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THJTJAY. FT OBZA1 KXMCTOfSa. ! Tbe vmy of Mfe 1b dark enough, Ite ragged heights uo worn and rough; i It* turbid stream with en 1km flow Hath much debris, enough of woe, Without 'they say." Ite eyes have full enough of tears, Its heart6 are burdened now with fears; Ite hopes are trembling in tbe scales, Its courage faltera, staggers, fails, Without "they nay." Its trials ecaroaly can be borne, Ite beet is Badly tattered, torn; lte brightest Is a darkened gloom, Its sweetest is the blight ol bloom, Without "they say.* lie happy thoughts have muoh ol dread, Its comfort otherwise Instead; ItB gladness brims with dread alloy, K Ite sighs have little place for joy, Without "they say." ItP smiles arc full of bitter frowns. Ite budding prospects sore with -wounds; Its joyful hours aie thinly strewn, Its expectations wither soon, Without "they Bay." Ite disappointments gather fast, Ite doubting* breathe a scorching blast; Ite failures mount and higher crow, Its sadness wails forever, "Oh I" Without "they say." Its carts are filled with bitter gall, Its burdens never leave at all; Its trials come, are ever near, Its worries never disappear, Without "they say." May we therefore hence ever do What wo will henceforth never rue, Eschew "they say," thus ever live To gladness, joy "and comfort give, Without "they say." Chicago, 111. BERENICE ST. CYH A Story of Love, Intrigue, and Crime. BY DWIGHT BALDWIN. CHAPTER V. 8TBICTXT CONFIDENTIAL. ELP yourselves - t0 obairs, gentle< i JDr men," said Sears, I what wae meaut tu uo a f IV* ^laugh, bat whicb j/g^/i\l Imp /Botinded mor? I like a groan, as . IA he seated him* 1\ /ft?!! self upon aboard. vlM^Jn] JV ment is not a very \ . elegant one,"re\ flffli||Pl P^e<^ Morris. ed the thircfman, and onr business wffil Bloom seated hit jwjfShe&vy form upon "^fW^/Nx Jot /* box which j^rf H ^ 'Irf B c0006*!^ onr ' /m !/.? m 'ero a v*?* Lmj tfl' % W W ^ence that threat'' m? 'w * / ened "the destineM "" tion of the lid, m > "Now tbe whole rie. "If I'm to become a member of the triangle, as yon call it, I want the bottom facts." "Bnt you know " "Next to nothing. I know that yon 3 1:~ "r>1 *fl trio Q< Ha juunui x>juuui, usiv, <.iuuo ? ?w ... midnight last night and proposed ^ a scheme for half a million or so. Yoo had located the bonds purchased by the First National Bank for St. Cyr last week. I agreed to negotiate them, though if will be risky business, and you undertook to produce them. Besides doing that you seem to have killed the olo man." "Don't affect innocence, Max. That ?' wm part of the original plan, and you are as ocpd in the mud as wo are in the mire. I hate hypocrisy." "Not more than I, so tell what you've done, and what the chances for detection are." "There is no danger. After I left you I struck an idea?an inspiration." "I judged, so since the papers announce that the polioe know the perpetrator to be one Cole Winters, with whom I have a slight acquaintance." The man smote his thigh and laughed oarsely, though at the same time he took care to moderate his voice. "Yes, but the burden fell on him through the merest accident." "How so?" "He rescued Berenioe * Ijead all about it." ~ane oia man too*, hiz: b*me. and, in my hearing, told him that the bonds were in the safe. Then he engaged him to care for his property during the prospect, ive absence of himself and daughter in Europe." ~yuite providential. ' "To crown all, he presented him with n ring which he had worn for more than ttrcctv years, and invited him to pass the night 10 the house." * 'And the inspiration?" "Was the ring." "I don't see??" * it was found in the d?Ji&-^cked hand of the old man." * Jfou're a geniue, Al! But tell me all about it." After we left you last night, we vrent once to Calumet avenue, where I entered the house by means of keys with which I was shrewd enough to provide myself mouths aeo. We found the old man still in the librtjy, and?don't sap there's nothing in luck aft6r this?actu allv engaged in looking over the bonds and making memoranda for his no* steward?curse him!" "So you could have got along without me, an' my ab.lity to pick a lock and a? a frt oov nMKinr* nf a I iff 1* V1UV.XV m jjv|y?v*| ?V J ? ? ? toy safe like that." interjected Bloom. "Well, I'm in the deal, an' I propsse to stay there till the Inst card's dealt And the game won?or lost." "Don't