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8 A GOWN OF STRAW. Ms AST NOVELTY OK THE* SIMMER JUFOHTED DIRECT FROM PARIS. Mitten SHeeire* Are Another Pretty Frivolity of the Moment Made NaeetMTT by the Universal I’te of the Elbovr AlihrerlatioD-fWadlnx Parasols Are of Brows Pongee Lines! With Gref Pine, and Are Embroidered In Shell and Star Flab Designs Two Evqnialfely Cool Coatnmes and Every Vagary of the Popular Belt. w York. Augr. S —We have not touch ed bottom yet, po tn: a* seasonable nov elties are concerned, for a woman just home from Europe the other day wore at a fashionable garden party a gown of straw. That sounds stiff and uncompro mising, not to say brittle and poeslbly prickly, but It was nothing more nor less than lovely, graceful, pliant and truly durable. The color was a soft ecru, and the goods when closely examined proved to be wrought of the long, tough, yet soft and unbreakable leaves Stripped from rye stalks. The mode of the gown was princess, with the straw skirt slashed open five times to the hips, and then the sections thus divided were whipped to gether again, with narrow, clear yellow satin ribbon, as far down as the knees and through the ribbon and the loose mesh of ■ the rye leaves showed a crepe underdress ' of angel blue. Another refreshing frivolity of dress for j the moment is the mitten sleeve of lace. } Tti. .ash halt, ths bl(. ihe hi] 1, ,: ! .ml riif.lt. 1 hull In reality - tls a glove of lace made neces sary by the widespread popularity of the elbow sleeve finished off with a tiny bag undersieeve. The mitten ia pulled on sep arately from the upper arm covering, takes the wrist and forearm snugly, fits up under the base of the sleeve so neatly that it really seems but a continuation of •he sleeve's length, and unlike the old style half-mitts this near hand covering haa distinct half-fingers running as high as the first knuckle. Many very showy rings should be slip ped on the fingers before the lace gloves are drawn on. and at the shops where these trifles are for sale, ss high as $25 can be paid for a very simple looking pair. For Use When Wading, One of the most heartily welcomed new comers at the seaside Is the wading and beach parasol. Beautiful as the red cot- it cream white serge trimmed with blue braid and wading parasol of pongee. ton umbrella undoubtedly is, plant ed against a background of brown sea send ar and blue sky and water, becoming u Its rcflecflon Is to the creamy com plexion beneath It, cautious and observ ant femlrl.y has discovered that the red cotton Is exceedingly hot and productive of the worst cases of sunburn. In - con sequence the red parasol has been furled with an emphatic snap and under the be nign protection of a brown pongee para eo lined with greyish blue silk and em broidered all over Its outside edge with star fish and oonche shell shap sand rib bon dealgns purporting to be seaweed con ventionalized, the bother disports herself In the shal ow wavelets Beneath such ■heller she can wear a short sleeved square tucked bathing gown In safety, and usually her water toilet Is of cream white serge or mohair, striped becoming ly with fine lines of braid that match the Hr, ng of her sunshade. Dark blue hose and a helt of dark blue silk serve only to accentuate the high lights of the costume. Ah Ciiollnu iin lee Tea. In watching the afternoon crowds at the casinos and on drive-ways looking seaward, it is easy to classify the wo men as those who wear boleros and those who do not. The extremes of the two types are well Illustrated In the foulard and the serge gown sketched. The first ta a triumph In Us class. Its very appear ance is as cooling to the eyes as Is a draught of lemon flavored ice tea to the IIP* Consider a combination in figures of delicate green seaweed sprays on Ivory whltt. Tne skirt la tucked perpendicular ly to the knees, there a broad line of coarse cream lace, upon white silk runs, and below this flows out a deep accordian pleated flounce. The waist is yoked and ■actioned with insertions of lace and then k girdled with a brood folded band of cloth I of gold silk. Flva tiny line® of gold braid I circle the lace collar. In its way the aerge la Juat a worthy of praise, for its cream white aklrt is di : versified by broad box pleats lapping from 1 hip to foot, and across the skirt is laid a pointed design of heavy Russian lace in modified Vandyke pattern. Upon the lace narrow of cream taffeta are laid and etretohed. All possibility of clumsi ness la removed by the airy aspect of the waist. Beneath ths Spanish pocket of lace and stitched taffeta bands is a bodice made wholly of fancifully tucked white muslin formed upon a decollete lining and crisp white taffeta ribbon format the girdle. A lot of maize straw and two Sevres blue plumes is the final Inspiration in a quite faultless summer toilet. The Diversities of the Girdle. The feminine mind is built, they