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We refer here to the Postmaster, the 8o.pt. of Money Order Div., and to officials of the U. S. Patent Office. For circular), advice, term and efereocee to actual client in your own State or county, write to Opposite Patent Office, WaehingtonTDrC WESTERN COTTAGE ORGAN "Fj taiA-a-AMjMP THE DRESSING ROOMS. N ACTRESS SPEAKS POINTEDLY OF A GREAT GRIEVANCE. Accommodations Out of Town That Are Disgrace to Managers Experience In a Ien Infested With Villainous Cock roacheA NuUance. Tho radiant adolescent was talking to the sunny haired actress, or rather was drawing her out and doing tho listening. Hewosono of t!ioe little, stagey men who blink and look wLo when thoy know nothing about the sub-JL-ct in hand, and who maintain an appear ance of blandly stolid imbecility when their miud is not quite a blank. "And so they treat you so badly behind the scenes f he said smoothly, as the sunny haired acta ess tried to clean a pink satin slipper with ammonia and then made a wry face because the pungent chemical "went up her nose" ruthlessly. "I wouldn't stand it, by Jove, not for a minute," "OntycTou. would," said the httle lady, making another ammonia dab; "you'd stand a great deal more than I do; you'd jump if you got the chance, ha! ha! You see, we all expect too much. Now, before I went upon tho stage I used to imagine that each evening I should bo shown to a dainty little dressing room, richly carpeted, handsomely furnished, lie-looking glassed, be-cbuired and be-sofa'd. I waVidiotic enough to suppose that the man agement would supply a wardrobe in which I could keep my dresses, my properties and everything to which I laid claim. Instead of all this oh, my heart sinks when I remember it" "You don't mean to say that you don't get decent places to dross and undress inf" asked tlw radiant adolescent, possessing himself of a pink slipper and standing it on its little big heeL IS THE OUT TOWNS. "Listen," she said tragically, striking an attitude like the favorite iose of Fanny Dav enport in "Fedora." "I'm not going to tell 3-ou anything about New York dressing rooms, because well, I don't know very much about them, and my engagements ahem! call mo principally U tho provinces, but 1 can tell you all about the accommoda tions out of town. They are simply villain ous. They are a disgrace to the managers of theatres. Now, in one town I visited I won't mention names I was shown my dress ing rcom by the manager himself, who told me Le thought it such an improvement on the general run of dressing rooms. It was a uooden liox, not as large as one of the bathing rooms at the Battery baths. On one of the walls was a piece of cracked mirror, which made my poor nose look as though it were cut up into sections, and gave me a ghastly tint which no amount of rouge would remove. There were chinks everywhere, and if there had been one of those peeping Toms, ono of whom frightened Mrs. Langtry so much at Birmingham, I grieved to think of the predicament I should have been in. Was it cold Well, I should say it was. That night I shivered in my poor lit tlo slippers those very pink satin ones. I came to the theatre from a hot dining room, iu the full process of digesting my rejiast. You can imagine with what danger to my health I was forced to undress, put 011 a low bodice, and stand with trembling shoulders while I rouged myself, gloved myself, and concluded myself. If my constitution hadn't become accustomed to such exposure I should have died. I'm going to tell you more terrible things. At ono theatro I went to, I was positively shown to a dressing room without a door not a vestige of one. If I chose to dress in it, I must do so in spite of the stage carpenters and men of all work who passed and repassed"' "But you didn't choose, I trustf "No, I thought it best not to do so. I de clined to divest myself of a stitch until a tem porary door of some kind or other had been rigged up for ine. Of course the men of all work were most unwilling to help me, so I kept every one waiting by first hunting for a bhect, nailing it carefully where the door should have been, and then, dressing. Next day I found a door a brand new thing, but still a door, and though it had no lock, I was very thankful for it AX IXFESTED DEN. "While I was still new to the business," continued the sunny haired actress, sitting down by the radiant adolescent, "I had to play the part of a bride in a little far away p'.aco with one theatre a grand opera house, of course, where grand opera never could, would or should be heard. I had a magnifi cent white satm dress, on which I prided my self extremely. I caused it to be9enttothe theatre to my dressing room to await mo therein the evening. I went early. I may say that I was feeling very nervous and un strung, and when feel like that simpering everything upsets me. Well, the evening came. I was shown to my dressing room. Such a place! Such a vile, cold, contempti ble, bare den! I was undressed and was just taking up my white bridal robe to put on, when to my disgust, my horror, my loathing, I saw insects crawling over it. I uttered a shriek, dropped it, and I think I fainted. Anyway I don't remember how two of my colleagues got Into my room, but there they were. My den was literally infested as with a plague. There were cockroaches in all di rectionscockroaches to right, cockroaches to left the most disgusting, "persistent, con tinuous stream of the to me terrible little insects. What could I do! I had either to put my dress on or disappoint the audience and relinquish my salary- I put my dress on. I went shudderingly through my part, but my cockroaches kept making mo a mental visit, and when the critics next morning said that I seemed to be playing with a preoccupied mind I think they were tolerably correct in their surmises. "In a very great many theatres," she went on, "you find the walls of your dressing room if you can dignify them by the name of walls covered with legends which somo playful predecessor iu a fit of abstraction has left to immortality. They are mostly excla mations, and though thoy are biblical they are not elegant. You get weary of 'Jumping Jehosaphat' and 'Holy Moses, when you see them at intervals of half an