Evening Star Newspaper, November 18, 1893, Page 14

THE NATIONAL GUARD Marching Competition Probable on| Saturday Next. THE TROPHIES HAVE COME AT LAST. What Pennsylvania Vandals Did to the Hilton Shield. ~ OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST More interesting than any other. of the imanimate attractions at brigade headquar- ters are the Hilton and Interstate trophies, won by the brigade team at Sea Girt in August last. The Hilton trophy has been seen here before, for District riflemen cap- tuered it at Creedmoor in 1890, but the} bronze “Soldier of Marathon” is making his initial visit to the national capita!. To say that the Hilton trophy is as handsome as when first designed, or as when it was here three years ago, would be to state something that could not be substantiated. In iss2) Pennsylvania succeeded in capturing the} Hilton shield, and in 1892 it did the same thing. On the oceasion of its first victory, the state made no record on the shield, as; other states had done or afterwards did. New York and Massachusetts attached scalps to the lower edge of the shield and on those emblems of success inscribed the mame of the state and the score. Other winners were content to have their names engraved on the back of the shield, while the District of Columbia was satis‘ied with @ meek little scrap of gold affixed unob- trusively to the lower front of e gold} eagle that surmounts the entire affair. Then, im 1892, as has been stated, Pennsylvania took the trophy from New York, i before it forwarded the sa to this city a few days ago had affixed to the two upper cer- | mers of the shield two huge ke silver or some er white metal. ner of the Hilton m that extrem: nd rtistic production, but certain . When Henry nm the prize s ever the privilege of eve to add to or take gratifyingly 2 ye winner bf s has that bears his nam: tempted such om- In certain places ylvania. y be a thing of beau and di when the sharp lines straight of edi. juxtaposition graceful curves and pleasing outlin conventional art in oxidi sult is painful. At first observer would imagine that shield was made of two key the shield itself was quential appendage. Pc trophy is always pe organization winning it, on does Not carry with it the right to r the esign of a charming production, and it is in this latter particular that Pennsyivar has grievously offended. Of course, body is responsible for the misdemeanor; ‘Whoever he is, he has ample reason for being ashamed. Work for the “Doughboys.” Soldiers who know how to walk will soon with of un- and inconse- sion of the Hilton ed the siate or so} be in demand throughout the brisade. It was intimated in The Star a week ago that a marching competition was one of the interesting events likely to appear on the National Guard program of the near future, and it now @ competition wi latter end of the p has not yet be s in that such toward the The date which will be selected. If Satu will come off in t decision is favoral it probably will ween { and far as arrs uid s: ble six miles in length and is over a combi- nation of asphalt and dirt. Each company commander will be furnished with a clear statement of the ground he is expected to cover, and in order that there may be no error in the interest of abbreviation, a mounted officer will accompany each team to act in the capacity of umpire. Regula- tions governing the competition are now being prepared by Col. Mosher and will, as soon as they are completed, be submitted to Gen, Ordway for approval. The issuance of the order will follow immediately. Such competitions as that pfoposed have been very successful in England, and have been used there, as they may here, to round out the ability of the soldier to do such duty as may be required of him in an emer- gency. Rifle Practice Repotts Almost Due. Blanks on which are to be recorded the records of rifle practice for the season which has just closed have been distributed to the proper officers and are due at head- quarters on or before the 30th instant. Last year the tabulation of the reports was long delayed by two cases of conspicuous carelessness, but it is pot expected that the unwelcome performance will be repeat- ed. Throughout the entire brigade there has been marked growth of interest in rifle practice and it seems quite probable that some of this spirit will be seen in the speedy completion of the reports from the various companies. Although tere are no figures as yet upon which to base conclusions it is but natural to suppose that in spite of the greater interest shown there will be no increase in the number of marksmen | qualified. For this there is a very good reason. Last year and through the year before marksmen were Qualified on 65 per cent scores over all the ranges in the gal- lery and over the 200 and 300 yards ranges outdoors; this year mafksmen have been required to do the work at 500 and 60 | yards also and many fell by the way. Notes. Guardsmen who expect to do great things with the rifle during the coming season will