Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1892, Page 11

CALLING BONNET. ‘From the Philadelphia Times BONNET OF BLACK VELVET W A MIXLD JET AND STRAW BORDER AND TRIMMED WITH A BOW OF ALMOND GREEN AND OLD GOLD OR ROSE COLOR REVERSIBLE RIBBON, BLACK JETTED LACE POMPONS. WEDDING TOILET How Modern Brides Should Dress to Be in Style. | ae larger womanhood, not a narrowed one. ‘The pretty girl, the pampered girl, the already | selfish woman, the untrained child are going out of fashion. The pictures I have chosen are only a few of many. ‘The beauty of soul is being acknowledged. We may hope for better timer, better men, better homes, and when that is said all is said. By the way. only one of these women wears earrings. ‘The others have delicately modeled ears, «sure sign of innate refinement. They have all well-marked eyebrows, a sure sign of well-balanced mental power. well-marked iashes,and that is a sure sign of the poet imaginative capabilities that go to makeup the lovely women. They all show those minor points of delicate beauty by virtue of which a woran is truly lo By the way, THREE GOOD TYP Women Fit to Re Life-Long Compant Characteristic Faces—The Best Man Mie Daties—Abolish the Wedding Trip— | J am willing t» wager that they all have smod:h, Farrings Not Wor clear skin, the sort of skin that a wéman et with « well-balanced mind and the good diges- tion that usually attends such a mind has, and I will wager, too, that their hands are as full of character, as beautifully unbeautiful as are their faces, Special Correspondence of The Evening Star New Your, Dec. 9 RPSS AND USAC weddings sball be the abject of this article. One marrage toilet may be seen in the ini- tial sketch and another next below. In these cases the brides chose to depart from conven- tional usage and garb emselves like girls ar- rayed modest! becommgly for an ev |__ ing part white satin and the ellishments were in In the the waist and kirt were embroidered by hand in the finest con- I< ceivabie mai \ an exceedingly toilet, as well as sxe If you would follow the conventional and never-changing French form of wedding " . TI a han ~ gown must be high-neck and long-sleeved Apri we really high and long. not filled in. You will and simple. This thus carry out the old-time notion of being a young bride wore vo veil, or orange blossoms, or anything else to denote that she was at her own wedding. That was ber fancy. The bride of the second re put on a veil and a wreah of orsnge blossom® The iilustration ws the eas only, with its widely puffed siceves. its high bodice and its trailing skirtembroidered in wilk and edged with lace. To a prospective bride who wriies to ask what she shall wear at the altar in order not to be “the usual sort of thing” I can ouly reply ‘that nine-tenths of the bridal dresses are still land tho bride dress as low aa her neck permits.and, +h woman never would, the wears je “The bride wore. magnifi- cent pendant of diame the gift fSroom, and a tiara from her father.” often we see such «line in the description of sweil weddings. In the form of marching in nd the arrangement of the party much lati- tude is allowed the taste and even fan the bride. ‘The fancy that is governed by made of white satin or silk. Of course, I mean | the fundamental idea of the bride as a what aro called fuil dress weddings. But there | veiled and modest virgin brought to fe a growing independence as to marriage robes, | her husbard is most likely to evolve a end any girl may indulge her own taste—if it really tastefal and be good—in choosing the gown. which has as its c mpressive wedding. That f purpose the “starring,” as it were. of the bride is pretty close to vul- garity. The attendants are, as the bride de- cides, bridesmaids or pages. "If the bride bas a sister or a vecy dear friend +be is maid of honor, aud bears to the bride the relation that the best man does to the groom. Often all but the sister or friend are dispensed with on the bride's side, who has then merely the maid of honor. Ushers. who are supposed to equal i number the bridesmaids and balance the part are essential, whether there are any maid: not. They see to seating the people if it isa church wedding, and to disposing the guests at a house wedding. Only after sll this is done does the bridal party appear, and then the Ushers are free to take their part in the bridal march or to take their places as has been ar- ranged. A MARRIAGE DRESS. In further illustration of the wedding topic I es from photogexphs of actual brides have ail married within a month. So far us they are fashion plates thoy show three styles of hair dressing and of « as coustder then ethically. In | used to marry too young. ye bere given and you will idea of how the andard of brides | hat been raised im latter vears. » one of these ladies i levs than twenty They THIRD PRIDE. range between that and twenty-eight. The ‘ faces are bright, verious and self-c Whether or no there is a maid of honor, Not the faces of shildren and there must bea best man. He is suppored to Dut those of women fit t be on hand and to know everything the groom forgets, and as the groom probably forgets everything you see how important the best man is. He is almost more important than the the men whom # Lape in each case Oniy — " - groom, | Ta fact, I know of swell wedding i Cae op . en. where the best man, standing, of course, cio-o eS = reecesy eek’, to the elbow of the groom during the ceremony, Sthore, aud one whiapers to iinecif, “Sten are | Made half the responses, owing to th» groom's po a in pretty faces aad beawetar , Foice gong bach on kim. Iti the best man who knows where the ring 1, the best man who | Wakes care of itand nudges the groom when it in time to.use it and itis the best mma who knows which ix the bride, and keeps the groom from distractedly marrying one of the maids or Yhe mother. The maid of honor, or the first bridesmaid, performs the same ,oflices for the bride, who is never in the flalby and scared nthe groom is in. From the church bride and groom go ina carriage to the vate of the brite. ‘There ts held a briet recep~ tion or, if it isa morning wedding, the usual breakf ast. AFTER THE CEREMONY. Arrangements are usually made so that there isa train to catch, or they all pretend there is, and the bride slips away as soon as she can to dou her traveling gown. For a morning wed- ding the groom has worn a suit in which be can | travel, wales be has been very French and does as the Freuchmen do for the 11 o'clock | weddings, worn a fuli-dress suit. In that case | bis best man drags him