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W A S H IN G T O N ÍGRESSIONAL NEW S ÍTINE WORK OF THE FIFTY- FOURTH SE SSIO N . ia b t ia iir r o f th s B i l l » »lo t Ile .o lu t io n . 1 st ro llu o e d In t lio H m ia t« m id H ouae —O o m lm is .il K a r u r ii o f t h e H u l i i g i o f t b a N a t i o n » ! L a w m a k e r . —S .u a t e , iljutii woahmgtou, Jau. 17.— M ills’ speech ioe, with freqaeut direct oriti- the president and the secre- tho treasury, vaa the main fea- today’ s seaaion of the senate, has introduced a b ill in the ulluwing mineral propeotors and on C olville reservation the .s on other public lands. Chief |eer Craighill, in a letter to estimates the cost for Puget defenses at $2,883,000, not in- B ig torpedo sites. Mftshington, j an j g — There was lion of the senate today, THE C UBAN REBELLION. ! lu a u r | s u U A r e B r i n g i n g M a t t e r « C r is is — E d i t o r i a l C o m m e n t. ¡PO ULTRY to Making all due allowance for pos sible errors in the latest reports of the situtiou in Cuba, it is still not im probable that the insurgents are on the eve of a stroke which w ill bring the warfare to a crisis. During the last few weeks the fight has been waged steadily, the insurgents being generally ’ the gainers. General Campos seems to have been unable to make any head way against his opponents, who, aside from the advautgae of a complete fami- liartiy with the topography of their country, are inured to its climate and have abundant refuges inwhioh to take shelter. Unless the Spaniards have been resorting to a ruse, and leading the insurgents on simply for the pur pose of trapping them, the fa ll of H a vana is within reasonable probability. Th em . [Chicago Inter Ocean.] aanii Washington, Jau. 22.— The silver a l s o H ' 1*^ was *lUI* aside temporarily le n s ] ***‘ senate today, as no senator was ly to speak. Platt asked Jones of asas when a vote would be had. said he was unable to state, for were sevearl speeches yet to be . Platt said there was no opposi- 'rom those favoring the measure; the majority was evidently ob- ;ing its consideration, and that should be a time set for a vote, " “ "fc e k replied thut the original bond •h \ f a l uow a silver measure, and its ssji«»<ls would take due tim e to present 1 tg le n ts and would tix a time for a .te. -----------. W e are under no obligations of oourtesy toward Spain. She was one of the few powers that acknowledged the belligerency of the Confederate states during the war for the Union. She hastened to assure Great Britain of the paltry aid of her feeble force in resistenoe to our application of the Monroe doctrine to the Venezuela issue. Nor are we under any obligation of seatiment. The Spanish government is the most illiberal, the most hope lessly uuprogressive, in Europe. Cuba has borne impositions tenfold more aggravated than those which foroed the thirteen American colonies of Great Britain into successful revolu tion. A congressional declaration in )S an H ouse. favor of acknowledgement of the Cuban ^shington, Jan. 17.— In the house | the speaker announced the ap- republic w ill be approved from Maine to Florida and trom the Atlantio to the piyut of Allen of Utah to the corn- Paoifio. on public lands, in place of of Kansas, resigned. “ A free- In s u r r e c t io n o r R e v o l u t i o n , W h ic h ? EN [New York Independent.] b ill,” making actual residence i i&ilroad land grants unnecessary Shall we call it a revolution or a «ad b e n the lands have been fenced and mere insurrection? "R evolu tion s” ipicv.'il, was passed. Grow opposed have been numerous in Cuba, as Señor put :i6 ifli'a of communications being sent Ponce de Leon tell our readers this ; il>,.thp house by the president and cabi- week, and he ought to know, for he Rioers for the purpose of creating has had lively experience in them. |atiou, and referred to the letter But somehow the Spainsh power has the president to Mr. Catchings, not been overthrown. Señor Palma, Jg: “ This house should resent who is the chief representative of the attempt by the president or his “ Cuban Republio,” tells our readers to dictate legislation to the this week why Cuba ought to be free; ” The rest of the day was con- and he and Mr. Crosby and Senors in discussion of the pension ap- Pierra and De Queaada appeal with ^iiition bill. much eloquence and earnestness for |shington, Jan. 18.— The house to- American sympathy, dwelling bitterly sssert the pension appropriation upon the wrongs and cruelties and op 3 the consideration of which it pressions of Spanish government, and evoted the entire week, and ad- their words cannot but excite sym id. The clause in the b ill chang- pathy. |)ie existing laws so as to allow H o w S p a in T r e a t e d A m e r i c a . i to obtain pensions under the [Pittsburg Dispatch.] 