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the History of Napoleon" are an interesting
addition to the history of that time. Through
them one sees Napoleon in new and pleasanter
light than ever historians before have shown
him. Mrs. Trollopes Domestic Manners of
the Americans" has received much mention
and commentator. and one sees how VT seemed
10 or 80 years ago to the eyes of an English
woman with little prejudice for or against US.
Trilby has found her way into the affections
of most of her readers. Stanley Weyman's
stories of adventure are delightful in contrast
's' the morbdness of many of the novels with
purpose" Of his many books 81 Ny Lady
Rotha" and under the Red Robe" are said
to be the best
Emerson says of books: ain library we
are surrounded by many hundreds of dear
friends, but they are imprisoned by an en-
chanter in these papers and leathern boxes;
and though they know us, and have been
waiting two, 10. or 20 centuries for us-some
of them-and are eager TO give US a sign and
unbOsom themselves, it is the law of their
limbs that they must not speak until spoken
to; and as the enchanter has dressed them
like battalions of infantry, in coat and jacket
of one cut, by the thousand and 10 thousand,
your chance of hitting on the right one is to
be computed by the arithmetical rule of per-
mutation and combination-not choice out
of the three caskets, but out of a million
caskets, all alike. But it happens in our ex-
perience. that in this lottery there are at least
so or 100 blanks to prize 1t seems, then, as
il some charitable soul, after losing a great,
deal of time among the false books, and alight-
ing upon few true ones which made him
happy and wise, would do a right act in naming
those which have been bridges or ships to
carry him safely over dark morasses and bar
rem oceans into the heart of sacred cities, into
palaces and temples"
ELSIE PoMERoY MCELgoY
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MANY WILL NOT RE MISSED,

Fewer Representatives will be reelected this
time than for a number of terms past. Indeed,
trouble is already with them, for they have
not been reBominated. All returns are not in
yet from nominating conventions, but up to
this time these Representatives have either
been defeated for denomination or have de-
clined-most of them defeated
Breckenridge. of Arkansas, who has become
Minister TO Russia; Oates. of Alabama, who
has been elected Governor OF that State; Robins
aud Turpin, of Alabama; Cannon, of Caiifor-
mia; Causey, of Delaware; Mallory, of Florida;
Cabanis, Of Georgia; Sweet. of Idaho, who is
seeking the Senatorship in that State; Dur
borrow. Henderson, Black. Hunter, CbIds.
Wheeler. Mcdonald, Funk. and Forman. of
Illinois; Brown, Waugh. Hammond and Conn,
Of Indiana: Gear, of Iowa, who has been elect
ed 20 the Senate, and Funston, of the same
State who was defeated in Convention; Stone,
Ellis, Goodnight, Caruth. Brcckinridge and
Paynter, of kentucky; McKaig OF Maryland
Stevens. Everett, ONeill, and McEttrick, of
Massachusetts; German, Whiting, Moon, and
Weadock, OF Michigan Stockdae and Hooker,
OF Mississippi; Burns and Fan. of Missouri;
Bryan. Of Nebraska. who is seeking an election
to the Senate; Blair, of New Hampshire :;
Weaver, Of New York; Grady, Bum, and
Alexander Of North Carolina; Storer DonO-
van. Bundy, Hare Pearson. and White. of
Ohio; McAleer, Mutcheer, Woverton, Beltz-
hoover, Hainer. and Cribs, of Pennsylvania;
Izlar and Shell, of South Carolina; Lucas. of
South Dakota: A. A. Taylor, of Tennessee; ;
Kilgore, Gresham, Paschal. aud Cockrell, of
Texas; Wise, Epes, Edmunds, and Marshall.
of Virginia; Pendleton, of West Virginia ;
Brickncr and Hangar, OF Wisconsin; aud
Smith, of Arizona, who will probably go into
the Senate as soon as that Territory becomes
State.
