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14 SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT CIouass ENTITLED.
“THE TRAGEDY OF A QUEEN.” :
The Rev. F. F., Shannon Draws a Timely
Lesson From the Story of Vashtie
There Are Few Finer Exhibitions of
Sacrifice in the History of Womanhood
BROOKLYN, N. Y.—For his Sunday
morning sermon, in Grace M. E. Church,
the pastor, the Rev. Frederick F. Shan.
non, had for his theme “The Tragedy of a
Queen.” The text was from Esther i:11-12:
“Bring Vashti the queen before the king
with the crowd Yoyal, to show the people
cand the princes “her beauty: for she was
fair, to lgok_ on. But, the Queen Vashti
réfused to come -at’ the king's’ command-
pe by his chamberlains.” Mr. Shannon
Ae Ahastelus of the hook of Tsther is
the Xerxes of profane. historys- -By-com-
mon consent of historians he was one of
the most powerful * monarchs” that ever
lived. The pages of Herodotus areéfilled
vith .his exploits, and Grote and Rqllin,
also,” dell upon his power and achieve-
Tents ‘in "44 interésting mdnmer: But his
tawdry greatness is: worth.while only as;it
serves to set forth the heroism of Vashti.
Already the centuries” have tarnished the
brilliance of- his, court, buf not. ths heauty
of his queen. Shushan, the palace, ‘exists
only ‘in’ name.” The hundted ’ and four
score -days «during: which he: showed: the
riches of his .gloriqus |. kingdom. and the
yonor of his excellent majesty are less
than -a ‘shadowt’ons thé dial-* Fhe white,
green and blag, hangings, tied. with cords
of purple and. fine linen’to silyer rings ‘in
pillars of murblé ‘perithed ‘lohg avo.” The
gold and silver beds, which sat .upen a
avement of red and blue and white and
black marble, have had no occupants for
more than 2400 years. The golden vessels,
fram which p es quaffed the roy al wine,
are all one w the golden sand grains of
the desért. Tinte is no respectér of. per-
SOBs, If it buries the. €or on things in
“oblivion, that shadow of darkness,” 1t
does not forget to pluck k the spangles from
[th ie: robes of kings, tossing them -mto the
night also. But time cannot dull the beau-
ty of a great soul. Time cantot quench
the flame of a white life. *Time oeanys
stain the snow of a~pure.heart. And. that
is why Queen Vashti and tlie” ‘tragedy of
her life forever hold ‘our: admiration and
our tears. t}
Perhaps, we shall be more capable of
measuring the unfortunate queen by glane-
ing at the monarch she opposed. Ahasue-
rus: possessed, the almosf unlimited power
of an Oriental despot. His will was so-
preme in everything, We find* him here
giving a feast to. his lords and princes.
Having conceived the idea of making war
on Greece, this feast to his subjects is a
step looking: to that end. Whatever he
yndertook usually came to pass. He could
dig a canal through’ he Isthmus of Mount
Athos.” He could build a bridge of igs
across the Hellespont. He could scour,
the sea for its tempestuousness. e cou dq
bedeck the branches ofa tree with jewelry
as a reward for its fruitfulness. He:could
raise an army of more than 2,250,000 men.
He could even shed tears when he re-
flected that in less than a century mot one
of these men would survive, But we have
in our text one thing this monarch could
not do. He could not corapel a helpless
woman to permit him and his drunken
courtiers to make a toy of her beauty. He
could not drag a high-souled queen down
from the pedestal of her stainless: purity!
Consider, in the first place, that the life-
story of Vashti recalls the fact that palaces
have furnished the actors in some of the
darkest, deepest tragedies in history.
‘When Shakspeare wanted material from
which to create his immort al dramas, with
unerring vision the 1.ighty master began
to probe the life history of kings and
queens.. From their laughter and- tears,
from their splendor and shame, from their
rise and fall, he wove a literary tapestry
‘whichis the growing wonder of men: In-
deed, as we watch Shakspeare move .his
reyal«players over hisimental chess: hoard,
we have to exclaim ~with Aeschylus, SW hat
a shadow of a shade is human royalty!”
