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NT THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, JANUARY -4, 1898-14 PAGES. re Te Your Credit is Good.” ———, CLOSES! Tomorrow this great special | sale of Parlor Furniture closes. Such prices as it has produced are something so unusual, that the sales have been ‘im- mense since we started it. Such prices are bound ‘to bring purchasers. **Cash or Credit.” eye ed 1) embroidered g-een reduced trem Gilt Reception Chalr, up- 95 ho'stered in silk damaxk—a very pretty and handsome ehair—reduced from $4 to. . We've fully 150 styles of Rockers, and every one is reduced to away below cost. 55 85 For three days the prices om all Solid iahogany Furniture will be reduced to exactly one-half. Lansburgh || Furniture Co., 1226 FSt.N. W. Q : : Q : : é 2 Parlor Suite, in silk dam red—tuft 5- Di upholste re ‘piece Parlor Suite, fire ma hog any-finish frame — in silk Camask—a bargain at $35. For 3 days.-... tain $9.00 Rocker, in mahogany finisi: or solid ‘quartered oak fine silk damask seat—re- duced to.. = Finish! This sale will continue un- til every dollar's worth of Diamonds, Watches, Jew- elry, Cut Glass, Bric-a-brac, etc., is sold. Jacobs Bros. are really retiring from business, and thelr entire stock at Auction choicest pertion of the stock still remains unsold. Sales at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. at Q é : Jacobs Bros., p17? ‘a.ave. Diamond Importers and Jewelers. Estab. 1874. J. H. French will conduct the sale for F. Warren John- son, auctioneer. Je3-God B3999999939935 Freee Exhibit 3 of rare architectural Etchings by Piranesi (1720 to 1778). The works of this talented Italian en- graver and etcher of antiquities were pub- lished in Portfolio In 1836, by bis son Fran- ", Students of history, architects and Q Q 0 Q Q $ t collectors generally will be charmed with ese grand ings of the ‘Coliseum,"* Pantheon,” rch of Con: tine.”” “*Col- 23 —< aa ."" the ‘*Vatlean,”’ “Wall of 9 Veerhoff’s, 1217 F. de31-20d Great Reduction . In Hair. First-class attendants in Hairdressing, Sbampooing, etc. Imperial Halr Regenerator for restoring gray hair Never fails. S. HELLER’S, 720 7th Street N. W. st Coffee! ery fact that not one of the many drinx- as Mocha and Java Coffee bas egistered a complaint f# indisputable fits unvarying excellence. Our ‘x Toasted fresh daily. Price, 3Q o> per pound W.R. Brown, zoth & Pa. ave. 4 i Bar Finest e gains In ;Rubbers2™4 Shoes ¢ Child’s Rubbers = 10c. $ Ladies’ Rubbers = 19c. = Fine Vict Shoes $3.50 And $3.00 qualities reduced to, 91.98 SOO OH HE Ki AND OTHER BARGAINS TOO NUMER- OUS TO MENTION. Robert Cohen & Son, 630 Pa. Ave. N. W. Established 1838. sssswe Q VOONO0004-004 00-06-00 60-0G-0-0—4 FHORIMOO PIO 4 L1G EMO LOE Q é é Q Q Q > Quick Heat! Quite frequently you desire a little in some parts of the house i a timely bargain. About 450 Gas Heating joves—will heat com- fostably a medium-size wom—to sel at the small price of Don't delay in coming for yours! Wash’n Gas Co.,) 413 10th St. Children’s Photos. We have made a special study of branch of ‘We've studied it mothers phy. long and carefully. And that we've never made more Photos than those of children. Our and artistic style of finishing out the prettiness of the “ faces. °** 7 Let us make some photos of baby. W. H. Stalee, 1107 F St., @8TIsTIC PHOTOGRAPHER. eb-164 DR. MeCOY’S NEW YEAR _ MESSAGE The New Methods Better Adapt- ing the Practice to the Needs of People in Moderate Means. Doctor McCoy closed with the concluding days of the year the $3 period and the period of uni- form fixed rates, as stated in the public press. He appreciates that with the emphasis which he thought it best to lend to the announcements of its clesing the inference today with the public would be that he had raised his fees so high that none but those of abundant means could obtain the ad- vantage of his school of practice. Because this inference would be natural enough, it is all the More necessary that it be corrected at the outset and that the correction be so plain and clear that there can be no misunderstanding about it. THE DEPARTURE FROM A ONE-FEE PLAN TO A SYSTEM OF JUST AND ADEQUATE CHARGES FOR DIFFERENT DISEASES, A DE- PARTURE MADE NECESSARY BY THE WON- DERFUL GROWTH OF THE McCOY PRACTICE AND BY THE WONDERFUL ADVANCE THAT IT HAS MADE IN THE TREATMENT OF ALL KINDS OF DISEASED CONDITION: RAISING OF RATES. . N.W., age ears. Cured of dcataceee = Doctor McCoy has discontinued the $3 rate, yet he does not want his patients or the public to think that in the confidence born of the great crowds who nave thronged the