IIKENSIBE
V
MRS. MARY J. HOLMES
J . IWWI M M. ' "tMa aS." IK. I (
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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::
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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 :
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"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.