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The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-26
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MOUNT vERNoN's GUARDIAN.
Thomas BushrOd Now in Charge of
WashingtOn's Tomb.
Washington SpeciaI

Washington Special
Few of the millions of people who have
visited Mount Vernon during the last half
century could have overlooked the pic-
turesuue and stalwart figure Of Uncle Ed
mund Parker the old colored man who rev.
erently guarded the tomb of Washington.
His courtly and dignified manners, his deep
" marked face and the respectful courtesy
with which he answered questions made an
stature but his shoulders were slightly bent
with age and his beard and hair of late
years became sprinkled with gray.
The old man died with the old year and
is greatly missed by all the habitues of that
sacred place, for he had been there since
1871 with occasional intervals of absence
during the war. He was born in 1927. at
Blakely farm, near Charleston, w. Va, a
slave of Mrs John Augustine washington,
and came with her to Mount Vernon, where
he lived on the plantation until he joined
ElIsworth's zouaVes at Alexandria as cook.
When they went to battle he remained IN
the city and cooked for the commissaFy de-
partment and the teamsters. Later he was
cook at the Old Capitol prison for nine
months He returned to Mount Vernon for
a short time and then Joined the Union
army at Fort Washington and remained as
cook for the band of the Fourth Artillery
until the close of the war. Then he went
back to his old home again, and in 1874 was
appointed guard at the tomb of Washington
by the ladies' association, where he re-
mained until he was taken i'll in June last
and for six months was a great sufferer
from cancer of the stomach until death re-
leased him on Dec. 80. The regents pom
stoned him did everything for his comfort
and paid his funeral expenses.
Uncle Edmund was the father OF nineteen
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a GREAT EULOGY.
BIaine's Matchless PerOrntiOn Pro-
nOunced in Memory of Garfield.

''Masterful in his mortal weakness, he be-
came the center of a Nations love, en-
shrined in the prayers of world. But all
the love and all the sympathy could not
share with him his suffering. He trod the
winepress alone. With unfaltering front he
faced death. With unfailing tenderness he
took leave of life. Above the demonaic hiss
of the assassin's bullet he heard the voice
o. God. With simple resignation he bowed
to the Divine decree
"As the end drew near his early craving
for the sea returned The stately mansion
of power had been to him the Wearisome
hospital of pain, and he begged to be taken
from it's prison walls from its oppressive,
sitting air, from it's LONELINESS and Its
hopelessness Gently, silently, the love of
a great people bore the pale sufferer to the
longed-for healing of the sea, to live or to
die as God should WILL within sight of its
heaving blloWs within sound OF its mani
fold voices. With wan, fevered face ten
derby lifted to the cooling breeze, he looked
out wistfully upon the oceans changing
wonders; on it's far sails whitening in the
morning light; on it's restless waves. rolling
shoreward to break and die beneath the
MONDAY sun; on the red clouds OF evening,
arching low to the horizon; on the serene
and shining pathway of the stars. Let US
think that his dying eyes read a mystic
meaning which only the rapt and parting
soul may know. Let US believe that in the
silence of the receding world he heard the
great waves breaking on farther shore,
and felt already upon his wasted brow the
breath of the eternal morning"
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-26

United States authority A few days ago
arrangements were completed to return to
Spain 1900 Spanish soldiers who surren-
dered in the Philippines. When the officers
of this government looked around for the
Spanish soldiers they found only 1900. This
experience with repatriation from the Phil7
ippines is not exceptional. There was a sinlf
liar case at Santiago. Toral surrendered to
Shafter, according to the returns made by
the Spanish officers at the time, q. 900 men,
but the number of Spanish soldiers sent
back to Spain fell below 20a00. The last of
the Spanish troops have just sailed from
Cienfuegos. At that port over 1900 We're
assembled from Santa Clara, Matanzas and
Havana provinces. The War Department
has just received the report Of the actual
embarkation furnished by United States
quartermasters. 1t shows .. T52 officers and
men sent away. This leaves 10000 at that
port unaccounted for 1t is believed that
embarkations from Havana and MatanZas
were fully as much below the real strength.
If the estimates are true there must be
remaining in Cuba $1,000 Spanish soldiers,
in the Philippines 1900 and in Porto Rico
from 1500 to 1900 Whether this VIII prove
a blessing in disguise the administration
does not know but there is much specula-
tion over the probable effect of this strong
admixture OF Spanish soldiers with natives.
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odds and Ends.

