Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1898, Page 12

—_ THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY BACHE) SUNDAY AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 11@1 Peansviveria Avsiay 1 Se. be The Evening Star Newspaper Compuny, S. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. es Tew York Ofice. 49 Potter Building. ‘The Evening Star ts served te subscribers tm 21 ity by carriers. or their own account, at 10 cents 44 certs per monts. Copies at the ents each. By mail-anywhere in the es or Canada—postage prepaid—S0 cents Star. $1 per year, with foreign postage added, $3.08. (Entered at the Post Omice at Washington. D. C.. as second-cla + mall matter.) 7 All mall wabdscriptions must be pall in advance Rates of advertising made known on application bs The suit is not yours until you pronounce the fit QO. K. Keep that point always in RDI , mind — RIB RARSR SS ) Many customers, no doub | SAD DPD isfied unless we can give you m can get elsewhere. This princit o> DO goodness we get into those suits which we sell at Value giving is a hobby of ours, and we are never sat- ras, Che Fuening SL ah vases C3 " WASHINGTOD D. ©. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27 -1898—FOURTEEN Wonder what Mertz will say today. Thursday, October 27, 1898. bt, wonder at the amount of De nore for your monev than you ple of giving more for the ) ped us to build the largest tail- > money than you expect has helf x (\ oring business in this city. Of course you are fully aware é that you can only get “those dainty touches and that inde- 4 he has told you. 906 F ~~ Ae A Ha_—(ae_—u_@_q_»x»z”r=—x""""’—"—"—“~u=VI HY A RIFLE. HING WITH ‘A Place Where People Shoot and Kill the Finny Victims. Philadelphia Inquirer. the Straits of San Juan de Fuca is nd one of the largest of the Pacific the halibut, the capture of which af- excitement and sport, especially ng people who are taken out to From the In nt to go halibut fishing, eh?” fisherman to a boy visitor. boy, you can go; and all the ant fs a rifle.” Jaimed the youth. “Who g with a rifle?” nded the fisherman, “you bring y and I'll show you.” th boys were impressed with the prepa- rations, which certainly suggested big game. A huge line was hauled out of a hatch and coiled with great precaution, and finally fastened on a gigantic reel ne four feet in length, which crossed of the beat; from this extended "ul handle, the entire arrangement abling an old-fashioned well lift. hook was baited, and in obedience to uctions, the rifles were loaded and the fold to make ready to shoot at appearance of the game. What shall we asked one of after waiting in eilence half an larg: Inst * replied the skipper as though astonished at the question; halibut, of course; not at me. s as soon @s you see the fish pour the lead into him.” His companions began to watch the wa- ter as though expecting to sze the fish fly were thus engaged when a hissing d the big line was seen running ut surely over the sid> of the boat. rman watched it carefully, and about twenty feet had been myste- taken he ed the line, and as it vigorous jerk. there was no response, as tonished; then th hands so quickly in the water, and +d to leap Coil after coil, yard after slipped over the side, and it became he entire line would be ex- 3 something was done. the fisherman now lying back, ucceeded in stop- . and hauled the line in a few fish made a vigorous rush ok 1 away again, and thn the w that it was rising. ie’s climbing.” said the red-faced fisher- n; “stand ready Higher and hixher came the line, and sud- , in a mass of foam, a huge bat-lik f was seen flapping upon and beating the water, churning it into foam. “Now!” shouted th2 skipper. The boys sprang to their feet and began firing at the squirming target, over nine feet wi ot one hundred feet away. They ndoubtedly struck it, but a number of ad been fired before any apprectable effect was noticed; then the huge fish be gan to slowly swim around the boat, finally ing downward then that the skipper released the sprang to the big reel windlass gan to wind up the game—a most operation, in which all joined and it was only after @ struggle forces, the fish was brought to the surface, tremendous weight of nzarly 800 3 to lift it. ut—of the northwest coast ins a weight of 1,000 pounds, and it is a dangerous game to at- tempt to land in a small boat; so the ex- pedi=nt of killing it with the rifle ts suc- adopted, and many of the largest are killed in this way. — Mosquito Killer of Meatco. Prom the Venezuelan Herald. n Central Railway Company n a new experiment which, if it t is claimed for it, will be of in- value to the residents of this how earnest they are in the Mexic of mosquito commissioner—end the port- o was awarded to Capt. George C. Sper- tendent of telegraphs for the in different parts of the 5 scribable something” by having your clothes made to order. The ready-made man knows this, because we quote what | Mertz and Mertz, - OO, PBI ARL EIB The | the air lke a | Street. ep NEW FRENCH FIELD Modern Rapid Firing Weapon of Tre- mendous Power and Range. From the New York Herald. Stori ve been published in the French papers from time to time duri the last five years regarding experiments with rap- id-fire field guns, and the visits of the vari- ous ministers of war and the president to the camps at Chalons and at Bourges were stated to have been to witn the trial: which were always reported GUN. excellent results. These experiments hay now been successfully concluded, and the field artillery branch of the French army will in the near future be equipped with the gun finally decided upon made of