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THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1898—16 “PAGES. 13 OPEN UNTIL 10 O'CLOCK TOMORROW NIGHT. AT THE BUSY CORNER THE TIDE OF CHRISTMAS BUYING HAS BEGUN TO RISE. And inasmuch as our bark must sai) with it for the month, we're let- ting nothing block the fullness of our preparations. This store has un- a marvelous transformation. It has laid aside all semblance of -dayness,” and is fast assuming its brilliant holiday vestments. dergot Bee Everywhere the magic influence of hoary-haired Father Christmas is a parent. Half the stock has been made holiday stock. Half the store has been changed into a wondrous toy Village. Our new purchase—the Jokn- son and Luttrell building—is a veritable wonderland. Stocked to the deors with Dolls, Toys and everything that might go to make the Y ule- tide jovous and delightful. To say that we've been lavish is not enough. For as if my magic we have prepared a holiday show in the space of days that completely outdazzles, bedims and casts into the shadow any assort- ment that Washington has hitherto known. And regular lines must hear the brunt. The space has to come from somewhere and we've teken a little from every part of the Busy Corner, and to get it weve had to force prices down to the minimum of profit and onto the verge of from W ents that feet woolly and are half cotton—that ought to fit and don't—that are og in the legs and too small in the waist, and vice versa. Our special ne of Underwear will give you fit and comfort. Scarlet Wocl Shirts and Drawers and Natural Wool Shirts and Drawers. Sizes 34 to 50.. ence z Broken lot of soc. and 69c. Underwear, Blue Merino, 29¢ Derby Ribbed, Natural Gray, White and Camel's Hair.......- ° Derby Ribbed All-wool Undershirts (no drawers), in Flesh, WO¢ Pearl and natural, which sold for $1.50 ents Fine All-wool Fancy Tinted Underwear, in Azure, Old Gold, Light ‘Tan, Camel’s Hair and Natural, silk facings and highly fin- $l 00 ° ished ... Each. Men's Hygienic Underwear, all wool and pure lamb’s wool, fleece lined, soft, silky and non irritative. Sells for $2.50 a garment Si 19 everywhere. Special. ee Pee Ss nee é ° Scarlet Cashmere Anti-Rheumatic L nUeew car: soft finish, all wool, fcst dve, double chest and back; sells always at $2.50 a gar- louble ¢ y 5 & $l .5D iver 306, ‘Hair Underwear, all open front and back; every desir- The $1.00 50c 75¢. double seats; seams; Canton Flannel Drawers; all felled made of extra quality bleached canton flannel; string and knit bettoms cece ceckeee One lot of Faney Percale Shirt: able color and pattern; separate cuffs; all size: kind Spe s ll-wool Tricot House Coats and Smoking Jackets, in Blue, Brown, Garnet and Tan, nicely quilted, silk facing and $4 98 seen eeee oe bos silk binding and trimmings; also All- ilk bound and facing. All $7 48 . oe io House Coats, lined throughout with extra fine silk sleeve and lining and binding; shawl roll collars. Spe- “eae liene a a "$12.48 Cc digan Jacket _—made of Saxony Wool, in single and $1 08 double breasted: every desirable color and size. $3.50 value. 3 ° Cardigan Jackets, which sold for $2.00 and $2.50, in Blue, srown, Black and Tan: any size...........-.. Sao ae $1 09 colors and all sizes; 08 Cc frogs. All sizes... Velvet Corduroy House Coats, wool Tricot, quilted, silk lining, sizes Silk Matlasse Wool Cardigan Jackets, in assorted were $1.50...... Another Big Purchase of Men's Fine Neckwear. 300 dozen regular soc. Neckwear, in every conceivable shade and style—very latest shapes in Puffs, Imperials, Tecks and Four-in-Hands—stripes, plaids, solid colors and every up- to-date pattern. cee 29c. Mis: = ») FLEECED COTTON | AMO OF LADIES WHITE AND, GRAY 1uB- ‘ EDICM AND BED ALL-WOOL PANTS ONLY, $1. o : 29c. | Vitee y ei 75¢. : :BED COT. TON IN WHITE AND | AN ODD Lor OF CHILE ‘ PEARL BUTTONS, | RINO UNDERWEAR ‘TO € SIL °K, WORTH 5 ale RENT | 39C.! rapes: INATION LNISHED “ES. $2 AN ODD LOT OF CHILDREN'S WHITE AND | WOOL PANTS AND I | AND! us 39. Special Bargains in Hosiery. AY MERINO SOX, DOUBLE SOLES AND TAN COTTON | 4 WORT! SCs [ase : 10c. ¥ COTTON 7 mo uh vY Co areata SEAMLES: DOU BL! SA ‘TOE: TH WORTH 15 10c. |i 15c. TON Hose, PULL SEAMLES BLE SOLES "AND HEELS We poe * Lor or op. ‘ ENDS OF LADD ACK ss RIBBED COTTON Bost. PAST BLAt ON EAN COTTON, | DOUBLE Ro! WHITE AND UNBLEAC HED cor CHILDREN'S FAST BLACK RIB- worTu 9 5¢ THREAD HOSE, IN re ACK AND TAN COTTON SOX, ICED HEELS AND Be AMLESS, DOU- TOS. IOC, FAST