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xt3 TIID OlA1T1i nAILY 13DT : ' SUYD.A.Y , JU1TL Yl ; , 183. TIlE h FART F THE ANDES Picturcg of Earth and l ky Taken in the Attlo ! of South America , HARVARD OBSERVATORY AT AREQUIPA Drserlptton of the Lnftlest 9clentlOo I Slnllon In the 1Vorld-Life and Lave In iho Cnpltnl of Southern Peru. ( Copyright , IS9S , by Frank G. Carpenter , ) I'UNO. Peru , May 20.-Special ( Corre 1mndence $ of The Dee-I write this letter In the attic of the South American continent. I am in the heart of the Andca mountnlns , on what , with the exception of Thlbet. In the loftiest tableland of the globe. At my feel Is the western shore of take Titicaca , the highest water of the earth upon which steamboatn nail , and looking dawn upon me rs the snowy peak of Illampu , which , next to Aconcagua , in Chill , Is the highest of the Andes. During the past week I have been traveling nmong the most wonderful mopntain > j of south Amerlcn , and I am now In a region which has not its counterpart upon the planet. Ihere and In other parts of the mountains of I'cru are the highest places where people live. During my trip up the Oroya railroad I found a village of about 200 souls at an nltilude of more than three miles above the sea. There 1s a mama- Ing camp In the Peruvlnn Andes which Is more than 16,000 feet high , and In crossing the desolate plain known as the Pampa Da Arrleron I stopped same Ume at Vincocyn , I where there is a locomotive roundhouse higher up in the air than the top of Pike's Peak. In coming hero 1 traveled for two days oter one of the steepest railroads of the world , and now , at a distance of mare tlrrtn 300 miles from the I'aclfle , I am on the great plateau which lies between the two ranges of the Andes , varying in altitude from 12,000 to 13,000 , feet above the sea , I am hundreds of miles south of the point where I crossed the great rnountalns from Lima , and in a region where the Andes are more grand than at any point In the 4,000 miles of their length. Think of a mountain which towers up Into the skies so that Its ragged , snowy summit is four mimlles above the level of the ocean. Imagine If you can others which are over 20,000 feet high. Make d wall of such mighty lulls and paint them in the wonderful colors , shades and tints of the Andean skies 011(1 you can get a faint Idea of my surroundings. I have with me ninny books upon South America , but I fall to llnd in them any descriptions of the scenic effects of these mountnlns. This Is the region of all others for the artist , and ns yet no great artist has attempted to transfer these wonderful pictures to can- ) vas. 1'tcturen front the Auden My trip over the Andes was a continuous panorama. Let ore give you my notes of the scones along the route as I Jolted them down on the way. I begin at Mollendo on the Pacific ocean , It is a ragged town entire ' tire ragged , coast of the Peruvian desert. The slip lies out in the harbor and time surf rolls In with great force , striking the rocks and sending Its diamond spray fifty feet upward Into the air. The harbor Is rougher than that of Jaffa , and my baggage - gage Is lowered ilnto a bounding boat over tire side of lire steamer. I have to jump tutu lire boat when It is on the crest of the waves , and i feel my stomach rise as I sink down Into the deep. The landing is so bad that men and baggage are often thrown Into the water , and I am told that the Insurance companies always gharge one-eighth of 1 per cent more an nil goods stripped to Mollendo. I am rowed to the shore by brawny , coffee-colored boatmen through hugo rocks. Now we run into a lighter which is bringing out cargo for the steamer and arc nearly capsized. Now we graze a great boulder and at the wharf I have to jump when the boat is on the crest of the wave to get a footing on the steps. My baggage cannot be , landed except by means of a crane , nail I pay four men $2 to carry my heavy trunks up the hills to the custom house. A little later on I am seated In time car on my way to Are- qulpa , vimicii , though only about 100 miles from the coast , is higher up in the air that the top of Mount Washington. Our train first skirts the coast , and then shoots off into the bare hills of the desert. There la not a shrub , not a vestige of green. We climb up a 4 per cot grade , winding about In horseshoe - shoe curves. At. places we see time tracks over which wo have passed running yarn- ! Iel with , but far below us. Now we are on a side of the mountain. facing the ocean. The sky-blue I'acifle , hazy and smoky , stretches out toward the weal until its delicate blue fades into that of the sky. A patch of reddish gray sand skirts the toot of the brown velvet hills , and this is di- vhded ( rota the sky-blue water by the silvery styli of surf which In dashing Its waves upon the shore. The scenery changes at almost every turn of the wheel , There is no place where nature clothes the earth in ouch 'royal garments as here. At times the Andes are great masses of blue and brown plush. The clouds of the sky , though of n fleecy whiteness , paint velvet spots of many Colors upon the hoary hills , and at times ft scorns as though all the ink bottles of the heavens bad been scattered over tine mountains , At other times the sun tints the mountains with the most delicate blues , whichr fade into lighter tints of blues in t 0 A maim $ n the darkness of hopeless dle ease is of all men most nrlscrablc. When