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:lOsed out to-day at pr

closed out to-day at pr
FUR JACKETS.
all that remain of our stock; aud
these will he sold to-day at follow
ing reductions;
2 So Black Astrachan Jackets. with real
marten collar and lapels. az $50 each.
j SIS Electric Seal Jacket. $40.
s25 Electric Seal Jackets at SIS.
SIS Electric Seal Jackets at $40.
only 1 each Of the following Furs
In to-dny's Odd-and-End Sales
] sos Electric Seal and Real Marten I'M
peral Stole for $3.50.
s2j Real otter Stole for SO.
So Baby Persian Lamb Stole. Si5.
l S25 Persian Lamb and Bearskin Col
larette for $40.
$50 Brown Marten Collarette, 50.
$50 Gray Krimmer Collarette, So.
SIS Electric Seal Chinchilla Collarette.
$40.
so Electric Seal Gray Lynx, very long
stole, SO.
$3.50 Electric Seal Colarette. $40
l Sl5 Real Beaver Scarf, $3.50
1 sl5 Real Marten Scarf, $40.
1 $3.50 Real Mink Scarf, SO.
LONG FUR CAPEs-OSI.Y 1 OF EACH
KIND.
Real Monkey Fur Cape 20 inches long,
50.
1 so Real Astrachan Cape, q inches
long. 50.
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l $50 Electric Seal Cape. - inches long
fVfg, wit II
1 sl5 Electric Seal Cape. 20 inches long,
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price sI.5O. sizes 3, -, 4, and -, for
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This FRIDAYS ODD AND end Sale

will include a great
many little lots left
over from the holidays
a great many articles
slightly rumpled or
soiled during the h0h.
day rush, which for nc
other reason are to be
bargains to you.
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Book and Job Printing neatly executed
az the Dlsratch Printing-House.
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rbe Christmas festival Of the Male Or
As,lum took place THURSDAY eve
ti''' -.ea o'clock. TheExecntiye Board
~. aevlnm and many other guests
~. present The boys sang many
t.entiful selections with me eHeo. "nN
.evoral members of the board iu1uo ~
celleut addresses. Mrs. Gin 'eu 'i'S No.
steal part Of the pfograinilec, , ann 80 re
vtS.-a bovs. Mrs Burton gave seVe-
,,,,t,btf,il dialect recitations, ana
~, the audience by her exquisite
s'' ..r forwards a magnificent Christ
,nns Inner was served. and the boys OF
ibe asylum closed the evening with an
t,,,,..is,tie colte-wak. These annual
feasis are enjoyed by the young ana old
ono note OF sadness was sounded last
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-12-29
JACKETS AT HALF.
So Now for $3.50
and $1,000 Jackets.

Ladies' Fine Kcrsey Top Coats. in Tans.
browns. Casters. Blues Grays and
Blacks full-sik lined. every one this sea-
-on's newest style and make. jackets tnat
We sold hundreds of This season az ~.
nd $40. ail marked down 81 90
ladies' HIeh-Class Black Boucle JACK
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logne. Everybody saw it was great sue
cess. The aerial navigator went exactly
where he pleased Now he was navigating
out of sight, toward Mont Valerien, when
all at once little girl exclaimed: It's
broken! In fact, 1t was broken. The
crowd raised up shout of horror. A thou
sand feet up in the air, the great cigar
seemed folding in the middle. Its coming
DOWN. they cried. Mon Dieu. CONNIE ca
descend!' Thereupon. with various flutter-
mgs, now sudden and now slow, the air.
ship f1oated downward, making great
waves il the air with its frail rattan car
Underneath there was a general state of
panic. II est perdu!" the men exclaimed
Mon Dfeu! LIE pauvre jeune homme," the
ladies answered. Children cried as the air
ship was lost to view below the trees Yet
it did not turn out unhappily. The next
morning it was learned that Santos Dumont
had come back to earth without mishap.
l called to ask him why the thing had
broken.
Why 1t Came Down.
l found the adventurous navigator in his
private room at the Hotel Powers, sur
rounded by the welcome accents of the
English language.
why did the balloon go DOWN." re-
peated Santos-Dumont For the simple
reason that the air-pump ceased to work
One of the first problems of ballooning is
that Of stability. As one rises from the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-07
NEW NEtkWEi
The Latest Ideas in Scarfs and Four
Midland CoBceits.
STERLING HELLO.

