Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1900, Page 12

¢ Seeeeereeeess : The Popular Store. | The Safest Place to Purchase. | The Popular Store. THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1900-16 PAGES, ° Friday’s Endless Chain of Values. A Store that offers you all the advantages of securing the Best Goods at the Lowest Possible Prices and also grant- ing you the privilege of charg- ing your purchases. Ladies’ Ladies’ Su vert and hi alLwool plain and fly-fromt stsles, that and $15. 66 OS < f allweel homespun. eviot xerge cloths, fn beautiful tailor-made silk. with skirts with new at sett toe SIS, HIS: Cay ee for Suits seme with s. th Choice in clothe. appliqned with elk and some a8 S13 .7Q porte none gold LONE ANSEL NEL IAN ENA AEN ANNAN NEN AAA ANAN NESS eady-to-Wear Specials. Ladies’ Rich, Lustrous Black Brilliantine and Black Cheviot Serge Skirts, lined aud interlined, and made with back; well worth Rich Quality Taffeta tneked si over, genuine dreerminker's finish: In tarqueise. cerise amd —heliotrope Slides! North #8 gu and H12, for, O4,87 Ladies’ Silk Taffeta Waists, with tucked and corded yokes; sizes when we had all sizes sold all of them for $ now they are yonrs for...... Ladies” Pure Sik Taffeta floral designs, and Ladies’ kirts. with large ray AN-weol Home- with sIk taffeta applique. made -plait bucks. that sell for Beh "Fey $4.98 Black Sateen Petticoats, value. O8c_ Friday in Our Boys’ Clothing Dept. | $2.50 Boys’ Brownie Suits, $1.98. Black and Bine ¢ ‘k Herringbone ests. sizes 3 Bargain Fri $3 Boys’ Suits, $1.75. ck. Blue and Stripes and Funes with s hi 5 =e" S17 en Chevivts, $10 Boys’ Long Pants Suits, $4.98. slots and Worsteds; led from handling) rant” $4.68 veSesgonfondoateatoatesteetente tendons ede lee CA MMMM LLG RG FeV 75¢- Boys’ Knee Pants, 39¢. They are Bluck and Blue Cheviots, Casst- meres and Woreteds, well made, with patent waisthbands: ages 3 to 36 years; 39c worth Tie. Bargain Friday Price... ° 35c. Boys’ Percale Shirt Waists, i2%c. In Checks. Stripes and new. neat _pat- terns: sizew 4 to 13 sears; worth es ahem a Co genres worth PBI C 50c. Boys’ Straw Hats, 29¢. In Sailor, Dark Mixed Straw. and all the } newest shapes: worth SOc. Bargain Friday Price. cc. .cecec-neceeenecees 29c. . Qc. $2 Men's Sample Hai & 1 Gray Mixed Chevints ‘The 3 Blue, Brown and_ Peart 3 oe ad rs * | shae edoras and Derbys: new- r z Sitiiay Price 144. est shapes: worth $2.00. ‘To close 89c. = = lies’ Shirt Waists. Linings. | = Walets. in Test quality Leno, tn blac i white ce gray. 4 ] plein or — chee! that sells for = ee rel) ES Fae tric SIAC. | = kirt Facing, that Ie a substitute Ka Lawn French Peresle aie beeing, tate trim i plain an embroidery Ins In Our Millinery Department. ze. Roses, Violets, " SPR. Black Wr: % Sef * sete aoe a 2 Bar- ka lay Price k Lining in all shades: vers Righ In jnst like silk: Just the ing for ts; worth 16c. Price... a yard below thi Pillow Cases, Tnches ot | celebrated — Ps . ions Feat 8 | torn and worth ie. Bars BBZe, | ain 2 Cc. | Towels, size sax6 worth fae Bereain Fri Oe. the well-known sis one of the best sh itirely free from dre«sing— ed—the prices and sizes: | S1x90 ‘Aboot S00) dozen he market all hand tra Basia Embroideries and Laces. Another big lot of Val. Laces just received. ‘These soars of an exceptionally good quall- 5h 2s 2s ht hs hh Ms Mths th Ss SS 0p Bh Ssh St ak Shoo oe oe oe eee ty. We have pnt them in three lots, which are Worth double. Bargain Friday Prices will be: Lot 1, 12 yards, for..... 8c. Tot 2) 12 yards, for a Let 4, 12 yards, for. ‘. 18-inch Champagne Color AlLover Lace, tn bew-knot patterns: worth 60e. yard. 39c Pargain Friday Drie as * Allover Hamburg Rubroidery in the new open work: extra good saat fund pretty: pat- terns: orth $1 yard. Bargain - eros; worth $1 a yard. Burgaln Pri: Fe ¢ day Price..... Ladies’ Vests. Ladies’ sey Itibhed Vests, lace trimmed, with dra i strings around neck and 8c. arms; Worth 1k argain TP ay Vrice. e Ladies’ Ribbed M vrvid Vests, in white, pink. Hight blue and black draw strings In k aud arins, here i h extra cood quali- ty and jook just Ike sl Worth: 25c. Bargain Friday Prive. Hosiery Specials. Ladles’ Hose, in plain und drop stiteh, fast Diack and | patterns, seamless; about 50 this lot, none worth less ; Bargain Friday Price... 12'4c. Black, Fine Ribbed Hose, u's Fast elastic top ible heel, toe and e: b 1%e, a patr; Bargain Friday Price 5 1214c. Toilet Necessities Bottle Almond Meal . Jar Petroleum Jelly ied ‘Taleum Powder, . bottle. . Best Toilet Soap de. Lubert's French Toflet Soap, 3 cakes for-10e. Triple Extracts for the handkerchiefs, 1n glass stopper bottles, all odors. Large roll Toilet Paper... Gentti troydon"” Linen Writing Pape: Der puitind..... 