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Washington Letter, HE social season is now at its height and the de- butantes are the center of attraction everywhere. Among them is Miss Susan Quay, daughter of the senior senator from Pennsylvania. Miss Susan is a petite brunette, :hough her eyes are large and blue. She is loud of riding when at the coun- try home of the senator in Beaver, Pa., -but does little of it, when in town. There are two young ladies already out in the Quay family and now this is the last of the daughters to leave the school room. The home of Mrs. Mat Scott, sister of Mrs. Adlai Stevenson, will be among the gayest of the season, for her young daughter. Miss Julia, has just made her debut. Julia is a very, pretfy girl With brown eyes, dark, wavy hair and a creamy complexion. She has a stylish figure, which she dresses in handsome gowns from abroad. For some months she has been traveling in Europe and she returned a few weeks ago on the ship 1.a Champagne, which encountered the tidal wave in mid -ocean. As the Scott mansion is a flne one and its hostess is a lady of wealth and taste, _besides of the highest social position, It is safe to say there will be no more popular home in the city. Mrs. Peckham, wife of the new jus- (ice, Is a woman of middle age and of handsome appearance and gifted with gracious manners. The family will live at the Arlington till they have setL tied on a home, to purchase for a per- manent residence. Mrs. Justice Shiras is one of the most retiring of the ladies in the su- preme court, but she is one of the most popular. The home of Shiras is on Massaehusetts avenne and is a large square brick tip on a high terrace and surrounded by a wide yard on three sides. Mrs. Shires is a woman ... with gray hair, bright blue eyes anal most kindly manners ---disliking to have any publicity for herself. but always gra- cious to the niembers of the press. Young Mrs. Shires. of Pittsburg. has been spending the holidays at the home of the justice. but has left, tak- ing with her the two grandchildren, .leorge Third, as he is called, and the girl. Eleanor. The Shires home is comfortably fur- nished but not in luxurious style and the judge spends most of his time at work, going out in society ,but little. Mrs. Shiras. who is not possessed of of any desire to usurp the domain of man. Is still a woman well up in the topics of the (lay and glad to see that the idea of self-support Is a common ,• in the feminine world.' She ap- uVes of a bushiess education for girls. but is heiself a motherly, domestic body, not caring for show, or , society, or any amusement outside of 'her own pretty home. Years ago when she was a student ;it New Haven and the judge SOCIAL SEASON. — WASHINGTON SOCIETY is NOW IN THE SWIM. Hire 5o.e, Quay III•kes Her Debut — rhe Shirt. I - rattly -- Congressmen Lei l,.,. 11,,tel Litt. Some resbionabie 11011 is. • ter MISS JULIA SCOTT. 'inc at Yale, they met, then the hus- band, taking the advice of jlorace Greeley. went west to \grosf — Up with the country, - but concluded that Pitts- burg was the best place, so 'returned there, where they lived till coming to Washington to make their home. Mrs Wait\ widow of the late Jus- tire Waite, has been very ill for two months, but is now believed to be al- most entirely out of danger. Mrs. Waite is the president of the Mary Washington association, and under Der care the society has succeeded in gek- ,n-In z enough funds not only to erect thtl monument, but to 1)1111(1 a neat cot- tage in the grounds. During the Illness of her mother Miss Waite, who is one of the most charita- ble ladies at the capital, was obliged to abandon all her work outside of her own home. Mrs. Justice Matthews. widow of the late Stanley Matthews, is living in a beautiful home on I street and is one of thAmost popular of hostesses. One of the eons of Matthews is a young cler- gyman and now traveling abroad in company with his sister. Miss Eva. Another of the daughters is married to a Mr. Cleveland, a distant relative of the president, and a eon, Mortimer Mat- thews. is living in Cincinnati, Ohio Mrs Matthews is a woman of line lip. pearance and .refined manners. The French legation is in receipt of a handsome portrait of Madame Pa- tenotre, fresh from the hands of the ar- tist, lienjemin Constant, who was in town a part of last winter as a guest at the embassy. A The 'painting hangs just Opposite to the line one of M. Patenotre, which is regarded as one of the master- pieces of the lFrenehman. Since the return of the Patenotres the -Imam is a very different one, as it is fresh and new in the interior and embellished with various curios and works of art. A great many of the new congress- men have gone to housekeeping instead of putting up at hotels. McCall, of Massachusetts, has takeu a home on the corner of Fifteenth street and Rhode Island ave.,afid as he Is a man of means It is expected that his home will be open to society this season. Mrs. Mc- Call has a family of five children. As Congressman Simpkins has moved into his new home, Congressman Apsley se- cured a pretty residence, the Drapers have a handsome home and so has Sen- ator Lodge, the delegation from Massa- chusetts is very,well represented. Of the Illinois delegation Mr. Lori- mer has gone to housekeeping out in Mount Pleasant, in a pretty home in a big yard full of trees and shrubs, a plc- tureeque place that will be a perfect bower In summer. 511 . . Murphy has taken a home on RhOde Island avenue, just across the pall( from the Hadleys, who live.in the home adjoining that of the minister from Venezuela. Mr. Prince is in a neat brick residence up on Capitol 11111 and is the proud father of four fine boys. Mrs. Prince, mother of the member, is visiting at the house of her son. Miss Murphy will iltego out this winter, as she is still at school, but graduating. She will be one of the buds next year. While thp appearance, dress and homes of our distinguished people have been often described, there are few, even of the old Washingtonians, who know the different teams that are such familiar sights on the avenues in the fashionable sections . of town._ Of course, the White House coaches are the most interesting and of these there are a victoria, brougham, spider phae- ton and a beech wagon. There are four bays In the stables and Mrs. Cleve- land. who knows how to handle the rib- bons with skill, has her own set of har- ness and it is studded with her mono- gram in silver. The president never THE OLD BLAINE HOME IS BEING TORN DOWN BY RUTHLESS AUTHORITY. Place Where the Great Statesman gee the Pint Light of Day Put on Canvas by a Chicago Artist —Some Rensials • Conceit of lirowns•Ille. Chicago Letter. N this city resides an artist, Miss E. J. Bennett, who has just finished a beautiful oil paint- ing of the birth- place of James G. Blaine, at Browns- ville. Pa., and a representation o f the picture is here pt•eesented. Miss Bennett's family were fellow townsmen and friends of the Blaines, and while the quaint old mansion, in its main outlines, is reproduced from a photo-) graph, much of the coloring, as also the environment, come from personal recol- lection on the part of the artistiselder sister, Mrs. Louise Bennett-Cr, eker, with whom Miss Bennett makes . her home, on Rhodes avenue, and who was an intimate friend and schoolmate at of the eldest daughter, now deceased, or the Blaine household, Eliza, who after- ward became Mrs. Walker of Helena, Mont., and whose funeral at Baltimore was attended by James G. Blaine, by a singular coincidence, on that March 4 when Cleveland was inaugurated, forty tulles away, to the great office for which the - Plumed Knight\ had been de- feated. In honor of this sister, Mrs. Walker, was named James G. Blaine's favorite son, Walker Blaine, who was his prop and support as Secretary of Slate, and whose sudden end hastened the decline of the great statesman. Said Mrs. Crocker to the writer who '1'11E HOCSE WHERE JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE drives himself. The ambassador from Britain has four carriages and five horses, the young ladles often driving In the cart. The livery of the em- bassy is quite a gorgeous affair of top boots, dark green coat, red waistcoat. yellow knee breeches. The French am- bassador has three bay horses and two traps, his victoria being among the most stylish rigs in the city. His men wear a livery of dark blue. . Senor Mendonca, minister from Bra- zil, has several handsome coaches, a brougham. victoria and landau, while his horses are four in number. Both of the young ladies have riding horses and Mr. Mario Mendonca owns a horse and buggy in which he is often seen. The minister from Japan has a large landau which is swung high on big springs and bright with red wheels. His livery is green. The ambassador from Germany has all imported coaches orought over with him and they are two in number, while his stables house three steeds. His livery is drab. Sen- ator Brice has a lot of carriages and at least eight horses and his servants sport a livery of green and gold. Sena- tor I I ill drives a