Bellefonte, Pa., Sep. 29, 1893
ARE THE CHILDREN AT HOME?
Each day when the glow of sunset fades in
the Western sky.
And the wee ones, tired of playing, go tripping
lightly by ;
I steal away from my husband, as he sits in
the easy chair,
And watch from ihe open doorway their faces,
fresh and fair.
Alone in the dear old homestead, that once
was full of life, :
Rings Nh girlish laughter, echoing boyish
: strife,
We two are waiting together; and oft, as the
shadows come,
With tremulous voice he calls me; “It is
night; are the children home ?”
“Yes, love 1” T answer him gently, “they’re all
home long ago,”
And I sing in my quivering treble a song so
soft and low, ;
Till the old man drops to slumber with his
head upon his hand, .
And I tell to myself the number, home in the
Better Land, : :
Home where never a sorrow shall dim their
eyes with tears;
Where the smile of God is on them through
‘all the summer years ;
I know—yet my arms are empty that fondly
folded seven, .
And the mother heart within me is almost
starved for heaven.
Sometimes in the dusk of evening I only shut
my eyes, be
And the children are all about me, a vision
from the skies;
The babes whose dimpled fingers lost the way
to my breast,
And the beautiful ones the angels passed to
the world of the blest,
With never a cloud upon them, I see their ra-
diant brows;
My boys that I gave io freedom—the red sword
sealed their vows !
In tangled Southern torest, twin brothers bold
and brave, ;
They fell! and the flag they died for, thank
God ! floats over their grave.
A breath and the vision is lifted away on wings
And again we two are together, all alone in the
night.
They foil me his mind is failing, but I smile at
idle fears;
He is only back with the children, in the dear
and peaceful years.
And still as the summer sunset fades away in
the West,
And the wee ones, tired ¢f playing, go troop-
ing home to rest,
My husband calls from his corner: “Says,
¢ Jove! have the children come ?”
And I answer, with eyes uplifted: “Yes, dear,
they are all at home!”
—Margaret E. Sangster.
The Party Rules.
RULE I—ORGANIZATION OF THE PARTY.
Section 1—The organization of the
Democratic party in the state of Penn-
sylvania shall consist of the following
bodies :
1.——Democratic county committees.
2.—Democratic division ‘committees.
8.—Democratic state executive com-
mittee.
4.—Democratic state central commit-
tee; and
5.—Democratic state convention.
RULE II—DEMOCRATIC COUNTY COM-
MITTEES.
Bection 1. Democratic county com-
mittees shall be elected and organized in
suck. manner as the Democratic electors
within the respective counties of the
state of Pennsylvania shall determine;
and they shall have charge of all cam-
paigns for the election of county ecandi-
dates within their respective counties.
The officers of each Democratic county
committee shall consist of a chairman
and such other officers as may be agreed
upon.
Section 2 The terms of the officers of
Democratic county committees shall be-
gin on the first Monday ot April in each
year and shall continue for ‘a period of
one year or until their respective success-
ors shall have been elected. Each per-
son elected as chairman of a Democratic
county committee shall receive duplicate
certificates of his election as such, one of
which certificate shall be forthwith filed
by him with the chairman of the Demo-
. cratic state central committee, and the
other shall be retained by him as evi-
dence of his authority to act.
RULE III—DEMOCRATIC DIVISION COM-
i MITTEES.
Section 1. Democratic division com-
mittees shall consist of the chairman of
the Democratic county committees
within the respective political divisions
into which the state of Pennsylvania
may be divided for the purpose of party
organization by the chairman of the
Democratic state executive committee ;
and of the additional persons elected as
members of the Democratic state central
committee from such counties as may be
entitled thereto. The officers of each
Democratic division committee shall
consist of a chairman, to be elected by
the members thereof from within or
without the Democratic division com-
mittee, providing be be a resident Dem-
ocratic elector of the division, and who
ehall hold his office: for the period of
one year from the second Monday of
April or until his successor shall have
been elected ; and of a secretary to be
appointed by the chairman.
ection 2. Democratic division com-
mittees shall meet for the election of
chairmen and for such other business as
may be proper on the third Monday of
April in each year, at such hours and at
such places as may be designated by the
chairman of the Democratic state cen-
tral committee, whose duty it shail be to
give at least one week’s written notice
to every member of said Democratic
division committeas of the times and
places of such meetings.
