Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, May 09, 1898, Image 2
Tao ronutatio •/ o a car tain well known "prophet" in London, who but lately announced positively the end ol tao world in 3900, has been seriously impaired by the hie that a fortnight ago it was discovered that he had since pai d a high premium to secure the lease of business premises for fif teen yearr. take pride in ancestry that was hon est, clean and industrious, in men who hewed and plowed and paid their debts and prayed and loved t'aei • wives and children, is one thing; but this indiscriminate and silly worship of ancestry is quite another and ; seems about the most ridiculous vug- : ury of this fad-pestered r.ge. The term "bordereau." used in tho j Zola trial to designate the incriminat ing paper alleged to have been written j by Dreyfus, has puzzled a good many i people not familiar with French idi- j oms. The New York Times has tho | grace to add the English equivalent I (memorandum), very much to the re lief and gratification of its readers as well as that of the public a. largo. Near Hoibrook, in Apache County, ' Arizona, is the largest forest of jietri- | fled wood in the world and Land Commissioner Hermann is preparing ! n special report to the Secretary of i the Interior recommending that it bo a forest reserve and placed under the ! protection of the Government. Tho material is rapidly being used up for commercial purposes, and unless steps are taken fonts preservation will soon disappear. According to a cable correspondent of tho New York Tribune, "the tone of tho English pros 3 toward the crisis I brought on by the destruction of the j Maine at Havana is sympathetic and cordial, and its just admiration for tho self-restraint, moderation and conser vatism of President McKinley and the American press is unbounded. Tho American people are credited with a nplendid exhibition of ono of the best ' traits of tho Anglo-Saxon character, that of coolness and self-possession in a momentous crisis, which is an unan- , swerable proof of their capacity for self government. Tho common comment i j England is that Americans can stand ou the verge of a precipice and not lose their beans nor show any symptoms of giddiness." = ! - Tha Chicago Post sajs: On the first trial tho jury in tho case oi' Lnctger; stood nine for conviction to throe l'o: - aaquitial, although : .i ono hallo: tho number for conviction rose to ton. The jury on his second trial brought in a unanimous verdict of guilty. .1 also stood 11 to 1 for the death pen alty, fiualiy compromising on impris onment for life. Out of twenty-four racn chosen with infinite pains who heard all tho evidence, twenty-ono have been convinced beyond a reason able doubt of Luctgert'a guilt, one was in doubt and two would have ac quitted him. The final verdict is a grateful relief to the community and tho character of tho penalty saves to all thoso who cherish auy doubt as to Mrs. Lueigert's having been mur dered at all, an anticipation of un availing remorse should she reappear. r.ear-Admiral James E. Jouett, of the United States Navy, declares his belief in the New York World that "the heavy coast-defonse monitors arc tho most powerful and bent lighting ships in the navy, and I believe that cue of them conhl whip auy two of the heaviest battleships alloat. If war was declared I would guarantee to take the Puritan and tho Terror and defend New York Harbor against nil comers, and I am confident that I should win. While they would afford me an excellent tar get, with their lofty sides and heavy upper works, my vessels would offer them, as did the Monitor at Hampton Roads, practically no target at all. I think llio United States should have many more heavily armored cruisers, the most efficient vessels for attack, and next to the monitors tho most re liable for defense. The fact that bat tleships, owing to their size and weight, are ponderous affairs and difficult to move makes them au easy prey for tor pedoes and torpedo boats. The Uuited States should, in my opinion, confine itsolf to a fleet of heavy monitors, a powerful flying squadron of heavily armored cruisers, enough light cruis ers to represent our country and carry our ilag into the ports of foreign Na tions, ami a large number of torpedo boats and torpedo catchers to operato in conjunction with the monitors. Yv'e can do better without the battleships in pursuing our course of abstaining from entangling foreign alliances and minding our own business than with any other class of vessels. Give us low. free-board monitors and torpedo lioats for coast defense and cruisers Vir operations abroad." KINDLY WORDS. "• - i A spar!; may to a fire grow, A frlnd upon his dying had A'ld so another heart may alow Hns fell asleep, nnd you have said From ono kind word you've said. So many kindly words. I'noa life's Held some hare been slain Hut hnvo von, when the road was hard By those who from thoir hearts disdain And ho seemed drifting from his God, Xo say a kindly word. Said any kindly words? —Adolph A. Kuestor, in Now York Tribune, | IN THE NAME OF THE LAW. | £S| jg| r?y BELLE MOSE3, i O!