Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1897, Page 13

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We exhibit more Pearl and Diamond and All-diamond Pendants than any three jewel- ers in Washington. AN are the product of our own factory and made from new and original designs of our own artists and silversmiths. Why not buy of the manufac- turers and save the 25 to 33 per cent middleman’s profit. Fearl and Diamond Pendants from $13.50 to $35. All-diamond Pendants frem $35 to $1,000. Here are two items that illustrate the beauty of the designs and the lowness of prices— This Solid Gold Pearl} abla 4 Exquisite, aoe Pendunt, with Diamond, Diamond Star Pendart, * with large diamond cen- center. Worth $18. Worth $1 Only $13.50.| Only $110. <Any article reserved upon payment of a small deposit. R. Harris& Co., Cor. 7th and D Sts. MEXICO’S NIAGARA. Water Power More Valuable Than Vast Coal Be: From the Philadelphia Record. Mexico has an abundance of coal, but, unfortunately, but one of her coal beds is being developed, as the railroads have not yet reached the others. Minerals of all kinds are plentiful, from iron to gold, and, while much of her territory is compara- tive desert, there are large tracts and en- tire states of the richest agricultural land; but none of. these can be considered of themselves, or jointly, as of the greatest value to the future prosperity of the coun- ty as her wonderful water powers. Cheap power and abundance of it will be the great wealth producing factor of the fu- ture, and the nation that has the cheapest power will be the one to win in the in- dustrial race of the coming century. The twentieth century wil! be the electrical age, and electricity generated by cheap water power will be the universal solvent of all future engineering and méchanical Eroblems. The question of the trans- mission of power to long distances is the cnly problem which remains to be solved to make electricity the complete mistress of the future industrial world. In the state of Jalisco. the falls of Juanacatlan, located fifteen miles from the city of Guadajara, which is now supplied with electric light from this fall, a great source of power exists. Juanacatlan has been appropriately called “the Niagara of Mexicu.” Here the River Lerma, which drains Lake Chapala, with a width of over 200 feet, makes a leap of sixty feet. The cotton mills of Tlalpan, a suburb of the City of Mexico, are now being moved to these falls. In the northeastern part of the stat Pucblo a whole river makes a leap of 997 feet. Near the station of Rascon, op the Tampico branch of the Mexican Central raiiroad, is the Abra de Caballos, where another river falls in a les of cascades some 300 feet, and in parts of Mexico, from the state pas, in the south, to the nerthern states, there are a multitude of similar falls, wher? ‘aluable powers exist. The conformation of Mexico is the most favor- able for the creation of water powers, as the largest part of the country Is an elevated table land, which acts as a large rovf, and on all the slopes where the water falls down to the lowlands there are prob- ably more valuable water powers than in any country of like extent in the word. This fact will contribute more than any cther to the future of Mexico. All of the Central American states have most won- derful rescurces, but, unfortunately, they have never been developed. The period of revolution is a matter of history. Capital is flowing in, and the country is experiencing a resurrection, which will soon place her in a position of wealth and power. The future of “our sister republic’ wiil hinge more upon the utilization of her water powers than even upon her wonderful mineral wealth. ————_+ o+—___ Already Rewarded. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. The last joke at the expense of the Frerck Society for the Protection of Ant- mals is to the following effect: A countryman, armed with an immense club, presented himself before the presi- dent of the society and claimed the first prize. He was asked to describe the act of humanity on which he founded his claim. : “I have saved the Ife of a wolf,” replied the countryman. “I might easily have kiil- ed him with this bludgeon,” and he swung his weapon in the air, to the intense dis- comfort of the president. ° “But where was this wolf?’ inquired the latter. “What had he done to you?” “He had just devoured my wife,’ was the reply. The president reflected an instant, and then sa‘d: “My friend, I am of the opinion that you have been sufficiently rewarded.” Insist on the Genuine The best Washing Powder made. Best for all cleaning, does the work quickly, cheaply and thoroughly, Largest package- greatest economy, ‘THE E. K. FAIRBANE COMPANY, Chicago, St. Louts, New York, Boston, Was Pocahontas Really Married to Rolfe and “Had Shd Previously Beem Smjth’s Spouse? Ee s It is learned by a recent cable dispatch that Cripplegate C! th in London nar- rowly escaped destruction in the recent reat fire of the “English metropolis, its roof having been