inch where your wall paper ought to be. I tell you that the dressing room nuisance is one of the biggest nuisances of the day to us. We stand not the least chance of having their condition ameliorated. We are in the hands of tho managers. They can do as they like with us. Our grievances can never be ventilated, as no one is sufficiently interested in us to help us. People only care for what they can see. They know that we always, or generally, look nice, and it is a matter of complete indiffer ence to the general public by what means we look nice, in many respects ours is a thank less profession there's no doubt about that." And the radiant adolescent, looking .up in her face, did not dare to express a doubt, and as bis face was a gentle blank on all occa sions he had no difficulty in appearing pleas ingly vacuous. New York Times Interview. A FREE LUNCH SALOON. PatroBs of the Institution Briefly De scribed Edibles Given Away. A dozen men who had the appearance of "galley" slaves sat at tables in the saloon, at whose door hung a white oil cloth sign an nouncing "Chicken stew to-day. r A similar sign at tho side of the door began, "Free lunch from 12 to 2 o'clock," and went on to specify the roast beef, Frankfurt sausage and other delicacies that were on tap inside. "Do many peoplo lunch here regularlyf"' was asked the bartender. "A great many workingmen, like those you see at the tables, patronize us," he said. "They get with a glass of beer for five cents a bowl of soup and bread that would cost from ten to fifteen cents in a restaurant. Then there is a table near the door with more sub- stantisl edibles; so they get a good meal very cheap, it's a mlstate to tninc tnoc onij tramps and loafers eat free lunches. A num ber of lawyers who live in outlying districts or the suburbs come in here for a bite during tho day. Many clerks save their money by patronizing us." "Do any respectable persons live on freo lunches entirely" "A few who are out of work or in hard lines do. A teacher of German on the north side has lived on free lunches all winter, ilis wages were garnisheed, and he didn't know enough about law to protect his rights. Ho does a little outside work occasionally, and makes enough to buy three or four glasses of beer a day. With each glass he eats a hearty meaL "A man who once figured on the board of trade and made $1,000 a month does nearly all his eating at free lunch tables. He lost his money and his nerve on tho same corner. A great many men out of work, men who havo been used to better fare, would bo objects of public charity or 6tarve if the saloon lunches were not within easy reach. We ueyer refuse a decent looking man who looks hungry, but fire out tramps and loafer; when thoy move on our layout Free lunche arc not charitable arrangements, butJtUey. J are often a tneeBMVJssfsnJr worthy peoplc:,' In one down town saloon, where an extra quality of soup is served, the crowds at noon time can scarcely be accommodated. Often the tables are all filled and the patrons stand a: omul tho room with a bowl in one hand and a spoon in the other. A whole leg of beef is boiled up in a huso caldron. The soup costs the proprietor $20 a day, but he makes a dear profit of $20 on each day's sales of extra beer consumed. Saloon keepers know that a light lunch neutralizes the effects of many drinks, and the capacity of the drinkers is, as it were, enlarged by the lunches. Poli ticians who fix up tickets, gossipcrs who have nowhere else to loaf and men who are out for a time are liberal patrons of the lunch stands. Chicago News. THE ODIOUSNESS OF TROUSERS. They Ueveal Inequality of Wealth A Plea for Knee Breeches. No article of clothing more distinctly re veals the condition of a man's purse than the trousers. The fraying at the lower edge of the leg, which is sure to come with much wear, is generally taken as a sign of very nar row means, and the bagging at the kneo, which is also inevitable, besides producing a foundered appearance, like that of a horse which is "gone" in the forelegs, is a sign that a man has only one or two pairs. It is as sumed by the world generally that nobody would wear trousers bagged at the knee, with nil the term applies, if ho could afford the number of changes necessary to prevent this phenomenon. In fact, almost tho only marked difference remaining in our day be tweeii the clothes of a man of fortune and leisure and those of a toiler of moderate means lies in the straightness and smooth ness which mark the trousers legs of the former. His wardrobe always contains a great many pairs. At any theatre, too, the makeup of a fwor teacher or literary man, or poor devil of any kind, includes invariably a pair of baggy trousers. And though last not least, the condition of the trousers in muddy weather is something which it is painful to dwell on, the conver sion of an inch or two of the bottom into a wet and filthv tiand is only preventable by turning them up, and w all know how this looks. An effort has recently been made to meet tho struggles of ineii of few trousers to escape the bagging at tho knee by an inven tion of a machine called "tho trousers stretcher." which is literally a metal rack ou which offending trousers are stretched over night, mid the deformity effaced by a power ful tension in the direction of their length. It may, thereforo, be said that on the whole the knee breeches were the more democratic of the two. They undergo no degeneration in wear, except what comes from tho actual de struction of the cloth. They reveal nothing as to the condition of a man's wardrobe until they reach their last stage. They always look neat and tidy, and do not come in con tact with the mud, leaving that to bo en countered by a boot or stocking which can be readily changed. But they are in summer a hot garment, owing to their fitting so closely around the knee a defect, however, which is perhaps compensated by the possi bility, without damage to appearance, of making them very loose. They are, too, now making a gallant effort to regain their old supremacy and oust the trousers. They havo made conquests of most of the sporting men and athletes, and have made considerable gains in the continental armies. The Turks, who abandoned them under, Mahmoud, the