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NEW YORK LETTER.
Special Correspondence.
The metropolis is so immense that a
mediocre man is completely swallowed
_ .up in it, while even a great man gets
lost therein. Two years ago John G.
Carlisle was one of the half dozen
greatest men in the public life’of'the
nation. On his retirement from office
last year he came to New York to live,
and has since then scarcely been heard
of. 'He has been entirely lost to public
’ View, and it was with a sense of sur-
prise that people learned t_hat he had
applied for admission to the bar of the
supreme court of New York.
Byrnea Broke.
One of the interesting rumors of the
day tells us that former Police Super-
intendent Bvrnes has lost the larger
part of his fortune in unlucky ventures
in Wall street. He was worth, when
he left No. 300 Mulberry street, more
than half a million. There is a differ-
ence between having a. Gould to back
you and having to back yourself.
When Byrnes was head of the police
department men with good things in
the market were chasing after him to
carry a line of stocks for him, but as
an unofficial citizen he has been obliged
to root for himself, employ brokers and
put up margins.
An Enterprising Pnstmistress.
There is a young woman postmistress
in Brooklyn who has a great many
postage stamp friends, and thereby a
largely increased revenue. The amount
of her salary is averaged by the sales
she makes. Hence, she being a busi-
nesslike young woman, whenever she
meets anyone who uses stamps by the
quantity she offers her wares and also
offers to send them by messenger if thr-
might-be purchaser is not within easv
distance for calling. One New York
business man, who buys $150 worth of
stamps a month, and who lives in
Brooklyn, buys always of the Brooklyn
girl and increases her salary $3 a week
without any effort on his part.
Sousa’s Band Not Going to Europe.
n account of the strong prejudice ex-
isting in France against the United
States during this war with Spain, Sou-
sa’s band will not’make the tour of
ned. Shopkeepers in Paris are feeling
the loss of trade caused by the absence
of Americans this. year, and all over
Europe the touring Yankee will be
missed. Moreover, it is stated that
many patriotic ladies of fashion «have
resolved not to order their gowns from
Paris this year, but to patronize the
home dressmakers. If this feeling
grows, the Paris Exposition of 1900 may
suffer in interest and attendance by the
absence of'Americans. -‘
Colonel Slocum.
There is a dignified old gentleman in
this city Who speaks only four words a
day outside of his office. They are
“Good morning" and “Good afternoon."
He is Colonel Slocum, the right hand
of Uncle Russell Sage, of whom he has
the exalted honor to' be a brother-in-
law. The great world of finance hard-
rly knows the colonel at sight, so sel-
dom does he leave the side of his chief.
He occupies the front hall room on the
third floor of Uncle Russell's residence
in Fifth avenue, and pays board. Dur-
ing the Columbian parade. when win-
dows were renting for fabulous prices
per day, Colonel Slocum sat in his
small room observing the mighty spec-
tacle. A few .Qday's afterward, it is said
in the streethr. Sage instructed his
bookkeeper to enter "a. charge of $200
against his brother-in-la-w for the use
of his own bed" room window on that
occasion, such being a fair average
price in that vicinity.
Didn't Know It was Betty.
A dignified Cedar street man of mil-
lions and affairs has been pestered
lately by feminine almsfolk, and being
of irascible disposition, his feelings are
highly wrought, says the New York
Press. One day an old woman in a
dark, rusty dress and a. faded bonnet,
entered his door. At the first sight of
her he bolted for his private office and,
.summoning his bookkeeper, said in a
state of great panic: “Get her away
from here as soon as possible. I can‘t
stand it any longer. Tell her I have
nothing for her. I can't see her. I
can't assist her. Tell her I’m not here."
In about three minutes the bookkeeper
returned. "Do you know who that
was?” he asked. “Certainly not,” said
the man who worships money and its
.owners. “It was Mrs. Hetty Green,
come to see you about that $30,000
mortgage," quietly remarked the man
of ledger-s, and such wriggling as fol-
lowed! A cold perspiration was fol-
lowed by a hot fever, and the 01d gen-
tleman is now in bed groaning over his
awful mistake.
. swans in the Navy.
The First Naval Battalion of this
city has furnished to the navy fifteen
officers and three hundred men. It
Would not be difficult to find a “good
story" there. For instance, W. Butler
Duncan, Jr., lately commander of the
battalion, is now lieutenant on the
Yankee. Mr. Duncan is worth about
$3,000,000. A member of the De Kay
family, which has .produced commo-
dores and captains, is an able seam-an
on the same ship. Young “Dick"
Meade, a son of Admiral Mia-tie, is a
bcatswain’s mute. So is Eugene Vv’il-
lard. a son of it). A. ‘Willard, who man-
aged the Vigilztn: for George Gould.