doctors and medicines innumerable have been tried and found wanting , and loving friends vainly urge upon him the food he cannot eat aid which brings hint no flour. ishumcnt or 5lrcngtlr , what is to be done ? Mcu and women who have sunken so far into weakness and disease that the whole body aeema to be permeated and poisoned by it have round bealth , strength and vigor through the transforming - ing , electrifying power of that wonderful "Golden Medical Discovery" whichr Dr. A V. Pierce , of Baffaio , N , Y. , , proffered thirty yearn ago , to nick and auflring hru- manily , Durln all the years since then this marvelous - velous ' Discovery" has been building up weak and debilitated constitutions by its eatraordiaary influence upon the human , nutritive system. It gives the digestive or. puinm keen power and capacity to appropriate - priate every elemrnt : rom the rood taken Into the stomach and testis. forms it into rich , highly vitalized blood toil4 healthy flesh , bone , sinew and nerve fiber. Consumption In all its earlier .twee is crested and counteracted by the tissue. building , hleslr maklegllfe.pmmotiagpow- ! r of this rand medicine and there 1a no 4srkneu of bodily ailment no uense but it hill shed upon the sufferer the light of cc. f4ewed hope , , pr , tierce's Pellets cure constipation. . . the distance till the whole horizon seems ft billowy , waving sea of blue dusted with silver , which meets and lonea itself in a 1 nllver blue sky , Winding in and out among ouch hills , we rise to a great desert known at the Pampa de inlay , hero everything is gray and dazzling white. There are hundreds - dreds of huge mounds of moving sands which are traveling slowly but surely over the plain. There are tons of bleaching bones of animals which have died in trying to cross the desert waste , and the only apparently - parently living things are the mirages , which now and then deceive the traveler with the idea that they are cool lakes , inverted - verted cities or oases of vegetation near at hand. At the little town of Vitor , a mile above the ocean , we reach the end of the Pampa and again begin to ascend. We are again in ragged hills and soon are traveling among the clouds , We pass through deep cuttings In the mountains and end the first day's travel at Arequipa , 7,600 , feel above the sea. An l.xpenslve Itnllrund , Thin road Is said to have greater excavations - tions than any other line of similar length. It is one of tire moat expensive roads ever built , having cost 144,000,000 for a line of 327 miles , or an average of $135,000 a mile. The road reaches an altitude of 14,666 feet in crossing tire Andes to the plateau of Lake Titicaca , and here where It ends the nl- tlludo is higher than the top of Fugiyama , the sacred snow-capped peak of Japan. It has a branch line et 122 m11cs going over the plateau to within two days of Cuzco , the famed capital of the Incas. This railroad - road was built when Perr was rich and when she was squandering fortunes on such things. It is the work of an American en- glneer , Melggs , and is one of the great engineering - gineering teats of the world , There is talk of extending it into Bolivia , and It may sotnetime be a part of a transcontinental line reaching to Paraguay and the Argen- tine. At present it belongs to the Peruvian corporation , the English syndicate which took I'eru'n railroads in consideration of cc- loving rho country of its foreign debt , but it is managed by an American , Mr , Victor II. McCord , who keeps it in almost as good condition as any road you will find in the United Slates , All of the rolling stock is American in pattern , though of late the cars and engines have been made by Peruvians - vians in the company's shops at Arequlpn. Arequipa is the halfway station an lire road to Lake Titicaca , and It is there that the geriernl omces of the road are situated. I visited the railroad shops and found 400 l'eruvlana engaged in all kinds of car con- struction. They make engines as good as any used in our country , std have some which are especially adapted to the heavy grades of the Andes. The shops are In charge of an American , a Mr. Beaumont of New Jersey , but all of the men are Peru- vians. Mr. Beaumont told me that of the 1,000 hands employed in one capacity or another on the road there were not more than ten foreigners. It may interest our railroad men to know the wages which their kind receive down here. I give them in American gold values and not in the silver - ver in which they are raid. Traekmen re- celvo 76 cents a day , and brakemen a similar lar amount. Engineers get $100 a month , and conductors are paid from $30 to $ G a month , according to position and length of service. Men employed in the shops get from 75 cents and upwards per day. There are no trades unions and time men never strike. They work nine hours a day , and with those who are out on the road the day lasts without extra pay until true cars come in. A City of Vaults 1(11(1 iron Bars. Arequipa le the second city of Peru. It has about 33,000 people and is still lighted by coal oil , though as electric lighting plant la now being put in. The town lies in the little valley of time Chili river , which makes an oasis of green in the midst of the desert amid gives Arequipa about fifty odd squrare miles of irrigable land. Arequipa is the commercial capital of the southern part of time country , and a great part of the trade of Bolivia passes through it. Most