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lie un More Republican Rascal ity Developing. IS NOT CONFINED TO CUBA, Corruption In the Washington Postof?ce. STAE BOUTE SCANDALS RIVALED. Parasites * of Certain Republican Statesmen Growing Fat at the Pub? lic Crib-One Man Drew Three Sal? aries - SinecnreK For Job Lot of G. O. P. Henchmen-Able Men From the Lone Star State-Two Republic? an "Governors'*-The Paper Trust. [Special Washington Letter.] : Scandal, larceny and peculation! That story increases as the days go by. If the Democrats bad had a working majority in this house, we would have unearthed enough Republican rascality and corruption to have carried the pres? idential election by at least 100 major? ity in the electoral college. Such a sweep would have given us the senate also. As for the house, there would not have been enough Republicans in the Fifty-seventh congress to have called for the yeas and nays. No ques? tion that Lyman J. Gage, secretary of the treasury, could have been impeach? ed and convicted for high crimes and misdemeanors in connection with the Hepburn bank ring. Many persons have been hugging to their hearts the pleasant delusion that all the corruption is confined to Repub? lican officials in Cuba and other out? lying provinces, but it appears that all such fond and patriotic hopes are to be blasted. It seems that the postof?ce department, especially the Washington city postof?ce, has been and is the nesting place of the corrupt parasites I cf certain high and mighty Republican ; statesmen, a place to quarter their un- j savory retainers upon the government j where they can feed at thc public crib unto they are as obese as Dickens' fat boy, although not so sleepy as was that drowsy youth. Xo intention is entertained of casting any reflection herein upon the character or honesty of Hon. Charles Emory Smith, post? master general. In my judgment he is an honorable and brilliant man, but ? unless the Washington Post is the most shameless liar since Ananias and j Sapphira had that ill starred land j transaction not only should a congres- j sional investigation committee get in ' its work on tlie Washington city post- j ^office, but the grand jury would find ! 'lots of materials on which to base in- | dictments for felony. The postofnee j scandals ?re likely to rival the Star Route scandals in cdoriferousness. Xow, Republican swashbucklers and organ grinders, with Mark lianna's boodle jingling in their pockets, need not rash- i ly cry out that all this is a campaign j lie, cooked up by free sP.ver anarchists for election purposes. y? Feeders at the Public Crib. The Washington Tost makes the j charges, and it is by long odds the most ably edited paper in America ! friendly to the McKinley administra- j tion. It says: Following are some of the all?gations that call ? for inquiry: Funds of the Washington city postofnee have been improperly disbursed for over two years, the irregularities for the quarter ending Sept. SO, 1S9S. amounting tc? $20,000 to $30.000, according to an expert's report to Comptroller Tracewell. Numerous favorites have been carried on two j and even turee pay rolls at the same time at the Washington city postorSce and at ether postoif.ci.-3 in the country. Oliver EL Smith of Indiana, now superintendent in thc- local service, was for about n year simultaneously auditor ci local postal sta? tions, laborer and painter of street letter boxes. He drew three salarie?. Nathan ??. (?; Baker of 3ndiaua succeeded to Mr. Smith's emoluments. Six women have long been carriel on the rolls of the city postof?ce as cleaners ct $C00 a year, performing no work whatever and being paid on separate voucher?. Four men were for many monti:* paid a: the 1 ?al postoffiee, apparently to investigate claims or letter carriers, all the posi? tion? being sinecures. John E. Jones, a newspaper reporter, was car? ried fer many months a* physician to tuc Wash? ington city postoSiee at $1,700 a year. Traveling expenses cf department officials who i were nor cn public business, tri;.