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PUELIO WOBKS. ! i "What Has Been 'Done Upon the Streets j in 1883. j NEARLY KALI 1 MILLION EXPENDED Ami Contracts Under Way For Double Ihe Amount >'ext War. i Persons who have noted tbe newspaper j reports of the proceedings of the board of j public work*--, are aware of the immense j amount of public improvements m pro gress. Persons who have attempted to drive about the city doriog ths past year are Us, still more familiar with the fact that & great city is being made at this point. A call tt the city ecgineer's offica developed an interesting record. Ia street improvement? there has been a very large amount of work done, in all forty-seven streets and venues have been under contract, and four and three-tenth miles have been surfaced with stone pay ing-, twelve and one-tenth mil« 3 gravelled, and o:. and three-fifth miles paved with c&dar, making a total of eighteen miles surfaced. Tbere has been flva and two teeth miles of stone gutters built in grad ing and paying, and twenty-six and three tenth miles of sidewalks built, in the con struction of which 2,690,000 feet of plank ing h-ive been used. The following are the totals of amounts expended in each of those permanent irn pro merit?: Gradi...' $121,874 Paving 68.763 Culverts 28,900 SidewalUs 68,430 Sew»ra?2 161,083 Stairway 430 Wabashaw street bri.lije 55,015 $472,*63 The several expenditures in detail are a* follows, f-bowiiix tf-.e treet, and the aatual amount pp.id this year. A. number of the contracts ire not yet completed. In all thtre have been some seventy contracts givea out, but some of the heavy sewerage and grading contracts are only jn<t carniieneed. GS.II3IMG. Faller street, from Western av«nue to Kent, street, $881. ClajjLotju street, from Thomas to Min neh-ihii street, $3,975. Ellen street, from K;c» to Dale street, $3,968. Ravonx street, from Iglehart to Carroll street, $200. Fifteenth street, from Jsckson to Broad way street, J4.1G5. ricariAiit arenne, from Sixth to Ramsey street, $11,000. Pleasant avenue from Ramsey street to city limits, , 060. Aurora avenue, from Western avenue to Kent street, $2,325. Bradley street, from Magnolia to Mary and street, 1,373. Eighth street, from Cedar to Wabashaw street, *460. Eighth street, from Locust to Kittson street, $1,460. Fourteenth street from Jackson to Cniinua street, $2,771. . Oak street from College avenue to West Third street, $-1,233. Je.-sie street from Minnehaha to Fau quibr - ■'._■■-. >■■!.. ri",o. Chestnut street from Pleasant avenu* to Fort street, $3,336. Beech street from Ssventh to Earl streets, , 195. Siiih street from College avenue to Earl street, $1,433. George street from Concord etreet to Mowhawk trenue, $11,390. Leech street from Ramsey street to Gocdricii avenae, $3,393. Third street from Maria avenue to Maple street, $4,200. Third street from Broadway to Kilt-on streets. $2,350. Martin •treet from Xice to Dale streets, | Neill street from Seventh to Grove streets, $640. G.-.rfield strest from Goodrich avenue to Eamaey strsa: 53,874. Fine street froru Fourth to Grave streets $4,100. S.cith street from Douglas to Exchange ■ .$4,070. Uadford and Deeatur streets from Min neh'iha to North streets, and from Bedford to Treble street?, $6,341. Elm street from Wilkin ttreet to the crossing of the C. M. & St. P. R. R.. > Wallace street from Maple to Earl Colboarn strest from Superior sii^at to Jelf jrsoti avenne, $3,400. Goodhuo street from Duke to Cliff street, f.>.:•.'.:. MenJota strest from the crossing of the C. S:. P. M. £ (). R. R. to Seventh street, Portland aveaus from Western avenue to Dale street? $l]o2o. Shera-.an street from Fort street to the $1,020. Cedar street ' fro':a Twelfth to Bluff j Ailev in block 30, Rice & Irvine's addi tion to St. Paul, if 153. Via-v street, from Riudolph to Seventh streets, $2,040. Rice street, from Bianco street to the north city limits, $1,360. PAVING. •Jackson street, from Seventh to Ninth ! streets, $5,190. ! Seventh street, from Jackson to Fort j Ptreete, $29,996. Siblev street, from Fifth to Seventh j streets, "*5,790. i Third street, from Wacouta to Broadway j street?, $4,890. Wabashaw street, from Third street to i