Section 3. It shall be the duty of the
chairman of each Democratic division
committee to call all meetings of such
Democratic division committee, except
the annual meeting to be held on the
third Monday of April in each year;
and to notify each member thereof in
writing of the time and place of such
meetings. The chairman of each Dem-
ocratic division committee shall be ex-
officio a member of the state Democratic
executive committee.
RULE IV—DEMOCRATIC STATE EXECU-
TIVE COMMITTEE,
Section 1.. The Democratic state exze-
cutive committee shall consist of the
chairman and secretary of the Democra-
tic state central committee and the
chairman of the Democratic division
committees, all of whom shall be ex-
officio members of the said Democratic
state executive committee, with all the
rights and privileges of such membership.
The duties and powers of the Domocra-
tic state executive committee shall be of
an advisory character and such others as
may be herein-after conferred and as
may be delegated by the Democratic
state central committee. The chairman
and secretary of the Democratic state
central committee shall be the chairman
and secretary of the Democratic state
executive committee. It shall be the
duty of the chairman to call all meet-
ings of the Democratic executive com-
mittee, giving ample written notice of
the times and places of such meetings.
RULE V—DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL
COMMITTE.
Section 1.—The Democratic state cen-
tral committee shall consist of one mem-
ber from each county in the state of
Pennsylvania, and the chairman of the
Democratic eounty committees shall be
ex-officio the members of the Democra-
tic state central committee from their
respective counties : Provided that a
county in which ten thousand (10,000)
votes were cast for the Democratic can-
didate for president at the last preceding
presidential election shall be entitled to
an additional member, and to other ad-
ditional members for each additional ten
thousand (10,000) votes cast for such
Democratic candidate for president,
which said addition member or members
ghall be elected in such manner as the
Democratic county committe of each of
such counties may determine. The
terms of members of the Democratic
state central committee thus elected
shall begin on the first Monday of April
in each year and shall continue for a
period of one year or until their succes-
sors shall have been elected.
Section 2. At the annual meeting of
the Democratic state central committee,
to be held in the city of Harrisburg Pa.,
on the third Monday of April in each
year, the chairman of the Democratic
state central committee shall be elected,
to hold his office for the period of one
year or until his successor shall have
been elected. Any Democratic elector
of the state of Pennsylvania shall be
eligible for election to said office. The
chairman of the Democratic state cen-
tral committee thus elected shall, by
and with the advice and consent of the
Democratic state executive committee,
conduct all state campaigns, subject to
the Spproval of the Democratic state
central committee. All committees
herein before provided for shall be sub-
ordinate to and under the control of the
Democratic state central committee.
Section 3. The chairman of the Dem-
ocratic state central committee, as well
as the secretary thereof, shall be ex-
office members of the Democratic state
executive committee, and shall be the
chairman and secretary thereof. The
chairman shall have full power to ap-
int a secretary ; and said chairman
shall be entitled to vote in said commit-
tee upoa all questions.
Section 4. It shall be the duty of the
chairman of the Democratic state cen-
tral committee to call all meetings of the
Democratic state central committee and
of the Democratic state executive com-
mittee ; and he shall be required to not-
ify in writing the members of said com-
mittees of the times and places for such
meetings. It shall also be his duty to
issue the calls for all Democratic state
conventions, when the time and place
for holding such Democratic state con-
ventions have been duly ordered and
fixed.
