Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1898, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1898-16 PAGES. 11 Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey THEONION er ed eo <> by the government to affix the proprietary ( medicinal) stamp. In other words “DUFFY’S MALT” IS TAXED AS A MEDICINE, This only confirms what the proprietors have always claimed—what all the doctors know and what millions of people have learned from its use. It is a medicine! Itisatonic! It will do you good. DUFFY MALT WHISKEY CO., ROCHESTER, N. Y. Take it according to directions. OUR NEW CREDIT WAY. z ; Buy Your Suit on Credit. You can’t possibly gain by paying down for it. We'll give you quality for quality—match any price with our prices—equal any assortment with our selection. Not only that, but in addition we'll take your word in lieu of your money, and leave it to your own convenience as to the best terms of payment. $5 ° D 8. Seedeecteont $10 Black and Blue Kersey Overcoats for one day - - PPaedordedederions A Winter Coat, and a nobby coat—a garment that breathes fection all the way threuxh made from fine, fast-c and blue Kersey—a ‘e of cloth that we vex sel ed. and therefore know ft to b> anrivaled. ja our order to sell at >, Half French faced—lined with double wap Ital'an They've fine silk velvet collars—just right set about the & the week—the seasem. Reduced from $10. Just for Saturday. Cas ° < WG ONG ais ag hagesasdde ee gnaasn cece PERT TER = $12.50 All-wool Clay Suits § 50 é just for one day - = == - $ « a taflor, and you'd pay him $20. Go to any store in town, and you'll pay $12.50 san value—a store that can give such a leader as this is king among kings— from the best clay woolens—lined with the best Italian eloth _- Ti like the fashion a 2 button eutuways, Actually ° aturday. Cash or Credit... $ KS E é 3510 & $12 Top Coats, Men’s $1.75 Pants, 98c. $ 3 $6.87 And they were cheap at $1.75. Worth ¢ = those we of es much as $2 Good cloth used in & de of ull-we & 3 their making. Neat effects, pin stripes < * “ . nd Seotch plaids. All siz = Sis sin and $: = included. Saturday FS i 3 Se ee ee. 2 ¥ jacks f b : : Iwo Crackerjacks for the boys. ¢ - ‘ M. ‘ The other is a big lot of Knee Pants & 3 that we heve been selling at 50¢. and $ : o H Rabe ae of pattern apd all the good, hard-wearing % cloths. Not a size but what's among ‘em. + areiee en 39¢, x = z $ & That's — — we ae end the oer ae sta se are manufac- & a se oq ily es up to date. Wi <b $1 3, B $l 24 : 3 49 hite Shirts, 29c. | $3 Bed Comforts, $1.98. ¢ BS "re going to establish a reputation In” Not an ordinary value—but one made of % z n Boys’ Unlaundered Shirts, earded cotton and covered on one side the ith silkoline and with 2 nd the finish and workman- M quilting on the = They have Worth $3. Satur- $1 O08 » casb or credit Pe e $6 California Blankets, $3.98. : None better in the world. Made of the purest und finest wool. Big and roomy f° 49c. and fall of warmth. Rte- oy j cash or credit seeks ° $ Hl + feet ©. | Ladies’$12 and $14 Tailor-= pee ease nee ed Suits, = : he Setday canto AOE, 97.98 = 75c. Men’s Underwear, ge Sutarinss censh "or $7 OSB : 49, $5 Tailored Skirts, $2.48. % kind we fitting underwear is the in of . Made of heavy storm serge by expert men tailors. You can tell by the very eonseetoet = pales rs hang of the garment that it’s not an $ | Ladies’ $10 Jackets, $5.98 = $1.48 Men’s Underwear, Tee ee Pe oe ee with rounded fronts and made with all 98c. the newest wrinkles. £ Worth $10. In blue, gray, he price and quality has cash or credit............ ° = z ‘so All-wool Shirts aed 75c. Corsets, 39c. complete sizes—ail the latest including golden In drab and white. Well put and won. Worth ther and good worth at Suturday, cash or credit 98c. Well-made Pillow Cases—Cash or Credit... Unbleached Table Linen 39¢, -. Se. Gast Oe Cxedtt.- 222.2 eee 19¥4c. Ladies’ and Children’s Black Hose © ola elope w oles oralnseieiccre AEE, Samuel Friedlander & Co., Successors to New York Clothing House, 311 7th St. - hae thinnest a a ae Saturday, Cash or Credit Seeley eetententen , Seslontonteeton Be ae ee eS Cor. lith & G Sts. Goal Hods, 15e. We shall also offer a new shipment of Galvanized Coal Hods for 25¢. es = & on RRR: E place on sale tomorrow a big shipment of good, strong, 16-in. Japanned Coal Hods at 15c. The same identical hod is often sold for 20c. and 25¢. REAR LATA RR “Calovit” “Puritan” § ; Gas = = = Heaters. | Oil - - = = Heaters. If you shorld ask our advice as to which One might almost be justified in saying is the best and most economical Gas Heater that the Puritan Oil Heaters are the only ones worth