The Herald-Sentinel. (Cloud Chief, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, August 3, 1894 Page: 3 of 8
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SEPARATED.
■very on* called Mr. and Mr*. Spooner a loving couple; but the other daj a
woman came between them and they did not apeak for honra.
USEFUL PUBLICATION.
The Lata at Revised Edition of the
Congressional Directory.
■f the Hook* Issued by the (ionn*
BMt IndtoptnuibU to Edit*
[Special Wsshlnfton Letter. 1
A new edition of tho Congressional
Directory hat recently been Issued un-
der the direction of the joint committee
on printing of the house of representa-
tives of the I'nited States senate. This
ia the third edition for the Fifty-third
congress and contains a great deal of
valuable as well as interesting infor- '
nation.
Upon the fly leaf of tho book, ad-
joining the frontispiece, is a list of ex-
ecutive mansion rules, signed by Henry
L. Thurber, private secretary to the
president. These rules are as follows:
"The cabinet will meet TuesUsys sod Fri-
days st clsvon o'clock.
"Monday will be reserved by the president
for the transaction of public business requir-
ing his uninterrupted attention.
"The president will rocclvo senators and rep-
resentatives In congress from ten to twelve
on other doys. except csblnet days.
"Persons not senutors and rcpresen'stlvss,
having business with the president, will be re-
ceived from twelve to one <> clock evory dsy,
except Mondsys and catluct days.
"Those who have no business, but who desire
to pay their respcct i. wll! be received by the
president lu the East room st one o'clock p.
m. on Mondays. Wednesdays and Saturdays."
The first page contains an autobiog-
raphy of Vice 1'resident and 1'residcnt
of the Senate Adlai E. Stevenson. Ac-
cording to this brief condensation of
the history of a lifetime, Vice I'resi-
dent Stevenson was born in Christian
county, Ky., October 23, 1835, and is in
the fifty-ninth year of his age. He re-
moved with his father's family to
Bloomington, 111., in 1852; was edu-
cated at the Illinois Wesleyan univer-
sity, and commcnced the practice of
law in December. '858. He was a mem-
ber of the Forty*fourth and Forty-sixth
congresses; was first assistant post-
master general during the first Cleve-
land administration; was electcd vice
president of the United States Novem-
ber 8; 1 V~; and was inducted into office
March 4, 180.1.
mittees of the senate are given in al-
phabetical order. Following this list
of committee assignments is an alpha-
betical list of members of the senate
commencing with Senator Aldrich, of
lthode Island, and ending with Senator
Wolcott, of Colorado. After the name
of each senator is given a list of the
committees to which he is assigned.
Following these lists of senate com-
mittees, and senators with the namei
of their committees, there are published
i imilar lists of the committees and of
tho membership of the house of repre-
sentatives. Thus, without difficul-
ty, any citisen who is interested may
turn to this book and ascertain the ex-
act membership of any particular com-
mittee <5f the senate or of the house; or
can turn to the name of any individual
senator or representative and find to
what committee he is assigned for duty.
This bit of information is e;
important to gentlemen having
ness before either house or both houses
of congress.
An official list of the employes of the
secretary and sergeant-at-arms of the
senate, as well as of the clerk and
sergeant-at-arms of the house, follows
the lists of senators and committees
narrated above. Ten pages are de-
voted to a description of the eapitol
building, with diagrams of each floor
of the great edifice. If you ever visit
Washington you should secure a copy
of the Congressional Directory from
your representative or from one of
your senators, and, turning to this di-
rectory of the eapitol about the middle
of the book, you will have the best
possible description of that building
which Is the central object of intereat
to all people who viait the national
capital.
Following the description of the eap-
itol is a list of members of the press
who are entitled to admission to the
press gallery, commencing with the
Alexandria Gazette and ending with
the Washington Post, giving the name
of the correspondent after the name of
each paper. This list of newspapers
and newspaper men is of special value
to corrcspor. lent*, as they can tell at a
single glance which newspapers are
represented at the national capital, the
names of the correspondents and the
Commencing with the state of Ala- [ street numbers of their offices and
bama. and ending with the state of i fences. Moreover, this list shows tc
Wyoming, and the territory of Utah, in ! ambitious and pushing newspaper
alphabetical order of the states, the
Congressional Directory gives autobi-
ographical sketches of all of the sena-
tors and representatives in congress.
