Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1895, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. 19 ~~ PARALYTIC CURED. Mls Grandfather, a Revolutionary Sol- dier, and His Father, Both Died of Paralysis, fet the Third Gener- ation is Cured—The Method, Frog the Herald, Boston, Mass. Tige a thunds-bolt from 4 cléar sky, a stroke of paralysis came to Mr. Fraiik T. Ware, the well- ktown Hoston auctioneer and appraiser, at 235 Washington street. He went to bed one night about six years ago, seemingly in robust health. When be awoke his left side was stiffened by the dead- ening of the nerves. ‘The interviewer sought out Mr. Ware to get the facts. He gave the interesting particulars in bis own wey. “The first shock eame very suddenly while I was sleep, but ft wus not Lasting In its effects, and in & few weeks I was sble to be about. A few otths after, when exhausted by work and dreneb- ed with rain, I went hon-e in a very nervous state. The result was a sécond and more severe shock, efter which my left arm and leg were practically helpless. IY grar@father, who was a soldier in the reve- ‘¥ war, and lost an arm in the struggle rican indeperdenee, died finally of paraly- My father also died of paralysis, although Bis. ft was complicated with other troubles, and so I bed some knowledge of the fatal character of the disease which is hereditary im our family. After the se-ond shock F took warning, for, in all prob- ability, a third would carry me off. “Almost everything under the sun was recom- mended to me and I tried all the remedies that seemed likely to do any good, electricity, massage and specialists, but to no effect. ‘The only thing I found that helped me was Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and I verily believe that If it hadn't been for those pills I would bave been dead years ago. “Yes, I still have a slight reminder of the last attack six years ago. My left arm ts not as strong as the other ond my left foot drags a little, as the paralysis had the effect of deadening the netves. But I can still watk a good distance, talk as easily as ever, and my general health {s splendid. I am really over sevently years old, although I am generally taken to be twenty years Younger than that. “The Pink Pills keep my bleod in good condition, and I believe that is why I am so well, although way help. e thooght of it a great many times and I honestly believe that the Pink Pills have saved . Ware has every appearance of a perfectly Dealthy man end arrives at his office promptly 8t 8 o'clock every morving, although he has reach- ed an age when many men retire from active life. Fis experience is well known to a great many People in Boston, where his constant cheerfulness has won him hosts of friends. He says that in hls opinion both bis futher and bis grandfather could have been saved if Pink Pilly had been ob- tainable at that time. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People contain ull the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. ‘They may be bad of all druggists or direct by mail from the Dr. Willlams’ Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y., at S0c. per box, or six boxes for $2.50. s 3Catarrh {a annoying and offensive. Nearly every one suffers from it im greater or less degree, but Jt cam be cured, speedily and effectually, by Foster’s German Army and Navy: Catarrh Cure. Used fn numerous cases with unvarying Success. Is also a positive remedy for Cold in the HeaG, Hay Fever and all tnflamms- tion of the nasal passages, 50 CENTS AT DRUG STORES. Foster Medicine Co., Baltimore, Md. 42d12r-8 + ITHIA isthe only IN AL SPRING Wa- containing lithia enough to LITHIA RESULTS aud care BURCHELL, oN * Gereral Agent. =the balance of a broken lot of Children’s Straw Hats. At this price they will not . . with us long. "ANZER & CO., 908 Seventh st. 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Sei Nw RE a DOSSSS9SIOHS TSS OFOSOOS0OOOO a Ranges, $13.00. il heat the Louse— supply ashes and dirt—censume the coal for which you have to pay*the hot stove, hot plpes, hot chimney—all help “Gat -— ble; but Heats only one place, and that is 1e you aze cooking; takes fuel only when yoa cook, and then {f you want only one or two burasrs, the others are cold-in fact, you could sit on top of a Jewel Gas Range while you bake in oven. Each place ts separate, and gas 4s cheapest on stoves sold by C. A. Muddiman, x4 12th St. oe S9SOSS Ali Your. Dainty ane —must be “done up" before leaving for the sea- slore or mountiins. i make them look as sweet a r hefore, Not the si fat elicate 2. Anton Fischer, 906 G St. MATCHLESS PROCESS DYEING AND CLEANING LOK SAVED MRS RENNIE'S LIFE. Mrs. Jennie Rennie of Virxil, + @ick for a year or more with o gall Qid ulcers Of the stomach. Her physician told ber Bhe could not live. Mrs. Rennle’s mother bad ad such benefit from the use of Dr. David emnedy’s Favorite Kemedy that she* persuaded hter to use it, which she did, with the at it cured her of these diseases, and she eu [ meyer et as now. | AIB OF THE CAMER Interesting Expériments in Photo- gtaphing Lightning Flashes. THE LOFTY HEAD OF THE MONUMENT Kept Constantly Within the Focus