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Wash. B. Williams, Furniture, &c., 7th and D Sts. Baby Carriages, ok. VERY mother is surprised to see what a handsome baby coach we sell for as little as $4. This is elegantly E upholstered. has nice parasol, patent springs, ete., and is strong erough to carry a small man. But your cholee % not confined to one or two lines here—we have over sixty styles of coaches and go-earts, ranging in price up to Our Mattings Start at 10e. yal. —for the regular 12%e. and 15c. quality of China Mattings, and they go right on up to the finest mattings made. We can supply you with any grade of matting made at the lowest prices at which that grade cam be purchased anywhere, Wash. B. Williams, 7th& D Je80-6od = WOODRURY'S Facial Powder Facial Soap, Facial Cream, nd Dental Cream are manufae- tured by Dermatologist JOHN H. WOODBURY, W. 42d st. New York, who has made the mpiexion a study for over 26 years. ils, “they lubricate more and outlast other oils." Wm. C. Robinson & Son, apli-set BALTIMORE. Md. Considered Insane. From the Wilkesbarre Leader. Some interesting stories about the en- lstments of recruits to the 9th have been going the rounds. One of the assistant surgeons of the 9th gave.a young man a rigid physical examination, under orders, as the young man was not thought to be a desirable reeruit. After the applicant's weight and height had been ascertained, and the color of his s noted, the dialogue between the surgeon and prospective recrult went follows: » you ever rejected for life imsur- “Have you ever given up an oceupation en account of your health or habits?’ “To fluttering heart, pain in the chest, head told in the Beve shortness of breath, ou ever been considered insane?” . sir.” “What's that you say?" asked the surgeon, scratching out the “No” that he had written in anticipation of a negative er. . 1 guess it’s all right,” replied the “My mother said that I was inwane recruit. tonight when I told her that I was going to enlist. As I had got tired of saying ‘Ne’ I just thought I'd mention it.” Bird-Eating Frogs. From the New York Press. A species of bird-eating frog infests the swamps in Susquehanna county. These huge croakers have*also proved destruc- tive to young chickens. A few days since a farmer named Wain- wright of Herrick had his attention called to the bird-eating propensity of this species of frog by the erles of a small bird in a nearby swamp. Thinking it had been seized by a snake, he hastened to the spet. and saw a beautiful red and green bird in the mouth of a large, greenish frog. Only the bird's head was visible, and its cries becoming fainter the frog was kill- ed and the bird released. Its feathers Were all wet and slimy, and for some days it could be distinguished in the garden by its ruffed plumage. Since then others of the same species of frog have, on several occasions, been killed with young chiekens half swallowed, and ence a duckiing was rescued from the fame fate. The frogs make a chuckling sound so neariy like that of a hen calling her ch: ens for food that whole broods have been deceived and have rushed toward the swamp where they supposed the hen to be. The frogs are wary. and it is difficult to find them except by the squeaks of distress from their victims. oo —____ A shoe manufacturer with a head for has calculated that the hides of owing number of animals would be required yearly to shoe the whole popula- Hon of the earth, so far as known: Cattle, SHSSS1SS4; goats, 90,084,518; sheep, 25,- 42 horses, 30,520,000; and kangaroos, 000), The Duchess of Northumberland owns shawl which formerly belonged to Charles X of France, and was manufact- ured from the fur of Persian cats. Ma: thousands of cats’ skins were utilized, ard the weaving occupied some years. The — measures eight yards 3¢ EASY FOR SENATORS Washingtons Batted Out a Victory at - Bt. Louis. REMARKABLE FIELDING BY HARLEY Duke Farrell Keeping Up His Good Stick Work. CURRENT SPORTING NOTES Pc. 483 482 a4 2 aaee: 2 It was a trip on Easy street yesterday for the Senators at St. Louis, the fine pitching of Veteran Gus Weyhing and the heavy batting of his supporters smothering the Browns. Kid Carsey was on the rubber for the home club, and each of the Sena- tors hit him for one or more safeties but Gettman, whose efforts were folled by the extraordinary fielding of Harley. This ex- Georgetown University man made a record for the season, having no less than eleven put-outs to his credit in left fleld. Had it not been for his remarkable