The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 18, 1899, Page 2

2 THE SEATTLE STAR BL WELLS CH, Pakamern Every af rnoon except Sunday KM, WELLS, |B F CHASE, Ebrton, | BUSINESS Nanagen ent per copy por week, tyehive combs delivered tors, always fh adv No free Telephone Pike 160. OMces No bOT = = Third Aveane Latered a t ALASKAN EXPLORATIONS, The government evidently Intends to make thorough explorations this year in heretofore neglected por- tions of Alaska. Information from that the War department has direct~ ed Captain Abercrombie to take a military party to Cook's Inlet and Prince Williams’ sound, and to pen- etrate the unknown regions around the Shushitna, Kuskokwin, and Matanuska rivers, also establishing military reservations at Valdes, Cop- per Center, the crossing of the Upper Copper, and the Tanana, and at Forty Mile creek. It is also pro- Proposed to open a military road through from Cook's Inlet to the Tanana and the Yukon. It is @ singular thing that up to the present time the great Kusko- kwim country of Alaska has been neglected, both by the government and by miners and prospectors. ‘There has never been any military party on the upper waters on the Kuskokwim, although every other important stream in Alaska has re- ceived attention. The Kuskokwim is presumably about 1000 miles long, and heads somewhere near the Tan- ana divide. It comes out of a min- per hour at a point 400 miles from ita mouth. Several parties of min- ing men started for the Kusko- kwim last year, but so far they have failed to report any thorough ex- ploration of the region. Captain Abercrombie’s duties will take him also Into the mysterious gigantic volcano of Mount Wrangell 1s located near the head of the Cop- per river, In @ locality <iiMecult of | i 1 i al 3 : : ; z :! | i i i i ail i Hy il i § ! : | [ ! | Hi H z I ul i i te "| resdntAtives Séing present fram In- Wasbings | a Washington, D. C., is to the effect! "nw the reorgghined Chureh of Jepur Chridt of Latter Day Saints to the | midftie @f ovr country, tem READY FOR A BIG MEET ————— Tacoma Y. M, C.-A. Program. dependence, Mo, in the Went, and ‘rovidenee, BR. 1, in the Bast, gath~ Jered’ In the old Kirtland temple, erected in 184 by or under the di- rection of Joseph Smith, the seer, and bellewing in the unchangeability of the Gospel and law of God as given through him, and eecepted by the church up to the time of his death in 1844; and “Whereas, the state of Utah ts re- perted to have elected a polygamist BB. MH. Roberts to re~ in the congress of the United States, “Resolved, That we hereby earn- estly protest against any one guilty jot the crime of polygamy or plural | marriages being seated and retained ae 4 legislator in the house of re- sentatives of the United St WILL GET CRACK EASTERN MEN Life in Death. Toll not ° aT perwohe yg for the soul that has) gesttio Will Be Asked to Help the Its last earthly ery and has gone) Bike Movement Along.-Other with the night; Cities, Weak-winged in a cage har & sweet es bird fluttered | ‘To at last feel the joy of a bound- “5 leas Might. ‘The plaint of the soul in its prison) TACOMA, March 1§.-Secretary was tender, Day, of the ¥, M. ©. A., has written And love would have cherished its muate for aye; The pipe of the cage-prisoned songster was slender, But now it rings clear heights of the day. Sigh low and long, for the snow~ flakes are falling On the grave where the form of a loved one lies! CA. Sing — in reply to a far voice, Seattle has been asked to co-oper- calling jate in the matter and Physica! tn- Above the dark shadows of death's struct: Ping i or Douthitt, of the Beattie A cage Hest forlorn In @ wreath of row to arrange mati e And ony A leaves 6¢ otemn ahell| once etc mr, mgect he ac uma commodal bury it deep; ne et Alf Bllinghouse, the manager of the dieycle carnival at Ban Francisco, asking what can be done to bring cracks, anda coma. If it machine, to Ta- Pounibie some such | t the ac.) track and detail ‘aias wel hii = ite of the plans wilt | A number of the crack Beattie rid- 5 Sa Th —Jobn Pengrave. | local representative, Lorene Dow.