2.0.2.0. 2. Tox Hazdwood ‘Twothpicks & yards Shelf Paper, any col de. 10c. sargain Friday Prices on Notions. Paper of Amer! le. Card Federha! > le, Box Mourni , noidery Mand Serntis I bine Pair T Shields 1 dex. Good Wha G yards Bor Men's Furnishings. Men’s Colored Neglixe Shirts, fast te cutis lors, with ng "39c, ngths and Men's Night Shirts. heavy muslin, Droldered fronts, py regula, a wear! quality English Glorta Fast Black Um- brellas, steel rod. with natural hook and creok handles. for men und women. Bur- 35c galu Friday Price Ladies’ Neckwear. SOMME ALLLLL ELLE BLPPSEEEEDE DEPP IEEE FP IEEEEVOSAPEVPPPEISESEPEPPSESESE ELISE LSS ISSO SSIIIEOVSISSISISISS Ladies’ Pure Linen Collare, tn all the new : worth rete Ses "a. Bargain Briday Oc lars. in white, black, helio, 2 worth Te. Bargain Friday & eq ates a full New Neckwear in line of Stocks: geome nade of China or Liberty 4 silks, trimmed with Val. lice, silk fringe or o> Faby ribbon, in pink. ght bine, black, white, $ helio ; Worth 7c. and 98e. Bar- ¢ ay Price - 50c. BS Ladies’ Belts. Black Morocco Pulley Belts, Mned and nicely finishel; made with ull-silk satin strings: also oak, tan and black dog-collar belts, with nickel logs; worth Swe. Price. sSondoadeegeegees ; Samuel Friedlander & Co, | : 416--Seventh Street--416 : ca oot eee ceded detetoletedeenetetettpetptete Da a ee a a — - — — —— IN THE COMMONS LOBBY. luston that he ts still “My dear Jones.” = And, after all, has he not at least spoken Members Treat Mere Mortals With ; to and shaken fi rs with the g t mai Mech Muanteur. Even more entertaining is it to watch : Sais the ladies’ man. You will see an honorable Lin hing my member rush out from the inner lobby, Pro very few readers of the | ook anxiously round, and hastily retreat. De ever experienced the feel-| If he does this three or four times you will ing of awe with which the outer lobby of | know that he ts waiting for lady friends— od f commons inepires the visitor | 82d you will know that they are at the aes SS worst tolerably young and passably pretty. during the sitting of parliament Ther fs an al ng but indefinable of the house ity—which emancipate perva at the preeinet hing but fami wholly abe hich one paes- a long row for admisston to gallery. These gentlemen led with orders from th Hament, in the firm they are thereby entitled to @ seat, only to find that the gallery ts full and that t must await the effects of exhaustion upon more fortunate who have already secured places. lobby itself there 1a a group of gentlemen and half a doz- ngers’ have come pro local members conviction th: < wh ve come to get personal s with memb: and who, having s in cards tv the abers they seek, await with due patlenee and humility the an. the initiated visitor to the ds relief from the awesome tedium coming of the great n It is here that . It ts here t ation from the Excelsior Working s Club braces ftself up for the solemn 1 {ts member concerning his any respects, { ailigent obs hers more fy of the house. the outer lobby er of men and man- ting than any other part his constituency the aver- age member fs all things to all men. In the is a thing #pert. He puts on his parlamentary manner, struts thre né of mere mortals who line the i. r lobby, with ostenta- tious ousness of their existence, and of one whose head is t secrets: to watch the change in the face of stituent when discovers thar the ble candidate lost tn the During ction the Sa pow © Trades " But when the mem- ©. rushe friendly ion and to the Rr full of omex to self-import: y forward to get the is met with m reco! nt r which chill him pray, sir, what can I do for Yor the gallery? Really, now, you written in the ordinary ‘way sorry to say the gallery is the division bell. Pray a at any t you know, lighted to be of s hereupon retires, hardly knowing her he is as much annoyed as impress- ed by the superior ways of his member. cide that he is impresse rns home he must, for his it's sake, keep up the cherished de- ‘ou? Ticket When they arrive— late, as all pretty and young women can afford to be—the legis- lator will forget himself in the man. He will unbend and smile benign!y upon ail, as he, with his fair convoy, sweepsemajes- Ucally through the corridor on his way, if ‘tis summer tlme, to tea on the terrace. Meantime the observer will have noted that for twenty minutes or half an hour a group of ladies of uncertain age and not entirely prepossessing appearance have been sitting more or less patiently in wait for some honorable and more or less ga!