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is - . t-KV FEMININE SMOKEES. A Practice That Is Growing in Fa vor -with tho Pair Sex. Tloyal Russian Women Wlio are Very Fond ot Their Cigarettes A Peculiar C as torn of Kalmuck Mothers Smokuiz InfaatH. "A brisk controversy has "been going -.on about cigarette-smoking- women in the columns of the Korth American Review and other periodicals, and those who broke lances for and against were women. Mrs. Lynn Lynton, whose novels are read here as fcuiile tons so extensively and with so much gusto, is quoted as leading the assault against tho ladj' smokers. Is it true ..Abat she calls the-cigarette when in a Jady's mouth the emblem of revolt: Jf so, she is not up to date, so far as continental practices go. The cigar s' ette has not yet found its way with -after-dinner coffee .into the official drawing-rooni, but it soon will. At all the houses setting up to style it is .served at intimate dejeuners and small hut lively dinners. , .JSbbody is shocked at ladies smoking not merely onecigarette apiece hut two - or 'three. A minister of Queen Christina says that highly respectable and respec ted royal ladjT is an.in velera te and a vet eran smoker. She got in the habit of snioking a c???arette when she was ab bess of the LIradschin, sinecure .'.he lost on gettirg married. Her courun, Archduchess athilde, who was en--4gagcd td King Humbert when he was . prince of Savoy, lost her life owing to 'her fondness for cigarettes. She was fforbidden by her father, Arekdnlre Alhort, to smoke, but none the less wont on doing so. One summer's day, or evening.assbe was standing smoking on the-balcony she saw him enter tbo courtyard on which she was looking down. The. archduchess, who was wearing a muslin dress, whipped the cigarette out of her mouth and hid it behind her back. It came in contact with the muslin, and she was in a mc " jnent enveloped in flames, there being ' a strong draught where she stood. : . Most of 'the Russian grand duch esses arc smokers. Grand Duchess Wladctnir thinks a husband and wife who smoke are less likely to fall oat than if the former alone smoked. It is not known whether the queen of Italy smokes, but some of her ladies cer- tainly do. When I was at Stresa I sa vv them enjoying cigarettes when boating . on the lake, and in the grounds of the duchess of Genoa's villa, ' where the queen was staying. The crown prin cess of Saxe-Mciningen could not live ..without her cigarette. It neither takes -from her good looks, nor spoils her . teeth, nor diminishes her activity. She is nearly thirty-four but appears - scarcely twenty-six. The Infanta Eulalia spoke when she was last on the Riviera of the coratesse de Pans as having set her an example as a smoker. As the French say, the infanta a beau- coup d'imagination, and saw in the , cigarette or cigar of the comtessc a pipe which she believed that royal lady "smoked in the streets of Seville. Span- . " ish ladies are gratuitously credited or discredited with being great smokers. They may do ao in Cuba, though they are there more conservative and greater .' . sticklers for the proprieties than at . Madrid. The ladies who best patronize tobacconists are, next to the Kalmucks, - the-Russians. The ruling passions of Kalmuck women are ribbons to twist ) round their long . tresses, tea, tobacco, and bright handkerchiefs. But if they have to choose between tobacco and tea their option is for the former. I n "When a littie Kalmuck comes into the world an event that happens : rarely twice in the same menage, the manfina is given a well-filled pip? to . - f.moke before she nurses the baby. The little one talioo to smolcing before it is weaned. The pipe is the great , cure for nervous headache. Fredcns bcrg, where the czar and czarina sum mer, is the dullest place in the world. The queen of Denmark is exacting of respect -for the proprieties. The last charge that anyone could think of bringing against her court is that of 'fast behavior. Ycl mobt of the young and youngish ladies there are smokers. . iTherevis no hotter way of showing oft ; TKpretty hands. anGrrrngs than toying ' 'with a oijrarette. A court party from FredeiiGborg one evening was diuinq at the Copenhagen Trivoli in tho col ' .onnade of the restaurant. - There was a large thrcatrical party noar them; the actresses did not smoke, but the ladies in attendance and those whom they attended did. Some of tho fair smokers were Russians, and not in the least-inclined to, -unfurl tho flag of re , :H vjoit. That evening it was learned " that the crown princess ox. Saxo-Mein-ingen is not the only granddaughter of Queen Victoria who finds a solace in the cigarette. V"hy should not a princess use it, as an old Irish woman , uses the pipe to take the edge oft ner yousness? The only harm is in the z J ..abusci But there is no good thing X: nnde'r the sun that is not mischievous v . if taken in excess. There is no mere harm in mild snsoking than in mild tea drinking. George Sand, who lived to' the age of seventy -tliree and "was so active and hard-working ttOSfo f Jthe ' end, smoked cigarettes , , and cigars and in excess. The smoke curling before her eyes roused up her imagination. Victor Hugo hated smoking. Fir Ktrojjor Than Oalr. . -It! would- he difficult, says the St. 