Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1895, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1895—SIXTEEN PAGES. . 13 AT CRAIG & HARDING’S, 13TH & F STREETS. Open Evenings Until Christmas. Sensible Gifts At “Special” Prices, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. To crowd all the Christmas business possible into the early part of the week we shall quote “special” prices throughout the store. Don't put off your buying, we beg you! Goods delivered any day desired. Anything reserved upon the payment of a smal] deposit. We are determined to make this a most memorable sale—a sort of Christmas present to our tunity has never been extcnded the people of Washington. Ladies’ Desks, $3.65. | China Ladies’ Solid Oak Drop-leat Writ- se Toustinct | patterns’ ‘oe. Chinn Popes Cin ncaa, beanies ecg 65 Closets, in every grade, sh: 48-inch top. Morne 3+ wood ‘and price. A special- | plate’ mirror. ae Roand-end, Sclected, — Quartered, Oak Tables, 59c. Sawed Oak China Closets, oak 16-inch Solid Oak Parlor Tables. ‘alue, Te. . 59¢. Book Cases, $4.50. Solid ik &-shelf $4.50 Bookcases. Value,$7.50. Dining Tables, $4. Value, $27. Dining greatest America. Solid Oak Dining Exten- le ‘Tables. Value, ¥ seat __ Yate, $4.00 8 ft., wor Parlor Table, $1.1 5. | Parlor 24-inch Handsome Imitation Ma- hogany Parlor Table. Value, $1.75.....- S115 $4 Rockers, $2.90. 100 Handsome Parlor Rockers, wood and cobbler seats, in oak and Nght and == dark birch. $4.00. Special $2.90 lor Sultes, and silk Value, $20. ‘Turkis shelves and 27.50. Famous “Claw-foot'’ Solid Quar- tered Oak Extension Dining Tables, value ever 6 ft., worth $10, for $6.75. 3-piece dainty French Divan Par- richly upholstered tn satin damask Big, luxurious Iron-frame Turk- fsh Rockers and Easy Chairs, ere- Closets. back: $18.50 | Tables. Solid Oak Chiffoniers, very handsome. Without Mirror, With Mirror, $1 White Iron B Stout White offered in rth $12, for $8.75. Suites. ne $050", Folding Beds, Celebrated “Gum ing Beds, single, three double-bed size. ular price, $21.00. regular » Chippendale design, brocatelle. to $13.65 hh Rockers. | Sideboards, $13.50. meled Reds, brass trimmed, ull the dif- Mantel Fold- quarter and $15.50 Box Couch, $10.75. tomers. Such an oppor- Odd “Dressers.” 56 different patterns of ‘‘odd’’ Dressers te go with brass and fron beds. These were ordered for August delivery and have Just ar- rived, so we cut their price, rubbed fin- cled French Curly Birch, © Maple, 6.25. Oak, Mahogany and White Enam: eled fine « 3 rub finish, ishes..... 59 to 565 Toilet Tables. Ladtes' Handsome Toilet Tables, het Weeds. Value, $8.75 Desk and Case. Beautiful Sold Oak Combina- tion Writing Deeks, shaped French beveled minor, ri Ms $15.50 , $6.25. 0.75. eds. Tron $4.95 20 Per Cent Off All Hanging Hall Racks, Wall Capinets and Bath-room Racks—a hundred or more styles, sizes and Prices, $15.50 i tvak go te 910.50 Handsome Full - size Creton- — $5 Rockers, $3.75. | “wesie we 50 t mow ner | cord Bor Curt, swene cise | Reclining Rockers ee Btyles and patterns of Turkish | tufted top, lined in oq : Haley. ae Parlor | easy Rockers and Chairs, side, real value, $14.. “75 |Half Price. Rockers, with acme, 8 G4 7g das ars —_ ey lombitation Reclining and as Ne = ocking Chairs, vith foot t, 8 Rock $4.6 ail Stands, $15.25.| peq Suites, $10.75. | oat tmme, spring seat, aimee: $ OcKers, 94.05. Extra-large Solid Oak Hall : iia Oak Chamber sui color covers. Were Handsome Rattan Rocker, large BG oe big Reco piste) malcrors Ana ae ak Speraver Suite) || gliisoto $18. Gus, POS25, and comfortable. Valne, Read: hall meat Value, ec . i a Payne $4.65 $22.00. Special price 315-25 Lovie _bPest*! $10.75 Tabo abourettes. Gilt Chairs, $3.60. Upholstered Gilt Reception Chars, and satin dam- $3.60 $5.00 value. drawer Value, Sideboards, $8. 50. Solid Oak Sideboards, double top and mirror. $12.50.. $8.50 NOTE.—We will quote “special”? prices on every Chamber Suite im stock for the next three da: 85 patterns of ‘Tabourettes of Tarkish Hall Seats, various woods tne $1.75 upto $25 terns... Craig & Harding, Washington’s Leading Furniture House, WHEN IT WAS YOUNG. Whe First Observance of Thanksgiving Day With Its Turkey Dinner. From the New York Times. Thanksgiving day, the great social and religious’ festival of New England, is a legacy left us by our honest Puritan fore- fathers. Its first observance on these shores was in the fall of 1621, when Governor Brad- ford, in gratitude for the bounteous harvest of the Plymouth colony, following a period of sore distress, proclaimed a day of thanksgiving and feasting, and in practical furtherance of his proclamation at once sent out four men in search of game. ‘Thus early in the history of the day does our good friend, the turkey, make his ap- pearance, for