Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1893 — Page 10

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THE JLNDIANA STATE SENTINEL, VEDNE5I)A MORNING, JULY 5,. 1893 TWELVE l'AGEb.

WOMEN AND THEIR HOMES

MATTERS OP GIIEAT ITERX"ST TO T11C PAIR MIX. $Url In l'asf The Valae of Good Yeast The Mother's aturc Our Iuflncncc. ou C'u.Ud:en Athletics for Glrla Dismal OatlooU fur a Workf os M'ujuun. . ' An eminent New York physician ha3 Soma very interesting thoi's to say on thi subject of wrinkles. Tfce only approachto cure In his opinion is fat. ' Pet wonifti aro nut only better lookPig. tut younger looking tkun their slim sisters," says this vse man. "Take any two w ho can be i.üuai to tell their ago i:il the fatter tüc will look at least tix years your.:r than her t era wiry friend. The advice I should &ve a tHia woman Iir wi inkles would be a, tvo-vord sentence 'Get fat.' And if a iM ijd should aik for advice I shod I teil her to keep quiet. V,"oa;ca in our wunUy wear theiiis-lvea ovt. They are cither Jerking worrying or squinting and fusing the whole time, u:.d th.-rci i:u need for it. It Cloven' t ii- la y ; "-l. "American hu.-i..as are th best in Ito vui I j, u:A yet tut ir their vivis and enters 1--1. j s -i.Jjle as tlv.t-gh they we-ro iwu ui. i and abused. Vhe fact Is ihdt v,i. i. th- :r studying yi-d readlag and pi.r . they haven't , karned yet how t-- tak- cus. how tu 1- Jifu isues and h"v M M go on uiu.. They lack the sa hag serenity. g.vety nd lejk)sc- uu:::-, little. vliiMr:i und birf liogs Possess to a remai lal-k' degree. .Women p.-t viikkled when th;) U'Kia to abuse their vs. They trim U.-ir t yoluhs i nd fvt-i.r. .-.w, tVy u:-o cluneals to color th-ir hair and dean tj, scalp, they us- diuVtviit pn;aratio:v tM'iihgten or whiten th ir complexion?, iT-V neglect to get i-yml.i.-cS th y reKd Mid seW In poor light, and the result b'Oury to the steht. S. putting follows, ur,J the re! you ahve a en of wrü.kleJ aaout the it ye?. "Nino women in exery ten talk with their faces. They frown and s:ol when they ought to-use adjecti vi s. Their hypocrisy shows its- U" ia the parat''-! lines ceross the forehead. Their im.lncciity and lost teeth are ' indicated by tl.- curves about the mouth. The bad habit if biting their lips, chewing gum and candy and working their inötithd unnecessarily bring on the indelible lUies y ars before their time. . "Proper protection for the eyes in and out of doors will unuuesti--nai-ly retard wrinkles. I would advise the young girl who hopes to be a young old lady to wear a be hat or carry a small umbrella whenever she is facing a storm, blazing, sunlight or dust to do no more night work than is nee-sary. and then to wear a proofreader's green shade and to close her eyes against ail lieiee or dazzling lights. "Women who fret, women who nag. women who have nerves, women who get run down with church work, dressmaking, hired girls and society have J" denty of t inkles. As t said before, then 3 no help for wrinkles tut t p.-t fat, and to delay them teaeh th pirls to be merrj', cheery and quiet. That is the way to make youth lat and the fu.ee wear." About 'Imidin Itlrd C'ukon. No one whi) aiv niudi to watch birds in the? liclda and thickets likes to see birds in cajr s.. The keeping of birds, however, is always justitiell f-r those who are confined to the house by sickiess or infirmity. To such persons the singicg of a. bird is a poweiful bond with nature. Since birds are to le kept for human delight, it is only fair that all thoughtful care should be bee-lowed upon them. We can assume that no ono would intentionally elo them any harm. The risk is that they r.iay .'-uü'er from want "of thought. Just a. word, then, may be said on their behalf. The keeper of the I ct canary is careful to han.i; its cage hielt alnve the reach of the houso cat. Ttii.s i.s a necwFary precaution, if we admit the necessity cl having the cat in the room at all. But does the fond ios.sessor of the bird considtT how tliiTe-rcnt are the conditions of life at that bisrht and at a Soint say two feot wer? If tdie will step upon a chair and remain there a few minutes, she will hud the temperature hteh. tlie air foul and a headache the result. It is not necessary to explain here how it happen.'; that the upper layers of air in all our living rooms become unfit for human bicathin. It is even less lit for th- breathing of any sung bird. The writer once had a chance to olserve the iidlueine of atmosphere upon these singers. A friend of his kept thirty-two canaries in one cage. The caKe was lmnn at a safe hitcht while cats were about, but la their absenceit was sometimes lowered to the level of the window sill. The result wa always a deafening iioie of uproarious glee. The pood lady of the house always attributed this outburst to their seeinjr the birds in the orchard and hearing songs through the open window. This would explain it in part, but a greater part hs surely due to their being brought suddenly into a current of pure fresh air. Anether thing that should be taken into account in the hanging of a cage Is the fact that song birds differ greatly In their habit of perching-. M..t of them perch low, but some warblers may be heard singing from the tons of tall trees. This difference of habit is rarely referred to in books on the care of birds. Youth's Companion. Oar Influence on Children. If Is not what we exhort them to be but what we ourselves are. that really lnnuenc-es neir characters. Of what use to say, "Ue sincere, be truthful," if. fur Instance, "the child to whom we speak heard us receive a vusltur with a cordial "How glad I am to y,mo. an,j j.t,eg us listen to her with smiling attention and then hears us say after our door has closed after our departing guest: '"Oh what a bore that woman is! I'm glad inai inniciion is over with:" To preacl sincerity while we act falsely surely it were better not to preach at all than t mock thus at our own "counsel of ocr. fectlon." v Abov all, let us not deceive ourselve Into thinking that these little ones who surround us no not, understand what we really are. They could not put it into woras pernaps, uut they know thev feel I look back now across the intervening years and reconsider the verdicts of my childhood, and I believe there is not one of those verdicts which the judgment of my riper years would not confirm. Those men and women who seemed to me then high-minded and true and noble I kaow them now for souls of whom the world was r.ot worthy. Those who I then per ceived to be easy Roing. careless of the higher law, living to please themselves I might Judge them more leniently now, knowng how human it is to err but the lacks and qualities that my childish eyes discerned were really there. I did not jeeeiv myself. Thera is no truth In the world more sol frr.r. than that our own lives are the r"pel of our chldren a gospel that outweighs a thousand-fold any teaching with wnicn our Jips may contradict it. Thus, indeed, are the fdns of the fathers vi?ited upon the children, since we in struct them by what we are and fashion their characters by tlie rc-asele-j-a and ptrenuou3 lesson ofouidaily lives. Lou isa Chandler iloulton In Childhood." Tlie Value of Good Yeast. Yeast is a ferment, but all ferments ... rr,t vca.it. True veast vield3 onlv carbon, dloxido and alcohol, and these ars driven orr by the neat in naumg and l-av th bread free from taint of any kind. "Leaven," "salt- raising" and numerous other ferment a used In brc-ad-rr..2:riig yield nitrogen and hydrogen cases, but these always leave truces of

