Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1900, Page 14

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1900-16 PAGES. £7 epamerneetotei inisbelelebisisietieleteisbepiet tot price xr merc DOGS SSS OO SS (An teautiful Pictures, Pictures Framed, Wl call with samples. WoNDE We want prices Balti 6 East I DIRT CLEARANCE. 1T is a good plan for every bather to know something of the soap he uses. There is a well-founded objection to using a floor-clean- 5 ing soap upon the human body. Ivory Soap is the bather’s soap. It costs more than common soaps, but the difference is in the ingredients and making. Why not treat yourself with a little respect. Is not the human skin with its marvellous delicacy entitled to pure soap? Ivory Soap—it floats. COPYRIGHT 1899 RY THE PROCTER & GAMBLE CO. CINCINNATI Big Ovens and Little Ovens yield the same result when Washburn-Crosby Co.’s Gold Medal Flour is used—always satisfying, nutritious bread; light, rich cakes; uniformly delicate pastry. 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AVE. apls-l4d ASTHMA, “2ntke and 9 CATARRH. OFPRESSION, SUFFOCATION, NEURALGIA, ETC., CURED BY ESPIC’S CIGARETTES, OR POWDER. Paris, J. ESPIC; New York, E. FOUGERA & OO. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS, de21-tb.40t JUNEAU JOTTINGS Some Interesting Facts About the Metropolis of Alaska. ere UNMARRIED WOMEN ARE IN DEMAND The Town is Quite Gay in a Social Way. ITS PICTURESQUE SITUATION Written for The Evening Star. Juneau, from the approach to It by Gas- tineau channel, Is the most impressive town in the United States, and I think every tourist who has visited it will bear me out in this statement. It sits, like a bird on its perch, at the very foot of Mt. & great, black mountain, scarred silver streams, rising 4,000 feet sheer above it, and impending as if a jar would topple cliff and crag and beetling rock and tumbling torrent upon the helpless town by the side. Juneau is the metropolis of Alaska. Skag- way may object to this statement, but that does not controvert the fact. oldest. the largest, the richest and the most permanent town in the country, and that combination must lead. It will also become the capital of Alaska, to which Sitka will object, but really Sitka is a back number, y for reference as anctent founded in 1877 R. T. Hart pros- overed gold-bearing quartz up a little mining town, s called Harrisburg and later was ito Juneau. Joe Juneau died at on a year ago in poverty, and Mr. s is living at Juneau in more or less i It was not until 1881 that Ha It w nd@ baflt s cal 1881, rete, Douglass s the gold-mining plant in the world. Population ation of Juneau fs ‘ and 1,000 Indians, with about 2.000 whites and Indians at Treadwell. Taking in all the miners who work in the vicinity, there are probably 5,000 persons here, the largest aggregation of Cauc Al Juneau is a most pleturesque town, and not content with mountains all around It, = Chicken Ridge, al hun- “t out of its very mi it were. eken Ridge will make t park when u has a population o! 000, No city in the United States has a public building so magnificently situated as was Juneau's court house. But somebody upset a lamp one night, and a $5,000 building with $210,000 worth of records went up in smoke. However, the site is still there, and nothing short of an earthquake can remove It. Juneau is not a pious town, notwithstand- ing it has a Methodist, a Presbyterian, un Episcopal, a Greek, a Catholie and an In- dian church, all of them thrifty. The fact neau's 590 whites is Juneau is a good deal Parisian in Its Style, and ts decidedly wide open. Gambling places. dance halls and abound. y appear to be a necessity of existi itions. The s of Juneau, beyond the one at str ater front, are mostly 1 paved with plank. en in all. aphill, and thi Wagons are few, but there are platform sleds on that can slide down a street toboggan. There are twenty-five in town and one buggy. Young men n't take the girls “buggy ing’ in Ju- au, and there are no livery” stable: There are twenty bicycles, but just where they can run is not = an night it is w seat, with riety shows of ple cannot go— xeept the men- E Q clean per- formance is given to the pleasure of eve bo and the profit of the proprie Dances and lectures are also held in the same place. Social Life. au is quite gay, and pink Socially, Jur and other h ul in the after- noons, while balls and other functions take up the night time. On spe- Ss flowers are ordered from There are twenty-five or thi who are prominent In in. Men are plenty, but th few unmarried women, and there is gent den m. A dozen bright girls from the “states” could have a “perfectly lovely” time in