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Tame Cats

Time and custom have usually assigned
to the feminine half of humanity the
habit of being ldttenish. II anybody Is to
be feline in disposition and behavior, it
has beea supposed to be the more or less
winsome little woman. Sometimes she
has been known TO scratch, especially when
with other pussirs, bat she is always given
the credit Of being able to pnrr and be
petted with uneqnaled grace.
But at Newport, and some other gather
Ing places OF the gay, the appellation OF
tame cats belongs to masculine being,
pretty, dainty, nicely getten-up and
fashionable young man. He can tie a
,;hoe he can button glove. he can fan
my lady, he can mix a lemonade, he can do
anything that the most exacting woman
likes to have done, and likes TO have some
one of higher grade than her Eootman To
do for her. In short, the tame cat is a
man who is willing to purr around and be
petted in Just about the same fashion that
the man OF a former generation wished a
woman to do.
In the old times q man went out hunt
ing, or rowing, or having athletic fun Of
some sort or other, and when he came in he
wanted nice little woman on hand TO
make him a glass of something or other that
was cooling, and fix up the cushions on the
sofa, and bring him his slippers and read to
him Nowadays the lady of fashion gets
man to do very much the same thing, and
whereas her grandmother was known as
'puss" o. kitty as she busted herself in
these offices, the granddaughter calls her
attendant by the endeariHg name of tame
cat, To be sure. she does it behind his
back.
What an Interesting occupation the tame
cats must bei There are occasions upon
which both man and woman enjoy being
waited on, and also times when they like
To wait on other people, and purring is u
very pleasant occupation when it is sponta-
neous. But somehow as a regular function
OF society lit does not appeal to the imagnn-
ton.
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the stirring scenes which have taken place
there. he heard, with his minds ear,
these words rolling with sonorous en-
phasis out Of the mouth OF the
Doubtless, IL occurred 10 him that he him
self, were he obliged 10 hustle a bewildered
enemy out OF BED in the gray dawn, would
not say just that; he would be too busy TO
think it up; but then, everybody knows
that in those days Life was more stately
than now People boed their corn to
psalm tunes and chastised the children to
the cadence of Scripture texts, and for
all we know. they may have fought the
British In long meter
The novels OF the day always picture
gentlemen as moving slowly, except when
they are thoroughly mad, then they move
like lightning. They did not step lively,
or hurry up, or chase themselves as we 10
now They Were dignified. And it was
therefore quite appropriate that Ethan
@hhth Shouiu SURPRISE a IOIt dciibtd htciy,
rush into mans room With the speed
or lightning, and then strike a eorninand
Ing attitude as he faced the scared Zoe
In nightgown and make a speech 1t
doesn It hurt the story TO know that Ethan
Allen didn't happen to believe in any
Cod and lived and died an infidel. The
story has Kept afloat all the same
The fact is, however, and Librarian
spofford has documents to prove it, that
Colonel Allen really did not say any such
thing What he said was this:
Get out OF here, you damned old rat.'
And really. isn't that about what the
average man Of Colonel Aliens lively tenn
permanent would be likely to say under the
circumstances?
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Mrs. Smiths Rits.

A lady named Charlotte Smith, whose
one idea in life appears to be to say
the first thing that comes into her head,
has been taken with few new ideas
lately The last time she had fit of
this kind was some time last year, when
she said that she wanted to know how
mattresses and 'shopgirls and typewnters
spent their evenings, and where they got
the money 70 buy wheels Perhaps she
found out, and. If she did, the informa
ton was probably so little sensational that
she concluded to hush up about it. Per
haps, also. she got some unweicemc in
formation about herself IL she tried to
find out Inquisitive people sometimes do
Her latest discovery is that there are
one million women In the United States
who cannot either get husbands or sup
port themselves. This viii be news to
most people. Mrs Smith is evidently
under the impression that what any and
every woman wants is to get married,
no matter whether the man happens to
want her or not-no particular matter
what man it is, just SO is is man
Therefore, she proposes that Congress shall
enact law that all mea get married.
She doesn't specify the tine, SO 1t may
be inferred that each man, as soon as
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MURDERED IN A coRNFIELD.
A Mysterions Tragedy at North
Dumfries Ont