- ant member. Then emerges from the house a tall member with chop whiskers, who glances round with the air of one who looks for something he does not want to see The blue-coated Cerberus shouts “Bir Montmorency Smith—any one for Sir Mont- Morency Smith?" The group are at once on their feet—like Niobe, all smiles—and Sir Montmorency, screwing his courage to the Sticking point, advances with a stately bow distinctly clouded brow. over the house? Delighted, Sorry I was detained. Important detmte. Duty even before the pleasure of meeting one's fair constituents.” ‘The honorable member recognizes In his visitors the ardent workers in the cause of Woman's equality—a cause which he had found it necessary to champion at election time. He rushes the unhappy couple through the lobbies, pointing out with the perfunctoriness of a showman the busts of eminent men, gives them a fleeting glance at the Ibrary skips we the stairs to the gall et . leaving them panting behind, returns t that the gallery ts crammed -he being the crammer—whisks them back to the and expresses the hope that their visit. Up to this moment they have hardly had breath to speak. both having a tendency to embonpoint. They still cling, however, to the expectation of taking tea on the ter- race with Sir Montmorency, and the elder lady summons up breath’ and courage enough to observe: “Julia, dear, I really think we must look out for a cup of tea.” Dear, me! how exceedingly thoughtless of me!" obse-ves Sir Montmorency, in his most gallant manner. “I have thought of nothing but my personal delight in showing you our objects of interest. You can get a capital cup of tea at the A. B. C. shop, in Parllament street. Turn to the right when you get out. and keep straight on. Your too brief visit has afforded me much grat- Mication. It is not too much to say that nine-tenths of the lobby interviews are a terrible bore to the M.P. But {t is not always The M. P. who combines finance with his legis- jative functions is at times able to get the private ear of a wealthy constituent. If Mr. Croesus Brown wants to see over the house or listen to a debate, Mr. Guinea Pig, M. P., wants. One sees real life in the outer lobby. In the house itself it {s mostly make-velieve. +o +—____ LIFE UNDER WATER, will see that he gets all he How the Creatures There Spend the Winter Months. From Our Animal Friends. In February and in March more gen- une winter days come to us than at any other time when we have ao reasonable and seasonable right to expect them. Our young people, then, may count upon the winter romps of smowballing, coasting and skating that they are more sure of now than they were in the earlier days of 1900. The frozen surface of the ponds Yooks dead enough. It would scarcely seem that living water 1s beneath, and it ts even harder to imagine that animal Ife ts ac- tually comfortably tucked away under that icy cover! Where do you suppose the frogs have «gene for the winter? They have soft, emooth-skinned bodies that would freeze to denth if exposed to the open-air tem- perature of this month. On tho bottom of the pond they have made a bed for them- scives in the ooze and mud, huddled close together to keep one another warm. Water, as you know, freezes at 82 de- grees, Fahrenheit. In a pond, just as in your bath tub, the water on the top is the warmer and the water at the bottom the colder. The reason is that warm water is expanded, and is lighter than cold, so that it rises to the surface, while cold water, which is contracted, is heavier and sinks to the bottom. But as water freezes it begins again to expand, and that 1@ why ice ts lighter than water. The water under ice forms a layer about four or five degrees above the freezing point, and the animals sleep- ing there through the winter are sheltered in it. There they live and sleep until the spring sun wakens them, and there they are warmer and safer than if they—being water animals—were so foolish as to wry to sleep anywhere else. Some small water bugs do creep ashore to hide in the cran- nieo of rocks and walle, but they are little creatures that can fit into such places. The bigger animals would dle of the expo sure. ‘The frogs, the fresh water mollusks, know where to go for the greatest comfort, and there they stay their appointed time. It would never do for an amphibious frog, for instance, to make a mistake, as a boy might, and to crawi out of his comfortable bed before he is called. Nevertheless when they are called in the spring time, the frogs and mollusks obey the summons. They don't lie abed longer than they need to— and that ts the moral of this talk about their winter Hfe and ways. ——_—__+e-_____ Knicker—“Jones wants to get into the Hall of Fame. Bocker—“But he can't. You've got to be dead ten years.” “He's lived in Philadelphia that long.”