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Beautiful Engrav wing Free.

"will They Consent?" is q maguif.
cent engraving, 19x24 inches. 1t is en-
exact copy of an original painting by Kwall,
which was sold for s., 600.
This elegant engraving represents young
lady standing in a beautiful room, sur.
rounded by all that is luxurious, near a
half-open door, while the young man, her
lover, is seen in an adjoining room asking
the consent of her parents Tor their daughter
in marriage. 1t must be seen to be appre-
ciated.
This costly engraving will be given awav
free, to every person purchasing a small
box of Wax Starch.
This starch is something entirely new ,and
is without doubt the greatest starch in
vention of the nineteenth century (at least
everybody says so that has used it). 1t
supersedes everything heretofore used OF
known to science In the laundry art. Un-
like any other starch, as it is made with
pure white wax. 1t is the first and only
starch in the world that makes ironing
easy and restores old summer dresses and
skirts to their natural whiteness, and i'm
parts to linen beautiful and lasting finish
as when new.
Try it and be convinced of the whole
truth.
Ask for Wax Starch and obtain this
engraving free.
The WAX STARCH Co.,
Keokuk, Iowa.
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PINE TREES VALUABLE.
How Worn Ont Fields Might be Made Ex-
ceedinaly Valuable.

How Worn Ont Fields Might be Made Ex-
ceedinsly Valuable.
Punxsutswney Spirit
GIVE got an idea that will be worth
millions of dollars to the next generation if
it is only carried out. 1t is this: Pine
trees are valuable. They are getting scarce,
and will be much more valuable so years
hence than at present. My idea is to plant
little pines in all the old fields in the coun-
try-set them out in regular rows and culti-
vste them. They will naturally grow much
faster and become larger and prettier when
properly planted and cared for than when
lett to struggle for themselves in wild and
unprotected state.
Il would advise farmers to plant pine
trees in every available place and cultivate
forests OF them. They may not become val
liable in time to yield the planter a profit,
unless he be boy-but they will continue
to grow, winter and summer, until some
fine morning their owner will wake up and
find himself rich. Pine will always be in
demand, and will continue to increase in
value. This idea," concluded Lum, would
be worth millions of dollars to the next gen.
Grafton If the present one would act upon
it, and all 1 ask for it is that a grateful
posterity erect monument over my humble
dnst"
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THE EVILS OF TIPPING.
One Of the Greatest of small Nuisnnces
the Country Has.
New York Evening SUM-

One of the Greatest of small Nuisnnces
the Country Has.
New York Evening SUM-
America is growing country :n every
respect. Cities grow, literature g. ows, art
is sprouting, but most luxuriant Of all are
our nuisances.s Our great nuisance, are be-
ing grappled with more or less succ, ssfully,
but our small ones flourish unduly.
Take that of tipping" for i,stsnce.
There is no greater small nuisance in the
whole history of nuisances than this. and if
it is not taken care of Immediately and en-
ergetically it must result in our bee, ming a
nation of bankrupts.
just look the tipping evil squarely in the
face for moment. 1t is an individual at
tempt to pay wages to the whoe COM
munity.
You enter restaurant, call fer your
lunch, and at its conclusion pay the waiter
from 10 20 Is per cent of the amount Of your
check for doing his work properly or i'm
properly, as the case may be.
You hire cab and ride few miles, and
as a reward, possibly for keeping his horse
alive, or to pay him for the wear a I'D tear
upon his feelings induced by the language
he has been compelled to use in the course
of events, you tip the driver, you give what
the Frenchman calls "for-drink" in addi-
tion to his fare, to which he has himHelf, in
all probability, added some 20 or 80 per cent
for the sake Of his family.
What a ridiculous custom il is--worse
than ridiculous, it is criminal becnuse it
subjects the poor man who cannot afford to
throw his money away to bad service at din
ner, to vile abuse from his cab driver.
Carry the system to its logical conclusion:
How you would ridicuie a member of
Congress who dared propose that the Presi-
dent Of the United States be handed check
f,r $40, 900 at the end of his term as a re-
ward for doing what he has been already
paid for doing.
What a preposterous notion it would be
to require members of a church congrega-
ton to tip the organist, choir, sexton and
service, because they had done their duty
we'll.
Do you ever tip the salesman at the collar
and cuff store because he has not insisted
upon your wearing linen four sizes too large
and season or two TOO late?
Do you ever add anything to the total of
your plumDers Dill because ne mas served
you well? -?
Are YOU ever tempted to pay your coal
dealer S6 u ton for coal when the market is
at S. 80?
Do not shoulder the responsibilities of the
restaurant and hotel keeper yourself, and if
you have any money to spare save it, devote
it to charity or give it to your wife.
Have you ever been so far out of your
mind as to send bonus to your tailor?
Probably not; but there would be quite as
much reason IN your doing one and all of
these things as there is in giving your cab
driver his "for-drink" or in bribing the
waiter in the restaurant not to drop the but
ter in your lap and pour your coffee down
your neck.
If you do not wish to incur financial ruin,
stop tipping.
If you tip walters because you think they
are underpaid, start a movement to secure
better wages for them.
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RISE Of AMERICAN CITIES.
Where 100 Years Ago 1OO, 900 Persons Re.
sided There Are Now '6,OOO,OOO.