offices these con- cluding days of the year he has suddenly raised his fees beyond the reach of the people who have con- tributed to make his practice the greatest numer- feally ever known. There are some whose slight ailments of a sim- ple catarrhal nature, for instance, can be cured for a trifling cost. There are others whose deep-seated diseases require more continued work, and the system of uniform fees, popular as it has been, is today, with the -vonderful increase in practice, po longer practicable. This, then, is the announcement which Doctor McCoy makes with the beginning of the new yi FIRST—Recognizing the unwritten law of the profession that people who have no money are entitled, withoat pay, to the best medical skill, Doctors MecCey and Cowden will, as they always have, treat absolutely free those who are unable to pay. SECOND—Doctors McCoy and Cow- den extend to all, as they always have, a cordial and kindly invitation to visit their offices, and on their flirst visit to receive a trial treat- ment absolutely without cost, with- out pny, or without expectation to pay. THIRD—Al those people who haye slight or trifling ailments, purely Catarrhal conditions, easily capable of a speedy cure under the new methods, will be charged only a triffing fee, while those who have difficult, obstinate or serious dis- eases, requiring a special and long- continued care and attention, will be charged a fee commensurate with the care and attention they require. McCoy System of Medicine, PERMANENT OFFICES DR. McCOY’S NATIONAL PRACTICE, 715 13th Street Northwest. Office hours—9 to 12 a.m.; 1 to 5 p.m.; 6 to 8 p.m. daily: Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. THREE CENTS BOUNTY. Kansas People Want to Keep Down the Rabits. From the Chicago Chronicle. The rabbit is multiplying by miilions an- nually in Kensas and destroying the young fruit orchards as fast as Kansas farmers can plant thera. A dozen counties are now offering a bounty of 3 cents for every patr of long ears and scalp brought to the coun- ty treasurer. At this price for bunny’s scalp there are scores of able-bodied men in the state who are making good wages killing rabbits, to say nothing about the sport connected with it. The board of commissioners for Sumner county were the first to Inaugurate a war on the jack rabbit. Three weeks ago they offered a bounty of 3 cents for every one killed. he last report from that county stated that the county treasurer had paid bounties on more than 11,000 rabbits. A few da ago the people of Belle Plaine, in mner county, decided to have a grand pbit drive. Two hundred men and boys, with a pack of greyhounds, surrounded a tion of level prairie six miles square and marshed to a common center. When the lines were closing up the speotacle of a thousand or more jack rabbits hemmed in by the hunters was worth traveling miles to see. With guns and clubs as the wea- pons, 600 rabbits fell victims of the chase, while the heunds Lilled many of the ani- mals as they broke through the lines. Stm- ilar hunting parties go out into the country from the towns nearly every day and round up jack rabbits. ——_—__+«-—____ One Million in Shines. New York Letter in Utica Press. A million dollars may seem like a large stm to be spent in New York for the pol- ishing of shoes in a single year, but from the data at hand it may be stated quite positively that this is none too large an estimate, even for the towh as now consti- tuted. Counting all the municipalities, villages, etc., to be included in the greater city, the amount name is probably too small. It is impossible, of course, to secure any definite figures of the general shoe polish- ing industry here. In the aggregate it is enormous, employing literally thousands of men and boys, in addition to those who wield the brush independently on the streets. Every hotel and every business building, every barber shop, many saloons and some of the ferry houses are furnished with stands. These are rented out to men who are in the business as employing cap- italists Fifteen hundred dollars is not an unprecedented anual rental. About 400 boys, some of them old enough to be called men, shine shoes on the ferry boats of the various lines between Manhat- tan Island and Staten Island, Long Island and the mainland. These boys are employ- ed by five different establishments. a ON ISLES OF THE PACIFIC Ex-Consul General Ohurohill Tells of Samoa and Hawaii. Qucer Delicacies of a Dinner—Drunk- enness That Affects Only the Lega —A Native King’s Gift. Wilham Churchill, ex-United States con- sul general to Samoa, has just returned to