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When you are thinking of making a
short cut to success remember that
there are very few guide-posts off the
beaten track.
It is an ill wind that blows uobody
good, and the Czar'u drastic policy in
Finland may send us a very industri
ous and desirable class of immigrants,
Tho wealth of the United States is
estimated at one hundred billions of
dollars, and yet there are hundreds of
thousands of people in the United
States who to-day are hungry and cold
and l'Aggod and hopeless.
The St. Louis Bepublic says: "Tf
Admiral Lord Beresford is correct 111
his assertion that tho British navy is
as rottenly directed as the British
army, then indeed does England need
all the alliances she can lay her hands
on."
One often hears of queer trades, but
perhaps the queerest is one which is
controlled iu this country by one
man. This is the manufacture of
shuttle eyes. These are made of
porcelain and require to be very care
fully made. The solitary manufac
turer has acquired his trade wholly by
the care with which his product is
turned out and the perfect uniformity
of his goods, as n result of which |
every shuttle eye tits the hole into
which its predecessor was inserted.
The division of statistics of tho
United States Department of Agricul- j
ture has undertaken the publication
for wide distribution of lists of free
employment offices and other institu
tions to which farmers may apply
when m need of farm laborers. The
co operation of many charity organiza
tion societies, settlements, colleges,
etc., has been secured, and it is hoped
thus to facilitate communications be
tween the farmers who want help and
those who are in need of work for the
summer mouths or for the entire year.
The Swiss have 110 standing army,
but the whole population, from twenty
to fifty, is enrolled in three classes of
the militia—the first and youngest
for thorough training as recruits; tho
next for ordinary military service and
the last for use in an extremity. The
service is .-Jiort, but the drill is thor
ough, and rifle practice is encouraged
in all citizens by Government sub
vention of private clubs. There is a
permanent general stall aud officers
are taught in military schools and ap
pointed and promoted by severe tests.
The State provides arms and equip
ment in all services, which are ample
for any emergency, and of the most
modern type.
Tlie State of California, now per
haps the closest of the larger States of
the country, lias seven Representa
tives in the Fifty-six tli Congress, but,
notwithstanding tho evenuess of the
division between the two parties, six
of these Congressmen are Republi
cans aud only one is a Democrat. In the
Presidential election of 189G the con
test between the two parties was so
close that the electors were divided,
McKinley receiving eight votes and
Bryan one. In the Presidential elec
tion of 1892 the Republican plurality
was less than 150 votes, and so close
was the State that Cleveland received
eight of the electors and Harrison one.
California divided its electors in 1880
also, when the Democratic plurality
was only 100 votes.
Drunkeness Increasng in Franci.
Drunkenness is said to be increasing
in France. J)r. Jaequet, who lias care
fully examined into tlie matter, made
a round of the Paris hospitals and found
that out of 4.744 cases personally in
vestigated by him 1.405. or more than
20 per cent, were persons given to ex
cessive drinking and whose illness when
not the immediate result of alcoholism
had been aggravated by the abuse of
liquor. Among the more serious cases
he found the percentage of inebriates
to be 46. One of the difficulties in in
vestigating the question was that the
patients, and especially the women, en
deavored to conceal their excesses.
Between Madagascar and the coast
of India there are about 16,000 islands,
only 600 of which are inhabited, but
most of which are capable of supporting
a population.
WHEN DAYS ARE CHILL' AND DAYS ARE FAIR^
When the wild wind ripped
Like a jnaddeiied thing.
And his ers wore nipped
By the lleree frost king:
When the deep pipes froze
And clear drops'dripped
From his glowing nose;
When the slow wheels creaked
And the panes wore streaked
By the etcher who
Is never seen,
Ho longed for the days when the skies are
blue
Anil the fields nro green;
•'Oh. for the glad, warm da vs." he cried,
"When the loosened streams may How,
For a summer day is worth," ho sighed,
"More than all the mouths of snow!
And if this keeps on," lie shivering said,
"I fear the fruit'U bo frozen dead!"
