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WASHINGTON SI1YLOCKS. Money. Lenders at, the Capital Who Bleed the Clerks. Improvident and Extravagant Govern ment Employes Who Borrow at Exorbitant Kates or In terest. The United States government, a a rule, pays higher salaries to its em ployes than private firms pay for the same class of work. Despite this fact there in probably no class of clerks so continually "hard up" as these same government employes, says tho Phila delphia Press. This is true at least in Washington, where the majority of tho employes are protected in their posi tions by the civil service laws, and where it would be supposed there would be more opportunity for saving than in positions less sure of tenure. The average department clerk re ceives what would bo considered a very snug salary in most any other city, es pecially in cities where metropolitan prices for living do not prevail. It would be safe to place the average salary re ceived at one thousand dollars per an num. It can be stated as a rule almost that these clerks are in debt from one year's end to the other. They are iu debt to the butcher, the baker and the grocery man, and tlielr frequent changes of residence are duo to a habit they have of neglecting to pay rent for their houses. This sort of thing iskept up until their debts are brought to the attention of their superiors in office, when the alternative is given of paying off their indebtedness in monthly in stallments to be kept out of their salaries or of leaving the government service. The faculty of the government clerk to get in debt has created aelass of Shy locks in the various departments in Washington tho like of which would bo hard to iind in any other city. They are appropriately called "ten per centers." They feed upon tho unfortunate clerk who is living beyond his- or her salary like vultures upon the stricken deer. They have their spies out in every direction, and learn of the financial con dition of their intended victims in ways no honorable person would adopt. To a clerk In distress for ready money they appear and oiFcr the cash to meet press ing wants. The bait is too tempting, and the victim borrows under the ugreement that it shall be paid back at the end of the month at tho exorbitant rate of ten per cent, interest for the thirty days. If not met at the end of the time stipulated the loan, or part of it, is continued at the samo rate for another month, and often times within a twelvemonth the poor clerk has paid more than the original sum in interest alone. Entieing circulars are sent to the clerks by these "ten per centers." Sums ranging from ten dollars to five hun dred dollars are offered as loans under the "strictest secrecy." Tho security asked is merely nominal. Furniture is usually the security suggested In the circulars. Theso sharks well know 1 1. ,,1 l.U . .! 1 1 itl to guarantee a payment of the loan, as tho presentation of it to tho chief of office usually results in arrangements being made for the return of tho money out ol tho monthly salary of the victim. The local newspapers are full of the advertisements of these "ten per cent ers." Their alluring offers are espe cially intended for that elass of em ployes who desire to cut a figure in Washington society, but who need ready cash at times to indulge their ambition. For iustance, aJudy in one of the de partments feeis that it will add very materially to her standing in society if sho were to give a "pink tea" or some function of that sort. Sho must do so at a certain "period of tho year during the social season. She has exhausted her credit at tho grocery and the con fectionery, so a little ready money in hand is an absolute necessity for the accomplishment of her plans. The en ticing circular of the "ten per center" is brought to her notice, and she can not resist the temptation. The money ia borrowed, the social function passes off, and tho poor victim finds herself in mo ciuienes oi a money snnrit, who will keep her stinted for tho necessities of life until his ten per cent, a month interest and principal is paid. This Shylock business was begun years ago, and to tho discredit of the government was largely carried on by employes of the departments who were in position to know tho wants and necessities of their fellow-clerks. So oppressive did the system become that rules were adopted forbidding employes of the departments to loan money to their fellow-employes. Theso rules havo been obsei ved so strictly that the "ton per cent." business has been pretty well driven from the departments. It is now carried on, as has been sug gested above, by means of circulars and advertisements in the dally news papers, nna the average government clerk finds it s difficult to get out of debt as formerly. The success that has attended this system of money lending has at last aroused competition. The chronic desire of government clerks to borrow money has stimulated the organization of a company that now proposes to cut rates with the old-time Shylooks, and offers to loan money at three per cent, per mouth. Thic moans a yearly rate of thirty-six per cent., but that is quite a reduction from one hundrc'l and twenty, which is now charged. ' LONDON'S BURGLARS. What They Did Lait Year and the Penal tie They Paid. According to the annual report of the commissioner of police the statistics for the past year record 600 eases of burglary in the metropolis, as com pared with G37 in