fielding at least half a dozen of the files he caught would have gone to the credit of the Sena- tors for good, long hits. Farrell maintain- ed the fine batting rally he had made this season by getting three hits out of four times at the bat. Anderson got in two hits, both being doubles. McGuire and Wrigley also got three hits, one of Jim's being a double and one of Wrigley’s a three-bagger, the latter clearing the bases and sending in three men in the seventh inning. Myers also got in a triple, sending in two men and then scoring. In the seventh inning Anderson sent a hot one at Cross, which smashed the latter’s finger and put him out of the game. Selbach was the only man on either side to commit an error. Neither side scored in the first inning, but the Senators sent three men across the plate in the second. McGuire singled to left, going to second on Farrell's out at first. Reitz was given a pass and he and McGuire ran home on Myers’ triple to right center, Myers scoring on Wrigley’s fly to Stenzel. In the fourth the Senators added one more run to their score. Mc- Guire doubled to left, went to second on Farrell's sacrifice and scored on Reitz’s single to left. In the next inning they got two more. Selbach sent a single past third, went to second on Gettman’s sacri- fica and home on Anderson’s double past third. Farrell singled to left. In the sixth inning each side scored one. For the Browns Dowd singled to left center, went to third on Stenzel’s single to right ‘and scored on Sugden's force of Stenzel. For the visitors Wrigley bunted safely, went to third on Weyhing’s single to right and home on Selbach’s fly to right. Six runs were scored by the Senators in the seventh. Anderson hit to left for a double, took third on McGuire's bunt and home on Farrell's single to center. Passes to Reitz and Myers forced in McGuire, and then Wrigley cleared the bases with a three-bagger to the left field fence. The sailor seored on’ Weyhing’s fly to Harley. For the Browns, Clements hit to the right field ropes for a double, scoring on Crooks’ single to center. The Browns also got a run in the eighth inning on Sugden’s base on balls and Decker’s double to left. Score: St. Loni. R.H.O.A.B.| Washington. R.H.0.A.E. Dowdlrf.2b. 1 1 0) Selbach, if. 1 1 Stenzel, ef. 0 0/Gettman,rft. 0 0 3 ° | once De . Ib. Clements, ¢ 1 Quinn, 33... 0 Ero'ks.2,3b 0 Carsey. p.. 0 mmmnmoooce ecoocosom 1 = 1 1 1 9 ° 1 1 0 emonnocome 2) Totals. ...13 142712 1 @o0000111 0-3 Washington. 020121 60 0-413 Earned runs—Washington, 4 Two-bise hits— Clements, Anderson (2). McGuire. Three-base hits Sacrifice hit—Gettman. —Myers, | Wrigley. First base on balls—Off Carsey, 3; off Weyhing, 1. Struck out—By Weyhing, 1. Time—1.65. Umpires —Swartwood and Wood. e = rooklyn, 8; Pittsburg, 5. e Brooklyns'did the better batting yes- ‘terfiay at Pittsburg and the Pirates bit the dust by 8 to 5. The feature of the gaine was Padden’s hitting, the second baseman making a home run and a triple, the latter hit coming with three on bases. Killen was knocked out of the box in the fourth in- ning. R. H.R. Pittsburg. 000000181-5 9 3 Brooklyn. 000420200-8 12 2 Philadetphia, 17; Cincinnati, 3. Tt was a case of tapioca at Cincinnati yesterday. the Phillies hammering the bat! all over the lot and defeating the Ewingites by 17 to 3. The record on the day for the Phillies was 27 safe hits, the largest bat- ting score of the season. R HE, Cinetnnat 0010010108 7 4 Philadelphi 42660221147 7 4 Chicago, 7; New York, 5. The New Yorks went against a crippled team at Chicago yesterday, but their usual dose, defeat, came their way, the Orphans having the upper hand by 7 to 5. Seymour was wild, which hed considerable to do with the Giants’ downfall. R 1010006030-5 8 oo004¢0R21f 0x7 6 8B Louisville, 9; Baltimore, 1. ‘The Baltimores again went down to de- feat at Loulsville yesterday, the Colonels turning the trick by 9 to 1. The playing of Was there ever such a chance? We Have Just Secured lEelipses Equipped With the Greatest Improvement of the Year, The Morrow Brake and Coaster. “Ol Hit We recognize that the people want Eclipse Wheels, so we | Will gamble they'll all be gone in three days’ time, | so don’t wait a week and then get mad because you have lost 1897 Model Z6 We _ will sell | them all for ficash...... got them. this grand opportunity. Iroquois Cycle Co., | 810 14th St. N. W. all 810 14th St. i 00) ‘THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1898-16 PAGES, [ te: birds was listless, McGraw was put & ut.of the game and grounds by Umpire O'Day for ki a = RHE. 103x-9 10 1 0000-1 94 The Bostons hammered out a* victory at Cleveland yesterday, the Indians going un- der by 10 to & The fielding was loose on both sides. Both teams had two pitchers in the box. HE. Cleveland..... 