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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, MAY 26, 1901. 15 ' QLDS,WORTMAN & KING 0LDS,W0RTMAN & KING OLDS,WORTMAN & KING - - -. i Now that cool, showery days arc gone, your Summer needs will grow apace. Today's news Is suggestive of your probable wants and the economies in buying them here. ) -rf5 I I - I r W T T IT llT T T aT T ST T r I W T ig IT iiiiTiiiM" mT niaT iTT nT nri miT Hi" mT iiiiT Ti.T'i7':,",'"','',',-,-'"',',""fc J.'.-. 3k''.'... .V .. .. .. .h. .Te .aw-hw X. .k. Mw : jsw .kr.ar.-A y - - - ..,vv r.P ( TZ EXTRAORDINARY SALE OF WAIST FUNNELS Temorrow Only We will .sell 1200 yards. Woolen Tricot florin el, 27 Inches wide, colors tan, castor and gray U j at the nominal price of. ..(.HV VU Suitable lor waists or any garment for ladles' or children's -wear that colored woolen goods are used for. DOMESTIC AISLE. Dress Goods Bargains Three lots of popular fabrics that wom en will do well to buy thlB week: Lot 1 All-wool Vlgereaux 46 Inches wide, 6 staple col ors. S5c .grade at. Lot 2-Tailor Suitings io Inches wide. In tasty small stripes, 75c grades at Lot3- SS Inches -wide, popular 0 iA shades, 60c grade, at..... yl yu CHILDREN'S HOSE Various lines of fast black, flne-rlbbed cotton hose, worth 17c to 25c; sizes 6 to 10, While they last, 13c pair c 62c yd 53c yd Homespuns and Serges I Stylish All-Overs- AT HALF AND LESS Our choice collection of Cut-Out Taf feta Silks, Tucked Taffetas, Corded Taffetas, with lace insertion. Fancy Stitched Taffetas, with herring-bone stripe. Black Taffetas, with gold stripes, etc, for waists or fancy fronts. Fine $5.00 to $2.50 grades offered with the assurance that they're the best bar- the season at $I.yO yd SALE OF Ladies' Neckwear Tomorrow's prices will delight ladies who like a variety of dressy neck pieces. L'AIGLON TIES of corded taffeta with polka dot, 50c grade; of black velvet with white polka dot, 60c grade, and of lace and satin ribbon, r a 75cgradc, all OOC 3 Black Velvet Belts With fancy ends, QQ a worth 60c, special 05C 6a Colored Velvet Ribbons J5c pc Men's Four-In-Hand Ties 25c and 35c grades in black in silk and satin. This week.. IOC C3 r The Silk Sensation r 1-4 inch wide. Per piece of 10 yards. Of the season, There wlj probably never be a more propitious time for silk buying than we offer for Tuesday and Wednes day. NEW frANCY SILKS Worth 90c and $1.00' At 57c yard Six lines of this sea son's newest conceits in patterns and color ings, and the prettiest possible kinds f o r waists or evening eds 'lumci. WOMEN'S SUMMER VESTS CHEAP White swiss ribbed vests, low neck and sleeveless, with cro cheted fronts and silk ribbons around neck and arms. Our 60c grade this week At -39c ea We invite all men to see what we offer tomorrow in NOBBY SOX AT HALF PRICE blue. 121 1000 pairs full finished, solid tan, lavender and black. Full 25c grade, at Sale continues all week, if they that Inn?. - red, pr last SALE OF RUGS AND PORTIERES If s always an Inspiration to home-furnishers to visit our drapery section, tive on every hand. Those who come this week will find inducements in Something new and decora- SMVfcNA RUGS all wool, double faced, best designs and colorings. Size 30x60 inches, 1 Qfi worth $2.25, at only pi.JO ea CHENILLE PORTIERES. Five best colors with dado at top and bottom. $3.00 9 Qg rjr grade at t,uu P1 REDUCED PRICES ON CHILD'S WHEELBARROWS Kinds that children delight in for hauling sand and trinkets, wooden wheels and are painted red. Have l. WHEELBARROWS worth 4 to 6 years, special 25c, for child JC gg I WHEELBARROWS worth 35c, for child 20c eal .................. j j iu 1 w jruuij) i)ji.uihi 2 J A RARE DINNER-SET CHANCE This Week We Offer a Complete Line of GRINDLEY'S BEST ENGLISH SEMI-PORCELAIN DINNER SETS AT HALF PRICE Fine, light weight with dainty border decorations. Thesa prices give a splendid chance to replenish dining-rooms or summer cottages at little expense. 50-Piece $5.6.-5 Dinner Set at $2.85 60-Piece $7.25 Dinner Set at $3.63 100-PIece $1 1.20 Dinner Set at $5.60 112-PIece $13.80 Dinner Set at $6.93 1 1 7-Piece $1 7.65 Dinner Sets at $8.83 This is the first time in our history we have placed on sale a full line of first quality English Semi Porcelain at half price. It's next in quality to fine china and is not likely lo linger long as now priced. AUTOMATIC REFRIGERATORS . I he most scientific and most economical co'd storage. All sizas in stock. Cost no mora 'nan inferio- makec. A GRAND SUIT BARGAIN Monday And Tuesday Only We will sell A choice Line of our ?17.50 $18.50 and $20 Suits For $13.73 MATERIALS, Venetians, Cheviots, and Homespuns. COLORS. Black. Oxfords, Light Grays, Tans and Browns. STYLES, Double and Single-Brea5t Etons and Reefers Strictly