Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1900, Page 13

1HE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1900—16 PAGES. Quality Always At The Men’s Store. No matter what pri ment here. Sole Agents for ROGERS, PEET & CO.’S Perfect Clothing. | 0 ce you pay for a gar- You can depend upon the quality being absolutely reliab.e, and the best that the same amount will purchase anywhere. In chi dren’s c.othing we offer some exceptionally good vaiues. All-wool, Fast Color Suits, in vestie and sailor blouse style, in tweeds, cheviots, serg and flannels, all neatly and $4.98 tastefully trimmed. $4 values. For only... : Big line of Boys’ D. B. Box Suits, in all-wool tweeds, cas- simeres, cheviot and serges. well made, _perfect-fitting, handsome garments. §).48 The regular $5 quality. Cheice of hundreds of the Celebrated Ki and Mother's For Friend Laundered Shirt Waists. The $1.25 and $1.00 Cc. grades, new patterns, for Biggest line of the best grades of Men’s and Boys Suts and Top Coats ever offerec designs, made to our special order them over at your convenience. The finest Imported Blue Serge and Scotch Homespun Sailor Blouse Suits, exquisitely tailored and trimmed. 75° $10.00 values every where. Here only 3oys’ TOP COATS. An All- wool, Fast Color Tan Covert Cloth Top Coat, cut in correct style. has good Italian lining and silk velvet § = .98 collar. A $5.00 gar- Choice of all Separate Trous- ers, sizes 4 to 16 years, heavy Ment iOrs.26 sc2555-. and light weights, IS which were $1.25 and Spring shington. All new, choice to meet your requirements. Look lin Wa Chery & Moran Co., The Men’s Store. James B. Henderson’s Sale of Fine Wall ADePS. c.| anex 10c. to $1 Papers | to 25c. P nrice price All Friezes Reduced. dimensions of me Lik rat prices will for such b “2° Henderson, 933 F St., yn and roth. mht. IST an qvallties. —<— < = ° PECONOMICAL, @CLEAN, O K KK qe. : ‘ HERE is no fuel that gives the satis; | 4 fying results of Its econ the frugal be 4 ? 40 bu. Coke, uncrushed. .$2.90 # 40 bu. Coke, crushed. .. .$3.70 4 Washington Gaslight Co., % 413 Tenth Stree mhi19-281 ote te to 40 40-46 New Offices. Among the offices recently opened by thhe Postal Telegraph-Cable Company OS BOOS SE OS OK of le ha Qarlotte, N. C. Salisbury, N. C. Concord, N. 0. Greensboro’, N. C. Burlington, N. Cumberland, Md. Hagerstown, Md. e Beach, Md. Chesapeake Junction, D.0. Connellsville, Pa. Wilkinsburg, Pa. McCall's Ferry, Pa. Mount Pleasant, Pa. Sayre, Pa. Vintondale, Pa. Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! THE WILSON DISTILLING CO., Baltimore, Ma. wbs-42rt apé-tu&f-1530 Half-gallon “BARGAINS.” . Port or Muscatel....! Blackberry Wine tes Te. 3G Bi TO-KALON wine mb22-2nd BURCHELL’S SPRING LEAF TEA. Delicious in flavor. In half-pound packages. N. W. BURCHELL, 1325 F St. N. 811 Penna. Ave. = A fit for every foot. :“Wear Wells.” Boots, $2.85. z Oxfords, $2.45. The woman who has always paid $3 to $3.50 for other shoes now buys he Seodondodtertontentert Wear Well woman who wore $2.75 and $3 = Oxfords follows her example. = The most comprehensive line of = footwear ever offered at one ¥ price. A style for every taste— - a fit for every foot—service and satisfaction for all. No. 713 Wear Well Shoes— Arch heel— beve o> Qe am tie S285, ford to match, $2.45. WEAR WELLS CHILDRE N’S COMFORT LAST SHOES. No: id 127— 126 an tS D125 EDrIONSTON, 1334 F St. Lo atehelelealele ites It teetocecetectectectece 3 No charge fo. extracting when h are ordered. $8 covers the h and extracting. Soli Painless extracting Plication of anaesthetic to gum Dental 1 9) t ll F ° Parlors, St. (Over Hoover & Snyder's). THOMAS UTZ, MANAGER. WHY GO HUMPING AROUND WITH A LAME BACK “Jouisonrs” ™* Kuoney ARANTEED PILLS best Kidney preparation on earth, and a 10- CENT BOX contains nearly as much as others sell for 30 cents. All druggists. mb3-76t,20 30 > a a ae me AVG, 2 Carpet T Carpets that fo Matisfy the aste and values that mean a genuine si Tocke woes AOC king and Moving. Houghton; 121g F St a Imported BAY RUM, 33C. pi Pint. Bottles Charged Extra. WHOLESA 2 CONNECTICUT AVENUE A Dress The ‘Horses Well! Ir's the stylish harness that sets off th anim: tone, SONCORD re re e = good looks and give your equipage © HARNESS the best made, We give you a chance to use LAWN MOWERS * * RY placing them at a low fig- = ure to start the senson. Our © © new ones ba. + just arrived—guar- $-50 Josiah R. Bailey, 820 7th THE BAILEY $1 SAW—WARRANTED. mb21-14d Ladies take Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters erally when feel low spitited. bi sh Pg got Ee at Tt ‘brightens SCHOOL CURRICULUM (Continued from Eighth Page.) to indicate a solution of the problem in the form of a verbal statement. Emphasis was laid upon powers and roots, square meas- ure, square root, cubic measure, cube root. In the sixth grade the subject of percen- tage, begun in the fifth, was completed, me- chanical processes being at all times avoid- ed. During the review more time was siven to individual defects than before. Here the child built methematical fences, covered mathematical areas, dug mathe- matical ditches and wells, measured mathe- matical lumber piles, built’ mathematical water tanks, walls of stone, walls of brick, ete. ‘The review in the seventh grade was fin- ished by the 1st of November and the sub- ject was completed in this grade. ‘The child was also drilled more than ever In the use of English in connection with his arithmetic. As the course had not been completed in the seventh grade prior to last year the eighth grade covered the entire Subject, summarizing and generalizing pro- cesses and relations, the work being largely individual and suited to the need of the pupil. It will be readily seen that in arithmetic, as in other branches, the child must per- force have better command of himself by virtue of the variety of material and meth- ods placed within his experience. Algebra, Tn the seventh grade the child was induct- ed into algebra by being led to state many of the simplest of arithmetic problems in the form of the algebraic equation. In the ghth grade the subject technically aught to fractions. ography. Inasmuch as science study—the study cf animal and vegetable life, the weather, the rain and snow, heat and cold—was begun with the child's school life, the study of geography was begun in the first grade; dts study as such, however, was not begun until the third grade wherein the child derection, the pints of the com- pass, various plans—that of his own desk, the teacher's desk, the school room, the school the blgck in which th surrounding blocks, y. finally visiting the Ca: plan. de ‘the child studied soil of the and their In the fourth grad making he formation s and vall nting natural fe; ble by the of the pading collaterally from the Ni reader and memorizing The National Museum wa: ind biographies of prominent men studie Th were child in the fifth ye work in soil, hills, continent Tr reviewed the ete.: studied the growth of plants. life of animals, the work of water and North Ame S$ out- lined, and toward the end of the r the ge y of North and South America and of current events. He learned of the condition of the conti en the first settlers came: the rela etween the two continents tion to the equa- tor,‘to the ; the fauna and | flora of N peoples—how they live are us He was taken to the muscum gical Park to see repre ve anima , much the sand boar year much of hi ct was given ¥. each child having a fou m which he located the po! the small cir the meridians t) and finally the continents the land appropriately and distingu principal countries. on the place geogri in: ing the tention was gi ay of the history studied, as much for the pur- pose of establishing a habit of study as for the information acquired, h grade the ions Muc of que He s. sizes, sh time s tions in- idied the r mentioned. spent on the geography volved in current history North American contin its contour, re: rive in the In th “nto the found in th = drainage. mouths of the » plan being follo nd. Europe. attention was . and Shaler’s “United St America.” and the earth through its var- fous stages of geographic conditions, evo- lution of plant and and forma- tion and deposition of its minerals. History. History was begun in the third grad child studying the lives of George ton and Capt. John Smith and the history of the city of W. In the fourth g1 s Story ons, of two inaugu: and coliateral read- the Pine tree shilling, as found the teacher in broadening y nild a connected the pe customs, their towns as their country life. Geogra- pl srsation was had be- tween teacher and pupils and among pupils under the guidance of the teacher. The hardest work of the sixth