Freeiand Tribune Established 1888. rOBLISIIED EVKItV MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY. Limited OFFICE: MAIN STUELT ABOVE CENTRE. FREELAXD, PA. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Year $1.50 Six Moiith* 75 Four M-mth9 .. .50 Two Mouths .25 The dute which the subscription is paid to Is on tne address labol of each paper, the change of which to u subsequent date be comes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advuuco of the present date. Re port promptly to this ofllee whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. Make all many orders, checks, etc.,payable to th? Tribune Printinj Company, Limited. Extensive educational reforms are projected by the Madrid ministry. ' The war demonstrated the need of ' teaching the Spanish young idea how to shoot. Since July last 990 bicycles have beeu stolen in Chicago, and the po lice of that city give out the opinion gravely that some bike burglar is try ing for a ten-century record. The shade of Christopher Columbus, in the Elysiau Fields, must smile with amusement to see his couutiwweu of today carrying his brother's dust to and fro upon the earth under the pious fiction that it is his, while his own rests undisturbed by the side of the rusting fetters he once wore. One of the first acts of General "Wood at Santiago do Cuba was to re form and vastly improve the school system. General Kitchener's first act concerning Khartoum siuce bis con quest of the place is to raise 8500,000 for the establishment of a college there. That is what Anglo-Saxon conquest means today—the building not of fortresses to enslave people, but of schools to educate and elevate , them. The vegetarians may be expected to ; deny the recent statement of an Amer- ! ican physician in Porto Ilico, who says that the Porto Eicaus have become . physically degenerate because they j eat vegetables and not meat. The ' vegetarians can bring up the authori ty of the Bible, for it relates of Daniel that after eating nothing but pulse and water for ten days bis counte nance "appeared fairer aud fatter in llesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat." The advantages of ancestry and family are worth little in themselves to a young man save in our oldest communities. In the newer parts of the country the day laborer, provided nature has gifted him with brains and energy, may cherish any ambition. Lincoln was a day laborer. General Miles was a clerk in a dry goods store. Blaine taught a country school. Gar field drove mules on the towpath. McKinley practised law in the insig nificant little town of Canton, Ohio. Mauy of our millionaires began a9 workmen. Other men who are drudg ing for wages today will bo the mil lionaires of twenty-five years hence. The Omaha exposition was a re markable demonstration of the indus trial prosperity of that section of the West which contributed to its array of exhibits. It was another indication of the rapidly, increasing industrial importance of a part of our country which the Eastern mind is accustomed to regard in a somewhat confused and nebulous light—as a vast stretch of farm-lands, most of them heavily mortgaged, and none of iuein re moved very mauy steps from a state of uncomfortable poverty. The expo sition at Omaha tended to prove, along with the unceasing argument of the Western press, that the West in real ity enjoys a high degree of prosperity, and, furthermore, that its activities are not confined to agriculture, but that they are fast stretching out into directions which the East is inclined to consider as lying within the limits of its own special field of usefulness. The fair at Omaha made an especial effort to show that the West is fast as suming importance as a manufactur ing and commercial territory. Queensland Is Inaugurating a new departure in the fruit trade, says Lon don Invention. It is found that dried bananas take the place of raisins in puddings very well, and an enterpris ing firm in Queensland has sent to tho Agent General's office, in Victoria street. Westminster, a consignment of dried bananas, with the object of opening up a market for them in England. As soon as the public have tested for themselves the agreeable flavor which dried bananas give the puddings, there is srje to be a big de mand for them. In Germany 45,251 persons under 13 years of age were convicted of crime or misdemeanor In 1897. Of these 22,- 544 were sentenced for theft, 7,537 for violence to