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IIKENSIBE V MRS. MARY J. HOLMES J . IWWI M M. ' "tMa aS." IK. I ( . . . . . . tttt t . UMMM : CIUITEn XVIII. iContinueU.) Mow ehalty and social h was, trylug to cheer Maddy up and make her forget "hat such thing m d.-afh had so lateli found entrance there; talking of Jn.ir, at Aikenaide, of the pleasaut little time ahey would bava during the vacation, and ti tba next term at school, wben Maddy, a on of th graduating class, would Dot e kept In a strictly aa heretofore, but Mowed to a more of tba ritjr. Maddjr teei a If aha ahuuld die fur the pain lugging at her heart, while she listened to baa aod knew that the picture ba was drawing vera not for her. Her place waa there; and after th breakfast waa ver and Flora had cleared the dUhe away, aba abut the door. o that the light be alone, and then atandinf before Uuy, aba told him of her resolution, beg ging of him to help her and not mak it harder to benr by devising tneaua for bar l-i ,ki '.. frit iu be u lot- perativ duty, 'iu; had expected sotne rhlng like thia and waa prepared, aa be thought, to combat alt her arguments; ao when ah had finished, he replied that sf CD ii rue ha did not wish to interfer with her duty, but there might be a ques tion aa to what real! waa ber dut.r. and K seemed to him ha waa better abla to judge of that than beraelf. It waa not right for ber to bury beraelf ther while her education waa unflniahed. wben an ther could do as well. Her superior tales ta were given to her to improve, and how could ah improve them In llono 4al; besides ber grandfather did not ex pect her to stay. Guy had talked with him whll aha waa asleep, and the matter waa all arranged ; a competent woman waa to be hired to take charge of th do mestic arrangements, and if it aeemed d airable, two should b procured ; anything t laav Maddy free. "And grandpa consented to .this will lotclyr Maddy as id. feeling a throb of pleasure at thoughta of rsleaa. But siuy could not answer that tb grand father consented willingly. He thlnka It best. When he come back you can ask him yourself," ba said. At thia point (Jrandpa Markham cam In, and to him Uuy appealed at one to know If he were not willing for Maddy to return to school. "I aaid ahe might If ah thought beat," waa th reply, spoken ao aadly that Mad dy'a arma were at one twined around the old man's neck, while she said to him : "Tell me honestly which yon prefer. I'd like ao much to go to school, but I am not aura I should h happy there, knowing how lonely you were here at hmn. Bay, grandpa, which would you rather now, honor bright?" and Maddy tried to apeak playfully, though ber heart beats were almost audible aa ahe waited for th answer. Orsadpa could not deceive. H want ad his darling sorely, and he wanted her u be happy, he said. I'erhapa they would get on Just as well without her. When Mr. Ouy waa talking It looked aa if they might, ha mad It all ao plain, but tb aight of Maddy waa a comfort. Mh waa all he had left. Mayb he shouldn't live long to pester her, and if h w.wn't wouldn't she always feel better for having stayed with ber grandpa?" II look I'd very pal and thin, and hla hair was white a snow. II could no. liv many years, and turning resolutely from (Suy, who, ao long as he held bei yes, controlled her, Maddy aaid: "I've rhoaen once for all. I'll atay with grandpa till he dies," and with a convulsive aob ahe clung tightly to his Berk, as if fearful that without such hold her resolution would give way. It waa In vain that (iuy strove to change Maddy's resolution. She was wholly derided, and late in the afternoon a rod bark to Aikenaide, a disnppoiuted nan, with, however, th feeling that Maddy had done right, and that be re spected her all tba more for withstanding fc temptation. Tempter whispered to ber that though sh did not love him aa sb ought to lov her husband, yet a life with h.m waa far preferable to th life ahe was living, and the receipt of one of bia letters always fve ber a pang which la. ted until (iuy came down to see her,, when 'It usually disapptared. Agnes was now at Aiken side, and thus Maddy freyuently had