grade, its that of the United begun in January. and was aid of four text-books. Eg- y. Barnes and Ridpath, children used but one, ers three of the four. The w and oth here gt 1 the nd ive from the inning to the end, so th: he posse: a clear, connected, quential view of the whole subject. To thi end much cri S section work w: including causes and results of wars, reasons underlying ac- quisition of etc. Much supple- mentary rea done, especially that in the Frank! fifth reader. For embellish- ctions as Mrs. Hemans in any grade was selections ot heart,” of good English, ‘The museum and 1 in this connection. In the se enth grade the work be n the re lutic y nd the child studi from the eff A introducing something « » work, and hing the with the year. Eng history was begun in the eighth grade, give perspective to the history and government of the United States. Civil Government. This subject was taken up in the first grade. It was introduced in the morning talk about the parks—why they were there, an history who put them there—the child’s own school building and something of its supervision, the police and fire departments. In the second grade the talk was of the mail, Thanksgiving, the schools, the mu- seum and the Zoological Park. In the third grade the child visited the Capitol that he might see the Senate, the Hous: of Representatives and the Su- preme Court in on. Je the collection and de- tter, methods of lighting streets, the city water supply, the sewerage system, the story of two inaugurations, the Congressional Library and the museum Were studied. In the fifth grade he learned of the gov- ernment of the Saxons, Normans, Britains and American Indians, their manners, hab- its, pastimes and occupations. I the rule and social ditions of the various European coun- participating In the discovery and colonization of America, the government of the American colonies and the formation of the American nation were some of the themes that engaged his attention. In the seventh grade he studied the gov- ernment under the various presidential ad- ministrations. In the eighth grade the government of the nation was the center from which emanated the study of all lesser units, the state, the county, the town, the city and finally the District of Columbia, which was studied with reference to the various departments and their practical workings as seen on numerous field trips. Physiology. Physiology was begun in the second grade and was continued through the grades, ex- cepting the seventh. In the second grade the child learned some- thing of the human body, acquiring know!l- edge which was augmented in the third grade by the teacher's development of the work in the first half of the health primer on the study of bones, joints, muscles, ten- = Bes departments'-of purchases The + (well-made, perfect-fitting) pants. $1.75 for pants which sold up to $3. for $10 top coats and suits. if desired. | Foll $3.50 pants which sold up to $5. HecHt’al Greater Stores. —and it surély should be greater tomorrow than it has been this season. The special sales in several charged” and may arrange the payments to suit their convenience. éseé pants must gol We're determined that we shall sell these heavy and medium- weight pants NOW. So we've made three lots of the entire stock and reduced prices to less than a third. All good patterns—and good $4.50 for pants which sold up to $7.50.- The same grades of top coats and suits we have marked $10 others are selling at $12.50, which means a saving of a fourth and the privilege of picking from the great- est assortment in top coats of Ox- ford mixtures and black cheviots as well as tan coverts—and in suits of fancy cheviots and cassimeres and plain black and blue cheviots | and the like. “Just the same as beiore every garment is sold with a || guarantee of satisfaction, which means “money back.” “Charged” ly, indeed, to pay an exclusive tailor so much for clothing to order. We make clothes to measure—show you as many patterns | as any tailor and ask you a third less. Toys’ tel sold for $1.50, S$ ll 39 tomorrow for men’s $2 hats. 500 men’s derbies—in tan, maple, brown and black—in new Dunlap, Youman and Knox blocks—all hand-made hats and finished with reversible silk binding—best $2 hat to be had for $1.39. copes, alpines and derbfes—all new shades and silk trimmed, 98c.