Evening Star Newspaper, August 5, 1895, Page 8

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Foster Medicine Co., Baltimore, Md. 42412r-9 ° e BOO060060066600600565206000 Miss Della Stevens of Boston suffered for years from hereditary scrofula, which the best physicians sound failed to telleve. SS. and saved her fron ‘Augostura Bitters, the celebrated appetizer, of ex- wisite flavor, Is used all over the world. Dr. J. G. . Siegert & Sors, eole manufacturers. At your dealers. aud ‘and well WEBSTER’S BROTFER, Others Thought Him to Be His Equal in Intellect. From the Boston Transcript. Daniel Webster's sister-in-law, the widow of his brother, Ezekiel Webster, is still liv- ing. She js nearly ninety-four years of age, having been born July 9, 1801, at Dunstable (mow Nashua), N. H. She was married Au- gust 2, 1825, and has been a widow over sixty-six years, her husband having died April 10, 1829. She resides at 38 South Main street, Concord, N. H. Her husband was born March 11, 1780—nearly two years before his illustrious .rother Daniel, who was born January 18, 1782—and was grad- uated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1804, three years after Daniel. The sur- viving widow was Ezekiel’s second wife, his first wife, whom he married January 13, 1809, being Alice Bridge of Billerica, Mass. The second wife (Achsah Pollard), who still survives, was a relative of the first wife, Miss Bridge, the maiden name of the latter’s mother being Alice Pollard. Ezekiel Webster, like his brother Daniel, was a lawyer, a portion of his preparatory legal studies having been pursued in this city, in the office of Gov. James Sullivan. In 1807 Daniel Webster removed from Bos- cawen to Portsmouth, and Ezekiel com- menced practice at Boscawen, succeeding to his brother’s business. Ezektel was, by Many persons who had an opportunity to judge his qualities, thought the equal of his more celebrated brother in intellectual endowments. In his younger years he was inclined to be timid, while Daniel was as bold as a lion, and their fathtr was wont to say that Ezekiel could not tell half he knew, but that Dantel could tell more than he knew. In spite of his natural timidity, however, his talents soon won for him an exalted standing as a jurist, and at the time of his death he was regarded as one of the ablest lawyers of New Hampshire. He was not only a lawyer of distinguish- ed ability, but a man of noble morals and sterling uprightness. His bearing at the bar won the respect and confidence of both judge and jury, and he was esteemed and joneged for his courtesy, talents and in- tegrity. He was elected to the legislature twelve times—once as a senator and eleven times as a representative, and at the elec- tion in March, 1829, the month before he died, he was a candidate (an unsuccessful one) for a seat in the lower house of Con- gress. He was a model lawyer, as he was @ model man In debate he was dignified and courteous, his weapons being sound arguments, clothed in simple, but elegant language. He was a-man of imposing pres- ence, having a magnificent form crowned with a princely head. His manners were kind and courteous, his heart warm and affectionate, his countenance of rare and striking beauty. “My brother Ezekiel,” said Daniel Webster in 1846, “appeared to me, and so does he now seem to me, the very finest human form that ever I laid eyes on.” Daniel Webster had for his brother Eze- kiel not only the most devoted affection, but the most exalted respect. In his early years he looked as anxiously for Ezekiel’s approval of all his acts as Corlolanus did for that of his mother. His confidence in his elder brother's judgment was unbound- ed; his reliance upon his counsel and wis- dora was without limit. When, nine months after Ezekiel’s death, he had brought the whole nation to pay homage at his feet for the splendor of his triumph oyer the southern champion, Robert Y. Hayne, he had one keen regret. “How I wish,” he sorrowfully exclaimed, “that my poor brother had lived till after this speech, for I know that he would have been gratified by it.” In their younger days the two brothers shared the meager contents of a common purse until they had fully estab- ished themselves in their profession. On one occasion, while Danlel was teach- ing the academy at Freyburg, Me., and at the same time eking out his Income by acting as deputy register of deeds, he re- turned home by way of Hanover, where Ezekiel was at college. The first thing Daniel did was to find out whether his “brother was in want of money; and, al- though his salary as a teacher was scarce- ly more than the wages of a day laborer, being at the rate of $350 a year, he was ready to help Ezekiel if he was in need. The result of this visit of Daniel's to Eze- Kiel may be told in Daniel's own words: “We walked and talked during a long evening; and, finally, seated upon an old log, not far from the college, I gave to Ezekiel $100—the result of my labors in teaching and in recording deeds, after pay- Ing my ovn debts—leaving to myself but $3 to get home with.” With all the assistance, however, which Ezekiel got from his brother and from his father, he was stili unable to pursue his college course without Interruption. In the spring of his senior year, finding his longer residence in college impossible on account of lack of funds, he purchased the good will of a private school in this city, and he also took upon himself, in addition to this school, the teaching of an evening school for sailors. At this private school which he taught here it Is interesting to kno that George Ticknor and Edward Byerert were among his pupils. —_———+e+-___ Quay is Behind. Brom the Philadelphia Presa. Leaving Susquehanna in doubt, the to- tal number of delegates elected since Sena- tor Quay opened war publicly upon the state administraticn by declaring his pur- pose to defeat Chairman Gilkeson is forty- one. These are divided as follows: For Hastings and Gilkeson 30 For Quay and Cameron.. 