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THE TJJVJER; WASHUOTON. SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1898. 15 001 ITU MS SHIP The Thrilling Story of the Sink ing of the Central America. CAPT IlERNDON'S BRAVERY "Ho Sunk With His VeaMCl After Ev ery Woman and Child Hud lli'en f Saved A. Monument to HSh Memory "" on' the Parade Ground at Aunnii olih Vlrsrlnla Honors the Mobility t. .. Her Son, la an article on great disasters at sea, (tailed, out by the sacrifice of women and children on the French liner, injustice eeems to have been done In the mention of the wrecking- of tho Central America, Capt. William Lewis Herndon, United States navy, commanding-, which oc curred during a hurricane oft Cape Hat terns. September 12, 1S37. From the rec ords of the Xavy Department is compiled the following history of that event, by Diana Fontaine Maury Corbln, of Frd-eric-ksburg, Va. The Central America left Asplnwall for ICew York on September 3. 1Sj7. carrying more than 400 passengers and 2,000,0.) jiounds of treasure. The law required that ships of this line plying between Asplnwall and Xew York to carry "United States malls, passengers and treasure should be commanded by naval officers. At midnight on September 9 the wind freshened to a sale, which contin ued to increase till the forenoon of Fri day, the 11th, when It blew with great vi olence from north northeast. On the forenoon of Friday It was dis covered that the ship had sprung a leak. This was so large that by 1 o'clock the water had risen so high as to extinguish the fires on the starboard side and stop the engine. Bailing gangs were set to work, the passengers cheerfully assisting, and all hands were sent over on the windward side to trim the ship. Being relieved in a measure, she righted, and the fires were relighted; but there was a very heavy eea on, and, in spite of pumps and "bail ing gangs with their buckets, whips and barrels, the water gained upon them until it reached the furnaces and extinguished the fires again, never to be rekindled. The ship was now ax the mercy of the waves, and was wallowing In the trougn of the sea like a log. Attempts were made to get the ship before the wind, but no canvas was stout enough to stand the raging of the storm. After the head solis had been blown away, the captain ordered the clews of the foresail to be leshed down "o the deck, thinking to hoist the yard a little way, show canvas and get her off; but, by the time the yard was well clear of the bulwarks, the sail was taken right out of the holt ropes, 0 great was the force of the wind, and such the fury of the gale. Crew and passengers worked manfully, pumping and balling all Friday afternoon and night, but when day dawned upon thorn the violence of the storm was still increasing. All that energy, professional skill and seamanship could do to weather tlie storm and save The ship had been done, The tempest was still raging, re sources were exhausted, the working par ties were fagged out, and the captain foresaw that the ship must go down. Still some hope was left. He might save ilfe, even if he lost ship, malls and treas ure. He was in a frequented part of the ocean, and a passing vessel might come to tire rescue of crew and passengers if they could manage to keep the ship afloat till the gale abated. He encouraged them with this hope, and asked for a rally. They responded with cheers. The lady passengers also came to help, and went to work with a. will, whipping up water by the barrelful to the steady masure of the sailor's working song. "" Finally, about noon of Saturday the 12th. the gale began 4o abate and the sky te fcrighten. A vessel hove in sight; she was asked for help, but could give none and kept on her course. About 2 p. m. the brig Marine. Capt. Blurt, of Bos tor.. heard minute guns and saw the steamer's signals of distress. She ran 'Avm o the inking hip. and. though very much crippled herself hy the gale, promised to lay by. and she kept her word. The steamer's boats were order ed to be lowered. The Marine had none -that could live in such a sea. Xovr came a most trying time; the boat SOCIETY SECRETS often leak out. The secret of the beauty of society ladies has leaked out. It has been given to the public "by some of its own members. The Misses Bell, of 78 Fifth Avenue, New York City, have given to the general public not only the secret of modern feminine beauty, but have offered to all those who wish to avail themselves of the opportunity, the means to become beautiful. 