lS'JJ. Notwithstand ing this marked decrease in the number of these offenses, the convictions ob tained were 117, as against 145 in the previous year. In three eases, says the Westminster Budget, the crime was ac companied by acts of violence against the person. In eight eases only did the value of the property stolen exceed iUQO. The net total loss of property by burglaries, estimated by tho owners, was 3,21J, as compared with A'4,ai5 in 1SJ. Tho cases of housebreaking num bered 1,343, being 23 more than in 1893. In none of these wm any act of violence against the person reported. Tho net total loss was 13,808, as compared with 10,079 in the preceding year. In 79 of these cases the criminals found no property which they thought worth carrying away. In 115 cases the prop erty stolen was valued by the owners at less than 1, and in 4i cases only did the loss exceed 50. The vast majority of these crimes are committed to the prejudice of the poor er classes of the metropolis, at whose expense gangs of professional thieves habitually maintain themselves in idle ness by a life of crime. Convictions were obtained in 100 cases, bnt in 81 cases only -were sentences of penal servitude awarded, and these, with four exceptions, were for terms of from three to live years; the exceptions were one sentence of ten years, one of eight years and two of six years. The 147 convictions for burglary were followed by sentences of penal servi tude in only 87 cases, and of these there were but six instances in which the term awarded exceeded live years. The maximum sentence of ten years was imposed in three instances. The Vengeance of Nature. The Boston Transcript says that of the one hundred and forty-six inhab itants of the little town of Chilmark, on the island of Martha's Vineyard, thirty-six, or almost exactly one quarter, are congenitally deaf and dumb. The town records show that two of the original settlers of the place, away back in the seventeenth century, were deaf and dumb, and the infirmity has thus been transmitted to our own day. This hereditary influ ence shows no plan of uniformity in its workings, deaf and dumb parents having children in full possession of all their senses, and vice versa. This pe culiar community, shut in from the outside world, is, however, alive to all the social and political influences of the time, and does not differ in great degree from the thousand and one se cluded villages which dot our New England hills and shore line. It affords, however, ample opportunity for the minute investigation of both the so ciologist and the student of evolution and physiological heredity. DIPLOMATIC ETIQUETTE. Tlie Question ot Kank al Bottled In the Early Days of tho Republic Thirty nations are represented at Washington by four ambassadors and twenty-six ministers, each of whom has anywhere from one to sixteen secretaries and attaches to carry on the necessary business. So far as work is concerned, the duties of the foreign representative are not onerous, and are largely social, says the New York Tribune. He sends dispatches to his own government and occasionally addresses communications to the secretary of state. Whether these cominuications be on matters of international interest or are simply a request to be allowed to land a few cases of wine, household effects, or a trunk full of fiaery for his wife, they are known as "notes." He is not per mitted to transact any business with any officer of the government except through tho secretary of state or other high officers of that department, and it would bo a great breach of etiquette for him to address the president per sonally upon any official matter. The code of diplomatic etiquette is strictly followed. The foreign representative makes the first call upon the members of tho cabi net, but is called upon by the senators. The only members of congress officially recognized are the members of the house committee on foreign affairs, in whoso good graces he naturally likes to keep. A private citizen calling without an in troduction at any of the legations promptly receives a card in return, and tho latest addition to tho corps makes the first call upon the resident mem bers. Nono of the wives of the diplo mats holds public receptions, except Mnio. Koinero, who began the custom some dozen years ago, when Washing ton was not so largo as it is to-day, and has never discontinued it, but even her house is open but four times a season to the general public. ' Until two years ago, when Great Brit ain raised her representative to the rank of ambassador, and France, Italy and Germany quickly followed, the dean of the corps was always the min ister who had seen the longest term of service here, and the dean now is the English ambassador, Sir Julian Faunce fote. As dean he takes the lead at all official functions; foreign ministers call upon him first, and in matters in which the whole corps is interested he is con sulted first. When the ambassador first appeared in Washington society there was a good deal of surmising about the matter of precedence at dinnors, and for some time it was a much-discussed question, but it has settled itself with out much difficulty, and nothing is ever heard about it now. In the early days of tho republic the question of etiquette became of sufficient importance for tho secretary of state, Mr. Adams, to ad dress a letter upon the subject to the president, but it was never settled. Years of precedent have, however, given