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GEORGE WASHINGTON M . | ' • "It's ah twelve-pound boy, Maaea Washington!"--Truth. %\ MONG groat historical characters there is none exerting a wider or more potent influence upon succeeding generations than that of George Washington. It is conceded that all history furnishes not another character so symmetrical in all ^its parts as that of the first President of the United States. As a patriot, a citizen, a soldier and a statesman, Washing­ ton stands out in bold relief on the pages of history, the greatest American that ever lived. It is this magnificent equipoise of character attributes that most strikingly im­ presses the student of his personality and achievements. It may be said of Washington as was said of Louis Phillipe: "He had no youth; he was born a man." Washington re­ ceived only a common school education. He was ever sen­ sitive of his educational limitations, and even after he had served as commander-in-chief of the army, acted as President 61 for two terms and indelibly set the impress of his character the foundation principles of the greatest of free governments, he appealed te tatt a dozen of his colleagues and friends for help in writing and revising his SGtrewell address. Though in his youth ho was content to earn his living as a hired owveyor, when he died,. Washington was one of the wealthiest Americans of his tfw, his property, exclusive of his wife's and the.Mount Vernon estate, being worth over $500,000. He was a successful business, man, as well as a great sol- Ser and statesman. lit his youth, and even during the revolution, Washington Was a good deal of a dandy. In his 'personal appearance ho was exceptionally clean and neat. He is dawrihed as tall and well proportioned and of commanding presence. His feet were aBosnaliy large. Though he wore false teeth ».nd his large-featured face was colorless and pitted from smallpox, he was considered han'dsome. Washington was K0ou of a good time with congenial companions. He was passionately fond of dancing, and he frequently went to picnics, one of his particular diversions. He *ra» fond of cards and billiards, usually with small stakes. His diary shows that he felat folly as often as he won at both games. Washington was also fond of fish- and hunting, the theater and the circus. Music, too, charmed him. In read­ ing Washington favored works on agriculture and military science, though there Tarere historical books, besides poems and novels by standard authors in his library. After more than a dozen love affairs. Washington, in 1759, when he was 27 years old, married the wealthy widow of Daniel Parke. Custi§. Martha Wash­ ington is reported to have been comely, obstinate and a poor speller, yet well bred asid generally kind to relations and friends. Washington, though, always seemed •stuped with her. 7 Washington's conduct as President showed the natural results of his character­ istics and training as a citizen and a soldier. Guided by no other impulse but that ®f doty, bound by no other ties save those of honor and the best interests of the tefcole people, his principles and work as the first President of the new republic ever to serve as the motto and model of every public official, as they have always been and must ever be the true basis of good government'and lasting po- Etica! reform. Prudence, conciliation and firmness proved to be the characteristics «f his conduct during the two administrations, whether in dealing with domestic tosnbles, or the United States' relations with England and France, "or the jeal­ ousies and divergent opinions of the members of his own cabinet. Other features c# Ms statesmanship were his progressive views and efforts in behalf of the aboli­ tion of slavery, and the founding of a national university. Washington's whole career is animate with the heart throbs of American history; his every public act resplendent with the coloring of American sentiment. Beneath the apparent aus­ terity of his manner there moved a current of patriotism as broad as his country, and as deep as humanity. ens It to the sufflclert consistency, say* the Philadelphia Time... The same arti­ cles can be made from milk toy a proc­ ess" Invented by an Englishman. The milk used Is the sklm-mllk. The proc­ ess of turning this liquid Into buttons, pool balls, combs, backs of hair brushes and similar articles consists of mixing it with a substance, the lngredleruts of which are a secret of the Inventor, and compressing it. At the end of three days the substance is as solid as cellu­ loid and is ready to be cut and shaped In any way the manufacturer wishes. At present a factory in Holland Is en­ gaged la fashioning the hardened milk Into various articles, buttons being the chief. The buttons made In this pecu­ liar way differ very lltle in appearance from