Freeiand Trioune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY THE TRIBDNE PRINTING COMPANY. Limited OFFICE: MAIS STREET ADOVE CENTRE. FREELAND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Year $1.50 Bix Months 73 Four Monihs 50 Two Mouths . .25 The time which the subscription is paid to Is on tne uddress label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date no comes a receipt for remittance. Keep the Azures in advance of the present <lat*\ Re port promptly to this office whenever paper la not received. Arrearages must be puid when subscription is discontinued. Male all men. y orders, checks, etc,,payable to the Tribum Printing Company, Limited. Canada has preserved the famous Plains of Abraham by paying the nom inal rent of SIOO a year, but this ar rangement is now brokeu, and the field has been surveyed for building lots. Hosts of Americans will join the Canadians in protesting against the transformation of the historic bat tlefield into a thickly settled suburb of Quebec. The organization of a naval reservo I in Houoliiln, whioh to about to be tin* j dertaken with the full approval of Secretary Long, is a thoroughly com- I mendablo movement. The organiza- : tion of such a body at that port along j the lines which have been followed by ! the reserves in this country will pro- i vide an emergency force at one of the most important of all our naval out posts, aud there may betimes when it almost incalculable use fulness to National interests in the Pacific ocean. The project is an un mistakable sign that the process of Americanizing Hawaii is making rapid headway. Bronze monuments in London have 1 a hard time of it, and so have those j whose duty it is to keep such brouzes 1 iu good order. Boehm's statue of | Carlyle stauds ou the Chelsea Lin- I bankment, where with smoke soot, j acid exhalations aud dampness Car lyle was soon coated with oxides. ; Chelsea officials did not understand the lino effects of a pat in e. They scrubbed Carlylo and got him clean, and next p.iiuted him black, following Fronde's ways. There came much fault-finding. Then the Chelesa au thorities removed the paint, re ecrubbed Carlyle over again, and he now appears as a mottled philosopher. The Prince of Wales has organized a "League of Mercy," with the imme diate object of promoting the Loudon hospital fuud which bears his name, and to organize all workers in this and similar ca.ises. In this connec tion an "Order of Mercy" has been established, which will be conferred as a reward for gratuitons personal services rendered in the relief of sick ness aud suffering. None can be ad mitted to the order without the sanc tion of the queen, and the decoration of the order may be worn on all occa sions, but gives uo rank. It is dis tinctly stated that personal service ou!y and not gifts of money will re ceive merit from this order. The Conue ticut savings banks in creased their deposits last year by )7,512,700, a id of this sum 37, lb 1,082 came in deposits of 31000 aud more. Only 3018,0: ■*, in other words, came from deposits of less than 81000. How much of this came from deposits of over $500? The statistics do not follow the matter down to that point. Enough is shown, however, to indi cate that the savings banks of Con necticut are existing today largely for the accommodation of the wealthy classes. Of the total deposits of $103,182,408, only $03,511,003 stands to the account of persons whose de posits are les i than 810 <O. More than $54,000,000 is to the account of indi vidual d posits above 82000. The Norwich Lime Savings society has one individual depo- it. of 871," >7, andthe Norwit li . i ~e - .wi ,L:S bank lias one deposit of 12,001. Several other banks carry single deposits in excess of 820, ''.I . There are not less than 271 individual do; o-it in the savings batik A of Connecticut above SIO,OOO, aud 1". ,112 between S2OOO and $lO,- ()()'. There am as many as 33,028 in dividual ucc u itr. of from SIOOO ta S2OOO. _______ vitlaten Tan to. "I suppose," she said, "yuu are a close student of literature?" "No," an swered the young man with blaek rimmed glasses, "I'm a student of 11- literature. I like dialect stories."— Washington Star. TVhr She Is; Popular. "You say the popular Miss Smftfc can play the piano. I never heard her." "That's just the point. She can but she doesn't." THE NANIGOS OF CUBA. True Story of the Infamous Secret Criminal Society That Has Terrorized the Island. THE RITUAL CAREFULLY GUARDED. j Considerable mention has been made I of the oircuuistauce that all the naui gos, the notorious criminal class of Cuba, were members of certain secret societies, about whose character and aims little is known here, and not a great deal more in the island in which they flourish. For mauy years it was believed there that the nanigos were a kind of Ivu Klux Society, whose members were banded together for the purpose of in juring their white neighbors. What gave rise to this belief, and for a long time supported it, was the circum stance that all the nanigos were col j ored men, but for more than thirty j years past white men have been asso ciated with