Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1895, Page 19

_—————— THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1895—TWENTY PAGES. GOING TO EUROPE Eurepe 1s extremely large, and there are rem thirgs to see in all the various coun- ies. I should find my way back to Southamp- ten, and on a day before the arrival of a transatlantic steamer of the Hamburg- UNCLE SAM'S NEW YEAR How the First of July, ‘Gams to Have That NEW PUBLICATIONS. THE LIFE AND ADV ‘STUS SALA. Volumes. Scribner's Sons. ENTURES OF GEORGE AU- Written by himself. With Portrait. Ne Warhington: Brentano's. CATALINA’S PIGEON POST. Probably the Only Regular Feathered Mail Service in This Country. From the San Franelsco Chronicle. In Two New York: Charles ae Red Tape in France. Paris Letter to London Telegraph. e Any amount of correspondence has been caused by the discovery of a ten-centimes GEo. R. DAVIS (Sirectar-Gencral of the World's Cepandian Bxpestiien, Caicage, s Piece, nearly equivalent to one English The Star's Paris Correspondent Gives | American tine, which, touches at Southamp- Basie’ Of life the great English journalist has | So far as T can learn. the only regular | penny, at a railway station in the north of Sayan dl ton on its way to Hamburg. ‘These boats seen much, but he who reads these two | Pigeon post service on this side of the con-| France The employe who Nt upon the AVING used Jobana Holf’s Malt Some Practical Suggestions. Engiat port and posed One Garth deeply-interesting volumes for the purpose | trent or the other fs that which bears | coin carried it conscientiously to the sta- tact as a nerve ton Pp Bi i of finding hair-raisitig stories of adventure | Messages every day in the summer season ile sectendlay wth all their fine accommedations and sil ees tion master, who thereupon registered and THE QUESTION OF CLOTHES An Outline of a Trip That Would Prove Enjoyable. ABOUT THE HOTELS Byeclal Correspondence of The Eveaing Star. PARIS, June 15, 1805. TIs A MISTAKE I: take much bag- gage on a short sum- mer pleasure trip in Europe. This is the more true if one is to travel alone or in a small party, adven- turously. At the out- expensive service, without the tourists who came over on them. English people profit by the fact io take the ocean steamers ficm Southampton to Hamburg and re- turn as a short excursion trip. I should do the same thing, going to Hamburg only, without the return. The rates are exceptionally low, scarcely more, irdeed, than the expensive Dover- Calais tickets to Paris. Hamburg is only four hours’ distant from Berlin. From Berlin I should take the train for Leipsic and then Dresden. From Dresdza I world go to Prague, frcm Prague to Vienna, from Vienna down the Danube at least as far as Budapesth, and from Vienna afterward to- Munich. From Munich it is a straight road to the quaint old town of Nuremburg, then on to the Rhize to Cologne, and thence to Paris by the way of Brussels. Tn the Gay Capital. In this way, after a long prelim:nary trip, Paris is well gained. To visit Paris first has often the effect of making the traveler uneasy and dissatisfied. There is only one Paris, and much of what in Berlin and Vienna must seem charming to the impressionable tourist in his first month suffers sadly by comparison when the same A Change That Was Made in 1843— Levi Woodbury the Author of It. Unele Sam hos just had a new year day. Why does the fiscal year end in the middle of the calendar year? ‘This is a question which a good many people ask cvery year, avhen the mass of dry figures announcing the “close of the fiscal year’ make their appearance. But it’is a question more easily asked thaw answered, in detail, at t.+ Ask any treasury official and he will ell you learnedly that it is more conven- ient, since Congress meets in December, to have the year end several months before that time, in order that reports and esti- mates may be made up in readiness for its consideration, But that fs about all you will get, though possibly some of “he more accurate of them will tell yau”that the change was made in 1813. So it was, but the agitation necessary to bring it about was begun nearly a decade earlier. In “i834 Secretary of the Treasury will surely be disap) acquainted with a, gr women who have become historic char- acters, Mr. Sala has like to study their fellow beings a large quantity cf material of a really enjoyable Sala’s career as artist journalist would of itself be sufficient ex- cuse—if excuse were needed—for the pub- Heation