nickel steel and is pro- breech The gun i vided with a lock operated by screw mechani. liber being 7.5 centi- meters, or a than three inche: | Smokeless powder ts used and the charge and projectile are combined in one, a in an ordinary infantry cartridge. These cart- | ridges are of considerable length. Loading the gun is dene by the cannoneer on a seat at the left of the carriage. operates the breech block. a cartridge he closes the breech. this oper: | tion simultaneously setting the firing pin. | After the shot ts fired he catches up the empty shell on opening the breech. The gun 1s aimed and fired by the ca noneer sitting at the right of the carriag: Within a certain arc the lateral movements of the piece are made by means of a scre without disturbing the position of the ca riage, while for greater changes of aim the carriage itself is moved, a lever extending from its foot being employed for this pur- pose, When a shot is fired from an ordinary cannon the carriage has a tendency to run back. This is checked in the new gun by a glycerine brake, and the gun is replaced in firing position by means of compressed air. Part of the recoil, however, is com icated to the carriage, and to prevent er from changing jits position {t is furnished with a spur at its foot which {s forced into the ground after the first shot or two, rendering it immovable. Rapidity of fire is obtained by use of the metallic cartridge, combining both charge | and projectile, the possibility of aiming the | gun while it is being loz nd its lateral jovability without di: the carriage Five a minute are considered slow work, many twenty may be fired in case it ‘or the protection of the gunners two steel shields are Two kinds of projectile are used and shell. The fi contain lead bullets fore striking. s in all di- rections, while the latter are charged with melinite and are used to ple reastworks, Destructive effects of the shrapnel are fr creased by swinging the gun throvgh its a provid on the ca while firing. s covering a large s is called rcher le terrain,” ‘mowing the ground,” a grim- ly suggestive term. Other European countries have made ex- periments in this line, notably Germany, whick has already equipped its field artil- lery with a somewhat similar weapon. During a t trial in that country ta gets representing the equivalent of three- | fourths of an intrenched field battery of the crdin; kir out seven minutes at a range of 5.2 kilometers (about three and one-quarter miles). From this tt would appear that the next European war will be murderous beyond description—provided the czar’s disarma- ment proposition 1s not accepted before the smoldering fire breaks into flame. were put of action in ————_ +e+__ DID HER INJUSTICE. Holland's Queen Wanted a Younger- Looking Portrait on Her Stamps. Frem the New York Tribune. Even queens, it appears, do not care to be | portrayed in a way which makes them look older than they really are. Some new Dutch pcestage stamps, of the denomina tions of one, two and a half and five gul- den, respectively, which were issued to commemorate Wilhelmina’s accession to the throne of Holland, have been with- drawn, It is reported, because the young ruler is not pleased with the picture of | herself upon them. With her hair drawn tightly up from the sides and at the back and massed near the top of her head, she certainly does appear more like a woman of thirty than a girl of eighteen. Perhaps the photographer ts at fault, but wherever the blame lies it ts the royal wish that the 's, and in New Jersey in par- demonstrated the fact that nation of the mosquito can be Accomplished. An exchange, eaid: “Scientific investigation has disclosed the fact that a few grains of permanganate of potash will destroy all the embryo mos- quitoes in a very large area of mosquito swamp. At 2 cents an acre all the mos- quitoes can be killed off for a space of thir- ty days, and as the breeding time ts but onths, 4 cents will assure protection for the entire year. This places it within the possibility of a state, and certainly a city, to entirely rid itself of a great nui- eance.”” April and May are the two months in Which mosquitoes breed. They are purely local in their habits, and not migratory, as some suppose, and they seldom move more than @ hundred feet from the place of their birth. Hence, to exterminate the breed in a certain locality would rid that locality of the pest for that season at least, and the method of extermination {s so inexpensive that an entire community may be rid of them at @ very small expense. in discussing the matter, ‘The Star's “Wanted Help and Situations” columns are carefully read by thousands Gaily, Fifteen cents pays for Afteen words. stamps be recalled. This sudden stopping of the issue is likely to make the speci- mens scarce, and a hint of this fs already rousing the collectors. In view of the fact that Wilhelmina now objects to having her subjects think her too old, it is interesting to recall that just six years ago she was worried lest they should believe her younger than she was. At that time, in 1802, a series of stamps was issued bearing a picture of the child queen as a little girl with short hair. This was evidently taken {rom a portrait not strictly up to date, for by the time the stamps came out Wilhelmina's*hair had grown long, and she wore it hanging loose- ly down her back. When the stamps were shown to her, the twelve-year-old monarch Was greatly annoyed at the short hair, which, she said, made her look too childish, and she insisted upon having it changed’ Those in charge of the postal department were willing enough to do this, but to the