Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1894, Page 5

| Craig & Harding, 13th & F. '$27.5 o Rattan ‘Parlor Suites, $17.50. We closed these out from a manufactur- er-about 50 suttes and 200 separate pieces —at @ price which enables us to offer them at two-thirds their regular prices. They're 5-plece Suites, with solid oak frames, rattan seat and back, large di- van, large rocker, large urm chair, small rocker and small chair. Were $27.50,Now $17.5 200 separate pieces of Rattan Furni- ture, embracing Chairs, Rockers and Di- Rattan Chairs, $2. Rattan Rockers, $3.75. Rattan Divans, $5.75. “Cut” Price List Of Household Goods Where else in the capital city can Fou find the immense assortment of CHIVA, GLASSWARE, HOLLOW WARE, WOODEN WARE and MIS- CELUANEOUS GOODS that we dis play—Where else can you duplicate these prices? The following are but 4m index to the general stock: China. gt Stone China Slop Jars eit Gina Caps snd Se &.! Dishes. i -50 Decorated Dishes. 81. 00 Jo-pisce Toilet Set," neatly ‘decora ++ $1.98 Glass Ware. “Quaker City” FE era owas Sanus” Refrigerator —bas no packing to absorb and retain the moisture, and to become foul and musty. The outside wall is air-tight, and is made of selected lumber. The inner wall is also air-tight, and between them {s a dead air chamber. The ou side temperature cannot thus affect the Provision chamber. It uses less ice, and is more easily cleaned than any other Refrigerator in the world. Solid Oak (Upright), $8 Up. Solid Oak(Sideboard),$12Up Ice Chests, $3.50 Up. Craig & Harding, Cor. 13th & F Sts. Po REE Extra-Leavy Hotel Goblets: Tin and Iron Ware. 18c. Decorated Tin Cuspidors (large). ..10c ‘25e. Oxidized and Plain Nickel Cus- and 60c. to 7 and § to 9.. -35 and 450 Wooden Ware. 18e. Good Pine Buckets......... 30c. Cedar Buckets (3 electric boops)...19¢ Sees aad ates tacger Merten and $230 and extra large. 9e.; .: GO-foot Clothes Lines -We 5 doz. Best Clothes Pins. «de No. 1, 2, 8 and 4 Clothes Baskets, 29, 39, 49 and S5e 7 These prices hold good for this week only. 9 Hudson’s VarietyStore 12 7th St. N. W. ap2-2t THE MONUMENTAL, AFASHION LEADE $3-50 Shoes * lied —didn’t use to be much account be fore we went into the shoe business— We changed all that and “popped” a shoe on the people for $3.50 that had always sold for $5 before. We are selling those same $3.50 shoes today— and more of them than ever before. Just as comfortable and neat and durable as they always were. Drop in some fine day aud see us and cur Fine Millinery AT POPULAR PRICES. We are showing the very latest ef- fects in TRIMMED MILLINERY. “Not another Millinery Department like ours im the city’ for QUALITY, VARIETY AND PRICES. mported Bonnets and Hats. eee ererevee yy wits P. Oe Ss Also a large amortment of copies = from our own work rooms, showing 929 F St. N.W. the latest effects im colors and trim- ae 8 oe ap one ioe assortment of LADIES’, MISSES’ AND CHIL DREN'S UNTRIMMED HATS, FINE MILLINERY NOVELTIES, JETS, RIBBONS, LACES, FLOWERS, VEILINGS, &e., &2. To milliners at wholesale prices. £99 F STREET WLW. A Pretty Foot Neatly Shod ’ The Warren. See price list of our SPRING OXFORDS here below: ~, —bave “killed” meny a sale of higher Priced ones. That's the price that 9 out of 10 mothers want to psy for a ebild’s suit and we're not going to dis- ‘$1.25 4 —_— appoint them. We've crowded as much 1S 33 Oxtords 09 .00 Oxfords. style—service—and appearance in them 250 +71 Oxfords. as is in the usual $6.50 suit—and the Ss ‘a ccleme number we're selling convinces us There are about 40 different styles to se- lect from. We're maintaining our reputation of giving the best children’s clothing values im Washington. Fifty patteras—sizes 4 to 15-and some with two pairs of Pants to each Jacket. Some ladies tol@ ws they'd paid a dolist for worse Geo. W. Rich, gi9 F St. ap2 The People’s Favorite Pedal Studio. RAY PRM children’s pants than those with don- Do You dle knees—Elastie waisthands—and pat- ° st bee wn lg at ee wnings — HY NOT HAVE THEM PLACED over your doors and windows, in- suring cool, pleasant rooms during the hot days? You can’t Iniagive the Giference they make im personal com, +t a of fort, to say uothing le exter‘or appearance wt latest designs anaes wa ae mates. . G. Copeland & Co., nd ‘Call or send for 409 11TH ST. N.W. sel Thousand View The md Here’s Something OF INTEREST! Just received. An additional invoice of over 200 styles of