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14 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. =} “There is no absolute remedy for the bites of mosquitoes or other insects,” ob- served a physician; “that {!s, nothing that will make you as good as new, instantly, but I have found that the ordinary house- hold ammonia {s as good as anything else. It should be epplied freely to the bite ex- cept in cases where the bites are above the eyes. In such cases I would not use it, for the reason that should any of it get in the eyes it would give considerable pain. For flea bites ammonia is also very effec- tual. For the stings of bees, hornets or wasps apply the ordinary bread soda damp- ened by water in the form of a paste or ammonia. Ailow it to remain on the part affected as long as possible, and at least fer ten minutes. “The alkall in the ammonia or soda neu- tralizes the poison in the bite, which is generally acid. The witch hazel which 13; much used now is also good for bites of any kind. It neutralizes the irritation and will do considerable tn the way of keeping ehildren from scratching the bites or irrl- tated places.” eee eK “People, however much they may think | s0,are not buying sugar corn in the markets these days,” remarked a dealer, “for the reason the sugar corn in this section of the | country will not be ripe for a week or ten days. Then there will be plenty of it, for my observation In a recent tour of the sur- | rounding country, where rauch of the gar- den truck sold in this city ts raised, con- vinced me that the sugar corn will be not | only nice, but plentiful. The corn which has been sciling for sugar corn {s known to | farmers as Adams’ early. ripens a couple of weeks in advance of the sugar corn and is generally sold for sugar coru. When the real article comes into market buyers will be able to see the difference. Some house- keepers add sugar to the water In which the Adams’ early is boilei. This supplies @ deficiency some, but the best sugar rn is that which grows.” eee * * | “Though Congress at the last session pro- | vided the members of the House with an} annual clerk at $1,200, and 2 previous Con- atess similarly provided Senators with | clerks, or secretaries, as they are called,” | volunteered an experienced’ official at the, Capitol, “the people at large have not been | much benefited by. the appropriations ex- | pended for this purpose. The theory was | that these clerks or secretaries would re-| main in this city during the recesses of | Congress and attend to the routine bust- ness of the Congressmen. The whole thing | has been diverted, however, and more than | two-thirds of the Cengressmen, Represen- tatives and Senators alike use the money thus appropriated to pay clerks they em- ploy at their private law offices or business houses at their homes. One of the results is that in case a constituent writes to a Representative or Senator here the letter | is forwarded to him or his clerk at his! home. The master is attended to from that e end. Generaliy the constituent Is inform-| ed that the information or action, desired | will be attended to on my return to Wash- ington.” + + + e bridges are ady-ma something new | unc sun,” explained a well-known j and prominent bridge butlder, “for there | are a number of corcerns now which keep | on hand a full stock of ready-made iron S of nearly all sizes. By this I do! not mean that I could pick up ready-made @ bridge as long as Long bridge. I would Lave no difficulty, however, in find- | made and packed so that it could in less than a alf day after the order was received a number of bridges as long as the so-called Chain bridge on the | upper Potomac. The customers for the ready-made bridges are mostly railroad companies, who, when they want anything, want it mighty bad, and are in an awful hurry for it. Only recently a railroad bridg- was washed away from a stream in Pennsylvania. In Jess than two hours a bridge ninety-seven feet long and nineteen and a half feet wide was ordered by wire. In six hours every part of it was shipped, and in two hours tess than three days’ time trains were running regularly over it. | It had to be hauled over two hundred miles, too.” pe a “I have adopted a rule never to give any | verbal prescriptions to patients,” remarked | @ leading physician, “for I have observed | any ses harm {fs done by it. | My rule now is to put In writing all the orders I leave for patients. It is surpris- | ing what errors patients make, for medi- cine ts something which the ordinary man | or woman gives but little attention to. Of course, now and then we find patients who | take to medicines naturally and who un- derstand them, their names and action, al-¢ most as do physiclars, but this does not | often happen, for that class of persons sel- | dom allow themselves to get sick enough | to need a physician. To the ordinary per- | | | son who is not sick on an average over one or two days In that number of years medi- cines past their understanding, and they get things wonderfully mixed. - Some days ago a store alled at my office to show me a As he had never had a sore foot | © thought it was something very | Jained it to him by saying that It was | simply a chafe caused by the hot weather, | and all that he needed was to apply a little | vaseline to it once or twice a day. Ina few | r afterward I was in a drug store; near by, using a telephone. Imagine my surprise when I heard him ask the druggist for a small quantity of gasoline. I turned to him and asked him what he intended to do with the gasoline, for somehow I noticed that his mind was preoccupied when J pr scribed for him, and that he pafd but little attention to what I said, and he told me he intended using it on his foot as I had ad- vised him. That settled tt with me, and I immediately adopted a rule I had been thinking about for several years, and now write out everything I prescribe for pa- tients. It may cost them more this way, but {t is safer for them, and will pay in the end. Had he put gasoline on bis foot it would have almost set him crasy, and he would have blamed me, instead of his own non-attention.” -—e ee te “The clock business gets a good-sized boom—that is, the repair branch—by the closing up of houses for the summer,” ob- served a well-known clock repairer. “When the folks return In the early fall they find many of their clocks out of order, and the clock repairer has to be called in. Hardly anything