frugal Dutch mind it seemed impossible to waste a perfectly good steel plate, so to the old block from which the stamps were en- graved lines were added to lengthen out the objectionable “shingled” hair. Unfor- tunately, the workmanship on the addition did not match the rest very well, and on all the stamps printed from the plate there- after the line where the original short hair ended was clearly to be seen through the —. locks which the artists had drawn low. THE B. AND O. CASE Separate Answer of Trustees to In- junction Application. DONT REPRESENT BOND OWNERS Plan of Reorganization Has No Connection With Title. RATE-CUTTING CHARGES ‘The separate answer of William F. Burns and William Keyser, trustees, to the ap- plication for an injunction made by the state of Maryland and the Jchns Hopkins University to restrain the foreclosure of the mortgage on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad was filed in the United States court at Baltimore yesterday by ex-Judge William A. Fisher, the counsel of the trustees. In their answer the trustees say they are advised by counsel that the owners of (he bonds of the road, the payment of the rrincipal and interest whercof is secured by the mortgage, are in no way represented by the trustees, The plan of reorganization, they say, and the acceptance or rejection of it by the bondholders, has no connection with the title held by them or with the performance of any duties. The offers made under the rlan, it is claimed, are in no legal sense coercive upor. the bondholders, and are not within the cognizance of the court. “Inasmuch, however," says the answer, “as one of the averments of the petition filed on July 2 that the plan of reor- sanization is unduly favorable to the said bendholders, they deem it to be their duty, in protection of their rights as trustees and of those of the bondholders, to answer so much of the petiticn as relates to such in- terests.” Their Denta’ They deny the allegation in the petition the ccurt has acquired jurisdiction over all questions relative to or affecting the personal rights of all the bondholders under the several mortgages executed by the company, and say that such jurisdic- tion, with respect to the bondholders, re- lates solely to the proceedings for the en- forcement of the mortgage and to the dis- tribution of the money to be derived from the mortgaged property by gale or other- wise. It ts a’so deried in the answer that the plan of reorganization is unduly favorable lo the bondholders under the mortgages, nd especially to the holders of the bonds ued under the terms of the mortgage executed to the trustees, or that it is unjust in any respect. They have no connection with the holders of the bonds, the petition- ers allege, and are not informed regarding the motives which actuated them in form- ing the plan. They ure of the opinion, how- ever, that it was “the exercise of proper 3 prudence to cause the reduction fixed charges at the carllest period practicable, and in putting the plan in eperation, to take advantage of monetary ecnditions favorable at the time, but lia- ble to be affected by unforeseen contin- gencies.”" The trustees further answer, upon ad- vice of counsel, that if it were n ary t the status of the capital stock, issued by the company under the act of 1825 should be ascertained, it has been alre stated in a decree signed by the court. Regarding the default in the payment cf interest, the petitioners are referred to the answer of the receivers. “Whatever may have been the caus which led to the default,” says the answer “it is their right to declare the princi pal to be due, in accordance with the terms of the mortgage of the debtors, and they submit that no injunction should be issued to prevent the full and untrammeled ex ercise by them of this power conferred upon them by the mortgag The Rate-Catting Case. There promise to be interesting develop- ments in the case in which the Baltimore and Ohio com| has been charged be- fore the intersiate commerce commission by the Southwestern ‘Traffic Association with the cutting of rates. Almost all of the lead- ing Baltimore and Ohio traffic officials in the east and west, it is stated, have be subpoenaed to appear before the at its meeting in St. Louis on November 1, and they may be relied upon to hit back at their accus This is the since the passage of the interstate law in which a railroad off before the com- mission what he considers evidence of rat cutting on the part of a railroad. The pen alty, in case of conviction, is a heavy fine and if the fine is not paid there may be im- prisonment. Present prospects are that the inquiry will be an exceedingly far-reaching one, for, it is said, the officials of the de- fendant ‘road have promised to lay befor the commission all evidence they may have of illegal transactions on the part of line belonging to the Southwestern Traffic As- fon. The membership includes all of the lines doing business in Texas. The Bal- timore and Ohio Railroad Company ts not a memter of the association and did not sub- seribe to the agreement which {t is charged with having violated. It 1s because of this fact, the Baltimore and Ohio officials say they will make things lively for Mr. Camp: bell, the chairman of the association, who filed the charges. When the Southwestern Traffic Associa- tion was formed much comment was induc- ed by a clause in the agreement obligatin the chairman to lay before the interstate commerce commission or national or state courts any evidence he might have of il- legal transactions on the part of any mem- ber of the association. Provisions of the Compact. This