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Miss Starr. % Richmond. Va contributed yes
terday large bunch Of beautiful roses She hai
accepted the presidency OF the T. S s branch fo
virginia
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F. T. W. ~ We-tchester County: Please send
the plant cuttings TO Miss Mary Rankin No IS
Garrison-ave.. Jersey city y. J.
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Letters from the following members have reached
the office Miss NJ =. Britt. Of Mamaroneck. y. l.,
offered reading matter s. F.. n, OF South Orange
y. j.. notified the office OF sunshine distributed
Mrs ". NJ Williams Yonkers. y. Y, sent poem
and several leaflets: j. Augustus Rice. OF Bethle-
hem, reported a contribution sent In answer 10
request; Uncle Dan" of Evans, Col. acknowl,
edged contributions Of reading matter received
from Eastern members: Jennie l.. Lewis OF ia
maica y. Y, answered a puzzle, MISS \. \
Baker OF Greenwich Conn. sent stamps for music
and made a request: Mrs John d. Jewell. OF
Iongwood. Miss will take charge of the T. :. >
branch OF her State; Miss Augusta Howell, Flem-
ming y. Y. reported scrapbooks made for mission
work and also offered reading matter; Mrs. W. w
Ruggles. OF Jersey city. answered puzzle; Mrs
Margaret y. GoodnOw, Of Salem H.. sent two
original poems. "Ridgefed. Conn.," wrote for In
formation.
Mrs c. Fl. Bill. OF Bridgeport Conn, reported
reading matter sent 10 B. G. Knight. OF Enfield
n. G.. Miss Sarah E. Halsey. Of NewYork City
made a request
II any T. g. g. members can add anything 10 the
list of nicknames OF States published in the col
unn last spring Will they please communicate
with Sarah r Halsey. No SCI East One-hundred-
and -sixty-ifth-st.. New-York City?
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THE TRIBTNE PATTERN.
A TrssCE-PAPER PATTERN OF wOMAN'S
HOUSE JACKET. NO 7.4s1. FOR COU-
pom AND IA CENTS

For cold winter mornings nothing exceed In
comfort a pretty morning jacket OF soft wool elder
down As here represented. pale blue was the
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THE DAYS GOSSIP.

TIE regular business meeting Of the Woman a
Press Club will be held this afternoon AZ o'clock
T. the Chapter Room. Carnegie Hail, Fifty-seventh-
and Seventh
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GAME
DAIRY PRODUCTS.

Elgfn creamery butter is . cents pound: Phila
delphla % cents: finest eggs . cents dozen: pine
apple cheese. from 81 to 80 cents each: Edom 81
and % cents State cheese full cream, IL cents
pound: domestic Swiss % cents. and imported p
pound.
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COMMUNICATIONS SENT IN.
MRS. OLIVIA HAZARD.

Sent by r L. Good
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The women Of tho First congregational Church
Mount Vernon. gave supper and social on Friday
evening IN the church The supper was rom
ur.r O'clock and was a very pleasant aHar.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-15

Miss Florence HorsfaN and her dancing class gave
. reception on Thursday evening at Stephenson
Hal. Mount Vernon.
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The hardy fall vegetables nanked all sides
by the vegetables once considered TO belong
cusvely to the summer days-green peas. string
beans. delicate salads. radishes and green corn, all
Of which still remain al ordinarily cheap prices.
Caufower /. excellent In quality and sells on an
hea
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N T H E CHI U RICHES