Jes sie at the cottage, but Agnes never came, and Maddy little gueaaed how often the proud woman cried herself to sleep after listening to Jessie's recital of all Maddy had to do for the craiy man, and how pa tiently ahe did it. He bad taken a fancy that Maddy must tell him stories of Sarah, describing her as aha waa now, not as ahe used to be a hen he knew her, but now. "What is she now? How dons hs look? What does she wear? Tell me, tell m I" he would plead, until Mad dy, forced to tell him something, and Having nistiuitly in her mind but one fashionable woman such aa eh fancied Sarah might be, told blin of Agnes Item liigwm, and I'ncl Joseph, listening with parted llpa and hushed breath, would whisper aoftly. "Yea. that Sarah, beau tlful Sarah ; but tell me does aha ever think of me, or of that time In the or chard when I wove the apple blossoms in her hair, where the diamonds are now She loved me then; ahe told me so. Does she know how sick, and sorry, and foolish I am? how the acbing In my poor, aim pi Drain la all for bar, aod bow you Maddy, are doing for m what it la her place to do? Had I a voice," and th craiy man now grew excited, a a. raising himself in bed, he gesticulated wildly "had I a voice to reach her, I'd cry aham on ber, to let you do her work, let you wear out your young life and fresh, bright beauty all away for me, whom ahe ruin' ed." CI I A IT Kit XIX. It waa arranged that Flora should for the preeent at least remain at the cottage, and Maddy accepted the kindness grate fully. She hsd become so much accus tomed to being cared for by Uuy that ah almost looked upon It as a matter of course, aod did not think of what others might possibly say, but when, In aa deli eat manner aa possible. (iuy suggested furnishing the cottage in better style, even proposing to modernise it entirely in tbe spring, Maddy objected at once. They were already Indebted to him for more than they could ever pay, ah aaid, and ahe would not suffer it. So (iuy submit ted, though it grated upon his aense of tbe beautiful and refined terribly, te see Maddy amid ao bumble surroundings. Twice a week, and sometimes oftener. he rode down to Honedale, and Maddy felt that without these visits life would hard ly have been endurable. During tb vacation Jessie spent a part f tb time with her. but Agnea reso lutely resisted all tiuy'a entreatiea that ah would at least cnll once on Maddy, who had expressed a wiih to see her, and who, on aivount of her grandfather's health, ami the childishness with which l'n.ie Joseph clung to ber, could not well .smie up to A.kenxiile. Agnea would not gn doo, neither would she give other reason for her obstinacy than the appar ently foolish one that she did not wish to see the crsiy nisn. Still she did not ob ject to Jessie's going ss often aa ahe liked, and she aent by her many little delicacies from the larder at Alkenside, some for grandpa, but moat for I'ncle Joseph, who prised highly everything craning from "the madam," and sent back to her more than on strangely worded message which mad the proud woman's eyea overflow when sure that no one could see her. Hut thia kind of intercourse cam to an end at last. The vacation was over. Jessie had gon back to school, and Maddy be gan in sober earnest the new life before ber Tbs were dsrk. wearisome da.rs to Maddy, and when tbe long, cold winter was gone from the New Kngland hills, and the early buds of spring were coming up by the cottage door, the neighbors began to ta!k nt the change which had come over tks) y.Jg girl, once ao full of life and heaUra, I t now so languid and pale. Still Maddy waa not unhappy, nor svas the discipline too severe, for by it ahe learned at last the grt object of life; iearned to take her troubles and cares to One who helped bee bear them so cheer rally that those who pitied her most never dreamed how heavy was her burden, ao rstlently and sweetly she bore It Occa sionally there came to her letter from th doctor, bot latterly they ga ber laaa pleasure than pal, 'or aa sure ai ahe read on of his kind, friendly snse sifa ai ayaapathy and ramsabraacr Ue The voire he craved, or the echo