Freeiaml Tribune Established IBSB. PUBLISHED EVICRY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, LMtßfl OFFICE: MAIM STREET ABOVE CENTRE. FttEELAND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Klx Month* 75 Four Months 00 Two Months 25 The date which the subscription is paid to is on tne address label of each paper, the change of which to a subsequent date be comes a receipt for remittance. Keep the figures in advance of the present date. Re port promptly to this office whenever paper is not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. Make all monty orders, checks, etc,,payable to the Tribune Printing Cumpctoy, Limited. Admiral Dewey's fame is now per fectly secured. A new rose has been named after him. Russia has a short wheat crop and a long pocketbook. The American farmer will take pleasure in dealing Vitli both of these factors in the food problem. Gene-rally speaking, the wages of sin is death, but it must be confessed that now aud then the wages of sin has very much the appearance of fat dividends on very highly watered stock. The father of the new pugilistic champion is a preacher. Some pessi mists will at once conclude, predicts the Chicago Times-Herald, that this is the reason why the sou got on tho wrong track. Indian corn is now extensively used in making smokeless powder. In this way it may yet be necessary for Uncle Sam to bring this valuable cereal to the serious notice of some of his es teemed foreign relations. As Admiral, Dewey receives a salary j of $13,500 a year, whether on sea or laud, and, according to present arrangements, it will not be necessary , for him to pay anything for his board | during the first year or two after his arrival in this country. The Pittsburg Times has the tern- j eritv to say: "Germany will never be \ happy until she has another bout with ( some country able to undo the evil ' that Franca did for her vanity in 1870. j Nothing will reduce Kaiser William's j swelled head but a good hard jar iu j the butt of tho ear." The Philadelphia Public Ledger, 1 speaking of the remarkable traits ! developed by our soldiers in the Phil- i ippines, says: "Nothing has been recorded in military auuals finer than the courage and skill of these Ameri cans, fighting in a tropical island ten 1 thousand miles from their habitat." The fact that there are now not far from 130,000,000 Mussulmans under the British flag certainly entitles Eng land to be called the greatest Moham-. medan power in the world. The Mussulman population of India alone is estimated to be about 80,000,000, and is steadily increasing, not only by natural growth, but by accretions 1 from the Hindoos. To such an ex tent is this going on that it has brought forth a cry of alarm from many lead ing Brahmins, who see in the tendency of their people to accept the doctrines of the moro militant faith the ap proaching end of their own influence, 1 says the New York Sun. Courage is an inherent quality, in part mental, in part physical, and such qualities are not altered greatly by cultivation, reflects the New York Ob server. The courage born iu a man is always there, and in its completest form will manifest itself on occasion in absolute indifference to danger. The number of men possessing it in this form is small, but iu every army there are somo who literally have no fear who are at once the delight and the despair of the ordinary soldier. And among these men thera are always a few who not only are indifferent to danger, but positively enjoy it, and whose intellectual faculties are dis tinctly stimulated by it. Inducements to Marry. The Detroit Free Press quotes the following Dakota matrimonial adver tisement: "Lowers, Take Notice.—On and after this date I will present an elegant chromo, a parlor lamp, or a glass water set to all bridal couples married by me. All marrying done in the most artistic way, either in private or public. Runaway couples married at any hour of the day or night, and pursuers thrown off the scent. Re duced rates to those I have married before. A red lantern hangs in front of my door on Prairie street at night. No dog kept. Night hell directly under the lantern. MOSES DODD. J. P." After a recent tornado in Australia thousands of water snakes were found on the beach In one plan, while in another the beach was entirely washed away, leaving nothing but bare rocks. THE TORNADO. All day the angry clouds had swept Athwart a saffron sky, All day the restless winds had wept To nature's tearless sigh; 'Twas eventide, and enger eyes Still watched the brazen west With fearful guze, while aching throbs Filled every unxlous breast. Then, suddenly came from above A thing of awful form, The rolling chariot of Jove, The monarch of the storm; With thunderous and deadly roar And black as Satan's frowu. On came the raging, baleful thlug That doomed the happy town. •'Fly for your lives! 