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Show Our Washington Letter THE MISSING MAN of Pretty Debuntantes Will Make the Coming Social son at the Capital an Unusually Interesting One Figures ing the Salt We Eat. A.. Bevy Show- WASHINGTON There is always a delightexpectancy relative to the debutantes of a V. ashington season, and this year's rrop presents unusual features In many ways There are rich girls and poor girls, pretty girls and homely girls, accomplished girls and athletic girls, but there Is no gainsaying that they are all highly interesting girls, and each possessed of many endearing young charms. There will be at least 40 to enjoy the Bachelors, the Sixty Couple and the numerous subscription dances, and there are more ballrooms to be open next season than ever before In this city. Usually a girl has established a reputation for dancing before her formal presentation, and even thtis early in the game it is not unusual to hear bachelor remark that a cersome tain girl of his set is almost as fine a dancer as MIPS MAROARI. was her mother or perhaps her elder sister. SHONTS. There is no longer such a thing as surprising sheltered the social world with some shy beauty who has been kept housed, and almost smothered with accomplishments and learning. Not much. The a oud of generally has a generous toretaste of the world for at least season before she is launched, just to make her easy and at home, you know. romps through tennis and golf on the open field She dances thioun iu the summer, ridas with all the old beaux, and is even pretty well introduced abroad before formally making her how here, and sometimes even presented at court abroad just to give them experience. and. so far as their debuts. iiin December, Most all of the -girls.Itwill i make In rr ii 11 ii t si wnu o ctVio arcernoou iea win pian, now known,, the Gaff Introduced Mrs. at which one like the ball a 'as pretty exception, such Miss Zaidee Caff two winters ago, or the series of dinners, which method was adopted by Mrs. Postlethwaite in presenting her daughter, who was mar ried 'Wednesday, October 3, to Henry lv s Cobb. to-da- y L , CAPITAL. BEAUTIES IN GREAT VARIETIES. There is a delightful' variety of girls to be One cabinet girl, Miss Erma Shaw; presented. one diplomatic girl, so far as known. Haroness Elizabeth Rosen, who astonished the North Shore with her expert swimming, strong tennis and delectable horsemanship all last summer., There are more than a half dozen girls from the army and navy sets, and others from official and resident society. Newest of all the girls in Washington who will be presented this. season is pretty, tall, willowy Katherine Jennings, who is one of the most is winsome girls ever introduced from what known in Washington as the "South African contingent." She is the. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henncn Jennings, who last year, as they will this, occupied Mrs. A. C. Harney's residence in Rhode Island avenue, near the French embassy, from MISS KATHERINB made her debut two years Which Miss Eaidee-GafJENNINGS. -- ' ago. The daughters of chairman of the Panama canal commission and Mrs, Theodore P. Shonts. Miss Theodora, and Miss Marguerite, have the double advantage of having been presented at the spring court in London this year, were much admired, and a good share of the entire season under frtiere they of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. but they also have many friends in Washington. f ifcTERESTING FIGURES ABOi!T ?"' The United States consumes rels iAillLUll.J Or Ulilll persons in Uio land.; Last year Kji. , 26,872,700 bar.. j I...C8 it went abroad ivy. By MARY R. P, HATCH Author of "The Bank Tragedy" Sea- ful Bruce was amazed. In full view, on a not too crowded street, then gone! It was like manic. The man could not have entered a store nor vanished in a cellar. There was no reason why he need think himself under surveillance. Bruce spent the day in the immediate neighborhood of the mysterious disap pearance, but to no purpose, and at last he reluctantly owned to himself that he might have been mistaken. Anxious as he was to succeed in his undertaking, and earn the reward offered for finding Hamilton, or rather being the means of returning him to Glove dale. Bruce was at last compelled to desist from his task. Much time and money had already been spent, and other business was press- bf Copyright. CHAPTER V. Continued. "Have you no photograph of them either of them?" But can tell you haven't "No, . 