There are only two ex-speakers of the
house of representatives now In con-
gress, namely Ualusha A. Grow, of
Pennsylvania, and Thomas B. Reed, of
Maine.
According to this autobiographical
publication, Mr. Grow was born Au-
gust 31,1*23. and is therefore in the
seventy-llrst year of his age. He waa
first electcd to congrcss in 1850.
Ho served for three terms as a free soil
democrat, and then was elected as a
member of the new-born republican
party, and served for three terms as a
republican. When he first entered
congress In 1851 he was the youngest
member of that cougres-s. Ten yeara
later he was electcd speaker of the
house as a republican, on -Inly 4, 1801.
The autobiographical sketch of
Thomas B. Keed, of Maine, shows that
he was born at Portland, October IS,
1830, and is, there/ore. in the flfty-flfth
year of his age. He was first elected
to the Forty-ilfth congress and has been
reelected every two years slnoe that
time. He was elected speaker of the
house of represents lives for the Fifty-
first oongress. The autobiography of
Mr. Heed is contained in ten lines of
the Congressional Directory.
FoUowlng the autoblorrnphies of the
members of tho senute and house, com-
moBoing on page 1 -the standing oom-
workers who are reaching out foi
more business to whom to write when
offering their services. It is repug
nant to the customs of the galleries foi
correspondents to make appUcationi
for work to newspapers already repre-
sented in Washington, as shown by the
list.
Members of the families of corre-
spondents are not entitled to admission
to the gaHerles, nor can they secure ad-
mission for their friends at any time.
The press galleries are not aristocratic,
but they are exceedingly exclusive,
Bolely as a matter of business, for the
protection of the men who earn theli
bread and butter as chroniclers of the
daUy news in both houses of congresa
Every newspaper in the United State*
ought to have a eopy of the Con-
gressional Directory. Senators and
representatives are each entitled tos
limited number of these handy and
valuable little bcolcs, but they do not
receive a sufficient number to supply
aH of the editors in their districts or
in their statea. If the newspaper men,
however, were to urgently request oop
ies of the Congressional Directory ev-
ery year, the congress would soon be
induced to make a liberal appropria-
tion for the printing of a few thousand
additional oopies, so that every editor
might have one upon his desk, not only
for hi:* own convenience, but for the
information of the general public la
each community, Smits D. Far.
FOUR CONSUMPTIVE GAMBLERS
M Try Is Uve u*|ni Is w to Wla a
Peel el r—r T>—■■■< IMIwi.
In the year 18tl there were few mea
' better know Is the sporting world than
1 BUly Emerson. Jack Sheridan. J. hnny
Pratt aad Winnipeg. No one ever
seemed to know Just what Winnipeg's
first name was, but. like the other
I three, he was a nsau whose nerve, when
it came to makiag s heavy wager on
card or bone, was never questioned.
Among racing people in the east and
west these four men were known and
respected, for. In addition to being
heavy gamblers, they were men who
had never been In any way Identified
with any scheme or deal that was not,
to use a racetrack expression, "on the
! level." It was during the year IMM
that they were at the top notch of
prosperity. Although different in many
ways, there was one common ailment
among them, and It was probably this
that made them such fast friends. All
four were consumptives, and, although
at that time the disease had barely-
more than shown Itself. they got worn-
and worse as the years rolled by. nntil
one by one they died. Although thev
must have known what was the trouble
with them. It waa utterly impossible
to get anyone of them to acknowledge
that be had consumption.
Every once in a while nowadays, when
bookmakers get together over aeold
bottle sad begin telling stories, the
story of the "four cons," as they were
called, comes up One evening a book-
maker was telling the story.
"A peculiar thing about those men."
he said, "was that although none of
them would ever aeknowledge that he
was on the brink of the grave, they
would take great pleaaure In guying
one another about their ill-health.
Emerson, pale and emaciated and emit'
ting hollow coughs, would walk up to
Pratt, who was In a similar condition,
and say; 'Look here, old boy! you are
a sick man. Go away somewhere and
r-euperste. You need a rest.' Then
Pratt would brace up and reply, indig-
nantly: "You go to Halifax! What do
you mean by telling me I'm sick?' and
tb-n h* would stride away, mad clear
through.
