Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1897, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1897-16 PAGES. Seeoefondoatonteteeteetecfeetete We are open evenings until Christmas. : Money Savers for Gift Givers--- --AT== PERRY’S. Lots of folks are buying Underwear and Hosiery for gifts. They make practical remembrances—the homely old- fashioned kind that speak more good feeling than a multi- tude of gew gaws. We are helping along this preference with some special values. We have filled the regular price stations with better qualities than ever—that what you select to give may be above the average. It eases the cost to you—and that, of course, is a help just at this time. We cannot bring entire stocks into the papers—but we can give you some price hints and value hints that will properly represent our big offerings. Holiday Underwear. And it is fine Underwear— silk most of it—elegant, warm, worthful Underwear, for both ladies and children. There is a fashion side to the Underwear question, and we have followed it. The better gifts because we Holiday Hosiery. We want to give the best you can buy—not the biggest price that is asked—costiness doesn’t -always signify best- ness. These quotations will bear that out. Special offerings of ours in consideration of the occasion. An opportunity for you. " Swiss Ribbed Silk Vests, low sleeveless, in Cream, Pale Blue, Ladies’ Rembrandt Ribbed Fast Black - Pink and fast Black, Lisle Thread Hose—35e. a pair—3 for $1. trimmed—5we. each. ies’ Boot Patterns, in Lisle Thread, with fast Black feet—35e., 50c., 65e. and Ribhed Cream x Je. T5e. a pair. Swiss Ladies’ Plaid Hose. the newest effects Ladies" fey eovimn Ribbed White aos —toe., Ge. and T5e. a pair, Past 1 vests, with lo - sneves gray ocean Ladies’ Guaranteed Fast Black Spun Silk Hose—$1.25 a pair. Ladies’ Plain Silk Hose, in Black and evening shades, each pair in a fancy box —$1.98 a pair. Ladies’ Pure Silk Hose, drepped-stiteh, 32. id $3 Ladies’ Swiss Ribbed Silk Vests, lace trimmed, in Cream, Psle Blue, White and Pink—$150 each. Ladies’ Swiss Ribbed White Silk Corset Covers, trimmed with lace—$1.50 each. each pair in a fancy bex—$2.75 an a pair. Infants’ Ribbed Silk Hose, in White, Pale Blue, Pink and Black—5ve. a pair. idren's Swiss Ribbed Wrappers, in Infants’ Fine Cashmere Hose, in White, ae Tusset and Black—25e. a pair. Clakdren’s Ribbed Merino W * Ribbed Cashmere, in White and to 6-35. for size 1—rise Se. + S9e. and Soe. a pair. Children's Swixs Ribbed Natural and - Hake Woot Shirts und Pantalets, sizes Christmas Garters. Ladies’ Silk Garters, with buckles an hon bows, each pair in a box—Bue., +» $1.25, $1.50, $2 and $2.50 a pair. PERRY’S, “NINTH AND THE AVENUE.” Estab'ished 1810, Telephone 995. Children’s Ribbed Sik Wrappers—$1.25 te $1.65 each. RS a ea LOR A A ok ISDS SS SOI OS SR ok SSE OL OSS On OR 0 OS | & | TS i a Os ss Sa a a ss as es a ee COOL OACCCCOST ACCC Open Evenings Till Christmas. Goods bought now will be delivered at any time desired. We are the only complete Housefurnishers in town. Carpets made, laid and lined free. Don’t Piss This Week At House & Herrmann’s, what- ever you do. The biggest sale of the season is going on. We're making a Christmas gift of the greatest small price—rich value sale that was ever held in Washington. We want you to enjoy the privilege. Among the bargain features are hosts of articles suitable for presents, and you will appreciate the sav- ing this will be to you. Onyx Tables, Lamps, Clocks, Desks, Fancy Rockers, China Clos- ets, Dinner and Tea Sets, Dining Tables, Sideboards, Music Cabi- nets, Roll Top Desks, Rugs, Car- pets, Couches at CASH OR GREDIT. ia No House & Herrmann, Liberal Furnishers, 7th and I Sts. N. W. ' : z 2 3 3 Senter eneloop detente them among the dealers, Loads of Xmas Trees. delphia Press. Brom the Phil AP entire train load of Christmas trees i arrived a few evenings ago in the freight | Many yard of the Pennsylvania railroad in West | the yar Philadelphia, and one of the employes said that other train loads would come in daily from now until the holidays. The ever- | greens, be sald, came from al! parts of New England, northern New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, but most of them were from Maine. They are ed to con-| “want™ ad. tractors principaily, who distribute ! person who can fill your need, waiting to be unloaded. years, if noi lower. ————- e+ —_ The t: packed in bundles with the branches bound ¥ to the trunks and are leaded upon ondola cars with unusually high sides, are now on the side tracks in Owl the large quantities of evergreens of ail kinds now arriving it ts believed that prices this year will be as low as in previous It matters little