The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 29, 1895, Page 10

e s AN R s - dunned by tradesmen. 10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 18!35. BUNG HOME PRODUCTS Only California Material to Be Used in the New Park Lodge. A CAMPAIGN OF ELOQUENCE. Manufacturers’ Assoclation Plan- ning Meetings Throughout the State. The Manufacturers” and Producers’ As- sociation is determined to make a most vigorous and active campaign in behalf of home patrona It is to be an itinerant campaign, too—a crusade of eloquent ap- peals to the people of different sections of the State. Already two big mass-meetings are being arranged for, one at the Metropolitan Tem- ple in this City on July 12, and the other at San Jose the night following. A tour of tate, so to speak, will follow, that is, the there are to be a number of meetings held at future dates at various centers of popu- e State, beginning southward tion from this City. Julian Sonntag, J. P. Currier and W. F. Bowers, the committee on arrangements for these meetings, held a session at the rooms of the association in the Mills ilai sterday afternoon. Music will for at an early day for the Temple meeting. Henry T. preside, and the speakers are to raig, ngressman James G. Irving M. Scott, Charles M. dge, Horace Davis and Dr. Julius an authority on beet-sugar pro- on, who, some weeks ago, delivered able address ai the State University. e committee will have large circulars printed to he posted in all the principal es factories informing working- n generally of the object of the gather- ing inviting them to lend their best aid toward bringing about a greater home pat- TO B e. The effort to induce the merchants to settle upon some one day in about every month or six weeks for a ““California day,” on which they are to_dress their windows products exclusively, is ¢ co-op €ration on the 1be Goldberg, Bowen & Hale Brothers have prom- fine showing in this respect tart the movement by a practi- b at some early date. best kind of assurance was re- e ver ed yesterday from the Park Commis- sioner terial to be used in the f the new park lodee would be from California exclusively, in the fol- ving reply to a communication the as- sociation had sent: Manufacturers' and Producers’ Association— GE: Your communicetion received and co woted. In reply would state tnat the commission is in heariy sympathy with the objects of your association, and_highly ap- preciates your efforts in encouraging the use products and material in all We take plea: n inform- our contracts all cali for Califor- In the matter of stone an offer uated outof the State, at a, nts noted from lower ; jected and the order placed with & Cali e quarry. I remain, very re- spectfuily, N, President Boa of Park Com- , per V. V. Block, secretary. There will bea general meeting of the association August 6to discuss new by- la DEBTS OF ROYALTY. Tradesmen Wait Patiently and Present No Bills to Kings. There are many persons who will envy the privilege which royalty enjoys of never being dunned for tradesmen’s bills. The great Parisian dressmakers in particular make a point of never sending in any account to their royal and imperial cus- tomers unless specially requested to do so. At the same time all sorts of clever arti- fices and devices are adopted to remind customers of this exalted rank—without appearing to do so—that money is due and payments desirable, says the Chicago Record. Some of the scions of royalty are very punctilious and exact about their pay- ments, especially the Princess of Wales, who has from the English crown an inde- pendent allowance of $30,000 per annum, which is supposed to be entirely spent in dress—not so difficult a matter when it is borne in mind that throughout the Lon- don season the Princess, the observed of all observers, never appesrs a second time in the same toitet, that the toilets are changed several times a day, and that many of them, especially those for evening and court wear, cost $1000 and $1500 each. Very different from the Princess of Wales is the Dowager Queen of Portugal, who is perennially hard up in spite of the large allowances she receives from the Porta- guese and Italian civil lists. Her trades- men at Paris, whence she gets all her clothes, have to wait years for their money, which they get only when some of those ! Portuguese loans happen to be floated, or when the Queen is able to get her brother, King Humbert of Italy, to come to her rescue and fill her depleted purse. The members of the Russian court are very exact and unquestioning in their pay- ments, and so, t0o, is Queen Marguerite of Italy, the punctiliousness in this respect being due to her husband King Humbert, who. still suffering from the disastrous ef- fects- of the insane extravagance of his father, Victor Emmanuel, is careful to run as few bills as possible, and, so far as he can, to pay as he goes. This immunity from duns deoes not ex- tend to royal personages whose families have been deprived of their thrones, or who are compelled to prefix an “‘ex” to their title. Thus, ex-King Milan of Serviais