their putrefactive character In the bread.

Also they are the caus-j of the course. rough crumb, the pale, ilinty looking crust, the flat, sour loaf, the other disappointing kinds of bread that often torment the brcadniakers who use these raisings." Pure yeast produces sweet, nutty fla vored bread. Prom the fact that "compressed yeast" is the purest yeast scien tific research has yet discovered, and that It is impossible by m-cha-meal sklll to crowd a greater number of yeast germs into a jriven space than are crowded into a cake of it, it seems sure that thi3 form of ferment is the best known today fir breadmaking purposes. In compressed veast fermentation it is the decomposition of the starch iri the flour that produces the gas that dis tends or lightens the dough. In all oth er raisings it is the gluten that suffers. nd as starch Is the most plentiful and least valuable portion of the fiour economical food considerations alone should induce the use of pure yeast in preferenro to any of the othf-r ferments. The Vienna bakers, who for 2") years i.ive had the reputation, of being- the best breadmakcrs in the world, now useone ounce of the best compressed yeast to each quart of wetting in the preparation of their bread dough, and have nev er succeeded n making the choicest nual ity of bread except when 1 used those proportions. Bread frequently has a yeasty smell or taste when a smaller tiuantity is used, but I have nver been able to detect the faintest o.p.r or flavor of it in bread where an ounce of g ,d compressed yeast was used to each quart of wetllng and the other conditions essential to bread making were also complied with. Mrs Kmma I'. Lwing in Indianapolis Newa. The Mother's Nature. Sacrifice appears to bo the predominat ing clement in a mother's nature. t?he willing to deprive herself of actual nc. es-sitit-s for the sake of crivimr to her children, and wh- n taxed by others with the too great self-denial will plead as her excuse that it is for the children. Parents save and skimp themselves of many comforts, they toil from morning until right, with but om -object in view the future hapniness of the sons and daughters tod has gicVn them, and in how many cases dots their sacrifice re sult in fostering in the htarts and minds of those for whom they slave a selfishness that causes them to accept all that is done for them as their due and complain because greater favors are not in the iKwer of the parents to bestow? t know how the great mother heart has no boundary in its loving desires and earnest wishes for life's best gifts to tieshowered upon the children that lisp her name, but. after all, is this continual subjugation of self tlie best training for those that are in time to be turned loose upon the world and tight there the battle for daily bread and earthly preference? The children who have b.-.-n accustomed to get all that they desired, even though they crippled the purse of father and mother in the .n-omplishment of their wishes, will find that the great world is not so willing to bend to their slightest whim, find rtrangers tire not prone to give up the best places and greatest good to them as mother and father have always done. Life will be much harder for them if they have been spoiled at home, and the selfish nature which has been encouraged thei-e will materially work against them when they cme in contact with all sorts and conditions of men. Remember this, ail ye dear, kind-hearted fathers and mothers, when you next feel tempted to forego some personal benetit and plead that the sacrifice is made for the sake of the children. X. Y. Commercial Advertiser. Athletics for Girln. There are many pretty fe.its of skill and strength which are as safe for girls to undertake as riding or skating or rowing, but which can also be as open to accident as any of these three. That Is no reason for not attempting th-m. for every pleasure in life is shadowed by a danger, but every girl reader would do well to make a little promise to herself never to undertake anything but light gymnastics until she knows that her muscles are evenly and well developed for her age and h-r weight, and then only under the direction of an experienced person. The traveling lings ami fe-ats on the horizontal ltir and many simlar feats should be put em this list in every girl's mental notebook. Jumping is not particularly desirable f..r girls, although for a strong girl who has Ken well trained in athletics the risk is r.ot great. Kxeept in the gymnasium her dress prevents a girl from jumping well, and under any circumstances it is perhaps the least desirable form of exercise for her. This is of course jumping from a hight, or a running long jump, in which it is necessary to alight properly or the wnule system receives a shock, liven in dropping from the rings or the horizontal bar, if you alight on your toes that is, with the heels not touching with your Knes Iwnt you will quickly see what a great advantage it gives you to know the right way of doing such things, because you will not feel the least jar as von rise easily to your full hight after it. "When a girl has had sutTici-nt practice in light gymnastics, she will iind it of great use to begin work on the horizontal ladders, hanging by her hands from the rungs of the ladder alve a mattress and carrying herself backward or forward in different ways across the room. Mrs. Arthur Lrooks in Harper's Young People. DUmal Outlook for AVorklnc AVomen. "What's the matter. May?" said one woman to another who was sitting gloomily in a reading room with a magazine ami a bit of paper before her. "I've just discovered." replied May, looking up from the article on hygiene that she was reading, "that I can never be a clean person, much less a healthy or a beautiful one." "What! What do you mean?" gasped May's friend. "My dear," said May, "I have the authority of this excellent article for the following statement regarding personal cleanliness and health: No wonyin with abundant hair can hope to keep it fresh and glossy without a half hour's brushing morning and evening. That is an hour a day. I am informed that the care of nails should consume half an hour a day and of my teeth another half hour. Then I must sleep ten hours and exercise in the open air for one hour each day. I must spend three-quarters of an hour at breakfast and lunches and an hour and a half at dinner. And not less than thee hours in recreation is commanded. If you are a mathematician you will see that nineteen lumrs out of the twenty-four are thus consumed. Then facial massages and Turkish baths are recommended, ami these, with my sewing, would take up the few remaining hours. "And fate compels me to work nine hours a day for a living and to devote one hour to getting to and from my work. So that the elays will have to be at least twenty-nine hours long before I can be even clean and healthy. Heaven only knows how much longer they would peed to be if one aimed to be beautiful and intelligent!" New York World. Uomc Than the Dliteune. Family Friend "I congratulate you, my dear sir, tin the marriage of your daughter. I ee you are gradually getting all the girls oil yeur hands." Old (Joldbranch "Off my hands yes; the worst of it is, I have to keep ull their husbands on their feet." Puck. Hound to Keen Her Secret. "They say JoncS' widow has refused a pension." "She has." "Put why?" "Won't admit that she was endurln the war." Atlanta Constitution. lie Graduated High. "Allow me to congratulate you, Mr. Smith: I h'-ur that your son graduated with high honors." "High! '.Veil, by thunder! 1 should say :;o. He spent ?10v that last week." Detroit Tribuns.