be wise if they take advantage of the open- ing of the gailety on December 1. Four or five hours’ preliminary practice ought to raise the official scores very considerably. It should be apparent to every soldier who | knows anything about the work that it is better to do this preiiminary practice early in the season than to be struggling with a big crowd in an effort to “raise” scores at the latter end of the season. The fifth battalion, arm in arm with Phil. Kearney Camp of the Sons of Veterans, is into the amateur theatrical business. ries of entertainments has been ar- -d at which seven thrilling and enter- dramatic efforts will be presented. A lst of the stars would come very near to being a roster of the battalion. The to be known as the Richard Sheridan Dramatic Company and uess is business manager. The fi entertainment takes place in the National Rifles’ Hall on the evening of Wednesday, the 2th instant. Adjutant General Mosher has completed a very comprehensive report on the real condition of the District National Guard, aske! for by the War Department's bureau of military information, Every matter of interest is carefclly dealt with and the re- sult a valuable document. Street riot drills by regiments are being planned. These will probably take place the latter part of two afternoons early in December and will take the place of the extremely desirable but almost* impossible | field day. FAITH L MAORIS, A Touching Story From the Far Dis- tant Australian Ba From the Aukland News. That was a touching story told in the Papers the other day about the accident in the Motu bush,twenty-four miles from Opo- tiki. A party were clearing bush, when a European got his leg broken. One of the Maoris bound up his leg with a skill that subsequently elicited the praise of the sur- seon;then five whites and five Maoris start- rry the wounded man to Opotiki by tu road, which for miles is a mere ide of a precipice. The rivers sre in flood, and the fords washed away. water was up to the necks of the bear- ers,and the tallest of the men had to hold the stretcher up above their heads. They had s in the evening, when tired by a hard day’s work. ‘The behaved like men and heroes, s of them taking a double turn in the earrying. M ledge on the ¥ when, ive fatigue, th nions were unequal to it When they got to the end, they fell on the ground, and went fast asleep. I have »wn of a good many accidents, in the bush at the Thames and elsewhere and the behavior of men on these oceasions And an incid shows how mu the nature as I have narrated of the heroic there is in f the Maori. —_-eo—__ oall—“I don't believe that girl will ever learn to waltz.” Say “Worse than that—she “never learn not to attempt it.""—Vogue, will ‘THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D. C.. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 18, 1893—TWENTY PAGES. NO TIME FOR FUN. The President's Private Secretary Has Little Recreation. IMPORTANT AND TRYING DUTIES. Relieving the President of Much Wearisome Talk. MR. THURBER A BUSY MAN. Written for The Evening Star. Mr. Henry Thomas Thurber, President Cleveland’s private secretary, has not yet made his formal official bow to the public. This ceremony is supposed to be performed when he appears in the Senate chamber or in the House of Representatives as the bearer of a message from the executive. Mr. O. L. Pruden, whose official title is that of assistant seeretary, has performed this polite office almost constantly during the past three administrations. One of these fine days when Congress re- convenes Mr. Thurber will perhaps glide into the Senate with a big blue envelope under his arm and, standing under the; famous blue clock while old Capt. Bassett comes blushing up the aisle, will bow to the Senate, announce the object of his er- rand, give the package to the captain and retreat to the corridor, and the public will then have an opportunity to see just what Kind of a fellow the new private secretary is. They will see that he is a slender, wiry, active, dapper little man, just about the size of Dan Lamont and 'Lige Halford. That is to say, he is five feet seven and a half inches in height and weighs, at least he did when he came to Washington, about 145 pounds. He is thirty-nine years of age and, on close inspection, unusually young looking and spry, despite the fact that his abundant growth of hair is prematurely gray. His eyes are gray-blue, large and wide apart. His forehead, from which his hair is brushed back in waves, is high and broad and his nose straight and quite large. On the sides of his face he wears little tufts of hair, generally called earlocks, and his Secretary Thurber. upper lip is adorned with a bushy, flowing mustache, much longer and much less scrubby than Dan Lamont’s and much more luxuriant than ‘Lige Halford’s, and the color of which would be red if it’ were Mr. Thurber is as dapper in his s in his manner, and always looks quite proper. At his desk in the warm weather of last summer he generally wore a gray