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Three miles south of Atchison ts the siie of a dead city, whose streets once were filled with the clamor of busy traffic and echoed to the tread of thousands of oxen and mules that in the pioneer days of the great west transported the products of the east across the great American desert to the Rocky mountains. It was a city in which for a few years 2,500 men and women and children lived and labored and loved, in which many lofty aspiraticns were born, and in which several young men began careers that have become historical. This city was located on what the early French voyagers called the “grand de- tour” of the Missouri river. It sprang inio existence so suddenly and imperceptibly it might almost have been considered a creation of the magictan’s wand. It was named Sumner, in honor of the great Massachusetts Senator. Its official motto was “Pro lege et grege” (for the law and the people). Sumner’s first citizens came mostly from Massachusetts. They had come to the frontier to make Kansas a free state, and da city within whose wails all previous conditions of slavery should be disregarded, and where all men born shouid be regarded as equal. The growth of Sumner i ph printed in 182 buildings, ing seats of church hat pierced the clouds, ant hotels and theaters, the river full of floating palaces, its levee lined with bales and barrels of merchandi. and the white smoke from numerous fac- tories hanging above the city, like a ban- ner of peace and prosperity. One day the steamboat Duncan S. Carter Janded at Semner. On its hurricane deck was John J. Ingalls, the: years oll. As his ey his prophetic soul uttered “Behold the home of the future Senat from Kansas. Here the young college graduate, who since that day became a Senator from Kansas, lived and dreamed, until Sumner’s star had set and Atchison’s sun had risen and then he moved to A son, bringing with him Sumner’s official seal and the key of his hotel. Here liv a thor and journalist, Albert D. Richardsen, whose tragic death some years ago in the counting room of the .ork Tribune is well remembered. His “Beyond the Mis- sissippi" is to this day the most fascinating account of the boundless west ever writ- as phenomenal. shows streets n. Here lived nine-year-old Minnie Hauk, who was one day to become a prima donna, and who was to wed Count Wariegs. Minnie was born in poverty and cradled in adversity. Her mother was a poor washer- woman in Sumner. Here lived John E. Remsburg, the now moted author-lecturer and free thinker. Mr. Remsburg has probabiy delivered mure lectures in the last thirty years than any man in the United States. Here Waiter A. Wood, the big manufac- itural implements, lived and made and mended wagons. Here Lovejoy, “the Yankee preacher,” preached and prayed and invoked God's wrath upon the slave owner. Here lived “Brother” and ‘ister’? New- comb, from whom have descended a long line of zealous and eminent Methodists. Sumner was bolitionist,”” Atchison was “border ruffian.” In Atchison the “nigger’’ was a slave; in Sumner he was a fetich. It was in Atchison that the “abolition preacher,” Pardee Butler, was tarred and feathered and set adrift on a raft in the river. Jonathan Lang, alias “Shang,” t'e hero of Senator Ingalls’ “Catfish Aristocracy”’ md the “Last Mayor of Sumner,” lived and died in Sumner. When all bis lovely companions had faded and gone “Shang” still pined on the stem. “Shang” continued to live in Sumner long efter every other citizen had moved away, and urtil every house save his miserable hut had vanished like the baseless fabric of a vision, leaving no wreck behind. He claimed and was proud of the title last mayor of Sumner.” He died a few years ago, and a little later light ng struck his cabin and It was devoured flames. And thus passed away the last relic of Sumner. Atchison secured its first railroad. The smoke from the locomotive engines drifted to Sumner and enveioped it like a pall. One day there was an exodus of citizens; their houses were torn down and the tim- bers thereof carted away, and foundation stones were dug up and carried hence. The forest, azain unvexed by ax or saw, assert- ed its dominion once more, and today, be- neath the shadow cast by mighty oaks and sighing cottonwoods, Sumner lies dead and forgotten. e+ ‘Tennessee's Exposition. From the Chicago Times-Herald. Tennessee had Intended to have held, as @ part of the celebration this year of the one-hundredth anniversary of her admis- sion to the Union, a great centennial ex- Position, to last three months. So general has been the response of exhibitors to the Invitations of the managers, and so great the pressure for a longer period, that it has been determined to postpene the open- ing of the exhibition to May 1, 1897, and have it continue six months. It will be held in Nashville, and the work on the grounds and buildings was begun over a year ago. By June this year it is expected that seven great edifices will have been completed. Work is going on rapidly on the grounds, one of the beauties of which will be open spaces covered with the famous blue grass. The grounds cover an area of 200 acres about two miles west of the state capitol, and are easily acces- sible. The aggregate floor space of the buildings now under construction is 400,000 square feet. ge A Tramp’s New Trick. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. A tramp visited all the houses at Clover- port and begged from every kind lady he met a postage stamp with which to write a Ietter to his sick mother. He got the stamp every time, and went out of town with sev- eral dollars in bis pockets as a result of the successful ruse, THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY,: MARCH 14, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 23 OPINIONS OF HIS OWN Seoretary Olney's Irish Face and Blood of a Bostonian. - WHO HE 1S AND WHAT HE B How He Handles the Politicians and the Diplomats. PLENTY OF BACKBONE (Copyrighted 1896, by Frank G. Carpenter.) UR TROUBLES with Spain will make Ries e- rab ery Richard Oley more and more prom- inent in the minds of the American people. He has been Secre- tary of State for only a few months, but his work has made that department the most imgortant branch of the gov- ernment. He stirred “up our patriotism in Salisbury as to Venezuel: By his action he brought the English to time, and he may be called the father of the fight- ing spirit which is now abroad in the land. Within the space of three months he h2s shown himself to be the strongest element in Cleveland’s administration, and today upon him, to a large extent, rests the question as to wheiher America shall have peace or war. Within less than three months he has jumped from comparative obscurity to international prominence, and the situation at present is such that he may be a strong presidential quantity at the democratic national convention. And still, with all this, neither the poli- ticlans nor the people know much about Richard B. Olney. He was not personally known to the people of Massachusetts be- fore he was made Attorney General, and today the majority of the statesmen of the democratic party have no close personal relations with him. He has never been a poliiician, and does not know what it is to play the toady and lick boots to get ofiic He was one of the biggest lawyers Massachusetts at the time of hi ment. He had a prac t ed with railroads, which I am toll was worth at least $50,000 a year, and, like most railroad lawyers, he was to a great extent an autocrat in his own office. He saw whom he pleased and did as he pleased. Who Olney Is. But before I go farther as to Mr. Olney, the Secretary of State, let me tell you something as to Mr. Olney, the man. He is one of the most striking figures in Wash- ington. His face is that of an Irishman though his blood is of Puritan blue. The pic- tures Which have been published do not do justice to him. His face is strong and pugnacious. It is Irish in every feature, and though it is said that his ancestors emigrated to this country from England, they must have originally core from © vicinity of Cork. The first Olney set- tied at Salem, Mass. He was a preacher and his name was Thomas. He is said to have been the founder of the Baptist Church in America. One of his sons was a coionel in the revolutionary wa: anotiuer was a captain, who received a number of bullet and bayonet wounds dur- ing the struggle. Another Olne: think, belonged to thi the author of the Oine were used in the pu schools of Ame ica for more than thirty years. They had. it is said, a larger sale than any other book cutside of Wi r’s Spelling Book. They ran through ninety-eight different editions, end millions of copies of them were sold. Secretary Olney’s father was the cashier 1, Mass. ‘d Olney, the Secretary of State, i dest chiid. He was born in 1835, and he is now just sixty-one years of age. He was edu- cated at Brown University and the Har- vard Law School, and he began hs study of the law under Judge Benjamin Frankl ‘Thomas, one of the most famous lawyers of Massachusetts. He soon showed his fit- ness for the law, and it is said that he has made a fortune out of his legal ability. An Athletic Secretary of State. Secretary Olney has better phys'cai ma chinery than any cther man in the cabinet. He keeps himself in perfect condition by exercise. His joints are well oiled. His bicod is full of iron, his eyes shine with life, and he has the springiest step of all those who tramp Pennsylvania avenue. There is no publ.c man who goes to more dinners. There is no man who has a better digestion and a greater physical activity. He is the ckampicn walker of the administration. He takes from a three to a five-mile walk every day. Some