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Crawford avalanche., 1891-04-23

GENERAL DIAz, President of Mexico,
is going to try peculiar experiment
in leaving his country to go to Europe.
His strength in Mexico is mighty, but
it is thought that it depends on his
presence there.
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OK November "a, 1887, bottle was
thrown from the steamer Cephalonia,
Chen about 400 miles out from Boston.
1t was recently washed ashore on a
little island in the Caribbean Sea, $500
miles away.
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The once mighty " dian population
of the United States has dwindled to
244, ,075.
Crawford avalanche., 1891-04-23

CHECK infant development in tyr
amy by strict obedience; then will
the love of truth. honesty, and justice
Hravail
Crawford avalanche., 1891-04-23

A MANUSCRIPT of one OF Ari-totle's
-troe+iso, has been found in collection
of papyrus recently discovered in
Egypt.
Crawford avalanche., 1891-04-23

AMONG fock OF blackbirds that vis-
tied Gardner, Miss, few days ago
was one that was pure white.
Crawford avalanche., 1891-04-23

The London Religions Tract Society
last year issued 77,0O0,00J publca.
tions.
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FRENCH statesmen have offered 81
600 reward for the best athletic game.
Crawford avalanche., 1891-04-23

Iv is reported that s4O,0Oo,00o of
British capital is invested in Paraguay.
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she will get Of at the wrong station
some day.
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ii Z Worlds
Col u m bian
Il xposition
continues to
mount every
obstacle and
{ o m a k o
giant strides
towards the
realization Of
all its mag
nihcent an d
daring aspi-
rations.
Ch ief of
Con structio n
Burnham has
part y gratl-
flied the cu-
ri osity con-
corning I h Q
designs for
the tw I've
prin e ipa |
buildings a I
j II c k $ o n
PARK, by eX-
hill iting and
eXp.aining.in
p c r $ on TO
the Commits
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bird s. We
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Next week. --1Isrsel often Rebuked. y
Amos a; l-1a -
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cactus and palm-leaf design. It's a very
realistic sort of a room, even to the keep
off tho grass" sign which hangs over the
door and the thermometer in the corner
registering ninety-nine. Over the doorway
a sun with a gorgeous smile on its face
looks down and weeps tears OF JOY on
palm-leaf fan. The occupant OF the room is
evidently of a reminiscent mind, for over
the mantel are two bits OF literature in
scribed each upon white cardboard of regu-
lation size. The one reads, '.Ioe cream sold
here" and the other, Boats, twenty cents
an hour" They are souvenirs, and the
same girls picture is in the corner of each.
Another quaint room is sporting
room. The occupant has baby alligator
suspended by tail and jaw from the mantel
and Japanese doll astraddle of its back,
holding pair of ribbon reins which tie
around the reptiles nose. The ceiling Is
draped with huge tish-net; oars are used
in place of curtain poles, and an Indian ca
noe is suspended from two corners and fitted
up for a bunk. The woodwork is picked
out in Indian red, aud fossils are scattered
around on everything like cotton snow on
Christmas tree. That man will weary of
it all as soon as the silk ribbons are dirty
and the crocodile gets dust-coyered.
Another room-decorators call them
freak-rooms"-is vision in white. The
bedding is all white, and so is the bedstead.
White mats cover the floor, white gost-skins
cover the couch and white nuslins dress the
mirror anu CHiuUuUieT. Liz Wills are III
white with the daintiest kind of blue buds,
and the lights are FROM fairy lamps of pale
blue cast The only character in the whole
room is expressed in the frieZe which shows
a sort of laurel-w-eath arrangement in the
colonial style. Silken bell-pulis hang from
the walls like the old-fashioned kind We
now find and abominate in old country
hotels.
Some odd things are being shown now in
Japanese crete which we can only describe
as having the appearance of crete that has
been printed upon when wet. In this way
the colors have run, and give only the APP
pearauce OF what artists call wash-draw-
Jugs. Thus a full-moon and cloud design is
brought out so odd in its character, so hay
and foggy of treatment that one sits and
studies the fabric closely to discover how in
the world it is accomplished.
Kanko crete is fabric done in patterns
of the japanese order, stenciled or printed
in part, and part of the design brought out
by embroidery stitches. 1t is, in fact, a
compromise between the two, and busy
women can complete the work by continu-
ing the embroidery on the stenciled part.
A brand new Japanese netting, like a
fine fish-Detting in Japanese Colds, bronzes
and such effects, will surely be popular be-
cause they have been wanted. They come
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KATE CHASE.
Pen Picture Of One who at One Time Was
the Belle Of washington.

