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AUCTION SALES.
FUTURE DAYS. y
r ATcLIFFE. DARR CO.. .Auctioneen.
TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
PROPERTY, BEING HOUSE NUMBERED 1000
STREET NORTHWEST. GEORGETOWN

Under and BY virtue Of deed Of trust to NJ made on
the 10th day Of July. A. D. 1892. and duly recorded
amonE the land records OF the District af Columbia
in Iber 1885, folio 45l. and At the request Of the
parties secured thereby We will sell ct public auction
TY-FIRST, 1898. At HALF-PAST FOUR p M ali
that certain piece or parcel Of land and premises
um6is known n, A., Nd diissssinsuished and b.
Georgstown. being in square No. 81. BEGINNING for
of West street three hundred and one O) feet more
less from the southwest corner Of West and wash
ington streets (said point Of beginning being the
middle Of the party wall between the house Numbered
5000 p street northwest and the house on the east
thereof and running thence west with the line OF
West street twenty t2 feet to the middle Of the
party wall between said house No. 5000 street
northwest and the house the west thereof thence
south and parallel with WashinRton street one hun
with West street twentyeight (2S) feet and themes
north to the place of beainnine
Terms OF sale: One-half Of the purchase money In
cash. balance in two equal payments at one and two
years from the date Of sale, with six (8 per cent
interest per annum. payable semi annually The
deferred payments to be represented by notes Of
tho purchaser and secured by deed of trust on the
property. all cash. at the option Of the purchaser
deposit Of two hundred dollars (S2OO) will be re-
Quired At time OF sale The terms must be Complied
with In ffteen days from sale or the trustees re-
serve the right to iesel at the risk and Of
faulting purchaser or purchasers All conveyancing
anu hoBT T. w Ss cost
GEORGE " Wv w 4 + E w. Trustees.
Of y
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Saved by a Tramp.

The tramp does so few things to
does do something it is worthy of
being recorded. A fonr-year-old'girl
was playing with some companions the
other day around fire of leaves that
had been kindled near their home, In
the upper part OF New York City,
when her clothing caught fire and in
moment she wes all in q blaze. Her
frightened playmates ran screaming
from her and she was in the most i'm
nllinent peril, when l. tramp, who hap
pened to be passing, ran to her, and,
Jerking off his tattered coat, wrapped
it around the child und smothered the
flames. He then took the baby III
his arms and carried her to her mother.
During the excitement that followed,
the tramp went away and nobody
knows who he was.-New Orleans
Picayune.
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A Gallant Though Needless Act.

'1n Chicago, during the hardest palt
of the winter" said William Munsel
the other day, "I was walking alona
Dearborn street holding my ears and
pressing along through the crowd OF
other half frozen people on the street.
Presently I noticed young lady in
evident distress. She was ravishlngly
beautiful. Having been in the drug
business several years. I was well ac-
ouainted with corns, chilblains and
frost bites and their :. remedies. Ny
practised eye detected o dangerous
symptom.
"The end of the charming young
lady's nose was as white as china egg,
while the remainder Of it was as red as
a tomato. Her nose is frozen and she
doesn't know it, thought. Quick as
a flash I sprang to her side and with
my custo mary gallantry proffered my
assistance. Before she could answer L
did what knew the occasion demand
ed, and I grabbed up handful OF snow
and rubbed her nose.
"Her face flushed with indignation,
and 1 hurried on before she could thank
me. The next day young man-her
on me Mt my hotel and
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80 increase it's strength, since the DOW.

