Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1896, Page 11

Feb. 28, 1808 —58c. instead of $1 for 4-but- ton and 5-hook Gloves, in white, pearl and street shades! —o8e. instead of the right rices, $1.50 and $1.75, for 4- uutton Real French Kid Gloves as well as &button-length Dressed and Undressed Gloves. LOUVRE GLOVE CO, 919 FST. It O94 W. D. Clark & Co., (Washington's Stralgatforward Dry Goods House, 811 Pa. Ave. SILK - EXHIBIT & SALE Tomorrow! Ask the shrewdest women shoppers wh. they can buy silks to the best advunt ard they will tell you at Clark 260 ‘They have foo! reasos for so doing. We view the best preduets of the leading silk makers on both continents, picking from the world’s bests: ‘The first spring exhidit of spring silks will occur tomorrow, and you are especially vited to call, whether you have any idea purchasing or not. in- of Silks will be exesedingly fashionable this spring. All Paris 's agog with exquisite Silk Waists and Black Silk Separate Skirts. Satin Duchess, 83c As an opening we sha ‘gant Plain Blac! nionable for making 1 fer to- Satin Duch- Separate ™ 83¢. yd. Another grand vale for making Separate Skirts ts a chess. Worth $1 We are selling at i . Wash S iks, 29C. Another ¢ peta the displiz of Wash Ki Ki at! Stiks In a variety ef beautiful ¢ ts, im ch cks, stripes and small p , 35 and 40e, Othersilk bargains Beantif patterns Large Barre patterns tn Plaid Silks + the new spring waists; Sie. and $1.10. Bilk story! in Black Jacquard for A column wouldn't tell half the W. D. Clark & Co., 811 Pa. Ave. it The [Most Difficult Photos To Take —are those of cuildren. Yet WE hare difficulty in securing splendid Guess it's because we . Ask to see our “MEZZO TINTS,” 3 inst quisitely finished. eeeeee eeeees eos & Ly 5 2 likenesses. have bad so much . 34 like steel engravings. ' Ex- W. H. Staiee, 1107 F St., Buecessor to M. B. BRADY. Your credit is rood== Don’t wonder if that means you. ’Cause it does. It means everybody who wants Furniture, arpets, ‘Mattings, ; Draperies, Stoves, Ranges, Crockeryware, ‘Bedwear, Pictures, Bric-a-Brac, Baby Carriages, Office Furniture, or anything else in our line. And the only requirement we make is that whatever terms of payment you agree to—you will live up to. Our REMOVAL SALE has made some very interest- ing concessions on the prices of everything in our five steres. House & Herrmann, ‘The Leading Housefurnishers, 917, 919. 921 ND Std 638 pS fe23-16d i PURE BLOOD_SOUND NERVES—HEALTH. ———But how to get such blood and nerves fs the question; aud straight back comes the answer: Trinolea-= Is a concentrated food- tonic, rich fn nerve, strength and tissue- butlding rties. “It is od for Wasting Diserses— od for Coughs and Colds— ood for Conmemption— hoes Good for itis a od for Weak Crildren— ed for School Chikiren— Keller Pharmacal Co., 221m Baltimore, Mé. THE POSTAL MUSEL It is Again Opened in the Post, Office Department. A COLLECTION OF RARE INTEREST Mail Accouterments and Devices From All Over the World. MANY QUAINT CURIOS The museum at the Post Office Depart- ment fs attracting many visitors. The ar- rangement of the exhibits is excellent, and many important addittons have been added since the museum was removed to Atlanta for the exposition. The collection of pos- tal appliances is very complete, and the many curios to be seen are extremely in- teresting. One of the most interesting features of the museum is the mail team used in the pine woods of northern Michigan, on the run from Sault Ste. Marie to Mackinaw. Three stuffed dogs, which two years ago were alive and in active service, are har- nessed to a toboggan, on which are strap- ped two mail pouches, and by the side. stands the hardy Indian driver, in the act of whipping the dogs on. One of the splen- did modern sixty-foot mail cars {s shown by a very complete model, constructed on one-sixth of the original scale. It is com- pletely fitted within, even to the electric lights and heaters. Several models of steamboats are shown, among them the Oklawaha, a flat boat steamer, used on the rivers of Florida to carry mails. The first American steamer to carry mail across the Atlantic, the side-wheeler Southern, is shown by an excellent model. In contrast to it ts a fine model of the City of Paris, a type of the splendid greyhounds of the ocean which now carry the mail between the two continents. In glass cases arranged about the room are figures showing the uniform and ac- couterments of the railway mail clerk, the special delivery boy, the letter carrier and also of letter carriers in other countries. Our nimble-footed graybacks, who now and then complain bitterly of the regulations that prevent them from wearing an over- coat in winter, would have probably still ag grievous complaints to make if they were obliged to wear the uniform and ac- couterments of the Swedish letter carrier. He