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Passing through Hester street a few This room, as well as many others in the house, was carpeted during Presi- evenings ago I paused before a steep of Some the of steps leading down into a celPaint of Fresh Coat dent Harrisons administration, Mrs. flightroom In lar Threadbeneath a tall, overcrowded Are Worn Harrison giving her personal attention floor Coverings tenement, says the New York Herald. bare by the Ceaseless Tramp of Office to the selection of the as she The door was carpets, partly open, and through did to ,the superintendence of the elabjieekers. the I saw a peculiar fog dimly crack orate decorative work which was done stood on HIDE the President in the; entrance corridor and some of alighted up by an oil lamp that table. It was this fojj? that attracted andl Mrs. Cleveland the pallors during her husbands term my attention, for at first glance it apof office. 'll weie at Gray, Gathe The official' part of the house has peared to be smoke and I thoughthowbled the White afire. That it wa not afire, House has under- been made thoroughly clean for the place I at once ever, perceived, for the atmosannual occupancy of the president and his clergone its full of feathery, floating summer renovation. ical force during the winter, but in phere seemed and there' was no odor of The work that' was spite of all the fresh varnish, which particles, I to learn what the smoke. determined done last summer has been liberally applied to the woodmysterious appearance was, however, could nearly all be work, jit has a shabby- - appearance. It and quietly descended tie steps, pushed classed under the had been proposed to both the .door further open and looked in. house-Thethe cabinet room and the presidents A of head curious very spectacle greeted me. some minor office, ut Mr. Cleveland would not apbeen have was a It cleaning, small, square! room, with an Orations and repairs, however, cut-i--ofZ prove jthe expenditure of the money, apartment partitioned off in the rear, and the old carpets will have to remain! into thicb the most important was th'q. which opened a window, some six if an entrance directly into the although that n the office shows very feet or more above thb floor. The on the south clearly the effect of the tread of the Bide room from the portico furniture was the rjmgh, pine table This is intended thousands of who have only fro it bf the mansion. the door, on which stood the lamp. by entrance for entered that room during the past two to be used as a private were four occupants, a man, There tnepblers of the cabinet xxhd their ladies, administrations with high, hopes desHewoman, girl and boy, all Russian tined in ' and instances blasted. corps many of the diplomatic members The dressed. The apepardnee of the outside of the brews, and scantily were ladies1 who are specially invited to woman seated nd children upon the president and his wife at state house las been greatly improved. The the floor, amid a mass of geese, which new .asphalt pavements, which have entreckons, so as to enable them to they were busily engaged in plucking. the iwithout sideuneven House White replaced being the flagstone er The man' was gathering up the feathcompelled to pass through the crowded walks jleading) up to the mansion from ers, and, with the assistance of a where the street, give a much more tidy ap- wooden box to stand upon front Entrance and corridors, .pushing these specially favored persons have pearance to thte grounds, and the fresh them through a high window into the sometimes in the past been compelled coat of white paint with which the enrear apartment. The atmosphere was tire outside of the building has been so choked to struggle with the crowd for half with floating particles of an bour before being able to reach the covered makes! it glisten in the sunlight feathers that it was astonishing they like a jstructue of snow. receiving party. breathed at all. They difi not notice my jkrly in the summer Colonel John Keeping the White House white Is appearance and I stood !at the door for executive mansion. 