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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-19

Ten shares of Capital Traction stock were
offered at 12s. but the highest bid made was
122h.. Some twenty shares of Firemens In
surance stock were announced to be for
sale, but as the highest figure bid was 81
the stock was not sold, the broker offer
ing 1t for 3OR.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-19

few shares of the stock of the Farm
ers' and Mechanics Bank were sold and
one lot of six brought 314 Following this
S15 was bid for ten shares. but there was
sale
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-19

There was a small demand for gas stock,
and 5Il1 was bid and then j13t No stock
was offered at less than -. and eighteen
shares were sold m two lots at that figure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-19

The bidding for Mergenthaler ran up to
1918, and that bid was made for twenty
shares This stock was bought for lS1k by
the broker who had ii for sale The stock
was offered at 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-19

Nine shares OF Union Trust and Storage
stock were offered at log, and ten shares at
1O7. The highest bid made was 1851.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-19

bond list continues to be good. and there IS
no difficulty in disposing of securities OF TINS
class in quantities suited of course 70 the
limitations of the market. tendency To-
ward higher prices in this section OF tho
list marks ne trading.
At today's meeting a block Of Metropoh-
tan Railroad certificates. 6s, series A, was
sold for 1O3. and more could have been dis
posed of at that figure. but no more were
offered. The bid for series Il OF the same
company was advanced a half point. but
none were offered at less than 1O6k. the bid
price being 1851.
Two $1,000 bond Columbia railroad SIS
were sold at 1o3is an eighth less than
prices of recent sales. Gas certificates
were sold I'm $500 and $l.O0O lots at rs and
ia, respectively. The asking price for
900 was 11413 but no more were sold.
The bidding continued at 1lS7s.
The asking price of Washington Railway
As was 20. and two lots of 81 900 and 81 800
were sold at that figure They were Of
fered freely. but not for less than I3. thus
maintaining the higher level recently
reached. The bid price was 127s
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How to Play With Pins.

Stick pin-Place a pinchushion on
table or a chair at the far end of the
room and give each player pin.
Each player is blindfolded in turn
and told to stick his pin in the cush-
ion. AS he is bandaged at the end OF
the room most distant from the pin
cushion, and is not guided in any way
toward the goal. this will prove to
be no easy matter.
Pin point-For this game use a bas-
ket of apples. bananas, peanuts or bon.
bons. The starting point Is marked
by the basket and the goal by book
or anything that happens to be handy.
See that each person present has a
clean. new pin. Every player has
three minutes In which to get apples
or other trophies out of the basket
and run around the room with them.
The fruit is. of course. speared and
held on the pin. The young person
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CHAPTER XIV,

Five years had slipped away. One
autumn afternoon. not long after her
return from the seaside, Mrs. Stagg
was sitting in her drawing-room be-
side the low table, from which she had
dispensed tea to. five o'clock visitors.
There had been several of these. but
the last had just gone, and it was late
to expect more. She had taken ad-
vantage of being alone to fill cup
for herself, from which she was sip
ping meditatively. Time had been for
bearing toward her; she was cempla-
a daughter nearly old enough to enter
society could boast of SO good figure
and such a generally youthful effect.
But her present reflections concerned
neither her appearance nor her daugh-
ter. AS she set down the empty cup
she gave long sigh. as sort of out
let for her feelings. and glanced at
the clock While she was saying to
herself that it was late for her hus-
hand. he entered the room.
"Ah Cherub! am behind time. Is
the tea cold?"
Il have only this instant finished
mine"
When he was comfortably estab-
lished with a smoking cap, Emma
said: a
who do. you suppose has been
here?"
Like most men. Harold had no taste
for guessing. He merely stirred his
tea and waited.
"Owen Page she continued. "They
got back a week ago He is looking
wonderfully well-not day older
and he says that his wife has entirely
recovered from the effects of the Ro-
man fever
How long have they been abroad?"
Three years. They sailed fort
night after they were married. you
remember. and have been there ever
since. He says that, with the excep
ton of his wife's illness, everything
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Feat With Fiqures.

