Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1897, Page 10

10 THE EVENING Everybody Wants the Best THEIR MEANS WILL AFFORD. What you pay depends on where you buy. We Have Banished Dull Days By buying business with concessions in prices that mean money in your pocket. Our Midsummer Clearance Sale Is making big holes in our stock. But there yet remains a better assorted stock than you will find in any other store in this city. ‘Plenty of Rich, Ripe Plums, Ready for Your Picking. 9006000000 0OOOO0000 Straw Matting, per yard.. 10c. Baby Carriages « «$3.00 Decorated Dinner Sets.. $7.75 Dining Chairs, wood seat. 35c. Oak. Extension Tables. + $3.25 Box Couches, extra value $8.75 Oak Parlor Tables...... 39¢- Hall Stands.............$4.00 Oak Chamber Sets. ... . .$10.00 Oak Dining Chairs...... 70¢. Hair Mattresses (40 ‘be «$5.00 Parlor Suites, 5 pieces. .$14.00 Oak Perch Rockers - $1.49 Oak Sideboards..........$7.00 4-ft. Roll-top Desks. ....$18.00 Decorated Toilet Sets... .$1.75 Oak Wardrobes. - -$7.50 Oak Wardrobe Beds... .$25.00 CASH OR CREDIT. HOUSE & HERRMANN, Setegeteted % Sets eedontondeodeogeodeesgestonzenzengondeogeeengentoatontengegeotengeoteogeogeegecteeteotontententententeteogeotenteaseatestegedtearongesegenterseasensonzeageeatentoeseay Liberal Furnishers, ¢ & $ 7th and I Streets N. W. : Hiieseneesseonneeeennneeeenneesnnt SS speed eect teotn teens | ANOTHER CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH. The chances are that the next match for the championship of the District of Colum- bia will be played between Messrs. F. B. Walker, present champion, and W. A. Gwyer, jr. When the match between Messrs. Wright and Walker commenced, Mr. Gwyer openly and verbally challenged the winner. He was the first challenger and he claims the right now to play Mr. Walker. He states that when he played Captain O'Farrell a match, which was won by the captain, he did so for the purpose of practice, and not to decide who should first pay the winner of the Wright-Walker match. Captain O'Farrell is inclined to concede Mr. Gw: position in the mat- ter. Mr. Wal stands ready to play eithet of the parties, and prefers to play first the one who has heretofore shown most strength. About two years ago he defeated Mr. Gwyer In a match, Mr. Gwyer not tting a game. Mr. Gwyer now proposes to play sericus chess, such as he has not played for a long time, and that the result of previous “scrub” matches is no criterion of what will be the result of the present championship match. ‘The rules have not been agreed upon, but they will probably be the same in most particulars as prevailed in the Wright- alker match. Mr. Walker has suggested a modification, however, namely, that in cose one player wins five games before his opponent wins three, draws not counting, the winner of five games shall be winner of the match. Should both players win three Bames before either wins five, the match shall continue until one pla: but in case both players win six games, then it will be necessary for one player to } Win ten games. In case both players win nine games the match to be drawn. This is for the purpose of shortening the tch, should ft Be oneshien ann giv CATHOLIC HOUSE OF WORSHIP. busire of the cause The work hus already been commenced, and the trustees have chartered 1 steamer Jane Moseley, through the gene ity on most satisfactory terms for the first excursion, to take place Wednesday, August 25, which promises to | be one of the most enjoyable charitable ex- cursions of the season. It will be under the | patronage of Rey. Father John Gloyd of St. | Patrick's Church, Rev. Father D. J. Staf- | z | erally for the rapid promotion A Handsome Edt to Be Built at Colonial Beach. For com> time the Catholics of Colonial Beach have been endeavoring to get a | church of their own built at the Beach, | but owing te want of proper organization and the difficulty of communicating with the clergy in the matter nothing was done Unul the summer of 1806, when Dr. R. H. other challengers an opportunity to meet the winner. Mr. Gwyer has suggested that neither r play the me opening more than ein the match. This would serve to add ford of Church, Rey. Father ans of Washington donated a beautifu L Matthew's ‘Church, F interest to the match, while at the cel gait lie taria® accuniirieatisect Gillespie of St. Alo time it would work in’ favor of the own, at the corner of Westmore- Father Jas. F. Mackin of St. | having the greater familiarity w Necaniigtan: aceaGe aes Rev. Father J. C. Kent of | ¢penings. Such a rule is sometimes adopt- tress thie tai hotel This move