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KSTAHLltiHEb JUNE 19, 1871.
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TRULY A CELEBRATED CASE
Bun;mr7 of the Thai, a-d T ibalations of
Captain Drey fa .
INSPIRING SIDE Ur a TRAGIC STORY
Sunlight Follows tit Gloom of Plot
l.d Persecution ud tho An
atnlsh of lajastloo Extend
InaT Over Tea Years.
Alfred Dreyfus la only an Individual, but
In hla sufferings unusually Intense aa they
have been, very widely known, and
heroically borne there have come to be
rpltomlxed and typified the suffering! of all
who have to endure injustice. The story
)w been one of extraordinary dramatic
quality, so that those who have followed
It ave felt aa If they were living in a play
or a book; but a higher and stronger ap
peal than this to popular aympathy has
lain In the apparent concentration in one
man's sufferings of all the anguish that
Injustice brings; in one man's courage of
all the indomltableness of a spirit that can
not be crushed; in a woman's boundless
lov j and tireless faith, of all the loyalty ot
the Ideal of wifehood, and In the fearless
devotion of friends of all the claims of
honor. This has been the inspiring side
of the tragic story that has thrilled the
world; those have been the elements that,
through all the slow unfolding of the years
have gripped at the hearts of men and
bade them believe that right must triumph
at the end.
And now the denouement seems very
near. The end of the story can be guessed;
the last unfolding of the plot can be fore-
Been. Right Is to triumph.
In ISM there was attached to the general
sck.ff of the French army a young captain
of artillery named Alfred Dreyfus. He was
S5 years old. was happily married, and his
loyalty to France had never twn ques
tioned. He Wds a Jew, ar.d had come up
to Paris from Alsace, where hi. family
was of some account. He was not popular
with hla comrades, owing to certain pe
culiarities of manner; but he was recog
nised as a notably Industrious and Intel
ligent officer. He was entirely happy In
his private life and was In love with his
profession.
Beginning; of the Plot.
One day la September a secret agent
brought to Major Henry, a sub-chief of
the intelligence department of the War
office, some torn scraps of paper reputed
to have been taken from the wastu basket
t'f Colonel Bchwarskoppen, the German
milit.ry attache In Paris. These were
pieced tt.gcther by Colonel gundherr. chief
of the intelligence department of the French
War office, and were found to be a letter
showing that some traitor In the War of
fice waa revealing secrets of that office to
this German representative. ' It seemed
clear, flora the context that the traitor
must be a member of the general staff and
a German. Ppecfmetia were secured of the
handwriting of the various officers, and
these were compared with the letter, and
It waa decided that Dreyfus waa the man.
The letter was the famous bordereau, and
may be translated as follows:
Without news Indicating that you wish
to see me. I am semllng you. nevertheless.
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LH ar a 1 on the way la which this piece
behuved.
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modincaiions will b muiU hv ih
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lery formatlona
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UP-TO-DATE FRAMES
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LUCIDUM LENS
coat no more than ordinary 111 fitting
(lasses and are GUARANTEED satisfac
tory.
field artillery, March 14, ISM.
1 mm last aooument is extremely aimcult
to procure, and 1 can only have It at my
disposal for a very few days. The minister
ot war has aent a limited number ot copies
10 1110 iievcraa corps, ana tnese corps are
responsible for it; each officer la to .end
his copy back after the maneuvers. If,
therefore, you will take from It what In
terests you and hold it afterward at my
disposal, 1 will take it, unless you should
deaire that 1 should have It copied In fx
tenso and then send you the copy. 1 am
about to go to the maneuvers.
Condemned and Degraded.
The Inquiry waa committed to Major du
Paty de Clam, and on October 15 he caused
Dreyfus to be brought before him, and or
dered him to write from dictation a letter
containing phrases used in the bordereau.
