6
THOSE WHO CAN'T KEEP UP.
It Is human nature mtbbe to be borno 'lore
with the crowd.
And when they shout and hollo, to hollo
just as loud;
But there's u sight o' pleasure like a
draught from nectar's cup,
In Just a-lolterln' back along with those
who can't keep up.
Or.t needn't think the only men Clod ever
made are those
Who wear the tli.i st linen and the latest
out In clothes—
I. find patriotism, honor ar.d fidelity to
truth
In the man whose outward bearing often
is tin. most uncouth.
In the weather-beaten cottage where the
eaves most touch the door,
Whose shingles are quite hidden with the
moss that's gathered o'er,
There is still the old-time altar, where duly
morn and l.ight
The inmates bow and ask the Lord to
guide their steps aright.
The gentlest words are spoken when the
heart Is sad with woe.
And the rarest wisdom emanates from
those whose steps are slow,
And those whose eyes are blind to sights
that glisten for a day
See glui-li s far transcendent that can never
fade away.
Bo I like to loiter back a bit; the crowd
may surge along.
for some it's pleasant thus to
Jostle with the throng;
But I tind my life grows richer, even drink
ing sorrow's cup,
With the weary and unfortunate who can
not quite keep up!
—Arfe'.bert F. Caldweil. in Ladies' World,
New York.
112
My Strangest Case
BY GUY BOOTHBY.
Author of "Dr. Kikola," "The Beautiful
White Devil," "Pharos, The
Egyptian/' Etc.
V J
(Cupyrlghwd, IWI, b/ Ward, Lock & Co.}
CHAPTER XI.
It was in 1 lie early afternoon fol
lowing- our leaving Paris that we
reached Naples. But this time, in spite
of our endeavors to prevent it, Miss
Kitwater was quite tired out. She
certainly pretended not to be, but it
was difficult, if not impossible, for
ber to conceal the fact. Immediately
on arrival we conveyed her to the best
hotel, of the proprietor of which Le
■glosse had already made inquiries, in
order to find out whether or not Hayle
liad taken up his abode there.
It was with relief that we discov
ered that no person answering' at all
to his description was located there.
That done, we commenced our search
t'or the man we wanted. We decided
to first try the offices of the various
steamers plying across the Mediter
ranean to Port Said. Considerably
to our amazement, however, we hap
pened to be successful at the first cast.
A man signing himself as Henry Gif
ford had applied for a first-class pass
age to Colombo, with the intention of
changing at that port into another
steamer for Hong-Kong.
"What was he like?" I inquired of
the clerk; "and did anything strike
you as peculiar about him or his ap
pearance?"
"Well, there was one thing," he
said. "And at tlie time 1 must say
I thought it funny. When I asked him
bis name he began 'Gideon,' and then
suddenly corrected himself and said:
'Henry Gifford.' I remember wonder
ing whether he was usinga false name
or not. He booked his passage at the
last moment, and seemed in a great
hurry to get aboard—being afraid he
would miss the boat."
1 questioned him as to the man's gen
eral appearance, and when I had
learned all he had to tell us, 1 was per
fectly satisfied in my own mind that
Hayle was the man who had gone
aboard.
"He didn't lose much tiAie," said Le
glosse. "Mark my words, he'll leave
the. steamer at Port Said, and will
either eorne back on his own tracks, or
go up the Palestine coast to JafTa, and
thence back to Europe. What do you
think is the best thing to be done?"
"See the agent of the company
here and get him to telegraph to Port
Said," I answered. "Both to their
•gent there and the captain of the
steamer. If the captain telegraphs
back that Gifford is our man, we must
wire to the police authorities author
izing them to detain him pending our
arrival. There is a bit of risk at
tached to it, but if we want to catch
him we must not think of that."
We accordingly interviewed the
agent and placed the case before him.
We told him who we were, and Le
glosse explained to him that he held
a warrant for the arrest of one Gid
eon Hayle, an individual whom he had
every reason to believe was endeavor
ing to escape under the assumed name
«112 Henry Gifford. The clerk was next
called in, and gave his evidence, and
these matters having been settled,
the telegrams were dispatched to both
the captain and the agent.
