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The Press., 1902-06-19
A STORY OF FORREST.
How the Peppery Actor Squared A
 counts With One Critic.

How the Peppery Actor Squared A0s
 counts With One Critic.
 Many years ago Edwin Forrest the celebrated actor, when in New York, was in the habit of dining at Win dust's, a noted restaurant on Park row taat was a favorite resort of ac- tors and literary men. It usually hap pened that Forrest would be joined by friends and that the little group would sit together at one table. On one oc- casion it chanced that an Englishman with a reputation for conceit and im- pertinence, who had scraped acQuaint- ance with the tragedian. was one of the group.
 Early in the course of the dinner the Englishman began to make criticisms which he considered pleasantries about Forests conception of certain roles. Encouraged by his own appreciation he gave full play to his humor and con- cluded each of his impertinences with, Pardon my freedom, sir; it's my way"
 To the astonishment of all who knew Forests irascible disposition he bore the Briton's offensive remarks patient ly and seemingly ignored them as far as possible. When, however, the nuts were brought in by the waiter, he took several cracked walnuts in his hand and, walking over to the Briton's place, jocularly snapped them successively in the face of that individual, lightly say ing after each shot, Pardon my free dom, sir; it's my way" and snapped him out of the restaurant.
The Press., 1902-06-19
Letter to Washington Graves.

StGfoad Springs, Conn.
 Dear Sir: When you build house you want a good paint next the wood-it goes a long way in taking care of the wood The paint that has the best chance to be useful in this first coat first two coats first three coats. The fret takes care oi the wood; the second takes care of the first; the third takes care of the two All three become one and that one is to last forever. Forever" means as long as the house lasts. The way to make the first painting last, as long as the house is to follow it up with repainting often enough.
 How often? Depends on the paint Repaint while the paint is still water. proof. All the wear is outside; there ie no wear on the under paint. This is how the first painting lasts forever: by keep. ing it covered: keeping it sound. And this is the cheapest way to take care of a house. But how often to paint depends on your paint. If you paint lead and oil paint again in three years or less; if De. voc lead and zinc, paint again in three years or more.
 That "less' and "more'' are about as one to two. Devoe lead and zinc takes care of house at half cost, because fl lasts twice as long as lead and oil.
 Yours truly,
 II F. w. DEvOR & Go.
 P.S.-Chicago Grocery sells our paint
The Press., 1902-06-19
Grewsome FootbaIl Legend,

Where did football originate? Some people give ancient Chester, in Eng land, credit for bringing the great winter pastime into existence. There is record of football playing in that city in the year 154O, but Chestrians believe in legend of much earlier date.
 In the tenth century, 1t is said, a Dane was captured and beheaded by the citizens. Some one began kicking the head about the streets, others followed, and it was discovered that this formed a new and decidedly fas- cinating sport. This was repeated whenever possible, but as enemies heads became scarcer and the enter tainment of kicking them more dif1- cult to procure 1t was at last arranged 'for the shoemakers yearly on Shrove Tuesday to deliver to the draper, in the presence of the mayor of Chester, one ball of leather, called football, of the value of 3s. 4d. or above"
 There is evidently a fine precedent for those concerned in the game ''los- ing their heads.'
The Press., 1902-06-19
A New DRnRer

A story is told in neighboring town, says the Troy Press, of the we'll meant efforts to do his duty of hostler en- ployed by local doctor. It so happen ed that the doctor was attending two cases on the same street, one house which had just been blessed by an heir and in the other existed 8 slight case of scarlet fever.
 The doctor instructed his man to take a contagious disease" card and tack 1t up on the house where lived the fever patient. Unfortunately the mes senger made a mix up in the location of the house, and what was the aston ishment of passersby to read on the house where cooed lusty newborn infant: Contagious Disease. Keep Out"
The Press., 1902-06-19
Miracles of Warfare,

