IN THE NATIONAL
S.iturdiiy, January 20.
Washington, Jam. JMI. The cry of
graft raised in tint house of representa
tives this afternoon caused It it defeat
of nn amendment to nn urgent deficien
cy lilll appproprlatlng $10,001) to sup
ply nu cprcs-4 deficiency In the fund
used fur tint payment of transports
tlou clnuges on silver from tint sub
trcanury to trade centers. J im amcml
riit'iit was proposed ly (icncral Kiefer,
Rep., nml wan opposed ly Kcprscnta
liven Tnwncy, Minn., Smith, lu., nml
lllll, Conn. Representative lllll raised
tlm'polnt.ofor'li r against It. He lout,
lllll charged that tlio npprnprlntion
n n species of graft for ton express
company. Smith Joined In the declar
ation that it was no longer necessary
for tint Fede ml government to continue
tlm appropriation, nml tlmt If the
transportation of silver wan not made
no profitable the coin would remain in
circulation longer.
Washington, Jan. 20. Murmnringn
are heard in the senate of n possible re
volt liy the beet sugar men against the
Philippine tnri (7 liill, taken up today
ljr th committee rf Philippines for
consideration. Tint opposition of the
litM't sugar industry to Hit Cuban re
ciprocity treaty developed a strength
among ihu Republican of seven votes.
Tli in was enough to detent tlio ratiflca
t i mi , a two-thirds vote being necessary.
The same strength could not defeat tlm
Phi ippine bill, li ii'h only ruiren a
nmjoiily.
Friday, January 10.
Washington, Jan. 11'. Reform in
the matter of making deficiency appro
priations agitated tin) house tixlay,
ami tlm entire time was devoted to i tn
discussion, with tlie exception of a sort
apeech for fre hides by Perkins, of
Nevr York. The urgency deficiency
lull aas being considered under general
debate order, nu.l LiUauer, of New
York, in charge of the lull, set tlm pare
by pointing out tlm failure of the tegis
Irttion of last year to curl) the heitdH of
department!! in their demands for defi
ciency supplies.
Thursday, January IB.
Wathinglon, Jau 1H. There was an
fho of ycsler lay's stormy session in the
crista t.tday, when Tillman presented
hi resolution directing a aenatorinl in
vestigation into the removal of Mrs.
Minor Morris from the white house.
The resolution provoked nu debute, and
Tillman contented himself with a hriel
statement, in which he mud that ho
would not have introilncd the resolu
tion hut for the taunt of Hale. When
lie concluded, Daniel moved that the
resolution he laid on the tahle, and
thin disposition wan made of it by a
vote of M to H. The remninder of the
day was devoted to speeches on ttie
pure food ami merchant n arine hills,
McCumher advocating the food measure
and M.xllory opposing the shipping hill.
Washington, Jan. 18. After paying
m tribute to the frigate Constitution
today and ordering an investigation in
order to ascertain the annual amount
necessary to preserve the ship, the
house devoted ttie diiy until 6:4.r)tn
the perfection ami passage of a hill
providing for the final disposition of
the affairs of the live civilized tribes in
the Indian Territory. With one or
two minor amendments, the hill whs
passed suhseiuently substantially an it
ennui from the committee. The hill
provides for concluding the enrollment
of Indiana of the tribes ami the allot
ment of land to them. The enrollment
ami allotment is made the subject of
many restrictions and provisions.
Wednesday, January 17.
Washington, Jan. 17. Tlm recent
forcible removal from the white house
of Mrs. Minor Morris was made the
subject of emphatic denunciation by
Tillman In the senate today. Ilia re
maika called out remonstrances from
Hale, Hopkins and Daniel, and led to
the very' abrupt closing of the doors
and the sudden adjournment of the
senate in the middle of the afternoon.
The speech abounded in Tillman's pe
culiar expressions, and was character
ized by many severe and exceptionally
personally thrusts at the president. At
times lie wept over what he regarded
as the indignities tu the lady, and his
voice and eyes were full of tears when
he declared, in the face of protests from
tils fellow senators, that lie would de
mand an investigation of the white
house incident.