wears a big heavy belt eight inches wide, from which hangs his sword, a car- tridge box, a bugle, a passport bag, a re- volver and a metallic letter box, provided with lock and key. All the European let- ter carriers are more heavily accoutered than they are in this country, and many of them are obliged to carry a horn or bugle. The uniforms of various countries are shown in glass cases without models. Gaudy Suits of Carriers. Among them are the dark blue of Great Britain, with gold and red trimmings; the dark blue cloak and yellow leggings of Switzerland; the gaudy white and blue of the Queensland and Cape Colony carriers; the snow-white linen sult of the town post- men of India and the blue silk garments of the Japanese. One of the mest interesting in these representations of letter carriers is that of the inland postman of India, who makes six or eight miles an hour, wears cnly a breech clout and carries, besides his letter pouch, a short spear with half a dozen bells jingling at the spearhead. All manner of helmets are shown. Perhaps the largest fs that worn in Cape Town, which 1s snow- white and is nearly as large as a Panama hat. The Japanese letter carrier probably wears the most comfortable headgear, his Eat being a basket-like affair, wide and deep, with a light wire-like frame setting about the head, so that the air has full cix- culation all over his cranium. All manner of letter pouches, registered #cks and mail bag lecks are shown in the museum, none of them being any very great improvement on those which we use in this eountry. The Russian pouches are perhaps the most peculiar of any. They are locked by heavy chains, every link of which is held under a staple. One of these bags 1s of heavy leather, four feet wide and about eight iong. The Mexican letter bags are very similar to our own, as are also their letter carrier uniforms. Indeed, a photo- graph of Mexican letter carriers represents a body of men looking very much like Anglo- Saxons. ; The first thing to confront the visitor at the door is a representation of a mounted mail carrier on the long star route service of the west. He sits bestride a good-looking nag and fs himself clad in a sensible garb of a cowboy, with a ready six-shooter at his Mp and his saddle bags firmly tied on be- Lind. The piece would be much improved ff {t were a little more realistic, with a heavy Mexican bridle and saddle. Contraband Articles. In cases are shown large numbers of ar- ticles seized in the mails as contraband. Among them ts a log of wood four feet long, a bunch of sleigh bells, an alligator, several flasks of whisky, sets of handcuffs, false teeth, hoes, coffee pots, roller skates, immense rag dolls, and a great variety of curious, interesting and pretty things. In this case also is shown the skull which was sent through the mails to Dr. Gross in Philadelphia with $3.19 of postage due on it. The doctor refused to receive the grue- some package, and the department sent it to the museum. There Js in this collection also an alligator four feet long, a fine Sloux Pipe, a large centipede that was mailed alive In a newspaper, a rattlesnake four feet long, two inches in diameter at the largest part, and bearing nine rattles, and an Indian scalp. The museum has the mailbag which the Apaches rifled when they murdered Star Routeman Peterson in* Arizona in 1889. Here is shown a postal card that went around the world in 120 days, and a regis- tered letter that traveled for six months, and is entirely covered with superscriptions. Franklin's Accounts. In a little case near the door ts one of Benjamin Fratklin’s account books when he was Postmaster Gereral. In another case is a bucket which the railway mail men sent all over the United States ang to Europe, after which it was returned and was exhibted at Atlanta. The tags on it are legion, and the sentiments expressed are more or less funny. In a large frame on the wal are shown photographs of the oldest employes of the department. Among them is the face of Roswell Beardsley of North Lansing, who has been postmaster of that place con- tinuously since June 28, 1828. Among these eldest employes are two well-known in Washington: Matthew Turner of the sixth avditor’s office, who became a clerk August 15, 1849, and J. L. Smith, who sella stamps at the city post office. He entered the ser- vice in 1849 also. Through the west w'ndows of the museum may be seen the old western stage coach in which Garfleld rode when on his famous overland journey in the Reckies. wly going to pieces in the rain and sun, and it Is propesed to shelter it with a cano- py and cover the sides at night with tar- paulin. —_——.