Rev. Father Jas. M. | ed ina checker match and in chess mateh- See followed by his soe. Dee WW. I Peter's Church, Rev. Father | 8 where nothing of importance is at stake, ctive worker for the general a se Kervick of Hely Name Church, Rey. | but in a championship match it is doubt. ful if such a ru championship mate! the opening with which ars, who gave | Baines Ww. nefit of | Church, Rev i i oI ‘hurch St. Stephen's nian of Trin- eral musical in force. In player plays has greate: for several y st year for the b Through g Father W. J. and others. mi: he with th fica connate ‘ ve promised to attend, as also | familiarity, especially if he is behind. and cemparative nall sum, but with sub- ther Mackin’s drum corp: to prevent him from playing his favorite scriptio i a_ nucleus h. The church will be built in the Gothic | Opening and compelling him to choose some formed, . W. W. Evans d | style of architecture, of brick with rough | pening in which he is not thoroughly at autiful church, flustrated | stucco finish outside; forty feet front by | home might work very much against him. ing cut, wi is cost | sixty-five deep, with a handsome vestibule —— ates and sacristy. "The interior finish will be | But two games were played the past work more rapidly he has | plastere . with open-work celling fin- | Week in the summer tournament at the ety, known as the Colonial | ished in ofl. A number of donations have | Washington Chess Club, viz., O'Farrell won Chureh Asseciation, which } been given in the way of supplies sufficient | from Campbell ard Tuckér won from has elected three of its members trustees, | to run the coming excursion. Crofts. Mr. Campbell opened with a guioc. has el Piano, and resigned in thirty-five move: Capt. O'Far1 continues in second place, and is pushing Mr. Smith for first- -prize honors. It will be necessary for the lat- ter to keep up his string of victories in or- der to keep in first place. Mr, Tucker has by steady work improved his standing, and is now a tie with Finn and Ray for fifth place. The following is the present stand- ing of the playe Ev Edwards and Wm. | F. Kell who are to act as am executive committee, with full power to give excur. sions nd entertainments, to receive dona- tions and subscriptions and to transact the It is contemplated that the entire edifice will be completed by next spring, and the dedication take place some time in May, when the trustees will formally transfer the property to the proper diocese. along for some time, and found that the ag rope ve greater stability to the loon, but the action of the sun upon the s worked against me. The sun's heat Philadetp! It is not generally known that the a Record. drag rope, new So indispensable to balloonists, -d the gas, gave me a false buoy- | Smith . Tucker was first used by Aercnaut Samuel King of + picked up my seventy-five pounds of | O'Farrell . Crofts this city. “The idea of using such a | Tope, and severed my connection with the | Harris Campbell : SoS es : bie ground. After that I used the drag rope | Tibbetts Thomas says Professor King, “was first | Very frequently, and it was generally | Finn Prender . ted by the famous Green of Eng-! adopted by areonauts.” Ray He called it a guide rope, and he = The following interesting game was play- ed recently in the summer tournament at the Washington Chess Club: 4 one with him in a trip across the lish channel, but he never used it. wack in 1857 I was making captive at New Haven, Conn., and hav- Feeding a Pumpkin. From the Omaha Bee. , did you know that a pumpkin could , and made to grow to an enormous Opening—Queen’s Gambit Declined. ing finished that business decided to take asked a retired farmer of the Lim- | VM. y. avilneris, | wits 5 a short voyage to test the value of the | ner. 1 Past P | 21 O-B3. trailing rope. 1 had 150 pounds of rope in| “It’s a fact,” he continued. “I remember: 3 Ktcons Kt ens Gee my windlass, and on a certain day I ar-| one spring that my father was electea sec- | 3 Ky R_KtS Q' re ranged with my assistant to cut the rope | retary of a county agricultural society, and Re eee | 25 Pap at the windlass after I had got my balloon | he told me that he was going to offer a| Relng gute’, | 28 xB, in the air. and let me sail off. I ballasted } prize of $10 for the largest pumpkin exhib- | 8B-K KtxB: | 3544s my balloon so that only half the weizht of ited at the faii I determinea see = Oo RPxKt P-KBS | R—-Qseh the rope, or seventy-five pounds, should he teas Seen come het oneaos hone Qxiteh trail. [ got off all right, with my rope | Prize. and I did. eee | 32 GO Rthen