: 2 Jb hl Eadie TA i ra) ar vil RP Se or er LE og + ia oe oy nr ChE wl “in 3 2 soe 5 Hina A AR AR HEY EXPECT TO DO AT THE 1 the women of America take as futerest in their own progress as Bh mows do in theirs the city of Atlanta fs going to see this fall a gathering of jn 80 great that it will astonish the antry. “The women managers of the Cotton States and International exposi- nm ooncladed more than a year ago wt they would have the finest exhibi- m of women’s work that the world g over known, and it looks now as if oy wonld supoeed, in this grand ré- ih solve. There is not a field of feminine pndeavor bat that has been looked aft- E ‘by the tireless committees of the posrd, and will consequently be repre- pemted in first class style. The board of wemen managers of ihe nta fair propose to clearly demon- the fact that the American wom- sm in the past 50 years has done more for progress and civilization than two- thirds of the population of the globe. We had a faint glimpse of this truth at Pel two years ago; we then found yat our modest fellow conntrywomen a gotten ahead in astrogomv and ganls | 087; 1m egypiology and Greek sntiqni- ties, in art and architecture, in music c and literature, as well as in humbler . endedvors, but the story was then only f£ Ftially told. = The women of Atlanta ve taken the hint, and where Chicago 8 page they intend to fill a vol- 1 I¢ is impossible to bestow the credit of this magnificent undertaking upon any pagticular one of the 41 superb types of southern womanhood, who for 18 months, day and night, have lent ovary ‘yemowngd success. There is credit due $0 Mrs. Joseph Thompson, the beantifu! sccomplished chairman of the gard; to Mrs. Maud Andrews Ohl, pet, litterateur and scholar; to Mrs Mrs. A. B. Steele, keen, true and fféct as the metal of her name; to a: Lon. M. Gordon, writer, thinker savant; to Mrs Henry Wilson, the pg and lovable, to whom agri- 8d and does its work smoothly, y and effectively. Itis impossible | ribe hore all that they have ac- “There is to be an interesting exhibit pin Great Britain, where much inter- nanifested in the Atlanta World's ir, and which will send a large nom- Jeading wornen as visitors across | posan next month. Lady Henry Som- it hias promised to attend, and among hers who are expected the Countess Carlisle, the Duchess of Bedford, gt Mryg Hereford Russell, Baroness te- and Mrs. Hannah Whi- mith are nombered. The English of the fair will be mainly in charge ta. Anne Morton Lave, a brilliant n literary woman who hag been pmieiled in London. Sho is‘well ywi to the American reading public, ‘better known in the British capi-. jere she is looked up to as one of writers of the land. Mrs. is a very comprehensive p, and consists in interesting British so that they will send exhibits, especially those which be characteristic of the United ates and in attracting general atten- id 1 palbe circles of London. awwone 1s pstrer qualified ior tis pur. ith literary, musical, dramatie ad political people of the British capi- ‘visiting circles of any one there. 3% is possible that there will be ‘han ne exhibit from & very extraor- xy English woman, Miss Charlotte of Maachester. She was left ‘upon her own resources when a mere girl some years ago. She had already poeived honorable mention in her stnd- pr her tasteful work, and deter- to devote herself to domestic art, ing household decoration, carved furniture and the like. Bhe carried off number of prizes at fairs at Manches- ger, Liverpool and London, became fa- mons within two years, and put the igh touch upon her career by secur- fag the contract for decorating the fa- mous ocean greyhound Campania. ~~ This work will make an addition to that of our American women. In each land the progress of the sex has been magnificent, and it is difficult to deter- ae which of the two nations is ahead : im matters of this sort. In the last five years we have passed the English, in quantity shat is to say, we have more We 's exchanges and do a larger of business in woman's work, 5 ve women's schools, classes and than they. In quality, however, s indications are not so open, but it © {is believed generally hero, and Yery ly on the other side of the Atlan- tio, that we have also beaten them in ~~ this —New York Journal “WHERE SHE RULES. : the