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The last analysis of the end of the
century; An automobile hearse and
cremation with liquefied nir.
In looking forward to the destined !
blessings of the next and happier gen
eration, note should be made of the
fact that their food will be better
cooked.
Here is a new gun that shoots fif
teen miles. The poetical fancy of the
"shot heard round tho world" may be
turned iuto actuality some day. At
least we are working in that direc
tion.
"While America was in the early
days celebrated mainly for its agricul
tural products, it is uow well known
for its mineral, and is, moreover, gain
ing a world wide reputation for its
manufactured products.
The destruction of the Como Expo
sition has created a strong feeling
among most of tho scientists of Eu
rope that hereafter important docu
ments and apparatus relating to tho
history of science or to one man should
not bo placed under one roof.
Deeply rooted in human nature
there seems to be au innate love of
rivalry in tbo matter of physical en
durance. To this liking for muscular
competition is doubtless due much of
the constantly increasing strength and
stature of mankind. In the require
ments of modern sport, however, there
is such a thing as carrying muscular
exertion to a point that is absolutely
injurious.
Japan is planting her institutions
ftll over Korea, possibly with the view
of demanding that country as her share
in tho general Asiatic partition. It' j
she ever gets it Korea may become a 1
power under proper tuition which the |
European suzerains of China will have !
to reckon with. Combined with Japan j
the Hermit Kingdom would increase I
the number of the Mikado's subjects 1
to nearly 70,000,000, a numerical
strength nearly equal to that of tho j
United States.
The boycott is apparently coming I
to be regarded as a universal panacea,
warranted to right all wrongs, in
dustrial, social, religious, national
and uow international. Yet it is only
an old idea under a new name, A
hundred years before Captain Boycott
was heard of our Revolutionary fore- j
fathers and foremothers —particularly !
our foremothers—boycotted English ■
tea, and would neither buy nor sell ;
nor use au ounce of it. And Inter on
Jefferson applied tho boycotting idea
on au international scale by declaring
an embargo against all British ships
aud goods. There is nothing new un
der the sun.
Sivr"t Tonoi from Wood.
In Peril, Ecuador, and Bolivia there
is a remarkably resonant wood called j
hormaguilla. The Qulchua and Ainay
ra Indians r. am t excellent musi
cal Instrument out o! this wood. It Is
on the prim , of the well-known
xylophone, only t! t underneath each
piece they eon-Tie a sounding-box
out of the same wood, varying in size
to the note to he n red and sus
taining evidences of Hi" o! . prehistoric
civilizations. A : y of Teruvians
lately traveled through Mexico with
one of these large instruments and ere
cted quite a sensation among the
music-ioving Mexicans.
Front the Chicago Tribune: "I can't
Quite make out thai En [li ill neighbor
of mine." eatd Uncle Allen Sparks. "He
was at church the other Sunday, and
Joined lustily in singing when the
preacher gave out 'America,' but I no
ticed that the words lie sung were 'God
Bave the Queen.' I don't know whether
be did it to give the effect of an An
glo-American alliance or whether it
was Just a piece of his English bul'
headedness."
A riagiuriMra.
Dusty Roads (his eyes fixed on a
party of golfers)— Weary, if you and X
only had some swell clothes and a bun
dle of sticks apiece they wouldn't call
us tramps any longer. Weary Waggles
—Yes, I've often thought them golfers
wers a-plaglarizinc our nrofesh-
Berene t toi l my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea;
I rave no 'gainst time or fate,
For lo! my own shall come to me.
I stay my haste, I make delays,
For what avails this eager pace?
I stand amid the eternal ways,
And what is mine shall know my face.
Asleep, awake, by night or day,
The friends J seek are seeking me.
No wind ca- drive my bark astray,
Nor chan'v \ the tide of destiny.
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J BY HELEN HICKS. #
Alec McPhersou's mother was never I
tired of showing little Alec the picture i
in the album of Aunty Morse, whose ;
sou had become a millionaire in New j
York, or of talking of her cousin, who ]
was a senator at Ottawa, aud her sis
ter-in-law's brother, who had been '
appointed lieutenant-governor of a
province once, but who had died in
advertently before he was sworn in.
