Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1898, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, MAY “20, 1898-16 PAGES. plated. Sj Ivanlzed made, wi gal. size, +gal. 3p) s of bes "$1.25 a long dissertations. Gas Stove News. Following we quote a 1 y tre student of Fire Queen Garbage Cans. indow Shades. ins nnd to be Gas See OSs some as Ivory... Schultz Star Laundry ve SO MANY goods to sell that we have no time or space Here are the goods and prices: GROCERY DEPARTMENT. Nothing Cheap but the Prices. White Cream Floating Soap, 7) saad Cc. Tomatoes. solid packed. extra quality, Per can.... 10c The Rest Arbuckle’s Cof- 1 1 Cc Fire Queen Gas Stov Soup, full size.......... 214c. fee, 1-Ib package. . 3 burners: . $1 .98 Emmons 8. Smith Bes! ‘Masce's: Pure: Baking: Fow— 1 = der, 1-Ib. can.. IC Liberty High-grade Gas Stove, | Pundry Scap.......---- © handsmnely nickel plated. @ 1 DQ) , Anderson's Jams, in Is plat L.2D | ,fomm, Petey Pennine, ZI Gueeee IC Spe clad = genuine article C. : se American Sardines, oll or icy } See ee ee Fairbanks Dandy Float- 1% C mustard S | cobestoataed tog. SGuarantects tai | nee : e * | Snowtlake Cornstarch... 4e. | every respect. Special French Wash Blue, in Lelebrated Worcestershire | tor tomorrow... Z " $3.00 balls, Yb. box.. ez Sc. Sauce, 14-pt. bottle....... ° Oc King and Qu Stores, double | _ Concentr:ted High-test Lye. 21, package Pure Qua- barner. extra Hi full-size ean 5c, | ker Oats Oe dru as. Price Latest Imp Blast peste Starch, Improved Plastic 3UZ.¢, | roasted, 1 Ib. $1.29 Eo 6 baGaents ner Ss Baker's Chocolat Se fogs © Dormsente! Re eat | Tee pace Pride of the Valley i Baker's Cocoa, %Ib. fas Ovens. petite, ™ Ag, | ve oe » 24c a - tet an a Ik rs Pearl Breakfast Hominy, for Oil or Gas = New York State Corn, best for il or DE Sen | aie eo SOG. ae: 10c 4 Durkee’s Pure Black and za German Mustard in glasses Se. | White Pepper...... 5 Cc Lawn Mowers. Baby Olives, in bottles. . e10e:'| spare wetvact of WauIla Th SG Ra Royal, Salad Dressing, 1- 25 and Lemon ie AG machine. made of solid stee!, pt. oe 2 = Co plan Camp's Baked gh <3 for_use, war-| Anderson's Tomato Soup, 10 Beans, with tomato ranted = ? pt. can... zZ IC. | sauce, 1 Ib..... ee aC Our’ pric Anderson's Macareni and Van Camp's Baked Beans, Cheese, with tomato sauce. . 10c. wa toes pee 2 ieee, EAE Garbage Cans, well tight-fitting covers—3- G-gal. S-gal. L = -a- |For Tomorrow 14 Set in the House. Bread Boxes. DINNER SETS - - DINNER SETS Off on Every Dinner s Tarine Moth Bags. and Window Shades, . quality, all leading Heavy Tin Bread Boxes, japanned | Manahan Tarine Moth Bags. dou- "= 19c. | am well finished, oak or wainut— ble string. Special introductive ar With fringe With Ince border SGE ERE price: Vater Coolers. = = ie ee 24x38 20x50 0x00 « t nicely | ———— SSS SS ca Te a a Clothes Wringers. Toilet Paper. GOC.| The Cnatenge—well constructed, | ‘The Challenge Perforated, 5 Wash Tubs. 160: fine white rubber rolls, special brand, 2 rolls for......0C. re Qt. partece, ecting= ciecial gis SA Een e sell more Wash Tubs than all } for tomorrow... " $1.09 ueerat sls oe ‘aps other department stores together. shire w an, iain Lined, |. The Incand Heavy Tin nade, full Oil Cloth. Weisbach Li ghts | Wash Boilers. a inl for tomorrow The Wat moth roll, extra fine qu le Oilcloth, will not | row “12. yd. Granite deep, or extra d for tomorrow. Welsbach $1.00 Painted “Step Ladders, strongly Carpet Sweepers. Wash Bollers, well | Pullt— ere The Crown Jewel Carpet Sweep- ee Oe. ee ae ers, warranted. Special & 1] 3) pace = B4e. 49. for tomorrow. 4 ° for $ Ladie: Bicycle skirt. Ladies’ Summer Suits $3.75 .00, $6.00 and $7.50 Man-tailored Linen and Duck Suits, in all the new styles, including Eton, blazer and fly fronts. Ladies’ Bicyle Suits. | $5.98 for $10.00 Summer Cloth ee and gray mixtures, 3-button cutaway jacket and circular | Toilet Paper, odivary price, for tomor Granite Bread Pans |- Iron Bread Pans, Spec = 5c. Step Ladders. Our prices will tal you the reason why. Strictly pure White Cedar Tubs, with electric hoops. Medium size Large size ity 7C. 39c. 5M 690. Curtain Stretchers. Excelsior Folding Curtain Streteh- or, size 7 ft. x 14 ft., nlckelo7qy - £9C. pins Special shallow, s, in brown Shirt Waists 590c. for $1 French Cambric Shirt Waists, made with short yoke, gathered full at back; new ruf- fled front, in Bayadere and bias effect; self-detachable collars and attached cuffs. $1.98 for Dress Skirts, in a very large assortment of values, in black and colors, ranging from $3.00 to $4.50. They are worth your attention. 