Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1897, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1897-16 PAGES. Be ‘Christmas, Clad. Enjoy your C | much as possible by wearing | new clothes. You might just as well. Your credit is un- questioned, and our easy pay nient system gives you oceans of time to pay it. Cash or Credit, the price remains the :, and lower than any you can find elsewhere. istmas aud bound. New York | Clothing House, 311 Seventh St. Xmas Cakes. . ete Layer and Pound Cakes for , 1209 F St. ; 10 Per Cent Discount for this week only. Don’t miss this opportunity. This discount is made from our already low prices, on the following useful and appropriate gifts for the coming holidays: Lamps, Lamp Globes and Shades, Onyx Tables,| Bronzes, Pi and Vases | and 5 o’clock Tea Stands. Remember, this week only. Goods packed for shipping free of charge. Ry Geo. F e LUT. 4 418 7th St. det-Im-5o teehee teners > neal’ meai Pint Co., | t i Silver Christmas Present Why not buy it where the silver is sterling and the PRIGES ARE ASTONISHINGLY LOW? Experienced holiday shoppers know the advantages consequent upon dealing with E. G. HINES, at 604 9th St. Look at these prices for sterling goods: Comb, Brush and Mirror, in case, $11. Salve Boxes, 35c. Hair Brushes, $2.50. Combs, 7oc. Match Boxes, $1. Bonnet Brushes, 8oc. | Nail Polishers, large size, 75c. Mus- tache Combs, 30c. Hooks and Files, 25¢. Gold Presents, Diamonds, Opera Glasses. Engraving free & prompt. Ii you want to buy a dell.15,18& ot Steet * Useful ; Holiday Presents. eeseedendonten % seated see Don’t walk yourself weary “hunting” something appro- priate to give, you'll be all tired out by Christma: Come direct to eageeeson a se: 4 Z 2 : TOPHAIVS. ¢ z We will suggest acceptable z z gilts of practical utility and 3 3 value. 4 : : Cs Ses : 3 Atomizers. $ 54 Your choice of any Atom- ¥ z izer in the house for only 3 va 5 50c. 2 They sell from soc. to $2.50 . each regular. ‘ a Suit Cases. Just the gift for a man, youth or boy. Elegant cases of our own make. That one % “$5.00 Is splendid value. Have them in finer grades— $8.00 to $23.00. POCKET BOOKS. Genuine Seal Combination Pocket Books. in and : : ; “tt $2.00 Silver-mounted Genuine Seal Combination 2 beautiful si ing \d strong pockets, Christmas Suggestions. Kodaks & ‘Cameras, $5 —and upward. The best in America. - Opera Glasses as low as $3 -50 —Full siz N , excellent lenses. est designs. Gold Eyeglasses — and Spectacles | - $3.00 Genuine Morocco Pocket Books, exquisite tints, block botton of leather all an excellent $4.00 rangement | of should be $5. Pocket Companions, something new and useful, a good gift— 40c. to 75c. pocket Sesetnaoeadad idence etetertonetnntetetetonententntetetetetetetoein TOPHAM’S, Donble Store, % 1231-1233 Pa. Ave.N.W. : FACTORY, 1218 AND 1220 E ST. eenbetere enenotodonenteotoeonertetetenctetecen phonzo Youngs Company. t, cleat brightest retail —at various LOW PRICES, according to of frames. HOPER LENSES, fitted after extra & Feast, . “1311” FSt.+ ter ter yourself, Help $ b 3 3 > 9 To thes ‘ “Gift” Hel ij i elpsl« o? Pa + jest as gem = oe * aprreciate the splendid qualities © © until you secu them. These ¢ © Gilt Reception Chairs, $1.98. Child’s Rocker, $1.00. Large Rockers, $1.98. Reed Rockers, $2.00. Tables, goc. up. and others tov numerous to men- tion! The Houghton de21 40d ae eee ok | het chet hee chee al Co., 1214 F st. oe ee ra £ DUCRO’S ALIMENTARY ELIXIR 1. highly recommended as a remedy for lung dix. eases ond ax a preventive for typbotd, and all kinds of fevers. Agents: E. FOUGERS & CO., New York. del-w,52t,14 est variety ts best otber und vd for st nousebold artic prod iu the enty. Ca n dy -=- Candy === Candy Nearly one ton just received fresh made. Don't buy Candy adulterated with gs ucose and marble dust just be- cause you happen to see it advertised at a low price, when for a very little more mon you can get pure, wholesome goods— : Our Candies are all fresh made, and are guaranteed absolutely pure sugar goods with genuine fruit flav- ors only, and are therefore as harm- less as bread and butter for infants, children or grown