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Referring to an article that appeared in
The ivening S-ar of the 14th instant, to
the effect that a lady clerk in the quarter
master general's office who had recently
become a believer In Christian science and
the faith cure had submitted a question to
the War Department for decision In regard
to her rights to sick leave, It is ascertained
from the chief clerk of the quartermaster
general's bureau that so far as that office Is
concerned no such decision has been re
quested by any lady employe.
There is but one lady employed In that
office who is a believer in Christian science.
and she has been a member of that church
for three years or more, and has never of4
cially raised the question for decision of
the War Department with reference to sick
leave.
It is further ascertained that the record
of the female employee In that bureau for
attendance is fully equal to that of the
males, and that only three ladies out of a
force of about fifty have been absent on ac
count of sickness for thirty days each dur
ing the past calendar year, and these were
cases of prolonged serious illness necessi
tating in some Instances hospital treat
ment.
It is also a fact that several lady clerks.
In order to preserve their record of attend
ance, have availed themselves of the priv
ilege of charging absence from sickness to
annual leave.
"While the hand gun of the American
soldier has a grooved bore," said a military
man to a Star reporter, "the same is true of
all modern types of ordnance, from a re
volver to the monster 16-inch cannon. Con
sequently, all of them, regardless of bore or
use, are properly called rifles. The term
rifle describes the type of gun and not its
sie or caliber. According to General Cro
sier, chief of ordnance of the army, the dis
tinctive name of the gun carried by a sol
dier is "musket," that being the only proper
name for the gun carried and operated by
the soldier. Muskets were used during the
revolutionary war, when the soldiers car
r!ed flint locks; during the civil war, when
they carried the Harper's Ferry musket,
and they are now used, in the form of the
Krag-Jorgenssen magazine musket. Rifles
are a modern invention, and as already
said, the term includes all firearms having
grooved bores, from the smallest to the
largest. By the way, the War Department
hasn't yet finally eelected the name of the
musket which is to displace the Krag
Jorgenssen if the tests now in progress are
Auccessful. It Is a magazine gun, and dif
fers mainly from the Krag-Jorgenssen in
having the magazine beneath the barrel
instead of on the side. It was designed by
alicers of the ordnance department as an
improvement bt several other models. Be
causs it is manufactured at the government
arsenal =at .opringfleld. Mass, General Cro
siar calls It!'"The Springield, model of 1103."
but it Ia probable that some more dis
tinctive name will be selected In order to
distinguish it from the more familiar
Springfield gun of former models, use, by
the army for many years following the civil
war."
* *
"The persen who forgets or overlooks a
social engagement, especially if it be for din
ner, occupies an extremely embarrassing
position." The man who gave expression to
this very obvious proposition elicited not a
word either of assent or dissent from the
group of three or four friends who were
enjoying after-dinner cigars. The fact is he
would have been surprised if that observa
tien had proved to be an entering wedge
had started a controversy. The speaker
had merely taken a good start, as the
athletes do for a running jump, and whal
he was after was to bring out a rather
common annoyance en the lives of people
whb like to enjoy the society of their
friends.
"However," he went on, "a treacherous
memory or even carelessness Is a recog
nized frailty of human nature, and every
body Is obliged to be more or less indulgent,
*At any rate, It is an explanation of a cir
cumstance which might prove to be cause
of much feeling, unless some mutual un
derstanding was reached.
"But what are you going to do," he went
on, 'about invitations which are not re
ceived? The person Issuing the invitatlos
has your natae on the list, and the card to
you is treated just like many others. But
you not only fail to put in an appearance
at the function, but you make no ao
knowledgmenit in the way of regret or
otherwise. How is the sender to know that
through some error in transmission or stu
pidity of a servant the Invitation never
reaches Its destination? He does not know
It. All he realizes is that you have totally
Ignored him, and unless he seeks an ex
planation directly he has every reason to
believe that he has been slighted."
Every one agreed with the speaker that
such a situation was full of danger, and
then followed a succession of experiences
which confirmed what had been saId as to
the fatalities which are apt to ensue aftet
a mishap of that character.
The Treasury Department has just ren
Gered a decision that mnalangos are notl
yas,s To reach this oadcusion It was nee
emary that a consultation should be held
between the Secretary of the Treasury and
the Secretary of Agriculture, The lattes
ae,tai, from his superior knowledge of
veetables, was looked to der the experi
infersnation. alangee 'were furnished ad
else yams, and the pot was set merrily
holung. When the Secretary had finished
his judicial repast he declared with empha
dethat mnalangos were not yams. The
fisaetary neglected to state what maltange
were if they were not yams, but the effect
on the treasury wil be the same without
this latter information.
The decision was necessary in order that
the proper Instructions may be issued to
customs collectors. At Key West langas
have been paying a duty of 25 per
hundred pounds. At Tampa they have been
admitted as "other vegetables not classi
fed" free of duty. Hereafter they will come
in free at all ports, a$fj from this fact it
might be argued that the Secretary was
more favorably impressed with the ma
lango than with the yam, as the latter veg
etable has to pay a duty.
* * * * *
Representative- Cushman of Washington
has been "convoyed." He admits this fact
himself, but as to exactly what the result
has been he is somewhat curious-still. The
long, lank westerner met one of his news
paper friends in a corridor of the Capitol
recently, and, putting one of his long arms
around the reporter, he drew him into a
committee room and into a dark corner,
and asked him: "What do they do to peo
ple when they 'convoy' them?" The news
paper man not being able to understand
the application, asked for further particu
lars, whereupon Mr. Cushman related that
he called on former Assistant Secretary
Hill at the State Department a short time
ago to obtain information regarding a cer
tain subject. Dr. Hill touched a bell, and
when the attendant came in he directed
him to "convoy Mr. Cushman."