of Large Cameras. ELECTRICAL CONDITIONS Written for The Evening Star. R. ALEXANDER McAdie of the na- oe tional weather bu- reau, the meteorolo- gist who has for some years been making a_ special study of lightning and its effects, will take advantage of the summer season for corelucting some unique experiments with atmospheric electricity. By aid of photography he intends to make actual mecdels of lightning flashes, after first calculating their lengths, diameters and horse powers. Mr. McAdie will be remembered as hav- ing several years ago made the first suc- cessfur photographs of lightning and as having revealed in this way many facts concerning the real formations of flashes, which the eye cannot observe. In the meantime, by aid of the state weather bureaus, he has been collecting data as to destructions and fatalities caused by lightning, which he has published from time to time in the bulletins of the na- tional bureau. But this summer’s work, he says, will be the most interesting of all yet undertaken. A great deal has been learned concerning the effects of light- ning, but now more definite knowledge must be had as to Its cause and condition. Three large cameras are every night kept focused upon the Washington monument. This high structure, towering to the alti- tude of 555 feet, is looked upon as a tall lightning rod in itself. Scarcely a season goes by during which it is not struck by several of Jove’s unsparing thunderbolts. Ten years ago it was attacked in this way five times within twenty minutes, as a re- sult of which a stone in the upper pyra- midion was split. Since then, however, the most complete system of rodding known has been supplied. The cameras in question are posted, one on top of the weather bureau building, which instrument is attended to by Mr. McAdle himself, one at the weather sta- tion in the Capitol and the other at the home of an employe of the bureau, who Mves across the Potomac, a short distaice back of Fort Myer, on the Virginia side. h camera is kept continually focused so that the negative will include a high and broad expanse of sky in the same ver- tical plane with the monument. Teiephone communication is had between the points, and each observer is under promise to be on watch at his respective post whenever, in the night, a thunder storm threatens to Pass over the city. Negatives of the Same Flash. The views, of course, must be taken dur- ing the darkness, that the flash may be dis- tinctly seen. The watches of the three ob- servers are carefully compared each day, and the exact time of every exposure will be noted to the second, in order that nega- tives of the same flash :nay be identified. The caps of the cameras will be left off dur- ing each nocturnal storm, since the darkness will prevent the destruction of the plates. AS soon as a streak appears in the field se- lected the sudden flash itself makes an in- stantaneous exposure. It will be arranged that many amateur photographers in the city may set their cameras for the same purpose, since each additional view will add to the completeness of the models when made. Having obtained views of the same flash from the three or more points of observa- tion, a piece of wire will be held before each photograph, and bent in accordance with the lines there appearing. The lines in each view will be bent in the wire, so as to be included in the same plane, and in this way the model will be an exact representa- tion of the lightning itself when it passed from one cloud to another, or to the earth below, as the case may be. Another interesting part of the experi- ments will be the calculation of the di- mensions of the flashes. This, of course, must be done before the model is made. All of the measurements of the monument are definitely known, to the fraction of an inch, and since this high structure will be visible in the photograph, it may be used as a scale with which to measure the lergth of the flash. Still more accurate computations may be made by aid of the transit, after finding supposed points in the sky to correspond with the various ones in the photograph. The distance betweeh the three observation points and the base of the monument are definitely Known, and the various angles formed by straight lines jeining them, and others drawn to the points in the sky, may be found by the in- struments. Measuring the Diameter. But how can the diameter of a flash of lightning be measured? This, to a layman, appears almost like an impossibility, The lines traced on the negative appear to be too fine to represent any accurate number of units of measure, as far as their widths are concerned. But the artful instrument maker has made provision for this, nor does the observer need to use a scale upon the actual current of fire itself. A photo- graphic enlargement of the original view may be made in order that the width can be more easily computed. The propo between the length and breadth wi ccurse, remain the same as in the orig: negative. The delicate iittle instrument to be used in making the measurement of cloud diameters is known as the eter.” It works on the same principle as does the cyclometer attached to the wheel