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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
BR1ToNs WON AT CHECKERS.
Took 70 Games to "a Captured by the
Americans.

BOSTON, March 25.-The Britons won the
international checker tournament, which
closed tonight after ten days play, with
total score of 70 games won against "a
games won by the Americans; 2S3 games
were drawn, games were Cancelled on &C.
count of the illness of Dearborn, and two
games between Stewart and Denvir were
called off tonight, making a total of 800
games played.
The Britons early obtained a commanding
lead, which they increased from day to day.
Todays score was to 5 in their favor
with % games drawn.
The feature of today's play was the series
Of four games between Charles F. Barker
of this city, the champion of America, and
Richard Jordan of Edinburgh, Scotland. the
worlds champion, the latter winning the
fourth game The other three games re-
suited in draws
The feature of the tournament was the
showing made by the five Scotchmen of the
British team Out of the 1914 games played
they won 46 and lost but 2, while 146 games
were drawn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
SWEEPING WAGE INCREASE.
Good News for $4,000 Steel Workers i,
Pittsburg District.

PITTSBURG, Pa, March 25.-Oficials Of
the United States Steel Corporation are re-
ported to have completed all plans prepara-
tory to making the announcement Of a
sweeping wage increase to go into effect
Saturday. April /. 1t is said that the heads
of all subsidiary companies of the corpora
ton a few weeks ago were requested to
furnish estimates of the total amounts nee
essary to accomplish the desired increase
and bring the standard Of wages paid steel
workers and other employees to near the
same level in force prior to the deep cut
made a year ago. These estimates were
placed in the hands Of the executive officials
OF the corporation the early portion Of this
week and were approved.
The amount Of the increase is not known
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
WARRANTS FOR TWO MEN.
Suspected Of Connection With Young
Woman's Death,

WHEELING, w. Va, March 25.-War-
rants were issued tonight for the arrest OF
Frank Smith and young man named Nc
Donnell Of Benwood in connection with the
death of Hilda Shubert, whose dead body
was found on the hillside near her home
early in the week.
Smith, who, it is said, was engaged to the
young woman, and Mcdonnell found the
girls body, and have been under police
surveillance since the tragedy became
known. Warrants were also issued at the
same time for three other young men
thought to know something Of the manner
OF the girls death.
The warrants are now in the hands OF
officers, and the young men are being look
ed for in Wheeling and Benwood. What
the warrants charge has not yet been as
certained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
$500, 600 FIRE IN INDIANA TOWN.
Twenty Business Houses and Forty
Residences Burned at Carbon.

CARBON, Ind, March 25-Fire here this
afternoon destroyed twenty business houses
and forty residences, causing a loss of
100000 The business section Of the town
is practically wiped out.
The town was without fire protection, and
the high wind famed the blaze until efforts
to control 1t were futile. A special train
from Brazil. six miles south of here. brought
portion of the fire department from that
city, which saved part of the residence
section. The town has about 1900 inhab-
itantS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
WON BY EDDIE ROOT.
Close of the six-Day Cycling Contest
at Richmnnd

RICHMOND, Va, March 25.-The six-dav
cycling contest here ended tonight in a
victory for Eddie Root of New York. GIs
Lawson came out second and Nat Butler
third. The last mile was made in 1.5o. The
total time Of the riding has been ten and q
half hours. The total distance made has
been 235 miles, IL laps
The distance made in the two hours Of
riding tonight was 43 miles 9 laps. There
was spill near the end tonight Bardgett
being thrown from his wheel by a loose
tire, but nobody was seriously hurt. The
three winners divide $1,000 among them,
Root getting the lions share, or about 50
per cent of the amount There was quite d
large and highly enthusiastic crowd Of
spectators on hand tonight
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
WANTS CHADWICK JEWELS.
Trustee of Estate Will Seek Them in
Belgium,

CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 25.-Trustee
Nathan Loeser of the Chadwick estate an
ncunced today that he would Immediately
begin an investigation of the testimony Of
Mrs. Chadwick in bankruptcy court Fri
day, that she had jewels in Brussels valued
at from $4,000 to $2O0,OO0
Mr.. Loeser will write to the American
consul in Brussels to verify the statement
and to obtain his aid in recovering the
property. According to Mrs. Chadwick 8
testimony the jewelry is nearly all paid
for, and by the payment of the balance and
of duties on bringing the stones into this
country the property could be had for the
benefit of the estate.
Dr. Leroy Chadwick today moved his per-
sonal effects from his late residence and,
1t is said, will ship them to his daughter,
Miss Mary Chadwick, in Florida.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Ex-postmaster General James Here.

