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Taken I'm Tow.

Halifax, Feb. 19.-The steamer st.
jerome, Capt. Pugh, from Galveston
for Liverpool. which arrived here this
morning, has in tow the steamer Sails
bury. from Mediterranean ports, thir-
ty-nine days out, bound for New
York. fruit laden. The Salisbury was
picked up Feb. Is when about 25O
miles south of this port flying signals
of distress. Her coal was all gone
and she had consumed all available
woodwork, including the main top.
mast. The crew were completely ex.
hausted when the st. jerome came to
the rescue and took the Salisbury in
tow
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MIR. CROSS aUrETus.
e. w. Randall Elected Secretary Of
the Agricultural Society.

st. Paul. Feb. 21. - An adjourned
meeting OF the state agricultural socie-
ty was held to-day at the Commercial
club. and, in harmony with previous
signs, Secretary w. Il. Cross was de-
posed after four years Of service in
that capacity and ten years in the gen
eral service of the association. E. w.
Randall of Norris was chosen in his
stead. Mr.. Cross receiving only three
votes. There was but little other busi-
ness done. aside from the reelection of
Treasurer Moffctt and discussion on
the revision Of the premium list.
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Daxehter. of the Revolu,iuu.

Washington, Feb. 21.-The first ses-
sion of the fourth continental congress
Of the National Society of the Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution was
held here to-day in the audience room
Of the Church of Our Father.
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Woman Suffrage.

Sacramento, Cal, Feb. 21.-Thc wO-
man suffrage bill passed the assembly
of the state legislature to-day by a
vote Of 4j to %.
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Scarlet Fever Closes Schools.

Pierre, S. D., Feb. 19.-Several cases
of scarlet fever are reported from
Fort Pierre, on the west side of the
river. The schools of the place are
closed, and all cases so far as known
are 0Marantined.
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TAYLOR INQUIRY.
The Committee Has Concluded Its
InvestigatiOn.

Pierre. S. D.. Feb. 21.-The commit
tee Investigating the Taylor defalca-
tion to-day finished Its inquiry and is
now completing its report. The latter
will be Of little interest. No facts Of
much Importance. not hitherto printed,
have been discovered. The Ruth COM
mittee has secured affidavits from
people in Verlnillion who saw the
famous letter from Ruth to Taylor,
saying. I'VE must get this money, we
need it in our business"
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Lieutenant Killed.

Sandy Hook, y. j.. Feb. 2l.-I1c-
mont r. Peck. first lieutenant Of the
ordnance corps wis Killed at the prov
ing grounds to-day by tho bursting OF
a breech of rapid firing gun.
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Accused of Grain Stealing.

Red Wing, Mimi, Feb. 10.-A. P.
Paulson is in the county Jail at this
place charged with robbing farmers
granarles in Cannon Falls township.
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Notoriou. Gambler Dead

Louisville. Ky. Feb. 21.-Eli Marks,
probably the best known gambler in
the South, died in this city to-day.
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Leo,. Henlth lmproyer,

