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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-03
steamer Rugs.

ITO Judge by this lot Of steamer rugs.
oriy Scotch people travel" said a woman
at the rug counter of a large department
store few days ago. The clerk could not
deny that Scotch pIaids were the favorite
steamer rug patterns, and added in justi-
fication of the style that they were much
handsomer than the rugs of former years.
The plush article which was popular
few years ago has little or no value as a
steamer rug now, and is sold in most cases
as carriage OF sleigh laprobe. The pop
ular steamer rug, says a New York ex-
change. is soft article which resemble,
a shawl because CT its fringe and bIanke;
in texture. Rugs of solid black. brown.
drab, and dark green and blue on the one
side. with reverse CT all kinds of Scotch
plaids. are in great demand. and range in
price from 81 to s25. A good domestic ar
ticle. either in solid color or with fancy
border or plaid inside, can be bought for
from 81 to 50. and the delicate. soft fin
ished rug in light drabs and delicate blues
brings the highest prices. Between these
are many English and Scotch makes in
plaids and stripes, and an occasional leur
de lis or diamond pattern in black or white
or some bright color.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-03
Perfumes Her Lngxage.

The Countess de Castellane. who is said
to out Paris Parisians in her expenditures
for perfumes. has carried an idea OF
French perfuners to fanciful extreme
The sixteen four-story trunks which ac-
compared the countess On her recent visit
to New York, says the philadelphia
Press" were lined with perfumed flannel,
ard through gowns and lingeries were
scented amulets stamped with the Castel-
lane crest. Eastern chemists have pre-
pared similar perfumed flannel at S12 ard
Sic yard. An order for thirty yards from
a fashionable woman is not unusual.
Closets. cedar chests. hat boxes. and every
compartment containing dainty toilet be-
longings are lined with it. and every
where the pungent amu!ets are scattered
iavishiy. White violets continue he dis
tinctive perfume of the ultra fashionable.
The Duchess OF Marlborough has created
a vogue for jasmine in London which has
beer taken up by certain women il the
Last
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-03

III you will only pack things In small
boxes" says the woman who knows how
to move, you will have the men who
move you In comparatively beatifc state
of mind. Books. for instance. 1t is
strange. but every woman who has books
to move Immediately gets the biggest box
She can find for them. Books are heavy
anyway and big boxes are liable to break
with their weight. and 1t is almost i'm
possible to move them. They will fit just
as well into small square boxes in which
packages of starch or oatmeal come. and
they will pack into the moving van better
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-03
TEE GRADUATION GOWN
Commencement Dresses Now Show
Touch Of Color.

Something About the Muslin FrocIss
mud Shirt Waists TO BE Worn by
silk Vciling-Efective Simplicity
Is the Desired Styie-nnby Taclss.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-24
LATER.

AT n village 40 miles northwest of
Tien Tsin, China. missionary and
COCO converts held out for six weeks
against Boxers armed with rifles and
swords. They numbered 10000. They
intended binding or killing the whole
population.
Maryland was ravaged by terrific
electrical, wind and rain storms on
the goth and 21st. Several lives were
lost, five or six persons injured, and
the estimated aggregate loss to prop
erty is about $4,000. The storms eff
fectually broke the hottest term ever
known in Maryland.
Ten million dollars damage is esti-
mated to be the result of the forest
fires in Colorado and Wyoming. This
estimate is made by c. L. Wantland,
of Denver. general land agent of the
Union Pacific railroad.
Bresci, the assassin of King Hum.
bert, has asked for a postporement
of mis- trial until witnesses can arrive
from the United States.
Miss Helen Gould has presented $50
specimens of valuable plants, which
are cuttings from the Gould conserv-
atories at lrvington, to the botanical
gardens in Bronx park, New York
City. Her gift has put New York in
possession of plants which cannot be
duplicated anywhere else in the Uni
ted States.
A fund of 5000 has been raised at
Portland, Ore, for the ransom OF Ar
thur Nenville, the brave yonng ap-
prentice who was wounded in Lieut..
Gillmore's boat at Baloa. Iuzon, in
April of last year. He is the only one
of Gillmore's party who has not been
accounted for and it is thought that
he is held captive by the Filipinos.
Executors of the estate of Mrs. Sa-
bina Beer, who recently died at Mad
ison. Pa, found $4,000 in n chest in
the house. 5000 of it in gold. The
house had been vacant for some
weeks.
Two fires at Peoria, ILL.,, on the 2lst
practically destroyed the plant of the
Peoria Lounge and Mattress Go. and
Carroll's ice house. One fireman was
killed by falling walls. Five were Sc
riously injured. The total losses were
100000; partially insured.
Deeds and bills of sale left IN es-
crow by Moses NJ. Davis, Christian
Scientist of Rome, \. Y, who died
July 10, have been delivered to the
trustees OF the Christian Science
church of Rome. BY these papers MIR.
Davis gives the Christian Scientists
$4,000 worth of real estate and S10.-
600 to s12,Jo0 of personal property.
Thomas Banks, of Arkansas City,
Kan, an heir, will contest the Scien-
fists claims.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-24
The entire town c. Columbia, B. C.