' Rising in brilliance, these royal stars set
in darkness; and, usually, their: darkness
is “madé more terrible by ~the., ‘ominous
flashings of red lightnings of remorse.
After a palace and its occupants have
passed under ‘SHakspeare’s pen,* “this: is
the ' conclusion gf the w hole matter:
L Threnes- are: painted bubbles, and kings
and -queens are. ‘bubble chaserah: This 1s
not.isaying there -are no good: “kings and
‘queens, because there are. It, is,!rather,
emphasizing ’ the “fact that ‘the “happiest
people are. those ‘who are fortunate enotigh
have .begn, born under ithe stax of
royalty.
We.all know, how the historian, lows to.
dwell upon’ the’ character "&Cleopatra. Be-
yond question, she was. one eof .the most:
captivating women .of paganism. Zescend-
ed from a long line o Kings, royal blood
flowed in her veins, beatity a@oried” her
erson and brilhance sparkled in her
rain. When Nature called for an Egyp-
‘tian queen, this fascinating Greek princess
avas the answer. At fourteen She was an
‘accomplished lingui 5, a student of history
and a skilled musician. At nineteen she
conquered that Caesar who lidd cohguer! ‘ed
the world. Forty-six years before the
Christian era she accompanied him fo.
Rome, where she lived in pomp: and lux-
ury until Caesar’s“adsassination. jin she
returned to Egypt. She met Mark Antony
at twenty- -cigh{—" a period of lifey’ ?? accorgl-
ing to Plutarch, “when woman’s beauty 1s
most splendid and her intellect is dn full
maturity.’ Antony summit to ap-
ear before him in Cilicia, charged wath
aving assisted Cassins before the battle
of Philippi. Unon this imperious sum-
mons hung the destiny of that gifted Ro-
man, and he knew b not. You know
how she answered the summons—not as a
craven culprit, but as the peerless queen
of the south. he went up the Cyduus
in her royal ba: the like of.which was
never beheld before or since. the scene
enthralled the fancy of both Plutarch and
Shakspeare. He who could make words
say what no other man could, had to con-
fess, “For her own person, it beggared all
description.’ Like a burnished throne,
her barge burned on the w ; the poop
was beaten gold; the pm S were §0
perfumed that the SW Jove-sick
with them; the silver oars kent stroke to
the tune of flutes; she was cote hed in a
gold pavilion lik 3 ‘Gvhere we see
| the fancy outworlk nature;”” dimpled boys,
“like smiling Cupids, were standing on
each side fanning her; gentlewomen; like
Nereides, tended her. When she arrived
at the city the peonle rushed out to see
her, leaving Antony alone in ‘the market-
place.
Like the incomparable Julius, she came,
she saw. she conquered! Antony was
dazzled, bewitched, enslaved by this siren
queen. Ever afterward, with Phe possible
exception of three Fe ars, he was her slave.
Not satisfied with lavishing silver sand
gold and precious stones and silks and
works of art upon her, he threw whole
kingdoms at her feet,"as if theyavere so
many Roman forget-me-nots, He was as
helpless in her power as a bird. under the
hypnotic spell of a snake. All-the-werld
knows ‘how, at a critical moment in the
battle of Actium, Cleopatra, . for. .some
unknown reason,. was seen ‘deaving ‘with
her vesse r Beypt. This was ‘a signal
for Antony to bandon the battle and
foll low “his” Sorceress Tor’ strength, she
1 akn ne infatuation. she
pil is deceit. r th ets of loye, she
gave him the eggs of se ons. - For idel-
. she gave n oath: The Egyptian
Delilah had &élip:ed tae locks of this R
man Samson and st not that his
strength was depa 1 him.