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A sailor, perceiving the captain's dilemma, stepped up and modestly offered to go. He had not, it mny be supposed, been long in the thip, for Herndon evidently did not know him well, and he replied, in his mild and gentle way, "I -wonder If I can trust you?" The sailor instinctively understood this call for a "shibboleth," and simply said, "I have hands that are hard to row, and a heart that is soft to feel." Tills was enough. He went and was true; not a boat deserted that ship. All tle women and children were first sent to the brig, and every one arrived In safety. Each boat made two loads to the rescuing ship, carrying in all 100 persons. In hurrying to leave the sinking steamer; Mrs. Small (one of the lady pas sengers) hecame-separnted from her six-weeks-old baby. The captain took the little thing into his own arms and hushed its cries till the boat returned, when he sent the infant to its mother with a tender message to soothe her anxiety. By (his timo night was setting in. The brig had drifted to leeward several miles I away from the steamer, and was so crippled that she could not beat up to her again. The boatswain's" boat alone returned the second time. Her s-illi'i: crew had been buffeting with the trm for two days and nights without rest and with little or no food. The boat Itself had been badly stove while alonriiilo wUh Hie laf-t I-M 1 of passengers. Still these brave seamen, inspired by the noble conduct, and true to the trust renosed in them hv their can- tain, did not hesitate to leave the brig again and pull back through the dark for miles, across an angry sea, that they might join him in his sinking ship and take their shances with him. This was conduct the most loyal, brave and true. The names of these brave men have not been preserved. During the lowering of the boats and the embarkation of the women and chil dren there was as much discipline pre served among the crew of that ship and as much order observed among the pas sengers as was ever witnessed on board the .best regulated man-of-war. The law requires every commander In the navy to show. In himself, a good example of vir tue and patriotism; and .never was exam ple more nobly set forth or more beauti fully followed. Capt. Herndon, by those .striking traits which have so endeared his memory to the hearts of his country men, had won the respect and admiration of the crew and passengers of that ship in such a degree as to acquire an influ ence over them that was marvelous In its effects. The women felt Its force. Calm and resolute themselves, they encouraged and cheered th6 men at the pumps and In the gangways, and finally, to Hern don's last appeal for one more effort, they rose superior to their sex and offered with fair hands and feeble arms to do" man's work In, battling with the tempest. As one of the last boats was about to leave the ship Herndon gave his watch to a passenger with the request that it might be delivered to his wife. He de sired to send her a message also, but hid utterance was choked. "Well, tell her" Unable to proceed, he bent down his head and buried his face in his hands for a moment, as if in prayer, for he was atle vout man and a Christian. In that moment, brief as It was, he had endured the great agony; but it was over now. His crowning thoughts, no doubt, had been of his beloved wife and lovely daughter (who afterwards became the wife of Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States), dependent upon him for their support. But God and his coun try must care for them now. He had re solved to go down with his ship. Calm and collected he rose up from that short but mighty struggle with renewed vigor, and went with encouraging words and looks about the duties of his ship as before. He ordered the hurricane deck to be cut away and rafts to be made. He distributed his life preservers to all who would -wear them. Xight was upon them and he directed Fraziei-, the second offi cer, to send up a rocket every half hour. Van Rensselaer, his first officer, was also by him. Side by. side they stood at their post and perished with their har ness on. After the last boat had shoved off the captain went to his state room and put on his uniform. The gold band around his cap was concealed by the oilskin cover a(.aaaa4maa.oxX2:i Tho Misses Bell's Skin Food is a. Eoft, creamy exquisitely perfumed ointment, which help the action of the Tonic, and. in mild cases of roughness, redness, pimples, etc., 13 a cure in itself. 