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22 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1898-24 PAGES. THE MUNICIPAL BUILDING. OVER WATERS BLUE! +A Three Hours’ Stay on Canadian Soil at Kingston. THE WEST POINT OF THE DOMINION —— ;}Royal Military Cadets Call Our Gunners “Daisies.” LAKE ONTARIO’S —— BEAUTY Bpecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. August Nestling at the foot of Lake Ontario and commanding the mouth of the majestic St. Lawrence river, is Kingston, th Point of Canada. It is here the sons of th @ominion are taught the art of war, a the Royal Mihtary College, which is lo- cated here, has contributed in nu small Gegree to Canad: militia. To the visitors among the Thousand Is- lands who have never been abroad a trip to Kingston is regarded as a visit to a f eign country. They lose sight of the fa that it is at our very doors, and the knock- ing of its people for admission has been heard again and again by Uncle Sam. And there is little wonder for it, since the peo- ple and the customs are so different from our own. Whilg Kingston is not the only Canadian neighbor to the visitors among the islands, it is, neverth important, son thousands make the beautiful trip Yesterday I made the trip, and there was not a moment from time the ce of the Caspian gave the word to « until we made fast again at Ale: Bay that was not enjoyed. Although a Canadian line of steamers run to King- ston, there Is little about them un-Ameri- can, and the officers are most deferential, while the appointments are Great ceremony attaches to these excur- sions to Kingston, and they are enlivened by the presence of ¢ who is a ve tion concerning the trip. ip starts from Alexandria Bay, and are picked up at the several At length we Rn The . and only occasion ing like an eme aters of the river. Rg as we proceed. chained together ne front a big, dirty sail sug- gests the motive power, while a rude at the other end, with children playing about it, evidences its occupation. nmindful of the 1d give, play on, ting an ac ie mnor explains this is a lum- atly bound Bde and we suits followed her nose about an is and s the clear blue sky like a specter. Soon anothe another pear, until the stretche ndreds of yards. plying the lak own the river, wh heed it so much this winter. More barges are met, but they -r along re different looking crafts and are used in grain. While a portion of the amount of business that is trans reaches the St. L to give us an idea of magnitude. x While we are wondering at th ture of ness, our boat ru Wolfe I d—so close, in fact, erly a step from the boat. All Aboard for Kingston. Away off to the west we see smoke cnrl- upward. It is Kingston. we are that it is few minutes later the gray bat- ancient city are pointe we pass is Fort Freder- ick, stan ty out on a narrow tongue of 1 at its base b: the beau of . | It is here e Royal Military ¢ is situat plainly Uby {ow om te ¥., | oval. The Victoria public school is passed, «nd the conductor calls special attention to it. I was unable to learn why, since ex- ternally it could not equal one of Inspector Brady’s design We hurry by the city buildings, and here I hesitate in drawing a comparison with our reformed office building in Washing- ton: and so with the court house, a modern structure fashioned after a Grecian design and built of water HMmest6ne almost as light in color as marble. The present struc- ture was built in 1876 after the destruction of the former court house. It has ample facilities for the holding of the ev- eral courts, and In the rear is a large jail. catch a glimpse of a number of spires h a square tower rising proudiy above m. it ts the Queen’s University, one of the oldest universities in Canada and the pride and boast of Kingston, and justly so, since I learned it was progressive and com- plete in all departments. It is undenomina- tional, although founded by royal decree in 1844 in connection with the Church of Scot- land in Canada. This church afterward be- came the Canadian Presbyterian Church. A Pre: ian theological school is at- tached to the university. There are attached to the university de- partments of arts and sciences, aud the = Kingston Residence. yal College of Physicians and Surgeons, r the building, is affiliated with it. There time to v the churches, are some twenty, so we the Wool- It is situated Fort He ding is com- | manding ir are met at the gate by a y’ Awkins,” who, with the re; entrance. mother tongue, grants us an He is dressed in a tight-fitting a saucer shaped cap held in vhich rests under his il on vacation,” enter. The place cadets were on hand—the ac = guard of these who re- turn in September. They were quite vol- uble and talked enthusiastically of the college. iS our talk they said the college was founded in 1874, by act of par- liament, for the purpose of teaching the | military ession. It was not until however, that the college got started. It Was a great sucess from the start. The term four years and costs the boys in the neighborhood of $1,000. They are re- quired te deposit on entrance the expense of m 200 to cover ssing and $200 additional for school books. After the first year the fee is $150 ver annum, which covers uni- forms, instrumerts, etc. The boys referred to the rules governing the which they explained were most rigid. No idlers w-re tolerated, and when any were found they were shipped home. Not every boy in the dominion can enter the college. Each of the twelve districts are allowed two cand dates, and these are put through a vigorous examination before they are admitted. The age for a on is limit- ed between fifteen and nineteen. No wealthy students are recognized, and all fare nding money is limited to ; $2 per month. During the latter part of ; June examinations are heid and in Septem- ber the colle Every branch of en- | gineering is and the cadets were The cadets were anxious to turn the conversa- tion to our war, and they gloried with ex- institution, ight warm in the praise of their officers. COLLEG pires rt ver the old stone wall. While pies a commanding position. ncient truction, and would fa! €asy victim to a modern battle ship. By this time we are in the lake. There are a few on bo: ho give active demon- stration of the