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"0h, know all about that" replied Keona; Admiral Dewey told me-
 Why, what in blue blazes did he know about it2" exclaimed the aston ished colonel.
 I'll show you" cried the simple savage, with the delighted manner of the child who knows his lesson. Just tell me how you want me to vote"
 Vote yes of course, said the col onel.
 Now I know just what to do," said Keona. Admiral Dewey said that all would need to know aboutvoting was this: Whenever a bill was before con gress, some fellow with a breath smell ing of whisky, big cigar half way down his throat, and a tall, black hat on one side of the back of his head would come to me and tell me what to do. Then l must vote just the other way. and it would always be right. So you see I vote no I'm much obliged to you for coming to me so soon."
 Several minor members of the syn dicate who overheard this dialogue an nounced with yociferation that the
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the varying degrees of neigbborly cor
on the ground oFIn

the varying degrees of neighboriy cor diality.
 Between Manila and San Francisco. keona had been sea sick, and unable to retain such precepts of civilization as he might otherwise have gained from conversation with the ships doctor. Crossing the continent he was con- Faleseing in sleeping car, attended by q Pullman porter from whom he learned a thing or two about American finance, and the tendency of wealth 10 accumulate in the hands of a few; but, as I have already remarked, he was practically an uututored savage when he reached Washington.
 It is not to be supposed, however. that in the national capital human being can long remain a child of ra- ture. Surrounded as he must inevit- ably be, by the most advanced types of our advanced culture. There were, for instance, red Indians from the plains who visited Washington in the early part of the nineteenth century and in few days stay acquired cultivated tastes that made even their great
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MS PAKAH'S CHRIs'MUs GIF'. It Didn't Amount tS Much, BecaHee MistaE IayIoh was Not
 the Gfver.

"Mis' Pakah, how yo' enjoy yo' Chris mus gif' ?"
 To say tkiB to the colored girl who works for family down on Prairie ave me is dangerous undertaking "Mis' PAkah" is sensitive on the subject of Christmas gifts, and this is how it hap pened She has been working for the Stubbs family about ten years, and is a good specimen of the down south" negro, familiar, loyal and black as a coal. Will Stubbs likes nothing better than to play jokes on her. She is fond of "Mistah Will" and while she threatens all sorts of dire retribution for his pranks, he knows very well if never comes to anything The day be fore Christmas Will bought a box of white complexion powder and sent if around by messenger to Miss Par. Rer," inclosing a card on which he had written the name of James Taylor, the colored laundryman. Grandmother Stnbbs went to the door.
 'No," she said, peerinQ at the mes senger over her glasses in puzzled way; "we have no Miss Parker here.
 "Aw, dat's me, Mis- Stubbs; dat's me Tse Miss Pakah, called familiar voice from the back of the hall.
 Goodness. gracious, hits Chris mus gif' fun Mistah Tayloh," ejaeu- lated Miss Pakah, tremendously pleased as she unrolled the powder box.
 The next day she and her sister mel Mistah Tayloh on the street After some embarrassing hesitation on Miss Pakahs part she said: T have tow thank yo, Mistah Tayloh, fo' 5oa yesJ nice Chris mus gif'."
 "What-I sen you Chris'mds gif' Miss Pakah? Fo' de Lawd, l didn't buy none, didn't 'ceive none!o
 Didn't yo send dat box white folks powdah. Mistah Tayloh ?n
 ''Hebeu press yo', Mis- Pal5ah. doan know nothin bout no white folks powdah.' 7
 "Fo' de Lawd sakes, exclaimed Miss Pakah and her sister in chorus, hits dat VIII stubbs agin. Dat boy need kilIin', shaaR. R."-Chicago Inter Ocean
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ceeded in inserting a provision that the syndicate should keep the river clear of ice below St. Louis during the months of July and August, but amend ments limiting the amount of tariff which the syndicate could impose upon persons using the river for bathing pur- poses in summer or accidentally fall ing into it from the banks thereof, had been defeated by a single vote.
 Keona's attitude was, therefore, of the highest importance, and it was nee essary to educate him to a proper Qn- derstanding of modern legislative methods at the earliest possible mo- ment, because his vote on the bill in question was likely to be his first official act.
 Two or three days after Keona reached Washington it was said by those who should know that Keona's education was progressing rapidly. From the moment when he stepped off the train he hads adstbesadvantag of al-
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GIRLS SLEEPING. ROOM.
Tue Art of Filling and Furnishing Il, to Please the Daintiest
 Maiden