__ Piracy Off the Chinese Coast. From the San Francisco Chronicle. Particulars have reached Hong Kong of a daring case of piracy about sixty miles north of that place. According to the papers which arrived yesterday, a junk, while on a voyage from Pinghol to Hong Kong with a cargo of general merchandise, was attacked by two pirate junks and fifty pirates outside Nimshan. The crew of the trading junk observed the pirate approach- ing, and fired two shots from a cannon, both without effect. The pirates drew alongside, firing ‘all the time, threw stink- pots on board, and then boarded. One of the crew was shot in the arm and a pas- senger in the leg. The crew and passengers were driven be- low and kept under the hatches, while the pirates steered the junk into a bay, where it was kept for two days and two nights. About two-thirds of the cargo was removed to the shore, as well as the money and clothing of the passengers. The junk was then taken out to sea and turned adrift, afterward being run into Hong Kong. The crew numbered twelve men and there. Were three passengers on board. The value of the stolen cargo and olothing ia set down at between $6,000 and $7,000. [THE LITTLE STONE HOUSE/YOUNG GOMEZ DEAD| Ts is Now the Home of the Lutheran Sunday School. \ The Fifth Religious Denomination in Brookland—The Tragedy of the Fisher Obildren Revived. The suburb of Brookland is developing a greater interest in religious matters than ny of the communities bordering on the city. Already there are four denomination- al congregations, three of which, the Bap- tist, Episcopal and Methodist, have already comfortable houses of worship, and the fourth, the Catholic, is erectit @ neat frame church, which will be ready for oc- cupancy in June. Now the Lutherans of-that vicinity are endeavoring to «tablish a church. They have begun by organizing a Sunday school so that the children may have the proper instruction. The older people can go to the city for services, but it is impossible to sond the little ones there for Sunday school. Many children had already started to the Baptist Church, go that this move- ment will leave some vacancies in that congregation. The place selected for holding Sunday school is the “‘little stone house” on Bunker Hill road, near the Queen's Chapel road. Mrs. Geo. M. Pfluger kindly gave them the use of this house, and those at the head of the movement have fitted it up nicely. The walls and woodwork have been neatly painted, the floor has been carpeted, and an organ and chairs have been se- cured. The room is kept warm by a small stove. The Sundny School Organization. This Sunday school is in reality a mission of Christ Church of this city. Rev. Chas. C. Morhart, the pastor of Christ Church, together with Mr. Geo. Johannis, Mr. W. H. Germann and Mr. J. H. Albers have been the promoters in establishing the school. The teachers are also from the congregation of Christ Church. The rising mission feels assured of the ald of asso- ciate churches, so the undertaking does pot appear as heavy to them as it really The Sunday school has only been organ- ized one week, but even in that time there has been a gradual increase. On the open- ing Sunday, the 16th instant, things looked very hopeful, for there was an attendance of about twenty-five children. At the ser- vices which followed Sunday school about sixty-five persons were present. With such @ beginning and steady and faithful work on the part of all, there is no doubt that the Lutherans will prosper. The congrega- tion seems to be an energetic one and will- ing to do all it can for the advancement of this movement. The fact that the promo- ters go from the city every Sunday plainly shows their earnestness in this direction. Despite Rev. C. C. Morhart’s many duties, he is willing to give his time to the rising congregation. Mr. Morhart conducted the services the first Sunday, but it is probable he will only go out once in a while in the future. The little house is only large enough for a Sunday school, and if it is decided to have services also, other quar- ters will have to be secured. This is the future plan of the Lutherans. Then a new church will be started, and a fifth edifice will be begun in Brookland. This, how- ever, will not materialize for some time, as the present work will be confined to the complete and perfect organization of a Sunday school and the gathering together of the children which belong to its fold. The teachers at present are Miss Schlerf, Miss Wolf, Miss Schmidt and Miss Miller, and Mr. Albers, Mr. Germann and Mr. Jo- hannis. The organist is Miss Charlotte Schlerf. Sunday school will begin every Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, and it is expected that the little flock will be in- creased day by day. The Little Stone House. A history of the little “stone house,” which has played a strange part in years gone by, will not be amiss here. On the side facing the Bunker Hill road is a white stone bearing the inscripiion, “Erected March, 1960," but it is asserted by some to be older than that. The