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j IN THE Cf 3k5 a mappattvr o " !|g| Ey SEWARD V !qxp (Copyright 18?, by Koi CHAPTER II. [continued.] ' Suddenly there appeared at the window a queer little face, peering into the lighted store fiom the outer darkness. It was but a moment, however, , for the next instant the owner of the f?RH -was in the store. "Here is a customer," I called to Phister, who came to the front in rather a surly manner. Phister did not like Chinamen, and this fellow was decidedly a Mongol. I have good reason for remembering that face and that night. Looking back, now, after all these happy years, I can see that face loom up in the window as-olearly and as startlingly as it did then. It wa3 not a pleasant face. It was a crafty, hateful face, but the almond eyes were opened wide with anxiety or fear, I know not which. The rich oriental clothing was limp and bedraggled. The water ran from him in rivulets as he stood, pantin cr before Phister. "Dloctor her'?" he asked in a pigeon-English common to the California Chinaman. Phister nodded. He was not disposed to treat the Chinaman graciously. He did not say that I was the doctor. "Clora, quick!" "Not much!" returned Phister, glancing out at the storm and shrugging his shoulders. "I am not the doctor; and if I was, I wouldn't go out to-night for the best Chinaman in San Fran." \ A look of appeal came into the celestial's face. "Who he?" he asked, looking at me. "That's the doctor," replied Phister; "and if he goes out to-night he's a bigger fool than I think he is." "What is it you want?" I asked, not inclined to be too severe with the fellow because he had been unfortunate enough to be born a heathen. "Not Chinaman sick. Chinaman only want come. Melicau lady sick? very sick?maybe die. Clom, dloctor, clom savee her; getee big pay? velly big. Clom?we go now." He took hold of my coat and began pulling me toward the door. "Where is it?" I asked. "No far. Clom! Melican lady die while sittee here." "Well, Phister," I said, getting on olialrinor mvflftlf "Lfllld iCSU ?"U UUMU.44Q ?^ wv?t ?? me your mackintosh, and I'll go and see what's the matter." Phister was very mnch disgusted, and while he was getting the mackintosh for me, he muttered something very much to the disparagement of my intellect. But I didn't mind that of Phister. It was his way; and I felt rather imbued with the spirit of adventure and was bound to see the thing through. I had not been to my i office since making my round of calls, and so had my medicine-case handy. | Rolling up the bottoms of my trousers, I said to the Chinaman: "Go on; lead the way. I'll follow." I did not know any Chinese, and did not know how they measured dis- ' tances; but if the walk that fellow gave me that night was a short one, may I forever be spared a long walk with like company under like circum- | stances. He pattered on just ahead 1 * -v.ii?: i._ v: ir oi me, cuaiteniig tu uiuiscn w uuw telligible lingo. His bands were ' tucked in his sleeves. With my head . ducked, to keep the rain out of my neck, the collar of the mackintosh turned up a3 high as I could get it and my medicine case under my arm, my handf deep in Phister's pockets, I strode after the shambling Chinam&n. We passed innumerable physicians' signs. I did not think then, but in after days I wondered what impulse led that heathen past so many drug stores aud doctors' houses on his way up the hill to Pinter's. In the light ] of subsequent events it was apparent 1 that he did not want the physician to ] know the neighborhood into which he 1 was going. < On and on he went, down one street, 1 over another, into districts that were i entirely new to me, until I was satis- i tied that he was trying to mislead me i as to our direction. I began to think J he was going to take me all over San ] Francisco. And yet he was in a tre- 1 m9ndous hurry, but he would not ride i in a street car, nor would he let me : hire a carriage. At last my mysteri- < ous gnide stopped before a gloomy- i looking house, the windows of which ] were dark, as if there was no life with- i in. Had I stopped to think, I might 1 even then have given up the job, but what with my curiosity and my eager- < nefl9 to earn a large fee, I was determined to see the adventure through. The Chinaman gave three quick knocks and two slow ones on the door, and it was opened. The smell of a hot, foul atmosphere came out into my face and nearly stifled me. Almond eyes from two leathery faces peered at me from the dimly lighted hall as I followed mv cuide inside. There was a moment's chattering, as of so many < monkeys, and I felt a queer sensation as I heard the heavy door closed behind j me. I was in for it now, come what ] may. The fellow who had brought me seemed to be the master spirit of the ] place. The others obeyed him with s alacrity. At his word my mackintosh was taken from me and carefully hung s up to drip. j "Clom me!" said my guide, imperi- 1 ou3ly. 1 I turned to follow him. He led tne t way up a gloomy flight of stairs and t through the hall toward the front of i the second story. 