Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1898, Page 12

12 THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1898-16 PAGES, The Busy Corner, 8th and Market Space. S. Kann,Sons&Co. In-Between Season’s Sale. If this beantiful wes her centinnes, and onr foreign and demesti: spring purchases keep rolling 2 on um in thy ann — y have in the past ten days, we surely will haye to lay aside the es tt:actions. samntict of mid-winter mentions and center our whele future on new spring and summer Open Until 9 P. M. Tomorrow. Our aim is to make the closing days of February phenomenal, and, therefore, shall bid high for your dollars and dimes by giving the fol- lewing grand values for Saturday. Tetlow’s Genuine Swans- down Face Powder, per BON cos ae wb ine ae dinite we FES Elder Flower, Palm and Glycerine Toilet Soap, tc., 5 cakes to each customer. = i Men's Goods. OF TH TION & L FOR 12t4e TRING TIES,FROM WERE MAD! 6 FOR......... ia ALI ON DOZEN NEW _SPRING \ ST LAI Soe, QUALIT THE VERY CLUDING LiGH fr PATTERNS IN AL AND ROWS, D MEDIUM COLOR! SILK BA} 3S—25e. EVERYWIHERE..... EITHER LONG FINISHED WITH RAWER BOTTOMS. OR_SHORT-SLEEVE AN UNDERWEAR SAND DICAW 25c. ‘S ZEPHYR TOMORROW. AND MADRAS SHU : ce LAUND ATTACHED COLLARS AND CHCICE CUFF 39C, | Lambert’s _Antisepsoid | i ! Weodworth's Fine tracts, all odors. Special, 19c. an ounce, including Tooth Séap preserves the bottle. tecth, per cake........10c. Ribb LOOONS. In all o periens of Ribben buying aud selling we have never had such on aggregition of Ribbon beauties in cur stock as the dis; ‘This department stands second to none fn + THIS IS GOING 10 BE THE GREATEST WE HAVE MADE AMPLE PROVISIONS FOR A LC on—styles and prices. s SON WE'VE HAD IN YEARS, AND CONTINUOUS RU 1-inch Plaid and Roman Stripe Ribbon, for neck use... .8c. yard 1$-tach width, same ribbon... .-.-10c. and 12c. yard Newest colorings in Bayadere Ribbon for hat bands and belts. -25¢. Bayadere Ribbons, in difiereni qualities, for millinery use, sashes Maud seCkWéds 5 8s 3-3 oss igor Gece tec 39¢., 49c. and 59¢c. a yard Colored Velvet Ribbon, linen f . for dress trimming, 4 inch, 5c.; I-inch ..... Ce ere OC: Skirts. NEW BOC AND DE BRILLIANTINE BOUND: AND S SKIRTS NEW RMEST. SHAPE, PERCALINE LINED Tomorrow, $1.98. LTY WEA\ A WELL-MADE G MADE PRIAL, OF COLORED AND BEACK WooL OF WHICH THEY ARE MADE LINED AND INTERLINED WITH GOOD QUALITY SKIRTS MADE OF THE AND COLORS A REGL POSSIBLE MANNER. S MOHAIR #AYADER! AND NARROW STRIPE SEAMS AND LINED ‘THK CIAL TOMORKOW..... ‘This depart Nov BLACK, NAVY ent is 3 so gaining ¢ laily. We have made many new customers by cur Hiberal peltey of excbunging, fitting and repalring all gloves bought of us. fies’ 4-button Glace, in Gray, White and Black; Ladies 2-clasp i an, Mode, White, Black, Yellow, Red and Gray, with self k embroidery. one of our new spring purchases. Special. . .79c. Ladies’ 4-button and 3-clasp Hte Jouvin Gloves, in all the new spring shades and tints. These gloves are French cut and made to fit any hand. Special.....'. ° Hosiery SOME EXTREMELY SPECIAL ITEMS: Men's Balbriggan Sox, full regular made. Worth 20c. 10c. Pair. Men's Extra Heavy English Balbriggan Sox, high spliced heels. 25c. quality. 15¢ Pair . ° Men’s Tan Cotton Sox, double soles and high spliced heels. 35¢- quality. 17c. Pair. “LADIES’ Ladies’ Fast Bi 35¢- HOSI la —TWO GREAT ITEMS. -k Cotton Hose, double unbleached sole. Worth 17c. , double heels and 15c. Pair. Ladies’ Derby Ribbed Fast Black Cotton Ho: Worth 25¢. toes. “CHILD'S HOSE’—ONE GREAT ITEM. Child's Fast Black Ribbed Cotton Hose, double soles and knees. Worth 2: : I5c. Pair. Muslin Underwear and Silk Skirts at Special Prices. . 10: 35¢. Ss GOWNS, SKIRTS, DAW WW AND HIGH NECK € MBI AND LRAWERS. $i POR $1 GAIN. THE AND EMBROIDERED TRIMMED. THI: E GOUDS CUST MORE THAN GARME $1.50 AND EMBROIDERY 1 MSP CAMBRIC GOWNS ONLY, LOW AND HIGH NECK, LACE AND IM MED, He. VALUE MDERY. SP FOR tg. a! TAL PRE {MENTS OF THIS Lot TRIMMED WITH LACE AND EM- , fh TAFFETA SILK SKIRTS IN ALL COLORS, WITH FOUR ROWS OF CORD FL ES $6.98 AND $008 TAFFETA SILK SKIRTS, UMBRELLA FLOUNCE, FULL WIDTH, New line of All-silk Windsor Scarfs, in iength and width oy ear Pretty line of new Ruchings, in all colors White, per yard) 2 stripes and plaids, fuli +. I2he. as well as Black and : ust received a line of side pleat new color, suitable for dress and hat trimming aes siele aisieis +, EQCs A handsome line of New Mull and Net Scarf: CHIFFON, LIBERTY SILK AND MOUSSELINE DE SOIE, Shirred Liberty Silk, in all colors. Special for Saturday...... +20 S5C. Plain Liberty Silk, 45 inches wide, in all colors. Special for Satur- Mousseline de Soie, in all the newest shades. ... mee Cees Satin Gauze, one of the very newest draperies, 45 inches wide. .75¢. 