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: THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1896—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. price. They $100. buy a E © Pope Manufacturing Co., J. Hart Brittain, Local Manager, 452 Penna. Ave. BAB! itching ES WON'T SUFFER Evans’ ore, 938 F St. g Retail denies ote a Oe hae ee Trust Us With Curtains. not te an them without ip jur; soft and ‘agon calls. GSt ery stain ren “d. FON FISCHER, 906 381 Da nty Sweet Peas favorites with everyone. Small prices. A. Gude & Bro., 1224 F st. Jel3-120 f= New York olen Bu jen jewels were detained New York custom house for two First, to enable the authorities ise the value of the diamonds; and to give thém an opportun'ty to whether the gams were dutiable or not. “After a two hours’ conference, we are informed, “the question whether Mr. Burdeg would be called upon to pay 317,000 on the Jewels as a new importation was left undecided. ‘The mere suggest‘on that the plundered owner should be made to pay famonds strikes us as m taken out of the st his will, t ould be pun- rtune in thus losing ed to pay the im duty on these ¢ The exa Bur would make the profit by the robbery to the 0. ‘The revenue is Short, we ‘an get along with- It would burn a hole in ext of $17. know, but the people ut this money. asury.” the tr —— Educa m of Women in Turkey. Miss Mary Mills F trick in the Ferum. ef the better class in the fier they are too old to attend ary schools, are largely educated governesses, many of whom ngland and France, but, un- do not usvatly represent the nations, so tha at h com fortunately, highest culture of those real love of study is not as a rule devel- oped under their influence. Turkish wo- ten have a great aptitude for foreign lan- and those we meet on the stezmers nd gu: of the Bosphorus often speak French, it is not unusual for them to speak Ge: man and It is a well-known fact that many Turkish women are en- gaxed in trade, some even carrying on an extensive business involving frequent jour- neys to Egypt and other places, which pre- supposes the ability to read and write, knowledge of arithmeti conversati men in the capital rev at the present time in independ- ence of thought, and, while social cond!- y2 unavoidably arrested the devel- Turkish women es a class, fore>s slowly but surely working among them that will result in their final emancipatioa. 2? Moreover, w How Edi From t Learned to Tell Stories. jeveland Fiain Dealer. It ssemed like a waste of time,” @ gentleman who passed an evening with Mr. Edison in Norwalk, Ohio, recently, “to hear Mr. Edison rolling off story after stery, and demandin: of all his acquaint- ances to tell him more, when he knew how uch information we might have received from him. I finally asked him how he got to be such a story teller. ‘Well,’ he replied, ‘when I was quite a young man I was a telegraph operater during the war. I was stationed at St. Louis, which was a sort of distributing poini for a large @strict, and when we would get our batch of stuff off, and we still had several hours to put in, I used to get pretty tired. Then we would begin to cail up the operator a the other end of the line and go: : him. I always liked stories, and if Chi- cago had a good one he would wire it to me. Then I would send that off to Lovis- ville and New York and Cincinnati, and hear them laugh over it by wirfne back, “Ha, ha.” over the wire. In this way we would get all the best stories there were going, end we would always write them out for the day men. Jt got to be a sert of passion after a while, and has stuck to me ever since.” —+e+—____. Americanism in the West. Senator Teller ia the North American Review. The west ts not only rich in the precious Metals, but in lead, copper and iron. With immense fields of bituminous and anthra- cite coal, and the finest timber on the con- tinent, it must in time secure its full share of American manufactures. Agriculture must increase correspond- ingly, and with the increase of population and wealth the west will no longer com- plain of the east, nor will the east treat the west. as it has heretofore, as a depen- dency; and instead of the east and the west growing farther apart, I believe they will be closer in their relations than they are Row or ever have been. The west is loyal to the interests of the whole country. Without manufactures the western repub- licans in Congress have maintained with great zeal the theory of protection to American industries. Their interest In the coast defenses has not been less than that of those who Hve on the seaboard. The de- mand for a navy commensurate In strength with our national greatness gnd national danger has found its strongest advocates among the representatives of the states that could not be disturbed by a hostile force by land or sea. The American spirit is strong in the west. An ingult to our flag would be re- sented by the people of the west as it would in no other part of the country. They would not inquire what it would cost or how it would affect trade or commerce. There never will be two republics made out of this one. The west will never desire it, and if the east ever does the west will pre- vent it. A common flag, a common an- cestry, a common Interest, justice to all in legislation and administration, will keep the states in a Union never to be broken by foreign or domest> > 2 SSSSSG9G@ @ Don’t hold off, thinking that high-grade wheels will drop in wheels are going down, and will continue to do so until they reach their level. - If you want the best, pay If you can afford to pay $100, OLUMBIA. 5 It’s wheel wisdom. e096 SS eaSe00N S000 won't. Cheap DSOOSSHOSOHSSSSSOSOS COGN Columbia Bicycle Academy, 12,000 Feet Floor Space, 22d and P Streets. 