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not seem TO care much for society. Another
son, ". X. Carlisle, is connected with the
worlds fair. He is married and has two or
three children. who are living with him in Chi
cago. Both of these sons are lawyers and they
are both bright men. Mrs. Carlisle has for
years been the Senator'S helpmeet in every
sense Of the word. She watches over his health
and does what she can to aid him in every way
The two are in perfect harmony with each other
and the senator defers TO her in all matters re-
lating to the family, and now and then in pub
lie matters as well
STORIES OF CLEVELAND AND CARLISLE.
Senator Carlisle's relations with President
Cleveland have always been close. About a
year ago had an interview with him in which
he spoke Of CIeveIand's ability in the highest
terms. This was six months before the nomi-
nation and he then told me that Cleveland
could be elected. / asked him IL he was the
author of president Cleveland S free trade mes
sage and he told me he was not. Said Senator
Carlisle:
President Cleveland wrote that message
himself aud the credit OF il Is due to him alone
IL is true he counseed with his political friends
myself among others, and made some verbal
changes in il at their suggestion. He fully COM
pretended the importance Of the issue he was
making and he acted deliberately. He told me
that he had not seriously studied tariff ques-
tons before he came to Washington. but BY
reading and talking with thinkers on both sidea
OF the question be became convinced that tari1
reform was the most important issue before the
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c.RLIsLE's HOME WHEN FIRST MARRIED.

be. Andrew Stevenson. with whom he studied
law. said. before he was admitted to the bar,
that Carlisle was the greatest natural lawyer he
had ever seen. In getting up his cases today
he tells Logan Carlisle what the law IS and sends
him to the library TO get the authorities upon
it. Logan SAYS that he Is rarely wrong.
HOW CARLISLE MAKES SPEECHES.
Senator Carlisle has the same clearness in ex-
preston that he has in thinking. There is no
lawyer in the country who can state case bet
ter than he can and early in his professional
career John c. Breckenridge sai1 that if
Carlisle got chance to state his case he would
always win it, He writes but few of his
speeches. He sometimes makes few notes
during the preparation of one. but when he
talks he throws his notes aside and speaks
practically extempOraneOusiy. lie writes but
few private letters and does not like long let
ters. He believes that letters should be as brief
as possible and one of his private secretaries
said 10 me Yesterday: Senator Carlisie's mind
operates 50 clearly that l have known him to
dictate fifty letters a, time and never change
II word. IL, however, / had put in different
word or had mlde the sligh.es; error he would
notice it a: glance. He disliSed to read long
letters and such letters were often cast into
the waste basket. unless the writers were well
known TO him. He writes but few letters HIM
self and some OF his letters he would hold until
thew had answered themselves"
senator Carlises correspondence is at pres
ent carried on almost altogether through his
son.
Logan Carlisle, who has a mind remarkably
Ike his father. and who has been connected
with his father So long in his work that he
knows just how his father would think and act
upon most subjects. answers much Of his
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ONE IDEA OF ECONOMY,
How q st. Louis Woman Thinks She Saves
Money on Beefsteak.

How q st. Louis Woman Thinks She Saves
Money on Beefsteak.
From the ST. Louis Republic.
"Some women have a peculiar idea Of econ
omy," said well-known merchant. al live
pretty far ont in the West End, where corner
grocery and butcher shop provisions cost more
than they do anywhere else on the present ex-
tent Of discovered earth. We have been pay
ing 80 and IS cents each for common, ordinarily
good beefsteaks. and everything else in proper
ton.
1.-THE other day my wife had occasion to visit
friend in South St. Louis. and on her return
to Broadway to catch a north bound car she
passed a meat shop which attracted her atten-
ton by reason Of its clean and Wholesale dis
play Of fresh meats. She entered the place,
selected a large steak and bought it.
"'How much" she asked the butcher, reach
ing for her purse
Fifteen cents. mum.
what cried my wife. fearing she had not
heard Alright Fifteen cents"
Yes, mum. Or two for quarter
1.-Two for quarter
Yes, mum
Then gimme two right quick. never
heard Of such prices in st. Louis
proudly she walked out with her two steaks.
but she had only gone a block--repeating TO
herself meanwhile, never heard Of such prices
when 1t dawnedDnpon her that she ought to
take advantage Of the opportunity and Law in a
sort of winters supply. So back she went 70 the
butchers and bought two more steaks.
well, thus far everything was right and for
several days we fairly reveled in cheap, deli
eious meat. But, alas. her success turned her
head. That was month ago. And yesterday
she told me with pride in her voice that she had
been sending down there every day since for
one steak-one steak, mind you-for Is cents,
with 20 cents car fare added
81 dare not disturb her dream of economy
1t Was too realistic and too full of victorious
pleasure for my ruthless hand to sweep away.
I am still complimenting her on the frugaliIy
of her mauagement-and paying out Just the
same"
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Signs and Ouens.
From the New York Herald.

From the New Iork Herald
When a man goes into rapid transit lunch
room, selects seat and leaves his hat in it as a
notice that he has staked out his claim and then
returns with cup Of coffee in one hand and q
ham sandwich in the other and sits down on the
hat, it is o sign that he is careless Of his per-
sonal appearance and regardless OF matters of
dress. 1t Is also good omen for the halter.
When a man at the theater huns the airs as
the orchestra plays them and, moreover, marks
the time by tapping with his foot, it is sign
that he is in the last stages Of mental debility
1t is good omen for the proprietor OF n phi
vate lunatic asylum.
When young man talks about tho business
affairs Of ''our firm" in pitch OF voice that can
be heard from one end Of street car to the
other. 1t is sign that his wages have been
raised to IS week.
When q mans feet suddenly fly ont. from IN
der him and he nearly cracks his skull on the
icy payment, when be thereby tears big til
angular hole in his trousers, to say. nothing of
breaking his flask, sprains his ankle and frac-
lures his wristbone, but still gets up and walks
OF, 1t II Q sign that even the forcA Of gravity
can't keep good man down. 1t 10 also q good
omen for the saloon keeper and the family
physician.
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AN OLD-TIME TRAMP,
Perhaps Esquirnau Who Was Moved on
10000 Years Ago.

Perhaps an Esquimau tho Was Moved on
10000 Years Ago.
From the Galveston News,
Texas has had its old settlers stretching away
back toward the dawn of creation. the hens OF
whose garments tradition does not reach, but
whose careers were probably as full of wild ad-
venture as that OF any Indian or Mexican
fighter that has ever adorned the pages of
Texas history. One OF those old settlers was
found about ten days ago by d. D. Pittman
while digging well on his lot on Thomas
avenue, Dallas.
At depth of thirty-three feet below the sur
face, and after blasting through stratum Of
lime stone four feet thick: Mr.. Pittman found
human skeleton in the post-tertiary sands
Tue skull. finger bones and other thin bones,
on being brought in contact with the atmos-
phere, crumbied away to powder; but some of
the larger bones stood the test of atmospheric
exposure, and. beyond the crumbhng OF the
articuar surfaces, are in good state Of pres
ervation. This is particularly the case with
the thigh bone.
1t in all other respects resembles the thigh
bone OF modern man except us to it's anatom-
ical neck, which Dr.. Armstrong, the city
health officer, SAYS is not shaped like that Of the
present race. However, nature adapts itself
to its surroundings, it is to be expected that
there was some difference between the fore and
dIt movement OF the tn1Sn Done mat was In
use 60, 900 years ago and that of the present
time.
The bone, while as thick and heavy as that
Of man Of medium height, is only eleven
inches long. which would represent man
about four feet two inches high, or about the
stature Of an Esquimau; and. taken in connec-
ton with the ologicalformations, those OF the
second glacial period, in which the skeleton was
found there is hardly any doubt but that it
belongs to the Esquimau race.
The cold of that period destroyed the north
ern tribes, except such of their hardest men,
bers as escaped south That there was a
| southwark movement of Esquimaux in those
days is as certain AS that there is now winter
movement Of tramps from the rigorous climate
of Iowa and Nebraska to the more genial one
of Texas. Doubtless this poor Esquimau lived
between the paleolithic and neolithic periods
the ages Of unpublished and polished stone
weapons, marking the hiatus in the Bible
between Adam and the period where connected
history begins.
What wonderful story could this skeleton
tell il it had a tongue! But here the question
suggests itself, had this Esquimau yet reached
| the origin of language? Did be say "yes,"
or did he merely nod his head? How did be
string the echoes Of his thoughts together? I'm
fortunately the skull, that part Of it most valu-
| able to science, has crumbled away
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bound volumes all with more civilized PEG.
4 FLOOD TRADITION.

FLOOD TRADITION.
1t is an interesting fact that one Of the tradi-
tions Of this people is of q great food which
covered all the earth. They are superstitious
to fantastic degree. Natives are often known
to die when informed by kaknna or physician
that he intended to bring them TO death The
late Princess Likelike, sister to the deposed
Queen Liliuokalani, died after the appearance of
a school Of small red fish in the harbor. the ap-
pearance OF which is supposed to bode the death
Evil spirits are supposed to be in the air at
night. Sacrifices are offered to Pele goddess
OF hre, at the period Of a volcanic eruption. One
article OF diet is raw fish and have often seen
them catch small fish with their hands and eat
them as they came from the water. Their ex-
perfness as swimmers is remarkable. Mothers
put their two-yesr-Qld babes in q pool Of water
and watch them lao khingly strike out to swim.
A little over hundred years ago Capt. Cook
found this people, numbering several hundred
thousands, clean. happy. free from disease.
THESE first white men planted among them
the foul diseases which have ravaged them
ever since with little less appalling effect than
the dread leprosy itself. They number less
than AZ, 600 now and will scarcely last another
generation. As their fair islands must then
pass into other hands the opportunity at
present offered would seem to be particularly
favorable for the United States to accept the
prpfered annexation. Guy STUART Comfy.
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Office. What has that got to do with the
treasury The bureau of engraving and print
ing you nigh. bring into it by a stretch of
imagination. but the light house board and the
marine hospital. for instance, seem to have no
proper connection with it. | soon found that
l would have TO rely on other men for the de-
tails of the work. got to know the chiefs who
understood their business. and in cases where
had not faith l appointed others. After
time was able to reduce nv own work 20 the
important matters. and I have the thing 70
srstema,ized now that l get along verv well.
1t takes time. however. aud it is a big lob
There are, Won know. three assistant -ecre-
taxes OF the treasury. All matters should
come to these men ti-s: and .hs business OF
the depac. ment should be filtered through
them, and ONLY the most important should
come to the S"cretar,'. As il j now eyervth ug
comes to the >ecrettry irs:. and ms to b. sent
by him 70 them. | have of lac been getting
the m WEEK. better in hand, AMI during tn. past
yeat 1 nave not had mn h trouble"
ss,EaTAEY FOSTER As LoAFER.
"Whss val yoa Do after you cave the cSb-
met, Nr. secretary"
81 don't know that | will do ANYTHING" was
the reply. Il think have earned the right to
rest. have never taken vacation in my life.
do not go TO watering places in the summer
nor south in the winter. | have never known
how II feels to loaf, but think I'll try it,"
What is the result of your experience in pub
lie life! You have been Congressman. governor
and Secretary of the Treasury. You have had
all the annoyances and all the pleasures Of a
government official. l want you to tell me
whether the game is worth the candle"
II don't know that it is replied Gov. Foster
sit is certainly not in the money way. but it is
different il you look at it from the higher
standpoint that Garfield took He held that the
rewards OF public life were greater than those
of money making. He held the satisfaction of
soul which arises from the dealing with great
questions, the having the esteem of your friends
and the applause Of the world as things not to
be compared with money. think he was right -"
FRANK q. CARPENTER
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COMING ELECTRICAL SERVICE.
What the Potent Fluid VIII DO I'm the Meas
Future.

From the 81. Louis Gobe-DemOcrAf.
The day is not far of when we viii Get heat
and power without the intervention and a-.is,-
ance OF Ere" said Civil Engineer Mars,on Nc
Graih at the Lindeu. "The solution will come
when we get electricity direct from coal with
out the loss OF any part of the wonderful energy
that there 10 in the fuel. never knew fully the
value Of coal as power producer until I sac %
eKemplifed on a recent trip across the Atlantic
in the steamer Majestic. The vessel carried
2,s0a tons Of coGl-slmost enough TO give a half
bushel TO every family in ST. Louis--and 10
used up go tons day to maintain q speed %
about twentv-three miles an hour. This seem.
like an awful lot OF coal, doesn't ity But tue
Majestic is n big boat. 5s2 feet long, and ID TO
quires an expenditure OF 5000 hor-e no wer TO
drive il al top speed through the water.
Figure the thing out. though, aud vou viii
see that one and half pounds OF coal which is
less than a good handful. furnishes one-hor-s
power for one hour and one>horse power repre-
SCENTS the lifting TO a height Of one foo; Of so
pounds. 50 thAt your Que aud half pounds u
coal lifts 500 pounds foot and sustain. Il Tor
one hour. Or take this illustration. IL would
require 100000 galley slaves rowing night aud
day TO carry the Majestic ut . speed Of twenty
three miles an hour. Dividing is.DO0-hor-s
power into loo, 900 galley slaves Won find that
over one and a half pound. OF co~l renrr.ents
the work FOR one hour Of about six ro~sr.L OF
course, there wouldn't be room for the placing
of more than 400 oars on the Majestic and ten
bushels Of coal would do an equal amount %
work. while the 100000 galley sl.ve.. q they
averaged $50 pounds each, would be i've umce
as much as the TAO tons Of coal required By
the Majestic TOR . six days tsp"
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NV. The fTs men live within a block 81 each
ether. tfuy. Foster reside on Vermont avenue
within stone throw 81 the statue Of Thomas
in a bic i1Ib.e brick house which he rents. and
John C.. Carlisle lives j1s; around the corner on
X street iu aao her red brick which belongs TO
him. and for which be raid shortly before he
entered tine ~eua.r something Ike $4,000
This viii he one - the 81, AT cabinet houses Of
the s1clal season. 20 Cleveland administration.
II - baE-Wtud1w structure Of three
stories and a basement. Wide stone steps,
now covered with their winter coat
a. wood g. prevent >lIprinr. lead Won into mo-
sale vcstIiuir separated from the hall By doors
81 eng-1vcl glass, n.cs Of winch are curtains
- delicate lace. The hal l. wide and it, hOur
y covered vI-h great fur rug. ~ your left
are long plr.o~s ol tho Oii-:a -nioucd kind which
have ceiling about twelve feet high. and thee
IarlDTs are twice - long e. thsv are wide
Their floors are C1rpetri with ylg- and the
grcIt sof1- AMI tn easy etairs. Wl,h numerous
d1wuF pillow, give an arr 81 heuturkv hos
~ alttv ta the home. The house looks as
though some OUe lived IN u. and Mr.. Carlisle,
nilel bv the senator has male u oi the
most Yaru tr houses 90 the capital. Mrs. Carlisle
has long been social figure iu Washington.
ani j. TAIL -fra ght. handsome blonde. full 81
v'vnrilv sni lie. Every one knows how wei
che took hrr part "a %" great soriel leader
daring Trc-il.nt Ar-lrrs administration.
when Carlisle was Speaker, and there u no
dJ4bt bat that this house viii Be one 81 the
great -orlll ccn.crs during the four years TO
come.
no ans at his home that met Senator Car
Isle this w..S- Re o, boxing bette than Ia
Ia f1r years Ilis blue eve- are bright and
fII Cf life. liz angular CHEEKS are quitting on
a thu cushion 81 = n ard he seems 10 have re-
covered entirely irgU tine lysTertie troubles
with whI-h BE- was -p much afflicted when he
va- ~rstS-r. lie sci ms 90 me n Stronger man
than when hr-t mes arm. sen year= ago. His
son Logan saws tina the reports g his Illness
during us -,yrk---h.l ware crca'lv oyG..ys rated
aui be seems O. nave got b.. second wind.
and b. hns "a constitution of Ivou. Other .ub-
n men are particular as to their --ies Of
iiFs. M1-t = them have j -ei habits % exer-
ci-c -ue V5-k a.i NOS a ieV paw more attention
o. TIER let tNta they do % congressional leg
fia'iuu- tt-.irie has practically no habits at
al hs sv's 30 bed whcu be ge.s ready aud
get- Up about o'clock IA the morning Tie has
hi- brsakit,; shortly after rising aud il dOesu
make murn difference 10 him what be eats.
After eating he goes 10 the ta3jtol IN MS car
rage and lloA- over his mail. He does
tins in n htils committee room IN which the
sun never hines Il = located near ;he cryp:
ant i practically IN tie la,cmenJ az the Cap
itol, an j.. l should sav. one Of the most IN
healthy Of the rooms belonging 70 the senate.
Ne works away here until about noon and then
takes lunch. eating when be gets hungry. His
lunch 4 usually cracker and a glass OF milk.
AID DC is especially foud ~ the latter. lie
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and, as was his nature, he went into the

country, and as was his nature he went into the
contest with all his might
Speaking of Cleveland's confidence in Carlisle
he once said to Congressman who was urging
a friend for an important Office that the mem.
Der sometimes deceived him in such cases.
But. he went on. 'when Mr.. Carlisle speaks
to me In favor Of any applicant he tells me all
he can in the mans favor, and if he knows any
thing against him he tells me that, too, SO that
am In full possession Of the facts"
SECRETARY FOSTER on CARLISLE,
asked Secretary Foster last night what kind
Of Secretary of the Treasury he thought Car
Isle would make. He replied:
II don't know. but 1 think he may make a
good one. He has wonderful analytical mind
and though he has not had much to do with
business matters he is a good lawyer. He Is a
very fair man and have always found him
honest IN his treatment with me concerning APP
pointments. II can't do what he wants tell
him why and he is always satisfied with the
reason. As far as tine intellectual work of the
treasury is concerned think he can manage it.
but don't know how he will stand the pound
ing of the Office seekers. The democratic party
Is very hungry and the treasury has many
places"
HOW THE TREASURY IMPRESSED FOSTER.
"How did you find the department, Mr.. Sec
retary?" said l.
at dazed me for the first few weeks" was
the reply. II couldn't get hold OF things
There were so many branches and 80 many de-
tails. There are number of things con-
nected with the department that have no bust
ness there. Take the supervising architects
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He reads comparatively little of the newspapers
and he Is not one Of the library tends among
the Congressman who hang around Ainsworth
X Spoford. He does not have lot OF clerks
getting up speeches for him. He seems TO grasp
public questions intuitiyely and when he does
read be reads very rapidly. 1t is the same in
his Law as In politics. He can take up the
papers in a case and master it before other law
yers have go. half through the testimony.
lie seems to read up and down the page instead
OF across il and he intuItively catches at the
important points. He brushes the details aside
and knows the law by knowing what it ought to
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Had Time to Grow.
IN the Detroit Free Press

From the Detroit Free Press.
hungry man went into q fashionable down
town restaurant and gave an order for dinner.
Among other dishes he ordered calls Liver and
bacon.
The waiter was absent q long time, and
when he served tho meal he said spoioget-
icaliy:
'sorry to keep you waitin', sab. but de caifs
liver was out an we had TO send for II, sab.
'But this is not calls liver; this IL cows
liver" said the disappointed customer, turning
IL over with his fork
"Carn't help it, sab Dat was Q calfs liver
when We ordered il, suah, sab"
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Written for Tho Evening Star.
Spider and Fly.

Hung 4 web 30 fine and silvery,-
Rainbow-hued where suns soft rays
Touched with daintiest caresses,
Silken threads on silken maze.
But the monarch of this kingdom,
Magic workman-knew no pride,
Discomfort within his palace,
'.All the world is drear,"-he cried.
Soon, tho, the unhappy spider
Learned TO love little ny,
"A new world Is here'-he murmured,
''And to win 1t shall try.
have bread and have cheese, dear,
Iwould fain have kisses, too!'
But the wary ny was cautious
II should fear to marry youI"
Darkness comes, the ny il sleeping,
And the spider now spins fast
Net Of silk, that closely holds her,
His new world ts won at last!
Strange, forsooth, the fy Ia happyi
You shall hear the reason why
Ny Love was the cunning spider,
I. myself, the little nyi
-ENILrB ]. VET
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From Good News

From Good NewA
Magazine Once Boy-"Oh. there's been an
awful time up in the editorial room today"
Business Managsr-"Eh, what's the trou-
bls?'
0nos Boy-"The janitor made . mistake and
put the NO Admittancs' sign at the subscrip-
hon once and ths 'Welcoms' door mat In front
d the editors room"
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HE GLOOM WHICH

HE GLOOM WHICH
death in high places has
recently thrown over
Washington society will
doubtless be broken by
an unusually brilliant
season next winter when
Mrs. Cleveland will
have resumed her posi-
ton as popular idol
and will lead the gave
ties from the White
House. OF late years
the giving of ladies'