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10 THE PHILADELPHIA IKQUIKER-SinilDAY JUNE 3, 1900 1st Sec. VARIAG Oil TRIAL ill TheNewShoe Don't Cj? i k-1" or os is Mill' Ask ia wnrth a Tjound of cnre. Keen the disease. Abbey's To people who have all their lives considered new shoes synonymous with "Pinch" and "Squeeze," close-fitting comfortable shoes seem inconsistent. S0R0S1S SHOES, as we fit them, most convincingly prove the contrary.

We have them in forty styles, every leather, bpots and oxfords. Ask For mi mf Effervescent Salt "THE 'SALT' OF SALTS" used regularly aids digestion, promotes excretion, purinea the blood and clears the complexion. It prevents and cures -ri ft i 1 iiiin iWI nil nfw 1 1 vryrjd Constipation. Dyspepsia, Biliousness, dick xieadacho, Flatulency, Kidney and Liver troubles and all ills caused For iv alking, dress or sport, every style and height of heel, including Louis Xlf. Mill br a disordered condition INature's remedy, made from of juices of fresh fruits, pleasant to the taste with absolutely no reactionary or uupieasant results irom its constant use.

DR. C. CABLE. Brooklyn, savs I have four or five patients taking Abbey I think it the finest liver market, and hall certainly prescribe it iJi y'r CATALOGS READY. ZZZi Jj 25c 50c, At All For the Convenience THE ELEGANT STEAM YACHT ALCEDO In which Mr.

and Mrs. Geom W. Childs Drexel cruise abroad this summer. Th Drexels take with them a small party of New Yorkers and Fhiladelphians. ROBERTS' REWARD PROBABLY DUKEDOM Our Readers THE INQUIRER RESORT INFORMATION BUREAU Is Now Open for the Season of 1900 'i 9fefes, Time Tables, Booklets and alt dais, covering Country, Seashore and Mountain Resorts in the United States and Canada may be had on application to the Bureau.

SECOND FLOOR OF THE INQUIRER BUILDING i mm wmm SHOWS FUST HEELS Russian Cruiser Meets Expectations and Her Officers Are Enthusiastic GAVE SAILORS POINTS Fifty of Her Crew Taken on Board to Watch the Americans Manage Their Ship All roads lead to Rome and all the world are pupils at Uncle Sam's school. The new Russian cruiser Variag, built by the Cramps, returned to 'the shipyard at o'clock yesterday morning after her trial trip off the Delaware Capes. During her speed trial the vessel developed a speed ot ZZ Knots under natural draught, and with one of her boilers not in use. The contract calls for a speed of 23 knots an hour for twelve consecutive hours, and while the ship was not driven to that gait, the Cramps and the Russian officers are confident that the ship can come up to the requirements, and, better still, wiil enow 24 knots an hour under forced draught. RUSSIAN NAVY MEN" PRESENT.

The Russian Navy was well represented on the trip. Besides the commission of naval officers who have been here for two years watching the construction of the cruiser Variag and the battleship Rot-vizan, there was on board the stuff of othcers who will have charge of the ship when she goes into active service. The commission consisted of Captain Edward Nicolas Stchensnovitch, president of the commission; Colonel P. Tchornigovsky, Chief Engineer A. Captain vv.

x-ftroi, lieutenant f. JUakeacnsky, lhe stall ot the anag consists of Captain Vladimir Behr, Lieutenant E. C. Kraft. the executive officer; Lieutenant 3.

ju)el-goborodoff, navigator; Lieutenant S. D. Svorbeieff, Lieutenant P. Reichter, Chief XT' a i i TV ijujjuicai niwias Jills r.ii- gineer J. Boldatoff, Paymaster D.

S. Va-cilioff, Surgeon Med. A. Sohrt, Lieutenant Skorohodon. Other Russians on board were Baron Ferson, Naval Attache of the at Washington, and P.

Kalienikoff. The American Naw was represented by Captain W. S. Moore and Captain Kelly. BOILERS LARGEST IN WORLD.

The engines worked beautifullv and the vibrations were slight. Although one Doner was not use, the engines made 150 revolutions a minute and ran without water on the bearings. The particular feature of the Variag is the Niclausse water tube type boilers, and it is the first warshin ever built, in this. country to be fittecf with boilers of this type. Her installation of water tube boilers is the largest in the worid, the English warships Terrible and Powerful, sister ships, standing second in this respect.

There are thirty boilers in all in the Variag, with 9240 tubes, which irive a heatingsurface of 55,000 square feet. The variag was out since last Tuesday, reaching the Delaware Breakwater that night. The cruiser put to sea on Wednesday morning for a 24-hour run up the coast to Shinnecock, Long Island. During this run the guns were fired as the ship was driving at a 21-knot clip. Her stability under fire of the aruns was se verely tested.