does a good clock as much harm as allowing it to stand for several months. When a clock is not running dust gets into it and absorbs the ofl used to lubricate the bearings. In a little while it cakes up, and when the time arrives for the clock to be started again {t will not go. It would be a good thing if a clock is allowed a for several months, if it was carefully covered with a newspaper or, what is better, a gro- cery store paper bag. A drop or two of clock oil should be applied to the principal bearings when it is started running.” eK KK “The modern refrigerator, with its many fmgenious contrivances, has interfered con- siderably with the ice business,” said an Officer of one of the city ice companies. “There was a time,” he said, “when the fefrigerator generally sold consumed so y pounds of ice every day, whether re was anything in it to be kept or not. Practically,they were simply foe boxes, and, course, the more ice that melted in the more ice there was to be bought, and as far as wa were concerned, the Eo . The refrigerator has improved + and now it not only saves the articles placed in it for preservation, but | twined itself about the first. the tce also. Recently I looked over some old accounts of twelvs years or 80. In houses where they always used 15 cents’ worth of ice each day then I found that they now use but 10 cents’ worth per day. The amount of the reduction is caused by the improvement of the refrigerator. In other words, 10 cents’ worth of ice today in the modern refrigerator does all the work that 15 cents’ worth did twelve years { ago.” x eK KK One of the interesting sights of Wash- ington during these summer evenings is the gathering of mechanics which takes place about the Cogswell fountain at the corner of 7th and Pennsylvania avenue. The men begin to collect about 8 o'clock and they linger about there until about 9:30 o'clock, when the asemblage disperses until the next evening. As a rule, the men are engaged in the work of house- building. Carpenters seem to predom!- nate, though there are many plumbers, painters, plasterers and bricklayers in the number. They discuss matters relating to their trades, swap gossip about the work they are engaged in and now and then take a hand in political discussion. There ig no more independent man on earth than the average mechanic when he !s dressed up after having done his day’s work. They have ideas on nearly all subjects, and are very free, though In a quiet sort of way, to express them. This corner has been for some years a popular meeting place for carpenters, and many of that trade use it as ar exchange in the matter of securing work. Bosses always know they can find carpenters there when they want them. Plasterers have likewise had a weakness for the cor- ner, though of late years nearly all of those engaged in housebuilding find {t to their advantage to collect there frequently and talk over work in hand or contem- plated. xk eK x “There is no danger of eating soft-shelled crabs,” observed an epicure, “if they are fresh, but they are poison if they are not. ‘They should be well seasoned, and an extra lot of pepper put on them as a precaution, especially if the weather is very hot when they are eaten, or if they are eaten shortly before one retires. It is the habit of many Pcrsons to eat soft-shelled crabs at night time. I do not know but that they taste better then. It 1s somewhat dangerous to many to drink milk after eating crabs. Milk seems to develop the colic that fol- lews eating soft-shelled crabs with some persons. “Another thing that should be remem- bered, and that is a sharp thunder storm will kill soft-shell crabs, and even the hard-shelled crab at times. Unless the soft- shelled crab has been cooked before the thunder storm, I think the safer plan would be to decline to eat it. Under all other condi- tions there Is no danger in partaking of them, for I do not think any one would be | eriminal enough to cook a dead crab, hard or soft shell. The proper way to kill a crab 1s to throw him into a kettle of boiling wa- ter. I know that some people think this is cruel, but it is no mcre cruel than it is to stab them with a needle or kill them wiih chioroform, as I have known some extra sensitive persons to do. ke KK * “I was speaking once of a little girl fas- cinating some snakes,” said a Montana man, “and an incident was related to me which was just the reverse, the snake being the charmer. I was in one of the western states, probably in the same part of the coitry where you saw the blue sky through the shimmering leaves and the sparkling brook and all that. In any event, this little girl was wandering in the woods one afternoon, and had gone to a favorite bower formed by wild grape vines growing over a small tree in such a way as to make something in the form of a summer | house. She could be seen from the house, and when some one called to her and she made no answer, it could not be imagined why she failed to respond. Her mother, seelng her standing in this natural bower, went toward her, and was struck by the attitude of the child. She stood in the cen- ter of the vine-inclosed space gazing to- ward the top. When her mother looked in she was almost paralyzed with fear at the sight of a large snake swinging over her child's head. It was suspenced by Its tall and passing pendulum-like juat above the head of the little girl, who followed It with her eyes. The mother could not make a movement for fear that the snake would strike. The serpent’s head drew nearer at each swing, and one more pendulum-like motion and the child would be struck. Then there darted from the follage above another snake, Jet black in color, which They dropped together at the feet of the child. The spell was broken and she ran to her mother." > The Pastor and His Lady Flock. From the Boston Transcript. But when women do not like the minister, the consequences to the poor man are al- most as disastrous as when you like him overmuch. I remember, years ago, attend- ing the funeral of a preacher of the Gospel who had died of brain fever, brought on, tas his physician declared, enttrely by the persecution which he had undergone at the hands of his parishioners, male and female; and im these matters women are not back- ward. Indeed, the burden of carrying on the church is thrown upon them so largely that they can hardly be blamed for making the minister's life miserable. No one cler- syman can suit the theological notions of all the female members of his flock, and a difference of opinion upon these points is felt very strongly by all religious persons, and especially by women. In cities and | large towns the case is not so serious in this respect, because there are usually churches enough to represent all shades of | opinion, so that each congregation will be fairly unanimous. But in small towns there is commonly but one Baptist society, hard-shell and soft-shell, but one Presby- terian conventicle, blue and otherwise, but one Methodist meeting house, old style and new style, but one Episcopal church, which includes the high, the low and the broad. I have known the question of candles or not—candles on the altar—to put half the women of a parish on terms of conscien- tious hostility with the minister. Taking the necessary steps.