off to an apartment | provided, and sees that he does not get his | traveling cont on wrong side out. Then the | two pretend to “slip away,” and of course they - | are discovered, and that is the time for rice aud FiRsT BRIDE. |all that As to « wedding Journey, that is as figures: they are marrying women, and sou!and | they please. The English custom is to “bor- intellect.” Here and there a close study of on: for a week of so the country Louse or or another of the faces leads to ting lodge of : that there te lacking a cer.ain confiding soft hours oat of town. It is nothing short of ue! etinn. Bu aigar and uncivilized to start « woman oif on ‘sis comes only from 4 certain lack ef beart | abe it ward that this Iack is to be sup- plied. There women with straightforward, earnest eyes and quiet lips are going to mec the duties of wifehood as it should best an fsely by met, and those datios, the new the mew surrounding of care and tender- ment and weariness of a formal wedding cere- mouy. Some people have a craze for starting to Europe. Good gracious! Of course reason- | able people expect to lave thelr illus time, bat why take the risk of throwing the:a up at | once? “Aud I should think the miseries attend- | Ont 00 a ces voyage would effectually do it. ood | it# softness about their | hx woman into | the developing of & well-rounded ‘women at bis hand The years will bring these | MOKSYOKD'S ACID PHOSPHATE Imaparta Benowed Strength and vigor where there as been exaustion. They have all | veiled virgin in all wavs, and don't depend | upon transparent tulle veiling. Here andin Eng- | of | friend, som place oaly « | a long trip on care or boat after ail th: excite- | TH® EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©. SATURDAY. matter atall. That things twisted up a bit and the interviewer was eeacriowee was not THE CAB SYSTEM. eee HG of the paper was not such as to business, but on the other hand was far likely to'benefit it by bringing both and public toa better understanding si He was also to a stop were put to any ex! be it would really be a positi the better class of cabmen, end could see that class could find Tux Stan's printing ‘any and ov ‘But I say, guv'nor, you might say s word for us fellows while you're writing about it, for you must know that our life ain't no snap at the best of it, and there ain't no danger of any of us dying millionaires. You know there are eo man: le in this world that ex- pect a lot for nothing, and how they do hate to pay for it. Why, bere only the other night I ot a ——— call bsg ah near to Le Droit font, and when I go there ‘there wasn't any- Some More About Its Excellencies and Its Defects. Ft if He 3 4 i asses z e ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. att i Why the Original Article was Written—Not to Attack the Cab Drivers, but Solely to Find Ont the Evils of the System—Extracts From the Inspector's Report. last Saturday's Stan of a reporter who was sent| thing init fier all” That whet I” call bard if is - | Anda or two 0 a out by Gar- at Sorerity Se his S| San staaelial ca wee Ugaatice To aeenon Periences among the cab drivers of Washington would seem to have been pretty generally rend, if one may judge by the amount of criti- cism and communica- tions to the paper which it has called forth. The cab driver whose letter to Tue Stan was printed on Thurs- day started out with the idea, evidently, that the reporter was sent out for the sole purpose of attacking the cub system of this city. Noth- ing, of course, wontd pe farther from the truth, a8 any one will see from an unprejudiced read- ing of the story. In the single case of over- charge which’ was reported in that column it may be held technically that it was not an over- y in the story the | statement wae made that if it was an overcharge | it was so small and so politely made that it was | paid willingly and without demur. At the same Ume it is doubtful if any one would claim that | the cab system of Washington is without its faults, for even the cab driver himself udmitted that there might be a few black sheep among bis clan. The experience of the woman who | wrote her letter to I'm Stan printed on Thure- | day is also itself proot positive that women are | not always treuted even by cab drivers with the | consideration that is shown to large and lusty | men. man only wanted to goa few blocks, and when he got out he handed mea quarter.” That was the legal fare, I know, but it did seem to me as though he might have given mea little some- thing extra for myself after coming so far, but idn't. I've got a wife and two children, and I tell you some days it’s protty hard scrap- ping to make things come out even. “Now, look bere, some night supposing you was to get boiling drunk? Why, of course, the most natural thing for your friends to do would be to send for acab and send you home in it. The cab might have to come a good ways for you and then maybe only goa halfa mile to get you home and all you'd give me would be a uarter. Now I give you my word I've been in business over six years and I’ bilked a drank yet. It ain't the eort of busi- ness I would be in if I could get a better job, but there are lote of men as good as me and better that’s in it. O course there are some sharks in it as well as there are everywhere, and I suppose if they got written up it would help the rest of usalot. But I wish you'd tell the people of this city that we ain't all such a had lot as they think wo are, and that we'll treat them square if they'll give uaa chance. “Thank you, I knew you'd be willing to do the square thing by us fellows, And say, look here, the next time you want to take a cnb ride you look out for me. I know you now, and you needn't be afraid I'll ever overcharge you.” A SUFFERER'S COMPLAINT. “I observe in a recent issue. of Tae Stax,” remarked a sufferer to the philanthropic reporter who is doing what he can to correct some of the faults of a cab age, “that one of the cab- men protests against his class being called an organized band of robbers. The cabman quite right in bis protest. The cabmen are not an organized band of robbera; they are a dis- organized band, but they get there just the Having my own carriage and horses I aye at the mercy of a cabman, but ill hapyen even in the best regu- lated families and one day I was compelled to call a cab to take me from the Shorebam to the | Baltimore and Potomac station, a distance of seventeen squares, worth at tariff rates 35 cents. The cabman insisted that it was 50 centsand I in wasn't,but my argu- 5 cents, and it went. On another