Evening Star Newspaper, October 7, 1895, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, OOTOBER 7, 1895—-SIXTEEN PAGES. S8OSSHS S65 CESOSS COOH OSSSH0 St. MOSES’. «STAR 423 7th @ Corner “wicrenth, | “SEP nar” | The Furniture Specials For This Week Are selected from nearly every kind of furniture there is—some- thing for your parlor, your bed room—your dining room, your library. The price cuts have been generous. Better look for your needs in this lot. $32.00- Solid Ofk China Case, swell ends, adjustable shclyes —a splendid piece of furntture. .. $18.75 $32.00--Quartered Oak Combination Bookease and Desk, hand carved, polish finish, swelled er front; adjustable shelves, one cupboard, pigeon- hole Interior; French bevel z plate mirror—for.. $18.75 $20.00—Colonial Dressing ple — very quaint, attractive piece of furniture that’s going to be framensely popular — Solid Mahogany, Bird and Carly Birch. $22.00— Colonial Dresser, muc but rich looking—in Solid Ma- hoguny, Bird's-eye Maple avd Corly Bireb €816.00—Quartered € Closet, highly polished, four adjustable shelves, grooved for plates, with heoks for cups, large glass door........ $12.00-White Maple Dressing Table, with French beveled plate mirror—for. Oak Chiffonte: —al! with locks, beveled plate an $11 value for. A $9 Reed Rocker, most iy maie, heavy roll from top to base... $3.75 Dining Chair, finely made of quartered oak, pollsh finish, leather seat, box frame—for... WALL PAPERS. 10c. Wall Papers, 8 yards to roll. Wall Papers, 8 yards to roll. . Wall Papers, $ yards to roll. 25e. Wall Papers, 8 yards to roll. B0c. Wall Papers, 8 yards to roll. Amd 20 up to $1 kinds for 40c. Solid drawe mirroz Pay more attention to the purity of the toilet soap you use. Have you a guarantee that what you are now using fs free from alkalies and fais? “Dermarex™ Soap IS free from everything that will irritate the tenderest baby skin, and con- tains everything to wake it healthful to the skin. 25c. everywhere. Manufactured by ¥, H. HEPBURN, M.D., Dermatologist, Mertz butidin, llth and ¥ sts. oct-14d Electricity is not only a better light than gas, but it is a safer, better and more reliable power than steam. There are dozens of printing houses and manufacturing concerns in town who use electric power. When the “line is ready "phone us and We'll turn out the current. U. & ELECTRIC LIGHTING CO., 213 14th at. "Phone 77. e27-204 A Shapely Foot free from corns, Iunions, enlargement of the joints, ingrown toe n: ete. if you are troubled in this way see us. T7Corns removed palulessly, 25e. Prof. J. J. Georges & Son, 1115 Pa.av FOOT, SPECIALISTS, ‘next to “The Raleigh.” xis 02.) CCS STOSTSET SS SFS39009946000 :Gi AS Heaters. 9 OG8 Each year brings more perfectly made gas heaters and ranges. Many new shapes thi son ard many little im- provements tfat make the burning gas for heating and cooking more desira- ble. Most complete line in town. GAS APPLIANCE EX., 31428 N. Y. Ave. 27-284. iS Sovessocococooowsoeoooesces * Oe PPPS LOS99O9SOCOSSESCOO: There would be fewer * * * * tired, worn-out women on * * * * wash day if neh Weaver, Kengla & Co.’s- Laundr & Borax SO@ps —were used. These soaps * last longer and go further * than any other brands. 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Ltd., Homoeopathic Chemists, lou, ‘Englard, oc5-s,m,tu, 9m KEEP YOUR SHOES ON All the time—sleep in them for that matter, and you’d never have an ache or pain if they were the Wilson $3.50 True Comfort Shoes. You can live in the Wilson Shoes—and you can bank on their durability. Some of ’em wear a year—but that de- pends on who wears ’em. WILSON, Shoemaker for tender feet to F at. — 0c5-364 We Deliver Our PIES a1 over Town. us @ ital with your order and it’ tly filled. 20 Og a t_ever out of an oven. Byned ‘Landover M'kc t, ist & E sts. home-mad street, under Odd Fellows’ Hall, SSSSSOE isn’t an old shoe in stock. The A window full of Eazelton's $3 and $4 Tadies’ Shoes, in sunt tana sett SOC. Pr. tomorrow at of Ladies’ Shoes, made of finest ine of Ladics’ Shores, very or button, all hand sewed, ox- sole. In every $1.08 amd width. Openios and Button 3 and widths. 48 and Children’s Spring ‘Opening q Be Best - wearlog School $1.23 423 7th $1.00. lire Missos* Hect Button and La 1 dongela kid. line All button, 1.50) Girls? Se or sule Shoes, dongol - Shoe Store, “SIIQIES.” The Grand Opening of the new Star Shoe Store, at 423 7th tended by the largest crowd that ever congregated in that block of 7th street. The opening prices will be continued all this week. Bear in mind that with the exception of Hazelton’s stock there ceiling with the very newest conceits in footwear. All sizes and all widths, and the prices are lower than those of any shoe house in Washington. Despite the immense crowd Saturday there is quite a good assortment left of the Hazelton stock, which we must close out within the next few days. Here are a few sample Opening Prices of the lar= _gest stock of popular-priced shoes in Washington: (Under Odd Fellows’ Hall. GG92S2995O659 9H95S OOSSNSS @ , under Odd Fellows’ Hall. Saturday, October 5, was at- store is packed from floor to The balance of Hazelton's $5 and $6 Ladic Shoes, all sizes, narrow widths, will ‘be closed’ out to- I morrow at $4.00 line Men's Fine Calf and Kangaroo ea Lace and Congress. $2.98 hand sewed. All ne Opening price. $3.00 line Men's Hand-welt Fine Calf Shoes, in every style, lace and congress. No better shoe can be had § 2 8 oA for $4.00 elsewhere. Opening Calf, Lace or Frice $1.48 er ae se $1.23 $1.25 line Boys’ and Youths’ All Solid Teather, School Shoes. — Sizes 8 5. Openi ng (0) iC. $2.00 line Men's Genuine Hand-sewed _fin- Opening 1 