Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1896, Page 13

THE RVENING STAR, PURLIONRD DALE MICHET eyenar, xa tar, #1 per year, with it Washingtoa, D. C., |— ive ngt be) the M4 ee ees at be Pala atenase Part 2. Che Fvening Slav. r= 13-24. WASHINGTON, D. 0, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1896—TWENTY-F 28990097 9998606989 cuality—the lowest of prices. QOCOOOPO OOOO OOS HSS OSS = 937 939 F SiR rlillinery Matters. Each day heralds some noticeable achievement in our Mil- linery Department—each day marks another and greater stride in its ever-increasing popularity. Millinery matters receive more than a generous share of our attention. limit to our ambition in this line. of every woman in Washington. in the fairest way—by maintaining the highest standard of Our Millinery Department is the receiving reservoir of all the ereat channels through which the world’s fashions flow. It’s the local starting point of all low prices. Y io There is no We want to win the favor And we mean to succeed eILLINERY. Rose Plants, all colors, suitable for decorations. Spe- ° cial at Velvet Roses, all colors, two roses and buds in a O ° bunch. Special at. Silk Violets, two dozen to a bunch. 23. Special at .....--- . Black Real Ostrich Half Plumes. Reg- ular $1.50 value. ° Speciat . Trimmed ‘French Felt Fedoras, the latest styles. Spe- ° efal at . The newest shapes in Black French Cc Fett Hats. Regular / | $1 quality. Special 5 ° RE ass of Ornaments, —such I == = I2iC choines, ete Reg- ular 2%. to 50c. val- awe ues. Special at... “Black Cheniile Braids, worth 30c. yari. Special at.. eS) IOC. RIBBONS. Best quality SOCS9 Changeable Taffeta Rinbon, 4 Auches D2 ¢ : wide, " worth . yard. Special at. °@ No. 40 All-silk . 8 Molre Ribbon, all g 2 25C. © rs. Special at. have bought the entire production of celebruted “Marguerite” dies’ next week they will de placed on sale at This 1s positively the biggest glove value that has ever been offered to the Washington public. POGOOHSHS OOOOOOOS OOOO O@® Mayer Bros. & Co., 937-939 F St. 11 Foubourg Poissonniere, Paris. DOSSSSESS OOO OOS9983 9999205: DOOOSOOOOOSOG Co GENERAL JIM MORGAN. The Recruit Mistook His Man and Did Net Know the Ropes. From Harper's Round Tuble. Gen. Morgan of Illinois, who commanded a brigade in Davis’ division, was one of those men so slouchy in his appearaace that a stranger would never have picked him for an officer of high rank. One day @ raw recruit of his brigade who had lost some books asked a veteran where he might be likely to find them. The veteran said the only thief in the brigade was Jim Morgen, who occupied a tent near the blue flag. The recruit hastened to Mor- gan’s tent, shoved his head through the flaps, and asked: : “Does Jim Morgan live here?"? “My name is James Morgan,” answered the general. “Then I want you to hand over those books you stole from me!” “I have none of your books, my dear man.” “That’s a lie,” cried the soldier. “The boys say you are the only thief in camp. Turn out them books, pon Tl) grind your into apple sass!” “Gen. Morgan appreciated the joke, and laughed heartily, but when the recruit began pulling off his coat to make good his threats, the officer informed him of his relaticns to the brigade. “Waal, blast me if I'd — ror igadier!’ said the man. “Excuse a aeeeae but I don’t thoroughly know the ropes yet.” - —____+e+—_. Pensive Pencilings. From the Somerville Journal. When you read in a local paper that a man and his wife caught 300 pounds of bass recently while on a fishing trip, you can’t always be sure that the man caught 275 pounds and his wife 25. The average woman can’t help wishing that she knew just what the men were say- ing when a dead silence falls as she comes into the room. An authority says that to manage trum; is “the most difficult feature of whist Some expert players have found that man- aging a partner is a good deal more diffi- cult. The night-blooming cereus ought to be a good plant for the average little girl to work with. It doesn’t need to be watered oftener than once a week. There is nothing on record to show that Samson was a foot ball player. Any mis- conception that exists may have arisen from the fact that his strength lay in his air. Sometimes a man is mean enough to bet on the election, with the idea that if he loses he will make his wife economize. Why is it that the boy who has plenty of grapes at home that he might pick always Prefers to climb the fence and rob his neighbor’s vines? It is about the time now for the man whose daughter has decorated the snow shovel and hung it for an ornament on the parlor wall to go and take it down. ‘Why doesn’t Inventor Edison stop fooling with electricity ard things long enough to win the gratitude of womankind by invent- ing some device which will let her know, without asking, if her hat’s on straight? Nothing flatters a man more than to tell him that the receipt he gave you cured your cold, whether, as a matter of fact, you really tried the dose or not. + 0+_____ Peculiar Decoration of a Bridal Coach From the New York Journal. Gustave M. Fetzer of No. 71 