—Life, ART AND ARTISTS|A COW4OT Mr. 8. Jerome Uhl went to Atlantic City this week and will divide his time between that resort and Asbury Park this summer. He expects to be quite busy with portraits during the whole season, and will at the same time enjoy the pleasures of seaside Nfe. Before he left Mr. Uhl put the finish- ing touches on his portraits of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Solomor of Dayton, Ohio. An- other thing which he has been doing is the Eead of a young lady with a veil on. To make the face beneath the veil solid and substantial, and at the same time to give it the soft indistinctness of line which the filmy covering imparts is a very difficult Problem, but Mr. Uhl has been quite suc- cessful. Of the outdoor studies which he has made lately, one taken at twilight out on the 14th street road is especially true to nature. * The Baroness A. “Nesselrode Hugenpoct, who has recently come to this country, and who made her home in Washington last winter, is now staying in New Castle, N. H. She expects to return to the city in the fall and will probably hold an exhibition of her work early in the season. She stud- fed in Munich and much of the work ex- hibited will consist in paintings and sketches in both color and black and white made in that city. « * oe The collection of original drawings enti- tled “Field Flowers” has met with very generous treatment here. After being ex- hibited at the Hotel Regent during the early part of last week Mr. Veerhoff ten- dered the use of his side gallery and !t was removed from its rather crowded place of exhibition in the hotel, Mr. Veerhoff as- suming the entire expense of its exhibition at his gallery. The collection of drawings remained there until Thursday, and it was well worth seeing. The pictures are those donated by many well-known artists as il- lustrations for a bock containing some of the best of the late Eugene Field’s poems. This handsome volume is issued as a certificate showing that the holder has con- tributed toward the fund, now being raised, which is to be divided equally between Mr. Field's family and the fund for the erec- tion of a monument to the memory of the poet. That the project is receiving warm support from the newspaper world, to which the late Mr. Field was bound by so many ties, is shown by the fact that among the members of the monument committee are Melville E. Stone, general manager of the Associated Press; Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago Tribune, and William Penn Nixon, editor of tne Chicago Inter-Ocean. * Miss Juliet Thompaon left on Tuesday for The Plains, in Fauquier county Virginia, where she expects to stay about two weeks. She has recently finished a bortratt of the son of Representative Hough of Pennsylvania. It is considered a very good Itkeness and 1s especially pleasing in color. She has been doing a series of heads in monotint, including portraits of Gen. Ruggles, Admiral Howe and John Davis. While she is away Miss Thompson will not do any work whatever,but will take a com- plete rest in order to be the fresher when she resumes her work on her return. * x * Mr. U. 8. J. Dunbar completed a short time ago a strong medallion head of Mr. Phillip G. Russell's father. Mr. Dunbar has of late been turning his attention to ot! painting, spending part of his time in out- door sketching in that medium, and has recently started a study down on the ilats. He plans also to recommence work on a small canvas which he began some time ago, showing his little boy seated on a stool before an easel, busily working away on a picture just as the child has seen grown folks do. Mr. Hobart Nichols has just returned trom Paxton. Va., where he has been sketching for about three weeks. His fam- ily will remain in that pleasant place up in the Blue Ridge for the remainder of the summer. Mr. Nichols was hard at work all the time he was up in the country, amassing much interesting material, and though under less advantageous circum- stances, is keeping up the habit of sys- tematic outdoor work since his return. * i xox Mr. Ferdinand C. Liemer fs now at work {on a bust in clay of Mr. Kleps, which, though still unfinished, gives promise of being a very characteristic lkenc An- other recent piece of work by the sculptor 1s a bust of Ernest Gerstenberg. Mr. Lie- mer made a short time ago several pieces of sculpture for the Saengerbund. They were portraits of Mr. Waldman, Mr. Dorr and Mr. Waldenstein, and the busts have attracted much favorable comment. * Mr. F. J. Fisher has been laying the 4nal touches on a canvas painted for Mr. Brad- ford, showing the wife and childr2n of the latter in a family group. The little cnes are gathered around their mother in a very natural manner, and there is little of the set posed look which is so common in &roup pictures of this kind. The faces of the children are treated with more than usual care, and {t is one of his best pieces ot work in portraiture. * Mr. W. H. Machen® has been altering slightly and bringing to a higher state of finish his three-quarter-length portrait of Cardinal Gibbcns. First and last, he has Spent infinite pains upon it, and he consid- ers {t one of his most important paintings. He has now on his easel a sunny land- scape with a small herd of cattle grazing quietly in the foreground. Mr. Machen has also completed recently several portraits and a couple of the game pieces with which he is so successful. He gives a very realistic treatment to the feathers of the quail, snipe and other birds in these studies. * * Oe Miss Julia Ring is negotiating for the purchase of a place up in Snicker's Gap, in the