Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1898, Page 10

=a. AO THE EVEN SING. STAR, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1898-16 PAGES. — : = = SCENTS. CANNIBALISM IN AUSTRALIA. fe SPSS SOS S OSS Se ee a ee soneeneg 4 9 A Plea for the Essence of Salt and | Awfpl Fate of the Ehlers Expedition Hecht‘ Hecht ~ Com: Hecht & Co Hecht & 5 = Kind. eae om pany. pany. mpany. lecht & Company. + McKnew’s, 2720 ieee 1 ire ath Reompany. | | __Hecht & Company. es arcde, “in a world that nature and art| the fearful end stan expedition erate 1% CHOIce.Of all that’s left “Nothing succeeds like success.” 4 933 Penn. =< have so refined in vain. I, who do not |ing from the northeast coast, attempted to ‘riday, SUIT SALE Owing to tremendous sales our superb stock of Stylish Suits is re- duced to a lot oi “odd” and broken sizes, which we will close out at as- tonishing reductions. Each suit is a model of elegance and fine work- manship, and but for the fact that we have noi all sizes would not be sold for a penny less than first of prices. All this season's ilk lined throughout. Don’t There is a chance of your finding just the suit you want here, and at remnant sale price. season that his silt fragrances never were turn- | Pames, Thanks to the efforts of Judge |¢ blacks—and stylish cheviots—every garment in the lot is most hand- thie moening Ser ment Zesterday of the purchase of another lot of ribbons broucht « 8 Mg cond W.H. IicKnew, 933 Pa.Ave. | <1 to essences, and that he might search | pitmarck archipelago, the mystery of|% somely tailored. The linings are the best—the button holes are Prather been plearant the burine would have broken all records. d-y Fy s pecuiarts si a@ perfumer's shop in vain for a bottle cf| their death has at’ last been eluci-| % font ey fortunate in secaring thia Mg lot for our putroue—espectally afier the past weed's myt-W0 sea scent or for the smell of the “good | Gateg. Rumors of foul play had been| ® and sewed—the finishing touches are perfect. No tailor in the fol selling of the frst lot. which we got from the recent “Trade Sale" in Pew York city. We ONT these last Malmiting ugeances | alive among the natives visiting trad-| 4 country ever turned out better fitting or more perfect garments— chatce betcer, Please read tue Shams carefully- ‘aed tees br bane Ooearenn ts tene ebtembons Bugle Brand Gem > Bass’ Ale c 9 All the spices, coffee amd tea, the various | the party from the very first range, the S gron grain. molre gros grain and plain gros cleding | Z-ineh cau mn, for agri o hs em to be “dry; none | conti: 1 dreai rain; = grain—in pale Pink, an fas! in turquoise rel dara green Guinness Stout Pia ore eit pepo = hep rurious amour Our $1 (() “royal” serges. anid also in ain black and pink, will ord for 1c. a Sard the seaweeds, nor even perhaps the pines | enough—yet later on, one by one, other en- wat ee ane SS ee x Is the Best in hot sunshine after summer rain. Neither | emies appeared and dogged their footsteps: Cur special line of ‘ blue serge suits makes its initial bow to the gentlemen. Ten c. to $1.50 a yard. all silk, mind you—the best quality. ¢ sre the fragrances of the fields that are | intangible fiends that no cotrage could dollars is our price—and that's only because We went to the mills before the advance in prices For sale by the Yeading Wine Merchants, Gro- eers, Hotels and Restaurants. GENERAL AGENTS, Alex. D. Shaw & Co., 58 Broad Street, New York. apl2-Im.40 ———— The Origin of Porcelain. From the $Voman's Howe Companton. ‘Th> word porcelain, as applied to china pottery, originated .in Japan during the thirteenth century. The Chinese, the pion- cers in the art of porcelain manufacture, began to make it nearly two centuries b2- fore the Christian era, and so careful were they to guard the secret of the art that nearly fifteen centuri2s lapsed before their neighbors, the Japanese, got any inkling of it. But once in their possession, the wily Japanese lost no time to profit by their knowledge. The few intr>pid navigators of | love sweets, have mo scents proffered me tut such as seem to suggest the long fore- gore taste of sugared and honeyed dainties. My cigar, my wine, all I really have—my simple dinner itself—is contradicted by the perfumes which haunt the room, the table, the woman's hand that I touch. Why can- not I have a scent now and then that shall hold salt in it instead of sugar?” Finger- ing close a little knot of August violets, dark and fragrant, you may reply that nothing in the scent of flowers has any necessary connection in the flavor of sugar; but he still avers that women confess the affinity by calling ail their favorite flow- crs swect, as the poets also used to do: and, moreover, that