#® ELL, Miss Doris, * ve come for my M anßwer > how's it jjji f Doris viewed the intruder with suppressed dis ('/'fy ERKjHjj* favor. He was a ,/W-j > tall, loosely :i ft strung individual, C *'<'v,&T'<4wG?j/* whose bare pres ~ enco seemed to Gil every nook and corner of her rath er cramped quarters, and although he only stood carelessly against the open door, ho hid from sight the imposing shingle, "Doris Woodford, Attoruey at-Law," which was that young wom an's especial pride. "Come in, Mr. Watt," she said resignedly; thankful at last that the swinging door would close behind them, and so shut out tho result of their interview from the gaze of the curious. He obeyed her, carrying his whole length across the little office in ono big step. Doris pointed to a chair, while she leaned back in her own. Ho took it, farmer-fashion, legs astride, his gaunt arms folded over the back, his watery blue eyes full on the bloom ing face ill front of him. "Well, he reiterated, his leathery countenance wrinkling into something like facetiousness, "what be the ver dict of the court—that's the lawyer's term, ain't it, Miss Doris? Though it 'pears to me that another kind of court-in' would likelier come your way. Ha, ha!" Farmer Watt exploded with laughter, aud slapped his thigh in huge enjoyment, while Doris bit her lip angrily, and pulled an aggressive brown lock until her head ached. "Please bo brief," she said with dignity, "I am very busy to-day. No doubt you have considered the matter aud will allow me to take the case on my own terms." "Oh, comejnow, not too fast; I ain't thinkin' but what you're in tho right, I own to that; but, on the other hand, I'm riskin' purty considerable in fae in' the law behind a toddler like you. I know I ain't got much of a ease " "Not the ghost of one," said Doris, decisively. "Well, all the same, I ain't goin' to pay that money to Widder Barnes. Her cow had no business in my pas ture: I said I'd shoot her, and I done it. Now, i£ you want tho case, jest for practice, tako it, or leave it, as you like, 'tain't none of my business. I'll put up ton dollars on the job; it's all I'm willin' to pay. Of course, if the law sits ou mo an' makes mo hand out the cash to Widder Barnes, it fol lows that you don't get none. See? I can't spend but a 'tenner' on this concern, whichever way you fix it." "Which means, if I don't win my case I receive nothing," observed Doris, in her chilliest tones. "That's about it. You must take your risks, too. But I was thinkin', and so I said to my old woman this very morning, it would bo a good thing for you to come for'ard and make your bow before them big guns, even if you didn't go off no louder than a firecracker; you'd have your sizzle and bang, anyhow, through my helpiu'." "You are very kind," said Doris, sarcastically. "Don't mention it. Tho p'int i 3, will you take it or no?" "Yes; for the glory," with a grim smile. "That's right, that's right," he said genially, uncoiling himself from about the chair. "It won't come off, that case won't, till next week, and as, I dessav, you're not too busy, you'll have time to look it up. Good mora in'." After he had slouched away, Doris rose with a swift, sudden movement, and looked the door; then blio flung herself into her chair, leaned both arms upon her desk, rested her pretty chin upon her upturned palms, anil lost herself in gloomy meditation. Was it for this that she had studied and won her laurels, to defend n niggardly farmer on the wrong side of the ease? It was a mean, contemptible deed, the shooting of the poor widow's cow, which had inadvertently strayed into a disused pasture, and she had expi eased her opinion pretty freely, half hoping that Mrs. Barnes would employ her to recover damages; but women lawyers were as yet a rarity in her native town, and Mrs. Barnes had held to tho beaten track, securing Howard Peyton, as Doris feared she would. Now this vonng man was eager to embrace the law, iu the person of Miss Doris Woodford, and even went so far as to hint at the rendering up of this case into her very capable hands; but Mrs. Barnes set her broad foot flat upon such an idea, and Doris horself recoiled in high dudgeon. "Think of it!" she said to her sym pathizing family, "after the kindness I've shown to that hateful old woman! I wouldn't take her case if sho wero to beg me on her bended knees." But Mrs. Barnes entertained no such abject notion; on the contrary, Farmer Watt brought his eloquence to bear upon the irate young professional, and the bargain was concluded