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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-01
Girls Shoes.

Recently arrived-a complete line of Children's
and Misses Kangaroo Calf Button Shoes, in sizes
"a to 2, to E, at.............$1.5 so and s.. 90
In the Laird, Schroeder Mitchell Shoes is
special lot of Children's and Misses Fine Bright
Donsola Button Shoes, with square toes and patent
leather tips; also lot of Lace Shoes with straight
goat fox and dongola top. These Sell regularly at
$500 and $3.50 81 40 and 81 90
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-01
Weautir1a.

You know the value Of velutina dress facing
but have you ever tried it for trimming? 1t is
wonderfully like silk velvet. Every street and
evening shade, light and dark. is represented In
our observation-disclosures in all.
DIST floor. Near Silks.)
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Final Reductions On
Boys Winter Clothing.

All our Dark Blue and Fancy Checked Atwood
Reciprocity Suits, double seat and knees Sizes
to 15 Reduced from S. 90 to..... 50. 90
We VIII offer in connection with these a lot of
inner Ali-wool Suits that We across recently.
They are very neat and are we'll worth ST So
ihls lot ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 50 90
All our Dark Blue Refer Suits and Fancy Mixed
Refer Suits in sizes 3. t. 9, 9, and 8 reduced
from SooO, $500 and $3.50 to..............$3.O 90
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Mems Store.

White Laundered Shirts, open back or open
front and back. with cuffs or without plated
bosom plain, eyelets or buttonholes in bosom.
Collars from such reliable makers as II. O.
Curtis & Co. and Earl & Wilson. at
15c.. LOO and $13S half doz
Wonderfully Good Suspenders at.......... CSC
Better ones at. SOC, 81. 90 and 81 80
........................100 1907 st. bldg)
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Medium weight Underwear in gray, half worsted.
half cotton. Same quality was sold year ago
at $40 a garment. This years price. ...... .T9c
Black Spin Silk Half Hose. Sizes Oh to II.
Gloves in reputable makes-Perrn's, Dents
Fowne's, Fisk, Clark and Flagg's, sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-01

125 pairs Mrs. Hopkins "Star'' Pants, black
cheyiot, double seat and knees and warranted not
to rip. Sizes to Is years. Sell regularly at roc.
Reduced from Soc. pair to pairs for s1O0.
Single pair .35c
All our Fine English Kersey' Cape Overcoats in
dark blue, made in fine styles and as well as
$500 to. $4.75
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OVER FORTY KILLED.

Five Passenger Coaches Went Over
Into a Canyon.
An excursion train coming into the City
OF Mexico on the Interoceanic railroad
met with an accident yesterday afternoon.
While rounding a curve on the side of a
mountain hve coaches jumped the track
ana went down the canyon. Forty-two
people were killed and thirty or more se-
riousiy injured. The accident occurred
about forty kilometers from Mexico
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-01

Yesterday afternoon the dead body of a
colored infant was found on a vacant lot
near LIST and L streets southwest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-01

Lung Complaints, Bronchitis. Asthma xc .n
speedily relieved and If taken in time permanently
cured by DR.. D. Jayne's Expectorant You will
Colds. w. 1eAs MN
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Saturdays Special List of
Groceries.

B. F. Schriver's Corn, can. &c.
Houston's Nanticoke Tomatoes, can. .........7c.
Schrivers Early June Peas. silver brand, can. 12c
Numsen's String Beans, can. &c.
California Green Gage Plums, can. .......... 15c.
California Apricots, can. .......... ........14c.
Boston Baked Beans, can. ..lic.
ArmOur's Soups, can. ................. .....2lc.
Nunisen's Lima Beans, can. ................. &c.
Imported Mushrooms, can. ...19c.
french IeaS, can .i"N.
Anderson's Jams. assorted. .................14 lie.
Royal Dutch Cocoa. Bensdorf's. .33c.
Durkee's Salad Dressing, bottle. .......... .23c.
Lea & PERKINS, Worcester Sauce, bottle. &c.
Moss Rose Cornstarch. pkg &c.
Imported Sardines, box. .12c.
Queen Olives, pint. Observation-Disclosures. .....21c.
Clipper Jees assorted. ....................Sc SC.
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Today and Saturday,
Childrer's DAYS,

And special attention is asked to every department in
the house where Boys Girls and Infants Outttings
are kept, bargain attractions will be found i'm eac
We plan and buy for these occasions i'm such way
that make prices to suit the most economical
This weeks report should interest all parents.
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nore Capes,
Coats, Waists,
Skirts and Suits

