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Richard Hawkins, u p. W. & j.
fireman lcaDsd from his engine in
time on Saturday afternoon The
engine on which lie was riding ran
into the rear end Of u freight train at
Holly Oak The cabooSe WAS tClc-
scopcl to the engine and the coal in
the tender forced to the spot where
he had been standing 50 that had he
remained on the engine he would have
been burned to death. Several Of
the freight Cars were durailel aud
travel stopped. ,
Hawkins was severely cut about
the face by falling on the road bal
last. lie walked across the fields to
the trolley road and boarded car
for Wilmington. lie called upon a
friend and his injuries we're dressed
BY DR.. II. NJ. Finn, Accompanied
by friend he returned to his hone
at Clayton en- Saturday night.
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OI,lnI,onu Floods Vcceding,

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indian red seems to work up we'll with
all navajo blankets. A navajo blanket
is a desirable covering for a couch in an
Indian den. I. like your idea for dining
room walls very much. l wish you would
hang the windows with the tapestry used
on walls, lining the straight curtains to
sill, with green silk corresponding with
the leaf of the design. Arabian net should
be hung under these.
Suggestions for Papers.
M. D. B., Shreveport, La, writes: 81
write to ask you If you would make
few suggestions to me about wall paper,
mantels and hardwood floors? Will you
give me an idea where I can get the
hardwood floors? My hall is to be fin
ished in tan, drawing rooms in two tones
of yellow, dining-room in green, my room
in blue and the guest chamber in pink.
l am particularly anxious to find the
latest styles in papering."
In your tan hall would advise the
us5 of plain paper on walls and ceiling.
Side walls of drawing-room should be Of
yellow, white end gold, in delicate and
yet dignifed designs; arabesques and
colonial patterns are more appropriate IN
parlors in almost all cases than flowers.
Your ceiling in here should be in plain,
clear yellow. Walls in dining-room
could be of plain green paper, with
frieze of tapestry paper having green In
it. The ceiling Of plain color, cafe au
lait would look well with these walls.
Delft blue in your own room, and in the
pink bedroom side walls Of pink roses on
a white ground. with a ceiling Of plain
pink, would be extremely effective,
think you can find an agent for the hard
wood floors through your builder. The
plain style is much prettier than the ones
that come in patterns and figures These
are called "parquetry," and are mosaic.
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curtains in reception room Of yellow bro
cade over white lace, use yellow raw silk
over point d'esprit net. A large rug hav-
ing much tapestry blue would contrast
beautifully with your yellow walls and
curtains, the tapestry with which your two
chairs and divan or davenport are uphol-
stored should combine these two colors If
possible. A few graceful and handsome
pieces of mahogany will complete the fur
nishing in here cha1mingly. It would
be we'll TO emphasize the pretty and pic
turesque effect of your pillars in hall. by
the use. of some dwarf palms in Chinese
jardinieres on teakwood stools. HangfngS
of tapestry lined toward the reception
room with yellow lining silk would look
we'll ii practicable. I would furnish and
color the library with a strong, cold
green. Your Morris chair in brown
would look well in here. You could OBJ
tain a dignified and handsome effect here
in comparatively inexpensive way. Kali
somine the rough walls Of library with the
plain green, but above the picture mold,
which should be set at least eighteen
inches from the ceiling, have smooth
coat of plaster. as if for papering. Now
find a tapestry pattern in paper which re-
produces your green in it's design with
other rich colors and putting it between
the picture mold and ceiling will give you
the. effect of richly painted tapestry
frieZe.
Your ceiling proper can be washed with
plain green little lighter than side walls.
Turkish rugs on your library floor would
be the most beautiful thing you could
use. A large central one would break up
the room less than smaller ones, II you
can afford it. You will find that one hav-
ing much mulberry red and shot with
orange will show up we'll with the cold
green walls. soft shade of rather dark
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a success, I venture to give it to my
readers. I said to her:
For your little bedroom 1 would rec
ommend a soft shade Of old blue, in ra-
ther light color. You can get both
denims and art linens or canvases in this.