The Russian officers claim that the Variag has as heavy a battery as any warship of her type in the world. She carries twelve 6-inch rapid-fire Canet type guns, twelve 75-millimeter rapid-fire Canet guns, eight 47-millimeter rapid-fire Hotchkiss euns. two 37-millimeter ranirl- fire Hotchkiss, and two 2 -inch Baran-ovski field guns. FIRING WAS SUCCESSFUL. The 6-inch weapons 'were fired singly, exceDt the (runs of the i after rnilwarfc.

which were let go in pairs. The bow and stern 6-inchera were fired across the decks, winch is considered the severest test that can be given a ship. The 75-millimeter (3 inches) guns on the port side simultaneously. It took two days to thoroughly test the ship in this respect, and not the slightest weakness was found anywhere. The guns, which were made at the Abunon gun iactory, near it.

Petersburg, worked smoothly and easily. Solid shot was fired from all the guns, the 6-inch guns carrying armor-piercing projectiles a distance ot irom eight to ten miles. RUSSIANS GET POINTS. Of the one hundred Russian sailors now here fifty were taken on the trip. Of these twenty were gunners, and tne oth ers engineers and firemen.

While the speed test was being made the Russians were sent below to' watch the American en gineers and firemen while at work under pressure, lhe foreigners were greatly impressed with the dexterity with which the men went about their work. The construction of the Variaar was be gun in 1S98, and the vessel was launched last October. She has a length over all ol 4zo teet; her beam is o2 feet; draught, 19 feet 6 inches, and displacement, 6500. Her complement when in commission will be 21 officers and 559 men. The official trial will be held in Julv.

ana in august me snip will go into com mission. CBOWN OF RUSSIA The crown of Russia Is at Dresent nre- sumably the richest In diamonds, says Chambers journal. Besides several valu able collections In the inmerlal treasurv. there are three crowns entirely composed of these stones. That of Ivan Alexlowltch contains tnat or the Oreat 847 and that of Catharine II 2538.

One of Its most remarkable diamonds is the now set in the top of the imperial scepter. ana on mis account is sometimes called the "Scepter" diamond. The hlstorv of mis Bioue nas Deen mucn mixea up wltn that of the "Moon of the Mountain," another great diamond in the possession of the Czar. The most authentic account appears to be that it formed one of the eyes of the Hindu god Sri-Ranga, to whom was dedicated a magnificent temple situated on a fortified island in Mysore. A rencn deserter from the Indian ser vice, who had been at work In the neisrh- borhood of this temple, hearing of the idol's "beaux yeux," determined to be come their possessor.

As no Christians were permitted within the nrecincts of the pagoda, he, in order to sain the confidence or the priests, became a devotee, and so ingratiated nimseir with the Brahmans that they confided to him the Kuardlanshin of the inner shrine, which contained tha idol. Watchlne his opportunitv. one Stormy night he succeeded in forcing one of the eyes out of its socket and fled with it to Madras, where he sold the gem to an English sea captain for 2000, who in turn disposed of It for 12,000. It was then purcnasea Dy Jtwojen, a 1'erslan merchant, who at Amsterdam, when on his wav from England to Russia, met Prince Orloff. The Prince, In order to regain the favor of Catharine II, under whose displeasure "ha had fallen, bought the gem from the mer-ahant for the sum of 90,000 and an annuity of -4000 and presented it to his im perial mistress, wno had previously declined the purchase as too costly, but now accented the trulv roval elft from hoi- il lustrious supiect.

The diamond weiehs 194 karata ana lts estimated value is In size it ranks first among European gems and in beauty yields the palm to the "Regent" only. It is said that Wilkle Collins novel "The Moonstone," was suggested by this stone. Apparently Lucid Interval "This," said the man who was driving the visitors through the grounds of the lunatic asyium, "is an inmate who is incurable, but perfectly harmless. He is permitted to wander anywhere he chooses inside the inclosure." At this the harmless lunatic, sitting on the grass under a tree, with a book In his hand, looked up and saw them. "Thfee big men," he called out, "and one poor horse to pull them! And it's Sunday, too! Gentlemen, I'd rather be your prayer book than your horse.

It isn't worked as hard!" And as the party drove on he resumed his book and his ordinary condition of incurability. Chicago Trlbun. ikwin 1 frvm 4-Vt A V.1 wvrf-tn the stomach and bowels. It is the salts extracted irom tne Salt regularly with great benefit. and Intestinal Invip-orator on the and 81 per bottle.

druggists'. of MALE HELP WANTED Advertisements under this claaciflcatlon le. eer word If prepaid. 10c. per line when chanted.

BARTENDERS and waiters wanted at Central Perk, Flftn and Cayuga Monday- MAN wanted to take off quantities for cement work and follow up estimates: one experienced, accurate and who has knowledge of the bulld-lntr trade: state age. experience, references, ability and aalury to start. Address 266, Inquirer office. OYSTER OPEXER Wanted young man lo open oysters and to attend Ice cream saloon. Call Sunday P.

1111 Poplar st. FEMALE HELP WANTED Advertisements under this elasslOeatlon le. per word if nreoaid. 10c per line wheu cbarced. COOK, colored, flrst-clais; private family; for seashore.

Call 623 8. aevenleenth st. HOUSEWORK Girl wanted. 21 lO Park ave. SITUATIONS WANTED.