people. This is the place to buy Candy— sure, Elphonzo Youngs Co., Wholesale and Retail Grocers, 428 Ninth street, bet. D and B RENAMING STREETS Provisions of the Historical Society’s Bill NEED OF REFORMED NOMENCLATURE Many Duplications in the Existing Local System. ABBREVIATIONS DROPPED Bese SS The renaming of the thoroughfares of this city will again be a subject for the consideration of Congress during the pres- ent session. The Historical Society of the District of Columbia has taken a great in- terest in this subject for several years, and during the last Congress embodied its ideas on this subject in a bill which was in- troduced in the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives, and which it has again revived with slight changes. Its present bill has been laid before the Senate by Mr. MeMil- lan, chairman of the Senate committee on the District of Columbia, and will be re- ferred to « subcommittee early in Jan- vary. ‘The necessity for uniformity in the nam- ing of streets and avenues in the Di of Columbia has become greater during the past few years as subdivision after subdi- vision has sprung up, each of them add- ing a score or more of names to the city’s list, in many in -s duplicating names that used in other sections for When the extension of streets throughout the Di Columbi been completed a tory system of naming streets will have become imperative, and it is quite likely that the suggestions of the Historical So- ciety will form at least the 1 of the new system to be adopted. The society has avoided the use of names of_ living people in their work. The need for the re- ig of stree shown by the many ates now existing. The name has been given to five thoroughfares. There a Grant stia; a Grant street northwest, enue, Grant place and Grant name has been used in an instances. There is a Lin- rostia: Lincoln street north- West, Lincein avenue, Lincoin a Lincoln ter in six instance 'S northwest, adison n court and Madison street, er Presidents have been » hon- much to thoroughly in a multitude of ins people nces, confusion of not inted with th ettere Accor lettered streets given a name, the al ef which is che letter by which they now known ‘Phe lettered strects north are given names as follow: Adams, Buchanan, Cleve- land, Ellsworth, Grant, Mad- ini are Fillmore, oln, » Polk, Quincy Upshur, Rutledge, w Sherman, Tyler, Van Buren. treet north, tegether with Boundary (c Ned Florida idge and the ern branch, avenue), from P Benning read to the passing throu Yi Washir south arc D north, to be known a: Lettered Arthur, Fran ton avenue. to be known as arborn, E rett, lin, Garticld Hayes, Jackson, Knox, te, Monroe, —Nicholsoi od, i Quitman, Rush, Story, Taylor, Un- derwood, Van Ness, Wolcott.’ Adams Mill road, from Columbia road, to be known as Hancock; Adams street, Anacostia, from Harrison, to be known as Ames; Arthur street, Anacostia, from 62 Grant, to be known as Allen; Arthur p northwest, between B and C, New Jersey avenue and st, to be known as Cal Buchanan reet, to be known as Bar- erce from Monr northwest, west from known as Pendleton; northwest, from 1219 a avenue, to be known as street northw from lth extended, Piney Branch ro: to be known as Howard; Clinton place north- Connecticut avenue, to be ; Decatur street northeast, itol, between O and P, to ard; Fillmore street, An- orth ¢ be known as B from Harrison, to be known as Franklin stre northwest, from and from New Jer venue to e P. to be known Campbell; Garfield avenue southwest, from Delaware venue to B, to be known as Gallatin; field avenue, shington Heights, known a Grant street, Anacos- tia, from Monroe to be known as nt avenue _ northwest, from i avenue to Florida avenue and 10th, to be known as Hamlin; Grant place northw: oth to luth, to be known as Colf: nt road, from Tenleytown to Broad Branch road, to be known as Randolph; Grant street rorthwest, frcm Pine to Brown road, to be known as Decatur; Harrison avenue scutheast, from 13th to 14th above GC, to be known as Hamilton; Harrison street, Ana- costia, from Monroe, to be known as Hen- dricks; Hayes court northwest, from 1sth above D, to be known