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There Are Many Complications in Presant Municipal Campaign. NEW TRICKS OF THE TIGER : i By Them (‘omptro;ler Grout Was Caunght in a Net That Has Discouraged Both l'nrtléu in the Interesting Fight. New York.—Was ever campaign stranger than that just begun-for thé oo control for the next ; ",U}'Vi“m}mn\ two years of New .s@@f (AN York city? eAT R ,\\L;. ‘l.» : ] ¥ : PR q»flg O It begat with the i &.:“ ‘Q« renomination of = B ti'i i"l;&“‘ Mayor Low by the - &a) ‘,&”]!;ih"f fusion forces. 4 ip"*\‘i“v’f B~ With him Comp;):l[' troller Grout- and 3 . President Fornes, -e ‘ 2 of the board of al- ' 3 dermen were GEEORY named. Good men ; with excellent rec- -- & ords. It looked N simple, almost : \; : €asy. .@ - OntheTammany gide there was no¥r, Grout Surprised body in sight but MeClellan, son of “Little Mac,” who for a time led the union armies in the late war. MecClellan is personally an excelfent man, small and slender, inconspiclous, easy-going, hail-fellow-well-met kyith politicians, though not much re<embling the usual Tammany brave. and a thorough organization man—the favorite candidate of Richard Croker. But there was objection in Brooklyn. Veteran Hugh McLaughlin born some vears before Charlie Murphy, the new leader of Tammany, insisted that McCiellan was neither big enough nor independent enough to get a vote there worth counting. In an evil hour some smart Aleck suggested to Murphy that it would be a fine trick to steal Grout and Fornes, both democrats, both sound and honored men, from: the fusion ticket. 1t was done, Murphy sitting impassive in convention while Brooklyn's onethird of the delegates howled their rage. For :;HE hours it lpoked as if Murphy had spiked the fusion guns. Then two things happened ; The fusionists, too furious in their wrath to be quite fair to Grout - and Fornes, swept these two estimable gent'emen from their ticket, completing it with two new men, honest, capabl® democrats. : - The democrats, thousands of them, algo made it evident that they did not intend to support the stolen candidates. McLaughlin’s ratification meeting in Brooklyn took its medicine and “stooa' for” McClellan—though all know that it will ‘be McLaughlin’s political deathblow if MeClellan wins, and the deathow of his antagonist, Murphy, if McC*llan does not; so one can judge how hzarty was the endorsement—but it did not say one word for the two stolen candidates. ' After 36 hours it began to be seen on both sides that instead of a shrewd stroke, Murphy had made an astounding biunder. 1t was his own doing. Croker, from his safe retreat in England named the candidate for mayor. The mayor appoints commissioners of municipal departments that have the spending of $100,600,000 a year. Croker cared nothing for the comptroller and president of the aldermen. They have little patronage. - :

The Curious Case of Grout. Fornes is unimportant, a “me-too” in this affair. - The case of Grout is re-

markable. His rectitude. his good record in a difficult office, has been his political rain. Without that record, it would aever have occurred to anyone to advise. Murphy -to. nominate him. The crisis ecame with the nomination. He accepted it. It is plain now that the thing to do was to ignore it, refuse it.

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Not to do so was an error oi temperament. Mr. Grout.is sheer intellect. He has one of the keenest brains in New York. He is a master of dialectic. But he is thin, cold, bloodless, devoid of humor. He is more incapable of seeing a logical point than of guessing what hot-blooded men will do or think in a given case. He was amazed when the men who had made his record a part of their ecampaign and platform turned upon him. To them a man was either for Tammany or -against it. - There conld be no compromise with tigers. So in one day it came to pass that the man who two years ago had run ahead of his ticket, whose capacity, tried in office, had proved unusual, was before voting doomed to defeat unless some change in the situation should come. Talk of democratic “stump” candidates began. Men on both sides grew red in the face denouncing the best Comptroller New York has ever had; the man who has cut down the tax levy by many millions while increasing public - improvements; who has reformed ancient abuses, scrutinized bad bills with a microscope, simplified, condensed, economized, with ability akin to genius.