buying—but there are a few other good makes, but hot anywhere hear as ‘factory as a Puritan. They give the most heat with the “least smell” and the smallext quantity of oil. Everybody is pleased with them—won't part with 'em—for you never seo them for sale at the second-hand stores, Come in and get our price lst. ou the market we would unhesteatingly rec- “Calovit.”” They will heat—and heat well--e room 12 ft. by 12 ft. at x cont of but Se. a day. Best stove, without question, made, and only We charge nothing for giving you an estimate of the cost of weather stripping your house. Drop postal or call and we'll send our man right up. We sell Valentine's best Felt Strips for Dee. ommend the RATAN RRTT NON TET foot | HEF PRALARREE PROBABLE RATE WAR Railroads Want Pooling Privilege as a Preventive, JOINT TRAFFIC ASSOCIATION PROJECT Effects of Rate Cutting on Various Transportation Lines. SHIPS AGAINST RAILWAYS ee It is understood that a great effort will be made by the railroad companies comprising the Joint Traffic Assoctation to induce Con- ress to pass early in its coming session a bill permitting them to establish a pool, and thus maintain rates. Some railroad men ex- press the opinion that there will soon break out a fierce rate war, but others who have given the matter careful consideration do not think there will be any open cutting—at least, of existing tariffs. There are but few persons abreast of the times in the matter of railway transporta- tion who are not aware that a great deal of secret rate cutting has been done by vari- ous roads in different parts of the country fer months past, but this has, It is general- ly believed, Leen confined to lines which were in the hands of receivers and with whom it was entirely optional whether or not they paid the fixed charges. It is hardly probable that there will be any serious demoralization as the result of the Joint Traffic Association, for the day has passed, it is beleved, when the owners of railroads can afford to let rate cutting go on for any considerable period. There was a time when, for instance, the Balti- more and Ohio was owned by one set of capitalists, the Richmond and Danville by “nother, the Atlantic Coast Line by. sttil another, and so on, but the time has ar- rived when there is hardly a big system in any part of the United States in which the great banking houses of J. P. Morgan & Co., August Belmont, the Browns, the Rothschilds and other leading capitalists of the United States and Eurepe are not unitedly interested to a greater or less ex- tent. Reduced to a Science. These men have reduced the transporta- tion business to a science, and they expect those to whom they intrust the details of management to meet the fixed charges and pay some interest on the investment if the road possesses good earning capacity. Cut- ting of rates will not make roads earn more money in the long run, and the manager who cannot show good returns to the pres- ent owners of the railroads of this country is not apt to find favor in the eyes of his employer. ‘The operat.ons of the board of control of the Joint Traffic Association, to which all the Hines north of the Potomac and east of the Mississippi river belong, and which has its headquarters in New York, have practically come to a standstill. The board of the presidents and chief execu- tive officers of the railroads making up the association. It has been suggested that the sociation might be turned into a bureau information, or something similar, the joint traffic agreement being abandoned, a course which for a time was adopted in the west after the transmissouri decision. George R. Blanchard, chairman of the Joint Traffic Association, said in New York yesterday that a meeting of the association will be held soon to consider the decision of the Supreme Court. when their legal counsel would advise them and perhaps make a statement. “We have already asked Congress to pass a pooling law, . Blanchard, “and that remedy has been denied us. Our posi- tion has long been that uniformity:of ra‘l- J rates is essential to commercial pros- ty. If, for instance, there were sixty different rates into New York, the stability of New York's commerce would be at an end. What we desire from Congress is au- thority to contract among ourselves for maintaining unfformity of rat 1 6 not think there Is any need of providing by law a penatty for disregard of uniform rates by railroad companies or their agents.” How Organized. The traffic associations are organized ac- cording to the territory that the railroads occupy. The Joint Traffic Association, for instance, embraces every railroad in the district between