compact also provides that the chairman of the conference committee shall begin proceedings before the interstate com- merce commission or the courts against any connecting line found guilty of illegal actices, and that all traffic relations be- tween such connecting line and members of the association shall at once be suspend- ed. ‘The Baltimore and Ohio officials who have been subpoenaed, {t is said, are extremely indignant at the course pursued and have promised that they will present to the com~ mission all correspondence referring to Tex- as triffic that has passed between them and the Southwestern #ssociation. It is declar- ed that some of this correspondence will prove decidedly Interesting. ; Officials of Hnes belonging to the organ- ization of which Mr. Campbell 1s chairman are indignant over the proceedings. They declare they were fully in earnest when they adopted the agreement, and, had the proceedings been started against one of them, there would be no reason for com- plaint against the chairman. But that he should have picked out a connecting line, one which did not sign the agreement pro: viding for prosecution, as the first to feel the effects of the compact was ill-advised. > A Nefarious Plot. From Puck. Sam—“Ef yo's gwine ter be de candidate, colonel. I kin put yo’ on ter some queer goin’s on ob de folks what's ag’in yo'!”’ The Colonel—“Indeed?” Sam—“Yes, sah; dey’s gittin’ up a reg’lar *spiracy to stop youah people from stuffin’ de’ ballot boxes.” ——+e+—____ Cheap Publicity. For fifteen cents you can let every one in Washington know by a Star want ad. that you want a situation or want a cook. Vleundries, COMMISSIONER JONES’ ATE: Indians Dissatisfied With the Han- dling of Their Timber. Commissioner of Indian Affairs William A. Jones, who has been fer a week in Minnesota makirg negotiations, which were successful, with, the Chippewa In- dians for the resumption ef peaceful re- lations with the governme if, has returned to Washington and hassniade a verbal re- port to Secretary Bliss !upcn his work. Commissioner Jones say8 the trouble is attributable to the methotis)of the whites in the vicinity, who are taking gross ad- vantage of the Indians. Inidiscussing the outbreak, he said: “The origin of the whole trouble was dis- satisfaction with the Handling of the In- dians’ timber, but the immediate cause was irritation at the frequent arrests of Indians on trivial causes, often for no cause at all, taking them down to Duluth and Minneapolis for trial, 200 miles away from their agency, and then turning them adrift without meaxs to return aome. I have in- formaticn that there is a regular arrange- ment between the deputy United States raarshals and some boarding houses where the courts are located by which the depu- ties are to bring down delegations of In- dians as witnesses in whisky and other cases. Thjs secures fees for the deputies and money for the boarding places. At Brainerd, Mirn., while I was going north, I met a party of twenty Indians on their way to court at Duluth, mary of whom were of absolutely no value to the case at issue, but whose presence as witnesses would inure to the financial benefit of others. “The Indlars were prompted to their out- break by the wrongs committed on them, and chafed under unfair treatment. Wien I reached there they were surly, ugly, de- fiant, but soon adopted a conciliatory atti- tude and finally agreed to negotiate for the surrender of the men wanted. All but two were surrendered. They said they would not allow two men to bring their whole tribe into trouble, and proudly insisted on sending themselves for the two men re- maining, old Bug and his scn, to have them turned over to the marshal. They are still out. The Indians claimed they had whipped the soldiers and that not one of their own number hed received a scratch. They showed several Krag-Jor- gensens, taken probably from where the soldiers had the fight, but they did not understand their use. The Indians will go back to their homes and live peaceably, if the whites will treat them fairly, which is very likely, as the whites were thor- oughly impressed with the stand taken by the Indians. In this respect Commissioner Jones will recommend a reform in the existing tim- ber methods, either adopting the scheme row practiced at Menominee, W: of keeping the timber profits within the tribe itself by having the timber cut by indi- vidual Indians or of advertising a certain portion of the reservation each year to be sold to the highest bidder, The latter system would include beth grown and dead and down timber, and the timber would have to be cut clean. — Soe MARINES’ BRAVERY ON BROOKL Jammed Cartridge Extricated Under a Fierce Fire. One of the most thrilling incidents in the naval engagement which resulted in the destruction of the Spanish fleet by Ad niral Schley off Santiago July 8 1s described by Captain Murphy, who commanded the Marine Guard of the flagship Brooklyn on that occasioh, in an official report to Colonel Heywood, commandant of the U. S. M. C., as foliows “During the early parfoef the action a, cartridge jammed in the bore of the star- board forward six-pounder, and in the ef- fort to withdraw it the case hecame de- tached from the projectile, deaving the lat- ter fast in the bore and impossible to e: tract from the rear. Corporal Robert Gray of the port gun asked and received pe-mis- sion to attempt to drive the shell ovt by sans of the rammer.. To do this it was ssary to go out om the gun, anc the king was full of difficulties and the latter due in great measure to t of the turret guns firing over 1ead. The gun was hot, and it was nec ty to