Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1896, Page 11

———— THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1896—SIXTEEN PAGES. MAJ. M’KINLEY’S REGIMENT Tt Contained an Unusual Array of Distin- tinguisl d Men. One, Perhaps Two, Presidents of the United States Were in Its Ranks and Saw Sharp Service. No Union regiment Im the late war can beast such an array of men rising to great distinction in subsequent life as the 23d Ohio Infantry. Its original colonel was William S. Rosecrans. Both Rutherford B. Hayes and Stanley Matthews served ‘with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Later Hayes became colonel. William McKinley, ir.. 4 in the regiment as first and sec- ‘ond lieutenants, and later as captain. His commissiot s second lieutenant was dated Novenber 1862: that of first lieutenant March: . and captain July 25, 1864. Ex-President Hayes went in as major at the organization, June 1s61, at Camp Chase, Ohio. On October 2 of the same year he became lieutenant colonel. A year later he became colonel, and two years later, October 29, 184, he went to the rank of brigadier. Rosecrans did not take the field with the regiment, but was made brigadier. The 23d was one of the first regiments organ- ized in the state. The first service per- formed was a march to Clarksburg, W. Va., where it arrived late in July, iS¢ The 4: following the regiment began the stern ousiness of war by going on a hunt for gverrillas, operating with Weston as a base. It seems like romance to ima; such an array of embryo greatness chasing bushwhackers about the spurs of Rich mountain in a drenching rain storm. There McKinley at First Lieut. 23d Ohio. who afterward bee.me Rutherford B. Hayes, who dent: Sianley Matthews, who Rosecrans, m . Who, if the republican ticket will become the next chief ember, 1861, the 22d had its first experience under fire at Carnifex Ferr: where Rosecrans and Floyd had a passage ai arms. During the er of 1861 the regiment ‘levoted considerable attention to the enemy. On the 22d of April, 1862, the “sd led Rosecrans’ command on a mar-h to Princeton, W. Va., Lieut. Col. Hayes be- tug in command. A Serious Reverse. On the Sth of May the regiment fell into adverse lines. It was attacked by four regimen‘s and a battery of six pieces under Confederate Gen. Heth, and was driven back ard badly upset. Its tents, camp and garrison equipage went by the board, and much hardship ensued. The next point where the enemy was at South Mountain, Sep- tember 13, 1862, and Antietam on the 17th. In marching from West Virginia to take part in South Mountain and Antietam, Washington was passed through. ‘his Mas probably the first sight the future Presidents had of the national capital. At South Mountain the =td was the first regiment under fire. It was led by Lieut. Col. Hayes. The regimen making an advance on the enemy, posted behind a stone wall, was badly worsted. Here Hayes had his arm_broken. arm, Capt. Ritter a leg and Lieuts. Hood, Ritter and Smith were each badly wounded. Of the three hundred and fifty men who in, over one hundred were killed cor ed. Later in the day the fight went on, swelling the total of kilied and wound- to about two hundred. Three vayonet charges were made by the regiment during the day. The regimental colors were rid- died with bullets. After Antietam, the 23d returned to West Virginia. In 1864 the Cloyd mountain bat. tle was participated in. Flere the regiment jest a number of officers and men. the famous Hunter's raid and the fighting and hard service incident te it, the regiment feil back to the Valley of Virginia. On October 19, 1864, it took part in the battle of Cedar creek, made famous by Shcridan’s famous ride. After Cedar creck the 23d saw no more desperate experience, although frequently engaged in light affairs with the enem: ee ee "Ss WHITE he regiment faced Capt. Skiles lost an After to Lynchburg, ™M SHIRTS. The Open-Front Stylc is Far the Best for the Comfort of the Wearer. From the New York Sun. A shirt that opens in the front is less likely to break across the bosom than one that opens in the back only; and one that opens in the front only (many shirts are now made to open front and back, too) fits best; the button holes in the collar band and the eyelets, or other openings in the besom for studs, afford sufficient play, while the yoke of the shirt remains firm and smooth. The shirt that opens front and back has the advantage that the studs can be put in place before the shirt is put on; in putting on and taking off the shirt it is open at the back; the studs need not be removed until the shirt is sent to the wash: with this freedom from handling, the shirt is likely to remain longer in suitable condition for wear. The proportion of shirts made to open in front, either front and back both, or front only, is ail the time increasing. More and more shirts are now being worn with cuffs attached. — LIVES IN A ROCKER. A Well-to-Do Chinese Who Repairs Chairs—Carries His Home With Him. From the San Francisco Chronicle. Oakland has a taxpayer whose home is nothing more or less than an antiquated rocking chair, and who has astonished the authorities by obeying an ordinance which, it was thought, would serve to end his pe- culiar ways if enforced. The eccentric resident is a Chinese named Chang Wee, and he repairs cane-seated chairs for a livelihood. Chang Wee covers a great deal of terri- and dees not consider it worth while yiish himself in a house. So he car- ‘Ss a sample chair with him upon h hack, and when meal time or night over- takes him, he plants himself down wherever he chances to be and enjoys a repast of rice and prunes, or goes to sleep for the night. Chang is partial