Freeiand Tribune Established 1888. PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY, BY THE TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Limited OrricE: MAI* STREET ABOVE CENTBE. FREELAND, PA. SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 Four Months 50 Two Months 25 The date which the subscription is paid to 1> on the address label of each paper, the ehange 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 u not received. Arrearages must be paid when subscription is discontinued. Male all money orders, checks , etc,,payable to the Tribun? Printing Company, Limited. The "voice of the people" oo tasionally goes wrong when it speaks in French. The Spanish are among the most charitable people on earth. Without a poor tax, Spanish communities of 50,000 self-supporters feed a pauper population of 5000 or more. Six thousand acres of laud opposite St Louis, Mo., that only a few years ago was a marshy body of water called Big Lake was drained and reclaimed, and is now according to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the banner corniield of America, with a productivity of oue huudred bushels to the acre. The automobile will certainly bring .bout great changes among all sorts and conditions of men. The machine is but in its infancy now, it may be called a mere baby in comparison with what invention and progress will make it. In our rural districts it is a great curiosity now, but before rnauy years have passed away a horse in these same districts will be a far greater curiosity than an automobile. Croquet "as moderuly played," to nse the picturesque words of one of its most eminent practitioners, is un doubtedly a game of many and high merits, and just why the very mention of it is sufficient to make the average worldling smile with a contempt not the more kind because it tries to be tolerant is a question not easy to answer. As between golf and croquet, any disinterested observer—that is any observer who, without the help of experience in either, should try to compare them—would almost inevita bly declare that croquet "had more to it" thau golf, gave more opportunity for the display of intelligence and skill, developed more directly the joys ©f battle, and in a dozen other ways was the better game. A remarkable work is being done by a young c-iored man in Chicago, and the recital of it may be an inspiration to others. Monroe F. Clark is his name, and he is a full-blooded negro, 23 years ©id. He went to Chicago from Kentucky in the world's fair year, with no money, but with a fairly good education for one of his meagre opportunities, and with good morals and ambition. He became a newsboy, and his attention to business and his thrift soon enabled him to buy a horse and wagon to nse in bis growing news business. Now he owns and uses eight carts and horses, and has a smart trap in which to drive around. He owns real estate in the city worth some thousands of dollars, and also 160 acres of land in Kentucky. Clark is also a philanthropist in a small way. Three years ago he established a home for his newsboys, now numbering 50, the great majority of them negroes. He couldn't bear, he says, to see the little fellows "going straight to the reformatory and to the penitentiary," so he renovated a rente 1 barn, and provides their board, lodging, and recreation. He is ambitious now to build a good house for his boys. Ho has the money, and is only waiting to secure the right piece of ground. "It eals up a good deal of my profits," he says. "It costs me more to feed and clothe these boys and Heud them to school in winter than it would to hire them and let them shift for them selves. Hut I'm not very hungry for monev—never was." From His Point of View. "I understand that there are some firms that give a young employe a raise of salary when he marries," she said. "It ts a strange fact," replied the cynical bachelor, "that there are men so constituted that they enjoy encour aging other men to get Into trouble." She Knew Whet That Meant. Little Helen —800-hoo! I don't want to take that nasty, bitter stuff. Her Mamma -But how do you know It's nasty and bitter? You haven't tasted It. Little Helen—You said it would be good for me. —Stray Stories. HOW WE LEARN. Great truths are dearly bought. The com mon truth, Such as men give and take from day to day. Comes in the common walk of easy life. Blown by the careless wind, across oux way. Great truths are groatly won, not found by chance. Nor wafted on the breath of summer dream; But grasped in the great struggle of the soul, Bard buffeting with adverso wind and stream. 1 THE IRON OF REMORSE. 1 § <8 Q A Story of the In dian Trail. O <;> 7R W By QWendolerv Overton. w X(V J"\ nEVER is it well to B'ffl A be too sure what 1M you would do un f|\\ der given circum- I \ stances, until you have tried and itiliLlll! 