Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1900, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1900-16 PAGES. S. KANN, SONS & CO. | S. KANN, SONS & CO. | ALWAYS THE BEST OF EVERYTHING FOR THE LEAST MONEY! “The Busy Corner.’ Our Spring Opening Still Continued. Tomorrow and Wednesday will be closing davs of what the public declared the most beautiful opening ever held in Washington. Considerable to Say About Silks. ‘These fine, fashionable fabrics are enjoying fashion's strongest support. 9 if you have an engagement, make it so you can meet in the | Lunch Grotto, Basement -Annex. ; And the styles, blend- Inxs lor schemes are moré beautiful than can be described. And how we have | it of these Queenly ‘weaver. Nothing that the manufacturer and (mapocter coald show that wasn’t gone through. You can Imagine what six months of planuing bas accomplished. We invite you to Washington's We offer yon Washington's greatest silk values: Kaik! Wash Silk, 22 inches € blue and white, pink and anit waitestapers caeets DOC, 44c. quality. Special seller in white, iards, 10 different designs, 49c. Kreatest silk stock. 1,000 yards Faconne Taffetas, 21 inches wide, in some extremely good designs, such as blue and white, pink and white, mais and white, white o rose, white on bi some specially good va! ues in black and white. Many of these svods sold as high as $1.25 and $1.50 Oc. per yard. Special seller. a taryuol and pl 1 white only. 69c. quality: Sees seseeenexer 24-Inch Fonlards—unquestionably the bargain of the season—at least 100 pieces from which to se- lect, in beautiful combinations of navy and white. rose and white. porcelain and white, hello and white, plum and white, gray and white, and black and white—small, medium and large designs—many of them reduced f1 Oc. $1. Special Seller... Pelisse Satin Liberty, 20 inches wide—one of the season's: t desirable effects, in such shades as pink, blue, turquoise, old rose, cardinal, 49 IC = 6 AlLsilk Grenadines. in five different designs an exceptionally goed value, and 43 inches in width. $1.25 value. — 89c. A Study in Plillinery. eadgear with a view of something applicable to her own appearance. The a etpeee saad Une ealiay oes Tanuuen’el Gecere silage tastes nude fancieor toll: seas: ou more than demanding of admiration, the new spring concelts bearing 2 distinctive sty that affirm the deft skill and judgment exercised in carrying out these Hats possessing an individuality that appeals to good taste and refinement. A daily visit to ion of the store always reveuls some of t he latest products of our work rooms. Trimmed Hats. Toques and Fancy Ready-to-wear yA large varlety of styles In Children's Trimmed Hsts—exeeptionally prettly ideas, Hats at 75c., $1.25 to $4.50. 50c. to $1.48 each. mais, violet, white, cream and black 75-cent value. Special seller.........- woman selects: * variety ites this scet The Flower Section in Full Bloom. A sale of Flowers will be held here tomorrow, in which we will demonstrate how much lower we ean sell the highest quulittes. Handsome Bluets—counterparts from na- 25c. ture's garden—per bunch ae . . 25c. per 15¢. Z Large wreath of Field Flowers. . Fine Koses. in all the pastel shades—a 25 ¢ Fine Foliage of all kinds—special, dezen in a baneh for. el buneb .. New Embroideries and Laces in Extensive Variety. The lace sho fs at its best now. possessing all of the novelties of the seayon, St. Gaul, sane ca aehier thames: outcry have: oat us welt lems eseraee ae ough the stock ts colons ond the assortment extensively varied. there are many patterns that will be extinct later »e. Therefore. we say, “Come early,” while prices and selecting are so favorable. Kdgings and Insertings, 10. and carly for Easter buying. Ba Se at TGAC. Special lot of Wide, Showy and Fine 1 5c¢ ° B es Pine Valenciennes and Pt. de Paris Insertings—all mateh seta and an im- tterna from which to vetions. Widths range 834c ° inches, and valnes from unrestricted cholee. Just 35 cartons of Fine French Butter-color Val- neiennes Edging—assorted patterns— ranging from 25 to 50e. per 15¢ nm yards. Chofce... ones - = 45-inch Venice color Laces—per ¥ Lot of Allover rd. ow Cambric and Swiss Combric Edging—openwork and neat ef- fects. 20 and 35c. values, per yard.... Lengthy List of Linen Leaders. ble Satin Finish Irish Table Linen— a splendid range of in width ang cial Fine Bleached Seotch Table Linen, full 2 yards wide—very choice designs. Regular seller at T5e.” Spectal weller.. 