Evening Star Newspaper, November 24, 1898, Page 6

THE EVENING SEAR, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 186814 PAGES. » MOSES... = stcor Mth Matters F izeh and B 2 & M Furniture Peeters Stone “The Finest Brass Beds In The World.” —Adans & Westlake Brass Beds have the reputation of being the “finest Brass Beds in the world.” The weak point about most makes is their strong point. The lacquer which in some makes quickly wears off is guaranteed in the A. & W. Bed. If it should prove unsatisfactory in any way within a reasonable length of time the beds will be relacquered ffee of ch In design and workmanship there is nothing su- perior te the “A. & W As in everything else, so with beds. We give you the best that can be had. Therefore we handle Adams and Westlake Beds. re. These pretty and healthful pieces of furniture are now out of the cate- gory of luxuries. They are low priced enough to come within the scope of necessities. It W. BL MOSES & SONS zs 7 + 3 “é : You’ve Wanted $ " he lad; + 4 tham nickel movement. Case is ex- s — menegram or tnitials. A small de. € —— regulated and engraved by Xmas. + > e 2 ; Goldsmith’s, isk"... 3 ¢ . * “Repairing.” fe a8: S S factory workmen at ex tenes work a specialty. Victor E. Desio & Co., Succes te Gerome Desio, E Go to Siccardi’s FOR BARGALNS IN HUMAN HAIR Hair Switches at Great Bargains, $3.00 Switches reduced to $1.50. $5.00 Switches reduced to $2.50. $5.00 Switches reduced to $5. Grey and White Uair reduced tm same proportion. Mme. Siccardi, TIL 1th st., next to Palais Royal. Private rooms (or bairdressing, shampoving and G@eing. sel3-16.t¢ ; Stop by This Evening bottle am < ther famoui kind gi pint 3 W. 'S. THOMPSON, 3 Lutz & Co. Are offering the largest and most complete line of Horse Blankets and Lap Robes Ever seen before in this city. Sole Agerin for the “CONCORD Harness.” 497 PA. tlonal Hotel. AVE. NV oc22-24d Adjotning » Black Marten Collarettes,°20 8 blacl storm collar and ails—only with 20. Coney Ce es.$4 and $5—with yoke. $8. = Polar B i Skin ee Fur Trimmings for sale. KE- NG by experienced workmen B. H. STINEMETZ & SON, HATTELS & FUR . 1237 PA. AVE. $ a The Lest B s in The Born Steel Plate Ran Tt is wode z ange ge saRuy nnn White Ash, $3.99. PER TON (2,20 Pounds’ Do not believe what you hear, but call and see for yourself. Wri. J. ZEH, 717 Lith Street Nw. The Robinson Oils, “they lubricate more and outlast other ofls.* Wm. C. Robinson & Son, plist BALTIMORE. Ma A remarkable Tea is Burchell’s Spring Leaf 6oc. a pound. Fragrant in the cup, delicious to the palate, it compares favor- ably with any tea imported. N. W. Burchell, 1325 F. hia) J Th: Wilmarth stock needs must be handled slow work. Your patience, however, preced-nted offerings row’s Re Will clearly show for themselves. stock and Christmas shopping wi ceive attention compel us to be m the house for short lengths—odd inore positive in the reductions we laggards among them. It’s a bar; las print. Remnants of DressGocds. 20 ends, from one to five vards long—Checks, Figures and plain colors—that we o! fer vou at about one-half their value. Theyre the short lengths of popular effects. Choice— 1214 to 35c. a yd. Tudab cian th the greatest care—which makes the will be rewarded shortly with some wn- high-class China, Cut Glass and Art Bric-a-Brac. The Importance of Tomor- mnants. But the fact that Christmas il straightway demand and _ re- ore thorough in our search about zes—and lot ends—and to be make—that there may be no gain offering from first item to Ss) —and there are ten times as many more that we cannot put in Remnants of Silks. Short lengths of Plain and Glace Taffeta, 1 to 8 yards long—the last of that lot of exceptional values at 75¢. Not much of it—-and what there is 48c. a yd. 1 Ladies’ Gloves. 1 ds and ends of Trefe eee akes of genuine ing st ek and #1 pres: BB values” RLM MOOS MMMM MMMM LEELA AOE AAAS ML Segoe etetete eter Ladies’ and Children’s Hosiery. ie % airs Children’s School Hi ¥; worth fre eee Seton tote So ancy All-wool Cush- I lot » stripe tro sto Soetee Ladies’ and Misses’ Un- derwear. Broken lot Lad! ete So ees 2. Sete = Ladies’ Handkerchiefs. Ha An lot_of chiefs lit ge he “Show is H may | tle—just as they are. Ladies’ Neck Ruffs. Black Neck Ruffs, made of hon; worth from ae. to te 236. Seates = see feegeng Linings. sth Heavy Twill i Silesia: for 4c. av gc. a yd. tek for Figured worth 12420 rt lengths of Watst Living t Black Moire o, and 15e—for 7° chs of werth 1ert leigths Silk-finished Skirt Linings; = rk color; regular We. kind ale = a aspires aes : $ Druggists’ Sundries. 