Cobweb braiding promises to be n feature
this season. 1t has something of the appear
ance of lace without pattern.
Ruchings are much employed on gowns
and lingerie. This being so 1t is satisfactory
to know that they are to be had ready
made in every color and width.
A Chicago authority has discovered. ac-
cording to his published statement. that for
a man to MUNICH peanuts whenever q crav-
ing for tobacco is had will speedily rid him
OF the desire TO use it. The question then
arises. what will cure him of the peanut
habit?
Ii is as we'll to change the way of dress
ing the hair occasionally for a day or two,
TO rest 1t. II 1t is always dressed N the
same manner it is apt TO grow thin If the
hair is parted il should be done afresh
every day. If this is done daily the parting
keeps narrow and does not widen, as II
would if neglected.
In washing anything made Of chamois
skins use warm water, with a little ammo
MIA in it, Wash by rubbing between the An
gers, but do not wiring the chamois. Press
1t between the palms of the hands to take
out the water, and hang before the fire or
pulling the article into proper shape every
few moments to prevent the skins drying
hard and stiff
To prepare a floor for dancing have it
we'll washed. and, when the boards are
thoroughly dry, scatter boracic powder all
over them and rub it in well with the feet
If there are children in the house, get them
to slide on the boards lengthwise, and YOU
will have 4 perfect surface for the most
exacting dancer. Instead of the powder
as above. you can rub the floor over, after
il is washed and dry, with milk.
The indications are that all shades of vio-
let and coral and national blue Will pre-
dominate in spring millinery. Hats of many
shades of one color are quite the thing, and
are very effective. The sitter flowers, such
as pond lilies ard camelias. have the first
call though violets have lost none of their
popularity. Ganzy material Of one sort or
another is introduced on nearly all the new
models and upon this are sewn bands of fine
light straw braid. Hats are worn over or
OF the face.
The London Mail says: A rather good idea
has been originated in q certain literary
circle. From twenty TO thirty Denpie asSefo-
BILE for afternoon tea. Each guest wears an
emblem descriptive of some well-Aa0Asla
poUk. and LnOse who guess the greatest
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The Lost Pocket.

How dear to this heart are the old-fashioned
dresses
When fond recollection presents them to view
In fancy I the old wardrObes and presses
Which held the loved gowns that in grlhood
/ knew,
The wide-spreading rnohair. the silk that hung
The straw-colored satin with trimmings of
brown;
The rufied foulard, the pink organdie nigh it,
But Oh. for the pocket that hung in each gown!
The old-fashioned pocket. the obsolete pocket,
The pTaiseworthy rocket that hung in my
gown.
The DEAR roomy pocket, I'd hail treasure,
Could I but behold it in gowns of to-day;
Il find ii the source of an exquisite pleasure,
But all my modistes sternly answer ''Nay!'
'Twould be so convenient when going out shop
ping.
'Twouid hold my small purchases coming from
town;
And always my purse or my kerchief I'm drop
ping
Oh, me, For the pocket that hung in my gown.
The old-fashioned pocket, the obsolete pocket,
The praiseworthy pocket that hung in my
gown.
A gown with a pocket. How fondly I'd guard it!
Each day I'd don it, I'd brush it with care;
Not a full Paris costume could make dis
card it,
Though trimmed with the laces an empress
might wear.
But 1 have no hope, for the fashion is banished; /;
AS fancy reverts to the days that have vanished
1 sigh for the pocket that hung IN my gown.
The old-fashoned pocket, the obsolete pocket,
The praiseworthy pocket that hung in my
gown.
Carolyn Wells, in jamestown IN. " Journal.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-26
Diplomacy with Children.

