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The evening times., 1898-05-05
TRY GRAIN-o! TRY GRAIM-o!

Ak your Grocer toda y to show you paok:
age OF GRA.N-O. the new food drink tnae
drink II Without injury a. weli as the adult.
All who try It, like it. GRAlN-O has that
rich seal brow q Of Mocha or Java, but Is u
innde from pure grains, and the most oeLr
One-Quartes the price Of 0,ffee. 1bc and 20
pef package. SOLD by all groceTS- ta21-0
The evening times., 1898-05-05
The Torpedo FIOtilIa.

Newport, r. l., May 5.-The torpedo
boats Morris. StiIetto. Gwin and Talbot
though under orders, are still heE a,
the torpedo station here. Officers and
crew. are on board of each, and all are
anxious for a move.
The evening times., 1898-05-05

| 5000 yards Dress Linen Crash, SO much
In demand last season. which was selling
/ at 15c per yard
The evening times., 1898-05-05
The Busy Corner.
9Th and Market Space.
S. Kann, Sons& Co.

We praise the bridge that has carried
up back and forward for nearly a half
century. Some one has been SO unkind
as to call us remnant fiends because we
have made 1t a business to control all
mill ends of home and foreign makes.
Our early success was founded on this
line of merchandise which shall always
have a prominent spot In our hearts as
well as In our house.
Friday Is always set apart rs remnant
day and whatever accumulates during
the week In odds and ends on account OF
busy selling is thrown in at half and
one-third price.
5000 yards Windsor percales. all the
new styles specially adapted for ladies'
and boys waists and wrappers-l0c. quail
ty-
6Ac yard.
10000 yards English percale. full yard
wide-all the latest novelties-bars. plaids.
diagonal. stripes. stylish checks. figures
and plain coiors; every style and color
made-12c. to 1sc. values
SIC yard.
case Shirtings-all choice styles, ex-
act copies of the percale patterns
3Bc yard.
5000 yards Dress Linen Crash, SO much
In demand last season. which was selling
at 15c. per yard
SIC yard.
1000 yards Covert Cloth in brown and
green mixtures-worth L 1-2c-
sac yard.
1 case good. fast-black Sateen. suitable
for half-dozen uses
6Ac yard.
10000 yards best American Lawns and
Domestic Organdies. all the latest French
designs: 81 to 80 inches wide; light and
dark styles; u 1-2c to 2oc value
sac yard.
$500 yards fine French Organdies. 15a
styles to select from; 25c. to 81 1-2c value
15c yard.
Muslin. in good lengths. unbleached,
as much as 10 yards in piece
1H5C ydr0.
Sea Island Unbleached Muslin: full
yard wide: &c quality
sac yard.
Choice of GOO yards aIl-wool Dress
Goods. 40 to 80 inches wide; SOC to $1-oo
value
29c yard.
loo yards of White India Linen. rem
nants. fine and sheer: regular IL 1-2c
quality
SIC yard.
These Remnants are all centered on our
second-fioor Remnant Department.
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5Actyard.
SIC yard.

| 1000 yards Covert Cloth in brown and
| green mIxtures-.xorth II l-2c-
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New Ships.

1t is expected at the Navy Department
that the torpedo boat Mackenzie will
soon be ready for trial. The Davis, which
was recently launched at Portland. Greg.
is also reported nearly completed. She
will be the first torpedo boat placed in
service in the Pacific. There has been
some talk of shipping her overland to
the Atlantic. but this has been abandoned
because of the fear that her machinery
would be shaken to pieces in transit
The ballistic trial of a plate represent
ing a group OF armor for the battleship
Kentucky will occur next week at the In
dian Head proving grounds. A plate rep
resenting a group of armor for the Kear-
sarge turrets was tested and passed sue
cessfully, and no doubt is felt that the
Kentucky's plate will give equally good
results. When the Kentucky's group is
accepted both of the battleships will
have their armor at hand. and 1t is proba-
BILE that the department will urge their
builders, the Newport News Company. to
hasten their completion.
On account of the necessity of convert
ing auxiliary cruisers the work on the
Kearsarge- and Kentucky has been prac-
tically at standstin. 1t is probable that
the department will direct night and day
work on these ships in order that they
The evening times., 1898-05-05
SIC yard.

