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THK YIRGIHIA ENTERPRISE VIRGINIA. MINN. W. E. HANNAFORD, PvbltDMr. —Rudyard Kipling has himself denied the rumor that fie will return to America to live. —During his stay in Washington Hen ry Sienkiewicz. the author of "Qua'Va dis," will be the guest of relatives. —Queen Victoria is believed to be seri ously considering the advisability of pub lishing a third instalment of her journal. —Theodore Camp of Mount Vernon, N. Y., has been teaching school for sixty two years, and is still doing as well as over —Mommsen, the historian, has declined to contribute toward the Heine statue, be cause of what he calls the poet's "shame ful life." —Prof. Heury Snyder of Miami, O., who died the other day, was one of the best-known educators of the blind in this country. —The eldest uumarried daughter of Capt. Sigsbee, Miss Mary Ellen Sigsbee, is iloins good work as an illustrator of magazines. —Miss Edith Mosler. who is to be mar ried very shortly, is the daughter of the artist, Henry Mosler, and herself a paint er of promise. _—Sergt. James Mclnilney of Co. E, Ninth United States infantry, claims to be the man who "picked off" Gen. Lin ares at San Juan. —Paul Laurence Dunbar says that un til the publication of his latest book few of his readers knew him to be of un mixed negro blood. —S. N. D. North of New York says he was the first person to make a prac tical business use of the typewriter. He used it first in 1872. —Private Leroy Wiley of Paris, 111., at the recent convention of soldiers of the Mexican war, was the only veteran out of 150 to use crutches. -Ex-Postmaster General William L. Wilson's grandfather was a farm hand in Jefferson county, Ya. His father was a couutry school teacher. —Miss Martha Baker, a teacher in Boston's public schools, is now enjoying her first extended vacation after a serv ice of forty-seveu years. —Mason A. Green of the Rutland Her ald. who was Edward Bellamy's associate nud friend, has nearly completed his biog raphy of the dead Utopian. —Joel Chandler Harris is said to be the hardest literary man to interview in this country. "I don't know anybody," he says, "and 1 don't care to." —Lonl Crawford and Balcarres has just celebrated the 500th anniversary of the creation of the earldom of Crawford in the peerage of Scotland. —Ouida's dog cemetery near her Floren tine home has received another resident in the person of a favorite mastiff of the novelist's which diet! last week. —Mrs. H. E. Wright of Chicago has eoine into possession of a kettle oven which was once given Martha Washing ton iu payment for a knitting task. —Stephane Millanne, the French poet, who has died recently, was a constant cigarette smoker. The best likeness of hiii* is said to be that painted by Whist ler. —Ilimln young men are turning to Japan for instruction iu science. Balm Kama Kanta Raj of Sjihet, who wants to be a mining engineer, has led the way. -Lr. Minot J. Savage of the Church ••f the Messiah, was the first minister in this country who openly accepted the the "dy of evolution and preached it from the pulpit. --Gov. Stephens of Missouri has ap jx.inted a woman. Miss Fannie Y. Mudd, inspector of oils for the city of St. 'haries. in that state, to succeed Jules Rauch. —James L. High, the Chicago jurist who died the other day, first became fa mous through his edition of Lord Ers kine's works and his own book on "In junctions." —John B. Parsons, the new president of the Union Traction company of Phil adelphia. hegan his street railroad career iu Philadelphia in 1870 as an office clerk in a railroad company. —If. W. Berthrong of Arlington, Mass., who has been put in charge of the cus toms service at Manzanillo, Cuba, has been connected with the customs service for twenty-eight years. —Swinburne, the poet, is said to be growing very eccentric as he nears his eightieth year. He is rarely seen in so ciety. but has become intensely fond of the company of children. —Henry Dunant, the founder of the Ued Cross society, put half his-fortune into lie society's work and then lost the other half in business. The citizens of Stutt jrart are raising a fund for him. Queen l»uise of Denmark was very particular as to what her daughters read, and it is said that the only novel the Princess of Wales perused before her marriage was "The HHr of Redclyffe." --The Crown Prince of Siam, who can write fluently in three European lan suaccH, is a boy author of some note. He has written several stories for chil dren's magazines published in England. —A letter from Park Benjamin to R. W. Griswokl has come to light saying that if the publisher would like a poem from "Prof." Longfellow the writer can secure it for $20, though the poet asks *2D. —Miss Estelle Peel, as Wyoming's su perintendent of public instruction, has charge of all the buying and selling of school lands and has increased in this line to the state's income from $100 to $1000 a week. —French papers say that Sir Herbert Kitchener fought on the side of the tri colors in the Franco-Prnssian war, hav ing enlisted as a volunteer in the army of the Loire. He was, they add, twice wounded. —Col. John A. Watkins, the Indian historian, who died in New Orleans the other day. was a veteran of the Mexi can war. and was a direct descendant of Joseph Watkins, the follower of Capt. John iSmith. —Mine. Ristori, otherwise the Mar quise Capranica del Grillo. is in her 77th year, and is lying critically ill at Rome, being unable to accept the invitation of the Queen of Italy to pass a few days with her at Gressony. —The virtuous village of Conde-sur-Es caut, near Valenciennes, France, has for bidden the erection there of a monument to the famous actress Clairon, because, though a native of the place, her life after leaving was not exemplary in all respects. -Although the Mahdi's body was de- large and well formed. The Mahdi was buried in his jibbeh, and a small som of money was found in the tomb. —The fact is noted that the Collar of the Golden Fleece which has just been conferred upon M. Felix Faure was the one which had belonged to Bismarck. It is also said that the* one now worn by King Humbert once adorned the shoul ders of Christopher Columbus. —Joan of Arc is still being exploited by zealous and chauvinistic Frenchmen. The latest development of the mania is the formation of a society or confraternity which pro|oses to organize a cavalcade, and to retrace the memorable progress of the Warrior Maid from Domremy to Coinpiegne. —Owing to the controversy that has nsmil over a successor to the title of "Daughter of_ the Confederacy." *Mrs. Jefferson Davis is said to have renounced her original intention to have that in scription placed on the gravestone of her daughter, Miss Winnie Davis, in the Hol lywood cemetery, at Richmond. —Both (raiididat.es for New York's gov ernorship are intimately counected with the South. Judge Van Wyek wtu* grad uated from the University of North Car olina and married a Richmond girl. Col. Roosevelt's mother wat-* a Georgian, a dc sc.-ndant of Archibald Bullock, ^resident of the colony frolu 177 to 1777." —Frau von Teuffcl, wife of the physi cian to the Kiug of Wurtemhurg, who died iu Munich, Germany, last Friday, was well known in this country as Plaucbe Willis Howard, the author of "One Summer," "Gyrun." "Aunt. Sere na," and "The Open Door." She was nnrruJ to Dr. von Teuffel in 1890. —Prince Ferdinand of Rojimauia, who has been bunting in the Carpathians, ex pressed a desire to kill a bear and soon after bad the luck to start up two, one of which he shot. On examining'the carcass he found a hole through the nose, as though the animal had worn a ring,- and inquiry brought out the cottfcisloaitliat Amtuuiun of the district had bought the bears from a showman in order to gratify the prince's wish. —The Rev, Father O'Lcary was a fa mous Irish priest, preacher, controversial ist, politician and wit, who died in Lon don iu 1802. Iu a polemical controversy with Bishop Woodward, he wrote: "His lordship says he does not believe in the Papist purgatory. Well, perhaps he may go further and fare worso. —Miss Mauri, a ballet dancer, is the first woman to become a professor of the art. The National Academy of Music, Paris, has established a chair of ballet dancing, with Miss Mauri as the occu pant. She won her great success at La Scala, in Milan, having attracted the at tention of Gounod while dancing there. —Miss Margaret J. Evans, who haa just been elected a member of the American board, being the first woman to be so honored, is principal of Carleton college, Minnesota, and has been president of the Congregational Woman's Board of Do mestic missions for fifteen years. She has studied at Oxford, Berlin and Heidelberg. —Slgnor Fraucheschini, the Italian his torian, has just found iu the old cemetery of the Church of Santo Croce, iu Flor ence, the tomb of Ghiberti, the celebrated sculptor and architect. He was the de signer of the famous doors of the baptis tery at Florence, of which Michael Ange lo said that they were "worthy of Para dise." —Laurent Perosi, the youug Italian priest, who is couuted among the mu sical prodigies of that country, is but 25 years oid, and is the musical director of St. Marc in Venice. He has already composed three oratorios, to which form of composition he confines himself, the Passion, the Transfiguration and Resur rection. —The Ministers* institute will hold its eleventh biennial session at the Church of Our Father, in Buffalo, from October 24 to 27.