Bright street, Jersey City, foreman on a New York newspaper, and Marie Emma Hill of No. 20S 2d street, Jersey City, were married by Rev. Dr. John L. Scudder in Jersey City. After the marriage the newly wedded pair held an informal reception. While the re- ception was in prog-ess several practical jokers had been at work on the bridal ccach. When they finished the carriage re- sembled a traveling advertisement for a patent: medicine. It was gaily decorated , announcing: ‘We are on our wedding tour.” ‘We're bound for Niagara Falls.” “Ain't we beauts?” = The happy couple innocently entcred the carriage with the bridesmaid and best man and started for the ferry. Along the route they received a perfect evation, which made the bride blush, while the groom chewed his mustache and won- dered what was the matter. At the ferry the cause of the demonstra- tion was made manifest, and remarks by the bridegroom indicate that there is likely to be trouble in Jersey City when Mr. and Mrs. Fetzer return. ss Pe oad ENC I PAS SME NR aE Sa a A ARE A NTL STE Ne NE RE RU RN hk ES i RE ERS I eee a A PREMATURE OBITUARY. Capt. James H. Dickey at Grent Falls, Va., Stfll in the Land of the Living. It is very seldom that a person has the pleasure of reading his own obituary. A case of this sort happened only a short time ago. Several wheelmen made the an- nouncement of the death of Capt. James H. Dickey, who lives on the Virginia side of the Potomac at Great Falls. The report gained more credence than it otherwise would have, owing to the fact that Capt. Dickey was paralyzed this spring, and had been in a feeble condition ever since. Obit- uaries' were published in the newspapers, but Capt. Dickey has not as yet crossed to the | great beyond, and, as he expressed : be ae @ good many hundred dead en.’ 0 one was more surprised to read of his death than Capt. Dickey, and he en- Joyed a good laugh over the matter. His Place is so remote from communication with the outside world that it is hard to Secure any information; otherwise the re- port of his death would have been verificd poe publication. late, however, there has been quite a change in his condition, and he g now more feeble than he was at uny time since he received the stroke of paralysis. The cold weather in the early part of the month drove him indoors, and he spent the time in the roomy bed chamber on the ground floor, adjoining the kitchen, ting in a large rocker, in front of a blazing log fire. He receives every attenticn from his fain- ily, and his boys man: to c: farm the same as ever seg oe —_>__. INDIANA’S GRETNA GREEN. Eighty-Five Eloping Couples Married in One Month. From the Indianapolis Journal. No city in America has madé quite such a good record in the number of knots tied for elopers as our own Jeffersonville, Ind., the year past. Last month there were eighty- five such marriages. Located on the Ohio river, the town draws from two states and has special attractions for the romantic Kentuckians. The squires and ministers are winning a reputation for the way in which they dispatch the nervous lovelorn who come to their doors. A couple, total strangers in the city, will step from a train or @ buggy or bicycles and ask for a cer- tain ‘squire. They have read of him in connection with his accommodations to eloping couples. So well, however, have the magistrates arranged things that no couple can manage to reach the city with- out having first been spotted by some of the numerous runners, who kindly volun- teer to escort them to the office of a mag- istrate. For this kindness the runner al- Ways receives a fee from the offictating Justice. . The justice havirg the widest reputation is "Squire John Hause, who occupies a neat office just at the head of the ferry landing, made conspicuous by the inviti: sign, “Matrimonial Parlors” and other piacards, showing to the public the nature of the business transacted by the justice. During the last month at least fifty of the couples were united in the tle that binds by this dignitary. The emoluments resulting from this channel are from $1 to $5, and some- times $10 each. A handsome income of from $100 to $200 per month is almost al- ways assured him. Many are the queer requests which ac- company the applications for the marriage ceremonies. Recently one of the couples wanted to be married while on their bi- cles: and the request was complied with. ‘he scene was strange. The bridal couple seated on wheels supported by friends, with clasped hands, were made one. Another couple were married, by request, standing under the approach of the Big Four bridge, which spans the Ohio at this point. Re- cently "Squire Hause married a young lady who was the fifth and last daughter a family of five girls and four boys, all of the girls having eloped and married, three of them by ’Squire Hause. S Her View. Frem the Chicago Record. “Do you enjoy novel reading, Miss Be- linda?” “Oh, very much; one can associate with People in fiction that one wouldn’t dare to speak to in real life.” Signs. From Life. Clara—“Sadie must have been talking about me.” Maude—“Why