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Evening star., 1896-11-28

matter Of pride with the sorters and post
men to make every effort to get it tsproperly
delivered If possible.
The length of delivering postman's tour
of actual duty in getting rid Of his bag of
mail depends largely upon his hustling
ability. The routes are made as nearly
equal as possible as, to the amount of time
required for the pOstmen to cover them.
The routes in the business districts are, of
course much smaller than those in the
residence portions Of the city. although the
deliverers Of business mail, in getting over
their comparatively limited beats, have
often to cover quite as much ground as the
men who distribute perhaps two or three
letters on one Of the blocks Of their routes.
The postmen generally prefer business
routes. They like to walk into a store or
office. hand In thu mail and get out. Post
men are naturally not fond Of waiting at
doors for the appearance of some one to re-
lieve them OF letter Sr postal card.
While the Door II Being Opened.
Owing to these constant periods of wait
ing-periods which are frequently of exas-
peratingly long durati6n-the mail deliverer
on residence route cannot make his tour
nearly SO quickly as the postman whose
beat embraces nothing but business houses
and Offices. Postmen are very reluctant to
Evening star., 1896-11-28

learn to do this verfectiy, The new man
at delivering is%apSsto bec6me ratified and
to get letter addpessed to house right
in the middle Of his route on the hottom
Of his pack. Them upon completing his
round, he discovers thia letter, and has to
travel hack a good maNy squares to hand
it to the addresses -"
Experts In Handwriting.
The old-timers never make such a mis-
take. They become exceedingly expert in
sorting the mail belonging 10 their routes
in the order in which it is to he handed in
eye, and they become exceedingly expert
dec;pherers Of chirography that often re-
sembles composite reproduction Of the
penmanship Of Horace Greeley and HERO
glyphs Of the Arabic, Egyptian, Assyri
and Ben. Pitman stenographic types.
When post Office mail sorters-adepts
themselves in decipheFing imbecile writ
ing-are fairly at loss to make any sense
cut Of an address OR name, they pass the
postmen,' and 1t is very rare that one of
the latter does not solve the riddle, owing
to his familiarity with the names Of the
people on his route and the chirographical
Eeculiartties of some Of their correspond
ents. 1t Is a common amusement of other
wise unemployed persons to drop letters in
the mails with their addresses SO written
as to defy the preternatural efforts Of an
archaelogist to make them out. Such let
ters always bear on their faces the unmis-
taxable characteristics which indicate at
tempts by cheap humorists to hoax sorters
and postmen, and they, are disregarded.
When, however, a letter or paper is ad-
dressed In fashion that clearly tells of the
helpless ignorance of the sender. it is a
Evening star., 1896-11-28
Schools for Cash Girls.
! the Chicago Tribune.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Following the lead of Chicago, a New
York dry goods house is about to start 3
little school in its own premises where the
cash girls can obtain instruction one or two
hours every day, as also those older ones
whose early schooling has been neglected
In one of the large dry goods stores of Chi
cago a day and night school is maintained.
with competent teachers and all the moo
ern accessories of a first-class school room
where the employees of the store giyei.
free education. In Milwaukee one of tn.
greatest breweries conducts a school, lii
brary and reading room for its employs
who are over 10000 in number. All thret
were established despite the protests o.;
those who said the advantages would never
be utilized, and all :riumphed from the out
set. The school compares faVorably with
the best public schools in the city, the read
ing room is well patronized, and the library
is employed to its full capacity.
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summer spells, postmen walk around at a
clipping gait in the sun. looking cool
cucumbers. They rarely get sun struck.
Moreover, 1t has often been observed that
great many letter carriers do not wear
their overcoats during the coolest snaps of
cold winters. They dislike overcoats, be-
cause they impede their rapid moving, and
they feel that they are sufficiently burdened
by their mail bags.
There are a lot Of Washington letter car
riers, whose routes are in the sparsely-set-
tied districts of the city, who walk from
fifteen to twenty miles a day. They ride in
the street cars to the beginning of their
routes-$2,IOG was expended by the post
Office last year for this purpose-and foot It
around their beats three or four times a
day, as the case may be. Their legs be-
come as hard as teak-wood from this con-
slant exercise. Several of the best-known
and most successful six days go-as-you-
please pedestrians are ex-postmen.
In the Swing Room.
The swing room Of the Washington
post office is on the second floor of the C
street building. Here is where the post
men put in their time between tours 1t is
the only part of the post office building in
which they are allowed to smoke. They
cannot smoke on the street, even when they
are not engaged in the collection or deliy-
cry Of mail during their hours OF duty.
They make up for IT, however, in the
Swing" room. The yellow haze that hangs
over the long table that runs along the
north end of the room makes them almost
indisttnguishable to each other when the
room Is full of letter carriers waiting to
go on tour. on in the corners of the room
the studious men put in their time reading
up on their law or medicine but the
swing room is chiefly given over 10 the
card and checker players.
The game of checkers has the call. Some
Of the postmen. especially those who passed
their boyEood and youth in the country,
are expert enough at the game to give the
checker sharps of Washington a hard run
when they drop in at the swing room, as
they often do. for skillful game at
draughts. Gambling is not permitted The
new city post office, which the very young
men OF the letter carriers force have vague
hopes of occupying at some lime in the re-
mote future, will have a large and we'll
appointed room set aside for the use of the
postmen as a Swing room. 1t is to be
provided with shower baths and facilities
for Indulgence in all manner of time killing
games. The men have to speak I'm low
tones in the room used as a Swing room
In the q street building. for the room ad-
joining 1t is used as a dormitory for the
railway postal employees, a number of whom
are always soundly sleeping in the army
hunks ranged along its two sides.
Evening star., 1896-11-28

