' wn if... , Sweet Caporal .357" 2.. A Little (9!. .§~.~ 8*"??? ' 51-55%»? ‘ SOLD BY ALL DEALERS. '1 x ,mm um“ w-~--~~"—-'.:m..n~.z.....:. SCORES OF; HUMAN WRECKS. Pitiable Condition of Shabby Gentility Seen at the National Capital. ‘ Washington has more than its share of “the cankers of a calm world and a long peace.” Some are reduced gen- tlemen, who just manage to keep their heads above water and maintain a deprecating front in their club and so- ciety. They are too lazy to work, says the Washington Post, and have long since run through with what little they have had ina brief splurge, and are now getting more shabby genteel and seedy looking every day. They retain, hoWever, the debonnair air of men of wealth and bear themselves bravely, but oh, the pinching and struggling to keep up appearances! 011, the sicken- ing ordeal of having to face the lodg- ing-house keeper, and, worst of all, the washerwoman! Oh, the mortification of belonging to a club, and being una~ blc to do more than sit in it, and stay there, to be marked by the servants as a poor devil who never by any chance is able to reciprocate hospitality or or- der anything, to have club dues amounting up with no prospect but through a loan to meet them; to have the cold shoulder shown by the very. men who helped him to run through his money, and who now give him a cool nod instead of both outstretched hands. This is the pity of it, yet there are men who endure it rather than leave Washington. Such is the upas tree ef- fect of the life here on them. Lower down in the social strata you find in these eddies of . the stream of humanity, the hotel corridors, regu- lar habitues, shabby genteel, social, political and business failures, lobby- ists, promoters, hangers-on of oficial magnates, men dismissed from the army and navy, cheap sporting “gents,” all with red noses to a man. Everyone of them has seen better days, and they all retain even at their shabbiest stage the manners of their prosperous years, but they are tainted with an element of fawning, and, sadder still, with a forced gayety and familiarity, painful to see and endure. Here is an ex-member of congress, shorn of his previous impor- tance and plumage, an exile and “back number” from his former district, who has turned claim agent, or is charitably supposed to be practicing law, .while sinking down lower and lower every day. Here is a once prosperous busi- ness man who seems to have taken a contract or' made a wager to drink up all the whisky in town. There a poor wretch who has spent the best years of his life in office, has lost his place and is now one of the procession of hotel corridor ghosts. There some broken- down politician, who has been hanging on here for years and has filed applica- tions enough for office to start a paper mill. The hotel corridors are havens of rest for these poor, harmless, heart- broken “cankers of a calm world and a long peace.” A MAN’S LAUGH. An Incident Which Goes to Prove That It Never Changes. If the Bertillon syctr‘r Pf identifica- tion had a phonogra;-:... '5.»..‘ of the laughs of criminals it would probably be as near perfect as an identification system can be. The fact that man comes into the world wailing has been regarded as a sort of prophecy'of the truth that as a rule the sorrows of life outnumber the joys when all the re- turns are in, but an optimist might see an opposite significance in the fact that a man’s laugh remains the same through all the changing years, When the cares of manhood succeed to the happy-go- lucky days of boyhood, says the Chi— cago Tribune, this laugh of his may be called into use, as it were, very little, but when it is put‘ into operation it is the same old laugh and every boyhood friend would know it instantly. An old soldier who fought through the war with Fred IIartwick, who drives a mail~collector"s wagon on the North side, happened to be in Chicago for a week not long since. He heard that Mr. Hartwick was on Postmaster Hesing’s staff and went to the federal building to find him. He took his sta- tion at a point. past which all the car- riers filed to report for duty and as Hartwick came along some one pointed him out. Without disclosing his own identity the veteran approached and began ask- ing Hartwick if he remembered various incidents in the history of that regi- ment during the war. Of course he did, and they soon fell into conversa- tion, organizing a kind of camp-fire, meeting between themselves. One member of the regiment was in busi- ness in New Orleans, another was in a bank down in the state, several were farming, one was the local manager for one of the big commercial agencies in one of the large cities, and so on. Several times Hartwick asked his old companion-at-arms his name, but the latter only smiled and went on with the conversation. Finally. when it became necessary for them to separate, as Hartwick was obliged to go out on his run, the man laughed as he said: “Well, Fred, I never thought you’d forget me after what we went