Rome, Feb. 19.-The health Of the
pope shows improvement. To-day he
received 400 italian pilgrims and spoke
to each Of them.
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The most important business Of the
house was the passage of Jacobson s
railroad "Y" bill and the recommenda-
t!oh Of a dozen bills for passage in the
committee of the whole. The reports
Of standing committees We're unusual
ly heavy. and forty-fivc bills were re-
ported back to the house with the COM
mittees' recommendations. During the
recess tho members visited the agri-
cultural college in a body.
Mr.. FeiS offered the following reso.
luton:
Resolved. That the governor of the
state as eX-OfficiO member Of the state
capitol commission. he and is hereby
respectfully requested to submit to
fifteen members Of this body, to be ap-
pointed as a committee of inspection
by the speaker, to act with a similar
committee from the senate, copy Of
the report us made by Edmund NJ.
Wheelwright Of Boston and Henry
Ives Cobb Of Chicago, expert archi-
tects employed by said commissioners
to pass upon the several plans and epe-
citicatinns submitted by competing
architects and builders. with their sug-
gestions therein.
Resolved, That said committee so
appointed shall within week de-
termine upon said report and report
their findi lgs to his house."
The resolution was adopted.
One Of the most important actions
taken by the judiciary committee was
on two bills providing for .appropria-
tions to aid sufferers from the effects
Of the cyclone on June q. 1894. The
committee felt the greatest sympathy
for the sufferers. and its members ap-
preciatcd the determined effort that
will he made on the floor of the senate
to appeal to the sympathies of the SEN
ators. While they would be willing to
contribute individually to buy neces-
sary food and seed grain for the des-
titute sufferers. the members would
not consent to inaugurate n policy of
the state government becoming elee-
Mosynary institution and relieving suf-
fefers from cyclones. drouths. etc.
The two bills which will be reported
for indefinite postponement are Sen
ator Keller's S. +. 1913 and Senator
Hanson's S. r. 265. The former car
ries an appropriation of $1,000 and
the latter carries $4,000.
Bills PaSsed-W yman = 10 amend
chapter 81, General Statutes 1878.
Rove1ad-To amend sections 1 and I,
chapter 76. General Laws 1888, con-
cerning mutilated bonds, etc.
Schaller-To amend section 42O OF
the penal code Of the State Of Mime
sofa.
jacobson = To amend chapter 10,
General Laws 1887. relating to the
duties Of railroad and warehouse COM
missiOners.
WiacOnsin.
Madison. Feb. q. - The legislature
held short session this morning.
Three bills were passed in the senate
and a large number were considered
in the assembly. The most important
bills advanced to a third reading
were those authorizing cities to pre-
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requiring insurance companies to pay
interest on losses; reducing the capital
stock ot the International Bank of
West Superior from 100000 to $780,
600. and directing tho state treasurer
to refund to Washburn county the
money collected from that county as q
penalty for not paying tax when due
because of the closing Of the bank
where the money was deposited. The
joint resolution providing for a con-
stitutional amendment removing the
limit Of $1.2SN now placed on the sal
ary Of the state superintendents was
also advanced.
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North Dakota,

Bismarck. N. D.. Feb. 21.-The gov
ernor appointed and the senate con-
firmed George B. Winship of Grand
Forks as oil inspector; HI. Langlie of
Htllshoro. public examiner. NJ. Il.
Brown declines the nomination on the
soldiers home board.
The senate passed the penal code.
Senator Haggart introduced a bill for
the survey of the southern boundary
line; Stevens, amendment to the con-
stitution giving voters the right to in
itiate changes in the constitution;
Brown. defining qualifications of In
dian electors; eVitz. prohibiting the
sale of tobacco to minors, also prOvid-
ing that the proceedings Of the state
board shall be public. The house
passed Cryan's bill amending the
school laws: Simpsons, giving the
Dickinson fire company part of the in
surance tax; Senator Arnold's. for a
geological survey of the state; Valen-
tines relating to druggists permits to
sell intoxicating liquors, providing that
they shall be good till revoked for
cause. Richards introduced resolu-
ton which passed the house. claiming
the clerks pay roll has already
reached $12,459, against S1S.29O for
members. and calling for an invcstiga-
tton as to numbers, qualification, en-
ployment, etc. 1t was charged by Nc.
I.achlan. Hanna and others that
claims for services not performed had
been presented.
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XiACOnNiI

Madison. Feb. q. - The legislature
held short session this morning.
Three bills were passed in the senate
and a large number were considered
in the assembly. The most important
bills advanced to a third reading
were. those authorizing cities to pre-
vent the spread of contagious diseases;
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S31 ,SO7, ,O23. and authorizes three new
line Of battleships and twelve torpedo
boats. Tho features of the bill pro-
vtding for the new ships were an
tagonized by Messrs. Simpson Pop,
Kan), Hall Dem.. No. and Everett
(Dem.. Mass.). and were supported by
Mcssrs. Talbot Dem.. Md. Dolliver
Ntcp.. Iowa., Pendlcton Dem., w.
Va.). Money Dem., MISSY, Weadock
Dem.. Mich) and Meyer (Dem., La).
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woman who thought it out last summer. and
the hostesses who follow suit will give their
guests a treat. The wall was painted the
clearest yellow-as near sunshine as posi-
bic. There was luster In the paint that re-
sembled the CLINT OF sunbeams. Against this
she held long vines and outlined their curves
and stems. With light gray wash these
were painted in dropping form from the cell
ing at the sides to meet the black wood dado
that went about the room. The effect was
exquisite. 1t gave one the impression that
the sun was shining through a vine trellis
and thro wing their swaying branches on the
ceiling and walls. One waited for the breeze
to stir them. The pictorial effect on the wall
was lent by few simply framed water coIors
of growing fruit. HENRY STERLING.
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FOR A PERMANENT HOME.
Legion OF Loyal Women Anxious to d
More Effective Work.