The entire town Q. Columbia, b. c..
was destroyed by fire.
Germany believes that the war in
China will not end until the dowager
empress and emperor are captured
and the fugitive government de-
stroyed.
Lord Roberts has been appointed
to succeed Lord Wolseley as COM
mander-in-chief of the British army.
Ignacio Andrade, ex-president of
Venezuela, died in Caracas.
Official dispatches confirm the news
of Pelting's fall. The losses of the al
lies and Chinese are estimated at
1900 each. The Forbidden city in Pc
king was being bombarded by the al
lied forces. The empress dowager of
China was reported by Admiral Remey
to be a prisoner at Peking.
Cuban exhibits at the Paris exposi-
tion received 14O prizes.
Gen. De Wet was reported to have
captured 1900 British and seven guns,
crippling the forces of Kitchener and
Butler. He Joined Delarey, then turned
on his pursuers and completely out
Unanswered them.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-24
FOREIGN.

Washington authorities refuse to ac-
cept Chinese escort for legations,
and insist that allied troops must be
admitted to the city. The interna-
tional forces were near Peking, if not
at its gates. One report declared
they had reached the city. An expert
on Oriental affairs declared all mes
sages from Peking were forged.
The people of Gran, in Hungary, cele-
brated the nine hundredth anniversary
of the introduction of Catholicism
there.
A dispatch leads officials in Wash
ington to believe that the allied forces
have rescued the diplomats and the en-
tire foreign contingent in Peking and
that this has been effected through an
armistice, the first condition of which
was the turning over of the legationers
to the allies either at the walls of Pc
king or within the imperial city itself.
Next to France, the United States
leads the world in the number of hon
ors won at the exposition. The Amer
lean exhibitors have been awarded
$500 grand prizes.
overthrow the sultan and stop the
massacres in Armenia" is the demand
made by the Anglo-American society
in London.
Advices received in London say that
Gen. Dewet has eluded his English
pursuers and joined forces with Gen,
Delarey. 1t is also reported that Pres
ident Steyn, of the Orange Free State,
died from wounds.
Emperor Francis Joseph's seventy.
sixth birthday was celebrated in vi.
emma by display of flags and illumina-
tions.
Peking has been captured by Amer
lean. British, Japanese and Russian
troops acting together. The capita,
of China was entered after hare
fight. The ministers and all under
their care at the legations are now
under strong guard of allies. EN-
peror Kwang-Hsu accompanied tn,
empress dowager in her fight Il
Hsian Flu. American troops will MOI
be withdrawn from China until tn.
lives of foreigners are no longe,
] threatened.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-24

Detroit, Mich, Aug. 2O.-Mr. Henry
b. Ledyard, president of the Michigan
Central railroad, has received num-
ber of letters and kilograms since the
news of the entry into Peking of the al
lied forces was published, congratulate
ing him upon the probable survival of
his daughter, Baroness Won Ketteler.
whose husband, the German minister,
was murdered in Peking. Gen. j. IL.
Wilson, former governor of Matanzas,
was intrustea hr Mr.. Ledyard to find
the baroness and is supposrd 10 have
been with the troops when they
marched into Peking
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-24
The boxer. of China

are attempting to solve gigantic problem,
but they are going about it in the wrong way
and will never succeed. Some people, in
this country, seem to think that they have
as great puzzle on their hands in selecting
a location for home. They will certainly
go about it in the wrong way unless they in
spect the beautiful farming country on the
line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway in Marinette co 'nty, Wisconsin,
where the crops are of the best, work plenty,
water; land sold cheap and on long time.
Why rent farm when you can buy one for
less than you pay for rent? Address G. r..
Rollins, Land Agent, l6l La Sale St., Chi
cago. i'll.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-24
Personal AND POLITICAL.