"I was decidedly suspicious," continued
the man from Washington, "and kept one
hand disentangled during our journey down
the corridor. After thinking it over I came
to the conclusion that to be convoyed must
be to be escorted. I have been 'showed' oc
casionally, once or twice-1 have been 'took'
and on several occasions I have been
'steered,' but, blame me, if that was not
the first time I have ever been 'convoyed.' "
Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota is one
of the most accomplished linguists of the
Senate. A Norwegian by birth, he speaks
that language perfectly. He also speaks
Swedish, Danish, German and, of course,
English. He has a very good -understand
ing of French. Senator Nelson from the
age of twelve years was brought up in
Minnesota, where a mixed population of
Norwegians, Swedish, Danish and Germans
gave him a splendid opportunity to acquire
their languages and being at all times
studious he lost no chance to ajid to his
knowledge. Nothing pleases Senator Nel
son better than to occasionally fall in with
a Norwegian with whom he can speak the
first language he ever heard, but his in
tense Americanism is shown by the fact
that the language of his home is English.
That has always been the language of the
Nelson home. The senator has always been
foremost in doing everything possible in
order that the children of Minnesota shall
regard English as their mother tongue. He
encourages the study of languages, but
English never suffers any neglect on that
account wherever his influence extends.
* * * * *
"Riding down on the trailer of a 7th
street car one of the pleasant days of last
week." said a young man who lives up 6th
street way, "there was an amusing incident
which fairly set the passengers in an up
roar. Seated behind two attractive young
ladies was a good-natured, fatherly-looking
German enjoying a nap. The- young ladies
were engaged in an animated conversation,
and finally one inquired of the other:
"'How many children have you? "
"'Twenty-one.' she replied, 'and how
many have your
-'Oh, I only haie "eight4u1' !ep ld A.
first.
"At this -point the German, now wide
awake with astonishment, leane4 ,forward
and without any formality Inquired in an
audible tone:
" 'Ble'se ma'am, vot bart of Chermany
vas you come from Y to which one Of the
young women blushingly replied:
" "Oh, we are kindergarten teachers.'
"There was a round of laughter, then
painful silence. The young ladies got off at
the next stop. evidently before reaching
their destination, and the German again
dosed off to dreamland."
* * * .**
"Street car conductors experience mnore
trouble with men who consider themselves
funny than with any other class of passen
gers," remarked an employe of the Capital
Traction Company who collects fares on the
14th street line. "On my last up trip I In
qzuired, as usual, 'Transfers for UT I el
like committing murder when a little man
In a far corner of the front car yelled, 'No,
not for you; let's havea transfer for me to
U street.'
"The individual grinned as though he had
said something worthy of a humorist,"
added the disgusted conductor. "It's just
that kind of citizen I'd like to supply with
cause for filing suit against the company
to recover amages for personal Injuries."
Bread Cast Upon the Waters.
"The old adage that one good turn de
serves another is clearly demonstrated In
the case of a Syracuse man who Is deme
oping an industry In our city, as the result
of having befriended a stranger," said T.
F. Bmnroughs. of Ney York city to a Star
man at the New Wiard this morning. "He
was formerly a minister of the gospel. Some
years ago he met an old Swede who was in
dire distress and ministered to him. The
Swede, in his gratitude, Imparted to the
minister a secret process for making steeL.
The old man had worked out the process,
but had grown eld and begged his bene
factor to continue It. The latter was .so
Impressed, with the earnestness of the old
man that he ga.ve up the ministry and
worked at the now process. He found that
it was a success and has since turned out
many thousand tool,, and It is eendently
believed that his =mal shop will one of
these days develop into a big industry. The
process Is particularly adapted to the man
ufacture of edge tools, and 'the secret is
known only to the one who directs the mix
lng of the Ingredints."
"I'm tired of mess lectures on 'How to
Treat Tour Servants.'
"Have you aselhing in the line of a intd
-ttt to suges'V
"Well, rather."
"Wbat?"
"'Why, I think It wouldn't be I, bad Idea
to have a few lectrm f!or servant. om 'SEw
to 'Treat Yoor Mistreses.' "-menna Post.
re of the As t m a
an. -U -- 5piht, at-d
%, a m-I. hadome and s
eneed a ad jsiag A saegm0aiinSt.
Whes afet"d.4t -We oft s
:a a 1 mas h-, nnd chee
'ful ai usual. he observed that tbe,"afl 4
his desk was unusually large, and se he
peeled UiS coat and cuffs aad get siEo id
-working togs. preparing himself for a
lengthy aeae" with his atemgraimhr
Aeording to his habtt. he sdpsored the
ends off al of the envelopes eestilni*g be
lettees, noticing as he did a. with a vau
sort of wonder, that a great rmnstW of
the envelopes wee of the plaine kind, *1%
no business heads printed In thbeir corne
The first envelope that he pfeted uP. Whe.
be was at length ready to- read: his mail.
contained a large "comic' ateahe. d10
Pleting a brutal ruffianiy loTing "wlfb
beater" -in the act of pounding a cowedag
little woman, with the- usal e 'E i eint
ed underneath. The smiable beidoe s}a
gave a start in his chair when he opened the
.valentine up, and then leaned back with a
hot flush, gazing amasedly at It.
"Me a wife beater?" he muttered to him
self. "NoW, who could~have-"
But he broke off the speculation pidenly.
for he had been mechanically emptying ans
other envelope. which contained anate.
valentine of the sort termed "comic." The
businesh man jumped to his feet and began
to tun his fingers through his hair when he
saw this one. It represented a red-nosed.
sodden-featured "old soak.'' with the ens
tomary ribald verse appended.
"Now. I wonder," he half groaned to him
self, "if these things really indicate the way
I am looked upon by people I have sup
posed to be my friends?"
He scrutinized the handwriting on the en
velopes of the valentines- he had spread out.
None of the chirography was familiar to
aim, but he could easily see that all the
envelopes had been penned by different
hands.