as Pickering; Jack- son street, Anacostia, from Monroe, be ns ackson street northeast, North Capitol to Ist, to be known an; Jefferson avenue northwest, Water street to 3028 M, to be maliwood; Jefferson place north- , from 1218 Conneciicut avenue to 1227 Ith street, to be known as Scott; Jeffer- . Anagostia, from Monroe, to be as Izard; King alley southeast, be- 14th and 15th sireets, South Caro- lina avenue and C, to be known as Kendall; King northeast, from Bladensburg road, to be known Wirt, Knox alley southwest, from 828 I) to 327 F, to be known as Keys; Lafayette avenue, Montello, from Queen, to be known as Jenifer; Lincoln avenue, from Florida avenve and North Capitol to Harewood and Bunker Hill roads, to be known as Marshall; Lincoln square, East Capiiol, from 11th to 1th, to be known as Lincoln; Lincoln Anacos from John: , to be kno: Lincoln street northwest, from Brightwood avenue, te be known as Laurens; Lincoln terrace northwest, head of 15th street and Florida 1 avenue, lo be street _northwe to 1519 lith, to be known Madi avenue northwest, from 51S Ist to 51 L to be known as Dexter; Madison cour! t, from 1216 Madison, to be kno us Muhlenberg; Madiso reet, Anacostia, from Adams to be known as Macon; Madi- son street northwest, from 6th to 7th above M, to be known Pinkney; Madison street nort est, from 621, to be known as Mor- gan; Monroe street, Anacostia, from the dge to Jefferson, to be Known as Wilson; ce northwest, from 1418 14th to o be known as Johnson; Pierce Anacostia, from Harrison, to be known as Putnam; Pierce street northwest, from 1140 North Capitol to 11 ‘ew Jersey venue, to known McKean; Pierce Mill ad, from Rockville turnpike to Rock creck, to be known as Gales; Pierce alley northwest, from 203 L to 140 Pierce, to be known as Clay; Polk street, Anacostia, from Jefferson. to be known as Prescott; Quincy street northeast, between Ist and 2d and Q and R, to be known as Winthrop: Taylor alley southwest, from 478 G to 481 H, to be known as Tompkins; Taylor street, Anacos! from Harrison, to be known as Taney; V hington court northwest, from 480 Washington, to be known as’ Hull; Washington street, Anacostia, from Mon- ree, to be known as Wocdbury; Washing- tcn street northwest, from 722 4th to 715 5th, to be known as Sumter. or They Are Happy. There is one place on Connecticut avenue which is greatly resorted to just now by Christmas shoppers of every class and va- riety. There is a constant stream of hu- manity visiting this place from the time the doors are opened in the morning unti! they are closed at night. Those who come out do so with smiling, happy faces, and it is not surprising, for the place where they visit has in it everything which is calculated to satisfy the inner man. It does one’s heart good to see the splendid array of articles for the Christmas dinner that are collected in this large store room, Connecticut avenue and M street north- west. As may be guessed, the store is that f John H. Magruder, well known to Wash- ington residents. Sosderontondontent SOPH ee eenetns 314-316 Seventh ——__———_——s_ 2 ~ _Looks/assif the Candy % Selling ef the town is + being Gee right here! $ 40c. Candiés selling for 19c. accdunts for it. Sueh a prige ts only possible by reason of our sclling thonsards of pounds where the around-town candy shops sell hundreds! Every ounce of these Candies we guarantee ot rg to be 2s fresh, as pure and as wholesome as any that ever crossed your lips! ‘*Choco- lates”—everg coneeivable in. this sortment! Bon Bons and every cther kind d you by other stores at 40c. we for 1 Nicely boxed in 1, 2, 3 and 5-1 izes. TFLast call for Sunday schools and churches! Committeemen please take no- Special discount prices on large lots. The greatest Umbrella display this town has ever known! And not one in the lot but represents as great a bargain as you've ever known. Children’s School Gloria Umbre Jas—steel_rods—natural weod han- dles—colors guaranteed fast—at the sale prices of 59. and. 98e. for Ladies’ and Men's Um- brellas of gloria silk (the cele- brated Otto Muller silk)—about 3. scores of style bundles to select from—steel reds — natural