More woe tor the downtrodden farmer. An English professor an nounces that tho wheat crop will bo a total failure in 1931. The English speaking races are all right. The charge of tho Twenty first Lancers through a body of 2000 ambushed fanatical Dervishes is an English contribution to the lesson which American troops taught at Caney and Sau Juan. It is a great year this 1898. New York is to have a permanent j exposition, with a capitalization of 820,000,000, for tho display of manu factured products of the United States. It is proposed to erect immense build ings, and bouse each liue of products iu a separate building. Loudou, Paris, Berliu nud other European cities now have such permanent expositions. The brutal murder of the Empress j Elizabeth adds another family calam ity to the many that have affiicted tho unfortunate Franz Josef, of Austria. He has lost by violent deaths his favorite brother, the Emperor Maxi milian, aud his only sou, the Crown j Prince lludolph, while it is hardly a year ago that his wife's sister, the ! Duehcsso d'Aleucou, was burned to death iu tho charity bazaar fire in j Taris. A fate as relentless as any iu ! Greek tragedy seems to pursue him. 1 The murderer is said to bean Anarch- 1 | ist. What political wrong could ho j avenged or advantage to the cause j 1 gained by the killing of this iuoffeu- ! eivo woman it must be difficult for j even a militant Anarchist to demon strate. Of all crowned heads in Eu- j rope the Austrian Empress was pre- j eminent for her efforts to put aside the ! trammels of her rank and had notori- i ously never interfered with the poli- ! tic 3of even her'own couutry. At the time of her death she was an invalid seeking for health aud traveling as a private person. The crime committed ■ against her cauuot ho dignified into a S political assassination; it is the unpro- j voked murder of a helpless woman, | proclaims the New York Sun. The complete destruction of all dis ease causing microbes is, of course, 1 the aim of modern methods of sewage | treatment and disposal, and iu a j method recently devised calorific sterilization is added to the ordinary j processes. The treatment consists , essentially iu allowing the sewage to How into tanks which are subdivided j iu such a manner that the liquid j passes through a restricted passage, I where it eomes in contact with a cur- | rent of air under pressure. In its j passage through the various cells tho | solid matter is deposited in a number } of pockets, from which it is suhse- | queutly taken to he dried and burned. The distinctive feature of tho process | occurs in the next operation, whore ' the liquid, after having been mixed j with alkali, passes thi-ough a scries of I heat exchanges, iu which it cools and ' is itself heated by liquid previously acted upon. From the beat ex changers the liquid next passes to the i sterilizers, where it is heated aud | propelled through coils by means of steam jets to another vessel. Thelast stage iu the treatment consists in its passage under a sludge-drying plat form to a settling-tank, and its exit through filters in a pure and whole some condition. Philadelphia was noted for its clean liness as far hack as 1800, tho Ledger of that city claims, when the daily per capita consumption of water was thir ty-six gallons. Conditions as to clean liness are 110 better now, when the average daily per capita use is over 200 gallons, and the conclusion is that the excess consumption over that :n 1380 is wasted. With tho acknowl edged vile condition of the water fur nished ill Philadelphia not much bet ter use could be made of it jtlian to permit it to run into tho sewers, but that is an expensive disposition of it, as the cost of providing tho total sup ply is assessed uniformly upon the houses or tenements, according to the eize of the supply pipe. As the amount used by each individual hears no im mediate relation to the price ho pays, no concern is left regarding leaking fixtures, and faucets are left conveni ently turned on day aud night. In many places fans, sewing-machines, and other small machinery are ruu by water-motors, the cost of which is a charge on the general water assess ment. Appeals to remedy the injus tice to those who do not waste the water have been made in vain to the Councils, and away is now pointed out to cousumors whereby they can protect themselves. That is by hav ing meters put in, which can be done under existing ordinances. Then they would pay four cents per thousand gallhns, or about one-third what they now pay. THE RETURNING. j Zlisy march behind their tattered flig, Our very hearts it charms, But spout and slow their footsteps lag, The weary men-at-arms. TFitli gallant haste they stormed the hill. And dared the deadly fray; , rhey had 110 lack of nerve or will In battle's fearful day, | Though bullets swept their thinning ranks, They did not pale with dread, j To-day they smile and utter thanks Above that roll of dead. ImmiFMmmmmmmmmmMimmmmmmEEmm | MIGUEL, THE PUNKA-COOLIE g A Tale of Manila. 