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WHITF. HOI SF. HOI SF.KKUMNG ■ i'RPRISES MRS. M'KI5ILL.\. WORKS LIKE A MACHINE.

I n<*Ie Sam Aitiiiirc* for Pretty \early Kverylliinu in Hie Homej*tlc Kine—Well Drllleil Servant*.

WASH I NOTON. -M rs. Mi'KInloy lins st'tth'it down to tlio task • >f manaeiiiK th** domoatlc maohliipry of tho Whit** House, and lior friends say that she has surprisc'd herself by the ease with which she has accomplished what she feared would prove

a huRe task.

Mrs. McKinley has always lived most modestly. Her husband has never been a big money-maker, and she has been accustomed to watching the small economies, which a careful housekeeper is forced to do, particularly when the Income at her disposal is limited. During the past few years her home at Canton was managed on

either of them.

Thus Mr. Pruden lifts a big load of responsibility from the shoulders of the mistress of the White House. Then the official steward is a functionary of considerable service. If anything wears out iu the White House, like a piece of furniture, or carpets, or any kitchen or dining room article, he sees that It Is replaced. He is held responsible for the care of everything iu the mansion, and the office is not a light one. for some of the possessions of the White House

are of considerable value.

The table linen, of which there Is nn endless quantity, and all of the tinest quality, costs enough to support a good-sized family In moderate style for several years. There are Innumerable pieces of solid silver and several of gold, the lath r dating back to tfie Van Buren Administration. The dinner services are of the Uuest china, ami when a piece is broken a duplicate

Is at once made to order.

Congress from time to time makes appropriations for the particular use of the White House steward for the replacing of damaged or worn out articles. and Mrs. McKinley does not have to worry her head about those matters. The steward Is required to maintain everything at the very pinnacle of perfection, from the smallest article in the kitchen to the silken

a very moderate scale. There was , w not the faintest tinge of magnitleenee bangings in Mrs. McKinleys boudoir.

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i or show, and people who ought to I know say that the McKinleys did not I spend more than $2.o00 a year. Two I servants, one of whom spent most of | her time earing for her delicate misI tress, looked after everything in the I house. The cooking was plain, and like little entertaining that was done i was of the most simple order. Canton is a small place, but there were dozens of homes more pretentiously run than the McKinley house, so it was but natural that the new mistress of the White House should feel somewhat timorous about accepting the grander

responsibilities.

But, as a matter of fact, housekeeping in the executive Mansion is about | the simplest tiling in the world. 1'ncle Sam lias arranged for nearly every doI mestic contingency that might arise, land, to her vast surprise. Mrs. Me- ! Kinlcy has found that her household

cares are exceedingly few.

All that she really has to do is to give n few minutes’ interview to the official housekeeper In the morning, and then everything moves with the nicety of weil-regulated machinery. She could even dispense with this in- | terview if she were so inclined, for

Ings have been a financial success. ; them feel she Is their friend; at the the. White House servants are splen- | Her "First History of England,” writ- i same time. In all work done for women didly trained, and. under the direction I ten for children, has had several edi-| and children at least she should take of the housekeeper, could be counted tions, and her “First History of a leading part; her great object should j upon to perform their various tasks France” has been just as successful. , be to raise the tone of home life and j without higher supervision. Most of She lias also compiled several histor- ! the moral standard in the place. Those [ these servants have been employed for M,v - i leal biographies ami has written con-, who know the country know that few | many Administrations, some of them i siderably for periodicals. things are more heart-breaking than ] dating their entrance to the White ! HKU IDEAL MIMSTEU K WIFE, i the low standard of morality in a House back to the time when General ! Mrs. Creighton is of English birth. | country village.” J Grant first took hold of the nation’s