"This sort of thing went on for some
time, until one day Emerson remarked
to the others that he was going to have
his lif-? insured. 'What!' they gasped
together, 'you don't think any company
would take a chance on you. do you?'
Emerson Ignored the insinuation, and
the next day had an examination for
life insurance. Of course he didn't pass.
When he gloomily told the others about
it they gave him the grand laugh.
Then each one in turn quietly informed
Emerson that he himself was going to
'ns-ired. They all tried and all were
■ejected.
"One day they met at the race-track
and Emerson remarked: 'Say, boys, we
couldn't get insured; but I've got p
better game than that Let's put up a
thousand apiece, and the one who lives
the longest takes the pot'
"'Why, you poor fool!' remarked
Winnipeg, who was at that time the
worst case of all, 'it's a dead certain
will for me.'
" 'O, you don't say so,' put in Pratt.
'Why, one of your lunga is missing now,
and I don't think you'll live a month.
"After an hour of this sort of chaf-
fing the four men agreed to put up the
money. It was given to Billy Elliot, a
bookmaker, and he deposited it in a
New York bank. It was deposited
such a way that any one of a dosen
bookmakers could draw it out at any
time. This was done ao as to be sure
that the last man would be able to get
the money without any trouble. At
this time poor Winnepeg was an awful
sight, and people thought he would die
at any minute. Yet Jie would come to
the track every day, and whenever he'd
run across one of the other three he'd
guy him about the money they had put
up. 'You fellows will be dead and
gone before they put me in bed/ he'd
say. Those who knew him used to
smile pityingly on him whenever he
made this boast.
"Two months after the money had
been deposited Emerson's physician
told him that he must go away or he'd
die in a week. So BHly took his money
and went to Texas, where he-bought
ranch, and tried to settle down. In six
months he was dead. Early in
Sheridan died, and thia left only Pratt
and Winnipeg, who was verily a living
corpse, to contest for the money. l*ratt
got worse and worse, and his condition
was soon as bad as his friend's. These
two used to totter around the betting
ring, and when they were not betting
would tell each other how bad they
looked. 'Jack and Billy have gone
said Winnipeg one day. and you're next
Johnny. That coin's mine.' 'You'll be
deed a week and 111 collect that four
thousand,' Pratt replied, and both
laughed.
"The next week Pratt lost his every
dollar in an attempt to make enough to
leave his wife independent when he
died. The week after he was too weak
to get up. One morning after being
confined to his bed for a couple of day
he died, leaving his wife penniless.
The very day he died the money was
drawn from the bank by Elliot and
given to Winnipeg. "I knew I'd win
it." said the latter. "I knew I'd out
live them, and now I can't die too soon
to stilt myself. My living for the past
six months has been a mere matter of
pride anyway."
"Winnipeg had lost all his money in
the same deal as Pratt, ut he had no
need of the four thousand dollars, for
three days later he died. Just before
he breathed Me leal he diew
thousand dollars he had woe
aeeth hi* pillow, and with
hand passed it over to Elliot, who
*oive that to Johnny*
widow." be said. "I haven't got a lela*
tiv« left on this earth, and 1 don't
reckon it1l ever do me any good.'"—M.
HID. __________
TRIALS OF A LONE DUOK.
by running f i—I
Ivy. or other poisonous vines.
—Asparagus and Toast.—Wash eleas
cut la smell pieces, put ia slightly salted
water, boil a short thee, pour of water,
add move boiling weter; boil till tender,
then pet in a lump of butter, alt aad
pepper, In the maeatlae cut aad teaat
Ytrtory. two or three thin si ices of Weed, spread
The children up at the pdnd at Bee-1 with better end put In a
enty-sixth street, on the east side of the ,
pork, have great fun with the solitary
duck inhabitant. This duck has none
of the shyness of the squinvla. lie is a
bold and braaea bird, and will make
futile attempts to cliiub up the per-(
pendicular stonework surrounding the
pond in the hope of finding s t-rueker. |
Crackers are his chief article of diet.
