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ar-c-r THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE: D. 0., THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1894 THE WEEK IN WASHINGTON. JOiior Matters or Interest In the Capital City. undat, May 20. Another deep crack was discovered in thesurfaceof Pier4of the Aqueduct Bridge, and this caused a great deal of alarm.

The western abutment of the pier is elowly sinking. Two additional watchmen were posted on the bridge, drivers are warned to drive very slowly, and danger flags mark the third and fifth pier. Monday, May 21. Coxoy, Browne, and Jones were sentenced by Judge Miller to-day to ferve 20 days each in jail for carrying a banner into the Capitol grounds, and Coxey and Browne were also required to pay $5 additional or each to serve 10 more days in jail for stepping on tho grass. The Secretary of the Interior appointed a commission, con-eifiting of James S.

Hook, of Georgia, John A. Gorman, of Pennsylvania, and John L. Tullis, of Arkansas, to ncgotiato with the Osage Indians for the surrender to tho United States of such portion of their reservation in Okla-'homa as" they may be willing to code. The work is undertaken under the provisions of the act of 3Iarch 3, 1S93, and tho Commissioners receive a compensation of $13 per day. ffuKSDAY, May 22.

Public Printer Benedict made his first appearance at the Government Printing Office since tho big batch of dismis-eals on Saturday. Ho was kept busy to appeals for reinstatement. Mr. Benedict is in favor of the effort on foot among the discharged employes to secure an appropriation from Congress to pay them for tho leave due them during the current fiscal year, which, under the present interpretation of the law by tho Comptroller, they would not be entitled to until next July. Mr.

Benedict makes no secret of his intention to still further reduce the force. Fitzeerald's army of New England Industrials arrived from Laurel, where they had spent the night. The 20 miles to this city were covered between 10 a. m. and 5 p.

m. The men were in good condition. They marched direct to their Headquarters iu a vacant church at tho corner of Tenth and streets. They deny any connection with the Coxeyites, but believe in the doctrine of non-intorest-bearinc bonds, as advocated by Coxey. They will present their petition and return home.

Wednesday, May 23. The Committee ou Invalid Pensions has reported favorably a bill providing a fine of $500 and imprisonment as a penalty to any ex-soldier who post-dates his voucher for pension before the 4th of tho month. Representatives Pickler, of South Dakota, and Lacey, of Iowa, vigorously opposed the measure on tho ground that it pro-Tides for a radical punishment that is unnecessary and likely to get soldiers into the Federal Courts and into trouble without any intention on their part to commit a crime. The bill will be opposed by them and by a great many others who take their view of the punitive features of tho measure. May 24.

The investigation by tho House Kaval Committee of the armor-plato frauds began to-day. It is conducted by a Eub-committeeof five members. The Democratic members are Mr. Cummings, 'Mr. Money and Mr.

Talbott. The Republican members are Mr. Dolliver, of Jowa, and Mr. Wadsworth, of New York. The investigation will bo open throughout.

Chairman Cnmmiug8 favors this method of inquiry, ind said to-day that ho was strongly opposed lo any star-chamber sittings. May 25. Tho National League for the Protection of American Institution is opposing the appropriation of money for Catholic parochial schools established among the Indians. Ex-Justice Strong is Vice-President of tho league, and Wheeler H. Peckham and Dorman lL Eaton are on its Board of Directors.

Tho league claims to have a largo number of Representatives pledged to fight the appropriation. The Protestants have little to do with tho Indian schools now, and they have all become Romanist institutions. ATUhday, May 2(5. It is expected that the now Recorder of Deeds, C. H.

J. Taylor, colored, whose commission was signed by tho President yesterday, will take charge of the Deeds office to-day. No changes will be made in the employes during the first week. Ho was sereuaded by colored admirers last night. There is a general impression that the profits of the office aro over $40,000 per anuum, as formerly.