of this work, but the espectal value cort. Mr. that attaches to these the sketches of important personages with whom, in some capacity or another, the author was profcssionaily or otherwise as- The captiovs reader may take excepticn to occasional evidences of self- esteem presented here and there by the sociated. author, but those who not accuse him of possessing any more of egotism than might reasonably be looked 0, during two score yeaf, has been a central figure in English cur- In the preface Mr. Sala for in one rent literature. Says: “I have wished public a general idea of the character and the carect of a working journalist in the third and fourth decades of the second, Victorian era. What way be lke I neither most assuredly it is to which I served my between Los Angeles and the little town of Avalon, on Catalina Island, and bears them at a speed which can be beaten only by the telegraph or telephone. The steamers run once a day between island and mainland, and once it has cast Icose from the wharf the island, with a summer population of perhaps several thou- sards, is as completely cut off from the werld as though it were in midoeean, and yet the shore is a scant twenty miles away. The demand for some additional service grew. Often there were men of affairs among the visitors,and they were not in- frequently sore distressed to find means of communication. I remember hearing one financter declare: “I'd give $500 gladly to get a dispatch to Los Angeles; it would be worth $5,00%) to me easy.” pointed. Intimately eat many men and given to those who and volumes is found in know the man will It remained for two young men of Los Argoles, Otto and Oswald Zahn, to relieve the island visitors and residents from their embarrassing fSolation. This was accom- plished by the establishment of a carrier- pigeon post between Avalon and Los An- geles. The service was inaugurated last summer and conducted for several weeks with unequivocal success. It was feared at first that the pigeons, which are distinctly nd birds,” might hesitate to fly across so large a body of water; but, as far as to give the general the new journalism know nor care, but not the journalism apprenticeship, and forwarded it, with a report, to the office for lost articles, which then communicated with the police commissary at the central station in Paris. This functionary sent the parcel on with a fresh report to the pre- fecture of police, by which It was also registered, and there the ten-centimes piece will remain for a year and a day awaiting the claim which will, as may confidently be predicted, never be made by the loser. The episode is creating some ridicule, but it shows, at least, the care taken to keep property which has gone astray at the dis- posal of the owner. 222-___. Did She Faint After It Was All Over? From the Atchison Globe. A horse drawing a light spring wagon, in which a little girl was seated, ran away in Topeka, recently, throwing the child out, and one of the wheels passed over. her body. Her mother came dashing up, caught up the unconscious child, and spanked it for letting the horse.run away! This is the New Woman as she appears iri Topeka. 0 digestion. 1 can cheerfully commend jg’ Beware of imitations, The genuine Johens Hoff's Malt Ex- ~ tract has this signature [~ on neck label. EISNER & MENDELSO Co., Agents, New Vor: ASK FOR THE GENUINE JOHANN HOFF’S MALT EXTRACT. Beaks 1% SRR: Bra Qazezer trey Sparkle and vim. Full of good health. in which I have been for many years a skilled workman. Whatever the public may think of Mr. Sala’s indifference to the new journalism—which, after all, may be inferior to the old—there can be no ques- tion as to Mz, Sala’s ability as a writer. set the question of the personally con- ducted party arises on this point of bag- Woodbury, in his annual report, said: “It appears to the undersigned that a change in. the fiscal year and of the time at which the annual appropriations begin would be @ great improvement in the financial cper- Full of everything good. tourist knows his Paris. Henceforth the tourist will do well to make the gay French capital his headquarters. Cheap trips abound’ from Paris in every direc- known, there need have been no cause for anxiety on this point. The message bearers usually started without delay, arriving at their destination with a certainty and promptness almost incredible. The air-line tien. gage. To ignore the personally conducted tour is mere pretension. It exists, and many benefit thereby. And