constantly being dunned and sued, while old ex-Queen Isabella of Spain everv now and again gets into such a terrible snarl with her Parisian tradesmen that her daughter-in-law, the Queen Regent, is compelled to send members of her own household from Madrid to straighten mat- ters out and to assume charge of the old lady’s liabilities. There is a popular impression abroad that the Prince of Wales is frequently But this is not the case. Idon’t suppose he ever received a tailor's' bill in his life, and his pressing needs for money, which drive him into such extraordinary and promiscuous friendships and associations, are attributable to loans coming due and to gambling and rncins debts. Perhaps the most unpunctual an least satisfactory of royal personages with whom to run a bill is the present Emperor of Germany, a reigning sovereign who comes about as near being dunned like an ordinary mortal as any one could find, the tradesmen who are unable to zet their money taking out their annoyance in dis- agreeable remarks that bring them danger- ously near indictmeni for the crime of lese- majeste. .. The Right of Philosophy. It is worth while for usall, even when suffering pain, to refrain from frowning and wrinkling up our faces and aayin,z impatient wards. Every passing though! and feeling write themselves upon the countenance, and the young girl is makin, day by day not only the woman she wil be'in character later on, but the woman she will be in looks. Handsome or plain, agreeable or the opposite, the woman of 40 is dependent for her looks on the girl of 14. You owe an amount of thought and considera- tion to the woman you are going to be, and the friends who will love filer, and so you must not let needless lines and fur- rows come to your pretty brows, but keep your forehead smooth, and do not draw yuuxz lipsdown at the corners, nor goabout ooking unhappy. It is possible, even when ieu-mg much pain, to wear a tran- i %:zilexpresaion if one will, but remember that the tranquil mind in the end can conguer pain. Crossing town the other day in haste to catoh a train, the horsecar was three times blocked by great vans which stood upon the track. Ilooked about on my feliow- passengers. Some had flushed and angry aces, some could not sit still, but tapped the floor with their feet, and nttered ex- clamations, and looked at their watches. One or two stepped out with their bags and walked hastily onward. But a dear old lady iu the corner of the car wasa pattern of sweetness and amiability, and I heard her observe to her neighbor: “We will probably lose our train, but at this time of the day there are trains every half- hour, and it’s never well to_be put out by little accidents of this sort.”” She had the right philosophy.—Harper’s Round Table. GAME PRESERVES IN GERMANY. Farmers Make Money by Taking Care of Birds and Other Animals. In Prussia the game law allows the owner of every piece of land that isin- closed by a fence or wall the right to shoot birds or animals on it, or to rent the privilege out to those from the towns or cities. All of the land less than 200 acres in_extent which is not inclosed may belong to one according to law, but the shooting privilege is owned by the commune in which the land is located. The result is that there is not free and indiscriminate hunting. ‘The sports- men from the towns or cities, however, for a mere nominal rent, can tind excellent hunting by hiring from any of the farmers along tne line of the railroads. The game is generally preserved and fed by the farmer until the shooting season, for the abundance of the game determines largely the price he can obtain for the shooting rri\'i ege. A great deal of the shooting- and is owned by the farmers, who do not inclose it, and the communal authorities usually have the renting of the shooting privileges. These renting privileges con- stitute a very important revenue of the agricultural class. The communal authori- ties credit to each farmer his due share of the aggregate rental in proportion to the area of his land, says the Country Gentle- man. The leases of the shooting privileges are usually from six to nine or twelve years, and, by furnishing proper financial guar- anty that the rent will ge paid. the privi- lege goes to the highest bidder at a public auction. The club or individual leasing the land then assumes all responsibility, both as to the rearing and preservation of the game, and to the damage done to rowing crops. The communal assessors determine the amount of damage done to farm crops by the hares, birds or deer, and they levy the tax to be paid to the farmers. GenemnF a local gamekeeper watches over the small preserve to see that the game is not molested. No one is allowed to wander over the fields with a @10tgum and a hunter’saccou- terments without a license from the local authorities. In order to secure a license the applicant must be a man in good stand- ing and not under 18 years of age. These licenses to shoot on certain fields cost from 75 cents to $3 a year. Any infraction of these rules is punishable by fines, confi tion of the gun