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saw him carrying 1t out of the store. He
had not So to spend for his wife's calico
dress, but he thought nothing Of putting
SO into plug tobacco. This is sample of
the kind Of treatment some wives are re-
ceivfng every day. I don't suppose old Mr..
Jones realized his selfishness. He probably
loved his wife, but he had been brought up
the wrong way.
The American Horse md Horse Meat.
How about the great American horse,
Secretary Morton? It is said his days arc
numbered"
IT fear that is true" replied the Secre-
tary. 1.-The electric car and the bicycle have
taken away his occupation. and expect
to see the day when our carriages will be
run by electricity. The bicycle Of the fu-
ture may have storage battery, and the
Gay of high-priced horse flesh outside Of
forever. Why. we had an application few
days ago from one of our experiment sta
lions. The man said he wanted team of
horses, and the department wrote him that
he granted. He replied that he could get
good team for S25. and we allowed him
to do So 1 am driving horse myself
now for which ] paid $50. He is four
get a good horse almost anywhere for $50.
and 1t is said that in the fae west they are
turning the horses out and tieing placards
to them upon which are prin ted the words:
He who feeds me can have me-.
Horse Meat and Horse Sausage.
81 see that one of our consuls in Germany
advises the raising of horse meat for ex-
port to that country. What do you think
of that?"
II believe more money can be made in
raising other kinds of meat" replied Sec
rotary Morton, land 1 do not believe in
these stories about the money which Amer
leans can make in shipping horse sausage
to Germany. The Germans have tariff
on horse meat of more than cents per
pound, and the French have similar tariff.
extensively every year in Europe than in
the past. Between 1889 and 1893 more than
100000 horses were killed there for human
consumption, and in 1893 the total weight
of dressed horse flesh used amounted to
more than 100000 pounds. They use
every part of the horse, and they have
horse steaks and horse roasts, and there
are horse meat restaurants, where you can
buy horse soup. 1 would not like to eat it.
l feel very much concerning it like my wife
did about one of herd of deer which we
had on our place in Nebraska and which
was accidentally shot 1t was pretty little
coe, and when it was brought home 1t
still had a blue ribbon tied about its neck,
which we had fastened to it. 1t was very
fat, and 1 looked at it l said: Well,
there is one thing about 1t, you can give US
some fresh meat My wife replied: Why,
you don't think you could eat that. Why,
my dear. l would just as soon think of
eating slice of one of the children 1t
Is the same with the horse 1t is too
want to eat it, and it will be long time
before there will be a market for horse
meat In America
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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From Pearsons Weekly.
= There is one married man living who was
badly frightened the other night. He sent
a note to his wife about o'clock to say
that he would not be home until late. The
messenger boy when he delivered the note
to the wife happened to mention that he
had gone to the wrong house. and had been
very wrathfully treated by a man for dis
turbing him. The wife read the note, which
was Oh a scrap Ct paper. She thought a
minute. Then she said to the messenger
boy:
I'll give you shilling If you will take
the note back to my husband. and tell him
that story without saying that you came
here at ALL"
The boy pocketed the money and went
back to the husband with the note.
well, why do you bring this back?" he
asked
Because they wouldn't take 1t. man
came to the door, and told me If l didn't
go away he would break my neck for me-"
The husband did not stay out late that
evening. On the contrary he got home as
fast as the underground train could take
him. He looked suspiciously at his wife,
and said:
Il sent note, but the boy must have
taken 1t to the wrong house."
Il suppose So" said the wife, innocently,
Il haven't got it"
The man was dying to find out If any,
body had called, but he was afraid to ask
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wealth, and a great part Of his fortune
has come out of the soil. He is highly Gull
tured and college-bred. but he is as plain
in his ways as was Abraham Lincoln, and
he has practical ideas of men and things.
Like Lincoln. he has story to illustrate
bis every point. and, like Lincoln, he is
more of an optimist than pessim;st He
thinks that the farmers of the United
States have as good business chances as
the members of any other profession, and
he says that those who mix their manure
with brains seldom fail to amass wealth
He has of late been making study of the
condition of the farmer, and of his posi-
bilitieS outside of the old lines of cultiva-
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TO LEAD THE NINCET.
