THE PORT OF PEACE.
Hfnnge wtien it God-created soul la bent
On clinging to thin frail and mortal tent,
ita liaking tenement of crumbling clay,
Already anowing signa of awift decay;
And hence, with vain adomnienta 'tM be
decked, Now and anon, to hide aome ill defect;
Then calmly dreaming on of taking raee,
A few more yenra of vague uneertaintiea.
While atorma moat pitileaa around it blow,
And threaten aoon to lay the atructure
low.
Yet with tenacioua grip to life it clinga,
While Time a harveit of destruction
bring; ;
Twill atruggle on, nor yield until it mutt,
When tenia and atake polea lie low in the
,!.,.!
Mra. Mary
Alas! what strange Infatuation this
When angela beckon from a world of bliss?
Ht. John on Patmoa iale. the aeer bold.
In panoramic aplendor did behold
The golden city, with ita pearly gate
The home each weary pilgrim aoon awaits,
'Mid fadeleaa flowera and fielda of living
green.
Ah, me! what raviahed aoul once having
acen
Knduring habitationa built by God,
Would turn back to ita miacrablc clod?
Then blow, ill winda; what though the
craft I aail
Doth tremble in the wild increasing gale;
So ye will bring my aoul a glad releaae
When aafely moored within the Port of
Peace.
Lutz, in the Christian Herald.
OHer Ultimate Conclusion.O
Beatrice left her husband bending I about It. Will you have some tea?"
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absorbed iy over his book, to go to a
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. I I' 1'. luiiy Ggamvi in i .v.,
front door would no sooner be closed drink It. really
on lior than he wouia spring up wnu
ly. dress and go prowling about the
city till all hours of the morning,
heaven only knew where.
All the way down town she pic
tured him dressing, primping, per-
IUIMUIK, f I IBIIU lu a"- I "v "'Mi uci seal ttl iuf
The .house at which the reception piano instead.
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was ;itrm tin ruid.d miu niuo, unci " . , diio cuiiciliuetl,
rang the bell, presented her card quietly. "It Is because you are mar-
and was admitted. Mrs. Graham re- rled." Then: "Let me play you n
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ceiveu nei ki.iuiuiim, ucksiiik uui lu
No, no," declared Beatrice. "Prav
don't make tea for me. I couldn't
It would keen mn
awake, anyway, now."
"Why, now?"
Beatrice shrugged her shoulders.
"Oh, I don't know," she replied;
nothing."
Mrs. Graham, who had risen tn
fmake the tea, took her seat at the
lav aside her wrnns and he seated
which s?ie did, taking a large rocking
chair opposite the couch upon which
her hostess had seated herself, rest
ing rather gracefully than otherwise
upon Its gaily colored, profusely
plled-up pillows of down.
Beatrice was amazed at the change
In Mrs. Graham. It had been two
years or more since she had attended
her receptions. Then she had. been
bright and gay to an extraordlnay
degree. Now, against the brilliant
background of pillows, she seemed
11 lee nothing so much as a Rose of
Yesterday.
"I don't kflOW," she began, deli
cately smoothing out a wrinkle In her
gown, "whether anyone else will
come. 1 haven't sent out many In
vitations lately. People forget you
In New York, unless yo.i keep up with
'the procession; and that, unless you
have money, 13 n dilllcult thing to
do."
"Is any one who write? expected
to have money?" inquired Beatrice,
casually; for her friend happened to
be among the class of tho3? whu cov
er onesldo of n paper with letters
and present it to editors.
"Not much," laughed Mr3. Gra
ham, "but you are expected to spend
it aa If you had It, which is almost
Identical, if not quit This
thing of money! All my life, It Beeras
to me, I have been struggling to ac
quire It; even when I was married
trf him and shouldn't have been. It's
a woman's right to be supported.
Isn't Ut"
It was one of Beatrice's skeptical
nights, evidently.
"Do people evor gat their rights in
this vale of tears?" asked she, wUh
a toss of the ciiin and a (lash of the
eye.
Mrs. Graham nodded sesentllifly.
