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ACCORDION PLEATING, FASHION
able dressmaking. Mrs. Kunigh, 1916 1.
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PAUL SCHMIDTS FIR FRUIT I: :

dy store. Delicious coffee and cake, 10c;
ice-cream parlor; lunches put up; cigars
and tobacco; open day and night. 326 K
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WOMAN WANTS WORK HOUSE,
cleaning and washing and ironing; Of
fees cleaned by the day or month. Call
or address 224 ] street. room Z. 1t*
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WASHINGTON MARKET

Ripe California and Spanish olives. per
quart, 25c; large can mustard. SC: sardines
SC; fruit and vegetables. Sunset 404 blk:
Cap. 444. Panl1ost & Wake, 1908 j.
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EL|ABL E
"A " and ENTERPRISIWG
SACRAMENTO DEALERS.
THE VARIETY STORE

at lilo street aims to sell and does sell
all kinds of general merchandise and dry
goods at prices much less than elsewhere
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1000 MEN WANTED TO HAVE THEIR
old hats made equal to new. 1925 / ST.,
cor. 18th. w L. Rourke. Practical Halter.
The Penn's Grove record., 1897-08-06
The Tramp. apl.tIrlery.,

Prompt action and the movements oil
these last few years toward driving away
New York's iong-establIshed army Of
tramps have lone much 20 blot out Of ex.
istence the worst OF these places. Some
still remain, however, on the outskirts Of
they are curious enough to be well worth q
visit from those who do not mind touching
elbows with rough and unpleasant company,
There was a year or SO ago-and the place
is certainly stu In existence, though Its
unique custom may nave chauged-a dis
tiilery' In the "gas-house district" q
region between Fourteenth and Twenty.
third streets. and enst Of Second avenue,
which had a fame among tramps from here
to Chicago. II was situated on q dark
badly-lighted street, which was not safe to
travel after nightfall. Originally 1t had
been a stable, and had eometo be- groggery
OF the lowest type.
Barrels OF spirits lined its walls, and the
single gas Jet overhead made dark corners
Tn interior was gloomy In the extreme
and Tor a purpose. Customers were not
encouraged to lounge about there, as Is the
rule In the ordinary saloon. What wa:
wanted was for o man to pay over his
money, get his drink and go.
Few besides the average "hobo" of the
road n the street ever came there. Fol
the better-dressed men there were glasse.
and 'ten-cent drtnks," but this class Of
trade was not wanted. The tramp with Q
nickel In hts grimy fist was tho animal this
"distillery" catered to.
When the shambling wretch stood before
the little counter, the one word OF the man
behind II would be, "Pricel'' The coin be-
ing produced and thrown into q drawer the
proprietor would hand over one end of 0
length OF hose. The other end rested in q
barrel Of whisky Of the worst sort under
tie counter. The rule OF the "distillery'
wns this: The tramp could pull upon the
hose until his mouth was full. That con,
stituted his drink. 1t must be lone with.
out swallowing, however. At the slightest
indication Of an attempt to swallow the
hose would be ierked away, and another
drop morc.-New York Tribune.
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A rouching story.

sNo, I won't drink with you to-day,
boys" said q drummer to several compan.
ions, as they settled down In a smoking.
car n passed the bottle. 9Th fact Is.
boys. ! have quit drinking. Nv SWORD
whats the matter with you, old boy2''
sang out one. "H you've quit drinking,
something's up. What Is it?"
well, boys, ! viii tell you. Yesterday ]
was In Chicago. Down in South Clark
street q customer OF mine keeps q pawn
shop in connection with his other business.
I called on him, and while l was there q
young man OF not more than twenty-five,
wearing threadbare clothes and looking as
hard as though he hadn't seen a sober day
for q month, came In with a package In his
hand. He ~unwrappedit and handed the
article to the pa~wnbroker, saying, Give
me ten cents. And, boys, what, do you
suppose 1t was? Apair OF baby shoes; lit
tie things, with the bottoms only q trile
soiled. rs II they had been worn only once
or twice. Where did you get these?i asked
the pawnbroker. Got 'em at home re-
piled the man, who had an intelligent face
and the manner OF a gentleman, despite his
condition. Ny wife bought them for our
baby. Give me ten cents for 'em-I want a
drink You had better take the shoes
back to your wife; the baby will need them,'
said the p~awnbroker. No, s-she won't, be-
cause she's dead. She's lying at home now
died last night As he said this, the
poor fellow broke down, bowed his head on
the show case and criedlike q child. Boys"
said the drummer, "you may laugh IL you
please, but IL have a baby at home, and !
swear III never touch another drop"
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Temperance News and Notes.

