Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1893, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©. WEDNESDAY, OCTUBER 4, 1893—TEN PAGES. LAST DAYS} OF TWO loses | FAMOUS Sons. | SALES. TOMORROW Is THE LAST DAY oF TWO OF THE GREATEST SACRI- FICE SALES OF THE SEASON. MOSES’ ANNUAL ORIENTAL RUG SALE, AND MOSES’ ANNUAL LACE CURTAIN SALE. Both end Thursday night. Friday moraing all the goods revert to their ‘original prices. If you have a want, would it not be advisable to supply it at once? AD opportunity like this woa't occur again for a year. THE ORIENTAL RUG SALE Is tu direct competition with the New York auetions.. There's this difference between the two: At ap auction sale Fou don't have time to properly inspect what you're paying for. Here yoo may carefully examine every thread if you Mike. Take all the time you want. ‘These articles still remain: CARPETS FROM THE ORIENT. yet How To avoid Sodden pastry? he Prosiey is SOLVED by the production of our New a which makes light, crisp, health- Fal, wholesome pastry, LNs. Bride, Marion Regular SPECIAL Size Name. Price. PRICE. larland and other epert 43 ft. 9 by ¥ ft. 7 Im, Bahodurr...$120.00 $90.00 ? iti d Bro 160.00 120.00 tho: endorse is smo iso.m| Coeking iv eres 36 ft 135.00 140.00 é. (@) Hee rei ea] Corzoley : Ye U 16 ft. 9 173.00 125.00 wt 9 26.00 213.0, CAN'T affor: ra oe wes 150.00 117.50 -. we tw s| Without Gfrouenes 4s 7 6 6 Made only by = ie N. K. FAIRBANK & CO., ft. 4 by 13 ft. wee the ft. 2 by 9 ft. tt. 9 by 8 ft. ft O by 9 ft. ft. 8 by 8 tt ft. 10 by 9 ft. ft. 6 by 9 ft. te. 6 by 12 ft ft. 2 by 9 ft ft. 8 by 8 ft. fr. 0 by § ft. 2 ft. o hy 9 ft fe soy 9 ft. ft 2 by 12 ft Toro tt Tr00 fe "ste. 75.00 ft 6 by 5.00 fo bys 67.90 fe Toy 8 00 ft 2 by D 285.00 ft. 10 by 9 ft. 72.00 2 ft. S by 00 oe or 30.00 fs by cm Sse Fy z 33 tt. v by 8 20.00 80.00 35 ft. 1 by 3 75.00 50.00 13 ft 4 by 3 00 40.00 i ft. lo by 50.00 35.00 17 fe. 41 by 0 35.0 B ft 7 by’ $0.00 0.00 HEE fs as Bins ao 203 NOCKIN 17 tt. 2 bya 0.00 45.00 . 16 ft. 11 bys 75.00 57.00 $1.50 $4.50 $7.50 $10.00 Rugs.” Regular ieee. a ‘$15.00 and 1 bale Very Fine Daghestan Had" sito" ana $30.00: for sito a : Special prices. cnet $12.00 1 Rate. Pees Fine “Antique and” Anatolian $15.00 00. pee... 820.00 1 bale Amtiaue!” Aonigiiag 35.00 Gch. "Redac es 2. $3 Exon THE LACE CURTAINS. MARKED DOWN FROM TO $0.90 $0.65 to. 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TS,V:STS, COATS A’ D OVERCOATS. ‘The decree has gone forth that you must DROP Featberweights and DON heavier habiliments, and as cash is Bot so plentiful nor as get-ut-able as it used to be it is a matter of grave concern to the masses where to get the best returns for thelr money. ‘The question can be easily, definitely and satig- factorily settled if it's SUIT OF CLOTHES WE HAVE ok THEM, TONS UPON TO: \N NEW FALL AND W CUTAWAY SACK COA THREE AND FOUR-BUTTON CUTAWAY FT COATS, A WILDERNESS OF STYLES AND PAaT- TERNS AND DESIGNS TO SELECT FROM, AXD WE'VE MADE THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME, THE PRICE To SUIT THE TIMES. $7.59 $10.00 4 suIr. a FALL OVERSOATS, ALL WOOL, MELTONS AND KERSEYS, FROM $5.98. MEN'S PANTALOONS, $1.50. $2, $2.50, $2.78. BOYS’ TWO-PIECE SUITS, $1. seats ee SET pte (izes 4 to 14 years.) $2.98. VICTOR &. ADLER’S Tex Per Cexr Crormxa House, 927 Asp 929 Tm Sr. N. W, CORNER MASSACHUSETTS AVE. STRICTLY ONE PRICE. Open evenings until 7. Saturdays until 11 p.m. seit-3in et the Best. THE CONCORD HARNESS. LUTZ & BRO., 487 Penn. ave.. adjoining National Hotel. ‘Trunks and Satchels at low prices oc? Scientific Shoers. As chiropodists, having a sctentiflc knowl olge of the semteny at uns Ett and tae true coustriction of boots and shoes, We are Unusually well itted to. make comfortable End" tumisome shoes for “both ‘indies ‘and catlewen. Fit and quality unescelled, rop i aid Det We Muenaare pot for'8 pall PROF, J. J. GEORGES & SON. Chlropdints, [Bigtba aves "s'to'6 ptm. Sandayss 9 to" pm. oc CRAFT ON THE RIVER. Every Variety Can Be Found on the Potomac, THE TWIN PROPELLERS 70 NORFOLK. The Dean and the Bantam of the Fleet. SOME OF THE YACHTS —__+-—— The Potomac river floats a variety of craft. Its craft is as varied as the temper of its tides. Craft of all ages and condi- tions. ‘There are boats as poetic as the sea- shell cruisers of Neptune and Cythera; as graceful as the gondola that strolls along the streets of Venice; as gay as the light- draught batteaux-a-vapeur that ply the river Seine; as curious as an eastern junk, and as ugly as a caravel. First entitled to remark are the Norfolk and Washington propellers. They are named after the cities they connect, claim Wilmington as thelr birthport, and have been in the business only two years. They are twins. They are the babies of the fleet. ‘They eat the river to the tune of seventeen miles an hour, and bring Norfolk and Washington into such close communion that @ passenger almost fills the two pieces of geography at the same time. These boats are doing big service in the commercial development of Washington. Daily