It was s-ld that after writing a little Drey
fus tuintd pale and that his hand trem
bled. He waa immediately arrested and se
cretly imprisoned, without the possibility
of communication with anyone. He lay
thua secretly In prison until the 6th of De
cember, but every day efforts were futilly
made to induce him to confess. Meanwhile
the news of Ills arrest had leaked out. On
December 19 trial by court-martial was be
gun behind closed doors. Dreyfus waa
found guilty and sentenced to solitary con
finement for life and to degradation from
hla rank. The case seemed hopeless.
The sentence began to be executed on the
6th of the following January is). ln the 1
r a largo body of troops and the j
ents of the prtua of the wo. Id
1 decorations of his uniform were
presence of
corresponde
the various deeorntlunji or his uniform wem
torn off one by one-the buttons from his i
tunic, the numbers from his collar, the '
atrlDea from his trousers, etc. His aword '
was broken and the scabbard was thrown
to the ground, and ln this humiliating state
he was inarched before the men of his com
mand. He went through the ordeal with
dignity and firmness, and publicly pro
claimed that he waa Innocent. In March,
just ten years ago, he was on his way to
the lie du Dlable, off the coast of Guiana.
No one who hus read Dreyfus' own story
of his life on this Island needs to be re
minded of Its horrors. To great physical
misery there was added the severest mental
sufferings. No refinement of torment that
the Ingenuity of man could Invent was
lacking, and all the time there was, the
illlinerv.
M
prlHoner says, the consciousness of his In- to ttttend ,t, ,le wa ably defended by I were very fine buildings, to be sure, but
nocence. of the Injustice and needlessne-s Luuori. the lawyer who had defended Zola, ' the greater portion of the city consisted
of It all. of a horrible mistake that he could but the result of the trial waa that he was I of log cabins. In fact, from about the
not txplain, or of a fearful crime. j again declared to be guilty. It whs stated. ' mld.ll of the seventeenth century down
Could he only have known it. great move- . however, that there were "extenuating clri I to IS'5 nearly every one of the great Euro
nients were In progress In France In his I cumstances ;" the sentence was cut down 10 PpH capitals suffered from fire, and, as
behalf. When he bad lain In prison on j ten years' Imprisonment, from which the ' a result, ariSA from their ashes more sub
Devil's island for more than a year there j time that ho had already served was to bo ' "lanital than before.
were received at the War office some more
scraps of torn paper. These also had come
from the German embassy, aa if the original
traitor were still at work. These scraps
were piece! together, and they were found
to contain the name and address of Major
Esterhuxy. It was discovered that the
writing of the bordereau was at least a
much like Esterhuzy's as like that of Drey
fus, and the man was found to be a soldier
of fortune, whose life waa irregular and
I dissipated. Lieutenant Colonel Plcquart
was now the head of the intelligence
bureau, and he began a thorough investiga
tion. The friends of Dreyfus, In the meantime,
were agitating for a new trial on grounds
of technical irregularitlea In the first one,
not knowing how new discoveries were
secretly working in their behalf. The agita
tlon became bitter, and at last In the
Chamber of Deputies on November 18, 1K8.
the minister of war heatedly declared that
Dreyfus had been Justly and legally con
demned. That meant that the War office
did not propose to have Esterhazy substi
tuted for Dreyfug and Ita own Judgment
shown to have been hasty. Plcquart waa
aent oft to the frontier of Tripoli to put
him out of the way.
In October, U7, altar lh. puaiiif of aa-
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Large sack white or yellow comment. ..lVic
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can Breakfast Cocoa dc
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Cruckers, per lb 6o
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S packages Breakfast Rolled Oats 10c
Force, Vigor. Vim, Malta Vita or
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1- lb. can Alaska Salmon 9c
S-lb. can choice Tomatoes. 7c
S-lb. cans Apple Butter 8'jc
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other year, a facsimile of the bordereau
happened to coma Into the hands of a man
who had had many business dealings with
Esterhazy. He at once declared the writ
ing to be Esterhazy's, and, the news com
ing to DreVfus' brother, the latter published
an open letter ilatly accusing Eeterhazy of
being the author of the bordereau. This
vas the public's first knowledge that any
one else than Dreyfus could be definitely
suspected, and the agitation for a new trial
took on new hope. All of France was soon
wept into the discussion, taking one side
or the other. There were even antl-Semitlo
riots, so strong was the feeling.