MARKED BY A BRICK HEAP

XOTIIIG EVKK r0.K TO PRESERVE VASHI.UTOVS UlUTlll'LACE At WuUffifl.!, V. Left to Fall All to I'leeco With .o AVulIn Standing, All Tratee of It Are Knit Being Obliterated A lleiirouch to the Nation An Interesting Item! ncMCcnce of the Father of Ills Country. In Westmoreland county, Virginia, the people are wondering at this time, when the masses are we-nding their way to the Columbian exposition at Chicago, whether tha general excitement incident to the great international fair will be the cause of further delay in the obligation that the American nation, through cengres.s, owes to the memory of Washington. In Westmoreland county, whose shores are wasiied by the waters of the I'otomac and llappahannoc-k rivers, is the quiet village of Wakefield, where Washington wai born. .While much has been written about the illustrious general and the whole world is familiar with his life hi. birthplace is seldom mentioned and much less visited. Prob ably It ia just as well for the (self-respecting people of this country that the tours of interest arranged by railroad and cthor transjortation companies take in Mt. Vernon, the burial place of Washington, as part of a pilgrimage, and exclude Wakefield, the place of his birth, for it would surely be a source of lasting regret for any person with a .park of patriotism in his being tn loiter for a moment about the neglt-eted spot where once the old home of Washingtoil's nativity stood, and which Is marked now only by a pile of fallen brick and a rich growth of rank vegetation. And but very little is known of this beautiful spot, which, in addition to being the birthplace of Washington, is in the immediate vicinity of the birthplaces of Monroe and Robert E. Lee. Wakefp-ld is situated in the northern part of Westmoreland county and is a liCtge plantation of 1,200 acres, bordering the Potomac river for a half-mile. It is lioiinded on the northeast by the famous llridge cr-t k and on the south by Pope's creek. 1 icing in an agricultural section, the lands bordering on the river and creeks are very fertile and are to this day cultivated in corn and wheat, which crops are usually grown in this part of Virginia. Merely n file of Ttrlck. The spot where the home of Washington stood is 20') yards from the bank of Pope's creek and one-half mile from its mouth, where it empties into the Potomac river. Nothing remains now of the orignal dwelling, which was a plain house with four rooms on the lower floor and several in the attic, except the bricks that formed the foundation. Up to a few years ago a lone chimney stood in this huge held ne-ar by the orignal house, and it is said to have been the chimney of a small house that was built afur the t rignal house was destroyed by lire, which occurred during the last years of J he revolutionary war. Standing, as it were, alone in its significance for more than a century it could no longer resist the destructive elements of time and now nothing remains to mark that historic spot save a cluster of shade trees, a few tig trees, bushes and a pile of broken brick. The present owner of Wakefield is Mr. John 11. Wilson, formerly of Maryland, but for more than forty-four years he? has resided upon the place. Mr. Wilson's home is situated one-half mile farther back from th? river and overlooks the held containing the site of the Washington mansion. It also commands an extended view of the Potomac river, which at that point is seven mih & wide. The Wakefield Place, as it is often called. l,as not yet passed out of the Washington family. The wife of John 10. Wilson was Miss William Augustine Washington, the half nephew of Gen. Washington. I. oiivc 1'ime In tlie I'll m i I Wakefield was purchased by the first of the Washington family that emigrated to this country. They Were the brothers Lawrence and John, who reached here in Vhi'.t. They first located at or near 1 '.ridge Creek, now Westmoreland county. The name of the old home was changed in 17.11 from P.ridge Creek to Wakefield, and the former name is fast becoming obsolete. Lawrence afterward moved "to Essex county and died in January, P;77. leaving t hi children. Put it is from Col. John Washington that Clen. Csorge Washington is descended. Col. John was a pious man and had wonderful strength of character. He was made magistrate,, a member of the house of burgesses and was colonel of the military forces of Virginia that operated with those of Maryland in keeping back the Seneca Indians that were then ravaging the banks of the Potomac. Washington parish was named in honor of him. and it contains the only episcopal church in this part of the country. It is here that the Washingtons of Westmoreland worship today. Washington's father, grandfather and greatgrandfather lived all or a part of their lives at Hridge Creek, now Wakefield, and all were interred in the family vault. This vault Is but a short distance from the birthspot heretofore mentoned. Nothing now remains of the sacred tomb but a few marble slabs, the inscriptions on which have become almost obliterated. A group of trees fully as uncared for as tho. vault itself throw their straggling shade over the Spot. ' The people of Westmoreland pountv fail to see why, after congress granted an appropriation to ere-ct a suitable mon ument to commemorate the birthplace of Washington and the tomb of his antecedents, some steps have not been taken to carry on the work. Money Voted, but othlnr Done. In June, 1S79, by a joint resolution of congress, $3.000 was appropriated for this purpose, and the expenditure of the appropriation and the control of the erection of a suitable monument were intrusted to the secretary of state. Ia the spring of lsso William M. Evarts, secretary of state, made a visit to the birthplace, and on May 24, 1SS0, be ing nided by the advice of a gentleman accomplished and learned in the history ot arc, wrote a letter to Mr. Samuel J Randall, speaker of the house of renre sentatives, stating that monuments commemorative of great and good men have usually been either of a triumphal or sepulchral nature and that in this case the object of the monument precluding any imitation or sucn examples, he sug gested that the designation of the naren tal home in which Washington was born and the preservation of all that time had left of it should shape the architect tire of the monument to be erected Therefore he submitted to congress plans ior tr.e structure or a permanent granite building that would stand centuries. needing out little care, having tiled roof. bronzed doors and windows and with a bronze tablet bearing a suitable inscrip tion, and that the ancient tablet and headstones be taken from the neighbor ing burial ground and be carefully se cured in the outer walls of the struct ure. It was estimated that such a building of due dimensions would cost J30,00'). After this report of Secretary Evarts the original appropriation of $3.000 was increased to that amount. Knowing that the original design of congress was to mark the birthplace and to make of it a place of resort As well, and being aware that a wharf on the place at which the river boats could land, connected with a roadway leading to the birthplace, was necessary in order to expedite the erection of the structure and to render it accessible, Col. Thomas Sinclair Casey, to the engineer corps, U. S. army, acting under the instruction of the secretary of state, Frederick S. Freylinghuyscn. made a visit to the b'rthpkicc on March 4, l.8i, and located