45-inch Superior Quality Chiffon, in Black, White and colors. +75. Candies Tomorrow. All our Finest Cream Chocolates and Nougats. All our Pure Candies, 20 different kinds. Special. 50 visiting cards printed on superior quality board, Zic. Leave your orders at the jewelry counter. So KANN, SONS & 6O., 8th and Market Space, a 5 Special. .......25¢. -19¢. a Ib. wee okGs Relief Bill Introduced by Representa- tive Boutelle. FOLLOWS LINES OF SAMOAN MEASURE Secretary Long’s Announcement to the Press. oo ee BREAKING UP THE WRECK Chairman Boutelle of the House commit- tee on naval affairs, introduced a bill late yesterday afternoon providing for the relief of the victims of the Maine. It follows gen- erally the lines of the Samoan disaster re- Hef bill of 1890, and is the result of several days’ conferences in committee and em- bodies the views of the administration. It will be referred back to the committee, im- mediately acted upon there, and its passage by Congress expedited. The bill follows: “That to reimburse the survivors of the officers and crew of the United States ship Maine, destroyed by an explosion for losses incur:ted by them, respectively, there shall be paid to each of said survivors, a sum equal to the losses so sustained by them; provided, that the accounting officers shall in all cases require a schedule and affidavit from cach person making a claim, each schedule to be spproved by the Secretary of the Navy; and reimbursement shall be made for such articles of clothing, outfit and personal effects only as are of a char- acter and value and in quantity suitable and appropriate to the rank or rating and duty of the person by whom the claim is made. Provided further, that in no case shall the aggregate sum allowed exceed the amount of twelve months’ sea pay of the grade or rating held by such person at the time the losses were incurred. “Section 2. That the widow, child or chil- dren, and in «ase there be not such, that the parent or parents, and if there be no parent the brothers and sisters of the offi- cers, enlisted men and others who were Jost in the destruction of said vessel, or whochave died within one year from the date of the disaster in consequence of in- juries received in the destruction of said vessel, shall be entitled to and receive, to wit., the relative in the order named a sum equal to twelve months’ sea pay of the grade or rating of each person deceased as aforesaid: Provided, That the legal repre- sentatives of the deceased persons shall elso be paid any arrears of pay due the Geceased at the time of their death. “Section 3 That the accounting officers are hereby authorized to continue for a period of three months any allotments which may have been made in favor of any rela- tives of the degrees hereinbefore enumerata by any of the officers and men attached to the Maine who lost their lives in or in con- Sequence of the disaster to that vessel: Provided, That the amount of the allot- ments so continued shall be deducted from the amount of the twelve months‘ sea pay allowed to such beneficiaries by virtue of this act for their relief. S “Section 4. That the relief granted by the provisions of this act shall be deemed and taken to the full compensation for and in fatisfaction of any and all claims whatso- ever on account of loss or death by the de- struction of the United States ship Maine on the part of the beneficiaries hereinbe- fore designated and the methods of present- ing and establishing said claims hereinbe- fore described, shail be followed in lieu of those prescribed by the acts or parts of acts heretofore enacied relating te the presentation of similar claims. “Section 5, That no claim shall be allowed under the provisions of this act which shall not be presented within two years after the date of its passage. : “Section 6. That the Secretary of the Navy be. and is hereby, authorized, when- ever in his discretion 1t may be deemed a practicable expedient to cause tne re- mains of all or of any of those who perished in consequence of such disaster, to be re- moved to the United States cemetery at Arlington: Provided, That the relatives of any such deceased officers and others men- tioned in this act, who prefer that the re- mains of such be taken to their homes within the United States shall have priv- ilege extended to them, and the expense thereof shall be borne by the United States; and the sum of $10,000, or so much thereot as may be necessary, is hcreby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not other- wise appropriated to carry out the provi- sions of this section.” No Developments. At the close of office hours yesterday aft- ernoon Secretary Long made the following announcement to a number of newspaper