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PERSONAL GOSSIP.

At Mrs. Austin Corbins country place,
Babylon, n. Z ,one Of the avenues through
the grounds is a mile long.
Miss Helen Gould, the late Jay Gould's
daughter, spclds much time at her Irv-
ington estate, where she has one of the
finest Conservatives in the country.
The Duke Of Cambridge, who is COM
mander in chief Of the English army, has
never smelled powder except at review
and is not likely to if he can help it.
Edison is quoted as saying that, Sin
his experience, whatever has been proved
tp be impossible by mathematical au-
thorities has been the easiest invention
to produce"
W. A. Clarke, the 20 millionaire Of
Butte City, Mon, has bought build
ing site in New York for 1920, 900 on the
northeast corner of Fifth avenue and
Seventy street.
Mr.. E. w. Streeter of London has q
ruby weighing 1000 carats and a pair of
pearl eparlets which were the proper::,r
Of the king of Dude and were lost by i'll
English sailor during the 1nutiny.
Charles w. Dayton, the new postlnas-
ter of New York, is the principal owner
Of the Harlem Reporter, a society jour
nal. He is also a member Of Tammany
and an intimate friend of Secretary La-
mont.
Senator Sherman has recently moved
into his new $3.50, 900 house at Washing
ton. 1t is one Of the finest residences at
the capital. He made much Of his money
out of Washington real estate and evi-
IDENTIFY has faith in it yet.
Dom Saulon, a monk whose medical
reputation is high, is about to leave
Paris with the approval of the pope and
credentials from the French govern
ment to visit leprosy hospitals through
out the world, in order to secure the
general adoption of the most efficacious
treatment for the dreaded malady.
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ElIBA.LMING BODIES.
STRANGE EOCCUPATlONFO FOLLOWED BY
MANY AMERICAN WOMEN.

They Arc Adopts at 0Iinistering In the
House of NIournins-nIolern Develop
ments of the Ancient Egyptian Art OF
Embalnling tho Dead.
Very few Americans know that the
ancient art Of embalming has been com
pletely restored and improved, though
not in the ancient way. Not only are
bodies now preserved far more perfectly
than at any time by the Egyptians, but
all the unpleasant, not to say revolving.
incidents Of their practice are avoided.
At the outbreak Of our civil war it was
taken for granted that speedy decay was
the fate of all the dead. and it was only
by such rude appliances as ice aud salt
or the most pungent drugs that any Of
the bodies Of those slain in battle could
be taken home for burial. The demand
suddenly created set hundreds of physi-
clans and undertalers to investigating
but such is the natural reverence for all
that is old that people generally spoke Of
enbalming as a lost art, and even the
scientific declared that i'll this climate it
would be impossible to preserve a corpse
as in ancient Egypt.
At the very beginning Of the war one
Confederate and several Federal surgeons
began to study methods Of corpse pre-
servation, and the net result of all their
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litical activities indicating bright fu-
ture. but later he became recluse and
after the death of his wife lived as a
hermit at Fort Hill. lie left the plan
tation to the state on condition that an
agricultural college should be estab.
ished there and named for him.
The result is the Clemson Agricultural
and Mechanical college, which was
formally opened but a few days ago. Its
history is curious, as it gave occasion
for one Of the hottest fights in Carolina
politics. In 1856 Captain 3. R. Tillman.
thena farmer Of Edgetield county, began
to agitate for II state institution to edu-
cate farmers sons. In 1883 Mr.. Glenn
son died, and the fight over the accept
ance of his gift split the old parties
badly. Benjamin Till1nan won, how
ever, and soon after his election as gov
ernor the gift was accepted and work
begun.
The old Calhoun mansion is frame
structure painted white, with blinds Of
vivid green. The spacious verandas,
with big round stone columns, give a
fine southern and ancestral look, which
is greatly increased by the grove Of oaks
and an avenue of cedars leading up from
the entrance to the grounds. It is very
nearly as Calhoun left it and is occupied
by one Of the officials of thenew college,
except that Il large section of it has been
reserved for Calhoun museum. The
college building contains dormitories for
800 young men, with all the best appli-
ances for agricultural and mechanical
labor and instruction. -=
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FEDERAL CAPITOL IN 1850.

debts and an arrangement, which in
these days would be called a bargain"
was made between him and Thomas
Jefferson. Each induced q few of his
supporters to change their votes. The
state debts We're assumed, and on July s.