Section 5. The Democratic state cen-
tral committee shall, except in presiden-
tial years, at its annual meeting on the
third Monday of April to fix the time
and place for the holding of the
Democratic state convention. In
presidential years, the time and place
for holding the Democratic state conven-
tion may be fixed at any meeting of the
Democratic state central committee,
held not earlier than the third Monday
of January and not later than the third
Monday of April. The Democratic
state central committee may delegate its
authority in the premises to the Demo-
cratic state executive committee.
Section 6. Members of the Democra-
tic state central committee may deputize,
in writing, substitutes to act for them at
any meeting ; but such substitutes must
be Democratic electors residing in the
counties which their principals repre-
sent.
RULE VI—DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVEN-
. TIONS.
Section 1. The representation in De-
mocratic conventions shall consist of
representative delegates, one for each
1,000 votes cast for the Democratic can-
didate for president at the last prece-
ding presidential election or fraction of
1,000 such votes, amounting to 500
votes or more, in the respective repre-
sentative districts of the state of Penn-
sylvania ; provided, that each represen-
tative district shall have at least one dele.
gate. Delegates may deputize, in writing,
substitutes to act for them at any meet-
ing or meetings of the Democratic state
convention. All delegates to the Demo-
cratic state conventions shall be elected
within the calendar year in which they
are to serve as such delegates.
Section 2. Each person elected as a
delegate to the Democratic state conven-
tion shall obtain duplicate certificates of
his electior., signed by the officers (or
by a majority of them) of the Democra-
tic county convention, Democratic
county committee, Democratic repre-
sentative convention or other body duly
authorized and recognized as having
jurisdiction of the election of delegates
to the Democratic state convention, cer-
tifying that they were the officers of the
Democratic county conventicn, Demo-
cratic county committee or other duly
authorized body ; to the time and place
of election, and that the person named
therein as delegate was fairly, regularly
and duly elected. Such certificates
should be duly executed and sworn to
before a notary public, magistrate or
justice of the peace. 3
Section 3. When a delegate shall have
baen elected to any other duly authoriz-
ed body than the Democratic county
committee, it shall be necessary for him
tv procure, in addition to the foregoing
and it shall be the duty of the Demo-
cratic county committee to furnish, du-
plicate certiticates executed and sworn
to by the officers (or a majority of them)
of the Democratic county committee,
before a notary public, magistrate or
justice of the peace, certifying that to
the best of their information, knowl.
edge and belief, such delegate was fairly,
regularly and duly elected according to
the rules of the Democratic party and
tnat he was elected by the Democratic
county convention, Democratic repre-
sentative convention or other daly au-
thorized body, which is recognized as
legal and regular by the Democratic
state central committee, When such
delegate shall have been elected by the |
Democratic county committee, the cer-
ticates of election must also state that
the delegate was elected by the Demo-
cratic county committee, which is recog-
nized as legal and regular by the Demo-
craticstate central committee.
Section 4. It shall be the duty of
each person elected as a delegate to file
one of such certificates with the chair-
man of the Democratic state eentral
committee within ten days after his
election, retaining the other certificate
as his credentials as a member of the
Bemocratic state convention. The
chairman of the Democratic state cent-
ral committee shall not place the name
of any person upon the roll of delegates
of the Democratic state convention un-
til furnished with this certificate; and
no certificate shall be received, filed or
recognized except those duly executed
and sworn to by the officers of the De-
mocratic county committee, which is
recognized as legal and regular by the
Democratic state central committee.