and accouterments and by imprisonment. Poaching is thus kept down and the professional bird and animal killer abolished. Sportsmen who pay for shooting privi- leges are not governed by any unwritten code, such as prevails in America, that it is not good form to sell their game in the open market. In Germany they kill the game for the sport, and then sell it to help pay for the expenses of the preserves. The principal wild game in Germany are the stag, the deer, hares and rabbits, pheasants, partridges, snipe, woodcock, wild ducks, swans, foxes, badgers, fish ot ters and many others. The hare is the great national game animal, hunted alike in every part of the empire. In Prussia alone as many as 2,500,000 hares have been kilied in oné season, rep- resenting an income to the agricultural classes 0% nearly $1,500,000. S How Chitral Was Taken. A wounded Afghan who was captured after the taking of the fort of Chitrai has given to Major Deane, the political officer, a most viyid account of the destruction of the pontoon bridge leading to the fort by the launcning of heavy Iogs of wood upon the river to wreck the bridge and of the terror created among the hillmen by a star shell fired into the Afghan camp, for when the starshell bursts it shows a bril- liant light, vividly illuminating the sur- rounding country. The Afghans claim to be a remnant of the children of Israel and the account which the wounded man gives reads like a chapter of the Scriptures, says an ex- change. It runs thus: 1. Behold the logs of wood rushed down the river and broke the floating road- way of the foreigners into pieces. 2. The Afehan watchmen signaled the news from hill to hill, and the tribes gath- ered for the fight. 3. The soldiers of the invading army were separated from their fellows, and seemed to be delivered into our hands. 4. Then our priests came and preached unto us_the righteousness of our cause. They said that the Almighty was ever mindful of his children and would give us a bloodless victory, even as he did to the prophet (upon whom be peace) in the days of Badar. 5. Moreover, they told us God had us 1000 rifles and wnuch powder an within our reach. 6. The words of the priests and the re- membrance of what God did for the prophet at Badar excited us greatly. 7. We saw the English ascending from the river bank and marching toward us. 8. Victory seemed certain. 9. But the English fired their guns ?rflong us, and many were stricken and ell. 10. Then the rulers took counsel together and decided that we should creep up to our enemies in the night and fall upon them in the still hours, when the sky is darkest. 11. Two hundred tried warriors went forth to creep up secretly to the camp of the unbelievers. We lay for two hours on the grass of the wet fields, waiting patient- ly until the command to advance was given by our captains. 12. Then the word came round from cap- tain to cnguin that the believers must be ready, and every man took his weapon, and slowly and without noise advanced upon the enemy. 13. When, behold, a gun of one of the hated infidels boomed forth, and lo! in- stead of balls and bullets there burst over the army of the Moslems a great light with mighty thunderings, and we thought night had been turned into day. 14. We cried unto the Lord for mercy. 15. Then the great light faded away. The priests had fled, and we were in the hands of the infidels, and I lay a helpless man, wounded and at the point of death. 16. The fort of Chitral was captured and Iam a prisoner. iven shot Forest Preservation Falls. What hope existed for the establishment of State forest reservations on the com- mendable plan suggested by Dr. Rothrock of the Pennsylvania Forestry Association has fallen through as one of the neglects of the Legislature to take action ona very important movement. The forest products of the State represent a revenue of $27,- 000,000 annually, and forest reservations, 80 vitally necesnri if anything shall be saved to the watershed system in sections now suffering every year from drought, could be established at a cost of $300,000. This sum would ]provide 120,000 acres of forests of constantly increasing value, and the $300,000 required to secure this result covers but three days’ earnings of the forests, anda is likewise less than what seven counties paid out in flood damages in the last two years.—Philadelphia Times. 