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leaper he was unequaled for grace.
 skill and daring. .-s It Is a matter of record duly authen-
 ticated. that John Comosh on several occasions turned a triple somersauIts
 in the ring. Many performers had pre-
 viously been crippled or killed in trying
 to accomplish the feat, but Mir. Com
 esh tackled it successfully. The Sun. Dan O'Brien and Dams four Ieaper
 friends could consult on this point Col. T. Allston Brown of New York city,
 widely knwon as the historian of thea
 tricals, and a recognized authority,
 who. in an interview published in The Sun. Jan. ?. 1895, said: d..
 The first man to attempt to turn a
 triple somersault was a performer in Van Amburgh's Circus in Mobile. Ala, in 1S42. He broke his neck. William J.
 Hobbes made the attempt at Astley's
 Amphitheater, London, during the
 season of 1845-e. He was instantly
 killed. The next one was John Amar.
 He had been, successfNsy turning a
 double and was the &riginal in ac-
 complaining it over four horses. He tried a triple at the Isle of Wight,
 England, in 1859, turning twice, land
 ed on his forehead and broke his neck.
 Sam Reinhardt, while traveling with
 Cooper & Bailey's Circus, became dis satisfied with the double somersault feat and was anxious to do a triple. He did it at Toledo, in 1870, making high Heap, turned twice and a half. alighted
 on the broad of his back, and was dis
 abled for some time. Billy Dutton &C., Icomplished the feat at Elkhart, Ind, summer of 1860, but he never made an- other attempt. Bob Stickney did it
 while practising at a gymnasium on
 Fourteenth street, and not, as Walter
 Main states, at the Hippotheatron. Stickney alighted in a blanket, but he never successfully did it by alighting
 on his feet. Frank Starks undertook the feat at Indianapolis, Ind, June, 1879. He alighted on his head dislocat- ing his neck, and died in few hours.
 .The only person, living or dead, who
 accomplished the feat successfully
 more than once was John Worland, living at the present day at Corning,
 N Y. This gentleman threw a triple somersault six times from a trampo- line board. The first time he attempted lit was at St. Louis in September, 1874, with John Wilson's San Francisco cir GUS. He made three trials, over five
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My old Clothes.

used to have suit Of clothes, All rags and paint and dirt; What luxury it WIS to wear
 A suit I couldn't hurt! Secure within that wreck or cloth
 I grOYelled on the ground; In garret, stable, garden, yard,
 Primeyal bliss l found, It waxed familiar with the woods, The thickets, marshes, brooks. It carried rents and burrs and mud
 From all the forest. hooks. ---s I got down close to Mother Earth,
 My spirit seemed to root And spread it's filaments and grow Within that mouldy suit. But ah, my wife, in vandal mood,
 One hapless cleaning day, In valiant fit of tidiness,
 Gave my old suit away! And now I weed the garden walks
 At length of formal hoe, & And keep within the proper paths . When to the woods I go. I've lost the sense of sweet, warm dirt The kinship with the ground; I must be careful of my clothes
 Whene'er I tinker round. ''' do not own a single suit
 But claims my constant care, No shred of blessed cloth that
 ObliVfouSiy wear, ,l Before my oldest suit is fit
 For either work or fun, A solemn year-at least a year
 Must circumspectly run, ..,..- ..- O woman. woman! prim and neat, The flower of humankind, I'd not abate your daintiness
 And purity of mind; s....---y---J.-,-,-- But, oh, with heavenly perfectness, Your graces will be girt If you will let a happy man
 Just wallow in the dirt!
 7aj- < -prnl~
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In the English peerage but one Zouche, of HaryngWorth-goes back as far as 1908, but most barons are crea- tions of the nineteenth century. and but twenty-six as far back as the sev- enteenth century. The Scotch peers average older dates of creation than the English. the Earl of Sutherland dating back to 1928. Ireland has one baron who got his title in l274, and another, Michael c. DeCourcey. whose date is 11S1.
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NOVELTIES IN WHISPERS.