MALE Advertisements under this classification c. ENGINEER, practical experience, and married mau. desires permanent situation; best reference and license. $15. 988, Inquirer branch office, 1909 Ridge avenue.

SITUATIONS WANTED. FEMALE Advertisements under this classification c. per wora. DRESSMAKER wishes few more, day or week. will go to seashore or country.

96, Inquirer office. SEAMSTRESS companion or managing housekeeper; young woman wants a position. 288, Inquirer office. WOMAN A young woman desires a position of trust: highest reference given. 988, Inquirer branch office, 1909 Ridge avenue.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES WANTED Acquaintance with person capable of forming stock company for medical specialty already on the market. Address 240. Inq. off. ROOMS TO RENT OGDEN 2014 terms moderate.

-Second floor, unfurnished; TWENTIETH, 800 Very large splendidly furnished second front, light housekeeping; reasonable; corner. TWENTIETH 807 For rent, two nicely furnished rooms for housekeeping; small private family. BOARDING NINTH 8., 253 Rooms, with board. If aesirea. COUNTRY BOARDING FINE PRIVATE place will take boarders for summer or year, large rooms and lawn, St.utJ to S3.0O.

Fred. Nagel. Telford. Pa. WALL PAPER ROOMS PAPERED, fl.50 up, paper Included.

send postal, will bring samples. 8S1 W. Gl-rard ave. DIED BAESSLER. On June 2, 1900, of diphtheria, Oscar son of Oscar and Elizabeth Baessler, aged 4 years.

Burial Sunday, June 8, from 43o Edmund street, Frankford, No funeral. COATES. On June 2, 1900 Sarah Mills, widow of the late Thomas Coates. in her 67th year. The relatives snd friends of the family are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral unlKM nn Tiieariav.

11 no nt 2 n'clnclc mt the residence of ber son, Thomas Coates, 4341 Josephine street, Frankford. Interment private at North Cedar Hill Cemetery. ELDRIDGE. On June 1, 19O0, M. Ellen, wife of S.

S. Eldridge. and daughter of Mary Q. Logan. Funeral from 2538 Ridge avenue.

MCALLISTER. June 1, 19O0. Charles McAllister, aged 02 years. Due notice will be given from the residence of his niece, Mrs. Holllngs-worth, Elmwood.

FLETCHER. Suddenly, on June 1, 1900, Philip F. Fletcher, aged 60 years. Funeral on Tuesday morning, at 8.30 o'clock, from 1131 Snyder avenue. Solemn reauiem mass at the Church of the Epiphany.

League of the Sacred Heart and Altar Society of the Church of the Kplpbany invited. Interment at Holy Crosa Cemetery. GAFFNEY. On June 2, 1900, Christopher, the husband of Mary Gaffney, aged 60 years. Funeral on Wednesday, at 7.30 o'clock, from Sprsgue and Locust avenues, Germantown.

Solemn hlg( mess at St. Vincent de Panl Church. New Cathedral Cemetery. HAGERTY- On June 1, 1900, Stella Mar, daughter of Michael and Maggie Hagerty, aq grand-daughter of the late James and Cathart Ford. Due notice of funeral will be given, from 821 Qneen street.

Pottsville papers please copy. MATTHEWS. On June 1, 1900, Brlee Lewis, the only child of Thomas and Mary Ella Matthews, and grandchild of George and Amanda L. Gideon, aged 2 years and 6 months and 2 weeks. Funeral on Monday, at 3 o'clock, from 2719 West montgomery avenue.

Interment at Mount Peace Cemetery. NORCROSS. At Mount Holly, N. June 2. 19O0.

Carrie D. Norcross, wife of Thorns L. Norcross. Formerly of 2019 Westmoreland street. Philadelphia.

Due notice of funeral will be given. WOODS. On June 1, 190O. Margaret, the wife of Bernard Woods, aged 73 years. Funeral on Tuesday, at 8.30 o'clock, from 2114 Christian street.

Solemn high mass at St. Cbarlea Barro-meo Church, at 10 o'clock. Interment private. The I'npleaiant Kind Miss Barkis "I suppose you never dream of marrying?" Bondsby "Oh, sometimes sf ter a late and particularly Indigestible Truth, To B9 ALWAYS Fitted WIDTHS AAA TO E. 1314 Chestnut St.

A PALMISTRY PARTY A Sew Way to Make the Long Even ingrs Pass Pleasantly If you are looking for something new in the way of parties, try giving a palmistry party, is the advice of Geneva Marsch in tlje Woman's Home Companion. Every one nowadays likes to delve a little into the occult and telling fortunes bv the lines of the hands has Deen reduced to a science, and vou need not fear but that you will have a successful evening. The invitations should have on the front page a hand, drawn with palm uppermost showing the main lines of the hand anc cabalistic signs, figures and letters. The invitations may read like any similar in vitations, and in the lower leit-hand cor ner the word mask. Of course, that part is optional, but the party will be merrier to have every one mask.

