Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1895, Page 16

16 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1895-TWENTY PAGES. CORNER OF BRITTANY An Artist Trip to This Ficturesque Country. CURSE CF POVERTY OVER THE LAND E Into the Lives of the Fisher Fo = THE impses ABOUT MODELS Written Exclusively for The Eventag Star. E 2 IN QUIM- apital of nee. An somebod; id gables. eis fairly iptive. It isa old place, with narrow streets ng how umed pe ants and a glorious My friend Miss Browne takes a deep architectural interest In cathedrals, so when she consented to leave our com- fertable hotel, under the shadow of the episcopal twin spires, and run dewn to the coast with me in search of the Primitive with a capital P), I felt the full extent of her self-sacrifice. She lett the conduct of our trip to me, and I left it to Providence. The event justified us both. We took a funny little train on a branch road that runs down to Pont Abbe, in the Pen- mare’h peninsula. There were no first-class carriages. The train was full of peasant men, with broad circles of yellow embroid ery arcund the necks of their homespun waistcoats, and peasant girls under an in- finite variety of coiffe, in full, short petti- coats of black, bordered with orange, or of crange edged with black. At Port I'Abbe we secured a wagon, piled our trunks on the front seat with the driver, and bade him take us to the coast drat. and then along it till we found a place that suited us, Presontly the storm that had been threatening all day Tse and we drove on and on desolate Penmar: down that windmilis look was flatter thin pr: sea {tself. Trees became appeared, giving place shrubs, we dr these also van etation but the the plice of fo Ss The winds sweep ely region fo! ny lant to hold ur After about hour we left o low, stu near the over its he: the ope country and hezan driving through a ci of the dead castles and churches an , crumbling untenanted, or turned inte From her? to ihe ccean, several mil away, once stretched the buey commer: ia city of Penmare’h, a town so rich that we are told its humblest citizens drank trom silver gobletS! But the sea rese and swept away a part, wars and lootings destroyed more and the di y_ of Newfoundland, with its cod fisheries, dealt a death blow to the source of its wealth. Per been called the Palmyra of Brittany. The curse of poverty is aves all the land. Old-faced children ran out from wretched hovels as we 1, and pursued us, cr ing, “Donn’ m: Y'—the cnly French words they xnow—and fought among them- selves for our pennies with a savageness sickening to witness. Long before we reached the water we heard the storm-surf thundering on the rocks, and as we trove along the one street of the tiny bonrg of St. Guenole not a soul was to be soon. ‘The whole pcpulation had turned out to watch the } rock of Talyv2rne and in the fer, Breton fisherfolk have a love of the sea, from which the romance and wonder- ment never wear off. with rheumatism, girls stegcering the weight of babies as big 1 rollicking school boys and bro assemble cach day to watch t fr, and grest every I frrepressible shout of though they were wate spectacle for the first tim We liked St. Guenole. stood on the edge of the se Old women knotted under The wall, and the spray dashed against the dining room win- little inn dows, The bely wera fresh and clean, and ve shut owr eyes to the r room filled with tipsy fishermen in oilski had ous trunks carried upst low-boarders were two bookkeeper from the s his sad-eyed sister, proprietor of the canr sent on to manage it, an the di: actioas of his native Nantes. The e ‘outh proved to he am and sul D nily pit taking us thronga th 1 showing us the various sta: ep of Pexsants. The € male a hundred cess. Gue: for come the : for the catch girls benches out the fl population of strong, perhaps, 2 littl fi 2 buyers f to I sh t ee 1 i some five miles away, where the ground is fertile and the winds broken, where trees grow and life is easier and the girls have a chance to grow pretty and wear flaring muslin cofffes instead of the ugly bigon- nw Fountain St. Anne. dens—close caps of black and yellow and scarlet and r—that they have to use jin wind pt St, Guensie. She was an orphan, and had come to live with b aunt, cnd a brighter, sweeter, more na: girl of thirt it was never my luck to 4 remember the first day we saw her. 3 Bro) and I were clambering over with, I infer, erable awk- ee girls, one and the third knife, were follow! us at ectful distanc I turned and greeted sis the friendly n in Brittany and Str vay the girl with the baby who w: tall and ithe and graceful a: the ot were square and dumpy, and nO Wore the muslin colffe of Kerity, hand- ed