people think that the Secretary of State is snobbish. I don’t believe it. He is full of plain, practical common sense, but not having been brought up in the school of politics he does not think it necessary to lick his lips and say sweet things whenever a politician comes in sight. He is, indeed, de- cidediy independent. This is to be seen in his dress as well as in his actions. The dre: of the average Secretary of State has been a long Prince Albert coat, dark pantaloons and a high silk hat. Secretary Oiney’s favorite suit is of a business cut. He wears a sack coat, and I have seen him going down Penn- sylvania avenue when the thermometer was rot far from zero without an overcoat. He Wears an overcoat only in the coldest and stormiest weather. He has, like as not, his bands in his pockets as he walks, and his hat is of a soft felt. He puts on the Prince Albert coat or the double-breasted frock enly on diplomatic days when he receives his callers. On other days he is dressed like t! most ordinary business man, and he cou take a bicycle ride without changing his clothes. ‘The Secretary believes in working while he works and in playing while he plays. He also evidently believes that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Hence his walks: hence also his ternis games. After the Secretary has finished his tennis in the summer and his walk in the winter, he goes home, has his bath and dresses for dinner. He puts on a swallow-tail coat at such times and appears at the table in full evening dress. He has to do this in most cases, at least, for during the winter he is invited out to dinner nearly every night, and his position as Secretary of State keeps him busy in giving and returning such invitations. Olmey’s Sunday Dinners. And here, by the way, !s one feature of our social festivities which many of the good church people at Washington do not like. It is the Sunday evening dinner, which 1s common among many of the diplomats, and which, I regret to say, is not unknown to Secretary Olney. He fre- quently gives dinners of a Sunday evening, and at such times has many of his friends at his table. Washington with all its sin has a strong religious element. One of the leading: pastors preached against these din- ners not long ago, and it will not be strange if an anti-Sunday dining society should be fermed. It is interesting to know how he prepares his state papers. When he has anything very important to write he does not use a sten- ographer. He first takes a pencil and pad and writes out carefully just what he wants to say, and then hands the manu- script over to his typewriter’to be copied. He revises carefully, and when the paper 1s completed {t represents his exact thought. All of the important State De- partment papers which have been sent out during his administration have been writ- ten by him. He wrote all of the Bayard instructions except the last paragraph. This was written by President Cleveland. He Has a Backbone. I called upon Secretary Olney some time ago at the State Department. He talked with me for some time, but would not per- mit me to quote him in the newspapers. I could see, however, that he has a number of new ideas as to our diplomatic service, and that he is a big enough man not to be twisted around the fingers of Julian Pauncefote, the British minister, or of the other wily diplomats of Washington. He is, I judge, a man with a strong backbone. He has opinions of his own, and is not afraid to act upon them. He comes out in ‘iking contrast with Secretary Bis leis wo an Geographie: a ra RR RR een ine cass man who — held of e. Bayard was always an Boslisn trimmer. When he was Secre- tary of State he knuckled down to the English, and he was only happy when he was giving a luncheon to some of the Eng- feumes who now and then come to the capi Olney and Cleveland. Secretary Olney has a summer home not far from Gray Gables, where Cleveland has been spending his summer vacations, and it was probably through the acquaintance there formed that the President chose him |. as Attorney General. I am told that Olney toek the place thinking that his work would be, to a large extent, judicial in its nature. He found it was much more political than anything else. It is said that he was much disgusted with it, and that he was glad to leave it for the Secretaryship of State. While he was Attorney General, Cleveland advised with him as to state matters, and the two are very close to one another upon all matters relating to the administration. Olney is made of different stuff from the average cabinet minister that Cleveland has had. During his’ last @dministration the different Secretaries were only clerks to the President, and this is, to a large extent, the case today, with the exception of Se retary Olney. Olney has an opinion of his own on every subject. He always has a reason for his cp.nion, and Cleve‘: |, obsti- nate as he is on most matters, is always amenable to reason. As to whether Cleve- land realiy wants a third term or net I am not able to say. As to whether he wants Olney to be President, I do not w, but it is very cert: that Olney would make a better pres! ‘al cand‘date than any o h- er man in the cabinet. A Word About Mrs. Olney. Secretary Olney lives here at Washingicn in a house on the corner of 17th and Rhode Island avenue. His house is within two blocks of the British legation, within a stone's throw of the statue of Gen. Scott and about six blocks from the White House. It is 2 cream-colored brick of three stories and contains in the neighborhood of twenty rooms. His wife presides over the es- tablishment, and one of his daughters, Mrs. Minot, is with him. He has, I believe, second daughter, who is married to a phy- sic‘an and who lives in Germany. Mts. Olney comes of an ancestry quite as ngted as that of the Secretary. She is a daughter of the Judge Thomas with whom Mr. Ul- ney studied law. ile the future Secr tary was courting Blackstone he courted Miss Thomas as well, and the result of his courtship was marriage. The Thomases came over to this country from England at a very carly date. Mrs. Olney’s great- Sreat-grendfather was isaiah Thomas, one of the founders of the Massachusetts S: This paper began its publication in 1 It was a tri-weekly and was very strong) anti-British. The toi up, and Mrs. Olney’s great-great-grand- father had to flee a number of times with his type and machinery, in order to save it. This man Thomas was with Paul R vere on that famou: ide, when he carried the news of the crossing of the Charles river by the British troops to the tnhab- itants of the interior towns. 1t was the ride celebrated by Longfellow in that poem which begins as follo Listen, my children, xnd Of the midnight ride of On the ci ft Aj y_and year. It the British m: town is m1 1 or sea from the Intern aloft In t North Chureh Ready to 1 ‘Through ev For the v3 vil ‘ountry fol i to be up and to arm."? t sreat-great-grandfather was with Paul Revere when he took the le, and it was in his “Masaschusett: Spy,” on the 3d of the next hh, that he printed the motto: “Americans, liberty or death! Jo!n or die.” Now, one hundred and twenty years late the great-great-granddaushter of this mau is wife of the Secretary of State who is ing England more trouble than any S tary we have Fad for the past two tions. It is queer, is it not, now, to a cer- tain extent, history repea elf? FRANK G. CARPENTER. > CYCLING CHAPERONAGE. A New Occupation for Poor Gentte- women. From the Pall Mali Gazette. A new occupation is looming up on the impccunious woman's hor is ‘a significant fact that mothers who advortide for governesses require a knowledge, apon the instructress’ rt, of cycling, in order that she may accompany her young charges when they go a-wheeling. Tt seems likely that a new.remunerative em- ployment nay cpen up for women in the form of cycling chaperonage. In regard to the much dis ed question a skirt long enough to reach six inches below the knees, this be- ing skort enough to render pedaling easy, seems to find many 2dvocates. Few people are really decided about knickerbockers. The other morning there were two girl cy- clists on the platform «f a country station. One wore a short skirt, the othér knicker- bockers. ‘he contrast was remarkable, the latter locking conspicuous and far from graceful. She could. not even walk about without im‘tating a masculine swagger and thrusting her hands in her pockets. She Was not an impressive figure, all her femi- ninity having disappeared. There is a skirt which English women are wear g for cycling which gives per- fect freedom and makes life on wheels worth living. The peculiarity of this skirt is the clever introduction of a wide tro ser, which gives the freedom of a knicke: bocker with the appearance of an ordinary walking skirt. It is made of serge or tweed, lined with silk. A blouse and short jacket are worn to complete the costume. The clever English girl who wishes to go to a dinner party ora dance and does not own that luxury, a carriage, mounts her wheel in wheeling costume, her evening dress neatly folded up in a box or bag be- ing secured to the bicycle in some ingeni- ous way, and off she go with her father or her brother as an escort. Upon the ar- rival at the scene of festivities, she slips into her gown as easily as you please. BARBERS AUSTRIA. IN ‘They Must Serve a Three Years’ Ap- prenticeship. From the New York World. The Austrians take no chances with their barbers. They must be good, and the Barbers and Wigmakers’ Union of Vienna sees to it that “y are. Provision is also made in their code for women barbers who desire to carry on the business of their husbands in case of the latter's death or illness. But in order to do this the wife must have been enrolled