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Show A WIFE, BUT PLAYS WITH DOLLS. Enrrotrnded by her dolls end seated on a little rustle Bench tn the- yard adjoining her mother's house In Potta-towPa.. Mrs. Alwrdle R. Snellen-berge- r. th bride of Horace W. 8nrlenberger, spends most of her day. She Is a bride of blit a few days, and 1b spending her honeymoon at her mothers home until her husband prepares a home to which to take her. Che will then go to housekeeping, like any other woman, ami assume the duties of her household as though she were twice as old The wedding of the girl to Surilcn-bergewho is a man of 22 years, was a great surprise to her friends In Potts-towWhile It w.u, noticed that he had been paying her assiduous attentions. It was not thought that anything - n. r, In very rare Instances that a girl makes a failure The system of placing the girls In families Is beln rapidly extended. The girls drop naturally Into the position, and. while not presuming In, the least, receive any kindness or attention without flowing it to spoil them. Most families exhibit great Interest In these girls POCAHONTAS IN KITCHEN. show them kindnesses and give them Indiana Iflnkn Model Sermote, Soya n privileges, yet the girls do not preWmUih Writer. sume. on the cont-ary- , they appreclati Riverside (t'al correspondence Phil- attention and make better help In conThe servant girl sequence, as they are anxious to gan adelphia Times quistiou Is solved at last. It has not all the knowledge possible, at well at been done by the Importation of obto please their patrons jectionable Chlneee or the scouring of Head Oat the Italenee. foreign woods for women who are too uncivilized to be Independent and In the ladles' Home Journal th above the kitchen station. The adu Rev C T Brady relates some of hll from any other port I should Instruct the customs authorities In New Tork to rend them hack. The Talue of the watch submitted to the special agents was 600 francs. Needless to say Its owner never returned to claim It. I sites Weekly lt only 1 S'ndrrl, consumption. The next day tha printer. his wife and two children were traveling in sumptuous style toward Bus Diego, where for over a year, nn&l thp man died, they received from Mix Mooera' Law Angeles bankers a certain monthly stipend. A year ago a man fell down tha shaft lu the Yellow Aster mine. Tha Yellow Aster company pensioned tha WldOW liberally. Mr Mooera happened CD be oil the care a few weeks later, and tha widow came forward and Introduced herself to him During thtlr conversation she spoke of her three daughters and of the plans of their dead father to send them east to tha paternal home. A day or so later Mr. Mooar had bought round trip ticket for tb whole family to New Bedford, Vasa. Not only that, but he secured bertha lu the Pullman cars for them, sad gar a $20 gold piece to each of the trio. While in New York last summer ha overheard a colored man In tha hall on. The Eagle changed hands and Mooers was out of a job the fu ir )car has been Mooera next Joined a filibustering exand e. .entric In its lavish pedition to Costa Rica, tn Central expeidl.ure of money, d ed suddenly America, and with his comrades lay the Other !aj at the Fifth Avenue ho- In Jail one year, expelling almost any York He will be rememtel, it N day to be led out to execution He was bered tn- aut-e- , like the blithesome a sailor before the mast for the next g for year and a half .Reluming to New prlncsqf (nt tunes Into tl.o jpa of ail to whom his York, In broken health, he wrote an fancy turned article for the Sun about the hardships The storj of Frederic k Mooers rise of common sailors, which brought him from rvertr o wealth Is an Interestto public notice He was called to ing one lnJi I, hi while life waa one Washington by a committee In conof unuau.lv roi 'antic vlcissRudes gress to relate In detail how American At thiage of ;,n Mr Mooera was withsailors weie treated on ships sailing out a dollar At the age of 55 he (lied, under foreign flags. In April. 1895, Mooera, John Single-to- n possess- - of o.i third of the Yellow and Austin Huirlem were living In Aster mines n fur which the a tent at Goler, earnlnf dollar a day, Del Mari, of t tali vainly offt red $4 and on partbularly favorable days a 200,000.' dollar and a half. For weeks Mooera Hla father was a cobbler In Cambridge, &Uss He wen to New York at bud pondcre.uver the problem of the the breaking out of the civil war. and source of the golden specks which they In the brown desert for months was a Street arab Then were k M Mooeia, and r, nn. cf good ft How mining king whoseAoa-re- t a, a- -t - atni . lerlous would come of the attachment tor yeard to come. Perlnps the fancy Of the two would wear awav, and they would separate to pursue their respective paths through life without giving each other a second thought But neither Horace nor Alverdie would have things that way. They Were really In earnest in their affection lor each other, and would be married Whether others would or no. So when Mrs. Jacob Snell Objected that her laughter was too young to assume the lutles of wifehood, they decided that they would not wait for maternal content. 