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WASHINGTON, D. C. MOVEMENTS OF THE PRESIDENT AND HIS ADVISERS. APPOINTMENTS, DECISIONS, AND OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. The state department Wednesday re¬ ceived from Henry P. Merritt, consul at Chemnitz, Saxony, a list of subscribers to the fund tor the relief of the sufferers by the flood at Johnstown, Pa. It amounted to 3,785 marks, and 80 pfennings, equal to $910 American money. Emmons Clark, ex-colonel of the fa¬ mous Seventh regiment, New York Na¬ tional Guard, has declined the appoint¬ made. ment as consul to Havre recently In his letter of declination, Colonel Clark says that he had fully intended to accept, but that since the especially appointment bis was made his friends, and physician, had made such representations decline. to bim that he felt constrained to Superintendent Bell, of the railway mail service, said on Wednesday that there was nothing exceptional in the case reported from Lynchburg, Va., al¬ leging that two white postal clerks had refused to instruct a newly appointed negro clerk. It frequently happened in the South that white clerks at first re¬ fused to instruct negro clerks, but a lit¬ tle persuasive talk usually convinced them that they were unreasonable. Following is an outline of the presi¬ dent’s trip to Bar Harbor next month: The president will leave Deer Park on the sixth of August and proceed to New York by rail, thence to Boaton via Fall liver steamers. He will stay in Boston one day. That portion of the trip be¬ tween Boston aud Bar Harbor will be made by rail. It is not certain that Mrs. Harrison will accompany the president, but it is probable she will do so. The attorney general has given the Secretary of the Treasury an opinion to the effect that there is no legal objection to the transit through the United States territory of the Chinamen recently ar¬ rived at New Orleans from Cuba, en route to China via San Francisco. This opin¬ ion is in aecord with the decision giveu by Solicitor Hepburn on the same ques¬ tion some weeks ago, which v>as how¬ ever, not accepted by the Treasury De partment. Secretary Noble has issued an order directing Dr. George Ewing and II. L. Bruce, of the board of pension appeals, and Judge Campbell, of the attorney general’s office interior department, as a committee to investigate all re-ratings of pensions by the bureau made within the last twelve months. It is said that the civil service commissioner is not satisfied with the present administration of the civil service law in the pension understood, office. Commissioner Roosevelt, it is will make remonstrance against the course that has been pursued. A BIG FAILURE. LEWIS BROTHERS & CO., OF PILADELFHIA, MAKE AN ASSIGNMENT. . Surprise was occasioned in business cir¬ cles of Philadelphia, Pa., Thursday morn¬ ing by the announcement that the firm ol Lewis Brothers aud Co., wholesale drj good dealers. Chestnut street, about Sec¬ ond, had made an assignment. While the exact amount cannot as yet be ascer¬ tained, it is thought the liabilities of the firm will reach nearly $4,000,000. The firm is one of the largest in its line of business in the city, and perhaps in the country. It has houses in many of the larger cities of the United States, nota¬ bly New York, Chicago, Baltimore and Boston. It is said that one of the causes of failure was the .Johnstown disaster. The late Henry Lewis had a large inter¬ est in the Cambria Iron works there, which his estate held, and tbe loss by flood depreciated these securities. The Johnstown Manufacturing Company’s Woodvale woolen mills,which consigned their products to Lewis Bros.’ mill was destroyed by the flood, and the loss was $300,090. It was con¬ trolled by the Cambria Iron doubt Company. Since January there has been ex¬ pressed about their financial standing, and in March last the Bradstreets took away their capital rating and reduced their credit, rating a grade. Last April the firm made the following statement to a large financial institution: Asssels, $5,472,000, eon>isting of ledger accounts, $1,875,000; of