* Sacred gen. Whale of the [Trass. §
3 3
<b BY JAMES COOPER WHEELER. <f>
♦\/ *\ A\ A\/*\ y*\
r—p SHALL always
claim that a better
A man than Porta
guese John never
slapped the deck of
It a „■whaler with his
\immltomltohw r ' oot * °f ma ~
line New Bedford
—which was flerce-
ly skeptical of Dago
virtue, freely allowed that John was
j tho exception which proves the rule.
Therefore 110 one was surprised when
old Hank Timrod, master of the Java,
signed him as fourth mate. As this
officer acts as captain's boatsteerer
when tho "old man" lowers, and
Leads the starboard boat when he
does not, it goes without saving that
he must be good timber through and
through.
It was not common, on an American
whale ship, for a Portuguese to berth
nit, but before the Java had crossed
the western ocean 011 her way to the
southern whaling grounds John was '
accepted by Collin, Holder and Bige
low, the mates, as an all-around good '
fellow, and as capable a seaman as
over sniffed brine. His wlialeinau
ship was an unknown quantity, for
none had sailed shipmates with him
before. But they took it for granted,
and grew foud of the grave, undemon
strative man who never courted, but
always welcomed their rough fellow
ship.
Una day, in the South Atlantic, a
"lone" bull whale was raised from the
mainmast head. It was breaching a
long distance to windward, and it
took the bluff-bowed Java three hours
to beat up to where the lonely mon
arch could bo seen from the deck.
Bigelow, the third mate, was in the
slings at the main-royal yard with his j
glasses. He scanned the whale long
and closely, while it lay spouting
without thought of enemies. Sud
denly he sent his voice to the deck:
"I never soon a sperm bull like this
'ere, Cap'n Timrod. He's queer an'
no mistake!"
The "old man," pacing his quarter
like a penned animal, paused in his
swift stride and looked inquiringly
aloft: "What do you make of him,
sir?"
"J'm blowed if he's a Protestant!"
answered Bigelow with a brief
chuckle. "He's marked with a cross
on his head."
Portuguese John, who stood by the
starboard boat near the master, gave
a sudden start as the whale was de
scribed, and was about to speak, but
restrained himself, and Bigelow con
tinued :
"Seems like the cross was painted
on with white lead. Tho long streak
goes from tho nose to the hump, an'
tho cross bar reaches clear athwart bis
head."
(The body of tho sperm wlmle is covered
with what may ho described as a black pig
ment. It is slightly thicker than a coat of
paint, and may be readily scratched oil
bringing to view n dull white skin which
covers the blubber. It seems possible that
Bacrod Ben may have carelessly scratched
his head 011 tho rocks at tho bottom oT the
sea In the regions whore lie is supposed to
chnso tho giant squid. In that way the re
ligious symbol which so astonished Mr.
Bigelow may have been produced.
J. C. W.)
Captain Timrod happened to glauco
at his fourth mate, and to his surprise
John's Rwarthy face had turned that
livid yellow which takes tho place of
emotional paleness in the Latin races.
"What is it, John?" he asked, in
surprise.
! TheJPortuguese's voico was husky,
and ho shiverod as he answered, point
ing in tho direction of tho bull: "Sac
red Ben, sir! The Whale of the
) Cross!"
j "Hey!" exclaimod tho "old man"
with uu expression of deep interest,
j "I've heard of him before. He's got
| a bad record!"
Portuguese Johu moved nearer, and
: laid his unsteady hand on the master's
i arm. "Captain," lie said in a strained
whisper, "that whale means death,
j He kill my broth', three year ago, in
; the Indian Ocean. And many more!
i Ho stove three boats of the Mary, an'
I get awav with four 'irons' and nil the
lines. That time I know for I was
, there. My brotli', Anton, lie steer
Misser Brown, the mate; an' all that
1 boat crew Sacred Bon kill. An' many
[ more! I hear of him in othair ships.
He always kill, an' always get away."
j "I heard of the Mary losiug her
boats. J was in the Okhotsk that
year," answered Timrod. "Well,
what of it, John?"
"Captain, for Christ his sake, do
not lower after tlie Whale of the
Cross!"
The sailor in Ilauk Trimrod quaked
because of the superstition begot by
the sea, but after a moment the tougb
Yankee spirit of the New England
whale-hunter surged up in his breast.
"Sacred Ben will try out like any
other whale, I reckon!" he grimly
muttered.
