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Battalion, wi the next witness, NO BRIBERY | SAYS CROKER,| He Admits that Leary Guar. anteed to Pass the Fire. men’s Bill for $40,000. SHS THERE. WAS NO FUND, President La Grange’s Statements Denied in Detail by the influence legit any fund fo He comm would be about as little as we could expect to get the bi!l passe SENATORS TO GO ON THE STAND. Leary. Afterwards Chief him “and told him that we could not enter Into any further negotiations with He Will Call the Whole Department if Necessary. Ines Declare: The Senate Investigating Committee this morning resumed the taking of tes- in behalf of Senators Coggeshall ami Robertson, who have been by Congressman Lemuel Quigg with brivery in connection with the passage of the bill to increase fire- men’s salaries, More than a dozen firemen and their officers testified last evening that they had no knowledge whatever of the cor- ruption fund, raised to be sent to Albany in the in- terest of the officers’ bill. None of them pad ever contributed a cent to such a fund and they swore they knew of no one who had done ao. Many Witnennes to Examine. When the hearing adjourned late in the evening there were as many more and Lawyer Raines said he was prepared to sum- mon the entire Fire Department, if nec- essary, to show that the charges of Mr, Quigg were baseless, ‘This morting they were all in attend- and other witnesses, whom Raines said he intended to put upon the atand to contradict the state- ments of Mr. Quigg. It 1s expected that all three of the will take the witness and to testify in their own behalf, Payn will also be with you? A. Pl ance again, . Pound a story at which Senator was laughing heartily when Mr. Root's “That's all,” startled both Senators and everybody woke up except “Lou” Payn, who was gazing in a meditative way ai his outstretched legs and “Trilbys, accused Senator and that Louis F. called, the latter probably some time ayn Settles Down for the Day. have not yet decided,” this morning, “whether I shall eall any of the Senators to-day or not, anxious to make a public atatement in regard to the charges, and will certainly testify. probable that they will do this at the next hearing, which will be held at Al- We have ail the can attend to for'to-day’s session. Senators Robertson and Raines were on hard early and sat together inside he railing and talked earnestly with Payn was there, and when he took oi ttled himself in his chair he had ir of a man who intended to make I think it is more an officer. He was ‘a mem! Firemen's tended any meetings Since last August. fluence legislation,” he sald, ‘Committee was ready to go|"°,knowledge of such a fund, on at 10.80 o'clock, Senator O'Connor was in the chair, and Senators Pound and Muilin sat beside him. Raines opened’ by stating that the ‘question Whether or not the counsel for Quigg would cross-examine the wit- hevses who had testified for the accused He said he was ready to recall of the witnesses examined yesterda, Mr, Root would care to examine them, and intimated that this was the lasi chance he would have, Bound to Sift the Matte; “We want to get to the bottom of this id Mi “and we pro- pose to do it if we call’ every member Of the Fire Department.” Mr. Root, after consulting with Mr, ulgg and Col. Howard, said he would Kk Foreman Samuel ine 58, a few questions. yesterday that hi the men in joke that he had $100 for the officers’ salary bill, nied that he spoke the truth ‘when he He resumed the stand, and when Mr. Root asked him to whom he had made that statement, he replied that he could It was some time eariy in March, and a number of men were money for use at Albany, and he no time had talked to any one about it had told some of not remember. moome of them rere, sayin oMfcers had put u Qverheard them. T said to them, ‘if that 1s so they ,stuck me, for I gave up a hun- urer of the New Manhattan Athlets Club, was arrested at noon to-day, in the office of his lawyer, E. H. Murphy, 145 Broadway, by Detective Sergt. George Titus, of the Central Office. “On another occasion I told them that I had put up #75. Of course, It wasn't e. Foreman Reed's Little Joke, By Mr. Root: Q. Why’ did you tell them a falsehood? A. Only wanted It to get into the hook the men, 4. in thelr organization, In