shapes. .50 Une Men's Solid All- er Shoes, lace con- 2 and 3 to 3 va’ Shors, very stylish, pointed toes. All $ 3 i eimeen Culler) 2.00 line Boys’ _ and yiuthy Real Calf Lace Shoes, oe Store, Street. OSSSSO99S5H09S9 HOE S9SS 5O5O98S80 0066850000 THE NEW EDITOR’S .CRUSADE. What May Be Heard in a Twentieth Century Newspaper Office. - From the Chicago Times-Herald. . In an absent-minded way the editor of the future surveyed herself in a mirror set into the wall of her office. “T must quit that tailor,” she said at last, with a shake of her head. “She said sho was tailor to the quean, but if she is, all I have to say is that the queen is in the habit of wearirg bloomers that do not fit.” She then took her seat at the desk and prepared for the more serious business of the day “Helen,” she called to her private secre- tary, “send the city editor in to me at Once.” When the city editor appeared the man- aging editor pl memoranda that were lying on the desk, and, after glancing over them, began giving her in- structions for a great crusade she wished to begin. i “We must get after those matinee girls,” she said. “They stand around the corners near the theaters and insuit the young men as they come out, until i: ts not safe for any seif-respecting young man to go to the matinee alone.” “f have noticed it,” editor. “We care too little for the reoutation of our boys,” continued the uanaging editor, “cr we would drive these creatures out of the city. Put one of your best girls on the story, and hammer away at the cvil every day until further 10 admitted the city “Certainly,-said the managing editor ce- eldedly. “I saw an able-bodied, woman in uniform actually laugh at the efforts of a shy young fellow to escape insult.” “all right, ma’am.” “And, incidentally, it would be a gool plan to work in something about the dan- gers of letting our »oys go bicycling by themselves after dark. One of them was stopped by a girl on a lonely road and only escaped from her by making a des- perate struggle and screamin. for assist- ance, Our boys cannot be watched with too much care.” “Yes, ma‘am.” “We must look into the matter of these flower boys, too,” added the managing e7- itor. “‘They are on the street ai all hours of night, and it is an outrage. It Is bad enough to have the little newsgirls out at night, but it is terrible to think of these ‘be and their probable fate.” Ii see to it, ma’ ai the city editor. “And, by the a'am, a “We need another sooi reporter, do: we?” asked the maniging editor. “Yes.” “Well, try her, if vou think she is any good. Is she married?” ‘The managing editor shook her head. “That's bad,” she said. ‘The girl who has a husband to le fter 13 generally more steadfast and reiiable than the one who has not. However, do as you think best about the matter. Then the man: her desk to pertise just been handed Boy's Temptation. tor turned again to iterial that had ‘The Poor i Sew eS GLADSTONE’S POSTAL CARDS. He Answers Questions, but He Does Not Commit Himself. From the Philadelphia Record. A few years ago Mr. Gladstone was seized with a mania for answering on pos- tal cards all communications addressed to him. His replies to requests for an opinion were so delightfully non-committal that the recipient of the postal was never any the wiser as to the great ‘statesman’s views. For instance, Mr. Gladstone was once asked what he thought of the use of tobacco. Forthwith on a postal came the following: “While some persons consider the use of tobacco to be exceedingly injurious to themselves and offensive to others, not a few persons consider it an innocuous and delightful indulgence. What do you think about it?” These quasi-palindromes from Gladstone’s pen were all much alike and created such fun that they were eagerly sought. The old gentleman has for some time ceased this manner of correspondence, but the enterprising swindler in London, who @as been floodit.g this country with Gladstonian postals, must have made a rich harvest. He netted $3 a piece for them. It may have been that Mr. Gladstone's studied care not to express an opinion was due to the fact that he suspected an impo- sition of this nature would arise. St. Au- gustine dubbed Cicero “a weigher and measurer of words.” But give the wonder- ful sage of Hawarden a postal and he can discount the great Roman orator at his own game. —____+e+____ Mystery story on page 14. See Very Promising Pupil. From the Chicago Record. At the riding academy: Teacher—“Have you ever been on a bi- cycle?” Pcpil—‘No; but I took a new baby car- ris.ge home the other night on a cable car.” Teacher—‘“Sey, I'd like to engage you as an assistant teacher here before we go any further!” —___+-e+____ Curiosity Collections, Fiom Tid-Bits. “Oh, yes, my husband has been a col- lector of curios and such things for a num- ber of years.” ‘Was he in that business when he mar- ried you?” ‘Yes, indeed. “I thought so.” TO REDUCE FLESH. New Suggestions — Rubbi mended in Some Cases: From Womankind. In the large cities, middle-aged women throng the gymnasium and physical culture schools to learn how to reduce the too abundant flesh and keep off the rheuma- tiem which is often an accompaniment. ‘The woman who does her own housework -has most of her muscles cailed into exer- cise every day, and the danger with her is that they are overexercised; still much re- Nef can be received by sponging every night after herd laber with the following inexpensive lotion: Two ounces of spirits of ammonia, two ounces of spirits of cam- phor, one and one-half cups of sea salt, one cup of alcohol and one quart of rain water. The woman whose face and throat are thin can remedy the thinness by frequent