Cj'.iege.avenue, $22,900. j CCLVEBTS. I Phalen creek. $18,700. St. Paul and Duluth Railway viaduct. | $10,200. SIDEWALKS. Throughout the city there has been i bailt 26 10 miles ot sidewalk, in the con- ] struction of which there has been used 2,- ' 690,000 feet of planking, at a cost to the ! city of $53,130, audexaavations for side- \ walks, $290. ' SEWEKAGE. Third ward has had sewers constructed on Third, Fourth, Fifth. Sixth.Seventh and Exshange streets, and repairs on the part • ef St. Peter street, amounting to $20,762. Oak and Sixth streets, from College av enue to Sixth, thence on Fort to Sixth, $2 208. Rondo street, from a point 425 feet west on Louis street to Rica street, $8,697. Fourth street, from Robert to Jackson street, $1,179. Fourth strest, from Robert to Minneso ta street, $905. Seventh street, , from Robert to Minne sota ctrest, $849. Seventh street, from Goodrich to Jeffer son avenue?, $3,910. Ninth street, from Minnesota to Robert street, $690. Wilkin street, from Mcßoal to Elm street, $906. Walnut street system, being work on different smaller streets near Walnet street $7,200. I Exchanga street, from Sherman to Ellen i i street, % 1,243. . \ \ College avenue from St. Peter to Wa- \ 1 bashaw streets, $715. • : ' College avenue from St. Peter to Rica \ { street?, $1,105. \ \ College avenue from Rice to Third; s-ree:^. f 3.350. I" Elis addition, $939. i j Btillwater street system, being Still water ! ptre&t and the smaller streets contiguous, ■ $30,006. j Western avenue system, being Western ! Rve;ue and the smaller streets contiguous. £.10,009. I " Eleventh street from Robert to Minne ! -iota street*, $974. 1 Dale and Oakland streets from Holly to : Grand avenue, $18,925. Cedar street from Nint hto Tenth streets, $1,372. Cedar street from Tenth to Bluff street, $2,920. ' ] Cedar Ptreet from Seventh to Eighth streets, $520. Robert street from Thirteenth street to j University avenue, 3,100. ■ St. Clair street from Seventh street to Toronto avenue, $451. Jefferson avenue from Seventh to Clif ton streets, $284. Canada street, from Fourteenth street to the Valley, $2,060. Fifth street, from Broadway to Minneso ta streets, $4,770. Sixth street, from Broadway to Robert streets, $981. THE WA3ASHAW STEEET BEIDGE, During the year a great improvement has been made in this bridge, five of the spsts having been repaired and built. The structure is one of beauty, and the view from it onoe sees will never be forgotten. Directly underneath is the grand Missis sippi,whilst the view up and down therirer ii unexselled by any on the continent. The improvements to the bridge has been made at a cost of $38,045. STAIEWAY3. A stairway has been built in West St. Peul Sit a cost of $490. balance-;. The following balances of contracts of the various works have not yet beea ex pended: FOE OBADrSG. George street, $2,222; Bedford and De catur stress, $1,219; Wallace street, $2. --340; Colbocrn street, $1,280, Portland avenue, $1,470; Cedar street, from Twelfth street to the bluff, $3,835; Pleasant avenue, from Ramsey street to the city limits, $10,140; View street, $935; Rice St., $435,130; and about $700 held in reserve. FOB SEWEBS. College avenne,from St. Peter to Rice st. $284: Western avenue sewer system, $13, --864; Seventh street, Goodrich to Jeffer son avenues $11,540; St. Clair street, $7. --030; Jefferson avenue, $ll,7l6;Sixth street, $3,519. and about $2,000. in reserve BUMHABY. The contract for city improvements not yet completed and those that have been let, but not yet begun and ender charge of the Board of Pablio Works will aggregate considerably over $000,000, and will add much to the comfort and health of the city. One of the mo3t needed improvements and which is now under contract, 13 the Seventh street viaduct, which will be fin ished as rapidly as possible at a cost of some $138,000. It i 3 also ia contempla tion to build other viaducts aoros3 Pbalen Creek Valley, which is rendered absolutely necessary to the wondrous growth of the city, and the network of railway tracks, which must be crossed in order to get, safely to the Dayton bluff portion of the city. The Phalen valley— a portion of it, at least, will be filled «p. and thus that part of the