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WF SHOW THE W RLD U ~ OUR POSTAL SYSTEM. „ ni>rl,AY IX THAT LINE AT. ° |I, A , r * ATTENTION AT PARIS. Eo ropen Are Aninxcd by the Way We Handle Lettera—lt W ould Take „ V isitor to tile Grrut Shoiv 9,otrt> Hour* to See It All, But the Amer ican rental Exhibit la Oue of the ,|.t Intereatina Features. Copyright, 1900, by V. Gribayedoff. j, a , . June 22.—1 t has been calculated that >t would oc cu Py a sight-seer stead jij right and day, with no time for eat just about 0,000 hours to see all the things north seeing at the Universal Ex position. As there are only a little over j(XO hours in a year, and the exhibition. a s a complete spectacle, only survives pvt full months, it stands to reason that 0 ma n, barrin - he's a bird, as Mr. Doo ley would say, will ever begin to see a ql j, r; er of the things sent here for his inspection from all corners of the world. 1 bid run across these discouraging statistin a Parts newspaper the other morning and was thinking what a pity „j S that man is not built on the model c f "the night, with a thousand eyes ’’ The regret was accentuated by the legions of interesting objects that fringed the ave sl]r I was strolling along on my usual morning visit to the exhibition. From , picturesque building on my left a big Amernan flag was flying. Across the (rout of the butudlng was the Inscription, "United States Signal Service Bureau.” But weather bureaus do not interest me, and I was about to resume my quest or more entrancing novelties when a lit tle French child's comment attracted my attention. ■book, mamma, look; what a funny old man on a horse." the boy was saying. HU mamma was looking with all her .vea so I looked, too. The funny old man and the horse was in the Signal Ser vice Bureau. Wondering how they fig ured In meterological matters, I went in tMe to inquire. What I saw there made pie forget the 9,000 hours proposition, at least. until I was coming out, when by a careful mathematical calculation I esti mated fhat it would take me just 118 year? to see the Paris exhiblton as thor oughly a? T had inspected the things ex hibited in the United States Signal Ser vice Bureau. Naturally, 1 made straight for the eld frly cavalier who had bewitched tns French lady and her little boy. As 1 ap proached I noticed that, the ‘funny old man" was looking at me very intently. In fart he was staring insolently. I was just on the point of creating a scene when the little French boy saved me. “Why, mamma.“ said the child, “he's dead." ‘No. dear,” answered the lady, “he's wax." Whereupon I no longer lacked the nerve to go up to the man of wax on the stuffed horse, nrd read his label. It ran as fol lowf Me del. from life, of a mounta'n arci i rairie mail-carrier in the great Xorthwea'.’* Looking about, I saw on all sides ob v = that illustrated not the science of weather prognostication, but the postal service of the United States. Tes." answered a nearby American guard to whom I addressel my inquiries. The signal service department has allot tf l one half of its building to a display of the American postal service. The ma? add'd that the astonished comments of 'he foreigners v siting the place were tie h st evidence of the interest ng char acter of the exhibit. The E.xliililt is a Revelation. •ne only needed to look around to ap- IT c ate how strangely and various y the sights must imprees a European, for even to the average American the exhibit as an emirety is a revelation. It teaches manv lessons, butf the most salient infer ences of ail are these: The Immensity of our country, the thoroughness of our pos tal system, and the practical ingenuity of our inventors. The exlhlbit is artistically arranged, though without any rigid adherence to systematic or chronological classification. It covers precisely half the floor space of building about eighty feet square. You karn history, geography and statistics *hi]e you are looking around, all impart in object lessons that make what you karn easy- to remember. The creation of that 'interesting little *°rld dates from an Adam named Benja min Franklin, whose benevolent physiog nomy beams upon you from a portrait in scribed. "First Postmaster General of the United States.