2 Stk B s I'm All Unstrung, Is the remark of many & nervous individual. He ar she wlll 500n cease to talk that way after begin- ning and persisting in a course of Hostetter's Stom- ach Bitters. Nothing like it to renew strength and appetite and good digestion. It checks the inroads of malaria, and remedies liver complaint, consti- Ppation, dyspepsia, rheumatism and kidney disorder, It isin every seuse a great household remedy. | store. A FIREBUG'S AWFUL DEED, Dastardly Preparations for the Destruction of a Big Lodg- ing-House. WAS AVERTED BY CHANCE. Many Human Lives Placed in Peril for the Sake of Insurance Money. The lair of another firebug was dragged into the light of day by Fire Marshal Towe on Thursday afternoon, and it was discovered that only the slightest chance had prevented another large conflagration, which would have resulted not only 1n the destruction of a vast amount of property, but in a considerable loss of life as well. The man who had in contemplation the dastardly attempt cannot be tried for arson, for his plans miscarried and there was no fire, Should he be caught, how- ever, he will be prosecuted on a less seri- ous charge, and the circumstances sur- rounding his case will probably tend to secure for him the maximum penalty for his offense. According to Fire Marshal Towe the evi- dence adduced thus far pointsto a man named Jobn Moller as the guilty party. For seven months up to last Monday he occupied a small store at 229 Second street, under the Montgomery House. He dealt in cizars, cigarettes, tobacco and notions. On Monday last he sold out toa man named Francis X. Pach, and then disap- peared. The new proprietor started to clear up the place on ghumflay and his dis- coveries led to the conclusion that an in- cendiary, and a very cunning one, had been at work. Mr. Pack immediately telephoned to Fire Marshal Towe. That official lost no time n getting to 229 Second street and when he was shown the extent of the work of the would-be incendiary his indignation and wrath were great. The Muntgumer¥ House is a flimsy Ty wooden structure, dry as tinder, and had a match been applied to the stuff in the basement the building would have been ablaze in a few moments. Worse than this the fire would have started directly be- neath the stairs leading to the second story, cutting off all avenue of escape. A rickety wooden partition divides a small room from the store, and to this the attention of Marshal Towe was first directed. A con- siderable portion of the partition is taken up with shelving, on which are stowed cigar and cigarette boxes. Above the shelving was a large picture about four feet square, and scattered about were large cigarette cards bearing the portraits of actresses in brief costumes. Behind the pictures and cards were a number of anger holes. It was this which first excited Pach’s suspicions and then he | began a systematic search of the premises. There were auger holes through the floor | behind the counter, and there were holes withont number in the floor and wall of the little room partitioned off from the In one corner of this little room was a picture, which Marshal Towe hastily tore down, disclosing anaperture of about 4x6 feet in dimensions. Behind the hole was the dividing wall between the store and the house next to it. The Marshal put his hand in and drew forth a number of old rags and papers. Above and below the aperature the same condition of affairs obtained. Among the debris were found matches by the whole- sale, enough being taken out to fill four ci{m’»boxcs at least. Marshal Towe sent for Mr. Montgomery, the proprietor of the house. The latter stated that Moller roomed in his hostelry, but that he had not been seen for a couple of days. Towe then went to Moller’s room and found a well-worn overcoat and two old grips which had done much service. Montgomery was aghast at the discovery. He said that the house was fourteen years old, and that if a fire had ever been started not only the hotel but the entire block would have been de- stroyed. The ceilings are covered with cloth, which would have materially helped the flames. The draught in the shaft where the inflammable stuff was stored was something fearful—so strong, in fact, that a cloth hat placed_inside the aperture was carried up out of sight. The Marshal set to work immediately to discover a motive for arson, and it was not long before he had abundance of evidence in that direction. Moller, he says, is in- sured in four companies, and while his stock was only worth about $100, he car- ried insurance to the amount of $1200. “1 found that Moller has been trying to sell out for some time,” said the Marshal yesterday, “‘but was unable to do so. He no doubt contemplated the burning of the store from the fact that he was so neavily insured. Had he been successful in his plan he would not have received the in- surance money, as he had no right to in- sure in more than one company without notifying each that he wasalready insured. This would have annulled his policy. ‘“Had he been able to sell out fvdo not think that he would have meditated arson. Had a single match been dropped into that pile of intlammable stuff the result would have been something terrible. The build- ing would bave burned like powder, and the first thing which wowld have gone were the stairs leading from the upper stories. The occupants of the lodging- house would have been completely at the mercy of the flames, all retreat having been cut off. ““There is no doubt that Molier bored the holes, and if chance had not drifted Pach his way on last Monday another big fire with lamentable results would have been the consequence. He has evidently jumped the town, knowing that his work must sooner or later be discovered. He had bored the holes, and there was no way to remedy the