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Novel Scheme to Raise the Wind.

An impecunious German, a citizen
of Munich, finding himself short of
funds, had recourse to the following
novel scheme for raising the wind.
He ordered confsctioner to make q
cake for his wife's birthday, contain
ing. as surprise, a lining OF new
twenty -pfennig pieces. The Germans
financial stringency wrs relieved, but
up to the time OF writing the confoc.
tioner is still looking for his money.
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In n Candy Factory,

From top to bottom the floors OF
the factory are covered with tiles, and
l noticed that there were people en-
gagged in all parts of the building
scrubbing and washing these tiled
lloors. For candy factory it was the
least sticky or smeary place l ever
saw. Absolute cleanliness and sweet
ness was the rule. There was a slight
drift of sugar about, as in a mill
where wheat is being ground, and
your coat might get little powdered.
but there always was sweeping going
/ on.
Chocolate.making I need not de.
scribe, only to state that everything
was done here by machinery, for the
chocolate as produced enters for
large percentage into the bonbons
manufactured.
In the sugar-plum departments
hand.work seemed to be constant.
Tidy-looking young women, all with
caps on, were working away, each one
with little saucepan before her full
OF sugar; the sugar was in pssty
condition, the heat being derived
from steam. In these saucepans were
colored sugars of all the hues of the
-" nbow. The work-women would
up an almond or n pistache.nut.
id drop it in the saucepan, then fish
it ont with a bit OF wire fashioned in
iuup IurIn. Lne urt was ~ get Just
the proper coating Then with dex-
ferrous motion of the wrist the sugar
plum would be placed IN n tin pan,
and with deft motion of the wire loop
nice finish would be given to the top
of IL. There were some very small
sugar plums, and it would take two
bundled of them to make a pound.
They we're all exact in form. These
little things, so the foreman told me,
had gone through ten processes before
they had arrived ot their present con-
dition. Some of the sugar-plums were
made in moulds. There was pure leg.
erdemain about these. A man took G
funnel, and dropped the sugar, Just AT
the crystallizing point, in moulds.
They were very small things, not more
than an inch long by half an inch
wide, but the confectioner never
poured drop in the wrong place.
Dear me if I tried to do that, l
should make precious mess Of it.
Here were sugar.plums of many
shades, every work-woman seeming to
have a speciality. 1t was something
not alone requiring alertness of hand.
but constant watchfulness as to the
condition OF the material usel. If it
had been too soft. the bonoon would
have run and been out of shape. II
the sugar paste had been too hard, it
would have been intractable. How
they managed not to burn anything
was a wonder. -Harper's Round Ia
BILE.
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| graph studio above stairs, and the
diligence with which he inspected the
collections OF his own and contem.
porary artists'J work. Jack held his
peace, however, and was not to be
sounded by mere impertinent inquiry,
as A. Stanton Boyden we'll knew, and
some weeks had elapsed since the epi-
sode with which our tale opens, when
the door of Huyler's studio was one
day flung wide open and the steps OF
A. Stanton were arrested as ne was
about mounting the stairway leading
to his own apartments.
Come in here a minute, will you. ="
| called Jack in tone of mild despair,
land tell me what's the matter with
this portrait. I've bothered with the
thing SO long it has lost all semblance
; of humanity to me-"
Boyden stepped in. placed himself
knowingly in a good light, and stared
at his friends canvas. II bore an un-
finished portrait, the life.size head of
young girl.
Pretty hair" he remarked senten.
tiously.
'Rut what in thunder is the matter
with ?" cried Huyler petulantly. al
can't make it look" and here he
paused consciously, with somewhat
heightened color.
Cant make it look how ~
Anyhow" answered Jack, shortly.
"Flatters the original, | wouldn't
wonder" said the willy Bovden.
"Ha! perhaps it does" SAID Jack
with n hollow laugh. "Here, my
friend, and he slid tho photograph
out from beneath the canvas, "look at
tins picture, then on that, and tell me
If mine begins to do the photograph
even half Justice"
at is fine face, n remarkable
face" mused the diplo matte Boydcn.
gazing NJ it,
'i would give" quoth Jack, "half
my fortune TO fiud the original Of that
face. She is II remarkable girl, girl
in thousand, you may depend;" and |
he lovingly cleared the pictured face
OF an intinitesimal speck of dust.
Then you don't know the origi.
nal?"
Huyler shook his head, but bent n
keen glance upon his friend. "Do |
you?" said he.
Never saw il before in my life,"
said Boyden imperturbably, "but l
think | know who's the photoga.
pher."
"Well?" said Jack, in breathless
Reese, of New York"
why do you think so?'
"Know his style" said Boyden with
yawn, removing his hands from his
pockets and preparing to depart.
ut is peculiar STYLE" said Jack,
With fine show of indifference as he
crutinized it; "the features SO clear
md the outlines go shadowy. "I-I
'ather like it.
Boyden made no reply as he saun.
cred from the room, but his always
pen countenance was adorned with
'road smile.
In the hush that - de.
'arture, the shrek of
oud at ~
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THE one WAY OF sALyAT1oN.