of a bicycle, except that the micrometer in real- ity cerresponds to the bicycle and the cy- elometer combined. In form the microme- ter resembles a long carpet tack. The part corresponding to the head of the tack is a carefully graduated dial plate, bearing a hand, like that on a horse timer. At the point cf the tack is a diminutive wheel, containing a mark drawn as a radius from a certain point on the rim. If this point is placed exactly upon the extreme edge of the photographic enlarge- ment, the whole instrument being drawn across it, like a glass cutter, the little wheel makes a given number of revolutions until the other side is reached. Each revo- lution is repeated simultaneously by a system of cog wheels inside, which move the hand and indicate the exact distance traveled by the little wheel at the point. By comparison with the length of the flash, therefore, these measurements will give the diameter as closely as will be desired. Mr. McAdie says that no measurements of lightning flashes have ever been made or attempted up to this time. The flashes which we commonly see during thunder- storms are anywhere from 200 feet toa half a mile in length, while they vary as much in diameter. The strongest flash which he ever observed was probably a foot in diam- eter. A cross section of a thunderbolt would appear as that of a round iron bar, heated to whiteness. The particles of the atmosphere become white hot wherever in contact with the lightning fluid. Variety of Lightning Flashes, It is difficult, however, to describe light- ning flashes in a general way. They at- tain all possible lengths, breadths and forms, both angular and curved. He has seen them wind around in spirals as well as dart in sharp zig-zags. Soemtimes they fork out into a hundred branches, while again they appear as one solid line. Judg- ing from the ar t distance at which they may be seen, hesays, they would natural- ly be suposed i be much thicker than they really are. The dark clouds behind make them appear exaggerated, while the trou- bled condition of the elements, working upon the imagination of the observer, mag- nifies them in his eyes. Mr. McAdie says that he can devise an instrument which will foretell a lightning “microm- flash, in order that the photographer may know when to take his view. That this can be done is proved by the fact that a telephone bell will ring a second or two before the occurrence of a flash, although the ringing is caused by the same condi- tions which made the flash itself. The rel- ative destructive forces of various flashes will be reckoned in horse powers by mathe- matical formulae. Many flashes. are doubtless ag much as 50,000 horse powers in strength. This means that one fiash of this intensity will do the | work of 54,000 borses, each lifting one pound 33,000 feet in one minute. The num- ber of horse powers may also be reckoned by the actual destruction which the light- ning can accomplish. A system of lightning rods m:ay be placed in the monument, each of a different design, thickness or length. The strongest one destroyed will represent the intensity of the flash. Take the me- tallic cords of a piano and let thé light- ning strike them. The thickest one de- stroyed will in the same way denovie the maximum power of the lightning. —_—_——>—_ WANTED TO KNOW. And Everybody Else in the Street Car Also Found Out. From the Chicago Dispatch. I was greatly amused yesterday, in com- mon with a round forty of my fellow pas- sengers, at the neat dressing down that was given to a young man in a Cottage Grove avenue car by an elderly lady, who, I am given to understand, was laboring at the time under a not unnatural irritation, it being the first time that she and the young man had met apparently after some perfidious conduct on his part toward a niece of the old lady’s. At least, I should gather all this from the conversation. The vld lady got her victim where she was cer- tain he could not get away, and then went for him in a voice that rivaled Tamagno’s in power and penetration. “Got back from your wedding trip, hev ye? Hope you enjoyed yourselves.” ‘The young man grinned. A man and a woman opposite nudged cach other and bent over and whisperetl. “When are you going to be at home to your friends? “Oh, come up and see us any time.” “Shall I bring Mary?” A cold dampness began to display itself under the young man’s hat lining. “Certainly, bring up your niece. My wife will be delighted to sea her.” I see you've got the hang of it pretty quick. He, he, he! You say ‘my wife’ as If you'd been married three years instead of three weeks.” The audience began to get interested. They bent their glances in the direction of the young man, and his merciless, p: sistent persecutor. She went on at the top of her voice “You haven't heard the news, hev you?” Everybody strained their ears to listen for it. “Mary's going to be married.” the young man nerved himsel ‘Ah! I'm very glad to hear it. “Yes. You know, just after you found out she didn’t have any money, Bert Drexel came up from Bloomington—” “I'm very glad, indeed,” repeated the young man, rising hastily, while a broad grin spread over the dress circle as it