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~ HE'LL ldEASElNES
A new enterprise, under the auspices of
women, and for the benefit of women, has re-
Gently been started in this city, and its projec-
tors hope that by its means the deserving
women Of the District will receive the benefits of
that true charity which aids the unfort innate
to the means Of helping themselves.
The ladies of the Women's Christian Home.
which comprises In its management the names
Of large number OF ladies well known
in social AID religious circles. have Sc
cured rooms in the house SIT fourteenth
street, and the new enterprise is now m ore than
week old. 1t Is called the WOmen's Exchange,
and the opportunity is afforded to all women to
place there for sale articles of fancy work, paint
ing and everything which enlists the taste and
industry Of women. A commission of ten per
cent is charged on the prices received, which
are fixed by the owners Of the articles. If after
certain time the articles are not sold
they are withdrawn from the exchange
The two rooms on the first floor of this
house, which is very easy Of access from all pol
lions OF this city, contains just now large and
very attractive display Of fancy articles which
evince not only skill but great good taste
These articles are suitable for Christmas pres
ents. and the ladies hope that the people of the
District will bestow some portion Of their holi-
day patronage upon them. While this exchange
Is under the auspices Of the Women's Christian
IL under their especial charge. and every day
some member Is present at the rooms. The
members have already displayed great enthu-
siasm and interest In this work. The commit
tee is thus constituted Miss Lucy Crittenden,
chairman; Miss Bailantyne, treasurer; Miss
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A Hair Raising Episode.

young man was ushered into the parlor
where sat his adored one. She was gazing
soulfully into the fire, thinking of him no
doubt, but not dreaming Of his presence. He
tiptoed his approach, and slyly selling stray
Cling hair which was coyly nestled in its blonde
beauty on the scruff of her rounded neck
gently twitched it and waited for the sudden
start and maidenly blush, a pleased surprise.
But not a start, not surprise. Again he drew
it towards him, and again did the fair one con-
tinue to gaze thoughtfuly in the fire. Dear
girl, she knows not of my presence" he muir
INJURED to himself. "How glad she will be to dis
cover her Charles SO close behind her! will
end this surprise" and gently lifting an auburn
curl from the sloping shoulders he gave it a
gentle tweak and, gentle reader, you may be-
lieve US or not, but truly, as sure as we live he
scalped her The whole business came OF, and
then she knew that Charles was there Shall
We draw veil over the picture? By no means.
Charles knew that she wore false hair. and he
knew that she knew that he knew It. Besides.
the girl was turning thirty and worth millions.
Charles was poor, but madly in love. A poor
young man, mady in love with girl worth a
million, Is never particular.
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Preparations are being made for the ceebra-
tion OF the 250th anniversary of the founding OF
Maryland. which occurs March 25th, 1854.
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Ind, Harry Edwards, under age, eloped Sunday
morning with Alice Randall, aged sixteen. Her
parents opposed their marriage. They started in a
buggy and got on railway train for Cincinnati.
and have not been heard from since. Harry Keen
assisted them Of In the buggy. When he returned,
MT. Randall, with pistol at his head, demanded
where his daughter was. Keen could not tell The
tnterposition OF bystanders prevented shooting.
DESPERATE HUSBANDS ACT-Mrs. Mary Z.
Whitney, residing at Bath on the Hudson, NY.
was surprised sunday night by her husband, from
whom she Is separated who administered chloro-
FORM TO her and removed two rings from her fingers
AS she struggled he threw cayenne pepper I'm her
face, but she lodged her head and thus avoided in
Jury 10 her eyes He was In search of certain let
Oscar D. Wilson, the ticket agent of the Virginia
Midiand railroad at Lynchburg, Va, disappeared
sunday night. leaving no trace. 1t is feared that
ne mas committed suicide No cause is assigned
except Ill health. wv
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The PhilanthrOpic Enterprise of Ladies
OF This City.

AN INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF THE wOMEN's Ex-
CHANGE RECENTLY OPENED-A BAZAAR FOR
TIE SALE OF ARTICLES OF wOMEN's HAADI-
woRK-AN EFFORT TO HELP THOSE WHO WANT
TO HELP THEMSELVES.
