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YN Al Salt of Carlsbad. Ith ‘ THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1895-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 21 rope for yearly, that} ts the natural Sprudel| ts obtained by evapo-f ration at the Springs, ‘ Nand ts identical with the waters in its ac-1§ tion and results,which Ware the same to-day} as when Emperor| Charles IV. was cur- ed four hundred years | ago, and later (reorge)et ii JZ1., Peter the Great; benefited by their use. 4 They aid digestion, ll cure constipation, and di purify the blood.. ey y on each side of the mud in the middle. On the other hand, a man in Sneathy's state ‘assuming him, for the moment to be ma: ard contemplating suicide) would walk straight along the center of the path, tak- ing no note of mud or anything else. I cx- amined all the tracks very carefully, and my theory was confirmed. The feet of the brothers had everywhere alighted in the driest spots, and the steps were of irregu- lar lengths—which meant, of course, that they were picking their way; w! thy’s footmarks had never turned 1 even for the dirtiest puddle. Here, then, were the rudiments of a theory. “At the watercourse, of course, the foot- marks ceased, because of the hard grayel. The body lay on a knoll at the left—a covered with grass. On this the signs of footmarks were almost undiscoverable, though I am often abie té discover tracks in grass that are invisible to others. Here, however, it was almost useless to spend much time in examination, for you and your man had been there, and what slight marks there might be would be indis tinguishable one from another. Under the “No, T don’t,” Hewitt Replict. branch from which the man had hung there was an old tree stump, with a flat top, where the tree had been sawn off. I ex- amined this, and it became fairly apparent that Sneathy had stood on it when the rope was about his neck—his muddy footprint was plain to see; the mud was not smzar- ed about, you see, as it probably would have been if he had been stood there forc- ibly and pushed off. It was a simple clear footprint—another hint at suicide. t then arose the objection that you ioned yourself. Plainly the brothers Fosier were following Sneathy and came this way. Therefore, if he hanged him- self before they arrived it. would seem that they must have come across the body. But now I examined the body itself. There was mud on the knees, and clinging to one knee was a small leaf. It was a leaf corresponding to those on the bush_ be- hind the tree, and it was not a dead leaf, so must have been just detached. After my examination of the body I went to the bush, and there, in the thick of it, were, for me, sufficiently distinct knee marks, in one of which the knee had crushed a spray of the bush against the ground—and from ‘that spray a leaf was missing. Behind the knee marks were the indentations of boot toes in the soft, hare earth under the bush, and thus the thing was plain. The poor lunatic had come in sight of the dangling rope, and the tempta- tion was irresistible, but at that moment he must have heard the ste -probably the voices—of the brothers behind him on the winding path. He immediately hid in the bush till they had passed. It is proba- ble that seeing who the men were and conjecturing that they were following him —tkinking also, perhaps, of things that had occurred between them and himself— his inclination to self-destruction became tely ungovernable, with the result that you saw. “But before I inspected the bush I no- ticed one or two more things about the body. You remember I inquired if either of the brothers Foster were left-handed, and was assured that neither was, But clearly the hand had been cut off by a left-tanded man with a large, sharply pointed knife. For well away to the right of where the wrist had hung the knife- point had made a tiny triangular rent in the coat. So that the hand must have been held in the mutilator’s right hand while he used the knife with his left— a left-handed man. bedy was the jagged hair over the right ear. Everywhere else the hair was well cut and orderly—here it seemed as though a good piece had been, so to speak, sawn He Had Escaped. off. What could anybody want with a dead man's right hand and certai of his hair? Then it struck me suddeniy— the man was hanged; it was the Hand of Glory! “Then, you will remember, I went at your request to see the footprints of the Fosters on the part of the path past the watercourse. Here, again, it was muddy in the middle, and the two brothers had walked as far apart as before, although nobody had walked between them. <A final proof, if one were needed, of my theory as to the three lines of prints. “Now I was to ¢ how to get