The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-08-04
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Special Correspondence.

| II lS 0Oubtlul WuetueE tIe uSt VI
endeavors to elevate the lives OF the
poor and the unfortunate contains the
record of any institution which ac-
complishes more III proportion to its
means than what Mrs. Anna Lowell
Woodbury. modestly terms her "school
of cookery" in this city. Mrs. Wood
bury is niece of the late James Rus
Col. Charles and Lieut.. James j..
Lowell, who heroic deaths are COM
memorated with those of four other
| young men, in the soldiers field Mt
Cambridge
| When Mrs. Woodbury. came to
Washington after the war she saw the
tremendous need on the part of the
newly franchiscd colored people Of
some domestic training. Their girls
were growing up without the re-
straints and the instruction of the
slave regime, and the new civilizing
tendencies had not yet become opera
| tive. So, In fact of great opposition.
MRS. Woodbury. opened what is still
known as cooking school," although
it aims to teach those things which
will improve the home life of its pu-
| pills. Plain cooking, without refer
\ ence to hygiene or chemistry, which
Mrs. Woodbury. believes belong else
| where, and the elements of good
| housekeeping are, of course, the fund
amentals, although the school goes
| much farther and aims to elevate the
| intellectual and moral standards of its
pupils.
Army and Navy Letters.
There is q postal regulation which
| has been in force for many years. 1t
| provides:
Letters written by officers, commits
| stoned or mono commissioned and pri-
Yates in the military, naval or marine
service of the United States, to be
transmitted unpaid must be plainly
marked soldiers letter. sailors let
| ter or marines letter. as the case
may be and signed hereunder with
his name and official designation by a
| staff or field officer, post or detach-
ment commander, to whose command
the soldier belongs. or by surgeon or
at NIltIc llc
be; and N the navy and marine SER
| vice by the officer in command of the
vessel, or surgeon on board, or officer
commanding a naval hospital or de-
tachment on shore. Letters so certi-
! fed will be forwarded charged with
| postage due at single rates oniy, 10 be
collected on delivery.
This was provided to overcome the
difficulty in the field or on naval sta
tions of getting postage stamps. The
provision for payment on delivery at
single rates is to overcome the statu-
tory provision that all first class mat
ter shall be PREPAID. or else fully paid
with penalty on delivery.
Second and third class mai, will be
forwarded to soldiers In the same
manner as letters. Papers and pack
ages will be forwarded from place to
place until they reach the soldier.
Senator Gorman's Future.
| The Democratic friends of Arthur
Pue German in Washington and Ma
| ryland have mapped out future for
him. He is to be succeeded ON March
| next in the United States Senate by
a Republican, Judge McComas. Some
| of his old adversaries have believed
| that with the advent of Senator-elect
| McComas Mr.. German will be- retired
forever from public life. The Demo
cratic friends of Mr.. German say that
! he has still future before him, and
| that he is too valuable a citizen in
| public life to be retired iucontinently,
Mr.. German has been in public life
since 1852, so that for nearly fifty
years he has been in public life.
His friends do not believe that he
should now be retired. Already there
| is a plan arranged to have him run for
! Congress this fall in the Fifth Mary
| land district, to succeed Sidney Eman-
uel Mudd, and If Mr.. German con-
sents to the arrangement and is cleo
| ted over Mr.. Mudd, the Democrats
| areSietermined to make him speaker
of the House of Representatives,
should the Democrats capture Con-
| gress next fall This Is o very pretty
| plan all around and it has been ar
ranged in order to keep Mr.. German
| in public life. He has become Sccus-
toned to Washington life and to af-
fairs of great public moment.
| Senator German, it was made
| known, has the personal friendship of
Senator Murphy of New York and of
| All the Democratic senators and Demo-
cratic congressman now in Washing
| ton. Senator German also has the
| personal animosity of some of the
friends of William ]. Bryan of Ne
| braska. But animosities in politics
are very frequently changed in order
that victory may be accomplished, and
the fact remains that the Democratic
friends of Mr.. German propose, if ne
will consent to the arrangement, to