once on fire, while its vicarage adjoining was totally destroyed. This is the old historical church which contains the poet Milton’s tomb, and that of grewsome Fox, the martyrologist. On reading this news I was reminded of an-- other old London church particularly inter- esting historically to Some Americans—the Church of St. Sepulchre—interesting be- cause here was buried Captain John Smith, that mixed character of brag and bounce, of enterprise, energy ‘and exaggeration, whose “History of Virginia” (so called) the author of RobinsofCrusoe might easily have written because of its tmaginative unveraciousness, and over whose grave in that church precincts lies a stone slab with a long inscription (once) on it; one which the distinguished Canon Fuller, au- thor of “Worthies of England,” who knew John well, prenounced a “ranting epi- taph,” intimating that Captain John wrote it himself in life for his executors to chise! on the stone which would lie over his re- mains. And on being thus reminded of St. Sepulchre Church, and, by association, of John Smith, and of Pocahontas likewise, it occurred to me that Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts had visited that church and gazed on John’s stone slab with tke “ranting epitaph,” and on refer- rng to Lossing’s American Historical Rec- cra I found the following among the pro- ceedings had at a meeting of the American Autiquarian Society in Worcester, Mas3., on the 2ist of October, 1871: “Mr. George F. Hoar gave some account of the present condition of the monument and inscription to the memory of Capt. Jchn Smith in the Church of St. Sepul- chre, London. He visited this church twice while in England, and the second time accompanied by Rev. Dr. Palfrey. Trey found the inscription so worn away as to me entirely illegible, and Mr.*Hoar hesitates to believe the stone ever could have ccntained so long an inscription as that said to have been copied from it; tut the three Turks" heads are still visible, and as the church has been burnt since the monument was placed there, some satisfuc- tory explanation is possible. He suggested that the society can do something to re- store the inscription. :We may at least have it reproduced on a mural tablet. After some remarks by Dr. Deane the mat- ter: was referred to the council.” Perusing this, I presumed to venture to addresa’ Senator Hoar at Woreester to find out,,j? those Massachusetts Yankees hud ever, gccomplished their tablet to per- petuate the memory of the:tuteiary saint of the old dominion. The senator's reply, under date of December 2, 1897, is contain- ed in the following paragraph: “There was an effort made to put up a tablet to John Smith in ‘the St. Sepulchre. But the then rector demanded. such enor- mous fees that the pulject was dropped. ‘We thought the whojg thing exorbitant and shabby. T nave heard that a new rector had consented to pittin#’ up a tablet to this famous historie’ penton without de- manding his fees, an@ that that had been done. But I cannct .now,be sure.” Americans are repijfed worshipers of the almighty dollar by our,,loving brethren of the fast-anchored..isle, but they would seem surpassed in monetary greediness by this Enzlish ‘rector, whage extreme devo- tion to his fees obstructed, the New Eng- land Yankees who Wante} to.do honor to the chief historical ‘Gharaeter of Virginia. However, there is ;comfort in the few ces whic}; the, senator. writes, n, dong,”|,probably by the unbought consent ufia less “shabby”’ rec- tor; for which Just Jet us,be duly thank- ful. And_in this canpectian it occurs to m to query,; if, any- one dver, found out, what sGepal gr ptker,chureh, that al- leged marriage 9: isa Rolte. and Poca- 0 hontas solemnized. as pictured sin a painting jn the Capitol, .and -what: ciergy- man did “the deed? The -minutes.of the London Virginia Company, the manuscript of whick is preserved in the Congressional Library, Show \that John Rolfe when he died left a wife and several children; and a question has arisen whether he ever married, Pocahontas at all, exeept tem- porarily, as is often practiced in the In- dian country, to this day. Before that she had been given in marriage by Pow- hattan. to “an Indian warrior; and it is probable that it was while living with this regular husband on the Potomac-a river which, in the Indian dialect, was the Po- to-waugn-mak, the porpoise river—she was stolen away by the unscrupulous Capt. Argall, to become John Rolfe's wife also; long before which, as has been shrewdly conjectured, she had acted as temporary wife to Captain John Smith. An Indian woman of about this period, a young matron of the unfortunate Pequot tribe, exhibited so superior a character for vir- tve, dignity and hemanity, that she might well be held by Connecticut in lasting honor without any discount whatsoever. DR. THOS. FOSTER. eae ae America Enginnd’s Rival. From Bradstrect’s, The Right Hon. Charles T. Ritchie, presi- dent of the board of trade, made an import- ant speech Tuesday before the chamber of commerce of Croydon, taking