successful in their quest the four sportsmen returned, struggling under a-burden of wild fowl, principally turkeys, Suflicient, indeed, to meet the wants of the little colony for days to come. Then the thrifty Puritan housewives took the mat- ter in hand and made all the goodies pos- sible from their somewhat limited supply of material. At the first gray dawn of that first Thanksgiving, Thursday, October 24, one of the great guns that crowned the hilltop thundered forth a salute, and then How brightly beoke the morning On Massachusetts bay, Blue Wave and bright green island Rejoicing in the day. A solemn procession to the meeting house was formed—the men marching three abreast, Hider Brewster in his long preach- er camict coat walking beside them, bear- ing with a gravity befitting the occasion the great Bible, while the sergeant in coun- cil and Governor Bradford brought up the rear. After the service followed the great dinner, whose savory odors had evidently penetrated the forest's fastnesses, for in the midst of the festivities an Indian shout was heard, and a hundred friendly savages, led by Chief Massasoit, appeared as if by magic, bearing as an addition to the feast great haunches of venison. The day of thanksgiving lengthened into three, and the feastings Were varied and interspersed with the si learned around the loved English firesides, the war dances of the savages, and exhibi- ticns of military drill by Capt. Standish’s well-trained soltiery. The festival proved such a success that it was made the prelude iving in the fol- rs throughout the New England colonies. Sometimes it was appointed but once a year, sometimes twice, and for varied reasons. Now it was a victory over the In- dians, then the arriyal of a ship with sup- plies and new colonists, and yet again a bountiful harvest, until later a day near the close of autumn was definitely set apart for especial thanks for harvest in the Massa- chusetts colony. ~ soe EVILS OF COFFEE DRINKING. It is Now Said to Have Caused Dell- rium Tremens. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. “Excessive use of alcoholic drinks is not the only way to develop delirium tremens,” said a physician yesterday. “I noticed an item in a daily paper a few days ago to the effect that a woman near Fort Dodge, Ja., had died of delirium tremens brought on by the excessive use of strong coffee, and I know of a case developed here some time ag> by the same means. The Fort Dodge woman drank from ten to twelve cups of strong coffee at every meal, and in the case I refer to here the man drank as much of the strongest coffee to be had. I have read of a number of cases of this kind of late. I remember when I was called to look after the I refer to here, and ascertained, after I had discovered that it was a case of delirium tremens, that the man had never used strong drink, I couid hardly believe it. I of course knew that the effect of too much coffee was bad, but I did not know that any one found drinking coffee to excess a habit worth following. The seemingly increasing num ber of stich cases, per than Z attention, and we may -veloping ancther evil worse than the 1: But, while coffee become a ge: that it will the evil tha drinks has proved to be.’ Proprietors of cafes and restaurs of the opinion that the use of c creasing, a there are sey Milwaukee that find the alone very protitable. , deserves more be | s are fee is in- fes sale of co! | one who knows Ri GERMA) FREE SPEECH Jail for Saying Disrespectful Things of the Kmperor. From Correspundence of the New York Observer. Three well-known Berlin editors, whose papers are read by the most numerous polit- ical party in Germany, «were recentiy sen- tenced to six, nine and twelve months’ im- prisonment for insulting the emperor and his army. In a free country it is next to impossible to form any adequate notion of the state of affairs of which these extraor- dinary sentences are the outcome. It may be of general interest if I place the case of these newspaper editors in some detail before your rsaders. The emperor early in August resolved that this year's anniver- sary of the battle of Sedan should be cele brated with nore than ordinary jut Expensive minations were erdered poets were vet to work to write pa verses; reviews of troops were arranged: patriotic banquets were subscribed to, In a word, the whole of Germany was urged to show that it had not forgotten the great deeds of the men of 1870. ‘The social democrats are a party of peace, and profess fraternal relations with ali who love peace and liberty the wide world over, and this glorification of the deeds of the French war, this waving of the red flag before their neighbors across the Rhine was spoken of in the socialist press as a glorifi- cation of the military spirit, as tendiffg