1 Showing that the governor has carried almost three delegates to Senator Quay’s one. MAKING GREAT GUNS The Army and Navy Possess Separate Plants for the Purpose. WATERVLIET AND WASHINGTON A Proposition to Combine Them Now Being Considered. OPINIONS OF OFFICERS — Officers of the army and navy are seri- ously considering a proposition for a com- bination of the ordnance plans of the two branches of the service. The government expends vast sums for ordnance material. Work of this character is now carried on at two establishments. The plant for na- val ordnance is at the Washington navy yard and the great guns for the army are made at Watervliet, N. Y. Assistant Sec- retary McAdoo favors the new scheme, the main object of which is to hasten the ccmpletion of the ordnance for coast de- fenses, which is said to be far behindhand. The gun factory here has turned out guns as high as thirteen inches in caliber, every one of which has been fully tested. Work at Both Factories. So far the army has made no gun larger than the twelve-inch, and has completed only a few of these, but a plant is now being Installed at Watervliet, with which the biggest gun ever attempted in the United States—a_ sixteen-inch—is to be made. This gun will be att>mpted simply to show how far great gun building can be var- ried on. It has been decided by the naval ordnance experts that no rifies larger than thirteen-inch should be mounted on naval vessels, and it is exceedingly doubtful if the fortifications board will approve of a larger gun for fortification purposes. If the army should agree to permit the-navy to build some of its guns, the work of coast defenses would be greatly advanced and gtns turned out as fast as required. The Watervliet factory, it is admitted,will have all that it can possibly attend to for sev- eral years in manufacturing heavy ord- nance for the afmy, while the work of the Washington sun factory is far advanced and every gun for the battleships yet on the ways is completed. Congress Closes the Local Foundry. The capacity of the Washington gun foundry is almost unlimited, and guns suf- ficient to lest the navy for six years can easily be manufactured in cne year. The shops have been virtually closed, however, by the failure of Congress to make suffi- cient appropriations for maintenance, and the authorities have been powerless to pre- vent ‘he attraction of skilled labor, edu- cated at government expense, to private establishments, such as the steel and gun fcundries in New England, New York and Pennsylvania. The original appropriations for a monster gun shop at Weshington were made in 1857 and 1888. The following years were devoted to gathering a costly plant, including lathes, furnaces, traveling cranes, a steam railroad and the complete plant necessary to the assembling and fin- ishing of great guns. The tools were pur- chased ard installed at great cost to the gcvernment, and today most of then are idle, and the great gun shop is deserted save for a few men, who are actually lost amid the mass of silent machinery. The gun skops at Watervliet have been equally well equipped at as great cost, and many of the tools at Washington have been du- plicated at the army gun factory, so called. The Econom} of One Great Plant. The purpcses of each establishment are akin, the difference being mainly that the product of the Watervliet arsenal is des- tined for the land troops ard the coast de- fenses, while the output of the naval gun shops is intended for the men-of-war. The character of the werk performed or plan- ned at the two places is similar. It is now suggested that it may be in the interest of economical administration to operate one factory, which shall assemble guns for both the army and navy, instead of running two distinct establishments, with @ surplus of power apd Idbor which could be profitably utilized in a combined fac- tory. The proposition will probably come be- fore Congress at its next session. Its fa- vorable consideration would eventually lead to the abandonment of either the Wastrington or the Watervliet gun foun- dry. Such a result is not likely, however, inasmuch as the absolute abandonment of either would mean the sale at great loss of considerable valuable machinery. + 2+_____ BURGLAR TOOLMAKERS. They Manufacture the Finest Imple- ments of Their Trade. From the New York Herald. When “Dutch Gus,”’ one of the most ex- pert and dangerous bank burglars, was captured a few years ago, the most com- plete set of burglars’ tools ever made was found in his possession, and it now lends added interest to the collection of burg- lars’ implements on exhibition at police headquarters. “Dutch Gus” said he made his tools him- self and could rival any toolmaker in the country. In following up the sugges- tion given by him when he was put through the third degree, made famous by former Chief of Police Byrnes, the police learned that all the cracksmen of the higher class depend entirely upon them- selves for tools they require in cracking safes. The police were for many years at-a loss to learn where burglars secured the tcols so necessary to thelr trade. Although complete sets of tools were repeatedly cap- tured when a noted safe worker was ar- rested, the next arrest would be followed by the discovery of an equally valuable set of tools. It was not long before Steve O'Brien, Phil Reilly, Jake Von Gerichten and Charles Heidelberg discovered, quite by accident, a small cellar shop in Bleecker street wherein an old German toolmaker ground out the finest implements of the burglars’ stock in trade. Down in a basement near the corner of Mott street, and within a stone’s throw of police headquarters, this German tool- maker conducted a small and apparently unprofitable business. Finally the head- quarters detectives, whose duties took them down around headquarters at night, noticed that the old German had many customers after the tenement house dwell- ers had forsaken the sidewalks and sought their hard and uncomfortable c@uches for the night. The detectives made a quiet investigation and reported their discoveries to former Chief of Police Byrnes, who was then making the record for the detective bureau of the New York police force, which has made {t famous the world over. Byrnes was not slow to realize what was going on, and although the law gave the chief of the detective bureau no right to interfere with the old man’s business, moral suasion was used and the trade pursued by the German toclmaker was broken up, and nobody has since tried to build up @ business in that particular line. George McCluskey said, when I asked him where the burglars of the higher class secured their tools, a few days ago: “The burglars make their tools now, although formerly they were made by various tool- makers about the city. The tools in use teday are far different from those which were used to crack a safe twenty years ago. Then it would almost take a truck to carry the assortment of tools, but now the bank burglar can stow away in a corner of his pocket tools enough to crack any safe in the country. “Of course, when they require some tool of intricate design, they go to a toolmaker, but the general ‘run of tools they are thoroughly capable of making themselves. Most of the fine work on safes now is done with the diamond drill and dynamite. A hole is drilled In the safe door, just above the combination lock, a charge of dynamite is inserted and then the combination is blown apart and the door opens. The dia- mond drill and dynamite can be carried in a man’s pocket. Safe burglaries and vault robberies have been few and far between of late yearsgas most of the really clever workers are iM@state prison, where they are out of the way of temptation.” THE W’S AND THE Y’S. Work Along Progressive Lines Being Prosecuied by the W-C, T. U. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union does not confine its work to tem- perance alone, but takes up different sub- jects of reform, and adopts new lines in their treatment. . One of the most interesting departments is that known as “the Y’s,” being a dis- tinet branch, as it were, from the W.C.T. U. It is formed whclly of young women, who are known and designated as “the. Y’s,"" while the mother association is dub- bed “the W's.” The Y’s work largely along social lines, and have some very nice entertainments at their rooms at the general W.C.T.U. headquarters. They invite young men to become honorary members, an e them genuine white ribboners, but do not per- mit them to hold office. Through this means they reach other young men, who are mvited to the entertainments, and are able to throw around them a refining and purifying influence that many who are without homes in the city would otherwise never receive. é The Y's have their separate and different unions, officered and conducted in unison with the W’s, yet distinct in individuality. The Y's are under the direction of Mrs. Sarah D. La Fetra, who was for eight years District president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. They are strong in numbers, and are enlisted from among fam- ilies who are not interested in W. C. T. U. work, as well as from W. C. T. U. mothers. Their work touches the use of cigarettes, as well as intoxicating drinks, and takes up prison work. The Y's of this city have nearly a hun- dred honorary memters. The work among the foreigners belongs to the W's ard comes under the manage- ment of Mrs. Hannah Crosby. Mrs. Cros- by says she does not pass an American to reach a forelgrer, but helps where she sees need. One of Fer main objects is to see that persons who are not educated in our language or customs are given such papers and books as would give them a good knowledge of our customs and mode of life as well as our methods of gevernment, thus tending to make them properly adapted for naturalization. ——————— HOW TO PACK A TRUNK. Not Qne Woman in a Hundred Under- stands the Commonplace Task. From the Philadelphia Times. Not one woman in a hundred understands the science of packing a trunk. properly paeked wili close without being forced to shut. It is not well to pack a trunk a week before the journey is to be undertaken. A day is ample time for all preparations. Forethought in packing con- sists in the careful arrangement of a wo- man’s wardrobe; the straightening of bu- reau drawers_:nd closets into the proverbial “apple ple order.” No buttons should be missing from any of the garments, no hose undarned; all skirts should be brushed, and all w should be pressed out of the gowns. Ey hing in order and ev2rything in its proper place leaves merely the simple task of folding the garments and transfer- ring them from bureau and wardrobe to trunk or packing boxes. Some women pre- fer packing boxes to trunks, but they have little to recommend them in this country. People on the other side avail themselves of boxes because tewer pounds of luggage are allowed each ticket. When the Princess Eulalia of Spain vis- ited this couatry she was followed by a trail of dress boxes and hat boxes. When the Rajah of Kapurthala came to the United States with his wife and his royal escort they brought with them over a hundred pieces of small luggage. ‘The Saratoga trunk is a distinctly Ameri- can invention. It is not used as much as it was formerly; its place has been taken by the flat-topped trunk. The new trunk 13 quite as back-breaking, however, to the por- ters and expressmea. There is much to be said in favor of the dress box, for it saves pretty frocks from being rumpled, but they can be packed in trunks successfully. There is an art in folding gowns so that they will not come from the trunk in ugly wrinkles. First, there is the modern godet skirt, measuring ary where from five to ten yards around at the bottom, and with three plaits at the back; and the lines must not be spoiled in tha folding. It should be right side out and folded from the bottom. The center of the front breadth should be fold- ed first, and the width of the trunk careful- ly measured. The fullness of the ekirt, width by width, should be folded by the original measure taken from the front breadth, care being taken that every crease 1s made smooth, until the three back piaits are reached. The plaits should be stuffed with crushed tissue paper, and the paper laid between each two folds. he sleeves of the bodices of gowns and laundered skirts should be padded tn the same man- ner. It is also well to stuff the fronts of full waists. It is quite as easy to fold a gown scientifically as to fold it in wrinkles, Great economy of space in packing is al- Ways necessary, and it will be found much better for a woman with the average amount of dresses to have one small and one large trunk. In packing all trunks be- gin by putting a linen towel in the bottom. The heavy cloth sults should go in first. It is well to have the body of each gown with its own skirt. Between each two cos- tumes should be laid one or more sheets of tissue paper. The white paper is always wholesome and dainty, but almost every woman has a favorite color, and she is apt to use paper of her chosen tint. It is far better to pack with the tissue paper than with towels, for it weighs less. If con- venient, it is advisable to have a strap tray for each dress, but it is not essentlal. It is advisable to reserve one shallow tray for parasols, fichus, feather or lace boas, and fans. The deep top tray should be arranged for hats and veils; nothing else should be put in it. Here again the tissue paper should be used in abundance. Bows should be stuffed with it, and it should be crushed in rope-like pieces and twisted about aig- rettes and garnitures. The small trunk should be packed with underclothes in the lower half. This trunk should have only one tray, which should be moderately deep and divided into compart- ments for shoes, gloves, handkerchiefs, stcckings, in fact, all small accessories of @ gentlewoman’s toilet. The small trunk tray and also the hat box in the large trunk are often lined with light-weight vel- vet or chamois. Every trunk should be distinctly marked in some manner, so that it may be recognized at a glance. An ex- cellent marking is a five-inch red band running across each end. On it should be placed either black br white letters, or scme personal stump. In case of a water- proof enamel-cloth cover, which is al- ways advisable, the stamp should he placed on {t. Two strong straps save the trunk much