Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 6, 1880, Page 15

“qHE FAR WEST. ae cS the Route of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. a Ss «ae the Raton Range, and De- ending to the Plains of New Along Mexico. ee Hot Springs Near Las Vegas—3 ican Land-trant, gests! lence of The Chicago Trinme, ers FE, N- Mex., May 12.—All the way com Denver to Ei Mero, a distance of over fom les, tha line of theDenver & Rio = e Railroad follows the contour of the tain-range, constantly in sight of it, sometimes almost touching the bases of {oot-Lills; yet it is for the whole distance oe plains, and is comparatively level. be ‘jts smooth, well-graded track one rides ee iy that there is not weariness, and, as " trip is made by daylight, the succession PpsneiDE scenery diverts and interests the taveter. ‘There are only two prominent and inportsat places on this route,— GOLORADO SPRINGS AND PUEBLO. he: former, lying almost under the long stadows of Pike’s Peak, beneath which is f Colorado’s Saratoga, Manitou aus is a good business-point as well asa ent sanitarium. Pueblo, on the Ar- ; River, isa business-focus, from which ines of the Denver & Rio Grande Rail- diverge, and is also the Colorado term- ns of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé jiroad. South of Pueblo the whole region occupied by cattle and sheep ranches, gpl Is watered by cool and limpid streams fom =the mountuin-range, affording ordinarily excellent pasturage; but this year the heavens have been “brass,” and the rains have been so entirely withheld that the grass jsdry, crispy, and almost dead, and cattle and sheep have died by hundreds, 7 Asthe same conditions have existed from Wyoming to Southern New Mexico, there has geen no place to drive them, except to the sxanty slopes of the mountains watered by melting snows, and the losses to cattleanen have Deen fearful. The beds of all the streams are deepsunken, with almost ver- tical walls, and are but scantily supplied with water. Thus early in the season the traveler from the East notices especially the cleavage of the clay banks in all this region, which breaks in vertical sections from the top to the water’s edge, sometimes ten or fifteen feet. below, so that cattle have often to goalong way before they can find place sufficiently sloping for them to reach the water. There are none of those pleasant dabbling brooks, with gravel and bright shells ing’ in the shallow waters, which area Seeat inthe East. You find them some- timesin the mountains (minus the shells), but not on the plains. ; At Cucharas, a city consisting of 8 rail- toad depot and one saloon and general store combined, the rails branch,—the main line ‘leading under the Spanish Peaks, and over Damp Mountain and the famous Veta Pass, etan elevation of over 9,000 fect, into the San Luis Valley. Alamosa, on the Rio Grande, is its present terminus in that direc- fon; but this energetic company is . FAST PUSHING ITS LINES WESTWARD _ through the valleys and cafions the over the mountain-passes of Southern Colorado, con- fidently asserting that its locomotive-whistles shall wake new echoes at Silverton before the winter-snows shall fall in, Its pres- ent survey passes a little way to the south of the wonderful Pagosa Springs, and will make this the easiest route to that phenomenal dis- trict, Auother and more ect route was earlier surveyed; but, as it was necessary to cross the Divide at an elevation of over 12,000 feet, and where the track Would be always in danger of snow- Slides, it was abandoned as. impracticable. When Silverton is reached, the marvelous mineral resources of the San Juan country ill be opened to a market, and grand de- velopments will result. From Cucharas puth the road is principally employed in the carrying of coals and coke from the meat beds and coke-ovens of El Moro, whence it is distributed to smelters and re- duction-works all over the State. . We arrive here justin the gloaming, as the sun has sunk behind the hilis, and take car- i for our five-mile ride to Trinidad. whose lights soon gleam in the Valley of I Purgatoire, and mine host of the United States Hotel welcomes us to supper and a ‘Trinidad looks beautifully in the moon- light when approached trom the north, with tis mountain background, and the lofty Fisher's Peak with its great square terraces ing out against the sky, while at theright Simpson’s Rest fooks down upon a pugs of ae H aiesican adobe liuts, and the Purgatory Hiver, between, gleams like a Silver band and flings back the kisses of the moon. Trinidad, since the Santa Fé Rail- Toad has gone so far beyond it, has lost most of the rough element which two years ago fave it an unenviable reputation, and has settled down to A QUIET, RESPECTABLE TOWN of perhaps 2,000 inhabitants, commanding & ood trade with the regions around it, aftera good rest and ample break- fast, we part with our host and $3 per day, andtake the train of the Atchison, Topeka &Santa Fé Railroad for Las Vegas, Santa and Albuquerque. Untillately the trains Passed over this portion of the route in the hight, both going and returning, giving tour- iss no opportunity of seeing the fine scenery upon a good part of the road; but they lave now ‘changed their tme-schedules » . trip both ways is made in daylight, int by fur which the _ officers have the most humble and hearty thanks of @ traveling public. About 9 o’clock we climb the Raton Range by a winding road locking down into a beautiful green valley, along hich the old Santa Fé trail for many Yeashas wound to reach the Raton Pass; yan ascending grade of 180 feet to the ut we reach the completed tunnel, 2,000 Swi by which the steeper grades of the Avot the summit are ‘olded. “Some of your readers may Temember that a year ago I wrote a full ac- Count of this pass, and of the Uncle Dick, the notive, said to be the largest in which was built for this railroad tT hauling trains ovor the Switch- Wenesetade of 318 fect to the mile. As now look at these grades from the car- a ows, we wonder that railroad-trains Sud climb such steeps; yet 1 don’t think A Serious accident ever happened there. . “Tom the tunnel we descend swiftly to ~ fe THE PLAINS OF NEW MEXICO, nebes being the separating line from Colo- Bio, and, over an almost level road, we pass Uillers, SC't Of the snow-clad Mexican Cor- tiers the distance, and the nearer foot- F. often capped in fantastic shapes with Ribids, and” cones, and abrupt steeps. the eng Teach Otero, which, while it was erminus of the road, was bristling with jusitess ‘and its streets crowded with Wagon- “us, and which boasted of the two largest dusiness-houses west of Kansas City, and tom smaller ones. Now its houses are down and taken to the “front.” Its are deserted except by an occasional er’s Wagon or burro. lis glory has de- tn and “ Delenda est Carthage” is writ- Upon its vacant foundations. whi pass severnl Mexican hamlets, from and ee ever-curious, tawny-faced women pale ildren, dressed in bright colors or in toe black, look out from their adobe huts ayn the passing wonder. And it is indeed ‘onder to see a long, full train of cars, With Sleepers, traversing the ancient Pitns of the Puetios, the realih ‘the worl company en of the Mont- 4 ut noon we cross miles of lava els, whose black, broken masses cover the Bee and, at a distance to the west, we with ®alls of a mighty mountain-crater, ihe the side open to the east, from which the cited torrent evidently flowed. Far to lai ‘orth west,over unbroken and uninhabited Ra us aud near the base of the Snowy age ‘We are told is Cimarron, the capi ee THE MAXWELL GRANT, Hn vermous tract of Jand, covering mount- meng Plain, of which years ago an im- “shown map was made by some wicked men, ing navigable streams with great cllly plying upon their waters, raiiroads, a es. aad villages numberless, This one astaken to Holland, and millions of Te Were borrowed of the honest fer ot, which they received elegantly- course th bonds -and “coupons, Of ey got the property on jude- and ‘located, and were soon domiciled in THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1880 SIXTE N PAGES. sake Tam glad-to say that the c oming of the Santa Fé Road has made it very Taltable. a We pass along we soon enter rock- walled Cherry Valley, with {ts fields of growing wheat and corn, and its purling Stream, from which the irrigating ditches, OF