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; THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 38, i896-—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. Best Natural A eesentontectenzonteseszertontetoetbegetontonte pabeeiecnitee : SeeSeeenteeheetetonteeietocteetocatedtocteneteazentecentesteteatentetentenietedtentetedtoitodinitoteetnitodiete etediedeotodtedtedioe HUNYADI JANOS, The World’s perient Water. 25 Years’ Success in U. S. Highest Reputation all Over the World. CAUTION: None genuine without the signature of the “Andreas Saxlehner,” ; On the firm Label. A BIG WHALE. An Exciting Catch Made Off the Is- nd of Bermuda. CAPTURING gone by thet station here in Bermuda—this speck ly upon the bosom of the Atlantic ocean, se\ Ars was a whaling ns en hundred ‘miles east by south of New York and six hundred miles east of Charleston, S. C. But of late years the whales have been living “away up in the North sea,” and the industry has been abandoned cently, however, the writer i a thrilling experience during the cap- of a whale on the reefs of these coral While the stanch steamer Trinidad nearing the coast Captain Frazer 1 a school of eight whaics. The sun Was at its zenith and its rays shimmered from the whales’ backs. No such leviathans of the sea had been seen in this neigh- bor! many i the fact was o a code of mili sig this information was soon om one end of the group to the ntly Joseph C. Fox and a crew, in boat Shamrock, put out from i started in pursuit. A€ the | a pilot was brozght in a skiff jad, and the writer, on inform- that he represented the to leave the ship in a inidad passed on with rs, and the whale! direction. By thi a divided into th two in one group and three each | other two groups. Mr. Fox decided | of the whales in the third taking advantase of a chang? tion of their cour hi the Shamrock as to get path of the nearest whale. rT approached, quite uncon- r, for a sperm whale car ack oF di- n the mo t lying directly ahead, a pI t of the steering oar the boat within five feet of the nd enabled Mr. Fox to send a well- arpoon into its boly near the mad, for in- up in the a! n what is termed * e t down. oundil The oil ‘ran out so rapidly that it kept n busily eng in drenching it water to prevent fire by friction was a good diver, for he stayed hour before he came up to =" was in the act of throwing off s just begin- y . Fox fired whie ploded in the This enraged the monster so nat he upset the small boat with and threw one whaleman high into ‘The man fell on the whale’s back, on to the harpeon, rode ore it occurred to him to get mself to be rescued by hi who, in the meantime, had up by the I r boat. The hour was the man who rode on s back aac Nadele, a native who ha rved in the French * co-Prussian war. He adventures, but he arity told the Spy representa was the first time he was ever ack began again. 3 of the harpoon, “@ was fired occasionally to my. did not 4 mat bomb lar m the r ound) any more, time on the surface of 1 beating the sea with uggle of two succumb tized to strap up in tow. from lend. ‘The , and it is esti- yleld sixty he catch is said to be ™), or something like $1,000. k cut from the nch chef at the it to a beautiful brow thsome flavor of- ter ks of Worcester boar was as good as a feast it away waiter was tcid to take —___+e+_____ What It Depended On. From Northwest Mag One day Tom Logan, an Oregon lawyer and an inv wag, was arguing a cas before Chief Ju Greene of the su- preme court of what was then the terri- ington. Opposed to him was lawyer nan.cd Browne. Lo- referred to the counsel on e as if his name was spelled the evident annoyance of At last the judge inter- stice a gan ¢ back woo: nti ig pronounced my name is ut you would not pro- would you?” replied Logan, gravely, but with | twinkle in his eye, “depends en- | how your honor decides th ry ou + His Fear. he Detroit Tribune. was wrung with suspense,” the duke . now that it was all arranged. protested the American hetress, | ould you not see that I was interested in your" “Ah, yes,” rejoined his grace; “but I was not able to dismiss the thought that pos- sibly you were only shopping. a leisure hour follows the use of ; FELSHAPTHA SOAP (At all Grocers.) FELS & CO., Philade. | Portions: | Length of arm from ell | Around | chapter. He read as follows: PERFECT ARMS. Society and Stage Bonst Many Who Own Beautiful Ones. From the New York Commercial Advertiser. There are numerous women who are noted for their beautiful and graceful arms, which artists claim are the least common of all points of beauty. Some of them are society women and some of the: are stage queens. The “divine Sar: arms are almost as noted as her golden Voice. Emma Eames has more classically per- fect arms than even most beautiful women. Miss Morris of Baltimore, the sister of Mrs. Gebhardt, is noted for the grace and beauty of her arms. And there are numer- ous other lesser lights both on the stage and in society who boast remarkable arms. But unless these ladies find upon careful measurement that their arms are molded in the following proportions they may not claim to be