the person and for fraud. g DAN J "UPSON'S EIDE. g By EDWARD JOHN HART. dBMBtB6H9SMiI jjjf PRISINGS were in II H " le a ' r auc l Salis j£g bury, the capital IB Mashonaland, K &-X/v!mhE was ' u a s ' a ' 9 k° r " fcf " dering on panic, in the mot th of | Nr June, 1896. The r; J Mashouns had J.J^Li risen to aid their ®W | /|\ nf former oppres y vv'<■ sors, the Mata -6 Vl r bele, aud from the 15th to the 18th G f June, and thence onward for many terrible duys almost every hour brought tragic tid ings. Prospectors, miners and trav elers, unsuspi'cious of danger, were being slaughtered in all directions. Stores and lonely houses were be seiged, looted and burned, after the owners were slain. Judge Vincent, the Chartered Com pany's active administrator, could only muster 250 burghers armed with but eighty rifles and one Maxim be tween them, to protect the 300 womn and children in Salisbury. V Mr. Dan Judson, chief inspector of the Chartered Company's Telegraphs, and a then recently gazetted captain in the Rhodesia Horse, was one of the few men who had prophesied that the Mashonas would rebel. Though a young man, he was an old pioneer, had taken part in two campaigns, and knew the country well. Having friends at the Mazoe—a small settlement centering round the Alice Mine at tho head of the Mazoe Valley, about twenty-seven miles from Salisbury—Judson wired to Mr. Salt house, maunger of the Goldtields of I Mazoe Company, the news of the | murders ns it came in. When, however, early on Wednes day, the 17th of June, the inspector I had occasion to wire the Mazoe peo < pie the terrible list of murders end ing with the blood-curdling Norton massacre, he suggested that their women folk, at least, had better come into Salisbury, where a strong laager was being constructed. Consequently at midnight a wagon, or large wagonette, and six mules left the telegraph office in charge of Mr. J. O. Blakiston, Captain Judson's clerk, and Trooper Zimmerman of the Rhodesia Horse. At nine the next morning (Thurs day, the 18th) a telegram was received from Blakiston announcing his safe arrival, (that ho had met nothing on the road, and was ready to leave with the women as soon as they had break fasted. Judson then—by wire, of course— ordered the Mazoe telegraph office to bo closed, after first instructing Blakiston, Salthouse, and the men i with them to start off at once with tho ladies. The inspector passed the next I few hours feverishly anticipating their j arrival, On going into the office later on, he was astonished—believing Mazoe to | have been deserted since morning—to hear the Mazoe instrument clicking. It ceased as he entered, and Lieuten ant Harrison, then in charge of tho Salisbury Telegraph, silently handed him this message: "Blakiston to Inspector Judson. Three men killed. Alice Mine sur rounded. Send help at once. Our only chance. Good-bye." The news from the Mazoe greatly distressed Judge Vincent, for he was now being harassed on all sides with the most piteous appeals for assist ance, which, for the most part, he was unable to grant. Now, when Judson asked him if nothing could be done to assist the Mazoe people, he said he was afraid no men could be spared. After some talk, however, the inspec tor wus granted permission to take four men, and these he chose from the members of the Rhodesia Horse. Just before sunset, the little patrol of one officer and four men rode out of the town on its forlorn errand. The party consisted of Captain Judson and Troopers Honey, Guyou, Godfrey King and Hendriks; but three miles out it was joined by Captain Stamford- Brown, who was chief paymaster of the Rhodesia Horse, but not on its ordinary fighting strength. The patrol then pushed on, and near tho Gwebi River unearthed a native, who, when challenged, fled precipi tately. With one brief halt to loosen girths and allow horses and men a hasty meal, tho patrol rode on to Mount Hampden, and again halted, keeping a sharp look-out the whilo. Here, at half-past three in the morn ing, they were joined by a reinforce ment from Salisbury, consisting of Troopers Finch, Pollett, Niebuhr, Coward, Mulvaney and King. Before starting, Judson addressed his comrades, pointing out that they wero about to enter what might prove a veritable death-trap, and that there must bo no thought of turning back after they had once started. Not a man of them, however, shrank from the mission; aud descending tho rise on which tho farm stands, they