fact. But it is only for a little while, and now we are steaming into the is an the harbor, with its bi shipping. We are pushed by a cust. officer, since we hav lugeege, but turn with the rest tc Watch the s a@ trunk tha beardiess youth fal examination he gave landed. At the gate a was handing out car tick- ets, inviting “one and all to take a free ride cn ic railway.” There seemed to be no need for this, since the railroad has no competition. We concluded to take the ride, however, and went speeding through the city. At intervals the conduc- tor (a mere boy) calls out the places of tn- terest. Down a steep hill we go at a break- neck spesd, past the penitentiary. with its eerless wall, and catch a glimpse ned guard, as he waik$ along the pa with loaded rifle, to kill any one try! escape. On our return we have an ex- nt view of the warden of the peniter . He ts domiciled just across i from his charges, in a picturesque ari pet house. You are struck with the architec- tural monstrosity of the broken s‘a‘rway, made of marble and saining resplendent the cleaning day. the convicts give it park, with its deautifully shaded again, over the same route, aroum! | es and men playing cricket in the i citement when they rehearsed our victories at Santiago and Manila. “We English are too much for the other blooming nations. Don't you think 0,” one of them said. “Why, an Anglo-Saxon alliance, my friend, would capture the world,” put in the other. “But_you chaps are daisy shots, I say,” the first cadet continued. “Blow me if you didg’t hit the Colon five miles away. Thet’s wat I term doisy shooting.” * Both cadets evinced a great interest in the war and a knowledge of affairs that you would scarce expect from a foreigner. A Queen's Own Tells History. Captain Jessup, retired, of the Queen's Own, volunteered to tell me a scrap of the history of Kingston. The captain is = typical English gentleman, tall, erect and with clear blue eyes. His height is empha- sized by the long, well-fitting coat he wears. The Gladstone whiskers give him the additional dignity. But the captain Was a real good fellow and talked with me | about old Kingston until the boat started. He recalled the foundation of the city by the French pioneers under Count de Fron- tenac, who had been sent from Montreal to build’a fort. It was the first stroke in this section, he said, of France to gain a foot- hold in America. This was tn 1673. Sale came later, but after De Soto discoy- ered the Mississippi he went to explore the river by sea and conquer new prov- \inces for his king. Captain Jessup rehears- ed the victories of the English and drew an interesting comparison with the capitu- lation of Fort Frontenac and the surrender of Santiago. Like the gallant Shafter, our Colonel Broadstreet permitted the com- mander of Fort Frontenac to capitulate and safely transported the garrison to Mon- treal. Kingston was settled soon after the close of the revolutionary war by refugees who refused to forsake their allegiance to the mother country. They left their homes in America, and, under the leadership of Captain Grass, located at Kingston. They Squeezed Kingston Out. In 1841, when Upper end Lower Canada were united, Kingston was made the capi- tal, but the seat of government was after- ward changed to Ottawa. Captain Jessup said confidentially, in commenting upon the handso-ne buildings of the city, that most of them were built with the idea that the government would accept them for the use of parliament and permanently locate the capital there. The boat. whistled and we were off again, having been on Canadian soil three hours. On our way back we passed the steamer America. She was apparently in trouble. This was confirmed after our return. The shaft had broken and the boat drifted about the river until ft made a fortunate landing at a small uninhabited island. Its distress whistles drew a sister bodt and the passen- gers were returned, after much inconven- ience, to their home: —————— A DRUMMER’S EXPERIENCE. Traveled as a Clergyman, but Did Not Sustain the Character. From the Chicago Chrenicle “Just came from St. Louis,” remarked a well-known commercial traveler, as he alighted from the train, “and had one of the funniest experiences of my life on the way up.” “Relate it, and be quic replied his fel- low-drummer, who was about to catch a train. “Well, you know Mandlebaum, the ticket scalper,” replied the other. “Just as I was about to board the train he came to me and offered to sell a first-class ticket for so low a figure that I was obliged to take it for strictly business reasons. My time was limited, and I neglected to look at the name of the original purchaser, so I boarded the train and took possession of a seat in the smoker. First came a cigar, and then, be- ing thirsty, I took out that olé flask of mine from the satchel and proceeded to quench my thirst in good old-fashioned 1 the while the conductor kept his eyes on me and at times whispered to the brakeman, who was sitting quite close to me. They were both strange on the run, and consequently I did not pay much at- tention to them. I then got mixed up in a hot game of seven-up, and told one or two stories which would not pass the ordeal of press censorship. Finally, the conductor came around and whispered in my ear. He asked me how the Sunday school was get- ting on, and allowed that ¢hurch matters were brightening up a bit in my section of the country. His talk was all Greek to me, but I managed to look wise until we had reached Chicago. “The whole business dawned on me then. He told me I should have been more cir- cumspect on the journey up, and warned me against one of my congregation. He said it was bad form for a clergyman to smoke, play cards and drink whisky trom a flask in full view of the passengers on board a train. 