of the business is done by the Germans and Eng- lislm , and there is not an American house in the city. It is the neatest , prettiest and brightest town I have yet seen in Southn America , It fa 400 odd years old , and Is battered and knocked up by the earthquakes of lima past , but as you go through it you get tire impression that the town is ralmost brand new. it looks as though it had come from a bandbox. The houses are mostly one-story stone boxes , but their walls are painted In the most delicate tints of blue , pink , cream , green and gold. I posted my letters in a pestOflce tinted in ashes of roses. I bought thu fruit I ate for breakfast In a sky-blue fruit store , and cashed a draft on London in a bank w hticlm had outer tvnlls the color of gold. Another peculiarity of Arequipa is that most of its rooms are made in the shape of vaults. Tire stores are vaults ten to fifteen feet wide and from ten to thirty feet deep , with doors looking out upon the streets , iii marry cases there is no svay out at tlmo back , and the only light , except that from the door , comes in through holes in the roof. I ate my dinner at the hotel in Arequlpn in a vault , I was shaved in a vault and my sleeping room had a vaulted roof. I went out on the roof once or twice to look over the city. These vaulted roofs gave Il the appearance of a Chinese graveyard - yard rather than that of an American town , The streets are narrow and paved with cobbles. Down one side of each street there Is a rustring stream of nrountain water , which carries off the sewage , and which , as it gurgles through the streets at night , makes your dream of rain anti go to the window as soon as you awake to see If it really is clear or not. It rains only a part of the year in Arequipa , but when it does rain it sometimes pours. At such times tire streets are 1100(10(1 , and lire water from tire roofs is carried out by little tin pipes , as big around as abroonrstlck , to Just over the middle of the sidewalk , where It goes down the backs of the necks of the unwary passers-by. In walking through Arequipa you might get the idea that the city wan full of burglars. Every house faces the sidewalk and every window is covered with Iron bars , Tire houses themselves look like fortresses nod time lock on thin doors are of mammoth size , The barred windows and lucked doors are riot for the burglars. Thcy are not to keep thieves out , but to cage the girls in , Tire windows bavo seats behind the bars , but no Peruvian beau stops to chat at these with his lady love. Tire bar's of iron are as thick as your finger and so close together that the mtmost ardent hips could not meet between them , This seclusion of the women by the Spanish people is probably a relic of their admixture with the Moors centuries ago. 'fhe wrapping up of the heads in black clothes was originally so done that only one eye showed out. It was worse than the veils of Egypt or Constanlimoplo. Now time whole fare is displayed and many of the better class girls wear hats. A Peruvian parent , however , never lets his girls , go out alone upon limo street. There are no moonlight drives aria ! walks with lovers here and when you call upon your sweetheart you have to entertain time whole family , arrd'I $ you go with your girl to the bull fight you take mamma , papa , auntie and old maid sissy with you , 'I'hr lie rvurd O1isrryatury , The most interesting thing In Arequlpn , however , is th0 Harvard college observatory. Just about twenty years ago Urlah ii. for- den died and left , $200,000 to Harvard college with the understanding that lire money waste to be used to establish an observatory at the very best place that could be found in the whole world for study of the stars and meteorological conditions , The college au thoritles flrnt tried points In Colorado and California and then sent a0 expedition to South America. This expedition prst estab- llabed a atatioa 6,600 tact above the sea In the Andes back of Llama. , on 'what ii now called Mount Itarvaral. In ISOO they changed the station to Arequipa , and have since made this one of the great scientific centers of the world. Arequipa is 7,650 feet above the sea and it has more clear days and nights , it is said , than any other place on earth , There are about nine months of the year there when the sky is perfectly clear , You people who pride yourselves on beautiful skies and glorious sunsets will not know what the words mean until you have visited South America , These are especially fine at Arequipa , which lras in addition the advantage of being south of the equator , nl one of the hest points for viewing - ing the southern heaveos. There is , you know , nothing duplicated in the sky , and there are here wonderful stars and constellations which we never see. IThe milky way south of the equator is fare more brilliant than 1t Is in our heavens , and there are many other different stars with different movements. You have all hearJ of the Southern Cross , which my friend , Dr , Talmage , says looks to hint like the hrmd- writing of God on the fats of the aky. I don't think much of it. It is a measly cross at best. There are only four stars in it that are not at at all bright , and you I have to look hard to find them , Thieve are , lrowover , wonderful things outside of this , and the bent observations so far made in recent years of the southern heavens have , been made by these h arvard scientists. They have four great telrir-apes