—same as are Boys’ blue golf caps, with patent snap cateh—19e. instead of 39¢. values we have here to offer you. Shirt waists. ake sizes up ehildgen’s and 79C. s—made of exten- “toe. : neayy hich sell at viel fet ich soles—no better shées, made $1.50 usually. tan ¢ throughout || Satin stock collars, 9c. s 9 |Children’s zl fast hose—the « quality imperfect, hurts the wear of Pay heed to this--mothers- or parents of boys—you cannot possibly do so well elsewhere in boys’ clothing. And this strong statement is “backed up” by the } med With tie snits, in sizes plain black and bi so danble-? h round col- fancy cheviots, w PDE nG alps with silk and ‘eassimeres and 1 to years; suits such as seil for $5.50 and more, Knee pants. ai The very best _all-wool it knee pants. for” boys— with | pat 1 5¢ donde! [seats Sand knees 30¢ | 3 Which sell at Gc.—will be | es ° sold at ° | for boys? for boys’ for ° ahey one chevtot cheviot ate co) site, fa Winate and Scotch mixed chey- Dante Sclts, An sizes: 1% to 19 years, of all-wool ney buttons; striped worsteds, which also double-breasted suits ‘y stylish: with of sume material, in nd double-breaxt- years ed coats and vests, which are regularly sold for $10. 7 lots shoes at special prices. $1.49 soles—the for ladies’ Oxfords, in tan and black viel kid—light or heavy three newest styles of toes— $1.79 for men’s shoes—made of very best satin calf, black or tan Viel Kid; also tans, Russia calf—a great value at $2.50. ————— $2. 50 for the choice of 16 new spring styles shoes for men—in black and tan—vicl kid, tan Russia calf—black wax calf and patent leathers—a great yalue to Dig—which sell at $1.15 usually. at $3.00, i 25 & 35c. music, 1 6c. 49c. for 75c. shirts. mins and boys’ French percale shirts, = p popu sic fon vhich the music which have vi 4 Se. ntl Soe, for 16e. 5,000 at consideratly Lees cthane trey Md re ia the newest patterns and col- full regular iade and cannot be for less dQ clsew To go for ae m" 40¢, 75¢. for $1.25 shirts. A still finer lot of men’s and Bors’ French * shirts: the very newest in pattel lorings; the shirt which ea Selis at $1, and some 1.25, at. 75c. 25c. hose, 10c 1214c, for 25c. hosiery. Men's plain fast blac nolems plain fast black full regular made toes—the best double heels and - hose—for.. 12'4c. Breaking all records in millinery selling. Already indications point that this shall be the greatest millinery season yet. Preparations are greater—facilities are doubled—stocks and varieties were never before so large. Visitors tell us that our trimmed hats have a style, individuality that is not noticeable with } i just-now’’ needs will attract thousands. Everybody who wants it may have their | | | hats to be seen elsewhere. 2 special lots trimmed hats. Ladies’ snd misses’ trimmed hats, in the greatest sssortmer in turbans, toques and large and medium-sized hats and bonnets, trimmed most styl With flowers, plumes, malines, chiffons and Inc, well as back. $2.98 for hats worth $4.98. Walking hats. Ladies’ and missex’ ready-to-wear golf and walking hats. trimmed with new Persian handkerehie wings, silk and velvet: of Milan, id rough Mackinaw and plain mixed straws of several sorts, here at 79¢. to $3.48. Untrimmed hats. Ladies’, misses’ and children’s untrimmed hats, in the most wanted shapes and colors, in chip, Mackinaw, N 49c, Leading in suit and skirt selling. | Double the variety shown elsewhere—and a saving of no less than a third over what others ask. them “charged”—paying for them by the week or month. ot $x ments, w double the price. $9.98 with jackets In S 1 4.908 ting box out wi buy equal stylishness elsewhere for triordinary, hence the choice is splendid! rt for the very acme of suit stylishness—the very tions; sults of the best qual of bomadelo chevtot, serzes and 1 ir dozens of din Hi ° eluding the most silk and Ws med st these to vour measure would cost you such fine salts for $39. $1.98 for cheviot serge skirts —all wool—in a variety all new In cut lined and bound rts which many have Deen of and. Should be $10. Enormous wrapper values. One thousand ladies* wrappers have arrived, bought espgeially for seliing tomorrow. They are the very bes! TH] you have ever bought for $1.50—made with and without fiounces—desirable dark pat- terns and perfectly washable. Instead of $1.50, we are going to sell them and create the biggest sert of a