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CRUISING UP THE YAyCTszH
some Difficulties and PeriIs That Be-
set Such a Trip

The 1-Chang Gorge cuts straight west
ward for five or six miles. and then turns
at right angle northward an arrowv
reach between gray, purple and yellowed
limestone walls overhung with the richest
vegetation. Tiny orchards and orange
groves are niched between the buttresses
OF these stored strata walls, and cling to
terraces; quarries and lime kilns show. and
mud houses are left behind. stone huts and
houses being cheaper beside the quarry
than the waffle and dab of the plains
Brown junks floated in nidstream. and
junks with square and butterfly and striped
sails were dWarfed at the foot of the cliffs
All DAY our crackers strained at the braided
bamboo ropes, crawling up and down and
over rocks where bamboo hawsers have cut
deep, polished grooves in the conglomer-
ATE ana limestone banks by the friction of
centuries. Lookout men at the waters
edge Kept the line free from rocks throw
ing 1t off from any projections and wadfng
out to release 1t from hidden snags Where
foothold was wanting the crackers scram-
bled on board and rowed around the OBJ
stacle or across stream to tracking ground
again.
Their whole performance was the bur-
lesque of navigation, the climax of stupid
tiles, and nothing ingenious or practical
seems to have resulted from the three
thousand years of 'swfft-water" naviga-
ton on the upper Yangtsze. The ridiculous.
top-heavy, fitting kwatsze is wholly insult
ed to such flood river, and the crackers
tow by a rope fastened to the top of the
mast, as on the Peiho, the mast shivering,
springfng and resounding all the while
They rowed US with poles, round sapling
stems held to the gunwale by string or
straw loop. and 1T was a marvel that the
kwatsze responded to these bladeless oars
even when all hands, including the cook
rowed madly, screaming and stamping IN
chorus, and the captain on the roof raging
and shreking, and threatening to drop
through upon u.s. The kwatsze would reel
and wabble. gain by inches. and round the
ripple or point, and the ragamufI1n crew
would drop off with the tow line and fasten
1t by a fiat metal button at the end Of their
bricole thongs. With deft loop, that can
be detached with the least slackening, the
cotton thongs hold firmly to the slippery
cable In all these thousands of years they
have never learned to "1ine up either by
capstan on board or a winch on shore,
nor to invent other compelling saltwater
fashions of the Nile, the st. Lawrence the
Snake, the Columbia or the Stickeen.
Some years ago Admiral Ho was ordered
to these river precincts, where lawlessness
had been rife, and he. unprecedented in this
century in China, took an interest in his
work. and attempted to better things He
established a system of hfeboat patrol In
the gorges, and his little red rowboats
waiting above and below rapids and eddies
and moving alongshore to render assist
ance, had salutary effect ON the Wild
river folk.
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England Alone Has No National HoIi-
day to Celebrate.

IL
day to Celebrate.
From the Boston Globe.
There Is one country in the world. and
one only, which has no birthday or ma
tionaI holiday. Nor is that country in soma
remote corner of the map-it Is England.
Although the queens birthday-May a.
is annually celebrated in royal fashion, It
is not a national holiday. and Engishmen
and women have at last aroused them
selves to the fact that they are quite alone
in this respect
What day shall we choose for ma
TONS birthday?'' they are now asking
Shall it be the queens birthday. or the
day of her ascending the throne, or any day
which she herself shall name?"
There was movement not long ago TO
bring forward ST. Georges day the ma
tons birthday. St. George being Englands
patron saint.
The birthdays of different countries all
have very good and substantial reasons for
being.
January Is Germany celebrates her ma
tional holiday the day when the King of
Prussia was first proclaimed Emperor Of
Germany and Prussia.
September is Italy's birthday for it
was the day on which Italy became a
united country
July is a pet month for national birth
days, and starts off with July 1, which the
Canadians keep the date upon which
their present constitution was given.
July IA is Frances national holiday. or
the day the bastile was taken and our
own national holiday is July L.
Mahometans keep November 10-Maho-
NETS birthday.
Every country, of course. has its fete
days-often miscalled national holidays"
For example. in England Primrose day,
April 49, is often called a national holiday.
we'll as st. Patrick's day in ireland, and
October "a, which the Irishman honors in
gala fashion as Turfcutters' day, when peat
fuel was discovered.
The Welsh celebrate Ascension day with
much pomp and circumstance, nor will any
one in that country work on that day, be-
lieving that a fatal accident will cut off
those who go to their daily labor usual.
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HAGERSTOWN NEWS GRlST
Senator McComas Opposed to Anti-Civil
Service Resolutions.
Action of Convention ArOuses Conn
ment-Sudden Death of Mrs. Marker
karl Thompson Ill.


sPec1al Correspondence OF Inc Evening St3r.
HAGERSTOWN, Md. August 81. 1890
Senator L. f. McComas at the late repub-
lican county convention held here was the
only delegate to raise his voice in opposi-
ton to the resolution presented to the con-
vention by the committee of twenty-five
on organization. rules, regulations and res
olutions attacking the civil service and
calling for the repeal of the law. He char
acterized ii as unwise. impolitic and wrong;
that there We're number of people who
took their pay in good government and
they would be driven away by such action.
He protested because he was in the conven-
ton as a delegate and that he would not
support any such action anywhere
Not single delegate arose to reply to
the senator, and the resolution as here APP
pended was passed amidst the widest DEM
monStration of approval:
Resolved. That We are unalterably OPP
posed to the system of civil service in both
state and federal governments; that we de-
rounce it as un-American and unrepubi-
can and as fostering an office holding class
inimical TO the spirit of free institutions
and hostile to the individual. and we pledge
ourselves to its speedy and absolute re-
peal"
The action of the convention in thus en-
phatically declaring against civil service
shows the temper of the party in Washing
ton county on the measure. and has caused
much comment. The leaders, or a part of
them, fighting shy of the issue, but
the rank and file almost to a man uphold
the convention and are loud in its praise
Mrs. Mary E Marker. aged sixty-five
years, was found dead yesterday evening
in the garden in the rear of her residence.
adjoining ST. Paurs NJ. E. Church. this
city. She was in her usual health up to
the time of her death and had gone to the
garden to look after some plants. Her
death is attributed to apoplexy.
Antietam battlefield is to have two more
monuments. The SSth and 9Sth Pennsylva-
mia Regiments will each erect monument
near the Dunkard Church to mark their
position and in memory of comrades who
fell in battle there.
Rev. Charles Warren Brewbaker former
ly pastor of the United Brethren Church Of
Hagerstown, was married yesterday to Miss
Nellie Smoke of this county. The ceremony
took Place at the home of the bride at
high noon. Rev. Brewbaker is now station
ed at Canton, Ohio.
Mr.. Karl Thompson of Washington is
critically i'll Of typhoid fever at the home
of his father. Mr. Samuel Thompson, this
city.
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Radiated Heat for Snake Bites.

From Forest End Stream.
The early application Of radiated heat
has been a long time known as an effec-
tive antidote to bites of snakes, insects
and to punctured wounds, as from fish fins
and sharp inanimate bodies.
1 cannot recall reading this fact any,
where, yet I think that it is well known,
and like Wau- kau-Mah, l mention it for
the benefit of the readers of Forest and
Stream. Even those who are chained to
business" may use it, as it is good for
spider bites.
DR.. Constance Herring, noted scientist,
who died in Philadelphia in 1880, aged
eighty-one years. was the first person I
know of who had used radiated heat to
antidote the poison of snake bite. This
he did in his own person, and successfully
antidoted the virus of one of the most
poisonous snakes Of South America, the
Lachesis trigonacephalus. 1t seems strange
that although the fact that radiated heat
is so generally known to be an antidote to
all kinds Of virus, 1t is so seldom used as
such.
Those who hunt and fish usually have the
means at hano to apply it. I have used a
torch, the flame of a gasoline lamp, but
best of all the glowing embers of the camp
fire.
When the fin of fish punctures the
hnger or the hand sharp pain usually en-
sues, and may extend from the wound up
the arm to the shoulder. This pain is often
exeruciatfng and sickening. Hold the
wound close to red-hot ember or any,
thing giving off an equal amount of heat,
and you will note that In a minute or two
all the pain is gone and that it Is seldom
necessary to repeat the application Of heat.
Healing takes place without further at.
tention.
When the face or other parts Of the body
are tingling and burning and itching from
mosquito bites 50 that 1t Is impossible to
go to sleep, give the parts dose of radi-
ated heat and you will go to sleep with
out further annoyance from the old biteA
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All He Lacked.

From the Chicago Tribune.
81 thought you said you could swim like
a fish," some one said, as they hauled him
out of the water.
II cam he gasped. but can't breathe
like one. I lack the gflls."
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FRENCH LINE.

Compagnie Generate Transatlantique
DIRECT LINE TO HAvRE - PARIS (FRANCE).
Sailing every Saturday ut 10 AM.
From Pier AZ. North river foot Of Morton street.
La Champagne sept . ia T"nraine: Sept 80
La Gascogne. E. Sept. 10 La Normandie. Oct.
First-class passage to Havre, $50 and upward.
Genl Ag'cy for US. and Can. 80 Broadway. ny.
G. W. MOSS 90: Pennsylvania ave.
BELL CO.. 1406 G st. mh1S-tf
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LEGAL NOTICES.

No. 1885. ADMIN. DOC. 25. THIS IS TO GIVE
Notice: That the subscriber of the District of Co
lumbia has obtained from the Supreme Court Of
the District of Columbia, holding a special term
on the personal estate of Mary Jane Jackson. late
or the District of Columbia, deceased; all persons
having claims against the said deceased hereby
warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers
day OF August next; they may otherwise by law be
excluded from all benefit OF the said estate Sign
ed this l4th day OF August. 1890. The National
Safe Dept sit, Savings and Trust Co. Of d. c.. by
GEORGE HOWARD. Treasurer. GIST BLAIR
Attorney. au1S-law 3W
NO. ss01. ADMIN. DOC. 25. THIS is TO GIVE
Notice: That the subscriber the District Of Co.
lulnbia has obtained from the Supreme Court of
the District Of Columbia, holding a special term
for Orphans Court business, letters testamentary
ON the personal estate Of Richard F. King late Of
the District Of Columbia, deceased; all persons
having claims against the said deceased here
by warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers
thereof, to the subscriber. before the 18th
day of August next; they may otherwise by law
be excluded from all benefit OF the said estate
Signed this 18th day of August, 1899. The Wash
ington Loan and Trust Co, by ANDREW PARK ER,
Treasurer. JOHN B. LARNER, Attorney.
aulS- w,Sw
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA, the 18th day OF August, 1899.
Matild NJ. hurry vs.. Michael X. Murry No. 1857
Docket 45-On motion OF the plaintiff, by Mr.. John
B. oNeili her solicitor. it is ordered that the de-
PENDANT, Michael K .Murry cause his appearance to
be entered herein before the first rule day
occurring forty days after this day; otherwise the
cause will be proceeded with in of de-
from the bonds Of natrimopy the grounds Of
desertion. This application shall appear in the
Washington Law Reporter and The Evening Star.
By the Court-HARRY NJ CLABAUGH, Justice.
FRED. c. o'CoNNELI4, Assistant Clerk.
au1S-1aw-3w
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SHORT HAND

CONGRESSIONAL. SCHOOIr-ENLARGED
AND IMPEeNED-9i3 | ST
Principal practical writer Of fifteen years ex-
perience bookkeeping and all English branches at
special rates Only school in city teaching short
hand and typey riting strictly practical lines.
Refs. from civil service graduates. statesmen
and fuauciers. Catalogues free application.
aus I'm"
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$9.9s buys $15 Roll-top Desk in Hoeke's
Clearance Sale.-Advt.
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SUMMER RESORTS.

The Atlantic City ONCE of The
Evening Star fs located at 1309-13
Atlantic avenue, where any fnfOrma-
ton concerning advertising, ETC., can
be obtained. The rates are the same
as charged at the Home ONCE.
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OCEAN TRAVEL
NORTH GERMAN LLOYD

FAST EXPRESS SERVICE.
SOUTHAMPTON, BREMEN.
Sailing at 10 An
Lain. ......... Sept. 5 Trave. Sept. 10
'Kais VIM. d CIR. Sept. II Saale. Sept. 20
Kaiser VIM. d. CIR calls at Cherb'g & South mp'n.
"Twinscrew express steamer.
SOUTHAMPTON, BREMEN.
Twins Passenger Service.
Koenign Luise. Thursday. Sept. I, 10 AM
Bremen. ........... Thursday. Sept. 81, 10 AM.
GIBRALTAR NAPLES GENOA.
Sailing Mt II An.
Ems. .......... Sept. Aler. Sept. %
OELRlCHI s. Co, NO. 8 BROADWAY. n. Y.
Apply to Z. +. DROOP 925 Pa ave..
ap2lfoja20 Agent for Washington.
American Line.
FAST ENTREES SERVICE.
NEW UTHAMPTON-LONDON.
CALLING WESTBOUND AT CHERBOURG.
Sailing Wednesdays at 10 AN.
New York. Sept. u New York. Oct. =
Red Star Line.
NEW OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
EverJ Wednesday at IL noon.
southwark. Sept 'Kensington. Sept. 20
Westernland SEPT. IS Noordland Sept n
sThese steamers carry only cabin and third-class
passengers at low rates.
INTERN ATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY.
Piers l4&15 Mr.. Office, % Broadway, New York.
PHILADELPHIA office, 3U5307 Walnut st.
WASHINGTON OFFICE, 1906 + st. NV, or
Geo. W. Moss. Agent. 921 Penna. se27
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Classes to be resumed on Sep
Education for Real Life

EDUCATION Tor Real Lie
For Sons and Daughters in
SIENCFIsIAN BUSINESS COLLEGE,
Academy Of Music Building. 9th II st. NV.
The 35th scholastic year begins Monday, August
Is. All departments reopen that date. Day ard
night session f. months.
Rapid. legIble and beautiful Writing, Rapid Cal
cuatons, Thorough English. bookkeeping and Bust.
hess Practice, Correspondence, Ciyics, Laws Of
J:usiness, Commercial Geography. Science of
Wealth. Shorthand "Gd Type-writing, Art of Ex-
preston tDelsarte Method Moral and Social Gull
Spacious beautiful. brilliantly lighted, hand
somely equipped Halls
The successful business men of Washington
mainly received their practical education in this
College. and send their and daughters. and
candidates for employ ment here for training.
For further information call nj College Office. or
send for New Announcement 9-l900'. containing
n Directory Oac Thousand Graduates OF Spen-
cerian College. where they and what they are
doing.
College office open day and evening. $50 am. to
9:;n pm
Mrs Sara A. Spencer. Principal and Proprietor.
m II
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FOREIGN POSTAL SERVICE

WASHINGTON, d. c.. POST OFFICE NOTICE.
Should be read daily, changes may occur at
any time.
FOREIGN MAILS forwarded TO the ports of
sailing daily. and the schedule of closings is ar
ranged on the presumption of their uninterrupted
overland transit. For the week ending September
the last connecting closes will be made from
office follows:
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POTOMAC RIVER BOATS.


STEAMER WAKEFIELD,
FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS.
Leaves Washington, DC. 9th st. Ferry Wharf,
Mondays AIN, for intermediate landings to Co.
lonial Beach. Bushwood, Rock PIT, Colton's Nom
and Cobrum's
Wednesdays IN, for intermediate landings to
Colonial Beach, Bushwood, Rock Point, Cotton s.,
Leonardtown. Abells. Nomini Greek. Coan and
Yeocomico rivers.
Saturday, NJ, for intermediate landings to
Colonial Beach, Bushwood. Rock Point, Colton's,
Nomin Geek
See schedule in effect August 81 $780,
aul6-tf G. w. RIDLEY. General Manager.
THE WEEMs' STEAMBOAT co.
POTOMAC RIVER ROUTE
Summer Schedule in effect May 80, 1899.
wharf every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday at
pm. for Baltimore and river landings.
All river freight must be prepaid.
Baltimore freight solicited.
Passenger accommodations strictly hrst-class
Office, 80 Pa ave
Telephone 745. Je1-12tf
E. s. RANDALLs POTOMAC RIVER LINE
Steamer HARRY RANDALL will leave River
View wharf Sundays and Thursdays at Z am land.
ing at Colonial Beach, Chapel Point and wharves
as far down as Lower MachodOc. Returning on
Mondays at Z pm and on Fridays about $3.50 pm.
UNITED STATES MAIL ROUTE
WASHINGTON. D. c.. TO GLYMONT. MD.
and intermediate landings.
The new Steamer ESTELLE RANDALL, daily.
except Sunday, $50 am. Returning about pm.
Passenger accommodations first class Freight
received until the hour Of sailing.
E. s. RANDALL
Proprietor and Manager.
GEO. o. CARPENTER, General Agent Washington
VIM NJ REARDON. Agent. Alexandria. ja26- tf20
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Bookkeeping
J. F. Bates. counsellor and expert instructor in the
theory and practice of bookkeeping and accounts;
10 years experience; fitted for the best posi-
tons; day and evening. 1U9 and ITO Washington
LA. and Trust bnding. au19-7f
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ALBEMARLE HOTEL AND COTTAGES.
ave-; capacity 300; elevator; every modern con-
venience; literally managed; excellent cuisine;
reduced rates for September. Write for Booklet
and terms. (lu4- 3Ot-6) J. z. COPE.
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Grand Atlantic Hotel,

THE SCARBOROUGH,
Beach Front and Maryland ave.
Greatly improved and enlarged.
Special rates for September.
Write for booklet.
u23-26t ALFRED wYMAN.
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CLIFTON,
Connecticut and Atlantic ayes. Honelike family
house. 3 minutes walk from beach. 81 to SIC
weekly. Booklet. CHAS. A. SHAW. au2326t,f
Connecticut western news., 1899-05-18

department nas ordered Captain oeorge | F. Wilde, at present in command of the
 Boston, to relieve him. Captain Barker
 was one of the most active members of the naval war board. The Boston ls al.
 so to come to the United states. She
 will cross the Pacific to San Francisco and will be extensively overhaulsd and
 altered at the Mare Island navy yard. Company D, Twenty fourth infantry.
 colored, from Vancouver Barracks,
 Wash, has left for Alaska. Fifty-six
 men under command of Captain Henry
 W. Hovey will take station at Dysa, re- lieving Captain F. IT. Yeatman and Company II, Fourteenth infantry. and 4a men under Lieutenant J. s. Jenks will
 proceed to Fort Wrangol, relieving Cap-
 tain Bogsrdus Eldredge and Company B, Fourteenth Infantry. These oompa-
 nies of the Fourteenth infantry will
 proceed 10 join their regiment In the Philippine Islands.
 The United States supreme court has decided the prize money case of the
 French steamer olynde Rodriguez, the first of the naval prize money cases growing out of the spanish war to
 reach the court. The decision directed
 that the vessel, which was captured or
 San Juan, Porto Rico, on the l7th of
 July last, shall be returned 10 its own
 CTS on the ground that it was not prov ed that the steamers officers intended to enter the blookaded port The court
 held incidentally that the blockade of
 San Juan was effective.
 The directors of the Pan-Amsrioan
 Exposition have agreed that the Pan American exposition should be held on
 what is known locally as the "Rumsey Farm" located on the Niagara frontier
 in the northern suburbs of Buffalo and
 including a portion of Delaware park.
 In their report the three experts, Daniel s. Burnham, Warren H. Manning and John c. olmstead, selected what was known as the front as their first choice, with the Rumsey farm second. It was found later that the expense and the limited space at the former site render ed it unavailable.
 The New York county grand jury has refused to return an indictment against Roland B. Molineux for the
 murder of Mrs. Kate ]. Adams. Ao-
 cording to report, the jurors stood for an indictment and II against 1t. Just
 after his discharge Detectives Mo cafferty and Carey served a warrant charging him with assault In the first
 degree by alleged sending of poison to
 Harry Cornish. Molineux was taken be-
 fore Justice Jerome. who held him for the grand jury on the charge of assault in the first degree. Ball was fixed at ti0.-
 900. Mir Weeks made no attempt to pro- cure bail. and Molineux, who waived examination. will remain in the TombH.
Connecticut western news., 1899-05-18

have been carried into northern prov ince and scattered among small garri- sons. They are beyond American suc- cor this season unless a Filipino sur render takes place within three weeks.
 The insurgent hospital near San Isi- dro is reported to be overwhelmed with wounded. General Pilar's main sub sistence depot Is five miles in front of Lawton.
 Five American prisoners were carried through this town last week. Their names are unknown.
 Natives are returning through the American lines to their own homes.
 The "tinclad" gunboats Laguna de Bay and Cavadonga and a launch un- der Captain Grant ran into a nest of insurgents concealed in the bushes on both sides of the Rio Grande river, three miles above Calumpit, Sunday afternoon and were received with heavy volleys at short range. A sergeant be- longing to the Utah battery was killed, and one private was wounded.
 Opening with their rapid fire guns, the Americans killed 20 of the natives and wounded several others. They filled the jungle with hail of shot for half an hour until the enemy fled.