to highways, and ¥ peope have been puzzled to see him up in his chair at the side of some n road, calmly waiting for the mor- Some time ago Chang was told that he could not occupy the streets at night unle: he hung out a lantern, for the law was ex- jt on the point that obstructions should e indicated by lights after dusk. This dil not discourage the Chinese, and he at once rured a beacon, which he hangs from the of his chair now upon retiring. ang is a property in holder, and owns a partnersh p with another Chinese. st lith street. Nevertheless he coi ers himself too poor to afford a place in which to sleep and eat. He walks through Alameda and Contra Costa counties, re- pairing chairs, and makes fairly good weges thereby. He has put in the past week in Oakland, and will now strike out on his country beat, to be gone two months. Among the Chinese of this city he iz Yeoked upon with suspicion, for they con- eider his ways radically inconsistent and absurd. Nevertheless, Chang Wee is mak- ing a good living and saving all but a mite of IF WE HAD CUBA. What the Islnnd Would Be Worth to American Commerce. From the Forum. If we could go to the island and trade with the same freedom with which we van &0 to Loutsiana we could make all the gains, by investment and commerce, which the island offers to industry and enterprise, provided that either Spain or a local gov- ernment would give the necessary secur- ity, and we should give the necessary se- curity, and we should have no share in political struggles there. It may be that the proviso is not satisfied, or soon will not be. Here is a case, then, which illustrates the fact that states are otten forced to extend their jurisdiction whether they want to do so or not. Civilized states are forced to supercede the local jurisdiction of uncivilized or half-civilized states, in order to police the territory and establish the necessary guarantee of industry and commerce. It 1s idle to set up absolute doc- trines of national ownership in the soil which would justify a group of population in spotling a part of the earth's surface for themselves and everybody else. The Island of Cuba may fall into an- archy. If it does the civilized world may look to the United States to take the juris- diction and establish order afid security there. We might be compelled to do it. It would, however, be a great burden, and possibly a fatal calamity to us. Probably any proposition that England should take it would call out a burst of jingo passion against which all reasoning would be pow- erless. We ought to pray that England Wouil take it. She would govern it well, and everybody would have free access to it for the purposes of private interest, while our government would be free from all complications with the politics of the is- land. If we take the jurisdiction of the island we shall find ourselves in a political dilemma, each horn of which is as disas- trous as the cther. Either we must govern it as a subject province, or we must admit it into the Union as a state or group of states. Our system is unfit for the government of subject provinces. They have no place in it. They would become seats of cor- ruption, which would react on our own body politic. If we admitted the island as a state or group of states we should have let if help govern us. The prospect of add- ing to the present Senate a number of Cu ban Senators, either native or carpet-bag, is one whose terrors it is not unnecessary to unfold. Nevertheless, it appears there is a large party which would net listen to free trade with the island while any other ration has the jurisdiction of it, but who are ready to grab it at any cost, and to take free trade with it, provided that they can get the political burdens, too. CROWDING THE TRUTH. Where Hiram Drew the Line in Lur- ing Bearders to His Summer Resort. From the Chicago Post. The old man was leaning over a pine table laboriously making pencil marks on a sheet of white paper. “It's derned hard writin’ advertisements, Maria,” he said at last “when you don’t know jes’ how. “You writ one last summer, Hiram, Can't you jes’ copy it?” she asked. 'Twan’t no good,” he answered shortly. "ve been lookin’ the matter up some since then, an’ I find I left out a huil lot. Is the old treugh down in the five-acre lot all cleaned out?” “Henry cleaned it this mornin’,” she said. “All right’ he returned, bending to 1h Work again. “I'll put in ‘Good bathin’ panos easy walkin’ distance of the jouse." * “Ain't that a lie, Hiram? she asked, doubtfully. “Course it ain't," he replied promptly. t would be a lie if I said anything about swimmin,’ but that trough is good for bathin’. Is the windmill workin’ all righi “The boys say it's a little cranky yet, but they've got it fixed so’s it works most of the time.” He went on with the pencil again, and ew minutes later he read the following: “Running water not ten yards from the door.” Maria shook her head. “Mebbe it's all right,” she said, “but it don't seem so to me. I s’pose you put in somethin’ about the lawn, too?” “Of course I did,” he replied. “I said it was a lovely lawn, an’ almost limitless. I'll paint ‘Lawn’ on a board, an’ stick it up in the old hay field ‘cross the ro: I said, ‘Fish within a mile,” and. “Fish!’ she exclaimed. “There ain’t any fishin’ within twenty miles of here. “Who's talkin’ of fishin’?” he demanded. “I said ‘fish,’ and I know there's fish at Cy Parker's general store, ngt more’n a mile from here. for I see a box of sardines there myself yesterday. “I s'pose you've got !n somethin’ about fine shade trees?” she sald resignedly. “Of course,” he answered, “and that ain't no lie either, for you know there's a hull grove of them up the road a ways. The only thing that kinder hurt my conscience was the ‘cool nights.’ I reckon that was a straight He, but we've got to lie some if we go into the summer resort business, and they'll find everything else just as adver- tised.” And, having thus squared himself with his conscience, he added something about bo mosquitoes, and mailed the advertise- ment to a city newspaper. ———-e-e She Danced on the Turtle’s Back. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. In front of a restaurant cn the east side of State street near Hopkins’ Theater for the last few days a large sea turtle has been eking out a miserable existence In a shallow tub of muddy water. Besides being a guarantee that the res- taurant proprietor is ready to provide Patrons with genuine turtle soup, the decrepit reptile furnishes rare diversion to pedestrians, who crowd around the tub at eil hours of the day and look on in open-mouthed wonder. Occasionally some man pokes the poor creature with his cane to see if it is still alive. The turtle makes a feeble effort to bite the cane, and then, with a gasp, sub- sides in the dirty water again, as if long- ing for the day when its misery would be ended in the soup kettle. Last evening a ragged little girl, whose sckcoling In the streets had not’ taught her to entertain any sympathy for so wiserable a creature as a turtle, ap- proached the crowd which was sianding around the tub. With her was another little girl with an accordion hanging by a strap from her shoulder. The moment the girls saw the turtie the one with the wind instrument struck up a weird air, while the other girl, to the de- light of the crowd, stepped into the tub and onto the back of tne animal in the water. A moment ‘ater she was dancing on the hard sheli of the restaurant keep- er’s soup sign. The turtle was too weak to make the slightest resistance, and, accompanied by the howls of the crowd and the whecay accordion, the girl continued to dance at last one of the waiters from the inside came out and stopped the proceed- ings by picking the dancer up and placing her on the sidewalk. 2S Remarkable Store of Hone Susuehanna, Pa., Dispatch to New York Press. On Elk mountain, Susquehanna county, a few miles from the Jefferson branch of the Erle railroad, there is an extraordinary lot of wild honey. The hive ts located in a rift, which penetrates the rock probably to the depth of 160 feet. The orifice is thirty feet long and seventeen feet wide. The rift was discovered to be the abiding place of a huge swarm of bees, which flies in a close co.umn, one foot in’ diameter. Many persons have tried to get to the honey stored by the bees, but were in- variably driven back. One man, three years ago, nearly lost his life in the attempt. Others have built a scaffold, 125 feet high, in the hope of reaching a place whence they vainly tried to run a tube into the hoard of sweets and extract a little. With- in four years the bees have added probably not less than fifteen feet of honey to their treasure. It is thought that there are sev- era! tons of honey in the rock. A man named Duncan, who lives in a cabin not far from the spot, each summer obtains from the rock, by the sun's heft, more than encugh for his family. Ali through that region, the second highest point in Pennsyivania, wild honey is found in cracks of rocks. — Refuted. From the Manhattan. Kipper—“Do you believe that the age of miracles is past?" Dipper—“No. I met a man who has been in politics twenty years, and yet who is as poor as a church mouse.” a RED TAPE IN THE WEST INDIES. Difficulties Attending the Importation of Arms for Sportsme: From the New York Tribune. “Many curious customs are part and par- cel of the governmental system of the vari- ous islands composing the Dutch West In- dies, but nothing stranger has ever happen- ed to me than an experience I have just ccme safely out of.” The speaker was a prominent business man who has just returned from those isfinds, where he has been trying to build up reciprocal relations for the benefit of an exporting firm in New York city. Con- tinuing his narration he said: “I had been in Caracas for some months, and finally had gone over to Curacao, and was going back ,ané@ forth between that point and Aruba. I expected to have to go over to Honduras on business which would take me up into the mahogany country on the Patuca river. I was aware of the con- ditions, and as we were to Nghter some goods up the river and would be gone some weeks, if not months, I sent word to my partners here in New York to send me two rifles, a fowling piece and a revolver. They forwarded me two Marlin rifles, one 33 and one .44 caliber; a Remington fowling Dlece and a .44 caliber Smith & Wesson re- Volver, together with 1,000 rounds of am- munition. I instructed them to send the Weapons to me at Curacao for export to Honduras. They went to the Dutch con- sul here in New York and filed an affidavit to the effect that the guns were for my personal use, and stated explicitly that they were for export to Honduras, and that affidavit alone saved me from a deal of difficulty and the loss of the arms in addi- tion by confiscation. ‘There is a law in the Dutch West Indies ‘nst importing firearms for any purpo: tsoever. Well, sir, the instant the box centaining the rifles, shotgun and revolver was unloaded at the pier the whole outfit Was se'zed by the government and convey- ed to the arsenal, and I was hauled up to explain. With the affidavit to back me up, I petitioned the government, as I was about to go to Aruba, to have the things Sent on there for export to Honduras on the schooner in which I was to sail. The order was given to the governor of Aruba. When I got