'tis coming down!" The people wildly cry. But roar on roar their voices drown— Those luckless ones must die. The coursing couriers of the air, The storm king's midnight steeds, Come thundering down the raven sky, And naught their course impedes. Now round and round, in mazes dark The whirling monster goes, And from the inky heavens' vault A shrieking hurricane blows. Ah, hear the screams of wild despair, Aud see—that mangled form Goes hissing through the angry air— There's murder iu the storm! With crash and roar the houses fall, Or soar aloft on high, To mingle with the blackened smoke That fills the weeping sky, A moment, and the monster's gone— We pause to gain our breath, While o'er that smoking ruined path There broods the hush of death. The widow's sob, the orphan's cry, The groans that fill the air. The trembling hand, the tearless eye, Bespeak supreme despair. And all night long the faithful toll Beneath the ruined heap Until each mangled form is found, And then sit down to weep. —John R. Musiok, In Kansas City Inde pendent. governing |^|urgatro§d BY KATE MASTERSON. MOU see they were having tea and con fidences be fore the fire in the twi 'lg''Whatever became of that nice man send you the violets?" f asked the widow. "Which?" said the girl with the ! dimple, coloring as though she knew. "Why the man who gave the theatre 1 party the other day, and sent those beautiful rubber-tired, electric cabs." "Oh, you mean Mr. Murgatroyd?" J •'Yes, that's the name. What has become of him?" "Oh, we drifted apart somehow. You know he lived in Brooklyn?" f "But he was so unusually nice, i Don't you remember that princely supper he gave us after the theatre— ( and the flowers aud all?" "Yes—he was very nice—but do , you know—he was—you must never tell —but he was—an undertaker?" , "An undertaker? Ugh!" P I "Yes, I felt that way at first—but do you know, Leila, 1 wouldn't have minded it so much if he hadu't insisted ou talkiug shop—and—even obtrud ing his horrible profession into his social life in the borridest way. I really liked him, and after the first shock I made up my mind that it wasn't a bit worse than booming bi cycles or automobiles or any of those other tliiugs." "You poor dear! Tell me all about it." "Well, I didn't even suspect it at first, but lots of odd things happened through his peculiar way of looking upon his—profession—as an ordinary, everyday one. He did not seem to realize how uncanny it all was. You remember that house party down at the Van Bmartes' place ou Loug Island?" . "Why, yes—you met him there, i didn't you?" "Yes, wo met there, and the Van Bmartes had arranged for a lot of old fashioned games to be played in the ! barn. One of these was forfeits. We had gTeat fun, aud when Mr. Murga troyd was caught he dived dowu in his pocket for a forfeit, aud what do you think he gave us? "Leila, it was a screwdriver! Not like a carpenter's, but quite small with a nickel handle. I thought it odd at the time, aud later on he stepped on my gown while we were dancing and tore the duchesse lace flounce—you remember that white gown? "Ho was dreadfully sorry, and in sisted that he must replace it, although ( I tried to laugh it off as one does, you I know. I was pinning it up when sud denly he took a little tape measure out of his pocket and measured the torn part. It wasn't like any other tape I measure. It was white, with black i figures, and I asked him to let me see i it. It measured about three yards! j ' 'Then came the theatre party. There were fourteen of us in all, and he sent A cab apiece for us. When I was thanking him for the delightful even ing I spoke laughingly about bis ex travagance in sending such a lot, aud remarked that his cab bill must have been enormous. Then he told me that he owned them. I thought this the strangest thing! Faucy owning four teen cabs! But I supposed he was immensely wealthy and that it was a fad. "About two weeks after that he asked me to go driving with him, aud he drove up with the dearest, little nvw-white team of horses aud spider phaeton. We enjoyed a pleasant drive through the park, and when wo reached Riverside, I begged him to let them out. I love to have horses go fast. "He explained that the funny little jog trot they went at was their fastest gait; that it would spoil them for busi ness if they went faster. Then I asked him plumply what his business was, and he told] me. Leila, they were hearse horses! "I didn't see him when ho called after this. It made me shiver to think of it. Of course I did not let him know how I felt, for ho seemed per fectly unconscious of anything odd in the matter. But one day—it was a glorious winter day—the first really deep snow of the season—l was sitting at the window thinking what a jolly thing a sleigh ride would be, when Mr. Murgatroyd drove up in a beautiful sleigh, with buffalo robes and bells aud two horses—black ones this time —that looked as though they could go. "I weakened and accepted his invi tation to go sleighing, and we went through the Park and along the Boule vard, when suddenly he turned into a side street. I asked him why, and he said if I would excuse him he had to stop a block down. So he