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Show sssss ssssffis$s$s Our Weekly Letter MU ' From the Capital THE RETURN. little hand Is knocking at my heart. And I have closed the door 1 pray thee, for the love of God. depart; Thou shalt come In no more. A Then there are the sleep-outs- " the waifs and strays. Of the newsboys 8) per cent are Italians, most of whom have homes; 10 per cent are Jews, most of whom have homes, and the other 10 per cent are chiefly Americans. There is a considerable number of homeless boys who sleep where they can find a place in the Newsboys Home or in some lodging house, in some building or alley. The boys the downtown district have consid erable leisure time, which they in unprofitable ways, Including gambling. John F. Atkinson, for three and a half years financial secretary of the Illinois Childrens Home and Aid Society, is endeavoring to organize a Boys Club and Pleasant Evenings" the downtown district. ' Special Letter.) EPRESENTATIYE CAN-NOwhof has a friend whom he hopes will be appointed a judge on the B district bench, told the President a story the oth-- ) The little hand is knocking patiently; er morning in order to I listen, dumb with pain. hasten the appointment. met more to Wilt thou not open any Out in Danville, he said, I went I have come back again to see a friend, and after a pleasant T will not open any more Depart, visit I asked him to come and see me. " am uead I, that once lived, Bring your little boy, also, I said, been had at my knocking Tte hand that for I have a pony on my farm which heart And IT she said. I will give him. Was still. The gentleman Wanked me, but the There is no sound save in the winter air little boy pulled at his fathers coatThe sound of wind and rain tails. Pop, he whispered, when Is he All that I loved in all the world stands tin re going to do it? A,n Electric Experiment. And will noi knoik again The President laughed at the story, Vrt'iur Symons Paste a strip of tinfoil aiound the middle of a lamp ciimncy, and an- but did .not answer the question as to when the Congressmans friend would Amusement From a Cent. other narrow strip of tinfoil length-is- be named. Dont say penny; say cent A penny from one end to within one inch is an rnsnsi coin. The Standard Dicom the other strin. Wrap a silk Senator Warren of Wyoming was any handkerchief or tion. iy savs penny may mean piece of silk around entertaining ome lriends at lunch recoin of trifling value, but if you mean the cleaner little chimney brush) (the The change irom a $5 bill cent, tzy c'nt, as a penny may or may and rub the inside of the chimney in- cently, was exactily $2. The waiter broug. 'not be a cent. dustriously, being careful not to touch him a $1 bill, a piece and two With this little piece of advice to the strips of tmfoil with your hands. stait with, says the American Boy. If this experiment is executed in the quarters. Mr. Warren looked smilingly at the let us suggest how a little amusement dark an electric spark can be seen waiter. he inquired, May I ask, may be obtained from a cent: jumping from the ring to the strip why you did not bring me two $1 What official is suggested by the as often as the broom is pulled back. bills? coin? Copper. Fasten a piece of wire around the Because, Senator, replied the wise A messenger is mentioned on the tinfoil ring and on its end a few strips and witty waiter, the Lord loveth a Where? One cent (one sent). coin. cheerful giver. Wheie do you find the first AmeriThe piece went into the can? Indian. waiters pocket. do snake? a remark Where Copyou "Open, for I am weary of the way; The night is very black; I have been wandering many a night and day, Open. I have come back. ' em-pla- her husbands long efforts in behalf oi the Cuban cause with the authorities in Washington. I wish you would come up to take dinner with me, said Senator Tillman to a friend in the capitol yesterday. Certainly, was the reply, What Is your address? sixty-on- e Mintwood Eighteen Senator. said the place, Thats pretty hard to remember, said Tillmans friend; "Ill write it down." "O, no, Reremarked Tillman. member the year the war began. That will fix the number of the house. e -- CHANGE IN CURIOSITIES. Senator Mandertone Story at Banquet to General Porter. At the dinner given in honor of Gen. Horace Porter by the Republican club. Senator Manderson created the main diversion by teUiwg the following story; There was once a Connecticut tarmer who went up into Maine and captured a young bull moose. When he got it home he instinctively sought to make it a source of revenue. He built a fence and put a tent over it and hung out a sign explaining the rarity of the animal and advertising single admissions, 10 cents; families, 25. There came along a long, lean, lanky hill farmer, with a woman and twelve children behind him, and offered a quarter at the door. Looky here, said the showman. Wait a bit. Is this all one family? Are these all yours? They be, said the lanky one. This be my wife, my only wife, and