Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1897, Page 16

ING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1897-24 PAGES, 'AS A SOCIAL CENTER| A Season of Unusual Gayety in Cairo. ge AMERICANS WELL 10 THE FRONT Oriental Coloring and Occidental Taste. BEAUTIFUL GOW ge SOME . by Bacheller Syndicate.) zypt, February 10, 15 W tavor IS THE favorite color in Egypt this winter. I am not breaking into mummy cases for fashion hints from the Pharaohs because modern in- vention is exhausted, but am stating the fact that Cairo has become without doubt the winter capital of the migratory birds of fashion’s world. It is a queer sight, as one crosses the great e bridge on the Gizeh road, to see a bi- cyclist stuck between a string of camels and a long file of donkeys, with a splen- idly appointed four-horse coach behind him, flowering with Paris toilets on the bex seat, and a lumbering Arab cart in front, in which crouches a dusky woman, whose face {s hidden up to the eyes by her Jong pouch-like black veil, but it is just this bizarre mixture of the picturesqueness of oriental savagery and the luxuries of a high civilization that is making Cairo a social center outdoing the Riviera. A Masked Ball. ‘There was a masked ball at one of the great hotels last night, at which America wrapped in the stars and stripes prome- naded with Egypt, and {t is true that Americans are well to the front here. Think of New York ice cream and candy at the foot of the pyramids, or on top, for that matter! Could the mind of woman imagine @ more delightful combination? There are preity girls from New York, Chicago, St. L Philadelphia, from all the big cities of the country, smiling from under bright- hued parasols in the parade of carriages that fills the Boulevard Mehemet-Ali and the Place Ibrahim Pasha at the driving hour every afternoon. There are American giris, too, as fresh as the English girls and as spirituelle as the French, who sip their 4 o'clock tea in the tropic gardens of the city or under the awnings of dahabeahs in white blouses and white lace hats so filmy that in any other climate one would consider the skies pretty carefully before putting them en. But in Cairo it “hardly ever” rains, and gay gowns have no weather prophet for their enemy. Twe Gay Gowns. Two such girls whizzed past me in a smart trap just before sunset last evening. A couple of outrunners in barbaric trap- pings trotted in advance, with shrill cries to clear the way, for Yankee girls take kindly to all the trimmings of orientalism, and to the handsome “sais” particularly. One of these girls I have seen a nurnber of times in quiet tailor dress on Sth avenue. In her carriage in Cairo she wore a white skirt and white chiffon blouse with belt of blue velvet, embroidered |. Over the blouse was a short zcuave of white cloth, with gold embroid- ery. having a ruche of blue ribbons at the throat and canght togéther over the bust blue ribbon bows. There were white n caps above the pleated chiffon sleeves Her hat was of the new white “crocodile” velvet, with a roll of blue velvet under the brim, and plumes of the white paradise bird standing erect on one side. A veil of uze with black chenille spots nt off the Afi 1 sun. The sun, it may be said just here, is not hot at this season. The weather is not u that of the English summer, call- ing for thin clothes while the sun is up, but for wraps or even furs in the evening. The other girl in the carriage carried & gray silk parasol figured with scarlet and wore a fy nt dress in the s. ‘The b of her gown was a e in eray silk fas:ening on the left side and with one cormer turned over i big re- vers from the throat and barred with sear- let ou. Collar, belt and rosette to catch down the were of vet. while three ribbon ba: avi of color to the skirt’s hem. was of gray velvet with black The Study of Color. It Is the influence of the native dress, no doubt, that has helped to make some of color values so important to success- ful toilets here. A good deal of gray ts used for the sake of covlness, or because it 's such a fine background for the lay- in< on of Sevres b petunia or cherry Cherry {3 mixed daringly with ve or hellotrope. and I have seen an ng dress of two shades of cerise, bor- i with dark red and veiled with mauve Dresses even for the morning prome- though {t must be admitted that in the “promenade” js often only from arriage to the shop door, abound in bright colors. Brilliant gold or orange vel- vet i@ used constantly on the !apels of bodices or is introduced between the open- ing revers. Of course gold and silver threads play & prominent part in all the embroideries, ‘and gold tinsel braid te used not only for belts, but for collars and cuffs, and even for skirt trimmings