58c. German Sliver Bleached Table Linen, 70 Inches wide. These goods are very weighty 2 and of fine quality ard soft fish. Spe- 45c. cial, per yard : avy and soft finish new designs—68 inch: well worth $1 eeller ... per 79¢. xtra Fine Quality Deuble-faced Belginm Table exquisite ny designs; 2 Te nace SH, 1 1 $1.50 per yard. Specialized at..... e ite Goods Economy. jan Lawn-—extra fine and sheer, Lot of fine quality Corded Nalnsook and Lace- 45 inches wile. and valued today at 27¢ striped Luwns—rssorted styles and fie. a vard, OUT price... se... ce eee ‘© | a splendid value at 2c. Specialized 15c. atsernccs z ° sheer Extra fine quelity India Linon, 40 inches in a yard. Ine 14c. b, and a cracker v: 12'4c. wht! 2e. au Fig. English Empreaa Tamg Cloth ta 12- wide ae 1 21 Cc. yerd pieccs and valued today at $ 1 1 9 Spectal.. (Z,© ® | $1.50." Special at ry Horseless Carriages for the Baby. Automobiles, No. Ought-te-own-one, Yes! ‘The mothers can readily afford baby a Carriage or 1 from this stere tomorrow. You know midn't Keep this line if tt wasn't for the fact ec is money in It for you as well as us. Seems, though, you share the better portion * these are offered you. With spring here, baby won't be contented in doors, there, ertainly a good time to invest for many reason! steek Baby Carriage, square reed body, rubber-tired * $2.49 and at foot beaker i ° onstructed “Baby $5 08 Carriage, and a bargain at see e body, solidly $4.98 wheel thoroughly w Willow body, upholstered seat wheel And Still Unmequaled Matting Bargains. 125 rolls left of 90-1b, Jointless China 2 Matting—Iarge and snail patterns 10¢ yard mainder of sale sells for 20e. a yard. Durlug this sale.. ° nis of 4-4 Floor Linoleum—short Tolls Japanese Jointless Cotton Warp Matting 4"yards. Grades of —aplendid wearing quality. Patterns of none worth less than 27c checks, floral, zig-zag colors, ete, Sells 25¢ op as AIOSED D ° a yard. What remains at... ° S. KANN, SONS & 60., 8th and Market Space. A REP VAN WINKLE'S LAND. under the shelter of the cocoanut paims, either stupidly drunk or noisily quarrel- ng. The mingled uproar and snoring lasts :ill about noon, when there is a sudden return to sobriety, and the crowd clears away to the villages to collect the means for an- other ‘ousal. On a “good” day, which is often enough Sunday, the trader at Cabinda bay gets rid of about 190 gallons of rum. And he av that the scene described is repeated every day in the year. Next to rum and “civilization.” the great- est curses of West Africa are smallpox and the sleeping sickness. From this last nv case of recovery has ever been known, an 0 contagious is it that in the native Chris- tion communities every communicant has ‘The Portuguese Colontes in Africa in a Backward State. migiene are the Winkle’s land of ri After nturies of white dominion they re- condition in whic essors left them our consul for peculiarities stand Da Gama aed his bold sw In th rs report ola these Portugu out str y Thus, from Loanda, the capital, to Cape ‘Town is about sixteen hundred miles, and the journey should take about six days. a e) i of What actually hap) i this: You oo Hl beth peepee ie which to partake of take @ tip: of 3.600 miles to Madetra, where | yr ts true there are lalor arrangements You waylay the next mail steamer, and | which look uncommonly like stavery—but then complete the excursion by another | then, so there are in Rhodesia, and some journey of 4,800 miles to Cape Town. In| fe gleefully anticipating the time when Johannesburg will be no better. coe. In Many Neighborhoods. From the Chicago Record. “How do you like your new nelghbor?* “Oh, he’s the kind of man that saves his longest story to tell while we are holding the front door open for him to go.” ——_+ e+ ___ It is a practice with ocean liners to aay= up their soiled linen, towels, ete., until port is reached, and passengers are obliged to ‘do the same thing. Now, however, the Steamship New England of the Dominion line has been provided with a complete laundry for caring for the wash of the ship and that of the passengers as well. It is capable of handling 7,000 pieces of linen a si si) miles have to be traveled to cover @ distance of 1,600 miles. A letter be- » Cape Town and Loanda takes about months. ere is 4 piefure of what trade means in favored region of Cabinda bay, where is a single white trader, who occ se of three rooms, with a “‘shop’ y feet by eight feet attached. The. stocked with puncheons of some ie stuf! called “rum, which are ex- changed for palm kernels. Knots of natives from the interior vil- lages with loads of kernels begin to pre- Sent themselves at