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Our Washington Letter Review of Biggest Fleet in American Warships Ever Assembled—Sec ond Only to Channel Squadron of Great Britain—The Public Bur den of Naval Expenditures—The Various Classes of Negroes. WASHINGTON.—It is proposed in Septem ber to have a review of the biggest fleets ot American warships ever assembled. It will take place either in the waters of Long Island Sound or off the coast of Massachusetts and will be wit nessed by President Roosevelt. Before he left Washington Mr. Roosevelt informed Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte that he wished to inspect the Atlantic fleet before it left for the southern drill grounds in the early autumn. The secre tary is now making the preparations to have the big fleet assembled some time in September, and it is probable that in addition to the president the reviewing party will include Secretary Bona parte and Admiral Dewey and several members of the house and senate committees on naval af fairs. The fleet will be assembled under the flag of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans and will be sec ona in power only to me cnannei squauiuu ui formidable fleet in the world. The fleet will embrace 14 first-class battleships which will be divided into four squadrons. In addition there will be a squad ron of four or five first-class armored cruisers, a torpedo flotilla and a num ber of fleet auxiliaries, such as colliers, repair ships, etc. It is expected that five or six new battleships fresh from the yards^ of the contractors will be in this force, including the Georgia, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Virginia, Connecticut and Louisiana. It is probable that the Connec ticut, one of the new 16,000 ton battleships, will be selected as the flagship of the squadron. The total tonnage of the battleships will be something like 180,000 tons and the armored cruiser squadron will represent 55,000 tons, mak ing a grand displacement of about 235,000 tons in the vessels to be reviewed. THE PROPAGANDA OF DISARMAMENT. While preparations are being made for this grand naval display there are some earnest statesmen at work spreading a propaganda of disarmament. Mr. Burton, of Ohio, a forceful member of the house, who was largely instru mental in having postponed the construction of the big 20,000 ton battleship until congress could pass on the plans, is one of the leaders in the movement to put a stop to the building up of the navies of the world. At the coming session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in London Mr. Bur ton expects to exploit a practical plan for dis armament. Mr. Burton proposes if possible to obtain an agreement by the representatives of the various parliaments who will meet in London with the idea that their recommendation will receive con sideration by The Hague conference which fol lows. It is already assured that the disarma mem win De orougnt to tne attention oi tne coming mague conierence. me American delegates will favor it and if necessary will take the initiative in bringing it forward. The new Liberal government of Great Britain has de clared favorably for the proposition and it is understood that England's dele gates will be prepared to support it at. The Hague. Disarmament as a theory has been under general discussion for years. Advocates of peace and arbitrators have laid the blame of failure to accom plish something in this line to the absence of a feasible programme. Even should the proposition be rejected at The Hague it is felt that the discussion of the subject will bring before the world the desirability of putting a check on war. There are indications that France would welcome a proposition to stop building ships, as would also Germany, who will continue to emulate Great Britain as long as that country keeps adding to her navy. Naval expenditures by all these governments, including the United States, are getting to be a public burden, and if an international agreement could be reached to stop preparations for war great relief would be experienced THE WORK OF MR. BURTON, OF OHIO. Mr. Theodore E. Burton, the American statesman, who will advocate disarmament in London and do all he can to further the proposi tion at The Hague, has attracted no little atten tion to himself by his independence and force. He is the chairman of the house committee on rivers and harbors and in that position is a most conspicuous figure before the public because he has had the courage to fight some of the old “pork barrel” schemes in river and harbor appro priations by which money was dumped into shal low creeks and useless bayous merely because congressmen asked for it. He has evolved a new system of river and harbor improvement whereby the most important waterways and har bors shall receive the greatest amount of money. He believes in completing important national projects before taking up those of a more local character. It has often been said that if Mr. Burton were a married man he would be the strongest character In the house. There is a sort of prejudice against bachelors in public life because they seem to be lacking in poise and balance and are apt to be testy and take narrow views of things. Mr. Burton is a man of great brain power and