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BANDON RECORDER. * | POLLY LARKIN. | How tbe Prraldeat la Paid. Ill the apportionment of the salaries of all United Slates government em ployees the year la divided into quar ters and each quarter subdivided ac cording to the number of days In each month, but the president receives prac tically the same amount every mouth. Thus, If a president should die at the end of February, after receiving his salury for that month, his successor would In reality receive less than the full amount due him In March because his predecessor had. In effect, been overpaid the prior mouth. Inasmuch as the president’s salary mny Dot be divided Into exactly equal parts. It Is necessary to pay the chief magistrate $4,166.66 on some months and $4,166.67 on others, on one occasion during the Cleveland administration a mis take was made, and there were sent to the chief executive three successive warrants for if 4, 166.6tl. When the error was discovered, the treasury de partment hastened to dispatch to the White House a warrant on the United States government for a cent, made out In Mr. Cleveland's favor, though the president never cashed this cheek. —Argonaut The Professor, the l.ady anil the Cow. It Is told of u certain professor whose absentmlndedness about equaled his learning that he was one day, crossing the college campus, absorbed to such a degree in a book of Ills that luid Just been published that he was lost to everything else. Suddenly he bumped up against an object, anti looking up lie saw that be had collided with a cow that had rudely strayed In Ilfs way. ‘’Get out of the way. you cow!" he exclaimed irritably, prefixing an Im polite adjective to "cow.” The next day as the professor was again crossing the campus, immersed In his reading, he again ran Into an object. “Oh, that confounded cow!” he exclaimed. Then, hearing an In dignant “Sir!” he looked up hastily to discover that this time he luid come up ugalnNt the wife of a fellow pro fessor. It luirdly made matters better to assure her that he had taken her for a cow, and It required the good offices of the entire faculty to restore an era of good feeling. A Ludicrous Word Twister. Professor William Archibald Spoo ner of Oxford university has become famous ns n ludicrous word twister Once at a special service, seeing some women standing at the back of the church wafting to be seated, he rushed down the aisle and addressed the ush era as follows, “Gentlemen, gentlemen, sew these ladies Into their sheets.” Be ing asked at dinner what fruit he would have, he promptly replied, "Pigs, tleus.” This Is the way In which Dr. Spooner proposed to his wife: Being one afternoon nt the home of her fa ther, Bishop Harvey Goodwin of Car lisle, Mrs. Goodwin said, "Mr. 8 poo ner, will you please go out Into the garden and ask Miss Goodwin if she will come In and make tea?" The pro fessor, on tinding the young lady, said, “Miss Goodwin, your mother told me to ask you If you would come in and take me.” .Urn O'Brien*« Epitaph. “I suppose our western •country has furnished more funny things In the ep itaph line than ull the rest of the world,” remarked a Colorado ex-con gressman. “I remember one that adorned the cemetery at Leadville In the palmy days <>f that great mining camp. It seems that in the course of a isirrooiil broil one Jim O'Brien, a well known character, had his existence terminat ed prematurely. He was a good fel low In the main and not without friends. One of the dead man's asso ciates, In deep grief over his demise, erected a wooden slab over his grave on which be had written in large let ters: "Jim O’Brien departed for heaven at 8:30 a. m. “A local humorist happened along soon afterward aud appended the fol lowing: “Heaven, 4:20 p. m.—O’Brien not yet ar rived. Intense excitement. The worst Is feared." — Washington Times. Love <ft Country. For the love of country, us such. It would be ditticult to decide between the highlander of Scotland ami the mountain born Inhabitants of theTyrol. Both will wander in search of fortune to the ends of the world and yet look back to their native mountains as their only real home. The same Is true of the Swiss, although in a lesser degree It is a very singular fact that Inhab itants of mountainous countries [ms- Bess this feeling of attachment in a much intenser form than those of Hat countries. I.arked Heart. “What ill the world are v*>u doing?” asked a little lady of a friend whom she fouud pouring over a Issik and at the same time attending to some sewing. “Trying to keep pace with my chil dren,” she replied as she smilingly dosed the issik and prepared to enjoy her visit. “You see,” she continued, "my