business suit, usually with a white vest; now he wears darker clothing, more suitable to the weather, and on state occa- sions a long-skirted frock coat and high hat, which make him look taller than he really is. He has an impressive and rather serious manner of talking, especially with strangers, and is apt to use language a lit- tle more high-flown and stilted than is cu tomary in this free and easy age of Ameri can. democracy. Mr. ‘Thurber, however, is @ very smart young man and quite enter- taining and companionable when in the company of those with whom he is well acquainted, and when he feels confident that his conversations will not reach the newspapers. Like his predecessor, Mr. | Halford, he seems to possess a wholesome fear of betraying some of the secrets con- fided to him by his illustrious chieftain, the President. A Buffer for the President. The private secretary's importance has been very much increased lately by the President himself, who has adopted a new rule for conducting White House business. During his first term Mr. Cleveland learned what an awful bore the office hunting busi- ness is, and how it took away a large part of his day for the consideration of more legitimate business. Therefore he resolved sometime ago to make a change, and he has been waiting ever since for a good op- portunity to put his plan of reformation into practice. Soon after inauguretion he determined that he would be able to do it about this time of the year without en- countering too great opposition, but of course had not counted on having Congress on his hands, so after the statesmen came he thought he would bear up under his burdens a little longer out of deference to the courtesy due to Congressmen, but as they gave promise of remaining forever hi could not wait for them, and a few week: ago he quietly inaugurated his new pro- gram. Under its workings, Mr. Thurber is made a veritable buffer and the door- Keeper at the cabinet room door now steers all undesirable callers up the little steps and into the presence of the private secre- ‘“Tt. ‘Thurber's plan is this ‘The Con- gressman or other great man, who had in- tended to see the President personally, is steered into his room and Mr. Thurber says: “Ah! Good morning; did you want to see the President—yes, certainly—yes— well, he is very busy today and perha could attend to the matter for you. You are probably interested in that marshal- ship for the eastern district of your state? Now, if you will just state all the facts to Mr. Oiney, the Attorney General, he will examine them and make a recommendation | that will be entirely tsfactory to the President. Just convince Mr. Olney that your man is the man that ought to have the place and it will be all right. Qhe President is sorry that he could not see you personally, but he is extremely busy, and then you know the Attorney General is really the man who should be seen. Good day. Call again when there is any- thing new in the case. It may not always be flattering to the pride of the Senators and Kepresentativ who have as full-sized idea of their own importance, to be sidetracked at the en- trance of the presidential room, but there is very little doubt that this policy is much more effective -in dispcsing of the public business, ard it is in the end equally satis- factory to the applicants for office. Dur- ing President Harrison's term the cabinet officials were held responsible for appoint- ments in their departments and many dem- ocrats have regretted that this practice has not always been observed under Mr. Cleve- land. A Busy Man. The new method of doing business has added very largely to Private Secretary Thurber’s duties, and as they were very onerous and exacting before, it can readily be imagined what they are now. For the first few weeks after his appointment he literally had no time to eat or sleep. Cor- respondence piled into the White House during inauguration time in a confused mass, and could not be attended to because there was a perfect swarm of visitors that tramped through the corridors night and day, and a thousand things that required his personal attention a private s tary popped up, at all hours of the day night. As Mr. Thurber looks back at t period, it he was living in a dream. He came to Washington trom Detroit quite ynexpectedly, having had only notice of his appointment, and was dropped at once into the excitement of an inauguration crowd, and when he emerged he knew more hed less than when he left home. fter the nt of the vic- upon the White House partially subsided, Mr. Thurber and of assistants plunged manfull sk of bringing order out of chao: d only partialiy al situation m 1 of Congre confusion caused by the de: torious democracy had the ex- confusion piled up, until the p secretary was again almost inst in th midst of it, He has had but two brief vacations, and one of these he utilized in a flying visit to Detroit to welcome the ar- rival of a new baby, the fourth of tne group that will inherit the proud record of