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From the Buffalo News. “There's a queer thing about barbers | that few people outside of the ‘profession’ know anything about,” said a veteran shaver while I was in Eis chair a few days ago. “What is it?” I asked. ‘We never hone razors gn wet days—that 1s, we old barbers. Somehow or other there is @ superstition among the craft that it's unlucky to sharpen blades on those days. Green men have tried it re- peatedly. I have seen razors honed on wet days appear to lose their usefulness afterw: I have seen young barbers spend several hours putt razors in shape on days when a drizzling rain was falling, and then cut their -ustomers for several days afterward. I tried it once when I was a youngster, and I cut a gas in a customer's face the day afterwai that n¢arly frightened me out of my wits. I blamed the dark day for it, and an old barber told me then the only time to hone razors was on bright days, and I have fol- lowed the advice ever-sin —————~oo—__ . During the rainy season in Cuba soldiers on outpost duty have a hard time keept themselves ig Pe of the devices 4 common use, among the insurgents and the Spaniards, is an improvised um- breila, consisting of cane blades and grass- es bunched at the u; end of a stake, which is driven into the ground. THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1898-16 PAGES. Mr. ‘McKinley to Attend Reopening rr. Erastus of University of Virginia. AN ELABORATE PROGRAM ARRANGED Ex-Presidents Harrison and Cleve- land Invited to Attend. SKETCH OF THE STITUTION President McKinley has accepted an in- vitation to attend the inauguration, June 14, of the new buildings at the University of Virginia, erected in place of those de- stroyed by fire in October, 1895, provided his public duties will permit him to do so. The board of visitors and the faculty of the university have also invited former Presidents Harrison and Cleveland to be present at the ceremonies, and so great is the desire of all connected with the insti- tution for them to attend that President In- galls of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company has tendered to Mr. Harrison the use of a private car to and from Indian- apolis, and President Spencer of the South- ern has made a like offer to Mr. Cleveland for his conveyance between Princeton and Charlottesville. Mr. Spencer has assured President Mc- Kinley that if he will attend the Inaugura- tion the Southern Railway Company will place at his disposal a special train to leave Washington and Charlottesville, respec- tively, at any hour he may name. History Repeats. At the ceremonies attending the opening of the University of Virginia there were Present the President of the United States, James Monroe and former Presidents Thos. Jefferson and James Madison, and as there are two ex-Presidents now living, it 1s hoped to have them and President McKin- ley to witness the inauguration of the re- stored buildings. Among those invited to be at the festivi- ties, besides those already named, many of whom have accepted, are: Governor Tyler of Virginia and staff, Attorney Genera! Montague, Lieutenant Governor Echols, all the living former governors of the state, all the ex-rectors of the board of visitors, the presidents of all the leading institutions of learning in the United States, and three in Canada, the president and each member of every alumni association of the Uni- versity of Virginia in the United States, a very large branch of the association being in Washington; Mr. W. T. Harris, United States commission of education; J. W. Southall, superintendent of public institu- tions of Virginia; Chancellor McCracken of the University of New York, Mr. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture; Sir San- ford Fleming of Queen’s University, Kings- ton, Canada; Mr. Samuel Spencer of New York, Mr. M. Ingalls of Cincinnati, Dr. J. L. M. Curry, agent of the Slater fund, Washington, D. C.; Surgeon General Van Reypen of the navy, and many others. The Order of Exercises. Strictly speaking, the ceremonies will be- gin Sunday evening, June 12, when the baccalaureate sermon will be preached by Bishop T. U. Dudley of Louisville, Ky. Monday morning an address to the liter- ary societies will be delivered by Represen- tative Joseph W. Bailey of Texas; Tuesday will be inauguration dey. There will be an ode by Mr. A. C. Gordon of Staunton, Va., a former rector of the university; and an address by a prominent New York law- James €. Carter. The restored build- ings will be fermally turned over to Gov. Tyler for the state, by ihe rector of the board, Mr. Charles P. Jones of Monterey, Va. An address to the alumni will be de livered by Rev. Dr. McKim of Washington, D.C. During the evening a reception wil! be given by the board and faculty to all of the alumni who may be present, about 1,500 of whom are expected. Original Plan Retained. A prominent member of the faculty of the university said: “The chief bullding of the ‘Academical Village,’ planned by Mr. Jefferson, was, and will be, the Retunda. It has always been the must conspicuous and the most beautiful. No recent structure has de- prived it of its eminence. It caught and detained the eye of the casual visitor, and it never became indifferent to those’ who Saw it every day, from year to year. After forty yea cf famillarity with its graceful Outlines, the gaze of residents here would cften linger in admiration on its