crossed the Tatagora River and proceeded in single file, Judson leading, with Cap tain Brown a close second. : After covering half a mile or more, they entered a stretch of tall, dense grass, in length about 300 yards, terminating in a perfect jungle. It was an ideal spot for an ambuscade, and turning in his saddle, Judson gave the abrupt order, "Gallop!" Still going in single file they tore along, the only sound being the thun der of the hoofs of tho horses. Judson dashed through the ex tremity of the patch about ten yards ahead of Brown, who was closely fol- lowed by the others. Thou he wheeled his horse round, and raising his gun covered the thickost clump of grass, past which Niebuhr and Pollett were then galloping. As he did so, a dozen shots rang out in rapid suc cession; tire and smoke burst out of the grass not six yards from the two men, and at the same moment both of them were on the ground, horses and all. In the same instant Judson caught sight of the natives crouching in the grass aud fired his slug-charged barrels, felling two of them. This alone prevented a volley being fired on Honey and Coward, the latter of whom was thrown by his horse—who was frightened at the sudden dis charge—right in front of the enemy. Two horses were killed outright; Pollett was badly shaken and Niebuhr severely wounded, his hand having been shattered by slugs. Brown, Hendriks, Coward and Honey then opened a hot fire on the. enemy to en gage their attention, while, with great difficulty, .Tudscn got the wounded man to his horse behind him, Pollett clambering up behind Hendriks. Then they fired a volley into the rebels at forty yards, and again started off at a gallop, Niebuhr's wounded and useless arm hanging limply over .Tudson's shoulder, and saturating the front of the latter's tunic with blood. Before they had galloped many hundred yards, a largo party of the enemy was seon running parallel with them along the mountain sido to cut them off. Judson at onco halted his detachment and poured volley after volley into tho enemy, the Martinis at 300 yards range doing good execution among the natives and forcing them to retire. Once more the party started for ward, but this time at a gentler can ter, emptying their rifles as they'rode, and keeping up a running fight. On approaching thick clumps of grass which swarmed with concealed na tives, they dislodged them by firing volleys into them as they advanced, and then rushed past the dangerous spots at a fiymg gallop. Judson gave orders that, in tho event of any more getting wounded, aud the survivors being unable to carry them, they were to stick to gether aud endeavor to secnro a position on one of the kopjes, where they would be able to hold their own, at least while the ammunition lasted. Judson decided, and so informed his comrades, that if they were unable to discover their frieuds alive, they were to fight their way to the tele graph office and inform the Salisbury authorities of their plight. They would then laager up as best they could, the fact of their having no food aud but little ammunition left forcing all to realize that such a proceeding— though the only one possible under the circumstances—could be but a preliminary to certain death. Just as they were heading for the telegraph office, they heard a great shout of mingled triumph and despair, and looking round they beheld, stand ing up aud waving to them from with in au improvised laager on a small kopje near tho Alice Mine, the men aud women they had fought their way so gallantly to rescue. But for that shout the patrol might have rid den past, so hidden was the laager by masses of tho enemy. Through these blood-thirsty savages the relief force now shot a pathway for themselves and whilst under a hail of lead, but still firing volley after volley, they came up the slope at a gallop, and in a minute rescuers and rescued were united. Thus Dnn Judson's patrol had had to tight their way in under a contin uous, heavy, close-range fire from dense cover, for a distance of eight miles. But the besieged had al3o a terrible experience to relate. When on the Thursday it was de cided that all the Mazee people should proceed to Salisbury, a party of the men, as before related, started on ahead, taking with them fourteen na tive carriers and a eart drawn by two donkeys to carry their provisions. About 11 a. m. they left the rough laager of logs and boulders which had been constructed the previous day, but