Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1900, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1900-16 PAGES, surely wi rs and whi s are asking $7.4 summer, in all © for which «th very fn every other store In this city for $5.98. Sailors. white Women's Blas sailors “Hechts’ Greater Stores,” 513-515 Seventh Street which you'll find r«tiing wh 39. We will get your millinery trade th values b like these. Leghorns. and chil- + straw-rdge 69c. childven’s untrimmed hats. tnted. shapes and colors, In and straw. Instead will be so! and Ste., in white and natural: lover, cornflower, Sprays of Hlaes. acinths. forg regular stock at $8, $1 The lot embraces wai tin duchesse. There are in and tucked waist Secause these are the very Silk waists nearly 14 price. An offering of high-grade, exclusive waists, such as you have seen selling in our $4.98 0 and $12, for s of the finest quality of taffeta silk in black, white and every stylish shade, as well as of handsome white the lot as many as two dozen dis-- tinet stvles, embracing the new and fashionable hemstitched waists with the new high collars; the new cuff; many with the new silk ties with fringe. highest grade of silk waists—the best made garments to be had—and because their counterparts may be seen selling in other large stores for $8, $10 and $12, and even more; the offering of them at $4.98 is really a most extraordinary thing, and we can safely say that no equal offering has ever been made. $4.98 instead of $8, $10 and $12. Thousands of the best per tomorrow at 69¢e. wrappers worth as much as $2. fact that they are here, and if y them vourself. flounces on the s skimped anywhere. select. It is really an extraordinar: -. Thousands of wrappers, 69c. cale and batistes wrappers which are actually sold elsewhere for as much as $2 will be put on sale here announcement to make—to sell or 69 cents, but it is an absolute ou will be here tomorrow you will see Made of the very best percale and batiste; trimmed with itt; trimmed with ruffles and embroidery; with separate waist lining: all generously made full in width and not Dozens and dozens of patterns from which to And only 69c. for choice. sale three lots—all of which emt a third more elsewhere: 49 cents for wai worth up to 75c. | O08 cents for waists worth up to $1.50. Our first shirt waist sale Is to be a most extraordinary occasion. Tomorrow we shall put on orace waists which you find selling for $1.98 for waists worth up to $3.00. We shall offer tomorrow 5¢ new 1900 shz which all stores get $2 and $2. the vear—for Men’s $2 and $2.50 hats, $1.19. 90 men’s derbies and fedoras—in the $1.19 »es and in black and the correct shades with silk bands and bindings—hats like those for 50 at this season of LEPEEDLEELIGHS LODGE “Hechts’ Greater Stores,” 513-515 Seventh Street. A “down-=east” s Lower prices than you have ev pair for Infants’ hand-made button shoes—sizes 2 to G—the We. kind. 5Oc,, vair for chitdren’s dongola button ? and lice shoes and tan lace shoes, in sizes S'4 to 11-1 69c, to 2 2-same a: GDC, pate for tere hove watin calf and © black and tan vici kid lace shoes— aizes 9 to 13%—hest $1.00 shoes to be had. $1 29 for boys’ and youths’ tan and hs black viel, tan and Russia calf aml finest satin calf shces—sizes 13% to 5 —the regular $2 qualities, 59c, 89c. 8c. to 7 pair for misses’ and biack tan button und lace shoes—sizes 11g ery store sells at $1.25, palr for Ind'ss* tan Prince Albett Tow shoes—peinted toes—$2 values. pair fe fords—« Indies’ patent leather ox- Joth tops—-$2 values, pair for Indies’ fin fords, fa Band ¢ w t viel kid ox~ ¥ x tops—sizes 2 iths—$2.50 values, goes on sale tomorro A most stupendous purchase and most stupendous values. hoemaker’ y known to be asked for worthy shoes on which we put our guarantee of satisfaction. for lot Indies’ tan Russia calf S1.79 te ot eee ae tee ste heavy extension scles—all hand sewed—regu- lar 8 values. 98c. $1.4 values. 8c. $1.50. $1.39 kind. $1.79 Pair for men's tan viel kid, tam ussia calf and patent leather shoes—instead of $2.50. & for men's tan and black viet $2.4 kid. tan Russia calf or satin calf shoes—all hand sewed—$3.50 values. for lot ladies’ tun lace shoes— sizes 214 lo T—whieh gre $2 values. | for lot Indies’ tan viel kid lace shows—cloth or kid tops—$2.50 fer men’s tan kid lace shoes Which every shoe stere sells at | pair for men's tan and black vici kid lace shoes—the $2.00 in every for men’s soft and stlff-bosom, per- ale shirts —alsy men's laundered shirix with Hnen bosoms—were for- 29c. white merly for men's 39, fr,mems everywhere. 