Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1898, Page 8

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1898-16 PAGES, * MOSES «ts Mattress Factory, Ist and D. pAUT SATURDAY’ S SPECIALS: MILLINERY. $2.98 for $4.00 and $5.00 TRIMMED HATS. TWENTY-FIVE DAINTY VELVET HATS, a YGETHER BY THE BEST MILLI ‘TO WHICH GIVES THEM RENT FROM THE OR- RICE SHOULD BE $4 For Saturday, $2.98. 39c. for 75c. Hats. A STYLISH ASSORTMENT OF LADIES’ AND CHILDREN'S ROUND, SOFT FELT FB st. cor. Uth. W onder= Working Furniture Prices. —These little clearance sales of cer- tain pieces from each department are great successes. We buy the room the goods occupy very dearly Selling prices are often below cost Sitototiots LOLOL EOE EEE SSELAEED Seteete price. HATS, TRIMMED WITH SILK BAND, [N a7 x thease ALL THE DESIRABLE COLORS. A VERY Couches and Divans LOW PRICE WOULD BE 7c. gBiXAS, im denim that was $73 50 For Saturday, 39c. z DIVAN tm denim that $17.99 erase 4 ip matin, ATEN = made: $15.00 NN b)] 4 Ie head *8S Gor 99 me $25, = finish and Oak Reok- searete doors, that Were $16.72 f : * $16.75 Mahogeny-tinish and Oak Book- se Most 3 ss STYLE. REGULAR Srot PRICE, $9.50. gars bie glows doorn, ORE Say Bs : China Cases— : eaiiak {hina Cases, swell glass $8.g¢ < k pase ends and decor, $13.50 oe e Dresser, bee* $17.00 z posts, was $26, for - § + Parlor Suites— $ - piece Mabogany-taish Parlor < 4 as $70, fo amas®: $53.00 | 5 Tepe Greatest Satie ane $29.00 $ (Blacks, 85c. a pair.) $ cat rmomeed $29.50 |% $7.48 for $9.50 Jackets. ite, upbelsteres pa 4 VERY Suave pene = 24250 54 NOBBY $ tt W. B. MOSES & SONS. $ JACKETS : —___________|# = 4 Bee ore | FB as “Meet Me On the Dewey;/\|¢ ower Bench, 7 & H,”’ \ KA BLUE $ {\ And © Auerbach’s Genuine Bargains in Q ‘5 AND $ less Socks, 10e.: Ss FOR 4 } ; $ vorxa }, Uae ¥|% names ( fer gneer uber aot | E ee \ Hiikog, Glowese ott fp $ SEEN AE } Te, and “abe? w iy $ as z double. New $2.00 F zx = : 2 Soeterdongeotons ZY $ For Saturday, $7.48. /|£ $10.48 for $12.98 Suits. z Se NE TOMORROW. S_FOR 2) PROMPT C6 THE VERY LATEST CHE! BAND BLACK a ae a eae ea Save [Money & Trouble. For Saturday, $10.48. & GET THE BEST, LADIES’ “The Concord Harness,” Ear ; 3 : Trunks, Bags, Suit Cases REPORT OF THE FIGHT Positions of the Ships Chasing Cer- vera's Fleet. FROM START T0 SURRENDER OF COLON The Brooklyn Nearest to the Big Spanish Vessel. NEW YORK FARTHEST AWAY pe a The report of the Wainwright board was made public by the Navy Department to- day. The board was composed of the navi- gating officers of each of the United States warships which took part in the battle of July 3 off Santiago, with Lieut. Richard Wainwright of the Gicucester as president. ‘The duty of the board was to plot the posi- tions of the ships of Admiral Cervera’ squadron and those of the United States fleet in that great naval engagement. The report consists of a chart showing the posi- tions of the ships at seven different times, as follows No. 2 Pluton came out. No. 3—10:15 a.m., Maria Teresa turned to run ashore. No. 4—10:20 a.m., Oquendo turned to run ashore. No. 5—10:30 a.m., Furor blew up, Pluton turned to run ashore. No. 6—11:05 a.m., Vis ashore. No. 7—1:15 p.m., Coion surrendered. The chart selected by the board for plot- ting was H. O. chart No. 716, 1885, West Indies, eastern part of Bahama Islands, with part of Cuba and north coast of San Domingo. and turned to run A Brief Report. The report of the board is very brief and consists simply of notes explanatory of the chart. It makes no comments whatever re- garding the engagement, and is entirely si- lent with respect to the performances of the various warships, save as shown by their courses arid positions on the chart. “The positions of the United States ship: says the report, “were establ.shed by known bearings and distances from the Morro at No. 1, with the exception of the New York, whose position is plotted by the revolutions of her engines during a run of forty-five minutes east from her position, S. E. % S. of the Morro, 6,000 yards. Position at 2 is plotted by all ships according to their rela- tive bearings from each other, the opera- tions of thei: engines from 9:35 to 9:50, the evidence of the officers on board them and the ranges used in firing at the Spanish ships. Position No. 3 is plotted from observ- ations of the officers of the United States ships with regard to their nearness to each other and relative bearings of themselves from the Teresa, with ranges in us the time, the performance of the engines and general heading of the ships. Position No. 4, same as No. 3, substituting Oquendo for Teresa. Positions Nos. 5, 6 and 7 are plot- ted on the same general plan. “Before plotting these positions the board took each ship separately and