2OO® a) @ THE ONLY EQUINE SURVIVOR. | Am Old Horse That Served in the War. Rev. James L. Hill in the Congregationalist. Since Bell Mosby died two years ago last March, full of years and honors, a single representative of the equine race—more solitary than Robinson Crusoe upon his is- land—remains a cynosure of the nation’s eyes. He will march next to the band and flag in the procession of the John Braden Post, Grand Army, on Memorial day, and if life is graciously lengthened out, will participate in the grand reunion and na- tional encampment at St. Paul next Sep- tember. If the custom of earlier Memorial days is continued, he will wear on his back @ robe of state inscribed on one side wiih the legend, “I am forty-one years old and am the only one left.” On the opposite side would appear the statement, “Captured in 1864, served in Company C, 16th Penn- sylvania Cavalry.” His age is reckoned “according to his mouth” at the time he was taken from the enemy, and his name is Ned. Gen. Sheridan’s horse Rienzi, or Winchester, as he was always called after: He seemed to the whole great army to say, <I have brought you Sheridan all the way From Winchester town to save the day.” Was accounted venerable when at half of Ned's age; dying in 1878, he stood aside “as natural as life’ in the military insti- tute museum on Governor's Island. Un- like Rienzi, who was presented to Sheridan when made colonel by a Michigan regi- ment, old Ned was originally a rebel. His owner was shot from his back in Gen. Jubal Early’s raid on Washington in 146 At night, after the fight, any Union sol- dier who had lost his mount was supplied with a horse captured from the confed- erates, and Ned was thus given to B. F. Crawford, a sergeant of ordnance, who travels in the same car with him when he Journeys, and cares for him when at home in a village northeast of Erie, called itself North East. Old Ned is now a thorough- paced unionist. He is unqualifiedly recon. Structed. So far from being a Jack o’ both sides, he seems to have lamented his youth- ful vagaries, although observers imagine that he is ncommonly excited rendition of “Dixie”—such is the lingering Power of early associations. At the close of the war Mr. Crawford left hington on Ned's back and rode him to Harrisburg. There he bought a sulky, and, putting d between the thills, they, rejoicing in the dawn of peace, made their easier way to a home that Ned has dis- uished by his presence, where he is re- | Sarded as a piece of public property, and where he is pointed out every day as the most prominent resident. This contraband when captured was a bright black, but now, with advancing years, has grown grizzled; indeed, most of the hair on his head has become white. His sadlle marks are strikingly noticeable, and he, like many another contraband, shows the scars of his burden-bearing. No Roentgen rays are re. quired to discover the more prominent por. tions of his anatomy. _ early life hi “scorned delights and lived laborious days, but he is now treated like « pensioner. ‘His life is a reminiscence. Having fought ip the greatest army that ever Mmarched to martial music, and for the best government that ever enlisted equine valor, he is thought to have earned four quarts of car- ‘ots three times each y rots thr day and two quarts He was at the Grand Army reunion Pittsburg, but while his patrotie feclines are still intense, his bodily constitution de- clines to endure the old-time strain and it was feared that this Napoleon, of horses would end his career with the glories of that high day. At Louisville, out of reo spect to his years and infirmities, he was + Which was highly decor- erywhere received an and old Ned, recog- nized everywhere by soldiers as the sole survivor of his race in the war, a claim that his owner says is undisputed, it ta about “horse and horse. 4 southern city ie ee in the festival of fio: lands of roses make up his capar the children seem indisposed’ te Eh Pett this veteran is dead before they show their appreciation of his services to the Union cause. In his Morgan blood there seems to be a strong infusion of old-fashioned star Spangled-bannered Americanism, and he is very sensitive upon matters that touch its expression. In all parades, having partic- ipated in them so often, he very properly insists on marching next to the music. Once it is said that for more pomp two veterans were detailed to lead him. At this he kicked and withdrew. Overtures were made to him, but the fun-loving animal manifested his humorous propensities and having freed himself, enjoying his inallen- able right to liberty and the pursuit of happiness, shaped his course for a detour through the historic town. Presently the veterans and old Ned, who is distinguished for his horse sense—or, perhaps more prop- erly, old Ned and the veterans—adopted a different scheme. When they, unaccom- panied by him, returned to the ranks, the instant the band struck up, old Ned, 30 Jealous of position, fell in behind the musi- cians and tramped peacefully to the grave- yard, and as he progressed was far and away ahead of anything else in the proces- sion as the chief factor in the demonstra- jon. But his dimmed vision and gloomy deaf- ness, suggesting that the doors are being shut in the street, and his trembling limbs, to say nothing of the blind staggers by which he was attacked about a month ago, although not as severe as those from which he suffered a year ago, still remind us that the shadows of the end have already begun to appear. Oft am I by comrades told, Poor old Ned, thou growest old. A Real Philanthropist. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. “Poor Dick is gone! He was a devoted cyclist, wasn’t he?” = “Yes, indeed! He left a will stating ‘thet he was to he cremated and used to help out on our new cinder path,” CURRENT TOPICS IN LONDON Matters of Interest in the Metropolis. British End of the Gay Season at Hand—Next Week the Ascot Races—Ladies’ Kennel Show—Picture Sale. (Copyright, 1896, by the Associated Press.) LONDON, June 13.—The last drawing room of the season was held on Wednes- day, and the Ascot races are to be run next week, consequently the end of the season is in al; ‘The past week overflowed with gayeties ard all the members of the reyal fam- ily, except the queen, were in town and were to be see1 almost everywhere. At Wednesday's so-called consolation drawing room there was a small attend- ance and but few notabilities were present. A continuous dewrpour of rain destroyed the picturesque features of the mall. The Princess of Wales and her daugh- ters, on Thursday, visited the exhibition of the Home Arts ‘ard Industries Associa- tion. Among the exhibits was a spinning chair of embossed leather sent, with a piece of tweed woven with yarn spun by the Princess of Wales, leather book covers made by the princess and yirn spun from the hair of Princess Victoria's poodle, by the Duchess of York. Mr. William Waldorf Astor’s par‘y, on Tuesday, was quite the affair of the week. Even such hostesses as Lady Derby and Xrs. Arthur Wilsen, who had parties the seme night, suffered and were loud in their complaints against the “American millionaire,” who secms, finally, to be es- tablished in English society. Mr. Astor first had Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, Count Deym, the Earl end Countess of Arran, the Earl and Countess of Cork and others at dinner, and at the party which followed duchesses were plentiful and other mem- bers {of the nobility were too numerous to count. Mr. Astor's town house is beautifully adapted for entertainments, and has a large, square, artle hall and staircase to mateh. The Duchesses of Cleveland, St. Albans, Buckingham and Roxburge and Mesdam2s Adair, Ronalds and Bradley Martin were fairly ablaze with diamonds, the latter wearing a long diamond chain. Lady Randolph Churehhill was dressed in black and white, and had diamond wing ornaments in her hair. In brief, the whole party formed a gor- Seous display of jewels and dresses. ; The Prince and Princess of Wales on Monday will go to Selwood Park, Sunning- dale, which has been lent to them for the Ascot races, and for the same week the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough hav= taken a place called Cissbury, where they will entertain a small party of Americans who have secured tickets for the royal in closure at Ascot, through the United States embassy. They include the Misses Bryce and Mrs. Bryce, Mr. and Mrs. Fairchild, Mesdames Colegate and Slater, and Miss Gwynne. At the dinner at the Imperlal Institute, on Tuesday, to raise funds for Guy's Hos- pital, the Prince of Wales announced that £160,000 ($800,000) had been subscribed, including £5,000 ($25,600) from the Mor. gans, bankers, of this city and £1,000 (5,000) from Mr. William Waldorf Astor. The meeting of the Women’s Liberal Fed- eration, on Thursday, passed a resolution demanding retorm in the divorce laws, which, it was claimed, provide that a wife's unfaithfulness is sufficient ground for a divorce, while a wife must prove cruelty, in addition, in order to obtain the same ‘de- cree. The Marquis of Salisbury’s party at the foreign office, on Wednesday, was a strange mixture. It included the Duke and Duch- ess of York, the Infanta Eulalia, Mrs. Ron- alds, the United States ambassador, Mr. Thomas F. Bayard and Mrs. Bayard,’ Pen- ley and Toole, the actors, and many dis- tinguished statesmen and diplomats. One of the finest of Romney's pictures. Caroline, Viscountess Clifden and her sis ter, representing Music and Painting, was seld at auction on Thursday, for 10,500 guineas, about $53,000, It was bought by a dealer. The picture was painted for the fourth Duke of Marlborough, and was presented by him to Lord Clifden. The successful bidder’s chief competitor at the exciting ‘auction was the Duke of Marlbor- owgh’s agent, Perry. One of the principal events of the week, from a society point of view, was the la- dies’ Kennel show, which | occurred on Thursday and Friday. It was held in the historic grounds of Holland Park, aud was given under the immediate patronage of the Princess of Wales, who distributed the prizes, which amounted to £3,000 (315,- 000). The Council of the Ladies’ Kennel Associ: tion ir cluded such well-known lead- ers of fashion as the Duchess of Bedford, the Countess of Iichester, the Countess of Lonsdale, the Countess of Warwick, Lady Arthur Grosvenor, Lady Hothfield, Lady Helen Stewart and Lady Adela Larking. Other prc mit.ent members are the Count- ess de Mercy Argenteau, whose special ad- miracion in the way of pets are collies; Mrs. Baird Douglas, who is interested in deerkounds; Miss Marie Corelli, Yorkshire terriers; Lady Fairbain, foreign dogs; Lady Heathcote, toy spaniels; Lady Kilmaine, black pugs; Lady Helen Stewart, fox ter- riers, and Mrs. Lake Walker, Pomeranians. In addition to distributing the prizes, the Princess of Wales also presented for com- petition three large photcgraphs of herself, takea last month. Two of them represent the princess upon the lawn cf Sandringham stroking “Plumpie,"” who is in a garden chair, while “Little Billee’ and “Punch” look on. The third shows H. R. H. just returned from a walk, with ber hand upon the decor of Sandringham house, with “Little Billee” under her arm and arcther pet animal standing by. For the exhibition, two tents, each over 400 feet in length, were erected. The first