1 { ° u a J out. A | course of action wl "cb y° u know to TvßisSiifflJP>'' 'l7 ' )0 absolutely for- Jr Tv-det-l t e '" u t° every in- Jr Y stinct within you r / J I —when you sit ■ " down to reason about it, after the manner of the age may be the very one you will follow when there is no time for reason. If any one had told Maekworth that un der lire he would be a coward, Mack worth would have knocked the in formant down then and there, and have reflected upon the danger to his commission afterward. Maekworth had been graduated, too, but being a right minded boy, he remembered that it was to Horatius that the molted image was made, and not to the fellow who built the bridge; BO he very properly chose the cavalry, and heaven rewarded him by sending him straight to the frontier. And this was in the days when there was a frontier; when men endured discom forts that they sigh to know again, as none ever sigh for the luxuries of the past; when the Apache and the Chiri cahua wers in the land, and still struggling to be masters of it; and when a woman was truly a blessing of the gods, and might, oven under dis advantages, have her pick of the de partment. But as there is no woman in all this, that is irrelevant. Except after the manner of cadets —which is not to bo taken seriously— Maekworth had not let women enter into his scheme of existence. His ideals were of another sort, just then. He was young and full of belief and things, and he thought that the way to win the approval of the War De partment and the gratitude of his country was to avoid wire pulling, end to kill Indians. Therefore he rejoiced greatly when, after only six weeks of liis thoroughly undesirable garrison, Chatto took the Chiricahuas on the warpath, and he was ordered out in the field. He had had his kit all rolled in a rubber poncho, and his mess-chest pretty well stocked for the whole of the six weeks. He believed that a soldier should be always in readiness. Ho believed so many things then— though, before long the bottom fell out of his universe, and he was filled with an enduring skepticism. And this was how it came about; The first time ho was under fire was when they were caught at rather a disadvantage among the pines in the Mogollons. The fight began about dusk and lasted well into the night. It may have been the result of some bugaboo stories of his babyhood, which had fostered an unconquerable fear of the dark; it may have been some lurk ing instinct, or it may have been just blue funk which overcame him. Any tvay, he hid behind a bowlder,crouched And cowered there, trembling so that his carbine fell from his hands. And Morley, his captain, found him so. "What are you doing?" he de manded. He was an Irishman and a soldier of the old school, but he did not swear. Maekworth knew, from that, how bad it was. He sorambled up and babbled. "Get out of there," the captain said. He would have used a better tone to one of the troop curs. Maekworth fett for his carbine and got out, staggering, but no longer afraid only ashamed—3ickeuingly ashamed—beyond all endurance. He tried hard to get himself killed after thai. He walked up and down in front of his men, giving orders and smoking cigarettes, and doing his best to serve as a target. The captain watched him and began to understand. His frown relaxed. "You'd better get under cover," he suggested; "you are taking needless risks." Mack worth looked at him with wide, blank i eyes, and did not answer. His face was not only white now, it was gray and set, like the face of a corpse. itlorley's heart softened. "It's only a baby, anyway," he said to himself, "and it is unhappy out of all propor tion." And presently he went to him again. "Will you get under cover, Maekworth?" he insisted. "No," said the lieutenant, "I won't." The captain swore now, fierce oaths anil loud. "I order you back under cover, sir." Maekworth glanced at him aud went on smoking. Morley did not fancy his own position, arguing withagreen boy, fully exposed to an invisible enemy. He knew that wasting officers is pretty, but is not war. "I shall order yon to the rear under arrest, cnless you get buck there with the men immediately." Maekworth retired, with a look at his superior for which he should have been conrt-martialed. After that the icont went the way of most scouts, be- But in the day or conflict, fear and grief, ' When the strong hand of God, put forth in might, Plows up the subsoil of the stagnant heart, And briugs the imprisoned truth-seed to the light. Wrung from the troubled spirit, in hard hours Of weakness, solitude, perchance of pain. Truth springs liico harvest from tLe well plowed field, And the soul feels it has not wept in vain. ing a chase of the intangible, up mountain ranges, when you pulled your horse after you; down them, when he slid atop of you; across mal pais and desert, from the level of the mesquite and the greasewood to that of the pine aud the manzauita. Chat to's band was at the north, to the south, to the east and west; but when the troops got