The fees of office were over iMO.OGO and the Recorder received them all. A few years ago, however, Congress enacted that the fees should bo paid into the United States Treasury, and that the Recorder should be paid a salary of $4,000 per annum. CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS. Senator Jarvis, of North Carolina, listened ery attentively to the speech of Senator Gor- San the other day. When the Maryland Sena-r had concluded, Mr.

Jarvis turned to a Benator near him and said: "Do you know what Mr. Gorman's speech reminds me of? Well, it seems to me like the small boy who fet tho house on fire and then ran with the engine company to put out the flames." Representative Forman, of the Eighteenth Illinois District, has not declined a rcnomina-tion because he expects to become a candidate or Senator. After three terms in tho House iie has reached tho conclusion that as he does toot have independent means he cannot afford to remain iu Congress, but must retire and practice law in order to make headway toward accu mulating a competence. With seven million tires agaiust him on the one hand and Gen. Black tin the other, it is obvious that he would have but kittle show in tho Senatorial race.

Mr. Forman had arranged everything to secure his ro-ominalion, so that itconldn't bo said he was Jorccd to retire. His election was also a foregone conclusion, as the district is strongly "Democratic. It is nndcrstood among his jfriends that ho desires to be Governor. It may now be regarded as certain that, notwithstanding the need for such legislation, Congress will not adopt any further measures laforo it for tho further restriction of immigration.

For Chairman Gcissenbainor, of tho House Immigration Committee, says that tho existing laws upon tho subject are working Satisfactorily, and that there is no need of increasing their rigor. He is opposed to all the restrictive bills that have been submitted to fcia committee, tbo majority of the members Of which are in agreement with him. He disapproves of tho bill introduced into tho House 1)y Mr. Stone and of that introduced by Mr. Walker and of that introduced "by Curtis The first provides that every immigrant Jhall obtain a satisfactory certificate from an American Consul abroad before ho can take 4aseage for this country; tho second provides Tor the application of an educational test to all feew comers; tho third provides for a property TJuallflcation, which would excludo by far tho (greater part of the steerage passengers brought 9o the United States from any country of "furops.

There is not any doubt that, if any one the bills were enacted and enforced, "there would soon bo a vast reduction of tho Slumber of aliens landed at our ports, especially jf thoso from Italy, Russia, and Hungary. J.t is known by the records kept at Ellis Island tfeat not one iu tea of tho men coming here I from these countries is possessed of $500; that a largo majority of them are unable to read and write, and that comparatively few of them would bo able to fulfill the conditions prescribed in Representative Stone's consular certificate system. In tho Sonato, Chandler, of Now Hampshire, has striven for years to securo favorable action upon one or another of the restrictive bills in which ho has taken an interest; but he has come to realizo that Congress cannot be induced to give heed to his solicitations. Tho truth is that, as any restrictive law would necessarily be applicablo to immigrants from all foreign countries, the members of both parties aro apprehensive that party interest would bo adversely affected by restrictive legislation. It is said that propinquity often has much to do with love affairs.

Then it is a wonder that there are not more marriages among Uncle Sam's Department clerks. Young people here come iu contact with each other hourly, and sometimes fall in lovo with one other, but not often. In tho Bureau of Engraving and Printing, whero the money is made, thoro is one man and one woman at overy printiug press, and there is no separation of the sexes. There are, I believo, more platonic friendships here among young men and young women than you will find anywhere olso in the country. Some cases have beeu known where couples I have married and kopt their marriages a secret for years, in order to avoid the rulo that a husband and wifo shall not bo employed at the same time in tho civil service at Washington.

According to its report, there woro last Fall 24 husbands and wives drawing salaries from Uncle Sam, which the husbands and wives who are out of work and have no job at all think is decidedly unfair. Tho venerators of things historical cannot but regret tho passing away of Davy Burus's cottage in tho old Van Ness grounds iu this city. The structure was leveled last week in laying out a local athletic club's now grounds. They built to last a long while in tho old days of our ancestors, and this "ono of Washington's headquarters" required the most forcible handling to demolish it. Of all tho men Gen.