0221000005 7 2 Boston.....-.. 0 0 200521 1-10 15 6 Base Ball Notes. The Senators batted like Trojans. Hillary Swaim will try and continue the Rood work today. Maybe Gus Weyhing has not be2n a good investment. A triple and two singles is not bad for Wrigley. McGuire has been appointed manager- captain, and a better or more popular move could not have been made. Maybe Farrell, McGuire and Anderson are not a batting trio? Gettman and Weyhing were the only Sen- ators that didn’t get a hit yesterday. One victory out of the next two games in St. Louis for the Senators will make this the most successful trip a Washing- ton club has ever taken over the western circuit. Dick Harley ts playing a great game for the St. Louis club. His record yesterday was most sensational. Twelve chances without a slip up, and eight of them hard ones, is quite a record. It hardly seems possible for players of the weight of Farrell and McGuire to pull off bunts successfully. Yet this is what these veteran catchers did yesterday, and on_a fast fielding pitcher like Carsey. Popular Live Cross made a try for one of Anderson's line hits over third yester- day and now the St. Louis boy has a bursted finger. This will be almost a ca- lamity for the Browns, as Cross nas b2en hitting almost as hard as any man in the league and besides has also been playing a fine game at third base. Cross will be out of the game for a week. The Doyle matter still hangs fire, no ex- change having been effected by Mr. Wag- ner up to date. Jack haS been ordered to report to the Washington club next Mon- day and should he still be under the weath- er and not able to give the club his best efforts, the chances are that he will be laid off without pay until he gets into first-class condition. The Cleveland club, since it has been knocked out of Sunday games, is trying to transfer games wherever possible, and as a result the games scheduled for the lake city, wherein the Senators figured, will be played off at National Park August 6, 7, 8 and 9. From the present outlook it would appear as if Buffalo or Detrolt would take Cleveland’s place in the big league next ear. The Phillies made twenty-seven hits, with a total of forty, at Cincinnati yesterday, and this one day’s batting record will prob- ably stand for many seasons to come. Ewing had no other pitcher to relieve Dammann, and the little fellow had to take his medicine in large doses and look gay. A home run, a double and three singles was Dick Cooley's record for the day. The following sentences are picked out of the headlines of the Baltimore papers this morning, no doubt brought forward as a result of yesterday's defeat in Louisville: “Jennings’ days seem numbered.” ‘‘Han- lon dickering for another shortstop.” “If he can get George Smith, the once famous fielder may be relegated to the bench, and DeMont put in his place, Smith geing to second.” es One of the Brooklyn players said while the Trolley Dodgers were in Chicago last week that the transfer of Anderson to ‘Washington cost the Wagners $3,000. “Mr. Ebbetts has been sneered at,” said this player, “for telling Anderson to go, but the club needed the money, and, besides, we were under cbligations to the Senators for the release to us of Tommy Tucker.”— Sporting Life. DR. McDOWELL NOT ON HAND. Henley Regatta Secretary Wants to Know His Whereabouts. LONDON, July 1.—There is a remarkable lack of interest in the Henley regatta of next week. While the number of home entries is up to the average, the quality Is infertor to anything since 1879. In addi- tion to this, there is almost an entire ab- sence of forsign competition. Several Ger- man crews which entered were scratched at the last moment, so the foreign oarsmen wo will take part in the rowing contests are practically Hmited to Dr. W. 3S. Mc- Dowell and B. H. Howell, the American oarsmen, and Dr. Schultz-Deinhardt of Berlin. ‘They are all entered for the dia- mond sculls. Dr. MeDowell, however, has not arrived and the Henleyites are per- tirbed at the non-appearance of the fa- mous Chicago oarsman. Secretary Cooper of the Henley regatta committee telegraphs to the office of the Associated Press here asking for informa- tion as to the whereabouts of Dr. McDow- ell. He says it is necessary that he (the