Tho fact that there Is but single way OF
salvation needs 10 be insisted upou "a earn
cstly as ever. In our time the temptation
TO dlsoclieve 1t is peculiarly strong More
thhh ever men live, whatever they say-and
thousands do not hesitate TO assert IL
as II culture, worldly success, or reason
a0ly correct outward life were all that is
necessary here to insure the salvation of the
soul hereafter. There are many, unquestion-
ABLY, who are true followers OF Christ but who
Tor one or another reason, refrain from unit
ing with his people, aud we may not Judge
one another too confidently. New, rtheless,
this remains true that the only way Of sal
vatlon is and ever will remain, through re-
pentance OF sin and faith in Jesus. the Re-
deemer.
But another truth needs emphasis. The
heavenly city in the inspire vision OF John
was seen 10 nave twelve gates; three alike
III Its northern, eastern, southern and west
ern walls. so from every quarter Of the
moral universe aud by wholly different path
ways, men seek and find the common goal.
All must enter the Christian life through ac-
ceptance OF Jesus Christ. but no two need
expect 10 have precisely identical expert
ences. To one prosperity reveals the divine
beneiactor and gratitude stimulates to sur
render. In another case nflliction convinces
OF helplcssness and the sense of utter need
prompts acceptance OF his saving grace.
thousand different experiences have worked
the same result.under tho Holy Spirits guild
ance, as IN many different instances.
Do not expect, then, you who are thinking
about your duty to be Il Christian, to undergo
the same experience in details which a
friend has described. Follow your own pa
way to him. BE guided by your own inwi
Do not be uneasy becat
yor have them for your own and find Il
SO OF others. Christ does no.
NJ erel" as one OF az
md 'lduai welcom,
yon. There is one way OF salvation for all.
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ycY CoMErH IH THE MoRNIr1v
Pence was here yesterday

Pence was here yesterday
Joy comes tomorrow;
Why wilt thou, heart OF mine
Dark bodings borrow?
shrilly the tempest shrleks,
Fierce roar the waves,
High roll the curling crests,
Deep the black graves:
Now the cold midnight falls
Clouds overwhelm
Memory lights the seasl
Hope holds the helm
Peace was here yesterday,
JOY comes tomorrow.
Why wilt thou, heart Of mine,
Dark bodings borrow.
Charlotte W. Thurston, in Bookman.
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cholera and "A des'hs from that disease
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HER PICTURE.
BY MARIANA N. TALLNAS,

II Il picture
lay, face up.
ward, in the
nnire. It had
a sweet, SEN
sitive mouth
and earnest,
intent eyes,
whose seri.
OIlS rpuar1
The morning times., 1896-02-22
PUBLIC MEN WERE THERE
National Bureau Of Reforms Cale-
brated Last Night.
WashingtOnian Foundations of Civil
Liberty Discussed by Legislators
and CIergymen

The National Bureau OF Reforms hek
celebration last night OF the centennial Of
Washington's farewell address. Christian
morality, popular education. and internar
tional peace, were in turn discussed as the
Washington foundations Of civil liberty
and national prosperity, by Hon. Nelson
Dingfey, OF Maine, and Bishop Hurst. OF
the Methodist Church.
Letters were read from Hon. Hoke Smith.
Secretary OF the Interior: Rev. Wilbur T.
Crafts, superintendent OF the bureau. aud
Archbishop Keane. OF the Catholic Uni.
verSity, approving the four bills which the
bureau has caused to be introduced in Con-
gress, one OF which makes q years resi-.
dence in any territory a prerequisite OF
divorce. when the cause occurred elsewhere.
One of the other bills approved IS for q
Sunday law in the NattSAal Capital. and
TO extend to gambling by telegraph the
penalties provided for gambling by mai
or express i law and order letter waa
alsereadfremGov Matthews decIaringthae
there can be no greater violation Of the
law than the public official who negIects
his duty in the enforcement OF law"
The morning times., 1896-02-22
CHEERED M'KINLEY'S NAME
Marked Preference Shown Him by
Michigan Republican Banquet.
Reed, NJ eK inley, Thomas c. Platt
and Other Republicans Sent
Characteristic Regrets.