say. to contend successfully with details. In substantiation of this tribute to a pecu liar gift, the divers belting of every sum mer season stand forth with a prodigality of Inventive genius. The makers of the fashions never utilise the some devices two seasons in succession, and this year the narrowest belt leads all the rest. There is the sash belt, the stitched belt, the buckle affair of leather, the crusn ond twisted, girdle, but not one of them is wider than the blede of a breakfast knife, and everyone Is so arranged, drag ged. pinned, pulled and faptened as to shorten the back and lengthen the waist line in front as much as possible. Few ore the exceptions to the rule in leather belts that the front shall be nar rower thnn the back and a grey suede strip, measuring an inch in width behind and half an inch in width in front, is the aristocrat in leather belts. Its front clasp must be silver and wrought in the shape of an antique harness buckle. There is a full iz*Mi craze for this special type of buckle, which is copied from the gor geous trappings that glittered on the milk white steeds that drew in state. Madame Fompadour’s or the Duchesse du Barry’s gilded coach about the roads of Versailles. Knots and Streamers. A secondary matter to belts, yet one of decided moment, Is the use of the black liberty silk knot and streamers. It does duty on so many gowns for afternoon and evening wear that there is no ignoring it. A gown all of pale blue organdie and lace seems to require a final touch in the form of a great rosette made of shlm mery black gauze, having as Its heart a Jewel of some sort, and then where this is fastened on the left shoulder or right breast, depends two sash ends of the dusky veiling clear *0 the floor. White gowns sometimes show better upon yel low, or aquamarine-tinted "floaters." as the summer girl designates very truthful ly the gracious clouds of color that wave in her wake as she dances. Pale green figured foulard silk, trimmed with cream lace Insertion*. It ts laid In tiny lucks and the skirt has deep accordion pleated flounce, girdle is of gold cloth and rows of narrow gold braid are 1 around top of collar. Sfiinmer Notea. Kid gloves are sleeping peacefully in their tissue paper wrappers, for white thread hand coverings with a close suede fit are adopted by women In town and out, and literally for every occasion, save weddings and such. As the mercury has risen the feminine collar has fallen and with the tendency toward undersleevees, long shoulder seams and slightly fulled skirts has appeared an 1860 mode of dressing the neck; quite flat with a round collar of lovely lace and a quaint or gorgeous broach holding the collar ends fast under the chin. Bo far the lace collar and broach, such a distinctive feature of the old daguerreo type. has been popularized with pictur esque full-sleeved morning and breakfast Jacket only, but given time and encour agement it will encroach on more Import ant departments of dress. Although in Paris and London the long, loose empire ulster, race coat, dust coat and rain coat, made plainly of waterproof silk or gorgeously of fine broadcloth and lace, enjoyed last season still profits now by the most marked patronage and popu larity .they have never made thetr way on this side the water. A few were worn last winter, but throughout the spring and Into the summer so far the ladles of Irreproachable figure and waxen smiles, who live In the gorgeously costumed cap tivity of the plate glass show window, have had the empire coats entirely to themselves. Mary Dean. —More Reason to Exterminate Him Watts—Still, you must concede that the Chinaman minds his own business only. Potta—Of course. He Is notorious for that. It is only another evidence of his lack of real humanity.—lndianapolis Fret*, THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1900. EIGHTEEN SAVORY SAICEA. Recommended for I'it With Warmed Over Meats and Vegetables. In this age <ff mada-over dishes, or entrees, one can not know hew to make too many sauces. The basis of mest sauces is boUer and flour cooked together, a white sauce; or if the flour is first browned, a browned sauce. To this are added the seasoning and flavor suited to the dish with which it is to be served. Herb Sauce for a Loin of VsaJ—Chop fine mint, pars'ey. tarragon, boil with some currants and a little water. Strain and add the yolks of two or three hsrd boiled eggs rubbed to a paste, a little gra ed bread, cinnamon, cloves and sugar and a slice or two of an orange. Tarragon Sauoe for Venison— Boil for twenty minutes tarragon and bay leaves in a little water, strain and add a tea spoonful of sugar, some salt, pepper and lemon juice. Put into a saucepan, in which is a tablespoonful each of flour and butter rubbed together, and cook ten minutes. , Fennel Sauce for Potato—Take equal quantities of fennel, mint and parsley, tie in a bunch put it in a pint of