-Among the distinguished speak ers will be Dr. Edward Everett Hale, Prof. Hugo Munsterberg, the well-known psychologist of Harvard university Dr. Minot J. Savage of New York, and Rev. Charles E. St. John of Pittsburg. —Sir William White, the chief con structor of the British navy, is going to Egypt on a visit which will probably ex tend over Christmas. Now that Khar toum has fallen And the whole navigable course of the Nile haa beeu opened lip, it has become a practical necessity to main tain ou the river a considerable fleet of gunboats for the maintenance of the Khe dive's authority. —There seems to be some mystery a 9 to the whereabouts of Dr. Moritz Busch, the Boswell of Prince Bismarck, whose biography of his hero was published by Messrs. Macmillan a week or two ago. It is not snrmised that the Emperor has arisen in his wrath and had the German Pepys placed under lock and key, bnt none the less-the doctor's usual haunts know him not, and even his publishers cannot trace him. —When Henryk Sienkiewicz, the Pol ish author, comes to this country for the second time, which he proposes to do this month, he will make Washington, D. C., his headquarters. He has two friends there, Thaddeus Tyssowski and Pelagia Galeski. with whom he will visit for sev eral weeks. Jadwiga, daughter of the novelist, will accompany her father, whose first visit to this country was made some twenty years ago. —The collection of pictures at Ver sailles has received a valuable addition in the shape of a remarkably fine "Holy Family,' by Nicholas Poussin, a gift to the French nation from the Due and Duchesse (le Tremoille. and it lias been placed in the Cabinet du Conseil. This picture is in a frame bearing the cipher of Louis XV.. and during the reign of his most Christian majesty it belonged to the gallery at Versailles, but was taken away during the revolution. —Senator Simon of Oregon will not be the first Hebrew to hold a seat in the United States Senate, three others hav ing preceded him. The first was David L. Yulee of Florida, whose father's name was Levy. He was elected a represen tative in 1845 as David Levy, but when his term expired he had his name changed to David Levy Yulee. The second He brew senator was the famous Judah P. Benjamiu of Lousiana, and the third was Benjamin Franklin Jonas of Louisiana. —The Rev. Dr. Lewis Crebasa Browne, who has just died at Honeoye Falls, N. Y., was the oldest Universalist minister in the state. He was a frequent contribu tor to the periodical literature of the Universal denomination, and for nineteen years had been an associate editor of the Christian Leader, published in Boston. He occasionally wrote poetry^ some of his poems appearing in the Christian Leader, Harper's Bazar and in a large octavo vol ume, entitled "T^e Poets of New Hamp shire." —All the members of the Bismarck fam ily are great in stature. Besides a nuw in Friedrichsruhe is the following i'tVuid in pencil, dated December 31, 1879 "Prince von Bismarck, 1 m. 88 (1 meter 88 centimeters, or 6 feet 2 inches) Her bert von Bismarck, 1 m. 86 (6 feet 1V4 inches) William von Bismarck, 1 m. 85 (G feet 94 inch) Count Rautzau, 1 m. 714 (1 meter 714 millimeters, or 5 feet 7V-t inches) Countess von Rantzau, 1 m. 716 (5 feet 7% inches) Princess von Bismarck, 1 m. 714." —Theobald Chartran, the portrait painter, has returned to Paris from Rome, where he worked on a portrait of the Pope. He gives good reports of the Pope's health. His holiness, as usual, eats extremely little, and only sleeps three hours a night, but his mental vigor is surprising, and he has no physical ail ments. Mr. Chartran, who painted Leo XIII. seven years ago, recognized very little difference in his subject. "His face is not more wrinkled, he has the same welcome smile, the same sonorous and musical voice." Columbus' Many Burials. Havana dispatches say that on Septem ber 26 the remains of Columbus were taken out of the sarcophagus in the.cathe dral at Havana, in which they had rested for more than a century, and was sealed up in a proper box to be shipped back to Spain. Columbus died in 1506, and was ceremoniously buried at Valladolid. Seven years afterwards {1513). his re mains were moved to Seville and depos ited in a chapel of the monastery of Las Cuevas, where, in 1526, they were joined by the body of his son Diego. In 1536 both bodies were moved to Hispaniola and deposited in the principal chapel of the cathedral of San Domingo. In 1795, when San Domingo passed to France, the Spaniards moved what was believed to be the body of Columbus to Havana but the story is that they took not Chri» topher, but Diego, and the proof offered is that Columbus, by his will, ordered the chains he wore in his imprisonment to be buried with him, which was done, but that the coffin moved to Havana had no chains in it. On this ground, and per haps for other reasons, the San Domingo people have alrendy averred that their cathedral still held all that was left of Columbus and perhaps they are right, though their claims have never had any standing in Havana or in Spain. There is no present indication that any serious opposition will be made to the transfer of Havana's good-enough Co lumbus back to Spain, though the pro ceedings may yet become matter for nego tiation. It may be doubted whether the attachment of Columbus to Spain was sufficiently strong to make him indisposed to continue as a tenant of Cuban soil after the departure of the Spanish flag from that island. His burials heretofore have always been occasions of g'r&t cere mony, and doubtless the next one -will not be an exception.—Harper's Weekly. Gloves of the Ancients. Before the Tenth century English ladies wore long sleeves with pointed flaps that rested on the backs of their hands, or when they went forth in winter drew the loose drapery of their outer garment over their hands. The first glove had only a thumb and no fingers, like the mittens of the present day. Their wearers were so proud of them that they emphasized them by.bright colors, such as violets, reds and blues. The gloves were woudrously em broidered and starred with jewels. No gloves were fined than those of the clergy. They were mostly of white silk or linen, cunningly embroidered and sometimes' fringed with pearls. One ecclesiastic had a rid silk pair, with the sacred .mono gram worked on the back, snrroitnded with a golden glory, and later on they liad gloves to match their different vest ments. In fact, gloves had departed from the primary ideas of utility and become a decoration. They were too magnificent for common wear and in contemporary pictures the nobility seemed to have car lied them rather in their hands or in-their girdles than on their fingers. The kiiight's mailed glove sheltered his hand it be came a sigii of power, and when a gra cious lord meant to signify bis .intention to protect a town he sent his glove as a sign of his willingness. The glbve, too, was a token of defiance when one lctiight declared war against another, and at the same time, as if to mark the difference between the strong right hand of man and the daintier band of woman, he bound his mistress' delicate