4;Her? is," he said. t He stopped before a door that evi- < dently led into the front chamber. He i took a bunch of keys from his pocket 1 and quickly unlocked the door. J i "Cloai!" lie said. I I stepped inside, and he looked care- ? fully around the hall as if to see that no one else was there. Then he locked i us in. The gas was burning low. He j stepped to the side of the room and 1 UNA SEA 1 ? SOS F ADVENTURE. ** r.Z norKixs. BERT EOSNEK'S SONS.) turned the light fuJl on. A huge bedstead stood in the center of the room. I stepped to it and looked down. Lying there, still as death, pale, with scarcely a breath stirring the snowny bosom, was the most beautiful girl I thought I had ever seen. Fair as the the fairest lily, with a skin as pure and white as wax, the beauty of her fa name over me like a sudden vision. Her lips were full and well-shaped. Her throat was dazzling in its whiteness. Her hair, long, glossy and soft, was tangled and snarled. Her presence in. this hive of Chinamen startled me. The secrecy maintained by the fellow who was her keeper told me that I was in the presence of one of those great and horrible mysteries that have made the blot on the fair land of California. Something of my thought must have appeared in my face. The Chinamen stood over the bedside, wringing his hands and crying aloud in his own tongue. He glanced up at my scowling face, and said: "She my wife. She Chinaman's wife. Savee, dloctor. Savee her. Much big fee if not die." * Hejspoke earnestly and anxiously. I did nDt doubt his sincerity in wishing her saved, but I thought he was a liar when he said she was his wife. She was evidently high-born. The scanty clothing that she had on was rioh and of American manufacture. There were no jewels. If she had ever possessed any, they had been taken from her. I mentally noted all the surroundings while I made a hasty examination of the girl. After careful work, I came to the conclusion that she had been drugged. I could not tell what the nature of the drug used was, but it wa3 something that had the power almost to suspend life. The Chinaman had UBed too much, and was now frightened at the probable result. I did not disclose my discovery to the Chinaman. I was now fally convinced that he was a scoundrel. I could accomplish nothing by informing him then what I knew to be the matter. I opened my medicine-case, and chose from it a most, powerful restorative?a drug that acted directly upon the heart. I lifted tho lovely head on my arm, and dropped the potion down my patient's throat. After what seemed to be an interminable time, I had the satisfaction of seeing a sugni movement 01 me cuesi. Then a twitching of the eyelids. Then, after a still longer wait, she gave a deep inhalation. "Ah, she breathes!" I said. "She. will live!" "Glood! Glood! Me no want die! Velly boofnl wife! No die!" I eyed the Mongolian contemptuously. The thought that I was suspected of being so simple as to be gulled by his words made me angry. The Chinamau was now beginning to get restless. It was very evident that he regarded all need for my services ended, when I said she would live. I knew he did not want me to be present when the girl returned to consciousness. I was in doubt what to do. My impulse was to take the pirl in my arms and fight my way to the street. I was not armed. I did not doubt that every Chinaman in the house was armed like a brigand. Again, there was no doubt that they would not stop at murder to gain their ends. But then it came over me, suppose the story the old villain told me should prove to be true. The ridiculous spectacle of Archibald Crickmore, M. D., lugging a Chinaman's wife out into the street at that unseemly hour, with a gang of cutthroats at his heels, was not a pleasant one to contemplate. I would, at least, under these circnmstances, make a great impression for the wrong, aud probably injure my prospects for life. At any rate, I would be the laughing-stock of the Golden Gate Club. I soon convinced myself that a rash course in the matter would accomplish no good, and might, posfibly, be harmful. Whatever fate was in store for the beautiful girl, I did uot believe she would be harmed before she became conscious. Then a happy thought struck me: One of those sparks of genius that occasionllly light up a dull mind and then go Dtit again. I would udminister a4 sleeping potion that would prevent lier becoming conscious for at least four hours. In that time I could do re-bate ver seemed best to do. I had heard of cases where girls were stolen by persons and held or sent lway