! but her parents were natives of Revel. f> » 'bis subject Mrs. Creighton feels . helm,

one of the Baltic provinces. Recently most strongly, and with her Immense So well 1ms the Government nr- | she was asked to describe her ideal of determination behind the crusade now | ranged for everything that, even when a clergyman's wife, and she said: i;i progress It is believed that the j M r . and Mrs. McKinley are preparing "The sphere of a clergyman's wife movement just begun will not have the ; fora state dinner, she need not trouble is, of course, a more subordinate one same fate as the others. ] herself about tbo smallest detnil. than Hint of any other wife. It calls The Bishop of London is a scholarly Uncle Sam pavs the salary of a man

for an absolute surrender of self. Her man. of broad experience in church

______ first object must be to make the sur work. He began at the bottom of the

i roundings of her husband's life such ministerial ladder. The first ten years

t . 'bat he can do his work easily: to of bis married life were spent in a l.O.JDON. r-l be crusades , nnko no c .| nim8 „„„„ him which would straggling North country parish, where conducted by the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst. 1 j nf p r f (>rfl nl . work ^ nv there was nothing but a continual ot New York, against the social ovil j , |(>lp sh( . cnn KjV(1 lljn| sliou]1 1)(l kllmvn round of hard work. After leaving are being repeated iu this city, but on on i v to themselves and God. I ’* v ' s Parish Ids rise in the church entirely different lines, the methods I “At the outset she is called to make wor bl " Rs gradual tmt steady. His adopted being without the offensive n renunciation of that complete rvm- elevation to the bishopric of London features which caused so much ad- )m thy and confidence which is the ' s °f comparatively recent date, but verse criticism to be directed against ideal"of a loving wife. That renuneia- since then he has made many innotbe New York divine. tion should be faced and bravely vations. not the least of which Is thr The Bight Rev. Mandell Creighton, made; there must he no curiosity about "'nr on what many Londoners havi

1 NEW PAIKHIMST.

THE \OVK.I, \vAlt ItEGI > III

no vs i.linn Hisiiur.

THE WICKEDEST CITY.

Cnl<i«io Personality of Mrs. Crel/Bfliton, the IUhIioii’b Wife. Who In- ■ tlKtitcd the C'rujuule—Her Ideal of What a MiiiiMter'M Wife Should 11^.

THK MANY EXPENSES.

As the Government pays the salaries of all the household servants, it would seem that Mr. McKinley should be able to save a considerable portion of his $50,000 a year salary, but the chances tor economies are few. The President must pay for all the food consumed, and the expense of getting up an elaborate state dinner is not small. True, all the flowers that are needed for decorative purposes come from the three acres of conservatories attached to the White House, and the music is furnished by the Marine Band. Cigars and wines the I’resi dent buys, and they must be of the best. He has to maintain his own equipage. The Government, however, allows him a valet, also a read ing clerk, who opens all of his mail, particularly that marked “personal

and private.”

All other personal servants must be engaged and paid for by the master and mistress of the White House. It Is possible to live fairly well for $30,000 a year Iu the Executive Mansion and make a show befitting the President of the United States, and but few of the Presidents of recent yours, with the exception of Chester A. Arthur, have exceeded this sum.

DK LOME'S NEW BOOK.

The Johnstown. I'a . telephone office haa adopted the call system like that In vogue at leading hotels. The subscriber who wishes to wake at a certain hour calls up “central/' who registers It. When the time arrives the operator rings up the subscriber, if he turns over and fondly imagines that It's an alarm clock ho Is nicely ffxilod. for the telephone 1..11 will keep ringing until ho etona It and thus “central'’ will know that he is awake and up.

to look out for precisely such matters

as these.

SYSTEMATIC MK. PRUDEN. Since the time of President (Jrant work of this kind has been in the charge of Mr. Pruden. He arranges the places at the table for the various

A London court has recently done something to settle the social status of artlits' models. A young woman brought »u!t for breach of promise against a man who had promised to marry her but had been alarmed by the discovery that instead of sitting for the head alone she had also sat for the figure, though not without drapery. The deceslon of tho court was that the profession Is respectable, and that she was entitled to damages. KLKC TIIH SHOCK PAINLESS. I'rofcusor T> mini i>«*»criben \nnihinK

I\IT« <•! of Hie Contact.