sensation i? ” O8c. Easter gloves, 98c. ‘The tdentical ladies’ kid gloves in all the etylish shades—In two-clasp and Foster hook —Wwhich are sold about town at $1.50—will be sold here tomort at 8c. e are our own gloves—our own importation—hence are guaranteed and tried New veilings, 29c. Plain and fancy mesh veilings, with: vel- vet and chenille dots—the 50c. sort, for 29e. ale Hecht and Company, 513-515 Seventh Street. Hecht’s Greater Stores. We're all ready for the usual Saturday rush]. for fashionable snits of cheviot. novelty fabrics, in bla has much style to. the You cannot possibly for less than $15, for even those who are able to sell them for still finer suits of f Venetians and the li leated skirts feta silk $6.98 | for broadcioth the season's newest shapes es; in this lot are all the new el shade for hats worth $7.98. | Two lots of flowers. One large table filled to overtle Sprays of Lila clnths, forget-me-nots. © roses and foliage, which were bought to sell for B3e., for... = comflowers, 12%4c. | Another table full of handsome flowers, |] embracing large handsome roses, — |] with age. chrysanthemums, i 29c. | in all colors, pansies and foliage, bonght to sell for 49 cents, for. And the privilege of having all thy not for less moddiste 1 selling in $9.98 | ‘for black crepon || skirts do with taffeta silk. Doilar corsets, 75c. Ten styles of corsets, © x all the leading makes—in long, short and medium ths—which sell at $1, wilh be sold at tomorrow. 4 d’s reefers, 98c. Ree ers of cream Bedford cont to four years, for 98c. in- stead of § “Edna May” ties, 49c. | “Edna Mas” with pretty Tnstrons tassel ends, f satin th - morrow. 25c. for 50c. neck wear. We shalt sll tomorrow me emt acing the in tecks (tc dons and nerves. In the fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth grades the subject was much guage making, including com- the work of exposition and elopment having been done objectively and the child often illustrating by draw- ings. Physics. This subject s taught from the first to the seventh grade, inclusive, though gen- erally incidentally. In the first four grades many expositions and experiments were made illustrating the effects of heat and! cold on gases, liquid and solids, the chil- dren learning to read the thermometer; showing the properties of matter, porosity, impenetrability, : demonstrating some of the phenomena of magnetism, and final ly making magnets with needl thread and cor aining the composition of light as ith the prism and of sec- ondary ‘S$ as shown by the use ot | paint, were taught also gravity and the principles of the lever. In the enth grade the subject was taken up specifically and taught .through as outlined in the teachers’ din 1889. Miseellany. Penmanship was taught everywheri book was used, but the child, when lacking, was given a correct form by the teacher on blackboard or paper. He whose writing ¥.as poor was encouraged to write vertical- ly, the effort resulting'in an improvement on his old form. a We shall not attempt tg, write in detail cf drawing, sewing, ‘carpentry, cooking, music and the healt’ exeteises, since you will probably have reporté from the heads of these various speciai branches. Concern ing sewing, carpentny; :cooking and the health exercises, however, parents seemed to realize more thanefermerly the value ot the training. Rarejy,. was an objection heard from a parent ‘or, child to any of these studies, But, oi the contrary, chil dren do not now want -@o attend school where these advantages are not had. The science work jyag,used both as a principal and as an agent: in the lowest grades chiefly as an agéert*for the teaching of language, but grafuafy it lost its use as such, until in the ifettand subsequent grades it was taught primarily for itseif. In this connection the nusiber of field les- sons during the past “yeat largely exceeded the number of any rece@ing year, being probably on an average of-at least five per school, or a total of more than 5,000. The schools were taught in two sections, excepting that many teachers divided their children Into groups of half-a dozen to fifteen, being controlled by the need of the pupi in the subject studied, always, of course, separating the individual when necessary for his personal advantage. Appended to the report—of which only those parts directly descriptive of the course have been given—are analytical notes, in which the course of study is item- ized and elaborated. “* : —— “Has your furnace been satisfactory this winter?” “I don’t know how the rest of tae family feel about it, but I've kept warm when I'm at home, chasing down cellar to see what was the matter with it.”