school advantages were very lim ited. We lived on a farm, and you know liow much opportunity farmers’ sons ami daughters had to go to school in those days, don’t you? Little < r nothing. Still I always managed to try and keep up with the more for tunate children, even when 1 had to stop w hen the summer rush ol liarvist ing alid sheep-shearing, tile fruit sea son, etc., came on. 1 craved an educa tion and always sited many bitter tears when the order came to bring home my scliisil lssiks and assist in the drudgery of farm work, llow I envied the girls who could attend a whole term without any interruptions. I used to |M>ur over my books long after the rest of the family were wrapt in slum ber and then get up before dawn to get the men’s breakfast so they could get an early start. My hands have been more or less tied since my marriage at tending to the wants of my little Hock ami I did not realize mliy my scant knowledge of books until they began to advance in their studies. I was rusty in what little I did know and so began to try and brighten up a little bit, but the modern methods are much better than they were in our day and more thorough, and I found my little folks passing me ami getting to a place where I could no longer assist them when they came to me with their stud ies. 1 was ashamed for them to know that their mother was so far behind the times, so after they retired for the night I would take up the Lssiks aud study their lessons. 1 nsteail of studying their lessons at n'glit I would put them to Iasi early ami call them in the morning tn time to get their home work before breakfast. They were fresh and bright and their minds active, and 1 was ready to help them and answer the questions put to me. Yes, there was ‘method in my madness,’ for they never found out what a stupid woman their mother was. I got so 1 enjoyed the lessons, and particularly as they advanced. It keeps me studying all my spare min utes, but I enjoy every moment spent with the lssiks, and besides it keeps me in touch with my children. ««4141 she continue to lisik out for his welfare , CHOICE MISCELLANY when his very presence only served to drag his children dow n? They could I An I «1 tr t never succeed in life while it was, One day 'not long ago two girls, clouded by the presence of their fat her. Agnes and Pauline Bain, were fording who never spoke to them iu anything Cicero creek near Tipton, Ind., on but a rough ami uiigmtlemanly man horseback. The horse caught bls foot, ner intermingled with curses. She had stumbled, and tlie girls were thrown Into the water. high aspirations for her Isiys, but the Neither girl could swim, aud both father’s example was to be dreaded. At were hi imminent danger of drowning times his actions were sueb that the when the horse, a great pet and a boys would lose heart ami try to avoid most Intelligent animal, swam to them, their friends, feeling their disgrace so as if conscious of their danger. Around and around them the anhnal keenly. Moved to desperation by his falling lower and lower in the scale of swam until Agnes finally caught hold decency, she applied for a divorce and of his tail. Then she fortunately caught her sister's hair, and the horse had no trouide in having it granted. towed them liotli ashore. Then she left the home where she had The first news of the accident that spent so many days of misery and the family had was the appearance of moved from the little eountiy town, Tom, the horse, at the door, neigldng where eVery one was her friend, to San ns if in trouble. Mr. Bain went out. Francisco with her family. Not a soul 'Tlie moment he nppeansl the animal did she know, ami she had but twenty started away on a trot. Then, seeing dollars to purchase the necessaries of that his master did not follow, he gal lifealter paying her rent and alone in a loped back, neighed again and then w ent off as before. big city. But she was not disheartened By this time Mr. Bain had concluded ami cheered the lonesome children by from the conduct of the horse that a display of cheerfulness she did not something was wrong and hurriedly feel. They lived in two or three rismis followed the animal. He met the two on a little side street. One of the Isiys little girls making their way home started out to sell newspapers and ward. The horse ran up to them and helped to eke out a living in that way. rubbed his nose on their shoulders ns if to show how glad be was to find Another month’s rent was drawing them alive. near and still the way seemed dark, but the star of hope was ever before her London Dinea at Noon. Except In certain circles, from the moving steadily ahead and giving promise of better things. Then the upper