39c. usual 7 shirts white neglige i fronts-dollar ‘silk for men’s fancy atriped and plain ba'briggan shirts and drawers— Furnishings for men -a big saving instance. LIDIA ., tor men's mercerized silk hal © hose — which sell at 2c. everywhere. 39c, 9c. 5c, for men's summer neckwear, embrac: © ing string ties, band bows and ebield bows—the 124yc. sort. for men’s suspenders—in assort- ment of patterns—the Svc, kind. for men’s “Brighton” garters—which sell at 25c. usually. see about town at $12.50, in s yles topo fOr. Cesc se ; 200 ladies’ suits, $6.98 Two hundred ladies’ black cheviot serge tailor-made suits, not out of the work rooms a month; with serge silk-lined, double-breast- ed, fly-front and single-breasted jackets; new, full width skirts; equal in every way to the suits you $12.50 ° values. $6.98 | and worthfulness, Because we make the skirts we sell —we are enabled to offer values like these which you must admit are beyond all competition. ide from the saving which is made pos- sible by making our own skirts, you get better-made and_better-fit- ting garments. $1.69 Indies’ blue, rt skirts, tainly worth $2.5 $1 QS for indies’ black brittlantine skirts; rleh, lustrous quality 3 Sf0) val- brilliantine; full width new ba ues. $2 QS for tadies’ black, bine aud gray 2s spun skirts, With new box pleat hacks; regular $4 values. for the of « lot of sample $3.98 skirts of homesnpns; some of them appliqued: identical skirts much as you wil Isewhere for us much as $5 $6.98 *: brow box-pleat tr taffeta silk and silk by ish skirts, which would se eke: I tind selling el ladies’ handsome black skirts, with th appliqued liugly styl- at $v. Wash suits for about half price. Thousands of little fellows’ washable sailor blouse suits carried while just as desirable as suits wh dinary bargains. LOT ONE-embracing little boys’ striped Gulatea cloth, washable saflor blouse suits, with large sallor collara, braid trimmed, which you'll find selling tn other 25c ° Stores for as much as 68e., to go tomorrow for. wares Summer corsets, 44c. son, we shall let them go for about what they cost us. vided them into two lots, and in both are to be found most extraor- over from last Summer will be put on sale tomorrow morning, and hich were made to be sold this sea- We have di- LOL TWO embraces finer suits. not only of Galatea cloth, but of duck and pique; handsomely braid’ trimmed and embrotdere —novelties for which many stores ask as much as $2.00 and $3: in a Inge aesortinent of pattern, QC to go fo : : ° ‘Tw hundred pairs wowen’s summer net corsets in all lengths and all stzes—the same as are Delng sold at O8e., for d4c. to- We wish to request our patrons to shopearly tomorrow night, as the store will close at 9 o’clock and on every Saturday is after. stock ‘Men’s clothing at asaving of 4Zto.: SISS15 Stores,” ‘“Hech Seventh Street. An enormous purchase of a leading New York maker's entire surplus stock opens the way for you to buy the newest and best made ready-to-wear clothing much below regular first of the sea- son prices. The stock consists of nothing but the newest fabrics and patterns in sizes and styles to suit everybody. Every garment is sold you with our guarantee of satisfaction, which means money back if you want it. We shail cheerfully “charge” anything you wish to buy in this sale and you may arrange the terms to suit your convenience. 