VETERANS IN THE CITY
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cRET OF THE CORRIDORS,

That noble and patriotic organization, the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery OF Boston,
came down from the Hub last week aud spent
their annual field day here They were first
entertained 10y an excursion TO the tomb Of the
father OF orr country by the veteran Washington
Light Infantry aud certain prominent citizens,
and afterward gave a return banquet that was
. marvel Of lavishness. good taste, hospitality
and witty speech making The Ancients
paraded, headed by band OF 40 pieces, and
presented q kaleidoscope appearance, the big
majority Of the members being attired in uni
forms Of different patterns AID colors. There
were red coats and blue coats. white coats and
black coats infantry, artillery, cavalry and
continental uniforms; there were uniforms Of
the Regular Army AID of the National Guard :;
there were fatigue caps and helmets, shskos
and plumes-in fact almost every conceivable
style Of military wearing apparel and accouter-
ments. The majority of tho visitors were
equipped with rifles Of a unique pattern.
each supplied with a white strap and the bal
aDce carried curved sabers Of antique DESIGN.
Former members Of this organization or the
present ones saw service in the wars ia which
the American Colonies or the American Nation
have been engaged. They represent every
branch OF the service and every kind of patri.
Otto military organization that Massachusetts,.
the grand old Bay State, has ever fostered.
Many veterans Of the civil strife were amone
them, some whose acts Of daring and suffering
are einblazoned on the pages of history ia
golden letters
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complete regimental roster is included. To
many veterans this book will be Of absorbing
interest and will recall many historic incidents
and eniighten those who had no part in the
great struggle.
Magazines and Notes.
The Men England Magazine for October has
among many other attractions, At the Battle of
Bull Run with the I'd n. H.. splendid bit Of
battle description, by Col. Francis S Fisk. It
Is illustrated by good picture OF Gen. Mars
Ton: published at Boston. Price % cents.
Notable features of Outing for October are:
Regina die Walsche. by Jean Porter Rudd.
Blans Cartridges, by Edgar Faweett; Fencing.
Ola and new. by H. COlmore Dunn; A Woman
IN the Mackenzie Delta, by Elizabeth Taylor;
Training for Football, by James @. Iathrop
and Football of '93, by Walter Camp. Other
sketches Of sport and adventure complete an
unusually Interesting number
For the housekeeper and the mother the
october issue of Table Talk holds much of in
terese For the help OF the former. three dozen
tested recipes are given in the inquiry Depart
ment, as well as Menus for many occasions, while
the latter will eagerly read much IN The New
Bill of Fare and the Fashion Department
another view of Woman's Work is given by
Helen Campbell. our great authority on
Domestic Science and Economy.
recreation is the name of a magazine the
nrst number of which has Just been issued by
Z. o. Shields, PIG William street. New York
City: The price is 81 year, or 10 cents for
single copy.
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The fact that in the recent reduction Of force
in the Treasury Department, under the work.
ing of the Dockery law, women were made the
object OF dismissal more frequently in propor-
tion to the number employed than men, and
regardless Of efficiency or length of honorable
service or high record, is worthy OF comment.
Men sometimes given 10 working to draw a
salary they do not conscientousIy need, but
women are not The women clerks of Washing
ton are the brightest and ablest persons in the
service. They do their work, and some of the
most efficient Of tho employees are females
There are two men to every woman in the De.
partmests, and the number of women all told
amounts to less than 1000. These women are
of all ages, from IS to 50, aud there is by the
way. one clerk in the Treasury Department.
who has now reached 80 years. There are
many women over 60 and hundreds of sweet
young maidens of %. These women do all
sorts Of work. Starting in as counters in the
Treasury about generation ago, they have ex-
tended their work to all sorts Of clerkships and
they now pass upon questions of law, examine
patents, translate foreign languages, keen books
are mistresses of shorthand and typewriting
In the dead letter Office the most expert trans
lators of bad writing are women. and it would
surprise you to know that the Treasury Depart
ment has g woman lawyer who prepares the
briefs for Internal Revenue matters and who
could probably make more outside of the Depart.
ment by practicing law than she gets by acting
as law clerk within it. There are number
of women editors in the service here at Wash
ington. The official records of the war of the
rebellion are 10 certain extent COTTON up by
women, aud in the Navy Department You find
women who are making maps and tracing charts
for cur ships in different parts of the world, aud
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Cut-stee pins aud buckles arc used for hat
trimming.