glove to bis helmet by way of showing hl» ftalty, Antnnn'i Work, The Autumn, like a wlsard bold, Who works In crucibles unseen. Transmuting dross to yellow gold, Has wrought a garb of wondrous sheen. He hangs It o'er the hilltops high, And lo! it floats like amber mist The maples catch Its radiant dye, And blush as by the sun-god Kissed. He touches with his magic wand Bach wooded mound and meadow slope, And meadow slope and wooded mound Glow like some vast kaleidoscope, The thistle blooms In copse andtbyre. Where lowing cattle love to 4tray The sumac lights her beacon-Are In sylvan nooks and hollows gay. .. He walnts In ultra-bine the sky- O'cr which the fleecy cloudlets .pass, And dips his brush in Tyrlan dye To tint the scarlet sassafras. The aster bends beneath his tread. And tluiidly her welcome shows The mullein nods her yellow head. And dips a courtesy ere he goes! But ah! a leaf comes fluttering down— A russet leaf, all splotched with red— The first bright leaf of Autumn's crown. Dyed with the blood his bosom shed! And soon his gorgeous robes will fade. And soon the winds will wall and try, And winter with an Icy spade Will dig the grave where he must lie! —Helen Whitney Clark in Woman's Home Companion. The Temptation of Overdoing. Everyone is getting back now from their summer wanderings by field and fell, and the swish of the silk-lined skirt is heard once more. Rosy cheeks, and sun-tanned faces are everywhere in evi dence, and where two or three women are gathered together the talk is of springs, nud mountains, and Europe, No matter how much one has enjoyed an outing, the best part is getting bach'. "Home, always looks so good when I first return," said a woman the other day,, "that for me a trip is equal to fur nishing the house from top to bottom." One feels, however, that atkno other time of the year are women so sadly in need of a note of warning as just bow. Overdoing is always their besetting: sin, and when one comes home, tifed out Vith idleness and simply aching for work,: the temptation to rush in and try to do every thing at once is very subtile and insidi ous and hard to resist. To" begin with, the house cries aloud for cleaning, if the servants have taken care of it during the summer, there is a bloom of dus't on everything that might delight an anti quary, but that throws a good housewife into cold fits. If the husband has "bached," confusion worse confounded prevails, and there are shoes on -the pi ano, and duck trousers on. the hattack, and pipes and cigar stubs everywhere. Besides, the children must be gotten ready for school, and a little late fruit preserved, and heaven knows what odds and ends of jobs looked after. Every woman will realize that it takes real heroism for another woman to sit down quietly and rest, with everything at sixes and sevens about her, but all the same she is wise who takes things slowly, and who does not undo by a week of frantic houscclcaning all the good two or three months of rest have done her. More than that, it is almost a breach of good faith with those about her. The serenity and happiness of the household depend on the woman's good health and temper, and she has no right to unnecessarily imperil that' by bringing on an attack of nerves by overwork. One of the advantages of the annual mi gration of women is that they travel with their eyes wide open, and learn so much. For her to see a thing is to adopt it, and adopt it to her own use. She come* home with her head full of new ideas, and her desire to put them all into instant exe cution is also full of peril. Here, too, there is luck in leisure, and she will never regret having waited for a'while before she threw away her good old-fashioned furniture for spurious empire gim-cracks, or having reflected that the heavy hang ings of Turkish cozy cornets that-looked so fetching in Chicago or New York would seem stuffy and smothery in/New Orleans. This is also the time of year .when one is importuned to join church'societies, and clubs galore, and when, in thfe first flush of getting back and being glad.to-see every one, you weakly subscribe everything that is offered to you. Go slow about that, too, sister. It is so uftich easier to get into things than it is to get Out. Ev ery dilatory member is a 'dead Weight on a club, and you have no 'right to join one unless you can take an active part in it. Take time when you first, get home to look about you, and see what you really can do, and want to do. Make up your slate, as the politicians say, ,£nd' don't be in too big a hurry. You have the Whole winter before you. Take things leisurely, and keep the roses you brought back from your summer vacation.—Ne"w Orleans Picayune. Love Making in Public. Very much in the way of sad complaint has been written on the unloving ways of married couples, says the Philistine, And now I wish to vary the monotony with a small protest against too much loving on the part of the married—in pub lie. says a writer in the Philadelphia In quirer. Love between man and woman being the one strictly personal thing in the universe, it seems meet that its gentle manifestations should not be accompanied by a brass band. Unmarried couples, I will admit, are often put to severe straits, and there may be good excuse for two sit ting in public on a chair that was built for one. In view of the fact that Reuben and Mollie have to love in public or not at all, when I find them nestling in the park or by the grassy roadside, or- on the sofa in the dimly-lighted parlor, inward ly say: "God bless you, look thie other way and earnestly study the staty But what must we say of Mi*, and Mrs. Smith, who lovey dovey on the, house tops? We know they-are married, and this is seeming proof that they" prefer the society of each other to all. the world, so it seems superfluous for Mr. Smith to softly pull his wife's ears and say ketchy, ketchy, ketchy, on the veranda wheji.com pany has been invited. But really, I do not think Mr. Smith errs in this matter as much as the lady—she is the one who Bays at the dinner table: "My ownest-owji, is oo feelin' bad all over? Poor little wfty goofty!" They have little jokes between themselves, shy whisperings and "you knows." that mystify and put at unrest all the onlookers in Venice. I cannot fully agree with a cynical friend who declares that married couples who caress on street corners fight in. pri vate. My opinion is that there wing conjugal misfits on every hand, this couple is simply bound to advertise to the world that their experience is a success, and not being quite sure of it, they mutually jigree to work the amatory wig-wag while, the world looks on. "Conscious weakness takes strong atti tudes," says Delsarte. It seems to me that if I loved a woman very much, and between us there was an absolute under standing, it would not be necessary-to re assure each other at the opera. Business Women Do Not Eat Enough. An eminent physician in one of? our large cities has been making inquiries as to the diet of business women, and jboiu paring it with that of men in similar positions. He makes some valuable'sug gestions as the result of his investiga tion, and gives utterance to some .criti cisms on the habits and management of the women themselves. "The fact is," he says, "three-quarters of the women who board themselves are about half starving themselves. Not'that they deliberately and with malice afore thought neglect mealtime or refuse to eat a fair, amount of food, but they^vill not take the trouble to cook dishes .suit able for them. I found at least a dozen women out of the thirty employed in one large house who frankly admitted that they never cooked a hearty meal tor their own eating. They claimed that they felt quite well on a diet of bread and butter and coffee Or tea, with an occasional piece of cake or a pie. Fruit in the season is quite frequently used, but at other times it is too costly for women of moderate mcano or those who earn but small sal aries." It seems an impossible problem to han dle, but in some way there most le an arrangement by which women can dub themselves together and, by uniting forces, live admirably and under much more healthful conditions than those which at present exist. Talker* and Listener*. 