Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1898, Page 8

8 THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1898-12 PAGES, ~ Close at 5 p.m. Hs MOSES oe B st. cor. sith Mattress Factors, Ist and D. Stor: Factory, J2th acd B. Foriture Porking and Furniture Repairing. This Is Not Screen Season. —Need we say any more? Don’t you understand from that the reduc- tions we've made in the stock here now in order to move it quickly? _ —Every price is cut. It's impossi- ble to go into detail about the pat- terns and styles. Too numerous for that. 4 Judge all the screens and all the prices by these few: - $1.45 Now. $4.06 Silkaltns, cak frame, Lines panels). amel (h 3.25 3.00 4.00 place) . Japanese it g To The Mountains? ¥ Gein ‘S* TALCUM POWDE the thing to use if y Relieves chafing. Prev perspiration. baby's to cure itching, chafng and prickly Pisin or perfumed, ide. can. excessive skin, heat. Evans’ Dru Conn. ave. and S st. Great Reduction in Hair. formerly $5.00. 'y $5.00, hes, § formerly $6.00. S$ attendants in Hairdressing, ‘Shampooing, ete. Imperial Hatr Regenerator for restoring gray hate. Never fails. S. HELLER’S, 720 7th Street N. W. Buoop Poison. RAVE YOU os Uleces in Mouth, Hat EDY 1688 3 for proofs of Pimples, Copper- dd Sor t trouble you long after using ““S. & S."" N CURE. Hs effect is magical. Never take out both hard and soft corns in, t the least p Our own preparation. T yeurs. pee tee ee LawnjAn Apple Paring Sprinkler, Machine for 38c. 50c. WM throw out bea: I “fun"’ to pare ap- full cirel | ples with this machine 7.) motion—only 38e. | people Hardware, hn B. Espey, 1010 Pa. ave. ful in the extreme is feeling of fresh- and lightness that — Tarkish Bath. te and grad tM: Delight one expel Ou the ness riences after a “1122 ? Coun. Ave. Turkish Bath ty22-200 | BLANKETS CLEANED. $1.00 a pair. Salts Chaned, $1.00. Firest Dry Cleaning.‘ Expert Dyeing. Wagon calls. E. E. WHEATLEY, AMERICAN DYER AND SCOURER, 1068 Jeffersoa ave. (Georgetown). POS EEE: Gas Range, SOUR A perfect, up-to-date Gas Range, with all the latest {mprovemen‘s—hot water 3 Pipes same as coal range—S fine drilled burne-s—large oven complete—for $20. broiler, ete. Other Gas Stoves, all sizes, $1 ap. Gas Appliance Co., 1424 3 w York ave. HONEA ASMA ORO SNA MANSY 4 0 to Siccardi’s FOR BARGAINS IN HUMAN Hal. Hair thes at Great Bargains. witches reduced to $1.50, $5.00 Switches reduced to $2.50, $5.00 Switches reduced to $5.00. Gray and White Wair reduced tn same proportion. Mme. Siccardi, 711 1th et., next to Palais Royal. e rooms for hairdressing, shampooing and BelS-10,t¢ DR. FRANCK'S fl UW STO SUE LeRoy, ic Paris. CO., New York. “Atlantic City” B=r-e-€-Z-e-s-= brought right into sour store or office mezns of little electric fans. It's way to “beat the heat" of Washington sum- Bers, Our representative will eall. Drop postal or telephone. U.S. Electric Lighting Co., 213 14tB st. ow. "Phone 1877. Jy22-200 Next importation of hell’s Spring Leaf Tea pay duty of ioc. a peund; buy it now while you can get it for 50c. a pound, 2d & M. | 3 Seeentondessetont Rich Offer Yesterday. % Inventory-Sale—and the cutti INgs== As Promised ry. You won’t be disappointed in the reality of the 3 expectations we raised. This is the last week of the Before- ng is the deepest we’ve done. Decided sacrificing—-on Ladies” Costumes for present wear. We offer 12 Fancy Fig- LAWS, offer lot of Laden" We offer a lot of | ‘asad Lewis Wireance, cet Linen Suits, with Blazer, Ladies’ Light Brown, . Eton and iteefer Coats: Tan and Light and Dark z iy tri a and e some plain, others trim: Gray Summer — Serge - that ave been $7.50, for wed; tailer-made, that Suits, of fine quality, have been tailor - finished. Ke; ir ze $4. $4 q5 $22 Suits, for nine * $7.50. lair Bathing or collir, guar- pret ily trimmed Worth $6.50—for $4.45. Trely make- 810 Dest is eh BD ans where— * $3.50 Scotch Gingham Wai 2 é : On board shi not only the fu: sortment of patterns. $10.75. Two Specials in Ladies’ Bathing Suits. ts—for . * $3.75 Bayadere Madras Waists—for # $4.75 White and Fancy Linen Waists—for . £ $3.95 White and Fancy Dotted Waists—for ............2+ 6 $3.25 $4.45 White India Mull Waists, with emb. fronts—for. % $4.45 Silk-striped Madras Waists, bayadere effects—for.. mountains or seachore—you cnght to have a * thing—but the comfortable thing. $12.50. We offer cholce of Fou- We offer Ladies’ White & Jard Sik Dresses, in Duck Sailor Suits, with + Blue and Black effects; me ont ‘Comaed We offer lot of Ladies’ % made in original desizns, braid, ard ta the same Had sults taltcemades $f trimmed with capital izg ‘are some Linen coats lined with change- % taste. Regular $20 Suits, ash Su ts—regular able taffeta silk. Worth Sx $3.75 Sults, for $15—for ' $12.50. $2. $9.95 1 ° ° i¢ le oer a lot of Blue rn ummer Bel ; We offer nea-ly a cozen Suits, with strap seams We offer lot of Ladies Colored 0: on overskirt and jacket; Blue and Black Cheviot Batiste and W the latter lined with taf: Tailor-made, Suits, ae feta silk. There are but some Gray’ Beige and Dresses, absolutely no 7 left, and youl never Tan and Brown Cheviot two alike in pattern or get another Coes, to Se oe ee «feet, Regula: 15 and pay so little—$17.59 is ai ot pebieie oped ‘$15 “am what they're worth— exceptional value 3.50—for $8.75. Ladies’ Finest Silk Brilllantine Bath- iug Suits, made in combinations of Red, ard White or Ecra, trimmed with hercules braid. Regular $10 Suits—for $5.00. Closing Fisk, Clark & Flagg Waists. vest—for these are the very finest Waists—in pattern—materlal and 2 for all that we make these big reductions: «+ $4.00 se $3.75 - $3.60 ug Cape—they're We've a most attractive as- Sestenton eel tee eeetrtotetetetececetetetetetetetes >¢ ° The Greatest Offering of Men’s Suits Ever Made ¢ = Beginning this morning, we are giving the choice of $ $ Every Man’s Fancy or Mixed Suit in the ¢ % thouse--and a few Plain Blue and Black Suits £ é In three divisions—namely: é ae salt the $7.50 and $8.50 reonatne Suits up to dM Suits up to z EE 94.75 1.25 11.25.3 = ° ° ° ° ° ° z When we say we'll clear out every Suit—we mean it. All $ & sizes—a host of patterns—and all of them SAKS-BEST-MAKE. $ pee Rs 2 y z g: MLE OLLI £ Set TO COOL HIS WARSHIP, The White Squadron Was Commander Francis Wilde’s Own Idea. From the New York Mail and Express. Notwithstanding it has been so much written about and so enthusiastically praised, the story of how the white squad- ron originated has never yet been told in print. Nor would it be now, had it not come, accidentally, into the possession of the writer. Cormander George Francis Faxon Wilde, who has just been ordered to the command of the ram Katahdin, one of the most wicked and destructive of all the naval fleet, belonged to the famous class which entered the Naval Academy in the fall of 1861, and took the four years’ course in three years. Young Wilde was two years and nine months in getting through. He Was graduated in the high honor list, away at the head of the class. He was « Massa- chusetts boy, born in the old town of Braintree. He very early determined that he would follow the sea; not as a common sailor, nor jn an official capacity, but as a midshipman in the navy. In the autumn of 1861 he learned that there was to be an appointment to the Naval Academy from his district, and applied for it. He was told that he was the eightleth appli- cant, but that, if he chose to take the ex- amination, he might run his chances. That did not frighten bi He deter- mined to make the trial. He did not tetl any one what he was going to do. If he w it wouid be time enough to tell. If he ailed, no one would know of his failure but hit self. On the day on which this examination was to be held, he walked from Braintree into boston, a distance of twelve or fifteea miles, because he had not money enouga to buy a ticket on the railroad, and he would not ask for it, for fear he would be obliged to tell his errand to town. He passed -his examination bravely. There wasn’t the hint of a failure from beginning to end. He entered the academy, endeay- oring as earnestly to take high rank in the class as he had to enter it. The result was a gain of a year, and aduation with honors. He began active a life at once. He was promoted from midshipman to ensign in November, 1866, and a manth later was advanced to master. In 1868 he was made lieutenant, a year later Meutenant commander. In 188 he was full commander and was given charge of the Dolphin, which, at that time, was attached to the North Atiantic squadron. It was while he was on the Dolphin that he originated the white squadron, for to this brave commander belongs the honor of making possible this snowy fleet. In July, 1888, the Dolphin lay in New York harbor, just off the navy yard. The weather was intensely hot, even on ship- board, with all the means 92f ventilation, and the heat was almost insupportable. One day Commander Wi'de chanced to touch the side of the ship, and was burned by the intense heat. He touched it again, almost blistering his hand. The exposed surface of the ship was like the top of a steve. Suddenly a thought occurred to him. He sent a boat ashore With a note to Naval Constructor Wilson, asking him to come aboard the Dolphin. The constructor re- turned In the boat. Commander Wilde asked his visitor to lay his hand on the ship's side. He did se, but quickly with- drew it. “What do you think of living In a furnace like that?” asked the commander. “It's terrible!” said the constructor; “is there no way of cooling her off?” “I have thought of a way, and you can help me. I want you to send me some white paint, with instructions to use it on this ship.” The constructor looked startled and grave. Naval regulations declared that all warships should be painted black, and this @aring young man was asking for a white Fs hulk. “Write me an official request to that ef- fect,” he said, after a moment's conside1- ation. Tho request was written and sent. In the meantime 1! commander had the ship's surgeon keep a record of the temperature of the ship. A week went by; no word came; the heat grew more intense, and the men suffered. Then Commander Wilde wrote a priv: note asking why his official letter had received no reply. Back came a supply of white paint, and a note, pithy and to the point. “Her ae st, but I shall not give you any ins Hong."* It was the paint that the commander ‘anted; he could get on without the in- structions, The paint was applied to the ship as rapidly as possible; the tempera- ture began to lower, and, when the work was done, there was a difference in the ship's temperature of seventeen degrees, while outside the weather remained just a3 oppressively hot. The black paint absorbed the heat, but the white reflected it. The Dolphin started on a cruise. At every port she entered she was admired, and the p pers talked of “the white dove of peaci that was folding her wings in the harbar, and everybody flocked to see the beautiful Lship. One night the Doiphin came into Frenchman's bay, off Bar Harbor. The Secretary of the’ Navy—then William C. Whitney—was staying at Bar Harbor, ind Commander Wilde expected his censure. The Secretary came on board, but had nothing but words of praise for the appear- ance of the boat, and, when Commander Wilde told him why the boat was white instead of black, recounted the suffering of the crew and his concern for their comfort and heaith, and showed him the surgeon's report, the Seeretary sald: “You have done right.” From this tim the warsk.ps shall be painted white. alte ES DONT worry. Excellent Advice to Those Who Wish to Accomplish Nothing. From the New Orleans Picayune. It is amazing how little value most theo- ries have when you come to put them into actual practical use. Just at present ther2 is a kind of reaction and protest against the unrest and dissatisfaction of the world, and we are continually advised, whatever else we do, not to worry, “Don’t worry” clubs have been formed In many places, and there fs an honest effort to establish a kind of American Nirvana, where we shan’t worry any more about our own affairs, or those of our neighbors. The chief apostles of this interesting movement are people of unimpaired degestions and good incomes, who write entertaining baoks about the folly of troubling about the future. As a theory, not worrying is a peach. We are all willing to admit that it is foolish to worry about what we can help, or what we can’t help; but then there is the unas- sailable fact that the people who never worry never accomplish anything. Content- ment is an admirable virtue, but an over- supply of it will land a man in the poor house. The absolutely contented man sits down and lets well enough alone. The dis- satised man gets out and hustles and pushes things along. The Ideal of perfect cortent with today, with no worrying about the wants or needs of tomorrow, is a beau- tiful one. We have all known families who practiced it all summer during water- melon time, and whcm we supported all winter during the flannel and coal season. As a matter of fact, it is the don’t wor- ry clubs that are the stumbling blocks to progress everywhere. It is the people who don't worry about their children’s educa- tion who fill up the country with ignorant and illiterate citizens. It is the people who don’t worry about sickness who spread contagious diseases. It is people who don’t worry about the future and who spend every cent they make as they go along, who become bur- dens on the friends who have to take care of them when they lose a job or get sick. The don’t worry club will never build a fine city. What's the use in worrying about paving the streets, they say. We have always gotten along somehow. What's the use in cleaning 'em? It will rain some time. What's the use in worrying about tearing down old buildings and putting up new? What is the use in building new and beautiful “and clean and comfortable theaters? they say. The old traps on St. Charles street were good enough for Ben DeBar and Dave Bidwell, forty years ago. They are satisfied. Any old thing is good enough for them. Of course, there is no use in worrying about our neighbor's trou- bles. Nobody contends there is. The don’t worry clubs are strong on this point. But the heart that feels no grief but its own, that never aches but with its own pain, the eye that is never dimmed with a tear for a sorrow not its own, knows only half of life. It is case-hardened, petrified, ‘impenetrable selfishness that never wor- ries about other people's affairs. The truth is that man was to worry, and he would be miserable if he couldn't. The example of the placid clam, and the untroubled oyster, who shut themselves up in their own shells and don’t worry about anything outside, will never seem to him to be the highest type of usefulness or hap- piness, The don't worry theory don’t work, The man who never worries gets covered with moss, i RG HOW TO PAINT BATTLE SHIPS/ALLEGANY GROVE'S FLAG| What Experieoe Shows About . Choosing Fropér Colors. Hew to Convert:a Warship Into a Merchantman gnd Make Torpedo Boats Almost Invisible. : From the London, Telegraph. Much question has recently arisen in connection with current wars and rumors of wars about the proper and most serv- iceable color for battle ships. It started into discussion with the Americans from the moment when the explosion of the Maine had made a bad political situation worse, and the first order issued to the dockyards of the United States was to paint all fronclads and cruisers black. Cer- tain marine officials at Key West and else- where, it was said, wanted to change this for green, for whatever reason, but biack was the hue eventually adopted, and some portion, at least, of the grant of Congress for $50,000,000 went for this purpose, be- cause it is by no means a little matter either to decide what color a ship of war should be, or, when the decision is made, to paint her—that fs to say, if the job be done properly and not merely in sailors’ phrase, “with a lick and a promise.” Our own admiralty has been, it would appear, considering the same problem, for a state- ment has lately found publication which says: “My lords have decided that all ships of the navy are to be painted either black or white, the neutral tint (French gray) having been abandoned. The vesse's to be painted white are those elther serving or commissioned for service at the home ports, in the East Indies, China, southeast coast of America, west coast of Africa, Czpe of Good Hope, east coast of Africa and the Red sea. All other vessels in com- mission will be painted black.” ‘This is merely an adhesion to the good old rule of the service, which has established black at home and white abroad as the orthodox and regular livery of her majesty’s navy. Torpedo boats have sometimes a tint of livid gray, or slate color, rendering them even more ugly than is their hideous wont, and hulks and receiving ships, laid up in creeks or karbors, will often be tinted with that lugubricus color which we see the Temeraire wearing in Turner's noble paint- ing, when the gallant old vessel passes un- der the scarlet sunset to her last berth, mournfully arrayed “in a sad suit of dock: yard drab.” European and Asiatic Colors. In Nelson's time, and ever since, black has been the prevalent coloring of British men-o’-war, which are distinguished now also on all the temperature stations by their majestic ebon hulls, free of all embel- lishment in gilding or color, except the blazon on the stem and the name ribbon on the stern, and with buff-painted top- sides and upper works and funnels, char- acteristic if not lovely. The French are fond of a kind of dove-colored or leaden- tinted coating for their warships, which a Many iin uncouth Gallic monster of line ill-favored to the last degree. ‘The Spaniards stick mainly to black. The Italians, Japanese, Chileans and Chinese paint their vessels either white or light blue when they go abroad. These matters rest a good deal with a commander's taste and inclination when he is not sailing in squadron. In days of filibustering, pi privateering and the like, all sorts of tricks could be played, and were played, with the paint pot by captams more ingenious than honest. With’ the leisure of a dry and quiet day, the strategical skipper could convert his most wicked-looking, jet-black craft into an innocent trader, with a blue stripe around her bends, in token of mour ing for her owner, and gun ports blocked out with yellow scroll work and angels in Dutch metal. Phe notorious Alabama more than once entirely altered her color scheme to cheat the Yankee cruisers who were chasing her, or to deceive the Yankee mer- chanimen, ho , less .than seventy-nine of which she destroyed. And more than once in our own naval history a clever captain has effected a fine stroke of luck by piping “all hands to the paint pots” when expect ing a meeting with some heedless enemy. Under the circumstances of modern wai fare, however, it no longer greatly matters what hue a warship wears. Beyond ques- tion white paint will keep a vessel cooler in tropical £1 There is a sensible difference due to radia- tion in the temperature of a craft thus coated and the swart or sombre-tinted hull, which seems to suck in the fiery beams of the sun. In point of escaping observation there is not much to be said in favor of one color over another. “Cats are all alike gray in the dark,” and one big ship is as plain as another if her hull can be seen at all after sunset. Long before that part of her ap- pears above the horizon a good lookout man will have concluded by her rig, if she car- ries canyas, and by her pole masts or fight- ing tops if she is an ironclad, what lies be- low. On board the Alabama, already al- luded to, the Confederate Semmes had a signalman who could detect any American- rigged ship by the least portion of her gear, so he never once made a mistake, and to follow his hail was generally to add another chronometer to the nefarious captain's col- lection, or to send another Boston or New York trader and cargo to the bottom of the ocean, White paint for a man-of-war, as also for a cruising pleasure schooner or steam yacht, is certainly comely and shape- ful, bringing ovt fine lines as no dark col- ors will, but it soon grows rusty with the weeping from the channel frons and soiled with the buffets of the waves, so that the dark hues will stand better for long voy- ages. But whoever has observed distant craft at sea, from their first appearance on the far verge until you can read their name plate and see the cut of the skipper’s beard, will agree that tint makes little difference. The hull may roll snow white or light black or green, or blue, or yellow, like Chinese junks, to the sunlight, but whatever you see first is that sunlight gleaming on her wet bends and the shine of the copper. Even a light ship painted blood red loses its differentiation in any wet or thick weather and looms gray as the billows it rolls upon. Torpedo Boat Colors, It 19 no doubt another question alto- gether with torpedo boat and torpedo de- stroyers, the business of which devilish craft 1s to steal unobserved into proxim- ity with their victims, so as to deal the fatal blow with some chance of safety and escape. All sorts of experiments have been made abroad and at home in this regard, imitating or trying to imitate nature, which has so many wonderful devices of mimicry and evasive coloring. One sees at the South Kensington natural history museum many a marvelous example of this art, which, could it be emulated by man upon the deep, would make the lives of the fin- est battle ships a very precarious inyest- ment. One sees the snow-pure ptarmigan stretched on Be Show, indistinguishable from it; the grousé egg on the mottled reck, exactly resembling the stone itself; the weasels, rats And birds and reptiles cunningiy dyed and speckled and striped so as to be exactly Mke the tones and tints of their habitat, invisible to their enemies and undiscerned by. their prey. Naval ar- chitects have Sguens to rival this by giving torpedo craft, ds far as was possible with white and gray and slate color and black, the general aspect and hue of the sea it- self. But it comes fo little of practical ad- vantages. : If it be dark and a assailing craft show no token of approach, one color is the same as another, and if it be light the search lamp or a good watch perceives anything that moves. Hesides, these little assassins of the sea, with their powerful furnaces and engines, generally carry such a flag of Same at the end of their funnels that they proclaim their own advent. The sub- marine torpedo boat, with its silent and flameless machinery, would be a very dif- ferent enemy to cope with; but ese, thanks be to Neptune! are not yet per- fected. It really does not seem, therefore, as we have said, greatly to matter what cee dee align? Sans “eae tr st igerent ency ani = eral use. ‘The Royal Ark and the Horry Grace a. Dieu, and those ancient craft which fought our Seiltcet naval battles, were painted and — ike show ¢ vans. The line of battle of Ducan, Howe and Nelson went — and dem to the action in suits of black pi out with white holes, and only somet in the way of paint and gold on their fiddle bows d_stern galleries. Let us cleave to the good old dockyard uniforms, in which Brit- ish victories were won, with a white jacket when they for all the ships go abroad, leaving to foreigners to paint their fight craft pies like a Swedish timber a one blue or gray like a Cape Cod whaler, Planted in Front of the Camp Meeting Tabernacle. Enthusiastic, Patriotic and Religious Service at Which Gov. Lowndes Presided—Other News. Spectal Dispatch to The Evening Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., July 25.—An en- thuslastic patrictic service took place Fri- day night at Allegany Grove, th> Methodist camp grounds, situated just above Cumber- land’s historic Norrows. A flag was raised on an iroa pole seventy-five feet high, planted on the court in front of the taber- racle at 8 o'clock, an-id great applause an? brilliant illuminations. All of the 100 cot- tages were gorgeously decorated and light- ed up by Japanese lanterns and lamps of many-hued shades. Rig camp fires blazed from stone platforms all over the grove. A meeting was held in the tabernacle, and Gov. Lowndes presided. Rev. W. I. McKenny, presiding elder, who introduced the governor, said: “The occasion was par- ticularly appropriate because as the scarlet thread runs through the cordage of the British navy, so the golden thread of the Divine presence, the Divine favor and the Divine blessing has run through all the past of American histcry.” Gov. Lowades said that if the Spanish will not heed, the Americans will, if neces- sary, plant the stars and stripes on the palace at Madrid. He said the God of Bat- tles protected Sampson, Schley and Shafter ai Santiago. The hyma, “Onward, Christian Soldiers, was sung with unusual fervor, and the a’ dience, numberi.g 1,000 people, arose an waved flags whea “The Star Spangled Ban- ner’ was sung. Judge David W. Sloan, Gen. Joseph Sprigg and Capt. R. H. Gordon also spoke. Rev. Dr. F. B. Rice was vigorously cheered when he advocated the retention of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippies for humanity's sake. He sald whenever the American flag was hoisted there is should forever wave. Senator Wellington was ill and could not attend. The Battlefield Commission. Gov. Lowndes has completed the Antie- tam battlefield commission authorized by the last legislature by naming William F. Dement of Pomfret, Charles county, who commanded a confederate battery at Sharpsburg during the battle. The other members of the commissicn are Benjamin F. Taylor, Baltimore county; Lieut. Theo- dore J. Vandeman, Cecil county; Col. Jos. M. Sudsberg, Lieut. George R. Graham, Capt. William Gibson and William H. Par- ker of Baltimore city. The commission will visit the battlefield on August 14 and se- lect the site for the monument to the Maryland soldiers that fell there, for which $12,000 has been appropriated. Nine bodies of Maryland troops participated in the en- gagement, six being on the federal side. The community of Mountain Lake Park at their annual meeting elected the follow- ing officers: President? Rev. C. W. Baldwin of Baltimore; secretary, L. A. Rudisill; treasurer, J. A. Hayden; annual commit- tee, C. W. Conner, Wheeling, W. Va. L, Allen, Baltimore; Dr. J. G. McLain, Wheeling; P. T. Garthright and L. A. Rudi- sill, Mountain Lake Park. It was decided to put !n two sewers at once, and the annual committee was au- therized to borrow $1,500 to begin the work. The stockholders of the Mountain Lake Park Association elected the following otfi- cers: President, C. W. Baldwin; board of directors, C. W. Baldwin, C. W. Conner, Gecrge C. Sturgis, John M. Davis and D. E. Offutt. An Absconder Apprehended. Frederick Schroll, a telegraph operator, tormerly of Flintstone, this county, who absconded from Belington, W. Va., where he was Baltimore and Ohio station and ex- press agent, with over $1,000 worth of the company’s money and property, has been apprehended at San Francisco, and will be brought back on a requisition. After reaching San Francisco, Schroll wrote to people in Belington telling them that if they wanted him they would have to come to Manila to get him. It was his intention to leave with the troops, but for some rea- son he failed to get away. Senator George L. Wellington has ac- cepted an invitation to address the Luth- eran reunion at Friedens, Pa., on August 18, Mrs. Rosanna Bowles of Hancock and twelve children, ameng them Lew