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Show . HOUSE WOEK I TO RENEXECUTIVE MANSION. uMAT HAS BEEN DONE OVATE Coat of Faint Some of the Are Worn Threadpoor Covering Ceaseless Tramp of Office by rreh bare the President s HILE m vtsiaiiu,i vie were at Gray Gathe bles White 11! auu 1 a. avii 1 House has underannual gone its summer renovation. The work that was 'I last summer could nearly all be classed under the clone of head There have been some minor Srtinn. in i repairs, however, cut-of'iinh rbmost important was the U'- - hi w trance directly into the ting ., u n n tVP smith rinrHnn .vR'ue room irum -" This is intended front of th- mansion. a as private entrance for ,n hp . - - neDber- 01 iuu itwico, rttln trtrna tne caDinei ana . . 1 : .. 1 - n A are specially invited to as-;- )r si. iont and his wife at state siit o as to enable them to House without being ter the to pass through the crowded corridors, where front entrance and favored persons have these specially v, ladies lu) en-Whi- tp 1 past been compelled the crowd for half with to struck' in hour before being able to reach the receiving party. Early in the summer Colonel John soaetin- - - in the - ......I . is rather the; worse for wear, and the carpet; is. beginning to look rather shabby in places, especially near the door, where it is daily trodden by hundreds of excursionists and sightseers. This room, as well as many others in the house, was carpeted during President Harrison's administration, Mrs. Harrison giving her personal attention to the; selection of the carpets, as she did Xojthe superintendence of the elaborate decorative work which was done in the: entrance corridor and some of the parlors during her husband's term of office. Tne official part of the house has been made thoroughly clean for the occupancy of the president and his clerical force during the winter, but in spite of all the fresh varnish, which has been liberally applied to the woodwork, it has a shabby appearance. It had been proposed to both the cabinet room and the president's office, but Mr.j Cleveland would not approve ;the expenditure of the money, and the old carpets will have to remairi although that! in the office shows very clearlyj the effect of the tread of the thousands of who have entered that room during the past two administrations with high, hopes destined in many Instances to be blasted. The apeparance of the outside of the house has been greatly improved. The new asphalt pavements, which have replaced the uneven flagstone sidewalks leading up to the mansion from the street, give a much more tidy appearance to the grounds, and the fresh coat of white paint with which the entire outside of the building has been covered make3 it glisten in the sunlight like a structure of snow. Keeping the White House white is ; COOSE-PLUCKlN- Gi ' ' of This Fowl. .. ' i ..!:.... !.. Passing through Hester street a few evenings ago I paused' before a steep flight of steps leading down Into a cellar room beneath a tall overcrowded tenement, says the New York Herald. The door was partly open, and through, the crack I saw. a peculiar fog dimly lighted up by an oil lamp that stood on a table. It was this fog that attracted my attention, for at first glance it appeared to be smoke anl I thought the place afire. That it wag not afire, however, I at once perceived, for the atmosphere seemed full of feathery, floating particles, and there was no odor of smoke. I determined to learn what the mysterious appearance! was, however, and quietly descended the steps, pushed the door further open and looked in. A very curious spectacle greeted me. It was a small, square room, with an apartment partitioned off in the rear, into which opened a window, some six The feet or more above this floor. table was furniture the only rough, pine by the door, on which stood the lamp. There were four occupants, a man, woman, girl and boy, all Russian HeThe brews, and scantily dressed. woman and children were seated upon the floor, amid a mass of geese, which they were busily engaged in plucking. The man- was gathering up the feathers, and, with the assistance of a wooden box to stand upon .pushing them through a high window into the rear apartment. The atmosphere was so choked with floating particles of feathers that it was astonishing they breathed at all. They did not notice my appearance and I stood at the door for I 1 II:. lit '.'.'mi ! pet office-seeke- rs - lii- -nl ft m i USRY K3Z& ; THE NEW SCIENCE IS CALLED PAID O LOGY. - Results Have Already Been produced Minutest Detail of the Mental System Investigated Tests Pa rents May Safely Apply. fill goose-plucke- rs Goose-pluckin- goose-plucke- rs slight loss under the spur of competition. The profit is in the sale of the the superintendent of pub-H- 4 one of the most difficult tasks which and buildings and grounds, made a care-- H the superintendent of buildings Is to It has painted perform. examination of the entire Wnite grounds Ebuse to ascertain whether or not any every year or two, but, though Washrsjaira were necessary to make it safe, ington is cleaner than almost any other free te ii Tiew of the great crowd3 that city In the country, and Is almost soon white from the coal smoke, paint in it on state occasions. He fosad that thpro wpre evidences of takes on a soiled appearance, and the j Teakness in the beams which supported nooks and corners, especially about the over the tt main floor of the corridor running columns of the great portico,resorts for Mcsg in front of the Red, Blue and main entrance! are favorite Green rooms. It is in this corT.d'or that insects,! which: adorn them with nests, tia greatest crush occurs at public re- -i webs and cocoons, in spite of all that ceptiona, as there is a constant stream can be done by; the attaches of the house d people through it on their way to to brush them down. Occasionally a construction tie receiving party, while there is often pair of feparrows beginofthe of the colone the at of a nest counter stream going toward the top umns, but they never get much further of The condition of the beams was such that a beginning, for the foundations as they u to give considerable ground for fear their home are destroyed as fast disbecome soon can lay jthem, and they at the 'floor might give way and precouraged, and seek another site for "vicatc iuc uuwu iu mo tuii" cellar. In order to guard effect-3- y their house. As the result of the labors of a corps against any such catastrophe Colonel Wilson had all the weakened of painters the entire outside of j the teaaj taken out and replaced by sound house is now white as white paint can cS3, and had additional supports put make it, and (will remain fairly clean bo as to make the floor ;, strong until the dust: and Insects of next sumto safely hold all the persons mer make their annual attack upon it. I -- o could possibly be crowded together Itpoa it. ... .j'-.Thst Thos Americans Eat. j Kuaerous alterations were made In Many! a country hostess is racking tie conservatory, so as to make It more her brains for new ideas for shooting connodlou3 and better fit to accom- - luncheons. Oysters are in season, and codata some of the crowds which over-;Swould certainly tickle the palate of from the parlors and the east the shooters if they , were served as a rcca on state occasions. New boilers friend of mine,- lately returned from Ure put in for the steam heatlhg plant, New York, advises. Across the herring tew asphalt pavements have been you know,' oysters are always pond, Zovni on both driveways leading up serred on crushed ice and with the J1 front entrance to the mansion. most delicious sauces, which we never :a new furniiure for any of the prin-- : dream of over here. A very piquant cf the mansion has been celery sauce, highly flavored with red p'l rooms te flaring the summer, but that in pepperjia chopped onion, called of the rooms ha3 sauce, been freshened up j sauce," and then Tabasco as I7 Jela8 liquid furniture which is described to me te Blue room, in which The the receiving pepper.T' the alwa5's stationed, on the occa-'-S- 1 lv7 13Btat8 In America1 they send to table, atlittle delicate recePtIons and where the beginning of dinner, or so in aVat nsnally receives foreign sticks of celery, two Inches an ice; and iisters when they length, very crisp, served on e as go visiu of ceremony to the White the diners eat their celery as they eat we taa beea in blue on, from dish to: dish, Just to tr. corresDond with the aec- - bread. Very delicious and appetlxing, C!"!l, ss of the room. The Green room. ; ' j v. j ."v 1: ';;- -3 pas3 into the east room, after . Urging Her On. v v u meir respects to tne said the emancipated Party, has been redressed in womanter daughter "I can see a stering of green and gold. You are. in love with two. Sing or 3 great east room the show c' the mansion there has been Charles: Wetherill." "Well mamma, suppose I am? courr-- S5 In either the furniture or pluck up "Then why don't yousome nations. The furniture, carpets other wombefore to propose age ..ture8 In thl3 room have been an gets him? He's the very best cook he has money in his and T town to tte Is house, but there nothing ilr Eitucugh gome of the furniture own rightsJudge. H "Wilson, D con-mgt- I I j con-Krrato- ry. j feathers. There are Hester street who in goose-plucke- rs own houses. tenement To Wash Machinery. A satisfactory method of removing sticky deposits of grease and dirt from parts of machinery by means of soda lye is reported as being; employed to a considerable extent in England. To 1,000 parts by weight of water, about ten or fifteen parts caustic soda and 100 parts ordinary soda is the rule. This mixture is boiled, and the parts of the machinery that are to be cleaned are placed in it, this treatment having the effect of quickly loosening all grease, oil and dirt, after which the metal is The thoroughly washed and dried. action of the lye is, of course, to form with the grease soap soluble in water; and to prevent the lubricating oil, etc., hardening upon the parts of the machinery when in use, a third part of kerosene is added. ' . GREAT THOUGHTS. i ; it-cn- gh j st ; - jtia I j Mlg-nonet- i . f ; . am-fcava- Cr8 red 41 ; ; , ': '. 1 . re-'j'.'- S" . . .! : - The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. A lie may be told by silence. Ruskln. Let it make no difference to thee whether thou art cold or warm, whether thou art ill spoken of or praised, if thou art doing thy duty Marcus Aurelius. Hypocrisy is folly; for it is much easier, safer and pleasanter to be the thing which a man seems to appear, than .to keep up the appearance of being what he is not. Lord Burleigh. Scriptural repentance is that deep and radical change whereby a sinner turns from the idols of sin and self unto God, and devotes every movement of the inner and outer man to the captivity of his obedience. Chalmers. A man might empty a church tonight if he preached on Justification by faith, or any of the grand, living, Juicy doctrines of the old orthodoxy; One day we shall get tired of the new paste then we shall ask for the old diamond. ; Joseph" Parker. on the wave No great ocean! of time, floated past us, can has once it when we can do it to watch be