cat show in connection with the Ladies’ Kennel Association was also held at the same time. For this Lerd Marcus Beres- ford offered a challenge bow! of the value of 25 guireas for the best blue Persian. Other prizes were a silver milk saucer for the best adnlt Siamese, ard a jewel casket, heavily gilt, offered by Lady Warwick, for the best wi.ite kitten. Lady Marcus Beres- ford, whe owns some fifteen fine kittens, gives some half dozen prizes. Another preminent open-air function of the open-air order was the Richmond horse show, which occurred yesterday and today. This was given under the patronage of the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York. There are a number of valuable prizes to be distributed by well-known patrens of the turf. The most attractive feature of a newly opened hotel is the illuminated electric fountain which plays each night in the courtyard. The fountain teing a novelty in London, attracts a large crowd from the Strand and neighbcring thoroughfares. This requires the united efforts of a num- ber of hotel porters and police to prevent interference with the gvests of the hotel. aS SS At the Wrong Nuptinls. From the Chicago Daily Tribune. “If any men can show just cause why these two persons may not be lawfully Joined together Iet him now gpeak or else hereafter forever hold his peace.” Slowly and impressively the officiating clergyman spoke these words. The solemn pavse that followed their ut- terance was broken by a deep, strong voice from the rear of the church: “May I ask you, sir, to ropeat the names of those two persons who stand before you as candidates for matrimony? “George Washington Spsonamore and Jo- phenia Shaw,” answered the clergyman, astonished at the iuterruption. “Go ahead with the marrying,” rejoin- ed the owner of the deep voice, clapping on bis hat and starting for the door. “It's all right. I had just got here, and hadn't heard the names. The wedding I’m trying to stop must be in the church a block and a half below here.” —_—+2+____ It Was a Great Scheme. ‘From the Chicago Post. “Oh, it can’t fail,” he sa!d, in explaining his scheme, “‘and there's a whole mint of money in it. It’s the greatest thing in the magazine Hne that you ever heard of. You see, I would offer spectal inducements to Poets and literary amateurs and accept everything that they sent in,” “But that would bankrupt you.” “Not at all. It would make my fortune. I would accept BA ‘to be aig ior ‘a publication,’ and Ve every poe! Ped buying the magazine. Just think the olrculation!” CLOSE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS —- Exercises Next Week at the Different Buildings OMetals Who Will Preside and Speak at the Evente-Tho Normal The public schools of the: District of Co- lumbia will all formally glose next week for the school year. The high schools end their sessions Monday, and that evening the commencement exercisss of the Busi- ness High School are to be held at Allen’s Grand Opera House. Seventy-one young men and women will receive diplomas as graduates of the two-year course, Com- missioner John W. Ross, president of the beard of District Commissioners, is to pre- s'de, and Rev. Dr. Ratcliffe, pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church, will open the exercises with prayer. The address of the evening will ba delivered by Mr. Simcn Wolf, and District Commission- er George Truesdell will present the diplo- mas to the graduates. The Washington Normal School will hold commencement exercises Tuesday morning at 10:30 o'clock in the Normal School rooms at the Franklin building. The grad- uates number forty-five young ladies and gentlemen, and Mr. William B, Powell, su- perintendent of public schools, will act as presiding officer. @r. F. R. Lane, director of the High School, is to address the grad- uates as representative of the school from whence they came, and Mr. A. T. Stuart, supervising principal of the third division, will speak as representative of the schools to which the graduates are to go as teach- ers. Mr. Jesse H. Wilson, chairman of the committee on High and Normal Schools of the board of public school trustees, will award the diplomas, and there will be mu- sic by the class, under the direction of Miss Scammell. ‘The graded schools cease work for the year Wednesday without special exer- cies except such as the teachers may decide upon in order to make the occasion a pleasant one for the children. _Wednes- day evening at the Academy of Music the colored high and normal schools will cere- moniously send forth their classes of 1596, Commissioner Ross will present diplomas to twenty-nine graduates from the Normal School and forty-six from the High School. The salutatory will be by William E. Smoot, while the address of the evenin is to be delivered by Rev. J. T. Jenifer. An oration and a valedictory will be given by Burrell W. Jefferson and Othie M. Brooks, respectively. The music will be by the’ Marine Band. ‘The final event of the week will be the graduation of 110 young ladies and gentle- men from the Central, Eastern and West- ern High schools. The exercises will be held at Allen's Grand Opera House Thurs- day evening at 8 o'clock. Commissioner John W. Ross will preside and Judge Charles C. the District of Columbia will delive address of the evening. Ex-Commissi Myron M. Parker will present the diplomas to the graduate: = DEATH OF MAJOR BROCK. Cole of the Supreme Court of the Was Superintendent of Several Years, Maj. W. G. Brock, who for a number of years was ehigf of police of this city, died Friday afternoon at his: residence, 224 lth street southwest. After leaving the polize department, Maj. Brock was for a long time connected with the War Depa ment. He leaves