choice; Satseuma Domestic Suitings and Trouserings, comprising Cheviots—Cassimeres and White Elephant Saturday and Today. ‘* In order to give everybody a chance Worsteds of the best stand Se ae Soe" I have just received from Japan a very rare and curious Satseuma white elephant, representing this sacred “ard makes. These Cloths are All Wool, give good wear and will be made to your meas- ure in the Singleor Double- Breasted Sacks For $16 For Suits, Or $4 For Trousers. NICOLL, The Tailor, 5 & 617 Pa. Ave. in Siam. The artist, Chin Zum Set, the best Satseuma maker of Japan, was passing through Siam on a fete day, and conceived the idea of model- ing two beautiful Satseuma Vases in the exact form of the Slamese White 3 . ‘The two vases were, upon placed on view at y local’ exhibition, where they at- tracted immense crowds. Une of the vases was, with con! calty, secured by his the Czarowitch of Russia, a8 natives were bitterly opposed to its falling into the hands of foretgners. Through {influential connections in Japan, and by offering a fabulous amount, T have at last secured the other vase. Ther are the only vases of their kind in existence. In order to give all lovers of art in Waslington chance to view this rare curlosity be- fore disposing of it, I will piace it on pablie exhibition at my Japanese Emporium for the rest of the week. All lovers of art are invited to at- tend. Souvenir Free. . seee 1 eeoee As a little remembrance, I will te fee ees present each or with a’ package = — se : of GENUINE JAPANESE INCENSE EFVisitors will please pass u right aisle in going in, to avol fusion. > the cou- =e . a Every Sort of a Good | ; K RYBODY INVITED?! " mon Nicolaides, Coffee Pot) “1205 Fst. | sting the —-* i en Don’t Know, th The M B women of Washington are be- hotougbly aware of it. WE DO AND CLEANING in am: mn any one else. init 3 | usa " ods and we'll reta: - al Healar husband couldn't find fault with the ww: —e | way we'll clean his soiled $1 fs all Wilmarth & Edmonston, |; that's’ charged. "Phone, or wend Crock & mceal | Fist vrockery,&c.,1z05Pa.Av.| | J.J. Fisher, <tE\Mprersa p2 | 9 Ge 4 707 9TH STREET NoRTHWES?. il ap? animal as he appeared on fete days | the | 0 | $5 Su |Our Pillin The Warren Shoe House, | §ij5 TT BLT CPO OSLO IE FOF TOPO OTTHIOTIS2 | THE EVENING 8ST. ‘Stunning’ Values King’s Palace, For ‘tomorrow Only. Wroppers, Gloves and Suits—one rep. resentative item from each at especially low reduced prices for tomorrow only. ‘The articles mentioned below cannot be made for the prices quoted, but we think it wise to lose a little money once in @ while just a8 an advertisement. its, $3.98. Ladies’ and Misses’ Stylish Suits,in black and blue, 3 rows of silk braid around neck, sleeves, and bottom of skirt, double row of pearl buttons, tal- lor made, bound seams, umbrella ‘skirts, made to sell only sug $3-9 Oo Gloves, 79¢. 7Q0C. $5, tomorrow ies’ = Fine OK $1 Wrappers. Ladies’ Indigo blue and black Wrappers, | ruille ever shoulders, ' bishop sleeves, lined waist, the best wrapper value ever ¢ red in Washington at i vey 79. QC. ery Department the most extensive and beautiful in shington—the world’s greatest artists are all represented—the prices were bever so low bef King’s Palace, 812-14 7th St. | Ln A AS gg A Good Corset 6Qc. $1 is the Right Price. It takes a specialist to treat you best in any particular branch —we are Corset Specialists—we ean treat you best in Corsets. Another 100 dozen of those Extra Fine, Extra Long-waisted Corsets, two side steels, thor- oughly boned, reinforced, graceful shape, durable and perfect fitting, in white and drab, all sizes. Others get $1 without a mur- mur. Here, Only 69c. iM. C. Whelan, 1003 F St. N. W.. «2 — EGAN THIS MORNING. haven't Lad room to properly display this part of the stock till now, but are filling up the racks now. We HE Slippers are no less fine than the Shoes. Dalton was well known for his Slippers. The great varieties of styles and colors saved mauy a lady from having to have ber SLIPPERS made to order. ‘They're yours now for a great deal less than you ever Lefore paid for WINE SLIPPERS. lipper Rack No. 1====7§¢. Ladies’ Opera Toe and Common-sense Slippers, French kid, glazed kid and some serge (the cld bome-comfort Slip- pers). Two to three pairs now for the usual price of one—75 cents. Slipper Rack No. 2==-$1.10. —— _ Ladies’ Kid Slippers, one strap, plain, opera toe and common-sense toe, low —— and high heels; the best makes. 