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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-20

President Loubet will presently have the
annoyed look of one who has encountered
an obstreperous deal in a game of solitaire.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-20
Shirt Waists for Bows

Shirt Waists for Boys.
HENCE THIS BIG REDUCTION.
Two lots OF Fine Bouses made of
fine white India linen trimmed with embroidered fronts with hued
collars and which sold of
lawn, with deep sailor collar cuffs sold 75c 9
BOYS Unlaundered Sea Island Percae Waists dark
pad floral and plain white pleated
made
absolutely fast. FtS
Boys White India Linon Bouses with full collar, trimmed
with twonch binding around collar down the
of Light Blue, Dark Blue Pink Red stylish Rn
of the ordinary, plain o8c value OVS
India non Bouses made
med with fine pattern embroidery full sailor m0
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-20

Captain Dreyfus may have envied the
facility with which Molineux secures new
opportunities for going into court.
The times., 1899-08-13

ting more for his apples or tomatoes this
season than he got last she knows il. Ii
the Chicago amateur who bought the Big
Bluff Point place is going behindhand she
knows it, and if there is somebody dead in
town who must needs go back 10 the old
plantation to be buried she carries the SOL
emn freight and tells those people on the
way who are too far off to get to the fun
eral, but who know the dead and his ances-
tors and their doings and interests years
and years ago. Now she brings down a
dog for the doting sportsman whose cracka-
jack of a retriever is old and played out just
in woodcock time. Again, is is mandolin
or banjo for the vacation visitor anxious
to serenade his housemates with soulful
sounds, or new shoes for the house SER
wants, who want TO go TO meeting. No mat
ter how cross country or off the route the
place may be that passenger sets out for,
the" boats captain will engage TO get him
there by reason of the many outpost con-
neetions by land or water that he
knows of.
"Ill get you round by a skiff or carriage
or something is the captains word, and
the initiated know that they can depend
on 1t and that II at the moment he can't
put his minds finger on the very place
they are bound for he'll find 1t out by easy
stages as they progress toward the bay.
Potomac River locomotion is a paradox
in its accountability and non-accountabil-
ity; its musings and back actions and its
elastic accommodations, but it is all an
open secret to those who know, just as the
cross tides are plain sailing TO the native
pilots who chuckle over their learned COM
petitors and are themselves able to follow
the right course as unerringly in the dead
OF night or in storm swept confusion as
though feeling We're seeing.-N. Y. Sun.
The times., 1899-08-13

having had no previous trouble with their
eyes that they can remember. There is a
growing belief that this is largely due to
particles of organic matter dried into dust
getting into the eye from the shaking of
mats, or from dust containing such parti
oles being blown into the eyes from some
other cause, such as the dust in store
being swept into the street.
Some people who have had to get their
eyes cared for by specialists have traced
their trouble to similar causes a special
ist in eye diseases said, in talking on this
subject:
"a man came to me some time ago suf-
fering from an abscess below the left eye
lid which pressed on the eye and gave
him great deal of pain. He said he never
had any trouble with his eyes before and
that he could not account for 1t, as his
general health was excellent. l treated
him for the abscess, which necessitated
about three visits. He then reco.iected
that some days before he came TO see me
he was passing house on windy day
Just as servant was shaking mat out of
a window overhead A gust of wind came
and blew some of the dust sharply against
his eyes, nearly binding him. He used
the usual remedies for getting notes out
of his eyes and thought nothing further of
the matter. In two or three days the alb
scess formed. 1t was undoubtedly caused
by the irritation of some particle OF or
ganic matter which had dried into dust and
was shaken out of the mat"
People who have experienced similar
annoyances say that if the law does not
sufficiently cover such cases a stringent
city ordinance should be passed forbidding
the shaking of mats or anything else con-
tanning dust into the streets. The annoy
ance and suffering caused by this practice,
they hold, are more far-reaching than that
caused by splitting in street cars, against
which there is already a city ordinance,
The times., 1899-08-13

