Evening Star Newspaper, November 25, 1898, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1898-16 PAGES. = oes 5 This is a prize indeed. This en See rereeeeees We're out-talked often—-out-done never. The Sale of the Wilmarth Stock Cut Glass, Fine Everybody kr pated we shall offer it at prices that will he f marth’s was a store that traveled a way of it’s own--offering the very highest class goods at prices mid- way between the extremes. Wilmarth’s own markings remain—our markings being placed beside his— where everybody who looks can see at a glance what immense advantage is held out. e stock has been put on tables off by themselves on the Fifth Floor of the Western Sec- tion—away from our own China and Glass Department. To families the occasion is all important. To the n marked contrast to the actual suitable souvenirs for Christmas are offered. China and Art Objects Begins Tomorrow Morning. ws what a rich exclusive steck it is—and as you have antici- recognized values. Wil- In fact there has never It is you who will best appreciate what a Dinner, Game, Fish and Chocolate Sets ~ giit-buyer a host of rare and daint 4 been a sale of such widespread interest. 5 We want to impress one point—do not associate this sale with the prevalent kind. It’s all and only FA Wilmarth’s stock—and Wilmarth’s stock was all and only of the newest type and choicest merit. If you FA were familiar with it we specially invite vour inspection now. = legitimate offering—and special privilege is here. * ‘ ‘ s 2 F = Finest of Cut Glass 2 Wiimarth's war one of the largest stocks of Cut Glass carried In Was! Rut it was Digger in variet own than In qvantity of each d ds the chart xclnsiveness, apt selectic pera th pnd t Lambert, St S-ineh F lar diamond pattern. $1.90. Amon; Now! Large Celer tern. WI Water ¢ WILMARTH" h Vase mond $5. Our price straw PRIC Brandy consisting Claret Pitcher, 1%. MARTIDS PRICE cut in ved and clever imitation of real cu Wilmarth's hebby. Very carefully Nut Bowl, in Mel Our price...... Frnit Bowl; very Our price new and Crystal Berry Saucers, high-class design. Our price Engraved Glass Tumblers; dainty effects Te. Our price extra thin blown. Wine Glasses Our price Our price Our price PRIC Fancy China Novelties— Haviland China Oatme: WILMARTH'S PRIC Our price.... . $1.30. Limoges China Fern Disb. Our price.... Blue Delft Tooth Pick H Our price... Japanese Tea Our price.... ‘aps and S Royal Austrian Tea Cups Sancers; bowl WILMARTH'S PRICE, $1.25. 3 é = Our price........---+++- 3 4 Ravarian China Cups amd Saucers $ MARTH'S PRICE, 54 @ur price. .-<2- geet Royal Copenhagan Cups and Saucers. 60¢ : Our price... 2. cerccee pocryetcivigs “ Foeus your ¢ : : $ 3 WILMARTIES PRICE, Bisque Di Our price.. Bisque Figure, ‘The Our pric al in Vases, haud decorated Our price. . Our price... for FB All-woel Cheviot 1 Shert Pants Suits, mi up be in Double-breasted, Brownle and Reefer styles; plain, fast-color Blue and faney effects: Brownies and Reefers trimmed with id. AU sizes, 3 to 15 years. Worth $: ) and $3—actoal values. ss" All-wool Cheviot e Pants Soits, Double- breasted and Brow patterns je styles; plain and fauc ined with Italian cloth; caret 3 to 1 years. Actual val for Young Men's Lovg Pants 4. 9 Suits, strictly all wool, plain he Blve neat patterns; stylish fw cut, perfect in fit, right in make and ‘n all xizes, 14 to 19 years. Actual valne, $6 and $6.50. Ladies’ 35c. Hose, Tomorrow Only Our price Dish, 1 WILMARTH nd Empire ent Stand WILMARTH'S in = $4. Our price...... $2.66 ps ttern lecanter and six glasses; all cut Algerian design. WILMAKTiNVS PitICE, $7 1 ice Haviland Chinn Fi OGD NICs he ster ceer reine pee $4.66 es Stns 9-inch Fruit Bowl, cut In WILMARTIVS Our price... pasa: & Reyal English Di 5 Roral English Dinne Ghar paice- 25-2 22.44-4--41- CECE - $10.98 osebht pattine Algerian pattern. chedeatea ntact SOGS WILMARTIUS PRICE, 13 attractive pattern. exclusive WILMARTIVS PRICE, Crystal Decanters, engraved decoration; pint size. Beason ARE! t. of 3 pieces apd artistic decora WILMARTH'S PRICE, Pena ee Individual Butter Dishes Ss see EE Covered Vegetable Dishe buttereup design. WIL- Soup Tureens.. Lae e eee 48c. Sauce Boats. Tea Caps and Saw er WILMARTH'S PRICE, WILMARTIV'S PRICE, WILMARTH'S PRICE, § WILMARTH’S PRICE, Our well-known leadership in Boys’ opportunity offers brought a maker and us closed out several entire lines of Suits and Long and Short Pants Suits, Reefe the prices the values will astonish you. Perea Ae There are just 