1890, the house of representatives passed
the senate bill, declaring that the seat OF
government should be at Philadelphia
till 1900 and permanently thereafter on
the banks of the Potomac It was the
pet project of Washington, and on July
l6 he affixed his signature to the bill.
On the first Monday in December, 1890,
congress met in the courthouse at Phil
adelphia, and that city was the national
capital for 10 Years. The old colonial
statehouse, in Which the Declaration of
Independence was signed, may be called
our first capitol, and Of tile other places
in which congress sat i'll its fugitive days,
Nassau hall in Princeton, N. j., the
courthouse at York, Pa, the Congress
house in Baltimore. the old brick hal: in
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ODDS AND ENDS.

A barber in Brooklyn gives "a free shine
with every shave"
One-seventh of the land owners in
Great Britain are women.
A Chicago man has constructed u
checker board in which there are 2S, ,0TO
separate pieces of wood, glued together
with the finest art. 1t is valued 1T
$1,000.
In Paris there are several women who
are empowered b police permits to wear
masculine clothing. These include q
famous artist and several whose pro-
fessional duties are arduous.
A japanese native newspaper com
plains that many ladies belonging to
good families in Toxic live alone in
lodgings, walk unattended in the streets
after dark, and play cards together at
the tea houses.
An order has been given that all the
portraits taken i'll her najesty's prisons,
as records of crimes and criminals, shall
for the future be printed only on plati-
mum paper. the object being to secure
their pernanency.
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The larger part Of the city is uninhabit-
able by Europeans on account of filth,
especially during the dry season. The
tide sets back far enough to make the
river Menam brackish and it is sluggish
at all times, and for months together
rotting carcasses and vegetation almost
choke the current. The water is like
pea soup in looks. Powdered alum is
used to clear it., but even when it looks,
clear as mountain spring water it is often
deadly to Europeans.
The natives drink it without clearing,
and when a cholera season comes they
die by tens of thousands. All the car
rion birds Of the vicinity flock to the
city, but cannot devour the corpses that
are tumbled out on the plain. Many
times, says an authority, over a third Of
the people have died III q sum1ner-say,
10000 or 200, ,000-but they await their
fate with the helpless apathy Of Asiatics
or the sullen torpor of despair. The wet
monsoon ends the epidemic. The rain
descends in such torrents as to almost
strangle one exposed to it, the filth is
washed away, the country laborers
crowd in till the population is restored
and all goes Oh as before.
Siam contains about 1000 square
miles, and intelligent explorers have
pronounced it the richest section Of earth
by nature The valleys may be called
excessively fertile, and in the hills are
timber and medicinal plants Of immense
value. Probably no other equal area i'll
the world contains SO great a variety Of
plants and animals, including reptiles,
and the animals are usually the largest
and most vigorous Of their species. The
common elephant Of Siam is not equaled
in any other country, but the Sc called
white elephant is smaller. There are
also deer, musk oxen, wild cattle Of ev-
cry kind, wild hogs, every variety Of
apes and monkeys. birds Of almost ev-
cry known species and Of the most bril-
liant plumage, aud reptiles in scores Of
species from the largest crocodiles to
the little green lizard.
A list of the valuable plants would al
most fill this column, and there are ais..
rich lodes of various metals. For many
years Siamese jealousy kept out all who
would develop these riches, but King
khoulaloukorn l, who came to the throne
in 1868, has encouraged the introduction
of European methods.
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Trenton and the old statehouse at Annap-
oils are most prominent. SIf every place
be counted in which the various con-
crosses from 1868 down did any legisla-
tive acts, the present one at Washington
may be called our eighth national capi-
tol. It is one Of the little satires Of our
language that the building is only dis
tinguished from the city.in which it
is located by inserting an 0 for an Il.
the latter name tracing back to the
Latin for head and the former to the
capitolirlm or temple Of Jupiter on the
Mons Capitoliums, where the Roman SEN
ate met.
The year :gaSNqls as aforesaid, indeed
over Harnl,r and St. Clair, threatened
the whole western frontier. Citizen Ge-
net had been i'll the country just long
enough not to be found OFT and to set the
pa1tisans Of France wilt with ellthusi-s
asnl. In August came the yellow fever.
In two months one-eighth of the popula-
tion Of Philadelphia had died, and over
half the others had fled to the mountains.
