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Evening star., 1894-04-04

Senator voorhees, argument in behalf of
the Wilson tariff bill would have been more
nearly pertinent, stronger and more credit
able had he confined himself to discussion
OF the measure. Had he done so his nro-
cedure would have accorded with a reason
able custom and he would not have been
as he now is, fit subject for severe condem-
nation. The Senator from Indiana is af-
nlcted with eloquence, and only once in a
While can the eloquent man so control him
seir as to be bound closely by facts and in
disputable figures. The speech delivered by
Senator VOORHEES, on Monday afternoon was
almost anarchistic and will rise, perhaps in
the near future, to trouble its author more
than all other of his many utterances. 1t
was not an impromptu address into which
error might creep or undue warmth be gen.
Grated; it was a carefully prepared and de-
hberately delivered Grafton. What excuse
can the Senator offer for depicting Ameri-
can men of means as a favored class? What
was his object when be, without warrant of
truth, declared that the man of wealth is
practically tax-free while the laboring mass
es are burdened with imposts? Does he pro-
pose to handicap the active minds and bodies
Of those who from small beginnings have
achieved or are achieving financial prosper
ity? By what authority does he declare
that wealth in this country grows "fatter,
stronger and more defiant as the days and
the years go by or that he who has spent
his life in making an amusement of
wealth looks out on the poor. tired. toiling
world as If from fortified castle. He feels
himself sumptuously provisioned against all
wants, and amply protected against all con-
tact or concern with the labor-stained mil
lions who struggle from one ocean to the
f0r Of owls
Voorhees, make it a crime to be prosperous?
Is he intent on the cultivation of medi-
ocrity? Does he propose to lead the hordes
of the enviously worthless who, under the
blood-red flag, would achieve the liberty,
equality. fraternity of the commune? 1t
would seem though he were preparing to
do something of the sort, for with every ap-
pearance of sincerity, he declared that the
time has come for test to be made be-
tween the power of boarded money and the
power of productive labor; that the people
from this time forward, more than ever be-
fore, will organize and take rapid and heroic
measures against the continued and brutal
dictation of the plutocracy, against the
paramount influence of wealth, against the
rule and supremacy of the rich in shaping
the financial policy of this government in
their own interests. And when the
contest comes, as it will speedily, and in
many ways and forms. the bankers. money
changers, usurers, and possessors of mill
lions who have provoked it will stand
aghast at the consequences of their own
folly; they will figuratively. if not literally,
cry out for the rocks and hills to hide them
from the wrath of an outraged people" If
the populist party does not make Daniel
Webster voorhees, its next presidential can
didate it will be ungrateful.
Evening star., 1894-04-04
A Free Library is Indispensab BILE.
From the Washington Hatehet.

That Washington neels free circulat-
ing library is a proposition that will hot be
disputed by anyone. The lack Of such an
Institution is disgrace to the city. Towns
in this particular away in advance CT the
natiOna, capital. AS a means of culture
auxiliary to oUr excellent public and pri-
yate schools and other sources of knowl-
edge, free library is almost Indispensable.
There Is certainly no surer or cheaper
means for the extension of popular educa-
tion than a collection If books to which ac-
cess may be had by the general public in
accordance with the most liberal regula-
tions. There is. therefore. much cause for
cOagratulation in the fact that the board OF
trade has taken the matter in hand, and it
is to be hoped that ii will not cease it's ef-
forts until the establishment of the much
talked-about and long-delayed free circulat-
ing library Is assured.
Evening star., 1894-04-04
A Preliminary Stem.

$50 yer gointer send Hiram ter college,"
said Mrs. Corntossel.
Yep" replied Josiah. 81 want all the
boys ter hev a good education
80 do 1. But 1 do wish that we could
do somethin' precautionary like. Spose
we take i'm down ter the squire's jest be-
fore he starts, an git i'm bound over ter
keep the peace"
Evening star., 1894-04-04

Mr.. Governor Tillman will doubtless re-
fleet with a feeling of relief that it is very
difficult of late years for a man to attain
much prominence in this country without
being at some stage of his career publicly
alluded to as a car.
Evening star., 1894-04-04
Opfiufstfc.

