Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1894, Page 18

THE EVE NING STAR, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. THE JARL CRUSHED I ED ON THEY PRESS The Wellman Party After the Loss of the Vessel. DAILY FOOD RATION IN ARCTIC TRAVEL The Aluminium Boats Survive the Test of Rough Usage. ae eels THE DOGS WER SHOT See ee Copyrighted, 1804, by Walter Wellman, All rights reserved.) Wednesday, May 29. HE RAGNVALD 1 has been crush- in the ice. She T ed Nes a hundred yards king over our stanch Mttle craft. A week ago toni t was our last aboard the ship. next day we Were tc set out upen our long sledge Journey. Three and a half had we journeyed tot ul before the sad news over- tok i the ah heavy storm Fagel northwest. the morning of the 20th w w two men epproa = from the direction of Wal- den Islan? Instinctively we knew that bad news. The two men | y that we set out to meet jong, snow er and so Moving Under Ditllealties. that only with great difficulty th ut one foet befor nother. were First Mate Oien and lor le of the Jarl scuvald Jarl is a total wreck,” nt. was screw- yestetday afternoon. f the boats and some pt. Eottelfsen wants to Wellman has any new orders if Mr. for him.” sted we should now k, probably not a man in the party of retreat. All o the gallant Capt. Bottelfsen, who had suf- fered that greatest grief to a navig: lo: his ship. We made as good a camp’ as could fn the howling win n it next to impossible te up our awnings. Fortu Weather was not cold, only a few Delow freezing. Afte per—at S a. ration of brane as served, the first The sterm increa particles of snow under the unl talf buried us in our > we slumbered. Seene of the Wreck. At 11 last evening four of us—Messrs. Dodge, Jucli and the sailor, Ellefsen, with | the writer it on skis for Walden Is- land. It w trying journey, for the writer—twenty miles of he in the teeth storm, while fecustomed the Norwegian Bnowshoe run } fitty miles stra 3 e the first day after his initial lesson in the art of ri mi you may realize the difficulty PF: 1 With and Without Skis, unde Jd. But we which the writer labor fi ‘ty good progress, stopping at land to lie down in the deep snow and eat lunch. Our littl stock of water Was soon exhausted, «ld we all suffered dreadfully from th A few lemons which the thot tfulness of Dr. Mo- bun had provi made into lemonade by the process of sandwiching a handf of Show between two stices of lemon and melt- ing mouth. When the lemons were gon e aie snow alone, and at every hourly stop lay down in the snow drift and resorted to this doubtful method of reliev- ing thirst. As W= rose to the hilltop of Walden Island early this morning a sad scene met our eyes. In the for-ground was the tent camp, mace of a few sticks of timber and some of the sails from the ship, a mere hut upon the rough shore ice, in which the crew of pie, Jor! bad taken temporary refuge. A wndred yards farther out we could get a glimpse of the Ragnvald Jarl, with only one mast still standing, and that at an angle of thirty degrees from the perpen- slar. The ice had run over her decks 2 to the top of hee upper works, ing the huil from our view. Even e it was easy to see that litle ship had been dealt. a The Vessel Was Stout Enough. So great was the power of the ice in mo- that the sides of the ship had been 4 inward, causing the deck to swell berst in the center. That she had lefely collapsed and f2adered im- ssiule the saving of stores from her hold Was due to the great strength of the hut! for the Regnve!4 Jorl was one of the stout- In Norway. Before we salicd from Tromsoe a remor ws im circulation, and deubdtiless eA When the. mews of cné disaster reaches civilization, t ti Jarl was old ard worthless opt il adapted to withstand contact with heavy fee. This is not true. The Jarl was built for work ia ths fea, and her tull was made Qs strong as heavy (imbérs and good work- @enship could make her. Besides she was y that | do the best we can. | conditions about as forbidding as it is pos- from the rocky shore of this (Walden) a hopeless It was day before yesterda this disaster befell | us, at 4 in the aft noon. We were not here to witness the Victory of the ice | ' | | sveh ice as that which we met last even- | to the sledging ration which we now issue— | to keep _a hard-working machine in good | order. | vising, | mirable results. THE ICE. sheathed below the ice line with green- heart. Just before sailing the official in- spectors rated her hull Al. It is true she Was not a very large steamer, but size doesn’t count in a combat with the fce. The cruiser Chicago or the great Majestic would have fared quite as badly as the lit- tle Jorl in that terrible pressure of last! Monday. Still we have reached a decision as_to what we are going to do, or try to do. We are going on, just as if nothing had hap- pehed, with the exception that the cutting off of our sure