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dollars OF rent money in fine location,
styiish entrance, etc, while girls who
are in the city to study or work care very
little d5out pretent tious surroundings, but
viii cheerfuHy pay So or SO more rent to
be accessible 10 their daily duties"
All these facts are really the stock-in-
trade OF every professional flat hunter.
The best plan for a woman starting in
this occupation is to secure lists from
agents and builders of all desirable flats,
new and Old this is not at all difficult
matter, as both owners and agents are
glad 20 avail themselves OF the additional
chance or renting their property.
In order 10 keep a personal supervision
over her work and TO furnish reliable in
formation, il is necessary for the flat
hunter u keep well posted as To the merits
of all the new buildings; she should either
visit them herself or employ soma one to
investigate and bring in written state
Inents OF their advantages and disad-
yantages.
Mrs. Yonge has an excellent plan of hav-
ing these statements copied into books with
the lists of flats, their location, convent
ence, etc. With the account OF each flat
arenoted certain facts, as rented or vacant,
the least rent for which the flat can be OBJ
tanned, how long occupied by last tenant.
reason for leaving, need of improvements,
and in fact every item that would aid q
patron in selecting the particular flat
suited to the needs and comforts of her
family.
The question of commission is one which
each flat-hnuter would have to settle for
herself according to her expenses, the time
and labor involved in her work and the
assistance required in and out of the of.
flee. Mrs. Yonge has found it practical
and profitable to make her fees as light
as possible. TIE majority OF women who
come to her, she says, come to save money,
and she has found that reasonable charges
have resulted in large patronage.
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The TribuIations of jewelers..

1--WE are not running around loot king for
Jobs at mending jeweIry." said Il salesman
in a large CheStnut-street Jewelry house,
s.and we don't shrek with joy when such
Jobs come into us unsolicited. You woultin'5
believe it, possibly. but we are not fond OF
assuming charge of anything TO be- mend
ed unless it comes from a Well known GUS
toner The greatest trouble is due to the
forge5fulneSs of strangers who take
watch or q ring to a certain store TO be
fixed and neglect TO remember the exact
address of that store. You be surprised
how many cases of that sort we have to
bother us. Why, only the other day a man
came in here and asked if we had finished
the mate for his odd cuff bottom We
hadn t seen his cuff button, an d told him
So He was indignant. 'Whatr he yelled
Trying TO beat me out of it, Then he
called us all kinds Of names. and threatened
TO bring suit against US. Well, l simply
had to dn the usual detective business and
trace that lost cuff button. I put ou my
hat while the man was wrangling with
the head of the firm and started up Chest
nut street, making inquiries in all the Jew
| elry stores. l finally found the old cuff
| button tnree blocks away in store that
,lidn' t look at all Iikeours When / told the
man where his button was he wouldR' { be-
| heve me Utterly impossibler he said
| However, he went out, and we haven
| seen him since. That's one case out OF
l many. p Philadelphia Record.
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WEDDING DECORATIONS.