Wallace Bowles and Mrs. Anna B. Kendall of Wa ington, D. C., has filed a suit for $10,- 000 damages against Bridges & Henderson, cement manufacturers, near Hancock. The plaintiffs claim the mines run under their Jand 125 feet at three different places, at some points 100 feet under ground, and that at least 32,000 barrels of cement rock owned by them was taken in this m. ner by Bridges & Henderson. An unsuccessful effort was made to compromise after the discovery had been made by Cumberland engineers, whom the Bowles heirs em- ployed. It is also claimed that James El- verson, editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, had agreed to lease the Bowles property and mine the cement,but threw up the lease when he discovered the alleged trespass. Barney Martin residing at Purcell, twelve miles north of this city, succeeded in catch- ing eight large rattlesnakes last week. He sells the ofl which he extracts from the snakes at $1 an ounce to a firm in New York. —____. THE TAX ON BROKERS. When It is Applicable to Real Estate and Insurance Men. The commissioner of internal revenue holds that there is no provision in the new revenue act under which special tax can be imposed on real estate agents, or on any person, or firm, for simply buying or selling real estate on commission; also that the law {s aimed at a class of men, known generally in the community as brok- ers, who (whether this {s their sole occu- pation, or is merely done by them in con- nection with their other business) negot- fate purchases or sales of stocks, bonds, notes, etc., either for themselves or for others. The decision holds that a fair con- struction of the law does not make any man a broker, necessarily, who invests his sur- plus earnings in stocks, bonds, notes, etc., but does mot negotiate purchases or sales thereof. “A man is a broker under this act,” it concludes, “who negotiates purchases or sales of stocks, bonds, notes, etc., in the course of business, and this applies to real estate agents, insurance agents, attorneys, or any person or firm who, in connection with their profession or occupation, make it a regular part of their business to negot- fate purchases of stocks, bonds, notes, etc., either for themselves or others.” ——_---—_____. The Exports of Coal. Assistant Secretary Spaulding has issued the following modification of his previous circular concerning the exportation of coal: “Previous sp2cial regulations concerning the export of coal during the war with Spain are ‘hereby suspended, and the fol- lowing regulation ts substituted therefor: Collectors of customs may clear vessels with cargoes of coal on compliancs with the law and the usual department regulations concerning such clearance. The export of coal to ports in Spain or the ish poses- sions is prohibited, but coal may be cleared as above to ports or places in possession of the military or naval forces of the United States. If, however, in any special instance, you have reason to apprehend that the ‘coal may be destined, directly or indirectly, tor the enemies of ths United States, you will withhold clearance and communicate promptly with the department.” ere are at present 250,000 Indians in then United States, distributed unevenly teimuaries, the largest; number, 12.000, iv: e number, 72,000, liv- ine in the Indian ‘Territory, wlth $0,000 In tory, Arizona, 18,000 in South 18,000 in Oklahoma, 000 in California, 10,000 in Qicanome- g2i0 in New York end foo i North Carolina. checeuves tthe eo district of B: wing been deprived of their guns, the native bamboo as a fork with a cobra to the far end. An application of the to the sleeping body of an en- emy is all that is necessary. ’ 924, 926, 928 7th, Tunning through to 704-706 K st. —_J “The Dependable Store.” % 924, 926, 928 7th, (ZA) ranning through YELP to 704-706 K st. if ~~ i te te ee ee : : son at $1.98. ured effects—and every garment been. 300 mohair skirts, 98c. All that now remains of the black brocaded mohair skirts go now for 98c. Of this style alone we have sold hundreds tt The patterns are those desirable flowered velvet bound. At 98c. they are cheaper than they’ve ever before is full width, lined splendidly and 4 #$2.50 crash |$3 Irish lin- en skirts, 69. iskirts,$1.39 e reduction should clear them out in a hurry. The crash is the purest linen—they are ex- tra width and have 10- inch hems, with four rows of stitching. $1.39 instead of $2.50. $1 All the 8 go skirts which lave been now big reduction when you consider that they are all extra wilth and perfect- ly made and finished. $3 crash suits, $1.59. dies” Balance of the Mnen crash sun with blazer jackets— and wide deep bemmed skirts—which bave been $3—g0 at $1.59 to close the Irtsh linen at $1.69—a ason. Wash stuffs at what they cost us. We've stopped at nothing in cutting the wash goods prices. We've cut far deeper than we should have cut—far deeper than is necessary under ordinary conditious—-but the conditions are extra- We must dispose of an immense stock this week. ordinary now. Galatea cloth, 5c. Striped washable Galatea cloth—so de- sirable for boys’ pants and saflor blouse Sults—in the most desirable colors—which bas been 12%c.