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SALES OF REAL ESTATE.
Eleven Transfers, with a Total Con-
sideratiOn of 50, $50.

instruments filed for record in the recorders
Office of Marion county, Indiana. for the twenty
four hours ending at p. m. Jan. %, 1900, as fur
nished by Theo. Stein. abstracter of titles.
ner Pennsylvania and Market streets, Indian
apois. Suite 229. first Office floor, The Lemcke.
Telehone 1860:
Laura F. Briggs to Aaron Sylvester. Lot Sc,
Arsenal Park addition Observation-Disclosures. $500
Jennie X. Smith to Emma Willoughby, Lot
162. Julian ct al's subdivision and addi-
ton to lrvfngtOn 1000
Henry E. Snider to Lucas Snider, Lot sc,
Parker & Hanway's subdivision $50
Wilson NJ. Mathews to Mary A. Mathews,
Lot rs, Robbinss ct al. Hill Place addi-
tlOn oVU
Mary z. Ramsey to Charles L. Hutchinson,
Lot 4. j. L. and II. X. Fatouts subdi-
vision 1000
Henry j. Brander. administrator. to limo
thy O'Connell Lot 81, Spann & Co.'s first
Woodawn addition .......................... 1000
Noah n. Cowger to Marian Pace. Lot 70,
Charles NJ. Coopers, trustee. Prospect
street addition 1000
Helena +. Denison to Emma Lucas. Lot 80.
Joseph w. Berk's subdivision of parts Of
Outlets and .......................... l. 800
Tuttel Culver ct al to Emma Grout Lots
50 and %. inclusive, Culver. Riggs ct al
subdivision 1000
George W. Stout to Thomas McManamon,
Lot 469 Stout's Indiana avenue addition. $50
Eva Erwin to John A. Riley Lot $751; Nc
Cartys twelfth West Side addition........ L. 800
coz
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Deaths.

Maria Blanbelt, ninety-two years, HOG
Linden street. bronchitis
Domick Gilhooley, ffty-fve years, city,
pneumonia.
Joseph Harrah, eighty-four years, city,
exhaustion.
Mary Bartollis. seventy-eight years, 224S
North Pennsylvania street, asthma
Dorothy Hoblit, six years, 1917 East New
York street, diphthe
Glenn Conant, ten months, 2123 Yandes
street pneumonia.
Morris Springer. eighty-two years, 1926
West Washington street, In grippe
Harcissa Haas, twenty-nine years, 2525
North Pennsylvania street, pulmonary tub
erculosis.
William r. Hedges. twenty-eight years,
$40 Warren avenue, consumption.
John Anderson, fifty-nine years, Insane
Hospital. acute gastritis.
Jabez Ozment, forty-three years, 4s215
South Capitol avenue. tuberculosis.
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Butter, EGGS md Cheese.

NEW YORK. Jan. 3.-Butter-Recepts, s, 500
packages; market firm; June creamery 2Og2Sl5c;
cheese.Reeeipts; i6,s5s aPackages; market irm;
fal-made fancy, large. 12%G13c; fall-made fancy,
small. 12$4Q13c; largel ate-made, 11%@12ci small
late-made, 12q12Ac. Eggs-Receipts, IA. 760 pack
21c: Western 2lc loss off; Western ungraded, at
mark, 1SA@19c.
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 23.-Butter steady;
fancy Western creamery, Csc; fancy Western
prints. 25c. Eggs firm; fresh nearby, 21c; fresh
Western, 21c; fresh Southwestern, zoe; fresh
Southern, zoe. Cheese firm but quiet.
CHICAGO, Jan. 23.-On the Produce Exchange
to-day the butter market steady. Cream
cries, 19a24lsc; dairies, 1Sq22c. Cheese firm at
12al3c. Eggs steady: fresh, 16G17c.
BALTIMORE. Jan. 2S.-Butter steady and un-
changed fancy Elgin creamery. 25G26c: Ohio, n
Q22c; dairy, 16@1Sc. Eggs firm at Ice. Cheese
steady.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 23.-Eggs weak; fresh
Missouri and Kansas stock, frsts, 13c doz, cases
returned.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 23.-Cheese, butter and
eggs firm and unchanged.
ST. LOUIS. Jan. 23.-Eggs lower at 14c.
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Production of Pig Iron.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23.-The American
Iron and Steel Association has received
from the manufacturers complete statistics
OF the production of all kinds of pig iron in
the United States in 1899, when the total
production was 1850. 7O3 gross tons, against
H. 7S3. 1874 tons in 1885, an Increase of 1.s46 769
tons. The production of bessemer pig iron
was S.202.77S tons. against 7,337.3si tons in
1898. The stocks of pig iron which were
unsold in the hands of manufacturers or
their agents on Dec. 81, 1899. amounted to
6S i29 tons. against POI. 233 tons on Dec 81,
1895 The whole number of furnaces in
blast on Dec. 81. 1899. was 2S9 against 24O on
June go 1899. and 202 on Dec. 81, 1898.
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Metals.