the baby to the knife-bearer and came running over the bowlders to seize Mi LBrowne’s hand and help her across a rift, ning to the maiden with the bowl to rform the like office for me. We refused the assistance (not without some chagrin at its being thought neces- sary), but took advantage of the oppor- tunity to ask what they were doing. A glance at the bowl furnished the answer. = were gathering shellfish, a variety of limpet, I thirk. They generously offered us some, but we declined with thanks. The baby was less fastidious. Whenever she seemed disposed to cry, one of the girls would run the knife dexterously inside a shell and extend the poor inmate, still squirming helplessly, on the point of the blade to the restive baby, who devoured it eagerly. Why she did not impale her- self is a mystery only to be explained on guardian angel theory—one in which e Breton has implicit faith, by way. I asked Jeanne if she would pose for me, was perfectly delighted at the And didn’t I want her cama- »? I looked at the stolid, bovine faces of the other girls—and temporized. me day I would paint them, but I would begin with Jeanne. They both accompa- ed her to the inn, however, with .the i ‘y day the you want my camars would answer, Dear little Jeanne! The morring we left she 2 red as usual, put F ne’s writing table abt watching us rex. I m her mind, ne punched anne t and forlorn embar- she Je 1 in a thout tement, t to me dene not bundle rehief, whic of \yoman of the other 1 ean admiration at the » offert There is a Nttle sailar Guenele, built at high. of chapel at St. er mark, full of ure ships made evenings by gr the rector of brates mass every Sunda; < und walks ba country to s It is called es as a phy acon, for its en the tor and a light tower on dark nights and its rst sign of land the return- lor makes out. ——S STORIES OF CATS. & Monkey's Thrilling Experience . With an sed Feline. From the New York Worlds Dick Welker lives at No. Vandam street, and is manager of an uptown glass ware empcrium. Animals of all sorts he is fond of, especially dogs and monke: The mate of a Brazilian ship recentl brought Fim 1 monkey, which he named Adam. The simian was ver; .ame, and was allowec tre libesty of Mr. Walker's resi- dence and back yard. The fence there was a favorite roosting place for Adam until Friday, Mr. Watker was looking out of the win- dow, aac in the next yard saw a mother t with three or four Kittens. She carried them one by one In her mouth and depos ited them on the grass plot. Adam was gravely watching the proceeding. and, sud- ndirg into the neighbor's yard, kitten as he had seen the cat do, and with it dangling from his jaws he sc up the fence. He was not slow either, for right behind kim was Mrs. Cat, with her back up and her tail as big as a muff. Along the fence to the window Acam ran and jumped in the room. Mr. er took the kitten from him just in time, and shui the window. Mrs. Cat knew no stopping, however, and through the ‘ass she dashed, and after Mr. Adam. alker managed to separate them, but not until he was scratched and bitten, too. Adam was punished severely by the en- raged cat, and whenever he sees one now he rups under a sofa and hides. He still Mr. Walker the price of the pane of perrcw fell out of its mother’s n ison Square Park and fiuttere aliout cn the grass below, flying about in little jumps, while the maternal parent sly hopped about ecaching the young te. George Frareis Train and his Levy of youngsters sat on a bench near by er a big maple tree, watching the les and a dozen more cr less interested hered tribesmen flocked near by, ap- ng spectate ere was a flash of something and a big cat bounded into Its claws just missed the fledg- flutter to one side. The ird attacked the cat's face, and yesmen fcllowed her exam- ught the helpless little s straw hat. The cat, thoroughly aged at the loss of its breakfast and the yigerons pcks of the fighting sparrows’ struck viciously at Jts assall- kept just out of reach, how- cling about, and every now and king sallies at the cat's ears and . Pussy finally fled, the pupil resumed s lesson and the feathered tribesmen ad- justed their uniform: ——-se0______ What-the Senate is For. Sir John Macdonald, the first prime min- teter of Canada, was fond of relating this story to illustrate the need of an upper hou “ot what use is the Senate?” asked Jef- ferson, as he stood before the fire with a ve answered your own question,” hington, you mean?” do yon pour that tea into the said Washington, “the Sen- r into which we pour legis- is the s lation to cool +o+—____ san Observer. Mereury. she W ee New Yorls ve brou fit new sunshine into my n that? I mean asked timidly it. Can you doubt you know