Washington came in contact with during his eventful careor David Burus, he is said to have declared, was the most obstinate. His Scotch naturo bowed to none. He lived a czar on his great tract, allowing not even the foremost man in the country to oppose him. Tbo cottage was situated in Van Ness Park, near the foot of Seventeenth street, the property of the heirs of ex-Gov. Swann, of Maryland.

During tho day of May 22, 1861, a band of Wolverines, organized by Col. O. B. Wilcox, passed in review before President Lincoln and in the evening their officers woro accorded a roceptiou at tho Whito House. An hour and a half after midnight of tho following day the regiment crossed over tho Long Bridge into Virginia and marched along tho shore of tho Potomac to Alexandria.

There Col. Wilcox was made Military Governor. Later the men sallied forth to join others amid tho roar of musketry and tho belching of cannon on fields of several of the battles that bavo marked historic points in tho late war. The Wolverines woro tho 1st Mich. Last week the veterans of this organization celebrated quietly at their homes this third-of-a-ceutury anniversary.

Representative Lucas, of South Dakota, has a creat scheme. Out in his State, in the Black Hills country, are the Hot Springs. There is an old hotel there, and Mr. Lucas proposes to utilize this building in a novel way. Not long ago some 30 old veterans of tho war wcro sent out to these springs and all of them, except four, were practically cured of their rheumatic and similar troubles.

Mr. Lucas proposes that Congress appropriate $20,000 for tho purpose of sending out to tho springs a number of afflicted old ex-soldiers, now quartered in tho Volunteer Soldiers' Homes, in tho hope that they may bo relieved from suffering in thoir declining days. He thinks that tbo experiment could, at least, be tried, and if it proved successful it might result in restoring tbo old soldiers to thoir families and friends, and thus make places in the Homes for other worthy vetorans. The craze to hold office in the Government Departments at Washington is more widespread than is imagined, and furnishes an opportunity for sharp men to make a living ofT tho gullibility of their fellows. Occasionally there will bo seen in the daily papers tho offer of a certain sum of money to any one obtaining the author of tbo advertisement a situation under tho Government.

Somo of tho answers to these will come from sharpers who profess to have "influence" which will secure the covctod position. Thoir game is a confidence one, pure and simple. The best they can do is to recommend tho applicant for place to take tho civil service examination, with tho promise that when ho is on the eligible list tho necessary influence will bo brought to boar. If tho victim does happen to receive a position, the sharper turns up at his elbow to claim tho promised reward. These people are familiar figures around tho Departments, The advertiser for a situation gets many answers, too, from "institutes," which profess to prepare their patrons for appointments under the civil service.

Some of them oven advertise tho civil service examination-papers for sale. It was proved two years ago that ono of the employes of tho Civil Service Commission furnished advance copies of examination-papers to ono of these institutes, and theso were sold to applicants for places. This business could not go on very loug without being discovered. Well, the man who reads tho advertisements offering ''civil service quostions" naturally supposes that ho is going to obtain, in advance, copies of the questions which will bo asked when ho takes tho civil service examination. Instead of that, he receives copies of questions which bavo been asked in past examinations.

The Civil Service Commission finds nothing wrong that is, nothing criminal in tho advertisements of the "institutes" which profess to prepare people for the civil sorvico examinations, but the Commission thinks that theso "institutes" aro having au uufortunato influence on young men and women throughout the country. Of course thoir circulars are sent broadcast. Evory school-teacher la the United States receives them. They create unrest aud discontent. Tuey increase tho uum- bor of applicants for places in tho Government service.

Of courso they cannot iucrcaso the number of appointments, and the moro people added to tho listef applicants the smaller tho percentage of thoso appointed. Only one-third of thoso who apply for tho civil sorvico examination aud tako it aro put on tho eligible list; that is, only one-third of thoso examined overy year -pr-n thoir fitnes3 for officoholding according ti thi standard and rules of tho Civil Service ouimission. Of thoso who aro marked oligiblo about one-third recoivo appointments. Representative William C. Oates hnsrccoivod the Democratic nomination for Governor of Alabania, and is hopeful of being olectod.

