Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1894, Page 10

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILD! 1101 Penasyivania Avenue, Cor. 11th Street, by The E Star Newspaper Compan: os UFFMANN. Pres Forrest maven New York Office, 49 Potter Building. The Freniog Star is served to subscribezs im the eity hy on their own account, at 10 cents | sf Week, or 4ic. per month. Copies at the counter cents each. By mail—angwhere in the Btates or postage prestid--30 cents per ‘Suturday quintupl» Sheet Star, $1.00 per year; with fore ize whied, $2 eg matzer ) fered “ES All mail vateer be paid il mail subscript! sas must be in advarce. fiacce of wivertisiag wude known on application. y WASHINGTON, D. CC. SATURDAY, OOTOBER 6, 1894—TWENTY PAGES oa. Che Fy ening Siar. Paxes 650: A $16,000 behold. every color. happy to serve you. Or”. Beautiful Rugs Direct From the Orient Has just been placed on sale, and by itself comprises a display charming indeed to Oriental Rug splendor seems to have been outdone in this array. 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A good value ® DHOSOOOSGHOSSOHODDHONNH PHOOHOOSOOHOHOHOMDOHOSOHOH OS TOHGCWODHOOOOHDOOSSOTOO 2) (2) @ e eS » MOSES LARGEST EXCLUSIVELY RETAIL FURNITURE, CARPET, DRAPERY AND WALL PAPER HOUSE IN AMERICA. mth and F Streets. AND 8 SONS, UPHOLSTERY, @ © @ @ 2B 4 GAYNOR DECLINES TO ACCEPT ithdraws His Name From the Hill ° Ticket. Be Does Not Think That His Action A Will Injure the Prospects of the Head of the Ticket. William J. Gaynor has declined the rém-, imation conferred on him by the democratic party to run on their ticket for judge of the ccurt of appeals in New York. Last evening Mr. Gaynor addressed to J. W. Hinckley, chairman of the state commit- tee, the following letter: “Dear Sir: The reasons which I pub- Hely assigned for not wishing to become the nominee for governor preclude me from accepting anvther place on the ticket, as may be seen by recurring to them, and I am therefore constrained to decline the nomination for judge of the court of ap- peals, as grateful as I feel for it, and as much as I should like to hold # place of so much, usefulness. “This would suffice, but I feel impelled to say more. The voice of the plain, everyday people is today, for cause, an actual, living voice; yea, Is it, or it never was in the history of the world, and in @ contest in which it should be summed up I could not be a candidate for office and sit silent, as usage and etiquette would require me to do In my present case. The center of thought has passed from the few to the many, and a@ great, peaceful political struggle is now itm- pending in this country which is to de- cide where the center of power shail be r it shall remain there also. e than once seemed to me ave some part in that great contest when it came, but if that is not to be I still hope 1 may be able to feel that I have done, not much, it is true, but yet somet! to move my day and generation forward at least a little end to better the condition of the community in which my lot has been cast. I might stop here, but if I did it would seem to me that I had left something appropriate unsaid in view of recent events. “I am tot without feeling and cannot refrain from acknowledging a vibration of pain that organizations avowedly werk- ing unselfishly for higher political meth- ods and for better government should afirmatively refuse to indorse my nomi- nation in advance of my acceptance or refusal. On the other hand, the wholly gpontaneous manifestation of the general flemocracy of the state toward me, which [ never expected to see, and which I can enly interpret as @ full approval of my past public conduct, has made upon me an impression too profound to be ever ef- faced. Circumstances do not permit me to accept the nomimation they have ten- dered to me, but my hand and my heart go out to them all the same. “It is now nearly five years ago that I openly objected, as an individual citizen, to political methods which I deemed low, base and unmaniy, and to official acts which I deemed heartless crimes, involv- ing as they did apoliation of the people's hard-earned money for the enrichment of a few who foilowed politics as a trade, and made public officials their mere tcols. I felt that I had a right to speak, for in the face of gross wrongs to the people among whom I lived I had sat silent for fifteen years, and silence often gives the right to Speak, but, furthermore, from an finpulse which I cannot define, or a reason which is too inscrutable to assign, I fgund myself unable to sit silent longer. “The history of the four years of effort which ensued, by appeal to courts and to Public opinion, I cannot now even sum- marize, but in this hour in which my name is being tossed back and forth by contending political factions, and in which