-; fer private citi? zens only nominally connected with the govern? ment service, have been paid to tl?e extent of tens of thousands of dollars out of funds strictly belonging to the Washington postoffiee and out of the military postal fund. If the postmasfr r general wishes to thoroughly investigate the affairs here referred to, The Post suggests thai he secure the testimony of the fol? lowing witnesses among others: Joseph L. Uris:ow. fourth assistant postmaster general. Chief Inspector Cochran ol thc postofnee de? partment. George W. Beavers, chief of the salary ^nd al? lowance division. A. H. Scott, now in this city, who was the former chief ci that divisi? a. Seymour W. Tulloch, formerly cashier of the Washington city postoffiee, but suddenly dis? charged after many .wars of faithful service. ilr. J. Edwin Wilson, f< raoci y assistant post? master of Washington, but now an employee in the census bureau. Thomas W. Gilmer, a resident of this city. There is nothing mealy mouthed cr equivocal about that excerpt from The Post. The charges are direct and spe? cific. The witnesses are named. Shall we have an investigation that will in? vestigate or one that will bring forth an exquisite and artistic piece of white? wash? Serious Chartres Made. Again The Post makes this serious charge: Political influence arv! the cruft of polit ira! leaders Lave fashioned matters so that the system of auditing accounts is f.;r from circumspect. In fact, no adequate and satisfactory auditing of the accounts of the postoffice been made for sev? eral month?. What virtually amounts to an order to inspecting officials :.? "let the Washington city postofike alone" has been in force. This docs not mean that suth an order is actually in writing, but there is an understanding that 1 ?gb nffi.da?s will step in whenever full ::r?d thorough inspe?tior is undertaken. Whatever inspections have beer made for months have orly been of a ." rmal char? acter. Scores of "the boys." probably as many in all, perhaps inoro, have be-on made hap; these easy gwins methods. rJood fellows fro' diana, from Ohio, from X. >. York city, p<.? henchmen In various quartos, not a few so < journali-rs. nave fattened ctr the money that dont people paid for postal materials and congress appropriated for military postal se; An cdi'.or if an Italian journal in Chica?') in high feather for several weeks in tho We? rnes, and. through an oficial order, his exp? amounting io between $2,000 and $3,000. were over the counter of the Washington city p< fice. Alter he returned from his trip his s was continued for several months. So it appears, after all, that great civil service reform adminis tion loads up the Washington city r? office with a job lot OL Republi henchmen and female "cleaners"* f the states. Yet, when William Mci ley, placid and serene, took the oat! office March 4. IS'JT. he solemnly severated that no backward step ir be taken in the cause of civil ser reform! Did be mean that no Ker lican freebooter and treasury lo< should not draw more than three aries at once? Was that the lin Or have those drawing triple pay yet reached the limit? Investigation Seeded. If the following; is true, some rat tall heads could be brought to the d by a proper and vigorous investigat and certain illustrious officials be cl ped into the penitentiary. The P says (and The Tost is responsible fin cially and otherwise): Some months ago the condition of things c near being aired in the local courts and was < narrowly avoided. This was occasioned prima by the appointment cf two expert account: from trie treasury department. They were thorized by congress on one cf the appropriai bilis passed two years ago. They were designs to serve in connection with the comptroller's lice and had authority to examine into the counts of any of the auditors. One of these perts, whose rame is known, called up the counts of the Washington city postoffice for quarter that ended Sept. 30, 180S. The two j vious quarter?, which are said to have been s worse, were, as far as known, never inspect He went over the papers in the custody of postmaster and his subordinates and discove items amounting to $20,000 to $30,000 which w irregular and which he did not think should h been allowed. In due season a lengthy letter came from comptroller of the treasury stating the result the investigation and propounding a long list questions to be answered. The comptroller, uni the law, is supreme in such matters an-, is c powered virtually to assume charge of all i financial matters relating to any postcifice. Mc: while, however, word had reached ene of the hi officials of thc department, who thereupon issi directions that not a scrap of paper or any m ter of any kind relating to that inspection shot be retained by the local postoiSce oihcials. must be forwarded at once to his office. He p parea a