—Detroit Free IN HOTEL CORRIDORS. “The ever-recurring revolutions in Cen- tral America,” said W. F. Hubbard of Bos- ton, at the Raleigh, “and the fact that the different small republics down there ap- pear now to be in a very belligerent mood, so much so that this country has thought it advisable to send warships to patrol the ccasts, recall to me what happens when the ‘opera is over’ and one of the ‘gen- erals’ leading the revolt or defending the government has been defeated. They set- Ue matters a la Spanish and very quickly. “T happened to be in Colon, the Atlantic erminus of the Panama railroad, in 1885, | When the revolution, inaugurated by Gen. Prestan, had been crushed, and the general himself was in flight. Three of the leaders of the revolution had been condemned to death by hapging. They carried out the judgment in an unique but satisfactory manner—to the victors. The condemned men were not consulted. “The little Colombian soldiers erected two upright posts, not unlike telegraph poles, on each side of a line of track in the rail- read yard. On the top of these they natled a cross beam, to which they attached three pieces of rope, with nooses at the end dangling about five feet from the ground. Then they lifted the three vic- tims, whose hands were pinioned to their sides, up on a common fiat car and rolled it down the track te where the nooses were hanging. These were quickly adjust- ed ah the condemned men’s necks, and, the soldiers, putting their shoulders to the end of the car, unceremoniously pushed it out from ‘under the feet of the revolutionists, leaving their convulsive bod- ies swaying and twisting in the air. “One of the victims was in the act of making a speech as the car was pushed from beneath his feet, which scraped along the rough surface of the platform in his desperate but futile efforts to maintain his balance. Then the crowd disbanded, and the little dark-skinned soldiers returned to pete barracks. It was not a pleasant sight.” “Your story,” said a naval officer pres- ent, one of the group which had listened to the Boston gentleman’s narrative, “recalls to my mind an execution I saw In China; when I “as on the Asiatic station some years ago. It was at Canton. ‘I accepted with considerable interest the manderin’s invitation to witness the be- heading of four Chinese river pirates, which was to take place the following morning on the beach a little way outside of the city. When I, in company with several other officers who were on shore at the time, reached the scene of the execution the culprits, with the executioner, the man- darin and petty officials, were already upon the ground. We were late, and the man- darin had considerately delayed the de- capitation until we arrived. ~ “The pirates had been dumped from the Kittle cages in which they were confined on sands of the shore, where they were half sitting, half lying, their arms and limbs being tightly bound with cords. They seemed utterly indifferent, presenting that stoical calmness in the face of immediate death which is so characteristic of their race, and which is one of the mysteries of the Chinese nature. At a guttural word of command from the mandarin the bands around the victims’ limbs were unfastened, and the executioner and his assistants, catching them by the arms, ordered them to stand erect. They were so stiff from the thongs that an erect posture was im- possible, and they were lifted upright and carried a few yards from us. Here they were placed in a kneeling position, in a row, the assistants pressing their bodies forward in an inclined position, the better to receive the edge of the large, keen-edged alf sword, half knife, which the chief exec tioner had held quietly in his hands. “There was no resistance, no exclama- tions or lamentations: in fact, I do not re- member that one of the condemned robbers uttered a word. If they made their peace with their Maker they did it silently. Their faces betrayed no concern, and that pecu- liar drawn, set expression which is notice- able on the faces