4"'' Is the listener your- friend? It would be well to ask this question often. Wjbtn eu who talk much are sought aftefy by women who are excellent listeners, The chatterbox is flattered at the atten tion given her. Nobody take* more l! est in her gabble than tha woman can Uiteo and mjr out little. maom Ladies a* She has the advantage every time. How does she profit by her wisdom? Tfeu chances to one to worm her way into the confidence of the next chatterbox she meet*. Women who allow their tongues to gal lop away with their common sense are at the mercy of tl\e woman who listens. It ia all ao mysterious. How did it ever travel as it has from mouth to mouth, un til it has become so barbed that it would wound a soul armored against such shafts? It would be difficult to determine who is to be held for the most mischief in oar realm, the woman who talks or the wom an who listens. Furnishing the Sitting-Boom. A cosy bedeckment of the home, and the sitting room comes in for first contempla tion, being, as it is, the real living' room of our abode, whether as large as a Van derbilt mansion or a seven-room and bath rented by the month embodiment of "home, sweet home." The sitting room, being a much less for mal apartment than the drawing room, it is not necessary that it should contain any "show" pieces of furniture, but books, easy chairs, good-sized tables, lamps and writing tables—anything calculated to add to its general comfort. Above all things, it should reflect the individual tastes and habits of the people who are to occupy if. Iu such a room the decorations should be kept quite simple in character and chosen with the idea of forming a good background for both pictures and furni ture. If a patterned wall paper is used, the design should be one which the eye follows with pleasure, and the coloring is better subdued than light, as rooms that are too light one grows tired of, but when the room Is rather small it is nice to have a perfectly plain paper, which has the ef fect of increasing the apparent size. AU the woodwork, including the mantel piece, must be painted ivory, and the 'few er the coirs used the more pleasing and restful the result will be. The hangings and chair coverings should be in thg same tone, the carpet being in a contrasting color. Near the window, which should not be overdraped with curtains, a writing desk, with pigeon-holes, drawers and cupboanl should find a place, with a comfortable lounge covered in a good cretonne. The shape of all the furniture must be sim ple, with the least possible ornamenta tion, but well constructed and suitable for its various purposes. One or two good-sized tables are rath er necessary, ou whieh there should be space for the books and employments of the moqaent, and it is of the greatest im portance that there should be space in the room in which to move about, or there cannot be comfort, and an overcrowded room cannot lay claim to being well ar ranged. Now, this is of course only my idea of a real comfortable apartment, but as a suggestion may I hope that it will aid some housewife who is thinking of fur nishing and arranging so that home will seem as attractive as the club to the man who supports it.—Philadelphia Times. The Best Poets for Girls to Read. "I believe, my dear girl, every good poem you read is going to make better what would be called the ideal side of your nature, and is going to make you appreciate what is really melody in words. You know the old books of poetry, and it seems to me that there is not uruCh that is tnoroUgHIy good among the new except those written by the poet of our time, Rudyard Kipling. You can arrange a long list of the older poets in whom you will find pleasure. Naturally begin with Shakespeare and then come down, not very far, to the two Brownings, then to some parts of Byron, then to that unhap py boy, John Keats, then to Pope, then to some parts of Shelley, then to Tenny son, and, looking for the great souls,right in our own home, you will meet and greet Aldrich, the gentle Sydney Lanier, the musician Poe, the mystic and best of all for every girl, Longfeljlow."—Ruth Ash more in the Ladies' Home Journal. Making the Breakfast Table Attrac tive. If we could only impressupon the house keeper of moderate means bow essential it is for the table to appear attractive, in the horning,, she would, no doitbt, her every effort in studying this means putting her husband and family'in good humor for the day. At this season of the year a novel idea is to have at each breakfast plate half a well-chilled cantaloupe filled with bits of dhipped ice. The careful preparation of the.same so that it may appeal to the senses'together with the delicious aroma creates as fiiie an appetizer as one could well wish. The bits^ of Ice can be removed and the melon sprinkled with powdered sugar. Any housekeeper would feel amply re- Cy aid for this extra course at breakfast the gratified and pleased expression on the faces of each meniber of the family as they await the serving of the cereal, which heretofore, perhaps, they might have omitted at breakfast for lack of ap preciation on account of the monotony of its Regularity.—Boston Herald. Oh, the Stillness of the Room. Oh, the stillness of the room Where the children used to play Oh, the silence of the house Since the children went away! And this^ the mother's life, To hear, to love, to lose. Till all the sweet, sad tale is told In a pair of little shoes, In a single broken toy, In a flower, pressed to keep. All fragrant still, the faded life, Of one who fell asleep. —Mary Clemmer. New 8oil for Palms. A soil composed of three parts of good fresh pasture loam and one part each of leaf mold, sand and well-rotted ma nurd is a good one for palms. Water fre qently enough to keep the soil moist, and when it is given let it be in sufficient quantity to moisten the whole ball of soil, but do not keep the soil soaking or soggy leave it until the surface of the soil looks a little dry and then again water plenti fully. It needs hardly to be said that less wnter will be required in winter than in summer. How to Secnre Fluffy Locks. With the arrival of spring it will be fouild that the girl who could not ac complish a shining pompadour has gone in for elaborate curling. To do this she is making her hair as fluffy as possible. The locks should be rippled first, combed out and then curled, just as if it had not been rippled at all. When finally combed out,, the hair will be all a crinkle. It will fluff up to an amazing extent, and will hold its fluff, too. A "rat" is hardly need ed for the pompadour, the tomb is caught on the under side of the side locks, which ends turn under, held by the combl This is a. new trick, too. but just take a good look at he Lenten ladies meekly wending their way to church, and you will see that the crinkled hair is the latest effort to get away from bangs and curls. The New England Pie. Tie stereotyped and much maligned New- England pie is beginning to cast aside its under crust, and now frequently appears in a deep dish with only the top crust, after the manner of its English cousim Apples quartered, sweetened and flavored with nutmeg or cinnamon, EaWedwithsugared lums their pits still in, and peaches, and and tucked, under the protecting upper crust, are all seasonable and delicious. Good Mush. It would be hard to find a cook too modest to claim a knowledge of mush making yet how many, even among ex perienced housekeepers, make good musli-? Boiling water, cornmeal and salt—whtit simpler than to pnt them together and cook them Yet much of indifferent meal properly made may be better than that made of the best meal wrongly handle^ The water must be freshly boiled nud salted, and all the meal as it goes in. must encounter the same fiercely boiling tem perature, to burst the starch ceMs, as di rect? heat "pops" corn. Therefore, mak ing mush takes time, for the meal must be added so slowly as not to stop the boil* ing, as well .as to avoid lumps. A thick iron pot. porcelain-lined is the best thine to cook it in,', and a wooden spoon or pad dle ihould be used for stirring. Sprinfelfe the meal in slowly with the left hahd while stirring with the right. The pi portions of the ingredients will vary *1 the quality of the steal of its ch£ract (whether crushed or cut), but aA averaL rulr would be four, quart* of water, on* quart of mefl and two tablespoonfuts .. ly St*! fay. Do iio$ disturb the surface, as stir ring permits the "extractives" or flavors to escape. Mush made of good meal by tb» above method, and served -with rich cream,. is a, royal dish.