60 ——— pairs of those finest “Crocus” Boudoir Slippers, $1.10. per Rack No. 3==$1.50. Black, Tan, Gray, Red Slippers, some plain, beaded, others one-strap Adonis Slippers, with large gold buckle, and finest Russia Slippers, with one strap with bow. No matter whether you wavt a plain House Slipper or an Evening Slipper, you'll find what you wait here. A few pairs of One-strap White Siip- pers. ies’ Low Shoes==$1.35. We've made another cut in the price of those Ladies’ Kid Oxfords and Low Bluchers; tipped and plain. They sold for from $2.50 to $3.50 at Dalton’s. The Patent Leather Oxfords are espevially fine values. Were $1.50 here. Now $1.35. High Shoes=-$2.20 & $2.60. ‘The $2.20 rack is an irresistible at- ——— traction. Sizes 1 to 2% of the choicest of Dalton’s Fine Shoes. —— __ Worth $ to $6........... ——— The other sizes—3 to 7—in $2.20 for trom $850 to $0, ares $200 Your style is among them, because ——— every style is represented. EDMONSTON POPULAR SHOE STORE, 1334 F St. PEPPER POS SISOS OOFOOEEOO Sterlin Silver LETTE TEETH ”N | | id <ts_slways desirable for WEDDING PRESE Our Sterling Dey with innumerable t the thi tment is filled little articles that for presents. $3.50 to $8. $ S. $1.50 up. COLD MEAT FORKS, from $2.25 “HyERRY FORKS, $12 to $18 doz. ICE CREAM FORKS, $ All standard makes. M. W. Beveridge & -—«@HINA, GLASS AND SILVER WARE, 5.4 1215 F and 1214 G sts. °° p2 $059 000000090000000000000 The Golden Product Of the Lowing Kine. What are you dally spreading on your rolls and buckwheat cakes—but- or butterine? Are you sure it's en? 3 Jr, and Pure Rutter ho ever bought the rom us? t. wing of Center 6-177~"Phone, 1280, Be suré you're right, Geo. M. Oyster, Jr. Center Market ‘Kings Market. ap2-eo To suffer with an enlarged too joint, bard or foft corn, Ingrowing and club nails," when we give Instant and pe rollef, without pain, Our patent attachments indorsed by the most € the world over, Prof. J. J. Georges & Son, FOOT SPECIALISTS, Parlors, 1115 Pa. ave. 8 to 6 p.m.; Sendays, 9 to 1, mb PHS IS IGOFH OHO FSSSH005S 90909. AR, MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1894A-TWELVE PAGES. Palais Royal Bargains. Dress Goods. LOWERED PRICES, NOT BECAUSE REMNANTS OR UNDESIRABLE STYLES, BUT BECAUSE NEARLY ONE THOUSAND PIECES OF XEW GOODS HAVE BEEN SECURED AT A PRICE FAVORABLE TO US—TO YOU. Dress Patterns. $2.68 for seven-yard Patterns of 50c quality All- Wool Sultings in the new wood shades of checks, Stripes and mixtures. These fabrics are entirely Rew, being in styles previously sold at 75¢ yd. $8 for six-yard Pattern of 54-inch Fancy Suitings. Worth 68 yd. Latest in stripes and checks. $4 for six-yard Pattern of 46-inch Fast Black Imperial Serge. Judged worth 89¢ yd. at the Palais Royal. Often sold at $1 yd. $4.50 for six-yard Pattern of $1 Suitings. Being 54 inches wide six yards is ample for a dress. The latest shades in checks, stripes and mixtures. $5.95 for seveu-yard Dress Pattern of Priestley’s $1 Black Wool Spring Novelties. Note that theso fabrics are wrapped on varnished boards with “Priestley” marked thereon. $5.95 for six-yard Dress Pattern of the new,extra ‘Wide, $1.25 Sic and Wool English Suitings—exclu- sive novelties, Linings for soc. THOSE WHO BUY A DRESS PATTERN OF ANY FABRIC ARE OFFERED THE NECESSARY LID INGS FOR ONLY 50 CENTS, VIZ: 6 YARDS CAMBRIC, 2 YARDS SILESIA, 1 YARD CANVAS— ALL FOR 50 CENTS. Silk Bargains. The following were secured by the Palais Royal “buyer” in New York last week under unusual circumstances. Such bargains are not likely to oc- cur again. Black Silks—Second Floor 81 yd. for $1.50 quality Moire Silks; samples from elsewhere will prove the truth of this extraordinary statement. $1.50 yd. for $1.89 quality Satin Stripe Moire. ‘89e yd. for $1 quality Satin Duchess. $1.25 yd. for $1.50 quality Satin Duchess. Ge yd. for 75e quality Taffeta and SSe yd. for $1 quality. $1.89 yd. for $2 quality Motre Antique. Te yd. for Se quality Figured China Silks, in twenty-five new and beautiful styles, Fancy Silks—Second Floor ‘Se yd. for $1 quality Louisine, in heliotrope, golden brown, gray, navy, old rose, reseda. $1 for $1.25 quality Taffeta Silks, in twenty dif- ferent combinations. $1 for $1.25 Molre Silk, in tan, golden brown, gray, reseda, old blue, navy, magenta, myrtle. ‘The following are also extra values at the prices: Bengaline Silk, in all colors, at $1 yd....Jacquard Taffeta at $1.50 and $1.68 yd Printed Chene Taffeta Silks at $1.25 yd., and Striped Chene Tat- feta at $1.25 yd. On first floor bargain counter, near 11th street entrance:—Best Wash Silks at 39¢ yard. 27- inch Black Japanese Silk at 49c instead of 68¢ yard... White Japanese Silk, worth 50c, for 39¢ yard......50¢ Quality Black Japanese Silk for only 89e yard. Laces. Something new daily in Point Venise Lace. The latest arrivals happen to be good bargains—Those 7 Inches wide at 98c cannot be duplicated at less than $1.25 yd. Those 9 inches at $1.25 are judged Worth $1.68 at other stores. Insertion Point Venise is scarce and dear, ex- cept here. 0c to $t yd. are the Palais Royal prices for the popular widths. The expensive pas- sementerie effects, only 48e to $2 yd. And here are the Vandyke Venise Laces, 68¢ to $3.75 ya. ‘Thank the belated importer for the Ecru Point Brussels Lace, 12 to 16 inches wide, at 89c in- stead of $1.50 and $1.68 yd. ‘The best bargains among the thousands of pleces of Black Laces are the Silk Bourdons, 15 inches wide, at $1.35 instead of from $2 to $2.50 yd. ‘Three yards of this lace will make a $5 cape look worth $15. And here are the Insertion Bourdon Laces, % to 4 Inches wide, 10c to 35 yd. Worth up to 50. ‘The 48-inch wide Tosea Nets, from 80c to $2 yd., | and the 48-inch wide Chiffons, in black and colors, at only 89¢ yd., are prices less than prevailing. Trimmings. 10c yard for choice of fifty styles Beaded Trim- mings, worth up to 4Se yard, 39¢ Instead of 50c yd. for the Gold and Silver Spangled Edgings. $2.67, $3.37, $3.97 and $4.68 yd. for 27-inch wide Jetted and Spangled Net, worth ap to $5.98 ya. 10e and 12c instead of 14c and 17e for the butter color Lace Braids that will elsewhere cost you Ide and 17¢ y4. We instead of %e yd. for the fashionable Spangle Only Se yd. for the Black and White Lace Braids % to 1 inch wide. Notions. 10,000 dozen spools of White Basting Cotton are here, only 7e for one dozen spools, 5e for Corset Steels worth 9c. BS gS SS ESSSSESS ay sTHIS “COUPON —If presented at our store on Tues= day will entitle you to a pair of our finest 1 Gloves For 79c¢. Pair, These Gloves have 4 large ee ¥ & é © buttons and are shown in helio- trope, tan, reseda, m green, navy, ox blood. niagenta, brown, black, white and yellow. é eMARCHEs 34 and 316 7th st. OO SSS ©OSSS9 OO SHOSS VD SOVDDHGSDOOOOS Is Your Wife Happy, Seataned as it should be? whet foe: Sgr cuse can you make to her for such neglect when you know that your credit is good bere ANY TIME, for all the furniture you need? Credit, with us, 1s simply ACCOMMODATION —we hold it ont to pe as an inducement for you to buy HERE. it costs absolutely nothing —ho notes to sign, no interest to pay. We Sell Cheaper ON CREDIT Than You Can Buy Elsewhere For Cash. REFRIGERATORS. We sell the Gurney Refrigerator because we believe they are BEST, Four carloads are here for you to select from—all prices. BABY CARRIAGES. Heywood and Wakefield are the leaders—We have them by the hundred—all the newest styles—Just from the factory. $2.50 and quit at $50. MATTINGS. We have more Matting than any other house in the city—come up and see for yourself. If you want a cool, clean door covering that will ‘Wear like iroo—our “cotton warp” is the thing. PARLUR SUITES. ‘Our third floor ts one con.ains almost a of @ suite in plush or hair $22.50. Others in Wilton Rug, Tapestry, Brocatelle, at it prices—ap to $200 a suite. BED ROOM SUITES. The suite we sell for $13 can’t be matched at that price for cash anywhere else. You will find a suite here at any price you feel like payt Ni ites. Your choice cloth for We ‘sell a six-foot Oak Extension Table for $3.50—the identical table sells for Ee of cost—no charge for waste in matching figures. Don’t Wait to Buy For Cash—You Can Do Better Here on Credit. GROGAN’S MAMMOTH CREDIT HOUSE, 819, $21, 823 7TH ST. N.W., BET. H AND I STS. We close every evening at 7. ap2 Tons of Stationery. A Mecca for Paper Buyers. Only 1§¢. lb. E buy in ‘Job lots"—tons and tons of FINE LINEN STATIONERY—all kinds—both smooth and antique finish—in white, cream, granite and various tints— octavo and commercial sizes, including many high-priced papers, which we are enabled to sell at such absurdly low prices that we keep our competitors “guessing’’ how we do it. C75 to 100 sheets to the pound. OUR LEADER—Linon Paper, ~ Se for 12 dozen Hooks and Eyes. 15e for the new Woven Skirt Yokes. Te for 30-yd. piece best Tape. Ste for 24-yard piece of Skirt Braid. J4¢ for 500-yard spool of Silk, finest thread. 