Some four days we knew must cer
tainly elapse buforu we could receive
a reply, and that time was devoted to
searching the city for Kitwater and
Codd. That they had not booked pas
sages in the same boat in which llayle
had sailed, we soon settled to our
satisfaction. In that ease we knew
that they must lie domiciled in .Na
ples somewhere. In the intervals be
tween our search J.eglo e and I used
our lust endeavors to make Miss Kit
water enjoy her stay. We took her to
Pompeii, climbed Vesuvius together,
visited <n|>ri, Ischia, the great mu
seum, th' k.i% I aee, iiil », Hi il to
gether ei< r> evening. I had not been
acquainted with the girl much more
than a fortnight, and ,\et I felt as if I
liif! known her all my life, and the
greater mv experience of her vvus, the
better I llk< d her. A* for Leplohnc, he
outiJ.il h*in elf in hi* devotion, lb*
made the most extinordinary toilet*
la her honor, and on one occasion
went even Kit far us to inform m* that,
if all Khjf lUll Wolue|| Here like this
uifcu.at ut ttuulu
good-by to his beloved Paris, and cross
the channel never to return again.
At last the eventful day arrived,
and from nine till twelve we called re
peatedly at the office for the telegram
that was to mean so much to us. It
was not, however, until the afternoon
was well advanced that a message was
received. 1 could have taken my stick
to the agent for the slowness with
which he opened the envelope. The
clerk was called in, the code trans
lated, and the message presently trans
cribed.
"This, gentlemen," he said at last,
pointing to the telegram, "is from
our agent in Port Said, and is as fol
lows:
"Gifford, small man, gray hair, and
wears spectacles. No scar on face,
cannot find first-class passenger with
one. Fear you have been deceived."
"Confound the fellow," I cried, "he's
done us again. What's worse, we've
wasted four precious days waiting for
this message. What shall we do
now?"
"Look for him elsewhere," said Le
glosse. "If he didn't go by that boat,
he might have left by another."
We thanked the agent for his cour
tesy, and were about to leave the of
fice when another telegram was hand
ed in. We waited to see whether it
was from the captain, and presently
found that we were not destined to
be disappointed. Once more the agent
consulted his code, transcribed the
message, and read it to us.
"Have interviewed Gifford, threat
ened him with the police for using
passage booked by another person. lie
confesses having been induced by
stranger such its you describe to ac
cept passage Colombo. How shall 1
act ?"
"We've been done again," I cried,
bringing my fist down with a thump
upon the table. "It's only another
proof of Hayle's cleverness. The in
genious rascal books his passage here,
knowing very well that it will be one
of the first places at which we shall
make inquiries, lets fall a 'Gideon,' and
then transfers his ticket to some
body else. 1 suppose he didn't bargain
for my getting out of that house in
time to follow him, and to telegraph to
Port Said. Now that we are certain
that he did not go that way, we must
try and find out in what direction he
did proceed."
"And also what has become of the
blind man and his companion," said
Leglosse. "They may be hot upon his
trail, and if we can only discover
them, and keep an eye on them, we
may find out all we want to know.
But it is likely to prove a difficult
task."
We tried the various shipping offices,
without success. We called at every
hotel, important or otherwise, ques
tioned the city police, who assured
us they had seen nothing of the men
we described, and finally were com
pelled to own ourselves thoroughly
well beaten. Leglosse's face was the
picture of despair, and I fear mine was
not much better. We inserted adver
tisements in the papers, but with no
more luck than before. From the mo
ment the trio had entered Naples, they
seemed to have vanished entirely.
Then one evening a ragged urchin
called at the hotel and asked to see
us. In reply to our questions, lie in
formed tts that he had seen two Eng
lishmen only the day before, such as
the police were inquiring for; one of
them was blind, the other dumb. In
deed, he was sure of this, for the rea
son that he had carried their bag for
them down to the harbor whence the
Palermo boat hailed. We prickefl up
our ears on hearing this. If his story
was correct, and Kitwater and Codd
had visited Sicily, then without a
doubt Hayle must have gone there too.
But we had no desire to allow our
selves to be taken in again. It might
be another of Hayie'k tricks, and for
this reason we questioned the boy
more closely, lie adhered, however,
to his story without a variation. His
description of the men was perfect in
every respect, and he assured us most
emphatically that he knew nothing of
any individual with such a scar upon
his face as Hayle possessed. At last
we became convinced that his story
was genuine, and we rewarded the boy
accordingly. After he had disap
peared we informed Miss Kitwater of
the discovery we had made.
"You will follow them to Palermo?"