w nI1lOAA114lA7.
 eThe most remarkable whisker novel, ty," the barber said, ''is to be found in France, Frenchmen for the last six months have been wearing box boards. A box beard is as square as a piece of carpentry, inches long, 5 inches wide, ? inches deep, every corner sharp and true and all the surface, upper and under side. smootheed as if with a plane
 "The box beard is neat and queer. 1t was introduced by the King of the Bel gians.
 'The English have a new mustache- the butterfly The butterfly is not more than two inches long. It is just feathery little thing under the nose, with ends turning upward and inward. It has been adopted by all the young army officers. The king has stamped it with the stamp of his approval. "You will hardly believe it, but in Italy the patch is being worn. The Italian has his chin shaved smoth ex- cept for tiny circular patch the size of a shirt stud. Chicago Chronicle.
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visit the aunting grounds is said to be from May to October, and most of the necessary requirements for the expedi- tion can be obtained from local deal CTS in Dar-ss-saIaam. In addition to big game, there are birds of all sorts and sizes, many Of them excellent eat ing. as also are certain kinds of mon- keys. The wild pigs are not, as a rule, eaten by the white man, but the natives enjoy them.
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ADvERTIsINe RATES.

Situations. Wants. Rents. and other small advertisements. One Cent Word each insertion, Five Cents word for . full week.
 Display advertisements. per inch. one insertion, s1.2o; each subsequent inser- tion. 40 cents; one weex. ss.2o; one month. s1o; one year. s4a
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It is getting harder every day for criminals to escape arrest. A sheriff Sfrom Honolulu is just completing a chase of 25,0O0 miles for clerk who is charged with stealing some bonds from a trust company in that city. He fled by way of Japan, China, Bombay, Ma pies. and Paris, to London, where he was arrested. The sheriff, with his warrant, left Hawaii for Washington, got his extradition papers and proceed ed to London. where he got his man He brought him to New York, and will take him to Hawaii for trial.
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1 | a
 They are on the lookout for tornadoes in Oklahoma. People are building cy- close cellars to flee to, and even the local authorities are providing ways of warning and protection. At Hinton the lished: "On nights when clouds look at all dangerous, a sentry will be station ed in the bell tower, provided with a ent danger, he will ring the bell and fire 8 number of shots in quick suc- eession. Also any person who sees a storm coming when the sentry is not stationed, will be expected to fire a gum
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY. l2 CENTS A WEEK. 50 CENTS {. MONTH. ss FOR SIX MONTHS. ss "A YEAR THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL. SINGLE COPIES. g CENTS.
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------'---------------.------ THE TRIPLE TURN.
Johnnie Worland's Friends Declare He
 Acconplished It Six Times

Accomplished It Six Times.
 In a recent number of The Sun an article was printed concerning Dan O'Brien, an old circus man, who was visited by four leapers, to talk over their experiences. Dan O'Brien's four friends declared that mo man living, not even they themselves, ever made the triple turn, which is the end of ambition for every good leaper. Man after man has worked a lifetime to ac-
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Emperor William has made an inno- yation in the German army by appoint ing it's first Jewish officer. He is a grandson of the late Baron Karl Mayer yon Rothschild, of Frankfort-am-M Main. The young man was serving as a one year volunteer in a Baden regiment of Fdragoons stationed at Karlsruhe. He let it be known that he would like to become an officer of course upon ade- auate evidence of capacity, but the off, ficers of the regiment turned his appli- cation down. When the Emperor heard of it he appointed the young man groom of the bedchamber, which makes him an army officer. He will be assigned to regiment.
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treme coldness of the rock. the result was coal; otherwise it was petroleum" Kansas City Times.
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Tn an Indianapolis paper Augustus Lynch Mason bravely sets forth his views about the public schools. Sim pier and shorter courses of study" he says, simpler school life, a bold cut ting off of instruction in branches ridic- ulously unsuited to children of the peo- pie, white or colored; reduction or abandonment of electives. would be my programme. believe the minds of pu- pills are over-Wrought at present to the injury of their bodies. I think the fam cy frills of high school fraternities and journals, or senate and interschool de- bates and athletics, all complicate and oppress the child life unduly.''
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Some weeks ago the Church Con- gross committee secured the promise of the advertising space on the lenders of Brooklyn trolley cars for the dis play of notices of the meetings of that body in the city this week. But just before the opening of the congress Percy Williams, of the Orpheum the- ater, acquired the exclusive right to the car lenders for his advertisements, and the promise made to the commit tee seemed likely to be revoked. Mir. Williams, however, on learning the sit uation, gratuitously placed the cov- eted space at the disposal of the con- gress.
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An English committee has taken up the task of teaching home industries to members Of Boer households who were impoverished by the war. The most taking of the industries mention cd is that of spinning and weaving wool for garments and carpets. The special advantage of this is that in the Orange river colony, where the experiment is tried, there is almost no manufacturing. The girls are said to learn quickly, as might be expected in a country where a good deal of separate household in- dustry was carried on almost or suite up to the time of the war Some at- s tempt at cooperative industries is also to be made.
 Of the British House of Peers, enl- bracing dukes, marquises, earls, vis- counts and barons, numbering over 50t persons, not one can trace his title and arms back further than the year 11S1 s The peers are nearly all of recent crea. ton, especially those of the higher ranks. The barons go furthest back
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11S1.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-25
Stone & Fairfax, 8O4=806=8O8 F ST.
RUSSIAN OFFICERS IN CHICAGO.
Return From Port Arthur to ST.
Petersburg via New York.