The contest was vigorous. Col. Oates received 272 votes, and his opponent, Capt. Johnson, 232. Oates tho ground that it was suicidal to mako war on tho Administration, though ho docs not himself wholly indorse tho President.

It was gathered that there is much doubt as to tho coming campaign, bocauso of a strong or-gauizing of tho Kol bites. Senator Patton, who Succeeds Senator Stockbbidge. When tho present Administration came in a rush was mado for tho Government Printing Office by tho office-seekers, who knew that there was no civil service fonco around it, and folt that they could get in thore, oven if they couldn't get in anywhere else. They know that thoro were many Republicans in tho Govern ment Printing Office, and, with tho cruel selfishness which is so often characteristic of tho spoils seeker, they told their Senators and Representatives that they wanted them togodown and demand that the Republicans should be turned out and that they should be put in. The Senators and Ropresontative3, as usual, did asthoy were bid.

Public Printer Palmer was too tender-hearted to absolutely turn out his -old employes and put iu the new applicants, so he arranged tho system of furloughs, under which half work, or work for half a week, was given instead of no work at all, and this en abled him to carry on the rolls such a largo number of employes as was never known in the Government Printing Office before. If Con gross had given the Public Printer as largo orders for work a3 it usually does ho would have had an easier time. But, as a matter of fact, it has been so absorbed in tho con sideration of tho silver question at the extra session and tho tariff question at tho regular i session, that it has not ordered the printing of so many documents or such large editions, and therefore the Government Printing Office has actually had less to do this year than usual. Later, when Congress takes time to givo special orders for printing, it will have moro work; but this will probably be in tho next fiscal year. When Mr.

Benedict took charge of tho office and found so many superfluous employes ho decided that ho could not go on with the furlough system, but must cut the force down to its normal condition, and let thoso employes who wcro retained do a normal amount of work ARMY AND NAVY. Tho official report of tho inspection at sea of tho cruiser Columbia shows that she is incomparably tho most economical naval vessel in tho world. Four trials of six hours each were conducted. In tho first, with three engine3, alio ran at tho rate of knots, with a coal consumption of 125.G tons per day. There followed a six hours' run, using only the single central screw, developing a speed of J0.0R knots and consuming coal at tho rate of 38.3 per day.

Tho third trial was with all three engines, during which tho remarkable speed of 18.4 knots was maintained for six hours. Tho Navy Department fully appreciates tho value of a well-organized naval militia, and is doing all it can under the law to encourage tbo extension and improvement of that auxiliary branch of tho Navy in tho various seaboard State's. Arrangements are being mado, under tho direction of Assistant Secretary McAdoo, for tho use of naval vessels by the naval reserve for practical instruction during the Summer. Although not entirely settled, it is believed that tho Now York, Miantonomoh, Marblohcad, Atlanta, and possibly other vessels will ho utilized for this service. Tho States principally interested in this movement aro Massachusetts, Rhodo Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.

Tho War Department has received from tho Pneumatic Dynamite Gun Company tho fir3t battery of dynamite guns for its system of coast defense. Tho battery is composed of two 15-inch guns and ono eight-inch gun, and is in placo at Sandy Hook, N. Y. The plant must bo thoroughly te3ted before it is accepted by tho Government, aud it is expected that the tests will bo very interesting. Tho company asserts that it has overcomo tho serious objections that woro mado to the guns aud projectiles heretofore constructed.

a MILITARY BILLS. Tho Houso Committee on Military Affairs has favorably reported tho bill of Mr. Grosvenor appropriating $20,000 for the dedication of tho Chickamauga aud Chattanooga National Park in September, 1895. Tho bill of Mr. Tylor, of Virginia, appropriating $10,000 for building a road to the National Cemetery at York town, and tho bill of Mr.

