Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1896—-SIXTEEN PAGES. 11 B ® 8 @ 4 your health and your money OOOGOO90000 ‘Men’s $3 -Winter Russets. Genuine Hand-sewed Welted Shoes, with 2 heavy cak tanned soles, extension soles, wide back stays, fast @ ® @ S ® @ S 2 © @ 8S gS Cork Soles, Hand-sewed welt, best American calf, Laced und Gaiters, with visible Cork Soles, ain round toe— qualities we sold last Fear at $4.00. 1914 AND 191¢ PENNA. AVE. True Shoe Economy. Even a poor shoe will often wear quite a long time in dry weather—but at this season of the year you'll save made of ABSOLUTELY “RELIABLE” materials. 7 Our Shoes are all specially made for us from mater- ials of our OWN selection—if they should not prove satis- factory bring the Shoes back—YOU shall not be the loser: Here are a few of our specialties that cannot be match- ed for the price anywhere in America: WM. HAHN & CO’S RELIABLE SHOE HOUSES, 930 and 932 7th St. qty ISSSS SHSHHESS SSHHOSSSOOO MEN’S BOOTS, LARGEST STOCK IN TOWN. ee O86 by buying Shoes that -are Ladies’ $2.50 Cork-Sole Shoes.¢, Soft but Stout Viel Kid Button and Laced Boots, O2OOG0600 00 on a pretty pointed toe, with pitent leather or kid tips, with Cork Soles-Shoes that would cost you $4.00 elsewhere. Ladies’ $3 “Gem’’ Shoes. ‘Truly elegant Shoes for Dress or Walking. Of best patent leather, finest black kid or calf and winter-weight tan lenther, with or without Invisible ‘ork Soles. No better Shoes anywhere at $3.00. SSSSCSRLSHSSO SS SSHOESO 233 PENNA, AVE. §.E. OUT WITH IT! Clark & Co., 811 Market Space. Desperate efforts are being made to wind up the W. D. Clark & Co.’s stock immediately, as new goods are flowing in and must have our attention. If you can find what you want in the W. D. Clark & Co’s stock it is yours for half, one-third and one-fourth the old prices!’ Here are a few sample illustrations Printed | Lawns, Ww. 'D. Clark & AC. price... Printed Duck, oe ly di ladies” el boys’ waists. Worth Colored Beng: Clark & Co.'s pric UNDERWEAR. Ledies’ Ecru and Ribbed Vests and Clack & €o.’s price. Natural Gray Swisa Ji Our price BOC. HDKFS. HALF PRICE. Men's Unkiundered All-linen Hemstitched n- i: kereblefs, with : 12}c. broidered let Our pric: All-linen Hendkerchiefs, in plain, hemstitched, and others with narrow lace Ladie: D. Clark & Co. 12hc Our_ pric All Pure Linen Handkerchiefs, nbroidered scalloped edges, lace edze ain hemstitched, fine, dainty patterns. Clark & Co.'s price, 50e. 25C 25c. HALF HOSE, rage. Men's Fast Black Half Hose, Lewis Hermsdorf dye, tine quality. W. D. Clark & ¢ Be. Our” pd price . one c. LINENS, ETC. Elegant Bleached Damask 5 o'clock Tea Cloths, plain and hemstitehed, beautiful goods.” Cut as follows: The $1 Cloths now Soc. The 75c. Cloths now 373c. The $1.25 Cloths now 62$c. Our price, per de 30-in. Unbleached Canton Flannel “twill, ong, heavy nap. W. D. Cla & Co's price, 12%e. Our price.. |, stout rk Balance of nels. To close. DRESS GOODS. 52-In. All-wool Covert Cloth Bicycle Suit- ing, brown mixed. Note the width. Cannot be duplicated anywhere under $1. Our price. 59c. Fine, 26.in, AtL-wool Becach ‘Serees,_ fant line of colors. egular ce, te Our price. . wees BHC. CLARK & CO., Successors to W. D. Clark & Co., 811 Market Space. : Le ae i ae ae Re Re Re is ie te ee ee Be Re ee | WHY PAY FANCY PRICES? It is beyond question that prices have never been where they are now for reliable tailoring. With manufacturing fa- cilities that have never been touched and advantages in pur- chasing cloth the price of CLOTHES has been brought down by this store 3. An expenditure of $5 today brings you good as $10 formerly. clothes is absolutely good. Pielecrontetets It’s made a great awakening among thinking people It’s known we do an enormous business. It’s know we stand to give back the money if goods are not as represented. What's the use of paying anybody higher prices? As an example of the purchasing power of $10 try one of our made to-measure suits costing 10, Mertz and Mertz, New “Era” Tailors, Peotone tte It’s known our make of soe Costontontortontetinnteetectorlontons Solely 906 F Street. a Ce eR A SHOWMAN'S STRATAGEM. He Stopped a Little e That Was a Hore to the Audience. From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Your story about calling for a doctor in the circus,” sald a retired showman, “re- minds me of the way we broke up a nui- sance in a good-sized Pennsylvania town. I was on the road with a farce comedy company, and we put in two weeks at the town in question, there being a big mill- tary encampment there and a county fair to boot. We drew good houses all through the engagement, and were booked for an early return. I don't think we had been there more than one night before the doc- ter nuisarce began. There would come a hurried messenger from the box office to the stage manager with a request that he ask if Dr. Bolus, or whatever his name happened to be, was in the house, and if he was to send him to the box office at once. Of ccurse, the stage manager couldn't very well refuse, and general atiention was directed