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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-18
BUTCHERS.
MEATS.
WE'LL BROTHERS. NEAT MARKET,
PIONEERS OF LOW PRICES,
600 King Street.

We beg to inform our friends and customers
that we always keep on hand supply of
Meats of all kinds such as BEEF, VEAL,
LAMB and PORK, at the very lowest prices.
Please read the following price list and com.
parc it with the prices you pay and you will
find saving of at least 20 per cent:
Good Tender ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1Oc
RlDS... -C
tr00d kQa5t.-.... OC
Prime Rib 1Oc
Al Corned Beef. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 4c
Breast of Veal ........................ 10c
Veal Chops 121sc
Leg of Lamb and Lamb Chops. 124ec
All kinds of Sausages. ges....................... 10c
Fresh Llver...... ...............'.'.''...'... ~
Fat Bsck........... oiec
Strictly Pure Lard &c ID, or 3 lbs for. 25c
Smoked Shoulder 2c
Smoked Ham. -. lll2c
AND ALL FRESH PORK AT THE LOW.
EST MARKET PRICE
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-18
MsI, CiN.AL.
ytJs STAR OF HOPE,

-rg7s@zEAvs, 81 had lost all
sf 4: l4.ss:.59 s.s.9 hope and gone to
g !; ,s;.ss g my fathers to die"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-05-18

Seventh. All the land along the line of
Railroad avenue extended southerly, and
along Potomac avenue extended southeriy
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-02
ANCHOR DINING HALL.

This was the second day of the mer-
chants lunch at the Anchor hotel, cor
ner King and Nuuanu. Manager Gun
ningham had seventy guests for the
dinner and all were immensely pleased
with the feast and the service. A
kitchen has been added to the place
and many other improvements made,
while the bar and stock and equip
ment are better than before, if pos
sible The lunch is served from 1880
to / p. m. and has at once become one
of the popular institutions of the city.
The Anchor has always been a well
patronized place, but is lately doing
better than ever. More new and at
tractive features are promised by Man
ager Cunningham. Seattle beer, which
is the best, is used exclusively in this
house.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-02
Merit
intrinsic value OF AUXC
Hood g Sarsaparilla. 81 no

Merit in medicine means the power to
cure. Hoods Sarsaparilla possesses actual
and unequalled curative power and there
fore it has true merit. When you buy
Hoods Sarsaparilla, and take it according
to directions, to purify your blood, or
cure any OF the many blood diseases, you
are morally certain to receive benefit.
The power to cure is there. You are not
trying an experiment. 1t will make your
blood pure, rich and nourishing, and thus
drive out the germs of disease, strengthen
the nerves and build up the whole system.
Severe Case Of Dyspepsia
al suffered from dyspepsia 20 years. /
had feeling as though there was lump
in my stomach. did not dare to eat
meat or warm bread, very few vegetables,
for fear of the great distress food caused
me. experienced relief right after COM
mencing to take Hoods Sarsaparilla. My
appetite increased, 1 gained in general
health and strength. l can eat almost any
thing now without discomfort. Although
] had been an invalid for twenty years,
can truthfully say that am better than
for long time. Inever weighed so much
in my life." MRS. EMILY F. BUMP, 45
Portland Street, Middleboro, Mass.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-02
CANADA WINS.

TOLEDO, o., Aug. 25.-The royal
Canadian cup defender, Canada. de-
feated the Nencedor, the Chicago chal-
lenger, today in the first race for the
international trophy. The winner
made the course in five hours and nine
teen minutes, being eleven minutes
within the time limit. The race was
for the most part, a drifting match.
Twice during the race there was a
e-miles-an-hour breeze blowing
In this wind the Nencedor showed
some gain over her rival, but there
was not enough of that sort of wealth.
er for the challenger.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-02
DEATu RECORD.

LONDON, Aug. 20.-Professor Alex
ander Henry Green, the well known
geologist, is dead at the age of GA
years.
TORONTO, Ont, Aug. 21.-A pri-
vate dispatch says that Sir David Mac
Pherson died Sunday on board the
steamer Labrador on his way to Can
ada from London.
SARATOGA, Aug. 23.-John Cham
berlain, of Washington, ID. c., died at
1925 tonight. He had been uncon-
scious for thirtysiX hours.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-02
THE BROOKLYN.