10 packages Se Violet der eeeee Toilet Pow bottle 45e. 4711 Cologne... Sees Electric sete Cut Glass Se. Atomizer... soot bottles 10. tha Pure Glye nine West Ind — : boxes de Comfert Powder 336: Trimmings. | wo Military Waist Set: reg- is = 10¢c. asd. Revers; me regular coc, ban Temp 5¢ eefeateny age Notions. t of Faney Elastic in garter airs Fancy Garters; worth 10¢. 5! ‘par 36 Bone Crochet Hooks; worth Ic. 11 Cellulotd Handie Button Hoe seeded toc. a Braid) Che per pi oe Sets, in but and thread; worth 3« re Sc: efengenteagon Boys’ Clothing. § Boys’ Blue Chinchit worth > for $1.48 wool Double-breasted lot new « Kors’ le Smail shapes; for ’ Men’s Shoes. f and Patent Leath- aly afew different of Men's Bh Russia and i double sol in a a SeSesgee ef sete pairs, cov lots; so h up to ll ot lot Soot sont x Calf La pain and € Seefont shapes. V Ladies’ & Misses’ Shoes. troken lots of Ladies’ Hand-made Bright 1 Button and Lace and Box . Shoes; single and ¢ some ‘latest sty! and $4.50 grades... feet Seg = hoes, with kid or cloth tops, = feathers or! kid. tips: all > Jows of Misses’ and Children’s >a ei Kid Button and Lace > a sizes, but eve palr - orth up to $1 o8e. ~ Domestics. 4 t lengths of 10c. and 12) id 5 Outing and Eiderdown Flannels, 2 + lengths Se. Dark Ground Seeks 1 lengths 12%4¢ P and dark greunds..... Bedwear. eieindtotoaetonote What > special lots offer- <a Weds 17 Comforts, worth f0c., for 29c, 23 Comforts, worth 65e., fer 39¢. 14 Comforts, worth 89c.. for 63 See 11 of the $1.25 Crochet extra heaty, for 89e. preads, Millinery. Small lot of Children’s Cloth Tam ° Shanters, pre ve spot: Beown, Red, Navy’ Blue rnd Green. Reg- 49. ular 75e. kind, for... ne 48C. ae a few Black yelree Alpins and Poques, trimmed with fish net audtauiug: werth $125 forts. 2<3 40C- mall lot Felt trimmed with lve 3 c i $1.25 Orange Chiffon kind, for. gths of Platt Valenciennes and aris E in various widths: —from to c at lengths of Black and 1 Velling; plain and dotted. or. : ° Ribbons. Remnants of pons, 114 to 2% nm Se. to Muslin Underwear. Sik Caps; were mite Igc. Corsets. nd finished with rede sizes k and White 1H. & length; two side sizes 19, nick 4c. lapnel Skirt Pat- yard lengths Bleached 89yc. ea Ge and Plaid Crashes; worth C 2 Parean ‘fs, hemstitened woith $1.50 Sr Yo i Men’s Furnishings. Fle A Shists and Ly 39¢. Se aeRe 39¢- Fe Broken lots of Norfolk Bruskirk Drawers; worth Broken lots of Weol FI s and Drawers; nd at wanes = 48c. Hata lots Cam Har ind Wool Halt 4 3 Worth 20¢. Odds and E 1 Ties mee ie Last of brie ker chief Sc. ’ Boys’ Hats. Small lot Boys’ Golf, Cornell, Yaent and plaid effects; worth 48e,—for,..., 23C. Stall lot Children's Saflor *P " 4 AVS Bae aaa oct ware Art Embroid cloth; regu 4oc. 4 Handkerchief Patte 10¢. worth 1oc. 61 : for. 2c. Ladies’ & Misses’ Coats. Ladies in Venetian Box nd Misses Coats; finis! and boun C eked aia Ladies’ Skirts. style cut and were cheap at $4 finished with 3% rews of wors: deep tlouns worth $2 Ladies’ Waists. Faney ais Dress Waists, in evening shades; "elaborate 5 worth §10—for... i $5.50 16 Ladies” ‘3 Waists, in $2.25 Flannel Waists, v: 8s ° styles; worht $1. E- Ladies’ Suits. Tailor-made Suits, {mported models, no two alike, dscmie : styles; worth up to $25-—for $14.50 7 Tailor- 3 ent in Tat- eat style; Sadet Blue silk; sizes worth $11 » $6.75 3 All-wool made Suits; box coats and one of them braided, lined w rise taffeta; new st skirt; worth $18.50 ? $11.50 Saks and Company, Pen nsylvania Avenue ini Seventh Street. Sodeteetedeteeteeetetetetnenietntnee Sot seiete Seedeedenkonton Senter sSondondonteetententen gene ncoadontpetmeteesectegente tote Soe sate 2. Seafonteatoateagecs ed So ef eet See Sondendensonteesensontenseoten degeofon Seetent sete stoegecte See Soe oe 2. = esfententeete Seodoatesgentoateasee sete Sestesfonteet Sond ss a | AN APREAL, FOR CLERKS Report of the First Assistant Postmaster General. It In Recommieaged That Post Ofice EmployemBe Given Privileges Ac- cordgd “Igtter Carriers. First Assistant Rgstmaster General Perry