at Arequlpn , which night after night lhrongh the nine clear months of the yea are polulrtl mt I time stars. Connected with each of these , I telescopes is a photographic apparatus which records the movements of such stars as the scientists wish to study , and which by fine machinery move along with the stars until their Images and those of their surroundings - ings are registered mr the phatograpitic plate. The Bruce telescope , for luslance , Is , I believe , the largest of its kind In the world , through I am not sure of this , It Ilan a lens twenty-four inches iu diameter and gives photographs on plates fourteen by seventeen incites in size , I took a' look through the Bruce telescope during my visit to the observatory. The tuba of time Instrument must weigh more than a ton , but it is so delicately hung that a child could move it. It runs by a clock and n heavy weight. The chief part of the work Idono at the observatory Is photographing the heavens. Five photographic lnstru- merits arc kept going , and about fifty plates are made every night. Last year more than 5,000 plates were exposed and developed. The negatives are shipped at once to the , University of Harvard at Cambridge and are there used for study and scientific work. They are kept on file lherq and form a wonderful astronomical library of the southern - ern heavens. Through this observatory llarvard college has the best advantages of the world for astrouonrical research. The scientists of Cambridge are always watching - ing the northern heavens.tbut . they cannot sear much below the equator. Time Arequipa observatory takes in the whole sky from the equator to lire south pole , the two giving a connplete view of time heavens. RIghesl Simian of time World. Wither the last few years lire Arequipa astronomers' here have established n station car time top of Mount lilstl This mountain is one of the highest of the Antics. It lies Just back of Arequipa , standing eut against the horizon almost nlune in its grandeur , its top kissing the sky at am altitude of 19,200 feet above the sea. It is.sonhe thousands of feet ltgher than any point ! n America , urid is n full mile higher than ounobservatory on Pike's Peak. It is by more than 3,500 feet loftier than any other scientific station of the world. The site of time station tion is on the edge of a huge crater , which now and then sends clouds of yellow snf- phurous vapor a thousand feet into the air , Mount Mistl is an extinct volcano , but is not dead , and it array at any time break out into eruption. At this great altitude , nearly four ariles above the sea , the'hlarvard men have now lire finest sciotllle instruments for registering the conditions of the ntmos- phero , the velocity of the winds , the pressure of lire barometer and other conditions. The instruments are , of course , automatic , running - ning for three nlormtbs without being touched. No one could live at such am nlll- tude , and the scientists go up only periodi- cally' to gel the records and rewind the In- struments. As it is , time trip is a very hard one. Sonme of the men get soroche , or moun- tahm sickness , and many men cannot make the trip at nil. The observatory has other stations on the sea near Mollendo , on the higim plateau where I now am , and at Cuzco , the ( named capital of the Incas , which is a little more than 100 miles from Lnke Titi- caca. The founding of this wonderful work was done by Prof. W , H , Pickeripg and Solon I. Dailey of Harvard , time nmost of the stations being established by tie latter. Prof. Dailey Iran just returned to the United. States , and the observatory and Its stations - tions are now In charge of Mr , W. B. Cly- mer of Ohio and Mr , Da Lisle Stewart of Minnesota. These young astronomers have contracts to remain here for five years. The position is not a bad ono by any nmeans. The observatory is situated 500 feet above the city of Arequipa , overlooking the irrigated valley of the Chill river , which produces the richest of crops the year round. The home of the observatory is most comfortable , one of its chief attractions being Mrs. Stewart's little blue eyed baby , a few months old , born In Peru , which is as pretty and as healthy as any baby you will find north of the equator. Across the Pnnmpns of the Andes. There are three mountains back of 4re- quipa , which are higher than any point in time United Slates outside of Alaska. Mount Clmarcanl Is higher than Mount Misti , and as you leave the desert and ascend to the lofty plateau you get a glimpse of Coru- puno , which is " 2,800 feet above the sea , Mount Mlsll's snowy , smnmlt is in sight for hours , and I watched the fleecy clouds flying - ing about and below it , silting In my overcoat - coat on the ] rear platform of the car , We left Arequipa in the early morning , and at 11 o'clock stopped at the station of l'untn de Arrieros for breakfast. This station is moro than two and a half miles above time sea , 11t consists of a few storm huts thatched with straw and n one-story wooden building rondo of pine which I doubt riot was shipped hero from Oregon , There was a bar at one end of the dining room , pre. sided over by a fat Peruvian girl , and at the other end were the breakfast tables , Tire meal cost about 10eents , of our money , and it was as good as any 10-cent meal you can get in the Rockies. First there was chicken soup with rice , then icodflsh balls t , ell browned , then boiled beef and green peas , beefsteak spiced with a sauce of onions and red pepper , a sweet omelet and a cup of very good tea. After lire meal I bought four clingstone peaches of an Indian - dian girl mfor 2 centa and three oranges for a nickel , These eatables , however , all came from the irrigated valleys or the low. lands , On the high plateau over 1wlnich we traveled there was only a scanty fuzzy growth of moss-like grass , There was not a tree , andaonly here and there , about a lit. lie mud but a patch or so of potatoes , some barley-which is grown only for forage , as it will riot ripen at this altitude-and also many little fields of quinua , a plan which looks like a cross between a red dock weed and a mullen stock. It is planted in rows and is cultivated , It Is of a yellow or red color , amid its seeds are eaten as mush and taslo not unlike oatmeal , I saw some dandelions - delions and a lot of green plants which looked like scrubby ors or evergreen , but wlich nowhere were more than a few inches high. After crossing iho coast range , which is , you know , the highest of the Andes , the grass became greener , and for mile. we traveled throueb what seetded to be a Nch bed of $ ness , We went by beautl ful lakes and rode over plains dotted hero and there trItb the mud huts of the Indians - - l THE POWER OF PRICE.I I Once Moro wo (101)011(1 on the power of price to reduce our unusually largo Itssortulent of Furuittiro , Ca'pets , Draperies , Crokery . , Stoves , etc , fhl(1 have lnarke(1 many articles at a swee 1 hinb rcductioll- , way below regular prlees-including articles for summer furnishings , for lawn , porches , etc. here are a few of the bargains we otter this week. ar or Furniture ice an Carpets 6-piece Parlor Suite , choice of either n solid oak or mnhogntty finish frame # Ingrain Carpet-worth 40c-this week 2c ear urnsur a finely upitoletered hr d .I wool itgrdus-lVnrtit 73c-lids full s I aria g-worth regular tupcstry i15Od- an week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43o week , , , , , , , , , , , , , $ , Roll Tap Office Desk-solid oak-worth Bruasells - - wee62c ; Morels Rectlning Chair- , - $14.00-price this week. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SF.90 Velvet Carpets-worth ; h15-this wtelr GSc this week ; 7,60 h Int Top Ofice Dcek-solid oak-worth Aunlnstcr Carpets-worth $1.23-this Odd Parlor Clrair , choice of vnrlous ; 12.00-this week $ Geu week F2c patterns-worth ; S,00-this wcok , . . , , . $1,25 Revolving Arm Chair-cane neat- .linking-worth 40c-lids week. . . . . . . . . . 21c 3 piece Parlor Suite-very delicate do- worth $9,00-this week $1.75 Mnlting-worllr 3Oe-this work 160 sign-worth $32,00-price this week.$18,60 Office Stool-worth 2.75-tlls week , . , , , . $1,60 all ( 'loth-worth 10c-this week , . , . , . 23c - velour or tapestry coy- Oak Typewriting Desk-worth $30.00Lluoleuniworth 63c-tlris week , , , . , . , , 41e Ing-worth $20,00-this week . , , , , . , , . . $12.25 this week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22.10 Iv9 Snkal ltuv-worth $16.50-this week $9.10 Corner Chnir-beautiful dcstgn and I.etter I'ress Stnnds-polished oak- 36 Inches by 72 inches Sakai flag- highly finished-wdt'th $9,00.-tlds worth ; 5.10-this week ilq , svortlm $5,00-this week , , , , , , , , . , , , , , 12.35 week $ Lf0 Cdoot Oak Stnuding Desk-worth $27,60 Di nn--pnllsh mahogany Itnished -this week , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , $18.25 frame-high grade coverings-worth Library Table-quarter sawed pinnn Draperies $18.00-this week 9.60 mlislted-worth 20.00-lids week , . . , $11dA . ltocking Chair-fine solid oak frame , Rnnkcase-solid oak-very - - - roomy- Ih'ussells Net Lnce Curtains-worth $ l0 nicely upholstered-worth $9.10-price $ worth $ h1d10-this veeit $5.90 . . . . . . . . . . . . -this week . . , . . . . , . . , . . . . . . . $4.90 . . . . . . . . . . . , this week , ; . , , . . , , . , . . , . . . , , $1,75 Combination Ihook Case and Desk- Irish Pohrt Lace Curtnhrs-worth $6.50 , But inn Rucker-very. pretty-worth mnhngany finish-worth $22.00-this this week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $3,40 x7,60-price this week $3,76 week , . . , , . . . , . . . . . , . . , , . , . , . . . . . . , . . , . . . . $13,50 Novcily Curtnlns-worth $5.10-this 1Virdow Choir-polished birch-worth $ Leather Couch-worth $ i5-this weekIJ,50 , week -tills week , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . , . $52 .60 Ladles' Desk-assorted ilnishes-worth Nollhugluun Lnce Curtthns-tvorllt $3.10 2,75 1 $9.10-price this week , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , $1i6 -this week $1.75 ® r ® urns ore g Ruffled $3.60-tltls Nnttirghrmm week . . . . . , . Curtains-worth . , . , , , $1,60 Dining Room urni e Tapestry Curtains-worth ; 5-tlniswweek $2,4b Bed Room 9ullc , highly finished 111 Genunlne Jnpanese linmboo and Bead antique , has beveled clge 'date ' mir Sidebnnrd-snlid Oak-bevel plate mir Portieres-worth $1.00-this week . . . . , $1.97 ror-nicety carved wood work- ror-worth 128,00-this week. , , . . . , . , . , $16,5Q Rope Portieres-worth $5.10-this week $2,75 worth rcgulur $25.00-price this wcck.