Here is something worth knowing.
After learning this little trick (though
1t Is really not trick. but an accom-.
plishmenD. you will gain the reputa.
tion of being a lightning mathenati-
clan.
Everybody knows that learning the
tens in the multiplication table is as
easy as winling, and that the fives are
not much harder. But. slight as is
the mental effort required in multiply
ing any number by FIVE. 1t may be les.
sened still more by discarding the mul.
tiplier entirely and substituting a de-
visor instead. This may seem i'm.
possible or foolish. but by experiment
ing you will find that dividing by two
you will bring the same result as
multiplying by five. providing you
add cipher to the quotient If the divl.
dend be an even number, or Ave II 1t
be odd. For instance, If you multiply
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SOON PauJ' in Fair Health,

Grim old Dom Paul Kruger. tragic
wanderer from the Transvaal, is in
lonely retirement at Mentone. He
wears a somewhat smart frock Goa.
and black trousers, and the familiar
stovepipe hat bound with heavy black
Grape, and walks with cane. A po-
liceman disperses the bearers Of cam
eras in front of the villa when the
former President enters the house
daily, about noon, after a morning
spent in the garden. The old man is
by no means decrepit and looks in
good health. He prefers the company
of his own thoughts to intercourse
with strangers.
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Look Pleasant.

At a recent meeting of an art club.
at which were twenty-five members,
1t was impossible to find one really
happy y-looking woman. The lines Of
anxiety. the puckered brows and
dropping mouths, made one member
feel that she would like suddenly to
flash mirror into each face and say:
Cant you look little more pleasant.
even if you don't feel like 1t. Just for
the sake of those around you?" Think
of sitting opposite a woman twice
perhaps three times-a day. and see
ing always a look of care and worry.
One couldn't blame a man for getting
discouraged The same thing can be
seen in cars. at lectures. and. in fact
everywhere, and even some young
girls and children have the same care
worn expression. If the carewOrn
look has become such q part of the
present generation that we cannot
part with 1t let us at least impress
future generations with the fact that
it is not only a thousand pities to
spoil their freshness with all these
needless lines and frowns. but real
wrong besides. One expects to look
older at 40 than at 20, yet need one
look as though she alone had all the
hard mes?-Good Housekeeping.
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Novelties for a Fair.

Key and Button Hook Rack-First
you must gild ball, and then around
the middle at regular intervals insert
some brass hooks. A yellow ribbon
and bow tackled on the top with small
tacks will serve to suspend it by and
this completes the rack. With the
gilt left from gliding the ball. and a
piece of bright ribbon. you can make a
Paperweight-Of six Of the large
nails. Gilt each nail separately, let
them dry, and then tie them securely
together with a piece of ribbon.
Ragballs-Prepare number of car
pet rag balls with small gift in the
center of each one. These sell rapidly
and it is amusing to see the buyers
unwinding their balls to discover the
contents, which may prove to be a
thimble, a bundle of jackstraws, a
Japanese top, or any little comical con-
ceit.
The same idea might be applied to
the always pleasing popcorn balls;
then the knick-knacks must be first
wrapped in soft paper to protect them
from the candy used in making these
balls. Pleasant mysteries and sur
prises are always popular at fairs and
the more that can be invented the
better.
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the guy-rope fastenings: two moro
may be run from the front upright and
fastened on the sides at the rear,
These ropes give stability to the up
right poles. An extra piece of can
vas should be stretched over the tent
roof. projecting beyond the caves and
covering the full length of the tent
for protection against the rain. 1t is
usually easy to improvise a floor from
the scattered pieces Of wood within
reach. A trench must be dug around
the tent to carry off the surface water
In case of rain.
With regard to beds 1t Is best, as Q
rule, to avoid sleeping on the ground.
A good couch can be made with a pile
of twigs of pine and hemlock. sacks of
leaves or balsam, or even with rus
tic framework Of branches covered
with the fragrant boughs. A regular
mattress sayors too much OF the city
which the camper has left behind. A
buffalo robe is the best mattress for
one who is roughing it. and blankets
will constitute the bedding.
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CHAMBERLAIN IN HIS YOUTH.
The Conservatives Looked on Him as
Their Arch Enemy.