So Tar this bewi ring woman has
toyed with sttong men. This child ‘oft
pajace has held the golden, bit of destiny
i i i - ere -
between her teas of pearl ad her ols
have not reined hér id. But her end is
eomingr "After Betraping “Antony; “she re-
tired within.a castlesswhich: had heen built
for, just such an emergency, . She. then sent
er paramour word that “she had killed
herself and-his grief ‘was such that he ‘fell
upon his own sword. But he lived long
enough to discover thai she had deceived
him again. Dying and soaked in his own
blood, he ordered his gervants to carry
him to her mausoleum. .As the only en-
trance’ to hel refredt left unbarred “yas a
window, ke wag drawn. gp by ‘ropes into
her presemest and. died. £And
of ‘her—this actor fron the
xk
upon, Obtg¥fus ©;
prospect of “heir ‘cari
Rome” stared ho iy €
rather than
the Capitoline FH i “he
hand.’ Lacking ‘moral :
face of brass to “the en ;
Unlike the sweet-sounle SI
had no veil of modesty for |
she askedmone for her soul:
Egtyptian®night, she has Jeft
upon the brow of universal
Whiter-fhan the whiteness:
V. ashti, like Shelleygtleroin
virtue adamanting eloaue
path with Eine hed
Consider, also, thatfin i... the trag-
edy of Vashti, Z4ve have to reckon with
Jher beauty, “for. she, was fair {o look, ons’
hen some geriius equal to the task of
writing “a “history “of “beauty appears,” men
and“ wonten will find a perpetual charni in
its glowing pages.. .It. will.contain a page
of joy. a page of (SREEOW., gepage of peace,
a page of war, a page ‘of Tove, a page at
hate, a page of poetry andwa page of art
But it will contain many: Jages developing
this thought—the tragedss Ey
But along with her boy Ashti pos-
that lends
fhe: tragedy.
1 Cleopatra
r face, and
arker. than
y dark "stain
yorvanhood !
: the dawn,
“clothed in
paves her
sessed other quality ich
modesty. Vashti owes her place in history
not so much to her beauty as to ‘her mod-
es. Tf beauty made her a queen, modes-
ty made her a woman, which if far better.
As queen, Xerses could Harish her; as
woman, he was defied by her. As queen,
he could, and did dethpones tas woman,
she sits’ upon” a throne. that has hearts for
ity \cushions, and centuries fop ite pillars.
aD i Pampad ours, the Mon-
: 1 day. and” ceast fo be;
but the Vas go" 0 LCV The. Cly-
temnestres,, he dsiag, fhe’ Cleopatras
are meteors. flashing hrouch the dapRness
of eternal mights* the: Vashtis are gplden
suns During through womanheadis’ and
less day +
Indeed, me oliety is 80° inhercnts an: ele-
ment in the great: essentials makjyg genu-
ine beauty thatewithout modesty. beauty
is impossible. We are indebted #6 mo hu-
man law for this. truth—€tod: ids woven
it into the fabrie of. oir natures. Art
critics tell us that the eighteenth century
was pre-eminentiy the century-of women.
Then, we are told: ‘Her grace possessed
the most prestige, her coquetey-the most
disquieting elegance and. her heauly. the
most trigmphant authority. 22 “Tt wag the
age in which Mme. de Pompodour reiphed
in the court of Louis XV. The brushes of
Latour and Boucher have-ple aded with all
the eloquence of their genius and art to
deify this daring woman. She appointed
Pinisierss ‘she exiled those who incurred
her ill avill, che sentenced to the Bastile
those whoyman séounter to her imperious
wish. Bhe wasithe patroness of sphiloso-
phy, art and ¢ Through her magic
w ‘and Versailles was touched into a dream
of splendor;- which has not yet vanished.