A dispatch from Chicago says: Capt. Mich
olas Sake, commander of the Russian hydro
era phc ship Ermak, sunk in Port Arthur
haroor Immediately before the capitulation.
arrived in Chicago over the Northwestern
road from San Francisco yesterday, en-
route for st. Petersburg, via New York
and Paris. He was accompanied by Capt.
Nicholas Won Essen, commander of the de-
stroyed battle ship Sevastopol, and eleven
Russian naval lieutenants, all of whom
were taken prisoners by the Japanese and
released on parole.
in an interview he told a graphic story
of the siege of the Russian stronghold Had
General Stoessel held out, Capt. Sake said
the place soon would have been converted
into a mere cemetery. Almost 5000 men
were scurvy-ridden, $4,000 were wounded,
some of the men having been sent to and
retaken from hospitals as many as eight
times. Out of the whole garrison fewer
than 1 900 men were free from wounds or
sickness, while food was of such quality
as induced sickness.
When General Stoessel surrendered 5000
of the 5000 soldiers and sailors under arms
were suffering from wounds Hundreds
were taken from the hospitals to bear arms,
but unable even to walk, fell and died at
their posts. Night and day for weeks at
a time the Japanese kept throwing into the
city a shower of shells.
'It was a continuous, never-ending hor-
ror, enduring day after day, night after
night said Capt. Sake.
The officers with him are from the
Ermak the Sevastopol, the battle ships
Retzivan and Peresviet. With them were
Capt. Horacio Anasagasti, military attache
of Argentina, and Adhemar Delcoigne of
the Belgian diplomatic corps.
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For Sale
Fashionable
Residences.
Congressional. Diplomatic,
Army and Navy
Sections.

DETACHED MANSION on BEAUTIFUL 10TH
ST. OPEN on ALL SIDES. COST $780, o0o
CAN BE BOUGHT FOR $4,000. The appoint
ments of this magnificent property are superb.
Few residences surpass it. Terms to suit
2lst st. near Mass ave, 14-roOm residence; 7
bed chambers; baths. Price, s12, 500.
21sT ST, " So. of Mass. $4,000.
o ST. near Goth; fine locality; splendid resi-
denee. Price, only $4,000.
MASS AVE. near 10th st. $50 600
MASS. AVE near nth st. S26, 900.
Q ST. near 21st DETACHED house. Very
cheap. Price, $4,000.
MASS. AVE. 18th st. Price, $50, 600.
MASS. AVE. near 18th st. Price SIS 800.
NEW HAMP. Q st. Price, $40, 900.
Q ST. near 18th with stsble). $4,000.
ST near Goth. $685. 900.
o ST. near Conn., ave. $4,000.
CALIFORNIA AVE. Spacious ground
grand residence. Price, Sac, 900.
IN WASHINGTON AND COLUMBIA HEIGHTS.
SOME OF THE GRANDEsT HOMES
IMAGINABLE AT Low FIGURES
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DIR. OSLER IN EARNEST.
Reiterates That Men Achieve Most
Before They Are Forty.