occasion I started with two ladies to walk part way to the theater, intending to stop form moment at the Arlington and meet my carriage there. A snow storm came up, the carriage failed to appear and we took a cab at the Arlington stand and drove to the Acudemy of Music. The cabman eaid it wasadollar. I had no change leas than a dollar, there was a crowd at the door and I dropped a quarter and that cabman. After the performance I ran across him by chance and thought how I could work him by having him take us home and then even up,by paying him a half dollar only. ‘That was a scheme, and when he delivered his loud on 17th street near H, a distance of twelve squares, I gave him the half and he gave me the laugh und wanted a half more, aud ax I couldn't have « row before the ladies and didn’t experiences of cab generally are Tuz| want to get thumped anyway, even in a per- Sran will print hereafter sach communica- | feetly secluded and private tasnner, [haried tions as may be forwarded to it giving the ex-| jim over a doll soxe with myself for periences of its readers with the johus of this Over. thas: lou halt—and city. All such communications must of course sch) a iaydike Simcuner 20 i bad be signed with the name and address of the feourse, but didn't keep my grip, and writer. In case of a supposed overcharge on 5 invaestitnen thauglt thatthe cet iriver the part of the (ued taust state the | would have been a jay himself to lose that half j distance traversed that is to say, the points st | when he had such delightful chump to deal {which the ride began and ended, the route! with, ut that doesn’t excuse bis violation of the ordinance and my confidence, and I want to give my testimony against those arraigned before the bar of public justice. In two years 1 have had occasion to use a cab only three times and Aghia timate 1am grateful that one at least out of those re- mains asa souvenir to me of honesty on wheels. move is not to attack : : 1n other respects Lam doing quite well, thank the eab drivers, but solely and only to find ont| 5 - Meida ttle cue what the evils of the If any cab driver of the city w matter seriously he will that if the ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. The hack inspector in his recent report,which is quoted below, is authority for the statement | that “there is room for improvement.” It for the purpose of finding out Just where this improvement might be le to the greatest ad- vantage that Tue Stan man made his little jaunt around the city. ‘To say that everything is as it should be would be as foolish a to say that everything is bad, and the main purpose of the article was to show what belonged under each category. It is certain almost bevond a doubt that a man who is familiar with the legal tariff for cab Vashington ride more cheaply and more satisfactorily here than in almost any other city of Aterica, As proof of this, in part, it may be said that [the same Star ‘reporter yest afternoon took a coupe, neatly gotten up and drawn by a good hors and driven by a colored driver, front of the War, State and building and drove from there to the corner of 1th street and Penneylya When he dis- mounted he hance proper fare, and it was received with a polite “thank you.” Whether the average woman or an unsophisticated stranger in the city, whether man or woman, would have been let of as “dy would be a hard question to anewer. iences of a number of women re- counted to Tue Stax reporter before and since the original article wis written would make it | look as though there was some doubt about | thix being the case. For the purpore of finding eut just what the gone over and the amount charged.’ Only ench sas are vouched for by respon- in, of course, be regarded. S$ OF THE system. at the object of this | To ascertain rae most immediately people of thix city, ae well as the temporary visitors, can feel sure that they may call any cab in sight, drive to their desired des- tination and then be charged the exact and proper legal fore for that distance, or for the time occupied, if by the hour, the ‘number of people who would ‘make useof the cab fre. quently w be very greatly increased. This weli borne out by tho case of the | | Woman mentioned in Thursday's Stan, who id that she rarely if ever took a cab b | she could not afford to p: | was demanded of her for each trip, and w | very much surprised when «he found out that | the legal fare was only a quarter. If the cab | drivers wouid only think of the number of fares | they have lost through that one woman alone they may realize that it is poor policy conxid- ered from a mere business standpoint to charge | half a doliar for a quarter dollar job. ‘to | show this, as well as to show the people gener- | ally what rights the public have in the premises, | was the sole and only aim of Tae STAR in its | now famous “cab article.” Such at least were | the directions given to the two reporters who | collaborated the article and such was their in- tention in the matter. To find out what others who are in a position to speak authoritatively in the matter might think on the subject a Stax reporter yesterday called upon Hack Inspector Groff to learn of the situation from his point of view. TRE HACK INSPECTOR'S REPO! Inspector Groff when questioned caid that he did not care to be interviewed. He said, how- ever, that he did not think there was another city in the United States where there was less overcharging by the drivers of public vehicles. Ho referred the reporter to his annual report made only afew weeks ugo, in which he first | gives the number of licensed vehicles and « of his work during the past year, : Vehicles licensed, 574: vehicles in- spected, 565; vehicles rejected, 16; vebicles re- inspected and paswed, 15: licenses transferred, | 13; articles left in vehiclos reported by passen- | gers, 23; articles found in vehicles reported by | drivers, $3; cnses tried at Police Court, 84 | cases amicably adjusted, 33; hack stands in the | to the various siands, 394. INSPECTION OF THE VESICLES. — The Story of a Ringer, From the Chieag» Times. “When I hear of jockeys pulling their hosses for a few paltry dollars,” remarked a vetera sport Friday evening inthe Wellington, “it always reminds me of the hot day when the box held over $109,000 on Small Hopes at Bos- ton.” The story was acked for and was told as fol- | pows: ‘ighteen years xgo there was no trotter on earth us fast as Sm all Hopes and but few people knew it. He could trot in 2:12, which was a phenomenal gait at thai time, He was owned y Dr. Deyo of Jackson, Mich., but be never know the speed of the colt. Deyo got in finan- cial dificulties, and the sheriff was about to swoop down on him when the horse was spir- ited away. Bill McGuigan, the vetern driver, took hold of him and be’ began to campaign him. He beat everything in bis class, and then he started in as ® ‘ringer.’ He went through M onsin, Iowa and Minnesota, and won a barrel of money. He was in the .30 class, then the .25and thea the .18. On reaching Kansas City the crowd—two ‘rabbera and MeGuigan —went broke, and there wagn't enough to ay the entrance fee. A gambler named Prentise was seen, and be was told of wbat Me- Guigan had. Prentiss said if he would show him a moonlight trial in .20 be would advance $1,000, Small Hopes was hooked to # sulky and without even a pacemaker he covered the dis- tance in 2.17, Then Prentiss wanted to buy the animal, but he wasn't for sale. Two days fol- lowing’ he was entered in the 2.20 race and ho won in slow time, He was shipped that even- ing to Boston, where he was entered in the 2.25 trot along with Dictator and other fast ones. Prentiss went along and stood to win a fortune, but the trick was discovered. Small Hopes had white hind leg and in order Yo disguise him it was painted. ‘The race was for blood and the little horse was pushed. being driven out in 2.19. The next heat he won in 2.18 and then a rowd gathered at the stable, While he was be- ing rubbed the driver of Dictator a his hand down over the painted leg and the color stuck to his hand. A loud cry of ‘ringer’ went " up. McGuigan was arrested and the rubbers Following this he sa; exc ‘AN’ bets were. callod off and finally Ihave personally inspected all licensed pub- | the horse was sold to Vanderbilt for $17,000. | Small Hopes was the greatest ringer the Amer- lic vehicles and rejected all unfit for service. rep panied Thave found a few not exactly in appearance 4s I would want them, but I bave not rejected them, because the substantialness which they had is the mose essential qualification, yegulates appearances. Patrons alwa the finest appearing vehicles, and owners, real- ‘Trickey's Death’ May Save Dr. Graves. Henry G.Trickey, the dead Boston reporter, ‘was one of the chief witnesses in the Dr. Graves : ; der case at Denver. The latter's friends izing this, are seldom slow to discover that it is | ™™ to their financial benefit not to allow their ve- | MA* that in the event of a new trial Tricker’ hicles. to become very shabby ia appearance, {death will ave the doctor. Trickey swore to My frequent vists to the hack stands reaulted in | the infamous condemnation of Widow Barnaby «marked improvement in the appearance of | 6Y Dr. Graves. vehicles and benetited the service in general. All cases of the slightest irregularity were im- medintely investigated and the guilty parties held to strict account. As much as I can learn of other cities I be- lieve that our hack system is at prevent effectu- ally second to that of no other city. Yet there is room for impyovement, aes respectfully suggest that your suggestion o! the last fixcal year to the honorable Commis- stoners to license all drivers of public vehicles be again urged upon them. Also that provis- jon be made to publish in pamphlet form all the laws pertaining to the hack service, a copy to be furnished each driver, that they may conversant with every detail and have no ex- cave to plead ignorance of any of the laws and lations. 9 couelision allow me to express my thanks for your many untiring efforts, kind acts and beneficial suggestions for the promotion of the huek service. I must not negiect also to acknowledge my appreciation of the earnest efforts of many of the officers of your depart- ment to give to this representative city « repre- sentative hack eystem. ‘TRE CABMAN'S SIDE, All stories have several sides and this story | is no exception to the genéral ruie, The other side this time is the eabman's side. What does he think about it all? This is not eh an easy muatier to find oat as one might imegine, for cabby is nota toikative mdividual unless he wants to be, and be iano more euxions than | any on sine to tell what he considers Interests himsei(a.one. Yesterday afternoon THz STAB | mas was unasualiy fortanate, for a cabman | yoluntariis banted bisn up tor the parpoye of |iBterviewing hima on the recon Tue Stam might bave for maying enything about the! trimmed nN —F BOME-MADE PANTALOONS. How & Girl of the Revolution Manatee tured « Pair for Her Brother, From the Greenfield (Mass ) Garette. “Late in the afternoon of one of the last dare of May, in the year "76, when I (Mra Bunice Locke Richards) wae = few months short of fifteen veare old, notice came to Townsend, Mass, where my father used to live, that fiftecs, soldiers were wanted “The training band was instantly called ont, and my brother, that was next ‘Was one that was sclected. He till late at night, when we were ali in bed. When I rose in the morning [found my mother in tears, who informed me that my brother, John, was to march next day after tomorrow morning at sunrise. My father was in Moston inthe Massachusetts assembly Mother sa that though Joha was supplied with eunmer clothes he must suffer for winter cerments, There were at this time no storesand ne articles to be had. except euch ax each family oould make iteelf. The right of mothers tears ale ways brought all the Ludden sire bode and mind into action. I instantly asked what ‘ment wae neeled She replied PF Joon Mh. if that ts all, J a EMBER. 10, 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES ven aS = ! too, an@ the helpers, who repair in the aggre GOING FOR A BRIDE. gate 350 pouches a day. know that it is no easy — | Matter to pound a hammer along to mechanical How an Army Lieutenant Went to Seck a fame and screnty-iye of Unele Sam's hard Wife and Got Her. REPAIRING MAIL BAGS 2 : just beyond Superintendent Kirkbride has a | Het bis mustach ively, eS iat te Oe een ee nara oi lencteoes te ot ateny anaes Sam’s Shop. and began as follows THE ANNUAL SAVING. | leads the visitor bevond tire locality where sail- |makers are patching up registered canvas! “As most of you fellows know, I went to | onpnee B fe-plage mn room, where the hard-| Nantucket # year ago to get married. That ne. “ When it comes to the actual rejuvenation of a, ¥8* Just before I got my promotion to the com- canvas or jute sack there is probably nothing |™#nd of @ troop. It was a beautiful day in much more tough to sew upon, except seasoned June when Teft Boston, bound for the tight little lumber or cast trou. ‘The sewing room attends island, taking