discussed her data for the position under considera- tion, this data being obtained from the report of the commanding officers, notes taken during the action and the evidence of the members of the board. In reconcil- ing differences of opinion in regard to dis- tances, bearings, ranges, ete., full liberty was given to the representative of the ship under dis to bring in any argument or data he considered necessary, and the board submits this report with a feeling that, under the circumstances, it is as nearly correct as is possible so long after the engagement. Positions Explained. Measurements are necessary to determine the positions of the vessels as shown by the chart, at the beginning, during the progress and at the finish of the decisive battle which resulted in the total destruction of ——— Soldabeige. £ “The Dependable Store.” H 924-926-928 7th st., running, through to 704-706 K st. A morister sale of ladies’ $1.47 shoes--giving you usual $3 Saturday we start another great sale of ladies’ fine shoes—of values for = even greater iraport than the last, which went down into history as the biggest of years. We have just purchased from a leading New York shoe manufacturer and jobber his entire line of a certain kind of ladies’ finest ‘made footwear—getting them at a very small fig- ure for cash. This maker had decided to discontinue this line—not for any especial reason—one of his whims, perhaps. The shoes are of standard excellence—known wherever high-grade footwear is sold. The buying of them at this time—when the fame of our last great shoe offering had hardly died away—is a stroke of enterprise every shoe buyer will be quick to appreciate. The shoe manager | has proven himself ever,alive to your best interests—and you can always depend upon it that whenever there’s opportunity for buying under price the patrons of “The Dependable Store” will share in it. The shoes are of the finest character—carefully hand sewed and shown in a complete variety of styles—in both lace and button. Newest style’ tips, close trimmed cr extension soles. Strictly hand made—of the finest materials that enter a shoe—in widths from B to EE. Have smooth innersoles and best linings—shoes that have never been known to sell for less than $3—-you can see that by the splendid style and fine workmanship. There are seven thou- sand pairs in the purchase—and because of this lucky stroke of good fortune you get them at the record-breaking price of $1.47 a pair. a E We shall also put on sale the remaining portion of the Magov- -ern and Thompson Bros. $2 shoes for ladies, and offer them at 98c. a pair. Several new styles of the latest creation—which are regular $2 and $2.50 values. Choice of the lot, g8c. pair. Satisfaction in boys’ clothing buying. If you pay less than our prices you cannot get. satisfaction— simply because to go below us in price means a sacrificing of qual- ity—and when quality is missing frcm boys’ clothes dissatisfaction’s bound to result. Any mother who knows our boys’ clothing wiil be ready to tell you that prices are the lowest in Washington—and that better clothing than ours cannot be found. And _ it’s all true—as you'll come to find out when you investigate. A special offering of boys’ fine knee pants suits that will tempt every mother to buy Lot of boys’ finely double-bres short pants suits, for be: 19¢. boys’ suspenders, good and strong, * blue flannel blonses, sizes 4 to years old. a bine and brown and gray plaid re enter Sat se nothing ‘but wool The pants have Game |Ladies’ $2 and $2.50 cloth eat and knee for ddit that are perfectly. tn 28 waists, $1.69. much care as any be garments made. z Compare them with the best you have ev: y we pnt on sale a lot seen at ‘T: flannel aists, elaber trimmed, de in Was and tucked effe colors as garnet, gre ‘a them a ing tte. strteeeeee, 92-45 Suturday . bb and also plain black mobairs and A large line of little boy plain mohairs, some of them with braid for the little chaps from trimming—which are the regular $2 and fev ailored—trimmed values—and offer them at $1.69. soutache cee and embroidery—which you mebhinee Meee can id cheap, at $3.98—will be ¢&. c offered at... era $2.45 $1 wrappers, 79c. few styles in Boys stylish top coats 30 dozen fine flannelette wrap- full width made of tan covert oth and ke that are as nicely finishel and tailored as any $20 top coat—in all from 3 Lo 16 ye for which other stores are ashing § by i and $7.50—-we offer at which plainly belong 2 igs dollar for 79 35c. veilings, 12%4c. nt $4.98 also . Lot of finely made boys’ knee pan of superlor quality eHeviot and the nobbiest plaid stripes und « pa We have just closed out from an importer Hl teras—and also blgek among tham—'_ sizes a special lot of 45 pieces of new