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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
ANTIQUES MADE TO ORDER.
Handled by Inscriptions Dealers to
Their Great Profit.
From the Pall Mall Gazette.

FROM the Pall Mall Gazette.
The rage for collecting has grown stead
lily until the demand for curios the erase
for old glass and old prints and old furni-
ture has become more and more acutely
keen. What could be picked up for a
five-pound note fifteen years ago, or even
ten years ago now brings so or f12 The
demand for the antique having, therefore,
become so great that even suburban house
holds want their old glass and their old
china, the supply has, of course, become
far less. What is the result? The genuine
article has become correspondngly more
expensive.
Perhaps of all frauds that of making an
tique furniture is one of the most success
full so much so that even experts are often
deceived Austrian Workmen are particu-
iarly clever at this kind of work. "Old'
Sheffield plate is another well-known fake
and even as you can get your latchkey
dipped in silver on the Margate jetty for
three-pence, so is the faxed old" Sheffield
dipped" The design is first made in cop
per and then dipped after a few earnest
applications OF brush and plate powder.
When you think how many years the gem
u'ne Sheffield will wear and wash and clean
without showing the copper beneath, this
seems a particularly wicked and vicious
fraud on the collecting public. partner
In high-class firm of Sheffield silver mills
once told my friend that they could easily
make 5000 a year more If they lent them
selves to copying odd plate" which is now
made with the sole intention of cheating
the public.
The would-be collector must be wary in
picking up old Sheraton brass tenders with
claw feet, as these can be made for less
than II shillings EACH and dealer once
boosted to me, in a moment of confidence
that he did a thriving trade In them and
that his customers were delighted with
their bargains" especially when he sold
them fine old embossed tub or jardiniere
to go with their fender on lion legs for an
extra pound.
Bow and Shelsea figures being always ex-
persive, even when copied, there Is a great
and growing demand for Staffordshire pot
terry, and our German friends are supplying
the demand for this in the shape of thou
sands of sheep and cottages, and money
boxes, and pastille burners, and grey
hounds and dogs Of every kind. These
costing sixpence to sevenpenee each-are
eagerly snapped up by the collecting pub
lie at shillings each. and sometimes more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
FAMOUS HAND IN POKER

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

From tie Chicago Inter Ocean.
IT once heard Dan Seymon speak Of some
remarkable hands and wonderful draws he
had seen in his experience, which, by the
way, reaches from the rudest mining camps
to the most luxurious clubs of Paris and
London" said an old poker player the other
night.
when I speak about great draws and
hands / refer, of course, to square games.
Nothing is strange in a crooked game, for
every man around the table would hold
five aces If you dealt them to him, and
there would be nothing remarkable about
that. but, speaking of five aces, l know
Of five aces being held In a square game.
I'm New Orleans, you know. there's big
poker going on every night, and there are
only gentlemen in the game. At the be-
ginning Of the game each man takes $500
worth of chips No money ever passes at
the table and the game is unlimited Well
1t has limit-S5, 0OO-but 5000 Is about
the same no limit.
They always play with two decks of
cards, and while one is dealt the other Is
shuffied ready for the other deal
About four years ago four gentlemen
were playing in the game. One had a
straight flush pat and another held three
aces.
They soon exhausted their $500 worth of
chips. and then their thousands until finally
the man with the three aces called for the
draw. In the draw he got two aces, MAX
Ing five in his hand. He showed his hand
right away, saying there was evidently a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
From London Tit-Bits.