** From “Poor Richard” down to the latent acquisition of rich Un- Sam, the whole graduation is there, under your eyes. A man akin, in shabby attire, demonstrates what a letter carrier used to look like in the big cities *hen they were little more than villages compared to the big cities of to-day. Grin ding superciliously across the aisle at this modest individual Is a wax gentleman. In the neatest uniform of gray, nonchalantly dumping letters from a silver-gilt post' tox. attaohed to a very up-to-date lamp posy into a brand new' leather pouch wamped. **U. S. M. ” and the date, “1900.” Tou will And quaint illustrations on the *alV representing a mall coach pulling up More the postofflee In Boston half a cen tury ago; cur a mail packet being loaded its little epistolary cargo in the old fashioned days and the old-fashioned Ta ys. Confronting them, in the shining PrWe of newness are samples of the way things are done now-a-days. A luxurious mail oart seems to speak as plainly as that It wouldn’t knuckle under for nay king’s char ot, while a superb of the Ameiican liner “Paris.” •how* how, the United States finds its nwi! over the water in these days of traco An American showing a foreign friend through the United States postal exhibit j Hkety to make many mistakes "Ah!” he would say, “that's how wh used t° carry the mails.” By way of conflrm iug his dictum he would consult the label. *hi'h would disclose that “used to” was fib inaccuracy. The way letters were for •Afirly carried in the eastern states 1* pret ty nearly identical with the methods still Jrevalling in certain remote parts of our limUh.a* land. f thought, far instance, that the old .n<3 his horse who coaxed me .nto building belonged to the past. I had such long-haired, reckless samples humanity In Buffalo Blir* show, end hal come to regard the type as repre senting the scouts of the plains which rapidly drsappearing from the •firth, it was news to me that such speci mens of letttr-carrUr* are still serving hclp Sam through stretches of cjuntry enough to make three or four good •*>d European states. Indian letter Carriers. A Imll-ar misconception seized me when 1 and upon anothtr inanimate group a r °' ' plcuous one, occupying the central * l in the building. A six-foot Indian, fi 1 in buckskins, wielding long-lashed is tramping, in snow shces. across fi • >w- overed mountain trail. In front ■ lm is a si and drawn by six big Ksqul- * dogs, and in the sled Is a loaded Pouch. Is it any wonder I thought * oup represented the oldn time? But Inscription corrected me, for it des crii'"l the Ind an hs one of our posts! JJJJPloye* in that sme bleak, mysterious Northwest." 1 turned for information to a man who. ' that moment, was giving orders to 1,1 ‘ °1 *he iittcndnnis at the exhibit. I v particularly foriunate, for he proved to be an expert on al! matters pertaining 0 the postal department of the United Jv 81 '**'. He was W. A. Brown, one of oidfHt Inspectors In the employe of , government. Vf ’ said Mr. Brown. **that image mode led afiw: i-ong-Arm Eua*^^ Special Inducements this week in Boys’ and Children’s Wash and Thin Suits, Knee Suits and Pants In WASHABLE Serges, and Wools. A lot of Children’s CRASH HATS and TAM O’SHANTERS, reduced from 50c to 15c. The Mother’s Friehd. PATENT SHIRT WAIST. f/o Buttons can be Tom off, either iff. Wearing or Washing. The Mother** Friend doe* Sway entirely with Ihe tewing on of Button* It i* supplied with sn adjustable belt, which U easily taken off when the wni*t is washed . the buttons ara riveted on the belt, conaeejoently tan tore oG either in wearing, washing ot ironing- BOYS’ WAISTS. Mothers’ Friend and Star. Negligee Shirts, made exactly like Papa’s, pocket and all. UNDERWEAR, Q> STRAW hats, NECKWEAR, Mbpt£' Night Robes; tS-yy Stockings, UJ Overalls, f/W Collars ' and Cuffs. one of our most reliable carriers In the Wyoming district. And he is only one of our army of mall carriers. Railroads’. Why. man alive, some of our letters go a full thousand miles beyond any railroad. Does it pay? Of course, not. But the per fection of a service cannot stop to in quire If it pays. It sometimes costs us S2OO to deliver a letter, with a 2-cent stamp, in North Dakota, and you can safely add a hundred dollars more to the cost of of a delivery In Alaska.” With that, the Inspector led me to a GROUP OF EXHIBITS IN THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SHOW AT THE GKUI O PARIS EXPOSITION. (Indian mail carrier with sled*, and model of mail car and old Montana stage roll of maps hanslng from one of the walls That's where the geography came In mid the statistics, too; and the slgnlfl eu'nce of the figure “was startling. happened to pull down a map covering Oregon, and lajng-Armed Eugene a state. Wyoming. A Nark dotted line showed 'he ndloads; n Agk curved no he tri weekly mail service; blue line the bi weekly delivery and a yellow line trav ersed the region where humanity onty ,ets Its letters once is week. THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, JULY 8. 