Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1898, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1898-14 PAGES. Woodward": Lothrop, 11th and F Sts. N. W. Friday’s Our Remnant Day, great tion great list. 5 a son main floor shown such a variety of wool and cotton fabrics Our Special Bargain Day. <li be an interesting Remnant Day to the many that know cements we offer our patrons to relieve us of our weekly Articles of use, comfort and convenience will be t in many days have the Dress Goods remnant ind of remnants. as will be found tomorrow—ends of new goods left from the present week's selling. ber of full dress pa TICES. Plenty of skirt lengths, waist lengths and a goodly num- terns—and we've marked them at specially low With these remnants there will be several lots of goods purchased espec liy for the occasion, at less than regular prices, which make them rare bargains. argain in Women’s Yale Ties. of vy satin, In reds, greens, browns, yellows, bles, pinks, Regular Price, 25c. Each. a in Stair Oil Cloth. ext patterns, e, Sc. a Yard. en Carving Cloths. srfs. Siz 45 Inches—made by 1.25 and $1.50. n Chinaware. ece Set. Regular Price, $2.25. table Dishes, China Covered Vi neatly decorated in chotee colorings, Reguiar Prices, $1.50 to $2.0 1 Bargain in Colored Petticoats. ped Japanese skirting, with deep bias rutile put on with heading; Special Bargain Price, 50c. Each. ome lg clin Neckwear Department. sc Gea te. fronts, Se. ists Lace Department. f trora &: Women’s I arge collar Reduced iror Aprons 1 ced from SIS) to $10.00 ench; 1 re- oops ar Waist: | Black Goods Dept. © Lawn Shirt| ¥ ards 42-Inch Rough Novelty. Reduced from - 133 i piece. varicty of patterns, | irt Veiling 3 for pl Cheviot. 2 (for ied D1 .o6 enadine. Reduced 50c. Re ints. Rednzed hd Wool Poplin. Re- fe Dy Reduced id Button Kid Boots, pat E vamp. . A and B. Reduced Sizes 6% 1, with high and 14. loves, with 4. 1 Shirts, duced to {Couch Departmen cred ¢ net and brow button around, ‘durey covert d Beds, with brass trimmin 1 yellow 1 BlgxBly feet. Reduced from §. vers and ori t piece, finished Sizés 4'x6lg h, ‘Third floor. Jewelry Department. al Shell Hair € seduce df 1 Hate ‘terling Silver Comb. mb, sterling silyer mount- 00. setting. iced from | Reduced © and Reduced from §3.00 to iver Bon 1.00 each, Tray. Reduced fre Bon Spoons. Reduced AUXILIARY n $9.00 to ina Ice Tubs. uced from Dept. upholstered in figured velour, patent ye d from $11.50 to $8.00, d from $18.00 to $10. $25.00 to $14.00, Baby Carriage 1 Carrial Department. $1.00 to Soe, ed from $15.90 Desk. Reduced Furniture slig tly Imper- colar, ed from large salle slight- on. Red 1 from $5.00 to geny st achite green, eed from $4.50 to $1.50 va. artment, in_ white and gold frame. 0 5.00. in oak frame. Reduced Reduced Reduced from in ocak frame. wk and gilt frame. Re ed from $1.65 nde U rwear De slightiy damaged. edn Reduced from Cake Pans. Rath, Reduced from ed 200 anned Infants damaged. Redu to Be. 1 reduced’ from $1.25 to G0. rsery Hampers, solled. Reduced from § Ider, slightly damaged. Reduced wey Artet top, slightly damaged. vn $1.00 to J _pair Brass Andirens. Reduced from $12.50 to nts, knee length Reduced 5 ifth floor, n Tights. knee length. a from Sie. to Be. pr. Size 3. Reduc: T Set, neat decoration, red dish damaged. Re- flax color, for Reduced from $1.00 to Qe. a bh, band painted. Reduced Da . oe rate nunaged. Reduced a Carlsbad China Tee Cream Trays. 1 from $1.00 to Be. each. = risbad China Berry or Fruit Bowls. Reduced Be. to ear, 2 = ae 2 edd Deecrated Porcelain Soup Dishes. Me- duced from 9 to Se. es 1 4: nese Chocolate Pitcher, da . Glack Lace Kobes. trimmed with ip eeen duced from $2.60 te $1.00, 1 Japanese Vase, slightly damaged. Reduced frem $4.00 te $2.00. 60 to $18.00. 2) yaris Biack Hand-rum Net. Reduced from 2 odd Decorated English Porcelain Meat Dj $4.00 to $1.50 urd. Intge size. Teduced from $1.00 to Bde. each) a First four. Fifth floor, Woodward & Lothrop. SENATE AND HOUSE|DOWNING A, SUICIDE]: An Important Call for an Executive Session. PURCHASE OF SUPPLIES DISCUSSED Bill for a Volunteer Signal Corps Passed by the House. NAVAL FORCE ———— ee A bil! providing for an American register for the steamer Catania was passed at the opening of the Senate's session today. The Catania nas been acquired by the govern- ment and will bs used for hospital service. A bill was passed authorizing the estab- lishment of a life-saving station at Charle- voix, Mich, Mr. Proctor (Vt.) presented the resolutions in honer of Admiral Dewey adopted by the legislature of Vermont, his Pativ2 state. The following bill was offered by Mr. Stewart (Ni That ‘All disabilities im- posed by the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States upon per. sons on account of having engaged in in surrection or rebellion against the United States, and on account of having given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof, are hereby removed.” The Dill was passed without rtani Call for Executive Session. 