so? Clara—“When I met her she kissed me twice.” @99990809|1 ETTER CARRIERS BOSSSSSS OTOH ESOS OOOO A Day in a Postman’s Life and How “Tt is Spent. DELIVERING AND COLLECTING MAIL Shadows as Well as Sunshine in Their Lives. IN THE SWING ROOM “subs,” there are two hundred and fif- teen letter carriers daily collecting and delivering Washing- ton mail, The reg- ularly appointed car- riers are one hundred and eighty in num- ber. There are thir- ty-five “subs.” The regular carriers are paid from $600 to $1,000 a year. The $1,000 men are greatly in the preponder- ance. The “‘subs’’—men_.on the civil service eligible list, who have passed the required examination, and who are permanently ap- pointed upon the death, discharge or resig- nation ot regular carriers—earn what they can, They do not make much. Their monthly wage varies from $25 to $40. It is usually nearer the first figure. The letter carriers of Washington are said to be the brightest in the service. The reason given for this is that men of excel- lent education and address, natives of the District or outsiders, find, upon casting about for government positions in Wash- ington, that the eligible lists of the civil service are so full, in so far as the federal departments are concerned, as to discour- age them from taking examinations for clerkships. Many such men, therefore, take the letter carriers’ examination, depending upon their excecdingly high averages to get letter carriers’ billets quickly. This oe THE they generally succeed in doing. More Washington letter carriers resign FA dit In the Swing Room. their positions to go into business or to fol- low professions than do those of any other city of Washington's size in the country. In the present force there are more than twenty letter carriers who, in their “swings” or intervals of rest between the collecting and delivering of mail, and with the money so earned, have acquired solid professions, and are saving money enough to hang out shingles as physicians, den- tists, lawyers, veterinary surgeons, etc. Thus, the force changes more rapidly than any force of similar size in the country, and promotions are more rapid. Some Queer Experiences. A letter carrier must have learned the lesson of patience early in life in order to be conspicuously successful in his business. He runs across some queer characters. He has frequently to submit to browbeating at the hands of persons too mentally ob- tuse -and opaque to reduce their roars to writing for submission to and considera- tion by the heads of post offices. The reg- ulations mapping out their duties require letter carriers to be undeviatingly polite, and it is very rare that one of them, ren- dered desperate by the reproaches and ob- jurgations of the gentleman or lady whose cousin in Cheyenne 1s neglectful in the mat- ter of correspondence, violates the rule. Letter carriers have compiled a system of averages, based upon elaborately made in- vestigations as to the right and wrong of cases in which they have been complained of to pestmasters for inattention and mis- takes. The tabulation gives them 93 per cent the best of it—that is, in ninety-three cases out of a hundred the fault has been proven not to have rested with them, but with fate, the railroads, the general gov- ernment or Providence. .Letter carriers, reasonably enough, decline to be held re- sponsible for the floods, fires, wars, wrecks, founderings and robberies of the world. Such things are often laid at their doors, all the same. Although the letter carriers are only ac- tually on duty eight hours in the twenty- four, they are all on. call nearly twelve hoors a day. In the business districts of Washington there are four deliveries of mail a day. The residence portions of the eity are visited by the postman three times a day. The intervals between the mail de- liverers’ or collectors’ tours of duty are called “swings.” During these off-duty periods the letter carrier has to be in or near the vicinage of the post office, ready for an extra call. Thus, the delivery post- man who-reports for duty at 6 o'clock in the morning may, in “facing” his mail at the post office and in delivering it three or four times a day, be only occupied in ac- tual work from seven to eight hours a day, but he has got to put in the intervals between deliveries somehow, so that when he completes his final tour at 5 in the af- ternoon or perhaps a little later he has given the government just about half of his time. There is a considerable distinction between the collectors and deliverers of mail. The collectors are the kindergarten men whose appointments bear more recent datcs than thosé of the deliverers. They get rather the worst of it in the matter of hours, es- pecially the night collectors, whose last tour is made half an hour after midnight. Every man who gets a letter carrier's ap- poen res however, must be a collector efore he can become a deliverer. ‘The next upward step of the collector is hjs promotion to the “bumper” staff. The “bumpers” are letter carriers whore in business is the collection of mail, but who, in sparsely