15.00 suits, $12.50 & §$ Va 450 men's medium effects, lars; suits that $12.50 to $15, at . oe . cings and with shoulders and you will see ame top coats selling about town at Italan ‘lining; full broad choice of different lengths; these «i $1 even at that price: they are ex- traordinary bargains at iots and worsteds, embracing light, dark and sack style, with single and double-breasted vests and horn buttons to match the cloth; lined with good substantial quality lining; full French fac- | ings; hand-padded shoulders; hand-felled col- ness or dress and which will fit you well and be considered an excellent value at regular prices of 97.50. suits of all-wool cassimeres, chev- , cut in the latest four-button are every way desirable for busi- 1.00, 80 men’s fancy silk vests; the double- breasted ‘“Tattersall” effect; in an assort- ment of patterns—all handsome and up to | date; vests which everrwhere sell for 2.50 — really int $1.50 to be sold own to sell_for less —are to be offe: red. to- morrow at...... 2 Child’s slightly damaged clothing at « fraction of usual prices! —the best-made and most worthful clothing for the little fellows— slightly imperfect because of a wetting which they received en route to this city, and on which we claimed a concession from the makers —are offered you at half and much Children's all-wool suits, in sizes 3 to 8 years, with fa eats and white duck $1.98 | boas w at $5.98, red are to tomorrow less than half regular prices. Another lot of sults for boys of larger growth (from 7 te 16 sears), in double- breasted styles. of fancy cheviots and black H ure to be sold f Two lots of youths’ suits —to go tomorrow considerably 1} suits of all-wool cheviots and cassi breasted vests and of our celebrated “Imperial” blue serges. $4.98. We pride ourselves on this line, because we've had them made just like the men’s euits—tinished just the same—with wide French facings and the proper width of trous We've been particular, because we know the young men Iike stylish suits, and we want their good will. 5 P Overalls. Knee Pants | Boys’ Waists “Brownle™ overalle, of —of all-wool cheviots and ~of Merrimac percales—in bine denim, with shoulder cassimeres — some made the new patterns—pleated well made, and ith. “aoabi a i$ = thing for the Iit- with double seats an back and front — well- low hard on knees for strength— made garment s— not more than etrong sewn where wear i: greatest—t cial at. than regular prices, including meres, with single and double- $7.50. ‘These are the finest suits that are made up; have all the points of fashion which men’s sults haye—have all the finish, all the perfect workmanship. Other clotbiers get $10 for them. ‘They'll fit small men, 39¢. Hecht & Company, 513-515 Seve nth Street. ts’ Greater Stores,” 513-515 Seventh Street. Men’s office coats, 2c. Special values in wo- “Bridal Tour’ march —the latest at music stores for 25¢. copy. £53 $5 pants, $2.50. 212 pairs of men’s absolutely pare wore. ted pants (not a thread ef cotton worsted in them) in as mauy as four different styles of stripes, the most perfectly made pants you ever w which we defy you to daplt- cate elsewhere for lene than {5—will be eold tomorrow for = We shall put morrow during this sale 124 wen's striped office coats at 2ic., the kind which are sold usually for S0e That everybody shall be tren’ shall limit the quantity to be ‘sold to not more than one to a buyer, and we shall hone to children. To- me Special values in child’s wear. Children’s white lawn and India lin epee jDeautifally | trimmed — the identical dresses others sell ete “T= $1.98 Culldren's straw crown shirred mull rim Ine apd white tasteed 98c. Underskirts. ‘s necordeon pleated underskirts ms and Mack with 18 eausually $1.90-—tomor- 98c. es! 5 men’s hosiery and underwear. 60 pairs fast ack full seamless drop: hose tou all sizen a 2S, stitch and y Ie, pair usually Women’s gloves. 200 pairs women’s two-clasp glace kid gloves white und all the mew shades the dollar qualities everywhere Tow (itted) for. and two step, 10c. c “up-to-datest” pro- duction which is now being sold Savings in toilet requisites. Dupont’s eo; “s French pink pe a Wes 2s TP, By Ws Ba oy PSS ye epee reas ae COURT REPROVES A JUROR OFFENDER IN DANGER OF BEING PUNISHED FOR CONTEMPT. Judge Cole Issues Rule Requiring Answer to Charge and Excludes Him From Service. iminal Court No. 2, to- | action as regards the | ne of the jurors who | his court during the | he juror in question is A rule was issued cause Monday next hed for con- r directed not any panel sworn remainder of the present month. am Sewall ne bi him ¢ shou! The cl why tempt te draw Sewall’s name during im any ca present month. ‘The matter in which Sewall Js Involved of the second trial of Robert | Frank Turner, Henry Ware, arisce out Pendleton, James Gray. Juseph