know- ing that their father was eailed from his lawyer's desk to be the private secretary to the President of the United States, Dur- ing the long, hot days of the past sum- mer Mr. Thurber knew no rest. He has been, and still is, in the habit of arriving at the White House from his hotel, which is just outside of the grounds, before 8 o'clock in the morning, and remaining until mid- night, and later, with only the brief respite of a few minutes for lunch and dinner. He has lost some flesh in this uncomplaii ing devotion to his duties, but he has gain- ed the proud satisfaction of knowing that he has been of great service to the Presi- ent. It has been often said that Mr. ‘Thurter does not hold the same relations to Grover Cleveland that Dan, Lamont did, and that "Lige Halford did to President’ Harrison, and that he is not so invaluable to the President as cither of these two private secretaries was, Yhe truth is, however, that while Mr. Thurber is not. of course, identified with the persoaal and political fortunes of Mr. Cleveland, as Col. Lament Was and is, and as Maj. Halford was to Mr. Harrison, he is, neveriie of great service to him, night and day, a fact which Mr. Cleveland is not slow to admit. Col. Dan. Lamont fs Presilen: Cleveand's con- stant shadow ow, just as he was in the days when Mr. Cleveland was governor of New York, ana while he was serving his! first term as President. Col. Dan. is still the political man of the cabinet, whose chief relies upon him for every:1ins, Just as he has since the leginning of Lis public es reer, and the Secretary of War is as often at the White House as at the War Lepart- ment. But Col. Lamont’s White House duties consist altogether in political manipulat- ing, while Mr. Thurber as pfivate secretary has charge of everything pertaining to the duties of the executive. Much Entrusted to Him. Evidence of the high appreciation which Mr. Cleveland has of his abilities as a law- yer and an executive official is shown in the fact that under the new White House order Mr. Thurber attends to much of the Personal business that heretofore devolved upon the President himself. All of the cleri- al force of the executive office is directly un- der Mr. Thurter’s charge, and in addition to seeing everybody that calls he is expect- ed to attend to the great mass of corre- spondence, personally dictating replies to the official and semi-official communications Which must be signed by the President. Much tact is required in drawing up diplo- matic replies to invitations and requests for the attendance of the President at all sorts of public ceremonies, and although Mr. Thurber has dictated thousands of such letters not one of them has ever met with a Word of criticism. When Mr. Thurber’s friend and patron, Don Manuel Dickinson, recommended his law partner as the Presi- dent's private secretary he credited him with one extra sense—tact—and this quali- fication shines forth in the diplomatic man- ner in which the White House business is conducted. ‘The true test of his ability and of Mr. Dickinson's recommendation of him as a man possessed of the extra sense—tact—will be demonstrated, however, this winter, when the so-called social life of the White House begins, with its crowd of ambitious American citizens, all anxious to obtain an invitation to the so-called state recep- tions, It will be harder to get rid of this class of visitors than of the office seekers and Congressmen who now clamor for an audience with the President. Much of the criticism upon the manner in which Mr. Thurber receives some of the official callers and the ingenious remarks which ke makes, such as that when he said to the managing editor of a great New York newspaper that he supposed he had called to pick up an item, is due to the fact that before coming to’ Washington Mr. Thurber had not been brought into contact with public men, newspaper writers, gov- ernment officials, office sgekers, lobbyists and other classes of American citizens that are in the habit of being more or less in and about the Executive Mansion. For nearly twenty years hg has been a hard- working office lawyer in Detroit, having begun work under Mr. Dickinson soon after leaving college. He+came to Mr. Dickinson's law office from the University of Michigan, which he entered as a graduate of the High School at Monroe, the pretty little town on the bank of the Raisin river, where he was born in 1854. His father was a democrat and a lawyer of prominence, and his family were among the most well-to-do and so- cially prominent in southern Michigan. As a boy at school Mr. Thurber was always stroll into the Arlington lobby, light a cigar and chat in an apparently free and open- handed way with such of their acquaint- ances they happen to meet. The public will be the gainer when Mr. Thurber comes out of his shell, because he is a very bright man, with abundant sense of humor, and is, morecver, a good story teller, a qualifica- tion that is only too often lacking in public men. The new private