know dear little girl who is sure
 that her room is everything to be de
 sired. It is 15 feet square and has two
 wardrobes. There is north and
 south window. The walls are covered with paper in a delicate shade of cray
 with pink clover blossoms scattered
 over it; the window curtains are of
 silkoline in the same shades: mattino in subdued colors covers the floor
 The bedroom suit, however. did not please the little miss. It was old enough
 to be in fashion again, but il was of walnut, heavy and dark Then her mother came to the rescue, and when woman, pair of brushes and two cans of readymiXed paint get together. sue cess is sure to follow. and so it proved in this case. That bedroom furniture changed its color as quickly and as ef- fectuallyas the world-famed chameleon of our schooldays. The rule for doing such work always began with .scrape the wood thoroughly with glass and then sandpaper 1t" and it always dis couraged me. In this case. however. the rule was found quite easy to break. and it was broken quickly The solid wood was painted very pale gray, al- most silver white; the scroll work was picked out in old rose. A eane-bot- toned chair was painted to match; camp chair was covered with cretonne which harmonized. The washstand vas fitted out in white. A shelf for shoice books, a small homemade stand or the keepsales and the Delft candle tick, few dainty pictures on the galls, and the little maid was satisfied. Mrs. John B. Sims, in Ladies Home ournal
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 afford it. We have been happy in the old house; our children have been born here, and here one has died. We have friends whose tastes are like ours, and who feel that they are as good as we. Suppose we move into q big, dreary place; not one of them will come to see you more than twice, because they will feel that they can't stack up with you Yes, they would fall away. and we're too old now to form new associations, and we should be very lonely in cur grandeur. Yes, there's money enough; but do you think we can afford it?'"
 My friend, who is practically the head of q concern employing 2,000 men, is still living in the little old house. He is the shrewdest man I know.
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most constant association with Col. Bill Hotstuf, who is one of the most advanced products of our civilization. Col. Hotstuff had devoted his time to a study of the simple sayage's character, and had not yet approached the sub jeet of the pending legislation. He had introduced him to various other per sons whose lives were devoted to shap- ing the statutes of the nation, and KeoHa had learned in this way that the proper safutation in America was. Have something with me. He was glad 10 know this, for he had been somewhat in doubt as to what he ought to say to the president when he should be presented at the white house.
 'Keona, said Col. Hotstuff one day, how are you fixed for money?"
 The child of nature intimated that he did not fully understand the question. Col. HotstuH laid a. earessing but firm hand upon the top button Of Keona's coat.
 You vote right on the Mississippi river bill" said he, and I'll see that you don't get left"
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4 Perfnmed Room.