Her collecgion of pictures, crystals, cam-
cos, antiques and gems was unparalleled, in
the kingdom. She squandered fortunes on
her palaces, ‘fetes and ball; and = then
other fortunes on hér tcilet. For twenty
years this butcher’s daughter held her im-
perial sway, which was brolen only by
death, But when the historian tells us
that it was the dream of her girlhood to
seduce the king; that her shameless prodi-
gality makes the cheék of decency burn;
that modes ty found no hospitality among
her sensual charms, we may well repeat
the question of another, “Was La Pom-
padour beautiful, or merely pretty?’ 1In-
PAdetival drawipg. back as. we. would in
the presence of a snake, we answer, °° ‘She
was neither. Shé was a royal har! ot, pa-
raded in gilded shame, lacking most’ of all
that jewel of modesty i sparkles in
the crown of true beauty.” Alas, for that
land whose
modesty to show -
their beautyl® =e
Consider, all Y, the price Vashti paid
for her nogdest For her refusal to come
at the.sing’s eommand wag:phe immediate
the pros and princes
are few. firfer, gh ibitions of sac
history of wt
of: Telesilla,
ye
shameless rivaly” S
the pleastire “ ome 0+ 56 exile
with her husband; of Tuctetin: whotkilled
herself. #ather in’ dikfonor; of
Cornelia the Gracehi
ing them to:deet
leavi ing her,
walk as @&
slums of Re
shines Vasht
Not has histo: |
her dues, Wo ra much -
lived dn the. same Leen tury
who ‘was’ a’ notorious courtesan’
fmmoral Aspasia, who* coun
and Pegicles mcne her on
migers; : of ithe” tre: \cherous
ruléd the court of Marcus’ Aumclins: of
Agrippina, the infamous- mother of still
more infamous son=Nera, Allcqf. these
names have been emblazone ed” high | HP Da
the hall of famé.” But, sa ey enotigh,
events of Vashti’s life, like Sappho’ Ea
haxe heen lost. --And vet these * few
glimpses we have of her in the first and
second chapters of the Bock of Esther
will cinSe Peoples to Jook “at her forever.
She wag:beautiful in 1 the palaee,
and she will be beautiful for all time.
She was fair to look on five cenfiiries be-
tore Christ, and she will be fair to look
on to the last day of the world. It was
Vashti’s beauty of soul that proclaimed
her the forerunner of that renaissance for
which the werld is suffering to-day, viz.
A genuine revival of the old-fas hioned,
homespun, immortal virtue of modesty!
While the Bible says nothine of the
rifice she made, be assured that it was big
with pain. Long nights of sorrow. shut
her in. She knew, the bitterness of friend-
less days. Like Dante, she experienced
how hard it was to eat other’s bréad, But
she took no counsel of her expediehcy.
Let the king's anger burn within him,
the godless court make her a. Taughing-
stock, still ‘Vashti never faltered. She
knew that beyond her Gethsemane, Ascen-
sion = Mouas was robed in . glory.
knew, with all gueenly women of like spir
it, that gates of pat would swing bac to
let her in. and that she youd: march to
another coronation on: high.
alse. embine, to
angel of chanity: thtongh the
b nog ong of os out-
+
The Many Mansions. :
One thing I have desired, that will I
seek after; that I, in my study; yin my
shop; I, in my parlor, kitchen or nur-
sery; 1, in my studio; I, in my lecturc
hall, “may dwell in the house of the Lord
all the days of my-life.” In our “Father's
house are many mansions.” . The zoom
that we-spend angst of our lives Any eac
of us af our tasks or our work tables, mav
be in our Fathers house, too, ant it is
“only we that'cin sceure that it t shall ‘be.—
Alexander Maclaren. on 9 3
ca a
Be Humble,
I charge my thoughts be 1 humble still;
And Tall my conduct m
Content, my+Father, Reh
And quiet as a child.
{ Unite, my roving thoughts
| In silence soft and swee
|
|
And*thou; my Soul, sit ger
At thy great Sovereign’s.feet.
—Doddridge.
beauty an Siding freshness and charm— |
women forsake i veils ‘of
cause of het dethronement. OR 5 “there
| Hospital at
1 “Rocrates
ng of ad-
a, who’
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINS
FOX HUNT A SUCCESS.
Sf 2
Hundreds. of Farmers Took Part and
Reynard ‘Was Killed. After a
held - today
I HE oven %k, ~Greeme#. county.
