The Empress Dowager of Chiua has demonstrated that the woman iu poli tics can command unlimite d considera tion under certain conditions. Six of the foremost colleges report that their freshmen classes this term are the largest they have ever received. There is undoubtedly a boom in edu cation as well as in business. Thirty-three schools have been opened in Santiago Do Cuba aud these are to be conducted on American lines. The pupils will be instructed in the English language and American his tory. Broadminded educators are striving to establish special classes for deficient chidren. The idea deserves careful consideration. Tho pitiful sight is often witnessed in our public schools of the teacher who never looks below the surface of thing 3 holding up to admiration the bright pupil at tho ex penso of the child whoso dormant faculties, if properly developed, miglil in the end win tho race of life. Means taken by the Maryland Board of Health to insure a good water supply at places of public resort in that State would be very efficient il the majority of people had learned to take seriously the warnings of sanitary science iu thi3 respect. It has ordered that examinations be made from tim® to time by the chemist aud the biolo gist of the Board of the water sup. plies of such resorts, aul that the re salts be reported to the owaors of the resorts aud he made public. This is not altogether a new liue of sanitary work in Maryland. Tho Health Board has the power to inspect water sources, and has done so, reporting the condition to the owner, aud if the source was found to be faulty has suggested that it be abandoned. It has no farther power iu the matter, however, except iu the presence of epidemic disease, an! as it 3 sugges tions have been disregarded in some instances, it ha 3 adopted the plau of publicity. This may influence the proprietors of public resorts,'and tku3 the people may be protected against the consequences of their own care lessness. Manchester, England, is now con fronted with a serious problem iu con nection with its ship canal, says Brad street's. When that undertaking was begun, twelve or fifteen yeai*3 ago, provision was made in the construc tion of tho canal for steamships draw ing about twenty-two feet of water and of a capacity of not over 3000 tons. Since then there has been a steady increase in the capacity and draught of ocean-going steamers, aud the canal, owing to the lack of foresight of its projectors, is unable to accommodate the new class of ocean tramps, to say nothing of the liners which the san guine do not despair of seeing setting forth from Manchester on transatlan tic voyages. It is also pointed out that if Manchester is to succeed in building up a direct trade in' cotton with American ports there must be more dock and warehouse accommoda tions. It cannot supersede Liverpool B3 a cotton port when there is no ade quate provision for storing the staple a3 it arrives, It would seem that this •ack of capacity in the canal itself and the want of warehouse facilities are affecting the growth of the caual busi ncss. In the first half of 1898 its rev enues increased about $15,000, hut in the corresponding half year of 1897 the increase was SBO,OOO, and, in 1996, $90,000. What is probably the most radical departure from the old system of trial by jury is under test in Louisiana. Tho change is by authority'of the re cent Constitutional Convention in the Btato. That body, in addition to other remarkable acts, provided that in criminal cases where the punishment may not be imprisonment at hard labor the trial may be by tho judge, without a jury; if the punishment may be im prisonment at hard labor, the case must ho tried by a jury of five; and if the punishment must be bard labor, theu the jury shall consist of twelve, the concurrence of nine of whom is eufticient for a verdict. As explained by a' Louisiana paper, the purpose of the enactment was to get rid of the Ifelay and expense of long jury trials and of disagreeing juries. Iu this re spect it is a success. The courts have been able to dispose of much moro business, aud at lessened cost, the re duction in expense at a single term of ono court beiug S2OOO. It remains to be seen, however, how the change will affect the prisoner. Oil this point the framers of the consiitutional clause ap peared to entertain doubts. They made its place iu the constitution tena-' tive, by a provision that the Legisla ture may change it after 1901, and re turn to the old system if the new on® is found not to work well. GREEN WOODS, Oh, sweet It wns, ant fair It was, In the green woods to-day. With only tree-tops bonding near, And ali tiio world away, When fearing not, and caring not, And hoping, hoping all, Mv heart danced as the shadows danco The swaying boughs let fall. Ob, balmy was the pine-tree's breath, Htirring its tassolled plumes; The slender birches, maiden-white, Leaned thro' the forest glooms; And blrob, and beech, and bending bu9b, And brook