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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-22
AFTER ALLEGED sw1NDLER.
Illinois Officer on His Way to London
to Cause an Arrest.

Deputy Sheriff Thomas v. Morrison. who
has charge of the criminal work of the
sheriff's office In Chicago, has been a daily
visitor to the office of Capt. Boardman dur
ing the past week. He stopped here on his
way to London. where he expects to get
John H. Ladd. an alleged swindier. The
deputy sheriff came here for the purpose of
getting the necessary requisitien papers
from the State Department before sailing
on an ocean steamer. Much to his sur
prise. he was informed that his papers were
defective. and new extradition papers had
to be sent for The papers brought here by
the officer were prepared by city officials in
Chicago. 1t Is expected that the new
papers will reach here tomorrow. and Mr..
Morrison expects to sail the early part of
next week.
Laid, it is alleged, operated a miAing
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SPORTS OF ALE SORTS
CONTINUED from Eighth Page.)

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was fully two hours late Fully a thou
sand people had assembled and after
short delay carriages drew up and the
procession, headed by a band, made a
short tour of the town.
Pillsbury and Showalter. the two Ameri-
cans. and Jacques Mieses have not yet ar
rived The official welcome was given to
the players in the theatsr OF the Hotel RI
der in the evening, whA .of. Rice for
mally opened the congl ass
The Grafton of the evening was delivered
by Col N. A. Flood Of MeadvilIe. He
greeted the members OF the congress felici
tously, described chess as the game of sci
ence played by men of brains which has
survived fashionable dictum since the Pc
Rod of remotest antiquity He referred to
bridge whist as that highly edifyng game
of fashion which challenges the feminine
intellect. attracts wives and mothers from
their own firesides, and serves as step
ping stone to divorce without alimony 1t
was an Grafton Astounding In wit, and was
frequently applauded.
The tournament will begin next Monday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-22
Admits the Charge.

William Hawkins, seventeen-year -old
colored youth admitted his guilt when he
appeared before Judge Kimban of the
Police Court this morning charged with the
theft of bride valued at 81 from Dennis
N. McGrath, harness maker. Hawkins
had no excuse to offer, and after learning
the facts from Bicycle Policeman Simpson,
Judge Kimball levied a tax of $40 on the
youthful defendant Imprisonment in Jail
for one month was named as the equivalent
to the fine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-22
Base Ball Notes.

If the Boston Americans and the New
York Nationals get together in the fall the
crowds would flock, would they not?
Tenney has hit safely in every game he
has participated in since the opening, and
he has an average of 1888 at present.
This is the twentieth year in harness of
Lave Cross of the Athletics. and he is APP
parentiy in as good condition as ever in his
career
Raymer is doing some fine fielding stunts
for the Boston Nationals at short. He has
not made an error 50 far this season.
The Boston Americans will play in New
York next Sunday. and Manager Walter
Burnham expects a vast crowd to attend
President Hermann of the Cincinnati
club has made wager with President
Dreyfuss of the Pittsburgs of $1,000 to $3.50
that the Pirates will not win the pennant
again this year.
One of the Washington papers is of the
opinion that it's club as at present consti-
tuted will not cut much of figure In the
championship race. 1t Is not much i'm
pressed with the work of Stahl on first, but
that player acquitted himself spendldly in
the games played here.-Boston Herald.
The feat of seeing three men sent home
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-22
Towards Defeated Union University

AT Richmond Va, yesterday Howard
University base ball team defeated Union
University by score of Is to II. The teams
meet again today. On Saturday when the
team returns, it will play with the team
representing the council of upper class
men. Game will be called at 2:30 on How
ard University campus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-22
Guntons to Play Norris Peters Team

The Gunton Temple base ball team, cham
pions of the Church League last year, ana
the Norris Peters team, champion anna
teur team of the District, will play a game
Saturday afternoon on the Norris Peters
teams grounds, 18th and D streets north
east. AS these teams are composed OF
some of the best players in town an In
teresting game may be expected. The
grounds at 18th and D streets have been
greatly improved and games on these
grounds during the coming season will be
one of the features of amateur ball In
Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-22
Golf Notes.