The decorations should consist of every thing uncanny and grewsome that you can devise, such as serpents in all attitudes, bats, owls, cats and witches, cut out of black cambric and fastened. ur in every available space in the room where the palm-reading is to be. Also skulls, cross-bones, moons, suns and stars, cut out of sheet wadding and interspersed with the black, will add greatly to the effect. The lights should be carefully adjusted in this room so as to give the proper ghostly aspect to the scene. A professional fcalm-reader would be a great addition, but failing that, get a book on palmistry, and with what you can learn from it and what you already know of your friends you can make many hap py nits.

J. he palm-reader should, be dressed in true witch stvle. and be masked. The menu should be about the same as for anv similar ffatherinor. and the crew- some decorations should not be carried out at the table, as delicate palates may not appreciate tie effect.

Over the table, so that it can be lowered and passed to each guest as a signal to leave tne taoie, snould be a small fancy basket, containing bonbons done up in tne fringed tissue-paper in true motto style. Around the bonbon should be some "message of fate," written on a narrow piece of paper and tied in place with one end of a piece of baby ribbon, one color lor ladies and one for gentlemen. The ribbon should be arranged in true "cobweb" style. The ends when found should have some appropriate souvenir attached. At intervals along the ribbon should be tied other bonbons and "messages." This method of ending the supper serves to break up the supper couples and start the merriment going again without anv wait.

following are a tew messages. Anv- thing said in a trite wav will answer: "A new lover, but not the right one You will soon have a pleasant adventure." "A hasty quarrel through a trifle." "A long sail on the wi3e ocean." "You will soon change your pleasant abode." "A letter of great importance." "A new offer." "The lover is sincere." "It will end in marriaee' "Fate has good things in store for you. One might go on indefinitely, but these will suffice as a suggestion. WOMAN LIKE RIP VAN WINKLE Groping in Memories of Fifty Years Aaro "Be you a constable?" It as a aucer. little old woman with old-fashioned bonnet cocked on her head and one of the old-time carpet basts of about the year 1840 in her hand who asked Tne question.

She asked It of Policeman Buzzard, an impressive Ioofrinsr bluecoat. who stood swinging bis club at the corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue, isew xom city. He looked down Into the kindly, wrinkled old face with its alert, twinkling eyes, and whatever inclination he had to soar Into superior realms of dignity died within him. "Yes, ma'am," he said respectfully, "I am a constable. Sometimes they call me a copper.

But I am a genuine constable for all that." "Then," said the old woman, "tell me. am 1 in the city of ew York?" "Yes. said Buzzard gravely. you are in the city of New York." "Well, now, what I want to ask of you. Mister Constable," said the old lady earnestly, "is jest how I can git over to Brooklyn vllltgo." "I think," said Buzzard, "you had better come around with me to the police station.

They will tell you all about It there." The old lady gave him a shrewd glance of suspicion, but his uniform and his shield seemed to reassure her, and she wentit with him, always tightly clutching the carpet bag, which flopped uncomfortably against her faded black gown as she walked. She looked to be quite 80 years old. but she stepped out quite nimbly. At the Thirtieth street police station Sergeant Ccnboy and acting Captain Welslng questioned her kindly and she told her story. She said her name was Martha Washburn.

She was born in Maine, but for the past fifty years she had lived in Sacramento, Cal. She had revisited her home in Maine, and was now on her way back to California. "Hav you any money?" asked Captain Welsing. "Oh, yes," she replied. "I've got fifteen rents.

That's enough to get me over to Brooklyn village. There's a man there named Heyle. I knew him forty years ago and he's in ti railroad business. If I caa git to him he'll give a pass on the cars out to Sacramento." The old lady absolutely refused a proffer of food and was inclined to be decidedly offanded at being considered an object of charity. "When I want any vittles," she said, "I'll ask for 'em, and when I ask for 'em I'll buy 'em." She was taken In charge by the matron.

The police believe her story and think provision will be made to send her to California. Xew York O'Malley's Haversack During an advance in Manila recently one company had to lie down at the side of the road for shelter from the well-directed volley of the insurgents. One of the privates had dropped his haversack in the middle of the road away back, and, after the company had laid down, he calmly stood up and walked down the road towards the lost haversack. He made a fine target for the insurgents, and the bullets rattled around him pretty livelv. "Here, come back here, O'Malley," yelled the lieutenant of the company: "you will be killed." "Well," replied O'Malley over his shoulder, "I might jest as well be killed as have General Otis a.

runnin' me up hill and down dale and comin' over to me house ivery mornin and a-saym Maliey, why don you pay the government for that Then he calmly walked on, and got the lost piece of property, and, as he came back and sat down just in time to escape a volley of Mausers, he threw the haversack on the ground and said: "And when he does come to-morrow mornin' to me house I'll say, 'Otis, me little man, you're dead wrong. I never lost no haversack. There's your bloody old potato bag. Take it to the government with mo compliments." Chicago Tribune 3 I Else Left Big Enough Cabul, Kandahar Pretoria ROBERTS, V. sent on special service against the hill tribes on' the northwest frontier of India, taking part in the storming of Laloo and the destruction of Mulkah.

