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The Chicago Tribune has compiled j a table showing the character of the j weapons used by women In several hundred cases of assault and battery which were brought to the attention of the magistrates during the past year. A hypnotic institution in Chicago calling itself a school of psychology claims to euro merely by suggestion, and even claims to have effected a cure of a young man who had been for two years a victim of what was sup posed to be an incurable aversion to work. A Chicago woman has been driven mad by the noises of the streets, es pecially the cable-car gongs. The won der is that the number of cases of stark insanity from street noises is so small relatively to the number of cases of nervous frenzy and nervous exliaus-! tiou which they produce. A prize of 1000 francs has been offered by a French society for the in vention of a glove. Manufacturers of kid gloves, however, are not likely to compete for the award, as the glove required is one which will safeguard electrical workmen from accident, not adorn the hand of the American woman. The labor bureau of France shows that more than one-third of the in dustrial products of that country is the work of women. The American women have no largo industrial pro duct to show, as only about 17 per ceut. are employed in handicrafts of this sort, but happily their career has broadened into the most diverse paths of life, so that an exhibition of worn- Jn's work in this country means much more than excellence in art industries. Affairs in Persia arc in a deplorable condition and small revolts are break ing out in many cities that have been impoverished by robbery, which is legalized under the name of taxation. For several months the organization of a strong revolutionary force lias been going on, although there lias been tranquillity on the surface. The cen tral committee of the revolutionists look to Russia for relief, and the Russian consul in Ispahan lias been begged to intercede for them with his government. The most remarkable feature of the western states, through the corn belt, in winter, has been the interminable stretch of unused stalks, standing in the snow, and liable in the spring to be in the way of the plow. These stalks do not easily rot, and there fore remain in the way of future efforts of the agriculturist. They are more than a dead waste, they are a hindrance. Millions of tons of this material have been burned, or other wise lost to human welfare. The great agricultural discovery of the closing years of the century is the fact that all tills material can be util ized, every ounce of it. The shredding machines slit it into fine fodder, which the farmers report is not only well relished by cattle, but is as good as clover hay for horses and costly mixed feeds for cattle. It is not only fed from the fields, but is preserved in silos, and fed the whole year around. It is as good a food for sheep as for cattle, and lowers the cost of fatten ing these animals nearly one half. Shredded corn costs not above $2.75 per ton when stored. So the farmer has a new feed at half the cost of hay, and almost unlimited in its sup ply. It is made of one of the wastes of the farm, at the same time convert ing a nuisance into a blessing. Ameri can agriculture lias a grand opening before it as the old century passes Uito the new, reflects the New York Independent. Trouble On Rebel Creek. BY JAMES NOEL# JOHNSON, Author of "A Romulus in Kentucky," "One Little Girl in Blue," Etc. (Copyrighted 1900: Dally rtory Piro. Co.) I was riding up Rebel Creek, in Bell county, Kentucky, last August, when, suddenly, there came to my ear com mingled voices—one passionately de nunciatory; one of wailing and plead ing. Turning a sharp angle in the road, I beheld a log cabin a short distance ahead, hugged by a rail fence. Before the door I saw an under sized man, hopping up and down in front of an over-sized woman. There seemed an intimate relation between the time of the leaps of the man and the falling of a hickory in the good right hand of the woman. "This will teach you, you deceptions dog, how ter put up another job on a pore, innocent, motherless gal; won't It, eh? (Whack, whack). Won't it, eh? I think sorter it will!" The poor fellow, now with a wail of agony, broke from the woman, and J ran toward the fence. She followed i like a maddened bovino, and, just as | he reached the rails, her foot caught : him with a force that sent him spraw ling five feet on the outside. He aroso instantly with ail agonized groan, and a whirl of dust down the road quickl> swallowed him. The Amazon gazed a second in the direction he had gone with crooked brows, then from her stern lips broke such a laugh of cold malignancy that my blood was chilled. 