Cardinal Gibbons has sent a letter to
the priests of this archdiocese in reference
to the Perpetual Alteration Society. In
which he says: THE Perpetual Alteration
society has contributed in many dioceses
TO pious devotion to the blessed sacra-
ment- would be pleased to see this ad-
mirable devotion encouraged by the pastors
of the churches in Washington, and will
appoint day of exposition (monthly) I'm
any church where it may be established"
The annual collection for the benefit of
the pope was taken in all the Catholic
churches of Washington Sunday last The
object of the collection is to assist the pope
In bearing his public expenses, which are
very heavy The money contributed at the
annual collection goes to helping poor
churcfes, the establishment and supporting
OF missions. delegates and nunneries to be
provided Tor, to say nothing of the vast
suEns required to support the various nee
esaary departments in Rome
fhe Rome committee of the Temple So
ciety OF the Washington Hebrew conere-
cation gave an entertainment few even
ing5 ago for the benefit of the temple treas
ury, at the grounds Of Mr.. E. Berliner on
the Columbia road. The affair was in
charge of Miss Amy Reizenstsin, Miss
Carrie Nordlinger and Miss Baar, who were
assisted by number of other young Ia
dles- Ths entertainment was very success
tul. especially from financial standpoint.
ana workers. In the Central Union Mis-
sion who have been conducting meetings at
camp Alger are much ENCOURAGED at the
eatico1. On the last occasion Of their visit
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of the government to collect the taxes ON
alcohol and tobacco. 1t pays / believe. a
lump sum, and has in place Of IL the revc-
nue. receipts. This company has a capital
OF million silver dollars and its stock Is
100 per cent above par. 1t rsid dividend
OF almost 100 per cent last quarter. and is
enc OF the best things in Peru. Then there
Is the san Lorenzo Company. which has
vaults out in the Island of San T.orenzo.
in which all importers of dynamite and
other explosives are compelled by law TO
store their goods The shares in this COM
pany have a face value OF SO tsilver), and
the dividends of the past two months were
so share. Another company which cwns
the sole concession for manufacturing tc-
bacco has a capital of $2oo.oDo ana pays a
II per cent dividend. while the Lima Benev-
olent Society, which manages the lottery,
and with the proceeds OF the weekly draw
irgs keeps uY certain schools and hos.
pitals, pays per cent year.
FRANK q. CARPENTER
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Periods in Weather.
From Nature.