for the benefit of others. The :ase before me might be one of that iind. If so, the celestial was only r ICUUg xur SUU1CUUUJ C13C, iiau wuuiu lot dare harm the girl himself, for "ear of his employer's wrath. These thoughts went through my : lead very rapidly. I made a resolve, ind hastened to act upon it. I gave the girl a dose of chloral and , ;aid to the Chinaman: , "i'our wife will be all right in the ( norning. You must not wake her. Let her sleep till she wakes herself, rhen she will be well." "Thlank! Dloctor plood man, Fleap like Chinrsmau's Joss. Yelly i imart. Much pay." He fumbled under his peculiar, i ihirtlike garment, and from some ca- i aacious pocket produced a fat pocket- i jook. He counted out five ten-dollar i jills and handed them to me. I put 1 hem in my pocket as if that sort of i hing were an every-day sort of occur- i An OP. i When I walked down the stairs to i lie door, I ran the gantlet of the same :arious eyeB that I had when I came | n. One brought my hat, neatly i crushed. Another brought my mack- i ntosh?or, rather, Phister's?care- ] ully feeling of its ample folds to as- i ture himself that it was dry. 1 The storm had abated. I stood^ a 1 noment on the threshold, aud then I 1 jassed out. The Chinaman whis- i )ered behind me: '1 "Dloctor not say anything 'bout this. Savee, dloctor?" No sooner were the words uttered ? - ? mi j? than I began to regret my in-cousiuered resolve. I could have pounded myself for a fool because I bad not acted on my first impulse, and wrested the girl from the brute by force and dragged her from the house. It was now fearfully apparant that the girl, instead of being the wife of the Chinaman, was the victim, or the intended victim, of the foulest system of organized kidnaping ever in existence. My heart beat furiously with rage as I realized how I had been duped. But the door was slammed in my face, and I stood alone in the darkness. YT-iL- 1 V*n f 1 r\ nr i30t>illU? WHO 1C1 It uicu UIIV vw ?v*.v .. the plan I had formed inside. This was to reach the highest police authorities to be found at that hour of the night, and to plainly lay the case before them. To do this properly it became necessary to fix upon something by which I could identify the house. So far as I could tell in the black darkness that surrounded me, there was nothing about the exterior of that house to distinguish it from a dozen others around it. The same somber fronts, the same heavy outlines loomed up before me on both sides of the streets. After a spell of indecision, another spark of genius seized upon me. A thought struck me that seemed to me to be particularly bright and happy. Without moving from in front of tho 1 T fnmWoil in mrr fnr a 11UUOO. JL A U LU U1VV4 iu i**j ? string or something of that kind. I had purchased a bookcase for my library a day or two before, and had measured the coruer into which it was to go with a piece of tape. This tape I had forgotten; but now, to my great joy, I discovered it in my coat-pocket. I drew it forth, and breathed a blessing upon it. With the piece of tape in my. hand, I hastened to the curb and tied the measuring-string around a tree that stood directly in front of the door. Having fixed things thus satisfactorily to myself, I hurried off in the direction of what I concluded to be the Bay district. I knew that police headquarters lay in that direction, and my object now was to reach there as soon as possible. I say I hurried, but in truth I made but slow progress. As I went along I closely scanned everything I could see. I wauted to establish a system or chain of landmarks that would guide me back to that house. On one side of the street I saw a bent tree of great dimension.'. That was a good mark. Then I saw a house of bolder front than the others standing farther out in the street. This, too. I mentally noted. At every corner I studied the lampposts, for the names of the streets. I did not find many signs. .But I found enough to establish the fact that the house I had just left was on Sand street, just north of Bank street. I knew I was just on the outskirts of Chinatown. Turning down Bank street, I felt my way along for a block or two. On a corner, well-lighted, 1 found a policemau standing. He seemed to take a great interest in my movements. When I approached him he took a few steps toward me as though he was going to accost me. I stopped abruptly. "Say, officer," I began, before he had a chance to say asythiug. "I want some assistance from you." "What's the matter? Are you lost?" he asked. "No, I am not lost. I am a physician?Doctor Crickmore, of the Golden Gate Club. I was called to a house up here on Sand street to see a woman. A Chinaman came after me. The woman has been drugged, and is now unconscious. I am on my way to police headquarters to get help. What do you advise me to do?" The