to keep alive national animosities. It was rothing but hypocrisy to pretend to love peace, and at the same time to do all in one’s power to foster the feeling of hatred and revenge. Sedan was called “St. Sedan” in the socialistic press, and the jubilations were called a “rumpus.” For writing in this strain of a celebration which the em- peror had ordered one of the editors of a leading socialist newspaper was sentenced yesterday to six months’ imprisonment. While the Sedan festivities were in prog- resg a great church in Berlin dedicated to the memory of the first emperor was conse- crated with much pomp and ceremony. Before the necessary funds conld be ob- tained to finish the huge building a good deal of begging had to be done, and the hat was sert around wherever there was a chance of receiving a good subscription. The emperor was greatly interes church, so was the empre: intrusted her chamberlain, Ua with getting in much of the mor peror wrote tne song entitied “An Ode to Aegir,” and devoted the large sums of mone: which the sale of this effort of his mu brougat in to the building fund, ‘The socialist press was watching the pro= ceedings, 2 of people dying of starva- tion and of three millions of marks being spent on this church, spoke of T ch going around with the “cadging bai called the church in mockery the “Ae; Church." For writing in this way of the emperor, Baron Mirbach and the charch the remainin to nine ani ment. Doubtles: ste, in tact and in reverence, but no single sentence v written by any one of them how criminal or which tncited to violence or disorder Berlin is full of the vilest dens of iniquity and shame, her bourse transac- ticns are often scandalous enough, her are impassable for any decent wo- man after dark, but these things go on un- hindercd and ter moral desolation. But if 1 say that Faron Mi dging,”” or hint that the emperor is not sincere in his wishes for peace, I am torn from my wife and children and clapped into gaol for a year. The other day in Leipsic there was a man who gave a public address on the iniquity of compelling the children of dissenters to attend the school religious instruction. He nd said some passtonate things al church. He was drag- ged before a court and was sentenced to two, menths’ imprisonment. her proceedings have been some twenty-five editors of newspapers for being guilty of the mysterious crime of lese_majeste, and eighteen or twenty of them are at present in jail. G 3 great country in many ways. butions to science and art cannot be over- rated, but she is not a free country, and no ia and Germany can th truth that liberty is much better ner two editors were sentenced impris te twelve months they were lacking in say y und. empire. The Chinese Minister Here. from New Yor! y the attaches Spain with him, tto New York te Mr. Yang Yu, the Chinese minister, ar- | erday after- | 13th and F Streets. We Says the Race Should Cultivate Self-Reliance. From a Speech in Philadelphia by Booker Washing- on, The greatest injury that slavery did my people was to deprive them of that execu- tive power, that sense of self-dependence which are the glory and the distinction of the Anglo-Saxon race. For ) years we were taughe to depend on some one else for food, clothing, shelter and for every move in life, and you cannot expect what was 250 years in getting into a race can be gotten out in twenty-five or thirty years, unl We at best put into their midst stian leaders. ither here nor in any part of the world do people come into close relations with a | Face that is to a large extent empty-handed and empty-headed, One race gets near an- other in proportion as they are drawn by commerce, in proportion as the one gets hold of something that the other wants or x 8, Commerce, we must acknowledge in the light of history, is the great fore- runner of civilization and paece. Whatever friction exists between the black and white man in the south will disappear in propor- tion as the black man, by reason of his in- telligence and skill, nN create something that the whites want or respect, can make the white man dependent on the negro for something instead of all the dependence being on the other side. it is important and right that all the privileges of law be ours. It is vastly more important that we be prepared for the ex- ercises Of these privileges, one of us will deny that immediately after freedom we made serious paired We began at the top. We made these mi fakes, not because we were black people but because we were an ignorant and in. experienced peopie. We have spent time and money attempting to go to Congress and state legislatures that could better have been spent in becoming the leading real estate dealer or carpenter in our own couftry. We have spent time and money in making