BOSTON, Mass. Aug. 24.-The
Brooklyn was given preliminary trial
under forced draught over the official
course between Cape Ann and Cape
Porpoise today. The average speed
for the round trip was 20.97 knots an
hour, a very satisfactory performance
all things considered. The contract
calls for a speed of twenty knots an
hour, in a run of four consecutive
hours.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-02
FIVE NILES Of KNIGHTS.
UNIFORM RANK X. OF p. SUPREME
LODGE.
The Society Welcomed to Cleveland
L. S. S. brooklyn-Canada Yacht
Wins from a Challenger.
PYTHIAN KNIGHTS.

CLEVELAND, o., Aug. 25.-Nearly
every supreme representative to the
Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
was present when Supreme Chancellor
Richie called the lodge to order at 10
o'clock today.
The parade this afternoon was pro-
nounced by all those who participated
the finest ever given at a biennial en-
campment. The line of march was
about five miles long and the streets
throughout were crowded with people
There were $500 men in line. There
were twenty-one bands of ASP peces.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-02
WE'RE
OFFERING

This week handsome line of "Vicuna" Eng
lish Balbrggan Underwear.
Fresh new stock One dollar will buy you
one of these full fashioned Under Shirts. Pants
and hose to match if you want them.
Jt st look at display of these goods in Mer-
chant street window as you pass along.
We've also have a few more left of those colored
border linen handkerchiefs you in the same
window last week. We marked them down to
so cents to sell quick, and they're going too.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-02
SOCIAL.

The Ladies Aid Society of the First
NJ. Z. church will give a social in the
church parlors at 1880 tomorrow even
ing. There will be a literary program
and then an ice cream festival carry
ing with it charge of 25 cents. The
money realized will be applied to the
church fund.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-02
First and Always

If you can afford to buy any beer at
all you surely can afford to buy and
use only the best. Seattle Beer con-
tains no injurious ingredients and is
therefore absolutely pura. On draught
at the Criterion saloon.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-02
Hawaiian
Electric
Company.

The cleanest, brightest safest and really,
in the long run, the cheapest and best light
for use in the family residence, is the mean
descent electric light. Safe; nothing could
be safer. A few days ago prominent gem
tleman of Honolulu came rushing down to
the office of the Electric Company and said:
"Give me figures for wiring my house, and
want it done at once; no mere lamps for me.
Last night lamp tipped over and 1t came
SO near setting fire to the house and burning
nv children and take no more risks"
This is the sentiment Of quite number in
the past few weeks, who have ordered their
houses fitted with the perfect light. q,
just think it over and make up your mind
that YOU want the best and safest light; send
for the Hawaiian Electric Company and tell
them what you want
We have a complete stock Of everything in
this line and have just received lot OF the
very latest designs in chandeliers.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-02
WILL LEAVE HAWAII.

NJ. G. johnson, one of the BOSS
Candy" men and second lieutenant of
Company b, has sold out his business
interests in Honolulu and will return
to his old home in California. The
change is on account of the health of
his wife. They will not return to Ha-
waii.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-02
\ FUR SEAL.
(Hilo Herald.)

captured and killed a seal at Keauka-
ha Point. The seal was of the regular
fur seal variety, and as far as can be
learned is the first to have been seen
on this coast.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-09-02
U. S. FINANCES.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-Today's
statement of the condition of the
treasury shows: Available cash bal
ance, S246,214,391; gold reserve, $102,-
209.324.
The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-02