BLACK COT- DOUBLE, POLKA DOTS AND STEIPES | rox | KNEES, ae A MIXED LOT OF CHILDRE: VAST BLACK. WHITE AND TA} LISLE THREAD. WORTH | 35e. ‘TO CLOSE AT.... believe that these special lines have FAST BLACK MADE, COTTON SOX. FULL 2YE, DOU- wt Oc. We have other Hosiery, but we never been equaled. Gloves. Never In all oar experience have we made such preparations in Gloves as we have this season. tity, assortment and prices in space also. The position that this department Is any in thix city ve trade has always been great, but this season © greatest of all. pendable hand-covering. We hope to glove of shoppers. Our stock embraces all kinds of Gloves for men, women, misses, boys ad children We shall close out a lot of 5-hook, 2-clasp and 4-button Ladies’ Kid Gloves, in Tan, Brown, Black, Red, Mode, some sold at $1.00 pair cee eects Our celebrated $1.00 Glove—a superior glove in all respects to any shown at this price; guaranteed and fitted; come in Red, Tan, Modes, Gray, Green, White, Pearl, Butter and Black, 2-clasps and 4 buttons. Ladies’ 2-clasp Pique, in Tan and ; also Mocha, in a clasp jue, in Tan and Red; also $1.00 Mamand Gray. Special ate. 2.5252. Soca ces onsen asec Pair. Pair. We are Washington agents for the widely known “Hte. Jouvin” Real French Kid Gloves—the best rea! kid glove in the market; 3 clasps; in Black, White, Tan, Brown, Mode, Pearl, Butter and $1 50 Gray <--<. Slate and White; 50c Ladies’ 3-button Suede, in Mode Gray and White. $1.50 eer Creer re reeer Cer rP Cree EEE ELEC CALE CECE CEEELG Pair. Fownes’ and Perrin’s Pique Dogskin 2-clasps, in Tan, Red and Black; the best wearing glove made............. $l 50 Pair. LINE. OF TANF! ND STYLE WITUIN A iidren’s Day Tomorrow. LENGTH COATS. FOUR DIFFERENT STYLES. GORA. AND SILK BIAID, GLOVES AND HAND-KNIT WOOLEN GOODS REPRESENT EVER ADIUS OF A THOUSAND MILES. STYLE IS MADE OF WHITE BEDFORD AND BABY RIBBON. 47TH 5 2 ROUND COLLAR, TRIMME: ‘$1.98. ILL) WALKING LENGTH COATS, MADE OF GOOD QUALITY LADIES’ CLOTH, POINTED COLLAK TRIMMED WITH WHITE SILK BRAID AND BUTTONS. ' SMALL WN COLLAR, ALSO TRIMMED WITH WHITE BRAID. THIS COAT IS IN THE LEAD- HADES OF BROWN. RED, GREEN AND BLUE. A REMARABLY FINE GARMENT FOR WITH CHILD'S WALKING LENGTH COATS, MADE OF GOOD QUALITY LADIES’ CLOTH, WITH WIDE SAILOR COLLAR, TRIIMED WITH WHITE SILK BRAID AND REAL BEAVER FUR. SMALL LAY-DOWN COLLAR WITH THREE ROWS OF WHITE SILK BRAID, AND SLEEV! EISISUED WITH THREE ROWS OF BRAID. IN FRENCH BLUE, RED, GREEN AND BROWS CIAL, $5.48 CHILD'S WALKE E MADE WITH FULL WIDTH SKIRTS, LAR R COLLAR TRIMMED WITH Bi AND FIFTEEN ROWS OF WHITE SOUTACHE BRAID. COAT IS IN GREEN, BROWN AND BLUE. : Se ee S. KANN, SONS & CO., 8th and Market Space. ed Zz in making ont the Christmas list— @ mark of esteem. always a dozen or 80 to be counter ene ‘0 be counted ead from which the w HEMSTITCHED J. DKERCHIEFS, WITH SILK BETTE ITIALS ‘ EMBROIDERED AND HANDKERCHIEFS. . DIES" Swi ei RO! D BROIDERED A Ao eS ae HEMSTITCHED AND CORNERS. eee IN A BOX FOR 75 ADIES” PU) HINES. Sc. 10c. HEMSTITCHED HAND- HAND-EMBROID- 18c. CORNERS : 6 IN A BOX FoR $1.39. LADIES" FANCY EMBROIDPRED AND HEM- DEERCHIRES. | WITH PMBROIDERED COn- 35 Ce Don’t overlook Hdkfs. - traveling stream will ‘spread. | I 7 and more thas likely you've halt a Gozen names down for such No one would think of buying such things for personal use this month. There's on from some source, and we're tryifg to make this store the tex HANDKERCHIEFS, IDERED LADIES’ SHEER WITH #H D-EMB! AND CORNERS 3 IN A BOX FOR $4.39. MENS LARGE'SIZE PURE LI STITCHED HANDKERGHIEFS : MEN'S WHITE HBMSTITCHED JAPONETTE NDKERCHIEFS, With HA! SILK INITIALS. sua FOR Boe. E PURE LIN NAN SRCH IEF: wit WORKED INITI : 25e. R $t.39. 1ZE JAPANESE SILK HAND- TH IN ag " HEMSTITCHED UN. LAUND KERCHIFES, WITH INI- TIALS . - 1214c. 6 FOR Ge. Aprons for Holiday Gifts, Which are useful as well as ornamental—we bought one for every woman In Washington. Should three or four go fnto cne home, blame it to the fact that some women Are more rapid in grasping the importance of values quicker than others. LADIES’ APRONETTE APRO: 4 s HEM, FULL WIDTH. REG! Dai Wane lt LADIES’ APRONS, MADE OF FINE, MUSLIN, OFFSET WITH SATIN STRIPES. A REGULAR 19¢. VALUE WE'VE A LOT OF FANCY SWISS APRONS, MADE WITH ACCORDION PLEAT AND DAI TILY TRIMMED WITH RIBBONS AND L. ALL HAVE POCKETS. THEY WERE BO TO SELL FOR 50c., BUT WE OVERCALCULAT- ED ON THE QUANTITY, AND YOU TAKE YOUR PICK OF “ANY FOR FANCY SWISS APRONS, WITH