Mack, Howard Be se . Simms. all colored, indicted oer ees aioe d of criminal assault upon Miss oung white woman. After al Justice sentenced six of the dante to imprisonment io we West Virginia penitentiary at a : for thirty years each, the limit of . _ and the other to the reform boeapaee bs pol | minority. Upon the ground that ne’ te = covered evidence had been discoverec : * trial we granted. shies was in progret ze eee arcu nt to the jury tant United States At- latter ds ares Sewal s: “Oh, what you at * and made other nkins, @ th -veral saying ee s tements of that ¢! = After the Jury had retired to constder a verdict the conduct of the juro : Ferdict ims tion of the court, who expressed ey ‘was not sooner informed of nT , “lock, and not at 3 o'clock, a recess a «k. A report not be- fae realy at that time, the jury was locked up for the night. The Court's Action. When court opened this morning the members of the jury filed in and announced that an agreement was out of the question. Justice Cole took occasion to remark that his attention had been called to the con- duct of one of the jurors, which was of had the court known of n taken from the ror, said Justice such a nature t er the testimony fm) ue to the other juro: y that the juror reference to was Willlam Sewall. te show cause was then directed issued. to. be It was directed that the seven de: endants shall not again be tri the same time. jeton, Ware, G y and Berry will be tried by one fury and Mack, Simms and Tu v before another. > — Lectures to ‘Teachers. Dr. L. R. Klemm of the United States bar reau of education is delivering a course of under the auspices of the department of pedagogy he subject for tomorrow 1s z Learned From School Abroad.” are open to the public. a What He Saya Tolman—“How fs it you never married?” Billings—“I don’t know. I did come pret- ty near it once. A lady fell on the sidewalic and f reached out and asked her to give me her hand. I saw by the glitter in her eye that she thohght it was a proposal, so I He where she was and took to my —Boston Transcript. “They say,’ said the Sweet Young Thing, hat a postponed iding Js unlucky."” Ww asked the Savage and the furniture Indianapolis Press. ene heard you talking a say I hadn't married in vain.” —Syracuse Herald. The Root—She—"Oh, no. They’re not in trade. They have a family tree, I'd have es, but it grew from a small man- ring plant back in the early 20's. Iphia Press. ee What She Says. lINSTRUMENT OF TORTURE Bertha (who prides herself upon her red- and-whiteness)—“‘Did she say anything about my complexion?” Matilda—Oh, dear, no; she wouldn't be 80 rude as that."—Boston Transcript. The Rook Agent—“I would like to show this beautiful work. It tells about the s of savage animals.” » Severe Lady at the Door—“I don't need $t. I have been married four times.” —Indianapolis Pr Mrs. Greene — “Sometimes, don't you know, I begin to think that Thomas mar- Filed me for my money.” Mrs. G h, well, you know there is always a reason for every marriage.'’"—Bos- ton Transcript. —~+e2+—_____ A Hen’s Preferences as to Colors. From the Indianapolis Journal. Hundreds of Elkhart shoppers have been amused and considerably interested every afternoon this week in an exhibition which revealed a decided distinction in regard to color by a fu: hen, which, with her brood, has been displ. din a druggist’s window as an Easter egg dye advertisement. The druggist dyed the twenty chicks, some red, some brown, bluc, violet, green and yellow. The hen, a big Plymouth Rock evinces a remarkably violent dislike for th lide fellows who wear the red and brow and fights them from her. She regards others with varying degrees of favor and is particularly fond of the violet-hued off- spring, though it would be natural to sup- pose that the yellow ones, being nearer the natural color, would meet with the most pronounced favor. As night comes on and the difference in colors becomes less notice- able, the hen's antipathy gradually | and by the time the electric lights ar. turned on she has all of the twenty snug- gled under her wings. Daylight, however, brings on a renewal of the manifestations. — —-e-—____ Several New South Wales lepers have been treated by a leprosy serum method devised by Dr. Juan de Dios Carrasquilla