line of retreat makes it necessary for us to shorten our campaign and return to the Seven Islands not later than September 1. This leaves us ninety in which to go forward and come back, and if we can find a practical road, which is, we must confess, somewhat doubtful since the northwesterly gales have Big Game. broken and screwed the drift fee, we shall What a fortnight ago ised to be a good chance for a pack ice journey has been quickly changed into prom sible for them to be On the Way to Cam Monday, June 10—When last I wrote you we were at the scene of the wreck of the Jarl, Walden Island. On the last day of May Dodge and I, with Mate Sandbu and the sailor Hovde, who were engaged to go with the expedition, set out for our camp, twenty miles to the eastward. We find all well at the camp, save that Mr. Heyerdahl has drunk too much water nd nearly perished of dysentery. Dr. Mohun's prompt. and_ skillful treatment deubtiess saved his life. The doctor has aiso successfully treated three edses of snow blindness by a new method of his own de- in which cocaine is used with ad- The story of our labers from this time on- ward can best be told in extracts from my journal, given just as they were entered, day by day: We have breakfast at 6 this evening, and mmediaiely afterward pt. Pedersen, Prof. French and the writer set out on skis explore the ice to the east. We desire to » Straight to the east from here, toward King Charles Isiand, but after picking y across many tidal cracks we find a hopeless mass of broken-up ice, al- ternated by water holes, that we abandon the idea of going in that direction, and de- je to veer to the south toward C: ten, where the ice seems smoother. Prof. French and Capt. Pedersen return- ed this morning (June 3) from a prospecting e 's to the south, where they ad to find pretty good ice eastward ‘ape Platen. Enormous Norwegian Appetites. Jur —We traveled all night over just ing, though gradually becoming smoother. If the temperature were only lower, we should be much happier. Some of the Nor- wegians have such enormous appetites that it is with great difficulty they come down less than one and one-half pounds per man per day. It ts the smallest ration ever is- sued on such a journey, where men are re- The Camp on the Ice. quired to work with all their strength all or rather all night long. We are experimenting te some extent with the ration, “and may find it necessary to in- erease it, except when we can supplement our stores with bear meat. As yet the men seem to hoki up very well, though the ma- jority of them are more or less hungry all the time. We take the position that eating a large quantity of food Is more or less a habit. In our ration of about twenty-two ounces per day we know there is enough nutriment This has been, scientifically demon- strated. The trouble is to induce the men to break off the habit of years and feel sat- isfled without the sense of fullness. It is also difficult to teach them how to increase the value of thetr food by eating it very slowly. For instance, we issue every morn- ing three small amebis crackers, weigh- ing an ounce each, to each man. ‘They ure almost a perfect food, containing sixteen per cent of nitrogenous matter. The writer in experimenting subsisted several days to- «ether with no other food than ten of these ekers, but to obtain their full value it y. of course, to eat them very siowly, merely to nibble at them. When eaten in this way, a couple of them are almost as good as an ordinary meal, and those of us who know how to use them find the three little crackers of inestimable value in keeping up our strength and in suppressing the desire for large quantities of food at the meal hours. They seem un- able to learn this valuable lesson, and gulp their crackers down in a few mouthfuls, So it is with other features of our daily ratlon. | We shall go on preaching and com- manding, however, in hopes finally of in- ducing all the members of the party to use their food as it was intended to be used. Taking to the Boats. A little after 11 o'clock this evening, when we were within about six miles of Cape Platen and bad advanced resrly four miles, Capt. Pedersen micunted a high piece of ice, cast his eye to the rortheast and tock off his hat and shouted: “Hurrah! Open water We all clar.bered up beside him, and a shout of joy leaped from all our throats. To the northecst, as far as our vi- sion could extend, was a broad belt of open southerly wind was giv- ortunity which we had been looking for. The ice had even opened out from 'y of Marien’s Island, and had we but krown it we cculd have remain- ed in camp there, saved curselves five days of the hardest kind of work and launched cur boats there as well as here. But in aretic work, as in many other affairs of life, ene cannot look far ahead, and our policy bas been, and will contirue to be, to work on, through Water when we can, over the ke when we must. Natvrally enocgh, the men are all tired of the tard work of drag- ging the boots and sledges and glad enough to take to the water. ‘The sailormen we particularly delighted, and all hands set to work with redoubled energy, June ¢.