— Life. - VOLCANO IN. ACTION -—_—-_—_ American Officer in Philippines Sees Mayon in nem BRILLIANT AND. IMPOSING SIGHT More Fighting With Filipinos Around Legaspi as a Base. DETAILS OF CAMPAIGN An officer now campaigning in the Phil- ippines sends the following letter to a friend in this city, under date of Legaspi, P. I., March 3, 1900: “Since this regiment left Camp Meade last November we have had many experiences and seen many wonderful things, but noth- ing that will compare with the events of the last few days. I think I have spoken before in my letters to you of the volcano Mayon (pronounced My-own, with the accent on the last syllable), to which we usually refer as “our” volcano. It has always impressed us with its grandeur and beauty, its won- derful symmetry and tremendous size. Its height is, in round numbers, 9,000 feet, and it is said to be not only the largest active volcano in the world, but also the one hav- ing the most perfect cone and peak. Of course, with such a great height, we can only occasionally get a glimpse of the ex- treme tip, except at sunrise, when, as a rule, the air is so clear that the entire out- line stands out in all its symmetry with great clearness and distinctness. Our loca- tion with reference to the volcano fs a trifle to the east, this town being located on the beach of the Pacific and about three miles south of the base. “When we first arrived here Mayon was apparently dead, and had been for two years. In ‘07 there was an eruption, which destroyed a town about five miles north of Legaspi and killed several hundred natives. We arrived here on February %, and saw no signs of volcanic life until about February 14. On that day we made one of our ‘hikes,’ passing around the base of the vol- cano, and going some distance up one of its faces. We thought we detected signs of smoke, little puffs, much like clouds. A day or two later these reappeared, but in greater volume, and there could be no mistake now that they were really clouds of smoke. Gradually they grew in size, and grew more constant, but as there were no signs of se- rious trouble we began to think they would never amount to anything. The Voleano Wakes Up. “About noon on February 27, however, the great furnace woke up, and since that time we have been treated to one of na- ture’s most marvelous displays, and have enjoyed all the magnificence of a severe eruption. The first display was a tremen- dous column of gray smoke, that poured out in a steady stream fully a half mile in dlam- ¢ter, and straight up into the air to an ap- parent height of two or three miles. The day was a beautiful one, sun shining and a good breeze blowing in from the Pacific, so that the clouds were blown away from us, and we had an unobstructed view of the mountain side from base evening lava began to pour down the sides, and just before the sun set several large boulders (plainly discernible to the naked eye) were vomited out, and, after bein Pitched toa very great altitude, fell back an rolled down the sides toward the sea, To have been seen so clearly without g must have been of great size. TI the next the show thought at times we could heat a. he rumbling souad, but it was transient and distinct. At night the scene was wonderful one. Great m: up into the air while large bodies of molten Tava over the top and rolled, seething and smok- Ing. quickly down on every side. “On March 1 the rearing sound became quite di » though muflled d ently a long way seemingly It gradually vier and mor tinet until today ft grew so loud t times one had to elevate the voice edly in order to be heard by pe short distance aw: Un morning the wind dled down entire the h clouds, in consequence, settled 4s to obscure the sun around us so densely and produce the effect of twilight. Fine particles of pumice sand have been falling in a heavy cloud all day and _ filtering through everything, so that we are pretty well coated with it. Clouds Vanish at Sunset. “Just as the sun went down there was a rift in the clouds, due to some stray wisp of wind, and we had a gorgeous view of the peak, with its column of gray-black smoke pouring right straight up like the smoke from a factory chimney when there 1s no wind. The sky, as we saw it through the rift, was the beautiful, clear blue that 1s seen to such perfection nowhere in. this world as