Evening Star Newspaper, July 1, 1898, Page 13

12 —. THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1898-16 PAGES. sell onl very small, as anteed. Large cakes PEPER RE Oe Durkee’s rs rb cans Roy 18 Ibs. oe Net) LENS Fine Fruit Ca ange ( and m st. Finest Vresh C Fresh Crisp § Toilet Paper. Fresh V; Fresh Pineapple Fresh ‘resh ‘resh Belmor resh resh varge Se y KPO BIN: EOIN OI BEB: BY BL DE UND string Green Straw Carpet Brooms for.. string heavy double-cord Store Brooms for........24c. each IRumitord's, 84e. Largest 12c. Rumford’s Yeast Powder for................-8IAC. ~le Brand Condensed Milk for. . . Lea & Perrin’s Worcestershire Sauce 3est Granulated Sugar for. | 34 Ibs. Java and Mocha Coffee and 5 Ibs. Sugar for. 1-Ib. cans Rumford’s Baking Powder for heets of Decoy Klondike Sandwiches Iced Jelly Gems for... White Iced Honey Jumbles for. Cocoanut White Iced Cake for. . ares Fresh Fruit Cake for..... Great convenient desired. The special sale price 0 per bbL., Sabbitt’s Best Soap for............... Star Soap for. Salad Dressing for......... al Baking Powder for...... er Snaps for..... offee Cakes for.... tgar Cakes for.... ly ’aper (best made) for....... Jelly Sandwiches for... rle Sandwiches for... . for... lwiches for... .. POPE REPRE RE PERE RE RED PEPE MEME MEME MEME MEMES ORNSTON'S | | SALE Chickens, Ze, each. Buy your frying chickens now for the Fourth of July. We live chickens, bright, lively birds, well fed, well cared for. This special sale price is just about half their actual 4d Finest Smoked Sugar Cured Hams, sizes, large or ‘s 10$c. pound. LOUK, © 5-20 bbl Best Royal Family Flour for $5 every barrel guar- Sacks of Royal Best Family for 20¢., 35¢. and 7oc. each. STAR SOAP, Qe. Proctor & Gamble’s Best Oleine Soap.............- 3ike. cake. Large cakes of Borax Soap for...... soca Ssag pee ee cake. .. 4c. cake. Large cakes Electric Star Soap for... 2 s.ccc.cccs0e: 2c. cake. Large cakes Shultz’s 5-cent packages of Soapine or 1776 Powder......... 3/QC+ each. 3-string Green Straw Carpet Brooms, well made, for...10c. each 2'4c. cake. 19c. each .. 13c, can oe SUGARS. $1.00 $1.00 --27c. CAKES FOR J ULY 4th. Your attention is called to our magnificent line of Soft Cakes. <e in large squares for 1oc. Fresh Lemon Cake, Or- , Chocolate Marbled Cake—in splendid condition—fresh Large squares Fresh Lemon Cake for.............. 10¢. each Large squares Fresh Orange Cake for..... juares Fresh Marbled Chocolate Cake... ‘risp Round Crackers for... t Fresh Gin 10c. each .10c. each os--25€. ID. tilSe. Ib. --+---6c. Ib. vaca OCHEDS tresseeseeeeseeeee DUBE, roll SANDWICHES ---. §2c. Ib. w+. 2c. Ib. se $2. Ib. ---- 12e. Ib. we. 12c. Ib. -.12c. Ib. ie eg ] POLATOES, $4, i Bo. Elgin Butter, 20=Llb Pails Clark’s Pure Preserves for...............+.... 5c, each Fresh Gum Drop Candy for..........-scceeees 6 cans Baby Brand Condensed Milk........ Large cans Salmon......... Large packages Quaker Oats for.... Johnston’s, 729= 731 7th St. MEM ME PEPE MERE BEEP EERE EOE MEIN THE REAL FLORIDA ;| Difference Between the Actual and the Imaginary. IMPRESSIONS OF A DISTRICT SOLDIER —— > §| The Curlew Rejected as an Article of Diet. PROVOST GUARD DUTY Correspondence of The Evening Star. TAMPA, Florida, June 26, 1898. As I occupied a comfortable rocking chair on the veranda of the Tampa Bay Hotel, a few evenings ago, the moonlight 3% | spread softly over a veritable Garden of = Eden. Orange trees, palms and other z varieties of tropical vegetation were grow- ing almost within reach of the arm. Well- . | kept walks led in every direction. To the front was a stretch of green as level as % | our White Lot, backed by a heck of Hills berough bay. Glimmering beyond the water at some distance, were the lights of bustling Tampa—bustling solely because of the presence of thousands of soldiers just visited by the paymaster. Tampa Pay Ho- tel, ten days prior the pivot on which re- volved the social whirligig of western Florida, was hardly more lively than a wayside inn. Gen. Miles was in Washing- ten and the majority cf the other guests cf note had sailed with the Santiago expedi- tion. These included the gaudily-attired represcntatives of foreign governments, high officials of our own army and many journalists