Legion of Loyal Women Anxious to Do
More Effective Work.
In its report TO the Legion of Loyal
Women, at the meeting to be held this
evening, the advisory committee of the
Legion VIII urgently recommend that i'm
mediate steps be taken to provide per-
manent home for the Legion, with facili-
ties and conveniences for carrying on its
employment work on a larger scale than is
possible at present.
For some time the necessity OF greater
accommodations for the work of the en-
ployment committee has been felt by the
Legion.
Day by day the Importance of the work
of the employment committee, on the
lines adopted last winter, becomes more
important and necessary. The plan was
adopted after consultation with Miss Clara
Barton and Others interested in this work,
and was most satisfactorily and advan-
tageously carried out under the personal
supervision of Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey,
president of the Legion, and Mrs. E. S.
Davis. chairman of the employment COM
mittee
These ladies had the cordial support and
approval of the entire membership of the
Legion. especially of the executive and
advisory committees, in raising funds for
the carrying on of the work
The Legion is now employing on an aver
age eight seanstresses each day, who are
engaged in making over and mending old
clothing. This work, by the way, is only
preparatory to something better. for as
soon as the women become proficient
good situations are found for them.
Among the large and specially useful
donations received lately by the Legion of
Loyal Women are: clothing from Mrs. s.
K. White, Mrs. NJ. H. Weisner, Mrs. Moore,
Mrs Ambrister. and Mr.. Stephen c. Brown;
balance of appropriation from Central
Relief Committee, $500; Rev. Mackay
smith, So: Misses Hampton, Tolman, and
| Smith. each ST and Mrs. S. h. White, ST.
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EUROPEAN JAUNT FOR $500
Bright Girls Can Take an inexpensive
Foreign Holiday.
How an Artist and Journalist Are Going
Abroad and Spend Four Weeks for
Small Sum of Money.

Europe is my goal this summer; at
least London is,' said a bachelor girl
journalist to an artist in the same clique.
You are very ambitious in your ideas of
a vacation" was the listeners answer.
II knew you went over three years ago,
but / believe it was before the financial
condition of your family made it impera-
tive that you earn your living. Has any
one suddenly left you a legacy?"
NO. was the confident answer of the
space writer Il have counted up the cost
during these last days when the sunshine
and warmth stirs my migrating Instincts;
people are like birds, don't you think
there is a restless feeling comes with these
days that must be the call of nature?
But, as | was say ing, Iha We ebeenrecBoningup
and find that with $500 1 can have two
months vacation in London. That isn't an
unwise investment, eh?'
HOW TO DoIT
81 don't believe you" was the frank
rejoinder. why, I have spent $500
every summer on my outing, and 1 never
got near Europe; in fact, not very far from
Gotham" HG
"AIl l can say is, you invested your
money badly; now, intend to sail for En-
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LEARNING TO WALK.
1t Requires Patience and Practice to
Teach the Ordinary Woman.