having nothing to do operates likewise,
and even if they had brought luncheon
along, Uncle Girls knows, from long Gus
tom. that they won't be able to resist a
visit to his domains in search of the coffee,
tea, or other quenchable-and he has all
knds-to wash down their sandwiches.
Here's a whole wagon load of salt
coming down to the dock now for us to
take on" the boat hands pass word to
Uncle Girls, and he brides with satisfac-
tion.
There's some lumber and cotton waste
and some empty crates ta-comin',' is re-
ported later After there had been lapse
of ten minutes in the loading operations,
the optimistic passengers were almost per-
suaded that they would get started soon.
Uncle Girls rubs his hands and beams, as
people will when things are going their
way, and disappears below to give out
double the measure OF dinner orders to
the cook and get ready some knick- knacks
and ginger cookies for the children.
The notable old side-wheeler was a Hud-
son River boat in her palmy days, an up
to-date boat, wont to ply back and forth
in right -on- -the-mark, sure-as-sunrise &C
curacy, and to carry people to whom the
getting somewhere on the minute was a
vital and daily necessity. The fact of her
falling so glibly into these hating, go-as-
you-please ways when renamed and
brought down to Potomac waters is a
tribute to the Dixie Land propensity for
assimilation and winning things for its
own.
One would never dream, seeing the steam
er now as she meanders up and down and
in and out of the creeks and by-paths OF
the Potomac veritable gossip, carrying
news and messages around the country and
assuming all manner of cares and little
neighborly responsibilities, that she was
once all for business, coldly calculating
and from stem to stern the sort of boat that
nobody would dream of asking TO stop to
take on a barrel of apples or kit of her.
ring. She Is much more human now if less
cocklike. Her patrons watch for her as fol-
a friendly face and her footing on the
river is 10 the folks ashore as the winding
horn or the baying of hounds TO the man
who likes TO hunt. II there is new baby
in one OF her families, that is, one of her
first families she knows il and gives word
10 the cousin or grandmother or old NAM
my who lives over or the other shore or at
some creek or turning remote from the
happy household II. Mr.. Goodluck is get
The times., 1899-08-13

places down either shore of the Potomac
must bestir themselves betimes in the
morning TO get the boat, literally 1.-The"
boat, there being only one that is war
ranted TO stop at all the creeks and
mounts, the points and beaches known in
the local category. Any other boat will
either only take them part way down
stream or else voyage past their destina-
tion, showing them, Tantalus fashion, the
place they may not reach. Those made
wary by acquaintance with the river
transit secure stateroom On the boat be-
fore starting. There are a good many
ropes TO be known. Whoever. for instance,
would dream on seeing the boat start off
so blithe and brisk from the Washington
dock, backing clear over to the opposite
bank before turning her head down stream,
like a dancer making ready for a fine
courtesy, that not six miles distant she
would come TO a dead stop and lie to, doing
almost nothing. long enough to have ac-
complished half her journey? Potomac
River dwellers who are on to this antic
get their morning sleep out and take a
ferry over TO the second starting place in
time to catch the old deceiver, but the
stranger who has no manner of warning Is
taken aback.
I'm going to St Clements Mr.. B.; got
the three children with me; do you think
We'll get there before night?" a woman
asked of the boats purser, and Mr.. B.
answers with much gravity that the time
of landing depends on when they get
away from Alexandria.
And how long do we stay at Alexan-
dria?"
"Oh, anywhere from an hour to two
hours or two and half. It's very seldom
that we have to wait three" was the
cheering answer. and the questioner turned
away with the observation that she might
as well go and unpack the children S
nightgowns
There is one person aboard the boat
whose smile grows broader and broader,
and whose manner gets more and more
suave and urbane the longer the boat
waits at Alexandria. This is Uncle Girls
field, the true blue ebon- skinned official
charged with the serving of meals below
watermark in the steamers dining room.
Those people wary enough TO secure state
rooms for the midday or midnight catnaps
that might be inevitable from the boat s
lingering were likewise strategic in Sc
curing breakfast before leaving home, but
the rivers breeze invokes appetite, the
The times., 1899-08-13
NEWS FROM ALEXANDRIA.