men: “Summing up the situation, I should say that the Navy Department knows today nothing more about ine cause of the disas- ter than it did five minutes after the re- ceipt of the first dispatch from Capt. Sigs- bee.” Secretary Long has telegraphed Capt. Sigsbee approving all the suggestions con- tained in his telegram of yesterday con- cerning the disposition of parts of the wreck of the Maine. This telegram was published in yesterday's Star. Capt. Sigs- bee was directed to have Lieut. Wain- wright, the executive officer of the Maine, make arrangements with the wreckers for the disinfection of everything sent to the United States. The recommendation that all hedding and clothing be abandoned, and, if need be, given to the acclimated ‘poor, was approved without comment. The same approval was given to the suggestion that useless fittings and equipment be towed to sea and thrown overboard, it being left to Capt. Sigsbee’s judgment to determine how far this destruction should be carried on. To the captain's inquiry as to the saving of old metal and parts of the superstruc- ture the answer was given that such ma- terial was of no use to the bureau of equip- ment. It was left to Capt. Sigsbee to say how much of this shattered material was worth preserving. His Statement that much blasting will be required to clear away incumbering material indicates that it is essential further to destroy the upper portions of the wreck in order to get at what is more valuable beneath. Capt. Sigsbee’s statement that the divers have been down aft seven days and for- ward four days gave the Navy Department the first information of the time that the divers had been in the vicinity of the “zone of the explosion,” as he had termed it. This zone is confined to the forward part of the ship. and while the divers have been down aft for the last week. their work for- ard, in the vicinity of the large magazine, has been in progress only four days, which presumably began Monday and included yesterday. Mutilation of the Dead. The statement in the Sigsbee dispatch that “friends of the dead shonld .under- stand we are in the tropics’ is understood at the Navy Department to refer to the urgent pleas of relatives of the dead that they be brought to the United States. These appeals continue to be received here, and while they excite the deepest sympathy of officials, no hope can be held out that the dead can be brought back. One of these appeals makes a pitiful plea against the burying of the dead “by allen hands in ac alien country." There are circum- stances which, {f they could be made known, would end such appeals and would show that the department has not been wanting in a desire to-bring the remains to this country. These circumstances have been withheld, mainly through a desire to save friends and relatives m the pain which would be caused by a full disclosure of the effect of the explosion. The press rcrorts have given in part the terrible mutilation of the bodies, but it is feared this has not ‘been fully realized by friends and relatives. ‘The men were sleeping on the berth ceck, with metal floors and ceilings, which, by the force of the terrific explosion, were ground together into a confused’ mass, Knowing this, there fs little hope that Many of the bodies still missing will be found. o- if found, that they will be in a condition to ye ac coe United States. e Navy partment received two bri telegrams from Capt. Sigsbee at Havanc last night. One related to some routine matter of expenditures in connection with the work on the Maine, and the other is as follows: * report more bodies in wreck. Scme in hammocks involved in debris not recognizable. i This dispatch indicates that the divers AN cloth tops. THR SATISFACTORY S New opera toes. TORE, * 3,000 Pairs of Ladies’ ~ Ox Blood Vici Kid Lace Shoes, Worth $3.00, at It’s a‘fact. We have never before been abie to sell shoes of this quality at less than $3.00, and you know how cheap we sell. They are excellently made and most fashionable in style. Vici Kid has been used in their manufacture. side they have white kid topping and facing. fashionable Ox Blood color. All sizes. FOR MAINE'S VICTINIS|gvorresheoreeereoreeorneorsoormnerssooreoereesrerteosteensonenneniseensor neon THE SATISFACTORY STORE Tremendous Shoe Event. SLT9 Widths, A, B, C, D It was a marvelously fortunate purchase--a wonderful purchase--that has enabled us to make this offer. shoes cost more to make than we are asking for them. There is not a flaw in them. The finest selected The soles are hand turned. Some have kid, some have fine The and E. The A few left of those splendid Triple- Sole Shoes for men that are worth $4.00 and $5.00 at = = $2.67 | You have still a chance to get a pair of