A number of investigations have been
made on the connection of various terres-
trial phenomena with the period OF rota-
ton of the sun, but the results obtained
have not been definite enough to estab-
lish the reality of twenty-six day period
of meteorological phenomena.
In connection with this question Prof.
Arthur Schuster subjects the methods Of
finding hidden periodicities-small periodic
variations hidden behind irregular fuctua-
tions-to vigorous analysis in Terrestrial
Magnetism (March), with the object OF
introducing a little more scientific preci-
sion into the treatment of problems involv-
ing hidden periodcties, and of applying
the theory of probability in such way as
to assign definite number for the prob
ability that the effects found by means of
the usual methods are real, and not due to
accidental circumstances. The methods
described show the lines which investiga-
tons on the periodicity of phenomena
should follow, and point to several Interest,"
ing subjects to which they may profitably
be applied. AS to results already pub
lished, Prof. Schuster concludes:
THE general result of a critical eXami-
nation of the published investigations on
the twenty-siX day period leads me to think
that, although the magnetic elements and
the occurrence of thunder storms seem to
be affected by a period of twenty-siX days
and OF its first multiple, the subject re-
quires good deal of further study before
we can be sure as to the exact nature of
the period Even though it may be con-
sidered as proved, 1t must not be neces-
sarily assumed that it is due to solar ac-
ton- III it was a question merely of mag
neuc disturbances, there does not seem to
be any great improbability, however, that
some periodicity may be connected with
the SUMS rotation about it's axis espe-
clally at times OF great sun-spot activity"
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Nottingham. They have both been for
weeks going through Central America on
mules, and they ara now working their way
down this coast. They stopsat every large
port and work the trade One of them will
go from here to Bolivia, and will visit the
interior cities of that country, carrying his
samples for hundreds of miles on mules.
These men have a big stock with them. The
Manchester man tells me he carries about
two tons OF samples from port to port, and
that he has to load about a dozen mules
when he goes into the interior. The Not
tingham man sells on commission and pays
his own expenses, which he. tells me are
about $40 gold a day. He says that his
houses have three men to work the West
Indies and Spanish America. He takes in
Mexico, Central America and the Pacific
coast. Another salesman has the West In
dies and the coast of the Caribbean sea,
and third Brazil, Uruguay and thu Ar
gentine. This Is the usual arrangement of
the European houses for working this
trade. All of these European drummers
speak Spanish, they know thu countries
well and are posted as to the financial
standing of the various buyers
What the Trade is Worth.
The United States should not think that
it can get these markets without a hard
fight and a long fight. The business has
been studied for years by the European ma
tions, and 1 will show later on some OF the
underhand methods by which they attempt
to crowd themselves in and the Americans
out. The business is naturally ours, and 1t
will pay to fight for it. This continent
contains 80 100000 square miles, and it has
more than 100000 people, all Of whom
are consumers, though the wants of the
majority are few. The resources of the
continent all told are great beyond con-
ception. The products will steadily in
crease, and we already buy about S15O.OOO.-
600 worth Of them a year. Our sales, on
the other hand, amount to only 100000,
and our purchases are said to increase five
times as fast as our sales. and this not
withstanding We are now the greatest
manufacturing nation of the world. There
is no nation that has large a stake in
the battle for foreign commerce as ours.
We now have more than sc, 600, 600, 600 in
vested in manufacturing, and we turn out
a net product of $4,000, ,OOO, 900 worth of
goods every year, and it Is estimated that
our factories can In six months make all
of the goods that our home markets can
use. We have 100000 workmen engaged
in our factories, and if we would keep them
busy We must force our way into the for
eign markets. We need our own ships.
Here on the west coast of South America
freights are cheaper to London and Ham,
burg than they are to New York, and you
can, am told, send goods to Liverpool and
thence to New York more cheaply than to
New York direct either via Panama or the
Straits of Magellan. Today there are two
lines of steamers which ply between the
United States and Pacific South America.
The firm of w. r. Grace & Co. have four
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three commercial travellers from the United
States. One of these was a Mr.. Sullivan.
who was taking orders for lubricating oils.
We Travelled together from Ecuador to Pa
casmayo, Peru, and he told me he was on
his way to Chile and the Argentine.
came from New York to Panama with an
American named Herzig, who was on his
way down the west coast to buy cocoa,
hides and feathers for several New York
firms, and / am told that the agent of the
Carnegie Steel Company is Row taking or
ders in northern Peru. On the other hand.
I find English and German drummers every
where. Krupp's agent has just left here.
There are two English dry goods men on
the same floor with me in my hotel. They
have large sample rooms and have long ta-
bles covered with every variety of cotton
and wooden goods. One of these drummer rs
is from Manchester and the other is from
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them at Panama and GuayaQuil, and they
have also houses here and at Valparaiso.
The Graces have for years been one OF
the great powers In Peru and Chile, and
today they handle perhaps more valuable
property than any other firm on the west
coast. They have carried through some of
the biggest enterprises ever attempted In
South America, and their profits are said
to have amounted to millions. Today
there is hardly any big thing in Peru in
which they have not an interest They
have sugar estates amounting to thous-
ands Of acres, and on one plantation which
they control near Chimbote, north of here,
they have 5000 acres in cane and as much
more which is not under cultivation. The
capital invested in this estate is 81 ZOO, 600.
and the property and machinery on 1t
probably cost more than that sum. 1t was
M. p. Grace of New York, now the head
of the English banking house of NJ. p.
Grace & Co., who brought about the set
tlement of the Peruvian debt by the organ
ization of the Peruvian corporation.
This corporation was an English syndi-
cate, which assumed the foreign debt OF
Peru, amounting to almost $500, 100000 and
in return Peru gave the corporation all of
its railways, the right to mine guano on the
Peruvian government territory to the
amount of 100000 tons, and a large area
of coffee land on the other side of the
Andes, which Is now being developed. OF
what the profits of this deal We're, but I
have heard it said here that he alone made
not less than million dollars out of it.
This was not a large sum considering the
magnitude of the interests involved and
the diplomatic and business skill required
to handle them in competition with Drey-
fus & Co. and others of the biggest capital
lists of Europe. Today the Graces do all
OF the loading and shipping of the guano
for the Peruvian corporation, employing
hundreds of men for the purpose They
also own cotton plantations in southern
Peru, and have the management of the
Vitarte cotton mills above Lima. which
are the largest cloth mills of Peru. The
chief business of the firm is. however, as
commission merchants and as importers of
American goods. In their houses here and
at Callao you will find samples of nearly
everything made in America which is likely
to be in demand in Peru. They import
everything, from toothpicks to steel plates
and from nails to locomotives. They take
orders for all kinds of American goods and
engage in contracts to almost any amount.
They have their statesmen, who travel
through the country, and are anxious to
introduce anything that will sell.
Points for American Shippers.
AS far American trade is concerned
the house of Flint, Eddy & Co. are doing
here the same class of business as Grace 4
Co. They have samples of almost every
thing and are pushing all sorts of American
manufactures. One of the best posted men
on such matters is Mr.. F. L. Crosby the
head of Flint, Eddy & Co. of Lima. He has
been handling nothing but American goods
for the past twenty-five years. He is
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Birds as Surgeons.
From Public Opinion.