Section 5. Every person desiring to
contest the seat of a delegate shall be
required to give notice in writing of
such intention, together with the
grounds of contest, to the chairman of
the Democratic state central committee
and to the person whose seat he desires
to contest within ten days of the date
upon which the election was held; and
such person shall, upon giving such
notice, be accorded an opportunity of
having his claims heard by the commit-
tee on credentials, when appointed,
which committee, after hearing the
statements and evidence offered in be-
half of the delegate and contestant shall
make report to the Democratic state
convention for its consideration and ac-
tion. Each person furnishing certifica-
tes of election attested by the Demo-
cratic county committee, which is rec-
ognized as legal and regular by the
Democratic state central committee,
shall be entitled to all the rights and
privileges of a delegate to or member of
the Democratic state convention until
he shall have been unseated by the ac-
tion of the Democratic state convention
upon the report of the committee on
credentials ; provided that no delegate
whose seat is contested shall be permit-
ted to vote upon the report of the com-
mittee on credentials or upon acy ques-
tion directly affecting the title to his
own seat in the Democratic state con-
vention. Contestants shall not be per-
mitted to participate in the proceed-
ings of the Democratic state convention
unless declared elected by the action of
said Democratic state convention upon
the report of the committee on creden-
tials.
Section 6. The chairman of the De-
mocratic state central committee shall
make up the roll of delegates of every
Democratic state convention in accor-
dance with these rules ; and he shall call
every Democratic state convention to
order. He shall, by and with the con-
sent and approval of the Democratic
state executive committee (or a majority
of them) select the temporary officers of
every Democratic state convention, in-
cluding a chairman, a secretary, assis-
tant secretaries, a reading clerk, assis-
tant reading clerks, an official steno-
grapher, a sergeant-at arms and assis-
tant sergeant-at-arms. The chairman
of the Democratic state central commit-
tee shall call a meeting of the Democra-
tic state executive committee to be held
in the city where the Democratic state
convention is to meet, at least twenty-
four-hours before the time set for the
holding of the said Democratic state
convention, for the purpose of selecting
the above temporary officers of the said
Democratic state convention.
RULE VII—ORDER OF BUSINESS.
Section 1. The order of Business in
the Democratic state convention shall
be as follows :
1. Reading of the call for the Demo-
cratic state convention.
2. Cail to order by the chairman of
the Democratic state central committee
and announcement of the temporary
officers of the Democratic state conven-
tion,
3. Reading of the roll of delegates.
4. Appointment of committee and re-
solutions.
5. Recess.
6. Reports of committees on creden-
tials and permanent organization.
7. Election of permanent chairman
and other officers of the Democratic
state convention.
8. Report of committee on resolutions.
9 Nominations of candidates, &c.
10. Other business.
11. Adjournment.
Section 2. The Democratic state con-
vention may by a two-thirds vote
change or suspend the order of business
for the session of said convention at
which such change or suspension may
be ordered. :
RULE VIIIL.—COMMITTEES OF STATE
CONVENTIONS.
Section 1. The committee on creden-
tials, the committee on permanent or-
ganizations and the committee on reso-
solutions shall each consist of one mem-
ber from each senatorial district in the
state of Pennsylvania, to be elected by
a majority of the delegates to the De-
moeratic state convention from each
senatorial district.
RULE IX.—SPECIAL MEETINGS.
Section 1. Special meetings of Demo-
cratic division committees, the Demo-
cratic state executive committee and
the Democratic state central committee
may be called by the respective chair-
men of said committees; and shall be
called by such chairmen upon the writ-
ten request of one-fourth of the mem-
bers of their respective committees.
Written requests for special meetings
shall state the purpose for which such
meetings are to be held.
RULE X—QUORUMS.
Section 1. In Democratic state con-
ventions, in the Democratic state exec-
utive committee and in Democratic di-
vision committees a majority of the
whole number of delegates or members
shall be required to constitute a quorum,
In the Democratic state central commit-
tee the members attonding, after due
notice in writing to every member, shall
constitute a quorum.
RULE XI--~DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CON-
VENTIONS.
Section 1. In presidential years dele-
gates'and 3lectors from the state of !