From the Philadelphia Times.
With the smart fall tailor-built gowns are
worn variety of pretty. becoming neck
trimmings. Until the furs are cal cd ont by
wintry weather the neck capes VIII be one
of the principal features Of the fan toilets,
for high neck efforts are as much in vogue
as ever
Even the seVerest Jailor-madc gown
boasts some softeuing effect at the neck.
whether it be only fun butterfly bow or
some gauzy material, or long, fun boa OF
frilled mousseiine &c sole or net.
The lace scarfs that were so much in
favor years ago are worn again. Some OF
them that / noticed particularly were made
of the finest net and were trimmed around
the edges and ends with apPhques Of Race,
all of the popular laces, both heavy and
delicate, being used.
They are unusually long this year, and
are rifle broader at the rHGs, for they
are supposed 10 be knotted into short bow
at the throat. while the ei is taA nearly TO
the bottom Of the gown. The addition Of
wired lace MediC!s at the back OF the scarf
gives touch of chic 10 scarf.
The cutaway jackets OF this season es-
pecially adapt themselves 10 the scarf and
boa effects; while with the close-Guing
jacket the roGnd collar shapes of neck trim
ming suit best
Just now the shops exhibit such n variety
of models, from the simplest spangled but
tcrfly bow TO the most elaborate collets
Even the simplest among them demands "A
pretty price-a price that the truEal-minded
woman frowns over when she counts up the
cost of materials. Her efforts at dup,icat-
ing these models at home often proves dis
astrous though, for a klack that amounts
almost TO a talent must be possessed by
woman who fashions successfully.
n small ribbon tie That was particularly
smart worn with a plain black cloth gown
was made Of white MORE. Ii was carried
twice around the neck, knotted Ia "four-in-
hand" fashion, and the ends were brought
down into the narrow celnturC Of white
MORE. Three tiny buttOnhOles were worked
down the middle of the tie; and novel studs
of stars and jets We're inserted, giving quite
an air of dash. With this tie there was a
high band mounted by narro y flarng col
lar of the MORE. 1t was detachable, SO that
the cravat alone could Tee Worl.
Another -four in-hard" that was charm
ing, worn with an Elton jacket, was a COM
bination Of mauVe satin and Chanully lace.
The band that went around the neck the
knot and one end OF the tie were of the
satin. The other end and the frill that
mounted the band were of Chantilly lace.
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where he pleases in the view of everybody.
Sant0S-Dumont is a PariSianiZed Brazilian,
young, rich, a horseman and an automobile
enthusiast 1t was, indeed, the automobile
that gave him the first hint for his air ma
chine. The extraordinary gasoline motors
that propel these racing vehicles over
binary roads at forty miles an hour appear
ed to him to furnish exactly the combina-
ton of force and Iigktness necessary to
aerial navigation. \ more delicate COM
bination would be that OF the exploding
gasoline in the motor and the explosive
hydrogen gas in the balloon. 1t must be
supposed 1t furnished him a sporting inter
est for it did not stop him.
1t was a bright afternoon when, with a
dozen other Americans, l went out to the
Jardln dAcclirnatation, for the first time
to see the balloon go up. The Jardin d Ac-
cilmaton Is the center of the popular Pa
rlsian interest in ballooning. Here the at
fractions of six captive balloons compete
with those of the monkey cages the dog
show and the fashionable symphony con-
celts in the Palm Garden. 1t is supposed
that the exposition of 1890 will have a
great deal to show about ballooning. Mean
While the Parisians are making their first
trips, held down to the earth by a long
rope.
The cigar-shaped airship was already
there inflated. In the little basket under
meath it stood Santos-Dumont flushed
busy, giving orders to the men who were 20
let the ropes go at signal A dense crowd
was gathered round him. Three of the
large captive balloons Were filed with pas
sen2ers all ready to go up with the in
treptd young man. This was exactly what
he did not want.
Il Will not go up with them he called
out eXcitedly. in French and English. 1T
is too dangarousH His propeller might
have jabbed them. His exploding gasoline
might have exploded them When this was
explained their ardor to go UP with him
ahated. The photographers complained
loudly of the crowd encroaching on them
Ladies and little children held their cam
eras ready. Tie kissing, suffering noise
of the motor mingled with the whirring of
the propeller. The cry of the hot waffle
man was heard above the hummng of the
crowd. And the first practical airship ever
seen in Paris went up, for the twentieth
time.
One Man Hardly Enough
1t is cigar-shaped balloon, eighty feet
long and ten feet in diameter. Thirty feet
below 1t, In the center, attached by novel
Kind of rigging, hangs the little rattan and
willow car that holds the motor, the pro-
peller, the steering gear, the air pump the
attend to all of them at once. Santos-D u-
mont himself says that the work is almost
too much for a single person. When he
builds another he will make il large and
powerful enough for two.
The airship rose rapidly. It continued to
shoot up until it reached about the level OF
the Eifcl tower. Then it began its hori-
ZoEtal journey Three times according 10
the program. it made a great circle round
the spot from which it mounted Pointing
slightly upward it steered higher into the
air In the direction of the Bots de Bou-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-07
USED ALI. WINTER.
Lace Waists VIII BE Worn With Cloth
and Silk skirts.