so increase it's strength, since the pow.
der gas must first overcome this COM
preston before it begins to strain the
tube. This is the reason why "built
up" gun is stronger than one made of
a single casting. The condition is
somewhat similar to two trains, one at
rest (the case of the single casting) and
the other backing. The engine of the
first can start ahead without much ex-
penditure of force while that of the
latter has first to overcome the retro
grade motion before it can start ahead,
and, therefore, must expend much
more force. The "built up" gun
whose tube is under o strain of COM
preston can for similar reason stand
much greater powder pressure be-
fore bursting than o gun made by a
single casting.
When the jacket is finished it is
placed in a hot air furnace and heated
to about $50 degrees. This heat causes
it to expand sufficiently to be placed
over the tube. To assemble the tube
and jacket the former is placed on end
in shrinkage pit in the middle section
of the factory, and the jacket, after be-
ing heated, is slowly lowered into place.
1t is then cooled by stream of water
which is thrown against it. The hoops
are next finished, and as soon as the
jacket is cool q row of hoops are shrunk
on one by one in q similar manner ex-
tending from the jacket to. the muzzle.
1t is necessary to still further increase
the strength of the gun over the bottom
of the bore, where the powder pressure
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perspiration. His shirt sleeves were
rolled up. A few yards away, in her
cage at the Hagenback menageried
Kitty was painting and swearing.|
Her whole six or eight feet of brown
and black stripes quivered with rage.
Kitty is one OF the largest tigresses in
the mammoth menagerie. and she had
Just submitted most unwillingly to an
operation that costher tooth. 4
For three weeks past Kitty has been
the victim of a remorseless toothache
"a regular old-fashioned, double1
action anguish that tied knots in her
tail and kept her awake nights.
Kitty's howls kept the whole menag-
erie awake. She used to tramp up and
down her cage and knock her head
against the wall to see if that would
produce any good results. The entire
population was in despair.
Life was not worth living at the
Hagenback hostelry. There we're
ponies, high-bred animals with Wallets
to put their names in paper and sand
paper their backs into glossiness, who
had not had as much sleep in week.
as Brighton Park policeman secures
in one hour of duty. Something had
to be done about it. Poultices we're
tried, and Kitty swallowed half dozen
the first night. They gave her indi!
gestion, and she was more demoDstra-;
tive than ever. They tried opiates.1
Professor Mauss determined upon O
radical reform yesterday.
Kitty, after night-long din, was
resting peacefully. To her entered the
professor, Likewise the professors two
assistants and rope. Kitty merely
blinked and smacked her lips at the
possibility of masticating another poul-
tice. A moment and stalwart 1S0-
pound man was sitting on her head and
each of her four paws were grasped in;
o moose. ....:.
".We can hold Forepaughs at this
mensgerie business any time" said tho
professor.
Kitty struggled and howled and
frothed at the mouth, but it was all in
vain. There was dexterous twirl of
the professors pliers, sharp twinge
in her lower jaw, and peace had been
won for the wild beast show. Chicago
Times.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES

Belgium has 15O, 900 ''schnapps" houses.
and only 5000 schools.
Lord Randolph Churchill, 1t is announced.
has become strict total abstainer.
In Lockhart's Cocoa Rooms, London, 3G75
persons signed the pledge during the year
1892
The Old Colony Railroad refuses transpor-
tation to passengers under the influence OF
liquor.
Chinese wine, made from liquor distilled
from rice, has been found by analysis to con-
tain 1892 per cent. OF alcohol
In 1891. the arrests for drunkenness in Ire
land amounted to 100 528. an increase OF over
26 per cent since 1887, when the number
stood ut 5000.
The total quantity OF wine exported from
tho champagne districts OF Europe the first
three months OF this year. amounted to 2l..
03S.213 bottles.
Senator Stanford. Of California, has made
arrangements for the erection OF GREAT
winc-celar ana brandy bondc:. warehouse III
Port Costa. in that State.
The Davarian Government lcvies i9.000,0 ,00)
q year Oh the br3wcrics. while the in:ome y!
ali the North German States FROM tho, same
source is only SG,GC3,Oo0.
Ensign Frye was recently tried by co"7:.
martial il New Yori; City on charge 0.
drunkenness. and sentenced. with the &p-
proyal OF the Secretary o! tho Navy. to be
suspended from ranhand duty fo- Il period
OF three years on GurlouSh pay.
DR.. L. w. Richardson, now its senior phys
ician, al tho recent annual public meeting oi
the London Temperance Hospital, stated G.at
during all the time Of his connection with the
place he hud never occasion to pres eribe a.
coho! to patient in. any form, no matter
hoT serious the cause.
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How Parrots Shaped Americas Destiny