boi ing water with a teaepoonful of salt and a pinch of soda. Let it bQll eight minutes, drain it, remove the stalks and chop the leaves very fine. Add it to a white sauce, which has been made with milk. Parsley alone is made into a sauce in the same wav. The addition of soda to the water helps to keep the color of the parsley or fennel • Sorrel Sauce—Wash well two quarts of sorrel, put it in a sauce pan wiih a little water and butter, and let it stew until it is soft Rub it through a sieve, and then add a quarter of a pint of brown I sauce, a little salt and butter and a trifle of lemon juice. For an entree of fish. Celery Sauce for Bobed Fowl —Wash pare and cut in thin slices about two inches long a head of young celery. Boil till tender in water or stock, seasoning with pounded mace, nutmeg, salt and pep per. Thicken with a tablespoonful each of flour and butter rubbed together in a smooth paste. After taking from the fire add a little lemon juice. Asparagus Sauce.—Boll some asparagus tops till tender, then atratn and add them 10 a white sauce which has a Httle sugar In it—half a teaspoonful. Asparagus sauce may be served with veal. Green Pea Sauce for Lamb.—Boll one pint of green peas, a tablespoonful of butter, two tablespoonfuls of cream, a bit of mint, a trifle of sugar and half a pint of veal gravy. When the peas are quite tender add salt and thicken with flour. Cauliflower Sauce for Cold Fish.—Boll a White serge suit trimmed with heavy cream lace and bands of white taf feta. Body part of tuoked mus lin girdle and corsage bow of white taffeta silk. small cauliflower until tender, then shred it and add It to a white sauce, with a little white pepper and some lemon Juice. Endive Sauce with Braised Liver.— Blanch six heads of endive and then chop them flna; put them in half a pint of good gravy or beef Juice, and stew until the endive t* tender; strain, thicken with white sauce and season with salt. Cucumber Sanoe.—Peel two cucumbers, cut them down the center In four parts, and again Into pieces two Inches long, removing the seeds. Put the pieces, with tome salt and a sliced onion. Into a quar ter of a pint of vinegar and water, and let stand for one horn, brain oft the liquid. Stew in a pint of water and some butter until tender. Drain and add to a brown sauce. Cucumber sauce Is served with fish. Onion Sauce,—Peel half a dozen white onions and boll until tender. Drain thor oughly end cut In halves or small pieces. Put In a saucepan with a white sauce and cook a little while; rub through a eleve and then add some cream and a little salt. Another Onion Sauce.—Peel and allce half n dozen onions and put In a stew pan with a tablespoonful of butter. Cook until the onion Is brown, then gradually stir In shout a tablespoonful of flour, moiiilened with water. Then put in some brown sauce with a little pepper and mushroom ketchup When taken from the stove add a little lemon Juice. Still another sauce made with onlona— Bermuda onions. If possible: Roast half a dozen peel and put them to a sauce pan with some gravy. Season with salt and cay enne. and then add e teaspoonful of pow dered sugar and boll until tender. Mash the>m add butter end serve hot. Tiwnip Sauce With Mutton —Boil and then mash two or three turnips When cokl add cream, in which is a tablespooh ful of melted Gutter, eeoson with 6alt and paprika. Carrot sauce is made by cutting carrots into dloe, boiling them in stock and then adding brown sauce. Mushroom Sauce—Stew some mush rooms in veal gravy with salt, pepper and butter. Rub together a tablespoon ful each of flour and cream. Add this to the mushrooms, and, when thickened, it is ready to serve, hot. If a brown mush room sauce Is desired have the flour browned before using. Truffle ffouce.—Cut truffles in round or dice-ahaped pieces. Let them simmer in butter over a slow fire. Add beef gravy or red gravy, strain it and serve hot. Truffle sauce makes almost any warmed I over dish take on an air of importance. Orange Sauce For Wild Fowl.—Take half a pint of brown sauce and let it boil. Add half a pint of claret, a little cayenne and the juice of two oranges or one orange and one lemon. Let it simmer for a few moments, pour some of it over rhe game and serve the rest in a tureen. 1 Lemon Sauce For Boiled Meats.