recalled. All and of the next, motion new form the to it try, in the manand launch upon ner our best Judgment may suggest, our strength and skill. Gladstone. A devout thought, a pious desire, a holy purpose, is better than a great estate or an earthly kingdom. In eternity It will amount to more to have given a cup of cold water, with right motives, to a humble servant of God than to have been flattered by a whole generation. Dr. Cumming. j j ASHINGTON spe cial: Every school teacher, father and mother, or indeed anyone who daily in contact with small children will be interested to . learn of some comes wonderful jrevela-- H tions which are be ing made through a new science known as "paidology," or . more literally, child study. All of the large colleges and universi ties in the United States have now pro vided 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 pre paring to be pedagogues, that is to say, teachers of the young. The child-stud- y laboratories in colleges bear to the de partment of education much the same relationship which the agricultural ex periment 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 of prac 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 lately 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 made to sit almost all day grandfather, on a hard-seate- 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 that our boys and girls are educated too much according to the average child's 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 yesterday's 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 be put back in a lower grade or given a chance to go ahead, provision being made for his weaknesses until cured? In the model experimental laboratory is found apparatus for for child-stud- y motor abilities, rapidity studying the 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 :light, 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. nerve-shatteri- 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 took less than two minutes to clean a Isrge fcd perfectly. She would throw the carcass in a corner, where scores were already heaped, and grasp ang is one of the other. many curious occupations of the big east side. Establishments such as this are numerous. The buy the birds in wholesale lots, pluck them and sell the carcasses to marketmen at the same figure sometimes even at . Valuable j 'mm -?r- TESTING THE MIND. IN HESTER.' The Profit Is in the Sale of the Feathers ! re-ear- ...... 1 ng child-studen- ; LEAPING WHALES. Instances of These Leviathans Throwing Themselves Out of Water. old "Speaking of Jumping," said ansome seaman who had been watching on the sands, acboys playing leap-fro- g cording to the Philadelphia Times, "let me tell you of the greatest Jump ever seen. It was many years ago, when I was a little more than a lad, but I was bow oarsman on a whaleboat belonging to the ship Henry Staples. We had bad luck for several weeks, when one day we sighted a big whale, and two boats set off in a race to see who would get there first. It was fairly smooth, what the sailors call a white-ca- p breeze, and our boats fairly flew over the water. Finally the whale rose not 100 yardsaway, heading directly for lis. The harpooner stood with his iron all ready to throw, while we grasped our oars nervously, prepared to jump at the word 'stern all,' that nearly always came when a whale was harpooned.; Not a word was spoken .nd suddenly a mountain of black appeared; it seemed to shut off the entire horizon. Up ltj went until I distinctly saw a ;seventy- foot whale over twenty feet in the air f 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 dived into the ocean; just grazing us, haying completely passed over the boat in the biggest leap I ever heard 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 boat's 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 Up by a Swarm of Hornets. A swarm of hornets held up a passenger train on the Chicago, Fort Madison & Des Moines railroad, and gave the trainmen and passengers a battle that will be remembered longer by far been against bandits, than, if says an Ottumwa dispatch to the Cincinnati Tribune. The train was running slowly up a steep grade just outside the city, where the hillside is covered with trees. Suddenly Engineer it-h- ad - Cunningham noticed a black mass moving through the air ahead of the train. Had he known what was coming he would have stopped 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 num ber of persons were severely stung. The train stopped at a farmhouse until the injuries could be attended to and then proceeded to this city. ATCHISON GLOBULES. . INFLUENCE OF GARFIELD'S L.FC. How a Young Jersey Preacher Obtained an Interesting Memento. A few days ago the Rev. IL II. Parker Miles, the young minister in charge of v;utpei, received a pleasjj uuuuioi ant letter from Mrs. James A. Garfield,! Inclosing an autograph of her late hus- band. A pretty tale is furnished by this incident. A dozen years ago Mr, Miles-livein humble circumstances in a mill! town in England, . The book, "From! Towpath to President," which relates' the history of General Garfield, fell intJ his hands; he became a devout admirer! of its hero, and determined to make his' future home in a country where every thing was possible to a poor boy. He came to; New York and by a queer coJ Incidence first secured employment in the office of a close friend cf Garfield. Following closely in the; steps of his uivuei, jKir. ivmes worKea nis way through college, studying first at SL Stephens, and being graduated from the Union Theological Seminary. Again like Garfield. h;e became a teacher, and soon after his graduation he was sent as a missionary to the West. At the first service he held, in a small West em village, an Ohio woman came to him, and thanked him for his helpful sermon. To the young Englishman, Ohio-wasimply Garfield's home, and he said' to the woman: "Did you know Gar-- j field ?" "Sure I did," was the reply, '"I've1 heard him preach many a sermon when' a young man." These incidents further strengthened' the hold of Garfield's memory on the' young man, and some weeks ago! he wrote to Mrs. Garfield, telling her of the marked influence of her husband's jllfe 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 has. taken place. , j s ! - Mr.