From Harper's Bazaar
Lace waists are to be used all winter with
cloth skirts well as with silk, and most
of them are extremely smart They are
made over silk or satin, with a satin yoke
and vest. The newest model turns back
from the shoulders with pointed Tevers. has
a straight piece down the front held in by
black belt, and the back is cut Hike q
mans cutaway coat. 1t is very odd I'm ef-
feet, but exceedingly smart. particularly IL
made of the heavy yellow lace. Such a
waist is worn with a black silk or black
cloth skirt thus making two costumes from
the one. Black lace waists are not so
smart as the white ones, but still are used
They are made up over white, and trimmed
heavily with black satin and little r1ichings
of lace. Chiffon, by the way, is 10 be used
again on everything, even more than lace
Some of the new silk waists have the body
of lace, the sleeves of silk shrred or tucked
and with deep lace cuffs. This is q more
becoming fashion for a stout woman than
when the waist is made all of lace. A pale
blue is very effectively made with a belt and
collar of blue mirror velvet. Heavy black
lace put on over white satin looks best with
black cloth skirts, and very smart model
has the body of black guipure lace tight
htting at the back, and in front cut in
double boleros over white vest The
sleeves are of black satin, with deep cuffs
of white satin with lace over and edged
with black chiffon. This same chiffon is
put around the edge of the bolero Jackets.
This is exceedingly becoming and a very
useful style of waist. Some waists-so-
called lace waists-are nearly all satin or
silk, with deep cape collars Of lace and
cuffs to match. The collar and cuffs can
be taken off and the waist worn plain. In
buying a collar of this kind IL is best to
buy one that has very long points. Some
come with points so long that they reach
to the belt. There can be two shorter
points over the sleeves, one in front anu
one back, the one in front forming a tight
fitting vest. The cuffs should cover either
the upper or lower part of the sleeve. Some
people prefer having the upper part covered
and the lower part plain, with a ruffie OF
lace a the waist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-07
CROSSING DASHERS.
They Are One of the Trials of the
MOtOrman.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
"These here crossing dashers will be the
death of me yet" grumbled a trolley car
motorman, as he gave the crank vicious
twist. What are they, did We say? Why,
these undecided folks that stand waiting
for the car to pass until it's just beginning
to move and then give plunge and barely
clear the safety net. See that woman?
shes the worst kind Of crossing dasher.
know her because she's given me palpita-
ton of the heart more times than I've fin
gers and toes. When / stopped a minute
ago she came walking up to the corner and
stood there, looking kind Of resigned, as if
she was really waiting for me to go by.
There was time enough for a whole regi-
ment to crawl across on their hands and
knees, but she never budged an inch until
had turned on the current and the wheels
were just beginning to move, and then she
made a dive that nearly scared me to
death. a.. e.
What makes them do ita / dunno. They
seem to be working up their courage and
get 1t to the sticking point at about the
same time we get through waiting. They
are the plaques of the business, but l think
| broke one crossing dasher Of the habit
few days ago. He was a mddle-aged man,
very respectable looking, and very timid
yet he'd take chances righk along that were
worse than San Juan hill ATT last 1 got
tired of having my nerves. jolted that way,
and, besides, didn't want his Mood on my
wheels, 50 1 lay for HIM Ndxt time he
came to the crossing watchedshim out of
the corner of my eye and d staAed up real
slow with my hand on the. leyek.
HE gathered himself itogeta3er, glared
around, like they all do, ahd made his rush.
but the minute he did O. 4 reversed the
motor, rang the gong aboht 100. times. and
yelled at the top of my Iodee. you ought
to have seen that dasner! He was SO
scared and bewildered That The turned
around like top and scooted first one way
and then another, right IN front of the
fender, until l thought I'd split laughing
II hadn't stopped the car he'd have been
killed sure His plug hat fell off in the
mud. he dropped lot of books he was car
ryins and never stopped sPrinting until he
tripped over rail and sat down hard
enough to make hole in the Street. When
helped him up he told me l was his pre-
server and began clawing for his wallet,
but stopped him and said no, I'd only
done my duty, and that, kind sir, is reward
enough. Great speech, wasn't it? l read
1t in a novel. It's what the hero saws
when he-yes, that is your street Tell you
the rest another time. Well, goodbye"
We seldom realize it, but very frequently
the reason we have no use for people is be-
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earth the air becomes rarer. Its pressure
being less. the gas in the balloon expands.
1t would burst if ii could not escape from
a small hole which every balloon has. II
would be ideal IL just enough gas should
escape to keep the balloon hanging in the
air. exactly poised. It's tendency. unhap-
PLY, is always to so u little bit too high.
The gas expands. 4 little too much gas
escapes, or else the sun is ubScured by a
cloud. The gas cooS slightly and contracts.
The balloon descends 4 little. You must
throw out sand to make it rise little.
Then 1t always rises just a tIifie more than
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Shifting the Weights to Steer Upward.