Washington, Jan. 17, In response
to the Bulze-r resolution passed by the
Favors Alaskan Home Rule.
Washington, Jan. 1(1. Senators
Piles, Ixnlge and Allia n and unofliical
l.-)egate H. 8. Kyan, of Alaska, today
called on the president and elicited
from him a promise that Alaska should
have home rule. Lodge and Allison,
the two strongest men in the senate,
fluid they favored this move, and the
president heartily promised to give it
his support. As a cornerstone for the
new regime, he promised to appoint an
Alaskan as governor to succeed Hrady,
vrho will soon tesign because of the in
discretions. Proposes Assay Office.
Washington, Jan. 10. Senator Ful
ton today introduced a bill authorising
the establishment of an assay clllc.e at
Portland. The bill provides for an as
nayer and melter at $2,350; chief clerk
at $1,400, and authorizes an annual
expenditure of $15,000 in payment of
salaries to assay employes, including
the ofllcials named. No specific appro
priation is made for the otllce, as it Is
customary to make these appropriations
in regular appropriation bills.
HALLS OF CONGRESS
house Secretary Metcalf, of the de
partment of ('ominerce and Labor, to
day sent to the house the report of
Special Immigrant Inspector Marcus
llranu, which deals at great length
with the character of the immigrants
coming to this country and the attitude
of the Kuropean governments uon the
matter. Mr. lirauri declares that he
has incontrovertible evidence that,
while the number of aliens shipped to
this country who are legally inadmissi
ble due to disease is dimiulsliing, Im
migrants inadmissible for other reasons
are constantly brought into the coun
try in large numbers "by the concerted
action of some Kuropean government
and steamship agencies, by hankers and
schemers of ail sorts."
Tuesday, January 10.
Washington, Jan. l'l. The Phll'p
pine tariff hill was passed by the house
today substantially the same as it came
from the ways and means committee.
The vote was 25H to 71. Hice was
made subject to the same tariff as sugar
and tobacco - 2.ri per cent of the Ding
Icy rates and one or two changes
wcro made as to the language.
Washington, Jan. lfi. Unexpectedly
the senate today found itself consider
ing the railroad rate question, which
was precipitated by Fulton's taking the
floor to make a brief speech in explan
ation of an amendment offered by him
to the Dolliver hill, giving to courts of
justice authority to modify orders rf
the Interstate Cnmmcerce commission
imposing an unreasonable rate. He
bad not proceeded far when lie was
switched from a general explanation of
the terms of the provision to a defense
of the principle which it seeks to es
tablish, and a general debate of the
bill followed.
The merchant marine bill was then
laid before the senate and tiallinger
urged early attention to thin subject.
Scott spoke in support of the hill.
The pure food lull was then taken up
and a number of committee amend
ments were agreed to. Hepburn gave
notice that after the conclusion of the
routine morning business tomorrow he
would ask the senate to tlx a day for
taking a vote on the bill.
Monday, Jan. 15.
Washington, Jan. 15. Senator Ha
con tixlay suceeded in seenring an open
discussion of the Moroccan question by
the senate. This result was accom
plished by the introduction of a reso
lution making a declaration against in
terference on the part of the United
States in any controversy among Kuro
pean nations concerning their internal
affairs. The broad scope of the resolu
tion relieved it from the point of order
made on the Moroccan resolution, and,
notwithstanding that Hacon referred
freely to the Moroccan conference, no
cfTort wan made to put him off. He
spoke at length in opposition to the
policy of interference in Kuropean in
ternal complications, pointing out the
possibility of disastrous consequences,
and his address brought out a number
of questions and interruptions to relieve
the proceeding of the characterization
of a set speech.
A number of senators made short
spiMH'hes against the resolution and in
the end it was referred to the committee
on foreign relations, and the merchant
marine b'll was laid before the senate.
Uidlingcr offered a number of amend
ments to the hill, which were agreed
to. The amendments related principal
ly to the naval militia proposed by the
bill.