which they kept tabs on the officers. ut money being sald by me us a joke. they believed It or not, Did you intend them to belie didn't they believe 1: ey might make a good you think {ta joke to make men think contributed $100 to a corruption fund? and asked Reed indignantly if he wasn't ashamed of such Reed admitted that he had made senseless jokin “You have put in jeopardy the good name of every officer, ment," said Foreman Freel when Sen- ator O'Connor called him down. ck G. Horan, foreman of Engine 2%, whose memorandum ured 50. extensively then called by Mr, Root. Q. Ars you @ ick the Depart- book has fig- in the case, Mi tikaa? we arrest, it Is believed expected, Some time ago Mr, Edwa He again told the story of his loss of the book, the finding of it by Fin man Campbell and described the house- hold entries he made notes of still no list of assessments. Facts About That Book, when he heard men talking about it as being an assess- ment book, he took {t out and showed | He could not ima, the men should have thought collection book. Mr. Root tried to bring out the fact that Horan knew all about the rumors f the corruption fund, and was only endeavoring to stave off’ the suspicion of | his men by showing that the book, from affairs, to be essary, Ar formed them that renewal of due officially re The next day, alow a wel can be used for books, parcels, um- | brellas, &c,, patronized by shoppers and school chif- ren, Horan as soon as he men had seen had been torn bj F those leaves out ever they were filed up. re only five leaves in all miss- from the book. oran remembered finally that he had ing World taken several leaves out since it vax lost early in March. ‘To-day Horan remembered also tha’ bad nicknamed him Yeatera: esterday he said he had never heard 1e. Chiet Edward Croker, of the Seventh calld by Mr. Raines He denied that he had of a. fund collected to tion on the Salary bill, i said he had never contributed to that purpose, iskec to tell about the meet- knowled was ing between himaeif and Dennis Leary, to whom he was fntzoduced by ex-Chiet McCabe, Croker and Leary's Scheme, “It was about March 1, when McCabe brought Mr. Leary up to Chief Shaw and mysclfas We were standnig at the cor- her of Broadway and Thirteenth street, MeCabe said Mr, Leary was a friend of his and « good man, He could, guar- antee the passage of the Firemen’s Sal- ary bill, and this was more than “Lou” Payne could do McCabe talked to us for some time and we went over to the Morton He And continued to discuss the subject. Leary told us that he could guarantee assige of the bill, and that it would be signet by the Governor. “Of course, he said, it would be neces- fary to have some money for expenses, and he told us 't would not cost more than $10,900, He said a good deal about dinners ‘that he would have to give at Albany and entertaining Senators aid itteemen, and declared that $10,000 x for, ‘After that Chief Shaw and I left Leary and went off for a walk. We talked the whole matter over and dechd- hot fo, have anything to do with aw wrote to im, “My opinion of Leary was that he was a striker, and that he could not d = thing for us, He talked too big to sult e. Chief Croker etated that afterwards he had been summoned to appe: fore Fire Commissioner La Grange. who had asked him about the rumor. that money to influ that he had denied all knowledge about had been raised by the office ence legislation at Albany, but Denier Ln Grange'n Statements. Croker dented all the statements made by Commissioner La Grange in the inc terview which he had with ‘him and sald that he had never stated that Chief Giequel knew who had_ contributed money towards the officers’ corruption fund. He knew nothing about it him: self, arid had rever sald that any money had’ been put up. By Mr. Raines Did” Commis ner La Grange ee play bear Q. Play bear? A. 3 he acted in a very gen- tlemanly way with me always, In answer to Mr. Root, Croker said that Leary had sald when they met on March 1 that he was a lobbyist, and that Chief Shaw was there when he sald tt. Shaw had previously testified that he did not know that Leary was a lobbyist at that time, Croker repeated the conversation in detail, and told how In Shaw's pri Leary hud talked about lobbying the Firemen’s bill through the