--At 1 o'clock this morning orders were Issved to prepare to go to sea with all possible speed. First it was necessary to move the camp from the pressed up ice, which, if loosened by the drif ait over- turn and-invelve us in ‘er. Near was a targe level floe, and we transferred I” our equipment to it. There the boats were uploa: and overturned and care- willy examined for We lighted to fing they during the to subjected. The Lockwood had a hole in it about a quarter of an inch in diamet which was easily stopped up, The rivets in all the plating of th: boats seemed as well set as the day the craft came from the builder's shop. In an incredibly short time the sailormen had put up masts with bamboo poles and rigged sail to them, The loads in the boats were re- stowed for a voyage. The Dogs Were Shot. Twelve of the dogs are led away behind the high ic? and shot, Boor recompense for the services which they have rendered us. It was not a cheerful scene, that of their execution. They looked up with friendly eyes at the men who held the deadly rifles over them, whilly urminaful of their im- pending fate. The brutes had served us faithfully cud had suffered more than their chare of the hardships of the joumney. They had slept in the snow ond shivered in the wind, had left a trail of blood behind them from their sore feet, hed missed many a meal and dined half the time on short ra- tions, But the necessities of arctic work know 210 such thing as pity where dogs are concerned, and the rifles cra¢ked one after another, and the ice was soon strewn with the bloody corpses of our faithful servitors. A dozen dogs remain, and their fate hangs in the balaice. We have not yet declded whether we shall take them with us on the boats or mercifully put an end to their careers with our Winchesters before em- barking. The boats being made ready for launch- ing, it was fovnd that 1.0 room remained for dogs. They couldn't be carried without filling the boats so full that there would be no room for any one to stir, and there be- ing no other way ont of the difficulty it was with great scrrow we gave the order to have the remaining dozen shot. If we are able to reach land to the northeast, a dozen of these dogs would be of inestimable value to us in our sledging operations there. We do not say that if we were to organize another arctic expedition we should employ European dogs, but are inclined to think we would, taking care to procure very large and strong dogs and to have them well a customed to the language of the men who were to work with them. Two Hours of Hard Work. We hed two hours of hard work this morning gettirg our beats and sledges across a half mile of pressed up ice to the edge of the water. But the men were so glad to see the ocean rippling before them that they worked as never before, and we had difficulty in restraining their ardor and preventing them smashing the equip- ment, 80 eager were they for the launch- ing. The wind died away and the sun shone with incredible fierceness, causing the men to mop their faces as they worke It was 9 o'clock this morning before we reached the edge of the water with all our outfit, and much good it did our hearts to see the ocean calm and blue and nv ice in sight to the eastward. An hour more was spent in preparing for the voyage. Our four aluminium sledges were lashed to- gether in pairs, tandem, two being towed after the Parry and two after the Lock- wood. Before embarking a number of us stripped and dived into the sea from the high ice, greatly to the astonisiment of a seal who was swimming about a few yards away. At 11 o'clock we set sail, and, the wind dying away, tock to our oars. is even- ing, after five hours of hard work- and a day that has been twenty hours long, we made camp near Cape Platen, every one wet, tired and miserable, the weather hav- ing become inclement June &—Our progress today was very | encouraging. We rowed about twelve mil in five and a half hours. Only one of the thres the little. dauminum beats, Parry, teal and that very ny wooden woul have A splintered into kin- wood by the rough u: to which our lieht metob craft have jected, Our aluminium sledges, lashed rizidiy to bam- took kindly to the w It is almost imp: 2 thelr cor ' any other form of sledge than thi have been impossible for us to have macle the boat voyase of today, for the simple reason that the boats could not carry all the load. At this place, about. pe Plate the westerly closing up to the north ring our fi in the boats. It Was not a comfortable camp, but we \.