Thomas l.. James, who was postmaster
General under Presidents Garfield and Ar
thur, called on Postmaster General Cor
felyou yesterday Afternoon and spent some
time In the private office.
The Postmaster General said later that
the call had been merely one of respect to
the ONCE which Mr.. James had admins
tered and that there was nothing of po-
jitical aspect in the conversation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Boston's New Dry Dock.

BOSTON, March Pa new drydock at
the Boston navy yard has been completed.
and on Monday the first test will be given.
The dock lis said to be the largest Of her
kind in the world. 1t is nearly 800 feet In
length. over all, nearly 112 feet wide in.
side at the top. so feet wide at the level OF
the keel block. upon which the ship in tho
dock rests and 80 feet deep from the top of
the coping to the floor in the body. The
undertaking costs 81. 125 600. but delays and
repairs to working apparatus add $6oo.O00 tQ
these figures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Child's Leg Fractured.

While playing on New York avenue be-
tween 18th and 18th streets northwest,
about $50 o'clock yesterday evening.
Adeline Wood, colored. aged nine years.
residing at 1873 E street northwest, fell
and fractured her right leg. She was
conveyed to the Emergency Hospital in
No. patrol wagon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
SENTENCED FOR BRIBERY.
Milwaukee Base Ball Manager Sent to
Prison for Two Years,

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, March 25.-Charles
s. Havenor, owner and president of the
Milwaukee Base Ball Club, in the Ameri-
can Association, was today sentenced to
two years Imprisonment in the Milwaukee
house of correction.
The charge against Havenor, who was
formerly an alderman, Is accepting bribe
of 500 for furthering special privilege.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Fatal Explosion of Dynamite.

WHEELING, W. Va, March 25-A guam
tity Of dynamite was accidentally exploded
this afternoon near the camp Of Cahill &
Parnell, subcontractors on the Wabash ex-
tension at Oconoko, w. Va. Details cannot
be obtained. but 1t was ascertained that
three workmen were killed and two injured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Charged With Assault.

James E. Clark Is charged with having
committed an assault upon Maize Cheat
last night in Northwestern Washington.
Clark was arrested and lodged In a cell
in the third precinct, but afterward fur
nished collateral for his appearance in
Police Court Monday morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Deal Closed for Coal Lands.

WASHINGTON. Pa, March 25.-R A.
Whitesides Of Pittsburg said to represent
New York. Cleveland and Pittsburg CAPT.
talists. closed a deal today for the pur-
chase Of $1,000 acres of coal lands in this
county at an average price of $45 an acre.
A large block extending into Greene county
may be included in the deal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Three Years for Postman.

Special Dispatch to The Sunday Star.
BALTIMORE. March 25.-James G. Fer
guson, the letter carrier of Station C, South
Baltimore, who was arrested on Thursday
last for stealing letter from the malls con-
tanning $3.50. and who, upon his arrest, ac-
knowiedged his guilt, was indicted by the
federal grand jury yesterday. and imme-
diately thereafter. entering plea of guilty.
was sentenced by Judge Morris of the Unit
ed States court to three years in the peni-
tentiary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Salvation Army Anniversary.

NEW YORK, March 25.-The first of a
series of exercises to commemorate the
twenty-fifth anniversary OF the establish
ment Of the Salvation Army in this city was
held tonight when the officers from out of
town who are to attend the anniversary
congress were welcomed by the local off,
GERS,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Not Told of Fathers Death.