occastonally. Stuffs interwoven with silver and gold are very al for evening dress, notably white or cashmere, and are used more or less, especially in cloths interthreaded with colored velvet held down by tinsel, for-the daytime. The Arabian bazaars whose Owners are not destitute of worldly wisdom display boleros and zouaves all of cloth of gold, which te haye this advantage, that they can worn with a great variety of gowns. French women wear them over full blouses of net worked over with tinsel and jewels. A Typical Frock. During the playing of the khedivial an- them, “God Save the Queen,” at a regi- mental band concert this afternoon there appeared on the scene of action a frock so pretty and so typical of the place that it belongs right here. It was of old rose chine stik with broad belt of deep rose velvet and hchu and sleeves of pale yellow chiffon. ‘The fichu covered almost the entire front of the bedice and was made with innumer- able small rutiies that rose and fell with every puif of wind. A broad picture hat of yellow straw was tri ed with old rose velvet and yellow plumes. The wo- man who doesn’t wear a fichu wears a lace cravat and fastens it with a jeweled pin. Another notable toilet on ihe same occa- sion was a summery-looking dress of paie green chine sitk made with a rather full skirt finished at the bottom with a deep, beaded flounce of the same material. The bodice was a blouse with a deep, flat col- jar of lace, practically making a small bolero. Narrow, dark green velvet ribbon Was gathered into rosettes over the bust and fell down upon the skirt in streamers. 4 high pleated collar of the silk was the throat finish. The hat was green straw with trimmings of lace, an enameled buckle and @ quaniity of black feahers. A third costume, worn by a pretty French girl, was of brown siik striped di- agonally with fine red and yellow lines. ‘The skirt was piain with a seam on the left side of the front to accentuate the meeting of the stripes, which pointed down- ward from the waist in deep angles. The blouse bodice was of the same material with a cross-striping in brown velvet. A deep collar of plain brown silk laid in sine Fleats came down over the shoulders and was finished about the bust and at the throat with a full rutile. A belt of brown velvet and a brown hat with lack feathers completed a very quiet but very effective costume. Evening Dress. Evening dress is brilliant this season An extremely pretty example is of white moire with a double puff of gold-colored mousseline de soic at the hem. The bodice is a bolero with loops and straps of gold lace held down by buttons. A puffing of mousseline de soie like that upon the skirt finishes the low-cut neck vpening, and frames the shoulders. The bolero opens upon a blouse of gold mousseiine threaded with turquoise. ‘Ine sleeves are short, met by long white gloves. ‘The jewels are pearls. At a recent dance the dress that seem- ed to excite most attention was of pale pink liberty silk, figured with darker roses. The low, round bodice was framed with a twisted ruche of deep rose velvet edged with lace. The device was as suc- cessful as it was unusual. There was a pointed belt of the same velvet. The lace sleeves were very short, just veiling the tops of the extremely long gloves. A neck lace of rose coral was the chief ornament, for coral is the latest fad of fashion. The Egyptian winter is nearly over, if, indeed, Egypt can be said to have any winter, and next week I shall be able to say something about spring millinery. ELLEN OSBORN. HOUSEHOLD HINTS “The law of heredity is nature’s way of taking revenge on those who break her rules, and nobody ever escapes the punish- ment,”” remarked an eminent physician. “It is a law of entail that no man can break.” In the light of this solemn declaration, the truth of which is demonstrated far beyond the “third and fourth generation” of bib- © prophesy, it is passing strange that | mothers und fathers should be surprised at the apparent degeneracy of their offspring. It is simply “‘the chickens come home to roost,” of the sins of heredity. A lady of some prominence said, not long ago, in discussing this subject, that in her own family the law of heredity had given dread- ful signs of its power. Her own sister was @ woman of most violent temper. Early a professing Christian, she had curbed her passions and temper with iron band, but at times it overcame her, and she retired to | her own room, where she locked herself in and raged like a mad thing till the force Was exhausted; then she came out, appar- ently the calm, equable woman, who never felt a wave of passion in her life. Her husband loved liquor as most men love sunshine, and drank like a fish. He died when their twin boy and