€re glad enough to eat our hot supper a crawl into our sleeping bags ter the ex- citement and dangers of the day WAL soo Written for The Event ar. y. With it would ght miles northeast 1 for the night, uing and the ice A Song of the Winds. Fair and free from th Waking the world fro1 ‘The flame of life fron ight, buddin; earth's chill keep. ‘The sky and the fulfills When spring Winds blosse:n the naked hills. ‘The fai t, heat breath of the whit‘ning year Is through her door by the far brookside But the treasore of summer bolds naught so dear As the love untold that b Ob, gentle winds, I pray you tars Aud euse my heart of its weight of ca Mourning t ath of thi Singing for sorrow a sa Jow and the time draws near Filling the world with the tears of from the marge of the changing se ‘The breath of antuun blows chill on me, u Still numbness of the y frown brook and forest +d A winding sheet for my love, mos Fi , soft, will soo wild trampets of the snow, jeart-chilling from the uorthland blow. So wheels the round chatlot of the sun ‘Tho’ fe gleams bri eF chills; But not till the span of day is di Learn we the t And my life drifts on with sa For n oMmes HOt to Iso4, W. 1. CHANDL a ‘The Gavotte Quadrille From the Pall Mall Budget. Some time ago the German emperor, who, like Plato's philosopher, surveys all time and all existence, c: his eye over the dancing of his subjects, and saw that it was very bad. So he sethimself to reform it. With this end in view, he summoned the court dancing mistress, and, after con- sultation with that functionary, evolved a new dance, which he ordered to be per- formed at all court balls in the future. Ac- cordingly, the court dancing mistress taught the new dance, the gavotte quadriile, to all her pupils, and it was duly performed before the emperor, greatly to his sat- isfaction. Moreover, the German nation, with com- mendable loyalty, took the mode from its superiors, and classes were formed all over the county to teach the new gavotte, since which it has beccme immensely popular on the continent. The German court dancing mistress taught it to Miss Amy Walsh, who in turn communicated {it to Miss Elizabeth Garratt, the well-known teacher of dancing. Miss Garratt at once formed a class of young ladies, who soon attained a certain amount of proficiency. But it is to be feared that English ball room dancing has become crystallized, and that any at- tempt to reform or develop it ig likely to fail, because the New Man won't take dancing lessons. . ———_+e-—____ From Life. Reginald Montmcrency—“Dear me. Not a bit like it, Allow me—" nd east, thus bar- | STEALING STAMPS The Recent Depredation is Not the First by Any Means. eer A POS? OFFICE EMPLOYES THEFTS ——-e. -— Why It Does Not Pay to Rob Uncle Sani’s Stamp Box. BOGUS COLUMBIAN es ea ISSUES Written for The Evening Star. Tis: RECENT theft of postage stamps from the bu- reau of engraving and printing is by no means the first depre- dation of the sort that the’ government has suffered from, ‘Ten years ago an employe of the stamp division in the Post Office Department here succeeded in ! stealing several thou- send douiars’ worth of these small securities. To this day it is not known with any de- gree of certainty how much he got away with. Probably he would not have been found out if he h not bh ke chances of detection ii to dispose of his il The man was judged from the fact that the duty of de- stroying spoiled stamps was contided to him. Hundreds of thousands of damaged stamps are returned ar to the ters all the postage stamps kept in stock by posi- miesters are apt to get stuck together in warm weather, being thus rendered unfit for use, Not unfrequently it h that the festive cockroach gets in its work on them, eating the mucilage off the backs, There i nothing to do but to send them back te Washington and to get others in exchange. The: over to employe them in a furnac supposed to do peared to him t valve was lame system | the flames, particularly the higher denominations. These he put into his pocket. Ity patient industry he ac- evmulated quite a little forttme in’ pe that is. But it must have ap- t-such-a destruction of », for he adopted a of the stamps from eting the stamp Nobody ught him in the but, unfortunately, he had to find a mar for them, and the detectives soon grabbed him. 5 Post Office Robberies, It does not pay to steal postage stamps in large quantities, because it most impos- sible to get rid of them safely. They have j to be sold at a large unt, and that is e nt to adi them as stolen. That is the w ay im which the theft of the othe from the bureau of enar e was immediately fraced to the guilty per- sons. the occurrenc » deseribed [the Post Onice Departine all waste stamps by boil }ter in a at iron ey | hours, the end of w to a mud-like pulp. T atu 1 by the ure and redeemed greeniacks, pulp, after being dried, is suld to the paper milis for stock. y 1,000 small post offices are bu ry year in the United Siates, thle qu of stamps are In a I pore e of such in- the thieves «re caught through n efforts to @&pose of tl atest robbory?