69c. 5 Fancy Percale Wrap- trimmed with embroidery, in a line of fancy light summer shades. We are surprising the te ter to vou. Wel E Where we get them doesn’t mat- ave them to sell, and we sell them rapidly because you can’t find elsewhere a lack, tan, mode and oxblood, with two and three clasp or hook, at our figure. adies’ Kid Gloves at Under Cut Prices. 1 in the values we are giving. 57C. ail a regular jeh you have never * A8¢. | n’s Underwaists. $ for children, In all . made i fasten- yarn hose, zan split sole. hose. shades eae x Ladies’ Hosiery. A purchase of women’s tan 40-gauge Egyptian with high spliced heels and double soles, new and beautiful russet Ge 1214c. Black maco yarn hore, made with white balbrig- ‘These are the regular 35e. Saturday we close the lot at. “19. Ribbons. ‘Taffeta silk and moire ribbons, 3% to 41% inches . in all new and pleasing shades, to Biers eee 25¢. in th Ladies’ Underwear. Ladies’ shaped ribbed cotten combination suits, cut high and low neck and sleeveless, silk ribbon and lace around neck and arms. ular 75c. garment at. chelieu ribbed vests, made with fancy colored lace trimmings, silk ribbon and silk crochet around neck, cut square and sleeveless . 19c. Ladies’ Swiss ribbed cotton and lisle thread vests, e and V shape, some quarter sleeves and veless, silk laced and silk ribbon around neck and arms. An We boug ids and s¢ x into two lots. red effects. Also Coaching Pz is we ced 2 at it all the manufacturer had. 5 1 c in stripes, Persian effects; some with one and some with two ruffles. One and Two-ruffled 1 in plain and check colors asols. The cheap- sth 50c., and others They are made of a beautiful and handsome ? 29e. | other Sale of Children’s and Misses’ Parasols. quality of English sateen, some in Divided for tomor- Lot 2, Children’s Parasols, one ruffle, two ruffles and coachings, in neat and natty check patterns, some Persian effects and handsome flowered designs. Regular value, from 39¢. to 75. tomorrow at..... To be sold 2le: at $1.75 and proved the most w-priced tires, Hert ws sewee cer reLeete Mer, le Tube Tires........ $6.90 | Miller Al Lamp. { Sundries. mplete with em- O8c, nickel-tipped grips. = Handle Bars, & F. Padded Saddle sty Saddles... Eyer-tit Lamps. M. & W. Gu. Shaving Outfits, $1. Consisting of the following articles: dgers’ Hollow: Razors absolutely guaranteed. for the outfit tomorrow... Price $1.00 Fishing Tackle Double Snood Hooks, per doz. Bt Buckets. Full Nickel-mounted Bamboo Rods, wood grip. Split Bamboo Rods, cork grip. We. to $4.98 with 49, "| columbia Lamps... A Se. | Lead Fie Nic De Inner Fa: sic. | Pigure e Ou ia Our Special Croquet Set Is best ever o ffered at the price. and well boxed, at eds Select- 85c. Emmons S.Smith, 70 a PUPI Modern k Of. Teacher be taking in muci olutely to have no power to give and for these stages 2duca- commonly hav makes no The most inte t teacher is lose patience with what looks like y or sloth; and, in any case, the % progresses ln the customary order, tant pressure on the pupil for proofs of visible acquisition,-regardiess of whether the internal forces are intznt upon other, and, at the instant, more imperative unctional duties or no. it is true that some children have more the as we Our Woven Cord Hammock, in bright colors, with 84-inch bed, pillow and spreader, is remarkably cheap He 98c. 5=707-709-71 1 Pa. Ave. these absorbent periods, and longer ones, van others, but it is also trne that these y do not prove to be the dullest hildren, but often the reverse. In conclu- m of the whol: matter what one would like to have answered is this: Are times of h in which it seems impossible for in to discharge or even to acquire anything of value, to be considered as part of the in2vitable constitution of things, something no more to be fought against than the farmer can fight with his fields because they must lie periodically fallow if they are to bear good crops; er can educa- tion, thanks to the newer and more en- lightened recognition of mind stages in which all growth goes on below the sur- face, so treat these stages in childhood that they will be less troublesom2 in later years? Do the semi-comatose mental periods come within the physician's jurisdiction—are they matters of bile or lymph, liver or spleen— or will future teachers reach them? Are they physical wholly or also psychic? We know of instances, surely, where they have been triumphantly forced off, during a bril- liant childhood and adolescence, by inten- sive instructors and a stimulative 2duca- tional regime; and where, aiso, the pupil thereafter collapsed into insignificance, showing no power further of any sort, much less the enviable power that is ever available, in band, ready for use. + + 0 “Here is a paper,” he said, “that advo- cates a movement to compel women to take off their hats in church as well as in the theater.” “In church!” she exclaimed. “That's what it says.” ‘Might as well abolish Easter entirely,” she said, indignantly.