BILLY Bliven asked Miss Parseigh how
old she wast said one girl to another.
Did she get angry?'
mo; she was fattered. She thought she
must look very young or he'd never have
dared
Evening star., 1894-04-04

"Ob cohse," said Uncle Eben, musingly,
"ter git erlong. er man has ter reach right
ober an hep his se'f. But eff he grabs too
big er han'ful he's mighty lible not ter
git rale grip on anythin whutsoebber."
Evening star., 1894-04-04

Judge Peckham's remark about a cor
poration that pays $4,000 year for Tam
many protection has precipitated one Of
tne most exciting guessing contests that
New York has seen in many a day.
Evening star., 1894-04-04

1t seems somewhat strange that the gen.
tleran who wrote
when constabulary duty's to be done
A policeman's lot is not happy one"
should have known nothing Of these South
Carolina disturbances.
Evening star., 1894-04-04
SHOOTING STARS.
Discrimination

cit is wrong to discriminate against a
man on account of his color" said the
patriotic citizen. And 1 am proud to say
it Is something that doesn't happen in this
country
II don't know about that" replied the
resident of the District. You just watch
some white man when he applies for the
position of recorder of deeds"
Evening star., 1894-04-04
Worth
Knowing.

The Introductory prices for the opening of
Summer Furnishings on basement floor: Trunks and
Bags, Refrigerators, Oil and Gas Stoves, Water
Coolers, Machines for making Ice Cream, at special
prices.
Lessons given in Art Needlework on second floor.
5'c for single lesson of one hour, soc for two
h drs lesson with four in class Work commenced
free Of charge If materials are bought.
Hair Dressing and Manicure Parlors on first floor.
soc for treatment by skilled artists.
Guaranteed lowest prices for making Window
Shades Furniture Slips, &c. Inquire in Upholstery
Department on fourth floor.
Worlds Fair Portfolios, for which you usu-
any charged lOc with coupons, are here at SC with
out coupons.
Evening star., 1894-04-04
The Selection of Words.

"Are Miss Chattinby and Miss Gadding-
ton still members of the Woman's Society
for the Reformation of the Universe?"
mo. They are not still members. They
are noisy members"
Evening star., 1894-04-04

Some OF the protests against TayIorism
may be little tardy, but they are vigorous
when they come
Evening star., 1894-04-04
A Taylorian SolilOquy,

"I care not for the angry speech
Which my ambition breeds.
Remarks my feelings cannot reach,
i seek not words, but Deeds"
Evening star., 1894-04-04

The Presidential fishing item has arrived
on schedule time.
Evening star., 1894-04-04
Misses Refers.

English Cloths made up in London styles. Correct
red, English tan, Princess OF Wales blue. Sizes 4
to u years.
We're $3.50 $500 $3.50 s1.es $3.50
10 be S5.9S S3.9S S2.9s s1.4S 9sc
u Garments for children from L to years Of age
VIII be found in the Infants Department at pro-
portionately little prices.
Evening star., 1894-04-04

Perhaps Mr.. Coxey wants District Of
flee.
Evening star., 1894-04-04
WRAPPERS.

What lady doesn't know OF the superiority Of the
Palais Royal Wrappers.
Were sl.Oo $1.25 s1.9s $500 $3.50
10 be 69e. 9ec. Si.4S $3.sS Saws
u Think of Best Print Wrappers for 69c, Lawn
Wrappers for 9sc Percale Wrappers for $1.4s and
Cashmere Tea Gowns for x3 qS.
Evening star., 1894-04-04
Dress Goods.

The buyer of Wool Dress Goods fears the
rivalry of the ready Suits the Palais
Royals third floor than the Dress Goods at
other establishments, and thus the offering of dress
lengths at reduced prices will be continued Tor all
this week.
2.6S for seven yards 40-incb SOC fabrics.
S3.OO for six yards 54nch Csc faDrcs.
S4.UO for six yards 46-inch Syc fabrics.
$3.50 for six yards 54-inch 81 fabrics.
yo.9o for six yards % inch $l.25 fabrics,
$3.50 for seven yards Priestiey's 81 blacks.
UTHOSE WHO BUY DRESS PATTERN OF
ANY FABRIC ARE OFFERED THE NECESSARY
LlNlNGS FOR ONLY 30 CENTS VIZ: YARDS
CAMBkIC, YAKDS SILESIA, 1 YARD CANVAS
ALL FOR % CENTS.
Evening star., 1894-04-04
Bows Waists,

The famous Champion" Shirt Waists for 1894
are here in best Percale, Madras and Chesiots.
Best Waists at regular prices, they are rare bar
gains at the reduced quotations.
Were 25c 55c 5Oc 75c Sl.0O
To be l9c 25c 39c 65c S9c
Evening star., 1894-04-04
Suits.