te the medical man, much to his satisfaction. We soon found out that the doctors who were so much in demand were very small medical fry, and there wasn't a doubt that they had themselves called for in order to secure the consequent notoriety. Well, we stood it for a few nights, and then an idea occurred to me. I took a walk up the main street until I came to a certain sign hanging over a stairway. I went up to the office Indicated, and had a brief con- versation with its inmate, ending it by handing him reserved seat tickets. “That evening, immediately after the first act and before any messenger from the box office had a chance to arrive, I stepped out in front of the curtain and held up my hand. Then in my gravest-tones 1 asked: “Is Dr. Chizziold in the house?” “Iramediately a very tall colored man, with a bushy white head and huge silver- mounted spectacles, arose in the audience, and said: ‘ sah.” he audience tittered, but I kept my gravity. “You are wanted at the box office at once, doctor, in a case which requires your immediate professional! attention.” “As the aged darky ducked to me and hobbled from the room the audience broke into a wild rear. “Perhaps you will understand the cause of their user Eien when I add that the old man was a corn doctor and probably th best-known eccentric in town. a aa “Well. there were no more doctors called for from that stage during our engage- ment.” ——_———+ee_____ Slang From a Supreme Court. From the Milwaukee (Wis.) Sentinel. The expression “‘nor does the fact * © © cut any figure,” though common in news- papers, which are written more hastily than is altogether agreeable to newspaper men, and though not unknown in mod- erately polite society, is out of place In an opinion handed down by a supreme court. This expression occurs, we are sorry to say, in an opinion handed down on Tuesday by the supreme court of Wiss se Seetendenconcordorgorgeseesee dre tnetertonlonconfogesee dee deegnnsnntentergesesseeseeey MAJOR ALLEN’S REPORTS Work on the River Front and the Washing- ton Aqueduct, Progress Made Upon Both Improve- ments During the Month of Sep- tember Set Forth. Maj. Chas. J. Allen, the engineer officer in charge of the improvement of the Poto- mac river, reports to the chief of engineers that the construction of the sea wall was continued during the past month, and that operations are also in pregress on the tidai reservoir, On the northeast shore of the , reservoir 240 linear feet of wall were built. ‘The wall around the reservoir is now com- pleted, except at the bathing beach and near the site of the inlet gates. The total length of wall constructed is about 8,550 feet. On the Virginia channel front of section 1 260 linear feet of wall were built from the level of 4 feet to a level of 6 feet above low tide. The work of repairing and raising the wall along the Washington channel front of section 111 was commenced cn the 21st ultimo. Operations were greatly delayed, however, by high tides. At the end of the mouth 90 feet of wall had been built up to 6 feet above low tide and 1u) feet were partly relaid. Damage by the Storm. The severe storm and hurricane of the 29th ultimo, which caused serious damage to the steamers in the Washington channel, also caused damage to the sea wall by dredges and scows drifting aguinst it. In the tidal reservoir a sand dredge drifted against the new wall on the northwest shore, where the backing had not been filled in, and pushed 5v feet of wall back on the bank. Two scows drifted against the new wall above the bathing beach and loosened the top courses for a distance of about 200 feet. On the Virginia channel front of section 11 a drifting dredge struck the wall about half way between the reser- voir inlet and the sewer canal and pushed the stone out of place for a distance of 25 feet. A large scow drifted against the wall along the front of section 1, between the sewer canal and Easby’s Point, and knock- ed the top stones out of place in several instances. During the storm the tide rose to the extraordinary height of 7 feet above low tide, and although the waves washed over the banks with great ferce, they were so well protected by the wall and grass that but slight damage was done to the re- claimed land. Major Allen says that a project for the expenditure of $100,000 ap- propriated by the act of June 3, 1896, for improving the Potomac river has been ap- proved. It is proposed, he says, to expend the greater part of ihe appropriation in dredging in the Virginia channel, both above and below the Long bridge, and in repairs to the sea wall. Active operations for the removal and reconstruction of pier 4 of the Aqueduct bridge have been defer- red until the early part of next year. Washington Aqueduct. Maj. Allen, who is temporarily in charge of the Washington aqueduct, has also made a report of operations during the month of September, from which it ap- pears that the condition of the water at various parts of the system during that period was as follows: At Great Falls, tur- bid cne day, slightly turbid one day and cleaz