| RECENT INVENTIONS. |:" in perfect #hape| i matning dark. bugs and and fy i : i Fi i i i g | 4 i | F 53 H i: g i i i i i i i i 8 i £ z ! : : i g i li fi r i z a = Jimmy Michael, two or three more | * | enlargement sociation, will be in Tacoma tomor-| the bloamine mil | for the handing THE SRATTLE service in this country ta the worst and most expensive in the world ‘The house of commons heartily ap | Proved the government's resolution, almost the only man ape in ition to it being Sir James Kuswon | | It is @ curious fact, however, that) Bit DAMAG IN perts, notably Mr, William Henry | Preece, engineer-in-peace of the! ae ens a sia poatoffice, who is now retiring, In| years past Mr. Preece haw been ure | ing the government to buy the Na tional company out at the market price of ite shares, Mr, Preece die covered himaclf thwarted at every turn by some mysterious Influences, and for years the directors of the National company virtually bonsed the portoMece. Chief among the who helved the company were Sir | James Fermuason, when he wan post master general, and on his retire~ jment from that post he became a | director of the company. LONDON, March 14—The practice ef making the dog a beast of burden is nowhere so common as in Belgium and gros cruelty results, The coun- ell of Antwerp has ted regula- tions which make curious reading, | No dog under one year or twenty | Inches shoulder height may be used | for draught purpones. ‘The weight of the cart and contents must be ad- | Justed to the #trength of the antmal N drawn by dogs. Enlarged Stee! Works, HARRI®BURG, Pa, March .— | Announcement was m 6 to day of of the PF neylvanta Steel works at Bteelton by the addi- tien of a ne w furnacer to the open heart!) deper tad | ditional underground tu t Patensive cre f ralie will be put By ne t in the yards at the rail mill | demand for billets and struct steel was never so hvavy, A nombe ef departments are to be © re shortly There were °° nme so the February pay roll, a gain of 2000 over February, 1897. A Poor Old Queen. When one has cited the commer and ordinary French monarchieal aimante—the Orleanists and the and the Bonapartinte y no means exhausted the Hat of those claiming by divine right the “tarone of Fra’ The near est thing to @ pauper's grave that France ponsenses received the other jay the mortal remains of Mme. de jourben, mother of the gentleman who signs himself “Jules 1., legiti- mate king of France,” and who pos sibly enjoys a right to the (tle Mme. de Bourbon married some fifty ye ago & man who declared he wan the Due d'Berri, son of Charles ected years his consort Princess Caroline of Naples. During the long period of exile after the rev~ olution, the Due d'Berri no doubt consoled himself with an occasional marriage. Hy one such ceremony, quite correctly performed. he became the husband of a lady hailing from Kent, Engiand. as Though a legal wife when Charles X. to the throne, her daughters were received at court and made distin- é ith fi [ hi ? i ¥ i h E i tl i i Hil t 3 z 5 i 5 i # i f g a f i i E 3 H is t i i ¥ ¥ H guished unions. Poor Mme. de Bourbon had no such luck, and she had, with her son, now a man of fifty, and a cripple, « hard struggle tor existence. Now, howev her troubles are over, and perhaps “Jules 1.” will be happier working on in an architect's office than he would if he had mounted that very insecure piece of furniture, the throne of To Copy the Oregon. LONDON, March 18.—Mr. Goschen told the house of commons on ‘Thursday, when introducing the na- val estimates, that the admiralty had not yet decided upon the plans for two new battleships which are to be balit during the coming year. ‘There is good reason to believe that both will be exact coples of the Ore- gon whose performance in the h war greatly impressed the chief na- val constructor of the British navy. It ie stated that the admiralty has the full plans of the Oregon. pre- sumably supplied by the courtesy of the United States navy depart- ment, Dog as a Beast of Burden. | adult, except a cripple, may be| TE WANTS Sues a Telephone | Company. PUTS IN A CLAIM, FOR § Announcing the Hin Devghtor Was Mis directed, TACOMA, March 18.—A mintak & name may cost the Sunset Tel phone and Telegraph company $25.