secretary) should be informed before mid- day Saturday whether the doctor is or is not coming. The Amateur Rifle Club. At @ meeting of the Amateur Rifle Club lest night A. O. Hutterly was elected the delegate to represent the sharpshooters at the general meeting. For the position of adjutant of the team Capt. J. S. Tomltn- sen was elected unanimously. The first de- tachment of the marksmen will leave for the Glendale ranges July 4. The last com- petition for team places takes place this afternoon at the range near Chevy Chase. The following are fairly certain of having places on the team: W. M. Farrow, R. P. Carleton, 8. I. Scott, A. O. Hutterly, E. J. Williams, J. H. Gheen, J. 8. Tomlinson, W. 8. Colladay. Davidson’s Final Success. From the New York Tribune. John C. Davidson, the southern cham- pion, who played in the West Side Tennis Ciub tournament last week, is one of tho most enthusiastic of tennis players. His heme is in Washington, where he has a wife and two children. Though he is a tusy and prosperous business man m Washington, he finds time to play in sev- eral tourna aents every year. He has played. in the southern championship for twelve successive years. Whether the tournament was at Washington, Baltimore or Wilmingt31, he was always there, and though in the twel¥e tournaments he often came close to obtaining the championship, it was pot till this year that he was suc- ceesful, when he defeated J. P. Paret in straight sets in the finals and won from T. A. Driscoll, last year’s champion, by de- fault. Most of Davidson's success has been on turf courts, where the high bound of the ball gives nim an opportunity to use his forehand drive, which is most effective on a walst-high ball. Davidson's forehand drive on turf courts is ynquestionably o: ot the most effective sffokes played. His backhand is weak, but unless a return to his left court is hit hard he invariably gets ‘around the ball and uses his forehand. As a volleyer he is not a success, but he never comes to the net unless he is forced to by an opponent’s short return. ee A Weapon of Ancient Pugilists. The four-ounce glove was unknown to the ancient pugilist. When the boxers and fighters came together in the old days of Greeze they wore upon their hand the cestus, which was in itself a terrible ad- junct to any fighter. But Dr. Daniel G. Briton has discovered that there was some- times attached to the cestus a deadlier weapon, consisting of a three-pronged fork of bronze. a This was known as the myrmex, and Dr. Brinton, who found this specimen, has given it to the museum of archaeology jin the University of Pennsylvania. Class- {cal literature has frequent references to the myrmex, which is described as the -+0 firemen wear water jackets, skin, which they are able to ‘water from the hose. If the spate Sacer Geer ‘escapes re helmet and flows down the Hecht’s Rebuilding Sale. | Hecht’s Rebuilding Sale. | Hecht’s Rebuilding Sale. | Hecht’sRebuilding Sale. | | goods on them. age warehouse. do it. Men's suits of all-wool Scotch cheviot, cassimere, light and dark effects—made with wide facings and satin piped inner seams—these are the germents which sold up to $9. Rebuilding sale price. $3,908 Men's suits of all-wool dark cheviots— pin cheek and plaid imeres, in me- dfum and Nght shedes—with Italian dou- ble warp lining—tinished superbly—$10 and $12 values. Rebuilding sale price. $4,908 Men's finer custom-made fancy worsted and blue and black cheviots—and nobby light plaid cassimeres and ks— exclusive materials such ax the tailors give you at $20, and which have been here at $15. Rebuilding sale price $6.98 $2 pants, 85c. Men's striped czssimere and cheviot pants—made with patent riveted buttons Hash Ht In good patterne—sold lor $2. Rebuilding sale price. ..85¢, 1 5 $10. We recently received a lot of young men’s and .small-men’s suits made of true blue serge; we had intended to sell them for $15 be ise everybody in town is get- ting $16 for them, We didn’t think we'd need thie 2or they occupy, but we do, and so they go at $10. Any etyle you want— lined as you'want them—true in color as the day 1s long—full of worth and wear. 98c. blouses, 69c. Lot of little boys’ whit blotse waists, with col trimmed with wide embroidery, and also lot of little boys’ real sailor biouses, with e sailor collar of linen-duck, trimmed wit white pique and finished with white tie—the novelty blouses, which but few show you, and which are never sold for less than 98c. and semetimes for $1.19— will be sold tomorrow for 69 cents. Linen pants, 12%4c. Lot of boys’ linen pants—very splendid quality, to go for 12%ec. pair. Hundreds of the best make, up-to-date shirt waists, of the most popular mate- i ritls—go im this lot—the identical waists which we being sold about town at 6¥e. to Sue. There. ore lawns—there arc ba- tistes—there are pereales—the patterns aro carefully selected. 