girl were six months old. The children had an almost ideal training, and yet both were vicious, given to insane fits of temper, and had both been found in almost beastly intoxi- cation in tender years, and both would go to any length to obtain liquor. It is awful to think that that holiest of all things, a mother, should leave to a cherished child such a heritage as that, and yet thousands do, yet expect the world to grow better. In- stead of bewailing the debasing tendency of the outside world, it might be as well to lcok at home and see whether the canker that is destroying the bud may not be in- born, rather than cultivated. Baby’s bath is not always the thing it ought to be for the tiny morsel of human- ity. Too much bathing ts very bad for a Wee bit of a baby, too little is almost worse. The temperature of the room should wander up into the The bath water should be exactly the same temperature as the room, and a thermometer is an absolute necessity to obtain the proper degree of warmth. The soap should be of the purest castile, or olive oll, which costs but a trifle more than the cheap scented stuff. An old flannel sheet j to Wrap the body in as you wash a portion at a time and wipe dry, is a necessity. Use soft linen wash cloths, ‘and old soft towels. A pinch of borax Is best to soften hard water. Baby powder, and a bottle of vase- line are indispensable. Cheese fingers are a delicious ippetizer. Cut nice even strips of bread a finger wide, butter lightly, but evenly, dust over with grated cheese and toast brown in @ very hot oven. If they should seem stale after keeping a few days, heat in a slow oven for a few moments. Brotled shad roe is a great delicacy. Wash the roe and put it tnto a pot of salt- ed boiling water, which place on the back of the stove for ten minutes. Lift the roe out and put on a@ clean linen towel to Grain dry. Then place them on a well- greased broiler and give them a taste of the hot coals for five minutes. Serve with melted butter on a hot dish. How to make pate cases bothers some good housewives. These may be used for for puff paste and let it stand over night. Roll very thin and have two cutters, one a bit larger than the other, say, three and two inches in diameter. Cut out, say, three dozen of the large rings. Then with the small cutter cut a circle out of two dozen of the rings. Brush lightly over the top of the whole circles with white of egg and lay on it one of the rings. Brush this with the white of egg and lay another over it. Place carefully on a greased paper in the baking pan, leaving pienty of room be- tween each. Bake In a quick oven thirty minutes, covering with paper, if they are inclined to brown too fast. They will keep a long time, and can be freshened by heat- ing. Do not fill with any mixture till ready to serve, and heat them first, if the filling is to be served hot. When handsome cut glass carafes have beer ruined by hard water, make a weak solution of oxalic or sulphuric acid and put a small quantity in the carafe, shak- ing well. Let it stand over night, rinse out with clear water, then shake with hot water, pretty well thickened with fine sand or ashes. This will usually do the business. Be very careful to place the stuff out of the reach of small or careless hands, as it is rank poison. Now {s a good time to begin boiling the water that you drink. It is a very easy matter to accomplish, and may save “spring fever” and lots of kindred ailments, though as a matter of fact all drinking water should be boiled. After boiling, bottle as soon as possible and put where it will cool. Never leave the bottle open a minute, but use at once or throw away, after removing the cork once. Keep the cellar clean. It is simply unex- plainable how some civilized people can live with the mass of rotting vegetation, old, moidy rags, decaying papers and stuff that litters up their cellars. When typhoid fever comes along and carries off two or three members of the family or leaves ong of them a mental wreck they look to the drains and the sink, but forget all about the disease-breeder under the living rooms. A cellar should be kept as clean and dry as a sleeping room. A bushel of lime in a box in a corner will help to clear the air of dampness, but nothing but removal will help the typhoid breeders. A coat of white- wash twice a year will help keep the walls clean, and there should be thorough ven- tilation. ——_ _—_ UNEXPECT! CHARITY. But the Old Man Pocketed the Pile and Put It to lis Best Uses. From the Detroit Free Press. “We got such a good joke on papa,” said one bright-eyed girl to another on a 3d avenue car. “You know he got to feeling very poor last fall, owing to the hard times, and one evening in the early winter when two of the