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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-21
No Law for Interference

The secretary Of the Reform League re-
Gently made complaint to the superintend-
ent OF police against the exposure TO sale
or certain periodicals by news dealers
ana at the same time invoked the police to
prevent the proposed performance Of The
Degenerates." The superintendent inform-
co inc tneater manager, Mr.. Rapley, Of
the complaint, and at the same time state6
10 the complainant that there was no law
Tor such interference. and referred him
10 the law officer of the District Manager
hapley mas written Major Sylvester ex-
pressing regrets at the pubIication % a
matter In which the police were in no
way authorized by law to act and in which
tney did not act and wherein the facts
We're not presented
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-21
Funeral of wiIltnm w Ro,.

Funeral services over the remains OF
William W. Baden were held this afternoon
at his late residence. l64a 18th street north
west. Rev. Dr. Perry. rector of ST. An
ore" church, officiated. The nephews Of
the deceased were the pallbearers Mr.
badeh mad been resident of this city for
the past forty years. For a large mart Of
business ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-21

The bazaar and dance held at Northeast
Temple Thursday evening and last night in
the interest of the building fund of the
Home of the Good Shepherd were most
successful. number OF generous dona-
tons from merchants were received
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-21
elf they're Rich.s Shoes
they're proper"
Ten-one F, Cor. 10th.
Entire Building. ' dns, 9s.,

Keeping pace with fashion,
especially in the matter of
footwear, requires the closest
of application. All of our time
is devoted to the study, and
the whole of our new estab-
lishment, conceded one of the
finest shoe stores in America,
is devoted to the showing of
stylish footwear. Not the
staid and stock patterns usu-
ally seen, but those striking
new creations that suggest
individuality and exclusive
ness. For Spring and Sum-
mer wear, both in street and
dress shoes, Our present dis
play is extensive and hand
some.
We are prepared for the in
creased demand for golfng,
hunting and riding boots
with large variety of styles
in the very latest designs.
For weddings, receptions
and all of the numerous social
occasions we have a most ex-
haustive and beautiful show
ing of appropriate slippers,
embracing all the new and
fashionable colorings in kid
and satin and choicest STYLES
in patent leather.
We give prompt and close
attention to mail orders.
b. Rich's Sons,
High grade footwear,
Ten-one F, Cor. 10th.
Entire building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-21
MARRIED..

l-AEa0MBE- DTERyEN. On April IL, 1900. at
rhliadeirha; Pa by Rev. q. Rickley Burns.
Mr.: II. +. LARcuMBE If Washington 10 .
and Miss KATHARINE DEPERNEN of PhiIa-
delphia, Pa.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14

The state game and fish commission
has prepared statement regarding
the kinds of fish found in every lake
end stream IN Minnesota. The work
is the result of a laborious undertaking
by the wardens of the commission, says
the Minneapolis Tribune. All the
streams and lakes are enumerated; the
fish found therein, the kinds, and the
comparative abundance, as far as can
be estimated, given. Furthermore,
sportsmen will be told by the commits
sion whether the water is clear or
muddy, good for game fish or better
for other species, and details are given
regarding depth of water and the abun-
dance of food fish. 1t is expected that
this statement will be of advantage in
keeping the lakes stocked, and that
hereafter prosecutions for violations of
the law will be easier, as the culprits
will not be able to swear that the fish
was caught in international waters.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14
PuNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Miss Founder (at the. piano)-'It
you would all talk in the same key,
/ could accompany you so much bet
ter r."-Philadelphia Bulletin.
Maude-"What is the quarrel be.
tween Alice and Kate?" Ethel-s'Why,
you see, Alice asked Kate to tell her
just what she thought of her," Maude
-"Yes?' Ethel-"Kate told her.
Marengo Republican.
Hicks-"Has your furnace worked all
right the past winter?" Wicks-"Oh,
yes; the furnace has done its part; but
the fires that 1 have been able to build
in it have failed entirely to commune
cate any warmth to the house."-Bos-
ton Transcript.
A Little Daffe-'sThat man sneaking
down the alley there is one of the best
known men in town." Also d. Affe--
"You don't say!" A. L. D.-"Yep,
That's why he sneaks down the alley.
His creditors infest the main streets
indianapolis Press.
do you believe that those who can
sing and won't sing should be made
to sing, Mr.. Sourdrop?" asked Miss
Screecher, with a coy glance toward
the piano. NC, believe in letting
well enough alons," said the mean old
thing.-Baltimor American.
"Some people," said the timid man,
"are criminally reckless. Now, think
the man who jumps on moving train
is q fool" "Well, if he isn't one" re-
piled the other, "he feels like fool
when the woman 20 whom it belongs
looks at him as if she'd like to chew
him up."-N. Y. Press.
When they stopped the machinery
and dragged the crumpled workman
out from between the wheels, they
feared he was finished. However, he
opened his eyes and spoke in a faint.
far-away voice. "You kin say wot you
please" said he, "but as fer me, this
travelling in cog amt the game they
make it out to be."-Princeton Tiger.
"This poor fellow said the visitor
at the asylum, "seems to be in pret-
ty bad way" "Yes," replied the at.
tendant. He went crazy managing
dramatic and operatic stars. But in
the next room there is chap whose
case is absolutely hopeless. He at
tempted to manage fashionable dra-
matte performance for charity. Phil
adelphia North American.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14