what it is that you want he‘her a situation .or a servant—a in The Star will reach the hhh IT aN a hl SNS ch NNN EEO BAI AE I eth t tt Cala lat tint he it hha ath ROS atte hin ins Ghat SS BS LE OL] NEW PUBLICATIONS. THE HISTORY OF OUR NAVY; From Its In to the Present 1775—1897. Spears, author of “The Port of Miss “The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn,” etc. Four Volumes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Washington: Brentano's. These four volumes are appropriately dedicated, ‘to all who would seek peace and pursue it.” No more fitting sentiment can be devised for the contemplation of the egency the nation employs to maintain its Tights. The best guarantee of peace has ften been defined to be an unconquerable fighting force. This country has never at- tained high rank in the mere numbers of its naval vessels, but whenever emergency has arisen it has evolved a fighting fleet capable of coping with all national de- mands. While this course has not followed the line of the policy of preparedness now so often urged and partly adopted in the late additions to the American navy, yet it has served to lay the foundations of one of the most thrilling narratives the world has ever heard. “The Histcry of Our Navy” is almost romantic in its features and details. Mr. Spears has taken full ad- vantage of his opportunity to produce an entertaining, useful work. He tells this story in good style, with full appreciation of its importance, and he seeks to teach the lesson of patriotism through thé medium of the history of America’s glorious suc- cess from time to time on the waters of various seas, The four volumes are fully illustrated, many contemporary prints be- ing reproduced, thus giving a quaint ap- pearance to some of the pages. The book work of the edition is finely performed. THE Cl RY ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Vol. LIV, New Series, Vol. XXXII, May, 1897. to October, 1897. New York: The Century Co. This latest volume of The Century is in- deed up to the standard set by this enter- prising and high-class periodical in times past. In each of the departments are signs of progress. The articles cover a- wide range of subjects and attract the thoughtful attention of an exceptionally large number of readers. Dr. Mitchell's successful novel, “Hugh Wynne,” is brought to its conclusion. Other notable stories are included in the six monthly is- sues, and several articles of rare historical and scientific value are given permanency in this volume. Among these is a series of papers on General Grant by competent writers. THE SMART SET; Correspondence and Conversa- tions. By Clyde Fitch. Chicago: Herbert 8. Stone & Co. Clyde Fitch secured wide recognition as a promising young writer when he pro- duced the play “Beau Brummell,” but since then nothing he has done has attract- ed an equal amount of attention. His work has been critical rather than creative. The little volume he now puts forth con- sists of a series of ttle papers rflecting censoriously, though by no means unjustly, upon certain phases of American sociai life. They are in effect “thumb nail sketches.” The modes of communication, letters and cenversation, prevent all but inferential descriptions, while permitting pointed references to persons and events by presumably prejudiced observers. The correspondence on “Wagner” is especially clever. ST. NICHOLAS; An IMustrated Magazine for Young Folks. Conducted by Mary Mapes Dodge. Volume XXIV, Parts I and II, May, 1897, to October, 1897. New York: The Cen- tury Co. Praise for St. Nicholas is redundancy. That excellent “‘magazine for young folks” has become an Institution, so firmly found- cd in“the heart of young America that its failure to reappear at its stated intervals would cause a bitter grief in every part of the country. “St. Nicholas day” is a monthly event of importance in thousands of homes. The bound volumes are calcu- lated to bring a wave of joy to many young hearts when given as presents at holiday time. This volume has many features that show that there has Indeed been no retreat during the year. The old St. Nicholas flavor is there, spiced by many improve- ments. THE VOICE OF THE VALLEY. By Yone Noguchi, author of “Seen and Unseen.’ Introduction by Chas. Warren Stoddard. IMlustration by Keith. San Francisco: Willlam Doxey. This young Japanese poet has startled the western world of letters with his un- ecnventional fervor. His work in this volume is not rhythmic, and, of course, it is not rhyme. It is prose in form, save in the matter of arbitrary versification. But it breathes a strongly poetic sentiment and becomes impassioned in strains. After the fervent tribute to the Yosemite, under the title of “The Voice of the Valley,” the most notable production in this little vol- ume is “The Song of Songs, Which Is Nogu- chi's with its thought-arresting sub-line “I Hail Myself as I do Homer.” HOURS WITH THE GHOSTS; Or, Nineteenth Cen- tury Witehera Illustrated. Investigations lute the Phen Spiritualism and ‘[heos- ophy. By Ridgely Evans. Chleago: Laird & Tee. ‘The author demonstrates the mechanical and physical means whereby certain so- called “materializations” and other phe- nomena are produced. He reveals the secrets of rope tying, slate writing, spirit photography and other more or less fa- miliar devices whereby, charlatans attract attention. Appended is an account of the life and work of Madame Blavatsky, to- gether with a synopsis of the doctrines of the theosophists. It is a most interesting work, and its carefully chosen illustra- tions aid the reader. DREAMS IN HOMBSPUN. By Sam Walter Foss, author of “Bact uuntry ms," White ‘rom Wild Meadows,’’ ete. Boston: Lee & Shepard. hington: Wm. Ballantyne & ‘Sons. Mr. Foss is to New England what Riley is to the middle west, its laureate. His folk-poems have reached the hearts of his own people and have found eager listeners even in other sections where the “Down East” qualities are appreciated for their own worth and real poetic flavor is never allowed to go astray for lack of the liking. SOCIAL LIFE IN OLD VIRGINIA BEFORE THE WAR. By Thomas Nelson Page. With {lus- trations by the Misses Cowles. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Washington: Bren- tano’s. in republishing this charming sketch of ante-bellum days in the Old Dominion Mr. Page declares that he has sought to cor- rect some impressions of the south unfor- tunately created by errors in literary and dramatic productions heretofore circulated among the people of the north. At the same time he confesses his main motive to be “sheer affection.” IN PORTIA’S GARDENS. By William Sloane Kennedy. Bos! Bradlee Whidden. Wash- ington: Brenta A bird lover has here written his im- pressions, the results of his close observa- tions among the songsters and the nest builders. After several chapters of charm- ingly written matter he gives in an appen- dix an index, so to speak, of the calls of many of the most familiar field and wood birds, together with those of some rare visitors. THE LITTLE DAME AND THE WILD ANI- MALS; A Story Told by a Little Girl to Aiuuse Her Baby Brother Iilustrated; Second. Edi- tion. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Co. This quaint appearing and reading story has itself a story. It was first printed in 1880 by a twelve-year-old boy on an ama- teur press. The illustrator was the pub- Usher's seven-year-old sister. The combina- tien was innecently artistic, and the funny little tale is well worth reproduction. As a Christmas novelty it is a striking success. AIYAT OF DOC SIFERS. comb Ril By James, Whit- 1. M. Retyea. ley. Illustrated by z 3 New York: The Century Co. Washington: Brentano's Doc Sifers is well knawn, in the abstract, in every American village. Whitcomb Riley came near to writing a folk-lore epic when he chose as the hero of this extensive poem the figure of an old-fashioned country doctor. As Maclaren’s ‘‘Doctor of the Old School’ suffuses many hearts with tenderness, so Riley's “Doc Sifers” stirs the emotions. TALES OF THE SUN-LAND. By Verner Z. Reed, author of ‘‘Lo-To-Kab." _Ilustrated by L. Se An interesting announcement of the- Hotel Bunplie—-see ad, page 5. . == Maynard Dixon. New York: Continental Pub- Mshing Oo. eS Eight stories ofiitNe ‘pueblos and even more mysterious regions of farther south are here toki by ¥’wMiter who has thor- oughly imbibed the! ‘@#tmosphere of the Aztec and Indian ilore. The tales are in- teresting and well,get. forth. PROTESTANT ‘¥ATfH; Or, By Dwight Hinékley Oimstead. with an Iptroduction on the Lim! ‘Thought. x lew York: G. P. Putnam's Wie 8 DEFIANT HEARTS. ' By Wi Heimburg, author of “My Heart's Dariing,® “Good Luck,” ‘Her Only Bapther,"’ att Ma curenalated by Annie w. cand H. T. "New : BF. Fenno & Co. Wasdsingtde: Brentano's, THE HAPPY SIX; of the Miiver Gate Series. By Penn Shirley, authot of “Little Miss Weezy,’ “Xe ‘Master ‘The Merry Five,” etc. Tilustrated. Lee & ‘Shepard. : Wm. Ballantyne & Sons, GUARDING THE BORDER; Or the Boys of the Great Lakes. War of 1812 Series. By Ever- ett T. Tomlinson, author of “The Boy Sol- diers of 1812," ete. Boston: Lee & Shepard. Washington: Wm. Ballantyne & Sons. OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES. By Rosa Nouchette Carey. author of ‘‘Nellie’s Memories,” “The Old, Old Stor ete. | Philadelpbia: J. B. Lip- pincott Co. Washington: Brentano’ STRIFE. “By Jane Helen “The Green Graves of Dodd, Mead & Co. DAUGHTER oF Washington: HER PLACE IN THE WORLD.’ By Amanda Douglas, author of “In ‘Tru: “Clandia,”” ete. Boston: Lee & Shepard.’ Washington: Wm. Ballantyne & Sons. THREE MARGARETS. . By Laura E. Richards, author of “Captain January,” “Melody,* “Queen Hildegarde.”’. ete. Illustrated. Boa- ton: Estes & Lauriat. PACIFIC SHORES; Or Adventures in Eastern 8 By Oliver Optic. | Mlustrated. on: Lee & Shepard. Washington: Wm. Ballan- tyne & Sons. AT THB FRONT; The Blue and Gray On Land Serles. By Oliver Optic. Boston: Lee & Shepard. ‘Washington: Wm. Ballantyne & ns. ON PLYMOUTH ROCK. By Samuel Adams Drake. Illustrated. Boston: Lee & Shepard. Washington: Wm Ballartyne & Sons. ER. By “Rita,” author of “A Woman “A Husband of No Importance,” etc. Rand, McNally & Co. THE GOLDEN nd Miscellaneous Poems. By Wm. Philadelphia: The Levy- type Co. —— THREW PHYSIC TO THE DOGS. How a Consumptive Got Well in Spite of the Doctors. From the Chicago Times-Herald. Product of Boston’s beauteous Back Bay, Ralph Waldo Thompsor made up his mind to die. He was only twenty-five years old, but was sick of doctors, some of whom had a cure for consumption and some had net. The fierce east wind of the Massa- chusetts coast had bitten into his lungs. Very little of them was left. He was six feet high and broad in proportion. At Harvard he had been stroke of the second beat on the river, ‘main backstop of the second nine and a substitute on the Uni- versity eleven. There must have been something inherently weak in him, how- ever. Three years after leaving college he was a doomed man. He was an orphan, with plenty of monay, and the doctors sent him south. He went to Florida, which he found too damp. Then he went to Denver, which re found too high. In New Mexico he could get nothing to'eat. All this time he was consuming gpd liver oil by the gal- lon and coughing his soyl out. It seemed a villainous thing to him that a man of his physique should die like a rat. Human science was a very'little thing, after all, he thought, when/iét- could not handle a microbe whose life and, habits were so well known. Finally, in desperation, he decided to try the table lands of western Texas. He bade his few ‘friends good-bye and bearded the train for Saa Antonio. He reached the, quaint, half-Mexican city after an exhausting ride of nearly 3,000 miles, more dead than alive, and was carried to his hotel, The December air was like wine. A brilllant sun shone from a sky that was cloudless blue. A profusion of flowers bloomed in the yards. Near his window grew an oak,, and in its leafy branches mocking birds sang the whole day through. It was.a world into which snow and ice did not,enter, He found that his livid face and gaunt frame, with the pathetically raised shoulders and sunken chest, excited no comment in the hotel or on the streets. There were many like him fighting desperately for a few mere days of life. He missed the sympathy that had burdened him in Boston. People regarded him and his disease as a matter of course. The hotel physician was a fat, jolly little man with a red face. “Sleep us much as you can,"’ he told him, “and don't tire yourself. You've come down here too late to do any good, but with care you'll last through the winter. The trouble with you fellows is that you won't come south until you have one foot in the grave.” ‘Thompson was far gone, but he had some of his old spirit left. “I may have one foot in the grave,” he said, “but you can bet your underiaker’s commissions, Doc., that the other one is on the moon. I'll live to bury you y. That was one promise which Thompson made. In a day or two he had occasion to make another. Going into the hotel dining room for breakfast, faultlessly dressed, as was his fashion, but tottering with weakness, he found op- posite to him at table a giant of a man. ‘This was an Irish railway contractor nam- ed Grogan, height six foot two, chest meas- ure 45 inches. weight 220 pounds, roughly good-humored, occasionally brutal, and without the memory of one day sick in all his life. He looked at Thompson with dis- approval, and when the consumptive began to cough pushed his chair back angrily. A small bit of phlegm had lodged upon the poor devil's snowy scarf. Grogan glared at it ferociously. ‘‘Thot's a beautiful scarfpin yez hov there,” he said. ‘Couldn't yez cough me up a pair of cuff buttons?” He tramped heavily out and Thompson looked after him helplessly. “I'll get even,” he said to himself. A man whom he met at a bar room, half drunk but wholly companionable, seemed to take more interest in him than any one else. This fellow was a graduate of Princeton, had lived for some years in the west and shot game for the market. ‘How