Alexander Hamilton was Frustrated by
it, but recovered, and all the cabinet la
dies fled. Mrs. Washington and family
went to Mount Vernon, and OIL Sept. 9
the president followed.
1t is little wonder, therefore, that the
slow moving journalists OF those days
gave but scanty accounts Of the impor-
tant ceremonies Of Sept. IS. The Colum-
bian Mirror of Alexandria, Va, Of the
25th and the Maryland Gazette Of An
napolis of the Goth gave the fullest ac-
counts According to these the process
sion marched two abreast under the
command of Clotworthy Stephenson Sin
the greatest solemn dignity, with colors
flying, drums beating and spectators re-
joicing, from Presidents square (now
Washington circle) to the hill selected
for the capitol
In the line, says The Mirror, were the
surveying corps OF the city Of Washing
ton, the mayor and corporation Of
Georgetown, the Virginia artillery. the
commissioners of the city Of Washing
ton, the stonemasons, woodchoppers.
etc, at work on the site and d vast array
Of Masons with all the insignia of the
order, such as the Bible, wands, trunch-
cons, SWORDS, etc. Inefe were alsos Il Lew
church wardens. vestrynen and other
officials Of neighboring churches. After
the usual Masonic ceremonies the grand
marshal delivered to the commissioners
and the commissioners to President
Washington d large silver plate. which
he deposited in the recess prepared in
the cornerstone, then gave the Masonic
tap, and the stone was put III it's place.
On the silver plate was a lengthy i'll
scription giving all the particulars.
Clotworthy Stephenson then delivered
an address, Is ''salvos Of artillery were
then fired in honor of the states, and
then the assembled multitude fell upon
a roasted OK, the biggest the neighbor-
hood could supply, which had been bar
becued for the occasion, and dcgoured
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WEST FRONT OF COMPLETED CAPITOL.
various recrealions." The nallet with
which Washington gave the official
stroke is still preserved by his lodge as a
precious nemento.
LII 1795 active work on both the Or
iginal wings was pushed rapidly, and i'll
1900 the present supreme court room
and law library room were ready for
senate and house respectively. In 1903
active work was resumed, and in 1911
Plans for the connecting section and
dome were under discussion when the
war came, and in 1914 the British got
in their work The walls and much of
the finest woodwork escaped the fire
they l1indled, and all the sandstone and
freestone at all affected was replaced by
Potomac marble Still the capitol was
an odd looking affair, resembling, says
Washington Irving, who saw it in this
very attenuated connection. The city
was contemptuously compared by New
Workers to a 'daddy long legs sprawled
all over the mass of Potomac mud
March "A, 1918, Charles Bulfnch Of
Boston laid the foundation of the center
building and served as architect till 1880,
completing rotunda and dome. And
this was the capitol Of the United States
forabout 30 years. Earlyin 1850 Jefferson
Davis brought forward /, proposition to
build the present north and south wings,
and at his request Robert Mills, artist
and architect, drafted Il plan which met
with unanimous and enthusiastic APP
prevail Congress agreed to the plan,
Thomas q. Walter of Philadelphia was
appointed architect, and on July 4, 1851, +,
President Fillmore laid the cornerstone
Of the new south wing, Daniel Webster
was orator of the day, spoke two hours
and according, To the Journals of the
tins made ;llc areatlst c-.2Grt of his
life
Work Oh the great dame went for
ward without ceasiny throu. i the war.
and on Dec. 2, 1868, Crawfcr,;'s colossal
statue Of Freedom was placed Oh the
summit aid s;.!1tcd by 15,5 .,u.ls fred
from the forts around Wasllin. :: on. III
1864 TIE dome and eastern l.,l'tico OF the
north wing We're completed In 1865
the stone work Of the capitol was pro
nounced done, and soon Brunlidi and his
brother artists had completed their mag
niticeiit designs. The total cost OF the
capitol is $l4500, 900, including the te1'"
races, which cost $500 O00 Additional
works OF art haze nude tho total abott
$4,000, 0G0. AS the capitol has grown
and been beautiiei even SO has the
city. But that calls fora separate story.
j. Fl, READLE.
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MRS. RUSS.
MRS. YOUNG.

MRS. GREENSLADE. MISS GARDNER.
labors and those of many other gentle
men may be summed up in one sentence.
All the old, barbarolls methods are dis
cardea, and in their stead arterial injec
tion and other processes which do not
mutilatc the corpse in the sligL test de-
gree are employed.