croak!" snarled Sears, "well. *e made a bargain. As Martin wonldn'i bo called, on to blow open the safe, 1 traded work -with him and let him tend to the old man. He was weak and conldn't have lived long, anyway." "Hist!" warnod Bloom, nervously Not so load. You're jnst as guilty as 1 m, both of you." "Nonsense! This isn't a question of guilt, it's a matter of business. "Go on!" urged Morris impationtly. "After I'd appropriated the bonds and irhat otber valuables Mart hadn't alreadj towed away in his pockots, I went upetairs to look after the young man, youi former clerk, who, besides capturing the old man, seems to hare made a decidec impression on the susceptible heart ol my oharmiiig little Beronioe." "You didn't kill him there?" "Don't be stupid, Max. I didn't kill him at all." "Then you've bungled matters in a way 1 didn't tains posBiojer "Stop croaking. I had a better Bcheme. * "Oat with it." "First, I put him under the influence of chloroform. This done I closed the ring in the hand of old Paul, and when "Winters had revived a little forced a good doee of your elixir down bis throat." "Capital idea! And then?" "He become as tractable as a lamb and went with as to a room in the block below -<2ieTe." "Apd is there now?" "Can't ?av." -j "You don't mean-;?* f 1 "That wo left the door open so that be eonld walk oat when he wakened." 'That was foolish!" . "Why bo?" ; "Be will tell all he knows." "Which i6 nothing." "And what then?" "He will be convicted and hang." "Bat the case against him?how strong 1 will it be?" 1 "He will plead gnilty." "Talk sensibly!" j "I do. When he is searched the most damaging evidence will be foand apon' , him. In hie pockets there are numerous , articles taken from the St. Cyr house, I including the old man's watch and dia- , mond pin. Besides, sewed ap in bis , shirt ore one of the bonds and the bcaa- j tifal set of jewels presented Berenice by her father yeBterday. What do yon think of that?" i "Good. Better than I expected of i van." "And there's lots of blood on his clothes," added Bloom, "anl some of my i beBt saws, files, and keys in his pockets." I "You've done well!" cried Morris, enthusiastically. "Only " "What's the matter now?" "You might have put in something of less value than the jewels and that bond, which is for ?5,000." "You deny it, Morris, but you're a Jew, i and a mean one. Those things are i trifles. Besides, they will all oome back." "How?" "Thev will be found and turned over to the daughter." "I suppose so." j "Which is a roundabout bm no less a I certain way of getting them into my i hands, sinoe I'll be her husband within a i year." "Well!" cried Morris, admiringly, "bat 3 you are a more comprehensive rascal ] than I ever imagined." i "But she Buspects you," warned Bloom. | "Bhe won't very long." "And the landed property you get with i her?" suggested Morris. 'Well divide the same as the bonds, j You and Mart help me through, and you i hall have one-half of it between you, ) net." . "Xaat'B fair. Speaking of the bonds, ! where are they?" "I was afraid to carry them about and had to take some chanoes in disposing of ' them, until we met here to-night." "Where are they?" cried the two others 1 in a breath. With hiB ear against the narrow open- 1 ing our hero awaited the response. He ] had learned the details of tne infnmous plot, and was about to locate the immense , stolen property. A moment later he knew the secret, but it sent consternation instead of joy to his . heart. "Those bonds,Wwnlsperea Sears, "that is the fifty-nine of them, are in that box , that Mart Bloom is sitting onl" CHAPTER VI. ] A BUN OF GOOD I.tfCK. ] Only for an instant did the stout heart of Cole Winters sink within him. He was possessed of true American 1 grit, and a moment's reflection decided i him to profit, if possible, by his sad predicament The box was about one-third full of old rags and peioes of cloth, and among these be began feeling, taking care to make no noise. Almost immediately bis search was re* 1 warded by the discovery of what seemed i to be an envelope or wrapper nearly an ? incb in tbicknesB. He was in the act of transferring this to one of bis boot legs when a thought etrack him. * While at the exposition the preceding 1 night he had taken quite a number of the 1 circulars of different city firms represented there, his object being to call on some ? of them and try to