settled districts, also perform @ certain amount of delivering, helping out the regular deliverers on beats too large to be covered within eight hours. “Bi ers” are not enamored of their jobs. e task of packing arqund a constantly grow- ing bag of mail -natter on une shoulder and a bag of letters, papers und packages to be delivered on thc other is both ex- hausting.and confusing. The man going through his “bumper” apprenticeship sadly says that he is neither fish, flesh, fowl nor good red herring, and he longs for his pro- motion to the rank of a mail deliverer. In the matter of getting over ground bk a without being compelled to foot it. the col- lector has the best of the deliverer, for the nature of his duties enables him to use a wheel, as nearly all Washin;ion collec- tors whose beats-are off the wagon routes do. It would, of‘course, be impracticable for the door-to-door mail deliverer to use on his route a bitycle, on account of the amount of jumping on and off which his employment of the whecl would involve. About one-third of the entire force of Washington letter carriers are collectors. There are two shifts: The men of the day shift begin their rounds at 6 in the morn- ing and make their last collection at 3 in the afternoon. The night gang goes on at 4 in the afternoon and the men get through their final tour in the neighborhood of 1:30 in the morning. The collectors assizned to wagon duty have. comparatively easy A Great Convenience. thing of it. The wagon routes are chiefly in the business districts and tn the resi- dence districts which are supplied with the large post boxes for the reception of news- papers and small packages. The wagon collectors enjoy their release from the danger of becoming hopelessly round shoul- dered, which threatened them as foot or bicycle collectors in dragging around vpon their backs loads of mali matter almost as heavy as the old-fashioned barrcl orgins. The postmen who deliver the mails vre nearly all $1,000 meh. Their work requires more training and intelligence than is gen- erally imagined. Before a mail deliverer starts out from the main or branch post office with which he is connected he has to “face up” the mail belonging to his route. The post office sorters divide the mail according’ to routes. It is then given to the postmen t arrange consecu- tively in tte order in which it is to be de- livered. It requires time and experience to “The new man come rattléd and d to a house right route on the Hottom upen completing his letter, and has to aquates to hand | learn to ‘do ‘this wertect at delivering isaptyto to get a letter addpes: in the middle of of his pack. T round, he diseovere thii travel back a good m: it to the addressee. y Experts in Handwriting. The old-timers never make such a mis- take. They become exceedingly expert in sorting the mail belonging 1o their routes in the order in which it is to be handed in. Their trairing makes them very quick of eye, and they become exceedingly expert decipherers of chirography that often re- sembles a composite reproduction of the penmanship of Horace Greclzy and hiero- glyphs of the Arabic, Egyptian, Assyrian and Ben. Pitman stenographic types. When post office mail sorters—adepts themselves in deciphering imbecile writ- ing—are fairly at a‘loss:to make any sense cut of an address or name, they pass the puzzling letter or paper around among the postmen,” and it is very rare that one of the latter does not solye the riddle, owing to his famillarity with the names of the people on his route and the chirographical peculiarities of some of their correspond- ents. It is a common amusement of other- wise unemployed persons to drop letters in the mails with their addresses so written as to defy the preternatural efforts of an archaclogist to make them out. Such let- ters always bear on their faces the unmis- takable characteristics which indicate at- tempts by cheap humorists to hoax sorters and postmen, and they; are disregarded. When, however, a letter or paper is ad- dressed In a fashion that clearly tells of the helpless ignorance: pf the sender, it is a Assorting ig Mail. matter of pride with thé.sorters and post- men to make every effort to get it properly delivered if possible, The length of @ delivermg postman’s tour of actual duty in getting rid of his bag of mail depends largely upon his hustling ability. ‘The routes aye made as nearly equal as possible ag; to the amount of time required for the postmen to cover them. The routes in the business districts are, of course, much smaller than those in the residence portions of the city, although the deliverers of business fl, in getting over their comparatively Yimited beats, have often to cover A bee as much ground as the men who distribute perhaps two or three letters on one of the blocks of their routes. The postmen generally prefer business routes. They like to walk into a store or office, hand in ths mail and get out. Post- men are naturally not fond of waiting at doors for the ap; of some orie to re- lieve them of a letter gr postal-card. While the Dpor Being Opened. Owing to