at the man who had taken the hand. He should be punished for the mutilation, but yend that he would be required as a wit- nh Now, all the foot-tracks in the vi- cinity had been accounted for. There were those of the brothers and of Sneathy, which we have been speaking of; those of the Tusties looking on, which, however, stop- ped a little way off, and did not interfere with our sphere of observation; those of your man who had cut straight through the wood when he first saw the body and had come back the same way with you; and our own, which we had been careful to keep away from the others. Conse- quently there no track of the man who had cut off the hand; therefore it was cer- tain that he must have come along the hard gravel by the watercourse, for that be- | was the only possible path which would not tell the tale. Indeed, it seems quite a likely path through the wood for a pas- senger to take, coming from the high ground by the Shepperton road. Brett and I left you and traversed the water-ourse, beth up and down. We found a footprint at the top left lately by a man with a broken shoe. z “Right down to the bottom of the water- course where it emerged from the wood there was no sign on either side of this man having left the gravel. (Where the body was, as you will remember, he would simply have stepped off the gravel on to the grass, which I thought it useless to ex- amine as I have explained.) But at the bottom, by the lane, the footprints appeared agai. This then was the direction in which I was to seirch for a left-handed man with a broken-soled shoe, probably a gipsy, and most probably a foreign gipsy—be- cause a foreign gipsy would be most likely to hold still the belief in the Hand of Glory. FI conjectured the man to be a straggier from a band of gipsies—one who had got behind the caravan and had made a short cut across the wood after it, so at the end of the lane I looked for a patrin, This is a@ sign that gipsies leave to guide strag- glers following up. Sometimes it is a heap of dead leaves, sometimes a few stones, sometimes a mark on the ground, but more usually a covple of twigs crossed, with the longer twig pointing the road. Guided by these patr.ns we came, in the end, on the gipsy camp just as it was settling down for the night. We made ourselves agree- able (as Brett will probably describe to you better than I can), we left them, and after they had got to sleep we came back and watched for the gentleman who is now in the lock-up. He would, of course, seize the first opportunity of treating his ghastly trophy in the prescribed way, and I guessed he would choose midnight, for that is the time the superstition teaches that the hands should be prepared. We made a few small preparations, collared him, and now you've got him. And I should think the sooner you let the brothers Foster go the better.” “But why didn’t you tell me all the con- clusions you had arrived at, at the time?” asked Mr. Hardwick. “Well, really,” Hewitt replied, with a quiet smile, “you were so positive, and some of the traces I relied on were so small that it would probably have meant a long argument and a loss of time. But more than that, confess—if I had told you blunt- ly that Sneathy's hand had been taken away to make a mediaeval charm to enable @ thief to pass through a locked door and steal plate calmly under the owner's nose, what would you have said?" “Well, well, perhaps I should have been a little skeptical. Appearances combined so completely to point to the Fosters as mur- derers that any other explanation almost would hav2 seemed unlikely to me, and that—well, no, I confess, I shouldn’t have believed ig it. But it is a startling thin, to find such superstitions alive nowadays. “Yes; perhaps it is. Yet we find survivals of the sort very frequently. The Walla- chians. however, ‘are horribly superstitious still—the gipsies among them are of course worse. Don’t you remember the case re- ported a few months ago in which a child was drowned as a sacrifice in Wallachia in order to bring rain? And that was not done by gipsies, either. Even in England, as late as 1865, a poor paralyzed French- man was killed by being ‘swum’ for witch- craft—that was in Essex. And less atro- cious cases of belief in wizardry occur again and again even now.” . Then Mr. Hardwick and my uncle fell in- to a discussion as to how the gipsy in the lock-up could be legally punis . Mr. Hardwick thought it should be treated as a theft of 2 portion of a dead body, but my uncle fancied there was a penalty for mu- tilation of a dead body per se, though he could not point to the statute. As it hap- pened, however, they were saved the trou- ble of arriving at a decision, for in the morning he was discovered to have es- caped. He had