18 dozens—and they are fine Cashmere Hose, in fast-dye Black, with gray heels and toes. Perfect-fittng. Everywhere it’s their 35c. leader. Eighteen dozen will only last Pompadour S PRICE, $1.75. ant pres The distinct of rary f the W or ace $% how. Royal P $4.50 pattern, Carlsbad China me some decoration. WILMARTH'S Our price > Ha and China ne ie Our price... WIL Our price a 226. WIL- Breakfast Plates des Dinner Plates Soup Plates. Fruit Saucers Platters (small size) Platters (medium size) Platters (arge size) Un_overed Vegetable Dishes 1e. Soup Tureens...........00+5 Pickle Dishes Oatmeal Saucers. Egg Cups. Sugar Bowls WIHMARTH'S Cream Pitchers China Servic Haviland flowers, with Tea Plates Breakfast Plates. --- O3¢c. Dinner T $1.15 Soup Plates Fruit Saucers, en 19 Platters (medium ae c. Platters darge size). Coffee Cups and Saucers After Dinner Cups and Toilet Sets. stive ornam Mostly xelu- nights s to give spec $1 $4.17 $1.50. 98. Only a ve jue Tollet yn and finishe College Tobacco Boxes Yale, Harvard, Cornell and Princeton. Toilet Sets, of 10 ple WILMARTH'S 91 oop. WILMARTH'S P Our pric Se eer ECs = 85c. Our price. eins, with musical attachment, WILMARTIVS ‘Toilet MARTH'S PRICE, $4.50. -- $2.48 complete se WILMARTH'S . WIL one ts, of 10 pieces, Qur price:: wih gold shading. Service, is Vink and Blu Covered Vegetable Dishes........ with nsisting of MARTH" Mey"s m Wi variety Open Sets— ted. patterns, Royal n Dinner pattern, finished in geld; WILMARTIVS ale ible eae eg Aa aa Lenox shape, Toman gold decoration and clouded gold handles. nd dal na, ete. nd suitable de $19.9 ke) of 115 pi FARTIUS PRICE Med: ing of lion desi underglazed her neutral in two d Wilmarth'’s ou pe pri He. 9c. 150, 10c. Ise, 12c. 10¢. Ac: 19c. 27c. 66c. 19c. $1.20 $1.50 22¢. 12c. 8c. 8c. 39c. 22c. terned in shoy rt or of Wi hs y few and extremely Mmited quantity of them—but they maintain the Wilmarth standard for unique and artisti ‘They get a price-push here that will send them hurrying out: effects. ets, complete with Slop Jar, handsome floral dec- with gold. WI Our price... . ARTH'S PRICE $9. + $6.48 with decorations in Biue, Green or ICE $6.50. new style decoration. WIL- ..+- $2,908 Great Day for Boys’ Clothing Buyers-- Clothing selling—and our readiness always to buy when right together the fore part of the week—with the result that we Overcoats at a big sacrifice on the creative cost. ts and Overcoats—and what hav They're e arrived go on sale tomorrow. At A thousand garments are in this sale at the present time. $2 Ti tor Boys’ Brown and Blue} for Boys’ Blue and Covert ¢ Asvanban Reefers; | abso- 4 Cloth Overcoats; every woo color: trimmed wita silk braid and big pearl Cec ine Os oats A eh buttons; ‘warm and strllshs Soca ge Bett blest new style and made in most thorough years. ‘Actual value, $3.75. manner. Warms Costs and wearable Coats. for Bore’ Allwoot Blue | All sizes 4 to 15 years, D, Chinebilla Reefers; lined Actual value, $5. with wool, making them doubly warm; some with uister, others with Velvet collar. All sizes 6 to 16 years. Actual value, $7. color and quality; lined with best of Italian cloth; ulster and velvet col- lars. Sizes 6 to 16 ye Actual value, $10. for Boys’ All-wool Blue Fur Tomorrow Oniy tity at. Western Section—Ist Floor. ars. finish. $4.9 to be in fashion and be comfortable; tatlor All sizes 14 to 19 years. Actual value, $6.50. Children’s 19c. Hose, for Boys’ Plain Blue Kerse: Overcoats; fast color and al! wool; cut the right length .. 1214c. A special offering of 3-thread Egyptian Yarn Hose, with protected knees and 4-ply heels and toes. A strong value at 19c. _A limited quan- 2 oes Eage, Seteentedeteetetet Bee Adio We're out-talked often—out-done never. Men’s Furnishings—With Underwear in the Lead. _ They weren't locking for this weather right away when they decided to turn over their Underwear surplus to us at the prices they did. But the old policy is the new policy—as bought—so sold. 2 2, cagex Flececd Rinned Balbrigzan. Shirte a rawersa, with ‘arl butto Feinforced ail’ over.” Worth SOc, for DOC, 1 case Heavy Ribbed Natural Wool Shirts gun Drawers: silk triuited, “pearl ons an reinforced. orth " 98e. $1.25, for rik Gane, Tear Frecoed Shirts and Drawers; alk trimmed; exveptional good valu> 4 Qc for Te. Ribbed Balbriggan Shirts 1 case Heavy and Drawers ways $1 HALF HOSE- Extra heavy el's Halr Hose 109 dozen’ of this grade for tomorrow at......2+.