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ESTABLISHED JUNE 19 , 1871. OMAHA , SUNDAY MOBNING , MAECH 13 , 1898 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
TOMORROW FIRST EXHIBITION AND GREAT SALE
Five Extra Special Bargains at Ladies' ' and Children's '
Hosiery Department.
Ladles' rind Missca1 plain , full scum- Early Spring Underwear
luss and split foof , cxtrti iieiivy ,
ilbrcu ; , fast black and tan
hHc , go at f < c a pair , 5c Children's medium weight Jersey |
DRY GOODS "
' .worth up to 15c SPRING at ribbed lUc each underwear , ,
Misses and ' fine
c qualify Boys' UUU worth Uoo
I and heavy ribbed blcyclo
,
lioso I5G '
Ladles' mcdh m weight plain nnd |
15c
| go at pair \osts , wlin short
fancyosts s < mi
Ladies' extra gauge , fast black , full The immensity of our new spring stock is really bewildering Every thing that's new and desirable sleeves nnd fancy trimmed ,
I , hose , with double soles tfo nt 7Jc each ,
seamless no soies
land high Bpllccd liculs , ble , everything that fashion dictates , or fancy craves , has been secured under the most favorable worth up to 20o
1 plain go at and liJJo ribbon pair tops , I21G conditions The best of everything is laid before you tomorrow at prices such as only Boston 300 dozen Ladles' plain nnd fancy |
cotton nnd llslo thread
3TiO dozen Ladles' high class import- Store can make. vests , hnndsomoly silk
hcse , made of the ,
ported
trimmed with low nceits , * * i
I finest Mace cotton and I9c hlph necks , short sleeves nnd Igftl
I French lisle thread , in com1 loiiff slcovca.nnd almost * ww' '
every
I tnoii , of era length and out ISih and Douglas inuiKlmiblo style , po at IGc , (
I sizes , go at lo ( ) and 2oc , 25C Ittc and 2oc , worth GCc
1 worth up to 60o Omaha.
I 300 ( In/an Gents' lutlf hoio. In 200 do/cn Ladles' silk nnd satin I
I ( uiicyculorx. fnstbliiuk. English , 81c trimmed union nulls , buttoncdjicrobs : |
I tuns nncl fmicy mixture * medium J I BRIMS HUNS
1 nnd extra line eaUKi1. MHIIO urn , , the cheat , in medium nnd
lisle thrtmd , nil hu\o < loublo summer weight , go at il'Jo ' 39c
solos , hljtli spliced , liuuls nnd ' , lOc PROPRIETORS. a suit , wet th up to SI.00. . .
Krunch UJOH tliny irn tit 8'c
r > ncl 10u nnlr. north tin
.
NEW SPRING DRESS GOODS
Everything in this department is new , fresh
and strictly perfect.
For Monday wo have placed on sale 100 pieces
MOHAIR BRILLIANTINES
Thcso goods nro known to bo the best wearing material manu
factured. They go on sale at 2.C yard.
'MO pieces of figured M MPfe \ I
V. , MOHAIR BRILLIANTINE _ Jtl
40 inche3 wide , in black only , go on sale at 30o yard.
90 PIECES OF
MOHAIR SERGE. 50
Thcso are extra quality and especially adapted for skirts , on sale 50G
in Dress Goods department at 50c yard.
25 HtECES EXTRA WIDE G
Granite Cloth , Cheviot , Serge , and Covert Cloth ,
navy , browns , black , nlbo changeable mixtures , in Dress Goods
department at OOo yard.
1OO NEW ROBES
These nro imported and are strictly silk and wool novelties ,
cither in plain ( roods or rough olTccts. Each pattern contains
from 7 to 7 } yards , only ono kind imported , go on sale at $0.08
for entire robe.
Very flno
ALL WOOL , FRENCH HENRIETTA
extra duo silk finished , in all the latest shades of green , gray ,
castor , iiuvv and garnet , regular 75c quality , on sale at 4tlc yard'
BLACK DRESS GOODS
Very Flno Imported Black
GERMAN HENRIETTAS.
Thcso goods nro actually under the old tariff , 75o quality in Black
j Goods department at 50c yard.