acequias (pronounced sakies), are distrib- uued over the fields, This is the only agri- ection seen from road Teaving Trinidad. ti he es € are approaching Las Vegas, havin; passed a pleasant day; and here would rt howledge our indebtedness to Conductor Avery Turner, whose courtesy is unfeigned, and who gave us (us being wife, daughter, and myself) much geographical, biographical, and historic information, illuminated by a fund of anecdotes which we believed, every one of them. He-is a good, genial fellow; and, when you travel Here, may you catch jis train. At Las Vegns (the Meadows) we took a carriage for the famous Hot Springs, five miles distant; and, passing directly through the old Mexican city, which still di With Santa Fé the trade of Northern New Mexico, and which commands the bulk of the enormous wool business, we made our way, past several ranch-villages belonging to the old and aristocratic Baca faimily, to the cool and beautiful cafion in which the springs are @ CX~ As these springs are cellent hotel there. -worthy of especial mention, - pte spec: on, and are not gen- nown at the East, I will devote some Space to their description. ‘The springs are TWENTY-TWO IN NUMBER, and are all found within an area of about ten acres, near the left branch of the Gal- linas River, and perhaps half a mile from the mouth of the cafion. ‘hey have been, from the time “ whence the memory of man run- neth not to the contrary,” a famous sanitary resort among the Castilian, Mexican, and In- dian races inhabiting thisregion. An ancient adobe hut is still ‘standing over one of these Suermal spriass, where the old-timers used to take their baths; and the springs were regarded as Bethesdas, where the rheu- matic, scrofulous, or syphilitic sufferers found sure relief and restoration. One spring was shown me which tradition held as a cer- tain remedy for, barrenness, which, among Indian and Mexican-women, is disgrace. Even before the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroud was“completed to Las Vegas, these waters had begun to attain a reputa- tion among Americans, and many endured the long Siage-ride, and hved in tents or in the adobe cabins near by, to avail themselves of their virtues. he temperature of the spring: ries from 110 to 140 degrees F.; and an analysis made by Prof. Hayden reveals the presence of carbonates, sulphates, and chlorides of calcium and magnesium, with strong traces of bromine, iodine, and Jithium,—all curative agents, and admirably compounded in __ this oratory of Nature. In fact, they are almost identical with the Hot Springs of Arkansas in thermal and curatiye prop- erties; but their location has a decided ad- vantage in its altitude,—8,400 feet above sea- level, affording a dry, exhilarating air, full of ozone. Until-last fall the facilities for comfortable living at the springs were ex- tremely limited; but about that time a com- pany of wealthy Boston men purchased the entire property, including a large tract ad- joining, and erected on the ,plateau upon the opposit side of the river AN ELEGANT HOTEL-BUILDING of red sandstone, an immense quarry of which is near by:| This hotel is 185 feet in frontage, with two large wings running back, and with broad porticos extending tho entire front of the building. The rooms are large, well furnished, and convenient, and the hotel is by far the best 1 have seen in New Mexico. Near the springs they also erected, at a bend in the river. a splendid bath-honse, also of red sandstone, two stories in hight, of 200 feet frontage and forty-two feet depth, with baths of every kind, coolin: and dressing-rooms, parlors, billiard an smoking rooms, and a drug-store, There was also an immense porch and promerad occupying the entire front, and an elegant bridge spanned the stream from bank to bank, The cost of this building alone was over $25,000; but_during the past winter it was burned. It is now being rebuilt more complete than ever, and will probably be ready for use by Suly 1, for temporary use a wooden bath has been put up, and is in charge of Mfr. and Mrs. Oliver,—veteran ‘‘bathists.” The wa- ters of eleven of the springs will be conduct- ed to the new building, and tanksare built in which the waters are cooled for those unable to take them in full hea The grounds in front of the hotel are being ornamented, un- der the ervision of Mr. W. G. Dickinson, Superintendent of the Company, and of Mr. Ross, a Boston landscape-gardener, by the laying out of a park of over ten acres with shade-trees, fountains, fish- ponds, winding walks and drives, grassy lawns, and shady retreats. When this is completed, it will add greatly to the attrac- tions of the place. The caiion above the springs for about ten miles fs a kaleidoscope o! PICTURESQUE AND SCENIC BEAUTY, changing from pine-covered and vine-clad slopes to steep and lofty walls of rock, where in one place the eye Jooks almost vertically. up toa summit 2,000 feet above. A spot is pointed the hight,” Jong time a her- You walk through sles of the rocky Sanctum Sane- torum, or climbto the Needle’s Eye, or study the records of the ages in the walled rocks of Gothic Gulch, You fling your lines into the limpid pools of the river leaping and boiling over the rocks, for the speckled trout whic! hide in the shadows; or, for a change, visi the Mexican ranches which occupy the few open vaileys in the cation, and observe a life all new and quaint to your experience. And at night you sit out on those cool, wide yerandas, until the retiring stars invite you to follow their example. Tho baths are usually taken once or twice a day, about half-way between meals; and the luxurious sense of relaxation and rest, as you lie in the smooth, clear, and almost fragrant water, is delicious. The greatest temptation to me was to remain in them too long. ‘The hotel is Kept byand under the personal charge of Dr. J. M. Cunningham and Mr, T. F. Chapman, both of whom have becin’ lon, resident in the Territory, and understan the mystie art of “keeping hotel.” I will only add that when we left them, at the end of nearly a week, L was surprised by the moderate charges made for our excellent ac- commodations. By the way, I learned while there that these gentlemen are the owners of an immense and very valuable MEXICAN LAND-GRANT, which, after being cutjdown largely to satis- fy adverse claimants, still covers 360,000 acres of the finest grazing land, lying near the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad, and adjoining the famous Maxwell Grant, north of Las Verus. As Iwas curious to ses the form of these grants, and the reasons for their issuance, Dr. Cunningham showed me a translated copy of the original grant and its several verifications. As some of its verbiage was interesting to me, J assume that it may be to your readers. It was made by Don Manuel Armijo, the military Gov- ernor of New Mexico, in 1545, and recites that he, by virtue of extraordinary powers granted him by the Supreme Government of the Republic of Mexico, the evidence of which is found in the ‘general recapitulation of the Indies’ [the collection of decrees of the Mexican Government] and original commu- nications to the Exectttive officers of the ‘Tet ritory, on file, ete. doth grant to Gervacio Nolan et al.,” etc, In the beginning of the grant is recited the petition of said, Nolan, an Irishman by birth, but a naturalized citi- zen of Mexico, and long resident, stating that he had found a piece of land in the eahon of e Red River vacant, un- populated, and uncultivated, bounded on the north by the grant to Guadolope Miranda and Beaubien (the Maxwell grant), etc., and asking that it be conferred upon him on _ac- countof his ‘military services” to the Re- ant asked for covers neatly a “out for ed. “far up a ublic. The halt million of acres. ‘The petition was dated Nov. 15, 1845, and the grant itself is dated Nov. 18 1845,—showing a liberality, promptness, and simplicity of routine to which Americans “are | entire unaccustomed. The Alcalde (or certifies that, in obedi- ence to said order, he placed said Nolan in possession of ‘said piece of Jand, free of all jax or tribute.” He says, “Ishowed him the petition made by him, and the rules and regulations to which he should conform, i stoms of the country in according to the cus! countey in ly Rf 'ustice of the Peace) regard to colonization; and, formed himself of all ‘that was proposed to him, I took him by the han naa walked him: over, said 1and, when he pull ‘ up grass, threw stones, and cried aloud with joy, ‘Long life to the sovereign constitution- nl Congress of the Union,’—taking posses; sion of said land quietly, peacea' ly, ane without injury to any third party or, to the si ation,” national credit of the AMexican nat COVERT. Applause for Wayne TEseV SAE: ie . AS Mr. Wayne StacVeagh, Senator Cameron brother-in-law, was about leaving for .Chicazo he received the following letter: a SCRANTON, May 2;, 1880.