Gait. Ont, Aug. 16.-The body OF Mrs.
ANTHONY Orr, wife OF a farmer of North
Dn.nfries. three miles from her ., was found
yesterday morning in q shallow grave in d
cnrnfield within twenty five yards Of shs
house.
The woman disappeared week ago to.
day, and at the same time shot gun was
missing which she was Supposed to hay q
taken with the intention OF committing
suicide, but why she did SO was rot
Known, As her domestic relations were III
the best Although search was made for
the missing woman no trace of her WAS
found. Yesterday a searching party was
formed with the intention of making a
thorough search.
The party was not long out when one
OF the number walking between TWO rows
or coru in the rear of the house noticed a
slight rise in the ground. On Investigating
it was seen that the SOD had been recently
disturbed and the discoverer drew the
attention Of others OF the party to the fact
Removing some OF the soil with "a stick
they Came on the corpse OF the woman.
The body was removed to shed, where
q Jury was empanneled. viewed 1t, and adj
journed until Wednesday at l O'Clock,
when The result of the post nortem Will be
given.
What the motive OF the murder could
be is a mystery. Two arrests have al
ready been made, young man named
Allison, VITO was employed on tho farm,
aud medical Student, named Ireleayen.
who lives In Gait. Tie gun was found in
the barn. but it had not been used, and
was evidently taken with the intention of
throwing suspicion from the guilty party.
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A Formal Complaint.

To the Editor Of The Times:
/ would like to bring 10 Your attention
the abuse to which the poor animals who
furnish the motive power for the lexington
Street railway are subjected. I refer to
that portion OF the line which assumes to
furnish service OH North Capitol street.
These poor animals are retained in a
stable either on Ninth OF Eleventh sire ct,
above boundary. and are taken from there
to the terminus of this car lihe on North
Capitol street, i'll strings of from five to
ten, driven by boys, and while so cunv eyed
they are treated in most cruel and in
human manner, for no other reason than
seemingly for the personal amusement of
their boy drivers. live on the route over
which these poor animals are driven and
am therefore compulsory spectator Of the
abuses praeticed.
I have reported this matter many times
10 the Humane Society, with the usual
result, that such reports were a loss of
time on my part; and SO, instead Of wait
ing thirty or forty years for the honor
able Commissioners to decide with what
motive this country traln-way will be pro-
vided, turn to you for aid. co. &.
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NEED OF A BANKRUPTCY BILL.
Representative Henderson Says One
Will Be Passed in December.

Representative Henderson, of Iowa, chair
man of the House Committee on the
Judciary,i s in the city for few days, and
is quoted as saying that the first bill the
cOtnuittee VIII report when 1t meets in
Nelson bankruptcy bill that passed the
Senate during the extra session.
Tits as one of the great subjects. that
ought IL have been dealt with during the
extra session, and wonld had it not been
for the suppression OF the House by :.hc
arbitrary power of Speaker Reed. No
measure that has been proposed in recent
years VIII afford more of real benefit TO
the small tradesmen and farmers than a
national bankruptcy law,
1t s the intention or Chairman Hender
son 10 pass the bill before the holiday re-
cess. tuIt this does not necessa ly mean that
the bill To be passed will be similar 20 that
adopted by the Senate. Mr.. Henderson
is confident tlsc House VIII pass its Iueas-
ure prompuy, andit viii probably be done
under special order from the Committee
on Rules
Mr.. Henderson and other members OF the
committee, who have been giving this
subject consideration, are doubtful il the
Senate VIII accept any bin that does not
contain the chief features OF the Nelson
measure, which was agreed TO only after
prolonged contest in committee andin the
Senate, and after several votes hail been
-aiien This particular form of the prn-
POSED Law is not indorsed by Chair nan
Henderson
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rrueiy ProhIbitive pronibnion.