I have broken asunder the bonds of my perplexity and seen my duty clear, I beg to say, in justice to myself, and I trust with due mildness and without any ego- tism, that throughout it all I was never helped in money or otherwise by any poll- tician or political organization or faction whatever, and that !f in the end I prevailed it was solely because the people, honest and unselfish, understood me, and recog- nized that at all events I was trying to do right. Owing nothing, therefore, to poli- ticians or political organizations, and_re- member:ng that whatever little I have done to lift the.government up was done us a private citizen, I do not value any office so high as to wish to achieve it against the opposition of those whom I have sup- posed would be my friends. “If I thought that the withdrawal of my name would injure Senator Hill's canvass I would try to see some way to aliow it to remain, for his recent development in the national Senate places him with the foremost public men of his day. Between him and his opponent he should, and I trust will, prevail. @ “Though this letter takes me away from a promotion in the line of my taste, I write it without regret, for it keeps me in line with my past. I write it to the hurt of no man, but in justice to all men, to truth, and to myself. To thine own self be true, And it must follow as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any m:; “W. J. GAYNOR.’ ————_—-+e+___-— National Rifles. The National Rifles at a meeting held Friday evening elected officers and directors as follows: James FE. Oyster, president; W. B. Boteler, vice president; E. P. Har- rington, recording secretary; J. H. Cunnin; ham, corresponding secretary; H. K. Simp- son, treasurer, and W. K. Ellis, W. B. Magruder, C. E. Sims, T. N. Garner, J. B. Webb, G. W. Evans, R. E. Constant, -A. G. Dubois, M. J. Quinn and G. B. Young, directors, A General Review of the Present Political Situat’ n PROBABILITIES IN MANY STATES Democratic Losses Expected; Popu- list and Republican Gains. CAUSES OF DISSATISFACTION sees There is no basis upon which to form a reliable conclusion as to the complexion of the next House. There is much more than the usual uncertainty in the campaign, and the conditions generally are such as to per- plex and bewilder. Under ordinary circum- stances it would be a herculean task for the republicans to undertake to overcome the immense majority which the democrats have in this Congress. The deroerats car- ried, at the last election, 220 congressional districts; while the republicans had but 124 and the populists twelve. The democrats must lose forty-two seats in order to fall below the majority and if all of these went to the republicans, they would have but 166 members. If the poputists hold their pres- ent representation of twelve, to secure a bare majority of the House the republicans must gain fifty-five seats. If the usual con- ditions of the congressional campaign were present it would seem almost impossible for this to be done, and the reduction of the democratic majority to a low tigure would be regarded as a victory. What the Democrats Will Lose Sure. As the conditions are, howev the pros- pects of the republicans are good. The democrats are sure of losing twenty-five seats, one in Connecticut, two in Indiana, one in Maryland, two in Massachusetts, cne in Michigan, one in Missouri, one in Ne- braska, one in New Jersey, two in New York, four in Ohio, two in Penasylvania, one in Rhode Island, two in Virginia and two in Wisconsin. Besides these, they are in danger of losing thirty-five others: Three in Alabama, one in Arkansas, one in Cali- fornia, two in Connecticut, one in Georgia, two in Indiana, one in Kent y, one in Louisiana, two in Michigan, one in Minne- sota, one in Missouri, two in New Jersey, four in New York, three in Ohto, two in Pennsylvania, one in Rhode Island, one in ‘Texas, two in ginia, two in West Vir- ginia and two in Wisconsin. It may be said that they are in danger of losing in other of their districts, but thes are dis- tricts in which the danger is serious and confessed. The loss ot seventeen out of the thirty-five means to them the loss of the House. Possible Populist C rol. It will be seen from these figures that the possibility of the populists having control of the House by holdimg the balance of power is not extremely remote. This is the thing which both parties have to reckon on and guard against in the campaign, since little would be gained to the republicans by depriving the straight democrats of con- trol and giving to a small minority an un- natural power. The danger of such a thing coming about, however, is made more ap- parent when simply cold figures are used for calculation than it is when the general situation in the country is taken into con- sideration. The populists, for