strain. All trunks should have cre- tonne slip covers that may be put over them when a destination is reached, for few articles are more unsightly. ————+e+____ EASE IN CONVERSATION. How to Remedy This Lack by Prac- tice in the Home Circle, From the Ladies’ Home Journal. There is one great reason for this lack of conversational power; in too many cases the art is never practiced inside the home circle. No attempt at pleasant converse is ever made save when visitors are pres- ent; the various members of the family may gossip a little, or discuss purely per- sonal affairs, but they make no attempt at entertaining talk. In point of fact, the art of conversation Is like a game of bat- tledoor and shuttlecock, one needs the quickness and dexterity of constant prac- tice. In many busy households the only general gathering of the family is at meal- time—a time above all others when worry should be banished, if only for the sake of physical comfort. Yet this is the very time when the mother will complain of domestic worry, the father of business cares and the daughters of shabby frocks. All this should be changed; it ought to be a rule in all households that disagreea- bles are to be banished at mealtime. If complaints must be made let them come at a proper time, but do not imperil your di- gestion by eating while you are in an ir- ritated and discontented frame of mind. Pleasant talk relieved by an_ occasional laugh will be more beneficial than pounds of pills. In the household there should not only be an avoidance of unpleasant topics, but an attempt to find agreeable ones. Each member of the family should come to the table prepared to say some- thing pleasant. Any bright little story or merry joke, or any bit of world’s news that will loosen the tongues and cause ani- mated taik—how it will increase the brightness of the working day. There need be no profound discussion—it should be just Hvely touch and go talk. ——_-+0+. The French line steamship La Touraine from Havre, reached port yesterday, twen- ty-four hours behind her usual time, owing to a mishap to her machinery during the voyage. A trunk’ DOWN IN KENTUCKY IV aa te Republicans_Working Hard, With Hopes of Success. REFER OP HE DEMOCRATIC SPLIT Senator Blackburn Stronger Than His Faction. PUSHING :JOHN W. YERKES Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. LOUISVILLE, Ky., August 8, 1895. The Kentucky democracy is in the mid- dle of the deep blue sea and seems unable to swim. With a sound money plank in the state platform and General P. Wat. Hardin, candidate for governor, an out and out free silver man, the party is vir- tually without a leader and grave fears are entertained by the leaders for the out- ceme of the campaign for state offices. The Kentucky republicans- seem har- moniously united in their intent to elect Wiliam ©. Bradley governor, and are working with a vim in every County in the state to elect republicans to the legisla- ture in hopes of sending John W. Yerkes to the Senate to succeed Senator Black- burn. Since the memorable state convention, -held in this city by the democrats in the last week in June, matters have become mcre and more tangled, and the free silver movement, which was so overwhelmingly defeated in the convention, has again come to the front and ts the all-absorbing topic of the politicians. Senator Blackburn, though defeated for a position on the committee on resolutions in his own district, main- tairs that the sound money plank does rrot muzzle him, construes the platform to suit himself, and he is prosecuting his cam- pa‘gn for the Senate on a free silver basis, and making speeches all over the state ad- vccating the free and unlimited coinage of the while metal at any ratio, just so It be free and unlimited. General Hardin was Mr. Blackburn’s co-worker in this cause until his nomination for governor, but ts now absolutely silent. Not so with the senior Senator. He is making the fight of his life for a return to the Senate and refuses to allow any dictation from the state central committee. As a result the party is badly split. Gen- eral Hardin’s free silver friends are wait- ing for an expression from him favorable to their views, and the sound money people are watching to see that the platform is not ignored by the candidate. The state central committee has completed arrange- ments for a series of twelve joint. debates between Mr. Hardin and Mr. Bradley, and it is asserted by the republicans that they will force an expression from Mr. Hardin when he meets Bradley. The Populist Candidate. Another complication that arises is the nomination of Thos. P. Pettit, a wealthy farmer, by the’ populists on a wide-open free silver platform. Pettit is from the “Pennyrile,” a section of the state that is overwhelmirgly for free silver, and he is expected to gajn a great number of the free silver democrats of that section, thus enbancing thé‘chaac2s of Mr. Bradley, the republican nominee for the governorship. The country: press of the state is gener- ally upholding Senator Blackburn, while the metropolitan, press of Louisville is de- voting column’ after column daily, “‘roast- ing’ him for hfs course, calling him a “pop” and endeavoring to drive him out of the democratic party. How well they will succeed will be shown by the returns in November, but the belief is general that he will be returnéd to the Senate by a safe majority. Tnereis a feeling that he is being mistreated and the countrymen are rallying to‘his swpport, cr: : “Don’t hit a man when he is dow There is no doubt that their sympathies are with the Senatcr, and that he will gain many votes by the attacks of the-city papers. Senator Blackburn's Rivals. | Opposing Mr. Blackburn for the Senator- ship are James B. McCreary, Congressman from the eighth district, who advocates an. international agreement upon the money question, and wants $4,000,000 of silver purchased and coined each month; and ex-Governor Simon Bolivar Buckner, the “Hero of Glen Lily,” who stands stanchly upon the single gold standard. In the nominations already made for the legislature it seems that Mr. Blackburn has much the best of his competitors, and if the democratic nominees are elected he will undoubtedly have control of the dem- cratic caucus. There is great I:kelihood of many of the democrats being turned down, however, as the republicans are set upon sending John W. Yerkes, a brilliant young lawyer of Danville, Ky., to Washington to suceced Mr. Blackburn, and are making the most active campaign ever known for legislative offices. Mr. Yerkes stands a on the sound money platform adopt by the republican convention in Louisville, and, added to this, is popular alike with all parties. He may draw some sound money democrats to his support, who would enjoy the downfall of free silver and Blackburn, even