middle class or the lower upper way opened. Positions were found for classes upward, among whom the cus all her Isiys and she herself found em tom of evening dinner prevails, the re spectable English custom is to serve ployment by the day. She always dinner at noon, the evening meal rang manuged to get home in time to have a ing all the way from the workman's hot supper ready for the tired chil repast of tea with winkles, bloaters or dren. Then mother and sons attended Jam to the heavy supper of game and night school together. All graduated pastry for the rich. To this custom at the same time and all have steady the restaurants enter, but to the large and good salaried positions in some of floating colonies of foreigners to whom the leading business houses in San an evening dinner Is a necessity they pay no heed, says the Outlook. They Francisco. A Imppier family you will continue complacently to serve “din not be able to find, and the proud little ner from 12 to 3,” after which hour mother says as she looks smilingly at one may whistle in vain, for no dinner her four handsome boys, “The road was will he get. As a natural result an very rough, and it seemed for a long army of French and Italian restau time like my very soul had been rants are doing a brisk business and warped ami all the brightness gone, but amassing fortunes, not only in cater my faith never wavered, and the way ing for their own people, but in bring ing comfort to many an English bach opened and darkness turned to light.” elor emancipated from tea and Jam. » X . » Not only In the matter of service, but "Cecil J——”: Your question is one also in the menu, does the village res that cannot be answered in this column. taurant cling to old custom. BRIEF REVIEW. Cause of Baldness. Among the common causes of bald ness those which stand apart from ac tual disease of the hair—I)r. Andrew Wilson places in Hie lirstrank the habit which many menaequireof wetting the hair every morning in their bath or when washing the face. What hap pens in such cases, he says, is that the natu ral oily secretion of the skin of tlie head is removed by the water, and the hairs are therefore deprived, to a large extent, as also is the skin, of the natural pomade, as it were, which tlieskin sup plies. There are thousands of little glands in the skin called sebaceous glands, which produce an oily sub stance, keeping tlieskin supple, and as these glands open into tire sheaths of the hairs we may very naturally be lieve that they contribute to the hairs some substance intended for their nour ishment and preservation. If, therefore, through any cause the natural oil of the scalp is removed say by too frequent washing the hairs, living deprived of their nourishment, tend to fall out. "There is more in common between us than you will usually find between mothersand their children. To use my oldest boy’s expression, he always says ‘Mother is my chum,’ and he makes me bis confident, as indeed all my chil dren do. 1 have not allowed them to drift away from me. We now have our study hour every evening together and it is one of the happiest hours of the day, studying, arguing and com menting on the work of each other. I don’t believe they will ever see the day when they will say, ‘Oh, mother is such an old fogy,’ as I heard one of their schoolmates remark the other day m regard to his mother, and when some one reproved him for it he replied, ‘Weil, she doesn’t know about any Utilization of Wastes. thing else but styles and fashions.’ 1 The census bureau lias issued a report felt sorry for the boy, for he was really estranged from his mother by her total on theutllization of wastes and by-prod indifference to anything pertaining to ucts iu manufactures. The report di her boys beyond seeing that their mes that any very such profitable clothes were of the latest cut and that employment of wastes in manufacture they were always well clad. They hun has reached its highest degree of attain gered for something else rather than for ment. Instead it predicts further de this vain glory. They wanted hersym- velopments even to the extent of con patliy and encouragement as well as verting by-products into the main her interest in what they were doing iu product of industry. The most con their school life, but such things made spicuous instance of such reversion In her tired. One of the Isiys, who fre the last decades of the nineteenth cen quently joined our little family circle tury is in the revelations ofc >al tar and around the study table whispered to the higlilv developed utilization of its one of my Isiys not long since as lie was many by-products. In tlie course of a taking bis departure, ‘Say, Rob, your resume of the subject by industries the mother is a ‘Joe Dandy.’ Helps a fel report says, among other things, that low lots, doesn't she? Wish my moth from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 worth of er was like In r.’ If his mother could wool fal ami potash are run down the have heard him 1 am sure she would streams ami wasted annually in the have tried to make his home-life a little United States, and similar lost oppor happier. As it is, while she is study tunities for utilizing wa te material are ing the fashions they are wandering on pointed out. the street or spending the evening at the house of some neighlsir. They are An Intelligent Bird. nice children, but they are sadly lack The yakannk, or trumpeter of Venez ing in the home training that is one of uela, a fowl of the crane species, is a the stepping-stones in life’s journey anil bird of extraordinary intelligence. The gives our little ones a sure fisitliold. 1 f natives use it instead of sheep dogs for you knew how much I enjoy the com guarding ami herding their flocks. It panionship of my children you would is said that, however far the ynkamik not wonder at my desire to keep pace may wander with the flocks, it never with them in their studies and every- fails to find its way home at night, driv thingelse in which they are interested.” ing before it all the creatures intrusted to its cure. « « « « “Once there was a lawyer out near Galesburg,” said an Illinois congress man, "who made a brilliant defense In u certain case. Men praised Ids effort. 'Will lie make Ids mark for ability as an advocate?' some one asked. 'No.' replied the veteran lawyer. 'His abil ity begins here nt the Adam's apple ami extends upward. He must Imve The alsive calls to mind a brave little something under Ids left breast.’ ” The congressman cited this ns an example woman who never had milch schooling, why some speeches fall In the house but had stisid behind a counter in her of representatives.—Washington Post father’s little griwery store from the time she was able to look up over the A Soft Answer. top and serve the customers. Lame Dibits (rather shortsighted, overtak from her babyhisid she had anything ing total stranger and slapping him on back from behind) Ilello, old fel but an easy time in life. Finally she low! How are you? So glad to see you married a man who proved to Is* a again. Whit’d have thought of meet— "ne’er do well” sort of a fellow ami Stranger—Confound you, sir! llow only served to make her life harder and dare you strike me In that blackguard take the last bit of brightness out of it. ly manner? You ought to lie more It was a struggle fora bare existence. careful that you’ve got the right per She stissl it for years until lie ceased to son. seek work and s|>ent his time lounging Bibbs Really, sir, 1 must apologize, but 1 took you for the Earl of---- . The around taloons, coming home in a quar relsome mood night after night and likeness Is really won— Stranger (greatly mollified)—Say no abusing herself ami the children. The more, sir, I entreat. 1 quite see how little woman was doing some quiet the mistake occurred. .Magnificent reasoning all to herself. Why should weather, Isn't it? Good morning to she continue to live with this man, you; good morning.—London Answers who had not given her a kind word in years and who had not contributed a Close Resemblance. cent to thesupportof the family, allow “Contentment,” said Uncle El>en, "is a mighty flue thing. But de trouble ing her to make the living as liest she about it Is dat it Is kin’ o' bahd to could and demanding money from her ’stingusb f'um plain laxiness.”—Wash hard-earned and badly needed wages to squander in the salisins? Why should ington Star. HUMOR OF THE HOUR IN MANDALAY. nis Last Wall. (bouaaud* ut Pagoda Bells Ria* at the Sent«« of the Saa. The while robed nurses quietly bus ied themselves at the patient’s bed side. He was plainly breathing bls last. “Have you anything to say?" tender ly asked the attending physician. “Nothing—nothing!” gasped the dy ing man. “It is only this regret—this remorse—this terrible blow to my self respect!” He breathed now In a labored man ner, and they bent lower to hear his story divulged. "Oh,” walled the unfortunate, “to think to think—that I have smashed all the antlspeed laws In christendom against automobiles aud then aud then -to be run over by an ice wag on !” It was too much, and he gave up the I'host Iu mortal agony. — Baltimore News. Quite Excusable. It was at the literary club reception. "Which do you consider the best novel of the year?” said the guest of the evening to the long haired young man whose name he had failed to catch. The long haired youth hesitated. "Perhaps I'd better not commit my self,” he said, with a slight hesitation. “Why not?" queried the guest. “Because,” replied the youth, “I wrote it.