a certain fixity to the etiquette here, which is much more rigid than is generally supposed by thoso who have not lived in Washington long enough to ( know. A Decorated Flower Seller. A well-known character in Paris is an old woman, whose breast is literally covered with crosses and decorations, and who is now peacefully engaged as flower seller. Her name isJeanMon more, and her honors were gained in the Crimea, at Korao, Gravelotte and at Orleans. On one occasion she rendered valuable service to her country by swal lowing a military dispatch of great Im portance, and so prevented its falling into the hands of the enemy. A woman who has swallowed so much for her country with dispatch should not be al lowed to sup sorrow in her old age. A bhobt needle in sewing. TciujLYnxE for grease on velvet or cloth. Removing Ink from boards with muriatio acid, afterward washed with water. A shkkt of white paper on a dark ta ble cover, if you must work at it at night One ounce of borax, two ounces of shellac, one pint of boiling water, for a glue or cement. Rkmoviso marking ink from linen with a solution of cyanuret of potassi um, applied with a camel's hair brush, and rinsed in cold water. NEW JERSEY'S AWL It Rested Upon Mount Ararat for Many Years. The Queer Looking Stroctoro Erected by tho Owner of tho Eminence One a Favorite Ileeort of the Children, Monnt Ararat is the first of a series of hills which end in the ridge upon which Summit is located. With many twists and turns tho tracks of the Mor ris & Essex division of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad climb up from the Orange valley to the top of this ridge at Summit. Quito near to the track about half a mile is Mount Ararat, upon which stood for many years the queer-looking structure called the "Ark." . This ark, says an eastern exchange, would have been a mere cockleshell upon the broad expanse of waters, and if its builder built it for a second deluge he took care not to put too much of an outlay on a useless object. It was twenty-five years ago that B. F. Kissam owned Mount Ararat and many broad acres surrounding it. His fine resi dence stood on the east side of the Springfield turnpike, in Milburn town ship, about a mile and a half from the villages of Milburn and Springfield. Not far from his house was tho base of Mount Ararat. This spot was the highest point ou his domain, from which a fine view could bo obtained of the surrounding cosntry. It was in the year 1809 according to the people still living in Milburn that Mr. Kissam constructed the queer wooden building which looked like an "ark," and was perched upon tho crest of this emi nence. ' The craft was about fifteen feet long by five feet wide, pointed at both ends, and surmounted by a canopy supported by fancy posts, much on the Swiss style. The boat stood about two feet from the ground and was reached by a short flight of wooden steps. ' Its interior arrangements were very meager, consisting only of comfortable seats at tho ends and on both sides. As the sides were not inclosed it was ex posed to the elements, and though kept in repair during tho ownership of the builder it became a prey to the influ ence of time and the storms, which found it a good mark in its unprotected position on the hilltop. At one time it was a favorite resort for tho school children during the week days, and on Sundays was the Mecca to which boys and girls turned their steps when out for a walk. If any boy had a new jnckknife whose qualities were to bo tried, the "ark" was the best ob ject to attack. As a result it was cov ered with all sorts of poetic effusions, both wig iual and otherwise. Initials and nuinca were carved, cut, or scratched in every nook and corner.- These pen knife attacks helped along the destruc tion, and each year witnessed the de cay and demolition of the building. The framework, 'which alone 're mained, was destroyed about two years ago by a fire which started in the long grans surrounding it. Mr. Kissam. the builder, long ago sold the property vpon 'v.'hieh the "ark" stood, and after passing- through various hands it is now owned by James IV Pitcher of Short Kills. It is safe to say thai no object in that portion of New Jersey was more eonpiouous than the old . "ark," and nothing was more missed from tho land scape. THE SUMMIT OF PIKE'S PEAK. Wild and I.oncnoiuo I.lfo of the Signal Kervlce Men There. The railway trains run daily to the top of Tike's 1'ea.U four months in the year from J-juo 1 to the last of Sep tcmbvr; sometimes a few days longer if thciv is patronage enough to pay ex panses. During the rest of the year, eight long months, the signal-service nieu stay there alone two of them and see nothing of the rest of mankind until the scow melts in the spring, al though theyare in constant communi cation by telegraph,- Sometimes, says a corruapondent of the Chicago Record, thVy come down ,on snowshoes to re pair t he wires if the storms tear them upurt, and in an emergency they have been as far as Manitou or Colorado Springs. ' . The railway grade has made these journeys much easier than they used to be when there was only the mule trail to follow, but- it's a long seven miles and a very steep climb to return to their eerie. The snow begins to fall early in October. Last year the ground was covered six feet deep by October 11, and the stone huts on the mountain top are buried Under tho drifts until tho sun begins to melt them tho last of April or the