'L'ouis'Rcpiiblic, to convince the aver age man that fir is a stronger wood than oak, but such has been proven by actual tests that were made by a fnir and impartial committee appointed for .that purpose. The timbers used were each 2x4 inches and 4 feet long, both ends solidly braced and the weight ap plied in the middle of the span. Yel low fir,stood a strain of S,0S2vpounds. common Oregon oak, 2.023 - pounds. Fine-grained yellow fir from near the butt stood a strain of 8,6S3 pounds and best Michigan oak snapped with r. strain of only 2.42S pounds. The tests . - a vefe-made' by the! Northern Pacific Railway cqnnzi Taeonia, ash.- Polities Are Eua by Natives, WIio Leaves Easiness to Outsiders. The old notion of the Argentine Republic as essentially a stock-raising country, from which nothing was to be expected in the way of food exports but uneatable "charqui," .otherwise "jerked beef," will have to -be modi fied, says the London News, in the face of the fact that the crop of wheat this year is estimated at 1,750,000 tons, of which more than a million of tons will be available for export. Agriculture, in fact, as distinguished from cattle raising, has become an important source of v, ealth in this part of South America. .It has many advantages for this pnrposej among which are its ex cessive flatness, extending over 800,000 square miles, and its remarkable varie ty of climate. Our consul at Buenos Ayres notes the remarkable circumstance that foreign ers m the republic practically monoj) olize trade, railways and commercial undertakings of every kind. They own a large portion of the country, and are. yearly acquiring more proper ty of every description. Almost all the railwa-s belong to English capital ists, and. if not to English, to foreign ers. It has been stated that one-half of the cultivated portion of the prov ince of Santa Fe belongs to English men. Agriculture, it is..added, rAay be said to be entirely in the hand of Eu ropeans. The amount of crime all over the Argentine Republic is stated by our consul, Mr. Gaskell, to be alarming. The population is every day becoming more exclusively foreign, but the gov ernment is entirely in the hands of the comparatively small number of pure Argentines, a rather anomalous 5osi tion, which in the course of j'ears may alter if .the enormous foreign element should make its power felt and become a decisive factor in politics. At present all foreigners shun poli tics and only busy themselves with ac quiring wealth commercially. SUICIDE IN EUROPEAN ARMIES. Startling: Ofllcial Statistics from tho .Rec ords Kept in Germany. Startling are the official statistics that have just been published in Ger many concerning the number of sui cides in various armies of the Old World, and they constitute -a striking illustration of the unpopularity of ob ligatory military service. It seems that in Austria the average rate for the year is 131 per 100,000 men. The French come next, with 93 suicides pei annum for each 100,000 men. The Ger man government gives its rate at 6S but these figures are generally believec to be below -the actual number, as the impression prevails in military circlef throughout Europe that the' suicide . , . n t in the German army are more frequent even than in that of Austria. Italy'j quota is given at 45, while that of Rus sia does not exceed 20, a figure that is obviously far below the truth. Bel gium gives its rate at 24, Spain at 14. t and England at 23, most of the suicides in the British army occurring out ir India. A remarkable fact is that, not withstanding the majority of suicides are popularly believed to be attributa ble to tyranny on the part of the offi cers, yet it is precisely among the offi cers that the largest number of self-inflicted victims is to be found. The favorite method of suicide is by shoot ing, either with a rifle or with a re volver. Next comes drowning, and after that hanging, while of late a large number of officers and men have taken their lives by throwing them selves in front of railway trains. 