8 ! || p By Charles B. Howard. by my /\i \ prospects I bad J KSv "*** just moved into a t"^****l t"^*** *l new office ia tho xAV Galle de Careuero. '^' le 000 ' !e3 had tj ~(p\ transferred the Ktjs furnituro with ( 4t§l damage, and (IP three long and talkative Chinese carpenters were VVwir. fi'Hll putting up a punka, 01 fiUl "hi ell £ swings overhead— O* k'*..Vir&tior n novelty for me, •v w. n3 j had not Deeded one in the old office. At last the iucessant, quavering gabble of the three carpinteros, com bined with their marked odor of opium, sandal-wood aud warm hu manity, drove mo outside until the work should bo finished. I found at the door a -crowd of natives beside my clerks, who, it seemed, were candidates for the posi tion of punkero, or coolie, whose duty it is to keep the fan swinging during business hours. Considering the harrowing monotony of the work, his pay is very low. They were all boys in various stages of dirt and nakedness, except one, whose appearance attracted my attention. He was a tall, old man, neatly j dressed in snowy shirt and trousers, j with a fine, intelligent face. His hair j was nearly white, which indicated a j pretty ripe age, for a Filipino's head ; eeldom shows signs of grayness before ' he is fifty, and I never saw one in the | least bald. "Does that viejo—old follow—want - to ho a punkero?" I asked Jose, the j chief clerk. "Si, senor," answered Jose, with a 1 grin like an open piano, "he says ho { does." j "Ho doesn't look like it," said I. "Mira—look here—viejo, canst thou not find better work?" "No, seuor," he answered, respect fully. "I have a wife nud crippled son to support, seuor, and I hope I may be allowed to serve your grace." The old man's Spanish was pure and good, and his replies to the few questions I asked betrayed an educa tion far superior to that "of the ordinary native. I was puzzled to know why he should be an applicant for a posi | tion generally considered beneath the dignity of any one but a half-grown boy from'the wilderness; but ho was very reticent in a respectful way, and dodged my questions most diplomatic ally. j At last I decided to try him, partly ns a curiosity, for no other office in the place was ornamented by a punkero of : such venerable aud dignified appear -5 unce. j So I told the others to su-lu—clear ! out—aud ordered Jose, much to that j worthy's amazement at my choice, to | install Miguel, as he called himself, j I in his position as soon as things were ready. Furthermore, I told Jose, ! with emphasis, to see that the other 1 clerks attempted no "skylarking" with j the old man. | When I returned I found the punka I in place, and Miguel maintaining his dignity wonderfully on a three-legged j stool, with the cord in his hand, which i he began to pull ns I eutered, filling j the room with a refreshing whirlwind. Thus old Miguel became a fixture iu my office, and performed bis lowly j task faithfully and well. He was always at his post when I arrived in , the morning to greet me with "Buenos dias, seuor!" He tugged patiently at his cord tilt I donned my jacket and riding-hoots at five o'clock, the signal for "Buenos uoches, seuor!" and his departure. The old man's one drawback—and that only at first—was a persistent tendency to go to sleep at his post. I tried to cure him of the habit by saw ing oil' one leg of tho stool. This kept him awake an hour or two, but he soon found that by propping one edge of tho stool against the wall, lie could still take a little nap, audi was obliged to have another leg of the stool cut off. After that Inal no more trouble, for the effort necessary to balance him self on tho one-legged stool kept tho old man awake. It was so unusual to see a man cf his ago doing such work that my busi -111 ss friends used to remark upou "H.'s I'uuka Methuselah." Now and then his wife would come in to see him —a dear old coffee-col -1 ored lady, with brilliantly colored skirt ami starched mantilla, while her white, frizzly hair was adorned with an im mense horn comb. She was such a dainty old creature, and the courtesy with which she always favored me was so like that of a duchess of the last century that I could never hesi tate to rise and bow with the utmost gravity, which performance created the wildest hilarity on the part of the tlfst Englishman who witnessed it, and I had a bad time at the club table that evening. She would invariably inquire, in A subtler foe, a wilier craft, ll.is mowed them since the fight; A '■ l 11''r cup their lips have quaffed, Fever, nud cold, and fright, And famine, ghastly enemies, Have had them for their prey. Well may they lag behind tho ilag, Our men-at-arms this day. And home returned, tho brilliant sklos Grow dark to us who see. Through tears that blur our pitying eyes, How cruel war can be. —Margaret E. Sangster. funny Spanish, if her husband was doing bis work to my satisfaction, and las often assured her that he left nothing to be