'll, 1)1 been done REN-WAT- rather the worse for wear, and the carpetj is beginning to look rather shabby in places, especially near the door, where it is daily trodden by hunIs ; by t : I t' ancisco. Instances of These Leviathans Throwing; Themselves Oat of Water. THE NEW SCIENCE IS CALLED "Speaking of j imping, said an old PAIDOLOGY. seaman who had been watching some leap-fro- g on the sands, acValuable Results Have Already Been boys playing cording to the Philadelphia Times, "let Produced Minutest Detail of the me tell you of the greatest jump ever Mental System Investigated Tests Pa seen. It was many years ago, when I rents May Safely Apply. was a little more than a lad, but I was bow oarsman on a whaleboat belonging ASHINGTON spe to the ship Henry Staples. We had had cial: Every school luck for several weeks, when one day we a big whale, and two boats teacher, father and set sighted off in a to see wrho would get mother, or indeed there first. racewas It fairly smooth, what anyone who daily the sailors call a white-cap breeze, and comes in contact water. with small children our boats fairly flew over the 100 not rose whale the yafds will be interested Finally us. The to . learn of some away, heading directly for stood with his iron all ready wonderful revelato while we grasped our oars throV, tions which are behar-poon- er ing made through a new science known as "paidology, or more literally, child study. All of the large colleges and universities in the United States have now provided courses in what is known as the new psychology. Connected with these are completely equipped laboratories for studying the minutest details of the great mental system. The principal in vestigations in these workshops are made upon children. This is for the reason that most college students undertaking psychological courses are preparing to be pedagogues, that is to say, teachers of the young. The child-stud- y laboratories in colleges hear to the department of education much the same relationship which the agricultural experiment stations connected with various universities bear to the department of agriculture so far as is concerned the collection and diffusion of the knowledge obtained. Instead ofprac ticing with plants to learn the most de sirable processes for their cultivation, the former experiment stations study the budding infant mind. Reports upon the work done thus far In all of these laboratories have lhtely been collected at the bureau of education by Miss E. Toleman Smith, an educational specialist, to whom the writer is indebted. It would appear that the child of the very near future is to enjoy an ideal school life. Every effort Is being made by these expert paidologists to detect weaknesses in all of the State school systems. Although the youth of the present generation fares many hundreds per cent better than did his grandfather, made to sit almost all day on a d stool, in constant fear of the switch, the puof the twentieth century will be repil lieved of many discomforts at present existing. ts It is the opinion of most eduare our that boys and girls too cated much according to the average childs ability. The average boy can sit still a certain length of time, he can hear common conversation so many feet away, his nerves are sensitive to a certain degree, he can endure a certain amount of pain and exposure, he can work in a, certain amount of light, he can study so much in a certain. night, he can remember so much of his yesterdays lesson, and so on. But what is to become of him who is below the average? If below the average in hearing, sight, memory, nerve, strength, endurance, etc., must he he put back in a lower grade or given a chance to go ahead, provision being made for his weaknesses until cured? In the model etperimental laboratory is found apparatus for for child-stud- y studying the motor abilities, rapidity of actions, powers of attention perception, memory, will, sensitiveness to fatigue, pain, and hundreds of other conditions both of children and matured persons. They are made to sleep on balances graduated to such fine points that the slightest irregularity of pulse, respiration, circulation, temperature, etc., may be detected. Mild doses of narcotics and nervines are given. The patient Is put under an air pump and the effect of varying pressures of atmosphere against the entire surface of the body is observed. Certain muscles are worked until tired. The effects of hypnotism, electricity, varying degrees of flight, heat and sound, and also of chemicals, both tasted and smelt, are also tested. All of these investigations are made without pain or discomfiture to anyone. hard-seate- nerve-shatteri- N ) some minutes and watched them curiwould grasp ously. The a bird by the legs and in a surprisingly short time completely strip It of feathers. So expert was the woman that it look less than two minutes to clean a Izrge fcild perfectly. She would throw kSiklfe the carcass in a corner,! where scores ;h' 1 were already heaped, and grasp anis one of the other. IrCt4;', curious v?7 'MaM many occupations of the big V' east side. Establishments such as this are numerous. The buy the