there, however, my plans for going to the isthmus were upset, and I de- cided to return to New York from Aruba. So off f went to the governor and asked him for a change in the permit that would allow me to take the arms back to New York with me. Did I get it? Not much! He had been ordered to send the arms on to Honduras, and to Honduras they must go, uniess I obtained a recall of the order from the government headquarters at Cu- racao. I would have been tempted to smuggle the troublesome articles out, but could not lay my hands on them, for they were in the arsenal at Aruba. Well, I wrote to Curacao, and orders were given to have them returned to Curacao. The box and myself went back on the same boat, but never a glimpse did I get of it. “Arrived at Curacao, I went once more to the government to se@ about the permit. The course of the schooner which was to take me to Honduras had been changed, and she had been ordered to New York with cargo. I asked the government to permit me to take the arms on board the schooner. The officials smiled at what they looked upon as a shallow subterfuge, and simply told me to arrange my passage, let them know, and they would do the rest. I finally took passage on the Prince Freder- ick, and sent word to the office. The morn- ing we were to sail I w: anding on the deck wondering what w. be the next move, when suddenly a file of soldiers ap- peared, guarding a coffin-shaped box. A Fetty officer came up on deck at the head of the file and called my name. I respond- ed, and said‘he might have the box placed in my state room. ‘No, you don't, he re- pled, in his best form. “They will be given to the purser for delivery to you on the Pier in New York cit Well, sir, that was just what they did. They iurned the bex over to him with rigid orders, and 1 never saw it again till we arrived here. I had never seen the guns till I opened the bex here in my office this afternoon. Just now I am puzzled how I am going to get the stuff to Honduras if ever I decide to go there. Anyway, I can’t hope to beat the Dutch West Indian government.” w 0 = TIFICATION BOOKS. ID: A Scheme for Proving Identity in Various Countries, From the St. Louls Glohe-Demoerat. Passports are intended primarily for the purpose of identification. The same idea is the object of a scheme which has been Jate- ly adopted by a number of the nations of the werld. The question whether it shail be taken up by the United States is to be Giscussed at the convention to be held in Washington next winter. The idea referred to is nothing more nor less than an identi- fication bock, which enables the holder to establish his identity wherever in the world he may be. This is often a matter of the utmost importance. Travelers ignorant of the language of the country through which they are joutneying are apt to have trou- ble in securing mail addressed to them, in cashing money orders, and in various other ways. They may even find themselves stranded for lack of the very funds which are awaiting them at the post office, sim- ply because they are not personally known. It is mainly through agitation of the sub- ject by tourists that the identification book has become an accomplished fact. The book of identification ts a small, Breen, paper-covered book of convenient size for the povket. It costs only ten cents, and may be bought at any post office. On the inside of tke cover is placed a photo- graph of the holder, tied in place and fast- ened by a sealed ribbon. To this is atached the signature of the person. On the op- posite page is a declaration signed by the post office official, stating that photograph and signature are genuine. Of course, the official witnesses the making of the signa- ture and is easily able to determine wheth- er the portrait is a likeness of the appll- cant or not. On the next page is a full description of the holder of the book, giv- ing details as to height, eyes, nose, fore- head, chin, mouth, coloring, hair and “‘par- ticular mark: Thus, if a man has a wart on his nose it 1s mentioned. Now follows a declaration to the effect “on presentation of this book and the sign- ing of a receipt, any post office is required to deliver to the holder all mail matter ad- dressed to him.” It is necessary, however, that the signature on the receipt shall cor- respond to the signature in the book, and that Hneaments of the person shall agree with the photogreph and the description given in the book. Two-thirds of the book of identification is made up of a series of receipts arranged like bank checks, which may be torn out and given in exchange for mail matter or money transmitted by mail. It is easy to see ihat this plan 1s calculated to save an immense amount of trouble. The post office which receives the last receipt of a book of identity retains the stub of that receipt nook, and if the holder of the book demands it, must issue to him a new beck without requiring further proofs of tdentity. The sheets of the book duly aumbered are attached to the cover by a ribbon in the national colors cf the country that sells the book, and the two ends of the ribbon are fastened by an official seal. Already the scheme has beeen adopted by France, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, the Argentine Republic, Brazil, Bulgaria, Co- lombia, Costa Rica, Egypt, Greece, Liberia, Mexico, Paraguay, Portugal, Roumania,Tu- nis, Venezuela and Chile. It remains to be seen whether it will be accepted by the United States. —-—_--+ee~— A Correction. From the Chicago Tribune. “You advertise in the papers this morn- ing,” said the pale, studious-looking caller, “for a cook, if I mistake not?” “Yes, sir,” answered one of the proprie- tors of the first-class restaurant. “Have you any recommenda——" “And if I remember rightly you say, ‘Must be a master of the art. Salary no cbject to the righ: man.’ Do I quote you correctely?” “Yes. What references can you give?” “None at all, sir. I need no references. “Oh, you don’t need an; How many years’ experience have you had as a pro- fessional cook?" “I have had no experience whatever as a cook, sir, professional or otherwise. I have merely called in to observe that when you say ‘salary is no object to the right man’ you convey a wrong impression, and fail, perhaps, to express your exact mean- ing. If you secure the right man you will find that the salary is his sole object. Let us be accurate, if we don’t catch a single clam. Good day!" Weary Waggles—“An ter t’ink we skip- ped that free concert las’ night!" Dusty Rhodes—“W’y?” “Dis here oe says de music was in- tcxicatin’ cs Ge In The Crowd AT THE BON MARCHE. i Shop Friday, the store will be closed all day July 4th. Biggest bargains yet! Tomorrow,only. Ice Cream Soda, 5c., the 40c. Chocolates, 19c., and the 6cc. Chocolates and Candies, 39c. SAILORS, 19¢. ‘Tomorrow we will sell 48c. Straw Sailora, wiilte, mrs TOC, é and black, for. Bicycle Suits, $4.98 Crash Linen Bieycte Suits, comprising skirt, bloomers and —_leggt $. 4.98 worth $6. Special price. TRIMMED HATS HALF AND LESS. 50 Stylisbly Trimmed Pattern Hats In. toques, bonnets and shori-back sailors, richly trimmed in ve $2.25 amd dark effec Were Handsomely Trimmed Hats, Ss. Chol tomorrow Toques pd Bonnets which 8 $3-9 | 30 Very been $6, $7 and §8. A WOMAN'S WAY TO SOCIAL SUCC! It is Worth While to Be Genuine. From the Boston Pilot. The woman who would have a lasting s0- cial success must have the full confidence of the circle in which she moves. To this end she must be thoroughly sincere and re- liable. I know that many of my readers will, at first sight, question this judgment. 1 know that many young women, and older women with scant social experience, have in their hearts a strong, and not always a silent, conviction that the tact aad social sense of which they hear so much in con- nection with successful womer are only polite synonyms for steady-going disin- genlousness and insincerity. There are women, strong in ambition and weak in conscience, who are so persuaded of this that they ‘set out for conquest with such formula as “Never disagree with any per- son of consequenc “Be nice to people ee can s aes you, whatever you think of them; ‘Such a one can safely be slighted; ou can’t afford know cer- tain people; “Talk for effect ‘The more you make of yourself, the more others will make of you “Everybody is deceitful, why should you be an exception?” When such women come to grief, as eventually they always do, they never blame them- selves, but always believe that some other woman has overreached or undermined them. There is undoubtedly much dissim- ulation, much dishonor, much cruel teach- ing masked in grace at Kindliness in the 1 world; but the way to outwit it all is simply to be true. “She is sweeet, but * Why may it not as well be weet and absolutely sincere 's as between the exquisite artific iners’ windows and the fragrant moss rosés abloom under God's sun and dew And it really involves less effort'to be that which; we would pass for only to seem i. z 5 es the underiore of whose life is sweetly serious, who never knowing: de- ceives, misrepresents of exaggerates, who i srupulous about appointments and promises, who never even inferentially claims aught in the way of ancestry, means, influence, scholarship Ox, accom- plishments that is not susceptible of the closest demonstration, takes the color out of all the pretty frauds about her, as the lovely moss rose we have spoken of would humble the cleverest imitations. But not immediately, perhaps. The building up er an enduring social success 1s a work of! time; and its substructure, slowly laid, but everlasting, is the confidence of those about one. soe by Pamping. Lev. From the New York Sun. Lieut. Roche of the United States En- gineer Corps, who was in charge of the levee district below New Orleans, has been trying a plan of building levees with a hy- draulic pump at a point sixty miles below the city. If the experiment is the complete success that is claimed for it, it would re- duce the cost of levee construction to a minimum, and save the people of the lower Mississippi valley hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. The idea is not altogether new, but mee fficulty was in holding the mixture o! oe and river mud thrown up on the shore by the dredge. This has finally been overcome by means of planking, which keeps the mixture within a limited terri- tory. ‘The planking leaked’ at first, but the use of willows stopped the Beaks: and the S] ent is now a success, eo neees in Lieut. Roche's district are being built not by manual labor, as all have heretofore been constructed, but by the mammoth steam dredge Ram. The old system was objectionable, not only because it cost a great deal, although it has fallen per cent in cost during the last ten years, but also because the levees, being made of dirt and not pounded down—this has been found impracticable—is not com- pact or solid enough, and yields readily to the pressure of the river. Lieut. Roche tried the system of building a levee by pumping the water and mud from the Mis- sissippl, and now announces that it is a success. Levees can undoubtedly be built in this way, for there is the Plaquemines levee to show for it, and can be built more quickly. It is more solid and substantial than the levees built by hand, the soil be- ing so compact that the crayfish, the bane of the Louisiana planters, cannot penetrate it, and