- The seasons most advanced styles
-" here in the greatest profusion. The new
-" Sprin; Capes exquisite, lovely sun
- burst mores, velyets. plain and fancy
. = silks. ETC., richly jetted lace and ribbon
. trimmed. The surprising part of the stock
. is the Moderate prices.
- Perfect dreams In Silk Waists, every
- imaginable ooloring in changeables, COM
- bination figures and stripes and high col
- ors; five styles of Black Silk Waists,
japanese, Surah and Brocaded s..
." Separate Skirts in Diagonal CheyiOts,
- English Serges, Crepons, Novelty Black
-" Fabrics and Silks. Ours have the organ
- piped back. Prices begin at 81. -
- You time. worry money and
. secure better tit in buying your Spring
- Ssits ready made. High Novelties in
- Spring Woolcns and Fine Black Fabrics.
- Notice the Lovely Black CrepOn Suit,
- trimmed with silk, lace and jet.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-01

Camtrfc Short Dresses, yoke of fine clustered
tucks and inserting. ruie around neck and sleeves,
full sleeves, deep hem. sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-01

Cambria Short Dresses, round yoke of tucks and
inserting embroidery around neck and sleeves, deep
hem, tucks above hem. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS soc.
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Woodward Y. l40thr0p,
10TH. nth AND + sTs NV.

Three interesting demonstrations
ns Dress Waists and New
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
QUEER FEATs ON WAGERs.
One Frenchman to Turn Statue-Another
to Ride in America.

One Frenchman to Turn Statue-Another
to Ride in America.
Two eccentric feats are shortly to
be attempted by Frenchmen for
wager. In one case Nj. Durand, a gen.
tleman residing in Marseilles, has un-
dertaken to pose as statute in pub
lie place in that city for no less period
than % days, the intervals for rest to
be enjoyed by him in the meantime not
to exceed 48 hours in the aggregate. A
pedestal is being prepared for the ac-
commodation of this strange person,
who has been nicknamed in anticipa-
ton by the French papers Durand Sty-
lites. The other feat referred to has
been undertaken by M. Wiasemsky, a
gentleman well known in Partisan
fashionable circles. M. Wiasemsky
has made a considerable wager that
he will ride all the way from Paris to
America on horseback. The thing
sounds impossible, but he declares it
is so. He proposes to ride right across
Siberia to the point where Bering
Strait, which separate that country
from Alaska in North America, are
narrowest, and then to ride across
upon the ice He will be glad, he says,
Of companion.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
NUMBER l3.
PERILs OF A PEARL DIVER.
Hanging Head Down for Half an HOuE
RaPOra EsoYD~ naacuAd

Hanging Head Down for Half an Hour
Before Being Rescued.
l had not been diving moro than
three weeks when my first accident
happened, says a writer in the Cosmo-
pol1tan, and it was so utterly unex-
pected and so nearly cost me my life
that 1t taught me a lesson which L
never forgot. 1t happened in the fol-
lowing simple way: 81 had been work
Ing In about ten fathoms of water, on
fairly good patch of shell, for sew
eral hours, and about dinner tme'
having full bag, screwed up the air
valve, to make myself lighter, and gave
the customary signal to be pulled up.
Inc life line tautened, and | was soon
lifted from my feet and being drawn
toward the lighter water above. Tne
angry frame of mind that usually at
tends diver at work passes away as
he is raised to the surface, and
was within ten feet of the boat, and
just getting good-tempered again at
the thought of mouthful of fresh air,
when | felt sudden jerk under my
left arm, and at the same instant my
lied what was the matter the air pipe
that held it under my arm, slipped over
1t, and l was pulled head downward.
while the hauling of the boys above.
on the lifeline, which was fast around
my waist, raised the lower part OF my
body and left me suspended heels upl
In the first few moments of my sur
prise and terror / did not stop to think
what had happened; my presence OF
mind deserted me, and | struggled ana
screamed like a Gagged madman. L telC
that | was trapped and | was In an
agony of fright. After a little while,
having kicked myself into state OF
exhaustion and common sense, L rea-
soned out the case of my dilemma. Al
the strain on the air pipe was down
ward and that of the lifeline upward,
[ concluded that the air pipe must be
fast below, and that the only thing to
be done was to go down again and clear
1T. First, / regulated the air in my
dress, letting out as much as l could
spare, for in my present position all
the air went into my legs and kept them
floating upward, and then l tried to
make the boys understand that | want
ed them to lower me- All my jerks and
shakes on the lifeline, however, failed
to get what l wanted. They Obsti-
nately held the line taut, trying every
few minutes to pull me in halves. For
tunately all my gear was in very good
shape or they fould have accomplished
it. learned afterward that all on
deck were SO scared that they were Of
no use, but they finally had sense
enough to signal for help, and, after
hanging between the top and the bot
tom for about half an hour, my air
pipe was loosened from below by an
other diver and l was pulled up, thank
full enough to get my feet down to their
proper level once more
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
ELOST ONLY ONE PAIR.
Man Who Leased Skates Told Thackeray
of but One Loss.