Blue Ridge, end expects to build a summer home and studio. She will have up there an excellent opportunity for the study of the superb mountain scenery of the region. : ——o A Fox's Five-Story Jump. From the Hartford Courant. Two months or more ago a Bloomfield man brought Fred Dow, the Church street grocery man, a young fox. It was placed in a box in the store cellar until thorough- ly “wonted,” thereafter being allowed the run of that miscellancously filled apart- ment, being fed from the cracker barrels and meat stalls above. It had come to be quite at home, had grown big and fat, and was the pet of all who had occasion to go into the cellar. The fox is naturally drowsy during the daytime, and although the door was always open by day, it never had at- tempted to peer out into the big world rhat was only a couple of bounds away. If it had cared to do so by night the closed door prevented. . Saturday had been a busy day and the tired attendants forgot to close the cellar door. Just when the fox discovered the oversight of course no one knows, but it must have been before the outside door to the apartment house above the store was closed for the night. Eavly yesterday morning, while the delivery wagons were being loaded, a queer “swishing” noise was yheard, and before the boys had time to Hook up the fox landed on the pavement among them, its breath being knocked too far away ever to return. It appears that the animal had emerged from the cellar, Possibly been frightened by passers, had gone up into the hallway,up the four flights of stats and out upon the roof. It must have spent Sunday up there, and when it chanced saw the boys below the fatal jump. What Might Have Been Expected. From the Atlanta Constitution, A good-looking, well-to-do bachelor of Griffin was being teased by the young la- dies of a club for not being married. He sald: “I'll marry the one of you whom, op a secret vote, you elect to be my wife.’ There were nine members of the club Each girl went into a corner and useé great caution in preparing her ballot, and disguised her handwriting. The result of the vote was that there were nine votes cast, each girl receiving one. The man re- mains a bachelor, the club is broken up, aud the girls, all mortal enemies, united in the one determination that they will not speak to the man again. LOVER Old Jed Higgins, justice of the peace for @ county which {wag spread out very thin in Nevada, lived at Pizen Switch. He had to, because his ‘indéttaking establishment and saloon were in town, in the same build- ing with his tin shop and harness sales room, og Jed was a widdwerland had a daughter. She always said “done” and “his’n” and “her’n,” but that’s no sign of anything— much, for otherwise she was certainly great—the cowboys all said so. Tall, broad, big-footed, red-tanded, she had withal such a hearty, wholesome, spark- ling face that one readily overlooked the weak chin and the docile temper, unsult- ed to the exigencies of a cowboy coun- try. “Critters ought to be a@ little bit self-minded on a range,” the teamster said. Plenty of cow punchers and broncho busters “hung around” to woo the bux- Two M Could Have Neen Scen Shadowing the Approach to the Ranch. om Sally, but Chapparal Harry would have had a cinch on the outfit had it not been that old Jed bucked and snerted every Ume the young fellow came in sight. One day “court” had to he held at Wil- lows, and Jed departed early. The puncher from the Chapparal moved upon the scene of his affections ere the day had far ad- vanced, and during his stay the other lads, beholding the evidences of his “branding iron,” kept aloof. About dark he had com- pleted a scheme with the girl. Together they rode forth toward Willows, and, halt- ing where the road curved about the bank of the river, they wailed. Old Jed, with the “costs” of the trial in his clothes, drove pokingly homeward. Presently his horse was jerked back until he almost squatted in the harness. Then a voice commanded: “Throw yer hands up!” Two figures, one armed ard persuasive, loomed ahead. Old Jed’s hands got white and bloodless, and “up” they went. “We ain’t goin’ to rob yer,” said the voice, “but we want you to say them mar- ryin’ words putty fast, so sputter ‘em up at 2 gallop.” “Thet you, Chap‘rell?” chattered the old ma “Yep, ‘Ain't thet my gel?” “That's what—but don’t you min¢ go ahead mighty quick, or your name's mud." “Sally, yer ain't goin’ fer tuh merry thet wild cat?” the, justice blurted. “Yee-es I am, though,’ “You git a move on, jedge, we ain't got no time fer foolin’,” Harry interjected. Madder than ‘a maverick, yet powerless, the justice really felt corstrained to comply with the orders.: He sizaled the words out, however, as if the official throttle were only about half open and working badly. guess you kin move on home without kissin’ the bride,” cowboy remarked when the thing Was over; and, tossing a gold coin into bis parent-in-iaw’s lap for a fee, he soon prevatlé’ upon the old gentle- man to start updn_ his way. The brida? tour 6n horseback was across the valley to Scragg’s ranch, . * : . . . About a week later In the evening two men could have been seen “shadowing” the approach to the ranch last'mentioned. One was Justice Higgins the other Mosquito Jim, or just “Skeete Jim,” to boil his name down a triffe. Both had revolvers—adult size—ready for use. The patience of the waiting twain was reweried about 9 o'clock, at which time Mr. and Mrs. Chapparal Harry hove in sight. And it was very easy to get the “drop’” on the preoccupled couple. “Now, dang you, put your own paws up!” sald the justice, in an official tone of voice. Paws being duly elevated, Skeete went forward and took away the arsenal worn by Harry. “Court will come to order,” sald the old man. “Skeeter Jim—or James, do you know deferdant, Chap'rel Harry?” “Thet’s what.” “Hez he bin guilty of onconstitutional misconduct?” “Yep, he hez.”” “Them grounds is hereby declared suf- ficent, an’ the jedgment an’ decree of this here court ts fer full an’ complete de- vorce of said defendant from said Sally Higgins. And said defendant is hereby warned to git out of tats here county an’ Jurisdiction forthwith, an’ immefjitly if not sooner.” - Thereupon the old man hauled his daugh- ter home across the star-lit country, di- vulging on the way some exceedingly in- teresting and theretofore unheard of in- terpretations of the “great and glorious Constitution of the United States,” to his awed and