--+ Gray and Cam- 25c. Eastern Sectten ASC. Ist Floor. us a bargain we mus —of various sorts and | In the lot which son'll find on sale tomorrow morning are ford Vests nnd Pants, White Mer Suits, Howard —the special price tomorrow for Ladies’ Underwear—worth 65c. to 85c. As a rule we don’t deal with middle men—but when they offer acknowledge it no matter from what source. We closed out a commission house’s stock of Ladies nds—worth at retail 65¢ is an 1,800 garment purchase, but the price safeties it. ino Vests and Pants, 14 Wool Ribbed Vests: Mills Vests and Pants. Wool Gloves—tbe first special of the sea- 90 40 doaen’ genuine Scotch "Wool “ex Gloves—worth 35c., for..... Cc. Astrachan Gloves, with Mocha palms, for driving 0" wheeling “specially desir & f able. Reguiar $1.25 kind, for......- 60 dozen Swell English Dogekin Gloves. out-seam and Tan shades. Worth $1 25 $1.50. : 140) Men's Taffeta Silk Umbrellas, both and 28-inch, Paragon frame, steel rod, and sterling silver trimmed handles. Cheap _at Spectal price for this tot $1.50 25 dozen French Percale Shirts, all-over designs, tn latest shedes of Dark ‘Blue and Pink; link cuffs to match; perfect fit- ting.” Regular $1.25 value; exclusive 1 patterns. . > $2. onl; Knit Underwear 75c. and &5c. It ASc. ? Wool Ox- The The Biggest Day the Glove Counter Has Had Will be tomorrow—because there will be two unusually strong magnet drawing—magnets of uality and price. Kid Gloves. 1 Gloves—for... Western section First floor. = 3. Kid Mitts. $ 150 doz Ladies,’ Misses’ and Children’s = Kid Mocha = Mitts; 3 some plain, ne fur tops, a fastening. All shades. Ac- ° tually $1 Mitts—for. ... Ladies’ Electric Seal Coats, $28.50. A special price, for they are worth $37.50—periect color, made up in latest style, satin-lined thronghout—r5 on sale tomorrow ata 4 $10 saving in the price. Tat ‘inch Astrachan ae . iined all through with silk, Intest shape. Worth $1 , for . 8.50 Girls’ Clothing— Tomorrow’s offerings for the Girls are specially worth taking interest in. We been about among the best. makers—finding here end there a lot good enough for us to selk and offered cheap enough to induce us to buy. Here they are: Girls’ Walking (oats, made of fine La- Cloth, with’ sdilor collar, trimmed with White braid. Sizes 2 to yea $3.45 and worth $4.49. in the new color- Walking Coats, ade with eape collar, trimmed with braid and pearl buttons. AN sizes. lowest the i $5.45 larly is § could 50. ” Rough Reefers, In Red, Brown and wy Blue, trimmed. with-bratd: ALL sizes ish, Worth $3.95 ctlon—2d Floor. , Western § , Boys’ Hats— “SPECIALS”—Mc thers that means here Toys’ Heavy-w ble bands; new comfort and 7 all know what olf Caps, with dou- a heap of value-—tomorrow 48c. for Se Boys’ Blue Tam O'Shanters, sailor atyle, with warship name embrofdered tn Tame tor 400. and Brown Fedoras tee Soc, silk on band. Regular 16 dozen Boys’ Bl —this season's & $1.25 quality for... Eastern Section—Ist Floor. Saks and Company, Penna. Avenue and Seventh Street. LEPROR EEL EO LEVEEEE i ‘ Russian Meiten Collarettes, 10 inches deep, full sweep, latest cut and’ neatly lined. Worth: $7.50 . $5 Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Shoes. ve to ask you not to judge the the pricefor we're again for- tunate enough to control several lots of Fine Shoes at our own prices. First choice tom: rrow— Ladies’ French Vici Kid and Fre ent Leather Button and Lace Shoes, hand made; medium and heavy welght; sireet and dress jasts and ana $2.97 $450 quality, fo id Rutton and Lace Ladies’ Black Vici Shoes, made on very stylish lasts, finished selected with hid or patent leather tf stock all through. Regular $3 value, judged by any comparison $ 1.98 Misses’ Dull and Bright Kid Button and Lace Shoes—stout enough for school and dressy enough for dress wear; opera, round or full toes patent leather or kid tips— * O8c. The same fdentical Shoe as above, in sizes for children, at Boys’ Solid Black Calf School Shoes. that defy the wear and abnse of pl solid as a rock from strap to tip. Shoe we warranted. Worth $1.48 $2.25, for. 5 The Saks “Little Trooper" Shoes for boys are here in all sizes again. The great difficulty we have in maintaining a com: plete Ine of these Shoes ts eloquent proof of the quality. A wonderful value $1 b for . Exstern Section—Firet Floor. Hobson Sailors— We've sold nearly a thonsand of these popular Hats, and 150 more will be offered tomorrow —but at special price. Red, Brown, Blue, Gray and Black, trimmed with r on and quills, 50c¢ Worth $1.25—Spectal.....0....