11890, whose net income did not I f a third of the provinces of Spain $500, per annum was stricken were to declare that they had seceded | The provisions under the act of and this country should recognize them rejecting, suspending and dis- as belligerents in less than three b g applications were allowed to months the proceeding would be an ■from their first application. It exact parallel to Spain's action when pnounced that bills covering the the Southern Confederacy was pro Rments ruled out would be re- claimed. Cuba is Spain’s distant col from the invalid pension com- ony and our neighbor, and yet we have The pension b ill as passed not imitated the unfriendly Spanish i $141,325,820, about $50,000 less example under the greater provocation. the estimate. The bill was passed Jays ahead of any previous pen- O u r N a t io n a l In t e r e s t . [New York World ] Appropriation bill. W e have a national interest in the |shiugton, Jan. 22.— The session | house today was devoid of pub- independence of Cuba which has no erest. Quite a number of bills purallel in the case of any European g 1 importance were passed, as well oountry. I f we were aggressively dis [ m ilitary academy appropriation posed we might find both reason and The president’s message, in reply precedent for a much more active sym i resolution of the house calling pathy with the Cubau insurgents than for information as to what any body at present proposes to extend |if any, had been taken in rein- to them. A ll that they ask for is a i the Bayard speeches at Boston, recognition of their right to do battle bid, and Edinburgh, Scotland, fur liberty and independence. So much "»id before the house. The mes- every American ought to stand ready to Ind correspondence were referred grant. | committee on foreign relations, B e fo r e T h e y A r e W ip e d O a t. euor presented a joint resolution [Atlanta Constitution.] was adopted, directing the seo- Let the American people hasten to 1 of the treasury to destroy all in- demand belligerent rights at once be ■tax returns and papers relative fore Spain can gather her forces to ■o in possession of the treasury. wipe the Cubans out. Let these rights be granted them at once so that the «M PO S INDIGNANT. struggling Cubans may have this ad G o t - ; vantage in their efforts to secure self- f r i v a t e C it iz e n a n d N o t government e r n o r - G e n e r n l. 21.— A dispatch to Havana says: Martinez Campos, after rxj^ ilirin g the supreme command in ib * to General Marin, made an in- bt statement to the World. The I forbids its transmission by cable, "id | send it by messenger to Key peral Campos' statement is: ppeak because I am now a private and not the governor-general, known that I have not resigned; pvernment has removed me, and Due well. " I feel a great resentment, caused by ^B ondnct of the parties in Cuba. exercise their sovereignty in ^ I s ways, but the head should al- "tH r a le . The principle of authority io«Jrt rise superior to all else. • * 1 have been opposed, because, hile I may break, yet I never bend, havo prevented a repetition of the sad of the last war, and this has ^ H lis ta s te fu ! to the mob. aituation is this: Here is a ), distant from the mother ky, where the political parties, by litude they are taking, think to the policy of Spain. I f they had ¡is idea, I could speedily show ¡the necessities of the situation {But they known that they would in the way i f they should ¡shoot 1,700 students (an allusion massacre of students in the last nd because of this knowledge nspire behind m j back. this justifies the true saying :in has lost the Americas be- f the Spaniards themselves is is a country of shopkeepers tit to govern, and it is they who ring the country to ruin, ell i f this be not so.” INT E R E ST S » THE RECENT SH O W S iChicago Record.] W e M u at A c k n o w l e d g e COUNTY A I ’ tiz z lin g M a tte r. [Boston Traveller.] The most puzzling thing about the Cuban rebellion just now is why, if the insurgents are numerically as strong as they are repiesented to be, they do not concentrate enough to seize and hold some town or city on or near the coast, and make a strenuous effort to maintain some kind of communica tion w ith the outside world. U n til they make some effort of this kind they can hardly ask any of the established nations of the world to recognize them, however much they may have popular sympathy for their struggle for free dom. T h e T im e N o t Y e t C o m e . [Indianoplis News.] The people of this country oertainly wish the people of Cuba success in their war for independence. They