political stump speeches and in attending political conventions that could better have been spent in Starting a dairy farm or truck garden and thus have laid a@ material foundation on which we could have stood and demanded our rights. When a man eats another person's food, wears another perosn’s clothes and lives’ in ane other’s house, it is pretty hard to tell how Be is going to vote or whether he votes at all. We are here; you rise as as we fall; we ure s strong; you are’ wi No power negro countr wrong rise; you fall rong when you are ak when we are weak. ean separate our destiny, The ran afford to be wronged in this é the white man cannot afford to him, a SPARROWS SOLD FOR CANARIES. A Scheme by Which Chicago Fn Are Making Money, From the Chicugo ‘Times-Herald, There is a peculiar industry which is de- veloping in Chicago. It is the painting or dyeing of the plumgge of that little pest known as the English sparrow in colors Uke the carery. The painted sparrows are readily disposed of to the innecent house- wife, who believes that the chirp of a song- ‘d will make the home more cheerful, end who readily paris with the last of her pin money to purchase one of these little This industry has long been es- s sland. The business has peculiar advantages, as ukirs in by these artistic fakirs, for the sparrow is not un‘ike the canary tn size or frame, sid © this, the birds can’be sold for less y thin the imported Hartz mountain aay sburg canary. If, however, the as decided that he or she must h, one can be fu lor the sparrow th end is wanted, the vender ex- plain: at the present time he othing but young ones. But he does not to explain that even t wonderful singer, not be purchased for ¢ Salvation Gil enres frosted feet. there are few people who cannot be take | and then the material always at hand | for the catching. Of course there is an outlay for paints and dyes, but even con- If a bird that will; HOW THE BRIGADIER PLAYED! FOR A KINGDOM, (Copyright, 1805, by Bacheller, Johnson & Bacheller.) (Continued from Saturday's Star.) SYNOPSIS. (After the disastrous retreat of the army of Napoleon from Moscow, Brig. Gerard was sent through German territory, nomi- nally friendly, but really ripe for revolt, to rage troops in France. On his way he has observed with dismay the black looks of the hostile peasants. who in one place drank a mysterious toast to the letter T. A little later he is warned of his peril by a terror-stricken man hidden by the road- side. “It means death to me if I am seen helping you,” the man had sald. “Death! From whom?” asked the brig- adier. “From the Tugendbund. From Lutzow’s Light-riders,” replied the fellow. Soon after the brigadier meet a French officer, almost expiring from a ghastly wound—indeed, he dies before he has finished what he sought to say, yet succeeds in transmitting a message from Napoleon's own hand, to be delivered, at gany hazard, to the Prince of Saxe-Felstein at Hof. On this mission Ger- ard proceeds, and manages to avold the riders. Detained, however, at a small inn by an accident to his horse, he is startled by a woman's cry and hastens to her ald.) CHAPTER IIL. The heavy-cheeked landlord was there and his flaxen-haired wife, the two men from the stables, a chambermaid and two or three villagers. All of them, women and men, were flushed and angry while there In the ‘center of them, with pale cheeks and terror in her eyes, stood the lovellest wo- man that ever a soldier would wish to look upon. With her queenly head thrown back and a touch of defiance mingled with her fear, she looked as she gazed round ‘her like a creature of different race from the vile, “x With Her Qu ply Head Thrown Back coarse-featured crew who surrounded her. I had not taken two steps from my door be- fore she sprang to meet me, her: hands rest- ing upon my arm and her blue eyes spark- ling with joy and triumph. “A French soldier and gentleman!” cried, “now at last I am safe. Yes, madame, you are safe,” said I; and I could not resist taking her hand in mine in order that I might reassure her. “You have only to command me,” I added, kiss- ing the hand as a sign that I meant what I was saying. “Tam Polish,” she cried, “Countess Pa- lotta is my name. They abuse me because I love the French. I do not know what they might have done to me had heaven not sent you to help me.” I Kissed her hand again lest she should doubt my intentions. Then I turned upon the craw with such an expression as I knew how to assume. In an instant the hall was empty. “Countess,” said I. ‘You are now under my protection. You are faint, and a glass of wine is necessary to restore you.” I of- fered her my arm and escorted her into my room, where she sat by my side at the table and took the refreshments which I offered her. How she blossomed out in my