them. From documents | discovered by the police, and seen by j the writer of this article, it appears that in 18C5, whenJGeneral Dulce gov erned the island, White Lodge (Juego j | de Blaucos) number two was founded, j Whence it is deducted that lodge num | ber one was already in existence. | Nor are these societies political as -1 sociatious devoted to a common end. In the separatist conspiracies the nani gos took no part as a body. There j were separatist nanigos, as there were ! nanigos who were loyal to Spain, and : there are nanigos of Spanish birth. That the nanigos have pursued no j common political or religious aim there is incontestable proof, which is that each lodge is absolutely separate from and independent of every other. There is no hierarchy, no species of grand lodge or centre of action and govern ment, Not only are the lodges not friendly, but they are frequently hos tile to one another. In Havana, when it is known that there has been a mid night brawl in some out-of-the-way quarter, some one will be sure to say, "that is because the Ecori Opo Lodge has declared war upon the Eviou i Lodge." | Nor is it even certain that these so cieties are recruited exclusively from , the criminal classes. The nanigos are not, indeed, models of propriety; I hut not all,or even the greater number, ; are professional thieves, or gamblers, or assassius, or men without settled j occupation. There are nanigos who ; follow a trade, aiul many of them are 1 cooks, barbers, bag-makers and butchers. There have also been in- I stances of young men of the upper classes who, from curiosity or a spirit of adventure, or from that morbid tendency which leads certain men of culture to seek associates among the scum of society, have joined the lodges of the nanigos. ! There is one trait common to all the nanigos—..hey are ostentatiously j courageous. To be a member of the society is to be accredited a brave I man. The reputation, deserved or not. of courage, gives prestige among the women of the lowest class, and | credit among the men of the populace. I Where no one is anyone, to come to I be a lianigo is to be someone. ! But what was the origin of this in stitution? Were its founders the | guapcs—that is, the men of strength and brutality, in the lower classes— or the criminals? Neither the one ; nor the other, for it is thought that the first nanigos were Africans; slaves some, others free, who banded togeth er to practice tho idolatrous rites they had brought from Africa. What tends in some degree to strengthen this opinion is tho African 1 character of some of the ceremonies and of the vocabulary in use among the nanigos. It is said that they sac rifice black liens, stripped of their feathers, and that in the places where they hold their meetings there is a log called the Palos IMecongo, which is for them what the altar is for others. This is what is said, but uo one who is not a nanigo can declare ; positively that he has seen all this, or that he has any certain knowledge of their ceremonies. The nanigo? have never been brought to public i trial in Cuba, nor has this curious in : stitution ever been thoroughly stud ied. Nanigos have been tried by the summary methods of the police courts, but the declarations drawn from them j by torture or threats have thrown but ; little light upon them. Not even the 1 origin of the word nanigo is known, j Some hold it to be purely African, | others Cuban; others say that it is | African-Portuguese. ! The nanigos have net a complete ! vocabulary of slang, like the argot of toe French, or the ealo of the Spanish criminal classes. They use, it may be, a limited number of words having ' a double meaning, but still Spanish i words. Their vocabulary is restricted, and also is composed of strange, bar barous words that have no connection with toe Spanish language, and that : have, in all probability, come from the Congo or from Guinea; such as, eu | cocoro, ntaquenanoue, manfunniua. ! Some os their songs are no less Af rican in character; and there are among them airs so original, oi such wild force or such plaintive sweetness, that they would make the reputation ! of a composer of foreign melodies. I What takes place at their cere i monies, what prayers they offer up | before the Palo Mecougo, whether ! this is for them the image of God, or j of one of their heroes, or whether it is ! a mere fetish, are questions which cannot be answered any more than one can explain the fact that mauy 1 nanigos profess religion, or the spe- I cies of mental hnlueination which leads Europeaus and descendants of ! Europeans, bfought up in the faith, I to take up African idolatry. Re ; gardiug these point nothing positive I is known in Cuba. In the localities, however, where people of doubtful character live— those who in Spain are called the clausula—the residents generally know who are and who are not nanigos, and the police know also, although they have frequently made persons appeal as such who were innocent of the charge. According to the police, the nanigos are known by an indelible blue mark whioh they tattoo on the back of the hand between