reply tc the comptroller's letter, whi was presented to Postmaster Willett for sig: ture. That gentleman was forced into signing t reply, after a lone parley, by certain of his : pericrs, whose act? had been the cause of t comptroller's investigation. The loiter was r satisfactory in its answers to the various quesiic propounded, and the comptroller so stated in subsequent communication. In the meantime an adjustment was under wa which resulted in the entire matter being drepp and an understanding reached that the Washin ton postoffice was lo bc "let alone" to regula the expense account as other men wished. I make no apology for quoting s much of Tbe Post article. The fae therein stated ought to wake the Ame ieau people up and cause them to m alterably resolve to thoroughly cleans the Augean stables. Tlie Texan Delegation. Texas has a wondrously strong del? gation in the house-most all of thei young men. Members of congress an all others who know him are glad thc lion. Thomas H. Ball of the First dh triet will be one ot" the Texas "Bi Four" at the Kansas City cenventioi It is a high honor worthily bestowed In that great conclave of the faitbft there will be no better Democrat tha: this stalwart young Texan. There i no more magnificent or courageou Democrat in the house than Tom Bal] as he is universally called by his inti mates. He is a splendid specimen o intellectual and physical manhood with o. handsome presence, a bushel o brains and a heart true to duty as th? needle to the pole. Industrious, capa ble, painstaking and affable, he is fas rising among his fellow members, wh< watch his ascent of the ladder of faim with delight. Some \ew History. I most respectfully doff my som brero to that prince among statesmen the Hon. Amos J. Cummings of New York, dean of the delegation. Ile ba< dug up a brand new historical fact-? biographical curio-and that is thai Hon. Mathias Lyon was elected to con gress from three different states-Ver mont. Kentucky and Arkansas-thougl he died before taking the seat votec him by the last named state. General James Shields enjoys in his? tory the peculiar distinction of having been a United States senator from throe states-Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri-a fiat never equaled and most probably never to be duplicated by any other of the sons of Adam. Mytliias Lyon is aise? distinguished as being the first man imprisoned un? der the alien and sedition laws, which were hatched in the administration of old John Adams and which did so much to hurl the old Federalist party from power. In the careers of many men the zenith and the nadir of their fortunes have been far apart I doubt, how? ever, whether tiny man ever contem? plated two events in his own life so wide apart and yet either possible of happening within six and one-half months as "Governor" William S. Tay? lor, now ;i fugitive from justice, con? templates. Within that period he may be elected chief magistrate of Ken? tucky, .ind he may be hanged by the neck till he is dead for being accessory to tlie murder of William (Jeebel, as foul an assassination as ever stained thc pages of history." As a nih'. Ken? tuckians. Republicans as well ;:s Dem? ocrats', are brave men. How can they make up their minds to rally under the banner of Taylor, who is skulking in Indiana from a Kentucky sheriff be? cause Governor Mount will not permit him to be extradited? Mount cuts a beautiful figure truly protecting a man charged with being accessory to a mulder committed fur political pur? poses. Iiis moral sense must !>.. about as blunt tis Taylor's. What tho Sfrnv.s Show. How are the mighty fallen! Twenty five_yearsjigo the leading Republicans j in Kentucky wert' intellectual giants ! mon who at least challenged admira j tion by reason of their courage and their shining talents. Upon the rester j of their worthies were the names of i John M. Harlan. Benjamin EL Bristow. I Rumsey Wing. General Eli H. Murray, j Congressman Wadsworth and the ! Goodloes. Xow their leaders are such I small bore politicians as \V. S. Taylor, ; Senator Deboe, et id om nc genus. It is pitiful to think of such decadence. ! The first leader-the real leader while i he lived-of the Kentucky Republicans I was Rev. Dr. Robert J. Breckinridgc J "Old Rob," as everybody called him j au intellectual Titan. He presided j over the national convention which ! nominated Abraham Lincoln and An ! drew Johnson, and mentally he was ? fit to sit