St. Louis and Chicago, and the Atlantic seaboard, between Norfolk and New York, and in a measure controls all the Hines in New England territory, al- though there is also a New England as- sociation that regulates the traffic local to the territory. Besides the nine or ten so- called through trunk lines in Joint Traffic territory, there are numerous smaller lin and the total membership of the associa- tion includes more than sixty railroads. In the territory dmmediately south of the Joint Traffic Association there is the South- ern Railway and Steamship Association, embracing all of the southern lines east of the Mississippi river. In the territory west and northwest of the Joint Traffic Asso- ciation there is the Western Traffic Asso- ciation, embracing all the granger roads, and until recently there has been also a ‘Transcontinental Association, embracing all of the Pacific roads, as well as another as- sociation including the southern lines The Transmissouri Association was for- merly a division of the Western Traffic As- sociation, and survived the latter when it went to pieces. At the time this assocta- tion was organized, January 1, 1896, a de- cision was daily expected from the United States Supreme Court dealing a deathblow to the Transmissour! Association. Tt was a general understanding among railroad men that the joint traffle case, which was expected to be challenged by’ the United States courts, would be the last rally, aad if this should be declared impossible of ex- {stence under the anti-trust law the con- clusion was reached that all associations would have to go by the board. Prevented by Law. This result has now come about. Lead- ing attorneys of the country have been un- able to devise any agreement that would be of any use to the transportation lines which could not be construed as a combi- nation in restraint of trade by the Su- preme Court. In the opinion of many lawyers the day of associations under ex- isting laws is now ‘The decision, they say, wipes out every rate-making organiza- tion in the United States and abolishes hundreds of salaried officials,besides throw- ing out of places a small army of clerks who have been employed to keep statistics. As indicating what this implies, the ex- penses of the Joint Traffic Association alone are $500,000 a year, and it is con- sidered a low estimate that the various as- sociations involve an annual expenditure of $5,000,000. The importance in the past of these as- sociations is particularly illustrated by the Southern Railway and Steamship Associa- tion, which has had great obstacles to con- tend with in holding the steamship com- panies in check. The coastwise steamship lines plying between New York, Boston, Philadelphia and southern points of this country had, by reduced rates, completely demoralized ‘the traffic of the railroads, and unless they had come to some under- standing every railroad in the south might have been bankrupted. Railroad men fear it will be next to im- possible to frame any “gentlemen's agree- ment” which cannot be set aside bv the courts, and which cannot be interpreted as being a violation of the anti-trust law. Some of the men whose lines have im- portant southern connections took a very blue view of the situation yesterday, and some of them expressed the opinion that they would again be at the mercy of the steamship lines. Injury in Southern Territory. So far as the railroads in the Joint Traf- fic Association are concerned, they would also be injured by any demoralization in southern territory, since, in time of rate wars, ridiculously low rates are sometimes made by the most circuitous routes. The Southern Paelfic at one time carried first- class freight from New York to San Fran- cisco, Me gates orleans ——. ine, msider: less than $1 a hundre: pa eecie e rate ion to 78 cents a hundred, or 70 cents on through traffic bound for San Francisco, so that with such a rate in force competitors of the Southern Pacific would receive only = ae Lat om cas ee snatatew on their ‘ull pro) D. cost of the transpor- tattes ‘rom Chicago to San Francisco is much more than this. In a recent rate war betweeen steamship lines doing business IS If A TRIFLE? THAT COMMON TROUBLE, ACID DYSPEPSIA OB SOUR STOMACH. NOW pe a Ag A CAUSE OF SERIOUS DISEASE. Acid dyspepsia, commonly called heartburn “or sour stomach, 18 a fotm of indigestion resu!ting from fermentation of /thé'food. The stomach being too weak to promptly @igest it, the food remains until fermentation begins, Alling the stomach with gas, and a bitter, sour, burning taste in the mouth 4s often present. Thia condition soon becomes chronic, and being