veilings, from 3 to 16 years—whl ua couldn't get in fa mesh and chenille dot eects sisowhore for less than 7Se. an 4 Boe which have never been known to sell for |] doNlar—here Saturday’ at os : less than before, and offer chem at SS half that—124y cents. Qe, boys’ golf caps, 15 300. boys’ percale shirt light patterns, eo indered pereale se. ora até, tn Wlack and brown, for waists, dark and 25c. velvet stocks, 1234. Lot of new velvet stock collars, in all the popular shedes, which are usually sold at » Will be offered as a special value at 214" cents. shirts for boys, A day of great values in millinery. | } While every day is bargain day in the millinery department— | for prices are always lowest—we have made Thursday the most \ important of the season thus far by the offering of some very in- | teresting offerings. The millinery department has not grown to its | present big Proportions by chance—but by the close application of | enterprise and fair dealing—the ability to sell the highest qualities | for less than any one else asks. You can always depend upon us to } \ lead—to guide you to satisfaction for the smallest amount of money. No charge for trimming hats. Lot of fine felt sailor hats, with wide sik { A let of om bild: ‘ e ot ol or children’s hats, all ready } ribbon band—moade ow, the latest Knox block | trimraed in the Intent atpte_ which | > hlonale solors is have already become very popular~ ¢ th everywhere else will go | > ae 31.49 for SSE TS SS ae Pp ae : : eeutriinmed silk velvet 1 Sater Samieey oa feat “cates tats, | = and aloo sailor hats will be offered soe | aan | Sua epecial value @t.ro--es 49. || 1 A lot of styli marked $4 and $5 tate: turday we J generons-sized sea gulls |) Down go the prices in cloak dept. | Unusually low prices prevail in the ladies’ cloak department this Saturday—to help the sales mount up higher than they have ever | been before and to give more of you a better idea of the goodness and complete variety of our winter stocks. Safe to say, no other cloak house in America buys more carefully than we—with more regard for its patrons’ tastes. The result you see in the choicest j) collection of garments a woman could care to pick from—a show- ing that does us proud. But come tomorrow—and see the low price markings. The usual $10 cheviot serge snits, in nary { The neual $8 electric seal Harettes, 1 and black, and also stslish coverts in ail | with long tats and trimmed with So cg the fashionable shades will be sold’ Go QQ | marten tails” for =) | fee: corr eate = } Soa made flounce suits of The usual $12 marten far collarettes, — {it ith double-breast with Persian astrakhan yoke and i cke with satin pels will mag fabs, with 12 tails an sf gold for... SM $12.98 ia, for $8.98 The usual $20 ef ey oak ie ae The usual $3 children’s long coats of two- ||| et skirts, tastefully braided. and — aoa “1 ve pero a x 98 il} 0 in all the new shades of Sr4 x; orings—trimaes 1 ang Sr \ venetian cloth, for JY $14.50 for ‘ The usual $3 no toned skirts, In The usual $4 children’s reefers. in fancy | stylish greens, blues placks— clotls, in-all the leading colors have neat will go at a. $169 ly braided capes, In all sizes up to Sy G8 |i 14 rs—for Dt .ge ii The 1 ts of blue aad ! jackeis umd inthe new fy front GOR << ty ah ee beatg caaeas fl or in double-breasted style—for. $4.98 vere fg prt ee > Cog ot Sen inehetin optala sore cla? The usual $7 fancy xtriped taffeta sil |i/ orotate Ce anny Cees $8.08 «| Racal Sure smrnes to Shoe Se 9 ROR ces : SEES i from—for 35 4 underwear values. N We shall put on sale four of the biggest bargain values that have yet been offered in ladies’ winter underwear. Just to put you in closer touch with this department—to have you know of the in- | finite goodness of the stock—and the low prices. \ Ladies’ plu: 4 ribbed vests and pants, Lad! suits, in balbriggan | made with French neck, pearl nttoms, os ery ree en hina tra long skirt—in all sizes, will £9 yOQ¢, sic pin, mittons — fi forthe ndayiat. C5. oeenoeh aces 9 raete regular § tor "ggc. | Ladies’ silk-combed Egyptian yarn vests Australian woel vests |] and pants, all seams silk elastic s! steam sbrunk—aplendidly made | whieh are well made in every line- fitting the best valu ver Sy i} wil: go for a day at. Offered. at $I | 2 s Colzgate’s dental root powde: il - Special toilet values. pesaterrerecrrorrecrere: COO If you get the toilet accessories some- ees a H » else you pay more than you should. A big variety of tuctle stick pins ii to well-known fact that no other store now the prevailing fashlon will be, s for so Hitle in this line. You ean count here for........ poate “= 7 ii more substantial savings than ever nae : | 1 will come Saturday. sedied nish ase i akley’s famous extracts, in all odors, will be here £ tj uding the bottle—will go for— 2y¢. jekteting, sliver and gold | on to: is which will tar soap, 0. je which you pay a asually— p46 any—will be ber will be here at 5 4c. en Regular Ise omt Imperial pe will be perf here at will be here for 12e. GOLDENBERQ’S, “The Dependable Store,’’ 924-926-928 7th St., mr St. weir at Stave Island, and made things ex- ceedingly Hvely for a time for the men em- BISHOP IN TRAMP’S RAGS. men threw a much longer they would have had to bring back an interpreter with them. I can’t poe the Spanish fleet at Santiago. and Le . STS, Position No. 1 shows that when the first Leather Goods. 