weed (sterling mounted), Dresden china, rubber, horn, ivory, ebony, natural Fa ss ee 49c. Sas woeds all shades, light and dark ° handl in hook, scroll, styles. $ The handis alone are worth from & A grand lot of Ladies’ 26-in. Og in, Umbrellas. ‘The hk Congo and natar: & silver monnted of Wales: s—easily w 50—our price... sorieste é XS See that magnificent assortment ¢ of high-class Umbrellas, ranging % from $1.98 up to $6.98. Our guar- 3 antee is—if you can duplicate any % of these around town for even & 331-3 per cent higher—we'll buy é your purchase back any time. $ $ ¢ Books by the thousands}! No such book selling % hasever been done before. = Every book want sati é fied, no matter how little % or much you wish to $ spend. & Him,” Tuel colors. 8 of bookmakin writing, Regular our’ price. stesbeeleeteteateedeetetia VITALITY OF THE NEGRO Data That Show the Race Will Maintain Itself. The Birth Rate Higher Than That of the Whites and the Death Rate Steadily Diminishing. To the Editor of The Evening Star: The article in The Star recently, quoted feof the Medicel Reeord, is of vital con- cern to the colored population of the United States. The belief is quite general that the negro is doomed to follow in the wake of the Indian, the Hawaiian, the Australian and other barbarous races that have been touched with the blighting breath of eivill- zation. It seems to be a universal principle that primitive races lose their physical ality when brought into contact with higher order of development. Julius Caes accounts for the bravery and physical prowess of a certain tribe of Gauls by the fact that they were farthest removed from the contaminating influences of Roman re- © such preconceived no- of physical deteriora- io the colored r however ariant with the facts of ob- servatiol izing to notice witt hat cxse d hee conclusions are ched on th St complex of social Lack of knowledge and informa- way to of tenur n men of the scientific who are avcus i to sift, w nd balance and argum spousing a theory based upon them, rush headlong to conclusions upon tae negro question, with the he nd avidity of school boys in : debate. I dare say that the e dence hrougnt forward by the Medicd Record and other high authorities to show colored race is on the ve physical collapse would not be convincing to the same ¢ of minds upon a si other subject within the rang: of sociologi- cal inquiry. n find only three facts upon which is based the belief in the physical decline of that the During the negro was a hale, hearty, vigorous crea- ture, but since emancipation he has be- come subject to numerous physical dis- } orders and an inordinately high death rate. The fact seems to be overlooked that the violent overthrow of a long-standing in- dustrial and social order must nec rily lead to moral confusion and physical di tress, but us there is no continuing cau: the effect will be only temporary and tran- sitional. The eleventh census does not show as high a rate of incr for the colored pop- ulation as was anticipated. The accuracy of tNe eleventh census is widely controvert- ed. No theory, therefore, which rests upon this enumeration can escape the suspicion which attaches to its documentary basis. On the appearance of each census since 1860, public opinion as to the destiny of the colored population has swung from one ex- treme to the other with pendular regular- ity. So confidently may we rely upon this decennial alternation of opinion that we may predict with assurance that there will be # reversal of the present belief upon the appearance of the census of 1900, 3. The vital statistics of the cities so far as they have been studied show that the death rate of the) colored race exceeds that of the white in the ratio of eight to five. These facts are, indeed alarming, but that they do not establish ‘the theory sought to be based upon tem let the following ar- guments show: Ls 1. The birth rate.as well as the death rate is a factor jn the vital product. Un- fortunately there are no trustworthy data as to the birth fate of the colored race. Still, it is known that it must be very high as compared with that of the whites. Even if we grant the accttacy of the eleventh census, still we find that the rate of in- crease for the colored’race slightly exceed- ed that of the whites for the decade 1880 to 1890. Deducting the number of immi- grants for the period, we find: Rate of increase!per/fhousand— Whites . Colored . 