Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-29


trotter the other day. but they also pre-
pare WA. they eat and drink with too
much hurry to DO it properly An admlra-
hi. lesson could be Iezrned from the
Cubans that would lessen one national evil
OF ours very materially. l refer to the
making of coffee. or rather the preparation
of coffee before being made. We buy our
coffee roa sted. and. frequently. both roast
ed and ground in bulk. and its essence is
constantly escaping and diminishing its
potency for future strength The Cubans
never buy their coffee except in the ra"
state. and the grains are roasted only a
very short while before the coffee Is 10 De
made. After being roasted it is ground OF
beaten into particles about as snhal as
what We call ground coffee. Then the
Cuban roasts this again thoroughly. After
this second roasting the particles are VIZ
tually pulverized. The coffee then mace
by the CubanS is the finest IN the WorId.
IL takes more time and trouble perhaps,
but the delicious result would be worth
thrice as much Of both.
THE least thing l ever heard of that put
man in prison was the clue that took me
over the road between here and New York
about a dozen times in 1873. when l was
an inspector in the postal service. said an
old sleuth the other day to another who
had just told good story.
1T was an old case 1t had been the
books a long while. Four five good men
had taken a try at it. but the fellow was
too sly. and he kept taking letters and we
could never take him. The complaints
pointed pretty closely to the spot where the
trouble was. but when we got there Were
completely baf1ed.
Il had myself worked on the job a little
and gone at something else. In all these
detective cases II is in nine times out of ten
a mere chance that leads to success. One
day l happened to take out of a pigeonhole
III my desk a bunch of decOy letters that
had been sent over the line to catch this
sharp rascal, who was rObbing Washington
people of their remittances to New York.
Somehow | slid my knife through the seal
ed joints of an envelope. and there, caught
In a corner, was a short black hair. The
flap of the envelope looked as if II had not
been meddled with Yet it had been opened
and q dollar bill duly marked had been TAX
en- out and the envelope sealed up and put
back in the mail
II took that hair up as carefully as if it
had been a diamond 1 had found. / knew
that Just across It'll street was a friend of
mine, now dead who had powerful micro
scope. | rushed up to his office and asked
him to let me use his instrument a moment.
Under the glass the hair seemed to be one
from mans mOustache. / looked at II a
long while and did my friend. We
agreed that it was whisker. sure enough.
and l was confident 1t was piece of the
thief we wanted to catch. If we had stop
ped there and gone after MIN we SnOulu
have failed again as completely as ever be
fore To make assurance doubly sure l
went to an Optician and he put the hair I'M
der the most powerful microscope ne mad.
Almost without hesitation he said: This is
not a black hair, but d red one dyed black
II is red At the end
II looked for myself, and sure enough II
was So | went back to the office, put my
desk in order. got all the data In this case,
and that night started over the line to
New York once more. We were satisfied
ElrI-.t hi Il
New York so l took Ii easy until | got to
the Delaware river Then l got down 10
business. | saw every man that handled
through pouches from there on to New
York and / took mental photograph of
every mustache in the service between
Philadelphia and New York. l looked for
black mustaches and for red ones, and L
was especially interested in any that had
the least sign of being dyed. At Trenton l
found a red musteche. hut / went on to the
end of the route still looking for another
of that shade. I found none. That chap
was ny man. I came back home, and for
a week played toss and catch with him,
sending through his hands perhaps fifty de-
coy letters some with stamps in them,
some with dollar bills and some with mon
ey orders. In less than two weeks We had
him. and he went over the road for two
years and eight months and the trouble
ste pDed.
1T all began with my finding that one
little STUDY hair in the corner Of that en-
Veloge-"
The adoption of skates as a means of
rapidly covering their unlimited territory
IS gaining favor with newsboys. Scores of
them wear skates and them with ad-
vantage in the race for the uptown dis
trcts after The Star leaves the presses
The boy without skates is easily outstripped
and in the near future the public may ex-
pect TO see more of the little fellows on
wheels. We have all sorts of rapid transit
in my city and are trying to get more
said a visitor from New York the other
day. but haven't any skating news
boys Every visitor to Washington notices
this clever application of the skate to bust
ness purposes. Nowhere else in the coun-
try are such opportunities offered for this
combination OF business and pleasure. l
walking along Connecticut avenue
from Dupont Circle yesterday afternoon
and met numbers of boys skates dash
ing along over the smooth aSphalted sur
face crying their Stars. Nearer Farragut
square | net more neWsbOys. They were
without skates, and the result was that
they found everybody supplied with The
Star by their enterprising competitors.
They Will all come TO the skate before
long"
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Whist teaching has opened a new field Of
lucrative employment for women The
groundwork for the skillful playing exhibit
Ell in the whist congress now meeting here
is laid by the expert teachers. who. as a
rule. charge stiffiy for their labor. One
teacher in Boston made IS Olo last year in
this way. She charged ST for a lesson of
about fcTjyfve minutes duration for each
class Of four persons. 50 that each indvid-
uai paid $50 for the lesson At the ex-
piratiOn of the forty-fve minutes the table
was promptly cleared and the next class
had to be ready 10 be seated, SO that no
time was lost Half an hour for luncheon
aud one hour FOR dinner was all that she
allowed herself from 9 o'clock in the morn
Ing uuriI 10 al night and there was always
waiting list Of applicants desiring to join
her classes.
In Boston there are many teachers who
make incomes Of $1,000 10 1900 d year
but the lady mentioned above has the top
score FOR success in this respect. of recent
years SJne men have been tempted into
the field by the MONEY obtainabIe. and it is
said 20 be fayor!te resort for professional
people who have become re-Iuced In -
cImstances and who were fortunate enough
10 be good whist players before The
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