- 00. J.B. MeBride, through his at- |torney, Frank 8. Carroll and ex- Judge Prank Aliyn has Mec auit in in the superior court nat the com- | pany to recover damages for injury alleged to hove resulted fro none-de-| livery of a mersage, | | J. G. Mefiride ix @ prominent real | emtat i nan, living at Parkt on Bow ay take. The : Ae wan “ 188 Mr. Me- n, John J. the Int tele- f his te ptember Mice of the telegraph corapany and to the operator johone and fed a mens n charge. paying the regular fee for ve transmission of the message The message which caused all the trouble tells ite own story. It wan ent at the Parkdale office and reade * follows ‘J. G. Merida “ather: Maggie oney at once. According to the coniplaint, onsage. by some mistake of the Ta- Aria.— Bend Jerome, te dying. Await anewer.” the vy addressed to J. G. Uprigh fatled to reach {te true dertination, hereby leaving the plaintiff in com- see. We was therefore unable to respond to the call of his family in thelr need. Though he was in utter ignorance of the whole matter, his family held Mr. Mefiride responsible for neg- lected duty. ‘The action will be vigorously push- od and the case brought to trial as soon as poasible, Supt. Sands of the local branch of the company, has ttle to say In the matter, except that there is nothing In the case. Ultimate America. ‘That the United @ta‘es will con- tinue to expand, and that it will se- cure additional territory on this continent, is highty probable, An- nexation sentiment In Canada is, on the surface of affairs, non-existent at the present time, but the widen- ing @ap between that country and the United States must eventually bring [te people to a realizing sense of the necessity of political union with us In the case of « large and ‘important element of the Canadians, annexation is taking a practical ape every year by their removal to this side of the boundary line, This drift must continue, and it is Hkely to increase In volume rather than decrease, until annexation takes place. To some of the countries to the south of us destiny probably points In the same direction. For sociological and political as well as economic reasons, the absorption of the than that of the Spanish-American | nations, or any of them, but in their case, too, or in that of some of them, union with the great American re- public is one of the ultimate prob- abilities, In one direction the mani- fest destiny idea of the 40s has been surpassed by the actuality of fifty un- | {us | one j and} | plete fgnorance of the serious and mportant information in the meas- of her themendous possibilities for manufacturing, frultgrowing, ar raising the great valley of Virgini« for pturies for grabing a agriculture--hea etili o rth of the surface covered by forests of oak, hickories, and other hardwood trees, What an opportunity for the manufacturer of farm implemen and furniture! What renne in there in ypings timber to the North or the Went, to he made into goods that are consumed right on the farm from which the timber eut? Every variety of fruit whieh wll Brow In the temperate gone r en perfection In Virginia, The Mied mont region is destined t come the leading fruit and wine re gion of the t n Why, Virgin Pippin apples are selling now, a have sold for years, for from % t« $5 per barrel more than prices paid for the best apples raised in other nections In the production of wine, Virginia d 1 is destined noon to rival the famous grape districts of Germany and France. The finest fruit land in the sta now covered with valuable timber, nh be bought today for # to $10 per acre, What an oppor- tunity for fruitgrowers! Census Cureau’s Force. WASHINGTON, March 18.—Diree- tor Merriam, of the ceusus bureau, announced today before leaving for Minnesota that he would make no further appointments for at leant & month, and that the office force of 2900 clerks would not be needed until July, 1900, when the returns of the enumerators will come in. The 200 pervinors, however, would be ne- jected by December next and thelr names sent to the senate for appro- val. ‘These supervisors will have the appointment of 40,000 enumerators, who will do the actual work of tak ing the census in the various st. and territories, Tne few staff and clerical appointments to be made be- fore congress meets will comprise only the skeleton force necessary to perform the preliminary work. This will be no easy task, however, says the director. Assuming the population of the United States at this time to be in round numbers $0,000,000 people, there must be 400,000 sheets insued for the population schedules alone. Adding to these the other schedules, there