Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1897, Page 11

margia of profit. Jackson Bros. must have room! ANTIQUE DINING CHAIR—high back— very handsome. Our former price, $1.25. Now.. Fall purchases are arriving and crowding us out. Our stores are almost completely blocked! Room must be purchased at any some of the stock. . SOLID OAK CHIFFONIER—handsomely S 3 89 $5.50. Now...... F - ENAMEL IRON BED—best quality—brass $2 (0) 8 trimmings—all sizes..........---.-. 220. -ceeee ° eled plate glass mirror. $10.00 SIDEBOARD—solid oak, magnifi- $6 9 | 5 ° 79c. price! Desperate price cutting has been resorted to to get rid of made—5 drawers. Our regular low price was $1000 HALL RACK—solid oak—with bev- $5 O08 ° Ceqfly ade. oJ sooo aeons anaes rificed at far less than cost. COSTUMERS—regular price, 75c......... All Baby Carriages, Ice Boxes and Refrigerators will be sac- AVc. Great Cash Jackson Bros. rucdits Site. 919-921 Seventh St. N. W. a ANOTHER MATCH ARRANGED ‘A match for the chess championship of the District ef Columbia has been arranged between Messrs. F. B. Walker, present champion, and W. A. Gwyer, jr. The match will be under practically the same rules as prevailed in the Wright-Walker match. The player who first wins seven games shall be the victor, unless the score should stand six each, in which case the match will continue until one player wins ten. Draws do not count. The time limit is twenty moves to the hour. One game will be played each week, usually on Saturday evenings. The loser also agrees to pre- sent the winner of the match a suitable memento, in this case the Book of the Hastings Tourney. Mr. Gwyer is much interested in the match and is anxious for the fray. He Proposes to play the best chess of which he is capable, and being a player of con- siderable depth, some excellent games are z2nticipated, as the present champion will put forth every effort to retain the title. Both these players have had considerable experience in both schools of play, viz., the open and the close game, and it would not be surprising if their games were va- ried and interesting. Mr. Gwyer is given to making sacrifices, and some of his com- Pinations are quite brilliant. Mr. Walker, Soweve shown himself thus far to We the sounder, more accurate player. » championship of the District the secretary of the Washing- ton Chess Club has received a communi tion from Mr. F. M. Wright, now in San Fra stating that he desires to re- sign the champiorship in favor of Mr. Walker, with whom he had an unfinished muatch fer the title. Wren the match between Walker and Gwyer is completed there will be several Blayers ready to try conclusions with the winner. The rames of Messrs. P. O'Farrell and L. Tharp have already been mentioned as challengers. Im additfon to them there a&re several othérs who would like to try corelusions with the District champion should time permit. Among these are H. Gray Douglas, who is a bréiliant player, but who loses many games by rash vel tures. Mr. J. W. Harris of Alexandria Would like to play a match with the Dis- trict champion. Virginians were much in evidence at the Washington Chess Club the past week. Mr. Pendleton of’ Staunton made things lively for several of the players, among them Capt. O'Farrell, and a player from Petersburg was also invincible. He poses as the state champion, and was provoked at losing two games to Mr. Finn, though hhe won the majority of the games Mr. Smith is still in the lead in the sum- ™mer tournament at the Washington Chess Ciub. He won his sixth game on Wednes- day evening from Mr. Tucker. The open- ing was irregular, and Mr. Tucker made a strong fight, but was outplayed in the end- ing, and resigned after fifty moves. Mr. Smith has but three games to play, viz., with Thomas, Prender and Campbell, and looks like a sure winner of first prize. Capt. O'Farrell seems to be sure of second place. He has yet to play Finn and Pren- der. Mr. Harris has but one game to play, and Is sure of third prize. In addition to the game played between Smith and Tucker, mentioned above, Har- ris defeated Tibbetts in a French defense in eighty-nine moves, and Thomas won a king's gambit declined from Prender in thirty-two moves. ‘The following is the present standing of the players. Won. Lost Won. Lost Smith ......... Gi {Tucker . 34 O'Farrell ..... 6 1%4/Crofts 3 6 Harris... -7 2 |Thomas 2 5 Tibbetts . 5 4 |Campbell - 1% 5% Finn . - 3% 316 Prender o 5 Ray .. 3. 3} The euxiliary tournament of the Pills- bury National Correspondence Chess As- sociation will start next month. The win- ners will have the right to challenge the champions of their respective districts, which is now being played for in a tourney in which there are 110 contestants. All of the United States who are are eligible to take part in these The headquarters of the asso- at 7332 Harvard avenue, Chicago, residents members tourneys. ciation is The tie between Lipschutz, representing the Manhattan Chess Club, and Steinitz, Tepresenting the Staten Island Chess Clu6, fer the valuable Staats-Zeitung cup, has not been decided, owing to a misunder- standing as to the terms under which the tle was to ke played off. The Manhattan Club insisted that the first game would decide the matter, in case one of the play- ers won, as indicated in a