of renown. el was practically deserted. ant Colonel Michler—"“Dan ; he is known throughout the army—adju- tant general on the staff of General Miles, was in evidence, as usual, immaculate in attire, to the minutest detail. But Licu- tenant Colonel Michler, capable as he un- ~|Guestionably is, made no apparent en- deavor to fill the void created by the de- parture of all the others. The additfonal sts were some few left-behinds of the lary stablishment, und the wives of several of the absent officers and news- pauper men. Scenes of ceaseless 2: had given way to a reaction that was the consummation of peace and quiet. All alone on the veranda, therefore, it was nat- ural that one should think. These were samples of the thoughts that, without ef- fort, drifted my way. Though believed reluctantly, the Florida as seen within the borders of the garden of the Tampa Bay Hotel is entirely It is the Florida that we from V expected to see as soon as we rea state line—certainly in the inteclor—but which we did not view until we entered the gateway of the hotel ground: Grievous Disappointment. The members of the Ist Regiment of In- District of Columbia Volunteers, n most grievously disappointed in Florida, as it actually is. This, of course, expected to pass through and be located in the Florida they had been taught to be- leve actually existed. It is not exaggera- tion to state that the soldier lads fully be- lieved they would be able, in traveling through the state, to reach from the win- WM | dows of the cars and pluck oranges and bananas from the trees. Alligators, surely, |} would be basking in the sun along the banks of every stream. The orders to leave Chicamauga and pro- ceeed to Tampa were, therefore, hailed en- thuslastically. The | demonstration of ry pleasure was due partly to the prospect of visiting Florida as the boys had pictured 2 | it in their minds and partly to the prospect of soon reaching the front. The regiment 3 | 1s much nearer the fighting front, to be @ | sure, but Florida as we thought it would Py be is very much wanting. In place of oranges, bananas and alligators we have § seen sand, sand and more sand. There are 2 | oranges, to be sure, but every sickly speci- b | men of the lot was brought here by rail from California. In addition to sand, there are pine trees. Sand and pines, sand and pines, with the smallest possible evidence § of civilization, was the rule all along the ry ‘The resident manager of the hotel joined s | me on the veranda. Considering him a per- Oc. 3 son who ought to be thoroughly informed, I said: © |" "That we are in Florida is purely due +o call it home? Is an explanation possible?” “You're not the first to inquire along that ‘ line,” the manager replied. ‘The ai a3 3| to your question {s simple. In the first 6 place, bear in mind that the population of ry Y | secret of this seeming mystery lies in the @ | word ‘health.’ Every one you may ask will 3 |sive the same answer. For instance, the woman who keeps the Ittie store just be- *| yond our grounds on Lafayette street is ‘6 y 5 5 5 3 5 5 4 ¥ ee could be detected anywhere. Truly, Flori- da is sadly disappointing. b | sane people deliberately come to this sec- tion of the country, locate permanently and # | of the entire state of Florida today, speak- ing only of the permanent residents. The line. Not the semblance of growing fruit ¥.| the fortunes of war. But why ts it that the city of Baltimore is greater than that from the north. In her youth she was troubled with a lung disease that was alarming. She came to Florida, rapidly re- covered und in twenty years has not had a recurrence of the complaint. Her record is similar to that of thousands of others. No consideration could induce any of them to move north. There's the whole story.” Declined With Thanks. Attention was directed to a bird with at- tractive plumage, enjoying itself, so it secmed, in the foliage. It proved to be a curlew. “By the way,” remarked the manager, “the curlew, served properly, makes a toothsome dish. He is named this evening in our menu. I would be glad !f you would join me at supper.” “The curlew has wings and can fiy,” I told him. “I have absolutely no respect for any living creature, with nothing to