reformer, for tho (on them) hideous trousers, havo gone back to the breeches. Some faint attempts have beeu made to introduce them again into evening dress, but these have failed, owinir in Dart to the light and frivolous character of those who i have made them. If undertaken in a serious ! spirit by any of the crowned heads, or by great warriors and statesmen, or in this coun try by great railroad men or tock operators the enterprise would probably succeed, New York Post How G. IV. Cable Commenced. "What kind of work did I do on The Pica yune? That's a question, and there is where the trouble came in. There was no such thing as a division of labor in those days, and each man had to do anything and everything that might turn up. I had stipulated at first not to do certain kind of reporting, and this didn't please the old man very well. It was one of his rules that each man should do whatever was required of him, and I became rather in the way. Thpn I wanted to be al ways writing, and they wanted me to be always reporting. This didn't work well, and so when the sununer came on, and they began to reduce expenses, it was intimated that my resignation would be accepted. I vowed that I would never have anything to do with a newspaper again, and I went back to book keeping. I was in a large cotton house, and I kept their accounts for a while, until I finally offered to take entire charge of the counting room at so much salary per year, and hire what assistance I wanted. This suited the firm as well an it did me, and be gan to do more and more literary labor. Finally I employed a cashier, and all day 1 would write at my aesk, only being consulted by him on important matters. I was making a liegiuning then. I first carried on a weekly column in The Picayune, but it wasn't very pleasant to work for a naper managed by a lourd of directors, and at last I quit it This writing of trifles after a while grew weari some, and I resolved to put it into stories. But it was not until six years ago that I abandoned mercantile pursuits entirely for a purely literary life. I drifted into it in the most natural way in the world, and I wouldn't abandon it now for all the fortune that could be made elsewhere," Q. W. Cable in New Orleans Picayune. A Safe Blower's Methods. One of the cleverest safe blowers in the country is in the employ of a safe manufact urer in this town. He has served time after time in the penitentiary The ease with which burglars get away with safes shows con clusively that some man situated like this ex convict furnishes tnem with information con cerning the newest locks and improvements, so that they are able to demolish the front of a safe by boring a single holo through a cer tain place in the door and exploding it with dynamite. Chicago Herald. Commodore Vanderbllt's Clairvoyant. The late Commodore Vanderbilt was one of the strongest men we ever knew, and yet he labored under the delusion that a clairvoyant whom be had onco met was able to tell from a mere inspection of a lock of hair the trouble that the owner of the hair suffered from. We repeatedly beard him avow bis belief in this clairvoyant, and knew him once to send a member of congress to her for treatment New York Ledger. OLD CURIOSITY SHOP.' A PLACE FULL OF STRANGE AND VALUABLE ARTICLES. Tainting Worth a Fortune Alexander Hamilton's Dueling ristols A South erner's Mistake A Package of Dia monds Story of a Photograph. uYes, I have received many curious mid antique articles since I began business thirty five years ago," said Robert Taggart to a re porter tho other day. Mr. Taggart is a pio neer in the storage business and his establish ment is filled with old objects, each of which has on interesting history. "Now, among a vast collection of fine paint ings which I got in the course of busi ness," continued Mr. Taggart, "are two which I have been told time and again are originals by Rubens. One represents tho adoration of the Saviour in tho stable of Bethlehem. Tho subject of the other I do not know, as I have never met any one who could tclrine. There is on inscription on this picture iu one of the dead languages, I be hove, because I have never been ablo to find any one learned enough to translate it Tho picture represents a queen on a magnificent throne giving orders apparently to some of the royal guards." "How did you become possessed of the pictures " asked tho reporter. "The day tho first gun was fired at Fort Sumter a gentleman who was very well known here then and hated equally as well for his avowed sympathy with tho southern cause came into my place and told me ho in tended going south and aiding tho Confeder ates with his money and every way else ho could. He asked me to take his household furniture ou storage, "You won't have to keep them long," he said. "The south will win sure, and I'll re turn to New York, for I can't live anywhere else.' NEVER CALLED VOB. "I took his furniture, but it has never leen called for. Ho raised a regiment south and fell at Bull Hun with his two sons at his side. Ho had no near relatives to mourn his loss and so I havo his furniture stilL The Rubensen were among his chattels aud also a picture of Murillo, for which I had I kxjii offered $30,000, There is practically no price ou the Rubonses. Besides tiioso pictures mentioned 1 havo as fine a gallery of iiaintings as any connoisseur would wish to look at I havo always beeu fond of pictures and never tried to dispose of any of them, although somo of them would bring fabulous prices." Among other articles which Mr. Taggart showed to the reporter was a pair of beauti ful dueling pistols inlaid with solid gold and silver, which are the ones, Mr. Taggart says, used by Alexander Hamilton in his deadly encounter with Burr on the Elysian fields, where Weehawkeu is now growing up. Tho pistols were once owned by Gen. Grant, but they passed from him to another branch of the family, aud finally came into the posses sion of a Broadway jeweler, who is unfor tunately addicted to drink. During one of his periodical sprees he placed the pistols, with somo other property, on storago with Mr. Taggart in order to raLte money enough to continue his debauch. He never called for the weapons and tho man's wife wants them sold, as she says she hates to see them lying around the house when her husband is on u spree. " About two months ago," said Mr. Tag gart, "a well dressed middle aged man came into my place and, handing me a small chamois bag, asked me how much I would ask to keep it for him for a day or two with out examining the contents. 