Fine checked silk, brown and white or blue,
or black and white, makes neat trimming
for street bats.
Wide brimmed velvet hats, black or brown
or dark blue. are unusually becoming; so it is
delightful to be promised them for the Winter
fashions.
Velvet Tam OShanter crowns for moderately
big brimmed hats are so soft and graceful that
they bid fair to become permanent style.
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Short boas of thicky gathered chiffon or
gauze. or of ostrich feathers, are preferred TO
the longer ones, and the little mink animals,
unnaturally long, and provided with moro
feet than Nature thought advisable to give
them, will be brought out again these cold
days
It is frequently heard that physicians say
that we do not drink enough water. Three
pints is quoted as the proper amount to he con-
sumed daily. And this means just water
of course not ced-nor does it mean tea, coffee,
milk or chocolate
Amelia Bloomor, for whom the much abused,
much discussed, much befriended loose-trousers
costume was named is now living out in Council
Bluffs. She did not originate the costume, but
advocated and wore it, and it became definitely
associated with her name. although another
woman had devised it, And all this was
over 40 years ago. Now every fashion paper
publishes new variations an the old idea, and
calls the result bicycle costume.
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"Capes to the hip. coats to the knee" is one
of fashions late edicts. 1t sounds well, but it
is not necessarily to be obeyed
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Another case of Intellectual edicts is concern
ing revers. Put revers on everything" says
one fashion journal, while another astute OBJ
server of things stylish announces: "a dis
tinctive mark Of this seasons styles is the alb
soute absence of the revers that have hith-
erto been popular" The only proper
duet under the circumstances is to do as you
please. i+A'
s%s
OUe Oh the Novelties SHOWfl III the exchanges
for woman's work are portiers Of black pine
apple cloth. painted all over with leafy de-
sign of roses and their branches and foliage
When the curtain hangs against light the black
gauZe becomes almost invisible, and airy
screen Of blossoms and leaves greets the eye.
Like work on bolting-cloth,, the paints must be
mixed very thick, and bIetting paper under
meath the work to absorb the extra moisture is
necessary.
Aluminium has been suggested as future
dress material. 1t is light, flexible and can be
made into as fine threads as desired. It seems,
to consider it casually, as though it would be as
as cloth of glass, but perhaps not.
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Tansy leaves are an old fashioned moth repel-
lcr but they are about as effective as anything
else. The very best one can do is to clean wool
clothing thoroughly, sprinkle tansy leaves or
any other nnpleasantly odorous stuf generously
in the folds and wrap in newspapers, using
paste to help fasten up every crevice, so that
not even the simmist moth can find entrance.
Then trust in Providence and do not fret. If,
this care, the things are moth
eaten, it is probably because they were destined
so to be, and nothing could have averted the
disaster.
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cIst, who has again assumed that role. It is
believed that Mr.. ONeil will support Fitz-
pltrck, his successful rival for the renomina-
tiin. The A. P. A. is making itself strongly
felt in the politics of the State. 1t has won
evhry fight it has gone into this year. They
viii probably cut down Greenhalge's majority
this time, because he has appointed number
Of Catholics to Office.
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A good story vas told of James *. Polk by a
Tennessee man here the other day. when
the to-be President ran for Governor of Ten
nessee in 1S40," said this gentleman, against
the Hon. James C. Jones, the former got a
licking His successful opponent, who was
familiarity known as Lean Jimmie Jones'
wasn't much of an orator and didn't make any
great pretcntious to scholarship but be was a
man of the people, and had habit of succeed
ing at the polls During his campaign with
Polk for the Goyernorship the latter on the
occasion Of joint discussion made long and
exhaustive speech on the tariff, which was
credit to his ability aud research, but was rather
prOsy. somewhat wearying the crowd. When
Jones's turn came to speak he paid a comp iment
to Mr. Folks address, but dismissed the tariff
in short order. Ny friends he said, this
tariff question is really not the intricate mat
ter it has been represented in fact, it is rs sim
pie as the alphabet. Now, what would do in
regard to the tariff? Why. simply this: If the
tariff is too high I'd lower it, but if it was too
low I'd hist it, 1t was such easy solution of
the matter that the audience yelled tumul-
tuously, and Lean Jimmie carried the day"
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Another frock for a child, made up with
pretty sewing, has what is most necessary for
children's clothing-daintiness. The material
is fine lawn or cross-barred muslin with ruffie
Of embroidery and narrow neck band and bands
below the short pulled sleeves of insertion.