—My DEAR Str: Isen you my heartiest congratulations in that you arc acting. with the National Republican League tohelp defeat the nomination and: election of ment and “execution, aud’ for honesty’s | Gen. Grunt, Jromember that seventecn years Bgo you and I each carried a musket in the same emergency” regiment to help make a Gettys- burg victory sure, andIam now rejoiced that we stand together with the best citizens of Penn- syivania in this present fight. For more than fifteen years [have traveled up and down tha, Yalleys of this grand ola State, and” 1 claim to know somewhat of the people in it, and 1 say emphatically that there is an overwhelming ma- jority of Republicans opposed to a third term, and thousands, like myself, who have twice Voted for Grant, will not do so again under any circumstances, i Your determination to vigorously contest this matter will be all the more appreciated trom the close relationship you hold to the most promi- nent leader of the Grant forces. Excuse this crude und hasty line and believa me, 5 M. Joanson. ee this Mr. MacVeagh made tho following re- WaALnurT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, May 28, 188.—My Dean Srn: 1 am greatly obliged for your kind note, I try to do my duty as I under- Stand {t, and it ts cheering to know that one {6 not misconceived. Iam sure you arc right as to the result if Grant should be dominated. * WaYnk MacVeaau. BR. M. Jounson, Esq. LORD BYRON’S DAUGHTER. A Genius in the Exact Sclences—Mag- nificent in Looks—A Rockless Stock« Gambler, and Died a Bankrupt. New York Home Journal. Few persons probably have ever read the com- mencing and concluding stanzas of the third canto of * Childe Harold " without deep inter- estinthe “ Ada" he touchingly apostrophizes. ‘Tho story of her life, intimately cnough known in those repertories of unwritten biographies of the aristocracy,—the Pall Mull Club,—has not often been told abroad. It will be remembered that the first and only born of that unhappy marringe of Lord Byron to Miss Milbanke was just 5 weeks old when the mother and wife, for reasons never satisfactor ily explained, returned to her father's house. Here the infant grew into girlhood under the care of her mother, and here, atter Lady Byron's accession to her, property, were the foundations of Augusta Adu’s education laid. Inkeriting uncommon genius, though, as we shall presently oxpiain, wholly diverse from her father’s, she was brought up with the most touder care, and educated by the most thorough pralning: Her personal beauty developed with er mind. She is described bya person who fro- quently saw her, when ut the ge of 0 years she was living with ber mother at Clifton Springs, as. of ‘the most queenly presence and graceful car: riage, her complexion fresh, her features of per- fect contour, her eyes large and brilliant, ber hend ‘set upon her shoulders like her father's, ber hair chestnut, abundant and wavy, and her person slightly embonpoint, but perfect in pro- portions. ‘To these charms there wero added a voice of great sweetness, and a vivacity in con- versation that held in thrall all who approached her. . Her tastes, howevér, were for puro mathe- matics. Whether owing to her education—for ahe read no poetry, and never saw-a work of ord Byron till past her_puberty—or to inherit- ‘ace from her mother, her understanding of the exact sclences was excelled by no woman of her time, except Mrs. Somerville, and, indeed, by few of the other sex. In proof of her extraordi- ary attainments in this respect, it is mentioned Bs the Into Charles Babbage, in’ his. Passages pon the Life of a Philosopher,” that she in- formed him she had translated for her amuse- ment “Menabrea’s Memoirof the Analytical Engine" from the “Bibloth¢éque Universelle.” He proposed that she should add notes of her own. ‘Thisshe did, extending them: to three times the length of the original memoir. Bab- bage says that to all persons capable of under- standing the reasoning it furnishes “a demon- stration that the operations of analysis are capa- ble of belng executed by machinery." This transintion with the notes may be found in Yol, XXSU of the “Transactions of the Royal Society.” ‘Ada Byron was married to the Earl of Love- Jace in March, 1835. The marriage was not an unhappy one. Rer husband, respectable in tal- ents and domestic habits, Lord-Lieutenant of his county and high in socini position, suitable in age, and ossesaed of large estates, regarded his wife with mingled feelings-of aifection and admiration. Unwilling that she should be known publicly a8 an authoress, he, nevertheless, oftener than once gave permission that certain of her articles on various branches of science, about which thinking men made inquiry, might be acknowledged as hers. Children were born to them; their tastes were no more dissimilar than was consistent with common if not. pro- motive of unusual harmony; and thelr bome was often spoken of by those old enough to re- metober the two, by furnishing a happy contrast to that which her mother had abandoned twenty years before. But Lady Lovelace craved excitement. Nelther town life nor country was suilicient to satisfy her inherited desire for constant stim- ulus." Nelther her studies nor her pen, the cage of her children, nor the pleasures of socicty, her rank among the aristocracy, vor the admiration her beauty and gifts received wherever she ap- peared, were sufficient, She speculated in tho iunds, bet at horse-races, bought arid sold in the stock market, and finally, during the railway mania, that, under the lead of Hudson, was sec- ond only in its universality among the rich and great to the South Sea bubble of tho early days he last century, partook largely in the vent- ures, All this could well enough be without tho knowledge, as it was, of ber husband. Beside the ample “pin money" allowed hor in the mar- rlage-settlement, large returns came to her from trust funds heid for her in ber own right. But she went toodeep. Her riska were un- fortunate; and, though she might have recoy- ered from’all this, most inopportunely her at- ; torney became a bankrupt, and her operations P were exposed in bis xssets before the courts, to the worla. Terribly mortified, she appealed to her husband, who, to save the scandal of any legal process, canceled hor abilities by a very considerable’ pecuniary sacrifice. The shock, however, was too grent for her excitable nature, and it bas always been believed by thoso who best knew what followed that tho shame she felt at the oxposure wns tho romote, if not the proximate, cause of her death. ” EPIGRAMS. A good epigram ia this one by Lord Holland on Southey: Our Laureate Bob defends the King, He takes his cash and will not sing, Yet on be gocs, I know not why, Singing for us who will not buy. Here is another by Lord Erskine on Sir Walter Scott's long-forgotten poem, “Tho Field of Waterloo ": On Waterloo’s ensanguined plain, Lie tens of thousands of the slain: But none by sabre or the shot, Fell baif so flat as Walter Scott. 7'Here is a well-known ono by Porson on some Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, but which isso good that it never grows old, the test of true wit: Here lies a Doctor of Divinity, Who was a Fellow, too, of Trinity: He knows as much about Divinity, As other Fellows do of Trinity. Here is an excellent one by an unknown au- thor. Ifit had uot been written in such a see- saw, common-place rhythm, it would have been in its way nearly perfect: When Orpheus went down to the regtous below, ‘Which inen are forbidden to seo, He turned ao his lyre, as old histories show, ‘To set his Eurydico frec. All Hell was astonished a person 80 wise Should rashly endanger his life, And venture so far; but how vast their surprise ‘When they heard that he came for his wifo! To find out a punishment due for his fault Old Pluto long puzzled his brain; But Hell had not tormentseufliciont, he thought, So he gave him his wifo back again. But pity succeeding soon vanquished his heart, And pleased with his plartbing so well, He took her again in reward of his art— Such merit bad music in Hell. On a man who, tohide hislossof batr, had wrapped his head in a Woolen muilier, under pre- | tense of having the car-ache: You wrap your bald head, and pretend You've got tho car-ache.’ But, my friend, Your hnir it fs, if truth were known, ‘That aches to think how scunt 'tis grown. On a poct who, when reciting, wrapped his throat up in a woolen mufller: Why, ere your verses you recite, Thus muflle up your throat so tight? *Trould better auit this crowd that hears: Give us that wool to stulf our ears. Polsonous Wall-Paper in Bedrooms. Sctentific Monthly. Imperceptibly but surely a room the walls of which are covered from year to year with tho same paper is a room the air of which is dirty, g0 thal the very temptations to delay ronewiil, and the very arguments of economy, become the strongest of objections to papers’ altogether, ‘When the airor the room is damp, the paper getsdamp. In the damp state it ubsorbe readily the aust that is in the air. When the weather gets dry and warm, or when the room is warmed by afire, the dust Becomes dry on the paper, and is then easily waftea and distributed through the air of the room, while if the paper be at all rough or raised, the small irregulurspaces are at all times receptacles for dust. This is a strong objection to the paper covering for the wall. Another objection to the paper covering is the mode in which it is put on the walls, 2 com- mon practice, layer is laid on layer untii six or * geven or more layers are sometimes put oncover the other. And I have recently seen a room stripped of no fewer than ten layers of paper before the wall was renched. By this plan the room becomes lined with coating after cont! of paste, which in course of time is decompose is turned into fine organic dust, and is itself, whenever the Pal ris torn away 60 as to allow of an escape of dust, a decided source of dan- ger to health. Let sickness take place {na room the walls of which are treated in the manner now described—let the particles of the poison of a contagious disease disseminate in sucha room, and almost of a certainty some minute portion of the particular poison will be cased up behind the new paper that js laid on, to remain a source of danger to after-occupants of-the room for. years and years to come. - ‘For these ressans—aud I think they are sound | themselyes take it tur and turn and good~I think tho common system of paper for the walts of the bedroom is not the best, If A paper could be invented which, once laid’ on, would present a permanentéurface, and a sur- face that would admitof systematic cleansing by ‘means of sonp and water, or by dry scrubbing, then I ehould not have a word to say against fi and such an invention will, L should hope, one day be brought into common use. ‘The nearest approach -bave ever seen to per- fect success in the direction uamed was in the house of a friend of mine, who had his room very carefully paver with a good fine paper of oak pattern. ‘This paper be coated with coach- makers’ varnish until the entire surface was in truth as hard as the panel of a curringe itself. ‘This wall could be washed with the greatest ease, and was as perfect as need be. Sometimes in tha halls and on the staircases of houses we sce onk and marble papers which ‘are varnished, and which bear to be washed very well; but I nave never seen those walls 60 perfect as'the walls of the room I specially name. and certainly I have §een no approach to anything of the kind with- ina room. - ‘presuming that paper is used for the walls of a bedroom, there are certain rules which ought to be followed in respect to the -process. The. first of these fs that the paper Selected should not be a flock paper; next, it ought not to have a raised or rough surface; thirdly, the pattern should be of the plainest possible Kind, and, if I may so express it, patternicess; tho color should be’ gray or # sea-xreen; and, lastly, the paper should be frequently renewed,—it should be changed every three years at least. Moreover, in chang- ing the paper there should be no slipshod method of putting on a new paper hofore thore- moval of the old. Tho old Lalita should be en- tirely stripped off, tho. wull shonid be well cleansed of dry paste, and tho new paper should be put on with paste that is quite fresh and pure. ‘The Introduction of a little alum into the paste is ulways good practice. In cases where a person has suffered from any one of the contagious diseases, and has occupied aroom the walls of which are covered with pit- per, there should be uo hesitation, when the Yoom is relieved of its occupant, in clearing every particio of paper from the wall at on also miking the clearance a8 complote as poss! ple. 1 usually direet, in these cases, that the p: per. while it ig yet on the wall, should be satu- rated with water thatisit boiling heat, the water being applied with a small thinnel ‘orwoolen inop. In this manner two purposes aro served: the heat disinfects, and the paper fs made to peel off with great readiness and completeness. When the piper is thus removed down tothe sold walls, the walls may be fumigated with sul- phurous acid vapor, and ufterward washed down, sponged, and allowed to dry. After such cleansing the new paper may bo laid on, the ceiling having been previously cleaused and colored, THE EXODUS. Abstract of the Soml-Annual Report of the Kansas Freedmen’s Relief Asso- elation. ‘TorskKa, Kas., May 26.—The seoond semi-an- nual reportof the Kansas Freedmen's Relief Association, whose hendquarters are here, has recently been submitted by tho President, the Rev. J. E. Gilbert. During the month just past lberal contributions have been made to outfit parties going to other places, many goods hav- ing been sent by wagons to colonies in Wabaun- see and Dunlap, and there have also becn large disbursements of garden seeds and sced pota- toes, The oflicers and helpers of the association here embrace a body of twenty persons. in the period between Oct. 18, 1879, ané March 31, 1880, fully 20,000 suffering freedmen who have come to this refuge from the South, have been cared for, most of whom were in pitiable destitution and distress, During this period the cash con- tributions to the Association have been $29,596, Besides this, there have been large consign ments of clothing and farming supplies of seeds and tools. ‘thure are as yet no indications of an abatement of the exodus from the South. The refugees are still arriving 23 bece- tofore. At the same time there are increasing calls upon the Association from Nebraska, Colo- rado, New Mexico, and California for’ large numbers, with assurances of good opportuni- ties, stendy employment, and good pay. An in- creasingly large proportion of those who now arrive are being sent on to these places, nnd good reports uro received from those who have already reached these destinations. Besides this, tle Association is considering the propriety of purchasing unoccupied land in some locality on which to establish a new colony of the refu- gees, a8 necessity and wisdom muy suggest. As hitherto, therefore, the cause still calls for money, materials, and work. The distress of the 2,000 frecdmen who havo come to this refuge since Oct. 13, 1879, has been materially mitigated, thelr urgent necds have been promptly supplied and thomselves so helped to gvod jocations, limited aid, and work that with few exceptions they are already seif- sustaining, and are ambitiously Inboring to se- cure the title to a home or farm. Thoy have from the beginning proved peaccubie, inoffen- sive, and law-abiding citizens, intent on becom- ing independent of charitable Su PpOEE ‘The Dunlup settlement, which is situated in Counties, consists of about in per acre, purchasing it from the United States Govern- ment, paying one-sixth of its value in cash and the balance in six years at 6 per cent interest. ‘The Assocation has been helping them some- what, but most of tho settlers are eclf-support- ing. They have built the first church ever erécted in Dunlap. They have divine service and Sunday-school