a train from the Old Colony sta- tion at about noon. Iwas as happy as 8 maa | to that particular need of the repair shop, how- | $7¢f, and 100, employes make it their basiness | 1 01a teal who ts going to wed the girl of his choice within twenty-four hours. to turn out 4,000 serviceable pieces of patch- “I had bought three or four comic pa work every working da: The male sex can't handle a needle properly in official opinion, and is consequently barred beyond assisting t0| pers, feeling ina mood for humor, and was composing myself for their perusal when the conductor came along and asked for my ticket. bring up the defective sacks, carrying them | down when repaired, and keep tab on the quan- He was a very solemn-looking person, and he eyed me with a frown ashe punched the bit of tity and quality of the work produced. The 100 employes of the sewing room are all women, of | Pasteboard Ihanded him. As he gave it back to me he said: | all ages, all colors and previous conditions o servitude, To sew serviceable pieces over the rents of forty sacks is an average day's labor, “*Are you the gentleman who is going to marry Miss Coffin in Nantacket tomorrow: “I replied with an astoniched affirmative, won- ‘What Has Been Accomplished Under Post- master General Wanamaker’s Adminis- tration—The Making of All the Bags Soon to Be Done by the Government. ae a OSTMASTER GE eral Wanamaker bas new idea for cheapen: ing the cost of the na- tional mail service. Partially, at least, the innovation will be put into active operation and 3! cents per sack is the entire amount which congressional spproprintions permit the | department to pay. It is exhausting manual Isbor of the most exhausting kind, but it is not before he retires from | > dering bow he could possibly have known. He 8nd weave him « pai be gore.’ “Bat. office next March, and | Flores car eo minch ‘per mouts sro some af | Paeted on Without giving me au opportunity to aid mother, thn wool is on the serps task in almost any event the | the skilled piece workers in the government "lve the riddie, and did not have another 404 the sbrep a > wee ~ Mi old-fashioned eather | printing office. The sewing room may bea mafia mandir gma one pa Bim take the salt dish and % mail pouch has seen its | §tinding down of the Inborer, but it doesn’t | “On arriving at Woods Holl 1 was obliged to i them to the ° ; < | Poor child, there are .. | look that way superficially, nor is the grinding | ¥*it for an hour on the wharf for the steam- > Gums wena : day. It will be super- | °° 0 intere, of a corporationor monopoly. | Boat which was to convey me to the island. | T*.*heep rhears within th uolios ont 0 tell. seded by a cotton canvas pouch with leather 7 As I stood and looked across the water in the | (1. mall shears st the loom,’ eid L bottom, and tonsidering that the service has sovigied Gelman direction of Nantucket, my mind filled with | “But you caw weave it in so short @ time. ‘I am certain, The In proportion to the amount of work re- | we nired the pay is fully as large as that allowed the male employes, although some of the female labor associations have made life a burden at times for the second assistant postmaster | general and the chiefs of division under him. an, mother.” “How about 1,000,000 leather pouches in use now the a Postmgster Géneral’s intest plan should effect a saving ultimately of about $2,500,000. Expe- | rience with the present cotton canvas sacks in transporting second, third and fourth-class — thoughts a: anticipations, a small y with a large string of fish cage an: a en wees a atime. He gazed at me for so long a time that | #8 the loom. at length I demanded to know what there was | “Br this time the sound of the shop made me about my appearance that excited his curiosity. | (wicken my #teps toward the yard. [ requested Still keeping his eyes intently upon me and | ™ sister to bring the wh rds while ft | 8 " Pe aces, bs | went for the w I went to the yard with my others, and besides a fully equipped pouch of | ghouid cut off a slice of the aj, marry the young lady in Nantucket.” | Tehoared with m: half enongh for | this character will cost barely $2.30, where the leather pouch is worth $5 at contract figures. The echeme is one which has long been dis cussed by Mr. Wanamaker, Second Assistant | Bell and Maj. B.D. Tyler, chief of the mail equipment division. Various plans were thor- oughly studied and this week a force of mon Was put to work making a dozen or more of the Proposed new pouches, which are to be used as alarger appropriation is allowed this session with thy by my y the great horned epoon awob. We then rest of hee the ruling prices may be increased, because the | ‘How on earth did you know that! | Beece. Teent the wool t chief of the equipment division has succeeded | “I Just guessed it,” was the only response be | @84 Luther ran f in reducing the annual expenses from #28. vonchsafed. | while l cut wool of to $260,000 during the last fow years, “At last the boat came and I went aboard, | the warp. and then we ni } the volume of work handled by the “repeir | wns still engaged in puzzling over the recogni- | th Temaining conrse part shop” hna increased 15 per cent in the sims tion I had encountered at the hands of the con-| Test of the narrative the writer, | time. ‘The saving has been made by utilizing ductor and the small boy, because I had met PY *aving that the wool thas « | old odds and ends in furaishing the needed Miss Coffin in Boston and bad never before | catded, « shed, sized Texclaimed. | t gerry No i . found a few doors of, the web “got in a4 " 5 - | Fepairs,and the all-around net gain to tho | been in that part of the country through which | ¥8* “ * Been Oe eee rina sono teen” | cpa tiatet ban adlynmenl Tro tiMis oc mathing | ven wow foucsaieg,. My comets neste | em Salo SERN. Sak tok eee after. These dozen pouches will be sent te the | to nearly 25 per cent. creased when the stewardess came up to me | *Wo ot three hours before the brother's de Hereafter the government will manu facture its own locks for use in both the mail service and free delivery system. Ever since its extab- lishment the “repair shop” has worked over affably, and dropping a little courtesy, said: | PAtture, that is to say, in forty hours from “OF course you are the young leftenant that’s | COMMencement, without heip from any modera, going to marry Miss Susy Coffiu tomorrow. The | provement. other girls will be envying her such a fine-look- lntger post offices throughout the country so contractors can have a look at them and pre- | mat their