"Sometimes," answered she, "when
theV least expect It. Than again
when they least deaarv? it. For In
stance, I have known women to have
good husbands."
Beatrice gave a start of surprise.
She pushed back her hair etcitedly.
"No!" she UCClalmed, "Not good
husbands! "
"Yes, when they didn't d -3erve
them."
Beatrice gave vent to something
like a whistle.
"Good," decided lite, "then that
, . " iieiuiena: mercuui
evens up for the bad hutbandl good Heaven! She Is a boat cast adrift,
have who don't deserve
with a
women
them.'
Mrs. Graham observed he
critical oye.
"I don't believe," s!io announ-ed.
as an outcome of the observation,
"that you nre happy."
"Is anybody?"?" demanded Bea
trice, a trifle more fiercely than the
occasion warranted.
"Some ate. Principally those, how
ever, who are wlll.'ng to erfao them
selves, to practice the habit of re
nunciation. It's a woman's first du
ty, that, to learn to renounce."
"To renounce what?"
"Everything."
Hero Mrs. Graham look out a
handkerchief of lace and wiped a
tear.
Beatrice leaned eajrly forward
watching her.
"Keep it iip," she encouraged. "I
like to see you do It."
Mrs. Graham straightened herself,
fixing her with Indignant eyes, gone
dry.
"Why?" she demanded to know.
"Because," responded Beatrice,
oftly, "It saves me the trouble."
She leaned her head against the
cushion at the back of her chair and
crossed one foot comfortably over
the other.
"Come," said she, soothingly, "be
gin at the beginning that Is, some
where near the beginning "
glancing at the clock, "and tell me
the story of your life."-
Mrs. Graham patted the pillows,
dug her elbow Into one and complied:
"It's an old story," she began, "and
a hackneyed one. You already know
part of It, that I was obliged to di
vorce my husband. " Well, I
thought I had a right to expect truth
and fidelity from hlra, because he was
much older than I and of high sta
tion and still, as you say, one
seldom gets in this vale of tears what
one has a right to expect. Ho was
untruthful to begin with. I gave
him my heart and soul. He repaid
me with untruths. They go togeth
er, as you must know untruth and
unfaithfulness. Yes, I know all about
it, the pantings, the walkings up and
down, the heartaches. Nobody can
tell me anything. 1 have been through
It all. I shall never forget the mo
ment I found him In an untruth. I
thought my heart would break. My
idol and we do make idols of these
men was shattered. Friends tore
me from him I loved him too well
to leave him of my own accord, faith
ful or unfaithful and nursed me
Uaci to health. Don't let's talk
little somethlnc." she salrl
She commenced a prelude of Chop
in's, full of raindrops and sighs and
sobbings of a storm, a thing he had
composed during a storm, when
friends had left him alone, strung
to the pitch of frenzy, In a castle
on a hill. As she played Beatrice
found herself absorbed in the ends of
her fingers. They were old, those
fingers, and wrinkled. A woman
shows her age first of all In her
hands. Then in her throat. That
was a heavy line under her chin at
her throat. It was almost as if it
had been cut there with a knife.
The prelude, lull of sndness, sug
gestive of the end of things, coin
cided with the look of this Rose of
Yesterday.
Presently, the melody finished, she
turned around and rested her eyes on
Beatrice. They were old eyes and
tired. Heavy wrinkles lay under
them. Wrinkles that stayed.
"Do you know," she asked, "once
Its mate dies, a male ostrich will nev
er take another?"
"Is that so?" querrled Beatrice.
Then, "Isn't it a pity," sho reflected,
"that there aren't a few men who
are more like ostriches?"
"There are women, and I am one
of them. 1 shall never take another
mate. Partly because I should never
be able to trust him, and partly be
cause I should nver he able to love
him as I did that other one."
Beatrice looked from her old and
tired eyes to her hair, beginning to
be abundantly streaked with gray.
"If you had It to do over again?"
she questioned, "would you let your
friends tear you away from him as
before?"
The question raised a tempest of
emotion, apparently. Her friend rose
from the piano stool and walked up
and down.