no scent is thought worthy of distillation for the purposes of the toilet but such as women cal by the adjective that describes also their peaches, their cr2ams and ices and the whole course of plats sucres. The language of the race is, in fact, too general and too rough, too paltrily sensuous, in keeping the primitive names of sweet and bitter, even for emo- tions of the spirit—ruder speech this than the mere borrow'rg, to fit a fragrance, of the adjective proper to a taste. But it was conceded to the malcontent were indeed in the market, he would have them for his handkerchief, while a woman had her violets. But the violet-scented agreed that oy wate ae at least a Sian| areiwellsestablishsdttactss those rales 5 But you mustn’t be turned aside from our legitimate offering of of albstis taffeta rib Another lot of motre ritihons. in all the jection y é 7 intertribal intrigue, t : AM Btripe pretty ol irable colors hades of the gather together. the names Of fragrances jrere ateibutedito(in perecsbaliiat rece tones a onest Soting by the pretexts of the fakirs which greet you on ia fancy fatieros ot = et desirable colors ani shidcs of, the not sweet but good, odors that would Jo| however, the probability of the story, to.]4 very side. And you won't when you consider the utter unreasona- cin plain blacks Wide—w sale, be- no offense to a taste too adult and tco masculine for follies. None of these could he carry—such are the prejudices brought about by habit—but he might pause upon them, when they came. without losing teuch with either Burgundy or a cigar; and to live and abide in sympathy with these two things, even in their absence, scemed to be an end to keep in view. perfumes; nor have hardly scerts, nor the smell of timber and of mosses in the woods, sugared perfumes. Some of them are not luxurious, but won- derful and close, confidences of nature. And we may further give to the seeker of calt and savor the smell of large fresh walnuts in their husks on the banks of mild autumnal lakes, and the smell of the walnut leaves into the bargain, and the box hedges, six feet thick, which are a network, a cage, of fragrance. All the tiny leaves and the little twigs make a prison of altered and laden air. On the windiest warm day there is a perpetual pause within the box hedge and among its outer leaves—a pause filled with immo- bile odor. ——_+e+—___ A Glans Statue. From the Atlanta Corstitution. The Colossus of Rhodes, Washington Monureent, statue of Liberty and the great pyramids of Cheops or Corfu are to be surpassed in magnitude by a military monument one-third of a mile high to be erected in plain view of Atlanta. The scheme also contemplates the great- cross the island and reach’ the English south coast at the mouth of the Motu-Motu river, it created the greatest consternation, as the leader, Otto Ehlers, a special favor- ite of the German emperor, was regarded as a traveler of considerable experience, and the difficulties he would have to meet on his hazardous trip were duly impressed upon him before he started. He took no notice, however, of the grim forebodings of others more acquainted with the special terrors of the dark island's interior. Only a section of the black carriers, recruited from New Ireland and New Britain, ever aceemplished the end of the journey, but as most of the boys spoke excellent English the government of British Papua sent the survivors over to the German head station in the Astrolabe bay, and subsequently the Germans were able to elicit a very com- plete and apparently satisfactory report from the few witnesses of one of those eer and silent tragedies that no cable re- Pott nothing but the unutterable sufferings of those brave pioneers in the service of humanity and science had transpired, no- body ovt of a limited circle of interested parties would have heard the names of those martyrs. But sensation resurrects ing stations in the north of New Ireland, but as the accusations were made against inimical tribes, and the spiteful unveracity and treacherous ingenuity of tie Melane- gether with the unanimous consensus of, witnesses, created an agitation tcr a new: trial, whith has just been concluded, and brings to light a terrible tale. Though the official report of the fate of Ehlers and Plering, the two white men of the expedition, and the carriers, published in German papers two years ago, is awful reading—the utter desolation that enguifed tain forest, were gloomy and disheartening overcome; starvation, disease, fear and si- lence. No one who has not felt his very heart shudder with the touch of daily, weekly, monthly silence, silence unbroken but by the sad monotonous drop of the rain from leaf to leaf; silence all-pervad- ing and unutterable that it seems like a Proof of atheism—nobody without such an experience will understand the sufferings such an absence of all iife can produce. is death within life. Add to this the fearful bodily misery of the men, who hoped against hope from day to day to see the last mountain chain that would allow them a look into freedom and the world; the evil skin diseases that made them hate and loathe their own bodies; the self-reproaches of the leader for his fool- hardy daring, and we have a picture of In- ferno incarnated. For Papua does nt sim- ply coarsely murder—it tortures first. And then when at last the great southern river —the Motu-Motu—the path of relief was struck, just when hope began to have a raison d'etre the two white men died— drowned, as was stated, while asleep on the foundering raft that was to carry them seaward. The rest of the expedition, with the exception of a number of boys said to be bushed or dead from starvation or dys- It, ef the:: ibs men’ S™" at $6.98 and $13. culously low which mark—standard qualities his. cloth. bleness of their claims. away from this great sale now. tions to do the best they stances couldn't possibly be made-for less ti has becn thoroughly tested—been given the and get another new sult for scholee of single or double breasted styles. $9 top coats, $4.98. 4 shades of English covert top coats, a short box style, lined with good Italian cloth, and wth ‘ful! wide French facings— also a whipcord covert—1 r $9 values, and we have them in our giyrnlar stock at that price—these go at $2 bike pants, 99c. Men's plaid bicycle pants, in those very combinations which are fashionanle season; made with mfMtary seats, giving them double strength and double the wear— where wear comes—pants which are sold Fillard stock of ‘suits marked $6.98 and $12 for We havé bunched the balance of the men’s Suits which we sold —in one lot—and beginning tomorrow morning you may have'the choice of any of them for $5.50. them went at $i2—and many more at $6.98—and for a grand wind up of the sale of the Tillard stock we have marked them at this ridi- figure. You can’t begin to realize the enormity of our- offering until you consider the fact that these are the same garments illard made to sell at $10, $13, $15, $16.50 and $18—and * which came to us at such a smal] figure that we were enabled to sell them at $6.98 and $12. And you must remember that there is no better made clothing in the country than that which bears Tillard’s You have the choice of a-splendid variety of light check cassi- meres, coats with wide facings and satin-piped inner seams and satin under collars—and also stylish worsteds, in smart-looking English plaids and checks and stripes and mixtures—and plain blues and three-button cutaway sacks, dark plaids, coats lined with fine Italian We're offering you the privilege of availing yourself of our “Charge System”—thus giving you an opportunity to pay for what you buy alittle at a time, until the bill is ‘wiped out. buying doubly easy—lack of ready cash is no excuse for you to stay pric and bought heavily—and then put the cloth into the hands of knew bow. The uae is a suit for $10 that under any other eircum- that hard-twisted quality—and it's guaranteed to wear like fron almost. perfectly—if they don’t or shout happen to pull cut or prove in any way unsatisfactory—come yours. They're cut according to the newest tailor’s fashion plates Other specials for men. Not content with giving you the best suit bergain of your life, we shall also let the chotce of some very special values in men's clothing. pear) 90.00 Hundreds of That makes our own tailors with instrac- 12.60—and perhaps not that little. fers "The color The fabric is * the severest of any. ‘These'll hold the shape Look them over. $6 bike outs, $2.98. re golf and bicycle watts, five styles of pinids and coats are’ made with four outside pockets and full fi ante. have military on ere for leas than Your choice a suit cold $6 by any Slothier ‘on eart of any one of these for $2.08. $4 pants, $1.98. 6 styles of striped worsted ints, which are regular $1 values go at S108. These are made up with 2 hip ecbere and the facings are the best materials—perfect fit- There’s a certain air of bus partment grow. small prices until we inaugurated been known heretofore. ours are the most exclusive Sailors, 19c. Ladies’ short-back sa!lors and children’s plain straw hats, in white and mixed Straws—will be offered tomorrow for 19 cents. They are worth double. | Flowers, 16c. = A lot of violets of natural cslor, in white | and yellow—and child's wreaths, ‘and roses = | and follage—will be offered tomorrow for 16 cents for choice. The rush for e styles. of them, every fizagina’ile #h 4 to 6 Inches wide 18¢, Ribbons, 49c. Z-inch to 16-inch satin-cdge double-face of the past. that has surpassed all expectations. will take advantage of. Child’s suits, $1.19. A lot of reefer and veetle all-wool suits, in boys’ double-Dreasted suits, in sizes 7 to 16 youre which are worth no less than $2.75 nd $3.50—will be offered tomorrow for a119. Boys’ & youths’ suits,$1.98) Tomorrow we put on sale a lot of boys’ all- ‘wool suits, in double-breasted styles, in sizes from 7 to 16 years—aud also a lot of youths’ long panta suits, in sizes from 14 to 19 years —wiich are weil made and in a variety of poh patterns and offer you the choice for selling in the air here at the millin- ery department—buyers constantly come and go. ing as we do it brings certain results —you You must acknowledge that you never knew such less now for millinery of the most stylish ¢ Ours are the han —ours is the most compiete showing of the world’s best creations— | Child’s hats, 49c. | Ribbons, 334c. The last of the Tillard stock —of the boys’ clothing will be offered tomorrow—and when every garment is sold the greatest clothing sale of the year will be a thing It has been a wonderful event for us—a feat of selling chance tomorrow to make the savings—which every prudent woman Business build- can almost the see de- this low selling. You pay much aracter than has ever omest parlors in town Straw hat, 37c. straw deniratsle jenpolttan ; coarse straw —will Choice of a lot of chill’s pretty straw crown mull hats will be offered von tomor- row for 49 cents. They ars made and fin- ished in the pretties: mauner. the ribbons! ginning tomorrow, at 3° Value is even greater because the qualities are better—and the variety larger. You will have to pey more than three Umes as such any " se for them. Ribbons, 13%4c. An immense lot of 3% and 4-Inch moire, plain taffeta and «h tafteta, in- Mothers will have one more Shirt waists, 1214c. Tomorrow we will offer a lot of bers’ pleated percale shirt waists, which sell reg- ularly at 2c. and more, for only 12%c. Boys’ pants, 12!4c. A let of boys’ checked Mnen pants, with patent bands—the usual value sold for 25c.— for 12%c. tomorrow, for $2 wherever bicycle clothing is sold —go to you for 0c. These special values for ladies. those days brought samples of both Chinese and Japanese ware to Europe, but not until early in the sixteenth century did a trade in ft of any extent tak2 place. Among the early importers were Portuguese traders who had settled on the Japanese coast, and est military national park in the world on and arcund Kenesew mountain. It is pro- posed to introduce in the park some novel features, ehief among them a statue of white glass, eighty feet high, on top of entery, managed to get to the’ coast, and, aided by a native teacher of the L. M. 8., were transported to Port Moresby. Suci was the tale. But now it appears that the history of that unfortunate expedi- tion had a few more terrible characters ting and well mede. Splendid values. Youths’ suits, $4.50. A lot of youths” a ol suits, in a variety of those neat check patterns—all of them perfect fitting and neatly made—will be Boys’ suits, 49c. A lot of boss’ striped Galatea cloth and plain crash washable sailor sults, eleg: Kinnesaw, the statue to be illuminated at vi t first assi 5 + > H 50. $7.50—they should be. trimmed—wiil go tomorrow for 49 fo them, it is claimed, we owe the word | night by @ dazzling light from within. To cnemiwes Ch HDAC COmT INE Nore ne ae $10 for ladies’ 515 suits. 31.19 for $2.50 skirts. oes pS a J go cents, “d ‘om the Portuguese por-| give strength to the statue, which will sufficient to prove that cannibalism in its 1orrow we fer you or ‘omerrow we put on sale another lot of cellana, or sucking pig. When the Portu- | typify American valor in the form ot an | most dreaded form, insurrection, ghastly lied’ throughout ith hack. tater aie. SRR ee Boys’ pants, 49c. Blouses, 49c. guese first saw pieces of Japanese | American soldier, the glass will have an | miserable despair and murder accompanied Toth Jacket ams WaRe alba uied Cee oe eS ees Tomorrow we place on sale 2 lot of boss’ ware e struck with its translu- | interior frame work of steel, and when |the stricken column. Ehler's mistakes were green and brown’ covert—with strap seams auperior manner—well lined and well: bound all-wool pants, which are strongly made and ‘A lot of boys’ white blouses, with embroid- cence, which somewhat resembl2d that of | lighted up it will be visible so far that the many. His judgment was at fault in’ near Sjacketa are. silk ined —every garment in —and selling regularly at $2.59—and offer perfect fitting—in a variety of the most styl- ered front —and fintshed tn the daintiest fasts