"If the envelopes were all addressed in the
same hand," said the business man to him
self, decidedly worried. "I'd know that it
was Just some fellow's rather imbecile joke,
but none of the addresses resembles the
other, and-Great Scott, is this the way 1
stack up arnong people who know me?"
Then he returned gloomily to his desk and
nerved himself to take a look at the re
mainder of the valentines. There were more
than a dozen of them still unopened. They
were all equally appalling and depressing
to the recipient. There were the "IHirry
Toucher," the "Short Card Player," the
"Slanderer," the. "Chinner," the "Cheap
Masher," the "Corner Loafer." the "Schem
er." the "Leader of a Double Lite," the
"Night Owl," the "Knocker' the "Man
Who Never Pays a- Bil," the . "Double
Faced. 11an" and several others.
"And every blamed one of them," mused
the bugnees man, "sent to me by a different
person-look at the handwriting on the en
velopea-af different! Why, If this is the
way penple regard me, it's a blooming won
der that I wasn't lynched long agol I didn't
think I had an gnemy in the world, and
here I'm held up as more different kinds of
a social outcast than-"
"Special delivery letter, sir," said a boy
who had dismounted from a bike in front
of the office a moment before. The busi
ness man signed for the receipt of the let
ter, and ripped the envelope open. It con
tained a "comic" portraying "A Grasp"y
Guy" -with about forty arms and hands.
reaching out to grab everything portable
in sight. The business man had scarcely
got through gazing mournfully at this one
before a district messenger boy popped into
his office with another of the valentines.
representing a "Male Gossip" with an enor
mous tongue. Before noon half a dozen
special delivery and district messenger boys
had delivered as many of the nerve-racking
valentines to the business man, completely
breaking up his morning's work and ruining
his appetite for luncheon when the time for
luncheon came around.
Shortly after the hour of noon one of the
business man's chums-he had a certain
mischievous light in his eye-dropped in.
"Going out for lunch?" he asked the busi
Aess man.
"No," replied the latter, 'Tm not. 'm
going to the office of Major Sylvester and
give myself up. As far as I can make out,
I am simply not fit to be at large, and the
sooner I'm put under lock and key for life
the better it's going to be for thIs,com
munity. Look at -these!" and the bgiaes
man grabbed 'op a handful of the valentines
and thrust them into his visitor's face. The
visitor grinned, and then went to the office
window, leaned out, and said:
"Come en in, fellows-we've got the old
man a-rocking!"
Half a minute later about fifteen of the
business men's most intimate cronies troop
ed in in a imaring, swaying body, and after
they got through doing the sun dance and
the "ring-around-rosy" with the sheepish
looking business man in the middle he grin
ned foolishly and acknowledged that it was
probably "his buy."
"But, Caesar's ghost! what a relief!" he
ejaculated as he-was putting on his cuffs
and coat. "And to think, that I was numb
skull enough never to suspect you Coman
ches for an Instant!"
BUSINESS HOUSES ME1ACED.
The Ravages of Worm on Bounda
tions in filwaukee.
"Miwaukee buildings are being imperiled
by a wonn eatijg away the foumndan,
and there appeara no way of preventing
it," maid Baleigh T.. Jacobs of the western
city to a Star mlan at the1!!bbitt this -aorn
ing. "The city building offBcials are much
worked up over the effects of the wormn,
which is known to science as tihe linmoria.
The attention of the building department
has been called to the sinking of buildings
and the bulging of walls on business blocks,
and in many instances~It has been necssary
to brace te buildings with heavy beams to
keep them from failing.
"The old building, mostly of brick, which
line the sides of the river in Milwaukee
were built upon what builders cull floating
fo.mundans. First a layer of rajiroad ties
was Iqid and the stone foundation was
placed on them. It is on these ties the
worns -are apparently at work. The woten
floats along the surface of the water,'end
when the water recedes 'the worma is left
stuck to the docks and walls. It works its
way inside the foundation and bores on4tin
nously, so it can very renaly be seen the
amount of damhge that can be done. The
newer buildings erected on piles covered
with cement are not affected by the worms."
LLXND W.OS TO TZXAS.
Beult of Reoent Burvey of the Lena
- say sawg sondr.
"Three poittin of the boundary nam of
the erate of Teras ea under diente, and
In each instance the teruttery of the lone
star state is cat ito," amid 3farshanl T.
aniaen to a Star mnat the New Wflgard
this morning. ''There was reent'ty Sled in
the land oflee of the stats a report of the
work under the act et Cengrsen requiring
the Secretary of the Inmen to- establish
the 100th meridian whic ases a part of
the eatern bonmamy of Teas. It was .at
first believed that Te would gaia an
eight-mntle strip from Indian territory, but
on the contrary accoring to the -report
Texa wiN pr*nably leoe a sthip thrses.
quarters of a mile wida. Uheuld this repert
he soaiderd as flaa people bolda peop
erty on -im was alwaysau---e--- the
Teas side iUlose their title as a ema
deedi to the land will not be legal.
""The saame anim. -sei alent the
entire panandle on the westera esd at qihe
state, SurveyorsJhave Jised the 3MM mese,
dian so as e ou t astrip tie aes wae,
embrag UCt,Wgmm rases the Ja. state
and it ha. rematy bee. t==y iss11t
that New deien As,te bounary
Sine -e n sthe weeaa aa
of Teaad the tn las m at ess
to hoe ms la te igew naM=s
-wassa TsbMm.-- as ..,u.u.
gema.naI i== tesamk =m.a.... - .,
taM e ?ege .ggate~
6...............*'s---t.et.geuXC )C&
A-fe wodta weer4easiIb
Vs Maleebte&e biseet htirir- *telh
hem wIie.na i - -sw b
4bUhea, a boy :'' i t be the ear
rdaga, a"e the the -ept of
the amodet the walnsa bobe
a che to ele.rie -buttoa the
atree of i appease at the deer
witY a ei!.dal g oe eg fr the assn.
wman -aed- wammy #A r the.sMiaee.