- e Eastern Section—24 Floor. aiotonieeetonteeteeten IN LIVING Strange Case That Has Puzzled Physicians of California. From the San F When M 1a Wilbur ceased to be one of the belle: Francisco and became “a case” without precedent in medical his- tory, her condition attracted the attention, not only of physicians and subscribers to medical journals, but of newspaper readers generally. For Miss Wilbur will not live. she does not die. Not a day of the eight months and more that Miss Wilbur has passed, open-eyed, yet without consciousness, but has brought to the physician in charge and to the im- mediate family, inquiries, suggestions, and even reproofs. The world has heard of this unique case. The world knows that a wo- man has lived for the better part of a year in a trance, or sleep, and that nothing can awaken her. The world, therefore, being meddicsome and sympathetic, sends sug- gestions, absurd and otherwise, waits for a ume to see whether the dead has come to life again, reads an exaggerated notice of improvement, and a speedy, authoritative denial, and then scoids somebody roundly because the day of miracies is past. if you could see Miss Wubur as she lies in an airy, sunny, southwest room on the topmost floor of her mother’s house you would sympathize with people at large in their impatience of the present state of af- fairs. You wouid i#ng,‘as does everybody who sees her, for the power to bring her back to life. leave ‘This girl was one,of the beauties in Vo- gu's series of the “Fair Wornen of Ameri- ca.” But the face of the Miss Wilbur so- ciety knew is. far Jess interdesting than that of the case the physicians know. ‘This siecping beauty iN im perfect physical heaith. At the first, glance you wouid say a tall, strong, fair Womett, whose dark biue eyes, slightiy suffused, had just opened af- ter a night's sound sleep.. The face is thin- ner than when I first saw it, but it is still warmiy colored, an@ thé)mysterious power that stands between Miss Wilbur and con- scious life has stamped this face with an austerity, a nobility, a nunlike sweetness, which has all the beautiful serenity of death without its repulsion. Before the medical joyrnals had heard of Miss Wilbur, ce ie world knew of her, DEAD BRAIN Bopy. the And yet save as her name w¥s pfinted in connection with some society air, Miss Wilbur was engaged to marry Jaimes C. Dunphy. It was a long engagement; it lasted four years. Once the wedding day was set, but notices of postponement were sent to the guests and the original invitations were never seconded. Mr. Dunphy is a Catholic. Mr. Dunphy is divorced, and his divorced wife still lives. And nothing but a dispen- sation from the pope could have made the way smooth before these two; this or something as hard to obtain, the consent of Mr. Dunphy’s deeply. religious and very wealthy mother, who might disinherit her son should he marry without her consent. The last time. that Mr. Dunphy. called upon his fiancee a misunderstanding occurred be- tween them. The followiing morning when he arrived at Miss Wilbur's house early to say gocd-bye— was going out of town that day—Miss Wilbur ceased to be herself any tetera sini had dost hope and “ ether the: n€ heart, whether she dpaired of happy termina? tion to this unequal struggle between mere- ly human love and the power of and rever- ence for a mighty religion, is part of the mystery of this story. It is but natural, of course, for every- body who tells of this pathetic, reclining Galatea to speak gently of her. But her strange afflicuon, her youth and her beauty combined would not account for the unusu- ai tenderness with which those who knew Miss Wilbur speak of her. She must have been a rarely gracious, loving and lovab! woman. And her friends will not for a moment admit the suicide theory, evidencins the open window of the room in which she found and the neglect of the ordinar. suicidal precautions when gas is to be the method of exit from this world. Had Mr. James Dunphy postponed for au hour his early morning call at 2328 Califor- nia street on February 17 of this year neither of the two Elida Wilburs—not the ene society knew well less than a year ago, nor the so absorbingly interesting to the medical fraternity—would have ex- isted. Miss Wilbur's would have been one of the ‘ul suicides or onc due to gas poisoning. But science and tender nursing and the utmost care came to the rescue and brought back from the borderland an enchanted creature; a well-nourished body and a be- numbed, clogged, sick brain; a