an every-day occurrence 1s given but little attentiof> Because dyspepsia is not Im- mediately fatal. iv ple do nothing for the 5 Ger peo Within a recent pertod a remedy has been discov- ered prepared solely to tare dyspepsia and stomach troubles. It 1s known as Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab- lets, and is now’ becoming rapidly used and pre- scribed as a radieal’cure for every form of dys- pepsia. Stuart's Dyepepsia Tablets have been placed be- fore the public and are sold by druggists every- where at 50 cents pet package. It is prepared by the Stuart Chemical Co., Marshall, Mich., and while it promptly Bud effectually restores a vig- crous digestion, at the same time is perfectly harmless and will not injure the most delicate stomach, but or the contrary by giving perfect di- gestion strengthens the stomach, improves the ap- petite and makes life worth living. Send for free book on Stomach Diseases. oc26é&’8 between New Orleans and New York cot- ton was carried for'2 or 3 cents a pound, and one of the Mnes was credited with carrying it for nothing. The railroads, of course, had to stand and look on, for they would have been money out of pocket had they tried to compete with the water lines. Railroad men say it is just such evils as these that it Is the purpose of associations to avoid, and their aim ig to bring order out of chaos by suiting all of the members, as far as posstble, in the matter of rates and proportion’ of the total competitive traffic each is to carry. = SAW MOCK SUNS. Marvelous Phenomena Observed on Board Ship tn South Atlantte. From the Philadelphia Times. The British steamer Venus, from Bata- via, Java, via St. Michael's, with a large cargo of. sugar corisigned to, parties in ti's city, arrived Sunday: morning after a te- dicus voyage of seventy-one days. Cart. McGregor of the Venus brings to this coun- try an account of dn unusual spectacle wit- nessed on the South Atlantic, and ore which is very seldom vouchsafed except to those who have navigated the seas all their lives. “ The incident of the voyage of the Venus was an exhibition of the wonderful and weird phenomena known as the sun dog. This remarkable marine spectacle, vel seldom presented even to those who bra the perils of the sea, is almost invari cenfined to tropical of the Venus was the established premise. At 12 o'clock noon on August 15, when Capt. McGregor took his observation, the sky was without a cloud and the sun ‘shone with a brilliancy almost intolerable upon the white deck and burnished brass work of the stanch tramp steamer. The latitude, determined by the sextant and chronometer, was found to be 10 degrees south and longitude % degrees west from Greenwich, or, to be exact, at ninety-one miles) frm the Sequestries Isi- ands, the nearest land. During the afternoon nothing manifested itself out of the geweral order, and there Was no suggestion of the approaching liu sion which was to throw the crew into a state of terror. Shortly after 5 o'clock. when the declining sun had yet about two heurs in which gg reach the horizon, Cap McGregor notice ith t orb descending bril- antly in the ¢ Phinking that the ve 1 had turned about on her course, he hur- Tied to the wheekto-ascertain the cause of the crders being changed which he had previously given tothe steersman. The Venus lay, however, directly to her course. Capt. MeGregors doybted the evidence of Rs senses, and, Hurrying aft along the port side;rhe was astounded to behold another sun of equal briliangy beaming serenely in tho west. Inetauhedatime the ean sishf had attractg&; thesattention of ¢ crew, who previously_had been basking un- er the shade of the few awnings on board a indolently. Speeulating on the vrobable ation of the voyage. Filled with alarm, gathered around the officers, fearing they knew not what. Capt. MeGreror, after a few moments’ re- flection. led the “mock sun” of wi he had often read, but never seen in his ¢ tensive voyages on the oceans, and stc> centemplating the phenomena with mi interest. All was confusion among crew, and. to add to their third sun, fiercely blazing and crimson te: shone ominorsly fn the north, while a mo. ment or so later one of like Intensity ap- neared astern, tineeing with weird light the wake of foam left by the receding steamer. The maryelous snectacle will tive forever in the memory of the favored few who witnessed it. As soon as possible the captain restored order among the frighten- ed seamen, who, when they finally realized that the phenomena could be explained, lost thelr horror of what appeared super. natural and gazed with bated breath upon what none in all