TWO ROWS OF ACCORDION PLATIS AND RIBBON, WIT! POCK! RIBBONS ARE ALL DIFFERE COLORE! ‘MONG "EM ARE BLUE, PINK, NILE. GREEN, YELLOW, RED AND WHITE. REGULAR 75e. QUALITY... TWELVE DIFFERENT STYLES IN DAINTY APRONS. SOME WITH DEEP HEM AND CLU: TER OF SMALL TUCKS. THEN THREE LARGE TUCKS, WITH ANOTHER CLUSTER OF SMALL TUCKS: OTHERS WITH EMBROIDERED EDGE. AND FOUR TUCKS. A THIRD KIND IS MADE WITH DEEP HEM AND SEVEN TU FOURTH STYLE HAS LACE I) AROUND APRON. A FIFTH WITH DEEP HEM, EMBROWERED INSERTIO: AND TWO TUCKS. ANOTHER STYLE IS MADE WITH TEN-INCH HEM AND FINISHED WITH FANCY STITCHING. YOU WILL FIND THESE ARE ALL PULL WIDTH AND WELL MADE. THEY ARE WORTH 35c. AND 20e. D5¢ PICK AT.. Saeeeno aoc eas EXTRA “WIDTH APRONS FOR NURS#S, WITH BIBS AND WIDE | STIRINGS. 39c. SOME TUCKED. OTHERS ARE PLAIN. 3 Rousing Voll Values. 1,000 Kid-body Dolls, with long, flowing ocks, full jointed,:real shoes 48 C ° and stockings and moving eyes.........+++ 1,000 Kid-body Dolls, over one foot tall; and stockings..... 500 long hair and cute shoes Patent Jointed Dolls, real French heads, moving eyes, sewed wigs, shoes and stockings; two kinds, blonde and _ brunette. $225 5 6 Our Toy Bazaar is in the Johnson floor. Regular $1 ' 1 9 & Luttrell building—ground OPEN UNTIL 10 O'CLOCK TOMORROW NIGHT, S. KANN, SONS & GO., $3.50 Shoes for the woman wanting style and comfort. Hoover & Snyder, Dependable Footwear Always, 1211 F Street. 8th and Market Space. Poem or eroreeereeerrreeereeeee Poorer georoccoorocos . . . . . Designed and made to sup- ply the demand for a superior shoe at a sensible price. Made from the finest select- ed leathers, on lasts anatom- ically correct. In all the latest and most modish effects, fash- idvable for street wear, for dress occasions, for home and for outing. Owing t a, distinctive feature in the making these shves correct that common fault—a tendency to flatten- ing of the arch of the foot. In this expose of fine footwear, every shape of foot and every fancy cau be suited. Styles include kid and cloth tops, patent leather or tips the same.’ In dull and bright kid, brilliant dongola vyamps, com- Dined with dull kangiroo tops—and the same reversed—Russia leather— boarded calf—sud plain calf. In medium and heavy soles, with or without extenston” edges ‘and wet- Proof invisible cork soles. Continuous comfort, stylish effect and the very latest and newest shoe fashions extant. At $3.65 we show (exclusive- ly our own styles) an unusu- ally handsome .patent leather dress: boot, and also an En- glish enameled walking shoe, a “trifle mannish”"—the very latest shoe fad. ee eceeceercceccccores Barber & Ross - = day. Price. “Puritan” Oil Heaters— : Felt Weather 4 J Strips, per ft., 1 /2Co Drop postal and we'll send a man right up to give you an estimate for weather stripping the whole house. : Barber & EINE RIE EE SIE VENER NEVE E YN NES ‘YESRBE NE NESE Ae WUE CAKE A Big “Run” on Calovit Gas Furnaces. The Calovit gas furnaces certainly deserve the splendid patronage they are now enjoy- ing. We know of no better gas heater made—even at three times the price. Consumes only 5c. worth of gas SQ, Best Oil Heater possible to obtain, uses less oil and gives more iheat than any other make. Prige?/.... oss, l lth &GSts. DEPLETE REVISE EI IIS NE IE ENR llth and G Sts. RRR IRR $4 Japanned Coat Hods. ..-- 15c. Covered Ash €ans. -+-- $1.50 Covered Ash Sifters.....50c. Furnace Scoops?.... 50c. 6-ft. Stepladdérs, ‘worth c goc., for. sates 75 3 MARAT RARE AAR RAL RA RAR MARR ARAN ARR RAHA AAR CONDENSED LOCALS. A steam engineer's Icense of the second class has been granted by the District Com- missioners to J. A. O'Brien. William Spencer and John Donovan paid $5 each in the Police Court today. They were charged by Policeman Thompson with having engaged in a fight. Rather than appear and stand trial, it is said, they for- feited their collateral, ————— It pays to read the want columns of The Star. Hundreds of situations are filled through them. A ‘The tongues of the cat family ai re cov- ered with recurving spines. Tn ee arn ese are small, but sufficient: = wa developed to give the tongue a feel. ing of roughness.