boys were calling on me he told them, in his joking way, that if they came very often he would have to charge them for fuel. When he had left the room the boys said they would have some fun with; him. One of them got a little savings bank at a toy store, and every time he came he would put ten cents into it. The other boys who called were told about it, and they joined in the fun by dropping a dime in the bank whenever they came for an evening’s visit. “Well, it has been a pretty lively winter, you know, and one evening last week four of the boys called together, and some one proposed that we open the bank and count the contributions. We found just about enough to buy a ton of coal. I got papa to come into room and one of the boys presented the ney to him in a pretty little speech. Papa was surprised, of course, but he took the money and thanked the boys very nicely for it.” “But what did he do with it?” ‘Why he bought a ton of coal and had it sent to an awfully poor family he had just heard about. So you see the boys had their fun, the poor folks got the coal and we're all feeling just splendid over it.” —__—_+«+—____ If Woman Had Her Way. From Judge. He—“I see they are again discussing the question, ‘What shall we do with our ex- Presidents?’ It seems to be a dificult prob- lem.” She—“That’s just like you men; you ere so unpractical in everything. If women had a say in the government we would set- tle it In a fifty.” She—‘“Why, abolish the office of ex-Presi- dent, of course.” From the Boston Courter. Fraser—“I have been thinking of getting a pair of marine glasses; I wonder where I should be most apt to find thei Folliman—“Marine glasses? At a notion stcre, of course.” -——___+e-+____ To Be Expected. From the Philadelphia North American. Mrs. Strate (severely)—“Edward, I think that new typewriter of yours is very giddy.” Edward—“But remember, my dear, she is compelled to work on the eighteenth story.” = CHOLERA ABOARD How Narrowly‘the Bennington Es- caped the Soourge. ONE MAN, AWASHINGTON BOY, STRICKEN Graphic Story, of the Behavior of Officers and Men. BOILED: @OLD COIN T HE RECENT RE- peated mishaps to United States war vessels have caused the term “hoodoo” to be commonly applied ‘to the American navy. This term may or may not be exact in so far as these late misfor- tunes to American men-of-war are con- cerned. It depends $ largely upon the point of view. There is always something to be said in rebuttal of a general con- demnatory phrase; and therefore there is interest in the story of one case at least in which a modern warship of the United States proved herself, under the most threatening and gloomy circumstances, to be no “hoodoo. This was when the Asiatic cholera got aboard the United States cruiser Benning- ton, third rate, in the summer of 1895, in the harbor of Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. It is a story that has a local application, for of a ship’s company of nearly 300 men and boys the only life Icst by the invasion aboard ship of the deadly plague was that of a Washington lad, an apprentice. It was not mere good luck that prevented the scourge sweeping the ship’s company fore and aft, as the entire crews of Japan- ese and Chinese vessels of war are swept by the cholera scourge every year. If the Bennington had not been officered hy an exceedingly cool-headed set of men, and bad she not been under the medical and ; Sanitary supervision of one of the very best surgeons in the whole naval service of the United States, it is more than likely ; that within three days after the cholera struck the ship there would not have been enough men left on board to spread mess gear. If there can be any compensating feature in the position of men peaned up on a ship that has been invaded by a dead- ly plague, it must jie in the fact that their ship is a man-of-war, and an American man-of-war at that. An Asiatic Product. Chinese coolies, bound by contract for work as laborers on Hawaiian sugar plan- tations, brought the cholera to Honolulu late in July, 18 Several hundred of them were carried in the steerage of the steamer Belgic from China to Honolulu. Although tke port from which they left China was not officially registered as in- fected, the germs of. Asiatic cholera must have been among this gang of coolies at the start, for three of them died of the plague at sea, midway between China and Hawail. The surgeons on board some of the Pa- cific liners are complaisant young fellows just cut of medical schools, who seek these sea-faring billets for the purpose of try- irg their ‘prentice hands preliminary to settling down to practice ashore. Many of them only make ane cruise before they get enough of the sea. The young sur- geon on board the Belgic was either