pair of long-tailed bays to a buckboard and Senator Murphy has a pair of trotters which he attaches to his light buggy for speeding on the road, and besides there is a pony for the children and a carriage and pair for the family. The I.amonts have a stylish turnout, the victoria being an elegant affair and the brougham a very fine one. Then there are two ponies for the children's drag and a tiny Shetland for the basket cart that the smaller girls drive. Mrs. Hughes . and Mrs. Washington S1(:1,ean haVe splendid stables and a good lot of horses. Mr. John R. Mc- Lean keaps a victoria and a brougham and hts wife has a duplicate set of cohehir l her own use, her husband's horses I bay, while hers are gray. The little boy of the house has a tally- ho team of four ponies, which he drives to n brake. Miss Bonaparte drives a / sub t NOR SHIRAS. black horse to a cart and her livery is all black. Miss Leiter draws the lines over a black and gray attathed to her spider phaeton and her colors arc green. Mrs. General Grant has a lan- dau and a victoria, while her coach col- ors are blue and her horses bays WAS BORN. called at her pretty home the other day: I remember that house, inwrought with my most intimate recollectious. I played in that house, on the top of that house, scaling it by the attic ladder. I played under those trees and in that wide reaching orchard, where a shower of purple plums and golden cherries re- warded each vigorous shake of the tree - trunk, or muscular throw of a corn -cob. It is all as sacred to me as my own old home, because ever since I•can remem- ber I can see the two housee standing there, their hospitable southern roofs signaling one another in friendship. It Is right on the bank of the Mononga- hela, with back of it a high hill, and locust trees all about it, while on a lower level in front passed the horn -equipped stage conch, and far below flowed the deep, wide river. You see down by the fowlhouse even the sunken barrels, on whose little lakes of yore the ducklings made sail, to the cackled terror of their hen mothers. Once. I remember, James fell into one of these informal bath tubs, and a spluttering time of it they had before they could get him out. Wee boy that he was. although I remember a younger brotber still, he was already an infant athlete. It was to develop his book education amid scenes less favorable to outdoor endulgenee that he was packed away when very young into Ohio, near Zanesville. I believe, on a long visit to his cousins, the Ewings. General Sherman's wife, as is known, was a Ewing. and a cousin of James G. Blaine. Of deep historic appeal to the many admire' a of James G. Blaine, the pic- ture has become in the past few days Invested with veen a greater value, be - entire the ancient landmark depicted. (and which dates back probably a cen- tury and a half, has just been (loomed to deniolition, as sets forth the tollow- ins from the Brownsville Clipper, a °weekly paper now in its forty-second year, in an article headed, \Our Town Eighty -Four Years Ago,\ and subhead- ed, \Blaine's birthplace going; the fa- mous mansion succumbs to the ravages of time\: \The familiar landmark. the old Blaine mansion and true birthplace of James G. Blaine, will soon be a thing O. the past, and only the memory of it will remain to the good people of Wept Brownsville. For years it has been an object of interest to visitors and was pointed out by the people over there with the pride of ownership, as some- thing that was a part of them. \But its days are numbered. leor a leng time it tide been in danger of col- lapsing, and recently notice was served on the owner. Mr. James L. Bowman, by the West Brownsville authorities to the effect that the building was in a dangerous condition. and that be would be liable for any injury that would result from a collapse. The building is too far gone to be repaired, and Mr. Bowman has contracted - with Aubrey iCe Son to tear the old structure down.\ Cotton has not been so cheap at Liver- pool as it was recently, for 46 years. In 1900. You advertised for a toadintan, said the appikant. \I did,\ relied the merchant. \Do you want the poultIon?\ \Yes sir.\ \Have you had any experience?\ \I have been in the business all my life.\ \You are used to handling gasoline, then?\ \Yes sir.\ \And you are posted on electricity?\ 'Thoroughly.' \Good. Of course you are a machin- '.st also?\ \Certainly.\ \And I presume you have an en-, gineer's license?\ \Of course.\ \Very well. You may go around to the barn and get the motocycle ready. My wife wishes to do a little shopping.