Western States. In Colorado the new woman has re- ceived more public recognition in the way of election to important offices than have been elected to minor offices for 13 years, but, with the exception of Mrs. Lease, none of them has been called to | higher than village or township offices. A Mrs. Mace King has just been nomi- nated, however, for register of deeds in Dickinson county, of which Abilene is the seat. : of public instruction is Mrs. A. J. Pea- ‘vey. The state commissioner of dairy inspection is a Mrs. Clemmer, who, dis- covering since election that the duties of the position are onerous and often distasteful, has appeinted her husband prowls about looking for contraband oleomargarine she remains at her coun- try home, looks after the children and month to draw Ler salary. The secretary of the state board of hortionlture is Mrs. Martha A. Shute. fhe New Womss Pushing Her Way Tu | in any other state. In Kansas women | "In Colorado the state superintendent : a deputy, with full powers. While he | INKER, NO RANTER |/KEIR HARDIE, THE ENGLISH LABOR || LEADER, 18 SOMEWHAT SURPRISED. $ | rast Mot Busokie Tia Pipe Tn Detmonteys. | Our Treatment of Colored Folks Also Surprised Him--Meets Some Rich and | ydie New Yorkers. oh | Mr. Keir Hardie, who represents the | workingmen of England, is now in | American to see or country and make a | few spenches ey Since his arrival he has been de- | nounced by patriotic reporters because he does not think the elevated railroads i an ornament to sgreat ¢ity and becanse | he has said that he thought there were some mien in America who were not | very rich. : : ; | Mr. Hardie spoke the other night at . the Social Reform club in Naw York { Ho made a shart speech. After his | speech was dose I usked him to see only journeys down to Denvér each some of the other sides of New York, i and he was good enough to go abent { with me and see what I wanted to show him. | STORIES OF THE DAY. | and New Mexico. Over in the San | | himself that no one could take liberties | She is an expert in her profession. In| We went to Delmeonico's, where pla- | the new state of Wyoming most of the toorata and workingmen have spent counties have had women as schotl su- | gheir beautiful gold for many years, perintendents for years, but Mrs. Estel- | and wo went to the Stewart palace, 1a Reed, state superintendent of schools, | now the Manhattan club, where old A. sleoted last fall, was the first woman to! 7 Stewart lived and felt uncomforta- hold a state office. North Dakota has a! ple, and where his widow slowly died. state superintendent of schools in Mrs | Now abont Mr. Hardie himself. As Dr. Mary Barker Bates. None of the! 4 representative of a great élass he is. ‘ers, but all are up to date in all other SUIT FOR SLAVE MONEY. ty-seven Years Since. George A. Hill, a colored lawyer of slave owner in Tennessee, died in 1858. Included in his estate were 13 slaves. The heirs brought the slaves to Illi- nois, and it is claimed that at Geneva, Tlls., they were sold to.William Ferre, who is made the defendant in this suit William Lewis, the plaintiff, is a2 son of Samus! Lewis. He claims that he never transferréd his interest in the in the sum of $5,000. pi William Lewis is a resident of Chi- bons who sat at the royal table at the recent marriage used speaking trurapets. | Of such is the royal caste of Europe. — | ‘Philadelphia Press. Revised Psalm of Life. At 20, when a man is young, he thinks he knows it all; he likes to wag | his active tongue and exercise his gall; | he struts around in noble rage; the | world is all his own; he laughs to scorn | the world of age and [ists to self alone; | he wears a window in his eye to see his | whiskers grow; he thinks the ladies pine and die because they love him so. At 40, as you may sappose, he’s knuckled down to biz: tis not till 60 that he knows how big a chump he is.