every Sabbath. The Wa- baunsee colony is about fifty miles southwest of ‘fopekn and fourteen miles northwest from Council Grove. There are thirty-one families in this colony, having in all 1,280 acres of land. While thirty famnilics have forty acres each, one of these families bas eighty acres. About balf of the refugees who arrive here are quartered in the barracks, located just out- side tho city limits. Of tho othors soine are geattered about umong friends, while others rent rooms in the city. The Association has, for the last six months, entertained at tho bar- racks an average of 32) families per month. Oo . even in tho cold weather, 150 refugees arrived in a single day. The warehouse and distributing-room of the Association in North Topeka was opened Dec. 1, 1879, und from that time up to March 31, 1880, there have been recvived into it 1,380 pack- es. Some idea may be formed of the amount of Inbor performed in this department from the fact that botween the Ist of Decem- ber last and the 8lst of March, 1880, at least 13,000 men, women, and children have been sup- plied with clothing by the Association, on the 8,600 tickets distributed by the Citizens’ Visiting Committee, and that it has, in addition, furnish- ed blunkets, overcoats, and shoes to several hundred of the refugees sent out to homes in various localities. Of the 1,38) packages re- ceived, 545 were unpacked and Eistributed at Topekh, 70 were sent to Parsons, 6 to Fort Scott, 19 to Chetopn, 64 to Columbus, 2 to Oswego, 80 to Independence, 13 to Manhattan, 21 to Dunlap, 10 to Emporia, 4 to Leavenworth, ‘9 to Hodgeman y to Kansas City, 2 to Milford, and 2 to Louisville, leaving 510 packages in the ware- house April 1. a THE PATIENT ANGLER. An angler sat by an old sawmill, ‘And angied away in the tlowing rill, Dreaming of tish that, traditions say, Deep in those waters hide away; Pickerel, perch, eel, and bull pout, and legend whisper, speckled trout. ‘his Inst named ish must be taken on spec, No man ever saw’hls head or bis neck; One man has seen tho end of his tail Going down stream like an express But to our tale: As I said before, ‘The patient angler snt by the sboro, ‘And the tools of his'trnde around him lay, Hackies, dun, brown, red, speckled, and gray, And flies artificial, of every hue, Millers, grubs, und grasshoppers, too: ‘And good old “Walton's Angler Complete,” ‘The fisherman's Bible, lay at bis fect, As thus he sat and angled away, I gently spoke to this fisherman gray, Tallon! iny friend, how goes the fight ‘With the finny tribes? Had'st c'er bite?” “Not yot,” be sighed, and whispere: low, “T've only been here's day or sv.” ‘Time rolled on and I passed that way; There sat the angler, old and gray. Tne hornet had built a nest in his bat, His shoes were the home of the sportivegnat And yellow-jackets were coming to rest ‘Within the folds of his peaceful yest; Enrwigs, horaetlies, and beetles brown. Were sporting around his snowy crown; But there he sat by the old sawmill, Happy, contented, and patient sul, As thus he sat and anglod awny, I gentty spoke to this fisherman gray, “ Halloa! my friend, how goes the fight ‘With the Oinny tribes? Had’st c’er bite?” “Not yet,” he sighed, and whispered low, “I've only been here & month or so.”" —Ballimorean. —————__— Tho Bane of Beauty. New York Home Journal. ‘There is a class for whom we can searcely feel too much compasston,—the young women who have to make their own way in the world, with- out friends to protect them ‘or fortune to main~ tain them, and who buve perhaps thut fatal gift of beauty’ which more often than not brings sor- row to the possessor. What cin they do? They can teach everything a little, but they cannot teach nes ring thoroughly; so that they are not valuable for the extent or the specinlity of their knowledge; and what they can dothonSands can do just as well, and some a little better. They cannot paint, they cannot write, but they can do art-neediework with which the world is’ getting flooded and the market overstocked; they sre too well born to make good shop girls, and they have not genius enough to be uctres=2s or musi- clans. They can copy scraggy manvseripte, but the demand for fair copy is not lacge, and the unlucky. compositor’ bas for the most part to be the. decfpherer .-ot auc- torial hieroglyfics. They oan be‘ secretaries to old gentlemen and companions to old ladies; but here again the field is very limited, and the nicer and more personable they are—that is, the litter for the position desired—the less likely to attain it, because relations and natural inherit- ors are afraid of a charming young woman a3 house-mate with the bolder of the purse~and talk among themselves of “undue influence” and-the likelihood of {egacies that would dimin- ish their own inheritance; and cannot they apout to be with the old people, so that tho pretty nenutless miss, just introduced to them for the pt Should not be wanted, and thus shoul suffered to become a@ source of danger? The same thing happens if they apply for a situation fs governess. Thoy are too pretty. The average matron hus a deadly fear of good looks as coln- cldent with shaky morals, and puta’ vast amount of faith in a wensel taco and a bad com- : retty governess is a snare fro which she shrinks in honest dread: nad. here the swect face that ought to have been her fortuna is again our pretty maid’s decided bane. $$ BORING UNDER BROADWAY. A Revival of the Project for a Subter= Yanean Hatlroad—A New Company with an Old Charter, Backed by French Capitalists, Promising to Bo- gin Work Speedily ~The Route Mapped Out. New York Sun. On Thursday, in the Rogister’s office, was filed the mapof the proposed Broadway Underground Railroad, with the certificate of a majority of the Directors of the Company incorporated on that day. Robert Sewell apponrs as Presidentof the Company, Mr. James F. Ruggles as Secre- tary, and tho following gentlemen are named as @ majority of the Directors: Messrs. Douglas Campbell, De Witt C. Brown, Henry Sheldon, James F. Pierce, 0. Vandenburgh, and Walter J Morris. Col, Origen Vandenburgh claims to have origi- nated the idea of an underground raliway be- tween the upper and lower parts of the clty some fifteen years ago, and the present Company holds the franchiso of the Company then organ- ized, The requirement of the French capital- ists, whom Col. Vandenburgh has interested in the project, having been complied with by the procurement of an authoritative legislative af- Airmation of the unimpaired rights of the Com- any transferred by purchase to Col. Vandep- uurgh, be says they willtake all the bonds of the new Company about to be formed which muy be assigned them to the full extent of $10,- 0u0,000, if desired, upon terms which are deemed advantageous to'the Company. The main sub- terranenn line, which that Company purposes to commence the construction of immediately up- ‘on onranization, is e ate 7 minencing at the South Ferry, exten through the Hnttery und Battery place to Broads way; theuce up Broadway to the City-Hall Park, on the custerly line of Broadway; thence cast- gris. passing in front and in rear of the old City- Hall to Centre street; under and across Centro street to “City-Hall place; through City-Hail pluce to Pearl street; across Pear! streot, north- easterly, in acurvod line to or near Mulberry street, ata point between Bayard and Park streets; thence northerly, under Mulberry strect to Bleecker strect, and continuing north- erly to nnd under Lafayette place to Astor place; northorly and easterly under Astor .placc, Eighth street, and across the southeast coroer of the block between Eighth and Ninth streets, and ensterly of St. Ann's Church, to and under Fourth avenuo; northerly under Fourth avenue and Fourteenth street and Fourth avenue to and under Union Square; northerly under Union Square to Seventeenth street and Broadway, and under the Iatter to near and northerly of Nineteenth street; thence northerly, bearin; eusterly ina straight line to and under and across Twenty-third strect, to and through Mad- ison Square, and continuing northerly, under, on, over, and upon Madison avenue ‘to an along the Harlem River. By that latter diver- gence in specification “over and upon Madison avenue,” ete., It will be understood that it is contemplated that above Ninety-ninth street the road shall be no longer