they bring tons of Boston, Providence, New York, Philadelphia and’ southern freight in on railroad time. This traffic Is on the in- crease, and there is a mirage of a new steamer in the air. These vessels are the Cunarders of the Potomac river. ‘The T. V. Arrowsmith is a steamboat that river men have delighted to honor. Fifteen years ago she was the belle of the river. She is a native of Keyport, N. J. She was born for the Hudson trade, and lived there until she was brought down south. She came down here to do things up. And she did. She owned the river. Few of the other boats dared to look at her, and always sounded nine blasts in passing. Finally the old Armenia, broke out in open rebel- lon against the’ arrogance of the Arrow- jsmith. Race? Well, you bet. One night, at Alexandria, the Armenia went to chaos on wings of flame. The Smith continued her reckless career a little longer, and then as if in sorrow for the fate of her old foe, en- tered commercial life and settled down, The old racy spirit still lurks about her, and when The Venerable Then there is the Mattano. It is said that the Mattie was in use among the Chinese before the Christian era, but her manage- ment denies this. It is said that the fem- inine gender is applied to the Mattano be- cause of her antiquity. The official ‘blue Mattano. book says: ““Mattano, Keyport, N. J., 189." The Mattano is one of the famous river ts. She has grown up with the country. he Mattle is not far-famed as a ten-thous- and dollar beauty, but everybody knows her so well and so favorably, that they can tell her “before she's a roundin’ of the bend.” The Mary Washington! The gallery of mind is hung with Mary Washington mem- ortes. It is believed that a large percentage of marriage licenses and minor Washinj tonians has resulted from flirtation and courtship on her decks. “Our Marry,” as the river people say, has the most eccentric voice on record. Comic opera couldn't show its equal. Another of the peculiarities of the Mary Washington is the pecullarity of her gait. She wasn’t cut out for a marine Nancy Hanks, and a street car could run her down, but she gets there. She was built down in Virginia for the trucking trade, but did not fill contract requirements. Being unfit to carry cabbage and green vegetables, she engaged in the trade of car- rying summer excursionists. She has been at that business so long, that she is alwa: saluted as the dean of the excursion corps. Well up in commercial importance is the steamer Sue of the Maryland and Virginia Company. She shakes hands with Baltimore once a week, and keeps southern Maryland partially in ‘touch with the United States. She has the widest acquaintance of any boat on local and nearby wate: For many years she belonged to the Clyde line. The Goliath of the Sidewheelers. The George Leary, the Gollath of the home sidewheelers, and who has never had a David, is somewhat of a steamboat. She came upon the earth at Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1834, served an apprenticeship in northern waters, and came down about 1874 to take the place of the old Vanderbilt. Later she tell into the hands of the Upper Potomac Steamboat Company, and has had all kinds of ups and downs. For years she served with the Bay line, out of Baltimore, and worked with the Brady, Havana and’ Pey- ton. She has, also, run excursions off the capes. A good deal of interest attaches to the George Law. In her day and generation she was a smart boat. Just now she is suf- fering from innocuous desuetude. She is fast going to pieces and will soon be rocked in the cradle of the deep. She was born in 1%52, Is the oldest steamboat on the river, and for several years has been on the de- seending scale. The Lady of the Lake came into being in 1866 at Wilmington, came to Washington for duty on the Inland and Seaboard Coast- ing Company, was burned at Norfolk, re- built, and is now a partner of the Sue in the Baltimore and Washington trade. Of the fast-going “palace steamers’ that bind Washington to the “green lawns of Marshall Hall” and to the “monarch of summer resorts,” River View, a great deal might be said, but mustn't. The reater could be told on the quiet which is the ablest boat, the River Queen, Samue. J. Pentz or Charles Macalester, but to say it out in the loud tones of printers’ ink and type would be suicidal. It would get him licked by the crews of those boats which were not the best. When we shun Scylla we are lost in Charybdis. You may flirt with a river man’s sweetheart; you may refuse to take a chaw off his plug; you may forget to ante; you may even ne to take something, but breathe one breath against the chastity, the glory <nd the beauty of his boat and medical aid will arrive tov late. Whenever the Macalester ge sed it is because she had no steam; when the Pentz is laid low it is because her wheels went round the wrong way, and when the Queen gets her crown knocked off it 1s be- cause her bottom was foul. A vanvuished boat is always fluent in reasons for defeat. This has been a good season. All