"Assuredly, mademoiselle," Le
glosse replied. "1 have my duty to
perform."
"Then I must go with you," she an
swered. "if he is on the island the
chase must be drawing to a close, and
I must be present to protect him, if
possible, against himself."
Accordingly next morning, for the
steamer for that day had long since
sailed, we set out for the kingdom of
Sicily, that gem among Islands ns
Goethe terms it. It was the first time
Miss Kitwater had seen the southern
coast, and for this reason I made her
promise that she would rise early
next morning in order that she might
witness our approach to the far
famed island. This she did, and side
by side we watched the ves-el draw
closer to the land. Away to the west
lay the island of I'stiea, its outline
sharply defined in the clear morning
air.
"How beautiful it all is!" she said,
"and to think that we are sailing such
lovely seas upon such un errand."
"You must try not to think about
it," I said. " 'Sufficient unto the day
is tin- evil thereof.' I.et us hope that
it will all come right in the end. If
only l.eglo <• can get hold of llayle
first, your uncle cannot possibly do
hint any harm, however much dis
posed he may be that way. lief ween
tlx we ought to be able to manage
that."
Shortly after breakfast we obtained
our tirkl glimpse of Sicily. It was a
M-elie never to be forgotten. The blue
sens, the towering mountains rising
apparently out of it, made up a pie
ture that was lovely lte_\oiui coin
pare. Presently we steamed into the
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CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1902
Dogana, where our htggnge was exam
ined. Ilere we commenced our in
quiries concerning Kitwater and Codd,
and had the satisfaction of learning,
ou undoubted authority, that the
story the boy liad told u» was cor
rect. Such terrible infirmities as
theirs could scarcely fail to attract
notice, and more than 011 c of the otli
cials remembered seeing and commis
erating them. On leaving the Dogana,
they had traveled to the city by cab,
so we were informed.
"The man who drove them is out
side now," said one of them. "Perhaps
the senor would care to question him."
1 replied that I j-fTould like very
much to do so, and we accordingly
went out into the street together. It
appeared that the cabman remem
bered his fares perfectly, the more so
by reason of the fact that tho blind
man had sworn at liim for not using
greater speed in reaching the city. He
had driven them to some furnished
lodgings kept by his cousin, he said,
and was proceeding to recommend
them to us, when 1 cut him short by
informing him that we had already de
cided upon a hotel. We thereupon en
tered the vehicle, he mounted the box,
and we set oft". From the moment that
we had set foot ashore .Miss Kitwater
had been growing more and more
nervous. When it was taken into con
sideration that before nighffall some
very unpleasant things might hap
pen, 1 do not think this fact is to tie
wondered at. I pitieU her from the
bottom of my heart, and was prepared
to do all that lay in my power to help
her. It was a strange change for her,
from the quiet little village of Bishop
stowe, to the pursuit of a criminal
across Europe to an island in the Med
iterranean.
"And when it is over?" was the ques
tion 1 asked myself 011 numerous oc
casions. "What is going to happen
then? I suppose I shall bid her good
by, she will thank me for the trouble
I have taken, and then our acquaint
ance will be at an entl."
After that it had become my habit
to heave a prodigious sigh, and to
wonder whether she could be induced
to—
But somehow I never got much fur
ther with my speculations. Was it like
ly she would ever think twice of me?
She was invariably kindly and
thoughtful; she deferred to me 011
everything, and seemed to think my
opinions and actions must of neces
sity be right. Apart from that 1 felt
certain I had made 110 other impres
sion upon her.
"Now, mon ami," said Leglosse.
when we had installed ourselves at our
hotel, "I think It would be better that
you should efface yourself for a time.
None of the men we are after know
me, but Hujie and Codd would both
recognize you at once. Let me go
into the town and make a few Inquir
ies, and if they are satisfactory we
shall know how to act. Do your best
to amuse mademoiselle, and I will
hasten back to you as soon as I have
anything to tell."
Upon my consenting to this arrange
ment he set off, leaving me free to de
vote myself to the amusement of Miss
Kitwater. As soon as she joined me
we made our way into the garden of
the hotel, and seating ourselves 011 a
comfortable bench spent the remain
der of the morning basking in the sun
shine, and watching the exquisite
panorama that was spread out before
us.
"I wonder what they are doing in
Bishopstowe now?" I said, and a mo
ment later wished 1 had held my
tongue.