through together.” . . “The minute he laughed,” said Mr. Hartwick, in relating the incident, “I knew just who he was and all about him, but I hadn’t seen him for thirty years, and he had changed so I couldn’t have told him from Adam. His laugh had grown older, too, of course, but it was the same old laugh.” How a Bull’s Signal \Vas Obeyed. One day recently while a. New York, Pennsylvania é: Ohio freight train was approaching Meadville at a rapid rate of speed, a most remarkable thing oc- curred. A brakeman, who was riding on the engine, happened to look back and saw what he supposed was the conductors arm waving frantically for down brakes. He notified the en- gineer, and an emergency stop was made, after which an investigation re- vealed the fact that what he took to be the conductor’s signal was only the tail of a big Texas steer that had in some manner protruded through a hole in the side of the car, and was waving with the wind. This is perhaps the first true story of a bull signaling a train to stop. 1 BASILICA OF PARIS. Little Has Been Heard of Late About the Progress of, Construction. Little has been heard of late about the progress of the construction of the 1Mont- martre hill, known as the Basilica of the Sacre Coeur, says the London Daily Telegraph. The vast. 1:35.". of masonry glistens in the Sun, which this after- noon was summer-like in its intensity. The Basilica dominates the metropolis of France by its towering height. It may be seen from various points along the boulevards, but hardly one ‘I’arisian in a hundred seems to take any interest in its existence. Pilgrims and religious people gen- erally flock to it as the sacred landmark of the Mount of Martyrs, but the ordi- nary citizen does not trouble about it. He is content to know that it is being built and that it will be finished some- time before the day of general judg- ment, like the Opera Comiquc, which is The building of the Basilica has now been so long in progress that it would be almost a relief to hear that, those who are organizing its construction had determined to take the scaffolding away and to let the church stand as an incomplete specimen of ecclesiastical architecture, like the Cathedral of Col- ognc. It is useless to tell Parisians, as they are informed to-day, after a long spell of silence, that the works of the Bas- ilica are being pushed forward with activity, and that 500 men are engaged in putting the big dome in position. It vas supposed that the dome in ques- tion would be ready last week, but now it is stated that it will require many months to complete it. The belfry will not be ready until the year 1890. The committee, down to July of last year, had received 27,504,000 francs, or £1,- 103,760. The subscription list was opened in July, 1873. but in spite of the large sum collected since that year, further appeals will have to be made to the faithful before they can hope to see the church even near completion. ALL LOVE A WIDOW. Let Her Be Young and Pretty and the Vi’orld Is Hers. I “If I were a woman—a young wom- an—it would be my first ambition to be a widow,” said a young man to the At- lanta Constitution man. “I was in a big store one morning and a pretty widow came in. She wore becoming black and a high and wide Gainsborough hat. The clerks rushed over one another to wait on her. “A little, insignificant looking fellow with a thin, sandy mustache and light hair was the lucky man. She gave him a smile that fairly made his head swim. “The other clerks were simply con- sumed with jealousy. “She wanted to look at some dress stufi and she toyed with it daintily. She paid more attention to the little clerk than to the goods. "She looked at every piece in the store and consumed three-quarters of an hour of the little fellow’s time. In the meantime a number of men came in and attempted to lounge around where they could get a good view of her. “Finally she bought one of the cost- liest pieces in the house and the clerk was so agitated he made three mistakes in fixing the check. “That was not all. She had» com pletely demoralized the whole store. » The clerks had eyes for nothing but. her. “And it was all because she was a widow and were black. ' There’s an oc- cult fascination about widows that I could never fully understand.” Queer Damage Suit. A man returning recently to a provin- cial town from Paris, with a port- manteau containing an urn in which had been placed the ashes of a leading citizen of the town, left the cremated remains in charge, temporarily, of the baggage master at a railroad station. By mistake the portmantcau was handed to another, and the family of the dead man have instituted a suit for damages against the company. To Remove That Tired , ‘xmv' , p, , ONLYWIJORL’S FAIR pari Ila Over Half a Century Old. Why Not (let the Best? _,___ AYER’S PiLLS cure Headache. also slowly rising,on its former site. _ I BRIDGEPORT, The , . o . ll). Nil. [fiend @®mromvo NO SIGNS OF A FALLING OFF In our Silk department. On the contrary popularity is