surviving him three sons and a daughter. In fbrmet years he was quite active in Masonry and attained the higher degrees in that frajernity. In 1882 he served as commander of Washington Commandery, No. 1. He ‘was a veteran member of Federal Lodges No. 1, having Police for been initiated in Novemten, 1 He was also a member of veka Royal Arch Chapter, No. 4. The funeral services will take place at the late residence ef Maj. Brock at 8 o'clock Mendsy afternoon, and be conducted by Rev. Bapust Church. F. Eure Royal Arch Chapter and W ton Com- mandery of Knights Templar will attend, and the burial wili be at Oak Hill ceme- tery with Masonte henors. The deceased was one of the few mem- bers of the police force who were sworn in at the tims of the organizs ‘eptember 11, 1861. He or four yéars, when h the position of cl e police board, In this capacity he served until i869, when he was made captain and inspector. He filled this position until December, 1879, when he was promoted and made superin. tendent. This position he retained until April, 188, when he ed to go into pri- vate business. e, —_—_.—__ PACIFIC COAST FORESTS,. They Contain Nearly One-Half of This Country’s Standing Timber, From the New Orloans Picayune. The Department of Agriculture at Wash- irgton has issued an inicresting report of the forestry and timber interests of the United States. From its data it is lear1ed that the for- est area‘of the United States (exclusive of Alaska) may be pliced at somewhat less than 50,000,000 acres. This does not in- clude much brush and weste land, which is, and will remain for a long time. without ary economic value. This area is very unevenly distributed; seven-tenths are found on the Atlantic side of the continent, only one-tenth on the Pacific coast, an- cther tenth on the Rocky mountains, the Kalance being scattered over the interior of the western states, Both the New England etates and the southern states have still 50 per cent of thelr area, more or less, under for2st covdr; but in the former tie merchantable Umber has been largely removed. The character of the forest growth va- ries in the different regicrs. On the Pa- cifle coast hard woods are rare, the prin- cipal growth being coniferous and of ex- traordinary development. Besides gigantic red woods, the soft sugar pine and the hard bull pine, various spruces and firs, cedars, hemlocks and larch form the yval- uable supplies. in the Rocky mountains no hard woods of commercial value occur, the growth bé ing mainly of spruces, firs and bull pine, with other pines and cedars of more or less value. The southern states contain in their more southern section large areas occupied al- most exclusively by pine forest, with the cypress in the bottom lards. ‘The more northern portions are covered with hard woods almost exclusively, and intervening is a region of mixed hard wood and conif- erous growth. Spruces, firs and hemlocks are found in smali quantities confined to the mountain regions. 0 ?= ‘The northern states are ‘mainly occup!ed by hard wood growthé, with coniferous intermixed, sometimes the fatter becoming entirely dominant, as im the spruce forests of Maine, New Hampshire, or the Adiron- dacks, and here and thére%in the pineries of Michigan, Wisconsin an@ Minnesota, or in the hemlock regions of Pennsylvania and New York. - A very rough and pnebavly very liberal estimate of the amount of,timber standing in the various regions ready for the ax would give the following figs - Feet. Board Measure. Scuthern states. on 700,000,009,000 Northern states. 500,000,000,000 Pacific coast. $31,000,000,000,000 tx 100,000,000,000 Beeeccoacstss --”22,300,000,000,000 The total annual cut, including all ma- terial requiring bolt or log sige, 33 esti- mated at 40,000,000,000 feet, board meas- ure. 2 ‘The lumber industries empl#y cap!\al to the extent of over $1,000,000,000. They em- ploy nearly 1, men, pay out over $100,000,000 in’ yearly wages, and produce over $3,000,000,000 of commercial material, all of which is an important showing. ———+o+______ New Bicycle Danger. Frem the New York Press, Aunt—“I am not sure that I altogether approve that young Mr. Wobbleye. Are you thrown much together?” Clara—“Oh, yes, auntie. He takes me fiding on his tandem every da; oe The first step in the attacks on the last republican apportionment of Wisconsin was made yesterday, State Senator Krazna of Milwaukee having begun injunction pro- ceedings. THOd goods carry “Tl. J. & Co. 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LOT ONE—Consists of Linen-colored Fig- ured and Striped Duck Suits— Blue Duck Suits with white polka dots—and White Figured Duck Suits—all with extra. Wide skirts; blazer Jackets with large p sleeves; full ripple back, broad and ull ‘seams faced. The ‘ducking is the finest. $1.98, worth $4 to $6. Lor TWO_Consists of Cream and White Pique and White Duck Suits, with wide skirt and blazer jacket, with fall ripple extra large sleeves and perfect fit- $4.98, worth $8 and $10. LOT THRHE—Consists of Pure Linen and sh Suits with blizer, reefer, blouse or ik Jackets, trimmed with small pearl Duttons—slashed collar, largest sleeves, trimmed with $7.98, worth $12 to $20. | ru I LOT FOUR—Consists of Fine Black and Biue Serge Suits, Blick Brilliantine 5 Covert Cloth Suits and Bine Pavey English Boucle Cloth Suits—not one worth “less than $12, and some w Hecht & th $20. THRIFT OF THE UTES. Indians Who Can Farm as Wel the White Man. From the New York Post. The writer has had opportunities recently of luoking somewhat into the workings of two of tnese schools on the Ute reserva- tions in Utah—one at the Uintah agency, on the river of the same name, about fifteen miles above Fort Du Chesne, for the Uintah and White