1900, Tempters in White. The Ladies may term this a 1 ‘WHITE WEEK.” It will at least be a “RED LETTER” period for them. We break the monotonous summer silence with a crash, in two departments, that will lend energy and interest to the most indifferent or enervated shopper. We launch a couple of flyers in WHITE SHIRT WAISTS, and the incomparably superlative ELK BRAND of HOME-MADE MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. These are two of our star lines, and a CONCES SION in PRICES means everything to our patrons, who comprehend our exclusive excellence and extreme stylishness in all that pertains to these specialties- ARE YOU LISTENING ? Tailor=made SUITS Arc still selling. If you are going away you will want one or nibre sure. Powerful In.iKimcms. B.H. Levy&Bro. Perils of Our Letter Carriers. Mr. Brown pointed over his shoulder at 4lie long-hatred man on the horse, and then, running his thumb-nail along the map. marked out the course of the scout looking postman. "Fifty miles to here; sixteen miles to this point; an eight-mile ride up the mountain to this place called Venoshka. and then a thirty-one-mile journey on a straight line to the end of the route. That makes just 106 miles that some poor fellow had to do twice a week. When he gets there he probably finds a village of thousand Inhabitants, among whom he has four letters to distribute.” I “But. Mr. Brown," I ventured to re mark. "leaving aside all question of ex neme. Isn’t there constant dungor to the ■arrlfra from wild beasts or wilder In dians?" .. , "You are right to call the Indians wilder than beasts." replied the Inspec tor "for. while I don't recall any of our ihlsT* falling prey to savage animals, ev- A Thousand Volt Waist Shock. The Values and Beauties of these White Waists can be re alised only by inspection--DESCRIPTION is inadequate. 75c Waists for 49c $l.OO Waists for 69c $1.25 Waists for 89c s!;“ [ Waists for $1.12 sjSum! Waists for $1.69 Incidentals. Elegance in dreamy Summer Neckwear. Irresistable values in Ladies’ Hosiery. Don’t forget our inimitable selection of Fine Ribbons. Great Reductions in Fine Parasols. Ladies’ and Gentlemen,s Tropic Umbrellas. A Few Lawn and Batiste Summer Dresses left Tremendous Cuts in Sum mer Outer and Under skirts and Wash Skirts. I ery now- and then one of them falls a victim to ferocious red men.” As he was saying this he led me to an old leather pouch hanging near by. and toid me to read Its story. The label de scribed the murder of a mail-carrier by a tr'.be of Sioux, who cut the bag open, rifled Its contents, and then left It floating in a pool of the victim’B blood. The pouch is e dismal reminder of the perils encoun tered by faithful men who, far from civil ization, contribute their dally share to make the postal service of the United States the most complete and extensive In the world. From the blood-stained mall bag I turned to a collection of new pouches showing the very latest devicea for pre serving letters from being moistened or crumpled, and the latest thing in the way of locks, making theft by an employe almost an Impossibility. And no one of these pouches, equipped with every mod ern convenience, I read the words “Porto Rican Service.” Verily, the world moves. Nine years ago in San Juan Ue Porto Rico, 1 strolled through the dozen of streets at noon, woke the postmaster from his siesta and Induced him to look for a letter for me in the unaorted mail that a small colored boy had brought from the boat In a bandana handkerchief the day before. "You see that perforated matl-poueh " said Inspector Brown, "well, that Is used for carrying bees. Being ventilated, the honey-makers won't smother." "Bees!" I mumbled in wonderment. "Does the mall carry bees?” “Yes," he replied, "In some sections of the country they are invariably shipped from place to place through the post office." Then the Inspector took me by the arm and said, "Here's something better worth looking at.” The Stumps find the Thief. From an educational or philatelist standpoint It was. It was a collection of postage stamps, showing the consecutive issues from the Introduction of stamps In the United Slates In 1547, right down to the latest thing designed by the tostal de partment. The collection, w*hlch Is val ued at *20,000, is displayed In a series of swinging glass-covered frames attached to the wall, and opening out like the leaves of a beok. Many of the issues are obso lete, and some ore historic. This Is partic ularly true of a large sheet of the two cent. Columbian issue, which possesses exceptional value from the fuel that It was the first struck off In the Issue, as Is attested by the signature of two high government functionaries. This sheet Is worth $2,000. Of the stamps generally, the denominations range all the way from one cent to sixty dollars. The $lO, S2O. $lO, S4B, SSO and SOO stamps are a ctirlosliy to the average person, because their use Is chlfly restricted to auditing purposes in post offices. nnd few Of these stumps can be purchased at any price by a person not In ihe employ of tile government. The rarity of this collection naturally constitutes an entrancing attraction to stamp collectors. L likewise exercises a sometimes Irresistible effect on the cupid ity of some eccentric mortals. Consequent ly the utmost care Is practiced In the po lice service about the exhibit. This care, Oodles Of Girls and Children’s Pretty Slips and Dresses, In plain and Fancy Materi als, great in ducements t o close out. Look them over. however, was relaxed somewhat one