twisting along under me like a snake. A| “How did I do it? By raising the biggest Pigns |g one score of misguided I. orers in a field, im- | pumpkin. of course. I sel eted a vine that Ba ining that the balloon had broken loose | looked unusually thrifty, and gave it extra PKs by accident, grabbed the and held me. | care until pumpkins had formed about as K Shae 6 PsP q Fat ee me, Some time to convince them } large as a base ball. Selecting one of these, | 13 J gt |S Guctsen ene that I didn’t want to be stopped. I sailed I began to feed it. Y feed it. I cut a r- B | 39 P—K7 Resigns. ~ ree —__] Sash in the stem, and run a soft cotton ea Pe \ > “| rag through it. Then I covered the place ——+ with wax: Every night T set a pan of milk His Diagnosis. on each side of the stem, and put an end of | ,, long my throat was | the rag in each pan. That pumplein would | Pm the Detroit Free Press. drink up that milk faster than a pig. It would absorb from a quart to three pints every night, and it began to swell at an Doctor—“Are you wealthy enough, mad- am, to spend the summer in the upper lake fillea with sores, large lumps formed on my BEFORE peck, and a horrible regions?” . enormous rate. When the fair opened I “ z ulcer broke out om ms | joaded that pumpkin into a wagon by the = ‘We have a very small income, Jaw,—says Mr. ©. H. Elbert, who resides | aid of a derrick. It weighed 308 pounds— |“ D “0 at Tia Eighteenth st. Galveston, Texas. | 1 mean the pumpkin, not the derrick—-and | ,,Voctor—“On closer examination I find He was three times pronounced cured | took it down to Agricultur: that yours is not a case of hay fever, out by prominent physicians, but the dread- | course, I got the $10.” al Hall. Of | only a bad cold in the head.” ful disease always returned; he was then “I have often wondered how many pies rae “Ets told that | that would have made. Estimating 33 per A Mild Hint. was the | cent waste, punere were about 202 pounds of | From Life. ly cure. | Pie material, and at 5 1-3 ounces to the pie, my v Cu ae | vuek would «ok Pi eco ermneire any new songs to had aii | But the Limner was too busy to hear the i “Give me something old, then.” rest. He was figuring on feeding a water. - Mshing the | She broke into a refrain that was “ fallen it. and he after taking one bottle af 8c Suen, | melon on port wine and astonishing- the After taking one bottle of S. S$. S. he began dal fatquere andl ted world. sane of the day” some seventeen years be- + and two gees ‘ore. dozen bottles cured Better St “That's very, very old, Mamie,” he said, Bim completely, so viacaibone with a sigh. that for mere than six years he has had no sign of the “Yes, George, I sang that to you the “Mr. N. Yorke—“F* tell you, these horse- night we became engaged.” less carriages are a great institution.” SSS disease. “| Mr. Brooke Lynn—“Oh! I don't know; a they're not so great. A mauless peram- ihe Sete pastas ngs bulator would be greater.” Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate, Drs. New La., 3 oe ee ed ne”, it in diseases of the male organs of gen- ion, gemeral debility and pulmonary diseases.” Sree If you want anything, try an ad. in The Star. If anybody has what you wish, you will get an answer. Book on the disease and its treatment mailed tree by Swift Specific Co.. Atlanta, Ga. uteteivtrteditedeiteetrdrtathdededbdrehetidghdnpatgtndnhatn nan dangnmntnsgndntntn ISRAELITE. CONGRESS | $exr*risorrrerereesoeseosonasgoreesoowesesoeesosoegsons An Important Gathering at Munich Next ;Wéek. eg EMINENT REPRESENTATIVES 10 APTEND t Leading Question “is a Jewish State: in ‘Palestine. SOME AMERICAN OPINIONS eee Written for The Evening Star. Among the more important events now on tapis is the Jewish congress, which will convene on Wednesday, the 25th instant, in Munich, Germany. For some months past a number of brcchures and pamphlets have been circulated in Germany, England, France, Austria, the United States, Asia and Africa, in which it is ardently urgca that the Jewish people re-establish Pales- tine as a Jewish state, as the most feasi- ble panacea for relieving them of the hatred, animosity and anti-semitic move- ments propagated some fifteen years since by the Court Chaplain Stocker of Berlin, subsequently espoused by Popodiestnatzeff, the Russian minister of religion cults at St. Petersburg, and followed by Mons. Drummond of Paris, and now raging at Vienna, where Lueger, the mayor of that city, is the most vehement persecutor in that empire. Foremost among the litera- teurs who have addressed themselves to the Jewish people in behalf of the new