New York, sep Weddings, like the
poor, we haye always with us. But after
the busy spring season there is usually
reaction. with renewed impetus in the
autumn. Many young women prefer to
make their weddings the effective and ap-
propriaUe winG-up Of the summer campaign
4 rural wedding is a novelty. Remote from
caterers and florists, 1t gives opportunity
for that ingenuity which we all like TO
have called forth. Nature furnishes abun-
dant material, and the artistic tastes and
deft fingers OF the summer loterers are
never more sympatheuicaIly engaged than
in adcraing the house or country church in
which an autumn wedding is TO be eele-
brated.
Autumn wedding decorations are most
easily managed in white and yellow.
Goldenrod and yellow and white daisies
cover the fields and slopes. The more
important things is TO have first we'll
conceived and well-thoGght-out plan OF
operations. The parlor, hail and colla-
ton room furnish the areas to De deco
rated. In the parlor a flower screen should
iStostaad. Ifthe room hasan old-fashioned
pier glass the trouble will be slight. Fasten
at the toI. four or five fine picture wires,
aud carry them to the bottom, where they
must be tightly fastened. Twine these
wires with creeping charley, gathered in
the woods, or any other suitable vine. At
equal distances on these perpendicular gar
lands faStcn groups of daisies, tied with
wire or green cord, so that a pattern will
seem to be worked out. This may be
done 10y alternating the groups OF ar
ranging them in right lines. Above build
up bold, dashing frieze with ferns, sweet
smelling shrubs or any light tree leaves.
Carry thisto the ceiling. Goldenrodbunched Il
out from behind the frame, taking care to
have allthe stalks at the sa me angle, assists
the scheme. A. the bottom bank up a mass
of greea-small cedar trees, bushes whose
leaves are shapely in form, or palmlike
plants gathered from swampy places.
IL fthere is no pier glass a screen may be
made by covering a ligth clothesharse
with loosely woven wire netting and
making at a mass of greenery, set with
groups of yellow or white daisies or both
Of these, as intimated, before working
out a design. While white, yellow, and
green has been chosen as the color
scheme, asters and chrysantllemum may
| be preferred. The common purple iron
weed, which grows In great clusters
lends itself handsomely Co decora ton
mingled with yellow daisies or black-eyed
sCsans, as more imaginative people prefer
TO call them. But here. as in all the other
decorations TO be noticed, keep the color;
well nIassed, so that the result shall not
be spotty.
As a focus for this room. nothing il
better than a well-decorated nlantel shelf
| DraDe gracefully over it white silk scarf
on which is a sprinkling of gilt Make the
entire wall back OF this shelf a mass Of
green. of trailing vines and delicate ferns
On the shelf proper place jugs of cutglass
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or those in which white is the prevailing
TINT, and in them fill to overflowing white
asters or white yellow chrysantiiemuins
IL by luck there should be an open fire
place, then chose up the space with mass
OF green, III " hich goldenrod and oN-eyed
daisies are massed, giving also 10 the
broad hearth II veritable sward OF leaves
Of every shade.
If the Haantel is one in which there are
a series of shelves, then the structural lines
can be traced out with vines, and on the
shelves or in the receptacles vases OF white
and yellow flowers The chandelier should
be twined " it'll green, and from the top
white satin ribbon four inches wide car
red to the four corners of the ceiling,
gracefully twined with single vine Of
sinilax. Use green lavishly al every point
as bouquets, baskets and charming bits
Of loose foliage and blossoms FOR tables,
hanging shelves and the like.
over doors that are poled and curtained.
or windows that are draped, big branches
are exceedingly decorative, particularly
if abundantly used, is exceedingly orna-
mental. Corners nf rooms are often Il novel
feature made so by the grouping of sweet
smelling shrubs, cornstaIks, cedar branches,
or ferns Of coarser growth. This Is par
tieularly ble tot he halls. These green
effects siouldreacht theceiiing, beingInassed
at the bottom and growing lighter in char
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1t the expense Of health aud possibly po

1t the expense Of health aud possibly po-
sition
From my own success l should I'M
4sine that such an occupation would be
lucrative one for women To follow in any
city or large town, preparing themselves
TO furnish information about houses as we'll
as flats, or even rooms in the smaller
towns.
II have found 1t desirable to inform
myself OF every minor detail In regard
TO fIat-hunting. / know that flats boast
an elevator, and the haunts Of the sty
Esh hall boy; which apartments are well
heated and which furnish janitor's serv
ices free OF charge.
81 also have found it important to keep
furnished flats, for, as rule, they are
wanted in u hurry, and there I 5 no time to
seek information after the application
comes in. Among other things have found
out that certain flats preferable for
summer occupancy; are cooler and more
wholesome during the hot season. and that
Others are far more desirable for winter
tenancy. / always keep alist OF furnished
flats that are near the theatrical and
shopping districts, as u matter OF spe-
cial convenience to parties who like to
spend few months each winter in the
city and want II make the most of every
minute.
Women who wish TO entertain during
the winter prefer TO put all their extra
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The Coming of the Muse.

