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cts and take what the southerners call a
snack From Weldon to Wilmington.
Tor somebody to do all the time but it does
not require the attention of the entire crew.
There Is considerable local business occa-
stoned by the small stations along the way
ana mail must be pouched for three cross
lines.
We are running through the water
melon belt now and along toward the cool
OF the afternoon make a mercantile trans
action with small and very ragged col
ored boy for big watermelon pulled that
morning with the dew on 1t, and which
has been rsposing in cool place all day.
Is enough melon for each man to take a
slice big enough to bury his face in 1t.
Ihats the only way to eat watermelon.
any way; Just sit down on a pile of mail
sacks and fairly grovel and root into the
nrm. juicy meat Of the melon, emerging re-
freshed and full, with seeds sticking in
your eyebrows and the water dripping from
down Aarons beard.
Wilmington Is rather an important rail-
way center and the mail transactions are
heavy When the train pulls out after
work ON their hands. The boys have been
on duty now for sixteen hours steadily
ana they begin to show it, With the doors
from the engine pours through the car in
clouds. 1t is dusty and hot, the car swings
along with sickening motion sometimes
ana every one Is longing for the end Of
the run The men look heavy eyed and
haggard and they don't work with that
swing which characterized their movements
N M. ths >, earlier part OF the day. Between
ages to get short nap. stretched out on
the mail bags. Then all hands turn to and
wind up the business of that part Of the
s aun- -. inns car Is to be left at Charleston
car ana crew; Every letter and paper is
properly pouched and arranged in labeled
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The Influence Of Dress Upon Humssffy.

From 6odeys Marszine
According TO the morslists the love Of
dress has been and is stin quite a. fruit
full q source OF evil as the love OF money.
In fact feminine vanity. as manifested I'm
the extravaganza OF feminine costume. IL
popularity considered 70 be Responsible for
q large proportion OF the troublous fines
on which the world has fallen during fts
chequered existence. Whether or not me
moralists are correct IN their ceduet,ons
is-and probably will ever be-a nooted
question. but no thoughtful person who Ia I.
ever reflected upon the matter at ali Will
deny that woman's dress has ever PLAYED
a very considerable part in the fortunes
Primarily, OF course feminine vanity IN
Responsible Tor extravagances OF Costume
though with IL is inextricably intermingled
that innate love Of beauty OF form and
color which goes so far toward making
UP the artistic temperament and which
the woman of refined instincts possesses
In remarkable degree. Love OF psrsonal
adornment Is a natural concomitant OF q
healthy woman, and Is found IN Ewes
daughters everywhere. irrespective % ma
betrays Itself In the jauntily knottec ker.
chief and tawdry beads OF the peasant
girl or in the diamond tiara and noddin6
piumes Of the aristocratic court beauty
the characteristic Is the same. and woman
Is woman still. all the world over
In itself the love OF dress Is but another
phase OF the love OF art. and therein Of all
that is most beautiful and worthy % sd-
miration. Without II there could he no
true social life. for this is, elemeutally,
nothing more than a continual revolution
of the wheel Of fashion-and fashien in
costume at that Ever since the first rec
ignition OF clothes es a necessary adjunct
OF civilized life there have been changes
in their fashioning-not, perhaps. quite as
oft-recurring formerly In these latter
times. but stin frequent enough to form
no small proportion OF woman's pleasure
and occupation.
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THE AMERICAN GIRL.
what an English Editor Thinks Of UncIe
Sans Pretty Daughters.