realized that it was witnessing a first-class domestic comedy free of charge, “‘but here's my street.” The old lady looked up at the lamp post. “Gone three blocks farther south, hevn't yer" But the young man had thrown himself from the car. The fight had died out of her honest brewn eyes, and the red from her indignant face, and the set expression on the wrinkled lips meited into a ripple of mirth-provoking laughter. I guess I done George up in great shape, pa; didn’t I? The old gentleman who was with her ply nodded his head. He didn’t seem to see any fun in the situation. I thought to myself that he might have had some suca an experience himself in the days of youth, and Ffell to thinking how seldom the cur- tain is lifted from some of the dreams of life. soe DEPEW ON EDUCATION, The Advantage of a College Course in Ubtaining Success in Life. Interview with Chauncey M. Depew. “Do you believe,” I asked him, “that the college graduates of today are better train- ed than those of forty or fifty years ago?” “Yes,” w the reply, “in most things. But in one respect the graduates of 1895 are far behind those of 1855. Few of the boys who will leave college this year will be good talkers. They may be as good think- ers as those who were graduated four dec- ades ago—better, for all I know. They may be able to grasp business and scientific problems as readily, but they will not be nearly so capable of telling what they know or what they think as the older chaps. Why? Because of the decline of the de- Late as a means of training. There were debating societies in college when I was a student, and all the brightest men be- longed and took part in the discussions. Nowadays few college students would think of stooping so low as to belong to a debat- ing society or of engaging in a set discus- sion of any problem. I regard this as a national calamity, which, however, is miti- gated to some extent by the fact that, while the debating club has been practically abandoned by the college boy, it has been taken up by the workingman, who, by its use, as he could by no other mean3, is clarifying his mental vision as to certain matters. In England there is more of this than here, for over there mock parliaments, before which current topics in politics, mor- als and economics are elaborately discuss- are held in every city and town. It is a good sign when the people of any country begin systematically to debate on current ftairs. They sometimes take up the wrong le, but that does no harm in the long run. People had better be mistaken than not to think and discuss, since thought and honest discussion are sure, sooner or later, to set them right. s to the advantage of a college train- ing in actual everyday business and profes- sicnal life,” Mr. Depew went on, “there is this to say: nally strong men there be, in the aggregate, indeed, a great many of them, who seem to get through life as well without the knowledge and training to be acquired at college as if a l course had been taken. Yet it i ft epinion that these men, even thos done better marked success, would have had they been college trained. They might not have risen higher, but the rise would probably have been easier, and, on the whole, more satisfactory to them. To the average man the college course is extreme- ly valuable. It teaches him how to use his mental powers,iow to reason from cause to effect and back again, how to concentrate his energies, how to adapt himself quickly to suddenly changed conditions. Whoever would succeed in real life must get this training somehow, and, in my judgment, it is better to get it in college than while ‘sweeping out the oflice.’ If the ‘sweeper out’ get ahead of the college boy in bust- ness, in his profession, or in public affairs, depend upon it, it is because of superior native ability, harder work or greater en- durance. It is in spite of the lack of col- lege training—not because of it. I know that, as a rule, the great corporations of today choose heads of departments mostly from the ranks of college graduates held- ing subordinate places, not because of the mere possession of diplomas by the gradu- ates, but because the college man so often displays more ability, sounder reasoning, better judgment and quicker decision. But the young man who cannot get to college should not be discouraged by this state ot things—he should work and study all the harder. ——_——_--+@+ - -___ Sudden for Him. From Town Topics. “You needn’t tell me that women have no sense of humor,” said Ricketts to Fos- dick. “Well?” “I overheard a stuttering man propose once. He said: . “I Love y-you d-d-d- eerouealy m-m-my d-d-d-dear B-B-B-Blanche. -w-w-will you m-m-m-marry m -me” a after the delivery of this declaration on the installment plan the minx had the audacity to say: “Oh, George, this is so sudden. is —_——§_-oo—____— Hay Fever. From the London World. “All the symptoms, doctor, you say, of hay fever? But how,” asked an Indian army chaplain of pronounced ecclesiastical views, when returning to England on long leave, “can one possibly get hay fever in mid ocean?” “I don't know,” replied the doctor. “But we have several grass widows on board and you have