$13,50 Extension Table-solid onle-nicely pol- Dresser , finished either-In + uttique or ished-worth $12.00-this week . . , . . . $ G,90 , mahogany-very nice-worth $14.60- Cimnirs-cane sent-antique-worth $1.22 I I esoe aneous this week $9.65 this week . . . . . . . . OSc Stand-solid oak-legs of the French China Closet-pohiehed oak-very swell , , , , . , , -worth $20.00-this week . . . . , , . . , . . $12.50 Darby Cnrrhmges-arey' wood make-worth pattern-worth $2,6U--this week 95c Dinner Set-l00 pieces-worth $14-this ; 8,00-this week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,90 Wash I mice this Stand-antique-worth week { . . . . . . . . . . . . $1.50- . . . . . . 9Sc vvrelt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.75 Piano lall [ Tree-solid Stools-worth oak-worth $3.10-this $9.00-this week , . , . $1.75 White Iron Bed-bow e.xlenslon foot . , U week . . , . . , . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E1,25 rail , highly trimnied'in brass-worth t10 yen urnvs ins Go Cart-worth $5.00-this weelc. . . . . . . . $270 $10q-this ( week $5,75 Tnbourettes assorted daisies worth lmintress-well made-worth $3,00-this Steel flange-the "Star Estate"-wort , $ , GO-this week. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,16 ' 1 . . Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , , $1.76 510.00-tits weslt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $27.10 Shanholders-worth $1.00-this week , . 15c i + . Fancy Screen Doors-worth $2.25-this it and Cook durable- baker-worth Spring-very -worth $2.09-this strong week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - . 95c this Stove-good week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . . $13.50 . . . . . . $5.90 week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . , , , . . . . , . , . . , . . $1.0 Gasoline Stove-worth 1-this week .290 Garden ( lose-per foot-worth lIe-- - - , . , . . . . , 2.25-this this week 11c Gasoline Stove Oven- worth . - " " . . . , . Ilnlahes-worth $17.00-this week. $9.76 ous - ' " . . . . . week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ I : G Lawn Settee-worllr $2.00-this week , . . , Ole " ) 'nl"gmr. Red-worth $16.00-this week. $39.60 I ttrheu'I'nble-rt51,5. , S5c Lawn Rocker-worth $4.50-this week. , $231 Chiffonier-solid oak-S drawers-worth Lawn Mower-worth $1.60-thls week , , . . $295 1200-this week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $6.90 Itefrtgernlor-guaranteed-worth IItchen Chalrs-worth 6Oc-this week $9,60- $ , . 32c Ifammock4-worth $2.50-this $ week $1.15 S'ardrube-tareb e and roomy-worthr 11 this weclc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5,60 Earthen Umbrella Stands-worth w -this week . . . . , . . ' . . " " " . ' . . $5,75 Ice Cheat-worth $7,60-tits " " ' week , , , . , . . , $4.75 - this week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1.25 r Write for S P ecial ! ; 7 e Adjust the Refrigerator Terms aloglte - of Payment Bttby Carriage to Catalogne-- Snit Your s Gasoline Stove I ' Convenience. Catalogue- IIUIIdiING FOItMHatLY OCCI'1'InI ) BY MOI1SI3 Bit t' GOOIS CO. and whit largo flocks , of llamas , alpacay and sheep , ' Each fibelc was watched by a woman who wore a lilack or blue dress and shawl and a queerly shaped hat , much like that of a priest. Each shepherdess had a spinning spool in her hand and kept this going as long as we werein sight. At the stations We saw many Indian men amid woven. The men wore bright-colored shawls , and wide pantaloons slit up as fart as the kimca at time back. Every one , of them hind on a knit cap much like a night cap , with flaps coming down over the cars , ; and on the top of this a little hat which accrued to be more for ornament than for warmth. Nearly nil , both men and women , were in their bare feet , although the air , was bitter cold , and as we crossed the ; pampas , the hail came down in torrents , whilenhng the ground. Tlmese people weree chiefly of the Aymara tribe of Indians , who to a large extent form the population of this part of Peru and of Bolivia. , FRANK G CARPENTER , GOSSIP , trtOUT NO'rlB I'liOi'LE. The length of Mr. Gladstone's political , gervico can ho measured by the fact that ho i entered Parliament at a time when Andrew n of the United Staten Jackson was president p and retired train it when Mr. Cleveland began - gan his second term. lie held Iris first cabinet - inet office when Daniel Webster was also first serving iu m like capacity here. While rapidly driving through Berlin the other day Emperor William's horses nearly ran over a young woman on a bicycle. She was thrown off her wheel Into the gutter , where time emperor's coachman was going to leave her , when his master leaped out of the carriage , picked up time disheveied damsel - sel , stood her on her feet , touched iris hat mid said , in tie pohitest manner possible , he trusted his horses had not injured her. Dean Farrar relates err instance of lire flare forbearance and courtesy of Mr. Gladstone - stone , winch ho learned from the lips of the great statesman , who mentioned it as a sign of the lack of good manners , of deference toward age and dignity. Mr , ' Gladstone had walked down SL Janes street into the park , when a youtlm-apparently a young clerk- rccognlzing iris well known figure , calmly addressed lmim by name , walked side by side tyitli him and , uninvited , entered into con bersation without the amaliest apology. Mr , Gladstone , though far from pleased , re framed from rebukirg time Impudent Intruder - truder , Speaking of Prof. Alexander Agasslz , who has given altogether' about $800,000 to ilar- ra d "The Harvard Graduates' Magazine" says , , "Prof. Agassid has made for hitarsclf an opportunity of a.dlffereht kind in his thirty-live years of 'service. his ciliclent direction as