A Strange Persounality. Grout has been described as a man *“with the manner of a graven image,

the mind of a philosopher and the face of a bandit.” Only in the latter particular is the description unjust. He is pale, colorless,” almost bloodless, yet obviously in health; glender, but not weak; active, resofute, unsmiling, ambitious, of course, or he would not be lin - this

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scrape; his eyes are small, jet black and keen, his nose long and narrow, his hair and elosely eropped beard are graying. For years Mr. Grout has been an in-

dependent democrat. He was Edward M. Shepard’s lieutenant in this work—and two abler men were never assoclated. Then he accepted from Boss MecLaughlin a nomination for mayor of Brooklyn, and Mr. Shepard, to-day as then the biggest figure in the party locally, was 80 angry at the defection that he ran “stump” and defeated his old friend. Now McLaughlin repudiates the former MecLaughlin candidate, the reformers repudiate the reformer, and individual Tammany braves seem about to repndiate the prize Tammany stole with such rejoicing. I cannot quite join in the chorus of dlB- - which all the parties and factions are swelling. There is something pathetic in the sizht of so much ability and, public service thus ended by another man's dirty trick. Fornes no one blames so much. He is of but average ability, new in polities and followed the lead of the veteran Grout. He will be forgiven. Grout may be, but it will take time and dexterity to accomplish it. The argument that democratic success is necessary to put the party in shane for-next vear has fallen flat. The independent democrats reply that the worst thing that could happen for the party, if it wishes to carry the state next vear, would be to have Tammany win the city and begin another far-adver-tised orgy of criminal misgovernment. Tammany is no more democracy than theft is industry. : The Coadjutor Bishop. Rt. Rev. Henry Codman Potter, bishop of the Episcopalian diocese of

New York, comes of a solid old family. in ‘this city. He is the uncle of James Brown Potter, whose wife became . an actress; kin to Orlando Potter, owner of the Potter building, which burned with terrible loss of life 20 years ago and was replaced with one of the

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first “sky-scrapers;” of Frank Potter, the singer. He became Coadjutor Bishop to his father many yearsago, and followed in the greater office upon the elder man’s death. Rev. Dr. Greer, who has refused more bishoprics perhaps than any ofher cleric in the country, becomes coadjutor bishop and will succeed to the full office. for though only eight years younger than Bishop Potter, he is in effect very much the junior of his chief. Dr. Greer is a leader in the increasing group of managing men in the church. Tiis Dbusiness ability is of high order. He has not Dr. Rainsford’s huge physique and sledge-hammer eloquence, but his St. Bartholomew’s rivals Dr. Rainsford’'s St. George's a 3 an “institutional church.” Like Dr. Rainsford, Dr. Greer has clubs for young people, vacation houses, ‘tenement. visitors, church doctors for the poor, sewing classes, mothers’ meetings, gymnasiums, game rooms for children. This takes money:. ‘When Dr. Greer needs money he goes to a rich parishioner. and gets it s very simple—for Dr. Greer. Di. Rainsford has for parishioners Mayor Low and J. P. Morgan among 8,000 members, at least 2,000 of whom are very poor. The financial backers of Dr. Greer are the Vanderbilis; the late Cornelius Vanderbilt having been especially interested in his work. Dr. Rainsford’s church is East side; Dr. Greer’s West side. They cut like the two blades of a pair of shears at the fabric of poverty and of class hatred. The future bishop stood beside Bishop Potter on the day of election clad like ’a business man in a smart cutaway coat and natty trousers. He looked a business man, too, slender, alert, mustachioed, dark-haired still, in face and gesture recalling John Brisben Walker, the owner of the Cosmopolitan Magazine. , Dr. Greer is.‘broad church.” The lay members of the convention voted more solidly for him than the clerical, but the candidate of the “high church” party only received one-eighth+of the ballots. There is more noise than accomplish'ment in New York’s extreme ritualism.

{\ Salary to “Be Good.” They say that Charley Becker, “king of the forgers,” just released from San

Quentin prison in the far west, is to have $5OO a month salary to' “be good,” paid by associated .bankers. The story has been denied. I do not know how true it is. Here%s a Becker story that is irue. Before this western business came up, Becker was put

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in the penitentiary in Brooklyn. One day a group of big men, well dressed, looking something like ward politicians, called upon the warden, Fat Hayes. The Bay State company was using convicts on contract to make shoes. The men asked that Becker should not be set making shoes, but at clerical work. “Why?”’ asked the amazed Hayes. “It will ruin his delicacy of touch,” said the spokesman of the delegation, “and make it impossible after he comes out—to-—er—to pursue hds business.” Becker made shoes.

. This man has in his time robbed banks and individuals of $300,000. He was the head of the thieves’ syndicate that stole the famous Gainsborough portrait of the duchess of Devonshire from a London dealer, kept it for years, and returned it for a ransom of $25,000, paid through Pat Sheedy, the New York-Argentina-(Gairo gambler. Becker has swindled banks in Paris, Constantinople, every part of this country. It would be cheaper to keep him in jail than either {o pension him or allow him to “pursue his business” as he can. " OWEN LANGDON.

