Evening Star Newspaper, July 28, 1894, Page 13

mee __PRESIDENT DOLE PROCLAIMING THE REPUBLIC. HAPPY IS HAWAII General Gratification Over the Es- tablishment of the Republic. | CONFIDENCE IN THE CONSTITUTION Incidents Attending the Birth of a New Government. AN ENJOYABLE RECITAL Bpecial Correspor dence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, July 10, 1894. ‘ A REAL AND HAPPY change has passed over this community since a week ago. The republic of Hawail has been inaugurat- ed; the government has passed from its provisional and un- Settled stage into a permanent and sta- ble form. The tran- sition has been ef- fected with almost unhoped-for speed and sectrity. There was unlooked-for uranimity and enthusiasm in support of he procedure. We find ourselves at once ansferred from a tossing sea of uncer- Rainties and threatening contingencies to hat seems to be a quiet anchorage in har- r. There is in consequence a prevailing feeling of gratulation and returning confi- ence. « Two weeks ago the convention was in the heat of debate on the second reading of the onstitution. Som> of them were falling to an irritable condition of nerves. The Yadical leagues outside were becoming ex- jeited and tending to misconstrue and kick. his quieted down. A third reading was ,carried through on the 30th with a good de- ‘gree of harmony and marked abatement of quntoward feelings, and arrangements were ‘wede for promulgation of the constitution ‘on the 4th. This last proposition’ raised the public en- thusiasm, and all the friends of the repub- lie laid aside their little dissensions and foi: ed heartily in the movement for the im- mediate proclamation of the republic and the constitution. On Monday evening, the 2d, a great mass meeting was held in the drill shed, in which all sections of the sup- porters of the government joined with the Ereatest unanimity and enthusiasm. Strong fesolutions were passed ratifying the work ©f the convention and their appointment of B. B. Dole as president ofthe republic. The cheering was constant and _ vociferous. (Where was the greatest contrast to a meet- Ing held two hours earlier on Palace Square by royalists, in order to protest against the epublic as being contrary to the will of a ajerity of the voters, natives, who de- red the monarchy. That crowd, a thin the government and the king, the constitu- tions of 1853, 1864, 1887 and the proclama- tion of January 17, 1893, are the milestones | g: Today, as we pass through the “gate beautiful” into a new realm full of promise, of hope and of boundless opportunfty, we set up another milestone, greater and grand- er than all that stand behind us. The end is not yet. The relaxing influ- ences of peace are more demoralizing to patriotism than the stern and bracing dan- gers of war. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” There are still greater things to be done. There are achievements in free government, as yet unattainea, to be striven for—responses to the fast growing claim that the poor man shall be recognized, in fact as well as in name, in the body politic. There are new milestones to be set up upon heights which are yet to be gained. Let us see to it that our future is worthy of our past and of all the promise of this auspicious day, and that it shall grow therefrom as the tree grows from the sap- ling; that freedom shall never come to mean license in the vocabulary of the republic, and that the spirit of traffic shall never invade the council chamber or the halls of legislation. President Dole’s Proclamation. And, now, in behalf of the men who have carried this cause along and who have stood ready to defend it with their lives, in be- half of the women who have given it their prayers and their husbands and sons, for the benefit and protection of all the people of this country, of whatever race or name, and in gratitude to God, whose hand has led us, I, Sanford B. Dole, president of the pro- visional government of the Hawaiian Is- lands, by virtue of the charge to me given by the executive and advisory councils of the provisional government, and by act dated July 3, 1894, proclaim the republic of Hawaii as the sovereign authority over and throughout the Hawaiian Islands from this time forth. And I declare the constitution framed and adopted by the constitutional convention of 184 to be the constitution and the supreme law of the republic of Ha- waii, and by virtue of this constitution I now assume the office and authori:y of pres- ident thereof. God save the republic! With the last words the audience g: three rousing cheers, the Hawaiian flags flew out over the executive and judicial buildings, and a battery near by thundered a salute. Government Officers Sworn J. W. Kalua of the convention read the proclamation in Hawaiian, followed by more cheers. The president then took the cath of office, and announced the names of his cabinet—Messrs. Hatch, King, Damon and W. O. Smith—the same gentlemen who have been serving in that capacity. There was a general flocking around the presi- dent to shake hands, especially the ladies. The president's wife received the special favor of a kiss from her husband. There was shortly a general movement fér the interior of the building, where