thing of 1t. The wagon routes arc chiefly
in the business districts and In the resi-
dence districts which are supplied with the
large post boxes for the reception of news
papers and small packages. The wagon
collectors enjoy their release from the
danger of becoming hopelessly roand s1oul-
dered, which threatened them as foot or
bicycle collectors in dragging around upon
their backs loads of mail matter almost as
heavy as the old-fashioned barrel organs.
The postmen who deliver the mails are
nearly all $1,000 men. Their work requires
more training and intelligence than is gen.
orally imagined. Before mail de,ivcrer
starts out from the main or branch post
office with which he is connected he
has to face up the mail belonging to
his route The post Office sorters divide
the mail according to routes. 1t is then
given to the postmen u arrange consecu-
lively in the order In which 1t is to be de-
livered. 1t requires time and experience to
Evening star., 1896-11-28
INDIANA's GRETNA GREEN.
Eishty-Five Eloping Couples Married
In One Month.

Eishty-Five Eloping Couples Married
In One Month.
From the Indianapolis Journal.
NO city In America has made quite such q
good record In the number of knots tied for
eiopers as our own Jeffersonville, Ind. the
year past Last month there were eighty
nEe such marriages. Located on the Ohio
river, the town draws from two states and
has special attractions for the romantic
kentuckians. The squires and ministers
are winning reputation for the way in
which they dispatch the nervous lovelorn
who come to their doors. A couple, total
strangers in the city, will step from a train
or buggy or bicycles and ask for a GER
tain squire. They have read of him in
connection with his accommodations to
eioping couples. So WELL however have
the magistrates arranged things that no
couple can manage to reach the city with
out having first been spotted by some of
the numerous runners, who kindly yolun-
teer to escort them to the office of a ma o.
istrate. For this kindness the runner al
ways receives fee from the officiating
Justice.
The justice havirg the widest reputation
Is Squire John Hause, who occupies q neat
office just at the head of the ferry landing.
made conspicuous by the inviting sign,
Matrimonial Parlors'' and other placards,
business transacted by the justice. During
the last month at least fifty of the couples
were united In the tie that binds by this
dignttary. The emoluments resulting from
this channel are from 81 to IS, and some
times SO each handsome income of
from 800 to 500 per month is almost al
ways assured him.
Many are the queer requests which ac-
company the applications for the marriage
ceremonies. Recently one Of the couples
wanted to be married while on their BIZ
cycles. and the request was complied with.
The scene was strange. The bridal couple
clasped hands, were made one. Another
couple were married, by request, standing
under the approach Of the Big Four bridge,
which spans the Ohio at this point Re-
Gently squire Hause married young lady
who was the fifth and last daughter in q
family of five girls and four boys, all OF the
girls having eloped and been married.
three Of them by Squire Hause.
Evening star., 1896-11-28

without being compelled to foot it. the COL
lector has the best OF the deliverer, for
a wheel. as nearly all Washington co,lec-
tors whose beats are Off the wagon routes
do. 1t would. Of course. be impracticable
for the door-to-door mail deliverer to use
ON his route a bicycle, on account of the
amount of jumping on and off which his
employment Of the wheel would involve
About one-third of the entire force of
Washington letter carriers are collectors
shift begin their rounds at in the morn
ing and make their last collection at 3 In
the afternoon. The night gang goes on at
4 in the afternoon and the men get through
their final tour In the neighborhood of / 80
wagon duty have comparatively easy
Evening star., 1896-11-28