His oooortunitv came with the outbreak of the Afghan war, in 1878, Shere Ali, the Ameer, had become estranged from the British Government and, despite the i 1 i agreement placing Aignanistau uuwme ui the sphere of Russian influence, had welcomed a Russian embassy to his capital, Cabul. In answer to a request, he had refused to receive a British mission. It was this refusal which led. to war. MARCH TO CABUL.

In October, 1878, a British column, for service the lvurram alley, was lormea at Kohat. General Roberts was placed in command. The Kurram Valley is dominated by a range of mountains some feet high. Its width varies from twelve miles in the broadest to two miles in the narrowest part. The surrounding country is wild and difficult, with tremendous mountain defiles and narrow plateaus, only rearhed by a track winding through a pine forest.

Yet Roberts fearlessly threaded it, and on December 2 forced in brilliant fashion the Afghan stronghold on the peak of Peiwar, Kotul. This feat practically brought the war to a close. Before the end of December Jelalabad was occupied without resistance, and Kandahar a little later, here Ali fled from Cabul and died in exile. His son, Yakub Khan, was proclaimed Ameer in the following month. Peace was proclaimed and and 'English protectorate was established over Afghanistan.

General Roberts, for his share in the victory, received the thanks of both houses of Parliament and the Knight Commander-ship of the Bath. He wintered in the Kurram Valley, whence he was compelled to issue to avenge the murder of the entire British Embassy at Cabul by the revolted troops of the Ameer. With a force of 6000 men he took possession of that city on October 12, 1879. In June, 1880, Ayoob Khan, a younger brother of Yakub, proclaimed a holy war against the British and marched against Kandahar, which was still in their possession. On July 27, 1880.

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toco. a uoo av is-'it 4-fcr sale at iUl 0 01 Front' 4- SIZES 1 TO 9. Q. P. SNYDER THE DEAD MOON fTbe Belief That It Hu Any Infin ence on Our Weather Is Absurd If reflect that the ntoon Is dead and does not have any air, even, upon It, that it always shows the same face to the earth, that Its Changes are simply due to changes In Its position aa respects the earth, and sun, and that its varying appearances are all borrowed, we see how absurd the notion Is that the moon does Influence our weather.

There Is, however. another argument that appears quite valid at first sight. If the moon can raise a tide of 60 feet in' the ocean, why may It 'not raise a. tremendous tide in the extreme- tr tenuous air. 800 times lighter than wa ter, or a tide of about feet, and If so, It seems easy to see that such a commotion would affect our weather enor- TT nu siv.

The tide of sixty feet (the highest in the world) is experienced only in the Bay 01 Fundy, and Is due to ihe configuration of the Atlantic coast. In the open Pacific the tide is only a little over one root. Most careful observations of a lunar atmospheric tide have been made at St. Helena in mid-ocean and have shown a tide a little more than .001 inch. Since ordinary weather changes affect the pressure a thousand times as much, we see how extremely Insignificant the moon's total effect must be.

There is a common saying, "The full moon has power to drive away clouds," and some computations seem to. bear out this idea. If any one will look to the east as the rising full moon shines through the clouds, he will often see the clouds disappear. There Is a natural explanation for I this however, and In no wise dependent upon the moon. A long series of observa- tlons have shown a diurnal range in cloudiness with a minimum point or time of least clouds, from 6 to P.

hence we see that, as the full moon rises and advances in the sky during this period, there wll? often appear a diminution of clouds. Lord Rosse turned his big reflecting telescope (so big that a tall man walking erect In it could carry a spread umbrella) toward the moon and found that, if anything, the earth received just a little chilling from the full moon. More recently the cyclometer, an Instrument which can measure less than one millionth of a degree of temperature change, has shown that the earth receives a tiny bit of heat from the full moon. The evidence Is cumulative and overwhelming that no weather changes can be ascribed to the moon. Popular Science.

STRANGE RIVERS OF PACIFIC, Streams of Stones That Flow Down and of Sand That Flow Upward "Almost every one thinks that perforce river must be of water," said a man on the little car that winds up Mt. Lowe, In the Sierra Madres. "but It Is by no means necessary. As an example, look at this," and the speaker pointed up the steep slope of the mountains as the car passed the curve. Beaching from the track, which, indeed, had crossed it, was a mass of stones, some larger, some smaller than a walnut, that extended upward as far as the eye could see.

The grade was very steep, and to all intents and purposes a river of stone was imperceptibly flowing down. "It's a perfect river of rock," continued the passenger. "Some peculiar atmospheric effect is continually wearing It away or breaking It out, so that It crumbles and gradually rolls down In a well-defined sbaoe -a veritable stream gradually making fts Way into the canyon bottom. "In a few quarters of the globe similar rivers can be seen, and nowhere are they more interesting than on the Pacific coast. The site of the city of San Francisco is the bed of an interesting sand river that even, to-day is flowing in from the Pacific toward the city.

'If an excavation Is made In the heart of San Francisco to-day beneath the pavement of the streets will be found a vast deposit of sand, and this can be traced from the bay to the sea. about six miles, forming a well-defined stream. "The city has covered up much of it, but out near the park the stranjre waves of the sand river are seen in mounds, heaps and dunes carved Into curious shapes by the wind, and by watching these during the prevalence of the almost constant trade wind the passage of this river of sand can observed. Over the surface a constant flow of sand Is ever moving on to the east. "The sand river of San Francisco is formed by the trade wind.

