CIVINC OUT THE POTATOES, Event in Army Life. “Sometimes,” said the old and thon again we wouldn't have any at all for weeks; very likely and maybe corned beef, or seldom, potatoes were always more or less of a luxury. “When potatoes were issued by the commissary, when we came our rations, would of course get a cer- tain quantity, proportioned to the num- ber of men we had on duty in the com- pany. {oes we got, when we came to count them out, might number sixty. It there were sixty potatoes for forty men obviously some of them would have to be cut in two, or else they would have Me did not know in what state the or- phan asylum was located. Nelther did the children know whether their father was dead or alive, though from what they had heen able to pick up in the way of information from time to time they had concluded he had passed to the other side, It happened that the daughter of the soldier not only grew up to be a beaut ful woman, but had married a wealthy man. She wrote the War Department | to learn of the whereabouts of her | father's grave, but there was no record of it. She then wrote to the pension office for the address of a man she had heard served with her father and who at one time lived at Niagara Falls. The ending of it all was that the children found the father and the father found his children. There hundreds of guch cases, though, of course, the num- ber of them is becoming smaller as time Washingion Star, are passes, one to others, and that is what was sione; a man got two small potatoes or one big one. two small ones; but of course I took potatoes, 80 as not to risk everything in one package. 1 have known a big handsome potato that a man had car- to turn out bad inside. “There was no greater test of a cook's management than the way he gave out potatoes, and the man could do this to the satisfaction was a good deal of a man. It to give everybody ex: same quantity, but an effort near to this as possible ness, body got might not the one he saw put on the plate of the man ahead of him, but he said not somebody had potato, and it might just as «ome to him. “But something was required to give successfully; a man hac the run of what he the number of men supplies some dea of number of potatc Jef: and the number of to come fe could give himself some margin b) issuing the big potatoes first; on a pinch, along at the end, he could give out to three or four men a single one «of the biggest of the smalled potatoes, instead of two. But must know whether there were any men who had yet and whether were likely ‘co turn up or not, and he must keep the run of all things with- out stopping to the potatoes from the camp who of everybody possible was recognized expected more 3 be so big by a quarter have got to more out had given out 1. and the mon he nos. come they these he forked up think, as put them on by the men he the plates erally than once ihe last ont with that nicety. many as three men on line to be without any All gone. Well, now, there was a uation. No potatoes is before, and none a month again. the other men in the ftatoes at that minute them You can’t very how they did feel; but they a word. They looked at the cook looked at them. It miscalculation and that was to it. The cook had given out his own potatoes and had none for himself; and the three men walked down the «ompany street, looking neither to the right nor to the left, and to their tents; and ate hard bread on a day when all around the camp was filled lux Kew York Sun fF left ied for a mon likels Here mp e and well ating po- none for describe never said the cook and was a was all there with urs PENSION OFFICE PLAYS DETECTIVE. Reuniting Families as a "Side Issue in its Business. Pension Office, besides examin- ing into pension claims and passing on them, does an enormous amount of other business in the way of uniting and re-uniting families find hus- bands for wiv wives for husbands parents for children and children for parents, Only recently a case came suinder my observation which illustrates my meaning, and ‘tis a sample of a number of others. An application was received from a lady who applied for a widow's pension. She gave the name of her husband, his service, company and regiment. In looking into the <laim it was found that the husband was alive and drawing a pension through the pension agency at Chicago *The woman, whe resides in Massachu- setts, was so informed. Immediately came a reply