag
nation Of trade. misery and starvation as
something too narrowing. They cannot
fight against it.
AT Algeciras an Englishman who lives
among the people told me they were
SIMPLY starving. There is no work and
no money. Bread has risen as also all
the other necessaries of life
Here in Madrid nearly all the places of
puDlic entertainment are closed The
stock exchange Is at a standstill and ruin
among persons of average means Is wide
spread.
The streets are fuller than ever of des-
perately hungry women. crying for food
for their starving children. Even the bull
ring was half empty last Sunday. and
when that Is the case matters are indeed
In eNtremis.
One of the most respectable brokers In
the country has committed suicide. and
taies OF others being ruined are heard
constantly. Busipess ON the stock ex-
change is nil
The government keeps talking about
raising money. which may be voted. but
where 1t is to be collected from on one
can say.
The Liberal fills three columns with no.
other. and in three weeks time II is
stated that there will be a bread famine
in Madrid.
fohtics Is In such state that. as a
member of the cabinet SAYS. .'What is
the most terrible is that absolutely no
one can Well foresee what the future of
this country will be. for everything that
Is worst is in view.''
Ihe so-much-talked-of national sub
scription amounted to nothing at ALA
drop in the ocean. enough for a few days'
supplies If the war We're to be carried on
from any lack of patriot
ism In the people. but simply because
they have not the cash to give.
In summing up in it's leading article
upon the condition of the country the
Liberal says: In addition to the troubles
Oh the Antilles and the Philippines. We
are face to face with the necessity Of de-
caring martial law throughout Spain.
where discord. misery and evaporation
cry out at every door"
The people are crying for food. NOT for
war OF that can assure you.
The evening times., 1898-05-12

ON tne Sk1fm1Sh line
during the war. When ON the instant that
his :nusket was aimed to kill a Union pick.
ct the latter, suddenly inspired with a
sense of his own defenceless condition.
began to sing those beautiful words: "Cov-
er my defenceless head with the shadow
Of thy wing" The Confederate withheld
his hand He could not frc. The picket's
life was saved.
Death sometimes spares the one who
seems marked to be his victim. Let no
one despair, even in the darkest hour
Many man who seemed picked ont for
death by consumption has found respite
and safety through the use of that wonder
ful Golden Medical Discovery" whic.,
Dr. r v. Pierce, of Buffalo, N Y, invented
thirty years ago, and which has brought
new life and hope to almost countless
thousands of men and women.
Every day brings a multitude of letters
to Dr.. Pierce, telling gratefully what his
medicines and his advice have done to
restore health and happiness to homes
where hitherto sickness and misery had
reigned supreme.
gentleman living in saltwater Washington
County. Minnesota. Mr. c. J. McNauey writes:
T" In the spring of 1854. was taken i'll with
consumption and after trying everything I
could hear of aud doctoring ali summer my
ieft lung was nearly gone. and that could live
Duf short time About twelve bottles of Dr.
P1ercc's Golden Medical Discovery brought me
out al right. and cured myself Of two more
attacks OF the same trouble. am satisfied that
the Golden Medical Discovery viii cure con-
best medicine in the world for the diseases for
which Il Is recommended"
The evening times., 1898-05-12
PoLo,s BUREAU ACTIVE.
Montreal His Headquarters for Som,
Time to Come.

Time to Come.
Montreal. May 11-Senor Polo Ber.
nabe, Senor du Bose, Lieut.. Caranza and
the other members of the Spanish party
evidently propose to make Montreal theiI
headquarters for some time to come
When they first arrived they stated thai
they would leave for home on Saturday
but there is as yet no sign of their de.
parture, and they are acting as IL they In
tended making a long stay
The greatest secrecy is maintained about
their movements. The minister has placed
a boycott on all newspaper men and re-
fuses to see them. He Is IN constant COM
munication with the local consul, through
whom he Is continually receiving and for
wardtng messages to-various points. He
also receives number Of callers, mostly
Spaniards.
Thousands of copies of Senior du Bosc's s
attack on the United States are being cir
culated here and forwarded to England.
SenOr di Cortana. Don CarIos's repre-
sentative. says he will leave Saturday to
join the pretender.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
GERMAN STEAMER STOPPED
cverhauled In The Atlantic nv
Spanish PPfyateer