Until war ceases, which will be the greatest miracle of all, it will always be the exhibition ground of miracles. How can a bullet puncture mans coat behind and before or piece his boot and sock and be gravely shaken out of both without wounding him? And what mysterious channel does this human body contain which leads a bullet dexterously around the heart, a hairs breadth from the seat of life, yet never rending it-a phenomenon vouch- ed for by more than one army surgeon
 Shells have burst thunderously be- tween the very legs of soldiers and left them still soldiers. Pompom shells of two inches diameter have passed through legs and arms without shatter- ing the bone or bursting at the impact, though there appears to be literally no room for such merciful performance. In fact, history of the escapes in war would be wild reading even after Q course of Munchausen.
The Press., 1902-06-19

time of the silk industry. We have req sonably cheap labor in the south, among the negroes, and expect to secure the help of Tuskegee and similar institutions to trainfthe reelers of raw silk. Mean while our scientists will direct their at tention to decreasing the amount of labor, and to finding methods that will compen- sate for the difference in wages. In the rice fields in this country there are in- stances of one man doing the work that it would require 400 cheap foreign coolies to accomplish. If we can do that with rice, why cannot we do 1t with other things P,
The Press., 1902-06-19

"YoU FEEL BETTER. ."-Yes, I knew you would after taking a cup of that strengthening beef tea, made from Swift < Co.'S famous beef extract. Now be good and tell your friends how 1t has made you feel, and let them feel good to-. The Chicago Grocery" will sell 1t to lem. It will be good idea even to tell your enemies about 1t, and then you wouldn't have any enemies.
The Press., 1902-06-19
What the Death Mask Shows. The value of plaster cast as DOT
With a Purpose.

"Wasnt there an ungrammatical sentence in one of your speeches?"
 'There was," answered Representa- tive Husker. 'T put it there on pur- pose. You see, we're plain folks up to Punkin Corners. and I don't want my constituents to think Pm getting proud just because I've come to congress- Washington Star.
The Press., 1902-06-19

How TO AVOID TRoUBLE.-Now is the time to provide yourself and family with bottle of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrh@a Remedy. It is almost cer- tain to be needed before the summer is over, and if procured now may save you trip to town in the night or in your busiest season. It is everywhere admitted to be the most successful medicine in use for bowel complaints, both for children and adults. No family can afford to be with. out 1t.
 For sale by E. K. Taft, H. F. Cady Stafford; Gardiner Hall ,Jr., & Co.,, South Willington.
The Press., 1902-06-19
Viruelnt Cancer Cured.

Startling proof of a wonderful advance in medicine is given by druggist G. w.
 Roberts of Elizabeth, W. Va. An old man there had long suffered with what good doctors pronounced incurable can cancer. They believed his case hopeless till he used Electric Bitters and applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve, which treatment completely cured him. When Electric Bitters are used to expel bilious, kidney and microbe poisons at the same time this salve exerts its matchless healing power, blood diseases, skin eruptions, ul- ceIs and sores vanish. Bitters, soc. Salve 25c., at Eaton's drug store, Stafford Springs, and w. P. Fuller's store, Somers.
The Press., 1902-06-19
One ar the Other.

"What do you think of that wheelY' asked Sprockets. whose bicycle had been in a collision.
 ''I think 1t ought to be retired or retired" replied Dinwiddie.-Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
The Press., 1902-06-19
The MOnOcle Is Harmful.

single eyeglass unless he is blind Of one eye. It's use means that one eye is neither employed nor unemployed, d, but is engaged in ceaseless though no doubt unconscious efforts to see as much as its more favored fellow. This straining is as harmful as anything could well be and cannot fail to lead to the gravest results.
The Press., 1902-06-19

After one woman has convinced man that she would die for him he te- gins to look vaguely around to see if there are any mOre.-AtchisOn Globe.
The Press., 1902-06-19
UMiUUe TableClOth.

When a southeast wind is blowing, the visitor to Cape Town is treated to a peculiar and interesting natural phe- nomenon, for under such conditions Table mountain, in the language of the natives, puts on a tablecloth."
 In other words, the thin line of feecy cloud forming above it descends until it rests flat upon the mountain top, with it's edges dropping gracefully over its sides.
 It is really not unlike the article of household use which gives it its name.
The Press., 1902-06-19
Similar. hut Different.