little house was then the lodge gatehouse of the Dundass estate. The fine mansion was situated some distance from the road, and then the place was known by the fanciful name of “Chilly Castle.” Everything about the estate was well taken care of, and beautiful gardens were spreaé before the house. Mr. Wood was the next occupant, and after him Mr. and Mrs. Fisher and family. The little lodge house had been rented from time to time to people in poor cir- cumstances. At ihe time Mrs. Fisher icok Possession of Chilly Castle a family of colored people lived in the stone house. With the old colored woman Mrs. Fisher often intrusted ihe childrens until one day, when she came home and could not find them. Upon being questioned the old colored woman id at first she did not know where they were, but at last confess- ed that she had murdered them, and their bodies were found in the bushes. For some years after this awful tragedy both lodge house and mansion were shun- ned. In the meantime the estate passed from Dundass to Mr. Geo. Pfluger, who now owns It. On account of the murder of the Fisher children the beautiful Chilly Castle was torn down and the present house erected on the foundation. The grounds have been transformed into fertile market gardens, and many changes have been made. The lodge house has heen rented to different parties, but for some time has been vacant. . In the late war the lodge house played an important part as a jail. Here prisoners were kept until they could be removed to other quarters. And so the little brown “stone house,” as it is called today, has been lodge house, jail, dwelling and’ Sun- day school. ——.__ A LIVE STOCK CENSUS. Interesting Facts About Horses, Cows, Sheep and Hoga. From the New England Homestead. The annual live-stock investigation places the aggregate value of all classes of farm animals in the country January 1 at $1,860,- 420,000, a decline during the year of $6%,- 139,000. This is the lowest point yet reach- ed since the decline began in 1803, when the total value of animals on the farm was re- Ported at $2,483,083,000, a shrinkage in three years of $622,063,000, or 25 per cent. The returns for the present year indicate that the depth of the depression has been reach- ed and that an era of gradual jmprovement ‘He Oontered on Himsolf the. Hatred. of the Spaniards, His Remarkable Fortitude While Sufs. : fering for His Efforts in Bee - half of Cuba. Mr. Gonzalo de Quesada and Mr. Horatio 8. Rubens, the secretary and counsel, re- Spectively, of the Cuban legation in this city, do not place any credence in the tele- grams from Hevana, which indicate the Probable death of Gen. Antonio Maceo, cne ot the two great leaders of the insurgent forces. Both gentlemen, however, were very much affected by more definite news of the death of two of their very close friends and warm adherents of the Cuban cause. Mr. Manual de la Cruz, private secretary of Minister Tomas Estrada Palme, died suddenly in New York Thursday night and will be buried tomorrow. Mr. de 1a Cruz was but thirty-two years of age, but had already achieved the eminence of being re- garded as Cuba’s most distinguished young writer and a Hterary critic of fine discrim- ination. and excellent judgment. The Death of Young Gomes. Messrs. Quesada and Rubens had also re- ceived news of the death, at Ceuta, Africa, of Juan Alberto Gomez, who was the rep- resentative of Marti in Havana previous to the outbreak of the present insurrection, and through whom Marti sent his com- Taunications to the different chiefs of the island, as well as the final order for the present uprising. Gomez was a light-col- ored mulatto, about forty-five years of age, and was regarded as an able journalist. He edited La Lucha, and published a news- paper himself previous to that time, in which he was the first in time of peace to openly print separatist propaganda. This led him into trouble with the Spanish au- thorities, his newspaper was suspended and Gomez was imprisoned. The cause was tried in the Cuban courts and thence trans- ferred to Spain, where the highest court decided that such teachings were within the constitution as long as they did not j@dvise a resort to force. In the Hands of the Spanish. Gomez was one of the first leaders to rise against the Spanish authority during the present rebellion, which he did on February 24, last year, with a few followers. This was near Matanzas; and the Spanish soldiers quickly dispersed the small body and Gomez was forced to surrender. He came within the provision of the decree of the captain general which granted amnesty to all thosa who surrendered within eight days, and he Was taken to the palace in Havana, where he was liberated. In coming down the mar- ble steps, however, he was rearrested and thrown into prison on the charge that he had bought arms for the followers who had risen