manufacturers’ $871,000; accounts, real $1,793,000; securities, $223, estate $770,000; bills receivable, 000; liabilities, $4,128,000, of which $3, 082,000 was bills payable, and $447,000 loans; net surplus, $1,343,000. This was not looked on as a favorable state¬ ment by the trade. The firm had hard work to make collections. For over twenty-five years the firm of Lewis Brothers & Co. have been a lead¬ ing bouse in the dry goods trade. It was founded in Philadelphia in 1852. Henry Lewis died in 1886, leaving a large es¬ tate, of which $258,000 was invested as capital in the firm; besides, $1,000,000 of his was continued in the business. For many years the firm has been re¬ garded as the leading commission house of Philadelphia, handling cottons, wool¬ ens, silks and imported goods in that line, and doing a yearly business, it is estimated, of from $5,000,000 to $8,000, 000. It is reported to have done as much as $15,000,000 worth of business a year. ACCUSING PUSS. Little Margery, playing with her kit¬ ten, got a rather severe scratch from her pet. Her lips trembled for an instant, and then she assumed the commanding attitude that her mother had assumed toward her under somewhat similar cir¬ cumstances, and, extending ner hand, said sternly: “Titty, dive me that pinY’ FOR FARM AND GARDEN. CYJRE FOR POTATO ROT. The following formula is the best known preventative of potato rot, ac¬ cording to Professor Peck, State Botan ist of New York: Dissolve four pounds of sulphate of copper in sixteen gallons of water; in another vessel slack four pounds of lime in six gallons of water. When the latter solution is cool pour it into tho copper solution, stir thorough¬ ly, apply to the potato plants when in bloom by means of a spraying apparatus, so as to moisten thoroughly, but not drench them. CUTTING AND CURING CLOVER. Clover hay should also be cut early, or when the last sets are iu blossom and the first ones a little turned. As to the best mode for curing clover hay, an ex¬ perienced farmer says there are two ex¬ tremes to be avoided, viz. —drying rap¬ idly and too longin the sun, and at. tempting to cure wholly in the shade. It should be cut while dry and free from the dew and expose I to the sun long enough to dry it partly. Then place it in small cocks, xvhere some ad¬ ditional drying will take place, and it becomes fit for the barn or stack. Some experience and judgment are required to know just how dry it must be to keep without heating or molding. If made too dry it loses part of its value. The relative amount of drying in tho sun and in shade will vary with weather, ripeness and other influences; but as an average about two-thirds of the drying should be performed iu tho sun and one third in the shade, although practical men differ on this point .—New York Observer. SUNLIGHT AND TREES. The latest report of the United States Forestry Department gives some inter¬ esting particulars as to the influence oi light on trees. Light is necessary for the development of the chlorophyll, or green coloring matter, and for the life of all green plants, especially trees. Trees nearly always develop best in the full enjoyment of light, but their capacity for growing in shade varies considerably. Yew will thrive in the densest shade, whereas a few years of overtopping will kill larch. The beech will grow in partial shade where the oak would languish and the birch die. When planted in moist places all species are less sensitive to the withdrawal of light. In the open maples, elms and sycamores grow well and make a good shade, while in a dense forest they thin out aud show a scanty foliage. Conifers, such as spruces and firs, have the greatest capacity for growing in the shade, and preserve their foliage in spite of the withdrawal of light. It has been found that those leaves which %ght develop under the full influence of sun are larger and tougher, besides having a larger number of stomata, or breathing pores, than those less exposed to light. Experiments are to be carried out on this subject in the United States. We may also mention here a novel way of studying timber, which