From London Tit-Bits.
Two incidents have occurred in the golf
Ing world recently, drawing attention to &C.
centricities that have been grated on to
the royal and ancient game Of golf from
time to time.
In the first place 1t was recorded that q
member of the St. Andrews Golf Club as
cended Ben Nevis with club shortly before
the meteorological station was closed, and
from the summit drove of six golf balls
in the direction of the Tower Cliff. When
last seen the balls were resting peacefully
on the snow, where probably they will re-
main until the summer heat melts the
snowy mantle and brings down the balls to
lower altitude in the resultant stream.
The second incident of note was a novel
match played at Barnton. Edinburgh, when
Mr.. Angus Mcdonald, one of the leading
members of the Edinburgh Burgess Club,
playing with a full set of clubs, beat Ar
maud Massey, the famous professional
golfer, whose only club was a cleek, by
five holes up and four to play. Mr.. Nc
Donald was evidently playing exceeding
ly fine game, for until quite recently the
amateur record for the links was seventy
eight, whereas he went round In seventy
three. a score that would have made the
professional play up to his best form even
in the event of his enjoying the use of the
full complement of clubs.
This Is not the first time by any means
that player has been handicapped in this
fashion; indeed, such a match was wit
messed on the North Surrey golf links at
Norbury in the early autumn of 1903. On
this occasion the club professional, A.
Thomson, selected the putter as his imple-
ment, while his opponent, Mr.. H. S. Leuwn.
who Is consistently long drive and bet
ter than average player had the use of all
his clubs. How brilliantly the profession
al played with his single club can be gath
cred from the fact that he went round the
eighteen holes in eighty-one strokes (as
against Lightweight In the case of his OPP
ponenU, which compares most favorably
under the circumstances with the par score
of the course-eighty-
A few. months ago very similar match
was played at Cannes by Mr.. Charles
Hutchings of the Royal Liverpool Club,
who was amateur champion in 1902. Mr..
Hutchings, who played with his putter
throughout. took the whole course of eight
cen holes in eight-seven strokes, and the
nature of his play can be gathered from the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

mistake in the deck The man with the
straight flush claimed the stakes
THE two left the decision to the other
gentlemen about the table, and the refer
ees decided the bets Off
by mistake the extra ace had been
shufhcd from one deck into the other.
Now, perhaps. 1t wasn't so remarkable
that one card should get into the wrong
deck, but think of that ace being next to
another ace, and that these two aces
should be dealt to a man who already held
three aces in his hand. All over the south
that hand Is famous.
AT one time continued the same mar
rator, "Seymon crossed the Atlantic on the
Teutonic, and he had a game of poker be-
fore he was two hours out with a man who
was using his own cards and chips In his
own stateroom. One young fellow, an en-
ploye of New York stock firm, lost So 100
every cent he had in the world and he had
saved 1t up to make the trip.
After the game he came to Seymon with
tears In his eyes and told him that he was
broke, and asked Seymon to help him In
some way.
"Seymon made him a proposition to give
him $500 cash and third of what he
would win If he would get up poker games
for him the ship.
The young fellow jumped at the chance
and got up a game with a South African
diamond merchant named Switzkof
1T lasted until after dinner and at that
time Seymon had 5000, while the young
fellow had Sc, 100
Before the voyage was over Dan Sey-
man gave the young fellow S41O0 more
more money than he had ever possessed in
his life before"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

SO that the season should start in Septem-
Der without any serious handicaps
The following schedule gives the most
important games to be played this fall:
SEPTEMBER 49,
Penn State Lebanon at State College Penn
syIyania
SEPTEMBER %.
Williams VS.. Winston, at wilIlamstowp Mass
SEPTEMBER 81
princeton VS.. Villa N0vs, at Princeton
Cornell vs.. Hamilton. at Ithaca
Dartmouth VS.. Norwich College at Usnover Y TT
syracuse vs.. Hobart. at Syracuse y. Y
Amherst VS. Rensselaer, F. L. at Amherst Macs
Virginia vs.. Randolph Macon at Charlottesville
Va.
SEPTEMBER 30
Pennsylvania vs.. Lehigh, at philadelphia
Harvard VS.. Williams, at Cambridge, Mass
Princeton VS.. Washington and jefferson n,
Princeton. al
Yale vs. Trinity. at New Haven
Columbia vs.: Union, at New York.
Cornell vs. Colgate, at Ithaca
West Point Tufts at West Point
Dartmouth Massachusetts State College a,
Hanover, n. ii.
Syracuse VS.. Rochester at Syracuse
Penn State VS.. California Normal, at State Col.
lege. Pennsylvania.
Dickinson vs. Western Maryland. at Carlisle. Pa
Virginia vs.. St. John's, at Charlottesville va
Wesleyan vs. Connecticut State College, ut Mid
dletown, Conn.
OCTOBER 4.
Pennsylvania Gettysburg at Philadelphia Pa
Harvard vs.. BOwaon, at Cambridge Mass
1sle W.. Wesleyan. at New Haven
Columbia vs. Seton Han, at New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