at the cost of a demo- cratic senatorship. — How the Fight Stands. Of the eleven “hold-over” senators six are counted upon as for Blackburn, and cf the thirty-five nominees for the legislature he has twenty, with Buckner two and Mc- Creary four, the non-committal gentlemen being generally opposed to Blackburn and undecided between McCreary and Buckner. Six nominations have been made for the senate, and Senator Blackburn is credited with four of the six candidates, Buckaer with one, and one non-committal. One of the most peculiar features of the political situation is the support Seaator Blackburn is receiving from sound money men, who from their admiration for the man have sunk the money question ‘nto oblivion, and are for “Jo,” as they love to call him, first, last and all the time. In Mr. Blackburn’s county of Woodford Senator Martin is a sound money man, ae will vote for Blackburn; Charles Brons' in Fayette, is classed as a Blackburn sup- porter, but is known to be a strong Cleve- land man and to favor sound money. Such a list could be stretched out indefi- nitely, but these two instances are suffi- cient to show the influences that are at work tending toward the return of the present senior Senator from Kentucky. During the past few days the situation has grown a little brighter for democracy, but all of the old-time sanguineness is gone, and if the party is to again triumph some unforeseen influences must be brought into play. seh A ee LEATHER VS. RUBBER. Leatker Tires for Bicycles Are an Im- provement on the Rubber Made Ones. From La Natute. * Two Frenchmen of Rheims have recently completed an inyention which they claim will in a measure revolutionize the pres- ent pneumatic tite. They build their wheels by substituting an outer pneumatic tube made of !eather for the rubber tubes now in use. Their invention has been taken up by the ministry of war, who are now per- fecting the idea with a view to supply all the military:cycles with tires that will not give out easily. The resistance of leather is considerably greater than that of rubber, and it will better stand the pressure from within and the exterior agents of destruction, such as nails, hoops, roots or sharp pebbles. It is not absolutely imperforable, but it is at least as good as the fine steel band, which was experimentally placed between the outer and inner tubes, and which was pierced by needles and tacks. Leather of- fera the greatest impenetrability In rela- tion to its thickness without impairing the necessary elasticity. It is further improved by a preparation which renders it imper- meable to water. The leather tire is easily repaired in case of perforation—any cob- bler can sew it up—and this repair is per- manent and not likely to get out of order. Other advantages claimed for the leather tire are: Greater lightness; it will not get out of sfape, as does rubber, and it will not slip on asphalt pavement or wet roads. The new material for the tire seems to meet with great encouragement on the part of the military authorities of France. STUDYING THE SYSTEM. Interested Visitors Examining tral Union Mission Methods. The Central Union Mission continues to be a center of attraction for mission work- ers of the country, wh> come to study its methods with a view to their adoption eisewhere. Five men are here now, three of whom have come for the express pur- Pose of seeing the mission and the other two are collecting information while sup- plying some of the city. pulpits. Messrs. R. J. Reed and Edward S. Curtis, the for- mer a business man, and the latter a law- yer, from Chicago, have been the guests of the mission for the pust thre? days. They have be2.me interested in the Na- tional Gospel Mission Union, and are here with a view to patterning mission work in Chicago after the Washington model. Mr. Reed was at one time a prominent politician in Chicago, but lost his grasp through a weakness for the intoxicating cup. After failing with the Keely cure he went to one of the Moody meetings during the Chicago fair, having been a former Sunday school scholar of Mr. Moody. The result was a complete cure and the con- secration of his talents ‘o the work of help- ing other men. Mr. Curtis is a prominent attorney, who is deeply interested in mis- sion work. The third guest of the mission is John Habbick, esq., a lawyer, from Los Angeles, Cal. He became interested in rescue work, sold his law library, and nas been attending the Moody Institute in Chicago for the past year. Before returning to California he is to spend a few we2ks wita the mis- sion here to familiarize himself with the work. He is a good singer, and while here will assist in mission services. Rev. W. G. Banker of Lawrencs, Kan., and Rev. S. W. Stophlet of Evansville, Ind., are supplying pulpits in the city, but having heard of the mission they are de- voting their spare time to a studv of the work. Mr. Banker first became interested through an excellent account of the gospel wagon work, which he saw in one of the Kansas City dailies, in which was printed @ picture of the wagon, All these gentlemen took part in the vari- ous mission services yesterday, the con- gregations at all of which were largé and the exercises deeply interesting. Every day last week there were visitors at the mission, most of whom assisted in some of the ordinary meeting: and contributed much to the zeal and enthuslasm which usually characterizes them. —— SUMMER GIRL SCHEMES. A New Trick to Get Rid of a Would- Be Masher. “Darn the summer gir! twittered a dude member of the Stay-at-Home Club to a Star man, “I have no use for them.” “Perhaps they have a use for yor sug- gested the newspaper man. “I understand men are very scarce in the summer time.” ‘I guess they have,” he sighed, reflective- ly, “but it’s of a kind I don’t like.” “What's the matter? What have they been doing?” “Well,” he said, explaining in.a pained tone of voice, “I had an experience the other evening that I don’t admire, I had fixed myself up for the evening, and you know I look right well when I am attired in my light suit," here he smiled in a satisfied way, “and got on an avenue grip to take the breeze from Georgetown to the Navy Yard and back. I was feeling fine as silk, and looking it, and when I got my seat and found I was right in front of two summer beauties, I knew I was going to crush them flat. They couldn't stand it, I was sure, and as soon as I got fixed I be- gan to cast a glance or two their way. Nothing bold, you understand, but some- thing nice and delicate, just the thing to make a good and lasting impression. They didn’t seem to catch on exactly, but got to gigglirg insteai, and I hate gigglers. Well, they kept on giggling, at least one of them did, but the cther, after a few minutes, t to stop her companion. ‘Oh, Hattie,’ she