A handicap over the combined courses OF
the Dyker Meadow and Marine and Field
clubs, open to members of both organiza-
tons, will be decided tomorrow.
The Societe de Golf de Paris has publish
ed the rules in French. A hazard is an
accident de terrain bunker, a ban
quette;' teeing ground, a ''tertre de de-
part" and tee, de-"
The opening competition of the New York
Golf Club will be held tomorrow on the pub
lie links at Van Cortlandt Park The con-
ditions are a handicap of two rounds. the
second round to be played on or before
April 80.
Robert Maxwell, present champion, and
John e. Laidley, former champion, tied
with IS each in the spring competition OF
the Honorable Company of Edinburgh, at
Muirfield. The pair played of in a gale of
wind and rain, MIR. Maxwell winning, with
the fine card-under the cireumstances-of
70. ob
Prior to the Women's metropolitan Golf
Association championship tournament,
which is to be held at the 4Apawamis Club
links during the second week in June, the
Wee Burn Golf Club of Noraton will hold
an open tournament for women on June /.
2, 3 and 4. Play will commence each day
at 10 am. and p m. ait Il
The annual team match with the st. An
drew's Golf Club for the Henry r. Towne
trophy, which was omitted last year, will
be resumed this year. The first half will be
played May %, at the st. Andrews links,
and the second half will be played October
Is, at Wee Burn They have each won a
leg on the handsome prize.
Arrangements were made yesterday TO
hold the annual golf match between teams
representing the Richmond County Country
Club and Princeton on the formers links to-
morrow. The Richmond team will comprise
0. L. Williams, ]. c. Cottrell, Charles I.
Stout, L. H. Thomas, Arthur Du Boise, c.
w. Taintor and f. o. Schuyler. Mr.. Tain
tor is the new captain of the club. The
match with Princeton will be over the reg
ular eighteen-hole course.
"Aggies" Defeated by Fredericksburg.
The strong Maryland Agricultural College
and Fredericksburg College base ball teams
met on the Agricultural College campus at
College Park, Nd. yesterday afternoon.
Batteries-M. A. c.. Brown and Smith;
Fredericksburg. Lynne and Smith Umpire
Prof. Mitchell of 81. A. G. Both sides made
numerous errors throughout, and the Agri-
culturals played their worst game of the
season. The feature of the game was rum
ming one-hand catch by Left Fielder Gasso-
way OF M. A. c. The visitors started In to
win, and had the game throughout. M. A.
C.'s only chance was to make grand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-22
Base Ball on the Ellipse.

Colonel Syr1ons has granted the use of
one base ball diamond to be madeSin the
ellipse south of the White House to the 8.
s. Athletic Association and the use of an
other diamond to the Capital Base Ball
League, which is composed of eight clubs.
Both permits are for the period from April
D to May 81 The third diamond has not
yet been assigned to any organization.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-22
Callahan Failed to Appear.

A special from Portland, Me-, says that
Tim Callahan failed to appear for his
match with KID Sullivan of Washington
last night, and the matchmaker of the East
ern A. {. substituted Austin Rice of New
London and Tommy Sullivan of Lawrence.
Sullivan was ten pounds heavier than his
opponent, and proved so much better that
in the sixth round Rice's seconds threw up
the sponge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-22
Tennis.

Employees of the Library of Congress yes
terday organized Library Tennis Club
and began playing on grounds opposite
the library, corner of I'd street and Penn
sylvania avenue southeast. The club is to
play from 430 until dark. Several other
clubs are forming to play earlier in the
day. The time will be so divided as to ac-
commodate half a dozen clubs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-22

From the beginning of our Hat De-
partment we have always sold and still
sell the regular $3.50 hats for $1.9o. At
this figure you get choice of every fash
ionable spring block in soft and stiff
hats shown in America-and we're doing
the hat business of Washington.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-17
IMMUNITY FROM TRAMPs.