of the condemned at the executions of Americans and Europeans was absent from the features of these Mongo- lians. They were placed about five feet apart, and with bended heads bare , from which their clothing had pre- viously been removed. they awaited their doom with as much calmness as the Ameri- can officers, who were watching the execu- lioner approach them. “He stepped rapidly toward the kneel- ing pirate nearest him. The sword de- scribed a swift semi-circle in the bi sunlight, and with one powerful sweep s ered the head from the man’s body as 5 cleanly and quickly as if it were that of a] fowl. The decapitated head rolled a few inches on the soft sand, dyeing it adark red from the streaming, spurting arteri the trunk collapsing into an inert, quivering mass of flesh. Without a pause or a sec- ond glance at the slain, the executioner passed from one to the other, decapitating each with a single mighty stroke of the razor-edged weapon. As he approached vic- tim after victim not one betrayed the slightest semblance of fear or endeayored to evade the sword which was the next second to descend upon his neck. “It was all over in a few minutes. The Mandarin smiled pleasantly at us and en- tered his chair, beside which his coolies were indifferent spectators. One of my friends had a flask of brandy, and though most of us had seen bloodshed and suffering in the service, we all took a good pull at it. Our curiosity was satiated.” “When I was a youth,” said Elmer Thomas, an artist of Philadelphia, “I was fond of reading desert stories, and would try to imagine what the caravans and wind storms and oases were lke. Perhaps this picture in type will be recognized by many American travelers: “After leaving Ogden on the Central Pa- cific the train runs fhrough hundreds of miles of desert and sage brush as- bleak, gray, barren.and dry as any desert in Africa, saye that the topography of the country is different, and the desert is of another character. The alkali dust is sti- fling in summer, and it is a dreary, comfortable ride in warm weather. i We were the trip last summer. and I had dozed off into a sleep awakened by the colored por- calling out loudly, ‘Winnemucca. Half hour for dinner.’ I looked out of the y. As the transformation scene in acular pieces on the stage changes the dark caverns and woods into brilliant fairy scenes of sparkling tinsel ar so had the scene suddenly dreary desert. My ears ca of falling fountains of crystal waters, my eye the iridescent rainbow hues in the in- tense light of the midday sun. Green lawns surrounded the static form. Birds were singing in the boughs of tall which the dark green leaves yed gi tly, fanned by the hot winds from the lim- itless plains. I rubbed my eyes to that I was awake, and I then ri what a welcome sight an oases in the desert must be to the Arab as he descri afar on the back of his ship of the the ungainly 1. It ts a revelation to the trave powerful ocular demonstr: though this app: barren soil worthless to with the refreshing waters of the irrig: ditch it is possible to make it bloom like the rose and blossom as a garden.” —— A Question of Carfare. A well-dressed gentleman, whose t indicated standing, refinement and wealth, clung to a strap in a Pennsylvania avenue car a few days ago. The car crowded. When he was approached by the conductor and his fare requested he ran his fin; the little change pocket of his overcoat. His hand sought his right trouser’s pocket, the left and those of his vest, at last, going through every pocket in his clothes. A blank look of amazement overspread the gentleman's face, followed by a ile, in which the passengers near him joined. “Really,” he exclaimed, to the conductor, whose smile had not yet appeared. “Real- ly, I am much embarrassed. I find to my chagrin that I haven't any money what- ever upon me; not even a car ticket. i have to ask you to 3 me on my f. “I can't do that,” answered the tor. “I don’t know you. Could not, any- “Can't you make an exception this time? I am Senator , and will certainly send the fare to the company immediately upon reaching the Capitol.” The conductor joined in the laugh, which by this time had become general, and walk- ed to the front end of the car. A passen- ger handed the senator a car ticket, which the latter accepted with appropriate thanks and paid his fare with it.