bathing in cool water, and before retiring rubbing In some gocd cream. In rubbing the wrinkles should be rubbed against, so as to rub them out, and it is as much in the rubbing as in the cream. A nice bit of soft white flannel rubbed several times daily over the face will te beneficial, and sho whose double chin detracts from her good looks can, by judiciously rubbing down- ward, get rid of the superfiuity. Above all things, let the woman who desires to keep her youth and beauty cultivate a sweet disposition and her intellect at the same time. Recom- —____ + 0+ ____ AS TO ENGAGING SERVANTS. Some Advice From an English Source Which May Serve You. From the London Queen. Men do not go into a business or a pro- fession without training (or, if they do, no one is astonished at their failure); they serve their time, and, to some extent at least, work their way up. But a woman marries and gaily undertakes one of the most important positions in life without the smallest atter.st to master even the rudiments of her new profession, and then when she fails—as in nine cases out of ten she is pretty certain to do at first—she calls together her kinsfolk and acquaint- ance and bewails her unfortunate and un- deserved (?) position, denouncing in more or less fiery tones the incompetence and um- trustworthiness of her domestics, and the selfishness and want of consideration showr by monsleur for expecting her to fulfill the duties she voluntarily undertook. If, instead of all this tall talk, ladies would set to on the lines of the old proverb, and “each one mend one,” we should hear less of the worries of housekeeping. Carefully: find out exactly what work you want done; be very thorough in all your inquiries as to the character and previous history of the maid you contemplate engaging. (Remem- ber that if she is worth her salt, she will inquire quite as particularly into yours.) Be also very careful to explain when en- gaging her what work she will have to do, what leisure and privileges she will have in your service, and also give her the rules you expect the members of your household to abide by; never, unless under very pe- culiar circumstances, trust to a written character; be most exact, when yourself giving a character, to answer all questions fairly and honestly, bearing in mind tho duty you owe alike to the servant leaving you and the lady bent on engaging her. Treat your servants generally as beings of the same ficsh and blood as yourself, though very probably not of the same tastes; neither slur over ill-done duties, nor grudge honest thanks for extra work; and, lestly, try to observe yourself the rules you expect others to keep, and you will find that your domestic troubles will grad- ually but surely disappear, and though you may not have a continuous course of “treasures,” you will quite cease to find your household a worry, and will certainly be the last to complain of the inefficiency of servants, A chance to make $500. See page 14. . Oe Prairie Schooners in the South. From the Macon (Ga.) News. A long train of “prairie schooners” passed through South Macon Saturday en route to Ocala, Fla. There were sixteeh wagons in the train, each containing a family of emi- grants. One of them stated that they were al! from Michigan, and were emigrating to the land of flowers, and would settle at Ocala. They have spent six long weeks in the hot months of August and September traversing the dusty and rocky road from Michigan to Georgia. SSS. The Tailor's Mista*e. From the Chicago Post. “John!” There wer: tears in her eyes as she spoke. “Yes, my dear.”” think it’s just teo mean for anything.” “What is, Mary?” With an effort she choked back a sob. “My bloomers,” she said. “What about them?” he asked. seat them to your tailor to be clean- ed,” she explained, “and—and’— ‘Well, what did he do?” “He—he—creased them.” And she tearfully Feld up a pair of creas- ed bloomers for his inspection. ————_+e-+ The Father's Advice. From the Indianapolis Journal. “And now, my son,” sald the loving father, “‘as you are about to go into busi- ness for yourself, it is well for you to re- Yes, papa,” said the high-browed youth. ‘And, ccntinued the old man, “if you will study up on tne laws, you will be sur- ised to find how many things you can do & @ business way and still be honest.” To 5 - Remove =." 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Gradually and insensibly one bird after the other leaves the barn or thicket where its home has been, and after a few days’ wandering in the neighborhood disappears. We notice some afternoon that the swallows are no longer singing gn the ridge pole of the barn, or playing about its eaves, that the famillar twitter of the chimney swifts no longer falls from. the sky. If we reflect, we become suddenly aware that no thrush has sung from the wood- land for evenings past, and it hardly needs the unfolding of asters innumerable to tell us that another summer is over. Not all the birds, however, leave us in this silent and mysterious fashion. Walk for a mile through the thickets on the river border; before long the famillar tee, dee, dee, of the chickadee comes to you, and in @ moment you catch sight of a black cap here and another there in the shrubbery. But with them comes a troop of little birds in many colors, silent or noisy, gray vireos, bright-colored warblers, nut-hatches and creepers, and occasionally a thrush or a catbird. The company surveys you and passes on along a route famillar doubtless to them, thowgh through what to us would be a trackless tangle. Or pass to the neigh- boring cornfield, where the weeds have at last won in the summer struggle, and bend with ‘their loads of seeds. As you draw near brown forms fly to the fence rails, or flit before you—felt sparrows, chippies or a baywing with white feathers in his tall, and in more auspicious years than this, Muebirds. These roving bands are bound together apparently by similar tastes in food, but I always like to think by a little affection also, or friendly eoneern. They wander through field and woodland, till some night more fayorable than the rest for travel, or some wind whose, suggestion of coming winter is stronger starts them on that won- derful series of joyrneys which we term migration. The next morning finds them in Connecticut or, New Jersey, and a fort- night later they are in Virginia. Life is to them now as careless as a schoolboy's vacation. Only the dark shadow of a hawk now and then interrupts their round of feasting and twittering. ee MARKET FOR UTAH HORSES. Exportation to-Germany Said to Pay Better: Phan Anything. From the Salt Lake Herald. From one end of the territory to the other there are great bands of horses which are practically valuless to their owners, and the problem which is now confronting the latter is the best method of getting rid of the equines, whose occu- pation, like that of Othello, has practically ceased. In the central and southern parts of the territory this excess of range horses Is especially noticeable and nothing can be realized .on the animals, which year after year sweep away more than they are worth ir. the way of taxes and general expense. There has been some talk of establishing a canning factory somewhere within easy reach of the heavily stocked ranges, but the project has never come to a head and the domestiz market for horses 1s still un- discovered. Some people have been mean enough to suggest that the flesh of the faithful horse being even now sold in the markets of the principal cities of the territory as beef and veal; but this the dealers ‘deny with loud volees, Were it but true that he-se flesh ts b.'mg found very palatable by the meat consuming public of Salt Lake City, then the problem would be solved, for the dealers might make pur- chases of equines rather than beef for those people who enjoyed that kind of meat, which, when choice, ig said to be far superior to the best of beef. Those who have eaten thereof do say that there is nothing in the meat line that compares in actual merit With a steak of young horse. However, as there does not scem to be any dispositian on the part of the meat eaters of this territory-—unless they are doing it unbeknow to themselves—to make a run on horse flesh, the owners of the many bands of practically useless animals which range the grazing lands of the terri- tory must look elsewhere for their mdar- kets. The United States consul at Bruns- wick, Germany, has®a suggestion on this point to offer. That official, in a state report, makes the statement that in the larger cittes of Germany the consumption of horse flesh is almost as great as that of beef or mutton, and throughout the entire continent of Europe the use of the first named flesh as food is steadily increasing. Butchers are paying $35 a head for worn- out horses, there being a scarcity of young animals. New’comes the important point to the Utah owners of range horses. If shipped on the hoof from America horses mitted to Germany at a tariff rate per head, with no questions asked. It has been estimated that the transporta- tion would not cost more than $10 per head and this would leave, after taking off the tariff, $21.25 per head for the animals sold in the realm of Emperor William. It is said that some‘of the horse owners are seriously considering the matter of trying an experimental shipment across the water. They argue that even if the expense of handling the animals should find its up to $20 per head they would still be away ahead of the game, and then again, if the German butchers are paying $35 a head for old and useless horses they might make a better rate for good sound young animals. As it Is, the horses on the ranges of Utah are without value, and some of the owners are even figuring that they are to be listed only on the debit side of the ledger. soo A Bright Thought Valuable. The first installment of the mystery story, “When the War Was Over,” will be found on page 14. Fivé hundred dollars in gold for the correct solution of the mystery by @ woman reader. = . ——— A Petrified Queen. From the Victoria (B. C.) Letter. A curious tale Is told by passéngers just arrived from Alaska on the steamer City of Topeka of the discovery made by one of their number, a Seattle man named Bren- nan, on Prince of Wales Island. On a re- cent expedition he chanced to visit one of the least accessible villages of the fsolated tribes on Prince of Wales Island, and there saw the mysterious divinity that is sup- posed to keep watch and ward over the tribe, a former priestess or queen, who, by some rare action of the pecullar soil in which her burial place was made, turned her into solid stone. Years later the rude grave was uncovered by chance, and the petrified body was found. The natives enthroned it in a place of honor in the vil. lage. Brennan claims to be the first white man to see the statue. ——_+o+____ A chance to make $500. See page 14, SINGLE TAX TALK Representative Maguire Tells of Ita . Progress in Delaware, THE IDEA GROWING IN CALIFORNIA General Political Outlook in His Own State. FREE SILVER PLANS Representative James G. Maguire of Cal- {fornia is in Washington, having come here directly from Delaware, where he took a prominent part in the single tax campaign now going on in that state. “I spent three days in Delaware,” sald Mr. Maguire