A bill introduced by Srnoot, giving to
homesteaders on the recently opened
Uintah reservation an extension until
May, 15, IDOti, to establish residences
was pained. .
Washington, Jan. 15. General de
bate on the Philippine tariff bill was
concluded in the house today, having
been continued daily since January 4.
The bill will be taken up for amend
ment under the five minute rule tomor
row, and put on its passage either to
morrow or the next day.
Preceding the debate today, the
statehood tight xaade its appeal ance on
the floor for the first time, in the foim
of a personal explanation by Habeock,
of Wisconsin, credited with being the
leader of the opponents of the joint
statehood forces, Halx-ock denied that
his course in opposition to the bill was
dictated by any feeling of revenge be
cause he had not been made chairman
of the appropriation committee. lie
also took occasion to state his position
in favor of tariff revision.
Stevens Testifies on Canal.
Washington, Jan. HI. Chief Engin
eer Stevens, of the Panama Canal coin
mission, appeared before the senate in
vestigating committee today. He talk
ed of conditions on the isthmus, dis
missing sanitary, labor ditliculties and
questions of like character, dealing
with the administration of canal affairs,
with greater detail and freedom than
in his published report. He denied the
stories being circulated of alleged im
portation from the United States of
women into the canal zone for immorla
purposes.
Newlands Airs His Scheme.
Washington, Jan. 15. The senate
committee on interstate commerce met
today, but there was not a quorum
present, and, after an jn formal discus
sion, adjournment was taken until
Tuesday. Senator Newlands, occupied
most of the time discussing his plan
for incorporation of railroads under a
national law instead of the conflicting
laws of 45 states. He said capitalisa
tion would be limited to honest valua
tlon and actual investment.
MARSHALL FIELD DEAD.
i Pneumonia Takes Aw.iy Millionaire
Chicago Merchant,
Now York, Jan. 17. Marshall Field,
of Chicago, millionaire merchant and
a lender in tin dry goods trade of the
world, died at the Holland house in
thin city at 4 o'clock yesterday after
noon, after an illness extending over
more thsn a week, beginning with a
had cold and developing quickly into
pneumonia, which affected both lungs.
Mr. Meld, although 70 years old, made
a light against the disease which the
attending physicians characterized an
braver and stronger than would have
been expected of a man many years bin
junior. Mm. Field and other mem
bers of the family were with him when
he lapsed into the period of uncon
sciousness which ended in death. In
an adjoining room were many persons
prominent in the business and social
life of Chicago, intimate associates of
Mr. Field, who had gone to New York
when the seriousness of his condition
wan made known to them.
An outline of the funeral arrange
ments was decided upon last night.
The Ixxly will lie taken to Chicago this
morning on a special train over the
New York Central and Ike Shore sys
tems. There will he no service of any
sort in thin city. It in planned to hold
the funeral service in Chicago at a dale
to be fixed, either from the Field resi
dence on Prairie avenue or from the
First Presbyterian church, whose pas
tor, Hev. lr. Morrison, will, in either
case, be the ofliciating clergyman.
FIXED SUM FOR HARBORS.
River and Harbor Congress Proposes
Change in Methods.
Washington, Jan. 17. The National
Itivers and Harbors congress today
adopted the report of the committee on
organization, recommending the elec
tion of the following officers: Presi
dent, Harvey I), (ioulder, Cleveland,
).; one vice president from each slate
represented, to be named by the dele
gations; Colonel Willirm II. IOve,
Baltimore, secretary; K. II. Share
wood, Philadelphia, treasurer.
Among those recommended for the
executive committee were John W.
Ferris, San Francisco, and A. II. Iev
ers, Portland.
The executive committee is charged
with the duty of actively prosecuting
the work of securing regular and in
creased annual appropriations for the
improvements of rivers and harbors of
the entire country, and to this end to
take such steps and use such means as
will tend to mold public sentiment in
favor thereof.