bids to furnish a stipulated number | for the department. The government does not i ‘but the | the locks that needed tinkering, but during the ing husband.” Mat owiee ate Area pene yet, but ‘She | last fow monthe an addition ‘was made ts Gie| “She whisked heceit ewny before I bode From the London Globe Postmaster General will succeed in establishing | Building, the necessary machinery was put in /chance to ark her how she had been able to| When Darius I, according to Horofotos, and forty skilled mee! 8, who are paid by | the day identify me. I walked through the cabin, ehind lock and the pouch factory here as well. A force of 250 noticing as I did ao that several wished to erect hie statue near that of Ramee men and women now repairs bags, pouches and carry on operations young women II (Sesostris), the priests objected on the walk oo ° i key on the top floor. The crude steel required giggied and looked at me wignifieantly a» { : Manic tue 000 plecoshandlcdevecy | for the apparatus is of conree purchased from passed. ‘This, I considered, war getting to be | TOU that Sosostria was a greater conqueror year have already brought an annual saving of | Contractors, but the finished product is now | rather a bore. So I songhtrefuge on the upper | then he. The statue m qq me of turned out from the “repair shop.”” ‘The knot catch employed on the canvas and jute sacks is the simplest in construction and easily made after the so-called “dog lock” and slide have been turned to their proper shape. Like the employes at the bureau of engraving the real | locksmiths are not allowed to leave their sepa- | rate work room dnring business hours, and the | over the weddin’.’ operation of making new locks out of old ones| “‘How did you know who I was? I de- goes merrily on, while the division chief has | manded. provided safeguards against any possible filch-| “*Why, "cause everybody's been expectin’ jing of the mechanical secrets, which would you.’ make robbing mail bags aneasy matter. The | “On disembarking at | contracts with lockmaking firms have expited evident to me that the bootblack had spoken jand gradually the government product will | correctly. Quite a crowd of people was gu | take the place of pa eS spe the wharf, and I perceived that I was claimed that the official job ia. a much more | an object of general attention. eal ferviceable and less expensive idea, and the ex- | quentiy learned it is a comparatively rare oc- periments with free delivery system locks have | currence for a Nantucket girl to get married. | 80 far filled the bill satisfactorily | Owing toa scarcity of husbands most of the Naturally it will be many a long day until the | young women grow up old maids, Accordingly supply of contract locks has been absolutely Iattracted great interest and erriosity. The replaced, but the most important, results are | driver of the only hack in town was on hand to expected from the registered lock patronage. He dismounted from his There only one employe I he isin | v asked me confidentially whether I y locked, even against his fellow | would be driven to Miss Coffin's house or to Nobody is ever admitted to the | the hotel. I chose the latter alternative, and secret precincts of the registered locks, and the | presently found myself in the act of signing coin vauits of the treasury aro not more ex- | the register at the hostelry. The clerk, as be clusive. The locks used ‘on registered mail | handed mean ancient pen with whiskers on it, pouches are infinitely more intricate than the | remarked common mail Lag article, and their mechanism | _‘*‘We have your room all ready for you, lieu- is guarded as closely as the scheme of running | tenant. You are to have the bridal cbamber.’ tilk threads acrows the back of treasury notes. | “It seemed that he Knew mo because I wore Atany rate, the Postmas ral's scheme | an army cap, and it was this article of drew affords, through the trick of the new-fangled | which had ‘caused the conductor, the small registered lock, a less degree of temptation to boy, the stewardess and other persona on my the dishonesty inclined postal clerk while the | Journey to gues who Twas. To make a long pouch is en route. story short.we were inarried,and our departure The next few years may also bring the man-| from the island was witnessed by a ic part ufacinre of mail equipments under dic | of the pop Among the many strangers Ether do wot the “store hous''eal “repair | was informed, eajuped tes @ibicstion ee beter shop” will be establishments of a very unique | the only criminal that the Nantucket jail had order, ever contained. He had been the cashier of the town bank, but had been unable to keep his hands off the funds, So he was sentenced From the Chicazo Times, . | for a long term, but, in order that he might A minister well known in one of the suburbe | continue to earn n living for his family of Chicago recently Iuad an amusing though | only obliged to sleep in the jail nights, being annoringexperience, | permitted t go at large on pi the da; ‘The reverend gentleman owns and drives a Hine, Another friend I made was the restai See ee tee ie ae, ee we | deatep beeing Soa Aasog See neon Sey ee en ote Mi teing s dusty der bo | i, ommny dev ond av eames io nee Seth pave ice See eek Tl neh | "Ue cnhel away, tie Res ool wes the puny tramplike appearance. The: borse, however, | at, to ‘the continent,’ as Nantucketers call the | Was Weil, GTRGGAE” GLA aise teens {| mainland, and without further adventure we | riving inthe city be put the horec up ata |ottived in Boston. As is the case with all livery stable while he Went on bis way to ettend | DWIY married couples, we felt a little anxious | to duties elsewhere, “He oticed as he drove | 0” the train lest peopie might spot us for bride | into the stable that the hostlers eyed him | und groom. | We thought we noticed some | miei hope ariel Gver, rather | Bors, but it Beier ar ere pS tare ie = minutely, but he thought nothing of it and | 8° ig : went on his way. Ie an hour or two be ro- | ¢ Puvod my own part very well tedeod. reading Fe tes ene ant ores, "Mo Semped | a valcy of calare pave tae SIN Rar Oar into the buggy, seized the reins and was about | in ‘he elty of cul a ae to drive out when a policeman stepped up, behind py peer ar of oe ps aoe grabbed the horse by the bits and forbade the | Hous.” "You mas tudes of or atte ete faced piven Sheed mbmmgsecy id fy eT pS S kewl ingly wpb ny citizen's clothes was with the policeman and be | 9° Oyun 3 ty onas oll clove the ote eae | ee es we traversed pointing at our cab and laughing. ly