in the White House. The ! present low status of Kentucky Re j publicans, viewed from an intellectual standpoint, justifies the bitter saying that "the Republican party of the pres? ent day much resembles a hill of pota? toes because the best part of ir. is un? der the ground." Straws show which way the wind blows. One curious manifestation of the tendency of the public political mind of America at the present junc? ture in human affairs is the fact that up to date only one Democratic con? gressman standing for re-election has been defeated for nomination. Very few of them have had any trouble on that score, while thc political mortal? ity among Republican congressmen has been great, especially in Ohio. Even such illustrious i>atriots as Mr. Tawney of Minnesota and Governor Steele of Indiana were fit subjects for congratulation when they pulled under the string winners. This can be inter? preted in but one way, and that is that the people are satisfied with the con? duct of the Democrats in congress and dissatisfied with the Republicans. The defeat of Republican congressmen for renomination, taken in connection with the results of the spring elections, must make many of them who have secured renominations take a gloomy view of the future. Editors, Attention! I wish to call the attention of Ameri? can editors, "without regard to age, sex or previous condition of servitude" to Mark Hanna, to the fact that this Republican congress does not propose to do anything to relieve them from the heavy hand of the wood pulp and white paper trusts: nothing-absolute? ly nothing. It could bc broken up in 30 days by passing my bill introduced at an early date into this congress to ploee white print paper and all the ma- j terials and ingredients used in manu? facturing the same upon the free list, j So far as I was able to ascertain nearly ; every paper in America indorsed the proposition, though some of them un dertook to steal from me the credit and to confer it upon another congress- j man, who was himself trying to steal ! the credit. Rut they indorsed the prin? ciple. Xow be it remembered that a favor? able report-at any rate a report of some kind-from a committee is L ? no qua non to the passage of a bill. Speaker Henderson promptly referred j my bill to the committee on ways and ' means, where it has slept the sleep j that knows no waking ever since. I \ received so much encouragement as to 1 the lil.1 from the public press, irre- i spective of party affiliations, that I saw j Mr. Sereno E. Payne of Xew York, j chairman of thc committee, and i Messrs. George W. Steele of Indiana I and John Dalzell of Pennsylvania, I leading members of the committee, and ; asked to be heard upon my bill. They j said I could be heard, but Mr. Chair- i man Payne, with a smile that was | childlike and bland, said, "You may be j heard, but it is only fair to tell you j that there is no prospect whatever that any action will be taken on that sub? ject." or words to that effect. So that editors, while cussing the paper trust and wood pulp trust, should also pay their eompliments to the party-the Republican party-which makes trusts possible. If Republican editors are honestly opposed to the wood pulp and white paper trusts, their remedy it clear. Help us kill the Republican party. It is the mother of trusts. Buncombe Law. Of course this Republican congress j will pass some buncombe law, resolu? tion or constitutional amendment pur? porting to be antitrust, and they will j no doubt put an antitrust plank into the Philadelphia platform. Xo doubt; but an editor who expects to purchase his white paper cheaper cn that ac? count is a bigger fool than Thompson's colt, which swam the Mississippi river | to get a drink. Xo, messieurs, there is but one remedy for you, and that is to come out from the Republican Sodom and Gomorrah and make common ; cause with us against the whole brood ' of trusts and their mother, the Repub-1 Hean party. The quicker you do it the j better. Do this or forever hold your j peace as to the extortions of the wood pulp and white paper trusts. Repub- ! lican papers please copy. If Republican statesmen do not quit j deserting Mac and Mark, there will soon be a clear majority of the G. O. P. in open revolt. With Carl Schurz and George S. Rout well bombarding the freebooters in Xew York and with Senator Eugene Hale and Senator George L. Wellington ripping them up the bael; in Washington Mark and his presidential protege are. figuratively at least, "sweating blood." VlfzMy <if Them. Romantic Tourist 1 suppose you ha-ve ::<> itii'Mv.?Sting old rai:;.