2. The death rate of the colored race has not been proved to be higher than.that of a corresponding class of whites subject to the same moral and social environments. Dr. John 8. Billings, commenting upon the vital statistics of the tenth census, says: “If we could separate the vital statistics of the poor and ignorant whites, the tenement house population of our northern cities, from those of the mass of the white popu- lation we should undoubtedly find a high rate of mortality in thig class. 3. Is the death rate for the cities sus- tained throughout the rural districts? Luckily tye census of 1880 gives a complete answer to this question. Death rate per thousand, 1880— Sonth Carolina... 15.90 Massachusetti 59 Alabama + 14.20 New York. Ss Miseisalpp! 2 15.09. Pennsylvania. 92 Georgia. 2 13.7 New Jersey...2! 33 United States. oases 15.00 | If these census figures are reliable the Manche. 314-316 Seventh Two days of most extraordinary and Sterling Silver departments variously leaves uw: G48 Reefer and Blouse Coats, Kerseys, Coverts, Whipcords, A with satins and silks. Have straj braid trimmed. In black, green, unequaled in the annals of the tr of a Jewelry I Silver Novelties and Gold Jewel with these we quote! Compri 10CH 3unched in three lots Lot 1. Lo ll Q* ean 30° BON MARCHE, 14-31 ath rate among the blacks is no higher n that of the whites, and, quoting Dr more: “In the rural district of the negro is not exces: 1es and towns, where in the ¢ brought into close coatact with the e and vices of civilization, that he dies so diy.” As only twelve per cent of the live in the cities, it can readily be seen how unscientific it is to judge the whole by the most unfavorable part. 4. Is the high death rate even in great as to foreshadow — extinction? othing is great or small except by com- wrison. The death rate among the col- ored people to day Is not as great as it was among the whites in the Same com- munities forty years ago, as the follow- ing table will plainly indicaic. Mortality among whites in southern citic Cit, a Al: Charleston, 3. vannah, Ga, ew Orleans, La phone Let compare the present death rate of the colored race with that of the Ger. mans as presented in the census of ISSi), Colored Death Baltimore. 3 1 Munich. , Richmond. + 28.48 Breslan. » Loutsvi New Onle localities forty years a Germans in 1880. As no one has yet been tends to every part of the house—not a section of t but contributes its quota of real, genuine, sure-enough bargains! Here on sale at an almost comic price! tailor-made throughout and are as Handsome and Stylish Coats any shown by Washington merchants | | Bought entire sample line at a price so low as to make this purchase the’ talk of the trade resh, perfect goods, comprising everything in the way of Sterling S costs But understand—the interest ex- is great store the coat event of 1897! 300 Coats Worth yup to $20. Offered at a figure that S$ without competition! These are Shield-Front Jackets as strakhan, Real Boucles, all lined P seams, flap pockets, plains and tan, navy, yale awl red. A chance ade. Manufacturer ry. Red flag pri can't compare All spread on a large table A Grand Display ! at the extraordinary prices. jt 2 Lot 3. WORTH 19° WORTH 48c., 68c. $1, $1.25, and 75c. $1.50, $1.75. | BON MARCHE, | 314-316 Seventh | | An English Journal's Refusal to Be- lieve in American Records of Speed. From the American Machinist The Engineer” ef London does not, re, intend to pc s we a humoro it is sometim: are jeurn: but, neverth: s quite amusing, particularly when trying to demonstrate to its cwn satisfaction. make its readers believe, that thing ul: ter of fact, “impossible, don't you know. In its issue of September 10 it published the official record of the fast ran between Prilacelphia and Atlantic City, N. J., the menth of July last, this record showing the time, from