It became necessary to try Esterhary,
and In January, 1898, there was a court
martial. Esterhazy was acquitted, and on
the same day Flcquart waa arrested and
sent to prison.
Two days later Zola published his famous
letter, "J'accuse," In which he attacked
those who had been active against Dreyfus.
Zola was tried and found guilty of alse
accusations, and was obliged to flee the
country.
It appeared that the Dreyfusards were
beaten at every point, but the excitement '
was still intense throughout the whole
country. In July the new mlnlrter of war,
referring to the case In the Chamber of
Deputies, told of three documents, not
known ton to the public, which made It
e'Tiin tnRt Dreyfus aa he guilty one.
T,,ere wa reat . bV vote "f
t0 ! U wfls rred that his speech
chouli e posted on the walls of ell the
communes of France. This. It was thought.
W0,,M 1u,et the "rltement by proving to
every one the guilt of Dreyfus. Two days
later It was shown by Plcquart, who hart
been liberated, that two cf the document,
were Irrelevant and that the third was a
forgery. On August SO Colonel Henry ad
mitted having made the forgery and com
mitted suicide.
Resentenced and Pardoned.
This led to a reorganization of the gen
eral staff. Major Esterhazy and Colonel
dn Paty de Clam, who hed been most Ac
tive ngainst Dreyfus, were retired. The
court cf cassation, the highest court, or
dered n new trial by court-martial ln June,
IK9. Dreyfus was brought buck to France
deducted, and tho court united In a recorr-
menoawon ,0 mercy, in septenu-er rres.-
dent Loubet "pardoned" the prisoner.
The "pardon." while remitting further
punishment, did not restore the prisoner's
honor Neither Dreyfus nor his friends
could be nutlsfled. There even came a let-
ter from Esterhazy. who had now been
dismissed from the army, asserting thst It
was he who had written the bordereau. 80
the agitation for another trlsl dragged
along. Dreyfus petitioned the minister of
r i roan, .unner investigation, and this.
official haa done so, and has added, on his
own account, some hopeful discoveries to
those which Dreyfus and his friends had
made. The court of cassation .gain cr
dered a new trial, and the outcome of It
the full restoration at last of the honor of
Dreyfus Is not to be doubted. It will be a
wonderful final triumph for truth: the mnr
velnus denouement of a terrible drama
Philadelphia Ledger.
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Eighteenth and Castellur street., to A.
Jacohheryer for a linen frsme dwelling at
Twenty-ewenth and Meredith avenue, and
to A. W. Carlson, agent, for 1,9iu worth of
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MEN'S UNION SVITS-In silk,
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$2.25, $1.50 and
MEN'S DRESS SHIRTS All new
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shap 'S ind colorings, at $1.00,
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2- lh. can Sifted Barly June Peas flsc
3- lb. can Table Apricots, Peaches or
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Cjtmrt can Table Syrup or Sorghum !)c
Hand-picked Navy Beans, good Rice or
Tapioca, per lb 3C
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Fancy California Prunes, per lb 3Vjc
Fancy Colorado Peaches, per lb 7',tc
English cleaned Currants, per lb 7ic
Virginia Blackberries, per b 7o
Fancy California Grapes, per lb 74c
Virginia Raspberries, per lb 2uc
New York Ring Apples, per lb 9c
Fancy Seeded Raisins, pkg 9c
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Fancy Golden Santos Coffee, per lb 15c
II. B. C. Diamond il Blend, per lb 17V4C
Ankola, Java and Mocha combination.
per lb 220
Choice Sundrled, B. F. Japan. English
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RAVAGED BY GREAT FIRES
Man's Ingenuity Frequently Overwhelmed
ty th Devour ng Elements.
LESSONS OF THE BALTIMORE DISASTER
Famous Ftrea of the Past Century at
Home and Abroad Greater Cities
Have Arisen Fireproof
of Materials.
