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The Columbia's title to being "the. gem of the ocean" is still undisturbed. According to the latest census bulle tin on population the males outnum bered the females in these United States by I,SI 5,097 when the count of 1900 was taken. It has been said that scientific din reveries do uot actually prolong human lfe. Possibly they will after we have gotten more familiar with the germs and cease to worry about their pres ence. It is said that Canaua is soon to have her own mint and that the gold coins ■will be called "beavers." In value the "beavers" will correspond to our eagle, $10; double 'beaver," S2O, and half "beaver," $5. By comparing the statistics of Eng lish and Scotch universities in a given year It was found that Scotland with a population of 3,725,000, had GSOO uni versity students, while England had only GOOO students out of a population about six times as great. Official reports say there were no cases of genuine hydrophobia in Eng land or Scotland in 1900. Strict regu lations as to the muzzling of dogs whenever there might be danger of communicating rabies and the utmost vigilance to prevent the importation of animals which might bring about mis chief have been maintained, with sat isfactory results. Irrigation has enabled Arizona to add olives and dates to her products. If the regions now within the rain belt do not look a little out the so called arid regions, through irrigation, will leave them in the lurch. If irri gation is good for one section, it is good for all, and there is no reason Why even the most favored regions should not arrange for irrigation, if only to be held in reserve in the event of drought, reflects the St. I.ouls Star. It is a curious fact that two of what may be called the greatest gun inven tors of England of the time are Amer ican-born men. As is well-known, the United States claims Sir Hiram Max 1m as its own; while the other cele brity who was born under the Stars and Stripes is Dr. Richard J. Gatling. who completed his eighty-third year recently. It is hardly necessary to say that the veteran is the inventor of the famous Catling gun. which has bee.w computed to have killed a quarter of a million men since ISG2. Ejection Tricks In Hungary. During the Hungarian elections Le grad, chief editor of a well-known par per, was defeated a few days ago by a simple peasant named Mattai, who appeared upon the hustings in leather breeches and t'nick worsted stockings. Legrady is entrusted by the govern ment with the printing of the tax notice books, and his name conse quently appears In small letters upon the cover. Mattai was put forward by a Hungarian Count who had lost the previous election through Legrady. Mattai's electioneering agents said to the simple peasants. "You will never be so foolish as to elect a man who im poses fresh taxes upon you. Here Is his name upon upon the cover!" By this trick Legrady lost the seat, but the election will be disputed Relics of a Lost Tribe in Russia. A valuable archaeological find has |ust been made near the ancient town of Novgorod, on the banks of Lake Ilmen. The articles found include hundreds of flint arrowheads, spear heads, axheads of slate, flint flsn nooks and an enormous mass of crock fry and similar fragments, ornamented !n the same style as those found previ ously in other parts of the same prov ince. Achaelogists consider the dis roverey proof of the existence in the neighborhood of Lake Ilmen of a num irous population during the stone age. The articles found are all of one class and date, indicating the existence of a considerable tribe, which must have either been wiped out or have migrat ed to other regions before attaining any higher stage of culture than their ol the stone age. THE RHYME OF THE COUNTRY ROAD. Oh, the life one leads a-tramping. Tramping a country road! A-faring in gypsy fashion With never a gypsy's load; Set free as the winds in springtime, Heart-glad as the day is long, Hejoicing in rain or sunshine, In tuue with the robin's song. Oh. the things one sees a-trampingl The green, wild things that grow, The gleam of the tall red lily. The tangle of ferns below; The gay, glad life of the tree-tops, The shadows that slowly fall, The long, still slope of the meadows, And Uod's sky over all! —Km ma SHE was born a philanthropist, but Fate hail Interfered and made lier a beggar. Her nat ural characteristics were so strong, however, that years of indigen cy could uot efface them. Whatever her circumstances might be, philan thropy—practical or theoretical—was her destiny. Things had not been so dark for her at first. Her husband had a fairly good position and her children were well. Tliou the wheel turned. "He" lost his position anil deserted her, and the children died. For two years poor Mary was in the hospital with the "de mented disease," as she called it, not knowing what the words meant. When she came out her never-too-great capa bilities of doing wore decidedly im paired. She had no regular occupa tion or income, and was unfitted for mental work, being by nature a philan thropist. She