Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1898, Page 7

WASH. B. WILLIAM CHALLENGE SALE CONTINUED. 5 SNAPS! Here are five leaders picked at random from the steck—Just to show you bow much you can save on all lines of Furniture by regimes Shitenee $4.50 <2 Oe ht 6220 2 $2.50 _ $4.75 Iron Beds, Piattresses Sizes Hair Wash. B. Williams, 7th & D fe2e lished 1845. Pens that will write all right. Right here is awaiting you ail the needed utensils fo: writing. We have Gold Pens in aburdauce—all_ sizes and styles of points. Aud we have Fountain Pens ainvs the ““balki- ness” and faults that distinguish the Mount- ain Pens dealers handle. Waterman's } lead the best, and you cam pay anywhere from p $1 to $5, and get'a guarauteed good writing foul. 4 > {Walford’s, #7 2°4,°" ‘ Penna. Ave.) $40 SAVED A= 2a as aa aa eee ’ Ae 2h ae Oe ey SAVED A Practical Business-Like ‘Typewriter at a reasonable Price, $60. WELLINGTON TYPEWRITER No.2 Quick, Clean Printing and Accurate Alignment. ‘A Pewerful Manifolder. A typewriter with all the ad- —s vantages of the old ma- chines and none of their defects. Guaranteed eqn:l im every particular to eny $100 machine cr money refunded after ten days’ trial. SEND FOR FREE ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE. HE WILLIAMS MFG. CO., LTD., BOX 3, PLATTSEURG, N.Y. no30-t.th.a.151, 28 Woodbury’s Facial Soap, Facial Cream and Facial Powder make the Grandest Toilet Combination known to cure a bad skin or protect a good comple: Send 20 cents for sainple of each. Sufficient for 3 weeks’ use. JOHN H. WOODBURY, The Noiseless Iroquois. The absolute silence of the Iroquois wheel is but one of its virtues. Yet it is one that proves conclusively how perfectly it is built. No rattling, no clicking, no jarring—the Iroquois glides along as silently as a shadow. Would any but a perfect wheel? Iroquois Cycle Co., 810 14th St. N. W. de19-8m,40 ie White Teet Come With bs your tecth to be ¢lean and white and free from decay » should never be without ft. It’s a dentifrice | that 1 free from any in. jurious substances 2 and is delicately 3 perfumed. & Remsburg & Elliott, | Lister’s Dentifrice, 25c. bottle. | | @@ Cor. 14th and BINNEY STREETS. Fd *“, 1608 14th street. fe22-284 x Bh, BR AAATAA BABB AARAA BD, Economical DENTISTRY. Our dental equipment 1s complete. We have every mechanical facility that modern invention can devise. We use the best materials that money can buy. Our fou- brancies are directed by act- entific experts. . Every waste that can be saved through system, method and large practice is saved. All these things are responsible for our fine dentistry and moderate prices. Painless Extracting with our No. 7, Boe U.S. Dental Ass’n, COR. 7TH AND D 8TS. N.W. Open Sundays, 10 to 1 o'clock. fe22-5ott Go te Siccardi’s FOR BARGAINS IN HUMAN HAIR, Hair Switches at Great .00 Switches reduced to $1.50. Switches reduced to .00 Switches reduced to 00, Gray and White Hair reduced in same Time. Siccardi, ‘711 31th st., west to Pelais Royal. A Ak hn aA on ae on iAm I Pretty? 4) _ This is the question every women should q Sak Berselt. Here is another: “Am I doing all T can to make my face more beautiful?” If you are not, then use Almond and Glycerine Cream. Price, 25c. bot. It's a grand complexion ‘13th & OGRAIT’S, Fath & f023-208 ~ Yo ee ee we > ’ ; + 1325 F St. N.W. Burchell’s Spring Leaf Tea sold at 50 cents a pound. If you taste it you will want it more than you will the money it costs. ~~ : A ee cesteeneesennesinsenennneen| 3d floor ee en oe ee ment. Another series greater values. Seegeegeedondontret Child’s hose, 414c. (from 9 to 11.) An inmmense lot of children’s fast black ribbed bose—in ribs of several sorts—the usual 12%¢e. hoslery—will be sold, begin- ning at ® tomorrow morning till 11, for ec. pair. W. B. corsets, 29c. (between 10 and 11.) Between 10 and 11 o'clock tomorrow mormnag you have the celebrated white, gray and black “W. B."' corsets— the ec. kind, for 28c. White Spreads, 79c. (between 10 and 11.) The very same white crocheted Mar- seflles pattern bedspreads—which other stores sell for $1.25—will be sold tomor- row, from 10 to 11 o'clock, for 79. Ribbon, 4'4c. (between 11 and 12.) Lot of 3-iuch moire ribbon in all shades —the game ribbon for which others will ask you lc. a yard—will pe tomor- Se between 11 and 12 o'clock, for 4%c. yard. 2d floor Leggins, 5c. pr. bet. 11 and 12. They may not last a half hour, but 2s long ‘as they last you may have those ladies’ cloth bicycle leggins—some