What an English Editor Thinks Of UncIs
Sans Pretty Daughters.
From the London telegraph.
We shall never have q thoroughly ar
tistic series Of studies of the American
girl from English pens and pencils until
our countrymen recognize the fact that
american GIRLS differ physically and
charac'ersticaIly among themselves
quite as widely. II not even more widely,
than English girls do. In the Union
multtudes Of girls may be met with who
are almost Germans or almost Irish in
blood. Half Swedish, half Spanish South
Americans, half italian types Of femininity
are almost continually met with. and, in
deed. there are skillful students OF Ameri-
can character who declare that the gen
uine American girl is only to be met with
In New Ensland-that Is to say. In the
states OF Maine. New Hampshire, Yer
mont. Massachusetts. Rhode Island and
connecticut. In those states the original
English blood has, with scarcely any for
sign strain In 1t. descended from the time
OF the immigration Of the Pilgrim fathers
70 our own days. They are the true
Yankees" and yet unohservant writer's
are always ready to typify the New York.
the Virginia young lady as a Yankee
girl. New York city is perhaps one of the
most cosmopolitan cities in the world. and
types have been freely mingled with the
AnElo-Saxon ones. while some account
must be taken OF the knickerbocker aris-
tocracy-that is to say. of the descend
ants Of the old Dutch settlers.
Inc expert In character will at once be
able to distinguish between q young lady
from Manhattan and one who halls from
PENNSYLVANIA or Maryland. while Journey
Ing further west another type Of Ameri-
can girlhood makes herself manifest in
ohio and Michigan. and so soon as the
Rocky mountains are crossed and the
descent Of the Pacific slope is begun vet
another wholly independent type of the
feminine American makes its appearance
Nor, finally, would the study OF the Ameri-
can daughter of Eve be complete by even
the minutest observation of the Girls Of
the eastern. the middle and the western
states. There remains the southern girl to
be dealt with. and when we approach that
charming type Of feminine humanity IL
Will be found that the girls of Kentucky,
those OF the Carolinas and the bellies of
Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia diner
among themselves quite as widely as does
Partsienne from Provencale. On the
whole. II the American girl Isl TO be thor
oughly studied the European student
should live long in the states or make many
recurring visits thereto. The existing and
most current types OF the American female
are either stupidity conventional or wildly
exaggerated. and IN most cases are alto
gether misunderstood.
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rror is checked against the record Of that

error Is checked against the record OF that
clerk.
Has 1t ever occurred to you how depend
ent business men. and everyone else in fact.
are upon the accuracy and honesty Of these
Railway mail clerks? Here are letters in
this case coming from the north contain
ing money, checks, relating to important
business and family matters which are dr. K
iously awaited by thousands of people for
whom they are destined. An error or an
acL OF carelessness on the part Of one Of
these men might delay those letters or
cause their misdirection and work untold
harm and emDarra ssment to the affairs of
others. Yet 1T seldom happens. How Of
ten. In your own case for instance, ha We
your letters miscarried through the fault
or the post office? The work of these men
is entwined and interlaced with the most
important business and social affairs of
every person. The interests of the railway
mali service and its workers is a personal
matter to every man in the country
But while we are moraHzing the train
runs into Weldon, NC, and the passengers
pile out to dinner while the postal clerks
are busy with dispatching and receiune
the mail for the Seaboard and Roanok e
"a abroad. After awhile they win have a lit
tie leisure and will get out their lunch basli-
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The Ubiquitous NGicrobe.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat
DR.. Manfred has been announcing some
disQuieting facts concerning the omnipres-
ence Of fatal microbes. In the busy thor
oughfare OF crowded city he has found q
thousand million microbes to q gramme OF
dust, and In the dirtiest streets 5000. 600 600
per gramme. A large number of disease
producing microbes were found amongst
these. the number OF such morbific germs
being directly proportional to the aggregate
number Of microbes. OF forty-two cases In
which he inoculated guinea pigs with Nea-
politan dust he detected the tubercie ba-
GILL lthe germ OF consumption in three, the
bacillus OF pus in eight, the bacillus of teta-
nus IN two, the bacillus OF malign ant
oedema In four, and other fatal bacilii
A medical paper suggests that the streets
OF American cities should be tested for
microbes. and is confident that In many
OF them a harvest rich in variety and
deafness as was gsrnered In Naples could
easily be secured. Emphasis is given to
DIR. Manfredis alarming statistics by the
results of some investigations which have
been carried on by Prof Uffelman with
respect to the carrying OF cholera baciIli
by means OF letters, postal cards, sc. He
infected letter with the baciln and put
II In the ordinary wey into a post bag. In
was taken out and the baciln were still
living. They were also found stin living
on postal cards twenty hours after infec-
ton, but on coins they seemed to die with
great rapidity. The reason for this differ
ence could not be discovered On wooden
and linen stuffs the bacilD enjoyed a par
ticularly long life. The busiest and most
effective Infection carrier was found TO
be the common fly. A fly which had been
infected by being put on a mass Of cholera
baeilli. was placed on a piece OF beef
When the beef was examined soon after
II contained an enormous quantity of liv-
ing bacteria Prof. Uffelman deduces from
his experiments the oft-taught lesson that
In time Of epidemics, the most scrupulous
cleanliness is the best safeguard
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TABLE DECORATIONS.
The Newest Development in Table Linen
and Table Embellishments.