lived with her sister, a poor wid ow with five children. Mary could neither read nor write. Perhaps one reason why she kept her individuality Intact was that she was cut off in this way from the leveling influence of or dinary reading. Now and then she would borrow a novel and have her sister read it to her of an evening. She delighted in a happy love story, per haps because it satisfied one of her many unattained ideals. She often longed for a brighter past to look back upon. She lived in the past and in the future. The present held little and the future perhaps less, but she was too thorough an optimist ever to be lieve that. A little scrubbing she had A LITTLE SCRUBBING SnE HAD TO DO. to do. She did it so poorly, however, I that finally no one employed her but ' the sympathetic druggist at the corn er. She had a few friends whom she ! had known in her better days anil on | whom she called in direst need. They | helped her willingly when she told j them of the temporary stringency in j her finances, and she preserved her j dignity and wiped out the indebtedness i by remembering their daughters' birth- 1 days with some gaudy piece of em broidery, provided, of course, that the birthdays happened to fall at a good time with her. Poor as she was, she was not with out influence. Even those more for tunate than she went to her for com fort and aid, and seldom failed to re ceive it. in the hospitals especially she was in good standing. She visited them often herself, and in her own pain and trouble showed her sterliug worth. Many a sick friend had she j succeeded in getting into the "Pros- j batherian" Hospital, as she called it, ' or the Home of the "Alex it ban" Broth- I ers. A good Catholic in her religious views, in the matter of hospitals Mary was an eclectic. On the other hand, she received 1 much herself—but always as a kiudl.v j gift, never as a servile alms. Some kind-hearteil landlord generally gave her a house, rent free. She made friends with the coal man, and the only i woman in the neighborhood who had a cow shared the milk evenly with her. Her life was never monotonous. Things went up and down wilh her. j At one time when they were looking rather bright her sister died. The $75 i life Insurance was enough to bury her 1 and set them up iu oue of the suburbs. , Of course Mary assumed the care of tlie children. The thought of "them belli' parceled out and growiiT up not j j to know each other" was a horror to | her. Forgetful of her own empty pock- j | et and prompted only by her warn. 1 Oil, the tilings one hears a-trampingl The whisper of woodland trees. The eali of a hidden brooklet. The murmur of sleepy bees; The distant roll of the thunder, The drip of the silver rain, The startled rusli of a squirrel, Then bobolink's note again! Oh, the things one feels n-tramping The joy of the country road, A-faring in gypsy fashion With never a gypsy's load; Delight in the world of beauty, A rapture of love und praise, And a will to make life the truer For the glory of common days! Endicott Marean, in the Churchman. heart, she had assured her sister on her death bed that they should never want for anything. The two oldest, a boy and a girl, were put to work at once. By means of their meager wages and her own gleanings she managed to "keep the family together," and in ten years had "raised" all but one of tliem, the youngest girl, whom typhoid fever had carried away. In the course of that time they had been sick nnd she had been sick, but she seldom failed to be cheerful. If there was nothing in the larder she went out to seek food for her little ones like a mother bird. If she happened to leave them all in bed, with the measles, perhaps—wliy, she felt "comfortable like, knowiu' they was indoors nnd safe." A typical incident occurred one Christmas eve, the year after her sis ter's death, when they were living in the suburb. Mary bad to appeal to an old friend for help. She had not in tended to beg, hut the woman for whom her niece worked had not been able to pay her. For once Mary was disheartened. She bad got up from a sick bed to come. She bad less than "the price of the ride in" when she started, but she had "lnflooence" with the conductor and was Illegally furn ished at some point with an extra transfer. "It's twanty-slvin years that I've been In this counthry," she said, "and not a bit of supper have I had to night." When that oversight in providential arrangements had been corrected she told her sad story. She had been sick and the children had not been paid, 1 and a "sorry Christmas" It would he for them, unless her l'rieud helped them out. Of course her l'riend did. The j Christmas things were all about, and I it was easy to make up a bundle from j the store. The bundle would prob | ably have been sent before, but Mary j never left her address anywhere. "I ! can't tell ye jist this minute what It 1 is," she would say. "It's nlver a let ter the postman brings me but when me mother died in the old eountliry." , She did not care to receive letters or : bundles at her own home. She pre ferred to put on a clean blue-checked apron and call on