100 foxes were turned loose af-
ie fox was liberated at 11 oielock
and: for three hours the humt was
kept. up-.before the-quarry. was brought
“to ha¥ lim a kellowstree and killed. All
the hu I were on horseback ang
the chdge was the largest ever held in
Sti te state. The whole
countrystie took 0liday. for the
md at Every farmhouse after
the fox was caught a sumptuous Tepast
was served, to. wis hunters Ed their
friends from other points. e fox
hunt is an annual affair at a creek
and with the exception of the annudél
| one at Zoar, O., is the most nigerian
oné in, his ‘section,
Application’ ‘had: Peon" iAnde He" Tir
ly Coal and Coke comipany,-a«$1,008
000 corporation, whose main office is
to be at Johnstown, where at least
half the capital stock will be held.
The new' company proposes the oper-,
ation of 3,500 acres of coal. land at
Forwardstown and Thomas Mill, ‘in
Somerset county. The promnioters al-
so propose a trolley line to Bens
Creek, there to “connect” with the
Johnstown Passenger Railway« com-
A contemplated ,con-
Johnstown ‘directly with Boswell:
Blair Kennerly, of Philadelphia, ‘and
H. Light, of Lebanon, are among
the promoters.
Gov S.'W. Pennypacker fixed Feb-
ruary. 16: for the execution’ of, Mrs.
Kate Edwards,;s«the Berks 8 Heounty
murderess, and her negro acegomplice,
Samuel Greason. The wWOomag’'s hus-
band, John” Edwards, was murdered
nearly four years ago. The .@ase has
been before th& pardon bodrd* repeat-
edly and was also before the Supreme
court. The Pennsylvania Legislature
passed a bill at the last session which
intended to apply to this case
eich permitted .the.courts, to review
newly discovered evidence on appli-
cation for new trials in murder cases.
Every effort, however, to free &ithefr
the woman or her acoompiice op
od ib
The report of the purchase of more
than 1,000 acres of Connellsville coal
land from J. V. Thompson, the Union-
town banker, by the H. C. Frick Coke
Company, is confirmed. The land lies
in North and South Union townships,
near Uniontown. The. deal includes
63 acres in the Klondyke region and
100 ovens, known as the Crossland
plant, and all buildings and equip-
ment. The ovens are located near
Uniontown. The price is not positive-
ly known, but it is said to be in the
neighborhood of "$1,000,000. The com-
pany, it is understood, will not ‘de-
velop the land for years.
A systematic effort is to be made
to put a ‘stop to lawlessness at ‘the
town of Enterprise, two miles from
Washington: The village of but a few
hundred inhabitants is practically
owned by the Enterprise Coal: €om-
pany.’ More cases from’ this, little
village have “eome within | thet last
any othHér ‘point in tHe -eétinty. The
county aithorities’ will" take" up the
matter fas, tablish a strpy force: of
to wandering two dayssen the moun-
1 Mower died at: the< County JInsane
Altoona.
demented, from worrying over
his wife’s death and las, § turday es-
caped, from, his home. 3 en discov-
ered” ‘at Ehrenfield,” Te ‘county,
he ‘was nearly- starved. He had gon-
tracted a 01d, which Gove into
preumonfa.
In a fight, over a ‘Woman in“a Te-
sort af’ "Shoupton, a suburh-of. Canons-
burg, [William Hayden was shot and
fatally hurt by Henry Skinner. "The
two, with three éthers, were: playing
cards when Hayden spoke. slighting-
ly of a girl ‘with whom Skinner was
enamored. . The latter resented the re-
mark and ‘drawing a revolver: shot
Hayden "through the right breast.
Skinner fled, but was captured by. the
police:
Rev. Tio’ Benze, who for eight
years has, been pastor of the English
Lutheran. church at Zelienople, has
accepted a call’ extended to him by
the ¥mnglish: Lutheran congregation
of McKeesport. The Zelienople
church accepted his resignation under
protest.