@f post: occurred at “Minneapolis tn s entered the? post, office atm the stamp win low, Vthem. Then th by om 9 quiet! rd | dow, bu | nobody tore gut WK) I-cent stamps, representing a [face Value of $14,000, ‘They were captur while trying to negotiate the sale of the Funder througn “ * and $4,978 worth ed, et for Stamps. whieh have dew The I Icts is commonly inail in the shape of stamps. On the str of cities small boys frequently ofter a few w passers-by wt reduced rates. As have stolen them from Uiei stamp boxes. er of his ns the y postage stamps, He couctod the cha age bre back, and, finding it a few penties short, interrogated the aged darkey on the subject. The Jatter had ly spent the missing money at a At all events, he stuttered aid ; but, finally, an inspiration and with 2 bread grin he said: im done riz, sah!” » to steal a single stamp the u of engraving without 1l detection, ‘The stamps are count- two times during the process of theiv manufacture. They are finally put up in packages, in sheets of 100 cach, and are placed in stcel-clad vaults. Every day the Post Office Department draws on the bureau for as many stamps as are needed to fill the orders forwarded by postmasters all over the country. In accordance with the orders thus received, the bureau ad- dresses the packages to the postmasters and delivers them at the local Washington pest ofhce for mailing. Counterfeiting Difficult, No such thing as the counterfeiting of a United States postage stamp in this coun- try has been known for a quarter of a century. The crime Would not pay. One cannot dispose of fafse stamps and skip away, as may be done with coins or notes. Besides, the face yalug is too small to yield a satisfactory pr Nevertheless, our ¢ lumbian issues ari ing extensively imi- tated abroad at present, for sale to collect- ors, particularly <the- big denominations. Most foreign nations have no laws pro- hibiting counterfeiting of stamps other than their own. In the United States there is such a law, and it-ts rigidly enforced. There was a dealer in NewYork a few years ago who forged foreigt? sttmps by miilions and sold them to cullectors. He even invented a stamp and sold it as a great rarity. He was arrested and ited, An expert is not gy deceived by a counterfeit posta; mp. He scrutinizes the engraving, tions, and even Fa water-mark in the paper. A false stamp ean hardly pass all of these tests. Nevertheless, there are probably few ccitections of stamps which do not contain some counterfeits. ‘The busi- ness of producing them is conducted on a considerable scale abroad. The stamp market is flooded with imitations, and one can purchase at small prices full sets of the alleged stamps of such principalities as Holstein, Haniburg, Brandenburg, Han- over and Oldenburg, notwithstanding the fact that those ‘grand duchies have not is- sued special stamps Since the sixties, and there were never very many ef them. ‘The same iemarks apply in greater or less de- gree to stamps of Nova Hobtie, British lumbia, New Brunswick and Heligoland. ere ne not Leyes d a ips of its own Slice it was sold by and to Ger- many. During the last Sear cnekinela got out @ curious ‘citicial imitation of the Cé- lumbian two-cent stamp. At. first coloring, the perfora- e of | prices fact that p fered for vale at a disc E ily a pceot th they ve been on, Great quantities of stamps are dis- H ed of at u di: unt of abeut $ per cent | {by business firms which receive more of them than they can use. This 1s partic ly true of & snf@n, to whom paym: gsiance exactly lixe the United States issue |- latter is altered, and 1s in reality a different Picture, representing the discovery of the iainland of South America in 1498. Perhaps the most remarkable stamp fraud on record was perpetrated by a French ad- venturer who established himself as king of a small country in Africa somewhat ditt- cult to accurately locate. He employed an agent in London to have postage stamps of various denominations made for him. Quantities of these he sent to various gov- ernments, receiving from them In exchange unused stamps of their own, representing large value in aggregate. It is customary for the nations of the world to make ex- ckanges in this way. Some of them, how- ever, mark the stamps with the word “specimen” before sending them out, thus canceling them in effect. Many thousands of dollars’ worth of new and uncanceled stamps were given "by foreign countries to Uncle Sam for exhibition at the world’s fair in Chicago. During the jast year there has been a rage in the Treasury Department for col- lecting stamps—not rare ones merely, but the ordinary sort. The department receives several thousand letters daiiy, and from every envelope the stamp is cut. ‘The writer saw a@ great box filled with these stamps yesterday. They