twenty-eight days; at the Dalecarlia reservoir effluent gate house and at the distributing reservoir effluent gate house, clear thirty days. The water level in the distributing reservoir varied between 145.6 and 146. During the month small repairs were made to the Conduit road and the gutters were cleaned when necessary. Lenk in a Main. A leak in the thirty-six-inch main at College pond was uncovered and temporar- ily repaired. So much water leaked into the excavation from the canal that a per- manent repair cannot be made until some occasion when the canal is empty. Three small leaks in the forty-eight-inch main on M street were also repaired. The storm of the 29th ultimo destroyed most of the teleprone line, the tin roof of the watchman’s house at the Dalecarlia reser- voir, about 800 feet of fencing and a large number of trees along the Conduit road. The damage has since been repaired. The painting ard repairing of the high-service reservoir was nearly completed during the month. The work of inserting blow-offs and air valves in the thirty-inch and thirty-six-inch mains was suspended on accourt of the non-arrival of the -neces- gary materials. Raising the Dam. Good progress is reported cn the project for increasing the water supply of the District by raising the height of the dam at Great Falls. During the month the contractor delivered 206.68 cubic yards of dimension stone and 7.93 cubic yards of coping. Two hundred and four feet of dam were completed, of which 155 feet were in the Maryland channel and forty- nine feet were in the Virginia channel. The total length of dam completed is 2,392 feet. West of the western shore of the Maryland channel the dam has been rais- ed to 2 reference of 150.5 feet for a con- tinuous distance of 1,747 feet. Beginning at the east shore of the Maryland channel, the dam has been raised to a reference of 150.5 feet for a distance of 645 feet. See INDIAN MATCHMAKING. The Nex Percen Have an Effective Way of Settling Matrimonial Efforts. From the Portland Oregonian. An old custom was revived by the Nez Perces Indians and their visitors during the celebration on the last Fourth of July. The natives of the local tribes are very wealthy people, and there are designing mothers among the aborigines as well as in the different classes of civilized society. ‘The young bucks of the Nez Perces tribe are regarded somewhat like the scions of nobility in matrimonial circles. The maid- ens from all visiting tribes were brought to Lapwai to find husbands. The customs of the tribes, which were revived for the oc- casion, were more effective than the Bos- ton man’s way. ‘The marriageable maidens were by com- mon accord quartered in a selected spot in the Valley of the Lapwal. At an appointed hour the young men who wanted wives to share their annuities, thelr homesteads and the affections of their hearts, appeared in procession on the hallowed camp ground. ‘The hour was midnight and the scene was in a grove of trees made fragrant by the wild flowers, and every heart danced to the music of *the rippling waters. The young men marched forth, and none but candi- dates for ie Fen ORY) joined the march. ‘They were dressed in,their brightest colors, and each carried acwhite willow cane. AS they. approached the tenis they chanted an Indian chorus that ,was doleful as the song of the owl, and kept,time by beating upon the tents with their_canes. ‘The drumming was deafening to the distanl spectator and must have been distracting to the waiting maidens in the ten; At IkSt the singing and the drumming jad the.desired cffect. The maidens came forth, after a delay just long enough to satisfy that universal passion of the mind of a woman to drive a lover mad with doubt. There were more men than maidens. The former kept up the march and the music without. The maidens countermarched on the line of the same circle, each selecting a husband from the Ine. The chosen ones hastened to follow their brides away into the Gark- ness. The unfortunate suitors were left to despair. o+—___ The Church Car. From the Chicago Tribune. THE SEABOARD DEAL An Inquiry Into the ansaotion by Stato ” Authorities, larmony, if Not Union, With the is Predicted —Abont MA st. John. Southern Syst = The true inwardnes$‘6f the deal by which the Seaboard Air Tid passed from the control of those who; pyped it a month ago to that of Mr. Thom’s“T, Ryan and Gen- eral Thomas of New York, which was com- pleted just pravious ito fhe annual meeting of the stockholders at Portsmouth, Va., will soon be known to the public generally, as steps to ascertain this have been taken by the attorney general of South Carolina. That official has sent a, short letter to each gentleman named, informing them that as they negotiated the transfer of the steck of the Seaboard he desires them to prove to the satisfaction of the special railroad board of South Carolina, which cersists of the governior, the attorney gen- eral and the state railroad commissioners, that in the transfer Messrs, Ryan and Thomas had no connection or understand- ing with the Southern