CURIOUS GOLF MATCHES

fact that at the seventeenth tee he drove
his ball 1871 yards. distance that many
players would only be too glad to attain
with their drivers.
That the real novice would be most UNI
wise to back himself to win against an ex-
pert player, even II the latter was given
nothing but billiard cue or kitchen poker
to play with, was made apparent early last
winter, when workman who was watching
a golfer at practice on the Mid-Norfolk golf
links vaingloriously remarked, Il could DO
criticism the golfer challenged the other 10
a match, the latter to use the golfers driver
and the golfer the workman's spade ana
: hammer. with the result that the ignorant
critic retired sadder and wiser man.
Apropos of the Ben Nevis freak IL is inter-
esting to note that two Edinburgh golfers
played a match in 1S4S-tveive years before
old Tom Morris stood in the quarry beneath
the famous bridge at BallochInyle and drove
golf balls to a pathway that was at the
same height above him rs the ball of the
cross on st. PauPs Cathedral is above the
pavement-from the Bruntsfield links TO the
top of Arthurs Seat well-krown land
mark of Edinburgh's scenery that rises to :.
height of S27 feet above sea level.
Among the eccentric matches that have
been played. which incllde a fixture be-
tween golfer and an archer-taa former
playing with his usual paraphornalia and
the latter with bow and arrow-a match
ending in a victory for the archer, there
has recently been added a contest between
who used his arm solely and wholly as a
means of propelling the gutta and rubber
scheroid.
The match in question took place on the
links of the Brighton and Hove Golf Club
rather over two years ago, the opponents
being Mr.. Archibald Ramsden. a wel-known
Yorkshireman, and Mr.. Z. ". Sears Of
Hove. AS the average eighteen holes run to
about $500 yards Chose at Brighton are
$500 yards in the aggr sgate) 1t follows that
to get round in, say, eign'y-five throws re-
quires an effort ranging from siXty-two to
siXty-flve yards, a not overwhelming dis
lance, but one demanding fair amount Of
stamina in order to keep il up Throughout.
the round, especially IN view 81 the fact
that In order to hole out every green a num-
Der of short throws wouii be absolutely
necessary.
1t is interesting to note that Mr.. Rams
den, who lost the match, in all probability
on account of his lack of knowledge in re-
spect to tip course he was throwing over
never exceeded seven efforts at any hole
while his card showed a return of seven
fves and one four-striking testimony to
the accuracy of his aim.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
Europe's Richest Woman.
from Eyerybody's Magazine.


The gunmaker of Essen is a woman, a
young woman, and the richest woman in
Europe. She IS Miss Krupp, daughter of
the famous Herr Krupp, whose death oc-
Cured some years ago. Essen exists be-
cause of the krupp gun works. and practi-
cally all its 100 GOO Inhabitants are derend-
emit on her for their work directly or in
directly. Miss Krupp is more powerful in
Essen than many a German princeling in
his fourby-nine kingdom. Pretty she is
said to be-she is the richest girl In Europe
clever. It Is declared-stll the richest girl
in Europe-wise beyond her years-again
the richest girl in Europe-simpiy and I'M
ostentatious in her derneanor-remem-
Der, the richest girl in Europe-and she
is to be introduced to society under
the direct patronage of the kaiser
and kaiserin. There will be heart
burnings and jealousies, up-tilted German
aristocratic noses. sneers and disparaging
comment-but she Is the richest girl in Eu-
rope, and in these days, when a people
tumbles royalty about as King Oscar was
tumbled In Norway, the greatest heiress in
the land cannot be overlooked even by the
court itself. The descriptions of Miss Krupp
read much as descriptions of rather plain
but very rich American girls do Perhaps
more interesting than her wealth is the
fact that by refusing TO sell arms to sew
eral nations Miss krupp could insure lheir
good behavior for a while They would not
know where to go for guns were she to cut
Off their credit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
PLANS FOR FOOT BALL
-