the four corners of the proposed monument and likewise made soundings and surveys of the river at the point relative to making estimates as to the cost of a suitable wharf, which estimates he afterward placed for a Wo o den wharf at $j,ö&: for a cast-iron wharf with a timber deck at $ll.b': f'T a wrought-imn wharf, with wrought-iroa superstructure, at J20.O00. The result of this report on May l, 18' 4. was sent by the secretary of stale to I "resident Arthur, and he on the same day transmitted the communication t the house of representatives Pr such action as they might deem proper. Since that time nothing lurther has been dene, although nearly nine years have elapsed. N. Y. Herald.

HOW SHE Ct'ltEII HIM. A Story- Which. Eionoraical Wife Should Mias Heading. "So you say your husband always grumbles over bill before he pays them, my dear? Well, that's just a way some men have. I think they do it to keep alive the masculine tradition that women would be wildly extravagant if men did not hold them in check!" "It makes one feel miserable, all the same." said the other woman, flourishing a scrap of cambric. "My husband knows well I make every penny go as far as I can. In his calmer moments he acknowledges it. Sometimes you might think I was a spendthrllt and every bin an insult for which I am respemsible!" "Don't cry at him. my dear, whatever you do. Cure him! I 11 tell you how one man was cured, if you like." The other woman said of course she'd like. She said she needed the wisdom of all the ages to manage the particular man she had. "Will. Will used to do just so. And it made me feel w retched just as it does you for a long time. .At last I :ime to the conclusion that it was noth ing but a habit and thai x meist break him of It before he broke my nerves jr my heart. "One day Will was obliged to order coal, and before he did it he assured me that the servants either ate the coal or gave it away to their friends! That evening I tried my plan. "We were having a quiet time together. He was reading to me ami I was trimming a school hat for Aggie, I remember. 1 "reisen tly I stopped him and said in a serious tone: " 'Will. I have a confession to make.' " 'What's tho special bin now, little woman; he asked. " 'It's about the coal. You've often wondered why it went so fast, I began. "And then he said: I didn t mean that, my dear. I know you are the most economical wife a fellow ever had. You make me blush at my own extrava gance sometimes. 1 m sorry l nun your feelings. " 'You see. my dear, I said. I.ve been spending money at a terrific ratefur some time. Little lunches and the matinee tickets and carriage hire, be sides an extra dressmaker s bill and a few littli things the children actually needed. And 1 found it was absolutely necessary for me to raise a little cash somewhere. "Then Will's eyes began to stick out. " 'What uon earth do you mean, Agnes?' he said, staring at me in amaze ment. " 'So I concluded it would be scheme. said I, 'to sell emt the a good coal in small lots to the neighbors. " "Agnes, you must be crazy, lie said. " 'Oh. no. I replied, calmly. 'Some of 'em took as much as a quarter of a ton at a time, some only a couple of pailfuls. Then I began to warm up to my subject. " 'I made quite a good thing out of the coal business, my dear. Of course, I sold a little over the market price, you know, for the accommodation. That's the reason the coal goes so mu h faster. I felt that I ruud not deceive you about it any longer.' "All the time Will kept staring at me as if I had suddenly gone deranged. "When I stopped he said solemnly: "'Do you feel ill, Agn.s? Shall I get your salts or something?' "Then I began to laugh and ,1 laughed I believe until I had hysteri s. The poor man was at his wits' end i to 1'inl out what in the world was the trouble. "J hit when he did, my love, he didn't ne-ed a seeond lesson, if from force (.f habit he beqran to Brrtwl over a bi!l I just said: 'I can sell a little coal, dear, anil raise the money.' It settled him." "Will." said th" other woman, drawing a long breath, "I mit-.t try that or something else. The dear creatures certainly have brawbacks to their desirability." 11 lit I. V W EAT THE PACE. Cross anil Ahuive When In His Cups, but He Meant Well. Rig Jackson Is dead, and as a result the heart of King MeManus is lowed down beneath the weight of unutterable woe. Jackson was only a big. shaggy black bear, but he was a hale fellow in his way, and .there is not a man in all the l'etrero who could cope with him when it came to drinking whisky. He could drink frofn morning till night, go rolling to his bed in the corner of the yard and get up in the morning fresh as ever. From his youth he was a rollicking blade, with a good dasli of the Rohemian in his makeup, ami early in life he started to travel the pace that kills. His friends had forese-ei. rer a long time that there could be but one end to it all, ami when Jackson succumbed to the grim destroyer Saturday they shook their heads knowingly and said with one accord, "I told you so." Sunstroke was the immediate cause of his death, but alcoholism reare-d its hideous heael behind it all. Dissipation had sapped the strength of a once robust constitution, and on Saturday came the end. As usual, Jackson was in his cups. During the forenoon he poured whisky into his stomach in liberal quantities ami the consequence was that by the noon hour he was very drunk. Then he became ugly and boisterous, as was his wont when drinking, and he was thrust out in the small hack yard to sleep off the effects of his potations. The day was hot and Jackson's blood was afire from whisky. He lay in the sun for some time in a drunken stupor, an', when evening came he was dead. Sunstroke, the doctor said, and his life must have gone out hours before they found him. When it was found that Jackson was dead. King MeManus was sent for. He had been the latter' favorite for years, and it was deemed tilting that the Monarch Of l'etrero should be given the opportunity to show the last honors to his pet. "Give him the best send-off you can, boys," was the king's admonition, "and don't spare any expense. Jackson was 1 thoroughbred and nothing is too good for him. Send the bill to me." And so MeManus' followers gathered in to attend the rites. There was a wake such as only the l'etrero knows, aed when it was all over the body of Jack-' son was laid to rest in a grave dug for him on the top of Irish hill, overlooking the scene of many a jolly carousal. Nor was there any lack of mourners. Jackson had made a host of friends in his dissipated career, and they stood by his graveside to do him such honor as they could. , "We planted him just like a humin being," said one sympathizer. "And why shouldn't we? He wasn't the best beurt in the world, for he drunk like a fish and was often cross and aburlve, but he meant -well, and he never played it lo-.v on a friend in need." iJan Francisco Examiner. The Merits of the, Case. Anxious Mother "Why don"t you drive that bad boy away from your playground?" Good Little Boy "It wouldn't be right." "Wouldn't it?" "No'm. You see that playground is public property." "O l, so it is." "Yes'm; and it would be sort vf sei. fish nd dishonest to deprive any other boy of the right to go there." "So it would, my angel. I didn't think of that. "Yes'm; and, besides, he can lick me." Good News.