in the man nar just set forth. That night at dinner the family raved, each member according to his or her views of the subject. Paterfamilias shook bis head, Jack asserted that she hadn't a leg to staudon, Marcia sniffed disdainfully over the shadowy ten dol lars, and the "mater" expressed her self gravely and disapprovingly. "You shouldn't go against your moral conviction, Doris; that is what belittles the law. I'd rather have you lose your case, than sacrifice a princi ple," said this unwordly womatf. "But, mamma, legally, tho man has right on his side. The only trouble is, Mrs. Barnes has Howard Peyton ou her side, and—and—l'm no match for him." "I faucy he thinks differently," said Marcia in her slow way. Doris disdained this little side re mark, though her cheeks llaraed; she valiantly returned to the question in hand. "In tho name of the law, the case is mine," she declared. "Onecau'thelp one's moral convictions, mamma; but my maiden speech may spoil every thing. I confess, I'm very badly scared." "Thai's tho least part," said Jack sontentiously. "Just get up nnd tire away; nobody's going to eat you." This very wholesome advice Doris stowed away as a text. She went bravely to work on the defense, being materially assisted by the anxious farmer, who was continually "drop pin' " iu to make suggestions and cre ato new perplexities. "Look hero, Miss Doris, I've got a p'int for you," he said one morning in high glee, "as purty a piece of legal reasouiu' as you ever seen, an'l heard tell, the other side's goin' to use it as one of their trump cards. It 'pears that Jimmy Ilarroway seen me shoot that thoro cow, an' ho up au' says, the beast hadn't nothin' but her forelegs, au' her head an' shoulders in my pasture. Now what you got to prove is, in the first place, that Jimmy is a liar. Give him the lie right bold out in the court. He's a kind of soft chap; ho'd never dnro to say 'no' to a lady. Then you can go ou to prove that tho head is always the biggest part of any animal—the thinkin,' feel in' part, you know. You can inako that great, and you can upset little Jimmy clean into tho ditch. Ha, ha! I think we'll pull through nil right; 1 ain't afeard," he remarked with a con descending chuckle, as he went away. Yet, in spite of her bold front. Doris was afraid. She went over and over the scanty evidence she had in hand, trying in vain to evolve therefrom some point which might appeal to the jury; but a week's untiring work forced her to the sad conviction that there was no hope for either client or herself. Old Watt was too unpopular in the neigh borhood, and she too uowly Hedged, to make much impression upon tho court; and the loss of a good cow un der such circumstances was such a serious consideration that it well might influence the most unprejudiced juror; aud thus, in the very teeth of defeat, poor Doris armed herself. When tho morning came Doris was considerably "flustered." She showed this in a very ominous calm when sho joined tho family at the breakfast table. They were all in holiday trim, for to them "the case" was a grand event, aud Doris' professional debnt was quite as exciting as hor first ball. But in her secret soul their evident intention to be present at tho conflict only added now terrors to tho situa tion. Still they were most consider ate, making very little fuss over her, and allowing her to set forth to the scene of action quite alone. Tho courthouse was crowded. Not only had tho caso itself excited unu sual interest through tho lamentations of Widow Barnes and the dogged de fiance of Farmer Watt, bat Doris her self was too well known in the little community to escape the general atten tion, so when the case was called, aud sho led the way to the space reserved for tho cwmbatants, closely followed by her beaming client, there was a murmur and a stir, which might have impressed her at any other time. As it was, sho merely bon ed gravely to the opposing lawyer and the fat plain tiff, and began to arrange her papers, and prepare for battle, with business like precision. Then she leaned back and studied tho audience. The front rows held the town sup ply of lawyers, old fellows, most of them, who benmed upon her with fatherly interest, and brought pain fully to her mind the not very distant days of sugar candy and gingerbread babies. Even the heavy watch-chaiu that Colonel Stokes fingered so pom pously, recalled tho times when sko had besioged that stately stroughold ot legal lore, and grabbed the sacred links with tho irreverence of privi leged childhood. She wondered, while the court was being called to order and the prelim inaries wore arranged, if she looked as ridiculously young ns she felt; if she seemed as unchanged to tho peoplo who were looking at her, as they ap peared in her eyes; and then the case was opened by tho