Peculiar Decoration of q Bridal Coach
From the New York Journal.
Gustave NJ. Fetzer Of No. II Bright
street, Jersey City. foreman on New York
newspaper, and Marie Emma Hill Of No.
20S I'd street, Jersey City, were married by
Rev. DIR. John L. Scudder In Jersey City.
After the marriage the newly welded pair
held an informal reception. While the re-
ception was in progress several practical
jokers had been at work on the bridal
coach. When they finished the carriage re-
sembled a travelling advertisement for
patent medicine. 1t was gaily decorated
with flags and placards, announcing:
I'VE are happy"
We've just been married"
1--WE are on our wedding tour"
Were bound for Niagara Falls"
"Ain't we beautsT
The happy couple innocently entered the
carriage with the bridesmaid and best man
and started for the ferry.
Along the route they received perfect
ovation. which made the bride blush, while
the groom ctewed his mustache and won
dered what was the matter.
At the ferry the cause of the demonstra-
ton was made manifest, and remarks by
the bridegroom indicate that there Is likely
to be trouble in Jersey City when Mr.. and
Mrs. Fetzer return. .@.7a.
Evening star., 1896-11-28
Princess Tom of Alaska,

Prof L. L. Dyche of Kansas has returned
from Alaska. Prof Dyche went to Cooks
inlet. and especially in search of natural
history specimens. He ascended to the
source Of the Enik river with an organized
expedition. which was a success, although
the obstacles to be overcome were appall-
irg. He met Princess Tom, a famous Yak
utat princess, wealthy beyond all other
Alaskans. She has $4,000 in SO gold
pieces. On her right arm she wears five
bracelets, each hammered out of a 500 gold
piece. and on the left arm she wears ten
bracelets. each made from $40 gold piece
She has hundreds of blankets, ,ealskins,
ETC., and she owns q schooner and two
sleeps. She is sixty-five years old, and has
Just married her fifth husband, a. yourg
man OF twenty years, for whom she has
paid 900 blankets. The relationships are
traced back through the mothers side 1t
is. in fact, almost a savage realization of
Lytton's Coming Race
Evening star., 1896-11-28
Du Maurier Liked the Fashion
From the Lady's Pictorial.

It was inevitable. as the principal eApo-
Eent Of topical art or pictorial satire, that
Mr. Du Maurier should hold pretty strong
opinions about women's dress and fashions
generally. and 1t is a fact that he was 10y
no means decrier of the productions of
the modern modiste. On the contrary, he
admitted a very warm admiration for
his feminine contemporaries small waists,
pointed shoes. big hats and all-and felt a
constant pleasure in delineating them. And
try, he would say. he could think of no
painted or sculptured children of the past
who were more charming-at least. to him.
And this, from an artist who never forgot
that he was French by birth, was praise
indeed.
Evening star., 1896-11-28

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Evening star., 1896-11-28

$1,000 men are greatly in the preponder-
ance. The "subs'-men on the civil service
eligible list. who have passed the required
examination. and who are permanently ap-
pointed upon the death, discharge or resig-
nation of regular carriers-earn what they
can. They do not make much Their
monthly wage varies from $25 to $40. 1t
Is usually nearer the first figure.
The letter carriers of Washington are
said to be the brightest in the service The
reason given for this is that men of excel
lent education and address, natives of the
District or outsiders. find, upon casting
about for government positions in Wash
ington, that the eligible lists Of the civil
service are so full, in SO far as the federal
departments are concerned, as to discour-
age them from taking examinations for
clerkships. Many such men. therefore, take
the letter carriers examination, depending
upon their exceedingly high averages to
get letter carriers billets quickly. This
they generally succeed in doing
More Washington letter carriers resign
Evening star., 1896-11-28
A Bad Sign.
From Puck.