The glad sun smiled
On all below;
The iVinds so wild
A week ago
Blow gently from the south and sent
The frost king skulling penitent;
The picture melted from the pane,
And birds came singing from somewhere;
A verdant tinge spread o'er the plain.
And ail the scene was fair,
But ho who had condemned the blast
Was still unsatisfied,
And many a hopeless look he cast
Across the fields and sighed:
"The sun is warm and bright.
But, oh. It Isn't right
That fields are green to-day
Ami birds are 011 the wing!
Alas, we'll liuve to pay
For all this in the spring!"
—S. E. Klser.
John made the sign of his faith. He
saw tho skipper's jaw set, and knew
the breed. With the instinctive ges
ture 110 resigned his welfare to the
care of his patron saint, and braced
himself to do his duty—whatever
might befall. The "old man" took
the glasses from tho compauion-way
rack and climbed the weather main
rigging to a height where he could see
tho bull plainly.
"The Whale of the Cross, right
enough!" he murmured when he had
adjusted his focus. " I'll give him a
whirl, for luck!" Then he snapped
his glasses together, and roared:
"Stand by to lower away!"
The masthead lookouts seemed to
drop to the deck. The crew, on hot
foot since Bigelow's first call from
aloft, ranged themselves at their sta
tions.
"Lower away, all!"
The falls creaked; 111 a twinkle all
four bouts touched the water, and the
men wore 011 their thwarts. Timrod,
with the smartest crew, was the first
away from the side. " 'Vast pulling!"
commanded he. "Peak oars! Step
tho mast! Shako that sail loose! throat
and peak halyards hoist!"
Almost as ho spoke the well-trained
men had the mast secured, the sheet
passed aft, and the sail took the
wind.
"Drop ypur centreboard. Let her
go!" he said to the midship oarsman.
1). . u it went and held the boat up to
tli /ind, as tho "old man" laid her
head straight for Sacred Ben. "Pali
all!" The men lay back 011 their oars
again, and the foam curled from the
cutwater.
Captain Timrod—the only] man in
tho boat with his face to the whale—
looked out ahead with mischief iu his
gray eye. His blood was afire with
the chase. The Whale of the Cross,
doughty old sea warrior as ho was,
had an antagonist who would tax his
art and test his fighting quality. A
mile—two miles—were passed, and
the black bulk lay a quarter-mile
distant, looming like a bare rock iu
midoceau. His great hump was six feet
above the sea. At times he spouted,
sending a jet of steam thirty feet in
the air, and anon in the wantonness
of might he thrust his huge body hulf
above water with a writhe of his mus
cles, and falling back, splintered the
brine iuto foam a hundred yards
around.
Nearer came the boat. Portuguese
Johu, watching Tiinrod's eye, saw it
glow; but 110 never turned his head,
though he knew that Sacred Ben was
close behind. Then the captain
spoke again as he threw the boat's
nose in the wind—this time in a
strained whisper that shivered along
the men's nerves like an electric cur
rent:
"Take iu the sail—cleverly! Down
with the mast. 80! Stand up, Johu!
Pull hard!"
He accompanied the last order with
n swing 011 his steering oar, and by
the time Portuguese Johu had knee in
clumsy cleat and hand 011 his "iron"
lie was facing the Whale of the Cross
not ten feet abaft his liu. John, the
Dago, was grit clear through, aud if
Timrod remembered his shakiug baud
when the whale was first sighted, he
knew now that the fourth mate would
send his harpoon home with as brave
heart as beat under liis own Yankee
ribs.
"Give it to him!" Tho old wau
spoke iu a tierce whisper. The hearts
of the men leaped, and they gripped
oars in arrested stroke with fingers of
steel that almost dented the ash.
John's "iron" went above his head
like lightning, and, with a swish its
barbed point sung through the air
and stabbed deep into the side of
Sacred Beu.
Like report of gun after touch on
trigger he responded. A hundred
tons sprang into activity us lightly as
a wildcat meets its foe. "Stain all!"
roared Timrod, "for your lives starn
all!" With their very souls in tho
straiu the crew pushed on their oars.