—Ella Motrin Kretschntur in the Woman's Home Com panion. Boiled Ham'. Thoroughly brush and clean a large ham in lukewarm water in which a tea spoonful of borax has been dissolved. Then soak in cold water over night. In the morning shave off every particle of the hardened surface. Put it into a large kettle and cover with cold water. Let it heat slowly, and as it begins to boil re move the scum. Then add a bay leaf, one onion, two large sprigs of parsley, and one quart of Bweet pickle vinegar, or one pint of clear vinegar or cider. Keep the kettle where it will barely bubble, and let it cook till tender allow thirty minute* to the pound from the time sim mering continences. If a fork will pierce through the thickest part and the skin will peel off easily it is done. Let it re main in the liquor until cotu. Then care fully peel off the skin, trim off any ragged edges and with a soft cloth sop the melt ed fat from tho top. Mix one cup of fine cracker crumbs, half a cup of brown sugar, one saltspoonful of pepper and one saltspoonful of powdered tarragon, and moisten slightly with melted butter. Spread this thickly over the fat surface, and return to the oven till brown and crisp. Portieres. Portieres, it should be remembered, are supposed to have their origin in a need. They are intended to do service to i-hut out disagreeable draughts sometimes sounds. Such being their service, it is manifestly unsuitable that they should be tightly shirred on a pole in a way that takes sharp and reaching pulls to draw them. They should be invariably on rings, and move easily and quickly over the pole, the arrangement of cords that draw them aside instantaneously being preferred. Their design should be simple, solid colors of a neutral tint being the most acceptable. It is rare that a figured pattern is satisfactory. They should not hang in a doorway where the doors are open and set back. They sometimes cover acceptably a door that must be per manently closed, but otherwise they re place a door that is removed for reasons. Their texture, while thick, should be soft and pliable, hanging in easy folds. Noth ing is more tasteless than a stiff, wiry fabric to screen a doorway. The poles should be within the door frame, and set perhaps six inches from the top, never over the molding and finish of the door. Hair Must Be Bed. In Paris it is more and more the cus tom to dye the hair, or, in the polite ver nacular of the Parisian, "tint" it. There is scarcely a French actress whose hair is not some shade of red, mahogany, gold en brown, bronze or russet. One woman told an inquirer the secret of her hair, which was a most beautiful russet, wav ing and soft, as well as brilliant. It did not bear a trace of dye. A Turkish lady from Constantinople for some favor re ceived gave her a large package of pow der. One tablespoonful of this powder put in oil and alcohol, applied lightly to the hair, produced the effect, the oil pre venting the harsh, dry appearance all dyes give. The mixture actually increased the growth of the hair, but unfortunately nobody knows what it is, for the Turkish lady vanished. There are four colors the woman who has dyed her hair red should strictly ad here to—white, black, blue and gray. There is in Paris an autocrat, who charges terrific prices, to whom women go when they want an opinion as to what color they shall tint their hair. .He talks with them for an hour, studies them in his Louis XV. drawing room, which has no suggestion of hair dressing, regards their eyes and set of the features, in quires what colors predominate in the toilets selected by madame for .the sea son, and sends the inquirer away. In a day or two she receives a water-color sketch of how she will look with a tiny curl of red hair, the shade he has de-' cided best suits her, pinned to the cor-, ner. She goes to the hair-dresser the artistic adviser employs, and presto! the change is made. For the house, hair is worn very high or very low, and the beautiful parting which men admire very much is done away with, the pompadour effect, with puffs and curls, taking its place. The' parting is left for very old ladies and schoolgirls. All kinds of jeweled orna ments are worn in the hair.—New York lines. BEVERAGES OF HISTORY. Human Race Has Always Been In clined to Strong Drink. When the question of the moment is how to allay our thirst, the beverages of history are of mote than ordinary inter est. The Egyptians, who have been un gallant enough to leave behind .them de lineations of the fair sex in a state of intoxication, had several kinds of wine more than 6000 years ago, in addition to a beer called hega, made from barley. The ancient Assyrians, too, loved their wine. The earliest mention of wine in the Bible is a reference to Noah planting -a vineyard and getting drunk with the wine. The drinks of antiquity were sometimes, to say the least, peculiar. The Greeks and Romans, whose customary drink was wine, often mixed it with sea water. Other ancient beverages were honey arid rainwater honey, salt water and vine gar and a mixture of honey and myrtle seed. Homer speaks of a wine to which twen ty times as much water could be added. The Roman lover, when drinking to his lady, often drank as many cups of wine as there were letters in her name. Warm water was sometimes regarded by the R6 mans as an agreeable drink at the conclu sion of the chief meal. It is safe to as sume that this was not In summer time. Famous among drinkers were the Vik ings, whose liquors were ale, beer, wine and mead. Quaffing ale from the skulls of their enemies formed one of the c-hifef attractions of the promised Valhalla. All through our history we find a lovt for drinking prevalent among the people. A drink much in demand in the time ol Chaucer was bracket, made of the wort of ale, honey and spices. By the time of Edward IV. drinking had become so pro ductive of crime that few places were allowed more than two taverns. London had to be content with forty. Under the Stuarts drunkenness was at its height. Thirst provokers were largely taken, arid a man's claim to distinction was largely due to his bottle capacity, while ladies df the court thought it no shame to become inebriated. The three or five-bottle man was an object of envy to his fellows. Indeed, the scenes of Hogarth are but a sidelight on the times. Signs were hung outside taverns informing the .thirsty wayfarer that he could get "drunk for a penny," and "dead drunk for twopence." Such notices often ended with the signifi cant words, "Clean straw for nothing.^" With the reign of George IV. disappeared fashionable intemperance, and "drunk as a lord" was no longer a correct simile. The aerated waters now so largely, used were first made on a large scale by Sehweppe of Geneva in 1787, and ten years later a factory was established in England. There is still a fortune await ing the man who can invent a 'summer drink devoid of the shortcomings possessed by those at present^ in the market.—Lon don Mail. 'I _____ Newest Calling Cards. Styles in visiting cards for women and men have been completely revolutionized. Matrons' cards are much smaller than formerly, while those for young womed are not much larger than the cards used, recently by the ultra-fashionable man*. The correct card foremen of social usage io only a shade bigger than a wee in fant's card. "Mr. and Mrs." cards, as they are called, are about the same size as last year's card for matrons, which is smaller by an inch than they were for merly. Roman letters, or block type, is in vogue for men, though a few people refuse to give up script. Very thin cards 'are the thing again. They caine in two seasons ago. bnt did not find favor. Noyf they arc in cemand again, which is anoth er slight evidence of the fickleness of fashion's followers. They are certainly not so bulky as thick ones, and this is An advantage not to be treated lightly, espe cially since woman has once more adopted the pocket.