Little Alee looked upon these distinc- j
tious, and he saw that they were
good. He saw that the men who got
tespeet and consideration when they
came to his father's house were not i
farmers like his father, but the doctor
in the black coat, who ordered some- j
body to hold his horses and asked ap- [
preheusively if the dog bit, or the
minister, who kept the men after a
hearty dinner from the hay, while he
was praying, aud a thunder cloud was
gathering overhead. It was for men !
like these that the silver aud the best j
lable napkins were brought out, aud
the household routine set aside as a
thing small consequence. The hoy
began be ashamed of an occupation
that compelled a man to wear rough I
clothes and carry rough bauds, and
the town made him shy and ill at
ease.
McPhersou's remedy for the
disadvantage under which her son had
been born was education. She told him
what it could do. Education could !
make him a gentleman, give him
monoy and clothes, and respect and
power, and put his heel on the nock
of men who otherwise would have j
their heel on his neck. So it came
about that by the time Alec was 24 |
and his father laid safely to rest
under the sod, the boy had taken his
bachelor's degree at college, spent a
year abroad aud was plunging into
the study of Blackstone and the civil |
code.
It was on an evening in early spring '
lhat he came home. There was still ]
xrost in the air, and night was coming
on windy with a moon that was no j
more than a tilted horn wracked with 1
clouds aud insignificant beside the I
lights beginning to come out in the j
houses. After 10 miles in a stage over j
this bare country, sole passeuger,hud- j
died into a corner,with a rug wrapped '
found his knees and his bauds thrust
deep iuto his overcoat pockets, the i
gush of yellow light from his own
door was the welcomest of sights.
The low-ceiled room, the familiar en
gravings on the walls, his mother's '
lined face under the gray hair, were
furniture of his earliest recollections.
"Mother," he said, "my health is
broken down. If I don't get help j
somewhere I'm useless for life!"
He told his story, his nervousness,
his sleeplessness, all the long months j
he had spent trying to work and doing
nothing. "Ever since that hot day
last summer when I was overcome by
the heat, I've never been the same
since. When 1 went back, to lectures," I
he went on, "1 couldn't work. There |
was a doctor I knew, a young fellow, j
He thought be could fix me up. Bvo- ]
tnide, morphia, chloral—l tried them j
all. Then I went to a specialist,aud I
lie told me everything. It was a !
shock to the brain; I was a victim of
neurasthenia. Mother, I may live to 1
be au old man, but I'll never be good
for anything, so far as head work is
concerned, agaiu,"
Mrs, McPherson stood up indig- [
nantly. "Alee! With your constitn- j
lion! A little thing like that can't j
break you down. Your father was a I
ctrong man, and I'm sure there's never j
been much sickness on my side of tho |
house." "Yes," he said, "that was ]
What the doctor said. He said it was
in my favor that I came of country
people aud hadn't inherited the |
hysteria and debilitated nerves that
are the common curse. He said, j
mother, that coming hack to the farm '
v"- my only hope." He sat silent,
witli his clenched hand holding his I
lead; then looking round him, "I 1
was in a hospital for a while," he said. I
"Thank God, I'm home!"
One day in the middle of the fore- !
noon Alee came downstairs with the j
unusual feeling that he was a slug
gard. The sun was strong, aud just
outside the door a turkey cock dis
tended himself in its warmth; the bees
were busy in the flowers, the men
were haying. He took his hat and
went out, walking past the barns and
along a laue where beside him lay a
field of potatoes, their regularly
spaced clumps of green radiating like
Ike spokes of a wheel from whatever
point tho eye chose as a beginning.
An unremarkable man was walking
between two rows that ran parallel to
the fence. In one hand he held a
pail filled with greeu-tiuted water,and
in the other a whitewash brush. He
dipped his brush in the green water
and fionuced it over the potato tops
on either side, and talked aloud to
himself as he walked. ".Saul has slain
thousands, and David tens o' thou
sands; but I'm slayiu' millions of 'em
—millions!"
"Hello, Henry," Alec called lean
ing over the fence; "paris-greening
the potato bugs?" The man set down
his pail and stood erect. "Yes, but
WAITING.