The Conservatives Looked on Him as
Their Arch Enemy.
Justin Mccarthy once wrote the fol-
lowing about the first appearance in
parliament of Joseph Chamberlain.
who is now occupying such general at
tention: Judging from his political
speeches. the tories had set hini down
as a wild republican. and they ex-
pected to see a rough and shaggy man,
dressed with an uncouth disregard for
the ways of society, sort of Birming-
ham Orson, who would probably scowl
fiercely at his opponents in the house
and would deliver his opinions in tones
of thunder. The man who rose to ad-
dress the house was pale, slender,
deIicate-looking and closely y-shaven per
sonage. very neatly dressed. with short
and carefully brushed hair and wear
ing dainty eyeglass constantly fixed
in his eye. He looks like ladies'
DOCTOR one stout tory murmured
Seems like the model of head clerk
at west end draper's.' observed an
other. Certainly there was nothing OF
the Orson about this well-dressed, we'll
groomed representative of the Birm'
ingham democracy"
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Vacation camping among the boys
is looked forward to for months ahead.
The very thought of flying to the lake.
the woods or the open beach with his
tent, his old clothes and freedom from
restraint is one of enchantment.
Concerning tents. the party have
considerable liberty of choice. A shell
ter tent may be stretched to keep on
the dew, wind or rain, and is merely n
square of canvas. with buttons and
buttonholes at the edges, SO that two
or more of them can be joined to-
gether. Two poles are planted upright
to hold the upper two corners. and
the canvas slopes thence to the
ground, being held in position by pegs.
For ordinary vacation camping the
boys should have a regular tent. The
common tent, with sloplng sides. is
about Z feet high in the center. 1-3
feet wide on the ground and 6R to
feet long from front to rear. In the
army each tent Is intended to shelter
six men. For the general purpose OF
camping wall tent is best. The
side walls are 3la feet high; the ridge
of the roof, 8h feet; the spread on
the ground is 8 feet, and the depth
from front to rear is feet. 1t would
actually shelter eight or ten boys. but
a pleasure party will not put within 1t
more than four or five. or perhaps
six. The wall tent is the best gen
eral. all-around shelter for the camp
ing party.
To pitch a wall tent properly twelve
large and eighteen small pegs are re-
qulred, and there must be a ridge
pole and two 'uprights to support 1t.
Spread the tent upon the ground. the
ridge pole in position. Lay the two
uprights at right angles to. their cen.
ters touching the ends OF the ridge
pole. From each end of the uprights
take one long step. and TO the front
and rear OF that point another long
step. This will fix the places for
driving the four large corner pegs.
Drive the pegs and fasten the cords
to them; plant the uprights perpen-
dicular, raising the ridge pole with
the tent at the same time. Two boys
are required for this purpose. Tie the
door of the tent shut, and then drive
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JAPs TO USE BALLOONS.
Their Value in Warfare Now Recoo-
aixed Fact.

Their Value in Warfare Now Recoo-
nized Fact.
American and European armies have
used balloons for some years. and
they were notably successful as en-
ployed by the British during the
South African war for spying out the
enemy's position and for the Oppor-
tunity they gave the British engineers
to study the difficulties of the land for
defensive and offensives operations.
In the Spanish war the United States
army was not SO successful because
the balloon was sent up too near the
enemy and from the center of the in
vading army. and the lives of both
the regiments and the occupants of
the balloon were in much greater dam
ger thereby.
Japan, keeping up. as usual, with
the most advanced of modern meth
DDS. has assigned this specially to one
of the seven military officers she is
sending abroad this year to study
modern warfare. Capt. Tokunaga,
who has long made ballooning his
specially, is the officer sent by the
Japanese government to study all
forms of aerial navigation. He is In
Germany at present. pursuing his
studies. and the Japanese govern
ment, it is said. will give him every
opportunity to further his researches
and experiments. The department of
strategy of the Japanese army is es-
pecially interested in this matter. and
will have constructed shortly an ex-
perimental building where the bal
looms and apparatus can be tested.
with the view of adopting, or perhaps
inventing, some form of airship for
the maneuvers OF the imperial army.
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Trick with a Plate.

Here is a way to balance a china
plate on the point of a needle, and
even to cause it to spin steadily upon
this delicate support. Cut two corks
down the middle and in the end of the
four halves thus obtained insert forks.
inclined to the smooth sides of the
corks at little less than right angles.
Place these four corks. as in the illus
tration, around the rim OF the plate at
equal distances from one another and
see that the teeth of the forks are in
contact with the rim, to prevent them
from swaying.
with little care this plate can now
be balanced on the point Of needle
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The WilY Giraffe.