city to tho east will via with the other localities, &nd be come busy marts, teeming with its tens of thousands of active, e»ergetioand proapsr ona citizens. The board of public works has ranch of the prosperity of the city in itu hands, and wiih tham it depends wheth er it shall in the fnture become as its posi tion demands, the finest city in the great northwest, noted as being the healthiest city on this continent, as it is one of the most beautiful both by nature and by art. That health is contributed to by first class sewerage, well gradeij streets, lovely End well laid out parks and places for recre ation, avenues embowered by shade trees, and with a system so perfaci that the stranger will delight to sojourn here. Our city fathers have dona much, and from what they have now undertaken, this city will stand in the proud position of being the cleanest and healthiest city on the American continent. BTILLWA.TEB SLOBULES. A meeting of the land league -will be held this evening at the usual place. A number of prominent gentlemen in this city have promised to be present and ad dress the audience. The menu at the banquet given to the Ron. D. M. Sabin at the Sawyer house last Saturday eight, was intended to b9 an, exact reproduction of the one prepared at th« Palmer house, Chicago, in honor of Gen. Grant on his return from his Eurc ! psaii and Asiatic trip. Scarcely a night has passed tince the cold weather commenced but there baa been a greater or leas number of lodgers at the city hall, Saturday night being no exception, as two impecunious individuals found there the shelter which they could obtain no where else. At about fifteen minutes to 7 o'clock on Saturday night an alarm of fire was sound jed by the prison whistle, caused by the burning Out of a chimney on one of the S shops in the penitentiary yard. The de l partment responded promptly, bat for i tunately their services were not needed. An old toper in this city, having sworn I '.ogive up his intemperate habits on the ; first day of the new year, declared he I woHld be compelled to keep drunk up to . twelve o'clock Monday night ia order to j hive the evils of intemperance always be i fore his eyes, and to enable him to become i a good cold wa terman, he brought down • his jug on Saturday night and had it filled I with cheap whisky. j The coroner's jury in the case of the four men who were lynched in connection I wi;h the murder af the Posey brothers and Nichols has rendered a verdict to the ef i f eot that a body of armed men took pos ■ session of the jiii and killed Foote, Par . ker, Sw6yzie and Gibb?. confined there. i Swayzie and Parker both confessed to hay ; ing fired the guns. Foote was a promi nent figure in politics for many years. He j represented this county in the legislature, i : vis once oircuit clerk. He was promi nent as the defender of Sheriff Hilliard, 1 when the latter wag killed by Morgan, and i he was shot in the Wilson Hall riot in 1875. : At the time of his death he w&3 deputy revenue collector of this district. Eight j other negroes sr« in jail charged with im plication in the shooting of the Po»eys, . who were not disturbed by the hnchers. Caieo, Dec. 30.— rebsls attacked Gezireh, eight mil?? from Berber. ' -Th« ■ garrison of the town, eeneisting of two companies of Basha B&zomks. repulsed the I assailants with heavy loss. The Egyptian loss was slight. The rebels- intended to attack Berber, but are thwarted by this defeat. THE ST. PAUL DAILT GLOBI, MONDAY MORNIIfG, DECBMBE* 31. 188*. THE WATER WORKS. : A System Complete In It* Every ■T»etall— : The ln.pr«>v.inputs of the IV»t Y*ar. I The water v.orks system of the city of i St. Paul are about as complete as Huch a ! eyateai can well be, and at the same time ; efficiently and economically managed. The I supply of water is now received from Lake 1 Phalen, a beautiful sheet of water, situated ! among the hills a few miles east of the I city. This lake has been long celebrated j for the clearness nnd"purity of its water, j and from its elevation was considered the most available supply, that could be ob j tamed to meet the wants of the city. Dur : ing the past year the Vadnais lake system has been thoroughly surveyed arid the