hope the time w ill come when it w ill be advisable for the government to recognize not simply the belligerent rights of the insurgents, but the in dependence of the island. But it may be doubted whether that time has yet come. R n fln n s W a n t, to T r a d e . f Boston Globe.] It is said that England is trying to trade Gibraltar for Cuba. I f this bar gain is made Spain should see that it is carried through with more prompti tude than international bargains usually are. I f she waits too long she may have no Cuba to dispose of. S p a i n 1 a m F a k i r . | Wufthington -Star.] Spain has been in business long enough to known that there is no use in her publishing display announce ments of victories unless she is able to deliver the goods. A ND FINE BREEDING. T h e L a r g e « ! C h ic k e n R a n c h A New o n K a r t li — M e th o d o f G e tliu g B reed e rs E a r l y o n t h e M a r k e t — V a l u a b l e lilu t a to C h ic k e n R a is e r s . There has been a decided interest in the poultry industry of the North west revived by the recent poultry shows. Bpeaking of the Oregon poul try show just closed in Portland, Theo dore Sternberg, the official judge, said: "Fanciers should train their birds for exhibition; namely, render them docile and accustom them to being handled, ao that, when they are brought before the judge, the birds w ill readily stand at attention, thns showing themselves off to the best pos sible advantage. In a close show, it is the oareful attention to a ll these details that secure prizes for the owners. ’ ’ On the question of breeding, Mr. Sternberg talked intelligently, as fo l lows; "T h ere is no bird in the proper breeding of which all the skill and intelligence of oui best people are not brought into notion. It is no ohild’s play to breed a fine specimen of any kind, and there is no man whose posi tion in life or intellectual endowments are so great but that he can find ample use for them in the poultry fancy. “ Breeding fine fowls is not only science, but an art as well. W h ile like produces like, like appeaarnces do not always produoe like appearances, but like combinations of blood and an cestral lines are necessary for certain results. “ N o person can really have his yards in hand until he has bred fow ls long enough to kuow the color beauties and the oolor defects, the shape excellencies and shape defects, for five or six gen erations. Then he w ill begin to have some knowledge of what one bird mated to another w ill produce, by rea son of his knowledge of the ancestry of the birds. “ The trae fanoier w ill keep a record of the birds he breeds from, carefully noting the oolor, shape, defeots, beau ties aud proportions of each m ating.” W in te r L a y in g Q u a litie s . That certain breeds are better equipped with winter-laying qualities than others, has time and again been proved, says Farm Poultry. B e t that those qualities w ill amount to naught unlses proper conditions are complied with, has been equally w ell settled. W e know that the Brahmas, Lang- shans, Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Houdaus, aud some others, w ill, if in the proper condition, and w ith good care, lay a good many eggs right through the worst kind of winter. Bo w ill the Leghorns, Minorcas, or any of the heavy layers; but the latter require warmer quarters, aud much better care than the first lot we named. The whole matter of eggs in winter can only be settled by proper food and care. No breed can give eggs i f they have not warm housing, and such foods as make eggs. During rainy, snowy and windy wheater, hens mast have protection. The farmer who never bothers about sheltering his fowls dar ing winter, and who is satisfied that corn is the best egg food, iB the very man who is continually complaining about poultry being a dead loss. And some of this very class write to know whioh breed oan be relied upon to give ns eggs in winter. So that the only reply to give is the best winter layer is the hen (no matter to what class she belongs) that has the best housing and the best food. I f one studies the natures of the breed on hand, he w ill soon learn what is most needed. T h e L a r g e s t C h ic k e n R a n c h . A t this period of the year when the old hens are still m olting and half naked, and the nights and morning quite wintry, they should have a warm house and extra care, and es pecially a clean place to roost, says the Argus, of Petaluma, Cal., which is one of the great poultry centers of the coast. A few days since the writer had the pleasure of lookiug through the great chicken ranch of Sprockets & Co., the largest one on earth, situated about twelve miles north of this city, and we are now more than ever con vinced that cleanliness, proper food and attention is what makes healthy chickens. On this ranch of 200 acres there are tens of thousands of chickens, big and little, yonng and old, and we walked for miles through long lanes of houses and yards critically lookiug for sick or delicate chickens aud did not see one. Not over 160 chickens were ooufined together in any one yard, and each lot had a warm house that was kept as clean as a pin. Chickens, like all other animals, en joy a change, and a hot breakfast these cold mornings is actually neoessary if you expect any profit from hens daring antumn and winter. 