- But in the lion and tiger There is a plant in Jamaica called the Plant, because it is almost impossible ts Kill it, or any portion of it. When a leaf is cut off and hung up by a string, it sends out white, thread-like roots, gathers mois- {Ere from the air, and begins to grow new oa SUC. t AFFAIRS IN ALEXANDRIA Funeral Services This Morning Over Re- mains of Mrs. Stabler. Departure of Reeruits for Fourth Regiment of Virginia Volunteers —The Courts—Briefs. Evening Star Bureau No. 727 King Street Bell Telephone, No. 106. ALEXANDRIA, Va., December 2, 1898. * Funeral services were held this morning. at 10 o'clock over the remains of Mrs. Stabler, wife of Dr. Lawrence Stabler, at the family residence on South St. Asaph street. A large number of friends and relatives were in attendance. Rev. P. P. Phillips, rector of St. Paul's Church, con- ducted the funeral services. The pal!- bearers were Messrs. Gardner L. Boothe, Frank Marbury, Leonard Marbury, Clar- ence C. Leadbeater, Wallace H. Faweett, William Fendall, Dr. Arthur Snowden and Robert E. Janney. A large procession followed the remains to Ivy Hill cemetery, where they were in- terred in the family burying ground. Departure of Reeruits. A squad of ten men, recruited from the 34 Virginia Regiment, left this city yesterday afternoon on the 4:02 train for Savannah, Ga., to join the 4th Virginia Regiment, United States Voluntee: now being re- cruited, it is stated, for service in Cuba. The men were Yale C. Minton, David M. Bryant, John W. Davis, John W. Ennis, John T. Hillary, Peter J. Brenner, Roy S. Warren, Frank Smith, Charles Nightingale from Company F, and Robert Farral of Company I. Capt. C. C. Vaughn of the 4th Regiment, the recruitin,: officer, stated this morning that others desiring to enlist from this city could b> sent off from Fairfax Court House, as he will leave for that place this afternoon, and remain there until Monday. Several civilians presented themselves for enlistment, but wer> discarded, as the re- cruiting is confined to men who have been honorably discharged from the 2d and 3d Virginia Regiments. Surgeon Smith of the 3d Virginia ex- amined the men and Capt. R. H. Atkinson assisted in the racruiting. County Court. In the Alexandria county court yester- Gay, Judge J. M. Love presiding, the peti- tion of M. B. Harlow et al. for opening a road from the Washington and Alexandria turnpike through Pcor House lane to Northwest “Alexandria was granted, and James Duncan allowed $100 for fencing. In the matter of the condemnation of land for the extension of the Washington, Arlington and Falls Church railroad through Mrs. Fannie B. Hunter's property, argument was made and the case submit- ted to the judge. The application of Geo. N. Saegmuller for a new county road was under consid- eration yesterday, and will probably be de- cided today. Police Court. There was only one case before Mayor Simpson in the police court this morning. Frederick Williams, arrested by Officer Wilkinson, was arraigned on a charge of peddling rings on the street without a li- cense. He was assessed 3 with twenty days on the gang as the alternative. General Affairs. The December term of the circuit court will begin next Monday, Judge C. E. Nicol presiding. Jurors have been summoned as follows: J. G. Cockey, R. M. Latham, 8. H. Devaughn, Samuel Lindsey, J. H. Beac G. 8. French, C. E. Biggs, J. Dienelt, W: Harper, J. D. Stanton, Fred. Paff and Jz F. Cook, sr. The city school board held its reg monthly meeting last night in Pea Hall. Only routine business was t acted. A meeting of the Columbia Fir> Com- pany was held last night, but nothing of interest. was done. The effort to arrange for a fireman's parade February 22 has not been revived, since two attempts to se- cur? a meeting proved unsuccessful. The semi-annual election of officers for the Epworth League will take place this evening at 7:30 o'clock, in the M. E. Church South. A meeting of the league council was held last night at the residence of Mr. Samuel Lindsey, on South Royal strest, at which matters of importance pertaining to the league were discussed. sie caae Sh SUCCESSFUL RUN, iy Ans- Paper Chase of the Washington Cross Country Club. The Washington Cross Country Club gave their first paper chase of the season yes- terday. Ths start was made from the west gate of the Soldiers’ Home at 3 o'clock, and as the clock from the steeple nearby chimed out there was a clattering of horses’ hoofs and riders seemed to spring up from every direction, Every one looked happy, and it really reminded one of the days of the old Dumblane Club, especially when that same huntsman and ever-popular favorite, George W. Ryder, made his ap- pearance with his sack of paper. He had chosen from his pupils Miss Hattie Ward as leader, and, although there was a scare- ity of