placid, even- ly-breathing, living thing,’ perfect’ as a fiower and as self-unconsciousness, a slum- bering statue as unaffected by the shock of a great earthquake, by great heat or cold or electricity, as by the touch of her mother's hand or the appeal in her voice or the prayer in her eyes. When the regular physicians had declared Miss Wilbur's case hopeless, the third house of medicine was appealed to—that unrec- egnized class of healers who are the last resort of desperate, unreconciled humanity. The Christian’ Scientists, the Faith Heal- the hypnotists, all the exponents of -drug, latter-day magic in curing the sick, tried to restore Miss Wilbur, and failed, precisely as their more material brethren had before them. And the end? None of the two dozen healers, regular and irregular, will prophesy when that end will come. But by slow de- grees, very gradually, most of them be- lieve, this girl's physical strength will leave her. She has grown thinner within the past six months, but is otherwise un- changed. But her death, the wisest phy- sicians say, is inevitable, and its cause wiil be monoxide poisoning. The deadly gas killed this girl’s mind. Though its action was interrupted, it has not been thwarted, say the doctors, and the death of the body, though not accomplished so promptly, will follow in time. ——__+ e+ ___— A New Artificial Stone. From the Engineering News. Papyristite is a new artificial stone, made from purified paper pulp and other ingr2- dients, by Fr. Gehre, a civil engineer of Zurich. It is an improvement on papro- litte, Invented by the same man. It is es- pecially intended for jointless roofs or ficors, and is a non-conductor of heat, cold or sound. It is hard as a stone, but has a soft, linoleum-like feeling under foot, and is noiseless. It weighs less than stone or cem2nt, and 220 pounds of the preparaiion in powdered form, spread .4 inch thick, will cover ninety square feet. The cost is sald to be exceedingty low, and it can be laid without special machinery; it is dry in twenty-four hours, and can then be highly polished. THE CHINESE JEWS. Mystery of Their ©: gogue in Kae- From the Quiver. Among the most remote colonies are the Jews of China, who have aroused interest- ing inquiry and been the theme of many French writers. Early in the seventeenth cenvury, and shortly after the Italian mis- sionaries had come to Peking, one of them, Matthew Ricci, received a morning call. His visitor wore the gorgeous Chinese dress, including the queue, but the figure and face were not Mongolian, and the smil- ing countenance was not in keeping with the dignified solemnity of a Chinaman. The gentleman's name was Ngai, and he had heard of the arrival of some foreign- ers who worshiped one Lord of heaven and earth, and who yet were not Mahom tans; he belonged to the same religion, he explained, and had ca‘led to make their acquaintance. Now, Master Ngai made it clear that he was an Israelite, a native of Kae-fung-foo, the cupitai of Honan. He had come to Peking to pass an examin tion for a mandarin decree, and had been led by curiosity and brotheriy feeling to call at the mission house. In his native city, he said, there were ten or twelve families of Israelites, and a syna- gogue which they had recently restore the expense of 10,000 crowns roll of the law four or fiv in—Their Syna- ‘ung-Foo. hundred years old. The missionary’s letiers described this synagogue. It occupied a space be- tween three and four hundred feet i length by out a hundred and fifty in breadth, and as divided into four courts. At had borrowed some decorative spiendor from China. The inscription in Hebrew “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is ont Lord, blessed be the name of the glory of His kingdom for ever and eve aad the en Commandments were emblazoned t: gold. Sliken curtains Inclosed Uh sethei which hrined the red books, an which only the rabbi might enter during the time of er. 