silent daughter. ee REFORM BY THE BICYCLE. What is Being Done in the ¢: Good Roads. Everybody knows what the bicycle is do- ing for the good roads problem. Of course the farmers have all along been the per- sons most interested in Improving the coun- try roads and it seems a little strange that they left the work to the wheelmen so long. But a similar thing happened in photog- raphy. The professional photographers, working for their livelihoods, haven't de- veloped their own business half so rapidly in some directions as the amateurs, work- ing for fun. Here's wiere the good citizen- ship comes in. The bicyclists and the good roads prophets are hand in glove. In many of the states the L. A. W. con- suls even frown upon the construction of separate cycle paths, partly hesitating to divert so much money from the common roads, partly fearing lest the construction of special paths may result in abridging the privileges of the wheel on the thorough- fares. This fear {8 probably ill-founded. Local authorittes have always exercised the right to regulate and classify vehicles for the good ofull olasses, without impugn- ing thelr rights where the classification ceases. oe sppedways are in many cities construéted for trotting horses, but the man in the sulky uses the common roads in going asd returning from his speedway; and so does the equestrian, for whom special pany have been laid out in most large pafks. However this’may'be, motives of the at- titude of the more conservative consuls In this matter are most emphatically those of good citizenship. til recently New Jersey and Massa- chusetts were’'the two states which had done most for theif highways. The most radical recent{legisiation, however, Is the new Connecticut law (statutes of 1805), which pledges the state to pay one-third the cost of one mile of road in each town each year if the county and the town will each pay one-third. The cost of one mile of road is estimated at $3,000, A poor town is by this means enabled to get a mile of good road at a direct cost to itself of but» $1,000, and the most of the general state and county cost falls on the richer towns and cities. A better device could hardly be imagined fgr encouraging road improvement in the Poorer regions. Eighty-five towns availed themselves of the law last year, and seventy-five more have already swung into line in 1896. These are about two-thirds of all the towns in the lit- tle nutmeg state. Before the year is over a New York cyclist may ride on good roads nearly all the way to Boston, by way of New Haven, Hartford and Springfield. In New Jersey road building has been carried on upon scientific principles, not so much throughout the state as in Connecti- cut, but rather concentrated in the more populous counties. ‘ause of IN HOTEL CORRIDORS “On a trip through Logan county, W. Va. five years ago, I sold a mountaineer hi opening stock of goods for a country store,” said Louis E. Rawlings, a Baltimore travel- ing salesman, at the Metropolitan. “He was very sanguine of success, and would have bought more than he did had I encouraged him. “It so happened that I did not make an- other trip through that section until a few days ago, and drove several miles out of my way to the man’s store. There were very few goods left in the place, and the mer- chant looked rather gloomy. After ex- changing the usual salutations, I said: ‘Your stock is pretty low.’ ° 'Yaas.’ youn Want some more goods, won't you?’ ‘Naw.’ Why not?’ “Ain't got no money to pay with. But that ain’t the real reason. Thar ain’t no one to sell ‘em to.” “* ‘The people all moved away? “*Yaas." ‘How did that come?’ “ ‘Waal, I sol’ em goods an’ kep’ takin’ mor’gages, until I own the lan’ clar to ne: sto’ on each side o’ Me. Goods all gone, peo- ple all gone, money all gone, I kain't sell the lan’ an’ hyar I be, plum ‘lone.’ ” “Bryan will obtain one Irish vote that I know of,” said P. C. MeCarthy of New York at the Howard. “It is that of a friend of mine. Just aftemthe Chicdgo convention I met and asked how he liked the nomination. “Billy O'Brien,” he said, “why, him an’ me was byes thegether. He dropped the ‘0’ when he come to this country, but I couldn't go back on ’im.” “You are mistaken,” I said, “Bryan was born in this country. ““Not a bit av it. I've seed his picters an’ I'd know ‘im anywhere. He's a Kerry lad, as I am meself, an’ we was both a bit wild in those days. So whin they thried an’ convicted Billy of sthealin’ a pig an’ he did his toime like a man, he came to Ameriky. I know what I'm talkin’ of, shure, for wasn't it mesilf who was a bit wild was the only man who sthole that pig? An’ him a-doin’ toime. Oi'll vote an’ worrk th’ warrd fur ‘im.’ ” “There should be a law prohibiting the use of the same name for boys and girls,” sald R.“T. Houston of New Orleans at the National. “I have a very, intimate friend who I lost track of for twenty years, he having married and removed to New York. A business matter renewed our friendship and we conducted a personal correspon- dence, in the course of which he mentioned that Frank was in bad health. I replied that ‘we,’ meaning my partner and I, were going on a trip across the Gulf of Mexico and suggested that it might be beneficial to Frank to join us, fixing a date. I re- ceived a telegram that Frank would be there. I went to the depot and there met a young lady, who greeted me very warm- ly as her father’s friend, he having a pic- ture of me by which she recognized me. As I am a bachelor, with no realtives of the other sex and as the trip was to be taken in a schooner, the situation was the most embarrassing I was ever in and re- sulted in Frank's returning home very quickly.” “The most enterprising thief I ever heard of was one whom I was appointed by the court to defend,” said Henry W. Joy, a prominent St. Louis lawyer, at the Ar- Engton. “A wealthy man died, and as fine a coftin was obtained as money could buy. There was some very heavy solid silver plate on it. As the hearse moved off, a well-dressed business-like looking man was seen to enter it, carrying a little sack as If of tools. Every one who noticed him at all supposed he was an assistant of the un- taker. Just before the procession ed the cemetery the man emerged from the hearse and went ahead, disap- pearing at the gate. When the coffin was renioved, all of the trappings were gone end the young man was not to be found. He melted the silver and sold it, and had it not been for a pal betraying