Some interesting observations made by NJ.
Fatio on the surgical treatment of wounds
by birds were recently brought before the
Physical Society of Geneva. In these it was
established that the snipe had often been
observed I'm repairing damages. With its
beak and feathers it makes very credit
able dressing, and has even been known to
secure broken limb by means of a stout
ligature On one occasion NJ. Fatio killed
a snipe which had on its chest a large
dressing composed of down from other
parts of the body and securely fixed to the
body by coagulated blood. Twice he had
snipe with interviewer feathers strapped on
to the site of fracture of one or other
limb. The most interesting example waa
that OF a snpe both of whose legs he had
unfortunately broken by misdirected shot.
He only recovered it on the following day,
when he found that the wounded bird had
contrived to apply dressings and a sort OF
splint to both limbs. In carrying out this
operation some feathers had become en-
tangled round the beak, and not being able
to use its claws to get rid of them, the poor
creature was almost dead from hunger
when found.
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are displayed every sort of native and for
eign goods, yet the city is actually depend
ent upon the long professions of horses
and donkeys. which arrive every morning
al daybreak, with the products OF outlying
farms and adjacent gardens.
Cut off these supplies, and make a little
cash in the aqueduct which furnishes the
city with its main supply of water. ard
there you have Hawai- at yotr mercy
The noble don is welded to his donkcy
Were he not, he would have arranged for
supplies by rail, and have accumulated
stores in his granaries. But nearly every
thing of this character is brought in on the
backs Of burros and horses and in rude
carts drawn by oxen yoked together by
their horns Within the city limits, the
cartinG and teaming generally is done by
the sturdy Catalans. who still wear their
Wcoler. caps of Basque manufacture. and
take great pride in their stout horses OF
Iberian blood. They conduct the local
transportation of the heavy bales Of tobac-
co arriving from the Vuelta, and sacks of
sugar from the haciendas The island As
We know, has grown tobacco for many
many years, and has Tong had a monopoly
OF the finest cigars. But since WcyIer the
butcher raiGed and all but devastated the
P1nar del Rio province, and desLrDyed the
resources of that great tooacco-raisirs re-
gion, and particularly since the 'reaonren-
trado' edict, which drove all the small
farmers 10 the cities, there mas been a
great and continually increasing dearth of
tine weed
Scarcity of Good Cigars
AS the smokers of the United States alone
are said to consume some 2UO,OOO,OOO .Ha-
vanas' Though in the best of times rarely
more than 100000 are exported to the
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or five ships Of 5000 tons each. which make
monthly voyages via the straits between
Callao and New York. and Flint, Eddy &
Co. have what is called the Merchants line,
which dispatches a steamer every two
months or oftener as the demands Of trade
require. Even these lines have materially
increased our trade. The Grace line, which
was started in 1892 to take the place OF the
sailing ships owned by the company. had
IN 1888 trebled the carving trade of this
firm, and F. L. Crosby of Lima, who repre-
sents Flint, Eddy & Co. here. tells me there
Is decided increase in imports since the
merchants line has been put on.
Handle Millions.
These two New York frms-W. r. Grace
q Co. and Flint. Eddy B Co.--do the great
bulk OF our trade with South America.
Until recently Flint. Eddy e. Co. have to
a large extent confined themselves to the
Atlantic coast, but they have now COM
bined with or absorbed the old firms Of
Hemenway & Brown and Brown, Beeche
q Co., and have their houses in the chief
ports OF the Pacific coast as we'll. found
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NE of the most i'm
pertant parts of my
present mission to
South America is to
look into the pros
poets for American
trade. There is a big
market for our goods
in these countries,
but 1t is one which
we will have to culti-
vate much more than
we are now doing If
we get our share. So
f0r hn-1 A -
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er distilled his own rum, a certain delight
iui lquor called shrub was in vogue. tho
basis OF which was rum, with one-fourth its
weight OF sugar added to it, and one-six-
teenth lime Juice. But both Shrub and
planter, so racy of West Indian soil will
be difiIcult to find. alas, at the present time
in Cuba and Puerto Rico
Evening star., 1898-06-11