two turns of the piston. Ii was Santos
Dumont who had the brilliant idea--which
will bring him a great deal of money-of
employing two cylinders in the same en-
CINE. They work twice hard, with scarce
" any more weight. They give the pro-
peller Loco revolutions to the minute; and
this propeller, sticking out behind the car
of the balloon, exactly like the screw be-
hind a steamer, forces the air ship through
the empyrean at the rate of twenty miles
an hour.
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lRANCFI HAS SPENT
2.VD0. 900 francs $50
900 in the study of
ballOoning and aerial
navigation. In a mas
terly series of expert
ments its experts
h a " demonstrated
every way in which
an airship will not
work. Meanwhile a
priv a / e individual
goes sailing around
Paris. driving his
cigar-shaped balloon
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I'VE Will say that the balloon is ready,
filled with a hundred dollars worth of hy-
drogen gas said Santos Dumont a pained
expression coming to mis- face with the last
words. This little item of expense is one
that may not be forgotten in ballooning.
With the automobile, after its first cost. the
expense is trifiing. A few quarts of gaso-
line may be had anywhere. Unhappily. a
balloon can be filled only where there IS a
hydrogen gas machine. Even my little bal
loon takes a hundred dollars worth of gas
for each imitation, with which it works in
the air only twenty-four hours. The bal
loon is there, ready, Juggling at the ropes.
get into the car. l examine the air pump.
L see that the pulleys of the fore and aft
weights in the rigging work easily | have
sixty pounds of sand under my feet L
start the gasoline engine. All is ready, and
/ say, Let gor"
What is the first thing you feel?"
"One feels nothing. In a balloon there is
no movement. Going up, the earth sinks
down beneath yoH simply. l have often
been with people going up in spherical bal
looms for the first time and l have always
noticed that they showed no fear. Up to
the last moment they We're frightened but
once started, the lack of sensation is so
pleasipgly surprising that they are lost in
admiration. The nausea of ballooning does
not come from fright or giddiness. Like
mountain sickness, it depends on the in
creasng rarity of the air.
Steering Upward.
THE airship goes up?"
Yes; the airship goes up and up until it
strikes its natural altitude The larger the
balloon the higher 1t will go. 1t poises
WHEN the increasing rarity of the air COM
bines with the expanding gas in the bal
loon to form an equilibrium. / have tcld
you how the gas expands and must escape
how the balloon always goes little bit
too high-how it descends again and must
be lightened-how 1t mounts again a little
bit too highland all the zgzag difficulties
Of the problem of stability. Well, say that
have reached my altitude, between 600
and 600 feet. The time has come to navi-
gate the air. put the motor working at
full speed The propeller whirls and off /
go. no longer a balloon, but steamship in
thu air. / steer for the north and / go
north. l steer for the east and 1 go east
The thing is perfect / navigate at INV
will. The screw fans of the propeller drag
the cigar-shaped balloon through the air
as the screw of a steamship drags it
through the water. The big ruddcr at the
back OF the balloon gives the direction
Only I am navigating twice as much as
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He Translatcs.
From Puck.