are collected by govern- ment clerks who have friends afflicted with the extraordinary “million-stamp” mala. A delusion to the effect that Uncle Sam has advertised to pay $10,000 to anybody who will send in 1,000,000 canceled postage stamps is so widespread and firmly estab- lished in the minds of the American people at large that nothing seems able to destroy it. Started presumably by some nonsen- sical statement in a newspaper, it has lasted already for more than twenty-five years. The Post Office Department is continually bothered with correspondence on the sub- ject, thousands of women and children in all parts of the country: being constantly engaged in the pursuit of this will-o'-the- wisp. Apparently nobody has ever yet got the million stamps together, though instatl- of as high as 5,000 have been for- _ Washington. Th ; y always get tired after gather- ing a few thousand WEDDING A UNTQU The Bride's Spectator, From th t. Lonis Globe-Democrar. All the old residents of Montague county, Texas, remember Upele Henry Harri Father, an Unwilling infivens the Ceremony. preachcr-ferryman of Red river, dur’ latt : part of the eighties. There have been y greater men In this part of the state, NY More intellectual ones, but th ave been few who were so universally 4 or who were so widely mourned for after their death, Unele Henry w s a ore-legged man, and 1 the place ry prim- r. It was Joined to the stump of s by a single strap, which could be joved in a very few moments. Calvin Dubbs, a half-breed Choctaw In- dian, courted his deughter, May Harri | Uncle Henry was opposed to the suit of the weoden stump whieh scpp of bis missing member was itiv. bbs because of his ungodliness and bad !character. His daughter did not share in jth objections. | One afternoon Calvin Dubbs rede up to | the ferry, as the river was high, ask | to be ferried ov The old man and Tot to take him acress, bit no s hey reached the riv p knife, and in the lor of the th troli round in tie current and rem midriver. that for?” cried Ur you know we can't get bout yeu. I kin make it the > of to urged the } into th for shore. The two 1 him helplessly had just > out of the d two igom their con- back of iff. The object of m ¢radaaily dawned on the old saddi t captives on the ber until he *s gein’ to be the bank. but ai he grabbed the | Winchester he S curticd in the bette of his boat, ew a bead on his pro- | spective son-in-law Stop th shoot > on, t tom-foolis and be parson! t might tions run cne Cert to $6% 2 bee tigre py cremated oat oy 3 never sold by the Fost Office Department. | sounded the Winchester from | They are not intended to go out of the , and with a thud a builet buried hands of the government. Often, now -ver, the horn of the bridezroom’s sad- they are stolen from post offtecs, finding | made a quick motion toward their way evea fua'ly, into the hands of cel- | ee Sapper aie eke lectors of stamps, Who for tre reason 4 igen SP cer srentbucl: ane alesse teagy: in ey, Ee EE See eeeiek mo. ek reed pon The ceremony was a brief one, but every few moments Uncle, Henry would blaze ugh to the bridegroom N it was all over with many tant. aptives on the boat. 1 wedding. It was never , even in ‘Texas, to have a wed- yj ding ceremony on a river bank while the | father of the bride, as captive on a boat in micstream, firel desultory shots from his Winchester at the bridegroom. Se 202 MANNA EATERS. ‘The People of Arabia and Persia Make 1¢ From Tamarisk Branches. From Good Housekeeping. In some of the eastern countries, asia yy Arubia and Pe 1a answering closely to that mentioned ia the Ser.ptures is still naturally produce! in erable quantity. 1t comes from the tender branch- «s of the tamarisk, and is known to the Persians ®y the name of “tarsarisk honey.” {t consists of tear-like drops, which exude in conseqi in- sect, during the months of June and July. In the cool of the morning it is found solid- ified, and the congealed tears may be shaken from the limbs. That, in fact, is one of the methods of gathering marina. Herodotus alludes to the same-autritious product, so that there is no doubt it has been known in those regions from the earl- jest ages. It Is easy to see how it might be produced in wonderful quantities with- oui any special manifestation of the super- natural. It is a sweetish substance, pleas- ant to the taste, and highly nutritive. Some students of the Bible have supposed the manna there mentioned to have been a fungous growth; but while the explanation would be a natural one, the modification which it would require is an unnecessary one. There are numerous interesting things, nevertheless, about the various kinds of fungi, which modern experimentation bas decided to be edible; and not only that, but highly palatable and nutritive. What country boy of an imaginative nature but has irolicked in mimic warfare with im- aginary foes, getting the