3 HEAVY Spanish vessel,"the Maria Teresa, came out _ WEIGHT, of the harbor, at 9:35 a.m., the United FOR States ships were located as follows: The WINTER New York, Hist and Ericsson, nine miles WEAR. east of Morro; the Brooklyn, ‘three miles : 2 southwest of Morro and two and three Next Nattonal Hotel. = epee tenths miles from the shore; the Texas, centbigSy rma Mepairiog by akiied banda, AR 350. eight-tenths of a mile east of the Brooklyn: a = ee VALUE. the Towa, one and eight-tenths miles east eee and south of the Brooklyn; the Oregon, 5 S — 53 For Saturday, 25c. one-half mile east of the Iowa; the Taine Laxative Bromo 0 $ CE NIALS ie and pwosteuthe miles southwest of , 3 Morro, and the Gloucester almost direct! ees Q 4 50c. for 75c. Union Suiits$ | rortn or the traiana and one mile and four. ¢ Quinine ablets e AR FOR THIS DEPARTMENT Is tenths from Morro. y4 9 Q A GAMES HEAVILY FLEECED u ‘The other positions are similarly explain- 1 9 B z SUT IN BORD As ed by reference to the course displayed on ¥ © chart, which shows the direction each ( OX. lz For Saturday, 50c. ship took and also the points at which the ; my mata tea met of. TE pont co ST Spanish vessels were beached or blown up. f foe banned “banda a Q $ Union Suits for Children, in all The Brooklyn Nearest. redness and roughness © : er a ce) Z sizes, at 25¢. aie Brees was the nearest American y Bes whee 3 vessel when the Ccion surrendered. She E7-8. & SCORN CURE never fails Q $ had sailed 284 miles and was 34-10 miles 9 Q 54 from the Colon. The Oregon was 4% miles S EV ENS 013 from the Colon and more inshore than the . 4 DNEY Brooklyn. The Texas was 3 4-10 miles be- 54 MENT. hind the Oregon. ‘lhe New York was ‘4 QPha macy, 9th and Pa. Ave. ocd 28d Q 0 For any kind of a Riise: Here's a bankrupt dealer's firsc class makes. everythin, from ‘a snail feeders—clear up to big on the wrong vside of the st.. a lev) Pa) 912Pa.av tee e eee ecccccccocce your rubber plate * Broke kK D0* H. Townsend (Manager) will very best class of work. Ho Fainless Extracting, 50c. tunder Dental Ass’n | ry mre & wa be eereeee, ¢ We'll repair it e iabes glia and make it as tror ever . . * Odor errr eee eee eee eee eee over we yeres Oe. a W h ite full quart bottle. if you are serving t Punic refresbments at Gil, card parties, recep- tlons, ete., your ‘collation fs uplete unless you have big) bowl of famous To-Kalon S. “You're assured the expert blending of the pure wines when you order To-Kalon TO-KALON WINE CO., 614 14TH ST. sBtoe 0c20-20d that lot of 19,000 tons of your share yet? Ton. White Ash Coal at $3.99 yet Wm. Zeh, 708 1th St. on hand—could sell 50.000 Oem White Ash Coal, T The ‘We have only a portion of $3 99 thew. Have you secured lubrieate Wm. C, ple Robinson Oils more and outlast other otis.” Robinson & Son, BALTIMORE, Ma day, 474. miles from the Colon. None of the othe! vessels had come up save the Vixen, which Was abreast of the New York. This little vessel, in the beginning of the fight, steam- ed out to sea and sailed westward on a course about 2% miles from that of the nearest Spanish ships. The tracings the chart show that the Spanish vess*ls sailed on courses not more than three-tenth miles apart until the Oquendo ran ashore. Then the Vizcaya veered out to sea and the Colon kept near- er the shore, their courses being about seven-tenths of a mile apart. Up to the time the Oquendo went ashore, the Iowa, Indiana, Oregon and Texas’ sailed on courses’ within thr2e-tenths of a mile of each other, the Iowa being the nearest and the Texas the farthest from the course of the Spanish ships. The Brooklyn's cours Was from three-tenths to one-half mile out- side that of the Texas. The swing to the right which the Brooklyn made at the be- ginning of the engagement shows an oval four-tenths of a mile across. The course of the New York after passing Morro, fol- lowing the destruction of the Spanish v » Was nearer the shore than any oth nited States vessel except the Glouceste She passed inside the courses taken by the Spanish vessels. Ten miles west of the Vizcaya disaster she crossed the Colon's track, but