Philadelphia, May ia Spanish priva-
teer on a westward cruise overhauled. on
May 3, on the southeriy edge OF the
Grand Banks of Newfoundland. the Ger
man steamship Aiesia. which arrived here
last night from Hamburg.
When the Spaniard was sighted the
Alesia's engines were stopped and the
German flag hauled aloft. This did not
sausiy the pursuing craft. for she ran
close enough astern for her officers to
read the Alesia's name and hailine mort
on her stern, after which she proceeded
seaward saluting the German colors.
Second Officer Jochheim. of the Alesia.
describes the vessel as four-masted
steamer with yellow funnel with a white
band around 1t. She was from appear
ances very light out of the water. evident
ly having used up considerable coal
The evening times., 1898-05-12
Life In Camp.
frrom the K,nsas Citv Star.

(From the Kansas tlty Star-)
A large number of young Americans
will be called upon within few weeks
to face the experiences of camp life and
it will be well for them to know in ad-
vance that the nature Of that experience
and their recollections of 1t are to de-
rend entirely upon themselves.
To so into camp is not generally con-
sidered by Americans to be hardship.
The theory that man in his primitive
state was a camper and lived in the
woods seems to be Indicated by the ex-
istence of a tendency to return to that
sort of thing. Men and women. too.
leave their weatherprOof and wind-tight
houses to camp by the lakes and on the
mountains. People whose proper homes
are In something like PALACES leave them
for weeks together to live In tents or
cottages which are but little larger, and
cook over an open fire. Every picnic Is
q reminder of mans old fashion Of liv-
The evening times., 1898-05-12

The Times will publish next Sunday the best
Map yet issued, including Map of the World (sze.
two pages of The Times in four coors). Map of
Cuba and Porto Rico and plan of the city of
Havana.
This Map has been prepared and brought down
to date by Rand. McNay Co.. and will be of in
valuable aid daily readers. Every point of inter-
est with steam and sailing routes will be shown.
The usual price is Is cents, but this Map will be
given free to every reader of next Sundays Times
who cuts out the Map Coupon and presents it at
the counter.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
PASSES BLocKADINa FLEET
The Lafayette Relieved to Hay,
Left Havana

Key West, May ia French mail
steamship. believed to be the Lafayette,
left Havana Monday afternoon about
o'clock. She was not molested by the
blockading feet, as far as can be learned
The Bratsburg. for Santiago de Cuba,
was released at noon. as she had no car
go and was not making for the blockaded
ports. The captain has telegraphed to his
agents In New York for orders.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
RAIDING FAY TEMPLEroN.
Process Servers Have Difficulties 4,
Serving Their PaperS.

| New York, May 12.-Fay Templetor
Osborn, widow OF Howell Osborn. known
to three-sheet posters and theatereoers
as Fay Templeton. and who would have
| inherited fortune of 500 800 had Howell
Osborn happened to have that amount by
him. has eluded process-serving sleuths.
Yesterday Judge Pryor of the supreme
court. granted an attachment against her
property in an action brought in the name
of Edward E. Haskell. as assignee of
Charles f. and Edward L. Rice. theatri-
cal managers, for the recover yof s25 .6l7
on claim for breach of contract
whether she Is concealed within the re-
cesses or her Amsterdam Avenue fiat. or
IN Paris or London no one of the sleuths
can make out. but 1t is charged that she
Is conceaiing herself somewhere for the
purpose of defrauding her creditors.
The actress made contract in 1896 to
assume the leading role in Excelsior
Tor forty weeks at a salary of $40 a week
She found the engagement 10 her liking
for some time. during which time the
Messrs Rice say that they basked in the
financial sunshine Of profit of s1.2o a
week Although the production cost
them about SIS. 900. she refused to contin-
ue the contract. they tearfulfy add leav-
ing them al a loss of many thousand dol
lars. They assigned the claim to Edwin
A. McAlpin and he in turn assigned ii to
Mr.. Haskell The papers in the case were
placed in the hands OF Louis P. Elsmer
for service, but he hunted for the actress
in vain.
AS she was beneficiary on paper under
the will of Howell Osborn for 800. DO Mr..
Elsmer went to the office of c. NJ Church.
the executor of the estate, but was smil-
ingly informed that the estate had not
been settled. and that Miss Templeton
had not received dollar of the bequest.
The mother of the actress Mrs. Whalen.
formerly lived at No West SiXty-third
Street. and there Mr.. Elsmer was inform
ed that Fay was not abroad. Mrs. VIAL
en- since moved to No. 9i6 Amsterdam
Avenue. and when the process server
wended his way there he was told the
mother of the actress was too i'll to see
The evening times., 1898-05-12
l,u.sia Showing Her Hand.