detain ft, and with motive power attached, that voluntarily remains in Florida. I RUT conscientiously partake of the curlew.” We found that one of the most promi- nent of Florida’s features is the friendly fly. This fly is affectionate to an aston- ishing degree. He clings to one through thick and thin—in fact, it often becomes 1 nec ary to resort to detach him. ordinarily move in compliance with a vig- erous “shoo” or swipe with a wet to 1. Not so with the Florida fiy. H for the members of the District regiment 4s so deep rooted that when he once be- MAJOR CHARLES HINE, 2D ‘ $ i § ‘ é i : i + : : | H : ' ; to surgical treatment | ¢ The fly in Washington will | affection comes attached ty a soldier lad he will part with lize rather @yan show a sign of frconstancy. Turtles and terr&ptn have been known to let go when it thunders, but the Florida fly can supply both with-points in the ad- hering line. ‘This@iy Wakes himsclf par- ticularly numerousSat the mess tables. He lies in wait by the milifon. Incidentally he Mes—and usually wallows—in the sugar, preserves and butter. Dining at thé Tam- pa camp, therefore, is not an unalloyed pleasure. A novelty to the istidet officers and men is provost guard duty jp Tampa and Ybor City. Once every Anret|oays Colonel Tar- ries’ command is~calléd upon to furnish details for both places. The officer in com- mand of the provost guard, while on duty, is in supreme control of the military side of Tampa life, and, in that connect‘on, is responsible for the suppression of any disorder in which individuals in uniform may be involved.* Acting under orders, 1 reported, with a detail consisting of one Sergeant and nine privates, at 5 o’ciock yesterday afternoon to Chief Burke of the Tampa police force for twenty-four hours of provost duty. Lieutenant Redman of Company C was in command of a detail of the same size at Ybor City. Headquar- ters were established in a police station in the center of the city, the men being assigned to a large room on the second floor, provided with an electric fan end a plenteous supply of man-eating mosquitces. Might of Provost Duty. | The chief of police declined firmly to tak2 {a hand in any fracas that even indirectly related to the military. The guard had not been on duty more than ten minutes when: a highly excited colored waiter, hatless end breathless, rushed into the station, and with much difficulty managed to explain that “de sojers war cleanin’ out Mose's saloon.” A portion of the detail with bay- onets fixed and belts bristling with loaded ammunition was hurried to the saloon mentioned, three blocks distant, but on reaching {t learned that the trouble was j over. In the middle of the street not far away an enlisted man of the 6vth New York Regiment was lying in the dust. A glance | sufficed to show that he had reached that stage of intoxication known as ‘dead drunk.” A comrade, whose sobriety was hardly less advanced, was imploring the fallen hero by all the saints known to rise and “come on.” The fallen one was car- ried to the station, where he remained until morning, developing delirium _ tre- mens about midnight. The comrade, in a humorously dignified manner, insisted that the cas? was not one of alcoholism. His fellow soldier, he declared, had a sunstroke, notwithstanding the fact that the fall oc- curred after the sun had begunilito disap- pear in the west. A little later the entire detail was sum- moned by telephone to a stcre half a mile away. A wholesale raid by soldiers was in progress, so the message ran. Wellnigh exhausted, the detail found everything quiet on reaching the store designated. Nothing was known of any trouble or of the call for the guard. Thus the night passed. A few more intoxicated volunteers were brought in, but nothing of a serious nature required attention. , The Police Patrol System. Tampa has a police patrol box telephone system similar to that of Washington, but on a scale much smaller. On the list of calls are two that seemed to me unique— fast wagon and slow wagon. Inquiry brought to light the fact that in respond- ing to urgent calls the horse attached to the patrol wagon trots. In all other in- stances the animal walks. The existence of the District’s volunteers is