secure employment ' *1 To his joy he found that they were still in hie pocket. ' { It required but a moment for him to * chance these papers forthe bonds, thrust- 6 ing the latter into his boot and replaoing G the envelope where he had found it. This done, he turned his attention orioe ( more to bis enemies. As he did this, the door closed and the key turned in the lock. "Well?" queried Sears. c 'They're after him," replied Bloom, I who had just entered. "That's what E caused the racket" ? -Who?" b "TJia nnlicfti Thav'ra after Winters." i "Has he been seen?" "They had him once, hat be broke away; at least that's the talk on Clark 4 Btreet." "Tbey may Conclude to search the 1 buildings along here," suggested Morris. * "True," assented Sears, "and we'd bet- 4 tor be getting ont." * "Bight you are!" cried Bloom. "Secure n the picture cards, and we'll -vamoose the * ranch." He pointed to the rough box, and in a moment the young man had sprung forward and thrown it open. With a cry of dismay he staggered back. ""We're betrayed," he hissed, drawing and cocking a revolver. "What's the racbfet?" demanded the burglar, imitating his example. "There's some ono in the box. Make a move, and you die for itl" The warning was addressed to the unknown intruder, "J?ring forward the light. Max," ho con- jj tinned,' keep nim covered." "Thunder!" ejat;:]ated tho last named individual as he flashed JDtO *b? J?ox the a penetrating rayB of a dark lantern, "What is it? queried Searg. h *AdeadmnnJ* w "No, he's d;unk." "Thunder." cried Morri3. ? p "What'sthe matter now?" "Hanged if it ain't our man, Cole Wint?rR!" c Another moment nnd three pairs of eyes were glowering upon the apparently j inanimate form of our hero. "How came he here?" asked Morris. "Slipped in to evade the polico!" re- I plied Sears. "iBhedoad?" , "No; don't you see he's breathing?" "The cIobo quarters nnd lack of air have revived the power of the drag, that's t all. Lend a hand." t A moment later Cole was lifted out and laid, or, rather, thrown upon the floor. "Look for the bonds!" urged Bloom. ' "Here they are," announced the youc^ 1 man, as he drew forth the package upon which our horo hnd thoughtfully replaced t the rubber band that hold it together, . "See tf they're all right," importuned the burglar. t "Ob, nonsense! We've other business to dispatch." * Witb this he thrust the supposed valuable packet into his pocket. "What are we to do with him?" asked Morris, giving the form upon the floor a I kick. "We'll leave him here, and take good pains i hot the police search the building. Oh! we'ro in for a ma of good lack." "I don't know about that," declared Bloom, lugnbriou6lv. 'Why?" demanded both the others. "The newsboys are crying ont extra, wjt.b ft la l pi.ecQ of naw.s,.outside. I forgot to tell you when Tcame in." "What's that?" asked Sears. "The sudden death of Berenice St, CjrJ " zYou don't mean that?" "No, I mean that!" The burglar emphasized the final pronoun, and pointed ut Colo Winters. He had borne without wincing his rude fall to the floor and the brutal lciok of the so-called banker, but the suddou announcement of the death of her who, though the acquaintance of an hour, hfid made an indelible impross on upon hig heart, was too inuoh lor him to bear. He had forgotten his perilous position, ; and with eyes wide open had half risen < , toj? silting posture. ( ] " Confusion!" cried 8ears, at the same ^ time producing his pistol. J "You're keener'than I imagined," said Morris in admiring tones. "Yon ought to be a financier, Mart. You're wasting poor talents on burgling." In tbe meantime our here, seeing that nothing was to be gained by further simulation, had risen to his feet, and with folded arms stood confronting his armed j memies. "What- have you heard?" demanded Morris. "Don't turn fool in your old age, Mai," sneered Bears. "He's beard everything, Df course!" "I beard you say that Mies St. Cyr woe | lead," faltered Cole, who hnd instantly 'ealized that he had been trapped. "It Bn'.t true, I'm sore it isn't." I "I guess you're right. Mart Bloom is a < conscientious, truthful man, but I'm / afraid bis imagination was rather active Q when he made that statement. My pretty Q Berenice will have a piece of news tomorrow, and, what's more, it,will have ft, the merit of being true." T_ "And that is " , A A -* ? ffl< ALl UL'L'UUIII U1 yVUI UOttllil " "Good enough1" ejaculated