Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1898, Page 10

10 > THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1898—24 PAGES, McKnew’s a 933 Pa. Ave. ‘We close daily at 5 p.m., Saturda: at 1 p.m. ‘Annual Midsummer Clearing Sale Iien’s Furnishings Slashing Prices in Bicycle Goods. ay we shall devo our at- * tention to clearing out all Bike Goods nw on hand. Dw these prices tempt . you for brand uew up-to-date Stock- = $ 5 ings and Cap 35¢. Hose, 19c. Lot of Plain or Ribbed Biesele Stockings, which 19 Oe ey a me Cc. 50c. Hose, 29c. aes Fine mglish Mixed if or Bicycle * * * e°* Hose, with balbrigs pleased ee? fee while we ee: S Ip kee wtih wee Be DOC, 52: pair, Monday... Lisle Hose, 89c. Men's Fine Quality Black Lisle Thread Bicycle Stockings, with plain or ribbed legs and tartan plaid end Koran striped tops, made in of their kind—were $1 le Caps, 15c. $1 ay 25c. B 50c. Bicycle Caps, 25¢. W.H. McKnew, 933 Pa. aul3-60d Av. = |-THE-BAY, ARUNDEL-O: How Time Passes for the Pleasure Seekers—Washington Arrivals. Bpecial Correspondence of The Evening Btar. ARUNDEL-ON-THE-BAY, Md., August 11, 1898. Mrs. H. C. Baughman chaperoned a party of young psople to the entertainment and hop given at Bay Ridge Thursday night. The party consisted of Misses Grace Hack- enburg, Alice Baughman, Mamie Wright, Jessie Medford, Carrie Smith, Jeannette Medford, Laura Sanner, and Messrs. Nor- ™man Merritt, Ray Wright, Linville Smith and Mr. Baughman. During the gale which raged here Thurs- @ay, a sailboat in which were Mr. Hubert Peck and Mr. Ray Wright, both of Wash- fi gton, capsized in about fifteen feet of wa- ter. Mr. Geo. Webst2r and Mr. Mark Tow- ers went to the rescue. Intense excitement prevailed among the many spectators on Shore, and loud cheers arose as the boat hed shore. The men were very much but otherwise uninjured. ang” gave their annual picnic to Thomas’ Point. Mr, Harry |, th president, was unable to attend, lent Weston B. Flint pre- r. Weston B. ‘ors nt, and a num- ber of vis! € present, among them being Judge and Mrs. L. E. Payson, Mrs. Weston Flint, Mrs. Dr. Sabine of Garden , Kaa.; Mrs. Wm. B. Brown, Miss Dora Miss Anne Wright and Mr. Ray- recent arrivals at th2 hotel are and Mrs. Daly, and niece, Miss Edith Thornton, Mrs. Geo. W. Spear and Mr. Will Knowles and Misses Ira Sdith Moore. nd Mrs. J. B. Gould are spending at their cottage on Point Pieasant. Frank T. San gave a euchre party Tu2sday night. sapeake av Their pretty cottage dec- nue was beautifully i for the occasion. The ladies handsome fan, was won by Mrs. ‘oleman, while Mr. Mark E. Towers won the gentleman's prize, a p2arl-handled Light refreshments were served ose present wer? and Mrs Coleman, Mrs. T. W. d Mrs. M. E. Towers, Dr. and ke c. Heinecke, Mrs. T. s er, Misses Anne lorence Colford, Webster, Nor 1 Claude Colfora. Shipman has returned to a delightful visit with ists among the amateur o. Heinecke and Mr. Mark Towers carried off the honors Tuesday, tie, Laving caught ten large rock fish and @ quantity of small tailor. lie Som>rville has returned from visit at Ocean City, and has as Miss Florence Brown of Balti- Mrs. Arthur Baker and family are camp- ing on Chesapeake avenue. Vandersall has taken Geneva rivals are Mr. 20. Debro, ‘ullough, Mrs. T. Schaer, Mrs. Louise Miller, y, daughters and son, Harry Allen, Mr. N. V Aleider. —.__ New President of Argentina. A dispatca to the London Times from Buenos Ayres says: “Today Gen. Rosa, who on June 12 last was clected president of the Republic of Argentina for a term of six years, by rep- resentatives of the fourteen provinces, was formally proclaimed president by congress. At the came tim2 Dr. Coste was proclaimed Vice president of the republi OLD AND RARE BOOKS Interesting Exhibit to Be Seen in the New Library Building. CAREFULLY ARRANGED COLLECTION ——— Few Libraries in the World Con- tain Such Treasures. UNDER PLATE GLASS CASES + For scme months past Mr. A. R. Spof- ford has been engaged in preparing an ex- hibit in the northwest gallery ef the new library building which will be an exceed- ingly int2resting study to all lovers of old and valuable publications. This exhibit has just been completed, and aga collection of early and rare books has no equa] in this country. The exhibits are under cover of plate-giass cases. Very few of the residents of this city are aware of the rich collections which had for years been accumulating in the old library quarters of th2 Capitol, where they were buried from public view becaus? of the lack of space in which to digplay them. Necessarily the exhibit in the northwest gallery of the new library building is but a very small part of the treasures of typog- raphy and rare and costly books, including especially what are known as incunabula (books produced in the infancy of the art of printing) and Americana, contained in the great library of the United States. Now that abundant space is provided for these treasures, e selection of them has been made end partially classitied into groups for public inspection and informa- tion. The preparation and placing of the exhibit has been one of the special carés of Mr. Spofford, so much of whose life has bean devoted to the gathering and enrich- ing of this national collection of books and whose practical judgment in its selection and arrangement is seen in-the exhibit which can now be viewed by the public. Beginning at the north end of the gallery (case 5), there are exhibited rows of speci- mens of early printed books r2presenting every year from 1467, the earliest imprint, up to 