Tha woman .aaf chbUka -eteEr" the
hose-aed kiniA there for Oe a. r ees,
wbi tI eadhanoum,meaed the blooded
bse upa, street and the foot
aan stood l' frn the botseIling the
reb% -the eiuhb4aM awsenwtM
b1sil' oat 'a ak- frot wlesmu to their
-gentd cened- -
Aftee ti beatnfpl woman and her chll
gro had driven away eme-of these women
eighbomrs "a see the 418 strems of
the-modest hem..
"We and our sweil iMsltrs' shesald
benterlngmy, to the latter, to draw out.
The women -tab had -had the "swell via
iore smite&
"'Did yeo tbboiMr baaneomeT' she In
QUIred of her negltbr.
S'Superb!" 'a the enthusiastie reply.
"And such a coossee! And such furs!
And such an air of cietinction! And, par
ticularly, such lovly children! Who li
she?"
"First," replied the mistress of the mod
est home, "I shall tell you who she was.
Up to s xteen years ago she was my house
servant."
"Incredible!" exaifmed the neighbor who
had "run in."
. "Not only not incredible, but perfectly
true." said the mistress of th home. "Now
she is the wife of a very wealthy man of
the state of Washington. They are visiting
-Washington before going down 'to visit their
old homes in Virginal and they have a
suite at one of the.hotelu. She has become
a chanming woman. edncated' and clever.
and yet when I teelW her as my house ser
vant she could barely write her name."
"This 'senndt -Ik one of . Stose- yeliow
backed romencs," the neighbor. "For
goodiess sake te1 about it."
"Well, tlier. a g so terribly ro
mantio or s"raa t t said the ails
.tress of the .bme.' -Eghteen years ego
this coming prfn m husband and I went
down ts 0 Pei Cnfort for a. few days
for tie salt i W stopped at the old
Hygela Hotel. Our attention and syMpathy
were attrse-b a-pretty- girl who was
acting as urrs at the hotel for four surly,
badly behaved yqung ones belonging to a
sou ewrv mother, who not only
treate te rie gtrl shnamefully herself.
but permitted thi chidren to abuse her
fresa - -n -.i- nigh -without ever
dor,= n . a them. The
young ones ali of their time
ptaebing and - n the nurse girl,
while the -.moth' serenely looked on,
and one of the little 'boys seemed to take
a. particular dblight in kicking the nurse
girl on the shins and seeing her wince with
the pain. For the Irst and only time In
my life I deiib&'Itiy took a servant away
from another wuman I got into eonversa
tion- with the nusse. giri. I found her to be
a sweet-disposined, though entirely un
educated girl. he, was an orphan and al
most entirely albna in the world, with only
a few very distant relative* poor Virginia
farmtg folk. I 'aked her if she would like
to come to Washington with me. She re
plied that she wouild be delighted to, and
when we left Old Point I brought her with
me. not, however; before the girl's peevish
mistress hadtnadeL i. scene with me-in
which I don'i beI ee I came out second
best, for the *as intolerable.
"Perhaps I . rat say that the girl
rtas treated in my home. My
daughtera, oi of . was of about the
same age as tt1e girl, took her In hand and
began to tejh -he was dreadfully
Illiterate. Ea air a ready mind and
learned rapidi,, W;were living on Qnpitol
EMI then, '-4 the g ri, allied terelf with
one of the ehprches,and becasne a great
church member. 85. became 7andsomer
all the time, ervi neM Hirah We were all
very fond of her. t
"One day'i found ser poringoover. a matri
moniati paper,f and- i took.her severely ts
task -about' itateliin tier .of the sil likely
to' fo-iow role that sort of thing. he
looked constriaaeg. .But after,s' month or
so litteri- 'w i /l n-'stiff, eghool-bvyIsh
land, kiti of One ofr the
Pget: ound -te stoMP.-oS Wash
(inti;'gan'%3 errltrE at the ase for' the
girl. e Ie f*tltt I' s . friendi1 and
s'e broug l%eh+e of th 'tetters to me to
read. 'She "hieksed' Abat he i8ad begun
the correspondence through an' advertise
menat fa wifs which she bad seen In the
math duBi.prpe. The lett# wee9"iwk
warmy but it wa?p .hat the
nlt who bad written &hn was tonest
Ciriously 'enouh, he, too, was a VirgMaih
h had gone'tb the nor west to shek his'
fortune, and he was n a falrway totke
it. I$e was running a big general store 9f
his own. sed was making modey fast, be
said. But marriageable girls were still
scarce out his way, he said, and he was
delighted that tae girl with whosm be was
in correspondence- was a Virginian. I ad
vised the girl, nevertheless. egainet all that
sort of thing, but she looked unonvinced.
A few days :1ata the young man's photo
graph arrived. He was square-jawed and
lad huest eyes and ha was dar from bad
'lookIng. So I bega to wa:ver a, trifle.
Along with the photograph was a letter,
inclosing a money tier for 100, and a re
quest-inded aapilfeatioa-'Iat any house
girl meet 'te seader of the money order on
-such and sucha a date at St. Panl, mia.,
iand, if you think you can like mne as I
knew I'll- love you, why, we'll get mnarried
in St. Paul,' the letter concluded with a
sort of .simsple frankness that appealed to
mne. The girl asked me what iie should do,
and, after thinking it over for a night, I
came right out boldly and told her that I
thought that ahe had better go-that the
man seemed hones'-beyond a doubt. My
husband agreed with me. I went- to work
and hastiy fined- the girl- out with such an
outfit of clothes-as could be got ready with
in the abort apace of timne at her disposal,
meanwhile having-Jher wire to the man in
the state of Wk*lmnwton at de would
meet him In St. Paul on .the date be speci
fled. She went-we were sorely cut up, too,
and wmme her dreadfully-enud, she inst
him. They were-enarried on the same day.