And ii was the millennium for the cook
lady, too She mashed potatoes, sliced
cucurnbers, and stirred the vegetable soup
by electric proxy; she made turkey legal
tender by electric massage; and the wash
lady dumped the weeks washing into a
vat full of suds, soda, and water, and
flew the coop literally on outspread PIN
ions for Glen Echo or Cabin John.
lii fact they had discovered that a little
electric battery could move the aero
plane. The battery weighed one pound
four ounces, and the planes were of fine
steel, gathered with silk. 1t was found
that the arm was only n birds without
the feathers and the motive power. Prof.
Langley in the year of the world, 1896,
that could fly, but it was many years
after before man or woman could fly. The
old story of Icarus and fair Helle was
realized. No sun could melt the ste ell
bones Of the modern Helle's wing, as it did
the waxen wings of her ancient sister.
scene from the Capitol in the era Of
winged women is produced in black and
white. 1t is evening. The flying fair are
abroad. Their wings are all in the colors
of the rainbow. They carry tiny electric
lamps in many colors. strung round their
pecks like a dream of big diamonds. They
hover and soar; they aGsht On the dome
itself, ard flu:tcr ike iridescent doves for
foothold. and away they go again up,
up, up like swallows the larks which
Shelley compared 10 the clouds of fire.
Life was Just the same. only the piano
was played automatically behind a screen
when the lights Were in dim religious shade.
There are only Two other considerations.
The celestial host was obliged to keep
watch and ward on the ramparts TO prevent
men from flying over the walls into the
grass plots of Paradise. st. Peter issued
the manifesto of keep eff the grass and
post no hills, himself, IN the early stage
of the wing development; but later it was
found necessary to run q trocha all the
way around the New Jerusalem. II was
common talk up there in that era that
SO many men were in such hurry to get
in other wise than through the gate. and
why women came up only when they were
Obliged to.
For all that, Miss PeDnifeather came
very near qualifying herself for transia-
ton by being obliged 10. She had very
narrow escape, and the story thereof u
quoted from a journal Of Tie period.
The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-02

Yyette Gullbert in her night gown. God
forbid the latter.
But they had pretty names, did those
altogether silk clothed girls. There were
LaIage, Lucretia, and Caecilia with
diphthong and blue cyesl, yirGiiia, Hypa-
tia, Julia, Flora, Virginia, Indiana, Me-
laena with black hair, Leshia, ana
whole host of others. They principally sat
OH sofas in the full dress we have fuiiy de-
scribed and read the exquisite poetry OF
Horace. who drank and wrotea great deai'
and Catullus, who was the dandy oil his
era.
They had no out-of-door sports except
when they went out TO see the gladiators
go up against each other or the animals eat
each other in the arena They also bathed
q great deal, but they would possibly be
shocked at some of the costumes nowadays
on the sad seashore.
Then came the A ge of Iron, of rushing,
progressive men, monopolies, Ben Frank
lin, Robert Fulton, and horse cars These
latter were evolved from the Irish jauDt-
ing car and exist now only onthe nacosua
line and the short road to Congressional
Cemetery. 1t was the age OF cold-blooded'
cold-storage moDopolies, under which the
better element, to which we belong. played
;he game of freeze-out for centuries and
were badly frosted when the game was
called.
1t was the age when woman was forced
to sit in the rear car, when she humbled
herself that she might be exalted. She
shivered through. two or three centuries
before she dared sit "stradle'' on steel
horse, although in the days Of chivalry, Of
Chevalier Bayard 1.-THE man of Gaul, not
GalD, of Philip Sidney, and Rinaldo. She
spread herself all over the horse and espe-
cially his after deck. Critics of boomers
and the blk will please put that in the BIZ
cycle lamp and let it smoke.
In the days of Marie Antoinette even,
woman, when she was riding a horse
built for two, had all she could do to
hold on, while Sir Galahad scorched in
front OF pace which was not limited by
The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-02

Miss Psyche Pennifeather. Of 1912 Con-
lecticute avenue, while returning from an
lrchery party last night at Mount Vernon,
lad the misfortune to strike against tie
op of the ruined tower of the old post
,ffice, Eleventh and Pennsylvania avenue,
md fell, fortunately, inside, on one of
he arches above the clock story. Her
light wing was. broken by the collision, but
ME suffered no severer injury than the
,hysicial she * attending her striking the
lrch.
Owing to "a. iecay and fall Of the upper
tories of the tower the arches on which
he fell were covered with English sparrows'
iests and other aerial debris.
Miss Pennifeather was about a hundred
ards in advance of the party, flying at
mly eighteen miles an hour. when the other
ades and gentlemen were Mortified to
zee her search-light suddenly disappear.
they immediately put on 3 900 volts (apiece)
md, arriving at the tower, beheld their
friend outstretched on the arch Hopping
her left wing visibly and audibly, and
,ttering other signs of distress. Alghting
N the edge of the crumbling ruin 1.-THE
dangerous condition of which we have often
ailed TO the governor and legislature of
She District they rushed to the rescue Of
iheir stricken friend, and with tender
policitude, as the reporters used to say in
the nineteenth century, they lowered her
10 the pavement by the now well-known
process of aero-levitation.
The first articulate words Miss Penni-
feather utt cred in her musical cantata voice
we're Where is motner?" When told that
her mother had flown home early in the
evening she replied: I'm glad she didn't
30 up against the old postoffice."
Mr. Percival Plume had flown for the
noctor, who flew back with Mr.. Plume,
and the physician having administered
BAL amonac and sal volatile ad libitum
10 Miss Pennifeather, an electrohack-
droschka was called, in which Miss Penni-
feather was sent to her beautiful home
o.
But this is feartuIly ahead of the story.
1t is like telling about the upper crust of the
earth before alIuding even dimly to the
Plutonic rocks. As in the Scriptures all
things come by prayer, except much dust
and brown stone front houses. so all things
In art and I'D are come by evolution. Man
The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-02