6o off they went and married Shellenberger Is a farm band In Pottstown township, a short distance He wasn't in a pofrom Pottstown rtion to take the girl home with him. to she was compelled to come back to her parent's roof until her husband could provide a place for her. She Is as happy aa a lark, despite her reparation from her lover. For has lot her mother consented to the match, adding to make the best of the conditions, and will she not Join her hua- band in due time? She helps her mother about the house as she did of old. and spends her spare time on the .tittle rustic bench where she has always been wont to sit with her dolls tor company. Though but It. Mrs. Shellenberger is girl, and would really, I tass for IT. Still, at that she looks rery childish for a bride. But what matters that, she says, aa long as she kVM her husband and he loves her. And there Is not much doubt that they to love one another. ed the purzle that has prCWCtCTO-l- y furrowrd the brow of the American housewife, made our wives old before their time end excited the wondering sympathy of vlsltois to those shores is found in the Indian school, an Institution near here which is under the control of the department of the Interior. I called recently to see .the suerintend-en- t of this beneficent Institution, and asked him for a signed declaration of the benefits that he had found to accrue from the transformation of the modern Pocahontas Into a cook or a scullery maid. The superintendent, Harwood Hall, consented to address the following, through jour columns, to any doubting ones who Imagine that the substitution of an Indian girl for the present kitchen queen would only aggravate the trouble: I have placed great numbers of Indian girls In families for general work after they have attended school a sufficient time to get proper training. They secure wages ranging from $1 per month to $10, according to qualification. I send them out as cooks, housemaids and nurses, while they are yet pupils of the school, six months of each year. 'Hke other six months are spent at the school in securing literary av.well aa industrial training. - After they reach a certain age and grade they take permanent positions.- The success of these Indian girls is phenomenal. It lion of - W A' Rover Called A gala. In the early days of my consulship i man came to me with a handsome watch, which cost at least $400 on this tide of the water. He proposed send-fa- g a large shipment of similar watcb-i- s to the United States, naming the 'Trice which mast he thr selling 'prim h the country from which the goods tre shipped he wished "me to enter to the Invoice as $15. I was new at the knAness, but saw In a moment that Here Is $15," something was wrong. f said, Tor this watch, which I wish rou to leave with me, that I may send it to our special agents tn Parts to ascertain If the price yon name-i- e correct. Aa I am a new consul, with but little experience, and . not ap expert yoa will understand I don't want to Inahs a mistake." The man objected vary seriously, alleging aa an excuse that he did not want to be delayed tn shipping the goods. But I was firm, telllpg him he must give me time to Investigate the matter, and that tn the msaattms if he ahlpped his watches .Mi ministerial experiences In the West "A man came up to me one day," saya Mr Brady, after service In a frontier town, and was pleased to address me this manner 'Say, parson, that there service and sermon was grand. I would not have missed em for $5. When I suggested that he hand me the difference between the amount he had put In the collection basket and the figure he mentioned, for my missionary work, he stopped suddenly, looked at me with hla mouth wide open, and FREDERICK MOOERS AND INCIDENTS OF RIS LIFE. then slowly pulled from his pocket $4 90. which he handed to me without a word." he became a compositor on the New sands. One day It flashed upon him of tbe Imperial hotel, where he waa York Sun, later joined an expedltn to that the Goler camp was the center of stopping, tell another servant of how Brazil, and before be was 24 made a an enormous extinct crater; that the the sweeping of dusty carpet fa ths I)rl-B- rl FstallUm Ummo. particles In the sand were hotel was gradually killing him wit Dr. Tatausabaro Yabe. head of the fortune of some $18,000 in the diamond golden He inquired at the ofmedical department of the Japanese field along the Amazon. Returning to washed there through countless ages consumption.volcanic action, fice about the man, had doctor exnavy, relates In the Archives de Mede-cln- e New York he married, and gayly spent front ledges formed by bis little fortune within two years. He and if the rim of the volcano might be amine him, and found the case a genuNavale how kakke or beri-be- rl went twriV to the Brazilian diamond found ths original ledge would be a ine one for charity. Shortly after ths has to all Intents and purposes disapof fabulous wealth For days man, his wife and child were on their peared from hla branch of the service. fields. Meanwhile the govermental pol- source andTe-told his