been left, of course, with free hands, and had occupied the night in wrenching out the bars at the top of the back wall of the little prison shed (it had stood on the green for a hundred and fifty years) and climbed out. He was not found again, and a month or two later the Foster family left the district entirely. ———_+e+_____. Johnson, Thompson and a Dog. From the Indianapolis Journal. Johnsor owned a dog. Thompson lived next dcor to Johnson. The dog howled all night,seven nights in a week. Said Thomp- son to Johnson: “See here, we have always been good friends, though neighbors, and I thought I would tell you that the howling of that dog of yours is driving me and my family wild for want of sleep. My wife has lost nearly five pounds in weight.’ “That's queer,” said Johnson. “I haven't noticed him making any nolse. IL. One evening Thompson came into the house leading the obnoxious dog on a string. “Now,” said he to the astonished Mrs. ‘Thompson, “we will soon settle the dog nuisance. I didn’t like to kill the dog while he belonged to Johnson, so I bought the beast. There is nothing unneighborly in killing our own dog. I'll get some chlo- roform tomorrow.” my, Said Johnson to ‘Thompson: “Well, you en’t chloroformed the dog yet.”’ No,” said Thompson; “the truth is, we have become rather fond of the little fel- low. He is so lively and playf ight annoy n't noticed it at all.” said Johison. “The brute keeps me awake all the time with his yelping.” ———+e2+____. It Was Not a Deal. From the Indianapolis Journal. “Boston, Mass., March 22.—To the editor of ‘The Plunkville Bugle.’ Dear Sir: We inclose cut of Mrs. Malvina Higgins, of your township, who was cured of eighteen distinct complaints by our justly celebrated Onion Tonite. You will run cut and ad. e.0.d., as per contract. “THE ONION TONIC CO.” “Plunkville, March 26.—Cut of Malvina Higgins, with ad., re’cd. It will be impos- sible for us to permit it space in the col- umns of ‘The Bugle.’ There are only two families in this township, the Johnsons and the Higginses. As ‘The Bugle’ circulates exclusively among the Johnsons, you can see what effect the publication you wish would have on our circulation. “EDITOR ‘THE BUGLE.’ ” ——eee—____ A Social Misfortune. From the Boston Budget. “Here comes the carriage, Maud! Fancy having to g> and pay calls in such weather! It's cold enough to give one one’s death of cold!” “Worse than that, mother! Everybody's sure to be in!” OFF FOR ALASKA The Government is to Send Out Two Expeditions This Year. 10 CONTINUE THE BOUNDARY SURVEY An Investigation Into the Mineral Resources of the Territory. Se THE DEPOSITS OF GOLD Written for The Evening Star. - NCLE SAM IS ee 5 about to send two ex- AZZ U peditions to Alaska, Ze g one from the coast and geodetic survey and the other from the geological survey. ‘The former will leave Seattle, Wash. on Tuesday next. The latter will embark from some port on the Pacific -coast early in May. The coast survey’s en- gineers will continue their measurements on the disputed boundary between our northwest possession and British America. The geological survey will send three geol- ogists who are to commence the first of- ficial examination undertaken by the gov- ernment of the gold and coal resources of Alaska. The boundary expedition will be under the direction of Mr. E. F. Dickens of the coast survey, who will be accompanied by Messrs. L. Putnam, C. Yeates, F. A. Young, Fremont Morse and O, B. French, the latter of whom went to the polar regions with Wellman last year. The party will use the coast survey’s steamship Patterson. Superintendent Duffield of the coast sur- vey, who was interviewed by the writer, says that it will be the duty of the en- gineers to connect the lines along the coast, made last year, with those of previous sur- veys, besides verifying a greater part of previous computations. All of this will be done with a view of presenting our data in the most accurate shape possible when the time shall have arrived for the final de- cision of the boundary commission. According to the treaty with Russia whereby Alaska was purchased, the bound- ary line separating its long southern strip from British America Is determined by the summits of such connected mountain ranges as lie on the.coast. Wherever there are no ranges directly on the coast, but in- land more than thirty-five statute miles, the line is situated thirty-five miles back. England will claim that the many moun- tain peaks scattered along the shore, through most of this strip, should be in- cluded within the category of “connected ranges,” whereas we will define them only as separate points. It will therefore be our claim that the boundary shSuld continue about thirty-five miles wide almost in its entirety. Rhe