'Twenty-five cents,' I replied. AN OUTRAGEOUS PRICE. "Well, sir, tho fellow kicked like a mule. He swore he wouldn't pay such an outrageous price, and finally beat me down to twenty cents for two days. Next day a detective from the Central office came in looking for such a bag, and told me the fellow who had left it with mo was a famous western crook and that he had him locked up in the Tombs. I 'went down there with the bag, which was opened iu presence of the judge and found to contain diamonds valued at nearly $100,000. It surprised me that a man wishing and think ing ho could safely conceal such a plunder would kick about tho cost, especially when you consider the little I asked him. "Oh, this is the saddest thing I ever recol lect," continued Mr. Taggart, as he showed the reporter a photograph of a laugh iug, fresh faced, curly haired girL "She came into my place one day about two years ago and put a few little effects in storage. Next morning she jumped from a ferryboat into the North river. When her body was recovered my re ceipt for her furniture was all that was found on her. I buried her and then proceeded to trace her history. It was the old story. She was the darling daughter of a curate in a little country town in the north of the state. A city stranger met and wooed her secretly and she finally consented to elope with him. When thoy came to this city be deceived her further by a mock marriage, and when he finally deserted her she found out that he was a gambler. Then she determined to kill herself. Her sad aid, which I could not help telling her father and mother, broke tboir poor old hearts and they soon followed her to tho other world." Among many other curious things which Mr. Taggart has ore skeletons, coffins, grand fathers' clocks, horses, sheep, cows, in fact all kinds of anneals and fowl, and as a curiosity shop in every respect his plav cannot be beaten. New York Journal Interview. Few Know What They Drink. "It is a fact," said a somewhat famous mixer of fancy drinks last evening, "that thero are very few good judges of liquor. It is a very old chestnut to set out whisky when brandy is called for, and not one in ten can tell the difference, I havo often been told by a customer that he had never tasted finer brandy when ho was drinking a very ordi nary whisky. There are few jieople who can distinguish between high and low priced wines. I remember nearly splitting my sides once luughing at a man who was ordering champagne. He was drinking Werner's American extra dry, mid told his friend how be once drank it with M. Werner in Paris. He thought it was tho highest priced French wine until he found out tliat it was costing him only a dollar a bottle. Then he wilted. "Even manufacturers are sold. Once at a convention of tho beer brewers of the coun try I beard a brewer boast that he could name any kind of beer with his eyes blinded. We tried him, and when the handkerchief was over his eyes we gave him nino sips out of the samo glass and beard him name nine different brands. That was very good sport As a matter of fact, this telling liquors by the taste is very delicate business. By mod ern processes distillers can age liquors so as to fool even tho old timers. Tho worst case I ever struck was a fisherman who rowed me down the river lost summer. I offered him a swig out of a bottle containing very lino whisky. He returned it, saying it was poor stuff. I banded him a.bottle containing somo 'rot gut' I used to clean my gun. He took a long pull, and said it was as good liquor as ho ever tasted. Buffalo Courier. HANDSOME MRS. KATE CHASE. Pa Picture of the Lady who Baled Washington Society Fifteen Tears Ago. Some days ago an afternoon reception was given by the wife and daughters of Mr. A. B. Mullett, formerly supervising architect of the treasury. Among the ladies receiving with the hostess was Mrs. Kate Chase, as she now calls herself the once famous and al ways beautiful Kitty Chase. It was the first time she had appeared at any social gathering in Washington for many years, and this woman, who fifteen years ago ruled Wash ington society as it never was ruled before or since, was not personally known to oner fourth of the guests present Beside her stooC her daughter Ethel a slim, indefinite kind of a girl, possibly to be pretty, but nover to be as handsome as her mother. As for Mrs. Kate Chase, her beauty is of that noble sort that ago cannot wither nor custom stale. Besides, she is a woman who has passed through great storms without lot; ting them agitato her unduly. She is novv nearly 45 years old, but she looks ten yearfc younger. She has lost the first brilliancy.of her youthful complexion, but sho can't help being superb and distinguished. In tho day of her power she was intensely feared and ad mired, but never inspired or seemed to try to inspire affection, so that tho animosj&y she awkakeued on tho part of those who w her for tho first time in many years assisting at a party was of a critical kind. No doubt this suited her quite as well, because pity is something sho always disdained. Shu u no longer rich, and inherits Chief Justice Chase's financial inabilities in a marked degree, .Tho sum of what she has now is the small competence left by her father, who lived and died a poor man. Whatever claim sho has upon Canonchct is worth nothing now, and this woman who could order twenty two gowns with all accessories from Paris not many years ago, an3T"repeai"the order whenever she felt like it, appeared the other day in the simplest kind of a black costume. But it Mas nevertheless elegant and appro priate, because it couldn't be anything else with Kitty Chase as its wearer. She always had a ierfect genius for clothes, and her striking beauty gained effect from the style in which sho dressed. Washington Letter. A Young Indian's Self Torture. Muzzab, a promising young Sioux Indian, who is one of Buffalo Bill's attractions, re ceived