Juneau, but do not © avail themsely opportu- » have money or thre 5 around, with a hundred or n are worth from $2 banks, and the fine wi nd there uttered ore men who here are two large, with One firm pays it amonth. What tes do town in Extensive run- ng from $10,000 to $15 , with annual sales running $50,000 at retail, There is a bi in Indian curios, the Indian 20,000 worth a and on the streets, steamer last son carried out $4,000 worth of Indian Kets » press Is represented by the Disp weekly, the Morning Res ll, jr. a hustler: the Alaskd Truth are weekli Editor Goff of the Miner, the le Boston journalist, and h even a Sin; at 10 ch, the @ month and the weeklies r. Just now there for brains and advert work come high in Juncau. It fs estimated that there are 1,000 per- sons living in Juneau who were born in the town. One of the prettiest little girls I ever saw, the daughter of Mr. M. Behrends, Is a nat and if there are many more u will have a reputation for pretty women twenty years hence that wil! make Raltimore and the blue grass region everlastingly jealou There is no Y. M. C. A, Somehow miners don’t yearn for that sort of thing. Capricious Tides. The tide rises twenty-seven feet in the narrow channel, and it seems rather odd to have to go up into the second story to ket aboard of a steamer at one time of the y and down into the basement to get aboard at another time. There are two or three libraries and free reading rooms maintained by the citizens and t are all well patronized. De: quantities of paper-back novels well, and all the pertodi are in eager demand. T are few towns in the east where as many people read as do in Juneau and other northwest towns in remote localities. There is no police force in Juneau, the police function beIng in the hands of dep- uty United States marshals, and there is little disorder. The fact that a man cay find troub‘e very easily if he is looking for it acts a deterrent to disorder, and ps are few and far between. Nobody has been shot within a year. About a year ago a deputy marshal was killed and three wounded. This seems to have cleared the atmosphere morally. Nothing on earth could do it meteorologically, for Juneau has a climate that I all cloud and fog and mist and rain for about 367 days in the year. All kinds of hardy vegetables are raised around the town, and one man has a floral garden, where roses and other flowers flourish as the green bay tree. Prices are quite reasonable. There is not a brick house in town. Bus!- ness houses of wood are quite pretentious in size and decoration, and dwellings, while paper, is a service all are $3 money in the busi- per sing and job not striking on the exterior, are handsome- ly finished and elegantly and delightfully furnished in the tnterfor. A more cheerful sight cannot be seen than is presented in the evening through the open windows of a Juneau home to the passer tn the damp and dismal dreariness of the soggy strect. Real estate and rents are high. Smali houses rent from $20 to $40 a month: one room on the matin street divided into a tailor and a barber shop rents for $75 a month; one business house, costing $7,500. rents for $350 a month; a house costing $600 rents at $14 a month; a business lot, with a story and a half store on it, sold at $370 a front foot; one man sold two lots for $4,100 That cost bim $1,800, and another got $5,000 Juneau is the-|t for two lots that cost &: . The insur- ance rates on property are very high, 714 per cent being the ‘usuit figure. Ten’ per cent is the ordinary. interest rate on well- secured loans. No Polities\in the Town. There is no politics in Juneau, and to the visitor from the states: the absence of political discussion andthe desuetude of the terms. republican, democrat and popu- list are very noticeable. | Three breweries supply the town with very good local beer. Aé an indication of the advance of civilization, so to speak, it may be noted that the famous Presbyterian jog mission church, steeple and all, is now the office of the City Brewery, and its sign is over the door. Col. Fischer is in charge of the mission work as now conducted. While Juneau never had any kind of tax- VARICOCELE A NEW HOME CURE WITHOUT PAIN, OPERA- TION OR LOSS OF TIME FROM WORK. Every man afflicted with Varicocele will be glad to know that there is a new and wonderful method that cures at home, speedily and surely. at @ very slight expense. There is no operat no pain, 00 letting of blood, but a quick relief and’a rapid, per- Merent cure. It is such a brilliant discovery, co different from the worthless suspensories and sup- porters that every man should send at once for a description of the method so he may begin