the most part, are only another sort of democrats. ‘The populist victories mean little more than the triumph of the most fanatical faction of the democratic party. For the balance of power to be placed in their hands would mean the turning over the democratic party in Ccn- gress to the most radical wing. The Campaign Issue. The issue in this campaign, as declared by the republicans, is between conserva- tism and confidence on the one hand dnd radicalism and distrust on the other, and the republicans are fighting both demo- crats and populists as a common enemy, while between the populists and democrats in the south the battle is being conducted on the side for supremacy over the hete- rogeneous organization of opposition to the policies of the republican party. If the republicans can maitiain this issue they must necessarily make gains which can- not be calculated upon on the basis of the size of the majorjties to be overcome and the customary political complexion of the district. The situation in one respect is not unlike that presented in the campaign for the Fifty-second Congress, when the democrats won by a landslide. Figures in that instance were of no value in estimat- ing the result. An undefinable dissatis- faction and restlessness, a sort of atmos- pheric condition, brought about the change which no experienced politician would have dreamed of calculating on. The reasons for the unrest are different now and the dis- satisfaction is among a different class and of a diffrent character, but there appears to be that in the air which defies 1igures and theories fail before conditions. The Democratic Claim. The democrats will not permit the repub- leans to define the issues, however. They claim the next House by a small majority. They do this upon the theory that they must hold a considerable proportion of the doubtful districts und that it does not re- quire that they should hoid many of these to continue in power. They argue further, that a gain of fifty-five or fifty-six by the republicans, which would be necessary to a bare majority, is altogether too much for that party to hope for. The situation, as developed thus far in the campaign, how- ever, while indicating nothing definitely, opens a prospect for almost anything to happen—even a landslide in favor of the republicans. What the democrats fear is that undetinable thing in politics, general apathy. This means, of course, general dissatisfaction in their own party owing to one cause or another. Dissatisfaction in the Party. There are various sources of dissatisfac- tion and division in the party. Probably the most serious in the party organiza- tion is on account of disappointment in the matter of patronage. Next to this is the division over the siiver question, and after that the dissatisfaction on account of tariff legislation. As to the tariff, the radicals are discontented because more was not done; many manufacturers and other representatives of business interests affect- ed are dissatisfied because they think too much was done, and those who are respon- sible for the bill which became a law are indignant and moody because of the abuse which has been heaped upon them by the rest of the party. There is a general cause of dissatisfaction, however, which includes all the rest, and that is on account of the long period of business depression and hard times, stopping the manufactories and throwing the laborer out of employment, and the scarcity of money and consequent hardship of the poor and middle classes. Hope of the Democrats. The democratic cry in this campaign Is revival of business. Their chief hope lies in that. In response to all complaints their answer is that they were not responsible for the depression, and that a revival of busi- ness has started, which will increase and bring prosperity. If between now and elec- tion day there is sufficient demonstration of increased business activity to make it ap- pear that it is a revival of prosperity under the new tariff law, they will probably be successful in the election in many districts, with the loss of which they are now threat- | ened, and will probably hold the House by a pretty fair majority, The fight turns on this issue. The republican ie! is busi- ness depression consequent upon democratic mal-administration and bad policies, the de- nial that there is any substantial revival of business due to the passage of the tariff bill, and the assertion that there cannot be a revival as long as the democratic party is in power to enforce policies to the unsettle- n.ent of the business interests of the coun- try, attributing the disasters through which the country has been passing to the lack of confidence. They maintain that this lack of confidence on the part of business men must continue as long as the democrats are in