Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1896, Page 13

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N.W. miso: id ~<a oe Eve ryone Knows’ How Much Better - LUCCA OLIVE OM ts than any other. Great trouble fs to get the genuine Lucca Of We have It-—im- it ourselves direct from Ital; We've tut lately received another shipment--same as we've always kan- dled—the finest. EIN FULL QUART BOTTLES, $1. W- Thompson, 793 s Pharmacist, isth. POD PEO OD SO Oe The ‘California Corset Fits, Wéars ‘and is. Comfortable. as 18 NOT SOLD IN STORES. Send for Descriptive Catalogue. California Corset Co., 230-30 BROOKLYN, N.Y. A FROZEN . BLESSING Florida Learning the Lesson of Stern Necessity. CALAMITY THAT MEANS COMFORT Neglected Opportunities That Are Now Being Utilized. PROSPERITY PREDICTED Staff Correspondence of The Evcning Star. ORLANDO, Fila., March 27, 1896. In a previous letter the renaissance of Florida was touched upon in a general way and an impression conveyed of the remark- able manrer in which resuscitation from apparent ruin was progressing. Since it was written I have had abundant opportu- nity to investigate the conditions further, with the result of increased amazement and admiration for the courageous faith of the peopie. Fifteen months ago Florida bought nearly everything it corsumed in the north. Hay, corn, meat and canned goods were exclu- sively shipped into the state and sold at Prices necessarily high on account of the heavy freight rates. All about there was fertile land, not distinctly agricultural, to be sure, but easy of cultivation when prop- erly treated. In the orange groves, where much fertilizer was used, there was a luxu- rious growth of grass, which the growers weuld industriously plough up or burn down. The spaces between the trees were kept clear of all growth of the sort, under the idea that it would take the sustenance from the trees. Thus land full of fecundity, and which could have bcen devoted to the raising of vegetables, melons and other nec- essary products that enter into dailiy con- sumption, was made a barren waste in or- der to give the os trees a chance. In awakening the people of Florida in its most attractive sections to a realization of their past mistakes of this character, the freeze of 1895 is proving a blessing instead of a calamity. Within a radius of fifty miles around this city is the garden spot of Flor- ida. Fron: this territory at least four-fifths of the oranges were sent to the north, and nine-tenths of the so-called Indian river oranges, too, because the orange-growing strip in the Indian river country is not more than a half mile wide at its broadest. Former Neglect in Agriculture. It is not exaggeration to say that no one in all this section raised a grain of corn, a ton of hay or more than enough vegetables to meet his daily wants. Baled hay from the west was exclusively used, while the na- tive growth was persistently destroyed or allowed to go to waste. Cattle, which were few, were pastured in the woods and the scrub, and horses were fed on the imported hay and oats and corn. The baled hay cost from $28 to $30 a ton, and the man who had a small orange grove of two or three acres spent more than the profits on his orange crop feeding the horse that was used in its cultivation. A stalk of corn was as much of a curiosity here as an orange tree would have been in Kansas,as far as its cultivation as a staple was concerned, and there was not a grist mill in the country. Oranges were everything and everywhere omnipo- tent. The freeze of December 29, 1894, de- stroyed a crop of 6,000,000 boxes of oranges. The freeze of February 8, 1895, destroyed the trees that bore them. There was a sum of $15,000,(00 owed in the orange part of the state on mortgages, and men in the north held them. There was no money anywhere, for the orange crop was worthless. Recognized Their Mistakes. These people then perceived for the first time that they had been wasting thelr op- portunities, and, gritting their teeth, set to work to take advantage of them. Jerome Palmer, a livery stable proprietor here, gave me in a few words an excellent illus- traticn of how things have changed in a twelvemonth. “A year ago,” he said, “I was paying $30 a ton for baled western hay, and every man who owned a horse in this section was doing the same thing. This winter there has not beeg a dozen bales of western hay shipped in, oWe are paying $8 a ton for neighborhood hay and $2 for hauling, a total of $10; and every cent of the money is being spent for the Improvement and ad- vancement of Florida.” Instances in Point. At Lakeland, below here, 6,000 quarts of strawberries have been shipped north this season, for which the growers have re- ceived an average price at the station of 15 cents a quart. Last year not a berry was shipped. Two young Englishmen near here had their all invested in an orange grove. The trees were killed to the roots, and they were ruined. They went to work, prepared three acres of land and planted it in cabbages. They sold $450 worth last week, and have twice as many left, which are now being shipped. The same amount of fertilizer needed to keep orange trees in good condition has been found sufficient to grow other products that bring a profit four or