Meredith, of Virginia, appropriating $50,000 for tho improvement of tho public road from Washington to tho National Cemetery at Arlington, were also favorably reported. Mr. Houk has introduced a bill to establish a Soldiers' Home at or near Knoxvillc, and appropriating $200,000 for the purpose. THE BEST BLOOD Purifier AND TONIC For Old and Young TO QUICKEN THE Appetite, REMOVE THAT Tired Feeling And Make the Weak Strong. It enriches tho blood and invigorates every organ and tissue tho body.

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Magazlnos and Kotos. Tho Juno number of JJppincolt's Magazine contains as its complete novel Tho Wonder-Witch, hyM. G. McClelland, author of Oblivion, A Self-Mado Man, Ten Minutes to Twelve, Whito Heron, etc. It also contains the lust installment of Tho Trespasser, by Gilbert Parker, and many articles of timely interest.

Published at Philadelphia. Price 25 cents. In tho June number of appears a wonderful short story by Kipling. The physical obstacles that stand iu the way of the discovery of the North Polo, and the chances of several important expeditions now in progress for overcoming them, aro suggestively discussed by Gen. A.

W. Grooly, one of tho highest authorities on tho subject. Anothor high authority on the subject of which ho writes, M. de Blowitz, tho famous correspondent of tho London Times, considers tho throat which the int mi en 'irntil ttinr ta mi in fli tiol 11 TClf nri- UlVligU WfJW stuntly offer to Europeau peace. John Fox, who first attracted attention to himself by his striking story, A Mountain Europa, begins in The Century for June a abort serial based upon a bloodthirsty vendetta that had beon waged at intervals for years in the Cumberland Mountains.

The Fopular Science Monthly furnishes both light and substantial faro iu its number for Juno. Tho opening articlo, by Dr. Andrew D. White, on tho Final Effort of Theology, describes tho hostilo reception which theologians gavo to Darwin's epoch-making book, 'lhe Mosquito country, which has boen attracting a great deal of attention, lately, is described in a fully-illustrated article by Dr. Bobert N.Kecly, under tbo titlo Nicaragua and the Mosquito Coast.

Table Talk. "Tho American authority upon culinary and housohold topics." Published at 1113 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, Pa. Price 10 cents. Archibald Forbes, tho veteran English war correspondent, contributes' to tho Juno Scribner a paper ou The Future ojf tho Wounded in War, iu which ho predicts that the great efficiency of mndorn weapons and tbo immenso similes which will bo brought into conilict will make the condition of tho wounded very much worse than it has ever beeir in modern war so inhuman, in fact, that it will load to tho final abolishment of war by civilized nations. Frank Leslie's Fopular Monthly for Juno 13 notably rich in matter nf personal contemporaneous human interest, having a gossipy article upon Characteristics of Congressmen, illustrated with no less than 40 portrait sketches from life, by Gribayodoff and Clinediust, aud somo delightfully intimato reminiscences of Gladstone, by Howard Paul, accompanied with oight progressive portraits of tho "grand old" Commoner at marked periods of his life between 1852 and 1802.

Tho second of that graphic and entertaining series of memoirs of a war artist, by Joseph Becker, "Special for Leslie's," is dovotcd to the siego of Petersburg, und embraces some thrilling pictures, including the explosion of tho famous mine. The complete novel in the Juno number of Lippincott's is tho Wonder-Witch, hyM. G. Mo-Clellaud. It is a charming ronmnco of Virginia, beginning in war times, and happily concluded loug aftorwards.