classically correct. One cele- brated statue of Venus shows these pr Tneh Length of arm from shonider to finger tips..28 [Le of arm fre lder to elow 1 Ww to Around clbow Around forear Around wrist... Diana, who should be the model for ath- letic women, has beautiful arms, as s represented by sculptors. In one statue | the proportions are as follows: ngth of arm from shoulder to finger tips . of arm from shoulder to ellos Length of arm from elbo Ar to finger tips ——__ +e. < NUMBER OF FATALITIES IN WAR, Deputy Commissioner of Pensions nys It is Generally Overestimated. Wash ton Letter to the Chicago } a Deupty Commissioner of Pensions Bell of Illinois was commenting today on some of the inaccurate statements made on the oc- casion of the Hancock statue unveiling of the number of Union soldiers killed in the Gettysburg engagement. Said he: “One authority stated Hancock’s com- mand furnished 4,000, or about half the dead, at Gettysburg. The records show that only 2,834 Unfon soldiers in all were Killed at Gettysburg. This is only one of the inaccuracies of which those who have not made an examination of the records touching the number killed in battle during the war of the rebellion are likely to fall. The fatality in battle 1s usually considered much greater than it really is. If any one should answer offhand the number he be- lieved to have been killed on the Union side at the battle of Gettysburg he would t invariably fix the number at once from $,000 to 12,090, and he would go about as much over the mark touching any other battle of the late war concerning which a similar question might be pro- pounded. “At the battle of An of Union soldiers killed w: am the number $2,110; the con- federdt First Bull Run, Union killed, » 269. Second Bull Run, Union, 800; confederates, 7), Chan- sville, Union killed, 1 confeder- > auga, Union, 1,644; Gettysburg, Union confederate: Shiloh, conf rates, Stone 1, confederates, number of killed not gften separately,but the and wounded amounted to the Wilder: 2,000, he total number of Union soldiers killed in the battles during the entire war of the rebellion was 59,860; while the num- ber of confederates killed was 51,425, or a grand total of 111,285, out of something 40,000 engaged, and covering a period of over four years.”* + e+ _____ “Talking Through His Hat.” er in the Boston Transcript. Dear Listener: Will you kindly explain the raison d'etre, as ycu understan4 it, of the expression “talking through his hat?" As a Harvard graduate, I claim to be pret- ty well grounded in slang, both classic and otherwise; but I have never seen any sense in the phrase in question, nor has any friend whom I have asked been able to help me. s. If this Harvard graduate will take his “plug” hat firmly by the brim with both hands, holding the top of it away from him, and will then put the lower part of his face inside the hat and speak in an ordinary tone of voice he will be surprised to hear how loud, full, sonorous and altogether mag- nificent his voice seems to have becom. It will ring like an organ and reverberate like the Mammoth Cave. He will get a new impression of it, and it may occur to him that a man who has got a voice liko that is really a great fellow. And yet a by- stander will not hear him go weil as if he had noi used his hat to magnify—to him- self—the sound of his voice. He will seem to himself to have been addressing impor- tant remarks to the whole world, but, as a matter of fact, he will have been merely talking through his hat. This performance is exactly of the sort of that of the small boy, who, having occasion to make himself heard a Jong way, puts the flat of his hand in front of his mouth, and imagines that he Is helping his voice because he makes it sound louder in his own ears. Whatever shade of difference from this meaning the expression “talking through his hat may have taken on in actual use, there seems little doubt that this was what it meant originally, It doesn’t seem to be classio slang—it isn’t even in the Century Diction- ary; but the case seems to be clear in favor of this explanation The Concealed Love Letter. From the Troy Times. A New York paper tells of the failure of a young man’s clever scheme for revealing the state of his affections to his adored one. The youth had gained access to the house of one of the richest and most aris- tocratie families in the city. He fell in love with the only daughter of the house, and tried to ingratiate himself with her in every possible manner, especially by bringing her the latest publications. One day the father of the young lady found wae of these books lying on the table, and began glancing through it. In one of the chapters he found a number of words un- @erlined with a lead pencil—not beautiful passages, but insignificant words such as “I and “You.” Ho turned over leaf after leaf, and found everywhere the same and i He connected ‘he underlined words ani read as follow: Dearest Fraulein—Will insult you if I tell you that I adore thet and—" In short, a love letter of the most gushing description, and closing with the suggestive words, “Answer in the ‘next chapter.” Then he took a lead Pencil, un- derlined some words in the next chapter, wrapped the book In a piece of paper and handed it to the footman, whom he in- structed to take it back to the young gen- tleman. The latter opened the volume, hig heart throbbing like a sledgehammer, an found the words underlined in the nex! ‘You young scoundrel! If you dare to cross the thresh- old of my house again, I shall kick you out of the window.” PAST WINDMILLS Interesting Experiences in a Bicycle Tour Through Holland. > | CURIOSITIES OF A DUTCH BED ROOM Douch a Button and Your Couch Stands Revealed. BETTER O THAN HACKMEN Se NB OF THE pleasantest sions from Amster- excur- dam is by boat to cents). easy Zaan Dam, for which the fare is only fifty pfennigs (nineteen The steamers are ordinary, river excursion boats and steam quite close to the dyked shores and almost spea small within king dis- tance of the millers, in their busy mills, that are seen in every direction. But the one drawback to % Dam is the fact that everybody goes, consequently the boats are always crowded with sight-seeing tourists, whose English clatter is not in harmony with the pictur- esque Holland landscape. Taking our wheels and with second-class tickets, we boarded the little steamer for Zaan Dam, and had the satisfa on of be- ing quite at the other end of the boat from the crowd, The shores are as flat as a vast plain, and in many places we passed the land is from six to twenty feet below the level of the water. It was no uncommon sight for us to catch a peep into the second-story win- dows of the little houses on the shore, or to see only the roofs and chimneys peeping over the dyke. that seemed to be g the dyke on the inner side- up which some of the mi found their y and The fields were g over them roamed large herds of fine c: at will, ove miles of flat green pasture below the hil formed by the thrifty Hollander to prote a gr pn, and ttle, the t n slope, curious bovi ze at our hoat and with due Holland decorum, mills were now seen on every side, their long arms turning over and over, like a crowd of athletic handsprings. At first giants making endle the novel sight de- s lighted us, but, alas for the weakness of human nature, ceaseless round, woul give our tired eyes a rest. Zaan Dam proved to be only a dull little tourist town, where two small hotels thrive by asking fabulous prices. ld ha we soon wearied of their and much to have had them ave given op a moment and We rejoiced we had our wheels with us, and in consequence were quite indepenc lent of the old hack- man and his shabby cab, who had the im- pudence to ask us $4 to drive us out beyond the town, along the banks of the canal, cottages and where other “sights” Wem fortably, and had there are some old our shown to all tourists. he run of elght miles very cem- wheels safely on board the boat for the return trip before a load of tour- ists, had much more than made a start. Independence of the Cycler. The advantages of a wheel ars many, and even those who do not pedaling the entire distance will still find the old man, who had secur it a reliable adjunct. Short rides in and around the cities vis- | ‘Th ; ited will not only be much more enjoyable | being perfo: if made by cycle, but the saving in the ex feel equal to orbitant hack fares demanded of foreisn- ers will be found to cover the entire ont- when not In use. where we named Hilverzum. and the soil b we found road from Holiandziln Rading of uphill and down more than thre times if on a good r would have d for the transpor We than the next morning at Ar ting forth without any pl would stop, fancy, and on the lo Dutch town not crowded and tourist ric ion In the little ratlroad became a dales, that he same the end we were more than labor in reaching the town, for it pro’ very of our own. to be unique Night had and a already mounted from our wh gry, at the door of it fallen a smal arri of t ods a 1 1 no terdain totally of the he wheel longer ns made as to but free to suit our ut for some littl Fortune favored us, and brought us to the queerest and quaintest of little village: southern the country is high and hilly, like the reclaimed flat Jend Hollan at succession distan ad, but in jd for our 1 sls, tired and hun- aurante after much laughter and pantomine, sured something to eat. Not a sou] met in Hilyerzum understood one word of English, and few of thc se we encountered could make anything intelli- gible of John’s Ger n, although-many of the Dutch speak that language as weil as he! They would smile and a and look as wise as owl then, with a shake of the head, pass on, giving up the riddle. But our host unde: say, and stood us to desire lodging, and pointed out a small house up the road, after having brought out his heavy: old b} cycle for our inspection, with greatest pride and satis- faction, as much as to say. “You foreign- ers are not the only people who ride!” We found accommodation house to which he had di in ected tha small us with- out trouble, for he had dispatched a small urchin there before us, wanted. to tell what we he Dutch landlady escorted me through @ room filled with men eating and drinking, whose merriment was respectfully silenced as We passed through, but whose tongues were at once let loose as soon as we were safely out of sight. My hostess, a large stout woman of mid- dle age, swung herself up the steep and seemingly unmountable stairs dexterity acquired by years of practice, and witi some misgivings I grasped the brass hand rail and essayed to follow her. The steps were only a few inches broad, affording no foothold, except for the tips of the toes, and looked as if they must lead “up on deck,” steamer’s stairway. they with the were so like a Surprises of a Dutch Bed Room. Breathlessly accomplishing the swinging myself up I followed her through j feat of aried us | | on again until evening, | the little leaden the large open attic, above, in which, to my amazement, I saw our large white tents. She led me to the front parlor, which was partitioned off fromthe attic, and although I looked in every direction I could see no signs of a bed or anything else to sleep cn. The marble-top fable had a little mat, worked in shaded green zephyr, in which the inevitable famify album rested, the stiff, old-fashioned chairs, covered in faded green rep; the sprawling blue figures on the well paper, all testified to this being the “best room.” ‘But where's the bed?” I asked scarily, seeing my hostess was about to leave me. ” “Ya, ya,” she replied, sinilingly, adding something more in:unpronouncable Dutch, that,I couldn’t undeystand a word of. See- ing my helpless logk she stepped to the wall and turned a small button I hadv’t noticed on the got¥eous wall paper. A panel fell down, and’ther2, in the wall of the room, was a tiny curtain, which she drew smilingly aside, exposing’ to my view a bed. Pleased with my amazement proudly stepped to the opposite side of the room, turned a similar button and disclos- ed another little bed, an exact counterpart of the first. Nor was this all, for she was determined to enlighten me fully, and showed me a third and finally a fourth bed, all of which, as we afterward discov- ered for ourselves, were buflt under the eaves of the sloping roof. Never shall I forget that tiny Dutch bed. At first afraid of being smothered I wculd not lie down and sat bolt upright, with the curtains open rnd.my head stuck vut, to breathe, but Johr set a gcod example by going to sleen at crce, in bis box in the closet, as he called his bunk, and weariness soon quieted my scruples and I slept soundly, until awakened early rext morning, by sounds frcm the queer attic, full of tents, Just outside our door. When ready to risk my life once more by attempting to descend the Dutch stairway to get breakfest, I determined to first sat- isfy my increasing curiosity, so going slyly out, I tiptoed to the first’ tent and noise- lessly lifted the white canvas and peeped in. Within was a huge four-posied bed that had been evidently slept in, Not quite satisfied I tried another, but beat a hasty retreat, for withir. the protecting cover of the tent a sturdy young Dutchman was making his tcilet. By means of the unique covers on the beds the entire household, ale and female, were enabled to keep up some degree of privacy in this one room. I hope that young Dutchman uid not see me, but whether he did or not, I didn't feel quite comfortable until we had paid our very mcdest bill and once more start- ed southwera, after having visited and photograpled a hospitable miller and his mill—the last we were to see in Holland. Riders Pay a License. It is not possible to go fully into the de- tails of our trip in a limited space. We made thirty to thirty-five miles a day while ling on the continent, stopping anys where en route we pleased, having only a ral itinerary :mapped out. When we tired and hungry we would stop and have lunch, and, after resting, journeying wh n We Would put up at the first place w at suited us, In Germany the ro. fairly good, but not to be compa e highways in tngland. Riding everywhere on the con- tis more apt to be fatiguing, for in Germany, as in Holland and other coun- rics, the pavements in the towns are coll ones, and the rider of a wheel is jol severely in spite of the best pneumatic Whenever we found cycling too much like hard work to be a ure, we took a trip, by rail or boat, in the desired direction, after which we were ready once more to take to the road, fully rested and enjoying all the good “bits” by contrast with the rough and uneven journey made before. In Germany the custom house officials | make little trouble Yor the cyclist, but a license is necessary for the “land also a tax is levied on the machine for bringing it into the country; but this duty is re- turned when the frontier is recrossed, if al attached to the wheel is found intact. 