At Plans, a suburb of Wilkesbarre,
Rdébert Elliot plunged a knife into
the neck of John Clarke. The jugu-
lar veingwas: severed and ‘in one min-
ute : Clarke.was dead. Elliot claims
he used the knife in self-defense.
Elliot surrendered to the oficery and
was gommitied ta, Jail.
An explosion of: molten Stil at
furnace “J” in the Edgar Thomson
steel works,, Braddock; resulted in
he death of two men and the injury
of several others. One man was kill-
ed almost instantly and another died
while being taken to Mercy: hospi-
tal. te }
Stephen. 'Pushart, John : Brinkush
and Martin .Poblish were: held up on
the oufskirts of Lansford and beaten
by four mien armed with black jacks.
Pushart was killed and’ Brinkush is
beligved to be fatally. injuted. Po-
blish escaped. -
Jacob Gondeli: of. Washington, a
steel worker, claims he was“assaulted
by foreigners 1 was rob bed of $100.
ormation against two
ssailants, who, he says,
came
of his alle
he
: Frank Odell, of Wheatland, who
was run down by. a trainsinear his
home, died from his injuries. « Odell
was 40 yea old and was molder at
the S Sharon fou: ndry. i
At a Christmas celebration at New
Castle, six Hungari
with clubs and knives as a result of
free-for-all fight: ‘A number .of arrests
were. made.
ridBure for 4 tharter for the Kenneérs
year” into Criminal Court than ‘from’
Suffering: from - exposure Bt
tains 4n a .halfclad cangdition,. Frank :
. Mower. .be-
5 were wounded | S
k
‘opin ions to whic
OLD-TIME MANNERS.
The: ‘Dress of Men and Vomen in“the
Reign of George I.
In “Social England” the following
appears as indicating the exaggerated
courtesy eof fashionable people early
in the ‘18th’ century: “Chesterfield
teaches - ‘that it is boorish to congratu-.
late a friend upon his approaching
marriage with merely ‘I wish you joy;
Bel
| when he should have’ said:
me, my déar Sir, Ihave scareely, }
to express the joy I feel upon.
happy alliance with such’ and sucha
family.!\ THe ‘compliment of- condo}
ence’ on a bereayement should not.
‘I am Sorry r your loss,’ buf ‘T° hope,
sir, vou will do mé¢ the justice to
persuaded ‘that -f.am not.insensible
your ugha pings, that T' fake part in
your. distres
ed: when you are so.’ «Hissehild began
his lessons in: breeding” at .nine -years
old, having*'till then learned: Latin,
Greek, French, history and geography.
He -terwarned to'beware of using. pro-
verbial “sayings in ‘his speech, such
as Ore Ma's meat ‘is g#neéther man’s
poison,’ or “Every one to tis taste 'as
the 266d man said’ when: he-kisgéd the
cow.’ He must attend "the grateful
motion of his arnis, the manner of put-
ting on hi§ hat and ‘givifig' his hand.
Horace. Walpole's entrance: into-a
room is described’ by.an eye-witness
as ‘in the style ‘ot affected delicacy
which fashion has: made almost nats
ural, chapeau bras, between his hands
as if-he wished to eompress- it or un-
der his arm, and fect on tiptees as if!
afraid of a wet floor, 19.
During the reign of King George E,
Lord Hervey, a ‘cultured. man, gave
this description of, the fine dress of a
distinguished woman:
of Queensbery’s clothes pleased. me
most; they were white satin embroids
ercds.:the bottom of the = petti¢oat,
brown: hills, covered with all:sorts of
weeds, and every breadth had an old
stump of a free. that, Jan alu nost_ to the
top of the _petticoa { ‘broken and rag
ged. and worked. with brown chenilles,
round which -twined anasturtinms, . FV,
honeysuckles, periwinkles, convoluses
and all sorts of .twining vines, which
spread.and covered . the, petticoate.
Many of the leaves are . finished in
gold, -and vart of the stumps of trees
rooked like: the gilding of the sun.”-,
At the same period, says the author
of "“Soeidl England,” ‘a fashionable
gentleman ordinarily “wore a toupee
of curls raised high over his forehéad.