plaintiff. Doris forgot her nervousness for a while as she watched Howard Pey ton's fine figure, or istened to his Jew well-chosen words. She owned to a secret admiration for this young man, his manner was convincing, his delivery excellent, and his method of handling witnesses iucomparablo. But then, to begin with, his case was a strong one, the judge aud the jury were plainly with him, and Mrs. Barnes's funereal aspect helped him greatly, indeed, if people had not known that her widowhoofl wan of many years' standing, they might naturally have concluded that her weeds were assumed for this occasion —iu memory of the defunct cow. But the strongest evidence was that of little Jimmy Harroway, all starched aud laundered for this public exhi bition, who "seen it done," as he as serted from the stand. At this point Doris received a poke in her back—Farmer Watt was lcan iug over her chair. "Here comes your p'int," ho whis pered. "Watch out, you can trip him up by them greased boots of his. He's skeerod iuto what he's sayin' now. You can skeer him t'other side. You won't have many witnesses to bother with—there was only me and the cow left—which last party can't appear. Ha, ba!" laughed Farmer Watt. "Just you keep them purty ears well cooked, aud we'll beat 'em yet." He gave her a little friendly pat on the shoulder, as he subsided, which tilled her with suppressed fury, aud roused a faint titter from some corner of the room. Doris caught the sound, and her soul was sore with indigna tion; but the plaintiff's lawyer was closing his side of the argumsnt, and hurling his seutenees straight into the jury box, with the true aim of long practice. Doris felt her ground slip ping from under her; all her cleverly planned defenses were swept away by this masterly eloquence. What could she say—how could she refute those solid points which ho was driving in with all his strength? Once the jury laughed, to a man; even the judge smiled at some droll allusion—there was an art iu provoking laughter. She would never bo able to do that; she could only go through her speech, stolidly, and thank her stars when the ordeal was over. When Doris rose there fell a husa over the room. She may not have known it —this fair, slim girl—blither presence alone sent a telling thunder bolt into the jury box. It was their first public tussle with a woman, and they were making ready for the fray; but the sight of her standing there, so pretty and so earnest, touched a chord in their flinty hearts, and scored one iu her favor. The family, over in tho corner, was visibly agitated. Doris would not look that way; she faced the judge, and brought her mind sternly to bear upon the subject. She had declined to cross-examine tho plaintiff's wit nesses, preferring to score thom well, in her speech, and so when Farmer Watt had given his broad and humor ous view of the tragedy, it remained only for her to provide the jury with the last threads of tho narrative. But tho mind is peculiar, a most erratic bit of mechanism, and Doris, who filled all tho little recesses of hers with such persistent care and energy, began suddenly to gropo iu tho dark, and not to find what she wanted. Hhe ransacked the corridors of her brain, only the echoes mocked her—there was a huge undetinable void. Thought was 110 more, mem ory was vanished, words seemed mere ly a chaotic mumbling. What was the meaning of it all? What was sho doing in this crowded room, facing thi3 strange assemblage? Sho must go, she could not stay here; but she was rooted to tho spot, her limbs were deprived of motion; sho tried to speak, but her tongue seemed para lyzed; sho passed her hand over her eyes—sho must do somothiug, but she could not see, a great mist rolled between her aud all that outer life— a horrible, swirling, engulfing mist; a frightened gasp, a little cry, u pa thetic stretching out of Rinall hands, and—she burst into tears! Of course, after that, all was emo tion. The family, in consternation, clustered round and hid the attorney at-law from public view. Tho judge briefly summed up the case and Laud ed it over to the jury, and the court took a recess. Farmer Watt stormed up and down: "If I ever put my trust in a woman again. Twice I done it to rue the day. Here we are, clean swamped in them waterworks. Why, it's wuss than a pipe Austin' in winter. How are you now?" lie snapped, pausing iu front of poor Doris, aud glaring at her. "Better, thank you," she said, meekly. "I—l'm sorry, Mr. Watt." "Well, you couldn't help it, I sup pose. Bein' sorry don't mend the pitcher, howsomever. "It's a pity you're built that way; your j'ints ain't seasoned yet." "I guess I'll go," said Doris; "there's no more harm to be done." "Humph!" said Farmer Watt. "The jury is coming in," observed Marcia; "they didn't take long to consider." And, sure enough, they wore