from her asking the addreas of the man, whici was furnished. A correspondence en- sued between them, and when they satisfied themselves that they were on the right track they arranged a meet- ing. The man thought that his wife The we os, entered the regular army and went West. The woman, not hearing from the man, became convinced that he had ‘deen killed or had died. She was un- a hospital and supposed it was a fact. dn the meantime she had married had been dead over ten years when she applied for a pension. - Another case I call to mind is that of ‘a soldier who originally lived at Niaga- va Falls. He went in the army and sd under Sherman. At the close of war he settled in New Orleans. He positive information that his wife died, but he never was able to get iy information as to what had become Eis three children, except that they been sent to an orphan asylum. THE THIRD INAUGURATION. All of the interest Was for the Departing ido! Washington, In the Century Mr. Joseph B. Bishop contributes an article on" Inauguration and Incidents." After : ing of the popular idolatry of Washing- ton, Mr. Bishop says The chief sufferer from this condition of affairs was John Adams when the time came to inaugzura as Wash Scenes speak- r hin i He is President we have had, with } “ ¢ exception of M 5 br C880 he only ort $ 1" DELON 8 gc t the Pp 8s] Buren, who Washington, whose as and the day. garene tears * EXEercs tendency annoying him streaming eves, iim why: and he waa foreed to be ve that it was all for the joss of beloved Two or had ventu his impression, but three ear that address to whisper in his had made a favorable no other evidence of interest in him ox ¢1 had and that was that he was a being of too reached him. One thing he knew act well much sensibility to sition any part in such an « If the tears at made Mr. Adams followed must added suffering ington the inaugural exer claps unhappy. what have greatly to When, at toward the do the close maved was a precipi id corridors and him dt rest und a great throng awaiting They emerged from hat to diant with be air streaming to the 1ig house, follow nm reaching it greeting His grave xasion, his and a eves and only by ges idicate his thanks and SRing. Four-Legged Traders There ig a mouse in Florida locally known as the trading mouse. it is com- monly a woods mouse, but it quickly adapts itself to human habitation. A colony of such mice carried two bush- els of shelled beans thirty feet during pix nights recently and replaced the beans with seed pods of weed. Jewelry, too, has been taken by these littie trad- ers. One woman on the east coast of Florida at an Indian River winter re- sort found a number of seeds instead of a pair of earrings that she had left on the bureau. A search in the place the seeds had been kept disclosed the earrings, A man who had a box of poker chips in his room in an open-topped box was surprised to find in their stead a string of prayer beads, a small crucifix, and a number of shells. He started an inves. tigation immediately. A priest who had roomed nearby was equally puz- | zled by finding the colored poker chips i in his room. { It is generally believed that the trad- | ing mouse learns ita curious ways by : robbing squirreis or blue jays of nuts laid by for future use, i ———— ARS. OA Oy i Quick-Firing Cun. The introduction of the new quick- ! firing artillery in the French army will { cost 860,000,000, The new Canet gun delivers five 110-pound shells at a range of four and a half miles in one minutes, CLOTH FROM CAT TAIL. A New Use for the Humble but Prefly Water Plant, Very few, probably, are aware that the fur, or vegetable down of the cat- tall Is a marketable article, superior to feathers or cotton for many purposes, It is not quite so valuable or useful as eiderdown, but it approaches it very closely, and is cheaper than any of the three, As a matter of fact, a great many people are to-day using articles covered with cat-tail products who ave no idea where the material comes from. It is a vast extent of country, com- paratively speaking, from which the cat-tail is gathered, It comes from the swamps along the numerous creeks that put in from the Delaware bay, from Morris River to Cape May. The average amount gathered in the season is a ton a day. The work of gathering and transporting it, and then weaving ft into the many forms which it must take before becoming salable, constl- tutes a considerable industry One of the most claborate uses to which this material is put is that of covering sofas, Very many of the sup- posed plush-covered divans are really with a cat-tail It wears better than the plush, and is in finitely cheaper The the sofa is Very Ly another name covered fabric of same argument that applies to he pillow go applic often, however pillows Sofa pi tall bec with OO often of cat- Gueer Love Making. Gira in South blood.