whieh were left from bicycle suits and which are worth 50e. a pairefor Be. a pair. 8 coats, $1.29. on sale at 10 o’ciock. ere are eight ladies’ black cheviot is—made in newest style—sold for $5 Sondonconseesoesoagveseasonsongonsoasontontoatoasresossonteneagoagenoateateatvagoatrasraseaseeseathaseateateeseaseontnatveseoseasesenfonteateathaseatoateatrateaseatecsoageatoateatharhathetreteetoegongontent early In season. May not be here 10 min- utes after 10 ‘k, so be prompt. $1.29 for choice. ¢ $7 capes, $2.98. . (bet. 10 and 11 o'clock.) Between the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock we shall sell ladies’ short plush capes— silk lined—which originally sold for $7— for $2.98, Ist floo (bet. 9:30 and 10:30.) Lot of @oys’ Merrimac percale shirt waists—the same waists for which you've many a time paid 20c.—go tomorrow from 9:30 to 10:30 for Be. Men’s shirts, 19c. (from 9 to 11 and 3 to 5.) ‘You never before heard of such a thing percale shirts. with irs and cuffs, selling for 19¢.— regular ee sbirts—yet from 9 to 11 and aftern m from 3 to 5 you may at price. —for suits which 1 AD up to $5. A lot of navy blue and fancy mixed all-wool reefer suits—some trimmed with wide Hercules braid—all tastefully braid trimmed—suits which sold up to $5—go at $1.49. Biggest value of your life. $7 -98—\or boys’ suits 2 which sold up to $8. Lot of boys’ suflor blouse suits; some black, with red braid and black ’ braid; some red ones trimmed with black braid; collars trimmed with wide Hercules braid. Your choice of the lot—and not any of them sold for less than $5, and many not less than $8—for $2.98. $2200 0000000000506000000 0000 OF 009000 OOOOOOIIOTODOOOOO® Hecht's special selling for tomorrow. : hour -sales. The “hour sales’? which Hecht’s held from time to time have created the greatest com- The privilege of having any- thing you wish charged. hour sales. hour sales. Boys’ waists, 9c. |Men’s hose, ad aos THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1898-14 PAGES. LATESPOBTING NEWS| "case =" o"~""| TN RURAL CUBA tomorrow---and even Tuslin under- garments, 29c. (between 3 to 5.) A big table will be filled tomorrow with the handsomest lace and embroidery trim- med drawers, corset covers, skirts, chem- ises and gowns—garments which coat from ‘30e, to Bic. at wholesale—and between 3 and 5 o'clock you may have the chotce for 29c. Of course many are slightly solled, and they are broken in sizes, but the chances are that you will find your size if you are prompt. These are the biggest underwear values we've ever offered. Shirtwaists, 39c. Your unlimited choice of that lot of bandsome percale, madras, zephyr and Jawn sbirtwatsts, including plain white and black lawns and swisses—with white linen detachable collars—will be given you tomorrow for 3c. They're waists in this lot which were made to sell for as much as $2. Skirts, 99c. 9:30 to 10:30 o’clock. Promptly at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing we shall put on sale, in skirt depart- . lot of Iadies’ figured brilliantine at 99 cents. They are perfectly and lined and bound—most cate- Wrappers, 39c. 10 to 11 o’clock. One hour—from 10 to 11 o'clock—we shall let you have ladies’ medium-weight percale, wrappers, splendidly made and trimmed, in best ‘and most desirable pat- terns—for 39c.—garments which are worth 8c. and $1. Wrappers, 59c. No such wrapper selling has ever beeu recorded us that going on since this lot of ladies’ pererle wrappers were put on sale at 59. The selling yesterday was enor- mous—extra sales people were engaged to walt on the crowds. Every f these garments have separate waist lining and are handsomely , trimmed—and they're worth up to $1.25. (bet. 11 and 12.) Lot of men's tural wool and camel's bair half hose—nearly all-wool goods— and splendid for men who are on their feet much—or out in the cold—will go from 11 to 12 tomorrow for 6tgc. They originally sold for 20¢ pair, Umbrellas, 49c. (from 11 to 12 o'clock Lot of men's gloria umbrellas, for $1, will go morrow for 49. natural wood which sell Men’s all=wool $2 pants, 99c. Between the hours of 10 and 11 and 4 and 5 o'clock in the after- noon, men’s all-wool pants—$2 values—will be sold for 99 cents. You'll find these on the 4th floor—take elevator. Boys’ clothes at a big saving. $7 -98—for boys’ reefers 2 which sold for $6. Choice of boys’ Worombo chinchilla or ber sae A ate, SES velvet AS wide collars—p whic fant woe ned—which sold for §6— $5)-50—for long pants suits which