filing into their box. Tho court was quickly called to order, aud the foreman stepped forward after tho usual for malities. "A verdict in favor of the defen dant, your Honor!" For one moment there was dead si lence, then, despite the efforts of the zealous clerk, paudemonium broke forth. Farmer Watt stood stock still, his hands in his pockets, As eyes and mouth wide open with amazement, then he uttered a strange whoop of triumph, and scattered the family right and left, as ho plowed through them, in his frantic efforts to get at Dorris. "You done it; you done it!" he cried, making a dash for her hand, and chummg it up aud down with great force. "Blest, if you didn't play that little game well. Great guns I I might have leaked buckets ful of salt water and it wouldn't ha' made no difference; but you just squirted a few drops of brine out of them eyes of yourn, and you clean melted then soft fellows up there. Hooray!" Howard Peyton jumped to his feet aud cut him short. "Your Honor, I object to the verdict. I consider that the jury lias been unduly influ enced, and that the case, as they re ceived it, was clearly in favor of tho plaintiff." The judge frowned down upon the yonng lawyer. "Mr. Peyton, you are out of i rder; but this peculiar case calls for pecu liar treatment. State your objections." Howard Peyton glanced sidewise at Doris, but that young lady, now quite recovered, kept those dangerous eyes of hers glued to the floor. "I think," said Peyton, slowly, "that tho resort to tears was unfair on the part of tho defendant's lawyer. They are a weapon of which I have no knowledge, and I am bokl enough to say, that it was bribery and corrup tion to those 'twelve good men and true.'" "Gently, gently, Mr. Peyton, you are excited, we will argue this, if you please. Miss Woodford, be so good as to ahswer a few direct questions." Doris rose obediently. "Did you, with willful intent, seek to influence the jury by that startling burst of tears?" "No; oh, no." "Did you come into this court re solved at all odds to play this trump card, which, according to your op ponent's expressed opinion, has clear ly won this case?" "Indeed not," said Doris indignant 'y- "l'll bo hanged if she did!" ex claimed Farnior Watt. "Ain't I been watchin' her all mornin', and tryin' to boost her up? Didn't I see her get tin' white, au' I up an' sez to her " "Order there!" cried the clerk. "Order bo blowed! I ain't goin' to pay my money on t'other side if I can keep it on this bank, you bet I ain't." "Order, or leave tho courtroom!" cried the clerk again. "Iu view, then, Mr. Peyton," con tinued the judge, "of this unpremedi tated move on the part of your oppo nent, I fear the decision of tho jury will have to rest. Tears are not sche duled under tho head of bribery and corruption. Any play upon tho emo tions is authorized in the sotting down of a legal point. It is a well-known fact that lawyers seek to influence the feelings of their hearers. Laughter and tears often find their way iuto a courtroom, aud no matter through what medium, they are entitled to fair consideration. Aud I put it to your candor, Mr. Peyton, had you bocu in the jury box, could such an appeal have loft you quite unmoved?" At this there was an unmistakable sound of suppressed laughter. But Doris still kept her eyes on the floor, and Howard Peyton colored to the root 3 of his hair. "I withdraw my objections," he said, with a low bow, and the case was ended anndst a rijiplo of merri ment. Widow Barnes alone held back, like the woman in the Bible, "She lifted up her voice and wept." Doris was escorted homo in state by Farmer Watt. As they parted at her door he put his hand in his pocket and fished out the promised fee. "You done mo proud, Miss Doris." he said, iu his heartiest way. "I never had 110 doubt of you. I own to bein' skeered at tho end, mind, but that was from not knowin' that tears was a legal p'int. Oh, the way the judge set down on that there Peyton feller was great—l say, great!" and Farmer Watt tramped off, well pleased with himself aud the world. But tho famous "tenner" in some miraculous fashion found its way, iu spite of everything, to Widow Barnes, and although Dame Rumor is dis creetly silent, it would not surprise that small world very greatly if one of these tine days tho imposing "shingle" disappeared from the little office, and "Doris Woodford, At torney-at-Law," accepted* a partner ship.