Railway Company. The new constitution of South Carolina prohibits the sale of any railroad line to a parallel or competing line, and the special board means, it is safd, to ascertain wheth- er the recent purchase of the Seaboard by Messrs. Ryan and Thomas was not a vio- lation of that instrument. Confidence in the Deal. A prominent banker in Baltimore, writing to a friend in Washington in reference to the deal above referred to, says: “Although there appears to be a doubt in the minds of some people as to the sale of a controll- ing interest in the Seaboard system I am informed by one whose information can be depended upon as authentic that the owners of the 4,000 shares of pooled stock have signed a contract to deliver the same to the purchasers at a fixed price, and that the only condition is that the property shall upon examination prove to be in the condition as set forth by the management. “The financial statements issued by the management state that during the months of August and September the Seaboard earned $10,000 more than during the pre- vious two months, and these and other statements will have ta be borne out by an examination of the books, which will also show just how the property stands. “The movement inaugurated by Gen. John Gill, president of the Mercantile Trust Company, for the purchase of Seaboard stock at par, is still In force, and will not be withdrawn for various reasons, and it fs believed that the transfer of the controlling interest, as secured by the Ryan syndicate, will be completed before the end of this month. “This 4,000 shares, together with the stock controlled by Gen. Gill, carries with it the control, and it may be asserted that the management of the company will change hands as contemplated. “Whether its cause has been just or not the Seaboard has been responsible for a series of freight and passenger rate wars, and the holders of securities depending upon the prospects of properties in the sy: tem will weleome with much pleasure a change of policy which will prevent such rate cutting in the future. “The Seaboard has been the firebrand which has disturbed the whole Southern Freight Association, and the frequent rate wars inaugurated by this company have threatened to disorganize the entire rail- way system of the séuth, to destroy values and to put in jeopardy the securities of many southern roads. I-do not pretend to judge as to the provocation which the Sea- board system may ‘have received, but I certainly think the placing of an opposition steamboat line on Chesapeake bay by the Southern Railway Company did not justify the cutting of rates and placing the whole system of southern roads in such a position as to imperil the interests of the holders of millions of dollars of securities. Harmony if Not Union. hether or not the management of the Southern Rallway Company is interested in the Seaboard purchase, the property, if the deal is carried cut, will, it Is believed, be In harmony with the former company. Our home people are largely interested in Southern as well as Seaboard securities, and will welcome « policy which will per- mit both companies to take advantage of the large traffic now offering. “The railroads of the south are doing an especially good business, and with fair rates can make good returns to the owners oz the several properties. I hope that the rate-cutting and throat-cutting war is per- marently closed.” Under St. John’s Management. In an interview with a Star reporter, a prominent railroad man said: “When Mr. St. John a few years ago left the Chicago and Rock Island road to take charge of the Seaboard Air Line the step was regarded by Mr. St. John’s friends as unwise, for the reason that the Seaboard was practi- cally an unheard of line, and could well be described as two streaks of rust running through a desolate country. It was said t the lire had not been mismanaged. That was probably true, and, indeed, the fact is that it had never been managed at all. It had been operated about in the same way as were most of the southern rcads until within the past couple of years, which was to let them go about as they »pleased. “Well, Mr. St. John was asked to take Gherge of the Seaboard. He was informed that the stockholders were anxious that the road should appear on the map with other railroads, and that they wanted It pushed along so that it would eventually get on a dividend-paying basis. “St. John had been in railroad wars be- fcre, and, being of a naturally aggressive nature, he instituted measures almost as soon as he took charge that made the road talked about among business people. Such a policy was absolutely necessary, in the judgment of Mr. St. John, and the other Seaboard people, in order to overcome the obstacles the former would have in suc- cessfully operating the road. He had for his most active competitor the Southern Railway Company, and at last the South- ern Railway and Steamship Association, after vainly trying to get the Seaboard to icin their ranks, boycotted the Seaboard. and a ruinous war of rates followed. The beycott