Where 100 Years Ago 1OO, 900 Persons Re.
sided There Are Now 100000.
Boston Herald
The fact that there are so many cities to
govern is one of the most astonishing in his
tory, said Prof. Albert B. Hart recently. A
century ago the whole population of the
United States was less than 100000 OF
whom harely 100000 lived in cities. Now
there are in this country not less than $50
cities, having total population of nearly
5000, 900; the cities have increased go times,
and their population nearly 60 times. 1t is
evident that in this rapid displacement NAV
be found an explanation OF some of the
problems which our cities present.
1t is not too much to say that no city in
the United States owes its growth to its
situation, for Of the ten large cities seven
are exposed to attack by sea, and but one is
sufficiently protected. The second reason
for the location of cities is the convenience
of commerce. A very interesting resume of
the comparative advantage OF Boston, New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore followed,
and the commercial and manufacturing
places Of their rise and growth were touched
upon. 1t was of far less importance that a
city should grow than that it should grow
intelligently. Manufacturing cities were
always more densely populated than COM
mercal cities, and the overcrowding of
cities was one of the most serious problems
of the day. The libraries and schools OF
Boston would attract one class, while low
theaters and dance halls would attract
others.
There were, in $780, according to the GEN.
sus of that year, 2S6 cities with a population
Of over 5000. One hundred of these had
$4,000; 131 had between 10000 and 10000,
while the remaining 45 ran from 40, 900 to
1,20O,0O0 The number of cities increased
but slowly from 1890 to 1910, but in the
next decade the increase was as great as in
the 80 former years. Large cities attract
more than their share of the total growth of
city population.
Interesting figures in regard to the dis
tinction of cities were then given, as we'll as
the figures showing the comparative growth
of the principal cities of the United States.
Up to 1920 Philadelphia was the first city in
the Union. The Erie Canal was finished in
1926, and the rapid leap of New York in
population from 103. 900 to 268, 900 in 1880
followed. In a careful estimate, based on
the Presidential votes of 1884 and 1888, New
York has to-day 100000 people. Phila-
delphia numbers 100000 population now,
but has to include her suburbs in this
estimate. Brooklyn is phenomenon. with
its 7S2, 900 people. Baltimore and Boston
are rivals, but the former now leads by
1900,
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MADE RICH IN THIRTY MINUTES.
Two Brothers Strike n 100000 Mine by
Digging Down Two Feet.

Ch1cago Tribune.
S. R. Roger and his brother left their
homes near Hastings, Mich, about four
years ago and went to Breckenridge,
Col, where they worked in a stamp mill.
They got possession of two claims, the
"Iron Mask" and the "Kewanee" and
worked them during spare hours, put
ting considerable time and money into them.
The claims had been worked previously for
six years by an old miner, who failed to find
paying ore. Roger recently put a man in
the lower one and went to work himself In
less than half an hour, alter digging about
two feet, he struck gold and silver bear
ing carbonate of silver, said to be the most
valuable and easily worked in that State.
The vein was followed to the surface,
when it was found that all the previous
years work had been within IS inches of
the vein. The Roger Brothers have been
offered 500. 900 for the two mines, but want
S2OO, 900. Within week after this find
5000 men were on the spot, establishing
claims, but the Rogers have secured manv
of the most desirable. The mine is on the
east side of the mountain and the snow nec-
essitates keeping it rooted over.
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INA STRANGE PREDICAMENT.
The Singular Social Adventure of Fair Des
Moines Young Lady.