Wash- ington has gone down the river several times over, and the summer girl has bloot ed in rank and radiant luxuriance. New boats are promised. The Bantam of the Fleet. The Florence is the bantam of the ex- cursion fleet. She came down here from Harlem river to run the Buena Vista route and has crowded great experience into ber brief career. She has indulged in the Alex- andria ferry business and has run all kings of charters from Washington to the sea and from Paradise to Pohick. She boasts a water-brake. Flippers fit along her hull a when occasion demands can be thrown out in opposition to her headway. The Flor- ence is not the Vamoosest boat on the Poto- mac by several miles, and the «pplication of a brake to her is analogeus to driving a cart horse with pulleys. There are very few boats Letter lookers than the Harry Randall. There is a cot cidence connected with her. She w brought here a good many years back as the John W, Thompson ani puc on the Werts’ wharf route and pitted against the Mattano. She was routed. Then she ns- sociated herself with the Lady of the Leke and the Jane Moseley in the Norfolk trade. Last year when the Washington 2nd Nor- folkSteamboat Compa: blew out the gas and went to glory she was bought by the New River line and again put on the Werts’ wharf route in opposition to her first love, the Mattano. The people of the latter buat say that history will repeat itself. The W. W. Coit, Pilot Boy, Columbia, Gibson, Washington, Wakerleld and Mose- ley are all sober, law-abiding toats, honest and heediess of fashion. They have not made many chapters in history, are giuw- ing old in an uneventful way and cu: a pig- ger swell in the current of the river than in the current of affair: Of the secondary mer-iant craft there is the Palermo, that used to handle manure on the Schuyikill and now runs wood irom ‘Aquia; the Alton and the Occoquan, that @o odd jobs; the Arlington, that caries down the raw material for Mann’s fert! izer factory, and the Harry Loder, that fer- ries between Alexandria and Farmington. ‘Tugs are counted by the scor> ‘they have a hard road to travel end have to hump and hustle for a hviag. The great tugs of the Dougherty ani American ‘low- ing Companies of Baltimore are not thelr friends. There are the Harlow, Templar, Potomac, Zane, Mohler, Lannox, Key, Gur- man, Jackson, Richards, Goldsmith Maid, &c. The police cruiser Blackburn occupies @ place all its own. In the minis of the harbor officials the Joe is too sacred for jonable Yachts. Washington has not so many fashion- able yachts as New York, but, then, there is the consolation that the owners of these yachts know how to run them. At the head of the procession is the Givotta. She was the New York yacht Florence and is finished in white and gold. Close in her Wake is the Ella. She was the Washington yacht Alert, sailed away to Florida, and after a term of service on the Indian river returned to her native heath. She ts fitted up handsomely. Application 1s soon to be made to have her name changed to “Vic- toria” in consequence of a romance which occurred last spring in the plush-lined after-cabin. Then there are the Ridley and the Lovie Randall. The tides of Venice, the origin of matter and the authorship of Homer are not more disputed questions than whether the Randall, Ridley or Black- burn could get there first in a race. The Alarm, Carrie X., Katherine Holbrooke, Gipsy, Curfew, Americus, Little Nell, Irma, and a score of others merit mention. There is no sail craft registered in this port that can be relied on as absolutely sure to tighten our grip on the America’s cup, but where pleasu-e, rather than victory and applause, is the object of sailing the Ella ‘Treadwell, Eolas, Signet, Grace, Nina, Mar- garet Kenna, Four Brothers, Agnes May, Spartan, Hustler, Jim Jam, Razzle Dazzl and the Boojoo are commended. If belles and beaux be not sweethearts when they come to the river they will be when they leave. More engagements are made on water than are broken on land. If with a Nalad-seeming girl in your boat, with a tiny, dimpled hand toying with the water as it ripples past; when the tide is murmur- ing in rhythmic’ tones against the arsenal and the sun is going down behind the if while he is saying that if she would like Halcyone, he would swim like e drop, Leander; if with ali this inducement, man at the tiller does not say “sweetheart, be my wife,” he's a chump. ~oe- LATE REPORTS FROM BRAZIL. Janeiro Blockaded and ‘Trade Paralyzed. ‘The New York World's Buenos Ayres say: Admiral Mello has declared the ports of Rio Janeiro and Santos blockaded. It is said that his object is to force the surrender of Rio by crippling the trade of the city. As a consequence of the blockade trade is paralyzed. The banks are closed and busi- ness men are frantic. They are urging the government to make a supreme effort to capture Admiral Mel- lo's warships, promising to furnish all the money required. With the view of attacking the rebels on the seas, the government, it is said, has begun negotiations for