subterranean, but an elevated line, and In this latter way will be con- tinued along the Harlem River. In connection with this main line are to betwo branches. One of these, commencing under Broadway at the northerly line of Eighteenth strect and continuing northerly under Broadway to Twenty-third street and Fifth avenue, will extend thence under Broadway to the grand circle at the southwesterly corner of the Central Park, and thence by a northerly and westerly inclining line toa point at about One Hundred and Thirtieth street on the North River. The other branch ine will run from the main line at the City-Hall Park directly up Broadway to Union Square, where it will again join the main line. Walter J. Morris, a civil engineer, whois at the bead of the mechanical part of the work, suid yesterday: “ All our plans are made; wo are ready to commence work at once, and ex- Bock te, do go in a few days, just as soon as overnor hus signed the bill which has been passed, to satisfy foreign capitalists as to the legai right we have. We will break ground at the City-Hall Park and work both ways, for the maln line will be prosecuted at the same time as the branch, which is the object of this first formed Company. Our estimate of the cost fixes it at about $2,000,000 per mile. In some places it will be loss, but in others, where we have to purchase private prop- erty or overcome serious natural obstacles, it | may be more, 80 we name that aa the average. Ido not think wo will have any very great en- ineering difficulties to contend with. Below ‘ourteenth strect we will have no rock excava- fion,eo that there can be no ground for the pre- tended fears of inimical property-owners that we will sbake their, foundations by blasting. Evenif there were rock the blasting can be done in # perfectly safe way, as it wasin the excavation recently done for the Madison Square Theatre, of which people in the neigh- borhood wore hardly aware while it was going on. The canal or slough at Canal streot will bo crossed by a water-tight tunnel covered with asphalt, ed with hydraulic coment, and supported on piling. We will have two tun- nels, side by side, each I5x1S feet in thoir greatest diameters, In some instances they will come within three feet of the surface of the street, but much moro of the way they will be sunk from six to eight fect below. Our stations will be nearer together than those of the cle- vated railway. Each will present aspacetweive or fourteen feet wide and 500 fect long, beside the track, lighted with electricity, and made much more beautiful than any of the elevated stutionsare. At Forty-seventh strect we will probably make n connection with the Vander- bilt roads. It is at present contemplated to make our uniform rate five cents. People have prejudiced and mistaken ideas about innels, sshich wo intend to reform entirely. We wi show thema tunnel as clean as any room, in which the atmosphere will always be pure; where—owing to the uniformity of temperature —the rails are Inid closely, so as to give an ab- solutely continuous and consequontly noiseless track. uur trains will move much more rapidly than do those of the elevated roads, yet always with perfect safety, and by a simple device each train will change the air of the tunnel, keeping it always sweet and pure. There will be no dust, no smoke, no noise, no violent changes of tem- perattiro, no possibility of accident, and every car will be brilliantly Hignrea. We expect tu bo in operation from the South Ferry to Forty- seventh stroct within eighteen months, or atthe most two Fears.” The Cordpany: is required to obtain the con- sent of the majority of the property-owners on its line to the construction of its tunnel, or, fail- ing in this, the consent of the Supreme Court of the Judicial district. MY LITTLE BOY THAT DIED. By the Author of “John Bulls, Seen Look at his pretty face for just one minut His braided frock and dainty buttoned shoes,— His firm-shut hand, the favorit plaything in {t,— ‘Then tell me, mothers, was't not hard to loso ‘And iniss him from my side~ My little boy that died? How many another boy, as dear and charming, His father's hope, bis mother’s one delight, Slips through strange sicknesses, all fear disarm- ‘And lives a long, long life in parents’ sight. ‘Mine was go short a pride!— ‘And then—my poor boy died. ee him rocking on bis wooden charger; > see a rocbattering through the house all day; watch his great blue eyes grow large and larger, Vistoning to stories, whether grave or gay, * ‘Told at the bright fireside— So dark now, since he died. But yot I often think my boy is living, ‘As living as my other children are. When good-night kisses { all round am giving, I kcep one for him, though he is 80 far, Cun a mere graye divide Me from bim—though he died? So, while I come and plant it o'er with datsies— egdet, would find himself telling the truth like a ie newspaper.—New York Commercial Ad- There is a‘revival of the rumor Victorin will marry Beaconsield: thers Peake a report that the Widow Oliver bas asked if Bea- consfeld is a married man. The old man must Post. ‘look out for himself.—Boston Princess Louise tumbled out of a sleigh and lost an earring about two months ago, and the Cunadians have been anxiously waiting for Tennyson to write an ode on the subject. The laureate, however, appears to have all he can do to take care of the reputation of the Princo of ; Wales.—New York Ezpress. The members of a young ladies’ debating so- cloty in Troy have decided in favor of long court- ships. Level-headed girls. Observation has taught them that thore is a wonderful falling of of confections, balls, carringe-rides, and opera when courtship onde and the stera realities of married life bezin.—Norristown Herald. A Massachusetts gentleman has forwarded us a letter in which he promises to exhibit and ex- emplify “how milk can bo made forlcenta quar}, and butter for 10 cents a pound.” Wo canpot encour: the cheapening of these “*stand-bys,” and besides, where would the olco- margarine folks go to if the * real stuff " should become so cheap?—New Haven Register. As an {nocent-looking old man was going up Washington street yesterday, 2 drayman nodded hi d asked: “ Want a dray, Mister?” guess not,” replied the old man; “I'm too fur from home, and can’t pay freight on it. Much obleeged, though. Vicksburg isa power- ful nice town. A fellow back there asked me if I didn’t want a cout; another inquired if I wanted a back; and now you offer meadray. I wish I lived here.’ ig Herald. ™man can’t bave a good th! in this without everybody want fats of is Dr. Bright, who invented a very ori ingenious disease of the kidneys. By some strange oversight he neglected to get out a pat- ent on it, and now men are going for it on every” side. To be sure, it kills then frequently, not being adapted to their constitutions, but that doesn’t make any difference. Some men are such hogs.—Cincinnati Saturday Night, a THE STAMP TAX. Why Draggists Demand Its Abolition— An Organized Attack upon It. New York Evening Post, Druggists all over the country are uniting to ‘urge Congress to repeal the stamp tax on pro~ prietary medicines, perfumery, and cosmetics, In January last Mr. Frost introduced a bill in the House of Representatives proposing that “from and after the 30th day of June, 1380, so much of Sec. 3,437 of the Revised Statutes as im~ poses a tax upon medicines and medicinal prepa-~ rations, perfumeries, cosmetics, colognes, and proprietary medicines be, and the same is here~ by, repealed.” The bill was read twice and re~ ferred to the Committce on Ways and Means, before which it is now, and since it has been in the hands of thisCommittee various reproseata- tives of associations composed of the leading wholesale and retail druggists of the Northern, Southern, Western, and Eastern States, and members of prominent New York drug firms have appeared before the Committee and pre- sented their arguments in favor of the bill. As ‘Unis is @ matter which bas been intermittently agitated for many years, and concerns the buy- ers of these goods us well as the dealers, and now seems to be approaching a final settlement the following description of the present state of affairs given to a reporter of the Evening Post. cour ag to-day by a member of the firm of W. B. Schiffolin & Co., will be of interest: “Every ono Who has