His Generosity

Young Loveman—Mr. Hennypeck, ] come to ask you for your daughter. 1 love— :

Mr. Hennypeck—That's-all right; you may have her. And—er—l don’t suppose you can possibly see your way clear to take her mother, too?—Puck.

Lugubrious.

Smith—l attended a bachelor’s funeral yesterday. z Jones—You don't say so, whose was it? 5 . Smith—My own; I got married.—N, Y. Herald.

The City Government Has Discovered That Such Things Exist. COMMON COUNCIL IS CLEAN The Schools..'l‘oo. Are Generally Free from Taint — Many Educational Novelties Have Been Introduced —Opportunities for All Classes. Chicago—But a short time ago Mayor Harrisonunceremoniously announced the

existence of “‘graft” | in the city hall Judging from the commotion which -the announcement created, one would have supposed His Honor to have been the first to discover this condition. But the fact is 4 Chicago knows, and has known, that a ring of “grafters” were doing business in many departJ ments of the city government. The

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people knew that worn out sidewalks were not repaired because the owner of the property had “‘seen” the “inspector.” They knew gambling houses were running openly because they had paid someone for the privilege. They knew the streets were uncleaned where they should have been cleaned. They knew fire-trap buildings had been erected because their owners found it cheaper to buy privileges than fire-proof building materials. In dozens of lines of city government the people knew of the existence of ‘‘graft,” and the announcement of the mayor was no surprise to them, even though it did stir the politicians and the heads of departments and bring about a council investigation which promises to be of some good. But the Chicago ‘“grafter” is a small potato to-day compared with his predecessor of a few years ago. He also represents a different branch of the city government now than he did then. But a few years ago it was the lawmaker who was bought, now it is the administrative side of the city. The voters of Chicago have freed the city council from the old ring of boodlers and have ‘put honest men in their piaces at an opportune time. In his article on Chicago in MecClure's Magazine Lincoln Steffens classes the city as “Half Free and Fighting On,” With the boodlers of the council out of the way the city can well turn to the regulation of the administrative side of its government, and either dispense with or reform many of the bureaus and departmentsin which “graft’ exists.

Street Railway Franchieses. I say the Chicago voter retired the boodling alderman atan opportune time.

Had they not have done so the street railway tangle with which the city islaboring at the present time would have been settled months ago, and several aldermen would no doubt have been willing to quit politics for good, but the city and the voters would have been poorer for that settlement. Charles T. Yerkes saw the drift of things three yvears

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ago, sold out his street car interests at a good price and moved to London, which was not bothering so much about municipal rgform as it was about the solution of a perplexingtransportation problem. Yerkes left other eastern capitalists to solve the problem he did not care to attempt, and they are finding it hard to solve in their way. It cannot be said that these new owners of Chicago Union Tractiol have so much as thought ofa fund forffranchise purchase purposes, but had they done so it would have been practically useless, for they must deal with the “free” portion of the city government. The Chicago city council of today is not of the purchasable kind. 1t is remarkable what amount of study the Chicago aldermen have given the street railway franchise problem. They have investigated conditions in every large city in the country; they have undeniable figures at their finger ends with which to pulverize every poverty argu‘ment which the companies put forward. The aldermen hold the long end of the stick, and they know it, but they are anxious to grant a franchise whenever the companies are willing to accept one that will be fair to the city as well as to the corporations. Until then the companies can wait.

The Publie Schools. - “Graft” has never found a prominent place in the school system of Chicago.

‘Now and then some small bit of crookedness comes to the surface, but it isinfinitesimal when compared with the magnitude of the school system and the . possibilities which it offers if not well guarded. "Not only is the Chicago public school system enormous in its proportions, there being some 200,000 students to care for, but it is unique in many respects, and

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has gone far beyond the stage of the red school house of but a few years ago. It How It Is Done, : Nephew (who takes his uncle from the country into a restaurant)—Look, uncle, I press this button and order dinner! : Uncle—Well, what then? Nephew—Then you press the buiton and pay the bill.—Tit-Bits. His Experience. Jokey—Here'’s a conundrum for you: What's the difference between a man and his wife? : Henpeck—None, unless the man is 8o unwise as to have an opinion of his own. —Philadelphia Ledger.