of It, did reach her, for Jessie had been pre ent when th fancy first seised him to hear of Sarah, and in the ahadowy rwl light ah told her mother all, dwelling most upon th touching sadness of his face when h said. "I toes ah know how sick and sorry I am?" - The pillow which Agnes pressed that night was wet with tears, while in her heart was planted a germ of gratitude arid respect for the young girl doing her work for her. All that she could do for Maddy without going directly to her, she did, devilling many articles of comfort, sending her fruit and flowers, the last new book, or whatever else she thought mljrht please ber, and always finding a willing messenger in (Suy. Hs waa mis erable, and managed wben at home to make others so around him. Tba sight of Maddy bearing her burden so uncomplain- intlv almost maddened him. Had ahe fretted or complained be could bear it better, he aaid. hut he did not see the necessity for her to lose all her spirit or interest in everything and everybody. He mothered his Imiiatience. and determin Ing to help her all he could, rode down to Honedale every day. Instead of twice a- week, as he had done before. Attentions so marked could not fail to be commented upon; and while poor. unaiitpef ting Maddy was deriving so much comfort from bis daily visits, deeming that day very long which did not bring him to her, the Honedale gossips, of whom ther were many, were busy with ' her affairs, talking them over at their numer ous tea-drink ings, discuasing them In the streets, snd filially at a quilting, where they met in solemn conclave, deciding that, "for a girl like Maddy Clyde it did not look so well to hsve so much to do with that young Remington, who, every body knew, w engaged to somebody in Kngland." . The wife of Farmer Green. Maddy's warmest friend In Honedale, did her best to defend her against the attacks of those whose remarks she well knew were caused more by envy than any personal dislike to Maddy. who used to be so much of a pet until ber euperlor advantages separated ber in a measure from them. Good Mrs. (ireeo was sorely tried. Without in the least blaming Maddy. ahe, too, bad been (.roubled at the frequency of (iuy'a vlsita to the cottage. Accordingly, next day ahe started for the cottage, which (!uy had just left, and this, in her opinjon, ac counted for the bright color in Maddy'a cheeks and the sparkle in her eye. (iuy had been there, bringing and leaving a world of eunshine, but, alas! bia chances for coming ever again aa he had done were fearfully small, when, at the close of Mrs. Green a well-meant visit, Maddy lay on her lied, her white, frightened face buried in the pillows, and herself half wishing she bad died before the Inst hour had come, with the terrible awakening it had brought: awakening to the fact that of all living beings, (iuy Kemington was th one she loved the best the one with out whose presence it seemed to her she could not live, but without w nlch she now knew ahe must. What waa life worth without Ouy, and why had he been thrown ao much in hia way; why permitted to love him a she knew she did. if ahe must lose him now? Maddy could not cry: there was a tightness al"ut her eyea. and a keen, cut ting pain about her heart as she tried to pray for strength to do what was right strength to cast (iuy Kemington from her heart, where It was a sin for him to be; and then she asked to lie forgiven for tbe wrong she had unwittingly done to Lucy Atherstone, who trusted ber Implicitly, and who, in her laat letter, had said : "If I had not so much faith In Ouy I ahould be jealous of on who has so many opportunities for stealing bis heart from me, but I trust yon, M.tddy Clyde. Von would not do a thing to harm me, I am tire, and to lose (iuy now, after these years of cruel waiting, would kiirme." doing to the table she opened her port folio, the gift of Ouy, au with her gold pen. also his gift, wrote to him what the neighbors were saying, and that hs must come there no more; at least ouly once in a great while, because f he did, she could not ace him. lien, when thia waa written, ahe went down to I'ncle Joseph, who waa