What matter If I stand alone?
I wait with joy the coming years;
My heart shall rest where it has sown,
And gamer up its fruit of tears.
The waters know their own and-draw
The brook that springs in yonder height;
Bo How the good with equal law
Unto the soul of pure delight.
The stars come nightly to the sky,
The tidal wave unto the sea;
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high,
Can keep my own away from me.
—John Burroughs.
it does mighty little good," he
drawled. "This new man Crawford
that's just bought the old Garrison
place has got a potato patch over there,
and his bugs believes in reciprocity.
Line fences is no obstruction to them
fellers." "Doesn't Crawford believe
in paris green?" he asked. "No, nor
in hoein', neither, I guess."
Alec laughed. "Mr. Crawford
doesn't seem to bo n thriving farmer."
"Well now, Mr. McPerson," Henry
said, briskly, as if entering on a topic
that interested him, "Mr. Crawford,
ho thinks himself a gentleman, but, he
don't own that farm no more nor I do.
The company owns it what holds a
mortgage on it, and he's really just
workiu* it for them. His crop ain't
his'n; it's got to go to pay the interest,
aud some says his horses aud cattle
and implements is all cliatteled for
inoreu't they're worth."
"That's a lie!" Both looked up.
Tho man they were discussing had
risen from beneath a clump of elder
bushes aud was leaning over the fence
with battle in his eyes. He was lank
and cadaverous, with a thin, goat's
beard, protuberant blue eyes, and
wiry yellow hair. The man was plain
ly not in robust health, aud he had
the look of having reached that point
iu his cups when amiability is swal
lowed up iu a growing desire to be
quarrelsome. "Well, maybe it is, Mr.
Crawford," Henry said, soothingly.
"Maybe it is." "And they say you're
a reg'lar gentleman," Crawford re
marked, turning to Alec aud looking
him up and down with scornful
amusement. "A reg'lar gentleman
that never hud his nose to the grind
stone and keeps money in the bank
all the time. Is that so?" "No-o, I
guess is isn't so," Alec answered,
mildly. With surprisiug quickness
the man got over tlie fence that, seua
ratcd them. "And you dou't think
I'm a (hi iviu' farmer,eh?" he queried,
thrusting forward his white,impudent,
face. "Take that, young npstartl"
And suddenly raising the switch in
his hand he laid it smartly across
Alec's face. The next instant he hail
fallen forward with his face in tho
grass, aud his thin hands grasping
convulsively before him. They turned
him over, but though the muscles of
his lace moved, his heart was quite
still.
The two men looked at each other
in consternation. "This is hard on
Lyddy," Henry said at last with a
great sigh, pointing to the prostrate
form. "lie's a widower, and Lyddy
keeps things together, and there's two
little uns." They carried the dead
man up to his house, where little
Blanche Mary was helping Lyddy got
dinner, and Tony, the six-year-old,
stood washing himself with legs Het
very wide apart at a big basin on the
outside stoop. They were all thin,
elfin creatures with bright hair ami
radiant eyes of corn-flower blue.
"Well," said Mrs. McPherson,
when the funeral was over, "Lyddy
Crawford's got a hard row to line.
She'd like to stay on the farm; it's
like home to her now, and they've got
to have a roof over their heads some
whore." "But the mortgage," Alee
objected. "They can pay the inter
est, and that's enough just now. And
she's going to make real,old-fashioned
preserves out of wild raspberries aud
kuckleberrries and long blackberries,
and sell them on Buxton market. Oh,
she may get quite n trade!"
Alec was pleased. Gradually it be
came his chief interest to watch
Lyddy s undertaking. Sometimes he
met her iuthe woods with the children,
gathering berries, Tony trailing a long,
dead branch ns a protection against
bears. He never saw Lyddy now
! without a sharp sense of the beauty
j nt her hair, her small woman's figure,
j her brown, small hands. It seemed
ito him that she embodied all sweet,
; country things—light and breezy days
, and the fragrance of little underfoot
flowers. As for Lyddy, rfit night, at
I bedtime, she wrapped a thin, black
! shawl about her bend and shoulders,
aud slipped out of the house and down
the hill to the bridge, to see if the
lights were still burning in Alec's
windows. She did it every night,and
it had assumed for her the sacredness
j of a rite.
j When fall came, Alec was better.
| He was less thiu, his band had a firm
j grasp, his skin was a healthy brown,
[ his eye was steady. He had almost
! forgotten liin languid days and sleep
j less nights iu the buoyant pleasure
of rising up early in the autumn dawn
to feel himself the director of all the
activities of the farm.