this alone, Lieut. Roche thinks, will make the mud levees extremely popular. The matter of cost is not thoroughly satis- factory as yet. The new pump-built levee ccsts about the same as cne constructed with scrapers or wheelbarrows, but this is attributed to the fact that the Ram was not intended for levee building, but for dredging. A much cheaper boat can be built which will do the levee work far more satisfactorily and wil reduce the cost one- half. When this is done, the levee-building machine will do all;the levee work along the Mississippi, and get rid of the thous- ands of laborers and convicts who now do the work. u bea A Scotch Congregation. From the Westminster Review. Listen to a Scottigh congregation singing “French” or “St. ;Kilda” and you have heard struck the keynote of Scottish re- ligion. The soft, méiédfous roll of the or- gan Is not there, nof’thé painfully accurate notes of the strictly hfgh-class choir. Yet there is a sublimity ard‘a grandeur in those old psalm tunes of''Scdtland that breathe of the mountain anf gea. 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 sym- phonies, but best because of the inspiring soul of music that floats with every paean through the peaceful village church. There is a vein of sadness in 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 Calvinism plus a generous amount of human sympathy. With the rising generation, however, a marked change is visible. As Calvinism passes away the human and moral elements seem to increase. Even clergymen bear testimony that “while lt- 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 farm yard.” PARASOLS HALF PRICE. Half price and less for the balance of the Parasols. While we have them from 87gc. up we have made two lots of nearly the entire stovk. Parasols in chiffons, lace trimmed, ete., very hand- some, that have Leen $5, $6 and $7—on a table "=. $2.50 Parascis in white and blsck chiffon, lace trimmed, ete., the cream of this season's output; have been $10, $12 and $15. Choice on $ 5 a table at. 5 49C. Hosiery, 25¢. Tomorrow we shall place on sale 50 dozen Fast Black Ingrain Richelieu Ribbed Lisle Thread Hosters—white heel and toc, high spliced heel, for half price, viz., vortt DEC. 49e., for.. . SHIRT WAISTS HALF AND LESs. We have made three big tables full of Shirt Waists at the following prices. ‘These comprise this season's cholcest styles, in percales, lawns, big sleeves, yoke back, etc. Table No. 1 contains Walsts which have been 89, 98c., $1.25 and $1.50, 50c. Chote? Table No. 2 contains Shirt Watsts which have been $1.50, $1.75 and $2, Choice 8c. Table No. 8 contains ists ae have been $ 8 $2.25 and SKIRTS. We have been told repeatedly that we have been selling better and wider skirts for less money than any house in Washington. We this shold be so. Just look at offering for tomorro White Duck Skirts Plain Linen Skirts... Crash Linen Skirts..... White Pique Ski Blue Duck Skirts. Black Brilliantine Skirt hepherd’s Plaid Skirts. . Fine All-wool Serge Skirts. . WASH _ SUITS. Special sate of Wash Where can you mateh t other intended this z its tomorrow, $1.98 $1.98 $4.98 Wiiite Dack Suits Navy Dock Suit Crash Linen Suits... ABOUT VENEERS. There Are Certain Woods Which Can Be Sawed as Thin as Writing Paper. Frem Hardwood. While the finer and thinner veneers of cestly woods are sliced tangentially from the side of the log, there are woods that cannot be cut this way—no amount of boil- ing or steaming rendering it possible to cut them without breaking down the tissues to such an extent as to destroy their surfaces for polishing—while others, becoming dis- colored from steaming or boiling, and be- ing too hard to be cut otherwise, have to be sawed. The fine-toothed, thin-gauge cir- cular with flanged center is the favorite for cutting all ordinary veneers thicker than thirty to the Inch; twenty to the inch is the thickness most commoniy used for cabinet work and finishing, but much thin- ner is used in the case of rare and costly woods, or rare, abnormal or accidental figures, as in the case of burls. Some woods hawe to be cut much thicker, being unable to bear handling when too thin, genuine ebony ,the only fine, really jet- black wood wn, and large enough to be of any use, will not stand sawing much below one-fourth of an inch in thicknes: owing to its extreme brittleness or want of cohesion, but there are other woods that can be cut as thin as writing paper and still be handled in large sheets. Other woods there are that will lose their fine color on exposure to the atmosphere, es- pecially a smoky one; these are cut only when immediately wanted, and are kept covered until the finishers can put on a protective coat of some preparation. ————_+e- —__ The Short Girl's Advantage: From the Kansas City star. The short girl has many advantages over the tall one. She has to go through life looking up, and nothing is so becoming to eyes as that. Her lashes show more and so does her hair. There are curves of check, chin and throat that look their Frettiest to a man who must glance down to them. A small girl is more easily held and more easily kissed. It fs nicer to have to lift her face up by the chin, and it is more epicurean and satisfactory to reach dowa to upturned lps. It ts comfortable, when you hold a girl on your knee, to have her head just come to your shoulder, instead of having it hang over—surplus, as it were. Everything about a small girl is likely to be a provocation-- the unexpectedly tiny hands, the distracting | morsels of feet, the little head, the little nese. A small girl can be fascirating even in a temper, she can be delicious when she cries, she can be lovely when she pouts, andione of these moods