ordinary bone buttons. They are a creamy white In appearance, bnt can be ,colored black or red or any other color by simply mixing the coloring matter "\ylth the milk before the hard­ ening process begins. They are said to possess advantages over the bone and celluloid article In bedng less brittle and less liable to chip. For combs the milk substance has "been found to be especially well adapted, as it is smooth and delicate to the touch, and derives from its creamy origin a glossy surface. In the same way It Is a good substi- tute for ivory in billiard and pool balls. A RELIC OF WASHINGTON. The Cabin Which Sheltered Hifn While on a Surveying Tour. While hundreds of pilgrims daily crowd: the shrine of Mount Vernon and other hundreds break pieces of marble from the monument oyer his mother's grave, one of the most interesting relics of Washington remains unknown and is rapidly falling into decay. This is a small cabin used by Washington when as a young man he was engaged in surveying the lands of up­ per Virginia. Near Berryville, Clarke County, Va., Gen. Daniel Morgan, a revolutionary sol­ dier, built a handsome home, which he called Soldier's Rest. About 200 yards from this manor is located the cabin, which is regarded with almost religious veneration by the people of the neighbor­ hood, and which is slowly being eaten away by the tooth of time. The house is 12 feet square and there are but two rooms, one on the gronnd floor and one used as a garret. Beneath the building a small stream flows, or rather it did at the beginning of the present century. En­ trance to the loft was obtained by a lad­ der, up which Washington was accustom­ ed to climb, as he kept all of his survey­ ing instruments in the upper room. This apartment is lathed and plastered, one window lights it up, and a rough door gives access to the visitor. Lord Fairfax, who was a wealthy Eng­ lish nobleman, obtained from his Govern­ ment large concessions of lands in the up­ per part of Virginia in the early days of the last century. Desiring to have his WASHINGTON'S BURIAL. Masonic Ceremony to Commemorate the Hundredth Anniversary. A grand Masonic memorial service is groj?ctcd to commemorate the death and bona} of George Washington on the oc­ casion of the centennial, December, 1899. ertebration will be under the immedi­ ate auspices of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, but will be partici­ pated in by all the Grand Lodges of the United States, directly by thoH<> within a radius of miles to permit of personal at- At the moment of Washington's death, Dr. Craik stopped the pendulum and hands of the clock that stood on the man­ tel of the room and which remains to-day in the same condition as it was ninety- nine years ago. The clock has become the possession of Alexandria-Washington Lodge, No. 22, of Alexandria, Va„ of which lodge Washington was first Master. In his dying hours the General communi­ cated to his private secretary, Mr. Lear, his desire not to be buried until after three days had elapsed. His wishes were respected. At Washington's death the Deacons of the lodge were directed to have the orders cleaned and prepared and to fur­ nish spermaceti candles for them. To Alexandria-Washington Lodge was given WASHINGTON'S SURVEYING CAMP. lands accurately surveyed he called into his service George Washington, then scarcely more than a boy. He did the work so well that he won the friendship of Lord Fairfax for life. It was in 1748 that the old cabin sheltered him. THE WASHINGTON ELM. Old Tree Where Wasliington Took Com­ mand of the Army. One of the historic landmarks of Cam­ bridge, Mass., is the Washington Elm, an illustration of which is here given. On May 10, 1775, the Second Conti­ nental Congress met at Philadelphia and elected George Washington commander- IT'S MIGHTY COMFORTIN'. Oh, it's mighty comfortin' when your hair is gettin' thin. And the wrinkles in your face have come to stay, Just to feel her little hand smoothin' out each silver strand, While you meet her lovin' look and hear her say: "John, my dear, it seems as tho' every day you live you grow Handsomer than in olden days." And you smile back at your Wife while you think, in all your life You never heard a sweeter word of praise. xuCn, somehow, the teardrops, rise to your dim, old fadin' eyes, While yriu kiss the tender ^t^sd' still white and small; And you try to tell her how you loved iier then--yoti love her now.. But, bless Cue, it'the,words will come at all! „ v ' , .. _ For just then it comes, to you to think Of trials she's gone thro'. . J'J.' And borne without uJ murmur for;ycrtir sake; ' : . .v You can only bow your hejid at the loyiu' »•things she's said, J . .r And your poor old heart can only ache and ache. .. • , But she knows what ails you then, and ' she kisses you again, While you hear her gently whisper, sweet