a a girl has moonshine PREMAT! GRAY he look of others in CLOSING THE HOUSE When the Family Leaves the City for a Summer Outing. -THE CONTEST WITH DIRT AND MOTHS Suggestions That Will Contribute to the Comfort of Home. SANITARY PRECAUTIONS a AM GOING AWAY for the summer,” fs the common cry of the house mother just now. “And I am worn to a shad- ow with the sewing and fretting over leaving the house so long. The moths and dust will have every- thing ruined before we get back.” But why? There is neither rhyme nor reason for going away for rest and fret- ting one’s self sick te get ready, and wor- ryirg one’s self into a decline over the damage to one’s belongings while gone. A little ccmmon sense mixed with the preparaticns would cave a lot of expendi- ture of vitality in getting ready for the summer exodus. In the first place, it is a piece of unnecessary extravagance and actual snobbishness to wear one's self out on the wardrobes for a country visit. People who have nothing else to do with their money are privileged to spend it that way. It puts it in circulation and gives employment to people who need the mone But the hard-working mother who has three or four children to sew for should have more sense than to spend weeks in getting her little ones dressed up like Paris dolis to tumble around in the grass and split out climbing trees. There is the cest of the materials, to begin with, the labor of making them in fashionable m. ner, and the laundry work to be done every week. Plain, stout, sensible garments, ently made, and just enough to last tkrough the season would leave the mother a little leisure to get her house in shape, so that she would not be fretting about that all the time. How many women have any {dea of how to prepare a house for the absence of its occupants for three months or more? Yet it is as necessary for health and com- fcrt, and to save irreparable loss, as five tucks in the baby’s short skirts or em- broider ruff on Bob's blouse walst. Mest women say, “Oh, the house will be dusty and dirty when we return, anyhow, so I won't bother to clean it up now.’" Now, there is a right and a wrong way to go about leaving a house for the summer, ard that woman has got hold of the wrong w ‘The house that is to be left for the sum- mer should be thoroughly cleaned in the spring, curpets teken up, all _renovatious made, blinds mended, locks oiled and ad- justed, wirdow ss all put in, plumbing The roof should leaks, so that ruin your tested, gs: meters also. be examined for possible beating summer rains will not ceilings. Care of Furniture and Clothing. If you have not already done so, hang out your carpets to sun 1 beat them free of du and moth’s s before you go away. Then sprinkle them with naphtha, roll them up, and sew them up in bed ticking or strong canvas. Never a bug or beetle will touch them while they are in that roll, and the covering will serve for years. Beat and dust all your upholstered furniture, sprinkle with naphtha and put covers, which, of course, you have , and thea tie the things up in old pers. No moths or ot insects there either. Hang all lires in the and your woolen clothing on the sun, and your fur garments, beat and dust each piece separate! sure that no moth’s eggs are left Have a number of packing or if you ave close and drawers enough, dust and clean, sprinkle them with napftha, and line with news- papers. Fold the menis cle: wrap them in pieces of old sheet again In paper and lay them away. flarnel garments should be treated in this manner. : Rody garments, blankets and the Ike should be washed so as to put them away clean. All the rugs in the house should be treated in like manner and packed in the case. Sprinkle everything with naphtha and you may be sure that {f you have left no moths in the garments moths will not trouble them during the summer. Take down all the pictures and clean the glass and frames. Then cover with cheese cloth, which sew fast with twine and a long needle, Remember that all these coverings will last for years, hence will not be expensive In the long run, Take all the shades off the chandeliers and piano lamps and set them away in the closet, then empty and clean the lamps and wrap closely in cheese cloth. Treat all your mirrors the same way. For the piano or organ, make a case of canton flannel which will cover it all over and sew it on. Bring a barrel into the living room and wrap in paper all the bric-a-brac and china orna- ments and lay them in the barrel. If you have brass or bronze rods, take them all dcwn, and after cleaning, wrap in paper and stow where it will be perfectly dry. Lace curtains that are to be laundered should be washed to get-the dirt out and put away rough