"I nm not sure," she quavered,
"that I would. There Is the word 'di
vorce,' to begin with. It Is an ugly
word. It clings to you. I know. It
Is you who divorce your husband;
but how many know that? Then, a
man U a prop for u woman. A weak
enough prop, In many oases, but a
prop. A woman needs a strong right
arm to support her, and to defend
her most of all to defend her. With
out she is a3 helpless as any leaf
blown about by the wind, dashed by
the storms. Heluless! Merciful
rudderless and anchorless!
"Then there's the loneliness of It!"
Her voice was a cry. "It's the not
belonging to anybody. No one to
turn the knob and come in. No one
opposite you at breakfast, lunch or
dinner. No arm to lay your head on
in your sleep. If you have a bad
dream no one to waken you, to quiet
you Into sleeping again. It's the
liveliness of It! The lone II ness
of It!"
Beatrice clasped her hajids togeth
er spasmodically. This horrible ex
panse or luu .llni.di, seemed tutMenly
to reach out and stretch itself about
her, to encompass her. It was as If
she were in deep water and had lost
the power to swim.
Her frleud stopped short before
her.
"What is it?" she exclaimed.
"What is it you Boe?"
For Beatrice was staring wild
eyed straight ahead of her, as If she
had seen a ghost as she had the
ghost of herself living this life of
deadly loneliness, with no arm to
sleep on, no one to waken her and
uo one to knock at her door.
"1 think," she faltered, "that I
must bo going home."
Mrs. Grahum consulted thy, clock.
"It It only nlna," she urged. "Stay
a little whllo longsr. Play me some
thing. You play. Don't you?"
Yes. She did.
Mrs. OraUam whirled 4ho piano
stool lower.
"I want you to play," she Insisted,
"to let the people In the house know
there Is someone bre."
This was sadder than tears. In
Its rush and hurry and whirl, the New
York world had passed this womau
by, leaving her staring wanly In the
face of her ghastly loneliness.
Beatrice played brilliantly. She
waked the echoes in that houso. play
ing. Sho played from Mendelssohn,
Chopin. Beethoven; so that the peo
ple' might believe there were several
performers at that reception, on af
ter the other, playing.
Then she rose to go. By now It
was time. Nearly ten.
"I suppose," said her friend, wear
ily, standing ready with her wrap,
"that It is too late, now, for any one
else to come. I am afraid you have
leu lonely."
"Not at all." averred Beatrice, hur
riedly, her band on the knob. "I
have had the loveliest time in the
world," she smiled, and fled
The train could hardly take her
borne fast enough. Arrived there, to
hor Intense surprise, she found her
husband still at the table, reading.
Without looking up: "You aro
bark early," be salrl.
The reading lamp shed a homollko
glow about the room. That, or some
thing, gave It an air of cosiness that
warmed her heart. She took off her
gloves nnd laid them on the dresser.
"Yes," she returned, thoughtfully,
adding, apropos of nothing, since
nothing had been said: "I am be
ginning to believe, when you come to
think It over, Uiat any old sort of
husband Is better than no husband
at all." Zoe Anderson Norrls, In the
St. Louis Mirror.
A MUINT FOR HARD TIMES.
ABOUT DOGS.
Two Stories by Mlaa Singer, r i ..,,.
ville, Kjr.
A coup' of good stories relating
dogs are told by Miss M. E. Singer
oi Louisville. Ky.. as follows:
"We had r. dog Jack, who was fo. J
of accompanying us to church Sun
day mornings. One Sabbath, not
desiring his presence, we tied him
up. On the following Sunday he
was not to be seen until after churc i
was out; then he met us in great gl v.
A wee', la' r he was chained up Sat
urday night, but after the first time
this was also Impossible for ua
could not be found; yet always he
was fi rat to meet our gaze upon leav
ing chu rh the next day. How 1 .
knew Saturday nights from others I
know not, unless It was the same way
that he always knew Sunday morn
ings and the hour for church.
"My father owi jd a hunting dog
which, in a great many ways, dis
played a knowledge that seemed
almost equal to human Intelligence.