curing himeelf in the privacy of his own home. By writing to Dr. W. S. Rice, 488 R. Main st.. Adams, N. Y., he will gladly matl, prepaid, a full description that will enable every ‘sufferer to cure Mmself at a very trif_ing cost. Do not fall to write ation except voluntary, and locally has only | at once. Varicocele is a very dangerous disease. that kind now, there is, since July 1 of | a p12, 19,26-3t this year, a government tax on all kinds of = business except the press and the pulpit. Saloons are the heaviest payers, and the nineteen saloons of Juneau pay $1,500 a year each, or $28,500 a year, not a cent of which goes to the town. It is a little re- markable that when there was no tax, and it was against the law to sell liquor at all, or bring it to Alaska, there were thirty saioons in town, all doing more or less business. Just how this was done and why and a few other questions bearing on the same subject might better be answered by the government officials who were in charge of affairs in times past. In any event, the W. C. T. U. people ought to be glad of the new law. Good board may be had at from $5 to $6 a week, and rooms at from $10 to $20 a menth. Drinks are 25 cents each, except beer, which is 15 cents, and ¢igars are usu- ally two for a quarter, but good five-cent cigars are to be had, and the time-tried fire-tested Pittsburg and Whecling stogie can be had at “two fer,” or $2 a hundred. A shave costs a quarter and a hair cut 50 cents. Best hotels, which have water, elec- tric light and a‘l the modern improvements, charge $2 and $8 a day, and some very fair as low as $1 a day. Juneau, a thousand miles from everywhere, is a Cheaper place to live in, comfort for comfort, than New York city is, which is in the midst of ev- erything. Juneau has a dozen lawyers, any one of whom will swear when he has to go over to Sitka to see the court. They don't take up a collection In the Presbyterian Church. Comment is unnec- asa mer evening long before it is dark. It is told that one young man from New York, who prided himself on the soulfulness of his manner of singing “In the Gloaming, Oh, My Darling,” waited around a week or two in June for the gloaming and went away disgusted with the climate. And speaking of climate it may be said, in conclusion, that Juneau is very healthful, with neither mosquitoes nor malaria, and no chronic or contagious diseases so far. Some people object to the excessive dampness, but it is proved that it is healthful, and that a month of sunshine would make everybody sick. The earth is wet by na- ture and drying it makes miasms rise to the detriment of the general health. WILLIAM J. LAMPTON. AMONG GUNS AND SHE LLS. Some Curious Sights in the Arsenal at Woolwich. From the London News. One of the most curious of the sights at Woolwich is the making of the cartridge cases for the Nordenfeldt and Hotchkiss guns. The process is very similar to that employed in the making of the cases for bullets described in these columns the other day, only that instead of taking a little flat disk of metal, say, as big as a shilling, and squeezing and stretchingit into a bullet case perhaps three-eighths of an inch in diame- ter, and somewhere about one and a half long, the machines for the large missiles may start with what looks to be a circular slab of brass three-quarters of an Inch thick and as big as the crown of your hat. In much the s the bullet ¢ s Every One Owns a Claim. It is a very poor man in Juneau who doesn't own a mine or a claim somewhere, and one man there used to have the ideal thing In the matter of money getting. He owned a small stamp mill near town on a paying ledge, which he worked during the summer. Ten to twelve thousand dollars in solid yellow profit was the ordinary re- sult of three or four months of commenda- ble effort, and then the owner wou!d shut up shop and go off to San Francisco or Seattle to have a good time on his hard- rned savin; rather too small for them. ‘on drives right into the middle of and squeezes it into the hole and out the other side. Just as one forces his finger into a tight- fitting glove, so the pistons in these suc- s drive into the cup formed , and with more apparent hness than the glove retching the metal cup is narrowed and elongated until it has become a tube, closed one end, perhaps six inches in diam nd a foot’ and a half long, or thereabou and smo . In the early summer he sain, cleaned out but hopeful. began to click right away after al, and when September came he was loaded for bear again and Juneau saw | these are to be filled with cordite. In the him not in the winter. What happier lot | middie of the cordite, however, is a little would any one