board of water commissioners have decid ed on utilizing the water from that chain iof lakes, which will give ■• a considerably j greater head of water and a larger supply • than heretofore, in addition to the quanti ty from Lake Phalen. To get this supply ito the city an immense amount of work will hare to be done during the year 1884, but the men and material can be go:, and the ciiy . has the the push and vim to aye it done, and well done, too. THE CONDUIT. There will have to be built a conduit, (which is now in course of construction), which will be six feet high and five and one half feet in width, and will have a ca pacity, when ranning full, of about 30, --000,000 gallons per day. The total length whin finished will be four and a half miles, j Of this amount one mile ha 3 been com- ! pleted, using iv the contraction 1,500,000 brick, 1,000 cabic yards or atone »nd 5,000 barrels of cement. a force is now at work tunneling and doing what grading is pos sible to be ready for active work ia the spring. It is intended to have el! material on the ground so that u:j delay may occur when the frost is gone. The conduit will be nearly ail built in excavations, some of •:hem being fro/a twenty- to fort/ feet deep. It also crosses several marshes, and i piling will be required to give a sound < foundation. The water will be brought in ' 30-iiich mains from the proposed reser voir to Collins street, where it will divide, one main of 24-inch going to St. Anthony hill and the other to the lower ground?. To | assist the pressure in the mains, piimpb j will be vied, especially in the case of tires, but for all ordinary purposes the reservoir pressure will b# »nfScient. This will give a double system for the city, ana greater security incase of fire- The sup ply will be abundant for a city of half a million. The supply of hydrants and gates will be vastly increased, whilst the i cost will be kept at the minimum. THE SEEVICE. The service will be greatly improved, and the citizens will enjoy the benefits arising therefrom. It if also the intention to have the water service distributed more liberally in the public parks, and some unique public fountains are to be erected in different parts of the city. This will be a grand step in advance, and will do much to give the city a still greater metropolitan appearanoe. With the system now in operation, and what will be completed the present year, St. Psnl will stand far ahead of anything in the west for th 9 purity of its water, the efficiency of its system, the abundance of its supply, and the small nesa of its cost to the citizens. As soon as the Seventh street aqueduct is finished, Dayton's bluff will be supplied more effi ciently than at any former time, and prop erty which is now very valuable, will in crease still more. Ail these advantages pet the city :■. a position to say to all, we give you an abundant supply of the very cest water, securing to you protection from fire, and all the other bsneffes aris ing therefrom. We make thi-s a desirable plase in which to live, and we invite you to aid us in making this city seooud to none. We do our part, and we call upon you to do yours. The income of the board for the year has been $354,506.34: and the expenditures $336,959.86, leaving a balance on hand of $17,540.48. The income was received un der the following heads: Water rate?, bonds, construction!, repair*, connections, shutting off and on water, bills payable and misoallaniou*. In the expense account, the largest amount for material paid was for 1,943. --800 brick acd 4,954 barrels of cement. At the Ist of December last there were 236 fir» hydrant of which thirty-nine were placed during- Va: year. Twenty-four sprinkling hydrants have been pla«ad dur ing the year. In all there are 260 hydrants, 272 gates and 135 meters. There are also 2,431 sewar pipes. The following mains have been laid dur ing the past year: Fourteenth, east of Jackson street, 159 feet of C inch pipe. To connect Exchange street with Wilkin street 2o f et 4 inch. •Viikin street, from Sherman to Bluff streets, 1,154 f«et 8 iock. Mcßoal street, from Wilkin to Forbes streets, 8 4 feet 6 inch. Wacoata street from Third to Seventh etroets, 4o f*et focr iech and l.ilo feet 6 inch. Fifth street, from Sibley to Kittson streets, [,836 feet 4 inch and I,olb feet 6 inch. ■ Sixth street, from Jackson to Kittson streets, 1,806 feet 4 inch. Xatth 6treet from Locust to Cedar streets, 617 feet l inch, and 1,00 , feet 6 inch. Robert street, from Ninth to Tenth streets. 