story to his com- way to California at Mr. Mooers exBefore 1884 the proportion of men af- icy toward the diamond miners had ,Jie told Singleton and Bur-healiens no Finally were panion and longer fected during the summer was rarely changed, pense. They are now la Phoenix, Ariagreed tip go and search for the zona, and the man Is the chief cook at below twenty-fiv- e permitted to mine there. per cent, and somethis ledge. Two days of prospecting led tbe Adams House. He returned to his times It reached forty per cent. M. One Kanebiro TakakI then suggestea an time on the Brooklyn Eagle. way to the location of the seven mines Two months ago Mr. Mooera waa t AbIcF group, Improvement In the food (which was he contributed su article to the Edgle known as the Yellow a blacksmith shop tn Lon Angeles ts on commercial affaire of Brazil, at-- - where Randsburg has Blnre grown up. see about shoes for his paeer. composed mainly of rice) by the adHv whacked mens were tbe So led. rich spec) of the proprietor, dition, of pearl barley,, with- - the result tract! ng the attest men the several heard discussing' prosYelde him a from the outcropping rock that the that from 1885 to 1895 there were only - Thomas Kinsella, atari. Mooers, pect of" getting gold at Cape Nome. thre fatal cases of beri-ber- l, all of bookkeeper In the business office. Next low Aster paid from the had taken over None of tbe men knew him. He beBuroheni which occurred during the war with Mooera was cashier for the Eagle,' at Singleton and came Interested In- one of the young China, when the supply of rice failed. $5,000 a year Those were palmy 'days $700. 00 In ore from the golden ledgM men because of hie burning aval to go 1900 to January, of Journalism lu New York and Brook- up Nome. to Invited He him to hla house Yellow With the knowledge that the lyn days when Tweedlsm put vast that day and several days thereafter. thousource was of the be to Aster sums in the pockets of favored pubOn one of the first steamer from Selishers. But Tweed was sent to pris- - sands of doHars every mohtb s long as attle to Cape Nome, early -- in May, he would probably live. Mooers set B. Judson sailed north with about having a gloriously good time Richard I supplies and capital enough to last two with his suddenly acquired fortune. Wha llie t ts Away. M. Mooers was his & know too well," said he to friends, years. Frederick silent partner. one such of "that my life has been hardships that I will probably live but A Uood RaUwsy Btgat a few years more ten or twelve years at tbe outside and I mean to have fun Chinamen can always locate themand make some people remember me selves exactly, ao that they need no for personal kindnesses after I am - . guide. beggar of PetOir ara an" Kane.? other peculiar institution. They are . And he kept his word organized and have a ruler of their First he bought a magnificent manown, whose orders they are quick to sion owned by Thomas F. Fitch, at 818 obey. Sometimes a group of the begBonnie Brae street, Los Angeles. He gars will gather in front of a merlent to New York and got his aged chants store and make such an Inmother, his young son and his brothfernal racket that he la glad to bribe ers, and brought them all in a private The home was them to go away. Another method car to Los Angeles. of bought horses furnished "auperWyr-- H extorting money 4 for a beggar to go to a merchant or householder and anand carriages for the family's use, pronounce that unless he la vided his mother with servants to anpromptly paid one or two dollar be will com ticipate her slightest wish, and made mit suicide on his victim' doorstep, sure that the home circle should haw if the money la refused he is likely a certain part of the dividends from to carry out his threat, in which case "Every time I aee.a clothes pi I Ethel "I don't ere why Mr. Smith the Yellow Aster monthly. the .authorities may give the nnfor-tunaAll tbe rest he devoted to all sort or think of a railway accident." comes here every day. He's married. "Wbyr whims of pleasure. merchant much trtrable. and Isn't he?" Because It Indicate a vuk-s-( sometimes blackmail hint out' of g A. month later. In Buffalo, he found Maud "Yes, but hit wife's away for , J a printer of his own name dying of on the line." large amount of property, the summer." In - m -- type-settin- g, who--ma- POLICEMEN OF PEKIN The policemen of Pekin are, or, at least, were, armed with small drums, which- they- - best lowHy-laorde- v, It Is presumed, to let burglars and other marauders know that they are coming. All night long the watchmen beat tbetr way around the streets, and as a natural consequence are said to make few arrests. The pigeon of Pekin have each a light whistle tied to their tails, which gives forth a load six whistles of different tones are attached, and the result la a more or less melodious confusion of sounds. The blind, and In Pekin blind men and women are numerous, also use drums to announce their coming and warn other people to get out of their way. - By the difference In the sound aa It is reflected back from walla or pavemeats It la said that the blind -- te r, :c - -- |