of Havana have a
gigantic, constantly
augmenting task on
hand, of providing
food for the vast
army of soldiers and
civilians now gather
ed within the gates
of their city. Vita
half Il dozen mar
kets. consisting MAIN
ly of open squares
surrounded with ar
caded stores, There
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Bertha-"Charley says that when we ars
married mamma shall stay with US as long
as she lives"
Edith-"And yet you persist in believing
him truthful man?"-Boston Transcript.
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Rtates) somebody will have to smoke some
thing different from the genuine article IN
the future In fact, very few of the 1000,
oto.ODc cigars used here come from Ha-
vana and even in the Cuban capital Itself
Z was always difficult to find really good
article for smoke. While our millioEaires
may row and then get a few, the greater
portion is absorbed by the royal highEcs;es
pf England and Europe, who have standing
orders for them with the high-grade manu-
f2cturers.
Perhaps the strangest sight of the Ha
vana market is the beast of burden either
horse or donkey, but always small and
half starved. entirely covered by a heap
of grass or fodder. The Cuban horse has
been taught 20 turn up his nose at any
thing In the shape of oats or grain of any
kind. his regular rations consisting of
green grass and fodder from q peculiar
species Of corn, which is raised exclusively
for its tops. which are sweet and succuent,
and known as 'maioja" The ''malotero"
as the small farmer furnishing the fodder
is called. comes from long distance out
in the country. riding atop his beastie's
burden. and looking something like a mon
key on an ambulatory corn stack. These
'malojeroS" are the most numerous at
tenGalts at the market places, for every
owner of horse jackass in Havana
must have his matutinal "maloja," and e
actually dependent upon the arrival of the
coUntryman for 1t.
Next in point of numbers are the milk
mon, who, likewise, ride on top their loads
or, rather, astr1de. between their cans
coming in a jerky trot. which. with the
terrible heat of the morning hour serves
10 stir the ''leche'' into butyric consistency
The '1echero" never dismounts but rides
up in front of customers house and
shouts ''Leche" ir q voice fit TO wake the
dead, smoking his cigarette the while he
ladies out ths liquid from between his legs,
his feet level with the horses ears.
Bakers and Butchers.
After him comes the baker, who dis
2ense5 the product of his ovens from, the
back Of horse or burro, and Is not seeming
IL happy unless he has sat all TIE norm
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originally brought here to work the sugar
estates and guano islands. They are now
well to do and many of them have become
wealthy. Some of them own the sugar
plantations upon which they slaved and
others have large mercantile stablish-
ments here. The Germans monopolize to a
large extent the dry goods, knick knacks
hardware and mining machinery sales of
Lima. They are ready to go into anything
in which they see a chance to make money.
The Italians are the grocers of the city,
and you find them selling fine groceries in
nearly every big Peruvian town. The En-
gliSh sell dry goods, crockery, paints oils
and machinery, and the chief dealers in
silks, wines and brandies are the French
There are few Spanish book stores. The
banks are almost all foreign and the stock
owned in the dividend paying companies is
chiefly in foreign hands
Better Than Four Per Cent.
find that these people down here are
not satisfied with the low rates of interest
which now prevail in Europe and America.
Coed loans can be placed at 10 per cent,
and 1 and 2 per cent a month is not un-
common on paper issued for a short time.
In. some cases per cent only is asked, but
there are always commissions which in
crease the regular interest rates. The
pawnbrokers do big business, and you
find them in every block. Many of the
stock companies pay good dividends. The
Lima Waterworks Company pays II per
cent quarterly, and the Lima Gas Com
pany, which has capital of 81, 600 600 (sil-
ver), pays. 5 per cent and the probability
is that the stock was largely watered. The
Peruvian Telephone Company, which fur
nshes Lima with it's service at about half
the rates charged in American cities, gives
annual dividends of 10 per cent. The capt.
tai of the telephone company is 100000.
One of the insurance companies here pays
dividends of Is per cent. A flour mill
ing company pays per cent and a wheat
warehouse company like amount. Some
of the stock companies which do the best
are those which deal with or through the
government. There is the Society for the
Collection of Taxes, which buys the right