in the equatorial latitudes of the Pacific, and the yellow tint of the setting sun on the clouds of voleanic smoke made @ contrast that was marvelous in its mag- nificence. But in a few moments the clouds settled back again, and we haven't seen the peak since, although we do see the flame pouring out and spreading ‘over the land to the north and west. The roaring noise we hear is very similar to the roar of the fire in a large furnace when the doors are Ughtly closed on a cold, windy day, only that it is increased thousands of times until it becomes almost deafening. There have been two or three slight earthquake shocks today, and a number of times the roaring rumble has been so strong as to rattle the houses and make small objects shake per- ceptbly, but we do not feel that any dan- ger 1s to be apprehended. Today has been uncomfortably hot because of the total lack of wind. Usually there 1s a cool, steady breeze blowing from the sea, but since midnight last night there has been an absolute calm for the first time, and the greatest evidence of it 1s the entire lack of surf. Probably there will be a se- vere gale soon, and when {t has passed our big chimney—for that 1s what {t {s—will quiet down. Tonight, as I write, I can look up from this sheet and see ‘the red streams of lava flowing down like big snakes, with an occasional burst of fire shooting up into the clouds. It is a gran sight indeed. Have Had More Fighting. “We have not been quiet in our fighting either, since I last wrote you, just after the battle of Malabog. We took a day's rest after that performance, and then began a system of daily ‘hikes,’ scnding out ono or two companies—from 76 to about 150 men—in different directions for short distances every day. These trips resulted in a little serap- ping with no losses on our side, and one or two dead Filipinos every day or two. On Washington's birthday: we started out at 5 a.m. with seven compentes—all our force excepting the sick and a smaj] guard at each of our three posts. Lagaspi, Kibay and Daraga—a total strength of 463 men. We took clong two days’ rations and 300 Tounds of ammunition per man, intending to clean out the Chino Generel Paua (pro- nounced Pow-ah, accenting the first sylla- ble), who ts in command in this section, and who was reported to have 10,000 men in his army. We went around the base of the volcano and struck in toward the main road leading into the interlor from here, at a point about a mile west of Malabog. ‘In the lava beds on the way across to the road we struck the rebels hard and drove them in. As they retreated they set fire to the town of Malabog, and ag there were @ good many Nipa roofs, the fire quickly spread, and by the time we got there the whole place was burning. We went through it and pushed on efter tho fleet- footed Filipinos, going to Camalig, a good- sized town seven miles further on, well built and well fortified. There were many trenches and barricades on the way, but the resistance offered was not particularly heavy at any of them, and we were housed in the church at Camalig by 5 o'clock that night. In the priests’ room there wo found clippings from American newspapers an- tagonistic to the American policy of expan- sion and favoring Filipino independence. “Strangely enough, Camalig was not fired, as is the usual custom when the Filipinos withdraw from a town. Only one house was burned, a large building on the out- skirts of the place, said to belong to a Spaniard. The Start for Guineabaton. “After a good night's rest wo ‘started at daylight of the 23d for Guincabaton, six miles further on. This town is @ large King’s Palace DEPARTME! Seadeadendeeteedeeeteateetesdeetecteeeeetestee NT STORES, 812-14 7th and 715 Market Space. Green Ticket Sale Tomorrow! Greatest aggregation of barga’ great as thay have been in the with green tickets. Wash Goods. 3,000 yards of Dimities—mill__ends— lengths from 2 to 10 gards— comprising all the newest patterns—in polka striped and foulard ecffects—in Ught and blue ground—worth 9c. and 10¢. yard—for.. a Age. 1,800 yants of Ni ot, fancy Lawns, in handsome waists, wrappers and ey? fast colors. Ticket Price, per yard. . Cc. Domestics. Remnants of Light Calico, in dot and other pretty patterns, Green 22K ° Ticket Price, per yard inghams, in checks, 2,100 yards Dress stripes and plaids, for shirt waists, wrap ind childret dresses —10e. Sard tiwag, tors" OAC, Window Shades. 86 by 72-inch Feit Window Shades. with spring rollers—complete with fix- O¥e tures, for. Cambric, 27c. Remnants of Best Quality Dresemaker's every Cambric—almost for . color— 2% Cc. Toweling. Unbleached Linen Toweling—18 inches | wide—very hewwy and atsorbent Ive. sort fer *. 