River bands of Utes, and the other near the junction of that river with the Du Chesne, about six miles below the fort, for the Uncompahgre band of Utes. The buildings are large and commodious, solidly and tastefully constructed, and pro- vided with everything necessary for the comfort and easy pregress of the pupils. The children within the ordinary school age on the two reservations are, in round numbers, about i. Of these there were at the former school during the past term about seventy-five, and at the latter about fty, in other words, about one out of ev. ery four of these children was a pupil. This will be considered a most excel t showing when it is observed that the schools have been in existence but a few years, and recollected that the Indian has been led to think that in sending his chil- dren to school he rather confers than re- ceives a favor. The progress of these chil- dren in the rudiments of English study and in the industrial branches has been sim- ply wonderful. They talk and act just as white school children of the same age and with the same advantages talk and act, and in the study of books they are equally as apt and industrious. In cooking, sew- ing and all the other essentials of ordinary housekeeping, the girls display neainess, dispatch and thoroughness, and the same ‘is true of the boys in mechanical and field york. A person from the east, in looking and talking with them, especially the younger ones, can hardly realize that only a fe months before they would run from a white man or white woman like an ante- lope, or dodge and hide from either like a squirrel. ‘The tarms belonging to the schools show all the marks of care, thrift and good man- agement. They are well inclosed, well watered and well cultivated. The grounds immediately about the buildings are tasie- fully laid out, excellently paved and thick- ly planted in trees. For these things much of the credit is due the pupils, especially the male pupils, who, under the direction of the officers and by their assistance and that of employes, have done the work. But this is not all. Between these two schools and around Fort Du Chesne, for a distance of over twenty miles up and along the Uintah river, and below, for a distance of sixteen or eighteen miles down and along the Du Chesne river, extends a beit of fine valley land, embracing many thousand acres, which fs dotted all about with neat houses, generally three-roomed, havinz brick chimneys and glass windows. These heuses, occupied by Indians, stand in the midst of little farms largely seeded in alfalfa, by the side of which, in season, is always found the potato patch, together with small fields of wheat and oats. The whole of this strip of country, in length nearly forty miles, under a system of irr!- gating canals, cut mainly by the Indians, has the appearance of a civilized settle- ment; and if it is not exactly one, it is more-than half-civilized, while rapidly ad- vancing to the other and higher state. It should be said of the adult Indians on these farms, as of their children on the school farms, that they have done the greater part of the work of building, ditch- ing, fencing and cultivating. The evidences of Indian advancement here presented are largely the outgrowth of these schools. The settlements are thick- est in the vicinity of the school buildings, made there by the older Indians in order to de close to their children; and while these children, in many instance give their parents the benefit of schco!l-trained as- sistance in building, managing and culti- yating, there close by, and constantly be- fore thelr eyes, stands the school farm, as an object lesson, suggestive of the neat- ness, thrift and industry required to reach and hold the true comforts of life. In this connection, as further eviden of the earnest wish of these Indians to improve their condition, it ought to be mentioned that appiications for farms by those living in tepees on the remoter and wilder sec- tions of the reservations are largely on the increase. During the past six or eight months they have come in very rapidly— now and then at the rate of two or three per week—and in each case immediate at- tention has been asked, in order that all Pecessary preparation might be made for occupancy and cultivation at the begin- ning of the next season. A very slight examination into the life of this valley will discover not only Indian children, who, as previously intimated, were a short time ago wild and impish, now being prepared by schools for the de- mands of a higher civilization, but Indian women, whe have heretofore been scarcely more than wandering beasts of burden, now intelligently and profitably attending to domestic duties, and Indian men, who hitherto have mainly thought of war and the chase, or, at best, of lving as penston- ers upon the bounty of the government, now busily and actively engaged, as farm- ers, in ploughing, hoeing, cutting canals and ditches, and building fences and houses; as freighters, in transporting sup- plies to and from railroads, and about the Teservation; as lumbermen, in felling trees and cutting, sawing and hauling timber— in a word, as laborers generally, in meet- ing and satisfying many of the chief re- quirements and needs of active industrial life. In a few years, with certain required legislation by Congress, it may be reason- ably predicted that this new and thriving Indian settlement—a settlemeat as new as it 1s thriving, for but few of the farms are over two years old, and most of them have been opened during the last twelve montas —will be in such an advanced condition as to forever put to rest all doubts as to the inclination and abfilty of at least some of these western Indians to rise fully to the plane of earnest industrial enterprise and progress. 