ask than this? And yet that | jowder magazine for exploding it, the man sold out to a big company for $250,000, and the Lord only knows how much of it he has now. There are three doctors and three ceme- teries in town, a ratio of e to effect that should please all casuists and prevent professional jealous: One steamship company handles. between 4,000 and 5,000 tons of freight every year. which means from $30,000 to $40,000 a y There is no railroad, but the people powder itself being first fired by a fuse. the firing of the shrapnel shells this fus a little piece of clockwork that may be s like an alarm, to go off after a certain in- terval, so that the firing of every shell may be taken to involve the throwing of a time- piece at the enemy. The gun carriage shops are extremely in- teresting, more particularly the making of the wheels. The actual carriages are com- nileated structures of metal for the most In as there will be one some day. Neither is] part, and the uninitiated stranger can do there a telegraph wire, and news is al-| little more than stroll through the vast ways at least three days old, but t wilderness of machines that are drilling will be a cable before a great while. It is 750 miles to the rest connection. The Juneau chamber of commerce ts It is told that on on ind boring and turning and punching and lotting in the hardest of metal as though were chalk or cheese. They have a huge circular plane” In one of the sh The umber w ning thing is a ponderous cross-beam turning on tinguished v: and one | c central pivet and covering a circular e made a most complimentary | space for twenty-five feet in diameter. und highfalutin speech, whereupon the then pr this space the cross-beam thrusts president innocently! arose and asked if “the gentleman put that in the form of motion.” The town is lighted by electricity from fine plant, and it has water works by mountain streams so high is force enough to throw. w: town. It 1s cold water, fully clear. down some half dozen tools, each capable ‘f planing aWay the surface of the hardest teel as y as a carpenter will take off justed not too far from the center of the nachine—where, of course, it is most ind a sixteenth of an inch thick. In con- ection with this gun carriage work they have a steam hammer, but nobody takes much notice of that. It is a puny affair that might be unpl nt to get down upon i bad corn, but compared with the big one further off fs not thought much of. The hammer itself weighs only seven tons, and i strikes a steam engine blow of 140 tons, That is all. What is that compared with a hammer of 100 tons coming down with a lrive of 1,000 tons? Yet either of these ma- hines will crack a nut without damaging the kernel if required. But the making of the wheels Is the pret- Hest part of the gun carriage factory at Woolwich. These wheels must not only carry a very heavy weight of metal. but they may be required to go dashing across i rough country at the heels of a team of horses going at the top of their speed. They may go plunging down into trenches or thumping over rocks, and the giving way { a wheel means the disabling of the guns. part of every wheel, therefore, 1s the ject of the closest study, and though are made of wood for lightness they are practically unbreakable under almost any conditio: of strain. The box in the center of the heel, through which the axle runs, ts made of gun metal; the spokes are of oak and the outer rim of ash. The cutting and turning of the spokes are rticularly pretty processes to watch. They are o in form, and they are turned with a “copying” lathe. The required form of the spoke is produced in iron. ‘This iron model is part of the machine, and from it the wood is exactly reproduced. Every spoke thus bound to be exactly true in form. The fitting of them into the box, the building round the outer rim in sections and its swift revolution against a cutting blade are all effected with an ease and precision and celerity that give you al- most the impression of a natural process. The completion of the Wheel is the appl cation of the tire. In the making of or y wheels the iron tire is put on red ho when, of course, it is considerably expand- ed. When it has been firmly secured to the wood it is plunged into cold water, and the sudden contraction tightens it up. But there is no heating of this stout steel band. It is forced onto the wheel quite cold, and then it is laid In a circular bed with power- ful hydraulic rams all around it. As the water power begins to crush in upon it all round there is a groaning and a creaking as of wretched body under torture. ‘he re forced into the box, the rim is driven in upon the spokes, and