Treaty and the Boundary. The Russian treaty also states that the lower extremity of the boundary com- mences at the southernmost point of Prince of Wales Island, proceeding north along Portland channel, as far as the fifty-sixth latitude. According to our present maps, wkich show the boundary almost exactly as we will claim, the line goes directly east from the point of the island for about seventy-five miles, before taking this turn nerth through Portland channel. It ap- Pears now as though there was an error made by the parties who wrote the treaty, since it is impossible for this channel to be reached without first taking the cut east. If Portland channel was really meant as the boundary’s limit, the treaty should have read, “From Prince of Wales Island east to Portland channel and then north,” or if due north was put there to stay, it should have read, “north through Clarence strait,” which is to the west of the channel. If Great Britain gains this point, merely on account of this slight er- ror, it will cause a loss of about 6,000 square miles of what we now claim as cur territory. Last October the former Alaskan boun- dary expedition of the coast survey re- turned to Washington with the news that Mt. St Elias, the highest peak on the western continent, was found to be within American territory by about L7_ miles. Superintendent Duffield says that the final computations for the location of this mountain have not, as yet, been definitely made, but he is of the opinion that St. Elias will be found directly on the boun- dary line, constituting, as he remarked, a landmark that could not be easily erased by the hand of time. St. Elias is 1,010 feet in height. The objective point of this year’s expedi- tion will, therefore, be at the end of Port- land channel, whence the party will work up as far as the fifty-sixth meridian. They will remain all summer and late in the fall, until forced to return by the cold weather. It is their hope that they will not find such cold weather as greeted the boundary expedition of last year, which reached Alaska as late as the middle of May. At this time snow was found in some parts fifty feet deep, causing a gen- eral famine during their stay. The steam- ship Patterson wil take its own supplies, since the trading companies cannot he de- pended upon for‘regular deliveries of food in the unfrequented regions. The Geological Party. Not many days after reaching their desti- nation the coast survey party will begin to watch for the arrival of the three geologists who are going to make the reconnaissance for the geological survey. These specialists are Dr. Wm. H. Dall, Dr. Geo. F. Becker and Mr. Purington, the assistant of the lat- ter. For the purpose of this examination will be expended the $5,000 recently appro- priated for the geological survey in the sundry civil bill. The localities which will be examined this year are in the vicinity of Sitka, Cook Inlet, Kadiak Island and the extreme west- ern portion of the Alaskan peninsula, the sharp finger of land which forms part of the lower boundary of Bering sea. The party will proceed to the Pacific coast by rail, and thence to Sitka by mail steamer. It will be necessary before completing the whole of the proposed trip to coast about 2,000 miles or more. Since the appropria- tion given will not admit of the expense of hiring a vi $ steamer Albatross, which will be coasting in that region during the summer, will probably be used for a part of the trip. A naval vessel or a steam launch may be granted for use in the winding inlets and bays about Sitka, the first region to be ex- amined. Most of the travel on inland streams will be made in native dugout ca- noes, the only light craft of that region. Director Walcott of the geological survey, who was interviewed by the writer, esti- mated that three or four months will be required for the inyestigation. The rich gold region of the Yukon and Forty Mile creek, far into the interior, will not be vis- ited this year, owing to the lack of both time and money. To do this work it would 2 necessary that a representative of the vey be kept in this secluded country over winter. Geologi pecially will look forward ctal examination of the mineral wealth of our territory, of which so little is known and so much is expected. The definite loc: tion of the extensive gold and coal bec which are believed to exist in as yet un- frequented districts will to a great extent determine the future of Alaska. Although Alaska w: iscovered by Be- ring more than 150 years ago, it was used by, the Russians entirely as a hunting and fishing ground until 1848, when an explorer named Doroshin made the first discovery of gold in that territory. Dr. Becker has found the discoverer’s own account of