S. Heath hag completed his annual report, except the pa rtiond relate to military post offices at the arm¥ camps and in the An- tiles and Philippines, and‘ the rural free delivery service, both of which await fur- ther advices. ‘The general business of the department shows an increase of over six million dollars during the fiscal year. In all departments of the service the influence of prosperous times has made itself appar- ent. ” This year there were 27,798,078 do- jaestic money orders issued, against 25,- 169,055 last year; the amount carried was $191, against $174,482, There were ¥ Money order offices estab- lshed. Classification of Clerks. The recommendations for congressional action are numerous and interesting. Mr. Heath recommends that clerks In post of- fices be classified and placed upon a fixed scale of salaries similar to that of letter carriers, so as to give fair prospects of advancement and certainty of compensa- tion. At present there is no rule or sys- tem for the grading of clerks at post ef- fices. It is contended that an efficient post office clerk is the peer of a letter carrier, and that there should be no diserimina- ton in the pay or privileges accorded to either class. The hours of labor of a letter carrier are limited by law to eight hours a day, and he is allowed fifteen days’ leave of absence a year. Post office clerks have no limitation on their hours and no Va tion without loss of salary. An ap- propriation of $50,000 is requested for the employment of substitute clerks to allow vacatio. An appropriation of $11,800,000, an inerease of $700,000 over this year, 1s recommended for the next fiscal year for clerk hire. Corgress having appropriated $200,000 less than the department's est- mate for clerk hire during the past fiscal year considerable embarrassment has en- sued in meeting emergencies incident to the great increase of public business Consolidating Post Offices. ‘The consolidation of post offices is again recommended. Congress is asked to repeal the law forbidding the abolition of a post office located at any county seat by a con- solidation of post offices. The abolition of small post offices contiguous to a large of- fice having free delivery and the establish- ment of stations and substations in leu thereof, Mr. Heath says, has been found to result not oniy in a vastly improved pub- lic service, but in a substantial saving in expenses, and he desires authority to con- tinue this plan. Authority is asked to make the clerk hire appropriation apply to all classes of post offi At present an al- lowance for clerk hire ean be given only to first and second-class postmasters. Many post offi which only escape hundred dollars of receipts from being included in] the second-class, have so much busipess that it is impossible for any one person 4@ properly attend to it, and the postmasters are constantly com- pelled to pay for such clerical help as they need out of their own salaries. There are 2410 third-gass ‘post offices, 790 second- lass and 17@ first-class. One result claim- ed is that it would remove the temptation for postmasters to;“pad” their receipts or to fraudulently itlcrease their apparent revenues so AS to get into the second class. Free delivery wag extended during the fis- cal year to fifty-nine offices. Additional of- fices entitledoto free delivery number 110. During the Current fiscal year service has been established “at thirty-four of these offic: leaving seventy-six to await the consideratioy of the department. The first assistant postmaster general recommends#a medification of the eight- hour law as* applied to letter carriers, so as‘to provide forty-eight hours for six d: work and only as many hours on Sunday within the eight-hour limit are abso- lutely necessary for the requirements of the service. This recommendation is in accord with the view by. the c ention of postmas Id at Detroit, and it is belie adoption would meet the approval of the letter car- riers themselves. Letter Carrier Sergeants. Mr. Heath recommends an additional grade of carriers, to be known i sergeants, in all cities having fifty c: or me nd that these positions signed by competitive examination among carriers who have served five years or more. The duties of these serge would be to supervise the work of letter carriers