will have to be Im thé agere- Fate not leas than 660,000 such sheets in printed form used, All this mass of paper will have to be manufac- tured and printed without delay. In counting the population, every indi- vidual will be represented by a sep- arate card, and there will have to be manufactured and printed not less than 100,000,000 of these cards. ‘The probability is that there will be a system of machine counting, which admits of counting facts in combination and which worked so well in the last census, will be adopt- ed for that of 1900. The office will have to select from the various de- vices the one most satisfactory, and a sufficient number to do the work must then be manufactured. The work will be pushed with all pos- sible epeed consistent with accuracy and every effort made to avoid drag- ging the work along unnecessarily. Mins Laura Watkins, employed at a store at 1619 East Pratt street, was before Justice Leech at the Pastern police station yesterday charged with refusing to be vaccinated. She declined to show her arm to Dra. J. W. Lubchausky and Gilman 8. Evans of the Health department. Hefore the magistrate she stated that she objected to baring her arm to any one who might call and re- present himself as a physician. She said she was willing to be vac- cinated, but it must be done by her family physician, Dr. Frank C. Breneies As the law requires persons to submit to vaccination when health officeds call, Miss Watkins was fined $10. She was placed in charge of the station house matron, as she did not have the money with her. Bhe atill refused to be vacctnated by the Health department physicians, stating that she would rather go to jail and stay there. Afriend sent for her physician, Dr. Bressler, and her vaccinated the lady in the sta- tion house. Dr. Bressler offered to give Dr. Evans a certificate of vac- cination, but Dr. Evans refused ft. At this juncture Dr. Bressler became ‘NATIONAL @UARDSME! , uniforms, | paid cash for the overcoats furnish- HORT OF | UMFORMS Adjt.-Gen, Fox So Declares. A\EEDS | duly. | TACOMA, March 18.—-Adjutant General Fox is tn Tacoma on bual- ness connected with the state mil- ita. When asked concerning uni- forme for the guard he said: Co. A * the only one in the state which has arms and uniforms. I have just received a letter concerning the metter from the quartermaster gen- emi, but he gives no definite state- rant concerning the time when the uniforms will artive. | “According to a recent decision of the assistant attorney general the ordnance of the militia are simply loaned by the United States and can be ordered returned back without payment. This does not include and, anyway, the ste ed to the volunteers. When the re- turn was made to the government for the uniforms furnished by the state it simply gave the number of uniforms, without mentioning thelr condition. “There is an army regulation that when a receipt for any arm or equip- ment fs made out and does not sta: the condition of the article it is pr sumed It was a first-class new one. If this obtains in regard to the uni- forma we are entitled to as many new uniforms es were turned over to the volunteers. The record of how much each man was charged for his uniform is now with the re- giment at Manila. I think there is ittle chance of ever getting cash payment for the equipments and re- aily all the state wants is uniforms for the new guard. If the govern- ment furnishes them we will be sat- infled. “California had the same delay over red tape, which was finally end- ed by the adjutant general finally going to Washington and settling up everything @l! at once. 1 think it will be a saving in money and time to the state if I should go to Wash- ington and end the matter In a few days. There seems to be no limit to the correspondence which will be necessary to arrange matters, If I gO east it will Se within a month or so, 1 will make every effort te have the uniforms delivered to all the companies of the guard some time before the Fourth of July. It will enable them to take part in the military demonstrations on that day, T believe nearly ail the companies: will be anxious to join in the cele- Tacoma. “I have heard of the proposed Fourth of July military parade and I think it is a very good idea. I will be willing to do what I can to help it along