A correspondent writing from New York
to the Pittsburg Press draws the following
pen picture OF Kate Chase, who at one time,
during the days of the Lincoln Administra-
ton, was the belle of Washington city:
She sat in large easy-chair in the cosy
parlor of a woman genius in this city who
was entertaining a few of her friends. She
was the gentlest OF them all, this woman
with so remarkable past-gentle and still
so beautiful. She was dressed in the deep
est black of the neatest, most elegant de-
scrptiou, from which the warm pink glow
of the cheeks and lips, the blond glints of
hair and occasional rays from the shy, sad
ewes were the sole relief. She was the typi-
cal lady-not the lady of rush and hustle
and advancement, of progress, platform or
pen-but the lady of the drawing-room, the
boudoir, the carriage, quiet refinement, re-
pose.
Although queenly in appearance when
standing she looked rather a little woman
sitting down. Her form is fne-lined, SYM
metlical, and just plump enough for height.
Her head has a dignifed but not naughty
or aggressive set on well-turned neck, not
notieeably long. Her shoulders slope just
right with faint touch of womanly c0quet-
ry in their expression. The lines of bust
and waist are simply perfect, her hands and
feet noticeably small. Her face Is oval in
the skin is smooth and unspoiled by make
up. She is decided blonde of that rare class
of blond coloring which | can only describe
as Sunset" Her forehead is rather low
and wide, with slender arched hrows and
much refinement of expression in it.
Her eyes are the more difficult in the
world to describe, however, but easy
to Illustrate. You see but half dozen
pairs like them In lifetime. They are not
large. they have a hidden" look among
the thick dark lashes, and they have always
a look as If they had been crying hard
without the redness-the most fetching"
eyes on EARTH irresistible in youth, suggest
i've of first love-you doubtless can think of
pair among your lady friends. From the
cast of her face one would imagine her
nose to be straight Grecian. but it
which does not in any way mar the
symmetry Of outline. Her lips are very red
and full. with fascinating diHts at the cor
ners. Her hair is massed above her brow
in large, loose rings of gold. A few glints
of silver shade into the blond in front of
the ears, without attracting observation.
Her fine black henrietta cloth dress was
tight-ftting and double breasted, with crepe
reveres, cuffs, foot-band and buttons. Her
bonnet was close, small, we'll set back, with
long crepe veil falling below her waist.
dull-piack flower-pin at her throat was her
only ornament. She sits perfectly still while
talking, her little hands folded in her lap,
the varying expression of her face and the
lighting and darkening of her wonderful
eyes alone accompanying the changing
thought Her voice is musical and full of
sentiment.
Her home is in Washington, but che was
on here making visit TO her daughter
Ethel. who is member of Richard Mans
fields company.
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/ have noticed during the dry walking of
the last two days many persons using rub
bers," as if the streets still retained the
mud and Slush that were the results of the
last snow-storm. l look upon the aberra-
ton of these wearers of rubbers as result
of yielding to the influences of bad prac-
tice. For myself, whenever 1 have worn
rubbers under stress of weather, l have
been only too glad to cast them off at the
first favorable opportunity, but many per-
sons persist in keeping them on even at
places of amusement, where they feel par
ticularly oppressive from the high tempera-
ture This tamely yielding to the arbitrary
influence of an uncom Portable article of
dress should be a warning against letting
habit get the advantage of principle in such
matters. | have heard that, in some places
in New England where the winters cold is
ordinarily severe. "arctics" are a feature of
indoor gayeties, aud that the Portland
Fancy" 'All the Way TO Boston" and SINH
lar dances are executed under the disadvan-
tages of these membranes. Such expert
ences should be needed by wearers of rub
bers" in dry weather lest they fall under
the control of these oppressive foot-cover-
ings and, perhaps, be obliged to wear them
to bed.-Bost0n Post.
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Likewise place for the pocket-book and q
sign to the burglar, "Step softly, and don't
disturb the sleeper" One can keep here
his cough mixture or bottle of night-caps
and eye-openers. Then again, some of
these devices take the form of inches to
hold holy water or sanity figures, for use in
Roman Catholic countries. We have not
seen them in America, but once let them
beintroduced and they certainly would sell.
It's big improvement over poking things
under the pillow.
Japanese fretwork is now relieved of its
monotony by the Introduction of bamboo
squares and parallelogram shapes. Some
fretwork is also made entirely of bamboo,
in sizes tapering down like carriage whip
and bent into quirks and whirlagees. When
the bamboo gets into the smallest or cord
like size the shapes it is permitted to assume
are as intricate as could be done with rope.
A young man in Harlem has started in
TO furnish his rooms in season" decora-
tons. In his sumner room" the carpets
and walls are profuse with roses and trail
ing vines, honeysuckles and buzzing bees.
Up in the corner of the ceiling an immense
spider disports his leglets on cobweb, the
size of cart wheel; caterpilars hang from
the mantel and the wall friezs is deep in
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in long piece lengths, twelve to. eighteen
inches wide, finished firmly so they wont
unravel or fray out. Their uses are end
less; they can be used as stripes for mantel-
valances, cross-stripes or portieres, or Tor
frieze or dado decorations, or whatever else
imagination suggests.
We who are at all observant will notice two
very radical departures in recent forms of
house decoration. Firstly. the prevalence
of natty little portic0s or maDtels over door
ways and windows, and secondly. the ad-
vent OF new idea in curtain dressing. re-
quiring valance along the top, where here
tofore the curtain-pole was conspicuous
feature. The over-door mantel vastly I'M
proves room, and the same device arranged
over the windows gives an excellent oppur-
tunity to display the bric-a-brac. In the
sketch we show the walls Of the rooms are
furnished with deep frieze. with picture
moulding dividing it from tho lower part.
These walls are In pale ivory. deepened into
browns on the reddish cast along the frleze,
the culorings that one often sees In old
ivory, soft and subdued. Over the d0orways
and windows sharp bits Of old blle and car
dinal stand out in the bric-a-brac.
Only Few years ago, you in search Of
The morning call., 1891-03-08
GERALDINE.
WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY CALL
CHAPTER I.