had not gone above three miles when their carriers led them into am bush. Cass and Dickenson were done to death on the grass with as segais nud kuobkerries, whereupon the rest turned the cart round nud jumped in, but had not proceeded far when Faull. who was driving, was shot through the stomach by a native concealed in tho grass not four yards from him. Almost at the same mo ment one donkey was killed and the other wounded, and the men, aban doning the cart, then ran for their lives. They met the wagonette containing tho three ladies aud turned it back. Finally, shooting for all they were worth at fifty or sixty natives who chased them and fired as they ran, they regained the shelter of the laager. And then occurred a strange thing, which for heroism is not to be excelled in the annals of war. A message had to bo wired to Salisbury for relief, but who in the face of certain death would volunteer to take it? Then Blakiston, who was a tele graph clerk, but not an operator, volunteered to take the message if Boutledge, who was an operator, would accompany him to transmit it. The two men knew it was certain death, too—and yet they went. Blakiston was wounded in the foot before he reached the telegraph office, but sent his message—and his good bye. The people from the laager caught sight of them on their return, when they were some 1700 yards dis tant. They saw Blakiston fail on the road, man and horse, riddled with bullets. Boutledge ran for cover into the bush, but was never seen again. After the arrival of the relief, the enemy for a time practically ceased tir ing, though the watchers kuew they remained concealed in their vicinity. For the promised reward of §SOO, a singularly plucky Cape boy named Hendritz was induced to ride to Salis bury with a dispatch asking for a re inforcement of forty men and one Maxim gun. On the Gwebi Flats he met Inspec tor Nesbit of the police, with a patrol consisting of Troopers Ogtlvie, Har bord, McGregor, Byron, Edmonds, Arnot, A. Nesbit, Berry, Van Staaden, Zimmerman, McGeer and Jacobs— thirteen men in all. The inspector elected to proceed at once to the Mazoe, without waiting for further reinforcements, and partly on account of the darkness, and part ly owing to the enemy making sure of them on the return journey, they reaoked the Mazoe without fighting. The party now numbered thirty men and three women; and after the new arrivals had fed and rested their horses, all hands set about preparing for their departure. Judsou had the two sides, and to on extent the back of the wagonette armored with sheet-iron, which—as was observed at the time—fitted so well, that it seemed to have been made for the purpose. The mules had all been shot or lost, so six men were dismounted, and tbejsix troop horses inspanned in their place, though they had never been in harness before. The order of march was an advance guard of five mounted men and eight on foot, and then a rear guard of seven mounted and eight footmen, A start was made before noon. The thick bushes and kopjes were alive with thousands upon thousands of the enemy officered by experienced Matabele, and armed with Lee-Met ford, Martinis and elephant guns, crammed with pot-legs and every vari ety of slug. Mounted natives never ceased to harass the rear guard, and pressed it so close that at one point a halt had to be made, and volley after volley fired to drive them back. A few min utes afterwards Lieutenant McGeer fell, and bis horse bolted, but was pluokily ridden after and recaptured by Hendriks. Then two of the patrol had their horses shot dead under them. Judson and Stamford-Brown ran back to see McGeer, and found him lifeless, with several bullets through his head. All this while the enemy for the most part remaiued hid den, the grass edging the roadside be ing from eight to nine feet high. In this dense cover the natives squatted, and took pot-shots at the patrol, who had only Hashes and puffs of smoke to aim at in return. About a mile from the Tatagora Drift, where the road winds between the foot of a large kopje and the river, annihilation seemed certain. The blacks were swarmed to within three yards of the road, and bullets seemed to rain upon the horses from every quarter. Here one of the leaders of the team was shot through the head, but not killed, and kept its place. Im mediately after, however, the off-side wheeler fell wounded, and while Brown and walthouse were strug gling to cut him loose, the