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The waves had closet about him, and the curtain of night was drawn over the most sublime spectacle tho tea ever saw. Just before the steamer went down, a row boat was heard approaching. Hern don hailed her; it was the boatswain's boat, rowed by hard hands and gentle hearts, if she came alongside she would be engulfed with the sinking ship. Hern don ordered her to keep off. She did so, and was saved. This was his Inst order. Forgetful of self, mindful of othors,. his life was beautiful to the lust, and In his death he added a new glory to the annals of the sea. Forty-nine of the passengers and crew were picked up, floating on the water that night, by tho Norwegian bark Ellen. On the ninth day after the wreck the English bvlg Mary picked up three others who had drifted about 450 miles with the gulf stream. Tolalsaved, 152. A beautiful granite monument has been erected to Herndon's memory oivthe pa rade ground of the naval school at An napolis, and his native State, "Virginia, struck a large gold medal In honor of his heroic death, a copy of which I have by me. A LOW-BORN PJKINCE. 12nterjriNe of mi Knllaii Hertiuit Who DoiiKht a. Title. The Prince of Carovlgno 13 the name of a man who has been live times rejected by the Italian Chamber or Deputies. The New York Sun says his title is a genuine one, and tho Prince has a legal right to it, though there Is nothing princely in his birth or his career, which he has recent ly made public in a pamphlet. He is thirty-one years of age, a native of Trieste, where his parents kept a porter's lodge, and his name Is Camillo Ventura. He "was trained for a domestic servant and served several Austrian and Italian no ble families until he became valet to Count Kufsteln, whose name appoars as a mediatised prince In the Almanach de Gotha. The Count's wife, by a Princess Odescalchi, belonging t the Jlnest Ro man aristocracy, with her name, too, in the Almanach de Gotha, fell In loyo with the valet, who was much yoiihger than herself, and turned over to "him, while still blinded by her passion, 4.000.000 lire ($300,000) of her private fortune. When she came to her senses she called In the Odescalchi family to holp her get back her money. There was a sensational law suit, which the family lost, and the Princess Is now contlnea under guard in one of the Odescalchi estates in tho Ab ruzzi. With his late mistress's money safe In his possession young Ventura determined to enjoy himself. He made up-his mind that ho would like to bo a prince, and soon found an old and extremely poor Neapolitan noble, the Prince of Carpvi no, who agreed to adopt him as his son In return for 40.000 lire (S,OO0) down, and a pension of 200 lire ($10) a month. Tho Neapolitan nobility was Indignant, and remonstrated with the old Prince, but he stuck to his 'bargain, saying he was starving, and at seventy years of age could have no work but that of a street sweeper, for none of his class was likely to help him. The adoption entitled Ven tura to the rank of prince immediately, though in Italy rank no longer give3 4any privileges. The new Prince then determined to en ter Parliament. He presented himself as a Socialist candidate to the electors of Pietrasanta, on the Tuscany coast, and threw money about lavl&hly. He was elected, but the Chamber of Deputies would not admit him. alleging that he was under the legal age for a represen tative, thirty years. He iwas returned a second lime, and again rejected for the same reason. At the third election he had attained the statutory age, but the chamber refused to accept him on the ground that, being born in Trieste, he was not an Italian. Naturalization pa pers were prepared for him, whlln Pietrasanta elected him for the fourth time, but the Odescalchi family exerted its influence to prevent their issuing, and for the fourth time he -was rejected. An attempt to prove that he had bribed at the election failed, and the reason given was a sain 'that he was no Italian, an unpleasant argument for politicians to employ who make capital of the cry of "Italia irredenta." After the fifth elec tion the government was able to prove bribery, and the Prince of Carovigno was loondemned to -a fortnight's imprison ment and five years' loss of electoral rights, on -which ground the Chamber turned him out for the fifth time. In spite of this he proposes to keep up his candidacy, and counts on his Pietra santa electors Slacking hfan up until he succeeds, as they are likely to if his money holds out. THE STHAW HAT. Trouble for the Man "Whose AVJfe Coen "With Him to liny It. (From the Chicago Chronicle.) The average man never thinks of re placing his Kaster headgear until the first hot day makes It feel like a cast iron helmet. Then he either rushes into a hat store and comes out again a poorer man in a new straw hat or is weak enough to tell his wife that he Is con templating such a purchase. This last Is folly, for though a woman will let her husband buy his Winter hats unaided she .always thinks that Hfr needs her judgment in selecting a straw1. She offers to go with him and when he makes a feeble demurrer and says that he doesn't want to take her time she folds her lips together with the air of A martyr and says that she will "take thd- time" although she 'ought to be making her pique skirt. There is a preliminary dispute over the shop, for she knows of a department store where you can buy beautiful straw hats for 9S cents, and he has a man's natural hatred for the places where everything is sold. He gains his point and they enter a furnishing store. There is a sudden dropping away of clerks, for the hat salesman dreads a woman as a burnt child does the fire. Finally a clerk is cornered behind an embankment of bicycle caps. The husband asks for a medium-priced hat, while his spouse pokes a collection of Panamas contempt uously. The clerk burrows in a mine of hats un der the counter and brings to the surface an inoffensive lid of fine straw. He sets it on the head of the husband, who tries to look unconscious, and doesn't know what to do with his hands. The clerk says: "It is very neat," and the wife says that it is entirely too small for a man with a round face. Another hat is brought up from the submarine mine, and this falls over the victim's ears. The wife sniffs and picks up a hat at random, which she clapped on her better half's head. He looks like a comic valentine and tells her to let the hat salesman se lect the headgear. The salesman goes to another counter and brings an armful of hats, which he tries on the husband. "I wouldn't be seen on the street with you if you take that hat," she says, as he turns slowly before a glass to get the view from all points. "I have just one more line," the clerk says and picks up the first hat that was tried on. He hands it to the wife, with a wink at the husband. She examines it approvingly. "Why didn't you show this to us at first?" she asked sternly. "Do take it and let us get away from here," she concludes to her husband. The clerk claps it on the husband's head, takes his money and address in order to forward the discarded hat, and they go out. "When they reach the sidewalk the wife sighs: "Wasn't it for tunate that I went with you? That man would have palmed off that first hat on you. It made you a perfect guy, too! Those salespeople have simply no conscience!" I UCBED jHEEl -STORE It Points to a CIosp Relation 'Be tween Twci Continents. AN HI -TORIC STONE ' AMULET SlpTitlllcnnce of .lade AinuIctH in Ilef erenee to Ancient It a ecu of Men A Hnnl Stone That AVun Wonderfully Polished by a l'rclilMturiu People. Speculation of un ;Arclineoloi.st. I'rpm the Uraziliaa llulletin. Practically thu whole ,qurfacc of the globe is strewn with relici of the rude inhabitants of the Palaeolithic or ancient stone age. Whether we fiiyi them in the Valley of the Nile or, -in the gravels of California, in the drijt, deposits of Eng land or In the laturitc clay of India, these rough stone tools and weappiib are, gener ally speaking, of tho same type. From Canada to Patagonia' we happen upon these indisputable traces "of palaeolithic man, traces identical wilh' those discover ed In the Kastcrn fetnisjiherc. Brasseur do Borbourg, Tyler and others have point ed out analogies connecting the arts, the ritual and the customs of the ancient Incas and Aztecs (the two flourishing races whom the Spaniards found domi nant on landing in America) with those of Egypt, the Canary Islands, Japan and the Eastern Archipelago, i,ome of which are so remarkable that they cannot be fortuitous. And among the various tribes of North and South America a're to be found traditions, legends, scraps of Scrip ture, stray amulets, symbols, and