“01's” Willard. the other son, in an able
seen: n. ‘3'. l. Fetus-a. the noted small
ya. ._ mailer, is a cinema-master. The
six; . .34 is f. :. -. ALA)»: Boresfoi'd.
E. ;\';t:h~;;.:~; r l".;.. -: commodore iof
the -.ew Yet); :23: L‘lub, and former
hailinun of the :9; atta ccnunittee, is
serving as lieutenant on the
Paul. Mr. Kane is agraduate' of the
Naval Academy, and he volunteered
without any fuss or feathers. There
are many gentlemen of adventurous
spirit at sea to-day, though the times
of Sir Francis Drake .are dead and bur-
led.
CYRUS THORP.
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THE WHlTE’.HOl_is‘E MISTRESS.
Mrs. McKinleyVe “'ays 'in _Washlngton
Just \‘t imt'TImy “'ere‘ in Canton.
“Thereof that Mrs. McKinley gave a.
necktie which she herself knitted to a.
young man in Washingtén at his Wed—
ding," said '3. woman who spent the
Easter holidays in Washington, “calls
attention again to the simplicity and
unaffectedness of the tastes of the first
magistrate’s wife. She has not allowed
the change in her position to affect
these matters in the least, and she was
no more natural and modest in her for-
mer home than she is co-day. There
she would have felt that something
from her own hands was the sort of
present that she preferred to give.
She felt the same thing In Washing-
ton, and the knit four-m-hand scarf
which she gave to her young friend as
I. wedding present was given to him,
in Washington with the same frank-
ness that would have been shown in
Canton.
MRS. M'KINLEY.
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'i remember at Easter that she
showed to a friend of mine some of
the beautiful souvenirs that had been
sent to her from different parts of the
country. There were some lovely
things among them, but she reserved
till the last the one watch she appre-
ciated most. It was made for her by
an old friend in Ohio. It was in the
form‘of One of those glistening eggs of
rock candy, but it was larger than they
usually are. At one end was a hole
through which one could look. The
picture inside was a remarkably good
reproduction of the White House
grounds done in colored paper. On’ the
lawn were two youths playing. The
whole picture was very ingeniously
done. Mrs. McKinley explained that.
the two boys were her young sons, who
had died many years before. Mrs. Me-
Kinley told me that among all the son-
venirs sent to her, and some of them
were ”the most expensive that could
well be bought, she preferred the Eas-
ter egg. Her friends have often found
other instances that prove how little
changed her taste has been by her re-
moval to the position of the first lady
in the land."
CAN CUBA GOVERN HERSELF.
A Grave Question Briefly Answered—
Bravo Men as Leaders.
To question whether the Cubans can
govern themselves, in view of such tes-
timony, is a gratuitous doubt, having
no warrant in reason or history. Noth-
ing, on the other hand, is more certain
than that the government of one coun-
try by the sojourning natives of anoth-
er, even with the best of intentions,
must result in injustice and bad gov-
ernment. As for the blacks, they are
rapidly disappearing, and must soon
cease to be a cause of any future race
prejudice. The ranks of the cuban ar-
my are of an averageintelligence above
that of the Spanish population, which
is fearfully ignorant and credulous.
The Cubans have not been‘a turbus
lent people. Though their history has
been a long series of revolutions, they
have never resorted to arms until every
peaceful means of redress had. been
tried. In those brief intervals of peace
which have sometimes visited the is-v
land, Cubans have sought to effect, by
constitutional agitation, the reforms of
existing abuses. Such attempts have
never' at any time succeeded.
There are higher questions, too, to be
considered. There is no whining tone
in the indomitable self-reliance of the
Cuban leaders. Moving freely over
three-quarters of the island, they have
knocked at the very gates of Havana;
they have held in check a force out—
numbering their own at all times three
or four to one, cooper: up in their forti-
fied towns. They die, too, with cries
for Cuba free, as they did in the ten
years’ war—the thought of indepen-
dence last in their hearts and on their
lips.; Their .unconquerable souls go
forth to that freedom they could not
win on their narrow stretch of earth.
Love of liberty is the surest guarantee
of representative government; that
these men have given to the World the
purest example of such devotion that
history has known proves them fit for
self-government.-Joseph Dana Miller
in Godey’s.
ART WORK OF THE WlND.
flow like posters we must appear l
‘ that"‘backward step" which the presi-
'h-ave heard it .s'ai-drby two secretaries
for thirty years. 7 *Added to- this high
“agreeable personality and a‘cordlal-a‘p-
Spreciation of and sympathy With Amer-
"ican institutions; have endeared him
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WASHINGTON, ROTES.