12:15 p.m. Mr. Hawley, chairman of affairs committee, addressing : “I hold in my hand some papers which are of great importance to >e War Department, and they ought to be ebate. At rupted by Mr. Gallinger, who special order for the consid- sion bills for thirty minutes. hour make any difference to inquired Mr, Gallinger. replied Mr. Hawley, decisivel, enator, minute will make a difference. It is ary—imperatively necessary— to the Yepartment that action should be soon as possible. gentlemen in town who must leav evening. T can’t be more specitic now. “All right,” assented Mr. Gallinger, settles it.” The Senate then, at 12:18 p.m., went into executive session. At ) p.m. the Senate resumed business in open legislative session. Purchase of Sapplies. Mr. Hawley called up the conference re- port on the bill suspending certain pro- isions of law relating to the purchase of supplies by the quartermaster'’s depart- ment of the army. Mr, Gorman and Mr. Chandler expressed the hope that the com- mitiece would consent not to suspend s tien of the Revised Statutes, which provides that agvertisements must be made tor p als for supplie: There are some this hat Mr. Sewall said that it was necessary that the quartermaster’s department should be given some latitude, that the ute should trust to the honesty of that great depart- ment. Mr. Hawley expressed his willingness that the report should go back to conference that it might be modified in accordance with the suggestion of Mr. Gorman. The ccnference report lisagreed to and srs. Hawley, tor and Cockrell By named as con s. Under the unanimous consent agreement consideration of bills was begun, and many of ti Y ) resigned as a con- post office appropriation bill, y D.) was appointed to on th and Mr. F fill the vacancy thus made. Con then railway arbitration bill. THE HOUSE. resumed of the Ths House today passed a resolution call- ing upon the Secretary of War for informa- tion relative to the corstruction of a ship canal at Sabine Pass, Texas, and its prob- able effect upon the depth of the harbor at ut point. The Ho concurrence in fe voted to insist upon its non- ths Senate amendment to ban people, and the Speaker named as conferee Marsh (i), Griffin Marsh (11.) asked “ill for the or consideration ion of a spectal volunteer signal corps and it was pi ed. A bill extending the time for settlement of certain private lend claims to 1901 was passed. A Volunteer Naval Force. At this juncture Mr, Boutelle (Me.), chair- man of the committee on naval affair: asked immediate consideration of a joint resolution providing for the organization of a volunteer auxiliary naval foree for coast defense, invelving the enlistment for one year of volunteers and employment of additional vessels. The House went into ccmmitice of the whole to consider the measure. In explanation Boutelle read a let representing the ne ity for the measure as urgent. ‘The number to be enlisted is not limited. The purpose of the department was to form the fleet L an inner line of defense for the coast extending from Maine of of rf the resolution, Mr. m Secretary Long, to Tex and the total defensive force of the coast would be then, first, the regular fleet; second, the fleet of auxiliary cruis- ers, and third, the volunteer naval force ecntemplated by the pending resolution. An appropriation of $4,000,000 was proposed to be placed at the disposal of the Secre- tary of the Navy. Charlotte Smith Will Hold a Meeting for That Purpose. Mrs. Charlotte Smith, who has been en- gaged in many reform movements, and who has devoted her life to the amelioration of the condition of women wage-earners, has come Washington to endeavor to secure Mrs. to ¥ frem the government the making of a por- tion of the army clothing, by the wives, devughters and mothers of those who have enlisted in Uncle Sam's service. She says that many women have been left helpless count of those en whem