this sea son's goods. There are but 45 of them, so come promptly If you would profit by this opportunity. CHATELAINE BAGS Are Invaluable these das of pocketless dresses, not only for carrying money, but many small articles. DOINGOLA LEATHER CHATELAINE BAGS brown and anrl ! this week n.g I lift i Mi & M Corset Comfort and Goodness at Small Cost 'Manufacturers adlse us that three lines o,f our high-grade Royal Worcester corsets are discontinued. That means for us to close them quickly. This is how we'll do it. $2.58 each Black, green, brown and p tan, ?i.oo and 51.25 grades, 174j Y.a -J V For $3.50 pongee silk corsets. Also silk and twill corsets, black and white, worth 54.00 and $4.50. All pure whale boned. Sizes IS to CO. A Stir Among Silk Petticoats A dressy lot, embracing all the leading shades and styles. Very elaborately trimmed. Shaped and finished to a nicety. , ' For This Week Plaid Silk Petticoats Dainty $15.00, $16.50 and fl no - $19.50 kinds at- py.yO ea Plain Taffeta Petticoats "Worth ?25.C0 and Cfft no , $30.CO, only Ply- i a VIOLET JEWELRY Exact copies of Natural Flowers Violet hatpins, brooches, lace pins, stickpins and waist pin, sets, worth 25c. irt- -.U raeclal ,y s.u Tomorrow fr l MILLINERY DEP'T . "We'll give half a dozen chances for eco nomical buying of natty headnear and trimmings. Nit old or uncertain styles, but the most-wanted Summery kinds. Fine Leghorn Hats 20 different lines; special 75 c ca 39c ea Rough Straw Sailors "White, with black bands, worth, 73c, at.... Nicely Trimmed Hats SPECIAL AT $1.45 EACH. 1530 Bunches Flowers In fine silk and muslin, in cluding loses, violets, pop- ?ieco;'aiid ;..T!.!6c bunch AH-SIIk M alines Colored, worth n ,tJ to 30c, at yc yard Mousseiines In a variety of colors, JC- ,,J worth to 03c, only 4oc ya Full Ilns of new GAINSBOROUGH OUTING HATS . . . Violet ToKe Waters Very refreshing for warm weather. 6-ounce bottles, in. --t, This week 'C eacn Sweet Almond Cold Cream He jar In white porcelain jars, special yg.,....... ''' "g'-'gf-'g 5S- mm' J&'kJil"4nl 'Zm-Jm'Sm "Vot! .y..cr..y.y. g .g. g-g.g'gg.. Tow1 rMl Tl" -UcS 4ffl &K3l3& -rir TTT T KCS'J nil i.'?jai fffc ? ! ' 0-Bi-B""B "BB- -&- ld"4 9fr-aB-B- l On the Trail of ClarK. Mrs. Jye Follo-ws tKe Explorer TKrovtK Records and. Joxzrnals in Eastern Libraries. WASHINGTON, D. C. May 17. (Spe cial Correspondence.) "When i left Port land, March 27, the peach trees were in bloom and the plum and cherry. The grass was green and the birds were sing ing. A few hours' whirled our Northern Pacific train Into "Winter, bare, leafless prairies, ponds of lco and flurries of snow. At St. Paul I found Olln D. "Wheeler, whose "Lewis and Clark "Wonderland- for 1900" has delighted so many readers. Mr. "Wheeler was just reading the proof for "Wonderland, 190L" that also contains in teresting Lewis and Clark data. Via the Northwestern I Tolled into Madi son, "Wis., at an unearthly hour on a Sunday morning. But college towns are hospitable: in short order friends and a home were found In the great university of the north. Only think of it! In the lifetime of men not yet old, Indians camped on Capitol Hill and paddled their birch-bark canoes on Lake Madison; today a charming city surrounds the Capitol and the university. Lake Madison was a .sheet of ice. The trees were bare and leafless, and la grippe! "There are funerals every day," mourn fully said my landlady. "But we have had the "best slegihing and skating in years," said the young people. My special work lay In the university library, lately ensconced In its new $600,000 palace. Hon. Reuben Gold Thwaites, author and edi tor, to whom I had letters of Introduction from the West and East, opened the locks to the greatest collection of Ameri cana in the world. Forty years ago Ly man C Draper began that wonderful col lection of manuscripts on the early his tory of the Middle "West that is now the pride, not only of "Wisconsin but of the Tnlted States. Here I found the old fam ily letters of George Rogers Clark to his brothers and sisters, letters of "Will iam Clark, the great explorer, and of all the heroes that made Kentucky and the "West. I forgot today and lived 100 years ago. From Madison I went to Chicago, Chi cago the terrible city, terrible not in an evil sense, but terrible in its might, its strength, its awful rush and rumble and roar of traffic The typical American lives in Chicago, with his keen, eager, questioning face, sweeping along in end less procession in street-cars and elevated ways and subways, bent ever on conquest. The llbraires of Chicago are but a prom ise of what she will do, but I found there rare books and old books, as well as new ones. In Chicago I was joined by Mrs. "Weath erred and party from Oregon, and over the