the oath was administered to the justices and chief oiti- cialis, and then to a large number of citi- zens. No military were in sight on the occasion. The government band played Hawaiia Ponoi. A number of consuls were present without special invitation, as well as oli cers of the United States flagship. Ad- miral Walker and staff were present un- officially. In honor of the double importance of the day the American community had made un- usval preparations for its celebration. The largest outlay was $2,500 for a spacious wooden pavilion near the turn into Waekiki one, the native portion, looked dispirited and listless, and found it hard to raise the firal cheer called for. Promulgating the Good News. Next morning the convention met again to read proof sheets hastily together. This was done in less than two hours. One clause was left out, so as to leave the presi- dent free to convene the senate or lesisla- ture without the concuzrence of the cabi- This would enable him to remove a ing cabinet by the aid of the senate. i evening, the printing being perfect- met and each member signed the constitution with its enactive act appended. This was by ayes and noes, unanimously, doliows: tutional convention, convened in iu, Island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, ith day of May, A.D. 1804, pursvant ns of act 69 of the acts of the | provisional government of the Hawaiian Is- dands, entitied ‘An act to provide for a con- ) ntion,’ approved the 16th D. 184, and pursuant to the proclamation of the president summen- said convention to assemble, having and adepted the constitution here- set forth: it is he-eby declared, enacted and proclaimed by the executive and advisory councils of the provisional government and by the elected delegates, constituting said constitutional cenvention, that on and after the fourth day of July, A.D. 184, the said constitution shall be the constitution of the Yepublie of Hawaii and the supreme law of the Hawaiian Islands. “Done in convention by unanimous con- gent this third day of July, A.D. one thous- and eight hundred and ninety-four. In wit- mess whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.” During the same afternoon the council of the previsional government held a last ses- sion, in which they turned over the state to the republic, declaring the republic of Ha- waii, after its proclamation on July 4, to be the sole government, and the constitution the supreme law; also vestirg in said re- Fublic all government territory, property, Fights, ete., and ordering the president to proclaim the republic and promulgate the ‘constitution on the Fourth at the front of the executive building, and take the oath of Office. Plots Against the President. During ten days previous the president had received a number of threatening and warni letters. Several circumstantial evidences of plots against him were also received throwsh the potice. In conse- he slept that night at the executive | it S$ perhap fortunate that is the new ident Carnot’s assassina- tion did not arrive until the evening of the h evil acts are prone to jous. At rate, the morn- 3orious d where a Before be- great 5 2. eds of them lad On the stroke of | tent and cabinet descended to the Biddle landing of ihe sieps. i Mr. Dole wore his customary serene and | @ignitied Jelivered, in clear and brief address, as tollows: for popu upied b movemeat 2 has today i . when his kingdom, sur wer ant pr “life, limb, liberty on, the earnings of hi mind.” se from that day here have beea eed, when it seemed acken e and even to turn back on its but obstacles served only to give it 2 chance to gather its strength for a Swifter advance The land commission and the great Ma- hele, by which tne jands of the kingdom Were divided between the people, the chiefs, freedom hands progress of this ep irresistable. est mann President Sanford 8. Dele. road, where a large audience gathered to hear the time-honored declaration read and listen to a variety of addresses. The American minister, Willis, presided most felicitously. Admiral Walker sat on the platform, which President Dole also as- cended with the loud cheers of the audience, There was none of the usual spread-eagle oratory. Capt. Cochrane of the marines gave a most happy and entertaining talk, mingling humor and mirth with patrictism and cordial salutations to the new repub- lic. In the afternoon all hands paid their respects to the United States minister at his levee in the Hawaiian Hotel, making bygones of the doi of last December. Minister Wil Sees His Mistakes. Mr. Willis makes no secret of his wish not to have those days remembered. He evidently was then lcboring under mislead- ing information and total misconception of the situation, brought with him from Wash- ington. There was, perhaps, never a man more perplexed how to reconcile his strange orders with the actual condition of things which he began to see into. His present at- titude toward the government is exceeding- ly friendly; he has hastened to extend recognition to the new republic, so far as in his power, pending instructions from his government. The closing incident in the ‘nstallation of the new republic was the very interest- ing final session of the conveation, held