move are Dr. Theodor Hezzle, Dr. Ludwig Ernst of Vienna and Dr. Max Nordau of Paris, all of whom have formulated plans for the approaching congress and the dis cussion of the several important topics to be brought before it. These literateurs have labored for some time past in securing a concensus of opinion regarding the anozn- alous status of the Jews in Europe, elicit- ing replies not only from prominent Jews in Europe, but those of eminent statesme who are of a different persuasion. Amoag leading gentlemen who have ified an intention to participate and act as an execu- tive committee are Herr W. Hirsch Hiddlesheimer of Berlin, D. heimer of Cologne and Oscar Strauss, minister to the Ottoman empire, of Ne York, and others. The leading promoters are Drs. Herzy, Ernst and Nordau. The program thus far announced com- prises the following topics for diScussion ane enactment: 1. The position of all Jews in the coun- tries wherein they reside. Reports from the inany colonies and tiecir_ movements. 3. The “Chaluka” charitable funds, and how they are distributed. 4. The emigration question, and how it affects the United States. . Subscription funds, agitation plans, The Jewish question as it will be pre- senied to the diplematic congress before the great powers. The feasibility of acquiring a title to the province of Palestine“and a part of Ss ria for colonial purposes and political au: tonomy, ete It ts intimated that this congress may re- quire from a week ‘to ter days’ delibera- tien. It is likewise stated that able stat men, other than Jews, will advance argu- ments and plans for solving the Jewish question. Baron Edmond de Rothschild’s Offer. From private correspondence through a confidgntial attache of the Paris home the writer is informed that Baron Edmond de Rothschild has recently Offered to the Sul- tan of Turkey the sum of $50,000,000 (Amer- ican gold) for the purchase of the province of Palestine, but on the ‘condition that re- gal prerogatives accompany the transfer to him, and that the province shall still r main under a quast-suzereignty and. pro- tection of the Ottoman empire. That this offer has really been made {s borne out by many facts and circumstances relating thereto. It may rot be generally know that for more than fifteen years Baron de Rothschild has established some twenty- one colonies, equipping the emigrants with houses, implement: hools, ete. He has already expended over $1,000,000. ‘These colonies are in successful opera- tion in the districts of Galilee and the mountains of Judah. He hz liberally endowed each colonist, Men, women and children, with a monthly stipend of twelve francs, until such time when the cclony in ich they are domiciled shall become self-sustaining. The census recent- ly completed shows that upward of 50,000 Russian, Galicians and Austrian Jews have been domiciled, and the colonies nearly all report marked success in reclaiming the lands tilled and a lucrative result from the products raised. A section of the Paris world’s fair in 1900 has been set aside for a grand exhibit of the Palestinian colonies. Among the great promoters, other than de Rothschilds, are the “Chovovei Zion” Sccie- ty of England (brethren of Zion), and the “Alliance Israelite Universelle” of Pari This latter institution has for thirty yea past been the recipient of donations, bi queathments and subsidies from the Israe! ites in all countries for the aid and main- tenance of the Jews in Jerusalem. It has various funds for distribution throughout Palestine, notably for hospitals, colonial schools, agricultural cclleges and many oth er philanthropic institutions These funds are apportioned in Jerusalem between two cults of Jews, namely, the Ashkenasim (German) and the Sephardim (including the Spanish, French and Balkan provinc Jews). The British society has been an ex tensive donor to emigrants who are domi- ciled as colonists in Palestine. Both socf- eties are putting forth strenuous efforts to encourage the Russian, Galician and Aus- tro-Hungarian Jews to settle in the prov- ince of Palestine as agriculturists and arti- sens. The Russian empire has yet some 5,000,000 The government has them, forcing them into Di and otherwise restricting them in all walks of life. Their existence there has well night incapacitated them from main- taining themselves; only smali percentages of their people can enter the schools, col- leges and universities, notwithstanding that they pay the most exhorbitant taxes and revenues, besides being required to furnish the utmost contingent of recruits for the army and navy, with