: case Shirtings-all choice styles, ex-
act copies of the percale patterns
32sc yard.
The evening times., 1898-05-05

These Remnants are all centered on our
second-foor Remnant Department.
The evening times., 1898-05-05

Charmion the daring French trapese
performer. comes next week to the New
National Thsater as tn, star attraction
Of Roster Biars Congress Of Foreign
Stars
Charrion arrived in hts country about
six weeks ago under engagement to Kos
The evening times., 1898-05-05

10000 yards best American Lawns and
Domestic Organdies, all the latest French
designs: 81 to SO inches wide; light and
dark styles; II lie to 20c value
The evening times., 1898-05-05
The Illinois.

Inc Storesnlp IillnOlS Will De ready 10
join the North Atlantic Squadron in a
few days. The paymaster general of the
Navy today reported that he had secured
large quantity of provisions. Among
the contracts issued was one for 10O, 900
pounds of beef. which will be carried in
the refrigerating apparatus and cold
storage department. These supplies are
for the consumption of the various ves-
sells of the North Atlantic Squadron.
The evening times., 1898-05-05
6Ac yard.

10000 yards English percale. full yard
wide-all the latest novelties-bars. plaids.
diagonal stripes. stylish checks. figures
and plain cofors; every style and color
made-12c. to 1Sc. values
The evening times., 1898-05-05
sac yard.

case good. fast-black sateen. suitable
The evening times., 1898-05-05

''The Dazzler' will be the attraction
next week at the Grand Opera House.
and there is every prospect of its doing
an excellent business. The sale of seats
opened this morning. and has already as
sumed large proportions.
The evening times., 1898-05-05
The New Orleans.

Newport. r. l., May 5.-The cruiser
New Orleans has sailed for Hampton
Roads to join Commodore Schley's Flying
Squadron, to which she has been ATTACHED
in place of the Columbia
The evening times., 1898-05-05
Two Tugs.

The Navy Department is greatly pleas
ed over the trial of the torpedo boat Nc
Kee made at the Norfolk navy yard yes
terday. Commodore Farquer wired Sec
rotary Long that the craft had made an
approximate speed of 1913 knots in a two
hours trial without being pushed. and a
speed of II knots on the run down the
bay under easy steam. The Department
promptly accepted the boat. as it is GER
tain that with a little pushing she can
exceed the 20-knot speed eyacted by the
contract. Several more torpedo boats
will be constructed on the plans of the
Mckee
The evening times., 1898-05-05

loo yards of White India Linen. rem
nants. fine and sheer: regular Il 1-2c
quality
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-18

One Of the Detroit fathers, who had in
his son some of the same confidence that
the elder Letter had in Joe, advanced the
young man considerable sum of money
and told him to see what he could make
from 1t. While he did not have as mete-
oric a career as the Chicagoan, the de-
nouement was not unlike.
Il went 20 that town in the Southwest,
the son admits, and cut quite a swath.
Things came my way till I began to Won
der how the old hands at the business
ever happened to make a mistake or to
lose their pile. You should have seen the
sign l put in my window after l felt
solid ground under my feet and had be-
gun to figure how many millions would
salt down before retiring to enjoy my
wealth. 1t was a 'beaut,' every letter
in gold with artistic decoration. In the
arc of a circle on the huge French plate
window was my name, and across the
base the word Broker Everybody ad-
mired II and 1t drew like a fly blister.
AT length I saw one of those dead-sure
sions. I had a straight tip on the winning
stocks and plunged for every dollar I
could rake-and not dollar came back.
1t was a clean sweep and I had to tele-
graph for money TO get home.
But you can bet that I didn't pull
down the flag. The gorgeous sign is still
there-a little disfigured. but there.
| simply scratched off the final letter T,
locked up, left through the back door
and took the first train. Ever since that
beautiful sign has been serving due no.
tice on all corners that the Broker is
Broke. Detroit Free Press.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-18
EDUCATE THE CUBANs.