42c yd. for frilied Garter Elastic. 5e bottle for best Sewing Machine Oil. Bargain Tables. FIRST FLOOR. On table near elevator:—A thousand and one time and labor-saving helps in the home. Your | | choice for only 9 cents. See the Patent Flour | | Sifter that ean be used with one hand. Ask to see | the Gas Stove. 9 cents is a ridiculously low price for these and many of the other articles on this bargain table, | ‘The near-by table will be londed with Velonr de Lyons at Gc instead of 12% yard. This cotton | fabric ts a fac-simile of Figured India Silk in de- signs and colors. Look so much like Silk that 6c | yard seems a ridiculously low price. It ts, SECOND FLOOR. As you step off the elevator the following bar- gains will be on counter directly opposite you: 40-inch White Apronettes, 12\c yard. Value, 17¢. 40-inch Hemstitched Lawns, 16c yard. Value,25e. 40-inch Irish Lawns, colored dots and figures, 11%ge yard. Value, 17c. India Dimity, stripes in combination of white and lavender, navy, pink, blue, 18¢ yard. Value, f5e. White Pique, figures and stripes, im colors, 19¢ yard. Value, 25c. A very special bargain in the Imported India Linens, with colored figures, 18e yard. Value, ‘tc. | Another unusual bargait in the White Ierm- stitched Euwroidered Fiannels, 59¢ yard. Value, Te. Mantfeure and Hair Dressing Parlors on first floor. School for Art Needlework on second floor, ‘The services of artistes at moderate charges. Palais Royal, A. Lisner, G and ith Street. | smooth and antique finish, plair and ‘ruled octavo and pee commercial size, per pound... 5 od ENVELOPES to match, per COMMONWEALTH LINEN, uni- form quality, all styles, cream or white, smooth or OC. antique finish, per pond..... SOC. ENVELOP! to metch, per package s Toc. BEACON HILi, LINEN, extra fine SS = — or antique (the . Per POUND... seeee weeeee AOC. $ ENVELOPES to mateb......... 15Cs $ sop oR yep! BOND PA . fine quality, - . peal eels: goc. $ ENVELOPES to wateh, per loc. ¥ WARD'S SCOTCH GRANITE FAPER, direct from the Aber- . deen = i Gat . mest popular paper in $ Sarieh per pounds GOC. ENVELOP! to t NVELOE Toc. = SOCTETY TIN in Rose, < Heliotrope a Azure, octavo, . per quire......... Toc. $ EXVELOPES, per package. Toc. $ Commercial size, 12c. quii a Eutelopes, per package, MURRAY HILL LINEN BOX ae Cras ler eg] led or plain, sl is an 35 envelopes, “only.------ 15§c. 50 sheets and 50 envelopes, 25. MOURNING lek 4 , L-quire box, envel opes to match 29c. SOCIETY TINTS, 1 ervelopes to mate! ige. Finest Quality ANTIQUE BOND PAHFER, to handsome emboss- ed - ge? and covdiapes in quire aes, ete! to match... 40c. C7Prull ine TABLETS and ALL ac- cessories found im any first-class station- ery store. Also Children’s Stationery, In- vitations, ete. CAW'S DASHAWAY FOI TAIN PENS, fitted py |, and cohvenient a Oe outy pork: $1.98 EF We desire y special stress on the fact that WE ENGRAVE CARDS, BEDDING INVITATIONS, ETC., in most artistic and perfect maver at correspond- ingly low prices. Variety Store y 9 Emmens S. Smith, it 706-707-709 PENNA. AVE. N.W. O eeprineedetntnn nr OOOO 5 A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE many times for rest, reached boys didn’t ask any question: brought no game. My the goal. The as to why I settled Appearance that. Tenderly they laid me in my blankets Q | and dosed me with todd: ater. How Col. Jim Struthers Got Away From came through the trial’ ob mone ana a : spared to tell you the story.” the Wild Beasts. “What'll you take this time, colonel?” Said the reporter, and soon the soribe left, A Bear, a Wolf and a Catamoant - oe Fighting to Make a Meal Those Who Will Report im the Difter« ent Courts Tomorrow. tin of nie = sell aD oa ECMO S urors have been drawn for the courts as Col. Jim Struthers leaned in lazy limpness on the buffet at the National last night. With the colonel story telling comes {natural as thirst. It has been intimated that he ts not at all times such a stickler for truth as Gulliver or Moody, but The | Star man feels sure that many of the things which Jim tells are just as true as many things which are believed. “Tell me @ tale to print,” timidly said the repo-ter as Col. Struthers poured out a horn about ten fingers long. “Well,” said he, splash- ing the tiled floor with a tincture of nico- tine and looking at the ceiling through the bottom