Alexandria. Aug 12.-Distriet Deputy E.
c. Ford and Capt H T. Brian. of Wash
ington, will pay fraternal visit to Alex
andria Council, National Union, on Mon
day night
Charles Dearborn has been notified that
he was the only applicant who passed the
civil service examination recently held in
this city for United States gauger and
storekeeper.
Anderson Ward. eolored. fell on the
Strand this morning and broke his arm.
The Leesburg team defeated the Alex
andrias in this city this afternoon by a.
score Of Z TO 2. The game was witnessed
by large crowd
Col F. H. Harrington. of the Marine
Corps in Washington, will open a recruit
ing Office in this city next week. liz is
understood that several young men from
this section who recently enlisted at Wash
ington have failed to report for duty
a quantity OF machinery is being placed
in the old furniture factory building at
New Alexandria 1t is understood that
Northern capitalists contemplate estah-
fishing wall paper factory in the build
ing.
Rev. and Mrs. S. A. Wallis have returned
from trip through the Northern States
and Canada
Muscoe Garnett, brother OF r. W. P.
Gsrnett, OF this city, died at his home in
Spotsylvania county yesterday. aged sew
enty-six years. The deceased was also a
brother of DR.. Yelverton Garnett, of Wash
ington.
William Sherwood, son OF Policeman
Sherwood, is i'll at his home in Pitt Street
The funeral of the late Miss Annie Duff
fey viii take place Monday afternoon az
o'clock
Miss Katharine Stuart has resigned as
directress of Christ Church choir. II is
understood that the choir will be reorgan-
lied, with Mrs. c.. G. Lennon as organIst;
Miss Taylor. alto. directress; Miss Ratch-
ford. first soprano. and Walter Birch, OF
Washington, tenor.
Mayor Simpson has approved an ordi-
nance adopted at the meeting of the city
council on Monday directing the city au-
ditor 10 draw warrants ir favor OF the
physicians who attended the smallpox pa
tients in this city during last winter.
The times., 1899-08-13

thick-leaved and vigorous growth up to the
very top, and nodding their blossoms there
from as though to say, This and this only
is the best most beauteous use TO make OF
stark, stripped timber. Who wants 10
know the news down here when the quails
and meadow larks are sending over the
fields every day the same cipher messages
given out long ago, where the bees are
hummlng and the tide and winds are fit
ting about just as ever they did before tele-
grams and telegraph operators were thought
Off" Even the windmill and water-rais-
ing eontrivances put up in brand new prem
ises by some city man moved 10 purchase
property and desirous of making sure OF
his bath facilities have a way OF getting
out of order and gradually settling TO dis
use IL is a fact proved by dozen san
guine worldly-minded folks who have tried
il. that new breeds of swine, of fowls, of
cattle won't do in the Potomac River coun-
try. nor new-fangled implements for plow-
ing sowing and harvesting. These ex-
pensive gearings lie out in ignominious dis
use for the bushes 10 grow over and the pea
fowls to roost in, while the primitive, be-
ore-fhe-war-time diggers and reaperS hnd
favor. The steam mills fail because the
patrons prefer their corn cakes made OF
meal ground by water between two stones,
after the ancient way, sweeter more fla
grower devoted 10 the most up-to-date
methods and latest gratis OF peaches or
APPLES raised for special market finds his
air castles and profits crumbiing about his
ears. his new orchard non-yielding, the
boughs clean and bare of fruit. while the
stuInpy trees that have cropped out from
the old roots bear pienteously.
AS for electricity, the only CLEAN of that
modern-day reyoiutionizer known in the
entire region from Alexandria to Point
Lockout is the furtive searchlight cast by
he Norfolk steamer as she goes by in the
night, a solitary voyager that the awak-
ened waves tell about long afterward as
they come running in 10 shore. II is way
with the Potomac River country TO have
things go by and leave 1t as before. The
Norfolk boats go by, the Baltimore boats
go by, and the Washington boats 90 by
most of the time, and the people get used
10 managing without them and to making
plans for getting away from and getting
back 10 their homes with as much elab
Grafton and forestalling of contingencies
as would conduct party, ordinarily, six
times the distance
Washington people who elect to visit
The times., 1899-08-13

Boys knee pants, of galatea cloth,
OF many patterns. 12e instead of 15c.
Boys galatea cloth knee pants and
linen crash knee pants, which sold
Tor 25c and more. to go for II 1-2c.
Little boys blue denim Brownie"
overalls, with suspender straps-for
19c
Lot of boys fine galatea cloth suits,
with plain collars and cuffs, with an
chors embroidered on shield-for 29c-
which sold for sec.
The times., 1899-08-13
LOOK Ont for Bad Pennies.