went on aud came up to a little cottage, where he drove up and went in, leaving me in the sleigh. When he came out he had the most solemn sort of a face. I thought something dreadful must have happened. What do you think he did then? "He plunged under the seat of the sleigh and brought out a little package and went up to the door and tacked some crepe on the bell. Then he got in the sleigh again, and we drove off, and ho was just as jolly as usual. I hardly spoke all the way home, and ho couldn't imagine what was the matter. I told him I had a toothache. "I didn't see him again for months. Then I met him accidentally one day while I was at lunch down town, lie told mo he had bought a new four in hand, and was getting up a coaching party. Ho wanted me to ask a lot of girls and a nice chaperon, aiul he was i going to have some men we all knew, < a party of about sixteen in all, and he had planned a most delightful trip, I changing horses along the road, you know, until we reached Germantown. 1 I was so enthusiastic it that I forgot all about the other unpleasant < things that I have told you of, and I promised to go. 'But why German- < town of all places?' I oskcd him. 'Why not go on to Philadelphia?' " "'We shall goon to Philadelphia < later,' he said; 'but the fact is, Miss Madge, I shall have to stop at Ger mantown; I am taking a body on there —it will only he a slight delay.* "After that I decided that he was simply impossible. I liked him very well, but I thought that a man with a nature so insensible to feeling must be lacking in some way. So we drifted apart. I saw him driving with Miss Jordan the other day. She is one of those girls that don't care. Have an other cup of tea, Leila."—The Cri terion. Pricing a Pair of Trousers. Lord Brampton was on one occa sion presiding over a case in which the plaintiff was giving evidence against a man who had stolen a pair of trousers from his shop. "How much were the trousers?" querried Hawkins. "Well," replied the plaintiff, "it depends who wants to buy them. I sell them to one man for thirty shil lings, to another for twenty-live, but you can have them for twenty-three and six." "Sir!" cried Hawkins, angrily, "I want you to tell me how much those trousers are worth." "Well," replied the plaintiff, "shall we say twenty-two shillings for you?" "Look here," thundered Hawkins, "if you do not instantly tell me what those trousers are worth, I'll send you to jail for fourteen days for con tempt of court." " Well, well," replied the frightened plaintiff, conciliatingly, "you may liavo them for a guinea. I'm giving them away; still, you may have them at that price." Even the stern aspect of Justice Hawkins could not stop the roar of laughter which broke out 011 hearing the reply, a roar in which Hawkins, after a few minutes, joined himself.— Weekly Telegram. Fifty Years From Now. War had been declared, and Ameri cans were again displaying the patriot j ism so marked a characteristic of the trouble between the United States and Spain some lifty years before. Before the laud of the enemy every ship of the American navy was drawn up in line, everything in fact from battleships to tugboats. Precisely at 10 o'clock the Admiral mounted to the bridge of the tlagship and snapped his watc\. That minute every pin in the squad ron boomed forth— JO accurate was the liming that it all, seemed but one detonation. An hour afterward the fleet dispersed—some going home some to other places until at last only the battleships were left. "Yes, it was a bit of trouble!" ad mitted the Admiral; "but it's worth i it! We won't be bothered now with disputes about who fired the first gun i of the war." —New York Journal. Where Siberia U In the Lead. Siberia is ahead of this country iu Rome things, according to John W. Bookwalter, who says: "At every sta -5 tion of the Trans-Siberian Railway, t there is placed in front of the station, ) at a point convenient of access by the • passengers, a large cask of cool water i that has been boiled, and it is the i duty of the stationmaster to see that the supply is kept up. This is free to i all passengers,even to the poorest em -1 igrant, whose comfort and welfare are 3 provided for in many ways with r thoughtful care." jSp®<sXSXsXs)C^^ i TALKS OF FLOCK | ; AND ADVENTURE. | tlallnnt Work at ISaler. Admiral Dewey has recommended the advancement by ten numbers of Ensign W. H. Stand ley and the per manent appointment as chief quarter master of J. Lysaght, of the gunboat Yorktown, for their courageous con duct at Baler, Luzon, where Lieuten ant J. C. Gill more and a boat's crew were captured by the Filipinos. Standley and Lysaght made a recon noisauce of the insurgent position and a sketch of the surrounding country when it was infested with a large num ber of Filipinos besieging the Spanish troops in Baler. Captain C. S. Sperry, commanding the Yorktown, who recommended the advancement of the two men, reported that in accordance with the order of the commander-in-chief of April 3 the Yorktown proceeded