much money have you paid the doctors?” he asked. “Ten thousand dollars, if a cent,” said Thompson, bitterly. The mar- ket hunter whistled. ‘‘Well,” he declared, “I can cure you fora bottle of wine. It makes no odds where a man dies. If he's got to go he might as well have the blue sky over him as a tin roof. 1 would rather have it myself. People standing around his bed don't do him any good. They'd only irritate me. Liye in the open air, man, it’s your only chance, Don't say a word to the doctors, but get yourself some rough clothes and go out on the plains. You may die there, but you'll die here, sure.” “I’il g0,”" said Thompson, and they drank the wine. ‘The next day Thompson spent some mon- ey. He bought him a stout covered wagon and a pair of good mules. Into the wagon he loaded bedding, some books, a frying- pan, a Dutch oven,’a coffee pot, food sup- plies, a Winchester, rifie, a shotgun, am- munition, a barrel.ef eight-year-old whisky and a small looking, glass. He hired a ne- gro man to dc the, coesing and attchd to the animals, crawled into the wagon, lay down on the blankgts amd whispered to his servant to drive northwest. It was done. Then began a bitter strugie for life that was fought out imosijence. Jogging over hard roads all day; and. coughing all the night; feeling himself;or a little while grow weaker, and saying to himself that the end was neary racked by fever and all its pains; shivering with cold in the warm days and dragged ck, from the jaws of death more than'“oféd! by the powerful stimulant of the liquor’ Thompson battled on. The air, though, jas ozonic. It sent the blood through eyen his shrunken veins. Far on every side felled, the prairie, shore- less as the sea. Overhead at night strange stars burned in a™yault of jet black. An infinite quiet was’droand. When the wa- gon was still there wag no sound save the swish of the wind in the grasses. If a norther howled down across the plains shelter was sought in the hollow of some creek and giant fires were built. For many days the negro did the hunting, but Thomp- son found that after the first stress of the grapple he grew stronger. He walked by the side of the wagon then, but often crawled into its bed,to rest. Then he took skort excursions for antelope and black- tailed deer. He me something of a stalker. He fished more. Always the air, pure as the first breath. that breathed o’er Eden, was around him, healing his torn lungs, building up the tissues anew. In six months’ time, aitholgh the hot summer ‘was on them, he slept like an infant. When the winter came again the negro, who had grown tired of'savagery, drew his wages and quit. ‘shompson, with the same wagon and mules, but another barrel of whisky, went it alone. He liked it better that “way. He thoight that -his solitary “Cash or credit.” From 7 to 9 Friday eve| From 7 to 9 Friday eve| From 7 to 9 Friday eve} Hecht’s shall sell the genuine “E. & W.” 4-ply 2100 linen col- lars—all the leading shapes—the price of which you know well is 25¢.—for 1214 cents. Not over two to one buyer. Ist SUITS. We've picked ont of our regu- lar stock six different patterns in boys’ double-breasted suits in sizes 8 to 15, which sold for $3 and $3.50—and tomorrow we offer you the choice of them for $1.98. 58 silk waists for $3.98. ‘We have closed out a maker's entire sur- plus stock of black silk waists in 2 differ- ent styles—tucked front and back and with Pleated back and yoke. We've bought these very same waists to sell for $8 all season and we're pleased to be able to get them to sell at the really extraordinary price of $3.98. Ladies’ 49c., hats, 19c. We have bought an enormous lot of ladies’ and children’s felt hats, in-the latest shapes and colors. They are the very same hats which we sold for 49c. a short while ago so rapidly. You should certainly appre- ciate our bringing them to you for 19¢.—a saving of 30c. days at Lot of boys’ chinchilla reef- Hercules reefers which up to this time have been $3.50—will go for 2 $1.98. 13 HECHT’S NEWS. Hecht’s shall sell ladies’ fine hemstitched embroidered hand- kerchiefs—some with polka dots —some with lace inserting—the regular 15c. and 19c. handker- chiefs—for 8 cents. | 24 Boor. ‘Two wrapper sales. Tomo:row. yon get the choice of a lot of best fleece-ined flannelette wrappers—with lined waists and braid bound—which sold for 98e. and $1.25—for 69 cents. You get the best German_eiderdown Wrappers—which have been $1 $1.29, Lot of 16c. ribbons, 9c. Immense lot of ?