dry, or sent directly to the cleaners to be ready on your return. Heavy draperies of silk or damask, woolen or cotton, should be shaken and cleaned ready to hang, then folded away after sprinkling with naphtha, with papers be- tween the folds, and wrapped in paper, taking pains not to fold them so that they will wrinkle. All the cabinets and pie7es of carved furniture should be covered with old “sheets. Destroy the Refuse. All the silver should be carefully washed and dried, placed in chamois~or flannel bags, each piece wrapped first in tissue paper, and then put in some safe deposit place. It is never a wise plan to leave such valuables in a house which is to care for {tself for several months. All Iron and steel utensils can be kept free of rust by wiping them dry and then rubbing them cver with a cloth dampened with coal oll. Examine the pantry and cellar carefully the last thing before leaving the house. Den’t leave an atom of animal or vegeta- ble matter in either, burn all the old clean- ing cloths, every speck of dirt aud refuse, sweepings ard bits of old paper. An ounce of decaying matter may sow the seeds of typhoid fever before you get back. Be sure that the garbage receptacle is left clean enough to warm milk for the baby in, and it won't pollute the premises before you get back. After you have cleaned and dusted the celiar set inside the door a box with four or five pounds of unsiaked lime in it, and another box with some good clean charcoal. It would not do any harm to have a box or two of lime in the up- stairs rooms. ‘As a last precaution, just before leaving the house, have ready 4 hot solution of two or three gallons of lye water,strong-enough to eat a hole in your hand. ‘After flushing every pipe in the house, in bath room, Kitchen and elsewhere, pour a quart or two of the hot liquid into the pipes and let it stand awhile, say ten or fifteen minutes. ‘This hot lye will Kill all germs, and in the kitchen sink will turn all the grease into scap, and when you flush the pipes, just be- fore leaving, all the stuff that would cay bad odors will pass away. Of course you w take care to clean all the basins with 1; hing soda, so that no odors can p if from that. Or both wa and gas turned off before you leave. Nev a bit of soiled linen in 5 BSS%eks before the summer {s the bed clothing i s with old mice usual set are ¢a ed by carelessness The Aid of the If you @> not wa pets, sweep them as sprinkle them wet with naphtha possible eggs, then cover with papers, and over that canvas cr old sheets. Cover all the furniture as directed. If you want the house to be pure and{sweet on your re- turn, leave one windo) e each room open to the sun! Houses shut up in gigom and darkness for two or three months gather all kinds of unmentionable microbes of dis- ease and uncleanliness} and the dead at- mosphere of the house often undoes all the good gained during the summer 60- journ. If your furniture and carpets are properly covered, the sun wil] fade nothing, and you can bar the windows left unprotected otherwise, letting old Sol get in his good work of purifying the’close shut rooms. 1f you have never tried the plan, you wili be pleased with it, I am sure. Very often all the good that might have been derived from a summer's outing is dissipated by coming home to a dirty house. By that, T mean a house which was left unkempt and disorderly, with the last soiled ciothes taken off, poliuting the rooms, and the re- mains of the last meal molding and decay- ing in the pantry. -With all the blinds fastened, so that a ray of light could not penetrate, and there in the darkness and heat, foul air and disease breeding mi- crobes have full sway ard fill the whole house ready to attack the system when it is least in condition to withstand the on- slaught after the summer's life largely passed in the open air. Then there is the familly medicine chest. By the way, have you one? It may be that you Will be miles and miles from 4 reliable physician, and in that case you will want to be supplied with all the common reme- dies for the sudden attack of cholera mor- bus and colic, when a too vigorous diet of green corn, watermelon and green apples brings the greedy one low. There are cut toes, and sprained ankles, polson from oak and ivy, sun blisters, “chiggers,"” and stings of insects and bites of animals. Any and all of these you can doctor yourself, if you will only exercise a little common sense and read up a litle, supposing you are ignorant. Some Useful Hints. Every woman ought to learn what to do in an emergency, even if she has a doctor at her elbow. Just when she needs him most he may be off fishing, and a precious Ife jeopardized through her ignorance. The