start to stop, to average {crty-eight minutes for the fifty-five and varying slightly The table w: furnished the Baldwin locomotive works, and 1 the performance of the train in 1 for every day of the month, while ying it was a piotile of the read. one-half miles—the figure on different da by 8 he grades travers: One would imagine su information from such a source to be entitled to ae- | eeptance in a respectful manner, and, in fer the time being, the figures were | ved to go unchallenged, and in its issue ef October 23 the Engineer even published } a letter from E. K. Clark of Li | ing that he made the tr found bold enough to proclaim the doc- | motive of the train on when trine of extinction for the southern | cistance was covered in forty-seven min- whites, or of the tough Teutons of Ger-| utes. In its !ssu2 of Novem! how many, what jus tion is there for it | ever, the paper return ject in a in case of the ne; ling editorial, and, referring to the | 5. The death rate of the negro race 1s | official reccrd before published, it sa gradual ‘ond all question, that official record According to the report of the health Bat 15 of the District cf Columbia, the nee or in fact. It is a record of m rate among the colored people of | al impossibilities. Neverthel we radually dec 1 from} think we have actually got tne scientific 3. The following urity in this de- ment is not limited to Washington, but pplies to cities at large, I append a tabie made out by Mr. L. M. Hershaw and pub- lished by the bureau of labor, bulletin No. 10. Annual jeath rate of colored race for three (approximate) quinquennial periods: € )-IBK5. 1885-1890, Atlent 28 3 Balt Chi M Richmond The tendency to a constant decrease 1s unmistakable. The reports of the surgeon general of the army show the same gradual decrease in the death rate of the colored soldiers. Death rate from diseases, colored soldiers in United State Average fiom 185: contradict the general trend of those here presented. It looks as if the death rate gmong negroes took a sudden rise imme- diately after emancipation, and reached its maximum about 1875, from which it has peel du: lly receding ever since. ai fen, the death Tate of the colored element in cities is not greater than that of the corresponding class of whites; if the census returns for the country at large do not show it to be in excess of other classes; if the highest rates now prevailing are not above those of the whites half a century ago, nor higher than tnose of other civilized countries #t the present time; and if this rate is constantly decreasing, it is difficult to justify the opinion of the pessimists that extinction will be tne ultimate fate of tne American negro, . KELLY MILLER, December 17. Howard University. >—— Baby Carriage Suggestion. Why not buy the baby a new carriage for a Christmas present. It is quite true you could not put it in his stockings, but at the same time it would prove very use- ful. Wash. B. Williams, at the corner of h and D streets, has one of the most com- plete lines of baby carriages for Christmas in the city, and he is selling them “way down.” At this establishment there are sny number of pretty things that would make suitable as well as useful Xmas gifts. There are very pretty rockers and dainty lttle parlor chairs and tables, chit- foniers, dressing tabls, cabinets, book cases and desks that would please the heart of any recipient. If you are looking for a present for your wife Wash. B. Wil- liams can furnish you at small cost a hand- some, set of furniture for the bed room or for the parlor. If you are looking for car- pets you should see his large assortment before making your selection. This estab- lishment is well known fer its reasonable prices. —_>—__ The Saturday Star BY MAIL $1.00 PER YEAR. ; truth in Clement will be found another page.” Reference to Mr. Stretton’s letter, thr nges back, shows that it relates to a run | when the time made was There is not a scintilla of | Stretten’s letter, which evidence st the record of 1 but because of th lower time in 1898, the record for th: st season not true either in substance or in fact.” Now the question