was, however, overturned by the courts. “By Mr. St. John’s management of the system the Seaboard’s stock advanced from $20 to over $100 a share . He Will Be Continued. “The majority of the stock of the road has, as above stated, changed hands, but the change will not, it 1s believed, affect Mr. St. John. Apart from the fact that he has a contract with the Seaboard, which yet has several years to run, he !s regard- ed very highly by the new owners, one gs tom said, when questioned on the sub- ject: 4 “There is no reason under the sun why Mr. St. John shoul net’ be continued in office. Both Mr. Ryan and myself recog: nize Mr. St. John’s ability. He has con- ducted a very stubborn fight, and why cannot he pursue a folicy of peace as suc- cessfully as he has wageda policy of war- fare? Mr. St. John:as done wonders for the Seaboard Air Line. We regard him ae one of the best railroad amen in the coun- try, and it would be hard to find a man to fill his place.’ ” 5 z a But She Diduw’t Doubt Him. From the Chicago Post. . “I wish you were a,.thousand miles away,” she sald, penstvely. He was naturally Surprised, as she had been most affectionafe all'the evening. “Dearest!” he exclaimed, “what do you It was Bishop Walker, who has just | mean? How can you say you wish me so been chosen to be successor to the late| far away?” Bishop Coxe of New York, who first con-, ceived the idea of a church on wheels, and Cornelius Vanderbilt and George M. Pull- man contributed Hberally toward the con- struction of the car, which is a complete church. It has been imitated all over the world, The bishop has been a United States Indian commissioner for ten years. Every fall he meets a deputation of Indians at some spot on the Northern Pacific road, and with them he goes off into the wilder- ness to confer with them at their homes. The Indians carry one tepee, in which the bishop sleeps during the journeys, the In- dians sleeping in a circle around his tent. A new town in North Dakota, on the Great Northern road, named in his honor. “Oh, well, maybe that was an exaggera- tion,” she admitted. ‘Call it a hundred.” “But why even a hundred,” he persisted. “Well,” she explained, “of course I wouldn’t have you think that I doubt you for anything in the wide world, but if you were a hundred miles away you'd write to me, wouldn’t you?” “Of course.” “And if you wrote to me you'd write all of the loving messages that you now whis- per to me?” “Ye-es. “Well, of course I don’t doubt you,” con- tinued the modern up-to-date girl, “but I'd feel a lot easier in my mind if I could get you far enough away so that I could get some of this in writing once. There's noth. ing like documentary evidence.” BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL Oonsiders Several Oharges of Using Non- Union Workmen. ‘Wages Below the Scale—The Work on the New Columbia Opera House. The regular weekly meeting of the Build- ing Trades Council was held last evening, President William Silver in the chair and Mr. James Boyce, secretary. There was a good attendarce. The grievance committee reported that none but unicn carpenters were now being employed on the new Columbia Theater; all the non-union men who were working there having been discharged. The painters repcrted that the painting there was being done by a contractor who is working non-union painters, and a com- mittee from their union had requested. the contractor to give the work to members of Union No. 170 of Washington, but he posi- tively declined to do so. The matter was referred to the grievance committee of the council, who will make an effort to have union painters employed, as there is an agrecment between the own- ers of the theater and the Building Trades Council that none but union men shall be employed on the work. A communication was read from Car- penters’ Union, No. 1, stating that non- union carpenters were being employed on work that is being constructed by Mr. Christian Heurich, the brewer, in contra- vention of the agreement on the subject between him and the Building Trades Council. The communication was received and placed on file, and the delegates from the carpenters represented in the council denied the truth of the statement. No fur- ther action was taken in the matter. It was reported that the contractor who is doing the plastering at the new Colum- bia Theater was employing plasterers not members of Plasterers’ Assembly. The siatement was made that the contractor re- ferred to employs non-union men, and that he was objected to by Plasterers’ Assembly. He, however, agreed to employ members of the assembly on.this work, but they re- fused the proposition unless the contractor would agree to employ only members of the assembly on all future work. To this he would not agree, and the mat- ter was brought to the attention of the Central Labor Union at its last meeting, and the district organizer was requesied to see the men being employed on the work on the theater and, if possible, unionize the job. The organizer did so, and reported that the men would be orgafiized into a