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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-02
Field staff and non-commis-

IAN officer OF one OF our regular iegi-
ments, blessed with an ABUNDANCE OF
animal spirits and fond Of all kinds OF
mischief. fell recently into the habit or
fransposing initial letters and syllables
from one word 20 another In the same
sentence. u was harmless pasiime.
but II brought him 10 grief eventually.
one afternoon not long ago he recelN
ed call quite Unexpectedly TO perform
The duties OF adjutant az the evening pa
rade He proceeded with his duties AT
the arnnory very deliberately and care
fully. in order that he might avoid falling
into the habit he had INDUCED I'm socially,
OF mlspiacing letters and syllables that
occurred in the commands he was re-
Quired 10 employ.
His caution proved his ruin. and sent
him headlong into the very errors ne
had been striving 10 avoid.
After he had been directed 70 receive the
reports. he FASTENED TO his place In front
Of the line and In stentorian voice
cried: FIRST gents sent out frontier
march"-The Military Gazette.
"Dld YOU ever see a bugle on a toot7
or a gun-butt az anything?
or a moth-ball itself off2
or a knap-sack- rifce its life for friend
or n holt-ulatc-ag with itself?
Or ammuni-shun publicity?
or a comfortably round the flag?
or a fatigue-cap tho climax
The Seventh Regiment Gazette.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-02
GladneSS Comes

With a better understanding of the
Wv transient nature OF the many phys
zeal ills. which vanish before proper eff
forts-pentle efforts-pleasant Efforts
rightly directed. There is comfort in
the knowledge, that so many forms of
sickness are not due to ny actual dis
ease. but simply to .onstipsted condi-
ton of the system, which the pleasant
family laxative, Syrup of Figs. prompt
lv removes. That is why il is the only
remedy with millions Of families, and is
everywhere esteemed so highly by all
who value good health. It's beneficial
effects are due to the fact, that il is the
one remedy which promotes internal
cleanliness without facilitating the
organs on which II acts 1t is therefore
ali important, in order to get its bene-
fetal effects, TO note when you pur-
chase. that you hav the genuine artr
Gle. which is manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by
all reputable druggists
If in the enjoyment of good health.
and the system is regular, laxatives or
other remedies are then not needed. Ii
afflicted with any actual disease. one
NAV be commended to the most skillfu
physicians. but If in need of a laxative
one should nave the best. and with the
well-informed everywhere, Syrup OF
Figs stands highest and is most largely
Sed and givesmost general satisfaction
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-02

Below
Layer Figs. So. pound.
Brandy Peaches or Cherries, IL l-zo
bottle.
Imported Swltzer Cheese. 2oc.
Limburger Cheese, II l-2c. a pound
Good Green or Mixed Tea. l5c.
Cracker Dust &c. pound
Good Hay. 60c per hundred.
Mixed Corn. 35c. bushel.
Brownstuff. zoe. per hundred.
Shipstuff. 15c. per hundred.
Corn Bran. Doc. per hundred.
pounds Imported Macaroni for 25c.
| pound La Favorita Baking Powder,
one spoon box lOc. Best on the market.
Gunpowder Tea, zoe. pound. Try H.
and you will use no other.
Large Cans Salmon. &c.
1O-cent Box I. NJ. Backing for DC.
Sour Pickles. l0c. gallon.
Carolina Rice. SC. pound.
Extra Large French Prunss. pounds
for 25c.
2 cakes Kitchen Soap. for cleaning. for
Sc.
Ammonia. sc. bottle; regular loc. bottle.
Bakers Cocoa. loc. can.
Iced Honey Cakes. Sc. pounds.
Lemon Cakes. sc. pound:
Best New crop New orleans Molasses.
40c. a gallon.
tea you ever drank.
Large bars Jefferson Soap, &C.; regu-
lar sc. bar.
Large cans Rival Condensed Milk, &c.
can
Strained Honey. pounds for 2Sc.
Comb Hcrey. IL 1-2c a pound.
New Lake Fish lsc. n dozen.
Large Fat Mackerel. l2c. dozen.
Jelly Wine i3c. a quart.
Imrorted Sardlnes. with keys, Sc. can.
Ruttermilk Soap. &c. per box. cakes TO
a box.
bottles Brandy Peaches for z5c.
New Hominy and Grits, &c. pound.
Flake Hominy, &c. a pound.
Large l-2 cakes Baking Chocolate. for
Csc a.
pound.
Large bottles Essence Lemon and Va.
nilla. &c.
Black Eyed Peas. &c. a quart.
Lima Beans &c a pound.
Evaporeted Apples. &c. a pound.
Corn starch. packages for &c.
Freezing Salt. l0c. peck.
Good Cooking Butter, l0c. pound.
Large Lemons. l0c a dozen.
Good New Orleans Molasses. zoe. a GAL
lon.
II will pay you TO get one OF our new
price lists.
lEw PRICE LIST.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-22