we owe our immunity from tramps to pastry proclaimed recently mar ried Germantown man. Better yet, my wife made the pastry. It was this way. To begin with, she insists upon the pastry. She makes cakes, and even pies, but she always forgets some important ingredient; so one time a thing will be as heavy as lead, and the next as wet as water this is when she is stingy with the flour.
 It so happened early in our game of housekeeping that tramp applied at the back gate for something to eat My wife said she was sorry, but there was nothing to spare, and in repeating it to me she added that everything we had was too fine to spoil by cutting I espied her latest ill cake q had al ready discovered it's leaden uuality) and I rushed out to him with it, tell ing her that seldshness was unpartlon- able and self-denial q virtue too sell dom practiced Now, whatever that tramp told his brethren INdon't know, nor do know if he ate the cake and died or was brained with it by some jealous one who wrenched it from him. But do know that no tramp has since ventured to approach us with a request for food. Taking the cake was no merry jest" "-Philadel. phia Record.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-17
WatCh for Friday Nights Adv
REPUBLICAN, CAMPAIGN PLAN

Successful Men to Go to Their Native
 Towns and Speak for Ticket.
 Representative James A. Tawney. Of Minnesota, who has been placed in charge of the speakers bureau in tEla western Republican headquarters by Chairman Cortelyou, had long cons ference with the president in the Whits House the other night, says the Wash ington correspondent of the New York Press. Several members of the cabimes and Republican politicians were press ent
 MT. Tawney has novel plan, which 1t is believed, will work to party adran- tage in the campaign. It is to have Re publican members of congress and oths CT men in public life who have achieved reputation since leaving their native town or city make a speechmaking tour of their native districts. This is .ex- pected to lead to an influx of western speakers, imbued with enthusiasm, to the eastern and middle western states where they were s'born and raiseds
 In some instances, of course, eastern Republicans under this method will ba' sent to the west and south, whence they came when young. The idea has the. indorsement of the party leaders and it is believed, will create unusual inter. est in many localities.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-17
WOMEN EASY TO AWAKEN.

Ut is immeasurably harder to awaken men in the morning than it is women,'' George W. Collins, hotel proprietor, informs me. "A tap or two at a woman's door in the morning is sufficient. No matter how late she. may have retired, no matter how ex. hausted she may have been, no mat ter how faint the yes in answer to the knock that comes from the bed, you can bank on it that within half hour or so that woman will walk into the dining room bright-eyed and cheerful; but with maxwell, it's different.
 "A man may leave call for [ o'clock in the morning with the warn ing that he must be up at that hour. A few minutes before you detail q boy for the purpose and tell him not to stop pounding until the man awakes. The room may be on the top floor, but you can hear the thump. thump on the door way down in the office. Does the man wake with q faint yes, and scramble out of bed? Not he. The boy knocks until his knuckles are sore and then suddenly stentorian voice roars from the room Yes, yes, what in blazes is the mat ter with you? Do you think I am dead?' The boy retires, turns in his report at the office and goes to ease his hands in cold water.
 Three hours later a swollen-eyed in- dividual with wrinkles in his brow walks up to the desk. I thought | left call here for o'clock this morn- ing You did, and the bellboy awoke you promptly at T.. That's little too strong is the answer, and after you have argued with him for half an hour you haven't convinced him that he was actually awakened as he had ordered. So it goes day after day The women get up promptly in re. sponse to call, while the men inva- riably turn over to have another nap" St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-17
GIANT sEoUoIA IS DYING.
Famous Tree Beginning to Topple
 and Commissioner Declares It Is Doomed.

The grizzly giant of the Mariposa big tree grove is doomed to death. Whether old age or disease is claiming it is not known, but certain it is that the sap of the immense trunk is ceas
 ing to flow and the tree is beginning to topple. Nat Ellery, a California state highway commissioner, says that the tree is in such rapid decline that 1t cannot live longer than a few months. Already, he states, the tree is 1S feet from its center axis and it is gradually sinking. The only thing that can save the tree from a sudden fall from it's tower of Pisa position will be the use of wire ca bles, and arrangements for these have been made. The work of harnessing the giant into proper attitude will be- gin immediately. The tree is the best known tree in the state. It is 244 feet tall and 109 feet in circumference.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-17
WOMEN AS COOKS.