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Careless Girl. “Such carelessness Is little short of criminal,” thundered Dr. Price-Price angrily. “Oh, doctor,” sobbed Mrs. Sasslety- I.leder's nursegirl, “do you blame me for the baby's illness?” “Most assuredly. You should know better than to leave It alone in the care of its mother even for a moment.” —Philadelphia Press. Destitution. “No; the general prosperity did not much lighten the labors of the sewing circle. There was always want to be relieved. "Just now,” added the pious woman, “we are particularly busy making up clothes for members of the church left destitute by the last rummage sale.”— Puck. “Llnllt Literature.” Tlie Cat Column«. One of the features in which Eng lish periodicals for women differ from American magazines of the same class is in the “cat column.” There is a sec tion devoted to cat gossip in many of them, in which well known catteries are described. the good points of their inmates and the methods of their own ers set forth and the troubles of cor respondents discussed, all with an un conscious gravity and a dignity of style which approach the humorous in American eyes. The Illness and con sequent absence from a show of a fa mous cat are thus gravely chronicled It Fits. in a recent publication: “She was pre “You say Cubbage Is worth a clean vented from appearing at Edinburgh by tin unfortunate accident, having got million?” "Y’es.” a fish bone firmly fixed in her nose “'Is there a special reason for the use while eating her supper. She has got well over the effects, barring a slight of the adjective clean?” “There Is. He made the money In weakness of the eyes, which will mi the soup business.” — Detroit Free doubt pass off In a day or two.” Press. A Curious Phenomenon. While the tiery tornado at Mont Pc- lee, passing toward the south and west, widened the sweep of its de structive power In order to extend Its devastations farther a remarkable phenomenon came to stop It In its course. Two strong atmospheric cur rents laden with rain, one moving from tlie southeast and the other from the north, fell of a sudden upon the sides of the fiery spout and, encircling it along a distinctly marked line, cooled it to sui'h a point that I have seen persons who. finding themselves precisely upon this line of demarca tion, were struck on one side by tiery missiles, while on the other and only a few feet away nothing was falling but the rain of mud, cinders and stones which descended on the coun tryside everywhere.—Century. Mere Pleasantry. Photographer—Excuse me, sir, but you have been sitting on your hat for the last ten minutes. Customer (furious)—Well, why in thunder didn’t you tell me before? Photographer—I wished you to look pleasant, sir. Unforeseen Results. Dolly—1 believe Judy Gibbs is a mes merist. Polly-Why? Dolly—I went to sell her a ticket to our picnic and she sold me one.—De troit Free I’ress. • Last. “Yes, sir,” said the builder gleefully; "every house in that section Is rented now but one.” "Ah! And that one,” remarked his friend, “is last, but not leased.”—Phila Tlie Washerwomen’» Trunt. Following the example of great delphia Press. financial potentates, the« Japanese Her Vacation. washerwomen at Vladivostok have “But why are you taking your doc formed a species of trust, the mem bers of which agree to the following tor with you on your trip?” he asked. “There is to be so much going ou,” rules: First, no washing per month at contract rates; second, no washing she answered, “and you know 1 am to be done at less than 4 cents per not very strong anyway.”—Town Top article; third, no washing to be done ics. for customers owing money or making Another Sad Blow. deductions for lost, spoiled or badly Enpeck (excitedly at 2 a. m.)—Wake washed linen. Fines varying from up and listen, my dear. I’m sure there $20 to $25 tire to be levied on wash Is a man in the bouse. erwomen departing from these rules. Mrs. Enpeck (sleepily) — Do keep quiet, Henry. You flatter yourself. No Vnult Buricliir Proof. United States treasury experts after Investigating thermite reported to As slstant Secretary Taylor In Washing ton that there Is no such thing ns a burglar proof safe or vault. The best tempered steel, no matter how thick, is not proof against the new chemical compound. This report was made after testing thermite on the great steel vaults In Chicago ami other cities. They advised the government t'ocoai'iit trees grow in large planta to adopt the latest burglar alarm de tions close to the shore all