Senate, Mr. Root brought out nothing of im- ortance In the cross-examination of roker, which lasted for a full hour, Senator O'Connor was telling Senator ound At 1.30 o'clock a half-hour’s recess was taken. Raines Says He'll Sue Quigs. During recess a report spread that Senator Raines had entered sult against Lemuel El Quigg for libel. When Senator Raines was asked if the report 8 true he sal have not yet entered sult, but I'm going to.” vil you bring a civil or eriminal jon" “That I have not yet decided. I will consult with my brother first. I iwil bring the sult as soon as my brother can prepare the papers. It was after 2.30 o' lock before the Committee resumed the hearing, Capt. Courtright, of Engine Company No. 4. was called.” He testified that he had been twenty-four years connected with ‘the departmnet, twenty years as er of the Association, but had not at- “I haye never paid any money to in- nd have Capt, Cartright denied absolutely that he had told Fireman Fitazgerald, of his company, on March 12, or at any other time, that fund’ to secure the passage of the Fire- men's Pay bill, t he had pald money into a Cartright Contradicts Fitexerald. “I was too hoarse to talk at all when Fitzgerald called to see me,” sald the witness, “and I did not as a fact hold such a conversation 8 he has testified I ‘The witness said that at no time has anyone talked to him about paying Mat at Senator Raines calmly puffed the smoke from a cigar when Mr. Root be- xan his cross-examination, On cross-ex:mination, the witness sald that he had never heard anything of the Firemen’s bill until he had read of in "The World.” He had had no knowledge of the bill until the present time. except what he had read about it in “The World,” which was the only paper he read. _ HARRY EDWARDS ARRESTED. New Manhattan A. C. Treasurer Charged with Larceny of 810,000, Harry Edwards, Secretary and Treas- The arrest was made on a warrant issued by Police Justice Grady, charging Edwards with the larceny of $10,000 from the former manager and the originator of the new proprietary club, was the com- platnant, acting as a stockholder, it ls alleged. Club, Charles H. Genslinger, Secretary Edwards was taken to Po- lice Headquarters, whither ex-Postmas- ter Van Cott, one of the backers of the New Manhattan Athletic Club, quickly followed him, Mr. Van Cott left after @ short interview, to try and find a Police Just admitted to bail. He was prepared to furnish the necessary bond. The arrest in the outcome of a long and intricate dispute arising from the transfer of stock formerly held by Gen- slinger. ‘The latter has been at lc heads with the present official in management, in order to have Edwards » he has been suspended by rom the ‘incidents surrounding the hat Jt was not 18 promised a statement of the Club's ade when it became nec- nt notice to membe rn ble this month should not be made until ested, 2 New rarcel-C (From Hi A parcel carri the pocket is being used in England, It is a little article that can be carried In the pocket when not in use, and is always at hand when wanted. It is nickel-plated, con- tains lengths of nickel-plated _ steel chain twenty-four Inches long, and will ight of twenty pounds. It id is said to be speciall + ee The only full accounts of the base- given in * Baschal) Extra, mediately after the Inst play ha: been made, | will act as F (Continued from First Page.) munication fr +m the Mayor, Mr. Martin “No, nor do I expect to. My time hi expired, and 1 am oniy holding on to await the appointment of my sucessor. T am feady to go at any moment, and willing to turn over this office to whom- ever the Mayor senda to take It, “I can leave this building with the consciousness that all my official acts! have been open and above board. 1 have never attempted to shield a man | guilty of an offense against the rules of the Department nor to perform any act except what I considered for the benefit of the force. Col, Grant at City Han, challenge any one to lay his finger upon any wrong-doing of mine since the day “of my, appointment." By Monday afternoon the city will have a new bowrd, which will have nothing of the Phitt-Tammany | com: Plexion about It. ‘The Mayor has de- cided to appoint Theodore Roosey Col, Frederick D. Grant and A. D. er In place of the deposed Commission- ers. In all probability, Mr. Roosevelt . resident of the Board and Col, Grant as Treasurer, Col. Grant called upon Mayor Strong as carly ag 10 o'clock to-day, and a long secret Conference Was the result, When questioned afterwards as to the subfect of the conversation, Col, Grant said they did not talk about the Police Commisstonership. “My visit,’ he sald, “concerned a pub fect entirely apart from the Police Com- missionership appointment, “I can assure you that I have not yet been appointed.’ When asked if he would be on hand Monday morning at the Mayor's office, Col Grant repli “Well, that depends on what happens between this and Monday, Further than this Col, Grant would give no intimation that he had been asked to accept the appointment. Mr. Parker Waits for Strong. Andrew D. Parker came to the City Hall to-day’ in answer to a summons from the Mayor. ‘The Mayor was at the time in confer- ence with Lieut-Gov. Saxton, and Mr. Parker sald that he did not know wheth- er the Mayor intended to make him a Police Commissioner to-day or not. Mr. Parker took a seat to walt until the Mayor got through taiking with the Lieutenant-Governor. ‘The action of the outgoing Commis- sloners at yesterday's meeting in retir- ing Inspector McAvoy on a pension of $1,750, and making a number of promo- Uons, despite the protest of Commis- sioner Andrews. las caused much un- favorable comment. The following police captains are vet- erans of the civil war and are eligible to promotion to an Inspectorship, sub- Ject to civil-service examinations; Anthony Allaire, steamboat Copeland, of the bort po Madison ‘ntreet. tate Fiaania. atation Th E ation: Patrick Pickett, West Third + Willlam Schultz, Delancey #tre ph Th, Eaking, Mercer street mation ompaon, West Hundred. and. Twenty Att Catation, Moner W. Cortwright,” Elieline ation, and Elbert O, smith. of the East Twenty-necand atreet_atation ‘Nineteen policemen having completed the thirty days’ probation, were sworm in tnis morning and given their shields for regular duty Supt, Byrnes this morning assigned the newly promoted roundsmen to do duty in. the following precincts: Oliver H, Pratt, Broadway squad; James F. Mully, Madison street station; Michael Gorman, Steaniboat squad, and James Brady to the Central Ottice. Too Young tor a Veteran. Alonzo Powell, one of the five patrol- nen promoted to roundsmen yesterday by the Police Board, was not sworn in with rest of the men this morning, The Beard suppored they were promoting Alonzo Powell, a veteran of the war, but have dlacovered that that Alonzs Powell was retired Dec, 2, 1892, and that the man they had promoted was a son of the veteran, He ts twenty-alx years old, and was appointed on the force Dee, 18, 1891. When he appeared to be sworn in as roundaman Major Kipp was aston- ished, He sald: “Why, you are not a veteran; you are not old enough!” “No, but my father ts a veteran,” replied the young man. he Major thereupon refused to ad- minister the oath, as the appointee was not the man the Commissioners intended to promot This ‘ncident ts an apt illustration In support of Commissioner Andrewa's contention that every man promoted or appointed should be before the Board for inspection. McAvoy Denounces Andrewn, Ex-Inspector McAvoy, visited Head- quarters "at 11.90 this forenoon to re; i eome move Personal effects, He to be greatly incensed over € sioner Andrews’s statement. He “1 don't think it is very maniy on the part of Commissioner Andrews to ma- ign a man after he has been retired. You can say tor me that there is a grevt difference between the record of | Mr, Andrews as a Commissioner or poll- tician and mine as a policeman, consider that mine ls an honorable reovrd, I was born and brought up in New York, and have lived here a:l my, life. He is the prodigy of a day, spring- ing up like a mushroom in the night He has yet to demonstrate his capa- bilittes, and I feel that jt will not be long before the pub.tc will see that he is winting in many requisites President Martin busied himself all day nacking Up Dictures and other of his perronal belongings, ready for a move, Coming Events, Annual entertainment by the Raphael Dramatic Club In Chapel Hall, West Fortieth street and ‘Tenth avenue, for Ave nights, beginning Monday at S o'clock. The Haunted Mill" will be pre- sented, Summer-night festival of Magnet Union this evening at Sulzer's Harlem River Park, One Hun- Grea and Twenty-aixth street and Second avenue, Dr. E. RL. Gould, of Johns Hopkins Unt- versity, speaks to-night before Good Government Club Qin Lenox Avenue Unitarian Church, on “The Norwegian System of Regulation of the Liquor Tram Boclety of Chemical Industry and College of Pharmacy, 118 West Sixty-elghth street, RC. Rohueppas and Hudson Maxim will speak on SBvolution of Smokeless Powder’ amd ‘Modern Torpedo Warfare.”