these ant periods of wait- ing—periods which frequently of exas- peratingly long duratién—the mail deliverer on a residence route cannot make his tour nearly so quickly as the postman whose beat embraces nothing but business houses and offiges. Postmen are very reluctant to Enormous Reductions on our Ladies’ Finest Imported Garments. « « We beg to announce that beginning Monday next we shall place on sale at spe- cial prices, our entire remaining stock of the works of Redfern, Sarah Mayer, Rod- nitz, Bear, Worth, Gerson, Pingat and the other celebrated leaders of the world. The assortment includes mostly single pieces—individual fashion types—exclusive designs. The richest novelties in These are: Velvet Coats. Velvet Capes. Carriage Wraps. Driving Coats. _ Cloth Top Coats. Coaching Coats. Tea Gowns. _ Man-tailored Suits. as the day it landed. Dressmaker-made Dresses. America— $175 reduced to $100. i $150 reduced to . $90. $125 reducedto $75. §i00 reduced to $60. $90 reduced to $50 reduced to $30. 950. Permit us to assure you that in making these concessions now, we are merely in- suring a speedy clearing of our cases at a time when usefulness lends an added charm to the material reductions in price. Each garment is as fresh and brilliant a success SAKS AND COMPANY, ““Saks’ Corner.” leave mail under the door of a private house when their tugs at the door bell are not responded to. If mail matter so left is lost or stolen, the postman is held respons- ible for the loss or theft. For this reason letter carriers usually walt until their next round to deliver mail at houses deserted by all of their tenants upon the first visit. The Post Office Department, and the Wash- ington city post office authorities, have tried to impress upon the public the desira- tility of providing in the vestibules of pouses post boxes for the collection and jelivery of mall, but their efforts have been practically unavailing. Letter carriers on deliverey routes figure on losing a few dollars every year owing to the insufficient stamping of letters address- €d to persons on their routes. It does not appear to be generally known that when a letter reaches the post office with not ‘enough stamps pasted upon it to provide for ite delivery, the postman has to pay the required extra amount of postage out of his own pocket before he can take it out of the building for delivery to the addressee. A stamp showing the amount of ‘postage due is pasted to the letter. The’ postman is‘ not required to deliver it unless he is paid the amount of postage he himself has been compelled to pay in order to release the letter from the custody of the post office. Heedless of Due Stamps. Very often, however, servants who an- swer to the alarms of door bells are the re- cipients of such letters, and servants do not customarily carry around small change for the payment of their employers’ public obligations. The letter carriers leave such missives without the necessary payments very often, trusting that the due stamp will meet the eye of the addressee and thus elicit payment upon his next tour. But the postmen are mist&ken in their trust to the extent of a few dollars’ worth of stamps every year. They are not men who care to haggle over a few pennies here and there, ard so they generally let such cases go without saying more about them. ‘The greatest difficulty with which mail deliverers have to contend consists in their encounters with persons who nourish a perpetual grievance becaus® they are not in receipt of more letters. These persons Icok upon the postman with a darkling eye every time he goes by their houses with- out entering with an armful of mail. They regard the letter carrier with extreme sus- picion. They have had a telegraphic mes- sage, perhaps, announcing the posting at San Francisco several days ago of a letter, which generally contains a check for a large amount. Where is that letter? In Omaha, very likely, by this time, says the postman. Why has it hot arrived? What Bas detained it? The postman has probably got it in his bag at that very minute (as it might be inferred from their remarks), and is maljciously and criminally holding it back from them for the purpose of worry- ing them to death, ete. This is the sort of thing that flecks the horizon of the delivering postman with little threatening cirrus clouds. Uniformed Santa Clauses. The season is rapidly approaching which the letter carriers look upon with dread. The holiday period is an ill time for post- men. From the 15th of December to the Sth of January they patrol the streets in the guise of uniformed Santa Clauses, loaded down with spine-wearying packages that in five cases out of ten have become broken or disordered in their crushing transmission through the mails. Every time the postman delivers one of these dis- arranged parcels he stands by for trouble. He is often accused of having torn the package open out of mere idle curiosity, just to see what it contained. Postal employes very often cut a small slit in a second-class mail package to see that it contains no written ‘matter that should have