Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1898, Page 15

Settee Settee : elsewhere. Make up your orders Price CUTTING for Saturday. ey Best Bright Smoked Sugar Cured Shoulder, worth § cents, for. Good Fresh and Sweet Boiling Beef, worth 7 cents, for........ Fresh and Tender Roasts of Beef, cut from finest beeves, worth 10 cents, for... .sseseses----4C, ID. Best Small Bright Sugar Cured tiams, mild smoked, worth 12 cents, for... . 0 ve«. Strips of Sugar Cured Breakfast Bacon, worth 12 cents, for.........-.. 5 Ibs. of Split Yellow Peas for soup Yellow. Granulated Corn Meal. LEVERING’S PACKAGE Seegeagoageadeageageateatoasenseagenronsoasoeseagenbeazeateateatvasraseasvoteatvoseosatengeaseatoasoaseaseaeseareatoacenteatoatratoesoesoesontencercoaseasmaseasoasoatasenteloaseatoatnasneseesoogeagendentondeadeatnesdoesontoesonseasententontoatratratnatratoagpateatoatrasoasoasins on oagensoatrnseaseasnamasrnsonseeseaceenseasea eas enseasee msm cety Rumford’s Pound Cans of Baking Powder cut down t0.........cccccceccecccecceecceuecccuce 27c. Rumford’s Hazlf-pound Cans of Baking Powder cut down to.........cecccecsecceececece ce --A3e. Royal Baking Powder, large pound cans, fOr.......2..00.ceeeeeceeeseecceeseesseness AOC, each ° Great Coffee, Tea and Sugar Bargains. 5 Ibs. Granulated Sugar and 33 Ibs. of 30-cent Java and Mocha Coffee, all for.......... «+++» $1.00 i 2 Ibs. of 50-cent Mixed Tea or Green, and 7 Ibs. Granulated Sugar, all for............ sence $1.00 | 5 LBS. OF LARGE EVAPORATED CALIFORNIA ARBUCKLE’S PACKAGE COFFEE FOR LION PACKAGE COFFEE FOR = DURKEE’S DRESSING FOR = 10 LBS. BEST PURE LARD FOR - Large Silver Prunes ‘7c lb. 5 1B, LOTS OF LARGE BRIGHT SILVER PRUNES FOR 35 CTS. Large packages of good Corn Starch, 10 Ibs. for 40c. Large cans of good new Salmon, 10 cans for goc.... Well-made Carpet Brooms, with three double strings, for...... APPLES FOR 6ce. LB. 4 lbs. of Large Bright Apples, fresh and new, for... 1,000 New Hemp Clothes Lines, worth 8 cents, for. . 700 New Cotton Clothes Lines, werth 10 cents, for. 800 New Twelve-inch Cotton Mops, worth 15 cents, for CUTTING RUMIFO The largest size 6-ounce bottles of Rumford’s Celebrated Yeast Powder to go at.........8I4c. each for......23c. . 24c.1b. Cutting Price Jell Marshmallow Creams for...........--12c. Ib. Chocolate Iced Jumbles for... Cocoanut Marshmailows for Peach Dessert Wafers. Iced Jelly Gems... ... Belmont Sandwiches............----- 12. Ib. Large Orange Iced Cakes..........12c. each Packages of Cream Toast.......... 0c. each Cutting Price Large Coffee Cakes for..... Crimped Sugar Cakes for... .. Round Cream Crackers for. Square Soda Crackers for. Philadelphia Creams for... Butterfly Oyster Crackers for...........-5¢. Jb. Soap Prices Cut 14ets cake, 4,000 cakes of good Laundry Soap as a special at. Large Cakes of Easy Washing Horax Soap for...... Large Cakes of Proctor & Gamble’s Best Oleine for. . Large Cakes of Electric Star, easiest washer, for Large 5c. Packages of Soapine or Babbitt’s 1776 Powder for. Large Cakes of Shultz’s Star Soap for..........ccceceeees W2c. Ib. 12c. Ib. +++ 6c. doz. - 12c. Ib. While the prices are heing cut to pieces at our great stores you must use. your own judgment about buying such extra supplies as you think advisable. Our prices will always be lower than can be found 25c. Lea & Perrin’s Worcestershire Sauce for 19c. 12 large boxes, 200 size, Parlor Matches, for. . Large 3-pound cans of Peeled Table Peaches, well filled, for.... Frames of New Buckwheat Honey .........cccescecccceccccceces 10 Ibs. of Best Loose Rolled Oats for... ...-..cc.-e- cece cccctccececccseccccsesccncoscssess- SC. Butter at Johnston’s, 3‘Lbs. Best Elgin Butter for 66 cents. Sweetest and Best Elgin Butter.........23c. Ib. 6 cans of Baby Brand Milk................50¢. 5 Ibs. of Best Dried Lima Beans for........23¢. 5 Ibs. of Best Dried Green Peas for.........23¢. Large cans of Baked Beans.... Standard Sugar Corn for..... Large Cans Condensed Cream for... Small bottles Catsup for...........4lAc- Cach Standard Marrow Peas for.............6¢. Cam 10-Ib. sacks best Table Corn Meal for.......15¢. Large bottles Catsup for................. 0c. FruitbargainsatJohnston’s) y Cakes. Pineapple Sandwiches for............ 2c. Ib Klondike Sandwiches for............ 2c. Ib. Columbia Crimped Creams.......... 