of his glass, “I'll do it.” “California may not be the greatest state in the unity of the manv, but every Califor- nian knows that she is and can prove it. The state conceit of a Virginian doesn’t compare any more with that of a Califor- nian than Grover Cleveland does to Jim Struthers. California is where the orange rears its nest and builds its young. Her influence is bounded by Canada and the | gulf and reaches from Buzzard Point to | Hawai. Her lakes and rivers mirror all of heaven but the clouds, and her climate, when the rain and fogs don’t interfere, is flushed with sunshine as tender and bright a8 @ sweetheart’s glance. Her daughters are as blushing as the morn and as rosy as the summer dawn; her sons—” _— I know, colonel,” chimed in the re- | porter; “but I would rather have you tell | 4 story where you will not be confined strictly to the facts. os . 3 Im Early California Days. “Well, this story, like every other story, happened once upon a time. It happened in those days before Californians learned to drink lemonade out of finger bowls and to eat their hash under a French alias; be- fore they paid $4 a seat to hear music which they liked even less than they un- derstood it, and before they began to pester the society editor with a lot of tlunkish il- terary flapdoodie about tiddledywinks par- ties and dry teas. 1t was before the sons of the golden west put on boiled shirts and airs. Then California was a zoological gar- den in the original package. Whole c'r- cuses ranged its fleids and menageries in her woods. The Indian war- | whoop rang out where now the opera singer | shouts, and altogether the state was cue of the toughest pieces of Amercian geog- raphy outside of the city slums. I was one of a party of prospectors who started out from San Francisco in the early fifties to develop the mineral resources of the coun- try and make ourselves more attractive in the eyes of the soft-skinned sex by ac- cumulating dust. We followed the Sacra- mento river for pretty close to one hun dred miles and then struck cross lots In a southeasterly direction. After several weeks of sighing after new fields to con- quer we drew up on the western slope of the great Sierras at a place now calied Gold Run. We found what we were for and set to work. The Hunt for Game. “Our labor was almost as hard as a gov- ernment clerk thinks his is, and each man took one day off every week to supply the - Prices begin at/ camp with meat. This off day cast its rays would look of Joy in all directions. We follows, to report tomorrow: Criminal grand jury for the April term: Philip Kraft, Frank J. McDonald, C. 8. Hilton, E. G. Kablert, E. C. Myers, A. W. Abbott, Wm. B. Arendes, E. E. Hastings, C. B, Bailey, Joshua Barclay, W. E. Reed, Sam- | uel D. Camper, Clarence Clifford, Eugene RB Russell, R. M. Perry, H. C. Sherman, M. A. Kelley, Samuel F. Clark, J. A. Ad- ams, O. W. Bradt, Walter Crouch, John R, | Motley and W. F. Adams. Criminal Court, Division 1: W. J. Clem ents, H. S. Stowe, J. M. PB Huff, James Martin, John F. J. McQuade, Geo, Turner, W. P. Fowler, James A. Shaw, W. ford, Wm. B. Moore, James Wi Richard T. Fussell, Wm. E. Sebree, Carman, F. A. Hurlebaus, John F. = ay 4 Rabe, G. 7; Adams, James 5 unt, Edw. joseph Howard, John W. Payne and W. H. Chamberlain. Criminal Court, Divieton 2—J. C. ie 4 Wm. Becket, John Burns, E. , M. Aa D F. Alex- Maher, John M. White, J. A. ineberger, Cc. H. Heitmuller, Wm. Grimes, Cheseldine, Henry L. Offet, John W. Funk, vm. Wr.. B. Gurley, Frederik: Davis, B. Michael Barry, Patrick Ashton, J. M. Bradfcrd, John C. James W, Taylor, F. H. Kraemer. Circuit Cor Brice, Joseph Hicks, G. M. Cobaugh, Thos. W. Wher! Cc. A. Richardson, Holdran, Timothy Circuit Court, division 2—C. C. Connor, A, O. Brady, T. A. James, Paul Hiser, jr. W. T. Betts, Jas. B. Wright, W. E. - Cumberland, B. Walls, J. H. Gulick, C. E. Gross, J. W. Ackers, F. P, Edio, 8. J. Gardner, John Cumberland, C. A Cosche, Jesse Brown Jas. Plant, Jas. G@ Rowe, F. A. Lehman. — Matthew Arnold's Democracy. Florence Earle Coates, in the April Century. During Matthew Arnold's visits to this country there were few things in which he manifested so eager an interest as in the conversation of our laboring men as over heard by him from time to time. Fre- | quently he repeated to me sentences which | bad reached him in the stree! | trains or at railway stations, rot such intelligence uncommon amongst your