~~Cam- Baby With Two Heads. | ‘Mrs. Daniel Banks of West Liberty, | three women last named wears bloom- | Lewis Wants Cash For Slaves Sold Thir-. Bloomington, Ills., began suit today to | recover the price of 13 slaves sold 37 years ago. Samuel Lewis, a wealthy | slaves and that Ferre is indebted to him. individaally incre interesting than any- thing he may gay. He is a stoong man. His face is strong, and his jaw is | square. His head is big and well { shaped. J@» is intensely earnest, He has no nonsense about him and no cant. He uses words to express what le thinks, not to soond well © He dresses simply, perhaps too simply, for there in ag much affectation in simplicity as in show. ' His nose is straight and Jong. He has’ a good eye, which looks squarely at and into you. His chest is big. He is fem- perate. He has read more than the or- dinary ignoramus who will txy to teach him about American institotions. He knows what few men who try original thought ever learn—he knows that he can never hope to learn muvk or to do much. He realizes that he is like a small insect working at the fsundation of a coral island. He does not expegs to raise society 90 feet into the dir in his lifetime. He says: “This is a mechanical age, and until | society emerges from the era of mechan- jeal progress not much can be hoped for in the way of social improvement. All _.| that can be done now is to keep a live interest and belief in principles of jus- tice and equality, as the monks in the ‘middle ages kept alive literature. They | him by the nape of the neck, give aim could not hope to persuade the powerful to learn even to write their names, but they for an age that would ap- preciate it the ‘priceless knowledge in- trusted to them." 5 ; That is enough for a first look at Mr. Keir Hardie when time presses With me there listenod to him a judge of the circuit conrt in Kansas City, C. L. Dob-. | son. His opinion may be taken as scund. “J had thought,”’ he suid, ‘from what I have rend, that this man was a ranter, but he is a thinker.”’ ; | The home of the late A. T. Stewart, | now the Manhattan club, interested Mr. Hardie. There he met various men of wisdors and lenrning. He drank ginger ale, while the men of wisdom drank Scotch whisky and soda. One man, wlio is young and thought- , ful, asked Mr. Hardie what he could | suggest as a social improvement that | would be practipal. He quoted a famous | American, comfortably rich, who once said that no socialist bad a feasible plan to suggest. Mr. Hardis said that he wonld, if he had autocratic power, organize a gystem by which the unem- ployed wend tie able to make a living by co-operative labor. He believed that it would be possible for the snemployed | to have lands set apart for them to work on a cp-operative basis. With such an arrangement Xo man peed want for | food, nnd the labor market would nos be overstocked, He would apply this socialistic co-operative systema only to the superfiuons and unemployed mem- bers of society. As yogards the progress of the social- | Some Well Known People Relate s Few Dog Yairme. : “Were one in search of canine intel ligence,” said Representative Marcus Aurelius Smith one day last session in| a cloakroom ccnversation, “he could find no better exhibition than is fur- pished by the shepherd dogs of Arizona | Simon country, out where I live, a friend of mine has a sheep ranch I was on a visit to his flocks one day. There are men with the sheep, but all | day long, whils the bunches are out grazing, they ire entirely under the ont in the moming and bring them | : back at night. : i “One flack which I visited was in| three pups. Of conrse the young dogs were full grown and as big as their parent, yet they yielded her great cief- erence and perfect obedience, and it was clear that she was not only the head of the family, but in supreme otm- ‘mand of the flosic My friend told me that sometimes the pops grew lazy and wounldn’t half d> their duty. The mother dog would remonstrate with growls and attempt to compel them to be alert and industrions. As the flock was grazing along the pasturage, a handful of sheep might point ont from one side and begin to stray fromm the main bunch The paps wonld notios it, but, being listless and indifferent, made no sign of going after the delinquents The old dog would offer a few shot admounitory yolps, which was her way of ordering her childeren to turn in those stray sheep. If they dailied along, neglect | fal of ther plain duty, after that the old dog would suddenly land pellimell upon one of the offenders, and, seiving | a prodigicus shaking up gr ‘“* After being’ punished, the lazy pup would hie afier the sheep and turn them back to the flock and proceed to