five times as great. In the past six months a half-dozen grist mills have been put in operation, and now the corn raised last year !s being ground into meal at a trifling cost. Before the freeze it was all imported from the north at an extravagant price. Plans are being drawn for an equal number of canning factories. Go into a grocery or prov:sion store anywhere in Florida, and you are struck by the appear- ance of the shelves, loaded down with canned goods, and all put up at the north. No one down here before the freeze ever thought of raising vegetables, except for the early northern market. They allowed the surplus to go to waste, being satisfied with the big prices they received for the first crops. The freeze taught them that this was a crazy policy, and now they real- ize that they can establish factories to put up that immense surplus of peas, tomatoes, beans and other vegetables, and supply the demand: in the state at lower prices, be- cause the fre'ght charges will be elimi- nated and the profits of two or three sets of middlemen. These are a few instances of what is being done all over the state in various forms. All Learning the Lesson. Every section 1s adapting itself to the new necessities, and doing so by availing itself of opportunities that always existed. The Georgia watermelon is not going to hold its pre-eminent place without a strug- gle, efther. Floridians have found they can raise them of excellent quality at im- mense profit, and this season will see large shipments to the north, two or three weeks earler than the Georgians can possibly send theirs. That means more money to meet obligations and improve property. The planting of tébacco will be impor- tant, also. Dozens of farmers have their planting beds ready, and will soon set out their fields, and past experiments have shown that excellent results attend the cultivation of such a crop here. Anozhér and more important factor in the new agricultural movement of Florida promises to be the canaigre root. This peculiar tuber contains fifty per cent of tannic acid, and 1s now raised almost ex- elvsively .in Arizona and Mexico. It has been proven that. the poorest land in Flori- da—indeed, any Jand that will sustain the palmetto—will nurture and ripen the ca- naigre. It is said the profits from a crop of this variety approach $50 an acre. The time will come, so conservative men in Florida declare, when the state will raise everything it consumes in the way of food products, except wheat. My investigation . of the new conditions leads me to believe that the claim is not too sanguine. Prospects of the Orange Growers. And all the time the orange trees are sending up lusty green shoots from their roots, and mile ‘after mifé@ as you ride through the orange growing country the landscape is filled with dead orange trees or their stumps, surrounded by a Juxurious Lunch of young growth. In hundreds of groves the trees have been cut down, and the effect of the fresh, young trees is that of a newly planted orchard. Where the trees still stand their leafless branches bang over the same bright shafts of prom- ise. In five years, if there are no more killing freezes. it is estimated that Florida will have more oranges to sell than she ever had, but they will not be depended on as in the past to sustain the state. The new lines of agricultural industry and their dependent branches will be followed and fostered with ceaseless energy. One need have no fear about the future prosperity of Florida. Florida is fortunate in its railroad _facili- tles. This development is a hundred years ahead of the actual necessities of the state. There are few states in the west which are so ramified by railroads. On either coast, down through the center and zigzagging here and there across it, run the paths of the iron horses. They penetrate wilder- nesses of swamp and jungle that will never pay tribute to them in a thousand years. Through leagues of sand and scrub the engines plunge, and stations are few and far apart, but their traffic, neverthefess, is heavy, and their rates are high. The pub- lic passenger coaches on regular passenger trains are nearly sumptuous in their ap- pointments, and surprise northern people with the convenient and comfortable ap- pointments. Next to the free chair cars on some of the western systems, there are no ears in the north in which passengers may travel without extra charge that can com- pare to them, and time is cut to a nicety in making out the schedules. It is to the railroads that Florida owes most of its present advancement—in time it will abund- antly remunerate the enterprising men who established them by keeping the tracks crowded with freight cars. There can be no doubt of that. CLUSKEY CROMWELL. ——— THE SENATE AT WORK. Bills Passed Yesterday Afternoon Be- fore Adjournment. The Senate yesterday afternoon passed the Arkansas settlement bill by a vote of 38 to 14, after a motion to recommit had been defeated. The calendar was then taken up and ten measures were pussed, including one relating to the District. This was the™bill authorizing the sale of the title of the United States to certain tracts of land In the District to Margaret Shu- grue, Caroline Lochboehler and John R. Scott. An amendment was adopted which provides that the sale shall not take place unless the Secretary of War be of the opinion that the transfer of title will in no wise be detrimental to the Washirgton aqueduct, and that the encroachments on the land were not fraudulent. This being a House bill, it was sent to conference. Mr. Pasco.tried to secure action on the bill for the rehef of George H. Plant. It directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to George H. Plant of the District of Columbia $5,216.85, that being the amount found to be due to him by the Court of Claims* for losses and damages sustained by him by reason of a collision between the U. 8. 