New York Evening Sun.
To those unaccustomed to children 1t must
ever be a mystery how to master them;
those who through long apprenticeship, are
used to the vagaries and perversities of the
juvenile mind realize that management is
the last word in the vocabulary to be ap-
piled to the difficult delicate art of coaxing
a child to DO the thing wanted or the thing
that you know is best for it,
-year-old Reggy took sudden aver
sion to his table bib this summer" said
Reggy's spinster aunt, land the only way
we could get him to wear it was by pre-
tending he was a yacht and that when we
put on his bib we were letting out his spin
maker sail Call it q bib and all the kings
horses and all the kings men couldn't in
duce him to put it on; pretend it was a
spinnaker sail and he was more eager for
1t than we were. 1t was his mother of
course, who thought of such scheme to
get the better of his perversity. There was
much yachting upon the lake last summer
and Reggy was greatly interested in it, but
who but mother would have thought of
applying that interest to the needs of Juve-
nile discipline!' 1t was four-year-old girl
who was caJOled into finishing many a meal
by having the cut up bits of meat placed
upon the letters of the alphabet bordering
her small plate. the bits being devoured one
by one as the letter standing for
some person thing called for. In
this way education as well as gastrOnomy
was fOStefed. one DAY Wnen the cOmDlneQ
efforts of nurse and maid could not prevail
upon another little girl to drink her milk at
luncheon, her mother accompanied it by
pretending it was a game, the object of
which was to take two drinks of milk apiece
for the birthday of every member of the
household. Many kindergarten would have
broken up long ago if 1t hadn't been for
q judicious admixture of the make believe
with the real; turning into q play instead
Of a deadly declaration of its true serious
ness Tommy was so slow about learn
ing his letters" said mother, that for
awhile ] feared he would remain in ignor-
ance to the end of his days Along came a
governess one day, however, who turned It
into a game. Instead of a stupid old book,
she got some interesting looking blocks with
the letters painted upon them III bright
COlOTs. Then she took a lot of the biggest
books from the library and built what they
pretended a railway station-IomIny
was fond of anything relating to railroads
The letteTed blocks were passengers who
wanted to pass through the gate OF the sta
ton to board their train One by one they
came up to the gate, those letters the names
of which Tommy could remember being al
lowed to pass through, while those whose
names he forgot were left behind. In less
than a fortnight that railrOad-loying child
knew his letters well as | did, and all
because the teaching had been done in. an
entertaining way"
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$4,000 A YEAR FOR COLLEGE.
Sum That Permits a Boy to Retain
His Social Position.
Christian Advocate.


BY order Of court father in New York
has been ordered to allow his sixteen-year-
old son $4,000 year for his expenses while
at college. The boy has an Independent in
come of $500 and is now preparing for
Harvard college, which he expects to enter
next fall He desires to keep up his social
standing while in college and the Supreme
nate the sum he should be allowed for this
purpose. The amount is large-too large
for the moral safety of any boy. The court
has made the mistake which many fathers
have made in allowing their sons such large
sums of money that they not only have not
learned that important lesson, the value of
money but, in finding ways of spending it
upon themselves and sorrow to their in
Gulgent fathers. Some of the famous col
leges of the country are in danger from the
extravaganza of their wealthy students. 1t
is not wealth that gives permanent fame
and popularity to college, but men. With
a few exceptions, the men who in the past
have done the most for America have
gone to a college where large expenditures
were required. The men who to do the
most for the Nation in the future will, with
few exceptions start in life poor. They
cannot go to college, where wealth and not
brains, sets the standard of college life
The result will be that such colleges will
get those who go to college for social dis
play, while the less expensive colleges will
get those who 80 to study and viii become
strong men and rule in the world of ideas
College is not the place for the display of
wealth. College presidents should, by all
means in their power, discourage eXtraVa-
gance, and thus attract those who will con-
world with their knowledge and intellectual
force
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-26
Change in the Churches.
Kansas CITY Journal.