these be my children, all twelve of them. The showman handed back the quarter. Pass in, my friend, he said earnestly, pass in. It is far more important that the bull moose should see you than that you should see the bull moose. it Now, concluded the senator, strikes me as far more important that this club should be entertained by Gen. Porter than than Gen. Porter should be entertained by this club. USE FOR WASHING 50-ce- perhead. Point out a southern fruit. Date, Wheie do you find computes? Fig-- , ures. Something denounced by Audubon-lsts- ? Feathers Piece of ancient armor? Shield. Name an emblem of victory represented. Wreath. Where do you find a great assurance? Cheek. Where do you find what all families should be In feeling? United. i Point out a swift animal. Hare (hair). Where do you discover an emblem of royalty? Crown. Part of a hill? Brow. Part of a river? Mouth. Pertaining to an eastern country? Indian. Place of worship? Temple. Where do you find a negation? Knot (not). That of which our country is made up? States. Announces or affirms? States. What our ancestors fought for? Lib- tissue paper. By rubbing the inside of the chimney with the silk covered brush the ring is filled with electricity, which passing through the wire affects the strips of paper, causing them to fly apart. This experiment should be tried in dry weather, as humidity is disadvantageous to electrical experiments. Broom, silk cloth, and lamp chimney should be absolutely dry. of A Beg your pardon, sir; but only members and are allowed on the floor of the house, said one of the doorkeepers recently as Representative Babcock started to enter the house: Well, Im a member, said the representative from Wisconsin. Dont you know me? Oh, said the startled doorkeeper, I know you now, but I did not recognize you at first. The loss of your beard makes a big difference. Mr. Babcock smilea and and disappeared into the house, where the members looked searchingly at him, many failing to recognize their colleague because of the absence of his whiskers. Mr. Babcock hasnt worn a smooth chin in fifteen y'ars. The change was most pronounced, and many of his Mme. Gonzalo De Quesada. Wife of the New Cuban Ambassador to the United States. Then remember mint Juleps, and yon cant forget the street Now, dont forget Think of the first year of th war and of mint juleps, and yon will come straight to where I live. Carlmle, of Kentucky, came up to the capital yesterday weartile seen ing the most remarkable during the present generation. It was a tall, white, stovepipe of the brand. Mr. Carlisle had it on his head as he started tc enter the senate chamber. At that moment some one swung the door Novel Game. Heres a game that is enjoyed by every one who plays it. Make two Principal, foremost, greatest? Chief. cornucopias of fairly stiff paper, leavAbandons? Departs from? Leaves. ing the small ends large enough to Where is an orchestra found? Band. pass pieces of twine through. Take two pieces of string, and slip each Name a part of a bottle represented. through one cornucopia, streaching Neck. them two feet apart, as tight as you Fastens, bolts? Locks. can across the room, fastening the ends to either wall. Blindfold Artists. The strings should be high enough When the recess bell has sounded Its welcome dinga-donlet a dozen from the ground to enable jou to blow into the cornucopia. The object of the game is for two people to stand at tae end of the strings and blow into the large openings of the cornu-cop'aand see which one can get it a' ross the room first. It takes a person with a good pair of lungs to send it the length of the string in one blow. erty. Paper for Invitations. There is specially imported stationery for little maidens to use in sending out their party invitations. "One style has the small sheets of heavy white paper decorated at the top in colors with a little girt and small boy fencing. On the other are two wee new women in bloomers exercising with dumb bells and Indian clubs. Other notepaper bears on the top a scene of tiny summer belle and her ator so of you go into a room where tendant cavalier on board a yacht. there Is a blackboard and take seats What is known as harlequin paper in a row facing it, for you are going is decorated with an elephant in scarto have a drawing contest, and the let trousers playing a trombone, and blackboard is the field where you are below : to display your skill. Someone must The elephant played the trombone be selected as director of the contest, With his trunk so very long. hut not necessarily as the judge. He played the airs so finely. When the board has been cleaned That never a note was wrong. off from one end to the other the contest begins by one director's calling Coin Trick. on the player at the head of the row Place a little mucilage on the rim to come to the board. Then he blind- of a wine glass; turn the glass over folds the player with a handkerchief, on a sheet of white paper, and when the mucilage is dry cut away the paplaces him in front