on the morning of the 5th. They had adjourn- ed over to that time, in case eny untoward- ness should call fer their further action. All had gone well, and they came together of the member: ne together Some of the rei erve quoting, as iliustrating the feeling adirg the community as well as the vention. ncillor Brown (British) ‘" eyed that the future would look back on the work of nd re; it as one of the Hawaii, the fact would be recogn om hed nothing at i all Hawaii Delegates Divinely Guided. Delegate Kavhane (B jian) said: “The conduct of this beds nas been with great freegora from temper. Threats of violence had been made from cutside, but nothing came of it. They hag no! eir own strength to thank. The guidins of the Divine hand had been most evident Minister Smith ( attention to the fa. t but the good er walian) drew that supporters of the leaders had been called rets and filibusters. onvention six native Ha- fawatians born of foreign parents, nine Auericans, three British, three Portuguese and two Germans, and all had reside! here a Ing time and were fully identified with the country. There had been problems of gre: the franchise was on@ ‘The prophecy had been made that THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUASY 98, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. the convention would go to pieces on this rock; that the problem could not be solved. In point of fact it had been solved, with no injustice to any man having rights in the country. That was a grand thing, a thing to ud of. So of the question of the executive and the promulgation of the con- stitutioa. It was a marvelous thing that under all these difficulties and wide differ- ences of opinion a result had been reached which was uranimously ratified with nét one dissenting voice.” te Vivas (Portuguese) said: “The ig of the other night had shown that the people were satistied with the work h All had confidence in the leade had been continued at the head of affair: Delegate Baldwin (Americo-Hawatian) said: “The change from a monarchy to a republic w natiy Sa great one, especially to the ustomed to the feudal iliatory policy of the pvernment woul? scon reconcile them to a government which gave them more rights y had ever had before. Pe de in orde: ‘ard the one aim to establish a republic for the benefit of all.” President Dole’s Tribute. President Dole said: “The work done here had been of high character and would be of great historical importance. The members of the convention would always remember ith regard because of this work, had done in common so rapidly, irdustriously and harmonicusly. It was a t satisfaction to him to know that the werk of the provisicnal government was now done, and done with so few mistakes. The difficulties had been very great. There had been times when rumors of attack of the most circumstantial kind had been al- most the daily food of the government. That had been the case during the last ten days. The representative character of the sovernment had been shown by the ap- pro’ which its acts had received from the ginning until the end yesterday. They must do all in their power to promote har- mony and good feeling, so that when the others were ready to come in the right hand pd go0d-f2llowship could be extended to em." Correction of Important Errors. The statement has appeared in American pape-s friendly to the provisional govern- ment that the new constitution weuld ren- der the government an oligarchy. This is a very serious error, and should be corrected. There is no element whatever of oligarchy in the government created by the new con- stitution. It is strictly republican, and in a high degree democratic. The constitution of the lower house of the legislature is thoroughly democratic. On account of the imperfect intelligence of the native Ha- watian majority of the voters, who, al- though not illiterate, are childish in intel- lect, thriftless, and in bondage to the ka- huna sorcerers, it became vitally necessary to clesely limit the suffrage for the senate. ‘The voters for senators must have $00 of income. This wil! include the majority of the white skilled workiren, and a small minority of the natives. The senate chosen bu such a coistituency cannot possibly be shown to be an oligarchy. Upon this senate prectically devolves the contreling power of the government. All leading officials must be appointed with their consent, and a ma- jority of the senate must vote for the presi- dent, as well as a majority of both hovses, sitting together. So fat, then, as the gov- ernment falls short of ‘full democracy, as realized in the United States, it is very liberal republican, and in no sense what ever oligarchic, any more than it is mon- archic. Three-fourths of the senatorial electors are workingmen, some thousands in Qumber. Are such a bedy of men an oligarchy? Untenable Criticisms on the Constitu- n The objection has been made that this new government fails to be republican be- cause it abridses the power of the lower house to block the government by refusing appropriations. The government in case of a failvre to pass an appropciation bill can keep cn with the last appropriations, and the pay roll of salaries is permanent, sub- ject only to