* be admitted. After the association has | fein gtrument order, The old house servants had ‘selves in all particulars after the fine| A CONFEDERATE'S RE ~~~" THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 180 REAWIN DEFIES THE MAYOR. i: No More Little Lives Must Be Sacrificed in Brooklyn. A COLOR CASTE LINE, with Maxime’ pet and com to Oran panton which accompanies him alwa (From the Baltimore in his dally rounds, T) hing 1 nor less than a fine mocking-bird “The ex-slaves of Alabama are pre paring to organize an association to which none of the late-day negrors will Li uregard, which is beyent a’ ectly exquistte musiclin as trained him tu whist floult alrs with agri been organized it is intended to have | fello State associations, and then take in all exhibiting bi | accomplts! the old-time negroes of ali the slave-| Maxime whistle in ¢ holding States. ‘The moyement tn At- | usually carrying the air and his m: lanta Is in the hands of J. W. Edwards, a adding a fine clear second which Is contractor, who used to belong to one quisitely harmonious, of the wealthy planters in South Caro- Ina. even the best educated of wha somewhat condercendingly | call “the Out to the gate for the py Inte-day negroes.” Many of them en- Maxime has frequent! ae fore their eyes some of the #0 for him flantly before thelr eves some of the “put no, Maxime always save, best. tym bi can nod buy mey Beauregar’. Tete nod ve found in the world. They studied (0 Baie. he never will he, He la my the manners ¢ tresses, Imita versation and insenaibly {her monters ant mix: Cry pou, that Teaurend” delled them pa BENGE. examplos before them. Many years of freedom have not impaired their good breeding nor their pride in the social] The Little German Band on the’ uawered His Tormentorns, schocl in which they were brought up. street ‘They feel, like the Sons of the Revolu- i tion and the Colonial Dames, that they (From the Attanta Constitution ) belong to a socially distinguished class,| Capt. William B, Young, Augusta's lant Confederate sold- have a tight to be exciusive. They ler and officer ani was devoted to the that they nave a past that is worth 7 cherishing and preserving and that they S270", was a have always been accustomed to the cause of the stars and bars. best associations, and from colonial Years after the war he had occasion to spend a couple of weeks in New days to the Ume of their emancipation always looked down with contempt upon common folks. Why should they not York, stopping in the metropolis at form a soviety of thetr own bare! on Private hotel. There were to thelr social traditions? Ponalbly if they clled among others half a dogen North. | were to investigate the subject closely ef retired merchants, Capt. Youns's they would be able to discover many iting table adjoined theirs and he was daily treated by them to sev is of merit and courage perform by their ancestors in colonial and re lutionary) times which would entitle shan ie tonne ret elubonaey and colonial socleties, At present they only propose &! i ie soldier's bl to gu back to the general period in time Was. But the patriotic solders designated by the phrase “before the to overhear these criticisms, war.’ The colonial and sevolutionary pedigree may, and probably will, come! ware sea the war, They dit not talk to him, course, on the lower hotel ver: jater. when one of those little German bands Rag sare came along. The Captain wus in the A MUSICAL MOCKING-BIRD. hotel office and walked to the sidewalk, = Presently the band struck up. “Dixie. Involuntarily the APU Aaelbla Cease Corssenondenes,) unintentional torm NEW ORLEANS, La., April 10.