the cow shell. The cowry shell, in turn, | inhabitants of other planets will think the | ly every particular regarding the exigen- the lot is a $15_vaiue—tor $1 vai r $10. you the chuice for oe $1.1 Pon in patterns—just the sort of pants for the Jon—-will be offered for 4¥c. for choice of the earth has a new moon Ddoys’ rough play and for school wear—will lot. resemble in shape @ small sucking pig, or Porcellana; hence, our “porcelain.” located about twenty mies west of Atlanta. a In Washington. centers such as London, Paris, are to be found at King’s Palace. patterns. were bought to sell for that. Untrimmed Hats-Worth from 39c. to 75c., at 17c. Lalies” Plain and Fancy Straw Tats, als> Misses’ and Children’s, in all new shapes, including shert-back ‘sailors, flats, See 17c, Oatriaaied Hats-Worth rom 75c. to $1.25, at 39c. for Ladies, and = Chil- plein and paenyrsvnd shepherdess -back sailers, imported Pan- right up to * 30c, fo style and ef- PDO D HDD HOPOAO HO AO HOO HO eee amas. the mark fect—go at. a od <r + Leghorn Flats. We will sell this Se ats Miss-3 and Children at. 1214¢. De a a ) 75c. Benini Shortback Sailors at 45c. pioa have the cholce of two stsles, with ec in black, or rolling edge or the plain edge, . White and all the 45c. r8—-sold werywhere . Our price. . $1.25 Trimmed Panama Sailors, 75c. nuine Imported Panama Sailors, Knox Ie, silk ribbon band. with leather eweats, made and finished in = 75c. meu's style. This quality seld everywhere at = a Our era 50c. Trimmed Sailors, 25c Several styles to select from, Kise and Dunlap shapes. high and lew ‘crowns, in white, black. bine, brown and red, plain mh ‘aa ‘eauner “sient, 25c. $2.50 and $3 Serge Skirts, + $1.68. Strge Skirte have never boon ane at such a price. Percaline lined, velvet bound, full width, tn black Si 68. end blue, all Jengths. Emaie your chotce at... 2 BS ESADADAD MOA DID AD ADDO OED 812-814 7th St pineal ile aarp orta OUR MILLINERS SET THE FASHIONS Of course they take their cue from the great and New York. But in Wash- ington the newest and most stylish examples of the milliner’s art Men’s Madras Shirts, 39c. Just received 100 dozen of Men’s Madras with white bands and detachable cuffs, in 6 different These shirts are positively worth 75c., Green Ticket Price.... { King’ S Palace, - Shirts 39e and Imported Flowers--Sam- ples, Worth 50c. to $1, at 18c. Such values as these can only be found at King’s Palace. We are in receipt of a fresh lot of these Semple Flowers, even better if possible than the former lot. Nearly every kind of flower is reproduces large, Hberal bunches, all ef fects and hues. Worth from Svc. to $1. They go at. Am>rican Beauty Roses, with peareee and buds. rubber stems, at. 5c. Imported Lita ch, white and nai wals/ati oc 255% bunches Bluets, 13 sprays’ t . With folfage, at i ares: “ =f Q Q Q Q Suits that sold at $8, x0) : and $12 at $4. 98. Suits, in_all-wool * serg>s, also | fan All Silk=lined Suits 1 Bso0 | Sold for $15 to $20 - ; at $7.98. A trvly magnificent lot of Suits. The Jacket and skirt are taffeta silk lined throughout. fn black, blue and a few fancy colors, made of all-wool cheviot serges and ladies’ eloth; fis-front and reefer styles, all man- tallored and workmenship of the best. Worth from $7. 08 $15 to $20. At.......... $8 to $10 Satin Duchess Skirts, $4.98, This aosiity Skirt cennot be bought for leas than $8 to $10; excellent quality Satin Duchess, medium and feures inclading the fashionable Bayadere stripe pattern, well made and finished, and they are full width. "Your choice ai $4. 98 [lisses’ and Children’s Jackets and Reefers. Peg AE to $1. sor: — 68c. 98c. and Jackets.........6eeeesee LOT 2_$2 Misses’ and Chil-” area's Reefers snd Jackets 715 Market ee re a cies of the march through that howling wilderness, clothed in luxuriant colors; that petrified nightmare. He had not sufficient provisions or ciothes or tents. He carried unnecessary baggage with him, such as bedsteads, $1,000 in gold, boxes, rifles, etc., while his carriers had not even a tarpaulin to protect their naked, shivering, thorn and leech-torn bodies from the cruelly cold rain of the mountains at night. But for all that, Ehlers was a brave man, who even under the tortures he personally suffered tried to encourage the lost legion he led. And he deserved a better fate than he struck. Imagination may easily supply what is better not written. The fight of the superior Caucasian intellect against the bestial savagery that threatened daily more under the incentive of fierce sufferings, to break the weak bonds of scarcely learned authority, till at last it all ended in mur- der, and—well, oth-r things. Especially the fact that the expedition was composed of natives of different