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] by Russia, she is eager to do everything
that she can TO prevent the increase of
| power of Russia on the Pacific Coast of
Asia. Nor is Japans assistance to be
despised in the matter For in China she
possesses the prestige which she has won
among the mandarins by her brilliant
victories in the recent war, while she can
place at the disposal of England and of
her latest protege, the young Chinese
Emperor, magnificently equipped army
of 800, 00D men. sufficient to overwhelm the
40 900 men that Russia has concentrated
at Port Arthur to threaten Pekin. while
her feet is second only in Importance TO
that which Great Britain has assembled
in Chinese waters.
How the Emperor Was Locked Up.
a few weeks ago, just at the moment
when il was understood that the young
| Emperor, having secured the upper
| hand, was inaugurating some reforms
with the assistance of his chief guide and
| counsellor, Kang Yu Wei dispatches
were suddenly received from Pekin an
nouncing a revolution in the imperial
! palace, engineered by the Dowager En-
! press, Ii Hung Chang and her dreaded
chief eunuch, Yung-Pi by means of
which the Emperor had been forced to
sign an edict investing the Dowager EN-
press with the powers of a regent and
practically abdicating all authority into
her hands on the preteXt of his i'll health.
/ Before doing so, however he found time
| 10 warn his friend, Kank Yu Wei, of
! what was taking place. and intrusting
| him with a number of valuable papers,
/ entreated him 10 flee, and if possible to
secure the help of the English, both for
! his country, his throne and himself.
A Mission and Its Results.
Kang Yu Wei managed to get away
from Pekin, and sought refuge in the
British consulate at Shanghai. Tracked
thither by the Dowager Empress ennis
! saries, demand was made for his sur
render. This the British government re-
| fused. kank Yu Wei was placed BY
| the British authorities on board a vessel
| bound for Hongkong, with all his pa
| pers, and British cruiser was delegated
! by the English admiral 10 convoy the
| ship to her destination. How necessary
! this precaution was may be gathered
| from the fact that the steamer bearing
| kang Yu Wei was followed by a couple
! Of Chinese men-of-war who only aban-
| doned the pursuit when the British cr1is-
| er cleared her decks for action
| Apparently the mission of Kank Yu
| Wei has been successful For the ulti-
| matum presented by Sir Claude Macdon-
! aid 10 the Pekin government demanding
| the restoration of supreme authority to
| the Emperor and the pardon and rehabili-
| tation OF his reform advisers. can only
| be regarded as a characteristic British
| response TO the pathetic and trustful ap-
! peal of the now imprisoned Emperor of
| the most populous empire of the world.
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DIED.

DIED.
LOyELESS-On Monday October II, 1893. at
I:t5 a. NJ. PRESTON l. LOVELESS. yCUnge
son of J. T. and Ada F. Loveess aged four yeaIS
ten months and twenty days.
OUR PRESTON
An angel came to gather flowers
To deck the throne OF heaven;
He took our purest and our fairest
That heaven TO had given.
We watched and waited by him,
Still hoping he would STAY:
But the angel came and whispered
Il will bear this gem away"
BY HIS PARENTS
viii be inferred at Congressional Cemetery
Wednesday October 10. from his parents resi-
dence. Nailor Road. TwiHing City. d. c.. at
o'clock p m
OIaryland papers please eopy) II
BIEDLER-On Tuesday October 1S. 1893. at
4.Sa D n EDWARD MILTON BIEDLER only
son OF Andrew J. and Katie WoOlls BiedIer N
the twenty-second year Of his age.
Funeral from the residence Of his parents No
600 Street northwest, at p. m. Thursday, Oc-
tobeT 30 1898. Relatives and friends invited In
tsrment private 1t
MACKINTOSH-On Tuesday. October Is. IS9s
at 8 D. n. W. W. MACINTOSH, beloved nus
band of : E. Macintosh, in the seventh
year OF his age
Funeral from his late residence, No 626 Street
southwest, Thursday, October 20, at ? D. m
Friends and relatives invited 1t
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REPORTS FROM CONSULs
Mr.. Halstead Writes From Bir-
mingham About Shipping.
GUNP0WDER In BRAZIL