followed the course of that ves- sel until the iatter surrendered. The Iowa, Indiana and Ericsson aid not go farther west than where the Vizcaya ran ashore. The Gloucester stopped by the Maria Teresa and Oquendo, as also did the B ERD dob Seed: 416 7th ASTHMA, Hay Fever and Catarrh, Oppression, Suffocation, Neui ESPIC’S CIGARETTES, Paris, J. ESPIC; New York, FOUGEBA &0Oo SOLD BY i 3GISTS. Cee LL DRUGGISTS. LDL I Regenerates The Hair. Seeing fs helleving. We have engaged a demonstrator from the IMPERIAL HAIR REGENERATOR PARLORS ot NEW YORE to show the wonderful powers of this great preparation. Restores bleached and gray $| Hist. The latter vessel was not able to hatr. keep pace with the New York and Er- iesson. ‘ MERTZ'S PHARMACY, Seen air oct7-6t.28 Sith anare sew. WHALES OFF MAINE COAST, nan aoe Horse Mackerel Thirty Feet Long Furnishes Fun for Fishermen. From the Ohtcago Inter-Ocean. After an absence of many years the wheles are coming back to eastern shores, All summer the bay at Gouldsboro, Me., Buood Porson. HAVE YOU Scrat, Tey cee leers in Mouth Hi ‘rite COOK REM: | has been swarming with herring and, now a <0. tone Bee pn ‘Sore CaIgASS. and then, schools of mackerel, and these Worst cases cured in 18 to 8 DAYS. 160-P4 small fish have been swall st cases 100-Page lowed by whales, porpoises and sturgeons. Recently a big whale was encountered by fishermen off Schocdic, but it was not captured. A har- Poon was thrown into the gtant fish, but the fishermen were not able to hold it, and the whale got away, after having nea-ly capsized the boat. The other day, when the little steamer Ruth was making her evening trip from Bar Harbor, large whale came up near the boat to breathe and spouted the water clear over the pilot house, giving the fright- ened passengers on deck a severe wet- ting. It was an enormous finback whale, the largest ever seen in these waters. The last whale to be captured on the Maine coast was killed by an old whaler, Eben Bickford, about twenty-five years ago. The appearance of whales off the coast the past summer is thought by the tishermen to indicate their return to ‘hese waters, and the occupation of killing whales may be again followed as extensive- ly as it was thirty years ago, when thou- sands of dollars were made at the business. One day last week a gigantic horse mack- erel entered the pound of Wood Bros.’ fish Don Pneumonia —or grip by sitting tn cold rooms—just because it is a little — to start up your latrobes. Get a sma Gas Heater at $1.25, Or larger size for a Uttle more, and see how nicely they will heat your largeat rooms. Don’t buy “‘toy stoves,’ but se- cure our reliable, up-to-dat almost cost pric Ir YOUR COMPLAINT IS WANT OF try half a wine giass of TRebert RA BreTEES half an hour before dinner. Beware of counter felts. Ask for the genuine article, manufactured ec21 by Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons. ployed there. One of the small harpoon into it and undertook to capture it, but the big mackerel started out at a rapid gait about the pound with bea and men, and gave them a dizzy whirl o| several minutes. The men could only sit down in the boat and hang on for dear lif the monster fi y broke away from them and went out through the weir, sweeping everything be- fore him. The fish was, it was sa’ thirty feet long and had followed a) of mackerel into the pound. Fisherme: who saw it say that it was the larges! horse mackerel ever seen on the coast. os Cheap Publicity. For fifteen cents you can let every one in Washington know that you want a situa- tion or want a cook, "FRISCO SINKING. City May Disappear Under Water in a Few Decades, Frem the San Francisce Chronicle. San Francisco is sinking! This is the startling statement of the civil engineer who conducts the work of the city and county surveyor’s office at the city hall. Sinking, slowly but steadily, each recur- ring year bringing additional evidence that a large portion of the city would in a few decades be below the water of the bay. This is no wild or irresponsible statement, but a coid fact demonstrated and proved by the careful scientific observations of en- gineers in the service of the municipality, men who have been establishing levels throughout San Francisco for years, and have the data and records of the city sur- veyor's office as the basis of their diseov- ery. These engineers find in surveying, or leveling, in the unstable districts that the official monuments indicating the levels, or heights above the city base, have sunk with the land, and so it is necessary to begin on firm ground and carry lines oyer those sunken marks, and always with the same result—streets, sidewalks, curbs, street railroads, buildings, all have gone down- ward together. ‘The