letter from the secretary of the New York State As- sociation, while the Staten Island Club in- sisted that it should be the best out of three games, according to the directions of the executive board of the association. The executive board will have to pass on the matter. The Berlin master’s international tour- nament will commence September 13. There will be eight prizes, ranging from 2,000 down to 200 marks. ‘The entries closed on Thursday last. The Washington Chess Club has won its match by correspencence with the North- west Chess Club of «Philadelphia, having won both games of the match. This result is mostly due to the splendid playing of Mr. S. C. Dunham, now on his way to the Klondike gold fields. One game was fin- ished some time ago, Mr. Dunham_an- nouncing mate in eleven moves. The Phil- adelphians have just resigned the second game, after forty-nine moves had been made. It was only a question of time when one of the pawns would be queened. The game after the forty-fourth move was in charge of the secretary of the Washing- ton club. Opening—P—24. Philadelphia. Washington. wi Black. Philadelphia. Washington. White. Bla hite, P-KKtt pees 150 Resigns. Suggestion for Seorchers. The friction of the running parts of a bicycle has nuw been so far reduced by inventions and careful construction that the obstacle which prevents riders from attaining very high speeds is simply the resistance of the air, remarks the Hart- ford Courant. The force which now pro- pels a man thirty miles an hour would move him 300 miles in the same time in a vacuum. Nine-tenths of his exertions are consurred in cvercoming the resistance of the air. A rider at Leadville, where the air is highly-carified, ought to be able to make much better time than one at the level of the sea, and doubtless would be able to do so were it not for the fact that he takes so much less oxygen into his lengs at each breath that his power of vigorous muscular exertion is lessened as much as or more than the resistance to his rapid motion is decreased. A rider with a long, pointed head ought, other things being equal, to outstrip one with a wide, flat head, just as a boat with a sharp prow moves more easily through the water than one with a broad, round bow. Sharp features ought to be an ad- vantage to a scorcher, and a tall, stiff, pointed cap might lessen the mile time several seconds. This last, by the way, would be an eppropriat» headgear for those who make a practice of wheeling at a rapid rate in the streets of a city. ———_-+ 02+ —__—_ “Go to Baltimore via Penna. R. R. Sun- day, Aug. 29. Tickets good on all trains, $1 round trip.”—Advt. “Want” ads. in The Star pay because they bring answers. = = eels Snapping PO Continuation of Dispute Over Registering the Steamship China. ‘A DELIGHTFUL - CLIMATE ‘Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, August 14, 1897. * Hawali’s attitude now is that of pro- longed suspense, awaiting such decree as the American Senate shall make for us at the winter session. Not but that a general feeling of expectation prevails that, with no very prolonged delay, your decision will be to annex us. Business and political cal- culations here are largely influenced by such expectation. Even the redoubtable Don Caesar Celso Moreno, so long in Wash- ington an exile from these balmy shores, is pluming his pinions for flight hither, to put himself at the head of native voters and run for office. He exhorts his former protege, Bob Wilcox, to have all the natives fall into line, register and vote. Evidently the don discerns a grand political opening, such as is by no means to be neglected by @ prince of carpet-baggers like himself, who cnce captured Kalakaua, and only failed to capture also the business com- munity, whose force and value he under- rated, and whom he undiscriminatingly re- viled as “missionaries.” They rallied and fired him out of the country, for which he has not loved them ever since. Our expectations find nutriment in the evident purpose of ‘your government to protect us from -foreign molestation, as freshly evinced by the arrival this week of Admiral Miller to take charge of the United States naval forces in this harbor. ‘These consist of the cruiser Philadelphia and the gunboat Marion. Until this week the Japanese naval force was fully an equal one. The training ship Hi-yei has now gone her ways, leaving the Naniwa alone to sustain Japanese influence. The armament of the latter ship is heavier than that of the Philadelphia, which has nothing larger than her eight six-inch guns. Undoubtedly Japan could easily make a much more formidable naval de- monstration here than could Uncle Sam at the present time, so far as numbers of ships and guns are concerned. As to the force of manhood behind the guns, any vaunting is not in place in this letter. Nor are we yet prepared to believe that th. energy of Japan's protests against an- nexation is to be taken as altogether in earnest. H. B. M. gunboat Penguin has also just sailed for Fanning I., and probably in Sydney, contrary to her expectation in coming here. She had been here taking a rest from an extended series of deep-sea soundings for the route of the intended cable between Vancouver and Sydney. Our latest advices are that the laying of that cable has been indefinitely