the shop by 6 a.m., and when the trader at last makes his appear- ance there is a nolsy crowd of kernel sell- ers and thirsty hangers on. The exchange of rum for kernels is quick- ly effected, and by 9 o'clock in the morning the entire popflation may be seen lying {AVENUE AND WHITE HOUSE Some Suggestions as to the Centennial Cele- bration Plans. The Parks ald Never Be Invaded and the Executive Mansion Should Be Adequately Enlarged. To the Editor of The Evening Star: _ Im planning future improvements at the national capital one irottclad rule should be kept in mind, namely, never to infringe on public parking for building sites, If this rule is once broken we shall soon have no parking left, as the temptation to occupy public open spaces for building sites will always be greater as the needs for public buildings multiply and lands rise in value. If our population continues to increase as it-has done in the last hundred years, be- ginning with 5,000,000 and more than doubling every twenty-five years, another century must bring results scarcely con- ceived by him who lives today. We may not predict just when enough public spac at Washington may be required to accom- modate the governmental machinery for two and three hundred millions of people. We may say in full confidence, however, that what we most need at the national capital is not less of permanent open spaces and available building sites, but more of them. A shortsighted Congress once gave away a third of the District—mistake now deep- ly regretted. Another Congress failed to appreciate the scheme of Major L'Enfant for the laying out of the capital city and declined to pay him more than a pittance for what they considered an extravagant and foolish plan. Major L'Enfant declined to receive both the pittance and the advice, and died in disappointment and poverty. We are now enthusiastically grateful tor what he did accomplish, regretting always that his plan for parks and avenues stopped short of the District line, and that so little provision was made for open:spaces about all our public buildings. Our national fault has been that of nar- row view and mistaken economy if all that regards the capital city. We have only been able to plan for the immediate needs of the time at which public improvements were made. The first Capitol, built a hun- dred years ago, was absurdly small. The second one was finished but twenty-five years ago, and is already inadequate. The White House, built a hundred years ago, was of a size to suit a country of 5,000,000 people. In fact, it has never taken long hot only to prove the inadequacy of every public improvement, but to demonstrate equally how parsimony has not been econ- omy. The Face of the Nation. The United States buildings, representing the various departments of the national government, are, after all, very few. Why should they be surpassed in size and splen- dor? It has been said that the capital rep- resents the face of the nation, while the States are the,body, and that if the body is shabby and small, the face will be corre- spondingly contemptible. Are the American people mean and sordid and without tast=? Let us not believe it. Let us rather believe that Congress has always been far behind the people in patriotic pride for the national capital. The people of our country have never complained of the cost or beauty of the Library building. If it had been twice as large and twice as beautiful it would have been doubly appreciated. Probably the most popular act of Senator Morrilll’s ci 'r was the promotion of that building. © park or avenue or public building in Washington which may suit future nation- al necessity is too fine or too splendid to please every American citizen. It belongs to them all. To visit the national capital is the worthy ambition of every one of them. All they ask and all they want is honesty of purpose and honesty of expendi- ture, and they recognize that investments based upon intelligent perceptions are not extravagant. . Broadness of view in relation to the glories of the national capital was refresh- ingly exhibited by the governors of various states, lately assembled’ at Washington. They proposed, as I understand, in the 1 of a centennial commemoration of the an- niversary of the city, to promote some great public imporovements, und without time for much reflection, suggested a new Centennial avenue and something for a White House. -An open boulevard leading from the C itol_ building to the proposed memorial bridge may be useful and attractive, bit let the committee