6¢. doz. Vanilla Sandwiches................. 12¢. Ib. Large Lemon Iced Cakes..........10c. each Large Jelly Roll Cakes... Packages of Graham Wafers. Sugar Gakes. Square Coffee Cakes for............ -+- 6c, Ib. Klondyke Spiced Gakes.<5. og Ginger Snaps for... Vanilla Wafers for é Pretzels or Pretzelettes for Pink Philadelphia Honey _ THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1898-16 PAGES + 6 c. Ib. c. Ib. 10i4c. Ib. c. Ib. ---12 cents sere. +: 10c. each 13c. or 2 frames for 25c. $k th th 2 Ss Mh hh th th hk th i Sh Sh Ss stat Sat ses sk se ee ee Bnd : PEACHES FOR 5e. LB. PEACHES FOR = 25C. $ - = === = = 10K%C. LB. 3 COFFEE FOR - = - = = = = = 10%C. LB. # = ==-+ + +++. - 10%C. LB. ¢ =e = mee ete = S| 1190 BOLE Deere wine gic a ates Ss eee TOC. -Alxc. each 914c. each ----10c. each wie weed GIS. 3 cents each. ...4 cents each, -+..-6 cents each. S 8'4e. D’ sees 10. roll .--. 15c. each Fa i i Z Ex ; $ : : i i : z j BA Z & : z Pz : ex $ 3 £ i 4 j : $: - Ib. --5¢. Ib. -12c. Ib. --10c. Ib. Cakes for.....12¢. Ib. Net Comprehend the Frog. From the Arkansaw Traveller. In Texas. A railway train stopped in a swamp, and, while a blended expression of weariness and disgust was sitting on the passengers’ faces, the conductor came into a car where a recently-arrived Englishman sat. “Guard,” said the Englishman, “may I speak to you a moment?” “What did you call me?” “I ealled you guard, for aren’t you the “Guard the deuce! Do you take this for @ convict train, that we have to keep gvards?” “Oh, no, no, no, I didn’t mean-that, but, *owever, we will not argue that roint, but will you please answer me one question?” “Spit it out!” “Well, are we stopping here for?” “There's a frog in the switch,” the con- ductor replied. “A frog in the switch?” “3 really do not understand you.” “But, will you frog ut, you please 1: fi Switch? I know what os is, but wy you should stop on account of a frog being in a switch or anywhere else is something I cannot fathom, you know.” oun can’t explain it,” the conductor re- “But you can tell aecoumt’of gi me why you stop on mee oe ouch int fmation our orders to give away Well, that is-viry, viry queer, you know. W'y in England we would not think for a moment of & train on aeccqunt of 8 frog. I must say that you Americans have some viry ridiculous customs.” “Needn’t say it unless you want to,” plied the conductor, fed at peso fu » as he shyly winked at “Eh? Yes; Iam compelled to account of a frog. Well, well, f = heard of such a thing. Americans held up the ful country.” —-or—_____. More Preft. From_the Cineinnat! Enquirer. My “1 Believe that the frying‘pah is the most fruit- ful source of pag in America,® says a distinguished Stfthority on cookery. Whether thistbellet be justified or not, it is scatceltt possible to over- state of wretcticdiness caused by in- digestion. The Worst consequences of bad. cooking" ahd hasty eating are averted by = Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey a sound stimulant for medicinal and family use. It helps an overloaded stomach as an.extra horse helps a team up a steep hill, When you buy of your grocer or your druggist see that you get the genuine Duffy’s. MEXICAN TOBACCO, It Promises to Supplant the Cuban and Sumatran Products. ¥rom the Manufacturer, The Mexican tobaceo industry is in a thriving condition ‘and will ‘supplant the trade in Cuban and Sumatran products. Tobacco is indigenous to parts of Mexico, and several native varieties are still culti- vated, but in Vera Cruz, where most of the tobacco is grown, stocks must be re- plenished repeatedty by Cuban seed, as the plants deteriorate rapidly. ‘The climate of the gulf states of Mexico is similar to that of Cuba, and they are in the. same latitude. Recently the Isthmus of Te- huantepee has come to the front in to- bacco raising. The soil there is deep and fertile, just the thing for tobacco culture, and witnowx fertilizers yields excellent crops. Throughout Mexico the average yield of tobacco on fair land is over 2,000 pounds per acre, and on poor land nearly half that amount. During 1896 the total product was over 13,000,000 pounds, and in 1897 it was somewhat larger. In 