"That's all.- He- has made her a xngnifl
cent husband, ad she has made him a
splendid wife, besides developing Into the
charining womaa. of whoen you caught a
glmpse today- Her hus=hand possessed the
mnoney-meakie facultar and became rich
so .fast that 'he hardly knew what to do
with his wealth, He graduated from a
keeper of a general -store into a prosperous
counctor, then ntos a timber merchant
ona great sale, and s on. lie -ad his
wife set deliberatly to work to cultivate
their =tiban oanaininr the very beet. =rn=
and both of .tmm rn-fiar better .eduusand
now than una a wag mnsad wnen
-Tge haye got a maement hems out en
Puget sound, an&-they--o to Erepe fre
euanl, or to the '.ap...a sana -and
Japaa~nUmsr'theOac steseaa Say
ealled tapan -me for' the erst te- ases
years ago no- dgsr-waung t o hemr- the
winter, and-peomar Join s how they took
me.off myr fleek Aatahis ifes sotarictly
tine story -of- oe uioladrertier
mnst.t*t coa e -p t, and 'moee Maa
the U$tml c...5 eub.
,sir.a.ia --a- --have hna--. ah.
T,; huairoa. ot'D and to & Star maan
at Mrs *tm*eJ~
'=m== - 4 eea- ssantU et W edis
somnes from tab Goedo' d
Cinesed id t beishaen a oem
-am assmk ja athat It -hi ales
M i m Wis.
*Ldei aeam
& %da efhe ae a amm a'
~m ay. aboet a -. th
lista i t - i - sseo
MM|whm aW eQgenq
,>asses be sesmenap asssalww
e m, and 0yet, try O I .. I
ntll't. a e hIm " add me ateWAy
*sew t the reg*lar army. "ft pear
are a-5 carriae and talk he was fOr
and away ahead at the avere 5Uit-se
mb se. s h thst I was r .serry
tat he had been ae-N=m as smy hammy.
T hs >bu g mew, I'mid to mWadt
whea -a .a lesanlmhdt eve, 'ls paamstly
a, saegraoe son at geod pesple who has
as daht get himalf late. same sort at a
aes er'"tier. and he han ealsted dor tie
1uNpsoe st.4sting u r cS41a tora pal. .
HW*1 tire of army te and disildine inste
'f a menh, and esmslaia to his felks, who
aver they maybe, sad then they*fl begin to
mse heate, and earth to obtain his df
fSiv. and there wilt he the deuce to pay.
+)rj beag-am educated youth, and, periaps,
Rf>licted with the swelled head, he wil not
yield to dhmpile at all, and will develop U
onto a barrack lawyer, and make all hands
ldiscontented, and spend mest of his own
"me In the cink fr iaeanduct. I wish
they hadn't seat im to~ my battery.'
ut, to- my surprise, this young feflow fm
amediately began to prove himself a good '
soldier. It appeared on his papers that he t
had been a member of some California
mita outft, and, consequently, he didn't
need much dril except en the heavy guns- tl
.be was as good as any of the old-timers at
the infantry tactics. He was alert and a to
hustler, be knew how to keep his accouter
ments polished. he was respectful and at
tentive, and he knocked into a cocked hat t
my preconceived notions as to the educated ai
man in the ranks. He applied himself from
the beginning to the study of the artillery a
tactics, and 'after so short a space of time
as a week I began to eye that young man
as a prospective non-commissioried officer F
in -my battery. I took occasion to talk to te
him some for the purpose of drawing him h
out, and found that he conversed like a col
legian.
"'I was Wrong about -that lad,' I sa!d to 01
myself after a week. 'He has no doubt fc
entered the army for the purpose of get- w
ting a commission from the ranks, and if g
he goes on as he has begun I'm blamed if n,
.1 don't help him toward that goal'
"About ten days after the young man- pl
,lad been amigned to my battery there was F
an officers' hop at the Presidio, to which rl
many of the society people of. San Fran- v
cisco were invited. The hop was in full p]
'swing at about 11 o'clock, when a startling o
apparition appeared at the thain entrance c
to the hail in which the hop was held. The' tl
apparition was a very tall and exceedingly w
good-looking young man dressed in a fine g
suit of silk pajamas, and wearing a pair o
of tan Romeo slippers,. walking deliberately b
into the room, with a fixed stare in his ti
eyes. He was my clever young recruit. I at
was so perfectly astounded that I didn't e,
know what to make of his appearance for ti
a moment or so. Meanwhile, the young h
man kept advancing down the 'room, with t1
his hands stretched out before him as if F
feeling his way, although the light was n
brilliant, and everybody in his path made
room for him. I hastened over to the young a
felloW when I had recovered from my as- n
tonishment, and it did not take me a mo- m
ment to perceive that he was sound asleep- ti
a somnambulist. A number of the young c1
society men from San Francisco who were ei
present set up a laugh when they saw the tl
young fellow, and exchanged looks with t<
each other. I reproved them with a glance a
for laughing at the affliction of a fellow ci
man. Then I tried a scheme to awaken p
the somnambulist which I had seen strol
ling hypnotists employ in awakening their
subjeets-that is to say, I - snapped him
sharply behind the ear with the nail of my ti
middle finger.
"It worked, and the young man came to
with a heavy sigh, rubbed his eyes and t
gased around the room in apparent alarm s1
and consternation. Then he raced out of tt
the room at a lope, amid the renewed, and, a
a" I thought, the decidedly rude laughter
of the young fellows from San 'rancisco. b
I took after the young man and caught up
with him on the parade ground as he was
making for his quarters at a jog. He b
seemed to be terribly put out over the per- e
formance when I came alongside him, and c
begged me not to speak about it.
"'But, said I. 'I've got to speak about it. g
as I em in comand of your battery, and p
I -want to know if this thing happens often -
with you .
"He made some' evasive reply, which came .
far from satisfying me.