desired, whereupon she would pat his shoulder in approval, and they would converse in their own langunge, all g's nud n's apparently. One afternoon, toward the end of June, there entered the office an old Chinese merchant, Qniu Leng by name, who long before had lived in the Philippines, but who now resided at homo in Hongkong, and came across the troublous China Sea occa sionally on a business trip. After the usual long-drawn greet ings, we proceeded to business and were deeply involved in the prices of hemp and sugar when his glauce hap pened to fall on Miguel, pensively laboring at the punka-cord, and lie stopped arguing with an abrupt "\Yak-pin!"Jthe Chinaman's usual ex clamation of surprise. Then, with an apology to mo, ho rose, waddled across the room and held out his baud to Miguel, sayiug, "COlllO va, —how goes it, —Senor Ortiz?" Miguel took tho proffered hand with a stately bow, and replied, quiet ly, "Muy bien, gi'aeias,—very well, thank you,—seuor. I trust it is welt with your grace, also?" All this was very much out of or der. How came a liigh-class "Cliino" merchant, and a mandarin of the blue button at that, to be greeting thus cordially an old punka-coolie, infinite ly beuoath 'him in that social stand ing which the Chinaman holds so sacred? My bewilderment was probably vis ible in my face as Quin Leng resumed his seat, for he smiled like a yellow half-moon, and said, iu his' queer pidgin-Spanish: "That man, Miguel Ortiz, years and years ago was the chief clerk and 'majordomo' of Augustin, Bamou y Ca"—a famous old Spanish house iu Manila, long since failed and gone. Hid you know that?" I shook my head, and ho went on: "Ho was discharged for stealing money, they said. What a pityl I never believed it. Ah, Miguel and I were good frieuds in the old days!" "How did it happen?" I asked. "I cannot say," he replied, "but the stury was that Miguel was left alone in the offico all that afternoon, and afterward could not account for three hundred silver dollars which had been brought in. It is strange, also," ho added, looking arouud. "This is the very same office they had then!" "How long ago was it?" I asked. "Let me see —it was the third of June of tho year 18—, I have reason to remember it well, for it was the same day that luv godown—warehouse—was sadly damaged by an earthquake, nud I had to pay eighteen pesos for the three coolies that were killed iu it." Our business wax soon concluded, and as Quin Leng went out he laid his long-nailed hand on Miguel's shoulder and said, smiling, "Back iu tho same old nest, old bird, eh?" And Miguel . replied with a quiet, "Si seuor." So this was the story of my queer . punkero, I reflected. Surely ho had 1 been amply punished by all these I years of poverty and degradation—re -1 duced from n position of trust, with comparative wealth, to living iu a nipft but among the lowest class of natives. How be hail managed to live in the meantime I never knew; but it troubled me a good d,al during the next few days to see |.o patient old fellow at his mechanical, ill-paid labor—with that cripple l sou to support, too, I re booted. I could not pay him more tban other punka-coclies received without getting all the other business men down on me. A'though I wanted to give him some employment more worthy of his abiliiy, I was only the ageut of a great house at home, and my responsibilities were too heavy already to justify my placing in a position ot any trust a ratm accused of theft. I knew none of the other houses would take him, for I could not conscientiously recommend him, and younger clerks were to be hail in plenty. So punkcro he remained, till one day, during n rush of business, another clerk was needed nt thegndown to help check and tally weights. As no one else was available nt the moment, I sent Miguel down. In the afternoon bo brought back his tally-sheets, so accurately and neatly made out that I concluded after all to keep him at that work, for there would be no possible opportunity for dishonesty of any sort, and it would enable me to raise his wage 3 slightly. So a new punkero, considerably less reinarkablo in aspect, was established on the one-legged stool, aud Miguel spent his days in the godown, report ing at the office late every afternoon. I He displayed little or no appreciation i of his promotion, and when on pay day , I handed him the additional pesos, he i merely thanked me gravely; but the next morning I found his senara wait i ing for me. and she was so ovsrpower ngly demonstrative in her gratitude that she demoralized the whole office force for a time. One day in July, the worst season of the year until the rains come, Miguel had appeared as usual with his tally-sheets, and spread them out for my inspection on the big table which was built into the wall in one corner, like a shelf. It had been a handsome table in its day, made of some dark, polished native wood, cut in heavy slabs. A massive, carved leg supported the corner which extended out into the