probability will ever again behold. z During the continuance of the refraction the captain made several memoranda of {ts curiously changing phases. All the suns appeared to glow with the same brizhtness which characterized the bona fide body, but it was with an unholy lght, a counterpart of the real, which made It a matter of no a‘ffculty to pick out the genuine. Anoth feature of the mock suns was their illy- defined rim or circumference, which, al- theugh plainly to be traced against’ the ly titudes, and the case notable exception to the terror, a evening sky, seemed to blend into the ‘ange luminosity which permeated ‘h mosphere. Following the real sun. they slcwly sank and exhibited all his varying colors until gloom settled over the sea and all was over. ——_—___+e+_____ WASP AS AN ENGINEER, Bit of Insect Cleverness That Won Praise From Army Men. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Several members of the United States engineer corps were interested witnesses of a feat of Insect engineering near the road on which they were working. One of their number found a blue ground wasp drag- ging along the ground a dead swamp spider one-quarter the size of a full-grown ta- rantula. Whether the wasp killed the spider or found it dead 1s a question be- yond solution. He was having a hard time dragging his prey along, and presently left it to go prospecting for his abode. The dis- coverer of the wasp called his companions, and one of them in coming stepped upon the wasp’s ground hole, crushing down some blades of dried grass across it. This caused no little trouble to the insect, who, upon locating tl hole, nipped away at the obstructing st $ jwith his strong man- dibles until he had Cleared a passage. Then he went back and sized up the spider, walking around 4be, jbig body and survey- ing it from all sfdes?! “He's reckoning pat the hole isn’t big enough,” said one of the engineers. “That's all right: he'll fix it,” sala an- other, as the insect went back and com- menced vigorously widening the entrance to his domicile. | Again he retu@pé@Xo the apider, seized it and dragged it to within a foot of the ori- fice. To the spevtatérs it was evident that more work woukd hve to be done before the spider could be dragged in. This struck the wasp, too, .or.again he ran around the body, examining'3t ¢arefully, and returned to the hole to take measurements. He went to diggings second time: Having dug for two minutes he brought his prey up to the edge of the hole, nipped out a piece of dirt here, cut away @ grass stem there, and after fifteen minutes of hard and skillful labor disappeared underground, Gragging the spider after him, doubtless to form the piece de resistance in a winter storehouse. The engineers then resumed Sea as a oa | Glove Headquarters. HE Palais Royal is headquarters because ALL the best makes are here in ALL the needed sizes for long and short fingers, etc. Experts to recommend and fit the gloves best adapted to your hand. ATEST autumn-winter impor- tations are received from Rey- nier, Perrin, Dent and Fownes. Also best French Kid Gloves pro- duced by the leading maker of ki France and christened “Palais Also Adler’s Gloves, the best made in this country. Ladies’, Royal.” te ’, . % > * s, men’s, misses’, boys’ and children’s. SSF $1.35 instead of $1.50 for the cluding castor, new gray, etc. for the $1.25 Gloves. risk. Note: Less busy during morn- r ing hours. (69c tomorrow for $1 quality Kid Gloves.) .. cs Royal” 8gc PECIALS for tomorrow are :- new 2-clasp “Palais id Gloves, in thirty-s x shades, in Ik-lined Suede Kid All warranted—fitted at our 19¢ for 25c Veils. | A special price for Saturday. ] Choice of the latest style Plain | and Dotted Meshes, the best va- riety of 25c Veils in town. Choice fees SaaS IIe Fees Le Sampie Neck Pieces. Our makers’ sample line of Pompadour Ruches, 72 pieces, all different, all best, $1.25 to $2.50 the regular retail prices. Choice | BOT 2 see cae ve - cc ncn ES are nominal: $20 to $25 Hats, $10. OF Ten dollars is css than cost of im- portatiou—leas than the prices being ask ed in the retail sbops of Paris. Exclusive styles—no two alike. The velvet and os- trich feathers on some are worth more than the price asked. 