If this country wants to bless Cuba, let
1t provide free schools in every part Of
the island where children live, and also
require that all these children be taught
the English language. That IS the only
language on earth in which the principles
of freedom and the practice and philoso-
ply of good government can be properly
studied by the rising generation. These
great principles are not taught in Span
ish.
1t would also be an indescribabIe bless
ing to the Cubans If 1t were provided that
after some date in the near future all the
proceedings of the Cuban Legislature
should be conducted in the English Ian
guage, as we'll as the proceedings of city
and county governments. Also that all
public records be made in duplicate in
English and Spanish; after a while in
English only. One of the greatest bless
ings that could possibly be conferred on
the Cubans would be a constitutional pro-
vision that twenty years hence only
those could vote who read English. That
would be strong incentive to youthful
ambition, and by that time all or nearly
all of the population would be able to read
and speak English.
In the meantime let there be no haste
to haul down the Stars and Stripes in
Cuba, again made sacred by the blood Of
our heroes. Cuba should not be consigned
to the doom of numerous South American
and Central American countries, in which
they have a republic in name but a tyr
amy IN fact. Let the Cubans rule, but
they should be made TO rule according to
American notions of civil liberty and good
government Centre Observer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-18

entary animal, like the oyster or long
clam, but, on the contrary, is addicted to
swimming about, more like a fish than
like a respectable mollusk. Not many
years ago a Frenchman bought several
thousand scallops and planted them IN
beds. The next day he was very much
astonished to find that they had all taken
French leave.
The scallop accomplishes locomotion by
a series of leaps. When it is alarmed,
or wishes to change it's location, 1t opens
and energetically closes its valves, thus
expelling the water; the reaction shoots
1t backward. BY this means the creature
is able to travel long distances; some
times scallops make considerable Jour-
neys in large companies. One can scarce
~ imagine a lovelier sight than that OF
flock of these pretty creatures, WIN
shells of every hue, from purple ana
white to black, enlivened with shades OF
pink, yellow and fawn, darting about IN
clear water. In their f1ightlike move
ments, vertical, horizontal and zigzagI
they are more suggestive of flock OF
winged animals than of bivalve mollusKs.
A superb species called Pecten lsland1cus,
formerly abundant on the coast of Maine,
is now SO nearly extinct that specimen
is regarded as prize by eoncholog1sts'
Long Island Sound, New York Harbor,
and the New Jersey coast nave Deen
fairly depopulated of scallops by rak1ng
and dredgtng-Boston Transcript.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-18
RACE WINNERS ON
EASTERN TRACKS
MudIarks in Front at
Harlem.
PLANTAIN BEATS THE DEVIL
ABUSE FINISHES IN FRONT OF
FAST ONES.
Aunt Maggie, Raffae1lo, Lena Myers,
Miss Verne, Mayme M M and
Gibraltar First at
LatonIa.
PLANTAIN BEATS THE DEVIL
ABUSE FINISHES IN FRONT OF
FAST ONES.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CHICAGO, Oct. T.-Harlem results;
track muddy: First race. five furlongs-
Falomacita won, Canace second, Andes
third. Time, 1:0S12.
Second race, five furlongs-Frank Bell
won, Genna second, Miss Marks third.
Time, los.
Third race, one mile-Plaintain won,
The Devil second, Don Quixote third
Time, 1:5O.
Fourth race, six furIongs-Abuse won,
Timemaker second. Donna Rita third.
Time 1:22
Fifth race, one mile and an eighth-Gold
Ban won, Double Dummy second, Wins
low third. Time, 2:0612
Sixth race, six furlOngs-Silver Set won,
w c T second, Newsgatherer third. Time,
1:zZ14.
CINCINNATI, Oct. T--summaries at
Latonia: First race, one mile selling
Aunt Maggie won, R. B. Sack second,
Seaport third. Time, 1:42A.
Second race, five and one half furlongs
-Raffaello won, De Blaise second, Vol
andes third. Time, ITO
Third race, one mile-Lena Myers won,
Possum second, Friar John third Time,
1;44A.
Fourth race, six furlongs-Miss Verne
won, Osmon second, Barton third. Time,
III.
Fifth race, five furlongs-Gibraltar won.
NJ. NJ. won, Duplicate second Norma
third. Time, 1:04.
Sixth race. six furlongs-Gibraltar won.
Dave S second The Star of Bethlehem
third Time 1:lT3t
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-18
NARROWING EXPERIENCE.