presence, this woman, like a flower before the sun! She liz up the room with her beauty. She must have read my admiration in my eyes, and it seemed to me that I could also see scmething of the sort In her own. Ah! my friends, [ was no ordinary looking man when I was in my thirtieth year. In the whole light cavalry it would have been hard to find a finer pair of whiskers. Mu- rat's may have been a shade Jonger, but the best judges are agreed that Murat's were a shade tco long. And then I had a manner. Some women are to be approach- ed in one way and some in another, just as a siege is an affair of fascines and gabions in hard weather and of trenches in soft. But the man who can mix daring with timidity, who can be outrageous with an air of humility, and presumptuous with a tone of deference, that is the man whom mothers have to fear. For myself I felt that I was the guardian of this lonely lady, and knowing what a dangerous man I had to deal with I kept a strict watch upon my- self. Still even a guardian has his privil- eges, and I could not neglect them. But her talk was as charming as her face. In a few words she explained that she was traveling to Poland, and that her brother, who had been her escort, had fal- len ill upon the way. She had more than once met with ill treatment from the coun- try folk because she could not conceal her good will toward the French. Then, turn- ing from her own affairs, she questioned me aboit the army, and so came round to myself and my own exploits. They were familiar to her, she said, for she knew several of Ponlatowski's officers and they had spoken of my doings. Yet she would be glad to hear them from my own lips. Never have I had so delightful a conver- sation. Most women make the mistake of talking too much about their own affairs, but this one listened to my tales just as you are listening now, even asking for | more and more and more. The hours slip- ped rapidly by, and it was with horror that I heard the village clock strike 11, and j.so learned that for four hours I had for- gotten the emperor's business. “Pardon me, my dear lady,” I cried, springing to my feet. “But I must on in- stantly to Hof. She ‘rose a! pale, she ‘o and looked at me with a reproachful face. “And me?’ she ask “What is to become of me? “It is the emperor's affair. I have al- ready stayed far too long. My duty calls me, end I must go.”” You must go? And I must be abandon- ed alcre to these savages. Oh, why did I ever meet you? Why did you ever teach me to rely upon your strength?” Her eyes glazed over, and in an instant she was sobbing upon my bosom. Here’ was a frying moment for a gvardian! Here a time when he had to keep a watch upon a forward young officer. But I was equal to it. I smoothed her rich brown hafr ‘and whispered such consolation as I coud think of in her ear, with one arm around her, it is true, but that was to hold her fst she should faint. She turned her tear-stained face to mine. “Water,” she whispered. “For God's sake, water. I saw that in another moment she would be serseless. I laid the drooping head upon the sofa, and,ihen rushed furtously from the room, huriing from chamber to chamber for a caraffe. It wes some min- j utes before I could get one and hurry back with it, You can imagine my feelings to find the room empty ard the lady gone. Not only was she gone. but her cap and her silver-mounted - riding switch, which had lain upon the table, were gone also. I rushed out and reared for the landlord. He knew nothing of the matter, had never scen the woman before, and did not care if he never saw her again. Hal the peasants at the door seen any one ride away? No, they had seen nobody. I searched here and searched there, till at last I chanced to find myself in front of a mirror, where T stood with my eyes staring and my jaw far dropped as the chin strap of my ko would aliow. Four buttons of my pelisse were open, and it did no‘ need me to put my hand up te know that my precious pa: were gone. Oh, h of cunning that lurks eart! She had robb bed me as she while I smoothed her h: into her ear her h my dol- in a woma on at wi |rean. And here 1 w ia of my journey carrying out this j ready deprived 0: and was likely to r What would the heard that I would the arm, of iis Ji other of his er And when they heard that a woman's hand had coaxed them from me, what laughter there would be at the mess table and at campfire! I could have rolled upon the ground in my despair. But one thing was certain—all this affair of the fracas in the kall and the persecu- tion of the so-called countess was a piece of acting from the beginning. This villain- ous innkeeper must be in the plot. From him I might learn who she was and where my papers had gone. I snatched my saber from the table and rushed out in search of