too ignorant to know Asiatic cholera when he saw it, or he suffered himself to be bully- Tagged by his ship’s,commander. At any rate, on the shjp’s health bill he marked two of these coolies who died of «holera as having succumbed to pneumonia, and ascribed the death of the third to heart disezse, Thus, when the Belgic arrived at Honolulu quaraniine, the Hawailan health officials were naturally quite unsuspicious that anything was wrong with the big consignment of coolies, They permitted them to land, and sent the Belgic on to the United States with a clean bill of health. Had not the Belgic been thor- oughly fumigated for days on her way up to the states, there can be no doubt that this country would have had a chol- era epidemic on its west coast. Ankle Deep in Disinfectants. The Chinese coolies landed from the Bel- gic at Honolulu quarantine scattered themselves with their goods cver the quar- antine island in the harbor, and settled down for a ten days’ stay in health quod before their release to proceed to work on the sugar islands. They were, of course, not permitted to visit Honolulu, but their countrymen from Honolulu were allowed during the first two days after the de- burkation of the coolfes to visit them at quérantine. On the third day after they lurded from the Belgic, half a dozen of the cooiles were stricken with Asiatic chol- era, and died out of hand in short order. On the next day, and for several days af- ter, many more of them became infected. The most of them dled. By this time Hon- olvlu was worried. A week after the ar- rival of the Belgie with its cargo of coolles, paric seized Honolulu, when the announce- ment was made by the board of health that chelera had broken out in the city, not alone among the Chinese, but among the Kapakas and the resident whites as well. It required three months of frenzied ef- fort or the part of the Hawailan board of health to prevent cholera from develop- ing from an epidemic into a devastation. They finally conquered the plague after many deaths, but it was long before one could travel the streets of Honolulu with- out walking ankle-deep in chloride of sme and other disinfectants and without the necessary countersign to effect a passage through the chains of health guards, who patrolled all the public thoroughfares. The choiera got aboard the Bennington over the starboard bow boom. The ship Was anchored not above two hundred yards from the Honolulu docks, at a point not far removed from the mouth of a creek that drains an evil, insanitary quarter of the city, chiefly occupied by the Chinese. Death Lurked in the Water. It has always been the custom of com- manders of American men-of-war anchor- ed in Honolulu harbor to permit the crews to take an evening swim, in January as well as in July, for the temperature of the water never changes, and it is so beau- Ufully clear that the harbor’s coral bed can be easily made out twenty fathoms belcw. For the convenience of the swim- ming parties one of the forward booms is swung round, and from this boom, clad in trunks, the men dive or jump into the water, and, when they have had enough, scramble up the boom ladder to the top- gallant forecastle. Even while the chol- era was raging in Honolulu, there was thought to be no danger in allowing the men to have their evening swim. The fact was overlooked that the little creek which emptied into the harbor near the ship's anchorage was carrying the refuse of the worst-infected district of Hono- lulu into the sea. Practically all hands had been quarantined—that i Kept aboard the ship—on the Bennington since the day of the announcement that cholera had ap- peared in Honolulu, and, for additional security, officers and men were living on ship’s provisions. There was no communi- cation whatever between the shore and the man-of-war. Swimming call went, as usual, after sup- per on the evening of August 30, and about three-fourths of the men forward stripped and donned their trunks for a plunge in the sapphire waters. Among these was a lad named William Goebel of this city, a firsi-class apprentice, whose term of naval service was nearly at an end, for he was verging upon his majority, and he was figuring with a great deal of boyish happiness on his return to his family here, after a long absence. He was putting in his last few months as a dynamo oiler. The Only Victim. The Bennington’s two dynamos are sit- uated in a very small, hot room below the berth deck, nearly up in the eyes of the ship. To this room young Goebel went to stand his watch immediately after he came out of the water. After he had been there an hour he became nauseated, but he stuck to his post, probably faneying that his nausea was the result of the strong smell of hot ofl