—Put the peel of a lemon, cut thin, into a pint of cream, with thyme and ten white pep per corns. Simmer and strain, thicken It with flour and butter rubber together. Boil it and add a little lemon juice, THE DOCTOR’S LAST TEST. He Remembered the Antagonism Be tween Women and Mice and Used It to Expose a Fraud. Physicians often have to exercise great rare to aviod becoming the victims of imposition. If a dishonest applicant for a pension can hoodwink some doctor, the latter’s certificate may be made the n tans of perpetraiing a fraud upon the government; and social parasites who sek to sponge on public and charitable Institutions are always trying to inveljle a physician into saying the word or writ ing the line which would gain them ad mission. An interesting case In point was re lated by the leading oculist of Montreal, a man whose practice extended far out side of the bounds of that city. One day a young woman came into his office, ac companied fcy an older woman, appar ently the mother. The young woman wore colored glass-s, which one might have asumed to be superfluous; as it was claimed that the girl was totally blind. What was wanted of the doctor was a certificate authenticating this claim of blindness, putting It beyond dispute; and it was frankly stated that the object in seeking this was to obtain certain aids and advantages of a philanthrophlc na ture Impossible of access otherwise. The standing of the oculist was such that a eiatement from him would carry full weight wherever presented. On examination the surface of the eyes gave no Indication of any defect; but that might be so and blindness still exist. Applying tests of the strongest light the girl professed herself to be absolutely unable to distinguish between light and darkness. Other tests were resorted to. rytng in their nature and some of them very painful; and these were all borne with patience and courage. The doctor was puzzled and baffled. Apparently the girl was stone blind, but he was unable to solve the problem of (hose eyes, lo dis cover the cause of that blindness or say just where the defect lay. The c’octor was more than half dis posed to gTant the desired certificate, when, as a last expedient, he hit upon a novel experiment. He dismissed his pa-tent, with Instructions that she should come again at a certain hour the follow ing day. and this gave the oculist time to arrance for thp carrying out of his plan. When the girl came the next day the doctor had her securely blindfolded with a heavy bandage over her eyes. He th n took a tlnv mouse which hr had procured and held the lively little thing by Its tall before the girl’s face, though not touching her, while he ordered the landage to be removed. No sooner was the bandage off than her screams rang through the place, and her eyes were wide with terror at the harmless little rodent, which had thrown her so com pletely off her guard and exposed the im posture. Of course, she saw it. or she would not have screamed. Needless to say. the applicant did not get that cer tificate. William H. P. Walker. SLAVE OP’ JEFFERSON. Old Negroes of Montlcello Estate Still Living in Ohio. From the Philadelphia Record. There Is living at Cincinnati a negro, named Peter Fossett, who was once own ed by Thomas Jefferson. Peter was one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves, born on the Monticello estate in 1815. His mother was Mr. Jefferson's favorite cook during his two terms of the presidency. His father had charge of all the mechanical work done on the estate. This made Peter a sort of family pet about the homestead, and he was given special advantages In training and educa tion by Mrs. Polly Randolph. Jefferson’s daughter, and the other ladles at Montl cello. Though a slave for thirty-five years of his life, Peter never knew much of slavery’s darker side. He recalls many of the world's celebrities, both of this country and Europe, who visited -the sage of Montlcello after he retired from the presidency. Mr. Jefferson died July 4. 1826, on the fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration. He provided In his will for the emancipation of all his slave*, but the laws of Virginia made It Impossible for the executors to carry out this wish, as they found the estate Incumbered with debt, and slave property had to be count ed. His father had been freed by Mr. Jefferson during his lifetime and had set tled In Cincinnati He prospered, and he and Peter together bought the latter from hlz master In 1850. He then Joined his father In Cincinnati, where he has been known for half a century. —Dr. Carl K. Swenson, president of Bethany College, at Ltndaborg. Kan . has refused to accept the presidency of Au gustan# College. Rock Island, 111.. to which ha was recently alacted. THE 6EO6RAPHY MATCH IN TAIL-HOLT DISTRICT. By Freeman E. Miller. (Copyright. 1900. by Freeman E. Miller.) Whdle I was visiting my ©l4 Indiana friend, BUI Dodge, on upper Council craek last winter, he related a little episode that will Illustrate the cosmopolitan character of the population In Oklahoma better than a whole table of statistic#. I will tell the story in his own language as nearly as I can. After we had finished supper. Bill started up. "Did ye ever hear whut happened down at the Tail-holt sdhoolhouse last Decem ber? Wifi], M’s the funniest story aver wuz, strange-like, en nuthin’ like it ever wuz, er could a-been, eneywhayre ejse than in Oklahoma, I reckon.” I had not heard about it, and Bill ac cordingly continued: "Ye see, the purfesser at Tail-holt last winter wuz a Jim-dandy. Reckon he him se’f dident even know thet he knowed haff ez much ez he did—not by the dickshun airy name, aneyhow. But he wuz sensi ble, en he had idees, en when a man with ldees gits into a schoolhouse with boys en girls thet ain’t asleep he makes things git up en hum fer keeps. We hadent had aneything new in the deestrlct sence the openin’; en several of us leadin’ patterns axed him to give us somepin good fer ole fokes ezwell ez children. He kind of thort awhile en chawed his musstash; en arter awhile, studdyin’ like, he says: ’We’ll have a Jogafy match.' 