of governors take a sec- ond sober thought before they suggest plac- ing buildings where they would cover a single inch of present parking, already far too Hmited. Let them change their scheme for a broad avenue partly bordered with magnificent public buildings to the natural thoroughfare and entrance street of Wash- ington—Pennsylvania avenue. if Louis Napoleon, regardless of cost, could wipe out miles of solidly built squares in the center of Paris, for the glory of France and the most beautiful capital city of the world, and to the delight of every Frenchman, the United States government may not hesitate to remove a few indiffer- ent business bulldjngs on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue. Whatever may he the reasonable cost, it will never be less than at present. White House Needs. If what the governors want in the way of a White House suggests the filling -up of the small open space between the Treas- ury and the State, War and Navy depart- ments by the addition of appendages put up in the rear of the old executive building and composed of the same cheap material to correspond with it, they do not rise to the dignity of a new White House, nor the needs of the twentieth century in relation to it. They do not appreciate that the House is not intended to accommo- President, his family and his staff alone, but that it must prop- erly serve to entertain thousands and tens of thousands of people from all parts of the respect and love the old White House for its traditions and its nfodest beauty. -t it remain unchanged and unsurrounded pendages forever. We have outgrown as a man outgrows the shoes he wore as child. Because a man cherishes his infantile shoes he need not attempt to patch them to suit the conditions of all his fu- ture years. With a hill at the head of 16th street (the future Executive avenue) and Florida ave- nue, finer than the hill on which the Capitol is built, and double its height; finer than any of the seven hills of Rome; located in the center of the city, in the midst of its residence section; accessible to all the town; situated on the great driving boulevard, 16) feet wide and seven miles long, which leads mest directly to the National Park and bo ‘3 its entire length: containing from fif! to seventy-five acres of land covered at pres- ent with but a few cheap buildings; provid- ing (on account of height and drainage ard southern exposure) the most comfortable mesidence site for both winter and summor that the District of Columbia affords; with this superb site at our command may we ne xcept to the selection of the back yard { a respected but small old building for the | future Executive Mansion? It would seem wise at the beginning of the new century to perfect some general plan for the future best interests of the na- tional tapital. Future generations would probably be very glad to help pay for these improvements made on a grand scale. Be~ sides the clearing of the south side of Penn- sylyania avenue for public buildings, ade- quate space should also be secured north and south of the Capitol grounds for bulld- ing sites, duly appreciating the valus. of elevations for such purposes. Also several squares now containing fullgrown trees, situsted in various parts of the city, should be promptly secured for public parks. fhe charming wooded hillside lying between 12th and” 14th streets on Florida avenue should be secured for parking. ‘These are but a few suggestions for what should be an extended and comprehensive plan for our nation: capital of the twentieth century. MARY F. HENDERSON. ee Retort Cuertucous. From the Baltimore American. ‘Do you favor our policy toward Porto Rico?” wrote the eminent statesman to the reformer. The latter, who was a spelling reformer by trade, repiled: "I cannot suppuert it!’ —see- “Andrew Carnegie gave our town a pub- lie library.” Se “That was fine.” “You think so? Well,, we've asked him now to give us a skating rink, so the boys = girls will stop reading novels.” Vay as: FRANCES STLWAKT MOSHER, Ist Rec. Sec.. Hillsdate, Mick), HaMBS Fintiy Bicsto. 2 Kee. Sec.. 123% Vermont Ave. Quincey. 1k | - a Baiver, Treasurer. Gent lemen: --. ; I take great pleasure in acknowledging the benefits which I have received from the use of Warner's Safe Cure. sf x change of food and water my stomach refused to per ‘a HowAKD SHAM. Vice-Pres., Loutss Barnca Rosaixs. Cor. Séc.. 25 Brond St.. Adrian, Mich. ; ” Winthrop Centre, Maine, .