in the dynamo rcom, and that it would soon wear off. He had been thus alone in the dynamo room for a couple of hours, attending to his work with difficulty, when the chief gunner’s mate, who was acting as dynamo machinist, entered the dynamo room to make an inspection of the gear under his charge. He found young Goebel sitting in a chair, his frark, boyish countenance drawn and distorted and the color of saf- fren. The chief gunner’s mate was an old- timer, with an eye in his head, and so he lost no time in getting the lad aft to the sick bay. The apothecary, a courageous man, who had borne a charmed existence in the midst of all manner of deadly epi- demics all over the world, needed only a glance at young Goebel to discover what was the matter with him. He shot up the ward room ladder and brought down the ship's surgeon, Dr. C. T. Hibbett, now at- tached to the receiving ship Independence at Mare Island, who has pulled many thou- sands of officers and men in the navy through dangerous sicknesses, and who is affectionately known as “Dr. Won’'t-Let- *Rm-Die” on account of the earnest ef- forts he has on several occasions made to save the lives of men in the service who attempted to commit suicide. Surgeon Hib- bett took a look at young Goebel, who was lapsing into writhing unconsciousness, and then the sick bay doors were closed and the surgeon and apothecary began a hope- less fight to save the lad’s life. An Ominous Scene. The officers had meantime nearly all gone to their bunks, and only one or two of them knew of the fight that was going on in the sick bay through the long hours of the night. None of the men forward, except the chief gunner’s mate, even knew young Goebel had been seized with ness until morning. All hends were turned out, as usual, at 5:30 In the morning, and fhe work of deck swabbing and other cleaning went on in the ordinary fashion. None of the men missed young Goebel until breakfast. Then the men and boys in his mess began to ask “Where's Willie?” for the youth was extremely popular among all hands. Then the word began to go around that there Was something rather mysterious going on aft In the sick bay, and that young Goebel was In a bad way from some cause or an- other. After breakfast the men gathered together in knots to smoke their pipes, as is customary before the day's work begins, It was not long before Dr. Hibbett. ap- peared at the top of the ward room ladder and said a few words in a low tone to the cficer of the deck, a young ensign. The deck officer scribbied a few words in the ship's log, which rested on a stand at the head of the ladder, and, when he had fin- ished and gone away, the marine orderly who stood at the commanding officer's door sidled over to the log desk and hastily read what had just been written by the officer of the deck. Then he sidled forward among the men for a minute and passed the word that young Goebel had just died of the cholera. The lad had probably swal- lowed a lot of salt water in swimming, and some cholera inicrobes along with It. Like Brave Men. In two minutes the word was al! over the ship. “Goebel’s dead in the sick bay - cholera,” uttered whisperingly, was heard from peak to mainmast. At first, none of the men believed the rumor, for the man- of-war canard Is a thing of hourly occur- rence. It seemed incredible. After awhile the apothecary appeared on deck on some hasty errand, and to the straight question, | “Is Goebel dead of cholera?” he declined to make any answer. Then all hands knew the story was true. The men looked at each other oddly, say- ing hardly anything. Whatever remarks they made were made In a low tone or in a whisper. They smoked their pipes and went about their business thoughtfully. The officers strolled up and down the quar- terdeck in pairs, not speaking to each oth- er, Surgeon Hibbett appeared on deck with a worn look on his face, and he and the navigator began to pace the deck together. After a while the apothecary came up forward among the enlisted men and circu- lated among them. He was asked no questions. Neither the officers aft nor the men forward showed the slightest inclina- ton or desire to keep out of the way of these two brave men who had spent the night in a fruitless battle with a terribly infectious disease, although it was con- sidered quite likely, even by these two men themselves, that they would be stricken with the cholera within a few hours, for they had been in close personal contact with the dead lad for twelve hours in a all room. Volunteers to carry a dead man’s body from the sick bay to the poop!” The boat- wain’s mate at the gangway passed this word. Every man within vas at the mast in a . Four men were picked out for the duty, and the re- mainder left the