and blossomed spray, Were childhood voicos long forgot, In the green woods to-day. Oh, sweet It was, and fair it was, In the green woods to-day, To hear the birds trill out their tunes, And all tho world away; And fearing not, and caring not, And hoping, hoping all, In notes they stole from out my dreams To hear them call and call. !NDi ; 1 LYNC^eS?! at ABBIELLE always S J remembered the "Vn day when the ring \£'V master of the cir cus came to see her j /jjoViv) pony jump. She I — YS'nftljy !F\ was P °' " er pony, who was dapple gray and /111 Welsh, and could 111 J ifU'yytJSf jump nine inches I'/ I ttrv VI higher than liim- J 1 Ml t' j Belf - I 1 hit' '3 Gabrielle was L |>V, Ge, and had rid 'i mm 'i den without alead ing-reiu for two years, but her father never let her jump Roland, tho pony. So the pony jumped by himself, greatly to the edification of the ringmaster, who had been bidden to see the feat. While all this was going on, Nana called her to nursery tea, and as she trotted down the long yard, past the stables, and toward the drive, the ring master turned to Jack Ainslie, Gabrielle's father, and said: "Has the little missie hurt her foot? She's a thought lame." Jack Ainslie looked hastily after the idolized little figure, aud noted that the ringmaster was right. She was a thought lame. Hastily excusing himself ho ran after the child. "Have you hurt your foot, dar ling?" he asked anxiously. "You're limping a little. Did you twist your aukle?" "Oh, no, Daddy dear, I'm not hurt. I'm going to tea." Gabrielle put up her face for the ever-expected kiss, aud ran after her nurse. Jack Ainslie dismissed the subject from his mind and showed the ringmaster the rest of the horses. From that day, however, things changed for Gabrielle. Other people noticed the little limp, and her parents, terrified aud distressed, sent for the family doctor. He discovered that in some way, probably at birth, her hip had been dislocated, aud had formed a new socket for itself, aud that hence forth she would limp unless—and here all the mischief began—something could be done. Her father was fran tic. Of coarse something must be done. That his Gabrielle, his dainty little lady, with her pretty face, her quick intelligence and her gracious ways, should bo lame—oh, it was in tolerable! He was broken-hearted and rebellious, aud oven his wife's stead fast patience and unchanging tender ness could not make him resigned. Then began for Gabrielle a series of visits to London. She wa taken from one great doctor to another till she grow quite used to marching about on thick piled carpets, clad in nothiug but her bonny hair, while ttiey dis cussed her interesting "case." "Doctors are chilly men," said Gabrielle; "their bauds are always cold to my body.". An operation was arranged, hut at tho last moment Jack Ainslie drew back, for the surgeons would not guar antee success, and the family doctor said grave things about Gabrielle's constitutional delicacy. So it was de cided that more gradual means must be tried to bring about the desired re sult. The "gradual means" assumed the shape of an instrument, hideons to behold and painful to wear. It broke Jack Ainslie's heart to see his little lady cabined and confined in Buch a cruel cage, and for the little lady herself, it blotted out the sunshine aud made life very gray and terrible. Ono thing was quite plain to Gabri elle, and that was that evidently nature was very much to blame in having provided a new "socket" for the poor little dislocated bone. That impertinence must be interfered with at all costs—the doctors seemed to agree upon that. And Gabrielle won dered why it was so wrong to have no pain, to bo perfectly unconscious in her "affliction," as her nurse called it, aud so interesting (to tho doctors), and right, to bo uncomfortable aud to wear a hideous high-soled boot aud an iron cago, with crutches under the arms that pushed her shoulders up to her ears. As for that instrument, it was de signed ami ordered by three famous surgeons, and it cost the price of many ponies. Gabrielle tried to be brave. Hlio was curiously conscious tbat the pain her parents suffered was far greater than her own. The instru ment was adjusted in London, and on tho way home iu the train her mother asked her mauy times, "Does it hurt you, my darling?" And Gabrielle al ways answered bravely, "I can bear it, mother dear; I can bear it!" When she got home that night the poor little leg was black from the cruel pressure and Mary Ainslie brc ke down and cried till she could orv no looser. Of fairy pfpe9 the wood was full, And stir of airy feet; Tho nesting robin to his mate Sang only, "Sweet, sweet, swoct!" And far and high the hermit-thrash Thrilled his ecstatic note, As if the song of love and death Lived in his slender throat. Ob, sweet it was, and dear it wa9, In the green woods to-day, The echo of a silent voice, Aud all the world away. For fearing not, and loving much, And hoping, hoping all, Across tho cloudy