There is fad, not new, but much in vogue among the society matrons of New York city, of having the rooms of their mansions peryaded with deli cately fragrant air. Large sachet bags are made of rich material. Or highly ornamented vases are filled with violet or carnation pink or lavender and placed on the tables or the piano so that the whole room has a perfumed atmos- phere. Old-fashioned damask is also used to make the bags, which are half a yard long, trimmed round with ribbon ruches, with bows and ends at the cor ners. These are hung at the backs of chairs to put books, newspapers or work in so as to have everything at hand.
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Rockefeller. He lives on a side street, in house not large, as millionaires' houses go, and he has bought the vacant lot on either side of it. These lots he floods in cold weather, and with the space behind the house they form lit tie private skating rink shaped like letter ''U."
 Mr. Rockefeller is the most demo- cratic of rich men in manner, quiet, un- assuming and modest. He is not very big and not very little; not very strong and not very weak; in short, just an average man. He takes his pleasures sadly, after the American manner, and exercises for his health, and is grateful to any plain citizen who will talk with him about anything except money. Which is not such an uncommon thing as you might suppose.
 For New York is full of the lonely rich, whose poor relations shun them lest they be thought to seek favors. and who don't know how to form other ac- quaintances. knew such man once who died leaving $14,ooo,0oo. The city
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as is now left.
 He forgaye the erring wife for whose sake he shot Key-and have always thought that braver than anything he did or suffered on the field of battle.
 He was United States minister to Spain at the time of the Virginius out rage, and had the unspeakable mortif- cation of accepting, under orders as the agent of his country, money compen- sation for that insult. Now he is satis- fled that Spain has met her fate atlast; and particularly that Santiago where Fry and the Virginius martyrs were shot, was the scene of Spain's greatest humiliation.
 Siel5les is a stern-looling old gentle man with heavy mustache and keen black eyes. Curiously, he has an ab- sorbing passion for old furniture and such gimeraeks; and his fine house on lower Fifth avenue is as good as a mu. scum of rare pieces.
 In this house one day a hole was somehow punched through the hall foor-it's an old building-and a car. penter was sent for to repair it. For tlis he wanted price that Gen. Sielies thought outrageous, and refused, as matter of principle, to pay.
 'A1l right, the carpenter replied and went away.
 For months thereafter it was Gen. sieRies. daily custom to go stumping along the hall. thrust his cruteh through the hole and go rolling over on his side Then he would yell for the negro boy to come and reassemble him- self and his erutcb, meanwhile using army talk about all carpenters who were ever born or ever will be.
 The general couldn't remember the hole. and he wouldn't send for ear penter. Finally. some one with fear and trembling had the job done in his absence. and he never noticed the dif- ference.
 The bluff. old general is heavily built and clumsy with his one leg, but he is accustomed to say: I've found by ex. perienee, my boy, that one leg is ne- cessity; the other is luxury; mere luxury
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ITO BONA AKAAIO, the representa-
 ENA tive of the newly admitted Phil u N ippine state of Mindanao, ar rived in Washington a simple savage. His acquaintance with civilization was derived almost exclusively from long conversation with Admiral Dewey on board the Olympia in Manila harbor. Dewey was the only white man whom he had ever liked, in conversational way. In early life he had been accus- toned to see white men frequently in his own home, but. later, his family had fallen into reduced circumstances, and had been unable to afford them the table. except on the most important feast days.
 He had acquired fair imitation of the English language from relative who had been for long time a servant in the family of an Englishman in ng-Kong and had finally drifted back 10 the old home-which was either on the ground or in tree, according to
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ty@fourth street up
 to $ y enty-sev- enth,= not only on
 Fifth avenue, but the side streets fora blockin eith- CT direction there are about q thou s an d. priv at e
 houses which cost
 so much to live in
 that itisf fair to as snme their oecu. pants =t0=be=eIthef millionaires o men m receipt Of bigjneoness sorad- EenIlIEerS Twin e
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mon. Then there is the daughter, whom both parents love dearly. And there are mutual friends, and great isl the force of public opinionl
 But it will look rather odd for the sulklng man to return from his hotel and resume his place in the splendid Sloane mansion.
 By the way, while the papers were slill s, hinting at that trouble of the sloanes' WithQut mentioning names, everybody said: What's that? An, other society sePahation? That must mean the -'s." But it didn'tl
 Pleasant for the \ 's, isn't it?
 oN(EN LANGDoN.
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weeks a go agreed to disagree. Why should they not be reconciled !? There
 was no reason for a d i sagreement. except that the husband thought the wife had not paid sufficient at tention to h $ wishes in a cer- tain matter; and in society that is n0thinp- Rne n m
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cronies q i s p l a J different costumes at every appear ance aHt a more interesting figure to me l. a little, lonely man, the richest in Ameri- ca, skating round and round in his o " n back yard with an old cap pulled yer his ears and a pair of mittens on | i s hands.
 u7l.4, T1l n
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Money Bags on sIzates.