Generally It ha. been supposed that the
day when whole sections of a town could
be swept away by fire was past, owing to
modern Improvements In building and to
method, of fire extinction. But the re
cent catastrophe at Ualtlmore destroys
faith In such a belief. Of the ferlous con
flagrations of the past century, relates the
Washington Post, first to be mentioned, of
cour8ei i the Chicago fire of 1871 with It.
1 ,OB 01 iu,uw,uw; tne osion nr. ui io.-,
Rustalnlng a loss of 80,000,000; the Hamburg
(Germany) fire of 1842, a loss of ,000,000;
the Aldersgato street (London, England)
fire of 1899, a loss of fl0.000.000: the "great
New York" fire of 1S35. a loss of $.".0,000,000;
J f";0 fir'
,' n,eei'k"
, 'OB! of
treet (New York) fire of 1891.
000. During the seventeenth
finl eighteenth centuries the Kuropean
cities suffered devastating conflagrations,
which differed from those of the present
day In one respect. During these cen
turies the cities of northern Europe con
sisted of nothing more than a vast col
lection of squalid huts of logs, rushes,
wattle and daub, grouped about a few
magnificent buildings. Such was the Lon
don of Queen Elizabeth's Vy. The great
fire In London of 1666, while It destroyed
the greater part of that city, reesulted
In a loss much less that that of the Balti
more Art. It destroyed the miserable
huts, but spared the Tower, Westminster
and other notable buildings. Such also
was pretty much the case with Moscow,
when Napoleon arrived there. The Krem
lin and several of the grand cathedrals
1 One City's Prlniltlveness.
Today ipr. , OIllv on rlty left ,
, Rrmi(( .hirh rorlain- iu.t u .tood
j ppor t0 mn, and that is Constantinople,
,,,,, ,, t0 know wnat
! ,.nlldn or K.Unhurah. Paris. Amsterdam,
J ,,p Mo.ow wrre !lk(?, both as regards
j i,uiijir.B9 and lire protection, prior to the
1 ,eglnilln3 ,i,e ' eighteenth century, all
,,e necd do is t0 vl-u Constantinople. There
j m (md t!l0 old-fashioned, unpaid,
volunteer fire companies., with their hand-
r,ow seines, the old-fashioned watch
towers all over the city, the vest area
of wooden hovels, with a few magnificent
mosques. Just as they were ln London
ln the days of good Queen Bess. Mr. Cur
tis, In his work entitled, "The Turk and
His l.iat Provinces," describes a fire which
he once attended In Constantinople, the
alarm of which was given by one of the
watchmen In one of the wooden towers,
the nearest company responding, accom
panied bv a great rabble.
When they arrived at the scene one
building (a store) was ln flames, and sev
eril more were being threatened. The pro
rrieters of the shops adjnlrlng were fran
tic to have the firemen begin operstlons
at once, but they could not at first agree
on the price. The firemen wanted a cer
tain sum for the good of their ergalu-
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U.500 yards Curtain Swiss
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put terns, regular 10t
Swiss, Monday, yd. . . .
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Also 40-in. Curtain Swiss in
fancy stripes, dots aud figures,
worth up to 40c yd., Monday at
10c, and 15c.
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"with every purchase
Choice Tea Slftlngs, per lb
.13c
EXTRA SPECIAL IN ORANGES
SATURDAY
Lnrge. Juicy, sweet genuine Highland
Oranges, per doz 15c
Regular retail price of this delicious
fruit la 253 per dozen.
BUTTER.
Fancy sweet Country Butter, per lb He
Fancy Elgin Creamery Butter, per lb. ...21c
MEATS.
We are selling 14 lbs. Leaf Lard for
Leg of Mutton, per lb
Fore quarter Spring Lamb
Hind nunrter Snrintr Lamb
..$1.00
6C
,...60o
75c
Lamb Stew, per lb 2Ho
4 lbs. Lamb Chops for 25c
Veal Roast, per lb RVjc
Veal Steak per lh lUjc
Roast Beef, per lb 10c and 6c
Pot Roast, per lb , 4'-jC
Sirloin Steak, per lb He
No. 1 Corn Beef, lean or fat, per lb 4c
Mallard Ducks, each 35c
Teal and Pintail Ducks, each 174c
tlon, which the merchants regarded as
extortionate. While they wrangled ov?r
the price of fire protection, the ti s
rapidly encroached on the very property
they were so unxious to save, so finally,
In desperation, the merchants agreed upon
the amount, which was forthwith collected
on the spot by the captain of the company
before a hund was turned toward check
ing the flames. Then the firemen set to
work and put out the Are.
Curious lteaulta.
Fires are productive of some curious re
sults. Just after the Iroquoid theater lire
in Chicago a writer in Z?t " bVr.cli cement or "hollow blocks -paper,
called attention to the fact that it ' . . ,H. ,.
papers
waa quite possible to render the scenery
of a theater completely fireproof. He
quoted proofs, showing that over thirty
years ago, after a serious Uicater fire in
one of the eastern cities, one of the beet
known theatrical managers of that period
nad the scenery, as well as the stage floors
of hla playhouse, treated with certain cheap
chemicals. When this was done a stream
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scenery anu iiuvr, urn iun ivm uuvt
while the part, on which the flame waa
directed crumbled and fell to pieces, it did
not burn, nor did the crumbling extend fur-
ther than the part, affected by tha inten-e
heat of the burning gaa. About twenty
years ago another serious lira destroyed
the greater portion of the business section
r.f u lurpn muniifaliirliiv eitv nn Iha ILA.I.
ir,a r.r .h iiiniijnM'ina i ,u rli,H
In the basement of a largo ' department
store and before the saleswomen and clerk.
could leave the building the flames had
reached the upper floors and several per
sons were cut oft from the stalrj. As a re
sult they were finally driven by heat and
smoke out of the windows and lost their
live. Jumping to the pavement below. Im
mediately following this an Inventive genius
net his wit. to work and Invented a most
Ingenious contrivance for leaving a burn
ing building. It consisted of nothing more
than a long and stout rope run through a
peculiar check pulley. All that one had to
do to escape from a burning building was
simply to make one end of this arrange
ment fast to something ln the room, attach
the proper end about his waist and cast
himself out of the window. For the first
six or eight feet his descent would be quite
rapid, but the farther he descended the
slower his speed, the check pulley operat
ing in such fashion aa to arrest a rapid
descent on the part of the person attached
to the end. Several persons, the inventor
Inrluded, descended by this means from
the tops of tall buildings In perfect safety.
and the safety and utility of the device
was publicly demonstrated ln several
places. But by the time he set out to sell
these contrivances people had forgotten
about the fire and he received no encour-
agement whatever, what few he sold hardly
paying him for the time and energy wasted
In their Invention.
Steel Structures Tested
The Baltimore disaster ha. for the first
time made a practical demonstration of he
resisting power of the modern so-called
fireproof building ln case of an extensive
conflagration. Under ordinary circum
stance, and where they were not exposed
to attack from without the steel "sky
scrapers" have Justified the claim ot being
fireproof, but it needed Just such a con
flagration ua that In Baltimore to make
a final test. It cannot be asaerted that the
test in this case was not a. complete one.
There were only aliout a dozen "fireproof"
buildings in the burned district, aud these,
were surround-d on all sides by old style
three and four-story buildings, some of
them near a century eld, which constituted
j In reality Just so much Inflammable ma
terial piled up against the "skyscrapers" to
a height which allowed the flames to at
tack tha higher building, in. heU nott
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Boys' Confirmation Suits
i,??.r.?:! 2.95, 3.25, 3.50 and up to 5.00
TSr?!!!?r. 3.50, 3.95, 4.50 and up to 6.50
Youths' Long Pants Black Suits
nX:.. 6.50, 7.50 and 10.00
China Department
Special Jardeniere Sale
Welter's Art Pottery, large
Blzo Jardenierp,
only
25c
Wine Glasses,
for
5c
10-ln. Optic Crystal Vases, regular in
n an value, at
I luln White Cups and Saucers.
each
Decorated Cuspidors,
at
Ic
8c
vulnerable tpots, for the higher the sit
the fiercer fue draft and the more intense
the heat. 4
These being the conditions, what is the
result of the test? Two experts, Mr. Star
rett of New York, head of a company
which builds "skyscrapers," who went to
Ualtimore expressly to study the question,
and the head of a firm which takes such
contracts, who haa looked the ground over,
have reported and their reports confirm
each other. They state In substance that
the steel frames stood the test well and
that practically no harm was done a steel
1 ney lurwier KKI mv vi
terials brick Is the most satisfactory, and
of all flreprooflng material, concrete. The
two experts also are agreed that InHhis fire
ma-ble and plaster crumbled into lime, or
namental Iron and bronze work melted
down or buckled, all plplns for plumbing
and heating purposes was melted, likewise
all glass. Btone was badly chipped and
cracked and terra cotta facing fairly dls-
lntssrated. Aa to wood ln the sky
tl .
'ver " T the Tment
Even the wooden strip- ln the cment
1 wbur"e1' T" JVL
bare in which they had been laid. This Is
absolutely condemnatory of wood In a sky-
scraper.
The gist of these report, from the prac
ticnl point of view Is that a steel skeleton
, 1 icn sod In "hollow block" bricks, with n
j '''. P11"- tron br,rk farlnB' wlt
; al window frames and doors cement
casings and floors, and metal or fireproof
furniture, absolutely no wood. Is virtually
a fireproof building.
DEAD LETTER OFFICE SECRETS
Figures of s People's Carelessness
Present an Interesting; nodal
Study.
The somewhat melodramatic If not grtw
some sound In the title dead letter office,
the report of which the government biiuls
ln a pink cover (neaily red,), seems appro
priate to the matter; this is Information
0f the kind tliut tha social siuuent or
historian of civilization might find valu
able. The number of pieces of mail mat
ter of all kinds that cumo to the dead
letter office in the last liacal ear was
10,153,528; this waa an Increase of fc'4 per
cent over the previous year. While the
per cent of increase necessarily diminishes
I each veaP tha .uDerlntemltnt says a com
, parjson of the reports lor a series of years
' hows a heavy and continuous Increase
I eacn yeur. tllut u wa nre getting more
j Larele Instead of less 80. About seven
,ntn, ot the xotal was ordinary unclaimed
! lctter(ei whlch show, al ilu.rease of per
j tent over tbe previou, year.
Ordinary letters returned from foreign
countries Increaaed loo per cent; letters
with a return address increased slightly.
I There was an increase of nearly 7 per
cent In tha number of letters ami parcel,
held for postage. Misdirected letters and
here Is one of the strongest arraignments
of our intelligence numbered t9l,'J77 (this
did not Include postal cards), which was
an Inrreaso of 20 per cent, and Is unprece
dented. And whe would think that In the
course of the year Vs.'.Ctf persons had be.-n
to absent minded as to mail n.atier with
no atlilress at all (and among It letters
with money, jewels, cU-.)' But so It was
luit year. In round numb, is about 1'" let
ters a day last Uur wt-ie posted without
addresf en
Letters sent to hotels and falling of de
livery numbered I10.1M. at.l thu was a
slight decrease from the previous year.
There were 11.075 letters and p.ciages sent
U fkUUvua addiMkts, thia waj a decrease
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at the price. All hand-tailored. Come In
all the latest and most up-to-date styles
and fabrics. Fully equal In all respects to
suits your taHor would charge $20.tX to
isn.ov for.
Come Jn casslmeres. serges, Thlbets. tin
Inlshed worsteds, silk mixed worsteds,
Scotch cheviots and tweeds, In brown and
trrav mixtures, blues, blacks, fancy mix
tures, neat plalda, etripes and plain colors.
Do Not Fall to See
These Suits.
Our Prices for Saturday,
$10, $12.50 and $15
Drug Specials for
Saturday
Pozzonl Violet and Rose Talcum
Powder
Carter's Little Liver
Pills
60c Rubber Complexion
Brushes
Iltnd's iioney and Almond
Cream
Crepe l'aper batcl.et Powder,
all odors ,
Dr. Graves' Tooth
l'nwiler
. 9c
9c
21c
29c
...8c
12c
Iir. Charles' Flesh 4Qf
Food C
Dr. Woodbury s Facial
Son p
15c
I.-om the yeur before of nearly 40,000, but
In that year there had been from transient
cuuses (what, the superintendent does not
say) a phenomenal increase of more than
45.0IA).
About the same amount of money went
astray as ln previous years 448,634.04. It
came in 51,416 letters. Bubldes tills, ther.
waa $l,493.51.6o ln drafts, money otders,
checks, etc. There were deeds, wills, pen
sion certificates, insurance policies and such
things that found their way to the dead let
ter office. Nearly 8,000,000 pieces of matter
were held awaiting delivery, or filed be-,
cause they could not be delivered, and this
was an increase of about 176,000. The great
amount of this matter is due to the failure
of the writers to give their name and ad
dress and the sending of advertising and.
printed mutter under seal (which must b.
destroyed); also, because a large per cent
of the parcels do not contain merchandise,
but "catalogues and the like, medicines and
perishable articles, which must be de
stroyed." ,
Among other things that went to this
postofilce graveyard were 80,039 photographs
nnd 249.255 piece, of matter In which wer.
postage stamps an Increase of nearly 10 pel
cent. Here Is another curious thing: Thero
were separated from letters In the mall and
found loose In the mall and In post offices
$5,821 90 worth of stamps that could not ba
returned. If It Is any consolation to those
of ub thnt have waited for "the letter that
never came," It Is to be noted that the su
pcrintriirlent snys that about 7,W0 manu
script communications were received by the
office pertaining to the treatment of mall
inn t ter. As a matter of mall. It might be
suggested that perhaps If the male did bet
ter the mall would go stralghter. Indian,
spoils News.
EXTENT OF OPIUM INDUSTRY
Cultivation, Manufacture and ton
sumption of tho Drog In
creasing Steadily.
Few people have any Idea of the vast
areas given over wholly to the cultivation
of opium. The consumption and the manu
facture of this drug, far from being on the
decline, are on the Increase to un almost
incredible extent. The greed for gold la
far more predominant In the human make
up than is the philanthropic spirit which
Seeks to elevate inank!nd, though Its purss
may suffer In so doing. England reaps
more benefit from the cultivation of opium
than all other natloi.s put together.
In the district ot Bengal alone there are
nearly l.OGO.ooo acres devoted exclusively to
the cultivation of the poppy. Its cultiva
tion Is legalized and ln every way encour
aged by the Britifch government, which ha.
an absolute monopoly of ihls Industry In
India. The two principal district, are pre
sided over by and u'ider the direct control
of English official residing at I'atna and
Ghazlpur. The riahar agency embraces an
opium field of about 60O.O1O acres, and that
of Benares Is a close second, with 473 6 10
acres devoted to the cultivation of this
much-talked-of drug.
There is a fierce dispute going on Just
now a. to the relative merits or demerits
of opium. Many eminent men In the
scientific world openly declare that opium
Is a blessing.' The government experts in
the country when: It grow go ao far us tu
v that i.pi .in is a biessing Intle id of
lining a curse to the natives. However,
ti e vast mrjorlty of in 11k nd will I ig I
let the undivided oplnlrn that opium Is h
j m.n-t nil crushing curse that millets man.
I The ii'litisl.ists. or, rather, ext reniljt -y, of
the International Ant l-Opium society pic
ture the condition ot India under t .e hsil
i f opium In the most dreadful m miner p--
lhe. According xo one of thise men, Ml
of the ijmi.iio , hutuiM' '.I ii.gvi In As.
ure exposed to the vils of the u luui tride
s legalized by the llrliltu govtri.iiieut.
B'.-ieiiUlic American.