over the vice Hint gives Instant warning of burglars. Philippine islands. Within the last twelve years tlie trade Ims increased Baptism by Brandy. tremendously. The product is periodi A new religious sect has been found cally affected by heavy typhoons, but ed In the southwestern province oi it requires only a few years to pick up Russia, the members of which believe In baptism by brandy Instead of bap again. tism by water. The baptism, too. h It is said that Hint which forms the internal instead of external, the eon vert drinking as much of the liquol substratum of London is nothing but as he can possibly negotiate. Th» petrified sponges. An examination of method of baptism Is believed to b< the fossil sponges or (lint shows its the cause of the rapid growth of th» structure. sect Ilin Nickname. < >neof thegreatest drawbacks in Mex "I hope they don't give my little boy ico is the scarcity of fuel. Hopes are any naughty nicknames In school.” placed in the probable discovery of oil “Y’es. ma, they call me 'Corns.' ” in paying quantities. “How dreadful! And why do they call you that?” "’Cause I'tn always at the foot of If the liest you can say alsiut your the class.” neighlsir is In reply to the worst henaid about you, don't say it. Thonuht It Likely. Mrs. Boule—And will you love me One-third of the United States proper when I'm old and unlovely? Is vacant land. Doozle—I suppose so. You see. I’ll lie old and daffy then inyself.—San if you cannot Is* clever, Is- careful. Francisco Bulletin. The Rule of Golf. Redd—Can you always tell a begin ner on the golf links? Greene—Well, as a rule, you can't tell him much.—Yonkers Statesman. Our Summer Girl. Upon the turquoise billow's crested top The summer girl, the pearl of all the sea, With gay abandon bobs In boundless glee. The sweetest of the peacherlno crop. The man who sees her yearns to be her prop For life—that Is, to hold her heart In fee And plod to glean for this entrancing she the golden wherewithal with which to shop. A brief space hence he sees this siren cute Lean from the window of her perfumed lair And envies, while he heaves a wistful sigh, Phe hyaclnthlne zephyr, rapture mute. That nestles In the tangles of her hair She sweetly shakes athwart the sill te dry. —Judge, Mandalay bas Its own sky, soft aud gray and lucurvtng like a tent, with white cloud lines that seem meant fur scrolls if one coul<4 read. It is the Very Sacred City, the city of content plation, the city of all the monks. A thousand pagoda bells give tongue to the wind there when the sun goes down; a crumbling thousand more give up to time the testimony of outworn tilings. It lies In a curved arm of blue hills, and something broods over It with so licitude. This you suspect from the air of the place and the way the shrill talk of the parrots and the complaint uf the goats and the laughter of the people come to you wherever you are lifting. Afterward you go out, as 1 did that morning with the commission er. and see under the very zenith, where the low gray sky is caught up, the square of the dark red crenellated walls of the old royal city, three miles each way, and outside the walls the parallel clear moat thinking back at the sky, and then you are sure that over and alsive the government of In dia some spirit is In possession here, some spirit that bends In affection over finished and forgotten things. Seven roofed kiosks stand at inter vals over the gates In the wall—they me called pyathat, but they strike the eye like peaceful conclusions—and low white stone bridges raised In the mid dle span the moat. The buttresses of the gates tire painted deep gray and white, and the bank that slants steeply from the wall to the water has here and there a low, twisted, spreading tree on It. purely for decoration. You may stop at a corner and look two ways along the reflecting water, with bridge after bridge receding across, and pyatlmt after pyathat diminishing iilmve. and each red and gray and white vista so picked out and finished under the quiet light slipping adorably Into the near blue of the hills. Mandalay seemed aware with bunt ing that day. flags and arches of wel come everywhere and crowds flocking- aware and almost awake—but you looked lignin and saw that she only turned in her sleep and smiled, as at a drea in.