Bloom, thi while Morris breathed heavily through suj his close-set teeth. sei "Do you mean to murder me?" demand- m( Bd Cole, taking a backward step and clinching his hands. . "Oh, my, no! That's a rough word, 8al We propose to remove you." we "You re a lot of miserable cowawls!" toi "You're becoming rather personal, Mr. Winters, but I'll overlook it in *iew ol wa your excited condition. Besides, to tell ? the truth, you are about right. We are *r a little bit afraid to leave you running around loose. W Cole Winters looked from the sneering hei face of the young man to the cold, im- >pb passive one of the money-lender, and realized that no chance for life would b? given him. ? P "I'll make one for myself," he decided bei suddenlr. Ac This iesolutiou formed, he dealt young He Sears a blow which sent his revolver fly- jjai ing across the room, and brought him beavily to the floor. He was in the act of following up hii advantage by assaulting Morris, when Bti! bis anus were seized from behind. ? Although unusually strong and active. Dur hero was ss powerless to move as ii held in the grasp of one of the giants described in the romances of his boyhood. *He struggled and plunged, but thi jirengwi ui iuarnu diuuim bu iui pui* passed his own air to render bis efforts entirely futile. Than he bethought himself of hie ' roice. -Hel " The irord was fairly driven back into ? lis throat by the brutal hand of Morris, Z which descended heavily upon his month. "Let me at him!" shouted Sears, who iad regained his feet and drawn a marlerons knife. "Hist!" warned Morris, raising hia land and stepping between the enraged foung man and bis intended victim. *~ "Don't we want to get rid of him?" *ha "Yes, but not that way. A blow has de- the jrived you of every idea save that of or ,ejenge." par He must die. f "True, but it must be accidental." . . "How?" bac "That's for you to decide." pal "I'm equal to the emergency." Du Eeason had gained the supremacy over ? age, and Almon Sears laughed mockngly and smote his white hands together. "Good! What do you propose?" "This way." ^ Leaving Bloom in charge of the prisoner, Morris took the dark lantern and folowed the other to the rear of the long ipartment. SB Sear the back wall the young man O (topped, and stooping over began tugging H it a ring in the floor. B After a little a section of the floor began BP o move, and a moment later a trap-door M lad been, laid back, leaving an aperture ^ lome four feet square from which a close, ilmoat stifling smell arose. "What's that?" queried Morris, at the lame time recoiling rrom tee oDening. "It's ft cellar, just the place for us. "How came yon <o know about it?" "Mart and I brought some plunder here >yer a mojith a?o. We spent the greater >art of a night here. I like to know the latureof my surroundings, and the differ- ? nt avenues of escape in tbe event of a ? . urprise, and so surveyed the premises.* bui " What's below?" ing "Nothing but foul gases and death." fori "But his body will never be found ?mi here?" "Won't it? I'll arrange that matter. t will not only be found, but with it *e" rhat will t>e regarded as certain proof mai hat he was accidentally killed by falling I hrough the open trap. Leave that to the ie. I've a liking for details. This way, fort!" 2V' pTO BE CONTINUED.J CltJ WORDS OF WISUOA. bci] ent "Worry is a tack in our thoe. c . tmi Poverty and sin are partners. jan A kiss is a language to itself. put A sigh is the effervescence of sorrow, ing Therp'n rrAnfi nn the door of the whole * "w,v * ""?I rorld. Every man has in bis heart a slumberng hog. Who ceases to be a friend never was friend. A bird would sing iu9t the same if noiodv heard it. The prettiest women arc rarely the irettiest wive?. Do they cull it a white lie because the lirt shows on it so easily. He who deserves nothing has no right ' o complain of auythiog. We like those to whom wc do good letter than those who do us good. . True courage never figures on results. || Prudence looks after that consideration. V The average reformer never sails into i* he faults to which he himself is ad- I *j licted, Happiness is the shadow of maD; renembrance of it follows him; hope of it 1 >recedes him. ? If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter he face of the whole world would have re(i )een cuan^ea. i I cat The mind of each man is the focus of he human racc and