first thing to think of for your medi- cine chest is a hot water bottle. It should be of generous size and in good condition. Then procure a small alcohol stove, and a bottle of the spirits, and a small tin bucket in which to heat water quickly, for you may not be where there is gas, gasoline or wood, and there fs nothing handler than the alcohol. It will not be a bad Idea for you tg carry with you to your country boarding place— ff you expect to board—a supply of toilet scap, borax and such other toilet accesso- ries as you have been used to at home, for you won't get much in the average board- ing house. “Bed and board” does not in- clude the luxuries of life, and in many in- stances not even the necessities. ‘Having made your preparetions carefully, throw aside all care when you leave the city, and resolve to have a good time. Keep yourself and little ones neatly attired, and on intimate terms with soap and water, clean beds and wholesome food. Let na- ture do the rest. Turn the children loose to get acquainted with nature, and never mind tan, freckle, sunburn or roughened hands and feet. Live out doors yourself as much as possible, read and eat and sleep, cultivate an acquaintance with yourself, and see how you like the intimacy, whether you are really worth wasting your time on, and ten chances to one if yeu don't come back home with a wider view of life and a much ceeper sense of your obligations to the world of society in which you move. SENORA SARA. ———— THE COLLAR FAD. Scme of the Fetching Devices for Neck Decoration. Neck fixin’s multiply apace. The woman who has not one for each day and two or three for Sunday ts“out‘of fashion, hope- lessly ont. You know, a light cotton frock soils about the hands and across the back between the shoulders before it does any- where else, and these neck and shoulder affairs are for the express purpose of evad- ing a change of bodice every day. The foundation is the sheerest of mull lace or chiffon, generally with Insertions of lace or fine embroidery, ana full wide ruMe to match. ‘For th fre very wide cuffs de to match’ the capes, and they are ndsome enough, too. Even wool gowns, black, for instance, have these broad collars and cuffs made of thick, firm white silk, with lace or em- br oidery edges, or white gowns will have them of black with white trim- mings. When proper- ly made they are quite fetching. Some of the noted modistes make yachting and boating gowns with white and ecru lawn collars, revers, frills, ete., that button on and are easily renew- ed. White duck,pique and canvas are also introduced with these cloths and_ serges, and the spotless freshness of the gown ts preserved by two changes a day. To wear with these outing gowns white kid belts are considered the smartest thing. They are quite wide. Here are two examples of the collar fad. The broad one with two rows of trimming is white pique with bead- ing, and the vest, which is finished with a tiny ruffle at the throat, is of silk. The other is a blouse of grass linen with double revers of the same bound with red, and broad revers and cuffs caught with large smoked pearl buttons. The belt is of deer- skin, stitched with red. | Again is the advent of cgiine whisper- ed. Certainly something ought to be done before women go crazy under the weight of skirts that meas- ure seven to nine yards at the bottom. In the thin stuffs it does not so much matter, but when the silly followers of ultra styles insist on wool skirts with stiff haircloth interlinings and silk outside lin- ings, canvas. facings, etc., it Is enough to sSusgest the need for an agent of the So- sciety for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals. Avaunt courier of hoops, perhaps, is the cunning fashion adopted by some women of tuck- into their white muslin skirts, three orffour rows of the stuff called ‘“feather- bone.” It is “chawed” quilis woven into a sheath of cotton thread, and comes in both black and white. It will launder, and is easily stitched on by machfie, though the best way {s to put it right in the tiny tuck. Put the bone in close to the bottom, mi and the ruflies will cover it up, % ——_—_— Written for The Evening Star. After the Rain. ‘The depths of blue above the world Are golden-lined and amethyst; Slowly the flower-Imds nnfurled Bend backward laden low with dew. Far off the pines are Dlue with mist, After the rain! Down dewy aisles 6f shimmering green The wild-birds madly sing and call; The rocky brook in shade and sheen Goes whisp'ring by, buy down the glen Roars in a mimic waterfall, After dhe rain! Across the fields of bending corn - ‘The wet winds blow—a, horn of dew Each corn-top holds; The shining morn Opens the wild convalvulus, In