cling to the Jacob ladder with hand while endeavoring withthe other to mainip- ulate the long rammer. “After a brave effort he was forced to give up, and was ordered In. Quarter Gun- ner W. H. Smith then came, sent by the executive officer, and promptly placed him- self in the dangerous position outsidy the gun port, where he worked and failed as the corporal had done. Neither had been able to get the rammer into the bore and there seemed to be nothing left to do but dismount the gun. At this juncture Private Mc} , one of the crew, volunteered to go out and make a final effort. The gun was so important, the starboard battery being engaged, that as a forlorn hope he was permitted to make the attempt. He pushed out boldly and set to work. The guis of the forward turret were firing, the blast nearly knocking him overboard, anc the enemy's shot were coming with frequency into his immediate neighborhood. Ellis s_killed on the other side of the deck. ver paused in his work. The ammer was finally placed in the bore and the shell efected. ‘The gun was put In ac- tion and McNeal resunfed his duties as coolly as if what he had done were a mat- ter of every-day routine.” —— IN MEMORY OF BAGLEY. one Tablet to Be Raised in the Chapel at the Naval Academy. The chapel at the Annapolls Naval Acad- emy, which has been described as the Westmingter Abbey of the American navy, will shortly be adorned by a tablet in mem- ory of Ensign Bagley,.who was Killed on the torpedo boat Winslow in Cardenas har- bor, Cuba, May 11, The tablet is now in course of preparation ‘in New York. It is of polished brass and has at the top a palm branch and a sword crossed and at the bottom a laurel wreath crossing the palm. ‘The inscription $s as follows: “In Memory of “WORTH BAGLE “Ensign United States ) ‘Yy- “The an officer who fell in the Spanish-American war. Killed on board the torpedo boat Winslow during the bom- bardment of Cardenas, May 11, 1898. ‘I have fought a good fight; T have fin- ished my course; I have kept the faith.’ IL Timothy, iv:7. “This tablet is erected by the officers of tho Atlantic torpedo ftotilla.” ‘There are memorial tablets in all the spaces between the windows in the Naval Academy Chapel. With one exception, they commemorate the lives of the men most distinguished in the gavy. ‘The “exception. is that of a professor of mhthematics. The Bagley tablet is to be‘placed at the right of the chancel facing the congregation. Se eee 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 the classifications Wanted Help and Wanted Situations are inscrted in The Star at a charge of 15 cents for fifteen words. A Sicilian tribuna}, has just sentenced a noted forger to imprisonment for 189 years. The culprit has passed himself off as an advocate and in the guise committed sixty- three different acts of serlous fraud, hav- ing even stolen for a:short time the seal of the chancellor of the court. This seal he used to give effect to: his fraudulent documents. : The use of electric -fanspfor ventilating purposes is rapidly ,growipg, but besides this there are a number of minor uses which, taken in theraggregate, make the summer electric fan but @ small portion of the business. They are used for arying photoera phy in photagraph galleries, an: ,the latest addition tg for drying clothes in * GRAVE QUESTIONS Problems Which Will Confront the W. C. T. U. Convention. THE GREAT TEMPLE IN CHICAGO Its Ownership to Be Finally De- cided at St. Paul. ————— INTERESTING HISTORY Mrs. Margaret B, Platt of this city, who, as heretofore stated in The Star, has been chosen to represent the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the District of Co- lumbia in the coming national convention of the crganization at St. Paul, Minn., will have the privilege of being a member of the most important W. C. T. U. convention ever held, during which questions will be settled whose results will interest millions of people throughout the Union. Principal among these is the future own- ership of the magnificent W. C. T. U. Temple in Chicago. There 1s probably not a member of the W. C. T. U. in Washing- ton who does not feel a personal pride in and a feeling as part owner of the Chicago building, nor who 1s not anxious on the subject of what the convention will do to- ward meeting the debt which there is upon it. ‘That the temple was ever built was due to Mrs. Matilda B. Carse, one of the na- tional officers, and an associate for many years in the work of the W. C. T. U. of the late lamented Frances E. Willard. It was the desire of Mrs. Carse that the National W. C. T. U. should own its own home, and t the home should be a splendid temple, ielding a revenue to be turned into the work of the union. She canvassed her plans for years before her ideas had be- y defined. Then she undertook the enterprise and has worked unceasingly since to obtain the control of the property. If her present projects succeed, the associ- ion will own a large block of the stock, sibly a majority; if they fail, the whole project fails with them. The Temple and Its Cost. The temple building cost $1,265,000. When e years ago, a floating debt of $65,000 was all that was not provided for under the plan of construction. It stands on ground owned by Marshall Field, under a 200-year lease. The ground rental fs $10,000 annually, without revaluation, during the life of the leasehold. The tem- ple was constructed by stock subscription nd bonded indebtedness. ‘The association Was capitalized for $600,000, and bonds in a like amount were issued. The latter are held by the Field Columbian Museum. Mr. Field holds the bulk of the capital stock not pledged to