—Max- | that they did not en, Dixte™ much |ime Caspari ix the name of s hani-| When the band had finished the tune 18a) young Creole who drives a del Capt. Ta A walked over to the leader ery wagon for one of the prosperous |and giving him 2% cents, asked him downtown green grocers. Maxime has |play “Dixte” again. The quartet on t the confidence and reapect of his em-| Veranda squirt ployer, and the admiration. I may say, |chairs, but stu A: In fact, the love of everybody on the| “Say, give 2 cents more of ‘Dixte street, for while the young fellow is al-| sald the Captain to the leader, qui Nave active and attentive to his man. | slipping him another quarts {fold duties, he would seem to have a| ‘Look Away Down in foul above the narrow I'mitatione of his | Started up again, | Ti tt out eecupation, their cigurs and bit their lips For one thing, Maxime ts a musician] “Another quarters wort please considerably above the ordinary, and {i after the in auietly ordered the Southerne ig) Piece was finished. For the fourth time the tune played the Veranda was cleared, Joke got out, th itherner the early mornings the qulet str Pi A with the merry sound of his sweet volce, or the music of his French harp, Which he always carries im. It is charming to see what pleas- . the din ure he gives he driven down the he Next took hia place at the dint street, amiling and bowing to right and (able next to the quartet, hut (ler, left as he goes, like a hero in'a trium- 20 more denunciation of the Sith phal procession. It gladdens the heart | the Southern cau Pan BES RED cf every woman on the street to have ‘axime deliver a package at her door| THE DOG and to receive one of his scintillating aes bout with PERRIN’ revs "Canvas ineTeN Le MARS ae le Map Showing Path of the Cyclone in lowa Yesterday. Injured pped to Hix (From the Boston T ript.) personal knowledge. bution to the literature of the intelligence. A ct he became la th one leg and mained in this cond’tion some lt time, The family physician, Dr notleing the dog's lameness, while at t se une day offered to examine J gand cure {tif possible, of hig my found, removed, and the leg got well erval often ¥ dog in this house of his mother, and was almost asm home there as ty people in his mistress's moth | to go dragging himself past that Hedidn't stp there, but we ey S | done: but his injuries. w \f Same the doctor as past. cu (C] killed to end his misery A wiltul hurt a dog will remember Junforg.vinwly, but a) worse hurt >» remove a splinter or dress a woun -—~ he will remember Kratefuliy. ‘Ths H fiself shows a consilerable approy towards the possession of the attra of reason, Tut the dog Jack knew i he oxnew that when grievous before! THE MONSTER 1S HALTED. erening thi health to re-enfore rath unt of what ing Competition That Oe. Inf an flea of power the most dif- eund finish that nequal, and the little eme to take infinite delight in ent. He and cert, the bird whistling and rot noke-pipe, the tremor lead the mind to expect al effect, as from some ani- ment of apathy Beauregard has a cage in one corner of the cart under the roof, but he usual And why not, pray? These ex-slayes |ly alts upon Maxime's shoulder. or oc “heionged to the best families in the /cuples a perch just above his master's South, and they base their claims to | herd. social superiority upon their aristocratic) When Maxime Is very buey and hasn't connections before the war, In good time to dismount and linger at the door breeding and imposing bearing It would for a pleasant word, a smile or a bow be difficult to find their equals among Beauregard gives three round sharp they Whistles that serve to bring a servant ysile passer, nor eto blind the H ong. with a the next day. wetrd eviden f, he fou caneae ninnes ratiniaane Grae Ginny vail the magnets unl arma- dosed social advantages of the highest last week a inugeum company offered interior of the mas. she ref vessary to test the | and “momy, pouns errifying con- the other a the bombast! by a strong bar, Y from Its position then the electric aring triumphant, sometimes and domt two kinds of locomotive. p erttl cisms of the South and Southerners in The corner hoot Disirie 8 Madion avenue, Tt waa presented. to not enjoying hig acquaintance, and they did not know bim or wha he y time he was forced arshalsea sin One day these critical hotel guests s insane and deaf. on effected by a ree Booth, of the rities, and Supt at hile