The shy Muse, rarely seen at times
Floats down but VIII not stay,
But hides her unembodied rhymes
Far, far away
From out the blank unpeopled page
There shines no vision fair,
And on the poets noble rage
Broods cold despair
In vain to toll, In vain to strive,
Efforts and vows are naught;
No favoring impulse comes TO drive
The tagging thought
Then sudden, mid the darkling chill.
Dead hope, and strivings vain,
A ghostly radiance seems to fill
His heart and brain.
Far off and thin, translucent, white,
His Straining eyeballs trace,
Half-hidden, phantom of delight,
sweet yelled face.
And straight, it's Life, 'tis Youth, tbs
Spring
That comes his toll to cheer;
Biithe Fancy spreads a joyous wing,
The Muse is here!'
Ger foam flowered wave, o'er snow-claC
hill
solic liOdUS, VI Ncfudl grove,
His happy eyes warm tear-drops fill
OF Faith and Love.
Now from the Sunset beckons she,
Now from the Dawn S clear rose,
And sadly now, now 10 oyously
Sings as she goes;
Now through the thick life-laden air
Along the city street
Fleeing she draws divinely fair
His faithful feet;
Now by the Palace, how the Jail;
Lives gilded, lives undone,
Lives laughter-lit, or those that wall,
She hoyers on;
And With her takes the poets mind
| And heart and soul and will;
Where'er she leads, a wandering wind,
He follows, follows still!
SIR LEWIS MORRIS.
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The MuItitudinous Lost Person.

Nothing illustrates the resoarcefulness
of this country so forcibly as the published
request for information about missing
person. Ever since the parents of Grace
Stephenson, the Brookhne, Mass, girl who
disappeared last April, published de-
scriptiOn Of the missing daughter, nearly
every city in the country has been pToduc-
ing her daily. She has been seen in hotels.
on street cars, at the summer resorts,
aboard ocean steamers, sometimes walking,
sometimes riding a wheel, but always dis
appearing Just as some one who has seen
her makes up his mind that she is the
missing Stephenson. Conductors have hal
her for passenger; storekeepers have SOLD
her goods; hotel clerks remember perfectly
the room they assigned her to. but an too
late still It is q great country. Anyone
advertising for a missing relative Will be
astonished at the large number of him or
her that can be reclaimed On short notice.
Detroit Free Press
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PROFESSIONAL FLAT HUNTING.

New York, Sep. 3.-The regard which
one woman will show toward other women
is shown n this article. In cities the word
autumn is not always. either poetical or
inspiring. 1t means days Of fatigue and
dlscouragement, hunting flats for the win
ter's hahitation A benevolent woman
has undertaken TO do this for other
wofrien. She has successfully discovered
flat-hunting as an occupation, and staked
out the first claim therein. Her name
is Mrs. A. l.. YoDge, a woman thoroughly
familiar with New York and its suburbs,
and the many and devious pathways that
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artistically grouped, which for compile
menas in yellow cannot be surpassed
At side tables, In the decorating OF
punch i,owls, Ice cream platters and the
like, the grape vine Is most acceptable,
especially the tender parts of the vine,
which are SO light in tone and tints
But there is one piece of advice which
il necessary in the Using of wild flowers
for any social function, that they are
gathered Hs late in the day as possible
for the cnmingeyent. Wildflowers falever
soon--their beauty lasts but alittle while,
aud that only when fresh, a fact to BE well
remembered.
The Springfield herald., 1897-07-02
Through the Tariff Bill.