Genuine Tailor-made Costumes, made of reliable
serges and English Cloths have been offered al
prices SO little III advance Of the that we car
elp little on the prices without a loss. Those whs
Know OF the Palais Royal Suits will appreciate
this fact.
Were ss75s1O 10 s12 rs 81 s. 10 s27 so s35 ot
10 be SoI6i ~. S11 10 81 $24 50 S32 "
" All sizes are In stock except In the one-or-a
Kind exclusive novelties. Every convenience fol
trying on, SO that you need have no doubt wLeI
you make purchase.
Evening star., 1894-04-04
PASTE IN YOUR
SCRAP BOOK.

To select Shoes
for durability al
wavs consider the
purposes they are
intended for. Kid
gloves that would
last for dress q
year would wear
out In a day IL
used by a grip
man In his occu-
patton. It's the
same with Shoes.
Evening star., 1894-04-04
Silk Waists.

Black, plain color and figured silks, made up in
very latest Paris styles, and best values In town
at former prices.
We're S3.ss s4.9s s59s $6.9 $500 S1O.5O
10 be S2.9o S3.SS S49S S5.9S S6.9s $7.9S
EyThese Waists have been offered at less than
our usual small pro1t, SO that, though the reduc-
tions are not great for Jackets and Capes,
the garments are really as good bargains.
Evening star., 1894-04-04
Jackets.

You probably know every one is new all havin
the new rur1ed backs Possibly the reader may b
one or the many who have those elsewner
and informed us that prices were least.
We're $500 $500 $3.50 5000
10 be $3.9s sass S5.9o S.9S
u Many Of these Jackets are English Cover
Cloth, made by men tailors.
Evening star., 1894-04-04
Silk Canes.

Moire Antique Capes, some Of which sold up to
$50, were lately reduced In prices. These reduced
prices are again lowered
From oo 81 s25. 90 $50 90 S35 $40 90
10 9s sl9. .9S $22 5O S27. 90 $50. 10
pSIhose at the higher prices garments i'm
ported as models, trimmed with richest laces and
Evening star., 1894-04-04
Cloth Capes.

The Palais Royals regular stock of Cloth Capes
are well known. Need tell you that the prices
marked on them are in most Instances less than
elsewhere.
Were $500 So. so $5 90 Sc. so 81 so s1OOOS1o5O
To be Sl9s 81. As S33s 81. IS SO 3s ST.9s Sl09S
GyPlease note that none reserved,-that all
Capes In stock up to this evening are included ut
the prices
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-12-13
ANCIENT LIGHTHOUSES.
Beacon Lights to Guide Mariners Coeval
With the Earliest Commerce.

Beacon Lights to Guide Mariners Coeval
With the Earliest Commerce.
Beacon lights to guide the wave
tossed mariner to safe harbor must
have been almost coeval with the earli.
est commerce There is positive record
that lighthouses were built in ancient
times, though few evidences now re-
main to us from old writer's or in crum-
bled ruins. This is not strange, for light
towers, never the most stable architec-
tural form, were exposed to the storms
Of sea and war.
The Greeks attributed the first light
houses to Hercules, and he was consid-
cred the protector of voyagers. 1t is
claimed by some that Homer refers to
lighthouses in the nineteenth book Of
the "Iliad."
Virgil mentions light on a temple
to Apollo which, visible far out at sea,
warned and guided mariners. The Co.
lossus at Rhodes, erected about 800 B.
c., is said to have shown signal light
from it's uplifted hand.
The oldest towers known were built
by the Libyans in lower Egypt. They
were temples also, and the lightkeeper
priests taught pilotage, photography
and navigation. The famous tower on
the isle of Pharos, at Alexandria, built
about 285 B. c., is the first lighthouse
of undoubted record This tower, con-
structed by Sostratus, the architect, was
square in plan, of great height and built
in offsets. An open brazier at the top
of the tower contained the fuel for the
light. At Dover and Boulogne, on Ell
Their side of the English channel, were
ancient lighthouses built by the Romans.
But the lighthouse at Corunna, Spain.
built in the reign of Trajan and recon-
structed in 1884, is believed to be the
oldest existing ighthouse.-E. P.
Adams in Casters Magazine
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-12-13
The Winter In the CITY of Mexico