they depend- ed for support going into the army or navy, and that they ought to be given an oppor- tunity to earn their living at fair wages. Army clothing, she says, is now made in at shops of New York, where star- wages are paid and the longest hours prevati. A meeting will be held tonight in the ban- quet room of the Arlington Hotel, at which preliminary arrangements will be made to accomplish the object Mrs. Smith has in view. It is expected that committees will be appointed to look after the details of the project. : sa See DEATH OF SCHELE DE VERE. Long a Learned and Popular Profes- sor at University of Virginia. ‘The world of literature and higher crit- icism suffered the loss of one of its most learned members this morning in the death of Prof. M. Schele de Vere, which occurred at Providence Hospital. Prof. Schele de Vere had been ill but a few days. He was for many years a professor at the University of Virginia, and the alumni of that venerable institution wherever they are will learn of his death with deep sor- row, as in addition to the great assistance he gave to them in securing their educa- tions he personally endeared himself to all students by his kind and genial disposition, Until recent years he was a frequent con- tributor to leading periodicals in this coun- try and Europe, and the author of many works recognized as standard among edu- cators. His funeral wili take place from Christ Church, ‘Navy Yard, at 2:30 o’clock tomor- row afternoon. ROE EE If you want anything, try an ad. in The Star. If anybody has what you wish, you will get an answer. (Continued from First Paze.) oned nothing of the upposed to have been se of his arrest and con- ated this morning that Downing had been seen within tle last two weeks several times near ythe arsenal barracks and had talked witha fumber of pe: down there. There is a saloon on the ner of 4% and O streets southwest, and he had been in there several times drinking with the men hanging about. It is thought that he might have had an idea of finding out something about the troops at the bar- racks and something about the place. For some time nobody has been allowed to en= ter the barracks grounds without express permission or on stating that they had ex- plicit business in there. So Downing, su far as is known, never gained admittance. Chief Wilkie Surprised. Chief Wilkie of the secret service bureau was greatly surprised this morning whea he heard of the suicide. * “That settles the discussion,” he said to a Star reporter, “as to whether it was gon- stitutional to try the man by court-martial or as a privaté citizen.” It was not known at the War Depart- ment that Downing had killed himself un- til some time after the suicide had taken place. It was even stated that the matter of whether he would be tried by court- al or not had been referred to the of- fice of the Attorney General. There, how- ever, it was stated that no order had been received to investigate the c s to its legal requirements. It is thought that Downing was something of a white ele- phant in the hands of the officials, as con- siderable discussion had arisen about it, and it would probably have taken some time to decide whether the court-martial could have been held in his case or not. Body Reaches the Morgu The body reaehsd the morgue about o'clock this afternoon in charge of Act! Hospital Steward William E. Musgrave. The ambulance from the barracks was used for the transfer. Superintendent Schoea- berger was at the morgu> to receive the remains, and he gave the army officer a re- celpt for the dead man’s clothing. Four artillerymen who were with the am- bulance removed the body from the vehicle and placed it on the table in the morgue. The only indication of violence about the body was a bruise cn the riglt side of the neck, caused by the noose. “His neck was not broken,” remarked Superintendent Schoenberger, as soon as he touched the corpse. “He must have died of strangulation,” he added. Hospital Steward Musgrave gave the in- formation that there was some doubt, tech- nically, as to the real cause of the man’s death. For this reason he had been in- structed to wait and witness the autopsy. Coroner Carr, he said, had reported that he would be at the fotgue early in the afternoon. ‘The corongr had given no in- structions about the dispesition of the body or the ease. Under ordinary circumsiances an Inquest would not be heli in a case of this kind, but it 1s not known what the coroner in- tends to do. Before the arrival of the coroner at the morgue the body was takén in the yard and photographed by Agent Ruplinger of the Humane Society. 