NEW YORK. Jan. pa further sharp uplift
In the price Of spelter and drop in tin were the
leading features of interest in to-days market.
The former was largely. sympathetic move
shrinkage in demand, predomnance of sellers
and unfavorable news from outside markets.
At the close the Metal Exchange called pig iron
warrants dull; lake copper unchanged. at l6.5oc;
tin unsettled, at 27.50c;, nominal: lead steady,
with 4.70c bid ard 4.75c asked: spelter frmer.
with 47oc bid and 4.Soc asked The brokers
price for lead is 4.45c and for copper 1850.
ST. LOUIS Jan. 2S.-Lead quiet at 4.6oa4. CSC.
Shelter firm a 4 45N1
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VITAL STATISTICS-JAN. %.
Births.

William and Mary Ramsey 20 Hamilton
avenue, girl.
William and Alice Hansen, 1918 Hoyt
avenue, boy.
John and Myrtle Grande, 1888 Shelby
street, boy.
nue. boy.
Arthur and Emma Cox. 2SS Minter street,
girl
Harry and Mary Bird, 1884 Martindala
avenue, boy.
Edward and Ulis Dettrick, Temple ave-
nue. boy.
Joseph and Florence Eshue, East street
and Virginia avenue, girl.
Patrick and Ellen Quinlin, GIL West WAL
nut street, girl.
Emory and Helia Guerin, Is North State
street,
Joseph and Mary Allen, city, girl.
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easier; prime crude, 32lsQ3Sc; prime yellow,
35G3sc.
Freights to Liverpool dull: cotton by
steam. &c, nominal; grain by steam, Sd.
Coffee-Futures opened steady with prices
TO 10 points lower. and closed firm with
prices to 10 points higher. Total sales S,-
600 bags. including: March, 6.soq69Oc; May,
3S0d7. 75c: July, 7.05G720c; September. loo
1850; October. 7.20d7.30c; December. log
750c. Spot Rio steady; mild steady.
Sugar-Raw strong, held higher; refined
firm but quiet.
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General Woods Tour.

CASILDA, Province of Santa Clara
Cuba, Jan. Ex-Governor General Wood and
his party arrived here on board the dis
patch boat ingalls, at daylight this morn
ing. Later the general visited Trinidad
and inspected the Jail, hospitals and other
public buildings at that place. He visited
the post OF Compay X, Second Infantry.
under the command OF Captain Benham,
whom General Wood complimented upon
the manner in which the jail, hospitals and
streets had been kept clean.
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Building Permits.

j. w. Krick addition, 2314 Martindale
avenue, cost $500.
G. +. Hunt Company, frame building
corner State avenue and Deloss street, cost
$1,000
NJ a. Faulkner, repairs, 1916 Wilcox
street, cost $500
III. Cohen. iron shed, corner Maryland
and Missouri streets, cost 5000
II. +. Egan, repairs, 705 Holmes avenue,
cost Sl50
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Marriage Licenses.