working people?” Upon in the negative, he would say, “It is sur- prist you would not meet with it in Eng- land.” A democrat by conviction rather than by temperament, urging Gemocracy a8 “the only method consistent with the hu- man instinct toward expansion,” he was yet an educator, and believed in equality upon a high, not upon a low, plane. he demanded of men their best, and with less than their best refused to be satisfied. — eee The United States ship Mohican arrived last night at Port Townsend, Wash., from San srancisco. She is the first to arrive of the Bering sea patrol fleet. Revenue cutter U. S. Grant, Capt forward to it with pleasure, and then lock back at it with greater pleasure, till the time rolled round to look forward to the next. This day bore the same relation to our camp life that the Ist and 15th of every Z. D. Tosier, arrived at San p month do to the average Washingtonian. | AMERICA. On Sunday, April 1, 1 at 6 a. Finally my hunting day came to hand. I AMY AMERICA, Teiaved dcageee ot Teomes crawled out of my sleeping robes and made F. and Carry M. aged four years, @ rude toilet. It was not day. Phoebus cal tha tor tae comin, am am had not crept from behind the airy drape- | Puverat fom ber late 1 ‘Apel &, at 9 ease oe ries of her chamber in the east, and the F and relatives are invited to attend. * oriental end of heaven was still in gloom. Stellar gems were twinkli: along the | BROOKS. Soddenly, on Saroraay, March 31, 1804, boulevards of godland and Sonting masses ee pana BROUKS, widow of the iste wauel 8. Brooks. of fleecy cloud veiled the face of the eternal blue. All through the night the stilly still- been occasionally marred by the yelping bark of a timber wolf. This pe- culiar noise was more unpleasant then than now, for then the wolf had not been whip- ped into cowardice, and when he wanted Precious one has gone away And left us sadiv Weeping; But we shall meet, ob, happy day, And live for e’er, im bright array, In loving Jesus’ Keeping. s GRACE’ BROOKS. a] AC. M. E man meat and saw it he helped himseif. I yesas Sree a Sa pam Te Tecaday. Ser Apel buckled on my knife and threw my patch 3. Friends invited to attend. > rifle over my shoulder. Hunting in these good old days of yore meant something more than it does now. In this era of ms azine guns even a callow tenderfoot might ing, in the seventeenth year of his age. kill a bear by shutting both eyes, ¢ Funeral fom the residence of his his head and pulling the trigger.” Weli, I 516 Ith street northwest, W sallied forth and headed upward. There ws id" Toladives = no trail to follow and onward I tramp through the chapparel, over bowlders and through clumps of tall pine. I could still hear the. howl of that persistent wolf. It seemed to me to be coming nearer, but I refused to pay any heed to it. The Howl of the Wolf. “It was just bright enough for me to see the shadowy forms of the clumps of bushes | and the trunks of trees. I kept plodding | 1. Q008,0) $m © along. The wolf howl came to my ears sens once more and seemed 0 close upon me | BARVEE, fy Saturday. March 31, 2804, AREA that I stopped to listen. It was coming my Z 4, at 2 o'clock pam. Friends and vited to attend. pen, iu the sixty-second from late residence, we portheast, o'clock. Relatives and frieuds Vited To attend. DEMENT. On Sunday morring, April 1, 1894, o'clock, litte CLARA, Infant Gaughter Jobo G. and Clara Dement, aged one year. | Year of ver age . 233 huset! way. It was near at hand. Hark! It had purine, Teaigence of, ber copinten, sighted me and was coming faster! faster! | em Syerwood, 1017, Best Capitel street, ab It would soon be upon me. I felt that I| . » was in for a fight. It was too dark to see | JENIFER. On Sunday, April 1, 1894, at 2» how to shoot until the enemy was at close MARY JENIFER, mother of Henry BE. 458 Washington street northwest. Poneral trom Asbury Chureh, 11th and K on Tuesday, April 3, at 1 pam. relatives invited to attend. LEGGETT. | Suddent y_ mornin, LEGGETT of On April 1, 1894, at 1 o'clock a.m, M. MATTHEWS, in the fifty-cighth quarters. I pulied in the stock of 1ay gun preparatory to bringing it down from my shoulder, but the sight hung on the twig of an overhanging bough. Involuntarily I looked up. Two eyes were looking 4 upon me. They were flashing with ¢ gavagery. Off and behind me, I th: could see a black, awkward form 9 shambling along. I could not withdraw my gaze from the eyes that glared upon me | {with a fiend-like light. The bark of the wolf sounded this time, so near that I could hear the snapping of his teeth. It was an awful moment. I was too much paralyz ed to think. It was just es impossible for | me to collect myself as my bills. I felt as. frozen as though I had attempted to climb | the north pole, or to play poker with a bob- tail flush. Iwas stricken as dumb as | though I had stepped on the soft corn of a| trolley, or received an appointment under san and year ot bis Funcral from Christ Charch, G j ‘Tua April 3, at 4 o'clock Friends ‘kindly omit Qowers. 