and low: "Life has bro't more hopes than fears; we have known more smiles than tears; You are the dearest dear of dears. John Anderson, my Jo!" So it's comfortin', I say, when your hair is gettin' gray, And your slippin' down life's hill a mighty fast. Jnst to feel her little hand strokin' back each silver strand. While she whispers that she loves yon to rhe last. --Farmer's Voice, Woman Is Game Warden. Colorado's first woman game warden. Miss Annie Metcalf, received her ap­ pointment a short time ago during- the Ute Indian scare in Routt County. She is employed by Game Commissioner Swan in his office, where she rules as the head of the department while the Commissioner is absent. He is away nearly all the time. The duties of a deputy game warden are to hold him­ self or herself In readiness to be called on at any time to aid in the enforce- TIIK WASHINGTON ELM. to retort, or to respond. If we are hurt, we must immediately "give ourselves away," as the phrase runs, If not by bitter speech, at least by look and man­ ner; yet reflection frequently brings the keenest regret for the lost dignity, the betrayed secret. Many a one has wrecked her own happiness for the want of patient stoicism which would have led her to stand aside for awhile, watching events until they brought with them her opportunity. fQven when we are happy, it is not always well to let the bright stream bear us away rudderless. The impulsive manifesta­ tion of affection, the hasty proposal of marriage, the hastier acceptance, have they never proved the beginnings of misery? Or has a rash word never sundered true lovers, true friends? If these things are true, it is likewise true that the, fault , in the commence­ ment has been that of feminine Impul­ siveness. * ; . Professional Women's Trials; While the business and professional women of to-day go freely if not al­ ways joyfully along the line of their chosen work, it'is not long since wo­ man was preached to and constantly reminded of her duties, lest she should, step outside of the narrow- circle, known as "woman's sphere." Jane Austin, out of deference to the views of her relatives, concealed her writing from the gaze of chance visitors by laying a handkerchief over the pages of her man­ uscript. Mrs. Somerville was entreated not to bring disgrace upon her family by persisting in her studies of mathe­ matics; even the clergy was disquieted and she was condemned from the pu'l- pit. . Caroline Herschel's glorious work in astronomy was done amid discourage­ ments, and there is something pitiful in the thought that her laborious life was embittered by social prejudice. But how thoroughly womanly the most gifted women ever are! Professor Maria Mitchell left the most delightful memories to her pupils, and many a student endured the mathematical work of astronomy for the sake of the professor's personality. One of these pupils said that she had forgotten all she ever learned about the sun, moon and stars, but she never could forget the gatherings where Miss Mitchell was the hostess, and she should always remember the bouquets and souvenirs at every plate, and the poetry, in that print-like handwriting, made for every one of her girls. MTSS ANNIE METCALF. in-chief of the American forces. Three weeks later Washington arrived at Cam­ bridge, Mass., and assumed the command of the army under the elm tree. , The lat­ ter is still standing and is surrounded by an iron fence, outside of which is a large stone tablet upon which is inscribed the fact that Washington took command of the army under the tree. By throwing up entrenchments at Dor­ chester Heights and thus commanding the harbor and the city of Boston, Washing­ ton compelled Gen. Howe to evacuate the city on March 17, 1776. Fifteen hundred families of loyalists sailed with the Brit­ ish general for Italifax. ment of the game laws of the State or to arrest any person found breaking the law, either by killing game out of sea­ son or having it unlawfully in posses­ sion. These duties Miss Metcalf has the accomplishments to perform, but there is no immediate prospect of her being called upon. The idea of Com­ missioner Swan in the appointment was that if it became necessary to take a secretary into the field with him at any time Miss Metcalf is prepared from ex­ perience to undergo the hardships, be­ sides being a thoroughly reliable per­ son to leave in charge of the head­ quarters. What We Can Do Without. To simplify modes of living, to im­ prove domestic service, to make child- rearing a science are the pressing needs of the hour. What homekeepers need is to learn what can naturally and com­ fortably be done without. Less gowns to grow old-fashioned, less curtains and carpets to shut out the sunlight and breed dust and disease, less uneatable profusion at the table, less dishwashing and general fussiness. How pitiable are most' women's attempts at econ­ omy! They send away the maid-ser­ vant and have to call in the doctor; buy Cheap meat and drive their hus­ bands to a club restaurant; do the spring sewing, and are rewarded by an attack of nervous prostration.