'No,' says I, 'thet "All to onct thayre wuz a almighty screech In the middle of the School House ts too ole en wore out. We had jogafy matches in ole Indianny when I wuz jist a leetle kid.’ 'But,' says he, 'but this air anew kind of jogafy match; I know it air plum new, 'cause I’ve jist made it all up myse'f,’ says he. 'lt couldent be did aneywhayre else than in Oklahomy. eith er,' says he. ‘Let us have it to onct!’ says I. speakin' fer the crowd. En the purfes ser en all on us patterns agreed. "Wull, he announced the nex' day afore books wuz let out that thapre would be a glnyouine, original jogafy match, strict ly pertainin' to Oklahomy. at the school house the rex’ Friday evenin' a t air y lamp lightln'; en all the scholars, en patterns, en frlen's wuz to come. He said it wuz to be a new-fangled sort of jogafy match, sich ez could be got up nowhayre else In the wide world than in Oklahomy; en, says he, ever’body better come, en see the fun en git akwainted, en larn somepin, too. “Friday night the ole sod schoolhouse wuz jam-pack full of folkes, en a good many on ’em had to Stan' up aroun' the alges; but It wuz a purty warm night in December, ye know—en they got along fust rate; en arter he’d let ’em talk awhile, along about 7 o'clock the purfesser called the meetin’ to order en tolt ’em the kind of a match he had thort out en his great purposs In devisin' it. He said he noticed that a good many people in Oklahomy didn’t know theyre neighbors, although they wuz a-livln’ in sleh a gelorious coun ery en with sich a deelightfll climate. The purfesser could handle the lingo nice en straight, I tell ye, en I never heerd a bet ter speech in my life. He's shore got the gift of gab in great shape. He said thet many a time when he wuz a-rovin' en 0- roamin' aroun’ in strange parts en among strange people, he alius fergot all about bein' lonesome, when he 'run up agin some feller thet wuz from Eelinol. The purfes ser wuz from Eelinol, en he alius felt iike he wuz at home when he ctould shake han’s with a Sucker. En he says this here match air not only to teach the children whayre the different states en territories en foreign countries air. but it air to teach you all eggsaekly whayre one another come from, so ye kin hunt yer neighbors up, en git sociable en friendly. ‘I find thet In this here school deestrict,” says he, "theyre air men en women from almost every state 1n the Union er out of It, sich as territories, en many on ’em from for eign countries; en we can larn a whole lot about them various places ez well ez git ackwainted with eadh other by this here proceeding,” say’s he. “Arter the purfesser had fust mentioned the matter to me. I kep’ gittin’ oneasy en oneasy all the time, fer fear some feller wouident want to play In the game. I have seen fellers afore now who seerious ly objected to statin’ whayre they wuz from, er even whayre they fust saw tho light of day, but I fin’ly made It up to myse’f thet no alch fellers lived in the Tail-holt deestrict, en concluded to let things pereeed. I couldent see aney real danger ahead, en I thort thet the purfes ser had all the resks to run, aney way. "The purfesser explained how the match wuz to be conducted. He said thet about the easles’ way he knowed wuz to choose up ever'body In the house thet 'ud take part, Jist ez ef they wuz a-goin’ to choose up en epell down in the ole-fash ioned way, en then the fellers doin' the choostn' up 'ud keep tally on the dlffrunt pints made, en announce the result. Arter this wuz done onct It 'ud be tried agin, but in a fldffrunt way, with two others a-choosln’ up. This 'ud not only afford Instruction en amusement, hut In time 'ud let ever' one know whayre ever' one else wuz from, en he'p ’em to get akwainted. “The plan of this Jogafy match wuz about ez toilers: He had airranged all the states In the union en all the territo ries out of the union In alphabetical order, from Alasky to VVhyomeing; en he said thet aney persons borned In a state would count up ez many pints fer his side ez the number wuz correspondin' to thet state on the list. So a feller from Alasky 'ud count only one pint on the feller from Whyomeing 'ud count 50. En ever' feller borned In aney country In Europe 'ud count a hunderd. In Asia two hundred, In Afrlky one hunderd en fifty, Australee two hunderd en fifty, en so on. He had It all figgered out in nice shape, en the Purfesser air shore a genius. 