sold for $10. offering ever made before can com- with this one—of young men's finest lish check cassimere and plain black and blue cheviot long pants. suits—the very best taflored and hest trimmed gar- ments in the store—whieh sold for $10— at $5. The patterns are those found in men’s suits. The tremendous reduc- tion fs made to clear out the surplus, Hecht & Company, 515 7th St. AFFAIRS IN GEORGETOWN Projected Improvements to Washington and Great Falls Electric Road. in Dumbarton led for $ Dedicatory Service Avenue Church Sched: day—General and Personal. In anticipation of a rush of traffic dur- ing the summer months, preparations are now being made by the Washington and Great Falls electric road to get the line in good running order. A change of superin- tendents has becn made, Mr. Duckett hav- ing retired. A contract has been closed, by which the road throughout its entiro length will be well ballasted. All of the othr suburban electric roads in this sec- tion of the District have so improved their lines, the Great Falls being the last to do so. It is understood that the road will this spring be doubile-tracked from 36th street and Prospect avenue to Cabin John bridg>. This improvement has been scheduled for the past year or two, but has never been realized, but this year it is said to be a c:rtainty. Several portions of the road, where there are a good many bridges and trestles, which permit but one track, will not be disturbed, but the remainder of the line will be looked aftr. The road now has a double track from Glen Echo Junc- tion to Cabin John bridge, and from 36th Street to 38th street on Prospect avenue, with a number of switches at various will be rendered. The committee on invita- tion for the event consists of Rev. Joseph B. Stitt, the pastor; Messrs. Joseph W. Kirkley, Edgar Frisby, - Taylor Birch, Jesse H. Wilson and John Heiston. The committee on buflding is composed of Rev. Hes oa aS fener W. Taylor 5 ‘sse H. Wilson, Isaac B' ‘and Columbus Thomas. = en Quict Wedding. There was a quict wedding last evening. in Southeast Washington, at which Mr. Charles Copperthite of this place was united in matrimony to Miss Elizabeth Dunn. The ceremony took place at the home of the bride, No. 303 G street south- east, at 8 o'clock. Rey. Dr. Huntley, pastor of Trinity Church, officiated. Only the fam- ilies and relatives of the contracting par- ties were present. After a short wedding tour the ‘newly-married couple will take up their residence at the home of the groom's parents, at No. 1411 32d street. Brief Mention. The funeral of Frank E. Garrett, the man who met an accidental death in the canal, was held this afternoon from ‘the residence of his wife, Mra, Rose E. Garrett, at No. 1428 32d street. Religious services were hela at Trinity Catholic Church at 3:30 o'clock. The funeral was largely attended. The temporary tracks of the Capital Trac- tion Company on the Pennsylvania avenue bridge were taken up on Monday afternoon, since which time the cars have been run- ning across = the M street bridge and on 26th é | Columbia Bowlers Defeat the Saen- gerbund. CLUB WINS AT BASKETBALL. A Referee's Decision That Was CENTURY BASE BALL AT GEORGETOWN ‘The Columbia Athletic Club bowlers were a few too many for the Saengerbund team last night in the serles of games rolled at the C. A. C., an@ the best the sturdy Germans could do was to capture the final of the three games. ‘ Strongly aided and abetted by Dr. Ricker, whose average of 177 for the three games stands highest for either team, and well seconded by all the other Columbia play- ers the C. A. C. boys ran up in the first two games strings that made defeat for the visitors far from being discreditable. Dr. Ricker’s record of but one break each in the first and second games shows the character of his steady bowling. Laue made the unique record of bowling the highest and the lowest individual scores, his 211 in the last game being unbeaten on either side. Spiess helped himself along toward the individual score record by averaging 173, and it is likely that the official scores of the league will now show this strong player well in the lead. He is also credited with the only remark- able spare of the evening’s play, mak- ing 4—5—7 in the opening game. Columbia’s new man, Walker, by his steady work brought to mind the bygone days when his namesake, old John Walker, well-known to the league veterans, used to ea Sonny games out of the hole for the Saengers secured a lead of eight pins at the outset in the first’ game, having but one break to two by Columbia. C. A. C. turned the tables, however, in the second frame and went ahead by seven pins, never again losing the lead during the game and winning out by thirty-two pins. The scote follows: Columbia Athletic Club. Saengerbund. St. 8p. Se.