Washington. He resigned his post nearly a year ago on account of illness in his family, but remained to turn over his post to his successor. He left Apia November 3, but remaiaed some time in Hawali, which ke visitéd on his voyage home. Mr. Churchill is now at the Auburn, on Pennsylvania avenue. « At a Hawaiian Dinner. While in Hawali Mr. Churchill met Sena- tors Pettigrew and Dubois. He took din- her with them in Hilo, and tells an amus- ing story of the affair. With him ‘was Mrs. Churchill and two Hawaitan young ladies who spoke English were introduced to the two senators, and occupied seats next them at the table. The piece de resistance of the dinner, as is generally the case in Hawaii, consisted of poi, which is the national dish there. Poi is a sort of pinkish paste made from a plant, and tastes to a person ac- customed to it, Mr. Churchill states, much as buckwheat batter would probably taste if tried. The dish is designated according to its thickness by one-finger, two-finger and three-finger poi. The thicker it is, the less fingers are required with which to scoop it out of the pot. The efforts of Senators Pettigrew and Dubois to get the pul on a fork were very amusing, until they were shown how to manipulate the stuff. They did not like it, howeyer. The next dish con- sisted of live small fish handed abou in bowls. Those who knew what was the proper thing under the circumstances, sim- ply lifted the fish, still alive, out of the bowls by their tails and ate them. The two senatorial representatives were not pleased with this part of the bill of fare, nor with the next, which consisted of raw shrimps. hen came a dish, cooked, which appeared, and tasted, most succu- lent. The general opinion was that it was some sort of rabbit. As a matter of fact, it was puppy, and when Mr. Churchill an- nounced this to be the case it came near breaking up the party. Mr. Churchill had attended Hawaiian dinner parties before. The National Drink of Samoa. “The national drink-of Samoa, in fact of all Polynesia,” Mr. Churchill said, “is what is known as kava. This is made by girls chewing the roots of the big pepper plant, and the quids are then placed in water. The kave comes from this. It is a mild drink, and intoxicates only after two or three quarts of it have been consumed. lis effects are most peculiar. The effects are felt only from the hips down. A person who is unde- its influence can look with a conscienec-stricken heart on a drunken pair of legs, which have absolutely gone from under the control of the possessor. Great remorse is experienced at the same time, but fortunately this passes away with the jag and no bad results follow. ‘The kava is held in large bowls, and all the chiefs have what are known as ‘cup names.’ These are used only when the kava is being drunk. It is a sort of an alias club.” Memento of a Warlike King. Mr. Churchill is recognized as one of the most eminent of Polynesian archaeologists. He has spent much time among the is- lands of that group, besides the time when he was consul general at Apia, and has made a large collection not only of eth- nological objects, but of Samean ‘folk lore stori He brought back with him for the National Museum an interesting relic presented him by Malietoa Laupepa, King of Samea. It is a war club, which has been in the possession of the royal family of Samoa for twenty-nine generations. 1t is of iron-wood, unusually finely carved with the s ‘k’s tooth, which is used in such cases. The club is about three feet in length, heavy, and unusual interest at- taches to it, in one respect. One of the points has been broken off, and this is said to have occurred at the killing of a high prigst, who met death at the hands of one of the kings. The latter was a powerful monarch, physically, and when he wielded the weapon on the head of the unfortunate victim the skull was shat- tered as if it had been an egg shell and the club struck a stone, breaking the point. The ex-consul general reported to the State Department late yesterday afternoon, He said that he had some news of more than ordinary political interest to trans- mit to the department. He will remain in Washington about a week. oe THE PRIVATE LIFE OF ANTS. Remarkable Demonstration of Their Power of Recollection. From the London Times. Sir John Lubbock, M. P., delivered last week a iecture on “Ants” to the members of the Royal British Nurses’ Association, at the rooms of the Zoological Society, Hanover square, W. The lecture was the first of a series to be given on various sub- jects to the nurses during the session. Sir Dyce Duckworth, a vice president