1 wush we had 'im fer nex - winter's school, but we could pay him only $lB a month, en I ex pec' he's a-makin' more’n thet In real es tate. “Wull. arter all the preellminarles wuz settled, he called out Dollie Fudges en Sallte Homer to choose up; en they chose up ever' one In the house. Nary feller thayre axed to be excused, which wuz nhore to the great credit of Tatl-holt dee sirlct. It wui funny to watch the gals ez they %uz a-chooaln' up. They both seemed to think thet the older a feller looked, the more plnta he would count up, en th* way they went arter the ole fokes wuz a caution. It dident take 'em long to sort out ever’body In the house, old en young, htg en little, male en female, clean down to leetle Charley Marvin, the hump back. "Things got so quiet ye could hear the men a-ohawln’ theyr terbacker, ez the gals en the Purfeaser begun to Agger up '’4he plot*. They commenced at the bead af each llna. SalUe had the fust chice, en she took ole Ben Swale fer it. “ ‘Whayre wuz you horned, Mr. Swale?’ asked the purfesser. 'ln Vlrglnny,’ Ben answered: on Sallte’a side got credit fer 46 pint*, en her father, who wus a-staqd in' by me. whispered whut remarkable penetration thet gal hpd, fer one so young. "Dollie had taken Mrs. Swale fer her fuct choice: en Mrs. Swale wuz axed the same question. ‘ln Arkansaw,' she an swered, en a big laugh went up, en Dol lie got credit fer only four pints. Em so they w’ent on. whtpsawin’ down the lines, en eorost from one to the oth er. en some amusin' things a-happenin' right along all the time. The women would say, 'lndeed!' Jist ez surprised like, en 'O, my!' ez excitedly, on. tha men folks 'ud amlle en keep on chawin' theyr terbocker. Some curious combinations come to the light of the community for the fuss time, >n I reckon theyr owners, even, wuz considerably surprised them selves. Theyre wuz ole-Joe Blggers, with his wife en seven childern. They wuz ell on Seine's side, on the way theyr birth places wuz scattered all over creation wuz a gipyouine eye-opener. Bill wuz horned In South Carlinee; his wife in Michigan, the oldes’ gal in Eelinol, the oldee’ boy In loway, theyr nex’ child In Mizzoory, at which Ed Swank with his hosspltible face seemed mighty tickled (sle Ed wuz from Mizzoory), the nex’ child in Newbrasky, the next in Kansas, the nex' in the Injun nation, en the nex' in Oklahomy. Theyr wuz several families scattered aroun', somepin like thet, only not quite so bad. En thayre wuz Jim Swoboda from Bo hemia en Carl Schmidt from Germany en so on en so fOTth. A man 'ud be horned in Californy en his woman in Massachu setts en thayre children gethered up on all the roads between the two. I found thet my neares’ neighbor wui born In New York en his wife in Texas. The one on the nex' quarter tvu* borned in Ver mont, while his woman wuz from Flor ide'e. En of all the mixed-up messes you ever seed, our deestrict shorely wuz, when we got through. The whole United States, en disunited territories, en several for eign countries, wuz represented by fok“S with the proper credentials; en ez the countin' of pints went on, we saw thet the match wuz to be just nip en tuck ez to which of the gale won out, fer several of us wuz a-keepin’ tally on the pints. "Tom Lipscomb wuz the last feller on Same's side. 'l'm from the free state of Van Zandt!’ says he; en we all helt our breaths, fer none of us knowed fer shore whayre thet wuz. Fer a minute er so we thort he wuz a foreigner, but he dtdnent have aney brogue to his talk. But the purfesser relieved the strain In less'n a minute, fer he knowed whut It wuz. ’Free s,tate of Van Zandt,—Van Zandt county—Texas,’ says he; en 43 mighty big pints went down to ■Sallie’s credit. “Dollies last chice wuz Mrs. Dugan, the tvidder Woman livin' down on the “En we all helt our breaths." school section. 'En whayre wuz you horn ed, Mrs. Dugan?' said the purfesser. 'Sure, an' I wuz boarn in oul Oireland.’ said she, imitatin' the Irish brogue, al though she could speak United States ez well ez a native of Arkansaw. En 100 pints went down on Dollie's side; en when they Aggered 'em ail up, Dollie had won by three pints! “Arter the cheerin' en congratulatin' had gone down, the purfesser said they'd try it on a more complicated system. They'd not try It on the state whayre one was borned, but on the states whayre he had lived. En aney one could count aney state in which he had lived, er had been at aney time; en, of course, it would be the right thing fer him to count the one thet 'ud make the most pints. So they chose up agin, en tried it thet way. En the surprises wuz wuss than afore, ef thet wuz possible. Many a feller borned in Arkansaw who 'ud move into Texas in the spring en then back agin to Arkan sow fer the winter, dividin' up his time about half en half between them states, claimed Texas fer his