Prof. Atwater, who has devoted
himself to the study for number OF
years, declares that there is no single
perfect food, the nearest approach to
it being milk, says What to Eat. No
food, however, contains the essential
condiments in right proportions, and
thus we have to get what we want by
combining our foods. 1t will be great
shock to many thrifty housewives to
learn that beef and eggs are among
the greatest of all economic mistakes.
A single dollar spent in wheat flour
will yield as much nutrition as $50
spent on sirloin of beef. Sugar ranks
next to wheat -four as an economical
food, for dollars worth of sugar con-
tains as much nutriment as six dollars
worth of milk, s12 worth of eggs. or
$40 worth of oysters. In proportion to
their cost. oysters are almost the least
nutritious of all foods. Beans and
potatoes run close race for the third
place among valuable and cheap foods.
and the fourth place is. shared between
fat. salt pork and cheese made from
skinned milk.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14

lily, and Mr.. Soper seemed deeply i'm,
pressed. 1 retired quietly, ponder
ing .: went.
across Perkins. / mentioned seeing
him at dinner, and asked him casual
ly if he had come into q fortune.
Then Perkins told me q narrowing
hard-luck story, how he had happened
on to this solid, elderly party who
was evidently a millionaire, how he
had worked at him for three weeks,
spent $5s.45 in lunches and dinners,
finally written him for S50,000-no
less-and had him thrown down Oh
his medical examination.
II offered Perkins my sympathy,
and after that tried to forget the
Soper episode, until one day young
Peasley, our newest solicitor, took
me aside. Peasley had been acting
peculiarly. Ordinarily he was one of
those not unattractive youths who
share their hopes and fears with such
of their acquaintances as can be got
to listen. But lately he had affected
a portentous demeanor that had puz-
zled, the rest of the Office.
"'Old man. he said, quivering with
suppressed excitement, If / can raise
$50 I've got chance Of making q
years salary before Saturday
ut appeared that he'd picked up an
elderly gentleman, who was evident
ly a millionaire, and who had prac-
tically decided to have Peasley write
him for no less than $4,000. But, of
course, such a deal as that required
time and tact. For instance, on sew
eral occasions Peasley had taken him
to luncheon or dinner. OF course, you
couldn't ask millionaire out to any
quick lunch, and Peasley had been
able to raise about $45 so far.
/ when Peasley paused for breath
advised his Withdrawing from the
transaction where it stood.
"'Why, what's the matter with it?'
asked Peasley, bristling.
"'First, your elderly friends got
Bright's disease said; second, be-
lieve he's a nice, smooth gormandiz-
ing old fake
"Peasley got up and regarded me
sternly. He thought It was funny
that could identify his man on such
a meager description, and suggested
turning over to me the fakes address
after he had withdrawn from the
case.
"A fortnight later he came around
and apologized handsomely. He mem
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14
PICTURE BUYERS WARNED.
Noted Counterfeiters of Paintings
Are Hard at Their shady Work
in Europe.