4HRC. Notions for 3 cents. 2 spools 100-rd. Tlack Sewing Silk: 2 spools King’s Cotton. 1 and white; 1 | dozen whalebones; 1 piece Bone Casing | Belting; Initials for marking: best Buglish oz. bottle Petroleum Jelly; Castil and Turkish Bath Soap: Toflet’ P T, package 700 sheets: large size urkish Wash Rags and Hand 3 = tor See Ce | 2 Sales Shirt Waists. | Pins: Vic 500 dozen Ladies’ Colored Percale Shirt Waists—stripes and figures, in bine, laven- der, pink, tan, which | were bought “to sell for Oe. and 69e.—to go on ewle ° tomorrow at. ..... saree Another lot of Ladies’ Shirt Walsts, em- bracing pereales, ‘chambrays, lawns, "di ities, In a most elegant assortment of pat- terns—French backs, ‘Dew collars— some white walsts, with w fronts of vies Inserting and tcks—others tucked all Colored Pique Waists. trimmed with Swiss inserting $1.25 values—tfor. One ot of M of fine tu rrtmimed ular Soc. n. One lot of ¢ small checks, in trimmed, 1 I ex Odds and onde Wrappers, sor braid in Percale trimmed, Extraordinary 75c., for s = = = —the offering of thousands of artificial wanted sort—the very highest grades—in all the fashionable colors, embracing reses, foliage, blossoms, chrysanthemums, fruit kinds, bluettes and large and small flowers of ever being used for prettying hats, including silk mull rosettes— such as are actually sold at 39c. to 15¢ than $5 and $6—for $2.75. Sale of Flowers. flowers, embracing every of all sort which are Green Ticket Prices for Millinery. Not a penny is asked here for trimming hats. $5 and $6 Trimmed Hats, $2.75. A most remarkable sale of Ladies’ Trimmed Hats, embracing all the newest shades and the most stylish shapes—in an assort- ment embracing, perhaps, 300 sorts and an never-ending variety— hats which are sold elsewhere for no les for 4c. hats, 25c. 500 Children’s Unteim and fanez a lar shape er steauw fend mach sel! elses Enormous reductions ¢ are made to doit quick- + ly. Values greater than we have ever offered are put before you. Every suit in the store reduced. These two lots show the extent of the reduction. Entire Stock of Ladies’ Suits to $10 & $12 suits AY of fine Vene- lined with n; Skirts mad Hox-pleated backs. Ma silk and with the suits plaia, Wat “ ally many ap- | w taffeta silk, trimmed with — | and strap aud welt seams. — | Doin pout town now at $10 and — | at $5. Let of “R. & “Ww. BR.” her's Corsets, of enatil and sat: for long and sBort figures —t Hdren"s Gingh e with rafflers over eli wide skirts Hats of assert in offerings ever mustered together. As past, these are greater. All are marked Corsets, 69c. and War- n, suitable “ 69c, Ladies’ Gowns. } Hubbard Gowns, yoke OSC } Child’s Dresses. Wrappers. and inte Heer, weap 49c. 75c. and 87c. untrimmed hats and turbans, 46c. ‘Thousands of Hats, consisting of rough and fan is—some machine sewed, some made on wire f newest shapes, embracty; “Rnssell.”” Gainshorongh, Turbans, Walking ws. in ail colors and latest shades of Tus whic be so much worn—in- Child’s 50c. untrimmed hats Be Closed Out. | $ | s sin and with ah taffeta with ew eatchack xkiete sults are Hned throngheut with And instead of $12, $15 and §2 King’s eee place, where ¢ his headquarters and which he has said we could not take. We did take it with a rush, and only one rush at t They put up a fairly well sustrincd defense and opened fire on us before We located their so elaborately for- oree, Their towns arc : . ufied t > never know just how any men they have, nor where, until the figh Generally find that some ct oper thelr fortificatio ers for others t where their for seen smoke from before we reached the got in we found that th the church, which was stroyed before we rea was burned to the ground. y building burned here ; Chinamen who came out of their holes and who were the only lving pessons We found in the place, told us that Gen. Paua lef one end of the main strect we came in re blinds or cov- concealed and it. We bad fire for some timc and when we me from wa Our men had a at the other, and that he had had 20% men there that orning. After ly oes scouted the town and its environs, and started back, and n had rested a bit, we ¢ were in Legaspi, airtecn miles away, 5: t, the 23d. Soot het ey neriean cave In and reported as a released prisoner of Gen. eaus Bae was a miner, who had been captured on th Island of Batan, about ten miles off this coast, two weeks ago, while prospecting, and says Paua is now at Ligau (Leegow), accent on the second syllable), with a large force. Ligau 1s some seven or eight