his voice an echo of he whole creation. ^e] a s mi A Rust Pre veil tor. up A simple method of keeping iron and ?f steel from rusting is to coat them with a toe solution of rubber inbeuzol, made about the consistency of crearu. It may be s^r applied with a brush, and is easily rubbed off when desired. A coating of ^ more use when the "tooth"' imparted by stc rubber would be disadvantageous is pre- 1)U pared by dissolving two parts of crystals L,(-'' of chloride of iron, two of antimony tei chloride and one of tannin in four of ('v water. Apply with a sponge or rag and ac1 allow to dry. As mauy coats can be sul given as are deemed necessary. When thi dry it is auam washed with water, ag^in *ftl allowed to dry, and polished with lin- n 1 seed oil. The antimony solution should b? be as nearly neatial as possible.?New wl York Telegram. fP' m JUl fitc TnE world is full of heroes whose m( aames will never be kncwi: in this . life. b J HE WHITE HOUSE. 1ST AND PRESENT OF THE EXECUTIVE MANSION. I First Occupants Were the Idamses?Its Partial Destruction by the British?How It Came to Be Terraea White. HE "White dlU-Y-i?, House of today, says the s White House of the past that Mrs. hn Adams, its first occupant, spoke in >wing terms, writing to her daughter it "the house is upon a grand and perb scale, requiring about thirty vants to attend and keep the apart;nts in proper order; an establishment ry well proportioned to the President's ary." So naive and so simple-minded sre the great dames of our early his yl And how came it that Mrs. Adams jb the first .occupant of the White >use? Simply because the seat of ivernment was not transferred to ashington until towards the close of r husband's term, November, 1800. e change had indeed been decided upten years before, and so early as 1792 >rize of (500 had been offered for the it plan for a Presidential mansion, oong the competitors was James >ban, a young Irish architect, who i ettablished himself in Charleston i was building the large, substantial i picturesquely uncouth houses which 11 remain the characteristic features of THE WHIT t town. He bad not seen much of world, Dor had he much originality versatility of intellect. So in preing for his master work he took for model one of the finest houses that 1 come within his field of vision, the ace of the Duke of Leinster in L1"- mi.:-. . ? Ji- mnn an imifa Uilfl# '21119 ill J10 tUIIi ?ym au JiuibaTHE PRESIDENT'S LIBRARY. i of the comparatively light sad airy ictures which the Italians learned to Id when the rest of Europe was livin massive piles of brick or gloomy :ified castles. An American-Irish tation of an Irish imitation of a Jitcval Italian villa?such is the inectual genesis of our Presidential ision. \)r, as fate willed it, Mr. Hoban won prize. This was attested by the owing certificate published in tne r of Washington on July 18, 1792: 'James Hoban's plan of the palacc Dg approved by the President, he is itled to the reward promised and oses a gold medal of eight or ten neas value and the balance in money, aes Hoban is hereby retained in the )lic service. He is to make the draws and superintend the execution of THE PRESIDED plan of the palace, for which he will eive 300 guineas a year." Notice two things about this certifie. First, that the compensation for ) architect is fixed at about $1500 a tr. Imagine a modern architect unrtaking a great public work for such um as thatl Then, second, let,your nd rest for a second on the word alace." Does it not call up all sorts associated ideas of royalty and aris:racy and courtly ways? So at least jught the yonng Republic. And aightway a great protest went up from over the land at this aping of foreign bious. Congress bent before the irm. It was decided that the new IIJS 1?..1,1 !.? ?? ?.Rr. llUlLIi; nuuuiu i\uui(u iw vuw ? . itive Mansion"?mansion being then a | m of common use for the better-class relling of the Southern gentry. Extly when this more stately mime was perceded by the popular nickname of 3 White House is not known with cernty. There is a tradition that this was eminiscent compliment to the former me of Martha Washington, the place jere ihj future Father of Jus Country ent his iionevinoou, which was famil ly known by the shine name. But the >ry is rather discredited. The term is jre authentically thought to have ined currency at the time when the building first became a white