even for well-travel- ed people to speak slightingly of such ex- cursion troupes shows an unpleasing self- sufficiency. If you should suppose an Ideal party bound for Europe, say, four Ameri- can ladies, three little girls, two boys of from fourteen to sixteen, and two or three American husbands or brothers of ripe age, the whole unused to continental ways and speaking the various languages indif- ferently well, nothing wouid be more pru- dent and becoming for them than to exam- ine attentively the advantages of the per- sonally conducted irips. The husbands are relieved of responsibility, the wives are furnished with company when the hus- bands are personally corducting them- gelv and the baggage gives no care. In this way much more baggage may be car- ried than would be found cenventent in a little party traveling alone. The ideal trunk is certainly the steamer trunk, flat, small, and strong. On the boat it is kept in the state room, slipped under the berth, where it may be consulted hour- ly without inconvenience, Ladies will doubtless require a second and a larger trunk, down in the hold. Therefore, the steamer trunk should be prepared to carry everrihing one needs in crossing. Until the boat actually steamed out of New York bay the ladies wear their handsome cheyiot traveling gowns, but on the morn- ing of the second day a change will be seen to have come over the raiment of the well ad The fresh and handsome traveling gown is packed into the steam- er trunk, to stay there, fresh and unspoil- ed, till the boat has reached Southampton, Englard, or the ports cf Havre, Bremen, Cherbourg or Hamburg., Out of the steam- er trunk, to take its place, there comes a heavy blue storm serge dress, made with plainness. If It has already seen a season's service, it will be none the werse for that. Clothes to Wear. A black dinner dress, which also ought not to be new, a dark flannel wrapper, a warm cloth ulster with a cape, a macintosh and rubber shoes, flannel night dresses an-1 merino underclothing, felt slippers, walk- ing shoes, thick gloves, a few medicines, a hot water bag and a bottle of ammonia, and a vag of sewing and mending imple- ments and toilet articles will go” well to- ward filling the steamer trunk. Sufficient warm underclothing is essential on the sea. Neariy the whole of the contents of the steamer trunk, with the trunk itself, may be stored in London or Southampton, to await for the return trip. Certainly It is not pleasing for a lady to wear land clothes at sca or sea clothes on land. F European traveling gowns the light- est weight warm weol is Indicated. Most ladies also have an extra gown, say, of black silk with several bodices, for change. A last suggestion tor the s is a small alcohol siove, for boiling eggs, making tea, furnishing hot water and the like in European hetels. In these benighted lands it is the custom take breakfast in one's bed room as often as not. In Paris board ing houses It is a regulation practice. No as this so-called breakfast consists in- variably of coffee and a roli, with a smalt dab of butter, the untutored American stumach cries loud for soft boiled eggs at least. And it is cheaper to buy your own eggs and boil them. Men need no instruction on the steamer. They will have steamer rugs, like their wives ag! sisters; rugs which they will carry th them always, strapped round in a handsome roll, with or without extra ar- ticles inside, as if the rug were a second valise. They will also have a couple of changes of really warm underclothing for the sea and the cool European nights. Every one-should have a good light-weight Overcoat, to be the inyariable companion of the rug. Changes of shoes are impert- ant; and nothing comes in handier than trousers stretchers and shoe trees. Both these articles pay for themselves a dozen times over, and they wonderfully reduce the annoyances of traveling with a solitary trunk. Two tourist suits tweeds or cheviots, or “business suit: as we are went to calkthem, light mixed goods, with sack coats, a good black frock coat and vest, with a pair of fine pantaloons and patent leather shoes to go therewith, com- piete the necessary traveling gear of any gentleman. It is as well as not to bring cre’s dress suit, so as not to shame one’s wife at the opera, On the boat the gentlemen will prove their right to be called by that name by sitting icrg hours on the deck each day in elevat- ing female company, instead of always Swapping stories ty the smoking room and injuring their