has been in¬ troduced by Mr. R. B. Hough of Low ville, N. Y. He employs frames of cardboard containing three thin slices of wood, each two inches wide by five inches long and from one-eightieth to one two-hundredtli inch thick. These show the wood along the grain, across it to the heart and tangentially. The effect of light coming through the thin slip is to show the structure and quality of the timber, even better tlian if one were looking at a mass of it. — Cassell's Magazine. SO-CALLED BUTTER AROMA. There seems to be a great deal of mis¬ understanding in regard to matters per¬ taining to dairy work, even among experts, and these misunderstandings produce confusion and uncertainty among the practical dairymen who look to these experts as guides and counsel¬ ors. One of the leading Western dairy writers, in an article recently published, gives as a reason why butter should be packed as soon as possible that other¬ wise “the aroma will escape.” Thi3 shows an entire ignorance of the nature of the flavor and odor — the so-called aroma—of butter. This is not a volatile essence of vapor which escapes from butter in its freshest state, as is the ca-e with the volatile oils of spices and aromatic herbs or woods. The aroma of these fragrant substances is a part of them which is the most powerful in their freshest state, and gradually de¬ creases with time and exposure until it is lost altogether. On the contrary, the aroma of butter is developed by time, and gradually increases by an interna change and decomposition by which the volatile acids—chiefly butyric acid^—are produced. And as this acid rapidly be¬ comes too pungent to be pleasant, it is necessary to protect the butter from change by immediate packing and se¬ clusion from the atmosphere. TOMATOES BY THE ACRE. Tomatoes yield the best crops in heavy loam that will not pack or bake, The plants, except for early planting, can be raised better out-of-doors, iu garden beds. The ground should have a dress¬ ing broadcast of 800 bushels to the acre of good, well-rotted barn-yard or hog¬ pen manure, well and thoroughly ploughed in and harrowed down. When the season is well settled, harrow the ground and furrow out five feet each way and put in plenty of fine, well-rot¬ ted manure at the crossing of the fur¬ rows, using about 800 bushels to the acre iu the hills. Tread down well ami cover with soil about three inches deep. Set the plants well down in the ground, pressing the soil well up to them. It i3 best to wet tho roots when setting, as the soil adheres better: Keep the ground clean aud loose with the cultivator and the hoe drawing the soil or hilling them at each dressing. Tomatoes are marketed by packing in crates holding a strick or Winchester bushel, made of two ends and one mid¬ dle piece, each three-quarters of an inch thick, eight inches wide and fourteen inches.long; with slats nailed on three inches xvide, twenty-two inches long, and three-quarters of an inch thick. Good heavy masons’ lath will answer for slats, leaving a space of one inch for ventillation between them. For a long distance from market they should be picked just as they begin to show a red tinge at the blossom end; but for near by they must be riper or so they will be well ripened when they arrive iu market. Care should be taken not to pack any cracked or wormy ones, as they spoil tho rest and injure the sale of the whole. For Philadelphia market they are mu. ally shipped in five—eighths stave peach baskets, covered with cl oth, which are returned to the shipper. —American Agriculturist. FARM A.ND GARDEN NOTES. Raise plenty of roots this season. “Haste makes waste” iu securing crops. Guard fowLs against hawks, owls, rats, etc. Keep a sharp lookout for vermin on the young chicks at this season. It is much better to plant a seasonable crop than to plant what we have planned to plant out of season. A practical way of destroying the cur¬ rant borer, is to cut off the infected wood iu the Spring and bum it. An experienced foreign horticulturist claims that canker in fruit trees always arises from defective nourishment. Every farmer ought