39 cents. Hl $7.50 to $9 suits, $3.68 \i$10 to $12 suits, $4.98 $13 to $15 suits, $6.98} SS Two lots of shirt waists. Greater values than ever, for we are all the time adding higher-_ priced waists to the assortment. $3.50 pants, $1.47. Men's neat striped all-weel worstecs— light plaid cheviets and dark cassimeres, which have been seiling rapidly at $3 and $3.50. Rebuilding sale price. $1.47 All summer clothing cut. Men's linen crash panis or coats—gar- ments which have been selling up. to $2—with a perfect fit and pertectly tin- ished. Rebuilding sale price...&5¢, Men's hinen crash suits—consisting of coat, pants and yests—of a good, depend- able quality of crash—which ‘sold for 33. Rebuilding sale price. $1.48 Men's sateen striped office coats—the identical garments for which you pay 50e. elsewhere. Rebuilding sale price. ..25¢, Men's white duck pants—the good, heavy quality, which keeps its shap madé with deep bems—different widths: of legs—which sold for $1.50. Rebuilding sale price...47C. We shall extend the privilege of having your purchases “‘charged”’ nd of paying the bill weekly or monthly. “Bike” clothing cut. Nearly half of the men’s clothing dept. has been usurped by the builders. “We're in a fix.’”” We've had to give over more space than we had the least idea we would have to give. tables have been huddled The department is in confusion, for together until it is almost impossible to get to the We shall make a heroic effort today and tomorrow to dispose of enough garments so that several of the immense tables may be removed to a stor- We will pay you to help us to do it--and this is how we'll Men's plaid cassimere bic made with military seats—which sold for $2, and which sre well worth that— the most desirable patterns. Rebuilding sale price. ..8Q¢, ‘s summer covert bicyrle pants— with military seats and two hip s—belt straps, &e., which sok Rebuilding sale price. . -65c. Men's summer cevert coats mide with 4 outst pants with military we've sold thousands at Rebuilding sale price. $1.49 bieycle suits— Men's all-wool cassimere a bicycle suits in the greatest variety of petterns—pants buve kersey cuffs and the whole suft is made in best manner. Sold for $6. Rebuilding sale price.§2.48 cheviot Cutting the boys’ clothing - mearly in 4 —taking no'regard of profits—actually not considering costs—just |\|| to get room: You must have noticed if you've been in the store ||| during the past three days how “cramped” we are. been narrowed—tables have been pushed together and clothing | piled dowbléheight. A third of the selling space has been taken by the false:jvall which is put up to protect the stock from ruin. Youths’ $15serge suits, Aisles have Boys’ suits, 99c. Boys’ double-breasted suits, some of. them al wool and the rest part wool— splendid service givers—will be put on tomorrow for only 99 cents. Every ie nicely tailored—and a good value Long pants suits,$2.98 Boys’ long pants suits, in siz-s large enongl: to fit sm ized men—made strictly all-wool materials—which carefully tailored and guaranteed to fit as well as any suits you can buy—will be aes tomorrow for $2.98—sold up to $7. $3 and $4 suits, $2.98 Lot of boys’ all-wcol kuee pants suits, including fancies end black and blue cheviots; suits which sold up to $4—will be closed ont tomorrow for $2.98. Boys’ waists, 12'4c. Lot of boys’ good percale shirt waists, such as are sold in every store In town for 9c. each—to go for 12%. each. Lot of ladies’ fine white India Knoa - waists, trimmed with tacks and embroid- ingesting. really the most fashionably thas far this year—a very tine «al- Huon und made by the leading shirt waist mater of the out of his work room: as are selling about town for §1.00—will be pat on sele tomorrow for 98 cents. HECHT AND CO., $1 and $1.25 wrappers, 43c. a lot of fine percale wrappers which it $1 and $1.25—at 43 cents. d patterns ; and there are also plaids They have separate waist linings and wide of <irts is evidence that they are high- Anticipating the enormous response to this an- ided double the corps of salesladies, so We shall bunch tomorrow have been on a table for a day a are in the most desirable figure and checks