fails in but one particular and that is its lack of accommodations for all the children which compulsory education laws 38nd to the doors of the school buildings. The school accommodations do not, and have not, kept pace with the growth of population. A dozen new buildings, capable of providing accommodations for from 1,000 to 2,000 pupils each have been erected within the past few months, others are now in course of construction, halls are rented wherever such a course is possible, and yet thousands of children of school age are being turned from the doors for lack of room. :

There are whole citles of children housed under one roof. One school hasa total of 2.255 students; another falls but little short of this with 2,243, and a third has 2,225. New buildings are going up which will accommodate even greater numbers, and they are being built upon new architectural lines. The old building with its four, five or six stories is a thing of the past. The new buildingsare wide-spreading, with an abundance of light and air on all sides, and seldom rise more than two stories above the street. Building methods, as well as teaching methods, are developing.

School Novelties. On the West side, in the center of the poorest section of the ghetto district, is

the Garfield school. In it but little more than the rudiments of the Knglish language is taught. Its students range in age from the six-’ vear old to the young man and woman of 20, all engaged in the same study — that of learning the Englishlanguage. They are as a rule, the children of newly arrived Polish and Russian Jew emigrants who settle

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here until they have gotten their first start in the new world. Here it is that their children first enter .the American public school, and all, regardless of age, must begin at the foundation.. " At two school buildings bath rooms have been constructed, and at these compulsory baths have been made a part of compulsory ‘education. One of these is the Jones school, located almose in the heart of the business district. It draws its students from the toughest element of the slums, the little unkempt street urchins who know nothing of home care. To them the teacher is both mother and instructor. And they need mothering quite as much as instruction.

Two schools, one on the South and one on the West sides of the city, are devoted to the education of crippled children. To these little unfortunates are carried each day in busses provided by the board of education. Three schools are set aside for the instruction of the blind; in others the deaf are taught. The schools that teach the .boys a trade and the girls to cook and sew are not new, but they are still unique, and the high schools in which hygienic luncheons are sold the pupils at a nominal price are numbered among the school novelties. I'rom the list must not be excluded the night schools, with their 14,000 pupils, many of them men and women who must work during the day, but find in these an opportunity for mental advancement. Tradesmen, clerks, waiters, laborers, teamsters, all are patrons of the night schools.

The School Teacher. : The student who comes from the country to the city school misses the “per-

sonal interest” element in the teacher. Here all children in a grade must be treated alike; there is no time tostudy child character or conditions; ~ the teacher is but an automaton who performs with clock-work: regularity certain rules laid down to her by higher authority. 1 found an illustration of this a few days ago. The mother of a small

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six-year-old daughter found the child without rubbers on a rainy morning. To shield the little one from the inclemency of\the weather as much as possible she started .early to the shoe merchant to purchase the needed footwear, but was so detained that she was some two minutes late in reaching the schoolhouse. The mother explained to the teacher why the child was late the two minutes, but it was of no avail, the rule said she must stand in the corner for 15 minutes, and that she must remain in the principal’s room one hour after school had been dismissed, and the rule was enforced to the letter. . It may have been justice according to sechool rules, but it was the kind of justice that hangs one man for another man’s crime. : The same methods are applied to teaching. Every child is put upon the same basis mentally. Their education is arranged by rule and not by individual needs. But Chicago has outgrown the individual, ' WRIGHT A. PATTERSON. Social Diversion in Missouri. A new social diversion has been contrived by Miss Rosamond Guthrie, of Mexico, Mo. She gave a party, and 17 couples started from her home in sev‘enteen buggies. After driving ten or fifteen minutes, all the buggies stopped, and each gentleman got out and climbed into the buggy just ahead of him. This was kept up all evening. The changes of partners were interspersed by refreshments at four different residences.

No Decision of Character.

Mrs. Myles—How is your new,girl getting along? Mrs. Styles—Well, the trouble is she doesn’t know when to say no. . “Indeed!”.

“Only yesterday that horrid Mrs. Gadd called while I was up in my room, and asked if I was in, and the maid didn’t have sense enough to say no!”’—Yonkers Statesman. - :

Another Way of Putting It. “Isn’t that music heavenly?”’ “Possibly, possibly. At any rate it’s upearthly.”—Chicago Post.

THE TRES PIEDRAS LEGEND.