the thumb and index-finger, and there have been periods during which the police have arrested hundreds of i persons in the streets to examine their hands. If these had a blue mark they were put in prison. Sailors with tattooed marks have sometimes been victims of this method of pursuiug nanigos, although they did not belong to any secret so ciety whatever. The real nanigos have declared that the blue marks proved nothing; that they were not a necessary requisite for membership in societies; anil that it would be a mis take for the nanigos to mark them selves in away that would serve to betray them. The police, however, have continued to regard with great suspicion the blue marks, and the plucked hens also. Wheu one of these is seen in the yard of a house it is concluded that a nanigo lodge is celebrating its rites within. Some years ago, a Governor of Havana, General Rodriguez Batista, boasted of having put an end by peaceable means to these secret so cieties. The heads of the.lodges de livered up to him the idols, drums and other paraphernalia of their worship; the press eulogized Seuor Rodriguez Batista highly, without taking the trouble to find out what arguments he might have used to produce such speedy results. But within a short time after the Gover nor's departure for Madrid the nanigos were again in the field. Under General Weyler's rule, aided by the circumstance that the existing state of war permitted the condemnation of accused persons without trial, that is, the employment of the authority of the police instead of the action of the courts, measures were taken to clear Havana of nanigos. About a thousand i persons were deported to Spain; and, according to the declarations of the | police, there remained in the city some I 7000 more. Of the thousand persons sent to Spain, it is not certain that all, or even I the greater part belonged to the association, and there arc strong j reasons for believing that many mis i takes were made. Any one who had I talked with the nanigos in the prisons ; of Havana, in the vessels in which • they were transported to Spain, or in 1 the Peninsula, afterwards, will have : heard many cf them say: "I was a member; but there are many here who ; were not members." They also gave the names, the occupation and the age I of the victims. I The method employed to determine | who should be transported could not !be more defective than it was. There j was no trial, nor anything resembling one. No proofs, no defence, no wit nesses, no publicity. Every Saturday , tho Chiefs of Police of all the districts • met together. Each one presented ] the list of persons arrested by him as ; supposed nauigos. If a magistrate was interested in any one arrested by | order of audthor magistrate, he spoke j in favor of his protege, who was set at liberty. In Havana it was regarded jas certain that the police accepted I money from those arrested. It is be -1 yond a doubt that the mauner of liv ing of all the police officials—in spectors, wardens, etc.. this not in accordance with the modest salaries j which they received, j The government of Madrid lias been . blamed without reason for having sent back to Cuba the men thus deported as nauigos. Ilaviug renounced her • authority over the island, Spain could j not retain in her prisons persons over i whom slio no longer exercised any 1 species of jurisdiction, and who, be sides, had not been condemned by any j regular court. j Tho fault was not in sending them I back to Cuba, but iu having taken ! them thence solely on the warrant of I a police that had by 110 means therepu tion of being over-scrupulous. I It is probable that under the new I rule uauiguria will disappear, for it is ' plain that its environment, bothpoliti- I cal and social, has contributed to the preservation of the association. The population of Cuba is composed of 1 three elements—the European, the 1 American, aud the African. 111 tho contact of races it is not one race only that is influenced and that undergoes modification. The European, and still ! more the American, of the poor aud ! ignorant classes iu Cuba, has become j Afrancanized. He has taken from the African words for his vocabulary and music for his songs. The rites of the nauigos show that he has also accepted something of his idolatry, a symptom which tells what would have been the I condition'of the island if there had not been a constant and abundant infusion I into its population of other blood. , Thanks to this infusion, Cuba and I Porto Rico are the only tropical coun j tries capable of an organization simi lar to that of the European States.— I New York Post. From an Obituary Notice. 1 "He was a man of great persever j ance anil enterprise. Nearly three years ago he buried his wife, with ' whom he had been united in marriage ' almost fifty years."