-: in this neighborhood? Villager Xe r ' ri Scott, mis? ter! ! > ??-] ' . .. . il ;:: Vr'li two doZCli bail:::- V . : <-:.;.my ::.:ti used to be erra: . .Tu y s Tore the THE BOERS TEAR UP VITAL RAILWAY LINE I Connecting the British Army j With Its Base of Supplies. ?MAY CSx:CK LORD ROBERTS' OPERATIONS. London, Jane ll, S 30 a. m.-The Boers have torn up 21 miies of Lord Roberts' vitai line of railway between America siding and Roodeval. It is a bold raid and vexatious, but it does not disquiet the military authorities | as yet, for they expect Gen Kelly Kenny to drive off the marauders and to reopen the line The rapidity of the advance of Lord Roberts cannot have permitted him to accDrnulate large reserves of stores Therefore au interruption of the railway, even for a week, must embarrass the army and may bring the forward operations to a stand s ti li Nothing has been heard from Lord Roberts for three days This raid on the railway, ihe strenuous opposition to Gen Rundle and the nimble escape of Commandant General Botha's di? vision have forced the war office ob servers to the reluctant conclusion that the war is not yet over, although even the occasional civilian Boer sympathizer cannot see how the Boers will be abie to do anything to change the result. Gen Bulier ?3 in Boer territory. Dispatches of correspondents with I him, filed yesterday at sunset, de? j scribe the corps as camping at Gao Solei, close to the point where the frontiers of the Free State, the Tran9* vaal and Natal meet. "The British marched eight miies yesterday/' says a Reuter corres? pondent, "before encountering any opposition The Boers, who had one gun, withdrew under heavy ord nance fire to a ridge just ahead of the camp." This long range, running skirmish will doubtless be renewed this morn I ing Gen Buller is expected to make I rapid progress now and to throw the ? I weight of 20,000 men into Lord Rob ! erts' Transvaal combinations The fighting on June 5, in which ! there were fewer than 20 casualties, was kept up all day long by musket ry and artillery. The British attack? ing line, three miles in length, made ! its way amid the precipitous hills j A Boer gun on Spitz kop fired shrapnel rapidly at a range of 400 yards at the British right flank, but I every shell was buried in the ground before bursting. The defensive power of modern weapons seems less effective in rough country than upon levels, where wide spaces can be covered with fl?t trajectories Gen. Rundle's and Gen. Brabant's divisions are still at Hammonia, in the Ficksburg district. The latest intelligence from their headquarters is that the Boers are de termined to fight to the bitter end. They are concentrating 4.000 men around Bethlehem. The country be tween them and Gen Rundle is mountainous and resembles northern Natal in being exceedingly difficult lur military operations Gen. Rundie;s present care is to prevent the Boers getting p?at him southward Maj Wood, of Bundle's staff, rode to a Boer outpost on June 6 and announced that Pretoria bad been occupied by the British How tbe Boers received the news is not recorded Altogether 600 Boers have surrendered to Gen Rundle Gen Hunter's advance has occu? pied Ventersdorp, 100 miles south? west of Pretoria. This took place on June 7 Gen. Piumer's column is on the Elands river, northwest of Pretoria The British are sending detachments right and left to accept the surrender o? commanders, horses, caule and forage, and to overawe the sparsely settled country Thus far only one small commando has been heard of, a eomraaDdo at Taiibasch Gen Hunter's immediate objective is Potchefstroom This town and Kusienburg are the largest towns west of Janannesburg. It is reported that Potchefstroom is ready to sub mit Gen Hunter bas warned all burghers that if the telegraph is cut behind him he will send back and burn the houses near the line. The Dutch in Cape Colony appear to have spiit, a majority of the Afri kander bund being displeased by the unwillingness of Mr Schreiner, the Cape premier, to go the full length of the proposed opposition to the Briish. LARGE BODIES OP BOERS APPEAR WHERE NOT EXPECTED. Loudon. June 12, o 80 a. rn-Fifty ? thuUi-aDd British troo;-* arc within half i a hundred mues or the niaraudtog J Boers i.orib o? Krocnstad, and they j aro expected, of course, to make short j *.?urk ot them. Nevertheless, outside of tbe h;C-iiUtr vtar office ti iig;ams no ? one koowa what is goicg ou South ci KrocuStAd there a wide ! rap Thc railway is only partially de- j h?odu-?, a?d, as Geo. Kelly KfiiDy bas j tiurntd a!i thc available troops uortb, ! the assumptioe is that there i& a dan- j ?er of a mcond raid. The loss of the Der bys hires is estimated a?, froai GbO ! to 700 men. Mandates of China Being Disregarded. Foreign Admirals Forcibly Reopening Railroad to Pekin Loudon, June ll, 2:40 a. ni.