tribes, who in a state of nature hate each other fiercely (the very reason that brought these last facts to light), seem to point out a horrible state of affairs, after the last scrap of flour had disappeared, and leaves and roots formed the nourishment of those hopeless savages, with the hunger, the appetite for human flesh only half controlled at best of times, burning in their aching entrails. Such, then, is the tragedy that the simple news item concerning the murder of German Papua hides. soe. QUINSY. Some of the Methods for Coping With This Aggravating Malady. From the Youth's Companion. Quinsy, or tonsillitis, is an acute inflam- mation of one or both tonsils. The in- flammation is commonly very “active, causing great pain and ending in the for- mation of matter. Children, and especially young adults, are most subject to the disease, for it is in them that the tonsils are most fully de- veloped and most prone to take on inflam- mation. The glands gradually become smaller in middle lMfe, and have more or less completely disappeared in those who have reached old age. The cause of quinsy is not always evi- dent. A tendency to the disease seems sometimes to run in families, and it has been noted that those who have frequent attacks of tonsillitis in youth often suffer from gout or rheumatism in later life. The immediate cause seems often to be expos- ure to cold and wet when the person is fatigued or a little “‘under the weather.” The presence of sewer gas in the house has been accused of exciting attacks of tonsillitis in those unfortunates who have contracted the quinsy habit. The first indication of trouble is usually @ chill or a chilly sensation, such as many people have come to recognize as a. sign of having caught cold. This | is follpwed by @ little fever, with dryness and “stiffness” in the throat, and a little pain on swallow- ing. The pain, which rapidly increases, is con- tinuous, but is greatly aggravated by the chewing and swallowing of food. On look- ing into the throat the swollen and red- dened tonsil is readily seen. When both tonsils are affected they may often be seen pressing against each other, and seem- ingly blocking up the throat completely. Sometimes the trouble may—apparently, at least—be cut short by early treatment, but usually the inflammation goes on to the formation and discharge of an abcess. A person with tonsillitis should live on milk and broths; indeed, there is no temp- tation to take solid food, not only because of the pain in swallowing, but because the appetite ts lost. Gargling with a strong {elution of borax | or bicarbonate of soda in ‘hot water, to which a little glycerine haw been added, is very grateful. Cold compresses applied to the throat at the beginning of an attack occasionally appear to cut it Sore but after the ation of early be- come Inévital Bae abrficat tions zor pout | tices should be usi Soon as matte has formed it Sunoutd be let out, an the ensuing relief will amply compensate ie the momentary pain of the little oper- ation. $7.50 for ladies” suits. Tomorrow we pat on ete a at of Indles fine taflor-made sufts of black cheviot He: with #ilk-lined reefer Jackers and full skirts sults which show evste evidence. of the careful making that bas been put into them—and which were intended to sell at $12.50—and offer you the eboice for only 0. 69c. corsets, 39c. Lot of ladies’ white and gra Dest values 69c, can ever buy—will be offer- ed tomorrow for 39¢. z Le Seeroreerreooeroserooorenononres Mmnrnnnniin $¥.98 for $3.50 skirts. Another lot of ladies’ well-made skirts go on sale tomorrow, consisting of blue end black serge and ‘plain black — brilliantine skirts, which are made in the most thur- ough ‘style, and lMned with yercaline und velveteen bound—regular $3.5) values--which we offer for $1.98. Ladies’ vests, s, 12Ac. Lot of ladies’ pink, blue and white ribbed | vests—have crocheted neck and armholes } run with silk tape—25c. values for 12!sc. go tomorrow for 49 cents. Boys’ shirt waists, 59c. all cffer the celebrated **Mothers’ waists for boys. with patent jered—and with every point of advantage that well-known make lias for 59 cents. Hecht & one 515 7th St. Boys’ vests, 9c. ‘The choice will be offered tomorrow of a lot of boys’ ali-wool vests, left from suits, for ouly ¥ cents { ACT OF HEROISM. A Well Shooter Catches 20 Quarts of Nitro-Glycerin in His Arms. From the Philadelphia Press. One of the most thrilling experiences recorded in the anrals of shooters’ careers was that in which Dick Singleton, an old- time Bradford shooter, played the role of hero. He played it well, too. That the sensational drama did not turn out to be @ tragedy in which six lives were taken in the last act is due to the