It was at supper one night that his
mother spoke to him. "Alec, you
have been at home close on eight
months now," she said, and waited
for an answer. "Yes," he said,brief
ly. "And your health is ever so much
better than you ever thought it would
be again. You're almost as well as
you ever were. Isn't that so?"
"Yes," he said again. "When are
you going back to the law?" He
went on crumbling his biscuit, and did
not meet her eye. "I am not going
back, mother," he said U last. "I
am determined to stay here." "Thi
is no place for a young man of youf
education," she expostulated.
"That's what I thought once*
mother, but everything seems differ
ent now. I cau be just as useful here*
It's better to be a good farmer than a
poor lawyer." "You needn't be a
poor lawyer. Besides I'd rather be
that than a farmer. I hate the name
of farmer. None of my relations were
ever that. There isn't any excuse for
such low tastes." He was nettled.
"Let us take some oases we know of,"
he said quietly. "There's Walters,
the sharpest young lawyer in Buxton,
and the best pleader; he was in jail 24
hours for voting twice at au election.
There was Barr, who started poor antj
died rich; ho lost his seat in Parlia*
ment and was disqualified for open
bribery, and there was things in hi*
private life far worse. No profession
is going to make a man's life houort
able. I'd rather be a man like my
father, mother, than be Barr or Wal*
ters."
Ho had the impulse to burst into
contemptuous laughter,but something
checked him. He leaned forward, in
stead, and placed his hand on hers,
"Mother, I disappoint you, but don't
drive me away. This is the denrest
place on earth to me. I cau understand
Horace now! 4 Happy is the man who,
far from business, like the ancient
race of men, works his paternal field*
with his own oxen.' I can under
stand that now." Mrs. McPhersoa
picked up the teapot and set it down
with fierce emphasis. "Then I sup
pose the truth is it's that girl that's
keeping you bore," she burst out.
"Whut do you mean?" he asked
hotly. "I mean," she Baid, without
quailing before his angry eyes, "that I
suppose it's that Crawford girl your
hanging after. The dear knows what
alse keeps you here. You dou't seem
able to tell. 1 think you must be
pretty soft. To see her eyes following
me round like a tame cat would be
enough for me if I was a young man.
It makes mo sick. I should think
she'd be the laughing stock of the
neighborhood." Her son looked at
her in blank amazement. "Oh, she
knows which side her bread is but
tered on. You'd be a pretty good
catch for her, wouldn't you? I'll tell
you something, too," she went on,
hoarsely. "If you take up with such
trash as that, don't come here ugain.
As long as my head is above the sod
this house is mine, aud if you go
against me, keep out of it. God
knows I've slaved to give you chances
to make yourself somebody! Yes,
you've been dearer to me than the
apple of my eye, but unless you make
up your mind to go back, I will never
own you for a son again."
She turned her back upon him and
marched away with her usual soldier
like tread, and he heard the key turn
iu the lock as she closed her bedroom
door, lie flung out of the house in
a passion of opposition. O the shoddy
pride, the vulgarity of it all! Some
words of Tolstoi recurred to him,
printed without flaw on his memory:
''Everything which I used to think
bad and low—the rusticity of the
peasant, the plainness of lodging,food,
clothing, manners—all this has be
come good and great in my eyes."
He leaued agaiust tho railing of the
little wooden bridge and listened to
the hurry of water underneath. There
was a watery, intermittent moonlight,
and every now and then a snow flake,
damp and adhesive, touched his cheek.
He looked up aud saw Lyddy stand
ing i I the road, her startled face peer
ing at him from its framing of black
shawl. With an exclamation of joy he
went quickly to meet her. —New Eng
land Homestead.
