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The ST. Elizabeth Asylum Union

II was announced yesterday that fifty
new members had been enrolled in the
union at st. Elizabeths Hospital as re-
suit OF the meeting Saturday at Halnes
Hall. In Eighth Street southeast.
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n the finest bcor-it costs no more. p
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cry Co.. Ith and ne.
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summer sun the shade that once was

summer sun the shade that once was
there.
The house will be one of the five
finest country places in America. II
you want to know the other four, they
are George Vanderbilt's "Biltmore,".
near Aiken, S. c.; Anson Phelps, the
Stokes place, in Lenox, Mass; John
Jacob Astor's, up the Hudson, not yet
built, and probably the new idle
Hours,' which is to replace the burned
summer home of w. K. Vanderbilt, on
Long Island. The latter may not be in
the same class with the others. The
burned house was not particularly
grand. Close to these leaders are ex-
Gov. L. P. Morton's "Ellerslie," II. Mex.
Twombly's 'farm' in New Jersey, and
Seward Webb's, away up in Vermont.
The curious point is that these eight
country houses represent five states
OF the union-NeW York, New Jersey,
South Carolina, Vermont and Massachu-
setts. If it were fair to call the New
port villas country houses, sixth state
would have to be added. Society is no
longer gregarious in it's pleasures. It
initiates the English system as closely
as, possible; and in England, as any
novel reader knows, country house
may be anywhere. No one plate is more
fashionable than another.
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Skipper. bear the honey
mooners over the sea to the Paris ex-
position.
Miss Day is peculiar and energetic
character. She is not so young as some
people who are younger She did not
have yacht built from the blue points
of some designer, but bought a tramp
steamer and fitted her up after the
ideas of S. De F. Day, skipper and sail
ing master. She has a masters certifi
cate, which she gained by study at one
of the New York schools of navigation.
Her brother is an ardent yachtsman.
1t runs in the blood.
Miss Day is very rich and rather &C.
centric. Every spring she gets her
yacht into seagoing trim and is off to
strange waters. She was in the West
Indies about the time of the Spanish
war, and had rather exciting time
with spies, hurricanes and other things,
of which she has written in her book
upon the cruise.
OF course there are any number of
young women in New York society who
can ''hand, reef and steer" but the fu-
ture Mrs. Parker is easily the most
nautical of all. In taking actual COM
mand of vessel at sea she has shown
considerable pluck and fearlessness.
OWEN LANGDON.
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THE ISLAND OF ST. HELENA.