legislative amendment. No de- cent lower house ever tries thus to block the government. It is very likely that a native majority might elect a set of rotten agosues who would do such a thing. titution wisely puts it out of their power. te can always make a controlling power felt over the administra- tion; and both will yield much to the lower house in order to secure new appropriations and other enactments which nre desired. ‘This constitution i liberal to the verge of reril, considering the character of the na- Uve Hawaiian voters, to whom, in fact, moze power is given than they had. under the monarehy, where a very large propor- Ucn of power was reserved for the sever- eign. It seems most probable that this constitu: tion will highly commend itself to statesmen as the product of an unusual amount of s gacity and patriotic benevolence, likely to attain in and as an exceptional vegrée the best ends of government. Present in- dications that the natives and other re tlists will register in considerable numbers for the coming election. Any attempt on their part to rise against the government h seems to be out of uestion. ‘Th every prospect of pe nd order, of lished public confidence «nd _ ste: gress. KAMEHAM Max Muller on the Our Seats of E From the Westm Prof. Ma “the lu been r: § that 1 beauty of scholariy lei- universities have passed away ferever, “It is quantity today rather than quality, I fear,” be said to an interviewer of the Qu The tutors become teach- ers far too young, and they work so hard that they have no time to look to the right or the left; and what is life if not a con- tinually glancing to the right and left? They give themselves no time to develop. They take a good first-class and then give out what they have learned as teachers. This engenders the moneymaking spirit. I have no word to say against it, but it all tells on the spirit of the university.” ‘The present system of constant examina- tions finds no favor with Prof. Max Muller. “They stunt our young men,” he said, they have no time or opportunity to be idle. Now, do you know, it is my idle friends,” he added, “who have become dis- tinguished men in later life? I believe in cultured idleness. It gives a man time to read for himself. But look at these examina- tions; why, a man knows exactly what he has to read frequently to the. very page. You don’t call that study.” The professor confessed that ct first he had been opposed to the girls’ colleges, but they are, he said, a great success, “and it is a real pleasure to me to see the young girls so eager to learn. Young men do as little as they can, young women do as much as they can; too much, indeed. Again, they work more systematically, and their knowledge is better arranged. It tends wonderfully to the improvement of the whole of their character. I wish the men could be ashamed and spurred on to further effort. Indeed,” he added, laugh- ing outright, “a friend of mine and his wife went in for the same examination: she took a first class, he only a second.” Prof. Max Muller, however, thinks nothing tan- gible comes of all the labors of the girls, while if only they could get fellowships they might do good work. — see He Was That Man. From the Detroit Free Press. “I knowed a man,” remarked the stranger in the end of the seat to the drummer over by the window, “that ieft his farm and started out west to grow up with the coun- try and git rich. Did he have any meney drummer. “He had upwards of $2,000 in cas ‘Well, he ought to be rich by this time.” “Don’t know about that. Anyway, before he had gone 200 miles he met some three- card-monte men, and the t thing he knowed, they had all his money, and he didn't have nothing much but experience and his clothes.” oi “That must have been a long time ago. “About three days.”” “Great Scott, man!’ exclaimed the drum- mer, “you don’t mean to tell me that in this enlightened age there is a big enough fooi to get stuck that way?” : “I've heerd there was a few left,’ admit- ted the stranger. “Well, by George! I'd give a dollar, straight, to s¢e one, just for the curiosity of the thing.” © The stranger took his feet in out of the aisle and faced the drummer. Z “Gimme the doliar,” he said, sheepishly, “and take a look at me. I’m on my- way back home now, and that dollar'll seem big- gern a cart wheel.” * inquired the SMOOTH AND CLEAN The Extent of the Asphalt Pave- ments of Washington, THEY LEAD THE COUNTRY How They Are Made’ and What They Cost. COMPARED WITH OTHER CITIES ae Washington city is, In this country, the pioneer of smooth pavements, and, accord- ing to recent statistics, ranks first among the cities of.the United States in the num- ber of miles of such pavements in propor- tion to its area. But this has not always been so. It was only a few years ago when the streets of Washington were in a disgraceful condi- tion, and it is within the memory ef com- paratively young men when Pennsylvania avenue was a mud hole. But the city be- gan to improve in this and other respects under the new form of government and today stands pre-eminent among the cities of the United States for its smooth streets. | According to a recent report Washington has 2,402,337 square yards of asphalt sur- face, or to speak in miles, 