in the union as an ap- prentice for three years. Apprentices, by the rules of the union, must appear in Vienna in the presence of judges of the union and show their skill before they are allowed to open shops of their own. A properly certified barber must have a knowledge of and pass an examination in shaving, hajf-cutting, hair-curling and wig- making, and during the period before the issuance of @ certificate the poor and others who! are ‘frigal serve as subjects for ex- periment. At the ex#mination the young men have thelr razors‘dulled by four strokes in a pine plank, wend they must then sharpen them. A subject is assigned to each, who must be tonsorially perfect, in the opinion of the judges, when the apprentice has re- leased him. After this a certificate is issued and the apprentice serves two years as a journey- man before he may open a shop as an e! ployer. The average age of apprentices when they begin to learn their trade is thirteen years. _—+e+—____ Fish in an Old Well. From the Loulsville Courier-Journal. Some queer fish were taken out of the recently reopened well on the United States fish station at San Marcos, Tex. There were several salamanders, varying in length from an inch and a half to four and a half inches. These creatures live on land or water, have human-looking faces, hands and feet, bulldog head, tail of an eel and body of fish.. There were alse large num- bers of shrimps, resembling sea shrimp, only much smaller. It is an artesian well, and everybody wants to know where the creatures come from. —_———+e2_______ A Sterm Remedy. From the Adams (Mass.) Freeman. “Johnny,” screamed his mother, “why are you sitting on your brother's chest? You'll kill him.” “I know it,” retorted the urchin. “Tf I let him up he'll go-swimmin’ and be drowned.” CURE FOR TOOTHACHE. Experiments With the Cathode Rays, but Diet is Important. From the New Yout Heralt, Dispatches redBived in’ \uis elty recently brought the inf; tion: that an American dentist in Parishad discovered a cure for toothache whicl/-was not temporary in its effects, but whith, cnce applied, would per- manently preverit the recurrence of the ail- ment. et The assertion{:created a stir among the dentists in NewYork, who ‘have been re- garded in advajice of their professional brethren in othef;parts of the world. They discussed the announcement from many points of view afd were particularly inter- ested in the additional statement that the medium which Was to be used by Dr. Leavitt was the X rays, of which so many things have already been written and many more promised. * The general impression seemed to be that Dr.Leavitt spoke to the reporter of Le Soir, the Parisian newspaper, which first gave publicity to the discovery, in parables. The supposed iniluenée of the cathode rays ts to dissipate certain accumulation$,but whether they wil! have any effect on congestion of the dental nerves required in the treatment of toothache the dentists in this city are inclined to doubt. What He Probably Intended. A number of dentists seen agreed that what was intended by Dr. Leavitt in apply- ing the cathode rays to dental surgery is in producing a much more effective method of studying the phenomena attending the development of local irritations of this sort than is possible now. At present the in- terior ef a tooth’ may be illuminated by means of electric bulbs placed within the mouth against the part of the jaw affect The result of this illumiration fs to bring out very cle_rly most of the conditions of a diseased tvoth, though nct all. ‘The X ray would be of imnjense adva: tage, dentisis say, in discovering any cumulation of diseased inatter along the jawbone. This is too opaque to permit the necessarily limited iNuminatton possi present to peneirate. There have been eral well-known dentists investigating possibility in the use of the Roentgen ray and, though they say that they are not y ready to make their deductions public, they speak of what they have foun’! as of much interest, not alone to the profession, but z#lso to those unfortunates who have poor teeth. So far as a permenent cure for toothache is concerned, the dentists say that it has heen already found, but it is not one of those things which can be bought at the corner drug store or at the nearest clec- trician’s, but it is a matter of gradual de- velopment of the person who desires to be ment. ‘The recent statisti- the New York College of s that unless persons are very careful in the course o! sue e generaticns the Cau will be without any teeth at ali. here is a general inclination among the more highly civilized peoples to avoid foods which bone makers. The gene’ disike of fats and of feods which have large proportions of lime in them is doins its work very rapidly, and comparatively soon, it is said, there will be no toothache, because there will be no teeth. Tecth Without Enamel. It has