Shu Aouio
From the New York Sun
The sentiment Of the old-time lavender.
scented linen chest. with all its forms and
observances, which in the old-fashIoned
days was the poetry OF every wife's house
keeping, has lost its meaning. But in its
place there Is an increasing and whole
some interest In the tablecloth, its duties.
decorative qualities, and all its little &C
cessories. which are quite as significant
factors In the modern matron's life The
pattern Of the table damask and the dec
Grafton of the dinner table are important
questions in every well-regulated house
hold. The old monotony of simple little
sprays and flowers has given way to
modern conventionalized forms and flowers
devised and arranged with an artistic
knowledge full of charming variety In
these progressive days the texture. occa-
sion. and association of a tablecloth must
may be simplicity itself, but a serious sub
ject must be Stunned like the plague.
The latest development in modern appli-
cation Of decora tive intelligence to linen
Is the employment of skilled artists to
create appropriate designs. One of the
newest patterns is named "Flora's retinue i"
ed with graceful girlish figures in as many
different designs. The higher deveiopme emit
OF the tablecloth has happily banished
the incongruous superiority Of the center
piece whose many varieties were so long
the pet fancy of the aesthetic hostess And
the silk and satin denominations. in all the
giories OF lace and embroidery. which
until recently were the prominent feature
OF many elaborately decorated tea tables.
have also been relegated among past
follies. Suffered toast and silk cannot
dwell together In dainty harmony" says a
witty writer. A tea cloth must, by the
very conditions imposed on it's mission
In life. be fine, delicate, and irreproachably
clean. A mixture Of linen and white silk
woven together produces a mingled sheen
and daintiness Of effect quite Impossible
In linen alone, and very perfect In texture
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to take the trip In imagination with a Star
reporter who made II In person just brace
yourself Tor a good long spell Of heat. dirt.
dust, loss Of sleep and kindred discomforts,
and we viii take a spin on the Florida fast
mail and realize bow hard Is the postal
clerks life
The Florida fast mail route properly be-
gins at Boston and ends at Havana, Cuba
1t taps a large territory north Of Washing
ton. BY which 1t supplies a great area south
of the Potomac The part OF the route with
which We shall have to do Is that lying be-
tween Washington city and Charleston, s.
c.. and the trip will be made on a car
which Is known as the Washington and
Charleston railway post Office" This is the
longest run made by any crew in the railway
mail service. and II Is a heavy and busy
one. The round trip made by the crew is
l0So miles. and the actual time spent In the
car Is forty hoWa
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enough for US, and we therefore feel all the
more sympathy for the postal clerks. They
look tireQ and hot don't they and wouldn' I
you mink they would be sick OF the very
sight OF letter or paper by this time? See
those two fellows standing in the end of the
car working the letter mail; how they have
to strain their eyes over scrawIv ad2reSsas
and poor writing. and how they stretch
from one end OF the case 10 the other to
moving the contents of a pigeon hole now,
TO put the letters in pouch for delivery at
the next station. He ties the letters into
e neat package and puts IN slip OF paper
with his name on Il. II It Is found upon
opening that package that letter for some
interior country office has beeen put IN II
not belonging there, but which should have
been left at some station. the fact is noted.
a report made to the main ONCE, and an
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We VIII enter the postal car at o'clock
In the morning. at an hour when your sys-
tenn reproaches you bitterly for coming out
of your comfortable bed at such a time to
undertake a risky journey which may land
You In pine box or a heap of ashes under
the wreck OF a smashed and burning train
Tor You might as well know before YOU
start that the postal car Is the most dan
gerous place on the train. not excepting
the engine In every front-end collision or
wreck the postal clerks suffer and their car
Is damaged most. In collision the postal
car Is ground to pieces between the upper
and neither milestone of the iron tender and
locomotive in front and the great weight OF
the long train behind. The tender brushes
In the front of the car and the baggage car
telescopes the rear Of II. and there You are
However. this Is not told you to brighten
You out Of the trip. but simply to show you
the constant and imminent danger which
surrounds the railway mail clerks
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great bulk of the Georgia and Florida mail
which has been laid aside for more urgent
matters. The roadoed of the Atlantic Coast
line from this point is In splendid condi-
ton, the track smooth and straight, and
the car moves with but little perceptible
motion.
Sitting in the open door of the postal car.
now on the shady side. with the breeze
made by the swiftly moving train acting
like q great electric fan, IL is pleasant
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A CITY LIBR AIRY.
The Project Of One Here Again
Referred to.
TEE OLD FORD'S THEATER BUILDING
An eminenty Proper Ono for
Such Purpose.
A GIT ATE THE MATTER