to a Star reporter today. “The single tax men are conducting a very vigorous propaganda work in that state. They have met with remarkable success in Wilmington and Newcastle. I spoke at two very large and enthusiastic megtings in Wilmington, but at Dover, where I delivered my third address, I found a very strong passive hostility to the movement among. the people. Our people expect that a majority of the voters of Delaware will be favorable to the single tax in ‘96, but the difficulty arises from the pefullar condition existing there by the single tax supporters being mainly in Newcastle county, which has a population of more than 100,000. That county has but one-third of the representation of the en- tire state in both houses of the legislature, while the two lower counties, with but a population of 60,000, have a representation of two-thirds in the legislature. It will be practically impossible for the single tax men to carry either of these lower counties as early as '96, but i believe the contest will be contiaued until they have secured a majority in both houses of the legisla- ture. Growing in California. “The single tax idea is growing very rap- idly in California,” continued Mr. Maguire, referring to his own state, “and has now extended to the farmers, who, as a class, were not willing to give any thought or consideration to that subject during the last two years. A number of rural papers have become pronounced single tax papers and have largely influenced thought in that direction among the farmers. The effect of thelr work was surprisingly mani- festec in August last, when the state grange of California invited me to deliver a lecture hefore that body on the single tax. At the conclusion of my lecture,which was radicul and positive, fully three- fourths of the farmers present applauded my remarks. Newspaper men all through California have been students of the single tax philosophy, and most of them are single tax men restrained from its advo- cacy in thelr newspapers by reasons of policy, But the San Francisco Call has been for months giving considerable space to the advocates of the system. The San Francisco Examiner ts also giving much Space to single tax arguments, and has frequently given editorial approval to the single tax doctrine. The Coming Election. “In the last election in California, not- withstanding the landslide throughout the country in favor of the republican party, a democratic governor was elected. Now, both republicans and democrats are tolera- bly confident of carrying the election next year, and the republicans hope that the be- lief prevailing last year that the democratic administration caused the industrial de- pression will continue, and by the prevalence of that belief they expect to maintain the advantage which they then secured from that source. The democrats, seeing the ap- proaching revival of industrial and com- mercial activity, expect the democratic party to receive credit for the new condi- ton, as it suffered blame for the depres- sion. Of course, if the revival should be slow, the republicans will have a corre- sponding advantage, but my opinion is that the revival will be sufficiently rapid to cause a general revolution of feeling in favor of the democratic party throughout the entire country during the next year. © Free Silver and Debts. “A preponderance of the people of both parties in California are favorable to the free coinage of silver, but the advocates of free coinage are by no means agreed as_to the conditions upon which the change from the present system to free coinage should be made. The most prominent representa- tives of the free coinage movement are in favor of the immediate and unconditional establishment of free coinage, with the quality of full legal tender given to silver regardless of the difference in value which may exist between gold and silver there- after. That plan involves a repudiation of existing debts to the extent of the difference between the value of gold and the value of silver under free coinage. That 1s opposed by a large proportion of the free silver ele- ment as dishonest. “They believe that existing obligations, all practically having been contracted upon a gold basis and being payable in gold, should, upon the establishment of free coin- age of silver, be paid in gold or its equiva- lent, the new system taking effect only as to obligations ccntracted under it. The claim that under free coinage silver would immediately rise and gold fall so as to equal each other at the ratio of sixteen to one is not a satisfactory answer to this proposi- tion, because it is not certain that that will be the result. His Own Position. “My position has always been that exist- ing obligations must be strictly fulfilled and enforced according to the.laws under which they were contracted, the government as- suming and paying out at once whatever difference may result from its agreement to maintain the parity between gold and sil- ver, on the present gold basis. The only foundation for the ouiey Position is the belief that the creditor classes will be in- fluenced by the hope of gain to them to sup- port a free silver coinage movement as a mere matter of personal gain at the expense of their creditors. I do not believe that we should help either debtors or creditors in this matter, but we should establish the best system of coinage with reference to the general good of the people in the future, bearing the burden to maintain the integ- rity of existng obligations, whatever they may be. It is probably in view of this wide difference of opinion that in California, as in other states, the free coinage issue will not