the purchase of a fleet of warships. Experience has demon- strated the fact that it is useless to fight at long range. A special to the New York Herald from Montevideo, Uruguay, says: News has reached the city that the state of Parana, in Brazil, has declared against President Peixoto, whose assumption of the powers of a dictator have aroused opposition throughout the country, as well as in Rio Janeiro, where an uprising of the people has been imminent for some time. Congress has closed its sittings in Rio Janeiro, where the situation is hourly be- coming’ more critical, with Mello's rebel fleet in the harbor, a marauding force of troops, under Peixoto, in the city and growing discontent among the inhabitants, who resent the arbitrary course of the president. The Brazilan cruiser Bahia passed here yesterday afternoon on its way north to join Mello's squadron, of which it will form @ part. Peixoto has issued a manifesto, declaring that he will not resign, but will retain the office of president and continue to fight it out as long as he can control the 5,000 troops now under his command. —eoe- A CHURCH CONGRESS. special from Plans to Be Discussed to Help the En- giish Workingm: A church congress opened yesterday at Birmingham, England, and was attended by 500 persons. The congress was presided over by the Bishop of Worcester. Among those present were the Right Hon. and Most Rev. Edward White Benson, primate of all England and metropolitan, the Right Hon. and Most Rev. William Conyngham, Lord Plunket, Archbishop of Dublin and a large number of other church dignitaries, The congress received the deputations of Wesleyans and other Non-Conformists. The Bishop of Worcester, in his inaugural address, declared that this was a working- men’s congress. For the first time work- ingmen would be members of the commit- tee selected by the congress. The subjects to be discussed would deal with the social Ufe of the nation, the duties of employers to the employed, the spiritual needs of the poor, provision for old age and the relation of the church and press. Archdeacen Farrar opened a discussion on the work of the church among artisans. The syllabus contains the following social and labor questions: The duties of employ- ers toward the employed; the duties of the employed toward employers, and the duty of the clergy toward both employers and the employed. Among the many other ques- tions are the relation of the Anglican com: munion to the church in the United Stat. From Scribner's Mugazine, There are plenty of men who will, by the impression carried through a pair of calipers and the fingers’ ends, determine, within a very small percentage, the amount of pressure which shall be required to be exerted by a hydraulic press in order to force onto its shaft an engine crank or a locomotive driving wheel; a measurement in which a thousandth part of an inch variation in diameter causes much more variation in pressure than is permissible. Indeed, vn some kinds of work done in the machine shops, a thousandth part of an inch has now become the most commonly employed unit of measurement; a unit which is divided and subdivided into at least ten parts in order to express the de- gree of refinement arrived at. This, of course, far surpasses the frequently men- tioned but suppcsedly superfluous hair split- ting operation, since an ordinary human hair is about two and a half thousandths of an inch in diameter. The paper upon which this page is printed Is about three thousandths of an inch thick, and one ten- thousandth part of an inch’ is, therefore, one-thirtieth the thickness of ‘this sheet. Considerably smaller variations of size can be detected by the trained sense of touch, or rather by the variation in resistance of a pair of calipers passed over the work, and it {s even possible for the sense of mag- nitude, and the sensitiveness of the finger ends in relation to {t, to be so highly de- veloped as to detect, unaided, and by mere- ly rolling a small ‘steel ball between the thumb and finger, a varlation from true sphericity amounting to 1-12,50) of an inch, or about one thirty-seventh part of the thickness of the paper of this page; Am- brose Webster, a machinist at Waltham, whose business is the making of machinery and tools for watch manufacture, having demonstrated his ability to do this. so Optical Phenomeno A correspondent of Nature at Christiana gives an account of a very curio nomenon witnessed from the top of Gausta mountain (height 6,000 Norwegian feet) in ‘Telemarken, south of Norway. “We were a party (he says) of two ladies and three gentlemen on the summit of this mountain on August 4. On the morning of that day the sky was passably clear; at noon there was a thick fog. Between 6 and 7 o'clock in the afternoon (the wind being south to southwest) the fog suddenly cleared in places so that we could see the surrounding country in sunshine through the rifts. We mounted to the flagstaff in order to obtain a better view of the scenery, and there we at once observed in the fog, In an easterly