countless fragile cups of blue, After ithe fain! For those asleep we give a sigh, For eyes closed now against the light, Deaf to the wh bat Ww: Blind to t ty of the di The nameless rapture of the night, After the rain! And one there Are closed Forgetful of th Blind to the Their kindred skies s is whose mild blue eyes ANNIE PERKINS “quarter, A BULKY COPPER COIN. Issued as Silver by Charles XII of Sweden, From the New York World. Karl Jornsen, a Swede, Mving near Youngstown, N. ¥., has a coin that has been in his family for close on two cen- turies. He clainis that its value is between $500 and $1,000, but he has no intention of Selling it. It is a Swedish coin and weighs over a pound. When Charles XII of Sweden became financially embarrassed through his pas- sion for fighting, he had as minister of finance Baron Goertz, a Russian, whose ideas, it would seem, in this exacting age, were refreshingly original. On the baron’s advice Charles set his seal upon copper half dollars that weighed a pound and a and his people accepted them— they had to—and carried them around, though they sometimes had to get a horse and wagon to do it. Jornsen’s heirloom fs 5 i-2 inches long by 4 8-4 wide, with an average depth of 1-8 to 3-16 of an inch. Its correct weight Is twenty ounces avoirdupvis. The composi- tion is copper, from the mines of Sweden, taken in-its purity and pressed into service without special efforts at refinement. The welght represents the value of a silver half dollar, or daler, in 1711. In shape this ex- traordinary coin is rectangular, with the corners cut off for convenience in handling. If the coin be taken as a specimen of the skill possessed in King Charles’ mint, the knowledge of treating metals was crude indeed. Apparently the coppersmiths took big ingots and flattened them out with sledges upon anvils, leaving marks of the hammer at every blow, so that ridges and hollows were formed on the coins. Then a half-daler rtamp was applied to the center of the bit of copper boilerplate. This stamp had been used only on silver half- @aters, but when the white metal disap- peared the king said of the copper, “This is silver,” and- it was silver to all intents and purposes in the eyes of his patriotic subjects. Then at each of the four cor- ners was stamped the reverse silver half- daler sign, a crown with the letters “C. RK. and the date 1711 underneath, all embossed with a heavy rim. The three letters stood for Charles, King of Sweden. Only a few dozen or so of these relics are in existence. The National Swedish Museum at Stockholm has several. One was sold recently in San Francisco at an auction of a Swedish coin collector, to a German enthusiast, for $642. Annam, a French protectorate of Asia, has a silver coin that welghs as much as fifteen United States silver dollars, and it also possesses the largest gold coin in cir- culation, cailed the “loof,”” a monster disk that weighs as much as 325 American gold dollars. The gold piece which comes next in size to the “loof” is the “obang” of Japan, a coin containing about $47 worth of pure gold. eee SENT AS WRITTEN. A Surprised Telegraph Operntor Who Corrected the Spelling. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Several years ago a young tan, whom we wiil call H, was employed as night oper- ator at a small town in Illinois. The second night of his service a circus arrived in town, and with it a great many farmers from the surrounding country. H went on duty at 7 o'clock in the evening. About an hour later a stranger came in to send a telegram. As soon as he had writ- ten and paid for the message the operator sat down to the instrument and proceeded to tick off the telegram, not including ad- dress and signature: “Have séan the party send meee the muney When the operator had nearly finished sending the message, the receiving telegraphed back, ‘'What you giv referring to the spelling in the message. The rules of the Western Union company prohibit any conversation on the wire be- tween operators, but nevertheless this rule is frequently broken. It is also « strict rvle that messages shall always he sent and words spelled as they are written, even if, as is often the case, the words are spelled wrongly. But at the time H took the job he was as ignorant of_these rules as an Indian, so to the operator’s query as to what he was “givin’ him” he replied thusly: “Make it ‘Have seen the party; send me the “That's more like it,” said the receiving op or. “I guess the bloke that wrote it never saw the inside of a school,” said the send- ing brass pounder. The next moment he was chilled to the marrow by the soft words that wafted o'er his shoulde: “Young fellow, that was a cipner me: sage. I am