room; but its days of beauty were past. The thousands of big silver dollars that had been rattled and counted on its surface had sadly dimmed its pol ish; earthquakes had cracked it, as well as the office walls and ceiling, and some great convulsion had caused the walls in that corner to settle, so that the old table tilted rather awk wardly, and everything deposited on it had a tendency to coast rapidly down into the corner. The day had been hotter and sul trier than usual, with that ominous stillness in the air that always seems to forebode some strange event, and I felt tired and stupid as I leaned over the sheets and tried to foot up the totals, while Miguel stood by, waiting for my final approval. The very air, stirred by the punka, felt thiok and heavy, and the drowsy creak, as the great fan swung slowly to and fro, and an occasional sleepy cry from the street wore ull the sounds I heard a3 I muttered, "Fifty bales, seventy-five, a hundred"—and theu I stopped, for the table was trembling under my hands, and strange, groan ing sounds were coming from the walls. "Terremoto — earthquake—seuor," said Miguel, calmly. There had beeu several slight shocks during the last few days, but none heavy enough to disturb us, and we had become quite used to them, so I merely waited a moment, anct theu went on: "One twenty-five, one fifty" —and that was as far as Igotthatday. At this point a heary jarring came; and a horrid, up-and-down, sideways and diagonal movement of everything around us, together with the loud grinding of big timbers, warned us that this was 110 ordinary shake-up. Indoors was then no place for those who valued life and limb, so Miguel and the new punkero and I waited no longer, but dropped everything aud dashed for the door, I remembered, long afterward, that old Miguel, in the midst of a danger more appalling to tho mind thau any other I know of, stood aside, with the instinctive courtesy of tho old days, to let me, the younger man, but his gefe —chief—pass out first. The clerks had stampeded at tho first shudder. As I went ou the fly ing jump down the stairs, which were swaying aud cracking apart, a heavy crash somewhere told of a falling beam. I reached tho street just in time to see a huge sheet of galvanized iron slide from the roof of the build ing opposite and come swinging and clinging down, while a shower of broken tiles, shaken from the roof of our building, clattered on the sidewalk close beside me. From every doorway and a good many windows terrified people were running or jumping, and I was carried along with tho mob of shrieking, pray ing and gesticulating natives and Chinamen, with here and there a pale but Bilout Englishman, toward the open square at the end of the street. A couple of ponies, struggling in their harness, added their maddened screams to the uproar, and a great, tame buffalo, stupid with fear, lay | down in tho road and allowed tho crowd to surge over him. By the time we reached the open space the earthquake had thundered itself far away to the south, aud old mother earth was in her right mind once more. "By Jove," exclaimed a young Briton, elbowing his way toward me, "that was the heaviest I ever felt, [ Id.! llow long do you think it was?" j A Scotchman, just out from home, ■ vowed that it had seemed to him about j two hours, but a more minute calcula -1 tion brought it down to something like fifteen seconds. Nothing on earth would have in duced a native to re-enter a building that evening, and we "Xngleses" felt n mutual disinclination to do so our selves. I had put things away aud closed the safe just before Miguel came in, so I concluded to let things remain as they might be until morn ing, aud to go homo ami see how my houso iu the suburbs had borne the excitement. I found everything intact, with the exception of my servants' nerves aud a few trifles in the way of crookery, and at last got to bed in a stato of thankfulness that things were no worse. Mother earth, having played her little joke, behavod in a manner more befitting her age that night, aud I roso in the morning to find the wel come rain at last pouring as it only can pour in the tropics, and the air ' eool and fresh. On arriving at the olßco building, I found my entire clerical force assembled outside, wait . ing for the encouragement of my pres • euce before entering, aud I headed a ! small procession up the rickety, but J still serviceable stairs. i The ofiice was in fairly good shape, all things considered. The safe was rakishly askew, and presented the ap pearance of trying to look around the i corner; and the old table had de l tached itself from the wall, vanquished its solitary leg, aud lay in the middle of tho room, leaving n ragged gap iu the walls, while the floor wan strewn i with Miguel's tally-sheets. I set the ' clerks to work gathering these up, i while I endeavored t> open the sate, i Suddenly a clerk on his hands and ■ knees in the corner exclaimed, "Jlira, - senorl" "Qno hay—what is it?" said I struggling with the refractory door. "Pesos—dollars —seuorl A lot of them!" "What aro yon talking about?" said I, slipping over to him. There ou the floor lay a scattered heap of silver dollars, mingled with th" fragments of an old inkstand and odds and ends of stationery. 