SrientlstH think that death by electricity

I^inl Bishop of London, the most pow- | H , r husband's intoroourso with’others, fotne to regard as a necessary evil.

BERNARD BARRETT.

erful church official of the English i not S!lv mil8t ll()t he the metropolis, has instituted the crusade, j ionst suspicion of Jealousy. I feel and the immense Influence he wields very strongly that the first care of the has served to gather about him in the wife of a bishop or clergyman must he work a small army of divines of vari- given to her own home. ' Children and ous degrees of importance. , husband should come before any social

London, like all other great cities, duties.”

has various municipal laws which are Concerning the social duties of a

supposed to govern the matter, but j minister's wife, she said; “I think watt not the morrow but entwine thy hand notwithstanding these it can honestly that calls and tea parties may seem to in mini-, with sweet fora veness full and ireo; he termed the wickedest city on earth, lit 1 a waste of time, hut it is only by 0f T hVs l jo/of 0 h>vi I n(/n)ee n ' ler9tan<i Nightly the scenes In the West End getting on easy terms with one’s neigh- Perha'.H/me day I nmy redeem the wrons are such that their parallel is not to be bors that we are able to speak words Repair that fault i know not when or how. found anywhere. Baris has its frivol- of sympathy when they are needed. 0 „Z' 1 m 0 ./. l!I,,'!. 0 !, 1141 „*T,.

ities. Berlin and Vienna their nbnox- The best thing a clergyman's wife can

TO-DAY.

Walt not the morrow, but forgive me now ; Who knows what fato to-morrow's dawn

may bring?

Let not part with shadow on thy brow,

With my heart hungealng.

guests, assigning each man the lady | or lightning is painless, say* the "Youth** whom lie is to escort to dinner, there- Companion." They do not know that It is s ESsr. rsttirws ,^7— . 1 , , , . . . ,..11 London, accidentally touched with hi* 'ions, for he knows just who should i s i 10 ,ji,i el . t j] 0 conductor leading from fif>e invited to the various 1 unctions. | teen x.eyden Jar*, charged with electricity, Mr. Pruden has worked his duties u e thu* describe* the effect on his body; lown to a positive science, anil there 1 "1 am extremely sensitive to electricity, has never been the slightest confusion yet a charge from such a powerful battery it anv of tho banquets. as fifteen Jars seemed to have no disastrous ' It is said that he lias a model of the effect on me. 1 stood perfectly Btlll. wontnble In the state dining room, and a Jerlll K that 1 d - 11 n,>t feel "• bllt 1 Knew

number of little dummies, which he labels with the names of the guests to be invited. These lie arranges about the table, and rearranges them until

something had occurred. After standing for a moment or two I seemed to open my eye*, which probably were open all tho time. I saw a confused mass of apparatus about me. I felt it necessary to reassure

every one is seated to his satisfaction. | the people before me. so I said: 'Over and If Senator Blank Is at loggerheads ' over again I have wanted this battery to he with Senator Dash Mr. Pruden sees discharged Into me and now I have had it.’ to it that thov are seated far apart. ' Although 1 appeared unaffected rejilly the The Academy ” Senator Pash l.not onfriendl, J ^ J I terms W'th Mts. S< nator Blank Ml. ioon however, recovered proper sight, and r •, • 11.11.. > t.il.-.w n-irn licit nrnv i m i t v will .. . . ...... -u -i-u. ••

ious features, but in substantial vice do for her poorer neighbors is to visit i n this aggies* v.-world a live wire win cau»# ’.'.'''J. lir , l 1 '/ > T' 1 ,! 3aw that 1 ' va * a11 ri * ! J’ t -" The battery London is pre-eminent. Time and them, got to know them, and make death. not spoil the evening a pleasuie tot was jiot ^powerful^enough^ to cause death.

figain numerous reform organizations have been formed and various means adopted to reduce tho evil to n mlnlnitim. but one and all have met igno-

minious defeat.