house ii fact, at the time when it w&b rebuilt af ter being burned by the British, an< when all traces of their vandalism wer obliterated by a liberal use of the pain pot. On October 1, 1792, the corner-ston of the manison was laid in a bare field eloping to the Potomac. Washingtoi himself was present. It is a pity tha people in those days cared little for cen tennial anniversaries. A postponemen In L' HISTORIC BAST ROOM of the ceremony, just twelve days woulc have given it a certain historical appro priateness. The 13th of October, 1792 would have marked the tier-centenary ol the discovery of America. In 1814 the British army, under General Ross and Admiral Cockburn, having taken possession of Washington and burned the Capitol, finally wound up bj setting fire to the Executive Mansion jusl as they were about to retreat to theii 0 I 51II ^ ^ B HOUSE. ships. One memento of this fire survives to-day?the so-called Gilbert Stuart portrait oI Washington still hanging in the East Room, now known to be the work of an imitator of no special fame. The story is otill told of how Mrs. Madison cut this picture out of its frame with a pair of shears to save it from the enemy when she fled from the town. The story is a pretty one, but it is just as apocryphal as the ascription of tne picture to Gilbert Stuart. In her own letter describing the flight Mrs. Madison says that Mr. Custis, Washington's nephew, hastened over from Arlington to rescue the precious portrait, and that a servant cut the outer frame with an axe so that the canvas could be removed stretched on the inner frame. When the President's family returned to Washington they rented a house to live in while the White House itself was being repaired and reconstructed. Hobaa, the original architect, was called in to do the restoration. When everything was finished the mansion was bigger and grander than before, but even yet it was neither big enough nor grand enough for the greatest official of the greatest Republic in the world. General Jackson, in spite of?indeed, partly because of? the rery democracy of his tastes was during both his terms a loud murmurer. The rooms were not large enough for the motley throngs he gathered at his receptions. The crowds wedged and pressed him against the walls and almost choked the life out of him; ladies were even carried fainting out of the building. At last he gave up the public feeds which had become a feature of his administration, alleging that they were a nuisance to *" * *?? -ii *A ? JDimsen ana 10 am ineuua an umug iu u lack of proper accommodations. fiom that time on to the present the discomforts and inadequacies of the White House have been felt more and more severely by its occupants. The ever-increasing needs of the President's r's BHD JtOOM. official life have encroached more and more upon his living-apartments, until now of the thirteen apartments on the second floor six are used for the executive offices and ante-room*, and two for dressing-rooms, leaving only tive bedchambers. A memorable and rather mortifying occasion, when the exigencies of the President's home were exposed to the gaze 01 the world at large, was during the visit of the Prince of Wales to this country in 1860. He had been invited to spend five days at the White House. Buchan an's family was one of the smallest tnat ever dwelt in the White House. It con sisted only of him and his niece, Miss Harriet Lane. Yet he was chagrined to liud that he would have to divide the Priaoe's suite with the British Minister. The Prince himself was stowe.1 away in tlic little room occupied by Mrs. Cleveland as a boudoir and more re teutly as a bedroom by Mrs. McKee ar I her chil dren. The President gave up his owt j room to the Duke of Newcastle and found extemporized quarters in one o the ante-rooms. Every succeeding President has suffered in something the same way, though his sufferings have not been so publicly displayed. It was only bj crowding several members of the house i hold into one room that families like the - Grants and the Garfieldg could find an; I accommodation whatever for guests ' < e Even President Arthur found himsel: ;] t uncomfortably crowded when exercising ] hospitality. It wes a great ann oyancc 1 e to Mrs. Cleveland, a young bride fond o' i , company, that she could not entertain ] i more than two guests at a time. Wha < t was an annoyance to Mrs. Cleveland was a positive discomfort to Mrs. Harrison. ] t whose family occupied every available ? 