A maelstrom of blinding foam encom
passed the boat. Whirlpools of angry
water spurted vicious gushes over its
side, and a deafening rush as though
of Niagara was in Portuguese John's
ears, while the boat, reeled aud
danced beneath his feet. But the
latent tiger at the bottom of his heart
! was aroused, and he did not give back
| air inch. Wiping the spume from his
face with his left hand, with tho right
lie sought and grasped the "second
iron."
Timrod, at tho stern, had for a 1110-
1 incut a clearer view than his boat
j steerer, and now he cried: "Bee, he's
! milling!"
So it was. The bull bad settled in
the water at the prick of the steel,
land with two strokes of his Jius, and
a lash of his Hakes (which had caused
the vortex) he was milling (turning)
liis hulk us though on a pivot, with
the effect of briugiug his tail under
neath the whale boat. Timrod was
too old a blubber hunter not to" know
what that meant. An upward stroke
of that tremendous engine of destruc
tion would send boat and crew fifty
feet in the air as though thrown altJffc
by an exploding mine. Ho gave a
great heave on his long steering oar,
and the boat whirled about. John
stood, harpoon uplifted. His eyes,
searching the whirling eddies in front,
saw the flukes of the Whale of the
Cross, curved like a bow, ascending
from the depths.
The next instant Timrod bent to his
blade again, and the boat again swung
from the rising death. The captain
did his best, but even as the bow
turned the great tail camo from the
sea, smoothly, silently, as though
driven by some irresistible mechanical
| force. Johc gazed at the black horror
in momentary paralysis, his "iron"
poised for the dart. Its point was
caught by the corner of the fluke, and
flipped as a hoy jerks his knife in
mumble peg. The harpoon turned on
its axis—and John was impaled upon
it. In continuance of the motion the
flukes rose high in the air, and then
sunk from sight. Sacred Hen had
sounded, and the lino hissed over
Portuguese John's postrate body
through the chocks iu the bow.
There is no time for horror in a
whaleboat. All is action. The meu,
scarcely realizing the tragedy, but
knowing the whale to be fast, peaked
their oars. Tiiurod reached for the
liue, and tossed two flakes from the
tub to give play that he might bring
it over the snubbing post in the stern
sheets. It coiled through his hands like
a hissing serpent, and in the very act
of accomplishing his purpose a flake
leaped iuto the air, and opening like
the loop of a cowboy's lasso, dropped
over his shoulders. It seemed for a
second that nothing could save him
from being cut it two. But the boat
oarsman happened—by the Almighty's
favor—to see the fatal loop as it
sprang in tho air. In a heart-beat
his sheathkniie flashed, and the lino
was severed before it hud time to uip,
or become faut on the "second iron."
"The old man" cast the loosened
coil from his body and settled back
in the stern sheets. "Jonas," lie
said to the bow oarsman, "I guess
yen saved my bacon. But now look
to John. I'm afraid this blamed old
Whale of the Cross has fixed him."
Jonas reached to where tho body
of the fourth mate lay ou the thwart,
aud turned his face to the sky. Ou
examinution it was found that the har
poon he had turned against Sacred
Ben had cloven his own heart iu
twain. —New York Independent.
Typhoid Fever in South Africa.
Professor Sambon, writing in the
Journal of Tropical Medicine, says:
"Typhoid fever is the most prevalent
and fatal disease in South Africa. In
the Galeaka Gaika war it was stated
by tho principal medical officer to
have been undoubtedly tho most ser
ious disease during the war. In the
Zulu war of 1878 typhoid appeared at
the headquarters at Helpmukaar aud
at Borke's Drift in the middle of Feb
ruary, accompanied by diurrluca aud
dysentery. Helpmakuur became so
uuhcalthful that it had to be evacuated.
The troops were moved to Utrecht
and Dundee, but tho fever immedia
tely broke out at both theso places.
"I do not contend in the least that
water may not bo a vehicle, and pos
sibly the principal vehicle, of typhoid
infection, but there are many out
breaks that cannot receive so comfort
able an explanation. Some of theiu
are strikingly limited and their limita
tion is rarely in accordance with the
distribution of tho water supply sup
posed to be polluted.