this find, printed in the original tongue. The first discovery of gold, the writer states, was at Mt. Kenai, which stands off the shore of Cook inlet. It was kept quiet at the time by Russia, who then hoped to reap a rich harvest from the gold mines of Alaska. The gold mines in the region of Sitka, Dr. Becker says, were not discov- ered until 1873. The Yekon Region. Mr. Jno. E. McGrath of the coast survey, who led last year’s boundary expedition, says that Forty Mile Creek, a settlement at the junction of the creek by the same name and the Yukon, in the interior, is the rich- est gold region of the territory. At the time of the writer’s visit Mr. McGrath had on his desk a letter just received from one of the richest American traders of the in- terior. The letter was dated “Forty Mile Creek, February 10,” having been two months reaching this city. It states that two hundred and seventy-five white men and fifteen white women came last winter to Forty Mile Creek, which settlement now contains one hundred and twenty-five houses.. The writer goes on to say that some Indians recently discovered, about one hundred and ten miles above that place, a new gold mine, from which they made about $400. Twenty-five white men are at work at it now. The letter refers to two old Canadian French gold miners of the in- terior, one of whom, it says, is known to have made $70,009 in the past tw seasons, and the other of whom is expected to make at least $15,000 during the coming season. Mr. McGrath has great faith in the future of Alaska, He says that with all of her valuable resources the full extent of the land occupied by private parties, if con- densed in one area, would not show up on a good-sized map, although any bona fide citizen may obtain from the gcvernment as many as 160 acres of non-mineral lands for only $2.50 an acre. Although most people look upon Alaska as a barren ice field, he says that the normal temperature in most regions is but a littlé below ours, owing to the warm current of the Pacific, which washes its shores With the same effect as that of the gulf stream upcn England. Even far in the interior, he says, he has known the thermometer to go up as high as 95 degrees in symmer. What Alaska needs, he added, is a railroad to take the people up there, and more women to make their homes comfortable after they get there. There are nine white men to every white woman in the territory. Dr. Dall, who will examine the coal de- posits of Alaska, has spent considerable time in the territory, having some years ago made a survey of its tertiary strata, the layer which contains the coal. examination was made partly for the coast survey and partly for the Western Union Telegraph Company. The coal beds found were not separately recorded on the maps drawn after this trip. He says that during this expedition he located coal in many places. He found that the Indians in some re- gions possessed a great many amber beads, which they valued so highly that they would trade them only in exchange for forty or fifty sea otter skins, He also found some of these beads in an ancient grave, which cor.vinced him that they were not imported into the country by foreign- ers. Since amber is the hardened resinous sap of the trees which formed the coal, he searched for the latter wherever he found an established settlement of Indians pos- sessing a great deal of amber. He was generally successfulcin finding coal in that way. Written for The Evening Star. April Rondeans, L Mere April fools!—because you see Some starved buds on the maple tree, A grackle’s raucous cackle hear, to doff your under-gear, Forgetting April's trickery. Leave not your cell yet, blundering bee, Nor flaunt, rath flower, in wood or lea, Or you may meet but sorry cheer, Mere April fools. Chirp not, ye marsh-born imps, with glee, Cease your thin pipings, chickadee, Don not your vernal hat yet, dear, ‘Trust not the spoilt child of the year, Or you'll all prove, undoubtediy, Mere April fools. , 1. She fools us all—inconstant wight, Now dark with frowns, with smiles now bright; With laughing eyes, and full of play, At morn she'Tuves to mimic May, But moody March” efe fall ‘of night. With clear, blue skiés she‘ charms our sight, And lures us forth, then, jp despite, Glooms heavep, and caxjh with clouds of gray; ced She fools us all. She has been known with (frost to blight The daffodil, the felis witt: white now-fakes tovfll, the birds to fray With drizzling hail; itis her way To raise flush hopbs, then blast them quite; She fools us all, mL; Not all a cheat, hewe'er, is she; She truly keeps one promise fair— She never fails to bring tome, How bleak soc'er the hills may be, ‘The arbutus,gier fond pride and care, The bardiest wild-tlowers well may ware Her