The spring arrived here on the table
lands of Mexico four weeks ago, when
all the peach and pear trees began bios
soming, and the great ash trees, the hand
soonest Of all the trees in this valley, re-
newed their leaves The winter, if such
a name can justly be given to season
which is different from the other seasons
only in being slightly cooler, has been
warm and pleasant, with not a single
day when out of door life would be I'M
pleasant. | recall that New Years day
was excessively warm, and that riding
at noon on that day was hot work.
We have la hardly any snow on the
smaller mountains making up the frame
of this incompatible valley of Mexico,
and this is unusual, as generally for a
week or two in January the lower hills
will get Gaping of snow, which makes
them a handsome sight under the over
head tropical sun. Nor did we have the
usual amount of the "aguas nieves," or
snow waters, few days of cold show
ers, which are due to arrive in January,
but staid away. In fact, while you in
the far north have had what may fairly
be called a tremendous winter, we have
been enjoying one long Indian summer.
Cor. Boston Herald.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-12-13
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
'ess expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
The value to health of the pure liquid
axative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation:
1t has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man.
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup OF Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-12-13
The Drug Store Telephone.

Accommodation bureaus are all right
when they are conducted as such," said
a west side druggist, "but the sign over
my door was intended to inform the
public that drugs were dispensed within
and not information doled out or tele-
phone messages delivered blocks away.
I make no kick when stamps are asked
for and the city directory consulted by
people, but when they ring up the tele-
phone and call me from my work to an
swer it and then want message deliv-
cred to friend living long distance
from the store only certificate of mem.
bership in the Antiswearing club which
l have pasted on the transmitter keeps
me from uttering fancy language. This
morning was at the breakfast table and
was called to the phone. found it was
lady who patronized me about once a
month. She didn't talk plainly and
kept me guessing for Is minutes what
she was driving at. 1 discovered that
she wanted me to tell her next door
neighbor that she wouldn't be home to
dinner and ask her to open window of
the house and for mercy sake feed the
poor little cat The telephone has been
removed. Buffalo Enquirer
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-12-13
These Hereditary Interlopers.

have always held that the very exist
ence Of house of hereditary Legislators
is an intolerable abuse, and consequently
that the country has right to make use
of every constitutional form to hinder
the lords from interference with the
popular will. Who represent the popu-
lar will? Assuredly its representatives.
If, then, the elected representatives OF
the nation decide in favor of home rule,
the lords are guilty of an act of leze
majestic to the people if they interpose
their veto. What can be more ridicu-
lous than that few hundred men-some
hereditary legislators, some Legislators
because they have made huge fortunes by
selling beer or by some similar avoca.
tion-should pretend to know better than
the nation what the nation wants?
The true method to proceed with such
obstructionists is, if they throw out the
home rule bill to bring it in again in an
autumn session and tack it on to the ap-
preparation bill If this be done home
rule will become the law of the land be-
fore the end of this year If it be not
done | really do not know when it will
become law. :t1n sick of half measures
with these hereditary interlopers.-Lon.
don Truth
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-12-13
: Flaming Stream.

A party of Bethany students in an at
tempt to have fun Thursday night sue
ceeded in soaring the town and commu-
nifty in general. Up Buffalo creek big
gusher oil well was recently opened up,
and since then great quantities of oil
have been coming down that usually
placid stream. About 8 o'clock Thurs
day night the boys set fire to the oil in
the creek with startling effect. 1t i'm
mediately spread over the width of the
creek and then started off with the cur
rent, leaving in its train sheet of flame
nearly 70 feet high.
1t was not long until Bethany was
trembling in a semicircle of flame.
Within an hour the creek looked like
serpent of fire nearly two miles long.
Dense volumes Of smoke almost suffo-
Gated the people of Bethany. By the
close Of the second hour every road was
blockaded with wagons and buggies con-
tanning people who had come in for
miles to see the strange fire upon the
waters, and thousands of spectators were
upon the hilltops,
The fires fury increased until "a hours
had elapsed, when the flames died out
The damage was small. The water in
the creek was nearly boiling when the
fire was gone.-W Wheeling Intelligencer.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-12-13
A FAT MANS DEED.
Story of a'Tragic Scene on brooklyn Iroi
lev Car Which Might Be True.