TRAINS MUST 60 FASTER.

five iitimi:i mii.es ax iiom is THE M'EED. An Invention That I'ronilse to Miorlen the Dixtnure lletween the EaM and the Went, at I.enat n Far : lis MuH uuU Em re an. Mutter Are C'i.ueer uetl. Speaking seriously, one who should propose to transfer a parcel or a letter from New York to San Francisco in six hours, causing it to traverse the intervening 3,000 miles at a spewed of äoO miles an hour, would be considered by most iHTSons to be highly Imaginative or grossly unvcracious. Yet this seemingly impossible task is precisely what Albert Leslie Widdis of Detroit professes to be able to acompli.h with his aerial railWay. Railway men marvel much at the fatt train, the Flyer, tint covers the 1.000 or so miles of trae-k be-twe-en New York and Chicago in twenty hours, but Mr. Whldis avers that by means of his system of transportaion a letter can be delivered in New York within two hours after being mailed in Chicago. This woidd be a praetical annihilation of space, and Mr. Widdis is satisfied that it is entirely fe- isible. Reduced to its simplest terms, Mr. Widdis' rapid transit devise is an elevated railway with electricity as its propulsive force. In detail of construction ami mechanism and r.lce adjustment of parts with a view to decrease of friction and to increase of speed the inventer has brought out some valuable original ideas in beith electricity anil mechan.es. and has recast older discoveries inte new and more useful forms. The result of these combinations is, M. Widdis contends, a car that can be driven forward at roo mil-s an hour ard yet be perfectly under control, as to speed and disposition of cargo, of an operator stationed at any point on the line-. The primary purpose of this new scheme of transportation is to carry mail and express matter, and in the extension of the system fruits and Perishable freight. I!y ingenious devices the cars can be maJe to stop, set their brakes and deliver their loads or any portion automatically at any desired point. In appearance- the car designed by Mr. Widdis resembles a long, square box, terminating at one end in a pyramidal projection running to a sharp iniint. This is the forward end of the car and is intended to pierce the air .at a tremendous s pet-el. with a minimum of air resistance. This car is suspended by iron hangers from four wheels two feet six laches in diameter, -whieh in turn rest on a sinprle bar or ordinary T rail streichet on arms projecting from a line of pedes arranged exactly like telegraph poles. The pitent cash carriers in use in many large shops closely resemble the method of suspension from a single rail employed by Mr. Widdis. Pel .w the T rail is another of th.- I pattern, which serves at once as a guide and a support, and which prevents the wheels from leaving the to ;in track. In tin center of the car is a specially designed electric nioter of exceeding lightness and power that drives by means of sprocket wheels, and link belts the driving wheels above. , The current to ope .-ate this motor is taken from a wire strung aioe the track by a trolley v heei. much after the manner of the ordinary electric street oar. The electric power is to be suppled from dynamo stationsyit points along the route. Very little IVtiical force is required, 'it is estimated that eh-ven-horsepower will propel a l.it'Mj-pound car with its load at the rate of .".Oil miles an hour. Where the car is to be used for the carriage of mail matter no stoppage is rieeded for the delivery of the mnilhags at their proper stations. In the mail car, which is bottomless, each maillag rests on a shelf or platform, which canlie moved up or down by a lever th-.it projects from it through the side of the car. As the car whizzes by a stition this lever strikes against an arm extending from a post set up by the trick, the shelf is depressed, the moiling falls t the ground or on the platform f the station or into a n.