those Ladies’ Heav Soled Shoes at < Heavy: $1 .O7 Stoll's, “slO” 7th St. “TELE COLELLO PEPE LEAP PES SATISFACTORY STORE, have finally secured at least a partial en- trance to the quarters in the forward part of the vessel, where the crew were asleep when the cxplosion occurred, and under which were the magazines. The fact that the divers were urable to extricate the bedies shows the fearful obstacle against which they ere laboring, and bears out the belief that the work of submarine investi- gation will recessarily proceed slowly. Until the conélusion of the investigation of the court of inquiry at Havana, the prin- ‘cipal business pf the Navy Department, in connection with the Maine will relate to the conduct of the wrecking operations. cut. Commander Kimball, who 1s now at ana, has been assigned to the duty of inspecting the wrecking operations. er HOW CHILDREN WOULD USE MONEY. Received From a Large Number of School Pupils. From the Springflelé Republican. Dr. George E. Dawson of the Bibl3 Nor- mal College has classified answers received from 1,307 pupils of the public schools of this city, given in response to the question, “If you had $5, all your own, what would you do with it?” Of those who passed in answers 669 w2re boys and 638 were girls, their ages ranging from five to sixteen. The answers are grouped under nine general heads: 44 par cent would deposit the money in a Lank, 13.8 per cent would buy clothing, 2.2 per ent would buy something to cat, 15.3 per cent would buy toys and other m2ans of amusement, 2.1 per cent would buy jewelry and finery, 9-10ths of 1 per cent would buy firearms, 1.7 per cent would spend for travel, 14 per cent would spend for othars and 6 per cent would buy books, etc. It is interesting to note the large per cent who express a disposition to save. Dr. Dawson attributes this largely to th2 suggestability of the children; the results in this respect resemble those obtained in other fields of experiment. While th2 children do no: rea- lize the full significance of saving, the idea has been engrafted upon their minds and is bound to have its influence. The f: that this idea of saving has b2en thus forc ibly impressed on the minds of so many Is very significant and gives us a hini of the immense influence of public instruction. In noting the per cent of those who would Luy clothing it should b» remembered that many of the children were in urgent need of something better to wear. Those who voted for something to eat were mostly under sev2n years of age. In the class who would prefer amusements, thagirls usually expressed a wish for dolls and doli car- riages, while the boys mostly desired pigeons, rabbits or other pets. In regard to trav2!, the figures show that, as children grow older, the desire :o go Sut into the world increases rapidly, reaching its height at about the beginning of adolescence. ‘The desire shown by the boys for firearms is an 2xpression of the hunting instinct that awakens when they are ien er twelve. At that age boys like to get hold of books of hunting and adverture. Tne tendency to Anaw: buy books increases steadily as the chil- numbers about dr2n grow older. This =la twicé as many girls as boy manifest a feeling of altru bers more girls than boys, showing that the greater generosity of women is strik- ingly manifest even at an early age. a A Remarkable Paper. From tie Kansas City Star. The Atchison Patriot was represented in the recent editorial convention. Lillian Longborrow, actredited to it, read a pape>. The Patriot ditd Séme time ago, but no dcubt it has come tO life again. It has that habit. It is the printer's standby in Atchi- scn. Wheneverti ptinter becomes broke he Keases the Patrtot plant and goes to work, after the fashion of.a miner going into an atardoned claim. The Patriot is a hocdoo, but still men come and go who are not afraid of it. Mén Rave been known to buy the Patriot an@’afterward run away from it to get rid oft..oClay Park used to sell it biennially. Qnee.a man named Hazzard blew into town, aud Park aploaiod! it upon, him for $5,000, reserving a “working inter- est,” Hazzard’ paid the $5,000 spot cash and poured méfe ash into the rat hole, uttil finally he ‘fled to Canada, and Park tock possession! A couple of years aftér- ward one Stambaugh floated into town from Ohio with a scheme to start a bicycle fac- tcry, but Park persuaded him that the P: triot was a better thing, and he bought it. Stambaugh dropped a roll of $5,000 or $6,000, and he, too, had to quit. He tried to play even by working lodgé insurance, but he scon went back to Ohio. John Seaton’s last opponent for the legislature was Stam- baugh, and beat him disgracefully, Since Stambaugh’s departure the Patriot has been in cold storage by