1. . ...... ... . ... A avar 111(111 V,U Mlttllr-- I heard in connection with this very matter. Whether it will help you in can t ay. You Identifying Ashley know I told you they txk a house on Main street. Well, shortly after they left it, and before a new tenant was found, the story got afloat that on one of the windows from the outside could be plainly seen the photograph of a man's head and shoulders and those of a woman. The panes are large and the outlines are said to be very distinct. They are said to be photographs of Ashley and his wife, and the theory is that they were looking through the window at the river during a storm and a flash of lightning photographed them indelibly on the glass. The pictures cannot be seen from the inside, but that they can from the outside is vouched for by a good many people in town. 1 don't understand photography myself, and I haven't been up to see tin pictures, but the cashier of the Somerset bank has, and he says they are excellent likenesses of Ashley and his wife "1 should like to go up," said Bruce. "So shKild 1," said Mr. Hayes, "and if you will call again after business hour- s- for I must go to my office now I will tsu you there behind my 1 V, .' .. I bays.' Bruce gra-nlaccepted the friendly offer and in a few hours was rapidly driving through the principal streets of Valparaiso after the handsomest span of horses in the city. Calling a boy to hold them after a short drive. Mr. Bruce and Mr. Hayes approached a handsome house on Main street, and easily got permission to examine the window which bore the photograph. It was on the first floor, and lighted '.be dining room. The Ashleys dined 'ate. and they, perhaps, arose from the (able, probably after dark, or it may e they turned down the lights the setter to watch the storm, and stood coking out at the river. Be this as it nay, the outlines of two figures, a nan's and a woman's, were plainly on the pane. His arm appeared Le and hi with subterfuge or concealments so repugnant that he would not enti rtain the idea for a moment. He made arious futile Inquiries and final io can upon Mrs. nummon 's and plainly state the case to her. ask ing at the same time for the information, if she chose to give it. He did so, though not without extreme reluctance. Mrs. Hamilton received him in a polite, if somewhat distant, manner, and after a few com monplaces, Mr Hastings broached the obji ct of his call. "But please do not consider my re quest to be in the least imperative. There Is no coercion about it." "You are very kind, Mr. Hastings." uei-Hie- how-happ- did so. "Is that what you wished to know?' she asked. "No yes." he said, greatly depressed. Mr. Hastings had refrained from making known to Mrs. Hamilton the contents of Brace's letter relating to - y ! barrel. ' . The chief salt producing states are Michigan and New York. Statistics recently gathered by the government show that the combined output of these of the total production of tbs Wo srutes. 'amounts to mure than ' .Ijuited Slut-Obtwo-third- s . REHABILITATING "OLD IRONSIDES." Under an act of congress, "Old Ironsides Is to be rebuilt once more and refitted for sea service. ' ' The, work is to be 'done where the was originally built Boston and, t,he money is being, raised by the Massachusetts State society. United States Daughters of 1812. through an appeal to patriotic Americans for the preservation of this historical object lesson, which will once more cruise under "Qld Glory" as a training ship for The original plans of this old naval apprentices. fighting ship were recently unearthed in the Last Indian Marine! Museum, 'Salem, Mass., and will play an important part in the rebuilding. In 1830 it was reported in the newspapers that it was the intention of tlie government to destroy the Constitution, together with a number of other ships. But the very announcement met with a public clamor of disapproval, as did Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte's recommendation, late l.ist year, that she be used for a target. The ConBtittition was. built in Boston In 1797, a frigate of 1,576 tons and designed to carry 45 guns. She was one of the first ships to see active service in the war of 1812. Small wonder indeed that the New Knglanders were moved to recite the career of the famous old ship to the navy secretary, inasmuch as it is the only real relic of that branch of American arms that preserved the I'nited States in her second wei with Gn at Britain. The "Old Ironsides" remained In active commission until the advent of the real ironclad, when she was used for auxiliary purposes. At last, having no utility, even as a training ship, her destruction was ordered, and had been begun when the wave of popular dissent, voiced in the poem of Oliver Wendell Holmes, forced the navy department to desist. Since thht time she has been lying in the Boston navy yard her decks roofed over like a nondescript building. The outlines of two figures. to be about her shoulders, her head rested lightly on his breast, and a llorious veil of hair reaching down 3Ut of sight covered her right shoul der. The curves of her features, the of her form, showed her to be Ashley, and he said nothing now. She evidently hoped he would tell her more, but could not bring herself to ask him, for, she thought, "if there were any good news he would tell me, and if there is nothing but bad could not bear it now. have had so much. O Vane! Vane!" This was her heart's cry, but out wardly she was calm until Mr. Hast-tnf- l went away Then she sat down overwhelmed with a nameless dread. What misery, what misery was hers! If the newspapers spoke true. what was she but a deserted wife, the