Whenever my father took the rifle
down and began to make prepara
tions for a hunt the dog would show
his appreciation of the sport by
Jumping and barking and watching
every movement. On one occasion
mf father, accompanied by a neigh
bor, started on his usual huntlnr ex
pedition. My mother, being busy .-.
short dis ance from the house, Iv.d
left her Infant In the cradle asleep;
the dog, a.though eager to go with
the hunte s, lay down beside the
cradle taking the rold of protecto
without being bidden to do so. Whc
my mother relumed the dog boundt !
through the door and soon disap
peared through the timber to Join
the hunters." Forest and Siream.
Melba's Triumph.
Since Melba's conquest of Italy her
career has been one long series of
continuous triumphs. England,
America, and, once more, Australia
all have yielded to the charm of that
wonderful voice. At the present day
she stands absolutely alone and with
out a rival among operatic stars.
From the Reader.
(Tub Where Women fan Smoke.
The Ladles' Park Club, an exclu
sive rendezvous for society women,
is unique hum:,; London ladles' clubs
In forbidding bridge and smoking.
The rules In these respects are
strictly enforced and they have, It is
said, been the meana of excluding
"the bad form smart set" and of at
tracting genuine gentlewomen. Sev
erat applicants for election have been
rejected, and others have been
ejected after election.
In pursuance of this Ideal the club
will open to-morrow new and beauti
fully equipped premises, comprising
100 rooms, of which sixty are bed
rooms. Thero is a tiny smoking
room, the use of which Is severely
restricted to gentlemen guests.
London correspondence of tho New
York Sun.
Care of Salt Pish.
It often happens that packages of
pickled fish are roughly handled In
transit, when shipped by rail or boat,
causing the hoops to loosen and nat
urally the pickle leaks out. If the
packages are left In this condition
for a period of five to ten days the
fish are liable to become stained and
rusty. It is, therefore, important as
soon as the mackerel and other kinds
of barrel fish are received to examine
the contents of packages, and If they
are dry or any of the pickle has
leaked out to make a brine of salt
anil water, Just strong enough to
float an egg or potato, and cover the
fish with said brine, which will re
store the fish to prime condition if at
tended to immediately. Barrels and
half barrels of salt and pickled fish
when stored should be examined
every thirty days, and If packages
have leaked any same should be re
filled with brine. Do not pour fresh
water luto a barrel of fish this
method causes trouble, as It weakens
the original brine, and when the
pickle Is not sufficiently strong to
float an egg or potato the fish turn
sour. Another Important matter re
garding all kinds of fish is to keep in
a cool place and out of the sun. The
Butrhers' Advocate.
Teaching the Baby to Walk.
Unless the child shows some incll
; nation to stand on his feet by pulling
i himself up on your lap, or by some
; piece of furniture, it Is not .wise to
I urge him, says Marlanna Wheeler,
j the leading American authority on
babies, writing In Harper's Bazar;
I but If he takes the initiative then a
I moderate amount of assistance can
I be given, such as by placing the
hands around the child's chest to
assist In steadying him, or by lifting
i him so that the feet touch a table,
chair or any flat surface. Then allow
him to give light springs or Jumps
I from the resisting body, supporting
j him so that only about one-half his
weight rests on his feet. This is
good exercise, and enables the child
j to gain confidence without forcing
him In any way. A little later, when
; ho has learned to stand firmly on
I his feet and shows a desire to take
steps by stretching his hands toward
you, take them in yonrs and let him
take two or three steps, no more.
Ituilway Conches With Side Doors.
President Harrlman, of the South
ern Pacific, a short time ago gave or
ders to have a number of new fine
passenger coaches built at the com
pany's car shops at Sacramento with
side doors Instead of end doors.
Harrlman believes that cars thus
constructed will be much stronger
and more durable than the style now
used; and also that In case of wreck,
there will be little danger of the
coaches telescoping each other. TheBe
new ears will have a small passage
way by which passengers may go
from one coach to another, but this
will be so arranged that it will not
weaken the end walls of the cars.
