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The Progress., 1893-09-02

Private secretary TO tn New York City
Building Commissioner.
Cleveland secre tary after the national
convention n 1872. Mr.. O'Brien and
Miss A. b. Sanger, the White house
typewriter, attend mail ogether. For
wears Mrs. Astor had a pr vate sec e.
tary who came to the house every
morning to attend to Mrs. Astor's vol
luminous C rrespondence and arrange
her calling and invitation lists and
similar details. 1t is quite n triumph,
however, for the woman private secre-
tarv to make her way into
New York's municipal departments
Tammany hall has no use for
women in such pos tions; but
during Hans Beattie's regime Miss
Cynthia esiover achieved quite a
reputat on in the street cleaning de-
partment as the commissioners priyutc
secretary, and was quoted as an ex-
ample of what n private secretary
should be. On the building commits
sion Miss Dyke has held the private
secretaryship to Commiss oner An
thony Grady since last October, and
in tha. time has succeeded in obtain
ing such a record as a worker that
she has now been given stenogra-
pher, to whom she dictates the corre-
spondence which she formerly did
herself. Miss Dyke is Ii tie Massa-
chusetts girl. who ame to New York
from the Ber<s h, re hills three years
ago and took a course ia stenography
TO perfect herself in a study she had
picked up at home.
Then she tramped New York for
DAYS trying to get situation. Final
lv Clay Greene, the playwright, gave
her work, and after that she served as
Oliver Srmner Teall typew tier in
chief duri z the Peoples Municipal
league campaign. Next she opened
her own office, and as she was clever
stenographer, did lot of important
repor Is. till she broke down from over
work. Miss Dyke next went to the
building commissioner as his secretary
In SIX months she obtained a close
grasp on the work of the commission.
and. as she is very ambitious, has
given her work solicitous attention
that always makes private secretary
invaluable.
In fact, the woman private secretary
Is coming up in the ranks, and these
are only a few of those who occupy re-
sponsibie positions. IL n woman is dis
Greet and tactful there is no reason
Why she shouldn't make an undenia Ole
puccess IN such position.
Mrs. MGuIRK.
IL men had to be judged by one an.
other nobody could ever get TO heaven
The Progress., 1893-09-02
Choru.es That win Compete for Prize

Choruses That win Compete for Prizes.
Four choruses of $50 voices each will
enter the competition for the 5000 prize
at the Worlds fair Sept. s. Fifteen oil
twenty choruses of sixty have entered fof
the smaller prize of $1,000 in the compcti
tion which will take place Sept. 5. The
four choruses which will struggle for the
big prize are the Mormon Tabernacle
choir, from Salt Lake City; two Welsh
choirs, from Scranton, Pa, and the West
ern Reserve choir. from Cleveland. o.
The Progress., 1893-09-02

~. - hbliH MARSHALL.
so SECRETARY to Mrs John A. Logan.
49, IN eus'ne affairs; but she is n
ppy natused yosng woman with a
srs--nse ssnse OF wit, and also a love for
1 i,s,:a ~ AZ Miss Hayes is accomplish ed
eommendation. Unknown to
,arss Slmer or any one else she en-
Mn ~ snfee competitions in connection
- sne colnmbian Fair, and in every
~ !. .ered second or third mention,
1lroir. . said thst. although she krew
Hi~ nxy nothing of architecture,
MAJ. design for the Woman's
MN would have been chosen if 10
- ceen decided that Miss Hay
q ssa little more dignified for
~ 'e for which it was to be
~ nsses is Chicago girl. Her
oled when she was child.
The Progress., 1893-09-02

Major r. ii. Hendershot and his son,
the original drummer boy of the Kappa
hammock, will attend the G. A. r. camp
fire at Festival hall ON the afternoon Of
Sept. and give his wonderful imitation
Of battle and the Columbian quickstep
The Progress., 1893-09-02