big numbers in this deal. It wuz railly bewilderin' whayre some of the fokes had lived. Some funny things happened, too. One feller made a mistake en said. ‘Cowley,’ meanln’ fer Cowley county, Kansas, whayre so many of the fokes come from. Fellers 'ud make a ten-strike with Pennsylvany er Souih Carliny, er Wyometng er Texas, r aney place they'd been thet 'ud count up big pints. En when they had It all flggered up. Sally won out on this deal by 17 whole pints. But It wuz railly interestin’ en ed ucatin' en entertainin', en a mighty good scheme ail Broun'. En about this time In the evenin' a leetle episode begun to be noticed en made things look kind of tragic fer a spell. When Lem Hull, on the first deal said he wuz borned In Newbrasky, i happened to be a-lookln' right square at Lew Mullicks' wife (she air a real purty woman), en I noticed thet she took to lookin’ at 'im, en a-watchin' Mm like ever thlng Seemed to me thet she never took her eyes ofTen Mm the rest of the evenin' I thort it rather pleged Lem a leetle. see in' how she wuz a-looktn' a Mm, en a starln' at Mm so. En whsn he said 'Ohio' in the nex' roun', she eyed Mm wuss'n ever. I notived they favored some around the eyes, hut I never drempt about ’em a-bein' aney relation, fer Lem Is a great big, awkerd. overgrowed maverick whut needs curryin' en shearin', while she’s Just one of these here slim, delicate wo men. ye know-good, en all thet, but made frail en dingin’ like by mother nayteher "Then the purfesser got up en made the crowd another leetle speech, en said [ tliet If we'd be patient he'd like to try Jett one more deal on us, en then he'd turn us loose fer keere. He perposed glv tn' a nice, new brier root pipe to the man, en a purty new work box lo the woman, thet had lived in the states whose pints 'utLcount up the most. En he axed bll the men and women thet wanted to enter the contcat thataway to stan’ up— the men on one side en the women the other. 0,1 “Wall, sir, thayre wuz Jtst fourteen en six women went Into thet thayr, thing, en the contest wuz mighity spirtt* ed. I tell ye. Some the men had lived i ez manny ez twenty dlffrunt states. two or three of the women had lived-)n fifteen. Lem Hull tried ft, en Lew Mia. licks’ wife Jlst sot thayre with her ey ,j glued onto his features. Bn Lem hi m . ae’f wuz no slouch at playin' In this deaf Beglnnin’ with Newbrasky, whayre h, wuz homed, he went east through leway en Eellnoi, en Indtany, to Ohio; en the# he come back through Kentucky, Tetmee. ee, Arkanßaw, Mizzoory, Kansas en Injun nation to Oklahomy—all on good countin' states. He made 254 pints en about thet time Mary Mullleks looked ez ef she thort he wuz a ten-spot hero en 'ud win out shore. Then they went along, no feller a-scorln’ up with Lem ontell they come to Prairie Dog Smith. He’s been all over the world, mighty nigh! He begun with New Jersey, whare he wuj borned, en he come through Pennslyvar.y Ohio. Indlanny, Eeltnot, Mizzoory, Knm sas en so 'on west to Californy In 49. Crossed the plains with a ox team, he tole me afterwards, en went clear through to the gold diggtn's, which wuz shortly more’n many a feller did. En he stayed thayre fer three year, en then come back by way of the lstmuss. En then he went South durin’ the war, en come V> 5t when it wuz over, takin’ In purty near ever’thing 00 the way. Wuz even In Texas awhile, runnln’ a sheep ranch out west of San Antone, whayre It never rains aney. I don't know how many pints he did have when they counted ’em up, but it wuz nearly ez many ez all the rest put together. En the pipe went to him, fair en square. Saw him the other day, en he’s a-smokin’ of it ylt. “En when it comes the women's turn en they figgered up the pints, ole Mrs. Langham got the work box. She is a soldier’s widder, en thayre’s a whole lot of ole soldiers In the deestrict, en they wuz mighty pleased at her a-gettin’ it. Her man wuz with Sherman, I guess, en he got hurt purty bad down thayre aroun' Atlanta. When she heerd on it, blamed ef she dlden’t get right up from her home in Minnesoty en go to him, en nuss him. But he died by. en by, en left her a widder. She's been a-drawin' of a pension evar sence, en says she thinks more of it than aney man she ever seen, excep’ BUI Langham. She stayed down thayre in Georgy fer a spell, en then worked her se'f West gradually, ontell she got to Kansas; en then it was only one jump over into Oklahomy. Of course, we wuz all glad to see her get the work box. fer she's jist the kind of a woman to set store by sich things—alius a-plecln' quilts en a-sewin’ carpet rags, en so forth; en ever' ole soldier in the deestrlct. Union en Confederate, felt ez proud ez could be of her, en of the purfesser for a-honorln' her that away. Some of the women felt kind of Jealous, though, and thort that ez sha had a pension a-eomtn' in reg’lar, sha could afford to buy work boxes ef sha wanted ’em. En ye jist orter heerd tha