1 asked him if he knew who I was, and he pulled that scalper’s ticket from his pocket and informed me that I Was the Rev. Mr. Phineas Bascom of Han- nibal, Mo. I have made up my mind never to buy another scalper’s ticket from Man- dlebaum.” —_+ e+ ____ WASN'T AWED By the Engineer's Accomplishments, but One Thing Puzzled Him, From-the Detroit Free Press. One of the delegates attending the recent convention of civil engineers in Detr left this stor; “Just as was stated by the president in his opening address, the importance and accomplishments of civil engineering are not held in the popular appreciation they deserve. It is simply because the great majority do not understand. They approve of our works, but do not comprehend the Knowledge required in producing them. When considerably younger I was up in the northern part of our state surveying the route of a proposed railway. An old farm- er with whom I stopped for a time admit- ted one day when he saw me figuring in the field that mathematics always seemed a wonderful thing to him. Being young and enthusiastic I began to enlarge its wonders, telling him how we could measure the dis- tances to different planets and even weigh them, how we could accurately foretell the coming of a comet or an eclipse, years in advance of its actual occurrence, determine the velocity of the fiercest projectile, ascer- tain the height of mountains without scal- ing them, and many other things which I meant should astonish him. “You can imagine how he set me back when he replied to this brillant array of facts by saying: ‘Yes, yes, them things does seem kinder cur'us, but what allus bothered me was to understan’ why you have ter carry one fur ev'ry ten. But if you don’t the durned thing won't come out right.’ ”” ee London’s Public Houses, From the Century. The public houses explain a great many of the.miseries of the miserable locality. There may be some teetotalers, but there are not many, and there are almost as few drinkers who are always moderate in their libations. The curse of bitter beer, raw Scotch whisky and “tuppenny” gin rests heavy on the place. Public opinion ts no weapon against it, for public opinion openly favors drinking whenever one has the necessary money and does not regard actual drunkenness as a disgrace worth:| mentioning. Women drink at the bars as unconcern- edly as men do, and barmaids serve them. The bar room is the gossip place, and babes and small children are carried to it and kept in it by careful mothers, who gather there for the day’s necessary talk. Infants sometimes cry, and at such times are per- mitted a sip from the maternal glass, quite as other children are bribed with chocolate drops. Thus blear eyes and drink-reddened faces often have early beginnings, The children on the streets are dirty, ragged and vociferously happy over small things. Adults are not genuinely happy. There is no reason why they should be. They de- rive much spasmodic merriment from the public houses. Drunkenness and fighting are common everywhere, especially on the streets. During one noon recess I Saw three fights develop among the two dozen em. ployes of a box factory. Nor are the com. batants always men or boy SAR SS Decadence of True Hospitality. From the New York Tribune. How seldom nowadays one is asked to partake of a friend’s nospitality with no ulterior motive on the part of the enter- tainer for extending the invitation. The aftermath of dinners consists of favors requested, charity tickets for some pet en- tertainment, etc. A woman who had been somewhat surprised and considerably flat- tered at being “bidder” to a particularly “smart” house declared she had literally been made to pay liberally for the privi- lege, her fashionable hostess first sending her tickets for a concert to be given for a nursery of which the latter was a patron- ess, and afterward a request for a sub- scripticn to another charity which she could not afford to give, but which she had not the courage to refuse after the compli- ment of the dinner. “I hear Mrs. A. is going to give a dance,”" said Mrs. B. to Mrs. C., “and it is to be an exceedingly smart and exclusive affair. I wonder if we will be asked Was it a coincidence that that evening Mrs. A. re- ceived a dinner invitation from Mrs. C.2 A. few days later the latter, meeting Mrs. B., remarked carelessly: “I received my invitation to Mrs. A.’s dance; did you?” “I think it is certainly odd I was not asked,” exclaimed the former. “I know her equally as well as you do.” Whereat Mrs. C. smiled sweetly, SEAS ees Not His Fault. = From the Boston Traveler, “Fweddy, why don’t you lst your mius- tache grow?” 2 “Why don’t I let it? Good heavens, deah hoy, Ido, but it won't!” | PREHISTORIC BOYS Did Not Have Atty Elaborate Fish- ing Tackle. ANGLED WITH THEIR BONE HOOKS Salmon Was. the Favorite Catch for the. Cave Dweller. SOME FISH TALES ht, 1898, by the International Literary and ee Mew Service) Written for The Evening Star. His home was a cave, and he ate what- ever he could catch and kill. If the pre- historic man wore garments of any kind there is no evidence to show it. In cav- erns in southern Europe his bones have been found with those of the cave bear, the cave tiger, the aurock and smaller ani- mals. That the cave was his home is shown by rude implements of stone and bone found with his remains. That he lived largely by the chase is evident, and his diet no doubt was varied by edible roots and by wild fruits and piants in their sea- son. And two of the small variety of im- plements that he possessed reveal also the iact that he had a taste for sea food and went a-fishing. in the Smithsonian Institution collection of Indian weapons and utensils are spect- mens of the hook with which the Eskimos of Norten sound, Alaska, catch birds, the gulls and murres, which are a part of their food, the same kind of hook they formerly: used in catching fish. This hook, which, in fact, 1s not a “nook” at ail, but a straight, siender piece of bone, is the thickest in the middie and pointed sharply at each end. Around the middle is a groove, to which the Eskimo fastens a short cord of braided grass. He baits the hook with a small fish put on lengthwise, and ties the line to his trawl. When a fish or bird swallows the minnow the bone, turning crosswise in the throat, cannot be disgorged, and the crea- ture is captured. In a cave in southern France, with other prehistoric relics, have been found several bone hooks of this pat- tern, though less perfect in shape than those of the Eskimo. At Madelaine, France, and Zurich, Switzerland, there have been discovered harpoons of reindeer horn of similar shape and size to those used by the Hskimos in spearing fish