Cover your floor with the denim and make
two mats of blue and white rags, either
woven as rag carpets are or crocheted
together. They are very durable and If
made Of strips of indigo and White are
charming against the blue denim. Use
Chinese calico at your window and drape
your little white bed in white dimity. In
stead of a chiffonnier in this room would
make white dressing table of dry goods
box, draped with dimity. Keep it purely
white, like the bed, and on your wash
stand use pretty quaint toilet set of blue
and white. Some tribes in blue and white
Chinese ware will be good on the dress-
ing table, and this scheme gives you a
rare opportunity for delft candlesticks.
Paint your woodwork black in here and
color your walls blue, with tea-green
ceiling and frieze. Two light wicker
chairs in place of wooden ones and foot
stool covered with chinese calico would
complete the room.
Color scheme for Wisconsin House.
Mrs. T. E. W., Oshkosh, Wis, writes:
Il nave been much interested In your
articles on artistic home furnishing and
would be much pleased to have your ad-
vice on the matter of coloring for our
rooms and furniture. From the rough
sketch which Is3have made you can see
how the rooms are situated and how they
open together The house is now being
built, and we have hardwood, floors pol
ished throughout. The wood work will be
polished oak, the windows are broad and
low, and the reception-room is only sep
arated from the main hall proper by
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floor Or. to throw on the backs of chairs,
they would add much.
l would have a carpenter make me a
table Of heavy wood and perfectly plain
lines, and I would stain or have it
stained, in antique oak; this, with soft
papers, reading lamp, writing, etc. An
East Indian chair, a steamer chair with
small Kiskhilim rug and some cushions
on it, would furnish your room in good
style.
Have your lamp fixtures in dull brass.
l would like here a single bed in black
iron, covered during the day, with a val
anced cover of green raw silk. Have also
square day slips made for your pillows of
the green silk, and finish one of them with
rather heavy silk tassels at the corners.
Paint your chiffonnier green, and hang a
broad mirror over it.. Place it in the
room as inconspicuously as possible. If
you have to be encountered with a wash
stand, / would make a tall screen of the
green silk futed on to two brass rods (top
and bottom) and place it in front of it.
You will find that strong, rich prints OF
water colors, and some really good, bril-
liantly colored matter will look fascnat-
ing against your canvas walls, If fringed
in simple black paper mats and tackled
against them.
AS you especially request details in
decoration, l would suggest that bows
and arrows, Indian baskets, tennis rack
cts, pieces of armor, or simple trout bas-
kets and fishing tackle, if well arranged,
will decorate such room.
Patriotic Scheme or Boys Room.
'fClem,' New Jersey, writesc could
you advise me in fitting up a room for
two boys 10 and u years old? The room
is long and rather narrow, 10 x2O feet;
east and; west windows and one north.
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gress in each successive appropriation bill
made the same provision. When William
S. Wilson became postmaster general he
was persuaded by Mr. Machen that con-
gress, by successfully providing this
fund, intended that the experiment should
be made and was induced to order the
establishment Of route. He chose his
home town Of Charlestown, w. Va, as the
place for the experiment, and according
ly the first rural route was put In opera
tion there on Oct. l, 1896. From the be-
ginning it was success, and eight other
routes were laid out and operated at
widely scattered points.
From this small beginning came the
present vast system which covers almost
the entire country. The service now en-
braces between 1000 and 5000 routes, and
the number is growing at the rate Of 500
a month. Approximately 5000, 900 persons
are served, an average of 500 on each
route. The cost of the service for the
next fiscal year is estimated at $6,250, 900.
Now that the rural free delivery service
has grown beyond the experimental stage,
an effort is being made in congress to
create the Office of fifth assistant post
master general, who will have entire
charge of the free delivery service, city
and rural. II the Office is created it is
not improbable that A. w. Machen will
be appointed to the new Office, in view Of
his good work for the service in the past
six years.
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ih1R I1fA II 1SCSnCly 1SCSlFCu oil S1p-
jsI Efal peal for help from young boy
lsN9 ESHl who possesses artistic tastes
}GA E8I and evinces willingness to do
iasAauz2szl the work Of making his room at
tractive with his own hands. The scheme
! have furnished him may be Of help to
many others, and with this hope l give
my responses to his letter.