DR.. William Osler who declared in a speech
at the Johns Hopkins commemoration day
exercises in Baltimore, Md, recently that
the creative usefulness of man reached it's
zenith before he had passed his fortieth
birthday, said yesterday that he was thor
oughly in earnest when he made that state
ment, and that it was not, as had been init
mated by a number of those who differ with
him, merely bit of pleasantly.
Moreover DR.. Osler declared that he has
written an essay which he expects soon to
publish, entitled La Crise de Quarante
Ans" c'The Crisis of Forty Years'), and
which, he says, will be complete answer
to his critics.
What said concerning the comparative
uselessness of men over forty years of age
he said, was not told jolsingly at all. 1
meant exactly what / saiG. l know there
are exceptions but these merely prove the
rule
Dr. Osler spent Thursday in New York, re-
turning to Baltimore early yesterday MORN
ing, and was greatly surprised at the man
ner In which his remark had been taken up
from one end of the country to the other
Notwithstanding the protest which it has
aroused, he is fully prepared to stand by
his statement, and says that the essay
which he will publish cites special cases.
AS one instance to prove his contention
DIR. Osler cited Darwin. Darwin" he said.
Ibid his greatest work as a young man ex-
ploring in South America. After he re-
turned home he may have made more
money but making money and advancing
the world are two very different things. All
the vitalizing, terminating, creative work in
this world is done by men before they reach
their fortieth year, and the exceptions mere
ly illustrate the truth of what / say
In reply to the remark that he himself
wrote his first book after he had passed his
fortieth birthday, DIR. Osler replied: Yes,
but it was before / was forty that gath
cred the material and made the observations
that resulted in the books. Before / was
forty was too busy to write books. Had
written as gathered the material and then
stopped when was forty the world of med
icine would be just as far advanced as 1t is
now. While man may make more money
after he is forty, it is no indication that he
is helping the world along as much as he
did before he reached that age. If all the
work done in the history of the world by
men after they were forty was subtracted
from the sum of human achievement we
would not take one step backward"
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Business Properties.

Look this list of choice business properties and
you'll re able pick up bargain of the day in this
class of property
closed outstuated street-opposite
several Of the largest establishments. Rent $4,000
Two of the best properties street-one located
the Ebbitt House-the other with frontage 70
onay across from the Boston House@ snendid Location
for any line of business-ot 2Ox10O paved
ley To be sold at price one-fourh less than
erty this square
Store property, the House. for SO
month lot 23xlLthe rent pays good interest on the
and one that VIII be valuable in the future Price
A business Property street near 7th-A 3-story
building. Reduced from $4,000 $1,000
rened-2s feet ront~io worth $4,000 Improvements
cost $4,000 must be sold to settle estate The price
Property on Penna ave. nearly opposite the post
nee very desirable store building in of the best
business locations on the Price $4,000
valuable store and office property 18th
ming back to wide alley. sl,6s0 year and
continues well rented Pays over per cent the
Store on the corner of 9th near H. entire lot
stable co1nsp feet feet , Price $500 $1,000
Se closed out at bargain to settle estate. Price
Property renting for $40 per mo-. near the patent
offieeuw wide. frontage to close at $3.50
500 Price 5000 '''''' H. II f00"S-fen'S
Property 72e 18th st. 12room building-lot 279 by
lof to alley 10 be sold at speculative prices.
Property 18th ST. near k--44x9o to alley Rents SO
Store property 10th ST. Eye lot 22xo5. Price
Valuable business st. 9th; II rooms
H St @ 10Th. In splendid repair; about 25xs5
sth St, G; 4 rooms; rents for se5 Price $4,000
nue.; at special price.
14th St, X 10 rooms; alley; specially
H st, 18th; a-story brick. Price $4,000
II ST., near 18th; II rooms; lot about 2ox1OO Price.
18th St, between f and F and H.
Several properties between and H 10th, 18th and
18th at special figures.
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Died After Operation.

Sidney Dillon Ripley, a prominent in
surance and club man, died in New York
yesterday, as a result of an operation for
appendicitis. He had been Ill since last
Tuesday.
Mr. Ripley was treasurer and director Of
the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the
United States, director of the Mercantile
Trust Company OF this city and of two
banks and of several steel manufacturing
concerns, member of the chamber of COM
merce. He was brother-in-law Of James H.
Hyde. vice president of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society. and a member of sew
eral of the leading clubs
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Special Exchange Offers.