a detective and also an ope ator. I heard your remarks the wire, and if you don’t send that message the w: I wrote It I shall sue your blamed com} for $50,000, And, further, if you don’t take back and apologize forthe remarks you made about my schooling I will pou head off." These words f “bloke” that wrote the m It is superfluous to was forthcoming and he again according to the “bloke’s” rules fo spelling. ——— see —— ON THE GLORY OF YOUTH. Ex-Senater Ingalls’ Address to Kan- sas University Students. A few days ago ex-Senator John J. In- galls addressed the students of the Ku University, Lawrence. In the course of remarks he said: “It is magnificent to be young. There is a superb glory and fascination shout youth. The morning of life, the springtime of the soul. Youth is the enviable epoch. We lose something when We cease to be young for which time brings no equivalent or compensation. Of youth everything can be predicted. The heroes, the artists, the poets, the philosophers, the leaders of the bar, the great captains of industry are young. The wealth, the pleasures, the dig- nitles, the destinies of the world are the inevitable heritage oi the young. Some of these heirs of fame and fortune and felic- ity I have ne doubt are here, but as they look back from the apex and high divide of success and recall this hour they will feel that there is no joy the world can give like that It takes away when we cease to be young. To us who have taken our places and done our work comes the deso- lating thought that we shall grow no more. We have been weighed and most of us found wanting. We have been scrutinized, gauged and measured. Our specific grav- ity or levity, our cubie contents and our dew point © been ascertained and reg- istered; we have become monotoneus. The earth grows fatigued with us, but it greets the young with ardent and impatient ac- clamation. The young are to do the work and win the victories in the future, and there are many to be won, They are ‘to re- inforge the w: ing ranks and fill up the skeleton regiments of conquering armies of the civilization of the twentieth century. Life’s undesirable exultations may subside; its hopes and fate may chill and grow dim with years; its undismayed courage may falter at last; its daring dreams of con- quest may smolder to embers and gray ashes, but the unforgotten radiance of youth sheds an imperishable luster upon the wrinkled and venerable earth from the golden and purple fissure of the eastern sky. It would therefore be a fiction and In- sincerity to pretend fo be unconscious of the honor and the opportunity of appearing before these chosen representatives of the youth of Kansas, or to be unmoved By the pathetic but inspiring suggestions of the place and the hour.” Crushed, as Usual. From the Newcastle Chronicle. Jaggers (weakly facetious)- was a burglar, m’ dear?” Mrs. Jaggers—‘No! A burglar wouldn’t have taken half the time to get in! ‘h-think I oo That Glorivas Fourth!—Not a Celebra- tion. From Life. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U.S. Gov't Report Ro AN YEAS Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE THE ANIMAL EXTRACTS. CEREBRINE Extract of the brain of the ox, for Nervous Prostration, Insomnia, Ce CARDINE, Extract of the Heart, for Fune- tional Weakness of the Heart. MEDULLINE, Extract of the Spinal Cord, for Locomotor Ataxia. TESTINE, For Premature Decay. OVARINE, For Diseases of Women. THYROIDINE, For Eczema and impurities of the blood. Dose, 5 drops. SOLE OWNERS. Columbia Chemical Co., 1402 FOURTEENTH ST. N.W., Washington, D. C. Send for book. JeG-th,s,tutt Price, $1.00. MAA DAAAAAAADAAAAAAADAADALLA Scatarrh z fs annoying and offensive. Nearly every one suffers from it in greater or less degree, but Jt cag be cured, speedily and effectually, by ¢ ; Foster’s German Army and Navy: Catarrh Cure. Used in numerous cases with unvarying success. Is also a positive remedy for Cold in the Heaa, Hay Fever and all infamma- tion of the nasal passages. 50 CENTS AT DRUG STORES. Foster Medicine Co., Baltimore, Md. 42012r-8 3 REDUCED. Full Line of Highest Grade Gas Ranges. Largest size 4-burner, $29. Now $24.30. Large 4-burner, $27.50. Now $22.50. Family size 4=-burner, $24. Now $19.80. Family size 3-burner, $21. Now $17.10. ‘These prices include tron pipe connection and guaranteed to bake aud do all your cooking perfectly. Cc. A. Muddiman, 614 12th St. Bee our $1.60 Stove and our $2.75 Stove. jy1-48d Blackberry Brandy E 50c. a Bottle ine article—made expressly sil purposes. Every one ttle in the hoase in ¥. The same qual- lsewhere, ed Beans, only 10c. = a can, California Wine and | Fruit Co., 1205 G St. Ferd. Schneide "Phone 1641.jy5-28¢ Bargains In Long Hair Switches. Ley Formerly 00. Formerly $6. $6.50. Formerly $10.50, for keeping the hair 'S. HELLER’S, 720 7h Street N.W. All the _ Traveling Things —you need on your journey on cars or cn shipboard are ber ‘A Fine Trunk for $5. A Telescope Case for 35e. A Real Alligator Skin Bug for $1.75, ess Sult Case for $4. ‘A Tronk Strap with every trunk and your name on it fre, Kneessi, 425 Seventh St. dy5-28d “The Living Image.” to yaks 00 x aim imaze’ ad these Mantellos taken, which we only $2 doz. H. Stalee, 1107 F St. Z SSOR TO M. B. BRADY. n of are w. stce making 164 SEOSO ODDS FDPSIEOS DOCS OFOOD ‘Our Summer in China, Cut Glass, &e.