The general foreign budget to-day is
rather dull. There is report by way III
Paris that a treaty OF peace has been eff
fected between Great Britain and the
Mahdi, through the intervention OF sla,n
Pasha. The British are to adva'nceas faras
Khartocrn, the Mat,ii being acknowledged
King OF the territory bearing that name.
with Zobein Pasla acting as governor of
Darfur under British protection. 1t also
Is said that KiIg Menelik OF A byssinia has
accepted the Joint guar antee OF the west
ern Aby ssinian frontier by England and
the Mahdi Slatin Pashs is the officer who
was captured Ivy the Mahdi. at the time
of Gordon Pasha's murder at Khartoun,
and held fer years as prisoner in the Sou
dan. After his escape he was appointed to
en- intelligence officer. King Leopold of
Belgium = reported incoGnito on his yacht
at the Canary Islands. IL is eisiire.; that
he is on sis way to visit the Congo State
n Africa, over which country he exer-
cises seini-sovereignty which may become
complete later. The dispatches are nearly
silent as TO events in northern India, and
it lie Impossible Ia make up ones mmd
whether that is n good sign or not. There
must he fighting over an extended theater
u operations, but tie only thing We hear
is that the Mad Mullah has attacked the
British at Lakerai. There was five tours
fighting, the result of which is not given.
but night probably suspended operations.
Gen. wodehouse, the English commander,
was wounded
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-22

Mr.. Mckinley may consider himself Or
not as he pleascs. as being just now TIE
tween the gold anG silver horns OF d III
Iemma. OILERS viii say that the horizon
do sotacthing for silver that is, M
wanted e. 10 something for Wolcutt and q
few others Who thought they could carry
water on both shoulders in the late P-eSi-
dential ,ampaien. So Mr.. Mckinley
packed off the bimetallic commission 10
Europe. in the SNUG and smiling onfi-
dence hat nobody over there would have
an ything &C. do with it, and that 80 the
pleasant iunketfor the commissioners woud
DC the sum and end OF the matter. In
fortunately fer this proSnosis, senator Vol
colt and his associates have made a de-
cided impression upon Continental, and
sonie even on English opinion. France.
moved also by the logic of necessity, is
anxious 10 restore SILVER in " hole or in
part, while the British government seeras
on the point of doing something In the
sarle dircctiCa as far a. India may be
concerned, n least. Thus the little devil
let out Of the bottle has swelled himself
g. the proportions Of a powerful genius
Just as this occurs. tie Indianapolis gold
bug commission for the ultimate fostering
of the single standard, the destruction OF
national money, and for other evil pcr-
poses, meets in Washington. Presto Mr..
Mckinley takes to tie woods. Later IN,
ff this ''Commissusn- does not hurry up
and 20 away, which is not likely, Secre-
sary Aiger viii have to send one OF lis
Klondike dog sledge teams to bring tine
President back 60 his lonely CAPITAL.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-22
VICTIM PUr On THE RAILS.
Dragged 10 the Tracks to BE Crush.
cd ny IA Train.

Shamofin, Pa. Sept. %. While Michael
McIntSre WAS on his way home to BoyG-
town Monday night hcnwayme stopped
him few hun dre ed feet southeast of Spring
field and ask ec him for money. He refused,
whercupOn they Knocked him down with
clubs and stones They then carried him IN
a senseless condition to the Lehigh Vale y
Railroad, 80 that the Empire freight, then
due, would hide evid ance of their crime. &c
having been discovered that one OF the
blows had fractured the base of his skull
Renj3clin KutZ, q resident Of BoyCitown,
a short time afterward. was walking on the
railroad, when he stumbled over Mcintyre,
whose neck lag on the rail. The Empire
freight dashed toward the spot, and Kutz
had barely rcmoyed Mcintyre when the
train shot past. KutZ summoned aid and
the bleeding victim was removed to his
home. Doctors worked ON him until early
this morning. when he revived. but could
not talk He is now at the point of death.
Last month Mcintyre was relieved of $50
by higllwaymen, the hold-up occurring al
most al the same spot where he yesterday
received what Will likely be his death bio W.
The police have beea unable to discover any
clews leading to The identity OF the rob-
bers.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-22