"Dr. James Alleu, of Pietermaritz
burg, from his observations in South
Africa, came to the conclusion that
typhoid fever depended chielly upon
infected cattle. Ho describes a specific
enteritis occurring in calves, subject
to relapses and very contagious, and
liolds that the excrements of animals
affected with this distemper, 011 gain
ing access iu any way iuto the liumau
body, will give rise to typhoid fever.
Ho holds that typhoid fever thus
arose iu a great measure among the
British troops in the Zulu war."—
Medical Record.
Freak* of Tcmiiernture.
On one day recently tbe thermome
ter registered thirty degrees in New
Orleans, or two degrees below freezing,
while at the same time iu points in
Dakota it registered forty-four de
grees. As the difference in latitude is
something liko seventeen or eighteen
degrees, the differeuoo in temperature
upon the day in question is almost
startling. But to show that it is not
exceptional, n gentleman to whose at
tention the matter was called told of a
summer experience he had some years
ago, when he was iu Quebec, about
the middle of July. At that time tho
thermometer was iu the nineties dur
ing a certain day aud in the seventies
at New Orleans. Bo the oddities are
not contiued to any season nor to any
year. —Cincinnati Commercial-Tri
bune.
How Tliey Cntclk Smelt.,
Residents of Surry are happy as
well us busy now, for the head of the
, river is frozen and the smelting busi
ness began Saturday. The news
: spread about that suielts had appeared
; iu the bay, aud those who were in
readiness made quite a catch and sev
eral shipments were made. Others
employed themselves in getting their
tents on tho ice, and Monday some
sixty-live touts were located aud one
of the largest catchos iu the history of
1 smelting in Surry was made, more
I than two tous being taken. Tho aver
age quantity wits from seventy-live to
! eighty pounds to a niau. Tho smelts
aro shipped to Boston aud New York
via stage to Ellsworth, aud sell for
from live to Ufteou ocnts a pouud.—
Bangor (Me.) Whig aud Courier.
sKJKN , o(ete!CfSiKNote:oi©iet=j,'9jteK3t*
1 NEWS AND NOTES 1
| FOR WOMEN. |
Filiform* Mtiilc by Women.
The army clothing stores in Pim
lico, Loudon, have presented a scene
of unusual activity Binco the beginning
of the war in South Africa. From
8.30 iu the morning until about (!
o'clock in the evening nearly sixteen
hundred women and yonng girls
stitch away at tho "khaki" from which
the soldiers' uniforms are luado, each
soldier receiving one outfit of dark
colored serge and another of the
"khaki."
The latter material is a kind of dried
cotton, dyed to the regulation color.
The uuiforms completed at the army
clothing stores are turned out at the
rate of about twelve huudred each
week, aud are cut by machinery.
Once cut the material passes through
the hands of three workers, and is
completed in short order. Contractors
in Ireland are also turning out uui
forms witli great rapidity.
The Finishing of Skirt*.
Velveteen continues to be regarded
as the most wear-resisting skirt
biudiug, but there is sufficient variety
in tho aecepted methods of applying
it to warrant a word of doscriptiou.
The simplest plan is to lino a bias
Btrip of velveteen (two and three
quarter inches wide) with still' criuo
line; apply to skirt from tho right
side, turn ovor aud tack smoothly to
the lining, employing the horring
bone or feather stitch. Where tho j
garineut is of cloth a turned-up uu- j
lined hem is all that is required, and
the regulation width of such a finish I
is two inches. Turned-in liems are
not approved of becauso of their '
bulkiness, but where there is a pos
sibility of the material raveling, its
edge may be hound with lute-string.
The novelty of the moment consists
iu the inlet cable-cord bindiug. This
is done as follows: Select a heavy
oable-cord aud baste it into a bias
casing of silk, velveteen, or corduroy,
the exact shade of the material of the
skirt. Now stitch the cable-casing to
tho outside of the skirt, turn over,
and hem the facing closely down to
meet tho cord. Where desired a row
of machine-stitching may bo placed as
close to tho cable as possible, thus
securing tho cord still more firmly in
place. The process is that known to
needle-women as "cording." Tins is
an exceedingly useful method of skirt
binding, especially when applied to
the renovation of gowns, since it
counteracts the tendency to a shorten
ing of the skirt usually observed after
the garment has been rebound.—
Harper's Bazar.
Site Seat First Telegram.