Although the blisterng man-killing
weather with which the entire country has
been tortured for more than a week is not
the most suitable for a discussion OF foot
ball. the final announcement of schedules
and the publication of plans for the gridiron
season herald it's rapid approach. In viz
tuaIly FIVE weeks time the advance guard
o. the foot ball men will begin TO arrive
on the college campus. while their coaches
Will have preceded them by several days.
That the season of 1905 will be record
breaker IL indicated by more things than
one The unusual interest developed in spring
practice had much TO do with it in the cir
Gle OF the big Six but the better organi-
cation OF coaching forces at these institu-
lions has also had much to do with 1t.
Yale and the University OF Pennsylvania,
whose elevens were supreme on the grid
iron last fall. will doubtless divide the in
terest this fall Harvard will attract more
attention than usual because she now has
William T. Reid. her most successful and
most famous coach. at the helm. A year
ago Harvard men were desperate over their
defeats at the hands of Penn and Yale and
this fall they propose TO even up old scores
with a vengeance
Cornell. inspired with the examples set
by their championship track teams and
crew and high-class nine. will endeavcr
to earn equal success on the gridiron. Both
Princeton and Columbia are apparently
well fortified with coaches and candidates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
MONT ST. MICHAEL.
At the Famous" observation-disclosures
for the Pilgrims.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
A stretch of wet, dun-colored sands with
shining patches where pools yet remain,
a high causeway whose piled powders
CLEAN rudy, ochre, russell and orange in
the changing sunset light, and overhead the
splendid pile of st. Michael, crowned by
his golden archangel. whose crest seen
from below seems to meet the sky-such
Is the mount.
little putting steam tram deposits its
passengers with great fuss over Ii all
upon the digue; about the arrivals swarm
voluble, gesticulating horde, each of
whom is more determined than his fellow
to conduct the unwily traveller where he
has no intention of being taken.
The defile struggles up the uneven street.
through the massive gateway, toward the
Porte du Rol and the famous hosiery at
its gates. There is crowd about the en-
trance, and the way has to be pushed
through the chattering throng to madame
the hostess of world renoWn, who stands
by the wide fireplace, with its glowing
flames and rows of spluttering pullets for
the evening meal Madame greets the
newcomers with the fine graciousness re-
served for the distinguished ones of this
earth, but you may possess the tongue
of angels and prophets and 1t Will not Sc
cure you a room without notice in the
height of the season. Forewarned, how
ever, you climb in a guides wake up the
steep stairs, whose walls are decorated
with the votive offering of artist visitors,
on to the second story, past the ter
rasse, with its green pergolas and little
tables for outdoor dejeuner, by tortuous
ways to pied a terre,' or, rather "a
ciel,'' a little room in long corridor, SO
exactly like other little rooms that you
will never track it again without its num-
Der.
Pilgrims at the mount stay so short
while that only the merest necessaries are
provided for their stay. You descend to
dinner In the salon, an excellent meal in
a fine room, panelled and picture-hung
with votive offerings again. 1t is a poly
glot assembly-French, italian, German
and Spanish, with large proportion of
English and American; the babel is inces-
SAINT as madame's appetizing dishes go
round. Dinner over, you descend to the
cafe and drink your cup In the dusk with
the centuries regarding you from their
height; or you pace the digue in dinner
fed content and chum up with the first
stray Englishman you meet, who wants
somebody as badly as yourself to listen
to after-dinner commonplace.
The moon rides clear from a bank of
clouds and shows the mount majestic for
an instant
You turn In early and light your way
to bed with a Chinese lantern with the
hotels name printed thereupon.
Tomorrow you will awake prepared to
exhaust your vocabulary over the amending
miracle of 1t all, ''salle des chevalers,
promenofr, cryptic, peScalier de dentelle,"
and all the other marvels.
Tonight you are too sleepy to think of
anything but sleep and the unutterable sui
your tiny room with an atmosphere more
reminiscent of the gentleman with the
pitchfork than the archangel under whose
protection you seek a speedy couchi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
An Arabian Druid in Paris.
From the London Globe.