today. ‘There is another evidence that clinches that of the hook and harpoon, as to pre- historic fishermen. The cave dweller had an artistic trait considerably in advance of his genera! mental and moral develop- ment. He had a fancy for making draw- ings of things that interested him, engrav- ing them with a pointed flint ora boar’s tusk upon an aurock’s skull or a piece of scraped reindeer horn. In the caves which he frequented are pictures of carp and saimon, and one picture, a great deal “out of drawing,” it must be said, repre- sents a man seizing a great fish,’ a por- poles or a whale, by the lower posterior in. With Spear and Hook. There is reason for thinking that salmon, which in early days came into the French tide-rivers, were the favorite fish of the prehistoric cave man, and that he timed his own migrations to fit with their running up and down the streams. There is no evi- dence that he had nets or boats, and he must have speared and hooked his fish from the shore or rocks or waded about for them. Shell fish were a favorite food with prehistoric man. With his family and tribesmen he camped for long periods on the edge of tide+watér in places where the vast shell heaps, known to ethnologists as kitchen middens, are found today. In these heaps, among the shells, are found bones of quadrupeds, large and small, including those of the dog, and various implements and utensils, the most common implements found being the flakes or flat, sharpened stones used by early man for all cutting purposes. Of a more advanced type than the cave men were the anetent lake dwellers, who built their settlements on piles over the water out from the shores of the Swiss lakes. They were boatmen, who took fish with nets and lines, speared them, and shot them with arrows. Their hooks, made from bone and from boar’s tusks, were well curved and usually without barb, the ang- ler relying upon the suddenness with which he pulled the fish from the water to land it before it could wriggle free from the hook. There is a general similarity in all the fish hooks of this epoch, found in the places frequented by prehistoric man in different parts of Europe from Italy to Norway. Latest among the prehistoric people ap- peared the barbed bronze hook with a ring at the end of the shaft for attaching the line, it being in shape and size much like the hooks used by sea fishermen within a generation or two of the present time. The peoples of the new world, at the time of its discovery by Europeans, speared fish and also caught them with line and hook. Their hooks of bone or deer horn were massive, strong affairs, sometimes barbed, and all having a knob at the end of the shank, to which the line could be securely attached. In general the Indian preferred to spear his fish, and sometimes he shot them with arrows. Fish also were trapped in various ways, especially in the season of their rurning in the rivers, This Sport Not Fair. At what is now Etowah, Ga., the old Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto, and his companions were entertzined by a cacique who had a great fish preszrve, a canal lead- ing from the river Grande to a lake, and en- circling his town. Up from the river into the canal the fish came plentifully on their way to the lake, and the cacique 2nd his chief m2n selected and captured them at their pleasure. At Fish creek, near Sara- tega, N. Y., the Indians once had a fish pen made by fencing a marsh on one side which the creek overflowed at high water. On the subsidence of the waters the fish were left aground or in water so shallow that they could easily be captured. After the coming of the white settlers the shad and herring still ran up the creek so plentifully that it was said that the women could dip them up in their aprons. Along the St. Lawrence river the Mon- taignais Indians were famous catchers of eels. Acording to the account of the early missionaries their traps were great wicker baskets, each of which would hold 500 or 600 eels. These were sumk in the ground on floats ‘by the river and a channel, walled with rock, led from the stream to ‘them. In the season when eels were ascending the river the Indians of a morning would often find the trap filled with them. An- other way they had,of taking cels was to spear them at night from-a canoe with a light in the bow. Two Indians, one pad- dling, the other handling the spear, would get 300 eels in this way in one night. The eels, split and dressed, were hung up in a house and smoked for keeping, and they formed an important article of food with the Montaignais, at a season when other provisions were. scarce. Early Clambakes. All along the Atlantic coast of North America, as far south as Mexico, the In- dians of the inferior were, accustomed at certain seasons*of' the year to visit the seashore to cateh and eat shellfish. In the region which is now Tennessee and parts of the adjoining states the Indians were fond of the mussels which abound in cer- tain localities there,,and they made yearly trips to feed on them. On the California desert the Mohaves’ used hooks made by moistening and bending cactus thorns for catching such fish as they could find in the few streams of their arid country, Among. the primitive Aztecs fish was an esteemed food, and it was part of the edu- cation of the youths to learn how to take them. Old pictures by Aztec artists show how fish were caught with a scoop net from a canoe. The Aztecs fished with nets and also speared fish with a trident. There were fish ponds in Mexico, and fish were sold in the markets of Tenochtitlan, the ancient city. It is related that Montezu- ma’s table was supplied with fish that were brought. by runners from coast, 265 miles, in twenty-four hours, "At the Bottom of the Sea, From the Detroit Free Press, “Who commands the Spanish armada?” asked the teacher in history, « “McGinty,” answered the boy who was never known to study his lesson, ATTRACTIVE WAKE ISLAND. The Notable Possession Over Which Gen. Greene Raised Old Glory. From the New York Times. It has been recorded that Gen. Greene, with a strong landing party and a few offi- cers, went ashore on Wake Island on the Fourth of July, took an observation, made a map, planted a record of possession, and raised the flag of the United States. We are informed that he found no trace of in- habitants, that none have been there for sixty years and that the island has long been lost. It is hinted that, sailing on a parallel and not on a great circle, he must have had a reason for going there. His triangulation, map and observation of posi- tion will certainly be of scientific interest. Wake Island is supposed to be the Des- jerta, that is, the “desert,” and La Mira, “take care,” of the charts of the Spanish galleon taken by Anson in 1743. It was discovered in 1796 by the Prince William Henry, and ts found on the chart that ac- companies Perouse’s voyages, published in 1797. It is often seen and reported as a reef or an island under various names, Wake, Week, Halcyon, Helsion and Wilson. being the most frequent. It is not to be confounded with Weeks Island or with an- other Wake Island on the western coast of Patagonia. The mean of the positions re- ported is 19 degrees 19 minutes north, 166 degrees 39 minutes east. Wake Isiand is nearly or quite awash in heavy gales; very low and steep to sea- ward; from nine to twenty miles in cir- cumference, according to wind and tide. The larger portion of it is a lagoon, The vegetation is very scanty and there is no fresh water. The only food to be found consists of a few birds and plenty of fish. Wake Island has been examined by Wilkes of the United States exploring ex- pedition, by English of the United States navy, by Sproule of the Maria, by Cargill, by Wood, by the missionary ship Morning Star and by many others; and thirt--two years ago it was “inhabited” by some who can tell you all about it to their sorrow. The Bremen bark Libelle, bound from San Francisco to Hong Kong, with passen- gers and treasure, having touched at Hono- lulu, was cast away on Wake Island on the night of March 4, 1866. The passengers and crew remained aboard during the night, the sea breaking fearfully over the wreck; and on the following day they landed with diffi- culty through the breakers. For three weeks, amid terrible privations, they earched in vain for water, and were at last obliged to take to the boats. But the breakers were still encircling the island and they were several days in getting away. They reached the Ladrones in May and were entertained by the governor, who sent a schooner, under the guidance of the rfas- ter of the lost vessel, to procure the treas- ure left on Wake Island. They were two days in finding it, the marks erected on the spot having all been thrown down and washed away by the sea. Anchoring 110 yards from shore, the Ladrone schooner found twenty-one fathoms inside and no bottom outside, with thirty-five fathoms line, showing that Wake Island rises ab- ruptly out of a deep sea. Wake Island was described by Captain Sproule in 1848 as a very dangerous spot lying immediately in the track of vessels from Peru, Central America and the Sand- wich Islands, and in a part of the ocean where vessels are generally running fast before the wind. “At 5 p.m.,” he says, “the lookout on the foretopgallant yard saw low land on the starboard bow. I went aloft and saw from the topsail yard a very low island, rather higher in the center than at the ends, and covered with low bushes. It was dark before we approached it suffi- clently near to mal observations, but I am confident it would not be seen more than five miles off deck by daylight, and in a dark night never in time to avoid it.” The famous Wilkes expedition westward from San Francisco to New York hove to off Wake Island on the night of December 19, 1841, and in the morning after breakfast a number of boats were sent ashore to make a survey. They reported a coral isl- and not more than eight feet high, and ap- parently at times submerged. The fish in the lagoon included some fine mullet. The birds were few in number and very tame and ‘‘Mr. Peale found here the short-tailed albatross and procured an egg from its nest." There were low shrubs upon the island, but no fresh water, and neither pandanus nor cocoanut trees. The outly- ing reef was very small. “Our visit to Wake Island gave us an opportunity of adding to our collections in natural history. By 4 o'clock all the boats had returned and we filled away and proceeded on our course to the westward.” —e+—__+__ DISHES WITH QUEER NAMES. Epicures on the Hunt for Them in Unfrequented Places. Frem Harper's Bazar. New Yorkers for years have been in pur- suit of out-of-the-way restaurants—queer eating pla in obscure corners, under the elevated, down in the slums, and, best of all, in cellars. It satisfies, no doubt, an instiret which the more fortunate in- dulge in travel. Many persons call it “sceing life,” touching on the bohemian side of things, as some Newport woman, ured of conventionalty, expressed it. And it does give one a new sensation to take a car for the tenement house districts on a Friday, and to work one’s way down from the Bowery and past the swarms of chil- dren who fill the little side streets, past the street venders who are selling every- thing frcm calico to fish from hand carts drawn up to the curbstone, and fter touching elbows with the great unwashed to find one’s self in a cool and well-ven- Uilated cellar, set out with scrupulously clean tables, with a printed menu to de- light you, on wkich are promised queer and toothsome dishes with unpronounce- able names, all of which you know to be gocd, else the fame of the place could never have Leen established. This partic- ular restaurant, the latest idol of bohemia, is presided over by a Hungarian, who now counts among his acquaintances almost every well-known young man in New York. A Hungarian band plays, and now and then some man among the guests rises and takes the leader's violin and conducts the music for a little or plays some fantasize. which rouses anew the enthusiasm of the listeners. So popular has this dining cellar become that it is now necessary to engage one’s table in advance for any Friday, and this in spite of the fact that an adjoining cellar has recently been added. Such popularity, however, generally marks the doom of any of these out-of-the-way restaurants. The distinctive, unusual, suddenly surprised quality is gone. It always takes flight when those who come to satisfy a