wife of a bank defaulter, who had forsaken her for another woman! If it was not as believed, then Vane was detained somewhere against his will, either by force or by severe illness, or he was dead. Dead! with fhe clods of opprobrium on his confined form! They might never be lifted, never while she lived, while her lived, and they would have to suffer the shame, unmerited of having had a father who abused the of a trusting community. Could she bear it to know t his were really-truof him? Could she bear it to Know he were dead? droop both pretty and graceful. "Nora Ashley, as I live!" ejaculated Mr. Hayes with great excitement. "Nora, did you say?" "Yes, that is what Ashley called her, and that is Ashley himself." Bruce scanned the figure with more interest even than he had the beauti known fill Nora, but never having Hamilton personally he could not. tell whether it closely resembled him or not. In a general way he thought ii looked like the photograph he had. and which Mr. Hayes had already declared The description to look like Ashley. also agreer! advertisement the in given with what might be said of Ashley, except that the latter, when in Valparaiso, wore long whiskers. Soon after the two men separated with mutual good words, and Bruce going straight to his room at the Wll lougbby House, wrote a detailed account of what he had learned at Vai parmlM regarding Ashley, the bank de fault ST, who he was inclined to beliet CHAPTER VI. could be no other than Hamilton him self. Indeed, the presence of the Tony's Discovery. woman, called Nora by Ashley, and Mr. Bruce was nearly convinced of 'mving emerald colored hair, seemed 'he truth of his theory when he realmost proof positive. Mr. Hastings' letter. "Some-hinceived Bruci the account. After detailing more than a coincidence," he went on to say. or rather to ask. would take nutiereri. on reading that .Mr. Mamiiwhether Mr. Hartwell on left Grovcdale on the 9th Instant. pains to learn without a doubt what iiard Hamilton wore two years ago o Bruce, as a last resort, again went Canada himself, got detectives there during his customary May Journey If he had long whiskers in addition to a 10 aid him, and as thorough a search hrotigh the province was made as Also. Bruce desired to mustache. ould be effected In the iltne he gavi exact Hamilton when date the know left Grovcdale. whether It was as early iiitnself for it. Several times he fancied irnself to be on the right frail, but a- - the 10th, for It now appeared that ubsequent investigations proved the Ashley came to Valparaiso the 13th. Still he Mr. Hastings, on the receipt of this fallacy of first suppositions. never quite rid himself of the letter from the detective, was mnh perplexed. How could he gain the de- belief that he saw Hamilton, or Ashsired knowledge without going to Mrs. ley. on one of the streets In Montreal a day or two nfter be reached the city Hamilton herself Mr. Hastings To approach Hut the msn vanished so quickly that a straightforward man oonfi-denc- SAYS UNITED STATES OWNS CUBA. Congressman John James Jenkins, of Wisconsin, chairman of the judiciary committee of the house, insists thai we have absolute soveieignty over Cuba. He says: "Cuba is domestic and not foreign territory. I'ndei international law, independent of all treaty obligations. Cuba became domestic territory at the close of the war with Spain. Put after the ratification of the treaty with Spain Cuba became domestic territory by virtue of the treaty aud subsequent action of the I'nited States "The United States can only divest its sovereignty over Cuba by an act of congress. That has not been done. The supreme court of the United States In Neely vs. Henkel sustains my position by holding that in June, 1900. the Island of Cuba was occupied by and was under control of the I'nited States and that it is still so occu- J ptetf. and control cannot be disputed." Congressman Jenkins has represented the Tenth Wisconsin district at He served during the civil war with a Wisconsin Washington since ragipient. He was born In Weymouth. England In 1843. and came to America at, tfo age of nine years. -- At the time of the insurance scandals last spring Mr. Jenkins, as chairman" of the judiciary committee, reported thai, after an exhaustive study. th y Mr. found that congress had the power to regulate insurance companies. .Jcnkit,s has spent most of his life In Chippewa, Wis where he has held the In .'