One December afternoon a gentleman
stood at door on which was small brass
plate engraved George Marsden, private
detective office" To open this outer door
and enter the passage and office was the
work Of a moment, and the clerk behlnd
the rallied desk looked up with start as a
musical voice. with clear, crisp accent,
said: SIS MI Marsden IMP"
No sir but his chief agent is" was the
reply:
THAT will do" said the stranger.
He was a tall, handsome fellow, about
thirty. with a dark mustache and thick
wavy hair, trife longer than men usually
wear it. but which was perfectly in keeping
with The mans fine face and whole appear
ance.
The clerk conducted the gentleman to a
back room OF good size, well furnished and
warmed by a splendid fire. The visitor put
his hat aud gloves on a side table and went
at once to the Preside. The entrance OF
some one made him turn and start with sur
prise and 4 quick look Of admiration, as
lady came forwari-a tall, slender woman,
young-perhaps four and twenty, graceful,
with face at once handsome and interest
ing. what a picturew flashed unhidden
across the artist, and perhaps something
else, deeper still. across the man.
The woman met his look With one straight,
fearless, but in no way bold or unwomanly
as she said in a mellow cOntralto that some
how he had expected. what can do for
YOU, sir-you wished to see me?"
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Can I comet" Romaine began; then
biting his lips, added, Il should not dream
OF letting you go alone. Heaven! it is all
so hard-if could but spare YOU"
lie turned sharply aside, then came back.
'tFurgive-but this wnrk-for you, young
we'll bred. reined-a lady, it Is too terrible"
She looked at him sec ond with a pas
answered with stern, bitter endurance
under the quietneSs.
II was younger when we parted in Russia.
Did you then think me too well bred or re-
fined for-well, for worse employment than
detective work for an innocent man nc
cused? You suspected me because my
father, although a Russian Count, was
professional gambler. You knew nothing
else against me-"
Nor did 1 accuse you of anything else.
II was you who turned me away. Why you
outright, but you avoided me-repelled me
chilled the love had for you"
II did all that, but IL was when l had the
evidence that you loved another. No more
of that You were deploring my present
employment.
81 am used to it-for years. l have to
live, and it is better than the foreign gam
bling-houses of my fathers lifetime-here,
there and everywhere. My playthings were
cards and dice, the men and women about
mcleod knows how | was kept from the
worst, / don't. Shall we start, Mr.. Rc-
maine? The arrest must be arranged and
made to-day. When have sworn the in
formation, we must go on and prevent any
escape while the warrant is being made out I;
the two officers will follow and wait till l
call them in. will arrange with them.'
Romaine bowed in silence, and they went
out together on their grim errand.
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with gentleman what lodged ut the inn a
good while and then went away. Law. I'D
Pyke died five year back, and the wldder
went to Plymouth he'd hearn 10 tell"
The detective at once went on to Ply
mouth aud in two days she found Mrs.
Pyke. Between Geraldlne's soft manners
and adroit questioning she got the good
woman into full flood of talk. Margaret
Carr was the beautiGullest girl and held
herself high. Well. then Mrs Pyke had a
lodger, a gentleman from the city. Least
ways, ma'am, lie was handsome aud gentle
man-lile, but not, as you might say, real
gentleman, DO you see-most nice 10 me al
ways, and used TO do for him, and when
he bought a set of hankerchers he said
would mark EN-" said she, beginning to
laugh. 80 did, ma am, in way I'd know
anyhow" Geraldine looked up quickly and
drew In breath I'm the worst needle
woman. so l cuts a dozen tiny squares off
of an old red handkerchief of Pyke's and
sewed 'em on Leopold Langton's banker
cheers"
"Was that his name?"
EYES, ma'am. Well, one day he met Mar
garet. OF course he fell in love with her,
and she liked him, as girls do. She was
awfuliy dull at home, and they got engaged.
though no one knew but me and her father.
But, somehow, Margaret found out that
Langton had deceived and deserted young
girl up North, and her old father had swore
he'd shoot him. So Langton had cut. dye
see, and kept in hiding at our place. Mar
garet came over to our house all in abiaZe
and saw the young man herself. l was IN
the next room and heard most what was
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Of faded pale pinky hue sewed on in one
eorner-doubtess mere rough laundreSs'
mark" An unmistakable bent of Gus
pcion was evident throughout against
Wilfred Romaine. But for all that,
the verdict could scarcely be other
ttaa "willful murder by person or persons
unknown" with a kind Of rider-"Lhere not
being sufficient evidence to incriminate any
indiViduaP'-all of which left the general
Impression, in and outside the Coroner's
court, that the guilt lay close to the stepson.
Hou wish MIR. MaTsden TO undertake the
caseY said Geraldine Laval.
II wish you personally to take ii in hand"
returned Domaine, decisively IF you posi-
bly, can"
She half smiled. 81 cannot dictate to my
employer. but your wish will have weight.
As he is just now much engaged, / should
most probably take this case. What are the
police ah0ut?"
"Oh, believe following some trace of a
diamond ring apparently like the one my
stepmother wore. but it matters little |
of them. nave had the lawn searched, the
banks and the riyer-bed too, for the ring, but
useessly; so l suppose it must have been a
robber Ny MOTHER" his lips quiyered.
'tmust have strolIed out in the gardens 10
look for my coming and been attacked.
There seems no other possible motive. She
had no enemies" he said with an anguish
that went to the woman's heart
After pause she said slowly: And yet
a robbeT or burglar would scarcely have
wasted time and risked murder, when he
could have surely easily escaped with the
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book which he Is reading. but Robinson
Crusoe " or the Boys Own Book" If so,
il is all the worse. for he is less likely to put
it down.
Too much attention could not be given to
this important subject by parents. tearhers
and all those concerned in the instruction
OF the young. Parents should make it their
business to ascertain whether their chill
dren's eyes are right or not. Teachers
should see that the light, the construction OF
the desks and the position of the body are
Just what Is required, for all these are essen
tial not only to the preservation OF the sight,
but as a preventive of disease.
AS safeguard against the prevalence OF
bad sight in children, we would suggest
that before entering on the duties OF school
they be required to undergo certain simple
tests, which should be on the wall OF every
schooi-room. The following cuts show q
The morning call., 1891-03-08
THE BACHELETTEO.
They Are Wanted in North Dakota. Where
Many Men Are Anxious TO Marry.