Special Dispatch to The Sunday Star
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, March 25.-when
news of the death of Maurice Barrymore
was received here today it was studiously
kept from his daughter Ethel, who was
playing at matinee. Guards were posted
at the stage entrance in order that no per-
son bearing news or kilograms concerning
the death should reach Miss Barrymore.
She was informed of the occurrence after
the performance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Financier Underwent Operation.

BOSTON, March pa. C. Burrage. q
well-known financier of this city, associate
of H. H. Rogers Of New York and other
men representing large interests. was oper-
ated on for appendicitis today. The opera.
ton was pronounced successful.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Heavy Emigration From ireland.

QUEENSTOWN, March 25-The seasons
tide of emigration fully set in today when
the steamer Celtic took 1,O40 Irish from this
port for America. Reports from the In
terror lead to the conclusion that emigra-
ton from Ireland this year will exceed the
record for several years past.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26

at present, but it is stated that, with the ex-
ception of the tonnage men in the steel
mills, all other employees will receive the
full amount of the former reduction. The
total increase for the year will, it is said,
approximate $9,OOOOOO. The advance will
affect 80, 900 workmen in this district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Albany Woman Dead in South Carolina

AIKEN, s. c.. March 25.-Mrs. Robert
Maccarter of Albany. N. Y. died here to-
day. She was the widow of Robert Mac
carter a prominent lawyer OF New York
city. 1t is understood that the remains will
leave mere on a special Pullman car for Al
bany tomorrow afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26

Thousands of situations have been OBJ
tanned through the want columns Of The
Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-26
Mother and Babe smothered by Gas.

wILKESBARRE. Pa, March 2o.-Mrs.
Mary Walsh and her baby. aged one year.
were found dead at Larksville TO-DAY, nav,
to heen smothered by gas which escaped
a ON a coal stove In an adjoining ROOM
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-08-10
Reduced Rates For Home Coming
RObeSOnlanS.

The Atlantic Coast Line an
nounces that tickets for the
Home Coming Week for Robe
sonians, Red Springs, N G will
be sold at one 6rst class fare
plus twenty five cents.
Tickets will be sold August
18th, 10Th and Goth and for
trains scheduled to reach Red
Springs before noon of August
21st, limited to September first
for .return. Extension of the
final limit to September 30th
may be obtained by depositing
the ticket with the Agent at Red
Springs between August 21st
and September 1st and payment
of fee of fifty cents.
For further information COM
municatt with
w j Craig,
General Passenger Agent,
Wilmington, N G.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-08-10

act unjustly if person were called
upon to provide for his acceptances
the day before they would otherwise
have fallen due, and after some con-
sideration therefore We suggested
that bills falling due upon these
days should be payable, not the day
before the last day of grace, but on
the dav after, so that bill falling
due on bank holiday becomes really
PAYABLE day later than would be
the case if it were due on Sunday,
Good Friday or Christmas day.
Under these circumstances it was
necessary to use some special name
for the new holidays in our bill. If
we had called them national holidays
or general holidays this would not
have distinguished them from the
old holidays. They were therefore
called bank holidays" and this is
the real origin of a word which has
now become so familiar. But it
was never intended that these holi-
days should be applicable exclusive
" TO banks.-London Mail.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-08-10
She Got the information.

She ran breathlessly out of the
Palace hotel and boarded Haight
street car. "Will this car take me
TO Haight and Fillmore streets" ?"
she asked the conductor. ''Do you
want a transfer to Fillmore" asked
the conductor. "That is not an an
swer to my question:" said the lady
passenger. ''Does this car go to
iIaight and Fillmore "Goes right
out to the park, said the conductor.
Nov, see here" said the exasper-
atcd passenger. What is the rea-
son YOU cannot answer my question?
The clerk in the hotel told me that
red car going in this direction
would take me to Haight and Fill
more. | don't know anything about
your cityand haven't bought guide
book. Now, can't YOU kindly conde-
scend to answer my question? Will
this car take me to Haight ard Fill
more:" 1T will" THANK you
very much. San Francisco Chron-
icle.
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Lost.