calling for ber, and aat by him as nana I. amg'ng to him the songs h loved ao well, and which this night pleased him especially, because the vote which sang them waa ao plaintive, ao full of woe. Would be never go to sleep, or th hand which held hers ao firmly rslai Ita hold? Never, rt aeemed to Maddy, who aat and sang, whll th night-bird on a distant tree; awakened by the low song, uttered responsive note, and th hour crept on to midnight. Human nature could endure no more, and when th rraay man aaid to ner, ow (lng of Him who died on CaJvary," Maddy's answer waa a gs aping cry aa ah fall fainting oa the pillow. rIt wis only a aerveoa headcb ahe said te the frightened Flora, wS emaie at Tncle Joseph call, and belpew ber young mistress up to bed. "Sb would be better In th morning, and ah would rather he aloi." fo Flora lft her there, but went often to her door, until assured by the low breathing sound that Maddy waa sleep ing at last. "I can t see him. Flora," Maddy said, when the latter came up with the mes sage that Mr. Kemington was there with his buggy, and aked if a little ride would , not do her g.l. "1 ,-,u'i hint, but u.ua iuis, ami sne piaced iu floras hand the note, baptised with ao many tears and prayers, and the eontenta of which made (iuy furious not at her, but at the neighbors, tbe inquisitive, envious, meddlesome neighbors, who bad dared to talk of him, or to breathe a auspicious word against Maddy Clyde. He would se; hs would make them aorry for it they ahould take hack every word ; and they should beg Maddy's forgiveness for the pain they had raused. All this, and much mure, Ouy thought, aa with Maddy's note in hit band, be walked up and down tbe aitting room, rag ing l.ks a young lion, and threatening vengeance upon everybody. He must see her; he would see her; and ao for th next half-hour Flora was the bearer of written menus gea to and from Maddy'a room ; mesmgea of earneet entreaty on the one hand, and of firm denial on tbe other. At last MaH.ly rr" : "If you care for uie In the least, or for my respect, leave me, and do not come again until I send for you. I m not insensibls to your kindness. I feel it all; but the world la nearer right than you suppose. It doea not look well for you to come here so much, aod I prefer that you ahould not. Justice to Lucy re quires that you atay away." That ended it. That roused up Quy't pride, and writing back : "You shall be obeyed. Good by," b prang Into hia buggy, and Maddy, listen log, with head and heart throbbing alike, heard him aa be drove furiously away. Those were long, dreary day which followed, and but for her grandfather! Increasing feebleness Maddy would almoat have died. Anxiety for him, however, kept her from dwelling too much upon herself, but the excitement snd tbe rare wore upon her aadly, robbing ber eye of ita luater and her cheek of Its remaining bloom, making even Mra. Noah cry when she came on day with Jesais to see how they were getting on. Vl. l.l- - 1 . J n ... I,.- mnA tnr m Mmyij mm alau ' ' . time cried aoftly on her bosom, while Mra. Noah's teara kept company with hers. Not a word waa aaid of Ouy, ex cept when Jessie told her he waa in Boa ton, ud it waa atupid at bom without him. With more than her ordinary diacretlon SAFE SOW. May T Mm:: till .. "., ilW. r ' ' ' - ?,S,-" . ''-, ' I. 1 U ... W.3ra j- - .S-WwLe I U ... . i BUT IT WAS SCARY FOR AWHILE, MIUTES ENTOMBED FOR WEEKS. Three Man Buried Thousand Ft Underground is Nevada. On morriliix early In becuuber a Aiihlcn crash of timbers, i muffled Flora kept to herself what had passed clatter of rock and doml of dust told when (iuy was last there, so Mra. Noah t,e engineer of the Alpha mine, near knew nothing except what be baa toiu her, and whar ahe read in Maddy'a white, suffering face. Thia last waa enough to excite all her pity, and she treated the young girl with the moat motherly kind nm. stsvlns sll nlcht. and herself tsk- Ing care of grandpa, who waa now too ill ( fully picked the men he wanted, notl to ait up. There aeemed to be no disease tied other tQitt at OiikH call upon preying upon him, nothing save old age, them later and at