A Episode in Senator Dubois Career
Which Gave Him Trouble.

Episode in Senator Dubois Career
Which Gave Him Trouble.
What gave me as much trouble back in
Idaho last campaign remarked Senator
| Dubois to Star writer. "as anything else
was what one might call social misunder-
standing. 1 was up to Senator Brices
! house to dinner one evening" and CHANGED
| to be next to Mrs. Carlisle-the Secretary's
| good wife was just then earnestly bent on
| minuet to be danced in one of the local
! theaters for gate money, the latter to be
deToted to the rehabilitation of Jacksons
tomb, which mausoleum was getting much
| out of repair. At the dinner she turned to
| me- and after considering me attentively
| Tor moment, asked me if l would not lead
| the minuet. 1 supposed it was a bit of
| humor l did not regard myself ex-
| pert IN either the matter of minuetS or any
| other fashion of dance. To carry out what
L deemed as an excellent jest, replied:
| Yes, certainly. l will lead the minuet
with great pleasure
| THE next day 1 Travelled south with the
| funeral of Senator Colquitt. While in
Georgia l saw with something like cold
| chill an announcement in the Washington
| Star. that l was scheduled to lead the COM
| ing minuet. 1 came back to Washington
and corrected this false impression as
quickly as 1 could. but it was too late In
| about two weeks the returns began to
come in from Idaho. The populst papers
| especially We're very indignant. Some would
| run comments like this:
| We see by The Washington Star that
| Dubois is about to lead a minuet. If they
| will try him on the larat polka, or a poca-
| tello reel he will perform much more sat
| isfactorily. Dubois was brought up in
| rattlesnake country, and can make back
| ward jump of nine feet
| Another paper took it sadly-something
| like this:
| =" Here is good thing, we don't think
We note by the Washington papers that
| while the impoverished people of Idaho are
| jumping sdewise for grub, Dubois is in
| Washington dancing minuets to put an
| other coat of paint on the tomb of An irew
| jackson. If he will show the same agility
| in getting through 4 silver bill, 16 to /, we
| will find no fault. But with present bust
| ness prospects in Idaho, and silver too dead
| to skin, it doesn't look well to see Idahos
| senior Senator leading down the revels at
| the capital
| Not only did the papers take bitter
| view of the affair. but one populist conven-
| ton passed resolution denouncing me and
| my minuet. Altogether, 1 got very lard
! time out of it. one of the grave questions
which had to meet while making speeches
| last fall was this mnuet accusation. How
| ever, 1 think it is thoroughly understood
| in Idaho now that my past IS free from
| minuets. and that my future promises to be
| absolutely barren Of this engaging dance"
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more. and for two years kept 1t in the house for
use whenever / felt return of the old pains. IL
never failed in giving relief. The other men,
bers of my family also began TO take tiny wife
for feeling Of general weakness she being at that
time much run down and never feeling well
enough to perform the work of the home. Within
ever in her life,' and similar reports came from
Il feel confident that in Eervous headaches and a
run down system the compound will be beneficial
. every time. If not perfect cure.
In some instances we have not only recon-
mended it. but furnished it 10 very aged friends,
and the effect of one bottle has seemed marvellous
one particular old friend Of mine telling me that
before one bottle had been used he felt at least
ten years younger. and certainly had not felt as
good for 10 years.
many bottles Of the compound-that is, in my
nervous headaches and n broken-down feeling, es-
pecially In the case OF elderly persons.
There is In particular call 10 mind
in which Paine's celery compound asserted its
good qualities We lad n young married lady
friend wiz was nursing her 4-months- old child. and
found that she could not perform her household
duties on account of the weak condition she seemed
always to be in. On the recommendation of my
wife and myself she took bottle of the COM
pound, and before two weeks had passed was able
TO do her own washing even. in addition to house,
work. About three bottles were used. ! have yet
to hear from any friend to whom recommended
it other than the most favorable results
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bed of fair faces under parasols of strange
and piquant shades.