to the spot, after forced marching, there was nothing. It weut on for two months; and all the while Mack worth's despondency grew. The weight of years was upon his yet barely squarred shoulders, the troubles of a life-time were writ upon his face. And it was a pitiably young face, despite tho growth of yellow beard. Ho would not be comforted. He was silent and morose. He would not lift up his beautiful baritone in song, be the camp never so dull. Only his enptaiu knew why, of course—and he didn't tell. Neither did he attempt consolation. Ho thought the remorse healthful, and he knew, besides, that in such oases a man has to work out his own conclusions and salvation. This is the way Maekworth eventually tried to work out his. There came one day a runner from the hostiles—a dish-faced, straight locked creature of sinews—who spoko through the White Mountain inter preter of the troops and said that his chief was ready to go back to the res ervation, but that he must go upon his own terms. And the chief stipu lated, moreover that oue white man— one, alone and unguarded—should go to the hostile camp and discuss thoso terms. If a force attempted to come he would retreat with his braves and stay out all winter.; Morley made answer that he had no fear of the chief staying out all winter among the mountains when the agency was so comfortable, but that if he did the white man could stand it as long as could he. Moreover, he said that nono of his soldiers had any intention whatever of walking into a death-trap of the sort. Then Maekworth spoke up. "I have," he said. "Get out," said tho captain, incred ulously. "I mean what I say," said Mack worth, "and I shall consider your per mission to go the greatest and the only favor you can do me. Homething may be effected by it." "Your death, that's all; and a little preliminary torture." Tho lieutenant shruggod his shoul ders. "Shall you let me go?" he in sisted. "Not by along sight." "I wish to go, Captain Morley." Morley considered, and he decided that it might not be wise to refuse. There was 110 knowing just what the set-faeed boy might do. So they par leyed together for a time, then Maek worth mounted his horse and weut. He did not expect to come back, and the officers and men did not expeot to see him again. They watched him go off into the distance of the plain, toward the mountains, following the hostile, who swung on at the long, untiring dog-trot. After four hours they came to the mouth of a narrow canon. The run ner had given no sign or sound, and the fixed look had not gone from Mackworth's face. Well within the canon the hostiles were in camp. They had hobbled their lean little ponies, the squaws were gathering wood, aud the bucks were squatting upon the ground or playiug moute with cards of painted hide, around a cow-skin spread under a cedar tree. Four of them rose and slouched for ward. There was a prolongod scrutiny upon both sides. The chief waited for Maekworth to begin; but the white mau's instincts were good. He beat the sullenly silent redskin at his own game, and in the end the chief spoke. The runner displayed for tho first time his understanding, and interpreted. 1 Maekworth made answer with de cision, offsetting his own terms. The backs scowled, and the chief began to argue. The white man, with the unllinchiiig eyes, would not compro mise. "Tell him," Maekworth said, "that this is my will. If he will not do this, Igo back to the soldiers and we follow you and kill you all, man and woman." The face of the chief grew black, a growl rose from the crowding bucks, and the watching squaws began to chatter in voices sweet as tho tinkle of glass hells. The chief stepped suddenly forward and caught the bridle above the curb shanks. Not so much as an eyelash of the stern, white, young face qnivered, aud the heart of the red man was filled with admiration. One movement of fear would have cost Maekworth his life then; but he was 1 not afraid, not though he knew that torture might await him. He sot , looking coolly down at the lowering, 1 crnel faces. The chief turned and i sp'-ke to the backs, and there was a growl of protest; the squaws joined with a shrill little chorus scream. But the chief fiung away the bridle, with a force which made the horse back. •*He do same you say. He go back to reservation to-day. He say you ukishee quick," said the interpreter. Mackworth turned deliberately and ukisheed, with no show of haste and without a backward look. He reported his success and went to his tent. His lokof stolid wretch edness was unchanged. Morley be gan to be nervous. He went to the tent himself and found the lieutenant writing a letter by lantern-light. It was not a normal opportunity to take for that, so the captain, being fillod with misgivings, trumped up an errand and sent him off on it. Then he looked at the letter. It was to Mack worth's mother. Morley did not read it, but he guessed the whole thing in a