For daily wear most gentlemen were
dressed like’ George, [—dark tie, wig,
plain eoat, waistcoat and breeches of
snuff-colored cloth ‘and stockings of
the same color; for ceremony, like
Horace Walpole, in a lavender suit,
the waistcoat embroidered with a lit-
tle silver, or of white silk embroidered
in the tambour frame, partridgs silk
stockings, gold buckles, ruilles, lace
frill and powdered wig. The linen for
shirts was bought in Holland, costing
from 10 to i4 shillings the English
ell.”—New . Haven Register.
An Indian Custom.
When an Indian girl dies her mother
often substitutes a doll for her little
one. She fills the empty cradle with
feathers, arranged in the form of the
child, and carries this around. with
her wherever she goes, “talking to it
and caressing it as she Foul} her lov-
ing child.
If she does not do this, ‘she ties in
a tight” puiiale the toys, clothes and
armlets which “Belonged to “ner little
one, and, fastening this to the cradlé
board, carries it as’ she. had formerly
done her child, The Ojibways call
these “unlucky, dolls,” ...pegause they
yepresent.the dead... | . wo.
- Thesrreason: the. Indian: mother car-
ries her “doll” in this pathetic’ way
5 “Because she thinks that the’ little
&hild*is ‘too small to :firdits way ‘to
Paradise.” By substituting the dol it
will help along until the* dead baby !
has grown "large enough to make its
way to the spirit ‘1and’ alone; at least,
this {S™WiFt the Indian mother be-
lieves.
The children of the Passamaquoddy
tribe of Indians play with a doll not
more than a couple of inches -high. In
fact, it’ig"smaller than the word which
means dol}; for this word is “ampsku-
dahekanek.” One had almost rather
to be.obliged to call them by such an
outlandish name, don’t ycu thimk so?
Just fancy a ‘wee papoose crying, 7}
| body.
want an ampskudahekanek!”
The Sioux doll is. made of chamois |
and deerskin: - The curious thing about |
{ farmers operated 4,970,129 Jarms in
it is that it is perfectly flat. To judge
from this one might think
Sioux babies were
are as 'round
children you ever saw.—Boston Trav-
eler.
Justice Harlan Dissents.
- Justice Harlan, according to a story
sold by -a Philadelphia lawyer, has a
queer humér of his own. He is a mem-
ber of the faculty of-the Columbia law
school, and a night or two ago. was
talking at the school with Judes Peele
of the district eo
“1 wish ir.
Peele, “that you
clerk
recent decisions of the supreme court.”
«All right,” Justice Harlan replied.
Then he asked abruptly: “Do you want
these cases in which I
enting opinions?’
judge
your
Justice”
would have
“] assume some. of the cases
under that said Jud
“You frequently do disser 1 know.”
- not send them,” snorted
3 +1 shall not-be re-
Lead,”
1 g dissemination,
law as appears se. majori
ented.”
Philagd
and. shall, ever be, affect
“The Duchess
{ through
] { They are not only performed; by fe
go without make-believer babies than |
that the
systematically
starved.” This is not the case, for they |
and fat and jolly as any |
| 244 owned. their entire farm,
i 515- were part owners.
send me copies of some of the |
| the future.
| jections of. the.exterior of the
rendered dis- |
+ so that in the emergency
| the neighborhood of the building the
i SEriniclers may be thrown-inte opera-
} parte of ‘the * wall, 1d the
_| kept wet a all the t ri
MAPS ON UNIFORM SCALE.
Government Urged ‘to: Map+ All Their
Possessions on One Scale.