officer slowly whistled softly to himself. He eyed me curiously. I wondered if he wasn't going to make uie ttujr x j . "Young man," he said, "you have never got yourself mised up in one of these Chinese scrapes or y'a'd be steerin' clear of this one. But if you're goin', y'u'd better go. Where's the house?" "Ou Sand street, just north of Bank. Two houses from it there is a bent tree in the same side of the street. I tied a tape around the small tree that is directly in front of the house I mean. You can tell it by that." [to be continued. ] Where Men Matt Be Worshiped. Woman's present position in India is realistically set forth in the following extract from a Government prize book for the girls' schools in the Bombay Presidency: If the husband of a virtuous woman be ugly, of good or bad disposition, diseased, fiendish, irascible, a drunkard, old, stupid, dumb, blind, deaf, hot-tempered, pbor, extremely covetous, a slanderer, cowardly, perfidious and immoral, nevertheless she ought to worship him as a god, with mind, speech aud person. The wife who gives an angry answer to her husband will become a village pariah dog; she will also become a female jackal and live in an uninhabited desert. The woman who eats sweetmeats without sharing them with her husband will become a filth-eating village sow. The woman who speaks disrespectfully to her husband will be iumb in the next incarnation. The wo>aan who hates her husband's relatives will become, from birth to birth, i muskrat, living in filth. Shoes For the Porto KlcmiB. The average Porto Rican is of short stature, -with feet correspondingly short. The foot is not only short, but thick and -wide, with a high instep; consequently the market absolutely demands a broad last, high instep, ind a shoe roomy and full over the ball of the foot immediately forward of the instep and extending thus over all the front half of upper to the toe or tip. This is applicable to both sexes. Shoes made Ion? and tapering, to ?ive a shapely effect, cau rarely be 3old. The shoe w<>;n and required is abort, wide and very :'uli in the upper, Liaving a last cut oval, being stubby in appearance, without having tbe | broad or wide toe. In connection i with the foregoing it may bo of in- j terest to know that the imports of | shoes into Porto Rico in 1896 were j calued at S712.323.--Bradstreet's. HOSPITAL FOR CONVALESC GIDOR ISLAND, The hospital for our convalescent s at Corregidor Island. Major Owen, of corpsmen, was sent on the Senator fr miles distant, to constrct the hospital, been used as a naval station by the Sj about 300 persons. The naval station occupied a level ? three sides by commanding nius or n closed in by high mountains on either s: the hospital inmates could have a mag: towering green peaks of Luzon. Three of being used as storehouses, a large bo was the start we had prepared for us. ' teers were sent as a guard. The undergrowth was rapidly en cleaned up, the boatbouse made into tablished in a very short time. Thirl and beds and ward apparatus were soo next fitted up, a linen closet and a d days' time they were ready to receive p By damming up a small stream in t pital corps to the Chicago Record, we gallons of water, -which we ran down to This water fed our condensers and steri dry. A daily boat from Manila was fini for which we had been preparing and sc care. While only thirty-five miles separat in temperature and humidity is what on of several hundred miles. The air is stiff breeze. 000500OO&OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOg pthleticFeatsforWomen| <5 Rules to Be Ubserved in the uymnasium. 5 80000000000003000000000008 Any ordinary room in which there is good air and sunlight will answer for a gymnasium; the larger the better. The beginner need have nothing more than a pair of dumbbells or a pair of clubs, either of which she may buy for $1. A bathing suit or a bicycle suit, if loose and comfortable, makes a very good costume. A pair of bloomers and blouse well cut is also very practical. A pair of full-woven black stocking and heelless slippers are indispensable. A long mirror in which the gymnast can watch her own motions is a great advantage to a home gymnasium, but not essential. From a boon on exercise by almost any good author a THE FLYING AVGEL. woman can get any number of motions and exercises, and she must decide what is best and most necessary for i her. Excessive exercise is injurious and : should be avoided. Excessive exercise : and no exercise at all produce similar i results. Stop cxercising just before ] nature calls out strongly against i further bodily activity. Just reach the tired point and stop before ex- ! haustion. No law can be laid down 1 as to how much exercise should be i taken at one time. Every individual 1 must be a guide to herself. A woman i should cxercise chiefly with light