There is plain, close fitting sleeve from the
puff to the wrist. The yoke can be laid in fine
hand-sewed tucks if moro elaboration be de-
sired, or it can DO made of alternate tucks and
insertion, but all these variations are easily
thought of and need no enumeration.
1t is almost chrysanthemum time. 1t is with
no special pleasure we read that the chrysan-
themum probably lasts longer after being cut
than any other flower Those flowers that last
so long like the golden rod and daisy, grow
just a little dingy after few days. 1t seems
heartless to throw them away while they are
still half pretty. SO they are kept in fresh water
day after day, growing dustier gradually. The
first crisp freshness departs from a chrysan.
themum almost as soon as from other flowers,
and it is not anything specially to its credit
that it should hang around SO long after this
beauty has departed.
So
GlTiS VINO nave not Deen tralned In any
bread earning profession aud are suddenly
called upon to support themselves, and others,
too, perhaps. have very porplexing times, and
very disheartening ones rs well. One case
here in Washington tells part of the story.
The girl had had a quiet, comparatively un-
troubled. existence She had gone through the
public schools. and then helped her mother
keep house. She had been out little in So
ciety. She fashioned most of her own pretty
frocks and hats. Everything was quiet. Her
father received moderate salary serving in
one of the scientific departments under the
Government. Then he lost his position, and
through overwork and some trouble with his
eyes, virtual blindness was added to his dispair.
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"Mr. Morton will poll the heaviest Irish
vote of any candidate for Governor ever nom
mated by the Republican party" said an Albany
man last week. "The Irish people are never
ungrateful. and their memories extend back
farther into their own history than that of any
other Nation. There is not an freshman in
New York City, therefore, of middle age who
does not know that the ex-Vce- President,
when very young man. had his sympathics
stirred TO their depths by the famine prevail.
ing in Ireland, and sent over ship load Of
provisions at his own expense to relieve the
necessities Of some Of the starving poor. The
warm hearted natives OF the 'ould sod are
talking about that incident in New York to-
day. and it is being recited from cabin to cabin
with additions and improvements, and every
where it is making votes for its hero That
sort of thing counts more ia an election than
all the stump speeches and party platforms
that can be csrted into the campaign by thou
sand politicians"
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A Matter of Observation.

ILlfe
Mike Cbeating the carpet) WHATS that
spot there that's so worn?
Mary-Oh, that must have been lust in
front of the Missis' mirror.
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Speaking Of the Ancients reminds one Of
Massachusetts and its politics. for many among
the visitors are very prominent in the poll
tics o! their State. Il seemed 10 be the general
opinion that Massachusetts, would give the
largest Republican majority this year that it
mas rolled mp since the1ime OF Lincoln. 1t Is
SAID that the best the Democrats can do is to
elect two Representatives from Boston. one from
Mr. O'AeiPs district and the other from the
district Of MeEttrick, the Independent Demo.
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When the Greedy people were starving at
Cape Sabine Brainard. who had charge of the
rations, consisting of sealskin and other miser-
able substitutes for food, made primitive scales
aud carefully weighed out each ration; and
when ali the others had become too weak to
move he prolonged their existence for 20 days
By catching shrimps and distributing them,
never taking more than his own rightful share
from the store.
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1t is TO he agreeaby commented upon that
Lieut.. David l.. Brainard, I'd u. S. Cav, who
will be remembered in connection with his
daring exploit of reaching, with Lieut.. Lock
wood. the farthest point north during the i'll
fated Greedy expedition, is about to have a
substantial recognition. Brainard made a re-
markable record as Subsistence Officer during
the expedition, and Secretary Lamont's atten-
ton has been attracted TO his peculiar adapta-
bility for the new vacancy which will occur in
the Subsistence Corps made by the succession
of Col. Michael r. Morgan upon the retirement
last week OF Brig. Gen. John p Hawkins, Cons
missary General.