hero’s cool head, quick decision and superb nerve in the face of almost certain death. Singleton was one of the best known shooters in the Bradford field. He had all the qualities which enter into the make- up of a successful juggler with death's agencies. He had shot hundreds of wells and transported glycerin all over the coun- try in all kinds of weather and over roads which, at certain seasons, had no counter- part for all-round villainy anywhere; but his reckless caution had always averted a catastrophe up to the time of which we write. One day Singletcn started out to shoot a well located near Bradford. The well had been “drilled in” two or three days before, but the shooter had been too busy to put in a shot. Arrived at the well, Singleton proceeded to fill the shells with glycerin from his cans. Thet is a proceeding of some deli- cacy, as glycerin allows no liberties to be faken with it. Care must be exercised in pouring the stuff from the cans into the shells. However, all went well, and Singleton began to lower a cylinder into the hole. Several persons stood in the derrick watch- ing operaticns with the curious interest which custom may abate but cannot kill utterly. The well was about 1,800 feet deep, and during the interval since drilling had stopped about 1,000 feet of fluid had ac- cumulated in the hole. There was nothing unusual about that; but something unusval did happen speedily and most inopportunely; something calcu- lated to turn one’s hair gray and make such an impression’ nthe memories of the men present as time’tould not efface. The glycerin a been lowered sev- eral hundred feet, singleton was slow- ly paying out the ‘Sea, when he felt the line slacken. Immedfately he heard an a8 8 sound to appall ominous roar. It the stoutest heart. The well had started! to flow! leaning of that names resturant of a 1 000 feet high, 0! Ing the “impetus of the mighty forces of n&fére; then in convul- sion 2,000 feet urderground, was forcing to the surface, withia:velocity of-a cannon ball, a shell contatming: twenty quarts of glycerin. He realized that ‘the propulsive energy of that column of off id project the shell against the timbers of the derrick with tremendous force.No need to spec- ulate on what would, follow the impact. All this was fias! upon Singleton’s consciousness as he stood leaning over the hole. The. thought-flash and the signal of peril were coincident in point of time. It was en awful moment—sucth a mo- mua | be acetal ever experienced and liy jegcribe. ‘Siugigene @ompanions understood the t of that terri! sound. Acting natural impulse, they turned to a 5 ing in fill the ¢ nich = few fe wad fhe’ 18 R598 toe At most befure terror could impart would petal 1d petal itat- their limbs the catastroph If Singleton had lost fia head i ee sa Seine into eter? would have been Pas | edd the lone st stnrged to the ox count of ni oe Sen But he did not 10s§ his head. He knew that flight was s. No time for that. Whether he only one. It came to Singleton like an inspiration. The one chance decided him. Desperate as 1t was—a million to one that it would feil—he resolved to take it. Who can say what passed through the man’s mind during the inappreciable frac- tion of time that he waited to put his plan into execution? Perhaps Singleton himself could not de- scribe what his mental vision beheld in that brief interval between the warning and the uppearance of the messenger of eternity. . He was conscious of nothing but the peril which was rushing upon him and his companions, and of the stern resolve to stand at his post and do all that heroic manhood could do to avert the impending doom. Men think quickly at such times. Single- ton’s mind actea with the celerity of light- ning. His muscles obeyed the mandate of the will with electric promptitude. He made his title clear to heroism on that eventful day. He braced himself, and as the shell shot from the hole he threw his arms around it, not knowing but the sudden arrest of motion would explode the charge, and not knowing that he could hold the shell at all. Desperation gave him strength. There he stood, victor over death, surprised to find himself alive, and smothered in the thick, greasy fluid which flowed from the well and fell in torrents upon him. But he held fast to the prize which his alert mind, quick eye and prompt action had won in the hand-to-hand grapple with the forces of destruction. Singleton is still living somewhere in the lower off country, and he occasionally tries his hand at a shot, tut if he should live un- til the final day of judgment he could never forget the day when he played backstop i the game between life and death, with na- ture in the box and twenty quarts of ni- tro-glycerine