several public schools, and recently
founded museum. All parts of the is
land have telephone or telegraphio
communication with Jamestown.
In some ways St. Helena seems to
be one of natures wonderlands.
Many dikes and masses of basaltic
rock seem to have been injected sub.
sequently to the last volcanic erup.
tion of the central crater on the is.
land. Among the more remarkable
instances are the Ass's Ear and Lots
Wife, picturesque pinnacles standing
out on the southeast part of the
crater ridge, and the Chimney on the
coast to the south of Sandy bay. In
the southwest corner of the island
throughout an area of about 40 acres,
scarcely so square yards exist that
are not crossed by dixie.
During the early history of the is.
land the Dutch controlled it, although
it was first discovered by Joao, Por.
tuguese navigator, in May, 1901.
The Dutch withdrew in 1851, and
the island was taken possession of by
the English East India company, who
used it as port of call for vessels
sailing around the Cape of Good
Hope. Twice, once in 1865 and again
in 1873, the Dutch expelled the Eng.
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was permitted to wander at will
about the island, and it was only at
night that a strict surveillance was
kept upon him, and then q field Of
ficer of the English army was de-
tailed to accompany him whenever he
desired to leave the governor gener-
ais house, which had been set aside
for his use.
The little island of St. Helena con-
tains about As square miles. 1t is
situated almost midway between
Africa and South America in the
South Atlantic. To be exact it is
LAO miles from the African coast and
1900 miles from South America. The
island is 1900 miles from Cape Town
and 1000 miles from England. It is
of volcanic origin and is but great
mass of rocks and canyons. On one
side these immense rocks rise in per-
pendicular cliffs to height of from
500 to 1000 feet direct from the, wa
tets edge, while on another, the
windward side, the height of the cliffs
increases to about 2,O00 feet.
Along the coast, and extending in
land for a mile or little over, the is
land is dry and barren, with nothing
to relieve the monotony of the great
rocks but few prickly pear trees
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Ope men, DuncO SteererS and skin
game players.
The interest in this question has be-
come acute. New York remembers
how the bare word of Richard Croker
was enough to shut every poolroom in
the city in 1893, and to keep them shut
for more than two years. That was
not morality; it was shrewd attempt
to compel those who wanted to back
horses to do so at Friend Dwyer's race
tracks, not in the city itself. But it
showed what can be done.
In like manner word by cable from
the boss would this night shut tight
the resorts of the tenderloin, where
youth is robbed of it's innocence; would
shut the gambling dens which flourish
unchecked by the police; would foil
the thieves who ply their trade upon q
percentage basis. Until the word is
spoken, New York must get along with
such measures of partial decency as
can be enforced by private agencies
without the aid of the police, and by
occasional spasms of virtue-or fright.
When the police raid a gambling den,
the players get away-unless, indeed,
the resort is one that has failed to
square ITSELF" When the Comstock
society raids one upon warrant, the
players are caught. Wall street was
enlivened the other day by the sight of
the equipments of gambling house
openly moved from one set of rooms to
another. OF course pamh1inor ;s M
worse than Wall street does under the
name of legitimate business, but the
incident was e6ucative as to the sort
of thing that is going on.
This is presidential year. It is most
likely that orders will come over pretty
soon that it would be we'll to run shut
town until. after election. New York
has stood about as much as it can of
open theft, corruption and misrule.
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She was only 20, Dead Queen IT Chi
and very beautiful. natow".
She died from aphasia, caused by opium
smoking, neglected by those who had
ruined her. Her family, who lived in
Brooklyn, buried her. That was all.
To any stranger in New York it is
surprise to see how big section of tho
city Chinatown has become. Many Of
the oddly-painted signs along it's streets
are those of wholesale merchants who
sell goods to the Celestials IN all the
smaller towns for 50 miles about. Others
are those of Chinese banks. or of the
two rival joss houses, or of the numer-
GUS Chinese restaurants. These latter
are largely patronized by whites-not
only those who drop in out of curiosity,
but fairly regular patrons. Many young
artists and writer's are fond of eating
chop suey and rice a la chinoise, and
handle the chop sticks like natives.
Tenlcents will go farther in Chinatown
than anywhere else in the city, and,
the foreign flavor Of the place some
charms them. There is a branch
of Chinatown uptown, where little busi-
ness is done save the buying and smok-
ing of opium. Down town good deal
of legitimate work is mixed with
vast amount of oriental deviltry.
In the restaurants and joss houses,
in the shops and soap stores and banks
of the quarter, woman's face is rare,
except it be that of a neighbor from the
Hebrew or italian quarter strolling
through. The white slaves Of the opium
dreamers-and these are but frac-
tion of usually hard-working race
are kept closely mewed up in the Sc
clusion that is woman's lot from end
to: end of Asia. They do not want 10
come out upon the street. The drug
saps their vitality and leaves them in
a constant waking sleep that passes
almost without struggle into the
sleep of death, so relaxed is their will
power.
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A LITTLE NONSENSE,