i weights and make quick movements, 1 and never, when out of training, try the limit on her strength. ] The most important gymnasium for i women in this country is under the 1 management of Watson L. Savage, M. i D., mcdical director of Columbia Uni- i versity. Classes begin with the kin- ' dergarten, and progress to the post- i graduate course. The women have t the use of the gymnasium and every j privilege and advantage which is ac- 1 corded the men. i Every woman who entcvs is care- I fully examined in order to discover 1 just what form of exercise will be i most advantageous to her. In cases 1 whore women or children are very dcl %?611L PARALLEL EAI icate, or hive some decided physical i: defect Ih'-t needs rectifying, they ex- i: erciso in the medical room of the o gymnasium under the pcrsoual super- s vision of Alius Marion Foye Carter, k .This is called corrective work, and is b intended to correct all physical iuiper- r fections, such as curvature of the v hpine, cramped chests or weak necks or 1/acfes. The gymnasium proper is ccupieii duriug the day aud evening ' fi . ?? ENT SOLDIERS AT CORREM ANIL A BAY, oldiers in the Philippines is located the regular army, with fifty hospital :i_ J.? urn lUMUiin iu \juucgiuui| kuiibj-uvo He found a beautiful spot which had lanish and near it a native village of irea of about six acres flanked on all lountains. A little bay in front was ide, leaving an entrance through which aificent view of Manila Bay and the habitable buildings and two capable athouse aud a rude blacksmith shop Two companies of Pennsylvania volunit and carted away, the houses were a dining hall and a cookhouse was esty-two tents were erected for patients, n in place. An apotheoary shop was rug .store room were made and in ten atiente. ;he mountains, writes one of the hosmade a reservoir holding about 6000 camp in pipes procured from Manila, lizers and supplied water for the launilly given us and we began the work >on we had nearly 200 sick under our ,e Corregidor from Manila, the ohange e would expect only from a difference very dry and there is always a good, 1 by girls and women training to improve their physical condition generally. Some come to reduce flesh, others to reduce or develop various parts of the body. Nothing could be more applicable or practical to the home gymnast than the hints on physical health and training that Dr. Savage advances to his normal classes, of which the following are a few: "The best time to exercise is between ten and twelve o'clock in the forenoon and between four and sii o'clock in the afternoon. If exercising before breakfast makes you feel faint or weak, then the early morning is not the time for you to work. Sometimes a glass of milk, a little oatmeal or toast, will make early morning exercise possible without injurious effects. If you exercise at night let your exercise be at least one-half hour before bed time. It is best to go to bed with the blood in its normal circulation; sleep is easiest under such conditions. "The minimum time for brain workers to exercise is two hours a week, divided into four days in the week. Their exercise should be before the perspiration is reabsorbed by the body. Do not lounge around until the suit and the skin become dry again. "Vnr norvnnn pmnfirnmflnta fllnw exercise is the best, while the rapid exercise is recommended for the phlegmatic. For women with a disposition toward melancholia light competitions aid ont-door games are the moitbeneficial form of exercise." Addressing his normal girls on the subject of food Dr. Savage said. "Never exercise jnst before or after a meal. At least one-half honr should be allowed before and two hours and a half after eating. Masticate the food thoroughly; do not hnrry through your meals, and eat rich foods with great discretion. Drink plenty of water between meals, but avoid excessive dtfnking at meals. One glass of water should be sufficient. It is better to use hot drinks at meal times, and do nnt drink if?fl water at anv time. A re freshing drink to take during the intervals when exercising is made by putting cooked oatmeal in water; let it soak and settle." In one of his talks on breathing Dr. 3avage strongly advised his girls to breathe through the nose while walking or doing ordinary work, and only to breathe through the mouth when extreme physical effort makes it necessary. ' 'Do not take short, quick gasps for normal breathing," he said; "breathe so as to fill every, cell with pure air. The largest and strongest animals in the world breathe from six to ten breaths per minute, while the smallest aud weakest breathe from 200 to 300 per minute. The manner in which we breathe is one of the most importantfactors in developing human strength. It is a good practice to take l long, deep bieath and hold it in the ungs a few seconds; each day