wiles, and scarce to bloom may dare; But oue she loves—to her, I see, © Not ail a cheat, This green-robed rosy darling will, *Neath sere leaves nesting trustfully, Diffusing round a fragrance rare, Joyful she nurses, and I share Her joy, who is, as you'll agree, Not all a cheat. April 8, 1895. W. L. SHOEMAKER. —— The New Germun Ambassador. In regard to the lately appointed ambas- sador from Germany to this country, the well-known European cStrespondent, Mar- quise de Fontenoy, writes as follow: Baren von Thielman, appointed successor to Baron Saurma-Jeltsch as Germany's rep- resentative in Washington, is a man of dis- tinction and some power. He has been in diplumatic service for twenty years, and in 1878 was secretary of the German lega- tion in the city by the Potomac. Since then he has steadily risen and has ably served his country in Constantinople, Sofia, Darmstadt, Hamburg and Munich. He is a great oriental scholar, and the news of the battle of Sedan—in which he partici- pated as a young lieutenant of hussars— he communicated to his favorite professor in Berlin University by postal card written in the characters of Sanscrit. He traveled extensively through America and wrote a very Interesting book, “Vier Reisen Quer Durch Amerika,” in which he supplements Alexander von Humboldt’s researches on the same ground. The fact that he is very wealthy—worth about 10,000,000 marks— will not injure his standing, I hope, in Washington. —s . AN ELECTRIC ROADSTER To Participate in a Novel Race Next Summer. From the Baltimore American. Mr. James B. Yeakle of Baltimore,” who keeps well irformed on the subject of new applications of electricity as a motive pow- er, has in his possession censiderable data which he thinks encourages the opinion that a line of cabs propelled by electro- motors will be secn on the streets of that city before the Clifton exposition is opened. The following is an interesting description of a new application of electricity, which has for some time been the subject of in- terest to a number of Baltimoreans, includ- ing Mr. Yeakle, who have been engaged in experimenting on the same lines, and in this connection is particularly interesting. It was received from Paris this week, and is a description of a new electric carriage owned by Monsieur Charles Jeantaud, which will take part ‘In the great race next summer between auto-mobile _car- riages. The course will be between Paris and Bordeaux. The race promises some interesting developments in the line of steam, petroleum and electric carriages. M. Charles Jeantaud, the head of an im- portant carriage establishment of Paris, commenced experimenting on an electric carriage in 1881, when the .accumulators of Faure first appeared, but at this time the dead weight of the accumulators was so great that M. Jeantaud was forced to stop his experiments, but he was spurred into activity by the recent success of pe- troleum and steam motors for carriages, ard the result of his labors is the electric carriage, which ig shown in the accom- panying illustration. He found it necessary to obtain a source of electricity lighter and less cumbersome than those in use. He found it in the Fulmen accumulator. The plates are covered by a perforated celluloid envelope, filled with the active material. In the center of this envelope are the lead plates which serve to collect the current. The celluloid is a perfect non- conductor and is not attacked by acids. The plates are carried in wooden recepta- cles, which are lined with celluloid. They are composed of two parts—the box proper and the cover, which is absolutely water- tight and is ‘transparent as weil. The accumulator thus constructed presents a small bulk and light weight compared with its great capacity. It resists perfectly the shocks to which it is subjected. The batteries which propel the carriage of M. Jeantaud consist of twenty-one elements of the type just described, which give a current of 100 amperes of a pressure of forty volts. In ascending slopes the cur- rent is increased. The general appearance of the new carriage, as shown in the ilustration, re- sembles that of a petroleum-propelled carriage. None of the actuating mecha- nism is in sight. The twenty-one elements are inclosed in seven small boxes, each containing three accumulators. | These boxes are stowed away under the seat. The hands are free to steer the carriage and to control the speed; the switch, as well as the brake, is controlled by the foot. The foot is placed on the switch, and the carriage starts with ease. On removing the foot the carriage stops, and the momentum which it has acquired may be checked, if desired, by applying the foot to the brake. The brake is of the or- dinary variety, a wooden shoe binding on the rear wheel. A circuit-breaker is placed on the brake pedal, so that when the brake is applied the current is cut off at the same time. On a good level road a speed of twenty kilometers (12% miles) er hour has been débtained, while in a illy country the speed is reduced to twelve It Is Not An experiment—but a Proved Success. 