-re of the feathers, whic brown a tail row band the ends, the he a grea expanda at When seven to ten On the #pot, where there level patch of ground, and ar is A Ke, the any gli leaves, slamping down until it is hard and Then they thie stand at the nf this One at a time the males then a most Fach wiil first strut up and down a few times, the apparent delight of commence (0 caper around in clear it of stones dirt fevel call females who edge novel arena perform curious dance dancer and the then, to rest an extremely ludicrous manner, spread ing tail and wings, puffing up hie crest, bowing to the others, and at the same time keeping up a hopping gait until he is exhausted When all the males have danced, each female will mate, and the happy pairs depart 10 begin house keeping. its choose a Artistic Inaccuracies. Perlin equestrian statues have Deen examined by a veterinary surgeon of Potsdam named Hougert, who asserts that the position of the horses’ legs is wrong in all of them, not excepting the statues of the Great Kurfuerst, of Fred- erick the Great and of Frederick Wil- liam IIl and IV. He finda the same faults in many of the paintings. In the Assyrian, Babylonian and Persian works of art the positions of the horses are natural and right; in those of the Greeks and Romans they are not al- ways correct. Two Barre s of Flour, A Darton (Vi) wife made the fro)- lowing from a barre! of flour: One hundred and Afty pies (mince, apple, custard, ete}, 5 chicken ples, 89 apple dumplings, 11 jelly rolls, 18 cakes, 24 dozen ginger snaps, 67 dozen dough- nuts, 20 dozen cookies; and this from another barrel of flour: Eighty-six loaves 0. broad, 634 rolls and biscuits, 24 finger rolls, 20 pies, 7 dozen coukies, 615 dozen popovers, 25 dozen griddie cakes and § dozen flour gems President McKinley Outlines His Ad-: ministrative Plans, Would Pat the Couniry’'s Fiusuoss on on Round Hasisew More Keveaus Witheat Delaye--Wants the Tarif Revised. Favors a SSimotaille Counferonce Ope poses Trusts Yar Arbitration Treaty, Wasmixaros, I. C, (Speaial) ~The Insugu- ral address of President McKinley was as follows: Fellow Citigsns: In obadienee te the wily the United States, relying on the sapport of my eountrymen and invoking the Almighty God. Our faith rel ances than whe tie Americas people in avery oationa! trian’, an! why will not far. sake us 8e long awe obey Hic o naan i- ments and walk humb y in His fo MEIapE The responsibilities of thes hick trast te always of grave “are augnentad by the prevail. anpon ths God of sar fathers, bins so upon willing labor af loss te useful enter The sountry is suffering from industrial be had. Our financial system needs so ne rey sion; our money is all good now, but its vaiae must not further be threatensd. It shonid ail be put upon am en uring bass s it subject to easy attack, nor its stability te BLS Or : ais i For Better Fapsr Maney. Our eurreney should eo apervision of the es AL, ntinas ander Government Ih» eral forms of « paper money offer. in ne mdgment, a constant em! \ " Government and t5 & safe balance in the Treas ity. Th I belinys it necessary 1OVies & avstam which, without 1 ing the clircuinting medium sinm for {1s eo the a Arrassment to the erelore liminish TiO & Dre. mtract present a : 4 f will remedy for thess arrangements which, tem. porary in their nature, mo ht i woll in the FERIE OF our prosperity have besa dispinced BY wiser nrovy ions : { 1%, With a iequate revenues secured, but not until then, we can antar ipos seth in our finance laws as will, whils 1: suring wietyand vo um 8 our money, ne ngor mpose upon the Govarnment the necess:y of maintaining so larg~ a gold reserve, with te atin inat and evilabisa Temptations te inpecuiating Most of our Anancial laws are he outgrowth of experience and trial and ih ald aot be amended wit out investiga don and demonstration of the wisdom of the proposnd changes . We mast be both “ars we are right” and wake haste slowly If, therefore, Con Eres io is wisdom