own.” Inasmuch as there was nothing about the hack baie to distinguish it from any other similar con- verance, and we were hidden away inside, we could not conceive. why we should excite’ re- | mark or derision. | “Meanwhile it had begun to rain, and,on dis- | mounting at the hotel, I opened my umbrella to shelter my wife. A'shower of rice, which some ill-advised jokers at Nantucket had put | into the umbrella, fell out of it. This caused | passersby to stop'and grin. I did not enjoy the jest at all. However, having taken my wife | into the hotel through the ladies’ entrance, I | left her to go to the main door and seo that my bagg ge was properly disposed of. Upon my word, everybody in the crowded lobby seemed | te De'laugling, and, on looking wt the trunks which the porters were gringing in, I perceived poplin grape ped. Spry tert Lmao huge bows of white satin, doubtless put on by the bridesmaids, It was these which had at- tracted attention while we were riding in the cab. | “So that is the ge Angad) on my honey- veel, . On the whole, as I think you fel- SE, Sit Rented De miatter: | eo will agren, ie to fest an wall Meat cee Game " essary. This is too clear Soh oreen’? case, Wo have a description of a horse stolen | HOt Set married often. yesterday—a bay mare, two white feet, weight TALIS CE 100 pounds a scar behind the left pe Bo sg AN ARISTOCRACY BEGINS. alight buggy with two robes, one white and CIES one black. Now, look at your horse and buggy | robes; the description tallies exactly. Look at | this scar behind the left shoulder: Sure enough the minister's horse was per. feotly described. He bad nothing to do but sit still and wait. After two long hours wore away | the man whose horse had been stolen appeared | on the scene. | “That is not my horse, gentlemen,” he enid. “Besides, I did not ray ‘near’ in my teleph message, but ‘wart.’ “This horse has no wart.” Exit two sheepishlooking officers and one smiling minister amid the chaffing of the host- deck, where I was presently accosted by Diack. J consented to submit myself to his ministration, and he proceeded to put a very artistic polish on my shoes, Ashe added the finishing touches he looked up and winked at me, saying: “I'm pattin’on an extra elegant shine to last $60,000 to the Post Office Department, THE MAIL BAG REPAIR SHOP. ‘Tho “mail bag repair shop,” as it is officially | known to the Postmaster General, is really the only one in the country. A small branch exists in Chicago, but the bulk of the work is done here. ‘The whole establishment has grown up in the last ¢ix ye there is no telling to what proportions the mail equipment will ex- tend in the next six. Previous to 1857 eve big post office and about every othor «mall one throughout the country boasted its own repair shop. The result was that more often than otherwise pouches and sacks looked rather like sieves than mail conveyances, while a piece only needed to be slightly torn’ or cut when the scrap pile claimed it and the junk dealer fou tare bargains. Now the whole business is cen- tralized. Every postmaster is compelled to send his surplus mail bags to wh: ever post office in his section has been denominated an official repository. From there the collection is regularly sent to Wash- ington and after the immense © strect “repair shop” has inspected the invoice the needed mending is supplied and the bags go to the “mail bag storehouse” in the same building. Postmasters requiring udditional mail equi ment notify Second Assistant Postmaster Gen- eral Bell of the fact aud the storehouse fur- nishes the cargo demanded. In this way the department keeps track of its machix sound mail bags tre, constantly repl punctured artic Instead of being intricate | the system has been made very simple as well as highly serviceable by Ge and if the gov- ernment ¢ooner or later manufactures its own supplies the apr readily be reduc wall b ager p The rules of the dey 1893 reqnire that all surplus mail ba pouch locks at post offices on the lit railway postal vorvice the following repository their weveral locations n, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. 5 Louis and San Francisco, the Washington office being called into requisition for a like purpose covering offices in the District, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North C ina and South Caroliza. Post offices not situ- ted on railway postal lines send their surplus equipments to the “storehouse” direct, while defective bags come in the ame manner from all parta of the country, regardless of postal routes. Every one of the 2,800,000 pieces, there- fore, finally passes through the ‘mail clesring house” at the capital, aud a great institution the concern certainly ia. It docs not employ as many helpers as (he mints and money manu- facturing bureau, but in a manner it is fully as interesting. The “repair shop” presents that anomaly of uo civil eervice in a civil servico department, and critics have called it ‘tho slave pen,” “Uncle Sam's harem,” and similar uncomplimentary names. But to the outeide observer it looke as if faith- ful employes could earn ax much in the “repair shop” under the government as in like estal lishments without the executive circle, and 8o far from being treated like brutes, the hurnane order of Mr. Wanamaker's second assistant gives the hard-working helpers what at least no other government concern furnishes gratis. It is only a small thing as such matters go, but the best of hot tea and coffee, with extras ad libi- tum, is a highly acceptable addition to the oftentimes sparse luncheon of a piece worker who earns less than $2 per day. NOT A SMALL JOD. ‘The building used asa storehouse and repair shop is five stories in height and every foot of available space is taken up for the service. It isn't s very smail job to handle 1,500,000 mail bags per year and plenty of room'is necessary. Including the leather pouches, cotton canvas sacks and jute bugs, which last, by the way, Mr. Wanamaker alvo hopes to replace with American-made canvas in preference to the foreign jute, which is twice as expensive. an erage of 4,000 individual pieces reach the shop daily from all parte of the.country. The bulk of mail matter goes west and consequently the heaviet demand for extra equipments comes from the eastern post offices, Ae soon aga consignment arrives in the morning two select workmen are turned loose amoug the leather pouches and one other takes the jute and canvas sacks in hand. Every pouch and bag is subjected to a thorough examination for fects. and stray matter which tal clerks may