1t Requires Patience and Practice to
Teach the Ordinary Woman.
There is a great deal of talk about how
badly American women walk, and they are
advised TO improve. but no one tells them
how, or il anyone does, the directions are
usually wrong. Good teachers are needed,
but they are rare, and some most valuable
information can be given in print. Practice
will then do much. Delsarte brought the
matter down to principles, but not many
self-styled Delsartian instructors can tell
what they are
The first thing to note Is that each foot
should cross the same line with each success
sive step: Walking crack" I" brings you on
one step in walking correctly; the toes
should be much turned out, almost to the
angle of forty-flve degrees, but not quite.
Many defects are cured by simply achieving
this. For instance, you, by this means
avoid bringing down the heel hrst; in an Or
binary shoe the foot comes down altogether;
in heeler's sandal the toe strikes the ground
first, and that is the Ideal way, the way the
Greek women stepped.
If you start out to simply avoid striking
the heel first without further knowledge of
the correct position of the foot, ten to one
you make yourself highly ridiculous. The
next thing is the length of the step. II
snOuId De Just TWICE Inc length OF the 1901,
and is measured from the hollow Of the in
step of one foot to the hollow of the instep
of the other.
| Now, to practice these points take a long
| tape-new bits of red flannel on it at inter
! walls corresponding TO the proper length Of
| OF your step-stretch it across as long 2 room
| as you can get to practice in. and spend an
! hour day, or less, possibly. in walking the
| tape and having your foot cross one Of
| the bits of flannel at each step. For a while
| you will do this badly, walk worse than ever,
but when this action has become automatic
| you can take up other points and progress
| toward grace. Two things are most import
| ant-the legs should be moved from the
| thighs the motive power should begin there,
| just as a boy throws a stone from the shoul-
| der; then the chest should be held up and
/ the body so carried that the walker will have
a feeling, If she watches for it. as if she were
! being pulled along by a string coming from
the middle of the breast, as if she were
| breasting the air, as a swimmer breasts the
| waves. This sounds fanciful, but it Is only
accurate. The feeling attests the fact that
| you are walking WELL even though you have
| not achieved all the subtle poise OF the Diana
| OF the Louvre. VIOLA RosEBoRo.
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banking rates OF changing it. The ship
steward or London hotel clerks will make
change for small sums, as $40 or $50, at
the slightest rates.
'sOne dollar invested in a well-known
exchange for the month spent in London
will accord every facility at the smallest
cost. 1t viii put me IN easy touch with
New York, and shall save the membership
fee in dozen ways.
Extra luggage fares we can avoid by
simply taking over commodious travelling
bag and steamer trunk. shall take my old
steamer chair to use on deck, but you can
rent one for 81 on board the steamer.
This divan can be divested of four cushions
that viii materially add to our comfort.
LIVING IN LONDON.
s'Wheu we get to England all expenses
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of luggage are paid for by your ticket; Sd.
to the porter is the thing to give as you drive
off"
And what about the terrible hotel charges
in London?" queried the fascinated lis
tener.
I'VE will leave them to be tested by those
who have money. We would leave our lug
gage at the station, take a cab by the hour
cost 4S cents a haDsom would cost so
cents-that would be 24 cents for you,
and the same for me.
I'm this way we would get over ground
faster in hunting up the addresses carefully
chosen from friends who have tested the
houses.
II know some dear old lodgings, in good
parts of London, too, where we can get a
nice little suite, with breakfast, for SS or
$40 a week, So each. Lunch and dinner we
canpickup anywhere, the queerer the restau-
rant the better, like the old Cheshire Cheese,
for example. Two shillings (or 4S cents)
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LETTER NO. 1&2.

Boarding house life does not have an IN
furious effect on the character or young
men and young women, because a boarding
house is not a disreputable house, or
gambling house, or a cursed saloon house
but desirable asylum and a home for the
homeless. and a refuge for people in ad-
verse circumstances. And. inasmuch as
the inmates are of different ages and of
different qualifications, the house. in
addition 10 furnishing meals, beds. books,
music, and social comforts. Yields edu-
cation and mental culture, by exchanging
thoughts and sentiments. blessed house
to all that use things right. especially to
young men and young women.
IL would be as reasonable for me to con-
denim public schools, churches. and colleges.
because some persons make mischief in
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LETTER NO. 141.