to plant a small acreage of millet for the variet/ it affords in the winter feeding of stock. If the weather js dry keep the culti¬ vator going in the corn. Wools will draw moisture that ought to go to the corn. Don’t cultivate too deep; the time i3 past when “root pruning” is considered the best way to help corn make a good crop. But few farmers have their ground in proper order to plant corn. Many of them wonder why they have a “poor stand.” How was yours put in? Millet will be mature enough for hay in about ninety days after sowing, so that the soil it occupies can be seeded to winter wheat or rye in the fall. The cherry and pear slug can be de¬ stroyed by the exterminator or by pyre thrum powder, an ounce to three gal¬ lons of water, applied with a force pump. Brine salting is strongly advocated by Mr. Nuttall, a noted English maker of butter. He claims that grinding dry salt into butler and leaving it to dis¬ solve is a direct injury. A California fruit-grower is quoted as authority for the statement that the to¬ mato, in proximity to fruit trees or other plants affected with insects, will overcome the pe3t. Creameries are only valuable to the dairymen whom they serve when they bring to the business the highest excel¬ lence of dairy knowledge, order and cleanliness found In the best private dairies. The Prince Imperial of Japan. Compared to day, his Prince imperial Ham father, is much even at the present more emancipated, and none of the old traditions seem to have any weight in regulating his conduct. There was no precedent to follow iu the education of a Japanese prince in the modern way, and Prince Haru lias made many laws for himself. He is a wonderfully bright and precocious little fellow, and his small, twinkling black eyes are full of mischief and see everything. Ho is hardly taller than an American boy the of six years of age, hut he lias at times dignity, the pride of birth, and con¬ sciousness of station and power, of a man of sixty. His eyes are not slant¬ ing, nor indeed diies one often see in a Japanese face the wonderful oblique eyes beloved of the caricaturists. The peculiarity in tue expression eyelids being of ,their fast¬ eye is given by the if few stiches ened in either corner, as a had been taken there. This makes it impossible for them to lift the eyelids as high as wo do, and gives the narrower slits, through which they gaze, the pec¬ uliar Oriental look. One often sees Japanese with as round, wide-open eyes as those of our race, and it gives an especial beauty to their countenances. Prince Haru has the exquisitely smooth, fine yellow skin that is one of the points of greatest beauty in Japanese children, and a bright color sometimes shows in the pale yellow of his little cheeks. He has the rank of a colonel in the Japanese army, and wears his mili¬ tary uniform and his cap with being the dark- gold star all the time, his clothes blue cloth' in winter and white duck in summer. He is fond of riding, and, when mounted? the miniature colonel trots along at a fine gait, giving and return¬ ing the military salute as he passes an officer or a sentry, like a young marti¬ net.—[St. Nicholas. Women Jugglers of India. I saw two women jugglers at. They Jeypore, writes Frank G. Carpenter. were bright, intelligent-looking old girls, one of whom appeared almost enough to be the mother of the other. They did many wonderful things, one of which wasmix ing up sand in water and then putting the hand into the discolored fluid, they brought a handful of sand, which they filtered lnough their lingers as dry ns before it went in. The youngest fo these tall, girls well-formed v as perhaps and fine-look¬ fifteen. She was ing. She had bracelets on arms and on feet, and her eyes were as beautiful as those of a gazel.e. One chair of her tricks was the lifting of a heavy almost by her eye¬ lids, the thought of which makes my eyes sore. The chair w as a heavy mahogany one, which belonged to the room in which I was staying. She tied two strong ends strings to the tep strings of this and affixed the of these to her eyes by little round cups, each about