In anticipation of the rush of half.
informed picture buyers at the Paris
exposition the counterfeiters of paint
ings by well-known artists are hard
at work. Mr.. Thurber, of this city, re-
ports the Chicago Chronicle, has been
notified by correspondent in Amsfer-
dam that that city and also Brussels is
full of spurious old masters, and the
case is instanced of picture that was
sold a year ago which has turned up
again bearing the name of more
famous painter than its author and
priced accordingly. From another
source it is reported that two of the
most famous falsifiers of pictures in
Europe are rushed with orders for
their specialties.
The London picture factories are
turning out old English paintings by
the dozen. Everything that will bring
a good price is being counterfeited.
They are principally sent to Paris.
where shady dealers are quick to pick
them up, but not few are sent to
America.
The dealers who do not scruple to
forward this dishonest traffic do not
as rule sell the pictures themselves,
but they are peddled about by ire
sponsible but glib and well-dressed
persons, who always tell the same
story. The picture belongs to some
private owner who is pressed for
money, but who desires to avoid pub
licity. For this reason his name cam
not be given. He could sell to deal
er, but the dealer would want to make
too much profit. He would want to
pay $1,000 and charge $4,000. The
owner prefers to sell to collector of
taste and judgment for $4,000. He
will even. being in straits for cash, take
$1,000. Finally, after much parley, the
picture is sold for $4,000, and the new
owner congratulates himself on hav-
ing obtained a masterpiece by famous
painter for one-third its value. This is
sample case, though the figures are
usually smaller. 1t is easy to give
a painting the look of age. 1t is only
to mix dirt with the paints and with
the varnish. Bad varnish dried quick
ly produces deep cracks, and these
can be made to appear old cracks by
putting another coat of varnish over
them. There is sure way of avoid
ing being. caught by such tricks; it is
to buy of responsible dealer and pay
the actual value Of the work.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14
The Largest Crystal.

At Acworth and Grafton, n. H., very
large crystals of beryl have been
found. One from Grafton weighed
$500 pounds, and another rom the
same locality was As by "a inches and
weighed by calculation about 2H tons.
In Utah crystals of gypsum, sulfate
of lime, over four feet long have been
found What is probably, however.
the largest crystal yet recorded. saws
the Engineering and Mining Journal,
was mentioned in a paper by f. O.
Hcvey on the Harney Peak district.
South Dakota, read before the New
York Academy of Science. This was
a crystal of spodumene, lithium-
aluminium silicate, which, by actual
measurement was 90 feet in length.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14

In his history Of New York one Of the
classics of American authorships, Diedrick
knickerbocker (WashinRton Irving) wrote
lovingly, yet with uuctuous sarcasm, of the
beauties and traditions Of ais loved "Nieu
Netherlands" the peaceful valley of the
Hudson from Albany to Manhattan, the
many legends with which the entire region
abounds- that of Rip Van Winkls
and his long sleep-aDd of the ancient names
and families whose descendants are still
power in that locality. So far-reaching were
the effects Of the History" that in time the
one for the patron saint of New York City,
he usually being represented as benignant
old German of ample girth, clutching firmly
the long-stemmed clay pipe which Irving inn
mortalized and gazing over his beloved City.
Recognizing the veiu of sentiment in the
American 3 people % long % ago q train train service 81 was
to which Father Knickerbocker lent his
name and through the efforts of the line
which introduced the service the "Knicker-
booker Special has become ss familiar to
the average travelled American as to the res
idents Of his own City. Leaving st. Louis at
noon, the traveller is borne swiftly and safe
ersing by daylight those scenes with which
he was so familiar, arriving at New York the
next day in time for a leisurely preparation
for evening.
so popular has the service proven that the
Big Four has started q new train as COM
panion, it leaving St.aLouis 500 A. NJ, re-
ceiving all Western and Southwestern con-
nections and arriving in New York at 2:55
the next day. This train is known a. the
New York and Boston Limited, but the way
farer who travels much will call it Number
Sixteen in emulation of his railroad breth-
rem and inquire if "she" is on time. A
months business has demonstrated that it is
a success. The Big Four's motto is Com
fort in travel" and the train amply lives up
to the motto. as a trip on it will prove to
those who desire every convenience in travel.
A letter to the General Office of the Big
-Four at Cincinnati about any of their trains
will always receive prompt and courteous
reply.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14
COAL PRODUCTION.
The United States Is Now the Greatest
Producer of Coal I'm
the World.