one begun efforts to and tbe loes of one who for nfore than communicate with the entombed men, forty yeara had ahared all bis joy na. vjilng some mlKht have eaiaiied death. Itefore nightfall be learned that two Greek! were caught In the cave-In and buried alive, but that the three Anierl- Kly, Nev., that tbe five men he bad Just tent down Id the cage were buried. He gave the alarm and I thousand men, eager to be of service, gathered about the alia ft. Siqit. Gallagher care- sorrow, lis couia not live wunoui ner, and one night, three weeka after Ouy'i dismissal, he said to Maddy, aa she was about to leave him : - ...... I I) 1 1 f a,t 1 f .T .. . 1 1 "Sit with me, darling, for a little while, ,0". '"u'ej, i.m-u mm uiuiu, if you are not too tired. Your grand '''ere In no luunedlHt danger. A six- mother seems near me to-night, and ao Inch pipe runs from tbe mouth of the does Alice, your mother. Maybe I'll be 1 sliaft to the bottom and by removing with them before another day. I hop I the cap from Ita base the Imprisoned may If Ood la willing, and there a nijcin,en managed to tan with (iallngher. I would say to you." (To be continued.) HISTORY OF THE POTATO. Its Iwtrodsirllnsi Vloleatlr Opposed lit sur fans ol Ik World. The chronicle of one of .he old Span ish, travelers, publbtlnil In 1.kaI, says: 'The jeople of IVru eat a tulieroui root wbUii they call papas." The Spaniard took this root to Spain, where It was grown as 'the truffle root." The Italians verv uiilcklv adimt- ei It Into their gardens aud oou the ,nl'"'r"- ut trti evident iH.voml the lrutcu were cultivating It with much Pn,e of prevention .leiayc, wnTi. the aine real that tlicy displayed for M- 'Nw """"glier 1"'im' to make tuliua. Of it. lntr.slii.-t nto p.,,,. prediction, and imply ' that he land sll thnt w .r..,.r ..f thf i ' continue his effort ns long ns he Km Sir Walter Italelgh was growing Da direvt It. The men potatoes In hla Irish gnrdcu. Thomas Harlot In tils account of Tbey told hi in they had a little food and water enough for two or three days. With rubber devices Gallagher passed food aud liquids down the pljie and was soon able to supply tbe men. lie started drift toward them and at first It seemed probable thnt he would reach them In a week. Itefore that time the unforeseen hnppened 'and the rescuers were compelled to make new plans. It was then annotiti.v.1 that ten days would be sufliclcnt to get to the THREE MEN BURIES IS A NEVADA MINE. Virginia names ptat.Hs among tht can be saved, be declares, and he will save thoin. - The etitomlxsl miners spend their , Innir Auvm. fee more ctieerfllltv than roots that were found growing .there, I ,.., ,1 .,fli m such ,-ie saying that ...me of them were a. big ntnn, To Mfeguard the,,, OUM as walnuts and others considerably , . i. H,.av! .... m.i. larger This Virginia potato seeuis to 1 IflK,1Pr hn, aum-Hed thnn with enough r "uuu ls ow provision to last three weeks. Thev as the Irish, while that grown In l'ern . em-, -.m. ..... - ", ITMC COIPHIJ uni, --' in. IK, I1IIU Is more likeiy to have been a sweet ! thew r.. mens of a six Inch nine tut.. Another writer, d.-s.-rlblng the running down the shaft. They have c.e.ils or Virginia, says that the connected the mine telephone wlrh an potato r.H.t Is thick, fat and tulierous not differing much In sliajie from the sweet itato, except that the roots are n.t so great or long, while some ol ....... mi- K.i.ii.i ns a mil a hi ouicra are oval. In the c-gg fashion. Karly Iu the seventeenth century Ita le'.gli's plantation of potatoes had Uen repeated all over Ireland, but the farm era of Kngiaml, moved by stubborn prejudl.v and possibly In p:1rt by J,-. ou-j. do, i,l,,l that th.- would he nothing to .lo with the tuU-r. It win as late ns the t ine of Charles II., .vr tainly It w.is after the t niuwelllun op lwnle, ts-fi.re the potato got any fait hold In Kiigl!!! vill, (ilils-rt White, writing In 1T7S. sny that potato- had prevailed In his (lis-tri.-t for atmut twenty years and that this had been brought almt "only by means of premiums." but th it .tato.i were then much esteemed by the p..,,r er people, who would c:lr.