Trueiy Prohiblfiye Prohibition.
The Treasury authorities have decided
that railway Car is a BOTTOM The
discriininative tariff OF ten per cent levied
on goods brought into the United States
IN anything but American bottoms, and
which everybody supposed to apply to
water craft alone, has been seen by Mr.
Gage 20 cover railway trains approaching
the boundary Lint of the United States.
We have long since ceased to express
wonder ut anything Nj. Gage may say.
dc, or enact. as Napoleon remarked OF
himself, Nj, Gage is "a man apart"
and it is possible, even, that, in this
instance, he is uniquely innocent The
discriminating clause OF the tariff bin is
said 10 have been worked through by a
trick, both Mr. Dingley and Mr. Allison
being quite obIiyions TO it--as such people
always are 1t seems 20 be a fact, how
ever, chat the consequence OF the trick
rs that, under the Treasury interpretation
OF the law. anything is s'bottom'' that
has BOTTOM
The great ain and purpose of tie Hanna
tarirf law. outside of paying campaign
debts, appears to be to destroy ali com
mereial intercourse between this and other
countries A system OF that kind VIII tend
more than ever to give Great Britain con
troll OF the worlds cofnnlerct Perfars that
is the point,
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1897-08-17
WARNING TO HER DAUGHTER.
Mrs. Shine Dropped Dead After She
Uttered 1t.

New York, Aug 16,--'You should Lot
carry that heavy handle of clothes down
stairs ON YOUR back. Mary; you nnght drop
dead
Mrs. Mary Shine had hardly utterad thee
words TO her daughter when she fell TO
The floor herself and died before the girl
could reach her.
Mrs. Shinetived with her daughter On the
top floor OF the tenement at 551 Vest
Thirty third str eet.
Today WAS their regular wash day, bat
as Der mother was not feeling well, Mary
started witt. big bundle OF linen FOR che
laundry. Mrs. Shine followed her to the
head OF the stairs and leaning over tie
eanisters called 10 her in W hat proved to
be her last words.
doctor, who was called, said death
was due 10 heart failure.
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Ethan Alien at Ticonderopa

These are the days of iconoolasm, and
nobody knows what idol win go next.
Time was when, IL the last words Of the
dying did not seem suitable, men quietly
supplied the deficiency in writing biogra-
plies and, in fact, one of the most de-
sirable qualifications for a biographer
seems 20 have been the faculty OF in
venting suitable dying addresses Time
was when records OF famous occasions
Were not kept, and the traditional his
toriap might embroider and embeIiish his
narrative at his own sweet viii. Time
was, therefore, when there were giants
on the earth, and the wooden-ininded
scribiier saw men as trees walking, out
OF whom he might white any sort of
image he chose. And he generally did.
II is due to some OF this inaccuracy In
historical statement that the words of
Ethan Allen, when he walked Into Fort
Ttconderoga and hustled the British COM
nander very impoiiteiy out of bed. are
peculiarly supposed to have been, IN the
name OF the Great Jehovah and the Con-
Einental Congress, command you to sur
readeri" Doubtless. when President Nc
Asnley visited that fort and nedltated on
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1897-08-17

In a press interview Senior Sagasta is
reported to have said: 1T shall be my
greatest care to show Europe that reason
and right are on our side, and that if we
provocaticp from the United States"
From this it may be presumed that Ameri
can protest against practices and atroci-
ties that eannibals would blush to be
caught at will be considered ''offense or
provocation.'' Well, we ought to offer It,,
and back it up with navy and army
What Europe may happen to think matters
little
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what Cleveland Thinks.

VINO was it said, IN warm the trust,
And grind their little schemes to dust,
And do them up. I guess. or bust?"
Tom Reed.
Who Is It calmly winks wink,
Aud looks discouraged. don't think,
And lifts It's stock another link?
The Trust
Cleveland Plain Dealer,
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1897-08-17
A Battle with Hnhnes.

Kansas City, No., Aug .16. Great excite
ment prevails in Whitechurch and Fipar
hamlets. west of here, and a battle be-
tween tranps and Villagers is expected
at any time. A few days ago the farmers
rounded MP nearlya score oftramps armed
with revolyers. They disarmed most OF
the hoboes and chased them to the woods
Saturday. Sunday night one tramp Ie-
turned and attempted to fire farm house.
Notices have been posted notifying farmers
that their homes will be attacked. The
villagers have organized fire patrol.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1897-08-17
A FATAL MUSHROOM STEW.
Poisonous ToadstooI Probably Found
It's Way lotto It.