be as clean cut or as permanent as it promised to be a few months ago. Legislature and Governor. “In California the last legislature, which was strongly republican, made an unpopu- lar record, while the democratic governor made a conspicuous effort to prevent the passage of obnoxious measures and to keep down public expenditures. These will tell, of course, in favor of the démocracy, but California is normally a republican state, and the result is at least doubtful. Times are much better in California than they were a year ago, and are steadily improv- ing. The improvement has not been as rapid or as notable there as in the eastern states, but it has been observed that in- dustrial depressions affect California iater than they do the eastern states, and that revivals come to California corresponding- ly later so that, I suppose, the present de- pression is running its natural and regu- lar course. “In my opinion the silver movement will not form @ new national party. The popu- lists will undoubtedly nominate a free sil- ver ticket, but as the populists’ plan in- volves a combination of purposes with which the bulk of the free silver men do not agree it is not likely that their ticket will command general support of the free silver men. Presidential Candidates. “Among the republican candidates for the presidency Allison of Iowa is undoubtedly the choice of a majority of the California republicans. Mr. Allison ts a typical west- ern republican, a man of high personal character and great ability, with a clean record and strong sympathy with the in- terests and ambitions of the west. “There has been no concentration of opin- fon among the democrats of California upon any presidential candidate, Vi President Stevenson is very popular among California democrats. Morrison of Illino!s is equally popular. Whitney’s candidacy has been strongly urged by some of the leading democratic papers, but Mr. Whit- ney’s connection with the Standard Oil monopoly and the known alliance, offensive and defensive, between the Standard Oil Company and the Pacific railroads, for the purpose of influencing congresgional and other governmental action for several years past, prevents democrats generally from becoming enthusiastic in Mr. Whitney's support, although it is conceded that he made a brilliant and excellent record as Secretary of the Navy during Mr. Cleve- land’s first administration, and that he is personally a man of great ability and high character. “The third term talk is not regarded in California as at all serious, and if thought serious would be extremely unpopular there. Mr. Cleveland’s reputation for good sense and sound judgment is regarded as a sufli- cient answer to the suggestion that he would attempt to run counter to the gen- eral sentiment of the country against a third term by even considering such a propositio: —————--2+___ LEVI JONES’ LONG TRAMP. He Says He is Walking From Denver to Washington for a Wager of $10,000 An Albany dispatch to the New York Sun says: An aged hoboe came. into Al- bany tonight from over the Schenectady turnpike and journeyed on to find a place in the flelds beyond to camp. His gray hair hung down over his shoulders, but he held himself erect to the full stature of six feet, and, though he walked slowly, he steadily covered ground. He says his name is Levi Jones, and that he started last March from Denver, Col., to walk to New York and go thence to Washington any way he pleased, so long as he gets there by the time Con- gress convenes. It is for a $10,000 wager, and he says that when the bet was made he weighed 300 pounds. A gambler made the bet,and the covering of it by his friends was done during a drunken carousal and was regarded as a joke. By the terms of the wager, he says, he is to have no money, nor is he to sleep under a roof until New York is reached. Accordingly, he carries a roll of old quilts and blankets under his left arm and a gunny sack with cooking utensils on his back, while in his hand he carried an old tin can over half full of tea leaves that had been used several times. That he did not ask for money to help him along and rather sought to conceal than reveal his identity lends color to his story. Jones says that he twice hoofed it over the mountains to the City of Mexico, and has camped all over the Rockies as a min- ing prospector. He has reduced his weight to about 180 pounds, and says: “I'm a win- ner, barring accidents, if they did try to dose me-at Buffalo, where a fellow tramp drugged drink.” ~ ——_— +0. BIG-HEARTED GABE BOUCK. How He Took a Washington Boy and Set Him im Business. In its “Stcries of Statesmen,” published a few days ago, The Star made a passing ref- erence to Gabe Bouck’s big-heartedness, a remark quite in place, for Gabe’s generous nature mace itself felt wherever he was known. A case in point: Among the pages in the House when Gabe was a Representative from Wisconsin was @ bright little fellow named George B. M>- Clelian Hilton, whose parents were poor and resided in Washington. Gabe took a liking to the manly little fellow, and the page seemed to take especial pains in making himself serviceable to Gabe, until he began to be recognized by the other pages as Bouck’s messenger, and no other one thought of answering Gabe's beck and call when little George was around. Many were the substantial little presents from Mr. Bouck George took home to his parents on numerous occasions, and when Gabe’s public life in the Capitol was drawing to a close and another’man had been chosen by his constituents to represent them, the honorable ‘Gabe went to the little fellow’s house one evening and told the father and mother he wanted to