'Thous- ands of housekeepers who at first thought they never could use any shortening but lard, now use COTTO- LENE and couldn’t be in- duced to change, simply because it is better, cheap- er and more healthful. The genuine has this trade mark—steer’s head in cot- ton-plant wreath—on _ ev- ery pail, Look for it. kilometers. The weight of the carriage is distributed as follows: Carriage, 490 kilo- grams; accumulators, 420 kilograms; mo- tor, 110 kilograms; two passengers, 150 to 180 kilograms; total, 1,200 kilograms. As the kilogram is equivalent to about 2.2 pounds, it will be seen that the carriage and contents weigh about 2,645 pounds. ————+-e-__ A Chicago Puzzle. From Life. Eastern stranger.—“The Joneses and Rob- binses are related, I understand.” Experienced native.—I should say they were. When old Rgbbins was divorced, he married Miss Jones, and her elder brother, Potter Jones, married Mrs. Robbins. (Stranger gasps.) Oh, that’s not half of it! The year after that, young Mrs. Robbins got a divorce and married the former Mrs. Robbins’s uncle, and last year Potter Jones was divorced and married Robbins’s young- er sister. That's how it stands at present, but they say Robbins is paying attention to Potter Jones’s aunt now, so there's no tell- ing how much farther the family connec- tioh may extend. Se The Latest Novelties. From the New York Weekly. Mrs. De Fad (in bric-a-brac shop)—‘“You have & beautiful collection of antiques here.” New Boy—“Yes’m, we have all the latest novelties.” ——_—_-+ee- About the Brains. From Life’s Calendar, Bryce—“Algernon Fitz Sappy is one of those fellows who has. thore money than brains, isn’t he?” d ne Knowso—“Yes, and he is poor, tod. A PROBLEM, X--Lil, WON'T YOU TRY IT? Animal Extracts pared according to the formula of DR. WM. A. HAMMOND. 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The sense of relief is so great that after twenty-four hours’ use the sufferer gladly continues the remedy, fecling and realizing that only perseverance Deeded to restore to health. It wronder- fol power in restoring the full vocal power of public speakers. FOR SALE BY E. P. MERTZ, COR. 11TH AND F STS, WASHINGTON, D.C. fe21-5éeo21t&2taw13t aT CNT OTT A Railway Up Mont Blanc, From the Lendon Telegraph. A project has been started by an engin- eer for the construction of a railway to the top of Mont Blanc. The line would com- mence at the Miage Ravine, above Saint Gervais, and would at once be carried through.a tunnel 7,400 meters in length. From this point a “vertical shaft,” 2,800 meters<in height, would bring the traveler up to the summit. The engineer is not in- clined to underrate the difficulties of the scheme, the more so as the height of his “vertical shaft” would be more than double those now in existence. He considers, how- ever, that the feat could be accomplished in ten years, and at an expediture of 9,000,- oof. The tunnel would be carried in a traight line as far as the Italian frontier, which it would then fringe for about 1,500 meters. It is added that all this would be of great advantage in connection with the cbservatory which is being erected at the top of Mont Blanc, as it could thus be reached at every season of the year. DR,CHASES ceRT 5 Blood#Ner ve Food IGH SOURS! ft. Vee terore TAKING SO For WEAK and°RUN-DOWN PEOPLE. WHAT IT IS! The rich f all restorative Foods, because itreplaces the same sufstances to the blood and nerves that are €: ed in these two life-civing fluids by disease, Indigestidif; high Ifting, overwork, worry, es, abuse, ete. Iso an Boon for Women, TheniNaatpereee® eatessolid flesh, mus- ing made strong, the box lasts a week. Price BO cts., or 5 boxes $2.04, ‘tists or by mail. Infor. Mationfree. THE DR. CHASE COMPANY. 1512 Chestnut st., Philadelptia. 626-w,8,m7St28 GRATEFUL—COMPORTING— Epps’s Cocoa. BREAKFAST--SUPPER. “By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutri- tion, aud by a careful application of the fine prop- erties of well d Cocoa, Mr. Epps has pro- vided for our brea! ‘and supper a delicately flavored beverage, which may save us many heavy doctors’ bills, “It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that a constitution may be grad- ually built up ui strong enough to resist every tendency to dise: Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may esca| many & fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with pe blood and a properly nourished frame."