Rather Poor Material Used Prin-
cfpaiIy for Parndes, Celebrations
of Lottery Drawings, Church Fes-
tivals and Holidays Generally.
Central Americas Constitution.
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DR.. Henry's Headache Powders
ire prompt and efficient cure for
all headaches. Ioc.
se27-3t
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So a Month
FOR TREATMENT, INCLUDING MEDICINES.
DR. CLEMENS,
I<0z New York Ave. ADJ Y M. c. A.,
Formerly AT I4If,a. Ave, Adj WiiLard's Hotel,

Having completed the equipment of his new Of
fees, row offers 10 the citizens of Washington
and vicinity the very best treatment to be OBJ
tanned in the country. Everything in the way OF
appliances. remedies, and methods of value are
USED. No one need go or send elsewhere for
any thing. 1T Is HERE In order TO afio.
everyone an opportunity to know this by actual
experience, DR.. Clemens offers for limited period
TO treat any disease in his speciality until cured
for s. a month, including medicines
Daily Office Hours-l0 3. m. TO 5 p IN. Monday,
"Wednesday. Thursday. and Saturday, TO p.
Sunday, 10 TO - m.
CONSULTATION STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
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Great selling of S. and $40 silk waists at $37e.
Special values in suits, etc.
Ladies' stylish suits, $3.50.

We put on sale another lot of those
ladies' swell looking suits of black and
blue cheviot serge tomorrow. and offer
You them at $3.50 They are man
tailored in the very best style-jackets
are lined with siik-skirts are cut in
the new sty!e-as perfect fitting as
garments costing double. Put them
alongside the best you can find at
ten dollars elsewhere.
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"HEcHTs GREATER STORES" !"

building that During
the PAST weeks the
crowds constantly surged and fro claiming attention
But what mead of comment? There should get the
great bulk of the patronage
with and splendid
this great by and fair shall have
begun--whh possible
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Winter Jackets. $3.50.

A new arrival which we want you
to see before you get your Winter
jacket. Made of fine tan kersey and
beaver cloth, fun of style and tailor
ing goodness, which are guaranteed to
fit perfectly-one of the most stylish
garments of the season-which is as
good as anybody else can show at
ten dollars-will go at $3.50.
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RriIliantine skirts, S1.19.

Another lot of those ladies' stylish
figured brilliantine skirts go on sale
temorrow-for these who want some
thing good for very little money.
They are extra well made, with full
width, and perfect hang, tailored cor
rectly, and just the skirts that you
have always paid 81 for up to this
time.
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Kersey Capes. 81. 9S.
So Neck SrarfS. $1.9S.

Muskrat neckscarfs trimmed with
sea tails on each end, s1.9S tomorrow.
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towel. He gives up all his clothes to the attendant who gives him a check for them, which is on a string so that he can tie it around his neck and run no risk of losing 1t, or having 1t stolen from him during the night. Then he is handed 8 clean night-robe and goes up- stairs to clean, warm bed, where he can sleep until o'clock in the morning if he likes. For all this he pays 5 cents, either in money or work the next day.
 If he wants breakfast he buys 5 cents worth of meal checks. five in all, each of them being accepted for one dish of food in our restaurant, and if cash is lacking he is charged with the amount and has to work it out around the place. A man who Is absolutely pennilesS we allow to work for board and bed during a part of the day and insist upon his spending the remainder of his time looking for work elsewhere while we try our best to find some for him ourselves.
 We keep no man on these terms for more than three days unless he Is sick. Those who are able to pay we charge cents for bath and bed and give them the privilege of washing and drying their clothes In the laundry without charge. If they need clothes we sell them what they want from our stock of garments which are sent to us from all over the coast, charging them only enough to make them feel that they are buying them instead of receiving them as gifts. They pay in work or money as they are able or prefer. We have a cobbler shop where they can have their shoes mended, or buy good ones. on the same terms Our constant aim Is to arouse a spirit of independence and industry in all who come here.
 And then we go out and proceed to climb stairs and traverse long pas sages. and make tours around room af- ter room full of two-story beds, each with a double locker beside it, where those who elect to become boarders here for any length of time, and there are over forty working men who make their homes here from choice, may put their clothes and personal treasures safely away while they are sleeping.
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After After After Monthly Yearly. 5 years l15 years l20 years service. service. service.