'y 1 of this place, with it cense, its furniture and ali its types of good things yet to come, is ix 1) re 3 en of Israel at Kae-fung-fo worshiy in the last century th 3od of their fathers with the rites th d to the Messiah, of wh civent as far as it can be ascertained, they heard until the arrival of the Ita!ti d men have entered into discus sions as to whether these people were Jev. or Israelites, whether they - to China from the Assyrian captivity or the Rom dispersion. They themselves say that the forefathers came from the west; and it { probable that the settlers arrived by wa of Khorassan and nd. They mus have been nume ninth Canton tering 1 tians and Par: Kae-fung-foo is known to have right to wear the little round button on th p of his cay so dear to the ambition of Chinaman. The Taiping rebellion disperse the settlement, and the remnant who rv main faithful to the memory of old tradi tions are chiefly poor and distressed so ——— FATE DISCUSSED. n one ANDREE'S Some Think He May Emerge Yet F Franz Josef Land. From the London Standard. Notwithstanding recurrent rumors, + tidings have yet been received of Andre: and his companions, but Herr Julius vor Payer of Vienna has expressed himself i: terms very far from nguine as to th prospects of their safety. This was no the opinion of an armchair critic, but o an experienced explorer, for he was of the leaders of the party who discovere: Franz Josef Land. Their ship, the Teget hoff, was hopelessly beset in the ice, a had to be abandoned, and it was only afte. great perils that the adventurers foun: thelr way home. Herr von Payer’s theory is that Andree, after leaving Spitzbergen may have fallen into a strong air curren which carricd the balloon for several day (cward the northeast, and then drove it ir be a southeasterly direction. That, he lieves, would bring therh to the east co: of Franz Josef Land. From that plac: the little party would have to make its w over dangerous ice not always continuous and with open sea in piaces, to the ¢ of Siberia. as But even when they arrive. there-ff, indeed, they have been so for tunate—their work would not be nearly; over. It 4s still a long and a difficult jour ney to reach the more inhabited parts, s: that Herr von Payer thinks there is not the least chance of the adventurers, su) posing t) to be alive, being heard of be fore next autumn. Obviously, the rout which he suggests as possible involve: rrany grave contingencies. The evidence, huwevet suppo! path in favor of th cf the balloon is of th. ghtest character. It may not have taker return course toward the southeast and, in eny case, the Franz Josef group oi islands is not so large that an unmanage able apparatus like a balloon might no ly miss them all. If it did, and par ticularly if it were involved in those vari ble drifts of which Nansen had experienc: it might float about until from exhaustior of its gas it settled down upon the se dr this case, we think, the explorers’ chanc of reaching lard, though they had ¢ @eavored to provide would not be worth very much. they have alighted on firm have saved their w ply of ammunition. would have little hope of imitating Na for this contingency Even it ground, ans and surviving a winter in Franz Jose! Land—there would still remain the journes to Siberia. Possibly, however, they wo ‘y for Spitzberzen, if he had not as Nansen would hav: in with the J son-Harmsworth winter, with the imperfect edition, from which they started ir ome other well-provisioned That they should suc- or fall in with some tribe o! Siberian natives before the pres winter has fully set in, seems the one remaining hope. At present, no doubt, it would still be premature to declare them lost, but we are inclined to share Herr von Payer = opinion that, until some one has succec in constructing a balloon which can bx steered like a ship, the plan adopted by Andree is about the most desperate—we had almost said suicidal—method of undertaking polar exploration yet devised. soe - Secing Bullets as They Fly. From the New Orleans Times-Democrat. “As every sportsman knows,” said an er thusiastic New Orleans hunter, “it is eas; to see a rifle bullet in the air, and those fired from the new high-power guns arc very curious to look at. and a dozen yards to one side of th> mark and let a friend blaze away at any range with a small caliber weapon using smokeless pow- der, and you'll see a strange, bluish-white streak the instant the bullet strikes home. Th2 streak is apparently a couple of inch wide and several feet long, and is more like a flash of light than anything else I can think of. With the old-fashioned Reming- ton or Springfield carbine the bullet has the appearance of a long biack rod, and I don’t know why there should be such a dit- ference in the optical illusion produced by the sMaller caliner, I have heard some peo- ple deny that the bullet can _b2 seen, but they are very much in error. It all depends on getting the right view point. A few feet either way will render th2 missile invisible, but the right spot is soon found by experi- ment, and after that the thing is as plain as day.” —— + 0+ Non-Freesing Water Pipe. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Th: Germans, who are so far ahead of many nations in a certain class of technica! skill, have incorporated into their plumbing practide a non-freezing water pipe, which wiil save an incalculable amount of annoy- ance and profanity in a single winter. The purpose of the invention is not only to pre- vent the water from being frozen, but to provide an opportunity for its expansion by cold. Into the iron pipe, as far as it is above the ground, there is inserted a sec- ond narrower pipe of thin sheet tin or Jead, which is filled with an elastic sub- stance, such, for instance, as rubber. This insertion remains unaffected by the orai- nary pressure; but if the water should be frozen by extreme cold the elastic insar- tion is compressed by so much as the vol- ume of water is increased by the freezing. With the coming of the thaw the insertion 2xpends again to its original circumference, The object cf the tin or lead around the in- sertion is to prevent an unpleasant vaste or odor being imparted to the water. It is said that water pipes provided with such an insertian have withstood a cold test of 40 degrees centigrade, while others that were not so provided invariably burst at shelter ceed in thi —- THE DEADLY COBRA. From the Wide World Magazine Now, the so-called poisonous fangs are not in themselves polsonous—that ts, they fre not coated with poison; nor even have they a capiliary tube renning inside along their length, through which ihe cobra tn- jects the poison into the wound. If that Were the case. the cobra could not seize its food, e. g., a rat, without infecting it with the poison. No; nature is not s¢ clumsy or wasteful in her ordiaations, net- withstanding popular belief to the con- trary. The real fact is, there Is a fine tube running from the base of each of the two fangs backward under the eye to an @!- mond-shape gland or bag which contains the potson. This gland ts constan.ly secret- irg the poison, with a small supply for immediate use. Hence, if the Wube connect- ing the gland to the base of the fang were hept open, the poison would be couxtantly running out into the mouch of the cobra and thus wasted to no purpose. ‘fo pre- vent this a circular muscie binds the tube somewhere about the muidie. Rut when the cobra sirikes ite prey this muscle is relaxed and another one squeezes the poison bag and thus injects the poison But let us desert whole process of striking, and see what the cobra docs when he means mis. hit. He oxpands his head and rears at lessi a Uuréd of sth in the with rest of the body cotled in the form of a spiral. This spiral form sives him sufficient anchorag to rear his body by sheer muscular effort and also the Aecessary leverage in dealing the b.ow His eyes glixien like obelisks, his forked ongue darts in and out with a low hissing sound. Suddeniy he :hrows back his head na lo} uve, and as swiftly caris for- ward to his victim, part'y es a plang party a ng, untolding a port is coil to increase his rar It looks ag the cobra sprang into the sir, but matter of fact, his belly usualy tou hos he ground at the moment of strikir n tder to afford him sufficicat leverage to Mbed his fangs firmly in the body cf the s magnificent, an] yet swift : flash. The ton is with- uth wide open fangs r a stab, the low ath ax a bite. If the di squar, (wo small 9 ures are made in the flesh of the vi he two fangs: otherw:se, if b seen one-sided there will be only ure Now, the mere striking of the ble ot encugh, and if the cobra wer neously withdraw the f caling the blow. his prey wou'l cuff rse effect than the pain of those ». ele ke punctures. It is still necessary io in- ect the poison. In ceriain cases, ind y a strong muscular action, the po! as been infected aumost. rimutiancous'y with the w: nay, in a were the obra Was inordinatdy rous d to fury, the »0is0n Was sho: out by a strong mi cscular fort while the cobra was still in the ae f plunging lin this case the wou m, who was really out of range ped the blow, but had the pois over him i, however, in € poison is injected after t! hough it be but haif a second aft alfa saved mauy a lif the bow, noc bet but on!y’on ‘ he cobra shipped off the body vy mpetus of the blow, caus ng ie 10 ratch alons the skin in tw» thin 5 Assuming, however, that the blow has n struck full on the body of the victim, he cobra immediately r the blow (. e., S