8. Gettysburg and the steamboat Lady of the Lake, on the Potomac river. The reading cf the voluminous report was called for, but before it was concluded, Mr. Cockrell objected to the further considera- tion of the bill, and it was tai] over. House bill 5490, to license billiard and pool tables in the District, was taken up, but there was an apparent error in the print of the bill, and it was laid aside. The Senate District committee ordered a favor- able report on the bill just as it was passed by the House, but yesterday afier- noon it was found that in making the Sen- ate print in some manner the bill had been put in type just as it was reported by the House committee, so that the committee amendment, which was adopted by the House, appeared as a Senate committee amendment. Consequently the bill went over without prejudice. There was a sharp debate between Sen- ators Wolcott, Teller and Peffer on one side and Mr. Hill on the other when the resolution introduced February 12, 1896, by Mr. Peffer providing for an investigation into the sales of bonds in 1894, 1805 and 1896 was reached. Mr. Hill objected to its present consideration, and after a good deal of acrimonious talk. Mr. Peffer served notice that he would move today to take up the resolution for final action. The general bills passed during the af- ternoon were as follows: S. 1491, for the relief of Dr. John B. Read; S. 264, providing for the location and purchase of public lands for a reservo‘r site; S. 1935, providing for a commission to negotiate with the Crow and Flathead Indians for a cession of portions of their reservation in Montana; H. R. 1244, to confirm certain cash entries of offered lands in Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas; H. R. 5914, to amend the act authorizing the Interoceanic Railway Company to build lines through the Indian territory; S. 154, providing for the erection of a $2,000,000 public building at Ind!anap- olis, Ind.; H. Res. 24, providing for the de- struction of income tax returns, and H. R. 55, for the establishment of a light house and fog-signal station at or near Big Oyster Bed Shoal, N. L ——_—__-e. THE CITY POST OFFFICE. The Money Appropriated to Continue the Work This Year. During the consideration of the sundry efvil appropriation bill in the House yest: day afternoon the item was reached appro- priating $275,000 to continue work on the ‘Washington city post office, under the pres- ent IHmit. “I would like to ask the gentleman from Illinois in charge of this bill a question,” safd Mr. Johnson of California. “Is not that very much lower than the estimate made by the department for the construc- tion of this building as being absolutely necessary to complete it?” “That is sufficient, I would say to the gen- tleman’ from California,” responded Mr. Cannon. “It is all that is required for the building up to the Ist of March next. That 1s only a year from this time, and the fund will be sufficient to carry on the work up to that time. There ts a desire and recom- mendation on the part of the supervising architect, for various reasons which I will not go into now, to break the limit of the cost on that building, but that will require legislation. We recommend, within the limit, all the money that is necessary for use between now and March 1, 1897. “Is that all that could be used Drofitably if appropriated?” “There is about $100,000 stili within the limit that is not recommended in the appro- priation, because it is not necessary.” “If an extra amount was given, would not the work be pushed uh2ad a little more rapidly?” : “No. There is power to contract, the gen- tleman knows, and this ouilding is being carried on under contract now.” “I asked the question becaus2 the work seems to be slower now than tar in Janu- ary.”” “All the appropriation that is available for the purpose during the year has been made.” “Ifthe gentleman thinks so, I will not ‘offer the amendment I had intended to offer at this time.” The appropriation, therefore, ‘stands as proposed by the committee. o-—-___ Receiver Appointed. Judge Hagner bas appointed John B. Wight receiver for the real estate of the late Mary Van Riswl¢k, whose will is being contested by Mrs. Martina Carr, a daughter. -Mr. Wight’s bond was fixed at $3,000. 