word tho other morning of tho death of his brother at Pine Ridge agency, Dakota, aud he began to mourn his loss in true Indian fashion. He first uttered a prolonged series of yells, shrieks and groaus that brought all tho police in tho neighborhood to tho garden and aroused all tho inmates of that extensive structure who were taking a morning sleep. Thoy all know what tho matter was and only the uninitiated in Indian customs gathered u round him to watch the proceedings. As the fervor of his grief increased he drew his long bowie knife from its sheath and began slash ing his bared breast, arms mid legs with it While tho blood from half a dozen wounds was coursing down his body and forming red pools at bis feet, he sat down and with tho same bloody weapon liegoh whittling out wooden pins about the thickness and length of a lead pencil, which he sharpened to a point During tho tinio that it took him to manufacture a half a dozen of these he kept up the loud, dismal howling, expanding in volume as tho pain increased and the iools of blood grew larger. When tho skowers wero ready he caught tho Meshy part of ono leg between the thumb and the fingers of the left hand and drove tho wooden pin into the flesh until the pin pro truded. He did tho sauio to each limb, mid also drovo a pin through cither choek. These he allowed to remain for two hours, during which time nono dared to speak to him or at tempt to interfere. Among the Indians it is on pain of instant death that one Indian speaks to another who is in "mourning" until after tho third day. After the Indian drew out the pins he rolled himself from head to foot in his blanket and crawled into ono of the mangers, where ho lay all day without food or drink, moaning and groaning and occasionally breaking out into wild shrieks as he thought of his loss. The blood stained wooden pins were exhibited to many visitor. to the garden, and thero were many applica tions for them to be kept as mementoes. 'New York Tribune, A Lady Ilailroad Stenographer Talk. I havo often thought that the humdrum life of a stenographer had a tendency to break down and eventually drive out altogether tho imaginative mid poetical in one's nature mid make lifo practical in all its details. The murmurings of poesy on moonlight, violets, memories and hope, grate harshly against tho whisperings of tho chief clerk ou subject of drain tile and the tariff rate on wheat in car loads, with the result of giving tho poem a dry flavor, savoring of owner's risk with a rebate. Leisure hours cannot be devoted to poetry, because thought must be concentrated upon rate quotations, billing directions, un stamped tickets, while ono's dreams are filled not with the beautiful, but with mocking ghosts of rates, tariffs and waybills. Inspiration may como at times, but so cer tainly will also come tho rate clerk with tho request to make a, hektograph copy of a lot of per cent sheets, dreadful things with strings of figures, not nice, even figures, but with lots of fractions to them which must not be J mi xls 1 up with the various other per cents. Most of 1113 working hours are spent in arail- road office, mid I have almost given up my poetical dreams to look after shipments of water pipes, stovo castings, potatoes, butter, furniture, hams, hides, stoves, oil cakes, lumber, beer, eggs, live stock, patent medi cine, etc. Globe-Democrat A Case of Necessity. One expects a certain amount of "guff" in newspapers. A particular class of writers de light to strike false chords of sentiment aud gush. Here's an incident I witucs&ed myself , which has tho merit of truth. I was coming back from Jersey City. Tho ferry boat was about to enter the flip, when a uinn near tho forward door of the smoking cabin got up 1 aud said: -Mates, I'm a workingmon, like the rest of yez. I've got a wife mid three children home to-day, starving. I'll grub for a living, do anything an honest man can, but I wont ye to help me now to tide me over the night" Several voices exclaimed, uShut up; sit down; we've heard that before." The man kept his feet and faced tho crowd as it poured through tho door. There was nothing of the professional beggar about him, ho looked liko what he undoubtedly was a striking coal handler. I saw one passenger give him a silver dollar. Many others gavo up smaller coins. I lingered behind and heard a gentle man tako down the fellow's nameaud address mid offer him work; then the leggar was left alonu in the cabin. I know tho world and was suspicious. I went Imck awl looked into tho cabin window, cxecting to see the "workingnian" counting out his money and prciaring for a raid ou tho next loat load. Tho poor fellow was down on his knees before a seat, with his head buried in his hands, sobbing like a child. I felt particularly small mid sneaked olf the boat. The moral of this is: Don't necessarily blackguard a man because he is compelled to strike. New York Star. The Chestnut Bell Outdone. The inventor of the chestnut bell was !e fore the patent office yesterday endeavoring, to patent an improvement on his previous atrocious invention. Tho improvement con sists of an attachment, which will probably givo a new lease of life to the now obsolete chestnut bell. Tho new devico consists of an elastic band connected with the Ijell, but fas tened to tho other side of the waistcoat When the bell is struck a miniature rat runs across tho breast of the wearer and stops in full view of the victim. To make it more effective, tho word "rats" in white letters on a black background h inscribed on the rat Tho inventor wanted a patent that would cover not only the device, but tho word "rats" also, his idea being to prevent any infringement on this expression. After due deliberation the examiner decided that so necessary a word as "rats" was not patentable and declined to grant tho monopoly to the enterprising inventor. The other features of tho devico- wero favorably acted upon. Washington Star. The Religious Press. The Rev. Waldo Messaros, of Philadelphia, Baid from his pulpit the other day: "Few men read tho religious press; it is not vivid enough; there is too much patchwork, too much staleness, and there is not the enterprise of the secular jireas." SOLDIERS CEMETERY. THE UNION DEAD THAT WERE BURIED