sounds of speech furnishing faint traces of lost languages, all pregnant with meaning for the seeing eye, all eloquent of origins 011 other shores and, consequently, kinship with the common ancestors of the race. One of the latest, least known and most interesting of such humble links in the great chain of confirmatory evidence is the muyrakytan or sacred green jade stone of the Amazons. Among the nu merous legends piously preserved by the various Indians of the Upper Amazon, that of the wonderful stone amulet, the muyrakytan. almost Invariably figures in one form or another, and specimens ot the regions hereabout. There is nothing, the stone are to bo-found In several or pel haps, at first sight, particularly start ling in the plain fact of a stone amulet being worn and treasured by several In dian tn'oe. But the interest attaching to this particular amulet of green jade Is three-fold In significance. First, there Is no deposit of Jade In, America, the only known deposits being in Asia; second, the American specimens are cut and fig ured in precisely the same way as the specimens found in various parts of Eu rope and Asia; third, the American le gends about the origin and use of the amulet find almost exact counterparts In Asiatic legends. Inevitable conclusion: The Asiatic origin of the amulet, and, by consequence, the early connection of the American Indians with Asiatics, If not the actual Asiatic origin of those In dians. Iet us, therefore, endeavor to elaborate these three points of interost, and in doing so give all credit that is due to that enterprising Brazilian archaeo logist. Dr. Barbosa Rodrigues, who has devoted so much time and energy and learning to unraveling this engrossing mystery. Dr. Rodriguez first discovered the ex istence of these green jade amulets among the Uabor and Ktmury Indians of the Upper Amazon and jta tributaries, the Yamunda or 'Nhumunda, the Trombctas, and tho Yatapn, which Inclose the ro mantic region where Orellana located the famous tribe of femal warriors known as the Amazons. These stones were worn suspended from the neck as sacred tal ismans, possessing the- priceless virtue of keeping disease and misfortune at a distance, and tho old Tapuya squaw, on whose neck Dr. Rodriguez found his first specimen, refused-to part with her Invaluable chattel for'Move or money. They are also found In theJ"Iukacauas," or burial cases, near the I-ake Yacyua run, which was once Important as the annual rendezvous of the ancient Ama zonsof which moro anon; And these relics, "rich and rare.'f of a bygone civ ilization occur not only in tho Amazon Valley, but In many other parts of the New World, par.icularly ini Peru, where in all the legends of the Incas we find it connected with "the Children of the Sun and the Serpent,', and in Mexico among the Aztec ruins; and in various parts of North America. In China, it Is related In the story of the City of Khotan, taken from the Chinese annals, written during the dynasty of Thi ang, A. D. 532, that tho Jade is collected from the river at full moon. Twenty or more soldiers, closely guarded by offi cers, plunge Into the river at a given sig nal, and tho one who first finds a speci men of jade jumps out and has to make a red mark on a piece of paper. When the gathering, or "fishing." as It is called is over, the pieces are collected, separated and marked and sent to Pekin under es cort. The specimens rarely exceed forty centimeters in length. It is said that this same ceremony is still observed today. Now observe the similarity of these facts concerning the fipdlng of jade in China and the Amazon legends concerning the origin of the muyraktan. Among the Uape or Uabor Indians, already referred to, there exists the legend that at certain seasons of the year the Amazons collect ed on the shores of the lake "Yacyuarua" and, after days of penance, held a feast at full moon. When the feast was over and the moon was reflected In the clear waters of the lake, they dived from the bottom and received from "the mother of the muyrakytan" the stones shaped as they desired and still soft, but hardening on contact with the outer air. (The ''Mother of Muyrakytans" Is precisely the same as the "Yacumama" legend of the Peruvian Incas.) Now and here is a critical point this wonderful muyrakytan has been definite ly proved to be not the Amazonstein of German writers. It Is indisputably gen uine jade of the hardness and specific gravity of