OCCURRING TO THE
city library I trust
The Evening Star will
continue to agitate
that subject until 1t
becomes q reality. as
1t has been the first
to suggest Ford
Theater for such a
purpose. If / re-
member the PROPOSE
ton Of Mr.. Wolcott.
1t provided as a nu-
cleus the department
libraries and the dup
1icatea from the Con-
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Very III.

IfAktt NltxAltNH-
Doctor ION shipboard. to invalid psssen-
ger)-''You are pretty III this mornins. I'm
afraid. Mr. Smith"
Invalid Passenger-"Awfully"
Doctor-"Well, here is one grain of conn
fort for you"
Invalid Passenger-'No use, doctor. 4
couldn't retain IL q second"
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AiohS tne me are many small stations,
where the train does not stop, but where
mail Is dispatched and received. As the
tram approaches one of these stations
Woodbridge, for instance, the clerk empties
pouch and ties 1t up. As the train dashes
through the station the pouch is thrown off
and, with the iron mail catcher attached to
the side OF the car. the clerk takes in the
pouch that is hanging from a frame beside
the track As rule, the services of one
are required to transact this local business
dispatchtnS the mail at the stations and
distributing that which is received. In the
meantime other clerks are busying them
others handling the papers and heavy arti-
cleS. Every man is in a brown study, ap-
parently, and is entirely absorbed in his
work, for II demands his closest attention.
They do not heed the swing and roll of the
train. the dust, smoke and cinders that
pour through the car. but are taken up
they have nlemoriZed.
Now We approach the crossing OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio railway line. There
is mail for points along that line east and
west Of the junction, and that is pouched
and dispatched, to be taken up by postal
clerks on that line and distributed -Four
or five big sacks taken on at this junction
Increase the work OF our clerks. The boys
are hustling now, for we are nearing Rich
ways: As the train rolls into the station
the clerks wipe the CRIME and perspira ton
from their faces and regard with COM
placency several big sacks of mail stacked
up in the doorway of the car. the result of
their iabors. A transfer agent at Richmond
takes charge of the sacks and attends to
the delivery of them to the different rail-
way lines. Another big load OF mail is
taken on at Richmond. but the clerks
tackle 1T bravely. Petersburg Is not far
away. the crossing of the Norfolk and
Western railroad, and there is mail from
Richmond to offices east and west on this
line.
when the train leaves Petersburg at N
am. the clerks have been working for eight
hours steadily. Their labors have been
harder and more continuous than those of
any government employee at a desk in
Washington, and yet they have only COM
pleted one-third of what is their days work.
From Petersburg down to Weldon NC
there Is but one railway crossing and only
a small amount OF local business so that
the clerks have opportunity to get into the
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trance fee. 81, or three tickets for 81. II