curator of the Museum of Corn. parativo Zoology has prepared the way for scientific study by generations yet unborn ; mid ho has , without parade-Indeed , almost without notice-added to the plant of the university more than $700,000 hr buildings , collections , booms and materials , besides $100,000 for current needs , " Robert Smalls , who bas just been reappointed - pointed collector of ! the port of Beaufort , S , C. , is one of the best known negroes in the south. lie was a slave employed on the ' Confederate transport Planter in Charleston harbor In the spring of 1802 , when one night he took possession of him. self and the boat , ran it over Charleston bar aid surrendered it to the United States blockading squadron , lie served as pilot during the war , was a member of the South Carolina house of representatives in recoa struction times and leas represented the state in five congresses , Piper Fladlater , decorated by the queen's own hand with the Victoria Crass , found tints great honor so little likely to save ! dm from starvation that he at once accepted an oiler to appear at the Alhambra in a mimic scene representing the deeds of Dargai. Courtiers , royalists , field marshals , generals , the war office and the horse Omrards were furious and talked of dealing out the severest measures to the unlucky piper but some man In office with a memory pointed out that the poor fellow was not at all to blame if , maimed as 1 he was , he sbught profitable employment. Time result of the agitatlon was that the piper secured a crown office. A well known London clergyman tells this characteristic story of Mr. Gladstone ; "An- other tlme some of us younger men , growing everhoitl , had the impudence to chaff Mr , Gladstone ( rather tlnrldly ) about his devotion - tion to Ilomer. We were all smoking ; he was 'humbly abstinent , ' as he Dui It , but he sat in the midst of the cigars , chatting and laughing with us , 'Homer ? ' ha said ; 'I be- hove I could go on at almost any place you could start me. ' I was next him , lie turned to me , with his eyes blazing , arid said , 'Try ! ' I was never so taken aback In all my life ; he ] mad paid me out for my cheek in chafling him. I had not looked at Hauer for twenty years-amt to be 'put on' at a moment's I notice ! And by Mr. Gladstone ; However , I pulled myself together , nod by good luck remembered - membered two lines , which 1 repeated in rather faltering tones , 'I know ! I know- ! Sixth look of the Iliad-somewhere about the 300th line , ' or something like that. Then he shunt lris eyes as before and poured forth five or six lines of thunderous Greek verse. 'Isn't that It ? ' he asked. I imad to confess that I had no notion whether that was It or not. Brit I looked it up when I got home and that was it. " LAiUlt ANI ) 1NUUS'1'ItY. British trade with tire Philippines last year was $9,934,500 ; that of the United States $5,145,303 $ , or about halt as much , At the present tlmo the largest angle iron which Is rolled at American mills measures six by six inches. Time Carnegie company will soon erect a new mill at homestead which will turn out eight by eight angle iron. Consular reports from Moscow , Russia , state that a municipal labor registry office has been established there , and during the first two months Of its existence was euc cessful in obtaining situations for mare titan 2,000 applicants , A shoe nraaufacturer with a mend for figures - ures has calculated that the hides of the following number of animals would be re- qulreml yearly to shoe lime whole population of the earth , so far as known : Cattle , 245- 881,381 ; goats , 90,084,548 ; sheep , 25,482,000 ; horses , 30,520,000 , and kangaroos , 25,000,000. Sam Francisco trades unlouists have protested - tested because contracts for supplying the volunteer uniforms were let to flans em- ploytug Chinese , while eastern lraiuakers complain because orders for marry hats have bean givemi to nonunion halnnakcrs , It is the belief of 'rue Iron Age flint lire consumption of Iron mud steel for tic production - duction of agricultural implements for the year beginning on July 1 will be greatly In excess of all previomns seasons , him view of what are thought to be time good pros- I peels of the farmer at present , the manufacturers - ' facturers are mnakirng onornous contracts I for raw material , The Aumerican Federation of Labor continues - tinues to increase in members and Influence - ence , Lost month [ the American branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers , the National I'late Printers of America and the International Brotherhood of Dookbindere secured charters , The Atlas Tack company of Taunton , Mass whose mnachlnery la widely scattered about in a nuombor of shops , has decided to adopt lira electric system of distributing power. Three mills will be driven frmn a central station , the radius of operationi being more than a quarter of a mile , Marry long lines of shafting will be dispensed with and nearly forty electric motors will apply the power where it is wanted. Few people ever give a thought as to how many cigars and stogies arc consumed in the United States in a year. The figures for the nscai year ending March 31 last show that during the twelve months the total produce was 2,259,590,007. During the same period there were manufactured la the Twenty- i cittydofial'Illaburg a isa located , In 31D 089,7J1 stogies , or oae sevenlh of the total output of cigars and stogies