What, Lost your temper. did you sayf
Well. dear, wouldn't mind It.
1t isn't such a dreadful loss
Pray do not try to find It.
Twas not the gentlcst, sweetest one,
AS all can we'll remember
Who have endured its every whim
From New Years till December.
It drove the dimples all away
And wrinliled up your forehead
And changed pretty. smiling face
To one-wcll. simply horrid!
1t put to flight the CHEEKY words.
The laughter and the singing.
And clouds upon a shining sky
It would persist IN bringing.
Ind II is gone! Then do. my dear.
Make It your best endeavof
70 quickly find better one
And lose It never-never!
TIE Hard Part.
III is a trying profession" said
the first entomologist.
Isn't it Z" replied the second.
"The world never realizes how
hard we fellows work"
Indeed, it doesn't"
"The world never gives thought
to the days and nights of study we
put iD."
Il should say not"
"Think of it. Sometimes we
work and worry for years to decide
upon the habits and manners of life
of some obscure bug"
Huh. Think that's the hard
part? How about the nerve rack
ing and mind wrecking task of in
venting scientific names for the
things :"-Chicago Tribune.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-08-10
GeneaIosy.

Alexandra Dumas, the great
French author, was quadroon and
showed his African parentage in his
woolly hair, his dark skin, his thick
lips and his prodigious bodily
strength. But it is needless to say
that many people looked askance at
him on account of it.
WAS not your father, sir, a mu-
latto:" a man asked him once.
Certainly" said Dumas. My IA
thcr was mulatto, my grandfather
wa& full blooded negro and my
gredt-grandfather was monkey"
"What."
YES. Ny genealogy begins where
yours leaves off,
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-08-10
THE HORSE WARNED HIM.
Audubon's Description Of kentucky
Earthquake In 1912.


This vivid description Of an
earthquake was written by Audu-
bon, the naturalist. 1t occurred in
the year 1872: "Traveling through
the barrens of kentucky in the
month of November, l was jSGsing
on one afternoon when | remA led
Sudden and strange darkness Us
inc from the western horizon. L
had proceeded about 8 mile when /
heard what J. imagined 10 be the
distant rumbling Of violent tor
nado, on which | spurred my steed,
with wish to gallop as fast as pos
sible to a place of shelter. But it
would not do. The animal knew
better than l what was forthcoming,
and instead of going faster so near
ly stopped that l remarked be placed
one foot after another on the ground
with such precaution as if walking
on a smooth sheet of ice. thought
he had suddenly foundered and,
speaking to him, was on the point of
dismounting and leading him, when
he all of a sudden fell, groaning
piteously, hung his head, spread out
his four legs as if to save himself
from falling, and stood stock still,
continuing to groan.
81 thought my horse was about to
die and would have sprung from his
back had minute more elapsed. But
at that instant all the shrubs and
trees began to move from their very
roots, the ground rose and fell in
successive furrows, like the ruffled
water of lake, and | became be-
wildered in my ideas, as too plain
" discovered that all this awful COM
motion in nature was the result of
an earthquake. The fearful convul-
sion, however, lasted only a few
minutes, and the heavens again
frightened as quickly as they had
become obscured. My horse brought
his feet to their natural position,
raised his head and galloped off as if
loose and frolicking without.a rider.
"Shock succeeded shock almost
every day or night for several weeks,
diminishing, however, so gradually
as to dwindle away into mere vibra-
tions of the earth. Strange to say,
/ for one became so accustomed to
the feeling as rather to enjoy the
fears manifested by others. The
earthquake produced more serious
consequences in other places"
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-08-10
Old Inns.

The Ostrich inn at Colnbrook,
Middlesex, England, has had an un-
interrupted existence since the far
away days of King John. 1t was do
ing a thriving business before Mag
ma Charta was signed and had quail
fled as a veteran before Crecy was
fought. The Seven Stars in Man
chester was a licensed house in the
year Of Poitiers 1850, two-thirds
of Il century before the cathedral
was founded, and it boasts today a
staircase clock which began to tick
ever so long before DR.. Johnson was
born-nearl V two centuries ago.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1905-08-10
Hard to Play On.