AT ANDERSONVJLLE, GA. An Explanation Concerning the Death Register Beautiful Appearance of the Cemetery Graves at tho Unidentified. The Bows ef Tombstones. Let us turn to the cemetery. This is situ ated about half a milo northeast of the station at Anderson ville, and comprises about twenty four acres of beautifully undulating grounds, with many natural features not to be found in tho spot from which we havo just turned. The appearance of the cemetery has been en tirely changed sinco war days. ' Then it was but a rude field. The dead were buried in trenches seven feet wide, four feet deep and from fifty to 150 yards long. No coffins were used, but the twisted, emaciated forms of tho dead prisoners were laid side by side, ar.d at the head of each was driven aUttle stake, on MJjtfchwas painted a number corresponding tothe number of the body on thaikeBkxjNjis ter. - Tfe cemetery was a direful necessity, and no extra pains wero taken with it Not before June, 1865, was any step taken toward inclosing the ground and marking the graves so that they could be identified in the future. A word of explanation respecting the death register is perhaps necessary that the reader may see why only 021 out of 12,703 lack identification. When a prisoner died his comrades reported to the registrar of the dead, a prisoner appointed for that purpose, near the wicket at the south gate. Tho registrar recorded the name, state, regiment, company, rank and date of death of tho dead man aud assigned him a number. Thus each corpse was numbered, and as they were car ried out in tho dead wagon for burial care was taken to inter iho bodies in order and mark each with a numbered stake. All this was done by prisoners detailed for that work, mid hence the care that wffi; exercised. IDENTIFYING THE GRAVES. Thus, when Janien B. Moore, assistant quartermaster United States army, was ap pointed to care temporarily for tho dead nt Audersonvillo, he had no difficulty with the aid of tho registry that had been kept in identifying most of tho graves. With a f..rce of several hundred men ho proceeded to lay out walks, fence in tho grounds and mark the graves with painted head board. About 120.000 feet of pine boards wero thus used. Of course, somo stakes liad been re moved and somo directions on the registry wero iuqierfect; but tho caro that was taken is a credit to those who had tho matter in charge. The work then lteguu so timely has since been untiringly kept up. Tho cemetery now presents a beautiful apjicarance. Tho grounds are nicvly laid out and neatly kept The whole is inclosed by a brick wall about five and a half feet high, tho plainness of the wall being relieved by neatly constructed twenty foot panels, which are supported by square pilasters, tho pilasters beiug carried above the top course of the wall. The fine iron gates aro always open to visitors, who flock to tho placo by hundreds. From the center of a diamond shaped plat rises a Hag staff 011 which tho stars mid striies are to be Hcen Hying from sunrise to sunset, except iu inclement weather. Near by are stationed a couple of cannon, mounted on stone bases. From this point radiate four finely kept avenues, about twenty feet wide; parallel rows of largo water oaks cast on them an abundant ehado; brick gutters on either side keep thein well drained. 'Wweour section-; of the cemetery are idso well shaded mid iieautifully adorned with shrubs mid foliage plants. ROWS Or TOMBSTONES. The graves, of course, ore as they wero first formed. Tho pointed head lomtls that Mr. JJooro erected have lieen taken away and burned, and substantial white marble slabs have been erected in their places. These stones aro of two kinds, but thono of each kind are uniform. Hero mid there, indeed, aro stones tlat have been furnished by tho family of tho dead, but tho majority aro of the uniform make, f u. ufcucd by the govern ment For tho graves of identified soldiers tho tombstones are fiat, polished slabs, three feet long, one-half being under ground, four inches thick mid twelve inches wide. On the face side is a raised shield, and ou this is recorded the number, name, rank mid state of him who sleeps below. This is neat, and of course somewhat monotonous, but it is tho best a generous minded public could do. For the unknown soldiers the stones are four inches square and project only live niches above ground. The rows of graves aro about tenor twelve feet apart Everything is so neatly cared for, the spot is so replete with memories, the symmetrical rows of tomb stones aro so symbolic of a similar causa mid an equal fate, the pleasant grounds are so shady and quiet that ono feels the scene deeply impressive. Hero and there, too, aro found cast tablets there are some twenty-five of them altogether bearing suitable inscrip tions. Many of these are extremely beauti ful, bringing to the visitor's mind the dignity, heroism and suffering of the fallen soldiers. Cor. Chicago Times. ANCIENT ISRAEL IN IRELAND. Did the Jews Contribute to the Popula tion a Great Many Tears Ago? Respecting the Anglo-Israel mania, a self evident and undeniable proof of an early settlement of Israel it ish tribes in tho United Kingdom is afforded by names of towns, of a nature which historians as well as ethnologists admit Everybody will agreo that Dover, for instance, is nothing else than a dialectical form of tho locality Debir (Jcshua xiii, L'G). Edinburgh is no doubt tho Eden town, and, iu fact, there is an Edenic view from that town. Eboracum (York) is either the town of Ebcr or elso Ebros, " tho blessed towii," with a Latin termination. But let us take London, whose derivation is still doubtful; as a Hebrew namu we shall find it to lx Ian Dan, "tho dwelling of Dan." Old 1mdon was, therefore, inhabited by the Danites (i'r haps a part of thorn went over to Den-mark, although not yet claimed by tho Danes). In the namu of Dublin is most likely to be found 11 reversed form, that uiinio seeming to be Dublau, the dwelling of Dub or Dob. This woid, which means Usually in Hebrew u bear, could dialectically mean a wolf (hard ened from Zeeb). The wolf represents tho tribe of Benjamin (Genesis xlix, 2T, finse quently a pat t of tho Bciijainites settled in Dublin, and that perhaps in the timo of