man and woman gotta rest The pneumatic
tire was reinforced by tue pneumatic
cylinder and piston rod. Compressed air
made an air engine out OF the bike, but it
was destined, on account OF the law of
gravitation, never to get off the earth.
But it made one hundred miles an houE
without stop for wood, water or police
man.
Did the D. c. messenger boy tarry On
the way in the A ge of Lightning ana Com
pressed Air? We trow not. The snail still
carries his house on his back. but the d. c.
boy, with a love letter or a dispatch from
the North Pole, carries powerhouse on
his back. and he has wheels on his feet
and a little one behind to steer with.
When he is launched at the main office, the
chief OF the division, retains the key of the
boys battery. He can't stop If he would.
He must roll along for given time at
tremendous rate OF speed.
Isheis run by the compressed motor, when
bundle, he goes to the nearest pump and
fills his wheel cylinders; if he is lightning
motor he goes to the nearest telegraph or
telephone pole and repiensbeS his dynamo.
Think of an age. when Sir John Stockings
dairy maid sits Oh an ottoman and listens
to the music of an electric automobile
Mt ha M five
pounds to the half hour. at 10 cents POUND
in the country and 35 cents in the city.
Could it ever be faDcied that human in
geDuity could get even with railroad
restaurant? And yet the law of that day
and the electric hot soup spoon did it.
We take some natural pride in the presen-
vignette Its rapid rotation cools the soup
Cd occasions, when twenty members for
dinner is annoucned, and picture tells the
rest.
The swimming trolley, or every man his
own swimming master. This process OF
swimming is a dead sure cinch against
Tie unUeTtON- IL dlsO ptdtS thS
the stingaree, and the jelly fish, or the
marine Jersey mosquito.
o.
1t is easy to multiply the Illustrations
of that perfect equipoise of this age OF
electricity and air as a motive power,
when man had nothing to DO but to i'm
prove his mind by study and psychological
research. See the perfection of the uses
of the electric carriage, the compressed air
dog cart, when every woman was her own
motorman and the position, or the tiger"
had nothing to do but yawn in his own
dialect and take a rear view of the fleet
ing landscape. There were Just three in
that landscape, the lady and the tiger and
the landscape. The horse with the Cooked
tail had not been heard Of fer centuries.
The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-02
MARVELS OF TIE COMING
at the Cleaning.

civil enactment as to. crossings. Lovely
woman in that age, indeed, was lovely
spectacle of pluck and perspiration.
Everybody knows what the Age of Men
and steel corsets produced-nlagnified men
and minimized women, but the process of
physical squeezing, which began in the
Garden of Eden, strangely enough de-
veloped the brains OF woman to a surpris-
ing extent. Tennyson, when comparing
the woman of the Nineteenth Century with
the woman of Cathay wrote,
Better fifty years OF Europe
Than a cycle OF Cathay."
Lord Tennyson would, however, have
written more wisely had he seen Lady
Clara We're de We're on this same pneu-
matic-tired cycle OF Cathay, or a c. E.
parade. We at least think so as we
saw the parade, but we didn t motto many
policemen.
But we intended to speak more particu-
larry of the Age of Lightning, withstand
maiden the Age of Compressed Air. The
premium was necessary, az this last
achievement OF man was the crowning glory
of his inventive genius.
But 1t was predicted. Solomon, who knew
what ne was dreaming about, sighed 90.
had the wings of Dove" and wise men
never wish for the impossible. Miss Psyche
She could fly. She had wings made in
The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-02