its duty with the utmost ardor. The old dog had to whip her pups aboat three times a week, however, to get perfoet work. She wis very strict with them, being a conscientious Jog, who felt ber responsibility to hez master. : “These shee; were confined in a wire corral nigb% tio keep them from going abroad oz moalight occasions and fall- ing a prey to oyyotes. There were 5.000 shezp in the bunch. About early dusk zach evening the old dog and her pups would bring in the flock and turn them through the bars into the corral. They could do is all except put up the bars Just as the first of the flock approached the corral the ld dog would trot around to the front and take her pstient stand by the bars and review the flock as it filed into the corral Yes, sir. She was counting the steep. If one were missing from the whols 5,000, she would know it the moment the last entered the cor- ral Ske would give a yelp of criticism and lesd her pups out upon the dark pastures to find that lost sheep. And ‘they had to find it She would work them all night if need be Ordinarily they could hurt it ous at onos, and then the four dogs ‘would bring in the traaut on the run with much clamor and bark- ing, as if to teach it not to lag again.” “Up in New Jersey,’ observed Jack Murray, who iad heard the above, ‘we Ky., gave birth to a child recently. The | jg4is jjeas which he entertains, he said Jmfant ja perfectly formed, wit all #3 | tpev could be furthered only in one way and parts complete, but at the _ yy the sending of socialists to legis- perfectly formed bead, with indentures | 4 : A: | done mow in France and Germany. It for its eyes, mouth, nose and ears. The yj] goon be done on a bigger scale in termination of the sacrum is another 1,4ive bodies to make laws, That is | child was lively when last heard from ‘and seemed to be in good health and growing. It is attracting great atten- tion. —Louisville Courier-Journal. | The Latest Wheeling Fad. The latest development of the wheel- ing fad in England is the photograph a 1a bicycle. A dosen full length photo- graphs are arranged like the spokes of a wheel about a central hub, which con- tains a photo-raph of the face. The er thing is to have the full length spokes each a separate pose, but. it will do if one poss is repeated in each of the doz- en spokes.—New York World There'll Be Nothing Yor the Coroner. With electric locomotives capable of a speed of 100 miles an hour, oue stands (Mass. ) Times. A Definition. Our idea of a smart woman is one who can spread newspapers on her pantry shelves without stopping to read every poem and story in them.-—Atchi- son Globe. And Never Let Other People Forget It. with public office. — Washington Star. Whe Latest Crass. - Philadelphia’s latest craze—trolleyo- sis—has reached St. Louis. The city's first trolley party was given Wednesday evening. —St. Louis Repablic. aghast at the thought of the railroad | collision of the future. —Brockton | This is the time of year when a whole | lot of people acquire the distinction of | “‘having been mentioned’’ in connection | | England, Mr. Hardie bplieves. He said 1 | the defeat of labor candidates by the. labor vote was simply intended to pun- ish the Liberal party for its failure to { make good its promises. | Those who argue with Mr. Hardie will always find one difficulty about him. He knows pretty well what he is ' talking about. : | After Mr. Hardie had admired the | marble staircuse which is so beautiful, | and which must have been so hard for poor old Mrs, Stewart to climb, we went to Delmonico’s. Mr. Hardie had some ginger ale in the Delmonico cafe. 1 told him what a queer and excep- tional institution it has been for years and he listened with interest. Mr. Keir Hardie smokes a pipe—a very wise thing todo if a man must pmoke at al. He was interested, very much interested, when the little, round headed waiter of the Delmonico cafe {told him politely that he could not | smoke a pipe in Delmonico’s. I was sur- | prised also, for I learned of the rule for the first time. I told him to go ahead and smoke his pipe, for the sake of | principle, but he ‘preferred to obey the | Delmonico law. He was amazed to learn that an unwritten law prohibite pipes in public over here. ‘Mr. Keir Hardie was interested in everything he saw, and