secure the additional bonds issued by Mrs. Carse. The amount of the latter is $300,000, ‘To secure the stock thus held as collateral, the union must pay $300,000 before November 1. ‘That is the present status of the enterprise. Carse was the originator of the en- the president of the board She first outlined her plan of erecting a temple to the national conven- tion at Nashville, ‘fenn., in 1887. It was her purpose toorganize a corporation to be known as the Temple Building Association. Stock was to be issued and sold and the added funds needed for the immediate pros- ecution of the work were to be raised by the issue and sale of bonds. The national executive committee, it is said, did not indorse the plan of building on leased ground, but in the convention it was resolved to cordially indorse the plan of the founder, and a pledge of co-opera- tion with moncy and influence was given. Mrs. Carse went to work. organized the building association, issued the stock and first bonds and the work was commenced. Conservative Opposition. It is doubtful if the conservative element in the union ever fully indorsed so colossal a project as the building of a $1,000,000 temple. The fact that the members for the most part are not wealthy and that it would be very difficult to raise such a large amount gave them a feeling of fear that it would fail. But the stock was en by men friendly to the cause of temperance, and the bonds of $600,000 were also taken. The trustees of the association bought haif the capital stock and the rest was sold with the agreement that the trustees might buy it in at par with 5 per cent inierest. The ownership of the large block of stock would give the trustees control of the building, but to make the purchase a new series of bonds for the full amount was issued and stock certificates placed in escrow to secure repayment. Twelve years was the limit placed on this latter pledge. The financiering of the enterprise was considered wise and judicious by a board of reputable business men who inquired into its terms. The ground rental of $40,000 a year, considering that it was located in the best business section of Chicago, was re- garded as most favorable. The building it- self is a model of convenience and artistic beauty. Its rental value has been placed as high as $300,009 a year. Under favorable business conditions it seemed that the project ought to prove a brilliant success. Reverses and Obstacles. The building was dedicated and opened for business not quite six years ago. But unfortunately for the immediate success of the enterprise the period of severe financial depression of 1893 followed closely on the heels of the opening. From the beginning the enormous nature of the enterprise and the heavy burdens the association was call- ed upon to carry, combined with the finan- cial stringency of 1898 and the succeeding years, negatived much of the efforts of the trustees. According to the recent statement of the national officers but $61,000 of stock was subscribed by the W. C. T. U. For four years since the opening of the building the members of the union all over the land struggled under the burden. They made desperate efforts to raise the money needed to keep the project afloat, but it was too much for their resources, and before the convention at Buffalo last year they saw failure staring them in the face. The temple trust bonds, while a burden on the trustees and members of the unton, mor- ally, at least, as the national officers agree, gave them no added interest in the proper- ty. The building is now and has been for nearly a year in the hands of agents for the stockholders and bondholders, while the W. Cc. T. U. Association is no nearer own- ership and possession than at the beginning. Indeed, the offices used by the national of- ficers and trustees are a source of cost in- stead of revenue. Report of Committees. Prior to the last convention a committee named in response to the request of Miss Frances E. Willard investigated the mat- ter. Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, acting presi- dent since Miss Willard’s death, and Miss Elizabeth Preston of North Dakota com- posed the committee. It reported adverse- ly, but at the convention Miss Willard made an appeal that earnest endeavor be made this year to save the temple. A statement received from the national officers says: “From reports received from states and from. foreign lands, the general officers, have reason to hope that $15,000 additional might be raised before November 1. Our women have done their utmost and stern reality forces us to face the conclusion that the money will not come from the rich peo- ple of the nation’ If this $15,000 were raised, there would still remain $142,500 deficit on the temple trust bonds, to say nothing of the other large sums which must be raised before the temple can be completed, fi ees. | owned. . “The officers recommend that the union PAGES. The Evening Star is the only afternoon paper in Washington that receives the dispatches of the Associated Press. It is therefore the only one in which the reader can find the complete news of the world, directly trans- mitted by telegraph, up to the moment of going to press. sietetetetetedeted paying cash. charges. We make, figures. de LLL EAA SPBPEEESIPSSSEESLPSPPSEESSES SV SSS SS Ro ee ee te ee ee Seeded eee ceeded eet We'll Change Your Worry to Happiness. i If you've been worrying about the needs for winter come and see us at once. We have everything known in housefur- nishings and you are at liberty to take all you need without We Give Credit Here, All we ask is that you pay as you're able—a little