health in a dense atmosphere. Nothing is more deceptive than the Eng- lish whisky-and-water, to which the Amer- iran tourist flies as to a panacea. Un- doubtedly it gives temporary relief on board ship, but it sours the stomach, clouds the ppm and accentuates that abnormal state of the nerves which the best modern opin- jon places at the bottam of all seasickness. As to soasickness, there is no cure for it. Ctampagne, which many swear by, is valu- able only because of the cracked ice. Swal- lowing small pieces of cracked Ice and an occasional moistening of the lips with brandy, a constant keeping In the air and regular eating are the surest alleviators of the dread malady. But when the real sick- ness comes (if it does come) strong and un- mistakable, It is folly to struggle against it, and so increase the misery. Be good and sick, and after the first hours of spasm you will feel the better for it. Ax to the Trip. Whether personally conducted or alone, it is a serious question with the tourist what his route shall be when he first tcuches Iand across the water. If an Eng- lish tour is taken first the stay is apt to be prolonged beyond one’s earlier plans. In any case, I think I should certataly land in Ergland, ard, without the slightest doubt, at Southampton. Most of the lines now touch ina is favorable port, which is with- From London ours of London. ed trips pric go daily, hourly. s who are fr t timid and unde- between the advantages of person- trips and the free Joys of re, the curiosity of starting with » instead of American party matter of weight. company lish party 1s cer- inly to travel twice, to mix with foreign- and route, touri cided ally ¢ yet speak your langu to See with eyes as well as with your own, to observe their outlandish ways, at the some time you are toget ot outlandisn ways of continental 8. Y ally I shqld like to take the fol- lowing t p, and think t to embrace {t. Arriving at Southampton, I would spend a week or more in London, looking well to my ion (where ¢ of some ). it is for the tour 3 leave to 5 1 of extermely nd badly coo% tour to the north to deci in th circular a coaching tour through s d country- side: ation of the most acces- sible cathedral towns should not take up more than two weeks. The continent of I had done well | Switzerland is especialiy in favor with the Parsians, and® the round-trip ticket system has been trade extremely ad- vantageous. Having done the German capl- tals the trips from Paris give all the va- riety one needs to seek in summer time. Italy and Spain are impossible, both as to health and comfort Speaking generally, there are throughout all Europ? two species of hotels, the second of which are marked by Baeleker as “un- pretentious. Men traveling aione may profit greatly by them always; and even par- ties with delicate ladies among the number need have no fear of them on the score of respectability. In such hotels of the second class four francs a day is the ordinary charge for a hed room, sometimes with at- tendance, sometimes without; sometimes with light,and sometimes without. Through- eut Germany one can eat roast mutton to the sound of trumpe in the delightful beer gardens, at prices searcsly greater than those of’ the hotel restaurants. Those who seek econcmy and Hberty at the same time may simply take a room and : out,” an average cost of four franes meal, 2 morning coffee (regularly taken in the hots!) frequently costs a franc da half, so that fourteen francs a day for the bare ne: ties of living is a low estimate. Oftentimes the more pretentious hotels give a complete pension for even a less price. The teking of the table d’hote hus also the advaniage of affording touriscs the cheering society of other touri Alone in Europe is not such great fun 6s might be imagined. It is understood that everywhere, in restaurants and hotels of every class, the walter must be tipped, jot only the waiter but the German “psrtier” (you eseape him im France), the chamber- maid, the shoe boy and the trunk hustler. In Eurepéan railway travel it is not at all necessary to take first-class. There are three classes—firs*, second and third. In England any one may travel third; in France most people travel second, while in Germany, where the third “class is better than the French second, it is a matter of tolerating peasant company and_ close crowding. STERLING HEILIG. —— FOR FRENCH DOCTORS. The Lew Permits Experiments With Meu Condemned to Death, “Over in France,” said a gentleman re- cently from