"'Why did you not mention. this matter '
of your being a somnanulist to the surgeon
'who examined you before you were en- t
listed? I asked him. 'You are an intelligent h
man, and you assuredly knew that that sort
of thing disqualifies a man for army service, t
didn't your - l
"He seemed to be too distressed to make
any sort of a reply, and so I left him at the
Idoor of his barrack room and went back to b
the hpp. I waa besieged with inquiries w
about the young man. The women had all i
itaker5 notice of herr extremely good looking M
the young chap was, and some of the ma
trons from the city, whom I knew well. ex
bthbted a certain puzling, misehievous mys
tery of manner when they asked ma. ex
changing queer glanoes with each other,
whether It was quite customary for privates
in the'army to wear Sne silk pajamas dur
ng their hours of slumber. I dodged most
of the inquiries as best I ' eln
somewhat disturbed over fle tu en 1
ihad come 40o rather like the young Milow,
and I hated to lose him from my battery,
as I knew I would if it was found that he I
was a coinrmed smnnamanu=lt, ii
"The young fellow was summnned before p
the commanin officer and the surgeon g
on the following day and questoned close
ly about the sleep-walking business. The ~
subject seemed to be such a painful one t
-with him that he couldn't be got to say fi
mudh about it. When he was n=smm ol
.frota the presence of the commanding '
offcer and the surgeon they conferred for '6
a whBle about t,he case, and they' decided a:
that the young mran should -have another r1
chance,.
- "Three days later I was offeer of the day. h
)fy Chinaman aroused me in-my latr at '6
amidnight, according to isutIn,to go C
and 'take the guard' and visit the posts. I It
was strolling sleepfly toward the guard- n
house in the starlight, when, from one of t
the poets, I heard the sentry's peremptory "6
"Halt!' -but no reply following It. Halt, ti
there, I say!' growled the sentry, and stitu
no reply came from the direction toward 0
which the sentry was gaming. I leoked in ~
that direction, toe, and there, slowly ad-h
vancing upon the sentry, was my young sal
dier in his pajamas, with his hands atec
ed out before him. In another In=tant the
alarmed sentry, would hiave bayonee him.
'That's be all right, sentry,' I said to the
aman on guard. -and than I walked mes tog
the young fellow in the pajamas and -a=an I
snapped him awake.
'"'This about Ainighes your career In the
army, son,* I sai te hi, and then, with a a
look of distress, lhe scampered at to the th
baacks. I reported the incident to the o
ommanding offBcer, who immediaelsy took e
the preper steps to have the youth din- ti
ebarged skotm the servios. The dinhaage
was three wreeks la coming froam Wading- a,
ten, andA during that time ths young meqi
walked in his steep ,seme-~ttam. again.
Just six wek after he ha eg=ed thes *
erm I handed the young mean his:M.an=gm
with oesrma et regret, and he tatt ej
Qpthe night foBeowing his discharge I
Bohoth emian cha.~ In tae
s!m, a emaed by abeut fEtry a
rismbers. h=4f the ~esas=, thy yun
soMdier, with a sheet wrapped stemM Jn ~
eema- dseni a ename held oat baes &
hinm, and a finely -.sbned Emd stas In- of
his eyea, a-geIng themuk a a tep'amin s
sene that ewdSie steun et ateetr. Be
was.giving thems a ininewhat eua..t
tenlentines of how he had eatrivelts get ea
of the UllRe NMarmE 'alter Ie than
two sesutbh. mai.- dssertig er es
a,..-ema*to e-a issge bee iek hese C
..anan with -eae -o tin genO-m.a-.ers o
Jen E. - Us= J a typ l so of *ae
pems stake aMnd Q Malei Ih g
' - em 1mmer W mg o
*13t si
Ms att~~''i
*:f -
TIE mEtunaam
tab st O1pd of Nt1 Of YaraaSth#
*ed min - Nw s3bte
peelal Care.spa.--t o The RwwI g Stear.
NEW YORIn, February 2, 12l.
"Say. how de yes m.t to the latreet
dMngWT to now the Srat =a.s a ab
itted to eon on duty at the tre+es and
ditead Statis by male teurbsts mebing
meir ilat visit to New Yrk. The pms of
ie Fista building baa already pene.
ated to the remotest sections of the land
and the March winda-ae yet to cimel It
eseted that when Bores gets reel busy
Wring the month of March whole bat
L ion of policemen wil have to be strung
round the Flatiron buding to "move an,
use,' the loitering mae pedestrians, and
Teady some of the lesseaa of buildings the
indows of which command views of the
latiron building are.saM to be preparing
rent their windows during the ides of
arch. The hotels situated across the way
um the Flatiron building have rented all
their rooms the windows of which af
ed a view of the converging streets upon
hicb the famous structure is buSt-to
mets of the male perseusienn it is perhaps
aesss to add.
In the- meantime the merchants whose
aoes of businese are towered over by the
latiren building are still protesting Yu
ously, if fruitiessly. Their complaints are
arioua Not alone, they moan, are their
late gless windows In constant jeopardy
wing to the cyetonie rushes of ether
tused by the structual peculiarities of
te rasor4lke Flatiron building, but, far
ores, their male clerks have been die
racefully neglecting their duties since the
napletion of the Flatiron building-wild
arsesr it seems, would be required to drag
wei away from the front windows of the
ores in which they are employed! How
rer, the agents of office buildings across
me way from the Flatiron building are
appy, for they have been enabled to raise
h rentals of the. offices looking upon the
iatfron building. But the merchants re
iain Inconsolable.
After a while, they say, when all of the
omen find out about the Flatiron building
elg1borheod and its incesmant develop
Lent of eccentric whirlwinds and ambient
Lngents and aerial eddies-all of them cal
alated to induce feminine mortification
ren on days comparatively mild-why, say
te merchants, the *omen will then begin
shun the vicinage of the Flatiron building
[together, -:ad the trade of the stores
ustered around the structure will go to
The rlw--Can't Tuch It.