the cold steel tire is tightened round the rim, the solid metal Itself being contracted and con- densed, and thus losing no less than five inches of its circumference. The wheel of gun metal. oak and ash and steel is thys tightened and compacted into a whole al- most without any jo: whatever, and, the pressure being absolutely the same all round, the perfectly circular form is se- cured. It is the very perfection of the wheelwright’s craft, and can be seen only in first-class work. <ING MULES. Labor in Demand. Labor is always in demand, the ordinar) kind being worth $2 a day and found. Skilled labor is worth from $3 to $4 a day Hotel cooks get from to $90 a month and found; walters $45 a month, chamber maids $25 a month, barkeepers $30 a month clerks in stores from $60 to $125 a mont hired girls are scarce at from $25 to $30 month, and handsome typewriter ladi: could get anything they might if the would only come to Juneau and ask Hut they will not. There are vartous saw and planing mills and other manufacturing plants, including a cigar factory, where “genuine Havanas’ are made. Forty-five merchants and other persons have telephones. A brass band of twelve pie: wakes the echoes now and then, and as long as the echoes do not complain, nobody else ought to_or doe: Stores close at 8 p.m. and open at 8 a.m., and only a few of them are open on Sun- day. The Juneau Indians are about as nasty as their kind in Sitka, but they o less conspicuous position in the public eye. The arrival of a steamer at the Juneau wharf is an event, and hundreds of people come down to see what is going on. Livel. scenes are often enacted, for during the s on there are many Young women without chaperones, coming from or going to the rich gold regions of the north, and their hilarity is often of the most pronounced character, or lack of it. Msny of their own kind come down to meet them, and greet- ings and partings are, to Say the best of it, not entirely conventional. Juneau is the cenier of the quartz min of Alaska, with the T stamps crushing over # a day, and the exten: Bow Basin adding the eral wealth. Within neau there are 1,1: amps at work, not to mention hydraulic, placer and other p cesses of securing the precious metal conservative business man of good jude ment estimates that the output for 1899 of the mines practically tributary to Juneau will amount to $6,000,000. Ice Free of Cost. Although Juneau is three or four days travel from a railroad, there are four or five steamers every week, and the trip to Scattle is through the famous inside pas- sage of Alaska, which has been pronounced by all travelers to be the finest scenic route in the world. The fare h way is only $20, so that even a poor person may get out ncw and then and see thing: Icebergs, of a very fair size, and beauti- fully blue, have a way of coming up to Juneau on the tide, and I am informed at a real Juneau ‘cocktail can he prop- ly cooled only by Iceberg ice. I saw the revenue cutter Perry semd a boat off to one and get a ton or so Of fine ice free of cost. There are also whales in the narrow channel, and I saw ‘one fifty or sixty feet long, not a hundred feet away, and two others spouting jusf ackbss the narrow channel. t When Juneau celébrates the Fourth of July she sends a epmmittce 4,000 feet up into the air to the top of Mt. Juneau, where the stars and stripes are. infurled. It is a ‘x on the committee’s patriotism, do it just the same. Juneau dines at 6 o'clock, though some of her diners eat with their knives. Some of her people also say Ycahnit" and ahn’t" and “beg pardon” instead.ef “what did you say?” or “Huh?” & Poetry and the literary’arts do not flour- ish, but there is scarcely a man in the place who can't make a speech when called on. They acquire the habit by talking up their town so much. Waited fer the Gloaming. Juneau is an all-night town in winter ana an all-day town in summer, but the young men learn to do their courting about as they do where the day and the night are properly divided. I understand it is a little bard at first to have to go home of a sum- of Silver output to the gen- venty miles of Ju- It Takes Time to Learn and is Not an Easy Job. From the New Orleans Times-Democrat. To “pack” properly a mule requires a special education and therein lies the source of no end of prospective trouble in the Transvaal. Up to date the British officers who have been making their headquarters in New Orleans have bought and shipped upward of 7,000 mules. The specifications called for small, active animals, sound in wind and limb, and weighing between 800 and 900 pounds, and they have been culled from droves in all parts of the country. They came from