trance fee. 81, or three tickets for 81. II
taken at one time.
The Wimbledon cup match is also going
me local sharps 1t Is open to all citizens
ana residents OF the United States Dis
lance: Loo yards. Thirty shots. Weapon.
n! tiue Wlthin the rules: cleaning allowed.
trositlon, any without artificial rest En-
rance Zee. &. Prize the Wimbledon cup.
20 eGss so oy the National Ri1e Association
OF Great Britain to the National Rife AS
soclatlon OF America. to be competed for
on conaltlons to be decided upon by the Ma
tlonal hl;le Association OF America, and to
meeting, when 1t Will be shot for on the
same conditions. Value. COO II was won
IN is,s by e. n Laird. now first lieutenant
and inspector OF rife proctfce for the sec
ond battalion. He VIII try to win IL again
\ few may enter the Scheutzen match.
but that sprt Of competition is not popu-
lar among military men; II is for fine rifles
On the program is the Columbia trophy
match. This trophy was a goodwin offer-
ing from the p. c. n. @; TO the National
Guard OF New Jersey. and no gift was ever
more highly appreciated. Teams of six men
from each jersey regiment run four shir-
nish runs each before the prize Is won IL
the meeting.
Going Under Canvas.
Today-when the third battalion went TO
Marshall Hall-the encampment season was
fairly opened. With the third went COM
pany A, sixth battalion. on August s
there will be an exodus. for that day will
witness the departure OF company A. sec
ond battalion. for Virginia Beach; COM
pany B. second battalion for Piney Point;
company ID. fourth battalion, for Sea Isle
City. n. J.. and companies c and B, engi-
neer corps. for Harper's Ferry. Light bat
terry A will be at Marshall Hall from Au-
s sln,h = Ss, 20 e. while companies and p.
under canvas at Harpers Ferry. The first
battalion Is going to Atlantic City In Au-
| gust
All members of the guard who desire "a
go with the detachment to Sea Grit blu,
whose names are not on the brigade on
regimental team lists must notify Mai
Geo. III. Harries, Inspector general OF rife
practice not later than Tuesday evening
so that the necessary arrangements can
be seasonably concluded
Capt. Tomlinson's team Will DO as It did
last year-pay all its own sxpensea It "a
| money well invested.
Maj. Gilbert Thompson. commanding tn,
engineer corps, was called out OF town by
the sudden death Of his mother.
For some time past twenty men-sur
have occupied the range on Tuesdays and
thursdays. The four supernumeraries viii
cease to practice with the team On Thurs
day next
Several nominations for commissions are
awaiting the return and the pleasure o;
President Cleveland
Col. Clay made no mistake when he made
| a reg1mental sergeant major cut Of Com
| missary Sergeant Meyer.
DR.. NJ F. Gallagher was favorably re-
ported on the board Of surgeons DIR. Gal
iagher will be surgeon Of the fourth bat
TALON as soon as the President returns
from Buzzard's Bay.
The brigade board OF examination win
report on half a dozen candidates within
| the coming week.
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ON THE FAST MAIL.
A Star Reporters Thousand-Mile
Journey in a Postal Car.
FLYING POST OFFICE.
Hard Work, With But Little Resi-
for the Crew.
n o T E 8 BY THE AY

THOUSAND-M IL z
trip IN q postal car
of the railway mail
service L. attended
with many novel and
interesting 81 & b { s
and happenings, but
to the average citi-
Zen reasonably fond
of all the comforts Of
home a relation of
them would propably
be more appreciable
than the actual ex-
perience.
So IL you would Ike
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Result of . Twisting Process.

From Vogue
Not-"'what makes Grimes shaped 30
like q corkscrew?"
Dot-"His wife's constant twisting him
around her little finger"
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His Field.

His Field.
From Truth.
What is the subscription price of your
new paper?'
Two dollars a year"
rs 1t intended for any particular class
OF readers?'
Yes; it is for those who have two dol
lars" ~
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THE NATIONAL GUARD
A Large Detachment Will Journey
to Sea Grit
FEATURES OF TIE JERSEY PROGRAM.
Third Battalion Went Into Camp
Today at Marshall Hall
NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST

FAR FROM IN
considerable proper
ton Of the local
brigade u preparing
to visit Sea Girt,
N. J.. where during
the week ending
August 8 there will
be some OF the tot-
test ri1e-shooting
that has taken place
for years. How
many teams Will
be present no one
seems to know t:Is,
now, but the District
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The Place for formation.

Grace Endcent-"Now, what do you know
about me and my disposition after so short an
acquaintance"
BERTHE New-"Oh, pumped your dearest
friend. Clara, yesterday, and she told me all
about your
Grace Endcent-"And you still like me after
having heard the worst?"
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For some time past twenty men-sur
viyors in the brigade team competition
have occupied the range on Tuesdays an.
thursdays. The four supernumeraries vii
cease to practice with the team On Thurs
day next
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-07-29

Maj. Gilbert Thompson. commanding tn,
engineer corps, was called out OF town b,
the sudden death of his mother.