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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
FOOD FOR THE LAsCARs.
queer Assortment Which n Ship Ca
tain Has to Give.


tain Has to Give.
From the Baltimore Sun.
Shaboodeen Mahomed Cassum is the
Leading sarang on the British steamer
TrentEam Hall, loading at Locust Roint
for Havre. Yesterday in his native tongue
he conversed with Chief Officer Haddy,
who handles Hindoostani with the grace of
native, and talked of food required by
the articles signed by him and thirty-seven
other Lascars. who make UP the crew OF
the Trentham Hail.
shaboodeen gave it out that for the
next twenty-seven days his countrymen
on board would observe the month of
fasts by eating but one meal a day and
that In the evening. The other fasts kept
with the religious fervor of the Mussulman
IL Ramzan and Mahoram the latter being
IN remembrance of the death of Hassau
and Husson, sons of Mahomet
TO feed the pagan appetites on boa
captain Black has to provide as follows
each day for each Lascar:
one pound and a half of rice
Eight ounces OF dal Qentils).
Four ounces of ghee, native butter
made of mutton fat. When ghee cannot he
supplied oleomargarine is used and is the
most favor1te substitute for ghee
Salt without limit, although eight
ufachms Is marked on the articles
one ounce OF curry
Eight ounces Of dried fish at sea
TWO ounces of sugar
One ounce of tamarind to mix with
curry. VIII
Four drachms of tea
One ounce Of lime juice
One pound of potatoes
-Four ounces of fresh meat
Four ounces Of onions
Lave sheeD must be provided. The kill
Ing OF the sheep is done in a SACRIFICED
Kramer and must not be touched by Chris
All cooking is done by members of the
crew, for whom a separate galley is pro-
waco, that there may be no contact with
the food Of those On board who are not
children Of the prophet.
Religious exercises are not FREQUENT One
who is the superior of his brethren in edu-
cation reads to the assembled crew each
night In the forecastle selections from the
English.
In the port the Lascars work from : q. m
till pm. In cold weather. and when i'm
England from am. till 4:3O pm. Con-
trary to al! sea routine, they are en-
ployed on deck by day only At night.
with the exception of serving as the look
out for two-hour periods, the deck is under
charge of the officer on watch and the
quartermasters. all of whom are Irishmen.
OF course. a sudden need for help calls
out the Lascars, which rarely happens.
Besides this, the Lascars enjoy half a day
off duty on Saturday and all day Sunday.
the small duties required being, Of course,
attended to.
When asked II his countrymen drank
spirits. Shaboodeen gave a smile peculiar
to the unobtrusive son of Mahomet, but
said nothing. Mr.. Haddy has found after
ten years experience with them that the
Lascar will drink anything offered him
when he is not expected to pay for It, But
even with this Christian vice. the Lascars
are sober men, who faithfully perform
their duty and never give any trouble to
officers or to each other They ship for
one year. generally, about Bombay and
Calcutta. and they must be returned to
their own port without expense to them
selves. The British board Of trade has
thrown safeguards about them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
The bondage of Hairpfns.


When will women discover how to dress
their hair without hairpins? Hairpins, I
understand from Mrs. Humphry, are the
chief obstacles to feminine Independence.
How truly fiendish hairpin can be no
mere man can ever know. When 1t presses
against the skull and produces a local
nerve torture of an indescribably vicious
nature, 4 man might imagine the the easy
thing would be to pull 1T out A
woman feels so tremendously at a disad-
vantage if her hair is untidy She cannot
really so? When women sit in the house
of commons, shall We read in the parIia-
mentary reports something like this: 1.-The
leader of the opposition spoke with bril-
liant effect till her hair came down. when
she lost the thread of her speech and re-
sumed her seat amidst sympathetic muir
murs, in which the right honorable ladies'
on the treasury bench cordially Joined 30
do not make this suggestion in any mis-
cradle spirit of burlesque. For if in
the withdrawal of that single pin,~ saws
Mrs. Humphry, with genuine eloquence,
1.-The whole bright couture should come
tumbling down, ay! there's the rubr' Men
continue to maintain that woman is con-
additionally Illogical and febrile, when
they know nothing about that hairpin
pressing against her SKULL Clearly, the
woman who discovers how to make the
stability of the bright coiffure' automatic
will sound the knell of mans Wanted SUI
prelnacy in argument!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
Health of the Piedmont Region.
DR.. II. L. Dabney in Southern States Farm Maga