Extra Wide , Very Fine Quality , * A
Silk Finished Black Henrietta and Fancy Weave Black Goods , j § | U
the 51.25 quality On sale at 7Go yard. | % f
Pine line of all the latest Imported NovoltieSi very largo assortment
: > A' to select from , nt the very popular prices of $1.00 , $1.25 and 31.50 yatd. ; , . k
SILK
SPECIALS
' Extra Heavy
Pure SILK TAFFETA
In plain , changeable , stripes , checks and
plaids , the $1.25 quality , on sale In Silk
department , C9c yard.
G
69
YARD
Ono lot of
Extra Heavy
Brocaded Silks
All now combinations and coloilngs . , on ealo
Monday on bargain square at 2"c.
rfT
27 YBBb
New Plaids , Checks
and Stripes.
Dark grounds , for waists * , eklrts ami petti
coats , our own Importation and worth up to
. .
I2.CO , on sale at $1.25.
$1.25
THE BASEMENT
IN ITS NEW SPRING DRESS
AH the new spring goods arc now on s 1e. Everywhere in evidence
of the return of spring. Our basement is new a dazzling whiteness.
Everywhere is brightness and cheerfulness
In the the new Wash GooJs department , nil Plain Colored Organdies , plain
SPRING ORGANDIES Colored Lawns , all the new cot
at 25c and 35c yard ton Corduroys or Heavy Welt
Goods the most stylish fabric
All the new 1 * for the coming season , in ev
BATISTES AND MULLS ery possible
nil high class printing , shade , lOc
at lOciind 15c yard from lOo
Handsome a yard up ,
NEW DIMITIES ,
from 3ic to lOc yard AT THE GINGHAM
In White Goods
there is everything 5
India linen from y cup all the new and stylish domestic
5 cents tip
tic , Scotch and French ging
40 inch ham , in handsome stripes and
LAWNS large showy plaids , this is the
from 7Ac up fabric for waists this season.
we now have on exhibition -
DEPT
. . . . . , „ „ - - tion all the , new things
in luce curtains , hcavyisli net ciTocts M'ith inserted lace , plain centers
with dots and ( lor < l designs. .
ALL THE , .y , , t Irish Point
Real Brussel { \ Curtains
nf $3.50 Net per C pulf ftain8j . from § 1.98 per pair 1 and
and up up. up
We have the largest line of popular priced LACE CURTAINS in the West ,
yve now have on sale all the NEW
CARPETDEPT ! designs and patterns for the spring
season.
OUR MATTING STOOK Is complete from lOo yard tip.
And hundreds of otlier NEW" THINGS ' * the spring nnd summer
seasons.
NEW
SPRING
TAILOR
MADE
Suits
TO
MORROW
Ladies'
Tailor-Made Suits
Fly front , English Serge , cov
ert or whipcord suits , richly
tailored , jackets silk lined ,
skirts French porcalino
lined with blactr and colors-
regular SUo.OO suits
for tomorrow $15.00
Ladies' ' High Glass Imported
English Broadcloth Suits ,
In' airtlKT'hew Shades' , also
) black. Made either blouse effect or
j short , jaunty jacket , either plain or
' tucked bkirts. Entire suit lined with
bolid colored silk taffeta ( jacket and en
tire skirt ) , actually worth $50.00 on sale
at $25.00 and $35.00.
A
N
D
SPECIAL DARGAINS IN
Lace and Embroidery
Just received , fiOO holts of
vorv pretty patterns of
SnloN , NulimouU mill .liUMini-t
r.MiuioinniUKs AMI i.Nsnita'ioxs ,
from 1 to 1- inches wide , jo at Gc , 7io ,
and lOo yard , worth up to 7. > e.
5c Ik IGc Worth to 7Gc. up
350 Dolts of
Kiinxcn v.u.i/\rirxxns /
\I\GK AXI ixsmiTiox ,
Including eomo very dainty patterns and de
signs , go at 2c , 3'ic and Co yard , worth ,
up to IGc.
2c 3ic 5c Worth
up to Uoo
Quo Immense lot ot
M1IUI.IM1V VAMJXCIKXXnS
. \M > I > OI > T IV USl'ltlT LACK ,
In white , ecru and cream , go at 5c , 7'e and )
lOc jnrd , north up to 3tic.
5c 7o lOc Worth to Ilijc up
In
Our LINING DEPT.
20.000 yards of Ifio quality
ellk finished , molrod
Rustle Taffcla
Skirt Lining
go otQlc yard , all colors. .