Perhaps the most difficult of all wild
animals to capture Is the girafe. In
addition to being very rare, giraffes
are exceedingly timid and are very
swift-footed. There is NO special way
to capture a giraffe, as almost every
way has been tried, and all have been
almost equally unsuccessful. The
method which has occasionally re-
suited in a capture is by using long
cord at each end Of which is round
weight. This cord is thrown by the
hunter in such manner as to wind
ound the animals legs. either bring
ing 1t to ground or rendering 1t in
capable of escaping befors 1t is made
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has run as smoothly as possible ana
that they could not have had pleas
anter experience. Whenever l think.
Harold. that it might have been FL
eanor. Instead of her, declare that
feel like screaming"
Harold Stagg, whose movements
mentally. as well as physically. were
slightly more deliberate, as the result
of few inches of extra girth. stirred
what was left OF his tea and drained
1t: then, as he handed back the cup.
replied:
You might scream yourself black
in the face, and you couldn't help 1t
now"
Emma shook her head despondently.
You never did understand. Har-
old"
Understand WHAT"
My feelings on that matter. You
never truly sympathized."
What matter?"
"Eleanor's refusal to accept Owen
Page. 1t was madness-sheer. sheer
madness-as | have said fifty times
before"
You have. my dear. What is the
use of reviving 1t for the fifty-flrst?
AS to my lacA of sympathy. that is a
new charge. Did | not represent to
Eleanor In the most solemn language
that such an opportunity may not
occur again."
May not. 1t could not, ] do not be-
I. so good a chance. and who threw 1t
away so idiotically. | remember what
you said perfectly well. You let her
see. though. that you were not going
to interfere
Il couldn't compel her to marry him
II she didn't choose to-"
NO, but you could have put your
foot down and declared that size should
not leave us. | was willing to trust to
time. If she had not been allowed to
go to that fearful college, I am conf
dent that she would have married
Owen Page within a year. Well. al
you say. | am fool to bother my head
about her. l washed my hands of her
five years ago."
"Oh. no. you didn't. Cherub. You
pretended to. but you couldn't. You
will always have a soft spot in your
heart for her."
Il did my duty by her il ever wom-
am did," Emma answered, with nom
committal sternness. Then, with quick
perception. she added: rs that letter
from herr"
Harold had taken out a letter from
his pocket while she was speaking
Yes" he said. She wishes me TO
pay her visit"
"Where?"
"At her college"
What do you mean?"
Ito be continued.)
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French Ostriches.

The Riviera has new feature of
interest, which may in time develop
also into valuable industry-the first
of its kind in France. About eighteen
months ago an attempt was deter
mined upon to acclimatize. near Nice,
an ostrich farm. and as this is the first
time such an idea has been realized
outside the tropics, the experiment has
been watched with great interest. The
otner day the first harvest" was gath
cred in by the general plucking of
the birds tails. The Nicois says it
attracted large crowd, and that so
far ostrich farming in France is 3
success.
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Bride Was Cautious.

The marriage OF Mrs. Annie Mary
f. Zahm. 80 years old. and Thomas
Wood Stein. AZ years old. by Jus.
tice Murphy recently in Jersey City.
might not have occurred II Stein had
not. just before the ceremony. made a
will bequeathing to his wife several
pieces of unimproved real estate in
Flushing.
Mrs. Zahm said to the justice: "I
love Mr.. Stein, but I can not marry
him unless he makes his will. Life
Is too uncertain"
Stein remarked that "wiilful wom-
an must have her way" but said hs
would make the will.
Mrs. Zahm declared she was not
"willful, but cautious"
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lal Of kiIrudden.

Lni Tilrudden with the flame red hair.
And the sea blue eyes that rove and dare.
And the open heart with never care
The nightingales of Inishkill.
The rose that climbed the window sill.
The wind that roved and had his Will.
And one white sail on the low sea hill.
We're all she knew of love.
So when the storm drove In that day.
And her lovers ship on the lodges lay.
An the cry was who'll go down the bay.
With half of the lifeboat crew away?
Who should push to the front and say.
Il Will be one. be others who may.
But Lal or Kilrudden, born at sea?
The nishtingales all night In the rain.
The rose that fell at her window pane.
And the scorn of the wolfish pirate In
vain.
Quelling her great hot heart In vain.
We're all she knew of death.
Kilrudden ford. IIlrudden dale.
kilrudden ruined In the gale
That wrecked the coast OF Inisfree.
And Lars last bed the plunging sea.
Bliss Carman In New York News.
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.PEOPLEAmx m and
EVENTS
LORD cuRzoN's FUTURE CAREER.
His Desire to Stay in India Not Easily
Understood.