force, but he is a good deal of a crusty old bachelor and as such is not popular. What he accomplishes in congress is by the sheer force of his mentality and logic. It is not because of any personal magnetism or popularity. There are many admirers of Mr. Burton who wish that he would get mar ried because they believe the association with a good woman would so broaden him as to make him one of the most eligible candidates in the country for the presidency. The Ohio statesman, however, has been too busy as a student of great questions and as a worker in his profession to give any thought to mar riage. — ESCAPADES OF A YOUNG CENTRAL AMERICAN. There has been running around loose in this country, creating occasional sensations and giv ing an undesired advertisement to his own coun try, a young man who ought to be one of the most prominent men in his own home. Alphonso Zelaya, who is the son of the president of the Republic of Nicaragua and one of the. heirs to a fortune of 512,000,000, has been making a spec tacle of himself for several months. He was sent by his father to receive a military education at the West Point Military Academy, but found the discipline and curriculum of that institution a little too severe for his southern nature. He made the acquaintance in this city of a Miss Baker, the adopted daughter of a Dr. Baker, and a few months ago married her. The report of his attentions to the young lady had reached his president father in Nicara gua and the latter tried to have him arrested and P^OUBX^ sent oacK nome, Dut Detore his agents could accomplish that purpose young Zelaya and Miss Baker had become man and wife. It was then that the rich Nicaraguan president cast the young man off and would not recognize him un less he gave up his American wife and came home. The honeymoon of the young Zelayas did not last very long and they separated, the wife returning to her foster father in this city. Then the young man got a job playing a piano in a beer garden and earned ten dollars a week. On this slender income the pair reunited, but soon separated again and Zelaya lost his job as a musical “professor.” Then rather than go hungry he stole $20 from a roomate and rather than go naked he stole a 50-cent shirt from a policeman and his troubles seem only to have begun. The escapades of this young Central American have made the society girls in Washington a little shy of foreigners who represent themselves to be of great wealth and to belong to high families. THE NEGRO PROBLEM AT THE CAPITAL. The commercial and social circles of this city and surrounding country are terribly agitated over a proposition to establish a settiement of colored persons in a section that is being built up by white people who are in comfortable cir cumstances. One of the attractive suburbs lying to the northwest of Washington has for some years been patronized by a good class of white people who have spent money in the improve ment of their property and felt comfortable in the fact that their surroundings were all satis factory. Now comes a proposition for the ac quirement of a large section in this fashionable territory which will be nold in lots to negroes Already a large number of lots have been bought < and the white people living near by are in a state of frenzy. The negro problem is as acute in Washing ton. and even more so. as in the smith*.™ ...... and cities. Nearly one-third of the poplation of the capital city is colored and among them is the most undesirable class of negroes. There is a class which, while law abiding in most respects, is very impudent and assertive and wherever possible will “butt in” among the whites. This class is purchasing lots in the suburb mentioned and the old residents who have already erected homes in that neighborhood are sure that their property will losj half its value if this negro settlement is continued. There does not seem to be any relief to those who object to colored neighbors, as the latter have a right to purchase property if they have the price. The better class of negroes in Washington, those who do not wish to associate with the whites, are scattered all over the city. They are not the class that wish to colonize in any particular locality, but go off quietly by themselves and do not intrude on anyone. There 1b another cla. s who have a little money and who try to ape the* fashions and customs of white society and who produce the young men and girls who crowd sidewalks, elbow white nAnnle to the wall or in the gutter, and preempt seats on street oar*. So far there has been no direct outbreak against the aggressive type of negro, but thatte due largel* to the conservative character of the white cKtewaship of W**htagton. It Is not “good form” to get in a row with a negro. MINER LEADER GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE* William D. Haywood, who has been nominated by the socialists for gov ernor of Colorado, is now in Idaho, where he is being held prisoner await ing trial as one of the assassins of ex-Gov. Steunenberg, of that state. Mr. Haywood is the secretary and treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners. The socialists of Colorado threaten to invade Idaho in force if Haywood is elected and attempt to storm the prison where their leader is confined. TRIAL BY