—Chicago Post. oo—____—. “Want” ads. in The Star pay because they bring answers. EFFECT OF REPEAL Action of House +in . Abolishing Highway Plats. COST TRVOLVED IN PREPARATION Probable Excess of Expense if Plans Should Be Set Aside. 7 JUDGE BRADLEY'S | OPINION The officials of the engineer department of the District government have been con- sidering what effect the recent repeal of the highway act, as passed by the House, might have if it is put in force. Since the passage of the act an aggregate of about $50,000 has been spent in preparing plans which now practically cover the whole Dis- trict. Sections one and two are recorded. Section three is in the hands of the su- perfor commission for its approval, and section four (the last) is receiving the final touches before being submitted to the pub- lic for a hearing. These sections, not including water area and public grounds, cover, in round num- bers, 28,500 acres, and of this area 8,100 acr2s (or 28% per cent) are included in streets. About 5,000 acres of this are al- ready subdivided, leaving 23,500 acres in unsubdivided land. The plan in the agricultural lands, there- fore, covers several times the settled parts istrict, and it is claimed that such care has been given to the plats that they should stand at least as a guide for new subdiviffons. The repeal of the highway act would bring in action the oct of 1888, and the following opinion oy Judge Bradley would apparently prevant any use of the plans prepared under the highway act. Judicial Ruling. Judge Bradley said: “Hence the act of August 27, 1888. Con- formity is made imperative by section 5 of that act, Any subdivision of suburban land in the District, made pursuant to the gen- eral order, although ordered by the Com- missioners to be recorded in the surveyor's office, is by that section forbidden record, ‘unless made in conformity with the gen- eral plan of the city of Washington.’ The orders authorized and directed to be made are general, such as would apply to all fu- ture subdivisionsand plats,and secure order, method,harmony and conformity.No author- ity is conferred upon the Commissioners to permit, and certainly none is given to com- pel the departure of an extended ayenue or street from conformity to the general plan in any instance, No power is given to lo- cate a specific highway or devise a system of highways in that part of the District ly- ing outside of the cities. No pro n for such system was made by law until the act pt March 2, 1893. Their authority unden the act of 1888 is solely to regulate platting and subdividing by orders so framed as to be applicable to all cases, and their duty is to see that these orders ure complied with. The condition precedent imposed~by Con- gress to record any plat is that the subdi- vision shall conform to the general plan of the city of Washingtor - If the plan of ISS undef the above ruling shall require straight extensions, it will in- ading that will, m, exceed “inything conte’ piated at present and will, begides, prevei many pieturesque and rémotP parts of the District from being laid out*in the most approved manner for landscape effcet. Question of Expense. It is conceded that some plan is desirable, but it is argued that the prefént one is too aesthetic and expensive.! By comparison of what is done in other cities, as well as with the plan of Washington itself, such does. not seem to, the District authorities to be the case. The present piarf does not pro- vide for the wholesale Systeni of reserva- ticns that exists in Washington proper, nor does it exceed in percentagé of streets what is required in other cities4/Boston,New York, Philadelphia, Buffalo and places of smailer size have from 2% to Bper cent of their areas in streets. The present plan for the District provides for 28i¢ per cent in streets, which may still further be reduced by wn amended plan of section 1. ‘Advance plang have been prepared in the larger cities for nearly a century and not only are the lines put on maps and pub- lished, but the streets are marked out on the ground, and in Philadelphia the law goes so far as to declare that if a party builds in one of these extended streets no damage shall be allowed for such improve- ment. Reasons for Making Plans. It is claimed that the most potent reason for a plan is that where none exists there is always an agitation for it. Land is