the variety found in Asia. Jade is an extremely hard, fine stone, holding the sixth place among the miner als. To cut and polish it 'would be pos sible only for a skilled lapidary. Yet these muyrakytans, the heirlooms of the savage Amazons, are not only beautifully polished, but are fashioned as cylindrical disks with figures cut upon their surfaces in the shape of little fishes, miniature hatchets or horses' heads. And these shapes and figures are identical with those of the jade amulets found in vari ous parts of the old world. A stone of this jade of considerable size, in the shape of a horse's head, found in the vicinity of the Nhumunda River, is now to be seen in the Museum of Boulogne, the celebrated museum of Pope Benedict XIV. In the ruins of the "Temple of Mercurius. In France, which was de stroyed AD. 451 by the Huns (whom archaeologists aver to be the ancestors of the Azts) Masselin tells us that he found the skeletons of '-fall men, among whose arms were found miniature hatch ets of green jade, similar iii form, color, and character to those' folind in many Indian remains in Canada. -'' And a cele brated French savant' has three such stones in his possession, one found in Mexico, one in "Naples, .and one in Cal cutta. Identical stones' Ih the same shapes are worn by the Humorous pil grims who come annuaify fromiGabul and Peshawer (the ancient home3 of the Hun garians) to visit the sacred tomb of Gul Baba (the Father of Roses near Buda pest, in Hungary. In Haiti; another lo cality where we find t them, they are known as "Zomis" or '"Gakurals," and are worn to ward off c'vil China, too, knows the green jade sto.ne, where it goes by the name of "Yufand we have the learned Blondel telling us that amu lets, were first made there under the Em peror Koangti so far back as 2C37 B. C. Of such venerable antiquity is green jade and its talismanic virtue. HAVANA CIGAES. They Are h'tlll in the Mnrlief How They Are Shipped Front Cuba. (From the New York: Sun.) When war with Spain was first declar ed, the Sun informed Its readers who smoked fine imported and domestic Havana- cigars that there was no immedi ate scarcity in sight, and that if they patronized dealers of standing they would probably not suffer from any fam ine. This hasprdved to be correct. Even now while the stpeks in the hands of our leading Importers are by no means a matter of the, past, there Is a prospect of more cigars "to "como. Three weeks auo the steatner Myrtledene came Into this port with 578 cases of Havana cigars on board, these representing about 5,700,000 cigars, and of these there was about 1,000,000 .remaning in the hands of the New York Importers, the remainder go ing to Europe. It is said on good author ity that as soon as this shipment was safely on Its way the factories immedi ately started to work in Havana and that cable advices to tha't effect have been received by Interested persons n this city. Since then there ha been received authentic news that the Norwegian steamer Bergen has cleared from Sagua for St. Thomas with quite a number of passengers and a matter of 5,000,000 cigars and 23,000 cigarettes, and that other ship- i ments are In preparation. Of the correctness of this Information there is no reason to doubt. There Is also said to be a quantity of high-grade leaf tobacco, which is now in Havana ready for shipment, fully matured, which will be bhipped very shortly by the same route, probably going to Europe, and then transshipped to the United States. The goods are sent from Havana by wagon to the nearest railroad point, and then by rail and wagon transported to Sagua le Grande, on the north coast of Cuba, and then shipped. They are said to be sent out at manufacturer's risk, iwlthout bills of lading, the manufacturer being content to trust his consignees un til there is a .tihanee to pay. Manufac turers of hlghigrade domestic Havana cigars say that the Cuban manufactu rers have been -obliged to do this to pre vent their old-time brands being entirely swept away and wiped out of popular recognition Iji this country. The Ameri can manufacturers who are still well supplied with imported Havana tobacco aro putting out such a fine grade of goods, of such an acceptable type to the smokers In this country, that, If there was a continued scarcity of .the import ed article for even six months, it would be exceedingly difficult to gain the ground lost. Under any circumstances, there appears to be no scarcity in sisht of high-grade Havana goods, although there may be' ah advance in prices from time to time. According to the stocks of raw material received. It Is estimated that there is a- rrraf-fer of enough tobacco in Havana today to last the American fac tories owning It "for over another year. THE CIGAR STORE INDIAN. Croviilcil .lile Under the Mircli of C'i vlli.utioii. (From the Richmond Dispatch.) Even as civilization has crowded the aborigines to the uttermost limits of this continent, so also the ruthless hand of fashion is shoving: aside another noble institution the cigar-store Indian. Time was when he ferociously adorned the threshold of every establishment where tobacco was sold, and Hashed his gaudy colors and Haunting feathers in the face of passers-hy. In those good o'd days we knew and loved him and feared him not. Even the children, though ever tim ors,omte about goblins and "big Injuns." loved the stern warrior. In rain and shine, in hall and snow, this worthy red skin was wont to keep his never-ceasing vigil, and surveyed the world before him. Sometimes he appeared with uplifted arm and tomahawk, ut more frequently he grasped a leaf of tobacco in his hand or Invited attention to a hundle of cigars. His face was grim and fierce, and no paint was spared to add to his diabolical air; (but altogether he was a good and faithful man. Other citizens might vio late the laws, excite sedition, or forsake their posts, but never the cigar-store In dian. Fidelity was his watchword. Ho was like the Roman centurion, who suf fered death, but dying, did his duty. And he Is going yea he is being crowd ed aside. The wooden Indian, more vul garly known as the "pompey," will soon be a thing of the unforgotten past. For eign forces are working towards his de struction. The day may come when we will know him no more. With him will go his feathers and his paint and his tom ahawk and hl3 tobacco and the tender wishes of thousands of little children who were wont to smack his jaws and take other liberties with him. A Philadelphia contemporary has un dertaken to investigate this passing of the "pompey," and gives an interview in which his downfall is partly explained. A cigar dealer Is quoted, and hesays: "The Indian was more or less of a fad, and consequently he has suffered the fate of all fads that of becoming passe. To be sure, there was some signiiicance at tached to it, but everyone is well ac quainted with the -important role played by the Indian ia tlifc early recognition of tobacco. Then, too, the cost of such an Indian has made him unpopular." And the tobacco man goes on to ex- A New York literary man relates that he recently had occasion to consult a well known physician for a stomach trouble which was pronounced a type of dyspepsia. "After consultation," he writes, "the Doctor gave me a prescription, and 1 wi somewhat surprised to note that the formula was nearly identical with that cf Ripans Tabulei for which I had, on morethan one occasion, prepared advertisine matter. I had the prescription filled, and it proved satisfactory, siring; quick relief. A week later, when lhad taken all the medicine, I again called on the Doctor and mentioned ths similarity of his prescription and the proprietary remedy spoken of, showing hin boththc remedy itself and the formula. The Doctor w as at first somewhat inclined to criticiss what he called patent medicines, but appeared to be surprised when he noted to what extent his own prescription conformed to the formula I showed him. It was practically the same. Aftcra short time devoted to noting the carefu.' man ner in which the proprietary medicine was prepared, he wound up by prescribing it for my case. Of course I had to pay him for telling me to do this, but it was worth the cost to have such high professional assurance that the advertised articl: was, in fact, the scientific formula that it purported to be. I might have taken the propiie tary medicine in the beginning and saved the Doctor's fee. but I think the confidence I hare -acquired in the efficacy of the remedy, through the Doctor's indorsement of it, is well worth the fee." AMtuSEMEVIS. GLEN ECHO Under Hie Management of the Glen Echo Country Club. All objectionable persons arc denied admittance to the grounds. Gambling cf any nature whatsoever is prohibited. The Amusement Village, which wj opened a an entirely harralesi source of entertainment, has been found objectionable, and closed by order of the Board of Governors. 