peculiar feature of the sinking phe- nomenon is that the whole surface settles equally, a fact which has not only averted attention from the constant settlement, but also been the source of endless disputes be- tween owners of land in the district, who imagine the grade is raised upon them by city surveyors every few years. An interesting field fer mathematical ef- fort is opened through the city surveyors figures upon this subject. The average sink- ing of those districts which insist on mov- ing into nether regions is two inches a year. There is a tendezicy to settle less as the years pass, though the settling does not stop, and the ratio’ of the decrease ‘s so insignificant in ¢ompurison with the time as to be barely worth considering. Two inches may, therefore, Be taken as the basis of calculation. In‘one ‘hundred years the water of the bay woul be ebbing through the first stories of buildings, and the sec- ond floors would “be ‘what seamen call awash. But as the {nhabitants of San Fran- cisco will keep on filling the land, there will b+ no likelihood of such strange happen- ings. CPS ‘The cause of this peguilar condition in a large area of the city.is ascribed to the nature of the soik migich engineers de- scribe as a mixture .of alluvium washed down from the hillsiaés, ooze from the bay and decayed vegetable matter, the forma- tion of ages upon the original bedrock. En- gineers say that in places no bottom has been reached with piles sixty to eighty feet long, and the heavy structures erected thereon sustain the tremendous weight by force of friction, or resistance, against the sides of the piles. How deep is the ooze has not been ascertained in most places in the sinking area, Nor is it positively known whether the soft substratum moves out in- to the bay under the pressure or merely packs firmer and so becomes more stable. ——_—__+e+—___—__ Wants Quickly Filled. At this season, when so many are seek- ing situations, and, on the other hand, so many seeking employes, it is of interest to know that advertisements under th classifications Wanted Help and Wanted Situations are inserted in The Star at a charge of 15 cents for fifteen words. understand half they say as it As the officer walked off the two privates looked at one another, winked and com- menced to laugh. What was the boss—I mean the captain in’ to you?” asked one of the reporters. aid you were talking so much slang he couldn't unde: stand you.” he wasn’t in the south, then, but pitching it rather fierce, eh, to his companion. “Bunkie” | didn’t y anything, only grinned. i “But, say continued the other. “You'd a died to see bunkie here when he came | Gown tc Cuba an’ heard the men talk. Say, it was out o’ sight. He’s no sweet-tempered angel at the best of time, and he’s been my Rt. Rev. Dr. Coleman of Delaware Sleeps in Barns on His Vacation. From the Phil elphia Record. Tramping incognito 235 miles in the moun- tains of West Virginia, sleeping in barns and a school house, mending clocks umbrellas for farmers, and arou: pity of the country folks was the way the | Rt. Rev. Leighton Coleman, Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Delaware, spent his annual vacation. The bishop returned about midnight, coming by train from Har- per’s Ferry, W. Va. He greatly enjoye’ his outing, and « a few hours’ sle ter P z a ae ‘bunkle (that’s my tent mate), an’ s resumed his duties in Wilmington today, | punkle (that's my tent mate), an’ 90 T officiating at the corner stone laying of the | reach the island. We call the recruits ‘rookies’ now. At first they was ‘new boys,’ but now they're rookies. The grub boss—that’s the quartermaster sergeant— omes around next morning an’ sees my punkie sitting in front of the tent. ‘Here, rookie,” fie calls, ‘tell your bunkie to come an’ get his punk.’ Punk means grub, bread, anything to eat, you know. Bunkie looks at him, an’ then says, ‘Aw, what’re you givin’ us? ‘That's all right, rookie,’ said the grub boss, ‘jest you tell your bunkie, That’s him in the tent there.’ Girls’ Industrial School of Delaware. The bishop left Wilmington for his out- ing two weeks ago, going to Martinsburg. W. Va. Then his tramp into the mountains began. He crossed the Blue mountains sev- times, attended court at Grafton, W. and at Tunnelsville, W. Va., was at a pclitical meeting being addressed by a can- didate for Congress. The stranger was in- vited to make a speech, but the bishop “Th t ki t 5 Ni MER ncae S i aii en bunkie got mad. ‘Now just you never kes bert 2 look here, sergeant,’ says he; ‘just you Bishop Coleman on his tramp wore a] mind who youre addrescin’ Ses? You slouch hat, heavy shoes, long mackintosh and carried a staff. He traveled in all sorts of weather over all Kinds of roads. Frequently