1 I < ] Of THE WHITE H0U8E. ' I room in the building. , One of Mrs. Harrison'! first thoughts . when she came to the White House was > to devise some remedy that eight relieve her successors from the trials which . she had to undergo. She poured out her . mind to Mr. Blaine, who agreed that it [ was an outrage and a disgrace, that r while millions of dollars had been spent ; to keep the National Capitol truly repre* , r sentative of a great people, not a dollar | . had been voted to make the home of the , executive head of that people even approximately worthy of the dignity which / it housed. The proper war out of the difficulty, he thought, was tbe enlargement of the present building made in accordance with its order of architecture, and the addition of wings on each side where the purely official part of the President's duties might be transferred. Something of this sort had vaguely F floated through Mrs. Harrison's mind, g Encouraged by the Secretary's'approval, * she began to reduce her ideas to order. * I With the assistance of Colonel JoiinM. | J I Wilson, U. 8. A., engineer in charge of * public buildings and grounds, and Mr. 8 Frederick D. Owen, she made a series of ? charcoal drawings, which were submitted i to a Washington architect. With these drawings as a basis the architect made a ^ design, which was enthusiastically indorsied by Mrs. Harrisoo. * The main idea is to retain the old t building substantially intact, interfering 3 as little as possible with Its historic in- ' terest, and only V) render it more habit- < able. For this purpose wings are to be { added on the west and the east sides, < A PRIVATE CORRIDOR. f the whole forming a sort of crescent. 8 To the west wing would be transferred 8 all the Executive offices. A grand salon * for diplomatic or other large reception;, P parltfrs, reception and retiring rooms 8 would occupy the first floor, while the a second floor would be given up to the President's offices and the Cabinet- 81 room. ? The east wing would be a museum j jj and art gallery. The White House, as ? it stands, has no room on its walls for a further portraits. Mrs. Harrison's idea 81 was that the art gallery should contain ^ portraits of all the Presidents and their wives, as well as of all other Americans Who Have UlSllliginsueu i>ucui9ci*ca iu official or military life. In the museum might be preserved such furnishings of the White House as may be removed from time to time. Everything connected with this historic building has a historic value, and Mrs. Harrison held that it was vandalism to destroy or sell it. Indeed, when she first came to the White House she went from garret to i cellar searching for old pieces of fur- 1 niture and the china and silver of ; previous Administrations. The Rat Cuba's Fiercest Animal. There are no animals on the Island of Cuba more formidable than the mount ain rat. Some snakes reach ten or twelve feet in length, but they are like Artemus Ward's boa constrictor, "as harmless a? a new-born babe." Deer run in the in- , . ?? haunt the river3. and tenor, wwwu???.? r sharks frequent the bays. Little lizards of gay color whisk among the cavities _ in the coquica rock.?New York Times. t< st Toulon's Women iioot blacks. tl While American and English women have been clamoring for some intangibie b sort of equality with men, the women of 6 8 -<^S t Toulon have long had one practical , privilege of th?ir lords and masters. } ' The profession of bootblacking is not " there a masculine prerogative. The fair 1 bootblacks wear pretty white caps and I aprons, and look altogether not unlike i f French bonnes. M. Desrousseaux, whose death recent- J Iv occurred at Lille, was known as the , ? "National Bard of French Flanders." , ' More than 100,000 of one of his cradle songs were sold in France and Belgium. 