of Bo- ota. ard said by him to have been suc- cessful In a hundred cases. The Australian doctors, however, have been unable to de- lectures to city teachers every Saturday morning at 9 o'clock at Howard University, tect any improvement, and the disease is quill making progress. THE OPERATION OF “DOCKING” AND WHAT IT MEANS TO THE HORSE. People of Fashion Held Responsible for Many Cruelties to Animals, “See this curiously shaped instrument?" said a dealer in horse goods to a Star re- porter, ‘Well, tt is called a docking knife, though it is very much unlike a knife in shape.” The dealer held up an instrument with strong wooden handles, about sixteen inch- es in length, and working on the leverage principle, not unlike a large pruning knife. In the lower handle was a concayed space about the size of a coffee cup cut in a cross section, into which projected, when the in- strument was closed, a convex steel blade with a very sharp edge. atyle has become a recognized part of so- clety's get-up. The horse dvesn’t enter into the matter. I venture the prophecy that docked horses will be in style at the end of the century. “If one state has a law against docking the adjoining state probably has not. Horses may be gperated upon In the latter and shipped into the former. The only way oc- curring to me by which a positive stop might be put to the practice, since the peo- ple themselves refuse to take the initiative, would be to make {t « misdemeanor to ve a docked horse in one's possession. ‘This arcadian epoch, however, will never be reached. Severe Bits. “It is common to find horses whose tongues are grooved with a deep cut, hard and callous by years of constant pressure of the curb bit. A horse’s tongue is soft and smooth; it 1s not rough as a cow’s, and it Is very sensitive. The torture of a high check rein and a double curb bit, wiith the reins in the lower ring, must be very great. ‘This fs the reason why a horse ‘champs’ the bit and tosses his head up and down from side to side. By these motions, which ap- pear ‘so stylish,’ he obtains momentary re- lief from the pressure of the bit, curb chain, check rein and head harness gear pressing upon his flesh and irritating his nerves. With the handles extended, the blade leaves the hollowed-out space in the lower handle. This fits under the tail of the horse snugly. The blade, which is raised several inches above the top of the animal's tail, is then brought down sharp on the up- per surface of the tall at some point be- tween the vertebra bones, and with a quick, hard pressure of the extended handles of the knife the Joints of the verterbra are lopped off as the limb of a tree between the sharp edges of the gardener’s pruning knife. A Painfal Operation. The operation is, of course, extremely painful, especially as most horses are dock- ed when they have attained full growth, the tail being simply the elongation of the ani- mal’s backbone. To the bleeding stump is applied the end of a red-hot iron to cauter- ize the wound, or, as horsemen say, “‘to stop the flow of blood.” The excruciating suf- fering of the animal during and following the amputation, and the infliction of addi- tional pain by the application of the red-hot iron to the raw surfaces of the lacerated bone, can best be imagined. “I have followed with considerable inter- est the discussion in The Star with refer- ence to docking and the use of high check reins and curb bits,’ said the dealer, “and while I sell these goods, I agree in the main with the sentiments of the members of the Humane Society. Decrees of Fashion. “Dealers in horse goods and horsemen do not maintain these practices, however. It is done by the people themselves. It is ‘the style,’ and as long as it is such the horse must be the unhappy victim of man’s crtel- ty, because the fashion is implacable. If society all over the land would agree as a unit that from a certain date it would be ‘fashionable’ to drive carriage horses with- out docked tails, high check reins and mur- derous curb bits, then the millennium in the horse world wiil have come. But so- clety will do nothing of the kind. “Docked tails, curb bits, high heads and stiff check reins, curved necks by reason of these curb bits, and clanking chains, have been in vogue for