Washington republicans in conven-
ton at Tacoma nominated j. NJ. Frink,
of King. for governor, and w. L. Jones
and f. w. Cushman for congressman.
The Liberty congress-" held it's
first session at indianapolis, and was
presided over by George S. Boutwell,,
of Massachusetts.
Rev. Joseph j. Harris, of Marion,
H., has been named for lieutenant
governor on the prohibition state
ticket.
The democrats made the following
congressional nominations: Indiana,
Eleventh district, w. ]. Houk; Iowa,
Seventh district, G. w. Crozier; Mich
igan, Ninth district, F. c. Fowler;
Wisconsin, Ninth district, E. II.
Schweppe.
Gov. Roosevelt will make campaign
tour as far as the Rocky mountains, de-
livering IS set speeches in the round
trip.
j. n. w. Rumple has been nominated
for congress by the republicans in the
Second Iowa district.
Iowa democrats at the state con-
venton in Cedar Rapids nominated S.
G. Crane for secretary of state and
Endorsed Bryan.
Chief Justice Henry Green, of the
Pennsylvania supreme court, died at
Atlantic City, N. j., aged ~ years.
Ex-United States Senator John j.
ingalls,, of Atchison, Kan, died at Las
Vegas Hot Springs, n. NJ. after a
years illness, aged 67 years.
New York democrats will hold their
state convention in Saratoga Springs
September IL.
The liberty congress at indianapolis
indorsed Bryan with but Is dissenting
votes. The independents will meet
in New York September 5 to NOM
mate new ticket.
The funeral of Coils p. Hunting
ton took place in New York, and
was marked by extreme simplicity.
Charles Stickles, the oldest active
railway engineer in the United States,
died at his home in Oneonta, n. Y,
aged rs years.
John G. Hawley, a well-known and
widely quoted authority on criminal
law, died in Detroit, Mich.
The funeral of ex-senator John j..
ingalls, took place at Atchison, Kan.
Ninth district Tennessee democrats
have nominated r. A. Pierce for con-
gress and Sixth district North Caro-
lima republicans have renominated
John d. Bellamy.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-24

Fourteen hundred Cuban school
teachers called upon President Nc
Kinley in Washington.
The official census gives Greater
New York a population of 3,437,202, an
increase in ten years of o44,611.
Frederick Geddes, herder, and 1000
sheep were burned to death in forest
FIRE at Battle, Wyo.
Fourteen anarchists were in the
plot to kill President Mckinley. The
entire band is under arrest in New
York city and the plot is being grad
ually unraveled.
Caleb Powers, ex-secretary of state
of Kentucky, was convicted at George
town of being an accessory before the
fact to the murder of Gov. Goebel, the
jury fixing the punishment at impris-
onment for life.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has issued a circular notice prohibit
ing the employment of women teleg-
raphers.
Bill Cater (colored) was shot to
death by mob at Doerun, Ga. He
was charged with attempted assault
on white woman.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the 10th were: Brook
lyn, .62O: Pittsburgh, .557; Philadel-
phia. sos; Chicago, 500; Boston, .494;
Cincinnati, .463; st. Louis, .457; New
York, 400.
The entire plant of the Kelly AK
Manufacturing company, valued at
100000, was destroyed by fire at AL
eXandria, Ind.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-24
MAID AND MATRON.