0"HEs Jaxon Opera Company IN Sacred Concert. TODAY AT 3. TONIGHT AT 8:15. 1. "Let Ua Sin? to the Lord" Mascagni Chorus of Mixed Voices. 2. "Cuju Annimani" (Stabat Mater). ...Uossini Mr. PAY.N'E CLAKKK. 3. "The Chapel" ,., Male inrtet Meters. JOII.V IlAHTLirTT. EDOAK LA NYOX, LOl'IS MILLEIt, and JOII.V DE WIXTEK. 4. .'Ave Maria" (iounod Mile. DIAItD. 5. "Loe Divine" (Duct), Miss MADELINE LOWKIE, Mr. PAYNE CLAUKIT 6. "Forever With the Lord" CounoJ WILLIAM P. CARLETOV. 7. "Give Me Strength to Do Thy Wiil"..D3nizetti Entire Company. Concert lnil?r the Musical Direction Week Commencing Monday, August 1. EVERY EVENING AND SATURDAY MATINEE. -THE ' Opera Co axon L'nder the Personal J. J. Sole Producer of AH the Castle Square Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday Matinee, Saturday Night, Augmented O raust Cafo ojien afternoon and crnii'g. service a la cart1 Glen Echo Country Club Diane's, Table d'ilotc. 5 to S. fciwcial inducements to .Sunday seheoU and Societies. fee in tHe Ilall J Mjr tery "CaLitea," a marble statue tran-lwatd into a iivimr woman. Merry-co-Round, ete. p'ain that conditions have changed; that now almost all merchants sell cigars or the "weed," and that If every dealer in uch goods had a "pompey" at his threshold the sidewalks would be full of these wooden Pjwhatans. A good, re spectable Indian, to be any ways at tractive or horrifying costs a hundred dollars or so. and the new paint to which he Is "biennially entitled runs the figures up $15 or 520 more. Th's alone "bars him when brought Into competition with gild ed signs or the cheaper tricks of modern advertisement. In the Quaker City, and even 'here-in Richmond, there are a few wooden In dians left, but they are superannuated and have seen their hest days- They be long to a shafcby-genteel class that never loses its respectability, hut is much the worse for wear. There Is a grim pathos about These battered relics, for they are links that connect us with the past, and, moreover, their fate too strongly sug gests the destiny of the stoical race they reoresent. The Difference in Men. It is :aid that there is a decided, difference in the military manners of Lord Wicflseley and Lord Hoberts, and a story is told which illus trates thu: Some year ago, when Lord IVolelfy wjs com mander "of the forces in Ireland he paid a sup posedly social visit to the, gjrrison at Cork. At mess he was introduced to some ot the very young subaltern; and one of the-e joutlu, in the guilelcA-ncMj of his heait. approached Lord Wblseley a he would any other gentleman and held out hu hand. The conqucior of Arabi turned pale with wrjth and icnored the rash officer altocetiier. That night he penned a stinimr rebukcto the colonel of the reziment. commanding him in the sternest language to teach his subalterns respect toward their generals. m me uuer were sea rati y ims luisaiie. au a i twelvemonth later, when Lord Itobeits surccded Lord Wol-eley in command, none of the msss ' dared to oiler him their hands. But what was ( their agreeable surpiise when the genial little j "IJolto" bounced into the messroom, and, beirin- nine with the very younge-t "orl-ccr bov" of ' the let. gripped and shook vigorously the hand ' ui trtci uuiiii i'ivi.iii. I Lord WoleIey is quoted with deep awe and reject by the "men of the English army, while) tiiev sneak of Robert as "Bobs" and "Bob Bahadu ." But tlut particular regiment knows very well tlut it would charge throirtli the inieino for "Bobs" witlwut bjins attil. and that it would not, voluntarily, stir a foot to oblige Wolseley. frl 1 ESi ED W yd bI1el A.MUSC3IBXTS. 8. Intermezzo Orchestra. 0. Angclu? "Angela That Around Us Choni3 of Mixed Voices. 10. "Come lTnto Me" f'The Mesjth" MLw MADELINE LOWKIE. 11. "The Palms" , Mr. WLNTKED GOKP. .Mascagni IUrer." Wallace. ...Fauns Wagner 12. Pilzrims Chorus Male chorus. . "The Holy City." Mr. PAYNE CLARKE. . "Alas! Tho: Chimes" Mis LOUISE EXCEL. . Infhmmatus (Stabat Mater) Mile. DIARD, and Chorus. Mr. William E. Maequinn. .Wallace ..IU&uni fflpany Management of Jaxon, Theater, Boston. Operatic Performances. Orchestra. Higher) 25C (No AMUSEJIEXTS. 36th and M N. W. SACRED CONCERT TONIGHT. Refined Vaudeville Next Week The Deltinos, Lucy Rogers, George Crawford, Hussey & Weber, Martyne and Others. Park Cycle Races. Wednesday, Aug. 3, 8 p. m. FeatureAustralian Pursuit Race. 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