2 FOR NERVOUS DEPRESSION Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Dr. W. K. PITMAN, Lynchburg, Va., says: “I have ured it in nervous ‘epreesion ‘and dyspeptic treubles, with good restits. GOOD TIMES AGAIN ————— Honolulu. Rejoices in the Upward Priceg of Sugar. HER GOVERNMENT. BORROWS EASILY The Queen Practically as Free as Anybody. IRRIGATING SUGAR Se Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, March 14, 1896., Over three weeks ago the legislature convened for its regular biennial session. A special session was held last summer, which disposed of various matters which were pressing for attention, and which the government had been un- willing to settle by their provisional authority. At the same time appropria- tions were settled for the time being. The present is more strictly a business ses- sion for careful consideration of resources and expenditures of the republic for 1896 and '97. Some questions are also to be considered which at the last session were referred to committees to investigate and report upon. While the lower house is occupied with matters divers and sundry, the senate has settled down to diligent work upon the appropriation pill. According to our con- stituticn, this originates in the senate, or rather, the executive brings its budget first into that upper house. Our little state ef 100,000 people makes a tolerable showing of figures for its budget. Estimated re- ceipts to the treasury for the two years are given at $3,645,000, and proposed expendi- tures figure up to $3,604,000. These figures are exclusive of proposed loans for the purpose of executing a variety of public works. As to raisirg money for public works by loans, it pays well if judiciously expended. Wharves, water works and many other improvements yield the government large direct income from rents and fees. Roads and many other public works multiply the assessable value of adjacent property. The system is a good one if carefully man- aged, and it is proposed by the government to proceed on this syste-n in a liberal man- ner during the coming biennial period. The public credit is excellent. Finance Minister Damon felicttates himself and the legisla- ture upon having sold government 6 per cent bonds right hére in Honolulu during the past three years to the amount of over $10,000. There appears to be no doubt of facility in raising $250,000 a year in the same way, at probably a lower rate of in- terest. Honclulu capitalists are likely to be flush w oe present high prices of sugar and an aburfiant crop. Good Credit. Certainly the credit of this government is likely to be far better, now that things have settled down, than it could be in the past years of commotion and unrest, when so formidable a msfjace against the very existence of the government appeared from Washington two years ago, and when 2 year ago it was again threatened from within by an insurrection which seemed to have the sympathy of the administration. It is truly remarkable that during none of those times of peril was the confidence of our Iccal capitalists shaken in the perma- nence of the government, unless it were momentarily in December, 1893, when Min- ister Willis began his hostile operations. All the time the finance minister has found a steady local demand for new bonds of the government, and has issued them quite regularly at the rate of $15,000 a month, partly to cover current authorized ex- penditures for public works, aiid partly to cover previous expenditures near the close of the monarchy, when the public credit had suffered, and the bonds could not be negotiated. Public credit was very bad dur- ing the last six months of the monarchy. Tiis was particularly shown by the large withdrawals of deposits from the Postal Savings Bank, by which the treasury be- came severely embarrassed. Soon after the queen was overthrown, confidence returned, and deposits flowed in afresh to the public savings bank. The general financial condition of these islands is exceptionally prosperous this year. In the first place, there is now com- ing in a much larger crop of sugar than ever before—not less than 190,000 tons. Sec- ondly, that sugar brings a higher price (4 cents and more) than it has done for many Previous years, in consequence of shortage in the Cuba crop. Our planters are now reaping a golden harvest. The large fleet of coasting steamers is working to its utmost force in handling the average of 12,000 tons of sugar which the mills are now pouring out every week. Wharves are burdened with sacks of the yellow crystals, while the high black hulls of clippers lie alongside, rapidly sinking low in the water with their heavy freights. Several of these ships have taken their cargces to New York around the Horn, the old stormy route which we hope the Nicaragua canal will in a few years make obsolete. Sugar Looking Up. Already a rumber of the sugar corpora- tions have announced dividends which had paid none for one or two years past. One is the large Ewa plantation, within seventy minutes by rail from this city. It turns out nearly 10,000 tons this year. It was un- fortunately managed at first and lost heavi- ly Its first two years, but is now yielding its first dividends, and large ones. On this plantation was lately made the unprece- dented product of fourteen tons of sugar from a single acre. Its average yield of “plant” cane last year. was five tons. This was cane of eighteen to twenty months’ growth. “Ratoons,” or second growth cane, was about two tons per acre. A general average yield of plant cane throughout. the islands is about three tons per acre. The larger yield at Ewa is due to superior