Jeremiah, who, it is known, camo over to Ire land, married an Irish princess, and brought over a copy of the law, which is now buried in tho Mount Tara (from Thorah, tho law). Tho tribal characteristic of "ravening as a wolf" still continues to mark the descendants. It is not unlikely that Phoenicians settled also in England, which has long lieen suspected from the frequently employed word litil us a prefix ia Celtic localities. Could not Syden ham mean "the homo of tho Sidouiauss" A Neubauer in Notes and Queries. "Interviewing Henry Ward fleerher. Thero are probably but few newspaper re porters in this city that liavo not interviewed Henry AVard Beocher. The Plymouth pas tor enjoys great popularity among the re porters, for bo is accessible, genial, and, as a rule, talkative, no is always ready to en gage in a harmless bit of chaff with tho news paper men, but ho will not brook insolence. The last mentioned fact wa? recently im pressed upou tk alleged mind of a swagger ing youngster who said that he represented a Brooklyn paper. A rumor that Mr. Beecher was dead got started in some unaccountable manner and spread liko wildfire. Reporters by the score hurried to Mr. Beecher'a houso and were there confronted by the famous preacher hale and hearty. After a while alone came a voobc man who. said to Mr, Beocher with an impudent grin that be had been sent by the city editor of The Brooklyn "to find out whether Beocher was alive or dead." "Well," said the Plymouth pastor, "I sup pose you know who I onif "Oh, yes," answered tho fellow pertly, "but I would liko to havo it directly from you that you aro not dead." "Ah," murmured the stalwart pastor as he laid a heavy hand on tho funny young man's coat collar. Tho next instant tho young man was held up in the air and shaken as a dog would shako a sawdust dolL Mr. Beocher set him down on tho sidewalk not any too gently mid quietly remarked, "Now, you can go to your city. editor and tell him' that you have received actual proof that I am alive." New York Tiiijja. Gathering: Sprnce Gum. Sprucogum is obtained in the forests of Canada, Maine, New Hampshire,- as4 Ver mont The gf gatherers go.nianjfUcs into tho forest, erect rude cabins, and 'each ono remains until he has gathered 100 pounds. He "carries it homo, wlsere the women and children clean it from all its im purities, such as bark, twigs, mid other for eign substaucos, and sort it into the dbTerewV grades, all of which are known to the young est child in the business. It is a big day's work for a woman to clean and sort ten pounds. While tho household is cleaning his collection the gum gatherer returns to the woods and works until ho has another batch, and getting it is not easy or rapid work. The gatherers go through the woods looking at the virgin spruces. When the gum that forms on the outside of tho trees is once re moved the tree will never again yield enough to mako it worth tho while of the gatherer to visit ft So he must hunt out tho trees that have escaped the notice of his class during all tho years the woods havo been searched by them. Tho gum gatherer carries a stout pole which is jn sections liko a jointed fishing rod. At one end of the pole a chisel is fitted snugly to tho wood. Beneath tho chisel is a cup holding half a pint When the gatherer dis covers a mass of gum on a tree, no matter bow high it may be, ho runs his chisel up against it and cuts it off when it falls into the cup. It is then placed in an oiled bag slung across the back of the gatherer. So slow is tho accumulation by tho collector, ordinarily, that he considers himself fortunate if ho gathers 10O pounds a month. New York Sun. Losing Parcels In the Lobby. The frequency of persons losing iarcels in tho lobby here is greater than the public at large supposes. It is ustonisiiing, too, the celerity with which articlea aro snatched up and made away with. Thoso who come hero with intent to secure something stand around and watch for an opportunity, when the owner's back is turned for a moment Of course if wo notice any one loafing around the building we ask him to move 011, but ono man can't watch all who como in hero. Tho other day a satchel wa-i left 011 ono of tho heating coils at one of tho windows, nud no ticing it, I piek&l it up and was atout to lay it away for safe keeping until called for. Just as I was going off with it a lady rushed in at the door and said, "Excuse me, sir, that is my satchel." Of coursn 1 let her havo it, and sho and her gentleman friend, who stool at tho door, walked away. Shortly after ward two other ladies camo in and asked me about tlw samo satchel. 1 told them what I had done witli it, and ut once saw that I had been duped by a sharper. Fortunately it contained nothing of great value. Po6tofiice Watchman in Globe Democrat Rheumatism aa an Inheritance. This seems to bo a rheumatic year. The in teresting but not welcomodLseasehas included in its fraternal grip men and women without distinction as to ages or social conditions. Stalwart President Cleveland has not been ex empted from the list of sufferers. It is a mysterious malady, and though there are thousands of remedies, there appears to bo no cure for the plaguey complaint An old lady who assumes to know all about its origin inter viewed tho tomented writer of this para graph, who has been a two months' sufferer somewhat after this style: "Reuinatis is a in herited disease; you got this from your father or mother, didn't yen" Ans: "Not that I know of." "Then you had it from yer grandtherf Ans: "I think not" "Then you certainly got it from yer great-grandthor." Ans: "No, thero was no rheumatism known in my family history. Perhaps some pf my ancestors may havo been exposed to the heavy wet during the deluge." "Look here, sir!" exclaimed tho old lady, "I didn't come hero to bo madu fun of," and out sho bounced. Bos ton Budget A New Heredity Needed. All wise reform must commence with rec ognizing tho fact of heredity, and that by that law human ills are multiplied, mid by it they may be diminished. It will do little good to work for individuals here and there. Such conditions must bo created as shall make a new heredity possible. That cannot be accomplished without improving the en vironment of those to bo