near wheeler was killed and almost fell on Salthouse. Next Jacobs and Van Staaden were shot dead, the latter falling with the side of his head completely blown away. Arnot was cut off from his comrade, but eventually escaped. Hen driks in the advance guard was shot right through the jaws and mouth, and was ordered to abandon the con voy and save himself. Ogilvie was shot and severely injured; andßurton, receiving a terrible wound right through the face—just managed to clamber into the wagon, and fell bleed ing among the horrified women. Still the agonized procession forged slowly nhead, and still the four re maining horses painfully dragged the wagonette, blood pouring from the ncse and mouth of the wounded leader. The advance guard now made a se ries of charges on the ambushes ahead, and so diverted some of the fire from the wagonette. At the end of that terrible valley, a ruse de guerre was attempted, the advance guard riding forward and cheering wildly as if they sighted advancing relief. The cheer ing was taken up by the rest—and the ruse succeeded. The firing slackened off perceptibly, and soon ceased altogether; and be fore they reached the Gwebi ltivor all pursuit was abandoned. With one halt, varied by a false alarm that the natives were again in sight, they toiled painfully over the interveuiug seventeen miles, reaching Salisbury Laager about ten o'clock. They received an indescribable ova tion, it being reported that all were killed. The attack on the Alice Mine and the reliefs had lasted, with but little intermission, more than sixty hours. Inspector Nesbit —possibly because ho was connected with a force more nearly allied to the regular forces— was given a Victoria Cross, but he was the only member of that gallant little band whose services were recognized by government. Captain Dan Judson, the organizer, leader and moving spirit of the most heroic expedition in colo nial annals—despite the strenuous recommendations of Judge Vincent— received—nothing! But his heroic feat of arms is not likely to be forgot ten by the people of the veldt sido, and will be rememberod by most Eng lishmen who know the story.—Wida World Magazine. The elephant beetle of Venezuela is the biggest of its species. An average specimen of this inseot, when full grown, weighs half a pound. |3K3toic<epawie©^ I NEWS AND NOTEsf | FOR WOMEN. | Queen Victoria as Godmother. Tommy Atkins at large, and par ticularly Tommy Atkins who has been lighting with Kitchener, is in great delight at the latest act of the good English Queen. After the death of Captain Findlay, of the Seventy-ninth Highlanders, who was killed at the battle of Atbara, Her Majesty signified her desire to become godmother to his infant sou. The Captain stood six feet four inches -tall, and was said to be "as brave as he was tall." He had been married only a few months at the time of his death, and when baby was born the Queen named him \ ictor Alexander and presented him with a beautiful baptismal cloak. The I>lcoinfort of Conventional Drefl*. It is a singular development of these latter days that discomfort is somehow believed to be an adjunct of high civilization. To be comfortable in wide shoes, low collars, loose gowns and durable colors and ma terials is allowable in periods of re laxation, as in summer vacations, but when the work-time begins, and the so-called "social season" is in augurated, the raimeut must be girdered and tightened. Thus the poor, protesting but sternly re pressed body passes its most strenuous periods in an armor which not only lessens its efficiency, but positively hastens its decay and dissolution. The extraordinary fallacy that in some inscrutable way bodily comfort and a stiff and girded conventionality are necessary to the preservation of high social and moral standards, ought to be sloughed off from our modern code. Daily work can bo far better done when the body is perfectly comfort able. Not a single hard, stiff, bind ing feature should attach to our every-day costume. Why cannot men and women be reasonable and inde pendent. and learn to admire realities instead of artificial follies?