elegant Michigan Central we sped through the first etate that reminded us of Oregon, for the fields were growing green by this time, and the shrubbery shook out its earliest emerald tresses. "While the rest went on to Buffalo, I stopped off at Detroit to visit Colonel William Han cock Clark, the oldest living grandson of Captain Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Searching: for Clnrklaxta. Colonel Clark had made all arrange ments for my comfort, and for two days we talked documents: he wrote letters of intioduction and opened up all the sources of Clarklana, Incidentally the Colonel mentioned that a Frenchman had told him some time before that his uncle was one of Lewis -and Clark's men, Drew yer, really Droulllard, by name. "Let us find him," I said. Coues says nothing -further is known of Drewyer after he left the expedition on the return to St, Louis. And we did find the French man and his noted uncle's letters. Cross ing the Detroit River into Windsor, Can ada, we came to the old stamping-ground of the Drouillards, before the Revolution, when they, French Canadians, were In terpreters for the British. We found old letters, one from Droulllard to his people and one announcing his death. There is a whole trunk full of old papers, all in French, that Colonel Clark has promised to read and translate, as I could not longer tarry. The great-grandniece of Droulllard is a fair type of Evangeline, dark-eyed, dreamy and beautiful. The next morning I stood on the banks of Niagara Falls. A woman spoke to me I turned away. It was desecration to speak there I wanted to be alone. At the Falls of St Anthony I laughed they do not equal our own Willamette Falls but before Niagara the heart is awed and still. With the Oregonfnns. At Buffalo I rejoined the Oregon party. What a jolly time they are planning for tho Summer! And everyone In their vi cinity will surely hear of Oregon. On Sat. urday evening we visited the exposition grounds. The exhibits were not yet in place, but the electrical display had al ready won the palm of the world. No other .exposition Is ever likely to have a Niagara to harness Into a miracle of light. The statuary standing in long colonnades in the faint moonlight made a memorable impression. Like- sentinels, they stood guarding this achievement of man;, with drooping brows, divinities of the place, they seemed to meditate upon the past and plan out greater wonder for the fu ture. The third remarkable feature was the baby Incubator, where feeble, sickly or prematurely -bom Infants are scientifical ly nursed Into health and beauty. "Zoze baby, he move, he be alive, he cry!" exclaimed the excitable little South American ladles to their husbands as they stood on tiptoe peering Into the glass rooms where the wee, unconscious infants slept. , Further Pursuit of Clark. A few hours by the Black Diamond ex press over the Adirondack landed me in New Tork City, where I had letters to the widow of the youngest son of Gen eral Clark. I found her on Fifth avenue, with .a granddaughter and a great-granddaughter of the hero of the Northwest They are charming ladies, and their home is adorned with paintings of the Clarks and their wives, belles of 100 years ago. Among other valuable relics Is the mess chest used by Lafayette through the Rev. olutlon and nnally presented to General Clark. Some years ago a party of Portland girls were on a pleasure trip up the Co lumbia, when a refined and gentle lady on board asked one of them to name the points of Interest as they passed. The vivacious girl responded with the cate gory from Vancouver to the Cascades. "I am Interested to know," said the lady, "because my husband's father came with Meriwether Lewis to this country many years ago." "Pray, what was his name?" Inquired the young lady. "William Clark," was the reply. "What, Clark, of Lewis and Clark?" cried the girls. "Yes," responded the lady, "my husband yonder Is his youngest son." "If my father knew you were here there would be a ereat reception In Portland. All Oregon would honor you." But Jefferson K. Clark was a very mod est man, and preferred to pass incognito In the land his famous father first ex plored. At another time Mr. and Mrs. Clark were passing Council Bluffs on the train when they heard a great noise of mili tary music and cannonading. Peeping from the blinds of his Pullman sleeper, he asked the porter: "What Is all this noise? Is the President on board?" "Dat, sah!" answered the darkey; "dat sah, am de people of Council Bluffs cele brating de first treaty of Lewis and Clark wid de Indians." Lamentable Ignorance. After I boarded the train at Detroit a very intelligent lady asked me who that gentleman was that assisted me with my luggage. "That," I replied, "was the