Mrs. Roswell Smith, seventy-three
years old, widow of the founder of the
Oeutury Company, died at her home
iu New York City a few days ago. It
was Mrs. Roswell Smith who. as Miss
Anuio Ellsworrb, then a young girl of
seventeen, sent the famous first tele
graphic message. "What God hath
wrought!" Her father, Henry L.
Ellsworth, a son of Chief Justice Oliver
Ellsworth, was tho first commissioner
of patents aud has been called "the
father of the patent office." He had
been a college friend of Professor S.
R. Morse. Together they had en
deavored to induce Congress to pass
a bill grautiug SBO,OOO for tho con
struction of a trial line betweeu Wash
ington and Haltimore. Morse had
been seeking the help of Congress
since 1888, but it was not until the
last hours of the.session of 1842-8 that
tho bill was passed by the close vote of
80to 88, aud 4 then went to the Senate.
At twilight ou the iast evening of the
session there were 170 bills ahead of
it, and, as it seemed impossible that
his meusure would bo reached, Pro
fessor Morse, disheartened, weut to
his hotel aud prepared to return to
New York City by an early morning
train. His friend, the commissioner
ofjpateuts,'kept doggedly working for
the bill, aud at five minutes before
adjournment it was passed, only oue
measure going through after it.
It was Miss Ellsworth who carried
Ihe news of the passage of the bill to
Professor Morse the next morning.
;It was then that he assured her that
j ahe should send the first message, and
a little mere than a year aftar, ut her
i mother's suggestion, Miss Ellsworth
wrote down the words of the Psalmist,
i "What God hath wrought," and they
[ were sent in triplicate in the dot and
line alphabet from Washington to Bal
timore. The original message was
| given to Miss Ellsworthaudliasalways
been iu her keeping. The duplicate,
svhieh was returned from Baltimore to
| Washington, is iu the Connecticut
historical rooms at Hartford.
<iuen and Woman Both.
I Queen Victoria is a very old lady.
hut she does not neglect those oour*,
! tesies that have caused her all her life
to be loved by those that know her.
Old servants may grow very old in
their attendance upon her before she
thinks them sufficiently aged to be set
aside for younger attendants.
Eighty-two is a good ripe age for a
housekeeper, hut Miss Thornton, who
has been the Queen's housekeeper for
more than forty years, would not have
felt called upon for so small a cause to
resign her position. Unfortunately
she grew deaf—too deaf to hear the
orders that were given. "I could not
ray H beg your pardon' to Her Ma- j
jesty and ask for an order to be re
peated," she herself said, in speaking
of her reason for resigning.
How much real care the Queen has 1
for this old servant was shown by her j
thoughtfulnesH at the time of the last
jubilee. In the midst of all tho con-1
fusion and excitement she did not for- j
get to order that tickets should be i
furnished to Miss Thornton, admit
ting herself and a friend to a private .
room iu the palace, a room wheie there !
was a window in full view cf the jubi
lee pageant.
Here the two old ladies could sit
and watch without fatigue the depar
ture of the Queen" and her gorgeous
escort, aud her triumphal return after
her progress through the city. By the
Queen's special order refreshments
were served to the housekeeper aud
her friend, aud they were treated a9
honored guests.
Others besides Miss Thornton have
found, when they came in contact with
the Queen of England, that she is u
woman possessed ef that kindly tact
and consideration for others that
makes them see in her the woman as
well as the Queen.
The late Mrs. Keeley used to tell
with pleasure of the time when she
had the honor of being received by
Her Majesty. On beiug presented she
excused herself from making a low
courtesy by sayiug:
"Your Majesty, I have rheumatism
in my knees and [ eanuot courtesy.,"
"Mrs. Keeley," replied the Queen,
"I can't either."
Women Here und There.
One of the best bands in New Or
leans, La., is composed entirely of
women.
At the Minneapolis College of Agri
culture fifty girls are studying scien
tific farming.
Mrs. Philip D. Armour, Jr.. collects
I plates, aud owns more than two thou
sand exquisite ones.
! Miss Helen Gould has contributed
the Berriau collection of works 011
Mormonism to the New York Public
Library.
Louise Froebel, widow of Friedrich
Froebel, founder of the kindergarten
system, died in Hamburg at the ago
of eighty-five.