COURTS-MARTIAL. Punishment Meted Out Seldom Satis factory to Superiors. “There is an element of luck in court-martial cases," remarked a naval officer to a Washington Star man, “just as there is in criminal cases be fore the civil courts. In one case the punishment depends a good deal on the nature of the cabinet officer in charge and in the other on the char acter of the trial judge. “The point of these remarks lies in the application. A short time ago, while Assistant Secretary Newberry was acting as secretary of the navy, he was called upon to pass on the cases of two young officers convicted by court-martial of violating the naval regulations. In both cases he cen sured the court for the leniency of the punishment inflicted. Since then Secretary Bonaparte has acted on two court-martial cases and in each case he reduced the sentence Imposed by the court Of course, there was a difference in the cases, but the princi ple was the same. Neither official NO LONGER “DARK CONTINENT.” Railroad Construction Is Opening Af rica to Civilization. The great advance which has been made toward a realization of Cecil Rhodes’ daring conception of the cape to Cairo raiload is impressive ly displayed by the recent announce ment that the rail head had reached Broken hill, in British Central Af rica. The length of Africa from north to south along the line of the road is about 4,000 miles. The por tion of the road now in actual opera tion is 2,016 miles long, but the dis tance remaining to be covered is even less than these figures seem to indi cate, for railroad construction is go ing on southwardly from Egypt, and when the line from South Africa pen etrates the Soudan it will make con nections forming a continuous rail route across the continent. It is not many years since Africa was known as the dark continent. The region in which railroad construction is going on is that in which Livingstone la bored, and in which he died in 1873 MACHINE THAT REALLY FLIES. Lincoln Beachy circling the dome of the capitol at Washington, D. C„ June 18. The first time a flying machine has sailed with such significant success in that city. sustained the court-martial. One thought the sentences inadequate and the other official thought the sen tences excessive. So severe was Mr. Newberry in his reprimand to one court-martial that a high naval of ficer said that, as between sitting on a court-martial and being tried by it, he thought he should prefer to risk the punishment meted out to the ac cused.” THEATRICAL BENEFITS OF OLD. Odd Reasons Assigned by Those For Whom They Were Given. Prom very earliest times stage per formances for the benefit of charities have been common. The first benefit for an actress was awarded by James I., who in this manner paid tribute to the art of Elizabeth Barry. Many and quaint are the announce ments of these old-time benefits. All too frequent were such notices as these: “For some distressed actors lately at this theater,” and “For the benefit of a gentleman who has writ ten much for the stage." In the early part of the eighteenth century these notices were more or less confessions of personal insolvency. One actor, for instance, announced a performance for “the benefit of my self and creditors,” and another took the public into his confidence and ar ranged a special night for the “benefit of my poor relations.” Still more con fiding was the young actor who, stat ing that his friends disliked his “be ing on the stage,” organized a bene fit to enable “me to return to my for mer employment.” At that time the idea that the next ! generation would see the locomotive in the heart of Africa would have been regarded as the dream of a madman. PROTEST AGAINST WORD VEST. London Journal Ascribes It to Tyran ny of Tailors. Absent-mindedness could not go much further than it did in the case of the Wandsworth-road landlady’s son, who charged the lodger with stealing his waistcoat, and then dis covered that he had been wearing it all day himself beneath his shirt. By what process did his waistcoat assume this unusual position? Sure ly it was a throw-back to the treat ment of a waistcoat as if it were really the "vest” that tailors persist in calling it. To the ordinary modern man a “vest” means an undergar ment. Yet the tyranny of the tailor prevails even with the dictionaries. They all begin by setting forth that a “vest” was originally an outer gar ment, such as the vest made fash ionable by Charles II. and ridiculed by Louis XIV., who dressed his lack eys in it. According to Pepys, it was a long cassock fitting closely to the body. But the dictionaries go on to say that “vest” now commonly means a waistcoat Among several consulted, only one Qven mentions the really common use, and that is an American dictionary, which observes that in England “undervest" or “vest” means what “undershirt” does in America.