Europe to a Star writer, “the criminal procedure permits people con- demned to death or to long terms of servi- tude in the penitentlaries to give them- selves up to scientists for the purposes of experiment. While recently in Paris I was told by a medical friend of three convicts who submitted themselves to the diet pre- serlbed by a French physician. They were all condemned to death, and the tests he made were meant to determine how long human life might be sustained on a special and limited diet. To one he gave nothing but coffee, to the second chocolate, whiie the third received simply tea. The choco- late man lived only a few weeks, and died from a general degeneration of the tissues, 2 as longer in meeting his d more from neryous dis- crganization- than from actual want of rourishmert. The tea man was described es lving about a year with nothing to sustain life but a decoction of biack tea. His skin hecame almost transparent, while the patient himself fell away in flesh, until he was but little better than a skeleton. He drifted inte the grave on a tide of tea rather than died. “Some few months ago,” the gentleman went on to say, “a medical man, who was also much of an electrician, made an ex- periment on hiniself which ts of some in- terest. He had a theory that the term ‘mother earth’ had a better basis in fact e3 a statement than a mere attempt to compliment the earth. His notion was that every day and every hour in the day we sucked, unnoticed, nourishment from the-earth in the way of stores of electric- ity, and it was his opirion that if one were cut cif from this electrical food sup- ply he wouldn't last long. To the end that he might put his theory to the test, he re- solved to insulate himself as much as pos- le, and had made a pair of shoes with scles of plate glass. Then he arranged so that every article with which he camg actually in contact was also insulated— hig dinner table was raised from the floor on glass supports; so also was his bed. In fact, he took every care to cut himself off from all possible earth currents of elec- tricity. He maintained this insulation only five days before he became aware of a distinct change in his bodily health. He was languid, indifferent, carel what you might term lazy, and, to put it in his own words, ‘felt as if his steam had all run dewn,’ Indeed, he felt so disagreeably that at the end of five days he declined to carry the experiment any further, and je off his Cinderella boots and placed nimself in active communication with the earth again. “In two days he felt completely restored to his old self, and gave it as his opinion that, cut off from the natural contact w..h the earth, insulated as it were, he would have died in less than a month. He ex- Fects to resume his experiments as soon as Le can get the French government to hand over to him some convict, under death sen- tence, on whom to make this anti-electrical est.”” —_—>__—_ Mutilated Titles, From Pearson's Weekly. A successful bookseller should be a mind reader. People ask for books by the queer- est mutilated titles. A dealer in books ‘One of the most mutilated titles is that of ‘The Heavenly Twins.’ For instance, it 1s common to heve it called ‘The Twin Angels,’ ‘The Heavenly Prodigals,’ ‘The Blue Angels,’ or ‘The Heavenly Angels.’ “The other day a man cam id asked for “Th® Traveling Hebrew I told him I thought he meant ‘The Wandering Jew" he began to laugh, and said: “Well, I was sure he was on the mo anyway! at long ago a 1 came in and quietly asked If we hal ‘Two Boats Which Went by In the Dark.’ She was not in the least abashed when I handed her ‘Ships That Pass in the Night.’ “One of the most common bulls in a book shop is that which people make when they ask for a pocket edition of ‘Webster's Un- abridged,’ or ‘the Bible with both the Oid and New Testament in it “Not long ago a young man came in and asked for that ‘horse book.’ We named a lot of treatises on horses, but he said ‘it wasn't them.’ “We were then compelled to conf ignorance, when he explained, ‘Well, my gov'nor didn't exactly teil me it was a e to ask for “The our horse book, but he t of the Seven ivilege of returning it if The book never Ss not came back.’ ——_—-+00______ His Applause Well Put. From Tid-Bits. Friend (at a French play)—“Why did you applaud so vigorously when that comedian made his speech before the curtain?” Spriggins (confidentially)—“‘So folks wi think I understood. What did he say?’ Friend—‘He said the remainder of his part must be taken by an understudy, as he felt very iL” ald .Passed by the House August IS, and ations of the government. If the year was to commence after the last day in March instead of September, and the annual ap- propriations begin from the same date, many delays and embarrassments could be avoided, and the information on the re- celpts and expenditures of the previous year to be faid before Congress each ses- sion would be much more full and ac- curate.” = Mr. Woodbury’s Efforts. In 1836 and 1888 Secretary Woodbury again called the attention of Congress to this subject, and in 183) gave them a part- ing shot on the subject by saying: “A change In the commencement of the fiscal year is again recommended, fer reasons would vr for the commence- event, al ordinary pu S were made with authority to expend a fifth quarter at the sa rate when new legal provision should intervene, most of the existing dif- ficulties and confusion in the present sys- tem would be obviated.” Curiously, Ms Woodbury, after hammer- ing away at Congress on this subject for several years, was able to himself pate in the passage of the law the change he desired. On his retirement from the cabinet at the end of Van Buren’s term in IS+! he stepped directly into the Senate, to which he had been elected a short time before the end of his cabinet term. In the following January Evans of Maine offered a b i the overnme to begin h June 30. He made pon it, and was fol- lowed by Senatgr Bucha: President, In its Support. ect of the bill had tthe Si By passed. passed ly, as the ‘ong? sional Globe reports none. The Law. The bill as passed and placed upon the statute books was entitled “A bill to define and establish the fiscal year of the United and ed “Phat on and after es, estimates and ap- shall commence on the first y of July of each year; and the reports and estimates required to be prepared and laid before Congress at the commencement of e session, by the Secretary of the Treasury, In obedience to the act ef Con- gress of the of September, 1789, and of Maren 10, 1500, shall be a report and esti- mates for each fiseal year, commencing as aforesaid and terminating on the 30th day of June in the succeeding calendar year. This b introduced in the Senate June 23, 18: passed there promptly, and was s ign- ed by President Tyler. Prior to its enact- ment the records and accounts of the treasury were kept in accord with the calendar year, though it was customary for the Secretary of the Treasury, in his report to Cong to indicate what the linports and ex ts, receipts aad expend- itures, ete., had been up to September 30 immediately preceding the meeting of the Congress. —_— Criticivm of Small Waists. From the"New York Recorder. “The waists of the women of your coun- try,” said a Japanese lady to me, “are so backward, so unfeminine, so ashamed.” “I do not catch your meaning,” said I. “To me it seems that your women are trying to pretend that there is a third sex,” was the wer; ani I judge by the waists of the married women, as well as the girls. They ere not the waists of wo- men at all, or of men. If I were as they are—Christians—I'd call the walsts I see here unholy; as it 1s, I simply say Inhuman. Yes, that is what it locks like to my eyes —inhumanity; and these women who refuse to allow space for what is so important from a physical point talk with sympathy of females in China whose feet are com- pressed. And I wish to say to them, ‘But your bodies—your tied-up and choked-up bodies—what of them? Others have sym- pathy for you. “To say that your figures are natural is not quite the truth, for I have seen some Uttle fresh babies and young children; therefore I know you are born normal and remain so for some time. “The question is in my mind very often, ‘Are you ashamed to be women?’ “I declare I do not marvel that we oc- cidental women are wonder-strikers. Nor am I surprised at the remark of an oriental girl to the effect that European ladies were beautiful, but she wondered ‘where they keep their insides.’ ” lot and Trollope. From the May Forum. I remember a characteristic discussion about their modes of writing between Trol- kepe and George Ellot at a little dinner party in her house. “Why!” sald Anthony, “I sit down every morning at with my watch on my desk, and for three hours I regularly produce 250 words every quarter of an hour.” George Eliot positively quiv- ered with horror at the thought—she who cculd write only when she felt in the vein, who wrote, rewrote,and destroyed the man~ uscript two or three times, and as often as not t at her table without writing at all. “There are days and days together,” she groaned out, “when I cannot write a line.” nag * said Trollope, ‘with an imaginative wo! like yours that is quite natural but with my mechanical stuff it's a sheer mat- ter of industry. It's not the head that does it-it’s the cobbler’s wax on-the seat and the sticking to my cha * In his “Auto- biography” he has elaborately explained this process—how he wrote day by day, in- cluding Sundays, whatever his duties, his amusements, or the place; measuring out every page, counting the words, and exact- ing the given quantity hour by hour. He wrote continuously 2,500 words in each day, and at times more than 25,000 words in a week. He wrote whilst engaged in severe professional drudgery, whilst hunting th a week and in the whirl of London society He wrote in re y trains, on a voy- age, and in a town club room. Whether he was on @ journey or pressed with office reports, or Visiting friends, he wrote just the same. again toda: FOR BRAIN FAG Use Horsford's Acid Phosphate. . R. Lowman, Orangeburgh, 8. used and preseriled it” with results Jn brain fag and nerve exhaustion His “Life and Adventures” is worthy a g00d position in any library. STEPS INTO JOUR} Young Wri Evansto: Not wi ALISY rs. By E tten to encou contemplate the burglarizing of th into journalism, this book is undoubtedly deserving of commend Is a practical n outset he says: “It is book to make any more writer: On none will there be found a single word tempting too many now. any young man to | business office, or ad man to forsake the hi order to run after th’ erary fame. couragement those only w rrespondence Spaper worker; he knows what to say and how to! say it. At the vising any your or enthusiasm 0 have the @ distance from Avalon to Los Angeles is about fifty miles. This was accomplished by some of the Catalina flyers in fifty min- utes. From three to four hours is required to make the trip by railroad and steamer. Lyst year a considerable revenue was earned in the forwarding of dispatches from Catalina by the winged messengers. Small bills posted conspicuously about the tewn of Avalon convey the scmewhat star- tling information to the irresolute islander that “private messages and business orde may be forwarded at any hour of the da: Helps. and Hints for fa Lowellyn Shaman, hool of Journals: rage those who may way dation. Mr. Shuman and, in connection with the telephone, tele graph and cable lines, to any part of the of these pages young pigeon fancters also add to income by supplying the daily press myentie seles with the latest news from ‘arm r the GAB enol ne year the Zahns had not more than a dozen homers in the service, and it was found by repeated flyings at short intervals that the birds toy of the season a os becaine le bo aE not and editor alike, is nothing but | h rese the that exhausts ° a that one 4 F ‘= on the er thirg in the world.” a Los Angele: Mr, Shuman's particularly ble. ch Dion pice oh tien ters are headed, Plan of a. Newspaps With a Reporter, eiiion of th rly 10 will insure constant and to and from the island ummer. te (ee ONE ENJOYS Both the method and resuits when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver 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- oe instances the birds have SEO die eae, been w by pot hunters or thought- Room,” “Writing a Spec Lala ewspaper Work,” “Errors’ of Gaal Gk ‘Magazine and Novel Writing” F oT sion of the Press.” It is a good book. . The Best Parrot Yarr Yet. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE EN I r R. Green, M.A. by Mrs. J. R. Vol. IV. ington: W This yolume brings Which, as a whole, mi comprise the best h presented for the cpr Whose desire it is to with the history of o: nations, but who, not by care to searcn for their facts in i ihat is undo: ehess, $s oniy of igs Hy the set. oF er clai laden with s y page ent microbes wht and int manr ned them York: Harper & ward & Lothrop. JIM_OF HELLAS; THESDA Poon, of * In Boston DAME PRISM, Harriet Dau: tions: by es LIFE Ulusiratio page 5 A. Stokes Co. throp. who was extensively ture, and who had his aplary close to a A lot of rank molasses was sugar refiner accessible to tne bees, The result was honey was equaily rank, and unfit for use. themselves on it. On another occasion th ing digitals, and their pesonous. Natural liable to vary very mu when it looks best and is sweetest, it me be loaded with poison. Unscrupulous bee farmers are