~ ‘Warner!s Safe Cure Co. 53 \ AFFILIATED WITH THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF Women). { OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT. ° MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, 633° NORTH. 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Methods of the Rattler and the King Snakes in a Duel to the Death. From the Youth's Companton, If the rattlesnake is justly called the king of America’s ,woods and rocks, yet his crown is not held without danger, since he is hunted diligently.and successfully. His fangs are, indeed, deadly, and he wears a fine suit of armor, bit the deer and the wild hog never fail to, attack him, and he has an enemy of¢bieown, kind still more dangetous'4" him. Snakes may be @ivided into three clas: Those which art yénomous, the constric- tors and those, which are neither. Unless the.second of ‘these are wonderful for their size, they secure little of our attention, and yet they are generally beautiful in colors, most graceful in action and often among eur best friends, In Florida we have two constrictors es- pecially noticeable—the black racer, which grows to the length of twelve feet and makes a business of warring cn rats and other small deer the farmer hates; and the king snake, whose mission seems to be the extermination of the rattler. E One day I was returning from a day's hunt, at peace with the world and myself, when I heard a squirrel scolding as if he were a ward politician the night before election. The noise he made was so loud and insistent that f turned out of my way to see what could be the matter. I found the little fellow on the trunk of a pine about ten feet from the ground, jumping about as ff in convulsions. He would flourish his tall wildly, scold in an- ger, threaten an assault, run back a little way up the trunk, and then returp and scold again. I looked carefully and saw that his anger was directed at a rattlesnake that lay coiled at the foot of the tree. The snake wa: compressed into a ball, from the middl of which its raitle sounded continuously its blazing little eyes were fixed unchang- ingly upon those of the squirrel. The buzz, buzz, droned on the summer air with a sleepy offect; but the squirrel scolded in an ever ascending key. But for the hint of the squirrel’s eyes I could not have located the rattler. His color and h variegated markings offered but little con st to his surroundings. His monotone of no!se was indefinite, and to sight as well as In sound he seemed only a blur on the background of the dark sand on which he Was the squirrel only curious to satisfy himself as to the character of that strange object, or was he hypnotized? I have of- mused myself by exciting the violent ity of the uttle ani but never did ng or jumping object awaken such intense and painful emotion as the rattler always demands, I knew what must follow soon; that the squirrel’s cries would grow weak, that he would grow dizzy. apd finally tumble from the tree, hang a moment by one claw, and then drep into the jaws of the living death that lay in- wait. 1 had raised my rifle to ve the little fellow, when the tragedy s interrupted frem another quarter. Swift as dight. a form raced on the stage. Tt was clothed in a gleaming coat of beau- tiful white and-black spets: it shifted and shone like a necklace of precious stones,and I knew the king sngketelaimed a victim. The newcomer lax swpalier than the rat- tler; ils ground adler was a greenish gray, and the spots scimtillated in the sunlight which. sifted downuped! the scene from the tangled branches ‘nvertiead. At the first ruktle of its approach the rattler lost all iftterest in the squirrel, which ran back Mo the tree. The king snaké*héld his head high and raced around thérattr in a wide circte while the rattler?#ié@ ‘to slink away. The king darted forward #&-if to attack, and the rattler threw“himseif into a coil. The king was again *vgy and racing around, with 2 swiftmess fhe! r#itier seemed unable to follow wit: et The rattler was ts “by eat 5 cowed already; was lowered, his buzz, buzz was jth apd uneven, and al- eq _atvery different ap- lf-fonfident arbiter of a. scemed when I first saw him, think of nothing but some human iy lurprised M the act of torturing his helpless victim, and sud- denly compelled to-face an adversary wor- thy of his strength...The king snake seem- ed to enjoy the situation as a cat does her cruel dallying with q mouse. Round and round went the king snake, and the rattler follawed. the movement till its neck was twisted. Whenever it at- tempted to turn the king would spring for- ward, and- it was.evident that the first failure