especially in the news that here in the north, where we fought so hard to free the slaves, colored people did not now mix with whites. He had to be assured of this several times because he could hardly believe it possible iu “a republic. —New York . World. : ‘have a couple of dogs on our farm. One is a small Scotch terrier and the other a giant Newfoundland, They are fairly good friends, and one of their most t exercises—to them at least—is to lie ont in the front yard and rush down to the gates and bark at every wagon and cmrriage that goes by. - They ‘pever cmit this vociferous cereinony and seem to derive great joy from is ““The other day the terrier was repos- jag on the grass. It was midday and hos, and the terrier was at rest Sud- denly the Newfoundland came upon the scene with a luscious ham bone in his mouth. For the very evident purpose of annoying the little terrier, Jack, the Newfoundland, spread himself along the grass with his ham bone, not four fost from the terrier's sensitive ‘nose Then he proceeded in an audible and unctuous marmer to gnaw the ham bone. It was madd:ning to the ham boneless terrier. At last he timidly approached his old friend Jack. : Would Jack object if he nibbled this with him? That was about what the terrier asked. “Jack ceased mumbling the bone Jong enough to show all his white seeth and growl ttunderously. He objected. Like many other rich people, Jack was selfish, and did not propose to divide his ham bone with the poor. > *The terrier drew back, and then, as if unable to bear the sight of Jack's ham bone, in which he had no part, he saun- tered around the corner of the hedge to the driveway Here he was out of sight of the miserly Jack, licking his bone. “Without word or warning the ter- |. rier, the moment he was hidden from view, began to split the heavens with his barkingsn Clearly a carriage was corning; and from the aproar of the ter- rier Jack thought it must be a coach and siz. The ruse caught him. - He sprang up, ind, leaving the ham bone for the instant, came surging around the hedge to bay the coach andsix But, alas, all was vacant. There was no coach and six. Not even a handeart was in sight. Jack stood a moment ins state of daze. Then he suddenly recalled his unguarded ham bone, and a great: uneasiness gripped him. He rushed back: | te the rescue. But he was too late. He got there just in time to behold hiy sharp friend far away through the or. chard on the: keen run. The ham bone was in his fraudulent mouth. Jack saw that it was 10 use, and didn’t chase the Lunko steeering terrier an instant Hb joined me where I sat on the porch, and turned a rueful eye upon me, as if ask. ing my opinion of the ham bone outrage | which Paddy, the terrier, had just per- , petrated. "'=-Washington Fost. care of dogs. The dogs take the flocks: : charge of four dogs, 2 mother and ner fad pawing the air for half an hoar, | placed in the watchhouse until the train | { carven stone, but there was behind that very excellent and aromatic ham bone STORIES OF THE DAY. | GOOD THINGS TO| Ture Chicage Gentlvines asd & New Bi- Wits of Advies Wi a lawyer IL. I. Harris has lost all | | faith in hamanpity—also a brand new | bicyele ; ~ Yesterday morning the attorney was engaged to defend a professional bor- | ® | 8 Bar. rower before Justice Richardson st the a, Armory police court. In order to assure | of 1 with his “*bike’’ while conducting the | wt ce, Mr. Harris wheeled it into the | eam pipe mn he tied a placard on \ pon his ts anil gots the it a follows’ ul 4 Row as reapec for the laws of oh lt hy SE EE er sins! | TET yume create :pentiemsan, who will be back in Bminutes.] | go laws by #1 ¢h If & parent, set s good exanyple 15 all things children. EE BE ‘Mr. Harris then ente room, and after expounding the statute Jost his case and his fee. “lr After pocketing his pride in lien of | his fee the attornéy returned to the of- | fice, but his “bike” was gone. In its’ place was another placard, upon which were these words: td swith everybody, and then swore out a vrarrant for John Doe —Chicago Inter | Ocean. A Kentukey Belle. ‘Sheriff Jarvis of Knox county passed through theicity the other dag, having in charge five or six prisoners on the way to Fraukfort. The prisoners were Among the prisoners was a young woman from