too high for agricultural purposes, and must some day be subdivided and have streets and rights of way over it. The only prac- tical difference between making a plan now and one in the future, the supporters of a highway plan declare, 1s that it pre- vents small purchasers from putting their savings in a place that is likely to be want- ed as a street or may stand in a much-need- ed line of travel. Mt. Pleasant is cited as an example of th? need of a highway plan. It is said in the engineer department that there is one misconception about the dona- tion of streets. A party who donates an avenue 160 feet wide through his lands does not part with title or even give that width as a highway. What he actually gives as a highway ts 80 feet, the rest being a front yard, to be’ used exclusively by himself. In the same way a 90-foot donation really means 6) feet, which is not in exeess of streets in other cities. It 1s expected in some quarters that the Senate wil! preserve the highway plans so far as they relate to the unsubdivided land in the county, without providing at this time for any changes in existing sub- divisions. By this arrangement the fif- te2nth section of the highway act, to which there has been the strongest objection, would be repealed, and the map of the first section of street plans would be elimi- ated, but the first five sections of the high- way act woul be retained. — A Serious Mistake. From the Cleveland Leader, “Here,” cried the proprietor of the New York Whangdoodle, “what does this mean?” The managing editor trembled and cast a hasty glance at the paper. “I don’t see anything wrong,” he said. “You don’t? You don't see anything wrong!” screamed the outraged proprietor. “Your headliness say the battle resulted in ‘a great victory for America.’ You should have referred to it as a great victory tor the Whangdoodle. Another break of this kind will cost you your job.’”, ———— +22 Half 2 Romance. Frem the Chicago Record. |‘ “He proposed to her on a postal card.” “How absurd!” “Of course; but what made:the post office clerks angry was that she replied by letter, and now they don’t know whether she ac- cepted him or not.” “For six years I wa¢a victim of dys- epata in its worst form. .£ coujd eat noth ut milk toast, and at'times my sbomuch wou! not retain and digest even that. t March 1 began taking CASCARE' ang ance then I have steadily improved, unigil I as well as I ever was in my life.” ; Davin H. Murray, Newark. 0. CANDY CATHARTIC PI Pala Potente Good. + CURE CONSTIPATION. .« Merling Remedy Company, Coleage; Montreal, Now York. SIL BRITISH PRESS ON GLADSTONE. All the Papers Print Extras With Mourning Borders. A London dispatch of yesterday say: All the papers are out with special edi- tions, in black borders, announcing the death of Mr. Gladstone. The Daily Chron- icle heads its editorial with a quotation from Wordsworth: This is the happy warrior; this is he That every man in arms should wish to be. The editorial says: A glorious light has been extinguished in the land. Mr. Gladstone is dead, and all his life lies in the past, a memory to us and our children, an inspiration and pos- session forever. The end has come as to a soldier at his post. It found him caim, ex- pectant, faithful, unshaken, Death has come robed in the terrors of mortal pain; but what better can be said than that as he taught his fellows how to live; so he has taught them how to dle. It is impossible at this hour to survey the mighty range of this splendid life. We would assign to him the title, “The Great Nationalist of the Nineteenth Century.” To Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Belgium his name is hallowed; but, beyond all, we claim him as the patriot, the great- est of the master builders of modern Eng- Jand. Timidity had no piace in Mr. Glad- stone's soul. He was a lion among men, endowed with a granite strength of will and purpose, rare, indeed, in our age of feeble convictions. His life presented aspects of charm to all minds. His learning captivated the scholar, his eloquence and statesmanship the poli- ticilan, his financial genius the busin mzn, while his domestic relations and sim- ple ‘human graciousness appealed to all hearts. Beneath the editorial is the following quotation in leaded type: ‘There is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Isra The Standard say: Whether men agr from him in matters of party polit could not come within the range of b fluence as an administrator without being profoundly impressed alike with his extra- ordinary powers of dispatching public busi n most efficiently and his absolute de- votion to what he believed to be