plasterers’ union Sunday next, and thus the job will henceforth be a fair job throughout. Below the Scale. A committee representing the Central Labor Union called at the navy yard yes- terday to investigate the report made to that body at its meeting Monday evening, that union bricklayers were being employed there at less than the union scale of wages, and found the report to be true. The com- mittee ascertained that twenty bricklayers were being employed and that eleven of them were being paid as second-class work- men, $3.76 per day, and the others, who were rated as first class, $4, the regular scale. Mr. Welling, the foreman of yards and docks, informed the visitors, the comunittee said, that the wages of the second-class men would be advanced to the full rate on and after tomorrow. Several of the men informed the committee that Lieut. Moore, who is in charge of the improvement being made, told them that the job was only a short one, and that it would be unneces- sary to make any advance in their wages. The committee will today call at the Navy Department, and, if possible, see Sec- retary Herbert in reference to the matter. The Federation of Labor met as usual in weekly meeting last evening. President James F. McHugh presided, and Mr. C. A. Maidens was secretary. The contract committee reported as the result of investigations made by them that hereafter carpenters employed on the Con- sumers’ brewery, at Rosslyn, would be paid union wages, and that in future all men employed there would be required to show the card of the union to which they belong. The committee on contracts was request- ed to investigate a report that non-union men were being employed on the Columbia ‘Theater, and the grievance committee was asked to look into the allegations contained in a communication which was read, stat- ing that one well-known bakery here was employing non-union men and another patronized non-union shops. The announcement was made that the Machinists’ Union had adopted a resolution that a fine would be imposed on any mem- ber of their organization who patronized the cars of the Metropolitan Street Rail- way Company. A resolution was adopted requesting that the members of the Bakers’ Drivers’ Union would request the patrons of the bakeries here not to receive bread that it was sought to deliver on Sunday. Sear ROMANCE IN SICKLES’ LIFE. Accompanied by His Lovely Daughter He Hadn’t Seen in Fifteen Years. From the Kansas City Star. Miss Fda Sickles, the twenty-one-year-old daughter of General Sickles, is a young girl of Spanish type, of beautiful face and figure, brownish-black hair and deep black eyes, fringed with long eyelashes. She is adored by every one in the party of the generals. She worships her father, and she is the “apple of his eye.” She has only been in America a few weeks, and she speaks English imperfectly. She has lived all her lfe in a convent in Madrid, Spain, and the story of it is ke this: When General Sickles was United States minister to Spain under General Grant, he married a beautiful senorita of excellent family. Two children were born of the marriage—a boy, George Stanton Sickles, and Eda Sickles. When General Sickles was ready to return to America his Span- ish wife preferred to remain, and her fath- er, a wealthy old Spanish nobleman, made his will, providing that the boy and girl should inherit all his riches provided they should remain in Spain till they were of age, the boy to stay with his mother and the girl to be educated in a convent. The daughter became of age a little more than a month ago and she and her brother sail- ed at once for America. When they got to New York they learned that their father was out in the country making political spceches and would be back the next day. They were at the Grand Central station to meet him. The meeting between the old general and his daughter, whom he had not seen since she was six years old, was thus described in a newspaper of New York: “As General Sickles alighted from the train and walked dow; the platform a young girl with a, beautiful face and figure steppe? forward ang exglaimed in a sweet, well modulated xeice;.“Is.this not General Sickles?’ He bewed.and, answered, “It is.” Thereupon, the young, woman, looling him straight in the eves, exclaimed with a mer- ry laugh, which,revealed, two rows of per- fect teeth, “Don't you know me? The gen- eral, again bowing, and this time also smll- ing, said: “Pardon, but I must confess and also regret ¢hat you have the advantage.” The young girl, not a bit embarrassed, looked at the general affectionately and re- lied: PisLook at me. Don't you know me? Don't you know your daughter Eda?” Then the general clasped her to his breast. A few days after this meeting General Sickles started out on his present tour and his son and daughter went with him. It is affecting to see with what love and adora- tion the daughter looks upon her father. She is always by his side when he makes a speecn. The sight of the old veteran sol- diers crowding around to clasp the hand of her father has moved her