—Short Stories. Tfffnty-onn ?Illliona of Candles. In St. Nicholas there is an article entitled "A Giant Candle," by W. S. Harwood, describing one of the sights of the Stockholm Exposition. Mr. Harwood says: It seems strange in this day of elec tricity that there can be found in a part of the world where civilization has gone a people who are so generally given over to candle-light as are the inhabitants of Sweden. In one year one firm in Sweden manufactures, for the trade of Sweden almost exclusively, twenty-one millions of caudles of all sizes, from two or throe inches in height up to sevon feet. In spito of tho introduction of electricity into the cities, the people keep using candles, and they even seem to think them a necessary part of their household ef fects. During the weeks from the latter part of May to the first of July you will rarely find auy one during the night using au artificial light of any kind, for the nights are almost as bright as day. If you choose to stay up all night during the period of long est days, you can read the finest print with ease at any time in the twenty four hours, aud you can make photo graphs, if you so wish, all the night long, with capital results. Up in Lap land, as late as the twenty-fifth of July, I had excellent results in making pho tographs at twelve o'clock at night, and at one and two o'clock in the morn ing; and the only failure I had was in one case when I gave even too much time to the exposure. I Twe smallest humming bird known weighs only twenty grains. Shopping Tour on a "Wheel. Oqo of the common Mights in Lon don's smartest shopping districts now adays is that of a woman cyclist at tended on her shopping tour by a page, also ou a bicycle, weaving the regula tion costume of tall hat cockade and a plenitude of buttoup. Odd Placo For u Sign. A woman who is a member of tho Household Economic Association and consequently has advanced ideas about domestic science, has begun a reform in her housohold by having a sign which reads "No Thoughfare" nailed up over the outside of the kitchen door.—New York World. Patches Beturn. Patches are now worn by New York beauties not only on the face but on the neck. As yet they are only cut square, but in time the fair necks and faces will be decorated with hearts, diamonds and other devices, and every chie woman will carry her enameled or jeweled patch-box, as they did in the time of Mme. do Maintenon. Patches are now universally worn in Paris. Blue For the Golrien-TTnlred. Blue suits tho golden-haired girl and makes her hair look more beautiful, but it seems to destroy all the beauty of some gray-eyed maids, aud it is most unbecoming to those of at all sal low complexion. Now, gold in some form will conceal any little yellowness of the skin, and white coming in con tact with the face subdues the ill ef fects of blue and preserves its good ones. Only to the youngest and fair est do pink and white seem suitable, and yet white is much used by tho old, aud soft white laces are becoming even to the grandmothers. Silent Women. A New Yorker who has been spend ing the winter at Biarritz tells of a convent near that place which throws completely in the shade all the stories oi tho Trappists. The silent sisteid ls iver speak except to their mother su perior, and then only upon necessary business. When they aro at meals a book is read, and every Friday they cat their dinner kneeling. If one of t to loses her father or mother slie is not told of the loss. The mother superior sim|)ly assembles tho com munity and says: "Tho father or mother of ono of you is dead." In this way the silent women cease to have individual interest in auyfching, or anything to talk about.—New York Press. Women Typewriters Must Go. President Burt, of tho Union Pacific Railroad Company, is not a woman hater, but ho has very decisive views on some subjects. That is why the women typewriters of tha Union Paci fic headquarters must go. Tho nu | nouueement of this decision on tho part of the President was made this week. When questioned on the sul>- j ;ect ho said that women could not do fiood work where men aro employed, and men could not do good work where women are employed. For this reason he will discharge the women. They will not be discharged without notice, but will be dismissed from time to time, beginning with ths lirst of next month, or probably a little soon er. Of course, other stenographers will havo to be employed to fill their places, and those employed will have to lie men.—Omaua (Neb.) telegram to the Chicago Inter-Ocean. A Culinriry Kindergarten. It is au excellent tiling to interest the little girls early in affairs of cook ery. Girls of eight or ten years old can easily be tanglit to make simple cakes and desserts for those juvenile tea-parties which such girls nlwnys de light to give to their companions. In order to prevent waste of materials, the caps used may be the miniature toy t affairs, holding about half a gill, and the spoons the small spoons that come with children's tea sets. The egg used is usually a divided one. Children will learn a great deal in a practical cooking lesson of a few hours. The manufacture of a small cake, the "brewing" of a cup of tea, tho prepa ration of an omelet or