to Baler to rescue, if possible, a Spanish garrison of fifty soldiers who for about eight months had held out and refused to surrender to the insurgents. "Any attempt to proceed through the jungle up the narrow and tortuous creek on which the town was believed to be situated," says Captain Sperry, "would evidently be fatal, and Ensign Standley suggested climbing the mountain side and overlooking the in surgent camp, and volunteered for the service. "Lauding*in the dark, without a guide, wading breaflt high through au unknown slough, Standiey and Quar termaster Lysaght forced their way up the mountain side, over bowlders and through dense and thorny underbrush, and when the firing commenced,which indicated an attack, they descended still lower toward the insurgent camp to a point where Standiey, finding a suitable tree, climbed it with the aid of a rope and made a complete sketch with a hand as steady as if at his desk, first directing Lysaght, who stood at the foot of the tree, should they be at tacked to make for the beach, as he himself would probably not be discov ered in the tree." Regarding the loss of Lieutenant Gillmore, Ensign Standiey says in his report: "Before daylight April 12, 1809, Lieutenant Gillmore, in charge of fcocond cutter, with Colt's automatic gun mounted in the l)K>W and an armed crew of fourteen men, landed Lysaght and myself on the beach at a point about a quarter of a mile to the south and east of the mouth of the Baler River. "Before I landed Lieutenant Gill more informed me that he would pull down to the mouth of the river and at daylight would be sounding Hearing the bar as a blind and as soon as I sig nalled he would pick me up. He said he would not open or draw the lire unless the insurgents tried to cross the river, and if I heard firing I was to understand that theinsurgents were comiug across. "During the time that I was in the tree (i. e., from six to seven o'clock) there was firing, at times rapid and then desultory, Lysaght, who was on the ground, states that he heard at least three hundred shots, and he heard the natives calling, 'Look at that man!' I also heard natives shout ing and saw seven or eight of them at the second bend of the river shouting and splashing the water, aud they seemed to have a boat of some de scription, around which they were gathered. I supposed them to be na tives in bathing, and the boat could not be seen clearly on account of the trees along the bank of the liver." A KfinarkHble lieficuc. The manner in which three women And a man saved the lives of a passen ger and two members of the crew of the steamer Chilkat, which was wrecked on Humboldt Bar, while going out of the harbor of Eureka, Cal., is remark able. The Dev. P. E. Peterson, the pastor of the Scandinavian Methodist Church, ft Eureka, had gone to the life-saving station to see some of the members of the crew with whom he was acquaint ed. While he was there the plight of the Chilkat was discovered. The life-boat was sent out and tbeu the preacher went down on the beach, where he was speedily joined by Mrs. McLean, Mrs. R. E. Henning aud Miss Shumway. They saw the wreckage drift in aud an empty life-boat. Pres ently Mrs. Henning discovered in the boiling surf a man apparently cling ing to some wreckage and much ex hausted. Mr. Peterson waded through the eurf, keeping upright with dilliculty until he reached the man, who was a passenger named Mooser, from Oak laud. Peterson dragged him through the water to the shore, where the women came to his aid. The rescued man was unable to stand and was al most unconscious. Then a second man was discovered among some wreckage. He was Peter Johnson, the first mate. He was mak ing a desperate effort with bis remain ing strength to keep up in the water, there being not enough wreckage about him to support his weight. The minister reached Johnson just as he was about to let go, and with the aid of women dragged him to a place of safety. While they were car ing for this man Miss Shumway dis covered a third mau and immediately ran into the water to rescue hita. As the plucky young woman plunged into the water, a receding breaker car ried Fireman Hanson further out. But she did not turn back. She was de termined that the man should be saved. She could see that it was only a mat ter of three or four minutes. A breaker carried her off her feet, but she did not lose her head. She kept on until she reached the fireman. Sbe knew that she could not bring him to shore alone, and so she devot ed her efforts to keeping him on the wreckage. And she succeeded until Mr. Peterson and Mrs. Henning came to her aid. Up In a lllazlns linlloon. There was a thrilling balloon ascen sion at the Oakland Park at Piedmont, Cal., on a recent afternoon, in which one man risked his life by ascending in a burning balloon and another was taken up twenty feet and dropped headforemost to the ground. A large crowd had gathered at the park to witness the scene. Fred Yosmer, a brother of the lessee of the park, had volunteered to