with him, and he was tried and condemned to twenty years’ penal servitude in Africa. Previous to his deportation to Spain he was confined in Moro Castle, where he was treated atrociously and his vigorous health undermined. In the trials of San Guilly, Coloma and Aguirre,-Gomez refused to be a government witness and shouldered the responsibility for all the acts that had been charged against the government, sny- ing that he did everything which was at- tributed to them. Exhibited in Cha Gomez was sent to Spain in chains and carried through that country in that condi- tion and displayed to the people, who reviled him and stoned him on frequent occasions. He was then sent to Ceuta, the penal colony of Spain in Africa, where the merciless ven- weance of the Spanish government pursued him still more bitterty. The Spaniards stop- ped all correspondence between him and his family and all writing materials were taken from him. He was treated to horrors and indignities that were appalling. Tho last letter received from Gomez was smuggled through the Moorish lines, It was written in his own blood, apparently with the sptli tered end of a stick or match, and t ghastly proof of Spanish cruelty 1s kept to- day by his stricken family. In this letter zomez begged his friends not to write to him and asked them not to send money to him or any other of the prisoners at Ceuta, because the Spanish authorities appropri- ated the money to their own uses. As yet the actual cause of Gomez's death is not known, but the Cubans believe that he was the victim of the policy which the Spanish government is pursuing against the revolu- tionists whenever it gets them into their in prices is now at hand. The shrinkage of the past twelve months has been mainly in horses and hogs, cows showing a slight in- crease in the aggregate value and other classes of cattle a substantial gain, horses alone appearing the doubtful quantity, but even here the feeling among the most far- sighted breeders being that the worst has been passed. According to the live-stock census there were in the United States January 1 a total of 15,867,000 horses, a decrease of 215,000 during the year; milch cows 17,787,- 000, an increase of 336,000; other cattle, 32, 602,000, an increase 204,000; 302,000, a decrease of 759,000, and sheep 32,- 848,000, a severe shrinkage of 2,971,000. The most striking feature regarding horses is the decline in average value per head, amounting to $7.50 or near 18 per cent in a year. The steadily increasing prom!nence of the dairy is reflected by a further in- crease in numbers of milch cows, making dairy herds larger than ever before re- ported. In this respect, this class of farm stock 1s unique with an increase during the last three years of a little less than 10 per cent in numbers, and an increase in value of 42 cents, while every other class,of farm stock has decreased, both in numbers and value. The average value of all the milch cows is $22.12, and of other cattle $17.30. In sheep the flocks of the country from 1880 te 1893 increased by nearly 5,000,000 head; 1896 they have decreased a’ the rate of 5,000,000 a year, or from 47,274, 000 to 82,848,000. Even this fails to measur: the full loss, as the average value of those remaining shows a shrinkage of 91 cents per head, or 84 per cent. The total hog supply, 32,848,000, showed a decrease of le than 2 per cent in spite of considerable losses from sickness last fall Principal hog states. ————+o+______ L. L. Bull, a conductor on the Baltimore and Ohio rafiroad, has been arrested, charg- ed with robbing express cars. He was held for-a hearing. in some of the power. — THE GILA MONSTER’S BITBR. Cases Showing the Terrific Power of Its Venom. Caltfornia Letter to the New York Sun. The death of three persons, one a nat- uralist from Chicago University, in Ari- zona in the last few weeks from the bite of the Gila monster has renewed discus- sicn in this region concerning the terrible, venomous nature of the reptile. Without doubt the Gila monster of the alkall plains and the hot, dry mountain canons of Ari- zona and the state of Sonora in Mexico, is the deadliest venomous creature known to the natural history of North America. Gila monster is a ridiculous misnomer. The reptile 1s a combination of the basilisk of India and Java and the common rattle- snake of this country. It has a counter- part in a reptile found in the lava beds of the Hawalian Islands, but 1s much the deadlier of the two. ‘It is about twenty inches in length, and in girth about the size of a boy's erm. One of the few authentic cases of re- covery from the bite of a Gila monster {s that of Walter H. Vail of Phoentx, Ariz., who is one of the best known and wealth- jest cattlemen in the territory. While Mr. Vail was engaged in supervising a round-up of his cattle in the Gila river region of Arizona im 1390 