-t, whiie the ear flies on, anil the shelf, released from the ac tion of the lever, returns automatically to its former position, i-oady for another load. When it is de-sired to shunt e-ars from the main line to a lateral branch, the same principle is used to open and close the switch'-s. These devices ri-neler the system almost automatic in its operation. The ralvantages claimed for this r.ewmethod of transportation are: First, sp'-ed. which can easily be forced Up to Ti'iO miles an hour; second, safety, because the track being elevated, accidents are impossible; third, economy, the first cost of the elevat'-d trac k be ing snvill and the repairs nearly nothing, while the cars can be built for $3"0 apiece. The inventor Is confident that his application of electricity to the transportation of mail and light freight is a success and will be generally adopted. Mr. Widdis asserts that there are no inherent difficulties in his system. The great speed will- rmt result, he says, in the generation of heat in either car or the bearings of th" wheels. Metal for journal bearings is tempered so that it will stand a speed of 7,5r0 revolutions a minute, whereas the speed of T0i) miles an hour by the aeri.il electrie car would require less than (.,i0 revolutions per minute of its 2 foot tl-ineh driving wheels. The point of contact between the wheels ar.d rails being changed with a rapidity almost inconceivable, there would be no danger from heat by friction. A cannon lull travels with an Initial velocity of 1.7m) to 2."o:) feet per second, or about 1,20 miles an hour and does not heat, and so there can lie no possibility of the electric car becoming heated at a speed of only SOJ miles an hour. In fact, Mr. Widdis thinks he has overcome the obstacles ami impediments to transportation of loads of l'Voo pounds or less at a speed of Ti'iO miles an hour. Should the freight carrying project succeed, as lie feels certain it will, Mr. Widdis will proceed at once to devise a car in which passengers may be carried safely at the same tremendous speed. Then a man can live in- Chicago and go to business daily in New York, or vice versa. N. Y. Recorder. THE STOKV OF JIM. A IIonie-Sinn Drama of the Waiting Itoom in the Junction. The time was a cold October afternoon. The place was a lor.cly junction waiting room in northern Michigan. The people of the drama were an old lumberman in, "store clothes." and a young man whose apparel proclaimed the city. And there was a rtiuglj pine box, about six feet long, on a truck outside. I"erhnps that mie,ht have Leen called the '"properties." There? is no more desolate place than the Sau't Stc. Marie junction. And it w;'.s raining that afternoon. There is a dirty little station and the train dispatcher's house on cne sdde of the main track. Oppt .-site is a deserted log cabin. The-re is nothing else to be seen. In summer the commonest flowers shun the spot. The old man with the crape on his hat sat loe.king out at the box on the truck. Tlie young ciniTi-n-ial traveler, starord vacantly at his companion. The time pased slowly and drearily. Once a fre ight train rattled by. Vhe young man got all the enjoyment he could out of that, and rtK-ful.ly viewed the caboose fading away into the fog. At length, us if compelled to tqieak, the old man said: "Say, I hate t' see th' rain fall on that 'ere cufün so. Th. y oughu-r made the eavses t' this yei cstation biggor. I tried to bring him in, but that truck's too wide. Jim was a fne boy, he was, afore he went up t' Marquette. That's him out there. It warn't onnateral fer him t' want ter go. There hain't , not hin to keep a bright boy t' home in a town what's got no thin' in it but my ole saw-mill tn' th' store. Rut I wiIit he'd a stild I wisht he'd a staid! A country boy ain't got no show in one o' them touph iron towns. 1 aia't a blamen' J!m fer leaven me. Put he was all I had. He didn't know how much I wanted him to stay or he'd a done it. He didn't

have no sort o raisen. His mother died when he was just a little feller. When he growed up. nothin' 'ud do but he must go away. He goes up to Marquette an' gits him a good job on th ore docks, being strong an' handy. He uster write me th' fines' letters you ever seen ev'ry Sonday regular. He was up there Jest four months when he quit writen. I stood it a month, an' then I went up. He was sick in a measly bo.rdin hous. He was condder'ble sick, but we fetched him through, an" I took him horn-. He got goo I an well again. He said he'd stay with me t" home. Rut he didn't. He runned off one night. I didn't care fer what he took, if he'd only a come back. He kep' a-wrlten fer money t' come home on. an' I kep a-sendin' it but I had to go fer my boy He was shot through the heart at a saloon a the Soo. That's him out there. I atn"t a-blamin' him. I didn't raise him as I" Then a whistle was heard. It was the awaited train. With careful hands the father, the train dispatcher and the voune man wheeled the cotln to the bnezaze car. Gently the burden was