1 Bran or meal scalded with boiling water and mixed with scrape or boiled potatoes, which at present prices are the cheapest and best food, are also good for a change. Chickens that have a large range re quires less feed, but always remember that it takes liberal feeding to bring eggs in paying quantities. Those which have grown their new plumage and are in good order are laying, but some animal food must be given to secure the best reslnta. — In a suburb o f Macon, G a.. last week, a house took fire during the night and the neighbors gathered to help the inmates in saving their effect* F<rar women carried a large upright piano from the parlor all the way into the middle of the street, unassisted. HATCHET B e lt S p l i e l D f , GOWNS AND GOWNING The cement splice is, according to a writer in The Wood Worker, the most perfectly satisfactory method of joining together the ends of a belt. In leather W OM EN GIVE M UCH ATTENTION TO W HAT THEY WEAR. belting snch a splice is comparatively easy to make, as the ends of the belt may lie scarfed to a thin edge with an B r i e f G l a n c e s a t F a n c i e s F e m i n i n e , ordinary iron bench plane, bnt before F r l v n l o u e , M a y h e p , e n d Y e t O ff er ed rubber belts can be thns treated it is In t h e H o|ie t h a t t h e R e a d i n g P r o v a necessary to cut them down in steps, or itea tfn l to W e a ried Wouienkind* sections. A four ply belt may have throe sections, one thickness of the canvas Q o e e lp from G e y G otham . being cut back several inches, another New York uorrespoudeuce: thickness cut back two-thirds of the dis E L IT T L E th e tance, a third thickness cut back one- work of fashion- third of the distance, while a thickness makers as best of canvas is left untouched at the bot they can, the crit tom, the other end of the belt being ics of our brand- treated in the same manner, so that new year will find when the ends are brought together the themselves weak sections left on one end w ill replace in one respect. those cut on the other end of the belt. They cannot In To obtain the best results it ie recom reason find fault mended that the belt be put into a press with all of the after the operation of cementing, but in current rules of the absence of that tool the belt may be women's d r e s s , laid flat upon a board aud fastened by and whatever the driving a number of shoe pegs through captious fault the belt into the board, allowing it to finder picks out as remain tlins until the cement has set the target for her and then closely cutting off the pegs. volleys of wrath, there's pretty sure to be some dainty A u s tin C o rb in Em barrass«*«!. The biggest man identified with New and fashionable alternative that will present Itself at once. For. mark you, York's principal seaside resort is Austin Corbin, the head aud front of the Man- j the fashions’ code of 189(1 says. If you hattan Beach company. He is a hard don’t like It this way, then have it that. There’s no end to the possibili worker and probably sees less of his ties. There's not only no excuse for own profitable pleasure grouuds than not balking your best—there is never lots of the clerks who bold down desks that—but there’s not the slightest need in the offices of the Corbin Banking of being in the smallest degree un company. Mr. Corbin’s name came up fashionable at the same time. Begin at during a talk with some gentlemen in ! the top; you may wear your hair in the corridor of the Fifth Avenue, and whatever manner It looks best Pass one of the groups remarked that, while ' down to your dresses, and you may Corbin was a hustler, he wasu’t much | choose from a half-dozen centuries for of an after dinner orator. “ A t a Clover [ their key-notes. I f you look well In a club dinner,” said the story teller, : sumptuous rig. you may dress like a “ Corbin, who was then president of ' queen and wear real diamond crowns Reading, was called upon to make a on your head, ns the leaders of our so speech. He unwillingly arose, stam cial upper crust do at the opera; or, If mered and finally remarked, ‘ Mr. Chair you look more charming In a simplicity man, as I am not accustomed to speech- making I am greatly embarrassed’— ‘ A n d ,’ uttered a deep voiced guest at the banquet board, ‘ so is your blanked old road !' This completely paralyzed Mr. Corbin, but it let him out of a bad hole and introduced him to the customs and follies of Cloverites.’ ’— Pittsburg Dispatch. T h e F la n gin g. Young folks are apt to jndgeof words by their literal meaning, without any attempt to reason upon the subject. Th6 descendant of a celebrated general of the Revolution, quite a small boy, was visit ing Independence hall with his mother, when she pointed to an oil portrait and said: * ‘ There is a picture of your great-great- | grandfather, hung by General Washing ton. ” The boy took little notice of what she said at the time, apparently being more interested in the Liberty bell and other curious relics in the hall. Bat some weeks afterward, when distinguished guests were dining at his father's table, he broke an interval of silence by ask P L A IN OF CUT, HUT BRIGHTLY TRIMMED. ing; get-up, you may be unconventional and “ Mamma, what did you tell me in yet stylish, aud as demure as ever was Philadelphia about my great-great a Puritan Dorothy. grandfather being hung?" In the later role you may put your The question was a startling one, but self Into a dresden figured dainty silk, it was soou explained to the entire sat full at the waist with the bodice all cov isfaction of the guests.— Exchange. ered by the folds of a voluminous fichu, W a tc h th e Th u m bs. A physician in charge of a well known asylum for the care of the insane recently said: “ There is one infallible test either for the approach or tho presence of lun acy. I f the person whose case is being examined is seen to make no use of his thumb, i f he lets it stand out at right angles from the hand and employs it neither in salutation, writing nor any other manual exercise, you may set it down as a fact that that person's men tal balance is gone. He or she may con verse intelligibly, may in every respect be guarding the secret of a mind dis eased with the utmost care and cun ning, but the telltale thumb w ill in fallib ly betray the lurking madness which is concealed behind a plausible demeanor.” — New York Journal. A G erm a n Cu stom . One o f the most interesting functions of the up to date betrothal is the shop ping expedition, where the two mothers and fathers-in-law to be, with their re spective sou and daughter, go out on an appointed morning and bring home a broom, a carving knife and fork, a salt cellar, a Bible, a brass door knocker, a candlestick, a pair of bellows. This is a revival of an old German custom of presenting a young pair with what they consider the seven emblems of those virtues that go to make np a perfect household. The shopping party is con cluded by n luncheon of the united fam ilies. P u t to S tra n g e C m . The old bell which in early days stood on Belfry hill, north of the town of Council Grove, Kan., and was rung to warn the settlers o f the approach of In dians, is now nsed by a citizen as a flowerpot in his garden. For many years after its original purpose was gone it was the common property of the various religious denominations of the town and was rung to call the people to devotions. One day it was blown down in a storm and broken This destroyed its usefulness as a bell, and the citizen ■at it inverted in his garden aDd planted flowers in it.— Philadelphia Ledger. F a m e. "M r. Speaker," exclaimed a member of the N ew South Wales parliament, “ my collemgne taunts me with a desire for fame. I scorn the imputation, sirl Fame, air! What is fame? It is a shaved pig with a greased tail, which slips through the hands of thousands and ihcn is accidentally caught by some lucky fellow who happens to bold on to it. I let the greasy tailed quadru ped go by me without an effort to clutch it, air I " — London T it-B it* and the sleeves quaintly off the shoul der and puffed at the elbow; in the first role, you may « e a r court trains, Jew elled crowns, real gold embroidery, and goodness knoM’s what all. You may spend all the money your husband has aud all he can borrow—that’s a possi bility with every new year—and yet with good taste to guide not overdress. In the pictures the more simple dresses come first, the first two being suggestive of tailor styles, till knowl edge of their materials and construc tion proves them to be otherwise. The first o f these was found In dark green cloth, its skirt trimmed with bias folds that extended upward at the left side after going all arouud near the hem. Your critic will quickly espy the but tons on this nearly perpendicular end, and will stoutly