postponed. In consequence, the Penguin will probably be withdrawn from her present task. While desirous to see actively forwarded all cabie enterprises in this ocean, we are less con-, cerned for this cable, which it was proposed to lay direct from Vancouver to Fanning I. without calling at any part of our group, because no islet could be surrendered by us for exclusive British control, the United States declining to consent thereto. Indeed the competition of such a cable across the Pacific might seriously delay a cable direct from California here, by derogating from its profits. There must, however, soon be income enough to support more than one line crossing the Pacific. The most paying line must be one direct to Asia. a The Disput® Over Palmyra. In this connection may come in the dis- cvssion about Fanning’s neighbor, Palmyra I., which is taken possession of by Eng- land, but probably belongs to. Hawali, and in the event of annexation will therefore belong to the United States. In 1889, Com- mander Nichuls of H. B. M. 8. Carmorant, finding it unoccupied, formally annexed it to Great Britain. He was probably una- ware of a proclamation made in 1862 by the King of Hawaii, through his minister of the interior, Lot Kamehameha, in the. fol- lowing terms: “Whereas, on the 15th day of April, 1862, Palmyra Island, in lat. 5 deg. 50 min. N. and long. 161 deg. 53. min. W., was taken Possession of with the usual formalities by Capt. Zenas Bent, he being duly authorized te do so in the name of Kamehameha IV, King of the Hawaiian Islands, “Therefore, This is to give notice that the said island so taken possession of is hence- forth to be cons:dered and respected as part of the domain of the King of the Hawaiian Islands. (Signed) L. KAMEHAMEHA, “Minster of the Interio “Department of Interior, June 18, 1862. The island was at that time held in own- ership by citizens of Hawaii, one, at least, of whom still resides here. Its value.was {then in the guana covering its surface, which the owners removed, leaving the island after planting cocoanut trees, wihch are still flourishing. Palmyra is’ rather a circle of islets upon a reef than a single island, after a common fashion of the coral atolls. It may also very properly be con- sidered one of what is really a group of islands, havirg a remarkable coincidence in relative position and arrangement with the Hawaiian group, although they bear no name as a group. Almost exactly south of the Hawalian Islands, and eighteen de- grees distant, or about 1,200 miles, just’ north of the equator, are five equi-distant coral atolls, of which Palmyra is one, form- ing a chain, almost precisely alike, in length and direction, to the Hawatian group. They are Christmas, Fannings, Washingtcn and Palmyra Islands, with an extensive reef beyond them. Only the former three are now inhabited, and that by Polynesian laborers and their managers employed in gathering copra or dried cocoa- nut meat. The are indisputably British territory. Hawa’ Claims, According to the foregoing document, now preserved in the Hawaiian archives, Hawali has an indefeasible prior claim to Palmyra I, to which the United States will fall heir. It certainly seems to have @ possibility of value, as lying midway between Honolulu and the valuable Ameri- can naval station of Pagopago in Samova. Apparently some millions of years in the past there existed im that locality a noble chain of large and lofty volcanic moun- tains, fully rivaling the later formed Ha- THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST - 28, 1897— { it appears that the formalities for seck- ‘irg a Hawaiian register for the Chira wie! ap! Proceedings the “steamer is in port with a large rumber of passengers, who have an un- etpected opportunity for an extended familisrity with:eur, town. This detention of the, ship js declared by the government to ‘be du to no action of treirs, since’ t Bavé' offered’ to’ extend her temporary ‘Hawaiian register so as to enable her to proceedto China and back to San Francisco., t » Among the many*points which will arise to be adjusted by the commissioners who will arrange for the. transfer of the gov- ernment of Hawaii to the United States fmust be the. question relating to our sea traffie with your Pacific coast. An indis- pensabie part of this traffic is at present conducted by means of the British steam- hers plying between fong, Yokchama and San Francisco. ler’ existing United States laws all such sraffie will be cut off by annexation of these islands:. Trade be- ‘tween Honolulu and -the ;coast will have ,become American coasting trade;.and mus: be conducted exclusively by American ves- -sels.. Neither freight or .passengers can any more be csrried by these noble British ‘steamers, which .we pow so much, depend upon. . This. would not only .be a very se- ricus hardship to us, but. would be an in- jurious interruption~ of the important "steam traffic of the Pacific. It is, indeed, ;very doubtful whether those ships would ary. mere call-at-Honolulu_ if deprived of the lazgezeastern. it of. their, business— .Uhnat between Honolulu and San Francisco. It would in.any..case be, a slong. tjme. be- fore ling of American steamships could -be estabjished sa-as adequately to replace the existing British lines across the