—now goes at Crash suiting, 11%Ac Yard-wide crash LP for skirts Suits—the quality which has been Ie. & yard—will Le offered tomorrow for 11%4¢. yard. POOP OEEECEEOEEG Ke White dress goods cut also. ‘o other store under any circumstances ever sells fresh, beau- tiful white goods for as little as we are asking now. cut the prices merchandise. prices: of white goods at How greatly prices have been cut is shown by these |Colored duck,7!4c Plain colored duck which has been We. Will go now at Tige.—you have the choice of navy, black and other desirable col- ors, Linen batiste, 1214 Imported linen batiste which bas been 25e. a yard goes on wale now at Just half— 12izc. It is that handsome, sheer qual- ity which ts so much worn, Few stores all, considering such goods staple English India linon which has been 10c. yard is now reduced to 6l4c. Bheer Enghsh checked and striped dimities reduced from Ie. yard to.. 12%4c. 72-inch French organdies are reduced from 4%c. a yard to.... 33¢c. Ile. 19c. 500 yards Persian lawn will be sold tomorrow for... Medium heavy cord English pique reduced from 25c. yard to.. We've cut notion prices lower. Just think of it! you've ever paid, and now we start cutting those prices. is exempt from the clearance sale which we have started. Small savings, but big in proportion to the small prices. SP eeeeestectosesLesten LN LLAMA AAEL ALLL LEELA LILLIES ILIEILILIEELLILLLILILLLILPLLILLILIL LLLP IPLLLEELLEPCP PLL PLPWPRBPPBLAPDDPAPAP PESO English pink paper pins Pure white pearl dress buttons. Large balls crc Faller’s best 1 0. Large cubes black and faney tollet pins Clark’s large balls darning cotton. = . z Already selling you notions for less than & othing = x Russet leather shoe dressing = All sizes ni Z: All sizes nic = Dexter's white knit < Smith's best ueedies. 7 00-yard spool cot’ + soeteet? Bpectal Bammer’ Clearing Gale, > DIDI : ‘ IY A BRERA ES PLDI DAE 2LARAS ‘Mertz and Mezts, Bew Era Tailcra, (006 F Btrest. PISO INHUMAN WEAPONS. The Dum-Dum Bullet Again an Object of Discussion. From the Medical Record. “Inhuman Weapons of War” was the title of a paper read by Prof. von Bruns at the German surgical congress recently held in Wiesbaden. The author refers to the dum- dum bullets, and asserts that he made a number of experiments upon dead bodies, cr portions of them, with these bullets sup- pliad to the British troops during the recent ‘campaign on the Indian frontier, and states that the results of their contact are fearful and cannot be exaggerated. Tho British Medical Journal, in answer to this charge, says: “The question of the special =ffects produced by the dum-dum, it will be re- membered, was raised a short time ago In the house of commons, and the reply of the government was to th2 effect that the reports as to the mutilating properties were erroneous, and that its effects: were not those of an explosive bullet.” Since ths publication of the British Medical Journal containing the above report, two promi- nent eurgeons in the British Indian army have given their views on the subject. Both gre? that the cum-dum bullet is not ex- plosive, but that its effects are much more harmful than those of an ordinary smali- pore bullet; but they at the same lime as- sert that @ bullet wound from the old-time Snider was much more destructivs, and that under the lations of the Geneva Scnvention the duin-dum bullet can hardly be objected to as an inhuman weapon of ar. However, an unofficial reply was made by the British government that the dum-éum or expanding bullet would not be used against civilized troops. The fear has been that the Spanish Mauser bullet may be transformed into a dum-dum; indeed, it is thought thet such transformed were employed by the ho harried tanemo Tay, for the mutfiatio of the Gead was LSPHO OSS SSS SOSOOOOOG To Your Advantage —our clearance of Straw Mat- tings. These are the prices— and the savings are big and easily figured: 17¢. for 25c.° Matting. 2Ic. for 30c. Matting. 27c. for 45c. Matting. Hoeke, Farnitore, Carpets, Draperies, Pa. Ave. and 8th Street. qt