The carriages are open to the air; the
horses rattle silver chains: the coachmen
Sit erect in black and gold; and all the
splendid trees are dropping locust blossoms;
locust blossoms, sickly sweet, they typify
the sweetness which they fall upon. 1t Is
an unreal sight. as different from usual
living as the artificial flowers on Paris hats
are fairer and more perfect than their fair
originals. 1t Is an atmosphere of violet
powder; and the sunlight shooting through
the branches strikes approvingly on car
mined lips and black lead-penciled eyes,
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ton, and he is full of new suggestions.
He is a great advocate of small farms.
and he tells me there is a good deal of
money to be made in potatoes.
Said the Secretary: There is no doubt
but that there will be large demand for
all the potatoes that these cities will raise
this year and for years to come. We raised
last year more than 10000 600 bushels of
potatoes in the United States. and these
brought about S91 100000. The crop was
however, not enough by millions of bushels
to supply demand, and potatoes al
ways bring high price. This is especially
SO in the cities and If these people Will
work there is no doubt but that they can
make some money out of their crop. The
great objection l have to the method being
employed is that the land is given to the
poor for nothing. 1t ought to be rented 10
them at very low rate and you would
then find ten men engaged in the cultiva-
ton of the soil where one is doing it now.
People don't want what they can get for
nothing, and measures like this tend to
the education of paupers.'
The Homestead Act.
TT is good deal like the homestead
act" Secretary Morton went on. THAT was
one of the worst things for the farmers
of this country that has ever happened to
them. IT encouraged pauperism and fraud.
Before the homestead act was passed you
could pre-empt quarter section of land
and by paying a small price for it you could
get title to 1t. The result was that no
one took the poor lands, and the man who
was farmer had to be thrifty and intelli-
gent to succeed
THE homestead act gave the land Cor
nothing, and many of those who took ad-
vantage Of 1t were lazy, ignorant and thrift
less. Some settled on lands for the mere
purpose of selling them as soon as they had
secured their titles. Others proved up
their lands. paid the dollar and a quarter
an acre which the government demanded
and then mortgaged them to the fullest
extent and skipped out. After living on the
land for short time, they could get a title
for quarter section upon the payment of
$500 The money lenders were accustomed
to loan at least 800 upon quarter Sec
ton, and this gave the mortgagor $500 clear
profit. thousands of acres of land which
was utterly worthless were proved up in
order to get these mortgages. The owners
left soon as they had obtained the
money and the eastern men who furnished
the funds had no assets but a lot of sand
hills to show for them. They paid the loan
agent 2 per cent for making the loan and
required no security. The agents worked
for their commission and not for their en-
ployerS and the result is that there are
thousands of mortgages in Kansas and
Nebraska today which are not worth the
paper on which they are written. I have
Travelled over much of that mortgage land
remember one farm in which a pillow stood
in the desert near a Snackly Shanty, and
upon 1t the farmer had hung card which
read:
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bands are too occupied to ride with them
Americans are not the only ones who ride
without their husbands, although, perhaps,
they are the only ones who travel in
strange lands without their husbands. This
pretty lady has her horses and her SER
wants; she desires to see and to be seen.
Now it is a family landau, patriarchal
but in good repair, and out of place along
the alley On ordinary days 1t serves to
promenade the children in different por-
ton of the park and rather in the morning
than the afternoon, because Pierre, the
footman, really must return in time to take
his lunch. Today the pretty governess has
Intrigued to be taken out in the afternoon,
has made arrangement with the driver Jean
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and brightens to a binding cloud of gold
the glory of the artificial blonde
The Paris Park has many avenues. This
Avenue de Longchamps, called the Alice
des Acacias. Is held sacred to the prone
made of wealth and beauty.
Along the foot-paths there are those who
walk and those who only sit. Young men,
cravatted subtilely,with boutonnieres of one
flower each. 1t matters little what the
flower, but of its kind 1t ought to be unique
Indeed, to have a special flower Is almost
as important as to have personal and in
diyidual crease to ones pantaloons
They say the avenue is tres Acacias, or
very locust-blossomy On afternoons when
there are many pretty women. pretty
woman means a woman chiefly gowned and
riding gloriously In a chic turnout. Always
sad to see. there is a sprinkling of pretty
women dressed in last springs fashions;
hut they do not count; they are provincialS,
tourists, foreigners. The mere commonplace
and ugly typifies itself in the dingy Paris
cabdragSed by its feeble and discouraged
steed; and when two men. and sometimes
three, with big cigars, three men in dusty
hats and wrinkled tweeds, loll in their flu
neral barouche, stale from the livery stable.
by the Grand Hotel. free-born Americans
upon their travels. the decoration of the
Alley is not added to thereby.