4 Arrested by Secret Sérv: finement he h woman who was sons Officers, Downing was arrested Saturday, May 7, In a boarding house at 916 E street north- west by Chief Wilke of the secret service. The arrest followed a careful inquiry by the secret service —offcers, who had shadowed Downtng for some time. The prisoner had arrived in the city Saturday afternoon. A week before he had left here, telling his landlady of a contemplated visit to Virginia. He went directly to where he was sald to have be genis of the Spanish goy- nent. It is supposed he gave the S) neral information of the nav: furnished plans of the U. kiyn, upon which vessel he had served as chief yeoman, Shortly after Downing’s arrival here he Was seen to mail a letter addre ‘0 Montreal. This letter y intercepted and opened by the secret service officers. It was found to contain damaging evidence against him, and, aithouzh it was only signed by the Initials “G. D.," there was no doubt as to its authorship. The letter premised valuable information in the near future, and spoke of some evidence regard- ing the trial of the submarine boat Holland. Downing was apparently about thirty- three years of age, five fret seven Inches in height, of athletic build and Bohemian in appearance. No one was allowed to have any communication with him at the bar- racks, Important Discovery. The search of the room occupied by Downing at the boarding hous? on resulted In important discoveries. A contained a cipher code and numerous en- velopes addressed to the same name in Montreal to which tha letter intercepted on Saturday was addressed, which is believed to be an assumed one of the connection be- tweea Downing and Spain’s representative in the nefarious transaction, Lieut. Car- ranzas. In addition to these articles, it 1s said that drawings and tracings of United States harbors and fortifications were found, but this cannot be authoritatively confirmed. When Downing himself was searchd $156.70 in bills and silver, the latter Can- adian coins of small denominations, was found, together with his naturalization pa- Rr and his honorable discharge from the . Ss Brooklyn three months ago. A check for a box at the Baltimore and Ohio depot was also found on him, and an 2x- amination of the box showed it contained the uniform of a yeoman without the jacket. A naval cap, lettered “U. 8. 8. BGrooklyn,"’ was found in his room. When arrested Downing, who did not know of the incriminating evidence in the po: sion of his captors, strongly protested to Capt. Sage that he was entirely innocent of auy wrongdoing and that he intended re- enlisting in the navy. It is believed he spoke the truth regarding re-2nlistment, but that he was going to do so as the agent ct the Spanish government. ————__+-e+--_____ Asks $20,000 In Damages. Hearing in the suit! at law to recover $20,000 damages, instituted by William H. Dempsey, jr., agairst:thé District of Co- lumbia and the Chesapekke and Potomac Telephone Company, was*begun today be- fore Judge Cole and a ‘jury in Circuit Court No. 1. sae Mr. Dempsey alleges that about 6 p.m. September 25, 1896, while! riding a bicycle along K street, he ran into a suspended wire when directly fn front cf 1601 K street. The wire stfuck him squarely in the face, he says, ondiasza result he was threwn from his wh iis face was cu several teeth Knocked out,and internal tn juries sustained. Mr/‘Démpsey holds the defendants mentioned ‘responsible and Seeks to recover ftpm7ithem the sum stated. ——— Sale of Busin Property. James W. Ratcliffe, auctioneer, sold yesterday at public sale the property at the northeast corner of 11th and B_ streets northwest, and the property 208 and 210 llth street, to Frank T. Shaw, for $25,- 000, The corner property has a frontage of 74 feet 11 inches on 1th street, and %® feet on B street, and contains 8,788 Square feet. The other piece, on the op- posite side of 1ith streets, has a frontage of 40 feet, 1 inch, on 1th street, and an irregular depth. ‘The longest line being 10) feet. The lot contains 3,018 square feet. * a Carrier Pigeon Caught. Colovel Andrews of 2400 Columbia road today caught ©. carrier pigeon with an H band No. 14,035 on left leg and a Z band No. :2,410 on its right leg. < Choice — new— chic—Spring Suit- | ings--unprecedent- | | ed values, oring