''What is an unknown quantity;
pap "A woman's heart, my SON.
Town Topics.
Hewitt-"Gruet said he was just
dying for q smoke, and so gave him
cigar" Jewett-"And then what
did he say?" Hewitt-"He said he
wished he had died."-Town Topics.
Guest-"Ouch! You've spilled some
soup down my neck!" Waiter-"1's
orful sorry, sab; but you see, sab, Ia
80 in doubt If you is gwine to CUB me
tip er not. it makes me nervous
What to Eat.
"Your minister has very liberal
IDEAS" ''Think SOP" Eyes, indeed. I
heard his sermon last Sun" "Oh,
yes! 1t was long one. But he can
afford to be liberal that way consid-
ering the salary he gets.'-Philadel-
phia Enquirer.
Miss Gushy-"Ah, professor, it was
easy to see that your singing was
from the heart!" Professor Won
Growle-"No, madame, id iss vrom
Ger dlaphragm. Der tones ISIS nod
goot ven dey vrom der heart iss."-
Baltimore American.
Wife-"Did you mail that letter gave
you this morning?' Husband-"Of
course, I did" Wife-"How provok-
ing! I wanted to add postscript" "
Husband (producing the letter.
swell, here it is. Why didn't you tell
me that in the first place" e."-Boston
Traveller.
Truth and the Censor had few warm
words. Remember" said Truth,
''that if am crushed to earth, shall
rise again!" "Then T shall throw you
in the air!" said the Censor. From
which it would appear that the re-
sources of military art are very
numerous and effective.-Detroit Jour-
nal.
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CLAIM EXCESS SERVICE
Letter CaPFleH1' Do Extra Work and
Present Their Claims for Rein-
bursement to Congress.

Acting Attorney General Richards
has transmitted to the senate list
of the amounts which have been re-
ported by the commissioners of the
courts Of claims, representing services
actually performed by letter carriers
in excess of eight hours per day. It
is a long one, and the carriers of ILL.,
nois are well represented in these
claims. They range in amounts from
so cents to several hundred dollars,
According to this list the Chicago car
riers did more extra work than those
of any other city, with the exception
of New York. Many towns in the
state are represented, among them
being Aurora, Belleville, Blooming:
ton, Cairo, Danville, Decatur, Evans.
ton, Freeport, Galesburg, Jackson
vile, Joliet, Kankakee, La Sale, Mat.
toon, Moline, Oak Park, Ottawa,
Pekin, Peoria, Quincy, Rockford, Rock
Island, Springfield, Sterling, Streator
and Waukegan. The carriers of In
diana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan.
Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio,
and Wisconsin cities also have claims
representing several Thousand dollars.
IT,
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PERSONAL AND 1lkPERsoNAL