If the following story. published in the
Chicago Evening Post, is strictly true, then
the paradise for the bachelettes, those
woman of uncertain age. who are always
young, has been discovered:
He looked like farmer as, with his pan
falcons tucked in his unblacked boots and
his large white slouch hat pushed back on
his head, revealing the entirety of his rugged
honest countenance, lie walked into the
fremont House, and placing an oid-fashlon-
ed homemade carpet-bag between his legs,
asked Clerk Cobb if he could have a room.
And when, after registering his name and
addreSs-John Austin, Bismarck. n. D.-he
got into conversation with a hotel Younger,
he said that he was member Of the Farm
ers' Alliance.
"There is one thing" said he, 81 know
the Alliance should have put into the plat
form, for Dakota needs such plan. and
that is an invitation or something OF the
sort to get women to come into The State.
We need water and money out there bad !;
but'-the honest old granger slapped the
l0unger's knee by way of emphasis-"we
need women worse. As things are now,
there amt half enough women to 90 round.
And until this is changed Dakota willnever
amount to much.
You see, it takes homes to make good
State. A man can 20 out there and break
enough lduu 70 ldIlH WttnOul u WIG. Dut
he gets ALFRED lonesome after a time, and
when a bad season strikes him he gets dis
couraged and the chances are he just packs
up and quits. Now, if he had wife and
little ones to cheer him they would encour-
age him, and most likely in tie end he'd
come out all right. There's lots Of
women in the East, hear. more than
there are men, and they want husbands,
l suppose. Now, they ought to go to
Dakota. They'd find husbands there. They
might not be dudes or bankers, with full
dress duds and carriages, but they'd be
Woodworking honest fellows, and they are
the ones who make the best husbands. Yes,
Dakota needs women the worst way. L
know. for / have tried to hoe my row alone
out there for five years. and | have had q
hard grind. But / am all right now; least
wise / will be soon, for I'm going back to
Ohio, where l was raised, to get married.
There's lots OF complaint about Dakota, l
know, but il there were more likely
women out there there wouldn't be half so
mnnh -
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ABOUT CLOCKS.
An Ugly Face May Not, But Death Doe
Stop Some of Them.