-The admirais at Taku, acting in concert, are forcibly reopening the lailway from Tien Tain to Pekin Gangs of laborers are repairing the damaged line, which is guarded by 1,500 men composed of detachments from the foreign fleet One hundred Ameri? cans, under Captain McCalia, are among them They have guns and armored trains for use when the line is repaired, which can hardly be effected before Monday night Ten thousand troops of ali nation amities, according to a dispatch to the Daily Express from Shanghai, will be sent to Pekin to back np the de mands of the ministers upon the gov? ernment, or, if neceesary, to suppress the Boxers themselves. Tien Tsin, June 10 -The special train that went to examine the line and reconnoitre returned last night. The railway was found clear two miles beyond Yang Tsuh. The engi? neers, with the guards, walked a mile and a half further. They found the ties and two bridges burned and the railway torn up. They saw a few hundred personas, apparently villa? gers, gathered ahead of them The first repair train, with Admi ral Seymour and his staff, 650 Brit isb, Capt McCalla's 100 Americans and 25 Austrians, left this morning at half past 9 \ A Hotchkiss and other guns were mounted in the center of the train. A eecond traiu left at ll, with 600 British, Japanese, Russian and French troops. Repairing mate? rial and new rails were taken along There are 31 foreign war vessels at Taku A message from Pekin to the admirals assert that the situation is hourly growing more dangerous for foreigners All those at Pekin have taken refuge m Legation street. The civilian males are under arms to fight with the regulars if necessary. The approaches to Legation 6treet are surrounded by howling mobs of un? disciplined soldiery, with cannow and bayonets The international guard were holding off the mob, which screamed insults and threats. This was the situation yesterday (Saturday) when the couriers got througo with the latest dispatches. The empress dowager was amusing herself at the palace with theatricals. It is reported that government arms are being dealt out to the Box? ers. The troops of Tung Fun Seang ? are 6aid to be assisting to kill native j Christians after malignant tortures, j ON MANCHURIA BORDER London, June ll. - A special dis-j patch from St Petersburg dated Sat urdav, June 9, savs : "I have ! learned from an absolutely reliable ! source that minute dispatches have j been sent to the commanders of the I Russian troops in Manchuria, direct ? ing them lo prepare three regiments j of Cossacks on the Chiuese frontier, to be in readiness to enter on the day orders are received " On Friday, according to a dispatch to the Daily Express from Shanghai, a force of Cossacks, reconnoitering outside of Tien Tsin, was attacked by a rabble of thousands armed with spears and swords and some rifles. The Cossacks fired upou their assail ants, killing several. A Russian lieutenant was wounded by a bullet I in the stomach. IS PEKIN BURNING ? London, June ll.-The Daily Mail has the following from Tien Tain dated Friday, June 8 : "The wildest | rumors are current here to the effect j that Pekin is burning, but they lack I confirmation " Hostile D8moDStrations Be? ing Made Against Foreigners. London, June 12, o a. m -The last message out of Pekin to reach London left there yesterday morning at ll orclock, going by way of the Russian telegraph through Manchu? ria, the Tien Tsin line being cut It is as follows : ''Gen Tung, a Mohammedan, ex? tremely hostile to foreigners, arrived here this morning and had a iong audience with Prince Tuan, father of the heir apparent, who is seemingly friendly lo the Boxers. Prince Tuan has been appointed chief of the foreign ofhee over Prince Ching, j who is more friendly toward the ! foreigners. "The dispatch of more marines j ivas in response to a telegram from the ministers to the consuls at Tien \ Tain for additional troops, convey- ! anees