been mailed first class, and during the holiday season, when every in- coming mail train is jammed to the ceiling with packages, the knocking about such a cut parcel ‘receives occasionally enlarges the small cut into a good-sized rent. The postman who delivers the package has to stand, in many cases, the brunt of the be- laboring which should properly be be- stowed upon nobody, as in cutting pack- ages the postal employe acts under instruc- tions. But the hard work and occasional reproaches which the letter carriers endure during the holiday season are more than atoned for by the kindness with which they are treated in many quarters around Christmas time. Of recent years it is be- coming more and more a practice of busi- ness men to remember the postmen who pass their doors with some sort of holiday offering, as a kind of extra compensation for a year’s faithfulness, and the custom is even spreading to the residence portions of the city. % As a class, letter carriers are the health- fest men in the world. The constant out- of-door life which they lead is the cause of this. Cases of sickness among the post- men of Washington are exceedingly rare. They become so used to exposure that neither extreme heat nor cold affects them. ‘When other men are roasting during hot summer spells, postmen walk around at a clipping gait in the sun, looking as cool as cucumbers. They rarely get sun struck. Moreover, It has often been observed that @ great many letter carriers do not wear their overcoats during the coldest snaps of cold winters. They dislike overcoats, be- cause they impede their rapid moving, and they feel that they are sufficiently burdened by their mail bags. There are a lot of Washington letter car- riers, whose routes are in the sparsely-set- tled districts of the city, who walk from fifteen to twenty miles a day. They ride in the street_cars to the beginning of their routes—$2,700 was expended by the post office last year for this purpose—and foot it around their beats three or four thines a day, as the case may be. Their legs be- come as hard as teak-wood from this con- stant exercise. Several of the best-known and most successful six days’ go-as-you- please pedestrians are ex-postmen. In the Swing Room. The “swing” room of the Washington Post office is on the second floor of the G street building. Here is where the post- men put in their time between tours. It is the only part of the post office building in which they are allowed to smoke. They cannot smoke on the street, even when they are not engaged in the collection or deliv- ery of mail during their hours of duty. They make up for it, however, in the “swing” room. Tie yellow haze that hangs over the long table that runs along the north end of the room makes them almost indistinguishable to each other when the room is full of letter carriers waiting to go on tour. Off in the corners of the room the studious men put in their tine reading up on their law or medicine, but the “swing” room is chiefly given over to the card and checker players. The game of checkers has the call. Some of the postmen, especially those who passed their boyhood and youth in the country, are expert enough at the game to give the checker sharps of Washington a hard run when they drop in at the “swing” room, us they often do, for a skillful game at draughts. Gambling is not permitted. The new city post office, which the very young men of the letter carriers’ force have vague hopes of occupying at some time in the re- mote future, will have a large and well- appointed room set aside for the use of the postmen as a “swing” room. It is to be provided with shower baths and facilities for indulgence in all manner of time-killing games. The men have to speak in low tones in the room used as a “swing” room in the G street building, for the room ad- Joining it is used as a dormitory for the railway posta! employes, a number of whom are always soundly sleeping in the army bunks ranged along its two sides. Princess Tom of Alaska. From the Baltimore American. Prof. L. L. Dyche of Kansas has returned from Alaska. Prof. Dyche went to Cook’s inlet, and especially in search of natural history specimens. He ascended to the source of the Enik river with an organized expedition, which was a success, although the obstacles to be overcome were appail- ing. He met Princess Tom, a famous Yak- utat princess, weatthy beyond all other Alaskans. She has $15,000 in $20 gold pieces. On her right arm she wears five bracelets, each hammered out of a $20 gold piece, and on the left arm she wears ten bracelets, each made from a $10 gold piece. She has hundreds of blankets, seaiskins, etc. and she owns a schooner and two slcops. She is sixty-five years old, and has just married her fifth husband, a yourg man of twenty years, for whom she has paid 600 blankets. The relationships are Da Maurier Liked the Fashions. From the Lady's Pictorial. It was inevitable, as the principal expo- rent of topical art or pictorial satire, that Mr. Du Maurier should hold pretty strong opinions about women’s dress and fashions generally, and it is