pretty fair exhibit made II IT, Iac state
day was June 10, the fifty-~sycrrd ruW
versary of her admission L. IA" jujH.
Her building is only incidentally hes.
quarters for suciability, as all tie s;u;"'
exhibit = there except for her space iu H..
department of Liberal Arts and Hortiyu,
ture.
The style of the building is. Old frcuci
or Rocco, rs the French were the first {,
settle in the state, and their first prc.en
tiOus structures are believed TO have beer
in this style There is u large ceutra
rotunda, and on two sides of it, are parlors
or reception rooms which were fitted uI
by the Ladies' Columbian clubs of Fort
Smith, Helena and Van Buren,. And they
are very handsomely fittsl up, with many
paintings and other adornmeuts by native
artists. Upstairs are sixty panels OF
forty different native woods, and all
very finely finished and polished. There
is also a Bankers room, fitted up by the
bankers of the state; also fair agricul-
tural exhibit in the rear of the building,
and really surprising mineral exhibit.
In front Of the main door stands the big
Chunk"-carbonate of zinc, weighing
ESQ pounds. from the Morning Star
ulintN III lhAIibu Nbuu- > anu Nut ltii E'Nb
piece of that mineral in the exposition.
And here endeth the too short record Of
what Arkansas has done at this fair
-
Beautifully located among the native
trees in the northwest corner of Jackson
park, ike common gentlemans RESI-
dence in natural grove, is North Da-
kota's building. And the illusion is some
what heightened by the exterior features
through which the visitor passes from the
grand boulevard which encircles the park
and at the north end runs between the state
buildings. First is an old Red river OK
and cart-the former stuffed in death n
good deal more than he ever was in life, !
suspect. Thirty-four years ago | saw
many a long train of those all-wOOden
carts come down through Minnesota, and
the cattle looked as if a sheaf of oats would
start bread riot among them. Near by
il pile of those cannon balls" found in
many rivers of the northwest. Wherever
there is a striking natural phenomenon
there is always a local legend to account
for it, and there is very interesting one
about these cannon balls"
Many, many years ago, says the legend,
the brave Dakotag left their first home in
the far north and moved southwark driv-
ing all other Indians before them. The
Upsaroka (Crows) withstood them long and
bravely and the decisive battle was fought
on the banks Of the Cannonhall rivera
The Progress., 1893-09-02

,,snonsble post IN Inc pr. HUe UIIIce OF
mspy a prominent man. At the same
ma women have found their hands
,"n s of business they have added
-;.o,e secretaries to their assistants,
rr,iI now there are many women who
~ as private S cretary TO wealthy or
business women:
: There Is Mrs Po' ter Palmer for one.
II fyou ever wrote to her on a per sonal
natter the prompt reply received, no
nstter whether Mrs. Palmer was IN
chicago or Europe, gave an impression
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6 WOMAN'S SPHERE.
ORNATE SECRETARY SHE
~ rs A SUCCESS.

Young Women who Have Learned
to Keep Secrets Helpers OF
49,. Logan. Mrs. Palmer, and other
..,sbla Women
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II ER T. Is ON T.

II Il Il T. Is ON +
charming member
OF her sex that yet
remains for the
novelist and play
wright TO present To
the public. 1t is
the fe IN i n i N e
private secretary.
ithin the past
two years the fem
mime private secre-
tary has occupied a
- - - AZ 4.. ... n
The Progress., 1893-09-02

If men had to be judged by one an.
other nobody could ever get TO heaven
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30
VIRGINIA NEWS.

E. NJ. Marks, superintendent of the
public schools of Prince George county.
died very suddenly Saturday night of
congestion of the lungs.
In the Christian Endeavor conven-
ton in Norfolk, on Saturday, Rev. J. |:
Vance was elected president, and
Lynchburg was selected as the next
place OF meeting.
James Woodbridge was found yester-
morning lying on the ground back of
the lumber yard of Cooper 4 Spots
wood. in Petersburg, dead, with an ugly
wound bacl, of the head. 1t is beliey-
ed he was murdered.
Mr.. John T. Meredith, the venerable
father of Representative e. +. Mere
dith, of the Eighth Virginia district,
died on Saturday at his residence near
Nokesville, Prince William county,
aged upwards of ninety years.
Lieut.. Gov. ]. Hoge Tyler, who has
announced his candidacy for the demo
cratic nomination for Governor, has re-
turned home to begin work in earnest
to advance his interests. Major Tyler
counts upon the rural vote for his
strength.
Mr.. Basil B. Gordon, the chairman of
the democratic State committee, has
recently recovered from an illness
caused by too sudden stoppage OF the
use of tobacco. Mr.. Gordon has been
an inveterate user of the weed, and not
long ago determined to abandon the
habit. His attempt to do so caused an
attack of sickness.
In Rockbridge county last week Will
liam Henry Bryant went out with a
party on fox hunt on the North
mountain. After short chase the
dogs ran fox into hole under some
rocks The hunters undertook 10
smoke him out. While so engaged
Bryant's gun slipped, the hammer
struck the rock and the whole load en-
tered his body under the right armpit,
beneath the shoulder, and came out in
his back, near the top of the shoulder.
He died within two hours.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30
The Annexation Question.