--New York Press. It Is Different Mow. gig- I'* ; ' fe'V.V,- •" s • M i - \ • WASHINGTON IN MASONIC KEG ALIA. Drxtdauce and by representation from afi "SPSus celebration will take place at Moui Veraon and will revive as closely as pos^ asMo the burial ceremony. •tfbe movement for a proper commemo- wk%ioa ©f the one hundredth anniversary off the burial of Washington had its in- <c*g>tiou about two years- ago in the Grand X*Mlge of Colorado. Since then one after onmtherof the Grand Lodges of the Unit- States have appointed committees to toifce measures for a representation of their Masonic jurisdictions. This national SHwrementv initiated by Masons, has ex- teasled te all patriotic and civic societies, a» that in every city, town, village and ftandet a memorial service Willi be held, on Dec. 18, 1899. There are cogent rea- why this movement should appeal peculiar force to Masons every­ where, for a review of the records of Washington's death and burial is beauti- MQr suggestive of the high ideal of fra- tinraal love and charity ever cherished by tite Father of His Country. Dariog his last illness "the General," as friends and neighbors called him, was atteaded by three physicians. The first w&ahis old friend and companion-in-arms, James Craik, surgeon general of the ©Wrtinenfal Army, and in private life a Bttrsnber of the Masonic fraternity. The physieiain from that neighborhood ; Dt. Elisha Cullen Dick, then Master «tf Alexandria Lodge. Dr. Brown of Port 3Babacco was also called iuto consultation. and Masonic past Master. Un that'oc^ sion he wore his Master's sash and apron presented to him by Lafayette which had been wrought "With gold silver tissue and beautifully adorned w] Masonic "emblems by the'Marquise de fayette, , „ - ,vi*. Mt. ttaraon. Upon the hroad .Potomac's shore, Below tlK! <ctty of nara<£ His ashes rest, who evermore . Will live.,the favorite of fame. He stood ttye greatest of the great, When ghmts. battled. It was he Who with'bis sword carved out a Statel And gavei-a people liberty. He seems to us almost divine, The calm* the brave, the good, the juef ThiB spot becomes a nation's shrine. Because It holds his sacred dust.' There Is no .bound unto his fame. But every-land, beneath the sun Lends to the general acclaim. Which greets the name of Washington: I J. A. EJDG15HTOJ| BUTTONS MADE OF MILK. A Factory in Holland Engaged in Their Manufacture. For a long time buttons and other av^ tides for which bone }s generally used have been made from congealed blood, purchased at the slaughter houses, and treated with some substance that hard- * /*V V-}A How Men Keep I'ouse. "But men," said Mrs. Jacobs, some­ what mournfully; "men, the best and neatest of them, do not notice and feel the importance of things as women do. For instance, a woman told me the other day of her experience with her husband, and he is one of the neatest, most delightful men in Brooklyn. She was going away for the summer, and he was to keep his room in the house, but take his meals out. So she count­ ed out clean sheets and pillow-cases enough to last until her return, and laid them all in a pile so that they would be handy, and fixed the soiled- clothes hamper ready to receive the discarded linen, and then said to him: 'Now, you remember to change the bedding every Saturday, and then you will be comfortable and clean all the time.' She went away and was gone two months and a half, and when she came back what do you think she found? The same sheets still on the bed of this, the 'neatest of men!' " This dramatic conclusion seemed to have been expected, for nearly every woman in the room seemed to recall similar instances of masculine culpa­ bility in this regard.--Exchange. THINGS SEEN ON TRAINS. Would Be a Consul. Mrs. Cora Chaplin Weed, of Musca­ tine, Iowa, is anxious to be the first woman consul to serve the United r" ilfffo States. Germany or Switzerland is the field she would y like ; to work in, J an(* ker petition, with 800 signa- >§/ tures, is now iu tlie hands of Pres- ident McKinley. sirs, coka c. wked Mrs. Weed is a fine linguist, speaking French and Ger­ man quite as fluently as her native tongue. She has traveled extensively through her own country, Mexico, Eu­ rope and the West Indies. Her critical observations on what she saw and heard attracted general attention, and a few years ago she was tendered the position of trustee of one of the col­ leges of Iowa, an offer which she de­ clined. Clipped Kyelaslies. Who hasn't bumped into the woman who is woefully wandering about mi­ nus her eyelashes? My dear girls, you. make the mistake of