— Kate Upson Clark, in the Woman's Home Companion. Fur For the Hat. A hat with a fur brim may sound weighty, but it is pretty for ail that, especially if the fur is chinchilla and the crown is a flat Ilolbein affair | pressed back on one aide by a huge ! rosette of white feathers. That at I least i's one type of the headgear that ! has a following just now. A great ! display is made in the shops of tiny I toques twisted up out of a half yard I of bias velvet and absolutely nothing more. The velvet is usually of the most daring color, or shaded like a rainbow, and has two tall rabbit-ear points springing up in front. The worthy guinea hen makes the most hay in the autumn sunshine, for we now have hats the crowns or brims of which are made of the pretty speckled feathers. Brims are sometimes ap propriately faced with this barnyard plumage, and there is, by the way, a | deal of emphasis laid on the facing 3 of | a hat. The milliners have persuaded ; many customers to have a narrow line I of scarlet spangles run in under the brim and just in front next to the hair. By this device, the hatmakers say, warm red light is reflected on the cheeks just under the eyes, thereby greatly adding to the brilliancy of the latter. Blond women face their ; hats with turquoise blue chenille | lace, while sallow women make use of pale pink under the brim, and all j these devices are said to be actual j helps to beauty.—Now York Sua. The Value of Good Taste. ! There is a young woman "sug j pester" in Washington, who, while she does no actual shopping herself, may be put under the same head. . This youug womau has an artistio eye, I and her services are in demand by j wealthy women who want to be told ; just what they ought to wear. The young woman tolls them, and tells I them just right. She has a large nurn j her of clients, and she knows just ex- I nctly what each of them should wear to appear at her best at all seasons of [ the year. She does not confine her sels to costumes, hut kuows just what is best suited to each of her clients in | the way of hats, shoes, gloves and other feminine paraphernalia. She j makes money. Under the same head ing comes a well-knowu Washington woman, whose circumstances are not such that she needs to bo employed, but who has a standing commission from a number of wealthy Washiug toniaus to purchase for them whatever she likes, on her numerous trips out of Washington, in the way of pictures, statuettes, medallions, antiques and especially old and fine pottery. She is an expert in ceramics. This young woman spent a number of years as an art student in Paris, and she is known at all of the art sales in this country as a discreet and careful i buyer of the very first quality of I judgment. She has bought hundreds of the works of art of all sorts that adorn the private collections of Wash iugtoniaus, and sho receives a liberal commission for her work of selection. —Washington Star. Gj'mnfisiumft For Women. Many new gymuasinms and gymna sium classes for women have been opened this season in our large cities, and smaller towns are not iar behind in providing opportunities for women who have become interested in their bodily development to take up such practice work. Women generally go into physical culture with great enthusiasm, and well-appointed gymnasiums used by them are fitted up with all the appar atus used by men. The trapaze, par allel and leaping bars, and rowing and riding machines, the bicycle school, the running track, the bowling alley, tbe swimming tanii and plunge bath, are all provided for the woman who wishes to become an athlete. Even the lighter apparatus, clubs and dumbbells, are used of about the same weight by both sexes. The light apparatus is thought to give better development, and is used even by men who are training for professional ath letes. Ball playing in gymnasiums has become quite a fad. In old times our great-great grandfathers went out modestly and throw their balls against the side of a house. To-day their great-grandsons and great-grand daughters are taught to play ball scientifically, and have walls carefully erected in gymnasiums to practice ou. "Teams" of girls trained to play all sorts of athletic games are uo longer a novelty, and our granddaughters bid fair to equal our grandsons in skill and strength. [ There is much good to be gained in this woman's athletic training if it is not carried to excess, and especially if it is done under the supervision of a teacher, who guards the girl against one-sided development and against overstraining the organs of a weak body. An excellent feature in good gymna siums is tho medical examiner, whose duty it is to prescribe the proper ex ercise to correct physical imperfec tions and to improve imperfectly de veloped and weak bodies. No violent or excessive physical exercise should be undertaken except 011 the advice of some one well qualified to understand the human body, and the best means to improve and strengthen it in any giveu direction. So guarded women can find great pleasure aud benefit in the various sorts of physical exercise now open to them, and women who are looking for some amusement for the coming season, as well as women whose health aud nerves need brac ing, would bo wise to turn their atten tion to physical culture.