soon as he has partially recovered from is own impetus, which is in nd or so) wriggles his head either ight or to the left. This act of turning velps to squeeze the poison gland situ i n that side to which the cobra has turned, nd thus to inject the poison over the punc- re on that side. (Of course, if the cobra as me to turn both ways, then the poi- on is di ‘don both wounds—and the victim fs doubly desperate.) «iter this discharge the cobra usually drops ff the limb in an inert mass, « nsid- though temporarily, w a by abou loss of the precious fiuld. There may, f course, be sufficient cretion still left n the bag to give a second bite immediate y after, but im that case the wound may ot necessarily be fatal. It usually takes ew hours, sometines days, to accumul he full supply again. There was, however, me case within the writer's knowledg: where three small children were suc y bitten by a large cobra and all thre A_consequence. But to resume. It will, therefore, arent that (1) the fangs are nerely to cause the wound or wounds—i. ) open up a communication with the ble of the victim: and (2) the poison depostted the wound mixes with the blood and ron. Henc e poison is not here is no danger. In other wo: obra bites a person. not on the r vat through «# fairly substantial ¢ he fangs will go through right he poison will be deposited on In such a to remove t it will be able to enter hood of wound, before the poison has iad time to seak threw it, he is in no nger whsiever. On the other hand, if t is already a nd or sore on the body, then even a blow from a fangless cobra’ will fatal charmers ure well aware of this fac articularly careful on such occ ons as following: A band of these men exhibiting before the ter, when. few odd feats, th ed 10 ally how a its produced am: ren, fully five feet in leneth ts one’s wrist, though, of cours San OY ARS Grek Merwe tae instrument somet tune on aw Nigh u ve. The 1 fully wn sway from the ne with the music Then one of the c tunie and steod naked t tis bared b: Was carefully ee that there was not so much cratch on it. He knelt down about two n front of the cobra and w Suddenly, at a given signal. the music epped. Tn fi nger the cohra launched orth at the kneel! as being the nearest; but, almost anecously with he stoppa: the man dr his head on his knee his bared b d the aused just en turned a huge form- piece of the ad and fell « Irop of poison on the rt ack of the pe He wipad it off carefully with From the Landon Chronicle. The criminal anthropologists have nat- urally been busy—on the strength of a few photographs—in proving that Luccheni, the murderer of the lamented Empress of Aus- tria, has e characteristic of the crim!- nal. To the ordinary observer uccheni looks like nothing so much as a common- place raffian, but the criminal anthropolo- gist has, through the medium of a photo- graph or two, discovered in him “complete ymmetry of the body.” He has very marked “amyotrophy of the face, k, trunk, arm and leg on the left side.” ‘These stigmata are the consequences of “grave cerebro-spinal lesions, occurring in infancy and due to heredity, alcoholic atavism misere physiologique,” or some disease of infancy, perhaps an encephalomyelitis or lateral ‘sclerosis, from which complete re- cevery néver took place.” The French an- thropologists, indecd, pronounce him to be a type of the “asymmetrique desequilibre.” This is quite convincing, to be sure, but as the British Medical Journal points out, it would have been more satisfactory if the criminal anthropologists could have recog- nized all these evidences of criminality be- fore Luccheni had perpetrated the crime which has given him the notoriety of in- my which he coveted. ee A statistician estimates that England ha: $559,000,000 Invested In land and mortgage in countries abroad. She lends to foreign governments and municipalities an average of $209,000,000 ennually. .She finances rail- ways in India, Canada, the United States, Australia, South Africa and South America, her investments of this class aggregating $2,109,000,000. English capital is invested in this country in water and gas compuntes, cattle and horse raising, breweries, flour milis, street railways, iron manufacturing and mining. In investments other than government loans end rallroads it is esti- mated that the enormous sum of $%,250,900,- 000 of Engiand’s money hes béen lent out- side of the “‘tight little island.” Thousands of situation# have ob- tained through the want columns ‘of The