no opportunities to the higher grades in army or naval service. Their position is almost ixtolerable. Thousands of families are periodically de- spoiled, their houses burnt and robbed by the slaves. They get no relief from the authorities, and reclamations are out cf the question in this Christian realm, except through bribery and corruption. In many instances it has been shown that the gov ernors and subordinate officers of the czar have participated in these spoils. Nor have the influence of the'Ginsburgs and Poliz. korns of St. Petersburg been able to avert the evil edicts of Papadlestnoseff. The Three Jewish Cults. The three Jewish-cults which are now existant may be described as follows: The first may be designated. as the orthodox faction. Their ideas.center yet in the old regime of biblical and talmudic dogmas and belief. They are @évout believers in the laws and historicat’ data as given in the Pentateuch (five books of Moses), the written laws as given to/Moses by Jehovah on Mount Sinai. It-is their lex scripta. They likewise recognize-the Mishua with talmudic interpretatipns, being the unwr!t- ten laws, or lex non-scripta, compiled be- tween the third century’ before the Chris- tian era until the close 6f the Jewish can- ons in the ninth centuny C. E. The lat- ter comprises the minor jaws and statutes, which serves as a cadex for adjudicating all causes that were brought before the synhedrions in Babylon and Jerusalem. Until recently the Russian government has permitted the Jews to exercise its judicial functions with this ancient usage, except in capital offenses, when the accused were brought before the civil or military au- thorities of the proyinces. The Jews of Russia have been by far the better edn- cated people, inasmuch that from infancy they are taught the Hebrew, beside the Slavic languages of the country. The smallest communities have their beth hamidrash (house of learning), wherein they impart the science of the law and the talmud is expounded in all its spheres. Aside from these they have their beth dir (house of justice). All civil causes are brought before the rabbis, who are author- ized to swear witnesses, try the causes between contending agit and render judgments. They still devoutly believe that a Meshiach will some day rule in Pal- of J has made the eye his life stud sults. examination of the reveal the defects. can be counteracted. comfort a; will give you ey Neatordondoncontprpontooercet settee ten otiotcon cote tees estine over Israel, a sort of heavenly mes senger from Jehovah—a political regent. Chey are today a relic of the ancien race, with no élements for the world’ progress of the nincteenth century. Next follows the conservative Jews. In many of the ealizhtened countries of Eu- rope, notably in the German empire,France, Austria and England, large Jewish com- munities have emancipated themselves from the extreme dogmas of the oriental Jews, and have materially abrogated formulisms of the past ages. They adhere. however, to the rev codes of marital and sanitary injvnctions. The however, adhere to the Palestinian recon- struction theory, but desire to observe more particularly the ethical principies ot Judaism, which is comprised in the idea of a belief in a supreme Leing, the Ife here- after, exercising benevolence and charity, and become citizens in all countries where they are domiciled. Thcy worship yet with covered heads and the talith, but inter- sperse their ritualistic formulas and pray ers with Hebrew and the language of the country in which they are denizens. The thir.. cult are the reformed Israetites and comprise the more educated and in- telligent Jews in all countries. They are not imbued with the sentiment that the biblical record was dictated to Moses by Jehovah, but that it was the work of Ezra, the Jewish Babylonian exile, who collecte; all the legends and data relating to his people, and which laws served them through the two historical statehoods with all its levitical and priestly institution: Reformed Judaism is, however, imbued with the prophets in Israel—religious for- mulisms are to a large extent abrogat They do not share the opinion for the re- establishment of a messianic period in the holy land with the other Jewish cults. Re- formed Judaism 4 : itual religion, onc monatheism. They have within the past thirty years introduced many marked in- novation in their rituals, which are in con- formity with modern civiliza services are with the highe ent. Their ratbis and from pulpits with eloquent and appropriate sermons. They are generally the prime movers in