1 Strange Posies. A distinct breed of wild ponies haftj sxisted on Cbinpotea,gue Island for per-j aaps hundreds of years put. Nobody snows how they got there. All that can, be told is that they hare been there ever Jince the advent of civilized man. The , [ndiana knew nothing about their 3rigin. Some old sea captains of Dela-i trare and Maryland say that a pair might have been washed there from a wreck centuries ago, but this supposition does1 not fully answer the question, as it is believed that there are no such ponies found wild in any part of the known world. The Chincoteague pony is generally rather large for a diminutive horse? very much lareer, in fact, than a Shetland pony. The Chincotcague is more; slender in build and scarcely so shaggy.t His coat is a beautiful shade of red,' 4 lighter than bay and almost a sorrel J i rhe mane and tail are strikingly con-. spicuous, being of a soft,, creamy white,! suggestive of silky Angora wool. Manej , ind tail are both abundant, the tail! sometimes sweeping the ground and the mane falling to the knee. The contrast in color is strangely pleasing and effect five. Chincoteague Island lies in the Atlan? ^ ac Ocean, off the coast of "the penin-| 1 lula"?that is, the area of conntry in- 1 :luded between the Chesapeake and l Delaware Bays and the adjacent ocean. ' rhe State of Delaware and the "eastern; ihore of Maryland" are within this tcr-' itoiy. The narrow atrip of land at the A CHINC0TKAGU8 PONT. . oint of the peninsula belongs to Virinia. Chincoteague Island is part of faryland, although it is a little south of he southern boundary of that State. ' Tie island is within a bar, and is one of , number of low, sandy islands. Bat, .J trange to say, it is tbe only one upon ''\pl rhich the ponies have ever been ioiind .rajf a a state of nature. From earliest times the breed hai been :ept pare. As in tbe case of the cattle - l a the Channel Islands isolation favors >Sjg his. The owners of the ponies allow jSM hem to run wild the greater part of the J. ear. Every autumn comes the annual V 'penning." Detachments of men go >ut, and, beginning at the seashore, ? gradually drive all the animals to the > :entre of the island. There they are jenned up for the yearly sale. This is a I'm jreat event on the islands. It lasts sev? sral weeks, during which time Chin- ^ :oteague is visited by hundreds from the nainland. The owners divide the pro- igfe jeeds after the sale. The -Chincotesgue pony is valued' ihieflyas a family horse or a child's i >et. Strange to say, it is not much1 7-T'i cnown outside of a limited area includ~ ' V, RtatAH nf Dataware. Maryland aid Virginia. It is known in Europe, iowever, as it has been placed on exilbition at the hone shows.?San Fran* :isco Chronicle. - 8 mm A Camel-Shape<l Granite Book. J\zM Curious rock formations are to be ' / r ound all over the world, but most of hem require a long stretch of the imginatiou before the objects they are aid to represent can be seen. In Ariz ma here is one that is .^irving of tirst lace. It is a short distance east of tbe tage road between Tucion and Oracle, nd stands on a knoll several feet above he surrounding sandhills. When tirst sen the effect is startling, and tbe mind as to get over a shock before the pecuar object can be comprehended. As escribed by the San Francisco Call it is most perfect representation of a camel, ad is formed of one piece of granite. , ro effort of the imagination ? required ' CAMEL-SHAPED GRANITE ROCK. ) perceive the "ship of the desert'' ending like a sentinel in the midst of ie sand and almost verdtireless hills. This curiosity is of the colowal size, ut perfectly proportioned. It is about ixty feet high, and is very white and mooth. There are very fesv fissures oa he surlace,.and they, strangely, arc in he proper places to fortn features. The ?nly real projection from tha surface is ixactly placed for an eyebro n. The two- ' ' lumps are plainly to be seen and the neck < v,nontifniitr. The rock is really b UUl V CU uvauvi4?.y. i solid piece rising from the ground, but he effect of legs is produced by a clump )f dark colored brush that grows beside ;he stone. The white stoue shows plainly it both sides of the brush and the effecc )f legs is unmistakably produced. . The itrangesc part of it is that it looks like a t < ;amel from all sides aud at all timss of ;he diy or night. Tlierc is no disguising the resemblance. How the rock got into its present shape is one of the great mysteries of nature. White Guinea Fowls. White guinea fowls are kept only by * ' '? ?"omonf inrl nro scarce. fanciers iui uiuquk/uv ...^ because lor ordinary use they arc uot so good or profitable as the common fowls. The flesh of the guinea fowl is very dry and tough. The common pricc of a pair of the whit variety is $10; the blue ones are worth about half as much.? New York Times. ' .j A