sits well on a big woman. Then, too, the man in love is in- clined to pet names, and he wants to call his girl “Birdy,” whether she weighs 200 or not; yet he is not insensible to the ap- propriateness of the title when given to a real little thing. A man likes to feel big, by comparison at least. A really large man does not cbject to sceming almost a giant beside the girl of his heart, and it is almost necessary to the short man’s vanity that he shall seem big to the little creature he is going to marry. It is very fetching to have one's girl sa: “Please, dear, my neck gets so tired— you're so tall.” Don’t you know what that means? Well, get a bit of a girl and you will find out. On the whole, the small girl has the best of It eee Maj. McKinley in the Valley. From the Harrisburg State Republican. “You are from the great Shenandoah va! ley—from Harrisonburg?” asked the major. “Yes, sir; from the heart of the valley. “I remember your town well. I was there as a soldier in 1864. I thought as a young man, and still think, that the Shenandoah valley is the prettiest place in the country. I have never seen anything to compare with it; and I have seen a good deal of this country. I remember in 1880, after a campaign in California, I crossed the mountains for home, and, after passing the desert regions east of the Rockies, we struck the corn belt in Nebraska, and it was just one vast corn field from there to Chicago. Corn was in tassel. It was a beautiful sight. But one’s éye tires of the sameness. No; I have never seen any country so pretty as your valley. I have always wanted to revisit it, but, strange to say, I have never been there since the war. At that time I had some experience I shall not forget. The battle at Berryville was fought after night. It was a short, severe and brilliant affair. The night was very dark, and both armies soon determin- ed to retire. I was an adjutant, and it became my duty to direct a regiment at some distance from the others to move. A stranger in the darkness, I knew noth- ing of that country. When I started on my mission, some one on the other side was doing just what I was, as I could tell from what I could hear. I had not gone far until I was halted by a sentinel, with ‘Who comes thar?’ The distinct southern brogue was warning, and I hastened the other way. Very soon I was stopped, with “Who comes there? and I recognized friends. I gave the countersign, and soon had the regiment movin; see The Mikado's American Tour. From the Londen Chronicle. We learn on excellent authority that the mikado contemplates a tour through the United States and Europe at some future time. If he is able to carry out this plan e will be the first Japanese emperor who jas ever been ailowed to leave his domin- jons. It seems, however, that there are Great difficulties in the way, the old or Shenandoah fanatical Japanese party objecting strcng- ; ly to so remarkable an innovation. The Turkish fanatics did the same thing when Abdul Aziz announced his intention of paying a visit to Paris and London, but they were unable to prevent it, and that luckless sovereign was the first Turkish sovereign who ever crossed the frontiers of his empire, except as a conqueror. The mikado is a highly educated man, who speaks several’ European ‘anguages, and his visit, should it ever take place, will be an event. of great interest. arche, 314 & 316 7th St. We're buyi with concessions in price that are extraordinary want to close the season with $12.75 6.00 4.50 715 - 8.00 5.00 8.50 -75 5-50 °15 9.00 10.00 1.00 Oak Chamber Soites: occ. xcas Oak Chiffoniers... Oak Hall Stands... SSeesengecgeageagengengengenty ete ee Sint Oak Costumers... . Oak Refrigerators. Oak Extension Ta- bles (cluster legs) Oak Sideboards... Oak Dining Chairs. Oak Dressing Ta- bles ose. Oak Parlor Tables. Oak Wardrobes... Oak China Closets. Oak Easels....... Oak Wardrobe Beds oe ccs See seaongeeontonteaseoteatens aseeseege tony Study your own interests by taking a hand in this great sale. The whole house is in a bargain mood—but _ thes tions “Il show how much in earnest we are: ng business But we “ve ever had. the lightest stock w quota- Box Couches. ..... Leatherette Couches...... wa ie.) ena om eo Baby Carriages... Straw Matting (by the roll) per yd.. 6-piece Plush Par- lor Suites....... ° = 30.0 i) wd © Framed Pictures... Decorated Toilet SHE), os cccesece 2.00 Decorated Dinner seis... Sy & 9 omnead Galvanized Gar- bage Cans...... Watering Pots = ATA sennencninene, Mink Cans. ......< -O Brass and Iron Hair —_ Mattresses (and. not goat hair, either)... ... 7-290 House & Herrmann, Liberal Furnishers, N. E. Cor. 7th and I Streets. 1t A BROKEN AXLE. How to Manage to Get Along When a Big Track Has Broken Dow From the New York Sun. When a buggy, wagon or other compara- tively light vehicle breaks a rear axle, near the hub, where axles usually break, the driver usually gets a plank or a light stick of timber, makes one end fast under the forward part of the wagon, and lets the other end trail to the rear, as a support for the broken axle. It doesn’t lift it quite to its ordinary level, but it raises it high enough, and with the axle thus supported the driver goes to the repair shop. The other day one of those immense four-wheel- ed trucks, used for carrying iron beams and columns, appeared down town with a bro- ken rear axle, broken at the hub on the off side of the truck. A piece of plank or a light stick of timber wouldn’t do for a ponderous truck like this. Two heavy planks had been set on edge, with blocks of wood between them at suit- able distances apart, and then the planks had been Lolted together with bolts run- ning through the blocks. The two planks thus held