Emporium. This week w introduce to us many new friends. friends at first gave us a trial order, and proves the constancy of this friendship. Our special of this week is der, $9.33. NAR AAA ARR ORO OR PRE VRARDRAI RDI IR DRIER RD RED DIE 906 F St. Another - Trade Stirring Yn OS Event. The “Idiot” Promenader. To the Eilitor of The ping Star: Kindly allow me enough space in your paper to protest against the idiot who per- sists in promenadirg in the center of our streets after dark to the detriment of the life and limbs of not only himself, but also Ev e made a very easy price—a price that will It would be a good time for you to test us—and after all the only way to prove a tailor is fo try him. Some of our best our large Mertz and Mertz, : Progressive Tailors, Fea egos po YASS bibs “Credit here is an accommodation—not a burden.” Come Here uit until munce the not | you | fit | is ») ) sS ot" Your every-day comfort depends largely on the clothes you 4 ’ Wear, the style, the fit, the cut—we can vive you comiort—we \) can please you in the style, the fit, the cut. We will make ev ery § endeavor to get your trade—we want it—and we'll leave no y stone unturned to have you thoroughly satisiied. 2 Easy prices will assist in bringing you to our Model Tail- )) business an unequaled value, suit to-or- » trpit CPioul | Pays = PEEL ERED EEL every wheelman who is unfortunate to come within a radius of fifty 4 yards of him. . ie > My wheel is equipped with one of those oh ro) bells that produce a large and continuous | age bunch of jingles, which can be heard sev- aby es eral blocks away. In riding last eyening | u o = I waried “Mr. Idiot” when half a block g ' y and loud rom my bell; " " “i . = ” ae ge eg one Sree hem corer eae < We offer you the kind of credit that is a help, and there's no = and continued up ihe middie of the street. | “2 charge for it. Our prices are plainly marked, and the cash stores “t When withm about fifty feet of him I | oS ieee i i ee es gave another warning jingle. He then | won't offer you lower ones. We give you leave to come into our ea Ha eee eee ee ie eed -{, Store and select anything you want— whe Ber Taioe Would eameantine eae direct |e 3 r. Idiot” would run in the same < a opie ° " tion, until at we came together |, Baby Carriages, Refrigerators, fattings, oe both “bit the dust,” the whecl and I on | & “ F top. I helped “Mr. Idiot” to his f |< Co impe orthwith up; seeing that he was inclined to be nent over the matter, I “he cut him several times and then booted him | e3¢ on to the sidewaik, where he should nave | ¢. Leen at the first werning of my bell. ‘The | | pavement is made for pedestrian: wheelmen, and the streets for all kinds Vehicles, not pedestrians JOHN J. WHIT May 12, 1898. S820 Ist st. or monthly. There are no note: Marriage L Marriage licenses hi follow: White—Wilbur M. Phelps and Elizabeth M. Eaton; Harry Toliver and Rosie E. Cur- tin; Michael 8. Cody of this city and Julia A. Costello of Culpeper county, Va.; Harry Lanahan and Mary Brosnan; Harry RAPER sued to the Carpets, Sideboards, Iron Beds, Be Suites, Parlor Suites, Hall Racks Take what you please and pay try tohelp YOU. Our Carpets are made, lined and laid § ee, and we tack the Mattings down without charge. GROGAN’S Mammoth Credit House, crocm KS. us as you are able—wee to sign, no interest to pay. ve Led C. Griffin of this city and Catherine B 82 823 e| hh Bird of Boston, M Hugh F. Crawley | 817=819- l= t St. N.W. a: and Ethel M Frederick Recke: ss > ry M.Gun-|@ asocea Between H and I Streets. “ derson and Ida Ma y; Robert Lee]. sin aay at eee ie ea Merchant and Laura Alice Mullen, both of | SpepeppeyPeP ee CT Cee E CEREREEEET oe Alexandria, V Tp wailte |e 2 cesar el and Jennie M. Thomas A. | manera ta 5 * Gregg of Greenshore » and CAVES IN INDIANA. Terrier Raising a Kitten, Dora Rupert of Va; | ae Frank Macabo: an- | They Ferm a Subterranean Network | cis M. Jone | in the Southern Section. ee a Fhe : Dellastations, | From the Cincinnati Commercial Tri 1g #9 aa pe ago that his both of Alexandria, ; John H. Westfall | The little city of Bedford, In naekiey eas “ot a secs whe 2 lays of this city and Ann’ aver of Quincy, | ated in the heart of one of the strangest | 07 fom its snother and was nursing 3. M MeDutt Co Nellie Griffins, | ang most mysterious regions in Unc! fe Look the kitten back to its mother, but both of Statford count MIAO OWA oe tcek acnuius Sie cavern kaa ‘oot i te the olf cask