Official and political circles in Wash
ington find in the proposed annexation
of Hawaii topic of absorbing interest.
The Hawaiian revolutionists have thus
far been successful, but they are evil
IDENTIFY conscious that they will not be
able to carry on the government unless
backed by the United States 1t is for
this reason that they appeal to this
country to annex the islands and to in
stitute in them form of territorial
government until the time comes for
admitting Hawaii as one of the States
of the Union. Such course, how
ever, would involve some extremely
delicate constitutional and internation-
ell questions. A treaty exists between
France and England in which they
Jointly confess not to take possession OF
the islands. The United States when
approached on the su>ject refused to
Join in the treaty, but agreed to recog-
nize the independence of Hawaii. 1t
is possible, indeed probable. that Queen
Liliuokalani will appeal to France and
England under the treaty for protec-
ton, and it is a noteworthy fact that
the British minister at Honolulu retus-
ed to recognize the government set up
by the revolutionists.
Hawaii's revolution may prove a
more serious affair to the United States
than has been expected. Liliuokalani
insists that she yielded not to the revo-
lutionists in Honolulu, but to the supe
rior force of the United States, and she
charges that the American Minister,
John L. Stevens, caused United States
troops to be landed at Honolulu and de-
clared he would support the said gov
ernment."
These charges were made by the
Queen in proclamation, which she is
sued after abdicating the throne, and she
says she now awaits her reinstatement
in power by the government of the
United States.
Force is given to the Queens protest
by the haste with which United States
Minister Stevens "recognized' the pro-
visional government which the revolu-
tionists had established, and the resent
mcnt of the Queen is probably due to
the formal notice of recognition which
the Minister issued.
Representative Cultivate, of Ohio,
denounces the landing of the sailors
from the cruiser Boston at Honolulu.
Arrangements are being made by the
authorities at Washington to protect
American interests in Hawaii.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30
a LEX A n DRIA, " "A
MONDAY EVENING, JAN. 80, 1895.
MIR. WATSON of Georgia, the unpop-

MIR. WATSON of Georgia, the unpop-
ulist leader in Congress, availed him
self of the opportunity afforded by a
memorial day in that body last satur-
day, to say that in his own State the
control of affairs is sin the hands OF the
irresponsible and secret few; that the
negroes there are denied the exercise
of the franchise, and that the future
there is built upon the sectional anlmos-
tiles of the past And all for no other
reason, than the fact that the white peo-
pie of his district refused to re-elect
him to Congress for the good and suiii-
Gent cause that his demagogulsm in.
duced him to support all the wild ana
impracticable schemes of the third par
tvites, and to try to set the negroes
against the white people among whom
they live and who give them employ
ment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

Rt. Rev. Frederick Courtney, Bishop
of Nova Scatia, is to serve officially in
the Boston diocese for one month, in
the place of the late Bishop Brooks.
Mrs. George 5. Brown died this
morning in Baltimore. She was the
mother of Mr.. Alexander Brown, Sc
nior member of the banking firm of
Alexander Brown & Sons.
When the Panama canal concession
lapscs next month it is probable that
The government Of Colombia will take
immediate possession of the canal and
the visible assets of the company.
Hawaiian Commissioner Castle at
San Francisco said to-day that he had
received a dispatch that satisfies him
that President-elect Cleveland looks
favorably upon the proposal for annex
alton. Should President Harrison's
administration not give the answer the
commissioners desire they will wait for
Mr.. Cleveland to assume control and
will re-submit the case to the new adj
ministration.
Rev. r. s. Macarthur, in New York
last night, preached sermon in the
Calvary Baptist Church, i'll the course
of which he said that he believed that
Mr., Blaine had been elected President
in 1881. lie said democrats had told
him that they knew the polls at which
a sufficient number of ballots had been
changed to give Mr.. Cleveland an APP
plrent majority, and also that they
knew the men who had done this deed.
Bishop Wiggcr was seen by reporter in
Newark. " j. this morning. He said posi-
lively that he received communication from
Mgr. satclli, announcing the decision in the
Killccn- Wiggcr case in his (thc bishop'S)
favor.
Deputy U. S Marshall Faulkinbury was
killed by gang of timber cutters near Bates
| VIE, ArK., carry ouiluay morning "u'io az
tempting to enter their country for the pur-
pose of arrcsting the timber gang
The funeral of cx-Postmastcr General
James Campbell. last survivor of President
Pierce's Cabinet. took place this morning from
St. Mary's Catholic Church in Philadelphia.
Fl Mahdi, 2.25t. the best bred son Of On
ward. and one of the best bred stations in
the world. died at Syracuse, ~ V, last night.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30