grandson of General Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition." Observing the blank look on her face I added: "You know Lewis and Clark?" "I am sorry to say I never heard of them; who were they?" she inquired. "The great explorers; the first white men that ever crossed the Rocky Moun tains; sent out by Jefferson 100 years ago." She knew nothing about them, and yet, apparently well read and intelligent, she is connected with a ladles' seminary in New Hampshire. At Boston it was the same. Nobody knows anything about Lewis and Clark. Even at the great library it was impos sible to find anything beyond the old Gov ernment reports. Aunts and uncles and cousins galore took me to see the Wash ington elm, and Longfellow's house, and galleries of art and graveyards of Revo lutionary heroes, the old tombs of the Franklins, and John Hancock and Otis and Adams, Paul Revere and even the lowly mound of Mother Goose, but nobody knew anything about Lewis and Clark. The Harvard Student. J- Shall I tell you the most impressive thing I saw In all Boston, with its marhle statuary and Its magnificent harbor? It was the Harvard student. In his cap and gown. Heir of the ages, hope of the future, the consummate flower of Boston and vicinity Is its students. We spent half a day among the Harvard buildings, rich with the memories of two centuries. Leaving Boston, tossing by night down the Bay of Narragansett and through Long Island Sound, we landed at sun rise under the Brooklyn Bridge and sped on to Phlladephla, Quaint, conservative, dear to the Amer ican, is old Philadelphia. Here I had letters to a granddaughter of General Clark and her husband, who kindly as sisted me in locating the Lewis and Clark Journals. We called at the Historical So. cletjs. The librarian In charge had never heard of Lewis and Clark; another officer said there must be some mistake, there were no such documents in Philadelphia. We went to old Independence Hall, where "the Continental Congress sat, but amidst all his relics the curator In charge knew nothing of Lewis and Clark or their jour nals. Barely pausing to glance at the Liberty bell and a thousand other em blems of our freedom, we went over to the rooms of the American Philosophical Society, founded by Franklin. If we had asked for the gold of the mint of Phila delphia, the secretary in charge could not have appeared more surprised than at the reauest to see the Lewis and Clark Journals. With lifted brow and rounded lips, "They have not been seen for 100 years!" he said. "The last man that saw them, and in my belief the only man that hasr ever had access to them in 100 years, was Dr. Elliott Coues, some years ago." "Yes, yes; we know all about that," we said. "We want to see the journals." "Will not the published version do?" "No," answered my escort "This lady wishes to consult the original documents. She has the best credentials possible, and has come all the way from Oregon to sat isfy herself about these journals." "The society has but one more" meeting before the close of the year," said the sec- retary, "and at the end of May the rooms will be closed .eitlrelr for the season. It will be necessary for the lady to send In a formal written request, with her cre dentials, to be voted unon by the Philo sophical Society next Friday evening," And so a whole week of expense lay be fore me. Placing the necessary papers In his hands I departed at once for "Wash ington, D. C, to see what might be found In the Government archives. At Washington. And what has impressed me most in Washington? It is the vast number of well-dressed, courteous and apparently intelligent colored people passing to and fro upon her streets. Colored boys and girls, with books on their arms, skipping away to school; colored gentlemen and ladles, In the full sense of the word, In shops and office and street cars. I am told that this was net so 30 years ago. With letters from our Congressmen I found ready access to the Congressional Library and other sources of historic in formation. Here. also. I met the family of Admiral Radford, the stepson of Gen eral Clark, who are worthy descendants of our earliest Oregon pioneer. Yesterday we took In Mount Vernon, Alexandria, Arlington and other points of historic fame, and shall probably return to Vir ginia for a later trip to Monticello and Fotherlngay, where Clark was married Immediately upon his return from the Pacific. This morning I had a delightful inter view with Mrs. Coues, the widow of Dr. Ellltt G. Coues, whose republication of the journal of the Lewis and Clark ex pedition is a monument of scientific re search. Dr. Coues great work will long stand as the most complete Illustration I we nave or tne trutniumess and value of Lewis and Clark's observations