of the association, presided, and there was a large audience. Sir John Lubbock commenced by describing his method of observation, and said that he had been able to make the ants under investigation so comfortable that they lived as nearly as possible under natural conditions. Their jife was much longer than had been supposed. He had kept many for several years, two queens had reached the age of fifteen years, and these were by far the oldest insects on rec- ord. Ants watched over their young with a skill and terderness which not even the Royal British nurses could excel. They never quarreled, and no one had ever seen a dispute between two ants belonging to the same nest, yet they were very brave and defended their homes like little six- legged Leonidases. Unlike the so-called higher animals, they never turned qgainst a weak or wounded companion. One of his ants had come into the world a cripple, but she was carefully tended and fed for months by Fer companions. All the ants. of a community knew one another and they would not tolerate a stranger, even of the same species, in the nest. He had sepa- rated a nest into halves and found that even after eighteen months they still rec- ognized their old companions. They did not, however, show any pleasure or sur- prise at meeting them again. It had been suggested that ants recognized one another by a sort of password, but this was not the case. He had made fifty ants quite drunk and incapavie and then put them near a nest to which twenty-five of them belonged. These twenty-five were carried back into the nest, where, no doubt, they slept off the effects of their involuntary debauch; the other twenty-five were thrown into the moat which surrounded the ants’ park. The senses cf ants differed in many respects from those of humanity. They probably heard sounds which were inaudible to us, and saw the ultra-violet rays which were invisible to us. Some species key slaves, and one kind had lost the instinct of feed- ing and. would starve if left by themselves, even if food were provided. He had found, however, that they would live for weeks if they had’a slave for an hour-a day to feed and clean them. Several species kept aphides, which they milked like cows, and he had found that in the autumn they col- lected the eggs of the aphides and kept them all through the winter, although they were of no use, and the young aphides hetched from them gave none of the sug- ary fluid till the following May or June, so that the ants showed :nore thrift and forethought than many human beings. Their instincts, though so wonderful, were very limited, and yet when ants wei watched building their nests, feeding their young, defending their homes, making roads, tending thelr domestic animals, and, in some cases, their slaves, it was difficult to suppose that they were unconscious automata, and though their mental powers were, no doubt, greatly inferior to ours, the difference was probably not so much in kind as in degree. -—_—__+e+___—. “He told me to get off the earth. What do you suppose he meant?” “He needed a seemed to think that you bath, 7." —Louisville jour- ——+e-_____ There are three varieties of the never bark—the Australian the tian shepherd dog and the dog of Thibet. , that 4 THEY AR&- AFFLICTED Rie Which Has Killed the ” Wiolets. A Peculiar Dit Seareity ef Flowers Aro Time—Studying the Diseases of (Pigivers A young man recently went into the es- tablishment of a.prominent florist in the city to purchase some violets for a young lady. The young man in question was not in very affluent circumstances, but he thought he had enough money with which to purchase at least.a hundred of the frag- rant little blooms. “I suppose it will be about $4 for 100.of the choicest flowers?” he said to the florist. “You will have to add just a dollar to that amount if you want to make the young lady a present of really chgice vio- lets,” the dealer told him. In explanation the florist said that vio- lets are not more than one-fifth as plenti- ful this year as last. “Last Christmas I handled about 10,000 violets,” he told the visitor to the place, “whereas this year I could only handle 2,000. The reason? Well, the violets could not be obtained.” ” Then he went on to say that this has been one of the poorest seasons for vio- lets known almost since the demand had arisen for the flowers. This demand each year is greater and greater. This season the disease known among cultivators as the “spot” has done deadly damage to the violets. In consequence cultivators who last year shipped away thousands of the blue, fragrant little blooms this year