Three new assistants have begun
their duties at the Central Library of
Syracuse, N". Y. With their coming
the staff of women workers is increased
to ten.
Prussia has decided to try the ex
periment of employing women as fac
tory inspectors. A largo number have
just been appointed at a salary of $570
a year.
The women of Japau are gradually
effecting entrance into industrial life.
A considerable number have been re
cently engaged in banks and in tele
phone and railway service.
Mrs. C. E. Haskell's gifts to Ober
liu College now amount to $77,000.
This includes a lectureship endow
ment of $22,000, which will enable the
college to bring thither famous spec
ialists every year.
Women as train porters are an in
novation that is fast becoming popu
lar. The wouiau who wishes her
shoes laeed, her dress fastened, etc.,
is wondering how she managed to
travel before without such aid.
Mrs. Mary Bryan Cobb, great-grand
mother of William Jennings Bryan, is
living near Ivokouio, Indiaua, at the
ago of ninety-eight. Her first hus
band, Louis H. Bryan, was a soldier
in the war of 1812 and in the Mexican
war.
Mrs. Agassiz has resigned the pres
idency of the Kadcliffe College—some
times called the Harvard Annex—an
office which she had held since the
beginning of the institution, her health
no longer permitting her to perform
its duties.
The only woman oil operator in tho
country is Miss Jane Stone,who owns
180 acres in Texas which have pro
duced oil. Miss Stone superintends
the drilling of her own wells, and has
a thorough knowledge of tho way to
run an oil plant.
Another real daughter of the Kevo
lution has joined the D. A. 11. She
is Mrs. llaehel M. Fernald, of Kittevy,
Me. She wa born in East Eliot, Me.,
in 1812. She is the twelfth child of
Eliot Frost, who was a private in the
continental army.
The Woman's Home Companion
points out the fact that women are
doing pioueer service in the develop
ment of the automobile, their famil
iarity with the bicycle giviug them
confidence. A marked improvement
in design aud simplicity of mechan
ism is due to the interest of women in
the motor carriages. There are twelve
women in Chicago who run their own
vehicles, and twice as many in New
York City.
Gleuiii£4 From the Shop*.
Children's cambric dresses finished
with cluster tuckiugs aud embroidered
yokes.
Double-breasted fur jackets fast
ened with extremely large jeweled
buttons.
Boys' blouse and vestee suits made
of serge or cheviot tastefully trimmed
with braid.
Many new ideas in boa, muff, lorg
nette und neck chains in gilt, silver
and enamel.
StocK collars of various colors with
broad black ends to be worn with tlau
nel shirt waists.
Dotted Swiss shirt waists trimmed
with Valenciennes lace fashioned with
handkerchief frouts.
White aud delicately tinted batislo
corsets showing silk embroideringsi in
contrast aud lace trimmings.
Big reductions in staple aud novel
ty laces, alio vers, transparencies, gar
nitures and spaugled trimmings.
New collections of floral-sprigged
nets and other transparent materials
suitable for day and evening Avear. ;
Evening wraps of delicately colored
satin or cloth showing rich appliques '
of lace and bauds of ostrich feathers.
Dressing gowns of quilted silk or
satin Avith wide, round collars and
cull's in contrast edged Avith sAvans
down.
Very ornate negligees and house- I
gowns of soft silk or wooleu materials, :
in which great quantities form the dis- 1
tiuguishiug point.—Dry Goods Econ- ;
ouiist.
CIANT TREES THREATENED.
An Effort to Snve the Sequoias of Cal>
veras From tlie Lumberman.
The San Joaquin Valley Commer
cial Association is taking steps to pre
serve the famous Calaveras grove of
big trees, owned by J. L. Sperry, but
which wili probably pass into the
hands of a large lumber firm which
has secured an option on this famous
wonderland of central California. It
is the iutentiou of the new owners to
erect several large sawmills in Cala
veras County, and they will then turn
all of the large trees, which have
been one of the points of interest to
visitors, into lumber, uulcss immedi
ate stops are taken to save them.