take the boy to Wis- consin with him. He knew ‘that George was the mainstay of his parents, so he told them they should not suffer in money matters by their son’s absence. The boy went away with his big-hearted friend, was taken to Oshkosh and arrange- ments made for his schooling. In time he was given a desk in his benefactor’s office and commenced the study of law, and after the usual ccurse of reading he was admitted to the bar. Under his friend's guidance he had invested his savings here and there un- til the returns enabled him to send for his mother, and he began to have quite a re- spectable balance in the bank. The Wash- ington boy is now well fixed in this world’s goods, and cne of the biggest law firms in Oskkosh has for its sign: “Bouck & Hilton.” ———_ THEY ALL WED WEALTH. One Characteristic of the Churchill Family Which Still Obtains. From the New York World. The engagement of the Duke of Marl- borough to Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt prom- inently directs attention to the fact that he is maintaining the record of the Churchill family, unique even in the Brft- ish aristocracy, for marrying money. The first marriage of the late duke was the only exception in two generations, but he atoned for this divergence from the fam- ily rule by his second union with Lilly Hammersley. Lord Randolph Churchill got a fortune with Miss Jerome, and all his six sisters, aunts of the present duke, made notlce- ably wealthy matches. The eldest married Sir Ivor Bertie Guest, now Lord Wimborne, a millionaire ironmaster. The second’ wed- ded Mr. Fellowes, now Lord de Ramsey, one of a wealthy family of bankers for generations. The third married Edward Majorbanks, now Lord ‘Tweedmouth, a millionaire; the fourth married the cev- enth Duke of Roxburghe, an opulent land- lord; the fifth is the wife of Viscounte Curzon, the eldest son and heir of Earl Howe, one of England's greatest real es- tate owners; the sixth married Captain Wilson of the Life Guards, the eldest son of Sir Samuel Wilson, an Australian mil- lionaire, created a baronet for his big do- nations to the tory party funds. It should be added that in every case these unions have proved happy, and no leading titled family has given less material for so- ciety gossip. ——— eo A chance to make $500. See page 14 High Reinsurance Rates, From the Philadelphia Record. Reinsuring risks on vessels long overdue, and supposed to be lost, Is a game of chance in which speculative marine underwriters have been indulging. One of the vessels on which such big odds have been taken was the British bark Commander, which sailed on April 11 from Chittagong, India, for the West Indies and the Delaware Breakwater, and has been given up as lost. Poth vessel and cargo were insured as ordinary risks, at the rates thea current for vessels tra ing on long voyages. After three months had elapsed without the arrival of the ves- sel, the original insurers placed their-risks with other companies, paying two guineas premium, and escaping the payment, of a total loss. Those who took the new rf$k be- came alarmed at the continued absence of the vessel, and, to protect themselves, they reinsured the vessel and cargo at forty guineas premium. As the loss of the vessel now appears to be beyond doubt, those who last took the risk will be called upon to pay @ total loss. = Colony of Retired Organ Grinders, From an Exchange. A whole village of well-to-do Italians, speaking English with an accent, is one of the most astonishing things that Italy af- fers to the tourist. They are retired organ grinders, who have acquired comfortable fortunes in various countries, and have gone back to their beloved native land to live in affluence with their families in this strange Uttle colony, which they have founded among the mountains. —— +04 -____ Mystery story on page 14. ie Spring Chickens. From the New York Morning Journal. “Erasmus, are you sure these are spring chickens?” “Ye:, missus. Dey war broughten up right under my own eyes.” “You watched them growing all the spring?” “Yes, missus—and all the spring afore that. Yah, dey is spring chickens.” ——— ‘The matchless Jiniment, Salvation Oll, 2c. A GREAT MEDICINE, Cod-liver Oil is useful beyond any praise it has ever won, and yet few are willing or can take it in its natural state. Scott’s Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil is not offensive; it is al- most palatable. Children like it. It is Cod-liver Oil made more effectual, and combined With the Hypophosphites its strengthening and flesh-forming powers are largely increased. Don't be persuaded to accept a substitute ! Scott & Bowne, N.Y, All Druggists, 50c. and $te = SNAP SHOT OF A SALMON. ~ Another Photogrnph of a Ratilesnake in Fighting Poise. From the San Francisco Examiner. While on a tour of the coast range moun- tains during the past month, Charles Burck- halter, a surveyor of this city, secured some remarkable photographs. The first shows a large salmon in the act of making a flying jump of a waterfall, a height of about twelve feet, during its pas- sage up the stream. The picture was taken on Eel river, at a point where that stream is narrow and very rapid, having a.fall of more than 300 feet to the mile. At the waterfall it is extremely strong and turbu- lent, and, to quote Mr. Buckhalter, “it is wonderful how the salmon ever effected a passage. “The river fairly swarmed with them,” he said, “‘and at intervals of every thirty seconds or so they would be seen trying to leap the waterfail. There was a splash and a whirr and a streak of gold flashed in the sun for an instant as a huge fish rose clear out of the water in its flight, only