Pa- cific. .It-.will, therefore, need. to be con- ‘sidered whether Congress should not enact some.specific legislation to permit traffic to be continued for a time upon foreign steamships between Yokohama and Hono- lulu, ard so to erable the change to be made gradually. It might, indeed, be wise to go farther than this and entirely to ex- empt Hawaii from the apvlication of the United States coasting laws. There are now about forty large salling vessels, near- ly all British, entering Honolulu every year with cargoes of coal, the greater part of which i3 for the supply of thé steamers calling at this port. If these shins shall be hereafter debarred from carryfhg freight herce to American ports, it must tend to add to the cost of bringing coal here, and to that extent obstruct the development of commerce. in Hawaii, which certainly will not be the desire of the United States. Since Hawaii is at such a distance from the American coast, it may be deemed a reeson for modifying the coasting law in application thereto. The Hawaiian Climate. In The Evening Star of July 24 appears an excellent article by ex-Consul H. W. Severance upon the climate of Hawai. He accurately states.the facts..that the mercury’on the shore rarely reaches 85 de- grees In the shade; also that mean tem- perature here is not over 73 degrees. -He does net sufficiently emphasize the fact thatthe atmosphere is dry, and not humid, as in other tropical countries. This. makes every breeze cooling byi rapidly..drying off the pefspiration of the .body. We:-in -Ha-; wali absolutely know nothing of really hot weather, such ‘a prevails in the United States during #tconsiferable part of -the summer. And wx never: have hot nights: The night temperdtureifn Honolulu is very Tarely above. 7%: degree’, and~more com- monly below 70sdegrees.. Our climate. is.@, most/¢omfortablé and emjeyable one. It 13 well-fitted to make HéWwali a. -delightful 'hom€ for the-white rad& - The fact may>.wellAbe : repeated shera, which has been presented m previous let- ters}°that the Hawaliah. group, lies,:well- within the southwestern swweep-of the great cold ‘current which comes down the>-Pa- cific ‘cogst froms AtaskaitiFhe ocean: water from Oregon afid California. reaghes.- Har. wall at a temperatureiwsually~ below: 70 degrets or 10 @égrdes colder -than: the current$ in the:W¢st7Indies onthe. §outh Sqa- nds. 86th "esl sea waters yields | com tively” !*littte'> evaporation zo.’ the! trade Winds} and! hence our rainfall is. slight, ahd the aimis*@ry.>The contrast of. Close, murky heat is very'great when ‘our ‘trade winds are‘exchanged for southwest- erly ‘winds, as théy ‘have here «for ’three days past. “Blowing froin a warmer:-otean,. they bring beth heat ahd» moisture. We. reek ‘With ‘perspiration, and araMthanktéal that ‘we dé not have tropical- weather of- ten. ‘The trades will be down agaim in a few days with full ferce, bringing to us the Cold of the Alaska ocean currént.Such a.ciirate as this of Hawaii is indeed choice ‘and rare. KAMEHAMEHA. ee See WHOLESALE PRODUCE MARKET. A General Advance in Prices—Prevatl- ing Firmness. The local. wholesale produce ‘market to- day shows that there has been a material advance in prices: since last Saturday, about every preduét either selling higher today or exhibiting such a firmness’ as indicatean advance in the near future. Butter has jumped up about 2 cents a pound and is very firm. It is kept Well cleaned up, and it fs more than likely that prices will still advance, owing to the diminishing milk supply. Cheese has also advanced “materially, it being a cent a pound higher today than last week. It is quite firm and gives indications, of higher prices. “Eggs have advanced from half to a cent a dozen. They are scarce and can be expected to gradually advance. There is a very good demand for poultry, and prices are’ somewhat stiffer. The same is true of frujts and. vegetables, and Irish potatoes are a little higher. Beef and other meats are firm, with-well-sustained prices, Throughout the market f& very firm and well supplied. * Butter — Creamery, Elgin. extras, 20; choice, 19; firsts, 18; choice bakers’ stock, 13 to 15; New York tubs, 16; lecal dairy, 16. Cheese—New York full cream, large, 11; flats, 11%; ponys, 12. a Eggs—Nearby, fresh, 16; western, 15; southern, 14. Poultry—Spring chicks, large, live, ~ per Ib., 8 to Spring, gnedium, live, per Il spring, small, 8 Old fowls—Live, per to 7; roosters, live, per Ib. 4 to 6% Ducks—Live, spring, young, 6 to 7. Geese —Live, per Ib., 5. Vegetables and fruits—Celery, medium, per doz., 50 to 75; common,-.per doz., 15 to 20; beans, per bex, 50- to 60; lettuce, per bbL, 50 to $1; potatoes, fancy, new, per Dbl., $1.75; potatoes, choice, per bbl., $1.25 to $1.50; potatoes, new, per bu., 50 to 55; potatoes, culls, per bbl.; 50 to 75; potatoes, irginia, CYCLONES OF THE SEA Most LIKE THE WEST INDIAN HURRICANE Description of These Storms of the Pacific. PROBABLE CAUSE — The hydrographic office of the Navy De- partment has computed some highly in- teresting data on the subject of typhoons and their paths. These typhoons, stories of the destructive powers of which reach this country occasionally, are always more frequent In the coming month than any month of the year. The hydrographic of- fice calls the attention of