Pennsylvania to the Democratic nation- !
al convention shall be elected by the
Democratic state convention, the dele-
gates at-large from the state at-large
and the district delegates and electors
from the respective congressional dis-
tricts, upon the recommendation of a
majority of the delegates of the Demo-
cratic state convention from said con-
again, |
: When a fellow’ll meet his sweetheart at the
gressional districts. In the event that |
a majority of the delegates to the De-
mocratic state convention from any con-
gressional district shall fail to agree up-
on the persons recommended for elecion
as delegates or district electors to the
national Democratic convention, then
the state Democratic convention may
elect such delegates or electors without
recommendation from such congression-
al districts or it may determine in what
manner such election shall be made
RULE XII--DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL
COMMITTEE.
Section 1. In presidential years, the
delegates from Pennsylvania to the
Democratic national convention shall
elect by a majority vote ofthe whole
number of such delegates, one Democra-
tic elector of the state of Pennsylvania
to represent the state 1n the Democratic
national committee. Should a vacancy
occur in the Pennsylvania membership
of the Democratic national committee,
such vacancy shall be filled for the un-
expired term by the Democratic state
central committee, with the approval of
the succeeding state convention It
shall be the duty of the chairman of the
Democratic state central committee to
give at least one week’s written notice to
every member of said Democratic state
central committee of the time and place
of meeting of said committee at which
such vacancy is to be filled and of the
purpose for which said meeting has been
called.
RULE XII--AMENDMENTS.
Section 1. These rules may be alter-
ed or amended at any time upon the re-
commendation of the Democratic state
central committee and approval of the
succeeding Democratic state convention.
SCHEDULE.
A. The rules of the Democratic
party in the state of Pennsylvania, this
day adopted by the Democratic state
convention, upon the recommendation
of the Democratic state central commit-
tee, shall take effect on the first Monday
of April, 1894 ; provided that the re-
quirements of rule six, section one, as to
the election of delegates to Democratic
state conventions within the calendar
year in which they are to serve as such
delegates shall not apply to those repre-
sentative districts which have already
elected delegates to the Democratic state
convention to be held in the year 1894.
B. The present arrangement of poli-
tical divisions of the state of Pennsyl-
vania made for the purposes of party
organization is declared to be as follows:
First Division. This division shail
consist of the counties of Adams, Cum-
berland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata,
Lebanon, Mifflin, Perry and York.
Second Division. This division shall
consist of the counties of Huntingdon,
Fulton, Bedford, Somerset, Cambria and
Blair.
Third Division. This division shall
consist of the counties of Allegheny,
Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette,
Greene, Indiana, Jefferson, Washington
and Westmoreland.
Fourth Division. This division shall
consist of the counties of Cameron,
Crawford, Erie, Lawrence, Mercer,
McKean, Venango, and Warren.
Fifth Division. This division shall
consist of the counties of Centre, Clear-
field, Clarion, Elk and Forest.
Sixth Division. This division shall
consist of the counties of Clinton, Ly-
coming, Potter; Tioga, Snyder and Un-
on. «¢
Seventh Division. This division shall
consist of the counties of Bradford, Col-
umbia, Lackawana, Luzerne, Montour,
Northumberland, Schuylkill, Sullivan,
Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming.
Eight Division. This division shall
consist of the counties of Carbon, Berks,
Lancaster, Monroe, Northampton, Pike
and Lehigh.
Ninth Division. ~ This division shall
consist of the counties of Bucks, Chester,
Delaware, Philadelphia and Montgom-
ery.
Facts About the Heart.
Interesting Statistics Showing the Vast Work it
Has to Do.
The human heart 18 a hollow muscle
of a conical form placed between the
two lungs and inclosed in the pericardi-
um, or heart sac. The ordinary size of
the heart in the adult is about five inch-
es in length, 3} inches in breadth at the
broadest part and 2} inches in thickness.
Its weight is from 10 to 12 ounces in
men and from 8 to 10 ounces in women.
Dr. Benecke, of Marburg, has made
known his observations on the truth of
the human heart, the fact appearing
that the increase is greatest and most
rapid during the first and second years
of life, its bulk at the end of the second
year being exactly double what it origi-
nally was. Between the second and
seventh years it is again doubled in size.
