IVhy Women Don't Many By MARIE CORELLI '""ILL the various reasons why less women marry than in the JT\ days of our grandmothers may be sumned up, more or less, * in one phrase: "The decay of the art of falling in love." Falling in love is a fine art, and it belongs, I think, to an age of greater simplicity of manners and of less tET/ sophistication than the present. It may be described as a — sort of general determination of the whole spiritual being, KyfjfS heart, mind, fancy, towards love, as there is the like general determination of a plant towards light. Young people do not take the fever now as they used, that is all. There is no particular reason why they should do so —at least, so the cynics say. To fall in love is neither a merit nor a demerit; it involves the most splendid imprudences, with all sorts of compensating prudences to follow—in short, it is a state of contradictions. You risk every thing, and, feeling that you have risked it, you become the most wary and circumspect and self-denying person in the world. Character grows as you look at it under such compulsion. Lads become men, girls women, in a night and a day. That was the old state of things. Men and women did not reckon too closely upon what they had, beyond the experience of each other s hearts. All that they knew as to the rest was that they meant to have everything needful. The youth began to be careful of his small change; the girl revised her attitude of scorn towards the domestic arts, and saw a sort of halo of service in the darning of stockings. It was an art with young people then, though they knew it not—an art for the formation of character, the guidance of impulse, and for all that tended to the growth of the mind. Now it is quite impossible to have any success in an art of that kind if you are missing in its first requisite—simplicity and unity in the outlook on life. You must, so to speak, as in a still greater matter, be as a little child. If you are able to laugh at yourself as you are falling in love, to reckon very much with yourself as to wealth, posi tion, comfort, and all the rest of it, you are done for. You are not for that art, though you may shine in favorable circumstances in many others. You may still, if you have a proper endowment, be a club wit, a good dancing-girl, be a wonderful hand at private theat ricals, and an indispensable ornament to the dinner-table—but you are not a faller in love. Give it up, and leave to others that tiny plot of the garden of life. If you have it, marriage will become possible, with a good many other things besides that belong to that tremendous institution. Self denial, always within the reasonable limits that are to be understood in a discussion of this sort, becomes only a new form of pleasure. Patience, forbearance are positively rollicking relaxations; tenderness, pity, solicitude, first thought for others, are, as it were, the Saturday half-holidays of the mind. Good fortune comes with a double savor —its own, which is quite the smallest part of the matter, and that added instinct of sweetness which belongs to the thought that it is good fortune for those we love. However, what am I talking about in all this? I am trying to describe the indescribable. There is only one thing worth adding, that if by any chance you possess this art, all the other things that are now hindrances to marriage will become easy; and if you have it not, better a dozen times give up all thought of marriage whatsoever. There is no doubt a certain reward in being a smart woman or a clever fellow, and why should not that be enough? The Love By DR. JOHN T. M. JOHNSTON Pastor Deima Baptist Church, St. Louis *|IIO does not believe that the sweetest, purest, strongest and most unselfish relationship in life is that of the mother? ______ God intended that this should be, and to this end is the 2555K little infant laid so helpless—the most helpless of all the animal kingdom—into the arms of a mother, who has gone down into the depths to rescue it, that she may pro mote its prosperity and happiness. Mother's love, what language can express it? What tongue can tell it? When human thought compares God's love to a mother's love it can go no farther, it can say no more, its richest emblem is exhausted. What tears, what night watching, what solicitude, what self denial, what pure affection is included in that word—mother? To the high-bred boy the old home where mother lived is al ways "Old Point Comfort." Oh, the wonderful love of mother. The Bible is full of it and we find her love seeking expression in various ways. Sometimes it is expressed in ambition, as in the case of the mother of James and John, ■who came to Jesus with these words : "Grant me, Lord, that these my two sons may sit—the one on the right hand—the other 011 the left of thy kingdom." Young man, I plead for individual attachment to mother, an attachment that will lead you to make her happy and comfortable and if necessary provide her a home—an attachment that will prevent you from doing a base thing for mother's sake But all the homes in Westmoreland and Portland places cannot satisfy the longing of the mother for her boy. If the son it not clean, pure and aspiring—if he is not true in spirit and worthy in character—he can not make mother happy. Young man, if you arc honest, truthful, industrious and prayer ful, your life is sure to honor mother and mother's God. You will a so win honorable distinction in the struggle for achievement. ll r omen of Fashion Losing Tone By JULIA WARD HOWE The world prows bitter and not worse, but it does not prow better