I _ Special Correspondence. >
Many; stories have been told, and
some of them have been. printed, to
Show that in some states the-National
Guard was but a name. This has not
been charged against New York, New
"Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachu—
setts, and perhaps a few other states,
in which annual camps have been en-
forced, and a degree of discipline ob-
tained. that was akin to the discipline
in the regular service. Nothing could
have been much more convincing of the
unpreparedness of the National Guard
than the. arrivalat Chickamauga of the
Michigan regiment that was provided
with excellent uniforms, but only five
rifles'to each company. This was bare—
ly enough to provide :the sentries with
arms. -Worse than that was the con-
dition of the Ohio cavalry which reach-
ed camp with but one carbine to the
whole command. Different explana-a.
tions have been given of this lack of
preparation, but from sources that
seem lto be entitled to respect, it is
learned that some states that have had
great difficulty in collecting from the
government the amounts advanced by
them to equip the troops for the re-
bellion have determined that the gov-
ernment shall be obliged to do its out— I
fitting, so as to avoid the expense to,'
the states of maintaining agents here,
for thirty years after the war, to col-
lect the money put out in order to fa.-
cilita-te the movement of equipped
troops. One advantage to be gained
by forcing the government to equip
will be uniformity of equipment of the
troops. Still, equipping takes time, and
General Miles is of the opinion that it
is better to take time to get ready than
it will be to‘ take defeats as the result
of unreadiness.
Demoralizutiona‘by War.
Soon after the meetinghof Congress,
in December, the expectafibn was free-
ly indulged on the Republicanside of
the House, that there would be no oe-
casion for keeping Congress here later
than May 1, and Speaker Reed was
quite confident that all the necessary
business of the country could be dis-
posed of before that date. Of course
at that time the cloud of war was not
so thick, as it soon became. But to the
speaker, who has never held the opin-
ion that the war was unavoidable, and
who still refers to it as something that
might have been avoided, the hope of
an early adjournment was based upon
political and humanitarian reasons.
Politically he believed that the fore-
ing of a war would break up the finan-
cial recuperation of the government,
interrupting the tendency on the part
of the revenues under the Dingley law
to exceed the expenditures in times of
peace. And now, when the expenses
exceed the income a million or more. a
day, the effect of war is demonstrating
the demoralizing tendency in govern—
ment of that condition. All small
economies, all regard for administra-
tive rules, seem to have suffered a let-
ting down. '
Very soon the president may be ex—
pected to yield to the political demand,
successfully resisted until now, that the
civil service law shall not apply to the
government printing office, where it
has been _well applied, until the pres-
ent public printer came in to defy the
law and the president, who is sworn to
support it. The “looting" of the print-
ing office to suit the spoilsmen will be
dent once said in congress must not be
taken with reference to the civil ser-
vice law. The war excitement will ob~
scure this backward step.
' 'Senor Mondonca.
Senor Mendonca, as Brazilian minis-
ter, went away generally regretted: I
off-state ‘of differentiparties, that no
wiser or ~more ,fully enlightened man
has occupied a diplomatic station here
opinion of:his diplomatic,- ability,'hi3'
to the people quite as much as the gen-
erous hospitality for which the. Bra.-
zilian legation has been famous for
years.- Dr. Mendonca was fortunately
not a new or strange minister to the
United States in, the 'yet ‘most trying
moment in the history of the Brazilian
republic. When the naval revolt against
the republic broke out, and De Mello
undertook to overthrow the adminis-
tration of the then president of Brazil,
Dr. Mendonca knew that behind the
admitted object of the revolt was a
determination to restore the monarchy.
Like a watchman on a tower, he con-
stantly observed every movement of
the revolution‘ists to secure from the
United States that recognition of bel-
ligerency for which ,De Mello first, and
afterward Saldanha de Gama, made
strenuous efforts. A: «one very critical
moment this perpetual watchfulness
and solicitude probably saved the re-
public, with the aid of Secretary of
State Gresham. De Mello, impatient of
the slow progress made in the south of
Brazil in setting up the form of a gov—
ernment by the rebels, hurried away
to Desterro, and left Saldanha in com-
mand of the revolutionary fleet in Rio
harbor. Soon after Saldanha announc-
ed a government at Desterro, and pro-
duced the paper cabinet to prove its
existence. And at the same time he re-
newed to our minister. the late Mr.
Thompson, the request for recognition.
Saldanha did not know it, but Dr. Men-
donca at once notified the department
of state that Saldanha had issued a
proclamation declaring it to be his ob-
ject to restore the status of Novem-
ber, 1889. That meant {he restoration
of the monarchy. Mr Gresham saw the
peril of the republic at once. recognition
"was withheld, Admiral Benham was
directed to protect American vessels in
Rio harbor, the rebel navy was out-
lawed and the republic was saved.
The Queer Thing About It.
“The statesman." said the Corn-fed
Philosopher. "differs from the rest of
nature.‘ Levity: holds him down and
gravity helps him to rise.”-—lndlanap-
olis Journal.