increasing the time o? holdinc the brcatli until one minnte or one minute and a lalf is reached. Breathing exercises increase the exterior chest and develop ;he interior. Chapters could be written on sleep ?a t PYRAMID. ng. Dr. Savage suggests the followug rules. Sleep on a mattress laid ver a spring, eieep mostly on one ide, breathe through the nose and eep the mouth shut. Have a certain our for rising and a certain hour for etiring. Get up immediately upon raking. New South "Wales contains more .oweriag plants than all Europe. : " WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. A Simple Apparatus by Which Demonstrations May Be Made. For some time we have noted the progress made in experiments -with, wireless telegraphy. Two weeks ago, the JLioncion ximes receiyeua message from Frar.ce across the channel, using the Marc -ni system. Some of our readers mjybe abte to experiment for themselves by following Elliot'Wood's suggestions in the Electrical World and Electrical Engineer: The accompanying three sketches show a simple arrangement adopted by me for demonstrations in wireless telegraphy. Heretofore the general Dumose has been to provide a suitable IT * tapper for the coherer in order that the metallic particles may be disturbed and the circuit broken. In the arrangement shown the sounder is made to do the twofold work of answering the signals and decohering the metallic filing?. I am unaware of any similar arrangement; hence present this one. Referring to the sketches, Fig. 1 represents thfe receiving station,which in this case is made up of two "wings" B B, whose length is six inches each. The knobs used are of 1 inch diameter. The "wings" are supported by glass pillars on a'suitable base, on which thfl flnnndflr A is nlaced. The coherer C is a glass tube 2} inches in length and 5-16 inch diameter, containing suitable terminals connected to the two wings, as shown. The coherer is in series with the wings B B, the relay ordinarily used, and the battery. In practice the wave falls on C, the relay closes the circuit of the sounder A, and the coherer, being carried on the movable arm of the sounder, is brought down with the arm when the circuit through the sounder is made. In consequence of this, every movement of the sounder arm decoheres the metallio filings, and tl ere is prompt and certain action in response to every signal of the sender. The construction of the coherer is shown in detail in Fig. 2, and approximately full size. The terminals G G are turned down to lit the interior of the tube C. The apace between (about j inch) is half-filled with iron filings :,? 4 0,0?^?0 C= "j, Fif. 1. ' ' 4**4 ' ^-ocv .rim * WIRELESS TELEGRAPH APPARATUS.* or lathe-cuttings, sifted ont through a fine mesh. A hard rubber-bloct E is made with grooved edge to support C, which is held in place by brass bands D D; a thin brass plate, suitably fastened to the hard-rubber piece E, and projecting, provides means for fastening by the screw F to the movable arm of the sounder A. The best means of doing this is to remove the screw holding the armature of the sounder and clampering by the screw F both armature and the fastening plate at bottom of E. The sender, in this arrangement, consists of the usual induction coil discharging into two niCKei Dans Oi lour lucues uium?iei, as shown in Fig. 3. It will be noted from the sketch that there is a triple gap. At each side of the transmitter knobs the gap of 13-16 inch, and the gap betweeu knobs is 3-16 inch. The arrangement shown has proven all that can be wished for if one does oot desire the printing telegraph, as provided for in some appliances. A Oreat Engineering Work. One of the grandest engineering works ever conceived has just been inaugurated by the laying of the foundation-stone, at Assnan on the Nile, of a vast granite dam, which is destined to hold the waters of the historic river in check. This huge wall will be more than a mile in length, seventy-six feet high in places, and thirty or forty feet in width, bo that it will form a bridge across the river as well as a dam to conserve its waters. The effect of this obstraction will be the formation of a reservoir with an area ot abont 670 square miles, holding 1,000,000,000 tons of water; and it is estimated that this mighty volume will be the means of bringing 2500 square miles of desert land under cultivation. The so-called cataracts, which are in reality rapids, will disappear, and a lock at each end of the granite wall will form gates for the passage of vessels up and down stream. The work has been planned by Sir I Benjamin Baker, will be undertaken by Mr. Aird, and will probably be I completed iu about four years' time. It is regarded as the greatest engineering enterprise undertakeu in the land of the Pbaraobs since the building of the Pyramids.?Chambers's Journal. About