You say that you have a handsome
bedroom with an eastern bay window
that you arc artistic in your tastes and
ambitious to beautify your room, and
(Which appeals to me moSt) that you
mean to do the work with your own
hands. Here is "a scheme which, if you
will carry it out in every particular, you
can but be pleased with. Cover your
walls with fabricona. You may not know
that this Is a prepared canvas which
comes in beautiful colorings, is put on
just as paper is, and gives to the walls
the effect of Fabric" which is now con-
sidered so necessary to really artistic
effect. ] would advise you to get good
paper hanger to do this part of your
work
Have your walls the unbleached color
OF burlaps or coffee sacklng, and for your
frieze above your picture mold stencil a
design on the canvas Of large conven-
tionaliZed peoples in gold. You can. make
your design and have plate made; then
merely wash your gold paint through the
plate. I would have my ceiling Of plain
tan. Paint your floor, your chairs and
your woodwork a good hunters green and
hang curtains in your doorway and win
dows of green burlaps the exact color OF
your paint Line the door curtains with
pongee silk and use pongee white curtains
against your panes. Use a Turkish or
black fur rug on your floor, and if you
have two or three good skins Of animals
red fox, wild cat, etc., to use on your
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carved columns supporting the curved :,
beam as have sketched it. The railing |

carved columns supporting the curved
beam as have sketched it. The railing
is open part way up the stairs. We have
thought Of putting a Pompe1ian red i'm
ported tapestry in the dining room with a
little green leaf design in it, and a rug
with symmetrical design on green back
ground, which we have All other rugs
and furnishings we will have to get new,
and would like to carry out a color scheme
that you think would give the best re-
suits. What would you suggest for the
library walls and floor? In the way of
furnishing we have a carved oak library
table and morris chair with brown cush-
ions and a Siberian reindeer skin over
the back. would like to have the recep-
ton room In yellow and furnished dam
tily, but we do not know whether it
should be done so, or treated entirely as
a hail. Would it do to have them differ
emit? What would you suggest? Would
you use one large rug in these rooms or
small ones? Upstairs we want to furnish
a den, and have for the floor Naval O
blanket, mostly purple, with some red
and yellow in it. What would you put on
the walls, and what would. you suggest as
a suitable covering for a large couch for
that room? What color do you think
would look best in library and hall?'
If you will leave the walls Of your hall
with rough coat of plaster and then
kalsomine them with a very soft shade
of yellow tan you can secure a beautiful
effect by paperlng the wall of reception
room with "a pure, creamy yellow paper
with some gold I'M the figures. You under
stand that mean to eliminate the gray
ish tone of hall that is always in tan, and
in the reception room warm it into a
pure golden yellow. Your ceiling in ,'e-
ceution room should be plain yellow down
to the picture mold. If you cannot afford
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ion. For many years to come there will be
a constant changing and REIMBURSEMENT of
routes, necessarily due to changing con-
ditions of roads, bridges and settlement
In the end, wherever population will war
rant, a delivery approximately house to
house will be the result.
August w. Machen.
August W.. Machen, chief of the free
delivery service of the postoffice depart
ment, may be called the father of rural
free delivery. Mr.. Machen occupied his
present position when the first expert
mental route was established, and has
encouraged it's growth until it is now an
established branch of the United States
postal service, with routes in almost
every congressional district.
Mr.. Machen first entered the postal
service as assistant postmaster at Toledo,
Ohio, in 1886. He served in that capacity
until 1890. At the beginning of the Sec
ond Cleveland administration, in 1893, he
was appointed chief of the free delivery
division, which then had jurisdiction only
over city services. AT that time there
was at the disposal Of the department a
fund Of $4,000 for the establishment Of
an experimental rural free delivery serv-
ice, but Postmaster General Wilson S.
Bissell did not believe such service
could be successfully operated in this
country. He therefore let the appropria-
ton lapse back into the treasury, but con-
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BIG CHIEFS OF FARMERS

Hennepin county has developed a par
ticular interest in the rural free delivery
system. Applications for routes have
been tried, investigated and recommended
SO rapidly that with the proposed routes,
those recently ordered and those already
in operation, every inhabitant Of the coun-
ty will have mall delivered free at his
door, or within walking distance, after
April /. This record is remarkable, and
Hennepin is the first county to have
reached this distinction as yet. In fact,
St has outstripped the counties Of West
Virginia itself, in which the system was
first put in operation
Once tried, although various changes in
routes may be made and improvements
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cldlS 40 ZUI E01
Most OF those reported favorably at
that date have since been ordered estab-
lished The proportion Of cases acted up
on to those petitioned for is considerabl bly,
larger in Minnesota than in Iowa, Kansas,
Nebraska and Texas.