power, not only because the democrats threaten still further tariff tinkering, but because victory of democracy means, they say, the triumph of radicalism in all its fcrms—free trade, free silver and all the vagaries of populism. The strength which the populistic faction of the party is dis- playing increases the force of the claim that democracy is being rapidly taken possession of by that faction, and that the views of this faction must be deferred to, in order to prevent their going to the third party. A Further Reason for Lack of Confi- dence. . As a further reason for lack of confidence in the party now in control it has been ad- ded that that party is not a compact organt- zation with certain defined principles, but is an aggregation of disagreeing factions renging from the most fanatic visionary to the calculating politician who is trying to use the whole aggregation as an instrument of power, trusting to his skill to keep the dangerous elements under control. The whole campaign of the republicans is based upon the idea of destroying confidence of the business classes in the democracy. The contest {n this campaign is much more widely spread, more general, than usual. It extends into the solid south as well as into the east and west. Apparently too much importance Is attached to the dis- agreement within the democratic party on account of the tariff. The hard fight which they have had over that question puts it most into their minds and the consciousness of radical difference of opinion, coupled h bitter disappointment on the part of a large taction of the party, renders the man- agers extremely une It is not apparent, however, how they can suffer greatly from this dissatisfaction within their own party. It is apparently not their source of danger. The democrats who are the most seriously offended at the failure of the party to pass the more radical tariff bill are the free traders, or those who are practically free traders. Let these be as much dissatisfied as they may, they cannot be driven to aid the republicans in the campaign. Those moderate protectionists in the democratic party, who might be induced to vote with the republicans, are the ones who are the best pleased with the Gorman bill. ‘There- fore it is not probtuble that the internal dis- agreements on account of the tariff will count for much, Danger to the Dentocrats. The danger of the democrats, in so fr as the tariff figures in this campaign, must lie in the alleged dissatisfaction of the in- dependeat business men and manuyfactur- ers, and an apprehensiom on their part that this bill is but the first etep toward a com- plete destruction of pretecti#n. Some ef- fort is being made by the ‘democrats to make capital out of the propésition tigit if the republicans are successful there will be an attempt to return to the McKinley law, and consequently that great agitation over the tariff question will again disturb the unsettled business. There is implied in this fhe idea that if the democrats are success- ful the present law will stand, and there will be a rest from tarifé legislation. If this were believed it fs probable that a very large number of business men, who are not pleased with the preseat lew, would be will- ing to stand the ills now put upon them rather than have further agitation and un- est. The trouble about tils argument is, pwever, that it is known that the demo- crats do not intend to stop at what they have done. The pop-gun bills, which have passed the House, are evidence of this, and the radicals, who are vastly in the ma- jority of the party, are clamorous for re- ductions all along the tariff schedule. The republican campaign committee is making a strong card of this evidence that the re- tention of the democratic party in power means the indefinite continuation of “tariff tinkering to keep business unsettled make capital timid” until the last vestige of protection has been destroyed. It is therefore not the discontent and anger of the free traders that threaten the demo- cratic party in the campaign, but still the power of the protected interests. The in- dications from the character of the litera- ture and the information received are that the tariff question is not as seriously thought of in ali sections of the couniry as it is in the east and fh the big manu- facturing centers generally. The Money Question. The money question is evidently playing a very important part in the campaign, and its effect is hard to foreshadow. A struggle is going on within the democratic party which threatens very serious corsequences to the organization. The election in Georgia on Wednesday is a reflection of this. A curious spectacle was presented in that campaign by Mr. Cleveland's Secretary of the Interior and his followers preaching sound money from the same platform with