2, 18%, Mrs MARIA OGDEN. On April 1, 1894, at 3:40 o'clock p.m, MINERVA ADELAIDE, ‘wife of D. M. and doughter of the late 1. L. Parkburst. this administration. I repeat, it was an aw- | Funeral seri Jak Mill Cinpel at 4 o'clods ful moment. Still the eyes shone Ss din | tered, and the wolf barked and snapped.and | gMITH. On Sunday, April 1, 1894, at 5:10 p.m., the awkward figure shambled toward me. after a loug and painful itines:, HENRY C. a. A ed-Up Fight. SMITH. to of bis age, loved hunt “There wasa hissing shriek above me that | Funcrsl from reside ’ 1230 ith sounded like the blow-up of a steam boiler. | —_*!Teet_ southeast. Twesday, 5 o'dom. b Kelatives aud friends invited to ‘attend. SULLIVAN, Depai 1, 1504, at 10 I felt a weight fall on me. I felt ms borne heavily to the earth by a mass of fur and claws. A warm deluge gushed over my | face. I was conscious that I was being | chewed. I was being killed. All my life | passed in quick review. Photographs of childhood were swinging in the gallery of my memory. I could hear the wild cries and feel the wilder clawings of the animal on top of me. Suddenly the weight in- creased, and over the steam-like shricks I could hear the vicious howling and snap- ping. Then another load, a crushing load, was added to my burden. A deep, gruff voice roared and bellowed. The fancs withdrawn from my fie with claws on the end ould tread on my legs and slip off, carrying away meat. I | ted this life on Sunday, April Wa ANN SULLIVAX, wa Sullivan, @ watt are, Ireland, in the seventy: Funeral Tuesday On CHARI | UPPERCT 4, at 12-98 a.m., April 1, 1 UE," in * (Baltimore papers please copy.) tried to put my arms above my breast to JAMS. On Sunday, April 1. 18M, at 8:18 ward off part of the oppressio: 5 m., EMELIN WILLIAMS, belwed wife not. A maddening wrangle w j Williams, tn the sixty above me. There was a Wagne rae. pmeretan of vocal discord. Three animals were war- SY caslct commen.” Guam ring over my prostrate form. I prey, and they were fighting for po: x Carter's Little of me. All was clear now. I must act. I rolled slightly on my side and raised a lit- tle on one elbow. Then I edged out a few inches from under the tangle of teeth and claws. The fighting raged. More and more I edged away. The raging beasts eeemed not to notice that I was slowly absenting myself from their presence. An Escape at Last. “By this time I was far enough away to attempt to run. J raised on one knee, and in attempting to rise erect, I tottered, stag- gered and fell, One more mighty effort and I was on my feet. I was too weak to walk, so I sought shelter behind a bunch of blueberry bushes. The dawn was break- ing. I could see the whole thing now. A wolf was stretched out in death. He was on his back, with paws up, mouth expand- ed and tongue hanging out. A wildcat and a bear were at it. The cat was circling around the bear, and the latter w ing front all the time to keep its fo: sight. Every little while the would spring at its enemy and get swatted with a paw. Finally it made its Jast spring, end bruin caught it in his fond embrace. How he applied the pressure! The skeleton of the cat was being smashed slowly with a grinding motion. It squirmed, gasped, gur- gled, quivered and died. The bear dropped it, and it fell limp and motionless. Then iver Pills. ‘SICK HEADACHE | POSITIVELY CURED THESE LITTLE PM&, the Side, TOI the Bowels, |Small Pill. Small Dose. Small Price. | MOXUMENTS — v Barre and Quincy Granites, the great bear turned and shambied slowly | mestic Marbles, and are offering the same for sale off. had been attacked simultaneously by | ®t py = So Prices givea- 2 cat, wolf and bear, and had escaped while | 9% 7 TIE MONUMENTAL WASHINGTON = they were fighting over the spoils. Slowly I ®. aod New York ave, aw, mb2s- im wandered back to camp, and, after stopping