Man Who Leased Skates Told Thackeray
of but One Loss.
Thackeray once asked one of the men
who lets out skates on the Serpentine
whether he had ever lost pair through.
the omission to exact a deposit, and he
replied that he had never done so ex-
cept on one occasion when the cir
cumstances made it almost pardonable.
A well-dressed young fellow was hav-
ing his second skate fastened on when
he suddenly broke away from the
mans hands and dashed onto the ice.
The next instant thick-set, powerful
man was clamoring for another pair
i shall nab him now" he cried, ''for
am dab at skating. He was a sher-
IFS officer in pursuit of his prey, and
very animating sight it was to watch
the chase. He was, as he had boasted
a first-rate skater, and it became pres
emily obvious that he was running
down his man. Then the young fellow
determined to run desperate risk for
liberty. The ice, as usual, under the
bridge was marked dangerous" and
he made for it at headlong speed. The
ice bent beneath his weight, but he got
safely through. The sheriff's oficer
followed with equal pluck, but, being
a heavier man, broke through and was
drowned. "His skates" said the mar
rator CT the incident, Il got back after
the inquest, but those the young gen.
tleman had on never saw again"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11

Lemme go now. and just you mind
what I says
Miss Fortescue had opened her mouth
to plead further. but almost ere she
knew it, the strange little apparition
had vanished
well, / never!" exclaimed Miss For
tescue, using unconsciously the same
words that her cook had selected for the
expression of her great amazement.
And she went straight upstairs and
told the whole story to Maria Vinton.
Mrs. Vinton scoffed at 1T, as, indeed,
1t was quite natural she should do.
And you believe it all p said she.
81 couldn't help 1t while I looked in
her face"
But, my dear Miss Fortescue, just
see how very improbable it all is. Pray,
use your common sense"
SAT all event, / mean to have the
police" said Miss Fortescue, nodding
her head.
You'll only get laughed at for your
pains
TIL risk that" said the little old
maid.
The gray-stone house was quite dark
when the clocks struck z, the quarter
past, and the half hour; but Miss For
tescue was wide-awake, sitting in front
Of her fire, with a heart throbbing with
quick, uncertain beats. She would
have risked much on JacQueline's truth,
yet now that the hour of test ap-
preached. strange doubts crept over her
mind.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11

to the front. Literary women are now
becoming a great battalion in them
selves and society could hardly be con-
sidered complete without their pres
ence. Then, also, the wives of dis
tinguished men take front rank in
society and enjoy prestige by reason
of the names they have rendered con-
spicuous by the talents of their hus-
bands. AS regards getting on in So
ciety" the race is not always to the
swift; some have a good start and yet
remain far behind; others, not so well
placed at the beginning, get front
place in an incredibly short time, or
they work out the proverb that every
thing comes to him who waits. Lon
don Queen.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
/ HOW TO WALK.
The Proper Length of a Step Twice the
Length of the Foot

The Proper Length of Step Twice the
Length of the Foot.
Delsarte teacher who is peculiar
in knowing something of Delsarte's
system of expression, says that wo-
men can improve their walk without
teacher, though they can't learn about
walking from print The proper length
Of the step is twice the length of one
foot, and it is measured from the hol-
low of one foot to the hollow of the
other Now, take a piece of tape and
sew on it bits Of flannel at intervals
twice the length of one of your feet,
stretch it across the longest room you
have at your disposal and you are
ready for practice. Maybe you don't
know that each foot should cross the
same line with each successive step?
1t should-that is very important, SO
now you must walk your tape and set
one foot and then the other right over
one of those bits of flannel, letting the
flannel come just under the instep. Do
this and turn your toes out very well,
and swing your leg from the thigh, and
you are far on the road to a beaEsiful
walk
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
SEVENTEENTH YEAR.