and notice! One night Connell went to, A WONDERFUL TRIO. Smart Old Ladies Living im Mi bridge, Me. (Prom the Lewiston Journal.) ‘The first subject of this story is one|the impression that the Americans know © fthat small group of the surviving little of the comforts of home life, says ploncers of Maine who have reached the | Miss Elizabeth L, Banks, the author of whose great) “Campaigns of Curiosity,” In Cassell’s the wonderful| Family Magazine. Why this Is #0 she |capnot understand, for the Americans themselves are firmly convinced that enniia age ongev ity durance uth Has excel th ‘ Mrs. Bo has rer many Parker ov lost Janu end hig ter part he fell and broke limb has now 1 the to. a went condition, the most bridge for her agi Is pow n marris larke faml of whom’ are member of liwious) work, She cellent health housework an Affairs of her church a relgious ther, dark Sunda: be seen with her lantern on her During the week Tegilar prayer meeting on the east side of the river about a mile which Is always heid In If she has any work around house to be done she usually per- and y to prayer-meeting. she attends thy from her home ening. thers 1 trouble to hire a man to do ft. ntly hauled wood and left It by the door, in- tending fo throw it Into the shed for her When he came round Wasa hard at into the shed. tleman expressed his A. gentleman owing he And when the Ree Shel promptly refused Ma services Woot, she promptly re tu that he needn't bother with It, job very easily. to live by her- Kenerou! —$ STATEN ISLAND NOTES. No new canes of mmail-pox_have appeared Biinonsot avenut developed upon fon at the pest-house, Airs he h The man Franklin Ba deiverol an rien high, Hook demonstrates f the human race, ent health and na hard-workin Liye Aman, and has coped with ind splitting yesignt, and ia able new-papers without the ald -can hear readily, and at s enjoying Rood he arkably good vf interest con- early history of W She rememt othe Embargs and is abe to 1 cvunt of how peope lived in those tenting f the differ Inlles at that kham receives a United States $s per month, her first homas. Francia roof the war of 18t r Venera ently enjoyed a birindas having been a| in Milbridme ihe use of ali her in Harring- ‘eat Steuben marriel but ones, and since th her daughter, in the battl h off a British sland, with only rusty muskets oC the militia that went Allen, event About a year ago she f her arms, but that healed and she She is tkey Judging from ne active woman In. Mil- Mary Wass, In her ninetieth year, ermits her to do to attend to the She never misses ‘vice In pleasant of stormy 2 most devout Christian. could do Wags Is not obliged ashe has many loving children to care of and provide for her, but ers to remain on the old ave her chiidren come to visit her. her daughters and her only son 1 New rete Wane in extraordinarily capable for a person of ninety, and woud take her ‘ounger, While she 1s not a wealthy lady, ations to her church are most Deisier and Mam! two bat cases on his handa, iney, thirty-eight ye at Mount Laretto ye left lex and thigh. the Smith Infirmary, stone of the new school bulldt 8 old, fell down He was removed trustere by the ‘od by Congress: |-| How Differently American and Bag lish Women Sotve the Problem. Many English people seem to be unéer they have solved the problem of how make home happy Mise Banks goes om to describe “Some of the Differences Bev tween English and American Homes." Space compels us to confine our em tracts to the description of the base ment and bedroom: The basement usually contain) kitchen, pantry and store cupboards the dining-room. The scullery, cateh-au of the London residences, not known. In the larger houses, a pai the cellar, which corresponds to the English basement, is fitted up as laundry, with every modern convenient In this room the floor ts board smoothly over, and one side of the is entirely taken up with stational tubs, each of which has hot and col water faucets and waste pipe, 80 tl ho carrying or emptying of ‘water heceasary in the process of eg RS Another part of the room are to be fou the patent froning-boards, which, whee hot In use, may be folded Up aind put away. A large range with hments for boiling clothes and heating flatirons \s also a part of the laundry outfit. furnace, by which the