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Seats on sale at McMennmin's store. "WASHINGTON LETTER. New Appointments I ndor the Presi dent—Fun Over Salt Hi vet— Cap itol Steps Crumbling. [Special Correspondence.J Under the terms of the new army reorganization bill the president will have at his disposal more Important military appointments than ever fell to the lot of any of his predecessors in office at any one time. This is in con sequence of the great increase In the enlisted strength of the army, with the necessary increase of commissioned officers. The bill as it passed tlie sen ate provides for 22 general officers, 870 staff officers and 2.922 line officers, or a total of 3,814. The minimum en listed strength is 57,870, including 15 regiments of cavalry. 12 regiments of artillery, 30 regiments of infantry, 3 battailous of engineers and miscel laneous organizations. The maximum enlisted strength is 102.258 and is made by increasing the strength of the va rious arms of the service included in the minimum organization. The exist ing permanent army consists of a to tal commissioned and enlisted strength of 31.472. The principal interest in the immense patronage in the president's hands per tains to the selection of the additional general officers provided for by the bill, mainly one lieutenant general, four major generals and nine brigadier generals. The president is entirely un restricted In his selections for these important places. Fun Over Salt Itiver. A little skit about Salt river was overlooked during the rambling debate on the river and harbor bill. Repre sentative David liighbaugh Smith of Kentucky, whose district comprises the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, offer ed an amendment for the survey of "Salt river from its mouth to Shep pnrdsville." Chairman Burton, alert to any changes in his bill, was on bis feet in an instaut. "Is not this the river that Mr. Carlisle said the only way to im prove It was to pave it?" he inquired. The house scented the fun in the pro posed legislation, and there was wild laughter. "1 do not remember, but I suspect he would say that now." retorted Mr. Smith readily, at which there was a further titter. "Is it not true that numerous peo ple who go up that, river do not get down again?" persisted Mr. Burton, with mock solemnity. Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. It, artificially digests the food aud aids Nature iu strengthening aud recon structing the exhausted digestive or gans. It is the latestdiscovereddigest ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach it in efficiency. It in stantly relieves and permanently cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Sick Headache, Gastralgia.Crampsand all other results of imperfect, digestion. Pricesoc. antlfl. Liireesl7.econt.ilnß2H times small size. Book all ai>out dyspepsia malledfree Prepared by E. C. DeWITT d\ CO' Chicago- Drover's City Drug Store. I "Well. I think that would be a very j favorable recommendation for the I amendment I have suggested," said Mr. Smith. "1 hope It will be adopted." I Mr. Burton concluded not to object, ! and, as the matter stands now, Salt river will be surveyed. Capitol Steps Cram hi in nr. I Considerable criticism Is heard about I the cheap material used in construct ing the stone stairways at the western approach to the enpitol building. Al though tills work has been completed only a comparatively short time, it rapidly is falling into decay, and there are many unsightly spots on the land ings at the west front of the building. Not only is the stone which was used of an extremely perishable nature, I many thin layers having peeled off. leaving unsightly holes about an inch 1 deep and several feet in diameter, but the mortar used has disappeared en tirely In several places, and some of the steps are quite loose aud working ; out of position. It soon will be neces sary to do some of the work over again 1 ami take out many of the large blocks | of stone and replace them with new ones. It is not known who is responsible for this condition of affairs, but it can not be denied the work is of the cheap est character and not at all in keeping with the maguificent structure to which these stairways lead. < hiiM'no In Hawaii, j Attorney General Griggs in an opin ion rendered upon the request of the secretary of the treasury holds: First.—That a person born in the Ha waiian Islands iu 1885 of Chinese par ents who are laborers and taken to Chi na with his mother In 1890 Is entitled to re-enter the territory of Hawaii, where his father still resides. Second.