II has been observed that the change in
attitude of the church that has taken place
in the last forty years is Illustrated by the the
What can / do to be saved?'' into What
can / do to save others?" This is certainly
significant And yet each of these questions
average man The man who thinks in a
selfish way only of escaping helltire and
birthstone will probably get them. But the
person who undertakes to save society with
out having proven his ability to save him
self and IS own household will be laugh
ing stock. He saved others; himself he
cannot save" is rare case. 1t is more apt
to be: He cannot save himself; neither
can he save Others.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-26
FOR FEMININE READERS
WOMEN WHO HAVE WON RECOGNI-
TI0N IN SCIENTIFIC CIRCLES.
Room for Diplomacy i'm the Mango
ment of Children-FOr Engaged
Girls 10 Consider-odds and Ends.

AmonC the best known American women
who follow scientific pursuits. says the New
YORK Tribune are Miss Mary j. Rathbun.
Mrs Anna BOtsford Comstock Miss Kath-
crime J. Bush, Miss Harriet Randolph, Mrs
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Miss Katherine
Foot. Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton, Miss Clara
q. Cummings, DR.. Julia w. Snow, Mrs.
Flora Wambaugh Patterson, Miss Kathe--
ine Z. Golden, Mrs Sara A. Plummer Lem
mon and Mrs Alice Merritt Davidson.
Miss Rathbone is curator in the depart
nent of marine invertebrates of the United
States National Museum, and has written a
good deal about biology. Mrs. Comstock is
the wife of John Henry Comstock, professor
Of invertebrate zoology in Cornell Univer-
sity, and is the only woman to be given the
title Of professor at that institution of
learning, for she herself is assistant profess
sor Of zoology as applied to nature study.
She is clever engraver, and has been elect
ed to the Society of American Wood En-
gravers, and because of her belief in the
blessings of farm life she has been made a
member of the Society for the Promotion
Of Agriculture in New York State Her
studio is next to her husbands at Cornell.
Miss Bush is assistant in the geological
department of the Peabody Museum, Yale
University and is a prolific writer, while
Miss Randolph is instructor at Bryn Mawr
College and is the author of Laboratory
Directions in General Biology"
Miss Langdon received the degree of B. s.
and NJ. S. in biology in the University of
Michigan and has pursued her studies with
much success.
The name of Mrs. Elizabeth Cary Agassiz
IS well known to scientists. She is presi-
dent of Radcliffe College and a prolific writ
er on scientific studies, including such sub
jects as travel, natural history and radiates.
She has also written the life and letters of
her distinguished husband. and is an earn
est Christian and firm believer in the
Bible.
Miss Foot won recognition as an earnest
student of cellular morphology, and Mrs.
Elizabeth G. Britton is diTector-in-chief of
the New York botanical gardens. one of
the associate editors of the Plant World
and the author of many books on MOSES.
Miss Cummings is associate professor of
botany in Wellesley College and one of the
editors Of the Plant World, and DIR. Julia
w Snow Is connected with the biological
survey of the lakes undertaken Ly the Uni,e /
States Fish Commission. She is an NJ S.
and PHI. d.
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Advanced Religion. Thousht.

hdIIsdo A<Ily JUuIIIelI
1t represents an immense development IN
religious thought throughout the country
when a popular and widely circulated re-
ligious journal can calmly tell an anxious
inquirer that the atonement is not the cen
traI fact in Christianity. Doubtless there
are still many who win exclaim with the
inquirer. Pray tell us then, what is?" The
reply given is: The Incarnation. And the
editor does not mean by this the doctrine OF
the immaculate conception. but the in
dwelling of God in humanity" If progress
continues in this line we shall yet have
theology which any plain man can under
stand and accept Then. perhaps, religion
will cease to be thing for those who have
or fancy they have a separate and peculiar
sort of understanding.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-26
Fashion suggestions.

New York Post.
One Of the new shirt waists has pointed
shoulder straps, trimmed with linen braid. a
military collar. one broad plat down the
'front.' with a number of tucks or a few
scanty shirrings each side, and a pointed
yoke back. Another style has fiat bretelles
OF ail-over embroidery, reaching from the
shoulders in front to the waist line. These
bretelles are broad at the top tapering to a
point at the ends. IN pink, blue or lilac en-
oroldery they are very effective and novel
on a shirt waist, and they partly cover the
deep yoke which finishes the fronts. On
some waists there Is q yoke at the back
win tueks llike the 'front.' laid horizontally,
80 ~ machine-stitched In a color matching
We embroidery On others applied box
pats are laid in curving lines down the
Dsaeh, and with narrow tuclxs between when
son.
Ahe Dersistent little bolero IN brand-new
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He Produces the seed.
Philadelphia Record.