is: Does the Engineer really believe that because a certain rate | of speed was not attained in 1808, therefore it cannot be in 1897, and that any one who | aims it can be menda jus, or does deliberately intend to resort’ to mere ifegging methods to deceive its readers? | <t confess that we see no other al-} ternative. + Nevertheless, the Engineer ts forced to admit from Mr. Stretton’s figures of the run as made four years ago that Ameri- can locomotives do make faster time than English ones. —_—_—_—_+ Where We Get Amber. From Harper's Round Table. The main source of the amber supply is the sea coast of the Baltic ocean. It is fossil gum, originally the exudation of a species of conifer now extinct. This grew in luxuriant profusion hundreds of thou- sands of years ago on the marshy coasts of northern Europe, when the climate was much warmer than it is today. The natural history of amber is thus explained. The immense forests of amber pine under- went their natural downfall and decay. The resin of the wood accumulated in large quantities in bogs and ponds and in the soil of the forest. Where the coast was slowly sinking, the sea by and by covered the land, and the amber, which had been gradually hardening, was at last deposited at the ocean bottom. But in higher re- gions the pines continued to flourish, and so amber would still continue to be washed down to the shore, and deposited in the later formed green sand, and the still later formed stratum of lignite or brown coal. The gum became fossilized by its long bu- rial underground. More than 200 speci- mens of extinct life, animal and vegetable, have been found imbedded in amber spec- imens, including insects, reptiles, plants, leaves, shells, fruit, &c., which had been caught in the liquid gum and entombed there for all time. Some of these speci- mens are so curiously beautiful as to be almost priceless, and enc English collector has a cabinet of them which is valued at £100,000. One piece embalms a lizard about eight inches long, a little jeweled monster perfect in its form ard coloring, which has no iike in anything existing now. In- deed, in many instances science is able solely through this medium to study de- tails of animal life which perished from the earth many hundred thousand of years ago. There are files preserved with wings poised as if for flight, where the prismatic sheen glowing through the yellow sepul- chre is as brilliant as if they were floating alive In the sunshine. ee ‘The Omaha Bee tells of a clergyman who was catechizing a Sunday school, and, af- ter informing the children that the pastor of a church is its skepherd, while the mem- bers are the sheep, he asked: “What does the shepherd do for the sheep?” To the amusement of those present a smail boy in the front row piped out, “Shear them!” ——_——_ If you are offered a bottle of Salvation OM, with- out wrapper or defaced or mutilated, don't bus it at price; may be sure that there is some- thing wrong: it may be a worthless or dangerous counterfeit." Insist upon get! @ perfect, un- broken, genuine package iu a ‘wrapper. inducements to holiday buyers. The two departments to be specially conspicuous are the Cloak Bibles, prayer books and hymnals at’way less prices than yeuw’ll ever have a chance at again! Special offer in a fine Vin Lather — divinity ¢ renit — lan 3 type—beantiful paper. Has mops and notes, referer concord ance, &.— and we print name or initials in gol worth $1.9+ «ot 61 25 Prayer Beoks and H 75¢. up to $6.75. = mnal Sets, Sensational offers prevailing in our Stationery Department! tain Pens—they possess some goul qualities and service — the ant = bigher-priced =F Etavantecd ina better was Back ff unsatisfactory a present for a Boxes of Hh tex lone special Calendars — every conceival kind—humor conceits, poet- ical, literary, memorandum, Lithographed, hand-painted and etched. From 4c. up. Made by Tu Dutton, Stokes and others. ie rte s ck, all sizes, from vest-pocket editions up to clabor- ate business records. All prices. ries for F&y8 ly includes W: iztier, Mer-d th aad « prires the noted ether ait ina ferent tths to plex from Dat bex ere the