not without its humorous side, and ut- terances that provoke smiles are constantly heard. On the oceasion of the last prac- tice march to Tampa Heights reveille was sounded at 3a. m. As he crawled from his dog tent one private, yawning and stretch- ing, exclaimed with much earnesines “This army life {s one continual roun pleasure.” A prisoner in the guard tent, finement for fourteen days, was overheard to say as he viewed himself in a bit of cracked mirror: “If mamma could’only gaze upon her dar- Ung now.’ aS @ company commander, talking in inh ep after a day of arduous duties, who mumbled earnestly @ night or two ago: “Oh, if I only had the individual here who blew up the Maine!” From what is heard on all sides it would seem that the District regiment will pro- ceed somewhere before very long. Officers and men will joyously move away Tampa, us they did from Camp Alege later from Chickamauga. EFS of after con- Mr. Agnew's Organization Ree as the Regular One. An agreement has been reached between Senator Hanna, chairman of the national republican committee, and Mr. Agnew and Mr. Wickham, chairmen of the two repub- lican state tommittees of Virginia, for the future conduct of party affairs in Virginia. The agreement provides as follows: Fir hat the organization of which Mr. Agnew is chairman be recoguized as the rcgular republican organization, as it ognized by the national ‘committe that thereunder republican congressional conventions for the nomination of congress. men and the reorganization of be held this fall in every ¢ ed by the party plan of or, Second—That all republic in such congressional conventions thereby join in the end the existence of any other than the regular organization ax aforesaid. Third—That the congress‘onal ccnventions shall be called by the congressional com- mittees pursuant to the plan of organiza- tion adopted at Staunton, and the county ard city conventions to elect delegates to such conventions be called by the county and city chairmen and committees under and pursuant to such plan, and in the event of controversy as to a chairman for com- mittees the state itive committee shall determine such dispute. Fourth—That = tions shall be later than the day of August, and the same held not than the 15th day of Sep! event of either district, city or county com- mittees not acting in the matier of the call of such conventions or meetings to elect delegates thereto, that the state executive committee shall cause the proper and neces- sary calls to issue. That the new state committee chosen at such congressional conventions be conven- ed by the state executive commitice as early as practicable after the last congres- sfonal convention ts held, for the S ec the party ip and same organization and ngressional conven- event failure ame may be to mittee the mittee itself, pursuant to organization. -o— — If you want anything, try an ad. in The Star. If anybody has what you wish, you will get an answer. RATTALICN, 18ST D. C. VOLS. taken in the tal Vt field pb, a ean ase, at By shows the outfit of s mounted At all 3 Stores. Rebuilding Sale. Gtris and Boys’ Spring-heel Tan and Black Fine Kid and Patent Leather Hand-made Sandals and Oxford Ties, all st: Rebuilding Sale Pric Miss°s’ and Youths’ $1.59 Nobby and Very Serviceable Brown Vict Kid Boots, with kid or brown patent Icather tips. Rebuilding Sale Price. .. BABA: Boys’ $2.50 Best Hand-made | ; | J Ladies’, Misses’ 1.25 quality We lack, White and styi Rebuilding Sale Price ... This lot includes Ladies" weight Black ard Russet Vict Shoes Going Off LUKE ROCKETS Throngs of eager buyers have steadily’ besieged our stores the past few, weeks.