11 has also been nqtedthat, whereas the smallest number of sui cides takes, place in winter, the largest number dceure in tho broiling hot mouths of July and August. THE CALLA LILY EDIBLE. It Tastes and Is to Be Cooked Llko ths Totato. A new vegetable is about to be in troduced to the people of the United States through the department of ag riculture. It is the root of the calla lily, which resembles somewhat in ap pearance the Irish tuber, with the ad dition of a few whiskers that have nothing to do with the qualities of the .article as an esculent, says the Phila delphia Times. It is more elongated, and when cu1 the interior is a trifle more viscid. Bui a section of it is so potato-like yon would not be likely to distinguish any difference. In cooking it first has tc be boiled to destroy certain acrid prop erties, after which it may be fried, roasted, baked or what not, according to taste. Farmers in Florida have begun tc raise those calla roots for market. The plants grow rapidly in the swamps, and so thickly that the yield of a single flooded acre is enormous. They re produce themselves by the multiplica tion of their bulbs under 'ground, sc that the grower has simply to dig'ur. the offshoots and leave the parents tc propagate anew. For centuries the Egyptians have cultivated a similar crop during the season of the Nile overflow, and at the present time calla lily bulbs are a com mon vegetable in Japanese markets. So prolific and palatable are they that their propagation in many parts of the United States, where conditions are favorable, may reasonabl3r be looked forward to as an agricultural industry of the future. The Poojah Stone. . Trouble was recently threatened be tween the people of Orissa and the Indian government on account ol the "Poojah stone," which had rested for ages over the main entrance to the temple of the Sun. It was carved with sjmbols of the sun and planet, and thirty years ago fell from its place in the temple to become at once a speciarobject'of worship. The gov ernor of Bengal, being interested in it as an archcological treasure,, had it re moved to the Indian museum, and this raised such resentment among the na- tives that- the stone has been restored ; to them, and .has been raised 4again to 5 original plae hitcmjle Appearance and Characteristics of the Sultan of Morocco. The Erery-Day lATo of nluley Hassan "Who Is at Present Engaged la -- a Warfare with Spanish Colonists. Although Miilcy Hassan, the sul tan or chief of Morocco, wields hut a nominal authority over the Rif? tribes men now at war "with the Spanish colonial settlement at Melilla, on the northern Mediterranean coast of Af rica, he is nevertheless the sovereign of that region alid he will be held by. Spain responsible for the consequences of the present warfare. Mule3r Hassan is fifty-five years old. His demeanor is grave and majestic, as becomes a man knowing the impor tance of his double character, as em peror and pontiff, and a successor to the prophet, of whom he is a descend ant. Ilis dark eyes are large and ex pressive. His Moorish "physiognomy, adorned with a flowing black beard, in which arc seen some white hairs, re veals that in his veins runs the blood of the negro race united to that of the Arabs. He shows Jit the same time in his physical traits the evidence of an extraordinary firmness, mixed with a certain shadow of melancholy and las situde.. He receives foreign ministers and shows himself in public with fastidious solemnity, says the New" York Trib une. One of the emperor's serv ants holds over his head a large para sol to screen him from the rays oi the sun. Others are busy fanning him, in order to chase away the flies so abun dant in that hot climate, and all look at their lord as if he were a god rather than their sovereign. Edmunde Ami cis, who saw Muley Hassan during a reception of the Italian embassy, de scribes him as follows: "A vestment as white as the snow covers him from head to foot; the tur ban is covered by a high hood; the feet are bare and inclosed in yellow slippers. His horse is of high stature and very white, with green reins and gold stirrups. All this whiteness and the widc floating vestments gave him a sacerdotal appearance, a royal grace fulness and amiable majesty, in accord with the very gentle expression of his physiognomy." On account of the intolerancepre vailing in the Moorish empire, the fi;nction of a religious chief is the most important of those -which belong to the sultan. If lie did not show ab solute respect for the Mussulman or thodoxy of the doctrines of Mohammed, a revolution would soon turn him from the throne or gravely compromise his sovereignty. Muley Hassan observes, therefore, rigorously all religious prac tices of the Moslem liturgy. Like all members of his court, he gets up at three o'clock a. m., in winter as well as in summer, to make the firt prayers. After that hi chaplain rer.