him, he would never have been caught.” “I have talked with a number of the real estate dealers in Washington,” said A. C. McAdams of Chicago at the Cochran, “and 1 have been surprised to find how active a movement there is in property. And yet, after examining the city, it does not seem so astonishing after all. The widths of the streets and the shade trees make an im- mense amount of difference in the heat of the summer, and with the beach snd mountains so close it is an easy matter to spend a summer pleasantly, while, of course, it is admitted upon all hands that it is the most delightful winter resort in the country. Of course, the civil service law, which made government employes ieel se- cure in their positions, has had much te do with the stability of Washington's growth, but one of the principal factors now is that men who have retired from active business life want to pass their remaining days in the capital city.” “I was on a train between Black River station and Vidalia, in Louisiana,” said C. T. Drummond of Natchez at the St. James, “when we had an accident. On the train was an old planter from up the Boueff river who had never been on a car before. The railrcad is a short one, the train runs slowly and the rolling stock is not the best, so the old man was somewhat excusable for preferring a steamboat, and his comments were very amusing. The country through which the road runs {3 submerged at high water, and upon this ac- count it was in rather a dangerous condi- tlon. About two miles from Vidalia the train struck a broken rail. The old man was leaning out of the window at the time and was thrown to the ground. Rising te his feet, he said: ‘Wal, you are in a hurry to git your passengers off. I don't see why you don’t git landing nearer town, and put out gang planks from them windows. I don’t travel on trains no more.’ Then he trudged on to Vidalia, without any thought that the sudden stopping was unusual.” “There ought to be nothing amusing about death, but I carnot think of a visit of condolence I once made -without laughing,” sald F. C. Herrick of Omaha at the Howard. “I was living in Indianapolis at the time, and there is considerable truth in what is said about the popularity of dl- vor in that state. “Among my friends was a couple named srowning. Both were rather high tempered and originally they were married when quite young. They were subsequently divorced and each remarried. Both lost their part- ners and they were married again. An- other divorce followed and Mrs. Browning married again, securing another divorce and once more marrying her first love. Browning died and I was one of three to pay a visit of condolence to the widow, he being a warm friend of mine. We did as best we could when the widow between convulsive sobs said: ‘Yes, he was a good husband. The best I ever had, especially this last time. I am afraid I'll never see his like again. ” “The competition between bicycle manu- facturers bids fair to rival that of the sew- ing machine men twenty years ago,” said P. A. Baker of Topeka at the Cochran. “I will never forget buying the first sewing machine I ever owned. I had been married but a few weeks when my wife expressed a desire for a sewing machine. Neither of us knew much about sewing machines, so I went to all of the agencies and told them I wanted to know the strong points of the machines before choosing. When I reached home that evening there were seventeen machines in the house, each accompanied by an instructor to initiate my wife into the mysteries of it. She was on the point of hysterics when I settled it by purchasing the best-looking machine, which may or may not have been the best. Bicycle agents have started the same scheme, leavirg a wheel on trial, and I expect to find the house full of them, as my daughter writes me that she contemplates buying one.” a Jeweled Skirt Grip: With the wide skirts came in novelties in jeweled skirt grips, and safety pins of gold owed their popularity to the blouse, whose belt they fastened down securely to the jupe. Grips resemble handsome pins or clasps, and have a strong gold eye attach- ed to the reverse side, in which the hook that is usually sewed on the band of a skirt is fastened. Some of them are plain, but substantial; others are a mass of delicate filigree work and studded with jewels. They are useful articles for holding up a heavy gown. es FROM THE ARIZONA KICKER Selections Made for The Evering Star by M. Quad. The mayor of this town (who is our- self) was sitting in his office in the city hall last Tuesday afternoon when a cow- boy named Jim Wheeler attempted to ride his cayuse up the main stairway to make an official call. Jim had a bet of $25 that he would ride in on us and jump his critter over our desk, but he lost the wager. Hearing the racket on the stairs we sailed out, and two minutes later Mr. Wheeler and his cayuse were tangled up In a heap in the middle of the strest. He shot at us three times during the performance, but no cne was hit by the bullets. The horse was able to mp away, but the man from Big 3 Ranch still lingers in town under the doctor's care. His jaw and two ribs were broken and he was badly bruised, but we are glad to learn that he Was not fataily injured. His honor the mayor is a good-natured man and does not affect any particular dignity, but the man who wants to see him on official business at his office must leave bis cayuse in the street below. About the Campaign. The Kicker 1s in receipt of a number of communications asking about its policy in the coming campaign, and we will answer all in one. ‘his paper is inde- pendent in politics, religion, poetry, agri- culture and everything else, No railroad corporation dictates and no syndicate pays its bills. If we wanted to weave a crown of laurels for Captain Kidd or pitch into the memory of George Washington no outsider would have to be consulted. In suppurting one candidate we shall not pitch into another. In this world of change no man can tell who is coming out on top, and 'f it happens to be the man you've pitched into your position is made somewhat embarrassing for several years subsequent. We have no decided opinions regarding silver or the tariff, but we do stand pat on the question of the Monrve doctrine. If necessary let us go to war to support It, but during the continuance of said war We shall be found at the old stand, as heretofore. The campaign speaker who strikes this town and starts in