'Hundreds of Tears ago it began blowing the light sand from the seashore near the famous seal rocks, and unchecked, it traveled on in a never-ceasing stream until it reached the bay of San Francisco, five miles away. This river of sand forms the sand lots of San Francisco history." Sand rivers of remarkable size and Interest can be observed on the Island of San Clemente. From the summit of some of the hills the island on the west elope appears to be covered with glaciers that fill the deep canyons, which at one time bore water down to the sea. They are of sand, and instead of flowing down they flow upward. Some are evidently 100 feet in depth and filled from top to bottom with sand that Is ever reaching up, threatening the island or portions of It with devastation.

In walking over the surface of one sand river the writer suddenly found himself on the edge of a remarkable pit or de- Eression lOO or more feet deep and per-aps 100 feet across. The sides were of pure gray sand, carved by the wind so perfectly that the surface was smooth as though polished. It was a pit or cone hollowed out by the wind, and at the very bottom was a small bare place and a tree showing how deep the sand deposit was. The pit was at an angle of perhaps 60 degrees, and by jumping from the edge one would slide the thirty or forty feet and find It difficult to make the return In the sliding sand. TJear here several smaller pits were found, Illustrating the peculiar power of the wind.

New York Sun. Training- Cavalry Horses Togetfier with the new recruits for the Philippine -campaign several shiploads of cavalry horses are now on their way to It is a source of wonder to many persons how cavalry horses are trained to become accustomed to tire and military life in, general. Each horse for our cavalry erviee costs the War Department about $65 In the initial stage. This is trhat the government paid for the unbroken bronchos that were acquired for the Rougn Ki-aers last year, ana we enormity of this price was one of the standing Jokes among tbe cowboys and horsey men who served in the ranks under Wood? and Roosevelt. The real value of the mounts was determined later at the government auction sales next autumn, when most of the horses were sold under the hammer for bids ranging from $5 to $70.

The aver- age price fetched was $25, but even this was paid for sentimental reasons rather than for the actual quality of the horse flesh. As a rule, though, most of the Horses secured for the regular cavalry are -worth their full price, and are apt to advance In value as they continue In service. Mares and stallions are barred. After a horse has been accepted for the service it is branded with the letters U. and has the same initials carved Into one forward hoof.

Then, it is broken to the saddle at one of the government riding schools. The most trying part comes when the horse has to make its first acquaintance with fire. However easy it has been to train up to this point, every horse becomes frightened when guns begin to go off. One plan adopted is to strap the animal down to a olank and fire revolver shots near Its head, accompanied by the rattle of tins. After a few weeks of this training shots can be fired with Impunity near the horse's ear, and It will do little more than start.

Then it is fit to be ridden In line under fire, and a month of such practice closes Its military education. Such education once acquired Is never forgotten by horse. Collier's Weekly. it 1ZZZZHlZZZSi SUMMER LORD ROBERTS' BLOODLESS VICTORY Liberals Disheartened A Disso lution of Parliament Might Mean Conservative Success KHAKI CAMPAIGN Lord Salisbury Very Unlikely to Retire From Service While the Queen' Lives Special Cable to The Inouirer. ConvriBht.

1900, br the New York Herald Commnr. The Herald's European edition publishes tne loiiowing trom its correspondent: render of Pretoria andJohannesburff will put an end to the war so far as military operations of the regular armies are concerned. The pacification of the Transvaal is another matter, and may take some time. TVia l-ri11ioTf 1 ol. most bloodless success ot lxrd Koberts will, of course, add to the popularity of the government.

It also forces into still greater prominence the question of an early dissolution. Will it be in July? Will it be in October? Will it be next year? No body, of course, knows, because the Cabi net, who can do as they please, have not made uo their minds, liut there is all the more reason why every one should guess. I must candidly own. that a general election this year is now regarded as more probable tnan when I wrote last week, ilr. Chamberlain is understood to be pressing for it, and as he always knows his own mina ana is wnouy aDsorDed in politics, which his colleagues are not.

he untmllv has his way. lhe great turn over of votes in South Manchester gives him an opportunity of arguing mai mere is a nae in tne anairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Lord Beaconsfield would not take it in 1878, and suffered a disastrous defeat in 1880. On the other hand, there are men of longer Jfarliamentary experience than Mr. Chamberlain who do not care to play his game, and who regard a "khaki" victory with some misgivings.

The temptation, no doubt, is great, for an appeal to the country in July might almost wipe the liberal party out of existence. The liberals are for the moment disheartened, disorganized, divided on the justice or the war and divided on the wis dom and morality of annexation. Some of them will have no leader but Lord Rose-bert-, who, however, shows no inclination to lead them. Sir Henry Campbell-Ban-nerman has tried with great tact, skill and temper to please both the sections. He has in a measure succeeded, but the party is in such condition that it is not lit to fight, even if it be not fit to die.