the high- est Interests of his country. The Daily News says We cannot help dwelling upon the opin- ions which Mr. Gladstone held most strong: ly and the sentiments which he felt m: deeply, because they are the only ke which unlocks his character and his life. One of his most characteristic qualities was his personal humility. This cannot be ex- plained without the key, for Mr. Gladstone did not, in the ordinary meaning of the word, underrate himself. He was not sy to persuade. He paid little attention to other people's opinions when his mind was made up. He quite aware of his own ascendancy in counsel and his supremacy in debate. On other questions he did, indeed, dis. trust his own judgment. On politics he not; but the secret of his humility was an abiding sense that those things were of no importance compared with the relations between God's creatures and their Creator. Mr. Gladstone once said, with characteris- tic candor, that he had/a vuinerable tem- per. He was quickly moved to indignation by whatever he thought injustice, either to himself or to others, and was incapable of concealing his emotions, for, if h a nothing, his countenance showed what he felt. More expressive features were ney given to man. Mr. Gladstone's exquisite courtesy, which in and out of parliament was a model for all, preceeded from the same source. It Was essentially Christian. To cons'der him apart from religion would be like consider- ing Tennyson apart from poetry or Darwin apart from science. His religion, though it did not amake him gloomy, made him hab- itually serious. Hence arose the fiction that he had no humor. This curious de- jon seems to have arisen from the un- doubted fact that he could never be in- duced to laugh at anything profane, but he wes a master of irony, - tremely and even bitterly sarcastic. More- over, nobody laughed more heartily over n anecdote that was really good. Differ- ent people, unless they saw him often, got very different ideas of him. He was many men in one, but he impressed all alike with the essential greatness of his character. He was built mentally and morally on a large scale. Of course, it cannot be denied that such a face, such a voice, such nat- ural dignity and such perfect gesture pro- duced in themselves an immense effect. Mr. Gladstone's genius glowed through him and inspired all he said. There was noth- ing commonpiace about him. Even if he aid ordinary, things he could not say them in an ordinary way. In this respect he re- semb Lord Chatham; but Chatham—a great man if ever there was one—acted hi part. Mr. Gladstone was absolutely sim- ple, and his simplicity was not the least at- ractive element of his fascinating person- ality. All the continental papers publish tri utes to the late Mr. Gladstone. The French rg are especially sympathetic, and the Greek newspapers are deeply grateful for what Mr. Gladstone has done for Greece. ——___-e THE EPIDEMIC IN SKAGUAY. Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis There is Swift and Deadl From the Portland Oregontan, A prominent physician of Portland, who does not desire his name to be used, said, concerning spinal meningitis: ‘The dis- case runs in epidemics and 1s due mainly to bad sanitary conditions. It is an inflam- mation of the membranes of the spinal cord and of the brain, and is accompanied by terrible headaches and pains in different parts of the body. Young, healthy-persons are more liable to it than any other class, and it attacks male and female alike. The disease is accompanied by a breaking out ef purple blotches all over the body, and for this reason is sometimes called purpuric fever. There is no known cure for the dis- ease, and nine out of ten people attacked die inside of twenty-four hours, and some- times in a third of that time. If one does happen to recover, he is left deaf or blind, or afflicted in such a way that it would have been better if he had died. {orhe: jiary conditions in Skaguay are very bad There is no drainage whatever, all slops, etc., being thrown on the ground. The water is very bad, as the creeks are full of dead horses by the hundreds. Then the coid weather compels the inhabitants to-keep all the windows tightly closed, shutting out all ventilation and adding to the general bad health. It is a very ter- rible thing, and nothing on earth could in- duce me to attempt to do any business in the town. While it is probably not con- tagious, the conditions that give it to one person will give it to another just as well. “There is no doubt that the cold of the Alaskan climate renders men easier prey to the disease. “Up to the latter part of January the