on edge were stout enough; they were secured to the forward end of the truck, trailing to the rear in the usual way; the broken axle rested upon them at pretty near its usual height. The wheel, now in disuse, was slung with a chain under the long high beams of the truck. While the combined planks were amply strong to support the axle, still the pres- sure upon them was tremendous, and the square corners had been worn cff and the planks had been worn away on the under side until they were pointed at the ends, thus bringing a long surface of wood on the under edges of the planks in contact with the pavement. As the four big horses moved on with the great truck there was a faint odor of burning wood in the air, and now and then a little trace of smoke floated out from under the ends of the planks, from the charring of the wood there by friction, as the planks were drawn slong the stone pavement with the great weight of the truck upon them. <a ze An Over-Convivial Wheel. From Blackwood’s Magazine. I met a man in the flesh not so very long ago who, being of a sanguine temperament, after about a month’s practice by daylight, conceived himself to be sufficiently ad- vanced in the art to ride out to a dinner party on a summer evening. As a result of this misplaced confidence, he appeared at the breakfast table on the following morning with a woefully scratched face. He disclaimed having had any quarrel with the family cat, but accounted for his dis- figurement by stating that h’'s cycle had also dined out, anc—to use plain language— had made a beast of itself. He had found it in tae course of his return journey by no means in the helpless, but rather in the foolhardy, stage of drunkenness, which had prompted it to perform sundry antics more dangerous than amusing. After shying at its own shadow in the road and playing the fool generally, it sud- denly elected to attempt to jump a thick hedge, with disastrous results. The owner subsequently sold the machine to a Ger- man who cured it by homeopathy, and it it is now a reformed character. Its suc- cessor, in imitation of Alcibiades, one day elected to throw itself down flat in front of a heavy van, and having been trampled upon by a dray horse and run over by the wheels of the van, took a good deal of re- pairing. —eee a Saratoga departed from Philadelphia Monday on her summer cruise. She will be gone four months. AN AERIAL Ton 1 Be Floated Over an Enemy Drop a Charge of Dynamite. From the London Electrienl World. The torpedo con filled balloon, capable of sustaining f: length of time from 30 to 40 pour elevation of from 500 to 1,000 itw t above the earth. Inside of the lower or small end o1 the balloon is placed a metal eylind Which contains an electrical de 2, purpose of which is to ignite the gas in the balloon at any stated period. Underneath the balloon is suspended a case or baske containing a high explosive, similar to dyna mite, which explodes with terrific foree when striking a hard substance, like the earth or walled embankments. In action the management of the torpedo is described as very casy and simple, the inventor stat- ing that a corporal’s guard can with it a complish what would require a large force to do by the usual methods now employed in the siege of cities, or ie scattering of large bodies of troops. The torpedo com- plete is small and compact, and a large number can be carried by a few men or a pack animal. The gas to inflate the balloon ts carried in light or metal cylinders, enough being compressed in one cylinder to inflate a large number of aerial torpedoes. To use the aerial torpedo effectively all that 1s necessary is to approach as near as possible the locality where tne torpedo is desired to take effect, and to ascertain the direc tion of the lower air current and the ve- locity of same per hour. The length of time it would take for the air current to carry the torpedo over the objective point can thus be ascertained, and the electrical device set at the proper hour or minute. The balloon part is then inflated, the tor. pedo released, and the air current will con. vey the torpedo to the point desi ed. At soon as the time has expired as se the electrical device an electric spark will ic nite the gas in the balloon, causing It tc coe whea the torpedo will drop ta earth. The explosive striking the earth o: any hard substance will cause serious dam age in that locality. In the siege of cities this aerial torp the inventor believe will be especially effective, as no defense can be made against it, and it can be wu in the night as well as by day, and by a few men of ordinary intelligence. - a = Effective Coloring. From isterer. An old house in Fordham was rece: painted by a local house painter who, by more luck than skill, secured an effect which is well worth chronicling. The par lor was all gray in color, and our artist left the walls, which Were in fair condi- tien, in this color, repainting the doors an@ the wovdwork in two shad. ly re- of soft It you can imagine the proper you can get an idea of how this in green appeared. Tae effect. w Around the entire celing was an old- stuceoing of y touched up in the two of green, p walls had no designs upon them, but looked all right when hung with pic- s. The windows were draped with botilegreen velours, and the result w as an accilental ha: coloring which Is Well worth remembering. It matters vers little what color you select, the same ef j fects may be obtained if you use two or three tones and a neutral color as the tv lief. It is safe always to make this neutra! color the wall tint, and carry out the drap. eries in a darker shade of the predominat- ing color, interspersed with bits of con- trasting hues.