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ARMoRY OF THE WASHINGTON LIGHT INFANTRY
CORPS.-The committee appointed by the Wash
fngtOn Light Infantry TO select site for the pro-
posed new drInOTy held a meeting yesterday. and
decided 70 adjourn until Thursday OF next week
when they hope 70 definitely settle the matter as
lar as the committee IS concerned. The government
being about TO lease the old Globe building which
the corps has occupied rs an arn)ry these quarters
Will Ire vacated at the end OF the month, and the
Soldier boys viii move 20 the hail above Metzgers,
on the east side OF 9Th street, between and E
Streets
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TOWNSEND CLOvERs VILLA certified cony
from Baltimore county OF the VIII OF TOWNSEND
Glover formerly OF this city. has been filed for pro-
bate with Register RamS,ieil lie directs that his
executor pay $50 for Oil painting OF recent pro-
ductlon by Washington artist and present it to the
Corc0Fan Gallery. He gives many other bequests
and then leaves the residue OF his estate for the
benefit Of S1Cne l. Hopper. Of Baltimore. and her
family, but in the event OF the death of s L. Hon.
per and her children then to the ChIldrens HOSDi-
tai Of this city. Charles c. Glover OF this city is
made executor OF the Will
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DREDGISG MACHINE RURSED.-One OF Ross &
sanford dretSerS, used in the Potomac river Mats
Improvements, was entirely destroyed by fire lust
on the arsenal point about O'Clock last night.
The IRE caught accidentally from the engine room
and spread rapidly, and the machine was soon
thought. VIII exceed sln = =
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RoFFEp HER BENEFA CTOR.-Night before last Mr.
Mclaughlin superintendent OF the Washington
mOnlln mt returning home a cOl0Ted girl,
about fourteen years Old in the OF his residence
VINO, upon being questioned. stated that her name
was Lucy Brooks: that she Was from Georgetown
and having no friends or home had wandered To the
CITY. and WAS hungry and cold. Mr.. Mclaughlin
took pity on her and gave her & room, and ycSter-
day Mis-. Mclaughlin tried TO find her Il home
among the neiEhbUrS. Before She had succeeded in
this the girl lett the house. and Mrs Mclaughlin
on examining her pnchet-boOk found that S11 had
been taken out OF it.
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HOW THE APPROPRIATIONS SHOULD BE MADE

MI DIUUNo, "IItH IIlH TtIIUTJ was TtlI, COLI
planned against the system OF expenditure
adopted by the Commissioners, which left tn
trustees in ignorance OF their dO1ngs.
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SPIRIT OF THE PRESS,

IT Is safe to say that no "naval demonstra-
tiOn" will brighten the Chinese at this stage.
They consider the occupation or AMMAN to be
virtually an invasion of their own territory, and
they not likely to be bulldOZed into renounc.
ing their claims.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
If the present administration were utterly
commonplace aud void of great events aside
from this birth OF purer, better and more sensi-
BILE civil service, 1t would be Ire of an hOnOra-
BILE place in the history of country. This
may sound like rhapsody to the politicians of
the day, but time will prove its truth Cleve-
land Leader.
WE do not deprecate political activity. All
necessary means TO induce citizens to come out
ana vote are legitimate and proper, and argu-
menU and persuasion have their uses i'll cam
paign. But the use of money to influence voters
is the most cOrrupting influence possible in
country of free Institutions. 1t saps the very
foundation Of our government.-Bostou Herald.
THE growing independence OF the average Re-
publican voter; his readiness to bolt a bad nOmi-
nation unfairly made; his increasing
jealousy of his rights as an integer in political
community may be pointed out by the croaker
as menaces to the party, but to the citizen who
is far-sighted enough to look beyond the end of
his nose they are the party's eheetanchor of
hOpe.-Philadelphi Press.
IT ia readily demonstrable that a tax on in
comes is the most equitable of all taxes, the
most fair and honest method ever devised for
raising revenues where with to support govern
ment. But 1t Ia one thing to prove that meas
ure ought TO be adopted and quite another thing
to secure its adoption; and the very reason why
we should have AN income tax is the reason why
we do not have tJ.-WashingtOn Post
AS for government lines, we wonder how many
allies OF corporations will have the impudence
to pretend that the government has not the
same right az private citizens to build compet-
ing lines. The telegraph mOnor cannot
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hope to "absorb" government line. that is
true. But it is To secure the needed competition,
which the mOnOpollsts have deliberately made
impossible, that the people demand govern
ment competing line.-New York Herald.