At JOc yard choice of 150 stylcH of tli
best quality of
FANCY lOc
with fast black backs , Gil
bert make , go at lOc yard ,
* ,
worth V\i
At GJn yard , extra heavy
quality of §
French Elastic Canvas , UP
in black and all colors , worth m.m 11
up to 50c U
J v-
H I.
Ono immense stack of plaid wool effect 300 pieces of 10,0 > > 0 yards of remnants 2,000 , yards full Fruit Good quality Twilled Col ton Crib
DRESS GOODS of very fine Standard Toweling Blankets
Fancy corded and Unbleached
worth lOo , at open work effect Dress Prints of the Loom E
Yard. These will Dimities Full pieces , no Muslin Muslin ' .A .
3'aC I5C
Dimities , ,
Xc not be sold before remnants , at 2o piece 10 yard branded lengths "Fruit every Full pieces , 0
Full yard as long
fore 9 o'clock. pieces , no at. as they last of the Loom" go at no remnants ,
remnants , at Co yard 2c yard "Kurd. Worth 7oo
FROM NEW YORK TO PANAMA
Frank 0. Carpenter Describes His Winter
Sail Over the Caribbean Sea.
OUTLINES OF HIS SOUTH AMERICAN TOUR
of a Carrciiiondrni for n
S8OOO-MIIc Journey Fact *
About a iLand Where
Cciuetcrlea Thrive.
( Copyright , 180S. by Frank Q. Cnntr. )
C01-ON , March 3 , 189S. I write this letter
on the > eastern sboro ot tko Isthraua ot
rr.ncwa. I am In the Wnftilngtoa house , the
prrlal quarters ot the officials o ( the Tauanu
rallioad. In fruit of mo la the green
Caribbean eca , whoso naves , coming la on
Che ovonlDR tide , are c'ashlng up a ellvery
pray lmoet at my feet. A long row or
eocoanut polina rims between me and the
% eacb , and each ot three Is loaded with grout
tmqchra ot green cocoanute , every ono ot
iwbtch U ns big as the head ot that halt-
k d Jamaica negro baby who la playing
tber * . oa the edge of the water. The air
from the land U thflt ot a hot July at home ,
tut the zca brecto Is eott , cool and delicious.
P
rWben I left New York a week ago It wu In
I the enow ot midwinter. Hero I am In the
l t ot mldsumn cr and nil my surroundings
re those of the tropics.
15,000 MILES FOn NEWSPAPER LETTERS.
For the next year I shall be traveling
forecly la the troplce. During that tlmo I ehall
euke a trip ot 25,000 miles for newspaper
i- f letters , covering mi'ch ot the treat continent
el Smith America and Including some ot the
bottcj ; as well t * some ot the coldest rcghaa
of the globe. Among the mows ot the Andes
I eball bo nearer heaven than you can get
t ny place on this earth except In some
parts ot tlii Himalaya mountains , and la tlit
cold -winter ot Terra del Kuego , at the lower
eml ot our hemisphere , I eba.bo \ \ at the
outhernraoat point ot the babltablo globe ,
A to the red-tot trcrira. U Is warm cnou ti
toero , but a ( ow weeks from oow I shall be
traddllag the equator lu Ecuador , nnd within
Bine tnonthi , It I succeed In eluding the
yellow ; ( ever , I stall sail right along the
line ot ( be equator l Uo the beart of South
America , on the Amazon river. My trli
twiau ten days ago , wten I left Now York
tbt steamer Advance ot the Paniinc
Kaltroai ) StMioaMp line , ( or a : ,000-mlo ! ts | !
to Colon. ThU attern on I h ll crew th (
Ictkmw t PamnM < by tuilrMd to tl > ell ]
C VMMM. < tkup * WHf on Uke aklpi
Scuth America to the S'ralts of Magellan. I
shall cnnko a number of expedt-
tlcrs Into the Interior , defcrlblug > the
countries of Colombia , Ecuador , Peru , Bo
livia and' Chill , spending some time In the
Andes and traveling qulto extensively on
the plateau ot Bolivia. On Lake Tltlcaoa
I shall steam about above the clouds at an
altltuilo more than two miles above the
cities ot Now York or Washington , on the
highest big fresh water lalco of the world ,
and In the rainless zone along the coast of
Chill I shall bo traveling through a desert
qutto as wonderful as that of Sahara , After
a trip over the Trans-Andean road , which
Is now being built to connect the Atlantic
and Pacific , describing the work that Is
now going on In the Andes , and after hav
ing traveled extensively In Chill , I shall
make my way up the Atlantic coast of
South .America with numerous expeditions
Into the interior. In the Argentine I shall
vlelt the great grain and stock-raising
plantations , shall travel over the pampas ,
where the ostriches run wild , and from
Ducnos Ayres shall salt up the Rio do la
Plata , Parana awl Paraguay rivers for more
than a thousand miles , stopping some time
at Asuncion , the Paraguayan capital.