Wooing a School Teacher.
"Yes," said a young man, as he
threw himself at the feet of the pretty
school mistress, "I love you and
would go to the world's end for you."
"You could uot go to tho end of
the world for me, James. The world,
or the earth, as it is called, is round
like a ball, slightly flatted at the poles.
One of the first lessons in elementary
geography is devoted to the shape of
tho globe. You must have studied it
when you were a boy."
"Of course 1 did, but "
"And it is no longer a theory. Cir
cumnavigators have established the
fact."
"I know, but what I meant was
that I would do anything to please
you. Ah, Minerva, if you knew the
aching void "
"There is no such thiug as a void,
James. Nature abhors a vacuum.
But,admitting that there could be such
a thing, how could the void you speak
of be a void if there were an ache iu
it ?"
"I meant to say that ray life will be
lonesome without you; that you are my
daily thought and my nightly dream.
I would go auywhere to be with you.
If you were iu Australia or at the
north pole, I would fly to you. I "
"Ely! Jt will be another century
before men cau fly. Even whon the
laws of gravitation are successfully
overcome, there will still remain, says
a late scientific authority, the diffi
culty of maiutaiuing a balance "
"Well, at all events," exclaimed the
youth, "I've got a pretty fair balance
in the bank, and I want you be
my wife. There!"
"Well, James, siuce you put it iu
that light, 1 "
Curtaiu.—Wichita (Kan.) Eagle.
XVorsc Meat Than r.oat.
The big packeries ara now slaugh
tering thousands of Texas goats and
selling the flesh for mutton. The de
ception is reprehensible, but tho meal
is all right. A juicy Texas angora is
about us toothsome to a white uiau as
a rat i to a Chinaman or a baked dog
to an Indian. The angora is all right.
What we object to is the gutta percha
beefsteak and the papier mache a an.
•ages. —Memphis Commercial Appe al #
§ NEWS AND NOTES 1
I FOR WOMEN. I
A Beautiful Gim.
Turquoise is one of the prettiest
gems worn. The exquisite shade of
blue whitens the wearer's hand by
contrast, aud its presence is distin
guished at a greater distanco than al
most any other stone.
Novel Cane-Umbrella.
The convertible caue-umlnella is a
novelty. By unscrewing the tip and
touching a spring tho cover is re
moved and the stick becomes a stylish
oaue, while the cover cau be carried
in u dress suit case. By reversing
the proee#'?. a sun shade or water
shedder for use.
Dresden handles for umbrellas and
parasols are on the wane, while silver,
bejeweled gun metals aud elaborately
carved woods are appearing in every
conceivable design. The cotton um
brella is now a thiug of past.
The Modern Woinan'n Wardrobe.
Woman's wardrobe includes a
greater number of costumes to-day thau
ever before. She must have a bicycle
suit, with numerous pique shirtwaists
to wear with it; a yachting suit of flan
nel; a golf suit, including a cloak; oue
bathing suit, if not three or four; a
coaching costume, a tailor made dress,
summer silks, organdie.s galore, silk
and cotton shirtwaists, extra skirts aud
oveniug gowns. There are other cos
tumes she may demand —her riding
habit, a rainy day suit and her steamer
coat. All of which goes to show how
times have changed.
The accessories that are all "pretty
things to wear" include a wonderful
collection of stocks—belts, ties, sashes,
"fronts" and vests.
Then, there are lier hats to go with
different gowns, her parasols, sun
shades and umbrellas; her gloves for
street, driving, riding and eveuiug;
her shoes, slippers and boots; her
world without end of hosiery; her
jackets, wraps aud cloaks; her veils
and handkerchiefs, and then the
myriad of costly trifles from the jewel
ler's, including shell hairpins, jewoled
hatpins, Cyrano chains, studded vinai
grettes, lucky charms, gold buckles,
lans of ivory and pearl, shirt studs and
cuff links, skirt pius, chatelaines,
cardcases, mouogrammod purses,
stockpiuß aud brooches for her hair.
After which the most money to be
paid out for any oue thing will bo for
jewels.