make the ascension, and just as the balloon was fully inflated the canvas ignited, A number of men held fast to the large airship when they saw it burn ing, but Yosmer was not daunted by the accident and determined to make the ascent in the blazing balloon. He warned those who were holding the ropes to let go, and the balloon arose slowly into the air. No one noticed that Charles Sturm had refused to leave the ropes until carried several taet into the air. Then several men rushed to his rescue, but they were too late, as he hacSbecoine entangled in the ropes. When he Anally disengaged himself he was fully twenty feet from the ground. He fell head first, striking on the back of his head and shoulders. At first it was thought he was dead, as he re mained unconscious for several min utes, but he soon revived and "left for his home little the worse for his experience. Vosmer continued the ascension in the blazing airship, and when he had reached an altitude of 1000 feet and the balloon began to careen he cut loose and made a graceful descent by means of his parachute. When the canvas reached the ground it had been al most consumed by the flames. The ascension is considered one of the most remarkable feats in the history of aerial exploits. The scene recalled to the patrons of the park the sack death, two years ago, of a childjwho clung to the ropes of a balloon until it had risen 2000 feet. The aeronaut, when he discovered the child's plight, coaxed and threat ened the little one to hold fast, but his words were of no avail, and the four-year-old boy met a horrible death on the rocks 2000 feet below. A Fight With Ants. "Perhaps you wonder what would happen to a man who would under take to fight an army of ants, assum ing of course that the man relies on his natural means of defence —his hands and feet. I can best illustrate that by the rare story of an unfortun ate who was brought to a hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, recently," says a returned traveler, in the New York Sun. "The man was a coolie who had worked on a cocoa plantation in a creek not far from Caracas. Follow ing a habit of some of his country men, the coolie, owing to the heat, had left his camp and stretched him self on the ground to sleep outdoors. Exactly what followed no one cau say with certainty. Presumably he was surrounded and covered by an army of ants before he awakened. At dawn the shrieks and cries of a man in agony aroused the inmates of the camp, who ran out to learn the cause. "The man was gesticulating wildly and calling for help, while he squirmed and writhed aud slapped his face and neck and chest and legs in a mad effort to slap himself all over at once. He was standing in the midst of an army of ants and was too dis tracted with pain to run away. Then he did exactly what a panther or a leopard does when he is being over come. The man threw himself to the ground to roll his tormentor to death. A single active white man could have saved the poor wretch, but the stupe lied bare-logged coolies dared not, or thought not of rescue, while the vic tim himself was too crazed with agony to seek other thau instant relief. From a slight personal experience, I know the poor fellow was burning in a lire which would take hours to kill him. "Finally a bystander regained his wits and rushed into the midst of the army and dragged the man after him and threw him into the creek. The rescue came too late. The victim be came unconscious. His velvety brown skin was a pink mass of raw bites. When he came to the hospital he was bound hand and foot, a maniac, whose continuous notion was that he was be ing eaten by ants." CoantexH Ito'a Bravery. Many years ago, when quite a young man, during a rebellion, Count Ito, of Japau, was hiding from his enemies, who having tracked him to his house, send a band of "solisis" to assassinate him. On hearing his enemies ap proaching, aud trapped like a rat in its hole, the Count drew bis sword and prepared to die, but the Countess whispered, "Do not die, there is hope still," and, removing the "hibatchi," or lire-box, and lifting up the mats aud planks beneath, she induced her husband to conceal himself in the hol low space, which exists under the floors of all Japanese houses. The murderers broke into the room just as the fire-box had been replaced, and demauded of the Countess their vic tim. In vain they threatened, and cruelly ill-treated her, dragging her about the room by her long black hair. But it was of no avail; they could not shake her resolute fidelity. Thanks to her courage, Count Ito escaped, aud has lived to give to his country a new constitution, and become one of the greatest statesmen of modem Japan. I often wonder when I see the Count ess, now a delicate gray-haired, little lady, at the courage and presence o! mind that she displayed at tlia* criti cal moment of her life. f NEWS AND NOTES 1 1 FOR WOMEN. I For tlie Toilet. Hair Oil—Two teaspooufnls each of glycerine, ammonia and castor oil; add enough alcohol to cut the