Forty-four years ago, when Admiral
Henry Erben, retired, was young Lieu,
tenant in the United States Navy, he had
an experience which for horror equals
any yarn ever spun by sailor. For sew
enty days he and prize crew suffered
as few men have suffered: d he was
taken at Port au Prince, Hayti, and sent
to New York by the American Consul
Rats were used as food for consider
able time in that voyage, according TO
the story of the veteran officer.
Admiral Erben says that the Amelia
was fitted out in 1854 as bark. loaded
with rifles and munitions of war and sent
to the Florida banks to meet steamer,
She was a mere hulk and it was supposed
she would be sunk as soon as her cargo
was transferred; But the government,
the steamer and the bark put into Port
au Prince, where she was abandoned.
She reached the port late in 1894, every
body but the cook leaving her. Erben
was on duty with the Saratoga, then In
In November the American Consul seiz-
ed the Amelia and 1t was decided to send
her north with a prize crew Lieuten-
ants Reed, Werden, Maxwell and Erben,
and crew of eleven men We're put In
charge, rationS taken aboard Tor thirty
days and the vessel put to sea. Admiral
Erben says they had scarcely got out Of
port when the water-logged condition of
the prize was noticed. But the vessel
was held to her course. the men going to
the pumps on the first day oVt
Hatteras inlet was reached in Decem-
Der There the vessel encountered ter
rifle gale and for days was prey to the
waves. All the spars went over and
nobody aboard expected to survive the
journey. But the bark weathered the
gale and an effort was made to run in
shore and beach her. This failed. and
Mr.. Wercen decided to run for the Ber-
mudas. JJnfavorable winds and the Grip
piled condition of the boat made this a
failure and the course was set for St.
Thomas, Danish West Indies. Meanwhile
nearly all the provisions had been con-
sumed and the survivors of the crew were
reduced to the necessity of eating the
rats which infest all old vessels.
When they had been out forty or fifty
days the rats began to fail. Mr.. Erben
noticed that the animals seemed well fed,
so he decided there was food in the hold.
He investigated and found couple of
barrels of rice and some molasses. Then
they overhaulcd Il British vessel, received
some -four and rum, and finally reached
St Thomas after seventy days on the
cause of the lack of suitable food, and
many of the men lost their lives in the
gales they encountered
Ninety days after they set sail the sur
tary of the Navy had been much worried
over them and ships were out scouting
the sea for some trace of them When
they reached America they had the pecu-
liar experience of reading their own
obituaries in the papers. The useless old
bark was sold for si05, for the value of a
new mafnyard she carried, was towed to
sea and sunk.
Admiral Erben is now in charge of the
fleet having for its work the defense of
tried naval officer, with a record as good
as the best. He has seen active service
in many seas, and is probably taking part
in his last war.-Chicago Chronicle
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-18
B1cYcL1srs AND WILD ANIMALS

Are our British birds beginning, like
the British public, to appreciate the
bicycle? l am inclined to think they
are, writes DR.. Charles PloWrlgnt IN
Natural Notes Certainly one catches
many more glimpses of bird life When
on the wheel than the uninitiated
would expect 1t seems as il both
birds and wild animals have not the
same fear of a cyclist that they nave
of an ordinary walking human pelng.
The cyclists approach is pfacucally
noiseless, and his image upon their re-
tinae purely momentary, besides which
he never carries a gun nor catapult,
and is unaccompanied by dog. IL is
by no means impossible, therefore, that
these creatures should associate MIN
with their less dangerous enemies. II
is pretty generally accepted that ROCKS
know when a man is carrying a gun,
and 1t seems by no means Impossible
that birds should associate the peculiar
mode of progression of the cyclist with
safety. Be this as it may, they let you
get much nearer them when you are
cycling than when you are walking.
The other evening we passed within
yard or so of a pair Of partrtdges, who
were squatting on the grass by the
roadside without disturbing them.
True they had the corner of their
eyes upon us, but they never stirred.
Then, again, chaffinches, when they are
feeding on the road, fly up ana al1ght
on the nearest branch without troub
ling to go any considerable distance. as
they do when one is walking. One is
apt, however, to get somewhat different
idea as to the relative frequency of
birds in a district from the saddle of a
cycle than one would from walking.
For instance, the other evening we. had
a run of some fifteen miles in haste to
avoid a threatened storm, through
country lanes with high thorn hedges,
interspersed with a fair number of trees
and thickets. The evening was chilly,
but the nightingales were in full song,
and we seemed hardly to have got be-
yond the range Of the song of one be-
fore we came into that of another. The
natural impression one would arrive at
was that the country was full of night
ingales; possibly this impression may
not be so far wrong, for there seem to
be more nightingales this year than
there were swallows; but II must be
remembered that people do not walk
fifteen miles in an evening as a rule,
certainly they do not cover the dis
lance in an hour and a half The
cycle, too, is SO noiseless that the bird
never hears you and his song is not in
terrupted.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-18
THE KOREAN KINGS SON.