shal! desm it expodient tu sreats a comm RIOR lo take under early sonsideration the revision of our col nage sauking and eurrency laws, and give them «Rt axhaustive, careful asd dispassionate *xamination that thelr importance demands 1 shall cordialiy sancur in sush setion, ’ 11 such power is vested in ths Prosident it is mY purpose fo apooint nmission of rominent, wali.inforn Wf differ Parties Flic will camnnas ~ * i . i PTI 3triie oH ahan ces pies Both ¢ fitness ial sand 1 cuive the su & cones 10 De 1) ’ nieatd th] ihe “xX pas nent s nts, worth a trial, and Favers Mimetallioms. The quecion of interaati Will have early and sargest It will be my sonstant en secure i Ly co-operation with the other great eom- mereial powars of the world, Until that con dition is realized when the parity between our gold and siiy oy springs and is supported by the v ative value of the twe metals, tos value ‘of the silver alrealy soined, and of that which may hereafter be soin~d, must be kept constastiy at par with Bold by every resoures at our eommand, The eradit of the Goverameat. the integ. rity of its currency and the inviciability of its obligations mast ba preserved. This was the sommanding verdict of the psople, asd it will pot be gaherded, Esanomy is demande ia svery braceh of the Government at all times, bat sspesially in periods like the present of depression in busines and distress among the people, The severest sconomy must be observed in ail publie expendi urs and exiravagance stopped wherever it is found, and prevented wherever in the future it may bes devel sped, Ifthe revenuss are to remain as now, the suly relie! that oan some must be frem de eressed sxpenditures, Bat the present must not besoms the per manent sondition of the Goverament It has been our uniform praciies te retire, not increase, our outstandiag obligations, and this policy must again be resumed and vigorously enforesl, Our revennes shou!d siwaye be large esough to meet with ease and prompiness not only our esrront needs, and the principal and futerest of the publie debt, but to make proper and libsral pro- visions for that most deserving body of pub- lie ereditors, thes soldiers and the sailors and the widows ana orphans whe are the pen- stoners of the United States, More Revennecw Nal Loans. While aiaree annus. <nrpius of revenue may invite waste and extravagance, {nade quate revenues creates distrust snd moder. wines public and private ereait, Neither should iw encouragad, Between more loans and more revenne there aught to bs but one opinion. We should have more revenues, and that withoat delay, hindrance or postponement, The best way forthe Gaverny #3 to main- thin its credit fs to pay as it goss—not by resorting te loans, but by keeping out of debt — through as adequate inssme seecarsd by a evetom of taxstion, exteras! oc interaal, or both, nal bimeda! atiention. savor to Mae from For Revenae Legislation, It is tha settled policy ot the gaverament, Jasusd from the besinning and prasticed ¥ all partion and administrations, to raise the bmik of our reveaus from tax snapon foreign productions entering the United State for s1le or eonsamption; and avoiding for the most part every form of direst taza. tion, exeapt 10 time of war, The country is clentiy opposed te any need. is-8 additions to the subject of internal tax. ation, and is commitied by ite Iatest popuiar utterance te the system of tariff taxa jon There ean bs no misunderstanding, sither, about the prineiple upon whieh this tari taxation shal: be levied, Nething has over been made plainer at a geoaral eleetion than that the controlling principle in the ralsing of revenue from duties on im is son ous eare for Awmeriean interests and American labor. The peoples have declared that such legisiation should be had as will give ampli protestion and voecuragement to the indus tries and the develo of our eanntry. It is therefore exrnestly hoped and ex- peeted that Conwress will, at tne sarlios Prastisnble mament, enact revenue lagisia. on that ahiall be far, reasonable, tive and jus, and which, whils su suffieiont revenue for still be generally section, and To this Courts Mast Rule, The great essential! to our happiness and prosperity is that we adhers 10 (he principles upon which the Government was established and insist upon their faithful observance Equality of rights must prevail and our laws bn nlways and everywhere respected and obeyed. We may have