Rochester, n. Y, Aug. IS. The family
OF Howard Langlois were poisoned Friday
night by eating mushroom stew in wiich
toadstool is supposed to have found It's
way. Stella, the little ffye-year-oid dauth-
ter, died last night Mr.. Langlois Is very
III and confined TO his bed; Mrs Lang
lois is III, but able to be about the lo,se;
another child is sick and two boarlers,
Bert Van schuyver and Mr.. Walker, ore
both suffering.
The recent rains caused large number
OF mushrooms TO spring up at the cemetery
and Mr.. Walker, who was employed there,
collected dozen very large specimens
and took them TO Mr.. Langlois' home. On
Friday evening Mrs. Langlois made them
into stew which was eaten at supper
time. None of the family felt any i'll ef-
fects before retiring, hut On the follow
Ing morning the children We're sick, one
dying as stated.
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up from her novel, land give prizes, and
twine flowers i'll the hair OF the victors.
1 think it would be so romantic
at might do If the victors were girls. :"
said the summer man, as he rubbed his
hasd over his halfinch-long fur, but in
my case l Cont exactly see where the
flowers could find room to twine.'
And 50 you are going TO F!eeceton-by-
the-Waves for the summer? Why, the
place is feafuliy expensive"
~ know 1T is"
"And there's no bathing.''
81 know"
.'And it's fourteen miles from the sta
tion.'
yes"
sAnd they don't allow Children
mo; the children are going to their grand
mothers in the country
s'Then why DO you go there?"
My dear, the Van Kinderhooks gothere.
And everybody goes to the other places"
Mamma said little Willie, IN an awe
struck voice, gazing at tue big boy who sat
on the powder keg, IF somebody should
drop lighted match in there would that
boy go to heaven"
Il suppose so," replied his mother,
though she felt doubtful.
WELL" said Willie. after time, won't
the angels nave a time? Say, mamma
he'd be- worse than my disseeted map,
wouldn't her.
"Why, Robbie," said Sister Mary, what
is the matter with your eyer
Baseball, - said Bobbie, laconicalIy.
'sOh, but we had a bully time. Our side
won"
MARI" said papa, you look as IL you'd
been drawn through a knethole. Did you
have a COED time at the Simpsons last
night?"
''Oh, it was perfect; one of the most
brilliant affairs OF the season. I thought
l should die, was so tired Of dancing"
.Willialn, do wish you would take a
little rest said his wife. where have
you been to get so exhausted?''
''I know" said Bobbie. He went to
the baseball game and yelled fer the Wash
fngtons
And this is pleasure.
1t Is curious scientific fact that the
small boy who sin gs, II want to he an
angel" never goes In swimming or fires off
u toy cannon, or leans out of the car
of the Ferris wheel or does an ything which
by any possible chance could effect the
transformation.
'sThe thcosophists object to eating fowl
They say that the state or mind in which
the chicken is when it is killed AFFECTS
the meat
well, what are you going to do
chioreform the chicken and have the meat
favored with anaesthetics?'
81 don't know why youse think that fine
clothes keep folks outer Heaven said
Tim, graveiy, to the city missionary, 'but
il dat's SO we fellers is mighty nigh heaven
when we goes in swimmin'. Deere aim,
| nuthtn' betw cen us and De sky"
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why the duel between the two gentle
men, one OF whom is prince of the dis
credited royal house of Orleans in France,
and the other nephew of the King OF
Italy. should create such national interest
in the two countries seems to us a sur
l,rising thing, susceptible OF ridicule. It
tends To show that the worlds civilization,
at least in Latin countries, has not out
grown the era OF fairy tales and jumping
JACKS.
The Italian army, having been insult
en- by some newspaper remarks OF
Prince Henri d'oneans, all the Of
ficers Of that army thirst for
the gore OF the offender; albeit
he declares that he related only whar
= common gossip in AbySsinia. duel
follows. and a nephew OF the italian king
pokes his napier into the bowels Of the
Frenchman, bat not Far enough to occas-
ion any serious damage. what folowsg
The dynasty u the Savoy family is made
pepuler in Italy. AID the whole kingdom
cesotes Itself 10 Sunday evening jag.
while the disrupted abdominal TISSUES OF
the French champion make him famous,
and tend much to restore vencraiion for
royalty IN the Republic Henri OF Orleans
Is 3 national hero because he has said
that the Italians in Abyssinia were cow
ards, and has had the sand to stick to
ii in front ofa sword. When he comes out
of his perf4nctory and wholly unnecessary
retirement. the French nation viii take
him OH its shoulders and say: Here is the
fellow TO lead Us 70 glory and revenge"
This is tue uncomfortable reflection on
tie cnel. The present republican govern
ment OF France has lasted longer than any
single government, royal, imperial or re
publican. since the reigu OF Lolis XIV
oae would THINK, therefore, that it's per
petuity was improved in the matter of ex-
pectatioa. On the ether hand, we are
compelled TO observe that the tendency
OF European movement is ia the direction
Of absalutisrn. SO far France has escaped
its Ultimate effect because it is conceiv-
aide that the imperial interests on the
continent might be subseryed by keeping
democratic, or GuaS-democratics organiza
ton alive in France for the purpose OF
using the several parties and factions
against one another; thereby paralyzlng
united national action and thus eliminating
the nation from consideration in interna-
tlonal complications.
But the time may come when the opposl-
ton OF imperial regimes to the perpetuity
OF republican institutions VIII override the
convenience of precarious executive in
France. Perhaps that time has come al
ready Whenever i does come the French
people VIII be given an opportunity to
accord hero worship to some cadet OF one
81 the old aynastles. Possibly they have
Ueen thrown the bait in the present in
stance. Henri Philippe d Orleans, although
not the head pretender of his house, is
near enough 10 it possibly to become the
savior OF his dynasty in plebiscite.
Either now or at some future time such
an occasion win be seized and the French
people once more be ground down under
the heel of a monarchical master, unlesss
they hasten to revive their love of polit-
zeal liberty and avoid and eschew
princes" who have not the shadow OF
right to exist, as such, in republic.
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A Sad Thought.
fFrom the Boston Globe.