have not shipped more than hundreds. It is not only violets, however, which have been scarce, as the weather conditions have been such as to preclude the possibility of raising other kinds of flowers in the usual quantities. Carnations have also been afflicted with a disease which has rendered them exceedingly scarce in some sections. Roses have not been omitted from the list of plants which have suffered from disease. lf histories were Kept uf plants and flow- ers, as they are of human beings, this year would be designated as one in which “the plague” had visited them. Experimenting with the diseases of flow- ers is no new thing at the Department of Agriculture. The. division of vegetable Pathology is devoted especially to this. Hot houses over there are used exoressly for this purpose, where Profs. Woods, Smith and Dorsett frequently experiment with the flowers and study them in all their phases. In addition to this, Profs. Galloway and Dorsett, who live on ad- joining lots at Garrett Park, have erected out of their private means hot houses, where they each year raise four or five thousand violets for the purpose of ex- perimenting with them. Prof. Dorsett was seen at the Denart- ment of Agriculture this morning in ref- erence to the disease afflicting the violets. He said to The Star reporter: “There are probably about a dozen dis- eases which visit the violet kind. Of these the ‘spot’ is the one most known and most dreaded by the growers. The first thing noticed is a slight spot on one of the leaves, probably no bigger than a pin head. This developes until the entire leaf is con- suined. The disease is contagious, and 1 have seen a whole house of the violets de- streyed by the spot inside of a week. The leaves are the life of the plant, and when they become affected the plant is vitallv affectec. The ‘spot’ is a fungus growth, consisting of a imumber of spores. We have not as yet found any successful cure for ihe disease, It jis sometimes called smallpox by the growers, but ‘spot’ is the most commen name. “We have found in our experiments that the only successful way to raise violets is to get the most‘hardy kinds. Growers should no mcre:ithink of raising violets from the shoots off.unhea!thy plants than breeders would think of breeding animals from ones which have beer. afflicted with disease. Great care i® needed to get the most healthy ones) “The weather: conditions just before Ghristmas mitigated. greatly ugainst the producing of large numbers of flowers around Washington. “There wus scarcely a sunsiiny day in three weeks, and flowers in kot houses must have the sun or they will not thrive. Experiments have been made with electric lights on different tlow- ers and vegetables. The are lights have been kopt burning through the night and the experiments have been found successful as far as some specimens were conccrned and unsuccessful with others. Lettuce, for instance, has been found to mature a week earlier when the electric lights have been kept burning at night than the plants which have not had the light. There are no facil- ities at the Department of Agriculture for experimenting with the electric light. “A compazatively new disease has beers discovered lately among the rose tribe, and only among one or two varicties of this. 1 was shown by a prominent florist some specimens of rese plants which had become fully developed and which had withered on the stems. Experiments will be conducted so as to find cut what caused this and to seek @ preventive, if possible.” —_—_+—__ NEW TRIAL GRANTED. Judge Bradley Sets Aside Verdict in Bane Will Cane. On motion of counsz2l, Judge Bradley has set aside the verdict, recently rendered, breaking the will of the late Gen. Moses C. Bane. A new trial of the cause is granted. The widow, Lucy Lefts.ich Bane, was made sole beneficiary under the will of the de- ceased. Two sons, Edgar M. and Howard K. Bane, contended that their father’s e exercised undue influence over him and the jury so decided. Uniform Rank, K. of P. ArHngton Division, Uniform Rank, No. 9, K. of P., elected the following officers last night: Captain, I. Little; first lieutenant, Roger Reeves; second lieutenant, Chas. Fieischman; secretary, Arthur Talks; treas- urer, Chas. Weitzel. Speeches were made by all the above gentlemen, after which they partook of a substantial banquet. —— ‘The Library Cafe. The cafe and restaurant in the new Con- gressional Library building opened today for business. Superintendent Green of the library bailding has selected Mr. George A. Mills to manage the cafe. It will be under the constant supervision of