Resolutions were adopted declaring
that the national government should
put river and harbor bills on a par
with other great appropriation bills by
annual appropriations, and direct all
such work economically and continu
ously, without the waste incident to
intermittent efforts. The resolutions
urge an annual appropriation of at
least $50,000,000.
SWEPT BY BLIZZARD.
Wind Reaches 100-Mile-An-HourlGait
in Montana.
Anaconda, Mont., Jan. 17. For two
hours this afternoon Anaconda and
Ieer Lodge valley were swept by the
fiercest storm in many years. At the
weather observatory above the Washoe
smelter the velocity of the wind regis
tered as high as 100 miles an hour.
Several inches of snow fell. The storm
subsided at A o'clock.
A special to the Standard from Boze
man says the Gallatin valley was
swept by a 40-mile gale and the storm
has been raging all night.
Helena, Jan. 17. Helena and Cent
ral Montana was visited this afternoon
by a blizzard which lasted about an
hour. The blizzard followed a light
ning and thunder storm and wan imme
diately preceded by a hard gale. The
wind attained a velocity of 42 miles an
hour. The temperature went to 15
above.
Missoula, Jan. 17. A rather heavy
blizzard visited this part of the state
for the greater portion of the day.
During the morning the wind blew a
gale and in the afternoon considerable
snow fell. The temperature was about
at freezing point all day.
Errors Make a Shortage.
Oakland, Cal., Jan. 17. R. A. Mad
dern, postal inspector of this division,
has discovered discrepancies in the ac
count of Charles J. Harrington, clerk
in charge of the money order division,
indicating a shortage of several hun
dred dollars. This morning a repre
sentative of Harrington deposited with
Postmaster Dargie a sum sutliciont to
cover all the apparent discrepancies,
which Harrington says a due to a mul
tiplicity of errors which have been per
mitted to go uncorrected. He denies
any intention at embezzlement.
Threatens Lawmakers.
Des Moines, Jan. 17. D. 1. Clay
man, an ex-convict, was arrested at
the door of the senate chamber of the
Iowa legislature this afternoon, charged
with threatening the lives of Repre
sentative II. E. Teachout and Senator
C. C. Powell, because the latter failed
to get him a job. dayman was Fut to
the penitentiary for wife murder 12
years ago. He served out his time and
then came to Des Moines, soliciting a
job duriag the legislative session.
Hermann Sworn In.
Washington, Jan. 17. Dinger Her
maun ia once more a full fledged con
gressman. He took the oath of office
just before the house adjonrned this
evening, went downstairs and drew his
mileage and departed, and not a dozen
men in congress were aware of what
had happened.
DOWIE IS DEPOSED
Business Affairs Taken Out of
Hands of Prophet.
WAS NtCESSARV TO AVERT RUIN
Appointment of Triurrvirate Dowie's
Accession to Demands of Fol
lowers and Creditors.
Chicago, Jn. IK. John Alexander
Dowie has been permanently removed
from financial control of the Zion City
industries, according to assurances giv
en the big creditors by the financial
agents of the community. The ap
pointment of the triumvirate, with
great ostentation, it in mow declared,
merely cloaked Dowie's accession to the
demands of Zion City and its creditors
that all business arrangements be tak
en from his hands, leaving him religi
ous leader only.
The awakening of the people of
Zion has come at last, according to one
of the large creditors in Chicago today.
"They have been open in saying,"
he declared, "that they awoke too late
and found tint in Dowie they had
something in the nature of a cross be
tween a 'white elephant and 'the old
man of the sea' hitched on them.
"Dowie has squandered money in
a most profligate manner," said this
creditor. "His trip around the world
cost over $1,000,000. He drew on the
treasury for it. The trip to New York
cost half as much. It wan given out
that the followers paid their own ex
penses. This was hardly true. The
recent trip to Mexico was another ex
pensive luxury for the eld man. He
spent thousands there. And for all
these expenditures all Zion City has
got out of it lias been a few pale fire
works. "The fact of the matter is that cred
itors have been promised for months
that if they were lenient Zion's officials
would get the old person out of the
way."