The Singular Social Adventure of n Fair Des
Moines Young Lady.
From Des Moines Letter.l
An accomplished young lady Of Des
Moines made call upon somebody the 9TH
er day, and she avows she passed very de-
lightful afternoon. Who the person was
that she called on she does not know. All
she knows is that she started out to call
upon somebody else and by mistake she got
into the wrong house, where she met with a
very cordial reception from young lady
who evidently knew her very we'll. This
young lady rushed up to her when she en-
tered the door and told how awfully glad
she was to see her. calling her by name. She
also entertained her guest so pleasantly and
everything appeared to be so agreeable all
around that the latter did not have the
heart to break the spell by asking who her
unknown friend was, and the unknown
friend never knew that she was not known
BY her guest.
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Turkish Superstition About the Dead.

SC. Louis GI0be-Democrat.
Preparations for the funeral are begun as
soon as life is extinct, as the Turks believe
in burying the dead as asquiekly as possible.
The eyeIids are closed and the lower jaw
bandaged; the arms are stretched down the
sides and feet tied together. The priest and
his assistants are now summoned to wash
the corpse. As with us, no matter how a
person may have been kicked and buffeted
through life, he is handled very tenderly
after all sensibility has departed. The
Turks are even more careful OF this, because
any lack of tenderness in handling a corpse
would bring upon them the curse OF the
dead mans soul.
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Made a Forcible Impression.

London Tit-Bits.l
She (softly)-I shall never forget this
highland this ball.
He (tenderly)-Tell newly?
She-And that last waltz.
He-You delight me!
She-And YOU!
He-You entrance me! Then have i'm
pressed you?
She (more softly than ever)-Yesl You've
about smashed Two of my toes!
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sleeps upon this bank. One now begins to
quote poetry as naturally as breathing:
See" says one enthusiastic visitor,
while here is the moonlight, there is the
sunset" being sifted through the rich bam-
boo curtains by the big standing lamp IN Its
red silk shade large as parasol. 1t is seen
through the vista softened and heightened
by the two Japanese bead curtains and seems
far away. On the other side the main door,
standing on a large chifonier. is another
lamp in light green silk cover.
But moonlights and sunsets are not the
solid attractions of this place. While we
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20
How He Would Treat a BURGLAR.

From the Lewiston Journal.I
The report Of a daring burglary started
talk about robbers and such unpleasant
things, around the table the other day.
"What would you Do if you should wake
up and find burglar in your chamber"
asked Doughty.
81 should pass him my wallet and my
watch and beg him to leave the room," said
he.
'But suppose you had loaded revolver
under your pillow"
'I should pass him the revolver too"
replied Doughty, with obvious sincerity.
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Sweetness and Light.

London Tit-Bits.l
"I know we are poor, dear papa," said
EVELYN, nesting her head against his
shoulder, 'but Athelstane is brave and
hope ul, and he says that love will make a
way."
''I know it will, said old Hyson, grimly;
"it's made away with six tons of parlor
coal and e5 worth of gas since Christmas,
and it's next winter that's worrying me-"
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The Habits of Our Cotemporaries.

The Epoch;
Foreman (New York daily)-We need
one column more to fill out the second
page.
City Editor-That so? How mary inter
views with Chauncey Depew are in?
Foreman-Only one.
City Editor-Oh, well, run in another;
his glass leg hasn't been mentioned in two
days.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20

ROM a number Of
questions I select the
following this week:
ANXIOUS CUBANs.-
There is no reason why
a lady should not be
addressed with her
own initials if her hus-
band is living. An
swer Mary Smith,
"Mrs. Mary Smith"
MRS. being simply .
contraction Of mis-
tress. 1t is not out of
place to call a single
woman nMrsn The
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IMAGINATION FAILS.