Difficulty. of Establishing Routes.
The work of establishing rural free de-
livery routes grows increasingly difficult
as it progresses. Conflicts of routes and
OF territory create jealousies, and, of
course, complications which require tact
and experience on the part of special
agents to overcome or to allay. In addi-
ton, the rapid changes of the distribu-
tion Of population in the west, the open
ing of new roads, the bridging of streams,
and other factors natural and incident to
a developing country, make it Of the high
est Importance that the future as we'll as
the present should always be considered
in laying out Of rural routes. Few
routes are established as petitioned for
and as few remain a year in operation
without being changed. The resistless
energy of a moving and developing pop
ulation demands particular attention to
peculiar conditions.
1t will take several years to investigate
the applications for rural free delivery
routes now pending in the western divs-
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not reached by the railroads, except mac
cessible and uninhabitable spots, will have
daily deliveries of mail. It is predicted
that within five years this branch of the
service will have grown SO that it will be
almost unwieldy. The idea was suggested
in Wanamaker's administration of the
postofice department, but the real growth
has been attained during the last three
years.
Although the plan had been thoroughly
advertised in the press and the people
were ready for the innovation, much of it's
success depends upon the intelligent work
Of the inspectors, under the guidance of
August w. Machen for the department,
and w. E. Annin in charge of this d.
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may be installed as time suggests, the.
population will never consent to its aban-
donment. The loss. of the fourth-class
postoffices at which the farmers congre-
gated thrice aSWeek for the discussion of
town politics and sthe exchange Of farm
gossip, Is already forgotten. The taste
for the regular receipt CT the daily news
papers and for other conveniences, once
aroused, will never be satisfied otherEt than
by the regular daily visit of Uncle Sans
rural mail carrier.
Rapid Growth of Service
The growth Of the service in a few short
months has been astonishing. The time is
coming when every place in the country
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vision, with Headquarters in Denver, and
of course upon the cooperation OF con-
gressmen.
In Hennepin county, Inspectors Gilbert
Gutterson and H. j. Ormsby are well
known. Last October Mr.. Amin himself
was here. Mr.. Gutterson's work is cor-
fined almost entirely to Minnesota, al
though he has done some work in Iowa.
His, Minneapolis Office is in the federal
building; Mr.. Ormsby has done some
work in Minnesota. but most of his work
has been in Kansas where he is now en-
gagged. He investigated several routes in
the third district. represented by Con-
gresham Heatwole.
Other inspectors we'll known to the
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I have two white iron beds and a set of
wood book shelves that require paint
ing. The walls are smooth finish Wood
work pine. I would like to get rugh in
stead of covering floor all over. Win
dow seats in east and north windows,
| for which ! have cushions not yet COW
cred. l don't want to spend more than
$40. What shall get so as to use the
! colors red, white and blue, to suggest
patriotism and yet not have the room
look too much like flag? The floor is
good. Shall 1 shellac it instead of paint
| ing edges? I have several straight
| chairs and one rocker. I am sure you
will suggest just the striking scheme I
have in vain racked my brain for
If you will use red and white striped
paper on the walls and upholster your
window seats with Turkey red,> hanging
| the windows also with the Turkey red
cotton. You will have fine effect. Paint
| the bookshelves with fine red LACQUER
paint, and drape a flag or two above it,
A few rugs with dark red in them will
assist your scheme and will tone down
the red and white walls. The only blue
in the room should be that of the flags
used, and the beds can be Left all white,
| or have covers of the East Indian red
and white cotton, that is very effective
and inexpensive. Small pictures in black
frames, oval and square, should be hung
in groups against the striped paper.
Cushions covered with the red and white
East Indian stuff would look well on
the plain red window seats. Your floor
can be stained dark brown and finished
| with shellac.
| Bedroom in Delft Blues.
An inexpensive scheme for bedroom
| IN blue Is the following. I once gave it
to young girl and as she followed my
! directions implicitly and the room was
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recently received an ap-
peal for help from a young boy
who possesses artistic tastes
and evinces a willingness to dc
1, Ii III o 4.
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Bedroom in Delft Blues.

An inexpensive scheme for a bedroom
in blue Is the following. once gave it
to young girl and as she followed my
directions implicitly and the room was