A flight of birds, coupled with q
sailors superstition. robbed Columbus
of the honor of discovering the conti-
nent. 1t is q curious but historical
fuct. When Columbus sailcd vest.
ward over the unknown Atlantic he
expected to reach zipangu (Japan).
After several days sail from Gomera,
one of the Canary Islands, he became
uneasy at lot discovering Zipangu,
which, according to his reckoning,
should have been PIG nautical miles
more to the east. After q long discus
sion he yielded to the opinion OF Mar.
tin Alonzo Pinzon, the commander OF
the Pinta, and steered to the south
west. Pinzon was guided in his opin-
ion solely by flight Of parrots, which
took wing in that direction. It was
good luck to follow in the wake of
flock of birds when engaged upon
voyage of discovery a widespread
superstition among Spanish scamcn OF
that day-and this change in the great
navieator's course curiously exempi-
fies the influence of small and appar-
emily trivial events in the worlds his
tory. If Columbus had held to his
course he would have entered the Gulf
Stream, have reached Florida, and
then probably have been carried to
Cape Hatteras and Virginia. 'Neyer,"
wrote Humboldt, ''had the flight OF
birds more important consequences"
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
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The !; Meerkat Eof South Africa.

The meerkat of South Africa resem.
bles in it's habits and characteristics
the prairie dog of America, but it is
much more cunning and intelligent
and makes charming pet, being easily
tanned. In the South African karroo
the meerkat lives in little colonies like
the prairie dog, and travellers driving
through the veldt will come across
families of them sitting upright in the
sun and maintaining their positions
until they are approached quite closely,
when they scatter like mice and run
into their holes. They are very pretty,
bright-eyed, nimble little creatures,
soft and furry and very fond of their
captors. They are 30 quantity made
and marked that one entertains the
idea that they have been sewed into
their skins by hand, and the curious
seam which extends their entire length,
and the neat way in which their dainty
claws and small feet and ears are fin
ished of, adds to this process of the
imagination. They are very fond of
dogs, and of whom even the largest
they are not afraid, and the tame meer-
kat invariable chooses for q soft pillow
the outstretched form of the skye or
collie in the family, and burrows in
the warm coat with great satisfaction.
They love the sun, and may be seen
early il the morning turned toward it,
sitting up in their peculiar manner
and blinking. with satisfaction as they
feel the warm-rays enveloping them.
The meerkat follows its owner when
adopted-much: as a faithful dog does,
and it is more picturesque object. 1t
is full of tricks, steals boldly anything
it wants, and is brimful of mischief.
Then, when it is scolded for it's naugh-
tiness, it sits up and begs forgiveness
in such funny attitute of mock hu:
mility, that the rogue is Mt once taken
into favor and carressed like naughty
child.
These little creatures have natural
faculty of changing into different
shapes and postures with lightning
like rapidity. At one moment the
meerkat is quite formidable animal,
sitting up andregarding you with large,
serious eyes. Then it is as soft and
timber as bag of feathers, stretched
out on the ground, and it can curl it.
self into ball and roll into corner,
where its bits of ears and clusters of
feet resemble the ornaments on some
decorative object. Indeed, to look
pretty and beguile its owners with its
mimic ways seems to be it's sole object
in life.
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is the greatest; consequently the jacket
has shrunk overit row of hoops. The
gun is now almost completed, though
it still has to be placed in the lathe to
be rifed and turned on the outside.
When this is finished the breech mech
anism is fitted and the gun is ready for
shipment to the proving ground. Every
gun after completion is thoroughly
tested on the proving ground before it
is sent to the fort where it is to be
mounted. The sea coast guns in our
service weigh from fourteen to sixty
tons and cost on the average of $1,000 q
ton.
The smaller guns are made in SIM
liar manner in the old gun shop and
differ from the one described only in
having fewer number OF pieces. Some
of the smaller guns can be completed
in few weeks time, but to complete
gun OF the largest calibre it requires
several months Of continuous work.
New York Herald.
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wing is 400 feet long and 12Sfeet wide;
the central section is 165 feet long,
and the south wing is 400 feet long and
1853 feet wide. The extra width OF this
wing is to accommodate the enormous
lathes (some of which are over one hun
dred feet long) which are needed for
the manufacture of the largest callbre
guns.
The shops are filled with lathes, bor-
ing mills, drills, slotting, milling and
rifinc machines. Overhead, running
the entire length of the building, whose
total length is 965 feet, are two travel
ing cranes capable of carrying the
huge masses of metal to any part OF the
building.
The manufacture of gun is very
interesting operation. A modern high
power gun is complex structure
"built up" or composed of number
cf parts. There are two reasons for
'sbuilding up" gun. First, it makes
it stronger; second, since the parts
used are made from smaller masses of
metal, the quality of the metal can be
made better and quite uniform The
rough forgings, from which the parts
of the gun are made, are made ut pri-
yate works for the Government and
shipped to the factory, where they are
carefully inspected to see that they
fulfil the requirements.
The piece which forms the part next
to the bore of the gun and which is
called the tube is. first picked up by
the travelling crane, and placed in one
of the huge lathes to he turned and
bored to the proper size. This tube is
the longest piece in the gun. By it.
self it would not be strong enough to
stand the powder pressure, SO it has to
be strengthened by "hoops" and a
'jacket."
When the tube is finished the jacket,
which is the first piece assembled. " is
turned and bored. The interior Of the
Jacket is slightly smaller than the ex-
terror of the tube, so that when as
sembled it will compress the tube and
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foot of East Eleventh street. 1t is the