Biggs-W When I make a trade, l al- ways want something to boot. Diggs-Same here, and I usually get
 1t later when kick myself Chicago
 News
The Press., 1902-06-19

There is only one survivor of the war
 of 1872 and his pension has been justly increased recently.
The Press., 1902-06-19

An old tree has been cut down in the city of Worcester which has a clear rec ord of over two hundred years. ..
The Press., 1902-06-19
cGGtns.Ic LiCGgehOgs.

Cactu.eS are the hclgehogs of the
 vegetable world. Their m>tto is. "Ne
 mo me impune lacessit." Many a time
 in the West Indies l have pushed my
 hand for q second into bit of tangled
 bush. as the negroes call it, to seize
 some rare flower or some beautiful in-
 sect and been punished for twenty
 four hours afterward by the stings or
 the almost invisible and glasslike little
 cactus needles. The reascn for this
 bellicose disposition on the part of the
 cactuses is a tolerably easy one to
 guess. Fodder is rare in the desert.
 The starving herbivores that find them-
 selves from time to time belated on the confines of such thirsty regions would
 seize with avidity upon any succu'ent plant which offered them food and drink at once ill their last eXtremit... In the ceaseless war between herbi- wore and plant, which is waged every day and all day long the whole world over with far greater persistence than the war between carnivore and prey, only those species of plant can survive
 in such exposed situations which hap pen to develop spines, thorns or pric-
 kles as a means of defense against the
 mouths of hungry and desperate asssil- ants.-EXchange.
 What the Death Mask Shows. The value of a plaster cast as DOT trait of the dead or living face cannot for a moment be questioned. It must
 of necessity be absolutely true to na- ture. It cannot tlatter: it cannot cari- cature. It shows the sub. ect as he was or is. not only as others saw him in the actual flesh, but as he saw himself. And in the case of the death mask par
 ticularly it shows the subject often as he permitted no one but himself to see
 himself. He does not pose; Le GocS not
 ''try to look pleasant" In his mask he is seen, as it were. with his mask off.
The Press., 1902-06-19
Liver Pills

That's what you need; some thing to cure your bilious ness and give you a good digestion. Ayers Pills are liver pills. They cure con- stipation and biliousness. Gently laxative. All d1sssi.t.. zss; I Want your moust;lche or beard beautiful I | brown or rich black? Then use
 BUCKINGHAM'S DYE %bisEsra ter ths
 50 CTS. OF pRueelsrs, P. Co.,, NAsHvA N. II.
 Em9~
The Press., 1902-06-19

P.S.-Chicago Grocery sells our paint
Evening star., 1902-02-21
DOMESTIC TERRITORY
ATTORNEY GENERALS OPINION
REGARDING TUTUILA.
Merchandise Shipped From Pago Pago
is Entitled to Free Entry in
American Ports.

The Secretary Of the Treasury has receiv-
ed from the Attorney General an opinion
on the question of whether merchandise
shipped from Pago Pago. Tutuila. Samoan
Islands. is entitled to free entry into the
concluded by the United States, Great
Britain and Germany December 2. 1899
The Attorney General holds that Tutula
is domestic territory of the United States,
and that our tariff laws imposing duties
upon goods from foreign countries are
not applicable to goods arriving from Pago
Pago. 1T is possible says the Attorney
General. that German and British mer-
chants may attempt, under cover of the
provisions of the tripartite agreement, to
carry goods via Pago Pago into some Of
our other ports. since, according to the
doctrine laid down in Dooley VS.. the
United States and other cases. goods en-
tering Pago Pago from the United States
are not dutiable by executive authority,
and so as to goods arriving from Pago
Pago in the ports Of the United States
But this cannot alter the status of the
ports of Tutuila. nor does 1T present any
difficulty which Congress and the Treasury
Department cannot easily deal with.
''The treaty neither stipuates for free
entry with Pago Pago nor is intended to
provide a means for entry with other
ports on the terms stipulated in the case
of Pago Pago but only that the same
privileges we see fit to accord to PagO
Pago to our own commerce and vessels
shall be enjoyed by British and German
goods and vessels arriving there, and that,
reciprocally, American merchants shall
have the privileges In the ports of the
accorded there to British and German
commerce."
Evening star., 1902-02-21