The business Of embalming seems like a
queer occupation for the gentler sex, but
it is an interesting fact that there are now
nearly 300 ladies i'll the United States
engaged in undertaking, and several of
these are very sl.illful embalmers. Mrs
j. L. Young Of Vinton, Il., began as her
husbands assistant, but soon developed
such Il mastery of it that he gave her en-
tire control. She is Il native Of New
York, born Miss Fellows.
Mrs. James L. Brett of milwaukee, u
native OF Boston, developed early in life
d peculiar aptitude for nli1listerins III
the house Of mourning and is now ,l
truly scientific ladies' enbalnner. She
is also IL writer Of ability, Il lady of re-
finenent and high social position. Mrs.
Fred II. Russ Of Chicago, Of the firm OF
MIR. q Mrs. Fred Fl. Russ as it is
HOW established, is also !. skillfnl en-.
balmer and very graceful writer. Mrs.
John Greenslade Of Bellevue, O., studied
embalming under the instruction Of
Professor Renonard and has been in the
practice two years. Mrs. Heaton Dart
was the first lady embalmer in New
York city and state, took a thorough
course of study and has been III the bust
ness over 10 years
Miss Fannie Gardner of Vincennes
has the honor of being the first lady
undertaken in Indiana. She has also
taken course III the study of embalm-
ing and is entering on the work. Mrs,
Ellen Moore Of Reading, Pa, began to
serve as an undertaken in 1851, and at
date OF her last report had laid out S, ASS
bodies. Another very old practitioner
is Mrs. George F. Wildman of Bridge
port. Conn, who began in 1915 at the
age of 16.
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FIRST FEDERAL CAPITOL AT PHILADE DELPHIA.
has not it's equal. The hall Of the Ger
man reichstag and that of the French as
sembly are fine in their way, but lacking
in convenience, and as to the parliament
houses of Great Britain they are not in it
for comparison.
1t is therefore most appropriate that in
this era of centennial celebrations the
country should celebrate the beginning
Of our capitol, and ample arrangements
are already made for great display at
Washington on the 18th Of September
It was on that day in 1893, according to
contemporary writer's and the files OF d
few newspapers, that George Washing
ton, as grand master of Virginia lodge,
No. 90, Of Free and Accepted Masons, did
the formal act, and as president of the
United States gave his official sanction
at the placing Of the southeast corner
stone of the original structure.
On reading the original accounts the
one fact that impresses the student CT
history IS that the accounts We're so
meager and SO long delayed. But when
one reads the full history of that time
he is inclined rather owonder that there
was any account, or indeed any cere-
nony at all. A strange, sad summer
indeed was that of 1898. All Eurol
was rocking III the throes of revolution
and war. France, our ally i'll the Revo-
luton, loved at that time by the Alne1i-
can people with q love surprising that
of ardent woman, had risen against her
ancient rulers and gone mad >in the re-
action from despotism. MonaTchlcal Ell.
rope was in arms against France. Ire
land was hOiilng with the telnpestuous
fury Of national, racial and religious
disturbance. This new nation was torn
and distracted by the contendinS SYM
pathizers with the two parties in Eu-
rope. And IN the very hottest hour =
this heated time the yellow fever s1a1
denly broke out at the seat ct govern
ment and almost lepopulatcd the city
after threatening to turn it illla one
vast chalncl house.
The continental congress, as every
American schoolboy knows, convened at
Philadelphia and there drafted the great
charter Of our liberties, but being driven
away by the British had held it's sittings
at other places. The convention which
framed the constitution had sat at Phil
adelphia in 1887, but named New York
as the first seat of government. The
sentimental argument i'll favor Of Phil
adelphia was, however, overwhelming,
and the story Of how this national sell
timent was overcome and another place
selected is one of the most curious in our
history. There had been an uprising
of Pennsylvania troops and a threaten
ing Of congress during the Revolution,
and there had been riots in New York.
It was therefore decided that the new
republic should reverse the precedents
Of the old monarchies and that it's cap.
ital should not be in great commercial
city.
At least dozen cities and towns put
in their claims, and congress wavered
for nearly two years between sites on
the Delaware, the Potomac and the Sus,
quehanna. At length the last named
was virtually agreed upon. But Alex
ander Hamilton was eager to secure the
passage Of his hill for assigning stats
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TURF TOPICS

William Hops, q wealthy Baltimore
man, has been trying to buy Mascot, 2O4
The best English pacing record is
2:29 As, by Happy Johnny, an American
importation. .~...-
The 3-yearold flly Frou Frou, year
ling record 2:25I, has already been Il
mile in 2:234.