The total number of women over IS
years old employed in the factories
and workshops of the British islandG
belong to trade unions.
Miss Pauline Astor is more patriotic
than her sire, William Waldorf Astor
She was asked recently whether she
was an English girl or Yankee girl.
She replied that she wasn't quite sure.
Her father, she said, was an English
man. AS for herself, she said she
would be an American if the choice
were left to her.
The distinction of being the cham
pion woman nail driver of the country
belongs to Mrs. F. C. f. Mehlhouse, of
Pottstown, Pa. Out of 12 fair contest
ants she carried off first honors by
driving six eight-penny nails into a
two-inch plank in Is seconds. In her
haste she dropped one of the nails,
but despite this handicap she finished
first.
Mdlle. Jane May, the French actress,
has used her influence as the daughter
nit to keep tobacco shop in Paris.
so that when she has grown older and
less in demand than she is to-day she
will have something to fall back on.
The shop is already open and is prov
ing popular success.
Mrs. Mary Church Terrill, of Wash
ington, ID. c., is among the most en-
| lightened colored women of the Unit
ed States. She is a graduate of Ober-
lin, and is a trustee of the public
schools of Washington. She has
studied abroad in Paris, Berlin and
Lausanne, and was once offered a po-
sition in oberlin college.
Mrs. Laura A. Alderman owns the
largest orchard in South Dakota. Ac-
cording to w. N. Irwin, chief of the
division of pomology of the depart
ment of agriculture in Washington.
Mrs. Alderman has, near hurley, Tur-
ner county, $50 acres, in which are
5000 trees, two acres being given over
to plums. Besides the trees there are
1000 currant bushes, 1000 gooseberry
bushes, 500 grapevines and three acres
of Strawberries.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-24
Money Hag'Rsy !aa soiR'Iss'
Heirs OF Union Soldiers who made homestcads OF
less than l0 acres before June 90 1874 tno matter IL
Abandoned " the additional homestead right wns,
not sold or used, should address, with full par
tlcuars, HENRY N. C0PP, Washington, ID. G.


All grocers in town are giving frceya pack
age Of Burnham's Cream Custard, which
makes two quarts of Ice Cream or ten cups
of Custard, no cooking or baking; with the
purchase of package of Burnham's Hasty
Jellycon, the finest prepared Jelly Powder.
Order to-day. Jellycon comes in six deli
cious flayors
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-24
Chinese Outbreak.

eyes," the witness declared, "I could give
further evidence against the prisoner, but,
as Kipling says, chats another"
Never mind what Kip Ling says" inter-
rupted the magistrate; "the Chinee can tes-
tify fur himself when his turn comes."-
New Jersey Law Journal.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-24

The Berkshire Historical society, of
Lenox, Conn, proposes TO make pub
lie park of the large maple grove in
which, until 1890, stood the Little
Red House" where Nathaniel Haw-
thorne lived from 1880 to 1852.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-24
Speak Out.

As a rule the person who says he has no
choice about the spring chicken never looks
thoroughly satisfied with the piece he gets
-Indianapolis Journal
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-08-24
Every nov md Girl

should learn to write with Carter's Ink, be.
cause it is the best in the world. Ink.
hngsin Ink, free. Carter's Ink Co., Boston.
The age-herald., 1900-03-07
COWBOY BLAIKSMITHS

From the Arizona Graphic.
 up at my camp near the Four Peaks" told Jim Bark, the well-known cattleman, 'tthe boys arc all handy with a rifle. We've lot of guns up there. The ofd-fashioned black-powder Winchester has been discard- ed, and nothing but the best goes. Most of the new guns were bought during the Span ish war, when we would experiment all day with tree trunks and rough trenches, learn ing the art of war at home. We found that a bullet from one of the new Winchesters, driven by smokeless powder, was good for four foot and more of pine timber, and for more than an inch of iron. I thought the boys had done about everything in the shooting Nine that could be done long ago, but was mistaken. I sent them up a
The age-herald., 1900-03-07
FELL sHORT OTHERIDEAL

From the New York Mail and Express.
 When school girls grow confidential with one another they sometimes, am told, de- scribe the sort of man who corresponds to what they call their ''beau ideal' Did you ever happen to hear what Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas was credited with saying on this topic? "Wlhen I was at school" she remarked, "I used to vow there were three kinds of men I never could be in- duced ito marry. FIrst, | never would marry Gnan who was younger tIHan I. Second, never would marry man who was shorter than I. Third, never would marry a politician. Well, kept my vow, except that in marrying Mir Douglas I married a man who was not quite as old as I, who was not as tall as I, and who was one of the most prominent politicians of his day.
The age-herald., 1900-03-07
YRs. CLEVELAND TO-DAY