Story of the Long Lost and Eagerly« ‘Sought Treasure Told by an Old Searcher. o

Considerable excitement was lately aroused in western Oklahoma, especially in Beaver county—the ‘“No Man’s Land”’ of our histories—regarding the workings of a party of men in that county in the search for lost treasure, says a Guthrie report to the Galveston News. Oklahoma was in the path of the pioneers who went to California in '49, and also of those who sought for Spanish treasure in both old and New Mexico, and beneath its surface, according to legends handed down through generations, are hidden immense treasure stores. Oklahomans are becoming used to strangers appearing with blueprints and maps, also shovels and picks, and delving around in the belief that they are the fortunate ones in solving the hiding places of wealth: ;

Under-Sheriff McKew, of Beaver county, returned lately to Beaver City, the county seat, from a trip through the western part of the county, where he had been sevving papers for the present term of cou*t. While crossing the mesa between the Cimarron and Corrumpa rivers, McKew came upon an excavation, and, being curious to know the cause, drove toward it for the purpose of investigating. He came upon an ‘aged Irishman, Michael Ryan, and from him secured the story of the Tres Piedras, the cause of Ryan’s excavations.

According to an old Spanish-Mexican legend, handed down for generations among the Mexicans, a vast quantity of gold was buried by a Spanish expedition, which among the Mexicans is known as the lost treasure of the Tres Piedras. The trail of this expedition was marked by huge stones resembling a gigantic letter V. Chiseled on the under face of the rock at the point of this V would be found the symbol “V,” and the whole symbol marked the direction in which the next marks of the trail would be found. These symbols were from five to ten miles apart, located in many places eastward from Santa Fe and Las Vegas, N. M.

Several years ago priests of the Catholic church employed guides and followed the trail to within 30 miles of Clayton, N. M., where it was lost and further search was then abandoned. Michael Ryan is now an old man. He has lived in the west all his life, and as a child played with Mexican children, learning their language, which he speaks fluently. All his life he has been familiar with many Mexican legends, but, like others, paid no particular attention to them, and probably would not now had it not been for an incident a few years ago which caused him to take up the trail of the Tres Piedras.

While traveling overland from eastern New Mexico, Ryan’s horses strayed from camp one night, and he was compelled to search for them on foot. After searching several hours he sat down upon a stone to rest, and observed that the rocks .in that vicinity formed an indistinet V. This fact arcused his curiosity, and he began an investigation, finding on the bottom of the stone at the point of the V the symbol V deeply chiseled thereon. As this was a point beyond that abandoned by the priests, Ryan carefully marked the place, and a few months afterward returned and took up the lost trail. Several times during the next year or two he lost the trail again, and after giving up for awhile would return with fresh supplies to renew his efforts.

Finally, near Garrett, in Beaver county, Ryan came upon a mound near the old Santa Fe trail, where three large rocks made the symbol. On the under side of one of these appeared the symbol indistinctly chiseled, and following the direction indicated within a quarter of a mile he came upon another triangle, with the syymbol pointing toward the direction fr@m which he came. He searched theéhland in that locality for days, and finally came upon another symbol, which, with the two former, formed a triangle with the points about onequarter of a mile distant. The Von each rock pointed toward the center of this triangle, and believing that this indicated the termination of his search Ryan commenced digging in the center of the triangle, where Under-Sheriff McKew found him. . In the hole he has excavated, Ryan claims to have unearthed adobe bricks, certainly the handiwork of man. He, as well as others familiar with the Tres Piedras legend, believes that within the triangle lies buried the long-lost and many times searched-for treasure.

SHE MADE A MISTAKE.

She Wore the Glasses for Looks' Sake, Not to Look ! Through,

They had discussed the virtues and failings of nearly every one they both knew, and the conversation was beginning to flag, writes Elliott Flower in Brooklyn Eagre, when Miss Black asked: “Do you know Mr. Dresser?” “I've met him,” replied Miss Blossom, coldly. ‘“Such an aristocratic looking man,” said Miss Black. “There’s no one can match him for dignified reserve and fine appearance.” “Do you think so?” Miss Blossom was a trifle sarcastic “Yes, indeed,”lreplied Miss Black, enthusiastically. ‘“No one graces a ballroom or a parlor as he does. And as for politeness and courtesy—"" “As for politeness and‘courtesy,” interrupted Miss Blossom, “I’ve bowed to him twice on the street and he has marched by in his haughty way, without even so much as nodding.” “O, my dear; you don’t understand him at all,” explained Miss Black. “You haven’'t been in society long enough. Did he have those gold-rimmed glasses on’:

“Certainly. He nearly always wears them.”