—Harper's Bazar. Gossip. Mile. Lucie Faure is engaged upou the memoirs of her father, the Presi dent of tho French Republic. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt is one of the few wives of political notabilities who shares her husband's enjoyment of cartoons. It is said that Qnoen Wilhelmina of Holland is skilled in the art of cook ing. Her model dairy farm has often been written about. Lady Curzon has prepared her Vice regal wardrobe for her Indian homo. Her orders to the Worth, house, in Paris, alone reached §15,000. One of the few countries that Adel ine Patti has never visited is Sweden, the homo of Baron Ralf Cederstrom, to whom she is engaged to be married. Mrs. Russell Sage is interested in her husband's many business projects and has for many years mado a care ful study of tho "street" and its stocks. Queen Natalio ofServia, who spends the greater part of the year at Biar ritz, has assumed the presidency of the Society of Help to the Wrecked on Laud and Sea at Buyonue. Two women of Los Angeles, Cal., have just passed au examination be fore the Supreme Court for admission to the bar of that Stute. They are Miss Bertha Lcbus and Miss Sarah White. A member of the Board of Educa tion of Glasgow, Scotland, is Mrs. Margeret Black. She does ntany other kinds of work, among them be ing the supervision of cookery in the schools. Though the newspapers of Germany have employed female writers cud re porters on their staffs the iirst in stance of a woman occupying the posi tion of oditor-in-ehief in Germany is that of Frau Luxemburg, LL. D., who has just been placed at the head of the editorial staff of the Sachsiche Ar beiter Zeitnug. The first woman architect to he ad mitted to tho Royal Institute of Brit ish Architects is Miss Ethel Mary Charles. At the filial examinatiou the candidate is required to design a building of an important public char acter to show a complete knowledge of style, construction, planning, foundations, etc. This Miss Charles successfully accomplished. Glcnning* From tho Shop* Twilled lining silks at a low price. Infants'coats increpon eiderdown. Light cloth ulsters, with flared skirt effect. ■ Whito astrakhan capes trimmed with blue fox. Military capes, in sizes from ten to fifteen years. Fleur-de-lis garter clasps set with rhinestones. Curious aud very attractive hat and belt buckles. Children's house slippers of red, edged with fur. Small plaids iu woolen goods, suit ad le for children. Gauffred silk, imitating muffs, for fronts and yokes. { [Fancy backcombs set with turquoise, rhinestones, etc. Tailor-made gowns of boxcloth, with flaro collar of fur. Ankle aud knee length gaiters oi black cloth for women. Taffeta barre, in whito and a color, divided by a cord effect. Tailored suits of cloth, with white satin revers and jacket lining. Liberty silks in clusters of tucks, broken by black or white lace inser tion. Silver belt buckles in Roman, Greek and gray gold, sot with semi-precious stones. _ Large, round glass lockets for put ting a natural flower in, which is re movable.—Dry Goods Economist. AN OLD-FASHIONED SPORT. When chestnut trees are beaten bare, And hickory ieaves turn yellow, When drooping papaws 1111 tho air With per.ume rich and mellow, We hoys steal off in early night, Whtlo whimpering screech-owls shiver. And by tho pine-knots' dickering light Go gigging, down the river. Our blazing prow in crystal swims; We hear a wind-blown tinkle Of hidden rills, and through the limbs Stars peep', and home lights twinkle On distant hills; and there below. Where restless weeds are swaying, A silent circle widens slow, The muskrat's door betraying. Alert I lean along the bow. With slender gig held ready, While Ben now poles the boat, and now Stands still, and holds her steady. The fallen leaves in squadrons pass, Each lent its shadow throwing, Aud which aro shadows, whleh are bass, Is oiten past our knowing. The townsman, rigged with rod and reel. When summer sun's are burning, With angler's urt hero tills his creel, Our rustic methods spurning. But each to eaoh his own delights- No keener sport we're wishing Than here to try in pleasant nights Our ancient Indian llshing. And oft again in wintry dreams, Our boyish funcies straying, Glide backward down tbo darkling streams, Where Memory's torch Is playing; Again tho steel is aimed true, And down young nerves n-qulver Tingles nfrcst tho thrill they know When gigging on tho river. —William Hervoy Woods, in Youth's Com panion. HUJ/IOR OF THE DAY. Rose—"Was he ou his knees when he proposed?" Mary—"No; but I was."