875 foot 6 inch . Jackson street, from Fourteenth to Fifteen streets. 255 feet, 6 inch. Ninth street, from Robert to Cedar streets, 751 feet, 6 inch. Sherman street, from Fort to Exchange streets 533 feet, 6 inch. Kittßori street from Fifth to S9venth street, 5i6 6 inrh. Seventh etreet above Kittson street, 20 feet, 5 inch. (Jtseao street from Lafayette avenue to lit. i lit, 675 feet, 6 inch. North street from Bedford to Barr streets, 483 feet, 6 inch. Bradley street from Woodward avenue to Norti street, 837 feet, 6 inch. Hopkins street we6t of Bradley strset,9o feet, 6 inch. Bedford street from Nimth to Hinnehaha stresta 1278 feet, • inch. ; Oak street north acd south of Chestnut street, 333 fast, 6 inch. Pleasant avenue from Sherman to Forbes streets, 828 feet 6 inch. Forbes street from Pleasant avenue to Mcßoil streets, 1,895 feet, 6 inch. Eighth street,from Cedar to Minaesota streets; 380 feet, 4^nch. Beaumont street from Bradley to DeSota streets, 835 feet. 6 inch. Burr street from Collins to Farquier streets, 1,500 feet, 6 inch. ! College avenue from Wabashaw to Oak streets, [ 410 feet, 6imch. \ | Sibley street from Seventh to Eighth streets, 305 feet, 4 inch. Fourth street from Wabashaw to John streets, I l,B?9feef, 6 inch. | John Stree: above Fomrth street, 20 feet, 6 inch. Coliiri street above Bedford street, 20 feet, 6 inch. Cedar street from Third to Tenth streets, | 2,445 feet. 12 inch. • Broadway street from Third t» Seventh | streets, 1.412 feet. 16 inch, and 25 feet, 24 inch. [ A t»tal for the year of 25,927 feet, or 4 4807 --j S°2SO miles. The total number of feet of water pipe laid ia the city of St. Paul up to Decem ; ber 1. 1883, is: 4-inch 36,763; 6-inch, 77, --; 38*; 12 inch, 6,085; 16-inch, 24,771; 24 --! inch. 7,025; total, 152,02S feet, or !28 4138-5280 miles. The 24-irch pipe is : laid from Lake Phalen to Collins street. ! TOE KEXT YBAB. ! The amount intended to be expended in ! the year 1884 will be far ia excess of any ' previous year. Some idea of the vast ' amount may be learned from . the follow : ing figures: - There have already been con- tracts entered into for 19,500 ; feet 30-inoh pipe; 11,000 feet inch; 11,000 20-inch; 9,508 feet 16-inch; 10,000 feet 12-inch; 26, --! 000 feet 6-inch, and 9,000 feet 4-moh, or a" I total of 90,000 feet, or 18 960-5290 miles, ; an amount nearly equal to two thirds the ; length of the whole present system, and i for volume will be considerably more. The | iron pipe alone will require an expenditure |of over §250,000, ; and it has baen pur i chased at a very reasonable figure. Some idea of tko vast quantity may be learned when the hauling contract from; the cars has been for over $11,000. The total ' expenditure for the year will be in the neighborhood of $660,000. There will be 150 new hydrants and 150 gates. From the foregoing it will be seen that the board of j water commissioners ate alive to the wants of (his growing and enter prising city, and it 3 officers being men of experience and probity, the very best care will be exercised in the outlay, S3 that the citizens will have the very best value for the expenditures. The people day well be proud of their water works system, and can dhow to the world the best and purest of water. THE COMMITTEES. Gat.i Vindicates the Speaker* Selection amdlUbulces Bis Critics. [Special Telegram t« the Globe.] Cincinnati, Dae. 27—"Gath" writes in the Enquirer; criticism in the repub lican papers on Mr. Carlisle's composition of his committees is silly and injurious to the respectable working of our government The peepli expressed themselves about the political complexion' congress many months ago. It is a law in all well-ordered communities that congress or parliament shall arrange Itself for business with re spect to its ova ..understanding. We arrive at that easily by th contest for speaker. The issue was fairly drawn between Randall and Carlisle