Uruguay will be my next country to de
scribe , and after that I shall visit the cities
ot Brazil and make several long expeditions
Into the Interior , visiting some ot the big
gest coffee plantations ot the world and
traveling 2,000 miles or more on the
Amazon through come ot the least known
regions of the earth. After leaving the
Amazon my Itinerary la not fixed , but I
shall probably sail from the mouth ot this
great river ( or New York , slopping , per
haps , at some ot the West Indian islands
on the way.
OUTFIT OP A CORRESPONDENT.
The preliminary preparations for a news
paper trip ot this kind are Important , and
It may Interest you to know something of
my outfit. You cannot take a tour ot < hls
kind as ono of Crook's tourists does that to
Europe , putting all your nccceearles In a
valise. You must have different kinds ot
clothing ( or different cllmatis. You can'
not buy the books and photographic ma
terials you want on the road , and every
thing must bo carefully packed to with
stand the kicking of the obstreperous pack
mule and the miasmatic dampness ot the
tropics. I have five pieces ot tnggago , and
as I already know by too cxcetu baggoco
charges they welsh Just 400 pounds. Only
200 are allowed ( rce from New , York to
Colon , tbo exceed being charged ( or at 2
cents a pound , and In crossing the Irthmus
on a loal ticket only fifteen pounds ot.bag
gage goes free and all abo\u that pays 3
cents In slher a pound. My photographic
outfit is comparatively light. I ba\e tno
cameras , a 4x5 and a Sx7 , each fitted out
with good lenses and puuttcrt. I bate a
few glass plates , but chiefly cut and' roll
film. This has been especially prepared ( or
the tropics , being scaled up In tln to keep
out the dampae'sft. Then I carry the small
typewriter , onj which I am now clicking out
this letter , and a lot ( reference books ,
which are as heavy as no much lead. I
have , ot course , plenty ot letters of Introduc
tion ( Mm WattlaitoB , includlBf A special
consuls and diplomats to lender me every
assistance In my travels.
MONEY AND EXPENSES.
My money I take in the shape of a letter
ot credit on Londca , for English gold is
best south ot the equator , as It will bring
moro silver in exchange. My signature
Identifies me , and all I have to do Is to pre
sent it at any bank in South America and
elgn a check and the money will be paid me.
Here on the Isthmus and hi Central America
our gold is even better than English go'.d ,
and I have ten $20 gold pieces , which will , I
hope , see me through Panama. The expenses
of such a trip are heavy. In planning a new
expedition for newspaper letters I debated
some tlmo whether South America or Africa
would be the more interesting field , and I got
steamship rates ( or both continents. I could
have gene to the Cape of Qood Hope ( or $100
lees than to the Straits ot Magellan. The
time Is Just about the same , but the ( ore
from New York to Valparaiso In Chili Is
J253 , and you are still about $55 above the
straits. The fare to Cape Town Is only $210.
All ot the steamer fare * here are payable In
gold , and on the Isthmus , though silver Is
used , It seems to me that prices are Increased
accordingly. I paid $5 this movnlrx for on
umbrella which I could have gotten for $1.E > 0
anywhere at home , and the boy who wheeled
my baggage from the beat to the station
charged me $2. These sums were ! n silver ,
and though I have juat gotten $11.70 for a
$5 gold piece , I find the extra mcciey docs not
go far after all. I was told at the Philadel
phia museum that the expenses ot traveling
in South America would be about $15 a day ,
This seems to me very high. My trip of a
year In going around the world cost mo just
about $10 a day , aad In my other long jour
neys I have found that $10 a day Is just
about what it costs to travel in fther parts
of the world. I will give from time to time
the expenses of various tours down here , and
will describe just how the traveling is done.
FROM NEW YORK TO PANAMA.