so long, and the people are so used to having such a com- bination as the acme of horse fashion, and the onlookers from the sidewalk have en- Vied these equipages for so long, that the “On the under side of these large curb bits for carriage horses will be found a series of ridges or convolutions cast in the steel. These ridges, as they press dow: upon the horse's tongue by the pressure o: the reins, hurt it. A smooth curb bit ts bad enough, but the ridged one hurts just that much more. They are called ‘severe’ bits, and are supposed to keep the horse in restraint. They will be found in ninety-nine out of 100 sets of harness used by fashion- able people. “The most ‘severe’ bit used ts the Spanish curb. It has in the center a raised part like an inverted U. Attached to this is often seen a Httle wheel which gives forth a clicking sound as the horse rolls it on his tongue, which he docs all the time when he is at rest with bridle on, and this motion of the animal's head and the clicking sound is a delight to the Spantard or the Mexi- can, but it is hard on the horse when the slightest pressure is exerted. A horse's jaw can be broken by one of these Spanish bit “The check rein coul@ be prohibited by law {f legislatures would pass such a meas- ure. A law affecting curb bits woul! meet with stronger opposition, as it would be urged that these bits were necessary for the proper and safe control of horses.” : ——>— An Interrupted Feast. From the Philadelphia Record. + ‘There dwell in one of the handsome resi- dences of Tioga an elderly lady and her daughter. The mother recently went out of the city for a few days’ stay. On she day she left the daughter informed the colored cook eariy in the morning that she would visit a friend and would not return until 9 o'clock at night. But the friend was not at home, and the daughter came to the city to shop, and returned home at 6 o'clock, in- stead of three hours later. She founu ten colored couples in the parlor, and the table in the dining room was set for twenty per- sons, with the silver pleces and best china in evidence. In the kitchen the cook was busy preparing a feast. When her eyes fell upon her young mistress the servant ex- claimed, in horror: ‘‘Good gracious, you done come home 80 soon! Why, I’se in- wited mah friends to dinnah; ‘deed, I didn’t expect you.” The young woman ‘said she was sure of that. Result: Colored friends left the house hungry; cook, too; girl in- vited neighbors in and all enjoyed the feast; new cook next day. A BISHOP'S F NY STORIES. Entertaining Reminiscences of Clergy- men and Parishioners. From the London Morning Post. The late bishop of Wakefield was a re- markable man in many ways, distinguish- ed alike for deep, earnest piety, unfailing cheerfulness and a strong sense of humor, and possessing to a marked degree the rare gift of gaining the love and esteem of his flock. He loved to hear a good story, and throughout his life made it a practice to enter the most amusing Inci- dents and anecdotes of his experience in a notebook. The bulk of the anecdotes re- fate to persons connected with the church, whether bishops, vicars, curates or hum- ble vergers, but they are none the less amusing on that account. Many of them center round Whittington, the Shropshire parish of which the bishop was rector from 1851 to 1879, and of his parishioners he has several quaint stories. For in- stance: “The following words are given verbatim as spoken by an old woman in the parish on the occasion of my first visit soon after I became rector: ‘The old man and me never go to bed, sir, without singing the evening hymn. Not that I've got any voice left, for I haven't, and as for him, he's like a bee in a bottle; and then he don’t humor the tune. for he don't rightly know one tune from another, and he can’t re- member the words neither; so when he } leaves out a word I puts it in, and when I can't sing 1 dances, and so we get through it_ somehow.’ Here is another good “A woman in a small We'sh farm house— Whittington is on the border of Wales—be- ing taken very ill, a neighbor went for the clergyman, who said he would come di- rectly. The neighbor, going back to 2 farm house, said they had better get ou Bible, as the parson might ask for one. The farmer thereupon told the woman she would find one, he thought, at the bottom of an old chest, ‘for, thank goodness,’ he added, ‘we have had no occasion for them sort of books for many a long year—never since the old cow was so bad.’ But his curates and clerical friends are responsible for even more droll stories than the laity provided during his rectorship, one of which deserves quoting: “The first time that Archdeacon Wick- ham visited this deanery as archdeacon I drove him to a parsonage, where the in- cumbent insisted upon his inspecting every- thing. In the garden is a little pool, and over this pond we beheld a strange erec- tion of posts and planks, with a sort of sad- dlelike seat on the top. On the archdeacon asking the incumbent what it was, he ex- plained with great delight that it was a capital contrivance by which you could take exercise and make yourself useful by pumping water to the church, where he had just been building a transept. So, saying that he would show us, he clambered up, sat down on a saddle smiling and began te Unfortunately, however, the work at the church having been just finished, the pipe Which had con- veyed the water to the workmen had been cut off just above the surface of the water. The consequence was that he immediately produced a jet of water which shot straight upward and almost lifted him off his seat, entirely upsetting the archdiaconal gravity. As we returned to the house the incumbent begged the archdeacon to go into the back yard and smell the pump, which, he said, stunk horribly. The archdeacon protested that he had no authority over pumps, but he would take no denial, and when he got into the back yard he said: ‘Now, Mr. Archdeacon, !f you will put your nose to the spout, I will pump.’ The archdeacon was, however, quite equal to the occasion, and said: ‘No, I depute the rural dean to put h nose to the spout, and I will receive his r port, and, if needed, pronounce an ec- cles! i censure.” A Yorkshire ‘yman, we are told, had to pay dearly good nature in taking an incumbent's pl: short notice and preaching a borrowed sermon. “A shy, nervous clergyman near Bradford about to help a friend by reading the Ss when a Message came to say that to ask for help. The rector could not go, so the friend had to be sent, but having no sermon with him, he borrowed one from the rector, who wrote a clear, good hand. He selected one well written, of which the subject was ‘The Value of Time,’ and meant to read ft over on the w but eveniually did not like to do so, as he sat beside a servant who drove him over. | pened that he had to read it for the first time in the pulpit. He got on very well till he came io a sentence saying that, the parish possessed no church clock, it wa his intention to present one. He was too nervous to omit the sentence, and I wa: assured at Bradford did actually presen the promised clock, which cost £7 Here are other Yorkshire stories in which the comic is mixed with the pathetic: “A Yorkshire clergyman the other day, visiting a poor man who had just lost his little boy, endeavored to console him. The poor man burst into tears, and in the mi of his eobs exclaimed: ‘If *twarna ug’ law A should ha’ liked to have tlittle beg- gar stoofed.’ “A clergyman visiting a dying man ob- served him putting his hand out of the bed and eating something from time to time. so he said he was glad to see he could eat x little, when the man, with a funny look, sak ‘They're my funeral biscuits. ‘The missis went to the town and bousht them, and she’s out today, and I'm eating them.’ ” ————_+e+—___ MORPHINE HABIT’S HORRORS. rt There Is an Alarming Increase in the Number of Victims. From the Boston Herald. ‘That the, morphine habit is increasing among the people of this country there is no doubt. Physicians, druggists and the importers and dealers themselves attest to this. In one city 50 per cent of all the morphine used is purchased by persons who use it without a physician's order. ‘The habit is usually acquired through the vietim having first taken the drug to allay pain or discomfort. The fascination of the change from pain, distress and insomnia to quietness, com- fort and sleep is very intense, and over- comes all reason and judgment. After a short time of repeated