soil, but especially to copious irrigation, the wa- ter being lifted by pimps from artesian wells to an average hetgiit of eighty feet. Cost of irrigation per annum is about $20 per acre for lifting ‘the Water, or $4 per ton of sugar. Although the cane grows for eighteen n.onths, ft requires irrigation not over twelve. The amount of rain varies so much In dif- ferent districts that méthcds of culture of cane crops greatly differ throughout the islands. Perhaps rot more than one-third of the whole Is irrigated, and this yields the largest crops to the-acre, As a rule, the arid Jand8 are of richer soil than those which have been perpetually leached by rains. It is a bonanza to the planter when he can find water which can possibly be applied, even.at heavy expense, to some large tract of arid country on the lee side of an island. Not long ago H..P, Baldwin and partners éxpended half a million in ditches and for- ty-inch tron piping to conduct the Hanapepe stream upon the dry levels of Makaweli, Kauai. That barren expanse now is ver- dant with 5,000 acres of sugar cane, yield- ing 13,000 tons of sugar a year. To illustrate the differences in moisture in different rections, take the records of rain- fall for 1895. Here in Honolulu, under one hundred feet elevation, there were about forty inches of rainj Five miles inland, at a height of 800 feet, where the trade winds drive through Nutanu valley, there were 145 inckes during the year, and at Ewa plantation, downto leeward, only twenty Effect of Trade. Winds, Throughout the Hila plantations, along twenty-five miles of coast, where the trades pile up against the giant Maunakea, there was an average of 180 inches. In the Olaa woods, ‘on the Volcano road, where the new coffee plantations are growing, at 1,800 feet aliitude, there wad the largest rainfall of ell, 190 inches. Yet, fifty miles to the west- ward, along ninety miles of coast under‘the lee of the great mountains, the shore re- ceives only about 15 inches of rain ih winter from the westward, ard lies parched and burned all summer. Yet, strangely, only three miles inland, at an altitude of 1,800 feet, thera are 70 inches of rain precipitated by the daily sea breeze, creating the splen- €id coffee belt of Kena. It may be esti- mated that two-thirds of the area of these islands receives only from 12 to 30 inches of rain, or too little for agriculture without irrigation. We have, fortunately, a tree, the South American Algaroba, which flour- Ashes on the most arid coast lands, and which is valuable not only for hardwood fuel, but for its abundant sweet pods, which are excellent fodder for stock. In many sections the hitherto brown and barren coasts are green with the verdure of this useful tree. I alluded xbove to the old Cape Horn route, where so many of us old-timers used to spend weeks ard even months in seem- ingly vain struggling against an obstinate westerly tempest, and enormous Antarctic billows endlessly rolling athwart our course. Day after day our good ships, close-hauled on the head wind, and under close-reefed topsails and staysalls, would plunge heavily against the immense waves, and a week of that tedious fighting would record that we had made tem miles westing, or perhaps had dropped back fifty mfles east. A very similar kind of weather seems to prevail in winter on the much vaunted “great circle route,” from San Francisco to Yokohama, which sweeps far north along the Aleutian Islands, in latitude 50 degrees. The Rio de Janeiro’s Voynge. Ten days since the good steamer Rio de Jane‘ro arrived here in distress, having burned her after deck house and mizzen topmast to save her I!ttle reserve’of twenty tons of coal. She was twenty-six days out from San Franc!sco, bound to Yokohama. For sixteen days she had fought her way against that vile Aleutian (or Cape Horn) weather. Yet a thousand miles from her destination she encountered still heavier gales, and burned fifty-four tons of coal in advancing sixty-s'x miles. Her supposedly ample coal supply approaching exhaustion, she gave up the battle and ran for Hono- lulu, 2,500 miles away, partly under sail, reaching here in ten days. Replenishing her bunkers, she steamed off on the peace- ful course she had better have ‘taken three weeks earlier. This {s an interesting object lesson in the disadvantages of the northern great circle route, whose shortness, we have had it dinned into us, will divert most of the trans-Pacific commerce away from Hono- lulu. It does look very nicely upon an or- dinary globe, when one stretches a tape from San Francisco to Yokohama along the Aleutian Islands, and contrasts its di- rectness with the long deviation via Hon- olulu. But it is the old story of a long cir- cuit around a steep Fill being cheaper than the ‘t cut directly jpver it. In the win- ter season, at least, afeesen gales are too prevalent in those lat{tudes not to render the westward passagé via Honolulu the most desirable. Another object lesson is the desirableness of a cable to Honolulu. Had we been in telegraphic connection, the safety of the Rio could have been an- nounced twelve days earlier than it was per Peking to Yokohama. The Queen's Liberty. The ex-queen has lately been improving her enlarged I:berty by indulging in a trip to her country