the size of a nickel. Tliet o fitted over the eyeballs and under the lids, and she bent over while they were so fastened, liaising herself, she pulled up the chair with these strings with the muscles of her eyelids and carried it from one side of the room to the other, It was a hor¬ rible sight, and as she took the metal cups from her eyes they the filled floor. with water told and she almost sank to I her the trick)was disgusting, and that she ought never to try it again. Still for all this and the rest of the show these girls were well satisfied with two rupees or about 70 cents. It Don’t Pay To use. uncertain means when Buffering: from .iinsKM (lisenses of nf flic the liver, liver, blood blood or lungs, such us biliousness, or “liver complaint, it.” skin dia eases, scrofulous sores or swollmgB, or from lung scrofula (commonly when known I)r. Bierce’s n# consump¬ Golden tion of the lungs) is guaranteed to all Medical Discovery taken in time, cure these affections, if or money paid for it will by promptly refunded. S,too offered for an incurab’c case of Catarrh in the Head, by tho proprietors of Dr. Huge s Remedy. _ An Kngli-di firm has just brought out a new sem-itive flume burner, which can be ext n guished entirely by a loud noise. What do you chew ? “LUCY HINTON!” Why? is the best I find. Because it can Who makes it? T. C. Williams Co., Richmond, Va. Who sells it ? All dealers. How can 1 recognize it ? Ihenamo Lucy lllnton is on every plug. Belgium’s zinc manufacturing industry used has developed until one-thlid of all the zinc in Europe is made in that country. How Nice! A child who has once taken Hamburg them Figs as a cathartic will never again look on as medicine, but will he likely to ask for them, under the impression that they are F1 simply pre- “ ssfcSS * cenu * Uose oue * Ask your druggist for “Tansili’s Punch. „ Do You Have that extreme tired feeling, languor, without appetite or strength, impaired digestion, and a gen eral foeling of mUery It 1 b Impossible to describe! Hood’s Sarsaparilla is a wonderful medicine for ity In place of weakness and debility. Be sure to get Hood’s. “I take Hood’s Sarsaparilla every year as a tonic with most satisfactory result*. I recommend Hood’s Sarsaparilla to all who have that miserable tired fecUng.’’—C. PAKMBLBe, 349 Bridge St., Brook lyn, N. Y. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. #1; six for *5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD ft CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Maes. IOO Doses One Dollar BRYANT & STRATTON Business College LOUISVILLE. KY. Pimples, Sore-*. Aclics nn«l I'a ns. When a hundred bottles of sarssparilla 01 other pretentious specifics fail to erad iate in¬ born scrofula or contagions bli od poison, re¬ member that B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) has gained many thousand victories, in as many seemingly incurable instances. Bend to the Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga., for “Book ot Wonders," and b : convinced. Ic is the only TRUE BLOOD PURIFIER. G. W. 3b s-i r, Howell’s X Roads, Ga., writes: "I was afflicted nine years with sores. All the medicine I could take did me no good. I then tried B. B. B.. and 8 bottles cured me sound.’ Mrs. S. 31. Wilson, Bound Mountain, troubled, Tt-xas, writes: “A lady friend of mine was with bumps and pimples on her face and neck. She took three bottles of B. B. B., and her skip got soft and smooth, pimples disappeared, and In Jas. r health L. Bosworth, improved greatly.” Ga., writes: “Some Atlanta, I had yeai s ago I contracted blood poison. no appeiite, my digestion was ruined, rheumatism drew up my limbs so I could hardly walk, my throat was cauterized live times. Hot Springs gave me no benefit, and my life was one of prising tortura until I gave B. B. B. a trial, and, sui as it may seem, the use of five bottles cured me.” The world is casting about for cheap raw material for paper. The discoverer will he iu rare luck while he will bestow a favor on mankind. fll liDKAI, UK I* A Itl’JI ENT TDLAtiE UBIVERSITY OF LOUlSIAHi. [Formerly, 1847-1884, the University