Votes which went for Cox indicated nothing bat a noose that ha drew around a large state deles ation, bundled in with some personal friends. Carlisle repre sented an inquiry into our revenue system and its justice toward tax payers and con sumers. Randall represented that old whig eleme&S in the Democratic party of which his father was a member. Josiah Randall, as I understand it, was a .Phila delphia whig. Randall wa3 beaten by the votes of the as yet unmanufacturinjf states of the west, by the south, and by tha scat tering votes in general directions. He appears, after having sulked a' little while, to have come forward and accepted his fate with phil osophy. One thing can be said in favor of the southern members, that they did not allow mere gratitude to Randall for hiving brought the force bill a good many years ago to attract them to him in placa of toward an issue of the present "day. Randall's argument with the southern members was two-fold —that he had been taeir sectional friend and wa3 in favor of seeing them a manufacturing region. There ws3 a moderate response to both these points from the southern members. I do cot see why the south should noi be wall represented in the committees and have its normal expression in the govern ment. THE OHIO SESAIOiiSHIP. A. Growing Belief that )S»n»;ur Thqrmtr. "Will be the Choice of the C*n«as." 883 I Special Telegram to the Glebe. 1 V*' ? Boston, Dec. —The Washington cor respondent of the Herald says among Ohio Democrats in Washington there is a strong belief that the senatorial contest in that state will result in the election of Judge I Thnrman. The fight between tha Pendle- i ton and Tarns factions has zrown 60 bit- i tsr that it may kill both these candidates. A. prominent Ohio Damoerat who declared ' himself free from all bias or prejudice ■aid to a reporter: "Oar folks believe we can cirry the state next year if we go into the fight united. Now, thi3 senatorial struggle threatens that ■city which ia so essential. •To elect Pen ileton would embitter his opponents, and to elect Payne, or any other distinctive mti-Pendletoa man, would make Pendla ton3 friends mad. We don't want any •ore spots th.it will break oat next year to our injury. Now Thurman is not identi fied with either or any of the factions. He has kept in the background siuo9 he left the senate. He is a big man, and would strengthen our party in the senate. His election would be reoeived with satisfaction by all elements of the party, and I would not be surprised to Bee him nominated by the cauens almost »uanimon»ly. The feeling that he is the one man for the place sndar existing circumstances has been gaining and getting stronger as the fight between the rival candidates has grown more bitter. In a recent letter to a personal friend in this city ex-Senator Thnrman reiterated his declaration that he is not a candidate significantly adding thntitwaa the duty of a Democrat to >erve his party and country when called upon to da so. whose body: was IT! A. Curious C«e of ,JHt9t*kenaidentity-A. lien Bnaies » Corpse Supposed to be That of Hii Brother, bat That Individual Turns up Alive. ISpecial Telegram to too Globe. I VJgT. Naw Toss. Dec. 30.—James Brown, a carpenter, ?pent last Fourth of~Julv with his brother John, a miller, who lives at 319 west Forty-seventh street! Several weeks later John Brown read in the news paper that a man who had given his name as James Brown had been found dead in a lodging home at 299 Bowery, and that his friena3 could not be found. He harried to the place and saw that the dead man an swered his brother's description in every particular, even, te having ' a scar over his right eye. two front teeth missing and a scar on his left leg. He buried the bedy in the New York Bay cemetary at an expense of $50, and kept the $25 found on the dead, believing it belonged to his brother. Several days ago one of Jno. Brown's workmen who knew of the burial was staggered by meeting James alive and well hurrying toward a big box factory In Twenty-seecnd street. James learned there for the first time that he was sup posed to be dead and in the grave. He hurried to 319 West Forty-seventh street and undeceived his relatives. John Brown