1 picked up several pieces, and ou examining the dates, iound them to be all of the coinage of over thirty years before. I was stooping in amazement for another handful, when old Miguel, with a strange cry, shovod me aside with scant ceremony, and throwing himself down on his knees, plunged his hands into the heap and examining them with feverish excite ment, like the most grasping old miser. "Que tiene tu—what is the matter with you—Miguel?" I demanded, rather testily, as I recovered my bal ance. The old man slowly looked up. "They said I was a thief, senor! Aud see, here is tho money!" aud in a flash I saw how it had all happened. I sat down in the nearest chair and stared at the big bole in the wall from which the money had fallen. It must have beeu lying on the table that duy so long ago, and wben the earthquake that damaged Quiu Leng's godowu had occurred, tho table had probably ripped slightly away from the wall, and tilted up as the floor settled. Tho silver and other things must have poured down into tho space thus opened, which had closed up wheu the convulsion was over, and buried the dollars and Miguel's good name in a common grave for all these years. Now was the old man grabbing among the dollars and muttering his wife's camo over and over, and I was forgetting my Spanish in my efforts to soothe him. They clerks were gap ing at us both, aud that utterly de moralized safe was leering at the whole crowd, when old Qniu Long, a pigtailed vision in white silk and blue cap, came toddling in to see how we bad survive the catastrophe. He grasped the whole situation at a glance, liko tho wise old celestial that he was. It would be a long story to tell how the kind old heathen gentleman un dertook to see that justice was done for his old friend; how we'wrote to Spain and found the only descendant of Senor Augustiu, who turned out to be a good fellow when the facts were proved to him, and instructed the Spanish bank of Manila to pay his father's old servant a monthly sum which would keep him nnd his family in comfort for life. When I saw Quin Long afterward, he remarked that au earthquake in the capacity of a benefactor was a unique idea, which was one way of quoting tho proverb about an ill-wind and its ways.—Youth's Companion. An Interesting Clock. A most interesting old time-piece is the clock standing in William the Fourth's bedroom at Hampton Court, and which Messrs. Gnydon & Sons, of Kingston, were recently commissioned to repair. The clock was made by Dan Quare about the year 1660, ana is one of tho most remarkable pieces of automatio mechanism in existence. It is what is commonly known as a "grandfather clock," standing in a very tall oak case, with heavy ormolu mounts. There are several particulars in which this clock is almost, if not quite unique. In the first place it goes for twelve months at a time without winding. But more remarkable than this is its ingenious mechanism. It is what is known as a "calendar" clock, and besides recording the days of the month and the mouths of the year, it also automatically shows the time of sunrise and sunset. The last time the clook was over hauled was early in the present century. For the last forty years, however, the clock had not been wound up. It speaks well for the splendid workmanship of onr an cestors tlint, with slight exceptions, Messrs. Gayi'.on found the works in as perfect a condition as when the clock was originally made, and there is 110 reason why it should not last for an other 200 years.—London Mail. Value. Fictitious. The values of encrmous diamonds aro largely fictitious. They are ac tually uncommercial. The Ivoh-i-noor weighed nearly 800 carats when it was taken out of the mines of Golconda, and the sum of 610,000,000 has been mentioned as a justifiable price for it, on the scale employed in the trade. Hortensio Borghose reduced it in cut ting to 279 carats, and it had to be again cut to 1021. The Pitt dinmond was sold to the King of France in 1720 for 8625,000. The Victoria diamond weighs 302 carats.—New York Press. Street Cars of Manila. All the street cars in the city of Manila wero made iu America. The open cars are thirteen feet six inchos long over dashers and have a seating capacity of twenty passengers. These ears are drawn by Philippine horses, which are about tho size of a New foundland dog, nnd it was, therefore, necessary to make them extremely light and at the same timo of the re quired strength. The street railway company is known as theTrausvias de Filipinos.—Street ltailway Journal. (lenltm All Heady to Work. "Now," said the interviewer, "as to your method of working." "Well," replied the great author. "I take a writing pad " "Yes." "And a pencil " "Yes." "Seek out a quiet spot—grasp the ' pad firmly in one hand and the pencil in the other hand—and " I "Yes. And " "And write."