secretary showed his metal in March last only a few weeks after his arrival, when as a guest of the Gridiron Club he was suddenly called upon for a speech. He responded promptly, and not only made a good speech, but told a good story, so that when he sat down everybody was glad he had got up. When he gets into the habit of going to more dinners and making more speeches and tell- ing more stories he will see there is some fun in heing the President's private secre- tary after all. | His House Hunting Experiences. The private secretary has had an addi- tional burden to bear during all these long months since the 4th of March, of which the public has been unaware. He has been house hunting. Desiring to rent a good- sized, comfortable home on a pleasant street and not too far away from the White House, in which to locate his growing fam- ily, now in Detroit, he cheerily started out one fine day before dinner, thinking he had perhaps a two hours’ job before him. The first house that approached his idea of what he might get along with was offered to him at $8,000 per annum, unfurnished. He thought at first it was a joke, and when he realized that it was a_ serious business proposition je nearly fainted, and thought of the commodious, modern house on Jeffer- son avenue in Detroit, that has a beauti- ful yard about it and that he has leased during his absence at $1,200 a year. With a remark, which many a good man in Washington before him has made, that he did not want to buy, but rent a house, Mr. ‘Thurber continued his search and finally chose a house that he thought would just suit. He sent the plans to his wife and she rejected the house because it had no back stairs. Then, after a time, he ventured to describe another to her, and she was equally displeased, because while it boasted of back stairs, it had no yard about it, which would, of course, be a deprivation that the young Thurbers could notestand. At the second rejection, the private secretary, al- most in despair, telegraphed to his si 4 to come to Washington to his relief, and on her arrival they both set out to find a yard with a house in it, containing a back stairway. As the result of a weary search such a place was found and after November 1 the private secretary to President Cleve- land can be found, outside of officé hours, which begin at 7:30 a. m. and end at 12 midnight, reposing in the bosom of his in- teresting family at 1718 I street, just across the way from the big house that was made famous as the residence of Wm. C, Whit- ney, the Secretary of the Navy in President Cleveland’s first cabinet, and of John Wana- maker, the Postmaster General in the cabi- net of Benjamin Harrison. DAVID S. BARRY. ——— HARDWOOD FLOORS. Some of the Advantages Which They Present:to the Housekeeper. From the Carpet and Upholstery Trade Review. The us® of hardwood floors, with rugs as a substitute for carpets, is an idea which is rapidly winning favor in this country. Hardwood floors and rugs are superior to carpets from a sanitary point of view. They prevent the accumulation of dust and deposit of matter in the cracks and crev- ices of the under floor. The method of cleaning parquetry floors is also more healthful. In the sweepings of carpets the dust is brushed through and into the. fab- ric, or is carried into the air to be finally deposited upon every article in the room. But in cleaning the polished hardwood floor it is wiped over with a damp cloth, and it is, therefore, not necessary to do the amount of dusting which must always be done after a carpet has been swept. A house provided with hardwood floors and with rugs for the colder months does not need the semi-annual cleaning with all its “terrors.” It is cleanly and healthful at all times of the year. These floors can be made ornamental and a part of the house decoration with the pat- terns properly chosen and of suitable woods to harmonize with the woodwork and fur- niture. Lp The Loudest Noise Ever Heard on bright and pushing, and among his class. mates and companions went by the nick- hame of “Uncle.” The name clung to him until long after he left college, but gradu. ally became forgotten as he met less and less often the friends of his boyhood. The little city of Monroe, which because of its luxuriant foliage is’ known as the floral city, boasts of having been the home of Custer, the gallant Indian fighter, whose death in the great massacre of 1876 shocked the country, and the home also of that fa- mous crew of oarsmen who, under the name of the Sho-wa-cae-metts, a few years azo were the champions of the Unite] States and would have wrested the laurel from the Englishmen on the Thames but for the sud. den and unfortunate attack of illness that disabled the celebrated: bow oar. Robert McClelland, the democratic Secretary of the Interior under President Pierce, and Isaac P. Christiancy, one of the ablest lawyers who ever sat in the United States Senate. were also residents of Monroe, which mishi never have been heard of again but for the fact