The trip from New York to Colon takes
just seven days. There are tbren steamers
every month and the fare Is from $75 to $90.
according to the location of ypur cabin. Tha
Advance , on which I came , is a steady little
vets el of 2,700 tons , or about one-fifth the
size or the largest Atlantic liners. Its besl
rooms were oa the promenade deck and In
the corner cabin which I had there were
two wlndons , each about two feet square ,
vbkb gave mo a delicious breeze day anj
night. The line Is now operated la connec
tion \\ltn and Is owned by the Panama Rail-
red J company. It was until within a short
time a part ot the Pacific Mall , which ran
from New York , and after croislng the
Isthmus took Its pcsscngera up to San Fran-
clero. Now tto Pacific Mall company has
only the shirs on the Pacific , side and the
Panama Railway and Steamship company
taa 1(10 only regular line from tue United
States to the Uthmus. Their steamers fly
the American flag and all ot the officers and
collars are Americana. Our ship was com
manded by a Maine can , Captain Sukewortb.
who hat recently been In charge of eome of
tb Red "D" line steamers 'from ' New York
to Venezuela , and our chief ante WM Uo
fror. Main * . W kad forty cM > P * * B § W ,
remainder a mixture of Germans bound ( or
their coffee plantations In Guatemala and some
Central and South Americans who were going
home In this way from J uropo or the United
States. One ot the Germans was a woman
who had a pair ot baby twins with her. She
had gene from her home in Central America
In order that the children might bo born In
the land of the kaiser , and now , having ac
complished her mlnslon , was returning home
to her Ousband. Among the Americans were
a Brooklyn boy , who Is going down to be a
station agent at Matachln , on the Panama
railroad ; a Mr. W. H. Nash of Chicago and a
Mr. T. J. Kennedy of Florence , N. Y. , who
ore bDund for La Paz , Bolivia , where thej
will open up some big gold mines whlcn
Kennedy , \\ho la a mining engineer , has dis
covered , and a largo party of both ecxea who
are going In this way to San Francisco. We
had an old sea captain V-named Huraphreya
from Hlngham , where Secretary of the Navy
Loug lives , In the 'Frisco party , and also an
American traveling c < il 6man or two ( or
South America.
THE BISHOP AND T5IB CONSUL.
Last , but by no means least , were Bishop
Warren of the MethoJist church , who Is on
his way to Chill to examine Into the slate
of the missions there , and Mr. Murphy of
the State department , who Is hero In Colon
to take the place ot tha consul , who -was
drowned within a ( ew miles o ( where I am
now writing- , while out on a pleasure sail
a ( ew weeks ago. The bishop had his
family with him , and -was also accompanied
by some Chilian women 'missionaries ' who
are returning from tljilr ' acatlons to thelr
fields ot work. The.- arty , altogether , was
a pleasant one. Thoybls op was a mine
of stc'y ir.a Information , for he had traveled
all over the glcfte.'fta we left New York
and sailed southward and passed Capo
Hatteras , ho pointed rout the ( act that we
were in the warm waters o ( the gulf stream ,
that wonderful rlveY4o ( the ocean , which
has a volume 3,000 tlmea as great as the
Mississippi , and , which , flowing across
through the Nor h Atlantic to the North
sea , Is the hot-water pipe which carries
the heat ( rom thX tropics 'which ' keeps warm
Qreat Britain nnd IreJaoJ. .As we crossed
this the bishop recalled ) the story ot the
angry Yankee captain \thOi 'when ' denouncing
England ( cr Its sympathy V ahd aid tn the
south during our civil war , said : "You
English ha3 better look out , ( or after Prcst
dent Lincoln has settled this trouble wo
will send the army soUth and cut a chan
nel ( or the gulf stream through the Isthmus
of Panama and thus freero ycur two little
Islands Into an Iceberg. "
WHERE COLUMBUS FIRST LANDED.
As we crossed the gulf stream the air
grew perceptibly warmer , and-aj we tailed
on Its outer edge down toward the Carlb-
1 bean sea we soon came Intosummer _ heat ,
The first land we saw was tb'e Island ot
San Ialva4or , where Columbus landed after
his thirty-five days' voyage4rom Spain In
bis little vessel , which was just one-thirtieth
as large ai ours. He thought be bad dis
covered the eastern coast'of Aria , and bad
no Idea that that little Island was the
outpost of another hwoUpher * . The morn
ing ; ( ollowlna ; w * aw llghtkousa stand-
U | most a gvov * f. H'aa ' tf M aU w r
Island , ono of the Bahamas , and then
drifted on south until the bleak and rocky
coast of western Cuba came Into view. We
skirted this , keeping about ( our miles away
( rom the shore , BO as to tie. out of the
danger limits , as provided by the Spanish
regulation of war. Wo saw no sign of
fortifications or fighting. Our next land
was on the east of us. It Avas the moun
tains of Haytt , which wo kept in sight for
hours , and then lost them to see nothing
but the blue waters of the Caribbean until
at 4 p. m. , seven days out from New York ,
we got our first glimpse ot the I.ithmus of
Panama , that wonderful little strip ot earth
and rocks which ties together the two
great continents of North and South Amer
ica. At first it was only a thin , hazy lno !