of a simple des sert aro tho things which are most valuable for the foundation of n taste in housewifery and oooking. An hour n week spent in this way by a mother or oldor sister will intcrost these little womeu in culinary matters, aud lay a foundation for useful knowledge. It is the foundation knowledge of cook, ery that many women are compelled to learn late in life, and from repeat ed failure in matters of which they are often nshamed to admit their igorance. —New York Tribune. "Occupation" tho Keynote. Occupation is rapidly becoming tho lieynoto of tho modern woman's life. Fields of labor are invaded not only by women who have to bo bread winners, but by those who follow various branches of indnstry for the mero love of work. Dairy maids have always been known to the world, and their praises have ever been sung by poets, but it remained for a nineteenth century woman of culture and cosmo politan advantages to take up the work on a scale consider-4 heretofore beyond the ability of a woman, alias Anna ! 31. Litchworth, representing one of the oldest families in New York State, is the young woman who is affording this last notable instance of the capa bilities and energy of the American girl. Miss Litchwortk has had every advantage of foreign travel, and a de lightful social position. After her father's death she decided to take her summer place at Willow Brook and turn it into a model dairy. She has now sixty cows, mostly thoroughbred Jerseys, and the care she lavishes upon them is so exceptionally good that the Practical Farmer says: "When I find such a marked instance of clean liness, comfort, and tidy management, and that run by a woman, I cannot re frain from letting the public know of it." Miss Litchworth is a close student of improved agriculture; she attends all the farmers' institutes near at hand, and gives her iiersonal atten tion to the management of the farm and dairy. lier stables are large, light and well ventilated. She keeps the stable flue whitewashed, and the floors are cleaned twice a day, and the cows are well bedded. The men em ployed as milkers wear white linen suits, and all the utensils are kept chemically clean. Chicago Times- Herald. Women as Compose™. liupevt Hughes contributes an arti cle to the Century on "Women Com posers," in which he says: A prominent publisher tells me that where, some years ago, only about one-tenth of the manuscripts submit ted were by womeu, now their manu scripts outnumber those of the men two to one. While this ratio will not hold in published compositions, the rivalry is close even there. Women are writing all sorts of music. A few of them have already written in the largest forms, producing work of ex cellent quality and still better prom ise. It is in the smaller forms, how ever—in instrumental solos and short songs—that they have naturally found their first success. So good has their work been here that honesty compels the admission that hardly any living men are putting forth music of finer quality, deeper sincerity, truer indi viduality, and more adequate courage than the best of the women composers. Besides these, there is a number of minor composers writiug occasional works of the purest quality; and in art quality is everything. As to nationality, one finds best rep resented the threo countries that are now working along the best lines of modern music: Germany, of course (whose Clara Sohumanu wrote much that was worthy of serious considera tion), France, and America; for Amer ica, whatever its musical past, is sure ly winning its right to the placo in tnis triumvirate of modera music. Its teuueneies are toward the best things. Italy hns recently had a Hurry of new life and of growth away from the de bilitating mawkishness into which it had drifted, but has not yet produced a notublo woman composer. The other Continental countries seem oven more torpid;and though Englishwom en havo written much, they have not got beyond the prevailing cheapness of the English school, except, perhaps, in certnin of tho compositions of Mrs. Marie Davics and Miss Maud Valerie White. raslilon Funcies. Lawns having a cord effect. Stocks of gay plaided silks. Printed mulls, dimities and Swiss. Striped organdies on light grounds. Black gowns covered with half-inch tucks. Colored crepons naving a bayadere effect. Black satin ribbon having plaid edges. Silk and cotton mixed mousseline de soie. Checked silks with a white brocad ed flower. Scarfs of mousselino edged with marabout. Silk ties of a color edged with baby satin ribbon. Black patent-leather slippers having red heels and bows. Black, red, white, green and blue Ascot ties for womeu. Black net veils having a chiffon ap plique or chenillo border. Gowns showing a princess back and apron front, with blouse above. 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