her friends. The apron was always part of her calling | costume. It served a double purpose to cover any delinquencies beneath and to carry off whatever gifts might fall from heaven during her stay. : This time she stopped the gift-giving | herself. "I won't take no more TJ," I she said. "When a person's got enough, why, they've got enough, and | that's all." As she put on her shawl to go she added, "an' to think 1 hadn't the price of their dinner two hours ago. It took the heart out o' me all day. Now I i can get 'em a nice chicken and some potatoes and have something left for a pair of shoes for the little boy. Did I tell you, 'm, how ho washed out his little sthockins liisscU' nud wrenched 'cm and hanged 'em over the oven door to dhry, for to linve em ready for San ta Clans? Now, thanks to yez, I'll he able to till 'em. He's only nine, ye \ know, 'in, a little feller. It 'ud been a pity. I wish ye a Merry Christmas yersilf, ma'am," she said. She never ' called down upon her benefactors the limitless and perpetual blessings at the disposal of the ordinary recipient of j charity. I Finally with a bill, "the price of the i dinner," firmly grasped la her hand— | she had no handkerchief to tie It in, much less a purse—and ber apron hard ly covering her huge bundle, happy as an empress, her pain and sickness for the moment forgotten, she left the house that she had entered so despond ent an hour before and went home to make her own house happy. She her self spent Christmas day in bed, but she felt repaid for her trip. As the years wfcnt on the list of mis fortunes and casualties was long. The younger boy broke one of his legs and had appendicitis. The little girl who died was in the hospital twice, once after an accident and once when she had an operation performed. It was a long struggle with some dark and hungry days and weeks, but she liunl ly "had 'ent raised." By that time she was sixty-five years old and really beyond going about even on her friendly visits. Then came as hard a time as she had ever known. When things had begun to get a little easier the older hoy and girl had mar ried. and without sacrificing them selves could no longer help her. The younger ones were Just beginning to enjoy their freedom and tlielr wages, and did not. She lad always been able to support herself so well or to get help from others that they thought she could do it still. She was hurt, but not embittered. What did they want of her, sure enough, old and miser able and useless as she was? If little Lillie had lived she would have been different, of course, hut the others "didn't mean any harm." When things began to be critical and she had no money to replenish her utterly de pleted wardrobe she tried to drug her self about again. One of her well-to do friends, appreciating her fineness und genuineness, and hearing of her need, determined to do an unconven tional thing—to make the rest of her life easy by settling sls a month on her. Did she accept It and use It for her self? Surely she would, after experi encing the ingratitude of her sister's children. Hut no! Even the smiles of fortune could not blight her nature. Philanthropist she was born and phil anthropist she would remain, on sls a month as on nothing a month. The day after receiving the good news, without even waiting for the first installment of the annuity, she adopted two little orphan girls.—Clara Sterling Doolittle, in the Chicago Itec ord-Herald. People Who Are Liable te Colds. It is especially people whose circula tions are easily disturbed that are most liable to colds. Delicate indi viduals of ull classes, above all the very young and the very old, are the most affected. It is not hard to under stand why. Cold drives the blood from the surface of the body, that Is to say, to prevent the loss of too much heat nature shuts up the little blood vessels in the skin. This it is that gives the sensation of chilliness. The nerve-endings in the skin do not ob tain sufficient nutrition, and their de mand for it produces discomfort. The blood that is usually contained in the little vessels of the skin amounts to one-fourth cf that in the entire body. If any large quantity of this is driven inward, it can easily be understood how much it will ham per the action of internal organs. It is in the blood vessels of the mucous membranes that it is easiest for such diverted blood to find a resting place. The lungs especially present a favor able opportunity for the collection of superabundant blood, because they are made of very spongy tissue. This is the reason why colds in the lungs are so much more frequent than in other parts of the body.