said, in a tone so low that I could just catch it, ani which evidently wasn't meant for me to hear, ‘don’t laugh, It’s such a pity. I'm sure he doesn’t know that it is that way.” “Of course not,’ giggled the other. ‘He wouldn’t have come out in public if ne had known how it iooked,’ and she giggled Worse than ever. “They kept up their whispering for a couple of minutes or so, and ail at once it struck me that something about my dress wasn't as it should be and the girls were having fun with it instead of being im- pressed as I wanted them to be. What it was I couldn't tell, because I vouldu't give myself away by making a pudlic inspection of myself, and the cold cullls began to chase themselves up and down my hack, for that is one of the things that make me go perfectly wild. I stood it for a min- ute or 3o longer and then sot off the car and broke for the drug store on the cor- ner, There I called on the clerk to make an inspection of me, or rather to assist me in making ene for myself, and the result was that we found everything all right. Then I told the clerk what had driven ime off Bos ae and he giggled worse than the Bi r ‘Why,’ he said, between smiles, ‘aln’t you onto that strap yet? It’s a gag the girls work on young fellows like you when they want to get them out or tho way, or paralyze them where they are.’ “Then he laughed some more, and I-telt so hurt about the way that I had been treated I took the hind seat in the last car of the next string that came along and went back home.” . os STORY OF A FROG. A Cruel Joke Upon an English Visitor to This Country. From the Chicago ‘Times-Herald. “A true fish story,” mused “Billy” Mason, leaning back in his chair and gazing in a thoughtful way at the ceiling. “There ain’t any, as my friend Gus would say. That is, there are no true fish stories worth repeating. The great beauty of a fish story is its innocent and refreshing mendacity. I can tell you a good frog story. We were up at Twin lakes once upon a time, a lot of vs; it makes no difference who was along so far as the story is concerned. ‘The fishing was so good that we grew tired of catching fish. We had an Englishman with us, a good sort of a fellow, but credu- lous and easy to string. He was a little timid about Indians, and when we talked about rattlesnakes he lost all control of his h’s and gazed wildly about as if ex- pecting one to spring upon him. “One of the boys caught a monstrous bullfrog, a regular old patriarch of his tribe. We put him in a minnow bucket and brought it up near the camp. Ever hear a bullfrog cut loose in a tin can? Then ther2 is no use of attempting to ex- plain how it gpunds. A cross between a sawflle and a runaway scrap-iron wagon going through La Salle street tunnel. We were sitting around the campfire that even- ing. The shadows of the great oaks had long been cast across the weedy waters of the lake, and in the east the full moon broke over the crest of pines and cast a wavering sheen from us to Rock Point. A lonely frog lifted up his voice way up the lake and an old, hardened sinner of & frog at the other end of the water an- swered him in a scoffing, insulting tone. In a few moments the whole frog chorus was in full sway. The deep-toned thunder of the old fellows mingled with the shrill treble of the youngsters, and once in a while a stray loon would add his mournful wail to the melancholy melody of the wilderness. “We were talking about snakes, and in the flickering glare of the campfire I could see that the Englishman was pervous. Seymour was telling how he had known a rattlesnake to come right into camp, when, all at once, that frog in the can let go and tried to tell the story of his wrongs. As I said before, you cannot describe the noise. It was awful. a: scared me, and a eney what it was. ymour Was Col enough to yell ‘Rattlesnakes!’ but it aid not need that word to scare the English- man. He gave one’ wild scream and plunged into the lake. It took an hour to calm him down. He stayed up all night, and went home early in the morning, de- claring that he had had enough of the ‘ploomin’, bleedin’ wilderness. a gg ‘M. .W. Lambert's Suicide. M. W. Lambert was found dead in bed at the Hotel ‘Albion, Atlantic City, Satur- day, having taken a dose of laudanum. Lambert, who was thirty-seven yearas old, came from New York several weeks ago and secured the position of night clerk at a hotel. It is said that he was obliged to give up the position’ because of his drink- ing habits. He was formerly manager of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com- pary’s hotels at Deer Park and Oakland, Md., and of the Berkeley Springs Hotel, in West Virginia. ca} PLEA FOR POCKETS Woman’s Longing for a Place in Which to Carry Things, NO BETTER OFF THAN EVE Story of the Rise and Fall of the Necessary Pocket. MAN’S MANY ADVANTAGES Won't the bloomer woman or the new ‘woman or some woman or other be mascu- line enough to demand pockets? Suffrage is all very well, but pockets are the in- alienable right of our sex.. What a poor, Pocketless, Lucy Locket set we all are. Any one of us might be arrested for shop- lifting and convicted on circumstantial evidence, for cruel necessity compels us to conceal our belongings in all sorts of queer Places. Button hooks we stick in our gloves; handkerchiefs do nicely to fill out the big sleeves; bonbonnieres and watches tend to make our waistsof the prescribed Measurements since we have taken to poking them in our belts, and our pocket- books—a misnomer, as we possess 1:0 pockets—are carried loosely clasped in our fingers, a temptation to the needy and an invitation to the unprincipled. Man’s Advantagen. Not even the man who carries aces up his sleeve would submit to the inconven- fence of carrying a handkerchief there,and until we get back the pockets of our grand- mothers, the less said of the progress of our sex the better. And to think that we talk of taxation without representation, and argue that we are the equal, if not the superior, of our brothers. A woman with no pocket the equal of a man with seven or eight—it is absurdly unlogical. Any one who has ever been able to get as far as double equations in algebra can see the fallacy of the statement. Let x stand for the woman without a pocket, and y for the man with seven, and then prove x equal to y if you can. Algebra can be made to prove many strange things, but it can’t go quite that far. If we want suffrage, it is not worth while to fly in the face of the ruling powers like an infuriated and helpless hen. We should go step by step. An appeal in behalf of pockets would be a good initial measure, for it would not immediately arcuse the opposi- tion of men. They would like for us to have pockets: it would relieve them of the bother of taking care of our fans and opera glasses and other theater