1 started to ride on, but she shouted: "Hold up, thar, stranger!" I obeyed—l feared not to. "Mister," she said, fanning her hot face with a calico sunbonnet; "that was my ole man, who, as you see, has just now picked up an' left mo all alone in the world. "I want you to hear the cause of our little rupture, for I don't want no lyin tales to go out that I treated him so mean he had to leave me. No, sir. I'm a true, good woman—who longs to be a kind, lovin' an' gentle compan ion. I was forced into what I done. I'm gentle as dew in er morning glo ry's throat, when treated right, but people must not play no scaly tricks j on me." Here she lifted her apron to swelling eyes. "That thing come in here from Ten nessee about a month ago. He sot his deceptious eye on my little home here, my two milk cows, and three acre crop of terbacker. He come to see me every day or two, an' I soon seed that his love for my baked sweet taters, butter an' sweet milk was a growin' violent in him. When I'd cut all my terbacker, an' got it hung in the barn, he proposed to me. I feared his love didn't reach across the 'tater dish and rich, sweet butter, an' so I tole him 'No.' "Then, Sal Patton —a gal what's bin a hatin' me all her life, jist cause my pore ole dad killed her'n for informin' on him —this Sal Patton, I say, took to goin' with him, an' she appeared to lean to him like er sick kitten to a hot jam rock. Woman like, when I seed my enemy so dead stuck on him, i he appeared a heap purtier to me, an my heart begin to whisper things that my brain wouldn't listen to. i "One day a stranger stopped at my house to rest an' git somo water, an' i this thing happened to go by, leanin' !on Sal Patton's arm. The stranger | looked out, an' his eyes sorter bulged i when he seed the thing, an' he turned to me an' sed: 'Ain't that Hon. James P. Saddler, son of Judge Joe Saddler, a wealthy citizen of Carter county, Tennessee?' I tole him the thing "I crept down through the thick brush, just as easy." | called himself Saddler, but I didn't know about him bein' a son of er wealthy judge. " 'Well,' smiled the stranger, 'he Is jist who I thought. He allers was an odd chicken. He Is the pride of Ten nessee, an' the pick of all the gals, hut he waived 'em all aside. He sed the gals wuz only arter him for his wealth an' position, an' that he never Intend ed to marry no one that knowed of his high station. He would go far, far away, somewhere an' marry some poor gal who could love him for himself alone. Don't you say nothln' about what I say, though, good woman. Let him have his way an' marry that gal If she is worthy of him—an' she's a fine lookin' gal—ef that's any sign of worthiness —no, say nuthin' about what I've sed, for It wouldn't be treatin' him right, an' It would make him angry at me for meddlin' in his worthy scheme.' "I pledged him my honor I'd say nothln', an' he went off. But he drop ped a seed that found rich lodgment In my simple, innocent heart. The next day, the thing come back, an' staid for supper. He wouldn't hardly taste none of my fine baked swiet 'ta tcrs, and grainy butter. He'd sot an' roll his eyes about, here an' thar, an' would sigh like he was in deep misery. He'd hardly look at me when he knowed I'd see him, but from the tail of my eye, as I swept about the room, I cud see his eye was jist fairly eatin' me. "Finally, Jlst as dusk was beglnnin' to creep up the holler, an' the chickens begun to chat under the roostin' tree, he cum up softly to whar I wus leanin' over the banister, an' sighed mighty heavy three times hand runnin'. Then he cleared up his throat er time er two an' sed: 'Gal, I love ye! Oh, ye cudn't have no idee how my pore heart's u liurtin'. Once more I come back to see ef ye won't take pity an' recon sider your death sentence! Ef ye won't have me, I propose to Sal Fat ton on the Ides of termorry. I like "Won't it, eh?" the gal mighty, but, oh, my love, mj burnin', heatin' ali-devourin' love is fer you, my sweet —all fer you.' "Wal, I turned terward him, an' h< read my honest, Innocent eyes. Sal Patton shouldn't have the dear little man. His hunt fer a gal to love hire for himself alone, an' not for his name and wealth should be rewarded. "Wal, we spliced the very next day Comin' home from Parson Smoat's whar the knot was tied, we met Sa Patton. I sent a proud smile at her an' she busted out in er giggle, an' jisl kept it up till we rode out o' hearin'. I couldn't understand it then, but X dc now, stranger. 'That night he told me the story th stranger had. I tole him I was almosl sorry he was great an' wealthy. 1 feared I would be away out of place as a grand lady. He said, 'No, my little pet, you would adorn the palace of ei emperor!' "The next day he proposed that we go back to his wealthy home in Ten nessee. I consented, of course, an' he commenced contractin' the sale of at my stuff for ready money. He went to town and contracted my terbaekei at a good ligger." Here the poor woman brought the apron to her eyes again, and held II there for more than a minute. "Yesterday arternoon, I started out to hunt one of the cows that had laif out fer a night or so. I wandered ovei the hillside, down to the road, but 1 couldn't find her. About a mils abovo here, when, lookin' througt a hole in the brush, I caught sight of my husband an' a stranger laughin' an' talkin' under a tree jist across the road from whar I stood. 1 don' know why, but strange -suspicions come up in me when I seed 'em ther, an' I crept down through the thick bresh, jlst as easy till I got whar 1 cud see 'em plain, an' hear every word they spoke. The stranger was the man who had stopped at my house that day an' glvo my man sich a fine pedergree. They was comparin' notes an' makin 1 other plans. " 'I will have all her stuff converted into ready money in ten days,' sed my men—thet thing—'then I'll make an' excuse to git off vmth it, an' jine you where you say.' " 'The gal I've got haltered,' said the other, 'is er high-toned sort of gal. She's got lots of stuff. A monied man don't catch her. Big family is what she's arter. Make me a grandson ol Robert E. Lee and the favorite nephew of Stonewall Jackson when you stop to boost me up. That will clinch her. That will spill J2.000 in our pockets— the best pile since I got you married to that Georgia widder as the son in disguise of Lord Lansdowne.' "Well, sir, stranger, that kind o' talk went on till it was plain as A. B, Ab's the bizncS3 they follered. 