Another feature of these coaches
Is the uiie of round Instead of square
windows. New patent ventilators,
now belr.g used by the Union Pacific
on Its nntor cars, will be placed on
the now coaches, and the cars will
present an appearance so little In
common with the ordinary cbach,
that they will at first hardly bo rec
ognized as a passenger vehicle. Some
of these cars will soon be completed
and placed in commission on the
Southern Pacific western roads. Sci
entific American.
A Stout Woman's White Robe.
All of madame's street suits for
summer wear are constructed on this
model that Is, skirt and loose coat,
worn with no waist underneath, says
Harper's Bazar, turning its able edi
torial attention to the fat woman's
dress problems. For morning wear,
she has a dainty suit of linen gray
and white hairstrlpe. The muslin
chemisettes worn with this are either
high or low in the neck, and they
extend down the front, forming a
narrow vest. The lace used as trim
ming is laid on flat; loose pleats are
let In the skirt below the knee to give
ease in walking, and to give a flowing
appearance to the lines of the skirt,
which are all perpendicular. Mad
ame, knowing well the charm which
flowing garments lend to her appear
ance, always appears in such guise at
home. For negligee wear this sum
mer she has a gown of fine white
batiste, trimmed with bias bands
of pale blue and English embroidery.
The trimming of any of her gowns
is invariably flat, and her house
gowns trail gracefully all around.
Harnessing a River.
The gigantic task of harnessing the
St. Joseph River and converting Its
power Into electrical current for com
mercial purposes, began several years
ago through the proposed erection of
sjx mammoth daniB, Is being carried
forward to a successful termination,
through beginning of operations re
cently, on the fourth big structure of
the series, a monster dam at Berrien
Springs, Mich. Much of the power
now used lu South Bend, Mishawaka,
Elkhart and Ooshen, lnd., and Nlles,
Buchanan and Berrien Springs, Mich.,
Is derived from the St. JoBepb River.
Pluns are now being formulated for
the distribution of power to va:4ous
other cities in Indiana and Michigan,
so that it is easily seen that when the
river Is completely harnessed, as it Is
bound to bo, the effect will be wide
spread. The project means that wheu
the great task Is completed most man
ufacturing concerns of this section
will then be using power generated
from the St. Joseph River.
Always at Liberty.
"And you say that you follow two
of the most popular professions?"
said the kind lady in the wayside cot
tace. as ahe handed out a ehlcknn
sandwich and a saucer of strawber
ries. "Yea, mum," replied Bandy Pikes,
doffing his frayed panama. "In win
ter I am a baseball player, and In
summer I am an actor. Dat Is why '
never work." Chicago News.
Gloves In Summer.
I We learn that the feminine fashion
In Newport this Summer Is to go
j about ungloved. The same fashion
j has long prevailed at Cottage City
; and other favorite resorts. The ob
ject of wearing gloves iB threefold:
I First, to keep the hands warm; sec
j ondly, to keep them clean (hence tho
commuter's summer hand covering) ;
j thirdly, to hide the hands.
Tho feminine hands of Newport are
shapely and clean, and there Is no
reason for hiding them. The same
Is true of the feminine hands of Cot
tage City. The climate of both places
In summer is sufficiently salubrious
to render gloves unnecessary for the
j purpose of warmth. Wherefore we
: applaud the women of Newport for
adopting the fashion of Cottage City.
But It tho glrlB are going to dls
j card gloves, let them discard them
! altogether. The habit of going about
with the arm part of a long glove In
place, and the hand thrust out of it,
lending to the wriBt a distressingly
pachydermatous appearance. Is un
lovely and deplorable. Editorial In
the New York Times.
Great Memorial to Victoria.