Tn private families of wealth and fashion there is a tendency to replace French chef de cuisine with the wo- man cook; and the change which started among some of the most prominent summer residents of New port, seems like to extend. It is not the result. however, of any fad, nor has it been preconcerted and widely discussed.
 There are. of course, fashions in cooking as in erything else, but the increasing frequency of the woman In the kitchen hs due. according to an authority simply to the fact that cooking schools, despite all the ridi- cl1le that is heaped upon them, are bearing fruit. Young women who see their future in domestic service are more and more availing themselves of the opportunities of acquiring the sc1- enca of this work. With this knowl- edge and the training that goes with it they command better pay; put Inls is not yet, and probably will never De- equal to that of the man chef.
 Wea1thy employers, who, TOT Al sorts of reasons, from slumps ID stocks to the great cost In maintain. ing automobile stables, feel the neec of economy, are beginning to md out that about the only difference between the chef and the scientific woman cook is the price of their services. IT more women, says the authority auoted. had the executive ability need ed in a great kitchen. the change would be more rapid.-Philadelphia Record.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-17
WARNING FOR POOR PENMEN.

There should be no excuse for illegi- ble handwriting, yet there is much ot 1t. A certain Columbus club woman having a friend who was an indiffer- ent scribe, attempted to break her of the habit in very novel manner.
 Receiving a note from her friend one day which was exceptionally hard to decipher, she conceived the idea of pretending it was, an invitation to dine, and accordingly wrote, this reply. "I shall take great pleasure in accept ing your invitation to dinner to-mor> row evening" A short time after this note had been delivered the telephone rang, and on answering it she recog nized the voice of her friend at the other end of the wire. Hello it said syou were mistaken in my note. I asked you if you would subscribe to the home fund.- "Oh, was that it?" answered the woman. II couldn't make out your note, and I wanted to answer something. "-Co Columbus Even. ing Dispatch.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-17
SWEET PEAS KILL FLIES.
Druggist Says the Flower Attracts
 and Then Poisons Them.

Druggist Says the Flower ACCracLS
 and Then Poisons Them.
 A local druggist has found new agent for the destruction of flies that for activity and effectiveness dis counts anything heretofore offered for that purpose. And not only is it harmless, but it is a thing of beauty as we'll After selling annually thous- ands of sheets of fly paper of the stick and poisoned varities and a uoll more or less of insect powder, the new antidote for the pest bids talr to supersede all previous methods with him and those of his friends who are in on the secret.
 For several days the druggist, who is a lover of flowers, has had upon his front cases punches of sweet peas of variety grown originally in Cali fornia and are but recently cultivated in this section of the country. Each morning after opening up the store he has found collected around the base of the vessel containin~ the peas quite an accumulation of aead flies.
 For the first day or so he regarded the mass of defunct dipterous insects as an accidental gathering in the neighborhood of the flowers, but curiosity prompted him later to watch the conduct of the few flies left in the store It was observed when the peas were freshly picked that immedi- ately after their being placed in the vases those flies in the vicinity gwarmed upon the petals and proceed ed to fasten themselves there. Short ly afterward they fell from their posi- tions dead.
 It is presumed that the odor of the peas attracted them first and that afterward they absorbed some poison ous exudation that the flowers pos sess and died in consequence. So far as known the peas possess no toxic effect upon the human being.-From the Springfield Journal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-17
USES OF THE SHOE HORN.
An Implement By No Means Devoted

An Implement By No Means Devoted
 Solely to the Pulling on of Shoes.
 t'He would be but narrow minded person." said the salesman, ''who thought that the shoe horn was devot- ed solely to the pulling on of shoes.
 "Why, have had persons come in here who picked out shoe horn with blade that would make it a convenient implement with which to eat ice cream. They lived in a board ing house, maybe, where they hadn't any spoons of their own. or not en- ough to go around, and where they might on some occasion have friendly and familiar guests and where they might bring in ice cream.
 Lacking spoons enough, nice silver shoe horn of the right shape isn't the unhandiest thing in the world with which to eat ice cream, by any means; and suppose that more than one has been put to such use.
 And have heard of such a thing as shoe horn being used to stir up fudge, made in .chafing dish And, having no knife, what could you have much handler than a nice thin bladed silver shoe horn for cutting up cake, at an informal entertainment among friends?
 "Oh, no. The shoe horn is intended, primarily. no doubt, to be used in pulling on shoes; but it is really put to many uses"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-17
v e-----4 ~ V. <Ae9.