Tho titlo refers to a ring, which had a strange etory of its own, aud tho supposed power of keeping its woarer constant to its giver. TkwSHiSf! "In tencup-timcft! tho style of dress Would suit your beauty, I confess; Belinda-like, the patch you'd wear; I picture you with powdered bnlr, You'd mnken charming shepardess, And I no doubt could well express Sir Plume's complete conccitcdncss; Could poiso clouded cane with roro "In teacup-times." The parts would flt prcclsoly yes: Wo should ncliiovo a huge succca; You should disdain and I despair. With quite tho truo Augustan nir; But could I lovo you moro or less "In teacup-times?" Austin Docson. At Wellsloy College rowing is a great fad. Each of tho thrco upper classes has its crow, and tho Freshman class 210 girls has two rival crews, with several scrub outfits.

Tho girls aro to have a Harvard crow man to coach them, so enthusiastic aro thoy ovor tho watery sport. A woman has invented a vail clasp which 13 intended to hold the vail securely, and pays particular attention to keoping in tho looso ends. It is devised on tho hook-and-eye principle. It is not moro thau heralded, howover, for it is not to bo seen in tbo shops as yet. Immauucl Kant, tho philosopher, once asked, "Why docs woman rosemblo tho town clock, thosuaii, and the echo?" No ono answering, ho replied to his question: "Bocauso women disclose all that happens within their homes, liko the town clock; they carry all their finery about with them, liko the snail; and always will have the last word, liko tbo echo." The ladies protested.

Thou said Kant, "It is not for yon. Thoro is no rulo without an exception. You areas punctual as tho clock, as domestic as the snail, aud always tho echo of your husbauds." Eight unmarried ladies attend tho Queen as Maids of Honor. Thoy aro given the titlo "Honorable," and if they marry as tho Queen pleases, she gives thorn a dowry of 1,000 pounds. Ono or two maids at a timo reside at Windsor and Osborne.

Among tho now ribbons are pale-tin tod widths of moire, sprinkled with tiny roses, violets, or for-got-mo-nots, in the daintiest of flower tints. The ribbons aro used for folded collars and belts for gingham and lawn frocks, and aro made into pretty bows. Somo of the challies aro dainty enough to have this ribbon for trimming. Parasols aro treated to insertions of lace, as is everything elso about our clothing, except our shoes. Black satin parasols, with insertions of heavy black guipure lace, are handsome.

Some black parasols have white lace inser- tions, but they aro too glaring to bo real beautiful. Mrs. Frank Leslie is acensed of wearing an artificial neck of kid, delicately stretched aud painted. A delightful gift for an invalid who has moro flowers than sho can smell and moro jellios than she can eat, is a pretty dressing sack. It is often as good as medicino for her; at least it helps the medicino to help her.

Whito or somo dainty color, soft cas3imero or silk, much be-ribboned and lace-trimmed, mado exquisitely dainty with careful cutting, fine stitches, and absolute freshness, is all that i3 needed for the gift. Checked silks make daiuty blouso waist3. And as tho blazer suit has como to stay, tho stores aro crowded with its variotios in linen, gingham, or duck. Tho suits have jaunty coats and graceful Bkirts.and sometimes a mannish waistcoat is added. Tho ono pictured is of bluo-and-whito heavy linen goods.

Tho collar is wide, and so arc tho sleeves. It is short in front, but has longer full coat-skirts in tho back. Tho ouly trimming is rows of stitching just abovo the hem, tho lapel and collar edges, and around tho cuffs. The shirt-waist worn with it is plain white, tho tio aud belt dark-blue, and tho little hat dark-blue. Tho only difficulty with tho suits is that thoy aro so obviously striped and of two colors.

A plain shirt-waist, or ono with tho smallest of stripes or dots, aud showing no decided colors, only can bo worn. Tho suits como in tan colors and in whito, striped with fine bluo orbrowu lines. Music, it is claimed, has actual healing powers, valuablo to the physician. It accelerates the heart-action in mauy cases; sometimes retards it. An experiment was made, aud tho sick ones in a hospital ward wero treated to low, soft music.