him. But the scoundrel had guessed what I would do, and had made his prep- arations for me. It was in the corner of the yard that I found him, a blunderbuss in his hands and a_mastiff held upon a leash by his son. The two stable hands with pitchforks stood upen each side, and the wife held a great lantern behind him So as to guide his aim. “Ride away, sir, ride away!" he cried, with a crackling voice. “Your horse is at the door and no one will meddle with you if you go your way, but if you come against us you are alone against three | brave men.” I had only the dog to fear, for the two | H t forks and the blunderbuss were shaking abcut like branches in a wind. Still I con- sidered that though I might force an an- swer with my sword point at the throat of this fat rascal, still I should have no means of knowing whether that answer was the truth. It would be a struggie then with much to lose and nothing certain to gain. i looked them up and down, therefore, in a way that set their fcolish weapons shaking worse than ever, and then throwing myself upon my mare I galloped away with the shrill laughter of the landlady jarring upon my ears. I had already formed my resolution. Al- thovgh I had lost my papers I could make @ very good guess as to what their contents would be, and this | would say from my own lips to the prince of Saxe-Felstein as though the emperor bad commissioned me to convey it in that way. It was a bold streke, and a dangerous one. But if I went too far I could afterwards be disavowed. it was that or nothing, and when all Ger- many hung in the balance the game shouid not be lost if the nerve of one man could save it, it was midnight when I rode into Hof, but every window was blazing, which ‘was enough in itself In that sleep country to tell the ferment of excitement in which the people were. There was hooting and jeering as I rode through the crowded stree and once a stone sang past my head; but I kept upon my way, neither slowing nor quickening my pace, until I had come to the palace. It was It from base to battle- ment, and the dark shadows coming and going against the yellow glare spoke of the turmoil within. For my part, I handed my mare to a groom at the gate, and, striding in, I demanded, in such a tone as an ambas- sador should have, to see the prince instant- ly upon business which would brook no de- lay. The hall was dark, but I was conscious as I entered of a buzz of innumerable voices which hushed into silence as I loudly pro- claimed my mission. Some great meeting was being held then—a meeting which, as my instincts told me, was to decide this very question of war avd peace. 1t was possible that I might still be in time to turn the scale for the emperor and for France. As to the major domo, he looked blackly at me; and showing me into a small antechamber he left me. A minute later he returned to say that the prince could not be disturbed at present, Lut that the princess would take my message. The princess! Ing It to her? Had I not bi warned that she was German in heart and soul, and that it was she who was turning her husband and her state against us? It is the prince that I must see,” said I. ‘Nay, it is the princess," said a voice at the door, and a woman swept into the cham- ber. ‘‘Von Rosen, you had best stay with us. Now, sir, what is it that you rave to say to either prince or princess of Saxe- Felstein?” At the first sound of the voice I had sprung to my feet. At the first glance I had thrilled with anger. Not twice in a lifetime does one meet that noble figure, that queenly head, those eyes as blue as the Garonne, und as chilling as her winter waters. “Time es, sir!” she cried, with an im- patient tap of her foot. ‘What have you to say to me?” vhat have I to say to yo I cried. “What can I say save that you have taught me never to trust 1 woman more. You have ruined and dishoa 2 me forever.” She looked with arched brows at her at- tendant. “Is thig the raving of fever, or does it come from some less innocent cause?” said she. “Perhaps a little blood letting ——" “Ah, you can act!" I cried. shown me that glready Do you mean that we have met before?” “I mean that you have ropbed me within the last two hours.” “This is past all b an admirable affect ou have ring.” she cried, with tion of anger. “You claim, as I understand, to be an ambassa- dor, but there are limits to the privileges which such an office bri ith it” You brazen it admin said 1. “Your highness will not make a fool of me twice | in one night.” I sprang forward, and, stoop. ing down, caught up the hem of her dress. “You would have done well to change it a’ ter you had ridden so far and so fast,” said I. It was the dawn upon a snow peak to sce her ivory checks flush suddenly to crimson. “Insolent!" she cried. “Call the foresters and