"Murther!" she cried. bruSQuely.
whats a-wantin' here?"
ST want to speak tc Miss Fortescue.
please"
s'Do your" cried the cook. surveying
the bold petitioner in blank astonish-
ment. well, then, you can't, SO there,
now! Go along with you, do"
But I got su'thin' very pa'tickler to
say to her Please let me in" pleaded
Jacqueline.
"Yes, and let out the spoons and the
table-napkins at the same time-that
would be smart speculation" shifted
the cook. "Clear out, / say, and there's
an end O. the matter
But Jack, who had not expected any
more favorable response to her ap-
plication, and was quite prepared to
fall back upon strategy, made a sud
den forward rush, and had left the
cook far behind ere that plump person
age had leisure to surmise what was
going on.
"WeH, I never" quoth the cook.
Here, John Thomas-you man-where
be you?"
But while she was crying aloud for
aid, Jack Morley had darted upstairs,
straight into the presence of Miss For
tescue, who happened to be standing on
the first floor landing, with her jacket
and hat hanging on her arm.
''Hush-sh-sh!" she whispered, laying
her dirt-incrusted finger on her lip. 1--WE
a secret to tell you. They're goin' to
break into your house at half-past 2
o'clock tomorrow mornin'-Slippery
Jim, and old Joe, and Long Lyman
and I'm to be slipped through the back
cellar windy to open the doors, cause
I'm little an spry.'
"What?' cried Miss Fortescue. star
ing.
'I've got to go back now, cause if
I'm long gone they'll suspect some
thin" went on Jacqueline; "but I
wouldn't see you wronged, cause you
patted my head, you did. Just don't
you let on, but have the p'leece handy,
and you'll see."
But, child" calculated Miss Fortes-
cue for the first time sufficiently over
coming her amazement to speak, "stay
here with me- What do you go back to
these people at all for?'
Jack stared at her.
i've got to see Daddy Lyman at 5
O'Clock, and to let him know as Slip
perry Jim's back all safe" said she;
''and, besides, if I didn't go, Kitty
Emmons wouldn't get no supper. Kit
tvs sick, Kitty is, and them as don't
work can't eat. Mother Jones says, so
saves her a lick and cut out O. mine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
WONDER OF RELATIONSHIP.

Committed Suicide After Finding He
Was His Own Grandfather.
In an old scrapbook which has been
in the family of the editor of ''Notes
for the Curious" for twenty-five or
thirty years, and which contains a
number of clippings without date, I
find the following: William Har-
man, who committed suicide at Titus
vile, Pa, a short time since, did so
because some one had convinced him
that he was his own grandfather! Here
is copy of the singular letter he left:
I married a widow who had a grown-up
daughter. My father visited us often,
fell in love with my step-daughter and
married her. Thus he became my
son-in-law, and my step-daughter be-
came my mother, because she was my
fathers wife Soon after this my wife
gave birth to a son, which, OF course,
was my fathers brother -in-law, and
my uncle, for he was the brother Of
my stepmother. My fathers wife also
became the mother of a son. He was,
OF course, my brother, and also my
grandchild, for he was the son Of my
daughter. Accordingly my wife was
my grandmother, because she was my
mothers mother. / was my wife's hus-
band and grandchild at one and the
same time. And as the husband of a
persons grandmother is his grand
father, l was my own grandfather! ="
Was 1t any wonder that the poor man
rid himself of such tangled relation
ship?
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same breath, and little Jack Morley
shrank away out of sight.
"JacQueline" her name was, but no
body called her anything but "Jackey."
She had no father or mother-in fact,
no relative that she knew of, and, so
far as she knew, she had no earthly
business to nve-no excuse for existing.
Poor little Jackey.
Children and animals do not commit
suicide. yet there are some circum-
stances under which we could scarcely
blame them If they did.
But Jack did not absolutely vanish
into the cracks of the paving-stones-
for when the two ladies once more re-
entered their carriage and drove away,
Jack fastened on behind in some linn
pet-like fashion, and rode tool Not un-
til the carriage had stopped, discharged
its freight, and started again for the
stables at the rear of the gloomy old
mansion. did the small parasite drop,
like a caterpillar shaken from a tree,
into the road.
81 thought So" said Jackey to her
self. They shan't-no, they shan't!
She smiled when she looked at me
and she patted me on the head like
was like other gals!''
And with these disconnected medita-
tions floating through the chaos of her
brain. Jack pattered down the area
steps. and knocked softly at the base
ment door.
!, A plump cook answered the sum
mons.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11