sense of curiosity begin to patronize. Tor this reason some owners of successful restau- rants still insist upon serving their viands on the same old wooden boxes with which they opened their careers, and this in spite of the fact that an amount of wealth has accrued to them which wouid easily en- able them to replace their pine woods with mahogany. It requires a fine ‘act and a rare appreciation to know just what bored pecple do want, and it is often quite as fatal to continued prosperity to yield to a spirit of progress as it is to retrograie from that of a well-established exceilence. ———+e- —» Why Doctors Commit Suicide. From Pearson's Weekly. Statistics show that the medical profes- sion is more prone to suicide than any other. During the last three years the number of suicides occurring among phy- siclans in the United Kingdom has been, respectively, 45, 49 and 47 per annum, an average of nearly one to 2,000; or, the death rate among the physicians is about 25 to 1,000, nearly one-fiftieth of all the deaths in the profession have been by sui- cide. * It has been suggested that an explanation of this tendency may be found in the de- velopment of morbid fancies in the mind of a doctor, on account of his constant as- sociation with the sick and dyi or be- cause he has the requisite kno of how to die painlessly and conveniently. A medical journal dissents from all these views, and holds that the leading factor is the accessibility of the poison drugs, which are almost invariably used. Suicide is largely a matter of insane im- pulse. Imagine a man fatigued in body and depressed in spirits—as a doctor very often is—swayed by an overwhelming con- viction of the utter weariness of life to the impulse of suicide. If he had to put on his hat and walk to the chemist’s and tax his ingenuity for a He with which to explain his desire for poison, he might postpone the fatal act from mere inertia, or he may meet a friend or have hig inter- in life aroused by ono of a multitude of every-day occurrences, or physical cxer- else may bring him to his senses, If, however, aa is the case with almost every doctor, he has simply to feel in his Headly: poleon, the impuise may be eatrted ly poison, so may ca) into execution before anything can happen to supplant it in the brain, GEN. JOE WHEELER. A Georgia Friend Tells How He Once Unmasked a Battery. From the Macon Telegraph. At the battle of New Hope Church, be- tween Atlanta and Chickamauga, General Walker sent Major William H. Ross, who was on his staff, to ascertain from Gen- eral Wheeler, who occupied an advance po- sition, what was in his front. He found the general on his hors: one leg over the pommel of the saddi luting him, Major Ross said: “General Walker intends to make a charge at this point, and would like to know if the enemy has a masked battery in front of us.”” “I don’t know, major,” Gen. Wheeler replied, “but I can soon find out,” and swinging into position in his saddle, he gal- loped up to a slight eminence, accompanied by Major Ross and his staff, and planted a guidon. A moment later a’puff of smoke in the distance and the sputtering shrick of a shell as it flew over them, showed what was ahead. Turning to Major Ross, the general said: “Give Gen, Walker my compliments, and say there is a masked battery in front of u with Sa- Major Ross ventured the remark that it was rather a risky way of unmasking a battery. “The first shots always fly high,” was the cool reply. “It’s the shots that follow that are dangerous. “When I returned and reported to Gen- eral Walker,” said the major, “I requested him to send some one else the next time he wished batteries unmasked by General Wheeler.” ——_—_+e- “Old Bilger has got the anti-imperialism fever bad.” “What's he done?” “His wife bought a new extension table and he sent it right back.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. AUCTION SALES. MONDAY. THOMAS DOWLING 612 © TRUSTEE’S SALE OF YA. & ©0., AUCTIONEERS, ST. Niw. IMPROVED PROPERTY. BEIN CAPITOL, STRE} 3 LIBRARY BUILDI. By virtue of a deed of trust, dated Getcber 9, 1894. and recorded in Liber 1948, follo 260 et seq. of the land records of the District of Columb! surviving trustee under sali deed of tru: sell, at public auction, in fronc ot the premises, MONDAY. THE TWENTY NINTH DAY OF 3 GUST, 1888. AT HALF-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK P.M., the following described real estate, siteate in the city of Washington, 1. C., and designated the east tweut: (23) feet eleven (11) inches front of loqgpumbered etzht (8), and the west twenty-four (24) feet front ef Jot numbered seven (7). by the full depch of sald ‘ots, in square uumbered seven hundred and twenty-eight (72s), the whole fronting forty-seven (47) feet eleven (11) inches on East Capitol strect. subje-t to an alley easement over the eastern four (4) feet of suid bart of lot numbered seven (7), reserved. uncer deed to Benjamin Burch, recorded in Liber W.. B 12, folio 12, of the land records of eald District, the same being improved by a substantial brick dwelling No. 122 East Capitol street. Terms of sale: One-third cash, balance In one ard two years from sale. deferrei payments to be secured by deed of trust on the property sold. or all cash, at the cptton of purchaser. If terms of the e, after and cost of defaniting ‘ancinz. recorling and reve- for by purchasor. purchaser. nue stamps to be pai WM. R. WOODWARD, Surviving Trustee, All conv: aul6-d&de 57 E FUTURE DAyYs. THOS. 3. OWE! TRUSTRES' SALE, RY AUCTION, OF WELT ESTABLISHED ' DRUG STORE,’ AT NO. MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE NORTHEAST, By virtue of a certain deed of trust, duly re- corded In Liber 2208, folio 274 et seq.. one of the lard records of the District of Columbia, and at the request of the Darty secured thereby, we Sell, on the premises, at public auction DAY, SEPTEMBER ‘TH, 1598, O'CLOCK P. the Stock, Contents, Good Will, including Leas ore located at 101 Mt . De. Terms cash. ‘Store open daily for inspection. R. WTON DONALDSON, ISH, WILLIAM B. REILLY, era t. aw, JAMES W. RATCLIFF) ONFER. (Successor to Ratcliffe, Sutton & Co) SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FUR- NITURE, CARPETS, ETC, TO PAY STORAGE CHARG ETC. ON TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST THIRTI- ETH, AT TEN O°CLOC I will sell, wunan one salesrooms of James W. Rateliffe, 920 Pennsylyani: ave. n.w.. lot Household Furniture, Carpets, &c. to pay storage ard other charges. Terms cash. EUGENE MAY. au2T-2t WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., AUCTION Contents of Eight-Room House at Auction, No. 483 Missouri Avenue N.W. ON TUESDAY, AUGUST THIRTIETH, CoM- ME 4 AT TEN O'CLOCK A.M., we shall sell at the above residence a general sortment of Articles, partially cnumerated: U; g00d condition; Parlor Suites, E Chairs, Mirrors, Walrut and Oak Chamber Suite: Wardrobes, Odd Bedsteads, Bureaus and Wasi stands, Extension Tables and D. I. Chairs, Bru: sels, Ingrain and other Carpets, Hair, Husk an Cotton-top Mattresses, Feather Pillows and De sters, Holl and Stair Carpet, Meddins, China. Glass and Crockery Ware, Kitchen Utensils, &«., toge er with many other articles too numerous to 1+ tlon. Terme cash. Housekeeping right Piano, in au27-2t_ WALTER B. WILLIAMS & Aucts. DUNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers. TRUSTEE'S SALE OF THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN “ASSOCIATION (COLORED) BUILDING, NO. 1607 11TH STREET NORTH- WEST. By virtue of a certain deed of trust, recorded tn Liber No. 1748, follo 64 et seq., of the land tec- ords of the District of Columbia, 1, as surviving trustee, will rell at public auction, in front. of the premises, on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER SIXTH, A. D. 1898, ‘at FIVE O'CLOCK P.M.. the follow! ing described real estate, situate {n the city of Washington, in said District: All of lots four (4) and five (5) of Daniel S. Harkness’ subdivision of square three hundred and thirty-six (336), as the same is recorded in Book ““B,” page 82) of the records of the surveyor's office of the District of Cclumbia, together With the improvements, con- sisting of a ‘two-story brick building with’ back Duilding, suitable for occupancy for businees pur, poses. Terms: One-third cash, balarce in equal in- stallments, at one and two years, with interest at ix (8) per ceut per annum, payable semi-anuu- ally, from day of sale, secured by deed of trust upon the property sold, or all cash, at the op- tion of the purchaser. ‘A deposit of $300 will be required at time of sale. Ail conveyancing, reve- hue stamps, etc., at purchaser's cost. Terms to be complied with within ten days, otherwise the surviving trustee reserves the right to resell at Flak anu coat of the defaulting purchaser. FRANCIS H. SMITH, au23-d&ds Surviving CHANCERY SALE OF A LOT, IMPROVED BY A COMMOPIOUS BRICK DWELLING, KNOWN AS NO.41528 FIFTEENTH STREET NW. Under and by virtue of a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Colembia, passed in equity cause No, 18024. on the 16th day of August. 18is, being suit of Mary C. Lemmon against Frances M. Rich et al., the undersigned receivers aeretofore appointed in this cause will offer for sale, et pab- Uc auction, in front of the said. premines, cn TUESDAY, AUGUST THIRTIETH, A.D. 1898, AT FIVE O'CLOCK P.M., all of LOT’numbered 36 in the subdivision of SQUARE 194, made by Colun- dian College, James Miller and Joseph Abbott, and recerded in Liber C. H. B., follo 101, of the rec- ords of the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia. The said lot having a frontage of 23 feet 9 inches on 16th street northwest and runntug back, of the same width, 100 feet, and is impro’ by al fmo-story brick dwelling. kiiown as premises ‘0. 1528 15th street northwest. The terms of sale to be: One-third of the pur- chase money in cash and the balance in two equil installments, at one and two years from day of sale, by deed of trust om the property sold, tnd bearing interen: at 9 per cent per anna, of it 0) chaser. $200 de- peait will be requited et time of ele, cad all the Sent Tevenue stamps to be at the cost of the anager. If the terms of sale ere not seunlied with ‘within co days’ trom day ‘of, stin Tecelvers reserve the right to resell . erty at the risk’ end ‘cost Sf the dcfaultiog "yur chaser. JAMES. H. TAYLOR, aulg-d&ds JOHN RIDOUT, Receivers. ‘PHOS. J. OWEN, AUCTIONEER, 018 F ST. N.W. COLLATERAL BONDS AT AUCTION, rhom it may concern: At the request of the be . I will sell, at pub- He auction, wae ey 018 F street n.w., on TUESDAY, AUG! 7H! 1TH 1908, “AT Arkell of New senterier seam 321 to “S we THOS, 5. OWEN, Auctiancer, bis F st. nw. A SUMMER RESORT, Stock, Bioa Boring, located inthe miles ~~ Deut 200 a of a acs ib eee, simi pol wd ° CLOCK P.M., tw ret folg ‘cnnes Sf five. bundred (00) dohars ea Xerk, DUNCAN! TRUSTEES’ Sa! ING IN F NORTHW OF SEVEN “ROOMS, AND MODERN IMPROVEME TS. Ly virtae of & certain decd of trast, Liber No. 2181, foti records of the Dis in front of the BER FIRST, A lot 47, in square 42 feet deep and 16.58 and on the we improvements stan erms: One-third cash, bs years, with Interest at six ¢ dum, 'prysble semi-annu: of and the pur date of sale to comple CHARLES WILLIAM 1 BaTHe Jays frou FAMIN T UCTIONE tton & Co.) Di x TRUS ALE OFATHR STORY BRICK STORE AND DWELLING, No. 1239 7TH STREET §.W. By virtue of a duly recorded in Liber 1933, folio et eeg., of the land records for the Dis ‘tof Columbia, and que of the party secured thereby, th tgned trustees will offer for scle, by’ pnd m, in frent_of the premises, on TUESDAY, SIATH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, A.D. 1898, AT HALY-Past FOUR O'CLOCK "P-M., the following real estate, situate in th- city of V trict of Columbia, to wit: Parts three (23) and twenty-four (24) o! Washington, subdivision of square four and forty-eight (448), as per plat rece office of the surveyor for the District of Columbia, in Liber N. K., folio 275. Beginning eighteen (15), feet four (4) Inches south of the northwest corners of lot twenty-four (24); thence east ene hundrad and five (105) fee* to an alley; thence south om said alley fourteen (14) eleveg (11) inch: din the thence west one hundred and five (108) to 7-8 street west; thence north fourteen (14) fect eleven (11) inches to beginning, being the south five (Of feet eight (8) inches of gaid lot twenty-four (24) and the north nine (9) feet three (3) inches of wild lot twenty-three ( together with all the