as he was trudging along the ain't the whole push, ‘cause you got stripes on your arm. Don’t you call me out o’ my name, ‘cause it don’t go, see? I ain't no , an’ I won't stand for ij Gosh, he roads some kind-hearted farmer would stop $s mad! I told him rookie was only siang his team and cail to the pedestrian to | for recruft, but he said he didn’t want any ‘jump aboard,” remarking “You are too | slang in his. But you got used to it ‘fore old to wal And the farmer. would be | long, didn’t you, bunkie?” amazed when his invitation was declined. Others would stare at him and he could overhear remarks. “It’s a pity that he has The derivation of other expressions is doubtful if not impossible to ascertain. Most of them probably had their genesis in to walk. I wish I could help him.” the fertile brain of some soldier who de- ‘The bishop is an adept at clock repairing. | scribed a fact in terms that amused his Most of his nights were spent at farm | companions. Others “caught on” because hous where the bishop usually paid for} of their literal truthfulness. As an ex- But sometimes the farm- | ample of the latter class the expression a night's lodging. e 2 ers would refuse to take pay. Then th “shot” except when referring to intoxica- bishop would spy a clock that was not run- | tion, has been changved to ‘“Mausered.” It a man was wounded otherwise he was prob- ably “macheted.” If he was killed, cause of injury unknown, the soldiers will tell you he was “dagoed,” and let it go at tha. The reason for calling the Cubans “‘cubebs” is not hard to find, nor why the Spanish vietims of their butchery were “dagoed.” The Spanish sharpshooters were not lynch- ed by the American soldiers, they were strapped,” which is a distinction with onl light difference. Ropes were not “hand: and rifle straps always were. The soldiers in Santiago uidn’t take a walk or make a march, he did a hyke. Any sol- dier knows what @ “hyke" is, but very few seem to know why it is. A volunteer in the Army building yesterday said that he had been “hyking all over looking for transpor- tation. “What does hyking mean?” he was asked. “Oh, you know! Just—ah—to hyke,” was his reply. Food is, of course, grub, but bread and hardtack are often known as “punk,” while the word rations has been abbreviated to “rats.” Hardtack by itself is commonly known as “angel food.” A soldier who was asked the reason for this term simply laugh- ed and replied: * "Cause it ain't.” A soldier doesn’t He nowadays, at least those who have been in Cuba don’t. They enly “pitch you a fierce one” or possibly “give you a pipe.” If the soldier has doubts as to your veracity he may insinuate that you are “dreaming” or that your “pipe is ning, anc he would quickly repair It, to the delight of his hosts. Others would have broken umbrel which the bishop would mend, and he did all sorts of tinkering jobs about the farms. Some dark nights, how- ever, the bishop was not so lucky in get- ting’ a good bed in a farmer's house in which to sleep. ‘At one place where he knocked for ad- mission he was informed that the house was full and he could not sleep even on the floor. So the bishop journeyed until he cume to a dilapidated looking barn. Into this he crept and of new hay he made a bed on which he slept during the night, the crickets singing him into the land of dreams. 5 Another night the bishop had bad luck he did not know where to sleep. He, how- ever, fortunately came upon a school house in a lone road. The janitor had left the back window open, and in through the win- dow the bishop climbed. He slept for the night on the hard wooden floor. At one place where he stopped the family con- sisted of a father, mother and six grown children, none of whom could read or write. ‘The parents said they were too poor to pay for the clothes for their children. The longest distance traveled in one day was twenty-six miles, but the average was about twenty miles. oo —______ OUR ARMY SLANG, From the Lewiston Journal William B. Remick, who was one of Union River's heaviest lumber operators a few years ago, and ts now a resident of Maria- ville, witnessed a startling natural phe- nemenon a short time ago while returning from the head of Flood’s Pond to the set- tment. He saw a thunderstorm gather in aclear sky, and watched it roll on ahead of him with ever increasing force and destruc- tiveness until it swept nearly all of Han- cock county and left a score of fires tn its wake. Some of the freaks of the lightning ware marvelous. At Hanscome’s, in Mariavilie, two families occupied the hous In the front part was an aged gentleman seated in aa armchair reading the Bible. A bail of fir? rolled lazily into the window, daaved along the window ledge a secoad or two and then rolled