in the lot. hems, and the fullness of the s priced garments. nouncement, we have prov that you will be served promptly. Pen’s straws, 89c- | 75c. straw yachts, 48c.) 12%c. ble tome. tac? Vac ; Ladies’ Vest, 614c. | Here are a lot of ladies” Swiss ribbed Fests, with low neck and no sleev: each rup with tape and they are made fi So that 4 slip on easily and fit per- BS Sy prane, wsnal I5c. vest Ladies’ corsets, 29c. Lot of ladies’ summer corsets, in gray = pe are heavily boned and By ns made, in ort and long k seit caly 20c. "Their regular peice te toe ~~ * Reductions in summer skirts & suits. Crash skirts, 29c| Pique skirts, Crash suits tego cosh, aaa: | $2.98. at $3.98. that ix usually sold for fo Ute but the “very skirts—the handson Merged peed tome od e for §=which English welt—made with c others are getting ae. @ Spanish flounce—a skirt loth colts will be Seok. and 5ie., many 6c. which cannot be dapli- the single price of __eneh, | ts = Siict under $4 anywhere. Some are tria- Rebui Sale Pric strips duck, Crash skirts, 79c! oe td in tho lot are some nel of aay heavy and ped nen crash skirts—extra ‘ fu wate ani'ss ae | Linen skirts, a fully made as can at Rebullding Sale Prite $1.98. of 7%.—gurments which Du ts, have been §1.50. plat of, ladies’ pure ck sui . ee inen = skirts -- trimuned Duck skirts, 49c.| jie ivgeminm | $149. x 7 linen embroidery —fuil 3% Choice of a lot of la- 300 indies’ white duck yards wide—¢eep beum— dies’ white duck and I skirts—a heavy will be offered at Ke- en crash suits made quality—full wide—wide building Sale Price of newest style—which sold hems—will go at Rebuild- ing Sale Price of 49c. o15 7th 31.08, Fashionable whit: though ‘STRE We will make the most interesting sale of the season tomorrow. Partly because we bought them under price amd solely te room for them, we shall sell of men’s split sennette and rough and ready straw hats, with double brims, with black or blue silk nd most tanh fonable shapes of the mach as the exclusive bat stores are selling for $1.50 for 89 cents. ‘This will affer a splendid opportunity for hat-buying for the Fourth. i Lot of boys’ straw yacht hats, both rough and smooth braids, with figured blue, plaid or black bands—reinforeed — {fl} brima, such as will cast you elsewhere — |] Tie., Wil be sold tomorrow for #5 | $1 sailors, 48c. Lat of children’s straw sailors, in the hwide |] and narrow brims, silk bands usually sold for 150 ladies’ straw sailors, 79c. | (Never sold under $1.98.) We couldn't rest the effering a jobber made us yesterday of a lot of pit straw sailor hats, There were but them, and we knew we t in a day and offer and $1—to go tomorrow for 4c. i raw. with pure silk bands— || jonaile shapes of the season. — || Ribbons, Lot of and corded-edge the most desirable Mack—will be sold the Ribbons, 18c. yard. 13 cents a yard for of an fin-st split the most fash ineinding though Lot of ladies’ bread-brin: rough-and- |i) ready sailors, and lot of les” trimmed } h sold for ax high ax de. All $6 and $7 trimmed hats, $2.50. Flowers, 5c. Tet of flowers, ccnsisting of hand<om geraniums, ferget- roses foliage flowers which ap te a banch when the season started. are pretty enough fer the most ¢! hat and the pri shouldn't) prejudice your inion of them. nots, sole They Chamois gloves, 79c. Glove selling elsewhere will step tomor- row while we are selling the regular dol- lar chomois skin gloves for Te. pair. Drawers, 12%4c. A lot of muslin drawers, made with felled seams od trimmed with three rows of tue the self-same garments which ere sold for 25e. ir every Wwhere—will be offered for 12%. sai Just to think of a splendidly made cor- et er, trimmed with good width Ham- they"re for $3.50 but a week ago, are cut down to $1.49. ET. ‘THE BUMBLE BEE. Dees Not Fear the Cold Even in the Arctic Region. From St. Nicholas. ‘This chunky, hairy, noisy fellow is king of the cold. He stays with us summer and winter, and Is said to prefer the arctic region to the tropics. I do not doubt this, for he will sleep out of doors any cold night of spring or fall without asking for an ex- tra blanket. Indeed, he is homeless for nine or ten months of the year, lodging wherever night overtakes him, on a blos- som, a leaf and even upon the ground. If he has any choice’in the matter I think he prefers the thistle, where the spines are thickest. Perhaps’ he‘ is aware that these stingers will gird “him from the skunk and the snake While fis own are in a body Sand'@rowsy with sleep. “eet be eters nat ton reared in a nest;,quegns, drones