It is possible that by going to the country next month the government might increase their plurality from a hundred and thirty to two hundred. The wise Conservative, however, aloes not like to see Liberalism as a restraining force disappearing from politics. It would leave him, so to speak, at the mercy of his own tact. The prudent Conservative knows that even the government of his choice, or, at least, nis preierence, requires organized opposi tion to keep it in check. When Mr.

Glad stone dissolved Parliament suddenly in lOiii tne Dye elections were going against him. No government has yet dissolved because the bye elections were going in its favor, for the fact is evident, so far as it goes, that the House of Commons still represents the emintry. Mr. Chamberlain, I have no doubt, would much rather there was no opposition at all He cannot understand how too little may be a bad thing, or too much a good. or how anything legal can be unfair in politics.

However, his legitimate ambition is not yet satisfied to be Colonial Secretary. If he were Foreign Secretary he would want to be Prime Minister. His best chance is an early election, and he knows it. The Liberal protests against dissolu tion are weakened by their avowed allegiance to the principle of short Parliaments. Nor would they be considered in any case.

If the Liberals are not ready for a general election, that is their own lookout. They should have thought of that and adopted a policy before. Lord Salisbury, with whom the matter really rests has to consider many things, things not known to" the public as well as things that are. There is trouble in other parts of the world besides South Africa. China' trembles on the verge of collapse and foreign partition.

The relations between Russia and Japan, which may at any time involve England, are severely strained. The obscure disturbances on the frontiers of Algiers and Morocco, though they directly concern no European country except France, are regarded with anxious interest by the statesmen of all nations. The rising in Ashantee, of which the Colonial Office has made so light, looks more serious every day. The French Government is friendly, but its position is precarious. If the Nationalists come into power, relying on the army, they might rush or be driven into war.

No one knows the consequences to which the worst famine that ever desolated India may lead. The time is not pro pitious tor the aaaea turmoil ot electioneering. The Prime Minister, in his speech on Tuesday evening, gave no hint of such a thing: It has perhaps been too hastily assumed that Lord Salisbury will retire after the elections, whenever they come. He is 70 years old, but his health is good, and his-mind has certainly lost none of its natural vigor. There is a rumor, neither tmfounded nor improbable, that while the Queen lives he will not of his own free will leave her Majesty's service: That would not.

of course, preclude him from deputing the Foreign Office to a colleague and remaining Prime Minister himself. Mr. Balfour would, I believe, give universal satisfaction as Foreign Secretary. The idea of Chamberlain in that post fills diplomatists with sentiments for which is perhaps too strong an expression, but distrust certainly too week. There Seems Nothing for the Man of and GENERAL LORD Kroni The Inquirer Bureau.

NEW YORK, June 2. The Herald to- moirow will print the following: Sir Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Baron Roberts, of Kandahar and Waterford, K. G. C. G.

C. I. V. D. C.

LL. ia to-day the biggest in England. He will probably be the next duke of the United Kingdom. A dukedom is the most gigantic thing that a man not born of the blood royal can achieve in the Kingdom of Great Britain. It means per sonal and social importance next to that of the members of the reigning family.

ct this distinction faces the little Irish fighter whd has conducted the war in Afri ca to a successful issue, just as it faced that other Irish fighter, Arthur Wellesley, when he returned from Portugal, in 1814, as the first European warrior who had suc cessfully competed with Isapoleon Bona parte. "His popular nickname of 'Bobs' implies affection without irreverence. He is and has ever been the idol of Tommy Atkins. In India he was worshipped by Tommy Hindu. In Egypt he won similar devotion from Tommy Copt.

The deep hold he has established over the affections of the British public was evidenced by the enthusi asm which greeted him when on the milk-white palfrey that had borne him from Kabul to Kandahar he rode in the Diamond Jubilee procession of the Queen. He has been sung by poets, including Rudyard Kipling. He has been praised by historians, all save himself, for in the autobiography which he recently published he giv3 the credit for his victories to the valiant men in his command. Just as it was the custom of the old German Emperor to ascribe all his victories to heaven, so it is the habit of Lord Roberts to render tVinnltn for all Viia triumnha to the High landers and the Sikhs and the Dogras w-ho accompanied him on his famous marches. On December 12.

1851. he received his first commission, as a second lieutenant in the Bengal Artillery, sailing for India early, in 1852. He first joined his regiment at Dum-Dum, and then served at Peshawer as aide-de-camp to his father. HIS FIRST COMMISSION. Less than five years after young Rob erts' return to India the mutiny broke out at Mecrut.

Delhi was seized by the dis affected Sepoys. Roberts was among the officers in the column that marched upon the captured city. He tells us that he woke up on June 29, the morning after their arrival, before Delhi, full of delight at finding himself one of a force which had already gained immortal renown. In the months of deSDerate fighting that fol lowed, he acted on Lord Wolseley's advice to all young officers, and tried his hardest to get himself killed. After the relief of ljucknow, a column under Sir Hope Grant went in pursuit of the rebels to KJiodaeuni.