house Is heal throughout, is bullt elther in the jor in the basement, And then the bedrooms In America the furpianit é the bed= room is a matter of the first importance, Handsome. draperies, pictures, Benes che | folding-beds, mantel’ glasses and glasses and’ the easiest of chairs turm fiinto a boudoir, where the lady of the house spends much of her time, unless she has a. private sitting-room ‘adjoins Ing. “American women have the reputas tion of living in thelr bed rooms, whicl is to a certain extent true, because tl have a predeliction for loose gowns rocking-chalrs, when they are indoors! ind to be always dressed and sitttl in. the drawing-room ready to visitors, like thelr English — cot Would be to them a sort of unbearal Inartyrdom, The typical London bed= room bas none of these temptations to its occupants. Indeed, it is positively: ugly, and has so many inconven! ind” discomforts at! to) make It that a happy medium struck between the English and Amere ican style. I have noticed that al Raspipes are laid in mont of the Guite frequently no fittings are at nd_one is obliged to use candles. dressing-table, which ts usually directly In the window, may, succeed in bringing the rays of a correct. focus about the mirror, Certainly the back cannot be eo an ornament to the front windows, ie ae BAPTIZED IN A BLIZZARD. Scenen Among the Dunkards @f* Pennsylvania Daring a Storm. (From the Kansas City Star.) Bligzanis and northeasters have no tered rors for the Dunkaris when they hews business on hand, They bad business @€ Earlville, Pa,, last Sunday, when twe women were to be baptised. The cresie | was frozen and covered with snow, but It took a few minutes only to sweep off the ice Then ‘Rev. Into ‘the Icy water and intimated he waa ready. “Miss Groft was th ; Conducted to the water and questions J as to her spiritual convict stood and shivered in the creek ‘Then the minister threw water over her, "and ‘to, complete the. ceremony, dipped her forward three. ti in crevk. After this she knelt in the water up to har chin, the Wat her name might Bre ine itr Rt onethier ake el nutes, the water Ge five {pth a ‘00K ny ut t ed experience. Here are some of the shortest sem- tences into which the alphabet can be compressed: J. Gray, pack with my box five dose qui.is (33 lette a Quack, glad sephyr, waft my ja, box (il letters). Phiz, styx, wrong, buck, flame, letters : I quarts py, who fling muck-beds @8 letters). Fritz! quick! land! hew gypsum box @s/ letters). he building will be has electas! Semen, Treasurer, Asaistant Foreman; and George B Pippinos, Sec- Dumpy quist whirl back fogs next of letters). d jekxport my fund Quix black whige ge? jetters). Get nymph, quiz and brow fix luck @8 letters). Pack my box with five dosen Jugs (2 letters), mate was call Very queerly Ito keep a wa uneasily in their Clap of thin xle." was veranda party lit s given his n Msays he was b avenged and he was eyed severely when Eventually he ied work at an An incident has come ty the Listener's the evidence tn the case being such that he can post tively vouch for every circumstance, which makes a very interesting © noe vinnie tain young English “The Even. tell and give the in innued every day setter named Jack, well Known to the Listener, had for master and mis tress, a young married couple, Who were extremely fond of him. In some way It Pays to Advertise in The World. “It pays to advertise in The World. We Inserted an ‘ad.’ in your paper a few days ago, and have just received a large order from a concern in the City of Mexico, ‘Le Compania Manufacturera Internacional,” who write us that they saw our advertisement in The we have received over seven hundred orders from firms which mention your paper, besides many others which we know came through our advertisement in The World. Very truly yours, @ WILFREU reaRCE, World, Altogether os OFPICE OF THE LINDNER & REMIG MFG, CO, 329 West 12th Street, NEW YORK. Lindner & Remig Mfg. Co.' would bring him to tis office. “Phe Was taken. th t doctor's Office; the doctor mate a careful exam nation, to which Jack submitted pa tently. The source of the trouble wa This was more than a year ago. The nistress’s father and WORLD'S MONEY-SAVING ADVERTISEMENT BLANK. Situations Wanted, 20 Words. 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