We make feature this branch of business, and
have made 80 exchanges OF since January 1s
good record in itself and for good For what
is really desirable good for the
exchange. Let know what property you have that
you'd like to exchange
The following Apartment Houses for exchange-locaed
the Heights the best constructed Apartment
Houses the city. $500; price $4,000
Another south of for 81 800; price $780,
Another of 14th; rent. s. 600; price $50 600
Another south of NJ ST. of 10Th. (Trust $25,000)
Price, $4,000.
Apartment 14th rent. 1000: price. $4,000
Apartment 18th $500; price, $4,000
Apartment n NV; rent, So COO $10-
600, at per cent; price, $4,000.
Apartment 9th St; rent. $500; price, $4,000.
Apartment west of 16th rents $780, price $4,000.
CLEAR PROPERTY FOR TRADE.
1920 Rhode Island 100 18th ST. SO feet front
10th o. Roanoke 14th; -
feet front on G. ave near Lincoln Park 100 feet on
between and west of Goth
lot, 5ox15o; value 10000 location,
of 18th VIII trade for equity in Apartment
two-farnily houses; rents, $45; price $4,000
WE OFFER DESIRABLE HOUSES AT CASH
PRICES
17ls IS" St: 70 rooms; 2 baths; hot-water heat;
174o St; IA rooms; 2 baths 2 stairways.
21O6 90 st; hot-water heat.
SW. corner 18th and Roanoke sts u rooms; baths;
HOT-WATER HEAT.
- steam heat.
721 NV. IA rooms; each rents 500
100 18th st. opposite Paais Royal; lot 20x95
1890 Mintwood place. new; 10 rooms; tiled baths;
steam heat.
1924 Baltimore 10 rooms; heat
1912, 141s Cincinnati St.; IL rooms baths; steam
heat.
of Columbia road and
taro 10 rooms; steam heat.
Block of 2family houses; each rents $50; Column
bia road and 10th ST.
3545 Morgan ave-; II rooms; rooms deep; 21x1OO.
1921 Columbia road; brownstone front; 1sx160.
1850 and 1854 Howard ave-; stories; pretty.
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Rosseau Not an Anarchist.

The Prussian political police on the re-
quest of the police of this city have search
cd for evidence that Gessler Rosseau the
man accused of trying to injure the statue
of Frederick the Great at Washington. was
an anarchist, but nothing concerning him
has been found A reply to that effect has
been sent to Washington.
Maj. Sylvester, superintendent of police
In Washington, has received responses from
a number of officials in foreign countries
among them Prussian city-to whom in
quiries were sent at the time Rosseau was
in custody. The replies were all Of one
purport, no evidence of Rosseaus connec-
ton with anarchistic societies having been
discovered.
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ago on charges Of bribery and Of conspir-
Ing with the secretary of the treasury in
fraudulently issuing from 100000 to $780,
GOO in bonds. OF the thirty-three persons
accused. among whom was ex-President
Sam. thirteen were present at the trial the
others having fed The court rendered
Judgment In default condemning Sam to
imprisonment for Afe at hard labor.
imprisonment and several members of
Sans ministry and other high functionaries
were condemned to terms of Imprisonment
ranging from five to fifteen years.
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Blundon, O'Brien
& Belt, Inc,
1920 G Street N. w.

The West Virginia house adopted two
senate resolutions Thursday, the first au-
thorizing the building on the capitol
grounds by the G. A. r. and w. r. c. and
kindred organizations, of monument to
the dead of the Union armies, and the
second authorizing the erection on the same
grounds of a monument to the confederate
dead by the Daughters Of The Confederacy.
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A store that advertises
secures the means with
which to buy latest styles
and best goods. Thus
merit and advertising are
twin sisters.
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The case grew out Of the act of the
Haytien congress of 1902 authorizing the
consolidation of the national debt in a bond
issue Of about $6.000,OOO, and an additional
$213, 2S2 to be paid to the Bank OF Hayti
for financing the deal. Before the transac-
ton was completed the government of Pres
ident Nord came into power.
The bank officials were imprisoned year
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IN fol to nfo
the oehah
former to abroad
a owepn by far
like merit be had anywher Elm Washng
Streets few
n Ontario heated
o in o h ~ he city.