house at Waialua, thirty miles on the other side of the island. It should be understood that she is not yet pardoned, but only on parole. Of the last few months of her limited liberty she made judicious use. So completely have the ag’ tations and apprehensions following la year’s insurrection passed from all our thoughts that the parole at New Year of the last of the political prisoners has ceased to be regarded as anything but nat- ural and appropriate, although at the time many felt it to be an unsafe proceeding. Being still under a nominal surveillance, and Virtually Hable at any time to reim- prisonment if suspected of conspiracy against the government, it is quite certain that none of the late offenders are at all Likely to engage in further attempts. The republic presents every aspect of having fairly settled down to a peaceable and pros- perous career. KAMEHAMEHA. NGTON. Early Sunday morning it was discovered that two grocery stores and the pdst oflice had been burglarized during the night. A cellar window of Corrick & Dulin’s store, in the town hall, had been broken open, but no entrance was made. The front window of the side of the store occupied as post office was smashed, the cash drawer rifled of its contents, which consisted of $2 in stamps and some small change, and letters were opened, in hope of finding money. The thieves then helped themselves to several boxs of cigars and about twenty pourds of cheese. The cash register was then teken bedily from the store and esrried over near the sheemekcr shop of Mr. C. F. Blonden, and there broken open, and a few cents ex- tracted, Messrs. Corrick and Dulin having, according to custom, removed all the cash before leaving the store at night. A visit was made at the store of Mr. W. J. Hopkins, on Fawcett avenue, by the same parties, probably. A side window was pried open, an entrance effected, and the till tap- ped, but yielded only eleven or twelve cents, The burglars extracted some plug tobacco, sampled some oranges, and then departed, leaving the front door wide open. Suspicion rests upon a couple of alleged notion ped- diers, who were hanging about the village Saturday. An orange which had been bit- ten and thrown aside showed that one of the burglars was minus a front tooth. The rail- road detectives, the city police and the United States postal authorities were at once notified, and an investigation is in progress. A society, to be known as the “H. H.,” was organized Saturday afternoon last at the home of Miss Margie Hart. Officers were elected as follows: President, Miss Margie Hart; secretary, Miss Flora W. Smith; treasurer, Miss Faith Stoek. The society is for mutual improvement. A sub- ject for study and discussion will be as- signed for each meeting. ‘Washington City, Its History, Government, Institu- tions,” etc., were given to the various mem- bers. These will be reported upon at the next meeting, which will be held Saturday, April 4, at 3 p.m., at the home of Miss Sadie Kinnear. The return of Rev. Robert M. Moore as pastor of Kensington M. E. Church for an- other yerr, and the occupation of the re- cently completed parsonage by himself and wife, were made the occasion of a brilliant reception Friday evening last. The pastor's arity brought together a large number le of his congregation, and taxed the capacity of the roomy parsonage to its ut- most. Dr. G. W. T. Wright made the ad- dress of welcome on behalf of the church, which was happily responded to by Mr. Moore. rles L. Pate of Washing- ton, who was pastor in charge when this mission was opened at Knowles’ Station, contrasted the outlook then and now. The early services were held in the new frame barn at Oak Knoll, the residence of Mr. W. H. Wheatley, who afterward donated the ground and fendered substantial aid in erecting the present church building. Dur- ing inclement weather the approaches were then such that it required physical endur- ance as well as spiritual zeal to attend ser- vices. The attendance had grown so mark- edly that the erection of a new church edi- fice was contemplated,to be in keeping with the parsonage, at which this housewarming was in progress. Rev. Jas, T. Marshall of the ‘Warner Memorial Church voiced the pleas- ure he and his congregation felt at the re- turn of a pastor with whom they had so cordially co-operated in the past in the up- building of the Master’s kingdom. Cake and cream were served to the guests, and in- formal congratulations to the pastor and his wife were the features of the evening. Among the out-of-town guests were Dr. Luther B. Wilson, presiding elder, and wife; Rev. Hedding B. Leech, Rev. and Mrs. Chas. L. Pate and Rev. Thomas D. Lewis. Buckingham’s Dye for the Whiskers is the best, handiest, safest, surest, cleanest, most economical and satisfactory dye ever invented. It is the gentlemen's favorite. DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. Street Railways. As predicted in The Star, the Commission- ers have reported in favor of granting the Capital Traction Company the right to the territory west of 17th street which was con- tended for by the Columbia road as a west- ern extension. To bring this condition about the Commissioners yesterday recommended adverse action upon the bill extending the Columbia