PLANTATION farming is possible and profitable
only when the owner has slave labor or very
cheap and dOcile labor. Great plantations were
the natural result of slavery IN the South and in
ancient Italy. But with the single exception of
the wheat farms of Dakota, where only one crop
Is raised and all the work of the farm can be
done in few months between winter and fall.
the high price of farm labor and its independ-
ence make it Impossible to carry on large farms
except at lOss.-Chlcag0 Tribune.
DEMOCRATIC methods are substantially the
same, wherever a city government comes under
the control OF the party: Everywhere we see
the same disregard of the public interests, the
same recklessness in the expenditure of money,
the same eager scramble for every office that
can be vacated created, the same subserv-
ency to the worst elements of the population.
The story is being repeated, with varying cir
cumstances, and in many different directions.
but in all its essential elements IL is the same.
Boston Journal.
IN very truth, Cancellation, arbitration, COM
promise, constitute the only composition of the
antagOnism of labor and capital. Passing laws
making strikes crime will not work. denOunc-
ing trades-unlonism only widens the breach; de-
claiming wildly and threateningy against the
capltalIstic class works no rapprochement.
full recognition of the reciprocal relations of
capital and labor and arbitration and c0ncilia-
ton on the basis OF reciprocal rights and duty.
IN this matter.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
WE must rem member that if the republic is to
stand forever, one and indivsible, future genera
lions of its children will look back upon the
struggle between North and South with much
the same feeling as do the English people OF to-
day upon the struggle between King and Parlia-
ment in the seventeenth century. Sectional
prejudice and passion will then have vanished
before the irresistible sweep of time; the honesty
of the victors and of the vanQuished will then
be conceded by all, aud the splendid valor which
sustained the flag that stood and the flag that
fell will be applauded by all.-St. Louis Repub-
lican.
THE majority of the voters of this country de-
spise Misunderstanding. The man or the Organiza-
ton that attempts to ride two horses gains their
contempt The Democracy is doomed to be
beaten i'll 1884, and one of the chief contribnt-
ors to its defeat will be its cowardly evasion of
the tariff issue, its wretched attempt TO fool the
country into believing il was meeting the issue
when il was only lodging 1t. The fact that il ia
a free-trade party will cost it thousands upon
thousands of votes, as it did in 1880. And the
fact that it lacks the manliness to live mp to its
convictions will cost iG still other thousands,
New York Tribune.
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BREAKFAST CHAT.

MISS MAUDE HOWE denies that she is the au-
thor of "a Newport Aquarele."
THE census shows the odd fact that the majori-
ty Of peoples ages are at even numbers.
MRS. BONANZA MACKEY IS supposed to be the
American lady who appeared at a recent Paris
ball in a costume OF white KID fitting like a glove.
ONE of the most horrifying bits of news that
has come from Newport this season is shat at a
dinner party there last week a fashionable lady
was helped twice to soup.
THE original serpent that tempted Eve has
been found embedded in an Indian mound near
Lytlevile, Ill. He was identified by a fossilized
apple-core between his fangs.
THE Duke OF Connaught goes to India Nov. 1,
where he is to command the Meerut division for
two years. The Duchess goes with him, but
their children remain with the Queen.
TRANSLATED from the Omnibus: farmer
maiden comes to the village pastor. Pastor
"what is your name, then2" Farmer Maiden
"KnOw you me, then, not more, Mr.. PastOrf
Why. you christened mel"
CHARLES BUETTNER, of Burlington, Iowa, has
gathered with his own hands the most complete
His collection of insects is large also. containing
more than forty thousand specimens.
MRS. +. LYNN LINTON, the English story
writer, is q pleasaDt-fa lady of sixty years,
with gray hair, and spectacles. She spends her
winters in Rome, and is a general favorite in So
ciety because of her brilliant conversational
powers.