he took luncheon one day in a chaparal. He went to re- saddle his horse, after the meal, and, while picking up a saddle cloth from the hot earth, his hand was bitten by a Gila mon- ster that had crawled there a moment be- fore. Of course Mr. Vail knew instantly that he was probably a doomed man. His ranchmen came to his aid at once. The reptile was killed and the jaws were cut away from Mr. Vail’s hand. Quicker than it takes to pen these words the man’s arm was bound tight at the elbow to check the flow of blood, the wound was cut open and strong ammonia poured in, while very co- pious draughts of whisky were poured down Mr. Vall’s throat. He was put on a horse, and, accompanied by his cowboys, rode like mad for fifteen miles to the home of a physician in Tucson. . Several brief stops were made to force more liquor down Mr. Vail’s thrcat and to pour ammonia on the wourd on the hand. For three weeks Mr. Vail lay almost between life and death at the home of a physician in Tuc- son. Physicians were summoned for con- sultation from Phoenix and even from Los Angeles. Everything that money could buy or science suggest was done for the patient. He had a streng, vigorous constitution, and in the course of a few months he was as well gs ever. He is still in the cattle busi- ness in the territory. Every one in the southwest has heard of the wonderful re- covery of Walter Vail from the bite of a Gila monster. Several years ago a Chinese laundryman was poking his fingers through the wires of a little cage that imprisoned a Gila monster in a saloon at Tempe, Ariz. The celestial thought the reptile asleep, but when he had forced his finger too far in the cage the sluggish Gila monster bit him quicker than a wink. The Chinaman wrenched his finger loose, making a severe wound clear to the bone. He refused whisky or any help from @ physician, and took a powerful doge of eptum in order to relieve the pain. Of gourse, everybody in Tempe expected the heathen to die, and when he lived until the next day it was the biggest kind of surprise. The China- man’s friends gave him opium hourly for several days. The poor fellow suffered, in spite of the powerful drug, unspeakable agony, but he recovered. He was practi- cally a physical wreck for nearly a year after the Gila monster poison went into his system, and was only able to sit or le about his wash house. He said his back- bone was paralyzed. —————+o+_____ ‘The London Chronicte has a dispatch from Constantinople which says that a fresh se- ries of massacres is reported in’ the: Sivas and Kharput districts, THE POLAR PROBLEM) $3732 The Throwing Stick Theory Serl- & roe ously Questioned. — WHA? COMMODORE MELVILLE SAYS The Great Ice Cap Makes a Drift Unlikely. 5 WHAT IS AT THH POLE? ——_.-—___ Commodore George W. Melville, the hero of the ill-fated Jeannette expedition, and one of the best authorities on arctic mat- ters, ‘sald to a Star reporter today that the finding of an Alaskan “throwing stick” in the drift wood on the west coast of Green- land near Godhaven, was by no means con- clusive proof to him that it had drifted across the polar seas. Neither would he accept the find as evidence of the existence of a current flowing in the direction indi- cated. “Oh, yes,” he sald, “I am perfectly fa- miliar with those throwing sticks. I have one of them at home. They are, more properly speaking, spears or darts, and are used by the Indians of Alaska in the cap- ture of birds and other game. It is quite possible, under favorable conditions of wind and weather, for one of these sticks to drift from Alaska through Bering straits, but that it would ever reach the shores of Greenland by drifting 1s, in my opinion, extremely improbable. “The Alaskan Indians at St. Michael, and as far north gs Cape Prince of Wales, which is the westernmost point of the American continent and directly opposite the cast cape of Asia, which is the eastern- most point of Siberia, and, in fact, the na- tives all along the coast, trade and barter with each other in all sorts of articles, copper kettles, spears, iron, woodwork and instruments of the chase, and at times they have even been known to intermarry, al- though the Tschutchees of Asia and the natives at Cape Prince of eWales are not always on the most amfcable terms. The fact remains, however, that they do trade back and forth all articles of barter, and it is therefore quite probable that the throwing stick mentioned as having been found on the west coast of Greenland really commenced {ts drift from the north coast of Siberla. There would be no ques- tion at all of the possibility of this throw- ing stick passing in trade between the na- tives at Cape Prince of Wales, going away eastward to the North American archipel- ago, north of Hudson bay, where the na- tives trade after the manner above de- scribed with the Tschutchees, by whom it