Part of the programme of the Bish-

op of London is to hold “social purity” meetings at a late hour at night in the i fashionable churches of the West End. The first of these were held in St. •Limes’, the fashionable church of Piccadilly. the meetings being called at H o’clock ami lasting until after midnight. Men of eminent station in tho social world go into the streets, and mixing with the crowds. Invite the people to attend the services. Other churches have adopted the same plan "ith tile hope of stirring up such a mighty protest among the populace j 'hat the Home Secretary will lie forced 'o pursue effective measures for crush- j

ing the nightly parade of vice.

THE (’RPSADE’S PRIME MOVER.

While little has been said on the

subject in the newspapers it is well known that Mrs. Creighton, the wife °f the Lord Bishop, lias had much to do with the new reform movement. She is a woman of exceptional mental Power. She cannot be termed a new "oman. as the popular Idea pictures 'hat spi oics of femininity, as she In strongly opposed to woman’s suffrage •md with characteristic courage has braved public opinion by actively pro-

testing against it.

If sbe were so inclined, she could ns

"ife of the Bishop of London become u potent factor In the fashionable tvorlcl. The official home of the Bishop of London, and whwe the Bishops of many generations have lived. Is Fulham Palace. The manor of Fulham belonged to the See of London before

be Norman conquest, in fact history h>'s that It was given to the See In le year (MM by the then Bishop of ereforC. The house is a fine old rueture and the surrounding grounds

7 beautifully laid out. The posses- ■ n of such a home would tempt the I "oman to go in for entertainavni i U * ' ,rs - Creighton assiduously

von.'/ , ,>Vpr J''hing of the kind and de-

‘ work l0r ® ner «* e8 ’° more serious Uevs V s an b'bflih’nt speaker and jotir-

to n»Mi V i ar * 0US l 1oin ' s of 'he kingdom Written 1,1 meetings. She has much mid, moreover, her wrlt-

THE MORNING INTERVIEW WITH piE HOUSEKEEPER.

nor did it cloud Professor Tyndal's intellect, while distorting his vision; but h* felt no pain, though the shock affected him, because the nervous energy by which th* consciousness of pain is excited traveled like a. tortoise, while the electric current

ran like a hare.

A I. ITT I 11 or RVERYTHIffG. Moths may be kept from furs and woolens. United States Kntouioloslst L. O. Howard concludes, ky cold storage during tho summer at 10 to 42 degrees 1'ahr. A fat man's club (Le* Cent Kilos) has been Instituted in Paris with the novel aim of Increasing tha weight of the members, tho rules enjoining all the omrndes to sleep, ext and drink as much s possible. Two house dinners on a Gargantuan scale are to be given

every year

The oddest shaped eounty among the .1.000 which go lo make up the soparste divisions of the various States Is Warren County, Tenn. It lies almost exactly In the geographical center of the Slate mentioned and is about as near a perfect circle as any division of land could possibly be.

TIT-HITS.

SCANDALOUS ATTACKS ON OUR MEN AND WOMEN.

People may be genliel wi’hour being shabby; but expens.\e • krthes are (julte apt to be vulgar, and worn on occasions where they ait*act undue attention. Professor Rudolph Kalb, the celebrated meteorologist of Vienna, Is lying bedridden In that city. He has a wife and Uve children, and the emre family are in a sidle of extreme destitution. A number of tlerlln sclentlste and savants have started a fund for their relief. The eleventh award of the Rressa prize of the Turin Academy of Sciences, having a value of nearly $-000. will be for the most Important scientific achievement of the years ISSS-SS. Persons of any nationality may compete, the'r printed work to be sent In before the close of 18IIS. In continued use of the eyes In such work as sewing, typesetting, bookkeeping, reading aud studying, the saving point Is looking up from the work at short Intervals and looking around the room. This may be practiced every ten or fifteen minutes. This relieving the muscular tension rests the eyes and makes the blood supply much better. WISE ami OTHERWISE. Cupid will forever exist In sentiment; but the money chest fastens the heart down to busiuess. Some people are feeding so bad that they wish they could pack their grippe and get u( and leave 1L No one can know how busy carpenters and: painters are until he wants a small job of work done quickly. Arbitration is a scrap In which both sides agree to knock themselves down and be satisfied with the decision.