HER NEW PRESIDENT.
France Elects Fallieres, Leader of
Radical Elements.
Paris, Jan. 18. Clement Armand
Fallieres, president of thi eenate, was
today elected president of the republic,
to succeed Emile Loubet. His only
rival was M. Doumer, president of the
chamber of deputies. The total vote
in the national assembly, consisting of
the senate and chamber of deputies
meeting jointly, was 849, and the vote
was: Fallieres, 449; Doumer, 371;
scattering, 28; not voting, 1.
Although several candidates were
mentioned for the presidency in suc
cession to M. Loubet, including M.
Fallieres, president of the senate; M.
I) miner, president of the chamber of
deputiee; M. Sarrien, ex-minister of
justice; and M. I .eon Bourgeois, the
former premier, the real contest was
between M. Fallieres and M. Doumer.
M. Fallieres had the support of the ad
vanced Socialist and Radical groups,
constituting the famous party which
sustained the Combes ministry. M.
Doumer, however, was a formidable
opponent, whose election to the presi
dency of the chamber of deputies last
year, after breaking away from his
former connection with the famous par
ty previouely referred to, gave the first
blow to M. Combes.
When the first figuress were given
out, there was an outburst of enthusi
asm, which was renewed after the cor
rected figures, giving Faillieros 449,
thus increasing his already clear major
ity, were announced.
M. Fallieres returned t Paris from
Versailles, escorted by a military guard
of honor. He will take-over his new
duties February 18.
Castro Buying Machetes.
Havana, Jan. 18. German merch
ant who deals in machetes informed the
Associated Press today that he was
questioned recently by A. L. Bresler,
an American, formerly a resident of
Detroit, who is the Nicaraguan consul
here, with reference to the purchase of
10,000 machetes for the Venezuelan
government. The negotiations, the
merchant Baid, were interrupted by the
sailing for New York yesterday of Mr.
Bresler, who will soon return to Ha
vana. Mr. Bresler lived for some time
in Venezuela.
French Have Panic of War.
Berlin, Jan. 18. The Nens e Nach-
disten piints a dispat h from Metz to
the effect that two French deserters
have airived at Ars-sur-Moselle (in
Lorraine, six miles from Metz). They
pretended to have left their regiments
at Verdun, with 12 comrades, in order
to escape service in a war which they
expected Boon to take place. The dis
patch say there is a regular panic at
Ars-Bur-Moialle. The savings banks
there have postponed payments.
"See America" Conference Great.
Salt Luke City, Jan. 18. The Com
mercial club committee havjng In
charge arrangement for the "See
Americal First" conference in this city,
January 25 and 20, announces that rep
resentation ia now assured from all the
trans-Misbissippi states and from Du-
luth in the North to New Orleans on j
the South. I
kittle keon
ira pahriotirn
The Count de Itochnmhcau hnd lxen
n gnllnnt soldier of France long be
fore he wan assigned by the French
government to aid
the cnuse of the
American revolu
tionists. He had
fought at the siege
of Maeatrlct; he
had led bin regi
ment to the assault
of Fort Ht. Philip
pe, at Minorca; he
had led In the cap
ture of Fort Ma
hon. Always a sol
dier, he was heart
and soul In sympa
thy with the strug
1K HOCHAWrtKAU.
gle of the Americans agnlnat the heary
oddn of the Biitlah army.
On his way to America after his em
barkation at ttreat he was attacked
by a British fleet off Bormna'a, but
drove back the attackers. Immediate
ly after landing In Rhode Island, Uo
crmmbeau set about the construction
of fortification that prevented 8!r
Henry Clinton and Admiral Arbuthnot
from making an attack that they had
planned.
He snt his own son back to France
to negotiate for the transmission of
more troops and supplies. He had the
name Interest In the cauae of the revo
lutionist that the American generals
had.