direction, a double rainbow forming a com- plete circle, and seeming to be twenty to thirty feet distant from us. In the middle of this we all appeared as black, erect and nearly life-size silhouettes. The outlines of the silhouettes were so sharp that we could easily recognize the figures of each other, and every movement was reproduced. The head of each individual appeared to occupy the center of the circle, and each of us seemed to be standing on the upper per- iphery of the rainbow. We estimated the inner radius of the circle to be six feet. This phenomenon lasted several minutes, disap- pearing with the fog bank, to be reproduced | in new fog three or four times, but each time more distinctly. The sunshine during the phenomenon seemed to us to be un- usually bright. Mr. Kielland-Torkildsen, president of the Telemarken Tourist Club, writes to me that the builder of the hut on the top of Gausta has twice seen spectacles of this kind, but in each case it was only the outline of the mountain that was re- flected on the fog. He had never seen his own image, and he does not mention circu- lar or other rainbows.” EDUCATIONAL NOTES. ‘Where Solid Instructions and Orna- Accomplishments May Be Monday last a school for small children was opened at No. 210 15th street nothwest, opporite McPherson Square. The scnool is under competent management and its location is most convenient. Miss Rathbone-Smith, who has charge of the German classes in the McDonald- Ellis school, will give private instruction in German. Apply at the Cambridge, 1309 Mth street, from 4 to 6 p.m. Piano pupils will be received by Miss Margaret Bargar of Baltimore, in Washing- ton on Mondays and Thursdays. Miss Bar- gar commands the very highest references and should be addressed 96 North Stricker street, Baltimore, Md. ‘Those desiring a visiting female teacher for children should address R. B. E., Star office. Best of references given. Mr. Ernest Lent, the well-known instruc- tor in piano, violin and the theory of music, has removed to 1628 Corcoran street north- west. Prof. G. W. Lawrence has returned to the city and is prepared to receive pupils in voice culture, deep breathing and sight reading. Prof.’ Lawrence's specialty is deep breathing by which throat troubles are overcome and a free, open, easy tone is produced. Mr. 8. M. Fabian, the eminent planist,will resume instruction on October 5. As the reputation which Mr. Fabian has gained would indicate, he will confine himself to teaching the higher art of the pianoforte. He may be communicated with by address- ing Droop's musie store or William Knabe & Co., Market Space. Miss Schmidt will resume her kindergar- ten, French, German and deaf classes. This lady has a well deserved local fame as a teacher and the size of her classes Is likely to be commensurate with the esteem in which she {s held. Mrs. Keene of 1414 K street northwest will give instruction privately in shorthand. She will visit the homes of her patrons should they so desire. She guarantees quick and thorough work. Mr. Hermann C. Rakemann has resumed violin instruction at his studio, 1221 12th street northwest. Mr. Rakemann needs no introduction to the Washington public. His ability as a player and a teacher has been popularly recognized. An experienced lady is desirous of getting a few pupils in piano, English, French and mathematics at No. 1523 8th street. There is no accomplishment that adds more to the attractiveness of a person, elther lady or gentleman, than that of sing- ing. One of the most competent instruc- tors in vocal music in this city is Mrs. Har- riet Mulls of 1304 L street. Drawing and painting are accomplish- ments without which no artistic edu- cation is complete. The Corcoran school method of instruction has been followed with pronounced success by Miss A. New- ton, whose studio is at 1313 11th street. Young men and young ladies and those not so young desiring instruction in En- glish, French or Latin, or persons prepar- ing for civil service examination, will find a competent teacher by addressing Mrs. B. J., Star office. Miss Tacle M. Daniel of 715 5th street northwest resum-d her classes in vocal and plano instruction last Monday. She has es- tablished an excellent reputation in this elty as a careful and competent teacher in these branches of music. Mr. Edward C. Townsend and Miss Ada L, Townsend have established their school of elocution at 1317 13th street for the sea- son. Lessons are given in the day or even- ing in oratory, acting, physical grace and voice culture, either privately or in classes. The classes at the Young Men’s Christian Association have become a feature of the educational field in Washington. Mr. E. P. Hanna is now giving lessons at the Y. M. C. A. building, on New York avenue, in shorthand. Classes of ladies and gentle- men are being formed, and private lessons are also given. Miss Harriet R. Parsons, teacher of the piano, resumes her lessons on Monday for the coming year. She {s located at 1329 N street northwest, and has already organ- ized a large