Charges That Onr Politicians .Are a Set of Itrigand* Watch fill for the Opportunity to Kob Their Country — Our Women Scored Most Cnmerclfully. N R I Q U E D upuy do Lome, Spanish mini ster to the United States, has just published in Spanish a literary work entitled “Around the World a 1 fro m M a d r id to Madrid,” which, so A \ far aa It reft i a to the United States, will be a painful surprise to American readers who have come to know the author as the esteemed friend of exPresident Cleveland and ex-Secretary of State Olney. As a literary effort the book is worth little consideration. But its cynical and contemptuous opinions of the people of this country will doubtless attract some attention. Beginning at San Francisco, Senor Dupuy de Lome says: “We had been told on board the steamer all that is usually said concerning United States officials: ‘They are scoundrels and thieves. To strictly comply with the custom house regulations will he of no avail to you. If you carry anything for which duties must be paid, offer $5 to the officers in attendance. Do the same, thing even in case you have to pay nothing, so that (Ley may not bother you. Each passenger related his experience in American custom houses, and all added: 'These officials are the meanest and most miserable fellows to be found among politicians.' As none of us carried any dutiable articles, nor wished to submit to any imposition by paying what was not due. we resorted to a trick which worked most successfully. One of our party had a box of Manila cigars, which we had unanimously resolved lo throw away. Those cigars we determined to use as a means to soften the agents of the American treasury department. Accordingly one of us arried the box so that anybody might see it and think, perhaps, the hearer was trying to conceal it. When our turn of examination came the first question which the officer addressed to us was: ‘‘ 'What have you got in there?’ “ ‘Why, it is a box of cigars.’ “ ’Cigars?’ “'Nets; we intend to throw them away.’ " 'You don't really mean to say so. I'll take cure of them.’ “Saying this, the officer caused one of our valises to he opened for the sake of appearances, and then he marked our baggage with chalk, and we were at liberty to withdraw.” Here is his picture of the American citizen: "We have all heard of the American, such as he is usually described. with a revolver in his pocket, at the mines in California and Nevada; scalped by Indians or scalping Indians; losing health and life in tho whirlwind of business or politics: struggling to satisfy his unquenchable thirst for gold; intelligent and active, with inborn mercantile feelings, and having no idea of art outside that which is geometrically modeled. A great patriot, he almost invariably robs his country whenever he is called to its service." Senor Dupuy de Lome’s estimate of the American woman is even more interesting: "We alt know what woman in the United States is. She is adventurous and bold. She travels alone, with full liberty, protected more by fear of law than by the respect which she inspires. She is spendthrift, elegant, and wears the most risky

In a character summing-up he says: “Are ail men and women in the United States like this? May be not. I do not know them to be so; hut let there be no misunderstanding upon this subject. We are tired of seeing and knowing persons who later prove to he rascals, of hearing Americans abuse their own countrymen, and all the more when they happen to be highly placed; of stiuking hands with persons who ought to wear manacles instead of gloves, were we to believe what those who know them say.” Discussing the problems which confront the people of the United States as a nation, he asks: "Will .hey consent to pay large sums of money for tho maintenance of an army which does not exist; of a navy the condition of whose vessels is such that none of them would be able to return to United States from a trip to China; of an administration whose members provide abundant material for investigation in the criminal courts?”