Then came along the Age of Silver
(412 1-2 grains, but SO designated without
special refe renee to the Kilkenny cat
fight OF the year of the wos!d $3.50. 1t
was the age of Woman in the Altogether,
or nearly So 1t was the age, when Numa
Pompilius and his cousin Tranquil i'm
ported flesh colored silk gauzc from
Cathay, now called China from the cups
and saucers from which tea camellia is
drunk.
In this age woman discarded all of her
clothing except the silkeline mentioned.
1t was cloth So delicate in texture, and
such a complete domino, nit. that it was
called in Latin aurum textile, or woven
air. If you have never read Horace, or
CatulluS, or Terence, you don't have to
to know that the girls in those days when
dressed up in the woven air shirt waist,
skirt stockings, shoes, and hat, did not
look like Priscilla or Maude Muller, or
The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-02

must crawl before he can stand up on his
hind legs to make free silver speeches,
and woman mast be an angel before she is
"Iuipped with wings.
Man was once a monkey and pelted the
robber with rotten cocoanuts and woman
was once a bird-probably peahen, and
many of them are birds yet. They dream ed
OF flying long before they had wings; and
they still rush in &he-S angels dread to
flutter
This is our story: There was once an
ge OF Gold, regardless of the amount Of
the yellow metal in the dollar. Men and
women were then in the idyllic, almost
table by families, and dipped their chunks
of bread into the same soup dish. They
sopped with each other-not supped. The
dinner Ia fourchette was than thing
of the infinite future.
The best clad woman of the day was
not fit for the ballet because she was
clothed out of sight, and her deeds were
unfit for publication, for she did absolutely
nothing fit for anything. She was rosy
checked, but her unringed fingers were
generally greasy with the oleaginous relict
of the wild boar or her neighbor's fatted
calf She slept, by day mostly, on a pile
of rushes, and she played a little on the
harmonagonizicon, very largely to her
self, but she did the best she could and
it should be remembered that only for her
we would not know W e are alive.
She was a good woman, all mother and
children, and a wholesome dread Of their
father. He was, a brute, and SO are we
TO some extent by Inheritance SEE
Darwin, John Tyndal, and George Eliot,
passim.
The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-02
LIGHTNING 1

the government machine shop. 60 had
all men and women who could afford them
In the era of which we are now writing,
currente caIaIno, to catch the mail.
Franklin bottled it, but in the Age of
Lightning the Franklin brand was a very
old vintage indeed Morse put it Oh wire
string and circied the globe with it (which,
by the way, was predicted by Ariel in
Shakespeare. but it was reversed by the
electro motors OF the century to make
wings for all mankind and womanhood.
Before that time there was wise law to
the effect that the hand that rocks the
cradle is the hand that rules the world"
rock the cradle.
The crib rocked itself, while the sleeper
slept in the same room with his father.
His mother was probably out under the
blue empyrean soaring on silken wings
in the moonlight, or flying home from one
of those archery parties at Mount Vernon.
The baby-is being rocked to sleep by the in
telligent compressed air motor which had
been fastened to the rockers by his mother
when she went off on her tour through the
air.
New paterfamiiias, on any other even
ing. would probably have slept at the club.
He came home SO loaded 10 the taffrail
with CbOteau Lafitte that even on a moou-
light night he couldn't find the keyhoIe
But watch him. He takes out his key and
takes aim at the keyhole. There is flash
from within and flood of blue light flashes
through the keyhole. Eureka! / am
connected" He puts the key In its place,
opens the door, puts the key in his pocket
and the current is cut off from the little bat
terry abovethe!ocki inside. Note the evolution.
Ben Franklin brought the lightning from
Heaven with key. The man of this ideal
age goes to bed safely by the discovery
Had the wheel disappeared In that age?
Not at all. They multiplied as by light
p;,ey oA,tpr machine p,,f ba 'Iapc Of
The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-02

Had the wheel disappeared In that age?
Not at ALL They multiplied as by light
ming adding machine. But the legs of