increasing. All suggestiveness of extravagance has been removed by the decided low prices which now prevail, the whole tendency being lower and lower with every new invoice. I Several hundred yards Printed l-labutai Silks have just come in, something like 20 to 30 different designs and colorings that we shall offer for 29 cents a yard. A 290. silk that is at all pretty is almost an un- heard of price; but it is here this time—price, beauty, quality, quantity, everything Then there's a line of Jacquard Tafffet'asrinwalarigerariety of patterns and effects, hardly any two being alike, for 39 cents a yard. These were originally intended to be sold at a much higher price, but good mer- chandizing has lowered them to their present figure. And you are the gainer. Mozambique Dress Goods, just the thing for a stylish gown for general wear; antique in appearance and old fashio. ed for comfort, being made of the finest of mohair, silk and wool in a variety of colors. Very reasonably priced too. Also Landsdowne, in plain colorings of navy, brown, tan, myrtle and gray as well as in the two-tone, changeant effects. Rainbow Percalines, dress linings in beautiful shades to match every color in dress goods; handsomer than cheap China silks, at a quarter the cost. 20 cents a yard. Men‘s Golf Bicycle Stockings, in some of the most fetching Scotch effects worn. Nowhere in town that we know of can you find a more fash- ionable and popular line than here; no.“ at more reasonable figures. The Lining department is selling what they call the ‘ uncrushable col- lar,” a perfect interlining for the popu- lar high collar which gives such tone to the present style of ladies’ dress- lhey‘d like your opinion as well as heir own on it. 1. Her Husband Identifies the Body and . coruAu’s PARK VICTIM. Tells of Her Leaving Home. NEW YORK. May 15 —-William Scofzeld, saloon keeper. of Armonk, West-Chester. has identified the i ody of the Woman found dead in Van Cnrtlandt park yester- day as that of his wife. ” He was accompanied on his visit to the morgue by John Kingston, the man who identified the body, and by Postmaster William K. Haviland of Armonk. Sccfield came to the city in answer to a telegram sent to him by the police. He had been looking for his Wife since Mon- day. He said that his wife had been ill lately, and that she left home on Monday to go to Tarrytown to stay with friends until he could sell his saloon and determine on a new residence. She was driven to Torrytown by a hack- man, but did not stay there. Instead she came on to New York and to the house of John Kingston, at 836 East One Hundred and Sixty-eighth street. When the coachman returned to A:- monk. he told Scofield that his wife had gone to New York, and the husband im- mediately started for the city to find her. He found her baggage in the Grand Cen- tral station, and so learned that his Wife had gone to Kingston’s home. When he got there, however. on Tues- day, she had disappeared. . She had gone before the family got up in the morning. Scofleld searched for her in vain, and after notifying the police of her disappearance went home. Scofield said that he knew his wife had heart disease, and that she had been treated for it by Dr. Clark of Armonk for two weeks post. Captain Collins of the park police said that some of his men were working on the case in conjunction With the Kings Bridge police and central office detectives, trying to trace the woman’s movements from the time she left John Kingston’s house, in East One Hundred and Sixty-eighth street. on Tuesday morning until she was found dead. The fact that Coroners’ Physician O’Hanlon decided that the woman’s death was due to paralysis of the heart, and that the wounds on her head were not serious and were probably inflicted after death, does not clear up the case. This does not explain why so much blood was found in the thicket, on the stones and about the ground, nor why the man’s blood stained handkerchief was there, nor why the blood stains were cov- ered up with grass and leaves. Neither does it explain why the ashes of the fire were there. ’ Fighting Electric Railways. HARTFORD, May 15.—-Counsel for the New England railroad obtained a tempo- rary injunction against the Hartford Street Railway company, the General Electric company of New Britain and the Newing- ton Tramway company, restraining them from building the electric railway from Hartford to New Britain. . Murdered a. Schoolgirl. OTTUMWA, 10., May 15.—The body of Mame Peterson, a 16-year-old girl, was found with a bullet in the brain. She was going home with George Shutts, when some one came up behind and shot her. Ned Hemphill, her lover, has been arrested. Famous Southern Resort Burned. KNOXVILLE, May 15. —-—T-he famous Montvale Springs hotel, 30 miles from Knoxville, was burned; 1059, $80,000. The resort is one of the most famous in the south and was to open for guests J line 30. Fitz Hugh Lee's Son Goes to Cuba. HUNTINGTON, Va., May 15. —-Fltz Hugh Lee, Jr., who has been spending a year here, will start for Havana, where be 093 as private secretary to hi father, err-(gov- ernor Fitz Hugh Lee. cc 5111 general. A Church Burned. PHILADELPHIA, May 15.