As to health, the climate is the most
salubrious in the world, free from malaria
and much milder than that of the Missis-
sipp! valley or central states of the same
latitude After this preliminary explana-
ton, let US turn our attention to the soils.
In this respect the Piedmont region is a
rather striped or spotted country, that is.
it has several distinct varieties Of soils
having different capabilities. 1t presents
no such expaI. Of uniformly rich soil of
the same kind as are seen in central Ken
lucky or the black belt of Texas. The
traveller, after riding over some miles Of
the finest soil, may find change very ca
priciously and completely. The crown and
glory of Piedmont region is, first the red
granite land. This Is under laid by syenitic
granite (the farmers call it calico rock
from it's notified COLOR divided by some in
iected veins of trap and dolomite. 1t is the
disintegraticn of this granite which fur
nishes the most precious clements to this
soil, potash and lime.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
Hotel Fleischmamn, Alexandria
land you've got pretty good hand-eh.

And you've got pretty good hand-eh.
Zach?
Worth couple of years of my pay as
a toga wearer, supposing I've got good
game man to buck against
Unbeatable, Zach?
Practically
Well, Chandler said Copkling, you
may be pretty well fixed in that hand. but
I've got one here that l am convinced no
gentleman ever ought to play and he
spread out his pat royal flush.
Chandler looked at the hand for mo-
lnent in silence
'Conkling,' said he finally, you're a
queer mixture of Don Quixote and Prince
Charlie-which means, or ought to mean,
that you're a id good fellow"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
IRRIGATION IN EGYPT.
Work Yet to lie Done TO Develop
Further Resources.

Work Yet to lie Done TO Develop
Further Resources.
G. W Stevens in London Mail.
The irrigation of Egypt is not finished
yet There is still vast deal to be done,
especially in the way OF drainage. 1t is
not enough to bring water to the land: it
must be taken away again. Land can be
made out of desert by water; but there is
also much that can be made by drains out
of swamp. Beforenthe British engineers
took things in hand lower Egypt either had
no drains. or 1t was a hopeless tangle of
unfertile drains and, fertiiizing canals run
ming into each other, and canceling each
others work. That was Egypt all over.
Now new drains are being made. every
where, and old onesisiphoned under canals
they empty into. It'is work Of time. and
it is work Of money-aTld only when you
know how tight money has always been in
Egypt can you appreciate the work Of Sir
Colin Moncrieff and Sir William Garstfn
and their men. Only money Is all right
just now; in two years the caisse-perhaps
a little ashamed of its close-flstedness
about the Dongola campaign-has granted
out of its idle reserve nearly million for
irrigation and drainage. Egypts money
could not be better spent for Egypt's good
One more great work remains-the pro-
jected reservoir at Assouan If the Nile
could be held up and stored there, then
upper as we'll as lower Egypt would rejoice
in two crops a year, sugar could be pro-
duced enormously and at high profit, the
cultiyable area of lower Egypt once again
vastly increased. above all the very posi-
bility of water famine done away with for
ever Only the reservoir would cost five
millions 1t would pay Egypt over and
over again. and the Caisse de la Dette has
an easy five millions of Egypts money.
And because the project is British, woulu
be executed by Englishnen. would consti-
tute vet another British boon to Egypt
France saws no. That-you would har dly
believe it Of a nation which remains great,
In snite of continual efforts to be small
that is Frances Egyptian policy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
Bull Fighter Gored to Death.

San Antonio Dispatch to 81. Louis Globe Democrat
A dispatch received here tonight from
San Luis Potosi. Mexico. states that at the
bull fight there today Nicanmor Villa, the
chief bull fighter in Mazzantinis celebrated
troupe, was gored to death by ferocious
bull. The bulls were picked from the noted
Espirftu Santo stock, and were the fiercest
ever seen in San Luis Potosi. One bull
killed four horses. The goring of Villa was
q horrible spectacle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
Elegant Table Naperey
For the Social Season.

The best of everything Linen now DISPLAYED
i'll very large assortment at the Linen Department.
Besides complete
there will be special display Monday morning beautiful
of Imported Pattern Cloths and Napkins
goods have been received through Georgetown house.
and direct from the best Irish Scotch Being
of direct Importation the designs distncvy
be seen elsewhere.
range from yards 2x5 yards also Ak, wards
Napkins to match in I and ! sizes.
The designs include PARTLY acint-Japanese
ma-Grasses and Cover-Dndelon- acknowledgements of
Peas-Dasy and Spot-Feurd Wreath
.Ins-Poppy-Iouis Ky
BuebeI, Etc
display Monday very choice specimens
Table Cloths round
long, for
Banquets, Receptions, Dinners, etc.
cordial invitation extended all who and
examine these exquisite linens.
Prominent among special items selling at
prices prove of interest, the following:
Sheets utof IOom,.
each. 24x29 yards each.
100 dz Immei Hssts Towels "n nn 29x2I yards Sc each.
,o l., <, ,,,, >,, l2sc' eacN. Muamp
SI.I5 dozen. --@ S 81, ,
Value ST. IS i-2'' '"N"'
600 nmaren nansk Tea Cloths num-
re designs ii m
SIPS to s375 each. Sc yard
s@cya aeinch.F
s ' ass: ssIs :Hs ss a s yard
ST. 90 25c. each.
Regularly seoo, s2.e5 and ST. Value soc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
A magnetic Island.
From, Tit-Bits.

FT0m I1t.bft8.
In the Baltic sea there is an island of
Denmark called Born;holm. which consists
almost entirely Of magnetic. It is much
dreaded by navigators. because 1t renders
steering q ship by means Of needle I'M
possible This influence Is felt miles away,
and a. soon AZ the island Is sighted all
mariners Of TIE Baltic turn to light houses,
ETC., to direct their course.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
ALL DRUGGIST
ja22-11t
We sell the Pillow Inhaler.
Merits, nth and +,
Want. Money for Railrona Eare.

Levi e. Harrison, the missing South
Washington huckster. who left his bride
of five months Monday night, went TO
Philadelphia He had about $40. but now
his money is gone. and yesterday he ts!s.
graphed his wife to send him IS In order
that he might not have to walk home,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29

Priestley's Atwood Poplin.
a inches wide.
SI.oo to $2.oo yard.
Priestley's Silk and Wool Poplin.
$500 yard.
Priestley's Atwood Bengaline.
As inches wide.
$I.5o and $I.75 yard.
Priestleys Atwood Memphis Stripe.
45 inches wide.
S2.25 yard.
Priestley's Silk and Wool Crepe
Cloth.
A inches wide.
ST.5o yard.
Priestley's Silk and Wool Eudora.
AZ inches wide.
SIPS to $500 yard.
Priestley's Wool and MoIlair Mat
lasSe.
~ inches wide.
$2.25 yard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29

Lupins Atwood Twilled Serges.
80 inches wide.
75c. to SI.25 yard.
Lupins Atwood Crepons, plain.
A. inches wide.
SI.oo and SI.25 a yard
Lupins Silk and Wool Crepons.
A. inches wide.
$2.75 and $500 yard.
Lupins Japons.
Silk and wool, but 70 iooE like all silk
4J inches wide.
$500 yard.
Lupins Camel's Hair Grenadine.
As inches wide.
SI.oo and $I.25 yard.
Lupins Iron Frame Grenadine.
45 inches wide.
SI.5o to So. so yard.
First floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
MIni.ter powen Not recalled.

Assistant Secretary Day says there 10 no
truth In the report that United Statcs Min
lister Powell at Port au Prince has been
recalled. and adds that there IL not the
slightest prospect Of such action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29


straight or bobbed to a flush Conk,ing
was unques;ionably a man of great nat
urai hauteur, yet / have always believed
and Hantained that the somewhat AFRO
CANT and domineering manner that he ex-
hibited In public, and that often caused
Rim to be SO thoroughly misunderstood,
was nore or less of pose The news
paper writers set him down and paraded
him as an Ajax from the very beginning
OF his service here, and 1t suited Conk-
hrgs fancy, when he perceived that it
would be quite impossible for him to clear
hiinself of this reputation, to study the
part that he had perforce to accept, and
to portray 1t with consistence ard elab-
Grafton throughout his public career But
In social life. in daily intercourse with men
that he knew and liked. Conkling was a
prince and as gracious, generous and ac-
compiished prince, 100. as ever gained
the affectionate esteem and admiration Of
lis friends
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
ITEMS Custom Tailoring.

order upward; Trousers ORDER upward;
Ovecoats o order, $1,000 upward.
making especially good Spring Ovecoat
light dark oos and making in the latest STYLE with broad Tapped
seams deep collar and substantial Innings for So
Black Cheviot Overcoat o order for
They don't you take them. We be
celebrated for good tailoring and selling goods be-
cause they perceptby different from Others
I'm connection with regular suburban deliveries will make
following Hyatsvine Badensburg
Langdon Winthrop Heights and Ivy City Wagons will
o'clock Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
HOW THEY. PLAYED
Some Intellectual Giants Who En-
joyed the Game Of Draw"
C0NKLlAG, SHERMAN AND SHERIDAN
They BIuffed and Fought With
Words and Cards.
TWO REMARKABLE HANDS
CONKLIHG, SHERMAN AND SHERIDAN
TWO REMARKABLE HANDS

OSCOE CONKLING
was as fond as the
next man OF a little
game Of draw" said
an elderly Washing
ton clubman, who
for a generation has
been on terms of So
cial intimacy with
famous men at this
capital, land he was
a s C h a ming a
poker antagonist as
ever tried to fill an
n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
With His Friends.

He liked. say, to play poker, and dur
irg the last four or five years of his SEN
atorial life he would drop in at John Cham
berlin's occasionally while Congress was
IN session to sit into game there with
friends. all of them prominent public men,
who liked the mental stimulus and excite
ment OF drawing cards, and who were
always more than willing to engage in a
game in which Conkling was one Of the
piayers-for the cultured intellect and we'll
stored mind of the New York senator never
shone more brightly nor more variously
than during these memorable sessions at
CARDS with his friends. Quite often, those
among us who were not fortunate, or I'M
fortunate, enough to be swirlers in the
vortex of public life would be invited to
take hand at these delightful poker sea-
arces; and /. for one possess no more
valued recollections than those that often
recur to my mind of the dozen or so oc-
caSions on which l played draw poker
with Roscoe Conkl!ng sitting opposite to
ne.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
When Conklins and Sherman Crossed
Cards.


Cards.
General Phil Sheridan was often one or
the players at these meetings. and when
General Sherman was living In Washing
ton he. too, would occasionally happen
around when the game at Chamberin's
was In progress and take a hand. With
Conkling and Sherman in the game the
talk at the poker table was a good deal
more interesting to some of US than the
game itself, for both men would constant
ly exchange witty dabs at each other, and
the oral sparring between these two re-
markable men was brilliant and entertain
ing In the extreme. Their pokes at each
other were always perfectly good-natured
and harmless. Different as they were in
profession and temperament. Conkling and
Sherman were about evenly matched In
wit, and their mastery of repartee, and
both men seemed to find huge pleasure in
practicinS on each other in their hours of
relaxation, especially at these card meet
ings.
'Conkling' said Sherman one night to
the New York senator when the game was
in progress, that Hyperion curl of yours
may now assume an added twist the effect
of woe. and that Hercules chest prepare to
array itself in a tunic of penitential sack
cloth-for I've got you licked. Full house,
jacks up on eights,' and Sherman spread
his hand out on the table.
Sherman. said Conkling. beatific
smile fiickering at the corners of his mouth
when you marched to the sea at that ex-
ceedingly theatrical period of your career.
and reached the sea, had it not been bet
ter for you if you had kept right on march
ing, even to the point of complete and final
submersion, thus to have spared yourself
the modification of being thrashed right
out of your boots at this epoch of your
history by mere civilian? Four sevens
and Conkling raked in the pot with a flour
ish. grizzled old Tecump chewing the
butt of his cigar thoughtfully.
No Quarter With Sheridan.
But Conkling played his hardest against
General Sheridan. The two men were great
chums and confidants, but when they got
into a poker game together 1t was, of
course. In a good-natured sort of way, give
and take and no quarter. When Sheridan
was in the game Conkling simply devoted
all of his study and skill to the task Of
beating the hero Of Winchester, and, on
the other hand. Little Phil would pay
hardly any attention at all to the other
players, he was SO eager to roast his friend
Conkling. Very often the rest of US would
at a sort of tacitly understood signal, drop
out, even whsn we had good, playable
hands, just for the fun of seeing Conkling
and Sheridan at each others threats.
Phil said COnkling one night when he
thought his hand was inyincible, be advised
j have your interest at heart We all ad-
miro your historical and present rashness-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
Special.

SpGCHdHe
100 Embroidered Bureau and Buffet Scarfs. size
c0x54 inches beautiful hen stitched and open-work
effects. at the following price, which is very
much below the usual
$I.5o each.
Regularly S2.oo, $2.25 and $3.50.
Second foor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29

600 Hemstitched Danask Tea Cloths. In a Num-
her of choice designs and in sizes 36x36, 45x45 and
56x56 inches.
SI.25 to S3.75 each.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29

100 Bleached Damask Table Cloths
2x21. yards
$500 each.
100 doz. Hemmed Huckaback Towels (all linen.
1Sx3G inches.
I29c. each.
100 doz. SIS Bleached Napkins.
SI.I5 a dozen.
Value $I.35
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
Dining Room Furniture.
PariOr Furniture.

apiece Psrlor Suite upholstered In silk
damisk. Was $8S. This sale ..... SD so
3-piece Isrlor Suite, upholstered in fine
silk damask. Was $50 This sale $50 so
l 5-pi &c Psrlor Suite. upholstered in silk
damask Was s6o. This sale -. $50 IS
] 5-p!ece Parlor Suite. upholstered 10 fine
vcloar. Was $50. This sale s SEA 20
Cash or Credit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29

Very effects shown and designs are exclusive
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-04
land; George w. Pirch, Zanesville: D.

land; George w. Pirch, GAINESVILLE; D.
l. Rogers, Cincinnati; J. j. Thomas,
Havana; N. E. Shank, Dayton; J. w.
Jones, Niles; John S. Smith, Akron.
Deputy Sheriff S. S. Foreman, with
Samuel Ramsey in charge, passed
through the city yesterday enroute to
st. Clairsville. Ramsey is affected
with insanity and this makes the sec
ond time he has been taken in charge,
having been released only gcently,
when it was thought that he had re-
covered.
A well attended social meeting was
held last night by Bellaire Castle, X
G. E. and the Ladies auxiliary. Quite
a number of visiting Knights were
present from Wheeling and other
points, and an exceedingly enjoyable
time was spent by all present. At the
conventional hour the members and
their guests partOok of an excellent
spread This being finished, the hall
was deserted at 1870.
The meeting held in the parish room
of Trinity church by the Mothers Club
yesterday afternoon was one of the
most profitable that has yet been call
ed. The attendance was unusually
large and an interesting programme
was rendered. The most pleasing fea-
lures were a paper on Education Of
the Father" read by Mrs. w. N. Saw
yer and an address on "The Care of
Sick Children by DR.. J. w. Cooper,
A very enjoyable social time prevailed
throughout the entire meeting.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-04
ALEXANDER
SHOE SELLER,
O4O MAIN STREET, WHEELING.

amicable arrangement has been made
whereby Crumbaugh is to get another
place that will be satisfactory to him
and his friends, while the original
agreement as to the steamboat inspec-
torship made between the President,
Senator ElkinS and the other friends OF
Capt. Chancellor and Capt. Rathbone,
of Writ county, will be carried out.
This agreement, as already stated in
the Washington dispatches to the Reg
lister, is to the effect that the present
supervising inspector of steamboats,
for the Seventh district, Capt. Chancel-
lor, shall remain in office until the end
of his four-year term, in April, and
then Capt. Rathbone shall be nominal
ed to succeed him. There may, OF
course, be hitch in this arrangement,
through failure to find another place
for Maj. Crumbaugh, which will be &C
ceptable to him. AS, this arrangement
was entered into several days ago, and
the President has not yet withdrawn
Crumbaugh's nomination from the
Senate, it looks as if the President was
determined that his old friend must
be suited in another place before his
name is taken from the slate for that
of the steamboat inspectorship.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-04
BELLAIRE NEWS.
CsntreVille Woman Dies from the Eff
teCtS Of Burns---Funeral Yesterday.
miscellaneous Items of Interest.

Mrs. Mary Jackson, who was
seriously burned at her home in Cen
treville Wednesday morning, the de-
tails of which were given in the Reg
lister, died Wednesday evening from
the effects of her injuries. The de-
ceased was sixty years of age and was
one OF the most respected residents OF
Belmont county. The funeral took
place yesterday afternoon at 2:3O
o'clock from her late residence at Cen
treville, and was largely attended by
sorrowing relatives and friends. The
nterment was made in the Centre
vile cemetery. The deceaseds daugh-
;eF' Mrs. George Walters, of this city,
attended the funeral.