harmonious proportions, its noble portico, the richness of the Corinthian capitals, with their acanthus leaves, hiding the urn they embraced, and above them the great hemisphere fitly crowning the simple but majestic pile. “The University of Virginia is an in- stance of evolution under the superinten- Gence of a controlling and directing mind. The Albemarle Academy, beginning in March, 1814, passed into the Central Col. lege in February, 1816, and this, a few years later, became the University of Virginia.” As is already known, the Rotunda was badly dameged by the fire of October 27, 1886. This has been repaired. The re- stored Roturda presents on its southern point a reproduction of its aspect when it came from the hands of Jefferson, as exact as the skill of the builder can achieve. The stately columns with their grace- ful Corinthian capitals of white marble, the coraice, the pediment, the swell of the noble dome, have all been conscientious- ly restored. The northern face shows an elevation similar to the southern, but the portico is much less In depth. The side elevations present a novel and dignified aspect. The two terrace rooms are con- nected by a culonnade in continuation of that on the lawn. The flat roofs of the wings and’ the connecting colonnades, guarded by a handsome balustrade, fur- nish a pleasant promenade about the main building, while the vistas between tho columns prevent apparent reduction of its height to spectators approaching from the east or west. Some Prominent Features. The interior partition walls have been removed to the level of the portico floor, and, at that elevation, have been bridged with heavy steel beams, between which the Gustarino ficor arches have been thrown. Upon this floor there is support- ed a handsome Corinthian peristyle, whose entablature carries the main gallery at a height of twenty-eight fect above the floor. From the entablature springs the inner shell of the dome; from the main wall springs the outer. The two meet at tho eye in the crown and are tied together by intermediate braces. The space between the wall and the peristyle is subdivided, by perforated iron floors, into five book tiers, three below and two above the gal- lery. The capacity of the main library rcom will be between 90,000 and 100,000 volumes. The new court at the southern end of the lawn is 300 feet wide and 200 feet deep. The academical building occupies the southern side, the Rouss physical laborato- ry the eastern and the mechanical labora- tory the western side. The academical building contains the public hall, capable of seating nearly 1,500; a@ general assembly room, seating about 300; five large and six small lecture rooms, and space which may be utilized hereafter for three or four additional lecture rooms. The physical and mechanical laboratories have like facades and a general similarity of arrangements. In the former the central member of the building contains a large amphitheatrical lecture room, lighted en- tirely from above, with the general labora- tory on one side and the apparatus room on the other. An extension in the rear of the ee room bg yp six laboratories for special research and a room designed for optical work. In the mechanical labo- ratory the upper floor contains the lecture room, with the drawing room on one side and the electrical laboratory on the other, and offices for the professors; a periodicai Experience. cee f PRESIDENT ACCEPTS) AA VETTE RAN’S VALUABLE WORDS. C. Brown, of Albany, Tells of a Wonderfuf Mr. Erastus C. Brown of Albany, N. Y., is a veteran of the Seventh! New York Artillery and a prominent officer of the G. A. R. He served with great credit during the rebellion and in speaking of his past career, said: “I was born in Albany fifty-six years ago and have always lived here. Some time since I began to feel out of sorts. I suffered from pains in the body, headache, lack of appetite and sleeplessness and finally was completely laid up in bed with the worst kind of kidney disorder, At that time I had shooting pains in the small of the back and I was so weak I could not sit up even in bed. Indeed, I was completely in de- spair, when, as a ministering angel, m y wife came to the rescue. She had heard much of a modern discovery, knew of many who had been helped by its use and procured me a bottle of it. It is an actual fact that before I had finished the first bottle the improvement was so great that I could get out of bed, and, in fact, I was entirely cured wholly through the use of Warner’s Safe Cure. Any doubter of the efficacy of this great remedy in serious cases of kidney complaint has full liberty to write me and I will answer them with pleasure. My address is 0. 