-ey have ventured to taste them In the p'revloui reign. I lie story ,r the introduction f o,. potato Into Fran.v has !ss-n ..f:,.,, i,,) Tin- country p.s.pi er,. .-oiivlmv,! of the polwimns nature ' n,e tul.et that they w..u:. hot K;4H It a trial. Iti friends were actually ih..I,IhsJ fr try ing to lntr.slu.-e a f..s that would poison the pe.'le. The story goes lo two ways, (me of these tells us thai Kin. I-ouIs XVI. wore jK.tato bloasotn, In his Imt tun hoi. ti had potnt,.ea ot his royal table until they became pop Ur with the arlst.s-ratic class. Chi cago Inter 0.-ean. electric cable, and are able to talk dally with thetr families and friend. They re well supplied with news, and have ahowrt much Interest in the (ioldfield crisis. They have plenty of l-ht and r.srni to move Ix'iit, o that If they can endure the long delay they can wait for rescue with cotdldence and comparative comfort. . The rescue party Itse-f has dangers to face. A cave-In I"'"' the te-mp.v rarr i.lntfortn of timl' "In which It Is working might preHpltate It hun dreds of feet. Kn.h man works with a roi bout his alt. " that If nil siKMetily find themselves without any footing they ran be hsu!"l to safety. TOLD IS A FEW LINES. A Greek, hound to f"irland, took wrong train out of Chi. and went to an Francisco. The Kusslan war derrtm"it has or dered the formation r s niuit,rT tlJfo mobile corps, to be bawJ 00 'he t;erin,n model. 1'ierre Jules (ar J -n. the rele- WATTD PIPS XA I I cvppuzt. i 1 1 tAYZDrxotj mi f Ml y- 1W I I I THE WACHItlGTOli J VZvJ 1 1 MONUMENT mm&KtmivrtzA com pji old with matt um -rHl0OT which men axe. AAT t JURIED : Olroua mine, NeTada, and dla. grams showing; plight of three miners TO U3IIT IMMIGRATION. Japanese and American Officials Out line Plan at Toklo. There Is reason to believe that the entire question of emigration of the Japanese to America has been satisfac torily settled, at least for the present. aftiT m-rles of (smfen-lices between Fnlted States Aiiihnwtador O'Hrlen and Minister of Foreign Affairs lluynslil In Toklo. It Is umlerst.ssl that at their Inst meeting, the reprewnlatlves of the Jap anese government outlined a plan by which It Is agreed to limit emigration to students and is.tntnerclal men bar Ing nicns of sup.rt. and entirely to prevent Japanese Inls.rers from going to Amerl.-a. This arrangement will en tall the closet supervision on the part nt tl.o lunmn-se Illltlloritll-S. A the agreement I ver1.nl. Ambassador (lltrlen accept.-.! It provlsl.wially, but r,,ni..i.,..i 1 1 i.-it hiiv violation of Ita terms would seriously embarrass a friendly government. It Is said thnt Foreign Minister I lay ash I will exercise absolute control. t FACTS ABOUT : I : : : THE CENSUS. iue l ostorth-e Ivpartment la gofc seek the aid of Congress to prevent the railroads from putting Into as-rvi.-e "blufT trains with a view to rapturing mall tonnage and later ahamhssiiig them. This fact Is disclosed lo the r. port of the department regarding the transportation of the malls for the cur rent year. It Is alleged that frior l. the rewelghlng periods, which deter mine th routes aud compensation ev ery four years. It has been th einainni of some rallroada to put on new fat trains with a view to rapturing IS malls. Having been autxi-ssful. wurti a road, under the pres.-nt law, must re ceive pHy for that mall during the an.- ceedlng four yeura wehther It contin ues to carry It or not. Aceordinglr some of the rnllroa.ls have been i-us-toml to take oSf their "blufT" trail. n soon after the rewelghlng, allowing thn maila to be diverted to another mud. but continuing to revive pay for trsns IM.rtitig them until the next reweighing vrlod, when the trick Is rejete,l. - Sjaker Cannon annouis-ed hi st rangement of the new committee en appropriations, with Tawney of Mlu.e sota at Ita bead and l.lvlngst.m , f Georgia as the ranking m-in.srat. 1'iw ney has come out wpjarely for the m. ley of retrenchment, which Oie Sistk er wvia known to favor, ana be will m the) recognizes! "watch dog of the treas ury" during the life of this (Vmgrt-ss, In statement Chairman Tawney re ferred to tbe estimate for the next year's