to Ke about any of the candidates will have to leave the hall by a back window, and get under cover of the woods five minutes later. As a people we hey truth and poker and insist on a square Ceal. A Word to Major Ban For the last month Major Banks of this town has been in the habit of coming into the post office several times a day and fir- ing a pistol through the general delivery window to attract the attention of the clerk who serves the public. While nobody has been shot, and the noise amounts to nothing, such actions serve to lessen the dignity which surrounds a post office, and We now warn the major thmt he must let up. If he persists in his course we shall esteem it our duty and privilege to return the fire and lay him up for a few weeks. If ue wants to shoot at us while on the Street we have no objections, but, as the regular appointed postmaster sitting in our private room In the post office, we demand respectful consideration from the public. Any doctor around town will tell Major Banks that a bullet in the shoulder will keep him thinking for several successive nights. We Lay Down. Our esteemed contemporary down the street 1s out with a two column sensation regarding the little affair at the bank last ‘Tuesday. and he lies in the most shameful and bold-faced manner, as usual. The facts in the case are as follows: We had just left the bank, after making a deposit of $200. As we reached the sidewalk a stranger, who had been leaning against a telegraph pole, stepped forward and thrust the muzzle of a gun within a foot of our rese and ordered us to throw up our hands. Up they went. Under the circumstances Wwe were ready to throw up our hat, shoes, wallet and everything else we held dear on earth. The man gave us his private opin- ion of the editor of the Kicker (who is ourself), of the mayor (who is ourself) and the postmaster (who is ourself), and his language was emphatic and to the point. We had littie or nothing to say. We might have died the death of a hero, but we pre- ferred to remain on earth. A large crowd assembled and witnessed our humiliation, but we remained passive and placid. When the cuss had had all the fun he wanted he walked off. So did we. We got our guns as soon as possible and looked for him, but he could not be found. There isn't the slightest question about our “laying down” before that stranger. We think we know when we have a good thing. It was a good thing to “lay down” just then, and we en- tered into it with a great deal of enthusi. asm. Things may be different some day, but just at present we have very little to say and would tike to avoid the subject altogether. He Was a Failure. A man who gave his name as Thomas Dayton registered at the Hotel Royal last Wednesday and entered the dining room for dinner. He first made a kick because there was no cloth on the table, and next because the waiter couldn't furnish him with a napkin. Then he wanted a coffee cup with a handle to it and soup tn a bowl, and when given a knife without a handle he jumped up and began shooting the tin dishes full of holes. His fun was speedily interrupted, however, and he was put out of the hotel and later on arrested and fined $20. The Royal Hotel is not a rival of the Palmer House in Chicago or the Imperial in New York. It is just a plain, every day hoiel, full of cock roaches and mutton stew and the odor of corned beef and cabbage. Table cloths and napkins and crockery are all right in their way and will reach us some day, but until they do it won't do any good to kick. When a man can sit down with his hat on and eat his fill for 50 ceuts and throw dishes at the waiters and cuss the landlord as he pays his bill he has got a good thing and ought to be satisfied with it. ——-—_—_—_+e.—_ Thought of the Wrong Machine. From the Boston Home Journal. Inability to recall names causes embar- ments sometimes. There is a Boston society woman who cannot remember names; neither can her daughter. One day, accordiig to the relater of the story, they met a Mrs. Howe, and afterward said to each other, “Now, we shall be continually ing her, so do let us try to recall her “I know what we can do,” re- marked the daughter. “Howe invented the scwing machine, oidn’t he? Well, just think of machines, and we'll be sure to get her name.” The two ladies went to a 5 clock tea a few days afterward, and Mrs. Howe wus there. Up sailed the mother with her sweetest smile, and exclaimed, “My dear Mrs. Singer, how delighted I am to see you again!” Soon afterward the daughter appeared, and with equal charm of manner exclaimed, “My dear Mrs. Wil- cox, how are you?” Enthusiastic Britcn (to seedy American, who has been running down all our nation- al monuments)—“But even if our houses of parliament ‘aren’t in it,’ as you say, with the Mascnic Temple of Chicago, surely, sir, you will admit the Thames embank- ment, for instance—” Seedy American—“Waal, guess I don’t think so durned much of your embankment, neither. It rained all the ge time the night I slep’ on it.” inch. OUR NEW PAPER MONEY Within a few days Uncle Sam will issue the first lot of his new silver certificates. They are to be, in design, utterly different from any paper money which has hitherio bassed hands in the world. The presses of the government bureau of engraving and printing are busily turning out thousands of the new notes a day. They will be of four denominations—one, two, five and ten dollars. Each will have the same length and width as those in present circulation At first sight they will appear very odd, but very pleasing to the eye. Except in the borders, the faces will lack the conven- tional designs characteristic of all paper money heretofore issued. All are decorated on the faces entirely with allegorical groups referring to con- spicuous events in history. They also c tain the names of men of have served in this country as epoch mak- ers. The one-dollar note will be the first to be issued. As seen a few days ago, fresh from its last printing process, it presented a beautiful appearance, which suggested an enlarged Columbian stamp. The face is an engraved reduction from a large painting by Will H. Low, the New York artist, who executed the world’s fair diplomas; also the fresco of the new Congressional Li- brary’s rotunda. The subject is “History Instructing Youth.” In the center a robed female figure, embracing a nude child, Points to an open volume, on whose leaves, under the microscope, may en the words of the preamble