Hash. He took up Mackworth's car bine and slid it under the tent-flags iuto the outer darkness. Also he broke the Colt's, which had been thrown down upon the bedding, and put the cartridges in his pocket. Then he replaced it in the holster, and going out picked up the carbine and hid it in the brush. After the camp was all asleep and Morley snoring loudly across the tent, Mackworth groped under his pillow and brought out the revolver. He cocked it aud waited a moment; then he placed the barrel well in his mouth and pulled the trigger ouce—and then again and again. At first call for reveille Morley awoke. Mackworth was already up, aud turning he studied his captain's face with the faintest and most unwill iug of smiles twitching the corners ol his mouth uuder the beard. It was the most natural aud healthy look his face had worn in weeks. <4 Well?" said Morley. ••Well," answered Mackworth, "I should like my carbine and the loads of my Colt's, please." Morley's face broke into a broad grin. "Will you be good if I let you have them?" he asked. "I'll be good," promised the lieu tenant.—San Francisco Argonaut. Short CbittH on Advertising. The local weekly is the best med ium for the local merchant. It is easier to write an "original" advertisement than a good one. Local topics, deftly touched, are likely to gain regular readers for any advertising. The successful advertisers are known more by their method than by the amount they spend. Don't be tedious in your advertis ing talk. Better leave a little to be said to-morrow than to be tiresome to-day. No one person in five thousand reads an advertisement twice. You must impress with the first reading or the effect will be the last. ~ The hardest thing in adwriting is to write a plain, common sense, every day talk. It seems easy to write this kind of an ad., but when one attempts to co it he soon learns how difficult it is. The advertiser must keep the fact in mind that it is very ea3y to fall out of the procession and get lost. Let any man retire to some place aud keep his frieuds in ignorance of his where abouts, and within three months they will have ceased to think of him or speak of him. Advertising is a great deal like eat ing. You can not eat a very large meal and expect to go without eating again tor the next week or ten days; neither can you advertise successfully by using a medium ono issue and then dropping out of sight three or four issues. Advertising is not a "gamble," nor is it a "speculation." There is no more risk in it than in "keeping store," or manufacturing plows or harrows, or clothes, or sending men on the road, or the thousand and one other things that every business man does for the furthering of his bus ness. Advertising ia as recognized a branch of business as the buying or manufacturing of goods. When one neglects it, or mismanages it, he is as the mau who buys injudiciously, or as one who manufactures unsalable wares. Just as the merchant studies his goods aud learus where and how to buy to best advantage, so it is his duty if ho would succeed to learn what advertising means and use printers' ink carefully. How to Walt. Our English proverb says that "Everything comes to him who waits;" but the Freuoh saying reads with ad ditional words, "Everything comes to him who knows how to wait." And according to psychology, which is fast becoming an exact science, thanks to at least one American, Professor Will iam James, of Harvard, this addition is most important. Common-sense should teach us that no matter how much we may desire a thing we will never attain it so long as we are recon ciled to a rocking-chair philosophy of life and continue to sit in resigned ex pectancy. Whenever we sincerely wish to obtain an end we, uncon sciously perhaps, bend our actions to the attainment of that result. In this connection our distinguished com patriot says: "Whatever determines attention determines action." It may bo years before the wish is an ac complished fact, aud we may be mucli occupied with other more pressing matter, nevertheless soouer or later it arrives. A perfectly honest retro spection of one's own life will lie am ple verification of this fact. The way to hasten the coming is to use all spare moments in wisely directing our thoughts and onergy to the louged-Cor object.—Harper's Bazar. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. Pear Meringue. Divide the pears iii halves, remove the cores and stems and steam them until tender; then put them in a bak ing dish, put a little preserved ginger into each pear, add a little lemon juice and sugar, and cover the top with a meringue made of the beaten whites of three eggs and three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar. Bako in a quick oveu until a light brown. Cliocolatn tiingnrlireail. Mix in a large bowl one cupful of mo lasses, half a cupful of sour milk or cream, one teaspoonful of ginger; one of cinnamon, half a teaspoonful of salt. Dissolve one teaspoonful of soda in a teaspoonful of cold water; add this and two tablespoonfuls of melted butter to the mixture. Now stir in two cupfuls of sifted flour, and finally add two ounces of good powdered chocolate and one tablespoonful of butter, melted together. Pour the mixture into three well buttered deep tin plates, and bake in a moderately hot oven for about twenty minutes. Boiling Starch. "More starching is a failure from the starch being half cooked than fror any other cause," said a eapablf housewife who was complimented or the perfection of the starched goodf that came up from her laundry! "< make it a rule to have the starcr boiled steadily an hour beforo it is strained. After this somo of it is thinned to the proper condition for dresses, shirt waists and other pieces that require light starching." Starch that is not boiled enough will stick to the iron. If starch is not strained there will be uneven places in it. It is very little trouble to boil starch. It needs to be stirred a few times after it begins to boil. Stretch a triangular bag across a pail and pour the starch through it. It will nearly all soon drip through, and it requires very little squeezing to press the mainder through. There is always some starch left in the strainer that cannot be used. It saves time to skim off the film that gathers over starch that has been boiled for a considerable length of time. Nut ami Apple Sjilatls. A salad suitable for the season is made of uuts, apples aud celery. Cut the apples in thin slices, shell aud boil the chestnuts fifteen minutes, or until soft; drain, and when cool cut the chestnuts aud celery in slices. Moisten with a part of the dressing and put iu a salad bowl, with the remainder ot' the dressing on top. Garnish with celery tips. The dressing is made by creaming one-fourth of a cupful of but ter, seasoning it with one-half tea spoonful of mustard and one salt spoonful of paprika. Add the beaten yolks of two eggs and one-fourth of a cupful of vinegar, which must be hot. Cook this over boiling water until very thick, stirring often. Whip one half pint of cream and add it to the cold dressing just before serving. A chicken and walnut salad is mude by adding to an ordinary salad a couple of dozen English walnuts which have been parboiled aud skinned. In boil ing the nuts a slice of onion, a sprig of parsley aud a little of the chicken liquor should be added to the water. When the skins have been removed add the nuts to the chicken salad, gar nish with celery and cover with mayon naise dressing. llouftehoM Hints. Breathing the fumes of turpentine or carbolic acid will relieve whooping cough. Greeu cucumber parings strewn around the kitchen and cupboards will put an end to roaches. Rub acetic acid well into a slimy sponge and llien rinse in several lois of warm water and it will be as good as new. Fresh eggs sink when put in water. Bad ones float. Those that are neither real fresh nor thoroughly bad act suspiciously. Bits of silk or woolen cut into strips and sewed together hit or miss, or in solid colors, can be sent to the weav ers to return as portieres or rugs. Mayonnaise made by stirring olivo oil into the beaten yolks of eggs will never "turn" if the oil has been placed on ice for some time before using it. The common moth will not approach red pepper, nor those shiny, silvery pests that frequent damp places, but the more formidable buffalo bug isnct to be affrighted by either. Charcoal is a useful article about the house ami can be used to great sanitary benefit. A piece of it should always be left in the ice-box, and in the pantry, as it will absorb all ob jectionable odors. Keep a little package of absorbent cottou in one of the sideboard drawers. If oil, milk or cream is spilled on a woolen dress or coat a bit of the cot ton instantly applied will remove all traces of the £ tains. If whipped cream is wanted quickly, and no churn or egg beater is at hand, have the cream very cold, put iu a cold glass fruit jar, with an airtight cover. Half fill the jar with the cream, fasten the cover tightly, aud shake the jar vigorously. Camphor, if applied thoroughly, will kill moths iu carpets. The safest way to do is to take % >ut the tacks, turn back and wash the baseboard in strong camphor water. Replace, saturate a towel with the solution, lay on the edge of the carpet and press with a very hot iron. If.a child needs nourishment, one of the simplest forms in which it can bo takeu is by the raw whites of eggs. These ure nutritious aud easily di gested. The white is broken into a jar with what milk is desired and the two shaken thoroughly together. A pinch of salt may be added beforo drinking, if preferred. Inews and notes! I FOR WOMEN. I llrooclien For the Hair. Brooches for holding up the strag gling hairs at the back are growing more and more elaborate. A pretty one for evening wear is a five-petal flower form of opals