purfesser's presentation speeches. They wuz away up in the clouds. En then ha dismissed the crowd, en we wuz all a-goin’ home, when all to onct thayre wuz n almighty screech in the middle of the schoolhouse. en we all turned aroun’, en thayre wuz Lew Mullick’s wife with her arms woun' clar aroun’ Lem Hull’s neck, en a-kissin’ *lm like she wuz locoed. En Lem had his’n aroun' her. too, en thayre they wuz right thayre In the crowd, jlat a-actin’ ez ef they'd both been In the same fam’bly, though we all knowed the Hulls en the Mulltckses wuzzent akwainted at all. “About this time Lew run up an wus a-goin’ to hit Lem fer huggin’ hie wife, but Prairie-dog Smith grabbed him, eo the women pulled Mary’s arms loose, en somebody else grabbed Lem, en hy en bft we got things quieted down en ruther pre sentible like. Mary, though, wuz kind of hysteerlcky fer a spell, en ever’ onct In awhile she'd break loose from the women thet wuz a-ho!din’ of her, en make anoth er dive fer Lem, a-cryin’ en a-hollerin', 'My brother! my brother!’ “En. sir, when we got 'em ca’med down, soze they could talk rational, ef they wua zent brother en sister shore enuft. Theyra fokes died when they wuz kids, en Lem got sent back to his gran'-pap's In Ohio, en Mary wuz adopted by some fokes In Newbrasky; en they’d drifted around' en drifted aroun’ ontel they'd been a-livln' five year in a mild en a haff of each other, en never got akwainted. er knowed they wuz aney relation. Jist lost track of each oethr, ye know, en never expected to sea each other agin er even thort much about it. But Mary said she shore knowed it wuz her brother the fust time she got a square look at Lem, even ef his name wuz changed; en Lem said he felt kind of queer, too, but dident know jist whut it wuz He laid ft at fust to havin’ swallered a part of his terbacker. But ft wuz jist the blood-—kin blood in ’em ye know. ”WuU’ sir. thet jogafy match at Tail holt wuz the best and most civilizin’ thing ever wuz. Thet biznese of Lem en Mary made us all feel mighty good en happy, en we got akwainted with one another right off. We go a-visitln’ aroun’ now about ever’ week. It air a sociable en a profitable thing to do. When I want to know aneything about Califomey, I Jist hunt up Prairte-dog Smith er Ham Her rington. en lam all about It free of charge. Ef 1 want to know about Minniesoty er Newbrasky or Vlrglnny, I Jist hunt up tha proper neighbor en swop knowlidge with him. Thayre ain’t an intelllgenter er more sociable community in the United States ’an Tail-holt deestrict En the pur fesser put us all on the right road. Wa air a reg-lar enziklopeedy of geographical Information en practical idees, en no mis take.” 1 I learned from Bill’s neighbors that other consequences of especial Importance to Bill are likely to flow from that geog raphy mutch. His oldest daughter will soon be married; and it is whispered that Bill has become so interested in the peo ple, climate, resources en geography of the Emerald Isle that he has to consult the widow on the school section at least once or twice a week. Bill has been a wid ower for six years, and the probabilities are he will get so much interested in Tail holt’s encyclopedia of geographical infor mation that he will add another volume of it to his home library shortly In th* person of Mrs. Dugan, who can “speak United States ez well ez a native of Ar kansaw.” Scraps From and Abont China. From the London Mail. Chinese soldiers live on rice and cab bage. There Is a saying that a Chinese soldlsr Is “eleven-tenths thief.” Chinese regiments are recruited In tha same manner os British regiments| Twice e year. In the first week of April and October, the Chinese carry food to their dead. More than 100,000,000 Chinese, ft le said, are engaged, either directly or indirectly. In the tea industry. It Is not an uncommon eight to see a Chinese soldier with a fan and an um brella strapped across his back. The railway from 7\en Tsin to Pekin, a distance of about seventy miles, was th* first constructed in China. The society of Boxers is Composed of lodges, each of which has president, whose power for good and evil Is consider able. Every president has under him two or more vice presidents, who are bound to obey his every command or else suffer a horrible death. A Chinese regiment presents a gay ap pearance to th# foreign observer. Nearly every man hears a banner. The horseshoe In China, as well as In other countries. Is looked upon as a har binger of good luck. For that reason Chi nese mandarins, when burled, have horso ahoe graves, and they believe that the bigger the horseshoe grave the better the luck of the departed. Asa result, tha man darin* outvie each other In the size of these horseshoe graves. The Boxers’ signs are so complete and so admirably arranged that Individual Boxers are able to communicate with one another at a considerable distance, even In the middle of a surging crowd.