-Mil- The President's Sentimental Side, i This story illustrates the sentimental side of President Cleveland's nature.1 There was a certain officer in the serv ice who had been tried, by court martial. The officer was sent to prison, and was 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 influence 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 weeks for about a year to make a formal petition for pardon. The president was amiable with! 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 he uttered some moving sentiments con-- j cerning his mother. The member of congress read the address in the papers the next day and, on,, the day fol- lowing that went at once to the white house. "I have come," he said to the presl " dent, "to ask for the pardon of "I know," replied Mr. Cleveland. "I j know what always brings you." "Yesterday morning," the M. C. con-- J tinued, "I read your address. I read your beautiful reference to your moth- -' er. 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- -' er. She is now dying of a. broken heartj Unless this only son is pardoned and goes to her at once, he will not see her alive. She loves him above all things on earth. His pardon may prolong her life a short while, and it will render her dying hours happy. In the name of your mother the mother of whom you spoke so lovingly I ask you to grant :j the hook was seized by a greedy carp. In the struggle which followed the fairt angler lost her balance and was actu ally pulled Into the river. Fortunatelyj the water Was not over three feet deep and she pluckily held fast to her line, eventually landing her fish. It proved to be a beauty and weighed a trifle overj ten and a half pounds. Miss Jones was along. of her capture, and will A man never looks in the dictionary vfinr: 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 atten 'Ready to Try. tion in every other way, he goes to you, George, It you I'll marry She Europe. can man you father support me. that satisfy There is a certain kind of 1 a think could get him to you the westerner Just the details the latter no amount of effort will ever' make IIqdo me was seeking. Just, once? Town man out of. play poker with I she v east, "And I suppose you have always lived western TopiCS.. An a goes wti girl around here," said the man from be- returns with at least five new ways of It Is announced that the flyine mous J yond the Mississippi. using ribbon. a recent discovery in the Cameroon1 is u uiejr Tin vour neighbors like youT "Oh, no," replied the native, "I was when country of Africa, It is a lint btwea born two miles from here." Philadel- send you samples of their pie Globe. the bat and true mouse. Atchison phia Record: they bake, yes. steal all they eat from the neighbors. So many men go through life look ing as if their wives had caught them at it. A grocer never dares to "keep good eating apples oh exhibition at his store. There are lots of good things in this world without anyone to push - them ' " , rn-ou- d i1 i. i . ; '.'' j f thls-mornin- As a rule, a good husband is a satis fied husband. A man's sins will not find him out as Vhera He "Wrote His Will. the pardon." Strange things happen in Florida. A soon as his wife. of a "I will," was all the president reman's respecta recent Instance is reported by the What becomes plied, and the pardon was granted. Times-Unio- n of Jacksonville. bility after death? One of the queer documents in the The best spiritual adviser a girl can The New Woman Tells a Fish Story. office of the county Judge is a will have is her mother. Miss Nellie Jones; a Philadelphia! written on a piece of unpainted plank Society is now called The Haunt of girl, while visiting friends In Bristol on five feet long and one foot wide. The the Unmarried Man. in best husband the Tuesday had a rather remarkable fish It is said that plank was sawed out of the house of a like ing adventure. The Delaware at this dog. Mrs. Arnold, who lives Just outside the town is treated woman a admire not point is fairly alive with German carp4 .:..''. The women do K Jycity. some or which have grown to enor-- j men do. The plank was a part of the wall. On who works, but the A baby buggy is a good thing, but a mous, size.: A fishing party was organa bed beside it lay a sick man, John ized in honor of Miss Jones' visit and M. O'Brien, whom Mrs. Arnold had be- man doesn't like to push it along. some ex find can Lying's wharf was selected as the spot The women always friended. Before he died he wrote on man. on which to lure the wary fish. Miss a cuse for the sins of gallant the plank in pencil these words: No wonder bees are profitable: they Jones had no sooner cast her line than "Mrs. Arnold, God bless her, shall have all I leave." He left ?500. The will is an unhandy document to file but it serves its maker's purpose. His 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 born in Windham county. The old native gave es f ft |