| Se. 4 106 Lane... 137 137| Hanold 146 145| Jorss 150 Columbia ran up the highest team total of the match in the second game and won without effort. They took a slight lead in the first frame, and, bowling an even hun- dred pins in the second, went so far in the lead that the Saengers were never again in the contest. Mason, Stitt and Rodier each bowled double-headers, while the oth- ers bunched their strikes and spares so suc- cessfuliy that the high total was easily ob- tained. The score of second game: Columbia Athletic Club. St. Sp. Be. 3 Saengerbund. St. Sp. t The Saengers spurted from the first frame in the windup game, and marked their last appearance on the C. A. C. alleys by bowl- ing a strong total, winning the game with- out an argument ffom Columbia. The real feature of the gamé was the finish by Laue, who, starting with 83 in the fifth frame, piled on it in the last half a succession of strikes that was broken only by the spare in the sixth inning. The score of third game: Columbia Athletic Club.) Saengerbund. Bt. Bp. Walker: Ricker toro ‘Total. The Fs teams will meet for the next series of league games on the Business Men's alleys on Monday evening. The standing of the clubs follows: Won. Lost. Saengerbund.. 2551 Carroll Institute. 2 (14 Washington Athletic Club. 19 «417 Athletle Club: 13 8 Men's Bowling Clui 8 BB The set of games arranged between the Columbias and the Elks’ bowling team has been postponed to Friday night, March 4. Small Ball Tournament. Bowlers of small ball games have been almost entirely lest sight of in the interest that ha: been taken in the ten pin games of the Bowling, League this season. The Columbia Athletic Club’s nine pin players have determined, however, to revive the sport, and a nine pin tournament running over several weeks of play will commence Saturday evening. The first assignment of players will be Messrs. Francis, Meyers, Callan, Yarnall, Dr. King, Dr. Ricker, H. B. Mason ani Jules Demonet, and these gentlemen will probably set a pace that will be hard to follow. After the conclu- sion a tournament of the cocked hat and five back players will be inaugurated. WON BY CENTURY CLUB. A Snappy Game of Basket Ball With Mt. Pleasant. The Washington Light Infantry Hall was the scene last night of an exciting game of basket ball between the Mount Pleasant Athletic Club and the Century Cycle Club. The Mount Pleasants put up a strong fight, but they succeeded in winning only one goal. The score was: Century Club, 5; Mt. Pleasants, 1. The game was fast, snappy and clean throughout. The work of Hol- mead, Snyder and Muelier of the Mount Pleasant team were features of the contest. For the Century team, Posey, Abell, Mon- roe and Dodd did excellent work, and were loudly applauded on several occasions. Both teams had plenty of rooters on hand last night, which tended to keep up the ex- eitement throughout the game. The game was followed by an informal hop. The line- up was as follows: C.C5c Positions. M. P. A.C. Councilman. Abell ( i capt.) LF. . Ny no Coy Monroe... L. B. . Barghausen. . E.G. -Holmead Score—Mt. P. A. C., 1; C. C. C., 5) Ref- ey ine ae Umpires—Adam sian - jorris. Timekeeper—Mr. ‘on Boeckman. 78. F. Shreve. MOBBED Georgetown Base Ball Candidates. In answer to a request that all the can- didates for Georgetown University’s base ball team hand in their names and also to give the positions for which they wili try about thirty-five men complied. The list of candidates follows: Maloney, Raedy, Macon ard Mulligan, catchers; Walsh, Bach, Tra- cey. Doyle, Downes, Murphy, G. Green, Minnehan and Owens, pitchers; Casey, Smith, Tracey and Connell, first basemen; Fleming, E. Byrae and E. Coleman, second basemen; Hofford, O'Donnell, J. M. smith ard Downes, third basemen; Greene, Downes, O'Donnell and J. M. Smith, short stop, and McCarthy, Kelly, Lamb, E. Smith, Barry McQuade, T. Cullen, English, Doug- las, Fitzgerald, Walsh, E. Coleman, Greene, Downes, Kelly and J. Smith. ca ES aie NEW ADJUTANT GENERAL. Cel. Henry C. Corbin to Succeed Gen. Breck Tomorrow. Col. Henry Clark Corbin will become ad- jutant general of the army on the statu- tory retirement tomorrow of Gen. Samuel Breck, the