—-Philadelphia Press. New Peach Disease. Unless a remedy is soon found for ia new disease which i» devastating the peftch orchards of Southwestern Michi gan, the peach-growing industry in that section will drop oft considerably. This dis£as£, th£ caUKof which ah expert froim 2as ic agricultural department #t Washington b$jm~untbl* to discover *fter p£r sOnal examination df affected trte*, 'i« called "little peache^ because it -CIIUWB thd peaches to stop growing whenjLboui* the s'lze of hazelnuts." The trees nite Wlwn all the meal hife htetl smotrih^ die in About a year, arid the disease bubble for or fdur boorfr-orbiilf ft the put staion For peace, politeness, praise Yet, lackadKy! It leads In jpert, lit pinches, pests and pain, Perverse and petulant and pry. And also Is profane! stands for Quaker quie^jiess,:""— For quinces, quality, For quickness and for queeullnesa. For quaint and quittance free. But then. It heralds quake and quail, And querulous—Indeed, All quibbles, quarrels, quips and quirks. And quacks, it serves at need. Then watch them, little maids and men For folks will soon excuse Full mauy a fault and foible, when Young Column Some P** and Q'a, Pray, little lads and lassies gay, One lesson do not lose: As through the world you wend yonr way. Oh, mind your i"s ana Q's! For while stands for pears and plums, For pleasantness and plays. For patience and for promptitude, You mind your I"s and Q's. —Elisabeth Carpenter In St. Nicholas. What to Do with Horse Chestnuts. First—Cut with a snarp knife a hole^ about a quarter of an inch in diameter. Cut out the meat in little pieces and shake out of the hole. By holding the nut against the lower lip and plowing into the hole, a whistle of amazing power can be produced. By boring a small hole into one side and stopping it with the finger a kind of trill can be performed with some kinds o* nuts. By fastening several whistles of different pitch on a strip of wood a tune can be played on them. Second—By hollowing a nut, leaving a hole at the top about half an inch in di ameter, and the same size at the bottom, cutting holes for eyes, nose and mouth, and illuminating with a small candle, a grotesque jack-o'-lantern can be made. Third—Thrust a wooden toothpick through a nut, leaving a quarter of an inch on the other side, and sharpen to a point. A good teetotum is the result. Th» teetotum can be decorated by cutting the shell in various ways. By hollowing out the chestnut and leaving a hole in the' side, a musical teetotum can be m.ide. By cutting various spots upon the sides the teetotum exhibits rings and other lines when in motion. Fourth—A face is cut upon the side of a large chestnut, lifting a portion of the shell for eyelids, and cutting the lips to represent teeth. A little bit of red paper is stuck in for a tongue. A napkin is then placed over the top of a tumbler so as to form a depression. In this the head is placed. The sides of the napkin are then grasped by the hand on the outside of the glass, and by moving it slightly the head rolls about in the most amusing way. A little hat or feather makes the head still more comical. This performed with an orange is a sight never to be for gotten. Fifth—Cut out the eyes so as to show white, raise a triangular flap for a nose, thrust a short stick into th» nut and dress as a doll. It makes a particularly good China boy if a cue is stuck on, and a cross piece is put on for arms. Sixth—By gouging a quarter-inch hole with a knife and sticking the nut on the end of a pliable wand or rod with a free arm movement, the nut is thrown off and goes an incredible distance. Seventh—By sticking pins into nuts and hanging them by means of threads on a horizontal rod, some of the experiments on transmission of motion may be dem onstrated to some extent. For this the nuts should be as nearly as possible the same size. If four nuts are hung in this way, and touch each other, on lifting one of the end nuts nud allowing to swing back so as to strike the next nut, the last nut on the other side will be thrown off, demonstrating the transmission of power. Eighth—A drum chorus can be per formed by hollowing out the nuts suffi ciently to allow the insertion of the fin gers. Several boys with fingers thus armed and playing on tin pans and boards produce sufficient noise to make them selves objectionable to the last degree. Some Good Conundrums. What domestic article represents a pil lar of Greece? A candle. Two geese sat on top of a mountain, one facing east and the other west, and five feet apart. How could they put their bills together without turning round? By walking straight ahead. Why can you be absolutely certain that a blacksmith is a horse? Because he is a horse, sure (horeshoer). Why are geese impostors? Because there are a great many quacks among them. What game gives many persons a cold Draughts. What game is affixed to baggage? Tag. What game peremptorily orders silence? Whist. If you were the first letter of the al phabet, what country ought you to get your employes from? Servla. Is there a country in whieh any letter* of the alphabet are musical? Well, there is Tuni-s. What American city is most closely identified with Noah? New-ark. The Antiquity of Nursery Rhymes. "Three Blind Mice" is in a music book of 1609. "A Froggie Would A-wooing Go" was licensed in 1656. "Little Jack Horner" is older than the Seventeenth century. "Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat, Where Have You Been?" dates from the reign of Queen Elizabeth. "Bovs and Girls, Come Out to Play' dates from Charles II., as does also "Lucy Locket Lost Her Pocket." "Old Mother Hubbard." "Goosey Goosey Gander" and "Old Mother Goose" apparently date back to the Sixteenth cen turv. "Cenderella," "Jack, the Giant Killer," "Bluebeard" ahd "Tom Thumb" were given to the world in Paris in 1697. The author was Charles Parrault. "Humpty Dumpty" was a bold, bad baron who lived in the days of King John and was tumbled from power. His his tory was put up into a riddle, the meaning of which is an egg. "The Babes in the Wood" was founded on an actual, crime committed in Norfolk, near Waylahd woods, in the Fifteenth centurv. An old house iu the neighbor hood is still pointed out, upon the mantel piece of which is carved the entire his tory. What Becomes of Pins. Au old gentleman in the north of Lon don has been making a series of inter esting experiments with a view to finding a solution to the question often asked: "What becomes of the countless myriads of pins, etc., that are annually lost?" As he expected, he finds that it is the disintegrating effects of the air which re solve even these intractable little instru ments into.their elements. He put some hundreds of brass and steel pins, needles, hairpins, etc., iu a quiet corner of his garden, where they would be subject to all the destructive agencies of dampness, earth, wind, etc., although secure from the predatory hands and disturbing feet of inquisitive intruders. The results are curious. Ordinary hair pins were the first (taking 154 days, on an average) to oxidize into a brownish rust—ferrous oxide—which was scuttered by the wind as it was formed, and not a trace of a single one could be detected at the end of seven months. Common bright pins took as long as eighteen months before their combustion was com plete, but brass ones had been entirely turned into green verdigris long before that. At the eud of fifteen months an ordi nary penholder had had its nib entirely rusted away, but the wooden stick was still almost unaltered. It is probable that the paint on it had somewhat of a pre servative effect. Some used wax vestas were almost gone, with the exception of the cotton wick, in less thau eighty days from the time they were deposited, but the sulphiur heads of some- unlit ones were as perfect as ever. Polished steel needles of a small size lasted a very long time (over two years and a half) but a black lead-pencil proved itself to be practically indestructible, both cedar and plumbago b$iug almost as good as when new, even though harder things had quite rotted. Childish Pleasure*. It wou)d not be a bad thing for some of us if we could, by any chancy orjef* Sort, remember how we. felt when (we were children ourselves. Let us pA^s* In the eager race of life to recall how delightful it WAS to pity At tea in the nuriery or under a great trte out of doott, when we had adorns for cupa and saucers and oak leaves for plates, and the little doll's set of dishes to fur nish forth our