1 ollectel, al: in France and It amount chg varying in the different countries from $10 to $80, according to the value of the wheel. ‘The wheel licens n be procured for four | marks ($1) and is a litde metal tag, about three inches square, atta by a cireular clamp on to the wh: ceniral al bar. es a. A rec- the The number on ft is large, and, the fig: ‘ated, it easily rea ord is taken of the cyclist’s name, residence and occupation, the number of ils license proving his identity in case of accident, | This affords the police a means of serving fines on careless riders and s number he secures a3 they The scheme seems be adopt other American cities. We wheeled from Utrecht, where the queer little bob-tail horse cars are decor- ated with huge brass dinner bells, to Ober- hausen, and then on to Dusseldorf, a well- built, rather uninteresting town of 113 nhabitants, in spite of its famous school of art. With every mile the beauty of the route Increased, until we reached Koln, or Cologne, as we know It, on the banks of the Rhine. rchers, whose go flying by. _- Aureola, From Peterson's Magazine. ‘The stars fali down from heaven, We no trail behind: 3 hush on every bush, ‘Then scatter to the wind. And drean od vanish AS sinsh day; On every free, ny Wl For [have seen + And they have ga. in min THOMAS WALSH. Se es Scotch Congregation, From the Westminster Review. Listen to a Scottish congregation singing “French,” or “St. Kilda,” and you have heard struck the keynote of Scottish relig- jon. The soft, melodious roll of the organ 1s not there, nor the painfully accurate notes of the strictly high-class < there is a sublimity and a_ grande those old Psalm tunes of Scotland breathe of the mountain and the sea. They are a part of Scotland's heritage of the best that the past can give—not the best because of the artistic arrangement of notes and symphonies, but best because of the Inspiring soul of music that floats with every paean through the peaceful villa church. There is a vein of sadness them, too, through which love strikes on the harp of song a chord of glorious beauty. They are the soul of the land's religion a religion that might be described as Cal- vinism, plus a generous amount of human sympathy. With the rising generation, however, a marked change is visible. As Calvinism passes away, thg and moral elements seem to increase clergymen bear testimony that ‘‘w! erature of anything but a religious char- acter forms the bulk of Sabbath reading, yet it was generally admitted that there was less swearing and rowdy language in use than formerly, and fewer nasty habits in the field or farmyard.” in human “Well, Pat, have you learned “Sorra a bit, sor. Sure Oi fs can’ 0 ride your bicycle yet?” ‘t aven balance mesiif standin’ still, let alone roidin’.” A FISH WORM FARM. A New York Man’s Novel and Profit- able Industry. From the St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Charles Reincke, a farmer, residing two miles north of Balmyra, N. enjoys the reputation of being the only worm raiser in the United States. He occupies an abandoned farm, on which a former owner had buitt a hot house. This hot house was heated by a Florida heater, which was re- moved to the house and installed to heat ling. In its place a massive stove had been placed in position, covered by a potash kettle, in which pota- toes were boiled for the hogs. With this exception, the hot house was intact, and an unprofitable piece of property. Reincke renovated the plant, putting in a new box, which completely covered the ground floor of the building with the exception of a space all around the outside, which was left to get around and attend to the worms. This box was built four feet deep and filled with soil to within eighteen inches of During last spring and summer fe the top. Reincke and his boys gathered the “night walkers" in large quantitie whenever any plowing was done the lads walked behind with pails and gathered up the worms, which were forthwith trans- ferred to the incubator. Reincke that he put three barrels of “walkers' into this incubator during the nmer. From December 1 to January 1, 1 Mr. Reincke sold thirty-eight quarts of worms at $1 per quart. Fishermen left orders at Charles Blank’s grocery in the village for Reincke, and he brought in the worms to fill all demands. When the cold snap came on in February and the thermometer ran down to 28 de} below zero the worms were all right, and kept on thriving and multiplying. Reincke went down to Sen- eca river and out to S worm be fo sandy, dus Point with and caught the largest, pickerel to nd. At Sodus Point the soil is all nd no worms can be found within of three mile ven in the sum- time common worms sold at the Point for 30 cents his per quart, and this winter Reincke sold hi rown and hot-house-raised for $1 pre qua avidity with which a pi these lari to s el would thing old fi . being of the opinic Bained from long observation doted upon a worms took their fanc a fancy to them, and fish hauled up through the ice for bait. Fishe cke took fish was with “walkers” men purchased his worms and fished on ndaigua, Ca ka, One Otsego and’ other wood results. On Irondequoit near Rochester, pickerel refused to be tempted with anything but Reincke's choi consequently the Lyons worm. rais all the orde-s he wanted to fill the day after Christmas Reincke’s son Karl was in the incuba ing his father reme th from the box, intending to it with fresh This work was called “feed- ing the crawle layed on his harmonica, making quite a noise, and was surprised, as was his father, to observe the Worms working up out of the ground, their | heads sticking out about two inches,’ while they swayed their heads to and fro as if tickled to death to hear the music When the boy ceased pla # the worms slipped back into their warm beds. This story was and w: representative, with Di the story veritied. Th organ seemed to hay s doul ais lad the same e: dit Ve til yo ler, saw A. with his mouth ct upon the mght walkers as do the wind instru- ments handled by Hindoo snake charmers upon the serpents that roam undisturbed in the orient. PLEA te+ ‘OR HER HAND. nt of Counsel Involving Personal Interests, » Chicago Post. judge's daughter was per 4, knitting ai “Iam in doubt a her to whether I have pretty brow kept to the proper form of procedure. In law one can err in so many little technical- ities that I am ever fearful. Now, last evening Geerge— locked at her so sharply hat she involuntarily paused. ht you had sent him about his he said. nd down ar adverse decis “and he declared that he However, I convinced him court of last resort in a case over “I did hi she answer ke that, and that no appeal would lie from my decision.” “Possibly the court was assuming a little more power then rightfully belongs to it, said the judg pass. What did he do the To filed a petition f he out Jet that usial cour: usually * said the j nothing but a mere 9 I thought,” returned the girl, prepared to deny it without a but the fects forth in h ient to mak ther h presented at the first t “Upon rounds did he ma plication?” asked the judge, scowl “Well,” she replied, blushing a little,“you sed by letter, and his conten- at the casé was of that peculiar but demands oral fact that the latter had been oi he held, should be held to be an error, t wa jon, so force and consented te in. Do you thin “I think,” said the judg favors the plaintiff. » “that the court At a Bargain, From the Chioago Post. “Dear,” she said, and her sweetest and most engaging smile illumined her face, “if you had a handsome lap-robe could you use it?" ‘ertaialy not,” he replied. You know well that we haven't a vehicle of any ription.”” That's what I thought,” she returned, “so I have packed it aw Later, when we are wealthy and keep horses, we car : Packed it aw ruptiag her, “P: “Why, the he exclaimed, inter- cked what away?” lap-robe,” she answered i we haven't a lap-robe,” he pro- yes, we have," she returned. “I happened to stumble into that depart- ment of one of the big stores today, and they had marked them down so low that I felt I ought to get cne before the oppor- tunity-slipped away. “But we don’t need—' “Not now, but we may,” she interrupted. “It's just aS well to get these things when they can be had at a bargain, and this was a real bargain. You men are very thought- less about such things. You would never have thought of buying this robe now; you wouldn't have had the foresight, but would have waited until you had a horse, and then, very likely, you would have had to pay a dollar more for it.”” “A GOOD PRACTICE. 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In the first place, it is utterly unlike any umbrella that any one ever saw before, and, in tle second, not one person in a hun- dred is able to figure out how the Constitu- tion made use of it in making her escape from the British vessels. It is exactly like an umbrella frame in general shape, but the stick is about ten feet long, with a iron ring at each end, and is about sin diameter. The frame slides up and down on it, just like the frame of an ordinary umbrella, and is made of stout iron bars. Some people think that it may been set up on the deck to give the S a little shade on a hot but they cannot see how this _hely the escape. The purpose for which it was in- ded and used was as a sea anchor, and s story is as follow: On the Ist 1812, the Constitu- tion, then cruising under the command of that famous old fighter, Isaac Hull, was surrou: ed by Brooke's squadron of five els. Before they could close in on him, ver, it fell calm, and Capt. Hull at once made use of the umbrella, of which there were two aboard. A cable was bent to one of the umbrellas t what would be the handle in one of the ordinary kind, and the umbrella was folded up and taken out by a boat to a cable's length ahead of th vessel. It was then thrown overboard, and as soon as the crew began haul in on the windlass it, of course, spread out, giv- ing a drag by which the vessel could be d. While the vessel was warp. Ss one, the oth, id before the what Hull doing, he had gotten outside of the circle with which they had surround- ed him. They immediately began to pursue the same tact but he ran two 24-pound guns out of his’ cabin dows and kept from getting anywhere gear him, as, whenever one of the boats carrying out a drag came up astern of him, h ong of the “Long Toms,” and in this kept the ships from closing in. ‘This E — up for two days, and on the ey 5 0 would fire the second day came up a squall. 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