Story OF a"lTaSlC SccuS ou - -
lev Car Which Might Be True
A very stout old Brooklyn gentleman
squeezed himself past two women on
Putnam avenue car and wedged IN be-
tween one of them and a man at the
other end of the seat. The tit was sucn
a tight one that the women held their
breaths and assumed pancake appear
ance. At the corner where the car turns
into Putnam avenue the fat man turned
like big turret and put up CHUBBY
finger. The car stopped
putnam avenue; Grand avenue ana
Fulton street," shouted the conductor.
The fat man settled back and resum-
ed reading a newspaper, which he had
dropped in his lap
"Want to get out here?' asked the
conductor, with his hand on the bell
rope.
The fat man shook his head. There
was an angry twang Of the cord, and
the trolley began to whiz.
At Nostrand avenue the chubby I'M
ger went up again. The car stopped.
Nobody moved. Then the man who rings
up the fares got angry.
"See here" he exclaimed after he
had climbed along the step on the side
of the car until he was opposite the
fat man, "what DO you mean by telling
me to stop for when you don't want to
get off?''
"Why," responded the mountain OF
flesh as coolly as such mass of adipose
could be cool, "the Car jolts SO that l
couldn't read this paragraph, which is
slightly blurred. I merely wanted to
have the Car stand still until l had I'm
ished it. That's all. Now, if you can
go along slowly without jolting, 1 will
be able to get along very nicely, but it
l come across another bad line or two
I'll put my hand back of my head, and
you stop. It's too much trouble for me
to turn around"
The conductors eyes twittered in the
orbits. He placed his hand to his head
and uttered shrek after shrek. Reason
was shattered. He had become cross
eyed and insane. New York Mail and
EyDroSc
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-12-13
LOVELY WOMAN'S NEW DEVICE.
Diamonds In Her Teeth Make Her Smiles
More Brilliant Than Ever.

Diamonds In Her Teeth Make Her Smiles
More Brilliant Than Ever.
There is in one of the New York theaters
today young woman who smiles with
such brilliancy and sparkle that people
train their opera glasses on her whenever
she shows her teeth in the hope of finding
the cause of the unusual brilliancy. Her
name is not printed here, as there is no
particular reason for advertising her, but
it may be said that she is most notable
illustration of what is said to be the high
est development of the dental craze in San
Francisco She has three diamonds set in
her teeth, and they are unquestionably
stones of the first water. There is one in
lower tooth, and two are in upper teeth,
on either side of the mouth She said
when the manager of the theater talked to
her few nights since in the presence of a
New York Sun reporter that she knew
several other women in San Francisco who
had tiny but brilliant diamonds set in
their teeth. and she did not see why the
plan should not become general one.
AS this is the first time that any one
has publicly displayed diamonds in this
fashion in New York, it may be we'll to
state that English papers have for six
months insisted that the setting of dia
monds in teeth is custom widely preva-
lent in America among both men and
women. The papers have commented so
much upon it that the news is apparently
well grounded that numb erless people have
added to the value of their smiles in this
way here, though New Workers would no
doubt be astonished to learn that they
have such reputation abroad. In a
Bond street show window in London there
is another novelty, which is advertised as
1.-THE latest American fashion," 1t is a
small network of silk, about inches
square, upon which the American man or
woman of fashion has the initials of his or
her name formed with tiny gold links,
and which is sewed neatly into a corner of
the handkerchief When the handker-
chiefs are sent to the laundry, the initials
are ripped off and are sewed on again
when the handkerchiefs are returned. All
of this is very much of novelty over here,
despite the assertion in the London papers
that it Is an American fashion.
The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-12-13

"Jeminy crickets, she's got the ricketts,"
whispered one beau to another in the COM
pany of very pretty girls. Truly she was
very beautiful, but there was twitching
about the nerves of the face which showed
suffering. mo" said the other, I" it's neu-
ralgia and she's martyr to it," st. Jacobs
oil was suggested as the world-renowned
cure for it. Did she try It'll Yes and was
cured by it and--married Zone of the fel.
lows" afterward. The use OF the great
marriage, but in its cure of pain it will
bring about conditions of health to make
life more enjoyable. No man or woman
ought to marry who is sufferer from
chronic pains. We should not wed woe to
win only Indebtedness.