ens and Nettle Cook. j Colored—George R. Kelly and Lucy B. | of southern Indiana; the aforesaid em- + Samuel Higdon and Laura Mat- | bracing the counties of Owen, Monroe, William\H. Waites and Emma ‘ty- nington: awiencs: (rence sardons at Licas and Maric B. Thom: acrhon Harry Jackson of Gunsten, Va., and Hattie | ion is Hterally honeycombed with | Lee of this city; Joseph Carter of Lynch- ves varying in size from small tunn burg, Vi., and Rosa Gordon of this city; SETS SE ere se James N.’West and Alice Gaine Ien AG tab Lasuben GU aAENES —_——+—__. rd county, whose lofty subter- Indians Afoot. halls ind for miles far under- Brom Lappineote! und and through the solid rock. paptimnceeptar is A 8 wonderful as this latter is in it General Crook is quoted by Mr. Edward uth of crystallized limestone formatior 8. Els as having seen an Apache lope for re are smaller caves in this and ad- fifteen hundred feet up the side of a moun- aing Counties “that far surpass it an pte erable a. | beautiful formations of stalactite and s tain without showing the first sign of fa- mite, that gleam like gems or increase of tt of the | stonishing tigue, there being ne percepttb! respiration. Captain H. L. S 7th Cavalry, has related some feats performed by the Chiracan forming Trcop L of his regiment. sl how nine of these Indians, after a hard day's work, by way of recreation pursued @ coyote for two hours, captured the nim- ble brute, and brovght it into camp; how, on anether occasion, the scouts gave chase to a deer, ran it Gown some nine miles from camp, and fetched it in alive. Hence 1 see no good reason for doubting the word of an old-timer I met in the Rocky Moun- tains, who told meé that, in the days be- fore the Atlantic end Pacific railroad was built the Pima Indians of Arizona would recover settlers’ stray horses, along the overland trail, by walking them down in the course of two or three days. After this one may begin to believe that “Lying Jim’ Beckwourth, whose remark- able adventures early in this century are preserved in book form, was a much ma- ligned man, and that he spoke no more than the truth when he said he had known instances of Indian runners accomplishing upwards of one hundred and ten miles in one day. Se ES The Old Parish, From the Nineteenth Century. The word “parish” indicated originally the geographical area over which the juris- diction of a bishop extended. It was not till a later time, and when that area had been subdivided into smaller areas, each of which was committed to the oversight of a priest, responsible for such functions as only a priest could discharge, that the smaller area got to be called the parish, while the larger area, comprehending an aggregate of parishes, was called the bish- op’s diocese. As time went on, by a con- fusion in language, of which abundant ex- amples might be given, the name, which was strictly a designation of the geograph- ical area, got to be applied to the com- munity inhabiting that area, and thus the word parish is, even in our own days, used sometimes indicate the area inhabited by the community, and sometimes the coim- munity itself. In the latter sense the parish was a pure- ly religious organization, distinct in its origin, its working, and its aims from the reanor, the township, or the tithing, though composed of the same personnel, man for man. “The parish was the community of the township organized for church pur- poses and subject to church discipline, with a constitution which recognized the rights of the whole body as an aggregate, and the right of every adult member, whether man or woman, to a voice in self-govern- ment. — Debilitated Men, Horsferd's Acid Phosphate is very beneficial. The genuine is put up only in bottles, minously ¥ light of tore nite like carved marble in the pits, lofty, sireams of water lar) igable for a good- fame of these we cataracts e enough to be nav- zed laune'l has se ached beyond the borders of this unfrequented ard sparsely settled region, where the in- habitants have neither time nor inclina- tion for cave explo! The caves are usually looked on as » uncanny places, the abode of numberless “harnts,” besides variovs dangerous wild animals and cop- prhead sna notwithstan that noth- jing more ferocious than the "possum and the noxious skunk have been seen in these rocky fastne: for some years, and that the copperhead loves the sunlight too weil end much time underground. s the many caverns of note are known to