win- ter, from the Arctic ocean to the Mexican line, had been exceedingly mild. Since then the Alaska coast has been constantly swept by icy gales, which have been de- structive alike to life and property. During this brief period the Clara Nevada has been driven to her destruction in the Lynn canal, the Oregon has been blown ashore, other vessels have had minor accidents, and many people have died at Skaguay and Dyea and on the mountain passes leading out of those towns to the Klondike gold fields. “Strong indeed is the constitution that es- capes ills in the northern regions at this season of the year. Few of the many thou- sands who have left Portland; San Fran- cisco and Seattle for the north since the first of the year can truthfully say that they arrived at Skaguay in perfect health. All complained of some ailment—cold in the head, stiffness of the limbs, sore throat, backache, ete. The long steamer trip is not conducive to bodily comfort. Seasick- ness is anything but pleasant, and lack of exercise causes languor and failure of the excretory organs to do their duty. Scrupu- lous attention to the functions of these or- ans is an essential in the treatment of erebro-sp.nal meningitis, but whether it avails as a precautionary measure is for doctors to say. “As the majority of the northbound peo- ple come from south of the fiftieth parallel, they do not have any great difficulty in ac- quiring a cold after the steamer passes the northern point of Vancouver island and pokes her nose into the waters of Queen Charlotte sound. In Alaska it is not con- sidered good form to ‘kill’ a cold with whisky. The main reason is that the whisky in the northern regions does more harm than good. Another reason is that the whisky of commerce, considered as a stimuiant or as a medicine, is pure rot and is of no value. One drink of Alaska whisky will make a man yearn for the return of his money; the second will cause him to tell all he knows to any one having time and patience to listen to him, and the third will cause him to arm himself with a toma- bawk and on a murderous hunt for his’ wife's relaticns. ~ “The sanitary condition of Skaguay ts as} fornia. He bought a claim and fe S hink of it- A ebb Eight Mammoth and men whose tastes incline From Tampa. Arrived yesterday, a large lot of fine Linen Crash Suits. Made for very part trade. They go it "51.96 A small Hine of Crash Suits, in large sizes. 50's. Go at tra Einiep asi Ae SO) French Worsted Pants. Another splendid lot just arrived. Fine French Worsteds in the tocst Sought after patterns. They °$1.90 Men’s Serge Suits. Made of very Gine Russian serge, perfectly cut and tailored in the most $6.37 tistic manner, They go at. 100 Men's Black and Rlue Cheviot Suits, made ‘n the most careful manner—the fit and talloring perfect. Made to? 4 sell for $8, $10 and $i2 Mbt eb bobbed beebebeebebe abel dbo eee eden eee detector SIGNED: | | m D Brewcas Bros., 10 Donaldson, Fuld & Co., Baird, Richter & Co., debbdbbbbbebbbeb bebe Boston Merchants’ Trading Co. That's the colossal sm which this sale represents. Ten hun- dred thousand dollars’ worth of the finest and the nobbiest—the latest and the most exclusive—the best tailored and the most per- fectly-finished suits of clothes ever made for man’s wear. With them. Clothes for small men and large men—for heavy and slight men. For men who like their clothes pronounced in pattern, toward quiet and refined effects. We Can Clothe the Whole American Army. | A Case from New Orleans. 512 Ninth Street, The Entire Inter-Ocean Building, between E and F. : MILLION! Be ss ee ae Floors Congested a Frock ¢ ats and Sacks, silk and svtin geo Is. » $8.75 Fin axsirorres, T weeds, a est patterns. . For Big Men. all the ne We had a run on those We advertised yostonda a few left. Short, stout fitted if they come at once. Were made to sell at #2 They go at. We bave many ba and they are eagerly being xonght Only 50 doz. left of those Knee Galatea Cloth, spleadidly wade and most carefully sewed. They go at. 5c. Just 20 dor. left of the ¢ Children’s Suite. etyltsh and well made, neat pat y won't last the weok out. 20 be quick. 