doing service as a ball. a SF SS A New Sea Serpent. From the London Morving Post. The Haiphong mail has brought news of @ hitherto unknown species of ocean mon- ster which has been seen on several occa- sions by the officers of the gunboat Ava- lanche in Fai-tsi-Long bay. Naval Lieut. Lagresille,commander of the Avalanche, re- ports that~in July last, in Along bay; two animals of strange form, about twenty yards long and two or three yards in cir- cumferénce, were observed at a distance of 600 meters. Their movements were not rig- id, but undulatory, in a vertical sense. They dived when a shot was fired at them. Sev- eral similar creatures were seen on Feb- ruary 15 this year, and were fired at when from 300 to 400 yards distant. Two small shells burst on one of the monsters, but did not appear.to injure it. Lieut. tried to run them down, but they were too swift for the Avalanche. Whenever the animal he chased got into shallow water. it doubled back and thus was clearly seen. Each time it dived it blew noisily. The color was gray, with several black fins, ~ head something like that of a seal, and th Yack covered with a sawlike ridge. The pregence of these creatures is revealed by their loud breathing. Lieut. Lagresille thought once that he had secured a speci- men, but the animal dived and came up far astern of eS eer The nonls of tings repo! ese new of the the deep would tend to show that the species is fairly plentiful in the seas where the Avalanche. was stationed. ; Pee ee GS TaD A Blessed. Relief, + ° | rom the Bhar Ss “How is it that your arovs asleep at a ede lar time? What do you give mee Her father Just stops singing to her.” Fis aD SAE: Fa It matters little what it is that you want— ete ‘erattuation or a servant—a “want” For the Rural Traveler. From the Chicago Chronicle. Another blow at the confidence men who haunt the stations and furnish to travelers gratuitous information concerning tunnel explosions and similar attractions was struck yesterday, when an electrical direct- ory and time table device was placed in the depot at Wells and Kinzie streets. Similar appliances will soon be placed in all the other large stations. By means of the directories the tourist who Gesires to visit any place of interest in Chicago need but press a button on a cabinet, which bears a striking resemblance to a large upright piano, and with e whir- ring of wheels a sheet will be brought to view and will furnish information as to street car lines and streets to be traveled over te reach any part of the city. The time tables are placed upon twenty- six sheets. The towns and cities on the road and on connecting lines are arranged alphabetically, each sheet being devoted to a letter. The times of arrival and de- parture of all trains are placed after each town. By pressing the button upon which is the initial letter of the desired station the traveler causes the corresponding time sheet to appear. —____+0-+___ Death by Electricity. From the Electrical Review. There appears to be a great variance of opinion as to the way in which powerful electric shocks produce d:ath, and, without doubt. their action is not limited to the de- moralization or arresc of one particular function. Dr. W. S. Hedley points out that result, first, end, he sudden arr'st of Geath by electricit, perhaps, oftenest, b respiration; it may also be broughi about by sudden and primar stoppage of the heart action. In either cage the not improbably due to phystological of the centers of respiration or cireula from chemical or other changes thorein which present methods of observation do not permit us to recognize. The view, how: ever, that death from electric currents due to action upon the structur> of the heart itself is very influentially held and has never been disproved. The treatment recommended for those apparently killed by electrio shock {s artificial respiration, bed gun early and continued tong. In proper hands the administration of nitrize of am: may be productive of good results. ——__--+0e+ ——— Why the Fire Sputters. . From the St. Lovis Republie. Every one who enjoys sitting by a wood fire must have observed how the wood sputters and hisses and frequently gives off little Jets of flames and again the pieces crackle and fly off at a considerable dis- tance. This is caused by the water in the wood, which, confined in the cells, becomes heated and generates steam. It is a cu- rious fact that intense heat and intense cold produce fractures in rious sub- stances. In the most extreme cdld weather it is not uncommon, especially if the cold has come on suddenly, to find trees that are split from the ground to the top by the action of the frost. 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