incumbent. Unlike most of his predecessors in that responsible position, he is not a graduate of the West Point Military Academy, and he is probably the only one of the number who has had ex- perience as a colonel of the line and has commanded a post. His two immmediate “predecessors were lieutenants of the line when they were transferred to the adjutant general's department. The new adjutant general comes of revo- lutionary stock, long resident of Virginia. Like both his parents, however, he was born in Ohio. His birthplace was Munroe township. Clermont county, Ohio. His par- ents were poor and he was raised on a farm, doing all the hard work which such a life entails. He received his early educa- tion at the common schools of the neigh- borhood and subsequently attended an academy in the southern part of Clermont county. In 1860 he taught a district school near Olive Branch, and the following year at Newtown, in the meantime studying law under the direction of Philip B. Swing of Batavia. When but eighteen years of age he responded to President Lincoln’s call for volunteers by enlisting in the 83d Ohio In- fantry. In July, 1962, he was transferred to the 79th Ohio as second lieutenant, and went with the regiment on its march and cam- paigns through Kentucky. serving with it until November 13, 1863, when he resigned to accept the appointment of major in the 14th United States Colored Infantry, which he joined in Gallatin, Tenn., the following day, and assisted in its organization. He was the first man {rom the state of Ohio to receive and accept a field officer's posi- tion in a colored regiment. On March 4, 1864, he was promoted to be lieutenant colonel of the same regiment, and on Sep- tember 23 he became its colonel, to be six months later brevetted brigadier general. He participated with the regiment in all its marches, campaigns and engagements, in- cluding the battles of Pulaski, Decatur and Nashville, receiving brevets for gallant and orcad services at Decatur and Nash- ville. In the Regular Army. His regular army career began when, after being mustered out of the volunteer service March 26, 1866, he was appointed second lieutenant in the 17th United States Infantry in May of the same year, and im- mediately joined the regiment at Fort Gra- tiot, Michigan, which was then a point of prime interest by reason of the threatened Fenian invasion of Canada. In September he went with his company to Independence, Mo., and participated in settling the trou- bles incident to enforcing the registration law in that state. Two months later, with his command, he was hurried to duty in ‘Texas under General Sheridan, who was at the head of a large force assembling there to adjust, if necessary, the complicated state of affairs in Mexico. On January 1, 1867, he was appointed and confirmed as a captain in the 38th Infantry, and ordered to duty at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, to which station he immediately repaired, and until May was engaged in or- ganizing his command, when it was ordered to duty with the troops then operating against hostile Indians in western Kansas. While stationed at Fort Hayes, that state, he lost nearly 20 per cent of his company from cholera. All through the summer of 1867 he was engaged in guarding the over- land stage carrying the United States mail from attacks of hostile Indians, and in the autumn, after the troubles in the Smoky Hill country were settled, he marched in command of a detachment of his regiment across the plains, along the old Santa Fe trail. taking station at Fort Craig, New Mexico, where he was kept busy scouting and protecting the settlers from roving bands of Apaches that infested that region. In the spring of 1868 he marched with his company to Fort Bayard, and there con- tinued similar service until October, 1969, + when command was given him of his entire regiment, and he was ordered to march to Fort Davis, Texas, where it was consoli- dated with the 41st Infantry, and there- after was known as the 24th United States Infantry. Coming to Washington. He n2xt commanded Ringgold barracks, ‘Texas, until the fall ef 1876, when he was transterred to Columbus barracks, Ohio. He was on duty at Aiken, 8. C., in March, 1877, when, upon President Hayes’ invita- tion, he accompanied him to Washington and was assigned to duty at the Executiv> Mansion. In 1877 he went to the north- west as secretary of the Sitting Bull com- , which treated successfully with Sioux, then in th> British dominion. Returning to Washing- ten, he resumed his duties at the Executive Mansion- until June 16, 1880, wien he was ed assistant adjutant general with major. He was successively the departments of Something About Its Wasted Indus- trial Life, THE ISLAND NEEDS TOMBSTONES Very Little Sugar Product Ex- pected This Season. > a THE RUINED PEOPLE (Copyright, 1898, by Charles M. Pepper.) Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. LAS CRUCES, Santa Clara Province, February 1s, 1888, Economic conditions in rural Cuba show Mitile change. Some day the war must end. When it does the building up must begin at the basis economically, as well as politically. The island is so largely agri- cultural that the future must be studied in the country districts. The wasted tis- sves of its industrial life can only draw fresh blood from the soil. I have been try- ing to find whether the new blood has yet begun to circulate. An American sea captain took part of the inland voyage with me. He thought he could learn more from the platform of the railway train than from the deck of a coasting vessel. He had known the coun- try in the days of its prodigal prosperity. lis present desolation affected him queerly, kut he soon forgot the landscape of paim trees, anc had eyes only for the people he saw. These were both reconcentrados and soldiers. it must be said they were not healthy looking persons. After a time his comment was forthcoming. “What this island needs,” he said, “is tombstones.” The Agricultural Aspect. The people, whether reconcentrados or soldiers, had become such an old study to me that I paid more attention to the agri- cultural aspect. In one hundred miles 1 saw three small cornfields. They looked more fresh and green than the canefields. There is still plenty of cane standing. The smoke and flames can be seen in every di- rection; yet where so much of the area is siven over to the production of sugar fires may rage for a long time, and a consider- able portion of the crop be left unharmed. Much of it is choked with weeds, and wceuld not yield the full amount of juice, yet it would be worth cutting and grinding if Maximo Gomez would only give permis- sion. The Spanish authorities have al- ready given permission, and have guaran- teed a large proportion of thelr soldiers who are out of the hospitals on the planta: tions. They claim that this ts milite protection. It is a good way of providing for the troops who are convalescent. Guard duty does not tax them too neavily. When they get better they can be utilized in the field. The planters do not think this pro- tection is sufficient. ‘You cannot gei in your crop and grind cane in the midst of war,” a planter told me. He did not speak of it as insurrection, but as war, though L have seen few signs of actual warfare— three er four wounded soldiers, one of them with his bead bandaged to cover some machete strokes. However, there has been skirmishing, and the reports are of fighting not far aw The same _plan- ter told me the country would be suffering a more acute food famine three morths frcm now because nobody had thoughi to plant vegetables and such things within the zones of cultivation and the garrisoned places. They had all taken to planting to- bacco, because it gave promise of better results. The insargents cannot stop the production of tobacco as eastiy as they prevent grinding the sugar cane, and the: are iess disposed to interfere with it. Nev ertheless, they have to be taken into ac- count. A tobacco farm on which the crop was in unusually geod condition was point- ed out to me. At every corner was a small fort with soldiers. “That tobacc informed, “belongs to the captain of the local guerrillas. Those soldiers who are guarding his place ave part of the regular nish troops, which he gets detai the expense of the government. Never- theless, he is paying the insurgents not to molest him.” Inquiries as to Investments. Inquiries are coming from the United States about the opportunities for invest- ments in Cuba. Enterprising capitalists of a speculative turn of mind have their eyes turned this way. They will find plenty of individuals who are ready to accommodate them. “Do you know any one in the states who wants to buy 40,000 acres of the finest sugar land on the island?” asked a Havana capitalist, who was a fellow-passenger. I did not. In present conditions I would rather have a garden patch in the Missts- sippi bottom lands of [llinois or Missouri than 