lulled in the discharges of our full duty as citizens of the great Res public, tut it is consoling and encourag'ng to realize that free spesch, a froe press, free thonght, free schools, the frees and us. wioleated right of religious liberty and worship and free and fiir elections ars 1earer and more universally enjoyed to-day finn ever before, Thess guarantees must be sacredly pre- rye l and wisely strengthened, The con stituted authorities must be ehoerfuliy and vigorously upheld. Lyachings must not be lolerated in a great and eivilizod eountry like the United States; sourts—not mobs must execute the penaities of the law. The preservation of public order, the right of dis- eumsion, the integrity of our courts and the orderly administration of justice must eon- tinue forever the rock of safety upon whieh our Government securely rests, Aguinst Trasts, The declaration of the party now restorsd lo power has bean in the past that of “oppo. sition to all eombinations of capital orgsn fzed in trusts, or otherwise, to control arbi trarily the condition of trade among our sitizons.' and it has suppor.el “such b-gisis tion as will prevent the execution of all sohumes 10 oppress the people by uadue phnrges on the r supplies, or by unjust rates for the trausporation of their produets to mar Tris purpose will be stea ily pursued, hoth ence, sad the recommendation and BU pPOr: ’ yisuch new sintutes as may be necessary Lo arry it into eflect 4 Better Standard of Citizenship, Our naturalization and immigration laws should be further Improved to the eonstant promotion of a safer, a better and a higher ntizenship, A grave peril to the Republic would be u eltizenship too ignorant to under. stand, or too vicious to appreciate the great vaiue and beneficencs of our institutions and inwe, and against all who come here to make War up prompliy n them our gates hitly closed ] must we be un - the nee! of i it among Own eitizens, Dut with the zeal of our {« fat SPR S18 tirgnt ' y 3 {ow athers en the spread of knowledges t Interacy must be * land, if wa shall atta astiuy as the foremost of the shed nations of which, Providegce, we ought to ashleve, must be Pit ban n that the world Civil Serviee Reform, Reforms in the sat the change should be and genu t perfunctory 1 by a moni in be alfof any party, simply because it happens to ba in power, As a member of Ci wke in lavor of the present law, and | anil attempt its enforcecient fn the spirit in It was ena ted. The purpose ia view y seoure the most felrnt sers the best men who would accept appointment under Wer: nt, retainteg faithfal and Hed op servants in office, but thielding noge, under the rity ol any rules or customs, who are inefficient, ino petent or unworthy. The best interests of the eouniry demand thie and the peoples heartily approve law wherever and whenever it has been thus administered, eivil servies real must #o r promote ¥ a ngress I voted and on of the OG der auth the Revive Merchant Marine. Congress should give pr {he restoration of our mt attention to American Pant of the seas in all 1} sy! eon ope, riant subjects a its intelligent consider: reowsnd mere marine, « great ocean high ad, few more imp peratively demand fon, The United States « rapidity in every iesavor until we 1 nearly all the great lines mmerce and indastry, % ir trae nos the y nos (De prio mis Has tro HRS 1 field of LI have boo ‘ has been stead wer both nd the nus 3» Mt was prior nmetdable pr ivil War erens has nade of ate yoars in upball ling of the Anerican Nary, but we must supplement these efforts by providing as a proper eonsort for it a hant marine amply ficient for our own earrying trade to foreign e ries, The questions 12 one that appeals both to oer business neconsition and the palriotie aspira- tions of a great people Urges Arbitration Treaty, It will be cur aim to pursue a fre and dignified foreign poliey, whieh shall be just, impartial, ever watehlul) of our KNational Ronor and always insisting upon the enfores ment of the lawl! righis of American e ti. sens everywhere, Our diplomacy should seek nothiog more and aceept nothing less than is due us, We want no wars of esonquest; avoid the temptation of territorial sion. War should pever be entered upon un- til every agency of pstee bas falled: peace is preferable to war is almost every eontin- geney, Arbitration i= the true method of settle ment of international as well as local or in dividusi