The largest colt in Michigan is owned
by Newton Kane. 1t is 4-year-old and
weighs 2, 10 pounds.
The Arabs make extensive use Of bar
ley for their horses when on long, hard
journeys, preferring it to anything else
obtainable.
SIT is impossible to breed race horse
unless your mare equals in form and
blood the stallion with which she is
mated" says "Hidalgo."
Buffalo Bill has purchased from L.
Bank Wilson, Creston, Ia., the imported
hackney stallion Top Shot to head his
stud at North Platte, Neb.
Isinglass, winner Of the English Derby
this year, has also won the Newmarket
stakes, beating the record for the dis
tance, and the Two Thousand Guineas
stakes.
The Blood Horse association and the
California Jockey club intend to have a
race track i'll the vicinity of San Fran
cisco that will compare with the best
eastern establishments.
The Ohio Association of Trotting
Horse Breeders have decided to wind up
their affairs by adding the money in the
treasury to three stakes for trotting 2, 8
and 4 year olds Sept. 12 at Cleveland
Driving park.
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THE NATIONS PRIDE.
TIE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON rs
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD.

Preparations For an Elaborate Ce1ebra-
tion of the Centennial--H0w Washing ton
Laid the Cornerstone-History of the
Structure-First Capitol at Philadelphia.
copyright, 1898, by American Press Associa-
ton.
Travellers say that the capitol at Wash
ington is the finest and noblest building
of the kind i'll the world. Of course
there are finer palaces, grander fortresses
and more elegant art halls i'll Europe
than in this country and ducal or other
lordly residences without number, but
for capitol proper, q building il which
the supreme legis!lss ttt.1.e sits, the world
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The Parting Hour.


There's something in the parting hour
Will chill the Warnest heart
Yct kindrad, comrades, lovers, friends,
Are falctl all 10 part;
But this I've Sean-and many u pang
Has pressed it on my mind
The one who goes is happier
Than those he leaves behind.
No matter what the journey be- ...."" T..
Adventurous, dangerous, far,
To the wild deep or black frontier,
10 solitude or war
Still something cheers the heart that
darus ".. -....
In ali of humankind,
And they who go are happier
Than those they leave behind.
The bride goes to her husbands home
With douEtings and with tears, .....
But does not hope her rain bow spread
Across her cloudy fears?
Ais! the mother who remains, ."
What comfort can she find
But this--tle gone is happier
Than one she leaves behind?
Have you frend-a comrade dear
An old and valued friend?
Be sure your term of sweet concourse
At length will have an end!
And when you part--ts part you will
Oh, take II not unkind
If he who goes is happier
Than you he leaves hehind
God wills it so, and 80 it is;
The pilgrims Oh their way,
Though weak and worn, more cheerful are
Than all the rest who stay,
And when at last poor man, subdued.
Lies down to death. resigned,
May he not still be happier far
Than those he leaves behind?
Edward Pollock.
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fair. To realize
how great II COM
plinlent to Amer
ica this is it must
be remembered
that only twice
in all It's history
has this choir
sung outside of
Rome, and botl,
were cases of ne
essi ty, so to
speak. One was
when the pope
had to retreat to
A As,~D~ T,r-ao
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half day, leaving as suddenly; but, for
several days after, l was quite pros
trated and sore. Sometimes the attacks
were almost daily, then less frequent. After
about four years of this suffering, ! was
taken down with bilious typhoid fever, and
when began to recover, had the worst
attack of my old trouble ever experienced.
At the first of the fever, my mother gave
me Ayers Pills, my doctor recommending
them as being better than anything he
could prepare. l continued taking these
Pills, and so great was the benefit derived
that during nearly thirty years have had
but one attack of my former trouble, which
yielded readily to the same remedy"
AYERS PILLS
Prepared by Dr. j. q. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Every Dose Effective
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weight was laid
on a spot the size
OF my hand. Dur
ing the attacks, the
perspiration would
stand in drops on
my face, and 1t was
agony for me to
make mcie n t
effort even to Whis.
per. They ca m Q
suddenly, at any
hour OF the day or
night, lasting from
+hir+r ,,;D,,tac RI