said last night he would inform the author ities to-day of the remarkable occurrence. He would like to find, he says, whose corpse it was he buried. James Brown says on his part he has settled down in the city permanently, to prevent another such mistake upsetting his brother's household. Cauaefof Failure. Want of confidence accounts for half of th» business failures of to-day. A. B. Wilkes, B. gad E. Zunmermann and E. Stierle, the drug gist?, are E»t liable to fail for the want of con fidence in Dr. Bosaako's . Cough and Lang Syrup. HegiTes away a bottle free to all who are suffering with coughs, colds, asthma, con eomption, aad ail a.2 eccioas of the throat and ur^s. Bbissase, Queensland, Dec. — The Swedish brig Natal, from Boston, report? meeting the Vorgage, in which the cap tain and first mate were wounded and the second mate killed. The captain shot two of the mutineers, and secured three oth ers. The latter are now prisoners here. WOMAN AND HOME. " Hints in Courtesy—A Poor Girl's Room— Cooking. How to Save Che . Boys—An Ex- Sii-.ii.'-. V*ifV---C3os:io Helps ' — Hnmos for Traveling Women. [Jennie Jane.] It i.- said that ike ladies of Amsterdam and other cities in Holland are establishing hotels for women travelers to /which the other sex ■will not ha admitted, and which are to pro vide graded accommodations adapted to the means of the poorest as well as the richest, but all equally clean, neat and homelike. Such homelike hotels are more needed by women traveling in this country than in any other that is civilized on the face of the earth. In all others prices are graded, women are received without question and given such accommodation as they are able to pay for. In England there are always housekeepers or attendants of their own sex who receive them and carefully attend to the supply of immediate wants. Here it is diffi cult for a woman who is a stranger to obtain admission to any hotel. "Wherever she is put she is charged the . full regulation price and may stay a week without knowing that there is such a person as housekeeper in existence. In short, there is no attempt to create a '"home" feeling, and that is a terrible draw back to hotel life for a woman. The prices, too, are to most women sim ply impossible. The majority of women are dependent, therefore poor. They are or dained to poverty and ' dependence by their consecration to motherhood, and must al ways remain poor because it is so written in the book of life, and human life could not exist without it. It is very rarely, therefore, that they can pay high prices, or fling money about as men do: rarely that they are able to travel unless with their fathers or husbands or brothers; and when they do it is with a hundred small fears and anxieties born of their limited experience, their habit of de pending upon others for direction that men know nothing of. They are laughed at for their fears; they are sneered at for their ig norance of a thousand little facts and cir cumstances which have grown out of the rapid changes of the past few years; they are despised by hotel clerks and waiters, whc consider their time wasted upon them, and they have no feeling of security, which is the first requisite to the enjoyment of peace and comfort to a woman in this world. All these things are better managed abroad, perhaps because civility, courtesy, attention, information, direction and even good man- I ners can be and are separately paid for, and are not in the proprietorial bill. Every woman who has made even the briefest trips abroad will remember with gratitude the care that was taken to provide her with pleasant, safe quarters, the hotel "com missionaires" who performed faithful service and duty for incredibly small sums and the attentive consideration bestowed by "guard" and official upon any woman traveling alone. Said a German Radical to an American lady on passing the frontier: '-"Now you are in Germany, and every movement you make will be under the surveillance of the police; they will know just wHere you come from, and where you are going to, and what your plans are." "Thank Heaven!" replied the lady. "Then they know more than I do, but it is a comfort to feel that somebody knows all about