"Poor little Bishopstowe," my com
panion answered. "How thankful I
shall be to get safely back to it! I
don't think I shall ever want to travel
again."
"Ah! you cannot tell," I replied.
"You are seeing the world just now
under very unfavorable auspices.
Some day, perhaps, you will follow the
same route under conditions as happy
as these are the reverse."
1 think she must have guessed to
what I referred, for her face flushed a
little, and she hastily diverted the
conversation into another channel, by
drawing my attention to a picturesque
sailing-boat whichat that moment was
entering the harbor. I tried to en
tice her back to the subject later, but
she would plainly have none of it.
Only once did she refer to it, and that
was when we were making our way
back to the hotel to lunch. 1 stated my
fear lest she should find all this run
ning about from place to place tiring
for her.
"You need not be afraid of that."
she answered. "1 am very strong, and
am not easily tired, licsidcs, you have
been so good and kind, Mr. Fairfax,
and have done so much to insure my
comfort, that, if only out of gratitude
to you, I could not very well be fa
tigued. 1 think you know how grateful
1 am to you, do you not?"
As she said this she looked up at
me with her beautiful, trusting eyes,
and so overwhelmed me that it was
as much as I could do to keep back the
words that rose to the tip of my
tongue. 1 answered her to the effect
that 1 had only done my best to pro
mote her comfort, and was about to
say something further, when Le
glosse made his appearance before us.
I here was a look of great satisfaction
upon his face.
"1 think I know now all that there
is to know," lie said. "If mademoiselle
will excuse me, I will tell it. M. lluyle
arrived here some Jive days ago, and
has taken possession of a charming
»illa some ten miles from the city. It
is situated on the COD t and the ugent
declares it to In' unique. How lout; be
intend* to occupy it, hi-, the agent,
could not say, but lie has paid a high
rent for ii in advance, which appears
to have given unlimited satisfaction.
The otlu t' two men are still prowling
about the city in search of him, but
o fur i Ii•-> have not been successful lu
their endeavor*."
"t ouhl I not goto my uncle?" Mian
Kit water inquired. "It might be po.->-
*.W.« *ui U4li to U'Ui lu
the island without seeing this wretcL
ed man."
"112 fear it would be useless," 112 an
swered. "And you would only cause
yourself unnecessary pain. No! what
we must do is to communicate with
the Palermo police; Leglosse can show
them his warrant, and then we must
endeavor to get Hayle under lock and
key, and then out of the island, with
out waste of time. That is the best
course, believe me."
"If all goes well, I shall make the
arrest to-night," said Leglosse, and
then added: "112 must get back to Paris
as soon as possible."
That afternoon he went out once
more, this time to interview the police
authorities. At five o'clock he re
turned in a stale of great excitement.
"The other two have discovered
Hayle's whereabouts," he said, when
we were alone together. ""And they
have set off in pursuit. They have
been gone more than an hour, and, un
less we start at once, we shall be too
late to take him before they run him
to earth."
"(iood heavens! Are you quite sure
of this?"
"As sure as T can be of anything," he
answered. "I have been to their
house."
"Do not say anything about this to
Miss Kitwater," I said hurriedly. "We
must make the best excuse we can to
account for our absence."
I tried to ite- this, but she saw
through my endeavor.
"You are going to arrest him, I can
see," she said. "Poor unhappy man!
But there, I would rather 1 hat should
happen than that he and my uncle
should meet, fio, Mr. Fairfax, and I
pray God you may be successful."
[To Be Continued ]
SOMETHING JUST AS GOOD.
Storekeeper Mail nn lilen Thnt Peo
ple Could I)o Tlieir Own mow
ing; If Xeee*»ary.
Abel Judkins kept the corner store
in Centerville, and K was his boast
that no man who patronized him need
lack for anything he wanted, provided
he had the wherewithal to pay, relates
Youth's Companion.
Occasionally some unreasonable per
son would ask for a commodity not in
cluded in Abel's list; but if he did so,
he was either provided with something
which Mr. Judkins assured him was
better than the article he had desired,
and served exactly the same purpose,
or he was made to feel that it was, for
some dark and mysterious reason, no
longer "carried" by any progressive
and self-respecting shop.
When a carping summer resident,
whose pair of ancient bellows, bought
at an auction sale, had collapsed be
yond repair, expressed surprise that
no bellows were to be had of Mr. Jud
kins, the Centerville storekeeper
turned upon her with a lofty smile.