The merit of Rudyard Kipling's poem,
1.-The White Mans Burden" is fairly we'll
attested by the number of parodies which
it has called into being. Some of the paro-
dies are not so bad. They remind one of
Tennyson's little fable of The Flower" !"
which when it first sprang from the soil
was called a weed; afterward, because of
its beauty, the seed was stolen and sowed
far and wide. and then, when
Most can raise the flowers now,
For all have got the Seed
ii was no longer highly regarded. and was
again called a weed But it is not every
poet who can bring forth seed poem.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-26
motherr and Fnther..

Kansas City Journal.
The National Congress of Mothers has
completed lis four days annual session In
Washington This movement has our hearty
approval for the members of such a small
and scattered class certainly need to get to-
gether once in while TO provide means for
the common defense. We are glad TO see
that Mother G. Stanley Hall keeps up her
(0r his) interest In the cause. and that
Mother Josiah Strong and Mother William
ii. Tolman let the light Of their experience
shine But such conventions should not
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-26

number receive a book prize. Thus, on re-
cent occasion, one lady wore on her bodice
the two vertically parallel lines of the Zodi-
&C sign of Gemini which were interpreted
as The Heavenly Twins. Another wore on
her shoulder q pair of diminutive sabots, or
Two Little Wooden Shoes" A third carried
somewhere q crumb of cheese; this was
THE Mite-y Atom" A fourth wore the
name of the hostess, which implied Our
Mutual Irriand ;,
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-26

favor one portion Of the race. There ought
to be a congress of fathers, and if Father
and Father Mary A. Livermore could be-
persuaded to attend and contribute of their
wisdom there ought to result period of re-
freshment and improvement for the rank
and file of fathers.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-26
JustifiabIe Violence.
Chicago Post

Chicago Post.
How did you happen to hurt him so
much?" asked the policeman when he
reached the scene
"It is all mistake" answered the ring
leaoer Of the rioters regretfully. THE fact
is, we thought he was the weather man."
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-26
OF Course.
Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune
Beg pardon, ma am said the Washing-
ton hotel clerk, but what do YOU near BY
those letters III. c. after your Manner
Mothers Congress, sir," replied the ma
iestic matrOn who had inst registered
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-26

Two prisoners in California have petitioned
for liberty on the ground that imprisonment
does not agree with them. The Governor If
he be a reasonable man, wiil certainly not
hesitate in such a meritorious case.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-26
what she aeeded.


Philadelphia North American.
''phe man / marry she said, must have
no had habits he must be handsome. manly.
loving, generous. liberal, thoughtful-
Miss Frieze, he interrupted. c0ldly. YOU
should marry q department store.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-26
Rather DimcuIt.
Detroit Tribunl

Detroit Tribune.
The only way to keep politics out of the
school board Is to elect men who have
everything they want and possess neither
friends nor enemies.
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Many spaniarda in Our TERRITORY.

The administration is wondering If account
viii have TO be taken Of the presence of be-
tween 40.0O0 and 5000 seasoned Spanish SOL
diers IN the various islands now unde
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-05
ALL BANNACK JOINED
IN The STAMPEDE

When Bannack heard that gold had
been discovered in Alder gulch the town
was deserted in one week The first
settlement of Importance in the present
limits of Montana, and the first capital
of the territory was in few days
time practically abandoned, while men
rushed over the hills in the search for
the coveted gold that the Fairweather
party brought news of.
Before reaching Bannack the mem
beers of the Fairweather party solemnly
agreed with each other that they would
not lisp a syllable TO any man in regard
to their marvellous discovery. They
agreed that they would spend the gold
they had taken from the gulch in the
purchase of provisions and a camping
outfit TO replace what had been taken
from them by the Indians and would
then hasten back at once TO secure the