Boarding house life does have IAN in
curious effect on the character of young
men and women" becaus the inmates, who
naturally drifted there-or were placed
there as results Of dom estic adversely, or
otherwise-are generally encouraged and
instructed in this undesirable nursery, to
grow in wickedness, and 10 yield satanic
fruits of jealousy, envy, and Incidence,
and the habit is antagonstic TO Gods
ordinance OF sweet home, the blessed
place, t.be it ever so humble TO extol
and enjoy domestic comforts, virtue, wis
dom. and the blessings OF the family
altar
The boarding house is also a counting
house. = and a rendezvous for idlers, gos-
sipers and fOrtune-hunters.
II have been young, and am now oIo'
and vet have / not seen" boarding house
young men and young women transformed
into excellent husbands and wives; or into
desirable old maids and old bachelors.
~OLD TOM WILLIAMS"
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LETTER NO. 143.

Care for the youth and the nation is safe.
Rear the young where surroundings and in
fluences are pure and elevating. Judge
and then act.
To a regretable extent boarding houses
and hotels are not always the place OF resi-
dence of that class OF people with whom as
sociation is always improving.
Yet there are often advantages in the life
at a hotel or clearinghouse that are not
to be enjoyed elsewhere.
Much depends upon the house and the
youth. An impartial review of the subject
would show many points in favor of both
pros and contras. c. r. ID.
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would get us a delightful little dinner
every night, and ifthe weatheris too wretched
to permit of our going out, am sure our
landlady will supply us for small con-
sideration. Our suite will have sleeping
room, sitting room, and bath, so we VIII
be comfortably provided for under all cir
cumstances. | speak knowingly of the
lodging houses, because l have a number of
friends who preserved careful diary of
expenses. Have you kept account as l
talked?" interrogated the journalist.
EIGHTY-FIvE DOLLARS OF FUN.
YES" answered the artist. II find
you are right in your calculations.
Our passage will be $40; the $50 given as
fees will be $40 apiece. our lodging will
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women's Wages in Glasgow.

Women in the Glasgow shops, according to
a recent report. receive from 81 or S1.25 to
50 week; hairdressers. milliners, and to-
bacconists may get 1915. Oyerseers begin
with So week and may rise to 5000 year.
One young woman in sole charge of shop
received 50 week her hours were twelve
and a half on four days of the week, seven
and half on one. and fourteen and half on
one: her meals were brought in to her; there
were no sanitary conveniences, these being
rare in Glasgow shops. Another worked
from $50 a. m. till 10 p. M, and on Satur-
DAYS till IL for SI.75 a week, and was not al
lowed TO go out for her meals.-New York
Sun
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LETTER. NO. l3s.

''As the twig is bent the tree is inclined" p"
Youthful teachings create everlasting i'm
pressionS Men and women, like all other
animals, live in societies. Home shapes
destiny. but il is travel that teaches us to
be tolerant and self-reliant.
Travel inspires Us with patriotism. shows
Ms how To be soCiable and obligiEg, but too
often occasions habits Of vice instead OF
virtue. 1t recalls past "reminiscences, and
makes the heart cling with fondness TO that
place where it first knew pleasure and pain,
and where the soul, under the rough dis
cipline ofthe passions, had eenroused TO the
dignity Of moral life. In boarding house
We study mankind as it is, and should De,
for, before our eyes, are brought the good
and evil. We pay to view nature, a board
ing bousc furnishes such requisite, and
delinestes that variety is the spice OF life
which makes all things pleasing"
WORTHLESS.
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LETTER NO. 14o.

Yes: notwithstanding their necessity,
they can in no wise supplantth advantages
Of a good home. The early influences of
home (good or badD that each brings TO
a boarding house is a potent factor in
modifying the moral tone Of the same.
Could that influence be OF the highest
moral and intellectual standard, so would
the tendency of boarding houses be; other
wise, if that influence be otherwise. Few
boarding houses afford much OF a library,
and those that DO, its literature is Of an
indifferent kind.
Books. are necessities as well as luxuries
TO an inquiring mind. as they enlarge the
understanding, delight the mind, and when
well digestedd give strength TO thought.
A well ordered home seems to me TO be
the only place as against boarding houses
where the young can safely lodge.
PAULINE LAVALETTE.