differences. It was recognized ns the best means of adjastment of diferoncos between employers and empl by Forty-pinth Congress in 1586, and iis ap eation was extended to our diplomatie rela- tions by the unsamonus eopeurrence of the Senate and Hoose of the Fifty first Congress in 1880, The istter resolution was accepted as the basis of megotiations with us by the British House of Commons in 1883, and upon oar invitation a treat? of sroitration be tween the United Blates and Great Britain was signed at Washmgton and transmitied to the SBenute for its ratifization in January ln, Hines this treaty is elearly the result of nur own initiative; sines it has benny recogniand as the leadiow features of our foreign poliey throughout our entire nations his ry-«the adjustment of diffleaitins by jadicial methods rather than by lores of arns—and since §t presents (0 the world the glorious example of reason and pease, not passion en | war, con- trolling the relations between two of the greatest nations of the world, aa example eertain to be followed by others, I respectinlly urge the early action ef the Sanate thereon, not merely as a matter of policy, but az a duty to mankind, The importanes an | moral inflospee of the ratifl- sation of such a treaty can bardly be over. estimated in the sanse of sdvaneiag civiliza- tion. It may well sagage the best thought ol the statesman and people of every coua- try. ana 1 €eannot bal eonwaer it fortunate that it was reserved to the United States to have the leadership in #0 grand a work, Convene Congress at Once. Ido not sympathize with the sentiment that Congress 'n session is dangerous to our tusipess interests. Its members are the agents of the people, snd their presenos at the seat of government in the exgrution of povereign will should not operat®hns an in- jury but a vensfit, There eoula bes no Letter time to put the Government upon a sound fnancial and sesnomie basis than vow, The prople have only recently voted that this shoulda be done and nothing is more binding nwpon the agents of their will than the ubligation of immediate action, It has always seemed to me that the Host. povement of ihe meetings 6! Congress antl more than a year after it bas been chosen deprived Congress too chen of the inspira. tion of the popular will and the country of the snding bepefita, It Is ovideat, therelore, that to postpone action ia the presense of eo great a ancessity would be saws gn the part of the Executive because unjast to the interests of the peoples Oar actions pow will bes freer from mers partisan const eration than if the question of tariff revision was postponsd astil the raguiar session of Congres. We are two years from a Congressional elnotion, polities cannot so greatly distract us as if =nch contest was imme lately panting. We ean aporouch the problem ealmiy and pa Ariokienty without fearing its effect upon an Io visw of theses esl lorations I shail deem it my daty as President h Tn ecavene in sonainn on Mi mero we most 1 agares. eR Bectionalism Dissppesrs, In esmelusion, I congratulate the sonntne upon the fraternsd spirit of the people and the manifestation of good will every wheres so apparent. The rocent election not only most fortunately demonstrated the obliteration of sectional or geogmphioal Hues, hut te somes extent alag the prijudiens whieh for years have distracted sar couasells aud marred our tras greatness as a ustion, The triamph of the puopla, wiiose ver Jet is carried into effoct to-day, is not the tri- umph of one section, nor wholly ef one party, but of all sections and all the people, The North sud the Bouth no longer divide on the old lines, but upon principles aod policies, nad in this fact sarely every lover of the country ean find cause for trae felie!- tation, Let us rejoies in and eullivate this spilt, It is ennobling, and wilt be both a gain and blessing to our beloved country, It will be my constant aim to do nothing, and permit nothing to be done, that will arrest or dis- tur) this growing seastiment of unity asd eo~ operation, this revival of esteem and afMija- tion whieh now asimates so many thousands in both the old antagonistic seetions, but X shall cheerfully do everything possible to proufote and iuer-aee it Let me azain repeat the words of the eath administered by the Chief Justice, whieh, fn thelr respective spheres, 80 far as appli eable, | would have all my countrymen ob- perve: “I will faithfully