Speaker Crisp and his followers, who advo- cated free siiver and the expaasion of eur- rency, The result of the election shows so great a reduction of democratic majorities as to amount to almost a disasier. The large white vote cast for the republicans and populists agai the democratic nom- inee may foreshadow a breaking away from that prejudice which has held the white yote almost solidly together in the south. The same situation exists in a considerable number of southern states. A close study of this situation seems to indicate that the democrats are likely to lose heavily to the populists in the south on account of the po- sition of the democratic administration on the money question, while in the north and in the great business centers all over the country they are in danger of losing the votes of the conservative business men. Thus the contention in the party seems to be cutting both ways, with consequences that can only be guessed at. Apparently the only offset to these threatened losses in the south and east is the dissatisfaction of republicans in western silver states. There the de: rats may make some gains, but they must necessarily be too few In num- ber to bear very heavily upon the question of the control of the House. The situation there is one largely of future development, with a possible bearing uren ‘the presiden- tial campaign in '06, A General Mix Up Promised. Apparently the election promises a gen- eral mix up and confusion in those sections of the country where the advocacy of free silver and populistic notions prevail, while in the conservative districts in the country the republicans will make gains, even though in some cases these districts are or- Ginarily democratic, The defeat of O'Neil of Massachusetts for renomimation, vapile brought about by simply an ordinary rivalry within his own party, has some significance in this, that he is a great ad- vocate of the policy which contemplates the maintenance of conservative _ principles through the adherence to an@ domination of the democratic party by eastern men. The repeal of the Sherman law was an ex- ample of the application of tais policy, and some of the features of the tariff bill were colored by it. It is evident enough, however, to even the democrats themselves, that the eastern conservative element feel that in the repeal of the Sherman law they have secured about all they can expect to secure from the democratic party, and that they can no longer hope to exercise much in- fluence In that organization, in the face of the restlessness and impetuosity of the radicals, who are clamorous for the con- trol which their numerical strength in the party organization entitles them to. Free Silver and Free Trade. ‘The eastern conservatives know now that the retention of the democrats in power must sooner or later mean free silver, in spite of the opposition of Mr. Cleveland. ‘They may feel, too, that whatever consid- eration they received in the Gorman tariff (Continued om Twelfth Page.) . DELSARTE AT HOME How to Do Housework Without Straining the Spine. PRACTICAL PHYSICAL CULTURE A Sample Day's Work and How It Should Be Done PAULINE PRY’S SYSTEM eee ge F THERE IS ANY reason why the spirit of mortal should be proud, look at me. I haven't brought Fitz- ! simmons and Corbett Fi 4 together, nor the {|| Vanderbilts, nor yet \ But I have done as i much, I have recon- ciled Delsarte with I good ~ housekeeping. I have applied Del- sarte to housework day exercises of putting her house in or- der a means of physical culture. This system of physical culture was con- ceived by experience and born of common sense. Like every other woman living, I want to be strong and I want to be pretty, I have served my time at various courses of physical culture. I have worked in a gymnasium until an “athlete’s heart” warned me that the main difference be- tween taking exercise and dying for the want of it is in the time you have the fu- Cleveland and Hill. so that any woman may make the every and to this end, like the majority of women, y Bncorrect Standing. neral; and I have stood up before a looking glass and made soft, seductive Delsarte motions at myself until I had to abandon this means of acquiring health, grace and beauty to keep from driveling. Whatever way I turned for physical development it was always the same—suicide or imbe- cility. The gymnasium women trained like pugilists for a prize fight, and the Delsar- tlans like chorus girls rehearsing for “Pa- tlence.” I was not bora to enter the ring nor to go upon the stage. So there I was, Correct Standin, wanting the loveliness attendant upon physical culture, and wanting also any ra- tional means of acquiring it. Then I was inspired with the notion that a sensible systematic course of physical cul- tire for women might be had doing house- work, and