FATAL BOILER EXPLosIoN.-A terri
BILE accident, by which three children of
Mr.. S. II. Lonas, a farmer, merchant
and we'll known citizen of Shenandoah
county, lost their lives, occurred near
Orkney Springs on Saturday. Lonas
owns saw and feed mill on the Ork-
ney grade, and while his two sons were
grinding feed the boiler exploded, in
stantly killing both sons and one daugh-
ter, who had gone to the mill to have a
pencil sharpened.
The bodies were horribly mangled,
the girls head being literally torn from
her shoulders and one boy being cut in
two.
The force of the explosion blew the
mill to atoms and threw pieces of tim
Der and iron hundreds of yards. Low
water in the boiler was the cause Of the
explosion. A man, whose name could
not be learned, had his leg broken by
his horses running away, they being
frightened by the noise.
The elder boy was %, the other Is
and the girl Z years old.
Mr.. Lonas was near the sawmill at
the time and was stunned by the shock.
Hundreds of people visited the scene Of
the tragedy yesterday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30
lIlellt.

GEORGIA having refused to provide
for her old, crippled and impoverished
ex-Confederate soldiers, it was the more
unpleasant to read that the upper
house of the Alabama legislature had
defeated bill granting pension of 500
a year to the widow Of President Davis
The latter shame has. however, iortu-
nately for the reputation ofthepeople o.
Alabama, and also for chat of all other
southern people, been removed by the
reconsideration Of the action referred to
and the passage of the bill. Mr.. Davis
risked and lost and suffered as much Tor
the South as any other man within her
limits, and for southern States to allow
his widow and orphan daughter to sui
fer, would not only be a shame, but a
crime so monstrous chat ii could not es-
cape retribution.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30
Her Face Her Misfortune.

recently heard the story of how a
girl who wanted to, and tried to, did
not succeed in entering society. Her
face was, in that one respect, her mis-
fortune. She removed to the city some
years ago from little out-of-; he-way
town ofa neighboring State, and at once,
ably seconded by her mother, started
in to cut swath and NOW pathway
in the longed-for green pasturage ell
ioyed by the ultra fashionables of local
society. Her family was not old, nor
had il in any way the remotest flavor
of Virginia origin. However, this
would hardly have counted against her,
for she came Of good stock and was SUI
premely beautiful.
She carried herself like queen, and
with her peerless beauty captivated the
men of society. She was modest, and
vet exercised a sort of freedom that en-
couraged men to approach nearer than
ordinarily and at the same time was eff
fectual in its restraining influence. She
displayed her charms not lavishly, but
abundantly.
No wonder, then, that the club men
about town took her up. They sought
her constantly, and soon she held court
with, if not the splendor, all the grace
and graciousness of queen. So con-
stantly was she in demand that at the
Chrysanthemum club, q sort of bureau
of engagement was established SO that she
might, as it were, be distributed fairly. She
was taken evcrywhere-by men. She was
soon the subject of conversation among men.
Her beauty became more pronounced as she
learned the little arts and articles that please
men, and she became the talk of the day
wherever she went at home or abroad.
All this, and especially the way the men
took her up, set the young women Ofthe city's
highest dead against her. They did not deny
her beauty-they could not. They simply let
her alone. The young women Of society
know thing or two, and this they knew
right we'll that if they did not call upon her
and left her at home to receive men, they
would soon tire of her and let her alone, also
Such. proved to be the case. She was never
called on by those of her own sex, and conse-
quently knew nobody. No one ever received
for her, and society. therefore, never had her
gracious presence end gueenly beauty in its
ranks At last, in desperation. or in some
other mood she left the city. Her course
was everywhere n conquest. She Is to-day
envied by many who hear occasionally of her.
and Is engaged to a wealthy man. who will
give her queenly beauty regal setting. This
is a true tory.-L1uist;bs Commercial.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30