class. ———— Electricity on the Pyramids. In his autobiography the late Sir W. Sie- mens relates the following anecdote. An Arab called his attention to the fact that when at the top of the pyramid of Cheops, when he raised his hand with fingers out- spread, an acute singing note was heard,the sound ‘ceasing as soon us he let his hand fall. “I found his assertion,” he writes, “to be true. As soon as I raised one of my own fingers above my head I felt a prick- ling in the fingers. That this could only be caused by an electrical phenomenon was proved by the slight tric shock felt on trying to out of a wine bottle. So 1 wrapped a full bottle of wine that I 4 damp paper, and thus converted it into Leyden-bottie, which was soon strongly charged with electricity by the simple de- vice of holding it high above my head. The Arabs had already become distrustful on seeing small lightnings, as it were, issue from the wine bottles held ap by myself d companions, and now held a brief con- sultation. Suddenly, at a yiven signal, each of my companions was seized by the guide who had led him up, who now tried to force him to go down cgaia. I myself was standing at the very top of the pyramid, when the sheik of the Arabs came to me and told me, through my interpreter, that the Arabs had determined that we were at once to leave the pyramid, be- cause we were practicing magic, and it might damage their chance of their earning a living. On my refusing to obey orders, the sheik caught hold of -ny left hand. I had awaited this moment, und bell up my right hand with the bottle, in the attitude of a magician, afterward iowering it slowly toward the point of the sheik’s nese. When quite close to that feature I felt a violent shock run through the bottl> to :ny own arm, and was certain that the sheik must have received the equivalent. At any rate he fell senseless on the stones, and a few anxious moments passed before he rose ddenly with a loud ery and sprang down the gigantic steps of the pyramid with lon, strides. The Arabs, secing this, and exc ed by the sheik’s constant cries of “Maz: fc! magic!’ released my companion and fol- lowed their leader, leaving us complete masters of the pyramid.” ——__eeo—___ The Voices of the Dead. If our dear ones gone could speak to us from the silence into which they have passed, writes Mrs. Margar-t KE. Langster in the Congregationallst, [ think they would sometimes reproach us for our xvoidance of their names, for our dropping them out of our household speech, for our tacit accep- tance of them as dead, ani therefore, gone. This common and often cowardly y of treating those who have ‘eft this world sometimes fills us who are yet here with a sort of wistful prophetic sadness, “Shall the day dawn,” we whisper to ourselves, “when to all'the bright stir and happy bustle of this dear home in which we are how so important we sha!! be as less than nothing and vanity, as alien and apart as though nothing here had ever been ours to handle, ours to direct, ours to love and care for?” The thought brings a chill upon the warmest summer day, for there is an instinctive jealousy of our rights, a feel- ing God implanted, that we do not want to be forgotten when we are no more upon the earth. There is no better way of keep- ing our dear ones departed in tender recol- lection than by the carrying on whatever work they loved. If they took an interest in philanthropy, or charity, or missiuns, in a hospital, ora school, ‘ve may plan and give and labor personally and steadily, just as they would have done hal th been spared, and every kind word =poken, every dollar contributed, every ioving act of ser- vice on our part, will be their best and most enduring memorial. (tee Strange Sights in the Southwes “Traveling up the Rio Grande valley last month,” said a tourist just returned from New Mexico, to the New York Sun, “some ad with me in Members in Town of the scenes that I saw seemed to be rather | of Syria than of a western territory of the United States. The little patches of wheat and barley about the Indian and Mexican villages had been reaped, and the natives were threshing grain by the primitive means used in scriptural times. In the open fields was the threshing floor of clay, leveled and beaten hard. Upon this the grain in the straw was stacked, and around the edge of the heap sheep or goats were driven in a circle at top speed. As they ran the grain continually worked down from the center under their feet, which quickly threshed it from the straw. The hurrying animals, the dark-skinned, picturesquely clad Mexi- cans and Indians, shouting, gesticulating and cracking whips to urge them on; the brown, bare-armed women winnowing grain by tossing it high in blankets, made a pic- ture full of color and motion. ‘In its getting of arid landscape, bounded by distant’ moun- tains, with a foreground diversified by a | few flat-roofed mud houses, standing amid tiny vineyards, cornfields and orchards, and a few towering cottonwoods marking the course of the Ric Grande, the spectacle seemed an antique