might be traded along to the coast of Greenland. But for many years it has been the opinion of whalemen that ships that were caught in the ice pack north- ward and westward of Herald Island would be carried off still farther to the north- ward and westward. Where they would come out is an unknown quantity. Some whalemen at San Francisco informed the officers of the Jeannette before that vessel salied for the arctic that if we got into this current we might drift across the north pole, ‘or we might go to hades,’ but the probabilities were that we would never come out anywhere. Not Very Likely. “The probabilities of a ship coming out are very slight, and to my mind it is very improbable that she would drift across the polar region or to the pole. It is true that the winter the Jeannette was beset in the ice there were two or three of the whaling fleet beset at the same time and carried to the northward and westward. The Mount Walliston, in particular, was known to have been caught, either by a qounter current or by the winds, and she was spewed out of the northwestern drift and brought up on the fixed ice of the coast of Siberia. Authen- tic information of the movements of this ship was supplied by the Tschutchees in- habiting the northeast coast of Siberia. Now, as regards the existence of a continu- ovs drift from the north and west of Herald Island it would be difficult to state whether the wood and other drift material that come out of the great Siberian rivers to the eastward of the Lena are carried to the northward and westward, either by the current or by the winds that usually pre- vail from the southward and eastward. “The drift of the Jeannette, which started from the northward and westward of Herald Island, continued in a zigzag direc- ten for a distance of 1,300 miles into the northwest in twenty-two months, but is was @ question among the officers of the ship whether we were carried by the current or by the southeasterly winds. The consensus of opinion, however, was that the drift was caused by the winds and not by the cur- rents. One reason for this belief was that after we had drifted to the northward and westward in the ice in the springtime, when the prevailing winter winds had ceased to blow with any strength, the ship drifted back to within sight of Wrangel Land and within less than forty miles of where the ship was originally beset. “Scientists and geographers of the sea have plainly stated that there can be few or no currrents in a sea as shallow as the Arctic ocean is across where we drifted for twenty-two months. Soundings were taken every day, a drift lead was down at all times and a drag net was used to drag the bottom of the ocean, and at no time did we find the ocean deeper than from sixteen to thirty-five or at most forty-five fathoms for any distance. I remember distinctly one occasion when we had made a pretty high northern drift that we got a sounding of eighty fathoms, for it was considered very remarkable. Now, it is true that drift wood, paddles, canoes, portions of hunting instruments, and other such material as is known to exist on the northeast coast of Siberia have been found on the east coast of Franz Josef Land, Nova Zembla, and the Spitzbergen, where great windrows of wood are known to have been pushed up on the beaches. It is not so well known, however, that any great amount of drift wood has been found in the drift ice that comes to the southward along the east coast of Greenland, although it is well known that this drift ice does turn around Capt Fare- well, the southernmost point of Greenland, and continues northward along the west coast of Greenland, well up toward Cape York, ere the “ice meets the southern rift of ice coming to the southward, be- tween Greenland and the land to the west- ward, where the whole pack is eventually delivered into the Atlantic ocean. The Great Ice Cap. “It is a well-considered theory that an ice cap exists at the pole, held in Place without doubt by the numerous islands or islets that have been discovered as far north as the arctic explorer hes gone. This great ice cap is what is known as Sir George Nares’ Paelo-Chrystic sea. Its south- ern margin is considered to be in about 85 degrees northern latitude, with a base line of 300 miles. From observations in the Alps and elsewhere of moving glaciers, ice being a plastic body, the conditions stated should give the ice cap at the pole a vertical height of about 2,200 feet. Now if this ice cap is a reality, as theorized by Pancake Flour. stalts of lite RICE. 2 cm Oe HERE'S OUR GUARANTEE—Buy a ot Genuine Aunt ard Temes the Sass i es sa Bre Ux TH RED PACKAGE TAKE NO SUBSTITUTES, Gelentifically and Manufactured oniy by, D. 00., Bt. Mo. BT, DAVIS MILL Joseph, ONE BOTTLE EVERY DAY —OF— MAL T-NUTRINE means from 2 to G pounds a week gained in healthy flesh. Ja8-wAet, 26t- out8 te yd rentty be obmrvet loon or some o! 6 of this great ice cap | have been po oe hj ersing the 800 mil2s from the ice cap to the pole, and 300 miles in return, making @ march of but:600 miles across what yisve to be a perfectly smooth continent of ice. ale may be filled or broken by crevasses, such as occur in all great moving glaciers, but the march. should be an easy one com- ‘o the retreat from the Jeannette of miles in & ae line over a terril broken moving B ;. In accomplishing this march it is éstimated that we traversed sbout 2,800 miles.