into the old gentleman’ Jap and across the open Bible in his hands. He experienced no shock whitey exe spt a blinding sensation, but the mezal clasps of the book were melted and ram to the floor, while across the pages of th: book Was stamped indelibly a miniature photo- graph of @ large apple tree that stood in the dooryard close by the window. Some rrinutes after it had passed the old man made an effort to rise, but was firmly held to his Chair by some mysterious force. After an hour or more of effort on the part of members of the household, with liberal bathing of vinegar and other remedies, the chair finally loos>ned its hold and he was able to rise. There was no ill effect felt by him. The ball of fire, after dro; ping from the book, had struck the floor and ‘sounded to the ceiling, passing through the cracks in the top of the partition into the apartments of ths Hanscomes, where young Mrs. Hans- come was seated with her baby in her arms. It came toward her from the ceiling a swaying ball, rocking back and forth, until it struck her full in the face and dis- appeared. Eight of Mrs, Hanscome’s front teeth disappeared with it and wer2 never found. Her chair was tipp=d forward with her in it, and she was found unconscious, her head and feet resting on the floor, still retaining her position in the chair, as if it were upright, instead of resting upon ber. The baby was clasped closely to har bosom, uninjured, and crowing as if greatly de- lighted by the event. Ft was several hours before Mrs. Hanscome’s arms could ba made to unfold and release the baby and before the chair could be removed from her. When she recovered consciousness sh¢ vomited a large quantity of black matten tke charcoal, which gave out @ strong odoj of sulphur, and it was a long tim? vefor( she fully recovered from the shocic. On the wall where the electric mast passed from one apartment to the othef w-re streaks of sooty blackness, as ij biown through by a strong blast. Thi marks could not be washed off and stih work through the coat of whitewash put on to cover it. One of the strangest freaks was the strik- ing of a hennery and the killing of several hens. Some of the hens rested on the roosts, as if asleep. Othera were standing upon the ground in an attitude of listening. Previous te this a hen was supposed to be lightning proof, her feathers forming th» protective armor. out.” If he wanted you to infer that he had been locked up in the guard house by a member of the provost guard he would probably say that he had been “cooped in booby hatch by a bull.” Should a soldier — Son ae eee bunkte was “bak- yy a bull for jum: a gump” he would probably be misunderstood. His meaning would be that his tent mate had been ar- rested by the provost guard for stealing a ang which is not quite as bad as it souni Additions Thi War Has Made to “Military Parlance.” Trom the New York Commercial Advertiser. “How those boys have managed to pick up such a conglomeration of slang terms in the few short months that they have been away passes my understanding,” said an ‘army officer the other day. He had been listening to,2 couple of returned soldiers who were swapping stories of the war, and was much amused and apparently not a little perplexed by their language. “It is certainly not Spanish,” he added, “but whatever it is 1s decidedly Dutch to me. During the war—the civil war, I mean —we have to distinguish our wars now—the boys a great many slang words to their vocabulary, but these young ‘uns beat us out of sight. It is a sign of the times, I suppose, but if they had stayed in Cuba —o Situations Secured. Many situations are secured through the want advertisements in The Star. The cost is but trifling. Fifteen cents pays for fifteen words. —————_ According to the latest available statis- tics the United States has this year canned 4,500,000 cases of tomatoes. Less than fifty years ago people did not know tomatoes were good to eat. ——— tee Mosquitoes Capture a Tewn. From the Cocoa (Fla.) News. The last few Jays have furnished an ex- perience with mosquitoes in this section seldom equaled and never surpassed. The vicious insects have come in a cloud, in- festing every nook and corner and attack- ing every living @hing from which a drop of blood could be drawn. Men have been forced to quit work, horses and mules have had to be protected, dogs had to be taken into dwelling houses and poultry squawked during the night hours as if prowling beasts had seized them. All outdoor work is largely suspended, and indoors the fumes of burning insect powder Indicate the persist- ent defense necessary to be made against the invading pests, The long months of im- munity are being made up to us now, it is hoped that this crop will be short lived.