Or would you rather see the honest Brit
1Sh family, in their funny clothes, stiff,
straight. erect, with white, protruding up
per teeth, intent upon their Baedeckers; or.
better still, the open-mouthed and spec
tacled old lady from the wilds of Illinois.
accompanied by John and Mamie? For all
of these there is a safe rule to be followed
in the Alice deS Acacas. 1t is to drop the
Paris cab exactly at the entrance. Then go
a-foot, take an hygienic promenade! So one
is equal, If correctly dressed, to all the 9TH
ers
The defile of carriages is endless. Thou
sands of wheels make on the macadam a
continuous roll like the surf on the beach.
There has just passed a closed coupe.
from out whose open window peers a pretty
face behind fan. 1t Is pretty married
lady of the upper bourgeoisie, who rides
alone In Paris there are ten thousand
pretty ladies of the same type. most of
whom must ride alone because their hus-
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A Little Tilbury, the Gig of 1880.
Being stolen and loved for herself as in the
tales of Octave Feuilet. The family would
not like to know that she has taken the
Acacas, because it is plain and correct
family, on whose luncheon table there is
every Sunday morning tremendous game
pie or monumental pate, such a one as
may be sliced down for the children
through the week.
The lady who has just passed in the open
carriage is a widow by divorce. She is
young. rich, beautiful and has put by all
her Illusions 1t is her serious intention to
get pleasure out of life and with as little
trouble as is possible. That is the reason
her carrige is hired one, from a stylish
stable; she does not wish to have the trou-
BILE OF owning carriages and horses merely
for the sake of being robbed, i'll served and
hourly troubled, she who in other days had
the most splendid teams and the most
sumptuous equipages in all Paris.
Now there rolls a little Tilbury, the smart
gig of the dandy of the year 1880, high on
its two wheels, old-fashioned to the point
of chicness. and revived again in these last
days. Its driver is very mannish lady,
who finds just room beside her on the mar
row seat for a small groom, who sits with
folded arms. She is of high society and
very English, as the French conceive the
English mark to be. She is a French new
woman" very new, mixture of emanci
pated American engroSSed in business af-
fairs. English sportswoman groomed and
douched. She always comes. to the Alice
deS Acacias trifle late, as If just return
ing from her office. like lawyer; all that
she does she must do like man.
Another novelty whose use is spreading,
is the English hanson, called lie cab" 1t
is not public, 1T is always private; it is not
cheap. 1t is always expensive: it is not
shabbyit is always of the highest elegance.
We have almost traversed the long length
of the Acacias, and soon may sit at
the cascade If there be place, to take an
Amer Picon Gf We are depraved), or even
a goblet of Ice water and absinthe. But the
mere conservative take cocktails glass
of sherry. Who would not pay forty cents
to sit beside duke? The dukes are here,
and many count, marquis and baron.
You would not know them from many
other gentlemen correctly dressed. The
time has gone by when they wore distinc-
carriage" of the old nobility: the splendid
coaches, gay with gliding, which may still
be seen in Rome and Madrid, but which
rarely are seen in the Paris Bois today.
The gala voiture of the Faubourg Saint
Germain 1t still exists in many an an
cient family, and what a stir it makes
along the Paris streets when it is brought
out on some rare occasion to strike the
modern democratic heart with fear. 1t is
half century DID, but was renovated in
1878. when the Comte de Chambord was to
have made his triumphal entry into his
good city of Paris. Nowadays 1t only
serves on great occasions, matrimonial
solemnities or princely visits; not more
than half-a-dozen trips each season.
The mobiles sit like ordinary citizens. The
ordinary citizens roll past them in
tremey ordinary cabs. The Cascade cafe
has its chairs and tables in the open air.
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From Tid-Bits.


There are no laundries on board ship;
they take up too much room. So the chief
steward lays in thousands of pillow slips.
sheets and towels. These come on board
tied up in bales of dozen each, and are
stored in the linen locker, a cubbyhole of a
place, on the main deck; the ventilator
it, and keep it hot.