lifted within. The oH man climbed in to le with his dead. The door was shut. And in a moment the train was lost in the burnt pine barrens. Harper's Weekly. I.O X GEST RAILWAY IN THE WOR Lib The Cnr"s Great Frojeet for Stenn Travel Across Siberia. The proposed trans-Siberian railway, which will be the longest in the world, is fully described in the Engineering Maeazine. by Frederic Hobart. who has ! used freely materials furnished by the Russian engineers employed on tne work. As to the commercial importance of the Silx-rian railway, he writes, there may be different opinions. The stepp of western Siberia are susceptible of settlement and cultivation, and may add a considerable area to the wheat fields which compete with those of America. The rivr valleys of the Amour region are also capable of cultivation, and may in time support a large population. i while the Oussouri country is known to be rich in coal and iron. The long stretch of over ono thousand five hundred miles from Tomsk to the headwaters of Amour, however, can never have much local traffic. The climate and soil alike forbid settlement, and a small business in horses and cattle from the nomad herds and in lumber from the forests of the Irish and the western trans-Ilaikal, with the supply of the mining regions on the slopes of the Jablonnovoi, will be the most that can be expected. Through commercial traffic to the Pacific can not be large, though the Chinese trade will be an item of consieierahle importance on the western half of the line, and Is a traffic capable of development with the facilities which could be furnishe-d by the proposed railroad. With all allowances for growth, however, it is safe to say that, if the road is regarded simply as an investment for capital, its commercial prospects would not warrant its construction for many ye-ars to come. The main purpose of the line is not commercial, however, but military and political. The trans-Caspain railway has consolidated and made permanent the Itussian power in central Asia, and its extension to Khokand and Tashkent!, now- well under way, will make an excellent supply line for an army invading China from the west. The Siberian line on the other side will be a base line for operations from the north and east, and the ancient empire will be placed at a serious disaelvantage. The shrewdest of the Chinese statesmen are aware of this, ami their efforts to strengthen their northern frontier are In contrast to the supintness of the English who seem now, as usual, to rely altogether on their naval force to check the de-signs of their greatest rival in the Eist It is undoubtedly a perception of these possibilities which has made the project a faveirable one In the imperial circle, and brought about the conditions necessary to secure its early execution. The ofiicial order calls for the completion of the entire road in fS91. and while it seems hardly jiossible that the work can be completed in ten years with the means at hand, there Is little doubt that the opening dee-ade of the twentieth century will see the completion of the first trans-Asiatic railroael. PUIXC ESS MAY'S TEXTILE IEJSIGX. New Style of (iotidn Which Will Have u Great Hun in England. Her royal highness the Duchess of Teck and Princess May have given permission that the new May blossom design shall henceforth be known as the "royal May blossom," in order to protect it from nefarious imitations which ever follow in the wake of success. It is pleasing to learn that a French firm have ordered a quantity of this silk, which is being woven for them on English looms, and for which they have paid a royalty, to be devoted to a charitable institution chosen by the royal bride-elect. Negotiations are pending with a celebrated Irish firm for the reproduction of "royal M iv blossom" poplin, so that already the benefit to Rritish industries through his design, specially and directly patronized by the Duchess of Teck ai:d Princess May, promises to be widespread. It is also likely to be brought into use in the manufacture of bilbriggan stockings, which will probably be embroidered with the ""royal May blossom" pattern. The Duchess of Teck and Princess May are intensely pleased with the gratifying result of their kind efforts in favor of reviving the English silk trade, and e-f the spe-cial patronage given by them to this new design. Advances have also been made by American traders for a supply of the silk as being associated with their national "Mayflower," to which they cling more ardently now that it Is the emblem accepted in Pritain of the fair young princess so soon to become the bride of the direct heir to the throne. In dark blue and red the guards have adopted the new design enthusiastically, ami use it not only fer ties but for facings for smokings coats. It is highly probable that in this coloring, the "royal May blosscim" will be reserved specially for members of the royal family and the guards. London Telegraph. Mr. Booth's Old Dorchester Mansion. An important year In Booth's life centers In the square wood?n dwelling-house at 3Vi Wshin?ton-st . Dor :-hc-er. IPs first wife, mother of Mrs. Grossman, spent the closing days of her life in it ar.d died suddenly one morning in September in the front room facing Wash-ington-st. and commanding a view of Ponton bay as far as Malvern Islind. It was a year of weakness and suffering. Edwina was a little child and needed lots of care. There was a French nurse to look out for her. Mrs. Booth had been under treatment by Dr. Erasmus D. Miller. He was treating her for a complication of dif-i-culties. Booth rented this house of the late James Tucker that he might pUce his wife , (his engagements c:lled him away from home constantly) where she mfeht rest. The house was built somewhat over P0 years ago In the substantial manner of older days. It is now the property of the Rev. Elijah Cutler of the Massachusetts M'.ie society. Ri-vtM distinguished people have ne (i..'ed it. Mrs. -Woods, afterward Mrs. Ivn. Pved in the house for a time. She w;-" the wife of Dr. Reor-ard Woods of Andover theological seminary. Th- Roy. James G. Vose. D. D., of Providence, R. I., who was called to the Second congregational church before Dr. Arthur Little was invited to its pastor te, usd this house for the parsonage in IS 5. The broad veranda at the rear of the house, from which one gets a sweeping view of Boston harbor, has always been a favorite spot. It stands out. Just over th laundry and co.tl room. Mrs. Booth use 1 these as kitchen and pantry. Booth pased but a short portion of 1S'"S-0i9 at Dorchester. WTien he was in Boston he stayed frequently with Orlando Tompkins, manager of the Boston tiivatei". Boston G.o'uc.

ODD ITEMS ABOUT PAPERS.