-l; him fjpmc -paes m tno -books or uoicnan, tne famous Mussulman theologian, wno is, in the opinion of all Moors, the best religious authority after Mohammed. The sultan and his ministers give audiences between five and six o'clock a. m., and it is at such a matinal hour that he receives Europeans. The mid dle of the day is given to rest and sleep, business being resumed only at four or five o'clock p. ra., to stop at the hour of the evening prayer. When the. sultan gets up in the morn ing and when he has slept during the "siesta" in the middle of the day his women help him to dress. Their num ber is very considerable. Some people affirm that there are two thousand of them in each of the three capitals of the empire, which are Fez, Mequine:: and Moroceo. But among all these wives the one who is really the favorite and the first in the heart of the emperor is a Circassian of marvelous and fascinat ing beauty, who is thirty .years olcVracl who has succeeded in dominating Muley Hassan, thanks to her taients, smartness and high culture. She has a European education, speaks French and Spanish, and aspires to makd'her son Abdelazis tFfel successor of the pres ent emperor. 5,' The Deailly illojave Desert. A party of cattlemen out on the Mo jave desert recently came across the trail of two men and two burros. The aimless, zigzag course of the trail showed that those who had made it were lost and the cattlemen at once set out to find them. Here and there along the path taken by the wanderers holes of from three to five feet in depth had been dug in the dry sands. Late m tne evening tne cattlemen came upon a young mrn lying under a mes quite bush, beside, a hole dug .six feet in the sand, murmuring in delirium and at the point of death. He had bedn withdut water more than three ,days and had lain down to die. A mile further on they overtook an old man, who, delirious, was crawling on hands and knees toward a pool of brackish water, beside which stood the two bur ros. The burros, being released when he gave up, had found their way to water, and the old man had followed them in a last despairing burst.of strength. The two men were miners, who had lost their way a week before. Both men recovered after a few ,days of care at the ranch, but mummified corpses and 4 bleached bones often met with in the desert tell of r many travelers whose similar experiences have had no such happy ending. Navigation of tho Dead Sea. At leng-th the Dead sea is to be navi gated, and two sailing1 boats, one rather, large and heavy for cargo and the other smaller and neater for pas sengers, have just been conveyed from Jaffa to Jerusalem by rail and thence to the :Dea'd sea by' road, . 5?he boats belong-io-the sultan, as does also the Dead sea, which forms part of the crown property, and it is Abdul Ham- J id's intention to turn to good, account the salt, -bitumen and sulphur -that Jubo.undantetwatQxs and on its-shore Ebony Potentate "Who Had a Royal Thirst of Ills Own. I have just profited by a holiday tc pay a visit to Chief, Uintassa, or. rather, the Kinglet Umtassa, as the official dispatches call him, says a writer in South Africa. The country belongs to him and the chartered com pany gives him a yearly present of one hundred dollars, and this one hundred dollars and. this present , was just due. It is almost impossible to get a glimpse of Umtassa, partly because he is such a very important person in his own eyes but chiefly because his life has only three phases going to drink, drinking and being very drunk indeed. We were shown into a ''reception cmwled anost upon our hands and knees, and we seated ourselves on mats, prepared tc wait an indefinite time for the "chic': of a native chief, like that of a smart dentist, is to keep one waiting as long as possible. After about half an hour we began to clamor and then we left the hut and began to wander about the kraal a proceeding which, the natives generally objected to, and before we had gone far an induna came to say thrt Umtassa was coming and had sent a present of Kaffir beer. So we scrambled back and sat outside the stuffy hut and waited. At last a sort of procession came winding down among the rocks, some of the natives wearing a snuff-box and a catskin, others draped in a blanket a la Julius