expenses being over JKMi.issio.il over the estimates for the current year, am) aaid thia would mean a deficit nf $3.0U0,0(l0. Hence the necessity of rigid economy and tbe avoidance nf new enterprise. After a conference at the Whita House with Secretary Garfield of trm Interior Department, Assistant Secre tary Oliver of the War Department, and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp, the President decided to con tlnue the policy of tbe Indian ntiresi of furnishing tbe Indiana an opportu nity to work, and. In case of their fail ure to take advantage of the opportu nity, toleave them to their own rewouross. This ls the result of the recent out break of a band of renegade I'te In dians now located on tbe Cheyenne Hirer Reservation In North Dakota. The roller skaters of Washington sr an Interesting sight There are .V). children of akatlng age In Washlngtoa and 30,0)0 are whlixlng around the streets mounted upon two skates, whll the balance of them, more or less con tent with an equipment of one skate s child, are doing a complicated hop whlzx, undismayed by the frequent complications which ensue. The asphalt streets are really temptation not easily resisted, and after dark the roll er skaters seem to have grown sml.t.-i ly and mysteriously taller. In order to mske army servhs. mar attractive for the enlisted men, thw War Department has determined uposj certain reforms, some of which may be put Into effect by executive author ity anil others only with the coopcrs tlon of Congress and Increased appro priations. One of tbe change proponent is that the soldier shall receive hi first razor, tooth brush, soap and sim ilar articles from the government with out charge, but after the first supply he must malutulu bis toilet kit st hi wn expense. In the Semite the committees Have been changed so as to fill vacuncU s ae1 make places for the new niemrss. Knot goes to the front, as exp-fed. by becoming chairman of the rul.- .-tn-nilttee, where he will bare tlie duty of defending the legality of the meas-ir.- proposed by the majority, other im portant chairmanships sre: Appropa lions, Allison; finance, Aldrlch ; foreign relations, Culloin ; Interstate immer.it Though we are still getting bulletin! and reports based on the census of ""'' Klklns ; nsval affairs, Hale; tom.f Shell polishing is an extensive and profitable business on the coast of Southern California, wher ,r. found man shells which er capable of a high degree of polish, and show won derful Iridescent shades after qtr rough outald covering bag been hrf 1 M u rnarj wheel. brsted French scientist and '''fetor of the Meuls.n observatory. -1 m I'rxrisj Me was lKrn in l-t- Wilhsm tirosby. vf-'r f ,w ton. who died the oth.-r " nie age f H!l years, once refused P0"1" 'hat were offered by I-ongfeMo- Col. lioethals snd e m.ck burn hav. returned fro nam. and tell I-resident Roosevelt "r "0 canal is progressing sstlsfsctonly- Gov. Il.rri. of Ohio rM Willi.,. Hour, aerving a lif; 'Zl. tion of th. murder of M "' He ., Itl.den.burg. Knox rountr W II. Williams, tnen't"" or th, of rev ew of Columbus Onto. 4,M of , Minnesota for ic l , jeslert Maklnai of Alcohol. The reuort of the commissioner of inter- nsl revenue shows thst ainc the passage of the free denatured alcohol bill only ten mills hsve been set up for turning out this product, notwithstanding tbe fact that the Treasury Department has sent out pamphlets instructing the fsrmers how to manufacture the spirits. While the d:stilleries are s-rniitte.l to nee any material whatever in producing this spirit, the product so far has been mainly from corn. It is ssi.l thai in (iermsny there are about TO.isai farm distilleries produc ing Indnstrisl alcohol, which is sold to consumers for alsmt -T cents a gallon, while In this country the sverage price in barrel lots is 8(1 cents a gallon. Swearer? fur Issssltr. Dr. X. M. Owensby of Haltimnre has created something of a stir In me.li. -si circles by ssserting thst dementia pree cnx, or precocious insanity, hsd been ruted In recent case by th use of the knife to relieve the thyroid gland of an excess of certain chemicals In the blood or the secretions. Out of five esses so treated, ail hut one are said to have re covered, whereaa th disease has gener slly been regarded as incurable. I. Spltika of tbe Jefferson Medical College, however, ears that the theory on which Owenaby operated baa net been proved. the time has come to begin active prepare lions for the enumeration of 11)10. Kills have lieen Introduced covering th main features of the next census, and an ap propriation of f I4..ii will be asked. It is nearly five years since a perma nent census nffi.