"Folks here, ma'am," he said, coldly,
"don't hold with getting so took up
with old ideas, or being so narrow,
as some of those that summer with us
from below. The advances of civiliza
tion are prized here in this town, and
air-tights with drafts are more thought
of than old cbimbly fireplaces that
require constant feeding and have t*
be blowed onto keep 'em a-going."
He glanced at the summer resident,
but could discover no special signs of
weakening or humility in her faeo.
With a briskness which always marked
his mercantile proceedings, he changed
in a twinkling from the advocate of
progress to the upholder of primitive
methods.
"But folks will be folks, ma'am," he
said, indulgently, "and if you like an
open glow I don't know what's to hin
der. And better than any bellows that
ever were made, ma'am, is an onion
stalk. I can fit you out complete with
three stout ones at this present, and
when you've blowed them out o' use
fulness, all you've got to do is to come
to Abel Judkins and get some more."
Doctor'* Wife's A<l vfiiit/iKc.
"Papa," said a Hyde Park preach
er's little daughter the other day,
"when I grow up I'm never going to
marry either a minister or a doctor
that gives people medicine."
"Why, dear?" he asked. "Don't
you like preachers and doctors?
You know, preachers and doctors
ought to be the most useful men
there are. Doctors try to save peo
ple in this world, and preachers do
their best to save them in the next.
Isn't that pretty good business?"
"Yes," replied little Caroline, "but
Dr. Pelletier's wife was here calling
on mamma to-day, and they got to
talking about things, and Sirs. Pel
letier said when she was sick it was
always just terrible to think of
taking any of her husband's
medicine. And then mamma said:
'O, but you're an awfully great deal
more lucky than if you were a
preacher's wife. You have only to re
fuse to take the medicine when
you're sick, but a preacher preaches
every Sunday.' " —Chicago Ilecord-
Ilerald.
Corneal 'Mint Way.
A young minister who was naturally
of a shy disposition w as rather embar
rassed at his first marriage ceremony,
and unwittingly reversed the usual
order of the service, making the
bridegroom promise to love and obey
his blushing bride. The error passed
unnoticed tit the time, but shortly aft
erward it dawned upon the father of
the bride that a mistake had occurred,
and he said to the iiiirlstcr: "I be
lieve, Mr. , you liuvc made John
promise to love and obey my dmighter.
Ah, well." lie added, after a pause, and
with a slv look at his better half, "I
suppose It won't matter inucli; it cen
erally comes to that unyway." »Stray
Stories.
% liimml I'liinii l«» He member.
Lot* of people lira# oil your enemies
just to 111.1U, you still madder. VNuah-
PUZZLE PICT U Hi-.
J
OP HUM IS THE I'OET DltlvtMl\U'?
WAR LOCUSTS AND THE COMET
While (lie Insects Cleared the I'.nrth
of \ CKelation. the Heavenly Torch
i'riKhteneil >en roes.
"The year before the civil war,"sai«l
the smoker, according to the Chicago
Tribune, "the locust pests came to my
section of the country in northwest
Missouri in myriads. They weighted
the branches of the trees until the
branches broke down. They lined the
fences, crawled tip to the doors of the
houses, and covered the roofs. They
were of the singing species. I don't
know whether t here is another species
or not, but the ones we had produced
the most peculiar noise I ever heard.
It was something like that made by
the katydid. There was this differ
ence. tin- katydid occasionally takes an
hour or two off tot tine itself, but the
17-year-old locusts, like the harp of
David, were always in tune.
"They began to sing at sunup. It
was a sort of low hum at first, like the
rustle of the leaves of a forest when
they are stirred by the first whirl of
a hurricane. As the day advanced the
locusts got more courage and swelled
the sound until it seemed as if it tilled
all creation. When the locusts once
struck the keynote they never varied.
That was what drove some people
crazy—-the monotony of that sound
something like \siz-z-z-ee; iz-zee; iz
zee,' with never a variation, until at
sunset it would begin to die. And in
its dying it seemed to (ill the earth
with a sense of desolation. As dark
ness crept over t he country t here came
to the inhabitants the sensation that
these winged songsters were still
it broad, and that they were only turn
ing over the music so as to begin again
the next day on the first sheets.