have him thrust from the palace! “I will see the prince first.” “You will never see the pritice. Ah! Hold him, Von Rosen, hold him!” She had forgotten the man with whom she had to deal. Was it likely that I would wait until they brought their rascals? She had shown me her cards too soon. Her game was to stand between me and her husband. Mini s to speak face to face with him at any cost. One spring took me out of the chamber. In another I crossed the hall. An instant later I had burst into the great room from which the murmur of the meeting had come. At the far end I saw a figure upon a high chair under a dais, Beneath him was a line of high dig- nitaries, and then on every side I saw vaguely the heads of a v embly. Into the center ef the room I strode, my saber clanking, my shako under my arm. “I am the messenger of the emperor,” I shouted. “I hear his message to his high- ness, the Prince of Saxe-Felstein.” (To be concluded tomorrow.) —— 50,000 PER TON. WORTH &2, abhor Can Make Out of aS Quantity of Pig Iron. From Tron. = At the recent meeting of the South Staf- fordshire Institute of Iron and Stecl Works’ Managers Thomas Morris presented some interesting facts about the remarkable achievements that have been reached in the manufacture of fine wire. He pointed out that the Warrington wire manufacturer who presented him with many of the specimens got $4.32 per pound, or over $8,600 per ton, for the specimen of drawn wire, which was largely used in the censtruction of piano and other musical and mechanical instruments. For the pin- icn wire he got $21.60 per pound, or $43,200 per ton. It took 74 hair springs to weigh an ounce of -47!2 grains. It took 27,000,000 of them to weigh a ton, and, taking one to be worth a c and a half, the value of a ton of these apparently cheap little things ran up to over $400,000, The barbed instrument used by dentists for extracting nerves from teeth was even more expen- sive, representing a rate of $2,150,000 per ton. A mile length of No. 19 size wire only weighed 21 pounds, and many of the ingots were 12 to 1f ewt. each, and after allowing for all waste they could get 50 miles of wire from one ingot. Gi | What _A Littl Fascinated with Uie wi OUL WOXDE Absolutely Pure Milk From the Farm of John B. Scott, near Silver Spring Station, Montgomery County, Md. A MUCH NEEDED ARTICLE NOW OFFERED TO THE PEO- PLE OF WASHINGTON. See Sworn Statement of Dr. John Lockwood, a Veterinary Surgeon of High Standing in His Profession: TO THE HEALTH 0} ICER, D. ©. SIR: In compliance with an act of Congress of March 2d, 1895, from the Health Department of the District of Columbia to bring or send milk tq obtain a. perm milk into said District: OCTOBER 29th, 1895. requiring the producers o This is to certify thut I have exarained the herd of Forty Cattle on the farm of Jno. B. Scott, situated near Silver Spring Station in Montgomery county, Md. kept in a barn which is scrupulously clean, iments of same are as near perfect as they can be made. healthy condition; I find them to be in a perfectly ‘The ventilating and light depart- These cattle are watered from a Stream of pure water running through their pasture, aud I can see no reason why the milk pro- duced at this farm should not be of the very best quality. Signature—JOHN LOCKWOOD, D. V. 8. Address, 309 6th st. nw. Perecnally appeared before me this Sth day of November the subscriber, who being duly swort Geposes and says that he is a Veterinary Surgeou, practicing In accordance with the laws or the state In which he resides, and that he has perso ly examined the cattle referred to in the above statement and knows them to te the same as are referred to in the application to which this certificate is appended, and that their condition is correctly described without evasion or concealment. Signature-JOHN LOCKWOOD, D. V. 8. Address 309 6th xt. uw. WASHINGTON, Nov. Sth, 1895. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Sth day of November, 1895. ead LEWIS 1. O'NEAL, Notary Public, D. C Mr. JOHN B. SCOTT: BRIGHTWOOD, D. C., April 26, 1895. DEAR SIR: I take great pleasure in recommending the milk from your farm at Silver Springs, Md. I have used ft in my family, nd have found it to be universally pure and sw cldcdly the best milk that has ever been delivered to me. » and de- I shall take great pleasure in recom: mending my friends and patrons to ase this milk for their children, One can the more enjoy the drinking of this milk after having paid your dairy farm a visit. one to do. - Yours truly, EVERY K ‘This I should advise every- CHARLES G. STONE, M. D. OWN MEANS ISED TO SECURE PURE, RICH, HEALTHFUL MILK. The best feeds, care, light and ventilation. 