To ask q man long accustomed to vino
and beer to abstain totally from such bev-
erages is to require quite a sacrifice. But
1t seems prudent, in view OF h the doe
tors say, to train up the new generation In
such a manner that. not having formed the
habit Of beer-drinking, they will experience
nc craving for alcohol.
/ am far from saying, remarks a temper
nnce lecturer, hat moderate drinking Is
always unhealthy; but l simply echo the
unanimous statement Of physicians when I
affirm that total abstinence Is more health
full than even moderate drinking. The
total abstainer Is favored more than any
other person by the life insurance COM
panies; his head Is clear, his heart beats
steadily, not being excited by alcohol; his
vital functions work regularly and normally,
and when he gets sick he is easily cured.
Accidents apart, he lives to q good old age.
Alcoholism is a distinctive disease possess
ing Its own etiology, symptomatolGgy, path
ology, etc. A cure can not ~ effected by
will power or any other agent, except the
relieving OF the system OF the alcoholic i'm
presslop< In many cases by will power
~aione a man Is enabled to hold the disease
in allegiance. That requires the constant
exercise Of will power, SO TINT when the
will power, so to speak, is diverted In other
directions, the alcoholic influences or ap-
petite having full sway would cause a re-
lapse,
The doctors say alcohol doesn't do a man
any good; the moralists say that it leads
him into temptations. Wisdom would
therefore urge that our boys be brought up
total abstalners.
A may be willing to die for n man,
but unwilling to take O direct road to the
p~oorhouse With him.
A young lady student teaching in the
country wrote, please send me some tenn
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rrse,p,es. In Che HIn.lars..

There Is one remarkable popularity
OF the series Of Himalayan ranges be-
tween the vale and Kssmir and the
central Asian watershed-they are ono
after another cut right across by
ridges. The reason for this is that the
rivers were there before the ranges
were formed, and as, by the drinking
OF the earth's crust, the ranges were
raised, the rivers cut gorges through
them and maintained their flow.
Manga Parbat is part of the true and
principal Himalayan range, and its
summit rises to the stupendous alti-
tude above sea level Of 20, $3.50 feet.
Close 10 its foot, not more than ten
miles in horizontal distance from the
peak, the Indus flows through q desert
gorge, and here the height above sea
level ofthe river bed is not much above
5000 feet.
IT is easy to conceive from these fig
ures on how vast q scale natures
architecture is set up. / have never
been down this part Of the Indus
gorge, but a friend Of mine who was
there told me hat the path along the
side of the gorge is in places perilous-
ly narrow and carried across precipices
Of such appalling character that at one
point a servant Of his who lost his
footing fell a mile in vertical height,
and was, Of course, smashed to atoms.
One side of Manga Parbat sinks to
this gorge by a series Of ridges and
ravines-that is the Chilas side. The
other two sides OF the mountain, for
it is on a triangular base, are likewise
defined by long valleys, one of which
is filed by the great Tarshing glacier.
North American Review.
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The approach from the south TO LIN
Grange, Ala, is marked by the fine
view into the valley Of the Tennessee
River, three or four hundred feet be.
low, which it presents, and by the
masses Of sandstone lying around the
village, where it has been precipitated
from the cliffs above by the wearing
away Of the limestone under them.
But the most interesting and remark,
able feature Of the locality, says Mr..
Henry McCalley in his geological re.
port Of the valley region, and the one
for which La Grange will always be
| distinguished, notes Popular Science
Monthly, is the p~rofusion of the re-
mains Of fossil plants. Nowhere can
one gain better ideas of the magnih-
cence of the fora Of the coal period
than a this place. Trunks Of lie.
pidodendron, two or three feet in di-
ameter, lie buried and protruding from
the debris Of the sandstone. These
trunks have in general preserved their
form and are not at all compressed,
whereby they show that they stood
erect in the beds that inclosed them.
Although stripped Of their bark, the
scars are plainly impressed on their
surface.
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ference. / am now returning to make an
immediate report to President Mckinley.
~ have had long and entirely candid
conferences with Mr.. Chamberlain, aud
last Sunday 1 passed the day with Sir
Richard Webster, the Attorney-General,
who is the adviser OF the British Govern
ment.
"My statement met with the frankest
and most impartial consideration.
"As to the Hawaiian question, 1 may say
that in London, Paris, Berlin and st.
Petersburg l have had ample opportunity
70 ascertain tho prevailing sentiment in
political and commercial circles.
"In all these capitals annexation is
generally regarded as the natural, IL not
Inevitable, result OF the large growth and
expansion of the United States on the
western coasts Of America.
Gas 1t could not be expected that any
other foreign Power would be permitted to
occupy the islands owing TO the strategic
Importance, the proposed annexation
would be acquiesced In by the European
Governments, although the position which
1t would give the United States in the
Pacific would not be welcomed by nations
seeking supremacy in that quarter OF the
world.
MY personal views on this question are
we'll known In the United States. Never
theless 1t Is extremely gratifying to find
that the necessary expansion OF the United
States will not be the cause of European
difficulties, and tits appreciated as the
logical outcome Of American dS11iRyn
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The English explorer, Harry de-
Windt, recently returned to London
from the Siberian shores Of Berina
strait, In q short time he will leave
England for q ~lecturing tour in the
United States. The Tchuktcb;a arc
nominally Russian subjects. but the
only vessels ever in the neichborbood
are american whalers and the United
States revenue cutter. Mr.. de Windt
had an enforced sojourn of two months
among the natives.
He says they are physically a far
finer race than the Alaskan Esonimaux
and their women are better looking
but the Tchuktchis are wholly devoid
Of morality, and will barter a wife for
a handful Of tobacco. They number
altogether about 5000 and along Ber-
ing strait. are seven settlements of per-
haps 300 each. The others are scat
tered along the seaboard Of the Arctic
ocean, stretching away to the settle
ment of Mini Kolymsk.
The most weird Tchuktchi ceremony
is the "Kamitsk." This is simply the
putting to death, with their free con-
sent, of aged or useless members Of
the community. When a Tchuktchi's
powers have decreased to an appreci-
able extent q family council is held
and a day fixed for the victims depar-
ture for another world. Perhaps the
most curious feature is the indifference
shown by the doomed one, who takes a
lively interest in the proceedings, and
often assists in the preparations for
his own death. The execution is pre-
ceded bya feast, where seal and walrus
meatare greedily devoured and villain
GUS whiskey is consumed.-New York
,Ionrnal.
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THE SLEEPING SEA.