—Philadelphia North 1 American. The Newest Chnrm. The very newest charm which the jingle-loving girl wears on her bracelet or chatelaine is a very perfect auil luscious-looking tomato, about as big as a small crab apple. If one knows where to find the spring one can open the scarlet fruit and disclose, packed snugly together, a sot of tiny dom inos, with which their owner can while away the weary hours of a jour ney. A Unique Paper Knife. A novelty which seems to be more patriotic than practical is a very thin silver outline of the figures of IJewey and Schley. These thin sheets of sil ver are etched beautifully, showing every feature of the face and crease of the clothing as clearly as a photo graph. The edges of the outlines are very sharp, and may be used as a paper cutter, while there is a little slit nbout the figure across the vest which is concealed by the wrinkles of the garments, so that it may also bo used as a bookmark. Tho Difmrivaiitnge of I'russlnn Women. Prussian Ministers of State evi dently still retain the old-fashioned idea that to educate girls is to unfit them for the duties of domestic life. A short time since the good people of Breslau decided to petition their Minister of Education for permission to found a high school for girls in which au education might be given on reasonable terms, and of a character similar to that available for the more fortunate English and American girl who has to look forward to earning her livelihood. The Minister of Education replied that the homo was the proper place for a woman, nnd 10- fused tho permission. The result is that this official attitude forces the womou of Germany to continue to be handicapped iu the struggle for ex istence which many of them are obliged to face. Shun the Circular Skirt. Boware of the circular skirt, unless you have a perfect figure aud your goods are of heavy satin brocade or other very firm material. Even then beware of it in most dressmakers' bauds. If you aro at all stout, even in a small degree so, your rounded circular Hkirt, minus a perpendicular line, will make you look stouter. If you are thin, it is the worst choice you cnu make. Its uncompromising shape, with not a fold, line or break in it, will outline every defect. Then tho inveterate propensity of a circular skirt is to dip ut each side most dis tressingly after the skirt has been worn about threo times, and with au added propensity to lift just iu front aud just at the back, iu a rnoHt ugly nud undesirable manner. The cir cular cape we all remember, cut on the same lines, was guilty of just such untoward conduct, looltiug thereby decidedly ungraceful and giving a drooping appearance to its wearer that was depressing even to the be holder. A Letter CUHO. This little article is both useful and ornamental on my lady's desk, and can he decorated cither by painting or needlework. Obtain a cardboard box whose lid shuts over it complete ly like a case, extending to tho bot tom, and large enough to contain two packages of envelopes of ordinary size. Fit a piece of cardboard inside to divide tho space, then cover the lid of the box with linen, painting or embroidering in outline stitch on one sido of the top 4 ' .batters Answered," on the other siilj "Letters Un answered." Betwc ' tile spaces oc cupied by the letteri : any appropri ate device may be painted; or, if the decoration is done with the needle, tiny (lowers can be scattered over the top among the letters, or tho words plaoed in a slanting direction in the lower right-hand co'- ier nud the upper left-hand corner of the box cover, with tho initials of tho future owner, if it is to be a gift, also worked across between them. If intended to be sold iu fairs and exchanges—unless orders are taken—the initials, of course, must be omitted. Yet it might do to put one as u. sample iu au exchange, with the lett.ra on a strip of paper between the words to show the design.—Harper's Bazar. One Woman's 4Julck Wit. The hoad nurse of one of the lead ing hospitals in Philadelphia, while talking the other night on the diffi culty occasionally experienced, even by doctors of standing, iu diaguosing a case, related au incident which came under her notice some years ago and which illustrated not only the liability of physioians to err, hut the superior acumen of a woman physician; who is now tho wife of ouo of the best-known physicians in Philadelphia. "A man had been brought in," said the head nurse, "suffering from some complaint which puzzled tho doctors exceedingly. There was a slight erup tion on the skin, hut that did not seem to be any guide to them. The whole staff got interested in his case and between them all the poor fellow was getting worso and worse. Thoy worked over him for ten days, but seemed no nearer a solntion of the ease than at first. "There was a woman physician on the staff then and during one of the morning consultations on his oase sho stepped in and looked the patient over. 