Frank Grandjean and Tilda Hiedenrich.
George Buck and Winona McClelien
William Jackson and Stella Kinder.
Marcus Black and Lucille Wilkinson.
John j. Reilly and Estelia Amelia Fieber
Isaac j. Booty and Sarah Burke
Alva Green and Lulu Wainscott
John Nj. Wyatt and Helen III. Avery
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LIABILITIES.
State of Indiana. Office of Auditor of state.

State Of Indiana. Office OF Auditor Of State.
/, the undersigned, auditor of state OF the
State of Indiana, hereby certify that the
above is correct copy of the statement
of the condition OF the above mentioned
company on the S1st day of December, 1884,
as shown by the original statement, and
that the said original statement is now on
file in this Office.
In testimony whereof / here
1SEALLl unto subscribe my name and af-
fix my official seal, this 10Th day
of January, 1900. w. III. HART,
Auditor Of State.
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Hogs - Receipts. $500; shipments. 1000.
There was a noticeable Improvement in
the quality. and the market opened with
statesmen asking good advance in prices.
With no urgent demand from shippers, and
packers not inclined to follow any advance.
not many sales were reported at the start.
Later, however, at what were considered
strong prices compared with yesterdays
average, the offerings changed hands
promptly, and a good clearance was made
in good season. Quotations.:
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Oils.

tifcates. sales of 5000 cash at s1.7O. Shipments
49, 6S brls average, $3.50 brls runs, 1885, iS3 brs
average Sc. O46 brls.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.-Petroeum, rosin and
spirits of turpentine steady.
TOLEDO. Jan. 23.-North Lima, s1.2f: South
Lima and Indiana SII9
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Two Banks Closed.

THOMPSONVILLE. Conn. jan 23.-The
doors of the private banking house of r.
ID & X. Il. Spencer, OF this place. were
closed to-day. simultaneously comes the
information that the doors OF the Robert
+. Spencer banking house. of Hazardville.
Conn.,. were also closed. The two banks are
closely connected
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Tuesdays Bank Clearing..

At New York-Clearings, s2O7, o20 1913; bal
ances, $40, $50.
At Boston-Clearings, s23, 7s2, 31; balances,
$1,957,S44.
At Chicago-Clearings, 500, s91, 574; bal
ances, 81, $50, 490.
At Observation-Disclosures SO, 215, 079; bal
ances, $2.753.573.
At st. Louis-Clearings, $5,3s5,595; bal
ances, $50. 469.
At MISUNDERSTANDING, $3.50, 756; bal
ances. S724, 1856.
AT Cincinnati-Clearings. s2.751 $50.
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Dry Goods.

NEW YORK, Jan. 23-Demand for brown
sheetings and drills moderate home account
and slow for export; prices without change.
Ducks and brown Osnaburgs firm. Denims and
other colored cations strong but demand
moderate. Prints in fair request and steady.
Ginghams strong. Good demand for dark mapped
fabrics for fall. Print cloths firm but quiet
Mems wear fabrics active. Linens strong and
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Inc futures ranged AS Follows:

Cash quotations were as follows, Flour firm.
No. 8 spring wheat 60&g6ic: No. red. 67g6Sc
oats. 2Sc: No. 2 white. 251k@25tsc; No. 9 white,
2s%q25lkc No 2 rye. 52l5c- No barley seq pa
Clover seed, contract grade. sSS5. Prime
mSShy SEED. Lard 0O per Moss ios f fSs soa5 &c.
Short-rib sides Goosel, s5;5O95.sO Pry-salted
shoulders (boxed), $5.50I5.75. Short-clear sides
(boxed), s5.9Od6. Whisky. dst.lers' finished
goods. basis high wines. per gal, 81 23h
corn, 2i7, 900 bu; oats 2S3 900 bu rye 20 600 blu;
barley. Sc. 600 blu. Shipments-Flour. 81. 600 brs:
wheat So 900 bu corn 159 900 bu oats, 1S9 900 bu;
rye, II, 900 bu: barley, 81 900 bu.
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Cotton.