— ivil Service Gazette. Mado simply with “bolting water or milk, Sold galg in half-pound tins, by grocers, Inbelled thus: Zz EPPS" &'CO., ‘Ltd... Homocopathie Chem ists, London, England. 43-m,tu,som Made only by = The = N. K. Fairbank Company, CHICAGO, and 114 Commerce St., Baltimore. = Gray Hair A thing of the past when Nattans Crystal Dis- covery is used. Guarautecd to restore gray or faded hair to its natural color in 3 to 10 days— positively rot a dye. Stops the hair from fulling out, arrests dandruff and makes the nicest dressii for the hair one can use. No son. No sedi- ment. No stains. Price, $1. Boe. KCLB PHARMACY, SOLB AG 77 SI. N.W. Sent, express prepaid, to the country on receipt of price. NOW IS THE TIME TO PREPARE FOR Electric Fans. SUMMER WILL SOON BE HERE. Electricity furnishes the coolest, cleanest and cheapest light and a sure, safe and stable power. See ‘practical application of Electrie Motors on large scale at New Corcoran Art Gallery. If you want Incandescent or Are ighting or power telephone us. UNITED STATES ELECTRIC LIGHTING CO., 813 14th st. n.w. DRUNKENNESS OR THE LIQUOR HABIT POST tively cured by administering Dr. Haines’ Golden Specific. It cam be given in a cup of coffee or tea, or in food, without the knowledge of the patient. It is absolutely harmless, and will effe @ permanent and speedy cure, whether the pai 13 3 moderate drinker or ‘an aleoholic Ww: It has been given in thousands of cases, and in every instance a perfect cure has followed. It never fails. The system once impregnated with Fae the Specific, it becomes an utter imposstbilit; for the liquor appetite to exist, GOLDEN SPE- CIFIC €O., Props., Cincinnat!, Obio. Particulars free. To be had of F. S. WILLIAMS & 9th and F sts. nw.; 3. F. W b DAtenE ones AW asits: HE-NO TEA In convenient %, % and 1-Ib. packages. GUARANTEED PURE By Martin Gillet & Co., the oldest importers of tea in AMERICA. 3m,12 i ‘ RECAMIER Fy SS 2 Every bottle of | CREAM this great effervescent Se , Ser temperance beverage is a i Preserve a Good sparkling, bubbling fountain 2 Apply as Night, Wash of health—a source of plea- 3 ‘off in the Morning. sure, the means of making : one yet se tee. you feel better and do better. i ines You make it yourself right i HARPIET HUBBARD YER, athome. Get the genuine. 4 131, W. Bist St 5 gallons cost but 25 cents. 5 Baril ¥ ‘THE CHAS. E. HIRES CO,, Philadelphia, = Eonar cu tM NE Persea HOLD ON A MINUTE! We want to ask you about that Furn!- ture you're getting ready to buy—and the Matting—want to make you a propo- sitign that's worth thinking pretty hard over, We're ambitious for your patron- age—ainbitious enough to say that we will sell it to you ON CREDIT! —coufident enough of our prices to ask you tc compare them with the LOWEST you can find elsewhere. Ours are marked in plain figures—and they are cash—or credit—doesn’t that look as though we have confidence in them—and YOU? No notes to sign—no interest to pay. All carpets made and laid free of cost— “no charge for waste In matching figures. Plush or Tapestry Parlor Suites—choice, $22.50. : Solid Oak Bed Room Suite, $13. Splendid Brussels Carpet, 50c. per yard. Reliable Ingrain Carpet, 35c. per yard. Refrigerators—all sizes. Solid Oak Extension Table, $8.50. 40-pound Hatr Mattress, $7. Woven-wire Springs, $1.75. Baby Carriages, from $5 to $50.00. Your. for a promise to pay. GROGAN’S MAMMOTH ' GREDIT HOUSE, 819-821-823 7TH STREET NORTHWEST, Between H and I streets, ap9-844. Elegant Silver Ware BRIDAL GIFTS. FINEST JEWELRY, DIAMONDS, PEARLS, RUBIES, EMERALDS, SAPPHIRES. The best goods sold at moderate prices. Sami. Kirk & Son, Manufactures, 106 Baltimore st. BALTIMORE, MD. an2-20 Are made of STEEL AND MAL- % LEABLE IRON. “‘One-balf of the world does not know how the other half lives.” It it did—jf every one could look into ghe happy homes of the users of Majestic Ranges there would | insure good cooking. Write for z “Majestic Ilustrated. = Majestic M’f'g Co., é St. Louis, Mo. be a big jump in Majestic sales. ‘They save time, money and trouble— 4 Sold + § B. F. GUY & ©0., ui Pe ve. eee ees a wegen Great Opportunity! Thomson’s Music Store, i 521 Eleventh St., | Will soon be extinct. ” Prior to which event we offer one of the greatest chances ever presented. 3.50 Piano Stoois, $1.75. That Elegant $12 Mandolin, only Fumous $12 “ 2 rewart” Banjos 50 3 $5 to $30 Violins and Autobarps. price aitars... 0 14 Bay State Guitars. “$7.50 Mouth Organs Only 8 Cts. 1.25. Ditson’s Classic. Music Books, 65e. ie Song and Piano Folios only Cts Popular Music Only 3 (75 PLATE GLASS Show Cases and Counters, $10 up. mb5-3w Foon a Get the Best. THE CONCORD HARWESS, LUTZ & BRO, 497 Penn. ‘ave., adjoining National Hotel. ‘Trunks and Satchels im great variety at lowest prices. mbZi-108 oa NN