—St. Dominic‘s Roman Catholic church, at Holmesburg, a suburb of this city, Wan destroyed by me today. The loss is estimated at $40, 000. The origin of the fire is a mystery. “Baby” McKee’s Condition. SARATOGA, May 15.-—The condition of Benjamin Harrison McKee, who was re- ported seriously ill with pneumonia yes- terday, is unchanged. The BishOpric of Niagara. HAMILTON, Ont, May 15. —Canon Du- moulin of Toronto has accepted the call to the bishopric of Niagara. The Weather. Cloudy and showory; stationary tem- perature; southeasterly winds. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closing Quotations of the New York Stock Exchange. NEW YORK, May 14.—-Money on call easy 8.132% @8 per cent. Prime mercantile paper. m5” per cent. Sterling exchange easier, with actual business in bankers’ bills at $4.88}§@4.88§£ for demand and $4.87}§@4.87% for 60 days. Posted rates. 84'[email protected] and $4.89M0430. Commercial bills, 54.86%. Silver certificates, 67M@68%c.; no sales. Bar silver. 67%c. Mexican dollars. 53%0. Government bonds steady. State bonds inactive. Railroad bonds firm. Closing prices: Atchison.. 15% Bur. & Quincy.. . . "9% 0., 0.. C. & St. L. . 34 Chesapeake & 0.. 17 Chicago Gas...... 68% Cordage........... 4% Cotton Oil ..... . . . 1336 Del. & Hudson . . .125% Distillers’ Trust... 18% Erie............... 1456 General Electric.. 34% Hocking Valley... 18 Lackawanna. . . . . .161% Lake Shore. . . . . . . .149 Lead..... mm... 25 Louisville & Nash 51 Missouri Pacific.. 25% Northwestern . . . .104% New England.. ... 48 N. J. Control. . . . ..105 North American" 55: Northern Pacific" M Do. pref........... 12 N. Y. Central..... 97%.; Omaha............ Ontario & West . . 14% Pacific Mail....... 26 Reading........... 11% Rock Island 70% Silver Bullion"... 68 St. PERL-nu..." 77% Sugar Refining. . .1281 Texas Pacific. . . .. 8% Union Pool 0.... 8 Wabash pre .... .. 17 Western Union.. . 85 General Markets. NEW YORK. May 14.—FLOUR—-Stote and western quiet: city mills patents. $4.3W4-50: winter patents. [email protected]; city mills clears. [email protected]; winter straights. $8.40@8’.55. WHEAT—No. 2 red declined on rains in the winter Wheat. afterward rallying on covering; May. 69%®69%c.; J uly, 69 7-16@69%c. CORN—No. 2 quiet but steady: May. 35%c.s July. 365cc. OATS—No. 2 dull: track, white. state. 24%@ . 28a: track. white, western, 24%@28c. PORK—Dull: new mess. $8.75®9.75; family, $10-50@11. LARD—Steady: prime western. steam. 84.90 and nominal. BUTTER—Steady: state dairy. 10@15}éc.: state creamery, 11@1Gc. CHEESE—Quiet; state. 5®9§fic.: small, Qfi@lOc. EGGS—Steady: state and Pennsylvania. 10% @11c. :’ western. 9171.105“. SUGAR—Raw quiet and steady: fair-refin- ing. 3%c.; centrifu;:u.l. 96 test. 4Mc.: refined steady: crushed. 6c.; powdered. 599a RICE—Steady: domestic. 3%33604 Japan. 8% large. @4560. TALLOVV—Quiet: city. Slam: country.3%c. HAY—Easy: shipping. 7502800.: good choice. 9012.95c. t0 , Advertise in the GAZETTE. “Band. When love knocks at a wo- - ‘ man’s heart he T“ usually comes in ’- disguise. Doesn’t want it known what he’s up to. ‘I f she knew all . about the little rascal, would she let him in ? That’s a. question. Women are apt to look upon love and marriage asr‘purely a matter of sentiment and af- fection. That is pretty nearly right; yet there 15 a tactical, side to it too ; and the est way to preserve the ideal aspect of marriage and maternity is not to forget the practical part of it. A woman cannot be a thor- oughly hap y wife'and mother unless the istinctive physical organism of her sex is m a healthy and n."'~'—-.J.‘ l...{,¢_!_,L’__I / vigorous condi. tion. The best friend that we. man ever had is the “ Favorite _, \ Prescription,” of Dr. R. V. V Pierce, Chief Consulting Phy- sician of the Invahds’ Hotel 5 , ,. and Surgical Institute, Bufialo, “M, N. Y. The “Prescnphou,” 15 a. perfect and infallible remedy for every form of “female weakness.” It cures by restoring health and strength to the mter. nal organism, which cannot be reached b “ local ap lications ;” thus the cure is rad - cal, comp etc and constitutional. Dr. Pierce’s eminent reputation as a play- sician of wide learning; and .1118. specxal knowledge of the delicate and intricate or. ganism of women, accounts for the unpar- alleled confidence, which women place 111 his “Favorite Prescription,” over every other remedy. Its use cbvxates the neces. sity of dreaded “examinations” and the; stereotyped “ local treatments. " Dr. R. V. Pierce, Dear Sir :--I suffered fourteen years with female weakness, nervousness, and general debilit , trying everything I could fine to help me— 1 to no avail. I then heard of Dr. Pierce’s medicines and although I was thor- oughly discouraged, I thought I would try opcg more to find relief. I took your “ Golden Medics. 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