Kunox county, apparently | bout 35 yearszold, and a typical eastern Kentucky moantain girl. Hor hair was | wut short, and her dress was of calico made in mountain style. She was going 20 Frankfort for | i She was placed in a cell by herself at the |. She was quite talkative, and when asked her age and home said: “I am jus’ 85 and live in Knox county. My pame is Liswie Harris Used to live in Wes’ Virginny, but got in trouble and left there. I’ae going to Frankfort now for a couple of years, but I don’t care.” - “Did youn ever kill aman?'’ was asked. “Yes, lord! Killed four. I waylaid the highway one night in Wes’ Virginny and dropped three men. I staid in the | The latest wrinkle in the way of & rt theater coupon is a duplionts Heleb tig ‘Guess I have. Broke into one or two nse pled pig en : I think I will have a nice time at ine aw Frankfort. Some nice: there, I hear. . My husband left me time ago, and I am grieving over it.“ —Lexington Transcript. : Bu ; A Magter of Doubt. It was necessary that he should be so, for Dixon was to arich and fashionable family, and he knew the re- quirements of his position. He sat upon the box as if he were which was at times almost startling. He was thus sitting at 11a. m. of a bright and glorious morning, when ‘the fair and gracious daughter of the house tripped lightly down the steps and ap- proached the elegant carriage at the | Dizon recognized her coming by al. movement as if to sit straighter on the box, though that were impassible. The young woman stopped as her dainty foot touched the carriage step. “Dixon,” she said. i Yes, miss,” responded Dixon, look- ing sepuare to the front. hsswh : “Drive me to the nearest wherv h . aa ay I can be measured for a Sicyle suit.’ | weight 160 or 165, name forgotten. - “Yes, miss. Dressmaker's or tailor | The person writing the lotber lives in & shop?’ ! small town in Indisa Teritory, and For a moment the fair creature's face | asks that if the postinaster cannot find wasastudy. Then it filed fall of smiles and bubbled over in rippling laughter. And Dixon's imperturbability was sotte. intensified. —New York Sun. > . A Bar Harbor Story. - are 967 v om This is a Bar Harbor story, and the there ¢ women. ploy od . ‘man who told it to me declared he was masons a state banks ob the Uiikea Tre ‘when it happened. ‘There is a | Sales, aud BO Woman mployed has ever yet been found th be n defaulter. and who says ake money out of it.-—New York Sem: rest en sn — : in 30 days. —Cincinnati Conamercial Ga- the woman that the lntter be returned Washington family of the ultra exclu sive sort, whose summer home is up | there on the Maine coast. . They have | Kinsmen in the neighborhood, and one | evening, quite unexpectedly, ome of their rural uncles dropped in on them to piake an .:iiefinite stay. They wouldn't for worlds L.ve been rude to him, bug he was dreadfully in the gay, so they ‘gave him a ticket to the : of the ** Messiah'’ and sent him off to hear the oratorio. He went. Next morning at breakfast ane of his nieces asked him how he liked it “Waal,” said he, “I guess I kinder liked it, but it wasn't very funny. There was nothin funny in it, so fer as I see, but one thing. Gosh! That was fanny !”’ es : “What was that, uncle?’ the niece asked. : ¥ ol “Waal,” said the old man, ‘‘there was nigh a dogsen old maids got up and sang, ‘Fer unto us a King is given; { unto us a Son is born.” And as soon as they said it a lot of fellows back of them jumped up and began to shout, ‘Wonder- ful! wonderful!’ '—Washing®n Post. This Tree Is Truly of Chicago. An apple tree in Union park is cover- ‘ed with dainty white and pink blooms ‘that are usually considered the harbin- gers and advance guard of spring. This tree blossomed esrly under the fervid | rays of the hot sun of April Iast, but the promise of fruit seemed meager. So with true Chicago spirit the tree has again robed itself in perfnmed blossom, But men have always contended that | women did not know the value of money. Not a defaniter among them! —Cleveland Plain Dealer. ey 4 | and unless Boreas be too rude will bear | gandidate for governor of | a triumphant wealth of ruddy fruit in| | spite of its late start. —Chieago Tribune. 1 | Republican and will be gad to defeated. :
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