-e waa established. The maintenance of a sort of skeleton organ i 7ii tion should make for economy, system and superior efficiency during the next census and the tabulation and publica tion of its results. It is proposed to re-stri.-t the inquiries to populstion, agricul ture, manufa.lurine. mines and quarries. All sorts nf suggestions have been made for particular snd additional inquiries, but while the utility of some of them is undoubted, iimitstion la deemed necessary in the interest of accuracy, ijieed and minomj. euros, snd Philippine, Iwlge. Postmaster Cenenrl Meyer liollev.-, that his work In efll.ieti.y Is linpalre.l by following the custom of sitting st a d.sk. When he was the presiding otfi rer of the lower branch of the Masxa--husetts Assembly he used a massive, lesk. made of walnut, highly etu-tM-lllshed. and stnndlng more than four feet high. This has been brought t' Washington and Instnlled In his otfjew. rhls he will use hereafter, standing ys t his work. The ensh balam- In the treasury has. fw-eu reduced to about $l7.isi.isi) ba the distribution of funds among n- Ti mmnlet i hs work of enn weratlon in a shorter period than usual, it la pro-1 tlonnl banks during the recent crisis. nosed to employ rtT..is enumersfor in- md the officials have aeciie. to cut stesd of 4."., the nunilier employed In wo (be amount of the balnn-- stnnd- I'.ssi. Thirty-five hundred clerke snd XlO!ng to the credit of disbursing ..Mirers. auperv iaor will be required, and an effort j Is to b ms-1 to secure nign-ciaas men for tb various branches of tb work. A census generally brings a scramble for patronage, each memtr of C ongress ex- iierting to nominste s certain number of rlerks and to us "pull" where tbe appli cant's qualifi.-stions are not op to the standard. This time It is proposed to Jis- rersrd political affiliations and to hold ex aminations for clerical positions (of the non competitive kin3 under th direction of the civil service commission. ii is further provided that the director may give preference to persons of previous ex uerienc snd good records In census work. While these tests ao noi err on me sioe of strictness, the spoilsmen or me oia erhool are expected to find them too drss tic. so that a fight against feature prom- eTieiency I not impmtiani. J n ,perTisors sr to be appointed by the President and psia rair salaries. j ney will In turn nominate ine enumersrors, the appol""""' ' r"B nominees being left to the director. Cbieago Kecord tier aid. That one tenth of all tbe deaths of the veer In Pennsylvania were due to tuber culosis Is shown by th records of th Buresu of Vital Statistic, th total of victims ef this disease being 10,790k fhus, by a simple act of bookkeeping. the available cash Is Incresse.l for th rtme being by many millions of dollars. IWor the swearing In of the tw-a ttw Senators from the new State of "(klahoriHl they drew lots In the pfss-re-e of the Senate to determine w hich it.ould have tbe long term and which lie short. The blind Sennt-.r. (lore, Irew the two-year term, and smllinblf ongratulated his colleague, Ncnuinf wcn. Tfee act of President U'Hevelt tl irderlng federal troops to s,st tb) lero Club of St. Iiuls at Its r.vnt In :ernatlonal ballrsin rs.s-s was. In thsj jplnlon of (ien. (ie.rge It. Davis, ludc idvocate general of the army, uncoo itltuflonal. This ojilnlon Is a Ism shared) T A'-tltig Sesretsry of Wsr Oliver. There are any numtr of the toilers; if Washington who mske their home n Halt I more, 40 miles away. Living n the latter place la some .10 tr cent -heaper than In the town laid out ttg tie father of bis country.