with this notion I sought Miss Abbie Johnson, who completed her studies under Sargent, in Boston. I found that Miss Johnson’ herself has already been working wonders with physical culture, reconciling Delserte with charity. That, in the usual way, she has not recited "Ostler Joe at a benefit performance. She has for the past two years been training a class of fort¥ children at the Protestant Orphan Very Wrong. Asylum in physical culture, on her own in- spiration and for no returns other than the satisfaction she has in thus fortifying 80 many small bodies with strength and grace for a hard life's work. Miss Johnson instantly perceived the rea- sonableness of my notion, and together we have worked out a common, everyday sys- tem of physical culture. This we have not tried on the dog, but what amounts to the same thing, we have tried it on a man, The Star artist, who lives to tell the tale in his own way. When we had set our stage with a wash tub, wash board, broom, duster and scrub- bing brush, Miss Johnson ap) in her gymnasium suit, and, ignoring the artist's man-suggestion that she might “do a song and dance in that dress,” she proceeded to do housework according to Delsarte. - “First of all,” said Miss Johnson, “if @ woman wants to develop phys:cal beality, she muct stand properly—on the balls of domen, sunken chest. ‘The Way to Sweep. every movement she makes tends to wear and tear her vital organs. Standing cor- rectly, she must breathe properly—that is, take deep, full breaths, inhale and exhale slowly, being careful not to drop the chest in exhaling. Of course, there are special exercises which are a great aid, but by keeping in mind the gencral instruction I have just given and by watching herself, any woman can acquire correct habits of standing snd breathing without special training. Now, you want me to take a weman from the time she gets out of bed in the morning, and demonstrate how ev- ery act she may do in a day’s work may be made a means of increased st and_ loveliness.” “Every lady ber own hired girl, or Bridget out of a job,” interposed the man, which in- dicates a man's way of jumping at a con- clusion, thovgh it’s the truth that when every lady is willing and able to be her own hired girl, Bridget will have to lose her job or make herself worthy of it. Thus our new system of physical culture settles the servant question. “As @ woman steps out of her tub in the morning,” Miss Johnson continued, “she might put an exercise in posing by stand- ing first on one foot and then on the other she dried each foot in turn. Then when she comes to brush her hair (remembering always her standing position) as she natur- ally bends and turns her head in opposi- tion to the movement of the brush, she gets one of the best prescribed movements for developing the neck. Now, being decently dressed, she will kneel down to pray, and no possible devotion warrants jamming one’s vital organs the way many women do when they kneel. Erect on both knees, so that a line dropped from the forehead would touch chest and knees, you have an attitude easy to sustain and productive of as much physical as spiritual grace. Nuns rever pray in a cramped ition, if you have ever noticed it, and I don’t believe a real Christian cramps his body when he eats, either. At the table our model Del- sartean housekeeper will sit firmly on her chair, not on her spine, with her chest lifted, and when she gives you coffee in- stead of driving the cup to you abruptly, hand foremost, will pass it with a curved movement, her wrist foremost. In every movement of the hand, to have a graceful gesture, the wrist must lead. “After breakfast there is the work to be done in a bed room. First, the picking up. This may be Gone gracefully and without injury to the body, by dropping on one knee and bending from the hips, being watchful to hold the chest firmly in posi- tion. The hips, not the waist, form the natural hinge of the body. Bending habitu- ally at the waist, as most persons do, com- presses the vital 0: “In making beds, carefully keep the chest vp, bend at the hips, and spread the clothes with an arm movement, not dropping the shoulders. Washing windows may be made a means of exercising the wrist, and sit- ting on the window, leaning back to wash the outside, is good exercise for the muscles of the waist. Now, with a broom brushing cobwebs off the ceiling may be an excel- lent exercise in poising—see, lift the broom up and rise on the toes, so. To be able to balance on the toes is a test of the proper poise of the body, and it is something that most women find great difficulty in doing. ‘Thus, sweeping down cobwebs is an efer- cise that can’t be practiced too much, if a woman wants a lithe, agtle body. “Sweeping the floor comes next, I suppose. PSS How It Might Be Donc—Right. This is