2OCe a Cloth LEEELELLEEEE EEE EEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEE EE PEE EEEEEEEELEEEEE EEE EE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE LLL EEE. bad as it possibly could be, but mening! is just as prevalent and just as fatal in the mountain passes, where there is no end of | fresh air and unrivaied scenery, as it is in the mud flat called Skaguay. | “Exposure to cold in Alaska, especially | where men know what the result will be is due largely to car Men will! hug a red-hot stove for hours and toast | their shins to perfection and then venture into the icy wind with the hat on the back } of the head, the coat unbuttoned, or the neck insufficiently protected. In the course of a few hours they rack their minds to find out why this cold in the head, why this weakness and other ailments which are the sure forerunner of pneumonia, grip or meningitis. Others will stand on street corners until the muscles of the feet twi and a chill runs up the back from cold. Others will keep bundled all day ia fui woolen underclothes, heavy stockings, high shoes and warm overshoes, with a wooler cap pulled down over the head, leaving only part of the face exposed. In a burst of confidence in the atmospheric conditions they will throw open the coat and put the cap in a normal position on the head. In a comparatively short time the wind is at the warm scalp and neck and quickly works its way inside the clothing to the chest and to the spine and the foundation for a period of sickness is effectually laid. Men work- ing on the mountain passes with their out- fits are as careless as people in the town. The lack of hospital facilities at Skagu gives the meningitis sufferer but little show for his life.” +o+—_—_—_ ACROSS PANAMA IN ‘61. Lewiston, Man's Warlike Reminis- ecences of Going to the Pacific. From the Lewiston Journal. It is rather odd that the war of 1861 should have been preceded by @ gold fever just as this war of 1898 has been,” said Mr. Nelson A. Dodge of Whipple street, Lewiston, today. “We were divided between the call to the front and the desire to go to California to dig gold. Some of us went to both places. Lots of us have our ideas ot Cuban people and Spanish Americans from our trip across the isthmus of Panama in the sixties. We had enough of the Spanish blood in that short trip over the isthmus. The climate also gave us all we wanted. We went over by the railroad, but it was hot. And really, I don’t think that many of us would have lived to get across if we had depended on our legs. I knew a man who went from our town who walked across with a party. He had an old cav- alry sword which he s: ‘pened and used to cut the underbrush with. The bushes grow thick there, and weave themselve together, so that one could not get through half as easy as he could if it was a big blackberry bramble all the w: One of the parties would take the sword and cut away at the path till he got tired, and then another would try bis hand until he gave out. In that way they worked their way acros Ve went out in 186%, and you should have seen the conglomerate mass of hu- manity that there was there then. Along at the last of our there were old miners who worked on worn-out claims and dumps for seventy-five cents a day. They had all made their pile and spent it and were looking for a haul to go home on. They were old men, most of them, and were proud, too. They would not go heme unless they could go with a fortune. Some of them had made their ounce of gold a day, and they had spent it gambling and drinking. But now that the gold was exhausted they kept on-hoping for a luck; strike. In the early days every one said that the gold would never be exhausted in California, the people out there believing it. It would make you cry to see those old fellows going about their work every day and hoping against ho} They had left wives and mothers in the east years before and now would not write because they were too proud to tell them the truth. They preferred to be thought dead. There were Chinamen, and, alas, China women, too, Spaniards, Italians, Americans, Irishmen, Englishmen and Indians. Every bill was paid in gold. Durirg the war many men y speculating in gold and paper When the Union forces won a bat- ue they would go around and buy gold with United Scates money of paper, and when the rebels won a batile and United States paper money was cheap they would go eround and buy all the paper money that they could find, paying gold for it at the rate of one gold dollar for many paper dollars. “The day that Richmond was taken I met a man who was in this business who kad not heard of it. I told him about it end he started off at once to find a broker who had not heard of it. He hunted all day and at last found one. He bought all the paper money the fellow’ had, paying gold for it. He made eight hundred do!