everywhere all the tune. . Women of fashion seem to me to nave lost in i dignity of character and in general tone and culture. y* 'A ~ * ,n the other hand, outside this charmed circle of fashion I find the tone of taste and culture much ' l '^' UT 'han I renieinber it to have been in my y""'''' ' fi ,K ' women leading nobler and better mfflfli * hvi s, filling larger and higher places, enjoying the I||KJ9HK^' IJM tipper air of thought where they used to rest upon LJBiBEUffllEfiSuJ the ver\ sail «if dome-tic care and detail. So the community gain*, although one class loses but that remember, t> the clan that assumes to give standards to the rest. Jxfarx+Asd , CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, IQO3 TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION WROUGHT BY THE FLOODS Groat Many People Drowned at North Topeka, Kan. Property Losses Will Amount to Millions of Dollars. ICtvrr< »( Kiiiimhm t'lty nnd Topeka Are Fulling—Scarcity of Food I« the Worst Feature of the Mtii utlon at Present—Ap peal lor Help. Topeka, Kan., June 4.— The Kansas river is rapidly falling. In a few more days the work of rehabilitating North Topeka may begin. The situ ation may be summarized thus: At 2 p. in. Wednesday the river hail fallen four feet. Total number of known dead 22; unidentified dead live; reported dead 00. Commercial club will accept all of fered help. Depth of river is yet 2.'! feet, which is seven feet above highest ever known previously. Gov. Bailey has Issued a procla mation calling for help and asking that contributions be sent to William Sims, treasurer. The general relief fund lias passed SIO,OOO. The Elks' fund has passed $4,000. The fund in the hands of tiie gov ernor now amounts to $3,500. Ml who are held in buildings in North Topeka are safe and comfort able. No one in the flooded district is in danger. The homeless are being well cared for. Over 200 deputies are guarding property in North Topeka. The only railroads operating out of Topeka are the Missouri Pacific, south, and the Santa Fe, west. Topeka, Kan., June s.—The bodies of seven more flood victims were found Thursday. The list of known dead now reaches 71, with 30 people identified. It is believed that many bodies are yet in the wreckage. Scores of persons are reported miss ing. The Union Pacific depot has been improvised as a morgue and there the bodies are gathered to await identilleation. The river yesterday fell 13 inches. This makes a drop of over five feet from the High water mark. North Topeka is a total wreck. The water is still over a greater part of the town. In the residence districts it is seven feet deep in most places. The business part of the town is a sorrowful looking place. The fronts of most stores have openings broken through. The contents of most of the stores are ruined. The currents came rushing through .\yith such force that they upset counters and boxes and whatever goods came in their way and dragged the goods stored high on the shelves into the water. In nearly every building which was not washed away the contents are piled in a heap and over all there is a slime of fine sand mixed with a little mud. This deposit varies from a few inches to two or three feet. The greatest difficulty now exists in the wretched sanitary conditions. The health board is busy with the problem of sanitation and efforts to prevent an epidemic. To this end stringent regulations are being en forced. Topeka. Kan., June 0. —The dead in the Topeka flood now number 78. A boatman Friday afternoon reported that seven bodies had been found near the north end of Harrison street. The unfortunates were: Mrs. Jessie Shaw and four children. A man and woman named Shunk- Werter, all from Sherry. The water has now receded over six feet and is going down an inch every hour. In the part of town north and j west of the Rock Island railroad the j damage has been very great. The | houses were mostly small and felt | the full force of the current. The ! yards were swept clean of outbuild ings and many of the houses turned a quarter of the way around and par tially slipped from their foundations. The greater part of North Topeka is a great waste of sand, which is piled j up over the streets, house floors and i railroad tracks, burying the city to a I depth of two or three and in some I places four feet. Generous responses are being made | to the appeals for aid. From all over j the country telegrams are coming authorizing the officers here to drawl on various organizations for funds. Kansas City, Mo„ June 1. —The Mis- | souri river fell seven inches yestcr- j day and the Kansas river fell nine Inches in the same time. Militiamen ■ and police still guard all approaches to the flooded district and soldiers j halt pedestrians in the residence j streets late at night. Seven street' car lines are in operation. The city j waterworks began pumping late last, i night. Kail roads are still giviug in- j complete service, but are repairing washouts. The reports of heavy loss of life in Kansas City, Kan., are not true j and the stories of bodies lying in the ] drift there ••••,» unfounded. The loss j of property has not been overesti- I 'l'll*' Textile Workvri* Strike* ! Philadelphia, June 0. There were | no important developments Friday in the textile strike. There was a slight flurry among the strikers when sev eral hundred workers who went on j strike on Monday and who are not i organized returned to their work ill | the Munnylink district. The strike i movement in this district is not very > strong. Two more mills, one a , hosiery and the other a knitting es- j tablishiiieut, shut down and the c\- ' eetitive board of the textile worker* ] announced that a hosiery and a hair rloth iimnufai turer ttad granted the #3 hour week to their employes. mated, however. The entire city of Arniourdale is under water, in many places 20 feet deep, and all the 10,000 inhabitants have fled. No steps have been taken to protect house hold goods in the deserted homes. Kansas City, Mo., June s.—With the rapid fall of flie rivers, business is re suming its normal condition. The waterworks are pumping black water from the Kansas river not fit to drink and the'danger from fire' is over. Fleetric street car lines are in operation. Telephone and telegraph connection will be established be tween the two Kansas cities today. At the stockyards 2,500 hogs and 300 cattle were drowned. A force of men is removing the carcasses where they lodged in the drift. Kansas City, Mo., June 0. —At dark last night the water had receded from one-tenth of the flood area and the uncovered district was promptly reoccupied. The territory reclaimed included the Union depot, which suf fered $25,000 damage, and a portion of the railroad yards. The recession of the Hood lias caused a lively de mand for unskilled laborers to repair railroads, clean out buildings and carry away rubbish. Two bodies were found yesterday under a railroad coach in the west bottoms. They were those of a Greek railroad laborer and a negro cook. The verified death list now contains ten names. The carcasses of dead animals at the stock yards are creating a dread ful stench. The bodies are being towed into the river to float down the Missouri. There is no other means of disposing of them, for the entire stock yards district is still inundated. St. Louis, June s.—"At St. Louis the rate of rise will continue rapid and 33.5 feet will be reached Friday morn ing and 34.5 feet Saturday morning. A stage of 35 feet is forecasted for Saturday night or Sunday. Meas ures to protect property from a 30- foot stage by Monday should be taken." This warning was issued last night by Government Forecaster Bowie and indicates that the crest of the flood tide will not reach St. Louis for three days. Last night the register showed :;2.4 feet, a rise of six inches during the day. St. Louis, June 0. —The great flood that is sweeping down the Mississippi is steadily increasing in volume and is now being felt in St. Louis and vi cinity to an alarming extent. The stage of water reached 34.2 feet, last night, a rise of seven-tenths of a foot Friday. Government Fore caster Howie last niglit issued a bul letin predicting a stage of 35 feet by noon today, 36 feet by Sunday and 37 feet on Monday. The Mississippi north of the mouth of the .Missouri is still rising, but the rapidity of the rise, has been diminished because of the breaks in levees. The flood forced a passage through the levee at Madison, 111., just north of St. Louis. This levee is 15 miles long and for days men have been working to strengthen it. but the river found a weak point in a sewer main and the water broke through like a geyser. The streets of Venice, 111., almost opposite St. Louis, are waterways and the inhabitants go about in boats. It was the first town in this vicinity to feel the full force of this flood and has been under water for two da ys. St. Joseph. Mo., June 4.—-The res cuing party sent from here to To peka, composed of 75 men with steam launches and rowboats, returned and their places will be taken by other volunteers. The St. Joseph men res cued 200 school children from the Grant school, imprisoned there since last Friday. The children were in a half-starved condition. The rescuers shot and killed a negro caught in the act of looting deserted houses. They brought back with them the names of three identified dead. The flood conditions here remain unchanged. The river fell one-tenth of a foot last night and remained standing today. A relief fund of SB,OOO lias been raised here for the flood sufferers at Topeka and Kansas City and several carloads of clothing and provisions already have been sent. Louisiana, Mo., June 6. —The Sny levee broke just below this city yes terday and the Mississippi is now falling here at tne rate of six inches j>er hour on account of the break. The Sny is the most important levee on the north end of the river and is 70 miles long. In some places it is 28 feet high and SO feet across at the base. It incloses a fertile farming section from three to seven miles long, containing more than 100,000 acres. There are several towns within the district, the population of which is probably 10,000. Many of tlieui re main and loss of life is certain. This district has not been overflowed since 18S8 and the damage will run into the millions. The break occurred at a point used by the railroad as a road bed. It was unexpected until just before the break occurred. When seen a rush was made to repair it. but 40 yards went out and a torrent poured through. ArmilliK 'Attain*! Tlertfcr. St. Paul, June ti. Vrguments were begun Friday before Judge l.ochreli in the case of the state of Minnesota against the Northern Securities Co. anil the roads whose control is merged ill the New Jersey corpora tion. The arguments are bused upon prud icalh the ->aiue totjmnin its that in the case against the merger by the federal government. The state's case, however, is on entirely different grolllnl'.. The federal en o alleged u violation of the Sherman it ii I i trust law, I lie state's ease Is brought under a provision <•( the Minnesota con titutiou KISHINEFF MASSACRE. The IMrrrtor of ll iimlkS I'liltcr til Tit III* Version of 1 lie ilfalr. New York, June 0. —The Christian Herald in reply to a cablegram sent to the czar asking fur an official re port of the occurrences at Kishineff has received a reply from the direc tor of the Russian police department. The reply follows: "Russia's agricultural and laboring population is ill at ease, living the common life with Jewish inhabitants of widely developed commercial in stinct; hence there is constant an tagonism. the material differences in racial and religious character coming to the verge of frenzy at the least possible occasion. "The strained relations existing be tween the Russians and Jews of Bes sarabia were made worse by the fact of finding in an outlying village a murdered Christian boy. This mur dur was attributed by the population to the Jewish ritual habits. Official denials of the ritual murder were not given credit by the peasants, who attributed other murders of Christ ians in the towns of KietT and Kish ineff likewise to the Jews. "On Easter day, in the market place of Kishineff, the workers while holiday making saw a Jew strike a Christian woman, who fell to llie ground, letting go her infant baby. This incident was the cause of an outburst. The workers began break ing windows and pulling down Jew ish stores as a sign of protest. The police, who always leave much to be desired in provincial towns, failed to make efficacious intervention, many thousands of the mass of onlookers and holiday makers approving the riot and hindering the policemen's actions. "After demonstrators came plun derers, the outbreak lasting from 5 in the afternoon to 10 in the evening; and leaving nine Jewish bodies on the place. Night brought the disturb ances to an end. "In the end. the town having been divided into districts, with a special military command in each, the dis turbances ceased on Monday evening. By this time the minister of the in terior has ordered the proclamation of martial law and (an unprecedented fact) had sent the director of the po lice department to investigate as to 'lie responsibilities of the local of ficials. In consequence, the gover nor, the chief of the police and some other officials were dismissed out right. many hundreds of rioters are in prison and hard work in the Si berian mines awaits them. "The minister of the interior has issued a circular to governors all over Russia, authorizing them to make immediate use of firearms in cases of anti-Jewish disturbances. The Russian government is the first to disapprove of such horrid acts of violence, but it cannot, in compliance with the requests of a revolutionary press, give the Jews new rights of citizenship, as this would be sure to drive the Russian population to new excesses against the Jews, who are hated by the peasants with such ex traordinary force." REVIEW OF TRADE. Ntormn nnd Flood* Itetardcd lilialllen* During (lie Pant Week. New York, June 6. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Review of Trade says: Tlic elements nrovided the only un favorable developments of the week, and while these may not prove far reaching in their effect, the first re sult is seen in greater conservatism*. Dispatches regarding trade condi tions at the leading cities are gener ally encouraging. Railway earnings in May were 12.7 per cent, larger than last year and 23.4 per cent, greater than in 1901. There is still an in clination to defer the placing of con tracts for iron and steel. Textile industries show no mate rial improvement. Sellers of cotton goods are unwilling to accept con tracts for distant delivery, and even on immediate business there is little disposition to accept the prices of fered. Interior trade reports are less favorable, western business being affected by floods, while drouth at the east and numerous strikes re strict consumption. Conditions as to woolen goods are practically un changed. Failures this week in the United States numbered 182. against 21s the corresponding week last year, and in Canada 21, against 16 last year. 4'lalm* lilt' Itltflit to Condemn. Baltimore, June 6.—lsidor Raynor, counsel for the Western Union Tele graph Co., has filed in the United States circuit court a petition for condemnation of a right of way for its poles and wires along the line of the Pennsylvania railroad between Philadelphia and Washington. The petition claims the right to condemn under an act of congress passed July 24, ISOO, which provides for the right of telegraph companies to construct their systems along the post roads of the United States. ItlnloN In i* IBi«d SI i in, I lon. Caracas, June o.—The Venezuelan government has reoccupied San Felix, on the Orinoco river. This is the first step of the march of the government troops on Ciudad I'olivar. The gov ernment is concentrating strong forces near Coro, with the object of surrounding (ien. Matos' army, which Is said to have been reduced to 1,000 men. It Is asserted that if Matos does not escape to Curacoa he will be captured. A tla» hireling or I'role*I, Washington, June 6. \ mass meet ing attended I»> about 1,200 citi/cna i of Washington was held in the Co luuibia theatre Friday to consider I the recent'outrage* perpetrated on I the .lew-, of Kishineff. Russia. Men j and women of all classes and creed* united in denouncing the atrocities and in expressing their horror and j Indignation that they should have | been permitted to occur ill a civilized country lit the tlinvn of the twentieth I century. "Corporal" .lames Tanner, I foi *hmt cumuli **ion**r «»f |»i*ii*iniia* pi* h)f ili titunl that individual* be -iim pelled it uniti with it. 3