im- provements, rights, et Terms: One-fourth cash, the balance in one, two and three years. with interest from the day of sale at 6 per cent per annum, payable semi-nn nually, se hy deed of trust on the prope sold, or all cash, at the option of the purchaser, A deposit of $200 required upon acce e of bid, Terms to mplied with within on dase from day of sale. or trustees reserve 1 10 resell the property, at the risk ani t of the defaulting purchaser, after five days’ advertise. ment of such resale in some newspaper publish =4 in Washington, D.C. All conveyancing rding, stamps, etc., at the purchaser's cost MYER COHEN, Trustee, F st. bow. 6-a& ne feet 11% inches, thereon, Terms: One-third cash, . With interest at six 2 UNIMPROVED EAST SIDE OF LO = EIGHTH DAY OF the following desc in the county of W to wit: All that and premises known and distings ing part of a tract of Innd eniled being part of the farm ot the te Shoemaker, and beginning for the on the east side iglitwood avenue, being the southwest corner of said fart also “the southwest corner of the hereby described, and running th side of Brightwood avenu SEPTEMBER, A.D. situate rth 8 1 of ml minutes, east 16 avenue with the sposed thence along t street east 980.87 fe of Bighth street pr of said Eighth math if suid emtate; th said south north 61 degrees 5 minutes west 1,127.53 feet to th nt of h ning, together with the Lmprov Q tenances thereunto belonging. Terms of sul ne-thi years, represented by dng interest at six per 5 sem!-annually, secured by a dec upon the property sold, or all cash purchaser, A. depc requir o sale. All cunveyancing snd rece cost of purcbeser. Terms of sale to he complied with within ten days from date of sal wise the trustees reserve the right to resell the property at the risk and cost of the five dass’ faulting of such re er in after some Newspaper published in the city of Washington, D.C. ALBERT A. WII JOHN B. LARNER 12,18, 25hdte G. SLUAN & c CHANCERY SALE 0) AND UNINERGVED THE CITY OF WASHINGTON Co- LUMBIA. By virtui he Supreme Court of the District and 18th days of Deceaber @ No. 16.875, 2. Tarver mnily A. Moxley and « the undersigned trustees will at everal certain pieces ¢ mises hereiuafte e city of Was e respective | desert m the vely_ nami THE SEVE . 1898, at the he PAST FOUR’ O'CLOCK P.M. front of lot 186 and the all in square No. 1196, No. 26 in that part of ih the ‘city of Georgetown being fmproved by and fronting on tween M street ne canal. Thereafter on said das, and at the hour of O'CLOCK P.M., the west 20 feet depth of 86 feet square N: known as square No. 93 in the late cl town, improved by a two-story fram fronting on P stiect at its inters strect same day, and at the hour P.M., part of lot 3, in a, be st 28 ‘feet feet on B cplainants of land and being in| o1 Columbia, th hereinafter tive that street 0 ke and Ohio PIVE dwell street west, or No: square 19, front of sale ot by the street between 25th and it Thereafter, and on THURSDAY, THE EIGHTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 18eS, at the nour of FIVE O'CLOCK P.M, lot 17, in square 38, improved by two two-story frame ‘dwellings, known as Nos. 2308 and 2310 L street northwest Thereafter, and on said last mex the hour of HALF-PAST FIVE 0: the north 2v feet of lot 10 by the di 4% inches, in equare No. fronting street between N and O is northwest, and improved by a tw ue dwelling. ‘erms of sale as prescribed by the decree: One third of the purchase money h parcel wold to be paid in cash, and th in two equal installments, payable in one and two years re- spectively, with interest at six per cent per an- num from’ the day of sale, the deferred payments to be secured by deed or derds of trust on the premises sold. or all cash, at the optim of the purchaser. A deposit of $200 on each tlece or parcel of property sold will be required at the Ume of sale. Terms of sale to be conplied with within ten days from day of sale, cther:vise the trustee reserves the right to resell the property at the risk and cost of the defaulting porebaser or purchasers, after five days’ advertisemat of such resale in some newspaper published im Wasb- ington, D. C. All conveyancing, recording, &e., t of baser. at cost of EDWIN FORREST, Trustee, 17-319 RGE EB. HAMILTO.: . GEO! TON, 2 THOS. J. OWEN, AUCTIONEER, 913 F ST. N. TRUSTEES’ SALE OF VALUABLE BUILDING LOTS ON I STREET BETWEEN TWENTY- SIXTH AND TWENTY-SEVENTH STREETS, AND ON TWENTY-SIXTH STREET BE TWEEN H AND I STREETS NORTHWEST. -By virtue of a deed of trust to us, duly recorded among the land records of the District of Colum- bia, in Liber 2121. follos 122 et seq.. we will, at the request of the helder of the notes secured thereby. sell. at auction, in front of the premises, at HA. ST FOUR O'CLOCK P.M, ON FRIDAY, THE NINTH DAY OF SEPTEM: LER, A.D. 1808, the fellowing described real es- tate, situate in the ety of Washingicn, District of Columbia, to wit: All those certain ‘pieces or parcels of land and premises. known and distin- ished as and being lots “CO.” “D.” “Rk” and in, Brooke, Mackell. senicr’e, siibdivision of Jot numbered two (2), in square numbered Gee i, so sail sabsivision ts. recorded tn the ¢ffice of the surveyor of the District of Columbia, in Lider “W. F.."" follo 158. Also lots lettered Moeckall, junior's, subdivision of part of origival Jot numbered seven (7), in square numbered seven- teen (1D). ae recorded in the office of the sure Yesor of ‘the District of Columbia, iu Liber “\W, F.."" folio 167, together with ithe improvements and appurtenatices thereunto b:long'ng or tn any= wise appertaining. Terme of eale; One-third cash. balance to one and two years, represented by the peter of tha purchaser, bearing 6 per cent Interest, payable semi-annually, secured by a ded f trast apo the ‘Sold. or all cash. nt the cvtion of pw . A deposit of $106 on each lot requi at time of gale. All conveyancing and at the cost of the purchaser: Terms of sale to complied with within teu days from dete of sal otberwiee the trustees reserve the right to the at the risk and cost of the detguiting. purchones, after five dare advertisement Tesole tn ‘some per pulliched In Washinge ton, D. OC, The lots will be effornd scyarately. ALBERT A. WSN. ‘Trustee, JOEN B, LARNER, Trrater, 3835 F at.