deeply and she says she loves the American people, though she cannot understand why they make such a fuss over the election of a President. She is as witty as she is good looking and well educated. When General Alger was first in- troduced to her by her father in Chicago he said: “You are the prettiest girl I have ever seen. She replied in broken English: “You have seen very little, general.” She kisses her father each morning, not only once, but she covers his face with kisses. At every station through Kansas, bouquets of flowers were passed up to the train, and those were all gathered up by the 1.ewspaper men and given to Miss Sicktes. At one station she was asleep when the train stopped and the armful of bouquets were piled against her stateroom door. is our trade drummer. We don't make pi honesty above all things. ‘here this season. We couldn’t came away loaded down. d ice the bait. commercial generalship—the advantage of leadership — the- honest demand of honest worth—and the world appreciates PERRY'S. We have awakened the echoes. The Greater Store’s stand- ard of quality is preached by many—but reached by few. Value It is the consequence of ‘You never saw Black Goods plentiful as they are leave the market until we had gathered everything that was new—unique — good —and we . . But everybody wants at least one Black dress — and seems as if everybody intuitively turned to us for it. Ours are exclusive effects—and they are from the biggest and best manufacturers in the world. The fashion story is fully illus- trated here with the handsomest designs that are to be found anywhere. They are all fresh fancies of this season. Prices are about the same as usual—but especially good values fill each grade. Hettering—instead of cheapening. In- creasing satisfaction instead of jeopardizing it. 48-1nch Granite Suitings—T5c., 85c. and $1 a yd. 44-inch Rayures—$1 a yd. 44-inch Lizarde Suitings—75e. a yd. 4%inch Priestley Wool Brocades—$1 a yd. 46-inch Zjbeline—$1.25 a yd. 42-ineb-All-wool and Silk and Wool Crape Cloths—75e., $1, $1.25, $1.50 and $2 a yd. 44-Inch Camel's Hair Broche—$1.50 a yd. 54-inch Wnglish Cheviots—rare value for $1 = yd. 44 and” 47-inch Etamines—plain, boucle and novelty effects—$1, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2, $2.50 end $3 a yd. 46-inch Lupin’s Camel's Hair—$1, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2, $2.50 and $3 yd. 48-inch Whipcords—$1.50 a yd. 4tinch Mohair Crapes—$1.25, $1.50 and $1.75 a yd. 46-inch Novelty Cheviots—$1.25 a yd. 46-inch Peau Ge Montan—$1.75 a yd. sNovelty Black Good : ~AT~ 47 Anch Glace Velcurs—$4.50 a ya. 47Anch Frize Velours—$5 a yd. 424nch Crape Raye-$1.25 a yd. ch Matelasse Brocade-$2 a yd. ch Armmne Saitings $1.50 a. 9d. 47-inch Tricotines, in broche effects— $3.50 9 yard, 48-inch Drap D’Paris—$1.50 a yard. -inch Tailor Novelties-$1 a yard. B8-4nch Rough Suitings—50c. a yard. 46-inch French Boucles—ZBc., . $1.50 and $2 a yard 42-inch Frize Cloths—$1.50, and $20 yard. 47-inch Silk and Wool Epingles—Da- masse patterns—$3.25, $3.50, $3.75 and $4 a yard. 63-inch Drap Princess—$1.75 a yard. inch English Boucles—$1 46-lnch Novelty Cheviots—T5e. 46-inch Camel's Hair Vigogne—$1 a yara. . inch Mohair Damasses in a num- effe and $2 a yard. # $1.75 yard. of very choice , $1. $1, $1.25, $1. seesegene : “NINTH % kstatttshed 1840. 3S felepbone 4s PERRY’S, < AND THE AVENUE.”= it £ Sepceeteeecrtrteteatecececececrtctecetectectetecnateedtetaaeeteateheeteeetteteteatttaged Seteteetnteetetetnte eeeeresgntetttetetetetetetntectececececntndenetetetetetedetetetetetetecetetede | BARGAINS —FROM THE— (EE. P. MERTZ sold. Rabuteau's Famous Toilet Preparations at greatly reduced prices: Rabuteau’s Almond Meal, large jars, Rabuteau’s Ceratine, several inchss, Rabuteau’s Skin Feod, removes blemishes and freckles. Puff Boxes that were $1, $2 now. 1 Lot of Perfumes, all od Lot of Fine Violet Queen Anne Colog! cs Large variety of Fine Extracts at HALF PRICE. me choice articles in Sterling Silver Ware ata big discount. Hair Brushes, Cloth Brushes and Tooth Rrushes at a biz reduction, Soaps, Sponges, Atomizera, Genuine Tortoise Shell Combs, Ivory Brushes, Syringes, Fine Imported Perfumes and ASSIGNEE SALE. From all parts of the city and suburbs come bar- gain hunters, who are wise enough to see in this sale an opportunity to secure matchless prizes. Goods are moving out at a rapid pace. Come ere the best is Fine Cut Glass Bottles have all been re- duced greatly. All MUST GO! Pectoral Balsain, cures colds SER Improved Syrup of Hypopbosphites,brain and nerve tonic -ATe. Syrup of, Figs.......... ae Douglass’ aoe Cod ‘Live: bh Hazel, rsaparilla, best of Callsaya and. Tron at Lester's Liver Pills, 6 for Almond Cold Cream, p Faun de fa: tonic . Barth's Coca, Beef and Celery Gom- bound Fs 3S. T. Thomas (Assignee), lertz’s Modern Pharmac 9 Cor. F & uth Sts. N. W. ¢ SPS eateste ate ahoneteatoetoatesetoatenteteatontetonteneatoatedioceadeetodteetotoetodted doeteedtertecndte, When she opened the door the next morn- ing the flowers fell in over her feet and she clapped