eli prominent beaevolent and philanthropic institutions in all count supporting them with the most lavish con: tribution Opinions Divided. Opinions of leading Jews are divided on the organization of a Jewish state in Pales- tine. Some of the aoted Jews in the west- ern and northern states have enunciated their opinions both for and against such a project. Dr. B. Felsonihal of Chicago, rabbi eme- fitus of Zion Congrezation, says: “I am hopeful of the results to be attained of the iunich congress and that the Jewish ques- icn may be satisfactorily solved in the hear future. is some reason that the Jews of R Austria, Germany and Danubian principalities should be saved from the pernicious anti-semitic attacks. i believe thai colonizing them in Palestine and Syria, which latter section has fertile soil, would give ‘hom a hcme and an asy- jum ever if they do not establish » king- dom for themselv-s. domiciliation in that country is by far the mo: and practicable. Coming to this country would entail an extensive and costly voy age. The Mohamedan people are not suca enti-semitics as the Christian governments of Eurepe, a better autonomy awaits thera there, and they could till the soil with profit to themse! and the Ottoman em- pire. Mr. I. Zanwill, the novelist of London, who has just returned from a journey to Palestine, said before the “Maccabee So- ciety” of his city: “I do not think that the barren and rock-laden country of Israel's fcrmer home could maintain a large influx of colonists comprising several millio! Nor do I believe that a Jewish state could be erected witiout insurmountable diffi- culties. There ace some sections which may be tilled aad give employment to peo- ple in a limited sense.” Among scientisis who have knowledge through geological and meteorological sources is the writer of this article. The nature and condition of the Palestine of today is far from the status it occupied during biblical times. It was Gescribed then as a land wherein “milk and honey” flowed spontaneusly. At best it is now only a terrane, harboring some ncmadic races. The isothermal lines sine the past 3,500 years have materially chang- ed. The once extensive forests that cov- ered Palestine have been razed, voleanic erupticns and the tillering cataclysms that have produced yawning abysses and dykes show now the primitive eosin rock forma- ticns. Their slow disintegration by the ele- ments offers no inducement .o the yeoman or husbandman. And yet some of the val- leys and sections near the waterways are redeemed and certain Asiatic products give cxcellent results. The Jews of the United States are not prone to emigrate to Palestine or Syria, and in a general sense are averse to the es- tablishing of a Jewish state anywhere. They look, however, forward to the delib- eration which the congress at Munich may evolve. JULIUS SILVERSMITH, M. A. ——— es Value of Waste Articles. From The Outlook. The peopie of Belgium evidently believe in training their children in habits of economy. Possibly no better method of convincing the young folks of the wisdom of looking after small things could have been found than that resorted to in the public schools of Brussels. Some time ago the children were re- quested by their teachers to gather up all the waste and apparently useless articles that they could find on their way to and from school and to deliver them to their respective teachers. For eight months the work of collection went on. Such objects as tin-foil, tin cans, paint tubes, bottle capsules and refuse metal were especially looked after. The re- sult was astonishing. Nineteen hundred and twenty-five pounds of tin foil rewarded the children’s .efforts, together with 1,200 pounds of metal scraps, 4,400 pounds of bottle capsules and old paint tubes that, in the aggregate. weighed 220 pounds. But it was when the articles were dis- posed of and the money applied to useful objects that the full force of this,economy was manifest. The proceeds completely clcthed 500 poor children, and sent 90 in- valid children to recuperation colonies, and there was a goodly balance left to be dis- tributed among the sick pcor of the city. —__-o- —___ It matters little what it is that you want swhether a situation or a servant—a “want” ad. in The Star will reach the person who can fill your need. Our Dr. F. Proctor Donahay is a skilled optician—who about his methods—no failures or dissatisfactions in his re- He can and will tell you what your eye trouble is— and-tell you how he will rectify it. patient's e His knowledge tells him how these defects Let him examine your