'l'll tell you what it is, boys,' she 6aid after a moment's thought, 'that man is suffering from small pox.' Instantly there was consternation. The eyes of the staff were opened. The patient was hurried to the Muni cipal Hospital and the most desperate efforts made to separate his bed linen from that of other patients in the hospital laundry. The mischief had been [done, however. In a few days three of the nurses followed him to the Municipal Hospital, and in a few days more others were stricken. The shadow of fear was not lifted from that hospital for a month after."— Philadelphia Enquirer. Uosstp. Mrs. A. n. H. Stuart founded the first woman's club in the Northwest more than fifteen years ago. Miss Hamilton Griffiu, a half-sister of Mary Anderson, is cultivating her voice in Germany, and will make her debut as a singer next year. Mrs. A. T. Fisk, an English worn* au and a member of the Woman's Vegetarian Union, is lecturing on vegetarianism us a cure for poverty. Mme. Albaui, who lias been making a tour through South Africa, is de lighted with that country. When she visited the Do Peers Compound at Kimberlcy three thousand Zulus danced and sang for her. Women in Victoria will in future have the privilege of helpiug to elect the members of the Legislative Assem bly. A bill has been passed giving them the suffrage. There was almost no opposition to the measure. Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, who is working to have the word '''women" stricken from the name of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, is a daughter of Piatt R. Spencer, author of the famous Spenceriau system of penmanship. Miss Alice Everett, a graduate of Girton College, England, at present engaged in special work at the Eoyal Astrophysical Observatory in Pots dam, Germany, will bo assistant in the astronomical observatory at Vas sar College next year. Mrs. Alice Rollins Crane, wbo is in the service of the Smithsonian Insti tution, is a unique inhabitant of Daw son City. She wears a buckskin skirt, bloomers of the same material and leather leggings. She likes fron tier life, and expects to die with her boots on. Miss Ellen Terry Ims made tho So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in London her debtor to the amount of 82150 —for that was the sum realized by the performance at the Ly ceum a recent afternoon. Miss Terry had the assistance of her old comrade, Mrs. Kendal. Miss Flora Van Cuylenburg, a na tive of Ceylon, and at present a stu dent at tho Loudon Medical School, has received a studentship of 8375 a year for three years, and one term that she may be trained as a medical missionary and obtain a full qualifica tion to go abroad as a medical mission ary. Queen Elizabeth of Roumania, "Carmen Sylva," has received a doc tor's degree from the University of Peslh. A diploma artistically decor ated was bestowed upon her by the Minister of Austria-Hungary, with an address in praise of her books, and the doetress responded in a graceful speech. The first woman to receive the de gree of Bachelor of Divinity from the University of Chicago is Mrs. S. 15. Gray. She had previously taken an A. B. from the same uuiversity, and her B. D. means three additional years of hard work, in which she has completed the full divinity course. Only a fow women have ever received this degree from any university. Fufihlon'ft Fancies. The revived earring is the drop ring; for instance, a pear shaped pearl with a diamond above it. The newest shade of red is begonia. It is rich and deep and not so harsh as cherry red or cardinal. Cockscomb red is tho newest shade of the color. Serge and cloth jackets, aud even dressos, in this blatant hue are among the new things in autumn modes. Velvet trimmings will find unlimited favor this winter, and dresemakers are still utilizing all kinds and shades of narrow ribbon as trimming for new autumn gowns. Overskirts and draperies are becom ing general on the light, fluffy type of evening gown, and they will no doubl bo universally adopted for evening wear before winter sets in. A novol finger ring is made to send forth a sprny of sceut whenever the wearer pleases, or, to speak more ao ourate, when she is wise enough to receptacle well filled. Other rings are set with a tiny watch. Unless all signs fail, velvet will be popular this season. Plain, miroir, corded, stitched in fine pleats cross folds will be seen in tho shops. This fact will be welcome, as velvet is effective aud useful in making over laßt season's favorite gowns. Chenille will be much used on the winter hats. It appears on felts, formed into arabesques on cloths, and for the soft crowns of toques. Chenille dots are placed on ostrioh tips and quills, and chenille braiding with fluted satin ribbon .is used to form soft crowns, marquese and pouf offsets.
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