—That the wife and children I of a Chinese person who was naturaliz ed in 1887 in Hawaii and still resides i there are entitled to enter the territory "by virtue of the citizenship" of the husband and father. This opinion is based upon the assumption that the Chinese persons in question, born and naturalized respectively In the Hawai ian Islands, were in fact citizens of the republic of Hawaii under its constitu tion and laws on Aug. 12, 1898, and had not abandoned or lost their rights as such. Tlie Beat Tlionglit. "Consensus of opinion" has been re tired from active service. It no longer I does duty in the expression of senti ment of senate, of house, of committee, at Washington. The phrase now is ! "best thought." Just where and how it I originated would be difficult to tell. But in the corridors ami cloakrooms of the senate the phrase seemed to enter suddenly into general use. "The best thought" of the senate, a senator will gravely inform you, indicates this or | the other thing. I Representative Champ Clark of Mis souri thinks be is gaining some of the • qualifications of a New England Yan ; kee. "John Williams of Mississippi states that a inau is a good Yankee when he can eat pie and cheese," said the Mis sourlan the other day. "And 1 go the cheese." Turning to the waiter, Mr. Clark or dried pumpkin pie and cheese not only for himself, but for little Champ, who was lunching with his father and who enjoys pumpkin pie quite as much as any good, healthy boy can. CAKI. TTC lie FIELD. Tobacco of ail kinds at Keiper's. STAGE GLINTS. Charles A. Bigelow again Is mention ed as a probable star of next season. Letters of Jenny Li ml, the famous "Swedish Nightingale," will shortly be 1 published. A big revival of "The Merchant of Venice" is to be made this spring by Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliott. Mr. Jefferson, now at Pal in Beach, Fin., will resume acting about the Ist of April and will play for live weeks. ! Isabel Irving is the actress engaged for the role of Lady Jocelyn Leigh in the play made from "To Have and to Hold." One Gotham critic recently declared that "Garrett O'Magh" is the best play j in which Chauncey Olcott has been j seen as a star. "When We Were Twenty-one," pre • sent id by Mr. Nat O. Goodwin and Miss Maxine Elliott, has repeated its ! success of last season. Mine. Itejane has started a fund in Paris to build a home for the orphans of actors, and the subscriptions al ready amount to 55,790 francs. . j Helen Dauvray, once a successful star in "One of Our"Girls" and who has • i been in retirement for a number of ' years, is said to be planning a return to j the stage. William Gillette does not believe in curtain calls. On the subject he re cently said, "If I ever write another play, it will be on the promise that no ! act calls are to be given." j Some of the fervor of the peasant actors in the Passion play is said to I be duo to the fact that a score or more of priests are continually behind the scenes urging upon the actors the so lemnity and religious aspect of the ' play. WHAT PLEASES A WOMAN. | It pleases her to be called sensible. It pleases her to be called well dress i ed. It pleases her to be told that she is fascinating. It pleases her to bo told that she improves man by her companionship. It pleases her to depend on some man and pretend that she Is ruling him. It pleases her to be treated courteous l ly and with respect and to be talked to ' reasonably. It pleases her to be treated sensibly and honestly, to be considered and questioned and not treated as a butter fly, with no head or heart. It pleases her to be loved and admir ed by a man who is strong enough to rule and subdue her and make his way her way, to lead her and take care of her. If pleases her to And happiness in being ruled by an intellect that she can look up to admiringly and one to whom her mind hows in reverence. — St. Louis Republic. APHORISMS. Idleness is many gathered miseries j in one name.—Hlchtor. j Self inspection is the best cure for self esteem.—Channiug. Silence is the understanding of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.— Boiienu. Industrious wisdom often doth pre vent what lazy folly thinks inevitable. —Masstuger. Since the generality of persons act from impulse much more than from | principle, men are neither so good nor I bad as we are apt to think them.— Hare. One principal reason why men are so often useless Is that they divide and shift their attention among a multi plicity of objects and pursuits.—Em mons. It is only imperfection that com plains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.—Fenelon. Prof. Ivison, of Lonaconing, Md., ! suffered terribly from neuralgia of the stomach and indigestion for thirteen years and after the doctors failed to cure lii Hl they fed him on morphine. A friend advised the use of Kodol Dyspep sia Cure and after taking a few bottles of it he says. "It has cured me entirely. I can t suv ton much for Kodol Dyspep | sia Cure." It digosts what you eat. Urover's City drug store. Gentlemen, for hats and caps go to A. vj Oswald, lie has a nice variety. OASTORIA. Boars the Tho Kind You Have Always Bought t A Chinese Widow •; Tchouaug Tsen of the country of Soung was a learned man who carried his wisdom so far as to detach himself ; from all perishable things. He had avoided the error so common to mankind ;if struggling to acquire useless riches ind vainglories or honors. He must have been profoundly satis fied with his career, for after his death he was proclaimed as happy und worthy of envy. Now, In the days the gods accorded him to pass under green skies amid flow ery bushes, willows and bamboos, Tehouang Tsen was accustomed to walk dreamily through the country. One day, when wandering along the flowery slopes of the mountain of Nam Hoa, he found himself unexpectedly in the middle of a cemetery, where the dead, according to the custom of the country, repose under hillocks of beaten earth. At the sight of these innumera ble tombs, which spread above the hori zon, tho learned man meditated on the destiny of man. "Alas!" thought he. "Behold the highway where all the roads of life end. When