ever investigated the question, whether interested or not in the drug business, has concluded that the stamp tax Is unjust to the dealer and buyer, difficult to un- Gerstand, burdensome, and an unnecessary bother to the Government. It was imposed as a war-time necessity in 186, but the conditions under which it was made have long since ceased to exist, and it is now high time thatit be re- moved. The majority of the members of the Committee of Ways and Means think that it should be removed, and we belleve that we do Dot hope in vain for its abolition. Various con- siderations have provented its repeal up to the present ume, “The arguments against it are simple and strong. In the first place the amount of rev- enue, which the Government obtains from the tax ia very small considering the complicated machinery which is required to collect it and the enormous inconvenience and annoyance which it throws upon the shoulders of the di An 1879 the revenue from this source was about 000,000, 4 per centum of the samregate business in the United States done In foreign and domestic proprictary medicines, par fumery, and cosmetics making 1e aggregate business about — $40,000,000. It compels a certain olass of cit! ry certain special taxes not rally im- poser er trades escape such taxation, but we do not object so much to the amount of the tax as to the serious hindrance which it causes in the transaction of business. In the case of imported goods ench package must be un- wrapped so that the stamp may be put upon the article itself. With this class of goods to destroy the tasteful wrapping in which they are put up is to impair their market value. Take the case of Lubin’s extracts to show that the tax is excessive. These goods at the present time pay a duty of $3 per gulion on the alcohol contained in them and 60 per centum ad yalorem,—the $3 per on being the juivalent of the internal-revenue tax on lcohol when the law was paseed in 1862 (it is now about $175),and the 50 per centum, ad valorem, bemg the amountof protection accord- ed to the American manufacturers of similar articles. In addtion the stamp tax is imposed. Is this just? It is often a oumulative tax. Take the case of bay rum. Whon it is imported aheavy duty is paid,and each cask must be stamped according to its retail price here. If a barrel is sold from the cask the barrel must be stamped in the same way, and go on down to kegs, demijohns, and bottles. Thus the original tax may be paid twice over and more. Honest dealers often suffer from the intricacies 6 law. bottle of something may sell in New York for $1and have a four-ceat stamp, in Chicago for 75 cents and have a three- cent stamp, and in some other piace for 50 cents and have A two-cent stamp, according to the law, Butif the bottle be stamped with a three- cont stamp as a 75-cent bottle, aud a dealer in the interior sells it for $1, not knowing that it should be restainped, he may be tined $50. If we sell Mr. Somebods’s nectar for the cure of something. we must stamp the bottie; but if we sell itas nectar prepared by Mr. Samebody for the cure of something, we need not stamp the bottle. The law is nonsensical, unjust, and a nuisance.” THE WINDMILL. [As great a poct.as Mr. Henry W. Lonfellow is,and though be is now an old man, he takes delicht it writing for children. - Here is the very latest poem be bas produced. It was written for the Youth’s Companion, and is called * The Windmill” Behold, a giant am I! ‘Aloft here in my tower, With my granit jaws I devour ‘Tho maize, the wheat, and the rye, ~ And grind them into flour. Look down over the farms; In the fields of grain 1 see ‘The harvest that is to be, And I ting aloft my arms For I know it is all for me, Lhear the sound of flatls Far off from the thrastring-floors In barng with their open doors: And the wind, tho wind in my saila, ‘Louder and louder roars. I stand here in my place, ‘With my foot on the rock below; And, whichever way it may blow, Imeet it face to face, Asa brave man meets his foe, And, while we wrestle and strive, ‘My master, the miller, stands ‘And feeds ie with his bands, For he knows who makes him thrive, ‘Who makes him lord of lands, On Sundays I take my rest; Church-going bells begin Their low, melodious din; I cross ny arms on my bi And all is peace within. Nothing but childish daisies all year round) coaSnusily God's hand the curtain raises, And [ can hear his merry voice’s sound, ‘And feel bim at my side— My little boy that died. —<—___— HUMOR. a io issue at West Point is ing to settle sc acan toa question of signature and nig- nature.—Philadelphia Bulletin. Out in Nevada they favor cremation,;and yet their land isa’t good for anpthing except to muke graveyards of.—Boston Post, Jeomargarine flies, with their brililantly- colered wings. Tarn tteclog hither and thither, more especially thither.—Danbury News. couples were united in matrimony the other evening ina town in this State, and the focal pupers headed thoevent: “Six heartsthat bent as three.—New Fork Commercial Advertiser. The Philadelphia North American tells of a man given up by the doctors. When a man is given up by Philadelphia doctors it is strong evidence that his money {3 all gone.—Boston Post. ~ Commodore Nutt, the dwarf, has opened a saloon in New York, It would be a terrible temperance lecture if, while drawing beer, he should fall in the glass and be drowned.—Phila- delphia Kronikle- Hes Emerson says evel WZ Food in man leans on something higher. merson is right. We have aman lean on a telegraph pole, and tho only good in him was beer. At least be sald 16 was good.—Norristown He wer great a liuracadet may havo been pdfore entering the Academy, tho very moment he passes the gute of that immaculate mileary monastery the lies depart from him like qui fretful porcupine. and be s fees xo, cutting down a cherry tree on r li Perkins. could it be nossible for him tobe o L a FASHION NOTES. New York Sun. 'This is tulip week in flower fashions. Artificial flowers are smaller and finer. All sorts of lace and net mitta areto be worn. Undressed kid gioves must be fn light shades. Amber-colored roses are worn on black hate. tnneny and ageressive draperies are mori- und. ‘The yellow flower of the momentis the labur- num. Jerseys continue to be the most popular Lon- don suits. Beads in profusion are the ornaments most in vogue. In trimmings of bonnets and dresses red pre- dominates, Archery emblems make pretty hat snd coif- fure decorations. Diamond epaulets are replaced by those of flowers in Paris. There is & tendency to revive the simple dresses of former days. Yellow, red, heliotrope, and écru grow more and more fashionable. Fra Diavolo and Bolero are the names given to two new London hata. Towels are beautifully decorated with cross stitch and other embroideries. Brides‘ traveling costumes are called “going- away dresses” in England. Flower epauiots will be the featare of sum- mer-night festival and ball dresses. Linen dusters in long mantle shay aro brought out this summer so fnely fished and fitted asto be adopted by women of taste and fashionable prestige. Zola bonnets will be much worn at matinées, evening receptions, and festivals. Artifelal flower aprons are the Iatest novelty in these lovely, frail art creauons. Blankets are as much decorated as any other kind of bed clothing and covering. Pointed corsages. though riuch worn, have not superseded round waists with belts. Bed linen—piltow shams, sheets, and counter panes—hus caught the art decorative fever. Lisle thread gloves come in great variety, fin er finished and cheaper than last year. Table cloths are openworked in stripes and squares, to show the red cloth beneath them. Old-fashioned bead bags ars sometimes secu carried by Indies walking in Fourteenth street. Low coiffures are worn by young ladies, high , Roman crown braids and puff3 by matrons. : Nun’s veiling is the latest white and cream colored novelty for summer tollets of ceremony. Many linen suits will be made with almost Plalz ekivts and plain round corsages with wide Lace albums are the latest fancy of women rho have no real work to occupy their leisure jours. Brifal dresses are made of white satin with pesos dots,and trimmed with tulle and orange 8, Dresses of sun color, covered with beads that simulate precious stones, are worn by Paris grande dames. The most fashionable long gloves