me and that I shall be taken care of." A Few Hints In Courtesy and Polite ness. [Rosella Rica in The Household.] An instance occurred once on board a steamer on lake Erie. A country girl, not thinking or knowing that this act was in vio lation of all rules of courtesy and politeness, picked up the comb and brush belonging to a lady occupying the same state-room and used them in dressing her abundant hair. When done, she surveyed her toilet with sat isfaction before the mirror, touching the tresses here and there, lightly, but the lady opened the window and coolly tossed over board the offending articles before the eyes of the astonished girl. This was not wise, nor womanly, nor right. Another case trans pired, but thedenoument was more creditable to the lady in question. A young girl, un used to the ways of the world, called into requisition the comb and brush of the lady occupant of the same room. She thanked the owner when she replaced the articles. A smile greeted her as the kind woman handed them back to her, saying: "I hope, my dear girl, you will pardon me when I ask you to accept of these from me as a little gift, presented in all kindness and courtesy. And I am sure you are a sensible girl, and will take no offense when I tell you that this thoughtless act of yours has been a breach of politeness. I do not think lam fastidious, when I tell you that I could not t nter into partnership with any one in the use of these articles. There are a great many little things like this, my dear, that you will learn as you grow older and as you are thrown more frequently into good societj'. They are little things, and yet they help to make polite men and women. We must all learn them, they come to us gradually and slowly, and no one need be ashamed if she has not yet learned them. Don't blush, my dear, I am not thinking unkindly of you; I am doing as I would wish another to do by me under the same circumstances, and I am sure I give them cordially and kindly and lovingly." How humane and how thoughtful this was. Good angels must attend and wait upon such a kindly nature! The poor abashed girl murmured her thanks and her gratitude, while the tremulous' poppies of mid-June were not redder than her flaming cheeks. [Gerald ilassey's Lecture.] ' Whilst the modern man appears to have been losing his soul, or never to have found out that he had one, the ancient Egyptians, the Britons, the Hindoos, the Chaldeans, the Gnostics, ail held that men had seven souls. The Dakotas hold that man has four souls. One remains with the corpse; one stays in the village; one passes into the air; and one as cends to the land of spirits. The Khonds of Orissa also recognize the four souls, or four fold souL The Hebrew rabbine sometimes recognize a*riple souL In the Druidic phi losophy man is composed of seven souls or elements; earth, water, air, vapor, fire, blossoms, and the wind of ' purposes or intellectual ghost—and is endowed with seven senses. These are closely related to the seven component parts of the soul in esoteric Buddhism and in Egyptian psychology. The Drama in Kansas City. [St. Louis Globe-Democrat.] As we have heretofore remarked, the Shaksperean drama is "caviare to the gen eral" in Kansas City. . Edwin : Booth is a de lusion, John McCullough is weariness, and Mary Anderson is fatigue in that highly cultured metropolis. We are glad to note, however, that there is something in the drama of the time that suits the "Kansas City taste, and we infer tbi3 much from the announcement that the "Bandit King," as performed by the Jesse James combination, is . now drawing immense audiences •to Coates' opera house every night As one of Kansas City's society beans observed after witnessing the first performance of this thrilling : production: ''It beats Hamlet to - Hellengone. 1' ■ .. The Sauerkraut Era. •: [Exchange.] Dealers in sauerkraut all over the country agree in the solemn announcement that the native American is becoming fond of the national dish of Germany. Lager beer has already well nigh completed the conquest of the globe, but it has not been supposed that sauerkraut was destined to a universal do- . DRESS GOODS. 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