mast chapfallen. Cow- ardliness was not a characteristic of this ship's company, and the incident gave one food for thought as to how these men would have behaved under fire. Up Went the Yellow Fling. The four men who went to fetch the dead boy to the poop saw that his body had turned to a dark blue color. The sall- maker’s mate appeared on the poop and sewed the lad’s body up in a sheet dam- pened with antiseptics. This sailmaker’s mate had sewed many a dead sailorman up in his hammock, killed by yellow fever, to be heaved over the side in midsea, an4 he was used to the work. The signal quarter master broke out the yellow flag at the fore, and the Bennington was a ship of the dead. An undertaker came off from shore with a box, into which the dead boy’s body was placed and taken to the shore for burial. It should be said here that several months afterward the enlisted men. of the ship subscribed the money for a superb headstone which was placed over the ap- prentice’s grave. Photographs of this head- stone were sent to the boy’s relatives who live here in Washington. The hush that prevailed over the entire ship after the boy’s body had been taken to the shore was remarkable. Work was suspended for the day. Commander Pig- man had the men mustered, and made a short address to them, telling them what the symptoms of cholera were, and asking them to report unhesitatingly at the sick bay if they felt the slightest {llness. In all the crew there was but one man who showed the yellow after this little speech. This man was a Greek boiler-maker, who was shipped by the Bennington at Gib- raltar, and could hardly speak English. The commanding officer had no sooner fin- ished his address than this man began to grasp his stomach with ejaculations of fear. Dr. Hibbett took him in hand, and found that there was nothing whatever the matter with him except a too lively tm- agination. He was not spoken to by any of the men forward for months afterward. Looked Over Their Papers. There were any number cf the men who were ill from old fevers, nervousness that was not fear, or from other causes, but not a man of them went aft to the sick bay. They couldn't bear to excite suspicion as to their nerve. On this morning of August 31 there was not a man on the ship, fore or aft, who did not have every reason to ex- pect that he was to get the cholera and die of it, and the wonder is not great that the men talked in subdued tones and ap- peared to be engaged in a whole lot of thought. The officers, whose ward room quarters adjoined the sick bay, quietly got their papers together in little packets and smoked the while. The men under the fore- castle overhauled their @itty bags and boxes without any ostentation, throwing away the stuff they wouldn't care to have had their folks at home get hold of, and “stood by.” Their faces were studies, for it is so rare that man-of-warsmen engage in contemplation. It was no miracle that the cholera did not spread over the ship. It was simply the energetic precautions that were taken against it—the burning of everything in the sick bay and of all the paraphernalia any- where near the sick bay, and the thorough sulphur fumigation all parts of the ship received an hour after the dead boy’s body went over the side. But the Hawaiian gov- ernment kepi the Bennington in quarantine for months. The ship toured fruitlessly all through the Hawaiian Islands in an effort to get shore supplies. Kept at a Distance. At Lahaina, on Maui, when one of the ship's cutters put off for the beach to ne- gotiate for supplies, the cutter’s crew were met by a lot of Kanakas at the beach, with old muskets in their hands. These antag- onists appeared too trivial to be seriously attacked, so the cutter put back to the ship without any fresh supplies. The big cruiser Olympia, on her way to China, turned up in Honolulu harbor about a week after the Bennington had hoisted her yel- low flag. The surgeon of the Olympia was very nervous when he saw the flag, and he saw to it that the Olympia did not approach within three miles of the Bennington. The Olympia, for some reason or other, was short of coin with which to serve out monthly money to the crew, and, as the Bennington had plenty, negotiations for a loan were conducted by means of signals. The result was that the paymaster of the Bennington was instructed to have several thousand dollars in gold thoroughly boiled in copper kettles for a few hours, after which the money was conveyed to an empty cutter, left midway between the two warships, and picked up by an Olympia cutter’s crew after the Bennington boat's crew were well in the offing. ee A Lost Temperance Lesson. From the New York Weekly. Colonely Kaintuck (offering his flask to a stranger on railroad train)—“Have a swig, stranger?” Stranger (@ temperance advocate, with dignity)—“No, sir, I thank you.” “All right; got your own flask, I reckon. That's the best way, after all.” “Some years ago, when traveling in Alas- ka, I came across a tribe which had never known the taste of liquor”— “Eh? White men?” “No; savages.’ “Of course, of course—enough to make anybody savage.” ———_+e+____ ; Planning the Palace. From Pick-Me-Up. Mr. Parvie-New (to his architect)—“It's going to be a reckershy kind of a house; =| [MPERIAL HAIR RECENERAT No matter what t color or condition of your HAIR—streaky, BLEACHED or GRAY it can be made beautiful, glossy and mattral 1 ome appl cation Imperial Hair Regenerator. It ts clean, colorless, insting, dors atom of poisonous matter. Baths neither Surling nor crimp for the BEARD on account o durability. No. 1—Black. No. 2--Dark “Rrown. Ne. 8 —Mediam Brown. “© SreceMarn, ot contain an not affect it, No. 4 No. & Chostunt. Ast ad 50 and $3.00. Co., 202 Fifth « Ingtem, Ro by: PALAIS ROXAL, APPPLICATIONS MADE AT MARLBOROUGH PARLORS, 1110 G ST, NW. HE PLAYS WITH WORDs. He Got Into the Habit Long Ago and Can't Shake It Of. From the New York Sun, “I often amuse myself,” said a philolo- gist, “by trying to ascertain how many words I can make gut of the letters of any word that I may happen to think of and may use for experiment. Take, for exam- ple, a short word, such as. ‘rat,’ and you will at once notic2 that the letters of it give art, at, tar and, if you I'ke, tartar. There came to my mind last night the long word ‘comprehensive,’ and I suppose that nearly ~ hundred other words can be form- ed from the thirteen letters contained in it. The various words took shape very rapidly in my mind, and I seized a pen to jot them down. Here ts the sheet of paper. As you run through them I would like you to keep in your mind’s eye the word ‘com- prehensive,’ from which all of them are drawn: prehensive rpin hen mire pensive spine hope men prove sheen hone move prone forme home nip rose sense beep rip prim sieve hire snip prime shove him ripe pin or pins seven his rope pine some her rove repine sip cope vim spine sire cover vice peevish shire cove verse pare sheer cone vine pen simper come vela shop horse mop over ship hive mope ever sbeep Me even sin hire : nose sbin hem more open shine “Any one can carry on the experiment with this fertile word comprehensive as much further as he pleases. It ts no better word for the purpose than a thousand other words in the English language. “I got into the habit of practicing with words in this way when I was a boy, and i can’t get out of Tt often helps to put me to sleep at night, and it sometimes takes up my mind when I am walking in the strect or dining at my club or holding a conversation. It is a bothersome habit. When I was introduced the other day to a man named Wilson I set to work at once upon his name, out of which I got ‘win,’ ‘won,’ ‘sin, ‘son,’ ‘now,’ ‘sow,’ ‘soil,’ ‘no’ and ‘cn,’ and I also sought to justify my- self in geiting ‘wo,’ because the word ‘woe’ was often spelled that way in old times. “The habit bothers me in reading; for many a time I cannot help stopping to In- dulge in it. I stand ready to warn every person against falling into it; for I do not believe that any one who takes it up can cver sh.ke it off. That's my expert- ence. eis Perfectly Sound-Proof. From Puck. Realty Agent (exhibiting flat, beamingly) “lo prove to you that the walls are per- fectly sound-proof, I have just run over into the next flat and told the gentleman there to play the piano.” Mr. Flatleigh (wearily)—“Yes, my wife and I heard you telling him to play very softly.” The Stamp of Truth. From Judge. First Fellow Citizen—“I sce you god a bad code id your head. Led me teh you a sure cure for id. Juss ged a liddle asfoed- ity ad a little oil of tar, ad taig a spoodfuh ev’y ted midutes. Id wi cure you id haf a hour. Hoo-chee-koo! hoo-chee-koo! hoo- chee-hoo-chee-hoo-chee-koo!”" Fanny and Comm From the Boston Herald. A Chicago wit remarked to a New York critic: “I suppose there is nothing that amuses you more than, for instance, a Chi- cago man’s faith in Chicago. It is amusing,, of course; almost as funny as a New York- er’s pride in London, and really quite as commendable.” able. “And the Cat Came Back.” From the Chicago Post. The kindly old gentleman had been telling them a story, but the bad boy, after the manner of nis kind, had not been particu- larly attentive. “And after many years,” said the kindly old gentleman, “Enoch Arden returned to his home.” “Oho!” exclaimed the bad boy, suddenly waking up to the fact that something came “I never knew the name of that be- “Quick, wife; that young brat has swal- lowed a quart of my developer!”