Back from the road Chat leads out of Princeton, N. J., to the Pennsylvania turn pike on the grounds surrounding the big wllte house where ex-Presid'snt Cleveland Hives, graceful, trfmly clad woman can be seen any fair day moving among a great flock of chickens With all the rapt atten- tion of some enc who is deeply concerned in task. It is Mrs. Cleveland Who pos sesses the finest lot of poultry in the coun- try whereabouts.
 Her daily life is that few women would care to lead after having had taste of the life mistress of the White House, but she seems content and happy, says the New York Telegraph. The care and solici- tude of the children, the little social duties made necessary by her husbands position, and the chickens fill her life completely. 1t is a big house she lives in, but the life in it is simple, and the running of 1t is left 1arge.y to an old housekeeper that has been in her family. for years
 Her main ambition is to see their eiils made happy. Their education, under glsc supervision, is one of the most idyllic one can imagine. There is a governess and teacher of languages, and the education
  of their waking life. NoE arduous class or lesson hours, but the simple, Dallral intercourse of refinement of speech and intelligent conversation, added to the best of all education for young girls mind the continued exposition of fine example During the winter days tine blg east room of she south side of the house. which is filled with dainty, pretty objects of art and household adornment, is tine scene of hours of instruction that to the forming mind of the girls are naught but pleasure There are readings and music, new illustrations to crjic3se, besides the general summing up of the wonder of new things that un- fold day by day. In all these hours the mother is there hetping and aiding in the work her heart is so set upo1 When the time for the cflidrens afternoon drive comes she takes herself to the chacken yard where the fleck Is inspected and care given where needed, flor Mrs. Cleveland Is proud and careful of her chickens, and could sGve many a farmer points on their culture.
The age-herald., 1900-03-07
Relief of MSfekinu.

Troops are marching to the relief of Mafeking, and its early relief is not fm- probable. The town is on the line that stretches norfhward toward Cairo. abont two hundred miles above Kimberley. Bridges have been wrecked, and the dis tance must be covered on foot. When the transportation of food supplies is consid- ered this is not a light task, but there are no light tasks in South Africa at present.
 The defense of Mafeking will stand out in history as a fine example of resistance on the part of garrison to a superior force. With less than 1000 men Colonel Baden-Powell has withstood at times three times that number of Boers His food sup plies have been sadly deficient for at least thirty days, and his supply of ammunition must be low.
 Just how strong the relieving column is, Is not known, but 1t would not be sur prising if its object involves much more than the relief of Mafeking. That town Is east of the boundary of the Transvaal and near it. It lies abreast of Johannesburg and Pretoria, and flank movement from 1t would be a reasonable stroke of strate- gy A strong movement from Mafekng would be provisioned from a railroad line. while the Boers would not be in a position to meet 1t. because they would have their
The age-herald., 1900-03-07

hands fullS4n checking Roberts on the south and Butler on the east Mafeking on the west seems to be the best point from which to start an aggressive flank move ment
 The Boers are on interior lines when they face Roberts or Butler, but when they are called on to meet a movement from Mafe- king they will have to move out in the wilderness also, and the advantages and disadvantages will be evenly balanced. Slch superb masters of war as Roberts. Kitchener and Butler are can be trusted to cut out work enough to keep the Boers very busy until snow flies on the high lev els of the two republics next June
The age-herald., 1900-03-07
The Dukes Clever Rejofnder

A story of the Duke of Devonshire is going the rounds of society. Some inouist- tive and indiscreet friend calmly asked the lord president of the council what had been oohe at the cabinet council that day, relates a correspondent in the Chicago News The duke kept both his countenance and his temper and rephed:
 well, the truth is, Lord Salisbury is getting old and so am l, and as he speaks in rather low tone of voice and assI am rather hard of hearing, can't tell you, my dear fellow, anything about itv
The age-herald., 1900-03-07
PARTY NATIONAL CONVENTIONS
nm the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald
 The national conventions of the two great political parties are in bad way. Philadelphia bid s1OO,O0O for the privilege of being the place of the republican gather ing and now 1t is found that the people who made this pledge for it are irrespon- sible, and the amount cannot be raised. It is a case of obtaining Philadelphia for the republican convention's site under false pretenses, but the convention has been de- creed to be held there, and it is difficult to change the arrangement. The trouble of the democratic body takes a different form. This is notified to be held in Kansas City, and the hotel keepers and merchants that cater to the needs of democratic delegates have at once proceeded to put up their prices to an extortionate extent. The ret ributive course would be to declare a mur- rain upon both cities, but the democrats are as much embarrassed in attempting it as are the republicans. It strikes us that the place of the convention should not have been put up at pecuniary auction in the one case, or been permitted to be sub ject to local greed in the other