108.82. As is shown by a comparative table Washington has 64.3 per cent of all of its streets puved with sheet asphalt, asphalt block or tar, which is somewhat in excess of Buffalo, the nearest competitor, which has about 56 per cent of smooth pavement, though the mile- age is greater than that of Washington. The Early Pavements, The paving of the streets of the cities of Washington and Georgetown was first un- dertaken upon an extensive scale under the board of public works between 1871 and 1874, The pavements laid were wood, coal tar and asphalt concretes, cobble and trap rock. Wood pavement was laid to the ex- tent of 1,188,000 square yards at a cost of $4,000,000, The wood being of ordinary or poor quality it proved a very defective pavement and soon decayed and had to be entirely replaced. It was somewhat differ- ent with coal tar pavements. Between 1871 and 1878 coal tar concrete pavements were laid to the extent of 745,305 square yards at a total cost of about $2,300,000, These pavements were laid unler various patents and differed very much in their wearing qualities. Most of them have since been resurfaced or replaced with asphalt pavements, but there still remains ccal tar pavement upon portions of Connecticut avenue and Massachusetts avenue laid over twenty years ago. The trap rock and cob- ble pavements were rough and uncleanly and have gradually given way to better classes, The period from 1874 to 1878, under the first board of Commissioners, was mainly spent in repairing and replaciag the defective pavements previously laid. The Standard Pavement. The beginning of the present form of gov- ernment of Washington marks the adoption of asphalt as the standard pavement in this city. és Early in the seventies Prot. De Smedt, District chemist and inspector of asphalt pavements in the District of Columbia under Maj. Twining and his successor, con- ceived the idea of using Trinidad lake as- phalt for making the paving mixture. He had seen the merits and defects of the rock asphalt in Europe, and he endeavored to secure a pavement which wouki have all the merits of a smooth pavement with the further advantage of being less slippery than the rock phalt pavements on the Paris bouleva Afted many attempts he succeeded curing what he believed was a proper mixture, and a company organized under Gen, Averill, late of the United States army, which laid the pave- ment upon 5th avenve, opposite De rionico’s, in New York city, About 1! when the cobble pavement on Penn out accordance with an act of Corgress, the President appointed a com- vania avenue had become hopelessly of repair, in mission, ‘consisting of Gens. Wright and ilmore of the engineer corps of the United ates army, and the architect of the Capi- 1, Mr. Clark, to secure a suitable pave- ment to replace it. This commission w: ven carte blanche to select the best pav ment that had been or could be ed. At the request of Gen. Averi cther pavements the commission inspected the payement laid by Prof. De Smedt in New York, and after a very complete in- vestigation of the subject, decided to pave Pennsylvania avenue from Ist to 6th street with a rock asphalt, similar to that laid in the continental cities of Europe, and from 6th to 15th streets with Trinidad lake asphalt, in accordance with the inventions ot Prof. De Smedt. This latter pavement proved to be so successful and so superior to the rock asphalt, as regards slipperiness, that in IS78, when Maj. Twining became Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, he decided to adopt it as the dard pavement for Washington. Prof. De Smedt, whose inventions had proved so valuable, was retained and appointed in- Spector of asphalts and cements for the District, and under his supervision asphalt Pavements were laid until 1885, when he resigned. to 1886 sheet asphalt pavement inch concrete base was almost upon the streets under im- exclu: Price Per Yard. In the appropriation act for 1887 there a prevision that not more than $2 per re yard should be paid for concrete vements. Heretofore the price had ordi- arily been $2.25 per square yard for sheet asphalt upon a six-inch concrete base, and the contractors refused to accept the re- duction. Accordingly, the Commissioners were compelled to return to the coal tar distillate pavements, which consisted of a base of four inches of broken stone covered with coal tar, one and one-half inches of birder and a wearing surface made with paving cement consisting of 25 per cent of asphalt and 75 per cent of coal tar distil- late. It did not require very many months to demonstrate the impracticability of this pavement. Changes in temperature affect- ed it to such an extent that it rapidly dis- integrated and soon became absolutely use- less. There were 141,580 square yards of this pavement laid, most of which has since been repliced with shest asphalt. Experi- ments to secure a cheap pavement were continued, and it was found that the sheet asphalt, laid upon a base of broken stone ecvered with tar, was superior to coal tar Cistillate. The defect of this ‘pavement was that the base was not sufficiently rigid to retain the shape of the cross, section, and that upon moist ground it rapidly disinte- grated. slo Congress, in 1802, upon the urgent request of the Commissioners, removed the restric- tions as to price to be paid for asphalt pavements, 2.25 per square yard for asphalt pavements laid upon streets subjected to heavy traffic, which al- lows the use of a concrete bage. , The Different Kind, Used. According to the report of: the engineer department for the year 18%! thé following table shows the different kinds of pavements used in the streets and alleys'of the city: Miles.: Sq. Yas. Ot 1,581,282 Asphalt block . Granite 2nd trap rock. Sheet asphalt sphalt block anite Vitrified brick . Cobble Ordinary brick Total Streets. Miles. Sq. Yds. Sheet asphalt 843 158,515 Granite ... 