A slower rate of growth then setsin and
continues during the period of maturity
of cther portions of the body. After
the 15th year up to the 50th the annual
growth of the heart is about .061 of a
cubic inch, the increase ceasing about
the 50th year.
The heart, although so small, is a
wonderful piece of mechanism and of
great power. With each stroke or beat
it projects something like 2} ounces of
blocd into the conduits or chunnels of
the body, throwing it tor a distance of
nine feet. This it does 69 or 70 times a
minute. The number of its pulsations
varies in the sexes and according to
posture. In the male it beats 81 times
a minute when standing, 71 when sit-
ting and 66 when lying. Inthe female
itis 91, 84,80 in the similar positions
respectively.-— Leisure Moments.
Cunning Crows.
It is generally believed that the ani-
mJ] world is incapable of calculation,
but in a newspaper of 1816 an instince
ie recorded of something very much
like it. “A carrion crow, perceiving a
brood of fourteen chickens in a barn,
carried off one of them, but, on a lady
opening a window, dropped its prey.
In the course of the day, however, the
plunderer returned, in company with
thirteen other crows, when each one
seized its bird and carried off the
whole brood at once.” — Youths Journal.
ANSE
AT THE GRINDING OF THE CANE.
The fair time, the dear time, is comin’ round
grindin’ of the cane;
When bright eyes will be beamin’ under bon-
nots coverin’ curls,
An’ we'll kinder think we're dreamin’ while
we're kissin’ of the girls!
0, sweet the cane-juice drippin’ from the
windin’ grindin’ mill! hE
An’ sweet the red lips sippin’—but their kiss is
sweeter still !
An’ the world is sugar coated, an’ a fellow can’t
complain
When he meets an’ greets his sweetheart at
the grindin’ of the cane!
— Atlanta Constitution.
THX SONG OF THE SKIRT.
With fingers weary and worn,
On a fabric of yeliow and red
A fair young maiden was hour after hour
Plying her needle and thread.
Stitch, stitch, stitch !
Oh, why do ber fingers hurt? . :
And why is she weary ? Because, my friends,
It’s a nine-yard crinoline skirt. Su
— Judge.
A Northwestern Lake With Its Indian
Legend of a Serpent.
Long before mankind ever started its
conquest of this earth from sea mon-
sters the area that is now distinguished
by the name of Palouse country had
been subjected to violent upheavals
and radical changes in topography. A
great inland sea rested here for many
centuries, and the chemical action of
the water enriched the soil simultan-
eously with leveling the sediment in
the torm of a vast plain. Internal
convulsion, whether from volcanic ac-
tion or from shrinkage of the planet
consequent upon the cooling process
then going on—perhaps both combin-
ed—raised the submerged plain high
and dry, with a steep decline to the
westward. The rushing flood cut the
land intoridges and ravines, high bluffs
and lonely rocks being scattered pro-
miscuously in living evidence of the
revolution.
The surface thus presents a broken
and picturesque scene. Chief among
the wonderful products ot these pre-
historic conclusions and deluges is a
canyon over in the northwestern part
of Whitman county containing Rock
Lake, a sheet of water twelves miles
long by about 100 rods wide, bordered
by cliffs ascending perpendicularly to
a height of 1,700 to 2,500 feet. The
canyon of Rock Lake runs east to west.
It is a deep hole in a plateau of solid
rock and the bottom never has been
sounded by man. The eastward ex-
tremity falls abruptly from the bed of
a small creek down and down 500 feet,
over a cascade, down another plunge of
600 feet and off finally overa second
cascade 300 feet to the bottom. Above,
the land rolls away in small heaps of
stone and barren slopes for five miles
on either side. Down at the bottom ie
a valley, one by three miles in extent
and covered with the prettiest coat of
tropical foliage to be found anywhere.