meriners in east Asiatic waters of the Pacific to the fact that the approaching season marks the period of maximum frequency of typhoons, and urges extra precaution to guard against the terrible risk of damage and disaster which almost invariably results from conflict with ope of these storms. Dr. W. Doberck, director of the Hong Kong observatory, has prepared a table cover- ing the thirteen years from 1883 to 1596, showing the frequency of these sterms and their monthly distribution. This table_ shows that during that time there was only one typhoon each in the months of January and March, none in the month of February, only four in April and six in December. For the other months of the year the total number of typhoons of a de- st.uctive nature were as follows: May, 10; June, 24; July, 45; August, 43; September, 57; October, 31; November, 32. Like the West Indian Hurricanes. The typhoon of the western Pacific ocean is in many respects the counterpart of the West Indian hurricane of the Atlantic. Both classes of storms have their origin in the vicinity of tropical groups of islands, and under similar barometric conditions; both undergo the same slow development and exhibit the same tendency to recurve upon reaching the northern limit of the northeast trades. The typhoon, or tropical cyclonic storm of the Pacific, is due primarily to the appear- ance, generally within the sea inclosed by the Philippines, the western Carolines and the Mariana Islands, or within the China sea, of a local area of low barometer, brought about by the inequalities in the temperature conditions of the atmosphere. In its incipient stages, the deficiency of at- Mmospheric pressure throvghout this area may be slight, amounting only to a few hundredths of an inch. According to vary- ing conditions, such a depression either may be dissipated, or it may deepen, and ultimately develop into a well-defined storm center, giving rise to winds of hurricane force. At the center, and during the height of the storm, the barometric pressure may fall as low as 28.50 inches. The space, how- ever, over which this exceedingly low bar- ometer prevails is generally small, some- times not more than a few miles in extent. Around this central low, which consti- tutes the heart of the storm, the winds cir- culate in a direction contrary to the mo- tion of the hands of a watch, not In cir- cles, however, but in. spirals, which con- tinually approach the center; the curve Gescribed-by the air being similar in many respects to the familiar path followed by ‘the water in escaping from a circular basin by a central opening in the bottom. To the north of the storm center we thus have easterly and northeasterly winds; tc the south, westerly and southwesterly winds; east of the center, southerly and psoutheasterly. winds will prevail; west of the center, northerly and northwesterly. The strength of the wind diminishes as we ‘go outward, the winds of -the typhoon forte -rerely extending further than 300 miles frem the storm center... - , Ifthe storm .center remained stationary }@ vessel hove-to under storm canvas would- experience no steady shift of the wind, but would simply feel the force of the gate in- trease until its full violence was attained, after which it would graduaily blow itself out; all from one quarter. Such, however, in, never the.case. In addition to the move- ment of the air around the storm center, there is a progressive movement of the eéehter itcelf, carrying with it its circulat- ing system of winds. In low latitudes the direction of this motion for all typhoons has a westerly component, some storms continuing this course and entering the mainiand of Cochin China; others recurve toward the northeast and skirt the shores of Japan. Theory of Cyclonic Storms. The present theory of tropical cyclonic storms requires that there shall exist at the center, toward which the incurving surface winds are directed, a rising column of warm, moist air. Upon reaching the higher levels of the atmosphere, the water vapor borne aloft by this air is condensed into clouds, which are carried by the now outward curving winds away from the center on all sides. These clouds, then, which are formed at a great height, and are of the cirrus type, radiating in long feathery streamers from the region of the now ascending column, constitute for the sailor the best indication of the approach- ing typhcon, sometimes making their ap- pearance when the storm center is 1,500 miles distant. As the center approaches the density of the cloud canopy deepens, until the belt of nimbus, from which tor- rents of rain descend, is attained. The width of this belt in front of the center is in general about 150 miles; in the rear it Is less. The first barometric indication of the ap- proach of a typhoon is the disturbance of the diurnal range. In these low latitudes a good mercurial barometer, during settled weather, should show a decided maximum about 10 a.m., ‘the reading at that hour anding between 29.85 and 29.9% inches (W58.2 to 760.7 millimeters), while about 4 p. m. there should be a corresponding mini- mum, the reading at that hour being about 0.10 inch (2.5 millimeters) less than 10 a.m. The same thing ts repeated at 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. If the afternoon maximum