170 South Pearl street, Albany, N. Y. I will willingly correspond with any sufferers who are afflicted as I have been and hope that so small an act will be the means of putting others on the right course. room and rooms for blue printing. On the ground floor there is the room for engines and dynamos, the shops for work in wood and metals, and the laboratory for re- search in civil and mechanical engineering. Guests of Former Occasions. Among those who attended the inaugura- tion of the buildings, destroyed nearly three years ago, were, as stated, Jefferson, Madi- son and Monroe, the latter being at the time President of the United States, and the others having served as such; also General La Fayette, as likewise many of the great Americans of those days. Pre- vious to the ceremonies at the university, La Fayette was given a grand reception. The Central Gazette of Charlottesville, in its issue of November 10, 1824, of which the only copy in existence is owned by Mrs. Cc. §. Venable of Charlottesville, whose father, the late V. W. Southall, presided at the banquet, in speaking of the events of the day, said: “At 3 o'clock the general was invited to a dinner prepared in the upper room of the rotunda, the whole size of the house. The tables were beautifully arranged in three concentric circles. Over the place assigned to the general was an areh of living laurel, beautifully entwined around two columns that supported the gallery. Mr. V. W. Southall, in the absence Of Colonel Ran- dolph, presided—the géneral first on his right, then Mr. Jeffersgn and Mr. Madison. On his left George WvLa/Fayette, son of the general, and his suite. “The table was calculated to accommo- date 400 persons, and the space was filled The meats were excellent, and each eye around us beamed contentment. It was contentment arising from the performance of the most sacred, the most grateful duty. In the emphatic language of Mr. Madison, it was ‘Liberty, where virtue was the guest and gratitude the feast.” The Spenkers. “The speakers were Gen. Lafayette, Thom- as Jeff:rson, who, however, was so feeble as to be obliged to have, his speech read, and that office was performed for him by Mr. Southall; Jamés Madison, President Monroe, George W. ‘Lafayette and othars, prominent in their day, but not now so well remembered as thosé above mentioned. “In the course of his spezch Gen. Lafay ette said; ‘I am happy, sir, once more to re- csive the kind welcome of the citizens of Albemarle, and this day receiy2 it under the beautiful pantheon of this rising uni- versity, the advantages of which, not only to this part of the United States, but to the cause of mankind, will increase with the growth of posterity.’ “The speech of Mr. Jefferson was the last ever delivered by the author of the Declara- tion of Independence, and a portion of it wes: “J am old, long in the disuse of making speeches and without voice to utter th>m. In this feeble stats the exhausted powers of life leave little within my competenc> that is of service. If, with the aid of my younger and abler coadjutors, I can still contribute anything to advance the institu- tion within whose walls we are now min- giing, it will be as it ever has been, ches! fully and zealously bestowed. And could I live to see it once enjoy the patronage and cherishment of our public authorities, with undivided voice, I should die without a doubt of the futura fortunes of my native state and the consoling contemplation of the happy influence of this institution on its character, its prosperity and safety. “To these effusions for the cradle and land of my birth I add one for the nation at large, the aspirations ‘of a h2art warm with the love of country; whose invocations to heaven for an indissoluble Union will be fervent and unremitting while the pulse of life continues to beat, and when that c2ases will expire in prayers for the eternal dura- tion of its freedom and prosperity.’ ” oe SS Under Sealed Orders. From the Chicago Times-Herald. The custom of having war ships sail “under sealed orders” has arisen from the desire of maritime powers to prevent their plans from becoming known to the enemy. In the American navy such orders come from the President, and are delivered to a commander cf a ship or squadron by a con- fidential messenger, who knows nothing of their contents. Sometimes they are in cipher, but they are always sealed with the official seal of the Navy Department, and the package cannot be opened until the time marked on it, which is usually several hours after the hour of leaving port. By this precaution the newspapers are prevented from disclosing prematurely Movements which may be’of the greatest importance, and the spies of the enemy are rendered useless so far as their ability to discover the secret of;such movements is concerned. lier a Sailing under seal ers is now the common naval practice in time of war. + These instructions are found in the pack- et of “sealed orders,” which is opened when well out to sea. 9 Living on the Limits. From the Chicago Times-Hernld. “Nine-tenths of our surroundings are su- perfluous,” said the observant man. “The government feeds its soldiers and sailors on 30 cents a day.’ Just/think of that! As for household goods, let me tell you. There is a man who does odd jobs around our house, and the other day be informed my wife that he was goingito move, and gave her his new address. . “About 8 o'clock I was gtroling along the street when I met my man and his wife and their fourteen-year-old boy. The man had a clock under his right arm, @ picture in his left hand and a roll of bed clothing strapped on his back. His wife carried a large basket filled with crockery, and a small roll of and a dishpan. I Teitered on the corner, and presently they came along again with more chairs, a col- lection of and pans, :and the man car- ried a table vache! head. The ee load comprised another basket, probably con- taining kitchen utensils, more chairs,broo wan, beby's, chair arg .basy oe Sour row ste 5 DSGOSSST OOOSODOOTIOSD: ead. : “Now, just think of that! One hundred dollars would certainly cover the cost of that outfit, and three people lived on it. Drees £,t make you.resiine, the Bollownees | ®@ @ @ 9 2] @ @ S @ @ C @ AZTEC MINES REDISCOVERED. Important Results Expected From William Niven’s Exploration, From the Brooklyn Eagle. The discovery of William Niven of this city of important evidences of the past civilization of the Aztecs and related tribes has been verified on the arrival of the ex- plorer in the capital of Mexico. He found a number of prehistoric ruins and a sealed ossuary containing skeletons. He has in- cidentally found new silver mines and promising placers, the latter perhaps a re- discovery of diggings from which the Az- tecs drew their wealth. It needs that only half which is on record of the Aztecs in Montezuma’s time be true to indicate that gold was the commonest of their metals. They did not hold it in the value that Eu- Tropeans gave to it, and this fact enabled Cortez and his followers to rob these peo- ple in a royal fashion. Shields, helmets, cups, bracelets and nuggets were delivered in exchange for promises and friendships that were as empty as the promises of Spain have ever been. After enriching Cortez the natives found themselves at his mercy, their emperor a captive, their tem- ples despoiled, strange images set up in public places before which they were com- pelled to bow and worship, and in the end the Spaniard possessed the land. In Peru and adjacent states similar dra- mas were enacted, and the white man gained his power by the coplous shedding of blood. It is not improbable that when the greed of the invaders for the yellow metal was discovered the Aztecs and other native tribes desisted from the mining of it, hoping by representations that the sup- ply was exhausted to keep the troops, with their swords and thundering cannon, from any further advance into their country. It does not take long in a tropical country for eroded banks to clothe themselves afresh in vegetation, hence in a few years the tokens of placer mining would have dis- appeared, and after the people had been driven to other parts of the country or had been occupied in the general defense, these beds of gold-bearing gravel would be for- gotten. Their discovery, if such it is, may prove to be important—not so much ‘so as the Kiondike, probably, for much has al- ready been taken from them, yet not insig- nificant, since modern methods insure a larger return for labor than the oid way, which was nothing but the picking of nug- gets from the stream beds. American cap- ital will probably develop these mines and we may have a need of gold in the next few years. ——_—_—__—-e-—_____ ADMIRAL SAMPSON. Conspicuous Among the Men Who Have Given Us a New Navy. From the Independent. Admiral Sampson has been conspicuous among the men who have given us our new navy; and his service in this connec- tion has been such, as a member of vari- cus boards and as chief of the bureau of ordnance, that he has become familiar with the minutest details of construction, armor, guns and engines. It is no exaggeration to say that he could personally make any naval gun or repair any engine or electrical device found on his ships. His mind goes always to first princlples—a cool, analytical mind, that wastes no time over unessen- tials. His great range of information comes rather from sheer force of intellectual en- dowment than from any laborious process of acquirement, for he has never been known as a student in the commonly ac- cepted sense of that word. His breadth of mind was admirably, and to naval minds most startlingly shown, when more thor- oughly to familiarize himself with an im- portant branch of his profession he ap- plied for service in the bureau of ordnance under Commodore Folger, who was much bis junior In rank, and had served as first lieutenant of the “Swatara” under his command. Admiral Sampson is a man of striking personal appearance, of fine, clear-cut fea- tures, slender, above the medium height, slow and deliberate both in movement and speech, not given to many words. He is tco much absorbed in his profession and the mental processes which give him his seeming intuitive knowledge of its mani- feld complexities to be what is called so- ciable; but he is always just and consid- erate to his subordinates and watchful ever the welfare of his crews. A man of reserve, of perfect self-posses- sion at all times and under all circum- stances, he would approach such a prob- lem as the annihilation of the Spanish feet with the same coolness and delibera- t.on that he would an armor trial or the designing of a new gun; no detail would be teo small to be overlooked, no possible contingency would be unprovided for. There is only one opinion about Sampson in the navy, and that is that he is the right man in the right place, and that he has not already paralleled Dewey's achleve- ment at Manila, is net because he is not ready and able and anxious to do When his time comes he will not be found wanting. ay ALMOST OBSOLETE. The Heecnke is Fast Disappearing From Southern Tables. From the Richmond Dispatch. Most middle-aged persons remember well when corn bread was served upon nearly all tables in the south and west at least twice a day. Sometimes it appeared in the form of “hoecake” or “batter bread,” and again in “pones.” It was par excellence the bread of the negro, and every man who served in the confederate army was also a full graduate in the use of it. Now the darkics eschew it where wheat bread is to be obtained, and upon the tables of thou- sands of southern and western whites it never appears at al!, while others continue to use it only for dinner. Now, why is this? Surely corn meal is as it ever was. Those who sincerely, but probably mistakenly, believe that “water- ground” meal is better than the product of mills turned by steam can always find a supply of that in most cities, and it is common enough in the country. There is no trouble about the meal; but we doubt whether the art of cooking it has been pre- served. The high-toned colored damsels who are turned out by our public schools are not the adepts that our old Aunt Di- nehs and Aunt Peggys were. No self-re- specting pan of dough would be conjured into shape by such unskilled hands. Ani then we may seriously doubt whether corn bread can ae ceoeet in a stove as well as in_an open fireplace. The Tadians laid their doughcakes be- tween layers of forest leaves or upon the hard ground, and cooked them in the hot ashes. Hence “ash cake,” a very luscious product, indeed, when one has whetted his appetite for it by a long day’s hunting. The hoecake was so called because it was originally baked upon a hoe—that ever- ready and useful instrument of agriculture which is to be found upon every plantation. But later on cooking utensils weré manu- factured which took the place of the hum- ble hoe. So, too, shingles were used where- upon to place the dough while it went through the process of becoming a welt- done ash cake. SPEED OF THE HORSE. — Claimed He is the Swiftest Animal ia the World. From the Chicago Times-Herald, A man on a horse is twice a man. He feels more secure, 1s braver, is in every way more formidable. European officers know this. In clearing the streets of Paris only cavalry are used. We call out the in- fantry of the militia and have to shoot people. In Europe they use the flat of a sword held by a mounted man. No un- armed body of humanity will stand the impact of horses. They melt before the charge like snow, It is the uncontrollable instinct to get out of the way, and to do it as soon as possible. Some day we will grow wiser on this side of the Atlantic. Just now we have fifty infantry compantes of militia to one of cavalry. Many of our militiamen are unable to pay for the keep of a horse, which is expensive, even if a man docs the caring and bedding with his own hands. Many others of them would not know what to do with a horse if they had one. ‘This is bad, but with the trolley and the bicycle crowding the steed of our fathers closer and closer to the wall there ot | is not much chance that it will be bettered. Five hundred years from now, unless all rigns fail, grayheaded college’ professors, with plano-calves and cighteen-inch chests, will be lecturing upon an extinct animal and reconstructing him for the benefit of students from a piece of stifle and a front tooth. I believe that the horse animal in the world. One hears strange tales of the speed of the antelope, the white-tailed fawn, the springbok, the ele. is the swiftest phant, the jack rabbit and the wolf. The astest of these is th n antelope, and I have never s e that a good y could not beet. As for the rabbit or kind of deer, the horse will simply run over him. Taking into consideration the fact that the horse generally carries more than 150 pounds of rid saddle and gun, one gets an idea of how much superior he is. A speedy pony will outrun a grey- hound. I havo seen this tried. It is custo- mary among men who use them to give the dogs all the law possible in order to avoid riding over them. a brace of very good coursing hounds five yea’ it was found that there were five pontes in the party which would outfoot the dogs, and cne of them, a gray of un- doubted mustang ancestry, if given the bit would do his best to run over them and kill them. He did not like them. They belonged to his owner and he was jealous. sae CD A Novelty in Be! From Invention. Herr Appunn of Hanau has invented a bell of a new shape, which ts said to have a very deep tone and to be as powerful as considerably heavier bells of the form at present in vogue. The shape is pecullar, being hemispherical, while the metal 1s uniform in thickness except near the “sound bow” (or the thickened tip which the clapper strikes). From the edge to some little distance above the sound bow the metal is very thick, and then al- ters suddenly to the uniform thickness which it has for the rest of the bell. os The only Englishman who ever ruled as pope was Nicholas Breakspear, who was born about the year 1100 at Langley, near St. Albans. He was unanimously elected for the papal chair in 1154, and bore the title of Adrian IV. In hunting with CSOSCSSSSSEC SSS OCOSOOSOSOOEOSE S¢ The outbreak of war has precipitated the close of THE ~*~ WASHINGTON POST CENTURY CLUB. It was not ex- pected that the club would be completed for several weeks to come, but it is now evident that Its Close is Only a Matter of a Day or Two. The roster is nearly filled. Each member secures a complete set of THE CENTURY DICTIONARY AND CYCLOPEDIA—the only work which will help one to follow the war satisfactorily—on easy terms of payment, and in addition saves about $50 in cash. (Applica- tions received by mail or in person at Exhibition Rooms, fifth floor, Post Building.) In order that no one who has been included in our Cen- tury Club invitations may be disappointed, we use the columns - of our esteemed contemporary, as well as our own, to give formal warning of the passing of this great opportunity. | L