NEW ORLEANS. Jan. 23-Cotton steady;
sales, $3.50 bales; Ordinary. 6$sc; good ordinary.
S o l4W mlddng SSG m gaiT s1se
ceipts, II, 5Si bales; stock, $50, 29i bales.
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The Missouri Supreme Court has affirmed
the judgment OF the lower court which
sentenced John +. Kennedy to the peni-
Tertiary for twenty years for robbing a
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis train.
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LOCAL GRAIN AND PRODUCE.
Fine Weather Improving Trade
Prices, as n Rule, Firm.

Trade Is again reaching very satisfactory pro-
portions, the only drawback being the muddy
roads when one leaves cities and towns not di-
rectly the railways which emphasizes the
wisdom shown In some parts OF the State in the
grading and graveling of country roads. Prices
continue firm and in some lines still have a
hardening tendency Dry goods and provisions
are very firm at the advances of Monday and
yesterday weakness shown in any mar
ket. The mild weather admits of the free ship
fit of the commission houses. The hide market
is active, as is the leather market. at unchanged
The local grain market is dull and receipts of
all eer1 knd o ss AZ the E nd
prices on track. as furnished by the secretary Of
wheatSNo. 2 red, ss.se; track. e7hc on milling
colOrl, slAc; No: white; 2sA@8OHc; No. white
White mixed: SsgssNs: No; yellow. slc:' No
soEc; No mixed. So&c; No mixed. 27AS
No 0asN Sea s Ehit No a:G m Ned white s5c
Hay-No. timothy. NlGn5o No. timothy.
Inspections-wheat: No. 8 red. cars. Corn
No. 3 white. ! car; No: yellow. car; No. 3
Poultry and other Produce.
prices paid by shippers)
young toms. &c; culs, &c; turkeys. hens. old
fat. &c; turkeys, TOMS old, fat, DC; springs, to
4 lbs 6Iac; hens. &c: cocks. 3Iec; ducks full
feathered, sc; geese. full feathered. choice. 4c
geese. picked. &c.
Swiss l6di7c: brick, 14c; limburger, lac.
Butter--Choice roll, 15c per Id; poor. No. g
10FIi2c.
Eggs-Fresh. lie per doz.
Feathers-Prime geese. zoe per ID; prime duck
i0l17c per h.
Beeswax-soc for yellow: 25c for dark.
Wool-Medium. unwashed. 1Sd19c; tub-washed
2oG25c: bury and unmerchantable. sc less.
HIDES, TALLOW, ETC.
Green-salted Hides-No i. 10c; No. 2, &c; No
I calf lie: No. calf. SIC.
CIrease-White, &C; yellow, sac; brown, 2Kc
Ta!low-No. /. 4l3c: No. 2, &c.
Rones-Dry. $l2Q13 per ton.
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Sheep-Receipts light; shipments none.
With a very moderate supply of sheep and
lambs, the market necessarily continues
quiet. but the offerings were taken by local
butchers at fully steady prices. The Offer
ings included just decent sixty eight to sew
cnty-eight-pound lambs, that sold at s5q
Z
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INDIANAPOLIS AGENTS.
HALL & HILL, I47 East Market Street.
M. SCHNEIDER & son, Sc Baldwin Block.
DUGDALE & DONEY, $50 Lemcke BIdins.
RAILROAD TIME GARD.

p. NJ. time is in BLACK fgures.-Trains marked
thus: Daily. S-sleeper. P-Parlor Car. O.
Chair Car. D-Dining Car. Except Sunday.
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CHICAGO STOCK QUOTATIONS.
L. W. Louis. Room IL. Board of Trade. Indian
apolis furnishes the following Chicago quota
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TOOK A SHARP TUMBLE
NEW YORK STOCKS WEAKENED
BY FOREIGN INFLUENCES.

Failed to Recover when the Bear
Trade Is Sharing substantial Gains.
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Copy of Statement Of the Condition
OF THE
AIIennannia
Fire Insurance Company
On the 3lst day of December. 1899.