What a sad commentary on huulan ma
ture Is implied in the remark made by
Librarian Putnam, when speaking Of the
immoral books in the Inferno OF the
Boston public library. II think you will
readily understand that il should give you
for publication list of these books we
should have a lot OF people coming in and
asking for them"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1897-08-17
THE GREEDY BRITISH LION.
He Has Not Yet Seized Upon Clip
perton Island.

San Francisco, Aug. 16. There is no
truth in the report published this morning
that the British government has seized
CnTperton Island. The island has for sew
eral years been occupied by San Fran
cisco corporation under lease from the
Mexican governments. Several cargoes Of
guano have been taken orr by this coitspan y.
Representatives. of English capita lists
visited the island recently. and have Just
returned to San Diego on the steamship
Navarro. As a result OF their fnycsTIga-
lions into the resources of the island, it is
said that a London company will purchase
the buildings and will lease the land from
the San Francisco holders.
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MINERS FIGHT APAcHEs.
A Three-Hours' Battle With Indians
aud Mexican Outlaws.

II paso- Tex., Aug. ia company OF
Arizona PROJECTORS had a fight with
Apache Indians, possible Apache Kids
band, and few Mexican outlaws, near
the Bavispe and Yaqui River junction, in
Sonora, Mex, on the 1st Instant. There
we're six miners and q pack train of four
teen burroa camped in a dry, brushy
arroyo, where The fight occurred, lasting
for three hours. A thunder storm ended
bostiIitieS, and the miners with their pack
tram escaped unburt to the mountains and
returned to the Mormon settlement at
Casa Grandeo, arriving there Wednesday.
The attack was made by thirty blanketed
Indians Billy Campbell, a well known
COW boy, was with The prospectors. and re-
turned to this city yesterday
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The Resnlt
fFron the Boston Globe.l

from the Boston GIobe1
An old writer says. .'To make an en-
tirely beautiful woman 1t would be neces-
sary Co take the head from Greece, the
bJst from Austria, tie feet from Hindoo
stan, the shoulders from Italy, the bearing
FROM Spain, and the complexion from
England" which leaves America OUT in
the c0ld.-New York Tribune. D, no
The result would be an American girl.
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1t may not interest the Government, but
1t VIII the people, TO know that the
Canadian Klondike regulations have been
officially Issued American miners must
pay ten per cent royalty per week on their
mining output up to five hundred dollars
over that it is TO be twenty per cent
If that regulation does not go to the dead
letter office up on the upper Yukon, per
maps the police who attempt to enforce it
may The spirit OF 40 stills alive;