briskly, and many of them are being occu-
pied for the Lenten and spring seasons.
The return Of the cottage colony has con-
siderably relieved the dreary aspect of
some portions of Chelsea and the upper
section of the city and accounts for the
daily increasing throngs along the beach
Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Seymor Of Washing
ton. d. c.. are passing their honeymoon at
the Traymore.
Among other Washingtonans here are:
I. c. Neale. Mrs. M. Nj. Parker. Mrs. II. =.
Burdette. William B. Matthews. l.. Small
ley. Miss Tompkins. George w. Dunlop.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. Frailey. Mrs. H. H. Suth-
rland and Miss Sutherland, Mr.. and Mrs
f. Seymour. Vav B. Scull M. M. Down
b. Hawley, Tyler Worthington. Mr.. and
Mrs. John B. Scott and John w. Scott.
Miss Lillian A. Nortan, MS. and Mrs. Sui
livan. Mrs. Goodin and Mrs. d. Pinvin. Mr..
and Mrs E. P Wells and their daughter,
Miss Wells. Mr. and Mrs. r. Tyler. A. FL.
Baldwin. Miss F. Bell. Miss D. Barry, M.
and Mrs. Griffin Halstead. Mrs Edward
Dangerfield. Miss w. c. Dangerfield. Miss
w. H. Dangerfield and F. l.. Dangerfield
Mrs. r. D. Jackson. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Cromwell. Mr.. and Mrs. u S. Knox Mrs.
Vanderpell, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Zetel!e. Miss
G. Magruder, T. p. Moran. E. H. Swain
Mr.. and Mrs c. Harrison, Mr.. and Mrs.
NOurSe and E. H. McGili
Evening star., 1902-02-21
HAGERSTOWN NEWS GRIST.
Opening of c. and o. Canal - To En-
large Antietam Reservation.
| Correspondence of The Evening Star

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
HAGERSTOWN, Md, February 90. 1902.
Active preparations are being made for
reopening Of navigation of the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal. If the weather permits the
waterway will be opened for boats on or
about March 15 The coming season prom
ises to be a busy one. and coal shippers
and boatmen are looking forward with hope
of renewed prosperity.
Charles w. Adams superintendent of the
Antietam battlefield has had a conference
with Burgess Thompson and the town
council of Williamsport, this county, in re-
gard to having Battery Hill in that place
decided to the government a part of the
battlefield and give it to care of the gov
ernment for preservation. 1t is said an
appropriation can be secured, and Senator
McComas will be appealed to to use his in
1uence to this end. Battery Hill is one Of
the historic civil war sites along the Po-
tomac, where Gen. Doubleday planted his
battery early in the war and fired the first
heavy shots Of the war across the river at
the confederate forces on the Virginia hills.
Williamsports municipal election will
take place on Monday. March g. and indica-
tions point to lively contest.
Hagerstown's municipal election has now
ries will be held on Saturday evening,
March I, when councilmen will be nomi-
mated in wards 2 and 4, and delegates will
be selected to the mayora,ty convention,
Monday, March 3. The republicans are
earlier in the field, having called a mayor
atty convention for Wednesday evening"
February 26, and conventions to nominate
councilmen on Saturday. February %.
The annual spring exodus westward of
parties seeking homes in the west has set
In. On Tuesday last a large party. for
Illinois, Indiana and other western states
left Hagerstown by railroad.
10 loo s,,&z
gerstown will charge storage on freight
left in their warehouses after the receiver
has been given time to remove it 1t is the
intention of the railroad to compel mer-
chants and others to remove their freight
promptly.
Deputy Game Warden .Averett of this
state has authorized the deputy wardens to
furnish screenings. etc, for birds free to
responsible parties.
Rev. Dr. Osborne Ingle of Frederick
states his son., Rev. James Addison Ingle.
will be consecrated February "a. as bishop
of Hankow, China.
Rev Joseph Bricker and family of Downs
vile, this county. removed to Baltimore on
Wednesday to make their future home
The reverend gentleman and family are
ton county.
Capt. ]. c. Byron of Hagerstown, who
recently returned from the Philippines has
been ordered by the War Department to
report for duty at Philadelphia, at the
Schuyll1ill arsenal. He has gone there and
will be Joined by his family in about
month.
Lieut.. John Beaumont is now at his home
In Hagerstown on brief furlough.
Evening star., 1902-02-21