passage from the Orient.” The American bark Eleanor Vernon, from New York, June 3, has arrived at Port Louis, Mauritius, with her rudder gone. THE NEW CONGRESS. Can Be F. Vice President. tl. Aldrich, Nelson W., R. I., Arlington. Allen, William V., Neb., 246 Delaware ave. Allisom, William B., Iowa, 1124 Vt. ave. Bate, William G., Tenn., Ebbitt House. Berry, James H.,’Ark., Metropolitan. Blackburn, Joseph C. 8., Ky., Ebbitt. Brice, Calvin 8., Ohio, 1611 H st. Butler, Matthew C., 8. C., 1434 N st. Caffery, Donelson, La., Richmond. Call, Wilkinson, Florida, 190 N n.w. Camden, Johnson N., W. Va., Normandie. Cameron, James D., Pa. Carey, Joseph M., Wyo., Arlington. Chandler, William E., N. H., 1421 Ist. Colquitt, Alfred H., Ga., 220'A st. s.c. Coke, Richard, Texas, 420 6th st. Cockrell, Francis M., Missoart, 1518 Rt n.w. Cullom, Shelby M., Iil., 1413 Mass. ave. Daniel, John W., Va. 1700 19th st. Davis, Cushman K., Minn., 1428 Vass. ave. Dixon, Nathan F., R. I., Arno. Dolph, Jos. N., Oreg., 8 Lafayette square. Dubols, Fred. "T., Idaho, 1230 13:h street. Faulkner, Chas. J., W. Va., 1519 R. 1. ave. Frye, William P., Maine, 1421 I n.w. Gallinger, J. H., N. H., The Dunbarton. George, James C., Miss., North Takoma. Gibson, Charles H., Md., Shoreham. Gordon, John B., Ga.. 1023 Vt. av Gorman, Arthur P., Md., The Portland. Gray, George, Del. Hale, Eugene. Me., 1001 16th st. Hansbrough, Henry C., N. D., Cochran. Harris, Isham G., Tennessee, 13 1st st. n.e. Hawley, Joseph R., Conn., 207 I st. Higgins, Anthony, Del., 1624 18th street. Hill, David B., N. ¥., Normandie. Hoar, George F., Mass., $19 I st. Hunton. Eppa, Va., Ebbitt. Irby, J. L. M., 8. C., 1014 12th st. Jones Jas. K., Arkansas, 915 M nw. Jones, John P., Nevada, Chamberlin’s. Kyle, James H., 8, D., 212 N. Capitol s Lodge, Henry Cabot, Mass., 1721 R. L ave. Lindsey, William, Ky., Cochran. Manderson, Charles F., Neb., 1288 17th st. Martin, John, Kansas, Nation: McMillan, Jemes, Mich., 1114 Vermont ave. McPherson, John R., N. J., 1014 Vt. ave. Mills, Roger Q., ‘Texas, 208 Del. ave. John H., Oregon, Chamberlin’s. Mitchell, John L, Wis., ~ Morgan, John T., Ala., 315 4 1-2 st. Justin S., Vt., 1 Thomas circle. Murphy, Edward, jr.,'N. Y., Arlington. Palmer, John M., Tii., Elsmere. Pasco, Samuel, Florida, Metropolitan. Peffer, Wm. A’. Kansas, Elsmere. Perkins, Geo. . Cal, Maltby building. Pettigrew, R. F., 5. D., Cochran. Platt, Orville H., Conn., 1421 T st. Power, Thomas C., Mont., The Cochran. Proctor, Redfield, ‘Vermont, 1437 R. I. ave. Pugh, Jas. Alabama, 1333 R n.w. Quay, M. S., Pennsylvania, Normandie. Ransom, Matt W., N. C., Metropolitan. Roach, William N’, N. D., 1541 T st. Sherman, John, Ohio, Cochran. . L., Idaho, The Cochran. 5 ir., N. J., Normandie. Stewart, William M.. Ne Stockbridge, F. Squire, Watson ‘ashington, Arlington. Teller, Henry M., Colorado, 1537 P n.w. Turpie, David, Ind., The Varnum. Vance, Z. B., 'N. C., 1627 Mass. ave. Vest, Geo. G:, Missouri, 1204 P n.w. Vilas, William F., Wis., Arno. Voorhees, Daniel W., Ind., 1323 N. H. ave. ‘althall, Edward C., Miss., 1714 R. T. ave. Washburn, William D., Minn., Arlington. White, Rdward D., La., Richmond. White, Stephen M., Cai., Ebbitt. Wolcott, Edward 6., Col., 1221 Conn. ave. Representatives. Abbott, Jo., Tex., Metropolitan. Adams, Silas, Ky., 306 C s.w. Alderson, John D., W. Vi Aldrich, J. Frank, Ill, Normanat Allen, John M., Miss.,” Chamberlin’s Allen, pe Ham. V.. Nebr. 246 Delaware av. exander, S. B., N. C., Metropolitan. Apsley, L. D.. Mass., Normeniie. Arnold, Marshall, Missourt, 222 2d n.w. Avery, Jno., Mich., 1327 G n.w. Babcock, J. W., Wis., 1325 -3 now. Bailey, Jos. W.. Texas. Nation. Baker, Henry M., N. H., 14il ¥ st. Baker, Wm., Kan., 25 9th n.e. Baldwin, M. R., Minnesota, 1628 15th. Bankhead, J. H., Ala., Metropolitan. Barnes, Lyman E., Wisconsin, Willard’s, Barthold, Richard, Mo., Consressioaal. Bartlett, Franklin, N. ¥., Met. Club. Barwig, Chas., Wisconsin. National. Belden, J. J., 'N. Y., Arlington. Bell, Chas. K., Texas, 507 sth n.w. Bell, John C., Col., 1213 Q n.w. Beltzhoover, F. Penni Blair, Henry W., N. H., 213 8. Cap. Blanchard, N. C:, La., Metropolitan. Black, James C.C., Ga.. Elsmere. ck, John 1515 ‘Rhode Isiand av. Bland, R. P., Mo., Willard’s, Boatner, C. J., La., National. Boen, H. E., Minn., 24 $4 ne. Breckinridge, C. FE. Ark. 12 Mt ot, utelle, C. A., laine, Bowers, W. W., Cal. Ee Brawley, W. H., 8. Branch, Wm. A. Brickner, G. ceckinridge, W. C. P., Ky., Cocl Bretz, J, L., Ohio, 221E. Gap. Broderick Case, Kan., Elsmere. rookshire, E. Ind.. Met: tan. Brosius, M., Peni, 1234 I'nwee Brown, Jason B. Bryan, W. J., Neb., 181 B se. Burrows, J. C., Mich., Elsmere. Bunn, B. H., N. C., Metropolitan, Burns, Daniel D. Missouri, Shoreham. Bynum, Wm. D., Indiana, 1314 19th & Cabannis, Thos. 'B. 1lé Md. ave. nie. mus, Cornelius A, N. J., Arlington, Caldwell, John A., Ohio, 1343°Q nw. Cannon, J. G., IL. * Cannon, Marion, Cal Capehart, J., W. V. usey, Jno. W., ¥. ave. $29 N. 823 Mass. ave. nw. Caruth, A. G., Ky., Riggs. Riggs. Clark, Champ, Mo., Hillman House, Clarke, R. H., Ala, 4Bne. Cobb, Seth W.