been a great deal in their society.” SAVAGES AND DWARFS Wild People Who Inhabit Japan's Newly Acqtired Island. A CURIOUS RAGE -OF LIPTLE PEOPLE Unsubdued Tribes That Dwell’in the Mountains of the Interior. A GROUP. OF ISLANDS —_—e—___— Written for The Evening Star. HEJAPANESE will * accomplish a task hitherto deemed hopeless if they suc- ceed in subduing the tribes of savages which inhabit the in- terior of their newly- acquired Island of Formosa, These wild ) people have main- tained their indepen- dence for centuries, refusing to be civil- ized or to submit to the yoke of the foreign irvader. They dwell in the fastnesses of the mountains, and some of them are head hunters. Bags of a peculiar network are manufactured by them expressly for the purpose of carrying such heads as may be secuted incidentally to their occasional warlike forays, and one of their chiefs, when about to be executed by the Chinese, who had captured him, said: “I have no fear of death; I have taken nirety-four heads, and only wanted six more to make the hundred. These savages are of Malay stock. They say that they did not belong originally in Formosa, and describe their origin by pointing to the south and showing copies of the canoes in which their ancestors are al- leged to have arrived. Their garb ranges from nudity to gay-colored garments of their own weaving, made from the fibers of the banana and ramie plants, They tattoo their faces and build elegant buts of bam- beo, over the doorways of which are hung, as trophies, skulls of wild boars and apes, ard sometimes tufts of Chinamen’s pigtails. It is only in their territory, which stran- gers rarely dare to invade, that the cam- phor-bearing lavrel grows. Consequently, the camphor can only be obtained with their consent, and money is paid to the ctiefs to refrain from destroying the dis- tiling plants set up in their country. Nevertheless, troubte frequently arises, and the stills are constantly being destroyed. Several European firms are engaged in the camphor trade, and they negotiate with the savages through the intervention of the semi-civilized Hakkas or Hillmen. ‘They make advances to the Hillmen on con- dition that the latter shall set up a certain number of stiifs and supply monthly a fixed amount of camphor at a price agreed upon. The laurel is a large forest tree. It Is felled and the trunk and branches are cut into small pieces with adzes, the giant of the woods being soon reduced to a heap of chips. The chips are subjected with water to a crude process of distillation, the cam- phor crystals deposited in the condensing jars being scraped out and packed in bas- kets. Incidentally to the operation an es- sential ofl is obtained, which is exported under the name of “camphor oil” and is used for chemical purposes. Land of Wenderful Fertility. Formosa is 235. miles long afd 75 miles wide, being as big as Sardinia and Corsica rolled into one. Estimates of the popula- tion vary from 2,000,000 to 3,000,060, be- cause the number of: savages is unknown. The soil is bursting with fatness, and no- where is a finer quality of tea produced. It is a great t pineapple country, and a beauti- ed from the leaves of that era half of the island is ed with jungles, in which grows the valuable creeper called rattan. The Span- jards took po: sion of Formosa in 1526, but were expelled by the Dutch in 3642. In 1661 a Chinese pirate chief named Koxinga drove away the Dutch and proclaimed him- self king. Twenty-two years later the Chi- nese dethroned ‘his successor, and from then until now the island has been a prov- ince of the middle kingdom. Formosa is a part of the great archipel- ago which includes the Philippines, long possessed and misgoverned by Spain. In Japan’s newly acquired Island have been found skulls and skeletons of people who belonged to a race of black dwarfs, doubt- less exterminated there by the Malays. Pigmies of the same race still inhabit the Philippines. They were called Negritos, or Little Negroes, by the early Spanish set- tlers. Some of the smaller islands were entirely peopled by them. They call'them- selves Aetas; they are active, very dark, woolly, small-headed, and average only four feet and seven inches in height. They are distinct from® any other known people. Though so tiny, they are very muscular, using with ease bows which the strongest white men cannot string. They are won- derful runners, and their senses are as- tonishingly acute. They distinguish by their odor fruits hidden in the thick foliage of the jungle, and recognize by smell only from what flowers the bees have gathered honey. These dwarfs are supposed to have been the earliest inhabitants of the Malay Arch- ipelago. They invented canoes the nautical qualities of which have astonished English sailors. Eventually they became widely scattered over the seas of that part of the world and on the mainland as well. Some tribes of them still exist in the m accessible and unwholesome parts of India, Where they are known as “man apes x of the jungles.” Once upon a time were numerous in Java, where they wiped out by Malays, who joined to murderous propensities a civilization cap- able of erecting the