MONEY FOR FARMERS INSTITUTES
The rules of the State Board of Agri-
culture governing the holding of Farm
ers' Institutes have, at the recent ses-
sion of the board held in this city, been
so amended and altered as to appropri-
ate a sum not to exceed 800 to be e1-
pended annually for this purpose in
each congressional district in this State.
1t is contemplated that for this sum four
Farmers Institutes can be held during
the year in each district in the State.
Before the rule was changed applica-
ton had been received and granted for
holding Q Farmers Institute at Manas-
sas, in Prince William county. Thus
the Eighth congressional DISTRICT has
an appropriation of $500 for this year,
and it now rests with the farmers of
that district TO avail themselves of this
opportunity for advancing their inter
ests and adding to their store of infor-
nation upon subjects which control
their material welfare.-Rich. State.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30

SOME AMERICANS want not only to
annex Canada, but to go two thousand
five hundred miles further and take the
Sandwich Islands also under 'the flag. "
This country is big enough, and the prop
er management of its affairs affords its
government all the business it can well
attend to. The chief cause of the de-
cline and fall of the Roman empire was
its annexation of foreign territory. The
United States can certainly avoid that
danger, and if their people are wise they
will be sure to do so.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30

THE ANNEXATION of Texas was very
unpopular in the North because there
were some black slaves in that State,
The annexation Of the Sandwich Islands
is very popular in the North though
nine-tcnths of the people there are semi
savages now, and, q few years ago,were
cannibals. But as has been from the
beginning and will be until the end,
times change and men change with
them.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30

A JURY of twelve of his neighbors
and peers, if anything, more disposed
toward, than against him, found Dem-
sey. one of the leaders of the Home
stead strike, guilty Of melting and bri6-
ing other men TO poison those who took
the strikers places. But ChiefPowder-
ly. who was neither witness nor a
.iuryman, says Dempsey is not guilty
Few reasonable people. however, have
paid any attention TO what Mr.. Pow
DERBY says since he declared he broke
all his empty beer bottles in order TO
increase the demand for such bottles
and thereby increase the demand fol
the labor employed in making them
Why not throw away the full bottles
and thereby increase the demand iol
the labor employed in the manufacture
of beer as well as of bottles 7?
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30

FRED DOUGLAS and some of the fe-
male members of his race called on
President Harrison last week and want
ed him to hear a lecture to be deliver
ed by negro woman at negro church
in Washington on 'Lynching in all its
phases The lecture should have been
delivered before the late Presidential
election. As that election has been
held and Mr.. Harrison is in no need of
negro votes now, he declined the invi-
tation, and so Fred has been crushed
again
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30

TRAMpLED TO DEArH.-A distressing acct
dent occurred at Worcester, Mass, on Satur-
dav afternoon, resulting in the death of two
little girls. Mary Reilly and Carrie Smith,
both aged six years were coastins on one OF
the side streets, and losing control of their
sleds they dashed down across the main street
ct the very moment that an engine was COM
ing at ell speed in response to q fire signal.
The sled ran directly in front of the horses.
and before the driver s0Gid check their speed
or change his course. tho animals had
trampled the two girls to death. The bodies
were frightfully torn and mangled by the
shoes of the horses.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-30

PErRoLEUM.-This peculiar product
called a mineral i'll the official doc
uments, because it is supposed to have
been produced, geologically, from coal
now constitutes one of the most i'm
portant of the country's exports. 1t
may not eventually prove to be min
eral, in any other sense than is implied
by its being found in the subterranean
rocks, for it is not yet certain that 1t Is
not produced from measureless marine
shell fish that once lived in the ancient
seas. Whatever it is, Il product of coal,
or of what was once form of animal
life, it is essentially made of carbon and
hydrogen, and is proving to be an in
valuable addition 10 the worlds pos
sessions. 1t seems strange chat this
substance, so early known, should haze
remained, during all these centuries.
unused-except by some of the follow
ers Zoroaster, who have for 4 long time
utilized INC ;saptha springs at Baku, on
the shores of the CASPIAN Sea, to keep
alive their perpetual fire.