is the United States , which is sometbing of a proof that the stogie is becoming popular , for even the Pittsburg millionaire sad workhrgmmt could not have consumed ttlat enormous number , The din. trlct In which Wheeliog , W. Va. , is located did Its share amino and gave 70,161,255 "Wheelings" during the fiscal year , to be smoked by the men who have graduated frou the stogie class. There is one factory 1n Pittsburg width gives empioyuienl to 300 men and girls the year around in the sole manufacture of stogies. Time coririmg textile fiber , according to Textile - tile America , is that of the ramie plant. Already - ready , It appears , manufacturers of hosiery and fancy goals are using the fiber on a large scale , and the facilities for washing such textures have contributed to their increasing - creasing manufacture for table linear , bed sheets , etc. The fact Is also important that the diiTereut tests made with this and other vegetable fibers , such as flax , hemp , cotton , etc have been in favor of the ramie , and for tints reason it is gradually gaining favor 111 nnotlmer branch , namely , the production of sailcloth , awnings and coverings far car- ringes , on account of its belug less sensitive to atmospheric influences , acids anal septics. Knitted underwear made of ramie-tlris Industry - dustry , it may be remarked , being ore m winch the material has been most successfully - fully introduced-is not may one that Iran acquired quite a liking from n the public because - cause of its extreme durability and silky fhdsh , but also for its estimated hygienic advantages ; tlmese latter are based ou time substance adniijting of normal pernpiratlomi without generating or retaining the disagreeable - greeable heat caused by textures made of other fibers , while hot water and soap will also clensoIt without any exposure to strong friction , 1tILiU10US , Twelve distinct bodies of Presbyterians are laboring among the natives lam India , The very fey. John F , Cunniugham , vicar- general of the Catholic Diocese of Leaven- worth , has been designated bishop of Con- cordia , Kan by tire I'ope. Time Mosaic amp of Jerusalem which was recently found hr Palestine , Is said to be over 1,600 years old , It was discovered In the ruins of air old church , the entire pavement - ment of which was u Mosaic map of I'aies- tine. tine.The The Presbyterian general assembly expressed - pressed its approval of individual comma- tuna cups by using them Iccenliy at tie Lord's Supper. About 2,000 were used , and the change from time old contour tvas lmeartlly approved , The Methodists of Boston , lmving hind their origin , miler the "Old Elm" on Boston Coum- mon , In a sermon by Bev , Jesse I.eo in 1792 , now propose to rcluru to primitive ways and days , and hold npen-air services every Smr- day afternoon for three months , The king of Servia has jmrst presented to the British umsoum a beautifully executed fan-smile of an ancient and Iliunhmted manuscript - uscript of tine Gospels , said to be lire work of erie Gregorlus , a noted Servian scribe wlmo lived in the twelfth century , and wbnso - . - decorative borders are among the driest examples - amples of early illunnnations extnnt. ' 17is particular pnrclnnent manuscript has beta Iu mm old monastery Itm Set-via for more thaa 700 years-probably sirce it was wrllten by Gregorlus , Prhcipal , Caird of Glasgow university , now 78 years old , whin has just resigned his ofllce , rm as one of the moat polished mud eloquent prenchers in Scotland sonic years ago , When Air , Disraell .us made Lord Rector of the university , he expressed a desire to ] tear the principal preach , and attended n service inn the college chapel where iris wish was graal fled , An unrehearsed effect was produled The svini'y afternoon was dark and dismal , rind the preacher had some dittlculty im reading - ing Iris manuscript , Tine attentive beadle noticed this diiticulty , amid quite unconsciously - ously turned on the gas at line very nnnemrt that 1'rlncipal Cufrd was quoting Goelhe'1 words , "Oh , for light-more light ! " Some of f the audience smiled at the coincidence , but the muscles of Mr. Disraell's face reumulned immovable , - For Your % VIfe and Oahe. If you lmvo a wife and babe you will be Interested in tire recoarmendallon of 0. A , Marple , assistant postmaster , Coloma , Mo , "I take pleasure in recommeu + lirg Cltanr- berlaln's Cough Itennedy to the public. My wife and babe have used it and it never falls to cure the worst cough , It is mild and pleasant to take , lee , At 72 years of age J , 11. Twirs of Independence - pendence , Kerr flan irad his left leg amputated - tated by surgeons. Four years ago he lost , his right one in lire sane way , ! Take It Up Stais1 Too ( . E Nearly ever Y bed Y uses Wool Soap down stairs in the laundry. It's the one soap that won't shrink E woolens , and people must use it there. But you need it up stairs more-up in bathroom and bedroom. s Don't use on your face what you dare not use on wool l WOOLSOAP ; : ; J.is , ' ( , + is simply pure soap. Other soaps are called pure-but they shrink , V I wool , They lack our secret , i , Whenever you need a pure , soap you need Wool Soap , You need it most for toilet and bath. 5' * That's where Wool Soap is imp - MAMA 1 WISH MINI ortent , ear0 HAD. . p . woDI.aaar IT > 3WIM8. "Wool Soap la an excellent article , and every woman will be benefited by using it.-RLaan4 1.1. Daassn , Treas. Nat'l W , C. T. U.