smoke for his artillery and Infantry from the numerous “peuffballs" which a convenient pasture af- forded, while his own lung power fur- nished the “cresh and roar and cheer” for the inspiring contest! Yet science has dem- onstrated that those very puff balls were ence good to eat—in fact, capable of fur- nishing the most dainty refreshment. No Life in Mammy Wheat. From the London Datly News. An experiment on Lord Winchilsea’s “Cable” farm has just decided the oft- mooted question whether ornot the mummy wheat found in the Egyptian tombs really possesses the germs of life. A few months wheat which he had himself taken from a- sarcophagus containing mummy. One hundred of these grains’ were carefully planted under @ glass frame. The result rotted away. . : » Henry in | | porches, IN BRACING OCTOBER. Strength Should Return and Languor Go. No Season is So Go d for Brit ing Up the Brain and Body. Paine’s Celery Compound’s Work of Mercy in Countless Homes. The prostrating beat of summer bas long since gone. ‘There ts now but one excuse for langvor ang lack of energy—il? health. With the return of bracing, vigorous weather the thoroughly well men and women find the prospect of work attractive. Business looks promising. The indolent, unambitious feeling of a fet mouths ago gives place to evergy and bard work. ‘That ts, provided one is well. To the sick man or wonmn che prospect te doleful, The thousands of pers ma who worked right through the bot summer, and the many Whose waeation, in- stead of recruiting thelr strength, has only made Increased demands on their tired merves and brain~ these unhappy ones should take tage of the bracing days and nights to store thelr bodies THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH, History amd Progress—Work of Raising the Necessary F Nearly fifty years ago a company of be- levers were dismissed by the First Baptist Church, colored, corner of 19th and K streets northwest, for the purpose of or- ganizing the Second Baptist Church. The new organization began its existence on K street between 7th and Sth streets north- west, with Licentlate H. H. Butler as its spiritual leader, Mr. Butler remained only a year, and in 1849 Rev. Jeremiah Asher, a regularly ordained minister, became its first pastor. The church had found a new home on Capitol Hit. Since that time it has had a number of pastors, and each pas- tor changed the place of worship, until the present site, on 3d street northwest between H and I, secured in 1856, From Rev. Mr. Asher’s incumbency up to the present minister the following clergymen officiated, viz: Rev, Gustavus Brown, Rev. Mr. But- ler again, Rey. Sandy Alexander, Rev. Ca- Ss leb Woodgard, Rey. Chancery Leonard, RS Rev. John Gaines, Rev. Madison Gaskins, gow and in ISS# the present minister, Dr. John- Mra, WILLIAM McOOrdaM. son, was appointed, The present pastor, . Vigorous Wood nd thelr nervous «yee old Weather overtakes, “run down” condition, ound should be taken during Kt will bulid up the tired Increased appetite and steady William Bishop Johnson, D. D., was born in 1856 at Toronto, Canada. ministry in 1875, and was called to the First Baptist Chucch, Frederick, Md, in 187! In ISSI the American Baptist Home Mission Society appointed him one of its general tem with energy before th them tn their weak, Paine 3 the mouth of October. system wonderfully. He entered the missionaries, and in ISS4 he took posses- | &#!0 In weight daring the mouth will show uninis- sion of his’ present incumbertcy. Largely | takably the stimulating effect of this remarkable through Dr. Johnson's zeal, energy and | nerve food. To those who know anything of the push the church has advanced from a mem \ king and the purpose of the Gervous aystem St of 100 to 1,200, and la k laid | ts ‘ident that « Prompt feeding of the nerves he corner ston. of a fine new | with Pat “ery comp und must be followed by } The new butlding fronts a decided gain im health and vigor of the entire street and has a depth of 9 feet. ‘The first There ts no organ of the body that is wot floor is on a level with the street, and is | ed by the merves, evoted to the main Sunday school and in-| qt is the putting off of attention to the signs | department, which can be thrown to-| of neart weakness that fills the statistics with jseihes £7 auting wcrc. in he Sammeth ming numbers of deaths from School room the baptistry is also located. 