essentials. And after we once gut them, then we would be prepared to pocket the ballot, both literally and metaphorically. Instead of fighting men, we should be fighting the modistes. Of course, we have been doing that all our lives, but we could concentrate our criticisms upon one point, the absence of a pocket. That would be a great relief, too, to the dressmakers, for heretofore we have fought on no particular issue; we have'simpiy designated our gowns as “frightfully botched” and been hysteri- cal over them. The Earliest Pockets, The rise and fall of the pocket is a very interesting study. Eve had none in her apron—a-good argument for those who con- tend that we will eventually get back to the original state of affairs. Undoubtedly, the forefather of the modern pocket was the hunter's bag, rudely fashioned from skins. The Greeks and the Romans knew only this detachable pocket, but then, who ever thinks of a Greek or a Roman carrying anything but a dagger or a scroll of man- uscript? It would seem-as absurd to think of Caesar jingling a bunch of office keys as it would to imagine a Grecian maiden, in flowing robes, cooking a substantial dinner of potatoes and cabbage. The word pocket is derived from the French, and signifies a pouch or bag. At first, women wore them tied around their waists, under their gowns, an opening in the skirt corresponding with one in the bag. Frequently there were two of these, hun, like John Gilpin’s bottles, “—— on each side To make the balance true.” Oh, little maid, who blushes to think that she once smoked a cigarette, your great- grandmother carried a snuffbox in that un- gainly pocket! Yes, and a knitting shield, and calamus root, and several other things which you have never even heard of. The Decline. Later on the bag was sewed in the skirt, and stHl later the patch pocket made its appearance, a square stitched on the out- side of the garment. The pocket was in the zenith of its power when it reigned as a reticule, for then it combined ornamenta- tion with utility. The most approved sort was of canvas elaborately embroidered in beads. This beaded reticule was the swan’s song; the glow of glory that bathes the earth ere the setting of the sun. From it dates the dechne of the pocket. As long as it was open and above board it was a blessing to womankind, but when it be- came a thing to be hidden in inaccessible places, what dark thoughts of murder and revenge It put into weak woman’s mind! To attempt to put one’s hand into her pocket and not be able to find it was sometimes very embarrassing, especially if the con- ductor was waiting for his fare or the usher balancing the contribution box te- fore one. Tho skirt dance probably had its origin in the frantic endeavor of a woman to locate a pocket hidden under mysterious draperies. By turning the gown wrong side out and clinging on to the pocket we could occasionally find the opening on :he other side, but the process was altogether too trying on our tempers, and we con- cluded that the peace of the community depended upon its abolishment. The Boston Bag. . We tried all sorts of substitutes, notably “the eminently respectable Boston bag.” The trouble with it was that we were apt to pick it up by the wrong end, and the contents cf a woman's bag, exposed to public view, were rarely a credit to its owner. But what a convenience they were! The young woman in the department, who heretofore had been undergoing a gradual starvation process rather than carry a substantial luncheon, abandoned the little slice of bread and butter which always warped before noon, and concealed a regu- lar dinner in tho innocent-looking black iS. The chatelaines which succeeded it were too small to be of much use, and, beside: they made us feel “sporty.” They zing! like the trappings of a silver-mounted har- ness, and involuntarily we threw back our heads and stepped high. Finally, we real- ized that they did to wear at the races, but were not comme il faut at any other place, 80 gave them to our maids. But any sort of a pocket was better than none at all. Think- of the pleasure a boy derives from his pockets! Think of the in- dependence a man feels who possesses half a dozen, and think of us, poor, long- suffering daughters of Eve, who have not where to put a penny! But man and mag- istrate are with us. Across the waters Mr. Hanney of Marlborough street is preaching pockets to prevent the snatching of purses, and no doubt our own police officials would ory contribute funds for a pocket cam- ign. ——_ He Saved Her Life. From the Buffalo Times. In the old stage coach times across New York state a woman was the only pas- senger in one of these vehicles, except her baby, whom she wrapped in her fur cloak, leaving herself unprotected from the pierc- ing cold. The driver saw that she was be- numbed, and would freeze to death unless roused to exerci: He dragged her from the coach and her by the wayside. “Oh, my baby!” she cried. The driver cracked his whip. The coach flew over the snow, with the woman run- ning after. The race was kept up for nearly two miles, when the driver took the mother in again and wrapped his coat round her. He had warmed her blood and saved her life. DR. PURVIS NAMED. Stroi ican Delegate From the District. A strong movement has been inaugurated by many influential republicans of the Disttict in favor of having Dr. Charles B. Purvis, late surgeon in charge of the Freedman’s Hospital, selected as one of the delegates to the next republican na- tional convention. It is believed by the friends of Dr. Purvis that the fight among the candidates already in the field will be so bitter that the conservative element fri the party will be able to control the nom- inatioi In such a case the chances of Dr. rvis are regarded as excellent. The Leader and Clipper, a newspaper published simultaneously in this city and Alexan- dria, and edited by Magnus L. Robinson, devotes a leading editorial to a plea in behalf of a decent and orderly selection of delegates, and names Dr. Purvis as a reprecentative colored man, whose selec- tion as delegate would reflect much honor upon District delegates. —_.