Very Dust is of Nature. A Region W) n Cle From the Pall Mall G Fortunate Islands, them. asscciated with cleanline certain. From the duration and tion of their baths the Romans—not the holy, Remans—placed it at leas influ ene might presu but the godliness; yet some nee surely must the law of heredity, for sem to rstuitted to their 7 ver, the tit un ziven to these islands, had or had not ar to this quality, Which we place pro- Hy only rext to godlin the itself is strikingly conspicu ther na The H nost famil , and in Ten- : origiral “drag tree may be | ath which that sieepless dras coiled himself 2 ted as watch the maidc the Today w 2 the langua We have changed the n nd call them the Canaries © in them, however, the nam n . the famous most oft the islands is suptropical, w ms (is not the chief town of the Grand Canary Las Palin bananas, eucalyp) and the afo: uriant vege a climate to them all, but | blessed in “its drynes: Orotava is more grandeur of gardens and spacior = Palme north fresh bh comfortable as could } quality of cleanliness in its superlative gree. “Where all is so dry it is difficult to be dirty, and a positive triumph of innate as the incts over on the part of pre y of them con- tinue to be lie) may dirt n cleanlin ter hment is pe} gre dust is of a cleanly sing nature. It lies in powder on the na groves and palm trees; after a country drive it may make a ¢ rat look as if its wearer's profession had to do with a flour mill; but a shower of rain sweeps it oi the fe . and a shake and a brush off the garment, aed they are all more spotless than they were before. & <a Marricge of Officers in Europe. From the Londor Times. The restrictive conditions at present in force with regard to the marriage of offi- cers in the Russian army forbid this priv Jege under any circumstances in the cas officers under the age of twenty-three; be- tween the ages of twenty-three and tweniy- eight years the dot of an officer's wife must of amount to a sum representing the muni- mum income of 2%) roubles yearly. On comparison of these conditions with those regulating the same question in other European armies, it may be noted that it the Austro-Hungarian aimy the number of officers authorized to contract mar limited by a fixed cach grade, and, th ail further marriage proportion a © Lotais bein must be pending the occurrence of vacanc married establishments. The Halian army regulations, which fix the income of the fiancee at a minimum of from 1,200 te lire, would appear to be more rati their operation; Italian officers, however, apply a somewhat liberal interpretation « this law, with the result that the number ef marriages occurring under its actual provisions do not exceed more than an eighth of the total number, seven-eighths of the officers being united under the condi- tions of the religious ceremony only and thus exposing themselves to all the incon- veniences which attend a marriage not recognized by civil law. Similar disabilities would now appear to be incurred by Rus- sian officers, and suggestions have be made by the press in Russia that’a gener revision of the law is becoming necessary. The question is assuming some importan from the fact that Russian officers reach- ing a total number of nearly 40,000 repre- sent one of the most important classes ia the state. see Duck Exas an Albumen Factory. From the Philadelphia Press, Near Chingkiang, China, is a great al- bumen factory, for the utilization of the duck eggs which are produced in that region in enormous quantities, flocks of 4,000 and 5,000 ducks being by no means ancommon., The eggs are broken at the rate of from 40,000 to 60,000 per day by women, who separate the white from the yoik, the former being carefully cleaned and dried until they resemble fish glue, when they are packed in 400-pound cases lined with zine. The yolks are passed through sieves into twenty-five-gallon re- ceptacles, mixed with a salt and borax soiution, packed in 600-pound barrels, and used in Europe for preparing and dress- lug articles of superior quality. The al- bemen finds a ready market in England, Frapce and Germany for dyes for the best cotton goods.