paper, it was a pretty run, with ple! ty of jumps and several rath2r ‘interesting ditches. The first and only check was at Brightwood, when, after fifteen minutes’ rest, away they went again, the ladies’ merry voices making better’ music than any pack of hounds ever made yet. The run was fast and furious until Chevy Chase was reached, where every one adjourned to the club, wher: tea was served by Miss Ward and Miss Newlands. Among those who took part wers Miss Daisy Wilson, who will be one of this season's charming debutantes; Miss Scully, Miss Newlands, Mrs. George Ryder, Baron Sternber Baron Reid, the Marquis de Romons, Mr. Von Bredou, Mons. Tarsaf, Master Cobb, Hichborn Sherman Miles and several other: ‘There were a great many in carriages, who did not participate in the chase, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nelsoa Page, Mrs. Richard Townsend, Mrs. West- inghouse, Mrs. George Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. Rich, Wallach and many others. The ab- sence of Miss Field was deeply’ regretted by all. ——_.——_ REMOVAL TO BE DEFERRED. Soldiers’ Remains Buried at Santiago to Rest Until February. The War Department has decided to adopt at once the suggestion of Gen. Wood, in command at Santiago, that the removal of the remains of American soldiers from that section of Cuba be deferred until February at the earliest. While it is fully realized that this postponement will bring great dis- appointment to the friends and relatives of the dead soldiers. the officials believe they have no right to expose to the horrors of the yellow fever outbreak the large popula- tion of Santiago and neighboring towns from a mere sentimental consideration. The department had advanced very well in the preparation of plans for the removal of the dead and was in position to begin the work of disinterrment almost immediately. It had employed tre services of an expert named Rhodes, who had thoroughly gone over the ground at Santiago and arranged the details of the plan. For some time past the department has been granting permits for the removal of the remains of individual soldiers, provid- ing the relatives of the soldiers furnished a metallic casket, which could be hermet- ically sealed, thus preventing the introduc- tion of contagious disease into the United States. Recently the two Massachusetts regiments which participated in the cam- paigns in Cuba and Porto Rico raised a suf- ficient sum of money to procure caskets of this kind for the dead of both organiza- tions. They then made application to the government to provide a naval vessel to carry the funeral party to Cuba and Porto Rico and to fetch back the remains. The department has just decided that it cannot grant this request, notwithstanding the fact that at least two of Massachusetts’ repre- sentatives in Congress have made deter- mined efforts to induce the officials to grant this permission. The reason for the refusal is that it might be regarded as an unjust discrimination in favor of the Massachu- setts people to so use a naval- much as it is not practicable to $ fi LIGHT AN D SHADE. ‘What Several Women Who Saw Dark Shadows Have to Say. “In every shadow she saw a ghost.”* These words ¢ some overwhelming shock, but by the endless little trritations tibed the condition of a woman dri n almost fo bys! life ria by worry. Net ty which wear out the body as the constant friction of a pulley wears out the stontest rope. There Is nothing more firmly settled in medicine than the fretting inseparable from the home- keeping life of women, strikes at every important the kidneys and adjacent organs. When these organs go wrong the heart beats bad taste eyes and the hands and feet are like lumps of i nervous and fanciful, and start at shadows. Mrs. €. N. Dushane of Vinalhaven, Me., write “Twas badly troubled with my back and kidneys so that T could scarce clothing tonch me. T lost flesh and appetite. followed it; the pain stopped, my strength returned and I am entirely cared, wholly by the Warner's Safe Cure."* Margaret Hammond of Fairplay, Ark., wrote, “TI suffered with kidney trouble for two years, and tried doctors’ medict hear of, but I got no relief antil I bought a supply of Waraer’s Safe Cure, whic and well, I can highly recommend this medic “I am thankfal to say that Warner's Safe be without ft. I was sick for two years until I I tell everybody I can about this great medicine.”