of Louisiana. ] Its advantafcOH tor practical instruct ion, and especially in the diseases of the Soutu-west, are uneqaale i, as the law secures it superabundant materials from the ifieat Charity Hospital with its 700 beds, and 20,000 patients and annual .y. Students li ve no hospital-fees to pay of special instruction is daily given i«f lli«* boil *ido t ti*» »)H(, nsinno -'ther institution. For catalogues ov information, address Prof. K E. CIIAIIJ.K. Ill I)., Dean, O. i rawer 261. New Orleans, Ln« ixr. o. 75 r- m Nashville, Tenn. College for Young Ladies, Is the leading school of this section. Began 1510 with 60 pupils, without grounds or buildings of it# own. Now has 3 buildings, 160 rooms, 20 unices, 320 pupils from 16 States. Full course Vamlerbuilt in Literature, Uni Science, Art, Music, privileges Gymnasium, in and all modern conveniences. versity. fully ognipped For catalogue address President. Itev. Uko. \V. F. Frige, I). 1)., .Nashville, Tonu. SV 9 ILLERSBURG female QoIIeJb. Located in tbe heart of the beautiful Ibun 44rn.**» region of Kentucky. Health unexcelled. Superior inetruotiou. The beet Hohool for Soientitto your daughter and Phono¬ in the South. departments, Art, Music, Literary. Firat-claae board. Reasonable graphy Apply to terinH. early Rev. C. POPE, Millersburg, Ky. Plantation Engines With Self-Contained RETURN FLUE BOILERS, ' FOR DRIVING COTTON GINS and MILLS. ™ Illustrated PamphletFroo. 4<l<Jrraa ** JAMES LEFFEL 4. CO. : I 110 MPItlNLFlKI.D, Liberty Nt. New OHIO, York. or BUTCHER’S FLY KILLER Makes a dealt sweep. Kvcry flics. aheet will kill a quart of n Stops buzzing around ears, diving akljw at eyes, hard tickling words aud your now, se¬ cures { peace at trifling expense. Sond IH cents for 5 sheets to F, DUTCHElt, St. Albans, Vt. After others ess can ■ 9 PHILA., PA. Twenty years’ continuous practice In the treat¬ ment ami cure of tho awlul died s of curly vice, destroying both mind and body. Medicine and treatment for on C month, Kive DoHnm, sent C Hsoli on Hpcciul IMsensea free. CHICHESTER’S ENGLISH V PENNYROYAL PIUS. Red Crons Diamond ISrand. Tho only reliable pill for sale. £af« »n# f ■or*. inond Ladies, Itrund, ask lu red Orugglst metalltabolts, for the ■«•]«* *\ with blue ribbon. Take no other. H#>Dd4«* (stamps) for particular* and “ IteUcf fop '**—*’[ Ladle*," in UU«r, »>y mall. Name Paver. CUIchctlcr Chemical AiadUoo Fhiiada. Ffc AAflAMTCFI IIMmiIILU. One Air"iit *•* «*ncli Bounty to j*| „!<<• Ofo In *410 II PKNKIt l»«jr Hulling WB I lie FA IC ill Kit’S DIN Mil ytl New way uf sharpening gin-. Makeyour olu gum new: keep your new gins HU. No tile*. Anyone can use it. Conimi* IOOI1H paid agent on all h#Jmh in county, whether made by lie or him. 200 machines in use Mince Her tnmbor laid. Machines and Hat.iata -tion CO.. guaranteed. ,YJ plus, Write Tenn at once to ,|. (;. I'Ai.I.M A- cm •9IO VC To i|2i0 A MONTH can be marie working for us. Agents preferred time who the emi business. furnish a horse and give their whole to Spare moments may lie profitably employed F. JOHN- also. A few vaeanelea in towns and cities, B. BON ft GO., 1009 Main St., IUohmoad, Va. N. Stiver 11. Pleaee elute n U' and busineee experience. mind ohrmf tending slump for reply. 1.1. F. J. & Co. WASHINGTON 11 INFORMATION BUREAU, COLE *V DEKBLIC, Proprietor#, 932 I Nlreer N. W., Wn»liingLon, I). C, General information furnished. UorresDondence nolicited. M will by receive addressing valuable IS. TOUBoJkK, b.fmrriailon Boston, Free. Maas* Liooal Agents Wonted i n Town and Bounty to k.-II our KILTER and COOLER, Warm, tiltliy water is* made pure and wholesome aud pleasantly cold without ice. .1. kLI.IO I i & MON • Kini""", OMj, S 25 AM MEDICAL H 0 UR CO.. "«« K.lcfamoad. svK&ftrsz y«. g— lo $8 h day. Samples wortii !*!j. 1 9 Kree. IlntH'Sairty Linee not under horse’s feet. Write lirew Kelli Holder Co..Holly, Mich. |S YOUR FARM FOR SALE v, buy^Tarra? If so addre ss Cuarxg & Wiiiodt. m Broadway. N. Y^ * g^ntn wanted. $1 an hour. 50newart»c e*». GatMaas .xjL and aaiuptfe tren. G.L. Makbhall, Buffalo, N. 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