__ A MATTER OF IMAGINATION. Am Insinnce of “Where Ignorance is Bliss,” &c., at Sen. “When I was about twenty,” said a Bos- ton merchant to 2 Star writer, “like many young fellows, I had a taste for adventure, which culminated in my going aboard a sailing vessel bound for somewhere, I didn’t care much where. We brought up one day off the coest of Africa, and an- chored in a harbor where several other ships were iying. A night or two afier I ‘was on watch, and while dreaming of home or romething of the kind a boat came alongside, and before I knew just what had happened I was ‘shanghaied,’ ard the men in the boat were taking me back to thelr own ship. It wasn’t quite what I bargained for, out ail they wanted was a man, and I answered the purpose, and they treated me as well 2s could be expected. I went to work without much cf a kick, and got along very well, and was especially fortunate in having as my berthmate a good fellow named Tem. Perhaps he had another name, but that was all I knew, and that was enough for every-day use. ‘Tom slept in the bunk over me, and We soon be- came very good ¢riends. “One night Tom and I were called on to go aloft and furl a sail about a mile and a half up a mast, it seemed to me, and we went. He was at one end and I et the other, and when I had my part of the work done I called to him, but“he did not an- swer. I called again, and still no answer, and then I concluded that he had finished his job and gone below. So I went down to the deck. There I met the mate, and he asked me where Tom was. I told him T guessed he had come down, as he wasn’t up above. The mate said it was likely he had failen into tne sea. We looked about the deck, and pretty soon found the body of poor Tom in the scuppers. He had dropped off some way, and was deader than a marlinspike. It shocked me so that I wasn’t any more good, and I went off by myself and sat down to get myself in shape again, while the others took care of ‘Tom. The maie told me, after an hour or 0, that I could xo to bed, and I started for my bunk, but when I got there I got to thinking of poor Tom lying above me dead, and I just couldn't stand it. I waited a while, and then took out my blankets and slipped off to a lifeboat. There was some canvas in ft, and I spread out my blankets and settled Jown for the night. The gtrain was gone by that time, and when I got to sleep I stayed there, and was still at it wken the mate found me in the boat long after daylight.” “Here, Charlie,’ he sald, ‘shaking me, ‘what are you doing here” “Well,” I blubbered, ‘I couldn’t sleep in that bunk where Tom was, and I come out here. That's all.’ “The mate laughed In a way that shock- ed me. “* ‘You didn’t help matters much,” he said. ‘We put Tom’s body in this boat last night under the canvas, and you've been sleepirg ont ever since you turned in.’ “It took me a week to get over it,” con- cluded the narrator, “‘and it has been many years since it happened, but it gives me the creeps even now when I think agout it.” — THE LARGEST MAN. Late Albert Whetstone of California Weighed Nearly 500. From the San Francisco Examiner. ‘The largest man in the world, Albert Whetstone, is dead. At least, he was called, and called himself, the largest man in the world, and he was certainly of a size to make tim remarkable. ‘Whetstone died on the 13th of June, at Fortuna, and was at all events certainly the largest man in the United States. He was born in Atlanta, Ind., on March 11, 1867, and when four years of age was the smallest of a family of seven children. At the age of five he was scarcely able to walk, and could talk but little. He made up for this lack of stature in later years, but, Ike all very large men, he was never very strong. He came of a family noted for large size. His mother, who ts still living, weighs 345 pounds, and she has two brothers weighing $20 pounds apiece. She also had two sons, each of whom Is over six feet in height and each of whom also weighs over 300 pounds. ‘When Whetstone was five years old a kick in the head from a horse gave him a@ mental injury from which he never fully recovered, and one year later he began to grow tall, amd at the same time to take on flesh at an alarming rate. When twenty years old he was of enormous proportions, ani having attracted the attention of a showman he was engaged and made an exhibition tour of the eastern states. He was a drawing card for the showman, mak- ing plenty of money for the management, but along with his mental weakness he had the confiding disposition characteristic of humanity of the extremely large sort, and was easily beaten out of the greater part of his share of the receipts. He quit the show business after the first experience, and in February, 1891, came to Humbolt county with his parents and has resided here ever since. He was not con- tent out of a museum, however, and just before his death, which was due to apo- plexy, had_ made a contract to go on exhibi- tion In a San Francisco museum At the time of his death he weighed 496 pounds, and was of such enormous propor- tions that it was necessary to cut a hole In the side of the house in order to remove the body. The coffin consumed 101 feet of lumber and weighed 100 pounds. It was six feet eight inches long, thirty-two inches wide and twenty-nine inches deep. Owing to its size the fureral services could not be held in the church, as the doors were too small to admit of its en- trance, and the sermon was preached out under the trees. Ten men were needed as pallbearers, and the funeral was attended by pecple from all over the county. ———+0+— CARE OF THE EAR. Serious Results May Follow Inatten- tion in This Matter. From Babyland. Defective hearing is a trouble that many children labor under, caused occasionally by disease, but oftentimes by lack of proper care of the ear passages. It is sometimes the case that the dullness and inattention of a scholar ts due to impaired hearing; and the inability to hear distinctly all that is sald by teachers and pupils gives the poor child the appearance of being heed- less and inattentive. ‘The waxy secretion found in the cars is nature’s own method of keeping the ear passages in healthy condition. There is frequently, however, an excess of this wax, and occasionally it happens ‘that in clean- ing the child’s ears the excess wax is pushed further into the ear passages. Repetitions of this process cause the wax to become packed, causing gradual loss of the hearing power. Too much stress can- not be laid upon the fact that pins and such articles should not be used in the care of the ears, as serious a is Hable from the article entering too far. Glycerine and warm water in equal parts is a mixture (and the best one) that will dissolve and erie =e wax. Apply ently with a small syringe. eS ghould there be at any time anything in the nature of discharges from either ear, a physician’s advice should be sought with- out delay. In such cases there is almost certain to be some disease of the inner ear passage requiring medical attention. Prompt attention will probably save the chiid serious impairment of hearing, if not loss. “yf should be noted that teething may have close relationship to trouble in the ears, @ue to the swelling and inflammation of the gums. This inflammation is liable to extend through the eustachian canals to the ears, and any tenderness, accorapanied by redness around the ears, is a sufficient indication to warrant calling the physician attention to the matter.