"And as surely as the sun came tip
the next morning the tuning in the
trees and the housetops was revived,
and ;is the sun mounted skyward the
insect chorus increased. The music
wits the same, only the volume grew
greater day by day, for the locusts
multiplied by night.
"One could easily believe the descrip
tion of these insects as given by an
Arab from Bagdad in olden t ictus to be
correct. Ile said the head of the
locust was like that of a horse; its
breast like that of a lion; its feet like
those of a camel; its body like that
of a serpent; its tail like that of a
scorpion. The prophet, Joel, probably
did not overstate it when he said of
the locusts of his time that they dark
ened the sun. The locusts of the time
of which I speak did likewise.
"We hail it large negro population
Women in the law seem to
have made reputations in patent
WOMAN AND
T II E LAW
liv CATHERINE MAY BURNF.T,
Manager of tin* Rockefeller Branch of
the Legal Aid Society, New York.
sition to the idea of professional
women, and especially to women lawyers. Personally, 1 find that
everybody treats me well. Judges have always been remarkably kind,
and opposing lawyers respectful. S( > FAR I fI.W K EOL'XD MY
SEX AN ADYAXTAGE RATHER THAX A HIXDRAXCE.
Women who wish to pursue the law as a profession should have
not only a college education and law school certificate, but knowl
edge of the world. They should knock about for a year, and come
in contact with all kinds of people, before attempting to practice.
The usual trouble with women as lawyers as yet is that they are
either too modest or too much the reverse. They are too new in
the profession. They are too self-conscious, and take themselves
too seriously.
After all, the chief difference between men and women in the
court room is CI<t)T!IES. To this people '
will in time grow accustomed.
Most women are better fitted for the
fireside than for the court mom. I hit if a Ahp'
woman has the proper qualities of mind for ?§$ iSSfy. *»•-
the bar, and is enthusiastic in her work. JL ■>. r
her chance of success in the law a man's '•**> /
chance. HE I'.L'IEDS ON STUDY, Jl**- \
WUKK, CHARACTER. SO ilt'ST SHE v I
ill our part of tlie sta.te. Like all
negroes, they were superstitious and
tlieir superxt it ion culminated in
weird religious zeal. The appearance
of these locusts increased the camp
meeting's in the country, and the ne
groes went through their incantations
in a way that made the midway con
tortions of the World's Columbian ex
position seem tame.
"itiglit in the midst of ilie visitation
of the pest came the comet. Nig Tit
after night for several weeks the
heavenly visitor glowed like a hurri
cane of flame, and cast upon the earth
a peculiar, yellowish light that was
indescribable. The coming of this
comet almost made the population
frantic, for no sooner did the chorus
of the locusts dwindle in the night
than the lamentations and prayers of
the negroes in their cabins filled the
air.
"As the comet grew less luminous
night by night, and finally disap
peared, the locusts begun to disappear,
lint they did not take their flight until
they had stripped the forests of their
foliage, eaten into the roots of the
grass, and killed every vestige of
vegetation.
"Nobody ever followed the winged
army in its flight to see where it went,
but the next year the civil war burst
upon the country, and then the more
superstitious asserted that it was
presaged by the locusts and the comet.
Hut by that time many of the negroes
who had been impelled to what they
called religion, backslid, and the
chicken roosts suffered as of old. The
idea of freedom was disseminated
among them, and they forgot all about
the locust plague and the comet. I'.ut
the white folks never forgot either
and there was a prevalent opinion that
if the ancients ever fed upon locusts,
a!l other crops must have failed, or
else the ancients had appetites that
were easily satisfied."
In Olil Ken tuck.
"What are you doing in the moun
tains so early?" asked the hunter ia
Kentucky.
"Thought if I came out early I
might find a 1 still," responded the
revenue officer.
"H'm! The early bird catches the
'worm,' 1 suppose."—Chicago Daily
News.
Allll<| ull y of the I niltrelln.
The umbrella and parasol were
used by the eastern nations many
centuries before the Christian era.
The oldest china ware shows pictures
of ladies and mandarins shaded by
parasols of patterns similar to those
now in use.—Albany Argus.
succeed best in specialties. Some
law. Many liave succeeded in sur
rogate's work and real estate
practice. The women who have
made names for themselves in
general practice are few. In Xew
York, Miss Rosalie Loew has a
practice of which many well-to-do
men lawyers might he proud.
There is said to he great oppo