been found that among many chil- dren recentiy the second, or permanent, teeth are ap; ring without the necessary enamel to protect them. The result of the formation of tecth of this description is that they are not, as lasting as the first and onée ‘the nerve is reached the ment of childrqn for their teeth before they are Lorn in instances where the mother is not strony or whére she has shown any of the bones. Foods are gi 1rei bone producing, 30 that the child may reap the beneiit of this form of nutriment. Vhere this has been begun too late the child is put on a systematic dict of cod liver oil and phosphates of lime and soda, with other natural foods which will go to the formation 9f enamel on the teeth and bone. Dentists declare that if such a tem is insisted’ upon by parents and car- ried out with ‘antiseptic treatment of the eariy teeth there is reaily no reason why men and women who have been subject to ly care should have toothache, or, , lose thelr teeth at all save by acci- ee -—— PARROW ‘AND CAT. A Battle on a Roof in Which Thomas * Got the Worst of It. Shreveport, La., Correspond nee Philadelphia Times. While sitting at my office window yester- day I witnessed a queer battle between a cat and a bird on the rvof of the dig brick building opposite. The cat was a pitifully lean and hungry-looking individual, and the bird was an English sparrow, of course. The battle was as spirited as the nature of the combatants would lead one to suppose it would be. The cat was after quarr, ing for high stakes, bird had a frechold ing pre-empted e among th as dead against the ng the claim, I cculdn’t make out, but that the sparrow felt himseif to be the cock of the walk was a sure th He flitted and flirted zhout the-eat, nipping and snapping at judi intervals, and made the fur fly more thax once. But the cat was hungry. he did not try to work the hypnotism. racket on the bird a little bit. Tom showed his hand right along, and it was fair field and no favor. Once or twice I thought he was winning, too, he made such nigh leaps and flung his paw so frantically, but the spar- row bobbed vp serenely every time. Final- ly the bird withdrew, perching himself on the edge of the highest chimney on the roof, peering from his coign of vantage-in- quiringly down on the cat below. I don’t know Whether the sparrow was doing this to get a short breathing spell or to work a bit of stratagem on poor Tom. At all events, the latter result followed the move, for the cat made a wild leap, goiag quite over the bird's head, and disappeared down the Geptns of the chimney. This ended the battle, of course, but, as venis proved, it did not end the cat. I located the chimney as running up from the office of,a phy: 2 L-went over to inquire, but the cat nad been heard from. The doctor had had his fireplace bricked up, and uses a stove now, with the pipe entering the flue near the celling, so nothing could be learned of Tom from outside sources. I told the doctor of the battle of the rcof, and he promised to report developments. he got down to his qffice things were lively. The cat had recovér2d from the fall and lifted up his voice in loud lamentations. The doctor telephoned me at once to come over, and L heard the cat's yells as he hung up the trumpet. By and by I went for Jim Daggs, a chim- ney sweep. ' ““Spect we'll ha’ ter fish fur dat cat, bess,” he said, when I told him my story, so he wound a Jong rope around his waist and brought along some bread and bones from his freshly §nished breakfast. Jim Daggs mounted to the roof, and I went up to mp..pfiice to see what would happen. : Jim made two dr thrze knots in one end of the rope, 7 tied a bit of bread and a ew bene about six inches above and dropped bis bait down. the chimnsy. He sounded akout, here there, and pretty soon I sew him drawing] in. “T’se got him, boss,” Jim Daggs called over, and presently I saw the cat come up through the chimhey’s mouth, clinging to the rope and gnawing the bon 1-209 An Alarm Sent Over 200 Miles. From the Albany,, Jounal. A resident of.Catskill recently told me the following remarkable incident, which can- not but be of interest to all interested in fire-alarm syStemjs. The engineer on a passing freight train saw the fire last Sun- day morning that destroyed the store of Ed. Hallenbeck, only a few feet from the Central station. On reaching Germantown he told the night operator, who telegraphed the fact to New York, New York tele- graphed it to Hudson and Hudson tele- phoned the alarm to Catskill. Is there any- thing on record to beat alarm of fire sent over 228 miles? STORY OF A PARROT. It Cared for a Motheriess Broo@ ef Chickens. From the New York Times. A really remarkable parrot story eomes directly from the owrer of the bird. “Last spring,” says the veracious wo- man, whcse home is in the suburbs, ‘“‘my children were presented by a neighbor with a hen