75c for $1 Hats. | At 45 cents. Pes ae 5 | Importers’ surplus Feathers and | Trimmed Walking and Bi- | French Flowers, including large | cycling Hats in latest shapes and | | } $5. CP Paris effects colors in such variety can be gratified. Th fs here, and so ts the “d= i anc | bunches of Silk Velvet Roses in colors. Untrimmed French Felt | every fashionable color. Retailed Hats of quality and style usually | until now at 75¢ to $2 bunch. retailed at $1. Choice for... 75€ | Choice for.................45¢ | | amethysts, Just Arrived From New York. HE “buyer” announces the purchase of various lots, in- cluding twenty-five Trimmed Hats from a leading im- porting house and fifty-five from a firm making a spe- cialty of hats trimmed in imitation of the imported. Prices $7 to $10 Hats, ‘Shapes, Various Hat Pi ns. Jeweled, representing __ balls, clusters, stars, etc. The importer had too many of those set with turquoise and rhine- stones. 25¢ to 50c values. . J Qc, : | styles and ery taste demure black hat gayest of the gay. that Aud vot one is stupid or vulgar. 35c for 50c Silk-finished plai picture. and novelties in boot patterns. 39c for 50c Suits. Glove-fitted “Oneita” Union Suits—two garments in one. Ribbed and fleeced. Best of soc garments for 39c. Ss seeeee for maker's odd dozens and half doz- ens of 25c to 50c Underwear—tadies’ 19¢ 17 ¢ Bet for varions 1ots Also Black Silk Hose Superior, with double and children’s ribbed vests, pants apd union | spliced heels, etc. Ladtes’, girls’, Ix suits. } and men's. ids, like the stripes and 25e Black Hose. soles, high one $9.79 for This Suit. The picture represents only one of many at this price—$g.79. Some have fly front, some box coats, all silk lined. Those with flounce skirts are stiffened. Materials are broad wale cheviots and covert cloths. Colors: Castor, navy, green, brown, cadet and black. . : + es ae aE = seee $13.50 for the latest English style Tailor-made Suit. Box coat, with four buttons, glove-fitting skirt, opening only at the side. Made of cheviots in plain colors and tweeds in fancy checks. tic “Toilet Articles. bottle for Pozzoni’s Parisian Toflet 5c Cream. Prevents roughening of the skin. A necessity these windy days. | Jewelry Dept. ABC for new style Girdies, of black sutin, 8 inches wide, with ‘backles of gold. | oxidized and Jewels. Some worth $1. | ounce for Blue Lily Extract. An tp- for 7: = a ae a 4] G } ZI srinetey Moret” Baatiaioed”™ Se | BOC fr, come worth celapited care | quality at only Ze oz, ‘, } for ‘Toothbrushes, the muker’s odd lots, we eee 5c drummers’ samples, etc. None worth less than 10c. | latter alone worth 39 19¢ tor Men's 50c Briarwood Pipe, with model of the “Maine” on the stem. About Corsets. | Do you wear those best adapted to your figure? Redfern says “not one woman in ten does.” The “Redfern” Corsetiere is here from two alike—but | 4 New York. Advice gratis. In- | iadies and men. 26 and 28-inch WS Be on third floor for Madame 5 frames. teele. cl $f] for the “American Lady” corsets, pias | FS.G for Seuvle, Muckinroshee cut and gored. Practically as good as | and double detachable capes, which sre a the expensive French Corsets they imitate. | worth $3.69 apiece. ee PALAIS ROYAL, A. Lisne, @ STREET. elefeloint ‘ arately: and Mohair Waists, plain and braid- ed. | At 25 cents. Hat Pins, Cabauchons, Buckles and ornaments of steel, jet and rhinestones. The best—in jewel- like settings. Imported to retail for 50c to $1.50 piece.......2 Hese. : brown, in all sizes. skirt of black and nay} cheviot, previously here at $5. $2.39 choice of Umbrellas made to re- tail up to $4.50 apiece. Styles for $1.98 tomorrow for the $2.25 Cloth, Cash. ot trimmed Sizes 2'to 12 years, Urease®s braid | STC nike actaat Aprom, lace and Sample Umbrellas. r Only sixty-five of them and no i A Suit for $6.38. Waist and Skirt can be bought sep- $1.79 for choite of Flannel Black, navy, red, green and $4.59 for the all-wool with style flounce. new Lined throughout. k Waists than Made of su- perior Taffeta Silk, tucked and cord- ed. All sizes, in black, plain colors and fancy effects. They fit to perfec- on. Mothers’ Day. $2.68 tomercow tor the china Cloth Coats, with deep cr lar, braid trip med. es 6 mouths to S secures kintoshes worth up Ring! ee eee HONORING A SPARROW. A VICTIM OF VESUVIUS. Killed by a Cat, It Was Burted With | An American Who Lost His Life Fifty Fall Ceremony. Years Ago. From Tit-Bits. In a history of the wars of Cuba an ac- count is given of the burial of a sparrow in Havana in March, 1869, which was at- tended by the captain general of the prov- ince, the bishop of the diocese and 6,0W0 soldiers. The Spaniards in Cuba, at the breaking out of the ten years’ war in 16S, adopted the sparrow as the symboi of their pertinacity and fighting qualities, and ap- plied the name of “cat” as the most con- temptuous word to the natives. In March, 1869, a Spanish soldier saw a ca* seize a sparrow with teeth and claws. Clubbing his musket he disabled the cet and took the dead bird from its mouth ‘The occur- rence being reported, the cat was