on their routes and to investigate com- He asks an appropriation for sala- plished offices and bicye 8 1 other incidentals, $150,000, making a grand total for this ser- vice of $1 200, He recommends a repeal of the law re- quiring the use of the present form of money order, in the interest of safety and simplicity, and also authorization for the use of a postal eheck payable to bearer. A detailed report of the operations of the rural free delivery will be presented within a few days. Congress increased the appro- for this purpose from $50,000 to 000, and Mr. Heath recommends, in view of the suc of the extension of the service and the satisfaction it has given, that an appropriation of $300,000 be made for rural free delivery during the next fiscal year. ———____+-e+ Butter From P anuts, From the St. pbe- Democrat. A new factory has just been put into operation in Kokomo, Ind., for the manu- facture of butter from peanuts. For a year or more Lane Bros. of that city have been working on a process of making butter from the peanut to compete with the pro- duct of the farm cow, and have succeeded Louis in producing the desired article. At the present price of the nuts the butizr can be sold at 15 cents per pound. The process is no secret. The nuts, are removed, are carsrully d faulty kernels remove of manufacture after the hull: hand-picked They are then roasted in a large rotary oven. Again they are over by hand for the removal of s hed grains. The nuts are then put th gh a mill and ground as fine as the finest flour, the nat- ural oi in the grains giving it the appear- ance and congistency of putty as it leaves the mill, except that it is more of an orange color. By the-additicn of filtrated water to reduce it to a, moxe, pliable state the butter is complete, Ao otlier ingredient, not even d and used. It never grows ranc ny'tlimate. It is put up in ten, twenty-five and 160-pour cans and sealed. The new butter is already anitariums and health It is used for all purposes ordinary d, including shortening and rying. Phy¥ictanb pronounce it more healthful tha butter and it is much S expensit. the addition of more ra delicious cream is made, and, if sired, it cag-in the same way be reduced to the consistency, of milk. The rew but- ter factory is located but a few rods from a large dairy-barm, and is running in op- position to ity ares Perhaps you use but little, but that little you want good. ‘ i wWie fie Whiskey bears the Government stamp of purity. salt, bein in great demand at resorts. THE PAPERS OF They Have No News or Opinions, but Abound in “Spicy” Reading. J. W. Steevens in the London Mail. There are scores of them in Paris and until you have wandered up and down them for a day or two it is impossible to find the news. In most of them, indeed, there is no news. What they have is tucked away in half a column or so of small type some- where toward the columns of advertise- ments in the rear, First, Fashoda. You look at the first leader. No; that appears to be about the Dreyfus affair. The next—no; that also ts about Dreyfus. The next—no; a branch of the affair Dreyfu: AH—"LA CRISE!” But that is about the ministerial crisis. Turn over. A series of short biographies of the new cabinet—here it is, though—‘Our Telegrams.” But only three of them—five lines from Vienna, eight from Crete, one from Japan. What can have happened? Have I been asleep even longer than I thought, and is the war over or the question settled? Mis- cellaneous news—theaters—provincial intel- ligence—and here it is at last. About twenty lines of it, chronicling the movements of Marchand and Baratier. This is absurd. This paper must be ut- terly worthless, utterly uninfluential. Then you take up another, and another, and an- other—and always the same thing. One or two enlarge on the news from Cairo by re- marking that the government does not konw why Marchand left Fashoda, and the Exglish papers don't, and they’re sure they don’t—and there they leave the matter, as thcugh Marchand were an_ irresponsible tourist who had gone to Cairo to post a letter. A few of the graver organs print brief telegrams from London with particu- Tars of the new squadron that is apparently being commissioned. They point out the interesting parallel of the particular service squadron at the time of the Jameson