have been part there are certainly many as yet un cov- ered. Down among the breaks of the Ohio in Crawford and among the rocky wilds lof Orange and Harrison counties are countless sinkholes and crevices in the cliffs that have all the indications of being entrances to caverns. At some future day, when this picturesque country is populate when the great resources of southern I diana in the way of the superb building stone that is found here in such quantities is better appreciated, there will doubtless be discovered caverns of vast extent that will rival or mayhap surpass those whose fame we know today. These caves all owe their existence to the slow and ceaseless action of water on the peculiar limestone in which they al- ways occur—a part of the subcarbonifer- ous limestone of Indiana, which all through the cavern region is found in immensely thick beds. Perpendicular cliffs of it of great height crop out on the rugged hill- sides and narrow, deep ravines that are a distinguishing feature of the region, and form landscape features of rugged gran- deur. Lofty cataracts and natural bridges are often met with; lost rivers that mys- teriously disappear from the surface of the ground to continue their meanderings in undiscovered subterranean channels. Some- times they reappear miles away, sometimes they are never seen again. There is some- thing decidedly uncanny about this pictur- esque region. . The cave-bearipg rock is not confined to the area mentioned, but continues 6n across the Ohio river and down through Ken- tucky. The giant cliffs along Green river end the Mammoth Cave are due to it. As stated, these caves are formed by the action cf water on the stone. Carbon di- oxide is found everywhere in the atmos- phere, and this, uniting with the rains as it falls, proves a weak carbonic acid, strong enough, however, to dissolve the solid limestone, and this tiny force, whose work of a century ts scarcely appreciable to the eye, has in all the unmeasured eons of past time carved dome and tortuous passage, bottomless pit and subterranean marble*hall from the solid rock and depds- ited the wondrously beautiful pillars and alabaster drapery that underlie such a great part of southern Indiana. ——__+ 0+ _____ “Hear about Wiggins? He is going to marry his cook.” y “I am not surprised. I have often heard ‘Phe would rather fight than eat.”—Cincin- nati Enquirer, that iy explored, and sc on carried the kitte she has s' to a box where re nursed it with as much care as the mother cat could have displayed. Yesterday mor = Dols or 1 the kit- en into the hous nd laid it down at the feet of Mrs. Henderson and by her barke ing denoted that s n lo caress th slipped up while s off t started off with the kitten. @iscovered the cat before s from the room and, as on a cceasions, roundly whipped i the kitten off. It is the si es isest sight I ey said Mrs. Henderson yesterday. ten is as fat as can be and ‘Toots’ is as careful of it as t h it were a pup of ber own. "and the old cat used to be friends, and she never befo: othered y of the kittens, but now the deac enemic cat will kitten.” and t not y the looks of things the ¢ Nave a cl to out of + alk, flanked with champa all blends and qualities. The largest champagne manufacturers in Epernay possess undergroun¢ lars which cover no fewer than f Actes, and con’ == =: = The clouds have hardly held more rain drops than the tears which have fallen from women’s eyes. There isa world of truth in the old song which said: “Man must work, and woman must weep.” Women must weep not only for the troub- les and ills of those they love, but because of the physical ag- ‘ony and suffering that they them- selves endure in silence. Nine-tenths of the pain and suf fering that wo- .men undergo uld be avoided ox * a little knowl- edge, and a resort to the right remedy. When a woman feels weak, sick, nervous, fretful and despondent, and suffers from pains in the back and sides, and burning and dragging down sensations, she is suf- fering from weakness and disease of the distinctly feminine organism. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the best of all medicines for ailing women. It acts di- rectly and only on the delicate and import- ant organs that make maternity ible. It makes them strong and well. It allays inflammation, heals ulceration, soothes Rov yheces an suioent and’ Skill ere: : em ski : Glalist, for Chief “consult ng “I cannot say too much for Dr. Pierce’ Prescription,”