—Such enormous shoe selling has nv precedent in the history of thist city. --Why these crowds? Simply because the public is realizing that ours is a bona fide sale of the most reliable and rost stylish Shoes and Slin- pers ever made at prices far below any possible competition. Tomorrow—Saturday before the Fourth—we shal? make the banner offers rd Ties in doxns of pretty Ties and Boots, kid or p. over a dozen different s rles. Rebuilding Sale Price. ... ity. G THE RUN. Ingenious Way of Saving the Credit of Spanish Banks. From the Chicago Reccrd. A man who recently left Lisbon tells an interesting story of th> manner in which the Bank of Spain checked the run upon that institution several weeks ago. ‘The circulating medium of Spain consists of the notes of that bank and the silver which is keld to redeem them to 75 per cent, I be- Heve, of their par value. As the pubiie was | losing confidence in the financial stability | of the government crowds of people took their paper notes to the bank for redemp- tion. Under ordinary circumstances they will exchange silver for a paper note with- | out any delay, but when the run com-| menced the managers found it necessary to adopt som> measures to restore fi | and to save the specie in their own v | It would not do, of course, for them to snow | | | the white feather or refuse to redeem their y adopted an ing=nious ly tired out the people plan which ultimat and stopped the demand for coin. Thou- | sands of people surrounded the bank—many of them were in bad temper- stood in lings several blocks long awaiting their | turn at the cashier's counter. When one | of them finally reached him and laid down the note he wished to exchange for silver coin he was held for five or ten minutes | and subjcted to a cross-examination such | as might have been given him by a census | enumerator. In the meantime a clerk | wrote his answers down upon a blank form —his age, occupation, residence, birthpiace, the names of his parznts, ete. Then he was required to sign a formal application for the exchange of twenty pesetas, for example, in paper, for their equivalent in_ silver. Then he was sent away and told to raturn in three days. On the third day the man would return and, after standing in line again all day cashier, who, the money e2ipt gove this Fe | minutes. LIVING ON MONKEY a certificate or ‘draft upon anotie h was told, would pay him | ‘y. This made it necessary for him to stand in another line for a day or two, and when he finally place he would be required to sign a re- nd make an oath of allegiance to the indorsement of financial soundness of the bank. Thus b) circumlocution arrangement a man } had to waste seven or eight days to get a aper dollar changed into silver, and the usactions were so t2¢ cated that each consumed fifteen or tweaiy As there was only not more than forty or fifty persons at the utmost could be served in a day, and the clamor finally subsi¢ ment and an re ——_—~ — +e All our $3.00, $3.59 and $4.00 Finest Tan Boots, 2nd there are none better at any pric Rebuilding Sale Price. . WML, JaLAJEIN & CO. 5 Reliable Shoe Houses, ‘on described in the took a couple of s fad hungry by this time, having run short pached the prope Extra force of expert soe fitters to give all prompt attention. and Children's $1 and le. tfitting ssct Kid Sandals and 32-67 Uh lious and compli- one cashier d from exhaustion. MEAT. A Story Told by an American of Six Months in Caxaca, From the Chihuahua Enterprise. Living in Mexico is often a disastrous ; experience to the foreigner who is not acquainted with localities and customs. In the case of John Bascon and his companion, an Eng! experience was such, teresting. con that gentlema nmun, named Martin but it was also in- In conversation with their Mr. Bas- stated the following to an Enterprise reporte “Not long ago I came up from Guatema- la with Hayes, j with goods. |line to Tonelado, | with an Indian | there we other an Englishman named Martin and we had three burros laden Englishman We prospected all along the and stopped one week had at Tehuantepec. learned that in the district up to | Torelado there was plenty of gold, as an- passed While through and all night, perhaps, would reach the | there with $8,000 which ne had panned oat cashier’ 's counter. Peererccooe He would be required to! at a certain point somewhere in the region { | 67c.. Soft Feather. Kid Oxford t leather tips, Excellent $2 $ 1-37, of our ‘ Men's and Bors’ Tan Viel Kid ‘é Shees and Oxford Ties, wide ome and narrower round ‘toe. value, Rebuilding Sale Fae Men's Fine Hand sowed W Tan and Black Willow cat and Kidskin Laced Gatters and Oxfords, Also White and Duck Laced. $2-373 $3.50 grades. Rebuilding Sale Price. .. of strictly t Leath Men's $3 Hand-sewe Black end Russet Will High and Low Shoes. and etyle tmaginabl. ever offered for the money Rebuilding Sale Price. 