Here Koberts won the Victoria He had just saved a native officer's life when he saw-two. Sepoys carrying off the colors. He dashed after them, slew one, rescued the standard and brought it back in triumph. But he onlv succeeded because a musket Dressed against his body by the other Se poy missed fire. Koberts first acquaintance with the Afghans was gained in 1863, when he was "rrTyx mmW9m 4ppfe force succeeded in making good their escape to Kandahar, which was garrisoned by General Primrose.

An attack on that city seemed imminent. Ayoob hesitated, however. The opportunity was lost. MARCH TO KANDAHAR. Meanwhile, at Cabul, a bold resolution had been taken.

Sir Frederick Roberts, with a force of some 10,000 picked men, marched out to Cabul to the relief of Kandahar. Cut off from all communication with civilization, this little band disappeared, as it were, from human ken for three Anxiety in England ran to fever heat. At last they emerged trium-Dhant from the trackless region between Cabul and Kandahar. They had marched 318 miles in twenty-three days, including two halts. They had hurried over lofty summits, through deep defiles, past towns and fortresses, trustintr lamely to local supplies for their commissariat, paralyzing hostile tribes by their quickness of action.

Pausing onlv a day or two to reconnoi tre Ayoob lvhan position, Roberts on September 1 hurled himself on the Afghan forces, cut them to pieces, captured all their artillery and sent the Pretender scur-ryin? back to Herat, with only a few hundred followers left out of the many thousands who had routed General Burrows. A more brilliant feat of arms is not recorded in modern military annals. It brcught the troubles in Afghanistan to an end. Since then, under the rule of Ameer Abdool Rahman Khan, a protege of the English, its internal dissensions have never seriously threatened the peace of the East. Curiously enough, just as some authors have peculiar idiosyncrasies as to the relative merits of their works, so Lord Roberts, when he went back to England on sick leave in November, 1880, was much surprised, he tells us, to find the kind people by whom he was so greatly honored invariably appeared to think the march from Cabul to Kandahar was a much greater performance than the advance to Cabul in the previous autumn; while to my mind the latter operation was in every particular more difficult, more dangerous and placed upon me, as the commander, infinitely more responsibility." His services in the present war are too recent to need even comment.

PHILADELPHIA MARKETS Saturday, June 2. General trade during the last week has been rather quiet. Manufacturing establishments In most rases are busy on old orders, but new demand generally shows a falling off. Crop condition arc somewhat irregular, but the general outlook is favorable for cotton, wheat, corn and other crops. There has been a further decline of S-lOc.

per lb. in cotton, due to lower foreign advices and free speculative liquidation in all heme markets. A fair business has been done for export, but demand from spinners has been light. Wool has moved very slowly, and prices have ruled in buyers' favor. The Iron and steel market continue in a dull and unsatisfactory condition, and there is a further decline in most products.

Boots and shoes continue dull, and a further decline in the price of hides and leather is noted. The Sain markets have undergone little change. A lr export demand has prevailed for both wheat and corn, but foreign limits on oats have been generally too low for business. BUTTER Solid-packed Klgln and other senarn-tor creamery, extra, creamery, firsts, 20c; do seconds, 19c; imitation creamery, extra, lie; do do firsts, 16alTc; do do seconds, ISaISc; ladle-packed, extra, 17c. do firsts, lttc.

do seconds, 10c. Print butter Extra. 21c; firsts. 19a20c. seconds, 16a 18c.

garlicky. 16a 18c. CHEESE New Tork full-cream, new, choice, small boxes, c. do do fair to good, part skims, as to quality, 5a7c. full skims.

2a8c: Swiss cheese, cream No. 1. I3al4c: do do oq, io. luaize. EGGS Pennsylvania and near-by, fresh, 13V4c; Western, fresh.

iaal3c; Southwestern, fresh, Mc Southern, fresh, 12c. LIVE POULTRI Fowls, hens, 10V4allc; old roosters, 7aVc; spring chickens, large, 20a 22c; do do. small and medium, 16al9c. pigeons, per pair, 25a30c. PRESSED POULTRY Freah killed.

Fowls, Western, choice, 8c; do do fair to good, 8Ha 9c; old roosters, 7c; broiling chickens, nearby, as to size. 18a26c. Western broilers, larpe, dry-picked, 20c. do do, amaU and scalded, 15a 18c. The Wool SUtrlcet "Owing to the condition of European markets, which are quoted strong but dull, a rapid recovery seems Improbable, but as stocks In European manufacturers' bands are generally very low, and ss the financial stringency Is decreasing.

It cannot be many months before the supply available will he absorbed and business will resume Its normal conditions." Justice, Bateman Co. "The tone of the market is unchanged. transactions are very few, prices are still largely nominal, and quotations have been gradually shrinking. Stocks of old wool are small and new wools come forward slowly. When supplies become more abundant manufacturers may be more interested, but at present they are content to await developments.

The woolen goods market has been somewhat disappointing, and while some mills are fully occupied others are but partially running, but all are looking forward to the light weight season, which ooens early in July. Woolen yarns are quiet, and even worsteds are also somewhat aepressea. uoates erom-ers. Indisputable She "People do not often marry their first loves, as no doubt you have noticed. Hp "No.

I guess they don't often. At least, not more than once." IndlansDolls I a. 4..