is appre- ciably below 29.85 inches, or if the descent between this and the afternoon minimum is markedly greater than one-tenth of an inch, the weather should be watched with great care. Several successive days of light, variably winds and calms; a of hot, sultry weather; increasing moisture of the atmosphere, shown by the diminish- ‘bulb thermometer; cloud and an ominous heaving of the sea, THEIR blowing tn" gqualis ‘of abeut ten minutes’ duration, simultaneous fluctuations, a steady gale. in, but it now comes in squalls instead of con- tinuously. have entitled the player to be classed as one of the whist celebrities. The gain of four tricks by Chicago, which allowed her to enter the finals, was in the end played after both adversaries had their sults es- tablished. The delayed signal showing four trumps was completed by the op- ponents, they being in the lead. Waller, for the Chicagos, fourth in hand, had four trumps to the queen. Jack turned on his right. The ten of trumps was opened and small trumps were played by second and third players. The latter, who had signaled, had ace, king, jack and deuce. The ten- spot held the trick, and he naturally placed the queen with second hand, and when the second round of trumps was led by his partner he played the jack, naturally ex- Pecting to hold the trick, and having four established spades, would draw the rest of the trumps with his ace and king, as his partner had used one trump for ruffing. imagine his surprise when Waller over- took the jack of trumps (clubs) with his queen, and, with four established diamonds, being in the lead, with two trumps left against the ace and king, he was enabled to_win-the last four tricks out of six. The finesse of Whelan at the sixth con- gress against Chicago, the success of which put Chicago out of the race, was made when Duvall, Whelan’s partner, opened seven of clubs (trumps) as original lead, Whelan, with ace, jack, ten and spot, read his partner by Foster's eleven rule, with queen, nine, eight, or king, nine, eight. As he (Whelan) had three better than the seven, and with king and queen both, his partner would have opened the queen. The king was on Whelan’s right and in a Pocket. Duvall held the trick with the seven, ard came through again, enabling his partner to capture the king. Expert players are continually on the alert for chances for such play. In the last Hamilton vs. American of Boston Bouve led small trump from ace, jack and two small ones. The nine was played third in hand and captured by the ten. Later in the hand a small trump was returned by his partner, and the Philadelphia play- er, second hand, with king, queen and low trump, played low. Bouve, not wishing to give up the command in trumps, played the jack, which held the trick, led ‘the ace, drew all the trumps but the king, and forced it out with his established suit. Had the Philadeiphia player played the queen second hand, trumps could not have been exhausted with the~same result. In the same match Ballard (of the Hamiltons) had declared strength in spades. His part- ner led him the ace. The American player, Second hand. with king, queen and spot, did not think he would dare finesse, played low spade. Ballard, holding ace, jack, ten, nine and three, with a good hand to be led up to, allowed his partner's eight to pass, which held the trick. He caught the queen ee the ace and his partner trumped the ing. False carding is 2 two-edged sword, and should be used only by experts. When the adversaries have great strength in trumps, and you can give the impression that your partner has the balance of strength, it is sound piay. The filustration given by Bouve has been used a secre of times by the writer. Jack of clubs turned Ly south, west leads a low club at trick five, east won with the queen, returned the deuce and west played the ace third in hand, upon which north played the king. hold- ing also the ten. The queen and ace ing fallen, and his partner having the jack turned, the king and ten are equals, and the king was played to stop the tramp lead, enabling north ani south to make their ten and jack of trumps separateiy. Be sure of your partner, or he may be one of tht kind to draw the other four trumps with ene. The favorite false cari play of Wooten, with the jack and ten of trumps out‘of the way, on the first lead, and hold- ing ave,-queen .and nine, the two latter being equals, will false card the queen de- nying the nine, and the adversaries with king and guard will often try to draw the two trumps together, with the loss of sev- eral tricks. Being fourth in hand with ace, king and Spot, itis often good play to play ace de- nying king, especially if you have any idea of leading through later in the game after two or three rounds of tramps have been played. Unblocking {is the bane of most begin- ners; they do not know the -izht time to give up a good card. They have been taught holding four upon partner's orig- inal lead of ace to play third best, and second best, on second round unless the king is with your combination. With king, queen and one other not trumps, and your partner reliable and having trump strength of your own, the queen on.your partner's ace is the play. If he has jack, ten, he will play as if he held ace, queen, jack originally and lead the