first of May. The men have books and cards and backgammon, and when t hey need exercise they can shovel the suow from the doorway. But it is a long and dismal imprison ment, and a countryman who went up on the ears with us expressed the uni versal opinion when, after hearing tho story, he exclaimed: "Gosh! I'd rather spend the winter in a good warm jail." There ia a report that the station is to bo abandoned this fall, as its utility to the weather bureau is doubtful, and the observers will not be sorry if it turns out to be true. THE CZARINA'S FINERY. Slio Twlats tier 1'oong llueband Bound Her lingers In a ! llRhtfiU Way. We have been hearing some very pretty stories of tho young owtrina'a kind heart and benevolent instincts, and the manner in which sho is alleged to be twisting the eiar round her fin gers is described as perfectly delightful from an English standpoint. With all her graces and virtues, however, Alex andra Teodorovna has a woman's love for finery and trinkets, and she is giv ing evidence of an intention of indulg ing it to the utmost. She has just given a Copeuhagen jeweler a truly re gal order for a diamond coronet and a necklaco of oriental pearls. The coro net, which is to be framed of Greek crosses and worn in the Grecian knot of her hair, will cost two hundred and forty thousand dollars and the necklace will be worth three hundred and forty thousand dollars. Besides the rich jewels that belong of right to the czarina, presents galore are pouring in upon the young empress. The shah of Persia sent her a superb pearl necklace, which has quite a his tory of its own. In reaching the Rus sian capital, says a society tattler, this necklace only returns to its original home. It originally belonged to Cath erine the Ureat, wno was so fond of it that she used to sleep with it around her neck. - But greatly attached to it though she was, Catherine for some reason or other gave it to one of her two Orloff favor ites, who took it first to Germany and then to Paris with him. In the French capital he met with that extraordinary adventurer, St. Germain, the magician, who went into the best circles, was a great favorite with the king, and, in fact, ruled the court society of the day. This brilliant charlatan, who used to assert that he was over eighteen hun dred years old and had known the Sa viour in Jerusalem, bought this neck lace from Orloff and sold it to the Per sian envoy. Thus it found its way to the land of the Lion and the sun, whence it is now returned to the land of the bear. DAINTY POWDER PUFF3. Cost tho Lives of Nearly Twenty 1 hooaand Young Swan Every Tear. A new count in the indictment against woman in the matter of her craving for plumage ornamentation is found in the way in which it is said the needs of her dressing table are supplied. An . English journal warns the Lon don ladies that their powder puffs, those airy necessities of the toilet, are heavy with the blood of slaughtered in nocents. - It is stated that as many as twenty thousand young ' swans cygnets, as theyare ealled-are killed every year to supply this dainty fluff, to say noth ing of innumerable young birds of the eider duck and wild goose variety. The bulk of these are imported the swan and geese from the islands of the Baltic and from Norway and Sweden, and the elders from the northern and more icebound seas. One cvenet will make .nearly a dozen average-sized "puffs," which shows how many women must be, to a greater or less extent, addicted to the use of pow der. .' ; The puff trade is highly profitable, as may be judged , from the fact that 1 the down . of cygnet costs a little more, than twenty-five cents, the poor creature often being plucked alive so that it may bear another crop, while the puffs are sold at from seventy-five cents upward, nicely mounted in bone and blue or pink satin, which ad juncts amount to comparatively noth ing. - .. ;.v The ladies of Paris and Vienna are the largest' consumers of puffs, owing chiefly to their fastidiousness in casting aside puffs as soon as they lose their pristine delicacy. SCOTCH PATRIOTISM. awney Was "Wee" Bat lie Was Also Full of Fight. The Scotch of the present day are patriotic, but not inclined to militarism. The recruiting sergeant goes among starving crofters and idle workmen, but he finds few willing to take the royal shilling and serve their country as sol diers. A writer in the Scotch Review says that this reluctance to enlist, shown by Scotchmen, is due to a craze for personal independence and to a rooted dislike to strict discipline, "We'll no pairt with oor lubertyl" is Sawney's response to the appeal to fol low his country's flag. By way of con trast to this reluctance, tho writer tells - an incident illustrative Of the martial spirit which - animated the young Scotch recruit of former days. The intended recruit was brought up to the orderly-room for inspection by the commanding officer of the regiment. On being measured, he was found to be a trifle under the regimental standard of height. . I He was a strong built and likely looking young fellow, and therefore the colonel reluctantly decided that he could not be accepted. Expressing his regret, he told the recruit that he was too short to be enlisted. . "O colonel," exclaimed the excited recruit, "ye'll surely no turn me backl I'm wee, but I'm Kicked." ("Wicked" was Scotch for spunky, mettled.) The colonel stretched a point and passed him. - '--' Slightly Changed. A young Colorado