to fall back again into the tumbling stream, for not more than one in a dozen succeeded in , making the jump successfully. Those that did succeed, however, gave a very pretty exhibition, more interesting from the fact that they were obliged to make a half cir- cular leap, owing to a big rock at the base of the fall, which gave an outward curve to the stream and divided the river in two. “We had watched them for more than an hour, when I became imbued with a desire to photograph one while it was in the air. ‘They were seen only for an instant, and t! smal! camera I had at my service was ull suited for my purpose. After many at- tempts I was gratified by catching one just as it reached the top of the fall.” ‘The other pictures obtained by Mr. Burck- halter give several views of a dangerous- looking rattlesnake in the act of striking. Mr. Burckhalter has been trying to secure such a picture for many years past, and is highly elated over his success. “The popular fallacy that the rattler coils into 2 ball just before striking is disproved by the picture I obtained,” be said. “While grossing a high ridge of the Yola-Dolys ‘we came upon one coiled up in the sun and undisturbed by our approach. In that at- titude I photographed him, and then while one of our party shook him up with a stick I prepared to take a snap shot at him while in a fighting attitude. Instead of coiling around he doubled up in the form of a letter S and struck at the stick with lightning rapidity, hissing terrifically at every blow. Phew! he was mad, and every time he struck the poison fairly flew. It was just on.the instant that his head was drawn back to strike that I got the picture of him. “He was ncnplussed to find that his fu- rious attack was unavailing, and began a retreat, very dignified, however. He moved away from us In the form of a loop, with both his head and tail toward us, and whi he balanced himself on one half of his bedy he struck rapidly with the other. Af- ter toying with him for a time we captured him, and, prying open his mouth, poured about a tablespoonful of tobacco julce down his throat. In twenty minutes he became very sick and rolled over on his back. In two hcurs he was dead. “Later I managed to catch another, even larger than the first, and this one I brought home with me. To put him in fighting con- dition it is only necensary, to give him a little whisky, when he swells with rage and fights furiously for a long time.” —— THE LITTLE TAILOR’S JOKE. It Took the Fat Man Quite a While to See It. . A little, slim man, hurrying toward Capl- tol Hill, and keeping his eyes on an ave- nue car, and a very large man of tre- mendous girth, walking west and looking at something in a hotel window, came to- gether rather abruptly on the sidewalk in front of the hote! on Thursday afternoon, to the no small amusement of numerous pedestrians. “Look out, there! Can't you see where you are going?” exclaimed the fat man. “If you were larger you might have knocked me over.” And he smiled a fat, good-natured smile at the idea. “Not much danger of my tipping you over,” said the slim man, when he had caught his breath. “I am rot quite large enough around the middie. But I venture to say I have measured more around the waist during the past five years than you ever did in your life.” “Rats!” said the fat man. “Don't believ a word of it,” looking him over curiousl “You are hardly thick enough to cast a shadow. “Well, I have, all the same,” said the little fellow, starting along toward the Capitol. “Who is that little cuss anyway?” said the big man, turning to a policeman, swing- ing his club at the outer edge of the side- walk: “Him?” answered the officer. “Oh, he's a tatlor out en 7th street.” The fat man walked along a little way with his head down as though in thought, then stopped suddenly and brought b cane down with a sharp thwack on the sidewalk and laughed. “Why, he! he! Of course. Ha! hal I never measured any one around the waist in my Wife.” Then he disappeared behind the screen in a neighboring restaurant. Leer genes CARS NUMBERED 13, Some Won't Ride on Them, Though They Don't Scem to Be Unlucky. From the New York Sun, A man carrying a heavy satchel chased a crosstown car half a block the other day, and by reason of a slow-going truck on the track in front of it was enabled to overtake it. As he was about to get aboard, his glance rested on the side of the car for a moment. With an expression of alarm on his face he turned around and trotted back to the sidewalk. “There's another,” ductor. remarked the con- “What's the matter with him; wrong car?” asked a passenger. “No; guess not. He probably saw the number,” replied the conductor, pointing to an ominous 13 painted on the woodwork. “You wouldn't believe there were so many superstitious people in New York until you've been a thirteener for a while. This car don’t do two-thirds the business of any other car on the line. Women don’t mind it as much as men, as a rule; but some of the men will do anythin; er than take this car. A chap chased us up peaeeerid | jumped on and jumped right off again. called to him, and he yelled back: “‘7'll miss my train, but I'd rather do it ride in that hearse.” inyet as far as I've heard, this car never had an accident. There’s a number of lines in town that won’t have a 13 car on thelr tracks.” —___—_+e+______ 3500 for an Imagination. On page 14 will be found the first install. ment of the mystery story, “When the War ‘Was Over.” ——————— A Valuable Member. From the Indianapolis Journal. De Hamme—“That base ball player you tcck on last week any good?” Barnes Tormer—‘“Yes, indeed. He catch es every egg that is thrown at us,”