Washington, June 25.-The Senate to.
day completed the wool schedule. the
silk schedule and the tobacco schedule
of the tariff bill. and with this accom-
plished, the tariff leaders had the salts.
faction of knowing that all the SEIZED.
ules of the bill and the free list had
been gone over once. There now lie.
mains only to go through the bill sec.
ond time, passing on the items passed
over. These are very numerous and
important. including hides. gloves, coal,
tea and beer. After that the internal
revenue features will be all that re-
mains.
Progress was rapid to-day, although
every paragraph relating to carpets
was stubbornly contested. The consid.
Grafton of the silk schedule led to n
strong protest against the proposed
duties on silk fabrics. Senators Teller
and Mantle joining with the Democrats
in opposition. The paragraph was
passed by II slight majority of two The
tobacco schedule went through with lit
tie friction after the committee had ad.
vanced the duty slightly on wrapper
and leaf tobacco.
The Springfield herald., 1897-07-02
POLITICAL CRISIS IN CANADA.
An Attempt May He Made to Do Away
with the Senate.

New York, June pa dispatch
from Ottawa, Ontario. to the Press
says: A political crisis that may re-
suit in radical change in the consti-
tuition Of Canada is imminent The
Senate, majority of whose members
are Tory derelicts of past federal and
provincial governments has declined
to ratify certain contracts made by the
present Liberal ministry. The minis
try have put into the estimates items
which will enable them to carry on the
contracts. Should the Senate defeat
them an appeal to the people against
the Senate will be inevitable.
The Liberal ministry have large
working majority in the commons.
which is the popular branch. The sem
ators are appointees of former minis
tries and hold Office for life.
Usually they have recognized their
position and busted themselves with
hearing divorce suits. formally APPROX
ing bills and attending receptions in
Rideau hall. The Canadian Senate
practically. for the first time in its his
tory, has undertaken to grapple with
the House elected by the people. The
outcome of the bill will be watched
with intense interest, for it may be the
beginning of the end of the Senate.
The Springfield herald., 1897-07-02
BRITONS FEEL GOOD.
Tho Jubilee Festivities Prepare Them to
Welcome Woicott.


New York, June 25.-A dispatch to
the Tribune from London says: The
favorable impression produced In Eng
land by President McKinley's action
in appointing special embassy for the
historic occasion of the Queens jubilee
Is emphasized by the distinction with
which 1t has been received at court
and In the highest social circles. All
the members of the special embassy
share in the exceptional honors and at
tentions paid to them as representa-
tives of the United States. Royalty
has set the style and every reference
to America in the public press is SYM
pathetic and appreciative. The fact Is
generally recognized that America has
departed from her usual half-hearted
methods of diplomatic intercourse with
foreign nations and taken her place
with dignity and distinction In the
worlds court of honor opened In Lon
don for the purpose of congratulating
the Queen and her empire on her long
and prosperous reign.
Good feeling has been promoted by
this exceptional demonstration of
American courtesy and appreciation.
and the way has been opened for the
adjustment of several questions vitality
affecting the United States.
For example, the three silver ENJOYS
with Senator WOlcott at their head,
will arrive In London next week after
entering upon their work In Paris un-
der the most favorable circumstances
Their main object is to interest the
leading European powers in the ques-
ton of bimetallism, and to secure their
consent to reassembling the monetary
conference. The French government
favors this project and Germany only
awaits the action of England in order
to fall into line.
The House of Commons has passed
an academic resolution In favor of bi-
metallism, but the ministers are divid-
ed on the subject. Mr.. Balfour is a
convinced bimetallist and several of
his colleagues are Of the same mind
Lord Salisbury himself Is known to
share Mr.. Balfour's views, although
he Is more cautious and moderate In
expressing them. Mr.. Chamberlain
and others are on the fence, and there
is only one pronounced monOmetallist
with convictions unclouded by doubt
This is the chancellor of the exchequer,
with financial London behind him.
The important fact, which Is well
understood in the best circles Of in
formation Is that the ministers while
unable to agree upon any other point
will undoubtedly consent to send dele
gates to the new international confer
ence. This may be stated with the ut
most positiveness. These delegates,
moreover, will not be hide-bound mon
ometallists, convinced in advance that
nothing can be done for silver, but
open-minded men, ready to discuss the
complex question in all its bearings.
The reopening of the Indian mints is
also probable.
Senator Wolcott and his colleagues,
In pressing their argument here for
fresh international action, will have
many influences in their favor, and one
of the strongest will be the good feel
ing produced by Americas hearty par-
ticipation in the jubilee celebration.
The Springfield herald., 1897-07-02
Big Fire In New York City.