930-932 7th St. N.W. 1914-1916 Pa. Ave.N.W. lass Pa. Ave. S.E. De. of San Pablo, in Oaxaca. We traced the gold along the eams for sixty miles, and reached as far as San Miguel. We were of provisions, and, going across the moun- tains, were told that we should be careful aft as banditt! were numerous. Soon two men met us not far from San Mi and they both had rifles. The: to halt, but I pulled a revol their guns away from them and marched them on in front of us. When w at San Miguel one of them ente plaint before the jese politico, charging us with holding them up, but the jese knew the men too well to listen to their story, and the result is one of them fs still in Jati that place. | in, Whew We ieft San Misuel we secured a mozo to gulde us to wh | referred to fou ; Sot there the was known the or and took 4 ts i not stay, as it : Englishman had returac’ and died there. We fouad ‘his skeleton, j with the legs and arms eaten wf, and the mozo, being fearful he woud see the ghost of the dead, left us to ourselves. We went across a river and camped ‘n the Woods. Along the stream we pri for gold, and in two weeks we f. which went about 25 cents to the y remained there about six months that time we lived on monke green bananas, and both, " | Just think of it | occasionally a monkeys, and 1 or two, and not a tor. | tila or common hot cake, Well, sir, my partner, Martin Hayes, of London, Eng- land, aed four months after from the pri- tions suffered during ‘hat time, ond I don't suppose his wife or family ever heard of it. But we got some gol i right, and monkey meat wovld have been ail right for me if we only had some sat. eee To Pay John McKeon. Representative Rixey, by request, has In- troduced a bill in the House to pay John T. McKeon of Washington $5,544 for in- s a carpen- War and Navy building Juries received while employed ter in the State, in 1881. PARKER, BRIDGET & CO. 6.20 $9.25 swish. POPC OOOOH OOOOH SOHO OOOOH O SEO OOOH OS EEO ESE OH OOOOH OOH OOOOH OOOOH OOD in the'lot for......... ° . . . . . . . . . . . ° . + . . . . . . . . . . . . . errr r ry D1B.L0 Of course, all styles and kinds; skeletons, a We want result quickly. We want this entire stock cleared before we move, Buys any Suit in the house that formerly sold for $8.00, $10.00 to $12.00. Buys any Suit in the house that formerly sold for $15.00, $16.50 to $18.00. We place on sale 300 Boys’ Double-breasted Suits, sizes 6 to 16 years; also 200 Boys’ Reefer, Duplex and Brownie Suits, sizes 3 to 8 years. Cheapest in the lot never sold under $3.00; the best is fully worth $5.00 — the in-between-prices were $3.50 to $4.00. Your pick today of ay suit Clothing Offerings Thatseemineredible, but nevertheless true Such a flurry in clothing we have not seen in many a day. You'd almost think the town turned out in full force to be clothed by us. Prices Not [latched in a Twelve-month. Little wonder that men are gathering ample supplies, some with keen instinct for economy buy three suits. The prices and saving run thus: Buys any Suit in the house that formerly sold for $20.00, $22.50 to $25.00. , half lined, full lined, just as you we appeal to you for help; we pay you grandly for helping us. ‘and wherefore of these extraordinary reductions. And Now for a Day With the Boys - Let’s get down to business at once. $1.35 Complete with cap; sizes 3 to 10 years. We've just 110 of them. goc. they'll make a quick disappear- ance, SPECIAL OFFERING IN WASH SUITS. We've counted out just 223 Boys’ Wash Suits, in sizes 3 t want to go today. The styles are the season’s favorites and Beet Prices up to the time of this writing are $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50. Your choice Ate cee sees eee e eee The Hobson Suit, 9Uc. (No goods charged during this sale.) PARKER, BRIDGET & CO., . Straightforward Clothiers, 315 7th St. SOPSOOOCOEO OOOH OOOO OES OOS ESO OT HOSES OPS OS OOO SOH OOH HOE OSE OH OOS OOOOH ESO OTOP OSE OOOOD There's a reason for it— . « 4 « « « . . “ < « « < . . . . . Py . . . . . . . . . . . . . > . > . That's the why . * . « < « « « « « « « « « « « . Py . . . . . . . . ° 9 years, that we 15C. At ‘ PROPOSE OES E SEO ESOEES Rese eee EEO EEAEEEEEEOEEEEESS