A MYSTERY FOR 28 YEARS. Ilngti Smith, 7.Y X rxr* Old, Held for Killing Melinda Snyder. Hugh Smith, a silvery-haired farmer, 75 years oid. who resides near Bloomfield, Pa., was formally held the other day for the murder of Melinda Snyder, a pretty farm girl, committed 28 years ago. The police are seeking two persons who helped Smith cut up the body of the girl, after which they burned down an old sawmill to hide their crime. Melinda, who was halfwitted, left her home one Sunday afternoon in March, 1809, and never returned to it. It was thought that she perished when the mill was burned, hut it was only guesswork. Developments proved that on the afternoon

HUGH SMITH. she left her home she went to Smith's house. After sitting there for a while she annoyed him, and in a fit of anger he struck her on the head with a hatchet. Tho girl died instantly. The body was hidden until night, when Smith and a friend carried it, under cover of the darkness, across unused fields to nn old sawmill. There the body was stripped. The clothing was burned in the furnace, and then Smith and his friend carved up the body ami fed the flames in tho furnace with the pieces. in order that no suspicion should point to them they had a vessel of meat cooking to account for the smell of burning ilesh. When their ghastly jol) was completed there were too many evidences of butchery about. The men became frightened and applied a match to a bundle of bloodstained shavings. Before the farmers in the neighborhood could reach tho spot the mill was a heap of ashes. The secret of Melinda's death remained buried in the sawmill until three months ago. Then one of the dead girl's brothers learned of some of tho facts of the murder and communicated with the district attorney. The result was that Smith was arrested.

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Two dlphtherlMe diseases of fowls are mentioned by M. Gallez In a report to t!^ Helidan Academy of Medicine. One Is i-aTled fowl Clarifiers, or morve. and Is a contagious catarrh very fatal to hens, that may glv* fiiphLfisrla le human being*.

DUPUY DE LOME, fashions, knowing well that everything becomes her. She is genteel; her feet are small; her hair is beautiful. Is she a woman who loves home? I do not know. I have seen American women living at hotels in California, in Paris, all over Europe, always extravagant, spending more money than their husbands, of whom they do not know much—money earned God knows how or where. Before marriage, ae I said before, they are more feared than respected. When they marry how do they behave? Who can tell? People have been inclined to believe that they make model wives. I do not think they are the worst in the world, but there are indications which do not commend them much; for instance, the mysterious history of a certain witch, who now owns a palace on Fifth avenue, and whose fortune, of which she now makes an insolent show, wae amassed by preventing the increase of population in the great republic; the ‘personals’ in a New York newspaper; the excursions on steamboats, which follow the publication of these 'personals:' their trips to Europe, and the lives they lead in Paris."

Fled Tlirougli Dynamite Flames. Two miners in the Axis copper mine near Saratoga, Wyo., had a narrow escape from death recently. They were working at the face of a 200-foot tunnel and between them and the outlet was a tin warming magazine containing thirty sticks of dynamite, under which was a lighted candle. Suddenly the men noticed that drippings from the candle had taken fire and thac the box containing dynamite was ablaze. For a moment the men were paralyzed with fear. They were afraid to run past the blazing box of explosives and equally afraid to remain where they knew the gas which would accumulate from the burning dynamite would smother them. Finally they concluded to run and were obliged to cover their faces as they pushed through the flumes, which by this time filled the tunnel. The powder did not explode, but was entirely consumed by the fire. It took several hours to clear the tunnel of the gases generated by the burned dynamite. Denver Republican.

Air. AVIlInnl's llrqiipat*. Mr. Charles Willard, who died in Battle Creek, Mich., recently, bequeathed $40,000 for a building for the local Young Men's Christian association. $40,000 for a public school library building, $.'!0,000 to endow a chair of Latin and literature in the Baptist college at Kalamazoo, with $10,000 additional to the college as a fund for the education of poor students, and $10,000 to the Baptist State association for home mission work. I.oopliol* fur Uip llurelnr. Police Constable A3030—"Here, your worship, are the toolu I found on the pris'ner—a Jimmy, a center-bit. a dark lantern an’ a piece of lead pipe wrapped in a paper to look like a bundle of clothes.” Prisoner—"Y'our honor, you will not let an innocent man be convicted on such flimsy evidence as that. 1 hope. The articles he speaks of are nothing but my bicycle lantern and repair kit.’’—Answers.