"It is no wonder," said a mother,
"that papas grow gray audyouugmen
fly from matrimony like clouds before
a sea breeze!"
Sunbaths For tho Flair.
Proper and constant care of the hair
is the most essential duty of the wom
an who would he well groomed. The
attention which is giyeu by up-to-date
women now to their tresses is one
which requires time and patience, but
no woman begrudges the time, money
or labor expended on the proper care
of her hair, be it dark or light.
The woman with light hair should
always when possible dry her hair in
the bright sunshine. All last winter,
from a back window, a sight was pre
sented in a certain neighborhood about
twice a month which was a source of
great amusement to the residents. A
girl with a beautiful head of golden
brown Uair, after washing it, used to
sit in the window, if in winter, close to
the glass and let the sun stream in on
her loosened tresses. After the
weather got warmer she used to cover
the windowsill with pillows, and, rest
ing her head on them, let her hair hang
out of the window in the Bunlight, with
the soft spring air acting as a fan for
drying it.
Ateaspoonful of household ammonia
added to each basin of water used in
wushing assists materially in keeping
it light. Dark hair should be dried in
the shade or it will fade in streaks:
But if the dark haired girl wisheß to
lighten her tresses without a bleach,
she can partly accomplish her purpose
by adding a little borax to the water,
and after, drying the hair iu the shade,
give it a sun bath as often as praotica
hie.
For a dry sun bath, if such a con
tradiction may be used, tho hair should
be spread and shaken ont oonstantly, so
that the sun's rays may reach all the
roots alike.—New York Herald.
Women n. Inventors.
In a most interesting and instruc
tive lecture delivered before a wom
an's club in New "York City upon
"Women as Inventors," Airs. Ida C.
Bowles has given the result of twelve
years of deep research, covering the
history of invention from the Egyptian
goddess Isis down to tho modern
Yankee product of to-day. She in
cludes silk weaving, invented by the
wife of the fourth Chinese Emperor;
bronze work, by a .Japanese woman;
tho weaving of cashmere shawls, by a
woman of the Indian harem, and the
lost secret of Venetian point lace,
rediscovered by an Italian woman.
Harriet Hosmer is mentioned as hav
ing iuveuted the way to make marble
from limestone, which the Italian
Government had long been seeking.
Mary ICecs is spoken of as the first
woman iu this country to take out a
patent (1808), and this was for weav
ing straw with silk or thread.
During the next twenty-five years
only fifteen patonts were grouted,
owing to limited means of education.
Among these inventions were a globe
for teaching geography, a baby-jumper,
a fountain pen, a deep-sea telescope
and the first cook stove. In the next
twenty-five years, when more privi
leges were accorded women, the num
ber of patents ran up to thirty-five.
During the next twenty-five years,
from 1809 to 1884, the patents num
bered 1503.
Taking their husbands' places in
wartime on the forms and in .the work •
ihops, women invented many im
proved agricultural implements, ana
new kinds of machinery, Nursing in
hospitals, they invented camp beds,
bandages, canteens, etc. At the pres
ent time colleges, sloyd and manual
training are developing woman's
powers, and patents resulting from
her ideas numbered 3905 in the twelve
years between 1884 and 1895.
Gossip.
XJphoistering is a trade women are
learning.
A Jersey City woman makes her
living by painting signs.
In the Postoffice Department in
Washington IG2 women are employed.
A domestic servants' benevolent in
stitution has been established in Lon
don.
Though rubies and pearls may bo
more costly, woman, as a rule, is true
to diamonds.
The Queen of Saxony possesses four
sapphires equal iu size and beauty to
the one that glows in the crown of
England.
There is a saying to the effect that
in Kansas there is no interest, no pro
fession, no trade and no deal without
a woman iu it.
The Immigrant Girls' Home, iu
New Fork City, is constantly broaden
ing its field. Finnish girls are now
coming to the home.
Caroline Brown, who has just died
at Lisbiirn, England, was born on tho
held of Waterloo whilo the battle was
raging, on November 18, 1815.
Mrs. John Itittenhouse, recently
killed with her whipstock a gray wolf
which attacked the buggy occupied
by herself and daughter, Mrs. Lyons,
on Wyoming Hill, five miles from
Muscatine, lowa.