of the topography and fauna and flora of the Northwest. My special mission in this matter Is to study the personality of the men and to make them live anew in the freshness of youth, In the memory and gratitude of the nation. Some valuable information has fallen into my hands concerning Lewis, whose untimely death cut off a career of un-, usual promise. I return to Philadelphia today, and later visit Louisville and St. Louis. EVA EMERY DYE. IN THE SOCIAL WORLD (Continued from Page 14 ) the first transport for Manila. Major Young expects to be stationed at Ilo llo. Colonel Charles C. Byrne, assistant surgeon-general, who was for four years medical director of this department, was retired on the 7th of this month, and left last week with Mrs. Byrne for Europe, where they will travel for a year. Prescience. Thoidas Bailey Aldrich. The new moon hung in the sky, The sun was low in th6 west, Ad my betrothed and 1 In the church ard paused to rest Happy maiden and lover, Dreaming- the old dream over; The light winds wandered by, , And robins chirped from the neat And lo! In the meadow-sweet Was the grave of a little child. With a crumbling stone at the feet, And the Ivy running wild Tangled 1t- and clover Folding It over and over; Close to my sweetheart's feet "Was the little mound up-piled. Stricken with nameless fears, She shrank and clung to me. And her eyes were filled with tears For a sorrow I did not see. Lightly the winds were blowing, Softly her tears were flowing Tears for the unknown years And a sorrow that was to be! Vancouver. Mrs. J. L. McGolderick is visiting friends In Seattle. Mrs. Milton Evans is visiting relatives at Cathlamet, Wash., for a week. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Palmer visited in Seattle several days during the week. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Baker, of Astoria, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Matt Brown several days during the week. N. N. Brown returned the first of the week from an extended visit in Eastern Washington and Puget Sound cities. Mrs. E. L. Carpenter, who has been spending a month with her mother, Mrs. Charles Brown, returned to her home at Westport, Wash., on Friday. Mrs. Augustus Hill, of Monterey, Cal., is visiting her father, Henry Christ. Mrs. Hill was hastily summoned here on ac count of the death of her mother last Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Matt Brown and daugh ters gave a delightful high five party to about 20 of their friends last Tuesday, in honor of the birthday of their daughter and guest, Mrs. E. M. Baker, of Astoria. LOW RATE TO BUFFALO. If you are going to the exposition or any other point East, do not make your ar rangements until you have secured rates from the Burlington Route. They will interest you. Call or write for full par ticulars. R. W. Foster, ticket agent Bur lington Houte, corner Third and Stark streets, Portland, Or. Warm weather weakens, but Hood'o Sarsaparilla strengthens, regardless of the season. Try it Chehalis. W. A. Reynolds was in Portland this week on business and pleasure. - The dance Saturday night by the Har monia Society was a great social success. - Miss Melva Forrest has returned from California, where she spent the Winter. Miss Ella Michael has returned to her home In Oregon after a visit at J. W. Reynolds'. Mrs. Guy Fannon and Miss Bessie EI dred, of Kelso, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. A. MIddaugh. Mrs. A. W. Bush, of South Bend, has heen visiting her mother, Mrs. George Wright, in Chehals, this week. Mrs. George Safford has returned home to Aberdeen after a visit with Mrs. B. J. Clark. The latter, accompanied her. Charles A. Holloway, of Chehalis, and Miss Grace Williams, of North Yakima, were married in that city last Thursday. Mr. Paul Mayer, a Pe Ell merchant, and Miss Josle Weiss, of Menlo, were married by Father Achtergael Wednes day. Mrs. L. L. Castle has returned to Ana conda, Mont., after spending the. Winter with her parents,. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rogers. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Meloy entertained a company of the young folks Wednes day afternoon In honor of their daugh ter,, Helen. Miss Rose Henrlot, of Cowlitz, has Just returned from France, where she spent a year most pleasantly visiting the Paris Exposition during her stay. Saturday evening Superintendent and Mrs. L. H. Leach, of the Chehalis High School, were tendered a surprise party by the young people of the high school. Aberdeen. Miss' Cora Patterson has returned from San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs, A. S. Taylor are on a. cy cling trip to the Sound cities. The Misses Jones, McNitt and McDer moth have returned from Seattle. Invitations have been Issued by the Or der of Elks for a reception and ball to be given May 31, the occasion being the dedication of their new hall in the recent ly completed Weatherwax block. Mrs. Fred Greene has gone to Portland to meet her husband, who is on his way home from a business trip to Michigan. Invitations have been Issued for the marriage of Miss Minnie Jones, of this city, and E. N. Brown, of Moscow, Idaho. The wedding will take place on the morn ing of June 3. Wnlla "Walla. The Entra Nous Club met Wednesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Thomas Johnson, on East Alder street. Refresh ments were served and the guests were entertained at cards. ' Mrs. S. B. L. Penrose entertained friends at her residence on College avenue Thurs day" afternoon between the hours of 4 and 6 o'clock. Refreshments were served and the guests spent the afternoon in pleasant conversation. The wedding of Mr. Robert H. Harper and Miss Lillian Hunter occurred in thU city Tuesday morning at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Starrett The ceremony was performed by Rev. G. A. Blair of he Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and was attended by only the immediate friends of the fam ily. Mr. and Mrs. Harper will be at home in Spokane after June 15. The couple is well known In this city and in Spokane, and has many friends. Centrnlla. , J. P. Guerrier and daughter. Miss Con stance, visited friends in Seattle this week. Hon. J. R. Buxton was in Toledo this week on business connected with the Fer , rier case. T. R. Williams is attending, the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, at Everett this week. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Green will leave In a short time on. an extended visit to rela tives and friends in the East. The family of A. F. Haskell will leave in a short time for Vancouver, Wash., where they will make their home in fu ture. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Shields, of Aber deen, were In Centralia this week. Mr. and Mrs. Shields formerly resided in this city. The oratorio "Emmanuel," by Trow bridge, will be presented here about June 1. Rehearsals are being held three nights of each week. ENGLISH SPARROWS. Dates at "Which These Birds Were Imported Into Tills Country. Washington Post. I have "been asked several times lately at what date the common English spar rows were imported into the United States, and by whom. It seems that the first attempt was made In 1S58 by a private citizen of Port land, Me. In the Fall of that year he lib erated six sparrows, and they Immediate ly made themselVes at home In his garden and outbuildings. For a few years these birds and their descendants were seen In and about town in small squads. These birds multiplied until in the Winter of 1S71 a flock of them appeared in a near-by town, thus showing their tendency to spread over adjoining territory. About 1860 12 birds we're Imported and liberated near Madison Square, New York City, and this- was repeated for several seasons. In 1864 the Commissioners of New York City liberated 14 birds In Central Park About this time numerous persons return ing from abroad brought a few birds home and set them at liberty in and about Jer sey City. The craze- for Importing these birds spread, and in 1S6S the city government of Boston imported a great number. But the birds had not been carefully handled and they did not thrive, and others "were brought over. The birds which survived from these various importations were carefully fed and looked after by ffie city government. In 1869 1000 were Imported and liberated In the City of. Philadelphia, and soon the birds spread over all adjacent territory. About this time the Smithsonian insti tution became Interested In bringing these birds to this country, so they Imported 300, but most of them died. In 1871 the same institution brought over another lot, and they were successfully cared for. From this It is seen that the birds have started from a number of points, and were not one or two Importations to New York as Is usually supposed. Masts In Harbor. . Edith II. Thoma3 In New Llpplncotf. Like some bare, silent, "tvinter - compassed grove, A little time the harbor side they line; Tomorrow hence, and wide apart, they rove. These long - dismantled shafts of wanderlns pine. Dr. Lamotte's French Corn Paint The best corn cure; 25 cents. AH druggists. THE BOOK EVERYBODY IS TALKING ABOUT. uincy-Adams-Sawyer Mason's Corner Folks. "The Village Gossips wondered who he was; what he was. what he came for, and how long he Intended to stay." '"flie Best Xew England Story Ever Written." NOW IX ITS 10OTH THOUSAND. AT AJAa BOOKSELLERS' C. 31. Clark Pub. 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