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About this time every year s cry goes up
all over the country for the holding of all
MISUNDERSTANDING pal, County, State, and Con
gressional-on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November everywhere. The pres
ent system of separate elections is especially
deplored here, because the great mass of voters
are from all sections, and to them it is needless
and expensive to make extra trips to their
homes to exercise the prerogatiye of the Ameri-
can citizen, when once ought to suffice. This
system also entails unnecessary expense on the
ax-payers, too, for the same election machinery
could perform the duties contingent upon all
the elections if held simultaneously. The old
argument that National and State issues may
thus be separated in double elections is being
weakened, because more and more every day
State issues become involved in National ques-
tions. Ohio and Indiana long ago discontinued
double elections. Why should not the other
States do the same?
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women typesetters, women stitchers and press
feeders.
\
The big men of the Department have the
softest places and the most money. while the
poorly paid clerks do the work There is no
doubt that many 81 900 clerk does the same
work for which another clerk is paid $1,000
and s., 400, and many woman at 5000 is doing
thoroughly work which Sl,400 man is half
doing at her side Still, 1000 is pretty good
pay, and the chief objection to these Govern
ment positions is that the employees have little
chance to rise. They may get up to s1,4oo,
$1,600 and perhaps $500 year, but their
chances are small and the limit is fixed. But if
q clerk should let ambition get the better of
his common sense and accept promotion to
Chief of Division upon the incoming of new
Administration, he is doomed four years from
that time to either reduction in salary and
position at the beginning of another Admins
tration of the same political complexion, or
dismissal when the opposition party comes into
power. Verify, man is the football of fortune
if he is in the Department service. and in these
days even the fact of his being Union veteran
will not save him; indeed it seems to mark him
for humiliation.
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VETERANS IN THE CITY.
Comradc Samuel A. Miller, of Lincsville, Pa
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Fall is the most delightful time of year in
Washington. This is the season when most
visitors come into our midst, when the bridal
couples especially are thick, and the willy
guide with his wonderful tales makes COM
Portable living off the gullibility of his fellows
The sylvan side of the National Capital is its
most delightful side. At this time, when, q
few hundred miles farther north, the trees
have lost their freshness and the grass has
grown to be colorless turf, WashingtOn's parks
and streets arc as fresh us if Jack Frost were
not looming up little distance of. There
are some 500 acres of tree planted reservations
here, cared for by the United States, score
OF more of smaller parks looked out for by the
District; more than 10 600 trees line the streets
and avenues; and the result is a mass Of foliage
that is not to be seen in any great city but
Washington, even exceeding that of the
called forest cities of the great West. If you
want to see Washington at its most comfort
able, most healthy, and most bewitching time,
come now.
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Plaided cloths are particularly pretty for
children. frock Of the well-kBown blue and
green plaid crossed with fine tfreadings of scar
let. or sometimes of yellow. made up with dark
blue or red plain cloth or silk after the fashion
shown, is stylish. With the skirt. sleeves and
yoke of the plaid the fulled waist is of the plain,
making a change from the usual style-aso a
pretty one-of having the yoke of the plain and
the rest of the plaid.
The National tribune., 1894-10-11

Velvet Tam O'Shanter crowns for moderately
big-brimmed hats are soft and graceful that
they bid fair to become permanent style.
The National tribune., 1894-10-11

Aluminium has been suggested as future
dress material. 1t is light, flexible. and can be
made into as fine threads as desired. It seems,
to consider it casually, as though it would be as
unsatisfactory cloth of glass, but perhaps not.
The National tribune., 1894-10-11

in the Government Printing Office there are
women typesetters, women stitchers and press
feeders.
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Wide rimmed velvet hats, black OF brown
or dark blue. are unusually becoming; so it is
delightful to be promised them for the Winter
fashions.