weird, pale face that looked SO intreat-
ingly into her own was in no wise diff
ferent from a score Of other want
pinched faces.
Yet Miss Fortescue stopped, with one
foot yet on the step of her cushioned
landau, and searched in her pocket for
some stray coin.
"My dear Miss Fortescue, you will
take cold" said the soft, measured
voice of Mrs. Vinton, her companion.
''Go away, child, quick, or l will call
a policeman"
oDont speak so harshly to the poor
little object Maria!' chirped rich Miss
Fortescue. 1T isn't her fault that she s
poor and forlorn, and this won't ruin
mel Here little one-go and buy bread,
or meat or anything that will put a
streak of color into those tallOwy
cheeks
The child grasped at the money as a
famished wild beast might snap at a
morsel of meat. But she caught at
her companions silken rustling skirts,
as she passed forward toward the
plate-gIass portals of a fashionable
milliner.
did you call her 'Fortescue,' ma'am
Did you say Miss Fortescue'?' she
asked.
But Mrs. Vinton twftched her skirts
away from the child's hand, as if the
feeble grasp were contamination, and
passed on. Still the wild-haired elf
hung around the carriage wheels.
Il say, you! she cried to the coach
man, holding her ragged garments
around her to prevent their being blown
bodily away by the merciless winds,
''does your missus live in a big stone
house just outside the park? Is she
an old maid?'
The coachman, deeply resentful at
being addressed thus Familiarity by so
pitiable a specimen of humanity, lifted
his whip, and called out:
"P'leece! 1 say, pliceman." in the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
Summer Heat in Various Countries.


The following figures show the ex-
treme summer heat in the various
countries of the world: Bengal and the
African desert, $50 deg. Fahrenheit,
Senegal and Guadalupe, 130 deg; Per-
sia, 125 deg; Calcutta and Central
America, 120 deg; Afghanistan and
the Arabian desert, 110 deg; Cape Of
Good Hope and Utah, 1O5 deg; Greece,
104 deg; Arabia, 103 deg; Montreal,
103 deg; New York, 102 deg; Spain,
India, China, Jamaica. 100 deg; Sierra
Leone, "a deg; France, Denmark, ST..
Petersburg, Shanghai, the Burman en-
pire, Buenos Ayres, and the Sandwich
Islands, 80 deg; Great Britain, Siam
and Peru, 85 deg; Portugal, Pekfn and
Natal, 80 deg; Siberia, II deg; Aus
tria, and Scotland, Is deg; Italy, Vene-
zuela and Madeira, 73 deg; Prussia and
New Zealand, 70 deg; Switzerland and
66 deg; Bavaria, Sweden,
Tasmania and Moscow, 65 deg; Pata-
gonia and the Falkland Isles, 55 deg;
Iceland, As deg; Nova Scotia, 81 deg.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
Greatest known Depth of the ocean.

Greatest Known Depth of the Ocean.
The greatest known depth of the
ocean is midway between the islands of
Tristan dAcunha and the mouth of the
Rio de la Plata. The bottom was here
reached at depth of 46, 200 feet. or eight
and three-fourths miles. exceeding by
more than 1900 feet the height of Mt.
Hercules. the loftiest mountain in the
world. The average depth of all the
oceans is from 1000 to 5000 fathoms.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11

John Verrazanni, an eminent Floren
tine navigator, in 1924 landed where the
lower extremity of New York city is.
and giving the natives some spirituous
liquors made them drunk The Indians
called the place Manna-ha-ta, or place
of drunkenness. and they were after
wards called Manna-ha-tans.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
WHO GETS OUR BEST?
THE GIFTS THAT MAKE PEO-
PIE POPULAR.
Riches, Rank, and Beauty Are the Most
Certain Means to the End-Apar-
From Their Surroundings What Qualit
tics Are Best Suited.

He question has
been asked, Which
is considered to be
the most popular
type of society
woman? Reading
between the lines
this might be
taken to mean,
Who gets on best
in society? 1t is a
matter r-of-fact way,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11

A Milwaukee woman who is a re-
ngious fanatic has been travelling about
the country setting fire to church build
ings OF her own denomination.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-05-11
The Peanut as q Native Of Brazil.

IHo Fe1nuI IS NatIV6 OF bf0Zu.
In reply to a question by the editor OF
the Richmond dispatch the department
of agriculture has decided that the pea
nut is not nut, and that 'sthe weight
OF authority seems to be I'm favor Of &C.
cepting it as q native of Brazil"