—New York Com | uierciel Advertiser. A TERRIBLE SACRAMENT CLASS EATINC A RELIGIOUS CERE" MONY AMONG ARABS OF TUNIS. Altera Wlltl, Barbaric Dance, the De votees While in a State of Dcstucy Mas ticate nn<l Swallow Broken Glass- Boys Partnkoof the Jagged Morsel. The Cornhilt Magazine gives the following account of u remarkable ex hibition of religious glass eating re sently witnessed among the Arabs of Tunis, in Northern Afiiea: As the music rose to a crescendo, and tko rhythm became mere frantic and involved, the dancers got visibly tnoro excited and less conscious of their surroundings, their eyes taking on a fixed and vacant expression. Then the lender of the dance applied what seomed to be the most offeotive and culminating intoxicant; at each ictus in the dance all the heads were strained forward and everyono gave a deep staccato groan, like the roor of a wild beast, while the blood rnshod to tho head, and the muscles of the neck were strung like ropes under the Btrain, It was not long before this produced the result for which all were waiting. A man of about thirty, wiry and thin, with a small head, tore himself from the line of dancers and rushed up to one of the two stewards standing in tho open space. Tho steward un wound his turban and held him for a raiuuto in a fraternal embrace. With his turban the man seemed to have doffed most of his humanity; his small face almost covered with black hair, his bristling whiskers, his blue shaven scalp, with tho little pigtail of black hair flapping behind at every movement; nbove nil, the lips, stretched across his large whito teeth, like those of a snarling dog, all gave the impression of something ultra huraau—at once sublime and bestial. Then bent nearly double, feeling with outstretched arms, blinded by his ecstasy, he groped his -way down tho open line between dancers and musicians to the other steward. This man held in ono hand a largo cloth filled with pieces of broken glass. One of these he took out and held in his right hand at arm's length. The ecstatic as ho approached glared sav agely at the glass, gnashed his teeth, and stretched out his head; but he drew back. The religious intoxica tion was not quite complete, and Borne glimmerings of common-sense stand ards still struggled in his disordered brain. Ho rushed back to the first steward, was again embraced by him, and again crept back along the line. Still the jagged shining glass wastoo terrible. Backwards and forwards ho went, sometimes groping along slowly, sometimes with the stealthy rush of a tiger stalking its prey. At last, when the eager gesture of his outstretched neck made it clear that no vestigo of reluctance remained, the steward clapped tho glass into his mouth and held his hand over it for a second. The devotee rushed back, as it were for consolation, to the first steward, and held him in a tight embrace, For some time he remained so, making strange, incoherent gestures with his arms, while tho steward, gradually lifted up his head, proceeded to mas sago his faco and throat. When his head was raised, the man was still chewing and swallowing the horrible mouthful. After he had re covered himself somewhat, his turban was wound round his head, and he was lifted and shoved back into tho line of dancers, where ho went on jigging up and down, his head falling now on one shoulder, now on the other, with a blank, listless look in his face. After this first example of frenzied devotion, the spell of foar seemed to be broken, and ono after another tho dancers left tho lino (the dance never ceasing for an instant, and tho music keeping up its maddening din) and rushed at the steward' wlio held the glass and dealt out piece after piece. Soon even tho hoys took part in it, and ono handsome fellow of sixteen came up and stretched out toward the jagged morsel, as though it was lor him the bread of life. For the most part, too, they seemed to chow and swallow it with increasing ease, and the first steward had . little to do but wind on their turbans and put them back into tho lino of dancers. Then the man who had first eaten, and who had meanwhile recovered his tone, came back for a second, and a little while after for a third mouthful; but the freuzy was increasing upon him, and ho had to be hold by three or four Arabs, who rushed up from tho sides to help the steward. It became a football scrimmage, and tho four men had to put out all their strength to collar and throw him. Fin ally he was held down on tho floor in a sort of epileptic fit, throwing his limbs about wildly, and literally bark ing like a huge dog. Tho ecstasy was too mnoh for him, and he had become a savage beast. Ncr was bo tho only one who be camo unmanageable under tho intoxi cating influences of dnaco and music. Sometimes, it is true, when n devotee was exceeding tho usual bounds, bis growing excitement conld bo instantly assuaged by nfew words from tho writ ings of tho saint whispered into his car by the steward; but in spite of this severnl broke loose, and one in es pecial alarmed us by making his way round the mosque towards our party. Fortunately, he was thrown and sat npon by assistants before he could reach us, as it is supposed that an Isawiyah will tear women in pieces when too powerfully worked upon by tho "divine" influence. When the service was over, and the mosque gradually emptied, we saw threo or lour of these victims of tho "divine" frenzy lying about on the floor, by that time quite calm and ex- liausted, and only groaning and bark ing fitfully. Meauwliil# the glass-eating went on more and more rapidly, and at its height a little boy, nbout four years old, was lifted up to partake of the ter rible sacrament. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Dr. Negro, of Turin, has succeeded in curing one linnclred out of one hnndred and thirteen cases of soiatica by digital pressure over the painful part. The pressure is applied with all possible force for fifteen or twenty seconds and is repeated for the same length of time aftor an interval of a few minutes. In many cases six treatments are all that is necessary. Dr. Walter Fisher writes to the Lnncet from the Lovalo Country, Africa, that Professor Koch's state ment that "the treatment of black water fever with quinine must abso lutely cease" is calculated to do much harm. After eight years of experi ence with African malarious fevers, he is convinced that if quinine is not used in severe cases, the death-rate will increase to an enormous extent. He never gives more than thirty grains, however, during the first twenty-four hours, and only gives it when the temperature is falling or is below 102 degrees. Three-fifths of the world's produc tion of wood alcohol and acetate of lime are made in tho United States, where fully 15,000 acres are cleared for the purpose anuually. The enor mous demand for wood alcohol is ac counted for by tho fact that it affords a perfect substituto for grain alcohol, at less than one-third the cost. Be sides its use as a solvent in the mak ing of shellac, varnish, celluloid, photographic paper, etc., it makes many beautiful dye tints. From its antiseptic qualitios it is also much in request in surgery and medicine. It enters largely into the composition of some liniments, and it is the favorite form of alcohol usod for skin rnbbiug and bathhouses. Improvement of tho gas engine seems to offer a promising field for some inventor. The exhaust gases in the average engine are heated to about 950 degrees Fahrenheit, and a technical authority calculates that a reduction of this to 300 degrees, with tho same initial temperature, would iuorcaso the theoretical efficiency from fifty-three to seventy-six per cent. External refrigeration is though to be a necessary evil. lit present practice, the lossos by radia tion and conduction are nbout sixty five per cent., and only nbout seven teen per cent, of the total heat of com bustion is converted into available power, and an almost equal percentage passes uselessly away with the ex haust gases. A German paper devoted to wood working interests states that in se lecting timber it is of the greatest irn portunce to ascertain whether the tree from which it is taken was cut in the winter or in the summer; that which is cut in the winter being superior and having a higher value. The rea son for that is that trees have a rest ing period between October and May, during which time the cells contain starch that is not fouud in the sum mer. The starch serves to close the pores, making the wood close and impenetrable, so that winter-hewn timber is used exclusively for making barrel staves. To test the timber it is covered with an iodide solution, which, from the well-known fact that starch coming into contact with iodide produces a violet color, will give the timber a yellow color if it were cut in the summer. On the other hand, a tree hewn in the winter will have a series of dark, ink-colored stripes on a yellow ground. Couldn't Cntcli Ilcr. Mr. Tnrveydrop has, up to very re cently, considered Himself quite clover, and nothing so pleases him as to get the best of some unsuspecting person. For a long time his wife had been in need of a new muff; after hinting to her lord that her happiness would never bo completed till she had one, bo at last decided to gratify her de sire. So he went into a shop and picked out a couple, one of which was cheap and tho other very expensive. Upon these lie changed the price tickets, putting the cheap price mark on the expensive muff, and vice versa, and then took them home. For a long time his wife pondered, and at last said: "Now, dear, the expensive muff is a beauty, and it is really very good of you to allow me my choice. Some women would take it without a word, but really I don't think wo can afford the more costly one; and, besides, I think the cheap one is more stylish, too. Why, dear, what is tho matter? Are you ill?" But "dear" had fled into the night, where, unseen, he could abuse him self to his heart's content. —Pearson's Weekly. Knfllr English. An educated Kaffir visited the otlior day tho editorial office of tho Times of Swaziland, and, in reply to a ques tion as to tho harvest prospects in that district, said: "The copious downfall of rain which wo have had during the past fortnight has relieved to an ap preciable extent the calamitous conse quences which were heretofore loom ing in tho distance." —Westminster Gazette. ITealthioftt Spot on Earth. The healthiest spot in tho world seems to be a little hamlet in France named Aumone. There are only forty