The United States has taken the frs,
place among the worlds coal produc-
ers as it had already taken the first
place among the pig iron producers.
The significance of both facts, says the
Journal of Commerce, is largely en-
hanced by the vastly greater supplies
of both coal and ore that we possess
than any of the other civilized and
manufacturing nations. 1t is probable
that China has very large supplies of
both, but for some years they will not
materially affect the worlds market.
The coal production, in short tons. for
the past three years has been as fol-
lows:
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14
HOODS
Sar-saypas,Wa
Il Americas Greatest Blood Medicine.


An Usage Indian named Laboring Miles
was taken before Indian Agent Pollack few
days ago for some medicine. As it Is rare
thing, says the Chicago Inter Ocean, for an
Indian to ask for white mans medicine"
the agent said: "Sick, Laboring!'
"Pretty sick, eh ~ continued the agent.
"Pretty near die replied Laboring,. after
pause. Looked up in sky. Saw big light;
saw Jesus and Jesus mother
The Indian then said his father beckoned
him to come up into the clouds.
"You ought to have gone" advised the
agent. Maybe you won't be called again"
The Indian shook his head.
Don't you want to 60 to Heaveny asked
the agent.
Not now" said Laboring Miles. IT want
to kill one heap d-d Indian before IRo."
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14

toned our manager and the police,
but discouraged the idea.
IF this story gets out now,' / told
him, wen be gray headed before we
hear the last of it. Let's keep quiet
and give Soper chance"
I'VE kept quiet, and Soper improved
his chance beautifully. During the
next six months he went through our
Office like IN epidemic. He was an
artist. We got SO we could spot new
victim by his symptoms-arrogancc
and mystery, and an urgent need CT
ready money. And after each man
had passed through the ordeal we
brought him into our secret conclave
and waited for the next.
"Then we made outside investiga-
tions, and found that nine-tenths Of
the life insurance Offices in New York
were being favored the same way, and
the rest were coming into line at the
rate of two or three a month. The
various medical examiners got so they
waived with any formal examination
when Soper' was brought in. OF
course they might have given the
whole snap away. but learned after
ward that he won their sympathy at
an early period. And as for the insur-
ance solicitors themselves, it got to be
point of honor in every Office in New
York to keep quiet and give newcom-
ers the benefit of the experience.
"Then, suddenly, Soper dropped out
of view and it was year before any,
one heard of him again. But one day
/ happened through his old haunt in
the smoking room of the top-notch
hotel and found him. He was dread
fully changed and sick looking. I
shook hands with him, but he didn't
know me. So introduced myself and
got heart-to-heart talk out of him.
He had been a bookkeeper some
where downtown, on an extremely
meager salary, and up to the time he
was so his life had been spent between
a dingy Office and shabby boarding
house. Then one day an energetic
young insurance solicitor had got him
interested in a small life policy for
the benefit of his sisters children out
in Wisconsin. The young man had
taken him to dinner at cheap French
restaurant--and the young mans COM
pauy had rejected him on the ground
of incipient Bright's disease. But
that modest French dinner lad been
a bright spot in his career, and it set
him thinking. And as result for
nearly three years that lonely life
was gladdened by the best table
uxuries that the best restaurants in
New York could provide.
"And it may seem strange, but a
few months later when poor old
Soper went before his final Examiner,
an enormous wreath of immortelles.
the gift of some 60 odd New York life
insurance solicitors, lay as tribute
on his coffin. n.''-N. Y. Sun.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14

In Paris experiments are being
made with electric automobile fore
wagons which can be attached, some
what after the manner of a locomo-
tive, to carriages otherwise drawn by
horses. The fore-wagons are so ar
ranged that when hitched to car
riage all the mechanism required 20
manage tnem is directly under the
hand of the driver, as in an ordinary
automobile vehicle. The method of
attachment is such that the fore
wagon can be removed, and horses
substituted in its place without diff
Guilty.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14