miles beyond Guineabaton, and we are going up there next to give Paua a chance to argue with us. When we have driven him away from there we will follow him on to Polan- gui (Po-long-hee), near which place he fs said to have a cartridge factory. News From Gen. Bates. “We hear that Gen. Bates has captured Nueva Caceres, and that a part of the force he has with him has come south to a point about twenty miles north of Polanague. It is unfortunate that we pave nee more ety % y three additional companies we Sas ‘Zarrison Camalig and Guineabaton and hold them. As it 1s now, our small force can whip Paua’s army—and has whip- ped it half a dozen times—but we cannot strip Daraga, AYbay and Legaspi of their small garrisons in order to hold the towns we capture. The result is always as it wes at Malabog, Camalig and Guineabaton. We capture the towns and clean them out, and within a few hours withdraw to our posts, and the next day the Filipinos are back where they were the day before, and, hav- ing any number of men at their disposal. in twenty-four hours more the trenches and other defensive works have been rebuilt as good as they were before we destroyed inSgince we took Gueneabaton we have been making things interesting for our friends, the enemy, by resuming our daily one company “hikes,” striking out in all di- rections and giving the Filipinos plenty of leg exercise. At a town called Libon (Lee- bohn), on the coast, some ten miles north of here, we found pitfalls prepared for us— trenches about six feet deep, ten feet long and five feet wide, the bottoms of which have a plentiful supply of sharpened bam- boo stakes set closely together, points up, and the whole thing covered over with a mat, on which just enough earth fs lald to conceal it. Some of our men have fallen into these things, but without serious re- sults, as in most cases only one leg has gone down, and in others the trench was too narrow, and the victim was able to reach the further side with his hands as he went in, and so save himself. Talk of Transportation. “One thing we are awfully in need of here is transportation. We landed without a mule or a horse. The town was absolutely cleaned out of all its inhabitants by the Filipinos when they left it, and of course they also took all their ponies and water buffalo with them. Our regimental quar- termaster got our stores ashore by working the men on such broken-down carts as the natives had abandoned as useless, and the day after we landed he went out to the plains, some three or four miles away, and captured a drove of ponies and a bunch of unbroken water buffalo. He took apart the carts found in the town, and, using a wheel of one and some other fairly good parte of another, made a buckboard capa- ble of carrying about 1,000 pounds, and to this hitched four ponies by means of rope harness. This is all the transportation we have had, and we have been here for more than a month. The water buffalo is use- less except for short hauls. He moves very slowly at his best, never to exceed a mile by Palace Seetoeeeeientttntededededetecteeet anda and al alf an hour, and must be unh! ved to bury himself in the w for a half hour or more after two hours. So, you e Is cept to the native, who Given two mule teams we moving more thoroughly ground, It is simply out of the qu for the men to ¢ ven one day tons fn addition to their rifles anc rounds of ammunition, for the ‘going’ is extremely difficult, the Filipino trenches always being built on the furthe: ot large rice fields, through which we hav to wade in mud and water up to our knees and sometimes up to the we Thi of work is & imely fatiguing, especia!ls when one is in a hurry and after the long march through the sands before the rice fiel Two four-mule teams cou’ y enough stores to keep the column supplied for four days at a time, and would thus enable us to cover more territory. deep, A Veritable Land “The more I se f Promise. of this country the mc astounding does its wonderful produ-stive power appear. There is positively no limit to the quantities of hemp and rice that are grown, while as for conveniences and smail articles of datiy use there are none. The field for small arti an hi Ware, iwo-wheeled wheelbarr« hand tools, rubber good: ving machine and such things 1s bound) The coun- try, too, is the most beautiful I ever saw and the climate perfection itself. This is vertly the land of premise and must never be anything else than American property — TURKISH FINANCES. The Sultan Needs Money for a Pre- cious Lot of Parasites. From the London Times. That there is something rotten in the