New York, June 23.-Fire broke out
this afternoon in the seven-story man
nfacturinS building at Laight and
Greenwich streets. which drove 300
people who We're employed out. All of
these We're gotten out safely except one
man, who jumped from n window and
was badly injured. The principal ten
ant was w. II. DietZ, lamp manufac-
turer, whose stock is valued at $780,
600.
Two doors from the building in
which the fire broke out is the pri-
mary school, No. IL, where there were
$50 children. When the firemen reached
the scene the children were singing.
A fire inspector entered the school. in
formed the principal. Miss Comstock
Of the danger that impended. She mar
shaled the children into the reception
room, where they We're again set to
singing, and then sent them out, two
by two, half blinded by smoke.
At 4 o'clock the fire was under con
troll. The loss probably will not
amount to more than 100000. -Four
persons We're slightly injured.
The Springfield herald., 1897-07-02

An Important experiment has been
made on the New York & New England
railroad, which seems to establish the
fact that trains propelled by electricity
can be run on the tracks used for steam
trains, without interference with the
regular traffic. An electrical train was
run between Berlin and Hartford,
distance of thirteen miles. on regular
schedule, between two trains drawn by
steam locomotives in the ordinary way.
The power was conveyed by the use OF
third rail in the center OF the track.
and no intermediate feeders were used.
The distance was covered in eighteen
minutes.
The Springfield herald., 1897-07-02

Study of questions pertaining to the
tariff leads to the conclusion that there
is no east and west. no north and no
south, in the sense of half century
ago. In the period preceding the war
the east was the manufacturing sec
ton, the west was the producer Of ag-
ricultural products. and the south
yielded little but the crops peculiar to
that section. But conditions have
changed. Some of the greatest manu-
featuring concerns are in the west and
in the south. The varied industries OF
a great nation are more evenly dis
tributed than they were. The ideal
tariff of the future will be made in
recognition of the fact that sectional
interests are of much less account
than In the past. Beside being Of i'm
portance to makers of tariff schedules
this fact should be matter of salts
faction to all citizens of the republic
The Springfield herald., 1897-07-02
WANT LYNCH A NEGRO.
Prospect of Serious Trouble at Key West
Florida.

Key West. Fla, June 25.-Ths city
was virtually in the hands of a negro
mob last night. and Il white citizen
was killed by the mob. At 4 p. IN. yes
terday Sylvanus Johnson, charged with
assault on white woman, Mrs. Mar
garet Atwell. was conducted to the
court house for hearing. The court
room was crowded and G. b. Pendle-
ton, n well-known citizen, arose and
asked: Are there enough white men
present to hang the negro?"
There was a chorus of Yes and
the crowd closed in on the prisoner.
The sheriff and his deputies drew their
revolvers and held the crowd at bay.
while johnson was mt once hurried
back to Jail. A big mob gathered in
front of the building. and one of the
negroes cried out to lynch Pendleton,
and n rush was made for him. Through
the efforts of himself and his friends
Pendleton made his escape in car
riage.
The negro mob then gathered about
the Jail building to prevent the lynch
ing of Johnson, and open threats were
made by them to kill any white man
that might come to the jail.
About II o'clock last night William
Gardiner. Il white man. was sitting in
front of the court house when several
Of the negro mob approached him and
ordered him to move. He arose TO
obey, and as soon rs his back was
turned there rang out the crack of a
number of rifles. and Gardiner re-
ceived a mortal wound, from which he
died two hours later
The whites are inclined to avenge
GARDENERS death, and another attempt
to lynch Johnson is expected to be
made tonight. A serious conflict be-
tween the whites and the blacks is
feared. The militia is in readiness for
any disturbance, having been ordered
out by the governor, and the United
States government has been asked to
order the troops at Key West to aid
the sheriff. The President has not yet
granted this request.