ion, naval officers clothe and feed them selves They also house themselves, ex- cept when on board ship or when stationed at a navy yard where quar- ters are provided. True, they are all lowed. while at sea, the munif1cent sum of 30 cents per diem for their rations.
 Furthermore the officers of the Amer ican navy have to pay out of their own pockets for the entertainment. not only of their own personal friends, but of officials, the guests of the nation.
 The pay of the enlisted men varies from s9 per month, received by third class apprentice, to s70 per month, which is the compensation of the chief machinist. An ordinary seaman" re- ceives $19, seaman" $24 and lands man" who is an unskilled recruit, S16 per month. Men In the artificer class, such as blacksmiths, electricians, boiler makers, etc. get from $35 to $50 per month. All enlisted men, like off, cers. receive their 30 cents per diem for rations Furthermore, there Is an in- crease in pay for each re-enlistment.
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water to this place. The idea that these
 buildings could have been formed,
 either by the present race of savages or by Spanish buccaneers, as some have
 thought, is preposterous; and they re- main another mystery of the great Pa
 cific, hardly inferior to that of Easter
 Island, with its colossal images. There are other ruins on the island of sim
 liar character, as well as mounds a quarter of mile long and twelve feet high Ruins also exist at Kusai Island
 but those of Ponape are by far the most remarkable.'
 In 1875 an Englishman named c. F.. Wood made yachting cruise in the Pacific, during the course of which he visited Ponape, giving us another &C., count of the ruins: "On the bank of a creek is seen a. massive wall built of basaltic prisms, about 300 feet long and thirty-five feet high. gateway open ing on the creek has sill about four feet high made of enormous basaltic columns laid flat, on passing which the traveller finds himself in a large court inclosed by walls thirty feet high. Around the whole of this court, built up against the inside of the outer walls is a terrace eight feet in height and twelve feet in width, also built of basaltic prisms. The whole of this court is not visible at once. owing to the dense vegetation, but by chamber ing about among trunks and creepers 1t is found to be nearly square and to be divided into three parts by low walls running north and south In the center of each of these courts stands a closed chamber fourteen feet square,
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cates the necessity for a proper scien- tific exploration of the ruins, and some of our learned bodies might well send out a properly equipped party to settle the problem. Some relics of the dead race which raised these huge walls must certainly be found within the in- closure, and perhaps the vexed ques- tion of the origin of the Polynesian races may be settled.
 The ruins at Ponape have a charac- ter peculiarly their own: they are built in a way utterly different from any other structure known to man. The stones used are not cut or squared, but are natural basaltic prisms, fitted one against the other. Some of these blocks are of enormous size and weight, and a great amount of labor must have been required to transport them from the volcanic hills of Ponape to the little islet.
 The highest mountain on Ponape is 2S58 feet and the island itself is only fourteen miles long and twelve wide. But the coral reef which extends round the isle has seven openings and each of these form excellent harbors For this reason the island was greatly fre- quented by the buccaneers when these gentry flourished in the Pacific, and hence the theory that they built the ruins. The present population of Po- nape is but 5000, though the people are of good Polynesian stock. They are of large size and strongly built, of nut brown color but their civilization is of the most rudimentary character, and 1t would be impossible for them to con- ceive or carry out any extensive ar chitectural work.
 One of the greatest authorities on Malaysia, A. R. Wallace, also con- siders the buccaneer theory preposter- ous. There are no basaltic columns anywhere near the ruins," he points out, but there are very fine ones on the central ridge of the north side of the islands, at least ten miles distant over an utterly impracticable country They must therefore have been con- veyed down to the coast, and then by
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are more tha sufficiently satisfactory to the people fer whose patronage they are intended is proven every night when the proprietor is compelled to refuse admit tance to dozens of people.
 It should be remembered that the place is only a lodging house for unfortunates out of work who might be compelled to sleep in some doorway. There are three different lines of business at No. 34 Di- vision street. and unless the man in search of the 2-cent lodging house looks sharp he will possibly overlook the place. The entrance to the lodging place has anything but an inviting appearance, but once past the door you will be surprised to see how clean and bright everything is. The walls and ceilings are we'll white washed. Two large coal stoves are bIaz- ing hot all the time to keep the place cozy. The cashiers stand Is at the door. When you have paid cents you seat yourself at one of the long tables covered with clean white oilcloth. There are no chairs. but long benches on either side of the tables. No bill of fare is necessary
 Most patrons of the place are content with this fare, but If it happens that a customer has money to burn and can find cents instead of 2 he is allowedto sit on 3, shorter bench in a. corner op- poSite the cashiers desk, where he can have not only his lodging but regular dinner consisting of soup, roast chicken, tea, coffee or milk and piece of pie.
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GzaaStoz2G, Me H2an
 of Me Century
BY WALTER BESANT.