Counterfeiters have been flooding the country
with bad pennies, and already many have found
their way to Washington. penny IS q small
sum TO lose, but one hates 10 be cheated on
general principles That is why it is well 10
remember that Berkeley Whisky can only be
bought at sl2 F Street. There are many imita-
tions but they are hike the bad pennies, not
worth much. Berkeley is whisky OF such es-
tablished reputation that it is natural that some
unserupulous dealers should endeavor to trade on
Its good name. 1t
The times., 1899-08-13
1905 of mems 75c shirts, 29c.
Have you boy
question

Lot OF boys galatea cloth washable
suits-for 19e-which sold for as high
as Acc.
Lot Of boys white duck pants
slightly soiled-69c instead Of s125.
Boys indigo blue shirt waists, 19c
instead of 39c
Lot of boys washable sailor suits in
sizes 3, 4, .. and 6 years, of crash, blue
check pure linen. striped galatea cloth.
&c. which sold up to 81 40, for Ale.
The times., 1899-08-13
DANGER IN DUST
Eye Trouble Frequently Caused by
Particles From Mats md BrOOms.
(From the New York Sum-

(From the New YORK sun.
Complaints are now being made that the
dust from articles shaken out of windows,
such as brooms and mats, have as bad an
effect on the eyes as the breathing OF the
city dust has on the lungs. Cases are
cropping up where people suddenly have
outbreaks of styes on their eyelids who
never suffered from them before. and 9TH
ers suffer from what is known as granula-
ton, by which the eyes feel as If they
were constantly full of irritating particles,
The times., 1899-08-13

Cancpies under price.
Their usefulness is unquestioned in
summer when flies and mosquitoes
make sleep impossible. Full dou 00C
Bile bed size canopies for. ..JJ
The times., 1899-08-13
BYHAYS OF THE POTOMAC
A Journey in Region UndiSturb
ed by Time.

yfrg MA Settlements That Lie in
Picturesque and Placid Repose
Route-The Old Steamboat That
Connects IT With the World.
The times., 1899-08-13

The best quality Imported Silk Grena-
dines-one and quarter yards wide
in many beautiful designs. There's
about 100 yards in the lot, and you
know 1t only takes FIVE to six yards for
dress pattern. The goods never sold
for less than slips a yard. For this
sale the price will be 44c.
The times., 1899-08-13

This will be your last opportunity to
take your choice of this elegant line
of Corded Wash Silks, in plaid and
check taffeta finish. Neat Corded Fan
cy Wash Habutai Silks. All desirable
lengths. No odds and ends. AS many
yards as you care to buy. Think of Sc
curing SOC and SOC values for 25c.
The times., 1899-08-13
Muslin gowns, 3oc.

These gowns have tucked yokes, with
ruffies around the neck and sleeves.
Always sold for 59c Sale price, 39c.
The times., 1899-08-13
Corset covers. 12hc.

These corset covers always sold for
25c. They're embroidery trimmed. Sale
price, u 1-2c.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-11-11
IT MEANS PEACE.
Ambassador choate Speaks Significant Words
at LONDON Eanqust.

Edinburgh. Nov. 10.-Mr Joseph
Hodges Choate. the United States am
bassadnr. who was the chief guest 1t
the annual banquet Of the Sir Walter
scott CLUB. this evening. met an en-
usilgtic.reception. Sir Herbert Max
Wei. VINO presided. made 4 cordial ref
erence ID the friendship that seals
England and America" In the course
of speech proposing the toast to lit
erature. Mr.. Choate said:
Truly your country and mine are
connected by bonds Of sympathy that
were never stronger and closer than
they are 1T this Very hour. | can as
sure YOU that Lord Sal!sbury's gener-
Gus ana cordial words at the lord
mayors banquet. yesterday. We're met
with quick ana hearty response be
yond the Atlantic.
1T has been said by q great thinker
that peace hath won victories No
less renowned than war" and this iron
clad friendship which now prevails be
tween these TWO kindred nations is her
latest and greatest victory. 1t means
peace not merely between your coun-
try ana mine. but among all tie great
nations of the earth: ard il lends, by
advancing civilization. to promote the
welfare of the whole human race
The remainder of much applauded
address was devoted to q humorous
comparison between American and
Scottish characters as illustrated in
every day life and 10 a eulogy of Sir
Walter Scott Mr. Andrew Lang re
sp0nded to the toast.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-11-11
WHEN YOU GET 60"
The Entire Machine Moves Better.