Not ordinary crackers, bat faacy ones
iu queer *hspe at tweaty-flve ceats a
pound. Little rich children, who are |
I sired to death by the necessity of look-
ing after their Freneh nurseinalda.
FMCSIDC FRAGMENTS,
—An application of sweet ieid lean
r *y
—The stains on your linen Ml be
easily rrmwed, but the quick proeese
will be very apt to destroy the fabric.
A slow, but hetter way. la torutrtfre
stales on both sides with yellow aoep.
Mix starch aad cold water to a th*
paste, and rub It weU loto the llnee on
both eides of the stein. Hprsed the
llaen on the grass, If possible, In the
tan and wind till the
cotne to th.- pond every morning for tho
purpose of fattening that dui-U on sweet I
crackers.
They stand on the brink and shout
Dutty, duttv; tura an'det a tratter,"
and crery few minutes one of them
falls in.
The duek doesn't let this disturb him,
however. His min.l and soul are on
crackers, sweet crackers in unheal
shapes preferred, but in the absence of
these he'll eat anything from bread
crust to dough juts.
Undoubtedly lu> wo ild soon grow so
fat that he c > il?l i t paddle but for the
enforced exerJsl' lie gjts ev ry after-
noon. Then chil.lrenof a larg.-r growth
come and sail toy ships when there ia
wind, and if th >re is on) thing that the
duck <lr> Is in ire^ jj^fn Hhar it is a
toy ship.
No soon-r
than, sqn v
ping his wl-i
most corner, o:
perhaps
His afterno >ns
cession of w 11 twhtinjs
and divings.
One dav ltd r>j'c. hiving been
hemmed in a corn.>i by three boats, he
dived and can-up outside the block-
ade, only to 11 ud a miniature schooner
bearing dowa on him.
With a squawk of dismay he swerved,
and a sloop on the other taok took hla
squarely amidships.
Down he dive! deep, stave 1 there for
a few secondhand Jut ss his
out of the water a big
ped Into htm. Then there waa
trouble..
His duokshlp* arose, and then there
as wrath In his quack. With his bill
he seized the bowsprit of the sloop and
pulled it down under the water.
Then he grabbed the jib, tore that off,
tackled the malhsail and ripped It up
the middle, and with a note of triumph
flapped a big wing over the stern aad
tipped the boat over,
Flushed with triumph he proceeded
leisurely to demolish the rigging aad
all else breakable or teerable, while
from the bank the walls of the ship*
owner were wafted afar on the air.—N.
Y. Sun.
If not entirely removed to two or three |
.lavs, rub off the paste, and renew the
ss. Lemon inics added to the
paste is good.
-Rlee Merlagua.—Wash aad peek a
tceeep of rice, put In a so ace pa a wHh
t qaart of bolliag water and a pineh <4
•alt, let cook aatll tender, drain aad
•dd a pint of milk totheriee with two
Minces of butter, the beetee yolks of
thVee eggs aad two caps of sugar, bent
*11 together until light, then add the
|ulee aad rind of two lemons, tare Into
sbektag dish end set la eqelchovea
for tweety minutes. Heat the whites
of eggs until foaming and «l|Mn table-
tpoonfals of powdered sagaMed
until very etlff. Heap this
aver the top of the dish, end set beck
ia the oven to brown. Set en lanypd
•erve very cold.—Hoese.
-Cherry Jelly tor Immediate Use.-
rrles; put
HAVE YOUR TABLE DAINTY.
low to Mske the
previously
tie hot wuter.
Jelly bag, pour the
tlmee till qnlte
lemon juice If not i
Wet the mould,
the jelly, end
—Noodles.—This
take the plaoc of n
day's dlaner, or auy be served with
stewed chicken tneteed ti rlee or d«*p>
ling*. Break one agy In a bowl todd a
teaspoonful of salt aad enough lour to
make a very stiff dough. Never pet in
drop of weter or arilki It makee the
noodlee tough. Roll out Into e thin
sheet, hnngaenr the stove foreeveral
hours to dry. Then roll up Mke a cyl-
inder and ehave!
sharp knife. 81
little while before uelag.