.indflft IJOfi he went to and county Indue. f citv clerk, city attorney ... . . . . Wyoming for several years, having bvu appointed I nited States attorney for the territory by President GtauL . - 1 1 cbll-dre- - HANDY BAG r 7 HOLDER. How the Filling of Bags with Grain or Vegetables Is Made Easy. Those who have occasion to bag grain or vegetables will appreciate the simple bag holder here described, says a writer in the Homestead. Fasten an inch board to the side of the ing. Coustance still continued to live in barn near the grain bin in a conher own home with her uncle and two venient place to fill the bags Then children. The latter went to school, set a post of six by six material, and and their mother put on their hats and spike it against the board. The pos' kissed them good-hy- , sometimes with sh Id be just high enough to permit a smile on her face, to spare their the bottom of the bag to rest on the young hearts too much knowledge of floor while it is being filled. This it sorrow. Mr. Carter, who was really a man of excellent business qualities, hough somewhat obscured by middle-ag- e inertia, attended well fo the business at the mill with the help of Mr. Henderson and a clerk recently added to the office. At the bank an excellent cashier tilled Hamilton's place for the present, but it was uncertain how long lie could be retained, as his health was delicate and his means such as placed him above the necessity of doing any business. Tony was still (here, but his position seemed at times most irksome. The strain on his nerves and temper during the investigations left an unpleasant impression, for he was sensible ilial for several days he had been looked upon with suspicion. This fact The Bag Holder. placed him in sympathy with Hamilton, and he had more than once been Important, for It is not Intended that beard to say thai he believed the there be any strain on the framework missing cashier to be an innocent composing the holder proper. Take man. two pieces of strong wood an inch He had been informed by President wide and a half inch thick, bare holes Hastings of Brace's discoveries in the In one end with a spike, through West. He had not called to see Mrs. these holes fasten the two arms to Hamilton since he carried her the the top of the post. At proper inscrew ominous statement of her husband's tervals on each arm insert return to the bank. Somehow he hooks over which the buttonholes in shrank from going there, but when he the bag are to be slipped, or if the chanced to meet her he bowed with bag Is without holes the edge may be scrupulous gravity and respect. slipped over the hooks. A strong The summer was wearing away. cord Is tied to the ends of the arms August had come with its wilting days. and supplied with additional hooks to and halhers often sought the shaded hold up the front of the bag. The river for a plunge in its cooling wat-- I Illustration shows plainly the details Df this convenience, which may be ers. On the other side a new railroad had recently been built. The hilly por-- j readily made from material likely to lions had been leveled, hollows filled be found on any farm. up. and immense rocks blasted. Hundreds of men were employed, and the BUILDING GOOD ROADS. different gangs were located about five miles apart. Many of them were Interest in the Movement Spreading Italians, and four of them were to All Parts of the Country. drowned in crossing It in quest of intoxicants, and it is said they were The good roads problem is occupy buried in the dump, uncoftined, and lng the attention of the people as it without service of any sort, by their never did before, and on every side companions. Iw and degraded they are heard discussions of ways and must have been, and It, is no wonder means to provide better highways. the people were glad when they left. In Missouri Gov. Folk has suggested All this occurred lo Osborn one day that the money obtained from dramin August, when, changing his bathing shop licenses be used in building suit for his ordinary clothes, he saw in roads, and the next legislature will the bushed, not two feet from the beasked to pass a law to that effect. In some states the revenue derived place where he had deposited his own from automobile licenses will be used suit, a silk cap witli a weather-staine- d satin lining anil an embroidered monofor building roads. The utilization of convict, labor seems to be the simplest gram. The letters certainly were V. C. H., and best method of Improving the however they might stand in color. roads quickly and at the lea3t exThe C. or the H. was as likely to pense, and when this method is adopted the roads will rapidly become betstand first, perhaps, but Tony felt convinced that the cap he held in his ter. In the southern states it is a comhand was once the property of Vane mon sight, says the Motor Way, to Hamilton. It was just such a one as wives, see the convicts working on the sweethearts and daughters make for roads, and wherever this work is betheir masculine dependents to travel ing done the county or district is benefited and the improved roadway In, and Tony thought he recollected that Mr. Hamllt n carried one in his means a higher value for the adja overcoat pocket. His wife would know cent farm land. Better highways will arid whether he took it on his last bring the count r resident closer to If so, It proved his presence the city and enable him to enjoy Hip. many of the privileges of city life afterwards In Grovcdale as conclusiveheretofore denied him. ly as the gold shirtstud had. It was a peculiar coincidence that In both inFARM NOTES. stances he should be the finder. (To be continued.) Fowl diseases are Indications of incorrect management. Removal of the TIGER AND DOG CHUMS. cause