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. Profit in Celery. , 1
Where celery can be grown Well it
is a profitable crop, particularly if the
grower has a home market, and sells
direct to the consumer, as he should
do to reap the fill reward of his la-
bor, and the capital invested. Good
. celery is a good salesman, it not only,
speaks for itself, but for all that goes
with it. The gardener that groWs
good celery has his products sold in
advance, his coming is awaited with
interest, and he will soon dispose of
his load at good priCes.
Celery is mostly grown as a second
crop, although not unfrequently as a
third. . As a second crop it usually fol—
lows early cabbage, and the-isoil that
is congenial to the one'is‘ to thebther.
The best soil for celery is 'a heavy,
deep, sandy loam, and thefisituation ,
"lly mo tL’ltlt is gusel'e‘ss to
' the g‘ro ing of celery on a
_ r‘y, light soil, as it will not'endure a
‘drouth. In such seasousthe‘ gar ‘
er loses his crop. .Good plantation ..
first requisites of good celeryL‘if lh
must be strong, vigorous and perfect-~
ly healthy. To secure such ‘_they,
should 'be twiCe transplantedbe‘fore
selling; they should moreover have
plenty of room to allow therh‘zto‘grow.
wide as well as tall. When first lifted
from the seed bed set them five inches
apart each way. Do not cut backlto
make the plants strong, as is a coin-
mon practice, but let them have sulfi-
cient room to grow strong, as they,
naturally will without mutilation.
Where cabbage is the first crop the
soil should be sufficiently rich for eel--
ery without additional manure, but
should any be considered necessary,
let it be thorotIghly rotted and put
under the plants, instead ofwaround
them. Make the trenches “deep and
put the manure at the bottom. Fill
the trenches with soil thrown out,
and set the plants on a level, "never
below the surface. Exercise great care
in setting, so that the crowns of the
plants are not covered, and to have
the soil pressed firmly about the roots.
Never plant the self-blanching var-
ieties, as the loss of color indicates
weakened vitality. To have celery
delicious and tender it is necessary
to earth it up, no matter what the
variety may be, For late winter's
use I prefer the best of the pink var-
ieties, both because of their rich, nut—
ty flavor, and their excellent keeping
qualities. If winter spinach is the
first crop taken off in the spring. and
this is followed by second early peas,
celery'can --easiiy be" made a third
crop—American Agriculturnlist.
Pure Kerosene for Spraying. 1
Prof. Smith .of the New Jersey sta-
tion calls attention to the fact that if
properly used pure kerosene may be
applied to apples, pears, quinces.
plums, cherries, peaches, (Vanda large
variety of other trees for killing the
San Jose scale. He shows that pear
trees were sprayed in February and
no seeies were visible until the fol‘
lowing September. . These probably
came from neighboring tres, The es-
sential pointand the one that must
be observed carefully, is the use of
the finest spray possible that will ap-
ply a. very thin coating at a time
when weather conditions are favor-
able foi' rapid evaporation. The trees
themselves should beidry when the
kerosene is applied. Any departure
from these suggestions may prove in-
jurious. At present there isrno per-
fect sprayeror atomizer on the mar-
ket. if this is secured the kerosene
can be applied without muCli danger
of bad results. ,
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Best Soil for Raspberries.
An); realty rich land will grow rasp‘
berries, but a moist, well-drained clay
loam is probably the best. For com-
mercial purposes. select a few var-
ieties that are well known in the mar-
ket, as a shipment of one kind will
sell much better than one composed
of half a dozen sorts. Spring planting
is most common and usually most
satisfactory. Set as soOn as the soil-
ls in good working condition, putting
the plants in rows six feet apart and
,three feet apart in the row. 'Give
clean and thorough culture until the
latter part of August.
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for the Peach Tree Borer. ‘-
Wnitewash makes as good a pre-
ventive as anything that can beused.
Apply to the trunk of the tree and
carry it above'the origin of the main
branches. The: old dead wood should
be pruned out and burned at once.
If the tree is badly infested with
borers, cut it "down and burn. If al-
lowed to remain it will'aid in spread-
ing the trouble. If only a small por-
t‘iOn hast-been injured, out this; away.
burn the diseased portions and white-
wash the wound.
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Siloing Potatoes.
In France potatoes were buried in
the interior of a crimson clover silo.
The heat caused by fermentation
cooked them and they came out in a
much more digestible condition than
when they went in. In another test
the potatoes were surrounded by the
whole corn plant and upon opening.
both corn and potatoes were found 11-.
good conditimz. The cooking was less
advanced than in the. ‘clover silo.
New Treatment for Lice. ’
Two hens, badly infested, were
dipped in a. bath of boiled elder flow-
ers, twigs and leaves, the elder con.
cocfion‘being mixed with some soft
soap. In both instancm all the lie.
were killed and the plumage in no
wise damaged. J
Norwalk Chronicler