birds in wholesale lots, pluck them ,YU and sell the carcasses to marketmen at the same figure sometimes even at !kV slight loss under the spur of competiMil tion. The prpfit Is in the sale of the feathers. in There are Wilson, the superintendent of pub-li- d jne of the most difficnlt tasks which Hester tenement own street who the superintendent of buildings and houses. buildings and grounds, made a careful examination of the entire White grounds has to perform. It is painted House to ascertain whether or not any every jfear or jtwo, but, though WashTo Wash Machinery. repairs were necessary to make it safe, ington Is cleaner than almost any other A free method of removing almost is and consatisfactory k vieyr of the great crowds that city in the country, soon of white grpasa and dirt from sticky deposits gregate in it on state occasions. He from btjfal smoke, the paint of the and parts machinery by taeans pf soda found that there were evidences of takes cn a soiled appearance, weakness In the beams which supported nooks and corhers, especially about the lye is reported as being employed to a To us main floor of the corridor running columns of the great portico, over the considerable extent in England. 1,000 of parts by. weight water, about fiong in front of the Red, Blue and main entrance are favorite resorts for Green rooms. It is in this corridor that Insects,! which adorn them with nestsr ten or fifteen parts caustic soda and 100 tbs greatest crush occurs at public recwebs and cocoons, in spite of all that parts ordinary soda is the rule. This mixture is boiled, and the parts of the eptions, as there is a constant stream can be done byj the attaches of the house of Occasionally a machinery that are to be cleaned are people through it on their way to to brush them down. placed in it, this treatment having the tie receiving while there is often pair of sparrows begin the construction party, effect of quickly loosening all grease, a counter stream going toward the coni- of a nest at the top of one of the col- oil and dirt, after which the metal is ' umns, hut they never get much further serratory. The of thoroughly washed and dried. The condition of the beams was such that a beginning, for the foundations of of the action course, to form lye is, are destroyed as fast as they M to give considerable ground for fear their home soluble the in water; with dissoap grease -, and they soon become flat the floor to might give way and l?re- can lay (them, and the prevent for lubricating oil, etc., cipitate the crowd in the corridor into couraged, and seek another site the parts of the mahardening upon the cellar. In order to guard effect their hbuse. when in use, a third part of chinery Dally against any As the result of the labors of a corps kerosene is added. , such catastrophe Colonel Wilson had all the weakened of painters the entire outside of the can beams taken out and GREAT THOUGHTS. replaced by sound house is now white as white paintclean Des. and had additional supports put make ii, and will remain fairly to. so as to make The essence of lying is in deception, the floor strong until the dust and insects of next sumit. not in words. A lie may be told by aough to safely hold all the- persons mer make their annual attack upon 'silence. Ruskin. bo could possibly fce crowded together Let It make no difference to thee Dpon it. What Thos Americans Eat. thou art cold or warm, whether Numerous alterations were made In hostess Is racking a country Many; thou art 111 spoken of or tbs conservatory, so a3 to make it more her brajins for new ideas for shooting whether praised, if thou art doing thy duty commodious- - and better fit tb accomare in season, and Marcus luncheons. Oysters Aurelius. modate some of the crowds which overfthe palate of tickle would certainly low from the Hypocrisy is folly; for it is much and the east the shooters if they were served as a parlors safer and pleasanter to be the cocm on state occasions. New boilers friend bf mine, lately returned from easier, which a man seems to appear, have put in for the steam heating plant, New Y?rk, advises. Across the herring thing d;o keep up the appearance of kew asphalt pavements have been are always than oysters knowj you pond, he is not. Lord Burleigh. what Pat down on both driveways leading up served ;on crushed Ice and with the being Scriptural repentance Is that deep front entrance to the mansion. most delicious sauces, which we never ;? radical change whereby a sinner 30 new furniture for any of the prin-mp- dream of over here. A very piquant and from the idols of sin and self turns rooms of the mansion has been