surrounded by diamonds meeting in the centre, with one diamond of larger size. A tiny stem and bud, diamond iucrusted, adds to tho suggestion of flower form. Queen Victoria's Usual Carl). The Queen is simply attired in a black dress, not always of silk, and wears a widow's cap with small lap pets at tho back, her silver hair plain ly brushed on either side her temples. Upon her fingers are plain memorial rings, and she invaribly wears a brace let having the portrait of her latest grandchild or great-graudclild placed in it as a medalion. Tho Queen al ways ha 9 a handkerchief bordered with lace resting in her hands as they lie folded in her lap, the survival of an ancient fashion. Honor to French Woman. In the list of the Chancellerie of the Legion of Honor appears the name of Juliette Dodu, the only woman who has been awarded the Cross of the Legion in addition to the military medal. In 1870 Juliette Dodu was a telegraphic clerk at Pithiviers and on the Gerinaus taking possession of that place during the Franco-German war a message was given to her to send to Prince Charles Frederick. Realizing that this meant disaster to a portion of tho French Army, she tore up the message instead of sending it, and for this act was condemned to be shot. However, when the Princo arrived, she was released and complimented on her courage, for her daring act had saved a whole French Army Corps. For Wet Weather Wear, Dark blue and gray will be popular for mackintoshes, but drab is about the smartest color, after all. Perhaps this color is a trifle loud, but Fashion says it is all right, aud that, to most most people's minds, settles the af fair absolutely, tbougli one must say that personal appearance and good taste should have at least equal weight with being up to the latest mode. This sac will never be improved upon for this garment. It is a good idea to have epaulettes on the shoulders, aud a cape collar, from which the water runs off easily, but if the sae hangs out in a pleat at the back, it accom plishes this. Walking in the rain with the wet trickling off one's mack intosh and getting into one's boots, to say nothing of spoiling one's shirt, is an exceedingly tiresome process. "Mother." One of the first words that a baby says is mamma, or mother, aud it is not strange, therefore, to find it one of the first aud simplest words in every lauguage. There is no word easier for a child to say than "ma," uulees it be "pa." In Hebrew aud Arabic mother is "em" and "am;" it is "mam" in Welsh and "moder" in Anglo-Saxon. In other languages it is slightly differont, but near enough like our own word "mother" to make it an almost universal word, BO that a child crying in any lauguage could be understood iu almost any other lau guage. Here are a few of the names: Madr in Persian; Matr in Sanscrit; Meter in Greek; Mater in Latin; Mad re in Spanish; Mere in French; Moder in Swedish; Moder in Danish; Moder iu Dutch; Mutter in Geriuau; Mate in Russian; Mathair in Celtic. llow to DroftN Your llttlr. All the latest hair-dressing shows that the Pompadour is to ho the fash ion for Ihe winder season. To arrange the hair after this style, divide the front part into three pieces, combing the hair forward", aud then turn it back to the crown of the head. The hair should be slightly waved. For the new hats, aud also for every day occasions, have the huir coiled high on the head iu a figure eight, with the top raised to be like a loop. The front in Pompadour, aud at the back of the coil or twist put in a Pom padour comb to keep the twist above the crown of the head. This style of hair-dressing is suitable for womou of from twenty to forty-five years of age. Elderly women generally wear their hair nigh on the head, hut below the crown. The front is parted and ar ranged in soft waves that are drawn down over the forehead, giving a more softened look. For young girls there are two styles of hair-dressing. One way is to part the hair in front, to mil it at the sides, aud to arrange it low in the neck at the back. This is particularly pretty for curly hair, as the kuot at the back of the neck is very becoming. Young girls also wear their hair iu Pompadour with a bow on the top of the head, the euds braided aud turned up, and tied at the nape of the ueok with another bow of ribbon. Some times the very eud of tho braid is put up back and fastened under the bow ou the top of the head. All these methods of dressing the hair are the host stylos for the coming season.