+ In fact, this is the the- ory on which I based my pfoposition to go toward the pole by way of Franz Josef Land, supposing that the north end of that land projected far enough to the northward to penetrate the great arctic fce cap over which I proposed to make the journey of @00 miles going and returning. “Going back to the drift theory, it is my belief that if there is a channel between the north end of Franz Josef and and the ice cap, it is possible that articles of drift wood might be carried through it and eventually come to the southward with the. polar drift between the Spitzbergen end Greenland. However, if this channel does not exist then any article that will drift with the wind or current, whichever ft may be, will of necessity come out into the At- lantic ocean between Nova Zembla and Franz Josef Land. “Now we have gone over the whole pos- sible grounds of a drift from the north- eastern shores of Siberia as well as the pos- sibility cf an Alaskan throwing stick com- ing out and being picked up on the west coast of Greenland. If the channel is as described, to the north of Franz Josef Land, this throwing stick drift theory is Possible, but if the ice cap exists as al- ready set forth and the north end of Franz Josef Land makes a junction with it, then it is impossible that the stick should have come out and be picked up on the west coast of Greeland. “There 1s but one other contingency, and that seems to me impossible. Suppose ick did drift out between Nova Zembla and 'z Josef Land, and drift to the south- ward and westward of Bear Island, which is to the southward and westward of Franz Josef Land, to reach Greenland it would then be necessary to have a continuous southerly and easterly wind that wouid car- ry this small piece of drift wood far enough to the northward and westward to be caught in the southerly drift of the ice along the east coast of Greenland, where it eventually turns the southernmost point of Greenland to the westward and then goes north aiong the west coast of Greenland, where it is sald to have been picked up. ——.__ REVELRY IN LATIN QUARTER. It Became So Lively That the Police Had to Interfere. From the London Telegraph. - Many of those who know something of student life in Paris, the artistic side of which has been so admirably depicted by Mr. Du Maurier in “Trilby,” will learn with regret that an era of riot snd disorder has been disturbing the always eccentric but usually quiet Quartier Latin, and that the prefect of police, in the fnterest of public Cecorum, has deemed it his duty to close no fewer than six “caves,” or cellars, de- voted to music, song and beer-drinking, the nocturnal carousals of which have for some time past been a positive nuisance to th nelghborhood. ‘Tha words of the ditt chanted by the professional vocalists en fared at these subterranean establishments were, it 1s true, subjected to a very rigid official censorship; out the detectives told off by the prefecture to watch the proceed- 3 ut the “caves” found that the singers gagged” to a terrible extent—that is to fay, they interpolated words, phrases and sometimes whole verses, into the original text, and rendered songs which in them- selves, althouzh normaliy idiotic, were not immoral, scandalously profligate. Again, the students and their female boon companions were api to be extremely noisy; and altogether the attitude taken by the prefect of police will be thoroughly appre- ciated by the law-abiding bourgeo! the great city. It is not, again, without a feeling of somewhat sentimental regret that those who are familar with the social life in the Paris of the st will note that the once dignified term ave” has become a synonym for places where midnight Is have become habitual. At the ing of this century there were few, if aves” in the Quartier Latin, but on the rignt bank of the Seine musical taverns avounded; and the Palais Royal was in particular studded with these cheerfully armonious places of entertainment. ited Further Particulars, “Colonel, I want to ask you about that Patrick Henry you were alludin’ to in your speech—the one that said ‘Give me liberty or give me death.’ ” Candidate—“What about him?” Citizen—“Did he get his divorce?” SICK-POISON. What It Is,and Where It Comes From. 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