The experiences of George B. Cor
telyou, chairman of the Republican
national committee, during the re-
cent campaign were many and va
ried. With keen relish he tells OF
one that came under his notice.
A country club about to give a pa
rade was debating as to the number
of transparencies to be had in line.
1t was about settled that twelve
would be the proper number when
an old fellow with his trousers tuck
ed in his boots arose and said:
Il guess two will be about right.
'Tain't at all likely more'n two will
know how to play on 'em."-Success
Magazine.
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DRESSING BY LAW.
Price and Style Of Clothing Once Pro.
scribed by Statute.

sCTipSo u StaIose'
Between the fourteenth and eight
eenth centuries all kinds of sumptu-
ary laws prevailed in Europe. In
France a royal ordinance of 1891
prescribed that no common citizen
might wear fur, precious stones or
gold. A nobleman who had 1900
year might have four robes year
and no more. Ladies of that rank
might have one gown year. If
any one gave a dinner there must
be only two courses besides the soup.
Common citizens who possessed
$500 a year might use cloth which
cost 1212 cents yard, and their
wives might spend 1G cents a yard.
Persons whose income was less than
$500 year must weascheaper cloth.
In Italy severe ordinances were
passed in the early part of the four
teenth century against excessive
dress by women. They were forbid
den to wear any sort of headdress,
even Of painted paper. Gowns of
woven figures might be worn, but
not embroidered. All stripes and
bias patterns were condemned, ex-
cept simple ones of not more than
two co!orS. Not more than two fin
ger rirgs were to be worn at once.
Switzerland had law that no
wedding party should have more
than twenty guests-ten men friends
of the bridegroom and ten women
friends of the bride. No wedding
procession was permitted to have
more than two singers, two tiddlers
and two trumpeters. Married wo-
men we're forbidden to wear silk or
decorated hoods, though maidens
might. No woman, whether married
or unmarried, was allowed to wear
any dress in which the opening for
the neck was so large that it did not
lie at least two inches wide upon the
shoulders, and the gown must not be
buttoned or laced up in front or at
the side.
To restrain the fashion of the
long pointed shoes it was enacted
that no person of either sex should
weA shoe with point extending
beyond the foot enough to allow
anything to be inserted in it, nor
was any woman or girl permitted to
wear laced shoes. No man or boy
should wear a coat that did not
reach to the knee.
Garments were forbidden to be
slashed so as to show different colors
or kinds Of material, and trousers
were required to be made without
stripes and both legs of the same
color. In 1870 one Swiss canton in
council assembled enacted that
thereafter no one shall make points
on shoes or boots longer than one
joint of the finger, and if any shoe
maker shall make them longer he
shall be fined So, as also the person
wearing them Indianapolis News.
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BANK HOLIDAYS.
The Reason They Are Thus Designated
In England.

The bank holidays created by the
act of 1871 were the first ever in
stituted by any legislature for the
purposes of rest and enjoyment. All
previous holidays were really holy
days-that is to say, purely ecclesi-
astical institutions-either religious
fasts or festivals.
Before the act passed holiday
could only be proclaimed asa fast
or a day of national humiliation.
There was no power to proclaim a
holiday for thanksgiving, rejoicing
or even for any public function. This
can now be done under the act and
has proved a great convenience.
1t is very general but quite
mistaken idea that bank holidays
were originally intended for bank
clerks only.
The act expressly provides that
mo person shall be compellable to
do any act on a bank holiday which
he would not be compellable to do
on Christmas day or Good Friday"
1t may be asked, then, why did
we call these days bank holidays?
The reason is rather technical.
According to immemorial custom,
the prayer of bill in England has
three days grace, so that an accept
anee which comes due nominally on
tbs first of the month is not really
payable till the fourth.
If, however, the third day OF grace
should fall upon Christmas day,
Good Friday or Sunday then 1t IS
not thought fair the prayer should
have fourth days grace, and such
bills are due the day before-that is
to say, they are due on the Saturday
or the day before Good Friday or
Christmas day.
Now, in considering the bank hol-
idays it was thought that it might
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