2.42 23,241 Asphalt block . 06 966 Macadam Tota) Perhaps. it would be interesting to know the mode of laying pavements in the Dis- } many trict of Columbia. All work upon the streets and avenues is done by ¢ontract, and the contractor agrees to keep them in repair for a period of five years. Ten per cent is retained from the payments upon contracts for the period to protect the District against bad work. The standard sheet asphalt pavements as laid in this city, consist of a base of six inches of concrete, one and one-half inches of asphalt binder and one and one-half Inches of asphalt surface, thoroughly com- pressed. Prior to 1887 the wearing surface consisted of two and one-half inches of as- phalt without a binder. The léwest price «ver paid for this pavement was in 1879, when a contract was made at $147 per square yard. The price was gradually creased until 1882, when it became $2.25 per square yard, at which price it remained. During the present year a new asphalt has been introduced into Washington, called the Bermudez asphalt, and while it is yet too early to predict results, there is every rea- son to believe that it will prove satisfac- tery. O account of this competition the been reduced, and the District is i this y $2.18 1-2 per square yard ‘rinidad, and $2.10 per square yard for Bermudez. The Average Life of Pavements. The life of coal tar pavements, that is, the time which elapses between the com- pletion and the resurfacing, has varied from two to twenty years. The asphalt pavement. laid on Pennsylvania avenue lasted about twelve years, and this is re- garded as the minimum life for those pave- ments if well laid. The average annual cost of maintaining the pavement on Penn- sylvania avenue since it was lirst laid has been 13 cents per square yard. The most expensive asphalt pavement in this city is that laid on H street northeast from Ist to 15th streets, the average annual cost of which has been, since 1883, 15 cents per square yard. The average annual cost of maintaining and renewing the smooth pavements of this city is 6 cents per square yard. Relative Areas in Cities. The following table gives the relative areas of different pavements in several of the principal cities of this countty, showing that Washington leads them all in sheet asphalt or tar pavements, as given in the réport of the paving commission of Balti- more: lz. Hi rele 26 | Be See, eae al tar Asphalt” bloc Vitrified brick ‘Total The character street pavements of Washington is shown in the following table: : i] To's | te6'e ates Hegse a E)s5,R8 | 32582 — Hi 8) ase hE | ocum [EL SeeS2| EB] Be» E88 | come g|S3288 ‘e0'rse OT wEL on ‘Lee'ctr oS 460° £6! ¥68'6LE eee "OIL SPOUT 00971T Bra lebs'20'T 82°96 och Olg LeP'cls “86% eu 86900 —_>—__—_ FOR CLOTHES REFORM. Dei ‘er Women Banding Together for Rational Dress. Denver women are organizing themselves into a dress club, which is to put its uni- form in ocular evidence as soon as 100 women have signed the pledge of its mem- bership. This is as follow: Believing that the health, grace and com- fort of women will be increased by the adoption of a more rational dress for busi- ness (including housekeeping) purposes, I, the undersigned, in consideration of ninety- nine other women of the city of Denver severally pledging and binding themselves by an agreement similar to this, do hereby pledge and bind myself and agree: 1. To provide myself with a costume as follows: A rational dress skirt, a comfort- able fitting blouse or waist, using no whale- bone or stiffening of-any kind whatever (whether in the form of a corset, under- waist or dress watst), and shoes with com- mon-sense heels. 2. To wear the same publicly in the city of Denver, commencing at such time after 100 wemen shall have signed this document as may be determined by the Colorado Rattonal Dress Club. 3. To continue to wear the same as a working, business or street costume fcr the period of at least three months after sald date. 4. To use my influence to induce others to join the Colorado Rational Dress Club. Mrs. Kilton, the president, was much elated over the success of her first day's work, in which she secured nine names to her petition, and is confident that the requisite number will be obtained in a few months. With a sagacity not previously shown by dress reformers, the club is cir- culating a supplementary petition among men, getting signatures from them indors- ing the dress as “rational and healthful.” Several womenprominent in Denver society are among the members of the club, but the signatures come in slowly, and