execute the effles of President of the Unite! States, aud will, to the bust of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” This is the obligation I have reverentiy taken before the Lord most high, To keep it will be my single purpose, my eocpstant prayer—and | shall confidentiy rely vpon the forbearance and assistancs of all the peo- Pe in the discharge of my solemn responsi nibities, FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Senate, 461m Day. The Senate virally forward ou the appropristion lis, makiog FUCh progress thal ! in felt ant The Distriet of J pasned RT inthe Cay be naval t rong et out nlest fn hie § ve ol wrmor-plate pressed ’ ther fo prebensis ip prebeusion ihe pansy these Te, wns AL Inlernpations) the House ame r reg warped that the sl their old catior the d [med § early lo appropriation LES Cor r=y aver adding inimos, ageregntiog S5N7 900, man at An amendment " 3 i Was ¥ rove lay was vre received ing roufer- of them mete fT oven d out of HE Lt pension ers. Mr. rf to refer {enry Het 4%re Day of the Fifty-Ofth ngress met in ir easion with Viee- President Hobart presiding, I reuanee to ormal pro- the vale lent, Mr. new EWORY- The Liver a EOD {ad Hones the House the Lil} ff ison ¢ Crm Dax hibit the trans prize fights by up and which prive.-fghting depouneced on all sides, The advo that ibe ‘sickening oH ippressed in ithe interest of good nu the bil met with most sires us opposition on the ground that it would tend to establish a con- t At the end of the sorship © bate the adversaries of (Le mensure outvoted the friends of 1 bid itbasteriag motions, bul ag seresinent for & recess pot an end 10 hostilities, It ix pot likely that Lhe bill will be heard of again this session £71re Dar The Houma session began =» 10 o'clock and continued far into the night The day session was a dull griad of routins sare for an hour, when Mr. Dalgeli (repabil- ean, of Pennsvivanin' wade an «laborate de- fense of Justice Shiras, of the Supreme Court, who was satiacke! a fortnight ago in the House [ur the alleged reversal of his po sition un the income-tax question whep the case was tefore the Bupreme Court Mr MeMillin (democrat, of Teunesses) and Mr, De Armond, (demoeral, of Missouri) whe participated In the original attack, bot reiterated their charges, As unsocressfol aitemyt was made to Lriag ap the anti-price- Gu bting Wil d3rm Day and basiness of ts pro unis of brought detalied ace mall of lelrgraph was ied 10 8 very lively debates, ia wlen of insisted denis bes rain Bat the press de on several t ihe House m t 10 o'clock Mi closing Lhe niZralion Went s veto by Giiiuued the work { the up peri : » i hes 1 over the 34 ill was {risen a vote of 188 10 87 40m Day I'he Hoase adjourned sine dir, The closing hours uneventiai The House refused to the #500 GOW of claims which the Repators insisted upen in the general deficiency bill, The only fest ure of the clocking was the enthusiasiie re ception accorded to Sosaker Dead and the unanimous danding vote of thanks tendered to him, were sgberribe in cS ——— PINGREE POTATO PATCHES. Oeaeral Booth-Tocker Is Trying to Get Ohicagy to Try the Detrsit Plas. The Piogres plan of raising potatoes and other vegetables on vacant jots througbowd Detroit may be put into effect in hioago General Booth-Tasker and Oolons! Brewer, of the Balvation Army, have become inter ested in the plan and are trying to get the sity authorities to co-operate with them is marrying it ont. They want the authorities to give the use of all vacant city property bn Chiongo an | establish farms The protuce ralsel on these farm. asd track gardens, i is proposed, is to be dis ributed to the needy pout of the eity by offi sears of the Salvation Army The army alroes to furnish men Se cultivate the land and sitend to the trans. portation of the supplies Luther Lailin Mills and other prominent cliizens have becomeinterestad ju the pr ject and bave sgreed to ald the movement ims avery war _ssdbia Mr, Mills, General Boolb- Tacker and Colonel Drewer hal a loag con- fsrence with the mayor la regard to the plan and it fs probable that It will be bought ta the attention of the rity council this wes ssn citi “The newspapers that reported Nem Cleveland as treating Mm Dominis rodely should correct thelr mistake.” says the Wanh- ington Post. “Mra. Cleveland never treats people rudely, and it {il becomes Amerioam
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