1t is located at No. 52s Wood street.
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The amount OF its capital is.........-.$ 100000
The amount of its capital paid up is. 900
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WIN. STEINMEYER. President.
G.. w. HAMMER, Secretary.
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Hogs-Receipts, 1,5OO; shipments, 1870.
The quality was only fair, there being only
very few heavy hogs on sale. The supply
consisted mostly of light and mixed
grades. The market opened active and
higher. All sold early and the close was
strong. Quotations:
Good to choice medium and
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Sheep-Receipts none; shipments none.
The sheep and lamb market continues
in a strong position, with good demand
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oA-~' $500 - - . . . . . . o . sc@~f W.
UNITED STATES BONDS.

United States twos, registered
United States threes, registered ........-
United States threes. coupon ............
United States new fOurs, registered.
United States new tours. coupon 5000.
United States old fours. registered......
United States old tours. coupon .........
United States fives. registered ...........
United States fives. coupon ..............
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G. c. & st. L. Ry--Big II Route
ty T'k't Office, No. 4 E.wash. Sc.
Depart Arrive.
CLEVELAND LINE.

Muncie accommodation. ass
Union City acco'dations4.5 SO
'Cleve. ~. & Bos. ex. a. - 25
The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-02-13
To RUN AN AUTOMOBILE
One Mere Woman Found 1t
an Exciting Sport.
TAUGHT By A NAVAL INSTRUCTOR

Provided He Ia Reasonably Intelligent
and QuieE-wiIted, Any One Gan Master
the Tricks OF the various Levers Within
-Four or Five LessOns-The bite Lot
teuT Automobiii-ts of the Coy.
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| have climbed Western Mills mounted on
the uncertain back of a tricky mountain
buTrU; | have taken numbeTless trips in
the Ferris Wheel and i'm a fit of insanity
| once shot the chutes but in the autOmo-
bile | have met my Waterloo Please
stop at drug store long enough for me
10 GET a dose of bromo-something that
VII settle my shattered neTves-and then
take ne home"
You'll be all right tomorrow" con-
solinSly remarked this pioneer of automO-
bile instructors, who has numbered
scores Of tidgety Newport bellies among
his pupils. You're tired and nervous
now, but unless you're mighty different
from the rest Of EN-. you'll be back to-
morrow bright and early for another les
son.
And the man guessed right the very first
time.
Having once felt the vehicle glide easily
along under the slightest pressure Of the
lever. you can't let go. You don't want
TO let CO.
The seductive fascination OF this lux
uriOusly comfortable way Of taking a rice
is irresistible. ] is this that makes auto
mobiling popular. Its practicability has
made the popularity lasting.
The automobile has come to stay
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SHREWD LADY DOUGLAS.
Career OF the song and Dance Artist Who
Caught IL NObiemau.