it is evident that women are conservative in the matter of committing themselves to a divided skirt. —-e0e* From Fliegende Blactter. = ~ ees Farmer (meeting ‘his pastor just after church)—“Sermon was bright—very bright. ‘Who would -beve believed it?” Ss The watef in the Frazer valley, British Columbia, has receded very. ly, ard farmeéts ‘will be unable to cultivate ‘thets long “this year. SPENDING VACATION Some Young Men Get Cooped Up at a “Resort.” OTHERS GO AWAY 10 THE SPRINGS Until August 1st 10 Per Cent Off All Traveling Requisites. Just when you necd them most d the prices on our ds just 10 per cent. meena - With every Trunk you get @ When Mamma Leaves Town for Ginny teen: With every Bag you get a Name the Children’s Good. free. Kneessi, 425 7th St. HOW PAPA SPENDS HIS TIME + ; a SE ‘The Parrot Said (‘Come In” “Come In” you think of me.” brilliant -plumaged Written for The Evening Star. OUNG HAWKINS IS making grand prepa- rations for his sum- mer vacation. He | ¢ fhas bought all the | clothes he can pos- ‘$5 sibly manage to pay for within a year,and | ¢ he is anxiousiy plan- }~ ping the means by — which he will be en- S abled to spend more money than he can really afford. Where is he going? Oh, to “a resort.” He does not intend to syend his time in the dull quiet of a country place. What he wants is one of those delightful places where there is a ball every night. What else will he do be- sides go to the ball? Why, he will wait ‘SCHMID, the Bird Man, SL Ps AVE, DE 1 BT, E t 00 ce we <9 ey st ee 40 e Try Daly’s BUTTER. All of you want the butter you've read about, but seldom across. for meals. Boiled down, that is practically all that is left of the life at most summer +o C alte RICHEST. FRESHEST resorts. The day has its three events— S breakfast, lunch and dinner, or breakfast, 5) lg ~ ae} eae dinner and supper. Beyond that it is bar- Saat ae a. ant ren of results. After breakfast there is Lb. Giext Ix TO RESCUR dinner or lunch to wait for; after lunch or Beak iten. E KFAsT FROM dinner there is supper or dinner to wait ON APPROVAL. for. If the resort is near a city, so that "Phone, men may come there in the evening, the T.D.Daly, 917 La. Av. frat. last meal of the day is dinner, but if it ‘$y27 is too far in the country for that then | @@ dinner is eaten at 2 o'clock in the day. The Avernge “Resort” Quarters. Hawkins will have a vacation of three weeks. He will pay three times as much as it costs him in town for a room hardly large enough to hold his trunk, the furni- ture of which will consist of a very small 2 Buys Switches, Fine Quality Hair. shade Gesired ex ‘yy. Our itne’ of Gray ‘Switches formerly $6 ave now $3.50—our very finest lity, the pitcher and basin, two towels no larger — were $10, NOW 9UCED To han a pocket handkerchief, one chair too ae io ; nde frail todo more than hold’ his clothes’ at S7Mak Deming the Gnest; peice lowest. night, a bureau, the acsavern —gineys _ not open, or, being ‘opened, will not shu: Ss, H Il th and a small bedstead witha knobby mat- - Meller, 720 7 tress on it. For one of the three weeks | /jyo7 he will wander disconsolately about know- ing no one and convinced in the bottom of his heart that he is having a wretched time; the second week he will have a few dances in the evening, and the third week he w know a good many people and hav tolerably jolly time of it. When he gets back to the city, he will forget all about the first two weeks and look back with much pleasure to the last week. What is { the real sense in passing a vacation like that? Well, there is no sense in it, but he 4 fancies he enjoys it. At the Springs. At the same time that young Hawkins is making his preparations to go away old Smith is anxiously scanning the advertise- ments and looking for a place where he can spend a month of retirement for his health. His doctor has recommended it, giving, however, no definite instructions as to where to go, so Smith thinks, very rea- sonably, that it is best for him to go to some springs. Now, there are springs and springs. Some are good for the blood, some are good for rheumatism and a good many of them are not good for anything. But this makes no difference to a man like Smith, who may be troubled in reality with bronchitis and take a cure intended for gout. He comes back declaring he is vastly better, which simply illustrates the fact that there is something in the mind cure theory. At the springs he finds a good many people who are being cured of noth- ing at all. Like Mr. Pickwick at Bath, they drink the waters and after each glass declare themselves vastly better, although nobody had an idea that there was ever anything the matter with them before. Mamma and the Children Go. ‘There is a very interesting phase of vaca- ticns in that of the average family of mod- a ‘SNOW BALL {Snow Ball 3 5C. Maker. Hopkins’ 2, Some, ati On oth St. ay ag ly <4 Get the Best. THE CONCORD HARNESS, LUTZ & BRO., 497 Penn. ave., adjoining National Hotel ‘Tronks, Satchels and Leatber Gouda oe YOU SUFFER FROM BRIGHTS DIS- EASE—DIABETES—INSOMNIA-—or ang, LIVER or BLADDER complaint? Stafford Water WAL CURE sehen other remedies FAIL, \ ised in five hospitals in D. C. erate means. When the hot weather comes | Prescribed by