It was soothing in most cases. Somo of tho patients fell asloop, and some kopt awake to enjoy it. It Eocms an ideal medi cine gentle music But an uncomfortable theory is one brought up by a French scientist, that flowers with ecenfc aro injurious, especially to siugors, as tho fragrauco affects tho throat and noatrils. Violets, roses, peonies bring about hoarseness, and singers are afraid of their scont. It is well known that people afllictod with hay fevor abhor golden rod because of its gonorous pollen; and other poople call their malady "roso cold," becauso flower pollen hurts thorn.

But that flowers generally are harmful to well people is an unpleasant theory, and wo begin to think thero is such a thing as boing too hygionio. Mating Sarnmor petticoats, to wear with turn dresses, is uiuuty wort. Two or turea are showu iu tbo cut, ono oX blue aud black stripd I CORNISH CO. jti'iiiiniimitmiiumum Mention Tlio Tribune. silk ruffled twice and each rufflo trimmed with a narrow band of black lace insertion.

It is gored, and fits very smoothly over the hips, fastening at tho belt with the back breadths gathering on ribbons. These silkon-striped petticoat3 in bluo or red aro very pretty affairs. Tho other two skirt3 aro of light-woight nainsook trimmed with embroidery or lace. Tho ono has a wide Spanish flounco edged with a narrow bit of lace, tbo other is trimmed with insertions of Valenciennes. Skirts of striped and figured goods with blue or pink or yellow flowers on a whito ground are great favorites, but for under a thin, transparent lawn or organdio gown tho plain white ones aro tho best.

Tho feather stitckXng braids como in blue and piuk and white and are neat for finishing ruffle headings. There are often pretty pieces of laco with eyelet headings, through which ribbon may be strung and tied in little bows. Skirts made with a band to button aro much neater and more satisfactory to most womon than tboso which gather and tie. All are fitted with gores and darts in the front and sides. Somo graduating classes are agreeing, Just among the girls, not to wear glove3, and a right sensible idea it is.

"For gloves," as Edmund Russell says, "make wrinkles. If they are dirty, you worry for fear that thoy become soiled if soiled, you worry to keep them from showing they aro so." When tho New York actresses posed torepro-dnco in life tho famous painting3, they made tho curious mistake of wearing tbo scanty Greek draperies over voluminous underclothing. Women who make of dressing such a fine art surely ought not to have mado tlm mistake. Thero 13 only ono way to cook oatmeal, and that is in a double boilor, after the following recipe, which is Mrs. Borer's method Put four heaping tablespoon fuls of oatmeal in a quart of boiling water, add a teaspoonful of salt, put these in tho double boiler and boil rapidly for 20 minutes; then push tho double boiler aside and let it cook slowly for two hours, or better still, over night.

It must not bo stirred after it has begun to cook; stirring break3 the grains and makes tho stuff pasty. Cooked correctly the grains ought to swell up, each one be separate from its neighbor, aud have a delightful flavor. If a double boiler is used, and the lower part kept filled with water, thero is not any danger of tho oatmeal burning and stirring is unnecessary. At A method for ridding the house of flies is to sponge tho window sills and frames with a strong solution of carbolic acid, applied while tho sun is shining. It will kill tbo pests with repeated applications.

However, it is a poison, and must bo kept carefully away from the reach of children. A bag tablo at a bazaar affords more variety than any other tablo possibly can that is confined to one species of bazaar products. Wo are evory year becoming more and more dependent on bags, aud tho list grows amazingly. There aro Iittlo opera-glass bags and big party bags, shopping bags and shoe bags, fan bags, handkerchief bags, akate bags, marblo bags, school bags, touis-shoe bags, bags for combs, for laundry, for stockings, znonding, and knitting. Thore are oil silk bags for sponges (which are an abomination), lavender bags, duster bags, bon-bon bags, and carriage bags.

Bags for string and bags for tobacco. Of ono bag, the old-timo scrap bag, wo hoar very little, yot it, too, is an important bag. Lawyers bags, which must be green, and tho list may be indefinitely extended. Take up any path in life and you find a bag will bo useful whilo traveling it. Elsie Pomeroy McElroy.