—Philadelphia Bulletin. "The vane on the church steeple says tho wind is East." "Well, that is pretty high authority."—Boston Commercial Bulletin. Caller—"Doesn't it worry you to think of your daughter 011 the ocean?" Old Lady—"Laud sakes, no. She can swim."—New York Weekly. 'Tis now the humble married raaD Doth grunt and swear tike sin. And carry out bis wife's commands And her dear house plants iu. —Cincinnati Enquirer. First Billionaire —"Make much on the deal?" Second Billionaire—"No; not over a million." First Billionaire —"Oh, well; every million counts."— Truth. Bangs—"How they applauded!" Griggs—"Yes; probably the man who is speaking is telling them what intel ligent looking men they ore."—Boatvu. Transcript. Bobby—"Popper, what is a respect able fortune?" Mr. Ferry—"One big enough to make its owner's opinions on any subject entitled to respect."— Cincinnati Enqiirer. Hoax—"Jones gets a great deal of credit for the way he keeps his family clothed." Joax—"Well, they wouldn't be so nicely dressed if ho didn't."— Philadelphia Record. Mrs. Benham—"Mother tried to commit, suicide to-day, but I prevented it." Mr. Benham—"l wish you'd let her have her own way about those little things."—Town Topics. "No, Herbert, I am sorry, but I am sure we could not be happy together. You know 1 always waut my own way iu everything." "But my dear girl, you coald go on wanting it after we were married."—London Judy. Physician (looking into his ante room) —"Who has been waiting the longest." Tailor (who had called to present his bill) —"I have, doctor; I delivered the clothes to yon three years ago."—Fliegende Blaetter. "I wonder," remarked Professor Delver, "if the Emperor William turned up his royal nose when he saw the Mosque of Omar?" "Omar?" echoed Mrs. Delver, momentarily at a loss. "Oh, yes. He was the man who wrote the Iliad."—Chicago Tribune. "Minnie," said a mother to her naughty three-year-old daughter, "what is the reason you and your lit tle brother Harry cau'tget along with outquarrelling?" "I dou'tkuow," was tho reply, "uuless it's becausoll take after you aud Harry takes after papa." They had been talking of the war hero. "When he pnssed through our town," said the blonde triumphantly, "I kissed him." "Quite likely," an swered the brunette, "but I never have found it necessary to take the initia tive in such matters."—Qhicago Even ing Post. It was with diffidence that he rose to the sentiment. "Mr. Toastmaster and gentlemen," he said, "I am not reminded of a little story " Of course he was howled down. A palp able liar has no standing before a cul tivated American audience.—Detroit Journal. He (after being accepted)—" And now, darling, may I just have one kiss?" She—"Will yon promise never to ask me again if I let you have just one?" He—"l'll promise not to ask for that particular one again." She— "Oh, well, take it. But I don't see why you want to waste time asking such fool questions."—Chicago News. The l>nclielora of Ancient Rome* Ancient Rome was severe with its bachelors, who were made to pay heavy fines and were subjected to even worse treatment, for it is on record that Camillus, after the seige of Veili, compelled them to marry tho widows of those soldiers who had fallen iu battle. Iu the time of Augustus mar vied men were preferred for filling public offices. Romans who had as mauy as three children were exempt from the payment of personal taxes and they were paid instead by the bachelors. Plato condeinued unmar ried men to be fined, and at Sparta they were driven at certain times to the Temple of Hercules by tho womeu, who chastised them iu true military style. In modern times women were sent over to the French settlement of Cauaua after the men, and in order to compel unwilling bachelors to marry Ihey were heavily taxed.
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