From the London Globe.
Strange mystics are discovered In Paris
every now and again. The latest is de-
scribe6l as an Arabian Druid who inhabited
the Rue de la Michodere, a street in the
center of the city His neighbors were
startled at midnight to hear weird and dis
cordart sounds issuing from the dwelling
of Ali Bonem followed by ritualistic in
carnations and liturgical chantings, alter
natively piaintive and fierce. The reflection
of flames was also observed. When the
door was burst open by the police a man
of huge stature was seen, clothed in a long
white sheet his eyes rolling wildly and in
his hand a blood-stained knife. Around him
a number of wax candles shed a mystic
light. and on piano, which had served as
an altar. lay a disemboweled lamb. AS a
measure OF precaution All Bonem. the high
priest, has been taken into custody.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
The Invaluable Hairpin.
From the New York Sun.

Anthropologists have never done justice
to the hairpin. billiards will tell you that
women aren't so inventive as men, don't
take out SO many patents. They don't
have to. With a hairpin a woman can
pick a lock, pull a cork, see If a joint of
meat is done, do up baby. regulate a
range, tinker a sewing machine, stop a
leak in the roof, stir batter, whip cream,
reduce the pressure in the gas meter, keep
bills and receipts on file, tighten windows,
clean watch. unite knot, put up avn
ings. doctor an automobile. In short, she
can do what she wants to; she needs no
other instrument.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23
Dog With Hoofs.

From the indianapolis News.
A dog with hoofs like COW is owned by
Daniel Brown, and is a cross between a
shepherd and spaniel. 1t was purchased
by Brown from Miles Dickey, Panhandle
engineer, three years ago, when a pup but
not until recently did the hoofs grow on
its feet and the owner is at a loss to know
how to account for them. The growth has
appeared on all four feet, and is as hard
as horn. When the dog walks across the
board floor of the saloon where IL is kept
there is a sound like the pattering of q
couple of children with wooden shoes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

IT say. Sambo," said a gentleman to an
improvident negro who had just lost a job
for the third fourth time. aren't you
worried over the question of where ithal to
support you?"
'Iordy, Marse Henry" was the reply, 81
amt worryin' about wherewithal; is wor-
ryin about de wherefore fur de herein
Harper's Weekly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-23

There are some places nearer home in the
streams of Frederick and Montgomery coun-
ties. Fishing creek, Hunting creek, Owens
creek and the higher sources OF the Tus-
carora are in the northwestern part of
the county and easily accessible. in the gen.
eral vicinity of Brookhill and the Catoctin
Furnaces. The waters of these streams are
fed by the mountain springs and are cool
and clear. Trout abound IN great num-
bers, though they are often pretty well
caught off by the middle OF July because
of the adjacent country. Fishing creek
Is probably the best trout stream.
In Montgomery county the trout streams
are Wild Cat branch, Byrne's branch
Worthngtons branch, Wheatstone's branch
the Seneca and Little Seneca. In former
years these streams were remarkable for
trout, but the constant pursuit of the
speckled beauties by fishermen from Wash
ington and other points has greatly lessen
ed their numbers despite the efforts of the
fish commission to keep the streams well
stocked.
In Virginia excellent trout fishing is found
in nearly all the small streams flowing into
the Shenandoah Stopping at almost any
point in the valley and driving a few miles
Into the hills the sportsman can find good
fishing. From Harper's Ferry twenty
five miles up the valley. the streams have
been pretty we'll whipped of trout, and it
is only in the early months of the sea-
son, about the first weeks in May, that
good strings can be had but further up
the country and in the southwestern por-
lions of the state trout are plentiful, even
to the end OF the season. Few regions in
the country afford better sport than the
streams in the upper end of the Shenan-
doah valley and on into the Land of the
Sky in North Carolina. The distance and
inaccessible character of much of the coun-
try of course necessitates a period of two
weeks to go and enjoy the sport but with
fishing can be enjoyed to the full IN the
waters of the Old Dominion.