the way Bridget does it. She humps herseif, and besides abusing her vital or- gans, she wastes her valuable energy. A body well poised has its energy always eco- nomically administered, and to sweep for physical culture, the body should still pre- serve its poise—weight on balls of the feet, chest up—bend slightly from the htps, sway from the ankles, and drive the broom with the muscles of the arm, having the leverage on the firm chest instead of woman's over-burdeneé back. Sweeping a floor so gives the ankles a much needed exercise. Dusting furniture permits of good practice in the wrist movement, if a woman will take the pains to propel her hand with the exer- cise of the wrist instead of the forearm. ‘The rugs that have been hanging on the Une while the other cleaning was going on must now be beaten. Standing back from the rug so as to spring forward a step with each blow, beating rugs will develop the ~ All Wrong. arms, chest and legs, besides exercising the hips so as to develop a graceful walk.” wing thus determined the physical cul- ture possible to be obtained from putting the front part of a house in order, we called in the maid-of-all-work, and asked her where she gets most tired ey and scrubbing. “In my back,” she said. | the feet, abdomen in, hips back, chest up, | answered the vita) organs thus lifted to their proper places. You know how the average wo- man stands—on her heels, protruding ab- In that position, i it i : i H i if ii i A i bi f Re bss HE ag i i Fie i i f ! if i 5g g : legis i i fe i ih e¥8 i i ze te i i i 2 ne ik he i H i | z i i i if strength it will accomplish the ironing without giving out thrcugh. “And now we'll scrub. get creaks her spine and cramps organs. With a straight back, and chest, the body resting on the toes bending forward at the hips, scrubbing 1 gas 536. i i i é i may be @ glorious exercise that when women get to doing housework for the sake of physical culture, they will sleep like babies, besides looking young and eet. Yes, and when they want to sew on a machine or ride a bi- cycle, they will not hump themselves, In- deed, I don’t know of anything a woman does that she will not do better, once this housework system of physical culture is eee. What do Vad — M: e man present, being thus interrogated, answered frankly, “Oh, I think that when hired girls get to going around in gymna- sium clothes and Delsarte curves, I'm go- ing to open an intelligence office. But just wait till the old-fashioned housekeeper reads how to do housework according to Delsarte, won't she make your ears tinge, though!” I dare say she may, old things are just that spiteful and contrary. But her daughter will -hink something about phy- sical culture in connection with housework and write for further particulars to Abbie Johnson, or, ‘ PAULINE PRY. ———_-e--___. THE SUGAR BOUNTY CASE. Arguments in the Mandamus Petition Concluded Yesterday. The hearing of the Miles Planting and Manufacturing Company of Louisiana, for a writ of mandamus against the Secretary of the Tressury and the commissioner of internal revenue, was concluded before Judge McComas yesterday. Arsistant Attorney General Edward B. Whitney, on behalf of the respondents, argued that the McKinley tariff act, which granted a boun- ty to manufacturers and producers of su- gar, had been repealed oy the tariff act of last August, and that, therefore, the in- spection of the plant of the petitioners was not now authorized. He also claimed that the Secretary of the Treasury could not be compelied by mandamus to perform those acts which were matters within his dis- cretion. Mr. E. Hamiit®& foilowel Mr. Whitney, arguing that the McKinley act, while it had in part been repealed, was still in force, so far as it related to the granting of sugar bounties during the four- teen years named by the McKiniey act; that is from July 1, 1891, to 1%, Gen. Jos. L. Brent of Baltimore briefly argued on behalf of the company. At the conclusion of the arguments, Judge McComas took the papers, remarking that he had listened with great pleasure and in- terest to the very able arguments made in e, and would render his decision in days. Judge Ft Accounts. As guardian of Mrs, Alice Condit-Smith Wood and Mrs, Louise Condit-Smith Jud- son, Mr. Justice Field of the United States Supreme Court has filed his final account, and It has been passed and approvel. It is set forth that the amount remaining to each is about $115,000. In his petition for his dis- charge as guardian Justice Field states that there were errors in his previous ae- counts, in one case amounting to $1,432, an@ asks that, as they were errors against him- he be given credit accordingly. He tes that he acted as guardian for nearly @ year after his wards were married, and that he advanced them large amounts at the time of their marriage.