your life when you begin to ship and clip and tinker with those pretty little curtains that fall over your eyes. If eyelashes are cut iu infancy they will grow longer, but when one gets big enough to wear long skirts and do one's hair up high and wear a little bonnet with jet do- funnies on it there's not much of a show for eyelashes being made longer by trimming. He Patient. "If one of your maids is a little cross some days," says the woman who has no trouble in settling the domestic ser­ vice problem, "don't scold her for some­ thing that she does wrong, provoke a saucy answer, and dismiss her on the spot. Iveep away from her if it is pos­ sible until she is in a better mood. It may require some self-control on your part, but remember that she is human You feel cross yourself sometimes, and you are sorry enough for it afterwards. Probably she will be." Impnlse. If a thoughtful woman were asked, "What is the greatest curse of your sex?" she might well answer, "Im­ pulse." It is responsible for almost 11 the mistakes made by the good- er.rted aniong us. . May it not be safe- said that a few'minutes' thought be­ fore speech or action would prevent ' ost fatal blunders? Many of us are In positive bondage to our bird-like quickness to feel, to show our feeling, Conductors Know Certain Occasions as Freak Mights and Look for Them. "Freak night on a railroad train." The conductor of the express for New York, which leaves the Reading termin­ al every morning five minutes after midnight, spoke slowly. "There's not many geoplfe know what ?reak night is; Hardly anyone'but' we conductors, and then mighty few of us. But it's a fact that certain trains on certain days of the week have 'freak nights.' It's so regular that you know when to ex­ pect It. It's sure to comej "It's this way," continued the conduc­ tor. "On this midnight to New York emigrant tickets good on thie smoking car are issued at a reduced rate. Six nights of the week we have just the poorer people that wait all day, sit in the car all night and are waited in New York at 4 o'clock in the morning, all for the opportunity of going over for a half dollar cheaper. They're the kind of people you see everywhere and any­ where on the streets. But on one night of the week, just as regular as death or taxes, all the queer fish that are traveling around seem to gather to­ gether on one train. They are people you would stop and look at when they passed you.- They are very fat, very thin or very drunk; funny looking peo­ ple, ugly people; in fact, 'freaks.' They never travel "without eacli other. You don't see one freak in a car load of or­ dinary people. All are plain, everyday people, or else all are freaks. It's got. so that I can predict what a train load is going to be. If I see one or two or­ dinary people getting on, why I know it's an ordinary night; but if I see one of these freaks, then I know I'll have only freaks. They generally come Sat­ urday or Monday nights, but there is no rule. Sometimes we won't have any for a month, and then we'll have three or four 'freak' nights together. In 1896 I counted we had between forty and fifty--about one night a week, you see. If you'll come into the smoker I'll show you, for it's freak night to-night." There were five people only in the car. Freaks don't carry heavy baggage as a rule. Away up iu front a stout man was embracing a friend, and both were Singing the German welcome song, "Hailee! Hallow!" for all it was worth. "You don't see anything pecu­ liar In that maybe, but I'll show you." "Stop that singing," he said, loudly. "There's a woman in the ear and she wants to sleep." Both men turned around. They were unmistakably Irish. "And singing a German song, too," chuckled the conductor. Tw» others in the car had "freak" written all over them. One was a man wha must have been six inches over six feet tall. He was thin and dressed in rusty black. He had turned over the seat ahead of 'him and, by putting his feet up, had elevated his knees, thin and gaunt, two feet above his head. The other was a strange looking foreigner, remarkable for his ugliness. Belonging te seme Eastern race, he was dressed in ordinary clothes, which did not fit him. His face was pitted and a harelip drew his mouth into an evil position. At first glance he seemed to have no uose, so small, so sunken was It. "Wouldn't like to meet him on a coun­ try road at night," said the conductor. There was one other person iu the car, a woman, one of those small, swarthy Italians who patronize the owl trains so often. "No, there's nothing freak­ ish about that woman on first sight. But come up here with me." He led the way to the woman. "Look there," lie said. On one arm the woman held a baby, on the other arm another baby; an the seat a third baby. They were triplets. "So you see it's freak night," said the conductor, genially. "It's a ?ood thing for you you did'nt get in that smoking car." dn inquiry among the conductors of trolley.ears had reveaied the curious fact that the same conditions prevail there. They, too, have "freak nights," although but once a month on the aver­ age. Just as on the l-allroad, the freaks travel only at uiglit in the "owl" cars. They are never seen with ordinary peo­ ple. but Hock together. Although they have this affinity for each other, their neighbors' peculiarities never have any interest for them. They have occupied the center of interest too long; they are too accustomed to being wondered at. So they never wonder themselves.