raid; but for anything that France appears to have to do with it, the ships might be going out for target practice. One or two quote extracts from the Lon- don papers, including the whole of the Daily Mail's latest leader. For the most part after the labors of translation, the weary publicist {s content to add the com- ment, “Attendons,” “We shall se They add this impressive note, apparently, to any news they do not understand. It gives the effect that everybody concerned is very blind and foolish except the man who writes “Attendons.”” That is all about Fashoda—little enough. and hidden in parts of the paper that no- body reads. The Paris correspondents of London papers,trained to scent such things. run these paragraphs to earth, and send them over to London. It is their duty so to do, And when we see them in prominent print in the front pages of our newspapers we “French feeling is a little better today. : You have only to see them in their native newspaper to be sure that there is no French feeling on Fashoda at all. The French newspapers may not represent a very serious public opinion, but I faney they do represent very fairly what public opinion there is. The man_on the boule- vard knows nothing about Fashoda or the Bahr-el-Ghazal, and—except that he has a general idea that Albion is grasping and perfidious—cares less, Whether anybody at all in Paris either knows or cares, I cannot tell you. Perhaps the ministry does, but then, until today, there has been no min- istry. Perhaps the foreign office clerks do, but then they must not say. But in the meantime, what is in the pa- pers? Of course the affair—the revision— the Jews—what Dreyfus did or did not say Capt. Lebrun-Renaud—nothing but the affair, and the affair, and then the affair ain. The details of the affair are of no particular interest to me or to you, but the manner in which it fs dealt with abounds in charm. The headings suggest the style PARIS, of argument at once. “Reptiles!” is the ti- tle of one article; “A Criminal” or “In- famous Men’ are comparatively mild. These titles apply generally to anybody who is not on the side of the writer. Drey fus and Esterhazy are, of course, fair game; the one is a traitor and a dirty Jew. the other the Uhlan and a protected bandit. But everybody is equally under fire. Judges, cabinet ministers, generals, the very presi- dent—one can imagine the glow with which they open their morning papers to see what new insult has been found for them today. And what a@ magnificent command of lan- guage the Parisian polemist enjoys. M. Deroulede—only, of course, they omit the derer before the enemy, a lower of Frenchmen. an ex-hireling of Rothschild, either a forger or a traitor. M. Rochefort is n incredible accumulation of disgraces, a prodigy of corruption, both in his public and in his private life,” with “thirty de- bauches, pots of wine, diffa cal- umnie: behind him. M. ©: of it: the pious Cavaignac two generations of assassins; aloud of massacre, accumulates lies and torgeries.””. M. Dupuy—the mild Dupu is “half cleansed of the murder of Carnot, accomplice in the Dreyfus trial. organizer of the Madagascar butchery, accomplice with Hanotaux in the extermination of the Armenians. There is much more of it. Toward the end the gentleman becomes almost epilep- tic with enthusiasm and quite unquotable in our chaster tongue, and underneath the completed work he signs his honored name. But it would be unfair to go on and not give the other side a chance. One turns, naturally, to the works of M. Inumont. Today appears to be All Souls’ day—the day of the dead—and M. Drumont improves the occasion. At the beginning he enchains the reader with the non-com- mitting reflection, “Life is short; by the end he has established that this melan- choly fact Is mainly due to the Jew. “The Jew with his crooked fingers, the unclean Jew who traflics im everything, who buys up ministers and judges wholesale.” It ap- pears the love of death and the lust of nothingness—whatever that is—are the only things he believes in. The Jew knows he is shortly to be chastised again; “mean- while he amuses himself by killing, by de- stroying; he tastes the pleasure of death. He says, with a horrible grin, as he thinks of bleeding France, ‘Another people smit- ten by the right nand of Israel.’ ” That is only a specimen of M. Drumont’s more philosophic style. When it comes to ying what he thinks of people on the other side he can hold his own with an: bedy. “The ignoble press of the syndicate of treason, the shriekers of the Ne du Di- is one of his gambits; “the lies of one of his titles. The other day he it with the early life of this apparently well-meaning mag a@ provincial newspaper’ of the Christian faith, and “the rewarded him with office.” But that is enough for the morning. It is afternoon now and the evening papers will be out. I must go and see what “The Rights of Man” and “The Anti-Jew” say. ams SHAVING IN PORTO RICO. “the heir of he “dreams perversive ynagogue No Use for American Customary From the Cleveland Leader. The natives of our new territory, Porto Rico, have no need to buy soap, for the wooded country abounds in plants whose leaves and bulbs supply most fully the place of that indispensable articie. Among the best of these is the soaptree, so called, though it is more a bush than a tree. Its bulb when rubbed on wet clothes makes a snow-white lather, which has an odor like old brown Windsor soap. The Porto Ricans, who are all, from the highest to the lowest, great dandies in their way, make soap out of cocoanut ofl and home- made lye—and a fine soap it is, smooth and fragrant. This cocoanut oll soap is used for shaving. When a man wishes to have a shave in the morning he starts out with his cocoanut shell cup, and his donkey tail brush and bottle. It is never any trouble to find an empty bottle in Porto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, or almost any of the larger West India islands, even in remote spots in the mountains. At least twenty genera- tions of thirsty people have lived there and thrown away the bottles. The man carries no mirror; he is too poor to own such a luxury. Not one house in twenty in . orto Rico has even the very cheapest looking glass. But generously rich nature provides the mirror, as well as the soap. The man goes to some convenient pool in the moun- tain stream where the’ water is quite still— there is his mirror. He breaks his bottle on a-stone, and deftly picks outa sharp piece of suitable size. Then he lathers his face profusely, and begins to scrape away with his piece of glass, which in his hands works aswell as the best steel razor. A cut, or_even a slight scratch, ig extremely rare as a result of this al fresco form of shaving. Razors or the Soa ee Thousands of situations have been ob- tained through the want columns of The Star. “THE DEPEN -because of our anxiety to keep of broken lots and ends of lines || a cutting of prices clear to the cc season. 22-924-926-928 7th st., running through to 704-6 K st. Friday is remnant day —the day when values are greatest—when prices are least. the plete. After a week of record-breaking selling the accumulations Your dimes will do double duty—secure the best bargains of the DABLE STORE.” All tore’s stocks fresh and com- have piled up high. That means | ore: of cost—for a quick clearance. ii Ladies’ $1.25 Gl —just think of it—2g cents a pai handling—not damaged in any ing value—but not the wear. “N Wearing, for that matter. The « The greatest glove bargain ever put before you—by us—by anybody. Just 95 pairs of ladies’ fine kid browns—the latest fancies —whic oves, 29c. a pair. gloves, in tans and h are the regular $1.25 gloves—for r. They are slightly soiled from other way. That affects their sell ‘ew gloves become soiled in a day's 5 first comers get them. The greatest of We have gone through stock and picked shoes and placed them in Dig dor. 1 button shoes—all the latest siyles—all styles flexible sewed and made in the best manner Pay regularly $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00 for. On lace and button at $1.50 and $2 Another lot of ladies a pai ity Ladies’ $2, $2.50 and $3 shoes at 98c. a pair. made overgaiters on sale all shoe values! out most sewed desiral of tt very ja ~ xi dS. These shoes you | sa shoes, several Sizex 2%, f 3 and 3% the newest only styles toes —all These sold regularly orrow regular ava | Remnants black goods 165 remnants of black goods, consisting of all-wool Henrietta and ail-wool {m- al serges, fine satin jacquards—figured berber, storm serges; 46-in.silk-figured mo- hairs, plain mohairs, brilliantines. A vast lot of choice black fabric ing In value from OF Colored dress goods. A lot of 95 pleces colored dress goods In lengths from 2 to 7 yard isting of cashmeres, 40-In. ju: ‘ds, fancy s, Wool suiting, two-toned mobairs, ch’ plaids, et Sold as high ca yard. mnant price. . 