Detroit, Mich, Feb. 21.-The eleventh
annual banquet or the Michigan Republican
Club was the most splendid affair OF its
kind ever held in the State. Fully 1000
persons, among them all the prominent Re-
pabIieans in the State, sat down TO the
feast.
The galleries were filled with spectators.
The most noteworthy feature OF the ban
quet was the magnificent tribute to the
name of Mckinley. The applause which
greeted the mention OF his name was so
much greater than the demonstrations that
followed the speaking of the name of Reed
and other Presidential possibilities. that
it might almost be called Mckinley ban
qaet.
Later In the evening, at the close OF
the very effective speech OF Congressman
Hepburn, of iowa, he referred othe ovation
given the man freIn Ohio and begged to say
that nevertheless he felt that the NAN who
would be named for and elected TO the
Presidential chair. would be Allison, of
Iowa. This was greeted with tremendous
applause.
Senator julius c. Burrows was toast
master Among the regrets received was
one from Hon. Thomas C. Platt OF New York,
WHICH WIS VI u tbCctfOuS t1t SttlQ
that he had not married a wife or bought
yoke of oxen, bashad made anass or himself
by assuming certain political burdens which
he had to carry out at this time. I shall
grean and weep while you celebrate he
wrote. PITY me and pray for the man
whom heangeiie press pictures as Satanic
Speaker Reed telegraphed that this year
completes forty years OF RepubIicanism-
those dismal eight years when nobody ruled
and suggested that the Republican party
take the whole forty years next time.
Major Mckinley, in his letter, said that
the one significant fact that stands out
above all others these days Is the revival
of patriotism and of national sentiment N
both our domestic and foreign affairs.
The response OF Gen. Horace Porter of
New York TO the toast, 'The Memory OF
Washington" was a glowing tribute TO
the Father of His Country. Hon. H Clay
Evans of Tennessee spoke to the toast OF
patriotic Citizenship Col. Fred Grant
of New York responded to the toast "our
Country"
The other toaStS were American Influ
enee.7 responded to By Congressman Hep
buru of Iowa; 'EepHhlieanism in the
Seuth.'' by Hon. Powell Gla yton OF ATkan-
sas; Utah, the New Star in the American
Constellation by Senator Arthur Brown
OF Utah.
The morning times., 1896-02-22
NINE. DusE AS cAEsARINE.
Her superb Rendition OF a Most Ex-
acting and Suggestive Role.

Her superb Rendition OF Most Ex-
acting and Suggestive Role.
Dumas fills must have bad three his
toTical perSoBages in his mind when he
involved the infamous character 20 which
he gave the name OF the Wife of Claude.
The three components were undoubtedly
Messalina, Calypso, and Potihar's wife.
To say that the most uncomfortable pas
sage OF the play is risque would be using
lnduly polite phraseology. The wife of
Claudio vaults clearly over the Irecipce.
Yet this character is that in which Miss
Duse exhibits her marvellous powers at
tsFeir best There is absolutely nothing
fn the play but the heroine. with the ex-
ception. perhaps. OF the closing passage
between the wife and ClaHdio in the second
act. Here Mr.. Rosaspiha did his best work.
The second act is the whole play. and in
this Miss Duse rucs, at the pace that kills,
the gamGt az female passions from the
highest TO the lowest. The transitions are
wonderful manifestations of dramatic
Ikill, or perhaps il would he better 10
Eay, genius. Tie character is, all the way
through, the game OF intellect against cir
runstances. Snd OF an intellect SO brilliant
IA its devices. that one admires most where
The suggestion OF condemnation is the
strongest. There is, perhaps, no actress
known to the public other than Miss Duse
who could sustain with such ease and
power the varied and complex emotions
demanded ia the portrayal OF Caesarine
In the second act
The climax Of the play lis defective.
Tire heroine y Killed by the Southern shot
gun policy. the only excuse for the inartistic
butchery being the fact that CaeSarlne
was about TO Betray the secret of the
manufacturer OF tic gun. To be logically
and historically correct. however, such a
colossal example OF female depFavity as
Caesarine should have been blown into
eternity with a thirteen-inch cannon.
The play was preceded by a one-aCt
farce entitled Tragedy and Music,' in
which Name. AaGgaZ8ri and Misses Gallant
ind Cortesi acted very agreeahly.
The President and Mrs Cleveland, Post
master General Wilson and Mrs. Wilson,
And Mrs. and Miss Brlen heard the play in
the same party.
Miss Duse will repeat Camille at the
matinee today by special request.
The morning times., 1896-02-22