40,000 acres of the finest sugar lands “The soil of Cuba,” said my fellow- traveler meditativel, is too rich. That is what ails the island.” He may be right. A few of the Americans who are on the ground are hopeful enough of early peace to begin making investments. Several of them have bought tobacco lands. They are also going inte sugar. The representative of a New England syndicate told me he had invested $8,000 in a sugar estate near Trini- dad. Some folks, with an eye for a quick turn, have been asking about scrap iron and junk of that kind. Nobody has thought to buy up the boilers and other machinery of the sugar mills that were destroyed. They could be had cheap, but to make the deal profitable a market for the scrap iron would have to be found tn the United States. There is none in Cuba. The bricks and mortar of these sugar mills would hardly be worth buying, The wild vines and the grasses are growing over them, softening their harsh outlines and leaving them a picturesque feature of the landscape, Outside of the boilers and other machinery, that is the only use to which these ruined mills can be put, and it is not an element in building up the resources of rural Cuba, The Sugar Crop. It was a question at the beginning of the season whether the labor and the oxen could be found to insure the grinding of the sugar crop. At that time it was thought the product would amount to 300,000 tons. Now it is not believed that the total pro- duction will be much more than 200,000 tons, and there is labor enough to take care of this crop. An exception to the general rule of burned canefields and idle mills is in the southern border of this pro- vince around There a fair =< is assured, though it will not be up to the estimates made. In the northern district the few mills that are grinding watt be sat: isfied if they secure one-quarter 0! - production. In Consul Barker's office concerning one type of its people. They are the soil, and the failure of the soil s i : F [PSPSOOODLODOODOSSTOSSOTOOS DOO090.33000 COCOVENA, 25 CTS. 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Address, THE MAYPOLE SOAP DEPOT, 127 Duane Street, fel7-th,s,tu-Ge parade whatever of it. Most of them have humble quarters, but their wives and daughters are as gontented as they them- selves, and are usually engaged in charita- ble work to which their cgntribution is necessarily the work, and the charity comes from other sources. I don’t think there is another country where quite so much phti- osophy can be found as among these ruined Cubans. I suspect that some of them, w acquired American citizenship, have be on the list of those to whom rations we: issued 1 the consuls. I do not write of this class of Cubans for the purpose of ex- tolling them for they have vices as well as Virtues. But they are a feature of the lite here that bas impressed me. Inducements have been offered them to accept autono- my. Their influence would be valuable to the government. With rare exceptions they have refused to embrace the new regi- men. Most of them have relatives or friends in the insurrection. It has their sympathy, if not their active support, and the promise of bettering their ruined for- tunes does not tempt them to embrace au- tonomy. Like the mass of the Cuban pe ple they are for independence without thought of the sacrifices they may make in winning it. CHARLES M. PEPPER. From the Cleveland Piain Dealer. There is a certain Cleveland lawyer who delights in teasing his wife. He knows how trustful and impressionable she is, and be carries home some of the most preposter- cus stories ta excite and alarm her. “By Jove,” he said, a few evenings ago, had a close call today.” “What was it, George?” cried the alarm- ed wife. “I crossed the track within a dozen inches of @ moving motor.” “Dear, dear! how dreadful! You must be more careful, dear. Did you jump?” “Nop. Didn't think of it. nd it didn't hit you?” wouldn't be here if it had hit me.” “Didn't everybody scream?” “Nobody noticed it.” “The motorman must have been awfully frightened.” “No. He was looking the other way.” “How careless. And didn’t the life-say- ing fender strike you?” “No, the fender couldn't. It was on tha other end of the car.” “The other end?” Yes, the car was going the other wa: h, you brute And the funny lawyer laughed until he cried. But some day fate will overtake him. know there is 4 Tas ae et ae understand | their . He laughs Down,” “Tonic,” ang thinks there is no cure because He Knows Nose.