northern Illinois and southwestern Texas, and all the interme- diate region. As far as answering the stip- ulated reauirement they were an exception- ally satisfactory let, but, unfortynately, there was no educational qualification, and, in the language*of stockmen, they | were “green.” Tt is doubtful whether one in a hundred ever saw such a thing as a pack. An effort was made to remedy this diffi- culty by engaging a number of expert Amer- ican packers and sending them over with the different consignments to break the animals upon their arrival at South Afri- ca, but much to the regret of the officers but very.few could ba secured at any fig- ure. The packers of the west are undoubt- edly the best in the world, but they belo: to the upper ranks of skilled labor, and find employment too easily at home to care to make a long journey across seas. At any rate, only a handful were obtained, prob- ably not more than four or five to each vessel that has sailed According to experts, it takes at least three months to properly break a mule for king. In the United States army, where Heart Terrors. Vanish in 30 minutes under the magical wand of Dr. Aguew’s Cure for the Heart. A heart specific, and no case too acute to be dispelled and absolute good health re ed. Mrs. Koxdhouse, of Willis- crof, 0., write ‘Cold swe. ts would stand out on me like beads, ro intense were the attacks of Heart Disease. Dr, Agnew's Cure for the Heart cured me, and todey I know nothing of the terrors of this trouble.” Sold by F. S. WILLIAMS, 9th and F sti EDMONDS & WILLIAMS, 3d und Pa. aye. et Have Your Own Way About It! We are in no hurry for the money. You can pay for the Furniture, Matting or Baby Carriage a little at a time —weekly or monthly—without notes or interest. We wish to impress upon you particularly that every quality that comes from this store is guaranteed to give PERFECT satisfaction. Remember, also, that we have but one price, cash or marked in plain figures, so that | you may readily compare them | with the cost of similar articles showing upwards of one hun- 9 dred new patterns in Go-Carts and Baby Carriages. Special values in Carriag: and complete with rubber tires, patent wheel brakes and para- sol holders. A thousand rolls of new Mattings, in the most durable qualities. We tack them down free. Help yourself on GROGAN’S cratic: Credit House, 817-819-821-823 7th Street N. W. Between H and I sts. credit—and these prices are ©@———— a corn in the cash stores. We are s at $10 and $12—all beautifully upholstered credit. DOE eeteteetettetes PPE EE LL MA MLC ie a a ee ae ae ee ee eeteeetetececentntetetececeee Seeteafects i LANSBURGH & BRO. { Washington’s Favorite Store. Friday Will Be a Busy Day, Especially when such values in RELIABLE [MERCHANDISE Sones so ete co et sf soe centes$ Seececodenecet As these are offered you. Boys’ Wash Blouse Suits, fast colors, made of good cheviot. we ¥s eSeontohon oolon Se Sententoto % eaten Sondensee se Sonlontontestente ee a ee ee eR ee ee ee ed A real Soc. value. Sui . eS Boys’ Percale and Outing Shirt Waists. . saan, 8S 200 Boys’ Cloth Golf Caps, to close. . ---- OC, Ladies’ $1.50 quality French Kid Gloves, with black and self stitching, with four buttons, in tan, mode, yellow and oxblood. This lot is not very large, so hurry along before the sizes are broken. While they 89e. last 89c. pair...... peeene nee 4 and 4'%-inch wide Stripe and Plaid Fancy Ribbons that haye been selling for 25c. and 35¢.. 15c. yd. 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Benees —arcass Bi-inch Fine Allwool Navy Blue Cheviot— 45-inch Ni ola for skirts—worth $1, One day only and not bine, tan, ui very . more than 6 yards to a customer, scarce. Hurry. "1 We are agents for the Standard Patterns. ‘-LANSBURGH & BRO.., 420 to 426 Seventh St. ———- Soe 5 Eetionseesorsenseesensesseeseegensessengeoge Oa anertgtente rete reteset sete 4 the art has been brought to its highest per- fection, that is regarded as the minimum time. The regulation train in the servico consists of sixty-four animals, fifty of which carry packs and fourteen being used under the saddle. The train is in charge of a chief packer, who is paid $100 a month, and an assistant, or “‘cogadore,” at $75. Under them are fourteen packers, who get $50 a month. A train en route is an inter- esting spectacle. The mules move along in solid, compact lines, either single or double file, led by a mare carrying a bell suspended around her neck. The chief packer rides ahead, the “‘cogadore” keeps a general eye on the cavaleade from the rear, and the packers trot back and forth at each side, seeing that nothing goes wrong. The bell- mare, as may be supposed, plays a star