From the New York telegraph
Vow that the "Markiss o Queeusberrv''
has been knocked out in a finish fight
with the grim reaper Lady Sholto Doug
las moves up peg in the aTisJOCTatic
scale
Her husband is a younger son, but his
elder brother is not of hardy stock, and
The time may yet come when that tough
l,ur sOubretGe of the California dance
halls will grace the Queens drawing
room.
Lord Sholto Douglas, a neer-do-weel,
had been sent out 10 the extreme western
limit Of this country with the expectation
that he would either become 4 man or
drink himself TO death.
His ambition seemed TO incline him to-
ward bdcchanaliau orgy rather than hon
Isl labor. and while somewhat blurred by
stmu.ants up in Washington Territory,
be .wOke one morning TO a realization
that h- was the lawful welded husband
OF Loretta Adds, pert and plump song
and dance artistic, whose shrewd and
wa;ghful mother had long planned
suitable matrimonial alliance for her gift
"a child
His lordship, a lOose-jointed, gaWkish
young Euglishman, whose mentality was
feeble even when unObscured by strong
drink accepted the situation with dog
Ike submission, and seemed 10 regard II
as AL equitable proceeding that his wife
should support him in exchange for titled
LJlUTs
The papers were full Of the affair, Of
course. and portraits OF the Marquis OF
= ItrusbrrTy's new daughter-in-Iaw were
published all over the country.
Tony Pastor, a sagacious person, brought
he o. ~ New York for a brief engage
lr.t She dd not cause spontaneous
.JuagsJiOu, bur crowds went 10 see her.
What they saw was a black-eyed, CulI-
facet little woman, with chubby legs, VINO
l.t "a typical mining town ser!o-com!c
turn.
Upon leaving the American metropolis
lady Douglas returned 10 Chicago, land
!.- there IN a fearful and gr.ef-strlckcn
condition. An Irish vaudeville comedian.
DO MAS a traveller by the same train,
aal llve.gled her into a game Of chance
a.i Won all her New York savings al
craps
Lady Douglas. advised by a Chicago
newspaper acquaintance who would 90
a~.- large chunks OF counsel, but DIRE "
.ae line at financial loan eventually
.u.A..' some OF his loVdships family
|.ar- and Was enabled. 10 continue her
Journey toward the setting sun.
0-HsrGI,ntly the author OF Lord Sho!,o
..t Doe fighting rules which govern tie
t-. ring The world over sent for the
't.s couple and they have been living
..-Er a. q modest allowance ever since
.. .-,riDuyiOn OF his estate VIII place
To- DO .l velvet, and the maternal Adams,
.. guardian and chaperOn OF her lady
-.H W.. le enabled 20 indulge IN new
I..I.. velvet gowns, real gold neck chains,
... other insignia becoming her Improved
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course to the corner of Fourteenth and
F by this time, and the burst of enthu-
siasm with which this was received caused
the Mere Woman TO narrowly miss run
ming down a Senator's wife, VINO was
about to board 4 Connecticut avenue car
and TO bump into the rear Of the car it
self
"Starboard. st-ar-board, there" softly
called the instructor, whose lapse into sea
lingo alone show ed mis- excitement. Go
slowly now"
With a psychic comprehension Of the
situation and the neyer-faiiing Washing
tonian courtesy, and perhaps d grain Of
self-preservation thrown in, drivers and
pedestrians We'd with each other in their
efforts to give the novice a clear track,
and she pursued her triumphant glide
through F. street and down Eleventh to
the Avenue.
Learning TO make a landing at a
curb deepened the anxious wrinkle be-
tween the already strained eyes Of tie
beginner.
A row Of trees south of the site of the
new equestrian statue of Gen. Sherman
was turned into an imaginary row OF
brownstone fronts The Mere Woman's
dearest foe lived in the second Of these
and her dearest chu!n next.
An attempt to pay make-belieye cell
upon the latter brought the vehicle
against the curb with a violence that
would have taken il through the plate
glass OF her dearest foes front 1OOr, the
whole length of her Eall, and clear into
the back paTlOr Fortunately il was only
a tree Complete despair OIL the part Oi
the pupil More patience III the part o.
the teacher.
A superior smile from a dapper young
male past master of the ar Who iiew by
just then in a saucy little lOcOmob!le de-
cided the Mere Woman.
You may take me home" she said,
with fiTmness and an attempt At dignity.
II have ridden a camel, with his humps
and shifting angles, at the Worlds Fair:
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open about his age, and as ready TO pro-
claim il as his wife and his sister are 10
conceal theirs Probably the feeling in
the matter had its origin in the long ago,
when matrimOny was the ordinary wOm-
ans only desirable goal, and when, as
she grew older her chances OF finding
mate diminished percepJiby. The situJ-
ton has 50 entirely changed and spin
slerhOOd has become so inviting, that We
should expect To discover an alteration in
the manners Of women on this point, and
10 nnd them quite candid as 10 their
claims 10 maturity or the reverse.
Fifty years to-day looks a. forty did
score of years ago. Thirty, always
/ veg Tinsome age. the age of woman's
most captivating beauty. is not now 10 be
distinguished in freshness and bloom frCm
f twenty-five Outdoor lie IS doing .9r
/ woman what nothing Else can do, making
/ them beautiful, and keeping them young