- Exchange. JAPANESE JOTTINGS. Chrysanthemums served as a salad are a favorite article of diet among the Japanese. At a Japanese banquet it IS con sidered a compliment to exchange cups with a friend. Japanese cooks are the most cruel lu tlie world. They cut every atom of flesh off a living fish piecemeal with out first causing death. The lower class of the Japanese em ploy hardly any other material than paper for their clothing. Where wages are exceedingly low, cloth Is an Im possible extravagance. Every hotel in Japan has a fan, spe cial to itself, containing a view of the hotel and a blessing from the writ ings of Confucius. One of these is al ways given to the departing guest. Many Japanese women are under going the slight surgical operation nec essary to straighten the slant of the eyelid, which distinguishes them so unmistakably from Caucasian women. The Japanese eat more flsli than any other people in the world. With them meat eating I b a foreign innovation, confined to the rich, or, rather, to those rich people who prefer It to the na tional diet. WASHINGTON LETTER (Special Correspondence. J The work of the newly organized and Increased bicycle squad of the local police department Is proving wholly satisfactory to Major Sylvester, who has long advocated un improve ment of that particular branch of the police service. Since the new squad has been on duty on the principal thoroughfares of the city It has cor rected a large number of abuses of the police regulations. The charge of maintaining the handle bars of hht bicycle ou a plane four inches below the plane of the saddle was pref «-lied against Charles A. Smith in police court the other morning, and u|ain conviction the de fendant was compelled to pay a flue of $1. The regulation wus made sev eral years ago to prevent scorchers from colliding with pedestrians by rid ing bead down ut a high rute of speed. Very few arrests have been mude lute- ly for this violation of the regulation. Free Quarter« For Veteran«. A large number of letters are re ceived from day to day by the officials of the citizens' committee in charge of preparations for tlie coming na tional encampment of tlie Grand Army of the Republic asking as to free quar ters for veterans. To all these com munications reply Is made that the allotment of free quarters Is exclu sively under the control of the national headquarters of the G. A. R. at Min neapolis, and that all applications for such quarters should lie made there. In a circular letter sent out some time ago by the committee to the de partment commanders of the G. A. R. and division commanders of the Sons of Veterans, attention is called to this matter. The citizens' committee Is earnestly desirous that all the old veterans who wish to come, but who may lie debarred through Inability to meet the expense of quarters while here, may be provided for, and so ex presses Itself In nil replies to letters on the subject. The District h Territory. The District commissioners have re ceived from Secretary of State Hay a letter similar to those sent to all gov ernors of states and territories in the United States representing the scholar ships offered to Americans under the terms of the will of the lute Cecil Rhodes. Mr. Macfarland has moved that the papers be referred to the board of education for its report, and after the receipt of that the commis sioners will formally reply to the com munication of Mr. Hay. The receipt of the letters settles the mooted question as to whether tlie Dis trict of Columbia came under the head of a state or territory within the mean ing of the will or was merely a city. The letter being sent to the Commls- sinners by the secretary of state Is ac cepted as evidence from high authority that legally the District of Columbia exists In the status of a territory of the United States. District Pay« Union Wane«. In response to a recent communica tion from James E. Mitchell, acting secretary of the Building Trades Coun cil, regarding the rate of wages paid to employees In the District repair shop, the District commissioners have forwarded to Idin the following mem orandum from G. P. Coleman, superin tendent of repairs: “The following mechanics employed by tills department are receiving union wages: Carpenters, $3 per diem; paint ers, >2.60; tinners, $2.80; bricklayers. $4.50, and laborers, $1.50 per diem. The only mechanics who are not paid union wnges are the plasterers. Lust summer only two applications were re Bird«' Egica Too Mach For Science. ceived for this class of work, and in It is not often tliut science acknowl each case $2.50 per diem was asked. edges herself at fault in an apparent As a very small amount of plnstering ly simple matter, but she frankly does (patching) has to be done tlie two men so in regard to the color and marking who made application were employed of a large proportion of birds’ eggs. and gave entire satisfaction." A reason there must be for their In Nlsht Work at White House. finite diversity; it cannot be hii n-s- A night force of carpenters has been thetlc one, and all we can say with put to work on tlie interior of the any confidence is that the ever per White House. For tlie first time In vading instinct of distrust Is probably the history of the old building work exhibited In eggshells as in more im men are driving nails and manipulat portant things, and the main idea in ing saws and other tools by electric their scheme of coloration has been light. The night force began work in the securing of safety from many ene the ancient attic. mies by harmonizing them with their Four bedrooms, presumably all for surroundings. But it is a scheme full servants, are being built in the attic, of perplexlug exceptions, which any which, before the Roosevelt adminis one can study for himself.