The conditions subsisting between Amer
lea and SPAN today, If we were TO Judge
OF them thnush the nicola of the various
leading newspapers OF the country, would
lie found Satisfactor, TO every shade Of
taste or opinion. The New York Journal
sticks to the story that woodford declared
10 Tetran, taat the ar in Cuba must cease
by November 1. or the Eagle would insert
H. claws INTO the situation and make not
Rome. bI, Spain, howl. Advices to most
other papers, including The Times, merely
upon namely, mat nothing OF an unfriendly
@, otherwise FRACTIONAL nature has passed
between the governments What ma hap
pen NJ CONSEQUENCES OF circumstances and
movements beyond the control OF either.
IL IL impossible Ia say. Irritation against
the A :ucria IAN Government is acute. both ia
Spain ard among the Spaniards in Cuba.
TIE administration is doing its best 20
carry out the spirit OF Cleveland's alliance
with Spain. and devotes our Nary aud
rpvcn-.e marine service TO the service %.
assisting in the oppression OF Cuha. At
enormous expense to our people. But this
docs not satisfy either weyler or Spain.
The fact remains that expeditions come
from somewhere and lane under the nose
OF Spanish 5ffioialisnl. military and naval.
nh Al
within range OF the guns on MORO Castle,
weyler is actually mad about that and
curses the ihefficiency of his naval sup
port Or the other hand the Havanese
Spaniards are ready 20 swear that MIR.
Mckinley t. secretly helping the Republic.
q charge winch, in the light OF know ledge
in these ATTITUDES, must be taken as
huge Joke on the Chief Magistrate.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-22

Warnings and advice are of little avail
when applledto insane people. News from
the Pacificcoa Il shoIrs hat even the closeof
river navigation In Alaska does not prevent
continuance OF the mad rush in that di
rection. steamers still are going north
ward, loaded with passengers for Dyea
and hEaguay. Most OF them know that
there is not the smallest hope of getting
further before next snring, but they want
btion a. possible. There are those. even,
who faneg that they may get DIP 10
winter closes in. INT that of course is
MOI sense The last cargo Of provisions.
definite report, reached Dawson City on
August rs. II is probable that five more
started for The Klondike. A dispatch re
Ccired last right advises us that two Of
are hard and 70 on saHdbars, hundreds VI
miles from their destination. This not only
viii make shortage difference TO tie
people up there Of 500 tons OF provisions,
bat will reduce tis.. outoarrying passenger
capacity Tor the season 10y 500 souls, a sad
5hing both ways
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-22

I; H. were not for the low mortality we
should he inclined 10 regard the fever ne ws
ss serious today; but, although, the infec.
ton undoubtedly is sprcsding, ten new cases
being reported from New Orleans. two
from Mobile, nine from Edwards and -four
from Biloxi. but one death is noted for the
twenty four hours When this state OF ar
fairs is compared with that of the epiden &C.
of SIS, when deaths occurred by the score
daily, certainly there Is ground for en-
couragen.ent. Especially is this 40 in view
Of the probability OF early cool weather
IN the South and the comparative mild
Btss of the disease this year. At the sane
time the situation has not yet thrown off
all symptoms OF panic. The quarantine
against the Infected districts is so rigid
that railway passengers leaving New Or
leans are not allowed TO debark south Of
Atlanta on the Louisville and Nashville,
or south CT Chattanooga on the Queen and
Crescent line. The Southern Pacific. Texas
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-22
EDUCATIONAL.
EDUCATIONAL.
Georgetown University.
BOUNDED 1881
SCHOOL OF LAW. =
FACULTY:

FACULTY:
Rev. J. HAVENS RICHARDS, =. j.,
Hon ri EESsY q the ss SS.ysrsI L. D.
Justice Supreme Court Of the United
,., states1,
Mon Ma aR Asa MoR sssDT Id De-
tAssociate Justice, Court OF Appeals OF
the District OF ColUmbla],
tionai Law aud Comparative JurIs-
prudence.
Hon SETH SHEPARD, LII. d.,
tAssociate Justice, Court OF Appeals %
the District OF Colnmbia).
Lecturer on the Law Of Corporations and
Equity Jurisprudence
Dean OF me = Facnl,v az f,sci nLs D.
Hon. LOUIS E. McCOMAS,
"a ssociate Justice supreme Court Of thu
Lecturer on Law Of Contracts and the
Law OF Evidence.
JOsEPH >. DA atLiSUION, Ii. d.
GEORGE Z. hxMfIToN. IL. d.,
Lecturer on Praetics. Parliamentary Law
and Equity Pleading and Practice.
Lecturer on Common Law Pleading. Grimm
nal Law and domestic Rela
Rey- RENE holland, s. j.,
Lecturer on Natural Law.
lALiMA DGE A LAMBERT, Ii. d.,
Lecturer on Civil Law.
uhAkLEs A. DOUGLASS, Esq,
lecturer on the Law Of Torts and Negotia-
MICHAEL j. COLBERT. A. NIL M,
Lecturer ON the Law Of Personal
Property
ID. W. BAKER, Al LIN
Assistant nited States ATTORNEY FOR tina
District OF Columbiat
Judge OF the circuit Court and Lectl-sr on
the Law OF Real Estate and EIe-
mentary Practice
IAABBYYR sFT .n Msss os b4kIHkBGr
ENaniiners; Messrs- j. ALTHErS JOHN
SON and HENRY W. sOHON.
Clerk OF Courts: HARRY W. HODGES
Ii. NJ
SAMUEL M YEATMAN, "A M,
Secretary and Treasurer.
GRAVY LILLE NJ HUNT, LII NJ,
Assist ant.
The twenty-eighth annual session Of the
senooIof Law ope1sOn Wednesday, October
y, iSS7, at $50 D. IN, In the Law school
building, Nos. 500 and sos street north
west, at witch time the Introductory lee
ture will he delivered and announcements
made Tor the ensuing term Present and
Interested are cordially invited 70 be pres
ent- The secretary can be seen at his
office in the law building. daily from to
q p m, for information, enrolment, pay
ment Oh lees, etc Those proposing to
connect themselves with the school for
the ensuing term are requested 10 enroll
their names before the opening night
AS announced at the annual Commence
meat In June last, tn under graz uate course
viii be extended to three years, beginning
Win the session Of 1s9S-9S. STUDENT
entering this year can graduate In two
Circulars giving course OF study, terms,
etc, can be obtained at the book store of
W IL MorriSoa's Sons, 1926 street north
west; Lowdermilk 4 Co, 1924 r street,
and John Byrne 4 Co. 1922 + street norm,
west and az w. =. ThOmpsOn's drug store
SO3 9th street northwest or on aDplica-
non personally or by letter 20 the under
se20-3w
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-22
TEMPERANCE EDUCATION.
Mrs. Hunts Admirable Work mt the
brussels Congress-.

brussels Congress-.
Mrs. Mary II. Hunt has Just returned to her
home Ia Boston after an absence Of seven
weeks IL Europe, where she went as "A
delegate 20 tie International Anti-AlcohoI
Congress I'm BRUSSELS, Belgium. Letters
INTRODUCING. her were sent TO that congress
by Commissioner W. II Harris, in behalf of
the American Bureau of Education, the
National Women's Christian Temperance
Union, the Kew York State central com
mittee for scientific temperance instruction
in p lhlic schools. and the temperancecomndt-
tee of he state association OF Congrega
,ionIl Churches of Massachusetts.
Thus accredited, as well as In behalf %
the work sac has done for education ia
America, size was received with distiu
gutshed honor by this congress, composed OF
represent tiy.s from the great universities
aDdother educational institutions OF Europe
eminent scientists md government officials.
Mrs. Hunt was elected vice president of
this congress. Of which NJ. lie Jeune, prime
minister OF Belgium, was president, and was
es;ertained IL his home.
Her twc addresses ON the subject of the
educational method for tie prevention OF
inie.npcranCe ma lie a deep impression upon
those present. This method was one OF the
principal topics considered by the congress,
and the discussion showed that the nations
of the w"r.d arc nc: only watching the
progress OF the temperance education move
rEent in this ountry, nut are engrafting the
same upon their school system.
On the eve of her departure from Eng
land reception was rendered Mrs. Hunt
by the National Temperance League OF
London, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury,
president. Er Norman Kerr Was the pre-
siding officer of this occasion. Mrs.
Hunts old friend In Temperance work.
Eon. Robert Rae, secretary of the league.
members of the Lon don school board and
representatives or Christian and temper.
aiice organizations were also present.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-22
EDDY'S AERIAL. PHOTOGRAPHS
Kite Camera Experiments to Re
Under National Observation

New York. Sept. % William A Eddy,
the kite nIan,' returned from washington
yesterday To his home in Bayonne, n j.,
with thirty mid-air kite Photographic ex-
posures of the Capitol and the Library Of
Congress. Mr.. Eddy saw Secretary Algcr
abou. usingtha camera 70 map fortifications
in time of war The secretary said that
the invention might be of great use, but il
required an appropriation by Congress To
carry oat the experiments and introduce 1t
in the Army.
Assistant secretary of the Navy Roosevelt
advised Mr.. Eddy to explain the use Of the
camera by letter. when he would submit IL
to the Bureau Of Nav al Supplies to seeif it
We're needed. In the Navy 1t might be used
to discern vessels below the horizon line at
sea
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-22
DIAz CONDEMNS MOB LAW.
He VIM Ibsist Upon the Prosecution
of LyUchers.