A rather interesting bit of gossip about
a foreign potentate in which a former
Allen, figures in an Asiatic4 court, is being
told of the Crown Prince of the little
After not wholly pleasant sojourn in
America the Crown Prince of Korea has
squared accounts with his landlady, paid
all of his outside bills, discharged his two
attendants, bid the Presbyterian Board Of
Foreign Missions good-by and sailed for
Japan and home. The Prince came here
a year ago-juSt why no one seems to
know. At first it appeared he came to De
educated, but If that was the errand 1t
seems to have been poorly carried out.
There were rumors that reasons of state
in Korea dictated his absence for time.
At any rate, he was sent out by his
father, the King, the money for his sup
senior secretary of the Presbyterian
board He first went to New York and
then to Washington. where his stay was
kept at secret as possible.
Only once did he come into notice, and
that was when he had a quarrel with his
landlady. He was hard up most of the
from home. AT first he studied furiously
mastering English fairly well in a short
not study at all, but lived in complete idle
ness. Now, when he departs, he does so
hurriedly and without consulting any one.
He is the heir OF the Korean throne and
the son of the Queen who was murdered,
as the public will remember. 1t was an
incident on the night Of the murder that
brought the King into friendly relations
with the Presbyterian board, with DR.
Newton Allen, formerly of Central Col
lege, as the hero.
There was an uprising of the populace
in the capital, and the royal family was
in grave danger, and indeed the Queen
was murdered by the mob. when DR.. AL
len, who was in the city as the represent
tative of the Presbyterian Board of For
eign Missions, stepped in and, at the risk
of his life, succeeded in quelling the riot
and saving the King and his family. Since
that fateful hour Newton Allen, the far
mer boy from Central College, has been
a man Of more than passing popularity.
Mr.. Allen was the secretary of the
Korean legation to this country during
the greater part Of Cleyeland's, first adj
rison's entire administration.
The Crown Prince will possibly return
to Korea now where he will be under tile
watchful eye of his American COUNSELOR
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-18
SERVANTS IN SANTIAGO.

Our servants match the kitchen to a T.
They are elderly negresses, with families
of their own, and, like mother birds, they
nightly convey to the home nest every
morsel of food not carefully locked up in
the wardrobe. Their everyday costume
is distinctive, If not appropriate. 1t con-
ssts OF a single voluminous white skirt,
very short in front and trailing far be-
hind, with a low-necked bodice and short,
pulled sleeves, leaving the skinny arms
bare to the shoulders. The front of the
secured by a string at the top, tied so
loosely, If tied at all, that strip of bare
bronze back stands confessed to the waist
line. The woolly heads, gray with the
turbans; the bare feet are thrust into
slippers of white canvas, and when my
lady walks abroad she covers her gaping
back with a bedraggled white silk shawl.
Both women consider themselves monu-
ments of virtuous industry in cOnsenting
for could they not, like all their neighbors
be well fed without work so long as Gu
ban relief supplies hold out? But they
are not injuring their constitutions by
hard labor When not sitting in the front
window smoking cigarettes and gossiping
with friends outside, their aimless Slip
shod feet go Shaping about the marble
floors, like the stars, "unhaSting yet I'M
resting. The slow, monotonous slap,
slap, slap of those heelless slippers so
in strange flights of fancy as to what
might accelerate their movements
Should the seven angels of the Apoca-
lypse, carrying the seven golden walls
filled with wrath, heralded by trumpet
notes and wrapped about with awful
glory, come knocking some fine day at
our front door, slap, slap would go those
same slow feet to admit them.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-18
HOW THE scALLoP TRAVELS.

Many people are very fond of scallops,
as may be judged from the fact that
nearly 10000 gallons of the meats were
used In New York and Brooklyn in 1897
OF course these bivalves likewise are
hunted persistently, and the prospect is
that before very long comparatively few
of them viii be left. It has been sug-
gested that they might be propagated In
great salt ponds, which could be util-
lied as preserves. Unquestionably they
could be bred by mixing the milk of the
male sca1lops with the eggs of the fe-
males, Matching them out and liberating
the young ones. Several difficulties are
In the way. however. and the most inn
portant of these Is the locomotive habit
of the scallop. 1t is by no means a sed-