%-inch satin, plaid silk and moire silk ribbons, which have been 16c. a yard, go down tomorrow and Satur- day. price, while they last—9c. For these two days we make the yard. | | Special 2-day values in boys’ clothing. Come for them tomorrow and get the best choice. Keep in mind that boys’ suits are most appro- priate gifts. Easy payments—when you want them. REEFERS. TOP COATS. We've bunched a lot of boys’ e kersey and tan covert to waists ers—in sizes 3. to 8 yeare—with sono aa ft cd anip—witl go thea twe ease sailor collars—some bound with Soa hae fy treat Reaael Ok Series = 8 fy front finished wi aoe pearl buttons and yelvet col- 39 cents. lara to match—which sold for $7 and $8—sizex 4 to 15—at the uniform prige—for 2 days—at $5.00. Open evenings. Hecht's shall sell a white or a gtay-colored border blanket— with taped edges—the same blanket which is sold regularly for 79¢.—for 39c. pair. 3d floor. WAISTS. one, bors’ peated tue fan w sell for B0e. The regular 85e. “Mother's Friend” laundered shirt waists poys—will go these tw ys at 49 cents. Bath robes, $2.98. The best quality of —with cord and tassel—which sell about town for $5 and $6—will go for a day at _ $2.98. _ Waiters’ jackets, 49c. rdewn bath robes tonght all of Alfred Benjamin & Co.'s white dock waiters’ jackets, and un- der price. Instead of $1 you get them for 49 cents. Two lots plumes cut. are cle in iE ont what we k ostrich pirmes, a them "ve not half to pa Finest ‘quality 39c. ones, 16c. 98c. ones, 49c. for m them. Coats. Ladies’ kersey cloth coats — made according to the very newest styles—coats that sold early in the season for $5 and $6, and which big values at those ¢> 08 prices—will Bo. for. Ladies’ boucle coate—lined all through with silk — also lot of all-silk lined Kersey cloth coats, in all sizes up to 44— armente which gold for $10 and $2 o5 Sis" cartier will go for. Soe finest green, kersey brown coats, and ‘made with strap seams, front—lined duchesse—velvet in tan, new shade back and throughout with heavy satin collars—the most stylish the season—which sold for $20 and §25—and readily, too —will go for... 2” $10.00 Capes. Stylish Kersey cloth capes. — with strap teimming—full ripple sweep—and values which sold for $5 and $6 $5 o8 earlier In the secson—will go for... P2-9' Sp emortortorgecgectecgenncgseatvedondecgetretoetoatontontontengeeeseatenteeseateatonoeogenteneegesseesoetoasonrontentencene eeteeseeseesedseeseecensensesgessecseesese scones oo MCAS OE " the season. And easy payments to make the buying convenient. Lot of electric seal collarettes—lined with changeable silk—full in ripple and made and as stylish as the most expensive—values such as you cannot der $3—will G0 for: <<..<ssem0.sechececsse se Astrakban cloth capes—lined with rha- { dame silk—generously full in sweep—collar and frent trimmed with Thibet fur $2.¢ 8 —$7 and $8 values—will go for.... 93-9! ‘Two lots of plain Saltz’s silk seal plush capes—trimmed with Angora and lined with silk—full in sweep— capes for $4.90. $12 capes for $5.98. Those handsome beaded and braided Saltz’s silk seal plush capes—trimmed with Thibet those ‘same capes which fold for $18 and $20 but a few weeks ago—will go for. 2 $9.98 and silk 1 | | | | Skirts. Brocaded = silk = skirts large. hand- some flowered patterns—full width and | hes s t $8 and $9 valu | can be sold for. sire Sosfoateesonfontoefenfondoeteeseetontoetestestentectonfenieetectone communing with nature made him a better man. Possibly it did. This was his diet: Coffee, strong and biack, three times a day, bread baked in his Dutch oven, beef and mutton bought from ranchmen, deer and antelope venison, quails, wild turkeys, ducks, geese, jacksnipe, bass, perch an potatoes. At the end of two years he was as strong as an ox and weighed 200 pounds. He had lungs like bellows and a voice like a bell. He sold his outfit in Fort Concho and went to San Antonio. On the day he got there the little hotel dcctor died of typhoid fever, and Thompson went to the funeral. Then he found Grogan in the stockyards part of the town, drank with him for half a day, denied the justice of Ireland’s cause, fought him a long, hard fight and whipped him. He did not go back to Poston. No plains are there. —__—__+ 0+ _____ A HORSE’S SWIM. Strange Rave in the Thames at Bat- tersea. From the London Dally Mail. There was an exciting river chase at Bat- tercea last night, and a great saving of life. ‘The chase was about a mile in extent, and @ good deal of life was saved—something approaching a ton, The hero of the adventure may be de- scribed as Dobbin. As a general rule he is a cab ho but he has ambitious mo- ments, in ich his soul rises to the level of Roland’s, and is equal to another charge of the Light Brigade. Such a moment Cal last night. He stood in Milmans street waiting for fares who did not come. A big wind was blowing. It was cold, and the futility and aimless monotony of a cab herse’s life entered his soul. Dobbin