thousands of xigantic amaze that the temples whose ruins ioday archaeological explorer in Some anthropologists are of that the remains of a so-called fossi recently found in Java are actually bones of a Little Negro. Poisoned Arrows of the Dwarfs. Bigger and stronger peoples gradually drove out and killed off these pigmies, who now are found ogcupying the interior of some of the lakkest islands, finding a refuge among the’ mountains, while the plains and coastal regions are inhabited by intruding races. This is trué of Luzon, the largest member of the group of Philippines. The dwarfs were found there by the first Spanish settlers, as well as in the interior of the four other principal islands. They will have nothing to do with the Spanish, Malay or Chinese inhabitants, and intru- sion upon their territory is vigorously re- sented. Armed, as they are, with poisoned arrows, the silghtest scratchéfrom which means death, they are well able to defend themselves. There are parts of Luzon in which no white man dares to set foot, and some of the smaller isles of the group re- main to this day unexplored for the same reason. The dwarfs trade to some extent with Chinese peddlers, but In a very peculiar fashion. The peripatetic merchant deposits money In a designated spot and goes away to a distance. In return for it the savages leave in the same place such Jnerchendise as rare gums, fine woods and the leaves and roots of valuable plants, which the peddler is able to dispose of in the cities at a great profit. They are always scrupu- lously honest, and even liberal in their dealings. The respective territories of the various tribes are bounded by chains of hills or beits of jungle, which must not be crossed without formal invitation or spe- cial permission. Occasional violations of this law cause bloody fights. The Little Negroes are the smallest people in the world, with the exception, rie the the black dwarfs of the Congo, who are gaid to average only four feet and two ai half inches in height. Owing to the extreme wildness a these one- little people and the difficulty of apxroach- ing them, they have never been stu&ied to any extent except on the Andaman Islands. There the race has been kept particularly pure, no intrusion by strangers having oc- curred. At all events, there has been no settlement by foreigners, though Malays and Chinese have for centuries frequented the islands for the purpose of gathering edible swallows’ nests. They have laid traps for the natives, In order to catch them and make slaves of them. On this account the pigmies have made a practice of killing mariners who chanced to be cast away on their shores. By nature they are gentle and kindly. Their morals are an improvement on those of most white peo- ple. Sexual improprieties are almost un- heard of ameng them. Marriages between cousins they consider an outrage on de- cency. Cuxtoms of the Little People. The sight and hearing of these pigmies is extremely delicate, the former sense being more developed among tribes in the jungles and the latter among the people who live on the coast. The coast dwellers in the darkest nights pierce with harpoon the turtles which come to breathe at the surface of the water, having no guide but the slight noise made by the reptiles in doirg so. The dwarfs are short lived, fifty years among them being extreme old age. The wife of a chief has an authority among the women which corresponds to her husband’s authority over the men. She kceps these privileges when a widow, if she has children, otherwise she loses them. From eleven to thirteen years of age is for both sexes a period of rigid abstinence, during which they must not eat turtle, pork, fish or honey—articles of diet whéch, under ordinary circumstances, are their staple food. Some of the customs of the dwarfs are very odd, according to the testimony cf M. de Quatrefages, to whose newly publish- ed work the writer is indebted for much of his information about these little people. When a child dies its body is exhumed at the end of three morths. The father claims the bones and paints the skull yellow. The bones are divided into fragments and made into necklaces, which are distrib- uted among friends of the family for souvenirs. On the Andamans the pigmies do not know how to make fire, but only to keep it alive. They say that they got it originally from a god, but it may have been obtained from one or two volcanoes in the neighborhood. It is surmised that their ancestors may have understood how to make a fire in the customary manner of savages by rubbing two sticks together. They havea legend of the deluge—a great flood which, owing to neglect of Divine commands, covered the whole earth and destroyed all living things. Two men and two women who chanced to be in a cartoe alone escaped, and they were the progeni- tors of the subsequent race. It is worth mentioning, by the way, that the so-called Wild Man of Borneo, exhibited in a cage by Barnum many years ago, was 4 little negro from the Malay archipelago. Luzon, the largest of the Philippines, is almost twice the size of Ireland, being 420 miles long by 130 miles wide. The group, which embré 500 islands, has