ot blun in the western horizon. Then the
blue deepened. Wo saw low hills rising oua
above another , and llttlo Islands comkig
up cut ot the water alcng the shore. A
llttlo later wo were in sight of ttio low
haifcM end the great wharves of Colon ,
with great palm trees which line the beach
nt the right shaking their giant fan-like
leaves and apparently waving a welcome to
us as wo came to anchor.
COLON AND THE CANAL.
Colon Is Intended to bo the eastern end of
the Panama canal. I will treat fully of
this work In another letter after I have
gone over the route and have seen the
work which is now being done on the cen
tral and western end ot the Isthmus. Hero
at Colon you see only the extravagance
of the first board ot engineers , who almost
ruined a large part of the peasantry of
France. The town of Colon , which now has
about 0,000 people , was built largely by the
French , and Its beautiful cottages ure now
wcathcrbeaten , rusty and rotten. Archi
tecturally speaking , this is as ragged a place
as you can find on this1 hemisphere. Every
thing Is going to seed. There Is a market
house here made of Iron which would be
Hrgo enough ( or Washington clty but there
\\ero not more than fifty people in It when
I visited it the middle ot this morning , and
the rain came down in streams from the
holes In Its roof of corrugated Iron. The
Panama railroad seems to own the town.
Its tracks run through the main street , and
outsldo of them at the cast of the city it
U almost Impossible to go to any place with
out traveling over the rusting and rotting
debrU of cars , dreJgea and other machines
which were brought here at a cost ot mil
lions and ( ound to bo worthless , or were
eon allowed to become so. There is a part
of the town known as the French Quarters.
This is on a neck of land which way built
out to form a breakwater at the eastern
mouth of the canal. The most expensive
houses were erected here , the wood being
brought { rom the United States. Ferdinand
do Lesseps had one of the houses , which
cost. It la said , about $100,000 , and Wa son
another almost equally expensive. Soon after
I landed I hired a carriage of a highway
robber In tbo shape of a Jamaica coachman ,
and drove out to see these houses. They
have never been occupied but ( or > ery hort
periods and they are now dilapidated. The
road to them is through a beautiful grove
ot palms , and the settlement Itselt U about
near paradise la Ite beautiful green as
' U ' waahei
In on cither side and a cool breeze almost
always blows.
SOME THINGS ABOUT THE POPULATION.
The people bore are one of the queer
mixtures that you sometimes find on tbo
outposts of civilization , where ( or some rea
son or other money Is to bo made. The
wharf at which wo landed made mo think
of the docks of New Orleans. Nine-tenths
of the people oa it were mulattoes or ne
groes , and most of them spoke English
with a cockney accent , The other tenth
were Spaniards , who looked like Creoles.
The negroes were ( rom the English Island
of Jamaica. They have come hero to work
on the canal , and seem to bo about the
only people who can stand the miasmatic
climate. I ( ound a lot of such people at a
market stand on the beach and photo
graphed ono ot them as she was coming to
ward me with a bunch of bananas on her
head. Then there are a lot of Chinese heie.
They run all sorts of stores , act as money
changers and do , I am tolj , the largest part
of the mercantile business ot the Isthmus ,
Among the chief businesses of the Isthmus
are those which have to do with the ceme
teries and hospitals. I have been told hero
again and again that I ought to visit the
hospitals and the great cemetery on Monkey
Hill. Panama has fine hospitals and ceme
teries , and all along the line of the rail
road you will find , I am told , populous grave
yards. I have nocr seen a Chinese ceme
tery before outside of China , but the Isth
mus has them and the graves are many.