sauce, highly flavored with red unto God, and devotes every movement celery ught during the summer, but that In Migpepper ;! a chopped onion, called sauce, of the Inner and outer man to the caprooms Tabasco X.tf has been freshened up nonette sauce, and then tivity of his obedience. Chalmers. reuPJlolstere(3 Tbe furniture which is described to me as "liquid A man might empty a church toue room, in which the receiving 1.,. If preached on justification by the night or he alwars stationed, on the ocea-s"aIn America they send to table, atlittle any of the grand, living. Juicy faith, receptions and where the beginning of dinner, delicate doctrines of the old orthodoxy; One so in or inches am two receives bf usually foreign celery, sticks day we shall get tired of the new paste erg and ministers when they length, !very crisp, served on ice; and then we shall ask for the old diamond. ItoXTlSits ceremony to the White the diners eat their celery as they go Joseph Parker. eea In blue on from dish to dish, just as we eat Xi Xl No waye on the great ocean of time, to C dec-and appetizing, delicious trXuVtr correspond with the when once it has floated past us, can bread. Very 3 the room. The Green room, too. be recalled. All we can do It to watch leh callers at the state re- -j ''XXX the new form and motion of the next, into the east room, after and launch upon It to try, in the manUrging Her On. paid their respects to the re-'-- D ner our best judgment may suggest, our "Itobirta, said the emancipated a see party, has been redressed in can strength and skill. Gladstone. daughter. I to her womani of A devout thought, a pious desire, a T. green and gold. Yon are in love with two. ' uflstering cr 3 great east room the show thing holy purpose, is better than a great estba mansion there has been Charles! Wethcrlll. tate or an earthly kingdom. In eternity I am? "Well, mamma, suppose in cither the furniture or cour; it will amount to more to have given you pluck up dont Then why v!:rai-lor.sThe furniture, carpets some other wom--- n a cup of cold water, with right motives, before to propose servant of God, than to in this room have been age the very best cook to a humble Hes him? rets flattered been by a whole generaas have they have been In has money in his he and town 'j,- 'X3 cleaned,but there the Dr. Cumming. is nothing tion. ferae of the furniture own right. Judge. goose-plucke- rs M t ' I tllf r Goose-plucki- ' i lt,. Jill; N w- 1 ng - goose-plucke- rs i goose-plucke- rs M,1 J . t OTg& f fybrS' ?thatT -- Sr; Hp!l u al ,riiverc par'-- ; For mgton, to P-teay iicate fcu? coluP 1 -- r ff liiid-- . iSS?-hlnzv ' t0 -- . m . INFLUENCE LEAPING WHALES. TESTING? THE MIND. ng child-studen- . f Where lie Wrote HU ' W1JL ; Strange things happen in Florida. A recent instance is reported by the Times-Unio- n of Jacksonville. One of the queer documents In the office of the county judge is a will written on a piece of unpainted plank five feet long and one foot wide. The plank was sawed out of the house of Mrs. Arnold, who lives Just outside the city. The plank was a part of the wall. On a bed beside it lay a sick man, John M. OBrien, whom Mrs. Arnold had befriended. Before he died he wrote on the plank in pencil these words: "Mrs. Arnold, God bless her, shall have all I leave. He left $500. The will Is an unhandy document to file hut It serves its makers purpose. HU Idea of Distance. A Windham county. Conn., man, who rounded out 75 years of his life without ever going more than 20 miles from his birthplace, was one day answering the questions of a distinguished western visitor, who had come on to the old town from far beyond the Mississippi valley to learn of the childhood of his father and mother, who were horn in Windham county. The old native gave the westerner just the details the latter was seeking. "And I suppose you have always lived around here, said the man from beyond the Mississippi. Oh, no, replied the native, "I was born two miles from here. Philadelphia Record. nervously,' prepared to jump at the word stern all, that nearly always came when a whale was harpooned. Not a word was spoken and suddenly a mountain of black appeared; it seemed to shut off the entire horizon. Up it went until I distinctly saw a seventy-fowhale over twenty feet in the air hovering over us. "The mate was the first to regain his senses and gave the command: Stern all, Just as we were ready to spring overboard the boat shot back several feet and the next second the gigantic animal divedjnto the ocean; just grazing us, having completely passed over the boat in the biggest leap I ever heard ot of. Such gigantic jumps are