Six more years must pass before
the great memorial to Queen Victo
ria, which is to be erected in front of
Buckingham Palaoo, can be com
pleted. Slow progress on the gigantic
work for the last six years has caused
much public criticism from time to
time, and the king. It Ib said, recently
expressed himself as disappointed
that greater progress had not been
made. Leading sculptors, who are
familiar with the magnitude of the
undertaking, say that It cannot be
completed before 1913, and that
twelve years Ib not much time to put
on a piece of work of such size and
magnificence. The central figure of
the memorial will be a statue of
Queen Victoria, thirteen feet high,
dressed In her robes of slate, seated
amid groups symbolical of the per
sonal and imperial qualities which
made her reign bo Illustrious. On
her right will be Justice, on her left
truth and at her back motherhood.
The memorial will contain twelve
great groups of figures and I mi pan-
4 els. The pedestal, with Its plluth.
will be seventy feet high. The cost
has been fixed at $1,250,000.
baby puckored up for a cry. Even
the most hard-hearted will rush to
give a baby what ho is crying for.
And what Is the result? A race of
children who cry for everything they
want.
Let not the woman who, at a mo
ment's notice, can drop tears at Silas
Wegg dropped Into poetry be con
founded with the woman who enjoys
what we call a "good cry." Even the
strongost women sometimes need the
safety-valve of tears. These women,
however, cry for the sake of their
health and not for graft, and never,
never do It In public.
A woman who needs nnd who takes
a good cry Is alwayB a little ashamed
of it, and generally snenks off by
herself where sho can ever sob out
loud without disturbing the neigh
bors, and where the luxury of two
pocket handkerchiefs and red eyes
and a storm-devastated countenance
will not affect either the price of
storks or the happiness of the family.
In an hour Buch a womnn emerges
radiant, smiling, refreshed and strong
enough to take up the burden of life
and stand straight under It.
With a weak and selfish womau,
tears In public are a weapon for
graft. With a strong-souled and un
selfish womau, tears In private are a
tonic, a safety-valve and a rofuge.
New Haven Register.
Poor American Women!
"Tho man In America may correct
his wife when he can, Just us the
mother may correct her daughter
when she dares," walls Mr. Henry
James In Harper's Bazar; "but no
more man may correct a mere women
In any contingency whatever, since
this undermines the whole theory of
queenshtp at which we have already
glanced. He has abdicated his right
to take his stand on what pleases
him, and can accordingly but shift It
all ruefully. In the service of his
mate, to those perilous ledges which
represent all the admonitory margin
now left him. In societies other
than ours the male privilege of cor
rection springs, and quite logically,
from the social fart that tho male Is
the member of society primarily act
ing and administering and primarily
listened to whereby his education,
his speech, his tone, his standards
and connections, his general 'compe
tence,' as I have called it, color the
whole air, react upon his companion,
and establish for her the principal
relation she recognizes. The ques
tion of her speech as the simplest
Illustration floods, for instance, my
whole contention with light; Just as
the question of her talk follows it
very close. Supreme thus In any
atmosphere of the 'liberal' education
tho law that the man claiming to be
accepted as civilized Bhall speak as a
gentleman, and vital therefore the
testimony he so renders.
"It Is from his maintenance of It
that the woman, as n social creature,
gets her lead and her cue and her
best sanction for her maintenance of
hers; since she Is never at all thor
oughly a well-bred person unless he
has begun by having a sense for it
and by showing her the way."
Week's cleverest eartoou by Trigga, in the New York Press.
ALTON B. PARKER ASSAILS CENTRALIZATION
Says the Constitution Specificallj Detines How Far Government Cai Go At American Bar
Confention Judge Tells ot Attempt to "Despoil Si, 9."
Portland, Me. At the thirtieth annual meeting of themerican Bar
Association President Alton B. Parker, of New York, was louVy applauded
as he arose to make his annual address. He assailed the centralization theo
ries. Speaking of the activity along the line of regulating corporations, he
said in part:
"Now, he who surveys the action of the legislative and executive de
partments of the State governments during the last few months cannot with
truth say that they have been Inactive during this period. Nor can he say
that the Federal Government Iras been more active or more drastic In its
action than have the States.
Tears.