* No advocate’s pleading can add force to this te Jury, and their verdict places Warner's Safe Care bladder and live same privilege to all of the other states represented by their troops in the cam- paign. To avoid any such charge of dis- crimination the department has decided (o undertake this entire work at its own ex- pense and under its own direction. The department has had a thorough in- vestigation made into the truth of allega- s made by some of the Massachusetts ors and representatives that great sness had been exhibited in marking the graves of the soldiers at Santiago and has received unequivocal denials from both General Wood and Mr. Rhodes, the ext ee ee AKE THAT CROW Curious Reptile That Has Been Secn and Heard in Samoa. Frem Forest and Stream. The question of snakes In a tropical cour try is one of much interest to a woman. I forces itself on the attention just n as one discovers how the jungle or bush is to the ordinary places of residence. In Samoa this distance fs but a step. Along the beach is a narrow strip of cocoanut grove, with bread fruit filling the spaces in between the loftier trees. But just behind the shore orchards the bush is as tangled and trackless as it would be if human hab'- tations were miles away instead of yards. From cuitivated ground you plunge instant- ly into the soggy shade of forest timber, lacing boughs blocking out the ra: the sun and steadily dripping the waters stored from frequent and copious rains. In every crotch of limb ani branch grow orchids i clusters of the bird's nest fern. Every vista between the trunks is tangled with ing lianas, which in the obscure lights might be taken for almost any fearsome thing. Under foot is a thick mat of coars: grass and aromatic ginger, and many tall succuleat herbs, which shut out from sight the real surface of the saturated, spongy soll. Such scenery may be all very well for an artist hunting after color effects and atmosphere, but it has too much the look of good snake country to make one at all com- fortable when making a trip through such | kidney: ASN s. as 86 brush. It comes as a positive relief to learn that there are no venomous snakes in Sa- moa, always excepting the snake which crows. In proof of the existence of this reptile there may be offered the testimony of wit- nesses, eye witnesses, ear witne: Any} quantity of Samoans, and white people as | well, will gjve you detailed accounts of how they heard the snake in the dense re- cesses of the bush. They tell how th. ears caught the sound of stealthy move ments :n the tree tops overhead, and how the faint sound stopped when they halted to listen closer, or how it began as soon as they resumed the march; of how their in- visible pursuer was betrayed through the | of his fellow traveling by the rustling | and twigs in the forest canopy. In- | bly the narrator closes his account by a description of his escape: he either over- took some other wanderer in the bush and | found security in numbers, or else he made | particularly good time homeward, or he | remembered a charm which had much pow- er. .When for any of these reasons the ke found he was to lose his victim he altered his silent s. He could be heard thrashing the trees and crowing like any y many times as loud, and as he | part of the forest | pquently repeated, until at last it vanished in the distance. When 1 more particularly as to his crowing, 2 Sam nat it is exactly like th crowing sters. There is an equal host | of eye ses, men who have n crow ing snakes. They never vary from one an- other in their descriptions of what they have seen. Except for one spot of special conditioas it is never seen on the ground, but alw:ys en the tops of the highest tr either stretched out along a branch gliding frem tree to tree with remarkable rapidity. It is long and slender—rarely is one spoken of as under two arm spans or twelve feet, seldom is one described as ex- ceeding twice that measurement. Its coi- or is spoken of as uniform, a steel blue or slate, and free from spots or other mark- ings. When at rest it is difficult to distin guish it from the branch on which it may be stretched out; when in motion it goes far too fast for any detail to be observed. White people are more chary about men- tioning this remarkable reptile. Yet there are many reliable people who that they have either heard or have seen It. This {s about as much as can be said The ear witnesses have heard the crowing, the eye witnesses have seen an arboreal serpent of large size. The proof will not be complete until some one shall be both eye witness and ear witness, shall see the snake in the very act of a crowing whie1 shall reach his ears. Until that combir tion is made there will always be those who are in doubt as to the crowing snakes of Upola, but it is safe to say that, proof or no proof, the Samoans will always be- lieve in the animal as a pert of the jungie. ——— RED MAN'S DRINK. Greut Quantities of Red Ink Consum- ed in the Indian Territory. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Vigilant as the deputy marshals are in Indian territory, and drastic as the appli- cation of the prohibition law by the courts may be, several kinds of intoxication safe- ly defy all statutory provisions. Amazing quantities of Jamaica ginger are consumed in the territory. The stores handle ginger as a legitimate drug. A teaspoonful will cause choking and coughing for several minutes in a throat unaccustomed to swal- lowing the powerful stuff. But there are n the mouth and heaviness tn the stomach tell of indigestion What is to be A lady in the »: ‘ure has done great wonders for mo. | to be | owner of the part of the physical machinery; particularly at @ Invegular, and there is pain in the breast. A Dots dance before the Small wonder is it that women so aMicted get es, under date of July bear to heve my aotel gave me some good advice. I of Mareh 16, 1898: ine and everything I could me sound h made ine.”* I would not got this woncerful Tam well now. Core, wrote Mrs. Hattle Mowery of Tarkio, Mo., May 22, 18¥8, estimony. The great American people arc the e above all other medicines for diseases of the MILES OF WHEAT. A Californian Field That Contains 25,000 Acres. From the San Prancisco Call What is said to be the largest single wheat field in California is now being Pianted to the grain that makes cf life. It covers over 2 square miles. e stett 0) acres, or forty This enormous field of grain is located on the banks of the dan Joaquin river, near tne town of Ciovin, «county. Tue n ™ 218 partan fr aera county, Lrovis Core @ county and part in as man who is putting in this Vasc acreage, anu he nas unvertaKen One Of WE Lat Sest Juns Lagi any man pas Yet Gone an Cautortia, 4 Wane at as 4 tuat larger acreages « wheat nave been pranied ceruun ranct ers in tne sane, Cuere pee to pe NO Pec ord Of an eaac: parauer to un cas Un Une sumer oe Lux ae were raneed mm one Year, oct tne News were scauerea « aitterent Paces. “ney were reauy a series of ne socaced Wherever Unere wa brew of ine nevus were over i many arsiauces tere won mie Of bare saad bewween them, acreage praacea could not ve caued a wheat hei vi acres any more tnan ail te Waeal Leis mn Lhe Slate COUN be ClasBed unuer one neac. rhe Ciovis weld, however, is an ideal Wheat Ned. it 1s almus: as Nat as a floor, With a gealle siope towara Coe river, other Hues of the hea make iC aimost & periect suuare. macn sae is a Ltue over SIX Mules, and If tne auy 1s clear every part Of ine Neild can ve seen from any ouner part. Where are no roads through the Clovis wheat new. Jt 18 to be one send siretch of grain, ana every square toot of ina is 20 be watized. Piowing and planting began in the big wheat heia about the miuue of last Jt ana will haray be compeved Tor Une next two months at least. Dut tne grain wilt ait mature ac apout the same ume. Then wut come the hereuican task of harvesting It With the mg, improved macninery it does not took as ut there was much Work Speni on pianling and harvesitng tt eid. put sup one man had to hancic the crop, if such a thing were povsit how long woura it take num? Suppose the neld ¥ me mile wite and forty mues iong, and the one man had a doupte gang prow cuttmg a turrow twenty- tour incnes wiae. i1¢ would start at a cor- rer of the hei in San Francisco and piew ] Soutn toward San Jose, @ «stance of forty mues. Then he would come back and ct arother furrow to dan Prancisc mak? eignty mies for the round trip. ‘Tnis amount of work would only be at sratch lour feet Wide along one sie of the forty-mite held, and the process would have repeated at least 1,300 mes, making @ total aisiance of about 105,000 miles Suppoce that the plowman worked at the tate of about twenty ies a day. To get over the 105,000) m: would take To piant would abo time, making a total KM) days, ariy thirty years. It would be spending a lifetime, and the distance eled would be equivatent to gong arc the world four umes. And all in one Caite fornia wheat field To accomplish the necessary amount