II think the professor is beginning tc
lose confidence in his theories"
What makes you think so?'
He seems unwilling to listen to areu.
ments against them"
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Her View.

From the Chicago Record.
do you enjoy novel reading, Miss Be-
linda?'
'Oh, very much; one can associate with
people In fiction that one wouldn't dare to
speak to In real life"
Evening star., 1896-11-28
Signs.

Clara-"Sadie must have been talking
about me-"
Maude-"Why SO?
Clara-"When I met her sha Kissed
me twice."
Evening star., 1896-11-28
Good Reason Why.

From Fliegende Blaetter.
Father-"But do tell me, Alfred. how
could you fail again?"
Son-"Well, you see. We had another ex-
animation
Evening star., 1896-11-28
A Day in Postman's Life and How
It is Spent.
DELIVERING And COLLECTING MAIL
Shadows as Well as Sunshine in
Their Lives.
IN THE SWING ROOM

? INCLUDING TIL E
SUBS" there are
| two hundred and fif-
teen letter carriers
daily collecting and
delivering Washing
ton mail. The reg
ularly appointed car
riers are one hundred
and eighty in num-
ber. There are thir-
ty-five SUBS" The
regular carriers are
paid from $500 to
Xlkn q vpQr Tho
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-10-06

most perfect example of female
suffrage.
But there was one thing which
disturbs those people who talked
OF the oppression Of these women.
1t was that the sisters did not live
on the roof. They demanded that
the Legislature should enact a law
for the inspection Of the converts
as il they we're pesthouses. Magma
Charta and the Constitution declar.
ed that
EVERY MANS HOUSE WAS HIS CASTLE.
Had not these women q right to the
privacy Of their honest There was
not respectable person but would
be shown through the converts
from cellar to garrett.
81 do not mean" said Father
Yorke, "that they will be made a
thoroughfare like Market street, but
in reason. Think of such men as
Hudelson pledging candidates to
vote for a bill for the inspection OF
converts! "a Voice-"They can't
do itpD No, they can't do it while
there is an American on the face OF
the earth"
Then speaking OF their lives OF
devotion, Father Yorke concluded:
"Even their presence among us is a
blessing and benediction from on
high. A sight of them is call to
holier thoughts. They are our fallen
natures highest, purest boast"
The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1896-10-06
The Bishop Remembered.

His Lordship the Bishop Of Pan
opolis was invited by the st. Louis
College Literary Society to be pres
emit at the hall Of the society last
Saturday evening.
The principal and teachers OF the
college received the Bishop and
other dignitaries of the church aud
escorted them to their seats in the
new hall of the society, built partly
through the generous assistance OF
the Bishop. Several invited guests
were present, and the Bishop ex-
pressed his satisfaction with the ar
engagements OF the addition to the
college.
The special occasion of the enter
tainment was the fact that Sunday
the 4th inst. was the day of St.
Francisco d'Assissi, the patron saint
OF the Bishop OF Panopolis,
During the evening committee
presented His Lordship with gold
watch and chain, which were kindly
received and responded to with APP
propriate remarks by the Bishop.
A musical and dramatic entertain
ment was then presented to the
visitors. The orchestra rendered ex-
cellent music, and the "Proscribed
Heir" was cleverly presented by the
alumnis to the great satisfaction oil
the Bishop and the audience.
The INDEPENDENT congratulates
the Literary Society Of St. Louis
College on it's success, and espresso,
hopes that the young men will con
tinue their good work on behalf OF
the church and the college.
Twenty yards OF Bingham for ST
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-12-05