oil. Put into a four-ounoe bottle and fill with rainwater. Shake well before using. To Hemove Sunburn—Beduce a cake of brown Windsor soap to a powder. Add one ounce of lemon juice and one of eau de cologne; mix well. This will make the skin white and soft. Warts may be removed by frequent applications of Boda water. A Hint For Large Women. There are tailors and modistes who think that a large person looks bet ter in a skirted thrc'J-quarter coat than in a postilion basque bodice. This is a mistake. The skirts of the coat may conceal in a degree the un graceful ourves of the figure, but they do not improve it, and furthermore, the length of these coat skirts cuts off so much of the needed length of the dress skirt beneath. If not liked, the postilion basque bodice can be changed for an entirely different style of gown, which is very often the best a woman of ample proportions can se lect, an open-fronted polanaise above a plain or striped underdress, the back breadths of the polonaise arch ing down to the very hem of the un derskirt.—New York Post. Tlie Frou-Frou Departing. It is observed that the frou-frou of silken skirts is being less and less heard. Fashionablo women are wear ing skirts lined often with light woolen materials in order that not even the rustle of a lining that has any dressing in it shall be heard. The indications which further em phasize the declining fashion for silken skirts are found in the adver tisements by leading dealers announc ing silk-lined skirts at greatly re duced prices. This is the opportunity of the woman who is not radical in her devotion to changing fashions. A skirt that is lined with silk is much pleasanter to wear thau one that has a wool lining, and many women will still continue to use fcho former. The passing, however, of the rustling silken lining or petticoat is to be com mended. They have often been so much in evidence at large gatherings of women as to bo distinctly irritating to the ears of sensitive persona. A Tooth and Nail IJrugh Cas*. A great convenience which overy traveler will appreciate is a case for the tootb-bruab and nail-brush. This article is very simple to make, though it is hardly necessary to say that the sewing must be done with ex treme care and neatness. Its materials are a strip of gray or "art" linen six teen and a half inches long and three and three-quarters of an inch wide, one end of which is rouudediu a curvo an inch and a half at the deepest part, and a piece of white rubber cloth fif teen inches long and three inches and a quarter wide, with sufficient tape or silk braid to bind the linen. Bind the straight end of the linen strip first, then fold it toward the pointed end, making a case seven aud three-quarter inches deep, baste the sides together, and, commencing at the top of one side, stitch the braid around the entire case. Put a button hole in the pointed end and sew a but ton on the case beneath. Fold the rubber cloth together, the rubber part outside. Stitch down both sides, making a very narrow seam, then turn so that the rubber portion is iuside, aud make a row of stitching an inch aud a quarter from one edge from top to bottom. Slip this inside the liuen case. Initials may be em broidered ou the llap, or the full name , wrought in outline stitch along the length of one-half the case, commenc ing at least three inches from the pointed end. It may also be decorated with a row of feather-stitching wrought j before it is turned up and bound. | Very utilitarian ones are made of the | red aud blue plaid glass-towelling, j bound with red or blue braid, to match the cases for wash-cloths in the shape of an envelope made of the same materials.—Harper's Bazar. The Stanford Uenefactlon. In giving the bulk of her fortune, to the estimated amount of $10,000,- | 000, to Stanford University, Mrs. Jane Stanford has simply carried out her well-known intention. Before | Senator Stanford died he and his wifo | had a perfect understanding with re gard to the disposition of their wealth, j They planned the university together. | During the Senator's lifetime the in stitution WUB opened and endowed with about eighty thousand acres of land. He left it only $2,500,000 in i his will, because he thought it only fair that Mrs. Stanford should bo al lowed to carry out the plaus they both had made. Since his death his widow has de voted almost all her inoome to the support of the university. She has carried through litigation on its bo ; half, aud has secured the submission to the people of an ameudment ex -1 empting its property from taxation Now she thinks that the time has eorno to crown her splendid philan i thropy, to which she has devoted her life as well as her money, by endow ing it witb ber wealth in name as well as in faet. The condition that the number of women students shall never exceed ! 