-M Cohb, J. Cockerill, Jeremiah V. Coffeen, H. A. Ist'n. e, Cogswell, William, Mass. 1349 Ln, w, Conn, Chas. G., Ind, Wiilard’s. 5 Coombs, William A.. N. ¥., Hamilton, Cooper, 8. B., Tex. bot éth ‘nw. Tex., 1334 11th n.w, Curtis, N. M., N. ¥,, 2113 Penn, Datzeli, Johu. Pa., Normandie, vey, R. C., etropolitan, Davis, John, ‘Kan, 714 An. De Armond, D. H., Mo., 22 34 n.w, Denson, W. H., Aia., Brunswick. DeForest, Robert F., Conn., 221 Ist ne. Dingley, Nelson, jr.,’Me., liamilton. Dinsmore, Hugh A’, Ark., Metropolitan, Dockery, ‘Alexander M., Mo., Willard's. Dolliver, J. P., Towa, Hamilton. Donovan, D. D., Ohio, Metropolitan, Doolittle, W. H., Wash., 125 G st. Draper, William F., Mass., 1601 K n.w. Durborow. Allen C., IIL, 527 18th n.w. Dunphy, Edward J., N.'Y. Edmunds, P. C., Vs Ellis, W. R., Oregon, Ebbit Ellis, W. T., Ky., Cochran. English, Thomas D.. Enloe, B. H.. Tenn. th st. Erdman, enn., Hotel Randall. Epes, J. F., Va., 20'A st. s.e. Everett, Wm., Mass., Albany. Fletcher, Loren, Minn., Arlington. Forman, W. S., Til, 1114 G st. J. RN. ¥., Shoreham, Fielder, G. B., N. J.,” Normandie. Fitch, A. P. rlington. Fithian, G Mlinols, ‘Winard’s, Flinn, Dennis, Okl. Ter National. N.S, 1242 Gillett, F. Goldzier, Julius, I Goodnight, I. ., Varnum, Kentucky, Cochran. ich., 917 O nw. 4 C., 220 F. Capitol. Gresham, Waller, Texas, National, Grosvenor, C. H., Ohio, 1210 G n.w. Grout, Arlington. Hicks, Hull, J. A. Hager, A. L., Hare, D. D., Ohio, Anderson Annex, Pa., 2 North Capitol M. IML Cona. ave. Harris, W. A. Kansas, 27 N. J. ave. a @ Hartman, C. S., Montana, 21 East Hatch, W. H., Missouri, Richmond. Haugen, N. P., Wis., 31¢ n.w. Hayes, Waiter L., lows, 123 Gn. w, Heard, John T., Hotel Arno. Henderson, T. J. Ill. 318.8. Capito. jenderson, John S., N. C.. Sfetropolt Henderson, Joh S$. >, Metropotttan, Heiner, D.'B., Pa., 04 Ba. ave. 5. e, Herrmann, B., Oreg., 1915 Ln. w, Hepburn, Wm. Towa, 1532 In. w. Hilborn, Greely, Cal., 1504 Q st. n. Hines, W. H.. Pa.. Varaum. Hitt, R. R., Tit, 1507 K nw. Holman, W. 8., Indiana, Hamilton. tie Sivered. “siephone call a2 will treat them At their cuuvenience until cured at the same low price of $5 per month. ‘The following are some of the diseases which we claim to and @o cure: SKIN DISEASES—All forms, including Facial Blemishes. NERVOUS SYSTEM—Prostration, Neuritis, Chorea (St. Vitus Dance), Epilepay, Cate lepsy, Hysteria, CONSULTATION IN ENGLISH OR GERMAN, oct Hooker, Warren B., N. Y., Elsmere. Hopkins, A. C., Pa, 116 Vt. Hopkins, A. J. . » Cochran. Latimer, A. C., 8. C, Forester. Layton, F. C., Ohio, 317 4 1-2 n.w. Lawson, Thomas Lester, R. E., Livingston, Leon F., Ga., 20 N.J. ave.n.w. Loud, E., Cal, Albany. Loudenslager, N J., Willard’s. Lucas, W. B., 8. D., 723 12th nw. Lynch, Thomas, Wis., 319 41-2 Maddox, John W., Ga., 114 Md. ave. ne. Maguire, James G., Cal., Normandie. Mahon, Thad M., Pa., 507 6th n.w. Mallory, 8. X., Fla, National. ers | = F-m. Am 20 james, Virginia, Metropolitan. Martin, Augustus N., Ind.,513 Fla.ave. Martin, Francis, N. % McAleer, Wm., Penn., Hotel Randall, McCall, 8. W., Mass., y McCleary, J. S., Minn., Eckington. McCreary, Jas. B., Kentucky, Shoreham. McCulloch, P. D., Ark., 1527 I st. be . National. McDowell, A., Pennsylvania, Elsmere. McErtrick, Mass., 1309 H n.w. D. H., Nebraska, 13% G st. Milliken, 8. L., Maine, 1025 Money, H. D., Miss., 1 Montgomery, A. Moon, John 'W. Mutchier, Howard, Neill, Robert, Arkansas, Metropolitan. Northway, 8._A., Ohio, “G4 ites, Wm. C., Alabama, nm O'Ferrall. Chas. T., Va., Metropolitan. O'Neill, Chas.. Pa., 1326 N.Y. O'Neill, J H., Mass., Shoreham. Outhwaite. J. H., Ohio, 4 Dupont circle. Page. C. H., Rhode Island, 933 G n.w. Paschal. P.M. Texas, 1742 P n.w. Patterson, Josiah. Tenn., Metropolitan. Payne, 8.'E., N. ¥., Normandie. Paynter, Thomas H.. Kentucky, Varnum. Pearson, Albert J., Ohio, 514 E. Capitol. Pence, Lafe. Colorado, 207 E. Capitol Pendleton, Geo. C., Texas, Randall. Pendleton. J. 0., W. Perkins, Geo. D., Towa, Hamilton. Phillips, T. W., Pa., Shoreham. Pickler, J. A., 8. Dakota, 10 Grant place. Pigott, '3. P., Conn., Varnum. Post, P. S., Ii, Hamilton. Powers, H. H., Vt., Elsmere. Price. Andrew, La., Cochran. Randall, C. S., Mass., Shoreham. Rawlings, J. L., Utah, Cochran. Rayner, Isador, Md., 918 14th st. Reed, Thomas B., Maine, Reilly, James B.. Pa., National. Richardson, G. F., Mich., 6 lows circle, Richardson, J. D., Tenn, 1103 6th n.w. Richards, Jas. A., Ohio, 1404 L n.w. ‘an., 808 Md. ave. ne, Pa., 2 6th ne. Tilinois, 918 14th street. Tate, F. C., Ga., 114 Md. ave. ‘Talbert, W. J., 8 C., Ni Tarsney, J. C., Me ‘Tawney, J. ‘Taylor, ‘A. ‘Taylor. O. , W. Ark., Thomas, H. F., Mich., National. Tucker, H. St. G., Va, 215 A st. se, ‘corhis, H. C., Ohie, Ebbitt. Van Voorhis, John, 'N. Y., Arlington, Walker, J. H., Mass., Shoreham. . 28 N, Whiting, Justin R., Michigan, Cechran. Williams, J. R., IL, 252 Del. ave. ne. Wilitms, John 8. few temmorascme Rogers’ Spoons, ‘TRIPLE PLATE, CUT TO $1.00 Ser. 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