ten, and vou can safely unblock and keep the small one to put him in subsequently after the trumps are exhausted. At the Rockbridge Alum Springs there has been much interest in whist this sum- mer, many Washingtonians developing a fondness for the game. Capt. Alexander (who ts also quite an expert at chess) s he can readily understand one’s infaty tion for the game. At the progressive whist contest at Capon Mrs. Polk Bueil of Washington won first prize. At a maich conducted by A. G. Safford, using his sys- tem for pairs, Mrs. Carpenter made a very creditable showing. Milton C. Work has returned from En- repe, and the columns of his paper will teem with interesting whist news. The Toledo Blade says the Toledo four who won the A. W. L. challenge trophy at Put- in-Bay will be made the target for general attack as soon as the challenge season opens, October 1. President Mandell has written to Mr: Clarence Brown that sev- era] challenges have already been received, including the Hamiltons of Philadelphia, who won the perpetual ownership of the old challenge cup last year. Philadelphta’s four; headed by Dr. Neff, who won the Hamilton trophy at the last ; the famous Americans of Boston, the Hyde Park of Chicago, Wayne, Toiedo, Cleveland and several others are out for the honor of competing for this cup. The following interesting bit of whist strategy was play- ed at Put-in-Bay in the progressive fours match, Miss Schmidt playing north and COLICKY BABIES, j > i iniw“meding ‘sown sme, =|Protracted Nursing in’ Hot Summer Months. | Mothers’ Milk When Watery \ Causes Mischief. Lactated Food the Nearest to: Mothers’ Milk. Change Will Not Disturb Any Child’s Stomach. Infants Do Not Have to Be Urged to Eat Heartily. * Science has come to the ald of perplexed pa- ‘ rents. Lactated food ix a substitute for healthy mother's 5 milk that meets the bearty approval of physicians, rurses and mothers. No less an authority than.) Dr. Guernsey, the senior editor of the New York Medical ‘Times, says that he mes lactated food + with Ns children. He says that ft ts plensant to the taste and easily digested and sxsimilated., ‘The famous Dr. Agnew, ax is well known among’) physte . ¢ mend the food. J. Lewis Smith, perhaps the best authority im the country on children's diseases, Professor in Bellevue Hospital College, New York, commends its use. There are hundreds of phy- Siclans in New England, says the Boston Journal, who prescribe lactated feed tm Rerrest approach to bealthy mothe @ rich baby food that builds up th bodies of young children and invalids. Most mothers are obliged to shorten the nursing period. The long, exacting duty is far beyond their Strength. Whereas healthy mother’s milk ts un- avestionably the best infant food, it becomes the scurce of mischief as soon as TM grows weak, watery snd lacking tn the power of feeding. ‘Toward the close of the nursing period, or when ( nursing 1s protracted through the entire hot «nm- mer, few mothers are able to nurse their grow- ing belies as they ought. It is rare that the | breast milk does not show a deckied falling off in richness, Infants fed at the brevet on such . milk, fosufficient in quality and amount, seen how the effect in colicky attacks and in dim hed growth from week to week. Their drooping heads | are conttmmally moist, and a pained, drawn ex- pression—the sign of weakness—often steals over their faces. No mother can be Jong in doubt ao. The food must be changed to a rich, safe diet of lactated food. Parests sometimes make the mistake of employing cow's milk without personal Knowledge of its fitness for baby's food; trouble ensues in many cases, Diarrhoea and cholera in- + fantum result from just such fil-advised «ubstirates, Fully one-balf the infant deaths are caused by | improper feeding. When breast milk is insufficient, or the mother net well, lactated food may be absolutely relied + on to take the place of vigorous mothers’ milk, It Is indorsed Us the best plysiclans, by nurses and by happy, grateful mothers in every town and village in the land. yout what to advantage. The Dockery law had given them the opportunity to make a large number of reductions and dismissals in the interest of their partisans. In putting that law into operation in the Treasury Department no democrats were reduced or dismissed, but all promotions were given to them. No republicans were promoted, but all reductions and dismissals fell to their lot. But this was not sufficient for their purposes. So they reminded President Cleveland that “public office is a sacred trust,” and that he was the great apostle of civil service reform; therefore, he should not hesitate to enlarge the scope of civil service rules. Thus entreated, the Presi- dent proceeded to place under the protec- tion of civil service regulations thousands of positions, after they had all been filled with democrats appointed for partisan rea- sons. These measures were secured with a full appreciation of the injustice inflicted upon worthy and competent republicans, with but little hope that a republican adminis- tration would permit them to stand, and for the openly avowed purpose of putting the republican party in a dilemma. If the republicans dared to redress grievances, or remedy the injustice done, the democrats would at once claim