day. Shortly before the building was regularly opened somebody happened to discover that a theft had been committed. When the extent of the felony was ascertained, consternation reigned thereabouts. The frames had been left lying In a heap on the floor while waiting for the carpenter to hinge them to the wall. The thief must have been hurried in his selection. He might have taken a page or two of the obsolete stamps, from the sale of which he could have realized u snug little sum. Instead of that, he carried off a page of the $&0 stamps, and another of the $lO Issue. Then Inspector Brown was brought up on the scene. He had been sharpening his wits during forty years upon that sort ol unravelling, and In about a week he was hot on the trail of the thief. He found that all the stamp* had been carried to London. The rest was easy. In a couple of weeks more he had all the stolen stamps but half a dozen bock In safe keep ing. He has his grappling Irons out now for the remainder, and, as he knows just where each individual stamp Is located the valuable collection will not likely go back to Washington with a single stamp missing. The United States postal department is represented In a different way In another building on the exhibition grounds. In the national pavllllon, the edifice of the American government, is a model United States postofflee which only occupies a space forty feet front by fourteen deep, but in point of equipment and thorough ness it compares with any postoffice in the United Stales. The only thing It does not do Is to deliver letters. It receives them, however, direct from aeros* the Atlantic, and sends them not only there, but to ev ery place throughout the world. It also sends registered letters and issues and pays money orders. The French government affords every facility and courtesy to the operations of the American postofflee. Asa return courtesy, Postmaster Moor# shows effete European system* how things are run In a postal way in the United States. French postal experts run in there every little while, and open their eyes In amazement. In Europe mall matter is cancelled by a hand stamp which applies more or less In distinct impressions on COO letters In an hour. tn the American postofflee four separate cancelling machines, run by elec tricity. are shown in operation, one of which cancels 60,000 letters In an hour with the aid of a single employe. The post boxes, too, with their combination locks are a revelation to Europeans. Velerian Gribayedoff. BIKFAI-O ROM 36 nv THOt SAMIS. A 4'ollector nescrlhes How They Were Gathered mil I'tlllsed. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. C’t.arl-s Milwaukee Slvyer read a paper before the Old Set lrrs’ tjuh. In which It* describtd Ills operations in North Dakota and Montana betwe n l*i and I&S8, col lecting buffalo bones for the market. Mr. Slvyer was known as the "Bone King" In thoae regions, and employed half Itw wls Waists for $2.29 $! sfci Waists for $2.99 $6.00 Waists for $3.99 s™ sB.oo Waists for $5.29 Can you afford to overlook THE BIG STORE THIS WEEK ? Summer Ease, The popular KABO CORSETS. ; In hot weather models.! Kabo Perfectors, Corset Cov- ! ers and Combination Covers. j Corsetine Wrappers, Lawn and Percale Wrappers. 50c Garments..: 40c 65c Garments 52c 75c Garments 60c 85c Garments 68c $ \ .00 Garments 80c $1.25 Garments $l.OO sf.so Garments $1.20 $X.75 Garments SJ,4O $2.00 Garments $ t .60 The best VALUES on the market, and actually cheap at Regular Prices. Have Your Share. breeds from the Turtle mountain country to collect them. In the two years he gath ered 2,500 tons of buffalo bones, represent ing 150,000 buffaloes. Mr. Slvyer had learn ed something about the value of biilTalo bone* In Kansas years before he went to • Dakota. "When 1 first went to Dakota to collect buffalo bones," said he, “the Great North ern road had reached Devil's Lake. I went ahead and collected the bones, pil ing them as near as I could to where the road would come. It was difficult to la; right every time, since the Great North ern surveyed three different lines at the same lime. ‘T hired 250 half-breeds In the work of collecting. At one time I had over $15,000 Invested In bones, piled in different parts of the territory. The half-breeds were willing to work, as they had no help from the government. They jumped at the op portunlty to go bark over ilie irall with me. Thtse Turtle mountain half-breads had taken part in the last great buffalo run, seven years before, and knew where the bones were thickest. They coaid work for me seven months In the year, re turning home late In the fall before the snow had covered the bones. 