—Pall Mall tration, bad been used for storage pur Gazette. poses only. A driveway is building from the White House to the execu Prcachluc Monkey«. The author of “The History of Bra tive avenue, between the White House zil” tells of u species of monkey called and the treasury. Estimate For Deaf and Dumb. "preachers.” Every morning and The initial one of the District esti evening these monkeys assemble In the woods. One takes a higher posi mates for the fiscal year ending June tion than the rest and makes a signal 30, 1904, has reached the commission with bls fore paw. At this signal the ers, coming from Dr. E. M. Gallaudet, others sit around him and listen. When president of the Columbian Institution they are ail seated, he begins to utter For the Deaf and Dumb at Kendall a series of sounds. When he stops Green. Dr. Gallaudet asks tliut the these cries, be makes another signal commissioners include in their esti with his paw, and the others cry out mates to congress an item of $10,600 until be makes a third signal, upon for the expenses attending the instruc which they become silent again. This tion of deaf and dumb persons admit author, Mr. Maregrove, asserts that be ted to the institution from the District of Columbia. This auiouut is the same was a witness to these preachings. as has been appropriated by congress annually for several years past. A Ruakln Thouxlit, Not One Objectloaable Picture. To be content in utter darkness and Two women were walking through Ignorance Is Indeed unmanly, and there fore we think that to love and find the corridors of the Congressional knowledge must be always right. Yet library the other day leading n little wherever pride has any share In the boy between them. They were evi work even knowledge and light may be dently from the Interior aud were very 111 pursued. Knowledge Is good, ami much Interested and edified by all they light is good, yet man perished in seek saw. After they had carefully stud ing knowledge, and the moths perish ied the exquisite mural decorations In seeking light, and if we who are and the symbolic pictures between the crushed before the moth will not accept arches and over the doors, they sat such mystery as Is needful to us we down on a bench to rest, and oue of shall perish In like manner. None but them remarked: “1 ain’t seen a picture In all this the proud will mourn over this, for we may always know more If we choose place that ain't fit to frame and hang CARL SCHOFIELD. by working on, but the pleasure Is, 1 In a house.” think, to humble people. In knowing Molasse«. that the Journey Is endless, the treasure Inexhaustible.—Ruskin. The molasses which is left as a resi Hurrah. due from beet sugar manufacture Is utilized in Germany to make alcohol. “Hurrah!" It used to be "Hurray!” No Raab Remark«. and the cry is as old as England. It “Mrs. McSmlth Is a very queer wld- Benham— I believe a woman can love Is the battlecry of the old Norse vikings as they swept down to burn aw.” two men at tlie same time. "Queer In what way?” Mrs. Benham—If she Is a married und murder nmong the peaceful Brit woman, she Ims to try to. ish. "Tur. ale!” was their warcry, “No one has ever beard her say she Benham— What do you mean? which means, "Thor, aid!” an appeal wouldn't marry the best man that ever lived.”—Puck. Mrs. Benham—She has to try to love for help to Thor, the god of battles. her busband, and he isn't the same Left Helplen». Accidentally. man when they have company that he Mrs. Brown So your girl hns left Is when they haven’t any.—Brooklyn Hoax—How did he make his money? you? What for. for mercy's sake? Life. _______________ Joax—Quite by accident. Mrs. Black—Absolutely for nothing. Hoax—How was that? Work Is the Inevitable condition of Mrs. Brown—Oh, that's it. I remem Joax—Hs lost a leg in a railroad human life, the true source of human ber you told me stie wouldn't leave wreck and recovered* damagea.—Phila welfare.—Tolstoi. rou for anything.—Boston Transcript. delphia Record. Two Aspects.