will be appended the book brief life showing how at early age-say fouhe observed to prophecy that there all these things be done, provided man should strong do them; bees 1t will be said he killed vpers at the of two months; appeared at his birth; persons de- clared prophet had arisen and after the style of popular heroes in every country Then will letters pointing that although he undoubtedly the greatest figure of the century he dd really achieve all the things attributed to him.
 do that all this will happen but 1t may happen then whose greater instead of 1ess then whose history swallows that of lesser men then who is credited with having done everything that done in his
 the fire and sputterng of heated tme-Gadstone made of his times heated with great deal of sputter zzlng These things ought to be forgotten, because the history of Reformer is the history or a in his lifetime, and the recollection of it do him harm
 instance, very we'll the year 1868 1869 when the dsesabshment of the Irish Church was under discussion, that had call from whom l had always before considered
 He owned himself that he felt strongly about the milder saying that this subject, like many honest and otherwise found him last" he said. By him" I understood him to Gladstone T thought would to tell at Now there can be longer doubt; will not attempt to de- him any longer I long suspected 1t. Now I know. My dear sir,-I told month that Glad a Roman Catholic. told you that he had been received You would not believe It. but he is What have discovered that he s in addition being Roman Catholic, a menlber-a sir-of the Society of Jesus. He is Jesuit the very best authority; Jesuit, sir. He obey the order He will destroy the Protestant Episcopal Church first. Our church next Think upon that, sir!"
 This the kind of thing that accompanied every and every step that Gladstone ever took
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permeates the air. Fish, flesh and fowl are absolutely interdicted here and though am myself such an unregener- ated child of nature as to long vainly at this end of my days work for the flesh pots of Egypt, I eat what Is set before me and find it, though bit weak and watery seeming to my vitiat- ed palate, excellent of Its kind in every instance.
 While the-to me-peculiar meal is in progress my genial companion enlivens it with argument and illustration, in- stead of bon mot and repartee. I learn that grains are the ideal food; that fruit is good in moderation and be- tween meals; that eggs are admissible but not necessary to ones well being; that sugar, though served in the res taurant, is of no value to the system, and that no acids and very little, if any, liquid should be taken at meals.
 I also learn that fruit and vegetables taken together fight" in the seclusion of ones stomach and cause the ignor- ant eater many ills, and I am seriously assured that any stomach trouble ex- cept ulcer and cancer can be cured by a three days diet of perfectly dry food, water being taken only an hour before or two hours after meals.
 All this and more falls upon my re- ceptive and grateful ears as I imbibe pea soup and chew meditatively upon sliced carrots, and I come to the con- clusion that my life has been one great mistake. I have done those things which I ought not to have done and left undone those things which ought to have done in regard to my stomach all my life long, and I am really and truly a miserable sinner in that regard
 I agree with my entertainers theo- ries; I admire his practice and I envy him his complexion.
 On my homeward way I inadver- tently pass the door of my favorite restaurant Habit directs my steps to a certain table, and when my pet waiter deferentially awaits my order I answer-to my shame be 1t told-"SIr- loin, rare. And be quick about 1t, please for am simply starving"
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Is late in the day speak of MT. Gladstone, and im
 possible at this hour of the day, to anything which
 has not been said before Therefore will conine
 self to part of the subject, part hitherto
 considered-I the MT. Gladstone of the future.
 It will be allowed perhaps that he is the command figure of the it has been century of great Bismarck also is undoubtedly great man. but entc steps which have revouonzed the world That of Gladstone Again, Cavour a great man, but his great achievements have been followed
 Abraham Lincoln great man, but his greatness shown in way only.
 The nineteenth in this has been marked by advances unexpected changes great in ation fe that the Engishman this would hardly began talk and exposed his ideas and his sentiments We have abolished slavery extended suffrage; have taken the little children of the and the pitt abolished hogging in the services; made colleges established cheap postage; laid down railways have made bribery cleo tions impossble have taken off the news have opened the civil service competitive examination; have established councils parish councils boards; have changed House of Commons from assembly of younger into an assembly of the people without birth the members; and we are still engaged in changing an arstOcratc democratic The arisocracy still retains its privileges; rcvoluonares; but getting more and more democratic
 Now the name of Gladstone belongs less all these changes
 My reading the name of Gladstone will in the future in five hundred years sostanC for the nineteenth century which will Gladstone century Everything will be attributed to Gladstone. Randbooks Of history will the invented the locomotive and machine and the bicycle the typewriter the telephone telegraph the phonograph and the electric suffrage. all the other things above There
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OWE OF THE GREATEST OF
 PAC/F2c COAST MYSTERIES
Stupendous Rulns Of Ponape Winch Un- cIe Sam WW Find When He Occupies the Caroline Islands.