foot of East Eleventh street. 1t is the
property OF George Hagemeyer 4 Sons.
The log was cut on the farm of Uncle
Sammy, Soggens, two and a half miles
southeast of Bedford, Ind. 1t was in
tended for exhibition at the Worlds
Fair, but after telling it the base was
found to be rotten and had to be cut
off, This materially lessened the size
of the log.
1t is 40 feet long, 81 feet in di-
ameter OF the base, Al feet at the top,
weighs III tons, and is thought to be
400 years old. The log was brought
from the West on two fiat cars. 1t will
have to be blasted to cut in two, as mo
sawmill in New York can handle q
stick over twenty-eight feet IN length.
The monster will be cut up into coun'
ter tops. New York Sun.
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tions, the most intricate and careful
preparation of designs, and skilled
workmanship scarcely second to that
required in the manufacture of the
finest watches. It was necessary for
the United States Government, in or
der to insure certain supply of guns,
to establish National gun factory for
the army, and also one for the navy.
While these factories are sufficiently
large to supply the peace demands,
they could not supply the demands in
case of war. To provide for the latter
emergency, instead of increasing the
plant of the established factories, it
was deemed wiser, by giving sufficient
ly large contracts for guns to private
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SAILORS AND dHod.

A Boston paper notes that Of all the ships
assembled at the late naval parade the Ameri-
cans were the only ones on which liquor was
not regularly served to the sailors. On the
British, Russian and German ships ration
OF some distilled liquor is served out to each
man daily On the French and Italian YES
sells, it is said, a cGsk OF light wine stands
where every man can help himself whenever
he wants it. The foreign officers believe that
liquor helps the men withstand cold and
fatigue. The Americans do not think SO !;
and their position seems to be maintained by
recent experiments on whaling, vessels in the
Arctic Ocean. A writer, who has just re-
turned from long whaling voyage, says
lone Of the curses OF life at seq has been the
use of grog. Formerly liquor was thought
to be necessary for men in the Arctic, but ex-
perience has proved it to be harmful instead
of beneficial, and only in cases OF great dis
tress is it now used. Strong coffee has taken
its place, and on every whaler. during times
of great exposure or unusual fatigue, strong
hot coffee is always at hand, grog never. ~
Picayune.
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Occasionally docile and apparently
happy tame meerkat will suddenly 60
back to it's wild life, which it can never
again be induced to leave, not even by
its chosen playmates, the dogs, with
which it has been happily associated.
Many of these little animals are
taken to England by travellers, and
domiciled among other household pets,
where they are regarded as objects OF
curiosity and made much Of in con-
sequence, for no matter how many
larger or older pets there may be in
the family, the lordly meerkat at once
assumes and keeps the egotistical atti'
tude of spoiled child.-Detroit Free
Press
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lo!. the. truth had been revealed daunt-
lessly.
Farmer John regarded her in silence
for moment; then, cultural, choking
cry in his throat, he flashed out:
And this is true2"
yes; am his wife"
The burly form trembled, the great
knotted hands went up in the air in
furious gesture, the lurid eyes glowed
with the pent-up rage Of an unmastered
spirit.
Then gol" he almost yelled. Cor
and he flung open the door with crash.
you are no child OF mine; you have
chosen the jail-bird, the scoundrel; 80
find him. 1 pray heaven that my eyes
shall never again rest on the child who
def1ed my authority, wrecked my
life, and broken my heart. Girl, ours!
you, disown you out of my heart ano
out Of my home. Go! You are no child
Of mine!"
fro BE CoNTINUEp
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TEMPERANCE;