silences I felt her presence fall. They ma lo her grave the other day, Aud yet it well may bo That all ulong that woodland path, Viewless, she went with me; For life is stronger still thnn death, And lovo will find away, Aud heaven aud earth were all as one In the green woods to-day. —.Martha Baker Dunn, Gabrielle tried to walk bravely in lier cramping irons and to smile at her parents when she met their troubled eyes. At first she broke tho thing continually, for she was an active child, much given to jumping off chairs and playing at circus on the big old sofa. But by and by all her desire to jump and run left her. She grew high shouldered aud would sit very still for hours, while her Daddy told her stories, or drove her behind Bolaud in a little basket carriage he had bought for her. Truly the iron had entered into her soul, the cruel iron that cramped tho child's soft body; and Gabrielle's eyes grew larger and larger, and her chin more pointed, while the once plump little hands were white as the petals of the pear blossom outside the nursery window. "I wish people wouldn't ask me about it; they are kind, but I wish they wouldn't," Gabrielle would say. "I'm tired of telling them about the sooket, and I'm not 'a poor little soul' —l'm Daddy's little lady!" There came to Jack Ainslio a very old college friend, a doctor, Gabrielle'B godfather, aud devoted to her, and he was supremely dissatisfied with her treatment and implored them to take her to see a young surgeon, a friend of his own, who was making a great name and doing wonders for everyone who came under his care. Jack Ains lie and his wife needed but small per suasion, and it was decided that Ga brielle should go to London as soon as possible. What hastened the visit was this; Gabrielle was devoted to fairy lore and a favorite play of hers was to bo a beautiful princess who is freed from giants and dragons and lions by tho gallant "Boots" of the Norse tales. Her father always acted the part of that redoubtable third son and was wont to kneel before her, making ex travagant protestations of his devo tion, which she accepted with gracious condescension. On this particular af ternoon, just after tea, her father pro posed to play tho favorite garno, but Gabrielle would have none of it. "I can't be a princess any more, Daddy; I'm sure no princess ever wore an instrument!" she said. "I don't feel like a princess any more at all." Het father caught her up in his arms with a great hard sob, which frightened her, aud she stroked his face, saying tenderly: "Don't he sorry, dear, dear Dad! I didn't mean to hurt you. I'll be a princess; I will indeed I I will feel liko a princess, really 1" Tho next day Jack Ainslie and his wife took Gabrielle up to town. They did not even take the faithful Nana, for Gabrielle's mother could hardly bear to let any bauds but hers touch her darling, over since tho day that tho ringmaster had mado his sad dis covery. Mary Ainslio took Gabriolle to the new doctor the following morning, while Jack sat in the smoking-room of the hotel, lighting innumerable cigars which he did not smoke, and turning illustrated papers which he did not see. Theu ho turned out of the hotel and walked down Piccadilly, blundering into the pasßers-by, and when he crossed the road was nearly ridden over by an omnibus, BO blind and stupid was he in hiß heavy sor row. Poor Jack! His honest heart was very full of grief, for he loved his little lady dearly, ami he felt that un less something were done quickly he would soon have nothing but a tender memory to love. Gabrielle and her mother were shown into the new doctor's consult ing-room at once. He was a tall young man with red hair and keen green eyes. Her mother uudressed Gab rielle, all but the "instrument," which clasped tho tender little body and seemed so cruelly unnecessary. The young doctor frowned when he saw it; then ho took it off himself, and Gabrielle noticed that his touoh was as gentlo as her mother's aud that his hands were warm. She gave a happy little shake when she was free of it— a little wriggle aud jump of relief. Thou the doctor made her walk, and felt her all over, after which he rolled her up iu a big fur rug, to sit in front of the fire, while he went into the next room with her mother. They were not long away, aud on their return Gabrielle looked at the doctor with bright, curious eyes. "Does the instrument hurt you?" he asked. Gabrielle looked at it as it leaned ! feebly against n chair, aud said: "It does, rather; butit does its best uot to. I tbiuk " "Well, any way, you're not going to wear it any more; aro you glad?" 1 "But what will the socket do?" I "-Bless the child: tbev've talked about you far too ruucb. The socket will do beautifully—ruucli better with out it tbauwith it!" "May X wear shoes like other little girls?" "Certainly; the prettiest shoes that can be got!" "Not compensntum shoes?" "No; ordinary shoes, exactly alike!" By this time Gabrielle had been ar rayed in