7 All the conveni on of a modern church, | repeal sirladecnsapincn yoda and nourish the feeble nerve centers with j celery compound, check weakness of that Lmportant such as parlor, kitchen and library, occupy the rem On the second itorium, with a gallery | OTE4n as readily as weakness of any other part of mmodate an | the body. Tits greatest modem tnvigorater, dls- ce of fully a thousand. A large pipe | covered by the man whom Dartmouth college te i} pies one side of the pulpit, with | mest proed to boner, Prof. Edward E. Phelps, [a icient in size for thirty | M.D. LLD., was w 1 as & more than ex- in a large semi- | wall of which zed and beautiful yw. The cciling of the room tal feature, the trusses of the tly through, with the pan- “l tracery. rhe entire front of the building and sides tower are t> ne,of white Indiana lime- nz, with the roofs covered with Spanish 5 h tower has an entrance through | are covered with pled | ordinary step in sed tl mma neuralz nce of anything before at ans, for curing rheumati«a, Countless women, Weak, thin, ae aud discouraged by their Inability to gain strength, have been started on the sare road to recovery by Palne’s ce pound Physicians prescribe it the workd over. » is the experk Mra. William Me chiy re vT Mo., says: upported by richly carved cé umns. In the center of the front a beauti- |_| “I have bad neuralgia for eight or ten years, ful feature is formed by a large bay, with | { began to think that eventually it would +ause i cles on each side, and ending in a | ™¥ death. 1 would have three or four awful at- A large cathedral window front of the bay, with a tra. 'y rose window at the top, set in a Gothic tacks in a month, and all the pain would settle in the base of my in, aud extend down my back, lay several bours, ‘We tried everything that we could think of, | but Bothing dit me any Ineting good until v mother came on a visit and told me to try ines celery compound, as she was tsing it for nervous trout “ith wonderfal success. We both think your compound saved us from going crazy. J only. used t bottles of it, bat I have wot bad @ return of my old enemy since. “Ome thing ts certain, and that is the doctors could not do anything for me. Some told me it was caused by nervous trouble, some sald it was female trouble, some sald one thing, some sald another, but thanks te your wonderful compound, I am free once more. I have often thoaght that I would write and tell you what @ relief it is to be thee from pain, but J have neglected it from time to time. You may believe that I shall always speak a kind word for Palne’s celery compound. DKUNKENNESY OK THE LIQUOR HABIT Post Uvely cured by administering Dr. Hatnes’ Gol- Gen Specific, st an be given ID & cup Of cofles or tea, of in food, without the knowledge of patient. It is absolutely hargless, end efect & permavent and speedy 5 the patient is a wioderate drinker or alco. bolic wreck. it bas been given in thousaods of cases, and in every instance a perfect cure bas followed. It never fails. Lhe system once im- nated with the Specific, it becomes an utter suth tower Is carried up to a height , with an open belfry of stone in nd pinnacles on each corner. The Iding is to be heated with steam, and oughly equipped with modern’ ap- aANces. he church was designed by Appleton P. Clark, jr., an architect who stands in the front rank of his profession, not only in this city, but in others. Nicholas Eckhardt is under contract to erect the church, at a t of $20,000, Work of Raising the Necessary Fands. In the geting together of the money necessary to build the church Dr. Johnson demonstrated his abilities as an organizer. He formed a finance committee, and they immediately set to work to devise the ways and means to obtain the needed amount. By the aid of fc irs, lectures and collections the money has been nearly all secured. The credit of this work belongs to Pastor John- son and his co-workers of the committee, follows, viz: Messrs. W. B. Johnson, chair- man; James F. Bundy, Lewis Collins, A. P. Hicks, Walson Smith, George E. Brown, | Pngoosihllity: tor te" ows ttt Wesley Brown, Abraham Rawles, C. P.| GOLDEN SPECIFIC Co, ¥ ~~ ey Furetoy, Scott Luckett. Joshua Carey, Mat- | Particulars free. To be’ nad sf’ F % WiuaNg thew Brown, Peter Wilkins, James Gas-| £00, ste nw; BOF. ‘undes kins, Noble Ware, Stewart Minor, J. F. Da- | _Svitt House, Washiugton’ “myi2-tu.thisom® vis, Austin Fickling, J. T. C. ‘Newsome, ustin Robinson, Joan Mart, Ludwell rker, Robert Scott, William M. Reeves, STORAGE. pencer Norris, Willlam H. Young, Aaron ad Cosiey and James Hester, ——— We lave a large warchouse, ope story of which Living Up to Their Chin ts devoted to the storge of household goods tn From the Detroit Free Press. Private rooms, which are well lighted and can be Do you find any trouble in getting good | SMe! locked, and on other Goors ample space for milk now that you are housekeepin “We don't buy milk. Our bric-a-brac is only large enough to hold creain, Littlefield, Alvord & Co., 26th and D Sts. N.W. bt _b2 h&siea Seercceeceosceseseeeeses: Shoes Given Away. Every day one of our customers ts Presented with @ pair of Shoes FREB OF CosT. in addition we sell for $2.65 Shoes which will cost you §3 or $3.50 (which used to sell for $2.50 to $4), Only $1.50. a & gERTEEELH alae a 8 i i in subst! cute, gas My AT mimes cal ORM Fig sYauP 60 our Oat 1 to 2 and 4t07