Private Mailing Cards. Many a printer who wants to use, either for himself or for a customer, c the private mailing card authorized 8 by the Government, will be glad to " have explicit information as to the v printing allowed on the face of the v card. There has been some misun- fl derstanding cn this point, even though T me law was dujijjuscm tu uc -?j understandable. c In answer to an inquiry addressed ? to one of the assistant postmasters- J! general, the following was elicited: 1 "The words required by law to be s placed on the address side should be e plainly and neatly printed, without 8 scroll-work or other ornamentation of u auy kind." And, fortunately, that b. in the interests of both economy of l^bor aud good typography. s Bach's Occupation. * W. S. Gilbert was once at a social ? gathering in the house of a rich but ti ignorant woman, who posed as a s; natron of music. The hostess asked ! the cynical Scotchman: "And what is tl Bach doing now? Is he composing n anything?" "No, madam," was the w grave reply, "he is just now decom- b cosing." N 1 MEXICAN AMBASSADOR BOYCOTTED. | Peraons Non Graf, to Austria Becau*?, He Proaecat< 1 Maximilian. Manuel Azpiroz, the Ambassador from Mexico, who has been merci-j lessly snubbed and cut by all the members of the forvign diplomatic corps, is personally oi e of the most pleasant diplomats wl o have ever come to Washington. Thirty years ago Senor Azpiroz was ju.3ge advocate af the trial at which Maximilian, the Austrian Archduke, who was a pre- ! tender to the Mexican throne, was found guilty and who was afterward shot. Austria has never forgotten the' offense and has evidently won over4he! other Governments. This fact seems' '2 to be the motive for the social dojcou against the Ambassador. Azpiroz is' an old hand in Mexican diplomacy.'' v ; 8KN0B MANX7EL AZPIB0Z. He was counsel for Mexico in the joint claims commission which met in ' Washington in 1872 and 1873, and was Mexican consul at San Francisco from 1873 to 1875. He served in thewar against French intervention, and'has been of late Assistant Secretary of Foreign Relations in the Diaz Cabinet. He is accounted one of the ablest lawyers of his country. ' i Titere has been considerable gossip in'diplomatic circles in regard to a general combination on the part of European diplomats in Washington against members of the Diplomatic Corps who represent Governments in Central and South America. 1 This is not a new feeling and has been manifested before, especially by the Spanish and Portuguese ministers. Other diplomats from the European continent have manifested a haughty feeling in regard to the representatives from the Fan-American countries, and the alleged boycott against the Mexican Ambassador has revived this old feeling. The leaders in Washington society resent this rumored combination, and it has been announced that a rj number of leading women in official circles have agreed to invite to their entertainments a given number of European diplomats and the same number from the Fan-American re- g publics. If the Europeans decline . - ] the invitation on account 01 me pres- \ ence of the South Amfercian envoys, / j the ladies have decided not to give them a second opportunity to do so. If society boycotts the foreign diplomats tlie latter will soon come to their senses. The Grea\ God of the Philippine!. From the altar of a pagan temple to * a show window in a surgical appliance store would be a fall for anyone, but when "anyone" happens to .B.e Taga- % lo, god of the Filipinos, it is a thing terrible to contemplate. Yet such a thing has happened and a gilded god of the Philippine Indians now grins apon passersby from a display case m a St. Loais store. *, }J This god, or goddess, for it wears a skirt, is a fantastically carved block * TAGALO, A PHILIPPINE IDOL, if wood. Its nose is flat, its eyes are mall and its month is large. Two , : lauds, palms outward, are raised toward a bunch of shoulder braces, finch hang from the top of the case nd its feet, which are small, toe out rard, like the true Indian's. On its bead is a turban of many oils, thickly studded with little gems f glass. Four rows of these little ewels hang about the neck. A girdle, hickly sprinkled with these precious tones, holds up a skirt, which is also ncrused witn many bits of colored lass. These decorations are also pon the sandals. PunlaliinK a Middy. Mrs. Bagot's father when a middy erved under Captain Hardy, who aferwood commanded the Victory at 'rafalgar. "My father never forgave laptain Hardy," says Mrs. Bagot, "for arning up all hands and ordering the uip s tailor to sew up iiis pockets on ae quarter-deck. My father had had le early morning midshipman's watch. t was in the North Sea. The weather as bitterly cold and Hardy had found im with bis hands in his pockets."? ew York World. % si