Miss Fraukie V. Mudd has been
appointed by Governor Stephens, of
Missouri, as inspector of oils for the
city of St. Charles. This is the first
time that a woman has ever filled that
p)ace in Missouri.
Miss L. L. M. Coote, the daughter
of the Secretary of the JJritish Vigil
ance Association, has just accom
plished the dangerous fent "of climb
ing the Wetterhorn—one of the most
difficult mountains of the Alps.
Miss Sybil Carter is doing for the
Indian women of the United States
what Lady Aberdeen did for those of
Ireland and Queeu Margherita for
those of Italy, in teaching them the
art of lacemaking as a means of sup
port.
The first woman regularly ap
pointed to the Interior Department in
Washington was a Miss June Nesbit,
whose salary was S3O a mouth. Be
fore that date, which was 'OS, women
had been given work which they took
to their homes.
Mrs. Shiver, who lives in Southern
Georgia, ought to hnvo a place in the
world's history. She has had no fewer
than 010 descendants, 235 of whom
are still living. This great-great
grandmother is ninety years of age,
j but still brisk and energetic.
Miss Mnrtha Laura Mason, of Chi
cago, has been appointed by the new
Librarian of Congress, Herbert Put
nam, as head of the department in
which the thousands of musical com
positions that come to the library,
either as a gift, by purchase, or copy
right, are classified and catalogued.
She is said to be the first woman to
hold such a position in the National
Library.
Fmhliloii Notes.
liibbons are used in a great variety
of styles.
The shirtwaist of silk is still much
in vogue.
Heavy chenille fringes finish the
ends of elaborate black neck rallies.
Bronze shoes with square toes are
the latest in dressy street footwear.
Velvet is one of the handsomest
things to combine with organdies and
lawns.
Narrow ties of white gros grain rib
boa two or three inches wide have
pointed ends with laco insertion and
edging.
Largo gauze butterflies in strikiu2
black and white effects are used on
many of the smart new hats as their
sole trimming.
The present sheath shape of skirts
is singularly adapted to plaids, which
are again much in evidence on the
counters of our host retail stores.
The idea of panels has just been
started, and already they are becom
ing exceedingly fashionable, and a
successful future ia predicted foi
them.
The jaunty little silk linod broad
cloth jackets are attractive, and are
particularly adapted for wear with the
separate skirt that continues to be pre
ferred by many.
A velvet turban of the gay automo
bile pink is toned by a discreet use ot
black chenille and jet and paradise
plumes, and is distinctly handsome
without being loud.
Velvet belts and plain stocks of
black velvet have large steel buckles
in frout. No one lias yet learned why
a woman wishes to give hersolf the ap
pearance of being in a harness.
Neckwear must be immaculate and
coucisely arranged, though more lati
tude is allowed as to the material to
be used. Lace and taffeta scarfs arc
no longer considered impossible.
Black flowers are worn a great ileal
by elderly ladies. They are made of
either velvet or gauze, or both. Iris
tulips, marguerites and roses all show
to good effoct in this way. Colored
flowers are mixed with the black of
tentimes.
Among the most serviceable of the
new golf hats are those made of
stitched cloth to match -he golf skirt.
They are modified Alpines in shape
and are trimmed at tho side with a
eUtched bow of ribbon through which
miniature golf sticks in gilt are
thrust.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT,
There is nothing makes a man sus
pect much more than to know little.—
Bacon.
There is a remedy for every wrong
and a satisfaction for every soul. —
Emerson.
There is nothing truly valuable
which can bo purchased without pains
or labor.—Addison.
To communicate oneself is Nature;
to receive a communication as it is
given is culture.—Goethe.
Whatever touches life with upward
tendency is education.—Dr. Arnold
Tompkins, Illinois State University.
Be content with doing with calm,
ness the little which depends upon
yourself, aud let all else be to you as
if it were not. Feuelon.
Friendship which makes the least
noise is very often most useful, ?r
which I should prefer a prudent friend
to a zealous one.— Budgell.