The work of De Rochambeau In the
war did rnnch to hanten the lagging
end. The concerted plan of campaign
that terminated in Yorktown was
largely aided by the efficacy of the
Frenchman. iThe assaults made by De
Kochamheau' and St. Simon against
hla stronghold convinced Corawallis of
the futility of his defense and led to
hla surrender.
THE DEMOCRATIC LEADER.
Strlktn Personality of John Sharp
Wllllnm, of MUalaalppt.
One of the most Interesting men of
the country today and a most bril
liant figure In the political arena Is
John Sharp Wil
liams, who repre
sents the Eighth
District of Missis
sippi In the House
of Congress. Rep
resentative W 1 1
llams, In his ca
pacity as tht lead
er of the Demo
crats on the floor
of Congress, has
achieved a national
reputation. That
JOH.1 S. WILLIAMS.
he won a signal victory by bringing or
der out of chaos among the Democrat
ic representatives goea without say
ing. The Democratic leader was born
July SO, 18M. at Memphis, Tenn., his
mother having died, and hla father,
who was colonel of the Twenty-seventh
Tennessee Volunteers, Confeder
ate States Army, being killed at Shl
loh, and Memphis, being threatened
with capture by the Federal army,
his family removed to his mother's
family homestead in Yazoo County.
Miss. There the future leader received
his education at private schools, the
Kentucky Military Institute, near
Frankfort, Ky the University of the
South, at Sawenee, Tenn the Univer
sity of Virginia, and the University of
Heidelberg, in Baden, Germany. Sub
sequently Congressman Williams
studied law uuder Profs. Minor and
Southall at the University of Vir
ginia, and In the office of Harris, Me
Klslck & Turley In Memphis, In 1S77
he received a license to practice In the
courts of law and chancery of Shelby
County, Tenn. In December, 1878, he
removed to Yazoo City, Miss., where
he engaged In the practice of h!a pro
fession and the varied pursuits of a
cotton planter. He waa named as a
delegute to the Chicago convention
which named Cleveland and Steven
son. He waa elected to the Fifty-third
Congress and has been re-elected to
every Congress since, sometimes with
out opposition.
Williams' methods as a leader are
Interesting to study. He Is persuasive,
not domineering. He has a winning
manner and he seems to be seeking
help and light from one at the very
time he Is bringing a person arouud to
hla views. Congressmen who go Into
his little room In the library wing de
termined to let Williams know that
they will put up with no nonsense go
out pleased and flattered and inclined
to help hhu out. On the rare occa
sions when It la necessary for him to
show his authority the irou hand
comes out of the velvet glove and the
Insurgent knows what has happened
without having anyone tell him.
Williams la not an Impressive man
to look at; In fact, he Is homely in
face and careless In dress. A tangled
mass of matted hair falls down to
a point not far from his eyes. A
straggling mustache covers a mouth of
generous size and Irregular outline.
Hla manners are as easy and unpre
tentious as an old shoe.
He would not be a rich man in New
York, but he Is In Mississippi. He Is
a lawyer and a planter, whose father
left him a fortune. He does not loo If,
however, as If he had a dollar, and all
the advice of his friends cannot make
him spruce up.
Williams has a remarkable voice. It
la somewhat nasal and rather Incisive,
but his command of it is aa perfect as
that of a musician over a musical in
-. : t
strument, lie plays on It like a violin;
It sweep from high to low, from loud
to soft, In perfect tune with the modu
lations' of his theme. He need hnnlly
apeak above a whisper to attract the
close and strained attention of the
whole House In a moment.
Hla command of sarcasm U, It la
generally agreed, uncqunlcd In th(
I louse. It Is not of the bitter sort,
but Wllllnrnu' exposes of the wenk
points of the enemy's armor In such
a way that the enemy Inughs, though
ruefully, while he writhes.
Though a Southerner, Williams Is
cuernpt from the prejudice of his sec
tion. One of his striking speeclioi
was that In which he defended (Jen.