The sulphur mines of Sicily yield
over 100000 tons year.
1t is stated that there are made in
England, for home use and exporta-
tion, more than 2o,0oo,O0o pins daily.
Newberg, Ore.,. is to have a beet
sugar factory if the farmers will con-
tract for the necessary acreage OF
beets.
1t is said that British farmers and
dairymen are to-day milking over A.
100000 cows, and producing annually
in their dairies e 32,000,O00 worth OF
milk and butter and cheese.
Experiments by E. Klein indicate
that, contrary to common belief, such
germs as those of cholera, typhus and
diphtheria do not survive more than
three or four weeks after burial in the
ground.
The number of winks in given time
is found by Kotz, a Russian physician,
to furnish fairly accurate measure
of the degree of eye fatigue caused by
various illuminants. This method
gave the following unexpected results
from readings of ten minutes: With
a candle, 6.S winks per minute; city
gas, 2.s; sunlight, 2.2; electric light,
1.S.
1t has been calculated that mini
mum pressure of the finger of one
quarter pound is needed to sound a
note on the piano, and that at times a
force of five pounds is thrown on a
single key to produce single effect.
Chopin's last study in C minor has a
passage, taking two minutes and five
seconds to play, that requires total
pressure estimated at three full tons.
Every wheel on Pullman car is
made of paper. You do not see the
paper, because it is covered with iron
and steel. The body of the wheel is
block Of paper about four inches
thick. Around this is rim of steel.
measuring from two to three inches.
1t is this steel rim, of course, which
comes in contact with the rails. The
sides are covered with circular iron
plates, bolted on.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14
Egyptian Porcelain.

A French chemist, M. Chatelier. has
established the fact that the compo-
sition of Egyptian porcelain from Mem
phis is wholly different from that of
Chinese porcelain, and this is regard
ed as making it probable that the an
cient Egyptians had process of their
own for making true porcelain.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14

"Yes," replied the Boston parent, "a boy
soon acquires vicious habits if be il su{-
fered to miRgle with street boys Once
thought otherwise, and permitted our Emer-
son to choose his playmates as chance should
throw them in his way. 1t wasn't week.
sir, until that boy, in spite Of his hereditary
tendencies and the careful home training
he had received, was asking me hypothet-
ical questions that simply reeked with casuis-
tryl"-Puck.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14
How Much
You Eat

Il not the question, but, how much You d.
eest, because food does good only when il
Is digested and assimilated, taken up by the
blood and made into muscle, nerve, bone
and tissue. Hoods Sarsaparilla restores to
the stomach its powers of digestion. Then
appetite is natural and healthy. Then dys-
pepsia is gone, and strength, elasticity and
endurance return.
stomach Troubie-"My mother had
. very bad stomach trouble. She weighed
only Ill pounds. After taking four bottles
of Hoods Sarsaparilla she weighed l36
pounds. She took it again after the grip and
one bottle got her up" Miss Otie Mccoy
628 Lafayette Ave., Lebanon, Ind.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14

Mother (sternly)-"He kissed you twice.
to my knowledge, and don't know how
often after that" Daughter Neither do
arithmetic. Philadelphia Press.
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14
Pennsylvania

The production last year was not
only far beyond precedent, but it was
considerably larger than any estimates
that had been made during the year.
The coal output of the three largest
producers in 1898 was as follows:
The Colfax chronicle., 1900-07-14

|
Unlted States......... ......~s.......... ziS5aa,e6a
Germany ia, ~, lS6
The next country in the list is
France, but she follows at very great
interval and is dependent upon import
ed coal.
OF the increased production of BIZ
luminous coal last year, amounting to
nearly 32.000,O00 tons. over 10000. 900
was supplied by Pennsylvania. Illi-
nois's increase was nearly 100000 and
that of Ohio was more than 2.000, 900
tons. The increase in West Virginia
was 100000 tons and in Colorado near
ly 100000.
The estimated value of the entire
production in each of the past three
years has been:
leSl $lyS, Wy, 7Ul
i@SSS @ aS w S50
1899 259, 435, ,412
The average value per ton in 1897
was shade under ST.; in 1898 it was
95 cents; last year it was little more
than 81.
In a review of the worlds coal trade
published in Enguand four years ago
it was stated that between 1sS3-S5 and
1s94-96 the cost of production in the
United States had been reduced from
6s. Sd. to As. 10Hd., and was then lower
than the value of coal at the pits
mouth in either England or Germany.
The place the United States is to oc-
cupy in the manufacturing world is
indicated by the fact that the cost of
production in England must increase
with the deepening of the shafts, while
the coal area of the United States is
so great that little increase from this
cause need be anticipated here for
many years, while we are already the
largest and cheapest producers of coal
among manufacturing nations.