She Il gave the dressmaker carte
blanche"
'Merciful heavens! Carte blanche?"
She-"4es- l suppose you can translate
the expresson?
He-"Oh, yes! It's French for extortionw
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-07

Mrs. Finnerty (reading)-"The days and
nights in Greenland be six months long"
Mr.. Ffnnerty-'Faix, an OF don't behave
ut How could a baby yell for six mont's
shteedy aN night?"
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stopped Stopping.

From the Yonkers Statesman.
Bill-"I thought You said yesterday you
were going to stop smoking?"
JILL did; but managed to borrow an
other dollar"
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check MD fflpuld ltI &,
crook and sneak thief
have, it now seems,
lost one of their most
productive fields of
operations. Or if they
have not lost it their
hold is menaced, and
menaced seriously.
Criminals of this ilk
are finding a new era
before them, the in
wardneSS of the stu
alton being that since
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it ought to. The gas expands again. The
gas contracts 1t goes down again and up,
continually in a zigza9, called the balloon
irg montagnes rusSes. or shoot the chutes.
Now, above all things. | must maintain the
form of nay balloon. Whenever gas escapes
l must fill up its place with air. Inside the
large balloon there is n smaller one, into
which air is pumped. The air-pump ceased
to work. and / came down"
How II Works.
The first thing the inventor showed me
was his new motor. the lightest and most
powerful of all engines. Heretofore every
one feared combustion in connection with
ballooniug. The motor of Reynard and
Krebbs, experimenting for the French gov
eminent, was electrical. Il took 1899 pounds
of weight to develop six horsepower. The
gasoline motor of the daring young Bra
lillian weighs only fifty pounds and has
three and a half horsepower. Standing
compact and upright In the little car, it
scarcely looks like an engine at all. There
ceptacle. Air passing through 1t comes out
mixed with gasoline gas, ready to explode
The aerial navigator reaches out behind the
car, and gives the propeller blades whr
The thing works automatically. The piston
goes down, sucking the combined gas and
air into the cylinder. The piston comes up
and Congresses it. The piston goes down,
striking an electric spark. There is an
immediate explosion. The piston goes up
again, discharging the used-up gas in the
fern of smoke. This is the operation of the
modern French automobile engine a d@uX
temps, which gives one explosion for each
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WHITTIER HE WILL
A French Balloonist Who Can Sail
Through the Air.
he uses A GASOLINE PROPELLER
Seems to Have Solved Some of the
More Difficult Problems.
HOW HIS AIRSHIP WORKS
HOW HIS AIRSHIP WORKS

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PARIS, December ~, 1898.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-07

We seldom realize it, hut very frequently
the reason we have no use for people is be-
cause they will not allow themselves to be
used.-Puck
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GUARDING TREASURE
Methods Which Banks Have Adopted
for Their Own Protection.
how THIEVES ARE HELD At BAY
Sharpest Wits in the Country OPP
posed to Them.
A UNION AGAINST CRIME
A UNION AGAINST CRIME
Written for The Evening Star.

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