have left Pekin to meet the ! troops coming by the first train "The arrival of the empress dow : ager has rendered the city somewhat more quiet than it had been recently The Piotestants have erected a bar ricade before the building tn which they have taken refuge and they have a small guard The Catholics are concentrated north ol the cathe dral, under the protection of 3 : French guard ot 25 men, who will j hold cut to the end 1 am convinced \ I that Pekin, especially the Tartar I City, is safe. j "At Tieo T8in the viceroy finally ? cocseuted to famish transport for a/ ! relief force of 400 aerier an American I j commander. The partial restoration of j j the railway is expected to be effected; by tomorrow. More massacres of] Christians are reported." j Shanghai, ander yesterday's date,: oabiea that there has been street 6gbt-j ing io Pekin since early Sunday after-; noon. Tbe Russians are making large purchases of canned provisions at] Shanghai and everything points to aa outbreak or boatiiitie3. The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Telegraph in a dispatch dated i yesterday at 1.40 p. m., says: "Re? ports from the Yun Fu district say tbat the French minister bas telegraphed that a crisis is imminent and that ho is advising all foreigners to evacuate Yuo Nan ? " New York, Juoe ll.-Methodist missionaries in China sent ao appeal for aid to President McKinley. Tbe appeal was dated Pekin, aod was prob? ably the last message sent out before the wires were cat. Tbe message sent to headquarters tn this city was as follows : "Massacre of native Christians. Situation critical. Press, Washington. Francis D. Gamewell " Rev Dr Leonard, missionary secre? tary of the Methodist Church, at once telegraphed tho president, transmitting the cablegram, and adding : "This means oar people are io great peril and greatly need each protection as our government can afford." London, Jane ll.-It is rumored from Shanghai tbat 4,000 Russian troops, with 20 guns have landed a** Pei Tabo andar? marching to Pekin. Washington. Jane ll.-The follow? ing undated dispatch was received at the war departmeat today : "Forces landed by different naiiocs opening communication with Pekin.'"' Admiral Kempff also reports the arrival of the Monocacy at Taku. JEWELRY. Pretty Accessories For ihc Costume of the Period. A pretty idea for securing the long cra? vat often worn with shirt waists is to encircle it with a chain bracelet. These bracelets consist of a ?roid link chain with an enameled or jeweled bail at each end. end aneroid slide through which,the chitin may be drawn and readjusted to any si::e. "When it is ptit around the cra? vat, the slide is pushed up closely and the ends of the chain hang down their full length. Lon? chains continue in unabated fa? vor. They are at len st a yard and a. half in length and are seen in every ? ri.' hi K CLOTH TOILET, stvle from simple beads of various kinds to gold, jeweled o nd enameled affairs of great expense. Steel beads and gold embroidery upon black cloth gowns are a spring novelty and are calculated to attract attention, although they are not used to excess. Revers and a small border for the tunic are sulhcient. Black cloth is to be much worn. A picture is given of gown of satin cloth. The skirt is laid in plaits which are stitched down to within about 15 inches of the foot. The tight bodice is fitted by means of stitched plaits instead of darts. It has a yoke of plaited nile green silk,' framed by a wide band of heavy white guipure. There are small gold buttons, down the middle of the yoke, and the col-i lar is of nile green silk. The narrow belt of brown velvet is fastened by a gold buckle. The tight sleeves are plain.; The turban of beige silk is trimmed with; fea'hers. Junie CIIOLLET. Tlie Most I nprammatJcal. A literary mun who has just returned! from the anthracite coal region of j Pennsylvania says that he round a? gre:.ii quantity of *'loca? color" there.] Ho :?!si> says he hoard the most un-i grammatical sentence while there that over came under his notice. He was] strolling through a mining village in] Schuylkill county when bo heard a wo-j man miling, and at some distance off] saw several children who wer?.' playing! in i hi* ma?!. When he reached th*m.j he said Kindly: mother is calling YOU. chii-i .your dren."' The largest child. a girl of abou years, turned to him and said: "lier ain't a-calliu we; us don't be loni: to she."-?ew York Times. IO