Caesar, but none of them carrying any sort of weapon with the exception of a big native, who carried Umtassa's knobkerrie and his battle ax. After this usher of the Black Rod came Umtassa, draped in a blue and white toga, with a blue and white cap on his head. Much to our surprise, he turned out to be a very imposing-looking person age. In spite of his excessive dirt he de cidedly possesses what is called le grand air, which I take to be produced by a complete satisfaction with one's surroundings and not a little contempt for the rest of the world. Well, oui friend Umtassa gave each of us a very grimy hand to slake and really one might have planted a mealie field undei each of his hands. He then sat down on his mat, with all his people grouped around him and his induna told oui interpreter that he might speak. Thereupon a good deal of business was transacted. CONDENSED HER OUTING. Plucky Stenographer's rilgrlmsge to Lon don nnd Pari3 in Three Weeks' Time. It takes a New York girl to overcome obstacles, says Helen Combes in Kate Field's Washington. One of them who is earning her living as a stenographer has been for a long time saving her spare money with a view to visiting Europe this year. She had enough when vacation time came to carry out her cherished project, but, alas, she found that not a day over three weeks' leave of absence would be granted her. She did not dare throw up her position. as she knew from experience that good places arc hard to get. Right here is where most girls would have given in to the force of circum stances and 'spent the vacation in America. Not so tie plucky little stenographer. She left the . office a Saturday morning in August, went on board one of the fast steamers and in exactly a week landed in Liverpool. Taking a night train she arrived in London bright and early Sunday morning and proceeded to "do the 'town." She . saw the tower, "West minster, St. Paul's, lionises of parlia ment, the national gallery and a host of other things before leaving on Mon day night to make her way Parisward. Grossing on the night boat she ar rived in Paris Tuesday and spent two clear dajs sightseeing.. Notre Dame, Versailles, Pere la Chaise, the Louvre, -the morgue, the Champs Elysees, an evening at the grand opera and numerous other diversions occupied tc the full the' time she spent in Paris. Leaving there in time to reach Dieppe Thursday night she recrossed the channel, arrived in "London Friday, -took the train for 'Liverpool and had several hours there before boarding the Lucania on its maiden westward trip. She arrived in New York Satur day, September 9, and after spending Sunday quietly turned up as bright as a button -at business Monday morning. The ambitious young woman did not boast oXthjor flying trip, but somehow the facts leaked out on the steamer and were considered too good to keep. ilaunts of tlio Iguana. In an article on "Canoeing on the Cuyumel," a writer in Outing says. In many places the banks wqtq? Availed by gross so dense that a man could not force -Mis .way through without cutting a path. In such places the. iguana loves tc stretch his green length on the grass tops, basking in the sunlight, or nibbling the tenderest of the 3Toung leaves,-- "or'd'02ing away the midday hours. If he - becomes alarmed he skims over the bending tops of the tall grasses and is gone, If the day is un usually warm he ifiay lie at ease along some braneli from vhich, if frightened, hcL-will drop into the water, perhaps twenty feet below, -with prodigious splashing, and flash across its s-arfaee. He doesn't swim. lie simply , skims, along the top. ' So marvelously quick are his- movements that he haso-tim'e to sink -deep enough to make swim ming possible. Older Than 31ctlrusaleh. One of the largest whales ever see-1 recently washed, ashore at Tokelund, Wash. It came in on high tide, was alive and did not surrender its lease on existence for twenty-four houi's after ward. , It had an Qxtreme length of 174 feet S inches, with a circumference pf-'IGl feet G inches. It was estimated, that its weight was 47J tons, and that the blubber and whalebone were worth, at current prices, $10,315. .Scientists TvllP jJX1111' v to tho cbncTiSa.JStfc' 4Ke "wliale ha livetT"f$r Q8G years, lacking but' four teen 'years of having livetl, the longeB term of v1k4c; life. V '- - 'DEALERS HOST St. Johns and Holbrook. DRY G06DS, , .-: ' ' CLOTHING, jjufij.a GROCERIES; PANNED GOODS, - HARNESS, CONFECTIONS, TOBACCO, Etc. We are. determined to sell keep a better article of everything we do sell than any oUi- er housem the county.. 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