have overlooked. Quite Feguent a registered package or a bunch of ordinary letters tumbles out, and in such cases the find is immediately ehipped to the office | from which the invoice was billed. The treas- | ure trove is sometimes of @ curious order, but | that is not allowed to count, and the work of in- epection goes ahead. As soon as twenty Rouches of sacks have been found in good con- ition nineteen are rollea together and placed in the twentieth, to be taken to the storehouse for reshipment to some office demanding ex- tras, Leather pouches often have rents, rail- way catcher pouches are frequently cut b; cars, the ordinary sacks iy chow rough ‘usage in the came way are minus the tyi string at the same time. For these is = remedy above stairs and the sorters he has either sent the consign- portion of several erected before the Temple of Ptah at Memphis, on the borders of the sacred loke where is now the village of Bedresveir After Memphis became Chris enown of ite monuments died away. and when having « being unearthed by Cavigha at the beginning of the century was found to reprosent Sevosirts tm This colossus has been visited by most tour- ists in Egypt. It lay on the sands near the palm of Bedresheim, in a hollow or diteh wae covered with water during t remains of Cy temp! jantucket it became fhe Ida, neon and Maj. Bag the waters from the inber supports above the it by a brick wall, On however, it can be see colossus, raised it on ground ‘end surr Te eee of 2 piasire: yy the curious. M. Maspero, the g at Egyptologist, relates ina French cotemporary that the Aribs had formerly a great awe of this, whic Abou'l Hol, the “father of frig the Sphinx. The ancient sures us, believed that «tat oor human, were animated by a spirit or “double” de tached from the soul of the person they repre- vented. This double ate, drank and spoke oF delivered oracles. Iu later tim: Was credited with playing evil. tri who approached the statue, and eve ing thei. Hii power could be 4 breaking the tutue, or at least | hence it is that eo man: g the printions for equipmen one-half, aud contractors The spirit of Ramses I | baant the pals at night, and " lates thet every time he passed by in the | ing toward dusk the driver | mutter his pr: _ The Parson Was No Thief. | afraid o: him not to speak would befall Lim faite” and the driver begged of such things or rome harm Presently M. Maspero was j thrown from the ass in the middie of the wood d tue incident was regarded by the driver as @ punishment for his not speaking respectfully the spirit in the statue, Egypt is full of such superstitions, dating from the far pact. coe Thinking of the Mereater, Detroit Free Proms. A Jefferson avenue young woman who has been married about two years informed her husband one morning at breakfest recently that she had entered tho cooking school and was to take her first lesson that day. ‘What's that f he asked in Joubtfal tones. 3 “So that I'can learn something about it and cook you dainty dishes every day, darling,” she twittered sweetly He hadu't anything more to say, and in the evening when he returned home he laid am ofScial envelope in lap. “What is it, dear?” she inquired, proceeding to open it. “A life insurance policy on mytelf for £10,000,” he replied, with a certain air of solicée tude. ‘A life insurance policy? ashiver, “Youdon't expect to die, d and she got up and put hor arms around bis neck. I hope not at present,” he said, tenderly, rut there is no telling what may happen later, and as I've been putting it off for some time for a description of a stolen horse that corresponds exactly with this, We have telephoned to the owner and you can't go till he comes." Vhy!" exclaimed the minister, his heart rising to bis throat, “why, you don't take me for a horse thief, hope? “This horse is mine, sir.” “I am sorry to detain you, sir, but you can- not go. “Why.” stammered the perturbed gentleman of the cloth, “I'ma minister; [ live at — “Ob, we've had that game worked before,” replied the detective, as he looked the old clothes of ‘his pris & pretty fine Lorse, don't you’ “She's a good horse, but say, honestly, isn't this a Joke?” “No joke at all, sir, Keep quiet and wait till | ths owner comes,” “Take me two blocks down the street and I thought today I'd better do it. Did you go t wnd his eves the cooking claws today, dear? filled with tears as the innocent; she did, From the Chicaco Daily Inter Ocean Chief Smith of the department of transporter tion exbibite has arranged for an exhibit of the smallest and most unique railroad tem in the world. This system is the property of Daniel Coxe, the young son of E. B. Coxe of Reading. Pa. Itis perfect in ite equipment, and will be exhibited at the fair just as it is now in actual operation on the farm of the father of ite young owner. Master Coxe will be in charge of the exhibit while it is here ‘The gauge of the track for this wondertal system is nine inches, There are two loco motives, modern and complete in evers detail, Each engine draws a train of five care and cack, car is built to carry two passengers. he locos motives and cars ate equipped with air brakes, A ruie of speod of ten miles per hour can be ats tained: and the train can be tn bese dase tance than its own length, The cars #nd loooe motives are built on the scale of onowisth the full nize, Space for the exhibit will be provided in # portation annex. The doy, if i may so |, Cont complete about 60,000, Mt Draited. The Irieh home rale bill bas been lrafteg and circulated cmong members of the cabinety oo A Striking Situstion, You drive She is the Daughter of a Gonchman, but Her Grandchildren May Be Swetls, From the New York Tribune. “ilere isan illustration,” said a New Yorker the other day, “how the European serving classes get on over there. For six months past | T have noticed that when I took a certain sur- | face car at a certain hour in the morning I was pretty sure to find aboard a remarkably pretty girl, exccodingly well dressed in a quiet, even | elegant style. Her beauty of form and face was so striking that I easily recognized her when on several occasions I encountered ber in arestaurant after the theater, At such times she was accompanied often by a young man whose dress and manner were really very good, From Life. “‘A short time ago I was at a wedding up the Hudson, and what was my surprise to see grouped with the family retainers my fair in- cognita and the unknown young man. Know- ing the brother of the bride well I questioned him and found that the two are brether and He F is i siete i ti if re i ai 2