MORE THAN" A THIKD OF THE DAL LIES IX THE tXITEII STATES. Tekln Gaele" the Oldest Seven, teen of Its Eilitnrs Ileheadeil In 1,km Yen rs The Petit Journal" 1 Faris llns the Larcest firculntlon. In the world there are 4,5 dal.y newspapers published, of which no fewer than 1,753. or more than a third, are issued in the United States, says Lmdor. Til-Bits. That country is. in fact. mor plentifully supplied with newspapers than any other, there be ing. Usides the dailies, 13,404 werklt-s and 605 papers which appear at other intervals, without taking into account the monthlies and other magazines and reviews, which bring up the total to about 2C.C"'0. giving employment, it Is estimated, to 2-mi.Om) people. New York state alone has more papers than are published in all the continents of the world south of the equator. Newspajter enterprise api-ars, indeed, to flourish all over the new world, at least, to the extent of putting forward great numbers of separate papers. Canada has nirie;y-f..ur dadies. ,76 weeklies and iZ2 monthlies. Litin American including under this convenient term Mexico anil Central and South America, where Spanish and poitugue-se are spoken has over four thous-ir.d five hu. ulred newspapers of all sorts, twe hundred of whieh are printed in other languages than Spanish or V iriuguese, .-.lmost every fore ign tongue liing represented. "ihe newspapers of the British Isles number 2.272. London alone send.ng out 4:oi of thesf. The- monthly m .icazitir i-nd rrve-ws of ail kinds paoiishe-d in tiie Lritish lsk-s total up an additional l.:,!'o. Pans has twelve mire 1 iiiies than London, New York. Philadelphia a.ai Boston combined. Tlie I'an aa papers, of which tl.-re are 114 altog trur, are generally distinguished by having larger circulations than those of all other Cities. The Largest Circulation. The largest circulation in the world is that of the Petit Journal, which issuei more than ImOm copies daily. Germ my oe-cupies the second place with r-gard to the number cif daily papers, having 973. lsidcs ,:' :0 -'Ulv and . other pap-ir. The o'.aest European revspaper still published is the Post Z -itun of Frankfort, which dates from 101 The oldest newspaper in the woild ii the Pekin ;azette, whieh h ts been neul irly published since A. P. '.11. It h s now three hsues daily (not m rely editions), with a e irciil uto ! of pi. n.M. The conte nts are sim, !y o"i- i tl Information, imperial 1 re. s and the like, which are communic-cted to the publisher by the functionaries of th- imperial palat e. Th" ofli -i il do.-uiner.ts are drawn up with gre.it care, .ni l areot.iy published after su. h car. -fid revision that they do not i.j-p-.nr until two or three eltys after the- publisher has received them. However, he has time to publish ar unoffieial edition, and also i.-.;.i.-s a manuscript edition, whieh is th' hr.-t olOi-.n, and appenrs two or thr. e djs b fore the official. Th-re i.rt. ty edit rs. so that there is ampl - res, rve in case of absence of any of them lor government reast ,ns. That thi ; is not a need -ss precaution, in view of the strict watdi k'pt on the paper, nny be understood wm-n it is state ! that during the l.Ojo y. ; rs or so the paper h is bet n I i ex!t. "ce sev- ntcen of if a editors hive b- en beheided. The Gc.-oUe is ex ictly the same in form today as it was l.-" years aco. It is 4 inches widp bv ten lip-'-e loer :i d encii issue consist of about e!i":'ite' n leaves of s-ft thin paper wifii rugs -d ed.'-es. printed on one sid.' in Chinese chi r.ictf-r.-i, the whole inclosed in a thin yellow cover and MThtly stit.'hed. But. thouch chin- en bfist of tMs ancient newspaper, it otherwise mik.-s a show in the join riatir: ic w. rid. Kor til jts 4't(i.tMit,iM i:h.-iM'ants it has only twenty-four t ew . paper. . ten el which ar. daily and fourteen appear tit hmger intervals. Only eleven are printed in Chinese, one is printed in French, the rest being English. Jnpunese Jonrniils. Japan present.; a striking contrast, having ninety-two dnllies and 17Ö other periodicals. Nearer home. ever, the little island of Iceland, with soi.ie 7"," '9 inhabitants, has the same number of newspapers as the great empire of China. The newspapers of India are pub.;shed in many langc.agi-s, and it is s..id that those in the native tongues are neue widely circulated and ie,:d ia pr '.portion to the numb r of copies printed than is the case ans where else in tlie worid. A single copy will s-rve a wide viiiage, and will pa. s from hand to hand until it actually Pel's t pl--ef s. Persia has six ne vspaiers. all in the nati.e language except one in Serine. Persian newsp.'ip' i s ae :i.t printed from type. Wl.ea i h ivadi, g i iaUer ia ratly it is p-ss-d to a s- . ib w h- m k. s a clean opy. From this a Inaatifuoy written fine copy is m ole by a h.ir.dwriting expert, and th's i fin dly exactly reproduced M lith grnpliy. Borneo has the smallest r vul uly published newspaper in the world th- Sarawak Gazette, printed in E.idoh und tirst issued in 1S07. All over the world some lifty-nine languages are rc preser.ted by hu.p.ip s. Many are printed in two or t!::ee h guages. English in such cases b ing usually one The new spppers of Au-tria show a greater variety in this re: n -ct than those of anv othT country, ir luding in 'he list German, ib.lian, French. Magyar r Hungarian, (".reel-:. Latin. Polish, Servian, Slavic and Hebrew. The most remarkable paper In Aus-t-lt and probable in the world as regards language, ir, the Ac ta Comp lrationis Litcrarum Fniversit dum, a semimonthly review of comparative literature, which has contnbu't rs in every p:;rt of the world, whose art -les are all printed in their native tongue. In South America there are papers publi?hed in var'ous native languages, notably in the Guar.ui' of Puraruiy. The Zulus, even had some years ago a paper in their own dialect published in S'.uth Africa, but it has now ceased to appear. The Lou et Title. The longest newspaper title In existence is that of a Greenland sheet, whLh ! rejoices in the euphonious designation I of Arrangapliotio. Natir.ginnavnik Sysa- ! lammas Sivik. I Curious, also, is the conjunction of n-ni-s which obtains in Tomb-tone. A. ! T. The leading paper is th Epitapa, j whit h is edited by an Englishman ' named Coffin and published by a man i n-Pied Sexton. The publisher declines ! advertisements of undertakers, but : j pr-'oriatf-ly inserts deth notices cratis. j The most northern newspaper is the Nordslap. pubiibei at Ilammcrstein. I The editor and P's ftaff work in a small, turf -roofed wooden house. N?ws comes bv mail boat, and the Hamm-rstcinc-rs are made aware of the world's events renerally eight days late; and. as the Pper is weekly, its news is often a fortt nicht old. ! The subscribers are kept stiil further 1 behind, as many of th:-m have their copies delivered by boat, unless th ?y fetch them, which they someiiaies do, 1 paving for them in herring and other nsh. A peculiar example of newspaper enterprise under difficulties is offered by the Rhoddesia Chronicle and Advertiser. a . Mn- honaland paper, not printed In ! type, but written by hand ar.d dupli cated by an office stylograph process. The most curious of alt clas Jourmls is surely th l'.'-Tgirs' Journal of paii which is n ibli-:hed daily and give? Its 1 subscribers a complete lf-t of biptbrn. . weddingt and fun -rah? to take pi ice the scm? day. Begin: letter-writers are provided for by a special section, which gives the arrivals and departures of persons of known charitable tendencies.

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