-- Philadelphia Times. (frrrrrr Feminine Facts and Fancy. Women live for admiration, but men die without it. The home rule party in America is pretty generally acknowledged to con­ sist of women. Among other accomplishments taught at a certain girls' school in Paris is the art of blushing. Women are judged by their accom­ plishments, but men are judged b£- wliat they accomplish. Two-thirds of the 20,000 Washington government clerks are women, who re­ ceive from $000 to $1,800 yearly. "She's 'shamed 'cause she's a wom­ an" is a man of Cairo's explanation of why a Mohammedan girl wears a veil. Jane Addams Is doing missionary work among the wealthy women of Chicago by trying to get them interest­ ed In the poor. It Is a pretty general belief in China that the women who wear short hair will iu a future state be changed into men. "Call it lying, madam, and deal with It as you would With any other tempta­ tion of the devil," was Evangelist Moody's uncompromising answer to the woman who asked him how she should cure herself of her natural tendency to exaggerate. Fidelity of the enduring kind was that of Mrs. William H. Straight, a prominent society woman of New Jer­ sey, who not only helped her husband escape from prison, where he was con­ fined for swindling, but calmly took his place in jail. Hard on the Irishman. Gentleman (to an Irishman)--Well, Pat, I see you have a small garden. Pat--Yes, sir. "What are you going to set In it for next season?" "Nothing, sir. I set it with potatoes last year, and not one of them came up." "That's strange; how do you explain it?" "Well, sir, the man next door to me set his garden full of onions." "Well, had that anything to do with your potatoes not growing?" "Yes, sir. Bedad, them onions was that strong that my potatoes couldn't see to grow for their eyes watering."-- Answers. How Hti Got Out.. "Yes," observed the sweet girl, "I always liked Charlie Hocklius very much. He's always so willing to put himself out for the accommodation of others." ^"Well," l-eplied the young man, "that nuiyxbe ^-our idea of it, but he didn't seem very .ready to put himself out for the accommodation of others when we met here las\Sunday evening. In fact, he didn't put himself out at all. I sim­ ply had to freeze him out."--Cleveland Leader. Cortez's Flag. The flag carried by Cortez, the Span­ ish conqueror of Mexico, nearly 400 years ago, was until recently preserved at a little church in the capital of the State of Tlaxcala. Inviting Ostracism. Mabel--I wonder what's come be­ tween Myrtle Seymour and Tom Sedg­ wick? ** * Mildred--Oh, haven't you heard? He openly declares that he doesn't intend to get a chainless wheel this year. We would rather be able to eat pork sausage and buckwheat cakes every morning for breakfast, than be Presi- dent. • We notice that girls with steadies never have, fascinating girls come* to visit them. The officials of the Interior and Treas­ ury Departments warn people who are going to Klondike to look out for bogus agents, excursion clubs and other per­ sons and organizations that offer low rates and inducements in the way of transportation, care, guidance, etc. There are companies whose advertisements in the newspapers, are prima-facie evidence of fraud, and the special agents of the Postoffice Department are now engaged in the investigation of several sharpers who are offering impossible inducements. One company, for example, proposes to fur­ nish transportation, food, bedding and all other necessaries for $250, 20 per cenV to be paid in advance, .with the applicl tion, and the balance when the ticket. Y issued upon starting. Other, clubs and excursions offer even better rates, and in every case the applicant is required to make a deposit as ,a' guaranty of good faith. It is evidently the deposit that the rascals are after. All persons, there­ fore, are warned against contracting for transportation or buying railway or steamship tickets from any but the regu­ lar authorized agents, of railway and. steamship companies. - . ' ' [1> * * • ' Washington society is a queer mixture.' Of course there is society and society. There is the "400" and there is the "40;" and again there is the coiUbination hfvtwo or three who swing the 40 and the remain­ ing 360. Then again there is another 400; and several subsidiary swirls and eddies each claiming for itself superior qualities of exclusiveness, intellectuality, wealth, permanency or swelldom. Anybody may be in Washington society, but anybody can't be in any society which anybody wants to be in. Many can't be in the Supreme Court Justice's society, and I know of some distinguished F. F. Y.'s with permanent abodes in this city who are eating their hearts for chagrin at their inability to break into the adminis­ tration "set." * * •> The Secretary of Agriculture has re­ ceived the following pathetic communi­ cation from Bell County, Texas: "Dear Sir.