:. THE RIeHT sHALL 'REvArI.
Lo! clouds about to vanish3
From the day;
And o brazen wrong to crumble
Into clay.
Lo the rights about to conquer
Clear the way.
With the right shall many more
Enter smiling at the door;
With this giant wrong shall fall
Many others, great and small,
That for ages long have held US for
Their prey.
Men OF thought, and meE Of action
Clear the way.
Robert Mackay
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firms to induce them to introduce gun
making as branch of their business,
80 that at the present day there are a
number Of steel works capable of build
ing guns equal to those turned out at
the National factories.
The army gun factory is situated at
Watervliet arsenal, West Troy, n. Y.
The grounds contain over one hundred
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noRrsa rHE TuRE OF TwELvE-NCH GUN.

demanded an explanation. / explained
you duffer, he said, that was only o
daub of face powder on her nose He
went off laughing, and now he and ]
and the young lady are good friends
But you can imagine how I felt over
the mistake. ."-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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OBTAINING DRuNKARDs IN AsY1UMs.

The British Home Secretary, Mr.. Asquith,
has drafted u bill, which adds another to the
experiments in the care OF drunkards. 1t
empowers magistrates to order that drunk
ards whose conduct shows that they are not
responsible for their actions. shall be de-
tnined in curative asylums The main diff
Guilty would be, we imagine, in finding out
when they are cured, unless Dr.. Keeley will
take the JOB and agree to warrant q cure
Independent
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acres, and are advantageously located
on the Hudson River and Erie Canal.
The factory consists of the old gun
shop connected with the large new gun
shop the former is devoted principally
to the manufacture of guns of smaller
calibres, and the latter to the manufac-
ture of large calibre guns. The new
building consists of two wings con-
nected by a central section. The north
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The output of the famous Kimberley
diamond fields in South Africa is
limited to s25, 900, 600 yearly. The
product might be twice rs great, but
it is not deemed wise to throw too
many of the precious stones on the
market.
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CHAPTER vi.
DISOWNED.

Il cannot, dare not tell you!
The words seemed to sound doom,
disaster to oil Ruth Elliott's hopes-the
despairing misery in Paul Dalton's eyes
crushed her.
She had pleaded for an answer to that
wild appeal, to know if he was innocent
Sr guilty, for the sake Of the love that
was breaking her poor, anxious heart.
aud he had replied to her thus!
The clinging hands relaxed with q
shudder. Terror in her eyes, she sur
veyed him in dubious dread.
aOh, my love-" she walled brokenly,
you cannot mean that the cruel words
Ralph Prescott spoke are true!" He
said you we're"
AN ex-convictI" cried Paul, the jar
ing dissonance Of tortured accents in
his tones. Did he not also say that he
could prove it, and The laughed
harshly, bitterly-"I am powerless to
vefute him."
Ruths eyes distended with shivering
anxiety.
Then it Is true?" she gasped. -
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A StyIisb Simmer Hat.

The summer hat shown here is
large shape of ecru lace straw bent IN
front. On the left large double fans
of ecru silk muslin in plaits are held
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PulKag%a' Tigers Tooth.

Professor Fritz Mauss gently wiped
the blood from q pair of gas-itter's'
pliers yesterday afternoon. :,
'1t is harder to pull a tigers toe a,
than on alderman's leg," he remarked,
under the impression that he wasquot-
ing from the proverbs of Solomon.
The professor was in, profused
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Fronk Austin. of Eckerly. Ird. had

Frank Austin, of Eckerly. Ird., had
a collie dog that was very fond OF him.
He was going on journey the other
day, and the dog wantedto accompany
him. Austin drove him from the
train, and the dog was SO detected that
he lay before the engine, and the train
passed over him.