of the end of the board, and, giving him a per close to the glass. Put the glass piece of chalk, tell3 him to draw on mouth downward on a sheet of paper the board a picture of a horse. This like that which covers the mquth of the player does to the best of hl3 abil- the glass. Make a paper cone to fit ity, but no matter how careful he may over the glass. Now lay a penny on be, every line he draws will make the the large sheet of paper by the side of other players shout' with laughter; the wine glass. Cover the glass with and no one will laugh louder than the the paper cone and place the whole player himself when the handkerchief over the coin. Command the coin has been taken from his eyes and he to disappear, and on taking off the sees the funny picture he has made. cone the coin wdll appear to have obeyed your command. To cause it A Puritan Conscience. to reappear, replace the cone and carHere is a story the Youths Compan- ry away the glass under it. ion tells of a little New England girl the workings of whose Puritan conTwo Names. science involved her in difficulties on one occasion. She was studying mental arithmetic at school, and took no pleasure in it. One day she told her mother with much depression of spirit that she had failed again in mental arithmetic, and on being asked what problem had proved her undoing, she sorrowfully mentioned the request for the addition of nine and four. And didnt you know the answer, Hold these figures before a looking-glas- s dear? asked her mother. and you will see the names of a Yssm, said the little maid, "but boy and a, girl. Or hold the page up you know we are to write the answers to the light and look at it through on our slates, and before I thought I the back page and you will get the made four marks and counted up, same effect. . and ten, 'leven, twelve, thirteen; then of course I knew that wasnt Work of the Frost. mental, so I wrote twelve for the A frost problem is the cracking of answer, to be fair. ' the earth in severe cold, and the way in which rocks and clods are reduced Chicagos Street Boys. to powder by frost. Water, when It There are in Chicago about 6,000 freezes, expands with irresistible newsboys, of whom 1,500 are force. Consequently anything containployed In what is known as the down- ing water is rent asunder when that town district, north of Fourteenth water turns to Ice. In this way rocks street, and extending a short distance are rapidly worn down. Chalk holds west to the river. But this is not all more water than most other forms of of the element. There soil, and that is why the roads lq Is a vast army of messenger and tele- chalky counties are usually in such a graph hoys, another army of boot shocking condition when a thaw fol-'.i-s blacks, and still another of office boys. frost left-han- d 3MW36 306 rough-and-read- y It Is Said to Remove the Yellow Tint From Locks Turning Gray. Gray flair is an ordeal to the average woman under the most favorable circumstances and she probably finds in it little that is to be palliated. On the other hand most women would probably not mind it so much if they were certain that all their hair would become white immediately and not remain for several years in the yellowish, mixed stage that comes to all women who have not black hair. It is the problem of getting their hair white all at once that troubles most women. Some of the Paris hairdressers are said to be able to make the hair quite white when once it begins to turn. The process is expensive under any circumstances. A remedy has been found which has been successful in the case of most of the women who have tried it. It is not expensive, for the process consists in giving the hair a bath of washing blue. The blue must not be too strong but must be liberally mixed with water. If one bath does not have the effect of taking all the yellow out of the hair, the operation should be repeated. In a day or two after the bath of blue has been given the yellow will begin to fade from the hair and in a short time it will De quite white. ENTERED g CONGRESSIONAL LIBRARY HALL. friends passed him in the corridor outward and the white without recognition. hat came into collision with it and then went rolling along the lobby like Anselm Joseph McLaurin, United a barrel offlour. States Senator from Mississippi, is anOh, dear, exclaimed Mr. Carlisle, southern states- as he went scrambling after the hat, other of the men who have received legislative and then he brushed it as carefully as honors. Since the close of the civil though it were a heaver of the latest war, in which, though only 16 years style. of age, he served in the confedeiate army with distinction, he has been Senators Allison and Platt, of Conelected successively to almost every necticut, stood at the door of the elepost of honor in the gift of the people vator yesterday. of his state. Ilia, present term in the After you," said Allison, with a senate expires in 1907. In politics bow to Platt Senator McLaurin is a democrat. He No, you go first, said