and I think all the guard will co-operate in the mat- ter. “If the volunteers who are in the army only for the war with Spain ‘and some of the regulars leave the | service, I think there will be another ‘call for troops to fill up the regular larmy to the 65,000 limit. This may | give some of us in Washington an opportunity and I hope to be among if such action be | those selected | taken.” Morality vs. Stockings. A historian of a dozen centuries | hence might come to some odd con- clusions respecting the virtues of | two of the most noted women tn French history if all he had to go mn Be ; whether the ac- | years later, for it did not include the | Philippines. Per! long before | indignant, and demanded to know | py were two autographic scraps that from Dr. Evans why he would not turned up in Paris a few years ago. Hi 3g 2 She Had Objections. i that earlier Seventy Years in the Service. Miller toook place today. Mr. Miller died last Sunday evening of pneu- monia. He was 90 years old, and for 70 years had been in the service of the United States, the last 2 of which have been spent as messeng: in the commandant’s office, ChAries- town navy yard. Mr. Miller was born in Pennsylvania May 5, 1809. He lived through four ware and served in two, the Mexican and the war of services in the line of regular duty, he was 2 years ago reileved and assigned as messenger. He was sin- gle, and it is #tated that he had not communicated with any relatives for thelast 2 = years.—Boston Evening Transeript. Arrested as Firebugs. NEW YORK, March 18.—For more than two months the detectives of the Ralph avenue station, Willa burg, have been endeavoring to rest some firebugs who have been starting fires in the flat houses in that section of the city. Laat night Detectives Becker and Mitchell saw two men acting suspiciously about & big apartment house in Madison street, near Howard avenue. They arrested the men, who said they were Charles Gallagher, 24 years old, of 1457 Fulton street, and James Me- Auley, 23 years old. MeAuley refus- ed to give his address. In Gallagher's possession the po- lice found a slungshot. He was charged with vagrancy and carrying concealed weapons, A charge of v grancy was also preferred again MeAulay. é A Mormon Matter. KIRTLAND, ©., March 18.—-The Mormons of the Mast closed their annual convention last night. The speeches made denounced some of the practices of the Utah branch and a resolution was adopted denouncing the attempt to seat Congressman Roberts of Utah, The resolution was “Assembled a8 we are, represent- Risin Maite At St. Mary's church, Charleston, | league. He knocked a left feider,| the funeral services of George M.| which tc ei ii ili A <2 3 z i treaty. the! take place with | reichatag. er-| he would protest | of the worth. | in addition to! German's present worthless colonial possessions. } | ——— ew | . | Sampson's Squadren. Croker Fire Engine. | WASHINGTON, March 18—Rear|) New YORK, March 18.—Fire | Admiral Sampson has divided his Commissioner Scannell has given an |aquadron of four armored vessels, | order to Richard Croker’s auto-truck | going with the New York and the Company for the construction of an | auto-fire engine of the firat clase. | Brooklyn to Puerta Cortes, Hondur- | py. price ie not stated. It is ex- while the Indiana and Texas will pected that the engine will be com- | Proceed to Cienfuegos on the south pleted about the middie of April, | side of Cuba. All four ships left when it will be put into service as | Havana yesterday. The navy de (08 Spee ad ork proves sa! ry, ac- ssenen es eats te Admiral’ cording to a statement made at fire peers mem, PPORET Headquarters, all the present engines | that the four vessels will meet at in the department will be gradually | Clenfuegos or Santiago, or perhaps replaced by auto-machines, and the | at San Juan, Porto Rico. The New| fire department horses will be sent | York and Brooklyn has gone to) to Join those of the old surface cars. | Puerta Cortez to serve as an object Fire Chief Bonner is somewhat ‘lesson to the Honduras authorities, | *keptical about the success of air aw _who have been very slow in making | motive power for fire engines. He | the redress demanded by the United said that In 1874 the city had four States for the murder of an Ameri-| machines propelled by steam, but can citizen by a soldier of that re-|@fter @ thorough trial they were public. abandoned as inferior to those now rvisenjichdotisanedaipiiee drawn by horses. /Called to Account By a Spook. The body of Ernest Heinig was Steward's Bequests. leremated Saturday evening at the| NEW LONDON, March 18.