shook his mane and stamped his white foot. Atavism asserted itself. The spirit of the ancestral Derby winner re- curred. Dobbin dashed down the street, and,. having no interfering person to pull the reins, he went his own course. This led to the gutter and the river wall. At the gutter there was a portentous smash. The traces broke, a wheel came off, the cab collapsed. Freed at last from hum- drum trammels, Dobbin jumped on the river wall, which at that point is low, looked at the dark river, thought it was tempting, and forthwith fell ever. Instantly there was a bustle on the bank. There was shouting and the noise of boats being cast off from barges. The horse swam to the middle of the stream, with the boats splashing behind. He swam through Battersea bridge, and struck out again. He headed through a middle arch of Al- bert bridge, and to his disgust found that the boats were gaining. The stream helped him and he dreamt of the excitement of Newmarket and the glories he had been de- nied. But there were shouting crowds on the embankment, and lanterns, and that was something. It was a gallant race, but the odds were against the horse. The white boats headed him off, and drove him to the side. Oppo- site Battersea park there was a patch of mud beneath the river wall. To this the boats drove him, and with a shiver of soul- ful ist—or was it cold?—he landed. Ultimately they got him to the roadway, and took him back to his stable. ee ‘Wellington’s Charges Ignored. The grand jury at Baltimore yesterday ignored the indictment against Gen. Felix Agnus, publisher of the Baltimore Ameri- can, for alleged criminal libel of Senator George L. Wellington. Dispatches from five towns in western Kansas state that all:that section of the country is in the path of the worst blizzard ever experienced In years. H Three negroes were lynched near the town of St. Gabriel, In Iberville parish, londay night. ates RUSE OF A WILY TAILOR. Novel Way of Ascertaining a Cus- tomer’s Financial Condition. From the London Telegraph. A funny incident, says a Hamburg cor- respondent, which has just taken plage in Altona, and seems destined to be passing rich in after effects, judicial and social, is now attracting considerable attention in Hamburg and all over north Germany. Last week an Altona journal pubiished an advertisement from an ideal lady in search of a husband. The fair advertiser declared she was wealthy, and did not require her future bridegroom to be endowed with werldly riches, provided he was a suitable life partner. But one condition she would strongly insist on; every candidate for her hand and heart must frankly confess tie sum total of his indebtedness, and truly de- scribe his occupation and prospects. The advertisement provoked a large nam- ber of replies. Among others there was a young but pushing merchant, Mr. H., who thought that a wealthy helpmate would Trove as profitable an investment as could well be found in these hard times of 2 per cent. So he, too, answered the adver- Usement, in a manner at once sentimental and businesslike. He took his fair corre- spondent into his confidence, told her. of his hopes, his plans, and also of his debts. The latter amounted to 2,00 marks all told, but in time he would wipe them all ; out, and keep aloof from debt for the re- | He further explained that he was about to enier into | mainder of his natural life. partnership with a successful merchant, so that his prospects were very fair, all things considered—his debts, to the contrary, not- withstanding. Having sealed and sent the missive, he paused for a reply. The facts he narrated were true. He really was on the point of entering into Partnership with a wealthy merchant, and a few days after he had dispatched the fateful letter he went before the court in erder to have the partnership registered. The partner also appeared, and, likewise, quite unexpectedly, the partner's talkative tailor. “Ah, you here!” exclaimed the sar- torial artist to his customer; “may I ask what kind of business brings you into this place?” “X. and myself have drawn up a deed of partnership and we are here to have it registered. That's all.” “X., di you say? But are you aware of the state of X.’s affairs? Do you know that he is in debt to the tune of 2,000 marks? If I were you I——” “But you are quite sure of what you say? My information is that he——” “Sure? Absolut I have the most con- vincing proofs.” The interesting conversa- tion was continued on these lines for some time longer and when it was concluded the wealthy merchant refused point blank to enter into partnership with the unisus- pecting X. X. naturally asked the reason why, but for a time his curiosity was left unsatis- fied. He