The system OF gas end electric light
inspection of this city is a somewhat
complex ard curious affair.
The cnrrent aBpropFial.on bill makes
provision for the following officers: An
Inspector OF gas and meters and his as
sistant, a superintendent Of amps at ST.
600 per anDnnl, and four ''iuspectort, Of
gas and electric lighting" Three of these
inspectors are on Tie salary roll CT the
District at $9C0 each, and one of them
is paid out OF tie appropriation for electric
lighting.
The Inspector OF gas and meters and
his assistant have charge or four lafora-
tories, where the quality of the gas is
tested. and are naturally supposed TO be
Officers OF tie District government with
out any aid from a private corporation.
VERY CURIOUS PRovIso.
The new appropriation bill, however.
contains this curious proviso: THAT the
whole cost OF maintaining aud keeping in
good order the laboratory and apparatus
in the office OF the inspector of gas meters
shall hereafter he paid by the Washing
ton Gaslight Company"
The cost OF maintaining the other three
places, or laboratories, it was learned has
for the past two years been paid by this
company, and the proviSo was put in
this time TO remedy an omission as to
the main office of the inspector.
Capt. Burr, who has charge of the
gas and electric lighting for the District,
said yesterday that the cost OF mainte-
nance was small, the items being largely
fuel and stationery.
DISTRICT THE BENEFICIARY.
The fact, however. presents the rather
unusual condition OF the government OF the
city being the beneficiary to the extent
OF a paltry sum OF money 10 one OF the
corporations, which the District officers
virtually say will take law to force to
terms in the matter of cheap lighting
which the Commissioners are credited
with trying TO obtain.
The four men who are classified as ''in-
spectors' are charged with the duty of
looking after the contracts of the city
with the electric and gas companies, to see
that they are carried out faithfully, etc.
The inspector Of meters and gas and his
assistant do the scientific work and will
also inspect meters at the District build
ing when asked tn do so.
The complaints OF citizens are attended
to ny the unofficial inspectors OF the gas
light and electric light companies. and
hence the constant complaints and the all
/ sufficiency OF the report OF the unofficial
inspectors.
The morning times., 1896-02-22
MECHANICS AT BALTIMORE.
Junior Organization of the o. q. A. M.
In Convention In That CITY

JUNIOR Organization OF the o. e. A. NJ
In Convention in That City.
baltimore. Feb. 21.-Delegates to the an
hual meeting OF the Funeral Board Bene-
ficial Association of the Junior O rider United
American Mechanics have been arriving in
great numbers from every section of the
Union today.
Tonight the local committee entertained
/ their guests with theater party at Harris
Academy of Music. There were over 400
OF the j. O. U. A NJ, representatives in
the orchestra when the curtain went up
for the first act of the Passing Show"
After the play the delegates, headed by
the American Guards Brass Band marched
In body to Hazazer's Hall, where dance
anu banquet was given them.
tomorrow the convention will be called
10 order by President Mcuch, of Phila-
deiphia. Twenty-four States are expected
TO be represented by 500 delegates.
The two absorbing topics of interest to
the representatives are the contest for the
presidency between Mr.. Samuel 3. Meuch
the present incumbent, and Mr.. Lewis s.
Stackhouse, and the selection of the place
Tor holding the next national convention
The morning times., 1896-02-22
ARGUED EMIGRANT BILLS
Members OF Immigration Committee
Meet Stea NJ shin Lines Officers

Members OF Immigration Committee
Meet Steamship Lines Officers.
New York, Feb. 21.-The members OF
the Congressional Committee on Immigra-
tion and Naturalization met this morning at
the Hotel Cambridge and listened to testi-
mony from DR.. Senner and G. Schwab OF
the North German Lloyd line regarding two
or the chief subjects with which the COM
mittee had to deal in this city.
They are what is known as the Mccall
bill and the Stone bill. The former pro-
yides for educational requirement for au
immigrants, while the Stone bill provides
for the inspection by the consul of all i'm
migrants abroad.
DR.. Senner and Mr.. schwab declared
against the Stone bin. DR.. Senner thought
that rigid Investigation at different immi-
grafton stations in this country was suf-
ficient to insure us protection against an
undesirable class sofinmigrants.
The morning times., 1896-02-22
NO DRY DOCK FOR NEWPORT.