of the rattler in swiftness would be the signal for muscle to clinch with venom: The king would race. from left to right and then reverse, and if the rattler failed to follow that would be the: end of him. This. happened; and ¥ saw the king in the air, but could not-ecatch the strike, so instantaneous was it. There was’ a confusion of flying pine needles in a cloud of-white dust, and I saw that two inches of the. king’s coil was about the throat of the rattler. and: over they went, the king’s head above that of his enemy, and « curve of his body acting as a buffer to. keep up the mcHon which \ a a enabled him to take another turn and still another. And so the struggle continued, till the rattler did not writhe freely, and he was held as a vine wraps a tree. When he lay still the king snake began to uncoil himself slowly, and at every mo- tion of his enemy the constrictor’s folds contracted and crushed with killing effect. Even when there was only a quiver of the tall, the king still gripped the throat. It was plain he had a wholesome respect for the fangs that were still terrible. As a last precaution the king applicd his strils delicately to those of the rattler, and repeated that several times, as if to detect the faintest breath. Satisfied at it released its enemy, but still watched, dy to resume jts hold at the slightest n of life. There I left him, keeping grim guard over the body of his vanquished foe. As I ay, the voice of the squirrel in © broke out again, saucy and defi- it always is, but no longer filled with agony and terror, as at first. ———+e-______ NORWEGIAN SKI RUNNING, Nowhere Else Are Equal Values Even a Probability. ? The price tags never dangled from better furniture bearing lower markings. Not alone is the question of savings involved, but the quality and service count for much. You'll know it by test that qualities, making and all good points of furniture are stronger in our lower priced offerings than any other Washington concern is capable of giving for greater money. Credit.is in your favor here. You buy your bill of goods—ar- range with the salesman to suit yourself. We are liberal in-mak- ing concessions and accommodations that'll benefit you, 2 A RECORD F OLDER FOR TE REALLY DGO-CART. A Faster Mode of Locomotion Than Indian Snowshoeing. Dr. Frithjof Nansen in Land and Water. It is a very difficult task to explain to one who has never seen ski or ski running what it really means. Ski are really very simple instruments. They consist of two long narrow strips of wood, pointed and curved upward in front. In Norway the ski are generally about seven or eight feet in jength and from three to four inches in breadth. At the center under the foot they will be about an inch thick or a little-more, beveling off to about a quarter of an inch at either end. The under surface is flat, often with a groove along the middle, and is made as smooth as possible. They are fastened to the feet by a loop for the toe, fixed near the center of the ski, and a band which passes. from this round behind the heel of the shoe ang -which can be tied very tight. I remember an incident which happened to an acquaintance of mine in America many years ago. He was an engineer and was surveying for a rai! far west on the prairies. The winter had set in and deep snow had covered the fields. Being a skillful ski runner, he made himself a pair of ski. The same day he had been out trying these for the first time a group of Indians came upon a track consisting of two parallel grooves or furrows in the snow, and, having never seen a similar track before, they followed it up to make out what kind of an animal it mi; NT QUARTERED O38 ) POLISH — “$10.75 HANDSOME DOUBLE-DOOR: BOOK CASE-GOLDEN OAK FINISHED ORDINARILY WORTH $14 — OUR RIG LEADER FoR — CASH OK MELED IRON BED, $2.79 ¥ WITH SHAPED MIRROR CREDIT. A$ CASH OR 6 BILL Por. CREDIT. A HANDSOME, ReOMY FULL-ROLL RATTAN BARY CARRIAGE—RUFFLED TAPESTRY AND . PLUSH UPHOLSTERY—CASH OR CREDIT— CREDIT.