Society is like the British soldier in India, as described by Mir. Kipling It just ramps Wid good Hvin',n and must have something to do, or there is need of a nigger to squat on the safety valve.
 This winter the something to do is skating, an appropriate amusement for warm-blooded folks.
 Of course there is the society rink up town, where Mrs. Jack Astor and her
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 beyond their means There are 300 other such houses along Madison ave nue, St. Nicholas avenue. Central Park West, Riverside drive and other stree ts, not to mention the Brooklyn and Jer- sey money bags.
 How can you expect fellow to keep track of more than a thousand mil Honaires2 They are too common.
 Some can do it, though There $ aChCIly Bniekerb6eker prince of so- ciety cbronielers, whose recent fitting from one big daily paper to another is itself Q society sensation. The joke about "Cholly2 is that he is not in so- eiety and doesn't want to be; he'sa big siX-foot-three eX-Yale oarsman, Tam many political stump speaker and news paper man. who heartily despises the people he makes fun of. That's why what he says is interesting.
 Have l said too much about the but terflies? It isn't all so drearys the chronicle of society.
 Emily Vanderbilt Sloan, working among the poor in an East side mis- sion, falls iii love wsth poor young lawyer and they are 10 be married in the good, old-fashioned way-though society could not believe its ears until the day was actually set.
 And you must not forget Helen Gould, who is the good old maid aunt to hundreds of her less fortunate fel- low men and women.
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QON u ld4I OI-O 1dL- ish power in Cuba than sturdy old Gen. Dan Siekles.
 For three req sons Gen. Sickles is the most inter estin g man in New York:
 He is a hero=of Gettysburg g,about as prominent q survivor of,the war
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"Of course my wife has been at me to buy a bigger house; but said to her: We can't afford it.
 But urel y you're rich enough to buy ten houses as good as this old place, she said.
 Money enough,
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editor of big daily, to whom briet item was brought about the mans death. threw it into the waste basket.
 He had never heard of the 14-mf. Toned dead.
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V, a great million aire, and caused a divorce; suppose he had separated | h e enormously rich S's, indirectly related to the 'ss s; suppose he should then discover in himself the Moses who was to lead out of what seems to him it's evil ways=a great his-
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G1u1o- o-7fiIIIonaIres.

And no wonder! There is a gut of in New York From Thir-
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Gen. sick1es, Jubi1atton.

Nobody in these United States has got more pure enjoyment out of the of Span-
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pose he should for this purpose found a political organ in which his own drearily important thoughts could be published-how seriously would you regard that man, and, if you belonged 10 that party, how grateful would you be for such leadership?
 No, don't mean Mr. -. or MT. -, or Mr. -.
 In fact, I don't mean anybody; this is what the lawyers call hypothetical question, and you mustn't take it se- riously For that matter, the name of B has never been coupled with that of s in print; only in gossip; and you know how much that amounts to.
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The sIoanes, Troubles.

There is talk of a reconciliation be- tween the Henry T. Sloanes, who some
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The ConceaIment of Wealth. Said my friend who once was poor and now is very rich:
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Suppose a man, whom we will call B, had wrecked the domestic happiness of
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-28
FIRST At SAVANNAH
Our Boys Come en- the
vigilancia.
NOW AT QUARAN line
WILL BE BROUGHT TO THE CITY
TODAY
TROOPS WILL co INTO CAMP AT ONCE
And They Will be Mustered Out Next Week.
Mems Health Reported Good. Some
of The Officers Accompanied
by Their Wives.

Savannah, Ga, March 27.-The First
North Carolina regiment arrived at Fort
Pulaski. IA miles below this city to-day
on the Ward Line steamer Vigilancia
from Cuba. Five companies of the
Fourth Virginia regiment also arrived
at the fort on the steamer San Antonio.
The process of fumigation was at once
begun. The North Carolina regiment
will be brought TO the city tomorrow,
and the Virginians ON Wednesday. The
troops will 60 at once into camp and be
mustered out here next week. The
health of the men is reported to be very
goood Some of the officers of the North
Carolina regiment are accompanied by
their wives.
The third Georgia left here this morn
ing for Augusta, where it will be muster
ed out.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-28
THE FIRST is HAPPY.
Did Not Want to Come to Raleigh TO be
Mustered Out.

Mustered Out.
Col. Fred A. Olds is back from two
weeks stay in Cuba. The Colonel went
to the island for a vacation He spent
most of his time in Havana and ut the
camp of the First North Carolina regi-
ment.
He says the Tar Heel soldiers are re-
joced at the prospect of coming back
home. They have had a pleasant stay
in Cuba and their health has been good,
but they are tired of the service and
want a sight of familiar scenes end
faces again.
Some few of them, Col. Odds says.
will probable re-enhst for the regular
army. A still smaller number viii re-
turn to Cuba to live.
They left Havana Saturday afternoon
and arrived in quarantine at Savannah
last night. They will be mustered out
there. They much prefer this to coming
TO Raleigh. Col. Olds says it would
have cost the men about $50 each in
travel pay, or the regiment about $780,
900 70 have had to come here to be
mustered out.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-28
FRAGMENTS OF BODIES FOUND.
They Are Remains From the Ruins of
the Windsor Fire.