a fact that he was by no means a decrier of the productions of the modern modiste. On the contrary, he admitted a very warm admiration for his feminine contemporaries—small waists, pointed shoes, big hats and all—and felt a constant pleasure in delineating them. And as for the children of this fortunate coun- try, he would say, he could think of no painted or sculptured childrer of the past who were more charming—at least, to him. And this, from an ertist who never forgot that he was French by birth, was praise in Good Reason Why. From Fltegende Blatter. Father—“But do tell me, could you fail again?” Son—“Well, you see, we had another ex- amination.” Alfred, how Death Only a Natural Phase of Phy- sical Being. From Light, London. One of Mr. M. J. Savage's lately published sermons gives an instructive summary o1 beliefs in immortality since rist. After rapidly but clearly expounding the ideas of Paul, and the revision of them in the Ro- man Catholic Church, ani afterward by the reformers, he comes to modern times and presents his own view in a very strik- ing manner, as the following extracts wil show: “I do not beli v2 that deatn came into the world as the result of any invasion of evil from outside. I do not believe that de: is the result of human sin. I do not be Neve that it is any token of © I do not belleve it Is an aft . fome- thing that God did not origi intend, J believe rather that it is a part of the ai- vine, the universal order, that it is as natu- ral as being born, and that it ts an indication of the love o! born. Of evurse, 1 do derworld. It is’ strar such ideas persist. All the which I have been speakir Ptolemaic universe. absclutely ne place for them in a Coperni universe They are simply survivals of the world’s CS anger. mucl das is being t believe in any un to me hew long e conceptions of belong te « ignorance of the barbaric idcas of the past. “Death is simply a natural phase of life For, though I can not stop t« sons, I believe there are re: reasons, for believing that what- we cal! death is not the end of individual ¢ ence. I belleve we pass through it and out and up and on. What are we? Where do we go? We do not go into any under- world. We do not ascend into any heaven just above the dome of blue; for we know zive my rea ms, adequate that this dome of blue is only an optical a delusion. It was once believed to be solid dome which might be a fitting four tion for a celestial court. “Do we go out as Cisembodied thoughts? That I cannot believe. A disembodied thought is something to me utterly incon- ceivable. * * * I beiieve that the souls of those that we call d are not_un- clothed, but in theslanguag> which Paui used, are clothed upon. T believe that they possess bodics not as real as these, but un- speakably more real, thrilling with an in- tensity of life of which at pr nt we are perhaps utterly pnable to conceive. “I believe, then, as the r of our thinking and our feeling and our loving and our hating, that what may be called a psychical body is being built up in genized day by day. In proc death we are released from this outwara shell very much as the butterfly is re- leased from its chrysalis. There has been going on through the whole length of lifc of the cocoon the organization of another and to us invisible, form within. By-and- by it breaks open; and the life comes forth and enters upon another stage of its ea reer. It is transformed, lifted, goes on t something finer and higher. I use this only as a crude illustration. I believe something akin to this is going on within us, and tha death means the breaking open of the chry- salis and the scaping oif{ into this larger life, and that we enter on that life—and here is the tremendous moral power of # belief like this—just the kind of men and women that we have made ourselves by thoughts, our emotions, our actions here only that there, fs here, is int oppor- tunity through suffering, if nced be,through whatever experience is necessary,for study for growth, for ascent toward the high- est.” Schools for Cash Girls. From the Chicago ‘Tribune. Following the lead of Chicago, a New York dry goods house is about to start « little school in its own premises where the cash girls can obtain instruction one or twe hours every day, as also those older one: whose early schooling hus been neglected In one of the large dry goods stotes of Ch cago a day and night school is maintaine: with competent teachers and all the mod ern accessories of a first-class school room where the employes of the store are give free education. In Milwaukee one of th: greatest breweries conducts a school, li brary and reading room for its employ who are over 10,000 in number. were established despite those who said the advant be utilized, and all triumphed fr. set. The school compares favors the best public schools in the city, re ing room is well patronized, gnd the lit is employed to its full capaci ——____ ++ A Bad Signa. From Puck. “I think the profersor is beginn’ lose confidence in his theories.” “What makes you think so “He scems unwilling to listen to argu- ments against them.”