Work goes sort of slow to-day:
 Somehow sort of feel thatI Ought to take my apron off
 And put tools and labor by And go walkin' for spell,
 Out of all the whirr and buzz Of machinry and away
 'Torst the land of Ustowas. And set down and rest awhile '. a. By pool where fishes jump And throw clods in lazy like,
 And from out the alder clump Hear the brown clothed thrushes sing . E. Ger their young ones Jumps O fuzz. Like I used to hunt and find
 In the land of Usedtowas. ..N Reckon I'm all tired out
 That I m felin' this away, .. Feelin' like I'd like to climb
 Way up on load of hay And the while it logged along,
 Like an old hay-wagon does, Dream just like used to dream
 In the land of Usedtowas. In the land of usedtowas- Back of all the years and scars, Where there's cookies crisp and brown, Where there's cattle at the bars, Where there's songs mother sings, w Where the boy-made windmills buzz, Where boy chums with his dad
 'Crost the fields of Usedtowas. -J. M. Lewis; in Houston Post.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-17
SHOWN SAMPLE BY PHONE Absent Minded Grocer Holds Fruit in Front of Mouth-Piece for
 Customers Inspection.

One of the dearest cases of absent mindedness on record was enacted by 8 leading grocer of this city, says the Duluth News-Tribune. Over the tele- phone came an order from wealthy customer for some oranges to be de- livered during the afternoon.
 What are the prices?" asked the customer.
 "Oh, we have them at all prices, from 20 cents dozen up"
 Well, I'm not particular about the price. What want is the quality and size
 Wait moment, please" He went to the box containing his choicest fruit, selected large, yellow sample and hastened back to the phone. Holding the orange aloft in one hand while he grasped the telephone re- ceiver with the other, he said: "Will this kind do?''
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-17
HER $s.66 COSTUME.
Living Proof in a Street Car That All
 Girls Are Not E Ext1.a VI ocant

Living Proof in a Street Gar That All
 Girls Are Not Extravagant.
 Of course, she was talking clothes, and the woman who sat just in front of her couldn't help overhearing and finding the remarks very, refreshing to this age of dress extravagance
 ~"When that brother of mine gives a gown honorable mention" the girl was saving, "I always feel very sure of myself whenever I wear it. That's why I take solid comfort in this out fit.
 ''I rode down town with Joe the other morning and he astonished me by saying all sorts of nice things about my clothes. The funny part of it is that he is always such stickler for buying swell things at high priced shops that I got off two stations out of my way for fear I'd ate him by letting him know how he had been fooled into praising my lit tie inexpensive homemade gown.
 "Yes, I made it myself, and it was only nine cents yard at. that. It's fine chambray, too, and such pret- ty soft blue, don't you think?
 Then I had this piece of nice linen insertion I had years ago on some thing else. and it was just the thing for the front of my shirt waist. The turnover collar and cuffs I made of scrap of linen scrim. Scrim is cheap. anyway, and half a yard makes stacks of collars and cuffs, so they cost next to nothing-call it five cents a set.
 'There's 95 cents for the gown with collars and cuffs. Oh. of course. I had to buy pattern to make it by. That was 20 cents, so there's $1.15.
 My hat I picked up on a bargain counter the other day. There was q pile of them, and by taking the trouble to hunt a little found just the shape wanted in this rough black straw-all for 25 cents.
 "At the ribbon counter they made me the big black taffeta bow-four yards at 19 cents a yard, which is all the trimming the hat needs-so there's my millinery for $1.O1.
 My belt is q 5O-cent one. A yard and a half of neck ribbon was 25 cents. So, there you are. exactly $3.66 for the entire rig of hat, gown and accessories I feel comfortably proud of the style that at that pr1ce can win compliments from such SUI perior order of being as my fastidious brother.'''
 T should think you would" replied the girls companion. ''If I had been in your place I would have gloried in telling him how cheaply had done it all. They do say, you know, that the reason so many men stay single nowadays is because we girls are so extrayagant. Now, perhaps we ought to let them into the secret of how lit tie pretty clothes cost sometimes. It would be a sort of encoura cement for them to marry
 Not much!" replied the girl in the scrim and chambray. "In that case I'd Nike to know what encouragement there would be for us. Marry man who expects you to dress on $3.66! Never. You'll be wise if you never let him know it can be done"