eyes free. Let him fit glasses that gain. Small charges for the glasses, and we let you pay the bill a little at a time. Credit is the base of our business. If you have an oculist’s prescription take it to any opti- cian and get his price for filling we'll cut that price exactly in half. Castelberg’s Nat’l ae oe Co., Scicnce vee Guessworkl! G/vomherad, : No guesswork or jobbery He makes an exhaustive yes—an examination that will it—then come to us and + Star office, House, 108 THE ARMY OF GOLD SEEKERS. More Than Five Thousand Have Sa ed From San Francisco. San Francisco Examiner. nger Itsts of the steamers that have sailéd from American ports show that no less than persons have left en route to the gold fields of Alaska, and a conservative estimate places the number who have gone to Vancouver and British | Columbia at 2,00 or more. Of the f from our ports at least 1,50) were from San Francisco and 484 from interior towns. As the rush shows no signs of abate ment as yet, the chances are that more than 15,000 people will have set out for Alaska before the Klondike fever subsid. The rush began from Seattle on July when the Mexico sailed with 400 passe gers, and two days later the crush began at San Francisco, when the steamer State of Calitornia sailed with 447 passengers on board. From that day on every steamer leaving this city, Seattle or any of the Puget sound ports has been crowded to its utmost capacity. The compiete list of steamers, with the port they sailed from and the number of Passengers they carried, Is as follow Passengers. 100 it. Michael For the most part people from the east have gone direct to Seattle and taken p: sage from there. Every pound of the provisions required to sustain this army of prospectors must be taken into Alaska either by steamer via St. Michaels or packed over Chilesot cr White's pass. With not less than 7,500 per- sons now en route and with every prospect that at least as many more will follow, the question of food supply is a serious prob- lem. According to a very conservative esti- mate furnished by Thomas Cook, each pros- pector will require at least 1,310 pounds of food to sustain him through the winter. With Mr. Cook's estimate as a basis, the “0 miners now on their way to the Klon- dike will require not less than 9.82544) pounds of provisions to last them through the winter. As the extra clothing, blan- kets, furs, mining tools and cooking uten- sils of this army should include an outfit weighing not less than 24) pounds to a man, not less than 11-2 million pounds of freight must be transported into the Klon- dike to provide tools and comfortable cloth- ing for the newcomers. This amount added to the provisions makes 11,325,000 pounds of freight that should be distributed along the Yukon river to provide sustenance to the hungry army of prospectors who hope to reach the new Eldorado before winter. Of the steamers in the above list the | Portland, Cleveland, celsior and Ber carrying in all but gone by St. Michaels, | be delivered by the river route, the other 7.191 having gone via Juneau and Dyea. How they willtransport 9,420,210 pounds of provisions and 1, ™) pounds of miners’ outfit over the passes is a problem that many are now trying to solve. Britons Will Be Vegetarians. From the San Francisco Call. English observers are noting the growing tendency of the people cf che United King- dom to favor a vegetable diet. Several causes contribute to this dietary change, the principal one being the greater abund- ance cf vegetables in the English markets since the British farmer has found it un- profitable to raise cereal crops. The Eng- lish people, finding the supply of vegetables steady and cheap, are patronizing them more and more, especially as medical men are encouraging their use. The discussion of the subject has developed the curious fact that cheap wheat does not increase the consumption of that cereal. Beerbohm’s says: “Statisticians would wish us to be lieve that cheap bread encouraged a larger consumption, but absolute facts are diamet- rically opposed to thi If this observa- tion is correct it will be generally assumed that the fact is due to the creater use of vegetables, but it is more than provabie that the price of bread has never been too dear in recent modern times to deter the average workingman from consuming all he cared tor. Therefore, if consumption is not now relatively as great as it was a few years ago it may be fairly assumed it is be- cause great numbers of people are unable to buy bread even at the present low prices.” +o Bullets Deflected by Electricity. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. In Switzerland recently conducted exper- iments show that the course of bullets may be deficcted by electric wires. Four wires were strung parallel to and 125 feet away from the line of fire at the range near Thun. At intervals of thirty feet the course of the bullet was marked by paper Screens. A current of 8,000 volts caused a deflection of seventy-five feet from the course, and toward the wires at a distance of 275 yards. A Japanese rifle threw a slender bullet that went straight for the wires and followed their course in close contact until its energy was spent in fric- tion. Even cannon balls were affected by the current. At the Edge of the Crowd. First Citizen—“What is the matter?” Secrnd Citizen—“They say there's a man nearly suffocated.” First Citizen—“How did it happen?” Second Citizen—“He got wedged in the crowd trying to find out what was the matter.” == “‘the dependable store.”’ 924-126-028 Tih 76 K Ste. Monday’s — values are strong ones, And those printed below are but a few of those which can be had. It has never been and never will be the practice of “the dependable store” to offer “baits"—in one way. or another. What we advertise is here and plenty of it—so that you never have the occasion to be dis- appointed. Those are the methods of some other stores who are too short- sighted to realize that there is a future and that you will not con- tinue your patronage when not treated square But even “the dependable store” has faults, and we're trying to cor- rect them as they appear, and we do. We mean that satisfaction shall go with every sale, and if it doesn’t we're very much pleased to return your money. This store is spreading out more rapidly than you ever thought it would. The two new departments —shoes and houseiurnishings—are almost ready—and the near future will see a greater expanding thas ever. In the meantime we shall try to merit your patronage—by deserving it. And remember, when we ask your attention we have something to tell you worth listening to. Such is the case today. Domestics “cut.” 28) pieces of C1 Apron Gingham the most desirable patterns will be put on sale Monday at 2%e. yard. Yard-wide cotton--which ts the same as * * to be offered for a day at 534c. yard. uarter “Mohawk” ed for a day at 12%4c. yard. Bi-inch feather-proof Ucking to go for @ sheeting shall be of- day at 9c. yard. Yard-wide Dian ud EA * eamibric, wh ts usually sold for 1% fered Monday at 6ec. yard a yard—shall be annel, which usually sells a day at by 90-in fon wid 50c. each. cgi Utica’ a sheets full width— 43c. each. by 36-inc for hemstitched pillow cases to 934c. each. store, Special silk sale. We are showing all the novelties in silks as fast as they are put on the mark We are quoting some low- ered prices on silks in stock which we think prudent to close out rather than carry over. We have priced the newcomers very low to start the season—and the prices on the others are ridiculously low. Black Paill usnally fered for Fo K st Mack, wt d—shall be ich is Satin that quality with thigh dwWeight—which wells regular: nto be offered for 39 cents. k brocaded gros grain sitk luster ly for Soe. 24-inch in large and sm allerns waists w suits—the usual The. sert to go for 623, cents. QP k cres g1 silk wi wear Ad for S8e. ywi to go for Black taffeta silk good weight for skirts and lining for suits—reduced to 49 cents. h Mack satin daches splendid weight for skirts high lester has 224nch Mack brocaded satin De the very newest effect—to go for 89 cents. Zth st. store. Specials in bik. goods. If you want satisfaction in black goods buying come here. We are very particular what we buy so that you get only the dependable quali- ties. We studiously fight shy of any- thing which will not give elegant service, and as the result of such a policy we have a splendid black goods business. Black all. which will ol serges—fine inj e much more short 25 cents. 45-inch figured mohair in the newest de- signs to go fe 39 cents. 46-inch all-wool double-tw! serge—the best material for suits 48 cents. Black Irish Poplin, the new cord, and one Of the latest dress materials—to go for 79c. yard. 7th st. store. Specials in linings. Yard-wide French percaline in “Nubian Fast Black” and colors—the usual Uc. qual- ity—to go Monday at ported atufts y—to go Imperial to ge for Yard-wide twilled French silesia in black and colors—the usual $c. quality—to go Monday at 534c. yard. 16-1n. French haireloth in black and gray —the usual 2%. quality—to go Monday at 2ic. yard. Swldsmberge. 924-926-928 7th—706 K Sts.