as his theme the decline of British exports during the last ten ‘months, upon which he hung a grave warning against American compe- tition, now “ousting British trade.” The Herald says: “Mr. Ritchie, after de- claring that the Dingley tariff and the ergineering trade dispute were mainly re- epensible for the recent decline of exports, and after pointing out that England had no weapons against the tariff, said there wa% @ great deal of talk in commercial circles about the serious competition of Germany, but he thought they were too apt to over- look a much more serious competitor—the United States. ‘The facts are serious,’ he continued, ‘and call upon us fér the exer- cise of all our powers to enable us to main- tain our position in the’commercial world. There is no doubt the United States are exe- cuting orders which ought to be executed here. We all know an American firm ob- tained the contract for the Central Under- ground Railway of London, as its bid was lower than those of the English concerns, and it could deliver the supplies three months ahead of the British tenders. Many tmportant continental orders have gone to America. The same {s to be said of Egypt and Japan, where the Americans are doing work that Englishmen should have done. In consequence of the engineering dis- pute many orders are:eaving the country, and unfortunately these Urders-seldom re- turn. America’s suceéssful competition is due to her enterprisettn embarking capital, but it is yet more daw tothe freedom her manufacturers enjoy @t employing the best machinery and working it the most economical manner, hintfammeled by the restrictions which h@ve hampered manu- facturers here. Everyone having his coun- try’s interest at heart must hope that to- morrow’s conference! wilffead to a settle- ment of the unfortuaatevengineering dis- or The Ball pute." From Tit-Rits. ninef, Kaew. A story is told ofp, gypat English per- sonage who thoughto evatybody knew or ought to know him. ‘@ne@ay.he was walk- ing through a field When‘p bull addressed him in an undertong, and made for him with his head down, and his_horns in a position to raise him. ~ He was a minister,a man of dignity and Political power, and of natural pomposity. But he ran. He ran surprisingly well. He ran better than ever he did for office, and he got to the fence first. He. clambered over, out of breath and dignity, and found the owner of the bull contemplating the operation. “What do you mean, sir,” asked the irate statesman, having. Tiated ani- mal Mke that ante er the lela? “Well, I suppose the ball hab some right in the field,” said the farmer. -“Right?’+Do you know who I am, sir?” gasped the baranet, The farmer shook his head. “I am the Right sir ———.” “Then why ‘on <didn’t tel the bull? said the tormer. ” north. of the Pole seem so likely. at this time. There are, Dr. Nansen confidently believes, formation regarding Andree’s achieving his whole purpose. with Andree on his voyage. An early article by poses to in each a sure advance, greater or | need be, until Set erie errs rT st ttt ret etree ete eet Sct ttre e st se teen tee eset teen eee ee eee eeneed $F9OOSOOG $ The Final Capture of the Pole $ Lieutenant Peary’s paper will relate what was accomplished last season in the way of prepara- % tior, and how he hopes to conduct his explorations. 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Never before did the achievement Nansen on Future Polar Exploration An article written since Dr. Nansen arrived in the United States, and now being illustrated for an early number of McCCLURE’S, will be found, therefore, to have a very special interest and value Various Ways of Exploring the Unknown Polar Region and these various ways he outlines and discusses from the stan!point of his own recent experience and observations. The paver will be very fully illustrated—first, from photographs of People and Scenes of the Far North taken by Dr. Nansen, and as yet unpublished, and by Peary, Greely, and Melville; and also by photographs and drawings by the celebrated artists Wm. Bradford and A. Operti. Another article in preparation for an early number of McCLURE'S will give new and late in- Andree’s Balloon Voyage to the Pole Genius in its highest flight never conceived a bolder scheme than this of getting to the Pole by balloon, yet Nansen and other cool, scientific men have faith in it and entertain strong hopes of This article is written from material furnished by the brother of Mr. Strindberg, who is now It contains unpublished letters and material of various sorts, and Unpublished Pictures of Andree, His Balloon and His Start together with a fac-simile cf the one genuine despatch received from Andree by carrier pigeon. Peary on His Coming Expedition will be one that nobody interested in the subject can afford to miss. Peary was in the far North making ready for a movement that he will begin next spring. He pro- Move on the Pole by. a Series of Campaigns all carefully planned and prepared for beforehand. 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