that it gave birth to the home of Presi. dent Cleveland's private secretary, In Detroit Mr. Thurber had a very com- fortable income as a member of the law firm of Dickinson, Thurber & Stevenson and was very well known, especially in a social way His wife, a’ charming and handsome woman, is a descendant of one of the aristocratic old French families who fownded Detroit, and whose grandchildren are now among the best of its citizens, and many of whom possess great twealth. Mre Thurber and her husband both took an ac: tive part in the social life of the city and entertained charmingly in their handsome home on Jefferson avenue, which ta the most fashionable part of = Oe the sable part of the beautiful “City How He Was Appointed. Mr. Thurber's appointment as the Presi- dent's private secretary came to him as | much of a surprise as anything that has happened to him in his life. Six days be- fore he joined the presidential train on its way from New York to Washington he had never thought of such a thing as leaving his law practice in Detroit to accept any appointment. It was about five days be- fore the 4th of March when Mr. Dickinson came to him from a trip east and abruptly asked him how he would’ like to go to Washington as President Cleveland's. pri- ate secretary. Mr. Thurber laughed and said he would not like it at all. Mr. Dick- inson then became serious and said that President Cleveland had been very much worried over the matter of selecting a pri- vate secretary and had been unable to find just the man he wanted. He desired a man, he said, of business ability, and some legal knowledge, and who possessed in- dustry, tact and the knack of getting on with the people. Then, Mr. Dickinson told Mr. Thurber, that he told Mr. Cleveland he had just the man he needed in the per- son of his law partner, and the President said all right, send him on. Mr. Cleveland | had, of course, known Mr. Thurber, having | met him occasionally when Mr. Dickinson was Postmaster General. so that he was not speculating entirely in an unknown quantity. Mr. Thurber pointed out to Mr. Dickinson a great many reasons why he ought not to give up his business and go to Washington, but the senior partner ar- gued away all objections, and the result was that the junior partner accepted and the characteristic Dickinsonian announce- ment of the appointment was given to the newspapers, and a few days later Mr. Thur- ber was hurled into the midst of inaugura- tion confusion, from which he is just now emerging. Mr. Thurber’s salary as the major domo of the White House is $5,000 per annum. In days of the first Lamont it was only (00, but knowing only too well how inad- equate such a sum is as a return for the vast amount of labor performed by a pri- ate secretary, Col. Dan, prevailed upen Congress to raise the amount, of course providing that it would not ‘take effect until after Mr. Cleveland's term of office. Mr. Halford was the first beneficiary of the new law, and as he drew the salary for four years, and then stepped into the regimentals of a full-fledged paymaster in the army with the rank of major, there ts | no doubt that he considers himself very wise to leave the office of the Indianapolis Jonrnal to come to Washington with Gen- eral Harrison. Mr. Thurber earns every cent of his $5,000, which is a less sum than he realized from his law practice in De- troit, but he does not regret that he ac- cepted President Cleveland's call. Mr. Thurber has not yet had much fun in Washington. He has lived since he came to Washington until now at the Ar- lington Hotel, which is within a stone's throw from the White House, and has rare- ly been away from one or the other of these places, except when walking the short distance between them. He does not seem to have caught or cultivated that American habit sa noticeable in Secretary Gresham, Controller of the Currency Eck- els, Congressman ‘Tracey of Albany, Sen- ator Murphy and others of the prominent public men, who every day after dinner |heard was able to pen-trate. | paper and Earth, From the Youths’ Companion. No thunder from the skies was ever ac- companied with a roar of such vehemence as that which issued from the throat of the great volcano in Krakatoa, an islet lying in the Straits of Sunda, between Sumatra and Java, at 10 o'clock on Monday racrning, August 27, 188. As that dreadful Sunday night wore on the noise increased in i:nten- sity and frequency. The explosions suc- ceeded each other so rapidly that a continu- ous roar seemed to issue from the island. The critical moment was now approaching, and the outbreak was preparing for a ma- jestic culmination. The,people of Batavia did not sleep that night. Their windows quivered with the thunders from Krakatoa, which resounced like the discharge of artillery in their streets. Finally at 10 o'clock on Monday morning a stupendous convulsion took Place which far transcended any of the shocks which had preceded it. ‘This supreme effort it was which raised the mightiest ncise ever heard on