“Of course. But never bow to him when he wears them.” Miss Black was speaking with the wise air that comes from social experience. “They make him look so literary and distingue, but he can’t see through them.”

New Name for Pfu.

“This pie is entirely too affectionate,” complained the Cheerful Idiot. / “What’s that?” inquired th waiter girl. i

“I say it’s ‘oo affecttonate—the upper crust is stuck on the lower. Bring me some of that dropstitch pie over there.”

And after someglifficulty it was beaten Into the head of the distressed maiden that he wanted some of the cranberry pie with the lattice work cover.—Balti-~ more American.

QUEER HUMAN NATURE.

An Illustrative Instance of the Faeot That the Queerness Has No Limit,

“We're an odd lot, to be sure,” said the prematurely bald young man. By way of assent to this patitude the one with the big, black cigar batted his eyes. ‘““What's up?” he inquired, after a pause, relates the New York Times.

“Oh, nothing’s wrong,” explained he of the vanishing locks, ‘“An incident that took place at the drug store on the corner, which I have just left, led to some reflection upon the streak of the queer that’s in all of us. :

“There’s a broken window glass fronting the street. I noticed it as I entered the store. Furthermore, the druggist had hastily painted a sign reading: i .

*“ ‘This window was broken accidentally!’ “The proprietor saw me smile as 1 read the sign. Grateful that I should have the ‘perceptive sympathy’ to divine the reason that led him to expose the card outside with the words I have quoted painted on-if, he began to explain: “‘l've been badgered with questions about that until I'm—' “Here he was interrupted by a customer who had just entered, saying: . “‘How’d the winder get broken?’

The druggist turned to me with a comical gesture of despair. Then he said to the newcomer: ‘You're the thirtyseventh person to ask that question. See the sign?’ “It appears that a gas jet pushed too close to the pane had cracked it. This mishap had caused the druggist to lose his patience, and, incidentally, run the risk of losing the patronage of thoughtless customers who insisted upon knowing the cause of the break.” *. “That reminds me of one,” added the man with the cigar. “While waiting for a train out west one afternoon last winter, I struck up acquaintance with the station master of the dinky little station at which my train was to arrive. I was much amused to observe over the big clock a sign with the legend: ‘Yes, I'm right!’

“‘ls that entirely necessary?’ I asked of the station master, nodding to the clock.

““Necessary!’ echoed he, ‘T should say it was! I suppose it saves me lots of trouble. Buteven that doesn’t stop them entirely.’ ‘““Then he left me. A number of persons entered the station just then, a train having pulled in, and the little waiting Toom was soon filled with people. An extremely gaunt stranger approached the station master and asked him if the clock was right. Judging from the frown that blackened the brow of the official I imagine that there must have been murder in his heart at that moment. ‘Yes, it’s right!” he hissed. ‘Don’'t you see the sign?’ Comingright upon this conversation with me, I suppose the usual question filled the station master with unusual irritation. Then I heard him say to a man beside him:

“ ‘Did you hear that fellow ask me if the clock was right? and with the sign up there, too!’ “The individual whom the station man had just addressed seemed a trifle bewildered. He gave a glance at the sign, and then said: “ ‘Well, is it?’ >

MESSAGES WITHOQUT WIRE.

Long-Ago Expectations of Wendell Phillips Have Come to Be . Realized. 8 )

It is often said that there is nothing in .the discoveries of science that the poets and other men of fine imagination have not foreseen and foretold. Wendell Phillips delivered hundreds of times a charming lecture entitled “The Lost Atts,” in which he shéwed how almost every wonderful thing upon which the world prided itself asa modern invention had been anticipated a thousand years, or twice, or thrice,as longago. That was an excursion in history. But it 1s not commonly known that he foretold wireless telegraphy, says the Boston Herald. On July 23, 1865, he made an address to the schoolboys of Boston, gathered in Music hall. He exhorted them to toil earnestly to improve on what had been done before and not to forget that they were heirs of a noble heritage. “Remember, boys, what fame it is that you bear up—this old name of Boston!” After briefly setting forth some of the historical glories of Boston, he said: “Now, boys, this is my lesson to you today. You cannot be as good as your fathers’ example—the opportunities and advantages they have accumulated—and tt_) be only as good is not enough. You must be better. You must copy only the spirit of your fathers, and not their imperfections.” : Then he told the story of the Boston merchant who sent a cracked plate instead of a perfect one to China, to have a new set made of the same pattern, and when the set came every plate had a crack in it like the sample. Continuing, he said: “Now, boys, do not imitate us. Be better than we areor there will be a great many cracks. We have invented a telegraph, but what of that? T expect, if I live 40 years, to see a telegraph that will send messages without wire, both ways at the same time!”’