reached. If men live in good houses, drink pure water, are accustomed to frequent sight and contact with those who are worthy of honor, have given to them the inspirations which are es sential to tlie best development, tho result will be manifested in the next generation. The generation following the French revolu tion was distinguished by such an epidemic of nervous diseases as had never been known in French history. It was the result of the terrific strain upon mind and heart mid nerve of those delirious years. Amory H. Bradford in Audover Review. A Mysterious Society "Man." A Boston man writes from Paris to a friend: "You know, of course, tho exceedingly breezy volumes of descriptions of society in tho European capitals, written by a certain ms-stcrious and exceedingly outspoken Count Paul Vasili, that liave appearedl Well, I have found out the identity of this mysteri ous 'Count Paul. It is none other than Mmc. Juliette Adam, the versatile and vi vacious directress of The Nouvollo Revue, whoso salon is the center of idl literary Paris. Sho has been absent a good deal of late, and well, when a Parisian, editor wrote to ask Mme. for un' article the other day, she inad vertently sent him an unpublished manu script of Count Paul VasilL The editor chargtul her at onco with liing tho 'man1 whom all Europe was iipeculating about, mid she sent him an answer which dodges with out denying." Now York Post Treatment of Whooping Cough. The following method of disinfection of sleeping mid dwelling apartments and clothes is recommended by M. Mohn iu tho treat ment of whooping cough. It is said to cure tho csiscs immediately. Tho children an washed and clothed in clean articles of drest and removed to another part of tho town. The bed room and sitting room or nursery are then hermetically sealed; all tho bedding, playthings mid other articles that cannot be washed are exposed freely iu the room, in w hich sulphur is burned in the proportion of twenty-Hie grams to tho cubic meter ol sjiaco. The room remains thus charged with sulphurous ueid for five hours, and is then freely ventilated. Tho children return the same day, aud may sleep and play in the dis infected rooms. Lancet Origin of the Custom. Foreign Actor Tho final tableau of my play Is invariably spoiled by American audi ences. Omaha Man Why, in what wayl "By the noise and confusion. The very moment tho curtain liegiut to fall the people jump up, look for wraps, fans mid what notf and those who tire ready start out, completely ruining the effect" "Oh, well, wo get into that habit at church, you know." Omaha World. National Bank ! OF COLUMBUS. NEB, -HAS AN- Authorized Capital of $250,000; A Surplus Fund of - $20,000, And the lancfftt Paid 1m Cassi Capital of any bunk iu thin iart of tlte State. ESDcposits recehed and interest iuid on timodeiHMtit.s. tSDrafts on tlu trinc ij.nl citif in thin coun try and KuroM) bought and Mild. ., tyColIoc'tiom nnd nil other buttinewt given prompt and careful attention. - ij- . STOCKHOLDERS. A. ANDKKSON. Pres't. HKKMAN P. II.OEHLRK'H. VicePres't. O.T. KOKN. Cashier. J. P. UKf'KKK, HKHMAN OHHLK1CH. (i.SCHUTTK. W. A. MoAlddSTEK. JONAS WKLClf. JOHN W. KAKI.Y. P. ANDKKSON. (1. ANDKKSON. KOHEKT UIIUK. CAUL KK1NKE. Apr'js.'.mur business ;irds. D. T. M mityn. M. D. F. J. Scuoo. M. D. Dr. MARTYN ft SCHUO, U. S. Examining Surgeons. IjkhI Sinvisiinx, Union Pacific, ()., N. A 11. II. HmlM.AM.lt. ItV. Consultation in Ccrnmn nod KnIisti. Tele lipiifn nl olliceiiiul tvrudciii-frt. JS'NMIiit on Olivit htrevt, next ti llnxtfiuli rera Jeurlrj Store. COLUMMUH, NKIlltASKA. TTAMifcvi'oai ni:uKii. ., I'llYSlC'l.lX .IA7 SUM t VOX,' Platte Center. Nebraska. tt-y W A. lc;ll.ftM.Hl'i:ir. ATTORXKV t Xni'AKY PUBLIC. Otiieo m-tairs in lTeury'x building, corner .r Olivound tlth strict. ;iKlU-H7y L-IIV AND VOLLECTIOX OFFICE. Upstnirtt Ernft biiihlhiii. 11th street. 'T"iv'" juxkh. B PUiSTERER. K"Onlen left at Arnold' or at hi homo will receive prompt attention. May 13'ift-tiin Ul)I.I.IVt Ac KKKDEK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office oyer First National Bank. liinibuH. Nebraska. yjtf C 1 I. KVAH, .11. i.. FHYSICl.lX .IA') SiriMKuX. Zrl)Qhi ami rooniH, Cluck building, 11th tnit. telephone cominimicn! ion. .j T ill. M.tMMKMilW, A'nOltXKY if XOTAUY VUULIC. l$r-iVAcf over First National irank, Colum bus, NebnutkH. ion i:iwih:, cocxrr t-citi-KYOh'. J35""PartieH tU-niriuK fiirvejinjc done can nil ilretjs me at Columbus, Neb., or call at my otlico in ( oiirt lloiwe. 5maSo,y N OTIC: TOT: A CHICK.. W. H. Tedrow, Co Supt. I will l. at my ollicoin the Court HoiiMttliu tliiril Situnhty of each month Tor tho examina tion of teachers. :?J-tf D It. J. 4 HAM. VII.1.Y, DKUT.sonion akzt. CoIunibuH, Nebntaka. ,?OHici. I lth Street. CommltatioEH iu Ku Kiisn. treuchaud (h-rman. !marti7 TI7AI.I-KAI I2KOK.. &EXIItESSMEAr;"5Hi Convey kmU between any iint. or the city. Sana Hintnhle for lusterin and building j.ur-jh.m-(, furnished in any jwrt of city or on lioard cars at reasonable price. UlmarbTy JOHN G. HKUilNS. C. J. . KAKLOW. Collection Attorney. HIGGIHS ft GA&L0W, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Specialty mado of Collection.- by C. J. (larlow. Hl-in r. P. RIJiVKK, .11. IK, HOMCEOPATHIST. Chronlo Diseases nnd Siseasos of Children n Specialtv. ?" Office on Olite xtreet. tin. t- tli-orn north of First National hank. iM rp ll.RUNCHE, Mth St., opposite Lindell Hotel. Sells Harney, Saddle, Collar. Whij. Mankctn. Curry Comb. HnirJit-H, trunki. valinw. biiizcy tof, cuxhioiir. carriage trimiuiiiKH, Ac. at tho Iowtmt itofeihlo price. Kciuiirs promptly at tended to. RCBOYD, M.NUFirTUKft - Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware! Job-Work, Roofing and Gutter ing a Specialty. CryShop on Olive etrcet, 2 door north of Rrodfuehrer'n Jewelry Stoiv. K-tf YOU lean live at home, nnd make more money nt work for om, than at any thing else in the world. Capital not neeiltd: you an slatted free. Moth exet: all hrc. Anyone can tlo tlie work. Luriiw earning sure from first r tart Cootly outfit and terms fite. fcettw not delay. Coota jou nothing t(teiid u. your ruldreiiH and fiml out; if jou are wine you will do o at once. 11. Hallkit J: Co., Portland. 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