The sun sinks down where sky and water
meet,
Tingeing with red and gold the dark'ning
sheet;
Tho cloudy curtains close around his bed.
And Twilight comes with soft and stealthy
tread.
The pale moon, peeping from her feecy
screen.
Lightens the waters with a silv'ry sheen.
The seagulls dip aud skim along the waves
Toward their homes, among the the rocks
n caves.
o, Sleeping Sea! How beautiful thy face.
Kissed by the moonlight! With a stately
grace,
Caressing the white sands, thy waves ad-
vance,
And roll away into the vast expanse.
Upon the cliffs projecting gaunt ard gray,
And down beneath, amid the foamy spray,
Who're %dolphins sport themselves and mer-
maids weep.
The nymphs and fairies their night vIgils
keep.
All, Signing Sen! l wist why thou dost
gricve;
IT'S for for the wrongs TINT thou cans't meier
retrieve
Hearts thou hast broken, lives that thou
didst blight
IT'S for the lost, that sleep with thee tonight.
o, Mighty Deep! When we would compre-
bend
How thou vast formed or what shall be thy
end.
We are bewilderGd--'tis not ours to see
Thy hidden power, or solve thy mystery.
Yet. Boundless Sea, a lesson thou dost teach,
Lifting our thoughts above the realms Of
speech,
To thy Creator-Him whose potent hand
Guides and protects us over sea and land.
University of the South Magazine.
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rho Ieyas,e sarane.e reop,e.

Down in Java" il the title of an
article in the Century, written by Eliza
Il. Scidmore. The author v
Native life warns in this land of
the betel and the banana, where there
seems to be more of Inherent dream
and calm than in other lands of the
lotus. The Javanese are the finest
flowers Of the Malay race--a people
possessed Of 4 civilization, arts, and
literature in that golden period before
the Mohammedan and the European
conquests. They have gentle voices,
gentle manners, fine aud expressive
features, and are the one people Of
Asia besides the Japanese who have
real charm and attraction for the alien.
They are more winning, too, by con-
trast, after one has met the harsh, I'M
lovely, and unwashed people Of China,
or the equally unwashed, cringing
Hindu. They are q little people, and
one feels the same indulgent, protec-
tive sense as toward the Japanese.
Their language is soft and musical
"the italian Of the tropics" their ideas
are poetic, and their love of flowers
and perfumes, Of music and the dance,
of heroic plays and Of every emotional
form Of art, proves them as innately
esthetic as their distant cousins, the
Japanese, in whom there is SO large
an admixture of Malay stock. Their
reverence for rank and age, and their
elaborate etiquette and punctilious
courtesy to one another, are as marked
aefe Commensurate as among the
Japanese; but their AFFECT crouching
humility before their Dutch employ
ers, and the brutality Of the latter to
them, are subjects for sadder think
ing, and something to make the blood
hnil
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A SEALING CONFERENCE.
Great Britain Accepts the Proposition
Of the United States.
TO Be HELD IN WASHINGTON