—The | Lindenwood Crematory under pecu- he ag My pe peavees, Sees : War cireumstanc: Heinig Com-| 4 week ago, was ‘admitted i cate mitted suicide on January 30, be-| here today. It is estimated that it lcause of despondency, owing to| disposes of nearly $100,000. Among having been thrown out of employ-| other bequests Mr. Steward gave to |ment. Two weeks before he died the American Soelety of Civil Engin- he expressed to hin sister, Mra,| cers $2000, to be Known an the “iter | Leuchner, the wish that in the! the Engineer's club of the city of | Levent of his demise his remains| Now York he gives $500 toward a | ce eee ae a naire. Leueh-| putiding fund. Ta the Memorial hon- . . nf Ne ). lgpiien, and had ie boty waries.| 9° + -eumemmureme [One night last week, Mra, Leuchner ys her brother appeared to her in A Telephone War. | ;a dream and demanded why her LONDON, Mareh 18.-“The govern: | | promise had not been fulfilled, and| ment asked the house of commona | |Tieiated that ahe, even then, should| this week to vote £2,000,000 to enable | | eause the body to be exhumed and| the postoMfce department to begin | he realized that he hadn't restoad, he thereupon used his gu as a baseball bat and the quail as a ball with as much precision as the champion batter of the National captured and carried to jRome bane by the dog.—Poulan (Ga.) | News. | burned So impressed was Mrs.| active competition with the National |Leuchner by the dream, that she| Telephone company, which has a ordered the corpse taken up ané| practical monopoly of the business that the e cremated.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. and has carried {t on #0 Somehow one does not easily tm- agine a noble French dowager in the role of censor of theatrical morals, yet the Dowager Duchess d'Uses has appeared with great success therein. There ts running at the Nouveautes theater, Paris, a farce entitled, “The | Lady from Maxim the Maxim's being, of course, the Americ bar of the Rue Royal, which has be- come one of the institutions of the wicked city. The action of the plece fa precisely on the lines of 90 per cent. of the French fare and need not be described. But there occurs one scene in which an abbe ts made to accompany ‘the lady from Max- on the plano to @ song, the ning of which the good abbe ap- parently cannot divine. When this scene Was first played it was greet- ed with some hissing, being taken a disrespectful reference to the ‘gy. Of the hissing the author took no notice, He was not, in his own phrase, going to be bullied, One Gay, however, he rece! a letter from the Duchess d'Usea, who in a pleasant fashion possibly expressed her regret at seeing such disrespect- ful treatment of th priesthood from a man of the author's “wonderful talent!” What could the author do after that? He surrendered and al- tered the play, leaving the abbe out of it. War on Department Stores. CHICAGO, March 18.—Judge Chet- lain, of the superior court, today ren inion in the agreed e city of Chicago upon aghinat Charles Netcher, proprie of the Boston store, finding that the defendant was not guilty of violat- ing any law in selling meats, fruits, vegetables and other provisions un- der the same roof with dry goods, jewelry and other merchand'se. ‘The prosecution was based upon an ordinance passed by the city counct! on July 12, 1897, fining any person or corporation transacting @ provision and general merchandise business under one roof, and it practically contemplated an end to “department stores.” ‘The court held that the ordina of invalid. fowl The humble barnyard may spoll ‘The best laid schemes of men. No trust can ever quite control The output of the hen. —Chicago Tribune, the 20h century aspiration in its continental” phase | will not fall far short of realization. | Optimiam in the natural mood for sane-minded Americans In this age of the world.—St. Louis Globe-Dem- ocrat. Salvation Army Mayor. | WICHITA, Kan., March 18.—J W. Tapp, a rich merehant and lead- er of the local Salvation Army, has been nominated by the Democrats as their candidate for mayor. Mr. Tapp promises this reform if elect- ed “Ten dollars fine for any girl wea ing bloomers on the street. Any po- Heeman heard swearing will be dis- charged, (and all will be required to carry Bibles, Religious services will be held twice daily in the city build- ing. Free street car service will be given on Sunday morning to all the churchgoers, Sunday theaters and bal 1 games will be forbidden, Spitting on the sidewalks will be a finable offence. ef for Clerks WASHINGTON, March 18.—The war department will hereafter be | cloned at 4 o'clock instead of 5, the hard work incidental to the war having materially decreased, This order on the subject was issued to- day | “The assistant secretary of war, recognizing the laborious and ex- citing nature of the services per- formed by the employes of this de- partment during the past year, to which they have generally devoted many extra hours, directs that, un- til otherwise ordered, the clerks be not be detained for service after 4 o'clock, p. m. Old = Virgini Opportunities. It will Interest our people of the west who are bidding for imimgra~- , to know that the “Old South” lively competitor. paper pub- thor is in the fleld as The following Is lished at Roanoke, Va.: Most eople know that Virgina has at Norfolk the finest harbor in the United States, and the Spanish war has just emphasised the fact | that she yduces th? best coal in the world—the Poeahont coal js the fuel with which all gr have been made; but few are aware the certificate. Dr. Pvans only replied that he would not re- cetve the paper. Dr, Bressler then said he would make Dr. Evans or Health Commissioner C, Hampson acknowledge the paper, but Justice Leech settled the argument by say- ing that he would accept the cer- tifleate and dismiss the lady. Dr. Bresster ifftimated that some physicians who are vaccinating are interested in women's arms. Fvans replied that he thought gentleman of too Dr Dr. Bressler was much intelligence to make such re- mark. Justice Leech asked the | gentlemen to stop the controversy, and Miss Watkins left the station house in a pleasant humor. While Miss Watkins was In charge of the matron, Dr. Evans said he would wait to see whether she paid the $10, and he intended to follow up he case.—Baltimore American. Bookmaking ressed. PARIS, March 18.-The govern- ment has suppressed bookmaking on race courses and the betting hence- forth must be done tn the ‘is mu- tuels, The reason of this fs said to be that the Assistance Publique draws one half per cent. of the moneys paid In the Paris mutuelp and the wealthy sportsmen have preferred booking bets. Among the letters of Mme. de Stacl, | Mme. Roland and even the great | Napoleon which were sold were | fragments from billets of Mme. de Pompadour and the Empress Jose- | phine. The former assures the re- cipient of her confidence that she | will be very glad to retain in her | service certain domestics “so long as jthelr conduct should be above re- proach.” Fancy the austere prud- ishness that dictated that blameless sentiment! And then think of the frivolous extravagance of the wo- man who wrote, as we have it here in Josephine’s own hand, “I have just thrown away gl4 pairs of ribbed | silk stockings quite new!" ‘Home Improvement Club. ALBANY, March 18.—The Wo- | men's Home Improvement club, of | New York city, was incorporated to- day for “the education and instrue- tion of married women tn the art of making their homes comfortable and happy. to the end that they, the sald homes, may be attractive to their husbands and conducive to the health and future prospects of their children.” The headquarters of the club are in New York city. The di- rectors are Mary Houston, Eliza Reinhardt, Mary Murphy, Margaret Welsh and Elizabeth Lauterborn, all of New York city. These are the Fabrics for Spring of 99 Men's Business or Dress Garments Herring Bone Silver Hair Lines Rough English Homespuns Stone Tweeds Blue Serges Pinhead Stripes Broken Checks Fancy Mottled Chevoits Double Breasted Coverts Pepper and Salt In Single or Double Breasted Styles Price anete BIO) to BLO 1 Garments ifet ta yer F TEE 0 harge J, REDELSHEIMER & CO. Strongest Top Coat House in the Sta First Avenue s kal nl act cal Rc i i a MM. estate abil —— and Columbia Street ; sf f 2 “| fae oF)