- lars that day, for the next day a gold dol- a Feige not worth any more than a paper r. “Speaking of the many men who went out there and did not make their salt re- minds me of a man who was making an ounce of gold in Australia every day. He heard that Americans were making five ovnces, and he sold out and came to Call- paid his t dollar for it ot the co yne old and he never as much as of gold on it. llow who used to come to my camp und talk about home people tol me he was averaging seventy cents a da That would ; keep him alive. He also | told me that when he first came he and two other men found a rich claim. The first time they cleaned up they had $8. Then the time that he ough! ved his money and gone home. nk it, and then the claim gave There were wre lifornia in those d +o. SPRING ks like these all over NOVEL CLEANING. Ceremony of Oiling Elephants for th Summer Campaign, From the New y of lubricating the elephants was pulled off yesterday at Coney Island. Three husky Hindoos from Avenue A and two Coney Island song ana dance men out of a job officiated as lubricators. The pachyderms operated upon were Baby Ruth and Gypsy, and between them they absorbed nine kegs of neatsfoot oll and up- ward of nine tons of profanity, net. In ad- dition to being lubricated, the elephants took a bath and otherwise prepared for the summer on. In his native wilds the elephant 1s equip- ped with patent, self-acting lubricators, which keep his joints in active commission the year round, When transferred to this climate the self-feeding lubricators become clogged and artificial lubrication becomes necessary. Some owners of elephants lubri- cate them twice a year. On Coney Island they are lubricated once a ye: ause it ec money to do it. preparations fo The rite, waich the Indian vill precincts of formerly the Streets of The three Hindoos the ze. imple. from Avenue A took three drinks api actors smoked two cigarettes apiece, and Cairo, were all hands fell to, armed with brooms, brushes and swabs. It is no soft job to n elephant, which is a preliminary operation to the lubrication. The elephant is not a model of personal cleanliness. During his winter hibernation it is his custom to inhale the dust from tne floor of his quarters, pack it in his trunk and then blow it into his skin with great force. It stays right where he puts it, and when spring comes the elephant has a’ coat about a foot dep and as hard as the lot of a volunteer soldier. This coat serves to keep the clephant warm, but it also serves to close up the pores of his skin and make his movements stiff. Hot water was used yesterday—barrels of it—and liberal quantities of soft soap. The elephants were scoured until they were sses of lather, and then were rubbed down with stiff brushes. A drenching with hot water followed this operation until they were as c¢ n as it is possible to get an ele phant. Baby Ruth kicked somewhat at ing washed, but it was great sport for ‘Then came the lubrication. To an un- sophisticated onlooker lubricating an ele- phant seems to be a very simple operation. It is not. There is a cavity just forward of an elephant’s hip which marks the spot where the self-acting lubricator was locat- ed in his native wilds, for it simply clamors for oil. All able lubricators of elephants and Mr. Vallett, the gentleman who s the oiling of the pachyderms yesterday, is an expert. He started his Hindoos from Avenue A and his song and dance men out of a job at the cavities. Baby Ruth, being somewhat of an ac- climated elephant, readily absorbed the oll applied to the cavity aforesaid and soon gilistened all over her body with a coat of neatsfoot. But Gypsy, a more seasoned elephant and one whose self-acting lubri- eator had been long out of commission, was a problem. The cavity soaked up oil as West street soaks up beer when a ship comes in, and it was not until three barrels of neatsfoot had been_applied to her with a whitewash brush that she consented to ab- sorb the lubricating fluid with the rest of her hide. The rain which came up in the evening filled the lubricators with alarm, but the elephants were wrapped up in blankets and sequestered in the innermost recesses of the camp, from which they probably will emerge this morning in condition to accom- modate the summer visitors. shacer RRS Another Runaway Star. From the San Francisee Chronicle. There is in the constellation of the Great Bear a famous little star which has been celled a “runaway,” becsuse of the ex- traordinary speed with which it is moving. But it is so far away that the effect of its motion can only be noted by careful as- tronomical observations. Prof. Simon New- comb kas said of this star, which bears the name “I830 Groombridge,” that the united attractions of the entire known universe could not have set it with such velocity and would be unable ar- rest it. Now Prof. Kapteyn announces the Viscovery of a tel star in the south- very of a telescopic