and brood of chickens. The hen was placed in the usual slatted box on the sun- ny lawn at the rear of the house, and the little animated bells of yellow down ran abcut at will in front of it. They were frequently watched by Jim, a pet parrot, whose cage was often on the same patch of turf. One day, by an accident, the hen coop was overturned, and the unfortunate mother caught in it in such a way as to be strangled. The suddenly made orphans, so long as the hen lay there before them, kept up their visits to her neighborhood, but when, not long after the happening, she was removed and the coop set up again, it evidently kid no*aitractions fer them. “We were rather concerned as to what to do with the little chicks, thus deprived of their natural protector, but we need not have been. When they found no one to answer the d'sconsolate ‘peep, peep!’ at the same place, they looked about for an- other home. The open deor of Jim’s cage attracted them, and presently one of the boldest, after coquetting about the door for several minutes, ventured in. Jim, en his perch, watched the intruder with a slanting eye that we distrusted, but we did the bird a great injustice. He remained motiontess, as if fearful to cause alarm while the chick pecked at various bits of food litter- ing the floor of the cage. Encouraged by the evident success of this pioneer work. the other chicks approached, and at last every one of them got inside, finishing ev- ery eatablo scrap they found. Jim, mean- while, sal. Nke a mal: e statue on his rerch, aparently urconsciovs of what was scing on, though we could see that nothing escaped that watchful oblique glance. When the chicks had devoure! all they couid find, they went le'sureiy out. We took the hint and put water an’? food for them !n Jim’s cage, and all the afternoon they made themselves entirely at home. Jim got over his rigidity and seemed to enjoy the vas‘on of his castle. He called them s eral times with a perfect ‘mitation of the clucking of 2 hen, and the chicks invar’- ably responded. As night anproached, the went cortentedly to the ¢: and crouched do on the floer to Jim didn't quite know what was expected c? him then, but he acted according to his lights. He settled himself on his lowest nerch and coaxed two or three chicks un bes.de him, encouraging them in the'r efforts to roost. In a few nights he had the whole brood roosting in the cage as contentedly as they had ever done der their mother’s Wing. From this time until t were well s§rown Jim's quarters were theirs, and theugh he never went out to scratch’ food for them, he w h's larder daily eaten bare by his vo: adopted famiiy with- out 9 protest. “When they were b'g, long-legged chick- ens, he evidentiy Gec'ded one Gay that the time tality wes e bigger than himself and quite able to look after themselves, and he forcibly intimated that they must do so, by driving them ‘out of the cage and refusing thereafter to permit one of them to cross its thresheld. To prove that his previous conduct had been voluntary, and not in- sp:red by any sense of his inability to cope past. with the invading army, not a mouthful of food or a sip of water could these chick- ens get from hk iomain afier he had un- dertaken to prevent them. Altogether, we regarded it as a very curious and interest- ountry Life, sks: “Are there And he fs rig ing to such milk me t the milk- of English poetry life, is all but ex- go she had given place to till does most of the miik- n turn has to give way he- A machine fs now in use an be milked in ten 0 ing. But he ¥ unconscious “I'm going will need a note n to be disap- y parts they years ago, the regular arrange- to sleep in the i take their meals toze’ i At all are unknown. Fiv in Yorkshire, it ment for the farm la’ house vast kitchen set apari for their use. But {he bond which united employer and em- Tloved has been broken. This shows it- self in other changes. Perguisites, such as firewood, s Hen frit, and glean corn, were of old. Now that the laborer and agitates for higher wag time, these per- quisites have 1 ly been stopped. True home-made bre ralually be- coming rarer. Every v ge has its tbriving baker, who “does” the district art. Of « he p 3 to sell what he calls “home-made, is little comfort in the name. Thatching is going out of fashion, and igated iron, among other things, is taking its place. In some districts already competent thatcher can be found. " but there The smock-frock, although not extinct, is slowly going out of use. On a market day in some small country town a wagoner from a remote part ma seen in this quaint, pri and ser singular, occasionally be itive, picturesque tut he is quite a survival. From the*Atlanta Opinion. First Author—“‘Have you heard that our yim Smithers las married?” ‘cond Author—“Y. he wanted to double his circle of readers. THE STAR OF HOPE. “T bad lost all hope znd gone to my father’s