The international geographical con-
gress, at its recent meeting ‘in’ New
York asked the government to make
a zeneral map of America on 4 scale
of 1:1,000,000. t the . present time
three ait are producing maps
on this scale; “svhich will cover about
one-fourth of the land surface of the
globe. 7 If the- Wnited States “should:
make a similar map. of the .whole of
America it wonld include nearly one-
third Jf the arca of the entire land
surface. :
Within the last thirteen years tour
of these. international , congresses.
have done all they corld to promote
the making of such a'map. There is
need for it: No'umiform map. of the
entire land suzface exists on a scale
large enough to serve many practical
and scientific ‘purposes. “There are
many maps of parts of the lands on a
far larger scale, as for example nearly
all of Europe, large tracts of North
America, and parts of Africa; but a
map of ‘all the lands on a uniform
scale is also highly desirable for many
purposes,
As Professor Penck has shown; none
of the :large colonjal powers has yet
Ot a man of all its ,passessions
on the same scale. It is difficult,
therefore, tc get a clear idea of the
proportionate size of différent parts of
these empires. It is not easy for the
geographer to comparé different coast
lines, river basins, hays and so on, un-
less he has them before him on ade-
quate maps of uniform scale. Here is
an illustration. ‘The Germans are now
mapping China on a scale of 1:1,000,-
000; just as the French - are. mapping
the ‘AntiHes. - With the proper sheets
of each map in our hands we may at
once get the right idea+as to the com-
parative size of the areas embraced in
our war with Spain and in the pr osent .
struggle in the Orient. :
When we speak of a ‘map scale of
1:1, 000, 000, we ‘mean that one inch on
the map equals 1,000, 000 inches in na-
ture; or, in other words, that an inch
on the map is ecuivalent to 15.7 stat-
ute miles. This is not a large scale,
but it would be far more adequate for
the general purposes. of the geograph.
er; the merchant, or the tourist than
any map we now ‘have cf the United
Statés. Our government survey maps
are on too large a scale to be conven-
ient for many ordinary purposes, and
our best map for general use, madc in
Germany, by the way, is too small. Its
scale is 58.2 statute miles to an inch,
and though the map contains as much
accurate information as it can hold, it
is too small to show.all the details de-
sired by the student * or traveler, or
needed to give an adequate impression’
of the grandeur of the country; —New
York Sun.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Consular reports say that California,
prunes have been sent to France, re-
packed there and brought back over
the Atlantic as the genuine Gallic pro:
duct.
‘While our house of representatives
had 236 lawyers in its membership
(since increased to 386) the British
house of commons had but 129 lawyers
in a total of 670, and the, French
chamber 139 lawyers among 584 des
puties. r « Sy a
Tn Russia the native insurance coms
panies which do the major part.of the
country’s business, insure the lives of
single wolhtn “and Atidows,* butiat a
higher rate than those of men, and
married women are-onky-dééepted in
ease their husbands are, also insured,
: A CO, put fo ‘pasture’ in “West Han
over, Mass, “cold bt “be’fgund B¥ ner
owner, Chatles Knot, Mast “September,
and it was supposed she had strayed
away. Her dead body. swags found re:
cently. The animal had: pushed her
way through the rungs; of a ladder,
and being’ unable to extritate it hed
| starved. to death. ;
A naturalist has. bet aking obs Sod
vations .on the toilets of _gertain ants
and has discovered each Insect i
most elaborated: Pt
self, but by another, who‘acts: for %he
time as lady’s maid. The ;assistant
starts by washing the face of her com-
panion, and then goes over, the whole
The 1900 census shows that white
with a total of 798,908:
acres, and valued at $19, To 431 -
88, exclusive of products. Negroes
porated 746,717 farms, including 38.-
33,933 acres; and ea at $499,943 -
734 Indians had 19,810 farms valued
at $38,239,478, Chinese: 1842 - farms,
thi s country,
| Japanese 570 and Hawaiians 489. Of
the entire number of farmers, 3,149,
and 45%;-
A Blanket of Water.
One of the large department stores
of Pittsburg, which has several times
! been damaged by flames which started
in adjoining properties, has been equip-
ped with a protective scheme whieh
will prevent any such occurrence in
All the windows and pre-
strue-
ture ‘have been’ fitted with sprinkiers,
of:a fire in
tion ar d from the
Th
tlc T 8S
entire
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