IMAGINATION FAILS.
Before saw it, was told that it was a
bedroom, a drawing room, a kitchen and a
dining room. 1 imagined would see a
kind OF Christmas pantomime place. where
everything would fall out and fold up and
double under, as you touched buttons or
pulled strings. That is not true. 1t is fur
nished with regular, proper Christian fur
niture. Come through this hall and look at
1t for yourself Here is the usual New York
old-isshioned lodging house hail. tolerably
bare and dreary in the cold twilight of this
rainy day. Here is the door, pull, it opens
out, there is no space wasted on it inside.
How dazzling the sight that is opened up to
YOU. Many soft lights, the subtle odor of
incense, the profusion OF pictures and the
Elusive effect of distance produced by bam-
boo portieres, create a wonderful confusion
of the senses.
First faSten your attention on the side
board. There are dozen decanters on it
and they are all full. There are, however,
more reasons than the decanters why you
should look at il. First, it is so big; and
then it is so handsome and wonderfully
decorated. 1t is carved oak, beyond the
regulation size and fit for the extensive es-
tahlishment of millionaire. Yet 1t is not
too big for this one. There is a deal of
entertaining done in this fai-y-land, and by
the magic peculiar to the place the side
board does not seem to take up anv room to
speak of. Just sit down a minute and look
around you. There is plenty of room for the
whole party to dispose themselves comfort
ably on the four easy chairs and then leave
space for a second series of visitors to come
and walk around, looking at the wonders OF
the place.
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you would not know it. The door, as
in all these old-fashioned houses, is set we'll
back in thick wall. There was the batch
elor's opportunity. That recess was not
going to be lost. He just hung up his
trousers and his nightgown in there and
draped some modern Gobelin tapestry cur
tains over them, and there was the place
more magnificent than before and with
wardrobe beside.
At the entrance end is the chifonier and
the stationary washstand. A screen and a
bamboo curtain hides them from the main
part OF the room. But that is mere con-
cession to conventionality, and gratuitous
exhibition of power, for this is one of the
cutest corners. The chiffonier is draped in
aesthetic blue plush and silk; mirror in a
beautiful metal frame rests upon it, and
silver backed brushes lie about.
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SUITS to measure from s1S up. Pants to
measure from S5 up. Satisfaction guaran-
teed at Jackson's Star Tailors, 954 and 956
Liberty street. TTsu
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ECONOMY OF SPACE,

Naturally you don't believe that. How
can you when you have had the bitter ex-
perience of moving into a hall bedroom
furnished with bed, washstand and a
chair, and finding when you brought in
your trunk that you had to climb on the
bed to get to the door! 1t is not so here, and
that is why the place is so remarkable. The
massive furniture is arranged so as to leave
the center OF the room free to the easy
movements of host and guests. The rich
bamboo portieres do wonders for this room.
There are two pairs of them, one only half
length. They divide the small apartment
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TOILET ACCESSORIES.