virtue of a necrtgage held by Bailey Waggener. —_—_ +00 Notice, From Puek. ; ‘The Court—Has the defendant been noti- fled of these proceedings? x Applicant for Divorce—I have published the notice in a newspaper of general cir- ‘culation. = _ ‘The Court—Well, I must be sure that she ie notified. Send her a copy of the news- paper with the notice cut out. COWBOY LIFE IN Interesting Tales of Texas and Ari- zona Life py a Yale Man. From the Hartford Courant. “I went down to Texas, college characterized b; Voice’ as being the center of six ix Sa- loons. I was fortunai> enough to be able to gain immediately the friendship of some cowboys, among whom were as brave and loyal men as I have known. My first ex- perience with them was one Sunday after- neon on a horse ranch, when they told me that they would give me one of the bron- chos if I would ride him. They thought they would have fun with the te When they had caught the horse, thrown and saddled him, J straddl-d him and they Jet him up. As I had been accustomed to horses since my childhood, 1 was able to Keep my seat, so they gave me the ho and I kept him for four years. The many stcrios told of the cowboys do not give a true picture of them. Although they are of rough exterior, yet I found among them the truest and firmest of friends. “Since I was in San Antonio there has been a great r2form in ihe place. Betting and gambling are now prohibited there, and men are arrested for these offenses. Formerly the most famous gambling house in the southwest was in San Antonio, and was never closed, night or day, from one end of the week to the other. It was a long adobe building filled with gambling tables, behind which sat Mexicans, each with a Winchester at his sid> and two six- shooters on a shelf before him. Gcld and silver was the only money used, and no- body would accept paper money. “IT went one Sunday with some cowboys into the old cathedral of San Fernando, built In 1730, on2 of the oldest churches in our country. Standing at the entrance were a lot of Mexicans, clad in their pic- tvresque costume, each with a bundle under his cloak. I afterward ascertained that these bundles contain2d fighting cocks to be used in the popular sport after church. “The San Antonio Vaudeville was the best-known theater in the southwest, and when I reached there I was interested in finding out what kind of a place it was. It was a very remarkable theater. To enter the theater it was necessary to go through the saloon and pass the bar. it was owned by two well-known characters, Jack Harris and Joe Mitchell. Joe was e@ gentleman gambler, a very attractive man of polished manners and fine appearance. The Vaudeville is well known in Texan history on account of th2 sensational way in which the affairs of the place were wound up. The man who was responsible for this was Ben Thompson of Austin, at that time the mosi famous sheriff of Texas. Jeck Harris and Thompson got into a brawl ever a game of cards, and though the af- fair was smoothed over at the tim2, yet the feeling between them was noi very Pleasant. Somebody told Harris “that Thompson had slandered him, and he said that if ever Thompson came to town h> would not get out alive. One day as I was riding along I saw great Ben Thompson standing in the middle of a crowd of cow- boys, throwing coins in the air and shoot- ing at them. ‘There'll be trouble tonight,’ said a cowboy friend of mine. That night Thompson went into th? theater, and after- v.ard came out and stood on the sidewalk. Jack Harris asked his cashier to give him ris Winchester and started out the door. He came through the screen door with his gun in position before him, but befor2 he eculd shoot Ben Thorffon had fired twice and Harris dropped dead. After that Thompson was always trying to make friends with Joe Mitchell, but Joe had been good friends with Harris and he would have nothing to do with his slay2r. “One night Joe was standing in the rear of the theater looking at the play, when Thompson stepped up to him and said, ‘Shake hands and make it up.’ ‘I will not disgrace myself by taking your hand,’ said Mitchell, and the two men dr2w off and be- gan to shoot. They both dropped. The er eers did not run any more after to Mr. Nairn told this story of an Arizona cowboy: He was with a crowd of cow- boys following a herd of cattle in Arizona, and was the life of the party, always in good spirits and singing. One night, as they lay on the prairi2 in the neonlight, Tom, for that was his name, was heard singing a song, off by himself. Latar in the night there was a great stampede, and the last time the boys saw Tom he was riding ahead of the herd shooting in the air and trying to turn back the terrified cattle. ‘The n2>xt morning they found his body at the bottom of a deep crevice, with 150 mangled animals piled on top of him. Mr. Nairn then step; to the plano and sang the song which Tom had sung just before his death. This is the first verse: “Last night as I lay on the prairie, And lcoked dt the stars in the sky, I wondered if ever a poor cowboy = Should drift to the sweet by-and-by.” ——+ee. ‘What He is Sparcd. From the New York Weekly. Gentleman—“Madam, at the price you charge for board I could rent a fine house and hire half a dozen servants.” but you'd have to ve you that trouble, and money. ‘ ‘ fresh from that The New York it's worth the Ie Be to tee to eo a a a THE SATISFACTORY STORE. JERSEY Cows. jent Saves Hix Cattle by em Dried Salmon. From the Portland Oregonian. ° When Jersey cows cau find nutrition out of dried salmon and give an abundance of milk as a result of such provender the are- tic region of the upper Yukon river is rob- bed of most of Its terrors. Capt. A. M. Brown, a retired officer of the United States army, who has passed many years in Alaska’s icy region, sa “During the summers and winters of IS91- I had been superintendent of a silver, lead and gold mine several hundred miles beyond the Yukon, and late in the follow- ing summer had been brought down from near the Bering strait to Michaels with several of my men, where were to ship on the Alaska Commercial Compan on steamship St. Paul for San Franc’ had to wait for ten days or two weeks at St. Michaels before the St. Paul's arrival, and while doing so beguiled the tedium of the rather monotonously passing time in exchanging experiences with the various employes of the fur company, and studying Esquimau life St. Micneels. s 1 saw it at Si “Several days before the sailing of the St. Paul there came into the fort from the upper Yukon by barge or canoe a dclegation of Jesuit priests, eccompanied by two or three nuns, one of the latter of whom we had for a shipmate when we sailed for San Francisco, and who proved to be intelligent and cheerful company during the voyage. Feather Barnum, S. J., who had a mis- sion far up on the Yukon, was of the par- ty, and came down to St. Michaels for sup- plies for his mission folk, and much to our regret we had to part with him when we sailed, though we had many a good story and tale from him, full of fun and pathos, so long as we were together. “Father Tesi, an old man, at chat time seventy-two years of age, and who had the January of the year before—frail and old as he looked—crossed on foot from Circle City to Juneau, was one of our voyagers on the St. Paul, and as the good father and myself had served some years before together in Montana—he as a priest end I as a soldier-- it can be well imegired that we had much that was pleasant ic talk over in calling up reminiscences of life in wild Montana and of the wilder northwestern Alaska. “While discussing the resources, climatic and other conditions of northern and north- western Alaska, while in port at Unalaska, the father asked us if we had suffered much With the extreme cold and lengthy winters of 1891-92 where I had been operating, and, having had the information desired from me, he remarked that the winter just spok- en of had been on the upper Yukon not only urtsually long, but extremely severe, and | that his three Jersey cows had aimost | starved to death before spring opened. “I was surprised to hear him talk of keep- ing Jersey cows 1,800 miles or more in the ipterior of northern Alaska, and inquired how he had taken them there and had pulled them through the long winter. He sf ‘Some of my good friends in San Fran- cizco, three years ago, made me a present of three fine high-bred Jersey cows, and the officers cf the Aiaska Commercial Com- the missionaries, re- gardiess of denomination, transported them for me from San Francisco to the mission, and there I have kept them until now. But | yesterday w last winter I thotght IL should lese the whole of them. The usual food supply for my cattle sent up to me did not half take them through the long winter, as the sum- mer season of the year before, as you well was very short, and the quick growth ic grass was almost a failure. What Mitle I did get the cows ate up long before Christmas, and after that the mili feed did not last long. It was not long after it had been exhausted before my poor little sukies tan about the reservatien looking so thin that you cculd almost read a newspaper through their attenuated frames, and I thought they must surely die. The Lord is aiways good, not only te those creatures made after His own image, but even to the Poorest of the dumb brutes, and He was gocd to my little cows, and cared for them for me, and in a most remarkable manner, as I shall relate. < “The tribes