damage he had done. so he probablg; decided to get away. If heis caught he will be arrested. I cannot prose- cute him on a charge of arson, as that crime was not committed, but Mr. Mont- gomery says that he will prosecute him for malicious mischief, and go with him as far as he can. The borings, of course, were made to increase the draught, and had the flames ever got a start nothing could have stopped them.” A LIVELY DAUBER HUNT. An Italian Angler Supplies Sport for Fishermen on the Great Kills. Few people know what a dauber hunt is, and yet it is an exciting chase, although the hunters seldom start ont with the in- tention of hunting. For the instruction of all who are wretchedly ignorant of the science of angling it may be well to state frankly that a dauber is the mysterious name which New York fishermen give to a float, that painted piece of cork which they watch so patiently. It is said that the word comes from the language of the na- tives of New Jersey, and probably that ac- counts for its bewildering etymology. The strangest thing about a dauber is the fact that its charm consists not so much in its graceful appearance as in its sudden dis- appearance. It is perfectly delightful when it goes out of sight, says the New York Sun. But a dauber hunt can perhaps be best described by a simple report of an incident that occurred the other day in the Great hooked two large weakfish; but he placed too much confitfence in his line, and stub- bornly refused to give the game an inch. The line parted just above the float. Away went the dauber at a lively rate, acting somewhat iike the duck which the islanders call a hell diver. The Italian pulled up his anchor, grabbed his oars and started after it. Bigine Gillis, the proprietor of the Ex- celsiof Hotel, was near by in another boat. He, too, broke out his_anchor and joined in the chase. Captain Wince Decker, a well-known boatman of the kills, also started after the runaway. Three or four more boats set out after the game,and soon the dauber hunt was in full blast. A noisier crowd it would be difficult to find, at least on the water. The wiles of that dauber were wonderful. It woula sometimes remain quietly on the surface, and then, when some hunter would have his hand aimost upon it, it would suddenly disappear and pop up again probably fifty or sixty feet away. Decker made several good attempts to catch it, but failed. At one time it came up almost alongside of Joe Gillis’ boat. The big fellow made a savage grab for it, aud came near going headforemost out of the boat. = The roar of laughter which followed his exploit brought all the old skippers out of the cabins of their oyster sloops, and they soon became interested spectators of the sport. At last Decker played a mean trick upon the dauber. He let his boat drift down toward it, and he grabbed it and brought in the two fine fish. Cheers and laughter were in order, and Decker pre- sented the fish to the man with the first mortgage on them, the delighted Italian. VINES ON A BLUE FIELD. Connecticut Is Debating the Form of the State Flags. The State flag that has been designed for Connecticut in response to the agitation started by the Daughters of the Reyolu- tion in Stonington is likely to cause no end of trouble. Throughout the State the veterans of the war are uniformly protesting against the idea. They hold that the flag under which they marched and fought as Con- necticut men should not now be changed. In the battle-flag corridor of the Capitol there are thirty of the old State banners, not one of which is in all respects uniform with another. This lack of uniformity was not objectionable to the troops. There isno law in the State that requires the State colors to be made on a specific design. The same is true with regard to the State seal. The constitution, which was adopted in 1818, provides that the seal of the State shall not be altered. But there is no law in the State defining exactly the form of the State seal. The constitution itself does not attempt the outlining of the seal of State, says the New York Times. In 1861 the Legislature, after the out- break of the war, made an effort to devise an official State flag. The idea of the pro- jectors of the official flag at that time was that it should be used from the flagstaff on the Capitol grounds. Greene Kendrick of Waterbury, a North Carolinian by birth, and a War Democrat, defeated the scheme in the House, with the remark that the United States flag was good enough for him. The protest was renewed later during the war and carried through both houses of the General Assembly. The fieldj of the tiag adopted wasa deep blue, and the three vines, which had been on the Connecticut flag from the outset, were on a groundwork of white. The design was nicknamed the Blue Peter by the Hartford Times, which applied one of Lord Byron’s lines to the new notion, and the name clung to it aslong as the General Assembly continued to hold its sessions in the capital on Main street, in this city. The Blue Peter was always brought our during the last three or four days of the session, and