1896 the United States imported $28,000 worth of Mexican tobacco, raw and manu- factured. In 1897 $287,000 worth was im- perted. In 1896 this tobacco was worth 27 cents a pound in New York, while the importation in 1897 brought 40 cents per pornd in the same market. What the Cuban planters have lost the Mexican growers arc in a fair way to gain. Were it not for a prejudice in the United States against Mexican tobacco, whereby most of it is sold as Cuban, the imports would in- crease enormousiy. This prejudice is gradually disappearing, but at present the bulk of the Mexican crop goes to Amster- dam, Hamburg and other European por?s. It is said that a vayage im proves the to- bacco and gives it a certain ‘sea tone.” Mexican cigars brought by sea to New Ycrk command ds high a price as the best Cuban cigars. > The output of, Mexican tobacco is likely to increase largely in the near future, as its commercial posstbilities are attracting capital, especially in the southern pro- vinees, where the soil is of great depth and richness, the rainfall is from 120 to 190 inches per annum.and the climate is an endless summer. One planter put in last year 2,500,000 tobacco plants at a cost of $10,000, and expects a profit of $70,000. A Chicago man, between October 10 dhd No- vember, 1897, planted several acres. In lesa that five months the plants were six feet high. The tobacco Was cut and dried, and is now en route to Holland. A Hollander, an old Sumatra:planter, has ‘obtained: an option on 2,500 actes of fine land, and is abput to develop it!“He says the Mexigan leaf is as good as.the best from Cuba,and Sumatra. Numerous factories have. been established in Mexico, one of them with a capital of $1,000,600, and it is asserted that when better known Mexican, cigars will bring the highest prices in the market. 9+ A..Pretty Bed. From Harper's Bazer. One who is tired of her white enamel and brass bedstead may entirely change the appearance of this piece of furniture by having the portions that are now white painted black. This, with the brass mount- ings, is more effective than one would sup- pose. A bedstead that had been white and was now black had mattress and pillows cover2d with a rich coverlet of antique lace over crimson satin. The hangings at the windows of the bedroom were also dark red, and the hard-wood floor had laid upon its poHshed surface rich rugs of shaded reds. You Are To Blame If you do not get Whisky of the proper Age and Purity. “Six Years Old, 100% Pure,” is the Governments Guarantee on every bottle of Bottled by W, A. GAINES & CO., Fresklort, Ky. The Government Internal Revenue Officers at the distilleries inspect the contents of every bottle. In buying be the Cork and Capeuie ig not broken and 1 Cor! ule is ne en ani that it bears coments W. A. GAINES & CO. aw It is a Government. Guarantee that. goes with this bottling. ALL DEALERS SEiL IT ¥ Cota [mites st to mre (7B + 2 nt “ Port D Ly. Port Tampa..----9.00 Pullman Cars New York and [aa] B Te"Yeatingien ship's sidoat Port LED ON. TO VICTORY Historical Utterances That Will “Never Be Forgotten. LATEST OF A LONG SERIES Written for The Evening Star. “Remember the Maine,” Commodore Schley’s now famous signal of attack on the Spanish fleet, will undoubtedly become immortal in American history, and in the history of the English-speaking peoples, in fact; for, as an appeal to patriotism, it is as thrilling as was Nelson's battle cry at the Nile, “England expects that every man will do his duty.” During the 132 years of our existence as a nation the commodores, captains and other Officers of the navy have made a magnifi- cent contribution of patriotic phrases to our war literature. As the terse embodi- ment of popular sentiment in trying situa- tions and emergencies, they are not sur- Passed by expressions of a like character in any language. The sea fighters started in this line at the very beginning of the revolution; in fact, before that tremendous struggle with the mother country was begun. Captain Whip- ple of Providence, R. I., for instance, when notified in 1775 by Sir James Wallace of the British frigate Rose that he would be strung up at the yardarm for having burn- ed his majesty’s ship, the Gaspee, sent tz) lacontc reply to Sir James: “Always catch a man before you hang him.” The Hon- hearted Whipple, who, in the preceding war with France, in his privateer, the Game- cock, had captured in a single year twenty- three French prizes, voiced in that defiant answer the sentiments of all the rebels in the colonies that catching them was an es- sential preliminary to the hanging busi- ness. ‘Who first raised the American flag on a ship is one of the disputed questions of his- tory. John Adams claimed the honor for Captain John Manly, a New Englander. Paul Jones asserted that “my (his) hand watch. 