The climate in this declivity is as
tropical and delightful as that which
gives Hawaii an envied fame all the
world over. The temperature seldom
talls below 60 degrees Fahrenheit and
rarely goes above 90 degrees. The
cold of winter is seemingly unable to
reach the level of the valley, owing to
the internal warmth naturally belong
ing toa hole so deep. The heat of
summer is tempered by the cooling
influences of the lake adjoining. The
west end of this little Garden of Eden
jumps abraptly over a precipice 100
teet into Rock Lake, andthe western
end of the lake, twenty miles further
on, finds an outlet through a narrow
passageway between hills sloping
sharply and soon breaking into dismem-
bered pyramids of basalt rock. The
surface of Rock Lake isnot much above
sea level, and the .unfathomable depth
of the water, clear as crystal, connect-
ed with weird surroundings, affords a
theme for philosophic meditation not
surpassed by the sublime ruggedness of
the Alps.
An Indian legend of this remarkable
lake makes it the home of a movstrous
sea serpent. The remnants of the red
tribes which used to frequent its shores
tell their white neighbors that no In-
dian can venture into the water, either
for a bath or a pleasure trip ina canoe,
without being swallowed whole by the
aborigines look upon Rock Lake with
the same apprehension that an old-
time orthodox ponders over the terrors
of purgatory. Their legend declares
that an entire tribe was lashed to de-
‘struction and eaten not many centuries
ago, all to satisfy the greed of this very
monster. At another time, during the
outbreak quelled by Colonel Steptoe in
1853, a band of noble red men, in their
efforts to escape the vigilance of Uncle
Sam’s bluecoats, tried to conceal them-
gelves above this lake in the little
paradise, but were overtaken by the
great fish, the legend avows, and sent
to eternity.
The Same Kind of a Fool.
Thh Republic of Madagonia had been
long and well represented at the Court
of the King of Patagascar by an officer
called a Dazie, but one day the Mada-
gonian Parliament conferred upon him
the superior rank of dandee. The next
day after being apprised of his new dig-
nity he hastened to inform the King of
Patagascar.
“Ah, ves, I understand,” said the
King, “you have been promoted and
given increased pay and allowances,
There was an appropriation ?”
“Yes, your Majesty.”’
“And you have now two heads, have
you not ?”
“Oh, no, your Majesty—only one, I
assure you."
“Indeed! And how many legs and
arms ?”’
“Two of each, sire——only two of each.”
“And only one body ?”’
“Just a single body, as you perceive.”
Thoughtfully removing his crown and
scratching the royal head, the monarch
was silent a moment, and then he said :
“I fancy that appropriation has been
misapplied. You seem to be about the
same kind of a blank fool that you were
yesterday.’’
—— Appearances are deceitful. A
mild glance has been known to come
from ua eross eye.
hideous reptile, and to this da; the!
; utilized for placing under pots
For and About Women.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS OF WOMEN.
The unprecedented advancement of
' science which has so strikingly charac-
| terized the century has been accompan-
| ied by an equally extraordinary progress
| in the scientific education and position
of women.
A quarter of a century ago there was
no possibility of a woman obtaining
| any scientific instruction or training, ex-
cept by means of books or private in-
struction. Under these discouraging
conditions, few women made any at-
tempt to master even the rudiments of
science. At the present time the oppoz-
tunities of women for acquiring scienti-
| fic education are almost equal to those
of men. At the older Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge there are now
halls and colleges for women, offering
every facility for the highest classical
and scientific acquirements. These have
been utilized to the fullest extent by
the students, and the women from Girton
and Newham Colleges, Cambridge, and
those from Lady Margaret, Somerville,
and St. Hugh’s Halls at Oxford have
attained the highest positions at the un-
iversity examinations.
This condition of things not only pre-
vails at the more ancient seats of learn-
ing, but may be found at most other in-
stitutions.