a population of about 6,000,000 and an area of 53,000 square miles. The people are mostly Malays, being split up into several nations, the most numerous of which num- bers 2,000,000. They speak twenty distinct languages on Luzon alone. The Chinese are the chief merchants and shopkeepers of the Philippines. They ar- rived before the Spaniards, but their num- bers have been kept down by restrictive laws and periodical massacres. The en- forcement of unjust regulations against them have caused them frequently to rebel, and thus the Spaniards have obtained an excuse for ‘slaughtering them wholesale. In 1762 they joined the English, for which offense the governor afterward ordered that all Chinamen on the Islands should be hanged. This order was to a great extent carried out. ‘The small islands of Tonquil and Rala- quini were formerly the haunts of desper- ate pirates, but they were dispersed in 1848. Since then the SSoloo isles have been their headquarters. The Sooloo pirates are even now the scourge of those seas. Many Euro- pean vessels have been taken by them, the crews being enslaved or killed. Their fleets have sometimes numbered as many as twenty or thirty large boats, carrying from eighty to one hundred men each, and not even the biggest merchantman would have any chance against them. > A ROMANCE OF TODAY. The Letter Which Wan Diciated to a Typewriter. From the Chicago Record. “Miss Mansard,” said the head of the brsiness house to his pregy stenographer, “have you written those letters to delin- quent debtors telling ‘em to pay or get sued?” “Yes, sir,” said Miss Mansard. “And that long letter to the Kansas City branch house. said the head of the firm, ‘I have another letter here I'd like to get eff this afternoon, if you please.’ The stenographer approached and sat down by the little wooden leaf which he drew out from his desk for her. “The address,” said the head of the house, commencing to dictate rapidly, “is James Broderick, Trent Falls station, Vt. Dear Old Friend: Your letter is received, and I assure you it gives me pleasure to hear of your welfare. I hope your family will continue in the best of spir- its, and I shall certainly look forward with satisfaction to your proposed visit here. Paragraph. In regard to your in- quiry as to why I don’t get married, would say that I have been too busy, but mean to take steps to remedy the matter at once. I am this afternoon about to maké @ proposition of the kind you suggest to Miss Mary Mansard, a charming young woman, who is employed in my office and who is in evary way fitted to adorn a home with womanly graces. Miss Mansard here- tofore has been rather distant in her conduct, but this may be due wholly to a natural’ reserve. Paragraph. My_ stenog- rapher has instructions to append to this letter the fact that Miss Mansard’s answer is” The head of the firm interrupted him- self and turned to open a fresh batch of business letters “You may finish that letter, Miss Man- sard, yourself,” he said, “although I trust you understand that the first duty of an employe is to obey the evident wishes of the employer, whether spoken or implied.” And Miss Mansard obediently withdrew to her typewriter. cia ee Aer Out of Her Reach. From Puck. Foreign count—“I am reputed to be worth a million.” American heiress—“Then we must part. Seven hundred and fifty thousand is my RASS SeTEZ x SSS Hand _ Hand go grease and indigestion~- that’s why physicians con- demn modern lard. Hand in hand go health and Cot- tolene—that’s why Coftolene has received the endorse- ment of the leading lights of the medical profession. When you feel that it would be a pleasure to eat any kind of pastry or fried food, without fear of indigestion, get Cottolene. See that the trade mark—steer’s head in cotton-plant wreath—is on every pail. Soldeverywhere. ersiegeresceh eS Sa Made only by The _N. K. Fairbank Company, CHICAGO, and 114 Commerce St., Baltimore. Sasa aes HIS FATHER’S BUSIN But the Directory Canvasser Called Him a Politician. From the New York World. When the man who canvasses for names for the city directory knocked at the door on the top floor of a Harlem tenement house it was opened by a small boy,bright- eyed and ragged, with that expression of premature agedness on his face that makes the children of the- criminal classes look old enough to be their own fathers. In reply to questions the boy gave the name of his parents. Then came a puzzler. “What's yer popperts business?” inquired the directory man. “Business?” “Yes. What does he do for a living?” The boy laughed. “Oh,” he sald, “he steals lead pipe off roofs, and sometimes he breaks into houses. Say, you ain’t a policeman, are you? Well, that’s all right. Popper ain't got no regular business. Some- times he Mes along the water front and robs drunken sailors and sometimes he sandbags people. Today he’s trying his hand at pieking pockets on the Bowery; but I guess he'll get pinched, because he generally does at that game. Don't put him down as a pickpocket, mister, for he’s @ regular greeny at that.” The directory man scribbled something in a notebook and moved away. The boy called after him, curiously: “What did yer put popper down as, mister?” ‘The direc- tory man said nothing, but held up the book, in which wags written; “Jones, John, politician, 19264 avenue A,” and moved off to the next flat. ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, iver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro- duced, pleasing to the taste and ac- ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for ssle in 50 gent bottles by all leading drug- gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro- cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not acceptany substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUISVILLE, KY. wEW YORK, LAA OR.CHASE'’S BloodeNerve Food Yourse Weigh Stent F axing lie For WEAK and RUH-DOWN PEOPLE. WHAT IT IS! The richest of all restorative Foods, because it replaces the same substances to the blood and nerves that are exhausted in these two life-giving fluids, by disease, Indigestion, high living, overwork, worrR xcesses, abuse, etc. Also a Boon for Women, WHAT IT DOES! By making the blood pure an@ rich, and the d.gestion perfect, itcreatessolid flesh, mus- cle and strength. ‘The nerves being made strong, the brain becomesactiveand clear 1 box lastsaweek. Price Bocts., or 5 boxes §2.00. Druggists or by mail. Infor. mation fre. = THE DR. CHASE COMPANY. 1512 Chestaut st., Philadelphia. €26-w,3, 7825 BRIAR PIPE GIVEN AWAY for tos cents Every pipe stamped DUKES MIXTURE or Gor Parkaces 5¢ me MANY _“‘Vot isch dot you say?” LE SAM—“T say that ihe PREMIER Brand Califo: aay Wines, Rielling, Tramins and made from best Narletles of Rhenish grajes, ae wines for rh iy Sent from your country.”* jot £07 that Is 80; od. half the price 3E h Yes, and they are mndulterat : MAD do dot bizness?”” in Washi: sto John H Sf Mec rader & Co., 147, New York ave., and 1122 Comnecticut ave. Je8,22fy6,20-4t GRATEFUL—COMFORTING— Epps’s Cocoa. is BREAKFAST—SUPPER. By a thorough knowledge of the natural 1aws Rhich govern the operations of digestion and nutri. tion, and by a careful application of the fine prop- ertles of a well-selected Cocoa, Mr. Epps has’ pro- vided for our breakfast and ‘supper # delicately flavored» beverage, which may save us many heav; doctors’ bills. It is by the judicious use of suc! articles of diet that a constitution may be enough to resist every ually built, up until strong diccnve. -ndreds of subtle maladies ‘around us ‘yeady to attack wherever there is a” weak polnt. “We may escape ma fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortiged wich pare blood and a properly wourished frame.” ivil Service Gazette. Made simply with bolling water. or milk; Sold only in half. fins, (by rovers, labeled thus: Thins REPS econ” Led. Homeopathie Chem: Baiaon, England. 43-m,tu,som grad- King George PPOINTED foz ann Hoff as tion of the high excel- lency of his Malt Ex tract.” (as stated in the appointment) Beware of imitations. The genuine Johann Hoffs Malt E: tract has this signature §- on neck label. EISNER & MENDELSON Co., Agents, New York. ASK FOR THE GENUINE JOHANN HOFF’S MALT EXTRACT. —_ Robe FAIR HIGHEST AWARD. IMPERIAL CRANUM Th UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED ave the BEST Prepared KOOD For INVALIDS and Convalescents, for Dys= peptic, Delicate, Infirm and Aged Persons. PURE, delicious, nour- ishing FOOD for nurs- ing mothers, infants and CHILDREN. ¢ sod ty DIRUGGISTS ererrwnere$ Shipping Depot, sSontengeete cot tetetetetet JOHN CARLE & SONS, New York. my1S-s,tu&th,1y Soasestoetestoetons te Not ofthe tions of coloring matter and essential oils so ‘often sold under the name of rootbeer, but of the purest, most delicious, health-giving beverage possible to produce. One gallon of Hires’ is worth ten of the counterfeit kind. Suppose an imitation extract costs five cents less than the genui! Hires; the same amount of sugar and trouble is required; you sa’ one cent a gallon, and—get an ui healthful imitation in theend. Ask for HIRES and get it. HIRE dots evnceeeee mesg SILSPIODISEEGS SSE PEO POOP IO® MAIEST COOKING RANGES Are made of STEEL AND MAL LEABLE IRON. “One-half of the world does not know how the other half lives.” It it did—If every one could look jnto the happy homes of the users of Majestic Ranges there would be a big jump in Majestic sales, They save time, money and trouble— insure good cooking. Write for “Majestic Dlustrated.”” Majestic M’f’¢ Co., St. Louis, Mo. Sold by B. F. GUY & 00., 1005 Penusylvania ave. See SSCTOOEO8 0040400600 EYES It 1s evident that our spectal sale last week of Aluminuw Spectacles with gold- Hed nosepiece at $1.00 was appreciated. s sale Was to introduce the well-known oculist, Dr. Hicks, and will be continued this week. Dr. Hicks will give you @ sclentifie cxam- ination of your eyes free. All prescription work at greatly reduced prices, CARL PETERSEN, jerosm 427=429 7th St. N.W. A GALLON For. or Splendid ZIN FANDEL oatlead ozen quart bottles { for when empty be ‘Yelephome ‘or mail your oF ‘A. AVE. "Phone 1084. ‘No Cooler Light Than Electricity —and no safer, cheaper or more reliable powe>. Call us up when you think of putting in elther. We furnish the curreut only. 'U.S. Electric Lighting Co., 238 14th et. “Phone 77.