railroad and submitted a substl- tute provid ng its extension along Bladens- burg road, and make no mention of a west- ern extension, After reporting the bill, the Commissioners say by way of explanation that there is an additional reason for op- posing the western extension of the Colum- bia road. Instead of running from street and New York avenue to 17th and street along the tracks of the Cap'tal Trac- tion Cmpany, it desires to lay a double track on 15th street from New York avenue to H street, along H street to 17th and down lith to G. This plan would make three sets of curve tracks at 15th street and New York avenve, which the Commis- sioners think would be highly undesirable. The.Commissioners believe that the consoli- dation of the Columbia and Metropolitan roads would be advantageous for the public. Concerning the extension of the road along the Bladensburg road, the Commissioners say: “The extension would be a public ad- vantage if Bladensburg road is widened. The Colun.bia Suburban road charter has exp'red, and the extension 1s a natural one for the Columbia road. The company is better prepared to make it than the Eck- ington road. We 3lgo recommend the Co- lumbia extension on the Benning and Ana- costia roads. The roads should also be wid- ened, and the tracks should cross the East- ern branch on a separate bridge by ‘louble tracks. The bridge would cost $7,000. Our substitute bill embraces the easterly exten- sions asked for by the Columbia road, its consolidation provisions with the Metropoli- tan road and the provisions for the widen- ing of the roads mentioned. We suggest that trolley be prevented on these roads. If the roads consolidate, the company shall be known as the Metropolitan Electric Trac- tion Company.” Adverse Action. Adverse action is recommended by the Commissioners upon Senate bill 1040, to amend the act of June 30 for the reilef of holders of special assessment certificates. The provisions of this bill have heretofore been fully printed in The Star, together with the objections of the authorities there- to. Horse Racing. ‘The Commissioners renew their former favorable recommendation upon Senate bill 1866, relating to horse racing in the District of Columbia. Accompanying their report is a letter from their attorney recommending the passage of the same. Favorable Report. A favorable report was submitted yester- day by the Commissioners upon Senate bill 2483, which provides for the transfer of prosecution against certain acts of Con- gress from the United States to the Dis- trict. Rights of Married Women. The till which seeks to amend the mar- riage laws in the District of Columbia was reported to Congress yesterday afternoon by the Commissioners without recom- mendation. They submit, however, two let- ters upon the subject, one from the at- torney and another from Ellen Spencer Mussey, chairman of the legislative com- mittee of the Federation of Women’s Clubs. They are as follows: Attorney Thomas says: “The District laws relating to the property rights of married women are in a very unsatisfac- tory condition. The propcsed bill has some defects, but if enacted, would in ™any respects improve the present law. The bill is deficient in not providing that a marricd woman shall be entitled to the proceeds, of a judgment in favor of her injuries.@4s the bill now stands, the courts might limit her right of action to her sep- arate estate. “It is objectionable in giving a woman married out cf the District, whose hus- band afterward becomes a resident of the District, greater rights than it does to a women who was married in the District. It proposes < material change in the rights of a married woman in the estates of her deceased kusband. By the present law a widow is entitled to one-third of her husband's personal estate. The bill makes her entitled to one-half; but in my judg- ment she should have but one-third, and she should be entitled to one-third of the real estate. The bill makes a man re- sponsible for his wife's ante-nuptial debts, but in my opinion this ts wrong. “An important change is made by the bil in the law as to the relations of na- rent and child. Now the father has the power to appoint a guardian to his child, born or unborn, and the guardian has control over the child during its minority. The father fs now the nature? guardian of his child, but the bill makes oth the father mother the natural guardians. the father should continue to be the natu- ral guardian, unless superseced by a decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, and in such case the mother should succeed him. Instead of giving a widow one-half of all the real and personal property of tke husband, I would reduce the share to one-third.” Ellen Spencer Mussey, chairman of the legislative committee of the Federation of Women’s Cluts, submitted a report on the vill, in which she says: “Our committee has considered the ob- jections made by the attorneys. We have no objections to Mr. Thomas’ suggestions, but think it hest to put husband and wife on an equality. The attorneys do not agree on section three. The section is in- tended to enable the wife to recover per- sonal damages, and it could be made more explicit. It is suggested that the widow is not Hable for the maintenance of