thin stripe pith a
looee andidry a
minutee, aa for ameeron!. Whan done
take up and drain. In a skillet fry
soum oubee of brend in butter ufltft
" Turn the noodles Into this, *te
en it-
It goes without saying that dainti-
ness upon the dining table Is regarded
as a necessity In every well ordered
home. The two or three dally meall
are often the only occasions when the
entire household gathers together, and
the mother knows that a prettily ar-
ranged table Is really a powerful factor
In forming the characters and habtta of
her children. Absolute cleanliness is,
of course, the first essential. The cloth
must be spotless and smoothly laid, the
napkins must be neatly folded, and the
glass and sHver must be beyond re-
proach. Every good housekeeper now-
adays places a pod beneath the table*
cloth. This protects the cloth from
contact with the table, greatly Increas-
ing its durability, and it ensures per-
fect quiet and an elegant adjustment
of the cloth. The use of "table mil-
linery"—that is strips of ribbon, plush
or velvet, and other decorations of a
similar nature—is no longer approved,
so that even at the most elegant dinners
the trough of flowers in the center of
the table is often the only ornament
No high dishes or accessories are
seen upon the strictly modern table.
The silver castcr may be very beauti-
ful in itself, but it has had its day. In
its place, small pepper and salt
shakes" are distributed at cjnvenient
intervals, two of each b dng sufficient
for a family of six: while vinegar Is
placed in low glais bottles shaped like
fancy pitchers, with hmdles, long,
slender necks and Urge, ornamental
glass stoppers. The e bottles should
not be more than time inches talL
Tall cclery glasses arc also in dis-
grace, as are also the silver water
pitcher and high v ises of flowers and
tall flowering p'ants. The modern
table is not disfigured by matt, which
are never really ornamental and are
wholly unnecessary If a pad is used and
the dishes are not overheated.
Glass carafes are at present used In-
stead of the water pitcher, and add
much to the beiuty of the table. They
are by no means expen dve, and those
that have rather squat, broad bowls
are to be preferred. Perhaps the most
popular shape is that whieh looks aa
though pressure had been put upon the
top and the >nwl thereby bulged out*
ward.—Delineator.
until very hot and the brand la well
mixed through them. Serve Uke any
vegetable. This
aome, but It is not, and will prove a
llghtful as well as
change.—Good Housekeeping.
PURE PERFUMERY
place do getes-
the only place.
£
orne-no-
irioeillke
Monte Carlo la the
senoe of orris,
When n woman Is caught la
wicked little principality, a '
called to explain, she can el
that she came for a supply of <
let, and be believed. The price*
everything else, ia as high aa the Alps.
A four-ounoe bottle sells at seventy-five
francs, but one drop on the lace oollar-
ette or ravers will make the whole
dress smell like a violet The violet
of Grmsse, which belongs to Nloe, Is ex-
quisite, and preferred to Monte Carlo
by the people who detest the very men-
tion of the gamblers'paradise. It has
such an affinity for silk that if the dry
stopper Is wiped with a rulle the scent
will cling to It like roses in Moore's
vase. But the violets of violets is the
Ajcardl, found In San Remo, which Is
mentioned In the guide books, and has
actually added to the fame of the place.
The scent a triple extract ia sold ex-
clusively in e little shop below the
sidewalk, at three dollars a bottle of
about six ounces. Thia violet shop Is
violet-scented and bottle-wailed, and
buyers come from all the courts and
gay cities of Europe. Mo lover of vio-
let scent will ever know the true scott
of violets until shegoeeto Sen Remo
with twelve francs to spare. To,use
one drop of it Is to feel a fine contempt
for all other perfumes.
Paris Is the great market plaoe foi
Peau d'Espegne. The sechets can be
bought in any firat*classdrug store, but
the Parisians alone kaow where to get
the skin with the exquisite and inde
finable odor. It looks like kid. Squares
one and one-half Inch In surface retail
at one dollar and fifty cents. These
are cut Into strips bn*-quarter of an
Inch wide and sewed in the scams ol
evening dresses. Usually five are put
In a toilet, one under each sleeve, twe
In the side gores of the skirt about the
knee line, and one at the back In the
hem. Peau d'Espagne Hover loses It*
scent.—N. Y. World.
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