race horse on the turf or q meteor IN
the heavens. just 20 It was with the
locomotive, the spinning jenny, thu
sewing machine, the telegraph and tel
cphone. All were improved from time
to time by the cunning of the human
brain and human hand until they
now seem to be perfect, but they are
not
On the monte near me I see a cab
met photograph Of a we'll preserved old
man who has a sweet little black-eycd
grandchild on his arm, while her head
rests trustingly upon his shoulder
pnd touches his venerable check. She
looks shyly and timidly at you, but
clings to the old man as the tender
vine clings to the old oak that the
storm has riven. The old mans face
is calm and serene. 1 like those pictures
for h children's sake, and 1 wish / was
SO coupled with every little grandchild
and that my wife had some to match
them. l was Illuminating that when I
i'm dead and gone and that little girl
is a mother, maybe she will show the
picture to her child and say: 81 never
knew my father, for he died when I
was very young, but that old man was
my grandfather, and he was good to mo
and 1 loved him very dearly" Maybe
when 1 nm in the spirit land l will aome-
times be nea her and hear her talk
that way-maybe so; who knows?
Flowers and music are the sweetest
gifts ,of God to mankind, and pictures
and painting the sweetest that come
from the hand of man
But Of all the cameras that catch and
hold fast the images of art or nature
there are men of science who assert
that none are equal to the retina of
the human eye. They say hat every
look or glance or vision makes an i'm
press. There, an impress SO delicate
and impalpable that millions may lie
upon its glossy surface and the last
thing seen is on top. They say that il
a man is murdered while he faces the
murderer the assailant's face and
form will be found upon the victims
eyes. Some experiments have been
made to prove this, but they were i'm
perfect and unsatisfactory. Maybe 10
will yet be proven.-BHl Arp, in At
lanta Constitution.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-12-05
THE PALACE AT CHANDu.
A Dit from Marco Polo That Inspired .
Famous Poem.

And when you have ridden three
days from the city last mentioned, be-
tween northeast and north, you come to
a city called Chandu, which was built
by the kaan now reigning. There is at
this place n very fine marble palace, the
rooms of which are all gilt and painted
with figures of men and beasts and
birds, and with n variety of trees and
flowers, all executed with such cxquis-
lite art that you regard them with de-
light and establishment.
Round this palace a wall is built in.
closing a compass of 16 miles, and in.
side the park there are fountains and
rivers and brooks, and beautiful mead
ows, with all kinds Of wild animals lex
Guiding such as are of ferocious nature),
which the emperor has procured and
placed there to supply food for his ger
falcons and hawks, which he keeps
here in NEW. Of these there are
nor than 200 gerfalcons alone without
reckoning the other hawks. The kaan
himself goes every week to see his
blrds sitting in NEW, and sometimes he
rides through the park with a leopard
behind him on his horses croup; and
then II he sees any animal that takes
his fancy, he slips his leopard at it, and
the game when taken is made over tn
feed the hawks in NEW. This he does
for diversion.
Moreover, at a spot in the park where
there is n charming wood, he has an
other palace built of cane, of which 7
must give you a description. It is Gilt
all over and most deliberately finished
inside. 1t is stayed OF gilt and lacquered
columns, on each side Of which Is a
dragon all gilt, the tail of which is at
tached to the column whilst the head
supports the architrave, and the clawa
likewise are stretched out right and
left to support the architrave. The roof
like the rest, is formed of canes, COW
cred with n varnish so strong and ex-
cellent that no amount of rain will rot
them. These canes are n good three
palms in girth, and from 10 to IS PAGES
in length They are cut across at each
knot, and then the pieces are split se
as to form from each two hollow tiles
and with these the house Is rooted: only
every such tile Of zane has to be nailed
down to prevent the wind from liftina
it. In short. the whole palace is built
OF these canes, which serve also for 4
great variety of other useful purposes
The construction of the palace is SO de,
vlsed that 1t can be taken down and
put up with great celebrity, and it can all
be taken TO pieces and removed whittier.
sover the emperor may command,
When erected it is braced against mis-.
haps from the wind by more than zoo
cords OF silk.-Noah Brooks, in ST
Nicholas.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-12-05
CautIoua

In these days, when people are wont
to complain of any mistake made in
the representations sent out from the
weather bureau, it is amusing to read
of the ~complaisant manner in which
Clough, in his New England Alma
mack" for the year 1902 and later, pre-
dicted the weather.
Perhaps" he says, from the 18th Ia
the 23d Of January, sit will be very Cold
Weather if it frese by the fire-side or on
the Sunny side of a Fence at noon"
In April he says: perhaps wet
weather If it Rains" 'Now fair wealth
er if the Sun shines" "Windy or CALM
And in July he writes pleasantly: "Ii
now the Weather do prove fair, People
to Cambridge do repair"
1t appears that Mr.. Samuel Clough
knew how to secure himself against
criticism.-Youth's Companion.