on the Yukon with us are like those with you at the Bering strait, and, as you krow, live principally on dried salmon and seal oil. During the summers they catch, hang up and dry thousands of salmon for the winter. Well, our folks had their usual supply of salmon (thousands of them) hanging over their sealskin lines to ‘ba taken by villagers at any time they were required for use, either in the village or to be taken on their sledge journeys with them, and a few hundred or even thousand disposed of in any manner would cut no figure with them. “*One very cold morning I was si ‘at the door of the little “hut used for a ‘schoolhouse for the Indian when one of my cows me, and I saw her go to one of the sealskin lines and try, by extending her neck and tongue, to reach calling the other two cows, I fed them the Same number each, and so kept on feeding hem twice each day for the winter e L had lots of good milk and 1 long before spring fat, Kittle Jersey cows.’ State for the benefit of the said Capt pwn, “that I have since learned that in Labrador and in parts of Lapland cow fish, dr are habitually fi o the story, © from the ful source I ing in mind that the other ecuntrie be considered ve too HE WOULD DO IT WITH PLEASURE. Expert Who Ask« On Tw Time to Blow Up a Ship. From the New White the officials 3 are loath to admit it, even to their most inti mate friends, it was discovered yesterd. afternoon that they are devoting attention to getting torpedoes ready for emergency use in New York harbor. One of the men at the yard who has had much to do with experimenting with torpedocs for harbor defense was busy nearly all day h his superiors. His name Gilmartin, and he is said to be thoroughly skilled in the handling of torpedoes, martin was asked yesterday by one of h superiors if he would yndertaki ders, should necessity Pequire of a torpedo as He instantly replied that he would do so with pleasure, and then he was asked: “Mr. Gilmartin. suppose you were on Saturday night to place a torpe der the bottom of @ vessel in Ne arbor; how long would it take yc do it?” aie ial “I would do tt inside of two hours on any Vessel afloat in this harbor, and I'll bet my life on it.” said Gilmartin. It is altogether likely that if occasion should require the services of a torpedo expert. Gilmartin would be the man chosen the perilous task. ou can do most anything with a tor- pedo in the way of blowing a hole in a ves- sel,” said Gilmartin to o} ‘and all I want is the word and the tor. pedo, and I will blow a hole in any vessel that comes into New York harbor. And I won't get hurt, either,” he added. with a grin. From what could be learned last night in case of sudden hostilities the gover: ment will depend to a great extent on tore pedoes for harbor defense. “We can get them ready in a hurry said one of the officers yesterday, “and there is no one knows it any better than the Spanish naval officials themselves. If such a thing should be that a Spanish war vessel should commit any hostile act while in the harbor of w York, she never would get away. There are men enough and torpedoes enough to sink her half a dozen times before she gets outside Sandy Hook.” sep * Hours’ , under o ‘the firing sure. How Licut. Gov. Jud Brush was one of the first en to pan for gold in the “Cherry ek diggings” during = ile in something cf a rewniscent mood at the Brown Hotel an evening or two ago he tceld stories of the dead past, and then tcrred his attention to the future for the it “We may not have sky-scrapers in Den- ver for some time to come,” he remarked, “but when they do errive there will be ad- vunteges, as well x: istdvantages. jest time I was in New York I went to sea @ friend in the thirtieth story, I think, of the block. Just as I stepped’ out of ‘the elevator I saw a man leap out of a window, and, of course, I made a rush for my friend's office to breathle:sly explain to him what had hapyened. ““Take a chsir and sit dow: Jud, he remarked, with painful unconce “I can’t do it,” said I. ‘Bygosh, that fellow will kill himself falling down those thirty stories to the pavement.” ‘My friend replied that he would ring up. the fire department, which would catch’ him in the nets for that purpose before he reached the street. I watched out of the window, and in a few minutes there came the department a tearing, and caught the man in a net just as he got within a couple of feet of the hard stone. “You can see from this that there isn’t half the danger in those tall buildings that Feople ave inclined to think there is. I think the Denver department would have done even quicker work than the one in New York did. —— oo _____ From Harlem Life. Browne—“Allow me to have the pleasure of returning that $ that I borrowed the