\ --Chicago Post, Her Quick Perception. \You are concealing something from me!\ His words were bitter, his accents sharp. So sharp that the maiden whom he addressed started, as though fright- ened, and blushed deeply. \It is no use denying it,\ he re- peated, with more sadness than bitter- ness now; \you are concealing some- thing from me.\ The girl hung her head in silence, and made no attempt at denial. Shortly after, he left her without the usual good -night. Stung to the quick with hia reproach- es and realizing the truth of his accusa- tion, she received him the next even- ing, when he called, in her most de- collete evening gown. Jerry's Letter. \Dear Mudder: 1 won't he home next week, for got the grip most dreadful yesterday, and de doctor says I won't be out for ten days. JERRY.\ interested in Eggs. The man with the fur -lined coat stopped before the principal grocery in town and casually inquired: \How are eggs to -day?\ \Well they're a little high,\ replied the grocer. \Because of a big demand or a small supply?\ asked the man with the fur - lined coat. \Small supply,\ answered the grocer. \The hens seem to be taking things easy in this vicinity just now.\ The man with the fur -lined &fat nodded his head as if he approved of the action of the hens and then asked: \Any bad ones?\ \Bad ones!\ exclaimed the grocer. \Yes. Any of the ancient, odorous variety that we all know so well?\ \No sir; not in this shop,\ returned the grocer emphatically. \Sure?\ \Sure! Of course I'm sure.\ \Do you suppose there are any in town?\ asked the man with the fur- lined coat anxiously. \No sir. We pride ourselves on our fresh eggs up in this neck of the woods, and it wouldn't be safe for any one to keep bad ones.\ \I'm glad to hear it\ said the man with the fur -lined coat, with evident relief, as he continued his stroll down the street. Tap grocer looked after him for a minnte and then a great light suddenly came upon him. \Say!' he yelled. \Well?\ came back the answer. \Did you mean eating eggs or thea- ter eggs?\ \Theater eggs!\ exclaimed the man with. the fur -lined coat, stopping short In his walk. \Yes. The farmers never bring in their theater eggs until the afternoon before the show. I ovas thinking of eating eggs all the tinie. but if it's thea- ter eggs you want there'll be eight or ten crates of them on sale in about an hour.\ Then he went back into his store and told his agelstant that any jay actor who trimf to pump him was bound to get the aftret of it every time. Not n Great Deal. I'M engaged to three just at pres- ent,\ she said. \Yes. A good deal on hand? Oh, no. Not nearly as much as I have had. There is lint one dia- mond in this lot.\ Upon a rough estimate she a ould put the aggregate value l at $150. -Detroit News -Tribune. frintitn't 'Stand H. Wool Hanks and Seroggs hadn't spoken for twenty years until Iasi week. Van Pelt -How did It come abOut? Wool - Hanks started to paint his house and Scroggit wanted to dictate the color. Shocking. F.I•ler Berry Joblofs nearly threw his wife into a fit at church to -day. Mrs. Reny -.Flow? Elder Berry- Whispered to the usher to pu: him (10%11 for all at 1210 Brooklyn has It ssi ru,,re 1.Ipili in her schools thau a icar ago • tt 4 e 4 i eSf l kl i ptt:t 1 Pki,i4 /1 . 1,14 4 , l l et. r k faljtaltee.., 401r.r w 4, 1 2 rep, to - rz, IS I b' • taa e • 4.411 2r/ r.iff 4 . 4 .724.174 `..\ tA, tA Pt. t u t 1 . 4 I , 4 P gt4 1 11 Vqy Obrege l ikter t atitfr i k i f tL IP ',Valfp 4-17 ,1 1 21j714 111 1 4 4. 1 / 4 5 ?\.Ciie - SAA1411'.411. , f.:00'..ratlAtiffkt. &' J. H. HILDEBRAND • 5 :4 • :4 WICKES, MONT. WATCH()) fIK ER Jeweler find Einraver Fine Stock of Watcbes fllways on hand. t • OPtile?!.(eaLat.t.A64;_ltitailkarieleill rth l i e fr tk Allair0 . 0) 74: 1 1,2 6. 1 V4' 74 11 4;1 0 i v • 41 sti :e 1 . 4, 4 4 fa , 0 4111 t4 10 k1 4 2 11 tee 41.4. 4 . 0 Tos/ sis s 40 21 lipkati t td pk i zo , \10 .8 .4riatei3 The Wickes Hotel, NATI FLAMES MCD1NTe1. TABLE WE HAVE RECENTLY SEC(' RED CONTROL OF THIS HOUSE, AND FITTED IT UP WITH NEW N RE '1:051 'TOT TO BOTTOM. Clean Rooms. New Bedding. SURPASSED BY NONE. THE ONLY PLACE BETWEEN HELENA A ND BI - 1 - 1 WII 1..:11E A FIRST CLASS MEAL ('AN BE HAD EOR. \ Ts. RATE: $1.50 PER DAY. Special Terms Made to those desiring regular board. Zr. W. MONAHAN, WICK ES, — — MONTANA DFAI ER IN Hay, Grain, Flour, Rolled Oats, Corn Meal, FRYE F - L_CDUFR. Lowest Prices for Cash. DEAN & TAYLOR, Wholesale and Retail Dcalci in Beef, Mutton, Pork, A Hams, Bacon, MONTANA LARD. Wickes, Montana. SUBSRIBE FOR THE PIONEER 4