Franklin Farrell, the millionaire
manufacturer of Connecticut, has an
energetic and >businesslike daughter
in Miss Elsie Farrell, who acts as her
fathers stenographer and typewriter.
+ Sir Ford North, retired from the ju-
dicial bench Of England on a pension
lot E 3,5o0sa year, states that he will
devote his remaining days to the pur-
suit of beetles, moths: and butterflies,
as etymology has always been his
hobby
= Servant girls in Boston who read
Homer, ! Goethe and Schiller, are spok-
:en of in the labor bulletins of Massa-
chusetts just issued. Boston kitchens
showed that while cook books of vari-
Gus makes are the most common, that
good books of other kinds were not at
all unusual.
John Campbell, of Warren, O., first
cousin of the president and familiarly
referred to as 'Uncle John," is a can
didate for postmaster at Warren. He
is the proprietor Of famous eating
: AOASC, dAN I'D o<1AOc W OCS11 d 1CIunA n
ably close resemblance to the presi-
dent. His father was brother of the
presidents mother.
When Good Stomach, one of the
Sioux Indians with the Noveau
cirque in Paris, was5pioked up in the
street drunk and inarticulate, the po-
lice spent the time IN. which he was
SOLDERING up in hunting all over the
city and. surrounding country for an
interpreter of the Sioux language.
They did not find one. When the no.
BILE red man regained the mastery of
his vocal chords it was found that he
spoke nothing but English.
How little Ruskin was known
among the people in the lake country
of England where he passed so much
of his time is illustrated by this Incl
dent: A London tourist entered a
bookstore at Brentwood and asked OF
the female attendant if Ruskin's
books were in great demand. She an
.swered in the negative, adding that
the people thereabouts didn't seem to
trouble much about ''the old gentle.
man who only had a clean collar once
a week."
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maze, and yet, while Paris gets the
credit for it all, it is credit that is not
deserved, for the idea is strictly Amer
ican, and was originated by the foreign
buyers of large American importing
house. True it may have been elabo-
rated partly by Parisians, just as the
dress designers in every other country,
whether it be France, America, Eng
land or Germany, add novelty to the
accepted line, but the idea comes first
from America.
The same is true of some of the pref
tiest of the spring and summer models
in hats, in gowns, and in every sort of
garment designed for the adornment of
woman. 1 met one of the American
buyers the other day, and he told me
something about the methods that
make this practice possible. -.
1--WE bring our ideas over here to have
them stamped with Paris approval" he
said. "As an American woman you
can appreciate how much better a
thing will sell if we advertise it as the
latest Partisan idea rather than a
home manufactured one. If we can get
the Partisan designers to take up with
our ideas, and that is an easy matter,
for they are we'll paid for it, and place
them before the women of Paris. they
are sure to take much better at home
than if they were produced in our own
establishments and had not this stamp
of foreign approval.
'"Take, for instance, in this matter of
ribbons, we might place ribbon
blouse on the American market. that
would be in every way as pretty and
charming as the ones that we are i'm
porting from this country, but the
fashionable folk of the states would
not wear it to any great extent until it
had received the approval of the wom-
en- of Europe, an approval which the
women of Europe would not give sim
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y
house and laying out the grounds of
Mrs. Clarence Mackay, daughter-in-law
of John w. Mackay. A country road
that once ran across the property and
had been freely used for years has been
closed up. The people no longer roam
through the woods as of old. Numbers
of the finest trees have been cut down,
and the whole top of the hill is being
leveled off to give space for one of those
italian gardens whose stiff regularity.
of bordered walk and balanced arbor
70 now so fashionable.
The undertaking reminds one of
nothing so much as the building of a
great railroad. From the ordinary
point of view the hill top is ruined. No
money can put back the fallen trees.
OF restore to the bare plateau where
the house Is to stand unwinking in the
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ply because it was made abroad, and
they can conceive Of nothing good or,
fashionable coming, from. America.
Our women lack the patriotism of a
certain kind that these Partisan wom-
en- have, and until they get it we shall
have to bring out our ideas in Paris II
we wish them to become popular. -. =.
When I see the great quantities Of
ribbon being worn blythe women of
Paris to-day, and know that the pretty
novelties are the product Of American
brains, I cannot help, even il wished
to, feeling proud of the fact that am
an American girl, and it is pleasure to
record in this letter for American
readers the fact that Americans are
designing many of the pretty things
seen in this so-called center of fashion.
: Isee ribbons used in every conceiv-
able way. In addition to the belts and
stock collars for which they have long
been popular they are being introduced
into rufi1es for dresses, capes and the
new summer frocks. Narrow rib
bons appear in rows as garnitures for
the thin organdies, dimities, and 9TH
q wash gowns which are being shown
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OF PALE GRAY CLOTH, CREAM LACE
AND BLUE TAFFETA RIBBON.
ruffles of the ribbon. A tunic of the
foulard in shallow scallops piped with
the ribbon. The tunic has side plaits
over the hip, and double box
plait at the back. The bodice was
made with pointed yoke of Ven
ice lace and fichu effect of the foul.
lard from the shoulders, and tied
in front, this having the green rib
bon put on the scallops. On the sleeves
there were three rows of ribbon above
the elbows, and three below, with two
rows to finish the V at the wrist. !:
A description of pretty cape that
1 have seen will show the effect of rib
bon trimming on these garments. This
was beautiful cape of blue gray cloth
made to fit with glove-like closeness
over the shoulders with small tucks
and lines of stitching, while below
came deep frill of cream guipure lace
softened by ruching of cream chiffon.
A deep band of the cloth was stitched
below the lace. The whole effect was
given natty finish by royal blue taf-
feta ribbon in long ends at the back
and around the high faring collar with
loops and ends to finish in the front.
SADIE MERRITT.
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Island Of ST. Helena as
a PLACE Of Imprisonment
Gen. Cronje the Third Famous Prisoner to b
Confined Within Its Narrow Limits

TITS imprisonment at st. Helena
will but increase the esteem in
which the world holds the
brave Gen. Cronje; to occupy the
same island, and possibly the same
house, in which the great Napoelon
passed his last years will make Of
the brave Boer commander an inter-
national hero.
Severe as the punishment of ban
ishment to q mid-ocean' island may
seem at such q time to a man whose
comrades are fighting a common en-
emy, yet it must be preferable to con-
fnement on board q prison ship at
Cape Town. England cannot we'll &C.
cord Cronje less than she gave Ma
poleon, and if she grants him no
greater liberties than those granted
the French exile his Imprisonment
will not be a harsh one. Napoleon
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What Happened i'm Boston.