Platt, bowis 54 years old. ing to Allison. . And then along came Senator McCongressman Hull of Iowa was in Millan. He passed between Allison Philadelphia the other day when the and Platt with a laugh. Take me to Five Oclock club gave a dinner. He the top floor, he said to the elevator was seized upon as a gnest by the conductor, and if his colleagues hadnt good fellows in the club, but pleaded stopped bowing and stepped aboard that he had no dress suit. they would have teen left as certain We can fix that all right, said his as fate. an Into him adjoinhosts, and, taking Uncle Nick Young, who has been Identified with the National Baseball League since its inception, has removed his headquarters to New'York. His office has been located in Washington for longer than thirty-on- e years and has been the rendezvous for all players who visited the capital. Fifi teen years ago, when the game was enjoying its halcyon days, Nick t Young was almost as important a perA A, ' sonage as the man who lived at the white house. broad-brimme- d old-tim- e Ersrg it: No Admirer of Social Forms. Pattison has a large and healthy contempt for the punctilious of social form. He thinks theres a great deal of an American flubdub about such matters and illustrates his views on the subject by adding that he never came across anything superior to a reply a Pennsylvania polfti-cia- n received from a friend whom he Senator A. J. McLaurin. Bad invited to a reception. Yours a in him suit attired ing room, they was I be will received. all there, similar a In which had done duty of it, and quite enough, too," says emergency before. When Mr. Hull the was asked to make a speech he explained his presence in an Want Russell Sage to Rest costume. Russell Sages family and family recoolly dont apologize, Oh, are in league against the marked the President of the club. physician veteran financier, who is now in his The last man who wore that suit had eighty-eightyear. Concerted effort is a Hull of a time himseli. being made to convince him that he has done his share of the worlds work. Diplomatic circles are much Interdo not even hope that he will as They who,, De Mme. Quesada, In ested the business altostop amending to the wife of the Cuban minister are to merely gether; they United States, will occupy a position have him reduce his workingtrying hours to Mme. Quesada of social prominence. two or three daily, with occasional holis accomplished and her tact and idays, , geniality won her many friends during Ex-Go- h BLUE. THE WRONG 0 1 I' o language of monkeys y Prof. Garner Confident He Will Yet Teach a Chimpanzee to Talk. The Liverpool papers report an interesting lecture given in that city recently by Prof- - Garner, the famous student of the monkey language. It was his first public utterance since he returned from his last sojourn in the desert and the jungle. Behind him on the stage was the rusty steel wire cage in which he is wont to take refuge from the lion and the gorilla. He began the study in 1884. Watching some monkeys in the Chicago zoological gardens, it struck him that they were unmistakably conveying ideas to each other by sounds. For three or four years I studied unsuccessfully, he said. Then I placed a phonograph by an unusually loquacious monkey in Chicago, and succeeded in getting some records. Then I took th cylinders to a New York monkey. Directly I turned on the phonog aph he showed plainly that he understood, and he began to hunt for the other monkey in the phonugiaph. I recoided his tepiies in another phonograph, and by the frequency with which the reply was made to the same remark it was clear that the New York monkey could un derstand what the Chicagoan was A say-in- g. I made several thousand experiments with the phonograph and visited every monkey in America. Then I determined to experiment on the gorilla and chimpanzee. There were none available in captivity, so I went to their native jungle, and in April, 1893, set up my cage on the south side of Lake Nkami. For four months I waited and watched for gorillas, but though it was in only saw twenty-two- , the heart of the gorilla country. They were shy and pacific, and would not speak. During the four months we were alone in the jungle I differentiated and interpreted about ten of the soundswbich Moses, my chimpanzee, The professor said that in made. a few months he would return to Africa and work till his task was achieved. He would not rest till be could come on the platform leading a chimpanzee by the hand, which would give unmistakable proof of its speaking ability. He dances well to whom fortune pipes. Iced Tea a Beverage of Inestimable Value to Toilers in Mines I do not know the scientific reason for the thing, said the traveling man, who has recently made a 'trip in the mining regions of the west, but on my last trip to some of the mining towns in Oklahoma Territory particularly, I found that the miners are in the habit of drinking tea almost exclusively while toiling under the earth. I asked the miners why