role in the organization. She carries no load, and her sole duty is to push straight on ata steady, even gait. The confidence the mules learn to repose in her is amazing. If they are well broken to the work they will fol- low the bell to the ends of the earth, and as long as it is tinkling it is next to impos- A PLEA FOR “THON.” Need of a New Pronoun in the English anguage Set Forth, From the Utica Herald-Dispatch, The need of a new pronoun in the third Person singular number and common gen- der has long been felt. The awkward cir- cumlocutions necessary in order to escapo the reiteration of the phrase “his or her” are manifest. They are seen in the cata- logues of public schools and of all inst{- tutions where there ts coeducation, in some colleges the pronoun “his” is made to do duty for both. The words ch student will prepare his thesis’ means that cach student will prepare his or her thesis. Some ZO some one suggested the word hon” as the pronoun of the common gen- der. We are not certain whether it was Professor Henry G. Willlams or net; but, ai all events, he now advocates it and uses it in his “Outlines of Psychology,” and makes a strong plea for its adoption. Take, for example, this paragraph: “Every student should acquaint himself or herself with some methcd, by which he or she can positively correlate the facts of his or her knowledge.” This is certain! ward. Of course it might be written. students should acquaint themselves with scme method by which they can positively correlate the facts of their knowledge.” But this might not be specific enough. Fro- fessor Williams would write: “Every stu- dent should acquaint thonself with some method by which thon can positively cor- relate the facts of thons knowledge.” This has an odd sound, indeed. But aside from the sound, which is odd simply be- cause it is unfamiliar, the new word vastly improves the sentence under consideration. The word “thon” should be added to our jJanguage. It is demanded. The English language is continually being enriched by words springing from new conditions, new discoveries, new inventions. Ease and pré- cision of statement demand the adoption ef some such word as this that Professor Williams advocates. Where is the Amerie can university plucky enough to use it? ———___o-—______ Unwelcome Friendship, From the Indianapolis Press, “I want to say to you,” roared the red- faced passenger, “that I am a friend to the Boers, all the time. “Well,” sald the slim passenger, who was in a corner of the car, where he couldn't escape, “I hadn't thought much about It, but if you are with them, I am sorry for them myself.” Easily Adjusted. From the Chicago Record. “Estelle, I don’t see why you buy two of those expensive pairs of antique snuffers when we have only one antique candie- stick.” “Well, mercy me, Edgar, can't I buy ang other candlestick?” ——— Solomon was the wisest of = Be knew enough _ fret his CORY up into mys paragraphs. In that way he succeed in getting his writings read.—Boston Traha script. sible to stampede the train. If a mule gets into trouble of any kind, it makes a bee- line to the bell-mare for aid and comfort. In the American army trains no bridle or tle of any kind is used to keep the animals in line, and they march one behind the other with the regularity of veterans. The Spanish eystem is to tie them together, head and tail, but when a few native pac! ers attempted to put that method Into ex- ecution at Santiago they became the butt of the whole 5th Corps. The average dis- tance covered per day is twenty miles, and the character of the ground makes less dif- ference than one would suppose. It is pro- verbial in the service that a mule can go anywhere a goat can. Keeping the mules in line fs only one of the packer’s arts, however. The accom- lishment upon which he really plumes him- self is adjusting the load, a feat that a novice would find nothing short of an ab- solute impossibility. There are two kinds of pack saddles in use in the west—the Moor and the Arapahoe, the latter an In- dian invention which is vastly the more popular. It is very large and covers almost the entire back. Above a canvas is spread, and the load is then divided, if possibile. into six or eight compact parcels. These parcels are evenly distributed on each side, the canvas brought over, and the pack secured by what is known as a “diamond hitch”. a really wonderful interlacing of ropes, which secures each bundle in its proper place and prevents slipping. Of course, there are some loads that cannot be subdi- vided as described, and in that caso there is simply one bundle for each side. A greater number, however, facilitates the “hitch.” For Dyspepsia.