rare! A similar one was recorded by Dr. Hall, who at the time was a midshipman on the ship Leander. They were lying in the harbor of Bermuda, when all hands were attracted by the appearance of a very large whale that suddenly appeared in the harbor and seemed very much alarmed by the shallow water, floundering about violently. The young midshipman joined a boats crew that started in pursuit and just as they were about to strike the whale disappeared, sinking out of sight,, leaving a deep whirlpool, around which the boat shot. Before it stopped up came the whale, having In all probability struck the bot-oand went into the air like a rocket. "So complete was this enormous leap, says Dr. Hall, that for an instant we saw him fairly up in the air, in a horizontal position, at least twenty perpendicular feet above our heads. While in his progress upward there was in his spring some touch of the vivacity with which a trout or salmon shoots out of the water, but he fell back again in the sea like a huge log thrown on its broadside, and with such a thundering crash as made all hands stare with astonishment, and the boldest held his breath for a time,. Had the whale taken his leap one minute sooner he would have fallen plump on the boat. m, ODD HAPPENINGS IN REAL LIFE. A Western Passenger Train Held Dp by a Swarm of Hornets. A swarm of hornets held up a passenger train on the Chicago, Fort Madl-so- h & Des Moines railroad, and gave the trainmen and passengers a battle that will be remembered longer by far than. Jf iLhad been against bandits. Says an Ottumwa dispatch to the cinnati Tribune. The train was ning slowly up a steep grade just Cin- runout- side the city, where the hillside is covered with trees. Suddenly Engineer Cunningham noticed a black mass moving through the air ahead of the train. Had he known what was coming he would hl-vstopped his engine and backed to the next station. The small cloud soon developed into a swarm of hornets. The hornets noticed the slowly puffing engine and made for it. They attacked the engineer and fireman, who Were forced to stop the train. It was a sultry day and all the car windows were open. This gave the hornets an opportunity to enter the cars and pester the passengers. It was an hour before the trainmen and passengers succeeded in driving away the hornets. A number of persons were severely stung. The train stopped at a farmhouse until the injuries could he attended to and then proceeded to this city. e Or CAnriELDf. L.FE. How a Young Jersey I readr OtUlneS an Interesting; Memento. - A few days ago the Iiey. II. rarkcr. Miles, the young minister la charge cf the Lyndhurst chapel, received a pleasant letter from Mrs. James A. GarheldJ Inclosing an autograph of her late husband. A pretty tale is furnished by this incident. A dozen years ago Mr. Miles' lived in humble circumstances inn mill' town in England. , The book, "Promt Towpath to President, which relates1 the history of General Garfield, fell into his hands; he became a devout admirer! of its hero, and determined to make his future home in g, country where every-- j thing was possible to a poor boy. Ho came to New York and by a queer coincidence first secured employment in the office of a close friend of Garfield. Following closely in the steps of his 4 model, Mr. Miles wrorked his way through college, studying first at St. Stephens, and being graduated from the Union Theological Seminary. Again like Garfield, he became a teacher, and soon after his graduation he was sent as a missionary to the West. At tho first service he held, in a small Western village, an Ohio woman came to him r. and thanked him for his helpful sm-- j mon. To the young Englishman, Ohio was simply Garfields home, and he said' to the woman: "Did you know Gar- field I did, was the reply, "Ive heard him preach many a sermon when1 ?Sure a young man. These Incidents further strengthened the hold of Garfields memory on the young man, and some weeks ago he wrrote to Mrs. Garfield, telling her of th marked influence of her husbands life upon his own career, and asking for her autograph, as being that of the one nearest to his hero. In her response,' Mrs. Garfield thanks the young minister for his evident admiration and emulation of the dead president, and sends to him an envelope addressed to her by her husband during the war of the rebellion. The chapels over which presides are connected with the First Presbyterian church of Rutherford, N. J., of which Rev. Dr. E. A. Bulkley Is pastor, and since the coming of Mr. Miles, some two years ago, a large increase in the active membership Mr.