pie should have eagerly abetted him, is quite ineligible. Far more mex plicable are the miles of careful en- bankment round the islets, forming into veritable canals the ocean stream lets that meander through them. That the so-called vaults may have been de- signed for holding sacrifices, human or otherwise, and the passages through the walls intended to admit them, is also a reasonable surmise. One can easily imagine them as receptacles for fuel or in other ways connected with savage rites, but certainly not as hid ing places for buccaneers plunder."
 All this difference of opinion indi-
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also built of basaltic columns, and roofed over with the same, not very closely laid. The walls at the base, in cluding the terrace, are twenty feet thick, and above it eight feet, and some of the stones, especially those in the front wall near the gateway, are twenty-five feet long and eight feet in circumference"
 The scientifically inclined minds among the invading army will have a chance to win renown by solving this mystery of the Pacific
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CHEAPEST HOTEL IN AMERICA

\ PLACE where you can get a meal
 n and nights lodging for cents has N been opened at 34 Division street, \ New York. The Bowery has for gen.
 A erations been noted for the induce ments it holds out In this respect, but it is doubtful if the bargain offered by the proprietor of the place in Division street has ever been equaled.
 People with average incomes, who think they are lucky to get a comfortable sleep ing place for from 5 to $5 per week, and who pay $2 a week for breakfasts will wonder how the proprietor of a 2-cent lodging house and restaurant can make money. It would strike most people that the meal must be anything but appetizing and the sleeping accommodations any thing but desirable.
 Nevertheless, the proprietor insists he is making so much money that he will soon start branch establishment.
 While the bill of fare and sleeping ac- communications tn the 2-cent house may not be what are enjoyed by prosperous clerks and typewriters, the fact that they
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It Is an inexplicable fact that men bur fed in an avalanche of snow hear distinct ly every word uttered by those who are seeking for them. while their most stren- uous shouts fail to penetrate even a few feet of the snow
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Y \ THEN one takes int consider
 N alton the intelligence, the M n technical training and the N N other den ands made upon
 them by their profession the officers and men who handle our war ships are poorly paid as compared with those who follow similarly exacting du- ties on shore.
 An officers pay varies, not only &C., cording to his rank, but according to the nature of his duty His highest pay is while at sea, his lowest while on leave or waiting orders" The follow ing table gives the officers pay per an-
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Ground Plan of Ruins at Ponape GROUND PLAN OF THE RUINS OF PONAPE.
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. HE youngest mission in San
 Francisco Is but three months old; is strong and vigorous, and is worthy of special notice for at
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possible at this hour of the day anything which has been said before. Therefore will conine