BRIGHT GIRL STUDENTS.
The triumphs of women over the men
students of the Horticultural Col-
lege recently established in England at-
test their ability to grasp the practical
side of scientific subjects. Two out of
three diplomas conferred at the first
year’s examinations were gained by two
sisters, and this year one young woman
has wrested the diploma from forty-two
rivals of the sterner sex, and each lady
finds an advantageous post awaiting her
as soon as she graduates. The professors
of the college speak very highly of the
refining and wholesome influence the
women have over the men by, working
with them, and never shirking the
rougher work. It is now deemed advis-
able to establish a fund for a scholarship
for women.
The commercial side of gardening as
an occupation for women is not .more
important than the benefit gained by
the bracing effect of this employment on
their health. The continued and not
over-fatiguing exercise in the open air
is found to be 8 wonderful nerve tonie,
a medicine which is constantly in de-
mand and upon which fortunes are
spent every year since women have be-
come £0 burdened with innumerable lit-
tle cares that they cannot give them-
selves time to rest. This practical
means of relief for the prevailing com-
plaint of the “nerves” may not meet
with the approval of fastidious women
who object to labor of any sort. How-
ever, the fact that they can be immense-
ly improved in appearance by a few
months of this rustic work may possibly
appeal to their vanity with encouraging
results. The improvement is so marked
that it has been suggested at the college
that they have their pictures taken on
entrance and departure. The physical
strain demanded is said not to be too.
heavy, and one physician contemplates
starting a market garden for the benefit
of nervous women.
The statement that women far surpass.
the men in difficult examinations neces-
sary before a horticultural diploma can
be gained will hardly. be credited by
the opposite sex. Still one of the pro-
fessors encouragingly adds that they
“might equal them if they were only
deaf.” But, with hearing fully devel-
oped, they are always listening, when
they are not talking to others, so very
little attention is paid to their studies.
For ail time women have been accused
of never allowing a “man to get in a
word edgeways,’”’ and no end of ridicule
and sarcasm has been hurled at them
for the glib use of their tongues, but
there seems to be one case on record
where they have distinguished them-
selves by significant silence and superior
application to business.
A THOUGHTFUL WIDOW.
On a recent Saturday evening two.
women met in a Boston market, and
after exchanging the usual friendly
greetings, commenced to console each
.other for the deaths of their respective
husbands.
One of the women was greatly affect-
ed as she related the virtues of her de-
parted spouse. Bursting into tears, she
i exclaimed : :
“Oh, but my Felix was a good man!’
The other replied ; “My husband
was good to me, and my loss was as
great as yours.”
“I know all that,’”’ returned the first,
i “but my Felix had false teeth.”
“Well, what has that to do with it ?”
“J have his teeth at home, and I
don’t know what to do with them.”
“Why didn’t you have them buried
with him ?”
The sorrowing widow, again bursting
into tears, cried : “I would, but 1 was
afraid they might choke him.”
Aluminium hairpins and belt buck-
! les are among the pretty trifles now
| wrought inthis metal. They are so
i much cheaper than the silver
knick-knacks, and withal so exceed-
ingly attractive that they deserve to be
; purchased. The hairpins run from 50
cents to $2; the buckles are 50 cents
‘and 75 cents. The aluminium goods
are warranted not to tarnish. The
. present liking for silver belt buckles
makes these cheap substitutes very
timely.
Flies do not like the odor of clover
and a bunch of these blossoms left dry-
‘ing ina room will effectually expe}
them.
The covers of lard pails may be
and
saucepans when the stove is too hot.
In cases of illness where the burning
thirst of the patient cannot be assuaged
by water or cracked ice, it is said that a
teaspoonful of glycerine will afford
prompt and comparatively long relief.
Perspiration stains may be removed
from the arms of white woolen or silk
dresses by eponging with warm water
into which ammonia has been poured,
and then with clear water. Press the
place before it becomes quite dry.
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