—at HALF 3 SUGARS — CREAMERS — VASES, &e. $BargainCounters a4 PRICE AND LOWER — including Decorated Japanese —consist of many desirable things— $ MATCH BOXES—SALAD ROWLS. 9, *Tete-a-Tete Sets 65c. pe —9 pieces, only 2 sets left. 3 Handsome ENGLISH CARD RE- OFIVERS or Celery Dishes—AT HALF $ PRICE, > TF Many other things equally low in $ price. ; M.W. Beveridge, 3 1215 F St. and 1214 G St. @lGTTERY, PORCELAIN, GLASS, ETO. jy5-40d POO 094000000000 090000000006900005 eoscsooeccoooes ;. SROTASS SSS ALT 90040404004' $ Siemens-Lungren Gas Lamp Now Rents for 25c. Mo. You've heard of this excellent gas lamp before. Tho best lamp for lighting stores, show windows, res- taurants, &c., and it’s the safest because ft 1s suspended from the celling and the flame is inclosed in a gas globe. Throws a beautiful soft light and burns the gas per- fectly. foas Appliance Ex., 1428 N. ¥. AVE. Je29-284 FOSSEAAA*AS OSE OOOO SOCOESO® BOSSE S95409560 0605540000308 Oxford Ties sfor Ladies —are snrely the prettiest shoe that can be bought for summer wear. Wear 60 Well—so comfortable—makes your foot look so dain Py t00— prices are so ic DS are the most economical ehoe you can buy. $2, $2.50, is the way W! up-town stores, of LEAST 500. A PAIR LOW! > else Oxfords like ours sell $3 and $3.50. all_ the are here-in BLACK and ‘TAN. fit, always. have U: fords for $1.50 also, Oe: SSSSSOSS RY e Ss oe Q is) =" @ =} R HR (=) =) ee ° e $ 930 Penn. Ave. N.W. 3 AMERICAN SHOE MEN. 3 oe tte i oa a oF PESBVECESOTSSEE664, “Pasteur” Filter $6.60! Wilmarth & Edmonston, Crockery, &c., 1205 Pa. Ave. dyS-34a How’s Your Sketching Outfit? It may neql replenishing, or perhaps you Want a new one. In either case, come in and let us supply your wants. We have everything necessary. Colors, Brushes and Blocks for both ofl and water color, Ease Btools, Umbrellas, ete., at prices which are perhaps lower than you have been paying. “ Geo. F. Muth & Co., 418 7th St. N.W., Buccessors to Geo. Ryneal, jr. Jel5-244 od Secures sou the ownership of ONE-QUAR- REAM BOND P. AND ENVEL- This price means 25 to 40c. saving Think of it!! A hard up mam and our ready cash made this price possible, In two shades—white and azure. /DECKER’S 1111-ELEVEN ELEVEN F ST. SS dy eer No Cooler Light Than and no safer, cheaper or more reltable powe>. Call us up when you think of putting fa eltber. We furnish z the current oply. 5 U.S. Electric Lighting Co., Ath et. "Phone 77. Je2l-204 That Dress Trunk with the four 40-Inch trays, for the * Js long, narrow, pretty, Ii With it there’s'no necessity for skirts, as it 1s sufficiently long to accommodate them Jald out full length. et has hat compartments in bottom, and is sold at a malerate price, TRUNK STRAP and LETTERING Free. “Trunk Repository, Lutz & Bro., “tp trees “Ged the Best—The Concord Harness jy4-16d BURCHELL, Gereral Agent. You'll Need All Your Gowns If you're going to one of the “swell” summer re- sorts. You'll want them to look their prettiest. We'll do them up—in irreproachable style. injury to delicate fabrics and laces. TS Reasonable charges. Wagon calls. Anton Fischer, 906 G st. eee PROCESS DYEING AND CLEANLNG. Gray Hair A thing of ghe past wh covery is used. Gunra faded hair to its ni m ively no ont, arrests dandr 1 Dis- gray or ays— raliing Stops the hat ‘and makes the nicest Xo poison. $1. ‘Triat GENT: express iniry “on Feceipt of I Take Care of Sick and Disabled Watches. Pa in guid a sta, W them to rights ai that th 18’ experienc sprit Hutterly, 632 G St., 7 oe" SyD-12d sand cared, es cl Those Perfect $34 OXFORDS. L111 We don't think we're immodest in 1] | | claiming that our $3.50 Oxfords are the 11] |. dest in America at the price, after having 1111 put so much good, light, durable leather 111 | and linings into ‘em, and -after paying 11] { such big wages to our muster shoemakers 11} to make ‘em, We guarrntes the ft and 11] | comfort. No, they won't be reduced this 11 {| summer—not a penny, im fact. May have 1 | | | to charge more for ‘em next fall, Coolest 11 [| shoe store in the city. WILSON, OWING NAILS painless cured. Our Bunion an@ da INGR NUR!