State of Turkey has been too long a com- monplace to Buropean observers, but, as the readers of the Times will have noted more especially in the episode of the flight of Mahmud Pasha and the embarrassments of the Turkish ambassador at Berlin, the Ottoman officials themselves are becoming alive to this condition of things. It is no longer a revolutionary band, a party of the Young Turks, which is manifesting an effective desire for reform, and I am now able to furnish the essential passages in a characteristic demonstration of this sort. Evidently the feeling which has inspired the following document is no longer merely pla- tonic, for it is the report of the consul general of the Ottoman empire in Brus- sels, Emin Arsian Effendi, to the sultan. It appears that last year this official sent to A 1 Hamid a detailed report of the sufferings of the peasant population in cer- tain of the richest provinces of the empire, owing to the heavy burden of taxation and the arbitrary methods of the farmers of revenue. He pointed out how the Moham- medan peasants are chafing under the pres- ent situation, and how, being unable to ob- tain the ear of his majesty, they were cut- tng down their trees, tearing up their vines, leaving their lands uncultivated and even emigrating in vast numbers beyond the seas. America alone, he said, contained more than 100,000 Syrian emigrants, a third of whom were Mohammedans. “Never in the history of Islam has such a thing oc- curred.” This official now goes on tn his present report—somewhat ingeniously perhaps, considering the difficulty of bringing any document of the sort to the sultan’s atten- tion—to dwell upon the dangers already alluded to by Mahmud Pasha, who, it will be remembered, insisted in his interview in the Times upon the fantasife salaries given to such high officials as Mukhtar Pasha, not to speak of the grand vizier, who re- ceived, respectively, four times more than Lord Cromer and twice as much as Lord Salisbury as stipends. The military have invaded the diplomatic corps, where all receive, besides their regular salaries as officers, the stipend of a minister or of an ambassador. They have in many cases taken the places of competent men trained in the diplomatic service, who themselves, in recognition of their compliance in hand- ing over thelr duties to army officers quite unfit for diplomatic posts, receive today salaries larger than when they were in active service. Not only this, but, as is attested by the latest official annual, there are forty-four marshals—that is to say, eleven times more, according to this report, than there are in the rest of the world. There are forty-six viziers, ell with the rank of marshal, and there are eighty mem- bers of the council of state, as many, that it as in France and Germany put together. DEPARTMENT 812-814 7th St. 715 Market Space. Setanta STORES, s the | the financial embar1 Mis but natural, and oue unde happens that the diplomat ird of the even dur 6 the parasites. 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Sens ™ me a saying, t was As sete tendenebocerteretonconionceede eee MOMMA He ste esse te oe eesti le esta taesao dante tands Lhasa hashed hate Se lephoptepden te ipteg ly St DODO OL LD Cotortniedent eet Seetegeeng empir ands how it left to remedy that the sultan has appointed various comm: sions at different times on the pretense of solving culties; that po budget j dea'ing with these abuses , Sire the exact truth. The Had- “The f: ul one is he who dares k the truth to a sovereign; the traitor who con it. He is doubly traitor is like a good wife,” nilously; “theyre Why, Ss Sensible ergeant rej tter of col- fr I Dark y strong and a Then, put Who Was as wild as they make grooming—well, {t was ‘There happened at the time to be a man in | the regim ‘em, alw feol's trick or other. ys before the colonel for some Well, he was given the horse, and they took to each other at once. One day he ¥, mt recling across into the stable and fell by the side of his horse ina drunken sleep; but when e guard came to take him to clink, blees you, they couldn't get near him. over him with his ears back, and sort dared them to come o: tell a story of tw. that they were alweys the other. GENUINE EISRERBMENDELSON EO Hungarian ~ Aperient Water . ! Then, again. hors: will get some bad blood between them a: fight whenever they get a chance. DEMAND THE They Arab chargers we once hed which got such a hatred of each other Beparaiod. night on a troop ship one of them broke loose and jumped clean over the back of the steady old chap next to him to get His horse stood ot One at