Mr. Green, however, whose intention is to have the restaurant conducted upon a plan com- mensurate with the dignity of the building. The restaurant occupies a long room on the top floor of the building, facing south and west. A dairy lunch for the benefit of those who do not care for a heavy lunch in the middle of the dey has been provided, while a more elaborate cuisine will be avail- able for those whbd.degire it. No privilege to geil intoxicating liquor in the restaurant hag hee granted. It is said tha’ whatever may, be done in that direc- tion in the future{wilkjbe in harmony with the best practica im yegue at the Capitol restaurants. The;idbegry building is in a measure on the same,pasis as the Capitol building, and the samg, rules will probably be applied. o <r A Cowe1Ful of Gold. Mohawaka, Ind., Diggatch fo the Chicago Chrontcle, , Elisha Woodford, who, with his family, lives on a farm threermiles north of this city, has for yeérs @wned a cow. Five years ago Woodtbrd’g wife placed $500 in gold in a boxful gf bryan which had served as a receptacle in the cellar for many eggs. Daring the mother’s four weeks’ absence last spring the children decided to replace the bran in the chest, and the box was placed in a convenient location for the bovine to reach its contents.” Several weeks ago the money was missed by the woman, but in her distress not a single member of the family recalled the incident of early spring. The money was given up as having been stolen. Last week the cow became ill and the ‘Woodfords veterinarian and several lertook to explain the und mal's dissected find a small mcm nner $800 in gold. to Mrs. Woodford's ee Oe en B onlookers: were startled The Busy Corner, - * 8th & Market Space. 200 FINE CHEVIOT SERGR SUITS, TAILORED BY MEN, IN BLACK AND NAVY—THE ENTIRE JACKET LINED WITH ALL-SILK CHANGE- ABLE TAFFETA — SKIRTS LINED THROUGHOUT WITH THE BEST QUALITY PER: CALINE. ‘HIS SUIT IS WELL WORTH $12.50. WE HAVE EVERY SIZE. WILL BE SOLD IN THIS GREAT S. Kann, Sons & Co. CAPES AND SUITS. ThE GREATEST Coat and Wrap Sale That Has Ever Taken Place on the Ameri- . can Continent. WHILE OTHERS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO UNLOAD UNDESIRABLE STOCK a WE HAVE REIMBURSED OUR IMMENSE ASSORTMENT WITH A FRESH PUR: CHASE OF SEVERAL THOUSAND GARMENTS, CONSISTING OF COST OF THE OUTER MATERIAL. WE HAVE TAKEN SEVEN OF OUR LARG- ———————— eee EST WINDOWS TO DISPLAY THE VARIOUS KINDS AND PRICES? WHO HAVE WAITED TO PURCHASE UNTIL AFTER THE HOLIDAYS WERE WISE. THIS GIGANTIC SALE TAKES PLACE TOMORROW. WE MEAN THAT yor SHALL HAVE MORE AND BETTER VALUE THAN ANY UNITED STATES COULD GIVE FOR ‘97 AND ‘98 STYLES. NOT AN ORDINARY JACKET, CAPE OR SUPT IN THE ENTIRE LOT. AL- THE PRICES PAID FOR THEM WAS LESS THAN THE Soi recor ton ere oy HOvSE JACKETS, THOSE, ™ THE THOUGH THE SPECIAL LOW PRICES QUOTED MAY LEAD yor TO THINK 27-INCH VELOUR PLUSH CAPES, COPIED FROM FOR- HAY THAT WAY. 8 SPECIAL BARGAIN TABLE REPR' HL DRED OF A KIND. EV YY PURCHASE MUST BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH OVR GUARANTEE, OR YOUR MONEY BACK ON DEMAND, same as all fine goods should be. il Ladies’ All-s cheap for $2.98. 500 Ladies’ Jackets and Capes, made of Black, Navy and Tan Kersey; also Rough Novelty Cloth—a full line of sizes— well tailored and perfect fitting. Oth- ers claim $6.00, $8.00 and $10.00 cheap for these goods. For This Great Sale, $2.98 Another lot of Jackets and Capes, one and two of a kind—regular tailor-made garments—finished the If your size should is in this assortment, you will get a prize, for there isn’t a wrap in the whole lot that’s worth less than $8. For This Great Sale, $3.98 ined Capes and Jackets, plain and fancy cloths, as well as rough effects—made and cut by regular tailors—plain, raw edge and strap seams, ‘in colors as well as black; handsome braid trimming on both makes. $10.00 and $12.00 value. For This Great Sale, $5.00 200 Black Mixed and Black Brilliantine Skirts, full length and width, perfect fitting. We claim them you s For This Great Sale, $1.49. 200 Dark Cotton Wrappers, in all sizes and all patterns, sale for 25c. each. We start the ball at 10 o’clock and allow one Children’s Fur Sects, Muffs and Boas, Blue and Gray—hundreds sold for g8e. THIS GREAT Never again will we be in such a position to offer ich value in Ladies’ Bicycle Skirts. wool Circular Skirts, made of a variety of fancy mix- tures. They would be a grand bargain at other times, if we wouldn't have bought them cheap enough to sell Strictly All- 500 Handsome Black Satin Dress Skirts, made of fine quality satin, fect-hanging garment—the same we have sold quanti- ties of at $9.90 when others were asking $12.00. For This Great Sale, $5.90. finis ed in the best of manner; a per- x A clean sweep of our Fancy Flannelette Waists, in all sizes, colorings and patterns. great sale our 75c. Ladies’ Waists for........ -39c. We give you in this in White, a set. In This Great Sale, 25c. put in this great to each customer. S. KANN, SONS & €O., FLOR! SLAVES DOW) os Indinns Said to Be Still ing Negroes in Bondage. From the New York World. s wn in Dade county, Fla., around the Race of the Everglades, are to be found between 600 and 700 descendants of the fierce Indian warriors who once defied the power of the United States, and who; cen- turies before, in the days when St. Au- gustine was a collection of huts, waged implacable war against the Spaniards. ‘Their aversion to labor is just as great to- day as it ever was. Before the late war they had their negro slaves, and today they have slaves, though the white planter had to give his up over a third of a cen- tury ago. ; ‘The exact number of negroes enslaved by the Seminoles is not sora thet n citizens in the eyes of the law aie in servitude among the Indians is not only well understood, but simply a matter of indifference to most of the white people of the Indian river district. They dismiss the subject with the utmost nonchalance. “Whatisitto us if a few niggers are still held as slaves?” is in effect their jon. Perne indifference with which the matter is regarded is shown by the following inci- dent, related by a man who formerly lived in the district near the Indians: ‘One day a Seminole came into the mar- ket town leading a negro as if the colored man was a dog. The Indian exhibited his slave to a group of men who had gathered in idle euriosity around him. After tell- ing the colored man’s good points the Semi- nole master offered him for sale. “Oh, but you can’t sell that fellow. All slaves were set free long ago,” said a gen- in standing near. “gutckly the Indian flashed a look of scorn upon the speaker and replied: “White man’s niggers may be free; In- @ian’s niggers not free.” And he led his docile slave back to his farm and set him at work. t slavery does exist among the Semi- role Indians of Florida is susceptible of unequivocal proof. That the United States government should interfere, and at this late day enforce to the full the freedom granted the colored man by the proclama- tion of Abraham Lincoln is just as un- doubted. ——_+2+—___——_- Astral Torture. ya . From the New York Times. Egyptian mummies are being cruelly mal- treated, according!to Mrs. Elise Braun, a theosophist, and pastor of the Progres- sive’ Spiritual Church of St. Paul Re- Yerring to some mummies in Minneapolis, : “If those poor things see me and I only had money enoug! aa purehase them and end their suf- ferings by incineration. The lowest astral form of life still exists in these poor old ‘physicals,’ and as a result they have been suffering for thousands of years. The low- ‘est astral does not leave the body of fiesh and blood until it has entirely returned to 1 ern cont iisintogration is: prevent- St ee ibecanral cannot take its flight. advises all people not pees of a loved one until the fourth day after the death—or until decom- Bad the case of « man buried when death cited case of a man was thought, to have intervened, endured untold" years, { # et E wclalod BOB Reh PR Re hee (ESE EM PEDT NES Dei et Sra ee ESET SASS SS eee ete SN eye 8th & Market Space. LOWER THAN ANY OTHER HOt MILLIONS OF MICE. A Clergyman's Unpleasant Encounter With Army of Rodents. Ernest Ingersoll in New York Evening Post. “An incideat which came under my own personal observation is not without inter- est. While I was waiting for a train at a small station on a branch line of the South- western railway, a clergyman, with very lcng hair and beard, who was walking up and down the platform, stopped for a-mo- ment and raised the end of a canvas which served as a cover for a large quantity of wheat which was waiting shipment. In an ir stant a mass of mice sprang at him, and his beard, hair and cloak were literally alive with them. To brish them off was a matter of some time, and when my fellow- traveler at length thought himself free, he was dismayed to find a mouse in each of his trousers pockets.” ; The cause of these pestiferous irruptions of mice seem substantially the same in all cases. The destruction of natural enemies, stch as wilacats, hawks, owls, snakes, etc., allows the little rodents, naturally exceed- irgly prolific, to multiply unduly. Then comes a very favorable winter, as the