There is no danger Of linen getting mill
dewed there The linen which has been
used is thrown into another room, provid-
ed with the same atmosphere, and is kept
thoroughly dry. Where there are clean
napkins every day, frequent changes of
state room linen, and an everlasting re-
plenishing of towel racks, the demands
upon the linen locker are very extensive.
A liner like the New York puts to sea
with about 5000 serviettes. 10000 towels,
5000 or 1000 sheets, 5000 pillow slips and
about 900 table cloths. Most of these find
their way to the soiled linen locker in the
| course of the voyage. When the vessel ar
rives they are carted off to a laundry.
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as the foundation slip cream swivel silk
bingham with dot in il. The slip was in
princess style and finished at the foot with
two tiny rufiles of the same. The Spanish
fiounce was of Paris muslin, shirred three
times and finished with a lace edging. ard
set on the slip Just below the hips. A baby
puffed waist, low necked and shrred, was
set on in blouse fashion over the silk waist.
and the unlined sleeves were of the Paris
muslin. Double rabbits ears of black vel
vet completed the pretty costume. These
Spanish fiounces must be adjusted very
carefully, with the fullness painstakingly
distributed, or they will make you look
like a freak
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Just Exchange the Babies.

From Tid-Bts.
A famous lawyer once had singular
case to settle. A doctor came to him in
great distress. Two sisters, living in the
same house. had babies of equal age, who
so resembled each other that their mothers
were unable to distinguish them when they
were together, and it happened that by the
carelessness of the nurse the children had
become mixed. How were the mothers 10
make sure that they received back their
own infants?
But, perhaps" suggested the lawyer, the
children weren't changed at ALL"
oh but there's no doubt that they were
changed" said the doctor.
Are you sure of it?"
Perfectly"
well. If that's so. why don't you change
them back again? 1 don't see any difficulty
in that case"
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and all around it is a mixed society that
chats necessarily.
Along the Alice there are countless light
and handy garden chairs in iron, where
pretty mammals sit and watch their pretty
daughters, young girls almost well enough
along in years to make their debut In So
ciety.
All sit and stare or ride and stare. The
Alice Is like cathedral arch in brown and
green. But the atmosphere is rather that
Of the cafe than the cathedral Paul Bour-
get deplores the cafe habit, which he gives
over grandly to "the lower orders of his
countrymen 1t is easy saying; neverthe
less the fact remains that these French
people. high or low, can no more live with
out the pleasures which they find in mere
gregariousness with noise and glitter, than
the Englishman can live without his home.
STERLING HELLO,
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CALLED o N j.
Sterling NJ or t o n /,
t h e Secretary of
Agriculture. la s t
night and asked him
to give me some
points for the cities
which are turning
their vacant lots into
potato gardens for
the poor. The Secre-
tary of Agriculture
believes that there is
money in farming.
He is a man of much
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f1ounce stand out
well. A pretty way
of making a null or
dotted swiss after
the Spanish skirt
fashion 1t to insert
a band or two Of
Ealeaciennes close to
the foot and finish
the foot with a
slightly full edging
of Nalenciennes. At
the .op of the rufle
finish with a lit of
the edging. A re-
lnarkably pre- t { v
Spanish flounce frock
for a Young lady lad
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AXIS, June ~, 1880.
: 7 IS 6 O'CLOCK IN
the afternoon of a
. June day. along the
Alley of Acacias. In
a dust of gold there
files interminably,
slowly. in two. three
and even four ranks,
the equipages of Par
Is brilliant. There are
brusque stops and
starts; there Is a
continual murmur.
mixed with laughter.
IT iS a D,Ovipp dawer
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The snanish Flounce.

The Spanish flounce seems to be great
favorite for thin frocks, for the reason,
probably, that tine underskirt then forms a
kind of petticoat. OF course this under
skirt should always have a narrow foot
rufle Of the same to make the upper
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Another Widow Joke.

From the Oakland Times.
First doctor-"Well, doctor, 1 had a Pc
culiar case today"
Second doctor-"What was it, please?"
First doctor-"I attended a grass widow
who is afflicted with hay fever"