iiicvenis recurrence of the ef' Remarkable Friendship Between the fect. Proper care is the best and only preventive known. It costs noth Two Animals. There is no use waiting for thp lng to apply. Tuberculosis is frequently cause! millennium. It is here. The Benga' Your barn by damp, filthy quarters. the old. and six months mongrei tiger, be must and light, clean, dry kept lain dowr pup, eight months old. have and got up together in one cage In with a good supply of fresh air, and above all, pure driuking water. P. P perfect brotherly love since the birth Southworlh. Minnesota. of the tiger In Cincinnati. Cheshire hogs mature early, are of The cub and the pup are tin? size, have fair grazing qualities, good in case housed in a narrow parking produce a fine grain of pork firm in Hexamer'i livery stable. Hoboken texture, and rank high among the teady for shipment lo HagenbPck'e bacon breeds. They are very valuable The Hlppodrom show In Bnrope. for upon rough hogs. crossing neand are of the heard pair, people Kvery farm ought to be an experiFelld tig, Howard with gotiating ment station, the farmer its professor. agent, for their purIlagenbeck's No farmer can copy the station results chase. and reproduce them in detail on his "Usually," said Frank Krissell Mr. Conditions vary. He must farm. ex"when Fielding's representative, be patient in expericonditions, study periments like that are tried the Mger eats up the dog as soon as the titer's ments and observant of results. But In his teeth are Rood enough Grass. case they seemed to take to each othGrass is of great importance on m er from the first, and now noth ng can sever them. If you touch the log farm, and one third of all my farming I raise the tiger will make a slap at you. operations depend upon grass. clover and blue red top, timothy, the the touch If But you tiger dog grass. About 15 per cent, of all my thinks It's a good joke 18 per "If the tiger gets obstreperous 'he grass is made into hay and The for used grass is pasturage. cent, pup sits down on the tiger's head. crop in thiB locality does not receive ThPn the tiger shuts up at once. The attention from farmers that it only time the dog ever respects his the About the only kind recently should. friend Is when the tiger Is eating his Introduced into this neighborhood is meat. Then of raw the dor portion alsike clover. There are no other keeps out of the way." New York that have been successfully Sun. grown, although alfalfa and orchard and are Thought King Brought Rain, grass have been Introduced B Is said that 'he people of Tangier used to a limited extent I think, say received King Edward so enthusiastl-coul- d this Randolph county correspondent of cally because It was raining on the Farmer's Review, It would be an Imday of his arrival. The vmntry had provement for farmers to keep more been suffering from want of rain, and stock and manure the land better and to feed out so far as possible all the the Moroccans thought he had bron.rht It feed produced on the farm 1 ; ill V A -- 111 1 7i ' i returned Constance, bending her fair fate, upon which the shadow of a great griet plainly lay. "Hut I will answer you truly and readily, for the truth can hurt no one. Vane never wore whiskers, and I can tell you, by consulting my diary for 1887, the very day he went away." She arose from her seat, approached the writing desk, which stood in the same room, and took from a till a pile of old diaries. Choosing the right one, she sat down again and turned to the n cords of May. "Vane and took a long drive The weather was perfect, and Vane complimented me. or rather my new-batsaid it was 'most becoming,' " was the record for May 1st. Only a commonplace entry, but it gave Constance a start to read it, for she remembered the day well, they were. But she turned another leaf resolutely, then still another and handed the book to Mr. Hastings, pointing to (he sentence, "Vane went away earlier this year than usual. ttied to coax him not to go until next week, but to no purpose." The date was the 9th of May. "Thank you, Mrs. Hamilton," said Mr. Hastings, handing her the book; but his hand was quite unsteady as he for only 1,151,133 barrels. In 1880 63.5 per cent of the salt used in our country was of home production. Last, year 95.7 per cent, of the product consumed was produced within the borders of In 1S80 the consumption in this this country country was only 9,384,263 barrels. Thus we see that the people, of the United States are using annually three times as much salt as they used 26 J?-'!years ago. Only 5,961,060 barrels were produced in this in 1880, and the consumers w.ere forced country U Us.6oo!ooo to go abroad Eor 3. barrels. Last year the V POUNPS total production at home was 25,966.1.22 barrels. The tariff act of 1894 placed salt on the free list and the importations increased to nearly 560,000,- 000 pounds the following year. The tariff act of , 1897 returned. salt, .to the dutiable list, and salt in bags barrels or other packages is now subject to a duty of 12 cents a hundred pounds, or 33.6 cents a ROAD a; D.I j new-kind- s |