that the republican party had proven false to its professions / and was taking backward steps in civil service reform. The rule recently issued by the President in regard to dismissals is in itself right, and, be a step forward in genuine civil service reform. The time to make radical changes in civil service regulations ts not the beginning nor the end of a term, but the middle of the term. If this rule in re- pet during the last four strengthen and rehabilitate the spoils sys- land and Vii bu., 50 to 56; pota- $ ).75 wralian group. These gradually subsided pelea Dek Dn an tp earnest poiatonss eee aif conditions forerunning the occur: | Queen of the great chain northwest of and continu, | £2NC¥. per Dbl, $1.50; sweet potatoes, No. 1, | Tence of 8 typROen ae tor the le ee og 8 ; ous ‘with this group. Around thé sub. | $125 to.$1.50; yama and haymons, bbl i of August show that these storms |cxx Gs fet] to-order trousers merging summits continued to thelr | $1.25 to $1.50;' tematoes,>per- crate, native, | MONTH of AuROs! Siow wurse, while some | D2 Dix a Pe surrounding “barrier” or curinging reefs, | #5:t0 50; beets, per 100 bunches, $1 to. $1.00; ‘northwestward, recurve and then ad. | BS HKs = O After the summits had disappeared those | C@bbage, new, per bbL,i%; onions, -yellow, | Move Dorthwestward, Tecurre ae ety ar | HOx A ad , sale. coral reefs continued to maintain them. | Per DDL, .$1.50 to'$2; ontons,. yellow, new, | (Anca toweed ROWER rite the trop. | EE as <2 Selvgs above the surface of the sea, the | Bef BU... 75; beans, ;whBe,.New York, me-| {nef exceeds ten miles an hour. in | ps 58 Dio . webile: wragexiades ‘of the daccton moun- | dlums, 80 to 85: a oe higher latitude it goes up to forty miles an | Bix @ s falns that towered there in Pliocene or | {2 Phases Soh nis telat apples, aramon, | BOUF- a — a De Avain-= three of the four palmecto ret ane best | Der bbl, 00 to 75; pears, La Contec : qo rere mises Necereey- = De, 3 se joo g<ain== need not begrudge America the fourth and | 88: Dutchess, pit bkl..Ql.7% 10-82; Sickle, | A vessel warned by her eter and by | rm Ge m s+-++.-7.-13/ the last term of Mr. Cleveland the grossest Deorest one fora stepping stone in her | Per BBL, $2 to $2.50; California Bartlett, per | the character of the winds and sea that a | ST - || 10 so.0) suave the invitation ani henge —_ ocean domain. box, $1.50 to $2; -peagheas fancy; free stone, | typhoon‘ is approaching shculd seek to game. not wishing to lead trumps without | oughly competent and - . * Registry of the China. Tete #1; ponchos. mneaiom. $0it0 60> | avoid it by running. If the fall of the | knowing soriething of how the diamonds incompetent democrats to the Special sale of Trousers to-order continues with un- nsioe te acee Seah packets, 40: denote. per Ib, 8 to 8; | barometer and the shift of the wind are }Jay, as the clubs are marked with East | higher classes. And there they are today, abated interest. Our Baltimore Store, 6 East Baltimore sation ieee pee AS pee Pa aas plums, per Ib., 2igoto 8; ‘plume,"biue, per Ib,, | slow it means that the storm is yet at a feo Mie gg three, knows eon Sie eeerey anclonmae te solver aus; Street, is going to put in a new front; by the way, we've serious difficulty arising between this gov- | syntfos Pee eee een cea alone setae a Ine eei ne Teron ein | is partner has ee aes Samal | wrens? of oupased. republicans. The to- surprised the Baltimore people by our PUSHING ernment and the owners of the noble | lemons, Cicily; per box, $2 to.$4.50; 2 ener te signal tobe completed. | Seria ub trot corrected, ands practical, METHODS—but we're digressing—what we started out steamship China, which arrived here on | per bu., $1 to North, on account of diamond suit, wants | uniform system of promotion for merit _ ie the 11th from San Francisco, en route to | Ket-18 to.20; Eost ‘exhausted of trumps. and fearing | devised and enforced, before the new rule — to say is, they have written us that they want us to sell Yokohama. She had come in flying at her ‘u two. trumps with East, wants to} in regard to reductions and dismissals is >, 300 pairs of made-to-order trousers for them, they need peak the Hawaiian flag. She had taken third round, passes the king, | applied to these San, Oteerwioe tomes. the room to make way for the builder—aren’t you lucky Suy Een Panes nae from here on is easy, | the partisan advantage they have gained © to profit by Baltimore Building Operations—want a pair? quired to be made complete in Honolulu. asin on ot Methane. hy making civil service reform a hollow She has been @ British sap, and now seeks hand won the match for | partisaa’ injustice. enforce e just plan of Worth 9, pepe tog a a Se the new rule will become a ‘one, : walian government Degscie chy refuses to hailed with iz. 4 all Seaton eee ‘China on the ground that reformers, ‘stand for all time Tertz and Mertz, treaty of annexation last June they enterod i the only solid foundation for a just sya: intd an tem of public employment, ge Se mm | “N Era” Tail pone picwalisa tomaie anaes uthoc, remaining foreved a. tasting’ monpe th ew cra QllOrs, ~~~ $f wara American. ont'se te dey of te Ly : : 2 ‘ explicit orders were sent t to civil service n » : f x “@ | lates not to permit See 906 F Street. for pe xeu Fast be difficult