tables. Perhaps we can remember our delight in a pair of new shoes the ecstacy which came with the Christmas gifts the great pleasure there was in the visit of some friend for whom we cared. A certain family of little peo ple were always in the seventh heaven when there came to the bouse a friend of their mother—a lady not young, not beautiful, not peculiarly gifted, but one of those divinely sweet and dear per sons, to whom God has made clear the heart of a child. This sweet woman could tell stories by the hour she knew riddles and games she could make rag dolls and paint their faces, and by a simple magic of her own the home-made toy came from her fingers more charming and attractive than the most expensive article bought yfrom a Paris shop. DEATH OF MAHDISM. at Reek of :Countles* Abominations Omdurman. Iu the London Mail G. W. Steevens {owing ells the following story of the events fol the destruction of the Khalifa's army on the Nile: "Next morning the army awoke^"re freshed, and were able to appreciate to the full the beauties of Omdurman. When you saw it close, and by the light of day, the last suggestion of statefiness vanished. It bad nothing left but size mere stupid multiplication of rubbish. One or two relics of civilization were found. Taps in the Khalifa's bath a ship's chronometer a smail pair of com passes in a boy's writing desk and a larger pair modeled clumsily upon them the drooping telegraph wire and cable to Khartoum Gordon's old Bordein, a sbell -torn busk of broken wood round engines that still worked marvelously, a few naked Egyptians once government serv ants Charles Neufeld, the captive Ger man merchant, quoting Schiller over his ankle-chains Sister Teresa, the captive nun—forcibly married to a Greek, pre senting a green orange to Col. Wingate, the tried friend she had never seen before -—such was the pathetic flotsam over taken by the advancing wave of Mahd ism, now stranded by its ebb. "For the rest, the Mahdi's tomb was shoddy brick, and you dared not talk in it lest the rest of the dome should come on your head. The inside was tawdry pan els and railings round a gaudy pa!L The Khalifa's house was the house of a well to-do fellah, and a dead donkey putrefied under its window-holes. The arsenal was the reduplication of all the loot that has gone for a dollar a piece these three years. The great mosqne was a wall round a biggish square with a few stick and-tbatch huts at oue end of it.. The iron mosque was a galvanized shed, which would have repulsed the customers of a third-rate country photographer. Everything was wretched. "And foul! They dropped their dung where they listed they drew their water from beside great sewers they had filled the streets and khors with dead donkeys they left their brothers to rot and puff up hideously in the sun. The stench of the place was in your nostrils, in your throat, in your stomach. You could not believe that this was the city where they crucified a man to steal a handful of base dollars, and sold mother and daughter to gether to be divided 500 miles apart, to live and die in the same bestial concubin age. "The army moved out to Khor Shamba. The accursed place was left to fester and fry in its own filth and lust and bloodJ The reek of its abominations steamed up to heaven to justify us of our vengeance. klSS GOULD S PHILANTHROPE How She Cared for Soldiers Who Dropped by the Wayside. One of the grandest acts of Miss Gould's philanthropy has never been not ed in the newspapers, says William E. Curtis in the Chicago Record. When the men at Montauk Point were mustered out or given furloughs most of them started directly for New York and many almost immediately fell victims to the tempta tions of a great city. A few days later they usually found themselves in some ipw lodging house without a dollar. Often they were ill or weak from exposure and privations,' and suffered relapses because of their dissipations. When this fact be came known to Miss Gould she hired the Salvation army headquarters, placed a sum of money in the hands of the person in charge, bought 250 spring cots and bedding, provided cooks, waiters and oth er necessaries for a hotel, and placed agents on all the trains running into the city from Montauk Point and the rail way stations to notify every soldier who arrived in town that a good bed and wholesome food were waiting for him it 121 East Fifteenth street without ex pense. This hospitality was accepted by hundreds. Some of them remained there a week or more, seeing the sights of the city. Others were taken there by the police, for, at Miss Gould's re iuest, the superintendent of police issued in order to the patrolmen to take all !he drunken soldiers and sailors they licked up in the streets to "Fort Gould," is they called it, instead of to the po lice station. The Salvation army i»eople were in the habit of taking care of men in their condition, and knew how to treat them. Those unfortunates who had lost their money and were unable to reach their homes were always supplied with railway tickets paid for from Miss Gould's full purse. Wonkl He Pass Lieutenant-Commander Vail of the navy recruiting office iu the Masonic tem ple, Chicago, has received many odd let ters from chrysalistic heroes of the sea, but the most unique thus far is certainly this one, which came a few days ago: Shelbyvllle, Ind., Oct. 9, '98. .Dear sir: I hereby write to you peopel asking what are the chances to get In the S Navy I will tell you the condition I am in at the present time & some of the past time. I am 18 years of age I stand 511 Inches in hite I way 150 Its I have never been the subject of any coif have veiry good eye site have verry good herring never been In the subject of any kind of sickness 4« 4t *4 II II II kind of disease I have never had any bones broke in my body I have never had catarr I have never been in the subject of lung truble heart truble bright dis ease. kidney truble a aa aa aa aa .. a. gtQnjJK.fc a full set of teeth uper & lower I guess that is all of my condition at the present. I am very well acquainted with Mr. Geo Hodell a young Gentleman on Flag Ship New York. He told me he thought that I would pass verry easy as to the condition I am In 1 guess I will close hopping to here from you verry soon Harry Sparks Wanted a Partner. The following letter was received re cently at Wallack's theater. It was ad dressed: Mr. Wallack's Theater, New York City. This was •.lie letter: Balto Oct. 9, 1808 Dear Sir We would like to have A man to go in partners With 2 of us and we would Like you to find the senery And Acters and or Manger and If satlfy Send Word to Wm Chesholm 2919 Fait ave. Balto. flie Show Call Lost and found Or The Settlement In The West. There was nobody at Wallack's theater who had any actors and scenery to snare for this purpose, but there may be others list'where who would be pleased with i&ch an obvious opportunity for a fortune. -4New York Tribune. A Horse's Skull a* a Rabbit Trap. ^Charles Conroy of Aurora, Ind., while hunting, made a most peculiar find. Dis covering the detached skull of the skele ton of a horse, he gave it a kick that rolled it over, revealing in the cavity of the skull the corpse of a rabbit. A fur ther investigation disclosed the fact that the rabbit had entered the hollow skull as a place or retreat, but in doing so dis lodged apiece of the vertebra bone of tho Horse's skelton, which lodged in the open ing through which it had ctatvled. and Completely closed the exit and made the fabbit a prisoner in its bony sepulchre, where it WAS kept confined until stana tion brought death.