A CAT down East was recently poisoned with
strychnine and buried under bush. After
a week had elapsed she appeared at the kitchen
door with the rose-bush under her arm, and on
the bush were nine beautiful flowers the color
and shane of cats eyes.
NJ. ALEXANDRA DUMAS has written a letter
complaining OF the brllliancy Of stage decora-
tions, and, above all, of stage dresses. The
actresses think, he says. more of their costumes
than of the piece, and 1.-THE genius OF the author
is lost in the nrt of the miliIner."
A PRETTY orphan girl, with over P2,O00000
has been advertising in the German papers for
a husband she describes herself as twenty one
years old, orphan, Catholic, with fortune of
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Blank Cartridges,

Philadelphia treSS-
The Democratic press has been filling the
land with vague reports of hundreds of
thousands spent in 1880 by Republican man
ayers; bur here is the very core and center of
the campaign machinery of the party laid
bare and its members asking for tens of
thousands, and receiving S3,0 900 $4,000 and
$4,000. Evidence of this character can have
but one result-it vii deepen the impression,
current among those familiar with the facts,
that, from first to last, the Republican cam
paign of 1880 was in peril from lack of money
for the necessary and legitimate expenses Of
of the hottest campaign in our history.
OF bargain and sale. of intrigue and pur-
chase these letters are bare. They are such
as accumulate by the bushel about every
political headquarters, big and little, save
that they are less compromising than the
average run of such letters. Even the "side
arrangement on which Mr.. r. NJ. Phillips,
of New Castle in this State, was to be sent
to Indiana, loses all its mysterious import
ance when it is remembered that he is
prominent member of the religious denomi-
nation to which General Garfield belonged,
and whose numbers in Indiana are large.
The Dorsey gun is loaded with blank cart.
ridges. We advise the Sun to spike it.
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these men been at work. 1t is folly to at
tempt to hide this fact. The operator who
lost a months pay and was
idle at the same time Is a
months pay poorer than he would have
been had he worked. A strike means loss
every time, whatever may be its outcome,
and when going upon strike its managers
should take into consideration the item of
loss and endeavor to know how long it can
be maintained. 1t is quite safe to say that
had the operators believed Mr.. Edison's ar
gument-that they were as we'll off without
work as with-they would be striking yet,
and ten thousand others Of every branch of
business would lose no time in joining them.
The political system that allows idleness
without loss is in great demand. If Mr.
Edison can devise one that will prove effect
i've, he is certainly wasting his time on triv-
ial things when he seeks inventions in cleo
tricity. There are many editors even who
would gladly reliuqush all the honor and
fame and glory attaching to their profession
could they feel assured that after years
idleness they would be as we'll off as before.
The "demnition grind" of labor has the logic
of necessity behind 1t, and the great ma
chine i'll which human beings are cogs can
not be stopped
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THE DREADFUL INTERVIEWER.
Wizards German Visitors Pleading Vainly
for Little Rest.

for Little Rest.
Chicago Tribune.
They have all made the acquaintance of
the interviewer, and do not exactly like the
process of interviewing which, by the way,
is not known in the benighted country they
come from.
For goodness's sake leave us alone and let
us rest. America is a beautiful country.
You are all first-rate fellows, grand, sure to
become the rulers of the universe, buC for
the sake of humanity let US be; we want
rest" This was about the uniform answer
the reporter got as as he approached IL
member of the party and was rash enough TO
make his calling known. The cause of this
was soon discovered. One OF the party
gave it away. He was probably
the joIliest and best-natured man in the
crowd, the very type of jolly Teutun.
To give his name away would be an unkind-
ness; may it be sufficient to state that ne is
the correspondent of one of the largest and
most influential German dailies on the other
side of the big tank.
Said he to the reporter: you don't mean
to interview me- do you? Faith have / not
been interviewed four mortal hours to-day?
Some rellow came on board the train and
wanted to know all about the American
hog Mein Colt in Himmel What should
he ask about the American hog from us for?
Well, we found out he meant the Am erican
hog in Germany. Of course we told him
we were glad to see the American hog in
America. He did not seem to understand what
we meant, and kept askinga lot of questions,
and we answered as well as we knew how.