each week or month. There are no notes to sign and no interest We make credit only a penny is added to the cash prices. an accommodation and not Mine and lay all Carpets free—there's mo charge for waste in matching GROGAN’S Mammoth Credit House, 817-819-82 1-823 7th St. N. Ww. Between H and I Sts. make an effort to secure Willard Hall, and this has been approved by the executive committee, which assumed the moral re sponsibility for the payment of the temple trust bonds, mostly held by people of limit- ed means. Mrs. Carse has prepared a state- ment, and is striving to prevent the total | abandonment of her cherished plans. She makes this showing of available assets on hand, with what she hopes for by the time the convention assembles, as follows: “Amount in cash and pledges that have been secured toward the payment of the $300,000 temple trust bonds—Marshall Field’s subscription, $50,000; other cash subscriptions, $23,100; bonds, $8. scribed by bondholders, $87,420; Mis: custodian, cash, $20,400: temple cash, $20,000; total, $209,120. Pledges of Assistance. “Besides the above the temple trustees hold a large number of pledges, amounting to about $20,000, but as the time of pay- ment 1s uncertain, {t would not be safe to count them in the $300,000. They also hold pledges for about $20,000 of temple stocs to be paid when the §800,000 has been se- cured. The president of the temple trus- tees, now that she has about accomplished her task of receiving pledges from the bondholders, has started within a few days a subscription to get 100 persons to give $1,000 each. Already a number of names have been secured. The amount is to be paid when the entire 100 names have been obtained. She hopes to complete the $100,- 60) subscription by the national conven- tion, now that business has so greatly im- proved. —__.—_—_. RAILWAY TO THE SUN. All the Gold in the Sea Would More Than Build One. From Tit-Bits. It is little realized that the sea is @ treas- ure house of gold, so incredibly rich as to far exceed the wildest dreams even of a mad millionaire. Although in every thirteen tons it only holds one grain of pure gold, its bulk is so vast that its 400,000,000 cubic miles of water hold in solution gold of the value of £1,025,- 00,000,000,000. one this gold could be rescued and dis- tributed equally among all the inhabitants of the earth, each man, woman and child living would have a fortune of £683,333, or, roughly, 5% tons of sovereigns, and would enjoy the comfortable living income of £525 a week, or more than the annual income of five cabinet ministers of the first class. Let us coin in fancy the sea’s gold, and pile our myriads of sovereigns into one stupendous column. Our tower of gold, standing on a base a quarter of a mile each way, would soar into the clouds to a height of 14,828 feet, or 904 feet_lower than the summit of Mont Blanc. To demolish and cart away our tower of sovereigns we should require the services of 32-3 horses for every man, woman and child in the world. If we make a carpet of our marine sov- ereigns we should have more than suffi- cient to cover: an area 1,000 miles long and 188 miles wide; in fact, to “plate” with sovereigns the whole ef Great Britain and Treland, Holland, Belgium and Portugal, with a remnant of over 6,000 square miles of gold to spare. With our golden treasure we could make a girdle of sovereigns around the eqnator nearly eight miles in width, or 9s wide as from the Thames to Edmonton, or south- ward, to the outskirts of Croydon. Similarly we could construct a roadway to the moon 364 yards wide, along which 150 carriages might be driven abreast in comfort. We could make a railway track of gold to bridge the 91,725,000 miles which divide us from the sun. Our golden track would be 11% feet wide; and if In 1724, when George I. had still three years to reign, an engine had started on its long journey from earth to sun, and had raced night and day over its yellow track at the rate of sixty miles an hour, it would only reach its destina- tion as these lines are being printed. As a final flight of astronomical fancy let us construct two rails of sovereigns, each 2% inches wide, and on this track let us take a journey to Neptune, 2,755,000,000 miles away. We should have quite sufficient sover- eigns for this purpose; but, journeying night and day at sixty miles an hour, it would take us 6,242 years to reach Nep- tune, by which time it would be too late to think of the return journey. To have completed our journey today, we ought to have started nearly 1.000 years before the Deluge, according to recognized chronology. We should in this way have escaped the flood, at any rat With our treasure of the sea we could buy the United Kingdom, with its land, houses, and all its accumulated wealth of every kind, 82,000 times over; and we could furnish our national revenue for the next 9,000,000 years, allowing for reasonable growth; in fact, a single minute's income from our treasure, if carefully invested, would be sufficient to meet our entire ni tional expenditure for a year. All the gold current today throughout the world, if collected together, would only represent 1-5,662 of a penny of each of our myriad sea -sovereigns, and if the same amount of gold could be produced by our mints every year it would take them 1,858,960 years to mint a pile as large as ours. ——__+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. A Relic. From the Philadelphia North American. “You didn't bring me home a single relic,” pouted the sweet thing. “My dear,” replied her soldier lover, “I brought you myself. There is nothing left of me but a relic.” COCOANUTS