City of Mexico. Sept. %. Minister CVsh',
of the department OF the interior, APP
peared before Congress yesterday after
noon and made his report on the Arroyo
sffair, 10 tie effect that as soon as Presi.
dent Diaz heard of the death of Arroyo.
represented by the Chief OF police as being
an act of mob violence, and that the guards
had not been armed, nor had the pris-
oneI been confined in proper place, he
dismissed the chief OF police and ap
pointed the pre- ent chief.
Minister Cosio's report added that IL
was the firm intention OF the Pres ident t.
let the fun weight of justice fall on any
or all who had been guilty OF the crime.
A resolution OF confidence in the execu-
tive was adopted by vote of 1873. Here
is the resolution: The Chamber of Depu.
ties gives a vote Of confidence IL the ex
ecutive If the union for the energetic at
titude assumed in the clearing up Of the
crime committed during the early hours
of September Ia. which has affected tie
honor OF the Mexican people and the credit
of the republic
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-22

Erus.us Corning, yr.. Wasted 1t in
Tweulv.five Years.

ALBANY, n. y, Sept. 22.-Tn the appear
amer OF Parker Cpreing before the boarc OF
city assess,rs Monday, TO make affidavi.
that his fathers estate should not be as
sessed for a valuation OF $Sl 900, the his
tory OF the expenditure OF $l2,00o,000 in
twenty-five years was brought to light.
Erastus Corning. jr. succeeded early in the
seventies TO iiis fathers magnificent for
tune, accu.nulatedin the iron business For
wears b hs ibcen noininally associated with
lis fath-r; ',nt did not display that aptitude
Tor the business that had characterized the
founder OF the house.
he iinne iiately began career Of money
spending that has seldom been equaieti.
Lavish Entertainments, magnificent equip
ages. q prize stock farm, a Horticultural
cs,llacttIn aIn,ostunequaIled, and fast pace
In sociei y we're ani,ng the means he adopted
Tor spending money Within five years
he los, s3,Ooo.0OO through the shrinkagc
in the business at his Troy works.
His orchids alone cost $1,OO0,0O0. Re
began a series OF magnificent entertain
nlenis that were without parallel. lie
had string of race horses that cost small
fortune. He daii,led in politics heavily,
spending ,s.oney lavishly II il said that
he could have neen Democratic nominee
for governor in 1851, Instead of Cleveland,
had hc desired On his second marriage
he settled n iaillion dollars on his Wife, and
los. no opportunity TO sink larger an larger
SUMS, with no return. Little by little
his property ha d to 20 TO supply his de
mauds, ur.il when he died, on August 20,
,e was In comparative poverty.
Letters OF adaiin stration were issued 10
his son. Parker. whose appearance Iefore
the assessors Yesterday revealed what a
wreck the holdings OF his grandfather were.
The CID Corning mansion, on State street,
has long been used as legislative board
ing-house, and the walls that echoed To
The laugh and tall OF the brightest society,
OF Albany In bygone days. will shortly fai!
10 make way for a big bank building. The
members OF the family live on the old farm
ut Kenwood A daughter Is married 10
the son ~ Associate Justice Rufus w. reck
hal.,. OF The United States Supreme Court.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-22
PEOPLE OUT OF TOWN.

Mr., F b Lyons ~ spending fortnight
at Cuba, \. Y.
Mrs f. Hempstonei is making an autumn
visit To Mount Lake Park, Md.
Among the washingtomans registered
at Paris, France, ycsterday Were Mrs. and
Miss Marshall, MIS- sutphen and Miss Web
ster.
DR.. A. J.. Montague, professor in CO.
lumbar University, has accepted the presi-
dcncy of Furnan University, at Green
VILE s. c.
Col. aud Mrs. Loren Jackson, of Savan-
nah, who have been spending some weeks
in Washington, left yesterday for their
Southern home. eccompanied-by Miss Eliza
beth Hall, OF Fifteenth street.