How early babies learn the tyran
ny of weakness! Nobody can bai'r to
soe the little velvet face ot a pretty
A Point of View.
i Miss Marie Corelli has been repri
manding her erring sisters with a
good deal of severity in the pages of
Harper's Bazar. She has had so much
fault to find with them that her
scoldings have lasted for weeks. She
has stood them In corners, with their
faces to tho wall, and lectured them
on the foolishness and the naughti
ness of their wayB. With a rod In
one hand and a dunce-cap in the
other, she has meted out discipline
to all.
Especially has Miss Corelli chidden
and slapped those perverse women
who want to play an open game in
politics, who seek that forbidden
fruit, the franchise. She says they
scream, and yell, and brandish um
brellas which la certainly very
wrong; and that they are "libelous
caricatures of effeminate men."
which Is certainly much to be re
gretted. She points out to them that
a vote apiece Is no great thing after
all; for that, as matters now stand,
sho has fid, or fifty male voters at
her beck and call, ready to do pre
cisely as she bids them.
This statement throws a lurid light
on English local politics. What aro
our American bosses compared to
this leading lady? What are our
shackles compared to this unques
tioning submission? What are
our stupidities compared to the en
feebled Intellects of those forty or
fifty obedient Saxon voters? Miss
Corelll's whole view of the situation
Is unusual; but then one must admit
that her experience is unusual, too.
"The clever woman," she says, "sits
at home, and, llko a meadow spider,
spreads a pretty web of rose and gold,
spangledwlth diamond dew. Files
or men tumble in by scores, and
she holds them all prisoners at her
pleasure with a silken strand as fine
as a hair. Nature gave her at birth
the 'right' to do this; and, if she does
It well, she will alwayB have htr web
full."
It is very interesting; especially
when one remembers that the mea
dow spider oats her files, and, later
on, eats her spider husband, too. It
sounds like tho kind of thing that
Madame de Pompadour might have
thought, but would have been far
too clever to say. It Is the novelist's
outlook upon our simple workaday
world. Does it ever occur to Miss
Corelli that an unpretending woman
might feel herself entitled to her own
vote, without having the falnteat am
bition to control fifty male voter; or
that a woman of ordinary parts
might find captive fllee the least in
spiriting ot companions. Ague
Repplier, in Life.
Officials and others have suggest-
ed various schemes having for their
object the bringing of railroads, other
corporations and interests under the
exclusive control of the Federal Gov
ernment. To that end national Incor
poration has been proposed, as has
also a Federal license system
"The object which their advocates
have In view Is undoubtedly laudable.
But that is not enough, if in the ex
ecution of their plans they violate the
Federal Constitution and directly
lead toward the destruction of our
dual government.
"Every power with which it was
deemed necessary to endow the Na
tional Government was given to it
and in the exercise of these it was
made supreme. To prevent any pos
sible assertion by the National Gov
ernment of inherent, powers, those
assigned to It were carefully and ex
pressly enumerated.
"But to avoid even the possibility
ot a contrary claim, the Constitution
was at once amended by the addition
of ten articles every one of which
operated as a restraint upon the Na
tional Government. The last one, es
tablishing beyond even the possibility
of cavil that the National Government
is limited to the powers specified In
the Constitution creating It, reads:
'The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to tho States,
are reserved to tho States respective
ly or to the people.' Other powers
have since been granted, and in the
future still others may be given, but
the Constitution as it now stands for
bids the exercise of any powers other
than those granted by It. It leaves
no room for finding in the language
of the Constitution a claim that there
are certain unmentloned and inherent
powers which the Federal Govern
ment may exercUe. ,
"The attempts on the part of the
Federal Government to despoil the
States of the powers and functions
belonging to them will not tend to
smoothness In the working of our
dual schema of government. Already
it has had its effect. The Indignation
of the governing forces of many of
the States Is already aroused. It Is
shown in the legislation of the year.
It had not a little to do, In my Judg
ment, with the recent conflict of judi
cial authority In North Carolina."
NOW THE BRITON MAY LEGALLY WED DEAD WIFE'S SISTER
Famous Bill Becomes a Law After Centuries oi Legislation-House of Lords Always Objected
Until King Edward Came to the Rescue.