floated from the old legislative halls, signifying that the ship of State was about to set sail. The State seal, which has always been used on the flags of Connecticut, will be on the new banner. This seal has played an interesting part in the financial history of Connecticut, as well as in its military achievements. The first issue of bills of credit was made by Connecticut in 1709. The General Assembly ordered that they should be stamped in accordance with the decision of the Governor and Council. That body in June, 1709, directed that the bills should all be stamped with the arms of the colony. On the small bills issued in 1777 the seal regresenmd had but one vine. A seal having but one vine has been used in the office of Secretary of State for seal- ing letters. The seal with three vines has been used since 1711. The committee of the present Legislature which has the project for a new State flag in charge appears to be di- vided, some of the more conservative standing bK the flags that were used in the war. On the other hand, some of the com- mitteemen are urging the necessity for a change. — - SAN FRANCIS00 THE GREAT PORT Honolulu Not the Central Point of Pacific Ocean Navigation. Captain Sigsbee, the naval hydrographer, has developed a remarkable fact relative to steam navigation on the Pacific Ocean, which seems to indicate that the strategi- cal importance of the Hawaiian Islands is not so great as has been claimed by pro- moters of annexation sentiment, writes the Washington correspondent of the New York Times. It has been customary to draw straight lines on the map of the Pacific from the chief ports of the American Continent and Asia, which, intersecting near Honolulu, were alleged to demonstrate the central position of that harbor as the natural stop- pi"f point on trans-oceanic voyages. Itis well-known, however, that a great circle of the earth is the shortest lane between any points on the globe, and in an investi- gation of the steamer routes which would have to be adopted on the Nicaraguan canal it was discovered that the harbor of San Francis¢o was incomparably more im- portant than any other on the Pacific, waile Honolulu was more than 1000 miles off the most direct steamer route of all yoy- ages between North American and Asiatic ports. Taking the harbor of Brito, the western terminus of the projected canal, and as- suming that much of the traffic through the canal will be carried to and from Yoko- hama and_ Hongkong, the discovery is made that San Francisco is the most favor- ably located coaling goint on_the route, The great circle from Brito to Yokohama cuts Yucatan, Texas, Utah and Oregon, and is tangent to the chain of the Aleutian Islands and the coast line of Japan. The closest approximation of this line prac- ticable for the steamers is along the west cogst of Central America, Mexico and Lower California, crossing the ocean in a circle of 2000 miles’ radius, of which Ha- waii i practically the center. The conclu- sions of the hydrographer are as follows: The unbroken great cirele from Brito to Yo- kohoma measures 7022 knots; the shortest practical steamer route from Brito_to Yoko- ama is 7145 knots; from Brito to San Fran- cisco 2700 knots; from San Franclsco to Yoko- hama 4536 knots. Total distance from Brito to Yokohama, via san Francisco, is 7236 knots. Therefore, the shortest possible route for steamers from Brito to Yokohamsa, via San Francisco, exceeds by only 91 knots the short- est possible direct route from Brito to Yoko- hama. By the Honolulu route the distances are from Brito to Honolulu 4210 knots; Hono- lulu to Yokohama 3399 knots; total 7609 knots. Therefore, the shortest ible route between Brito and Yokohama, via San Fran- ¢cisco, 1s 373 knots shorter. than by way of Honolulu. In the event of the completion of the canal, itis believed from these figures that the position of San Francisco will make it Kills of Staten Island. An Italian hired a boat and rowed out to the mouth of the kills, where he anchored and began to fish. With high hopes beaming in his eyes he steadily watched his dauber. It floated around lazily for some time and then stood still suspiciously, as if bhesi- tating before taking a plunge. In another second it was gone. The angler struck his g:;\e, and discovered immediately that he 8 hard struggle on hand. "He had the paramount port of the Pacific. It is noticeable that few merchant vessels or warships can steam more than 5000 knots without renewing theiri fuel supply, and that San Francisco mus:l therefore become a great coaling station and naval rendez- vous. i — e The Duke of Wellingtion said that the first t.hms he learned from his mother was !.‘h ‘‘Lord’s Prayer.” Latp in life he uid' 1t is the most sublime of compositions.’ A T ATREMENDOU NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. ~=H-O -G£~ S SAGRIFICE To keep up the unparalleled record of our Great Sacrifice Clearance Sale and to meet the expectations of our regular bargain-day patrons we offer TO-DAY’S GREAT SPECIALS! HANDKERCHIEES! At 10 Cents Each. LADIES’ WHITE SCALLOPED EM- BROIDERED SHEER LAWN HAND- KERCHIEFS (slightly imperfect), reg- ulazprice 20c, will be closed out at 102 each. At 15 Cents Each. LADIES’ WHITE SCALLOPED EM- BROIDERED SHEER LAWN HAND- KERCHIEFS, regular price 2¢, will be closed out at 15¢ each. VEILING ! VEILING! At e, 20¢ and 25¢ a Yard. CHENILLE DOTTED TUXEDO VEIL-; ING, single widths, 15¢, 20c and 25c. Double widths, 30¢, 40c and 50c. Extra | values. LACE COLLARS! At 50¢, 60¢ and 75¢ Each. | BUTTER POINT VENISE VANDYKE LACE COLLARS, extra valuesat 50c, | 60c and 73c each. | HOSIERY ! HOSIERY! At 15 Cents a Pair, CHILDRENS' FINE RIBBED BLACK COTTON HOSE, double knees, heels and toes, guarranteed fast black, regu- lar value 25c. At 15 Cents a Pair. LADIES' FINE BLACK COTTON HOSE, high-spliced heels and toes, Hermsdorf black, regular value 25c. At 20 Cents a Pair. LADIES’ FANCY HOSE, Richelien rib- bed, black boot and colored top combi- nations, odd sizes, regular value 50c. At 25 Cents a Pair, LADIES' BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE, made with white feet, spliced heelsand toes, Hermsdorf dye, regular price 35c. GLOVES! GLOVES! At 50 Cents. 100 dozen LADIES’ 8-BUTTON LENGTH MOUSQUETAIRE UNDRESSED KID GLOVES, in blue, green, red, helio- trope, purple, copper and terra cotta shades, regular value $1, will be closed out at 50c a pair. At 75 Cents. 80 dozen LADIES 4BUTTON KID GLOVES (large buttons), in dark and medium tan shades, also black, regular value $1 25, will be closed out at 75¢ a pair. RIBBONS! RIBBOAS ! At 10 Cents. No. 122-INCH ALL-SILK, BLACK SATIN AND GROS-GRAIN RIBBON, will be closed out at 10c a yard. At 12} Cents. No.12 2-INCH EXTRA HEAVY BLACK ALL-SILK, SATIN and GROS-GRAIN RIBBON, will be closed out at 12%c a yard. At 15 Cents. No. 16 23 INCH ALL-SILK, BLACK SATIN AND GROS-GRAIN RIBBON, will be closed out at 15¢ a yard. At 25 Cents. 30 3%-INCH ALL-SILK. BLACK SATIN AND GROS-GRAIN RIBBON, will be closed out at 25¢ a yard. No. PARASOLS ! PARASOLS! At $1.00. 24inch BLACK GLORIA SUN-SHADES, natural handles, paragon frames, will be closed out at $1 each. At $1.60. 24-inch BLACK GLORIA SUN-SHADES, in silver and Dresden handles, will be closed out at $1 60 each. LADIEN WAISTS! At 50 Cents. LADIES’ WAISTS, made of heavy pere cale, in fancy striples and figures, laun. dried collar and cuffs, regular price $1, will be offered at 50c. At 75 Cents. LADIES’ WHITE LAUNDRIED SHIRT ‘WAISTS, tucked and plain front, full sleeves, regular price $150, will be offered at 75c. “ At 75 Cents. LADIES' LAUNDRIED SHIRT WAIST, made of fine percale, in pink, blue, black and lavender, regular price $1 50, will be offered at 75¢. At $1.00. LADIES’ WHITE LAWN WAISTS, ex- tra full sleeves, yoke back, plaited front, collars trimmed with embroide ery, regular price $1 50, will be offered WEN'S FURNISHINGS! At 35 Cents. 78 dozen MEN’S AND BOYS’ UNLAUN- DRIED WHITE SHIRTS, made of good heavy muslin, with double backs and reinforced all-linen fronts, extra good value for 50c, will be closed out a 35¢ each. At 10 Cents. FULL-FINISHED ME. ,in vicuna and undyed 0 a dozen, will r. RINO SOCKS, in colors, regular price §2 be closed out at 10c a p: At 35 Cents. 65 dozen MEN'S and BOYS’ NEGLIGER OVERSHIRTS, made extra large and of fine quality fancy stripe duckings, extra good value for 65¢, will be closed out at 35¢ each. At 65 Cents. 42 dozen MEN'S EXTRA FINE BAL- BRIGGAN UNDERSHIRTS AND DRAWERS, in vicuna and tan shades, usually sold for $1, will be closed out at 65c each. Murphy Building, , Market and Jones Streets. Murphy Building, Murphy Building, Market and Jones Streets. * Market and Jones Stresfs. THE REAL BOUILLABAISSE. George Augustus Sala Savs It Is a Mess Not Fit to Be Eaten. Some twenty years ago I crossed from Oran in Algeriato Carthagena in Spain. It was a cattle steamer, and the only passen- gers were the owner of the cattle and my- self. He was a big, pburly, rough-looking, but good-natured Marseillais, who bragged incessantly about his oxen and his heifers, and, I am afraid, romanced a little. He had been, he said, the ‘‘conducteur’” of a dili- gence who had made hisway. Atall events, he was a capital cook,and gave us every day a fresh sample of the Provencal kitchen. I can see him now chiopping up the mate- rials for a bouillabaisse. One of the ship’s boys brought him a large earthen pot. and into this he threw onions, garlic, oil, and—tell it not in Gath—sliced potatoes. Then he added indiscriminately a quantity of fish, with salt, pepper and mustard. “Now,” said he, when he nad finished, ‘“‘take this to the galley and tell the cook to put it on a feu d’enfer.”” There was no lass of water per head there; no slices of Eam, no Madeira. It was the real old sav- age bouillabaisse, such as pirates and smugglers might prepare on a rock and eat with horn spoons. And, again, observe the | curious affinity that exists between the bouillabaisse of the Mediterranean and the clam chowder of New England. Into the American fish stew are introduced slices of salt pork and ‘‘crackers,” or biscuits; but the principle of the two messes is the same, writes (teorge Augustus Sala in the