some clothes. She noticed that her mother's hand 3 trembled, but that her eyes were glad. Tho child looked up at the tall, young doctor who was watching her with his keen green eyes, and said: "My daddy will be so glad. He will look at me and not look so sorry, and there will be no hard things to stick into him when he cuddles me! Ho will be so glad!" The doctor made a queer little sound in his throat; then he lifted Gabrielle in his arms and carried her to the win dow. "Do you see the end of this street," he asked, "where the roar and the rnmbliug sound comes from? That's Oxford street. Well, in that street is a beautiful shop full of shoes—shoes for little girls—and you are going there directly to get the nicest shoes we can find for you." "May they have silver buckles?" Gabrielle asked eagerly. "I think it extremely advisable they should have big silver buckles. You will walk both fast and far in buckled shoes, and you must learn to dance tho tarantella and all the dolls will sit in a row to watch you!" Gabrielle gave a delighted laugh. "Will the leg that wore tho irons get fat again, like the other?" "Oh, dear, yes! You mustn't think about that leg any more, but you must do all the exercises mother is going to show you, and when you can hang on a trapeze for twenty minutes without falliug off you must write nudtell me." Then Gnbrielle's mother finished dressing her, all but her boots. The hoot with the eompensatum sole lay near the instrument. Gabrielle looked at it with great aversion. "It's a very dry day," said she. "May I go to the cab in my stockings, and not put no shoes till I have my new ones?" The doctor pushed tho little boot out of sight under the chair with his foot, and said: "I'll carry you to tho cab, and mother or the cabman will carry you to the shop across the pavement, and yon shall never see that iron horror or that boot again!" As the doctor carried her across the hail Gabrielle put both her arms around his neck and kissed him on both his eyes. "Your eyes taste very salt!" she said. "But you are the best man in the world!" —London Outlook. A liarbarous Exhibition. The seventy-two-hours bicycle race, which ended at the Velodrome of tho Bare des Princes, Paris,was concluded amid scenes that can only bedoscxibed as sickening. The agony suffered by the competitors owing to the terrifio heat may readily be imagined, and their condition toward the finish, and, indeed, long before it, was pitiful. On tho last afternoon Frederick, who ul timately came in second, fell off his machine five times in quick succes sion, but each time, in spite of his pro tests, he was lifted back on his seat and mado to continue by his manager. None too soon the public gave ex pression to its disgust at this inhuman spectaole. Frederick was at last car ried ofl'thejeourse more dead than alive. Several of the men had attacks of de lirium. Fischer suddenly jumped off his machine, and out of the course, and climbed a chestnut tree before any body could imagine what he was about. "I am hungry, and want to eat chest nuts," he cried to his manager, who had the greatest difficulty in persuad ing him to come down from his perch. Another competitor, in a fit of mad ness, seized the umbrella of a specta tor, opened it, and proceeded to cut frantio capers round the course. The press is almost unanimous in describ ing the race as a monstrous exhibition, and it is hoped that Paris will be spared similar spectacles for fu ture.—London Post. The Mad House of the Laplander. The most pretentious habitation the Laplander knows is a mud house. These, at a distance, look like small hillocks, and remind one of the relics of the mound builders. The floor of the hut (or gamine) is the hard trod den bosom of mother earth. There are no chairs, no tables, and no beds. The hut is one Compartment, aud in the center, within a rude hearth of stones, is a fire, and all of the smoke that cannot manage to stay in the room goes up through a hole in the roof. Bags stuffed with straw and skins for robes, are the only comforts for sleep ing. A very odd kind of bundle often forms a stumbling block to locomotion about the room, for the baby, done up iu a tight leather case, papooso fash ion, is usually cradled on the floor.— Detroit Free Press. Youngest Dally Editor. The Tuscaloosa Daily Herald is e new enterprise at Tuscaloosa, Ala. II has the youugest editor ever known in the daily journal field. He is Frank Lawrence, and is twelve years old. He writes tho locals, sets tho type, prints tho paper, and then delivers it. The paper has quite a number of subscrib ers and a fair amount of advertising. The Herald is a three-column four page sheet aud is making excellent progress. Itlcliea on a lleggnr. A well-known beggar who for more than twenty years has frequented tho neighborlioodjof tho Paris Opera House and the Church of St. Rock, was the other day prostrated by sunstroke, lie was taken to tho hospital of La Charite, where banknotes amounting to SBO,OOO were discovered in a leath oru holt fb® mAnd'oant. notion* wm-e. Ornamented Toilet Appointments. Very charming toilet appointments In glass, including boxes for powders, pomades, creams, etc., have the now popular silver gilt top with some daiuty design, such as tho wild rose, enameled in colors. A Fashionable Ilat. Three-cornered hats are coming into fashion. Theso are trimmed with os trich plumes and rosettes. There is also a tendency towards the scoop hat, which resembles a small inverted but ler bowl. One of the most attractive of these models is a hat of butter bowl shape, tho top fairly loaded with nas turtiums, and the brim underneath tilled in with ruchiugs of diaphonous fabric, flowers and foliage. A Woman's Carriage. 