1501. This exhibit illustrates by | actual examples the early history of the art that 1s preservative of all other arts. They are by no means so numerous as such treasures in possession of the Hbrary wouit permit being made, as the early biack-let- ter volumes representing some of these years are very numerous in the collection. But the exhibit presents to the student of typography a most interesting and strictly continuous serles of sp2cimens of the work of the early printers. These 2arly books are on yarlous sub- jects, theology predominating, as thet ap- pears to have been the ruling interest in the world of books during the period in question. The collection embraces th> edt- tions produced by the early printers in many European cities. They are represent- ed by examples printed at Mentz, Nurem- berg. Bologna, Rome, Venice, Treviso, Augsburg, Speyer, Cologne, Strasburg, Brescia, Erfurt and Cremona. Quaint Mlastrations. Many of these volumes are illustrated by quaint woodcuts, and several are adorned by illuminations in gold and colors executed by hand, while rubricated lines and capital letters are numerous. Among the more notable specimens of typography ts the old- est gem in the collection, the Constitutions of St. Clement, Pope, printed by Peter Schoeffer, Mainz (Mentz), in 1467. This {s a large folio printed in’ black-letter type on hand-made paper and partly in red ink, though the larger portion is in black. The presswork of this rare and early specimen of the printer's art {s a model of beauty, Ciean-cut type of 431 years ago produced an impression as clear and briliiant as the best work of the Whittingham or the De Vinne press of today. A Life of Christ in Latin of Laudolphus, printed at Nuremberg by A. Koburger, A. D. 1478, is a lovely specimen of fifteenth century typograph: It is a huge and ponderous folio, nearly heavy enough io require two persons to arry It, and is bound in heavy oak boards ered with pigskin. A copy of Aristotle's Opsra printed at Venice by Aldus Manutius tn 1495 is a beau- tiful specimen of the Greek text from one of the most famous presses of the world— the Aldire. There are several editions of the Nuremberg Chronicle of Schedel, some of which are literally crammed with quaint and curious woodcuts representing all the superstitions of the middle ages. A copy of the Fasciculus Temporum of Rolevinck, printed at Spirae (Speyer) by Petrus Drach in 1477, has @ curious picture of Noah's ark colored by hand, the Inscriptions on which denote the various parts of the ark in which the “habitacto” of the animals, birds, fruits and vegetables was located. Part of Peter Force Collection. Many if rot most of these curiosities of ancient typography came into the posses- sion of the government with the lbrary of that venerable and honored book collector, Peter Force of Washington. He was both a printer and a scholar, and he amassed a library of bibliographical treasures which ure now for the first time fully brought out to public view. A very timely exhibit is made on the op- a peeite side of the hall (case 1), where some of the early Spanish and other books and maps of the West Indies are to be seen. Here 4s Peter Martyr's work containing “Cuba et les Isles Nouucll:met trouuees (mewly found), en la grands mer Ocean printed at Paris in 1532, with an outline map of Cuba, Spagnola (San Domingo), Porto Rico, etc. Under it is Porcacchi L'Isole piv famose del Mondo, printed at Venice ‘in 1572. It contains an early map and descrip- tion of Cuba. Also A. de Herrere, Nievwe Werelt West Indien (West Indies), printed at Amsterdam, 1622, containing map of the Philippine Islands in the seventeenth cen- tury; also Bordone Isolario, Vinegis, printed in 1534, containing an eariy map of the West Indies, In the same case Is a copy of Arnold Montanus’ work, containing a fine large two-page engraving of Havana as it appeared in the middle of the seven- teenth century, with Spanish galleons in the offing. There is also a second edition of Montanus, containing a fine old engraving of Porto Rico. There is a very early map of the Philippine Islands in volume. one of Juan de la Coneepcion’s Historia de Philip- inas, printed at Manfla in 1788 to 1792, in fourteen volumes quarto. The map of the whole.group of.Philippines, however, bears date oi 1744. In the next case there are dis- played three vclumes of the very rare col- lection of Hulsius’ Voyages, n2arly com- plete in the library of Congress, printed at Nuremberg, 1599 to 1616, and containing early maps of Cuba, Porto Rico, etc. Also two Volumes of De Bry’s Voyages, 1590 to 1619, one containing an early map of the Philippine Islands, the other a queer oid copper-plate engra‘ing of the sports and dances of the Indian aborigines of Vir- ginia, supposed to have been taken from life. In the same case is a very early map of Canada, 16%, in a copy of Lescarbot, Histoire de la Nouvelle France. John Eliot’s Indian Bible. Many of the rarest of the American nug- gets (case 1) are found in both etlitions of John Kliot’s Indian Bible, printed at Cam- bridge, Mass., 1661-63, and the second edi- tion, in 1685. There is also a finely preserv- ed copy of what is perhaps a still rarer book in good preservation, viz., the first Bible in English printed in America, by R. Aitken, Philadelphia, 1782. This is the only book which had the honor to receive from the American Congress special public recom- mendation, an attested copy of which is printed in the first volume of the Bible. In the first and second cases are to be found several handsome