accustomed to forcing their their output by feeding bees to increase them sweetened water. The honey, of ae course, 1s scarcely fit for use. you want the original we i de only b The Retort Victorious. article. Ma yi From the Chicago Netvs. A youth to fortune and to fame unknown sent Dumas the maruscript of a new play, esking the great dramstist to become his collaborateur. Dumias petrified; then he seized his pen and re- plied: “How dare you, together a horse and return of post, sir, call me a’ to mail: “Send me your uted, If possible, more liberally E and Is up to the _TRE IN VIRGINIA BEFO! By Letitia MoE hand Jules ‘Tareas, Wastiington i New York: Washirgton: W. IH. Lowdermil ee Bees That Make Bad Honey. From the Philadelphia Record. “Lovers of the preduct of the busy bee will find it a wise precaution to have their honey tested as to its purity Vefore they eat it, or use it in a culinary way.” Prof. Remington gave a warning something like this at a recent meeting of pharmacists, and at the same time told of a German honey, wrote rom the New Bedfe A man whose niece had coaxed him to buy her a parrot sticceeded in gettiag a bird tha warranted a good talker. He brovg GL at t it home, and, after putting it to a close a series y fairly be seid to| in a cage, stood before it and said: “Say ory of England ever | uncle, Polly!” The bird did not respond, tion of those | and after rep g the sentence a dozen become acquainted | times or more with no better success, the e of the greatest of | vncle put his hand into the cage, and grab- eing students, do not | bing the bird by the neck shook him until Spo eed his hea sbied but sy » to "bie ing som Re confusing. Volume | uncle!” The b and, disgusted with his p: predecess: fellow too he the parrot out into the yard, ad a coop of thirty chickens. rd in with the author a You'll say um ANTIS! - morning the uncle a parrot was getth ok counted in th parrot on on chicken by of the coop ot, hole the neck and that this volume is mor, that the phosphor- un M its head wal ming ‘Say uncle, goll darn ——+e+ as Won't Be in th» New Woman's Bible. From the Indianapolis J y one could tell,” said the new wo- the Bible was written by men, ving ne specific condemnation of ich the autho derided their madame, ventu “that passage ‘ret, bacheloi The other boarders are av ostilit Durance Provoking to be deceived ; it’s annoy- ing to havea poor article of * shortening. You can avoid both by seeing that your pail of COTTOLENE bears the trade mark —steer’s head incotton-piant wreath 1. Wit William by aXe D Or engaged in bee cul- FONG) and they gorged their —and be sure of having delicious, healthful food. Other manufacturers try to imitate COTTOLENE, - that’s the best reason why e bees fed cn bloom- honey proved to be therefore, is ch, and occasionally, The N. K. Fairbank Company, CHICAGO, and 114 Commerce St., Baltimere, was for a moment sir, propose to yoke 2” The author, by “How dare, you, Dumas, by next play, my friend!” GRATES UL—COMFORTING— CURES the SERPENT’S STING BLOOD Pol mailed free SWIFT BPEC ing powers. the syst Epps’s Cocoa. AKFAST- SUPPER. knowled. fons ¢ HEALS RUNNING SORES erties of vided fur CN GOLD SEAL rattstuces|_ CHAMPAGNE. ines’ sr ont | EXTRA andSPECIAL DRY. a URBANA, N. Y. mi-s&w3m ) and Its treatme: IC CO., Atlanta, Ga. ceptable to the stomach, prompt im 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 sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug- gists. Any feliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro- cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FiG SYRUP CO, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. LOUWSYILLE, KY. WEW YORK, MY. GERMANY. UNCLE SAM. from best xnupes, are better Wines for ny Sent from your country.” ot to? 3 es, that is so; and they are ated. do dot bigness agruder &.Co., York ave., and Connecticut ave. Rielling, 3 1417 Ne 1122 _$e6,224y0, 20-4 Bargain Day The Warren. While they last we will sell as follows: One lot Ladies’ $2 Russia Calif Ox- fords 1% snd 2 A, at G9e, per pair. One lot Ladies’ $2 Low Black Shoes (Melba’s) at $1.45 per pair. Ladies’ $2.50" Low Button $1.75 per pair, kts cf Ladies’ High Russet oes at $1.05 per patr. u's Low Shoes (except Ki Sonthera Ties) at actnal cost, eT? Boys’ and Youths’ Genuine §g2 Calf Lace Shoes, sizes 11 to 1 und 8 to 5, at $1.25 per Men's tligh Tan Shoes from $2.35 to $4.50. The Warren “Shoe House, Geo. W. Rich, 9i9 F St. Help That Helps! 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