--I want to ask you a ques­ tion. It may seem foolish to you, but I am very much in earnest. A young horse of mine eat up $30 of green back notes last night. We picked up a few bits of mestieaded money to-day. I carelessly left my vest on the horse trough the mon­ ey in the inside pocket hence the result. Is there any way for me to have the mon­ ey replaced? If you can't tell me what to do will you kindly site me to some one who can as I need the money bad and have to work hard to support my family. I anxiously wait your answer." * * * A short time ago a United States Sena­ tor's widow was appointed postmistress in a small town in Minnesota. The place was given1 her to keep her from starving. Less than five years ago she was enter­ taining on a scale as elaborate as the most wealthy people in Washington. She was struggling for position, and was spending her husband's income, and also his sav­ ings. He died suddenly, and she was left destitute, and I have yet to learn that the people who ate her dinners have contrib­ uted to her support. * * * Chief .Justice Fuller rushes business through the Supreme Court more rapidly than any man who ever presided over that body, and there are now sixty-four cases under advisement that have been submitted by briefs and arguments thus far during the present term. That is the reason why an adjournment has been tak­ en for three weeks. It is absolutely nec­ essary for the justices to have time to con­ sider them. * * * In certain Washington sets men are scarce, and competent authority asserts that good-looking young men in the de­ partments, whose salary of $90 a month is quite insuflicient'to enable them to hire carriages and buy flowers, are taken to theaters, receptions and to big dinners by women who pay all the bills for the sake of having escorts. * * * » One hears a variety of pronunciations of the word "Cuba" in Congress. Some of the statesmen pronounce it "Cuby," others "Cubah" and still more "Kooba," while a large number of insurgent sympa­ thizers are in the habit of alluding to the inhabitants of that distracted island as "Coobyans." r i * * * i i Carroll D- Wright, Commissioner bf Labor, has received a personal letter from Samuel Dunham, a statistical expert of the Bureau of Labor, who was sent to the Klondike some months ago, to investigate and report on its industrial possibilities. He reports the situation as very grave; ' • 3 * Ex-Secretary Mortdn, -since, he left the cabinet of President Cleveland,; has'*been spending his time writing poetry and building a handsome little theater called - "The Overland" at Nebraska City, where he has lived for forty-two years. iVv .,. * * * The Vice-President and Mrs. Hobart were among the guests of honor at a ball at the British legation the other night, so that the war for precedence between the Hobarts and Sir Jiuian Pauncefote may be considered over. » * • Secretary Bliss has received and trans­ mitted to Congress a protest adopted by a convention of a number of members of the Seminole tribe of Indians against the ratification of the treaty concluded in De­ cember last. * 3 « The proposed cut in mail deliveries in the larger cities of the East, which was to have become operative on February 1, in order to avert a deficiency in the postal appropriation, did not go into effect at that time. » * * After an unusually prolonged period of extreme tension, all sigiis'point to tin early improvement, if not to a complete solu­ tion of the various international political problems agitating the nerves of Great Britain. * * * A few days ago a letter was received at the Senate postoffice addressed to the "Hon. Zach Chandler." As he has been dead for eighteen years, the letter was handed to Senator Hale, his son-in-law. * * • Senor Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish min­ ister, says that Tuesday was the first day in three years that he has not re­ ceived a cablegram from Cuba or Spain, and he considers it a good,omen. ' Ex-Queen Lilioukalanl is trying to coun­ teract the effect of President Dole's visit by giving a series of receptions. « * * President MeKinley was 55 years old last week. "