use of morphine the reason is obscured. First the higher ethical brain succumbs, and all sense of right and wrong slowly disappears. The failure of veracity is the first symp- tom. This goes on to extreme lengths. As- sociated with it is egotism, which grows with the degeneration of the victim. Often this is the most prominent symptom. Se- eretiveness and cunning also increase to an astonishing degree. Some of the most dangerous among for- gers and confidence men are morphine takers. Fortunately, the period of great mental acuteness along these lines is of short duration, The unstable brain state does not permit any continuous line of acts to be performed with equal cunning and judgment. While the secretiveness lasts, together with the low cunning and selfish- ness, it is found after a time that the rea- soning faculties become benumbed, so that a neighboring incumbent was taken ill and} So it hap- | to new con During itis fi habit is often practic ; unnoticed. Th» patient may be a little odd in some re- spects—more bright or dull at one or perhaps now se and again indifferent. His ordin pation may be carried on without changes. His habits will det time nsitive ry ocr jorate, : and he may explain them as due to some phy-i- | cal conditio Later, however, more marked pear. The business man becomes unrelis and changeable. and the society woman de- Velops a taste for slander and exhibits un- usual emotional changes. and finally retires from society. The workman becomes unfit and uncertain. and is discharged, | detected in some dishonest trans: failure of the higher brain ta former consciousness of duty and re | for law and order. Impulses to ccme very prominent in some cas: moralities of all_kinds and sensrles trigues follow. Childish lying and f. concealment, with egotistical boastings, | often common. Sometimes these faults are with much acuteness, and the writings seme authors have been marked by lirious imaginations and egotistical con tions which for their strangeness and elty have been considered original. cusly enough, these productions are not uniform and vary widely. They are rarcly on the same key or of the same quality, and have a decidedly insane tinge. Many morphine takers,having good consti- tutions, are able to use the drug for many years and partially to conceal the ha They are Mkely, however, to become ine valids, or to seek seclusion, and the erratio character of their brain work and rea irg suggests the disturbances going ou. Others become greatly broken down, or itn- deciles, criminals, tramps or paupers, and eventually die of some intercurrent disease. It is a fact not well known that a consid- erable proportion of the crimes and_ bu: ness failures which disturb the world the result of the secret use of morphir Scandals in society, intrigues, divorces, stu pid, unreasoning acts among persons previously average sense, are often du this same cause. Trampism, pauperi prostitution and many other evils are often associated with the use of morphine and excesses in other drugs. In most cases the use of narcotle drugs hes preceded these conditions. In some cages the use of I:quor leads to indulgence in drags. Tho narcotism which comes from beer and svir- its very often finds an increased pleasure and relief in morphine, and hence turns to it. changes ap- associat-a Curi- Morhpinism is the most fatal and destruc- tive of modern nerve di , and when once contracted is with great’ difficulty escaped from. Swiss Pudding. Take the weight of two eggs in butter, sugar, flour and ground rice. Beat the butter with a wooden spoon until it is soft, then add the sugar, and when t is thoroughly mixed the eggs, well beate! and sift in the flour and ground rice (pre viously mixed together) and pour in suffi. cient milk to make the mixture of a cream- like consistency. Butter a pie dish, stir half a teaspoonful of baking powder into the pudding, place it in the dish and bake it in a quick oven until it is evenly brown- ed. When the pudding has cooled a little, turn it carefully out of the dish and direct- ly it 1s quite cold cover the top with lemon curé and scatter it thickly with desiccated cocoanut. ’ Pha Maurice Grau and many members of his company sailed for London on the French liner La Touraine Thi