Phillips did not live 40 years longer. He died- when the term mentioned had only half elapsed. That term has yet two years to run. But the wireless telegraph has come and is in daily use. It was not invented by one of the boys he was. addressing, nor by any American, but by an Italian not then born. ;

Bank-Notes at a Premiom

The recent notice authorizing the issue of notes to the value of £275,000 recalls the fact, little known to the present generation, that Bank of England notes were at one tiine actually at a premium in the market. In the year 1825 coin was very scarce, and the bank applied for and obstained permission to postpone payment of a portion of its issue of notes, only the holders of those which bore date prior to a certain period being able to demand cash for them. As a result, those notes were worth, and did actually sell for, more than their face value, i

No Inducement,

“Well,” exclaimed Dobbs, reasserti bis statement, “Vll stake my reputa. tion on it.”

“0, that doesn’t help,” retorted Bobbs; “yow’ll have to offer something of value as a wager.—Detroit Free Press.'

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SMALL WAIST CRAZE.

Twenty Inches Quite Eneough and More Than Twenty-Two Not to Be Endured. -

Since it has been decreed that the shall-waisted, short-hipped figure is the only one acknowledged by fashion, the necessity for tight-lacing, writes a lady correspondent, has becomeimperative. Corsets are worn—often at night as well as all day—which press the waist line in and down to the hips, so that, instead of showing a loug, slight curve, they may be forced into short, round curves. Women who wear these corsets live in a kind of torture, and the pressure in time sets up serious internal complications, including heart disease and lung trouble.

To such an extent has the evil grown, it may be mentioned, that at a certain famous modiste’s orders for gowns from ladies whose waist meéasurements are over 22 inches are delicately, but firmly declined.

‘“We dare not risk our reputation by gowning any but the most fashionable women,” explained tlie principal recently, “and no woman with a large waist can look well in a frock designed for one who has cultivated the short-hip figure. So 'if a customer comes to us wearing the old-fashioned style of corset, and does not seem inclined to conform to newer ideas, she must go elsewhere for her gowns.' - “We have heaps of customers whose measurements are three and four inches smaller than they were last year, and in almost every case this is dué to the tight-lacing demanded to-acquire the new figure. Quite young girls are the worst offenders, and I am quite sure we have not made a gown this season for a debutante whose waist measurement exceeded 20 inches.” )

Until women are brave enough to defy fashion the evil will doubtless grow instead of lessen, and the practice will continue ‘to add appreciably to the death roll and fill the incurable hospitals with women who have ruined themselves for the sake of a small waist.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. . )

Setting Colors in Fabrics.

It is impossible to tell whether a color is fast before washing, but by far the safest plan is to ‘“set” the color before it goes to the tub for the first time. One of the best methods of settling delicate colors consists in simply making a strong brine of cold water and salt and soaking the garment from 12 to 24 hours. Of course this should be done just before going tothe lanndry, and the salt should not be allowed to dry in it. This-is especially good for all shades of pink and green,; and colors once set this way will be bright as long as it would be possible to expect it. A strong solution of alum and water is good, particularly with blue, and the more delicate shades of brown, but its effect is not so lasting as that of salt and it is sometimes necessary to renew the bath after the first three or four washings. Some people recommend solutions of lead and copperas, but as both of these are poisonous drugs, it is better to avoid them.—Chicago Daily News. B

Couldn't Stand That.

Minks—What fad is your wife fallow--Ing now? Winks—She is organizing antisuffrage associations.

“Humph! I thought she was in favor of woman suffrage.” i )

“She was; but I told her one day,ina joke, that congress was going to compel all women to vote.””-——N. Y. Weekly.

Nothing to Be Said.

“My wife would not speak to me this morning because 1 was' out late last night,” complains the first man. “It makes me extremely unhappy.” “It does?” asks the second - man. “How long have you been married?” “Two months.” . Here the second man turns on his heel and walks away.—Judge. i

He Wasn't So He Was,

“I suppose Griggleby was fired with enthusiasm when he took up the duties of his new position?” ' “No; he seemed to get lazier every day. Finally he was discharged.” o

“You don’t:say?”’ ) “Yes. He wasn’t fired with enthusiasm at the start, but he was at the finish.”—Judge.