— London Chronicle. Swinburne’s Greeting. . Some years ago Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras, and a well-known poet from Chicago went to England together and made a pilgrimage to the home of Swinburne. Arrived at the jealously guarded retreat of the great meterist, they confessed them selves to the poets’ faithful Cerebrus, Mr. Watts Dunton. ' The latter withdrew to break the glad news to Swinburne and the visit ors began to think anxiously of the nice thingB they wanted to Bay. Joa quin took a firm grip of his flowing whiskers, while the Chicago man fin gered nervously a neat roll of MS. in an inside pocket. Soon a door was opened on an upper floor and the rich voice of the author of “Laus VenerlB” floated down the stairway: “Tell Miller to come up. Tell the other man to go to hell.” Hopeless Task. “George.” "Well?” “You ought to try to save money.” “What’s the use? I couldn’t do that when 1 was single.' THE WOMAN WHO WALKFD AT NIGHT BY M. E. M. DAVIS. As Sinclair drew near Mrs. Law son’s bouse, he slackened his some what nervous pace, and halted with an air of indecision. But Mrs. Lawson had caught sight of him from the porch where she sat, with a huge hand bell on her knee, waiting for her boarders to come home for supper. There was a shade of embarrass ment on his handsome face. “Mrs. Lawson,” said Sinclair, with visible effort, “I came by to see if you would take Katharine and myself to board—” “In the name of the blessed Lamb!” ejaculated Mrs. Lawson, staring at him over the gate pickets, “whatever has happened? What do you want to go anywhere and board for? Ain’t the Catalpas—” “It is a wrench to me to leave the old place,” Sinclair interrupted, “and my father will be very lonely now that my mother is dead. But Katharine has set her heart on it, and if you will take us—” “I haven’t a sign of a room left, Alick,” Mrs. Lawson broke in, “except the room on the roof," she added dubiously. “Well, what is the matter with the room on the roof?” demanded Sinclair, whimsically. He threw back his head as he spoke, and screwed his eyes up at the box like structure planted on the roof of the low cottage. “Nothing,” returned Mrs. Lawson, hastily, “nothing at all, except that it is so small. Besides, the stair is like a ladder. Katharine would never—” “All right; I’ll take it at your own price, Mrs. Lawson.” She was very beautiful, the golden haired girl whom Alick Sinclair had brought, a bride, to his father’s house less than two years before. The mys terious malady which developed short ly after her marriage, and which con tinued to baffle her physician, had robbed her cheeks of their color and bloom. But it added an indescribable charm to her delicate face and fragile figure. An unearthly expression dawned into her large blue eyes—a prescient gaze, as if uer vision, like her sense of hearing, had become ab normally acute. Something almost akin to awe filled those around this exquisite young creature at sight of her strange and inexplicable suffer ings. She had, apparently, no bodily ailment. But the slightest irregular sound thrilled her with nervous alarm; her attenuated frame shook with con vulsions at any unexpected appear ance; she paled at a whiff of unaccus tomed perfume. She ate but little, and seemed to have lost the faculty of sleep. Latterly, a morbid distaste for the old Sinclair homestead had pos sessed her. She breathed with diffi culty within its lofty walls; she was oppressed by the atmosphere of its shadowy garden. The same night saw them installed in Mrs. Lawson’s room on the roof. The room was small. A four-posted, mahogany bedstead, with balduchin and side steps, occupied at least one quarter of the floor space. Sinclair, seated on the side of the bed, smiled as he compared this cramped rookery with his wife’s ample dressing-room at the Catalpas. But he felt an unwonted lightness of spir it. He could see the reflection of Katharine’s face in the mirror oppo site. She stood with her back to hint, brushing out her long hair. There was a look of content on her white brow; he even fancied a touch of color in her lips; her golden hair seemed to have regained somewhat of its lost luster. “She was right,” he thought; “the change has already helped her.” He watched with delight the rhyth mic motion of her slender arms. Meanwhile he chatted gayly of his boyhood days, and the recolle aroused by Mrs. Lawson's mother';.' gossip. Katharine listened, turning from time to time with a nod or a smile. He stopped abruptly, staring con fusedly into space. He passed n.3 hand across his forehead and contin ued his story. But the words were ut tered mechanically. Was there_he was asking himself—was there some thing moving between Katharine and himself? Something faint and shad owy?—cloudlike? misty? Yes! No. He shut his eyelids tightly and opened them again. Yes! He could see it plainly now, the gray-clad figure of a woman with head drooped to her breast and arms hanging at her side. “My God!” he groaned, inwardly, “now Katharine will turn around! She will see it! The shock will kill her! She will die! She will drop dead before my eyes!” “Katharine! ’ the words burst invol untarily from his lips. He sprang for ward with outstretched arms. “Did you speak. Alick?” asked his wife, looking over her shoulder. "Yes—no—that is, —” he stam mered, a cold sweat beading his fore head. The visitor had resumed her ghostly walk. “Dear Alick,” said Katharine, ca ressingly, I know you must be tired. I will be ready for bed in one mo ment.” “She sees nothing! She hears noth ing! Oh, thank God!” thought Sin clair, turning his hot eyes from the white-robed figure kneeling in prayer by the bedside to the gray-clad shadow moving up and down the room. Katharine nestled like a tired child among the pillows and fell instantly asleep. Her husband hung over her in an agony of amazement and incredul ity. Could it really be that she was sleeping? Was she not rather dead? Her regular breathing, the smile on her slightly parted lips, the soft aban donment of her limbs, reassured him. Yet, how strange! How long since she had slept thus! “Thank God!” he breathed again, drawing the lace net ting over her. Then it came nearer, steadily near er. He saw behind the veil a pair of dark, sad eyes. A chill sensation quivered along his veins. He struck out savagely—at nothing. He was awakened by hearing Mrs. Lawson moving about in the hall be low. He arose softly and descended the stair. “Mrs. Lawson,” he demanded, ab ruptly, laying his hand on her shoul der, “is there anything—has anything ever been said about the room on the roof?” “Don’t say a word, Alick,” she in terrupted in an awe-struck whisper. “I can see it in your face. She hasn’t walked before, not that I know of, since my mother saw her, and that HE STRUCK OUT SAVAGELY-AT NOTHING. was before you were born. I’ve never seen her myself. I never dreamed that she was walking yet. Lord, what have I done? I didn’t want to put you there. Poor Katharine—” “Don’t worry, Mrs. Lawson,” he said, kindly. “Katharine has seen nothing as yet; but I have.” He smiled grimly, yet with a certain sense of relief. “At least,” he though:, “it is not quite madness. What does it mean;” he asked aloud. “Who was it—she?” “They say,” returned Mrs. Lawson, still speaking in a whisper, “that old Squire Lawson, my husband’s grand father, had that room built as a sort of jail for his young wiie, who went out of her mind, poor thing, and no wonder, for lue squire was a terrible old man! He took her baby from her and shut her up in that room and kept her there by herself until she pined and died. That was before you were born.” Mrs. Lawson was sobbing and wringing her hands. “You must take Katharine Sinclair away before she sees her. It would kill her. But don t say anything about it outside, Alick. My boarders would all leave me. I would be ruined.” Sinclair soothed the excited old woman into quiet. Then he remount ed the stair. Katharine, in her white dressing gown, met him on the land ing. “I missed you when I awoke, Alick, dear,” she said. Where were you?” “Katharine,” he began with studied carelessness, “I find this room very small; don’t you? And Mrs. Lawson is well-meaning, but she i3 tiresome, good soul! I think I will look up more comfortable quarters during the day. Can you be ready to leave here this afternoon?” She plac'd her hands upon his shoulders and held him at arm s length for a moment without speak ing. Her eyes were nrimming with mischief; a smile danced about her red lips. “Alick,” she said, “I know why you wish to go away. You are afraid of the woman who walked here last night. Did you think I had not seen her?” Sinclair’s jaw dropped. He stared at her with an amazement which was almost ludicrous. But before he had recovered himself sufficiently to speak Mrs. Lawson came panting up the stair and thrust a pallid face in at the door. The house was on fire! In an in credibly short time the old wooden building was laid in ashes. Sinclair and his wife returned to the Catalpas. It was Katharine who in sisted, with a sort of gay perverseness,’ upon this. But even as they passed under the arched gateway the myste rious gloom fell back upon her. Sin clair, now almost as morbid as herself, could have sworn that he saw its descent in visible form. Her hair on the instant became dull and lifeless; her cheeks fell hollow; the red on her lips changed to a gray palior. A moth fluttered against her boson. She fled, palpitating with terror, across the old garden. Sinclair stood, hardly a month later, looking down on his wife’s upturned face. Once more she slept profoundly. A mocking-bird whistled in a catalpas tree by an open window. The stricken man frowned and lifted instinctively a warning hand, but dropped it, re membering. “What did it all mean?” he ques tioned, stooping to the face on ii;s coffin-pillow. The dead lips smileu, but withheld the response. (Copyright, 1906 by Joseph B. Bowles.) A Denver dispatch tells of the death of the “original Dead wood Dick,” and certainly no one is going to question the intrepid Richard’s originality. SNAKES LIKE PARACHUTES. The flying frogs of the Malays ap pear to be mythical, but three tree snakes of Borneo, lately described to the London Zoological society by Mr. R. Shelford, are credited with taking flying leaps from the boughs of trees to the ground. It is found that scales on the lower part of the body may be drawn inward so that the whole lower surface becomes concave. The re sistance to the air is thus greatly in creased, and experiments indicate that the snakes do not rail in writhing coils, but are let down gently in a di rect line by the parachute-like action of their peculiar bodies. By Another Name. A London florist found that a new and fine rambler rose did not sell well under the name of the “Amelia Jenk ins," so he changed the name to the "Lady Gay." Now it is going like hot cakes » ODD USES FOR ONIONS. A Small Quantity Not Hard to Dig eat and Will Induce Sleep—Fine for Poultice. “The onion is not half appreciated.'" remarks a southern housekeeper, an reported in the New York World. This humble bulb can be used for so many different dishes and in so many different ways that one often forgets its many excellent remediu qualities. Onions are an excellent cure for sleeplessness. They act as a kind o: soporific if taken in small quanti'i -s before retiring. They will be four.! to be more appetizing if finely ehop:**d up and laid between two thin wafe~> or biscuits. Eaten in this way tae;. are also easily digested. The reaa c so many people complain of onion disagreeing with them :s that the., eat too much of the homely vegetable. Onions are not intended to be eat -• en masse. When they are taken raw they should be thoroughly mastica e t. or, better still, the juice of the on: : should be pressed out and taken on bread or as a sauce. In this form the onion is splend for liver complaints and acts in o r sequence as a purifier for a dark ar. muddy complexion. An onion poultice will extract th* pain and heat from a scald or burn To make this poultice take a certa:: quantity of onions and crush ther: and lay between cheesecloth and ply to the burn. Onion syrup made in the following manner will relieve the congestion ir cases of croup. Cut several raw onions into slices, sprinkle the slic with granulated sugar and squeer-* out the juice. The dose is a teaspco:. ful every 15 minutes until relief is obtained. This syrup is also muc r used in cases of bronchitis. A good cook uses onions almost . freely as she does salt. But the onion is always disguised, or. rather it is merely the juice, and not the pulp, that is tasted. Sugar peas are very much improved by boiling a young onion with them, and the past} taste vanishes from macaroni if a couple of onions are placed In the water in which it is cooked Fren<!: people take a piece of onion and it inside the salad dish before dr**.- - ing the salad. This gives an imper ceptihle flavor of onions that gives : offense. THINGS TO KNOW. TO DARKEN BROWN BOOTS — Rub all over with a piece of cl- »• white flannel wetted with ammor. i Give two applications and then po. - with the usual brown polish. FOR THE COOK.—When weighir.s: treacle for cooking purposes, well tl the scale first, and the treacle will - ;r off quite easily, leaving no stickines behind. WHEN WASHING SILK STOCK INGS.—Either colored or black. ne« use soap; warm bran water should •* used, and the stockings should squeezed or run through the wring • and dried in the shade. A GOOD CEMENT FOR GLASS.— Can be made in the following » i;. Melt a little isinglass in spirits of wi: and add a small quantity of water, warm the mixture over the Are; wh thoroughly mixed and melted it w*: form an almost transparent glue, an will join glass almost invisibly. TO BRIGHTEN COPPERWARF. — Sprinkle a little crushed borax on < flannel cloth that has been wetted n hot water and well soaped. This brighten the copper like magic. Ria - and polish.—Chicago Tribune. THE LATEST LAUNDRY BAG It Is Made of White Material in Pref erence to Colored—May Be Laundered Often. ■. .— The very newest laundry bags are of white linen; or. if one cann >: af ford this material, cannon cloth ma- ■ an excellent substitute, suggests a c« tributor to the Chicago Inter Ocean possessing, as it does, the wear::. , properties and appearance of the ini • without its expensive feature, ornamentation of the bag consists nt the word laundry in large and attm tive lettering, placed diagonally a>-r, - one side of the bag. and embroide in wash silk or cotton floss. The edg • of the bag are neatly mac line stitct - then feather-stitched by hand. «-:i ■ ing two inches from the top throng which is run a tape or ribbon at: the finishing touch. The chief virtu * of these white bags over the ti u honored ones of cretonne and sim : i material lies in the fact that they may be laundered as often as lesirabie. yet retain their pristine freshness. Tfc« size of the bag, as a mat .er of course depends wholly upon the demands t c be made upon it. Potted Flowers on the Table. It is told that Helen Gould dyes not favor cut flowers for table de rations. but prefers flowers growing in pots, that stand erect in their own earth, stately, fresh and fragrant, *ij - a writer in the Famer's Voice Roses growing in small pots, and tie baby primrose are among her favorite decorations. In her dining-room ;h has a large screen completely cove-ed with the dark, glossy foliage of -the English ivy. He Got a Pig. A man’s corpse was deli re red to Wil liam Archer, of Cromwe 1, Ind.. who went to the express offire to get a prize pig which he had purchaf-ei archer refused to accept the coffin ind inquiry developed that the late s on the pig’s box and the coffln had become exchanged. Archer got his pis on the next train, and it is presumed .hat the corpse was delivered at the proper place. Chicken Patties. Chop meat of cold chicken coarse ly and season well. Make large cap of drawn butter, and while on Hr® stir in two eggs, boiled hard, minced very fine, also a little chopped pars ley, then chicken meat. Let almost boil. Have ready some patty she lls of good paste, baked quickly to lijtbt brown. Fill with mixture and set la oven to heat Arrange ujion dish sad serve hot Soda Instead of Soap. If soda is used in dishwuter, no