However. it seems likey that the struc
are will stand just as it. is for several
mnerations to come. The law can't touch
The owners of the building laugh at the
arrounding ;merchants' suggestion that a
!w stories be shaved from the top of the
ructure for the purpose of amending the
iiding's eatraord!nary wind-manufactur
" capabilities.
"So you don't like the wind around our
ailding, eh?" the owners of the Flat(ron
ws. in essence, to the coiplaising mer
lants. "Well, swear ott a warrant a#ainst
te wind app ar in court aglist the wihd,
it out an injunction against the wind; a
erpetaal -one., I possible, and have the
ind put 1ade'r b4nds to keep -tMe peace, had
er-not molest lady pedestrians. As for
a we compled with the law in putting up
te building-give us a rest. Pinch the
tad."
Are the women of New York shunning
te neighborhood of the Flatiron buoding,
ren on the gustiest days? No! It may be
ecuse a good many of them do not read
te newspapers-it must be something. But
tey career by the Flatiron building-mere
tan half propelled, as -often as not, by the
ind-in droves. Just as they have been
alooning by the building ever since it
as completed. Moreover, a woman visit
ig New York the other day commented
pon what she called the remarkable pre
IredDess of the women, espeially the
retty ones, who sepsyr past the Flatiron
ilding.
The woman visiting New York looked
Pon this prepmaredness as queer, to say the
at and she shook her head over it quite
lot. However, this is a feature of the
rbject that tightly belongs to the fashion
wge et Tie5taz.
pinjsea TrouM.. of Tjheir Own,
nhe gigantic cops stationed around the
lettron buEding are In the mantie hay
Ig troubles of their own. A great many
wreprus-looking and well-desss pnen
boolintely -decline to 'G'wan" when comn
Isaded. to do aoby the cops. They feel
mat they have a right to sun themselves in
'ont of the hotel.-. which, nevertheleam,
miy a- few of tem are gueus-amthe
ny from the latiron building-and if the
lad happens to be Mlewing half a gale
round that ,buIIding, oddly a-ecnga the
miment of the women who fall hato. the
erlal maelstrom, can they, the lolterers,
alp it? They reture to "G'wan." They
on't "G'wan," and usany atf them tell the
aps so Eatte, and defy arrest. -Thes puts
uap to the policemsen. For when several
en 'who were arrested for 'Soltering" In
me neighborhood of the FlatIron building
ore taken before 'magistrates the magis
ates discharged them from custody out of
mad, and upbraided and admonished the
Bps for their ncclousness In arrestng men
he were of obvious respectabiity and who
ed committed no infractions of the law.
posequently the alne citimen now feels
at he can defy with Iempunity the "G'wan,
mae," of the cops stationed around the
lathron buning.
Just now the-trousered strotleru of Bread
sy and 5th aveu are In a state of ata
ed appreh.ai and g1odm because there
sme talk en the part et the city naint
ompentne- the ownesa of the Platiren
mmhwo to c==treet .a tail steel sae all
ema the structre They ma take heart,
-'eer for the best iawymr in town u
intyvmai stats tht the .hoilin='s own
a esa't be keassd to com anytha of
is emt.
in a Uttle notime store over en Yth avenue
-ar -e street one of the edindo isema
Isay =u=a4=d up it iwinte asa-stripe
ise for woenn A bd ign~ in the middl
dimhe disa ost ganty hemisry-reads thms
*7f yoe'se:ssing to immikasesad the mat
wn. be* assett. thass- stimtes
eta!"'
UEM o eYa'wnuB Goud E.,tne,
A Jarge ned= of d,did - menoe ths
ad eme otaters inesdes wagn save mset the
wus . se .,ea satier glad that the uert
T N....e s mo the a.ros.d ean
sa 5the famir te hi maee le. Mi
5!ho fliees. When hae -a bae
asses -ain Ma the minet Mhs
use -sant a.ais csml y-toisent gees
inpoul gsmiItowmn55 enl'as gut -5f a m
go intt: 'maasemabs essed-1sat
I.h e adthm 1 p atb.
ese hi ssa stkm.t
am . ase -to- u)ee atso
tow1 Tathedten1
-ev9 -and a 'de
moalm t aa MSahe be.
eM= 1 a tQe -
avee aW W tse am as
the Thaw ft=N qet the mUmaa
Mae m o ad s hem lm iher of
boo, d bs"Noagor the
"obNew et rp W tn's ste
m baer has ban ea ever. me hase
ra. ait haa5 eser is way who esws
nte easiest with the srl Ts ath
dding a- 2now York vit ane me.
-4ff RoU%w nid .
?amouth eaptsed ho. gnd wil et New
Yat withta less haa a wai absr hb ar
rival in thds costry. ne was treling
down Sth avon OeM is"aig a Oer days
after he get beme wbss b a==tm was
atteted, by the wsad et h Van J)ked
fellw of the vadn.uaa eath ad
drefts ifto
wwan wbo wa-i t+eR0 i
gor stos. R afterwaud appeared tht the
woman was waiting for her husbad to
om out at the dgar state. whit he had
entered to pet a light for him weed. Tar
moath. who does not leek like a vr ro
bust man, belles his aseoens In that r
spec, an do a aed n . He
walked ever to the masher.
"Are you acquainted wil0 this lad" he
asked the tan reBow with the van Dyke
beard.
"That's none of your-" the masher
started to may. but he came to a very sad
den step, for the excellent reason that Yar
mouth was punchiang him all over the
street. The handy young .etgtleman
walked around that masher like a cooper
around a barrel for three or fear mnfates,
and trimmed him o thoroughly tha' the
masher was barely able to totter to a cab.
In which he was huhiedly driven away.
Yarmouth, after waiting for the frigitened
woman's husband to join her. rushed away.
but a tenderloin pece reporter. who had
witnessed the punching of the "masobr.
recognised the puncher, and the Otory got
out. New York is e outrageously alcted
with street mashers that the occurrence
made a hit with the town, and the guying
to which Yarmouth had been subjected
from his arrival on the steamer suddenly
ceased.