'When I was in Boston the other
day" said the man with the bushy whis-
kers, when I was in Boston the other
day"
"Youwentu up to the Bunker Hill mon
ument, of course?' interrupted the
man with the scar on his chin.
mo, sir"
"You saw the subway?''
mo, sir::;,'
"You walked across the commons?"
mo, sir. AS was about to remark,
when I was in Boston the other day,
T."
"You went to the old South church ?"
'No, sir.''
"You rode out to Brookline?'
"No, SIR
"Went to the college grounds?"
':No, SIR"
''Visited the Charlestown navy
yard?'
mo, sir. started out to say when
I was in Boston the other day.
"You went to the new Academy of
Design?'
''No, I didn't ;.
'Took trip to Plymouth Rock?"
''No, sir"
'Then what on earth did you do?''
II have been trying to tell you. I
found the best nickel cigar I ever
smoked for the money, and if you are
q smoker I'll ask you to try one and
give me your opinion. -Was1ington
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degrees. The death rate in the is
land is but 11.49 per thousand, includ-
ing the deaths of visiting invalids and
the deaths from calling ships.
The population of the island is
about 1000 people, the great majority
of whom are whites. OF the popu-
lation more than two-thirds reside in
the little city of jamestown, near
which is located the barracks for the
English garrison.
In Jamestown there is WELL
equipped hospital for the convenience
of the people of the island and for
the seamen on passing vessels; a mod
ern post Office is maintained; the
town is well lighted by street lamps;
has beautiful public gardens and sew
eral fountains; five churches, four
Episcopal, one Protestant Episcopal,
one Baptist and one Roman Catholic;
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AN IRATE BOER.
How Dense Dutchman Was Neatly
Taken In by Three Sma rt Brit
ish Huntsmen.

The ignorance of the Boer farmer of
everything outside the narrow sur
roundings in which he lives is proverb-
ial, and much has been said and writ
ten at different times on the subject.
but the following anecdote will be
found to exemplify the truth of the
statement that for information other
than is contained in the pages of the
Bible the average Boer is as ignorant
as a newborn babe.
Some four or five months since, and
just, perhaps, when race-feeling was at
it's worst in the Transvaal, three of
the British South Africa company's
men, returning from a distant shoot
ing excursion, found themselves on
Boer territory, and, what was infinite
ly worse, overtaken on the open karoo
by heavy rainstorm. For miles
round no shelter was obtainable except
at 9 Boer farm some little distance
ahead. - ss::z114 =ays-ss ..-', ~: ~
Unpleasant as the prospect was Of
having to beg shelter from a Transvaal
farmer, it was just one remove better
than spending a. shelterless night on
the open sandy plain.
One of the party, however, Geordie
Ferguson by name, had had many
years. experience of the country and
it's inhabitants, both native and Dutch,
and he undertook to bring matters to a
successful termination and provide the
others with shelter for the night pro-
viding they did not betray their ma
tionality. So, riding past the stone
kraals and outbuildings to the red
brick farmhouse beyond, the trio were
encountered by tall, shaggy, bearded
specimen of the Boer farmer, rifle in
hand, and with suspicion and hostility
very much apparent in his ill-favored
visage.
Ferguson explained in his best Cape
Dutch and most conciliatory tones,
to which the Boer listened without
budging from the doorway.
''What countryman are you?" he de-
manded, gazing intently into their
dark, unshaven faces, and scrutinizing
their rough ensemble minutely to dis
cover their nationality if possible.
I'm a Caledonian," replied Fer
guson, to his companions utter aston
ishment, who thought he had given the
game away. .
''Ugh!"' 'grunted the Boer. "And he p
pointing to Dan Flatherty.
Hes Celt."
''And that one?"
''He-oh, he's Cymric."
"You can all enter" replied the Boer.
more complacently, tucking his rifle
under his arm, 'but if any of you had
been of that cursed English nation no
shelter would you have had from me or
mine this night."- Cincinnati Enquirer.