1b ——————————===, - Every American soldier and every American sailor should carry the best American The original American watch was a Waltham watch. Waltham watches are now, as they always have been, the best American watches. the action Decatur was wounded, and the Endymion dismantled. Before the Presi- dent had time to repair damages the Tene- ¢os and Pomona came up, and Decatur was forced to haul down his flag. Lawrence’s Immortal Cry. “Don’t give up the ship,” the dying words of Commodore Lawrence, the heroic com- mander of the Chesapeake, are among the very noblest ever uttered. They will live as long as ocean rolls or gallant ship floats. The gallent Perry flew that signal at his masthead in the memorable battle of Lake Erie, at the glorious close of which he had the inspiration to pen that dispatch which | by a greatly superior force under the Mex- ican dictator Santa Anna. On the morning of the 6th of March, 1836, the little garrison of the Alamo capitulat- ed on the pledge of the Mexican general that their lives would be spared. Notwith- standing this pledge Colonel Travis and his entire force were massacred as soon as they had surrendered. Their dead bodies were gathered together, a huge pile of wood was heaped upon them, and they were burned to ashes. This fearful act of bar- barity stirred the Texans to intense wrath and implanted in their breasts a fierce thirst for vengeance. On April 1%, 1836, General Houston, with about 700 men, gave battle at San Jacinto to Santa Anna, with nearly three times the number of Mexie first hoisted the American flag.” then a lieutenant on the frigate Alfred. There were several American flags at the time, and Paul Jones does not describe his particular one. Some historians think it was the pine tree and rattlesnake flag with the motto, ‘An appeal to God; Don't tread on me.” Others assert that it was a flag consisting of thirteen stripes, with the mot- to, “Don’t tread on me,” and a rattlesnake stretched diagonally across them. Some of Paul Jones’ Sayings. “I have not yet begun to fight,” was one of Paul Jones’ famous replies to a British captain with whom he had been fiercely engaged for over an hour, and who desired to know if he had surrendered. It was not Jones who surrendered when the battle came to an end. That was the celebrated engagement between the Serapis and the Bonhomme Richard. The captain of the He was | Serapis having been knighted for his gal- lantry on the occasion by George III, Jones, when he heard of the promotion, charac- teristically remarked: ‘(Never mind; if I meet him again I'll make a lord of him.” The first commodore of the young Amer- iean navy was Captain John Barry. In the spring of 1781 he was hailgd by a British sbip on his way from Havana. To the in- quiry as to his identity he replied: ‘The United States ship Alliance, Saucy Jack Barry, half Irishman, half Yankee; who are you?” “Not the value nor the command of the whole Britieh fleet could tempt me from the American cause,” was the heroic reply of Barry to Lord Howe, in 1776, when he of- Equally heroic was the reply of the captive American sailor, Nathan Coffin, when asked to enter the king’s service: 5 you will, to the yard arm, but do not ask me to become a traitor to my country.” Decatur’s Ringing Words. their cap- to gain ” replied @ pirate his were complied Toward the close of the has canonized him in our history: “We have met the enemy and they are oufs.’ It was written on his stiff hat in teu of a table, on the half of an old letter, and the additional information in it gave the size and number of the enemy, namely, “two ships, two brigs, one s¢hooner and one sleop.” Perry was a hero in peace as well as in war. During a fearful winter storm, while lying in the Larbor of Newport, he heard that a merchant vessel had been driven on a reef six miles distant. He at once manned his barge and said to the crew: “Come, my boys, we are going to the relief cf shipwrecked seamen; pull away.” That act was applauded by the eountry almost as much as was the battle on Lake Erie. During the Mexican war | Gen. Scott requested the loan of some guns frcm the fleet, to be used on shore. Perry complied, but on one condition — that “wherever the guns go the officers and men must go also.” Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights. Commodore Porter, father of the late Ad- miral Porter, happily phrased the senti- ment of the country in the motto which he flew on his flag in the war of 1812: “Free trade and sailors’ rights.” In those distant days it became the text for many a patriotic song and thousands of political speeches. A British captain, meeting Por- ter, flung out an answering signal to this effect: “God and country, British sailors’ best rights. Traitors offend both.” ‘The belief in England at the time was that the crews of the American ships were all Brit- ish deserters. Porter answered his enemy next day with a fresh signal flag: “God, our country and liberty! Tyrants offend hem?" When the Constitution, under the com- mand of Commodore Hull, engaged the French frigate Guerriere, a dramatic scene was witnessed on the deck of “Old Iron- sides.” As the Frenchman’s guns began to thunder out Lieut. Morris, seoond in com- mand, asked Hull if be should give the order to fire. “Not yet,” replied Hull. moments later, high the roar of the guns, as the Constitution completely cov- ered her enemy, Hull's voice rang out: “Now, boys, pour it into them?” The Guerriere ply to his hail. This colloquy foliowed: Preble—“I now hail yon for the last time. If you don’t answer I'll fre a shot into you.” “If you do I'll return a broad- cans, and in spite of the disparity of num- | bers Houston's little force swept the Mext- cans like chaff before the wind. It was more a slaughter than a battle. Just before the assault of the Texans was made on the army of Santa Anna | Houston addressed his soldiers in a fervid speech, closing with the words, “Remem- ber the Alamo.” These words fell upon the ears of the Texans with wonderful effect Every soldier in the little army at the same | instant repeated the words “the Alamo,” j Until the word became a shriek for re- | venge that struck terror to the souls of the | Mexicans. When the baitle was over it | was found that only seventy Texans had been killed, while 630 Mexicans were left dead on the field. “Remember the Alamo” was evidently a battle cry that not only nerved the arms of the avengers, but paralyzed the resist- ance ef the Mexicans. The answer of Commodore Stockton to the Mexican governor of California when we took possession of that country is werth re= calling. “If you march upon the town (Los Angeles).” threatened the governor, “you will find it the grave of your men.” “Zell the governor,” said Stockton, “to have the bells ready to toll at 8 o'clock in the morning. I shall be there at that time.” Commodore Tatnall’s “blood is thicker than water” won grateful recognition in England in 1859. Seeing the British admir- al, Sir James Hope. in a tight place under the fire of Chinese forts, Tatnall gallantly icame to his rescue. In’ so doing he was | guilty of a breach of neutrality, but his answer, “Blood is thicker than wi ter,” had the effect of condoning his offense” ey Haymaking in India. From Blackwell's Magazine. At Allahabad eight cuttings of glass are taken during the season, which begins early in the monsoon, and lasts, say, from the middle of June to the middle of March. From manured land the total weight va- ries from fifteen to forty tons per acre, according to the quality of the soll and the number of years which have elapsed since the manure was applied. The jhabau, a native hook which resembles a scythe blade, is preferred to the grass mower drawn by builocks, as the clean cut of the former is less injurious to the grass stub- ble than the clipping action of the latter, which reduces the number of cuttings