New York. March 27.-The fragments
of three bodies found in the Windsor
Hotel ruins to-day and taken to the
morgue have been numbered body No.
49," body No. 20, body No. IL
1t is impossible to give a description
Of the bodies. each box containing merely
a mixture of charred bones, blackened
and shriveled flesh and dirt.
The total of dead now is 30. the identi-
fed dead numbering II and the unknown
dead u. The list of missing is still
very large, numbering about 40, but
most of the injured, however, have been
discharged from the hospitals.
Warren Leland said that the Sleepy
Hollow Cemetery Association at larry
town offered to bury the remains of the
unidentified dead of the Windsor fire.
and that the offer had been accepted
The funerals will probably be held on
Wednesday at the Church Of the Heaven
" Rest in this city, The New York
Central railroad will transport the bodies
free of charge to Tarrytown, and they
will be inferred in a plot near the tomb
of Washington Irving.
1t was stated to-day that Mr.. Leland.
will erect another Windsor Hotel on the
old site.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-28
NORTH OF PASIG RIVER. Me
ARTHITR'S DIVISION

Wheaton's Observation-Disclosures econd in
fantry; two battalions Twenty-third in
fantry: Second Oregon.
II. G. Otis Brigade Twentieth Kan
Sas; First Montana: four batteries Thir
artillery, dismounted as infantry; Tenth
Pennsylvania.
Hale's brigade--First Nebraska First
Colorado; First South Dakota; First
Wyoming.
Halls Brigade-Third and Fourth in
fantry; two battalions Seventeenth in
fantry; mounted squadron Fourth caval-
ry; two light batteries Utah artillery.
SOUTH OF PASIG RIVER. LAW
TONS DIVISION.
Kings Brigade-F'irst battalion. First
California; First South Dakota; First
Washington.
Ovenshine's Brigade-Fourteenth in
fantry; First Idaho; squadron Fourth
cavalry; one battery artillery (U. Sd
AT ILOILO.
Eighteenth infantry; First Tennessee;
one battery Sixth artillery.
AT NEGROS..
Two battalions First California in
fantry.
AT CEBU.
One battalion Twenty third infantry.
POSITION UNKNOWN.
Two batteries California heavy artil-
lery: First Wyoming; First battalion
Twentieth infantry; Fifty-frst Iowa.
These troops are either within the city
of Manila or at Cayite
General Corbin says that the position
of the Thirteenth Minnesota is not
known, but it has possibly been attached
to General Halls brigade. The fact that
it has suffered several casualties indi-
Gates that it has been upon the fighting
line.
General Corbin explains that it is the
First North Dakota regiment which
probably is with Kings brigade, and that
it is one battalion of the First Wyoming
whose position is unknown, the other
two battalions being with Hale.
GENERAL HALE WOUNDED.
Denver. Colo, March 27.-An evening
paper says:
.ln the victorious charge ON the insur-
gents at Polo on Sunday, General Irving
Hale fell wounded-it is thought serious
ly-while directing the advance.
"A cablegram reached Mrs. w. Il.
King, the Generals mother-in-law, read
ing as follows:
Hale slightly injured.
(Signed) IRVING"
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-28
SAMPSON AT SANTIAGO.
He Visits the Scene of the Battle He
Never Won.

Santiago de Cuba, March 26.-The
United States armored cruiser New
York and the gunboats Vicksburg and
Annapolis arrived here this morning.
Rear Admiral Sampson, accompanied ly
Capt Il. Il. Chadwick, of the cruiser,
called upon Major General Leonard
Wood, the military governor, salute
being fred in honor of the admiral.
This afternoon General Mood returned
the visit There We're further compli-
mentary salutes and the warshiDs left
this evening for Kingston, ia.
During the day Admiral Sampson
visited MORO Castle, never having ex-
plored the interior before. With regard
to the discovery of the remains of a
Spanish officer in an armchair on the
beach west of El Moro, the admiral
expressed his opinion that they were
sertainly the remains Of Admiral Vii
lamil.