Ambassador Hay Notihed-Belief Tha the
Conference VIII BE Attended Also by
Representatives Of Russia and japan
-Commissioncr Foster Tells of His
Work Mt st, Petersburg and London
LONDON. England (By C~able).-The BIN
ish Foreign ONCE notified Ambassador ia!
that Great Britain has accepted the propo
sition of the United States for an lnterna
tional conference on the question OF pelasl'
sealing in the Boring Sea. 1t will be held
at Washington during the the coming au
sumn.
John W. Foster. the United States special
Commissioner on the sealing question IL
tho course OF IN interview said:
wherever l have been, at st. Peters
burg, Berlin, Paris or here Ia london J
have been received in the most cordial man
ner.
"whatever may be the feeling in the
United States anent the o~ften-reported an
tagonism to our Government displayed ~
foreign Powers, l have seen nothing OF IL.
'.Eyerywhere / have had evidence that
the foreign governments wish to meet any
question raised by tho United States In o
spirit of the utmost frankness n open
mindedness. Perhaps 1t is needless for me
to say that this is most gratifying to me
Officially and In my private capacity.
s'The British Government has agreed TO
accept our proposition for q sealing con-
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PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

An injury repaired is a benefit to
two.
Great griefs are dumb, and little
cares cry aloud.
OF all deceivers, the s~elf-deceiyer
is most to be pitied.
A vice never seems TO us SO horrible
as when practiced by some one We do
not like.
Deep streams move with silent mai
esty, shallow brooks babble over every
tiny stone.
Pain is one of natures teachers,
whose lessons we cannot afford to dis
pense with.
With rudeness suffered to remain at
home, impoliteness must necessarily
be the rule abroad.
Debt is the worst kind Of poverty;
it makes us feel that each debtor is
the moral master of our purse,
When we are alone we have our
thoughts to watch, in the family our
tempers, and in society our tongues.
The lottery Of honest labor, drawn
by time, is the only pne whose prizes
are worth taking up and carrying
home.
Good nature is the air Of a good
mind; the sign Of a large aud generous
soul and the peculiar soil in which
virtue prospers.
If good are not practised
ut home, but are allowed to lie by
until occasions call upon their wearer
to assume them, they are sure to be .
bad fit when donned.
A character which combines the love
of enjoyment with the love of duty, and
the ability TO perform it, is tho ono
whose unfoldings give the greatest
promise Of perfection.
All great men are brave in initiative;
but the courage which enables them
to succeed where others dare not even
attempt is never s. potent as when it
leads to entire self-forgetfulness.
1t may be truly said that no man
does any work perfectly who does not
enjoy his work. Joy in ones work is
the consummate tool without which
the work may DO done indeed but
without its finest perfection.
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Alabama has a Swedish colony.
Cholera is reported as prevalent in Siam.
1t is more than 5000 miles from New York
City to Klondike.
The rebellion of the natives In Bechuana-
land, Africa, has collapsed.
Plans for strengthening the italian Navy
are under serious consideration.
Atlanta (Ga.9 Socialists were moi per-
mitted by the police toEcid amass meeting.
g. MANNER, of Chicago, who de-
clared~S,sew days ago that he bad been
offered $4,000 as u bride, now retraets the
statement.
Captain General Weyler announced that
he would grant amnesty to fifteen hundred
exiles from Cuba.
The United States Treasury Department
has decided that calf-skins must pay duty
as "hides,'' at the rate OF fifteen per cent.
ad valorem.
All the fish deserted the Spithead waters
during the British Jubilee Naval review, on
account of the number Of boats present and
the firing of the guns.
A statement from Athens was interpreted
in Paris as indicating that should foreign
control OF Greek finances be adopted the
King OF Greece would abdieate.
The State Convention OF the Nebraska
Populists, Silver Democrats and Silver Ro-
publicans will be held in Lincoln on sop
TENDER I, the intention being to put up q
fusion ticket.
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loon nave for o stock argument that this
institution makes business. We have no
doubt Of this, says the Christian Standard,
but 1t Is the kind of business that an irri-
tan poison makes In the human body. All
the organs are set to work to cast 1t out
and neutralize It's influence. The saloon
cials, asyiums and the p~oorhouse, 1t does
not make business for the butcher, the
baker and the candlestick- maker." 1t Is
the testimony Of important investigators
that the whisky traflo interferes with
legitimate trade.
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CHIEF PARKER KILLED.
Tho Well-Known Chief of the Comanchcs
Murdered For His Money.