1 never hcarn of no sich er perfession before. They worked tergether in foolin' orphan gals an' widders with cash. One would go ahead an' spark a gal, the other would foller on in a few weeks an' make the first out to be sich a mighty man in wealth or sta tion as would make the woman feat lie mout die suddln, afore she cud git haltered to him! It was all I cud do to keep from klllin' 'em both. I had a pistol, an' I jist had to worry, in prayer, that the Lord would make the cup of murder pass. Hit passed, an' 1 sed nothin' till this morning - , and you hearn enough then. "AH I want is that you will not go oft an' tell that I'm a cruel-hearted woman. An' I know you can't think 1 done much wrong arter all I've tole ye. Wasn't it enough to rile me, stranger? Wal, I arter be thankful any how. My property ain't sold, thank God! an' I've learned sumthin'. No more wealth an' greatness in disguise for me! Ole Widderwer Jim Stacy will do. He's got a good farm, lots of stock, an' a big, iovin', honest heart, ef he does wear No. 13's on his kidney feet." Some men are always wanting peo ple to tell them how good-looking they are, but a woman will stand up in front of a mirror and see for herself. PRINTING A SECRET PAPEh. How Clover Russian Revolutionists Baf lletl tlie Spies. To set. up and print a four-page pa per in Russia where Government spies are as thick as flies without being dis covered was a task which a party of revolutionists successfully accom plished in 1884. The person selected for the position of editor was Mile. Shulkova, a physi cian. She rented a suite of rooms in the most open manner and apparently entered upon the practice of her pro fession. All the materials were smuggled in to the house under the eyes of the house porter, who apparently was giv en every opportunity to see what was going on. Mile. Sladkova's assistant was a young student selected for the purpose who applied for lodgings in response to an advertisement written by her and submitted to the porter for approval. The difficulty experienced in bring ing i#lo the house a heavy cylinder weighing over 100 pounds and the iron chase without detection can be im agined. The printing proper was al ways done in the evenings or at night. All the windows were heavily cur tained, so that the impression con veyed to the outside observer was that sleep reigned within the lodgings. Among the furniture there was n table with a marble top. This served as the base of the printing press. On other occasions, however, a more per fectly even surface was secured in the form of a large, thick looking-glass, which usually hung on the wall. In this case the table mentioned above was put on pieces of india-rub ber and the looking-glass placed on tin table. On its even surface the four pages of print was then placed. A pair of small iron rails, a trifle lower than the type, were put close to tho form and had upturned hooks at each end. After the ink had been put on the type, by means of a "gelatine hand cylinder," and a wet sheet of paper put on it, the heavy metallic cylinder, coated witli india-rubber, wus placed on the rails at one end of the form. A vigorous push would enable it to jump on the type, traverse the whole of it, and jump off; but it would not fall on the floor because of the hooks. The printing office worked very suc cessfully, and the police were for a long time at a loss in trying to dis cover it. The student and Mile. Slad lcova became the objects of close es spionage, which was so stringent that to bring in or out the necessary amount of printed or imprinted pa pers became impossible, and it was de cided by the revolutionists to abandon the printing office. On the day on which the brenk up was effected spies were posted on the stairs of the lodging, others were In the courtyard, at (lie gates, and In the street, yet the person who conducted the connection betweethe printing office and the outside world went into Mile. Sladkova's rooms, secured and put under his garments those imple ments which were of particular value and could be taken away, successfully slipped past tlie spies, and, though closely followed, escaped. Mite. Slad kova also got away.—Fourth Estate. Arabic Typewriters, One of the most interesting of recent inventions is an Arabic typewriter, which lias just been patented. Inas much as Arabic writing has no fewer than 038 distinct characters, the diffi culties to be overcome are obvious. There are, however, in Arabic only twenty-nine letters, eacli letter hav ing many different forms. One letter, for example, has sixty-four forms, the purpose of tills variety in forms being that each letter shall join with the ad jacent letters, whatever their shape. This condition of affairs, obviously, is hard on the typesetter, and for a long time past Arabic scholars have desired to contrive compromise charac ters, so to speak, which would join well enough, anil which would at tlie same time be satisfactory to tlie read ers of the written language. Tills lias at