for one hour. The contest took place at the
Monumental Theater, Baltimore. and was
for the welter- weight championship of the
south. Grant had thrown Harvey Parker,
and is undoubtedly wonderful wrestler.
In the match last night he had age. weight
and experience on his side. while Americus
had great natural ability. BY agreement
the men wrestled one hour, and, as neither
had gotten fall, 1t was declared draw.
Grant worked mostly with Nelson holds.
and Americus tried variety. At the end
Of ten minutes Grant; got rolling fall, but
pitfalls only counted. AT the end of twenty
minutes Americus eyened by getting roll
ing fall The betting was 2 to 1 and 10 to
on Americus. and party Of Washingtoni-
ans attempted to speculate on those terms
William Hart was referee. For Grant, Bob
Akers was timekeeperi and j. F. Hoover at
tendant; for AmericYs. c.. ]. Weiss was
timekeeper and James Boyd attendant.
Harry Leoni challenged both on behalf of
Harvey Parker, who 3 tof&restle in Balti-
more next week. n .3I.
Evening star., 1902-02-21
GREAT MEET ASSURED.
The Notre Dame Runners Here for the
GEORGETOWN Athletic Contests.

All indications point to a great meet
Judging from the way the tickets are sell
ing and the inquiries that are coming In to
the management of the indoor athletic con-
tests which are to be. given In Convention
Hall tomorrow night under the auspices
and supervision OF the athletic department
Of Georgetown University. The prizes
which will be offered have arrived from
New York, where they were made, and are
fitting souvenirs Of this big event They
consist Of silver and gold medals about the
size Of silver quarter dollar. On one side
Is mentioned the event for which 1t Is given
and on the other Ia the seal of Georgetown
University In bas relief. 1t was quite a feat
to get all OF this seal on the medal. A gold
corded chain Is attached to the gold medal,
the first prize, and a black brocaded silk
watch fob, with silver trimmings, Is fixed
to the second prize. silver medal.
Among the first Of the out-of city con-
testant to arrive were the members
OF the team from Notre Dame,
Ind. who came In last night. They
were not long in town before they had
donned their spiked shoes and running garb
and were on the indoor track in the new
Healy building at Georgetown. Their style
showed evidences of hard and careful train
Ing. They are husky and capable
put up just like typical runners. being
rather tall and raw boned. They took their
first spin on the track at Convention Hall
today.
One Of the races that should prove inter-
esting to the people Of Washington Is the
relay between the representatives Of Balti-
more and Washington branches Of the Y.
M. G. A. The number OF men in the Y. M
G. A. has been growing steadily since the
recent canvass and the number of athletes
has grown correspondingly. The Washing
ton boys are determined to make their
brethren from Baltimore run as they have
never run before.
The local high schools. which always
draw a large contingent from their alumni
and fond parents. are looking forward to
their relay race with unconcealed anxiety.
AS six teams are entered In the race for the
championship Of the District and the rival
ry Of the teams Is keen this race Is booked
as one that will raise the people out of
their seats, as well as raising the lungs of
the followers of each team This is the
first appearance of the Technical High
School. and the men running on its team
are fully determined to make the represen-
tatives Of the other schools who kept them
out Of the foot ball series look to their
laurels.