of the Constitution In the background is a view of Washing- ton city, as seen from Arlington Heights, across the Potomac. This has been called the most beautiful view which may be had of any American city. ‘The painting of this Was made from an enlarged photograph Bordering three sides of the face is a row of wreaths, each bearing the name of an American hero. On the back of the note, printed in green, are the vignettes of orgs and Martha Washington. This is the first time that the father of his country has been depicted in green ink upon an official document. Contrary to the present custom, the vignettes on all the new notes will be removed to the backs to make room for the large groups. The face of the two-dollar series is from painting by E. H. Blashfield, entitled Science Presenting Electricity and Steam to Commerce and Manufacture.” ‘The cen- tral figure is “Science,” a woman in Greck garb. To her right stands an infant grasp ing a small throttle, and r left another bearing a galvanic coi and “Manufactur ready to receive “Steam” and tricity respectively. Above the group is an arch, the semicircle beneath which forms a back” ground of pure white. Against this the va- rious figures stand out with unusual sharp- ness. “Ameri a painting by Walter Shir- law, adorns the face of the five-dollar se- ries. The winged figure of a beautiful wo- man, “America,” stands upon a globe, her feet touching the map of North Ameri In one hand she holds aloft an electric lamp, fed by a ribbon floating in graceful curves to a bursting thundercloud. Addi- tional allegoric figures are “Force,” stand- ing upon the backs of a span of spirited steeds, “Fame” proclaiming the nation’s progress through a long trumpet, and “Peace,” with her dove. Tne face design of the new ien-dollar note is also the work of Mr. Shirlaw. It is known as the “Agricultural Group.” In the center stands a hushandman, in shagey furs, greeting his helpmate. On one side is the form of an aged woman ¢. «ath- erer, in the act of brewing wine, and on the other a nude youth, both resting on a ledge, over which, in the distance, may be seen a field of plenty. rer and the Written for The Evening Star by M. Quod He was a young man about twe Result. years of age, and he wo: broad-brim hat, long hair and buckskin leggius. In his belt he had two sand a knife, and from the buitonholes of his west dangled bear claws. He stood thus on che platform as the train rolled in, and he was showing off } at a great rate when one of the passengers walked up to him, with pencil and note- book in hand, and said: ‘ame, please?” “My name? I am called ‘Sioux Bill,’ sit ‘Siovx Bill, eh?_ Didn't know but what It was Baby BM or Sweet William. Oc- cupation, ff you please?” ndian-fighter, sir Oh! oht I wouldn't have believed ft. Thought yOu rdm a greenhouse or a dairy. What's your phjectin w and carrying those guns “Who in ==— are you?" demanded the awful Indian fighter, as he turned on the other. 5 “Perkins.-’Mistah Perkins,” was the ply. ring such clothes ‘And what do you want of me ‘Just to look you over. Let's see? Sioux Bill—Indian fighter--guns and bear claws and leggings. or dairy. is Does not run a green house Um! Um! Have you ever fired hat!” shouted the other. Never fool with a pis: said Mr. Per- kins. “Lots of people have been hurt that way. Do you wish to sell those bear claws? If so, I will buy them for my baby brother. Those leggings might come in handy when I go hunting for frogs. My dear fellow, how much for the whole outfit?” “You—you blamed fish worm! But do you know how near death you are?” howled Sioux Bill, as he danced around “Don't—don’t do it,” replied Mr. t “It’s bad for the health. There, ni down on. this truck and calm yourself. That’s the w There's a lot of passen- gers admiring you, and you have an excel- lent pose. Keep it up. I knew the sort of man you were at a glance, but I won't give you away. Dangie the bear claws and hitch your gun around. That's it—that’s the style. I'll see you later when I've had a bite to eat. Ta-ta, William—don't disturb the pose.”* But William did. He got up and van- ished down the platform, and as th pulled out we saw him hiding betwe salt barrels, = * EMERA NOW THE RAG alous Prices Paid and New 9 signs in Cutting and Sett The craze for emeralds is being revived, and the beautiful green brilliant second only to the diamond in favor. Let nobody imagine that the item of cost has anything to do with the sudden popu- larity of the emerald, for with the ex tion of the sparkling crystal from is now popular the mines of Golconda and South Africa, no gem Is 80 costly as the emerald. The prices asked and obtained for some of these jewels seem almost incredible. The cheapest brilliant of this description in one store was valued at $7), and from that prices ranged up to $10,000. With the increased demand for these gems come new designs in cutting and set- ting. Often, too, the emerald is polished and ground down and not cut. To the jew- eler a stone thus prepared Is known as an en cabation, or uncut. Others, again, are cut into different shapes in high relief, and as hemispheres, hearts and pendants.’ The most popular stoaes used to combine with emeralds are diamonds, which, however, are, as a rule, much smaller than the green gems when they are set tc A new style of cutting, which orig a in the far east, the native home of the e erald, and which has but recently been in- troduced by western jewel is that of engraving coats of arms on gems. This greatly increases the cost of the stone. Among other curious designs in which the emerald predominates this season is that of a diamond and emerald, brooch which car. also be used as a tiara. “The de- sign seems to be taken from a clover leaf with a big pear-shaped emerald in the cen- ter. The leaves of the design are open work thickly set with small diamonds. Another design is something after the style of a “sunburst,” with a large square-cut emerald in the center. The radiating ray are set with diamonds, each being tipped with a small emeraid. This jewel is in- tended for a hair ornament, and is valued at $1,000. A pair of link cuff buttons with a com- paratively small emerald, cut round, and set in a circle of tiny diamonds, costs $100. To one unfamiliar with the value of gems it appears to be worth about $20. Pear- shape drops cut from a single emerald and suspended from a diamond bar are worth $150, and from that the price ranges or up into the thousands.