15c. 2 es of some of the - ble stuffs to be had- pons, silk and wool 125 pi || est and most dest ax mohair novelties 46-in. serges — all-wool « || handsome tufted crepons, beaut!- Hl ids, new toned I-woeol sult- | ings, finest. French satin. jacquards—new Hl Reena noveltic all-wool cheviots, ete. Sold as high as 6% a yard. Remnant price ma 4 [oe | Lining remnants. Remna.w' of silesias, cambric, grase } cloth, imitstion haircloth, silk leno. plain leno, ete. hich sold us high a 1 Se. a yard—for...- verses U/QCe Lot of fine silk-finished skirtings, perca |] tine st liuhags. linen canvas and ) Sateen which sold from 15e. up to 25e. a yerd—for nes 74Ac. The silk remnants. A lot of odd pieces of silk, consisting of motre antigne brocodes, in evening shader, stripe ‘and, etieck Pisin ‘nttete glice and Mock be affe ||] whfeh cold at SOc. a yard—for. 29c. ! = ts of fine silks, consist- ing of plain black satin and gros gratn, changeable and black rustling taffeta, plaid cud stripe taffeta, Mack brocade satin, ombre checks and stripe Bayndere, stripe vel scld at S8e., $1 and $1 49c ff the plece- |] for ze | 19c. to 50c. flannels, 12'4c. ats of all-wool fancy elderdown, and will Mane A—whi h s¢ Odd lots cloak de Lat of pretty mixed braided en years. Pr pt. $1.50 | eh Ke a $6.98 Idren’s Reefers. 1 bs in all 6 te 1 at Tailor-made and wl all-xith-tined — |] Piain 98c. Odd lots millinery. |, skins: 67 48 || Mititare Jacket: ot iil y— have velvet || | Lot of Fiderdown fur trimmed. Odd lot of Fedora in Black — | ad voters will gona bury DBE. || Lot of infants’ embroidered silk } cape, the aitation amacte gs Ber, OS \ Lot of children’s Prench felt voted | brim bats, whis ch epen-w 1 scarfs, or 2 cents | anants of plain Ite vellings, worth | at Te. a veil. wis of plain satin and plein taffeta ribbons, which sold ap rd—to go at We, a yard 27 Indies” shell side combs. which sold and Ise. pair—go for 14 pearl tuttial stick pins, » io go for in wh which nts. each. : | | large WHY CHILDREN Shocks to Nervo' yatem and Feb- rile Disorders the Cause. Frem the London Standard. In a learned paper on the subject of con- vergent strabismus by Prof.Priestley Smith, which constituted the last Bowman lecture of the Ophthalmological Society, it is stated that the onset of strabismus is often at- tributed to a fit, a fright, a fall or other such occurrence, and still more often to an illness such as whooping cough or measles. Making allowance for the frequency of such events among children and for a certain SQUINT. elders, it seems to me, says Prof. Smith, highly probable that these supposed causes are very often real causes. Some such ex- planation of the onset was given, with my cases, and the proportion would no doubt have been higher had not many of knew nothing of their antecedents. In many cases the history was definite and not to be upset by cross-examination. example, a child who had never been seen to squint before came from school squint- ing badly, having that morning been put into the corner with a cloth over her head Another dtd the same immedately after having his head pushed into a bucket of water by his brother; another after sitting in scalding water; another after being terrified by a monkey which jumped on to her shoulder. No s clear in many cases was the hi tory of onset during measies, whooping cough or other constitutional disorders. All these are conditions which may grave- ly disturb the nervous system. Shock, an- ger or apprehension impair the control of muscular action. They cause the knees to shake, the voice to tremble, and even the hand of the‘ophthalmic surgeon to become unsteady. Febrile disorders cause delirium, convulsions and sometimes transient stra~ bismus, and leave the nervous system ex- hausted. Is it not highly probable that such disorders occurring in young chil- dren may interrupt the action of those higher centers which control the move- ment of the eyes, and this not only where control is already difficult by reason of am- blyopia or error