Secretary Herbert Does Not Favor
Its Building at Present.
Representative Bull, of Rhode Island,
recently addressed letter to Secretary
Herbert requesting the views Of the Navy
Department as TO the advisability of estab-
fishing dry dock at the Newport, r. J.,
naval station.
Today he received a reply stating that
a dry dock at Newport would be very diff
cult to defend except by naval force. and
until docks are built at number OF POINTS
much more important to the general defense
OF the coast, and the Navy greatly in
creased. the bureau does not think 1t would
bea wise act to build drydoek at Newport.
The morning times., 1896-02-22
THREE SMALL BLAzEs.
Engines Kept Busy in Fashionable
Quarter

Engines Kept Busy in Fashionable
Quarter
The fire department. did a rushing hUsi-
ness yesterday ia the Second precinct
district the engines being called out three
times during the day and evening.
Shortly after O'Clock in the morning
an alarm was sounded from box 24l for
d slight blaze at the residence OF Mr. Victor
G. Fisher, No 1870 Rhode Island avenue
northwest. No. z engine responded and
soon exiinGGiShed the Gre, the damage OF
which was trifling.
Following close upon this, engines Nos.
G and were sent out on a local alarm for
Il blaze at No. 1884 Massachusetts avenue
northwest. occupied by Mr, Nathaniel Paige,
and owned by Kooutz * Co, bankers, Of
New York city. A defective f!ue is as
signed as she origin OF the fire. The
flames were Enally subdued after causing
a damage OF over $30o, which is fully
insured.
Another local turned in last night az a bout
S:45 brought No. engine to the home Of
Mr.. Richard Hin, No. 1449 Rhode Island
avenue. There the porlieres in the hallway
caught fire from a gas jet and wrought
over SO damage.
The morning times., 1896-02-22
YIELDED TO THE DEPUTIES.

French Senate Allows Country to
Judge Between Cabinet and Senate.
Paris, Feb. 21.-In the senate today NJ.
De Mole, Republican senator for Saone-et-
Loire, read statement protesting against
the cabinets Interpretation of the eonstitu-
tioH.
He withdrew the Interpolation which he
announced last Saturday he would offer,
demanding an expression from the govern
ment concerning the responsibility of the
cabinet toward the senate and the chamber
Of deputies, leaving the country to judge
between the cabinet and the senate, which
latter bedy, he said, had decided not to
provoke a crisis.
The senate approved NJ. De Mole's state
ments by vote of 1s4 to so, thus capftu-
lating before the chamber of deputies.
The morning times., 1896-02-22
: FUNDS FOR MISS BARTON.
New England Committee Voted t
Ca HE Har g Enn

New England COMMITTEES Voted to
Cable Her $500.
Boston, Feb GA meeting OF the New
England Armenian Relief Committee was
held at so State street today. 1t was voted
10 cable Hiss Barton at ConstantinOple
ST-59G- 4 cable was received from Miss
Barton teliRg OF the active work COM
mene7,d and the great necessity or funds
being raised and forwarded as fast as
possible
The American board Joins heartily In the
work of Miss Barton and ghe Red Cross aud
welcomed the assistance that the mission
aries SO much need, for many places In
sore need, can be reached by the Red
Cross that the missionaries have been un-
able to enter.
The morning times., 1896-02-22
Chicago Hnryard Dinner.

Chicago, Feb. 21.-The thirty ninth an
nual dinner of the Harvard Alumni Club
was held tonight at the Auditorium Hotel.
Robert 7. Lincoln, president of the club,
was toastmaster, and among the speakers
were Theodore Reeseyeit of New York
who was in the class of 1880. and Prof
Barrett Wendell, of the Harvard faculty
Mr.. Roosevelt arrived today and win be
the guest of the Union Lea que Club. under
whose auspices he makes the Washington
oration tomorrow.
The morning times., 1896-02-22
SUNK BY A HIDDEN LOG.

Norwegian Ship Had Peculiar Mis-
hap In Mobile River.
Mobile, Ala, Feb. 21.-The Norwegian
ship Frank Carrih, In passing over Mobile
river yesterday on the way to the lower bay
struck an obstruction, probably floating
log, and in a short fme thereafter, sank
in the channel
This morning survey disclosed that she
was full of water and consequently wasrest-
ing on the bottom OF the channel Pumps
were put to work and the result shows that
she can be speedily raised. Naviga ton ol
the channel is not interferred with
The morning times., 1896-02-22
BILL NYE SLIGHTLY BETTER.

Yet There Is small Hopes OF His
Final Recovery
AsheviIle, " c., Feb. 21- BIZ Nye's
physician, Or. Charles F. HilIiard, returned
tonight from Buck Shoals, with tlie report
that some Of his PATIENTS symptoms SCENT d
slightly more favorable than they have been
Tor several days. His pulse and respiration
are about normal, and he was more easily
aroused from the deep comatose condition
he has been in.
Last evening he recognized his daughters
for the first time since their return from
Washington. While his condition was a
little more favorable today, it is not ma
terial enough to give positive hope OF re-
covery.