for full dress are of undressed kid, white, or in very pale shades of color. Bow-and-arrow combs and ornaments for the hat and hair stow the tendency of popular faney for archery. A queer freak of fancy is to lace up dreases with silk Incing strings and leave the tags hang~. ing a8 ornaments. New tennis rules change the hight of the net at the posts to nine inches, the hight in the mid- dle remaining as before. Flirting fans in 4-¢er petal shapes, decorated with sentimental flower and heart designs painted on them, are Inte novelties, Heliotrope is the most prominent color in most. elogant toilets, and shirring is the noticenblo trimming of ‘all light and semi-diaphanous Black silk ‘and satin toflets of ceremony are taade brilliant with embroideries of biack 24 gmiber and: irridescent beads of fine quality an small size. ‘The prettiest old-fashioned bead bag seen in, Fourteenth street was of fine black beads with golden bees done in gold beads all over the black bead groundwork. The ceinges and tassels, were of strands of black and gold CENSUS ENUMERATORS. Some .of the Delicate Rizhts They Aru. Bound to Kespect. Detroit Free Press. In a few days more the cenaus man will take : his book under his arm and start out to make‘ his mark on this decade. Under the new law they have a legal right to ask about 500 ques- tions, but there is such a thing ns a census man golng too far. It is well enough for defense- Jess families to know where the line is drawn. No census man has a right to dispute a woman when she gives her age. Under the law he can elevate his eyebrows and exclaim: “Did you ever?” when u female supposed to bo 45 returns her age at 8, but he must stop right there. Ho may wonder to himself where on earth all the gandmotners of this country have suddenly to, but he mustn’t wonder to you. census man bas a legal right to ask a woman ff she is living with her first, second, or third husband, or whether she quarrels more with the third than the first. The law supposes every family to be living in peace and harmony, and the United States Government never takes any notice of a family row brought on by the being kissed in the dark. Under the law, no census-taker has any id to ask a wife how many even! in 2 week her husband is out after il o’cl or what is the subject of her remarks when he slips in at the side door. ‘This great and glorious Government has always been conducted on the principle that clubs, lodges, and societies were a part of its foundation. ‘The law does not specify that the census man shall ask a wife if she couldn't have done better by waiting for 2 second offer. This information is supposed to be: cheer ally: volunteered, and is marked with a big red “X” to signity the offi- ciai's belief that if she hndn’t accepted the offer she did she would have died an old m aid. A baby with the measies counts just as much in law a3 one galloping around barefooted fn. the front-door yard. ‘The law requires the cen- eus-taker t> remark that your baby {s the nand- somest one in the ward. If he neglects to do so he should be called back. For the benefit of wives who do their own housework and are ashamed to have it known, diunks are furnished with a heading which reads: “Is generally in the habit of keeping fou r servants, but has just given her help a va- cation.” ‘The new law is also very generous in another matter. The ceneus-taker may legnily inquire ‘who lives next door, but it !ssapposed that most women will fill out and sign the following: “ Family named Bisnk; no style about ‘em: he wears a shabby hat, and she never combs her hair until 3 p. m.; they have a carriage, but ¥ don't believe it’s paid for; they allow thelr chil- dren to throw stones at our dos id permit them to play on mouth organs; “they say’ she bas diamonds, but I don’t believe it; lots of call ers, but I presnme they were there to collect bills. Toall of which Esubscribe myself,” etc. —$—$——— ONE WOMAN. ; A Little Story Showing How Irresisti< ble a Frontier Lady Is When She Sets About It. Denver Tridune TWyoming Correspondent. Cummins City is stili a crude metropolis. So- ciety has not yet arrived at the white vest and lawn sociable period there. There is nothing to hamper any one or throw a tiresome restraint around him. You walk up and down the street without feeling that the vigilant eye of the po- Iceman is upon you, and when you register at the leading hotel the proprietor don’t ask how much baggage you have or insist upon it that your valise ought to be blown up with a quill to give ita robust appearance. Speaking of this hotel, however, brings to my mind a little inci- dent which really belongs in here. There are two iadies at this plnce, the only ones in the city limits, if my memory servcs me, One of these ladics owns a lot of poles or honse-logs which were at the tine of which I speak on the dump, as it were, ready to be used in the construction of a new cabin. It seems that some of the mule citizens of the cor- poration, without the feat of God or the Com- mon Council of Cummins City, hud been appro- prin ting these logs from time'to time until oub of a goud tuir assortment there remuined only a dejected little pile of culls. The owner had watched with yreat annoyance the gradual disappearance of her property from day to day, and it made her lose faith in the tinal redemp- tion of all mankind, She became cynical and misanthropical, lost her interest In the future, and becamne low-spirited and unhappy. One day, however, after this thjpg had proceeded about fur enough, she went to her trunk, and tuking outa large size of navy revolver,;—the ktud that sends so many Western men to’ their long home,—she went out to whero a group of men had scattered themseives out around camp to smoke. She wasn’t t Inrge woman ut all, but these men respected her. Though they were only rough miners there in the wilderness, they ree- og.uzed that she was a woman, and they recog- nized {t almost at a zlance, too. There she was alone among a wild group of men is the mount- ains,far from the protecting arm of tbe law and softening influences of metropolitan life, and yet the common feeling of guilantry im- lanited in the musculine breast was there. She Indicated with a motion of her revolver that she desired tocall the meeting to order. There seemed tobe ageneral anxiety on the part of ‘every man present to come to order just us soon, as circumstances would permit. Then she made a ehort speech relative tu the matter of housc- loge, and suggested that unless a certain num- ber of those articles, now invisible to the nuked eye, were placed ata certuin point, ora certain amount of kopecks placed on file with the Chair- man of the meeting within a specificd time, that, perdition would be popping on Main street in about two and one-half ticks of the chronome- ter. ‘There didn’t secm to be uny desire on the mart of the meeting toamend the motion or lay it on the table. Although it was ar- bitrary and imperative, and although ‘an opportunity was gree: for a free expression of opinion, there didn’t seem to be any desire to take advantage of it. A committee of three wus appointed to carry out the suggestions of the Chair, and in about haif an hour, the house-logs and kopecks having been placed on deposit at the places designated, the meeting broke up, subject to the cali of the Chairman. It was not a very long session, put it was very harmonious: very harmonious and very orderly. There was no calling for the previous question or rising to a point of order. The pale-faced men who com- posed the Convention did not look to the cusual observers as though they had come there to raise oints for debate aver’ parlfamentary practice. ey kept their eyo on the Speaker's desk, and didn’t interrupt each other, or sti le to see who would get the floor. It is wonderful this in- herent strength of weakness, a3 I might sny, which enables a woman amid a throng of reck- less men to command their respect and obe- dience sometimes where main strength and aw] ess would not avail. FAILURE. New Yor«, June 5.—E. M. Crawford & Son, wholesale dealers in tobacco, have failed. E. 3f. Crawford is President of the Tobacco Board of ‘Trade. ‘The failure was the resulzof losses sus- tained by the failure af aetore ped oan rt ,000 in Florida. Tibiiidiee atone ipabout $0000. They ofee to compromise for 60 cents on the dollar.