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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.
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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.
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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.