The woman who takes into her heart
her own children may be a very ordi
nary woman, but the woman who takes
into her heart the children of others,
she is one of God's mothers.—George
McDonald.
Consciously and unconsciously each
intelligent beiug makes a choice at
every turn, either fulfilling or outrag
ing the higher law of his nature,either
entering into or refusing fellowship
with God.—John Watson, D. D.
The crown of patience cannot be
received where there has beeu no suf
fering. If thou ret'useth to suffer,
thou refuseth to be crowned; but, if
thou wishest to bo crowned, thou
must fight manfully and suffer pa
tiently. Without labor none can ob
tain rest and without contending there
can bo no conquest.—Thomas a
Kenans.
Did you ever hear of a man who
bad striven all his life faithfully and
singly toward au object and in no
measure obtained it? If a man con
stantly aspires, is he not elevated ? If
a man constantly aspires is he not ele
vated? Did ever a man try heroism,
magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and
find that there was no advantage in
them—that it was u vuiu endeavor?
—H. D. Thoreau.
SEEING HIS NAME IN PRINT.
Unt Hit* Little Itiixc Didn't Kraidt in a
Eulogv, :ih Expected.
"Some people are so crazy to see
their names in print,"said an amateur
cynic the other day, "that they would
be willing to die if they couiil only
read their deuth notices."
"Did you ever actually know of a
case of that kind?" asked an old re
porter to the group.
"I can't say I ever did, "replied the
amateur cynic "
"Well, 1 have," said the reporter.
"Tho star actor in the little affair was
a lumberman,and a pretty well known
lumberman, too. He doesn't live
hereabouts now, and T suppose it
would be safe to tell the story. This
lumberman conceived the idea that he
was a very valuable and popular citi
zen iu the community where lie lived.
Tho hallucination was unshared by
uuy of his follow beings, but it bad
such a firm bold on his mind that on
one occasion, when he was in New
York, he decided to wire home that
he had been found dead, merely to
get a chance to peruse the eulogies he
felt certain would appear ill tho local
papers. He intended, of course, to
telegraph later on that it was all a
mistake.
"Well, he sent the first message,
signing some fictitious name, and
awaited developments. In a couple of
days the local papers came to hand,
and when he read them he nearly had
a tit. Tiie.y had at once adopted the
theory that he died from tho result ot
a big spree, and printed a spicy re
sume of his past career to support the
hypothesis. They also iutimated that
the community could struggle along
very uicely without him. After he
had digested these pleasing tributes
he concluded not to send the other tele
gram, but to return in persou and pay
his respects to the editors. I forgot
now which licked, but the affair was
the talk of the section for months,
and effectually cure I the lumberman
of any hungering lor newspaper noto
riety. By the way, this yarn is letter
true. The incident occurred in
Texas."
I'nrtucupue v*. Spaniard*.
It is the custom of many Americans
to think aud sjje.ik of tho Portuguese
as if they were the same as Spanish.
Ihe two peoples come of the same
stock, it is true,but their resemblance
is only superficial. Tho Portuguese
lacks the diguity of bearing of the
Spaniard; he is of e more sunshiny
disposition, more "good natured,"
we should say. JIo is more indus
trious and more willing to put hi*
pride in his poi'kot. Ee o the Portu
guese are a cleanly, thrifty, law-abid
ing people. Though Portugal and
Spain are neighbors, they are the re
verse of fneuds. The Spaniards af
fect to despise the Portuguese, aud
tho Portuguese do not disxe üb'e their
hatred of the Spaniards, a ha'red born
of remembrances ol' the misrule Portu
gal suffered when dominated by Spain.
—Boston Transcript.
Ah Automobile C itnm:tran.
An arrangeme t is saifi to have been
perfected by menus of which automo
biles may be made to ride on the water.
The floating portion of the apparatus
consists of a catamaran, somewhat
resembling a life-raft, ami on which
the vehicle is placed. The modus op
erandi then consists in throwing oil' a
chain from a sprocket wheel that trans
mits the power to the wheels of the
horseless carriage, aud attaching it to
another sprocket wheel that causes
the propelling shaft between the two
oyliuders to rovolVj at any desired
•peed.