50 degrees and put in scaled glass bottles. All feed is pure as that used in the household Milk aerated as soon as drawn from the cows, with pure air under pressure, which removes every traee of animal odor. Immediately cooled below No brewer's grain or any feed from which its nutritious qualities have been extracted is used on my * farm. lending physicians. Absolute cleanliness in cvery step of the work is rigidly insisted upon. Can refer to many Delivered at Residences Daily In Sealed Glass Bottles at 8 cents per quart. Address by Postal to Everett Scott, Manager, 1405 14th St. N. W., Washington, D. C. Intensely Interesting ClothingTalk We secured the bulk of Fine Clothing at the dissolution sale of Edelstein & Frank—manufacturing clothiers—and se- cured it way below what it costs just to make. We're g:ing to share this good fortune with yon. Going to sell you clothing at pricesyou’ve never seen quoted befo.c. These below are only a few of the tempting bargains, Three large floors full. Pen’s Suits, $3.50 Only 149 of them. They're good suits. Lots of wear and service in them—and comfort, too. Men’s Suits, $6. Only 47, BLACK CHEVIOT. Ele- gantly made apd finished. All wool. Shetland Suits—$6.48. Harris’ Hair-line Suits—$7.50. Gay Worsted Sults—$s. Overcoats, $7.50 All 240 Bine and Black Kerseys. wool, Worsted body lining. Satin sleeves. And fit like talloremnde. $18 and $20 is what you'd expect to pay for them here—or elsewhere. Men's Bliz- zard B.eakers “$7.50. = Boys’ Storm Coats, $ $1.50. ¥ 809 of them. $1.50 isn't half what it costs to make and trim these © BOYS’ SUITS $4, $5, $6, $60, $7.50 = SHORT PANTS 58 ‘S & Boys’ STORM COATS.$1 z cna éVictor E. Adler’s ¢ TEN PER CENT CLOTHING HOUSE. 3 STRICTLY ONE PRICE 927-9 7th St. COR. MASS. AVE. Open evenings ti 9; Saturdays til 11, Tod . $5, $0.50, $7.50 Pa. Christmas. We mention a few of our goods specially suitable for Christmas pres- ents, and cordially invite you to call early and make your selection. Music Boxes, Music Rolls, Music Books, Music Cab= inets, Large Size Phote= graphs of Great Musi- cians, Autoharps, Ac cordions, Violins and all kinds of Small Instru- ments. We also call your attention to our large and handsome stock of CHICKERING And other makes of PIANOS. Mason & Hamlin Organs. The “Petite Bijou” Piano, price On easy payments, or at a handsome discount for short time only $60. or cash. John F. Ellis &Co., 937 Pa. Ave. N.W., Near roth St. dacl2iit Soeeepetetedeteee peated | Boy Bargains in Long Hair Switches 50. Formerly $5.00. Forinerly $1 $6.50. Formerly §10. G7 Piret-ciaas ‘ttendunce in Hair Dressing, Su ete. “Curlette,"" for keeping the hair in S. HELLER’S, 720 7 7th Street N. W. Rudden’s Credit House, 513 7th St. vive these for Xmas gifts. Give substantial Christmas pres- ents—useful—tasteful and enduring, give parlor & banquet lamps. eee A supe'b line of Novelty Parlor and Bane * * quet Lamps with beautiful silk and porces * Inin shades. Beauties at $3, and from * that figure up. All the time you want to ** pay for them. give a handsome rocker. * _ Usclers to enumerate the vast number of * Rockers we have in stock this year. * There's a whole floor full of them, and * ail of late design. We're offering a beau- * tful Mahogany Polished Rocker, polished seat, for $5 that was $7. if you want it. with Credit oe eee give a nice oak chiffonier. * A beautiful $12 Polished Oak Chiffonter with flye doors for $7.50. give a nice room suite. As @ grand Christmas special, especially for gift givers, we are offering a $35 Highly Pollsbed Oak 3-plece Bed Room Suite, 24130 bevel plate mirror, for $20 5 |give carpet. Brussels Carpet from 0c. up. ® Ingrain Carpet from 35. up. vat MADE, LALD and LINED free of chargy Rudden’s, 513 Seventit Street. del4-100d Christmas Gifts, Choose From These. They Please Everybody. Skates and Sleds, Ladies’ and Men’s Sweaters, Boxing Gloves, Striking Bags, Foot Balls, Dumb Bells and Clubs, Whitely Fxercisers, Ladies’ Leggins, Doll Swings, ” Watches (real timiekeepers). Boys’ and Girls’ Bicycies. CLINE BROS., 9 og Pa. Ave. Open evenings ‘till Christmas. ALL GASES OF DEAFNESS, CATARRH, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS And Other Lung Troubles are treated by me with due regard to each indl- vidual condition, no detail too small to neglect, hot one remedy for everything—that ts why I am successful In curing this class of diseases. Consul- tation free. Dr. Jordan, 1421 F St. N. W. Office hours, 9 to 11 a.m., 2 to $:30 and 6 to & p.m. ael4-2) sees sees eeee eee eee deit PLDI (Rugs, Hassocks Whether you wish to pl all th or any i r vidoal 7, Sou cout and possibly: better | and user KMS furnishings from iment will | “pleasing su: |G. ods.) (THE Houghton co., Bunions, Ingrowing and Club Nails Our Specialty. PROF. J. J. GEORGES & SON. Cuiropedista, 1115 Pa. ave. Hours—s to 6:30. 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