515 Seventh Street. sSpaeieeegeteegetetorntetestetosendetontetecenetendeteceageatnedageteeteheeeate SKIRTS. 59c., worth $1.50. LOT ONE—Consists of art and Dark Striped and Dotted Duck Skirts, very wide and in an immense variety of putters, $1.98, worth $3.50 to $5. LOT TWO-—Consists of Plain Linen and Linen Crash Skirts, very wide and well made, and perfect fitting. $2.98, worth $4.50 to$8. LOT THEE re Fi Prtlfian- and well $8.98, worth $i2 to $is. LOT FOUR—Consix's of Fine Silk Mo- hair Skirts, Finest i Finest Bro Mined and Company, sSredospesdeatensesioss THE SKiN AND ITS CHILDREN, Here's a Man Who Has Counted the Hairs of the Human Head. From the Londen Grapate. There are 334,000 hairs on the human body. Prof. Charles Stewart, who deposed to this at the Royal Institution recently, has counted them. He would not, of course, be particular to a hair or two one way or the other, but this on the average is the result. The skin hi therefore, a v ble family of offsprings, for the bi- sts can show us beyond all doubt that hairs are after all only special par‘s of the skin that nature has modified in this way in order to better protect and keep warm her highly important works within. The human skin is a much more complex sort of fabric than is popularly imagined. The true skin is right underneath. You can make {ts ac- quaintance with the aid of a file or the sharp corner ef a door lock, The outer skin or cuticle is really a continually renewed shield of horay scales, ich are the cast-off dead cells of the livi The under skin is the real busin full of cun- ning littie “touch nerves,” blood vessel lymphatics, sweat glands, fat glands, hair follicles and what not. The follicies are the pits in which the hai are grown, scmething like celery, and n ture has expended apparenuly’ a qui ridiculous amount of care on these stru tures. The hair in each cell is a di growth of the skin. It grows at the Of half an inc ter, us. The ¢ a single ce this pig- blanch the ight,” but how it nervous co have a pect ndy hair. nate normal growth. The pigment is, perhaps, not deposited dur- Ing the night, but is during the day, or vice versa. nie a “Each particular halr* ‘stanc ie up “like quills upon the fretfut Poreupine” (which, by the way, are also hairs) by virtue of an erector musele, one end of which is fastened to the bulb of the hair.and the other to the point near the surface of the skin. When the musele contracts under nervous excite- ment the hair is pulled up vertically (it usually lies a little slanting-wise). The “pull” on the muscle is also seen at the point of attachment in the skin, giving rise to the itfle dimples which, in conjunction with the ect hairs, produce the rance ; as “goose flesh.” Ege sala Other children of the skin, but only twenty in number, are the nails. These arise out of sharp folds in the skin, and are essentially very tough, horny material bull: up from the living skin cells, much in the game way as hairs are built up. The growth is at the rate of about the thirty-secondth of an inch a week. The nail is fastened 10 the under skin by a peculiar system of lock- ing teeth. While talking about the skin Prof. Stewart did not overlook the “sweat glands,” which He buried in the under skin, extracting from the blood some fifty ounces of watery waste products a day. Thexe pags out through corkscrew passages in the outer skin, emerging in the shape of the myriad little pores, which we can just make gut by the aid of an ordinary pocket lens. There are about 76,000 of such openings on the palm of one’s hand. Prof. Stewart has counted them, but again he will not risk his reputation for strict veracity on the ques- tion of a single pore one way or another. It is averages he deals in, feeling, of course. that the public are not exacting in sucii matters. ———_+o- A WOMAN’S ARM. Well-Known Sculptor Describes It as the Perfect One Should Be. rom the Boston Post. find great difficulty in getting a model with good arms,” said a well-known sculp- tor recently. “It is astonishing how very few women have arms tha: corform to the standard. A perfect arm measured from the armpit to the wrist joint should be twice the length of the head. The upper part of the arm should be large, full and well rounded. The forearm must not He too flat, not nearly so fiat as a man’s, for example. A dimple at the elbow adds beauty to a well-proportioned arm. “From a well-molded shoulder the whole arm should taper in long, graceful curves to a symmetrical and rounded wrist. It is better to have an arm that harmonizes even if the parts do not foliow the gen- eraliy accepted lines. For instance, a full, round upper arm which is joined to « flat or thin forearm has a very bad effect. It is only a degree worse, however, than a graceful, well-molded forearm tacked on to a thin, scrawny upper arm. Correctness of form is not the only thing necessary for a good arm. ‘The owner Must possess the power of expression in her arms. As a general thing American women are deficient in this. Those na- tlonalities which show the most expres- sion in their arms are the Spanish, French and Italians. The warmest admirer of Sarah Bernhardt would not claim that she had beautiful arms, yet no one can say that the divine Sarah ever appears ungainly in consequence. Much more lies in the faculty of arm expression than is generally supposed. —___+2-_____ Stome Soles. A German inventor has hit upon a meth- od of putting stone soles on boots and shoes. He mixes a waterproof giue with @ suitable quantity of clean quartz sand and spreads it over the leather sole used as a foundation. © quartz soles are said to be very flexible and practically in- destructible, © y | Eeeeees | WAISTS. 