-Mile- s hasjnkeij place. The Presidents Sentimental Side. This story illustrates the sentimental side of President Clevelands nature.1 There was a 'certain officer in the service who had been tried by court martial.1 The officer was sent to prison, and wras in a fair way to remain there until the expiration of his sentence. The member of congress from his district did all in his power to have him pardoned, but it was of no avail. The department said that he did not deserve to be pardoned and Mr. Cleveland agreed with the department. All sorts of argument and every possible political influenc was resorted to, with no avail. It was useless and everyone gave it up except the member of congress who had first taken an interest In the case. This member went to the white house regularly every two w'eeks for about a year to make a formal petition for pardon. The president was amiable with1 the congressman, but always firm, and each lime gave the same answer. Then It came about that Mr. Cleveland par- ticipated in some dedication ceremonies in New Jersey. In his address the sen-- , timental spirit was awakened, and h uttered some moving sentiments con- cerning his mother. The. member of; congress read the address in the pa- -, pers the next day andOnrthe day fol- -j lowing that went at once to the whit -- house. ! i 1 I have come, he said to the president, "to ask for the pardon of "I know, replied Mr. Cleveland. I know what always brings yoii.'. "Yesterday morning, the M. C. continued, "I read your address. I read' your beautiful reference tor your mother. I have never read or heard uttered anything which showed more feeling or to equal it. Now, bear me through. It was that which brought me here This young man has a moth-- 1 er. She is now dying of a broken heart. Unless this only son is pardoned and goes to her at once, he will not see herj alive. She loves him above all things on earth. His pardon may prolong her, ATCHISON GLOBULES. life a short while, and it will render, As a rule, a good husband Is a satis- her dying hours happy. In the name of your mother the mother Df whom you fied husband. A mans sins will not find him out as spoke so lovingly I ask you to grant the pardon. soon as his wife. "I will, was all the president re- a mans respectaWhht becomes of plied, and the pardon was granted. bility after death? r The best spiritual adviser a girl can New Woman Th Telia a Fish mother. have Is her Story Miss Nellie Joneg, a Philadelphia Society is now called The Haunt of girl, while visiting friends In Bristol on the Unmarried Man. in husband best the Tuesday had a rather remarkable fishsaid that It is a like ing adventure. The Delaware at this dog. town is treated a woman not admire do women point is fairly alive with German carp, The some of which have grown to enordo. men who works, but the A baby buggy is a good thing, but a mous, size. A fishing party was organized in honor of Miss Jones visit and man doesnt like to push it along. exsome find Laings wharf was selected as the spot The women can always on which to lure the wary fish. Miss cuse for the sins of a gallant man. No wonder bees are profitable: they Jones had no sooner cast her line than steal all they eat from the neighbors. the hook was seized by a greedy carp. So many men go through life look- In the struggle' which followed the fair ing as if their wives had caught them angler lost her balance and was actuat it. ally pulled into the river. Fortunately A grocer never dares to keep good the water was not over three feet deep eating apples on exhibition at his store. and she pluckily held fast to her line, There are lots of good things In this eventually landing her fish. It proved; world without anyone to push them to be a beauty and weighed a trifle overj ten and a half pounds. Miss Jones was along. A man never looks In the dictionary very proud of her capture, and will so long as there is a woman around he have the fish stuffed and mounted. Philadelphia Record. can ask. When a man fails to attract attento Try tion In every other way, he goes to She I'll marry you, George, If you Europe. There is a certain kind of man that satisfy father you can support me. He Do you think I could get him to no amount of effort will ever make a man out of. play poker with me Just once? Town she Topics. When a western girl goes east, returns with at least five new ways cf It is announced that the flying meur using ribbon. If a recent discovery In the Cameroon1 ls they like you? Do your neighbors when of Africa. It is a link between their country of pie send you samples the hat and Glob. true mouse. Atchison they bake, yes. this-morning- . . J . -- , 1 t . |