His Desire to Stay in India Not Easily
Understood.
The London Chronicle says that
good deal of surprise is expressed 1t
the fact-if 1t be fact-that Lord
Curzon should wish TO extend the
term of his viceroyalty in india. When
he took up that exalted position he
was in his fortieth year and /; was
admitted that he might spend five
years in the east without unduly ham
dicapping his political career. Lord
Curzon accepted an Irish peerage for
the special reason that he would be
able to return to the House OF Com
mons, but the opportunity will not, in
the course OF nature, last many years
for his father. Lord Scarsdale. to
whose title he will succeed. will be ~
next month.
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The WhjrllQiQ.

Cut this whirligig out very care
fully and paste 1t on square bit of
thin cardboard Ia postal card would
do). Let 1t dry, and then cut the
cardboard out round the whirligig, and
with tiny pin fasten 1t through the
center to bit of stick for n handle.
This should be about the thickness
of match and three times as long.
Now take hold of 1t by the handle
and slowly turn it from left to right,
and you will see that 1t appears to be
whizzing round and round at tre-
mendous rate.
II you paint the white circles very
carefully bright red or a bright blue
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Boys. Imperative Sentence.

Prof. George C. Wakefield, who
teaches one of the Language" classes
in the Sumner county. Kansas. high
school, called on a pupil to define an
imperative sentence" The correct
answer was given. He then asked a
boy to give an illustration of an i'm
perative sentence. The first boy
couldn't do it. The next one called
on rose to his feet and said: Prof
Wakefield. go awal back and 81
down"
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who in three minutes time lands most
apples at the goal is winner in tha
contest
Queer Beasts of Burden.

Many districts OF Siberia know no
beasts. of burden except reindeer,
which they catch and domesticate.
The reindeer are sometimes used ror
carrying children. who are placed in
a cradle that is fastened to one SIDE
Of the saddle and counterbalanced by
a weight on the other side.
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lish ship and marine agent builder.
One vessel equipped with turbine en-.
gines has been ordered and It's prac.
ticability for transatlantic trade is to
be tested thoroughly.
The project of Sir Christopher Fur
ness promises a realization of the pro
phecy of four-day passage to Europe
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in" and II to the third say IAN ready"
Then the person outside will come
in and point out the toothpick which
was chosen. for he knows that Come"
means the first one. Come in" the
second, "All ready" means the third
one.
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all the pegs and fasten to them the
guy ropes. There are eyelets in the
tent for these ropes. Two stay ropes
may be run from the top to the rear
upright pole toward the front OF the
tent and fastened on the side near
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Trick With roothpicks.

Take three toothpicks. Call them
first. second. third. Take one person
out of the room. Then ask person IN
the room to point to one of the tooth
picks II she points to the first, say
Come" If to the second, say Come
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2734 by FIVE. the product is 1860.
What is still easier. divide 2734 by
two. which is done almost instantane-
ously. Then tack on your cipher and
you have 1850. Try it with large
sums and see how much easier 1t is.
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LEADER OF GERMAN SOCIALISTS.
Ferdinand August sebeI Has Had
Stormy Career

stormy Cdreer.
Herr Ferdinand August Bebel. the
foremost figure In the recent German
elections, In which the social demo
Gratis made big gainsdn their represen
tation in the Reichstag. has been,
Jointly with Herr Liebknecht. leader
of the German socialists fof the past
forty years. He was born at Cologne
in 1910. and for number of years
after limited schooling. worked at
his trade OF wood turner and carver
He Is an antimonarchst. boards the
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Saved That Infliction.

"Im so grateful to Mr.. Chumpleigh
for sending me his photograph
"Why, l thought you hated him?"
Yes. but just think, he might have
brought it,
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emperor upon all occasions, and so
long ago as 1872 served term in
prison for attempted treason" and
''less majestic"
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a prisoner. Most of the giraffes in
captivity have been caught by chance
when young.