The Indians Hopeless. Life. Friend Your plan of civilizing the Indians by making soldiers of them is said to have failed. Philanthropist (dolefully) I can't understand it at alL It's the same way with our plan of civilizing the Irish, by making policemen of them." Tho Keitson TVby. itcl Ho loves to riso at early dawn When others love to lie.

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WHY YOU WANT THE ARMY SKETCHBOOK, a An Artist's Story of the War, BY EDWIN FORBES. RCAHCIS1 every page In It is of special interest to YOU. It Is not a "History ofthe 19 War," and wastes no space describing campaigns a thousand miles from where you served. It describes Army Ufe, day by day, just as you and every soldier actually saw It. a dk M.

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I HUrftt MUMMIES OF SAN JUAN. Thoy wcro Found, with Many Interesting Kellcs, In Mountain Caves. An exhibit of mummies, alleged to have been recently found in caves between the Elk and the Bule Mountains, at the head of the Comb Wash, which empties into the San Juan Eiver, 10 miles below Bluff City, Utah, was opened in a room in the Walker House. Thero are six, all very well preserved, one of a giant, one of a chief, two of women, and two of boys. At first it was thonght that they were the bodies of cliffdwcllers, but as they were found under the ruin3 of the cliffdwellera' habitations, it is believed that they belonged to some race thatantedated the chffdwellers.

Another point of difference is in the features of these mummified specimens. They have reddnh hair instead of black, and have no6 the flatness of the head noted in the genuine cliffdweller. The skull looks much like that of a Cancasian. The bodies, so it is stated by Charles D. Lang, who came out with the Hyde exploring party, were cramped into a constrained position, covered with a very curious matting or blanket of wool and feathers, then enwrapped with cedar bark.

The bodies were found in various positions. "With them, were the remains of hundreds of wild turkeys, while by the side of one was found a well-preserved specimen of a mouse. Many curious relics were also found with these bodies. There were some black ashes hi a wooden receptacle, some red corn in an earthen vessel, rude buckskin pouches, the tanning of which was different from that of the present day; a particularly fine carved onyx pipe, flint arrow heads deftly shaped broken pottery, and many other interesting articles the use for which is not known. So well preserved are the specimens of some extinct race that it can easily be told that one of the boys met with a violent death; the mustache is still plainly seen upon the face of the chief, and the course of a vein can be traced in the arm of one of the women.

THE RETIRED BURGLAR. He Sleets a Cool Man In a Town In Eastern Connecticut "I think about the most curious man ever met," said the retired burglar, I met in a house in eastern Connecticut, and know him either if I should meet him again unless I should hear him speak it was so dark where I met him thatl never saw him at all. I had looked around the house down stairsjandactuallyhadn'tseen a thing worth carrying off; it was the poorest house I ever was in, and it wasn't a bad-looking house on the outside, either. I got upstairs and groped around a little, and finally turned into a room that was darker than. Egypt I hadu't gone more than three steps in this room, when I heard a man say: "'Hello, "'Hello, says I.

"'Who are say3 the man, Aud I said yes, I did do something in that line occasionally. "'Miserable business to be in, ain't said the man. His voice came from a bed over in the corner of the room, and I knew he hadn't even sat up. "And I said 'Well, I dunno. I got to support my family some "Well, you've just wasted a night says the man.

'Did you see anything down, stairs worth "And I said no I hadn't. "'Well, there's has said the man, and then I heard him turn over and settle down to go to sleep again. I'd liked to have gone over there and kicked him, bnfc I didn't. It was getting late and I thought, all things considered, that I might just as well let him have his sleep out." Tlbt; Qlmjbk is sure to attain great popularity as the best all around pedal that will be seen this season. Combining the lightness of the rat trap racing pedal with the ease and comfort of a rubber pad, it preserves the varied and excellent qualities of our 1893 pattern, and reduces its weight more than one half.

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