insisted, however, so energetically nd perseveringly that at last his would- be partner informed him that he knew exactly his commercial position, and, among other things, had heard of his debts, which amounted to 2,000 marks. Thunder- struck, X. could say nothing for a time. At last he inquired, with a youthful blush mantling his cheeks ‘ou doubtless heard all that from Miss , from—from a lady, in fine.” “Oh, dear, no! It was told me by my tailor!” This Teutonic knight of the scissors had, it appears, suffered from bad debts, and in order to keep clear of them tn future had inserted the advertisement Im ques- weg youths of the city had : repiies, describing the amount of their and, xbove all, the cious information indebtedness. ‘ats ” pre- would enebic hita to cut The big purchase of wraps, skirts, &c., Puts such immense values as these before you. Just to think—searcely half price for wraps so early in Hecht and Company, 515 Seventh St. Sedededetedetedetetetetetetectetetetetntetetet a as well § buy anywhere un- 49 Brocaded gros grain silk skirts —ex- skirts =< and ich are sold everywhere for $12 and $13—now go for a % ” $6.98 Silk brocaded satin acme of stylishness of the se ve skirts — the very the most beautiful ere- eason—lined with best ma- th t bound—e Lot of black taffeta and Roman taffeta siik underskirts the very same skirts which are selling nbout town for §7 O- und $8—go for 2 days at........... . 72 Suits. Your choice of back and Mne and tan serge tailor-made suits—jackets Lined with rhademe silk and some with changeable taffeta—suits which you thought ¢ ap at $18 recently—now go for >10.00 those young gentlemen's coats exact cerding to their cloth. But inste: keeping it quietly to himself he rashly dis- closed part of it to one of his cust mers that morning, and now he is being sued by for Gama 10 the loss inflicted withdrawal from the Perhaps the loss is the law suit is cer- rtaining. — Birds Very Late in Their ern Migration This Season. From the Hartford Times, It is unusual to see the southward migra- lion of the wild ge sv late in the year. Ordinarily these big birds come flying over Connecticut from their far homes around Hudson bay, and hundreds of miles beyond that rugged shore, from the middle of Oc- tober till the middle of November. Most of them seem to have gone by as early as the first week in November or earlier. Their two long wedge-shaped lines, converging to a point at the head in the person of an ex- perienced old gander, are familiar objects to country dwellers in fall and spring. When they are seen going north in the spring it is conside one of the welcome signs that the winter ts pr: aud {1 the ate autumn, wh ward flight is se and early ants, sweeping by at a height which drowns their gurgling cries, and sometimes makes the birds themselves but dim! l2 in the gray-clouded eky, are supposed to be fleeing from the early but fast extending northern winter. bulk the of their migration . if not quite, y day up to tc me of the latest flocks were the larges Just what such a belated southw gration may mean as to the ch the season upen which we have now en- tered does not appear to be wholly clear, The obvious first thought fs that the win- ter has been, yery laggard this year in “shutting dcwn” “on the shores of the Greenland seas. But whether it may also indicate an “open winter” for this latitude is by no means so clear. Ordinarily, the semf-annual migrations of the wild gecse are pretty good season indicators, but not, perhaps, beyend the fact of the beginning or ending of the winter. ‘They go south to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico—but their home is in the far north. There, in jati- tudes as high as man has reached, they Lave their breeding places on the cold and desolate shores of the icy seas. They fly fast—after they do start on their long jour- neys—and achieve vast distances between the pauses for rest and feeding. These be- lated December geese, for example, could perhaps, if endowed with human attri- dutes, give us the latest news of Andrec™s balloon expedition to the pole—and it would be apt to be very recent indeed. They probably know the sccret of the pole— whether ft is a mild open sea there or not. $s ‘To Investignte Chicngo’s Police. Senator Lundin, republican, introduced a resolution in the Hiltnois legislature yester- Gay, calling for the appointment of a Lexow committee to investigate the Chica- go police force. The resolution states in effect that on ac- count of numerous scandals that have arisen rogarding the management of the police in Chicago, the morals, safety ang security of the people of Chicago requires an investigation: | eS es tor uni ims to we €1 worl pledged to pase it, —_