London. Marriage with a deceased wife's slater has finally become le
galized In Great Britain.
The House of Lords, by a vote of 98 to 54, passed the oft-defeated bill
at its third reading, thereby making such marriages legal.
Throughout the battle in the House of Lords the opposition was headed
by Lord Salisbury's relatives, the Cecils. Both Sir Hugh and Robert Cecil
used every trick known to parliamentary procedure to prevent a vote from
being reached.
The law relieves the matrimonial difficulties of a number of English
peers, retrospectively legitimatizing their children.
These murriages, though lawful in i In 1847 to examine tho marriage
the colonies, were void in England
The whole country rejoices in the
passage of the bill Into law.
King Edward notified the Lords
that he thought the bill should pass,
and this had much to do with Its go
ing through.
The passage of the Deceased Wife's
Sister's bill ends a remarkable legis
lative Btruggle, dating back to the
early history of the church.
Previous to 1533 marriages of con
sanguinity and .iiin.it v were wholly
govered by canon law and such mar
riages from 1533 to 1835 were void
able. In the latter' year the Lynd-
hurst act made past marriages of af
finity valid and future marriages
void. The House of Commons at first
rejected the prohibitory clause as re
gards marriage with a deceased wife's
sister, but afterward accepted it.
A royal commission wan appointed
lielmont and Ryan Fall Out.
1 Friends of August Belmont and
Thomas F. Ryan practically admitted
there was a grave breach between the
two financiers, aud an effort by the
Belmont Interest in the Interbor
, ough-Metropolltan to throw the Met
i ropolltan Street Railway system of
New York City back on Mr. Ryan's
bands was predicted.
Money Market Relief.
Becreta.y of the Treasury Cortel
you i.tuounced a new plan for money
market relief.
Marriage used to be considered a
lottery, but now It seems to be a
nme of skill.
The National Game.
The Newark Club, of the Eastern
League, has released outfielder Dick
Herlnquez.
The Montreal Club has signed out
fielder James Snowden.of the defunct
Du Bole Club.
Jltu McGuIre occasionally goes
scouting for playors for li.s Boston
American team.
The Reading Club, of the Trl-State
League, has signed pitcher Fertsch,
lute ot Lancaster.
The Torre Haute Clun, of the Cen
tral League, has signed pitcher Geo.
Scott, late of Wheeling.
laws, and from 184 9 up to the present
attempts were made, both In the
House of Lords and the House of
Commons, to pass the bill.
As a rule the Commons have car
ried the bill by a large majority, but
it has been thrown out by the Lords,
through the aggressive opposition of
the bishops and a few ultra-eccleslas-tlcal
lay peers, although King Ed
ward, when Prince of Wales, set the
example of voting for It.
On August 20 last, after prolonged
and animated debate the House of
Lords, by 111 to 79 voteB, passed the
second reading of the Deceased Wlfo'a
Sister's bill, the minority including
every one of the seventeen bishops
who are members of the House of
Lords, and as the measure had pre
viously passed the House of Com
mons this session It now becomes
law.
Mrs. Burled Alive.
Mrs. Susan Dills and her sixteen-year-old
grandson, James Cope, were
buried alive in a mica (nine near
Sylva, N. C. They werastilltlng Mr.
Dill's mine, when an excavation oc
curred, and they were smothered to
death.
Haywood's Tour Abandoned.
William D. Haywood, feeling the
strain of the trial through which he
passed In Boise, Idaho, has given up
his proposed tour of tbe East, and
will return to Denver.
Prominent People.
Secretary Taft Is to come home by
way of Siberia and Europe.
Hall Oalne . ays tbat "the Englls'.i
t'rama I not doad and Is not dying."
In ge Austin L. Crothers, t e Dem
ocratic nominee for Go-ernor ft
Maryland, was a farm boy in hla
'.nb. and later taught school for a
number of years before he began the
study of law. He is a bachelor.
Dr Henry Parker Willis, formerly
of Washlugtou and Lee University,
has been selected for tbe chair of
finance at the Oeorge Washington
University.
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