mining engineer, whom we will call Morton (according to Harper's "Drawer"), was once seated in a chair in a Denver barber shop un dergoing a shave. The talk turned on -the case of a man who, being on trial for murder, had been recognized by visitors to the courtroom as a young theological ' student from a middle state, where he had been the possessor of a spotless reputation and a totally different name. - The conversation thereupon drifted to the subject of changed identities. Morton's barber rubbed the razor on the strop reflective ly and said: "Yes, it's surprising how many men ehange their names after they get out west. By the way, Mor ton, what was your name back east?" "If inter Morton," was the quiet reply. ' MAYOR OF RING'S ISLAND. ' Death of an Odd Character Who Was Well Known In MlsaonrL Jack Ring, known for a quarter of a century as the mayor of Ring's Island, died recently at his home in the middle of the river, south of St. Joseph, Mo., says the St Louis Post-Dispatch. He was the rttler of thi settlement known as Ring's Island, and exercised control over all the inhabitants. At one time he owned a greater part of the island and only leased the houses, but he met with reverses and lost all his property. He died in a wretched hovel, sur rounded by every evidence of poverty. Ring was one of the most daring characters ever known in the west He was an expert swimmer, and in the last ten years has saved hundreds of people from drowning in the river. Scores of people who have jumped from the bridge with suicidal intent have been dragged out of the water by Ring, whose home was in sight of the bridge. In his boat he carried a hook, which he fastened in the clothes of would-be sui cides, while he towed them to the shore. This method was employed when he recovered dead bodies from the river, and few of them floated by the island unseen by Ring. Tho popu lation of the island is made up of crim inal classes of the lowest kind. The island is under the control of the city, and is patrolled by the police, but there have been times when it was dan.Ter ous for officers of the law to venture upon it except in larpe numbers. I. ins was not a eriniin: 1. l:vt he tji-.t -.u-,jl with them, and could control them far better than the police. One of Ring's most daring feats was to climb to the top of the highest church steeple in the city and hang head down ward for an hour. He frequently swam the river when the stream was so high that no other swimmer would venture into it. Last winter he went into the stream when it was full of floating ice and rescued a German collarmokerwho had plunged from the bridge to die. Ring dragged the man' by the hair, dodged the floating ice, and landed him nearly a mile below the bridge. The collarmaker killed himself a few days later by taking poison. Ring was of small stature and hhrhead was far be iir the medium size. lie hud no edu ction and was not a fluent talker, but I lo has been admitted for years that ho possessed a strange influence over the criminals and desperate characters with whom he came in contact. Ring had never heard of hypnotism, and had no name for the peculiar power he pos sessed. A false iharge of larceny was once made against Ring by an officer who was probably envious of the little man's power to control the reckless toughs on the island, and he was ar raigned before a magistrate. Scores of the reckless characters from the island and other places attended the trial, and had Ring not been vindicated there would doubtless have been bloodshed in the courtroom. FIGS AND THISTLES. Little thinkers are big talkers. Good actions, like sheep, are apt to follow one another. Mahomet admitted bees to paradise, but barred out the hornet The love that is dumb until it speaks on a tombstone doesn't say much. It 1b hard to convince a dyspeptic that the world is growing better. Some men who start out to set the world on fire give up at the first thun der clap. There are people who never accom plish anything because they undertake to do too much. - '' Thebe are men who go to a gymnasi um for exercise while their wives are sawing the wood. vsRWiifijca OnS It is aold on a cuarantee br all drur- gists. It cures Incipient Consumption and is the beat Cough and Croup Curs, i Notice. The undersigned having been ap pointed by the court Receiver for the C. A. 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The undersigned having been duly appoin ted Assignee of theestate of the above nnmed Insolvent debtor, under and by virtue of an act of the legislative Assembly of the State of Oregon, entitled "An act to secure to creditor just division of the estates of debtors who may CM.vev to Assignees for the benetit of credi tors," approved Oct. ISth, 1878, and all subse quent amendments thereto. All persons having claims against said es tate are hereby notiiled to present- the same to me at my place of business in the cily of At hena, Umatilla county, Oregon, duly verified as bv law required, within three months from the date of this notice, Athena, Ore. Nov. 23 1891. C. W". Hou.18, E. DkPeatt, Assignee. Attorney for Assignee. -- DON'T STOP . TOBACCO will be sent by mall ujC2 receipt of price. Send six two-cant stsmps for Ssmpls Box. Booklets and proofs free. Eureka Chemical MTg Uo., La Crosse, W ia. . Office of Thk Pioskkr Pbkss Co., C. W. Homlck, Supt. St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 7, 1&R. 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