An Ugly Face May Not, But Death Does
Stop Some of Them.
The sentimental and superstltious who
are given to tracing the laws of condolences.
says the Pittsburg (Pa.) Times. will fiud an
interesting subject for their attention in the
recent death OF jeweler in Bucyrus, Ohio.
For many years it has been the Office Of a
skillful German matchmaker, whose name
is Frank Kehrer, to attend to the town
clock. During the last few months the
health of MIR. kehrer has been DOOR, and the
clock, deprived of his careful attention, has
been keeping Indifferent time.
One Monday morning, recently, the time
piece struck o clock and q few moments
later it stopped. Early risers who heard
the chime affirm that there was something
indescribably weird and peculiar about it.
Later risers. noticing the clock hands point
ing TO sos, commented upon the subject and
news spread that Mr.. kehrer's condition
had suddenly become worse and that he had
died at :05 that morning.
When the late State Senator B. j. Smith
OF Hancock County, W. Va. passed away his
family looked at his watch 10 see the time.
The hands pointed at 1902. When 5. G.
Smith, sou of the late Senator, began house,
keeping in Wheeling, his father gave him a
family clock which he had always attended
to himself. After the funeral Mr. Smith re-
turned to Wheeling. As soon as he saw the
clock MIR. Smith turned to his mother and
sister and asked them il anything in the
room had attracted their attention. 1.-The
clock" said the sister, and the mother
nodded assent. The clock had stopped at
1902.
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the arrest; then pointing to Geraldine
Laval, he said with rough brutality.
gloating over the wound he inflicted SO
yeDgefully. 1T is base conspiracy be-
tween you, my agent, and your lover
there, who has bought you to screen his
guilt at my expense"
She only turned haughtily away then
while Wilfred set his teeth but when the
prisoner and his captors were gone the girl
broke down-only a miserable, suffering
woman now, terribly overstrained, cruelty
stabbed.
" My poor child. my own Geraldine" a
deep, soft voice whispered tenderly. and a
strong arm stole around the quiyering form
you will let Wilfred be indeed your true
lover and try to win you for happier DAYS ?"
That you cannot do" she responded.
Geraldine" said he suddenly, and caught
her hand--the pretty white hand that hung
loosely by her side" Let me speak to YOU.
| know-I can guess all you would say. We
let ourselves be separated that time in Rus
STA, but it seems to me to-day that there was
never any time when you were outside NV
life. Perhaps l ought not to speak now-so
soon after you have made me your heavy
debtor"
"No, you should not" said she in a
cboked tone.
yet why, whya" asked he ardently, i'm
patiently.
"Oh, sirl' said she, her beautiful Inns
curling. Consider l would have you for
got me and consider-others." She had not
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head Of their beds and
put away things they
might ant before
morning. We have not
seen anything Of the
kind for years, but now
we discover that these
bed-pockets are being
sold in England, al
though the extent of
their use is not stated.
They are arranged in
fanciful s h apes of
brass, and hang by
cords or ribbons from
the head of the bed
stead. There is a place
for the handkerchief and