— || $9.50 aS ‘CREDIT— This high- back Dining Chair, heav it origi. e - nate from. They followed the track straight ed oak, to the door of the Norwegian’s cottage, cane seat and where they saw two strips of wood lean- ing against the wa'l. They measured the | = track and they measured these wooden | . things and found that they were of exactly | Pd the same breadth. And now followed a very close investiga- tion of these marvelous creatures, which were carefully measured on all sides. When the Norwegian, as by chance, came out. of his cottage door the natives darted away from the ski and looked at something else, pretending not even to have noticed. The Norwegian showed them, however, the ski and how they were used. They wished now to try them, but. using them as they were accustomed to do their snowshoes, they made slow progress and found them poor and slippery. The Norwegian then put them on and proposed to race with the Indians, and they were quite willing. But the surprise of these swift Indians, on their light snowshoes, was great when they dis- covered that they were only able to keep pace with him for a few hundred yards and then rapidly dropped behind, even though they were racing over their well- known prairies. Afterward the Norwegian helped them to make ski, and some of the Indians learned to use them tolerably well, ‘although men who are not trained to use | © ski from early boyhood very se’dom become skillful ski runners. The motion employed in ski-ing has no resemblance to that employed in skating. While they are moved the ski are always kept strictly parallel and as close together as possible, and shou'd not be lifted from the ground—like Canadian snowshoes. On flat ground they should constantly be kept gliding over the surface of the snow, while being driven forward by alternate strokes brace ‘arms— can't be match- ed for $1.50— Cash or credit, 95c Flecr Coverings. F. = MATTL STEAD ANT HIGHLY OR CREDIT- $14.50 You THE CITE 7 7th St. Mayer & Pettit,«s-«: bank of snow ts built. Sliding with a great ! him for the purpose of recording them. pace from the top of the hill onto this | bank, the jumper, owing to the sudden | break in the ground, is thrown far into the air, and after a longer or shorter journey through space, he alights on the slope be- low and continues his headlong course at | as he He was standing at the hotel counter speaking with the clerk, the othcr morning, when up walked a drummer. “How you feeling. Bill?” said the clerk, extended his hand. from the hips and thighs, and the body is} an even greater speed than before. As a{| “Oh, I’m just out of sight,” replica the thrown forward in each stride. The length | rule, he wiil even very much Increase the | drummer. — of the stride may be increased by propul- After the commercial man had heen as- eap by taking a spring just | apni Seaees oe projecting ‘bank. The { signed his room the Engin: tees slength of such jumps is very generally | the clerk ani inquired what seventy feet or cighty feet, and in the later }.“out of sight.” Th years jumps exceeding a hundred fect are | recorded. : sion of the staff which the ski runner car- ries in his hand. Uphill, if the gradient be steep, the. ski runner will have to tack from side to side, following a zigzag course, or go sideways, bringing the ski a‘most to a right angle with the slope. But downhill at the ski pres sir goes Sie a tremendous | Thicknexs of the English. speed, an en it may wel possible that Se he could “outstrip the birds in flight.” ‘The | From the Memphis Scimitar. ski now slide readily, and the steeper the |: slope the greater the speed, the one thing necessary being to maintain the balance and to steer clear of all difficu’ties, such A to he meant by e clerk explained that he meanc he was fecling fine, and the En- glishman recorded it in his little book. The uext morning when he came down to bréak- fast the <lerk, foliowing his usual cus:om, asked how he felt. The Englishman thonght {1 a good time to try some of his newly- There is-quite a colony of Englishmen in | learned slang, and, with the air of one who Ihiesiptla’ Gahcctally Goring the colton aca j ee doleed : dificult problem, replied: Pasir ke d Joke fs told at their | . You kaun't see me at all. 4 cg |, Jie did not understand why the clerk and as trees and precipices. The ski runner |/¢xpense. ‘The Englishman's obstinacy. ‘s | bsatanders snickercd. < can go everywhere, aver hill and’ valley, | universnily known, but their difficulty in --——_—_ ee ——___—_ and-nothing stops him so long-as there is [icarning the American slang phrases is “Doesn't she sing with 2 great deal of sufficient snow to- move over, P rather amlistiig.. A°well-Khown cotton buy- | Sympathy?” A great art in ski running is the jumping ho was at the Peabody determined to | , “Yes: You would actually thing she bed upon ski. It is generally done down steep f eT ¥! heart enough to be sorry for those who hillsides, which in t) mid@le have some [learn the catch phrases of the Amcricans, were listening to ber.”—Philadelphia in the ground, or where 2 and always carried a small note book with tin