inhabitants, twenty-five of whom are eighty years of age and one is over one hundred. NEWS AND NOTES! j| FOR WOMEN. I j j Flowers For Seals. I If yon are artistically inclined a very pretty and novel way of sealing your letters is to form flowers with various colors of wax, thus doing away with the old-fashioned mono gram. Pansies are very easily formed by first using violet wax, giving slight curves to the outer edges, and then white or yellow in the centre, twirling it around a few times to produce a de cided pansy effeot. Hoses are easily made by using the different shades of pink. If the seal is brought to a thin, sharp stem when finishing the effect will be greatly heightened. Daintily Perfumed Lingerie. Sachets of lavender and of violet powder are popular to lay in drawers among clothing. Perhaps even nicer are pieces of pumice stouo saturated with some perfume. A delicious scent for this purpose is made of half an ounce of whole orris root and two ounoes of spirits of wine. Be sure that the orris root is the real thing, and that it is frosh. Pound and break it up into little pieces, and let it remain in the spirit several days. Then use it to saturate the pumice stone, and place it among your cloth ing. It will fill your room with the delicious odor of fresh violets. Advice to Stout Women, It has ofteu been urged, but it seems well to emphasize by much repetition that women of generous proportions should invaribly renouueo I all of these rouud-waisted styles, no i matter how beautiful they appear 011 some other slenderer figure, or how universally tho rage for them in creases. Adopting these waists is not a matter of age, for the young, the mature, aud the elderly find them comfortable aud useful. It is simply a matter of figure, and, for women in clined to stoutness, there are many close, trim, ar.il attractive models which make them look better and slenderer than any of tho "rcuud" styles, festooned with net, draped with lace, aud finished with circling ribbon, bells and bows, which cut off the apparent length of the waist by two or three inches. The Summer Shirt-Waists. Some pretty shirt-waist models have been designed for the summer, some of them showing a deep sailor collar, joined to pointed revers that reach tho belt in front; the entire piece of woven guipure lace, with cuffs and girder to match. These trimmings adorn pique, linen and duck waists, as well as those of tafi'eta, foulard, or wash silk; other styles are trimmed with very hand some Swiss or Irish point cm broideries. Again waists are seen with removable vests, stock collars and girdles of Liberty satin. Besides tbese are countless morning vests formed of India linen, percale, dimity, bishops' lawn, fine qualities of dotted and cross-barred muslin, plain and fancy swivel silk and zephyr gingham. The majority of these resemble as nearly as possible a boy's shirt-waist, with a single plait down the front, a few gathers on each side of this plait and on the shoulders, and a double pointed yoke on the back. The regular shirt sleeve is shaped with but little fulness on the shoulder, and the entire model is small aud extremely plain. Sniuiner Gauzes. The cloudlike silk muslin that prom ises to be the most fashionable sum mer ball gowns have full-blown roses iu two shades of pink or in yellow aud red on their faint blue, deep cream or lemon-tinted backgrounds. Zephyr ginghams and piques, with damask stripes or flower patterns, are going to have the first choice in wash goods, while all tho colored cotton goods from Scotland show smnll plaids iu two colors with shirred stripes. Soft sashes of gauzes, with ruffled ends, appear on some of tho now gowns, falling in front or at one side, which is prophetic of Empire styles again, and gauze scarfs. It is prom ised, too, that the skirts of the thin summer gowns shall be elaborately ruffled or ruched in the form of an overdress or tunio variously shaped at the bottom and rounded up over dress fashion at the sides. Other hints reveal the double and triple as one of the featnres in thin gowns. Lace insertions, arranged iu various squirming designs, and the lovers' knot in particular, with the material cut out underneath, will be lavishly used to decorate organdies, batistes and other thin fabrics. Narrow rib bon, both gathered and plain, bids fair to extend its popularity as a trimming through another season. The Southern Girl. In concluding an editorial inspired by a Southern girl's regret that she cannot go to college, Edward Bok, iu tho Ladies' Home Journal, has this to say of the girls of the Southland: "The Southern girl is surrounded by a life far truer and more conducive to self-development than girls living iu other sections, because social con ditions are more normal. Her life is healthier because it is saner, and her mind, by reason of it, is clearer and more constantly at rest. The rush of life of the North and West is not so stimnlating as many Southern girls suppose. On the contrary, it wears women out as often as it develops them. In no part of our country do women look younger at maturity than in the South. To the Southern