and work- ers. The queens alone survive the winter. ‘They apparently spend the first few weeks of spring waitiné ‘for'red clover to bloom, the first blossom of which is the aignal for Rillows, Huse a,pofe bass about the Itlacs, ofigues into the honey- * fat Bt the exhaustless e‘whterleaf, and then the play day 4 begins. i it builds itl joes 3 aaet copatrariteie One bee alone could not well do that; besides, #he is in a big, bustling “hurry now; she“h@s ‘actually seen a clover blossom. Out afid“in2among the dead, mat- honey jars o! yellow secretion, or varnish, upon it, as if to keep out moisture. She is also now busy collecting more pollen and laying eggs in it and constructing a rude cell or two in which to place honey, as if for a rainy day. The first bees that hatch are work bees, 2nd at this time are downy, pale and baby- lke in appearance and behavior. In later summer queens and drones are raised. —__+ e+ _____ ANIMALS AS LIARS. Exam: * of Cunning Which Are learly Meant to Deceive. From Tit-Bits. 5 Although we often find the lower animals put forward as models from which man might learn a lesson in many virtues, it appears, upon closer examination, that there is scarcely a vice known among men in which some one or more animals will not be found proficient. Take the vice of lying, for example; it has not, I think, been generally noticed how prevalent is this propensity among animals. Some instances are, of course, familiar. The lapwing lures the trespasser away from its nest by distressful cries and & pretense of helplessness due to a broken wing; but would anyone suspect the com- mon goose of the same vice? “Why, It has not the brains to be a Har’ most of your readers would exclaim. neck and lisses at an intruder it’s acting a lie to which the family has been addicted for ages. This habit, in fact, belonged to its ances- tors in the wild state, when they nested among reeds and~ bushes, and originated | th in an attempt to make possible enemies keep clear ofsthem under the belief that they were serpents. ‘There is cool and deliberate lying for you! Instead of taking to flight, - and darting out a snake-like head and declare with a hiss that it actually snake. ‘ Anyone, again, who has watched building their nests in spring lying to follow, mouth with which he eloquently repels the charge. .¢an anyone docbt that he is saying: “You're a , Wretched Har! I carried these sticks a mile, if I earried them a yard. Do you think I’@ use a stick that had been Mm your measly nest? Not 1.” Nor is the genius for lying confined to birds. Every friend of the dog knows how that animal, unless tratned to express his natural tendency, will howl half the night if put to sleep in an outhouse, or even in the kitchen or other unoceupied room; and will miss the true note of real rage. Suppose you hurry down on such an oc- casion, do you ever find the animal con- fronting a burglar er watching a suspected point? Does it not always run up to you £8 soon as you open the door, and, after a hurried attempt to flatter you, rush into the house or upstairs? The deceiver was A pretending to see something to bark So much for the dog. The cat, however, though enjoying a high reputation as a thief, has not been generally known as a liar; yet, if Mr. Louis Robinson be correct, the cat acts the seme Hie as thi with much greater energy and ness of detail. He makes it pretty clear that the hiss- goose, and thoréugh- how it is apt from time to time to change its tune and set up a suspiciously brisk barking, from which the experienced ear raining and come up to the surface. Ih fact, it seems evident that the root of the aatter ts in the lower animals, and that if this vice be taken as an index they pos- sess the germs of civilization. —— 20+ PEPPER OLD TIMES, It Was the Most Esteemed and Vale- able of All Spices. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Dr. Adolph Miller of Philadelphia, presi- dent of the Pennsylvania Mycological Clup, in 2 dissertadon on the pepper plant, says that during the middie ages in Europe pep- per was. the most esteemed and important of all the spices. Genoa, Venice and other commercial Cities ef Central Europe were indebted to their traffie in pepper for @ large part of their wealth. Its importance tivity and civilization during the middle ges can hardiy be overrated. Tribute was levied in pepper, and donations were made in this spice, which was frequently also used as a medium of exchange in place of money. When the imperial city of Rome i if Fi | He i!