IN CUDA. Delicious Flavor of the Milk Where the § acca Grows, From the Providence Journal Next to bananas the most important product of eastern Cuba is cocoanuts. The trees grow rapidly, without cultivation, and every man’s field {s fringed with them. Frulters buy the nuts at the rate of $8 the thousand, and they are hulled on the is- land, ground in primitive mills and pressed for oil. Or, correctly speaking, we should put it in the past tense and say this w: done up to a few weeks ago. Now every industry, however simple, is paralyzed. Spanish soldiers, almost as hungry as the starving people, occupy every village and hamlet and prey like locusts o deve Spiess custs on the devast- The Cuban process of extracting oil from the cocoanut resembles that by which Tex- ans make oil from cottonseed. The cake of solid residue is fed to the pigs—about the only live stock ever successfully raised in eastern Cuba—and the shells are used for fuel in the sugar factories. So far the oil has beeen locally employed only as a lu- bricator for sugar-making machinery—a wicked waste of valuable material, it seems to those who are familiar with the splen- did possibilities of the product. Here 1s an unequaled opening for the manufacturer cf palm-o.. soap, cocoa-fiber mats, hats, etc, to say nothing of the hundred other uses to which parts of the tree. its fruit and uoers may be put. The saying gogs that a cocoa tree bears & nut for every day in the year. In time of peace one might buy a dozen nuts for a 20-cent coin anywhere in the rural districts of Cuba, and he who has never tasted the milk from one freshly gathered can have no idea what is meant by “a draught fit for the gods." In their proper state, however, the nuts are not brown and hard, as you see them in northern markets; they look like enormous pale-green apples, slightly elongated, for each still wears its Robin Hood Jacket, which is removed befo: shipment. Being still “alive,” as th on the island, its shell is soft and « cut with the machete, or long-bladed knife, which every countryman carries, or your own pocket knue may answer the purpose Make a hole in one end of the nut about the size of a half dollar, and out gushes the milk like a living spring, not by any means such sour stuff a8 you have seen come out of cocoanuts at nome, white as chalk and thick as buttermilk. Give one of those imported things to a monkey pining in captivity for its native food, and he will refuse it with scorn and indignation. The trouble is that the cocoanuts of commerce are gathered before they are ripe and entirely spoiled in transit. The fluid shut up within it should have no sugges- tion of milk, but be colorless as water,with a slight sparkle like that from some clear mountain spring, except for a slightly sweet and most delicious flavor; and if freshly picked in the early morning, after the nut has beeen swinging all night in the cool breezes, the liquid is almost ice cold. Where cocoanuts grow you never see in- side of their shells any of that hard, whi layer which northerners grate and desiccate (one might as wen say desecrate), for in its best estate the nut has no such sub- stance, only a creamy white film inside of it, hardly thicker than your thumb nail, which is scraped off with a spoon when eaten. Before drinking the juice the ten- derfoot generally pours it out into another vessel than that which Nature intended: but the sophisticated epicure tilts the oo- coanut at just the right angle to let the milk trickle gently uown his throat—and, Uke the old toper we have heard of, he wishes his throat were a mile long. There is nothing in tne wide world more nourishing or fattening, more health-restor- ing and youth-presery.ng. Emaciated tn- - valids are recommended to begin on the juice of half a dozen nuts a day, the dose to be increased according to the patient's inclination. And we invalid is yet to bé discovered who does not develop a taste for it so rapidly tuat in a week's time half ay sily a dozen nuts at a single sitting will hardly satisfy him. Each wull-grown nut contains nearly a pint of this true “fountain of youth"—the same, perhaps, which the old Conquistadores sought vainiy far and wide, expecting to find it gushing out of the earth in some sequestered spot, instead of hanging, green and beautiful, everywhere overhead. The big nuts grow in bunches, five or six on a stem, away up near the top of the tall tree, just’ unuer its crown of plumelike leaves. A native darky, young or old, thinks nothing of shinning up the smooth, branchless trunks, which look like tele- graph poles, towering straight and slender from fifty to one hundred feet—whacking off the nuts with his machete (carried up in his teeth), and tossing them down with the ease and agility of his ancestors, the monkeys. From the Atlanta Constitution. “He's one er dese heah campaign muics, suh,” explained the old colored farmer, “en it's got so I des can’t do nuttin’ ‘id ‘im. You sees him a-chawin’ on dat fence rail, don’t you?” “Yes.” “Well, suh, dat’s ple fer ‘im! He mos’ eat up every rail on de place, en w’en it ccme his meal time he don’t stop short er nuttin’ ‘cept wire fencin’!” “Strange appetite, that. “Yes, suh, you may well say dat! I bas knowed him ter walk right in de house en eat up one er dese bedsteads on de tnste!!- ment plan, en he'd eat up de house itscif ef he wuzn't ‘f'aid de old logs same ey him dyspepsia. You see, w'en he been wid de stump speakers in de eampaign, dey lef ‘im out in de sun all day, en never study ‘bout feedin’ er ‘im; en so, whilst wuz a-sp2akin’ from de stump wur a-chawin’ on it. Politics has been de ruination er dat mule!”