to die,’” said Mrs. Mo. Evans, of Mound, Coryell Co., Texas. “T gave birth toa baby a year ago, the sth of June. last,” Hshe adds, “and seemed to do very &] well for 8 or 9 days, and then I began to feel very bad, my # fect began to swell, my stomach was all @ wrong and I seemed to suffer with every- thing that could be borne. Iwasin bed 5 months and there was nota day that it seemed could live. We had the best doctors that our country afforded. I _— was a skeleton. age Every one that saw ett me thought that I mee would never get 8 well..,T had palpita- tion and pain in the, heart, terrible pain in my right side just under the ribs, terrible headaches all the time; a bearing down sensation ; a distressed feeling in my stom- ach all the time ; could hardly eat anything and it looked as if F would starve. All the time I would take such weak trembling spells, and it seemcd as if I could’not stan it. There were six doctors treating me when I commenced taking your medicine. I had lost all hope and gone to my father’s to die. I commenced taking Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and his ‘ Fa- vorite Prescription’ together, and I took them regularly until I felt as if life was worth living again.” “I weigh more than I have weighed for tenyears. My friends say that I look better than they ever saw me. The first twe bot- tles did me more good than all the medicine I had taken. My stomach has never hurt me since. I can eat anything I want and as much as Iwant. If you want to use this in favor of your medicine, I am a living wit- ness to testify to it, and will, to anybody who wants to know farther of my case.” DHILLIPS: PHT COCO Q THE ONLY COCOA WISH RICH CHOCOLATE FLAVOR. PRESCRIPTION 4387, FOR Rheumatism. of one of Washington's cldest physicians. It instant! . EHEUMATISM, 4& Little Attention Will Make Them From the Philadelphia Times. It is really wonderful to see how very little attention is bestowed, as a rule, on the eyebrows and the lashes. A woman will worry herself thin and make the lives of her household unendurable if her hair is falling off, or she has a pimple on her chin, but she pays less than no regard to tke state of any other part of her face. As long as there are enough lashes to pro- tect the eyes, and the eyebrows are thick enough to make their presence known, she Tests content—unaware perhaps that much of the attractiverers of her face entirely depends on these minor points that she seems to despise. Not every one possesses that delicate, high-arched curve that is the height of Perfection in an eyebrow, or the long ,curl- ing lashes without which no heroine of fiction ever yet was complete. As a rule, Scantiness of hair characterizes the one and short stubbiness the other. A great deal of this unloveliness is owing to the lack of care which nurses and mothers take of their children’s appearance, and the stupid habits they Jet a child get into regarding them. Eyebrows to be perfect should be slightly arched, and the hair of the same length and softuess. It should not be too bushy, or it makes us look unduly fierce and mas- culine; or too scanty, so that we look characterless and insipid. The color should be a shade darker than the hair. The brows must never be rubbed cr brushed, except from the roots to the ends. Some people contract a bad habit in child- hoéd of rubbing them the ocher way, and the effect is both grotesque and painful to behold. The hairs will never after lie flat as they ought to do, and bristle in expected places. A tiny comb and brush should be used daily on them to keep them soft and smooth. They should be most carefully washed cvery day, and the same care must ve taken about the direction they are rubbed in. They should have vaseline genfly smocthed over them once cr twice a week. This will keep them in perfect health and serve to strerkthen and thicken them. Where they are very scanty and coming out very much, there is noth- ing better to use than a few drops of cas- tor oil in a little paraffin. They are sometimes cpt to get a little scurfy. When this is the case, vaseline must be put on the spot, and it must be bathed with hot water and a little Vinolia so2p Ull it is cured. On no account must it_be rubbed. Eyelashes should be long and curling, and when they are like this, they are most attractive and bewitching. A child’s lashes may be siightly clipped now and then at the extreme points, and will be longer and better in corseqvence. But this should rever be done when a person grows old=r, as the cnly effect it has then is to make them coarse and stubby. Vaseline rubbed on every few nights keeps the lashes in good order, and will prevent them sticking together on wak- ing. All “make-up" near the eyes is very dangerous to the sight, so no cosmetics or darkening pomades must be allowed to touch the lashes. 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