the globe. Batavia is ninety-five miles distant from Krakatoa. At Carimon, Java, 355 miles away, reports were heard on that Sunday morning w. led to the belief that there must be some vessel in the distance which was discharging its guns as signals of distress. The authorities sent out boats to make a search; they presentiy returned, as nothing could be found in want of succor. The reports were sounds which came ail the way from Krakatoa. at Macassar, in Celebes, loud explosions attracted the ‘no- tice of everybody. Two steamers were hastily sent out to find cut what was the matter, The sounds had traveled from the Straits of Sunda, a distaace of 969 miles. But mere hundreds of -niles will not suffice to illustrate the extraordinzry distance to which the greatest noise that ever was The ficures have to be expressed in thousands. This seems almost incredible, but it is eertunly true. In the Victoria plains, in West Aus- tralia, the shepherds were startled by neises like heavy cannonading. It was some ume afterward before they learned that their tranquility had been disturbed by the grand events at Krakatoa, 1,700 miles aw: tee His Second Season, From the Detroit Free Press. “I want you to figure a little for me.” said a 2d avenue wife to her husband as she brought him a pencil and paper. He locked at he suspiciously as he made ready, and a close observer would have noted signs of grim determination zround his mouth, “I want,” said she, as she looked into ; the far away purple of sunset, “about two bushels of peaches.” “I might possibly get along with half a bushel of plums, but I want at least a bushel of Siberian crabapples,” “Anything else?” “Oh, yes. I must have citrons, toma- toes, cauliflower and cucumbers.” “I've got it down; but where does the figuring come in?” “I want you to figure, as near as you can, on the cost of all these, together with ten dozen glass cans, a bushel of currants, fifty tumblers, with sugar, vinegar and spices enough to preserve all the fruit He was a lightning calculator. In thirty seconds he had added up a column of figures, tacked on ten per cent for his com- mission and multiplied the total by two to cover breakage. “What!” she gasped as she received the beeing at the figures, “you don’t mean -$3,22: “Certainly, I do,” he replied as he picked up his newspaper again. “But we can't spare that to put up sauce for the winter.” . “Just as you think. We can sell our home for $5,000 and put $3,225.40 into preserves, or we can keep our home and fill the vacuum with prunes and evaporated apples. Go over the figures for youcself.” She took the paper and began to figure on her own account, but after raising the total $875 she went out into the kitchen and told the girl that as there would be no doing up fruit this year she might have a week's vacation. oo Of Course. From Vogue. Jess. ‘What is your idea of a model hus- band?” ; Bess—"One that can be modeled.” JUDGE GIBBS 1S WELL, |Suffers from Rheumatism No Longer---The One True Remedy. So much has been said about the many and won- but the rheumatism bas always come back in @ derful cures of rheumatism by the great remedy first prescribed by Prof. Phelps of Dartmouth col- lege,— So many hundreds of testimonials have been re- cently published from people in every part of the District of Columbia whom Paine’s celery compound bas made well,— ‘That the following letter about so worthy a man as Judge Gibbs is just now interesting: Judge D. S. Gibbs was born and raised in Noble county, Obio, He moved from Noble county to Lawrence county, and then to Hutchinson, Kan. While a resident of Noble county, Ohio, he filled the office of probate judge several terms and dis- trict judge one term. Since his residence in Kan- sas he has twice been elected judge, and is today filling that office. The judge is 67 years old, and has been aMicted with rheumatism almost all his life. For six months at a time he has bad to go around on crutches from the effects of rheumatism. He has tried medicine after medicine, and has been treated by numerous physicians, both in Obio and Kansas, ‘Worse form than ever. “About two months ago,” says the Hutchinson ‘ews, “be bought @ bottle of Paine's celery com- pound, baving little faith im anything at the time; but he experienced relief from it the first day he began taking it. Before be had taken ail of the first bottle be thought be was cured, and recklessly exposed himself, and had a set-back. He again began taking the medicine, and is now on his third bottle, and he says that he feels like a well man. He is entirely free from pain and swelling. ‘The Judge has found out, as thousands of others have, that Paine's celery compound is the one true ‘Specific for rheumatism, and says be believes that if he only takes half-way care of himself and does not recklessly expose himself to the elements he will never again be troubled with rheumatism.” ‘This is the experience of every sufferer. Paine's celery compound cures! 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