specimens of mis- sals and illuminated manuscripts, adorned with geld and colors, all hand-painted, and inscribed on fine vellum or parchment. The famous George Washington Bible, in three great folio volumes, specially men- tioned in his will, is there. These vol~ um:s were bequeathed to the “Rey. Lord Fairfax, now Bryan,” the Bible “presented to Washington by Right Rev. Thomas Wil- son, bishop of Sodor and Man.” The work, though annotated by Bishop Wilson, was never printed until thirty years after his de- cease, and is one of the copies presented to | high dignitaries under provisions of the will of R2v. T. Wilson, son of the bishop. Wash- ington’s autograph is on each volume. They were printed in 1785. There is also a large collection of early publications of Washington city, the oldest being the Washington Gaz>tte, by Benj. More, June 11, 1796, to March 17, 1708. The set is complete There is also the National Intelligencer, founded October 21, 1800. Rare Old Newspapers. The first American datly newspaper is there, the Pennsylvania Packet, first pub- lished in Philadelphia October 14, 1784. ‘The first newspaper publication of the Dec- laration of Independence 1s there, being in the Pennsylvania Evening Post of Satur- day, July 6, 1776. There is the first issue of the London Gazette of February 1, 1665. The file of that paper in the library is com- plete from 1665 to 1808. The American Daily Advertiser of Philadelphia of Decem- ber 20, 1799, contains the first newspaper publication of the death of Washington, the paper being {n mourning, with rules invert- ed. The New York Herald, containing an ac- count of the Hamilton-Burr duel and funer- al of Alexander Hamilton, is there. The Charleston Courier, as early as January 10, 1803, is included in the exhibit; also the Virginia Gazette, containing the first publi- cation in Virginia of the Declaration of In- dependence, July 16, 1776. Horace Gree- ley’s campaign paper, the Log Cabin, is on exhibition, also the first volume of the New York Tribune, 1841. There are a large number of books pub- lished in Virginia at early dates and a vol- ume giving Capt. John Smith’s map of Virginia, published in 1612 at Oxford. The first known engraving of Indian corn appears in a volume in one of the cases, en- titled “Discovery of New Brittaine in Vir- ginia,” published in London, 1651. The engraving is entitled “Indian Wheat.” The above are but a few of the numerous rare publications now on exhibition, and the entire exhibit forms but a small portion of the rare and curious treasures in the li- brary. ——— “CEASE FIRING,” SAYS LEE. His Facetious Response to Official News of Peace. Gen. Lee recetved at Jacksonville, Fla. telegram frem the adjutant general at Washington yesterday announcing that peac2 had been declared. He wired in re- pl : thank yeu; I will at once order the 7th Corps to cease firing.” a The general was at least facetious, even if not sarcastic, as Jacksonville is about the nearest that any of the regiments of his command have got to Cuba. The 7th to go will probabiy get an opportunity there to do garriscn duty, howe this is not a particularly pleasant thought to a good many, who would prefer to re- turn home, saying they did not enlist for police duty, but rather to fight for their country, and, opportunities for that being over, they no longer have any desire to serve. JAMAICAN = GLIMPSES ‘An English Coloty i Which Melan- choly Broods. FINE SCENERY AND INDOLENT PEOPLE Women Seem to do the Most of the Work. & = CONDITIONS ECONOMIC ‘Writtea for The Evening Star. Jamaica is one of the English colonies in which melancholy broods. The melancholy is not of the natives, for the people of the tropics are too content with the easy ex- istence which nature provides to brood over their once héppy condition. But the Anglo- Saxon citizens talk moodily of the future. The island has been Great Britain's pos- session for 250 years. It has been well governed, and is today, yet after this long period its governing class is discouraged. There are no openings for younger sons, no inducements for emigration. The white population, out of a total of 700,000, is be- tween 14,000 and 15,000. Apparently it has varied little from that proportion for thirty or forty years. I was informed that while in Kingston and two or three other towns there is no marked decrease, in the in- terior parishes the white population is growing smaller. Social conditions are said to be responsible for this change. Causes of Discontent. The causes at the root 0: the discontent and discouragement are chiefly economic ones. For a long time Jamuica leaned on a single staple. The sugar plantations were baronial in extent and their cultivation was easy and profitable. Then came the pro- duction of beet sugar, hostile tariffs and bounties. Now there is talk of building the industry up again by grants-in-aid, counter- vailing duties and other government agen- cies. Colonial Secretary Chamberlain was gcing to do it. He finds the task a huge one. He ts charged with indifference to the West India colonies, with breaking ante- election promises and other sins common to politicians of all countries. The contro- versy is not of interest outside the colony. The only thing appears to be that the ques- tion of what shall be done for Jamaica is an open one. The colony is looking to the home gov- ernment for help that does not come. Some of the absentee plantation owners are still raising sugar hoping that thelr overseers will be able to make a better report “next year,” while the sugar industry