insist that there’s neither use nor sense In them, hut any one who Is qualified to criticise dress matters knows that buttons may go anywhere, for no lietter reason than “ Just because,” the reason the little girl gave for putting dolly's hat on back side in front, so here's no fau lt At back and front this liodloe termin ated at the waist, but its sides formed talw that were draped In cascades at one edge and finished with bias folds I tnlng. With Its Jacket bodice was worn a blue silk blouse front finished with belt and collar to match, the jacket hav ing revera and turned down collar of dark blue velvet edged with the gal loon. Its seams were strapped with the galloon, and a border ran around the hem. Then the sleeves had a row around the cuffs n few inches from the wrists, and its employment on the skirt was as indicated. Blue shot silk was Used for the jacket’s lining. Months anil months ago women were expressing wonder on the slowness with which the overskirt refused te CLOTH, F U R A N D L A C E COM RINKD. give up its attempt at general accept ance, and since then this style's per sistency has become an old story. Even uow it is occasionally seen on new dresses and Is then found In good com pany aud Is usually worn by some very careful dresser. It is the apron form that Is presented here, cut from green cloth, the skirt proper having a band of sable about Its hem. This bodice fastens at the side and has a deep pleated yoke and a plain corselet part. The garniture consists of a series of straps of wblte ribbon with Dresden figures, ending In Jet fringe. A fur band tops the stock collar. W hile there Is less of glitter in the next dress that the artist presents than In the last one descrllied. there is. nev ertheless, a great degree o f richness. Made of smooth, satln-fiulshed cloth. Its skirt Is cut away, as shown, from a wide band of fur, two jet stars orna menting each o f the tabs at the side. Alternate hands o f fur and doth make the bodice, the latter being covered1 with luce. A t the bottom there Is n tiny basque, and at the top a yoke and medic! collar of fur. Black satin gives the belt, the sleeves being o f the doth.) W hatever fur Is chosen for the dress trimming should lie matched In the muff, and should be used, freely or sparingly, us is preferred, upon tho hat. A less expensive method than this o f attaining a suggestion o f the petti coat modes Is depicted in the final '-5r lustration. Here the material Is dark- brown cloth, finely striped with lighter brown, and the two slashes are strap ped with brown silk cord and buttons, and nre filled with tiny dnrk brown ■ T .A s n K D FOR ORNAMENTAL PURPOSES. velvet panels. This Is repeated in slightly modified form upon the sleeves, while on the bodice the slashes show velvet Insertions without the cording. The collar Is o f brown velvet covered with rich cream guipure, and is square In hack, hut In front there is a tab that extends to the waist. It is In oue with the collar, which Is finished with a chiffon ruching. One reason for the vnrlety that uow rales in styles- that variety which was alluded to at the beginning o f this de piction. and which these pictures illus trate as well as five pictures could, is that there is a tendency with Ameri can women to combine In their attire the characteristics prevailing with all other nations that have any Influence In the matter c* fashions The English run to severity and tailor-mades, even their hall and gala gowns smncklng o f the latter. The French woman is or nate, even If she is on a wheel trip or n walking Journey. The American wom an realizes that she must afford con trast and that tbereiD will lie a special attraction. So In the morning she is as demurely simple as her own Puri tan nncestresaea; for the afternoon and on the atreet ahe la aa tailor-made aa any Engllah girl ever eonld lie; at night she is gloriously he ra ffled , ns THF. O V E R S K IR T T H A T L IN G E R *. much of a butterfly aa ever her French and buttons at. the other. .last above slater dreamed; while after the hall. the waist the bodice was cut away In In her looae, yet clinging plush, vel front to show a white silk vest and vet and fnr garment o f lounging rent, from this to the neck there was a box- ahe la as alluring as tbe Russian, and, pleat o f the silk decorated with but which la saying much, aa comfortable. tons. and pleees of the same material In each atage she offers to th* other were set into the sleeve eflffs. steps a contrast that Is fascinating In Dark blue rloth was the fahrir o f the Itself, and altogether she la tbe beat second pictured dress, bine and gold dressed woman the world over. galloon being very freely used for trlm- Copyright, 183*