33¢., worth 75¢. LOT ONE—Consists” of Fine Bat! Waists, and Pine Lawn Wailsts, in strip effects—with stylish high collars and large sleeves, Worth Te. 49¢., worth $1 and $1.25: LOT TWO—Consists of Vain Linen-col- ored Batiste Waists, Plain Blue Lawn Waists, and Plain Pink Lawn Waists, with 1 red collars and cuffs—worth $1 and 73¢., worth $1.50. LOT THEEE—Consists of Navy Blue, Light Blue, Pink, Red and Cardinal Striped Linen Waists, with white detachable col- lars—all with wide sleeves aud double yoke back—worth $1.50 each. $1 to$2.50wrappers,59c# No Wrapper offering we hs near equals thix in importa: prices are much | Persian Lawn, Indigo Prints and Fine S pers some with With wide skiris, and Bishop sleeve to $2.50-—t0 go at S worth from $i + cash or credit zy ‘INEMENT, HE INDIAN IN CO’ Prison Life Almost Certainly Fatal to Sioux. From the Si : At the mee Medie cal Association Dr. 8. Olney of this city read a most interesting, not to say start- ling paper, on the effect of confinement on the Indian. The Argus-Leader had been told the same facts Deadwood, but was colonels statements Col J. H. Burns of inclined to take the with a grain or two of 4s the colonel is an enthusiastia champion of the Indian. The figures of Dr. Olney, however even moi art- ling than the statements made Judge are confined in the penitentiary men, some of whom have been for years. Of this number but two *k. Of the nineteen who 1 n confined in th the last two years was pardoned in now barely alive, are with the death mark on them, 2 are ill. Of the seven which are practically healthy, five have’ h confined but one month, nine mo: and two for two N of th 18 appeared to hen they were admitted to the pe he statement of Judge Burns to Judge Riner at th om of the fe 1 cour here th sentence of > Ind’an in eff to be literally true, is in this pay . Olney an peal to fe jue ought have its w ——— FROM JAIL TO THE ALTAR. Kentuckian Not Daunted by a Mare riage Whi ¢ Him Ten Years, From the St. Louis Globe- t. noe Thovgh compelled to serve a ten-year penitentiary term for first having married her, Joseph Stultz again claimed the bri whose marriage caused him trouble, and going over to Jeffersonville, Ind., was joined a second time to Carrie Ash’ The girl is the daughter of a well-known ui ville tailer. Stultz was in love with he years, uts forbudé their marriage. Stultz but on account of her age, fourtee: her pi Proposed an e€lopment, and they went to New Albany, w swore the over cighteen years of age, and they were married. The father of the girl had Hunt arrested, and, also, Stultz. The marringe was declared Vold, and was set aside and Stultz and Hunt were convicted. Hunt served a three-yeur term for perjury and Stultz was sent up for ten years for subornation of perjury. During his con- finement he was a model prisoner and earned nearly three good time. Though the marriage had been set aside, Carrie Ashby still remained true to Stultz and kept him supplied with luxuries and tobacco money. Stultz was released a few days ago, and this afternoon they again Went to Jeffersonville, and were married by, Magistrate Keigwin. i of Oregon Maken a Camprign and Wins, Portland Evening Telegram. The bea.ties and the possihilitics of Americar. citizenst ip. From the laundry wagon to the halls of Congress; and credit to the man that made the runnirg. Martin Quian, driver for a steam Iaun- ary of Portland, through a split in the re- publican party, which could not but mean ruin and defeat, leaps from the obscurity of an $11 a week job, handling soiied linen, to the proud eminence of representing the state of Oregon at the capital of the na- tiou, and be it known that Mr. Quinn, despite his humble occupation, will in no way bring discredit upon the state, so far a6 intelligence and ability to express him- self is concerned. In fact, his election may be almost attributed to the splendid show- ing made by him on the platform during the late campaign in the brilliancy of his speeches. Men who were not popiulists listened to his silvery oratory, and jn sheer sympathy for the man and his boundigss ambition cast their votes for hin sa result the laundry wagon driver goes to Congress in precedence of men learned and experienced in the needs of the nation. Truly it may be seid that the knock of fortune at Martin Quinn’s door went not unheeded. Providing, of course, that the claim of the Mitchell republicans is not substan- tiated that Ellis eomes to Multnomah coun- ty with 800 majority, which will be su! cient to elect him. From what source the Mitcheilites gather their information ts not known, bit to counteract it is the state- ment of the populists that instead of losing their man, Quinn, will gain votes in the country, ———__ +e. A Town fn a Partnership. From the Indianapclis News, The town board cf Sullivan, Ind, has entered into a partncrship with the Howe Pump aad Engine Company of Indianapolis to construct a system of water works. This calls for an expenditure of $40,000, Owing to the condition of finances the town of Sullivan cannot issue more than $23,000 in bonds without going beyond the constitu- tional limit, and to raise the necessary $17,000 this peculiar partnership has been entered into. After the works are com- pleted the Howe company will sell the plant to the town, taking a first mortgage for $17,000), and so in this way construct the works without confiicting with the law. The partnership thus formed is undoubted- ly without a parallel, and owing to numer- ous objections the courts may be called upon to set it aside. As it stands, ihe sit- uation will enlist the attention of contrac- tors and impecunious towns all over thr country,