her hands in delight. Miss Sickles and her brother spent yesterday afternoon driving about Kansas City. \Loie Fuller to Dance in China. From the New York Journal. The announcement is made through her attorney, Abe Hummel, that “La Loie” Fuller will make a trip to China to dance before the emperor and in all the large cities of the great empire. When in this city a few weeks ago Li Hung Chang saw “La Loie” and was captivated by her beauty and grace. He at once made a pro- posal that she should make a trip to China. It was thought at the time that the viceroy was merely giving the beautiful American dancer a “Chinese compliment,” but it seems that he was in earnest and left in- structions with his agenis in this city to make a contract with Miss Fuller for her appearances before his emperor. Miss Fuller will dance in Pekin January 15 before the Emperor of China. She will also give a special performance before Li Hung Chang. Miss Fuller will then tour the very large cities of China, but will not attempt to penetrate far into the interior. Leaving China, she will go to India, thence to Australia, and from that country to France. She will hardly return to the United States before 1899. ++ + ____ Oysters in Potatoes. From the Boston Evening Transcript. Everything like a surprise is always at- tractive at a table, so what are called “oysters caches” may serve as a sugges- tion. Season mashed pctatoes with but- ter, pepper and salt, add a little rich cream, but not enough to soften it. With this fill a mold about an inch thick and into it pour some oysters dressed with cream, pepper, salt and a little mace; add a little of their own gravy, and when quite hot, the beaten yolk of an egg. The oysters should fill the mold to within half an inch of the top. Cover with the potatoes pressed down evenly and turn it from the mold on the frying plate; cover with the beaten yolk of an egg and then with bread crumbs; plunge it into the hot lard and, when a light brown, lift it out, slide it on a hot platter and serve, garnished with parsley. —_—___—_-e2._____ Mrs. Cleveland’s Hat. From the Philadelpbia Press. Mrs. Cleveland’s new fall hat, which has just reached Gray Gables, is made of pale green straw, with brown dots scattered over it. One side of the hat is trimmed with stiff taffeta bows in brown and green. On the other side of the crown is arranged mass of snowballs, nestling in vari- colored leaves. THREE HUNDRED MILES OF SMITHS. Eight Miles of Them Live in the City of New York. From the New York Journal. Three hundred miles of Smiths! The fig- ure is appalling, but it is no exaggeration. The New York city directory for 189¢ contains 401,809 names. Of these, 2,64, or one in every 134, is a Smith. The Smiths take up nearly twelve and a half pages of three columns each. According to the last census, there are about five times as many people in New York city as there are names in the directory. It follows, then, that there are in this city between 14,000 and 15,000 Smiths. If drawn up in single file at the usual distance between people so paraded the line would extend from the Battery to 12ist street, a distance of eight miles. if the same ratio holds good throughout the Unit- ed States, the Smiths in this country num- ber 525,000, and would form a line 360 miles Jeng. They would reach to Albany and back. It has been a popular belief always that the Smiths, Browns, Joneses and Robin- sons led the world in the matter of fre- qvency, but these latter days have changed all that. The Smiths are still foremost; the sturdy and multiplicative Browns are not far behind. Theve are 2,800 Browns in ‘he New York directory, about one Brown to every 135 who are not Browns. This would give 518,000 Browns in the United States. But there the old quartet of names is broken. The Joneses and Robinsons are de- cadent so far as numbers go. The Millers have stepped into the honorable third place once held by the race of Joneses. But the Millers are only half as many as the Smiths and Browns. The directory has only sev- enteen columns of them, with 7 names. Then come the Meyerses with 1,064 names; Murphys, 1,049; Cohens, 981; Kel- lys, Levys and Johnsons, with 966, 963 and 962, respectively, while Williams and Clark have only 845 and 802. - The Smiths are perennial, ever plenty and never can be moribund. When the skel tons of nations shall stand aroind t lorely last man, he will look out with a clear eye over the ruins of empires, watch fearlessly the rising tide which is to ongulf the world, and on the last rock which raises its grizzled, time-wearied head above that second universal taundation write in bold characters his name, and the enury will read: “John Smith.’ ———+e+- = Progenitor of a Multitude Dena, Francis Pellant, a resident of Fond du Lac county, Wis., for twenty-five years, is dead at the age of eighty-three years, He probably left more progeny than any other man in the state. He was grandfather to 115 children and the parent of fifteen. Ten children now are living, and one of! his daughter is the mother of twenty children.