Lon- don Telegraph. : | And I have not the_slightest doubt that | the chowder of New England was origin- | ally a pirate’s dish, which may have been devoured with great gusto by Captain Kyd and his rascally companions. It was at Marseilles last Christmastide that I re- solved to make a clean breast of it, and to liberate my soul in the matter of bouilla- baisse. The matter came about in this wise: I wason my way to Niceand Rome, | very ill, and forfour days I was snowed up in Marsellles. The railway ser- vice was stopped, the cabs, omnibuses and tramcars had ceased to ply, and the street pavements were so uniformly cov- ered with the verglas, or frozen rain, that you began to contemplate the expediency | of crawling up and down the Cannebiere | on all fours. At the expiration of the four days it thawed; I was remote, unfriended, melan- choly and slow, and I thought it might be a distraction to take a carriage to the re- ! serve and philosophize a little on bouiila- baisse. Not asingle soul was to be seen at the big restaurant, but a waiter informed me that several ladies and gentlemen had breakfasted there that morning and that four cabinets particuliers had been engaged for the day after to-morrow. He also was | a Marseillais and was possibly drawing the long bow. Atall events, 1 had the princi- | pal saloon to myself and the waiter was good enough to light a fire, which, after balf an hour, warmed, I should say, about | a twentieth part of the room. Bouillabaisse, of course. I hadZno appe- tite and toyed with the dish. but there was some very good chablis and the cheese was excellent. The waiter was a very in- telligent fellow and told me a great deal about Provencal cookery. There was ail- loli, which is a kind of paste or pomatum made of pounded garlic, oil, butter and crumb of oread. This horrible compost is eaten as a condiment with any kind of dish youchooseto name. Then thereis bourride, | which is a fish soup thickened with yelks ' of eggs, and brandade is fresh cod boiled with omons,‘fulie' oil, white pepper, lau- rel Jeaves and sage. It was brandade, by the way, that, under the first empire, laid the foundations of the fortune of the Trois Freres Provenceaux. The three brothers, who were all good cooks, brought with them to Paris their recipe for brandade and other Procencal dishes; but I do note think that bouillabaisse was patronized by Talleyrand, or Cambaceres, or Fouche, the great arbiters of aazin% in the days of the First Napoleon. Isatlongin the big saloon of the Reserve, wrapped in an astrachan pelisse, moodily emoking and meditating on bouillabaise. I am con- vinced that it is an imposture. I am sure that any intelligent medical man would tell us that all this oil and all this garlic cannot be conducive to health. In short, bouillabaisse is a delusion and a snare that should be exposed and held up to odium. e The Proper Use of a Shotgun. A good sportsman is familiar with his piece, and brave enotgh to be afraid of it. From the time he takes it out of the case | the muzzle of the barrels is on his mind | until he has taken it to pieces, cleaned itI and put it away in his case. When he starts out in the morning. he takes out the barrels, and pointing them toward the earth as he holds them in his left hand, he springs the stock into its place with his | right. Then having fixed on the little piece of wood which clinches the two parts together, he passes his right arm amundf the barrels, so that as he carries it the stock points up and behind him at an angle of about forty-five degrees, and the barrels point down toward the earth at a similar angle in front of him. Around his waist or in his pockets he carries cartridges. No charge goes into his gun until he has not only left the house but actually arrived on the grounds where he expects to find game. If he bas to drive to the proper woods or the shooting stands or blinds he places the piece in the bottom of the wagon pointing out toward the rear, never once allowing 1t to point toward himself nor any one else who may be standing by. If he is near enough to the woods or shore to walk he carries the gun as described—un- loaded—until he reaches the proper place. When climbing over fences, whether with cartridges in place or not, he places the gun under the fence flat on the ground, climbs over or under and then picks it up from the other side. Resting a shooting- piece against a fence or wall in an upright position shows the greenhorn or the care- less and, therefore, poor sportsman.— Harper’'s Round Table. B N Golf balls were at one time made by compressing a hatful of feathers into a little pocket of bulls hide cured with alum. They were shaped more like an egg than the perfect round gutta nowin use. There | was a prejudice against the guttas when they first came. How elegant, how fetching how cool and comfortable looking: OH! how reasonable in price, everything considered! Can it be that they are actually made here? Such remarks are occasioned by a window display of STANDARD NEGLIGEE SHIRTS. ALL DEALERS. 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