—New York Journal. A Victim of the Sultan's Terror. A single example will give sufficient idea of the unknown dramas of Yildiz: One day the Sultan, having to leave his study for a moment, forgot on his desk one of the miniature revolvers which he is never long without. Re turning soon after to the room he found a little girl twelve years old, a little slave in the harem, who had wandered by accident into the room, handling curiously the little weapon, thinking doubtless, in her childish Innocence, that it wus some pretty toy. Alidul-Hamid's morbid fancy at once made him think some attempt against his life was intended. Seeing his terrified expression the child burst into tears, and her emction convinced the despot that it was a confession of guilt. He had her seized and "ques tioned," which, at the Yildiz, means tortured in the most abominable man ner. Though they thrust red-hot blades under the child's linger nails they got nothing from her but screams and sobs, and the Investigation liually proved that she had nothing to confess. Then only ceased the punishment of the little martyr, whose pitiful story is probably forgotten already in the imperial harem.—The Argonaut. Kousevelt and tlio Cougar Houads. The dogs were a source of unceas ing amusement, not merely while hunt ing, hut because of the relations to one another when off duty. Queen's tem per was of the shortest toward the rest of the puck, although, like Turk, she was fond of literally crawling into my lap, when we sat down to rest after the worry which closed the chase. As soon as I began to eat my lunch, all the dogs clustered close around and I distributed small morsels to each in turn. Once Jimmie, Queen and Boxer were sitting side by side, tightly wedged together. I treated them with entire impartiality; and soon Queen's feelings overcame her, and she unos tentntlously hut Urmly hit Jimmie in the jaw. Jimmie howled tremendous ly and Boxer literally turned a back somersault, evidently fearing lest his turn should come next.—From "With the Cougar Hounds," by Theodore Roosevelt, in Scrlbner's Magazine. ;; g. ; j i i -wA\ v -mm Kaftiß BbmßW Hffi| The Superior American Women. After many huppy weeks spent In the States I am not in the least sur prised that Englishmen should marry American women. They show their good taste—l should do the same were I a man. Nor am I surprised that American women should prefer Eng lishmen—for the same reinnrk applies. There Is a delightful freedom, an air of comradeship coupled with pleasant manners nnd pretty looks In the Amer ican woman which are most attrac tive. Her hospitality Is unbounded, her generosity thoughtful, and she is In every way an all-round good sort. The American woman is an excel lent speaker. It Is surprising to hear her oratory at one of her large club luncheons, such as the Sorosis In New- York. The club woman is young and handsome, well dressed and pleasing, and she stands up and addresses a couple of hundred women Just as easi ly as she would begin a tete-a-tete across a luncheon table. She is not shy, or if she is she hides it oleverly. There is no doubt about it the Amer ican dame is a great personality: but either she will have to educate her sons to her own level or descend from the pedestal on which she now reigns. Which will It be? —Mrs. Alec-Tweedie, in the London Times. Work For Nimble Fingers. With the advent of the first cool days the mind of the housewife instinctive ly turns to the thought of how she may best add to the cosiness and com fort of her home for the winter months. There are many finishing touches that one may give that will cost but little, but add greatly to the attractive ness of one's surroundings and to the beauty of a room. The old-time tidy, drape or throw, as It has successively been called, lias seen Its best days, nnd In its place the squares of silk or linen or of llennaissance have ap peared. One of the prettiest table eoverers shown for some time is made of a square of dull green linen or denim. Take the plain surface and hem It around the edge with a narrow hem. Add a fringe of cream color mixed with pink and green, selecting a fringe that has a gimp finish at the top. Now take a strip of cretonne of cream col ored ground, with bright flowers or geometrical designs. Cut the strips three incliee wide nnd baste them on the square of linen three inches above the edge. Mitre the corners. Edge all around with a gimp matching the fringe nnd sew it firmly in place, bedroom or sitting room. Curtains matching the cloth may he made if the cloth Is to be used in a bedroom, and a bed spread may also be used to correspond. To lo or Not to He—Short Skirted T Smart women who stopped in Paris the past summer bent on gathering to gether a battery of new frocks, were startled by the news that the long trailing skirt is doomed, and that short—quite short—ones are to be the fashion. And yet many women are still skeptical. A round of the tailors and dressmakers is not very satisfac tory. One says: "It Is true. They are to be short." Another says: "We will wait. It is in the hands of our cus tomers." One dressmaker whose dis tinguished gowns are wonderful crea tions, corroborated the rumor. "It is perfectly true that walking dresses are no longer to be trained, but are to be raised two inches from the ground, and that the afternoon toilette is just to touch the ground and no more. Evening dresses are to remain long." And she added that there Is to be a new skirt for promenade affairs, par ticularly well and cunningly shaped, siul that, while it is not to be so full as the "housemaid," it will be more so than the sheath skirt, so long popular. With it will be worn a three-quarter coat, which will form a distinct change. Precisely the opposite opinion to the foregoing was held by n firm of tailors and dressmakers. Their belief Is that the rumor has absolutely MO founda# tlon in faet. Their models, fresh from Paris, are still fully trained; indeed, at the sides, are longer than ever, and their picturesque three-quarter tail coats set off by flowing skirts. The effect of the rumor will probably be this, for the present at least that those who want to wear short skirts will wear them, and help incidentally a great cause, the cause of health, while others wifl eling to their trailing I draperies for many a month to come. The boot aud shoe makers are certain to watch the course of this fashion with a keen and feeling interest, for di j rectly short skirts arrive pretty foot j gear will be more than ever required. | Quite certainly ought small toques and hats to accompany the shortened I skirt Should large specimens of pic j ture headgear continue to please, a i dreadful repetition of the day when ! women were all head may be expected. Yet, so deft is fashion, and so clever, that even were this monstrosity to be Introduced, not a few among us would forthwith fall in love with it—New York Commercial Advertiser. prrgovdoiV Chat The young Queen of Holland Is a total abstainer. Sarah Bernhardt says that she re hearsed Cleopatra 500 times before It was finally presented to an audience. Mrs. Andrew Carnegie Is a clever photographer. She was a New York girl, and is twenty years younger than her husband. The Queen of Spain likes good music, and during her residence at San Se bastian, in summer, never falls to in vite Sarasate to her palace for some private soirees. Princess Henry of Battenberg nas an extraordinary affection for cana ries, and at Osborne there Is quite an aviary full of them. Many of these little birds are also kept In the apart ments used by herself and her chil dren. The Frenchwoman of to-day Is imi tating her American sister. The smart Frenchwoman now plays golf, and In an American costume. She Interlards her mother tongue with American ex pressions, sometimes, alas! American slang, quite unconsciously. Mrs. W. I. Treat, of Bangor, Me., has among her most cherished posses sions a little strip of the flag which draped the theatre box occupied by President Lincoln when he was shot, thirty-six years ago. It was this flag which tripped the assassin. Booth, and broke Ills leg when he leaped from the box to the stage. Miss Alice de Rothschild Is one of the richest women In England. She also owns a villa at Grassc, and a Lon don house In Piccadilly. Like all her wealthy and world renowned fumily. Miss de Rothschild is both generous aud wisely discriminating in her deeds of charity, but she rules with a lirm hand, and proves an excellent woman of business. The first Turkish woman avho has visited Europe with the object of ex posing the unhappy condition of her countrywomen is the Princess Hnlrie Ben-Ayad, who is now in London with her husband. All Nouri Bey, late Con sul-General of Turkey In Rotterdam. The princess is well educated and ac complished, and expects to give a course of lectures on social conditions in Turkey, in which she hopes to arouse sentiment against the existing state of affairs. Roses in hues and shadings rivaling nature are now encircled by foliage to match. Leather and calf skin belts are styl ish. The buckle is usually of black enamel. Belts or stocks of Oriental embroid ery present a pleasing color contrast with costumes of gray, dark blue or black. Louisine silks and some new armure weaves are preferred by many millin ers to taffeta and liberty satin for drapery effects. With a dark gray raglan there is a set of furs, a long-haired muff and boa, with a gray tint, just off the black, and which matches excellently well the coat. For the woman who docs not care for large pearls, and who likes variety there is the heavy rope made of many twisted strands of small pearls. These ropes, finished with tassels of the ' pearls at the ends, are very charming. Many of the gowns by fashionable dressmakers have waists that open in the back and are perfectly straight in front, wIA a point. The skirt ivt many instanced is put on the belt, with the back fulness confined in small box plents flowing away from the waist. Although the much-worn gilt; spike of last season has outlived its useful ness, pendants are still in favor and earrings of an antiquated type are available for this purpose. After the ring has been cut off the other part may be sewn on to a velvet or silk tab. Gold, silver or jeweled earrings may be thus utilized. Gold stone and silver are the fash ionable trimmings for umbrella han dles. and seem to be taking the place lately held by the pearl and silver. The gold stone is rich and heavy, of somewhat Iridescent effect when 1 turned to the light, and shows tints )( of gold and dark red. Jeweled effects on gun metal are also new and hand some.
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