piysicians. ‘Sold. by druggists, pt mo substituts mamma packs up, and away she goes with | ssram ory AC Eee fh nes the children to spend the summer at some jiace not over-expensive, and good for the health. She doesn't want to go. She re- grets leaving the comfortable home she has for the precarious exfstence of the hotel or boarding house. But she feels that she must go an account of the children. They are, of course, wild to go, and so she takes them. There is another regret deep in her heart, and tat is that she must leave papa acone in the dreary city. He cannot go with | q her, of course. His business er profession- al pursuits require his attenticn constantly. | 4 « 4 ‘Cooking Is Cool} {Work In These Days When you use one of our Gas Ranges. Built to concentrate P. the heat in the thing or things \* coking. Lots. of styles and Bates, Ute eheone ™ trom. Prices that'll meet the much or little you may want to pay. Gas Ranges. woe we Ye Ye oe or oe tw. 8. JENKS, qa 7TH st. He may get away for a couple of weeks later in the season. Still he advises her to go—on the children’s account. And all sum- mer long the mother and children keep be- moaning the unhappy lot of poor papa in the city. As the mother sits on the piazza of the hotel, she and the other mothers talk about it, and you may be sure that papa, Zeesecsesesoesocss se oeee when he docs come up on his short vaca- tion, pictures in somber colors the unhap- a piness of his life in the city. sFACIAL as ee ee peecseentc ES. is at work all day. He may have an elec- tric fan in his office to cool him. At any rate, he is so preoccupied with his work that the day passes quickly and he hardly ‘The only institation in the south Ge @ ‘oted exclusively to the treatment of the fkin, Scalp and Blood and the removal of realizes that the weather is warm. In the Facial Blemishes, evening that solitude his wife commiserates SUPERFLUOUS HAIR, is not exactly to be discovered. He dines at | $ Pmpirs, MOLES, the club, perhaps, or he takes a friend or Wants, two and goes off to some cool resort in the cna pane’ suburbs for dinner. He kills the event very pleasantly and goes home and to bed | @ RED VEINS, TATTOO MARKS, before midnight or thereabouts. If he goes | @ OILY SKIN, home, he usually carries some one with nim BLACK HEADS, AND ALL BLEMISHES to dinner, and afierward, perhaps, there is DANDLUFF, ov THE SKIN. a quiet game of cards. Of course, he re- &grets the absence of the wife and young ones, but since they must go, why, he is not going to mope in their atsence. Reversed the Usual Order. The story is told of an old gentleman of eccentric habits who used to spend his wirters at a fine country place he had and his summers in the city of New York. He had an ingenious theory by which he sup- ported his custom. He said there was nothing to do in town in winter, so he hybernated in the country, where nobody attempted to do anything. In summer there was plenty going on. His idea of comfort was a quiet, cool place to sit in during the daytime and a place where he could go and see something in the evening. The theaters are open all winter. Why did he not go to them, then? Well, every man to his taste. He preferred them in summer because * ere was less pomp and ceremony about them then. As for balls, dinner par- ties and things of that kind, let young people and a few old ones who pretend to be young enjoy them if they can. He had passed the age for such things. Dr. Hepburn, prxxarorocst Graduate of Jefferson Med. Col, Phila. 0000000000001 © : Physical Culture Corset Co. 1S CLEARING oUuT marked uniformly—79 CENTS. Goods mJ Not Altogether Miserable. ( SUMMER STOCK. 796. that regularly sell for $1.00, $1.25, TEE ABR There is always « certain amount ot | LACE CURTAIN 4ll the odds aud ends that have 79¢. $1.50 and $2.00. A grand valuc is reason back of actions of this kind, which | ( accumulated during our Lig summer 79. here for every one who wants Cor- Tim thn anaroeeren ices |S TRETCHERS trade have been gotten togetber and QC. oe a x Pirs. Whelan, Migr., GSTs but it can hardly be recommended that any Reduced fh = A one should spend his midtummer vacation nee f at ee $2.25 in the broiling city of New York, for, be-|) constructed. "Tig value. ling you waut in the Hardware or ishing lime you'll get bere at bed- rock: prices. tween the two, Washington is the more|\ comfortable summer city. There are two classes of people who spend their summers in town—those who can’t g0 away, and those who don’t want to—and there are always a good many of the latter class who get forced into leaving their natural habitat for a brief season. But they hurry back as soon as they can. Upon the whole, the people who stay in the city are not altoge:her miserable. Corset Waists. better fitting once, and tower Prices than obtainable elsewhere. ladies Who play tennis, co bevting and indulge im atuletie } games of any description will flud the i W. uipoise Waist the finest in the world Controled by cs. r'1.C.Whelan’s. Only 1003 F St. | —_———_- Family Resembiances, From Life. “And whom does your husband think the baby resembles?” “He thinks it resembles its uncle—a brother of hi: te didn't know your husband had a broth- inte hasn't. It died when it was two oays om