The thing to be aimed at by every
one is to keep the vitality up. ana
there is no surer way than by use of
food that quickly and easily digests.
4 lady writes. I'VE have been using
your Grape Nuts for quite a while
past and while using them have dis
covered that an increase of strength
ard vigor has set in and also the
bowels move regularly and better than
ever before Ny husband had been
troubled with constipation for a long
time. but since he has been eating
Grape Nuts the trouble has entirely
disappeared. I know that the relief
came from the use of the food, for we
have friend that was troubled in the
same way and had been treated for 4
year or more, but since he has been
using Grape Nuts the difficulty has en-
tirely disa appeared.
| naturally do not care to have my
name used in the public press, but am
glad to advise you of these facts. -.
StOughton, Mass. (Name can be fur
nished by Postum Cereal Co.. makers
of Grape-Nuts. Battle Creek. Mich.)
The food is 50 made that it is pre-
digested. and therefore does not dis
tress the digestive organs. 1t is a CON
centrated food. and furnishes nourish-
ment of the highest class in the most
simple form. Added to this. the flavor
is delicious. The grape-sugar can be
seen in fine crystals. glittering on the
surface of the little granules. 1t is SO
easily digested that babes in arms can
be fed Grape Nuts combined with milk
or cream, to marked advantage. Sold
by all first-class grocers.
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held their places until the keels of the
boat grated on shore when their Maui
sers commenced TO ring overhead
The battalions formed in good order.
captain Buck with pieces and Patton's
companies pursuing the insurgents on
the left into the bamboo thickets. On
the right was frail foot bridge across
the river TO the town. Gen. Wheaton
personally commanding. ordered a
charge across the bridge and Capt.
Rowland Of his staff led Coleman's and
Elliots companies Of the 18th and
Shields company Of the 3Srd. who be-
haVed splerdidly under their first fire,
into the town. which was found to be
nearly deserted. except by the aged.
and some Spaniards who had hidden in
the buffalo Wallow and who came
Duting,delightedly towards the Amer
leans.
TWO companies Of the S3rd had a
sAirmish along the Dagupan road with
the retreating Filip!noe. Major Shields
Of the staff. with his command. captur-
ed several insurgents.
The troops camped in the rain. dur
ing the night, and. in the morning.
Gen. Wheaton established his head
quarters in a church. quartered his men
in the houses and sent the captured
Filipinos beyond the oatposts with or
lers not to return.
CONTINUED on page %
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-11-11
NEW ENGLAND TEACHERS
Meet at Boston Tor fnnuaI Meeting Of School
Superin.endents.

Boston. Nov. l0.-The New England
Association of School Superintendent
held its 65th annual meeting mere. today.
Miss Mary S. Snow of Bangor. Me, pre-
sided. The discussion, this forenoon. was
on The High School from the Superin
tendent'S Point Of View. Supt. I. NJ.
Bplliet Of Springfield. spoke On The
Length of the High School Course, ana
W. ID. Parkinson Of Waltham. on Flu
ture High School Demands. Supt. W.
f. Patch Of New Bedford. describe
commercial Course, Nature and EX
tent and Supt. j. f. Burke of Lawrence.
considered The Extent Of High School
Electives. At the afternoon session Off
GERS were elected. including: President
Walter II. Small Of Chelsea vice presi
dent. John 5. Locke Of Saco. Me; score
tary and treasurer. Roscoe ID. Mckee Ct
HINprhill
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DEERING MISSING.
Woodbury. & MouIton's Cash.
Ter Disappears from Portland.
Did Not Notify Wife---His Bools
Not Yet Examined.
New England College Presidents Hold 4sd
Annual Wiz Bowdoin.

Portland. Me. Nov. l5.-I-dward =.
Deering, cashier and bookkeeper for
Woodbury. & Moultcn. the banking
house which recently assigned. has
been missing since last Sunday. He
left on the noon train for Boston ana
though every effort has been made to
find him, all have been unavailing. The
assignees of the failed concern have
been hard at work on their statement
and as yet no examination of the books
has been made to see if his accounts
are straight. Deering left home with
out notifying his wife of his intention
and took none of his personal belong
ingS with him.