Btmpede to Pe Debts.
It is expected that a veritable stampede
will shortly begin among Brooklyn folks to
pay thefr debts. A company with an extra
ordinarily heroic scheme for running down
dilatory nebtors bas been organized across
the big bridge, and- the -scheme is already
in operation, with very electual resilts, it
is said. The company is a regular debt
collecting outfit' After due notice has been
served upon delinquent debtors to pay up.
and the debtors still decline to settle, a
big covered wagon drfvm-up to the debtor's
door. On both sidese t the wagon cover.
in big letters, Is painted the tuierpUen
"Collectors of Bad Debis (Inc.)."
The o.paryy t"as had lgal Advie as to
this inscription en its wessod the man
ager of the ooncern stats that be scheme
baa been declared to be perfectly lawful.
Great asr4 however, as to be exercised
by the drivers of tem wans in the matter
of stopping at the wong addresses, it be
ing stated that the iouseholer g vie
*ideed by a driver's mseaake couli sue
"eesfully resort to th law. The company
is already doing a big buins in the col
lecting of debts that bave lahg been looked
upon as "dead oned' by creditors employ
ing the Arm. The outit eolbects al kinds
of "N. G." debts-wagm. mooep due store
keepers, ihyslchas lawyers, moriage
loans, and so on. The sesme willuques
tionably epread to New York beoore bag.
and eventually the dremen wagen may be
seen is the big ities all over be eoetry.
A Do Game Workd Oft.
A J.nilabbe howl Is being -dtd by &e
theatergeers of New York over a benco
game which the predectors of theatrical
"beneftW" %ave been working with great
frequency and =sces over hers this sea
son. A perforuance for the benedt of some
old-time theatrical maneger wbo heas flea
upon evil dans, or name satress convalse.ing
tram a period of s , er eves soe
playhouse trasurer or other debetrbeal ems
ploye who has bad a "run of hard luck." is
announced. Most of these benants are given
on Sunday afghts the idea being to eon
vince the public that the celebrated players
advertised to appear at 4he bnedais- will
cssat1inly "ow up" at so lifagesan
The names of all of the ootabis elebritss
of the stage In New York at the time the
benedts are announoed are set dowa on the
lists of "those Who will poiti y appear."
The casts for the beoeAt .vo a are
given a tremendously Impredve '"nl-star*
appearance by the nanewsrs of the aal,
and, naturally enough. ihsater-goers who
read these Inviting announcements more
than scramble to the box oioes to purmss
ticke.a and look forward e eesty to the op
portunity of seeing e many famous per
sosae of the stage at one and the same
Perforenance.
In not one solitary case this year have the
remarkable promises of the projectors et
these benefit performances been ftunet
or even one-half or oer-quarter fslined.
As a role, just one or two of the tag-ead
individuals an the padded lists stroll en and
of the stage, but it is rare that even me at
the actual notables makon his or her ap
penrance. The performeace Is cs.mma at
cheap, thId-rate vaudevie pernwms=.s
a general thing, and at one b=.nefi te*
teohrnight, at which no em than
twenty-five of the moat distinguished In
dividuals on the Ame.'cn stage were peel.
tively announce to asake their apnsenaneg,
not one showed his oir her countenanne to
the huge audience that had asembled with
such lnasen expectailas.e The perforam
ance consisted of acrobatlo jigs by amore or
less vulgar variety actors, eheap and silly
"sketches' by vaudevlle performsers of the
ribbon-counter sort, and hopeiem recitationg
of the "Curfew alla Not," etc., kind, de
livered by amateur young women of whom
nobody in the audience had ever so much
as heard. The noted actors and actresses
who permit their naames to be used in this
fashion say, in self-defense, that they con
tribute sums of mneye to the beneat, "and
that lets us out." as they pet the ma....
They appear to forget that it also "lets the
public in." It Is a bunco game, pure and
siemple, and a smighty mean one at that, for
the time will assuredly comne when the New
YOrk theater-going public wR1 utterly ds
cdine to patronise- genuine and deserving
theatrical benuits, at which the famen
men and women of the stage a===....f. ge
appear actually mean to appear. C L, E
Fues the Mamser Commems.
The etain problem which had to he ma
by the f==igers of the widening o eam
Bridge Were, first, not to inereme -ee
than ne-e.-ry the lead ase the pase
brldg~ e .a.ain; -send, te dinia a
structure wich, while be MZ
would ot detract fken the present ha
-em appearance et the bridew .s
dicult mnatter. and -s too often last*
of in engineern structureet, and, tMd, to
deig a --teda ef eruetto that weal
m.=aeit possible to provie -ed-P air
both foet paseer and-river tmm dorag
the p-e of eootrutes =eIm elinesa
regirds the ziver being tuoerted is theet
at the In=tmane of the Thaen a eervmmr.
The pressure du to the sonrn airete
open the Lomaen elay--mailo.s in vee
naasty av. tens a sese lst; hr peapoes
of --mparisa It ema be---- hta
the case of the Towrer BrIak the lend im
been restricted to fear tom a seuare feet.
The increased ledig de to the new wee
wUl only be about sixy eounds againe
With rag Se S he amhaii If whMt
the widening was to he emator-tod the ie
sigprs were preclinm Umied hoee d I
the fernp Sf gledrs and * i ea mae am
soary. The cme,nr et tiemng steel
gliw'es with the esMig ney wm he
seedity appreoited.sad -atf-m to ps
pare a del@ is uh6 e elm was mae
Dst. en the ebasr haa, bed ertob
-atae .owe y=--=. hen beem
sapr and - ut~, l. a vier of the
sw.e.-- t padet he h ae
sEr this .os,the-man d-yn weie se
pared wagramie es the ...a..am A st
unaet the- emising- 4ms 41 he en
Brhesadenambsfend wie setrbetme;
wt e er Ums and as h
we e spe me.a w-a