it was, and the only explanation they gave was that water and coffee made them sick at the stomach. Iced tea, they said, was the best drink they had been able to find, and the use of this drink left them without any sort of bad effect. I made the trip down into one of the mines at South McAllister, an experience by no means without interest to a person not familiar with the lives the subterranean toiler is forced to lead. Incidentally I may remark that I found a mule in the mine which had not seen the light of day for more than six years, and the animal, because of the operation of the principle of disuse, was as blind as a bat. So could judge he had comfar as But pletely lost the sense of sight t ANCIENT HOUSE But He Was Treated in a Thoroughly Homelike Manner. Here is a story which the late Con gressman Amos J. Cummings was fond of telling: A member of congress was going home late one night when he met a young man who w as satisfactorily loaded. The congressman happened to know where the young man lived, and kindly guided him home. The congressman had no sooner pulled the bell than the door was thrown wide open and a tall, husky woman appeared. She never said a word, but grabbed the young man by the collar and shook him till she fairly loosened bis teeth; then into the hall she took him and slammed the door. The congressman was descending the steps when the door was thrown open a second time and his friend fiew out of it as if thrown from a catapult. At the foot of the' stairs he landed, and the congressman picked him up. Very much frightened and considerably sobered, the young man We dont live here; we gasped: moved last week! Washington Post fer- his hearing was good, and the least noise made by a shift of his food basket would cause him to prick up his ears in a jiffy. His sense of hearing was marvelous in many respects, and I guess it was due to the fact that the all loss of sight had strengthened the other senses of the animal. But coming back to the subject of tea while engaged in the mine was practically a new thing, but had become very extensive in a short space of time. It has been a great boon to the miners to find a liquid which would appease the throat without nauseating them, and strengthening them at the same time In no small degree. Some of the more thoughtful miners told me that the use of tea in the mines had proven of great benefit to the men in many ways, for prior to its introduction there was much suffering. If the men drank water it made them sick, if they did not drink it they would almost perish. Something was needed badly, and tea is the best thing they have been able to find. AMERICAN MAPS Records Me.de by Indians Which Darie Beck Many Centuries The oldest maps in America are to be found in Arizona and Texas. How old they are may not be said, but they date back many centuries. The Indian has left behind him many records. In his rude implements of peace and warfare his kniv.es, arrows, axes, spears, vessels, mortars, quoits, etc., we can the history of prehistoric read races, their habits and customs, their social life, their tribal relations, their occupations and their pastimes. From picture writings we gain additional in sight into the ways of these primitive people. It now appears that some of these early dwellers in the land s of no mean ability. were The traditions of some of the tribes of Arizona, Texas and Mexico held intimate relations with each other, and their inhabitants traveled back and forth from country to country for cento-da- y map-maker- turies. In Tenaja canyon, Tex., are unmistakable evidences of this. The lay of Charm of the Desert. the land is such as to make this canYou often hear from car window obyon the natural pass for a large area servers of the dreary" desert, the of country north and south of that desert point. The travel which has passed hopeless," the cheerless But the desert deserves none of these through this canyon has worn the solid adjectives. It is dreadful, if you wish rock of the trail to a depth of not less in the way in which it punishes the than three feet. Even though the reignorance and presumption Of those gion about were densely populated, it who know not the signs of thirst; It must have taken three centuries to is sometimes awful in its passions wear through this adamantine path. of dust, torrents, heat; it is even monotonous to those who love only the TAKING HIM DOWN A PEG. life of crowded cities; but it Is never dreary or cheerless. Hopelessness Arro may well apply to the deserts of Mul- Massachusetts Judge Rebukes a Witness. of gance and street berry Smoky hollow, with Judge Nathan Webb, whose resigns their foul odors, their swarms of crowded and hideous human life; but tion from the United States Circuit the desert of the arid land is eternally and District Courts, on account of the is an hopeful, smiling, strong, rejoicing in increasing Infirmities of old age, in his fc itself, says a writer in the Century. nounced, will take with him The desert is never morbid in its