President Buell, of the San Joaquin
Valley Commercial Association, has ap
pointed a committee to secure all data
possible 011 the matter, and a report
will bo presented at the next session
of the association at Merced. Buell
has also communicated with the Cali
fornia Water and Forest Association,
and the Sierra Club, calling attention
to the situation, and requesting their
assistance in saviug this wonderful
grove from destruction.
The committee will also communi
cate with Cougrsssmau Do Vries to
learn if something eanuot bo done at
once by Congress to save the Cala
veras big trees, which are famous the
world over. He will be urged to have a
natioual park set aside, to include the
sequoias, as has been done in Mari
posa and Tulare Counties, where lum
bermen got within striking distance
of the big trees in those sections. No
ell'ort will be spared by the Valley As
sociation to keep the trees from fall
ing under the axe of the lumbermen
who have secured control of them.
"Town and Gown."
Being tall and strong for my age, T
was often made "yard monitor" to
keep order during the physical train
ing, Fays W. J. Stillman, in the At
lantic. There was a gang of young
ruffians, street boys, who used to
hang around the school gates and
maltreat the stragglers, and even the
I boys i?i the yard, if the gate was left
open, and I remember one day three
or four of them coming in after I had
dismissed the boys to go upstairs at
the end of the intermission, thinking
that they would have u line game
with the mouitor. One made a pre
test to quarrel with me, and, gripping
|me around the body, called to his
companions to go and get some
stoues to pound me on the head with
—this being the approved manner of
the young roughs of New York. Find
ing that I could not extricate mysolf
from his grip, I dragged him to the
wall, and catching him by the ears,
beat his head against the rough
stones till he dropped incapable of
further resistance, auc then I ran up
stairs as fast as my legs could carry
me, so that when the companions
came with their stones they had only
their champion to carry out. On the
holidays there wore generally stone
lights between the boys of our quarter
and one of the adjoining quarters,
and I shall carry to my grave the
scars 011 my head of cuts received in
one of these field combats, in which C
refused to follow my party in flight,
and took the onslaught of the whole
vanguard of the enemy, armed with
stones, and had my head pounded
yellow, being only saved from worse
by the intervention of the men oT the
vicinity.
The Way* ot Vrinres.
There have boon inauv royal au
thors, and we wish sometimes there
were yet auothui', a prince of pure
blood and of a really great house to
tell us meaner folk how princes really
feel about the etiquettes which envir
on them. They seem so suffocating,
yet they can hardly be really detested
by those who obey tlietn,or they would
not have survived as they have done
so many changes in the ways of men.
One or two etiquettes have died out,
probably because they wearied cour
tiers who took advantage of change*
of dynasty or the like silently to leave
off obeying them; but enough remain
to make of princes a caste separate in
habits from mankind. No sovereign
is now served, we imagiue, on bended
knee, nor does any one 011 whom >1
king's glance falls think it incumbent
on him, as Cecil did, at once to kneel;
but enough are left to make life very
tiresome. It must be a horrid bore to
a kiug never to be able to move with
out attendance, or to chat easily, or ta
enter or leave a room without exciting
a commotion. Legend declares that
Lord William Bentinck, finding the
first of these etiquettes in full blast
when he took up his ludian Viceroy
alty, threatened to resign unless it.
could be abolished, and was relieved
to find that he was absolute enough,
provided lie wrote the order, even to
be able to alter an etiquette.—The
Spectator.
f.yttilite Shell*.
Although all good people have a
horror of war and the terrible tale
which it drags in its train, there is u
certain amount of fascination about it
because of its picturesque and in
tensely dramatic accompaniments.
One cannot, for instance, read with
out absorbing interest of the work of
our Naval Brigade and their awfully
destructive lyddite shells, which, by
the way, tako their name from Lydd,
on the Kentish const, where the ex
plosive is made and tested. Although
the 1.7-inch gun used by the Naval
Brigade has a projectile weighing
forty-five poiiuds, this includes thu
five and a half pounds' charge of cor
dite which expels it; the weight of the
lyddite in its head, which breaks the
shell into death-dealing fragments,
being only ten pounds. The entire
projectile is in form like a sportsman's
cartridge, containing its own propel
ling charge, with the addition of the
bursting charge of lyddite; deducting
these, tho weight of metal is only
twenty-nine aud a half pouuds.—
Chambers's Journal.