Ine Well-hnOWn Cnlef OF the Commences
Murdered For His Money.
News has been received from Altui,E Tin
the extreme southwestern portion Of Okla
homa, that outlaws have killed Quanah
Parker, chief Of the Comanche Indians, and
one OF the most noted Indians In the Terri
tory. Chief Parker was returning from
Texas with 800 Of his tribe, and they were
camped at the mouth Of North Fork Greek,
Grler County. He was killed and robbed
of his money.
Chief Parker was accompanied by his IA
vorite wife and o party OF his sub-chiefs.
He was n OF the remarkable men OF the
Southwest. His mother was q white wo-
Cynthia Ann Parker, captured in
childhood blythe Indians, and when grown
she was married to old Chief Guiana, chief
OF the Comanches In their bloodiest days.
Their son, Quanah Parker had a university
education, but preferred Indian life, and
dressed in Indian costume. Ho has presid-
ed over the tribe for years, living in a large
mansion, with seven wives and many chill
dren.
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WRECK ON THE RAIL.
A Switch Tempered With and o Train
Partly Derailed.

Partly Derailed.
The Chicago Express on the Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Chicago and st. Louis Rail.
way, due In Cincinnati at 7 a. H., was
wrecked ut Thornton. Ind, about 2.2O
o'clock. -Four were killed outright and
several slightly injured.
There was a deliberate plot to wreck the
train, as q coupling pin had been driven
into the switch SO Is to hold 1t open and
throw the fast train from Chicago to Gin
cinnati off the track as 1t passed that point.
The engine and tender, the mail, express
and baggage cars were thrown from the
track and wrecked. The coaches and Wag-
ner sleeping cars remained on the track
and one OF the passengers were seriously
hurt, although they had n lively shaking
up.
1t is reported that none of those In the
cars that were thrown from tho track were
seriously hurt. Seth Winslow, OF Green's
burg, Ind, the engineer. and B. Crlckmore.
of Indianapolis, the fireman, and two uni
Identified tramps, were killed outright.
The officials of tho "Blg -Four" Railroad
state that NO passengers were hurt. The
fatalities are limited to the engineer. and
fireman n two tramps.
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For a month of dry weather extending
over a part of June aud the first of July, q
dozen parties Of haymakers worked in the
free fields Of the coast country about Alvin,
Brazoria County, Texas, and shipped thou.
sands OF tons of hay. Hundreds OF thou
sands of acres covered with this grass arr
free to anybody, yet enough goes to waste
every year there, it is said, to feed all the
stock Of northern Texas. The proportion
saved each year, however, is becoming
larger now.
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Brooklyn has released pitchers MclIato,
aud Daub.
1t will be we'll to watch for a great lnis,
by the Cleyelands.
The Boston Club will play no more eyht
bition games this season. 1t Is our for M,
nag now.
What q wonderful pitcher younc poyco.
seems to bel He Is winning eyerythinp 10
Cleveland.
Rusie, Of New York, never pitched brf.e
ball than this year. HIS long lay-oN ~,
not affect him.
Warner, OF New York, has caught M
games than any other catcher il the Lca.u
so far this season.
Camel, of the Bostons, is subject to r.
quent attacks Of Charlie horse"
Deiahanty, OF Philadelphia, leads the
League In batting. He IL tho grea*
batter in the world.
Griffin, shindle and shoch, Of the pre-
Brooklyn team, were all playing on
Utica team away back in 1856.
Sockalexls, the Indian, has been laid
by Cleveland for Indifferent playing.
poor work is said TO be due to disskpatf1
The clergy OF Erie, Penn, hal
lenged the lawyers OF that city toN
OF baseball, and the challenge has
eepted.
orth. Of Philadelphia, corbett,
more. Mercer, OF Boston, and StiY
Washington, are the beet batting
In the League,