Pekin, May 1.-THE Russian consul at
Tien Tsin announces that foreigners will
not be allowed to land at Port Arthur
and Talienwan without passports vized by
himself. The Chinese and foreigners COM
plain bitterly Of what they regard as
breach OF Russia's promise that Port Ar
thur and Talienwan would be under the
same regulations as the Chinese treaty
ports.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
Rainy Daisiea

The Rainy Daisies are a society of New
York women who have decided to wear
abbreviated costumes for street wear.
calling 1t common sense dress. Thus
far only one man has been admitted to
their meetings to witness the effect. His
fate is not reported.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
I.xcur.ion and sbad Bake.

The fifth annual excursion of the Board
of Trade will be given on Saturday, May
q. The steamer Macalester will start
from the foot of Seventh Street at /.
o'clock for Marshall Hall. where plank
ed shad dinner will be served at 4:30.
Members and friends may procure tickets
at the Board of Trade rooms. 1410 G
Street.
The evening times., 1898-05-12
WHAT DO THE CHILDREN DRINK?

Don't give them tea OF coffee Have yoS
Tried the new food called GRAIN-O? Il is
dencOus and nOurishing and takes the place
children the more health yuu distribute
through their systetns. GrEi mo In made OF
pure grains, and when properly prepared
tastes hkc the choice graueS of coffee, but
costs about one-quarter aS much. All grpcers
ocn te. 6c AMI 40. ia27-8
The evening times., 1898-05-12
Loyalty to the Flag.

A few weeks ago It was considered a
novel thing to see woman at a matinee
rise and stand during the playing of
THE Star spangied Banner by the band,
but now on public occasions women.
equally with men, display loyalty to the
nag. and no one thinks 1t unwomanly.
The evening times., 1898-05-12

| ing out of doors Then we have the ex-
ample of the gypsies. who never live in
houses. To camp, to live in the open air,
or in temporary and movable shelters. is
not OF Itself special hardship, and by
many people is regarded as a positive
pleasure.
In military camp however. as in
other camps. much depends on the dis
position and habits of the camper. The
man who is fit to be soldier Possesses
not only the qualities for tn. field. but
Tor the camp. Much more of the soI,fier' y
time is passed in camping than in fight
ing
The great requisite of the soldier in
camp is the possession of a certain ham
diness and readiness in caring for him.
self The busy soldier, who looks after
his small possessions, who knows best
now to put up his own tent. to make his
own bed. who mends and washes care
fully his own clothes. who is own COM
missary and Quartermaster to a con-
siderable extent. is the soldier who is
dry when the other soldiers are soaked.
He is fed when they are hungry. is well
when they are sick and ready to march
around the world if allowed to make a
good camp. as he can. every night The
golden rule of the soldier is: BE good 10
yourself" With this facility for attend
Ing to his own sOfdierly business. should
be linked an invincibie cheerfulness The
grumbiing. growing. low-spirited hypo-
chondriac soldier is lost; he is a curse to
himself and an injury to the service. He
is like wheeled vehicle without springs.
He breaks up on the hard road that SOL
diers must travel
The soldiers trade is one that must be
learned in order to be followed with any
comfort or profit. He is the best soldier
who learns best his calling: who acquires
all the arts Gncluding that of building 4
fire in the RAIN by which life is sup
ported and even made pleasant when re-
duced to its simplest conditions The SOL
der learns how comfortable are a few
comforts and how life may long be borne
without any luxuries at all. He sleeps
soundly in his little canvas house; he is
content with his rations when they are
issued in full: buckles his belt tighter
and hopes for better days when they are
short: keeps up with the column on the
march: is as neat as a soldier as he was
as a citizen; answers at every roll call:
The evening times., 1898-05-12

carries a clean gun: cherishes his belong
ings. especially his haversack and can
teen: and SO lives, while he lives, respect
ed by himself. his comrades. and his Off
GERS. and doubtless wins the approving
smile Of Heaven.