5 Much of au Englishwoman's beauty lies in her proud carriage, the erect ness of her figure and the poise of her head. The aristocratic carriage is within the reach of every girl who will take the trouble to have it. It i 3 a question of a few years of vigilance, (luring which she should never relax the watchfuluess over herself. Sitting or standing, the erectuess nnd pose must he preserved. The result will be that at the eud of that time it has become second nature to her. In this way tho figure is also preserved, the muscles aro kept firm aud well strung, and the sinking down of the flesh round tho waist and hips is prevented. —New York Ledger. Marvellous Hat Ornaments. Hat ornaments are enormous. It is going to be a marvel how the heads upon which they are to appear will support them. It will require some management of tho bead to obtain an equilibrium. Mauy of these enormous club 3 are of jet, aud two stylish ones seen iu one hat—big pins with enor mous round heads, in the front of it— were of dull black, ornamented with cut steel. Many pretty bonnets are made of slung jet, or blaok sequins, as many people would say. All colors are combined with the black. A beautiful shade of orange that appears in mil linery might be called frosted orauge iu contradistinction to the burnt orange which has been so much used. It has a pretty white frosted effect. Mt&n'd Gifts to Womanhood. Au English writer points out the fact that tho most generous gifts to women in America have all come from the libel'ality of men. Vassal' College, tho pioneer of women's universities, was the gift to American womanhood of Matthew Vassar; tho women's de partment of Cornell was built and en dowed at great expense by Kussell Sage, and in almost every other of the mauy cases it is men who have made the munificent gifts to the future girls iu American colleges. It is stated further that the same rule holds good of Great Britain. Mr. Holloway left a magnificent sum, however unwisely arranged, with the best of intentions, to erect and endow for women's higher education the pile bearing his name near Windsor. But a few weeks since iu England it was recorded that a Scotchman had left a bequest of many thousand pounds for the purpose of building a woman's medical school iu Glasgow. The Pfeiffer bequest of 8250,000, to be divided at the discre tion of Sir Josiah Finch between sev eral great educational institutions for women aud of incalculable service to them—the new buildings of tho Lon don School of Medicino for Womou opoued by tho Princess of Wales on July 14 being au illustration of how the money has benefited the recipients —was iu the most part the property of Mr. Pfeiffer, aud it was his will that actually so bequeathed it, though it had been his wife's idea, as well as his own, that their money should be so dispensed. Iu both countries, there fore, it would seom to be a case of man's generosity to woman, iu face of which Smith College, the gift of a woman to women, appears to be unique. How to Teach Children. A mother sees au entirely new side of her child's character when tho lit tle one is with other children. A sel fish or domineering or obstinate spirit, utterly unknown before to the loviug parent, is apt to manifest itself. With older people a child is more or less re strained, but with little people of his own age he feels perfectly free to do as he pleases. Companiousbis is au excellent thing for ohiidron. It uot only makes thorn happier, but they are observing little morlnls, aud quick to imitate. The rough boy will try to be geutle to his timid littlo cousin if he is stirred by tho idea that he must protect her the little tomboy will try to follow the' geutle graces of her pet friend, seeing how much she is loved for hor quiet' sweetness; while the bashful, shrink ing littlo lassie will strivo to emulate the strength aud good seuso of her lively comrado. Let the mother wel come her children's little guests cor dially, observe their characters, and encourage her children to follow their virtues. A little pained expression at some discourtesy will often do more than a sovero scolding, aud a quick, cheerful "Thank you," or "How thoughtful, dear," will work wonders. Praise freely the kinds acts; show the r: