Evening star., 1898-04-09


Written for The Evening Star
Reading the article in The Star Of last
Saturday on shoe laces," remarked a shoe
dealer to a Star reporter reminds me of
the largest shoe ever turned out in the
regular way by a shoe factory. You may
have seen the story of lot of shoes Or
dered by dealer in Africa, who specified
that he wanted the shoes all Sizes running
from seventeen to thirty-three as my GUS
toners are principally members of the big
foot tribe Well, it surpasses even the lars-
est OF that lot The shoe was presented to
dealer named p. Tuperdy, more as q COM
piimeHt than for actual use. Its size Is leo
even The last on which 1t was made used
up hfty-six feet of Canada pine. 1t is three
1eet six inches in length. and nearly eight
cen inches in width. 1t took an entire hid.
or leather to make it, and actually cost
$50. Mr.. Tuberdy has pretty good sized
loot but this shoe would be rather loose
On him.
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My recent visit to Havana" remarked
q representative to Star reporter, Opened
my eyes to many of the peculiar conditions
OF things that exist in that city, and as it
vas my first inside sight of the Havana
lottery business, 1 was greatly interested
IN H. Notwithstanding all the war talk
enc preparations for war the lottery busi-
Eess goes steadily on and there are daily
besides the monthly and ssemi-month!y
cravings As the government Is behind
sthe scheme they will not give the people a
fest' the profit in it is enormous and the
people pay daily tax through the medium
Oh the scheme, without ever realizing that
they are paying it. The Spaniard is a sport
Si the way through, and it appears that
ne would as soon think of doing away with
Sne ol MS meals as he would with his daily
n re- ranrt H.
OF ucketS, for saw as many women in rho
sottery omces as did men. They reminded
me more of the high flyers to be seen about
reu not mining town than anything else
cdH compare them to. While none of them
apparently had penny to snare thev Ill
ANeo on IN expectation of being about to
e.IIhe IL r1ch or win the capital prize he
s a1re .He oay was over. The police of the
Siiy oispose OF the tickets and every resi
oeht Oh the city has to take one each da,,
~ give some good reason for decIjning
ne last Sunday 1 was there / saw an o.
saloe seillng tickets to the people as thev
eaihs odt OF church, though while in The
church they were also asked and m. -. oti oue
RAINY required to make a contribution 70
M maius the support of the city government
tL et.y government as such does not sell
iar .o,,ery tickets. but it has a lot of simi-
tar t ways TO raise money the profits fro,,,
.ne lottery goes to the royal eovernr,an-
.nat Is, the horde of Spanish officials ubo
are 1oisted upon the island by SPAIN o
The lightning rod asapt d.
throughout the land" expIained -,
ihe man to Star reporter. "and wbiIa
his business is not as good as :, NO.. -
he was on the earth before. 1t is nick,n,,
UP wonderfully The urbtnin. - e
now admits that the old-time iron rod Of
fords little or no protection but h, 49,.
best scientific authority in exis,an.s
a
copper does give protection. The ligbtnine
rod mans harvest is made a,on. ~. =.
iaht1c coast. and particularly the south
Atlantic coast. He seldom has to u,rk
the interior country for the average coun-
Try house provides itself with a Hpbtninr
ROD as naturally>as it does with a cb,r,no,s
put Is dcvoting his energies with the oyr
eFS and tenants Of the big CITY houses In
several of the states laws have basn Nos.
- Iequirihs lightning rods and a number
od the larger fire insurance comna ~.
Mrlte IN Their policies that they will not
pay iosses from fire from Ii9hfninor ,,nleSs
the property has been rodded Tba 60,
that the Capitol. Washington monument
ana the department buildings have gght
Iiis rou-' Is OF great value to the lipbtning
~ - ,nil n,an' ana ne never loses an opportunity
-. ~ nIake IL KNOWN This return TO earth Of
the hgEtnins rod man has deyeloned ,ba
.sct that In two-thirds of the houses on
rnlch rous were constructed in the davs
Ia Ia iron RODS were supposed to protect
.nere Is actually no protection or yerv III
Tie at the most. for the reason that ss.n
EXAMINATION lam Will show. the rods are very
oIten found disconnected and besides ero
., 10. run INTO the earth at their ground con-
sro,.',iI suihcient TO be of any service-the
srouhd connection should go ten feet In
.he earth so as TO insure at all times that
TESTS on moist ground. Otherwise a
nsntning rod gives no more prc,ect,on
rair r.,a,i uoes me down pipe that carries the
ram water from the roof In cities I;Le
asnington. where modern plumbing ia re-
quireu' the sewer gas and trap Ventilation
pipe. winch extends above the roof Is al
taihiy ten times better than nothing"
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hiie down In Abbeville South Carolina
recently, said Rev. Frank Parsons NJ Neu,
York to Star reporter. IT visited the IA
NOUS school house there The hu,Id,n. q,
not exactly famous for the Character NJ tho
education that is given there thoueb T az,
inclined to think it compares fayorablv with
its section of the country but for tho mart
II played during the war of the reheli,o,
IL was in this school house that tho frs,
meeting was held in favor of the secession
OF south Carolina, the first state to seceda
iio'h the nion 1t was also the place
"here the fist resolution of secession was
S'Vi pdSoSu IN a Few weeks IL was tho
scene OF the organization of the frst mill
tary organization which rendered its ser-
wees TO the confederate government. which
company, by the way. was the first conn
pany ever accepted by that government
Inc ilrst man who lost his life in the war
on the confederate side belonged tn that
company. ana ne was the first man who on
listed he was killed by the accidental dis
charge OF a musket, which, it is said wae
the nrst musket that was issued To the
company. though of that am nor "a nosi
tiVeiy informed I am about the other
facts under consideration. IL was also ona
OF the hrst schools to be closed in conse
Quence of the war for school purposes All
These are remarkable enough In their wav
as interesting facts in Connection with tho
rebellion. but il can also be truthfrllv
stated that IL was in this building thar Ief !
ferson Davis and his cabinet he'd the last
cabinet session of the confederate govern
ment- From this building they ESCAPED.
ana II Was only a short distance from these
mat the confederate president and the
members OF his cabinet were captured.
Hather remarkable. was IL not in view of
the extent of the southern states that tho
END practically. should have been in the
Identical building where the actual begin-
ming of the confederate government oc-s
CURED! Now. couple with the above the
other fact. even more remarkable. seem
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