tried by drum-head court-martial and sentenced to death, while the body of the sparrow was ordered to be buried with military honors. The proceedings were confirmed hy Cap- tain General Domingo Dulce, who was in command of the island at that time. He said that while the bird itself was of no consequence, it represented the incarnation of the admirable qualities possessed by the soldiers of Spain, and must be given a sol- dier’s funeral with full honors. A general order to that effect was issued. Bishop Fleix of Solanz 7 = gegen his part just as he wot for a dead sol- adler. ‘The best-known Spaniards in Cuba were ordered to attend, including the judge of the supreme court and the editors of all the newspapers published in Havana. There were eight battalions in Havana, and the wife of the commander of each sert large offerings of flowers. A bier was prepared and the sparrow was placed on a fragrant bed_of roses and lilies. The drums were From the Baltimore Sup. There came near being a tragedy on Mt. Vesuvius recently, when several ladies ventured too near the crater and were all but swept away by streams of molten lava which poured from the mountain. This fact recalls the sad death nearly fifty years ago of Mr. Charles Carroll Bayard of Dela- ware, who had many relatives in Maryland and was widely known in this state. The accident which cost Mr. Bayard his life happened in 1850. He was an officer inthe navy, and, arriving at Naples, a party of naval officers and others was made up to visit the crater of Vesuvius, which was then semi-active. Among those with him was the late Charles Tucker Carroll of Baltimore, father of Mr. J. Howell Carroll, now United States consul at Cadiz. Mr. Bayard was the brother of the late Richard B. Bayard, father of Mr. Richard H. Bay- ard of Baltimore, and a relative of the late Thomas F. Bayard. The party had reached the summit of the mountain, when suddenly there was a shower of red-hot stones thrown high in the air. All hands took to. their heels, and a few moments later discovered that Mr. and the 6,00 soldiers were given the | to be stopped and declared that he would their work, exchanging comments of admi- | Tics “to anarch” With serene eed fee | got Oat ae a ate ered that he would ration. 3 long line proceeded to the cemetery on the | Panions remonstrated with him and tried x outskirts of the city, and there the victim | 0 convince him that his presentiment was woblisity. of the cat was to the earth with } but a foolish fancy, and he finally con- For fifteen cents you can let every one in} military honors. sented to accompany the q Washington know by a Star = ad. that —_e____. 2 ene ae aneiet: uatiol want a cook. slightest idea that was tally = Sd Malas aati aes seeet Re tas Sbaee: fured, and believed that he would be well ‘His Limit. - ‘From the Kansas City Journal. in a few weeks. = so with him, though. From the New York Joumsl. ‘John,” said a Topeka wife to her hus- Rts tee — Bnoelt. “vr “I have noticed, Clara,” said the fond | band, “T will quit drinking tea and save | “170 Isa going to die T sana vane father. “that young Meanboy has spent a | the war tax if you will do the same with | t started for the mountain, and now that good deal of time with you lately.” beer.” “Woman,” responded John with | this has happened I am convinced that «His daughter sighed. “You are right, | cold severity, “do you think it is the part nothing can save me.” G24," she answered, “but that Is about all | of patriotiem to abandon your country in| He was right. He lingered for about ten he has spent.” | its time of peril?” and then death came. Inconveniences of Child Marriage. From the Indian Spectator A marriage took place the other day, -ho parties being a Bhattia widower of about forty and a Bhattia girl of about nine. The disparity in age is rather startling. and it is aggravated by other circumstances; for instance, the widower has a daughter of about eighteen cngaged as a teacher at @ school of which her father ts honorary Manager, or something like it. And his girl wife of rine is a pupil at the school under his daughter of eighteen. The first thing the girl wife of nine did on marry- ing was to remonstrate with her daught of eighteen as to how she, the mot could possibly sit at school on a benc while the daughter taught her from a chair! What ts the poor daughter to do? She must give up her appointment as schooJmistress or her dear mother of ning must give up attending school. It is for the father and husband to decide. + + McSwatters—“You den’t have to use any brainwork in playing golf.” McSwitters. at's Why it is so popular with society.”—Syracuse Herald.