500 would have Beemed curious if it I had come from a niau—from a woman it will make the advocates of women's rights gasp. The desire to preserve | college spirit, which is assigned as { the reason for this action, might have i teen satisfied, it would seem, by fix- I ing a proportion between the numbers j ef the sexes, iar'ead of by iaipoaing an inflexible limit. There may be five thousand students at Stanford University some day. With only tea per cent, of them young women, it will seem that Mrs. Stanford was un duly cautious.—New York Journal. The Duchess of Portland is a great pedestrian. One-fifth of the students in Swiss universities are women. Women are employed by several Western railroads to tend switches. Signora Lambroso is said to be as keen a psychologist as her husband. In Austria-Hungary about three million women are engaged in indus trial pursuits. The Priuoess of Wales, it is said, takes a very keen interest in the rear ing of poultry. Ten women of Syracuse, Kan., have agreed to wear divided skirts during the stormy season. Women sailors are employed in Den mark, Norway and Finland, and they are often found to be most excellent and delightful mariners. The oldest banker in the world is a woman, aged ninety-eight years. She is Deborah Powers, the senior partner in the bank of D. Powers & Sons, Lan singberg, England. Every animal slaughtered for food purposes in Berlin, Germany, is sub jected to microscopic examination by a corps of women microscopists espe cially trained to the work. A successful ranch owner in Kansas is a woman. There is a saying to the effect that in Kansas there is no in terest, n<: profession, no trade and no deal without a woman in it. Miss Frances Power Cobbe is one of the oldest living women journalists. It has been claimed for her that she was actually the first lady to do regu lar office work on the editorial staff of a London daily. There is a woman's club in St. Petersburg, llussia, which has three thousand members. In their studies they profess to touch upon every sub ject concerning womeu and her posi tion throughout the world. Patti is said to have made, at times, as much as 3350,000 a year. Melba's income, when fully engaged, is $150,- 000, and Sara Bernhardt has for years averaged $70,000. Bosa Bonheur sold one year's work for $190,000. Miss Emma Bhodes is the city mis sionary of Bichmond, Ind. Because of her intimate knowledge of the needs of the poor, she has just been made superintendent of the Pingree potato patch work, which has been so suc cessful in every respect that the city authorities have decided to continue it this year. Five years ago the University ol Durham opened its medical school to women, and now the first lady graduate in medicine, Miss Seliua Fitzherbert Fox, has just taken her degree. Miss Fox headed the list of candidates, among whom she was the only woman. Hhe took up the study of medicine with a view, it is said, to missionary work abroad. Gleaning* From the Shops. Colored and black polka-dottedplne apple grenadines. Silk Persian crepons for summer costumes in light shadings. Bright green golf jackets having red revers, collars and cuffs. White pique jacket suits trimmed with colored collars and cuffs. Many new gowns showing broad and elaborately trimmed revers. Purple hats loaded with roses in half bloom and masses of foliage. Silk stocks with sailor knot with fringed ends to match the shirt waist. Evening gowns of dainty tissues trimmed with cut-out figures of mous seline outlined with narrow ribbon. White pique snits showing colored polka dots trimmed with bands ol plain material which match the spots. Long coats for children made of cream beugaline with deep sailor col lar and sleeve trimmings of lioh lace. Yokes of embroidery made with diagonally tucked fronts and straight backs, finished with a frill of the em broidery. Gowns of red cloth showing applica tion of black chautilly lace butterflies on thejtunic and bodice with parasol to correspond. Children's hats having a straw crown and brim of accordion-plaited organdie, or point d'esprit with a big ribbon bow in the front. Chambray, batiste and organdie robes in white and light colors trimmed with exquisite lace and em broidery in the newest prescribed forms.—Dry Goods Economist. A Scattered Family. A striking family is that of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick King, of Charsfield, Suffolk, whioh consists of nine sons and throe daughters. The eldest has a post in Australia. Another son is a foreman gardener in Herts. A married daughter resides at Wick ham Market in Suffolk. A. third son is a captain in the mer chant service now proceeding to Italy. A fourth is color sergeant in the grenadier guards at Gibraltar. A fifth son is a civil engineer in London. A sixth is a first-class petty officer in the royal navy, now at Ascension Island. The seventh is a fireman in the metropolitan brigade. The eighth is a Lowestoft police constable. The second daughter is in Aus tralia, in the service of Lord Tenny son. The third daughter and ninth son are at home, not yet being old enough to go out into the world on their own responsibility.—London Mail.
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