ad- tirement the profound respect and af as versity,, on the other hand, it is calm feetion of the bench and the bar, for and sweet and clean tne cleanest of well as of the public geneially, all land. Not till man comes, bringing his fine traits of mind and character his ugly mining towns and his de- To his scholarly attainments ahd hi structive herds, does it bear even the broad grasp of the principles of law he sense and a rug vestige of the unclean, the dreary, adds a sound common ged intellectual equipment that siig the unpicturesque. gest something of the quality of tlif The walls of the canyon, which are perpendicular and smooth, are embellished with lines carved in the rock, and then traced over with paint of a vermilion hue, so permanent as to have lost but little of its luster during the centuries it has ornamented the rock canvas. The first discoverers of those markings were unable to decipher them or guess their import, but subsequently prospectors and plainsmen who visited the canyon discovered in these lines accurate maps of the country, with the trails, mountain passes and water holes indicated thereon. The makers of these maps showed a thorough knowledge of the country and accuracy as to relative distances and points of the compass. It is now known that some of these are maps of sections of the country, with trails, villages, water wells, etc., indicated upon them.. It is somewhat remarkable that among the animals pictured on these rocks are camels so lifelike as to admit of no doubt as to their Identity. There can be no little question but that the makers of those pictures had knowledge of Egypt or Arabia, or that the camel was once indigenous to this country. t It takes a life time to learn to read Gods book of Providende. surpassing the horrors of even the modern phonetic Bible and the The criminal In English" version. this case is a Canadian minister with he unsuspicious name of William Vye Smith. In an introduction he nakes his apology for thinking such And thar are a an offense desirable: lantle o folk and I meet them wha dinna speak Scots their-elbut are keen to hear it, and like o read it And thar i3 anither consideration the Scots tenyus is no get-l- n extendit, and seme folk think it nay be tint a' the gither or lang. t Of the translation itself the follow 'tig passage from the twelfth chapter A Revelations will give a fair idea: of Stale native of bis coast rockbound In Hot Weather. And the yirth heipA the wumman; The Watch Some men are as prone to take up a Maine. Above all things ol3e he hates and the yhth opa't her mcif, and wallow ed up the spate that the Drafashion as women. A few years ago it sham and excessive dilettanteism became a fashion to wear the watch In This latter trait of Judge Webbs char- gon belched forth 'frae his inooth. the upper outside pocket of the coat, acter was well illustrated In his court And the Dragon was fu o wrath over-nic- e fastening the bar of the chain in the some time ago, when a rather who again the wumman, and he gaed awa witness was on the stand, buttonhole of the lapel, so that the to mak war wi' the lave of her bairns had given his name as, say, T. Augus- thae that war chain ornamented that part of the garkeepln the commanuna had ' tus Browne. After this witness . ment o and the testimenie o hanin God, Then the fashion disappeared. It about exhausted the patience of the Jesus. manner, has returned, and during the first court by his condescending This Is something almost as audawarm days of last week when waistJudge Webb asked him; as the attempt to make Shakescious was? name did your What say you coats were discarded the tendency to out as Bacon. an peare with e, T. Augustus Browne, transfer the watch to the upper outside pocket of the coat was very replied the witness. Well, what does the T stand for? Latest Folly of Society ( Women. marked. ' White, fluffy dogs are now all the An authority on such matters says asked the judge. Thomas, was the answer. the fashion originated in New York rage among New Yorks exclusives. "proceed with the testimony of Mr. Mrs. John Jacob Astor started the fad. when negligee wear was more of a said e! an with novelty among men than it is now. Thomas A. Browne, When she goes for a drive in her The same authority adds that the the Judge. Boston Herald. brougham a little white poodle that watch in the coat pocket Is a better matches her boa sits on the seat be- mode of wearing it than in the pocket side her. Other society women soon BIBLE IN BROAD SCOTCH. of the negligee shirt. took up the fad. Now nearly every Translated Into Fearful1 ana carriage on the avenue or In the Scriptures Many a man earns his bread by the Wonderful Language. park contains its little White, fluffy sweat of his brow mi sy another The London Chronicle says that the dog. The only ornament allowed the man sweats when he tackles the bread Bible rendered Into "braid Scots Is dog is a white or colored how around made by his wife. the latest crime in translation, far its neck. s, |