length been accomplished, and, as one of the results of the chirographic reform, an Arabic typewriter will soon be placed on the market. Thus Arab merchants in this country anil all over the world will be able to conduct their correspondence much more easily than hitherto. The Arabic language is in use to-day in Egypt, Persia and Ara bia. j Such an achievement gives hope that ! there may yet arrive a Chinese type writer, notwithstanding the fact that in that language 2-1,000 distinct charac ! tors are in accepted use among the educated. Philadelphia Saturday I Evening Post. Pointed I'arngrnphs. A man is a miser; a woman is a mystery. The richer a man's food the poorer his appetite. The ice man's bill is the blow that cracks the joke. Feathered bipeds of similar plumage congregate gregariously. What a woman says goes—when she talks into a telephone receiver. No man is capable of ruling others who is unable to rule himself. The woman who never slieds a tear on account of a man doesn't love him. Unfortunately the chronic bore nev er leaves a hole in his victims mem ory. The only objection the average man had to hard money is that it is hard to get.—Philadelphia Record. fatten Clerk Sue a tile ctinrcli. The parish clerk of Sulgrave, Eng land, has again successfully sued the church wardens for the payment of his salary of 13 a year. He said, that he had on several occasions provided the communion wine out of his paltry salary. THE REALM OF FASHION. 1 New York City.—No coat yet devised suits the small hoy more perfectly than the box model with coachman's capes. The smart Hay Manton de- BOY'S COAT. sign here illustrated combines ele gance with simplicity, and Is adapted to cloth, velvet and corduroy, all of which materials are in vogue. As shown, however. It is made of beaver broadcloth in hunter's green, and is finished with tailor stitching and lined throughout with silk of the same shade. Wise mothers include the silk lining even if economy must be prac ticed in other ways, as nothing else allows the coat to be slipped on and off with ease. Both fronts and back are loose fit ting In box style, and hang stylishly from the shoulders. The underarm seams are provided with underlaps and left open for a few inches at the lower edge to allow greater freedom, and the stitching of the back holds the overlap in place to the seaui. The left front laps over the right in double-breasted style, and is held by handsome smoked pearl buttons and ' buttonholes, a second row of buttons being placed on the left front. Pock ets are inserted nnd finished with laps, and should be deep enough to make the little wearer happy. Two capes fall over the shoulders, either one of which may be omitted, nnd the neck is finished with a turn-over collar. The sleeves are two-seamed in regu lar coat style, nnd include turn-over cuffs that are slashed at the upper side. To cut this coat for a boy of four years of age five yards of material twenty-one inches wide, three and three-quarter yards twenty-seven inches wide, or one and three-quarter yards fifty inches wide, will be re quired. A Popular Short Skirt. The popularity of the short skirt for walking, shopping and all the out-door occupations increases with each week. As some one has wisely said, it makes the first step in real dress reform. To be without it means to be out of style, and to endure discomfort with out end. The May Manton model il lustrated in the large drawing is cut in five gores, and Is essentially practica ble as well as smart. As shown, it is of double-faced golf cloth with an ap plied shared facing of the same, tail or stitched in evenly spaced rows, nnd falls to the instep, but it can bo made shorter if desired, and of any sufficiently heavy cloth or cheviot. Fashion leaves the exact length a matter of discretion, all variations from the skirt that just clears tho ground to the one that falls to the ankles only being worn. While other styles are used, tills special model lias advantages of its own nnd can bo used for remodeling with peculiar suc cess. The skirt given la cut with n narrow front gore, wider side gores and nar row backs, and can be trusted to hang with perfect evenness. The upper portion tits snugly, there being a short hip dart In each side gore, and Is laid in a deep Inverted pleat at the back. The lower portion Hares grace fully and allows ample freedom for the feet. The front gore Is especially designed with reference to the popular long-waisted effect, and can be cut round or with the dip, as preferred. If desired the applied band or facing can be omitted and the edge finished with a narrower faced hem. To cut this skirt for a woman of me dium size four yards of material forty four inches wide, three and n half yards fifty inches, or three and a quarter yards fifty-six inelies wide* will be required when facing is used; without facing, three and a quarter: yards forty-four inches wide, three and an eighth yards fifty inches wide* or two and seven-eighths yards fifty six inches wide, will suffice. 'A Black Velvet Evening Gown. An evening gown i • of black velvet* unrelieved by any trimming whatever, made princess fashion. The rich! tones of the velvet bring out with all possible effect the red gold hair and cream complexion of the wearer. The shoulder strap:, are emerald and dia mond chains, and the decollctage s bordered with soft folds of creamy white chiffon. Overdoing the Gold FH