of work within the time at his disposal the Clovis wheat field has to em- mon 1, over 1,000 horses ard big machinery. The men are working ¢ y and late now, and if the whole acreage is planted by January, ant a sufficient quantity of rain falls, there will be such a crop of wheat as has never been heard of, for the land is good land and the seed is good d. Then will the bread eaters of the world give thanks for the existence of the largest wheat field in California. ploy over everal tor oe The Sap of Trees. From Forvst and Stree, Probably pearly nine out of every ten be- lieve that sap ascends in the spring and re- turns in the fall. Although I have never been able .o find anything to the contrary in any book I bs ever seen, I know from leng and careful observation that this is not so. The sap never descends. It fulfills its office in causing the growth of the leaves and aGding another to the rings which indicate the annual growth of the tree. So soon as the leaves fall the sap be- gins to reascend. This can be proved in Various W: Any farmer who has cut a pile of hard wood in November has notwod the sapfiles gathering around the of the sticks on warm days. They nile tracted by the sap, which can be seen | suing from the ends of the sticks, which sap had already begun to ascend before the sticks were cult. Any hunter who has set a line of log tr: for sable has noticed the sap Mowing from maple stic days in November. Partridges t in November, and find something dry twigs, or they would not bud still more convincing proof is that in some warm falls I have known maple syrup to be made and sold in quantities of several gallons at a time. Pussy willows, w e growing in wet places, often bloom in warm November and December. One can see that the buds oa the herse chestnuts are swe!l- ing in January. The sap which is proved to be progent in all these cases is not the sap which went up in the spring descending, but new sap, which is going up. No cne ever speaks of the sap in a cornstalk ».oing down in the fall. It has fed the leaves and matured the corn, and its work ended thy besides But a men in the territory who drink two or three bottles a day with apparent satis- faction to their educated stomachs. More Jamaica ginger is sold in the Indian ter- ritory than in half a dozen states where whisky selling is licensed. Red ink is another favorite territory tip- ple. This is not a nickname for something else. The ordinary red ink which the book- stores of the states sell for writing pur- poses is a beverage in parts of this coun- try. The ink drinker of cultivated tastes will buy bottles by the half dozen at a time and swallow the contents with relish. Essences which sell elsewhere for flavoring pul are drinks under this civilization. Anything which has a basis of alcohol is in demand. Intoxication is craved, and the stomach of tne Indian territory drinker does not quarrel with the form in which it comes. Wood alcohol, accounted poison in most parts of the country, is consumed in considerable quantities. The peddlers buy it in Oklahoma, dilute it with water, and sell it by the pint on this side of the line. Cue oo Se A French statistician has calculated that the human eye travels over 2,000 yards in reading an ordinary sized novel. The aver age human being is supposed to get through 2,500 miles of reading in a lifetime panels 02 WS ee tained through the want columns of The Thousands of situations have been ob- so in the tree each year the sap has ished its work waen the leaves have ma- tured, and 1 new crop of sap at once begins to take fts place. Of course, this sap can- not ascend when the wood is frozen, but whenever the wood is thawed it keeps as- cending. Another popular error is that trees in growing carry thei: branches up with them as they grow—or, to make it plainer, that a limb which is five feet from the ground will in time be ten feet. The fact is that ‘mn! grow as much lower on the lower side as they do higher on the upper side, and ro more. A limb which is an inch in diameter, if it grows to be three inches, will Le an inch further from the ground on the upper side and an inch nearer on the under side. The forks or crotches in trees often gat to be consilerably higher, from the two branches which form it growing together as they increase in size. The top of the tree grows up, but limbs do not rise above where they are when they first start out. ————- eee ~—_

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