Turn around here and see what other uses
besides making sunset "in a shady place"
this giant silk-shaded standing lamp has.
Here is hint for you when you 60 to buy
one Its staff is surrounded half way up by
a succession of little circular shelves in the
same fne-beaten brass work that constitutes
the essential frame OF the lamp. A station
airy washstand takes up but little room, but
then it affords but small space for the vari-
Gus bottles and many toilet articles that
accumulate in adressing room. OF course,
this Admiral Crichton OF householder has
not neglected to put richly dressed shelf
above the washstand, but liter all 1t is in
full sight, and the lower ones on the lamp
don't parade their contents to the view.
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York. Not far from the Fifth Avenue Ho-
tel this bewildering apartment can be found
It costs its proprietor just $50 year rent
and yields him more than thousand times
that amount worth of comfort and pleasure.
BY the merest accident 1 found myself the
other day enjoying the manifold beauties
and luxuries of this domestic Adams Eden.
otmany women have been so fortunate. Yet
all womankind would be better off II they
could see, study aad profit by the many les
sons in the exquisite art of decoration,
blending of colors and lovely shadings and
drapings there to be learned. 1t is all the
work of an old bachelor, and this veritable
fairyland is his home-a real bachelors
hall.
This apartment is undoubtedly one of the
most wonderful in its unique splendors of
any in the world, of equal size. Yet to be-
gin with, it was but the New York hall bed
room of commerce. Now it is such marvel
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are at the window just take look out. On
the carpeted fire. escape is an icebox and
refrigerator.
Yes, this is the kitchen, or rather the
pantry, containing many good things to eat
and drink. There is an awning for their
protection, and there these simple domestic
articles repose in this unaccustomed situa-
tion as peacefully as if fire escape were
their natural environment. There, Just be-
yond the window on one side of the room, is
a good, solid, two-leaved dining table.
-Four, or even six, people can be comfort
ably seated at it if its full extent were util-
ized, and four can be served with perfect
ease. A handsome embossed velvet cover,
in rich, dark shades, of course makes it
merely general convenience and ornament
when not engaged in its special mission.
The sideboard is covered with charming
wares, Japanese, Wedgewood, Worcester
and Dresden china, and glimpse inside
shows such supply besides, and such an
array of magnificent silver and linen damask
as might well make housewitely heart
ache with envy.
ELEGANT LUXURY.
Opposite it is a commodious writing desk
of inlaid ebony, over which is large man
tie draped with peacock blue plush, en-
broidered in gold. On the desk is late
magazine, new novel and an assortment
oi pens, seals, etc., while its pigeon holes
and drawers are filled with variety o. fine
stationery, and from it steals the odors of
delicate sachets. Its presence adds dis
tinct vote of elegance and refinement to the
general luxury. On one side, under
the lid of the desk (no room lost again you
see), is the gas heating stove. On the other,
on little brass stand in the niche between
the desk and the table, is the gas cooking
stove. 1t is of a new pattern and decidedly
ornamental. There is an oven goes with it,
and you can simply cook anything, from
poultice to poultry, on it. 1t is not used, as
a matter of TACT, for much beyond hot water
for coffee, punches and boiling eggs or oys-
ters.
The drawing room, the dining room and
the kitchen have been described; but have
said nothing yet about the bedroom. 1t is
all here in the utmost perfection. The bed
is the one piece of trick furniture in the
place. 1t is folding one, but such fold
ing one! 1t is a great big, solid double
affair, with beyeled mirror front that even
when it is shut up has an air of substantial
comfort. 1t does not pretend to be cabinet
organ or bookcase either; il is Just hand
some bed, with grained oak casing match
ing the sideboard. Opposite to it was
door; now there is a clothes-press, though
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The Flutter at RaytI.

General Invalidity (of the Haytian army
-Whad jer want?
q. s. Naval Oficer-We want redress?
General Invalidity-Cain't git it yere.
chile. Is wearin' d. only hull c'mplete
unifohm on d. islan'. Judge.
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stoop down, there is blacking box and
brush, but you. must look for it to
see it. I'm beginning to catch on to the
be looking out for place to tuck things
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THE HEENAN.sAYREs FIGHT.

We then talked about the Heenan-Sayres
prize fight, in which historic event Gideon was
one of the umpires. He hopes that there is no
because Of his connection with that affair, and
I tried TO assure him that there was not.
told him he would be welcomed heartily, not
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AN INCENTIVE TO PoEsY,

Before going into the more practical de-
tails Of description, come over here to this
window seat; there is an extra foot of room
in it, every inch utilized. you see, and enjoy
the extra sentimental moonlight effect. The
host understands exactly how to give it the
tenderest touch. wonder who be gets it
up for? All this doesn 'tseem exactly suited
to purely bachelor atmosphere. Down go
the gas jets; the beautiful blue-green Vene-
tian hanging lamp over your head is turned
up further, and 10! how sweet the moonlight
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In POLITE SOCIETY.
Mrs. Sherwood Answers a Number Of
Questions About Etiquette.
WHEN TO WEAR TEA GOWNS.
Some Valuable Hints About Dinners and
Other Matters.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH

HOW TO GET INTO GOOD SOCIETY
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wv easy II Is TO live
luxuriously and cheap
ly. even in this expen-
sive city. I've just
been taught how in one
delightful and valua-
bic lesson. 1t was
learned in a room IA
feet long by 81 wide,
situated in one of the
most populous and ex-
pensive parts of New