girl, too, nature bloomß in a profusion as Bhe does nowhere else. The natural history which the Northern girl must get out of books the Southern girl gets direct from nature's owu hand. She is boru of a scil as rich aud coloviul in romautio history as is the literature of Spain. This she receives as a natural heritage. Her parents are, and her ancestors were, among the best types of American chivalry and American womanhood. She hears but one language spoken, and that is her own. If there is the introduction of another tongue it is French, and with these two sb can travel the world over and litfter be at a dis advantage. The religion which she learns from her mother is the highest and best because it is untainted with modern 'revelations.' The truest friend and safest teacher in 'highest living' a girl can have is her mother, and in the South mothers have away of finding time for their daughters and being companions to them. The Southern father is fond of his children, and proves it by his presence at the domestic hearth after his day's busi ness is over." Melba'a Excuse For Being Late. When Mme. Melba went to the Grand Opera House the other night, not as a performer but as a listuer, there was a slight delay about her ar rival. She did not reach her box in time for the opening bars of "I Pa gliaoci," and everybody wondered. But the great songstress was ar ranging a happy event for a bedrag gled young girl who had blocked her entrance to the Opera House. Just as she alighted at the canvas awning she caught sight of the upturned face of a girl standing in the pouring rain waiting for a glimpse of her. She was only a poor factory girl, who lived somewhere in the unfashionable neighborhood of the Grand Opera House. Even for her class she was not very well dressed, nor very well bred; but she had the divine love of music in her heart and in lier eyes, and Melba caught the gratifying light of true hero worship. The groat singer did not ask the management to pass in this stray ad mirer, as she might have done, and so have gained for the girl an uncom fortable hour in the back row of the well-dressed orchestra chairs. She had too much consideration, even for such a lowly guest. With a softly spoken, "Come with me," she led the girl up to the box window of the gallery, and procured her a seat, for which she herself paid with two big silver dollars. Then Melba quickly sought her own jiro | sceuium box, from a corner of which she smiled softly to herself several times during some of Chalia's best songs, as she recalled the look she had brought to the eyes of her damp and bedraggled protege.—San Fran cisco News Letter. Gosaip. Miss Cons is an Alderman of tlie London County Council. Miss Leigh Spencer, of British Columbia, is a mining broker. There aro twenty-three English women practicing medicine in India. In Austro-Hnngary abont 3,000,000 women are engaged in industrial pur suits. Sarah Bernhardt was once intended for a milliner, and came very near to being sent to a shop to learn the trade. When the Empress of China travels she carries with her 3000 dresses, filling GOO boxes, in chargo of 1200 coolies. Women in Great Britain are well represented in the professions and trades, and about 4,ooo,oooearn their own living. A successful firm of tea merchants in London is composed entirely of women. The blenders, ta3ters and packers are also women. MissGwendoluN. D. ICelley, of Col umbus, Ohio, is at work on a minia ture of Mrs. McKinley, which is in tended by the sitter as a gift to the President. There are twenty women who are pastors in the lowa yearly Friends' (Quakers') meeting, and they are re ported to be doing good work, and are well suited to their field of labor. Mrs. Leonard Wood, the wife of General Wood, interested herself in her husband's work when he was an army surgeon, and under his direc tion read medicine to such good pur pose that it is now said she could eas ily secure a diploma from any medi cal college. niranlti~s From tho Shops. Satin-bordered squares of soft, light wool suitings for summer. Sashes of variously colored crepe do chene with long fringed ends. Every variety of untrimmed hat shapes in chips and tuseau braids. Embroidered swiss muslins show ing faiicy stripes of colored figures. Summer gowns trimmed with nu merous flounces cut in deep scallops. Golf score-looks made of leather iu various colors and prettily decorated. New style blazer coats with white revers and black satin braid trim ming. Linen lawns in conventional pat terns on a white, blue or black found ation. Sailor suits for children, appropri ately trimmed with gilt braid and em blems. Pompadour pekin taffetas showing riohly colored stripes on various dark colors. Delicately colored chiffonettes showing clusters of silken cord in contrast. White silk parasols covered with black velvet appliques cut in the form of crescents. Beady-made sleeves of net ap pliqued with lace or lace alone in some striking pattern. Pretty oameo-striped chiffons ia combinations of blue, nile, mauve and yellow with white. —Dry Goods Econo- I mist.
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