There have been too many Chinese deaths
In fact to allow the bones being carried back
to China. Many of the Americans who are
now employed on the rallrqad have been hero
( or years , and some of them say the climate
agrees with them. Nearly every one I have
so far met , however , tells mo ho has had
a siege of yellow ( ever , and there Is little
doubt but that the Isthmus has a score of
Americans under ground to every one who
Is now living upon It.
FRANK O. CARPENTER.
'Cxiilnlnlnir the Iimcrliitlon.
Harper's Bazar : A countryman wandering
abcut a cluirchjard came upon a stone having
the Inscription : "Sic transit gloria mtindl. "
"What dors It mean ? " ho afked of the sexton ,
wlio had been explaining thq Inscriptions to
him. The sexton peered toward It , and , not
wishing to show Ignorance , replied : "Well ,
It means that he was sick transiently , and
went to glory Monday morning. "
the Klondlkn.
Mr. A. O. Thomas of Marjevllle , Tex. , has
( ound a moro valuable discovery than has
yet been made In the Klondike. For years
he suffered untold agony from consumption ,
accompculed by hemorrhages : and was ab
solutely cured by Dr. King's New Discovery
( or Consumption , Coughs and Coldt. He de
clare. ) that gold Is of little value In com
parison with this marvelous cure ; would
have it , even If It cost a hundred dollars a
bottle. Asthma. Bronchitis and all throat
and lung affections are positively cured by
Dr. King's New Discovery ( or Cossumptlcu.
Trial bottles free at Kubn ft Co. ' drug ( tore.
Regular size 60c and 11.00. Guaranteed to
cure'er prlet rtuBte4.
Till ! OMJ TIMLMIS.
Colonel Robert O. Ingcrsoll's old Sunday
school teacher , John P. Robertson , has just
died at Ashtabula , O. , aged 90. For fifty-
four years he lived in the house occupied
by Ingersoll's ( other.
Mrs. Bcnton , who died on the Isle of Wight
a short tlmo ago , was In the choir of St.
Thomas Rydo for seventy-nine years , and
In all that time dll not miss a service. She
was 86 jears old at the tlrao of her death.
M. Frederic Forgoon , the oldust member
ot the French bar , died recently at Nlmio
at the ago o ( 98 years. Ho was counsel ( or
the Parls-Ljon-Mcdltcrraneo railroad and
appeared In court till ho was 92 years old.
George Sewcll Boutwcll , the youngest man
ever elected governor o ( Massachusetts , and !
now the oldert o ( Its ex-governors , has Just
celebrated liU eightieth blrthda > . It U
( orty-seven jtars since ho was chosen gov
ernor o ( his state by a coalition of demo
crats and free sollera.
"Mother" d'Arcambal , founder o ( tbt
Home of Industry at Detroit , celebrated her
seventy-fifth birthday recently. She has
worked among the criminal clasfcs all Iier
llfo , and when the plans for the homo wera
first made a prisoner under llfo sentcnca
made the first contribution by giving every
thing he had in the \\orld-l cent.
Although ho Is not strong. Bishop Wil
liams of Mtddlctown , Conn. , the venerable
presiding bishop of the Episcopal church , la
In good health. Ho Is slightly lame , and
were It not ( or that would be able to got
about as welt as usual. Ho hears bl
classes dally , attends to all the episcopal
work that ( alls to him and receives and en
tertains callers at h's room at the See Hous %
TH IS .SONATA.
Bo ton Trnnscrlpt.
Bummer winds were softly breathing1
O'er the sleeping ( lowers :
Slurs of night were brightly burning- ,
Lighting dusky houiu ;
Fnr below , the river flowing- ,
Stretched nn ebon floor
To the hills. Ilko Bleeping lions ,
On the fur-off whore.
Wooded mountains rose above UB ,
Dliick agalnut the nkles ;
All nljout were fitful glowlngs
Of the bright Ilreflltfi.
Our young heiiru wcro mute with passloa- *
Unvoiced wau our love ,
Hand In hand we Eat , as silent
As the stars above.
Mingled with the wind's low slghlnA
Out Into the night
Came tltu music of Deethoven ,
Throbbing with Its might , .
Filling both our souls with longing
Truer speech to know *
How to voice the fierce love trembling
All Its depths to vhowl
Though a score of years are Humbert * .
Since our two souls met ,
Still the music of Utethovtn's
Llngura with me yet.
And whene'er I hear It pulling , ,
Killed with paiilon'i pain , - '
All lh dreams of that swett
Wake to life