He wanted to know about Russia and about
France, about the Socialists, and about
everything in the decalogue. Well you
know l had heaps of fun with that fellow.
| talked to HIM for three mortal hours, and
l don't think ever talked any more non
sense in all my life. You are funny people,
you Americans. You seem to think every
foreigner knows everything but the fact is,
we do not"
What this jolly journalist said seemed to
be about the feeling OF all the members of
the party. They were fatigued by travel and
by the talk on American hog they had
been subjected to- and Rugged closely the
German committee who had received them.
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THE next best thing to going away is coming
home. Aside from the delight of the welcome of
friends and interchange of kindly greetings
with people and things familiar, it is thing OF
beauty and joy forever to Danish the big trunk
to the attic, hang the travelling hablliments on
the last hook in the closet, and stretch out in
your own bed with the unGrammatical but COM
Portable reflection that you don't have to get up
until you feel like it, and when you do choose to
appear in the domestic landscape, yOu won't
have to be agreeable unless you want to. The
home hearthstOne never shines so beautifully as
when it greets the returning traveller. Beside
it, alone flourish peace and freedom, pure and
undetiled. Here you can wear your slippers all
day long, if you choose, and stick your feet on
the mantepiece "if so dispoged." Here lie the
new magazines, and the returned head OF the
house is, by home law, entitled to first CO. at
them with the paper-cutter. In the morning
early you can have the undisputed bliss of pick
ing your Daily Journal out of the dewy grass,
instead of the postotfice; and you can read it at
your leisure, while your nostrils RECALLED
with the delicious odor of home
made coffee, the best in the
world. Mornings and evenings you can smoke
where you please, and deposit the ashes where
the fancy strikes you, if so be that the youngest
child fails to toddle forward with her little hand
upheld to receive them. Travel is pleasant;
new places, new faces and change of air are
good for the moral, mental and physical man;
but the greatest benefit derived is the quicken
ing in the soul of the love of home. Distant
lily-ponds are still fresh in the memory, but the
ash-pie in your own back yard is dearer The
dash, and gayety, and hustle of seaside society
still ring in your ear, but the commonplace do
mestic chronicle of the family's struggles with
the neighbours chickens falls the mind with a
more lingering interest. The dog-carts ham
mocks and lawn tents of the summers expert
ence are still vvidly painted the mental
retina, but the big willow chair with it's familiar
way of nearly rocking over, but stopping on the
| verge of such calamity, is worth them all.
| Home; sweet, sweet home Summer rest is over,
and the returned native buckles on anew the
| armor of daily toll, with an unquenchable and
ardent belief that it is better to be a house
holder on a ffty-foot lot than TO dwell In big
hotel forever.
| Let us amend the first sentence The best thing
about going away is that it a-ords an oppor-
tunity for coming home. Z. c.
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Among the Best.

The indianapolis Journal is taking front
rank among the great newspapers of Ameri-
Ca Indeed we can scarcely remember a
time in the past fifteen years when, in point
of editorial ability and all that goes to make
a reliable newspaper, it has not been ably
conducted and entitled to be numbered
Bile for its force, purity and fidelity to prin-
ciple The Daily Journal is gaining in favor
here where the Cincinnati papers have SO
long held sway.
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WILLIAM HICKMAN, chief of the Danites under
Brigham Young, died on the Goth ult. In 1872,
Hickman-then under arrest for completely in
the murder of man named Sprague-contessed
to George G. Bates, United States District Attor-
uey for Utah, that he was guilty of murder not
only in the case of sprague, but that he mad muir
dered nineteen other men!
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MoNsIGNoR CAPEL says in his lecture on nuns
that of his three sisters, one who was married,
one who died young, and the third. nun,
the latter takes the palm for that joy and peace
which is in store for US, and fOretaste of which
is given some of us in this life. AS the Monsig-
nor has never been a wife, much less an angel,
it may, with all due respect, be safely asserted
that he is not qualified as Witness in this mat
for
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TWO years ago the city solicitor of Reading,
Pa, had his $3.50 watch stolen from him in a
crowd, and on Wednesday found the timepiece
lying on his desk The owner charitably believes
that the thief merely stole it ''to make loan to
bridge over temporary financial difficulty"
That is what watches are usually stolen for, but
this is the first bridge of the kind on record
which the taker ever got across