— Harper's Bazar. Women us Practical Opticians. Despite its apparent fitness as a pro fession for woman, who is credited with quick perception, dexterity aud gentle touch—attributes necessary to Miccess iu this particular caliing—op tics is practically shunned by her. In the entire State of New York there are but <\vo women opticians, aud New York \3ity does uot boast one. The maxim sn number uf women opticiaus j in the United States does not exceed thirty. "One of the reasons why women do not appear to succeed is because they seem unable to master the mathema tics pertaining to optics," said an au thority upon the subject, who trains many pupils for tho business. "In five years J have had but eight women students, and although all took a full course, only two have become success ful. The opportunities for entering the profession are limited, as there is no college or medical school where optics is taught. One can get the training and knowledge only from the customers themselves. It is necessary to follow up quickly an idea conveyed in a patient's remark until clear de ductions are made. It is proverbially true that woman's perception and in tuitions are quicker than men's, and there is no'reason why a quick, intel ligent woman of a mathematical turn of mind cannot succeed as an optician. "There is ono woman in Charleston, South Carolina, who has had extraor dinary success as an optician. She studied here in New York under me. I am told by wholesale dealers in glasses that her orders are the heavi est of any individual optician doing business with them from the same town. "Ninety-eight per cent, of all eye troubles are due to refractive errors and not to disease, and, by the way, half of the few cases where tho trouble is posterior, are incurable. So, you see, the optician's work is distinct from the oculist's, and the traiuing re quired ia almosli entirely to be had in active business. With a certain nat ural aptitude I see no good reason why women cannot succeed as opti cians. The business is certainly profit able and attractive."—New York Com mercial Advertiser. Feminine Chit Clint. A Louisiana woman supports her self by raising mint. Women are not permitted to be photographed in China. Of the 4000 employes of the In terior Department at Washington 1000 are women. The wife of tho fourth Emperor of China invented silk weaving aud was worshiped in consequence. There are fifty-six deaconess insti tutions in the world, comprising over 800 deaconesses and probationers. There are in Washington probably 3000 feminine employes in tho depart ments, drawn from all parts of the laud. The landladies of Ann Harbor, Mich., and the girl studeuts are mak ing a tight against the tobacco smoke of the college boys. A woman in Bradford, England, has invented a marvelous machine for the removal of wool from skins with the aid of electricity. * Tho clerk of the Supreme Court ol South Dakota is Miss Jessie Fuller. North Dakota is one of the North -western States in which women have no votes. Mrs. Ellen S. Mussey, who has ob tained a high reputation as a practic ing lawyer at Washington, is conduct ing the Washington College of Law, principally for women students. A Non-Sentimental Club, with the motto "Woman should not wear her heart on her sleeve," has been organ ized in Denver, Col. Its originator is Mrs, Cowles, formerly Superin tendent of Public Instruction. Lady Londonderry who is con sidered one of the" most beautiful women in England, prefers pearls to all other gems, and seldom wears any thing else except diamonds, and these are almost always combined with pearls. In the old Swedish university town of Upsala a special institution has been opened for educating young women AS household help, lessons being given in cooking aud other domestic labor, as well as nursing aud sanitary science. Lady Roberts-Austen, the wife of Sir William Roberts-Austen, chemist and assayer at tho Royal British Miut, has been appointed Chairman of the Wonersh Parish Couucil for the ensuing year. This is said to be the first time a woman has been elected to a similar position in England. (■leanings From the Shops. Wired satin ribbon bows for the hair in all colors with aud without aigrettes. Many Spanish turbans having the brims overlaid with glittering pail lettes. Many styles of bodice garnitures embellished with heavy appliques of silver spangles. White cashmere habit skirts show ing many rows of machine stitching above the hem. Many large girdles showing jet and steel headings, paillettes and vuriously colored jewels for winter wear. Entire gowns of plaited tissue ma terials in the brightest shades of red trimmed with black velvet and cream Jace. Felt golf hats with gracefully curved brim and tarn o'shanter crowu surmounted by whole birds, quills or wiugs. Many novelties in quaint fichus having extremely long ends tastefully trimmed with application of lace or plaitings. Mauy corded taffetas with rows of hemstitching or other open effects variously arranged for waists aud en tire gowns. Guiiupe styles in dresses for young girls fashioned from the finest nain sook or organdie aud elaborately trimmed with lace or embroidery. Many velvet, satin and silk stock collars fashioned with points either at the side or in the back trimmed with rich real lace in white or cream.—Dry Gooffs Economist.
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