1 wintered at a little town on Devil's Lake. Jn the spring they came back with 200 carts, sev eral wagons, and their tents and camp equipage, ready for the summer cam paign. I led the way, riding In a buggy, and have often wondered whether such another motley procession was ever seen. When we arrived at the field of action I bought the goods by weight and piled them In great heaps We pressed on to new fields when the scattered bones were all gathered and established new pile*. "The largest pile I ever built was al the point now known as the first crossing of Mouse river by 4he Great Northern. There were 60,000 pounds of buffalo hone* In (hat pile. Ii glistened in the sunlight, and to a stranger In the distance it must have looked like a fairy castle. "The collectors followed the trr,ll of the fierce hunter. The buffaloes always cams by circuitous paths to tho river to drink. Far away frem the river 1 came upon great smooth stones, which were known as "rubbing stones." The buffaloes hud used them to rub*them*elvcs against, and had worn them smooth. The feet ot the buffalo had worn paths two Let deep around some of the stoms. A half-doz-n buffalo would rub at a time on one rock, one following another. Sometimes they turned and walked the other way, to rub the other sld’. If a buffalo dropped out of the path another took his place at oni e. “The half-breeds were expert in collect ing. and when they Iwtd their carts full cf bones they knew hy instinct apparent ly the direction of the pile where they could leave their load. Sometimes In the fall the grasa grew so high as to hide the boms. Then the half-breeds lighted a fire to burn the grass. The lire burned the grass so rapidly that the benes were uninjured." Mr. Slvyer said the hones sold for $1 to $6 a t<n. and th4H they were used for sugar refining. In speaking of the slaugh ter of the buffaloes, he said that the last lw years of the drives, only half the Ladies,’ Misses' and Children's Stylish and Safe Bathing Suits. Of Course We have all the desirable varieties of UNDERWEAR, Balbriggan, Lisle, Gauze, Net, and lightest kinds of Stuttgarter Pure wool, for Ladies, Men and Children. Ladies’ Shopping Bags and leather and metal goods. Pocketbooks, Belts, Girdles, Etc. The Coolest Store In Savannah. Fans, Ele vator, Toilet Rooms, and everything to render shop ping a joy and pleasure. SEE Our more than attractive varieties of SKIRTS, par ticularly the Washable Ducks and Denims. hidos were taken from Ihe buffaloes, and only half of those removed were preserv ed. "Orte year," said he, “three oarloads of buffalo hides were taken to Risioarelc to bo transported 'East on the Northern I’aciflc. The h <1 s were so badly preserv d that the railroad refused to take them as freight, and they were thrown into the river. The greatest value from 150,000 buffaloes was taken hv the bone collector, the railroads which carried them, and Charles Milwaukee Slvyer." TOLI> 111 FOOTPRINTS. Te 11-Til 1 e Shoos Worn by n Mrtn in a Searching Party. From the. New Orleans Times-Demoerat. “The part played by footprints in the frightful tragedy near lliloxi reminds me,” said a New Orleans rallrc:!' l man, "of a most remarkable affair which happened a good many years ago in South Georgia. The keeper of a little store near the i’lor ldu line was murdered one night and the place set on fire. Several negroes were suspected and the whole countryside turn id out to search for evidence. In. the tear of the burned store was a marshy place, in which (he footprints of the murderer were plainly discernible, showing that he bad worn a pair of heavy brogans, the right heel of which seemed to have been split in a very peculiar manner directly across the middle. "Among the searchers was a well-to-do young farmer, and as soon as he saw the footprints he was horritled to recognize tin marks his own shoes which, he bad on at that every moment. The spilt heel was the result of a chance blow with an ax while cutting wood, and the Impression in the marshy soli was absolutely unmis takable. The crowd was worked up to a pitch liorderlng on frenzy, and, realizing ills extremely critical loattion. the young man had presence enough of mind to make some excuse and slip away. Ho went straight home, put on another pair of shoes, hid the old ones and rejoined the party. “Two or three days later the crime was traced by certain circumstantial evidence to a negro who worked on his farm. The fellow broke down and confesetnl and Inci dentally cleared up the mystery. On the night of the murder, according to Ills story, he had noticed the brogans on the liorch of the farm house, and appropriated them, intending ul tho lime to merely rob the store and fly (he country. After kill ing the storekeeper he changed his plana and came home, thinking to divert suspi cion by remaining quietly ( work. Con sequently he returned ihe shoes w'here he found them. "After he had made this confession the farmer told his own story and produced the tell-tale footgear, lleaven only knows what might have happened had he been caught with them on his feet the first day of the search.” —Dr. Jalap— I<et mo see your tongue, please. Fatlent—Oh. doctor, no tongue can tell how badly I Icel.-XU-blia 7