her family, put this committee has never known of a case where a widowed mother in business did not provide for her fam- ily. We do not consider, though, that a ‘mar-ied woman in business should be lia- ble for the suppert of ner family. This would ailow a worthless husband to evade his responsibilities. The woman should not be encouraged to make a livelihood for her family when the husband can do it, but, if she is forced to provide for the family, sre should be given every pro- tection ef the law. “We agree to make the widow's share one-third instead of one-half of the real and p2rsonal property. We submit that a woman of property who marries a worthless man can protect her property by a marriage contract. Very few men know their wives’ capacity for business, but women generally do well with prop- y 1™t them, “We differ entirely with the attorneys as to a father's guardianship rights. The mother has a right in her child different from any other right in the world, but we trust that both father and mother will be given equal rights in their children.” Mr. A. H. Cransby of 158 Kerr street, Memphis. Tenn., writes that his wife had cancer which had caten two large holes In her breast. and which the best physicians of the surrounding country treated, and Pronounced incurable. Her grand- motLer and aunt had died of - Canee amd when told this, the most eminent specialists of Now York, under whose treatment she was placed, declared he+ case was hopeless, All treat- ment having failed, she was given up to die. S86 was recon mended, an@, astonishing as it may seem. a few bottles cured her sound and well. Our treatise on this disease will de sent free to any address. SWIFT SPECIFIC ©0., ‘atlanta, Ga. “All in a Row.” It is a unique sight to view at Carlsbad the motley row of drinkers of all nations, languages, manners and customs, hurrying down in sin- gle file to the boiling Sprudel Spring, with earthenware mugs in their hands, or slung by straps round the neck or over the shoulder, and pa- tiently waiting their turns to sip of the precious fluid. For three cen- turies or more, all sorts and condi- tions of men, from the king to the tramp, have made pilgrimages thither in search of new life or *re- lief from pain. But we cannot in these competitive days afford the time and money to travel so far afield, so it is brought to your door bottled in its natural and original form at the Spring, or in powder evaporated on the spot, and well known as the Carlsbad Sprudel Wa- ter, and Carlsbad Sprudel Salt. The seal of the city of Carlsbad, and the signature, “EISNER & MENDEL- SON CO., Sole Agents, New York,” is on every bottle of the genuine. Beware of imitations. SOCSORORSOSSEESOOCEOOOSOSENS z Jas. L. Barbour & Son, > Wholesale Grocers, 4g 614-616 Pa. ave. < ind :Receivers’ ¢<S=A=L=E. SOOSPOSDSCESOSOESODOSESIOOE 3 $ ** To move the following @ * * goods ina hurry, we've re- g * * duced the prices to LESS ¢ * * THAN COST. $ pr. rrice’s Pare Ex. Lemon... 75c. doz. $ davis & atter's Fx. temon.. $1.00 doz. 3 rendemon's Wid Crerrs.... 60c. doz. F campnet’s card, Root Beer, gt $1.00 doz.2 Imperlal Lime Jutce.......... $2-50 doz.¢ $ Armour’s 4-07. Fluid Beet.... $3-50 doz. Armour’ @ Bovrie.........2---+ fJno. A. Hamilton, 2 2 < Receiver for Jas. L. Barbour & Son, : 614-616 Penna. Avenue. © mh27-604 POPE SSELELOLOIS FOOSIOOTO SOS Teeth Extracted Free. * In onder to afford the public an * opportunity to test the merits of our * new anacsthetle—NEAL VEGETABLE . VAPOR—we will extract teeth free of charge daily between the hours of 8 and 10 a.m. This wonderful vapor anaesthetic is rbsolutely harmless to the most delicate constitutions, having been admivistersd over 20,000 tims without ove unpleasnnt result. Under its influenre the most difficult teeth can be extracted without pain and in Perfect rafety. CFA cordial invitation ts extended to physicians to call and witness the administration of this new anacs- thetic. Dental work at a special dis- count to physicians and druggists. . . . . . . . . eeceee . . . . . . . . . ooo Solid Gold Crowns, $5. Painless ex- ose tracting, 50c. Cleaning, 75c. Silver ce Gilings, 7Sc. Platina fillings, §1. eee Artificial teeth, $8. Dental ° Association, ‘LIFE Will be infused into the aystem, and 4 ( ‘Hop 7 ‘Bitters. ( < if you have no appetite this fs Just What you should take to restore it. ( The guatest known remedy for dys- ‘ pepsia, Dillousness, liver troubles, (gla, conMpation ana alt For Sale in W silagton iby E. P. MERTZ, F and 11th Sts. fe24-2m-42 LPI EEE G Hair A thing sf the past when Nattan’s Crysta covery isu! sed. Guaranteed to resto hair to ‘ts natural color in 3 to ely rot a dye. Stops the hair from falling arrests dandriff and mikes the wleest Arends No xe hale one can use, Ni 1. Ts BAG , to any part of the mbS-17d Tor vy IOI Chilly Nights —ahead of us vst. unless you take the chill out phere. Let the fel be COK! a quick fire, and does or dust behind it. to get cold Ja cost. 40 bushels (uncrushed). ) $ 40 bushels (crushed)... 3. Send for a trial order to * Washington Gas Light Co., 413 10th st., And WM. J. YEH, 926 N st. "Phone 476. mh30-280 Nee ee NEAR DUPONT GRCLE. Carpenter's shop, 1420 N st. nw. Jobbing ty experienced and reliable men. — WALKER, Builder. Residence, 3021 N,