Sherman from the charge of violating
the laws of war In the march to the
sea. It wan a remarkable address and
was listened to with breathless atten
tion by the crowded House. One of
his sentences was thin:
"As an American citizen, as the son
of a rebel soldier, as a man who U
Intensely American, although he la In
tensely Southern, I want the worlA
to know that when civilized men were
fighting civll!z"d men, upon the Amer
ican continent one of them In behalf
of the cause of the preservation of the
Union, as he understood it, and the
other In behalf of the cause of local
independence, as he understood it
the watchword was chivalry and fair
fight."
THE ARMY OF TEACHERS.
120,000 Men and 330,000 Wmn
Knajaared la School" of Amtrtea.
The army of education In the Unit
ed States Is made up of 450.0W teach
ers, of whom 120.CHJ0 are men and 830.
(XX) women. The overwhelming ma
jority of the teachers are native of
the United States, lesa than 30,000 hav
ing been born abroad one In fifteen.
Most of tbo male teachers are be
tween the years of twenty-five and thirty-five.
The majority of the women
teachers are between fifteen and twenty-five.
There are 2.300 male teachers over
sixty-five. There are less than 1,50(1
female teachers over sixty-five. Three
times as many female as male teach
ers are put down as "age unknown."
There are 21,000 colored teachers In
the United States, thus divided be
tween the two sexes : 7,700 men and
13,300 women. There are 509 Indian
teachers In the Indian schools of the
United States 240 men and 200 wom
en. The average age of teachers In the
United States Is higher than In Eng
land and lower than In Germany. The
proportion of very youthful teachers
la much greater In the country than
In the city districts.
The largest proportion of male teach
ers Is to be found In West Virginia,
where they number 50 per cent of the
total. The largest proportion of wom
en la to be found In Vermont, where
they form 00 per cent of the whol
number. The standard of education la
very much higher In Vermont than It
Is In West Virginia.
The number of teachers In the Unit
ed States has Increased greatly In re
cent years. In 1871 there were 125,000 ;
In 1880, 225,000; In 181)0, 340,000, and
It Is at present 450,000.
Mn, nooiTfll' ThonghtfalBM.
When President Roosevelt la at hla
summer homo at Oyeter Bay, two se
cret service men sit all night under a
big tree near the house. It Is only
on very stormy nights that they desert
the tree and take refuge on the veran
da, and are thus protected from the
rain, but not from the north wind that
sometimes sweeps in from Long Is
land sound. During a 6torm last sum
mer the wind, moaning through the
trees, drove the rain In sheets upon the
veranda, and the most sheltered place
the secret service men could find wan
wet and chill.
Within the house all was silent. Ap
parently everybody had gone to bed.
But suddenly the side door creaked,
and a feminine voice called out : "Come
here, won't you, please?" The secret
service men lost no time In responding,
for they recognized the voice.
"I've been worrying about you men
out lu this awful night," said Mra.
Roosevelt, "and thought that some hot
coffee would do you good. Come In
and drink It. It was too late to call
the cook, so I made It myself. I hope
that It Is all right."
"It seemed to me to be the finest
coffee I had ever tasted," remarked the
secret service man, when he told this
little story of the ever-present thought
fulness of Mrs. Roosevelt for those
arouud her. Success Magazine.
"HoumI Abe."
It Is a significant fact that in a com
munity where crime waa virtually un
known, where plain, straightforward
dealing was assumed as a matter of
course, and credit was fearlessly asked
and given, Lincoln won au enviable rej
utatlon for Integrity and honor. In a
moral atmosphere of this sort ordinary
veractty aim fairness attracted no par
ticular attention. Honesty waa not
merely the best iollcy ; It was tne rule
of life, and people were expected to be
upright and Just with one another. But
when a clerk In a country store walked
miles to deliver a few ouucea of tea
Innocently withheld from a customer
by an error in the scales, and when
he made a long, hard trip In order to
return a few cents accidentally over
paid htm, he was talked about, audi
the fact Is ttiat "Honest Abe" waa
tribute, not a nickname. Century.
The average man so hates to eat
away from home that when he la In
vlted out, arrangements should be
made for sending a fire alarm from
his bouse at the time dinner la over,
to call him home.