—Cincinnati Enquirer. —Thirty years ago there were only {wo doien explosive compounds known to chemists now there aw over 1000, Bab Bright Babble (Copyright, 1888, by I. A. ICallon.) This last month seems to have brought nothing but death and death and death. Today it is the young soldier boy who started off so cheerily, believing that the safety of his country depended on him. Tomorrow it is the young wife whose little children clung to her. loved her so dearly and conld not understand that she bad left them never to come back. The next day—who is it the next day? Per haps somebody close to you or to me or to the neighbor over the way. One who has gone to sleep forever belonged to that group of great artists who made life un derstand genius and taught all the world that acting, like {tainting and singing, was an art and a great one. This artist, whose name is carved in the great book of immortality, was Fanny Davenport. Handsome, full of merriment, making gladness all around her, yet her art was first, and everything must give place to it. When you and I slept, she worked^ She learned to become the woman She represented. She learnd to know the Italian, the French, the Russian woman, as she really was. While I joyed in the. artiste I think, most of all, loved the woman, and now, when my eyes are filled with tears, it is not that they be longed so much to the great actress, but to the loving wife and sister and the fond and devoted friend. Every one who was of the Davenport kin, no matter bow far distant, was recognized and made much of. .1 shall never forget a stormy winter d?y when I met her on the train, that fast tmin that flies from New York to Buf falo. During the time we were together she was as gleeful as a child, inasmuch as she was trying to make her husband guess what bis Christmas gift wa*. He thought it must be a jewel of some rare kind. She volunteered to describe it, and she thought, with his quick wit, her husband would have no trouble iu thinking it out. She said it was blue, and that it was curly. It was oval, and it was round. It was thousands of years old, and yet it was created not so many.: years ago. It was a jewel and yet it was gold. It was a stene and yet such stonei* ate not found by the seashore. It was cut in and yet it showed best when its beauty came out. And so on she went, rCally describing the artistic gift and continually contradicting herself so that Mr. McDowell was perfectly dazed. Just before we reached Syracuse, where she was to leave me. she told me what it was in reality. It was a fine intaglio, the head of Caesar, cut in a pale blue stone and with the hair closely curled aH over the bead, as her husband's was. It- was a copy of that fine one in the. Vatican. This stone, being oval, was set in a round ring, and so all her descrip tions were correct. That was the last time I saw her, and as I waved my handkerchief from the car window I lit tle thought that it was not "goodby" for a little time, but for all time. Like a child in her lore of children, she loved them all, and, best of all. dearly loved a little niece who was her name sake. She showered all sorts of wonder ful toys and smart little clothes on this small woman and was most pleased wbfn sne was told of something witty that the tipy lady had said. At the time when Mme. Bernhardt was in Boston the French artiste, who also loves children, asked that the little one might be sent to pay her a visit. Dressed in her finest frock and warned that she must do her best in tho way of speaking French—for she could chatter in the frivolous tongue, a little—she started off with her nurse to call on the lady about whom she heard them all talk. Mme. Sarah was in bed. but she had her visitor brought up, and die proved a rather embarrassing visitor, smce, after being seated on the edge of Jhe bed, she looked and stared as only 'children can look in that piercing way. as if they were reading one's soul. At last, annoyed beyond expression, the variable Frenchwoman asked her what she: was looking at. Back came the re sponse, "I am looking at you just as hard as.^l can, and I do believe that my Aunt Fanny is a great deal prettier than you are. Nurse and baby made a sudden exit, for it is a well-known fact that the great artiste still loves to be consid ered beautiful. Fanny Davenport laughed and upbraided the saucy babv. Still, what woman would not be pleased at such an .innocent compliment? Another time when I was lunching with he£ and we were having one of those de lightful luncheons where no men are around and the conversation can range frbm frills and frivols to science and what is not known about it. a maid came and saH, "Some one wishes to see Mrs. Mc Dowell." There was a shrug of the shoulders and she thought that she wouldn't go. The maid laughed and said the gentleman insisted upon seeing her, and after the second thought there was a pitying look, and in a voice that came from her hear* she said. "Well, I would better go perhaps it is some poor actor who wants help." In five minutes she was back, her cheeks as bright as a rose and her eyes sparkling like stars. As my face looked for an explanation, she said with a laugh, "It was only my Mr. Mac. who wanted to kiss me gtodby and so fooled me in that way." .Then there was a time when I lay sick —sick almost unto death—and among the many beautiful flowers sent me came a huge piece, with wires through the roses and the violets mounted on straw, making a stiff effect and requiring four men to fetch it upstairs, and yet it was only the work of the florist. It lacked heart, or else the heart was strung on wire. An hour afterward my friend came in. and. looking around the room, she spied this enormous piece of made up flowers. With a 1 sigh and a smile combined, sbe an nounced, "I told them to send you some flowers, and that borrid piece is their idea of what one sends to those one loves!' Quickly she took from her belt a bunch of violets and laid them on my pillow, where I could see them and in hale their fragrance, and then we looked at each other, understanding. And she is gone. The woman who was strong of brain and yet the woman whose heart was so big, so loving, that she wore herself out in love giving and in joy giving. I some times think, when I am all alone looking out on the great world with nothing be tween us but a sheet of glass, whether the roughest and most ordinary looking man. possessing even a bit of sense or feeling, does not know the difference be tween a big-hearted, gracious, loving woman and one who is coarse in appear ance. lacking in love and all the charm ing attributes that make one say. "She is a gentlewoman." I wonder if you think, •ia I do. that a gentlewoman is one who likes to make people glad to meet her and regret to leave her? She seems to me to be one who gives courage to those who arc tired and to quiet that loud, unpleas ant argument, changing it into interest ing talk. It is a talent seldom possessed by men and au art belonging to women. It was an old-fashioned writer, one who in our girlhood's days we thought. the bust of all, Maria Edgeworth, who said, "Everyone who makes goodness unpleas ant commits high treason against virtue." Not one of us is. too poor to give he cup of cold water, and it is not always ne»%nr for whieh one longs. Sometimes that is too sweet. Sometimes it seems to iack the purity that comes in the clear, color less liquid that brings health and happi ness. Oh, no I am not a prohibitionist, by no manuer of means, but I am a tem perate woman. I do not believe that gobd things were made to cast aside, but instead, as the grapes were crushed into wine at the wedding where the great Teacher was present, and it was dru6k of sparingly, so of the wine of today. It may be taken like the other good things tempera tely. The man that eats too much is never called by the name that he deserves—a glutton. The woman who overdresses does not get her name—a fool. The man. or woman either, who talk* too much does not,receive the title that each has earned—that of bore, while the impudent children do not find as a bless ing for bad behavior the outward, moxa! sign of the inward condemnation. So, few of us are temperate, and yet that is the art of living. It is worth while to think it all out. Because when you know how to live you know how to die, and that is the art of arts, for it en ables you to close your eyes without A fear and go into the presence of the Judge, who is going to be no more harsh in his judgment of you or of your neigh bor than he is of Bab. Prosperity in thu Cherokee Strip. The Cherokee strip, which tfas thrown open to settlement five years ago, has now a population of over 200,000 with farms, farmhouses, twenty large tow»s, with waterworks, electric lights, grfod scbpols. and all moderp improvements, presented iu an assessed valuation for pufptfees of taxation of over $15,500,000. —Mrs. Elixa Hendricks, widow of tike former vice-president, is managing her SlUband"the 'B est*te so .well AS to earn the tie of best bqstaiMI 111 Itfk