of refraction, but even in children whose visual apparatus is normal for their time of life, but not yet fully de- veloped? The old idea that the squinting child needs a little skillful surgery and nothing more is dying out. Most people know that glasses are often necessary, but that the child may require teaching, at some trouble, to use the squinting eye Is a new idea to many. It is easily grasped, however, and must be grasped if our ef- forts are to be effective. I have used the word educative as a help in that direction. Of course there are parents and there are children on whom all time and trouble spent in this way are entirely thrown away, but on the whole I have been surprised at the care and patience with which directions have been carried out, even in homes where one might least expect it. a If you want work read the want columns of The Star. Te So injurious is life on a torpedo boat that a year’s continuous service will mentally and physicality incapacitate a man. This assertion is made on the authority of Lord Charles Beresford, but that the strain on any one serving on there crafts is very great is shown by the fact that to one month’s service the British naval regula- tions allow one week off. Austria is en- deavoring to mitigate the hardship of ser- vice on these boats, and life on one built for the Austrian navy, and tried on the Thames recently; was demonstrated to be pleasanter than on those of the English mevy. - disregard of time and sequence in their | show of reason, in more than two-fifths of | the patients been brought by persons who | For | NERVOUS AND oF over advertised IU is now advertised to warn the public against counterfeits. genuine article is manuf; A tured by Dr. J. Some Tales Recalled by the Zola Sale im France. From Tit-Bits. | The Zola sale in France table was sold for more value, recalls many instances of r>mark- able bids at auction sales. Zola’s table | Was worth i# 1€s., but the first bid for it | was £1,280, and the auction ame pry ably unique in the annals of sales by be | clesed after a single bid. | It is not the first time that a table has been sold for such a remarkable | though it is probably the first time such an article has fetched such a big pri Cicero’s table was put up to auction after his death, but the highes: t \€ Another historic article, for whi-h on normous price was paid, was Cato’s pur- sum th 1 was ple robe, which Nero bought for £6,800. The habit worn by Charl+s XII at Pultowa was sold for £22,000, and a cup used by Na- ! poleon went for thirty-seven guineas. Th hat which Napoleon wore at Eylau was keenly bid for at an auction by thirty-two persons, and was knocked down at £ Mr. Quaritch, the famous bookseller, cently advertised two of his rar»s r volumes for sale for £14 a sum which may ridiculous to most readers. Mr. Quar however, once bid £4,900 for a Latin Ps. =e 900 for a Mazarin Bible at an a sale. Five hundred and forty guineas for a snuff box suggests that the bidder was verging on madness, but a snuff box from the Emperor of Brazil's collection was once knocked down at this price. Another, sup- posed to have belonged to Marie Antoinette, sold for 320 guineas, bids of fifty and a hundred guineas being quite common at snuff box sales. A vas? in the British Museum was knock- ed down at 1,000 guineas; and two vio! a Stradivarius and a Ruggari—were sol a sale for £760 and £1,280 respectively. violin bow by Tourte was sold for £44, and the autograph of Sir Isaac Newton once drew a bid of £64. An admirer of George IV a few years ago bid {18 for a walking stick which belonged to th: kin; A silver penny of William the Conquerer’s reign was sold nine years ago for £32, and a half- crown of the reign of Queen Elizabeth went for £44. Lord Fitzhardinge once bid 4,500 guiness for a calf at Lord Dunmore's sale. Th> previous highest price for a bull was 1,1") guineas, bid at_a sale at Ketton. Lord | Fitzhardinge’s bid was the highest ever made in England, but it has been beaten— of course in America—an Englishman hay ing bid th> unprecedented price of £5,120 for a bull at Utica twenty-five years ago. fumhor feet Atting TRUSSES. have an ex; FITS trusses. A full line of Abdominal Support Elastic Hostery, Invalid’ and Physicians Sup! Mertz’s Pharmacy, Eleventh and F Sts. We rt here who | it