un- usually warm season of 1892-'3 in Russia. when all conditions are favorable for thei- life and inc-ease, and a vast and sudden augmentation of their numbers follows. There is then not enough tood in the woods, and they spread to neighboring clearings and cultivated lands. If as happened in 1893 in Russia, they find everywhere an extraordinary amount of stacked and stored grain, few generations rapidly follow, thrive upon the ready food, and an enor- mous and apparently sudden increase oc- curs, which overflowing, spread in all di- rections. Their disappearance after a season or two is no more mysterious, when studied. Me- chanical means of repression are of little use, and one of the peculiarities of the Russian plague was that the.dogs and cats would not help the farmers by eating the pests. All rodents, and micé in particular, are, however, infested with parasites, in- ternal and external, and these increase and flourish most when -the animals are most r.umerous and gregarious. The consequence is that, aided by epidemic diseases, the Parasites soon conquer and destroy all but a few of the ‘strongest, and ‘the hordes lit- erally die out. Ht is said that after the Nova Scotia episode related aboye, winrows of them were to be seen on the sea and river beaches, where the-mice had rushed in and drowned; and elsewhere the air was sometimes tainted with the mass of tiny corpses in the fields. In Russia, however, @ great deal was done to expedite this re- sult by feeding to them bacillic cultures producing a typhoid disease fatal to the mice. Immense numbers were no doubt killed by this means. At any rate the mice were not sufficiently numerous to be trou- blesome during 1894, and since then huve disappeared. OLD FORTs. Sites of These Colonial Struc s ures to Be Marked With Table From the Phi jedelphia i rd. Pioneers of Pennsylvania who went be- yond the limits of the country when peace Was established by William Penn's treaties with the Indians and undertook the cul- tivation of fertile lands in other parts of the state, found it necessary to have in every community some substantial place of refuge in time of attack by hostile say- ages. Wherever there was a settlement of white men there was a fort or block house, usually. built of heavy planks and stout logs, and in most cases inclosing a spring and one or more houses. Over 200 such primitive forts were built in Pennsylvania prior to the year Some of them, besides furnishing sh for the settlers from attack the dians, were used at times by the provincial soldiers. The names of a few are recorded in history, but most of them had only jocal fame and long ago passed almost completely out of memory. Few traces of any of them remain, and all means of identifying their locations and the part each played in the early history of Penn- fylvania might soon have been lost but for the thoughtfulness of some member of the legislature in 1893, who secured the passage of an act requiring the governor to appoint ‘a commission to make an in- quiry into the location and history of these forts and report upon the advisability of marking the site of each with a suitable tablet or monument. “ This commission was appointed by Gov. Pattison, and did its laborious work well. The state was divided into five sections, each of which was assigned to one mem- ber of the commission. The descriptions of the 200 odd forts are necessarily bri but the main facts in regard to each are plainly given. Nothing as yet has been done toward the erection of the tablets sug- gested by the act of 1893, but in some instances this important work is-receiving the attenticn of the Society of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution. ——_ + e+ What He Was There For. From the Denver Times. He was a typical gamin, so diminutive in stature that I had to stoop to interrogate him, which I did in this way: “Where do-you get your papers, my little man?” “Oh, I buy ‘em of Johnny Green.” “And who is Johnny Green?” “He's a newsboy—he buyg ‘em in the Times alley.” “What do you pay him for them?” “Ficents.” “What do you sell them for?” nts. ‘No} “Then what do you sell them for?” “Oh, just to get to holler.” — "by Soap Sharing isn’t pleasant to think of. It’s slovenly and unclean. But how are you in: to be sure that your soap is us 4 ourself? —_ Particular le use e’s Pearline. That solves the problem. They fill a salt shaker or sifter with Pearline, Phen of soap, for the toilet or of using it after bath is like a Turkish -bath in freshening you they use that instead the bath, with no else. A i and bracing you up. ete 32 Millions “ts Pearline