regularly proves to have had a ‘worse year.” The government feels the pinch in more ways than one. It is facing a decreased’ internal revenue, because the lessening of the sugar production lessens the production of cane rum, and the amount of tax drawn from that source, which was: considerable. Ja- majca has had other spells of depression and of angry controversy with the home government, even to, the verge of revolt. It has come through ‘them into periods of prosperity and content. This may happen again. At present it is impossible for an observer to overlook the undertone of dis- the couragement. And future which is opening for Porto Ri id Cuba spreads a dark veil over Jamaica, uniess reciprocity or some other means places it on a more equal footing with the other West Indies which share in the American policy of ex- pansion. Travelnig With a Practical Man. I did not intend to write of this economic aspect of Jamaica at, all, yet it will obtrude because the though{ful folks on the island think of little else. Naturally, they un- burden themselves to the visitor from the United States. My traveling companion in the railroad journey across the istand from Port Antonio to Kingston was tull of the subject. The scenes were old to nim. He saw nothing impressive in the winding line along the sea at the base Of the mountains. He did not know why the “Scotchman’s bonnet” was so called or why so many other rugged peaks of nature bore Scotch designations. | Glimpses up green valleys, through which the rivers swept down to the ocean, or lofty forest-walied ravines, through which the torrents were pouring, excited no emotion in him, though it brought forth an explanation of the exact measurement of the rainfall in the wet season. The bamboos, which bent from either side of the smaller streams until their tops touched and formed natural arches mirrored in the waters beneath them, called for a discourse on the use of the bamboos by the coolies in building huts. The white, chalky surface of the moun- tain sides, where the jungle had been cleared away, was the text for an instruc- tive essay on the porous nature of that lime- stone and the exact proportion in which it should be used in roadmaking. Where the hillstops lay close together in orderly suc- cession as though they had been marshalled by the master hand that created them was the theme for a discussion of the soll there, and its difference from the soil lower down. The rank vegetation, the interlacing vines and trees on the hillsides, which made the jungle even more impassable than in east- ern Cuba, the deepness and freshness of the verdure, were all explained solely with reference to the productiveness of the earth. It was so going through the tunnels at the summit of the mountains, following the course down again toward the sea with i living pric week in Bed Room Suites, Parlor Suites, Wardrobes, Chiffoniers, | Sideboards, Dining Room Suites. China Closets, Book Cases, Desks, Rockers, Couches, Bed Lounges. 5 kudden’s Special | JRemoval Announcement! From Monday, August 15, we shall be at home to our friends and permanently located at H | 801 and 803 7th St, N-Weseemmean Our beautiful new warerooms have the advantage of plenty of light, where you can SEE what you are buying—and our bright, new stock of FURNITURE, CARPETS, STOVES, &c., will be second to none in the south, We shall sell at the lowest s, and you shall receive the most liberal and EASY TERMS. Specially attractive values for Monday and during the Rudden’s New Furniture House. ve s1 at A Seat Dining Room Chairs, Hall Racks, Iron Beds, Mattresses, Oil Cloths, Linoleums. N. E. Corner 7th and H Sts. - JOHN RUDDE Carpets and: Rugs, Mattings, etc.,etc. STOVES. « ! ur stove: départ= ment will have our especial attention--- and our prices will be beyond. fear of competition. ~ 801 & 803 9 Seventh. further of rich. valleys and wide Seas procs “ani neues tho marcy Plain till Kingston was reached. It ts al- ways instructive to travel with a practical man. The amount of information given me on that trip, if it could be remembered, would enable an encyclopedia to be written about the natural resources of Jamaica and the present economic depression, But on the return journey I took pains to ride alone, and the vision of mountains and valleys and streams and jungle forests re- mains without a blur of usefw knewledge to spoil it. Kingston Has the Blues. ‘Kingston, like the rest of the island, has the blues. Its citizens will talk of the economic and political situation. They will preve a proposition already demon- strated. This is the wealth of natural rescurces which they poseess. The rooms of the agricultural society, which are hos- pitably open to strangers, give opportunity to Jeurn about the natural resources. The Jamaica Institute, with its library, adds further knowledge. Then there is a gov- ernment blue book, very accurate, com- plete and indigestible. An unusually good guide book also gives incidental informa- tion. It is with a guilty feeling that I confess to having neglected these oppor- tunities of informing myself. - But there Were extenuating circumstances. Port Royal is in reality part of Kingston, and in its presence reading about the bucca- neers of old was vastly more entertaining than hearing about the economic conditions of today. Perhaps it was just as instruct- ive, There is a fund of instruction in re- calling how Morgan became Sir Henry Morgan, a pillar of state ard the service done to civilization by England not draw- ing too fine a line between piracy and le- gitimate commerce when Sir Francis Drake was sweeping the Caribbean waters free of the Spaniards. Somehow, cut- throats of the type of Morgan and his associates do not seem like ordinary mur- derers when two centuries have thrown the glamor of romantic adventure over their deeds of blood and lust. An Interesting People. The people of Jamaica of this generation are as interesting in their way as the roy- stering buccaneers of former generations, but they are not of the same stock. The Jamaica blacks, as they are called, have little strain of the old Spanish mixture with the Indians. That is the maroons, remnants of which stock yet survive in the interior. The African blood, which was imported in the times when slave labor was one of the blessings that white civilization pressed on the heathen, seems to flow from an uncontaminated spring. The ‘“‘browns,” as I heard them called, are another class claiming to be the real native Jamaicans. ‘The richest man on the island today is of this class. There is, however, no race ques- tion here any more than in the rest of the West Indies. What strikes every newcomer is the transplantation of the cockney accent. The Jamaica blacks give it with a breadth and drawl that would bring despair to the soul of a New York Anglomania “I cawn't permit that, don’t ye know,” strikes the hearer with a peculiar impression when he ‘hears it fall from the blackest of Nps; “no, really, I cawn't permit that.” But when it comes to talking of “bloody rot” and threatening to split open _a “bloody ‘ead” because of a dispute about a balance of “threepenny” or “penny _ ha’pen- ny” in changing a “bob the Mlusion 1s complete. Those were the expressions I heard one night when two cabmen were wrangling over the proceeds of highway robbery of an unwary passenger who had failed to consult the table of legal tolls. While acrimonious, their dispute was car- ried on in a languid way characteristic of the tropics. Wrangling is more a race characteristic than fighting. The Jamai- cans as a people are peaceable and orderly. The suggestion of old England also comes at the bar where the drinks are served by chocolate-colored barmaids. They are not buxom, as across the water, but they en- gage the thirsty customer in conversattonal raillery of a langui sort and a broad ac- cent. They also give valuable advice about the drinks which are suitable for a warm country. The gin fizz is always safe, the sweet cane rum with lime juice and ice is both palatable and healthful, while brandy and soda is permissible if not taken too often. There is, however, a mixture that the barmaid recommends in tones whose softness does not compensate for the rug- gedness of the drink. It is poured out by the pitcherful and is said to be composed of nothing more harmful than Bass’ ale and ginger ale in equal quantities. If that be the case, there must be some subtle cli- matic influence. The drink is called “shan- dygaft.” Nobody ever recovers sufficiently to spell it, so I do not vouch for the or- thography. These lines are written as a warning and are interpolated here because the cockney accent and drinks have an in- timate relation that the stranger usually fails to grasp. As to the accent, it is not an affectation, but is genuine and has come down through generations. Women Do the Most Work. I do not know just what relation the Ja- maican women occupy in the household. Probably they are the head of it. It is not true that among the natives the men do no work. They are on the railroad as con- ductors, engineers, trainmen and telegraph operators. They perform the functions of police, which are light. They are found as clerks in the stores and in other positions. But among what would be called the lahor- ing element of the population the most of the labor does seem to be done by the women. They are met on the roads, their burdens balanced upon the head, the loose garments with which they clothe them- selves tucked around the hips, their arms swinging, striding along with the graceful motion which freedom of body and limb alone can give. The little donkey, which is loaded down with Guinea grass for its consumption and with articles either of purchase or of sale, is thumped with the stick wielded by their vigorous arms. Traveling through the country it is they who are seen working in the fields. They also keep the roads in repair. This labor as performed is not as hard as might be sup- posed. Usually four peles are set up, a roof of palm leaves stretehed across them to shelter from the sun, and the woman road repairer sits breaking the stones as comfortably as if she were shelling peas in her own kitchen. The splendid roads which are the pride and the boast of Ja- matica were built by the convicts, and keeping them in repair is not difficult. The sight of women breaking stone by the roadside again brings up the inquiry as to what the men do. They certainly do not control the business of marketing. I spent an hour one afternoon in the chief Kingston market. The stalls were all kept by women. Some were crones grown yel- low with age; others were smart-looking colored women, barefoot, in gorgeous dresses of orange and scarlet plaids, with showy turbans on their heads. The pro- duce wag brought to the market by wo- men. They bargained closely over the vegetables and fruits, and were tenacious in their prices. ‘The wares were always examined critical- ly and closely by th2 buyer, though the purchase might not amount to more than ha’penny. During the afternoon I saw orly two men merchants. One was a sheep- ish and shiftless-looking fellow who was peddling pins and needles. The other was a big, loose-jointzd giant who was selling a kind of sweetmeat for which the market women seemed to have a strong liking. They bullied him and helped themselves to his candy. The. market wome2n did not ap- pear to be especially loquacious. This was noted elsewh2re. One morning I was awakened by a chattering beneath my win- dow that bespoke a hundred or more fe- male tongues trying to outdo one another. Not with any notion of protest, but m2rély to see what the women were wrangling about, I glanced out of the window. The chattering came, however, from a group of men. They were supposed to be digging a ditch, but the digging went on only duriag the intervals of talk, and these consumed the greater part of the day. I had noticed the same thing at the wharves where the stevedores talk2d incessantly and worked incidentally. A group of them could not be put at any employment without this chat- tering beginning and continuing. A Native Regiment. In spite of their capacity for work, one employment is not open to the Jamaica women. In none of ker coloni2s has Eng- land a regiment of Amazons, and her maj- esty’s native West India Regiment is there- fore restricted in membership. I was told that at times ther? was difficulty in secur- ing recruits, though. The brilliant uniform is an inducement which aids in keeping up the muster rolls. The native soldiers whom I nod were all fine-looking féHows, physi- cally. The gorgeous tunic, scarlet jacket and loose blue zouave breeches are of barbaric splendor. Either through jealousy or through other motives the other Jamaica blacks talk slightingly of this native regi- ment, calling its members toy soldiers and $3 A MONTH. Dr. Cowden Yields to a Popular Rate on the Re- quest of a Multitude of Applicants—The Offer Limited to the Month of A’ ugust—The Treat- ment That Cures Prescribed and Administered in All Cases—Nothing Cheap But the Price. What $3 a Month Means. When Dr. Cowden offered a free month to all Patients taking up 2 rcculer course of treatment, he felt satisfied that this method of procedure weuld cost Jess and result fm more cures than any other plan that could be sdopted for the season Most favorable to the treatment of catarrhal dis- éases. That humdreds of sufferers thought the same is evidenced by the large number that took advantege of his generous offer, and are now under this mild, curative method of medication. It seems that the free menth method involved a slightly greater immediate outlay of money than was possible to be met by a great many people, who were not only anxious to take treatment, but whose cases absolutely needed immediate atten- tion, All this has resulted in a great and popular demand for a rate that could be paid by the people in general. Furthermcre, the knowledge that Dr. Cowden had for the pust two summers extended « $3.00 rate for a Nmited period bas resulted in his receiving requests to renew that offer by a numver of people which runs yell into the hundreds. There hes never beer a time during the three years that Dr. Cowden has been established in thts elty that he has not always been willing to accede to what, in bis opinion. would result in the greac- est good to the greatest number. He was the first to establish this princ'ple of practice in this city and will always be the first to meet the just and honest requirements of its people. With this great object In view he makes the following offer und requests that patients needing and anxious to be given treatment apply at once, for two reasons, first, that they may get advantage of all warm Weather possible and second to avoid the usual rush ard crowd that always take place during the last few days. The Offer. All patients taking treatment during the montK of August. both mew end old, will be trented at the uniform rate of $5.00 a month until cured, ‘This includes all visits end medicines, and applict to all diseases. ‘There is nothing cheap about this treatment exe cept the price. which is merely nominal. and every, patient under treatment will recelve the same careful attention and medication thet reinter to other scasons and higher rates. There will be no sion, no neglect. Under this rate all will re ceive the same applicstion of treatment that has restored thousands to their hearing. Under thi rate the same treatment will be administered thal has lifted the blight of the word incurable front thousands of cases of disease of the throut. bron# chial tubes and Inngs, which reaches every sora ‘spot from the orifice of the nose to the Geepest re? cesses of the lungs. not feritating and Inflaming; but -bealing. soothing end curing. Rheumatism) skin diseases. diseases of the stomach, blood —nd nerves, and in fact ali chronic diseases. will carefully diagnosed and given the treatment cures. Consultation Free. Dr. J. M. Cowden, 715 13th Street Northwest. Office Hours—9 a.m. to 12 m.; 2 to 5 p.m.; | to 8 p.m. daily; Sundays and holidays, 10 a.m. & ipm, ridiculing them. They do not compare with the regular soldiers at the Kingston bar- racks, but that is not to be expected; nor would they be viewed in favorable con- trast with the colored troops from the United States who took part in the Santi- ago campaign. Those troops, however, would not be excelled anywhere in the world, and it would be no discredit to her =. West India Regiment not to equal em. Next to the inhabitants, the most inter- esting feature of Kingston is the church- yard, in which lie the remains of Ad- miral Benbow. Scant honor is done Queen Victoria. The park or public garden has some fine statues of Jamaica worthies, but for the ruler of the empire a cheap effigy, which seems to be of plaster of paris or painted-white wood, suffices. It bears the inscription: “Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Empress of India and of Jamaica Supreme Lady.” At first blush the American visitor would be apt to think of Kingston as a “run- down” town, but the impression would be incorrect. A drive through its narrow streets is not pleasing. The architecture is of the decayed Spanish style, the houses, with their painted-top roofs and their an- cient box shutters are of brick or adobe and are reached by high and narrow steps. The general appearance is that of sedate- ness, solidity and neglect. Nevertheless Kingston is at present engaged in pub- lc improvements which will modernize it. When the old town is left behind ani one drives along the fine roads past the villas and manors set in broad and wooded srounds the attractive side of life in this corner of the world is for the first time realized. CHARLES M. PEPPER. a AT ALLENHURST. First Anniversary Celebrated With Great Eclat—Cyeling Clubs. Special Correspondence of The Eventag Star. ALLENHURST, N. J., August 11, 1898. This handsome new resort is now in the ndidst of one of the merriest seasons of its history. Scarcely a day passes that the young folks do not enjoy some special feature of summer fe, arranged on the spur of the moment, and the doings of the week had a charming climax today, when the birthday of the resort was celebrated. Every cottager as well as every hotel here took an active interest in the event. Cot- tegers were at work soon after daybreak cecorating their summer homes with flags and bunting and big branches of ever- green and flowers. Viewed from almost every point the scene throughout the re- sort was a beautiful one. The day’s fun began with a bicycle parade through the principal streets; then every one went bathing, and after luncheon all those who cwned horses and carriages and all those who could procure them assembled for a carriage parade. The vehicles were all beautifully decorated with flowers and bunting of various colors. Then there were a number of games, including potato races, climbing the greased pole, foot races and jumping contests. The day wound up with a big dance on the lawn tonight. During the day President E. P. Benjamin was the recipient of many congratulatory tele- grams. One of the merrizst trips in the early part of the week was the run of the Allen- hurst Cycters to Little Silver and return. Those who composed the party were Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Kembl2, Mr. end Mrs. Geerge Gleason, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Steele, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Leonard, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Steigerwait, Mrs. G. C. Thomas, Mrs. A. E. Fish, Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Dyer and Mrs. C. T. Leonard. At Litzle Silver they were joined by Mrs. C. Rhodas and Mr. and Mrs. Rathburn. They then pro- ceeded to Pleasure Bay, where luncheon was served. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Harvey, who are charming members of the little crowd known as “the joly thirteen,” entertained their fellow members Monday night by teking them to Pleasure Bay in a tally-ho. Her2 the performance of “Pinafore” was witnessed in boxes which had been reserved for the party, and at the conclusion of the opera supper was served at the Avenel. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey's guests were Mr. and Mrs. Williem Sheerer, Mr. and Mrs. Frank- lin Conklin, Mr. and Mrs. Uzal H. McCar- ay ne = ae N. McCarter, ji Mr. an rs. F. F. Dryden and Geor Gifford. aie The largest progressive whist party of the season took place Wednesday evening. Tha parlors were very prettily decorated for the event. Mrs. Sealy won the first prize for the ladies, which was a handsome white silk parasol; the second prize, a man- tel clock, was carried off by Mra. Coombs. A dress suit case, the first prize for gen- tlzmen, was won by Mr. Fred. Zittell, and the second prize, a silk um George Jenniett. See TRAIN ROBBERS WERE BOYS. Capture of the Six Led Astray by Reading Yellow Backs. ‘The train robbers who held up the Bur- lngton flyer two miles north of St. Joseph, Mo., Thursday night are under arrest, and a weeping, crestfallen band they are. The leader, James Hathaway, aged seventeen. is a Western Union messenger boy. His pals in high crime are Charley Cook, Alon- zo Otterburn, William Hathaway, brother of Jafnes, and Herbert Doniphan, ranging in age from sixteen to twenty years. Ail are sons of respectable people. These in- trepid road agents received the inspiration which enabled them to hold up an express train, terrorize the trainmen, overpower the express messenger, and roli his strong box out of the car door into a wagon from per- sistent reading of yellow-backed romances. At the scene of the hold-up the leaier of the-gang lost a pocket dictionary, upon the fly leaf of which was his name. This was found today by a railroad detective. All that remained to be done was to consult the St. Joseph city directory and to arrest young Hathaway, who promptly confessed everything, giving the names of the others. After securing the safe and getting away from the scene of the robbery with it, the youths Jost their splendid nerve, dumped it out upon the highway, and «curried buck to their comfortable homes in the city. a Cervera Goes to Portsmouth. Admiral Cervera end several officers of his staff left Annapolis yesterday after- ncop, under special permission from Wash- ington, to visit the Spanish prisoners at Portsmouth, N. H. MILLER IS AT HONOLULU Flag May Not Be Raised Till Commissioners Arrive There. Old Glory Placed on Top of Kanlq: Onhu’s Highest Point—Japan’s c im Paid. Advices from Honolulu August 4, via Vi toria, B. C., August 12, state the Unit, States steamer Philadelphia arrived here! yesterday, six days and twenty hours front San Francisco, with Admiral Milicr and! staff on board, who came for the purpose! of raising the American flag over the Hat wallan Islands. Admiral Miller has orders! to confer with Minister Sewall, and until} after the conference nothing defMite will be decided as to the flag-raising program. A conference with the Hawalian govern- ment will be held this afternoon. It is gens erally understood that the flag will not be raised until the commissioners arrive, on the 17th instant. F. M. Hatch has resigned his position as minister to the United States. The Ewa plantation, the best-paying sugar estate in Hawail, has decided to ine crease its capital stock to $2,000,000. The present stock capitalization 1s $1,000,000. The Japanese imbrogiio of 1897 has been settled by the payment of $75,000 to Japan. In making the payment the government does not admit the justice of the claim or right of Japan to indemnity. The payment was made at the request of President Me~ Kinley. The United States transport stes de Janeiro and Pennsylvania sailed for Manila August 3, and this morning the transports Peru and City of Puebla took their departure for the same destination, While the vessels were In port twenty-six measles patients on board the Puebia were cared for at the local hospital, but were removed to their vessel before her depart re. Isaac Strickland, private of Battery G, 3& Artillery. died July 27. He was buried un- der the auspices of the local Red Cross So~ clety, The Royal Mail steamer Aeran ; 4 yal ei arrived teday at Vancouver, B. C., trom pany, N. S., and Wellington, New Zealand, vig Honoiulu. 4 Hawalian news up to August by the Aerargi. se Old Glory floats from the top of Kaal the highest point of the Island of Oahu, Hawaii. This was accomplished by Judge W. F. Frear, Garrett Wilder and Walter Dillingham, with a native guide, who made the ascent ‘of the peek." Ex-Queen Lilioukalan! is reported to have said: “I have done the best I could for my people. Now that the islands are annexed, there ts nothing to do but submit and make the very best out of the situation. My feelings in the premises are well krown, and I do not care to discuss the matter at length.” There are twenty-four United States sol- diers in the hospital at Honolulu. Seven of them are more or less seriously {ll. Tho number at the Red Cross hospital on Au- gust 1 was fifteen. Of these thirteen were in bed, five of whom required careful look- ing after. Two of the Red Cross patients are convalescent and expect to be sent home by steamer due from Yokohama for San Francisco August 16. They are: James mers Rio 3 is brought Lavin, Company D, 234, United States army; Guy D. Boynton, 15th Minnesota Veiunteers. At the Queen’s Hospital there are nine beys in blue. Two are quite bad cases. i has pneumonia and the other menin- itis. The Honolulu Bulletin says: “Now that the islands are a part and parcel of the United States a change is beginning al-> ready to be felt in the business community. Within a month there has been quite an influx of eastern and California business firms here looking over the situation. “While the payment of the Japanese claims was humiliating to the government, yet being at the request of the United States and meant as a compromise to facili- tate annexation, the executive council has after mature deliberation decided to yield without admitting that the government was in the wrong.” —_———__---—___—_ REMEMBER DEAD COMRADES. Pickett’s Men Pay Tribute to Con= federates B ied at Germantown. The confederate soldiers of the rebellion members of Pickett’s division, who are vis- iting Philadelphia, yesterday paid a touch- ipg tribute to their fallen comrades who are buried in the national cemetery in Ger- mantown, a suburb of the city. More than four hundred southern soldiers were buried in this cemetery, and their comrades in arms who survived the awful slaughter at Gettysburg decorated their ‘graves with small American flags. Rev. & A. Grimsley, a Baptist minister of Richmond, Va., who was in the thick of the fight at Gettysburg, delivered the oration. He spoke of the generosity of the brave to the fallen foe and of the lasting peace that ha@ been purchased with the price of blood. A volley was fired over the graves by the 69th Pennsylvania Volun- teers. oe Canonization ef Cat! ten. The tribunal of priests that has been conducting the investigation in connection with the effort to secure the canonization of the late Bishop Neumann, fourth bishop of Philadelphia, has completed its work as far as Philadelphia is concerned. Rev. Jo- seph Wissel of St. Joseph’ Cathol! Church will leave for Rome on August with a copy of the acts of the tribunal. If the acts are approved at Rome, then wilt begin a rigid investigation into the miracles attributed to Bishop Neumann. ++ Suicide Epidemic in German Army. There is an epidemic of suicide in the German army. The Frankfort Gazette re- Ports four cages in Sexony, and the Lud« wigsburg Gazette tells of a fifth, due to ag Officer's brutality.