once one has taken a place in this resting place of the dead, one never sees the light of day again!" As he was moralizing thus he sudden ly perceived a young woman in mourn ing garb—that is to say, in a long, white, seamless robe of coarse material—seated beside a tomb, fanning with a white fan the enrth of a freshly covered funeral mound. Curious to learn the moaning of so strange an action, Tehouang Tsen salut ed the young lady with great politeness and said: "Madame, dare I ask you without of fense what person is sleeping beneath this tomb and why you give yourself so much trouble to fan the earth that cov ers it? "I am a philosopher and ifiio to know the causes of things, and here is one that escapes me, that 1 cannot even guess at." The young woman continued to move her fan back and forth. She blushed, lowered her head and murmured a few words that the good man could not hear. He renewed his question several times, but in vain. The young woman took no further notice of him, and it seemed as though her very soul had passed into the hand that was so busily moving the fan. Tehouang Tsen went his way regretful ly. Although lie well knew that all is vanity, he was naturally inclined to seek the motive of human actions and partic ularly those of women. This little creature's odd occupation aroused within him n malevolent but live ly curiosity. He continued his walk slow ly onward, but turned his head occasion ally to watch the fan, which still beat the air like the wing of a huge butterfly, when all of a sudden an old woman whom he hnd not seen at tirst, appioa. li ed him and made a sign to follow her. She drew him into the shadow of a mound a little higher than the rest and said to him: "1 heard you ask my mistress a ques tion to which she made no reply. I will satisfy your curiosity, from a natural wish to oblige anil in the hope that you in return will give me the wherewith to buy from the priests a magic paper which possesses the power of prolonging my life." Tehouang Tsen drew out his purse and ! placed a piece of money in her hand, and j the old woman spoke as follows: "The lady that you saw seated beside a tomb is Mme. Lu, the widow of a learned ' man named Tao, who died 15 days ago after a long illness, and the tomb is her husband's. They loved each other most tenderly, and even when dying M. Tao could not reconcile himself to their sepa ration, and the idea of leaving her behind in the world in the flower of her ago and of her beauty was altogether insupporta ble to him. However, toward the end he became resigned, for he was of gentle na ture, and his soul submitted to the inevi table. "Weeping at the head of M. Tao's bod. that she hud never left during his entire illness, Mine. Lu called upon the gods to bear witness that she would never sur vive him, but would share his grave even as she had shared ids couch. "But M. Tao said to her, 'Madame, do not swear such a thing as that.' 'At least,' continued she, 'if I must survive you, if I am condemned by the genii to still behold the light of day when you can no longer see it, know that I will never consent to become the wife of another, and that I will never have but one hus band, the same as I have but one soul.' "But M. Tao said to her, 'Madame, do not swear that.' 'Oh, M. Tao, M. Tao! Let me swear then that for at least five j years I will not think of marrying again.' I But M. Tao said to her: 'Madame, do not swear that. Swear only that you will I keep my memory faithful in your heart I until the earth shall have dried over my grave.' "Mine. Lu took the oath and the good M. Tao closed his eyes never to open i them again. "The despair of Mme. Lu surpassed all bounds. Her eyes were swollen with weeping and her pretty, soft cheeks were | scratched to pieces by her sharp little fin- ; ger nails, but everything passes away, j and the torrent of her grief soon spent its force. "Three days after the death of M. Tao Mine. Lu's sadness had become human. She was told that n young man, a follow- j er of M. Tao's. desired an interview to express the grief and sympathy lie felt on this sad occasion. She thought it would j not be right to refuse him this privilege, and she was correct. She received him with sighs! "The young man was of distinguished hearing and handsome face. He spoke to i her a little about M. Tao and much about herself. lie told her she was charming , and that he felt he loved her. She allow- i ed him to talk. He promised to return soon. In the meantime Mme. Lu, seated beside her husband's funeral mound, j where you saw her, passes her time in drying the enrth which rovers his tomb with the air stirred up by her fan." Wheu the old woman hnd finished her story, Tehouang Tsen thought: "Youth is short, the incitement of de sire gives wings to young women and young men. After all, Mme. Lu is an honest young person, striving to keep her promise. It is an example worthy to pre sent to the white women of Europe."— Exchauge. Itemlntacent. Mr. Skimmerhorn (as the participants in the debate became personal)—l was a thundering fool when I asked you to mar ry me! Mrs. Skimmerhorn—Well, you looked i it, dear.—Chicago Tribune. g Not at Half-price g § Nor Below Cost | are our goods sold. We 0 M couldn't remain in busi- 45 y> ness long if we followed 45 v anything else but busi- 45 ness methods. 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