Handsome Corsage Ornament

Dame Fashion is heeded this year Enothing but the length of her purse will regulate the quantity of jewels with which, lovely woman will bedeck herself on state occasions. She will shine like icicles in the sun with diamonds, gleam like danger signals upon her friends, with rubies, and be trimmed with pearls like a prince in a pantomime. She will wear rings, brooches, earrings, bracelets, - necklaces, buckles, cloak slasps, tiaras, all bejeweled, and as if

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MORE BEAUTY DON'TS. s:éretl of Having Shapely and Pretty Nails and Soft and Delicate ' _' Fingers, Don’'t over-manicure the hands, or they will become so tender as to be easily reddened and roughened. - -Don’'t wash the hands oftener than necessary, and dry them thoroughly after every washing. - Don’t neglect the palms of the hands. They neeéd attention as much as the backs of the hands. Rub an emollient —perfumed honey is good—into the palms with _ghumb and forefinger. Don't neglect massaging and knead-ing-of the hands, in ordef to secure good circulation, which helps to keep the hands white and make the skin pliant ‘Don’t forget to pinch the ends of the fingers now and then. This wili deo a good deal toward making the fingers taper. - : -

Don’'t polish the nails too highiy, or they become so brittle that the slightest contact with anything hard breaks them down to the quick, thereby causing inTense pain. : ’ | Don't file or scrape the nails: either process only helps to thicken them. They should be rubbed down with the very fine emery and cinnabar powder, which is used for polishing shell and ivory. i Don’t allow the nails to remain long soiled with anything that will = stain them.

Don’t always use a nail polisher or buffer: Once in awhile try polishing the nails on the palm of the hansdr Don’t trim the nails to sharp points. If there is anything that will set the

teeth on edge it is to shake hands and feed a slight graze from such claws. It is feline. Don’'t always use scissors to trim the nails; a file is better to round off the edges. Nothing tends to injure the nails so much as persistent trimming with a pair of scissers. ) : Don’t think that one rule applies to all finger nails. No two sets of nails can be treated quite alike, not alone because of their texture, but of their formation. To trim some nails overmuch renders them thick and ugly. To leave others too long uncut increases their tendency to brittleness. -

Don’t wear rings that are too smali. The inevitable result is disfisurement from red and swollen hands and kpuckles.

Don't wear gloves stitched with colors. - They make the hands lock larger. Don’t wear gloves that are a size too small or that fasten too tightiy. This prevents free circulation and makes the hands red. :

‘Don’t think the appearance of tha hands a trifling consideration. A beauntiful hand may be even more fascinating than a beautiful face, and nothing more strongly marks the person of birth and breeding.—Washington Star. Patting the Baby to Sleep. “I had tried everything t 0 make my little one sleepy at the right time,” said one of the progressive mothers, “and all to no avail. He simply would not sleep when I put him to bed. I had to forbid the ‘romp with papa’ afier dinner, because it seemed to wake the boy up so thoroughly. I tried rubbing his feet and putting a hot water bag in-the bed on cold nights. I tried feeding him just before taking off his clothes. Nothing had any effect on his excited nerves. Then the doctor suggested a remedy that worked like a charm. Takingoff Jack’s clothes, I sponged off his spine in hot water, beginning at the neck and passing down slowly and gently, and so over and over again. I kep:i the water as hot as could be borne, and continued the treatment until the skin was red. Then the back was dried gently and the child put into bed. Either the ‘gentle downward stroke or the hot water had a soothing effect on the nerves. Anyway, sleep was sure to follow. A week or two of this treatment will usaally effect a permanent cure.”—Chicago News. ) '

Getting Around a Difficalty. \ Ward Worker—No, sir; I'd never sell my vote. I'd—

Candidate—Ah! but won't you remt it to me for a day? “Ward Worker—Well, that's different. —N. ¥. Mail and Express. '

How to Renovate Bronz=e

Bronze may be renovated and recolored thus: Mix one part of muriatic acid and two parts of water. Free the article from all grease and dust and apply the mixture with a cloth. When dry, polish with sweet oil. =

How to Open Oysters

To open oyster shells easily. just piace the oysters on the warm kitchen stove for a second, then insert the knife between the thin portion of the shell, and it will open easily.

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in the chains which connect the two bowknots, which are studded with diamonds. “The large pendant pearis are «f the long ‘shape now s 0 much in reguest for hair ornaments pendants and earrings. Al together the ornament is one which -might well adorn the gown of & princess. Made in semi-precious stones. the desien iwould be within the reach of modersts incomes and would be a mosi decorative addition to the corsage of an evening or dinner costume, :